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T. G. COBB, Editor and Owner. The Burke County News ) A , T The Morganton Herald Consolidated November 29, 1901. Subscription Price $1 Per Year in Advance. MORGANTON, N. C, JULY 6, 1916. NO. 7. tzr WYTT . ' I i VARNER TALKE GOOD ROADS ' THE 4TH 3ood Roads Meeting Marked Ob- servance oi tne rourtn in Morganton A Fine Speech: strong, practical good roads Veech by "Col." H. B. Varner, of AT : : 1 j? x the observance of the Fourth in torganton. Instead of the usual celebration, l ssociation and the . Burke County ood Roads Association united in a ood Roads Rally. There were rep- ts ?entative farmers in town from all er the county. In the morning they ere given automobile rides over some S the good roads around Morganton. At one o'clock Mr. Varner spoke at ie Graded School auditorium to a urly large crowd. He discussed )ads from every viewpoint the best ays to get them, their maintenance nd their great value to communities. (here is a link of the Central High- lay in Burke which is in bad shape. . Varner urged the building of the d speedily that this great road- lay through the State be unbroken. Immediately following Mr. Varner's beech a meeting of the Burke County ood Roads Association was called to der, with Chairman J. Ernest Er- pre siding. . Short talks were lade by a number of local men and ? State Farm Demonstrator E. S. illsaps, of Statesville, who was 4-esent. Reports from the different iwnships of the county were received, he sentiment of the meeting was to ) something at once for improving ad conditions. New members were ;ceived into the association and "a mmittee was appointed to draft a an for securing better roads for urke, this plan to be submitted to ie people in a series of mass meet gs at different places over the coun The meeting was enthusiastic id characterized by a spirit of de rmination to improve Burke roads. Music for the day was furnished by e Morganton Concert Band. Mr. Varner's speech follows: In this day of progress and enlight- cment nearly everybody is in favor good roads. The only question of fference among the people is how to cure them. Naturally every indi- Idual wants to get the best roads pilt in the quickest time possible at !e lowest cost of construction, roads at can be maintained in perfect con- tion at a cost within the reach of our ople. There are three distinct ideas or f stems by which people undertake to nstruct and maintain a system of ads. The first is the old free labor stem which, as you knowy is a relic barbarism handed down from the ys of Queen Elizabeth.' This sys- m has always been a failure in all Irts of the civilized world. Under is system good roads have never ;en built in any township, county, ate or province in the civilized prld. In fact, it was never richf. nrvr st to force men whodo not own real itate or personal property 'to work e roads as slaves for the landed istocracy. There are only two ways that roads ve been constructed successfully. fie is by direct tax and the use of evicts, and the other is by issuing unty or township bonds. The best example of road building the South by a special tax and the e of convicts is the county of Meek-1 burs-. MppIcI M. Wt.B.WVM.AAWJ As V direct tax and began the use of -..-j . . flVlcts of that. and siirrnnnHino' ties more than 40 years ago. The suit has been that they have built a ignificent system of highways. The fcklenburg county roads have be pe famous not only in North Caro ls but throughout the country. Pie ces of Mecklenburg's magnificent t,nways have been published in news Pers and magazines throue-hout the Pd. One especially famous picture a macadam road in Mecklenburg Fty where two horses are pulling jth ease twelve bales of cotton, 6,000 unds, has been exhibited throuerh- t the world. As a companion to this a picture showing two mules pull s' for all thev are worth one hale of tton, 500 pounds, over a bad road, owing the difference between good ads and bad ones. To Mecklenburg Que the credit of beincr the nioneer My in road building in North Car- ,ld and they have built a magnifi- Pt SVStpm rvP - vj. xirauo All -u jicaio uuic an estimate t n dollars in tax and convicts, and "uittu wist, ui uvci xuui mil- f their roads are woi ch every cent it has cost them. The best example that I know any thing about in building roads by a bond issue is the county of Guilford. one of the most progressive counties in North Carolina. Guilford county watched Mecklenburg and Charlotte grow for thirty years and realized that if Guilford ever became the great county that it was destined to be; that if Greensboro and High Point ever be came the great cities that God Al mighty intended that they should be, that they must build a system of roads and build them at once, and to do so they must profit by Mecklenburg's 30 years' experience and adopt an im proved