North Carolina Newspapers

I HE NEWS H ERALDo C0SB. Editor and Owner. THE BURKE COUNTY NEWS ( Consolidated Nov 29 1901 THE MOR.GANTON HER.ALU Consolidated Hov. 29. 1901. Subscription Price $1 Per Year in Advance. t'fl! . AAL-v. MORGANTON, N. C, JANUARY 15t 1914. No. 36 0 m ft 9 & $ 1 i 6 0 .1' l?rnliri in the stcmich or w.,t. i3 sestion or co-rnn,r" .:.-"used ?y indi- SIMMONS RED Z LIVER REGULATOR yields quickly to (THE POWDER FORM) .v-j a'l impurities .drptores that fine feeling or fermented frw? . d hmx-Aio 4. r??' mises ana -ss 'i;ssl.activity 31111 cterfci I y Dialers. Price, Large Packasre. ST nr. Red Z on the label. .arg-e Package. SX.OO, If vou carinnr ; . !. HL1 & CO.. Proprietors. St. Louis. Missouri STATE NEWS. county commissioners to the Alabama con company the contract a court house to cost fok SALE iH EXCHANGE. "(it- 15 H-P ::Ior on sill just been I is a good $350.00 ''A Engine . . i Cornish . complete ..:n:rsgeon- $250.00 I-? Xagle . .no. and : Boiler '$200.00 : Erie City u-i" e. and ?225.00 r;.- I wir , or Ivill 2 Hart Write or d Supplies, SL:tesi!!e, N. C. of )r.P. D. Sinclair, Mi ST. n rv v 0p. :eed.- 772. vnETl o i-rcattcct ..;0ia- :v-T-5 712, 710 and 714 -'-via E-,rk & Trust Co. WIN5T0N-SALEM, N. C. J ;7 No ordinary corset 'can give you the style, fit or comfort you can have in "Hi 3 f 2 r 9 -V - M S g B IS 1 JL. a ORSETS Ca;l 3f vnnr riorrf Jtrnent, and give you information on our cor- With Mi no obligation on pan. Telephone or Postcard to PLAN INSURANCE COMPANY Methodists Will Organize Mu tual Insurance Company For Churches and Minis ters. Statesville LancmarK. Rev. Messrs. T. F. Kirk and L. T. Maru and Mr. Dor-man Thompson of Statesville are mem bers of a committee of the west ern North Carolina Methodist Conference appointed to work out a plan for a mutual insurance company for Methodit churches and ministers, and Mr. Kirk at tanded a meeting of the com mittee held in Greensboro Tues day night at which the plans for the company were formulated. Meeting with the Western Con ference committee was also a committee from the North Caro linr Conference, which has decid ed to join in the propjecc, and S.ate Insurance Commissioner Young was present to aid the committees in formulating their J plans. Mr. Kirk, who has given the movement much time and thought, says the new company is now a certainty. Another meet ing of the committee will beheld in Rileigh within the next two or three weeks to perfect the organize tion and secure a charter. The State will require that the company begin bu?ine.?s with $200,000 worth of pron-rty signed up for insurance, divided among not less than 200 risks. The com pany wid make provision for insuring all church buildings and furnishings, church parsonage, furnishings, preachers' libraries and household goods, educational institutions, orphanages, etc., and it is estimated that $5,000, 000 of such property in the State vvill eventually be insured through the company. The company will probably charge the current rates of the old line companies, with the provision that all funds accumulated above the actu il cost of insurance, and a reasonable reserve fund to beset aside, shall be returned to the policy horders in annual dividends. It is estima ted that 50 per cent of the amount of the premiums will be returned in this manner. According to the present plans the members of the committees appointed by the two conferences will compose the board of direc tors of the new company and Dr. C. W. Byrd of Greensboro will probably be president of the com pany. Greensboro has already been selected as the headquarters for the company and Rev. J W. Jones of Mooresville has been selected as general solicitor or agent. This is the first undertaking of its kind in the State. Wake have let struction to build $300,000. The 1914 Tlhr from North Carolina to Oxford University, England, has been awarded Faul A. Hubbe'l, Marshall. ihe North Carolina wage ot Masons convened in Raleigh Tuesday 13th, with an exceptionally large attendance. A new Masonic code has been one of the