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The Morganton Herald Consolidated November 29, 1901.
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CHECKING THE U-BOATS.
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Effectiveness of, the British
Le of the Great Problems j Admiralty Campaign.
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t t Economy and tonserva-, r ieia iviarsnai von nmaenDurg mat
of Food iusi --i .
d.
jn,g an inclination among some
regard the Government crop
ie as tantamount to an an-
to make peace in the not too distant
future if the Germans held their
ground until the submarine had done
its work," has been answered strik
ingly, British admiralty officials be-
Lent that the food situation hieve by the weekly statement of
British shipping losses.
The conclusion has oeen reached in
British circles that it Is impossible
for the submarines to maintain any
average of sinkings which will have
y.n appreciable effect on the overseas
communications of the allies.
A staff correspondent of the Asso
ciated Press was privileged to spend
two days in observing the anti-U-boat
campaign at close quarters, at a
big naval base on the southeast coast.
There was plenty of evidence from
such a vantage point of the effective
ness of the admiralty work in nearby
waters, as well as of the tremendous
effort which is being put forth. The
navy still maintains secrecy regard
ing the submarines sunk, but the
pursuit has become so lively that a
U-boat shows its periscope in chan
nel waters only with the greatest risk.
It is impossible to keep entirely
t- 1 T 17
v met, John ram iucas, jka-
p secretary w
nod Conservation Commission,
iued a statement showing that,
the American farmer is respond
;i,y to the call of patriotism and
,ity, the food situation remains
I
jtsiiie tne one gicat
Jself," declares Mr. Lucas, "the
situation is the greatest problem
the civilized world today, and
he duty, obligation and privi-
jf America to solve that prob-
Every farmer, eVery man with
en and every consumer must
biis fact constantly in mind and
iber that it is the aggregate of
ual effort and sacrifice that
,,e relied upon xo meet the de
of the situation.
t Government crop estimates,
ins a total food crops produc-
DRAWING WILL PROBABLY
BE MADE SATURDAY.
h 6.000,000,000 bushels, includ-
,124,000,000 bushels of corn,
ts every reason to be encouraged
spired, but the fight has just
. The first 'drive' has been a
, but other great drives will be
iy before the war is ended,
laxation of interest or lagging
it upon the part of the produc-
America might result disas-
secret such incidents as that of an
oil-driven destroyer, which a few days
ago swept into port with a part of a
rammed submai-ine hanging triumph
antly from her prow. Airplane and
dirigible patrols in the chanel are
proving highly effective, and a U-boat
which is once sighted by a dirigible
has small chance of getting away. ..
In waters further afield one of the
best evidences of the success of the
eat of course is the greatest ! Atlantic patrol was the safe arrival
of the American transports at a
French port.
Jbr human consumption. During
st three years before the war
the United States, with an av
production of more than 700,-
I) bushels, exported an average
j- 116,000,000 a year. The bal-
of the approximately 450,00,
ishels required in normal times
allies and neutral Europe was
d by Russia, 200,000,000 bush-
fanada, 121,000,000; Argentina,
fo.OOO; Australia and New Zeal-
12,000,000; British Indes, 59,000,-
js from Argentina can be in-
"d. Further, there is no way to
Jort Russia's usual 200,000,000
Is to the allies. This means that
feat demands of our allies and
ttral Europe must be supplied
altogether by the United
with the aid of Canada. This
South the Place For Camps.
Objection to sending New Eng
land men drafted for the army to
Southern training camps was lodged
with the War Department by Sen
ators Lodge and Weeks, of Massa
chusetts and Hale, of Maine. They
say the army will meet climatic con
ditions in France similar to those of
New England, rather than of the
South.
Delay Caused By Failure of Ex
emption Boards to Report.
It is announced that it is hoped to
make the drawing under the selective
draft before the end of the week and
it is thought it will be done Saturday.
Some States have been Vjslow in mak
ing reports; hence the delay.
All of the procedure for determin
ing the order of liability of the 10,
000,000 registrants has been made
public except the method of the actual
drawing.
The first number drawn will deter
mine what man in each district is to
be taken first. If it be No. 10, for
example, it will mean that the man in
each of the 4,559 districts in the
United States holding card No. 10 will
be called for examination before any
of the other men in that district.
The second number drawn will de
termine what man in each district is
to be taken second, and so on as long
as men are needed. Those not needed
for the first war army will retain
their positions on the lists and these
positions will determine the order of
their liability when they are needed.
