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. wnr-vryv rut 0nlv Paper Published in Burke County The BMorJanton t7HeJd Consolidated November 29, 1901 Subscription Price $1.50 per Year in Advance MORGANTON, NORTH CAROLINA, FEBRUARY 26, 1920 NO. i36 THE NEWS-HERALK 1 i i -0 . -m tr a wv --v -w v DIED YESTERDAY! llpmber of Prominent Family and Wife of One of Town's Foremost Citizens Passed Away Brief Illness. Aftpr an illness of less than a week A1U . w.rv 11 Xli mill Urs Manly McDowell, nee Miss Tillie is died yesterday afternoon at 3 clock at the McDowell home here, last week sne nSi nursed Mr. Mc nowell through an attack of influ enza rom which he has not yet ful" recovered, and on Friday was her- lf stricken with the same malady. Double pneumonia developed and Lmo-h she made a brave fight for life and though all that medical skill ind loved ones could go was done she lost in the struggle. tIip funeral will be held this after- .non at 4 o'clock at Grace Episcopal fharch ,COr.UUCti;u uy me rev lux, uev. George Hilton, and interment made n Grace churchyard, where her fath fr and other members of her family jre buried. )Irs. McDowell was a daughter of ;he late Rev. Neilson Falls, for years ector of Grace church, and Mxs. Lucy Falls. She was born in Morganton ind ?Ff'nt tnat part of her girlhood ie're until the family moved to Wash ncn, D. C. where they made their hoEe until Mr. Falls' death. In 1903 the was married to Mr. C. Manly Mc Dowell, ex-sheriff of Burke county, nd well known throughout the State. Their marriage joined two of the own's most prominent and lnfluen ial families. Though Mr. McDowell as been honored with positions v'nich required his being away much f the thr.e their home has been here La home that was ideal in the love hat surrounded it and in the gra- lioufiiess ana sweetness oi tne wile ,nd mother who directed it. Besides her husband and mother :?A two bright children, Margaret and Son." Airs. McDowell is survived by le following sisters and brothers Irs. C. M. Barrie.. of Norfolk, Va., r.d Morganton, Mrs. H. F. Spurgin, ho is at present in Panama, Col. lore Falls, of San Francisco, Cal., ?A Mr. Neilson Falls, of Morganton. !rs. Barrie, who has a summer home ere arrived yesterday from Norfolk nd Mr. Barrie is expected today. EATH Or A PROMINENT CITIZEN OF ICARD TOWNSHIP News was received in Morganton '.ei'day of the death Tuesday night : his home in Icard of Mr. Aaron 4 ook, one of the most prominent citi- i of that township. Mr. Cook s cond wife was Mrs. Ella Williams, : Morganton. She and several chil e:i survive. He was 7G years of age iOUSE CORPORATION TO BE ORGANIZED pitial Stock Subscriptions Have Been Made and Organization Will Be Perfected at a Meeting Friday Night The required $20,000 capital stock r the proposed housing corporation been subscribed and the stock- puiers wi l hold a meGtine1 ridav i:?ht for the Durnose of oreaniziner "d jetting work started a? soon as s.-ible. The Chamber of Commerce has fos- Nd the movement and the fact that : now bids fair to succeed crives more i:dence of the usefulness of this or- pzation to the town. "final stock will be raised within a p days to $25000, one of the prin- ?ai stockholders having proposed to pease his subscriDtion materially I'ovided that amount could be ob- Red. Considering that Morganton busi es men have just gone through a PiPaipn for hotel subscriptions and Rng the recent past have respond- io calls for vanous causes, the 'ount subscribed in the housing Pany is considered very encourag- the meeting Friday night offi rs will be elected. From that time l"e business -will h in their hands. p Chamber of Commerce having lecl the project to the point of ionization. ithe meetinc Fridav nie'ht. beein- RKE REPUBLICANS INSTRUCT FOR PRITCHARD The R,v. purdav instniPto Holetrnlps to Congressional and Senatorial mentions f. Pt.;.Viot- -fnT- Prpsi- f5 John M. Morehead for national r ""nitteeman nnH Artecrnto ftt larei-e 'he national ennvoninn Frank Rney for Rt0 V, gness delegate from ninth dis- Z w tne national convention. ry was considerable preference f.wod as a second choice, also jment for Harding and Lowden, Ih." '"Rtructions were given as to ptchar viiiiuiuiitca ,ii ?iscop; L CHURCH NOTES D nHn "vm, uicie Will uc wiebration of Holy Communion I'd v.'i. "'(iOlCka H1C CYCllUlfe svi- ill . for the present be at 7:3Q MRS. C. M. M IMlWJiLL ! ""leaa oi 7 as heretofore. INFLUENZA WILL NEVER BE so SERIQUS again Physicians Gathered in Chica go For Convention Say Amer- ica Will Not Be Revisited i The opinion that America will nev jer experience another influenza epi- emic ,a serious as the last was ex- PreSSed DV manv nllVSlCIATlc WKrt roV, ered in Chicago for the American Congress for Internal Medicines.