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GASTONIA IS A BUSY TOWN.
91.50 A YEAR IX ADVAICC3,
VOL. XXXIV.
GASTOXIA, N. C.
TUESDAY AFTERXOOX, NOVEMBER 11, 1013.
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MR. G. M.ULLIGK DEAD
ONE OF OUR COUNTY'S LEADING CITIZENS 4
End Came With Shocking Suddenness
Saturday Morning Death Due to
Facial Erysipelas Was Prominent
in Badness Life of the County
Funeral at New Hope Sunday At-y
tended by Immense ' Crowe '
'Sketch of Deceased. j
Correspondence of The Gazette. i
BELMONT, Nov. 10. Wltfl a
shook that was rendered the more
terrible by its suddenness came tne
new of the death of 'Mr. George M.
Gullick which occurred at his home
CiEOI'GK M.
here Saturday morning at 10 o'clock.
Until within a day before his deatn
Mr. Gullick's condition had not Teen
considered senious and then only by
his physician and immediate mem
bers of the family. Death was due
to an acute attack of facial erysi
pelas. For several days .Mr. Guillen
had been ill, as he supposed, witn a
severe case of grippe. Thursday of
last week Drs. Gibbon and Matne
Bon, of Charlotte, were called ror
consultation by Dr. Orr ana a slight
operation was performed and It
was thought that relief would come.
Saturday morning about 9:30
o'clock there was a sinking spell and
the end came in a few minutts. The
failure of the heart to respond to
the heavy demands made upon It is
supposed to have been the immedi
ate cause of his death.
Wlth'.u a few minutes alter tne
death, the -news was known all over
town and with it there went tne
keenest pang3 of regret uud sym
pathy, mingled with the snock- and
surprise. It could hardly ne reali
zed that Mr. Gullick, when so many
had seen only a few days previous
the very picture of health, could be !
dead. As a citizen of the town and '
prominent merchant Mr. Gullick i
was one of the most reipecleu and
beloved men in town. N one ever
went to hi ai lor aid and wis refused.
Since hia eeath many have been
the txprepsU'HS of similar meaning,
coming from men of various jrores
slons. He 'was a friend, loyal and
unswerving In hia devotion.
There was no' a more popular man in
Gaston county. A significant tact
about the futeral which occurred
the next day was the prince or a
number of traveling sa-sne.. wtio
Lai ht-en associated with Mr. Gill-J
lick In a business way for years,;
many bf them coming from States-:
rille, Spartanburg and other points.
As a business man, Mr. guiuck
was unexcelled. Tactful, shrewd,
conservatUe and Just, he had all the
elements that go to make for suc
cess.. No man in Belmont was fairei
or more Impartial in all his dealings.
Honesty and Justicexwere dispensed
by him. By hia fine business abil
ity and careful investments Mr. Gul
lick had amassed a considerable for'
tone, the most of which Is invested
in real estate and stocks over tne f
county. He was a director in the
Citizens' National Bank and tne
Gastonia- Insurance and Realty
Company, of-Gastonia, and also m
the Riverside Farm Company, , tire
new agricultural project , recently
launched in the county. In addition
to tills he had various minor hold
ings throughout the county.-
It was perhaps as a husband -and
father that Mr. Gullick was best
. known in - Belmont. . He was kino,
devoted and self-sacrificing to his
family. Never . want was theirs.
His home life was ideal.' Wife ana
children looked, on him as a coun
sellor and comrade. To visitors his
hospitality knew no bounds. in
Belmont the Gullick --. homo was
synonymous . with liberality ana
good cheer.
Surviving life deceased are two
Sisters, Mrs. A. L. Guy and MU
Campbell Gullick, of the New Hope
section, his wife, who was Miss Mary
Stowe, one daughter , Miss Meiva
aud two sons Masters Floyd and
Jonathan Gullick. These were all
iretent when the end came. -A
cour'n, Maw)r-elect John Floyd, of
Spprtanburg, arrived for the funerat
Sunday.
