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: Icings Mountain, North Carolina, Thursday, October' .11), 1916.' 81.50 A Year in Achancc
THE Gil LEAGUE WILL HOLD
ITS REGULAR ANNUAL FLORAL FAIR
i
Annual ivtnt to be held as woal
: Pilze list given . -,"
Tne Civic League w.ll bold its
regular annual Floral fair this
year and hopes to make it the
most huccesafnl one Kings Moun
tain has ever had. , We ask the
interest and the co-operation of
the citizens of oor town! and" for
. which we. shell feci "reiry grate
ful. 'Following we ftlve tho rules
for entering bowers and also a
list of the prizes:
Any one in the community who
desires to enter flowers to com
pete for the prise must give at
least fifteen blooms to the fair,
Each general collection roust
contain flight varieties with three
blooms of eseh variety. Each
yollow collection must contiin
four vaneti28 with thr o blooms
of each variety.
Apy one entering fancy work
muBt stale for which prize it has
been entered.
' . Prizes rill be given for flowers
as listed below, but the list of
prises will bo published later:
'. First best collection.
. Becond. best collection.
Third best collodion.
Best yellow collection.
' Three best white blooms of one
varioty.
. . Threo bst Do Appleton.
'Three bst yellow blooms of
t , one variety other than PeAp
- .jrieloo.. ...... . v .
V Three bett red blooms of one
".variety.
- Three bet bronze blooms of
one variety.
Three best pink blooms of one
variety.
, ' Three best variegate 1 blooms
f of one variety.
. i Best vase of eight blooms, one
.. 7 of each variety. ' .
: Beat single bloom of any va
riety. .
Best maiden-hair fern.
Best baby-breath fern.
Best potted plant of any va
riety. '
Best vae of cut flowers other
jVtkau chrysanthemums.
PHIZES FOR FANCY WOUK.
, Best embroidery, white cr col
. ored.
Best crochet. 1
' Best tatting.
- ' Best piece of baby apparel.
Best miscellaneous article'
. " Best handkerchief.
Best towel.
The prizes will bo on display
" in the show windows of W. A.
. Mauney & Bro'a. store.
' The dale for the fair will be
' announced later.
Mrs. D. C. Mauney, Pres.
minds trig trained to the duties
and business of life. But there
'.n a sad thought that comes to
the mind when we see the child
ren in their happy hours of play
fulness with the black cloud of
war hanging over the horizon
that may, hsjst atalnost any
Mme'sndjeiuihrojd our fair coun
try Inutile gloom of night. At
this dime there is perhaps uo
human power on earth that can
do mora t i a ert the threatened
calamity than he who is at the
head of this govern mLt. And
for anght we know the lives of
many of those children may have
to follcw the way hundreds and
thousands hare already gone. It
ie to bo hoped that in the provi
dence of God a way of escape
may be provided the children
and youth o! this laad of ours.
W. A. Kerr, Davidson, N. C.
ARBOR DAT NOVEMBER THIRD
II IENNESSEAN IflilTS THE BATTLEFIEJ.0
Aibor day is only t'iree weeks
off, a it co lies November 3. thin
year. A special effert hiis been
made to have the day appropri
ately celebrated all over the
State and it is hoped that all the
schools will observe if. in some
way. A new "Arbor and Bird
Manual" was prepared by the
State Geological and Economic
Survey at the special request of
the Superintendent of Public In
struction, and this was ready for
the priuter the beginning of Aug
ust. For some unaccountable
reason the printing of this man
ual has been delayed to su?h an
extent that it hardly seems pos-
Isible to have it properly dtstrib
! ed before Arbor Day. This is a
great misfortune, as the County
Superintendents of Public In
struction throughout tho State
made nn almost unanimous de
mand that these books be distrib
uted this year earlier than was
done last year sO that the teach'
ers would have plenty of time to
teach children their exercises.
Instead of being earlier, the man
ual will be much later, too late
to be of any use whatever in pre
paring Arbor Day obser ranees.
It will how be necessary for
the teachers who are organizing
Arbor Day exercises to use again
the manual for 1915. If addit
ional copies ot this are needed,
they can no doubt be secured by
applying to the Coanty Superin
tendent or to the Ktaie Superin
tendent o( Public Instruction at
Raleigh, N. C.
- HR. KERR IISITS GRADED SCHOOL
It has been my pleasure to
- visit the Kings Mountain Graded
1 .VxCohnnl at-, tlm rpnilftftt nf the Drlc-
i .t lpal, Mr. Frank WylieOrr,' who
' " is a son of W. W. Orr, D. D., a
well known evangelist in differ-
j ent sections ot the country. Mr.
t Orr seems to be a worthy son of
( . his distinguished father and it is
a pleasure to know that in days
: putlhadbeen associated though
to liinlixient with oae who
has taker
mlnialrv ind Was
bone so mbh'for the cducationnl
ana , spiritual inteiests of, the
ountry. :!