- Reports on the progress made by medical science in treating influenza and data on the isolation of the germ will be presented during the six-day session. THE WOMEN DO NOT HAVE TO PAY POLL TAX Constitution Refers Only to Male Votersof Much Interest to Future Women Voters. Western North Carolina women, who are interested in the equal suff rage movement, will learn with inter est that, according to a statement by a high State official, it will not be ne cessary for women who vote to pay poll taxes. This official has gone into the matter and finds that the con stitution refers to the "male" voter as the one to pay poll tax. His statement follows: There has been an effort to frigh ten the women from voting when they obtain the ballot by asserting that they would have to pay a poll tax. As the poll tax has not frightened men away from the ballot box it will not frighten the women. But there is a complete ansver to this threat. The Constitution Art. V. sec 1 pro vides: "The general assembly shall levy a capitalization tax on every male inhabitant of the State over 21 and under 50 years of age." The XIX amendment does not pur port to affect in any way the poll tax which is purely a matter of State regulation and therefore the adoption of that amendment will not strike the word male out of the constitutional provision which requires a poll tax only on "males." Cons. Art. VI Sec. 1 prescribes "Every male person born in the U. S. and every male pe'rson who has been naturalized 21 years of age and possessing the qualifications set out in this article shall be entitled to vote at any election by the people in the State, except as hereinotherwise . pro vided." The XIX amendment . will strike the word"male" out of that section because it prohibits any dis- culmination "on account of sex so that every "person" (instead of every "male person") etc., will be entitled to vote. Art. IV, Sec. 4, requires that every person presenting himself for regis tration shall be able to read, etc., and shall have paid on or before the first of May of that year "His poll tax for the previous year, as prescribed by Art. V, Sec. 1 of the constitution." Now, turn to Art. V, Sec. 1 and you will find that the poll tax is only re quired of "male" persons, and the XIX amendment will in nowise affect that section or imposes a poll tax upon any one except as provided in that section, i. e., "on male persons." SLOGAN CONTEST CLOSES SATURDAY All children who expect to enter the Morganton slogan contest should get their entries to the secretary of the Morganton Chamber of Commerce. Mr, L. S. Coburn, not later than next Saturday night. The contest closes on that date. UNSELFISHNESS DUTY OF GOOD CITIZENSHD? Vice - President Marshall De clares Individual Success Must Be Subordinated to Common Weal. Personal success as an element of American citizenship should be sub ordinated to the common good, de clared Vice-President Thomas R. Marshall at a Washington birthday service. Commenting on the declaration of Jefferson that all men are entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of hap piness, Mr. Marshall said that liberty and life have a different meaning than they had even 50 years ago. "Life consists in somebody having some good thought for his fellow man, the vice president continued, "and death will come to the man who goes about his business, piling up his mon ey and gives no thought to the good of those about him." He added: "Jefferson, you will notice, did not say a man has a right to happiness. Oh, no, he knew most of us might get married. Jefferson was not going to give any guarantee." Americans should be Americans in reality and not in name only, Mr. Marshall said. "I am tired of the hypenated American," he continued. "It cost an awful lot to get rid of the German-American, hypen. We can get rid of the other hypens by. education and enlightenment." The man who does not . believe in God was Classed by the vice president as a menace to the country. "We should remember the advice of Washington that a country cannot get along without morality and r we cannot have morality without we have religion," he said. "A man is either religious or superstitious. For my part, I had rather believe in the living God than in the left hind foot of a graveyard rabbit." i . , . , , , , , . . . , . , . - " KEEP HIM AWAY 111 FAMILV Jllf LOCAL BRIEFS IN AND AROUND TOWN ; Short Items of Local and Per sonal Interest Gathered During the Week. Mr, and Mrs,, Millard, Hennessee antibtfnce the arrival of a little girl born Wednesday. Married Saturday night at the home of Rev. H. C. Whitener, Mr. David C. Small- and Miss Ellie Clontz, Rev. H. C. Whitener officiat ing. Mr. J. L. Nelson spent Tuesday in Statesville with his son, Mr. Guy Nelson, who is recovering from an op eration for appendicitis. Miss Mildred Hudson opened on Tuesday of this week a millinery shop in one of the rooms over the Western Union. She expects to