matters under discussion upon which the lodge will take action. A letter recently from Presi dent Francis P. Venable, of Chapel Hill, who is abroad on a year's leave of absence, stated that he has regained his health and will return to America in June, ready to take up again his duties as president of the Uni versity. George A. Linn, a young wnue man irom Marion, met in stant death at Whitney Tues day afternoon in a dynamite ex plosion. He was employed on the construction work and while stooping over a pit the explosion occurred, blowing off his head and both arms. Many Caldwell people will re call that about 30 years ago Mr. Dickson Horton, son of the late Col. J. C. Horton, of Clover Hill, Yadkin Valley, disappeared and his father could get no trace of him. Mr. Wm. J. Horton, a cousin, who has been tracing him for two years, has succeeded in locating the missing man at Hughesville, Mont. He is a brother of Mrs. A. D. Cowles and Mrs. Dr. Albert Houck, and has many friends and relative? in Caldwell who will learn with pleasure that his whereabouts is no longer a mystery. Lenoir Topic. J. T. Combs, of Kellersville. with three women gathered 300, 000 ferns in 11 days for which they were paid $90. Some fami lies gather a million ferns, galax and other evergreens in one sea son. This seems to be a very im portant industry in the moun tains. Thousands of dollars are paid out every Winter for these products which is a great help to many people. Many tamilies, however, do their children m inctiVp h takine them from school to gather evergreens Farming too, is neglected because money cannot be made as quick ly and easily farming as gather ing evergreens. Avery County Vim. The Southern Fower company rWd a trade with Mr. John - n 1 i W Vns river larm last p.v thp terms of the . .i-ti trad'3 Mr. Ardnt was last tatur S20.000 and will get another $20,000 on the first day of Julv, when the deed, which rtprl with the Shuford National Bank, will be de i;Wvf d Mr. Arndt is to remain cf rent, and farm it as usual this year and give possession January 1st, 1915. By this trade, the r company has acquired an With POSTMASTER EXAMINATION Time and Place of Holding Examinations For Post master at Fourth Class Offices. Competitive examinations for the position of postmaster at all fourth-class postofnees, at which the compensaton is $180 or more per annum, will be held in North J Carolina during the month of grand ! February. Examinations will be held at the following places in this section of the State on the dates named : February 7 Albemarle, Jeffer son, Lincolnton, Marion, Mocks ville, Rutherfordton. February 9 Yadkin ville. February 10 Wilkesboro. February 12 Sparta. February 14 Charlotte, Con cord, Gastcnia, Greensboro, Hick ory, High Point, Lenoir, Lexing ton, Morganton, Mt. Airy, Salis bury, Shelby, Statesville, Thom asville, Winston-Salem. February 16, 18 and 19 -Boone, Bakersville and Newland, respectively. Candidates for postmaster at any of the following offices will examined at any of the points named above: Barium Springs. Blowing Rock, Catawba, Clarc- mont, Cleveland, Connelly Springs onover, Cooleemee. Cornelius, East Bend, Elmwood. Eufola. Farmington, Glen Alpine, Gran-! ite Falls, Granite Quarry, Hamp- tonville, Harmony, Hiddenite, j Huntersviile, Jennings, Jones-1 boro, Loray, Olin, Roaring River : SCHOOL APPORTIONMENT Arndt week. State Apportions Schoo Funds Amount For Burke and Other Counties. State3vi!ie Landmark. Apportionment of the $250,000 appropriated by the General As sembly of 1913 for the schools of the State has been made by the State Board of Education. This fund was created out of the State Treasury for the purpose of en abling the schools of the State to fill out the required six months' school term provided for by the Legislature of last winter, and has been apportioned to the vari ous counties according to the school population within their borders. The new law provides for the setting aside of five cents on every hundred dollars' worth of property in the State is taxed, and this will be apportioned to the various counties later in the ear. The total school fund will then, it is expected, exceed $400. 