It la a cheerful sight to see the
hundreds of bright ! aced chilc'ren
as thv r-wd the streets On their
wav ' j play-grnnnds nd to
the (tiled sohool rsoms herc
under t'ifl direction of competent
rnerfuUl nil teachers the young other "points noith
HOWSEB-FULLEB MUPTHLS
The home of Mr. and Mr3. C.
W. Fuller of Bessemer City was
the scene of a beautiful home
wedding on Tuesday evening of
last week wbe-i their - attractiv e
daughter, Mi.s Mary Lillian,
became the bride of Mr. Roy D.
Howser of this city. The library,
hall and parlor had been tprned
Into one spacious room which
was tastefully decorated with'fcut
Sowars and potted plants and
lighted with small candles.
With Miss Willie Jenkins pre
siding at the piano and Miss An
nie Kennedy playing tho violin
the wedding parly entered. Miss
Daisy Howser sister of the groom
was bride '8 maid, and Mr. While
Harmon of Blaclfsburg best man.
The contracting parties met at a
beautiful atch where Rev, Mr.
Caldwell of Bessemer Gity per
formed tho ceremony.
f ,M r. and Mrs. Howser left on
train No; 80 for Washington and
Mr. Oliver Taylor, a splendid
looking gentleman of Bristol,
Tenn., was here Satuiday to
visit the battleliuld. Mr. Taylor
is a lineal descendant oi Willui'P
Srodgrass who was chief ' of
scouts under Colonel Campbell
at the battle of Kings Mountain,
and lives within a hundred yards
of the place where Col. Shelby
lived at the time of the battle.
Of course all tiiat territory was
then in Xortli Carolina Out when
the state of Tennessee was creat
ed it put the habitat of many of
the Kings Mountain heroes in the
nov statu. Mr. Taylor tells The
Herald that, his people ar.- itueh
interested in this historic, event
and a one time held a groat cel
ebration in its honor. While h"io
Mr. Tsylor subscribed for The
Herald in otdrirthatho may Keep
up with what is sjoinir on relative
to the old battlelicld. He .n
that he is nnxion.-; to take part
in our next i.u'.eni jtion ad fiat
he can e.ot uj n big delegation
f.-oin his state louttend. Before
leaving he indicated his intention
to return during the spring to
look more particularly into the
matter of lli next celebration.
Mr. Tf ylor used his Kodak frse.y
in making pictures of the various
objects of interest on tlin battle-tielu.
SANDY RUN ASSOCIATION
In Rutherford county about -mi.es
from Forest City the L'Tth
session, of the Sandy K.in as
sociation convened with Floyd's
Creek church Oct ."til. Notwith
standing the threatening clouds
a large attendance ver.i present
the first day and after a stront
introductory sermon by Rev. T
C. Holland, who is teacher of
Bible in the Boiling Springs
High School, tho body was
quickly organized by the re elec
tion of Rev. Z. D. Harrill as
moderator and G, B. Piuetto as
clerk.
Th as. e biethren have no
regular program but expect each
Titer of the various reparts to
be on hand and then tho associa
tion takes up just whit it sees tit.
Without a motion of tho body no
one is allowed to speak over
twenty minutes, Rev. W. K.
Bradshaw and Dr. Vann were
present and tho association
gladly extended tho time.
While the objects of the con
ventioh received dee attention
the discussion on Education was
given right of way. Boiling
Springs High School is owned
jointly by the Sandy Run and
Kings Mnntain associations
aid is worth approximately
$45, 000. The debt is wiped out
and there are now 225 students,
with seven boys studying for
the ministry. Covering a terri
tory, of only about one half of
Rutherford county there are
over seven thousand members' in
the forty churchts and during
the past year there was a healty
growth of 40-t baptisms. The
attendance of ths Sunday schools
is far above the average. This
was a very Jive session of the
Sandy Run F. B. H. in Charity
and Children:
1 ENLARGING THE SPENCER SHOPS -
Greatly enlarged facilities for
repairing cars at Spencer, N. C,
One of the most important car
repairing points on tho system',
will be constructed at vonce by
the Southern Railway to consist
of a new. all steel -car' shed 109
feet by 600 feet with, a shop ad
joining 50 foot by 100 fcst - y
. CLAUD HAYNES IS AGAIN IN THE TOILS
. A fter a year's vacation to a day
Claud lla.yiies returns tj h,s eld
li. ve. Upon info inalioii reiviv
ed by ( 'hirf l'isli.;i- tint Claud
Ilayii' s .-. living wilhh'.s moll,
or ;.l Alliei:i..irii . Mr. I'ishcrnc
:.!! , CJ ii I' ll by I'ulieeinan Mr I'o
toii. and Cly.le Poston. and J.jhn
Noi'iuan. left '(.,. Tnes'lay .