system, so Guilford county voted $300,000 bond issue, at that time the biggest roads bond issue that had ever been made in North Carolina. In doing so they established a non-rjar- tisan highway commission and pro ceeded, to bund in a business like man ner 100 miles of macadam road, at a cost of $3,000 per mile. This was accomplished in three years' time and it gave Guilford the best system of roads of any county in North Carolina, superior to Mecklenburg's system,' so the difference in the two systems of roads is not to be compared. Meck lenburg county built her system of roads in 40 years at a cost of over four million dollars in tax and con victs. Guilford county built a bet ter system of roads in three years at a cost of $300,000 by a county bond issue. When Guilford county: voted her $300,000 bond issue the propertv on the tax books was valued at nine mil lion dollars. The county commission ers levied a tax of 12 1-3 cents on the $100 and 37 on the poll to pay the in terest on the bonds and creat a sink ing and maintenance fund. The prop erty values so increased by attracting people from different sections of the State and different parts of the coun try, who have moved into that countv and built magnificent homes, built fac tories, engaged in various kinds of business invested their monev in the banks so that in 1910 the property values on the tax books of Guilford county amounted to twenty-three milr lion dollars an increase of fourteen million in ten years, which is the big gest increase made by any county in North Carolina. I imagine that I hear some fellow say: Oh, yes, they have increased the value of land and are making the peo ple pay more taxes." That is a mis take. It is true that land has donhlprl and trebled in value, but it is on the tax books at less per acre in Guilford county than it is in V great many counties in North Carolina. This in crease of 14 million dollars is mainly wealth that has been attracted by this magnificent system of roads, and men have been brought into that eood county, men of character and intelli gence, who are helping to develop the towns and the rural districts and mak ing its citizenship the 'best and most prosperous in the State TheSe good roads continue to attract the better class of people to Guilford, and it is estimated that the tax values in GuiK ford this year will amount to more than 35 million dollars. Anyway, this little tax of 12 1-3 on the $100 and 37 cents on the noil has hppn snffipipnf to PaY the interest on 'the $300,000 Dond issue, create a sinking fund to pay tne bonds off when they become due, and last year Guilford countv had left. " J after paying all these things, over c r r r r r . i i . $ou,uuu to maintain tne roaas they now have and to extend their system of roads into the remotest parts of the county. To prove these facts, in 1900 Guilford county had a population of 39,000. In 1910 the population had increased over twenty-one thousand or 54 per cent, the biggest increase in population that was made by any county in North Carolina, all on ac count of a magnificent system of highways Prior to voting good roads bonds in Guilford county they had a very poor school system. Since that time nearly yery school district in that county has voted a special tax for schools, and today they have a school system that is equal to the best in the land. Agricultural conditions have been rev olutionized and that county was one of the first in North Carolina to em ploy a farm demonstration agent, one of the first counties to employ a health officer to give his entire time to help Mm the sanitation - of the countv. It . " - (Continued on third page.) NEWS FROM GLEN ALPINE. Items Gathered By Our Corres- pondent. Correspondence of The News-Herald. About 75 or 100 people passed through here today going to the Poole mill picnic on Linville from Oak For est Sunday school. Flags flying and cheering, they presented quite an at tractive appearance. The season now is in full blast for the blackberry pickers and from the numbers represented in the patches there will be no lack of the fruit put up. - ' r Wheat threshing has commenced and from all sources report of yield is good. From Rev. Shireman and Mr. Maples, who were delegates from here to the camp meeting of the Seven Dav Advent church at Statesville recently, 1 have the following statistics: Num ber of churches represented. 