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NEWS -HE RALD. ly Paper Published in Burke County Thl SaStoHwSd Consolidated November 29, 1901 Oa Subscription Price $1.50 per Year in Advance VOL. XXXV. MORGANTON, NORTH CAROLINA, JANUARY 1, 1920. - NO. 28 YFESTIVITIES 1 MARK HOLIDAYS - ri-tmas Gala Time in Morgan-n- Reunions, Banquets, En tertainments; Few Inci dents Mar Happiness. -rfcniisrll a-ic'--.; r - banner the holidays in Morgan- 11 :r,rA TYlilTIV TPST1V1T.1PS 1 . IAhVl TPM 111 M. IHUuCluLCl V auiet m a a jri pa n ac T.i h th con we OCfaaiuiitv. " j ?w i K time of manv han- f reunions and homecomings., Christ lrtip trees or entertainments mas P41;' r other have been held ically all the churches. The 1 orders have either already r annual banquets or will im this week. own has been glad to wel me in large numbers sons and c from a distance and their l m inrr-e numbers sons and Jjming alone would have made il a ?tSants tell us that the holiday '1 was the largest ever experienc here and the throngs of Christmas t..Mi8 were cvmtutv, w.v body here were remarkably few drunks ,rd unpleasant occurrences to . mar pleasures of the time were very fte Christmas of 1919 will be re membered as a nappy season. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS T T Duckworth to J. K. Duck worth, (5 acres in Morganton town- Tnthony Martinet to Ernest Mar- 1 lot at Valdese. j Anthony Martinet to Henry Marti 'net, 1 lot at Valdese. j F. P. Brittain to Oxford Machine Bop & Garage Co., 2 lots on Green Isfrpet. John Lytle to A. JVl. Kistier, l lot Sr. Morganton. Sue S. Goode to J. T. btover, 1 lot a Rutherford College. J. E. Erwin and S. M- Sloan to arnes Powell, 1 lot in Morganton. Vn.vv Landreau to A. B. Whitener. bo acres in Silver Creek township. T. C. Fleming to Mrs. Alma John on, 2 lots in Morganton. Jim H. Green to J. E. Bolick, 21 teres in Lovelady township. E. T. Setzer to A. M. Kistler, 1 lot h Morganton. James Gallion to Jacob and Thom as Settlemyre, 13 acres in Silver 'Creek township. W. I. Keller to John Keep, 15 acres (n Icard township. J. C. Sain to H. A. Lowman, 179 -cres in Lower Fork township. R. L. Berry to C. A. Clark, Payne J property on Green street. Mrs. Ella Hildebran to M. P. Lipe, acres at Hildebran. I M. P. Lipe to H. M. Lipe, 10 acres i: n nudebran. C. B. Scott to Willie A. Epley, G cres in Silver Creek township. Elizabeth Abee to J. M. Abee, 52 seres in township. S. T. Evans to John Evans, 1 lot a Morganton. T. E. Garrison to C. E. Stroup. 8 lucres in Morganton township, j Mary Huffman and others to trus tees of St. John's Missionary Baptist purch, 1 lot. I J. H. Mullis to J. S. Scott, Jr., 1 lot n .uorganton. Ollie Glass to T. R. Glass, interest a Glass estate. G. M. Goodwrie-ht to W. C. Power o.. 20 acres in Smokey Creek. I H. S. Banner to W. C. Power Co., tracts in Lovelady township. A FAMILY REUNION Mr. and Mrs. J T. TJnnV VinH tiP pleasure of having on Christmas riav J reunion of their family at their jjome on Morganton, Route 5. It was jyie first time in seven years that the -amily had all been togethere and it needless to say that they were all ,ery happy in the reunion occasion, tending were Mr. and Mrs. J. D. ijiadbolt, Pier Point, Md.; Mr. Lave Houk, Eagle Pass, Tex.; Mr. Robert 0uk. TCnftvirin nn . tt- tvto IrloTT on1 rVi1rl ror Mr. C. A. TTnnV of Moro-nnton. . V V T V AAA 1VI1 -A jydMr. Robert Ward, of Morganton, f be latter a brother of Mrs. Houk. MR. PATTON VERY ILL. His frienrls. arA Iip Tinmhprs t.ViPm g the hundreds, will be deeply pain ? to learn that the condition of Rev. V' Patton is exceedingly critical m hope that he can live very much iJjn?er has been almost abandoned. Vnrf S een sck or several years, na his system has been gradually akening under the strain of con J'nued illness. Those who love him 'atcn with profound sorrow the S ickering out of one of the most use lives. F0UNG MAN KILLED SUPPOSEDLY BY TRAIN parlie Ballew Killed at Drexel Rht Before Christmas Body Found on Track. 