THF FUNERAL
The funeral was iield at New Hope
c!:ur(h Sunday at 12:30 o cioi-
tortmcted by Rev. R. A. Miller, ap
sis tea by Revs. W. 3. Lacy, L. M
Kobbs and R. S. Burwell. Ip.ierj
was probably never a larger crow a
at old New Hope church than assembled.-
Although the day was bit
terly cold and flurries of snow were-
falling there were people present
GULLICK.
from all through the eastern and
southern sections of Gaston and from
York county to pay the last respects
to a man universally loved and es
teemed. Within the church standing
room was at a premium. The pall
bearers were Messrs. S. P. Stowe, v.
S. Hanks, W. A. Leeper and John
Gaston, of Belmont, and Messrs. A.
J. Smith. VV. T. Rankin. R. F. Ratch
ford, A. G. 'Myers, of Gastonia. The
floral offerings were extremely beau
tiful. Rev. Messrs. Miller and Lacy,
speaking of the deceased paid elo
quent tributes to his sterling quali
ties of friendship and uprightness.
Both said that in all their ministerial
careers they had never known a
more lovable or more friendly mau.
As evidence of the esteem and love
with which Mr. Gullick was regard
ed during the talk of the two min
isters there was hardly a dry eye
throughout the whole congregation.
Strong men not accustomed to giv-
ing bent, to tears, breaking down and
weeping unrestrainedly.
Mr. Gullick was the son of the
late J. G. Gullick, of the New Hope
section. Had ho lived till Thursday,
November 13th, he would have been
4s years of age. Of this time ap
proximately 20 years has been spent
in Belmont in the mercantile busi
ness. Dandy Darkey Dancers.
The comedy element this season
with Ooburn's Greater Minstrels,, all
new company is headed by Governor
Bowen for the past several seasons,
one of the feature commedlans with
the Al G. Field Greater Minstrels.
Mr. Bowen is acknowledged one of
the beet eccentric dancers in Ameri
ca, is a native Kentuckian, and pos
sesses the Inimitable ability ror
black face comedy, caricature, ana
reproduction only possible to soutn
ern born performers, and those in
timately acquainted with the darkey
and his mannerisms. As an end
man, dancer, monologist and as
"SergL Standemoff" in the laugha
ble semi-military farce comedy num
ber, which -closes the. big show this
season. "Gov." Is given an oppor
tunity to bring out hia talents and
ability to the utmost, and Is- pro
nounced one of the strongest black
face commedlans in minstrelsy to
day. Tom Post v ("F'om Vagtnnr
Bah") is also one of the capable fun
ny men and commedlans, and has
been with this company In tormer
seasons, excelling as a coon shouter
and singer. Harry L Ford. Is an
other clever black face performer
(formerly with Fields) is one .. ot
the neatest soft shoe dancers is
minstrelsy, and is seen in the first
part and the big dancing act la the
Olio . JTnderneath the . Tennessee
Moon" in his solo dancing. Charles
Vermont," Ed Fisher, Carl. Helmth.
Jas. Wilson all new faces and all
capable; performers and dancers
form the balance of this season's ton
folks. Everything new this season.
Don't forgot the date. Thnrsaay.
Not. 13th. at the Gastonia Opera
House. Seats now on sale at Tot
rence's. .;;.-
TO HJffiJUK 50011
PROSPECTS FOB POSTOfflCE, GOOD
Assistant Postmaster General
Calls for Information Preparatory
to Having Plans Made for Federal
' Building Here Postmaster Pa
sour Hakes Recommendations as
to Extension of Free City Delivery
of Mail.
Among the things that Gastonia
has comiffg to her in the not distant
future is a Federal building to be
occupied by the postofflce. Recent
developments lend color to the nope
expressed by many that actual work
on tttiB structure is not a very great
distance ahead of us. It has been
several years since the original ap
propriation for this purpose was
made and Gastonlans have, occasion
ally, exhibited some signs of becom
ing weary waiting for the realiza
tion of the dream of a modern post-
office building Holding on to tne
old adage that "all things come to
him who waits, ' however, Gaston
lans in general have gone ahead witn
their business confident in the Be
lief that the whirligig of time would
bring us a postofflce building and
such, it seems, is to be the case.
Postmaster E. Grant Pasour mail
ed to-day to the Postofflce Depart
ment at the latter s request, Infor
mation necessary for use In prepar
ing plans for the proposed strutcure.