Obviously there will be high num
bers drawn for which there are no
corresponding registrants in small
districts. The smallest district in the
qountry is understood to have but 187
registrants, and the - largest about
7,000. Whenever a number beyond
the total in any given district comes
out, it will operate as a blank for that
district. Thus, if the theory works
out evenly, the larger districts will be
constantly assessed in excess of the
smaller, on a pro rata basis corres
ponding to their size. .
THE CAMPS ALL LOCATED. I TRAGIC DEATH
lernational food situation is the j iU a 6Ul1 lu
h of transportation. With the!War Department's policy of locating
jmost of the troop training camps in
undreampd of d- hv thJthe South Maior General Gorgas,
n submarine campaign, suf.i surgeon general of the army declared
ships are not available to car-j&uc"
at from Australia and the Brit-1 freat flce for good health and
&?pC n -PWIot or, fW nence ior military eiuciency.
and it is to be doubted if the
mand of our allies are so tremendous
that if we fully supply them, as we
must do, w will have less of all of
our exportable food crops left than we
were accustomed to have under nor
mal conditions before the war. Not
withstanding the great crops being
grown by a determined and patriotic
kl in normal times was 650,000,-1 Pe0Ple and vouchsafed by a kind
fcshels. Todav because of thp t'-ovidence, we must yet economize to
'aval of millions of nroducprc: ! the greatest extent possible in the use
he Euronean farms, thp rWnd of those food stuffs suitable for ex-
fably considerably in excess of Port and must substitute for them to
figures. 1 as great an extent as possime otner
wheat nrofhiption in TTni ! products which are less suited ior ex-
Jtates in 1914 was 891,017,000 i Port or to-which our allies are less
tS and in 1915 was 1,011,505,000 ! accustomed.
?? and yet, with these tremen-l JNOrtn Carolina is piaying wen ner
rops, we were able to export in I Part m the movement tor increased
1 vear 1014.1H or,iv qqp nnn cod production and of food conserva-
fd in 1915-lf? nlv 243 000 000 1 tio- A 14 per cent inc?ease in our
corn acreage, a iuu per cent increase
Automobile Accident.
Five Morganton boys who had been
to Blowing Rock Sunday and were on
their way to Gastonia Sunday night
were the first to reach the scene of an
automobile accident about 8:30
o'clock between Dallas and Stanley.
The boys, who were' Messrs. Walter
Green, Lester Saunders, Vernon
Davis, Dewey Pollard and John Kil
iveros, say that at first they thought
the whole party had been killed.
The Gastonia Gazette of Monday
gives the ofllowing account of the ac
cident: Six people were injured last even
ing in an automobile accident at
Hoyle's Bridge over the South Fork
between Dallas and Stanley when the
machine they were driving wentyover
an embankment on the approach to
the bridge and turned over. The in-J
jured are Mrs. Sustaire, superintend
ent of the Lincolnton Hospital; Misses
Sidney and Louise Cassidy and Miss
Fay Lawrence, nurses in the same
hospital; Miss Jean Robinson and Mr.
K. L. Lawing, also of Lincolnton.
The party had been to Gastonia on a
visit to the City Hospital and were
enroute home when the accident' oc
curred. Mrs. Sustaire was driving
and lost control of the machine. All
were 'badly bruised and shaken up
but were not seriously ' injured. Mrs.
Sustaire suffered an injury to her
ankle which will result in her con
finement for several weeks, she being
the most seriously injured , of the
party. All are in the City Hospital
here.
Troops Assigned and Camps
Named Camp Greene at
Charlotte.
Selection of 16 camp sites for the
National Guard were completed Fri
day when Secretary Baker approved
Hattiesburg, Miss., and Alexandria,
La., and announced Hie change of
the Fayetteville site to Charlotte.
Routing of the Guardsmen from all
States to the camps for training pre
'liminary to their departure for France
was worked out by the militia bureau
and the lists of assignments submit
ted to Major General Bliss, acting
chief of staff, for approval.
The first increment of the Guard
was called into th? service of the
Federal governmenc Sunday, al
though the draft clause o the na
tional defence act wilr not be applied
to any of the Guardsmen until Au
gust 5. Movement to the camp
sites begin within a few days, as
supplies sufficient for the men al
ready have been secured.
North Carolina troops will be sent
to Greenvillet S. C, along with those
of, South Carolina -and Tennessee,
constituting the ninth division. The
fifth division, Maine, Massachus
etts. New Hampshire, Rhode Isl
and and Connecticutt, .will be sent to
the Charlotte camp. The tenth divis
ion, Alabama, Georgia and Florida,
will go to Macon, Ga. Ohio, West
Virginia, Indiana and Kentucky, the
sixteenth division, go to Augusta,
Ga.; New Jersey, Delaware, Mary
land, District of Coumbia and Vir
ginia, eighth division, go to Spartan
burg, S. C; Arkansas, oLuisiana and
Mississippi, the eighteenth division,
go to Montgomery, Ala.
