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5-HERALO. COBB, Editor and Owner. The Bur! e O t The Morjrar.tr Consolidated November 29, 1901. Subscription Price $1 Per sYear in Advai ice. xxxi. M ORG ANTON, N. C. APRiL 27, 1916.' T NO. 49. LISH COAST TOWN RAIDED. RIOT IN DUBLIN. Twelve Persons 'Killed in Dis- EICKETT SPEAKS IN MORGANTON MONDAY. DEMOCRATIC CON VENTION. SERIOUS RESULTS Warships Engage Brit- turbances in Ireland Rebels Lieutenant Govcrnoj T j . IT w.v V,AVJ Will O" w vv avuvv UUtltbii- for Ireland announced m the house ot hear Hon. T. W. Bickett, candldat3 for , tion on the 27th was held in the l I i tl, I, II 1 A nil inline uui uiiuc utxui- vueiieu Dy Array. is Done English Town London Dispatch, 25th. taCKvw anu. kjttxcii j. ciauiis .uuowuc jiiicii, ciutu secretary lied. Dispatch, 25th. Jin--- toft today. ,1 naval forces engaged the 3 and also British light cruis- flie Germans were driven off. v,an- to Be Last Saturday's Convention to Elect Delegates to the State Convention. A Democratic county convention to OF FOREST FIRES i NEWS ITEMS OF INTEREST. didate for Governor Here May 1st. It is expected that a big crowd will choose delegates to the State Conven ts commons today that crave disturb attacked ances broke out in Dublin yesterday. He added that troops had been sent to the Irish, capital and that the sit uation was now well in hand. . Mr. Birrell declared that 12 persons .German warships opened fire quelle(L He alsQ announced that four coast ueioi uniting, iwo or SftMipra WPT.0 , A one man and one child were els were in possession of four or five The material damage appar- dIfferent sections of Dublin. .ffas small. i the engagement two British light s and a destroyer were hit, but , undamaged. Announcement of (fas made today. xestoft is on the North sea coast -100 miles to the northeast of 3n. It is almost opposite The ;have been made on the English j. by German warships. The most rtant raid was made on December GLEN ALPINE NEWS. Jap at Statesville Transmis sion Line Being Completed School Closing Near Forest Fires. ndence of The News-Herald. I was away last week in attendance on Federal Court at Statesville . I was VGTV mnrJa irriTirpsRpH with tViP 314. The towns of Scarborough, char. that , . . rave . by and Hartlepool, about 150 ,.iand jmy Burke was weirrepre north of Lowestoft, were bom- and about 130 person 3 were The German vessels e3caped. restoft, now raided for the sec- jme by warships, is the most rly town in England, a fish ng and an important resort. This has been attacked on seveial ions by Zeppelins. the nomination for governor, when he Court House in Morganton last Sat- speaks at the court house next Kon-1 urcay. All the townships were well rep resented except Lower Fork and Jonas Ridge. The convention was called to order by County Chairman C. F. Kirksey who called J. H. Giles to the chair and requested M. S. Giles and T. G. Cobb to act as secretaries. . On motion, the temporary organi sation was made permanent.. A resolution endorsing Woodrow Wilson and his policies was unani mously passed by the convention. A resolution endorsing the candi dacy of Hon. Edmund Jones, of Cald well county, for Attorney General, also received a unanimous vote. Delegates and alternates to the 3tate convention were chosen as fol lows: Charles Walton, A. L. Lefever, Wal ter Lyerly, E. W. Hallyburton, G. E. "atton, C. E. Tate, F. C. Berry, J. ?. Bumgarner, J. E .Erwin, J. R. "lodfelter, R. B. Moore,xF. P. Tate, . C. Avery, C. F. Kirksey, I. T. Ivery, F. A. Hampton and John L. larrou, and the chairman and secre taries of the convention. ierford College Commencc- ent. nmencement at Rutherford Col begins Sunday, May 7th and 3 May 10th sented and from the number of cases onldeiably in the lime light. Block ading seems to be very prevalent in our county but I don't think Buike ccn be much worse thn her neighbor counties. They remind me of the case of the "Killkenny Cats" put them all in a bag and it would be hard to know which came out first. We have an ef ficient set of olficers and a sheriff who HON. T. W. BICKETT, is fearless in the discharge of his du- f Louisburg in all probability North " x-. iHave Been Ra Grins For Past Week in McDowell and Upper Burke. Much concern has been