000. The following shows the school population and apportionment of counties in this section: Iredell, school population 11,- 800, apportionment $3,806.04; Alexander, population 4,263, ap portionment $1,373 96: Burke. population 6,982, apportionment o2.256.29; Cabarrus, population 9,706, apportionment $2,926.15: dwell, population 6,766, ap portionment 2,180.68; Catawba, population 10,565, apportionment $3,405 09; Davidson, population Rutherford College, Sherrill'si 10.158. apportionment S3.273.92: Ford, Troutman, Valdese, Wood- Davie, population .4 573, appor- eaf or any other office not here- ( tionment $1,473. 87; Lincoln, popu n named, the postmaster ofllation 6.390, apportionment $2,- which has not already been exam- 059 49; Mecklenburg, population ined. Applicants may be examined at any cf the examination points on the dates mentioned without regard to the location of the post- office at which appointment is desired, but applicants for ex amination for appointment at any postoffice must reside within the territory supplied by such post- office. No change in the dates of examination at any of the ex amination points can be made. Applicants will be allowed to be examined on only one of the dates mentioned. The application I form may be secured from the postmaster at any of the offices for which the examinations are held, the United States Civil Service Commission, Washing ton, D. C , or the postmaster at any place at which the examina tion is to be held, and shculd be properly executed, indicating therein the examination point at which the applicant desires to be examined, and should be immedi ately forwarded to the United States Civil Service Commission, Washington, D. C. Persons who for any reason are unable to forward their applications to the commission in time to receive written authority to enter the ex amination will be examined, subject to the subsequent ap-i proval of their applications, if j they appear lor examination at a place and on a date scheduled. Examinations begin at 9:o0 a. m. 23,388, apportionment $7,537.95; Rowan, population 12,547, ap portionment $4,004.89; Stanly, population 6,404, apportionment $2,C64; Watauga, population 4, 370, apportionment $1,408.45; Wilkes, population 11,284, appor tionment $3, 636. 83; Yadkin, popu lation 5,460, apportionment $1,-759.75. THE PARCEL POST. L i have a few copies left -laTiou ; vers.-s written by -'aniori .i -i ri- wa? hanged 7 12. 1833, for husband. They of at 5 cents per hi News-Herald. ! - OVER G3 YEARS' T EXPERIENCE Hog By Mail. Charlotte Observer. Mr. J. W. B'anton yesterday received a fifty-pound hog by mail from Tillman's. South Carolina, ssnt here by a friend. The pack age, or rather the "pig in the poke," came via parcel post and cost 54 cents, which is rather cheap as freight goes. The recent dispensation from the postal or ficials at Washington permits one t send a package by parcel pos. in the first and second zones, a radius of 150 miles, to a maxi mum weight of 50 pounds, ine South Caro'ina friend of Mr. p.lantr.n took advantage ox this M: -1 A- Trade W!arxs DESIGNS opyrsfanTS a.c. T" : tic ri'f,n mny i.i"Ti lrua v. Ii:i iter an :it.!f I ilmilllilifM- r!;V:L!.!I:'T on I'ntfiits - s-uiiuir patents. Mi:. in A; Co. recelv i 'i, in f,:n - 1 -i tt V - - & - I r?i-t. f" ' 'i cr.i..-. 4". V'rtrhmaten. X. C. nowe 4t, vrafp-i- rishts it needs the exception of one small tract. The probabilities are that work will begin on the development early this year. -Newton Enter prise. Col H. C. Cowles, a promi nent citizen of Statesville and well known throughout the State suffered a stroke of paralysis at his heme Monday morning. Phy sician" announce that his condi- ,;0rv or it cal. tlis ex i re riguc iuio J and his speech and sent present. the nice poncer as a wnxnERFOL COUGH Dr. Kind's N everywhere as the REMEDY. I. re ess.Iy Irrttnt.! fit Dr. King's Kew V"nl retneuy w mw. -- i l 1 il r . medicine i evci - y It can t ce trouble at all. it It needs no guarantee.