The 32 camps selected for the
training of the National Guard and
the National army have been named
for distinguished soldiers of past
wars. The camp at Charlotte will
be known as Camp Greene, in honor
of Gen. Nathaniel Greene of the
Continental army; Campj Meade, at
Annapolis Junction, Md., for Gen.
George Meade; Camp Lee, Peters
burg, Va., for Gen. R. E. Leee; Camp
Jackson, at Columbia, S. C, for Gen.
Andrew Jackson, former President;
Camp Gordon, Atlanta, for Gen.
John B. Gordon; Camp Custer, Bat
tle Creek, Mich., for Gen. Geo. A.
Custer; Camp Grant, Rockford, 111.,
for Gen. U. S. Grant; Camp Funston,
Fort Riley, Kans., for Gen. Fred
Funston; Camp Hancock, Augusta,
Ga., for Gen. W. S. Hancock; Camp
McClellan, Anniston, Ala., for Gen.
Geo. B. McClelland; Camp Sevier,
Greenville, S. C, for Gen. John Se
vier, member of Congress from
OF YOUNG BOY
THE FALL FOOD ACRE.
Fell Under Wagon Wheels and
Crushed to Death Bridgewa
ter News Items.
Correspondence of The News-Herald.
Mr. Eugene Boyd was called to
Hickory Friday oa account of the
death of his son, Paul, which occurred
at the Richard Baker hospital late
that afternoon. Paul was thirteen
years of age and had lived with his
aunt, Mrs. James Wilfong, since his
mother's death eleven years ago. He
and his cousin, Ransom Wilfong, were
leaving Hickory Thursday, each with
a wagon loaded with bailed hay, when
Paul fell to the street and both wheels
of the wagon passed over his body
He was immediately carried to the
hospital, where he died -Friday after
noon. He is survived by his father,
two brothers, Beverly and Walter, of
Bridge water, and one sister, Annie,
of Granite Falls.
Miss Frances Ballew spent several
days in Morganton last week.
Miss Louise Crawford, of Sugar
Hill, visited her brother, Dr. D. H.
Crawford, at the Rust house several
days the latter part of the week.
Mr. Martin Phif er visited homef oiks
at Kings Mountain Saturday and Sun
day. Miss Faye Padgett, of Nebo, spent
Saturday with Miss Julia Rust.
Mr. John W. Ballew, who has ac
cepted a position with the Carolina
Coal Company, left Saturday for
Dante, Va He was accompanied as
far as Clinch Cross oy his wife and
little son, Jack, who returned Sunday
afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs'. Charles Dewey, and
Mr. M. F. Tate and daughter, Miss
Carrie, spent the week-end at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Wilson
at Glen wood.
News Items From Chesterfield?
Correspondence of The News-Herald,
Messrs. Lonnie Kerley and Ed Gol
loway, of Morganton, were visitors
here Tuesday.
Mr. Junius Hallyburton, of Hope
well, Va., visited relatives in this sec
tion one day last week.
Mrs. G. M. Arney and son, Mr.
George Arney, returned Monday from
Lenoir, where they had been visiting
Mr. and Mrs. Robrt Sides. They were
accompanied home by Mrs. Arney's
granddaughter, little Miss Pearl
Sides.
Misses Laura Howard and Mary
Moore spent Tuesday night as the
guests of Miss Essie Conley.
Mrs.- Moran Harbison and sister,
Miss Junie Orders, of Salem, visited
North Carolina and first governor j Miss Winnie Smith Friday
If we continue to use wheat
ame amounts as we have been
f -med to we would not be able to
tbir year 100,000,000 to supnJv
land several times that amount.
aggregate acreage and produc-
pin is the greatest food and
op in the United States. The
induction of 3,124,000,000 in
fer this year is no ereater
he record production of 1912,
less than 400,000,000 bushels
the average for the last five
We have been accustomed to
fe practically our entire corn
Jion, our exports before the war
f'nsr less than 50,000,000 bush-
year against the 128,000,000
: exported by Argentina. The
' of our Allies, formerlv an-
Ftely 150,000,000 bushels, are
y not much if any less than
imes those figures today. Be
of the transportation difficul-
feady mentioned Argentina will
We to incrpasp hpr ovnovfa a-nA
ted States will be called upon
y the entire demand. This we
ddy do.
um up; vhile we have large
01 all food products, except
Practically assured, the de-
in "our garden products and a large
increase in the acreage of potatoes,
beans, peas and other food crops show
that the farmers of North Carolina
as a general thing are aroused to a
keen sense of their duty and oppor
tunity. ' .