23: mem bership, 625; amount raised during the session, nearly $2,000.00; collec tion for Sunday school, $54.00; $5, 992.00 paid during 1915 for tithes; $9,664.00 paid out for missions in 1915; $12,409.00 realized from sale of books the past year. This is a credit able showing and reuects credit on the denomination. Mrs. Irvin Pitts has been very sick at Asheville with fever in a hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Conley, her father and mother, went up on .15 today to see her. There is possibly from late reports a chance for her recovery. Mr. J. W. Tallent, a citizen of our town, has enlisted in the National Guards and is now at Camp Glenn. , Prof. M. S. Giles left yesterday for Chapel Hill to confer with the officials there and will go on to New York City to enter summer school of Colum bia University, preparatory to taking his degress of A. M. Mr. F. P. Rowe, of City Point, Va., is at home spending a few days with his family. Mr. C. E. Ward, of Danville, Va., spent a day this week with his wife and children. Messrs. J. H. Giles and family and N. O. Pitts and family and Mr. A. W. Trexler, Mr. A. D. Gibbs and wife and Mrs. C. E. Ward and children in their cars went to the convict camp on the Central Highway last Monday about 5 miles above Old Fort. The road so far is good and the gap between there and Ridgecrest will be completed some time this year. They have about 60 convicts at work and are doinff eood work. - Mrs. C. H. Stevens has been quite sick for several days. Dr. R. M. Anderson, of Bostic, N. C, stopped over with us for a day or two back from Atlantic City enroute to his home. Mrs. Grover Beam, of Shelby, and Mrs; G. A. Poole, of Roxboro, are vis iting Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Pitts. Rev. P. W. Hamlet, a returned mis sionary from China, will preach at the Baptist church next Sunday at 2:30 p m., and we hope to have the band choir with us. Rev. Ernest Har bison will hold services at the Meth odist church at night. Rev. R. F. Mock, of Old Fort, will preach at the Methodist church Wednesday night before the district conference. Mr. C. B. Bright, of Charlottesville, Va., is here for a few days. . Last Monday a church at Nebo was badly damaged by a storm passing through that section. JAP. Glen Alpine, July 4th, 1916. Miss Esther Wagner of Danville Quietly Weds. Danville, Va., Special, 1st; to Greens boro News. When Miss Esther Wagner left her home last Thursday afternoon in an automobile with a party of her friends for a visit to her grandmother near Greensboro it occasioned little surprise for her mother had been in the habit of letting Jier daughter go quite frequently. -That night on en tering her daughter's room Mrs. Wag ner found that all of her wearing ap parel and effects had been taken and the room was bare and this aroused her curiosity. She telephoned to her mother and there learned that! the au tomobile party had never- arrived. About the same time a neighbor said that she had seen Miss Wagner in the automobile with W. T. Fowlkes and Mrs. Wagner at once took the clue. She telephoned to Yanceyvillle and there was told that Rev. Samuel Mur chison had married her daughter to Mr. Fowlkes Thursday afternoon. To day Mrs. Wagner learned that the bridal couple were spending' their honeymoon at Patrick Springs. CARRANZA REPLIES The Mexican Government Sends Reply Which Will Probably Avert All Danger of War. Washington Dispatch, 5th. The reply of the de facto govern ment of Mexico to the demands of the United States, conciliatry in terms and giving assurances of a desire to reach friendly adjustment of the dif ficulties between the two countries, was delivered to the State department today by a Mexican attache. As soon as translation of the Span ish text could be made it was sent to the White House. Until Secretary Lansing and President- Wilson have had an opportunity to confer there will be no formal comment, but some State department officials did not at tempt to conceal the fact that they considered the note most, satisfactory and likely to remove all danger of war. Brief and free from all superfluous language of diplomacy, the communi cation points to the release of the American troopers captured at Car rizal as proof of the Mexican govern ment's sincere desire to avoid a con flict; states as the outstanding issue the reasonable belief of the United States that the insecurity of its front ier is a source of difficulty and on the other hand the belief of the Mexican government that the presence of American troops in Mexico is a tres pass on that country's sovereignty and the immediate cause of trouble. In offering to consider in a "quick practical "way" the remidies which should be applied, the note gives no tice that Mexico has accepted in prin cipal Latin-American offers of media tion and awaits information that the United btates is disposed to accept mediation or still is of the belief that the same result may be attained by direct negotiation. Assurances are given that in the meantime the de facto government will employ every effort to avoid a recurrence of incidents which would complicate and aggravate the situa tion, and the hope is expressed that the United States will endeavor to have its military and civil authorities do likewise. This is the reply of Carranza to the demand of the United States for a statement of his intentions. . A specific response to the question of whether he stands upon the instruc tions of General Trevino to attack American troops moving other than northward is evaded, and there is no mention of the reprimand adminis tered by Secretary Lansing in his note of June 20 on account of the offensive insinuations and language contained in Carranza's communication demand ing recall of the American troops. BASEBALL. Morganton Winning Over Them All and Far Ahead in Per centage. 