ning by ai.tomobili' for ibal eify
for to seel; out Ule ciilprt wlr.
just a year ago kno:;iii-d Me l'o
ton who wns then, a nuard on the
ChM-eland chaingang in the head
with a ibovl and iM-.de his
escape. R.r.raiiis '.,---ii ot
fi!iv;d for ila.yncs an 1 .,ne .lohn
son who f'seaperl hi:n. .b.h:;
son was captured 1 wo lu.mtii
agi- at Tainiia. l-'iorida. and i.
now bar!; on his old job i l ueUin j
roc!;. Cbief l-'isher and hi." stall
arrivi.d in Aliejiiirle about ore
thirty i:i the morninj-; m l Mt
abjtit to lied their man. .'. four
tile house was locab.d and Cipt.
I'o:,ton was the mail who lirsl
lioiiited the gun in the face of
the fleepiiiL' culprit w1 o v i
slumbering snugly .in a bed in his
mother's house. Wiping h i
sleepy eyes and staring up 1 1
barrel of the nun into .Me' "face
(land said Well, .votive got
me." grvring with the officers
that a year's vacat'on was ( notigh
for any man the prisoner came
cheerfoily with his escorts and
in now lest'ng in the county jul
unt:l courts lailconveire and give
him Ids assignment wi. ..-by h
'tun Ten good I he two years to his
credit on the county cliaingnjg.
with probably a little slice for
linocliing M I'o'.loii in the he:xl
tor on it as you prefer), r.nd may
be a little more for the rewards,
with n possibility of still a few
more sweat spells for running olT
without finishing his job.
SENATOR LEE S. OVERMAN ADDRESSED
A LARGE AUDIENCE HERE THURSDAY
ilia r
for t'
!y in
relaliv.
eliding
:o the
your Aiis
ilieri asii'g
I i
ipho'i
'Cili,:
.it the
lO ilea,;
labor.
.1 Ml'''.i
Business houses close Hon. C.R.Hoey
Iniroduccs speaker
lint job woi ! and r.d
'.'iew, v. e ii'ceiitly
for subscript ion
-' pn- .';ar. This
' KERR BLACK COT HEAD CRUSHED
Mention, was miio lasl weelt
in the Herald of the death of Mr.
Kerr liiack nea' Anderson, S. C,
but no particulars were available
at that writing, We ha.ve learn-.
ed since from his father. Mr. T.
C. Black, that he was on night
shift on a dredge boat and just
as the shifts were changing on
last Tuesday morning something
went wrong with the dipper. As
Mr. liiack was on his haunches
doing tho work tho dipper made
a slip, someone called to him to
get away, and just as he raised
up his head was c?.uglit between
tho machinery and a tree indict
ing a wound 'which resulted in
his death fifty-live minutes later
in an Anderson hospital to which
he had been lomoved. It is said
that it lie had not raised up ho
Would not have boon hurt. Rev.
.1. M. Garrison, a former pastor
hoic, visit'jd him in the hospital
before lie died and accompanied
the body to Kings Mountain.
RAISING THE SUBSCRIPTION PRICE
Many publishers who a year
ago would have argued that
raising their subscription rates
to $1.50 a year would have If ft
them without a handfull of sub
scribes ara every week realizing
that they must come to it sooner
or later i they want to continue
in business. Those who have
made the move are sorry it was
not made long ago.
Hero is an ineresting letter
from an Idaho publisher to the
Auxiliary. He writes that, he
has raised his subscription rate
how $1.50 to $2 a year . without
the loss of a single subscriber.
This is what he says:
"J. have Ueen much interested
j Will: this in
jraist d O il' r.'.le
i;o:ii j-l ."iP to S
jdr;ision was taken Willi hki- h
lie.-.l.iney, .is we fe-ird the result:
but we are pleased ( stale the
venture ha.; b'-en a complete
iiiv 'H. A month previous to
lie; l at. s being adopted we made
the announcement that on a
certain date our rales would be
i'.t:-''d ti i iii s! ,"H lo s-J a year,
:,id 1 ) date ' lelol.er J I'.Uii, we
lave not lost a single ub.cribr
is til ' r. sall ofo.ir inert ase.
' Tin . h'ads me to bo'ieye that
any paper tint is worth while,
and r. ail.v h;,s a Held that is tle
serving of a newspaper, can do
the fin.e thing. All it t ikes to
do thi.; is .i little tiei f properly
appiicd. Of course this cannot
be done in a has-been or never-will-be
town with poorly printed
and worst; than poorly edited
newspaper, or, more properly
spfaking, a so-called newspaper.
