THE POLK COUNTY NEWS
Published every Friday at
. TBYON .
POLK COUNTY
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NORTH CAROLINA.
The Land of the Sky,
By W. P. and G. R. Little.
(Co-Vartnership,)
Saluda Office
In Saluda Pharmacy Building.
W. F. LITTLE,
Managing Editor
Entered -as second-class matter April 28,
1915, at the post office at Tryon, North
Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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NO. 13
FRIDAY. AUGUST O. 1915
Supoxt the public schools.
Education spell3 success.
Do lot be parsimonious about
school finances better be a little ex-
tu. vagrant.'
Success i measured not by what'
tfce world gives you but by what you
give the world.
A dollar spent for educational pur
poses today will save hundreds of dol
lars twenty years from now.
We have women teach our coming
voters and then deny women the
right to vote. Does seem odd.
Polk County has a Board of Educa
tion to be proud of and our County
Superintendent is far above the av
erage. We are fortunate indeed.
Pok County Is going to do its du
tv for the coming generation by pro
Vidinsxmore and better school houses
and pay its teachers a living wage.
The moonlight school idea is a
Sieat one. Will Polk County line up
vv'th the other progressive counties
of the State and develop its unfortun
ate? 1 i i
Heart Acheless Whiskey?
The News ie in receipt of a special
edition of The Anti-Prohibition Man
ual, published by the National Whole
BUI LjiqUOr ueaii a. tuc v.ui t
page is stated that it is a ready re
ference on the liquor side of prohibi
tion claims. Looking through' th
book there can not be found a logical
argument for the continuation of
making and selling of sfrongj drink.
I am like the woman who wrote a
prominent distiller who advertised he
was making a whiskey withbut a
headache, to now please discover a
way to make it without a heart ache.
The whiskey proposition is not one
of economics primarily, but one of
morals.
POLK COUNTY SCHOOLS
On another page will be found a re
port of the Board of Education and
Supt, of Schools. These reports can
be studied by our citizens with! profit
It Is remarkable how much Is helix?
accomplished with such small funds
It is by good management
of our
showing
school officials that such a
is made. )
Polk County Is unfortunate in not
h-.v'ng a large assessment of Ugh
priced 'Yl estate in order to have
efficient funds to extend her schools
School officials tell us that the coun
ty la In need of at least f 10,000 to
pi ovide suitable buildings and e
uuipment for children of ' our Coun
ty. Here is a problem to be solved.
It behooves every citizen to co-op-erite
w'thi the school authorities in
vejry! way possible to build up our
b nooia. uive them encouragement,
support , the teachers in, their work
and let m take a pride in our own
schools. After all the best inheri
tance we can give our children is an
flucation,.
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Taking a Cow to School ;
Gaston ia Gazette:
The idea of taking a cow to school to help
paying one'a expenses is rather new wefancy
in North Carolina or any where else for.
that matter, but that is what a Cleveland
county youth, Virgil Gardner proposes to do
this fall. He proposes that the sale of the
miltc and butter shall put him through. We
hold that young Qadner is imbued with the
proper spirit and that be will come through
a success It is this stamp of boy that has
made and is making North Carolina famous
Endorsing Moonlight School
From The Lexington Dispatch
The Junior Order of United American
Mechanics of North Carolina have endorsed
the Statewide movement for the establish
ment of "moonlight school," and they are
going to wield a wonderful influence in this
great m jvement. There are more than 400
Junior Order councils in the State with an
average membership of about 100 to each
council. They have always stood for tht
public school system and for the education
of the masses. The Dispatch hopes that
the councils in this county will get busv
and live up to their record of the past. W
are sure they will.
FRENCrf MARINES LANDED.
Quiet Now Prevails in Haiti. Wash.
Ington Does Not Object.
Washington. French marines have
been landed at Port au Prince, Haiti,
where a revolution overturned the
government and necessitated the
landing of an expeditonary force
from the United States cruiser
Washington to restore order. The
landing of the French was the con
sent of the United States. It was
stated detachment from the cruiser
Descartes having been sent to guard
th French Legation from- which
President Guillaume was taken by a
mob and assassinated.
A request for a guard of French
marines was presented by the French
Minister at Port au Prince and cabled
to Washington by Rear Admiral Cap
erton in command of the American
expeditionary force. The message
said the French minister had express
ed an urgent desire (hat his legation
be guarded by French sailors in as
much as the Descartes had arrived at
Port au Prince. The minister thought
also that the French guard would be
able to lighten the burden on Admiral
Caperton's men to some extent.