As will be recalled, plans had been
prepared for this building ana were
submitted but the securing of an ad
ditional $20,000 appropriation ror
the structure necessitated the draw
ing of new plans.
Among other items of information
furnished 4y Postmaster Pasour was
a comparative statement showing the
business done by the Gastonia oHice
now and-ten years ago and an esti
mate of what it will be ten years
hence. Ten years ago the receipts
were about $8,000. In 1912 they
amounted to nearly $15,000 and this
year will probably run to more than
$16,000 or double what they were
ten years ago. It is probable that
the next ten years will double the
present amount taken in annually.
Ten years ago there were tu s
besides the postmaster and one or
two rural carriers. Today there
are five clerks, four rural car
riers and three city carriers. Ten
years from now there will probably
De ten clerks, eight rural carrrers
and ten city carriers. A drawing
showing the size, shape, etc., or tne
lot on which the building is to be
erected was also furnished. This lot
has already been bought and paid for
by the government. A partial Hat
of the leading business houses of the
city, with estimates of their busi
ness, was also furnished. Post
master Pasour recommended that a
side entrance be made on South
street. The building is to face on
.Main street.
With this additional lnrormatron
at hand it is believed that the plans
for the new building are to be pre
pared at once by the supervising
architect's office and that actual
work will commence early in tne
coming year. Congressman Webb
has assured Gastonia that the fact
that an additional appropriation was
secured did not in any wise affect our
standing on the eligible list or build
ings. In last year's appropriations
$25,000 was made available to com
mence work on the building. Tne
total appropriation for building and
grounds was $90,000. The lot cost
$15,000 which leaves $75,000 for tne
building Itself. 1
EXTENSION OF CITY DELIVERY.
Postmaster Pasour yesterday
wrote the First Assistant Postmaster
General as follows:
As requested in your letter or
October 11th, I give locality, area
ahd population df the new territory
in which extension of city delivery
is very much desired:
Loray Mill section, 1 square mrie,
population 2,700.
West Air Line Avenue, between
Highland street and Commonweaitn
avenue, 4 blocks, population 200.
South street, from Third to
Fourth, 1 block, population 23.
Fourth Avenue, from South to
York, 1 block, population 55.
South Marietta street, between
Third and Seventh, 4 blocks, popu
lation 250.
West Fifth Avenue, between South
and Marietta, 1 block, population
60.
East Fifth Avenue, between Soutn
street and Union road, 3 blocxs,
population 95.
South Oakland street, between
Third and Seventh, 4 blocks, popu
lation 100.
Union road, between Broad ana
Willow streets, 2 blocks, population
f5T
Columbia street, between Franklin
avenue and Fourth street, 3 blocks,
population 50.
Holland Mill section, 10 blocks,
population 200.
West Harrison street, between
York and Falls streets, 1 blocx,
population 125. . .
, North Moran street, north of Lin
coln avenue, 1 block, population Zb.
West Lincoln avenue, west of
York street, 2 blocks, population t.
East Air Line avenue .extension.
Ozark and Piedmont streets, . S
blocks, population 75..
Totals: Area, one and one-third
square - miles; population 4,015.
Requiring th services of two extra
carriers, full tlmei
Postmaster Pasour requests that
any sections which are not repre
sented in the above and which have
ill N CAN CONTEST
MOVEMENT AMONG MILL CHILDREN
Prizes to be Awarded by Cliarlotte
Chronicle to Mill Children Rais
ing Prettiest Flowers in Tin Cans
and Keeping Premises Cleanest
Movement Started Last Spring by
Miss Smith Exhibition at Avon
Mill School House Friday After
noon. A tin can contest is something new
under the sun for Gastonia at
least. Such a contest, however, nas
been going on here for some time
and will have its culmination Friday
afternoon of this week at the Avon
school bouse on East Franklin ave
nue when children to the number or
about 75, between the ages of three
and fifteen, from the Avon, Trenton,
Ozark and Modena cotton mills, will
exhibit to the public their flowers
grown exclusively In tin cans.
