North Carolina Newspapers

'.i ' r. The- Kuigs Mo :ferald untain Jt v vrol. U r fffppA TcUTirtlnf Saturda' Only 17 veterans foil in ranks here Saturday to march to the cemetery to do homage to their depar:ed .comrades. Mr.. E. A. IVreison arrived after the remnant of the "Johnles" had returned to the school building, had had the speech nd were aiiout ready for dinner, making the eighteenth. The yetraus present were, Capt, F. Dilling,' W. A. Mauney, J. S. Mauney, Duncan Campbell John Bennett, T. W. Harmon, Wesley Goforth, Wesley Ford, W. S. Weathers, F, W. Dellinger, James Brakefield, T. L. Payne, Jr M. Leniaster, J, W. Weir, D. V. Huffstler, Levi Huffstetle'r and E. A. Patterson. There are some three or four in the county who were not present, but -the lines are growing exceedingly thin. Four of the immediate number fell by the way during the last year. ': In the cemetery ire 32 graves bearing the veteran grave mark Falling s they are without re . cruits the army of the grey will soon be no more in fact but in - ' memory they will Ii7e forever. - And history will never cease to .' tell the story of the'r bravery . s and effectual fighting. Statistics show that each 'rob" laid low , fully four "Yankees." . Attorney A. E..Wo1tz of "iCastonia delivered the aunual address at eleveu o'clock in the School auditorum. It was a gem Y . full of memories and patriotism The veterans enjoyed every bit of IC. Often did broad smiles go ' up from the rapidly thinning lips, often did tears trickle over the furrowed cneeks, and often did applause go up from tie withering hands of those heroes 1 of the sixties, as the speaker re called their deeds of bravery. After the address a bounteous spread was madd in the grove on tables which bad been pre pared for the purpose. It was indeed a season of rejoicing when the venerable gentlemen ' surrounded the ' festal ; board. '. Much comparls&n was Indulged ."v in between that splendid dinner and some they were forced to ' put up with during the War, '. Just as the meal was ' about to begin Mr.'E. A. Pattersin arriv . ed. The reason for his delay was - that he had beet to the Grand Reunion at Jacksonville, Fla. ' and had just retarded Saturday .' He was brimming o?er with eh thusiasm andpatriotisra," He was very alert in giving in his expert iences and .his pmrades were equally as eager , to hear from 'he other "boysi- ; vi-l - Everything passed off in good style; The program '! carried ; a number of feature other . than .the regular address among which were a reading by Miss Willie McGinnis and a talk: from Captr. "- F; Pilling. Horse KicM Lei In Two , r.J3..S. Weir is lying up. in bed at his home in the Southern , -part of town nnrsing 4 . broken leg. It Is rather an unusual oc- occurrento. Mr. Ware was haul ing logs to a saw. mill Saturday , with two horses. While near the , railroad the , horses became . frightened at the .train a,nd want ed to run. Mr, Weir was able to ' bold the horses in check, and - one of them took a fit of kicking, - tone blow taking effect on ' Mr. Wir's shirrand bracking one of ' the bones,' "' ' ';.';-?'"v'-.'. REVIVAL Begins Sunday VitfA.- A revival "will, begin at the Baptist church Dure next Sunday night at 7:5. Rev. J. J. Beach former pastor of the chuVch bnt dot of East Gs-ttonia Baptist church, will asj st the , pastor services will bo Held at a p. tn and 7:45 each day. Everybody invited to attend. Still Was Close By Revenue officers G. R. Rhyne and Charles Stewart accompani by Deputy Sliorill J. E.. Rhodes made a raid in the vicinity of where Wells and Dover were killed over beyond the battle ground last week. The killing occured Tuesday night and the officers were nn the job Thursday morning. Within a quarter, of a mile from where the killing was done a big plant was discove-ed- The still had been removed but alMhe balance of the equipment was oil the grounds. From the appearance -of things the still had been Operated very recently ana it is supposed tnvb it was moved after the kilting. affair, The RumcI Are Gone ' Mr. C. E. Russel moved his family toGreenville, S. C. Mrs. Russel and. , the. little children went Friday . ane Misses Clara Iris and. Gladys , remained over until Sunday. One of our most popular families is gone and the good Wishes of us all go wilh them. May health, happiness and prosperity . attend their way. As was stated in the Herald several weeks ago, Mr, Russet's run from Greenville to Spencer N. C. makes it very inconvenient for him to spend much time. at home. Whereas, he -;an bo at home at least evory other night since moving to Greenville. ' To View Our Roads ; We are informed that a delega tion from Gaffney, 8. C. will make a trip through' Cleveland and Gaston comities to. insqect our roads with the view of adopt ing our system. About. 