Discuss National Defense.
Madison, Wiss. The national de
fense will be discussed by Governors
of the various .states at their annual
conference in Boston August 24 to 26,
according to the program announced
by M. C. Riley, secretary of the gov
ernors' conference. The meeting
will have added significance by rea
son of the fact that several adju
tants general will participate 4n the
discussion of the plans for increasing
the size of the National Guard.
Employes Get Bonus.
Hartford, Conn. Employes cf the
Colt Patent Firearms Company vwere
Informed that a bonus of 12 1-2 per
cent would be paid to all, based on
wages earned and dating from May 1
last. The action was voluntary, on
the part of the company.
Cotton Receipts.
Galveston, Tex. Cotton receipts
here for 1914-1915 season amounted
to 4,039.022 bales ,the largest ever
recorded here. The previous record
was in 1912-1913, 4,035,009 bales.
Labor Supports Wilson.
Washington. After a two-days ses
sion here" a convention called by
Labor's National Peace Council and
composed of representatives of or
ganized farmers and labor bodies
adopted memorial pledging the con
vention's support of the national ad
ministration in every patriotic effort
and urging that every means be em
ployed to keep the country but of
the European war. Copies will be
sent to President Wilson, his cabinet
and members of congress. Aver
Williams presided at the convention
Russian Duma Gets Busy.
Petrograd, via London. The first
sitting of the Duma, which opened
a few days, ago, holds out promise of
work with the object of promoting
the production of military supplies
and meeting the military require
ments, rather than oratory, recrimi
nations or effort to discover those re
sponsible for the failure to realize
the earlier high hopes. The temper
of the deputies was moderate; party
differences were minimized; there
was an entire absence of gloom or
tactious enthusiasm. '
Difficult Demands By England.
Washington. Consul General Skin
ner at London notified the state de
partment of a new British regulation
requiring masters and sailors on neu
tral ships visiting British ports to
be provided with passports or identi
fication papers and to present such
papers for registry if remaining more
than 24 hours in British waters. A
large proportion of the crews of
American ships ar,e neither native
Americans nor naturalized Americans
and cannot receive passports from
the United States.
Assessment $3,000,000 More. -As-heville.
The report, of the coun
ty auditor . dealing with the assessed
valuation of property in the City of
Asheville shows that the value of local
property is $2,000,000 in excess of that
of last year. Figures announced re
cently showed that the county, exclus
ive of the' city, shows an increase of
more than $1,000,000. More than $3,
000,000 Is the total Increase in valu
ation for the clt yand county,
TEUTONS MAKE PROGRESS
WARSAW HAS BEEN STRIPPED
OF EVERYTHING OF MATER
IAL VALUE.
A Retreat Will Not Be Possible If
Operations of Austro-Germans
Meet With Success.
London. The armies of the Teu
tonic Allies have made appreciable
progress in their campaign to capture
Warsaw and drive the Russians from
Poland or capture them, according to
the latest official communication is
sued by the German War Office.
In the admittedly Important strate
gic sector of Chelm-Lubln Field Mar
shal van Mackensen is declared to
have pierced the Russian positions
and reached the Chelm-Lubin Rail
way, taking many thousands of pris
oners during the movement. In ad
dition, it Is asserted that the Russian
front between the Vistula and the
Bug has been shaken by the attacks
of the Austro-Germans and that the
Muscovites have evacuated their po
sitions along the entire 'line while
General von Woyrsch. has froced a
passage of the Vistula to the south of
Warsaw and is now engaging the
Russians on the right bank of the
great waterway.
In the soutneastern theater Berlin
asserts that the Russians are now re
sisting the Teutons only to the north
of Grubechow, which lies on the west
bank of the Bug some 50 miles south
east of Lublin.
The German armies to the north of
Warsaw seemingly are marking time,
possibly with the intention of allow
ing the Austro-Germns to the south
and southeast to bring their lines far
ther north in the process of emmesh
ing the Polish Capital before Field
Marshal von Hindenburg again takes
up vigorously his drive south and
southeastward to effect a junction
with and bring to a climax the Polish
campaign. The situations in the
north, according to Berlin, is at pres
ent unchanged.
BECKER MEETS DEATH BOLDLY.
Walked Composedly to Electric Chair
Murmering a Prayer.
Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, N. Y.