"Every North --Carolinian should
look about himself or herself to find
means of increasing and conserving
the food supplies. Every pound of
surplus vegetables from our tens of
thousands of gardens should be con
served through drying or canning.
None of the fruit from our splendid
orchards should be allowed to go to
waste. Plans should be made for a
fall and winter garden to take the
place of every summer garden. Ev
ery field that has been planted in
corn, beans, potatoes or other food
crops should receive the most
thorough cultivation possible and be
made to yield the utmost pound of
their products. Cotton should re
ceive equal attention because the
staple is of equal importance with
food stuffs and the seed may be class
ed as a food product. Every pound
of hay and other forage possible
should be saved."
Picnic at Mountain Grove.
A Sunday school picnic will be giv
en at Mountain Grove church, near
Table Rock academy on the fourth
Saturday of - this month, the 28th.
Everybody is invited to attend and
bring basket dinner. Good speakers
have been secured for the occasion,
among them being Messrs. C. F. Mc
Kesson, I. T. Avery, E. L. Perkins,
and T. L. Sigmon, of Morganton. Mr.
W. T. Winters, of Table Rock, is su
perintendent of the Sunday school.
Miss Perkins Has Resigned as
Merchants' Ass'n. Secretary. -
Miss Strauss Perkins has resigned
as secretary of the Morganton Mer
chants' Association, and her succes
or has not yet been selected. Miss
of Tennessee; Camp Wheeler, Ma
con, Ga., for Gen. Jo. Wheeler;
Camp Logan, Houston, Texas, for
Gen. John , A. Logan of Illinois;
Camp Cody, Denning, N. M., for
Pen. William F. Cody (Buffalo Bill);
Camp Bowie, Forth Worth, Texas, for
Gen James Bowie of the Alamo;
Camp Beauregard, Alexandria, La.,
for Gen. Beauregard.
Heavy Rainfall Does Hundreds
of Thousands of Damage at
Knoxville. (
The heaviest rainfall in Knoxville
in twenty-eight years, did hundreds
of thousands of dollars damage,
blocked railroad traffic, flooded one
hundred homes, many mills, factories,
and business houses and impaired
street car traffic, this on the anniver
sary of our W. N. C. flood of last
July 16th.
The heavy rains resujted in the
overflowing of the two creeks which
run from north to south through the
city and flooding a large number of
mills, factories and business houses,
which were forced to suspend opera
tions. Homes along these creeks
were partially submerged and the in
habitants forced to flee. Two houses
were washed away and at least 100
covered by water. The damage is es
timated at $100,000.
The heavy rains beginning with
Saturday were accompanied by ter
rific displays of lightning, resulting
in two deaths7
Low - lying farm sections in the
Perkins has been secretarv of the as
sociation since its organization and 1 Knoxville district for a distance of
has done effective "and constructive
work in bringing the association to
its present point of usefulness in the
community.
thirty to forty miles were flooded and
the loss in the rural sections reached
hundreds of thousands of dollars-
Miss Louise Walton entertained
last week at a house-party at her
pretty country home, "Creekside,"
the following young ladies: Misses
Georgia Riddle, Cameron Pearson,
Mabel Miller and Augusta Bristol.
Death of a Child.
Sarah, the 13-months-old daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Smith died
Wednesday of last week and was bur
ied Thursday at Zion, Rev. C. A. Cald
well conducting the funeral" and bur
ial services.
Mr. Tyson Crisp, who was called to
the bedside of his sister, Miss Fannie
Crisp, who is seriously ill in Smoky
Creek, passed through here Sunday
on his way to his home at Durham.
Mr. and Mrs. Hamp Giles and small
son, Mr. and Mrs. Noah Pitts and two
sons, of Glen Alpine, were the pleas
ant visitors Sunday of Mr. and Mrs.
J. V. Powell.
Supt. T. L. Sigmon and Mr. Rus
sell Coleman, of Morganton, were
here Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Miles Kincaid spent
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.' Eston
Lackey.
Mr. and Mrs. Pat Michael were the
week-end guests of their daughter,
Mrs. Jim Cline, at Lenoir. ,
Mrs. Moose and daughter, Miss El
lie Moose, of Morganton, attended the
services at Mt. Pleasant Sunday.
Miss Gussie Smith and little sister,
Margaret, visited Mrs. C. H. Smith
last week.