Last spring Miss Lena Rivers
Smith, who writes under the nom de
plume of "Dorothy Mitchell," inaug
urated & movement at' these mills
the object of which was to teach the
children that rubbish, of which the
tin can stands perhaps as the chief
constituent, Is unsightly, unsanitary
and should be done away with. She
offered four prizes to be awarded as
follows: First prize, $5,' for the
best flower, variety not designated,
raised in a tin can; second prize,
$1.50 for the second best: third
prize, $1, for the most artistic flow
er pot made from a tin can; fourtb
prize, 50 cents, for the second best
flower pot made from a tin can.
These prizes are given by The Char
lotte Evening Chronicle, with which
Miss Smith Is connected and are a
part of the welfare and educational
work she is doing , so effectively
among the cotton miil employes In
the towns in this section of the
State.
It was a part of the contract be
tween Miss Smith and the contest
ants that each contestant must keep
the premises at his or her home
clear of tin cans. As a result these
unsightly articles of rubbish have to
a large degree vanished from around
the four mills above mentioned.
At the txhibit Friday arter
noon the selection of the prize win
ning cane will be placed in the hands
of three Gastonia ladles. Then tne
prize winners will have the privilege
of entering their cans in a contest at
Charlotte to be held a few days la
ter. Miss Smith edits a page in The
Chronicle every Saturday devoted to
the mill operatives In Charlotte and
adjacent towns and she has made it
a most valuable and attractive fea
ture of that paper. She visits Gas
tonia quite frequently and has made
around the various mills here a large
number of friends. Her work a
mong the mill people is beginning to
tell and the outside world Is be
ginning to see the results.
BETTERMKNT ASSOCIATION.
Interesting and Important Meeting
Held Friday Afternoon Net Pro
ceeds of Floral Fair Were StOO..
50 To Install Hani tar y iMnkinx
Fountains at Loray, Gray and
Armstrong Mill Schools.
(Reported for The Gazette.)
The Woman's Betterment Associa
tion had a most Interesting meeting
last Friday afternoon. Reports were
made from committees, the most in
teresting being from the Floral Fair
committee. These ladles have paia
all expenses and have a bank account
of $400.50 as the result of their
faithful efforts. A rising vote or
thanks and congratulation was heart
ily given them. Also to Mr. K. M.
Johnston for having given sucn
valuable help during the fair.
The motion to place sanitary
drinking fountains at the Gray,
Loray and Armstrong mills, was car
ried. The purchasing committeee
was instructed to pay the amount
due on the piano. The present ex
ecutive board were made a standing
committee to continue the organiza
tion of the association for preven
tion of cruelty to animals. A joint
meeting of men and women will be
called at an early date to complete
this organization which is to be a
department of the Betterment, loo
December meeting being the time for
election of officers, a nominating
committee was appointed: viz, Mrs.
Geo. W. Wilson, Mrs. W. J. Clifford,
Mrs. W. L. Balthis. Mrs. J. F. Thom
son, Mts. J. Y. Miller. This commit
tee will meet the first week In Dec
ember. Any one having a name to
propose for office will please send the
same In to one of the above men
tioned ladies before December Isu
The asociatlon was delighted to
have as guests a delegation of Bel
li on t ladies.
Rock Hill, S. C, Record, 6th:
Miss Jennie Steadman Culp is ill
with diphtheria at the home of her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Culp, on
College avenue.
. The series of special evangelis
tic services which began Sunday at
the Ozark . Methodist church will
continue through this week and poe-1
slbly longer. There will be preaching
very night at 7:15 o'clock by Rev.
Lv L. Nash, D. D., conference evan
gelist of the North Carolina Confer
ence. There will be special music at
each service.
not now carrier service but desire id
petition for it take the matter np
with him at one. - ,
FOR REFORM OF PRISONS
! EVANGELIST TWAKES STRONG PLEA
Rev. George W. Crabtre, Prison
J.vangellst, Kays That Conditions
kxitlng at Home Places in This
Country Are Worse Than Siberia
Kver Dreamed of Pleads That
Irisoner be Given a Chance
Kindness I1 Conquer Where
Brutality Wont Some XCeded Re
forms Advocated.