Charles Becker was put to death in
the electric chair here for the killing
of Herman Rosenthal, the New York
gambler. The former New York
police lieutenant retained his com
posure and protested his innocence
to the last. He went to his death
with a photograph of his wife pinned
on his shlrLiver his heart Three
shocks were given before the prison
physicians pronounced Becker dead
at 5:55 o'clock.
Becker led the way to his own exe
cution. The condemned man sat up
all night on the edge of his cot, calm
ly talking to Deputy Warden Charles
II. Johnson.
"I have got to face it," said Becker.
"And I am going to meet it quietly
and without trouble to any one."
Two Bluejackets Are Killed.
Washington. Two American blue
Jackets were killed in an attack by
natives on Tort au Prince, Haiti, held
by Rear Admiral Caperton with 400
men from the cruiser Washington.
The attacking party was beaten off
without having approached closer
than the outskirts of the city and
order was maintained in the city it
self. No sailors were wounded and
the loss of the attacking forces was
not reported. The dead:
William Gompers, seamon of Brook
lyn. Cason S. Whitehurst, ordinary sea
man, of Norfolk, Va.
WEATHER FORECAST.
South Xtlantic and East Gulf
States General! fair weather
will prevail except that local
day showers are probable In the
Florida Peninsular tempera
tures nearly normal.
NORTH CAROLINA MARKET.
Prices of Cotton, Corn, Oats, Peas,
Butter, Eggs, Etc., on North Caro
lina Markets During Past
Week.
Ahoskie Cotton, 8i; slorn. $1 bu;
oats, 60c bu; peas, $2 bu; Irish potatoes,
U bbl; eWstern butter, 33c lb; N. C. but
ter, 30c lb; egrgs, 15-17Hc do.
Irish potatoes. $2.25 bbl; Western butter,
31c; N. C. butter. 2c lb; eggs, 14-25c dox,
Charlotte Cotton, 8c; corn, 86c bu;
oats, 53c bu; peas, $1.60 bu; Irish pota
toes, $1.50 bbl; eggs, 20c do.
Durham Cotton, 84c; corn, 95c bu;
oats, 50c bu; peas, $1.75 bu; Irish pota
toes. $2 bbl; Western butter, 32c lb; N
C. butter, 30c lb; eggs, 15c dos.
Fayetteville Cotton, 8 Vic; corn, 95c bu
peas, 1.75 bu; Irish potatoes, $1.50 bbl;
Western butter, 30c lb; N. C. butter, 32c
lb; eggs. 17-18c doz.
Greensboro Cotton, 8c; corn, $1 bu;
oats, 67-70c bu; peas, $1.50 bu; Irish pota
toes, $1.50 bbl; Western butter, 30c lb:
N. C. butter, 30c lb; eggs, 15c doz.
Hamlet Cotton, 84c; corn, $1.05 bu;
oats, 55c bu; peas, bu; Irish potatoes.
$2.50 bbl; Western butter. 32c lb; N C
butter, 30c lb; eggs, 20c doz.
Henderson oCtton. . c; corn, $1 bu:
oats, 65c bu; peas, $2.50 bu; Irish pota
toes. $1.50 bbl; Western butter. 35c lb; N
C. butter. 30c lb; eggs, 15-17Vc doz. '
Hickory Eggs, 15-18c doz. -
Lumberton Cotton. 8V4; corn, $1.10 bu:
oats. 60c bu; peas, $2 bu; Western butti
30c lb; N. C. butter, 85c lb; eggs..20c doz!
Maxton Cotton, 8c; corn, $1 bu: oats.
J?uLpeM'' $2 bu; Western butter, 35j
lblrN C, butter- 55c lb 23c doz
New..rnCorn 80c bu: oats, 50c bu:
peas, $1.75 bu.
Raleigh Cotton, 8-8V4c; corn, 95 Vic bu:
ifft t3K,.b,&p;a8' H-75 Ju; IrIb potatoei
$1.50 bbl; Western butter. Slo lb: N. C
butter. 29c lb; eggs, 16-180 dos. '
Scotland Neck Corn, o-95o bu: oats.
!5J2jui.PSL Wh potatoes, l bbU
com COITION
IS BELOW fl
THE GROWING CROP IS ONLY 73.3
PER CENT OF NORMAL
CROP. V
DEPEND MUCH 0M WEATHER
Outcome, of New Crop is Altogether
Dependent on Favorable Weather
Conditions From Now on.
Washington. The condition of the
growing cotton crop of the United
States on July 25 was 78.3 per cent of
a normal, the department of agricul
ture announced. .