4 The Morganton team seems to be a winner, standing far in the lead in the percentage so far in the first half of the season In every, game since our last issue the "bugs" have been the victors. The two games at Kannapolis last Friday and Saturday went easily to the Morganton team. At this writing three games have been played with Statesville, the one Tuesday morning an exhibition game. and in them all Morganton has come out ahead. Monday's gtme was a poor one, from reports, the score running up to 14 for the "Bugs," 11 for States ville. - The game on the afternoon of the 4th resulted 3 to ! for Morganton. Statesville comes here today for a series of three games on the local grounds. ' ' A number of Morganton people went to Statesville on the 4th for the games. Engagement Announced. The engagement of Miss Etta Sloan Brand, of Wilmington, who has often visited in Mroganton, and Mr. Law rence Adams, well known here, which was announced last week, is of much interest here. Mr. Adams is the. son of Mrs. Rebecca Bond Adams, of Greensboro, formerly of Morgantom He has been very successful in bus iness, being until recently engaged in the cotton business at Americus, Ga.' He has just recently assumed charge of a cotton office in Greensville, S. C. Miss Brand is a charming young woman, and her marriage, will be one of the social events of the fall. AUTOMOBILE TURNS TURTLE ON MOUNTAIN. To Avoid Collision Machine Tumbles Down Mountain Side. While returning from Chimney Rock on the afternoon ofvthe 4th the car of Mr. J. K. Hall, of 3Iorganton, driven by his niece, Miss Ruth Mc Naughton, turned turtle down the mountain side with its five occupants. That all escaped death or very serious injuries is considered miraculous. Mrs. N. H. Hall, the mother of Mr. Hall, was in the car and was injured more seriously than any of the others, they escaping with slight scratches and bruises. The accident occurred at one of the sharp turns in the mountain road near Biltmore, whither the party had start ed to pay a short visit to friends. As Miss McNaughton turned the curve she saw that the nearness of a large touring car coming toward her meant either a collision or a quick turn. To avoid the collision she drove too near the edge of the road and the large Reo car she was driving took three turns down the mountain. Mr. Will McNaughton was in his car just behind them and arriving on the scene shortly helped in the rescue. Mrs. Hall was taken to the Biltmore Hospital and reports today say she is getting along very nicely, though the shock was a severe one for a person of her age. Of course the car was more or less damaged but it' can probably be repaired. STATE VACCINE APPROVED. ' f North Carolina State Supply of Anti-Typhoid Vaccine Found Satisfactory by Government Experts. State Board of Health Bulletin. According to recent reports, a num ber of samples of anti-typhoid vaccine now on the market have been found upon examination by the government experts to.be of little or no value as an immunizing agent against typhoid fever. Immediately upon hearinc of these reports, samples of anti-typhoid vaccine regularly furnished by the btate Laboratory of Hygienewere sub mitted to the government experts with a request for examination. Accord ing to a report just received from the federal experts, "this vaccine appears to be entirely satisfactory and comes up to the required standard." It is gratifying indeed to know that that State product is not only up to standard but that it will be furnished free to every citizen of the State who will apply for it through his family physician. Those who have been and are now being immunized against typhoid fever may rest assured that their immunization will be satisfac tory. While the State Board of Health can give no information as to the names of manufacturers or companies producing and selling the vaccine which was found by the government experts to be of little or no value, it is urged by the State Board of Health that all those using anti-typhoid vac cine other than that furnished by the State Laboratory of Hygiene, at Ral eigh, ascertain through the agents or through the ' manufacturers them selves if their product meets with the standard of the federal authorities. Jones-Williams. A wedding of much interest took place at the beautiful country home of Mr. and Mrs. Aron Cook last Wed nesday, June 