I'eopl.o, generally spr. iking, are
willing to my the price for any
thing that 's worth the price, ane
il is really the io-lield' news
papers that meet with displeas
ure at the hands of their sub
scribers when the rates are rais
ed. "Those are trying limes with
newspaper publishers, the Way
and the only way to meet them
is to moot them bodily ami uu
hesitatingly.
"The 'no-lhld1 newspaper can
not do this, this, but the legiti
mate paper can ami should.
rales and am
that, th' -i n is j Senator Lee S. Overman spolvo
cH'intiy, pub j to a largo audience in the oper;'
nd a I. ur pi ice house here last Thursday, after
Tliis not only I noon at two o'clock. The husi-.
T.ptiou rates, 'ness liu'iseb clos.-d und the pro
i l:i sin m as 1 1 de turned out in strong numbers,
many ladles being present. D. Z.
Newton, county democratic cliair
iii. m. presented Uoii. Clyde i.
lloc.v who in a brief but appro
iirinle speech introduced Senator
luiinaii. Mr. (iverinan inatloa
V.'I'V line vprccb tor the cause of
Deinoei ae.v. lie rcvie .vtv". the
activities of the present, adininis
lialion Iroin Ihe lieginning and
showeti that niiich constructive
legislation had been enacted, lie
cite I mainly the Federal Kesorve
bil. which took linanciul control
awf from Wall street and scat-
HON. LEE S. OVERMAN
tortd the inoimy over the coun
try; the Farm Loan bill and the
Good I toads appropriation,' He
Trusting ether publishers may , r,iipi.iasi.ed the fact that Presi-
benelit. '' 'ublishers .auxiliary.
JURY LIST FOR NEXT COURT
A two weeks term of couit,
civil and criminal, will convene
at Shelby October IKHli, Judge
Ferguson presiding. ,The fol
lowing is the jury list for Xos. I
and f tawnships:
First Week. N'o. l-F. A. Go-
forth, .F. K. Ilhotles, YV. C. Beam,
W. G. Harry, J. M. Whisnant,
J. fiun Patterson, Xo. 5 C. If.
Carpenter, S.' P. Miller
Second Week. No. I 1). .1.
licokout, F, F. llertidon, .1. A-
Harmon. Xo. ." L. H. Miller,
A. Devine.
STOP! LOOK! LISTEN!
As the result of automobile
driver.', failing to lieed "Stop.
Look and Listen" warnings tlieie
were ."i7rtoiuobilo accidents at
crossings o t public highways
with Southern Railway tracks
during tho year ended June UO,
taking'a tsll of 12 lives and D!)
personal injuries. In 1915 there
were lit) such accidents, resulting
in 12 deatlis and 58 injuries.
According to states tho num
ber of-aecidents, deaths, and In-,
juries in 1910 , were as follovrs:
Accidents: Alabama 7, Georgia
11, North Carolina 11, South Car
olina. 17, Tennessee 10; Tirginhv
1. Deaths', Geqrgia 2, Tennessee
3, North Carolina 4, South Caro
lina 3. Injuries; North Carolina
14, .Alabama 9, .Georgia 8, South
Carolinai 14, Tennessee 13,. and
Virginia!. 1 i. ';:.. ;'. : "'.
Jont Wilson and Congress had
had the interest of the people at
heart all the t:mr?. Ho rejoiced
in the fact that Mr. Wilson had
been able to keep the country
out of war. In rounding out his
arguments for a continuation of
the same administration Mr.
Overman aske'l the, question,
'Why change?" '
ALBERT ANTHONY COMMITS SUICIDE
Albert Anthony, 0' years of
ige, ended his lite Tuesday morn
ing at his home on North Morgan
street by slashing his throat with
a razor. Ill health extending
over a period of Svo weeks is
given as tho cause for his rash
act. Mis. Anthony had gone out
into the yard to attend to some
household duties when Mr. An
thony locked himself in the roam.
On her return she found the door
locked, called her husband and
sretting no t oodso, took the axe
and broke ' the door to find
him lyiuf ,J)ol of blood. Mr.
Antlioiy was bora in Lincoln
county, the son of .Daniel An
thony. He is survived by his
wife and three children, Sidney
Anthony, section foreman on the
Southern railroad,' Andrew Aa
thpniy who lives at the Labora
tory Cotton Mills of Lincolnton.
and Mrs. Essie McGinnis of Cher
ry ville, His remains were taken
to Cherry villo Wednesday for in
terment. Mr. Anthony moved to
Shelby( tlnee years ago from that
place. Cleveland Star.
Vaf'.v"---V.'
Mr. E. M. Lohr is improving
hla house on Piedmont avenue,
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