72 auto. mobiles are to be in the company. They expect to pass 4hroogh Kings Mountain and on to Lin- wood for dinner. After dinner they , will motor back" through the vicinity of Shelby and on bacl to Gaffney. Just when this feat wiH be pulled off we do not know but it -Isi understood that it will bef at an 'early 'date. , - - Sunday School Institute Here . Secretary E-Lee- Middleton of therState Sunday School Board of Raleigh writes that he will be in Kings Mountain. three days beginning Jund 13th.- and will b Id a.tbree-daysSanday School institute in the Baptist church. This will be a great boon to all the Sunday School workers of all, denominations. J who are so fortunate as to attend. r A Wreck Here Monday Freight train No; 73 was wreck ed near Grace church here Mon day morning, A draw head drop ped out and the' shock caused three ears to leave the track. One of the cars turned "turtle, across" the. track. No one was hurt and little damage done ex cept to the three cars, and block ed until about one o'clock. Train No, 59 was detowrcd ; by Columbia, S.1C- ,' A&'.-Z' Kings Mountai'u, N. C, A Bessemer City Boy On leHnnenJIexicfl Piatt Smith Reported Shot Writes Interestingly cf the Capture of Vera Cruz Other War flews. Mr. D. S. Smith of Bessemer! City was in the Herald "office Friday morning and gave us extracts from two letters from his son Piatt Smith who was in thick of the fight at Vera Cruz, The account is probably more intelligible and more nearly cor- rect than many news paper stor ies which we have read. '. Ii is now Sunday evering and everything is quieted down This is the first clianjo I have had to do any writing so will try to get this off on the Ward Line Steamer if she sails this week. We landed last Wednesday morn ing before day break, with four other companies. After dayl ght we began some work that I don't know how to explain, The Battlesh'p Florida had already fought their way ashore, and wure in charge of about one block, They were staying in the PostOffioe which is on the beach. bout good day light we ie;t tne block wnere we were stationed and started for the city when all at once the Mexic ans opened fire on the sailors. After about five minutes the fir ing became so hot that no one had time for thought, when the firing began it was all a surprise to everyone for the "spicks" were in the building unseen My duty is on a 8 - inch field piece and also I carry a 3 ) 20 rl le but ittle use it Ik to me on the firing line. I could not express my feelings if I should try but will ay this much, that I just thought f Mother, Father, and home, nd then of the one who has wwer of all things. After I had asked God to" bless and give me strength to do my duty, I jump- to my post and carried out my orders as they were given. "Dont you know you eau read about war but cant realize what t is. Wish I could picture to ,'au the first attack we had I need not try to do that for it may be you will have the chance 'of see ing the real picture as we have lots of motion picture wen with s. For a few minutes there were worred looks or rather excited looks, upon the faces of my ship mates,, but it don't last long amongst thousands of steel balls j singing around you Just as the order wa given there was a blast given from our' gun ' first that; seemed to take away all fear and. from that oa it was a contin uous firing: On the street where we had the most trouble we had only three field guns and about five companies of- blue jackets, but "fcfter, about an ;. hour, and a. aff of hard fighting we did- the Fifty Speeches In A Day Mr Wr A, Mauney is making personal canvass of the county in the interest of his race for the senate. Mr. Mauney says that he traveled seventy ruiles one day last week and made fifty peeches. How's that for a man of 7 summers who wants to go to the senate? It really looks as if he is-, physically abie -to hld down the job, and if 'he made fifty political speeches id one day and left -everybody in a good humor there can remain no doubt as to his Intel Icct ual. abrlitjv ti f Weed ny every exilJ( Here's t-lM'-f K-ret.