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il published by the Estate of T. G. Cobb. The BMr.reEaS.Bnt7HaW Consolidated November 29, 1901. Subscription Price $1.50 per Year in Advance J0L XXXIII MORGANTON, N. C., SEPTEMBER 13, 1917. NO. 16. ma k iuuuui HAVE BEEN MURDERED Lational Developments Have Come About rom ueam ai Concord of Wealthy Chicago Woman. foncord has been much in the lime- during the past wee. uaau giiw msational ith developments connected the shooting oj. iuia. w a wealthy unicago woman t tng: near Concord on the night of Wust 29th out dark on tne evening ui Mr? Kins:, Gaston means, Abe brother Afton Means, and Capt. Lham, with a negro chauffer, drove t&of town. The machine stopped lar the Blackwelder spring. A few et from the spring Mrs. King was ht in the back of the head. fThe next day the newspapers con s. -j o nrrount ot tne anair tin v- U bv the Means brothers and as ven 1 nnvnnor'o IlirV apt. rJingnam tu "i"" " j i effect the story was that the party int out to practice target shooting. Json Means and Mrs. King went to ie spring alone, which was some dis nce from the road. Afton Means Id Bingham loitered near the road, i the spring according to Gaston fan's testimony, he laid a small au- imatic revolver m tne iunvs ui out five feet above the ground and ile getting a drink from the spring j saw Mrs. King pick up the pistol, e called to her to put it down, that je might shoot herself. An instant ter the pustol fired and Mrs. King Jl. His idea was that she stumbled !the dark on the rough ground and the fall the pistol was discharged. iThe jury took this explanation and lidered a verdict of accidental GRADED SCHOOL OPENS MONDAY. List of Teachers and Their Assignments. The graded school will open next Monday. Tne following are the' teachers and their assignments: Primary First Grade Miss Cor nelia Carter, Morganton; Miss Millie Kate CcComb, Hickory; Mrs. Mary fPowe Starrett, Morganton. Second Grade Miss Janie Pearson; Miss Mary Moore. Third Grade Miss Pearl Holloway, Mrs. I P. Jeter. Fourth Grade Miss Frances Mc intosh, Denver; Miss Sadie Patton, Morganton. Fifth Grade Miss Annie Spain hour, Morganton; Miss Mary Glenn Tyson, Carthage. Sixth Grade Mrs. W. R." Marbut, Morganton. Seventh Grade Miss Sue Cannon, Hendersonvflle. . High Schoo 1 Miss Margaret Young, Union, S. C; Miss Beiilah Robertson, Raleigh; Miss Mary Shu ping, Morganton; Miss Caroline H. Robinson, Ivanhoe. The colored school opened last Monday with Rev. J. E. Holt, princi pal, assisted by Rosa Moore and Sadye Watts. TAXATION MEASURE HAS PASSED SENATE ! BURKE COUNTY'S NEXT CONTRIBUTION (Means and Mrs. Melvin took the jdy first to Asheville, for the moth j, Mrs. Robinson, to see, and then to jiicago and buried it. Nothing more as thought of the matter until the Iy Means and Mrs. Melvin got back Asheville. That day the papers Jntained a report that the body had ten examined by a Chicago coroner Id physician and they declared that' jvras a case of murder. Mrs. Mel p ir a sister of the dead woman, i Gaston Means is a son of W. G. BURKE MAN HAS BECOME FAMOUS. Mr. D. F. Asbury's Gun Inven tion Has Won For Hint' Fame and Fortune. Mr. D. F. Asbury, son of Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Asbury, has won world wide fame by an important invention for improving big guns an invention which is said to have revolutionized gun manufacture. Five years ago Mr. Asbury while working as a draftsman in the war department had his invention patented and soon thereafter the British government bought the rights to use it. During the war the guns have been manufac tured by all the allied governments and' Mr. Asbury has been receiving i a: t - i i loyalties lrura ins invention. News From Chesterfield. Mr. G. M. sVrney and son, Mr. kily has been prominent in Cabar-; George Arney, visited Mr. and Mrs is for generations. Gaston Means, n after his graduation at the State niversitv. became an errmlovee of the :mon Manufacturing Company, and p sent to New York, as quite a num er of other bright. Concord young e been, to work in the New Vrt n3T" prk office of this great manufactur- i ig concern, From New York, he nt to the Chicago branch. There married a Chicago woman, and oat three years ago. through his fe, became acquainted with Mrs. laude A. King, a woman who had re eved a million dollars from the es- jte of her deceased husband, a lum-Ji- merchant. Means left the Cannon pmpany to become secretary and Jancial advisor of Mrs. King. Mrs. pg's mother, Mrs. Robinson, her $ter, a Mrs. Melvin, Means and