Rev. George W. Crabtree. prison
evengellst laboring under the direc
tion of the Presbyterian Synod of
North Carolina, is spending a .few
days in the county visiting the con
vict camps, jails and county home,
and preaching to the Inmates of
those institutions and investigating
the conditions that prevail. Sunday
night Mr. Crabtree lectured at tne
First Presbyterian church and was
heard with much Interest ny a good
sized congregation. Though be talk
ed for nearly two hours his hearers
did not become wearied in the least.
According to Mr. Crabtree Siberia,
In Its palmiest days as a prison noie,
did not exhibit such cruelties and in
humanities as may be found exist
ing in some of the penal institutions
of this country. North Carolina, as
a whole, he believed is conducting
Its convict camps and prisons In a
fairly decent manner, though there
are often exceptions to this. He
told of one county, not far from
Gaston, where a year or two ago he
found negro men and white women
confined In adjoining iron cages
without any privacy whatever. He
denounced the iron cages used in
the county convict camps as crowded,
filthy, unsanitary and dangerous to
life and happiness.
, In the Western States iMr. Crab
tree visited and worked in the peni
tentiaries and prisons and he told
of many Inhumanities and wrongs
that he witnessed. He also recited
how the Colorado State penttlary
was revolutionized by a new warden
who used kindness toward his wards
Instead of brutality, to which they
had become accustomed at the hands
of their superiors. ,
"Give the criminal a chance", was
the burden of his plea and a strong
one it was. The custom obtalnm
In many cities of the country or ar
resting small boys for minor offenses
and committing them to jails, work
houses and county convict camps,
there to be associated with the low
est type of degraded and hardened
criminals, was roundly scored.
At the conclusion of his lecture
-Mr. Crabtree told of his own down
fall, his turning back to paths or
rectitude and righteousness and his
call to the ministry and to the work
of trying to reform prison conditions
over the country. Reared In a
Christian home, he drifted to a city
upon the death of his parents, be
came a cigarette smoker, a drinker
and a gambler. He drifted to the
Western mining camps In Colorado
and Nevada where he spent several
years in a wild and reckless life. He
finally turned away from that life
and has for several years past been
laboring in behalf of the unfortunates
who inhabit the prisons of the land.
Rev. J. H. Henderlite, the pastor, i
explained mat Air. crabtree was
laboring under the direction of tne
Presbyterian Synod of North Caro
lina, that he traveled In a wagon
and visited the convict camps and
prisons as he goes along, preaching
during the week to the prisoners
and when occasion presents itself
putting the problem before tne
churches and the public in general.
A leaflet was distributed to the
members of the congregation as tney
passed out from which the foifowmg
extracts are made:
"What will it profit at the Judg
ment day if we have good roads and
our fallen brothers be lost?
"Judge Cleland, of Chicago, says
that there are 100,000 criminals In
the United States, and the jails are
the institutions that trained tnem in
crime, and are responsible for tne
lawlessness of the day.
"Our prison system Is disgraceful
reform must come.
"Men and boys, white and colored,
are taken up everywhere on the
slightest pretext and given long
sentences on county chain-gangs,
and their ruin completed in the ani
mal cages and disgusting prison
camps of the State.
"This paper is to call the votmg
and praying people of- the State to
the rescue.
"Our health officers have gone to
sleep. Help awaken them. Our
legislators can quickly change con
ditions if they will. The things
most needed are: The parole system ;
Merit system; Religious Instruction;
Separate place for boys; Matrons ror
women: Kind humane officers; Kind
words Instead of curses; Encourage
ment Instead of chains; Advance
system for prison officers: More pay
for guards and attendants-of asy
lums; AH prisoners to be put under
one superintendent; A strict; monthly
Inspection; 'More room for prisoners,
and the single bunk sytem: Do away
with the- animal cages for chain
gangs: Plenty of water; Plenty or
soap; Plenty of clean clothes;
hours work, S hours rest, S hours
sleep. . - , .
"Let ns make good men out of
bad men, and not criminals out of
poor boy. Let us protect our women
prisoners from worse - than death.
Let na have better buildings to house
our prisoner In.