felt in this section because of the forest fires which have gained such foothold in McDowell county, and have burned over considerable area in western and north-western Burke. Dense smoke; and at some places the names tnem selves could be seen from Morganton the first of the week. Thousands and thousands of feet of valuable timber have been burned, and reports say that a number of schoolhouses, a church and several homes hae been destroyed. The fire originated from a spark from an engine on the C. C. & O. road, and, fanned by the brisk winds of the past week it has been al most impossible to get it under con trol. A good rain would indeed be a blessing. Reports reaching Morganton Tues day said the government had sent a Brief Notes of Ricjr.t Happen ings in North Carolina. The baseball season for the North Carolina league opened yesterday. Bill Nye's old home at Skyland, near Asheville, was destroyed by fixe early Monday Morning. The Bank of Spruce Pine, Mitchell county, ha3 been chartered with $10, 000 capital, paid In. Lenoir college won from Catawba college at Newton the Easter Monday ball game, which is aaays the cen ter of much interest in Hickory and Newton. Former Representative R. N. Hack ett, of North Wilkesboro, has an nounced his withdrawal from the con test for the congressional nomination from the seventh district. Gastonia is making plans for the immediate erection of two school buildings to be built at an approxi- large number of men to help fight the mae cost of 25,000 each, one in East flames and also that the Southern Gastonia and the other in West Gas railway has sent men to aid in the fire ton'a fighting. AT FEDERAL COURT. ELECTION OFFICERS. t:G3 and while they cap Lure stills from a gallon tin coffee pot size up to 8 or 0 -"lions with 100 to 150 gallons of I saw a still while in States- Carolina's next Governor. day. It can be counted urson that The County Board Names Reg istrars and Judges of Elec tion. , The County Board of Elections. v j Two Unusual Incidents Which Attracted the Landmark Re porter's Attention. Statesville Landmark. ine ionowing latner unusual inoi- The State medical assoc'ation, in session last week in Dm ham, selected Asheville as the pla:e for the 1217 meeting. Dr. J. H. Shu ford, of Hick ory, was elected one of tha vice-presidents. for commencement v caPacity HO gallons, which wa e program rear is: M. C. A. sermon Sunday, May p. m., Rev. Albert Sherrill of erfordton; annual concei May 8, commencement-sermon 11 a. m., 9, Rev. John Kirk, Statesville. whatever he says will be well worth composed of R. L. Huffman, J. D. hearing. His many admirers in this Cassels and S. Huffman, met Satur- ecently run in and 5000 gallons of j C0l:nt7 ae looking forward with much day and proceeded to appoint the reg beer poured out. This is not reflecting on the citizenship of Iredell county, for yoa will find as good people jthere a in any county of the State. To tell the truth there is moonshinlng going anticipation to his coming a-aln to istrars and judges of election for the Federal prison three times, sojourn- Fire of unknown origin Sunday af ternoon destroyed the plant of Chad- dent occurred in Federal Court thLs bou:n Lumber Company at Wilmln-r-week: , ton and about 300,000 foe! of lumber Col. William S. Pearscn, ho ap- on ya:ds' cntail'ng a !o-, of 550,000 peared for Jo. Vanhorn of Burke, ad-: rart ally covcrcd by insurance . mitted his client's ciiilt the cha.ge being distilling, etc. Furthermore, Col. Pearson voluntarily testified that his client had been in the Atlanta address the people of Burke. rating exercises Wednesday, the on a11 over the State when ths chances Commencement address by Rev. a e m iavor 10 avoia detection. This Vann, D. D., Raleigh, and alumni th;ng can be stoPPed but it will take ss by Rev. W. W. West. Char- years to educate tnat class ot people ' A- P J 1 ' . 