his fe all lived in luxurious apart ments with Mrs. King in New York, ney also traveled together and spent fcch time in Chicago. Young Means the financier of all the women p it is said served them well in making investments and saving Mrs. pg's fortune. jMeans and Mrs. Melvin are back in Oncord. Solicitor Clement has been j Concord making investigations. f is waiting for a motive to be dis L ered before opening the case, but jto a visit to the scene of the shoot ?' does not believe Mean's story. KingS tW0 CnicaS brothers p -Irs. Robinson have employed jonsel to investigate the "status of p- King's fortune and call Means j accounting. In this investiga- Ju a motive may be found for get W na of the w M the roman with the money. meantime, Means professes Robert Sides at Lenoir Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Moran Harbison, of Dogwood, were visitors here the first of the week. Mrs. J. P. Barefoot and small son, William, are spending sometime at the home of her father, Mr. W. W. James. Mr. J. E. Hood spent last week with his brother, Mr. J. G. Hood, at Montezuma. Mr. Lucius Wall, of Lenoir, visited his brothers, Messis S. S. and B. W. Wall Sunday. Mr. John Crump and niece, Miss Aurella Crump, of Gamewell, are vis iting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Smith. Mesdames Nestor Parks and Frank Garrison ,of Morganton, spent Thurs day as guests of Mrs. Nora Miller. Misses Bruce, Mary and Ruth Sparks were the week-end guests of Miss Essie Conley. Miss Beatrice Hood left last week for Greenville, S. C, where she will enter school. Mrs. Kate Warlick and Mrs. J. E. Lackey spent Thursady with Mr. and Mrs. George Ramsaur ,at Worry. Mr. Bradshaw, of Finley, was a visitor here last Saturday. Mr. R. W. Sudderth spent Satur day night and Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Will Hallyburton. . Mr. and Mrs. Billie Wall and Mrs. John Powell, of. Quaker Meadows, were here Saturday in their car, en route to Lenoir. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Garrison, Mr. and. Mrs. Nestor Parks, of Morgan ton, spent last Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Hood. Miss Augusta Smith spent Sunday Largest Tax Levy in History of America Passed Monday Night Around Three Billion to Be Raised. The war tax bill the largest sin gle taxation measure in American history was passed Monday night by the senate. It provides for a levy somewhere under $3,400,000,000 as compared with the $1,867,870,000 pro posal in the bill as it passed the house May 23. The vote was 69 'to 4, Senators Bo rah, Gronna, LaFollette and Norris being recorded in opposition. The great bill, nearly four months in the making, was returned to the house Tuesday and then goes to con ference with enactment within ten days or two weeks probable. Of the $2,400,000,000 new taxes pro vided in the tax ill for the duration of the war, $842,200,000 is to be tak en from incomes, corporate and indi vidual, and $1,060,000,000 from war profits. Most of the remainder is le vied on liquor, tobacco and public utilities. The principal eleventh-hour actions of the senate were elimination of all provisions for taxing publishers and increasing second class periodical pos tage rates and all consumption taxes on sugar, tea, coffee and cocoa, the latter reducing the bill $186,000,000. The senate also struck out the clause proposing repeal of the "draw-back," or re-export, allowance given sugar refiners and defeated proposals to add inheritance taxes. In a last effort of the high tax group to increase taxes, the senate re jected 65 to 15 the LaFollette substi tute bill to raise $3,500,000,000 more taxes. - Passage of the bill was devoid of the usual stirring scenes marking such an epochal measure. A parliamentary snarl and amend ment made fight on the second class postage provision furnished the most excitement. After the McKellar substitute zone postage increase provision, applying to publications sent beyond 300 miles, had been rejected 40 to 34, Senator Hardwick's substitute zone plan ap plicable to advertising portions only was beaten 48 to 20. Senator McKel lar attempted to offer another substi tute with a maximum rate of foiir cents a pound instead of six cents, but Senator Salisbury, presiding, held that the house zone provision had nev er been formally eliminated. Then the senate made sure of its determina tion to eliminate all postage increases and special levies on publishers by adopting Senator Weeks' motion to strike out the entire house clause, 59 to 9. The only postage features