24th, at 10 a. m.t when Miss Eloise Williams was united in marriage to Mr. J. J. Jones, Jr., a popular young farmer. Rev. J. D. Hnrte, of Hickory, officiated. TheJ beautiful ring ceremony was used. after which, delicious refreshments were served. Mrs. Jones, a daughter of the late M. A. Williams and a granddaughter of Mr. R. Williams, of Morganton, is a beautiful and attractive young lady. The happy couple left on No. 11 for a short bridal tour. The many friends of this popular couple extend congratulations and best wishes. Mr. R. Williams and little daughter. Elizabeth, of Morganton, attended the marriage. Fire caused by lightning Sunday afternoon destroyed the cotton yarn mill of the J. M. Odell Manufactur ing Company at Bynum, Chatham county. The loss is estimated at $100,000, covered by $70,000 insur ance. The cotton warehouse and lap pr room were saved. SOUTHERN POWER CO. TO BUILD DAM IN BURKE Report Says Work Will be Begun at Once in Construction of Dam in Western Burke. News came to Morganton yesterday afternoon that the Southern Power Co. will begin at once the construc tion of a large dam in the western part of Burke. Since they began their operations in this county last year it has been the subject of much specu lation as to just what their plans were, whether a dam would be built, and, if so, how soon, or whether per haps the water power was being brought for conservation purposes. The message from Charlotte yes terday afternoon said that the news would come out in thi3 (Thursday) morning Charlotte paper that con struction would be begun at once. OUR ROADS AND OUR COUNTY HOME. An Appeal for Better Roads and a Better County Home A Comparison. Last week Messrs. I. T. Avery, R. L. Huffman and myself went in Mr. Huffman's machine to Gastonia. We greatly enjoyed the ride, except the wretched road in Burke from Drexel to Connelly Springs. That piece of road is a great drawback to Burke and a source of just, though endless criticism on the pride and patriotism of a county that is grand and glorious in many respects. Our people need greatly, to have their pride of county awakened and to understand and ap- . preciate the real value of good roads. Good roads mean increased prosperity to every community through" which they run. They are educators and civ ilizers, for they are a prophetic ful fillment of more school houses and more churches. Apart from these great blessings and the increased value of the lands along their way, they are greatly help ful, to the farmer in getting the pro ducts .of his fields to market and largely enhance the social charm and intercourse of rcral life. We appeal to the good people of Burke to take a deeper interest in their public high ways and let us cease to be ridiculed by all our surrounding counties. Another thing that is discreditable to Burke is our Home for the Poor. Go and see those sorry, uninviting lit tle houses. I know some close-fisted, stingy fellow will cry out: "They are good enough for the poor." If we profess to take care of them we should do it in a spirit of good will, of broad, liberal charity, and make their declin yig years a joy and a comfort. Lincoln county is no richer in any sense than Burke, and when we passed the, Lincoln County Home for the Poor, we were ashamed of the cheap, ill-constructed home in -Burke. The one in Lincoln is a large brick building of two stories with three or four neat brick cottages surrounding the home. Burke county is one of the finest in earth its climate and scenery unsur passed its blue-engirdling hills, its tall forests that indulate to the breezes of a golden summer, its broad fertile acres carpeted with green or crowned with a golden harvest, unite in pro claiming: "That all her nature shows The last ascending footprints of a God." Yea, more, Burke is rich in tradition and historic memories. No county in North Carolina surpasses her in civic triumph or" military prowess. In these she has enriched the annals of the State. During the Civil war" her heroic sons, on many a field of battle illus trated anew the martial daring of the Southron. The wounds of that war are healed in every heart and in every home, and the sons of those in Burke who followed Lee and Jackson would,, in the defense of a reunited country and Old Glory, proudly keep step with the men of the North, East and West to the wild, grand music of war. Knowing the slumbering patriotism of a noble people let us beseech them to a higher patriotic pride in good roads and a better home for the poor of dear old Burke. Respectfully, C. F. McK. 4 The city of Durham has bought the water plant in that town, owned by a private corporation, for $325, 000. The annual convention of South ern Newspaper Publishers (daily pa pers) will be in session at Grove Park Inn, Asheville, July 10, 11 and 12 J
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