1 out oi mis rut. j The Catawba Light & Power Co., dntendent Kerley Has Op- whic? isundTf tf manage" , ment of Mr. H. L. Millner, have about .) -"ipicucu me Liaiibixiission line rignt sted friends here and else- of way from Nebo to Morganton and p are much concerned over the contracts have been awarded for the s of Superintendent A. C. Ker- j r?oles, which are now being cut. Work who underwent an operation for : on the dam will start in the near f u adicitis at Grace HosDital last i ture. This is e-ood tip.ws fm till i a co i C3 ' p -w. waa&w wv day. The attack was acute and Von and there is already rumors of a peration was an immediate ne- I cotton mill going up here. This will He is getting along as well give Morganton what she has long M be expected, and it is hoped needed an all day and night power. there will soon .be signs of de- lmprovement in his condition. istration Books Open Today. jistration books for Morganton lwill be opened todav bv Resr- r W. L. Kirksey at Kirksey's are store; for No. 2, J. L. Nel- registrar, the books will be open registration at Cox's store every "tcept Saturdays from today un ie 20th of May. On Saturdays ooks for both 'regular polling place, the court at Methcdist arrived ui services began at ths Meth urch last night. The meetinsr ?robably extend through two Sun- Dr- McLarty is a strong preach :i no doubt the services will be tended. The boys came back from the State University with Prof. Giles. Those in the debate from the h;gh school here were JMessrs. Macky Carswell, Thom as Garrison, Dewey Powell and Felix Grisett. Mr. W. P. Simpson, who was a high -chool graduate here last year, has i-t finhed a commercial" course at the Asheville Business College and has his "shingle" out ready for any thing that comes in his line. Mrs. M. A. Byrd is very ill at her home. Mr. F. D. Arney, sawer at one of Mr. J. D. Pitts' mill was adjusting the saw u;de while the saw was rrn--r, rnd the ends of two of j.g fli, CT1t off by the wrench slipping. The lads and lassies are looking Begins narch. E- K. McLarty, of Winston-a- yesterday and a series ; vith longr'ng eyes for the school com 1 Next Week. special term of Burke criminal ordered bv fh OndaV. .Tllrlo' TTcnru To no nro. There is a full docket. The important case to be tried is that les Mace, the alleged wife- ;?anton autoists have . consid urkemont inaccessible by auto- and until last Sunday a ma- m never attempted the as ilr A. C. Chaffee, aecomnanied r, ' r D. Alexander accomplished l ot climbing the mountain in ;Jcar Sunday. The trip is con " quite remarkable in mountain i Frank Amos, of Newton, spent witn his daughter, . Mrs. pneement wh'ch will takle place May 7th, Pth and 9th. Rev. M. S. Giles will preach the annual sermon Sunday the 7th at 11 o'clock. Prof. M. H. Stacy, Dean of the State University, will de liver the address. The concerts Mon day and Tuesday nights promise to bo of unusual interest. Mr. and Mrs. Procter and Miss Eva Hicks, of Salisbury, have been visit ing ? Natives here. . Dn M. Neil and wife and Mr. Jen nings Philips, of Salisbury, were the guests of the family of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Hicks. A disastrous fire which started from over the C. C. & O. has been raging for several days on Paddy's creek, sweeping anything before it, burning several dwelling houses, a Baptist church and two school houses and destroying a lot of valuable timber. Rain Monday night has. partly check ed the flames and the fire fighters may get it under control. JAP. Glen Alpine, N. C, April 26, 1916. Bridgewater Items. Correspondence of The News-Herald. Miss Ona Jarrett, who has been in i the sanatorium at Statesville for about two weeks, came home Saturday and will soon be able to be out amontr .her friends again. Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Middleton, of Asheville, are spending this week with Mrs. J. W. Ballew. Miss Frances Ballew is visiting her brother, Jay, at Marion Junction. Mr. and Mrs. Abner Seals spent Sunday" with Mr. and Mrs. Ed Scott near Glen Alpine. Miss Carrie Tate attended the clos :ng exercises of Nealsville high school and visited her sister, Mrs. T. W. Wilson the latter part of last week. Little Mary Olive and Lrcile Conly and John M. Tate, of Marion, spent unday with Mr. Millard Tate, on Muddy creek. Mr. Bob Shuford, who is to superin tend the dredging on Hopper's creek near Dysartsville, was a pleasant vis itor in Bridgewater Sunday. The raging forest fires around Bridgewater Sunday afternoon appar ently made a clean sweep of most everything which happened to be in its way and the leaping flames seemed to reach out and gather in things