left in the bill are provisions for free trans portation of letters for -American Sol diers abroad and for a cent stamp tax on parcel post packages., raising about $4,000,000. The consumption taxes, of 1-2 cent a pound on sugar, two cents on cof fee, five cents on tea, tree cents . on cocoa and from one to two cents a gallon on molasses went out by over welming majorities. A final vote on Senator Broussard's motion to elim inate them all was 52 to 28. ! ce in being able to establish j with Miss Ruby Baird. Mrs. G. M. Arney and son, Mr. Ernest Arney, are on a visit to Mrs. Arney's brother Mr. W. M. McLain, in Caldwell. omenta c.nnf: :i t , 1 ""uuuilg, 1J. a tiiai 1UI Jder is instituted. Mrs. Melvin L,s t0 Means, but her mother and Ch?r 3 ai'e suspicious. is one of the most sensational j Messr?. Edwin Cox ,Charlie Harbi iQUs ever stapd in Kn-rV'r,oT--1iTio son and Lawrpnce Garrison Rnfmt. tbp wi vai uitiiu j - - j week-end with the family of Mr. and Mrs. Horace Conley. Mr. Ben Hood has gone to Raleigh where he has accepted a position. Mr. Waits Deal ,of Morganton, vis ited friends oil Lower creek Monday. Carpenters are at work on a new residence for Mrs. Nora Miller. The daughters of Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Hood visited Miss Louise Hood here Sunday. - We are glad t know that iiiere i al at Glen Alpine Next Wed nesday Night. dere Avi!1 he a social at the school m.g at Gle Alpine next WedneS;- tne proceeds to be used i Lne benefit of the scheol Pments win be served. Re- ra l be openings are sche- held next Wednesday and will be a community fair here this fall. These fairs are a new movement in North Carolina, but will be a great factor for progress in rural districts, and will be an uplift to each place where held. Quite a number of the fairs were held last year but more will be held this year. Revival at Bridge water. There will be revival services in the Presbyterian church at Bridgewa ter beginning on Sept. 16th, at 11 o'clock a. m., and continuing through the 4th Sunday. Rev. J. M. Clark, D. D., evangelist, will assist in the meetings. All denominations are cor dially invited to participate in the meetings. Singing Convention Postponed. The singing convention of the South Mountain association, which was to have been held at Connelly Springs on the third Saturday and Sunday in this month, has been post poned until a later date, not yet an nounced. . Death at Drexel. Mrs. W. H. Brittain died at her home in . Drexel on Friday, September 7th. Men Who Will Leave for Train ing Camp on Sept. 19th. The following men compose the 40 per cent of Burke's quota, which will leave for Camp Jackson, Columbia, S. C, on September ' 19th. In addition to the 48 men ordered to report in Morganton on the 18th of September, the Local Board has also ordered six extra men or alternates to report at the same time to take the place of any of the 48 men who fail to come. The last six men in the list are alter nates and will be sent only if some of the 48 fail to appear on the 19th of September. Unless otherwise ordered these men will be lodged in town on the night gf September 18th and will leave on first train for Columbia on morning of September 19th, via Statesvilleand Charlotte: Eugene C. Denton. Ernest Walter Crawley. Walter Winfield Giles. Bertie Lail Marion Alcona Branch. George David Cook. Hogue Lane. John Lindsay. Prestley Hilderbrand. Willard J. Pless. Leonard C. Bridges. Marshall Lee Cline. By num. Mac Deal. Isaiah Carswell. Monroe Smith. J. C. Beach. Julius C. Chapman. Jeff Davis Winters. Ernest A. Waters. Laban Smith. Douglass C. Hamby. Sam Moffatt Joe Torrence. Frank C. Stacy. George Winkler. James Wesley Gowens. Joe M. Benfield. Frank Murray Rhodes. Alexander S. Hudson. Alexander Pritchard. Henry Norman. George Stanley Reep. Walter Lee Mooney. Marvin Byron Kincaid. Charley A. Conley. Ed Ausbun Teague. Whit Alexander Dye. Marshall Atlee Brinkley. Raymond Brown. Joseph Giles. William David Justice. Clarence H. Benfield. Oscar W. McNeely. Robert Braswell. Frank Cobb. William Owen Berry.. Roby- Pinkney Shuffler. Hubert D. Setzer. John S. Simpson. Felix Monroe Mull. Hoyle A. Barrier. Horace Frederick Connelly. James Vance Alexander. Robert Williams. WHISKEY MANUFACTURE STOPPED SATURDAY NIGHT GERMANY'S PEACE TERMS TO BE PUBLISHED SOON. Millions of Bushels of Grain hr United, States Will Now Be! Diverted to Food. Saturday night whiskey manufac-j ture ceased in the United States un-' der the provisions of the food control law and the millions of bushels of grain