- 1 n.s . u hocause Dr. King's IXcw D f -0er Lun? trouoies You sho-i:" t c,;Aa iesnaralyzed is affected. In fact, ne nas un unconscious since the stroke. Colonel Cowles has for 40 years been clerk of the Federal Court at Statesville and Charlotte. He has been failing in health for a vear but continued to discharge L:, flRr-ial duties. He was m his usual health Sunday night, but Vip attempteu to his condition rlr. L. B. Bns- l of Morganton, of mariu when Mnndav morning was discovered, tnl formerly d a daugm.er Mr. MilhoSiand Appointed Deputy Marshal. Statesvile Landmark. Mr. John L. Milholland, of Statesville, wno has for several years been deputy clerk of Ire dell Superior Court, received his appointment as deputy United States marshal this week. The appointment was made by Mar shal Webb while Mr. Milholland was in Greensboro Monday even ing and the latter qualifiel as a deputy immediately thereafter. Mr. Millholland's territory will be Iredell, Alexander, Caldwell. Catawba and Burke countie-, with headquarters at Statesville. Mme. Lillian Nordica is criti cally ill with pneumonia at her home on Thursday island, Queensland. Rutherford College News. Correspondence of The Newc-Herald. The opening of the school here for the spring term was con sidered the best for a number of years. Prof. A. T. Abernathy and wife, of Philadelphia, Pa., are spending a few days with rela tives here. Miss Bell Bright, of Bridge water, spent the week-end here with her mother, who has been confined to her bed for some time. rrox. iu. l. mnsnaw made a business trip to Morganton Sat urday. H. M. Welman spent Saturday with Charlie Drury, near Mor ganton. Oliver Hayes, of Granite Falls, was a visitor here Saturday. He was accompanied by his brother Joe, who expects to enter school here. Miss JLucile laoode was a visi tor in Hickory Saturday. Aunt Mary Fowler, a very old lady here, is very feeble. Rutherford College, N. C, Jan. 12-ih 1914. A. Mails During Recent Holidays Heaviest in Morganton's History. The heaviest mails in the his tory of Morganton were han died during the recent Christ mas holidays. Never before has such an enormous amount of mail been received or dispatched during the holidays here. Wagon loads were hauled to and from the trains and an average of 60 to 100 bags were handled each day. There was no congestion, however, as preparations were made beforehand to handle it all on time. On Christmas day par cel post packages were delivered to many houses. And the rates were so low that this proved the most economical Christmas, as far as carriage was concerned, people have ever experienced. The reports from all over the country are to the effect that the first Christmas trial of the parcel pose was a complete success. On the first day of January important changes went into ef fect which will greatly increase the usefulness and popularity of the system. In zones 1 and 2 the weight imit of a single package has Deen increased irom zO to 50 pounds. The chai ses remain 5 cents for the first pound and 1 cent for each additional pound. "Third Zone Six cents for the first pound and two cents for each additional pound or fraction hereof. This is a reduction of one cent on first pound and three cents on each additional pound. "Fourth Zone Seven cents for the first pound and four cents for each additional pound or fraction thereof. This is a reduction of 1 cent on first pound and 2 cents on each ad ditional pound. "Fifth Zone-Eight cents for the first pound and six cents for each additional pound or fraction thereof. This is a reduction of one cent on first pound and one on each additional pound. "Sixth Zone Nine cents for the first pound and eight cents for each additional pound or frac tion thereof. This is a reduction of one cent on first pound and one cent on each additional pound. The weight limit in third, fourth, fifth and sixth zones is increased from 11 to 20 pounds. ABSOLUTELY PURE Insures the most de!cious and healthful food By "the use of Royal Baking Powder a great many more