not m its way. It was only through the heroic efforts of at least thirty men that the Baptist church, graded school building and the new home of Mr. M. L. Hildebrar, which was only partly finished, were saved. The fire burned under Mr. Hildebran's house, which if ;t had been floored, could not have been saved. It is reported that a small negro boy carelessly put fire in some dry trash, and we judge it didn't need to be fanned to get it started. April 26, 1916. Forest Mc- Fires Raging in Dowell County. Special, 23, to Greensboro Mr. W. W. McCall, after spending several days here and at Gibbs, re turned Sunday to Kelsea, Va.' Marion News. A forest fire, originating at or near Hankins and covering in width sever al miles, has been raging for 24 hours in McDowell county and already has extended 20 miles toward Burke coun ty. A church, a school building, a large mill and a dozen farm houses have been burned. It would be im possible to estimate the timber loss. A call reached Marion last night for help to fight the fire, and many au tomobiles loaded with fire fighters were rushed to the country but the fight was altogether in vain. Noth ing but rain of some wide stream of water can stem the raging fire. primary and general elections. Be low is the list, the registrar being named first, the second name being that of the Democratic, and the third the Republican judge: Morganton No. 1 W. L. Kirksey, E. G. Claywell and R. Williams. Morganton No. 2 Jno. L. Nelson, F. O. Walton and R. O. Huffman. Lovelady -A. L. Lefevre, H. C. Goode and J. C. Berry. Icard No. 1 W. A. Wilson, Hen derson Berry and Will Jones. Icard No. 2 A. G. Setzer, D. C. Hallman and Will Burns. Lower Fork No. 1 Alex Harbison, J. B. Rhoney and R. P. Cloud. Lower Fork No. 2 A. J. Wacaster, J. L. Mull and Amos Swink. Upper Fork W. A. Cook, Willie Mace and Charlie Hicks. Silver Creek No. 1 L. F. Brinkley, W. E. Giles and J. Ed Scott. Silver Creek No. 2 Collett Fisher, Lawson Houk and J. Y. Taylor. Linville R. V. McGimsey, Ural Rhyne and John Wise. Upper Creek Jones Kincaid, Lum Cox and W. P. Patton. Jonas Ridge W. M. Shuffler, S. J. Kincaid and Henry Daniel. Quaker Meadows No. 1 Walter Harbison, T. W. Drury and S. D. Wall. Quaker Meadows No. 2 L. M. juynn, &nerman Teague and W. T. Brittain - Lower Creek C. C. Hensley, J. E. Lackey and W. A. Hood. Smoky Creek A. J. Smith, E. H. Tilley and J. R., Benfield. New Duties of Registrars. Under the new primary law, these officials will also act in the primary to be held on June 3rd. All regis trars will transcribe names from the old books to the new books, and reg ister any new citizens who have come into their precincts. The books will open Thursday, 27th of April and will close the second Saturday before June 3rd, that is, May 20th, 1916. The judges named for the general elec tion will hold' the polls for the pri mary. . . During week days the registrars may keep their books at their homes or places of business, but on Satur days they must be at the polling places. R L. HUFFMAN, Chm. Board of Elections. The following candidates have filed their notice of candidacy and pledge with the Chairman of the Board of Elections for Burke county: For Legislature B. L. Lunsford. For Sheriff J. H. Hyams. For County Commissioner J. 'M. Brinkley. nig a year each time. The colonel didn't claim this as a virtue for his , client, nor was he trying to make his ; situation more serious but that's what he did, though unwittingly. In The Charlotte Festival Chorus is now organized and reh?a -5al have be gun. Until the second week of Au gust, when the great Summer Festi al of America will be held at B!ack m ountain, North Carolina, the local chorus will rehearse weekly. Char lotte Observer. North Carolina has four survivors mentioning the three trips of his cli- j 0f the Mexican war. They are James ent to Atlanta as Uncle barn's guest, j N. Brown of Concord, Benj. Pritchett, the colonel insisted that the fact that ' of Senia, James M. Sweat, of Wax- haw, and John Curtis of Brayson City, Route No. 1, Box 57. In the United States there are only 510 surviors. In 1915 there were 680 and in 1914 there were 893. Vanhorn was again in court after this experience was evidence that send ing him to Atlanta wouldn't reform him. Wherefore