car ry, an up-to-date line of hats and mil linery accessories. On account of influenza there was no service at Mt. Pleasant church. Chesterfield, last third Sunday, but the pastor, Rev. J. A. Frye, requests us to announce that he will conduct service there next Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Saunders and family who formerly lived in Mor ganton and moved from here to Kings Mountain, moved last week from Kings Mountain to High Point, where they will now make their home. On account of a broken boiler in the high school building the students of that department have been going to school in the afternoons in the main building. The lower grades are dismissed at one o'clock and; the sev enth grade and high school go to school from that hour until five o'clock. Misses Cornelia and Ophelia Car ter, whose home on Avery' avenue was burned about a year ago, have had it rebuilt and this week moved into their hew dwelling. It is built very much on the same plan as their former one and is a pretty, modern bungalow. They have been occupy ing the Loven house 'on Green street while rebuilding. Secretary L. S. Coburn, i of the Chamber of Commerce, has received a letter from Mr. M. A. Erskine, of Asheville, who recently addressed the body, expressing his appreciation of the cordial reception accorded him upon the occasion of his visit here and congratulating the orjganization on the splendid start it has given evi dence of having made. When General Pershing passed through Morganton last Friday after noon quite a crowd had gathered at the station to see the famous hero. They were rewarded when he came to the rear of his special car, attached to No. 12. and made a very brief ad dress. The crowd that greeted him would have been much larger Tiad it been generally known at what time he would pass through. FOUND DEAD. Mr. "Boge" Mull, son of the late Sidney Mull, of the MtJETom.e section, was found. dead in his mother's yard last Thursday r morning, Since his wife's death sometime ago he and his child ; had lived with his mother. On the morning of his death he had left the house to go to a neighbor's and some member of the family going la ter into the r yard found him dead, probably from heart trouble. - - The funeral on Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock was conducted by Rev. H. C. Whitener at Mt. Home church and burial made in the churchyard there. FHOhTHIS HOUSE . T-r- REVENUE SERVICE IN STATE REORGANIZED Haynes to Be Chief Field Officer and Col. McDowell Will Spe cialize on Income Tax. lr-The--jWshingtbn--correspond"ett'-'.tO. fthe Greensboro News writes that the reorganization of the internal reve 1 tiue service in North Carolina, made i necessary because of the resignation i recently of Col. A. D. Watts, has fin ally been worked out. Ex-Sheriff C. H. Haynes, of Surry county, is to be appointed chief field officer of the internal revenue service in the State with headquarters at Statesville. Ex-Sheriff Manly McDowell, of Morganton, will be given the title of revenue agent in charge with head quarters at Greensboro, and will spe cialize on income tax collections. Col. T. H. Vanderford, now federal prohibition officer for the State, will continue in that capacity but will be given an enlarged jurisdiction. His headquarters will be at Salisbury. MEETING OF PATTON STUDENTS MARCH 12 On account of short notice, sickness I and for one reason or another the meeting of Patton students on Sun day afternoon was not so well attend ed as was hoped and it was therefore decided to request another meetincr for Friday night of March 12. All students of the late Rev. R. L. Pat--ton who can arrange to be present are urged to meet in Fraternity Hall at 7:30 o'clock, Friday night, March 12, the object of, the meeting being to de cide upon an appropriate and fitting memorial for this great teacher. MRS L. H. TILLEY TO BAL TIMORE FOR TREATMENT It will be la source of deep regret to man friends throughout the coun ty to know that the condition of Mrs. Lillian H. Tilley, who has been tak ing treatment in Asheville for several months, is far from encouraging. Ac companied by her mother and Dr. W. R. Griffin, of Asheville, she was tak en to Baltimore last Thursday in the hope that the special treatment she will receive there will be beneficial. It is sincerely hoped that soon there may. come the news that she is on the road to recovery. RELEASED ON BOND. Alfred Mull, who is charged with killing his cousin, Lenoir Mull, -in the Mull-Lefever fight of two weeks ago, was released Saturday on bond. So licitor. R. L.. Huff man has stated that the State will not ask for a charge of murder in the first degree and agreed with, the defendant's lawyers on a bond ol $2,000. Several days ago when it was learned that in all probability Andrew Lefever, who has been at Grace Hospital since the