'a?ristmas corning the body of lSnk Ball ithp ' OI Jurexei, was iouna on . c wack at Drexel. The supposi- KLun 13 that the young man was killed 'a train. Ij ltls said that young Ballew return v lLDrexel from Valdese on train v wrueh passes those towns un midnight and the last any of Lta , Panins saw of him he. had wV.u. nome. The theory is that ;Dabiy he thought to get a "lift' , Passing frpio-ht. and nossihlv fell 'CtU'on- n o"-i r " me cars. WILL Sl'ART HEARINGS EARLY IN THE YEAR Miners and Operators Are to Present Position at the Opening Meeting. Hearings relative to wages and prices in the bituminous coal industry will be started January 12 in Wash ington by the commission of three, Representative of the miners, operat ors and public appointed by Presi dent Wilson under the recent coal strike settlement. The commission, in announcing its decision to conduct hearings, said that telegrams had been sent to Thomas T. Brewster, of St. Louis, chairman of the scale committee of the central competitive field operators, represent ing the States of Indiana, Ohio, Illi nois and western Pennsylvania, and to John L. Lews, acting president of the United Mine Workers of Ameri ca, advising them that the first hear ing was "fcr the purpose of having the miners and operators' scale com mittees of the central competitive field present their respective posi tions." Opening of the hearings, the com mission said, was delayed in order to permit the miners to conclude the work of the special convention which has been called to meet in Columbus, Ohio, beginning January 5th. FASTIDIOUS AMERICANS KEEP HIGH PRICES UP If People Would Be Content; With Cheaper Clothes, the j Prices Would Drop. The insistence of the public upon cloth made from fine wools is a large factor in the present high prices of clothing, according to William M. Wood, president of the American Woolen Company. Mr. Wood, who recently charged that some of the merchants in Law rence were demanding excessive prices for necessaries and were in the habit of raising prices with every in crease in wages in the company's mills in that city, gave out a pre pared statement in response to a re quest for his views upon the high cost of clothing. "If our people would consent," was was his conclusion, "to wear good, substantial, durable clothes made of the coarser wools clothing would be purchased at considerably lower prices than those which now prevail." His statement in part, follows: "It is generally thought that the cost of cloth is the controlling factor in the cost of clothing, but the fact is that the cloth cost is less than half the cost of a completed suit and other factors contribute to the price of clothing quite as much as the cost of the cloth. "In the last five years the price of cloth in the ordinary suit of clothes has advanced no more , indeed has advanced a little less, than the cost of labor and other materials that go into the making of the suit. The following figures show this, which I have from a manufacturer and mer chant of clothing of the highest prominence in Boston. "The cost in 1919 of the cloth for a suit of clothes of a particular grade is $13.69. The corresponding cost in 1914 was $4.58, showing an in crease in the cost of cloth of $9.09. "The 1919 cost of making this suit is $14.47. The corresponding cost in 1914 was $4.98, showing an increase in the cost of making of $9.49. "These figures show that cloth con tributes slightly less than labor and other materials to the increased cost of clothing. Therefore to your ques tion why prices of clothing continue so high throughout the country, the reply is because the cost of labor and cloth and other materials that go into clothing continue so high." WORL'S LARGEST BIBLE IS NOW BEING WRITTEN Leading Men and Women Writ ing By Hand Will Be Five Feet High, Three Wide. What is said to be the world's lar gest bible now is being written by hand by leading men and women of the United Kingdom. Among those who are participating in the work are King George, Queen Mary, the Prince of Wales and the cabinet ministers. The book will contain the complete text of