-Mr. ".-MatMicygQes on: Thursday, May 14, work. AU dav Wednesday we went up one street and down an- other until the white flags were ilh ng on everv corner. It only took 4tf hours to take the whole city of Vera Cruz. Tast night was the first sleep I have had i for some time. I foe! pretty good today. Most of the boys have spent the day in catching chick ens and anything that is good to eat. We are now stationed at LosCocos, a little station several miles out from the city. We are holding this place until the Army comes. The taking of Vera Cruz rilled fifteen graves and forty hospital cots. Yesterday ttie battleship Mississippi arrived with two aeroplanes- and they made a flight over the city creat ing much comment among both Americans and Mexicans. It is dreadfully hot here and we are very care! ul about what we eat and the water we drink. . No thing cool at all here; Our mail 1 leaves once a weeif and we re cieve mail once a week, and so I hope you ' all won't worry about ma for I think we shall soon be safe on ilia New Jersey again." Following, is an an extract from another lgtter written four days later: , n is a little qmel j'.i.st now but dont.know how long it will last. We came a'ooird last night ((Wednesday) and got cleaned up for there was no time for wait fng while ashore. After captur ing the city we took care of everything until the army got here. Several hu ndred soldiers came in yesterday and the sailors turned everything over to them. We oily lost two men off our ship. In all there were seventeen killed and about sixty-eight wounded. That is the report up today. Am not sure but rather think we will go ti Tampico in a few days? .We are ready to land again "if wanted.. I have been in good health every since we have been here. All you can see in the harbor now is battle ships from everywhere. You can see the Stars and Stripes flying on every ' place of any iajportance, and lots of American people-are walking around the city snapping pictures of some of the ruins of the 'buildings. There are several picture men here V . making - pictures of he fight. The place . where we had the hardest time is cafl rd "Bloody Ben" .and will be remembered -by everyone, that was there well. I am thinking it will be sometime before we get back to the States for it is likely that this ship will sail for Tam pico and do guard duty. the theory that the least said is the easiest mended.:- He speaks only a few words to any audience He has it understood that he is a candidate 'for the senate, if elected he will endevor to rep resent the people and drives on. From what we can leaiu he has a strong hold on the people of the county and that he stands a fair chance to win out Saturday. The house occupied by Mrs, Cornwall near Sevier mill caught fire from a defective flae Satur- .day - Very little damage was done before the fire wa-f' ou ted, 1914. CHAPEL HILL Meters of Jnteiest. Chapel Hill, May 11. A story of radium, embracing the dis covery, history and cancer-curing power of this valuable min eral ore, was related to the stud ents and faculty of the State University by Dr. Charles L. Parsons, chief chemist of the United States Bureau of Minos, Saturday night. The lecture was given in Chemistry Hall and the speaker came Jiere on the invitation of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Socioty, Tin; leotuir was introduced by Professor I'. H. Daggett, president of the Scientific Society, i After tracing briefly'" the tlis-, covery of the valuable ininen.l ore, which of late has been pro claimed a wonderful cure for cancer, Dr. Parson recounted that' the mineral was found in Austria, Portugal, Russia, Au: tralia, and in the United Slates in the States of Colorado and Utah, the scarcity of the ore was noted, the chief sources of supply - being in the United State?. The,h'ef interests at tuclieu to.tlie ore at the present time its cure for the disease of cancer, which power the thief medical authorities of the country pin their faith to. Some of the astonishing cures ' effected b; radium in cases of cancer pro nounced incurable were pictured by Dr. Parson by means of lan tern slides. The expenslveness of the ore was made apparent when the lecturer recited the factth'it a single .milligram of pure radium was valued at 120. The reeognition of its cancer curing power, however has furnished an