Conditions by state:
Virginia 79, North Carolina 78,
South Carolina 72, Georgia 76, Florida
78, Alabama 71, Mississippi 7 6, Louis!
ana 75, Texas 76, Arkansas 80, Ten
nessee 85, Missouri 83, Oklahoma 69,
California 96.
This year's cotton crop will be ap
proximately 11,970,037 equivalent 50C
pound bales, compared with 16,134,
930 bales last year. That estimate,
unofficially calculated, is based on the
government's condition report, issued,
and official figures of acreage and nor
mal yield.
Whether the crop will be greater
or less depends upon growing condi
tlons from now until picking time.
In a statement the crop reporting
board explained the unusually heavy
decline, which was five points dur
ing July, as follows:
"The extremely wet weather that
continued through much of June and
early July in most of the cottonbeK
left the plant rank and sappy, with
development of surface roots rather
than a tap root, and foul with grast
a-nd weeds; therefore peculiarly sus
ceptible to damage from the exces
sively dry weather that followed and
continued up to July 25, the date to
which the report relates. Cool nights
during a part of the period, and dry
winds late in the month increased the
damage.
"The effect of the lack of the usua
quantity and quality of commercial
fertilizer in the sections where nor
mally used has become apparent now
that the plant has reached the fruit
ing stage, being most marked In the
sandy sections.
"The boll weevil In the older-ln
fected sections Is not complained oi
as much as usual, but in newly in
fected regions it is doing considerable
damage.
TAKES MILLIONS TO PRISON.
Germany Sends Out Startling Reports
of Success.
Berlin By wireless to Sayville.
The German War Ministry furnishes
In connection with the first anniver
sary of the war interesting figures re
lating to the success of the Centra;
Powers, says the Overseas New
Agency The statement follows:
'Germany and Austro-Hungary oc
cupy 29,000 square kilometers In Bel
gium, 21,000 in France, 130,000 in
Russia, and 10,000 in French Alsace.
"Prisoners of war taken in Gallcla
now in German camps and hospitals
or employed as workers, total 938,-
869; men captured in the campaign
last week and on their way to camp
number 120,000; prisoners in Austria-
Hungary 636,543, making a grand to
tal of 1,695,412.
"Prisoners taken in .Russia and
now in Germany total 5,600 officers
and 720,000- non-commissioned officers
and privates; in Austria 3,190 officers
and 610,000 non-commissioned offi
cers and privates, total 8,190 officers
and 1,330,000 men.
Villa Issues Tirade.
El Paso Texas. "The American
government can go to hell," declared
Gen. Francisco Villa, addressing a
gathering of foreign merchants at
Chihuahua City.
Shortly afterward he confiscated a
number of the merchants' stores.
Forty-two Mexican merchants were
jailed after the conference for the
purpose of raising a forced loan. Six
were executed. Such was the- sub
stance of reports ' brought here by
foreign merchants.
Trouble in Japan.
Tokio. Developments in the Japan
ese cabinet crisis indicate that if the
movement to oust Takaakl Kato, min
ister of foreign affairs," succeeds, it
means that the cabinet of Count Oku
ma will be dissolved as Mr. Kato is
the working head of the ministry.
The political situation is viewed
with concern by Japanese generally
because of the serious problems facing
the empire. Peers of all positions and
independent leaders are trying to or
ganize a new party.
Many Attended Becker's Funeral.
New York. The funeral of Charles
Becker, executed in Sing Sing prison
was held from the Church of St. Nich
olas of Tolentine, the Bronx. Inter
ment was In Woodlawn cemetery. The
church was filled with men and women
and the overflow stood In the street
outside. So great was the crowd
around the church and the Becker
home nearby that police reserves had
to be called to handle it. The largest
of floral trbiutea was a cross
bearing the Inscription "Sacrificed to
Politics." - - -
Thirty Suits
We had 150 isuits of Men's Spring Clothing u
- 1 now have 30. e
Our Fall line is being made and we want to close ; out
every suit in our rack before we put in the Fall hp.1
A BARGAIN IF WE CAN FIT YOU
W. M. Lambright & Co.
LANDRUM, S. C.
notice r
North Carolina Polk County, In the
Superior Court, Fall term 1915.
M O Dickerson, executor of the
I? fit will and testament of MA Camp,
leceased plaintiff, vs Jos T Camp,
Robert Camp, Mary W Gray and Cor
rie Crawley, devisees and heirs-at-law
of M A Camp, deceased, defendants.