the authorized version from Genesis to Revelation, and there is space in it for 12,000 handwritten contributions. It will be five feet two inches hisrh and three feet six inches wide. Twelve goaskins were required for the binding, which is done in red levant Morocco leather. This huge book will be exhibited in varidus places, the idea being to at- tract support to tne uiDie crusacie in 1921. It is even hoped to take it overseas to the dominions, where it would be shown in a motor car pro vided with a folding platform and pulpit. MOVED TO SOUTH CAROLINA Mr. J. R.sHennessee has moved his familv from Bridgewater to Wallace ville. S. C. where he is engaged in the saw-mill business. They left for their new home just before Christ mas. Mrs. Hal Brown and baby, of Fair mont, Mrs. W. M. Morris, of Gastonia and Miss Virginia Clark, of Daven port College, Lenoir, spent Christmas here with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Clark. LOCAL BRIEFS IN AND AROUND TOWN Short Items of Local and Per sonal Interest Gathered During the Week. Mr. James Drury spent Christmas m McDowell county, near Lmville Falls, with his uncle, Mr. Edd Eng- of the movement for World Prohibi lish. tion. A meeting of these he has ap School will open again next Mon day after, a holiday vacation of two weeks. Mr. and Mrs. M. F. McNeel have moved this week to their pretty new home on "Terrace Place." Pleasant Ridge Baptist church re ports $406.00 raised on the Baptist Campaign. Its quota was $300.00. Mr. J. H. Mullis, who was quite ill for several weeks in December, is able to be out on the streets again. Mr. J. M. Clark has purchased the Payne property on Green street from Mr. H. Beach and has moved his fam ily there. A letter from Mr. Bruce Hallman, who has been on the U. S. S. Seattle, states that he has been discharged from the navy. He is expected home shortly. Mrs. J. P. Hawkins celebrated her seventy-first birthday Saturday, De cember 27th at her home near Enola. Her sons, Messrs. Terrell, Jim and Bob Hawkins, spent the day with her. Mrs. Tom Anthony has given up her school work near Connelly Springs and has come to Morganton to be with her father Rev. R. L. Patton, who is desperately ill. The Christmas mail at the Morgan ton post office was almost double what has ever been before. To give an idea of its enormity there were checked out for one train a few days before Christmas 67 bags. Mrs. Ernest Walker went to Brown's Summit last week to attend the marriage of Miss Anna Doggett to Mr. L. W. Doggett, which occur red there on the 27th. Miss Doggett is pleasantly remembered here, hav ing visited Mrs. Walker on several occasions. The manv friends of Mrs. Ralph Kibler will be glad to know that she is able to return to her home after an operation for appendicitis at Grace Hospital. Her mother, Mrs. Wells, of Spartanburg, a. C, wno was canea here on account of Mrs. Kibler's ill ness, returned home yesterday. Mr. R. E. Coleman had a U'ora run about stolen from him on December 16th and has so far had no trace ot the missing car. He had left it standing in front of his home and it was taken sometime during the night. The same night there were evidences of an unsuccessful attempt made to take Mr. J. H. Wilson's Buick touring car. Mr. L. B. Abernethy, of Connelly Springs, writes The News-Herald: "I lost my purse and every cent I had in Southern train No. 15 December 26. Possibly some honest man found it. I am a poor man with family to feed and it was my all. It had one 20-dollar bill, one five-dollar, bill, one two-dollar bill and some ones. Please help me find it." Friends of Private B. C. Gwaltney will be glad to learn of his arrival in Morganton. The young man served in the 91st division and in the St. Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne and Lys Schedt drives. He was wounded in the last drive November 3, 1918. Up to the time of his discharge he has been in the Walter Reed Hospital, at Washington. Mr. Gwaltney is a son of Rev. J. S. Gwaltney, of Morgan ton, Route 5. Miss Florence Fleming, of Ashe ville, spent Christmas with friends at Grace Hospital. PROHIBITION CAMPAIGN TO BEGIN JANUARY 12TH Prof. M. T. Hinshaw County Di rector Meeting to Be Held At Court House on 12th. Prof. M. T. Hinshaw, president of Rutherford College, is county director pointed to assist him m the campaign inthis county has been called for Jan uary 12th, to be held at the court house here. A business meeting will be held in the afternoon, as he an nounces elsewhere in this issue, and a public speaking at night. Dr. H. T. Laughbaum, of Oklhoma, of national prominence, will speak at the night meeting. The following have been appointed by Mr. Hinshaw to assist in the cam paign in this county: Cleerg Perry, D. A. Fullbright, Sheriff Ekard, Henderson Berry, J. W. Beach, John Rhoney,'A. W. Kel ler, Mrs. Amos Huffman, George Hil debrand, J. R. Chapman, Santfor Carswell. J. P. Bumgarner, Will Mace, Joe Cooper, Mrs. P. M. Ruther ford, Mrs. Marshall Brinkley, W. L. Kirksey, Newton Hallyburton, Mrs. E. McK. Goodwin, Mrs. Ernest Er vin, -James Taylor, J. H. Giles, Mrs. Noah Pitts, Mrs. H. O. Houk, William Pitts, J. A. Lackey, Thomas Drury, Walter Taylor, Horace Tilley, Berry Moore, Joseph Baker, Jule Cox, Al fonzo McGimsey, R. M. Smith, W. A. Hood, Mrs. Vance Powell, Jackson Barrier, Henry Daniels, Mrs. F. W. Rudisill, Euill Nobilett, Thomas Hemphill. W. M. Wise. Mr. Hinshaw urges that the mem bers of this committee be present at the county meing on January 12, and asks that they come prepared to stay for the speaking at night. MARRIAGE LICENSES ISSUED. Fred Von Cannon and Maggie May Abernethy. James P. Lowder and Pauline E. Ledbetter. R. Fred Kincaid and Mary E. Mar low. Albert Dula and Pearl Webb. John S. Moses and Mary Chapman. Marshall Young and Lela Cline. Charles Fox and Buena Tinsley. John N. Watts and Effie Hoyle. B. C. Brock and Laura McP. Tabor. R. F. Baird and Flora Ethel Baker. Loy Williams and Willie Arney. Henry Norman and Callie Watts. Jerome Smith and Mrs. Ellen Bol linger. Tilghman Brittain and Lillian Branch. W. J. Whisenant and Bertha May Harris. Edwin B. Davis and Marie Ballard. Gorman Holler and Mrs. Minnie Shuping. F. J. Epley and Carrie Ritchie. Wm. R. Autrey and Florence Rob erts. Aaron Pitts and Donnie McGimsey. Sidney Brittain and aFithie Cars well. EPISCOPAL CHURCH NOTES The Nation-Wide Campaign re- turns, although not yet quite com plete, show that Grace church more than doubled its quota. On Christmas day the collection was for the Armenian and Syrian Re lief Fund and amounted to $155.25. The number of communicants exceed ed any previous record for one day. On Christmas eve a deputation from the congregation called upon the rector to visit him a Happy Christ mas and gave him a purse of gold valued $200.00 as a token of their regard. PRESIDENT NOT ASKED TO CALL THE MEETING Has Not Been Invited to Call First Meeting of Council of the League. President Wilson has not been in vited to call the first meeting of the council of the league of nations after ratification of the treaty at Ver sailles has been completed, State de partment officials said yesterday. There was a suggestion some time ago that the invitation be extended to him, but the question was not de termined at that time. Some ad minisration officials believe he would acquiesce in the request from the allied powers but the United States will have no part in the meeting of v l r .t i. . & I? bZTSjJhLttZL the treaty has not been ratified by tne senate. The treaty provides that the first meeting of the assembly of the league shall be called by the President, but the assembly is not expected to meet in the immediate future. The coun cil however, must assemble within a fortnight after ratification is com pleted at Parias as the carrying out of some of the provisions of the treaty are entrusted to it. GERMANS WILL SIGN PROTOCOL JANUARY 6 Diplomatic Relations With Huns Will Be Resumed Day Follow ing Exchange Ratifications Exchange of ratifications of the treaty of Versailles will take .place January 6, at the Quai d'Orsay. Ba ron von Lersner, head