the colonel prayed the court to release Vanhorn under a justified bond of $500, which he was prepared to give, on condition that he appear at each term of the court for two-years to show that he had not in any manner whatsoever, been con-, nected with the liquor traffic Arledge-Hood. Reporaed for The News-Herald: A pretty home wedding was sol- 1 emnized at the home of Mr. and Mrs. snsnenriprl farifrmonf v,o ' w- A Hood on Wednesday afternoon, Col. Pearson insisted, would do for when hei5 .dU .Eva be Vanhom what Atlanta hA faiA frt -me the bride of Blaine Arled ;e, of - waawaa mm AMAAVVK W do. But Judge Boyd didn't fall for Col. Pearson's line of talk. His honor ':hought that Vanhorn's attitude indi ?ated that the Eurke man was defy ing the law and the administrators thereof and that drastic treatment Greenville, S. C. The wedding wa3 a quiet affair, there being only a -o j eiat. ji present. The ma'd of honor was Miss Grace TTood, cousin of the bride, and best nrn Palph Hood of Raleigh. Rev. A. C. Swofford officiated. The bride was handsomely attired WAS TlPPflprl TVio Atlanta nricnn wasn't drastic enough but a term onn ? f blue, with hat the chain gang, Judge Boyd sug-' f nd gloveS . to mat. The ma d of . . j uunui wcaiiug uac wuiureu crepe ue clime. Mr. and Mrs. John Wilson, Misa Mary Wilson and John, Jr., spent Easter rith Mrs. Mary Collett. gested, would be the proper medicine. Vanhorn was asked what he thought of the Atlanta prison and he said he thought he had enough of that. Then Judge Boyd ordered. the case continued Vanhorn under bond un til next term, and at the fame time instructed the district attorney to no tify the solicitor of the Burke district that Vanhorn needed his attention, with the further information, that the disposition of Vanhom's case- in the State court would have much to do with the further disposition of his case in the Federal court. That is to say, if Vanhorn gets from the State court the punishment Judge Boyd thinks he deserves, but which he was unable to give him, his honor will let it go at that; and he expressed the ODinion that about a year on the chain gain was the medicine the Burke man needed. Judge Boyd doesn't think much of chain gangs. He says that working a man on the reads, in chains, is too drastic punishment in ordinary cases But his action in this case 13 evidence that h considers the chain gang a necessity for the Vanhorn type. The bride is an attractive and ac ccntp?ished young lady of many fine ra!ities. Mr. Arledre is a prominent and promising youn? business man very.pupular in his home town. At 5:30 p. m. the happy couple tifk the west-bound tra!n fo a west ern trip. A FRIEND. the fall and take whatever punish ment your honor feels disposed to give us." Mr. McKesson's hope, of course, was if he could get his cli ents off at this term and they kept out of trouble until next term, the court would let them go. At the time, however, Judge Boyd wasn't disposed to adopt the suggestion of counsel, but after keeping Mr. Mc Kesson and his clients on the anxious bench for two days he did practically as requested. Sentences of a year in the Atlanta prison and a fine of $100 each were imposed on York and Lail and they were informed that if they kept the faith and paid the fines by the first day of the next term of I court they need not go to Atlanta. Mr. C. F. McKesson of Morganton' Mr..R. Ptt t- t, about everybody in Burke county ! contract with the AsbWillo t; .... w . iiuso IV Mrs. A. G. Brooks and little daugh ter and Mrs. G. B. Hosran, of Hamlet, shent several days this week" with Mrs. W. B. Davis. a!!s him Charlie) appeared for Kelly York fvnd Patterson Lail, two young men of Burke. Their guilt was ad mitted. "Your honor," said Mr. Mc Kess on in his most appealing man ner, "these boys have young wives :ind young babies at home, and we want you to let us go home and make a crop and then well come back in furnish them with daily cartoons. The first to appear was in yesterday af ternoon's paper. All his cartoons have the signature "Pat." Morganton friends are proud of "Robert's" suc cess, and because of the recognized merits of his cartoons, it is predicted that he win achieve even greater success.
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