heretofore used in making that form of drink 'will be diverted to food. Importation of whiskey is also stopped. Just how much grain will be added to the food supply as a result is not determinable, but experts say about 100,000,000 bushels are used by the distilleries each year, of which about 40,000,000 bushels are used in whis key manufacture. Customs officials throughout the country will seize all importations of spirituous liquors reaching the United States. Officers of the inter nal revenue bureau will see that dis tilleries make no more whiskey. Dis tillers may continue manufacturing alcohol for commercial purposes, and many of them have arranged for this work, others turning their dis tilleries into manufacturing plants for yeast, vinegar and by-products. Official estimate the quantity of whiskey in bond in warehouses to be about 190,000,000 gallons. Stocks not in bond will bring the quantity on hand in the country up . to about 230,000,000 gallons. The annual pro duction of whiskey has been about 116,000,000 gallons.- During the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916, 847 distilleries were regis tered and 635 operated throughout the country. These are the latest figures available. The most recent census of manufacturers taken in 1914 shows that 6,290 wage earners worked in distilleries. It is estimat ed that the total has since increased one-third. Kentucky with 202 regis tered distilleries aria California with 165 will be the States hardest hit by the new law. Pennsylvania has 69, Ohio 44, Missouri and Maryland 28 each and New York 20. Distilled spirits yielded the United States in the last fiscal year $192,111,318. NORTH CAROLINA IS IN PROSPEROUS STATE Gilboa News Items. Correspondence of The News-Herald. . Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Causby were the guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Duckworth. Mr. N. F. Rusmiselle, of State Hos pital, was in this vicinity last week. Miss Mary Williams v visited hei4 sister, Mrs. M. A. Buff, Friday. Mr. John Reid Brown left last week for Norristown, Pa., where he has a pisition. Mrs. B. F. Walker spent Thursday in Morganton. Mrs. Smith and Miss Sudie Smith visited Mrs. T. L. Duckworth recently. , Mr. Jake Mooney made a business trip to Construction Saturday. Miss Eula Mae Tate and Master Johnie Tate accompanied their father to Glen Alpine Sunday, where thef will enter school. Mr. Kelly Bowman, is spending a few days mith his parents. ' Mr. and Mrs. Mike Keller spent Sunday with Mrs. Keller's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Pearson. Quite a number of our people at tended the singing convention at Pleasant Hill, near Enbla, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Buff and chil: dren spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Champ Buff. A critic says the American people have their hammers out. In Congress it is a case of using the bellows too much. Charlotte News Caldwell County Fair will be held at Lenoir October 3, 4 and 5. ? Mr. Frank Donahoe, of Weaverrille, spent Sunday in Mroganton. Shown By September Federal Reserve Bulletin For Rich mond District. The Federal Reserve bulletin for September shows prosperous condi tions in North Carolina and other Southern States in the fifth district. The report for- the Richmond dis trict says: Business in general continues un usually active, particularly in manu facturing lines. The conditions ex isting at the present time are so un usual and in their effects present such widely diversified features that it is difficult to make either any sound comparison with the past or a conser vative estimate as to the future trend. We can only take conditions ' as we find them and live from day to day. The inflation in prices, in every direc tion, is reflected m the increased amount of capital necessary to trans act business, but unprecedented prof its in most lines seem to have made this a matter of little moment. Gen eral reports are optimistic and there are few discordant notes. "The selective draft and the neces sary preparations to take care of the men called to the colors have been a most disturbing element in the labor situation which has been generally disorganized and complaints in re gard to it are universal. The work on the cantonments at Columbia, S. C. and Petersburg, Va., the naval base at Norfolk, Va., and government work contemplated at Richmond have call ed for an unprecedented volume of labor. Very high wages are being paid, the result being to take laborers from manufacturers, industrial