of the German delegation, and Paul Dutasta, secre tary of the. peace conference, Tuesday night settled all points in connection with the signature, except that relat ing to naval material, which it is ex pected will be solved shortly. The Germans will sign the protocol, and at the same time the allies will hand a letter to them agreeing to re duce their demands to 400,444 tons if the total available tonnage has been over-estimated or Germany is gravely menaced economically. In any case, after the signature, the allies will get 242,000 tons of material and the bal ance based on the reports of experts who are now checking up at Dan zig, Hamburg and Bremen. The British prime minister, David Lloyd-George, will be present at the ceremony, which will be carried out without any display. Diplomatic rela tions with Germany will be resumed the following day, when the French charge d'affairs will go to Berlin and French consuls will resume their posts. Allied troops will proceed on Jan uary 12 to the territories which must be evacuated by the Germans, or wheer plebiscites are to be held. It is estimated that 100 trains will be needed for this purpose. Ellis Loring Dresel an American member of the peace conference, as expert on German affairs, it is under stood, will go to Berlin as soon as ratifications are exchanged. He will be accomanied by a staff. This is pre sumed to be a temporary expedient until diplomatic relations with the United States are resumed. He was appointed acting commissioner and charge d'affaires in October. A "LETTER FROM HOME" The News-Herald will go this year to quite a number of new addresses as a Christmas gift from relatives or friends "back home." For each one of them we hope that the gift will be a weekly reminder of the thought fulness of the sender and will be the means of keeping fresh their interest in the affairs of their home town and county. CONTINUED INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY IS PREDICTED Chamber of Commerce of the United States Issues Opti mistic Annual Review. Continued industrial activity is pre dicted by the committee on statistics of the chamber of commerce of the United States in its annual end of the year review of business and crop conditions. Manufacturers, the report said, have orders in excess of their capacity and in the retail trade there is a feeling of confidence of the con tinuation ,until another harvest at least ,of the demand of all classes of commodities. Farmers are reported unusually prosperous because of the high prices of their products. The liberal spend ing of the farmers, the review assert ed, is the backbone and sustaining power of the present volume of busi ness throughout the country, as they are paving mostly cash and are pur chasing more improved farm machine ery and pure bred live stocK tnan ever before. Of the general crop situation, the report stated that rain did much dam age to unharvested crops in the South and in the southern portion of some of the central States, reducing the yield and impairing quality. Win ter wheat acreage will be" materially reduced this fall, the report said, as the farmers believed winter wheat production at high prices, was over for the present. "Great activity in building," the committee added, "is reported in sec tions except where crop failures were extensive, copper mining is in a poor state, silver mining is doing well, oil production is good." BRIEF NEWS ITEMS FROM OVER BURKE litems of Interest Gathered From Different Sections of the County By News Herald Correspondents GLEN ALPINE. Christmas is over and has passed into history. Everything here has ! been quiet and pleasant. Note that I am not writing "Xmas" quoting from Charlity and Children: "We wish to raise our voice in protest against what we consider the exceed ingly poor taste in the rapidly ex tending custom of abbreviating, the word "Christmas" and making to ap- pear "Amas." we cannot see any cauoc ml cALcnua wiitr circumstances ifr it except that it tikes a trifle less time to write it so, but the extra