The defendant Corrle Crawley, nam
ed In the above entitled action will
take notice that an action enti
tle as above, has jen commenced
n the Superior of Polk County
North Carolina tb4Save the last will
and testament of M A Camp, deceas
ed, construed by the court; and the
said defendant will futher take no
tice that she is required to appear
at the term of the Superior Court, of
said county to be held on the sec
ond Monday after the first Monday fn
September, 1915, at the court house
of said county, in Columbus, North
Carolina and answer or demur to the
complaint in said action, or the plain
tiff will apply to the court for the re
lief demanded in said complaint. ,
This the 26 day of July, 1915.
J P Arledge, Clerk of the Superior
Court.
V C McRorie, Atty for plaintiff.
a
12-4t
NOTICE
To the creditors of the Green River
Land Co.
By virtue of authority vested in
me as receiver of the Green River
Land Company, by an order of the
Hon M H Justice, one of the Judges
of, t.e Superior Court of v. North
"arolina, of date July 17th 1915
n the cause of the Western Union
Telegrai h Co, Plaintiff, vs the Green
liver Land Co, Defendent, depend
in? in the Superior Court of Polk
County, North Carolina., I hereby give
notice to the creditors of said Green
"tiver Land Co, to file all claims a-
guinst said company with me at my
office in the Commercial Bank Build
ing-, Rutherfordton, N C on or before
the 10th day of October, 1915.
N C Harris Receiver for Green
R'ver Land Copany.
12-4t
NOTICE OF LAND SALE
State of North Caroli na.
County of Polk
In the Superior Court, before the Clerk.
tl. G.Johnson, Carrie M. Morey. Charles
Fred Emmons and Martha A. Kies, Peti
tioners. Against Euuice Johnson Ives and
Mary Johnson Mclntyre and her husband,
Oscar G. Mclntyre, Respondents.
Notice of land sale for partition.
Under and by virtue of the authority of
nn order of the Superior Court of Polk
County, North Carolina, in the above en
titled cause, dated the 15th day of July,
A. D. 1915., I will on Wednesday, the
18th day of August, A; D. 1915, at 11 o'
clock, a. m., in the town of Tryon, Polk
County, North Carolina, at the-place where
the land hereinafter described is situate, sell
to the highest bidder, at auction, for cash,
the followering described lands, to wit:
Lying' and being in the County of Polk
and State ot North Carolina, and being three
(3) lots, each fifty by one hnndred and
fifty feet, fronting on the west side of
Broadway, between First and Second
Streets, being lots Nos. 175, 176 and 177 a.
appears from plat of Mrs. Eva H. Godshaw
subdivision of Tryon, North Carolina, on
tile and of record in Book No 9, at paie.
600, in the office of the Register of Deeds
of Polk County, North Carolina, and being
a part of the same land conveyed by James
II. Payne and wife to Bickford and Godshaw
and subsequently to Eva II. Godshaw, and
also being that land in the town of Tryon,
North Carolina, owned and held by the late
llenjy A. Green at the time of his death
and being bounded on the North by the
Clara M. Bpll property, on the East by
Broadway, on the South by., the Eva H.
Godshaw property and on the West by the
McFee and Jones properties."
This, the 15th day or July, A. D. 1915.
E. B. Cloud,
Io-4t Commissioner.
Your Dog the Best.
Another certainty Is that
youngster who revels in
- - ViUtUul-
lonshlp of a faithful mongrel pup that
is all his own will refuse to, accept
the dictum of the judges at the West
minster Kennel club show fhot
- ; vmu v c
tlcular wire-haired fox terrier Is "the
best dog in the United States." Tope
ka Journal.
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tage 'near Pace House. . Apj-ly, Airs,
O B Gavren.
. FOR SALE: 1 am novv ready to.takcor.
ders for nursery stock for fall delivery. Wi'1
give a special discount-on several varieties
of apple trees. Your 'business solicited.
E. J. Bradley, Saluda, N. C.
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tages with bath, also for turnisn-
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either of the above, list' with us.
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. Tryon.
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Rough and finished lumber
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TRYON, N. C.
Walter Jones
Attorney at W
Office up stairs in
Swink-Hudson Building
Office Telephone
Tryon, N. C,
.Residence Phone, Callja
Singing Convention.
There will be a singing Convent
for Green River township 'm
Friendship church.
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with us. Any kihu 01 u oS-
Used to suit the classes, ""-io
vention to be held the 5th Sun t
August. -.JOHNFAi. r2
Saluda, N. C, 6-28-15.