incentive for medi cal authorities to produce the hiineral at one fourth of the orosent cost. . The committee at Chapel Hill is now engaged in working out the details of the State-wide contest in baseball among the hjgh schools city or rural, which had, up to ami including May 2, played and won as many as four games from teams representing schools of equal rank, and had not been defeated was eligible to enter this preliminary contest provided the manager notified the committee to enter his team by May 5, A preliminary contest is being arranged now for the purpose of electing through a process of elimination two tea:ns which shall come to Chapel Hill to play the game for the State championship. v A cup ' will be awarded, to. the winning team in this final gatnR- Among the schools whose teams are to take part in this preliminary t-ontest are Ashville, ' , Sylvan Rocky Mount and Pikeviller The com-' mittee ha not yet finished its task of looking through- the re cords of all the teams, there will be other teams which will- take part in the contest besides the ones mentioned here. ; -- , a ......... . . , Members of the' State Univer sity faculty have been particular ly active of late in making schob commencement addresses their services in this capacity being irk demand In, all sections of the State. ". Among the "University plofessors '. on commencement programs lately and those that will make speeches during the next few days are: Acting Presi dent B, K: Graham at Clinton; Professor Collier Cobb at Pitte--boro( Acting Dean M. H. Stacy atMatthties and Klr.gj5" Moon tain; Dr. C. lu R,aper at Frank lllitoni'Dr, H. W. Chase ntTHi: No. 16 M A Y 1 6 T H Closes "Opportunity Time" . Dont forget Saturday next will close this period and the scale of votes now given for sub scriptions. This number is larger than will be given at any other tiyie during the remaining of the contest, on a single subscrip tion. He sure and make rood use of Jhe.se few tla.vs and take ad vantage as it will mean a great deal to you. Friends who are interested in the contestants should lend a helping hand.' Now do not put it oil any longer. You no doubt would like to see your favorite win. Your subscrsption may decide this for her, and now when it will count so much for her purely you will make some special effort to help your favor ite all you possibly can. Next Monday another drop in the scale of votes on single subscrip tion and it will mean more work tl,on- to secure the samfe number , ot votes in tins period. 300.000 Vote Offer dosed Hay, 9th. Miss Vernue Lindsay having secured the highest number of one year subscriptions wirs 2OO.C0O Mrs: J. L. Chancy se curing the next highest wins 100.000 votes.- The Contest Manager holds records of each dollar turned in during that time, and should any interested party wish to see them he will gladly show them, at any time if they will call at the Herald office and make such request of him. . Third Period May 18 to May 30. SCALE OF VOTES 1 year subscription, 3000 votes ". 8.500 - " '' 14,500 20.000 " . " . 25.000 . " "50,000 FREE VOTES" 30.000. free 'votes will be given for every club of $10.00 turned in on subscrip tions May 18th, to Satur day 12 P. M. May, 23r6T' in clusive. ' . A contestant can secure as many clubs as she wishes. Take advantage of this offe every subscription' from $1.00 1 to $.".00 will bo counted in these clubs. ; ' .' , Now is the time to get busy and secure just as many' clubs as possible. This offer closes" Saturday at 12 P. M. May 23rd. M'ss Vernue Lindsay leads in the sixth count.' ,. , "v. LIST OP CONTESTANTS. - Kings Mountain,' N. C- v Miss Vernue Liijdsay.. ..453.500 , Mrs; J.-IJ; Chaney.,... ,448.450 Kings Mtn, R. F., D. .No. 2. , Miss .Mattie Ware.. .,..205.000 . Miss' Edilda Barber. .. ...445.450 - -;- ""-' Gastonia, N. C. , Mrs. Edith Massagee.. . . 445.900 burg; Professor G, M. McKie at Townsville; Professor L. A. Willijmsjt forehead City; Pro. feasor M. C. S. Noble at .Boon- ville, Philadelphif, andRoxobel. Acting Preisident Edward K. Graham has been.in vited to make an aderess )n the occasion of the conference on universities at 4 civic service. The, conference is called by Mayor Palmer Mitchell for May -Id. - Professor K. C. : Branson, the .nowly elected . member of tho University of North Carolina faculty, Is also on fhd program for a pe4;h." ' - l-,. ItnhUin i I 1- ir '"V. , "'.- ;.',r: Off I '-ft ' - A