articles of food may be readily made at home, all healthful, de licious, and economical, adding much variety and attractiveness to the menu. The" Royal Baker and Pastry Cook, containing five hundred practical receipts for all kinds of baking and cookery, free. Address Royal Baking Powder Co.. New York. ' ' Atlantic Coast Storm. The first of last week a terriffic storm on the Atlantic and along the eastern shore of the United States did much damage to shipping and to a number of seaport towns and cities, and completely wrecked the 4,000 tun American tank steamer Oklahoma sixty miles off Sandy Hook. It was at first believed that there were but eight sur viors, and until Thursday only thirteen of the crew of 38 men had been accounted for. The Oklahoma broke in two amidship v ithout warning early Sunday morning just off Barnegat. Seabright. N. J., suffered an estimated loss of a million dollars from the storm, and and at Atlantic City many fine cottars were demolished and a large part of the board walk destroyed. Several big shore hotels were threatened by underminsng waters, and the loss reached at least half a million, leaving sev eral hnndred homeless. On Long Island and at other points also, great damage was sustained. WEAK, WEARY WOMEN Learn the Cause of Daily Wees ar.d End Them. When the back aches and throbs, When housework is torture, When night brings no rest nor sleep, When urinary disorders set in, Women's lot is a weary one. Doan's Kidney Pills are for weak kidneys Have proved their worth in Morganton. Here is one Morganton woman's testimony: Mrs. D. A. Rich, Old Mill Hill, Morganton, N. C, says: "I was nervous and dizzy, my hcid ached and I did not sleep well. The kidney ac tion was also irregular. Finally, I used Doan's Kidney Pills, procured from the Burke Drug Co.. and they made me entirely better. Another of the family suffered from kidney trouble and backache. Doan's Kidney Pills made him strong and well " For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New Yock, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name Doan's and take no other. C33 Notices to pest land for sale at The News-Herald office. FORD'S EXPERIMENT. "3 l:.r r-.i w5 THE ANSWER TO THE HEADACHE ft .1 TSAoe AA 1 S MARK A . Representative Carlin of Vir ginia has interested himself in the movement to have Martha Washington's will returned to the Fairfax Court House, Va. from the private collection of J. F. Morgan. The will disap peared from the court house rec ords during the civil war. Vir ginians say it was stolen. Last year it was discovered in Mr. Morgan's collection. Officials of the Daughters of the American Revolution have a letter from the late J. P. Morgan's librarian declining to giveup the will. Legal action will be taken to recover jit. Col. and lung sold in my store. ,ells without any because. will relieve ..nrrhs and the colds. . . . v.i.i ho its use qillCRIJ c -- - - t a!l thres fTPaH Se meters of the family. 1 r a11, J. nr. All druggists or by mail. S.CE? flSckto. Co ,0 Philadelphia or St. Louis. Cowles ANIDEALWOMANV LAXATIVE fnko ga ts or casuji u.i Who wrr.L. - . th, r when th'.-e V, Til W all bowel Thev act gently tnd nat- . " -..n.-i livtr. stim- vu-allyonUv s- -;. ana rcgui-x- entire ?-. ' tnvik'!rs r.late no the .tl 4..nrarisitS ,-t a" Jl. - , cf Tenuis Philaoeipu"- is wearing and dangerous because the inflamed, mucus-filled tubes interfere with breathing and the fresh air passes through that unhealthy tissue. Probably no other remedy affords such prompt and permanent relief as Scott's Emulsion; it checks the cough, heals the linings of the throat and bronchial tubes and strengthens the lungs to avert tuberculosis. This point cannot be empha sized too strongly that Scott's Emulsion has been suppressing bronchitis for forty years and will help ytSSS De careful to avc"tl substitutes and insist on SCOTT'S. AT ANY DRUG STORE. 