plants of all kinds and from the farms. Many complaints are heard of inability to harvest the growing crops. The large amounts paid out through these la borers have been an artificial stimu lant to trade, from which there must necessarily be a decided reaction. "Crops in this section are reported unusually good. Wheat is above the average, corn is said to be the best ver raised in the district, tobacco is up to or above' normal and while cot ton is below the average in output the high prices will so far as valuev is concerned, more than offset the de cline in volume. In prices of all these crops are high, tobacco has already commenced ' to move and the demand A Reported Outline of the So Called Terms. Germany will shortly be able to publish her peace terms, according to Dr. George Michaelis, the German chancellor. Dr. Michaelis in an in terview said he had so informed the reichstag main committee, an Ex change Telegraph dispatch from Co penhagen Sunday states. The mam committee,'! said Dr. Michaelis, in the interview, had "tried to make final arrangements regarding peace conditions and the question of Alsace-Lorraine, but no decision has yet been taken. The question, how ever, was eagerly discussed and Gsr- many will soon be able to publish her peace terms." What purported to be an outline of Germany's peace terms has been cir culated among diplomats in Wash ington within the last two weeks, but has been regarded by the entente em bassies and most of the neutrals as a "feeler." The origin of the so-called terms was not disclosed but they are said to have been written by Foreign Secretary "von Kuehlmann before his visit to Vienna, which since has been pointed to as strengthening the prob ability that they bear evidences of au thenticity. Briefly the so-called terms were as follows: "Restoration of -Belgium and North ern France, to be paid for out of the sale of Germany's colonies to Great Britain. "Alsace and Lorraine to be inde pendent states. (High French offi cials recently have stated anew the de termination of France to be satisfied with nothing less than the. recoverv of her lost provinces.) "Triest to be a 'free port.' "Serbia and Rumania to be restor ed, and Serbia to have a port on the Adriatic. "The Balkan question and the status of Turkey to be subjects for negota tion. "Disarmament and international police. "Freedom of the seas with Groat Britain in control of the English channel until 'the projected tunnel is built between Dover and Calas. This outline of terms, circhlated without definite stamp of anv official authority, it will be noted, bears in many respects a resemblance to the general tenor of the peace proposals of Pope Benedict. By some diplomats such an outline is regarded as presenting something susceptible of discussion. It is dis cussed merely a a posibility without having yet advanced fully into the range of probability. Valdese Red Cross. Correspondence of The News-Herald. Saturday night, Sept. 15, at 8 o'clock, the Red Cross organization of Valdese has decided to give a box supper in the interest of the work which they are undertaking for our soldier boys. They want to make woolen garments that will . be proof against the severe European winters and hope to raise enough money to buy the wool. It is understood that large quantities of wool have been se cured by the Red Cross for such pur poses and that it .will be supplied to devoted workers all over the Uniten States at cost prices. We' - are proud to know that our women have determined to put in a good deal of time in honor of our boys "over there" and feel sure that all the men folks will be on hand Saturday night. We would welcome visitors. The Valdese Band, skilfully led by Mr. Gordon Queen, of Morganton, and now able to render very good music, has promised to make its debut on that occasion. '. for currency in the interior is much larger than usual. "While financial demands for cron raising have been unusually heavy and the demand for rediscounts above the normal, many banks still report a sur plus of funds and the general demands of the district have been handled with out any strain. "While a considerable amount of the late payments against liberty bonds have been redistributed among depositaries in the district, all calls made by - the government have been promptly met and the subscriptions of the district to the last issue of treasury : certificates was not : alloted in full but sealed on" account of the general oversubscription to them."
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