fraction of a second, saved will hard ly compensate for the loss of beauty and significance in the mutilated word. By all means let us give Christmas its full spelling." Misses Sadie Pitts and Annie Giles, Greensboro College for Women, are home taking the holidays. The Christmas tree at the Metho dist church was enjoyed by the chil dren of the Sunday school. People are moving and we may have to chronicle some business changes. Mr. Loy Williams and Miss Willie Arney, daughter of Mr. N. D. Arney, were married just before Christmas. Quite a surprise marriage occurred Sunday evening when Mr. Aaron Pitts, son of Mr. W. D. Pitts, led to the altar Miss Donnie McGimsey, daughter of Mr. J. T. McGimsey, of Bridgewater. Rev. John L. Ray of ficiated. We wish both of these Christmas couples long life, prosperi ty and happiness. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Powell, of Salisbury, and little daughter are here with relatives enjoying the holi days. Glen Alpine not being on the map Aycock Day was not observed at the school here. The principal tells me he had no notice from any of the school authorities. Christmas shopping here and else where has been unusually heavy. I was in Salisbury, Spencer and Lex ington and you could hardly get into' the stores for the crowds. Rev. F. A. Bower has sold his car to Mr. O. H. Taylor. Rev. A. P. Brantley held - services aVthe Methodist church morning and night last Sunday and Rev. John L. Ray in the Presbyterian church at 11 o'clock. Rev. Ray will serve his people on the fourth Sunday at 11 o'clock and 7 o'clock p. m. on the second Sunday nigh. Rev. J. Mk Clark, traveling evange list of the Presbyterian church, who is superintending 10 counties, was here in the interest of his church. Mr. W. R. Teer, Jr., nephew of Mrs. W. D. Pitts, is here from Pickett, Texas, visiting relatives. Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Croom of Hick ory, have been visiting their relatives here. Mr. A. E. Croom, of Bentonsville, has been here on a visit to relatives. BRIDGEWATER. Misses Julia Rust, Margarite and Glennie Anthony and Messrs. Swan- nie Goldman and Arthur Rust attend ed the Christmas dance at the Mc Dowell Hotel in Marion Christmas night. Misses Zelda Yelton of Rutherford- ton, and Ruth Yelton, of Hollis, and Mr. Astor Yelton, of Winston-Salem, spent the holidays with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Yelton. Mrs. Raye Hennessee and two chil dren, of Valdese, spent the week-end with her grandmother, Mrs. A. E. Rowe. Mrs. Ralph Abernethy and children, of Hickory, are spending the week with Mrs. Abernethy's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Ballew Mr. Harry Hunter, of Brandan. Colorado, spent a few days here last week with his sister, Mrs. W. Jay Bal lew. Mrs. Pet Justice visited friends in Hickory last week. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Hewitt, of Con over, visited Mrs. Hewitt's father, Mr. J. T. McGimsey, during the holi days. " Misses Virginia Rust, Virginia Ballengee and Alice Holland, of Nebo high school, are home for the holi days. There was a Christmas tree at the Bridgewater school building Decem ber 28th. Mr. Walker Lyerly, of (Continued on sixth page) PRESIDENTS BIRTHDAY IS OBSERVED QUIETLY Sixty-Third Anniversary of Mr. Wilson Finds His Health Much Improved; Sits Out an Hour President Wilson observed his 63rd birthday quietly Sunday, much im proved in health, surrounded by the members of his family with the ex ception of Mrs. W. G. McAdoo, who was unable to be present. Mr. and Mrs. Francis B. Sayre arrived from Cambridge, Mass, Saturday nigh, and Miss Margaret Wilson has been at the White House since her father's illness. The President took his usual walk about the sick room and later sat out on the south portico for more than an hour. Part of the day was spent by Mr. Wilson reading many of the hun dreds of birthday greetings that came from prominent officials and friends not only in. the United States . but abroad. x i 1 1 (
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