"Citizens of North Carolina herp
SCHOOLS OPEN MONDAY
NEW HEALTH REGULATIONS PASSED
Serenty-Five of County's . Mnety
Public Schools to Begin Work
Next Monday Fifteen Already in
Session Compulsory Law in Ef
feet Board of Health Adopts
Health Regulations for the Schools
Under Recent Legislature Act.
Over Gaston county next Monday
morning will be heard again the call
to books. That day will witness the
opening for another session of all
the public schools of the county not
already open. Of the ninety public
schools about fifteen are alreaay
in session. Hundreds of boys and
girls will respond to the sound of
the bell boys and girls who are to
constitute Gaston's future citizen
ship. This year's attendance will. It
Is expected by County Superintendent '
F. P. Hall, be considerably larger
than at any time in the past because
of the operation of the compulsory
school attendance law enacted by
the recent General Assembly. Un
der this law an attendance officer
has been appointed for each town
ship and it is the duty of said of
ficer to see that the compulsory at
tendance law is obeyed. Once a
week each teacher in the township
will furnish the attendance oScer
with a list of such children as are .
not in school and who come within
the specifications of the law and the
officer will proceed to see that thse
children report for duty.
At a meeting of the county board
of health, held in the court house
last Friday a set of health regura
tlons for the public schools was a
dopted. Under a recent act or the"
General Assembly the county boara ,
of health makes these regulation
and the legislative act . prescribes
the penalty for violation. The board
of health is composed of Mr. John F.
Leeper, chairman of the board or"
county commissioners; Mayor C B.
Armstrong, of Gastonia Dr. fj. Tr.,
Glenn, county physician; Dr. K. M.
Reld, Dr. J. M. Sloan and Prof. F. ,
P. Hall, county superintendent of,
education. v '
Following are the regulation! aa
adopted: '
Section 1. Persons affected with
diphtheria (membranous, croup),
measles, scarlet fever, smallpox (or
varioloid), whooping cough, mumps, '
chicken pox, contagious ophthalmia
(sore eyes), or any contagious skin
disease must be excluded from the
public schools of the county till alt
danger of contagion Is passed.
Section 2. Persons living In the
fa-mi ly or house In which eontagrous .
disease exists are also excluded until
all danger of their taking tne disease
is nassed. 1
Section 3. All persona-' affected '
with pulmonary tuberculosis , are
forbidden to teach In the publto
schools or to attend as pupils.
Section 4. The county physician ;
Is hereby authorized to enforce sec
tions one, two and three and his de- j
clslon In all cases shall be final. . -
Section 5. Vaccination being the
surest preventive of smallpox, alt
parents are urged to take this pro
caution to protect their chlfdren
from this loathsome and dangerous
disease.
The penalty for the violation or
any one of these regulations Is a
fine not exceeding fifty dollars or fin- -nrisonment
not exceeding thirty
days.
Enlarging Theatre.
The Ideal Theatre under the man
agement of Mr. J. . Simpson, has
proved so popular a place of amuse
ment since it was opened a few
months ago that an enlargement of
the building which it occupies has
already Deen made necessary. WorK
on an addition to the building Baa
already reached the stage where the
foundation has been completed and)
within a few weeks the new addition'
will be ready for use, increasing the
number of seats by 54, making tne
total seating capacity 250. Another
great improvement, which has al
ready been made, is the installation
of a steam heating plant. The
theater Is now well heated on oicf
days, so that its patrons find ft en
tirely comfortable and pleasant al
all times.
Hickory Grove News.
Correspondence of The Gazette.
BESSEMER CITY, Route 1, No.
The farmer In this section have
some wheat sowed, but are not
through yet. The recent rain hin
dered the work considerably.
iMIss Florence Carpenter, of Cher
ryville, spent a few days last weeX
with Misses Helen and Annie Pay
seur. ..,.-.!..,
Services were held ar St Mark's
church last Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. S. S. Black, of Cherrymie,
spent last Friday and Saturday witn, ,
Mrs. M. F. Payseur, -
Mrs. P. 8. Beam was the guest'
Friday of Mrs. Erwln Beam. .
The school at Carolina school
house will begin next Monday. Mrs.'
Doris Mauney will teach. ,
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"It yon believe in tempering jus
tice with mercy sign your name to
the following note and send this
paper to your legislators.'
v Gastonia dotton, . .
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