fate ful Sunday, will recover, Tool Mull was allowed to give $500 bond. Tom Mull is the only participant of the fight now in jail. . . INSTALLS NEW FOUNTAIN The Burke IJrug Co. has installed this week a beautiful new fountain. It is .one of the newest models, sani tarv fend modem in every respect. It adds much to the appearance of the store, and . will, no doubt , increase its soft drink -patronage. William David and Mary Lucretia are the names of the twin boy and girl born to Mr. and Mrs. Will Mc Call at Grace Hospital last Thursday. coition to pass Will Probably Be Considered At the Next Session of Con gress, in December. Universal military training as an is sue in the coming campaign will be left for definition to the national con vention, following the agreement by Chairman Kahn, of the house mili tary committee for elimination of the training proposal from army reorgani zation bill. The agreement, concur red in by Republican leaders, pro vides that universal military training be taken up as separate legislation at the next session of congress. WAS A VICTIM OF INFLUENZA-PNEUMONIA Mr. Thomas Shuping Died Last Thursday Afternoon At His Home Near Morganton. Influenza-pneumonia claimed as an other victim last Thursday afternoon Mr. Thomas Shuping, a prosperous young farmer of the Salem neighbor hood. At the time of his death his entire family Mrs. Shuping and their four children were all in bed with influenza and none of them were able to attend the funeral. Mr. Shuping was only 30 years of age and was of the fine, robust type that seems such easy prey for influ enza and pneumonia. He was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Moulton Shuping, of this county, and is sur vived by the following sisters and brothers: Mrs. Andrew Lefever and Mrs. Gordon Queen, of Morganton; Miss Eliza Shuping, of Winston-Sa-iem, and Adolphus and Moulton Shu ping, who lived with their brother. The funeral at Salem Friday af ternoon was in charge of the Mor ganton - council, Junior Order, Rev. J. A. Frye, assisted by Rev. H. C. Whitener, conducting the service. In terment was made in the Salem churchyard. Everybody who knew him thought well of Thomas Shuping, He was a dependable, progressive young man and not only his family but the entire i community will miss him sorely. CHILD'S NARROW ESCAPE Walter, eight-year-old son of Mr. andi-Mrsj-J.- G. Crary, who live near the. furniture factory; had a narrow escape from more .serious injury last Thursday 'frhen a dynamite cap he had in some way obtained exploded, tearing away several fingers on his right hand. The little fellow's face was torn painfully but fortunately his eyes escaped injury. Mrs. McCrary was in Lenoir, call ed there by the illness of her brother. One of the younger McCrary children having become sick Mr. McCrary had started to town to telephone her to i come home, the children left alone un til he could return. In his absence the child exploded the cap, it still being a mystery how it happened to be in the house. He was taken to Grace Hos pital and is recovering nicely from his injuries. THE INFLUENZA SITUATION In the country immediately sur rounding Morganton influenza has been raging, in many instances whole families afflicted at the same time. However for the most part it seems to be in comparatively mild form and though several deaths have resulted, they are few in comparison with the hundreds of cases reported. In Morganton the situation is not nearly so bad as in the country, and it appears that those who had the disease last winter are, for the most part, escaping it this year. THE HOTEL ESTIMATE WAS NOT ACCEPTED Contractor's Price So Far in Excess of Architect's Fig ures That Directors Have Not Let Contract Yet A meeting of the directors of the Burke Hotel Company was held Tues day afternoon in the office of the president, Mr. W. C. Ervin. The meeting was called for the purpose of considering the estimate of probable cost of the structure as computed by Mr. R. L. Dixon, of Greensboro. The estimated cost as submitted was far in excess of the figures given by the architect when the plans were drawn last December, showing a discrepancy too great to be accounted for by the general in crease of prices since that time. Un fortunately, the architect was not present to explain his figures, but it is evident that there has been a mis undersanding on someone's part. It is the opinion of many who an alyzed some of Mr. Dixon's figures, that many items could have been ma terially reduced had he better, under stood local conditions. A conference with Mr. Asbury will be immediately arranged and steps taken to have the specifications re vised, and other estimates prepared. It is the judgment of the directors that a satisfactory hotel can be built with the money available and they are bending every effort to start building operations as soon as pos sible. QUARTERLY MEET, MT. GROVE The second quarterly meeting for Table Rock circuit will be at Mt. Grove church Saturday and Sunday. 