13-77 $10,000,000 to Men of Ford Motor Company. Charlotte Observer. The event of interest in the industrial world the past week was the announced revolution in the business methods of the Ford Motor Company. This consisted in raising the minimum rate of wages from $2.34 a day to $5 a day, in dividing a gift of $10,000,000 among its employes, the taking on of a large number of extra workmen and the di vision of its work hours into three shifts of eight hours each, making a continuous run of the factory. Of course Ford gets a tremendous amount of advertis- i ing out of this, and in the final analysis he is expected to make $45,000,000 in profits, where he has been making $20,000,000. This he will be able to do by the never-shut-down plan through the eight-hour shift and the in crease in the number of work- mi j t men. i ne extraoroinary success of Henry Ford in the manufac ture of automobiles has been brought visibly to the front by this recent departure. It de velops that this company manu factures one-half of the totil of 400,000 machines turned out in this country, the output of the Ford factory having jumped from 75,000 to that figure in little less than a year. This success has been attributed entirely to the type of motor this and the ter ritory covered by the salesmen and capacity of production. What the industrial and manu facturing world will be mainly interested in, however, is the trial of the eight-hour shift The net result, it is expected, will be the amassing of a profit that will more than justify the in crease in wages and the distri bution of the prize money. 'Messrs. Gaither and Collett are the Morganton agents ofjthe Ford Motor Company. d3 You Getting? ; tlie Profits wba Creamery o Children Ilk to Uk Sr. HW ally Tabteta- In ti iree 5,r.ort cars the farmers of Catawba County have YrorI:o.I a veritable miracle. Starting with practically nothing, they have developed The Cooperative Creamery that is already selling thous ands cf dollars' worth of their products yearly, and which bids fair to jt-r.-.p to $300,000 a year in the very near future. At first l!-rc were I.J33 them 400 cows involved; now there are more than L" A ). Herds "re bcinsr graded up, silos built, new roads constructed, r.'".v cd -.'.els and. churches erected, and everyone connected with the r.iV.--:--.::t is enjoying more comforts and luxuries and taking more Severe? V i.i home betterment all this from cooperative producing and selling of butter. To butter the farmers have added etrgsand poultry, hi winch they have built up a good-paying business. ,"ow they r re goir.g cii to more extensive and more profitable cooperative enterprises. Catawba County is on the road to the biggest genuine succes?. in the history of North Carolina. The story of the achievements cf this great cooperative movement and of the plans for the future is told in the article, THE BUTTERFAT UPLIFT By BARTON W. CURRIE which starts in GENTLEMAN Dated January 17 The Article will be Concluded in Next Week's Issue Bat in Addition to the Cooperative Creamery Feature, You Will Find in This Week's Issue all These Articles : Prims Baty Beef. Three essentials in making gains that pay. DewnVith the Single Crop. The danger cf depending on one staple product. Qusiity Berries. Hov.' $442.00 v. as made on three-eighths of an acre cf strawberries. Milk Chickens. Telling of results ob tained from feeding chickens on mil'.:. Scurvy Chicks. Valuable he'p in car ing for the health of young poultry. 0:J Fanr:; Kade Kew. Replanning the Hvi-:.tock: farm on farm-manage-n:eiit principles. Ezper.sive Errors. Carelessness in sampling and testing milk means hruvy loss. r-iea;'r7g iis Dairy Cow's Efficiency. Ti:c results of some recent experiments. Sv.-ett Cera zz lit. Pleasnt Ccns It. J:ov; sjven men got together for the Lcncfit o the community. Especially for the Women KoiJs TfcairNafnreandConfrcl. Some Some practical, pertinent statements st:ggcst;ons for baking Lred and cake by The Country Gentlewoman. AWoman and tier App'es. How she bosses . T-.r . ri .t i . ..... . -.cow .as 10 ncuta. tuc worK nerseu and nets top prices. coo: ing sruus. Yo-a hvy TM2 COUNTRY GENTLEPvlATJ from DERR BOGER, Jr. MORGANTON, N. C. 8 Cents the Copy Co.,