Mrs. F. M. Hensley and daughter,
Mrs. K. E.'Fincannon were the guests
Wednesday of Mr. and Mrs. Charlie
Hensley.
Mr. Guy Conley visited relatives in
Morganton Saturday and Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Clay, of Hart-
land, have been visiting on Lower
creek.
Rev. W. K. Houk of Morganton,
wa s at preaching t Mt. Pleasant
Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Bettie Davis visited Mr. and
Mrs. Crisp in Smoky Creek Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Hallyburton
were the week-end guests of Mr, R. H.
Hallyburton at Morganton.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Harbison spent
Saturday night and Sunday with Mr.
and Mrs. Moran Harbison at Dog
wood.
Mr. B. W. Wall and son, Manly,
spent Sunday at the home of Mr. R.
W. Smith. '
Rev. A. C. Swofford conducted ser
vices at Mt. Pleasant Sunday after
noon. The hum of the threshers are heard
Valuable Suggestions to the
Southern Farmer by the Chief
of the Farm Demonstration
WTork in the Umted States.
The following letter addressed to
the people of the South by Bradford
Knapp, chief of Demonstration work
in the United States should appeal to
the farmer and gardener as contain
ing much of practical helpfulness:
The splendid response of the South
ern farmers to the appeals made for
increasing food production during the
vvarh as been a source of great satis
faction to the leaders of- the ood cam
paign, and to the country in general.
Much encouragement and financial aid
has been given to the Government and
State forces in the work by business
men, bankers and railroad men
throughout this section.
In order to keep up the interest
and utilize every possible opportunity
to assist and offer helpful suggestions
along this line, I am -writing this let
ter to all the people in the Southern
territory, urging the importance of
planting a FALL FOOD ACRE for
every farm. With the longer growing
ceason in this territory, valuable food
crops may be planted during July and
August which will mature in the, fall
and early winter. At least one acre
of good land can be found on every
farm upon which to grow these crops.
If the soil is properly prepared and
care is exercised in selecting the
crops, much valuable feedstuff for the
home and for the livestock can be
made at comparatively little expense.
The object of the FALL FOOD ACRE
is to provide food for the family and
feed for the livestock during the fall
and early winter without using from
spring planted crops or using from
the stock preserved during the sum
mer for winter use. The average farm
family should plant for a full family
supply but not for market. Only
such crops should be planted as may
be harvested and utilized without ex
tra expense for canning, preserving,
etc.
The following suggestions for the
territory below the southern boun
dary of Tennessee are offered. These
may be modified to suit local condi
tions or personal preferences. For
the convenience of division a square
acre of land is used in this plan:
String Beans 2 rows, 2 qts seed,
time to plant Aug. 1st to Sept. 1st.
Peas 2 rows, 3 qts seed, time to
plant Aug. 1st to Sept. 1st.
Beets 2 rows, 6 oz. seed, time to
plant July and August.
Carrots 2 rows, 4 oz. seed, Aug.
and September.
Cabbage 4 rows, 1 oz seed, bed
July and August, set Sept.
Onions 2 rows, 4 oz. seed, time
) plant September and October.
Potatoes (Irish) -i0 rows, 2 bu.
seed, time to plant July and August.
Spinach 4 rows, lb. seed, time
to plant September and October.
Kale 2 rows, 1 oz. seed, time to
plant August and September.
Collards 1 row, V2 oz seed, time
to bed July and Aug,, set Sept.
If all the above is planted, 4-7 of
an acre would be left, vhich can be
planted during August and September
to such crops as turnips, rutabagas
and rape, either in rows or broad
cast. I hope that every county agent and
every business man throughout the
Southern country will get interested
in this plan at once and demonstrate
to the people how much can be'done
to relieve the food situation on the
farm on one acre of ground.
Convention of Odd-Fellows Here
The convention of Odd-Fellows of
the Fifteenth District will be held in
Morganton August 16th, with Mor
ganton Lodge, No. 204. Addresses
by Hon. C. O. Michael, Grand War
den and by Hon. S. "ML- Crouch, of
A.sheville, are special feaures of the
program that has been prepared. 4
"County Fair" Tonight and To
morrow Night.
The home talent musical comedy,
"County Fair," at the auditorium,
promises to be a great entertainment
and will no doubt be well attended
both nights.
in the land these days. Crops are
looking fine since the advent of warm
weather and splendid rains. The far
mers are sure trying to do their bit in
putting in everything they possibly
can. The women folks are busy can
ning fruits and vegetables of all kind.
There will be an ice cream supper
at Mt. Pleasant Saturday night. The
public invited.
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