'BRIEF NEWS ITEMS , . FROM OVER BURKE Items of Interest Gathered From Different Sections of the County By News Herald Correspondents VALDESE Valdese has had quite a seige o influenza. Among the sick and hav been, are the following: Mrs. Valen tin Bounous, Mr. Albert Pons, Sr., his 6ister and neice, Miss Mary Re four, Adelki Mourglia and baby, Mr. Henry Pariso and wife and baby, Mr. and Mrs. John Long and Johnnie, Miss Winnie Simpson, Mr. Henry Garrou and wife and baby, Miss An- niea"ou' i,11? ? - juuui& xmjuiiuus, ivir. j. r. xuDei, jut. Willard Clontz and family, Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Smith and family, and others. School has opened again, after hay ing been closed by the county healtk officers for two weeks. The citizens of Valdese are glad to see Prof. Le- Fever and his force back on the job. The school at Valdese is making a splendid record, and the patrons hope for continued efforts on the part of the teaching force for the best school year the district has ever had. The Lovelady road crew is again at work. The rains are a handicap, but it may well be said to the credit of Mr. E. S. Abernethy and his force that the progress has been remark able, considering the force that has been on the works. The stone house being built by Mr. John Garrou, Jr., for the Rev. P. E. Monet is ready for the roof. Ingold Hardware Co., of Hickory, will in stall waterworks, and the home prom ises to be among the most comfort able in Valdese. A new home for the employees of the Waldensian Swiss Embroidery Co. is under construction. Mr. John Stamey has framed the new house that he is building in Val dese. Mr. Henry Shuford, who has been living near Valdese for 70 years, died suddenly. He was buried at Enon. Mrs. Jeb Glazebrook passed to her reward Saturday afternoon at two o'clock. She was buried at Big Hill i cheoel cemetery. The village of Valdese was incor porated on February 17th. - Secretary of State J. B. Grimes, after being sat isfied that the village had grown to sufficient size, that a large majority of the residents of the village were in favor of incorporation, that the !iv n Twifionino -fnr com, nnd tvt aii citizens in favor had proceeded legal- j the data reqUired by the State for in- corporation had been furnished, de clared the town "incorporated," and appointed the following as the first officers of the new town: Mayor, Mr. (Continued on fifth page) WILL NOT REHEAR WISEMAN APPEAL Supreme Court Declines to Give Condemned Man Another Day in Court Goes to Gov ernor as Last Resort. News comes from Raleigh that the petition to rehear the appeal of Aaroa Wiseman, now under sentence of death for the murder of Dr. E. A. Hennessee of Glen Alpine, has bee denied by Associate Justicese W. A. Hoke and Piatt D. Walker of the Su preme Court, and the case will now go to Governor Bickett on a petition for commutation. Announcement of this decision of the Supreme Court came last Friday with the filing of the first batch of court opinions for the spring term. Aaron Wiseman has been in the State prison since May, 1919. Dr. Hennessee was killed at Glen Alpine as he alighted from a train on Janu ary 31, 1918. At the March term of court, 1918, Garfield and Aaron Pitts were tried for the murder, the alleged motive being that of bad feeling be-' i-tween the Pitts families and Dr. Hen nessee which several years before had resulted in the killing of Gorman Pitts. At the trial of the Pitts brothers, Aaron Wiseman was a star witness for the State. Investigation of the case following the acquittal of the Pitts brothers, resulted in the issu ance of a warrant for Wiseman in January, 1919, by Solicitor R. L. Huffman. J. M. Ramsey, of States ville, , and Fred Amos, of Newton, were the principal witnesses against Wiseman in the trial which took place at Shelby. The two witnesses identi fied Wiseman as the man whom they saw shoot Dr. Hennessee as he alight-' ed from the train. They were among the passengers. DEATH OF MR. J. R. WHISENANT Mr. J. R. Whisenant died Sunday-' morning at his home at Drexel after a brief illness of influenza. , He it ' survived by his wife and one daugh-'. ter, Mrs. George Miller. Mr. Whisenant was a merchant' at Drexel, where he had been located for several years, but was planning t move his business to Valdese. He was a good man, square and honest in all his dealings, and highly respect- . ed by his fellow citizens. The funeral and burial services were held Monday at Enon. MRS. POTEET DIED AT DREXEL: Mrs. Robert Poteet died suddenly last Friday at her home at Drexel, heart trouble presumably the- cause. She was buried Saturday at Enon.r,-; cf' V
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