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Volume XII Lenoir, N. Friday. September 2, 1910 No. 88
ANOTHER STEP IN PROGRESS
Ou Water Saaaly.
Lenoir is confronted with a wa
ter fa ml dc in thia mountain coun
try where the sparkling fluid is so
Ai forecasted in a recent issue of .mou w
The News the improved telephone" "'"
and teleeraph service between PUCTLa U3 w.
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tfr ilaaTlieaiaaaaTeliTaaaCee.
actia letweea Blswiaa1 ReckasMl
tfe Otrtaiae WorU AmhW.
Blowing Bock, Lenoir and the oat
aide world is now assured. Th rough
the efforts of Messrs Webster, Z. 8.
Miller, C. V. Henkel and others a
itmnvMmninrliu bxn formed
to put up a first-class, combined investigate the matter are
economical in its use as
The 'dam or reservoir at the source
of supply has never been satis
factory. In the first place those
who hare taken the trouble to
telephone and telegraph line be
tween Lenoir and Blowing Bock.
The stock has been subscribed to
buy out the present private line
between these points and a meet
ing will be held in a short time to
formally organize the new com
pany aud to perfect plans for put
tine the work of constructing the
line through at once.
A connection will be effected
through the Lenoir office with the
Southern Bell Telephone Telegraph
Company aud the outside world so
it will be possible to reach any
point of the country from Blowing
Bock. Next spring a modern and
ample exchange will be installed
at Blowing Bock, which will mean
much for that place and the bun
dred of visitors who go there dur
ing the Summer.
This permanent and fixed service
between Blowing Bock and Lenofr
will mean much to our town in
many ways and the cost ruction of
the line is another indication of
the growing progress of this part
of the country.
Railway People Grateful.
The following letter shows bow
the courtesies shown the excursion
pretty generally agreed tb tt it is
not properly located. It is on the
wrong 8 1 ream and too near its
source to afford water enough for
the town at present, much less to
make any provisions for the future
growth of the town. Then the con
struction of the dam was bad and
has never held the small supply of
water that ran into it. A leak
that has never been stopped an
pea red at the start from which
nearly half the supply was wasted.
Uuder these circumstances the res
et voir has never been anything
like near full and at present is
practically empty, the tank in
Freedman being the only supply
now on band.
We merely state the deplorable
condition we find ourselves in,
leaving it to the reader to say who
is responsible for this condition.
As to the remedy, there seems
to be but one thing to do and that
is to lay a pipe line to what is
known as the Morrow Creek and
add that to the supply. Provis
ions were made for this in laying
the mains and we are informed it
can be easily done. How to raise
the money to do this is the ques
tion which confronts the Board of
Commissioners. In the present
INTERESTING CASE
Firat im Tkie Part of tk Caaatry Uaoer
tka JUtaeaebfle Law.
Last week T. L. Nelson and
Taney D. Moore were tried belore
tC. A. Turtle, Esq., for the larceocy
of an automobile.
Thia is the first case, as far as
we know, ever tried in this state
under this special automobile act
passed by the Legislature of 1907.
The act is very unusual and ap
plies only to automobiles or motor
cars aud makes it larceny to take
and use one of these vehicles agaiust
the knowledge and consent of the
owuer.
The ca.se grew out of the fact
that last Octo'wr Mr. C. T. Mor
rison left his automobile in care of
Mr. T. L. Nelson while he went to
Oklatioma on business. During his
absence the car was used by Nel
sou and Moore.
When Morrison returned he
found the machine had been used
ud he claims, damaged; hence the
udictmeht. After hearing the
testimony of the prosecution only,
the defendants were released and
Morrison taxed with the costs.
In a strict and literal construe
tion of the law, the young men
made a very "close call," but the
decision of the court meets with
general approval, as the men had
been on the best of terms before
the incident and the prosecution
was considered malicious and triv
ial and the matter shoald have been
settled out of court.
ists last week by Lenoir folks were I condition of town finances this will
appreciated by the officials of the be a hard thing to do. This pres
Carolina & Northwestern Railway lent supply is utterly inadequate.
Company: even if the reservoir can be made
Chester, o. secure, which can probably ' be
"Aug. 25, 1910. done, so the expenditure of several
thousand to bring additioal water
in is the only way out of the de
plorable condition.
"Mr. W. H. Phillips, Agent,
"Lenoir, N. C.
"Dear Sir:
"Mr. Nichols and myself
wish to express through you to all
of the Lenoir people whoso kindly
took part in the location of and
providing for the comfort and
entertaiument of the Wilmington
Excursion party while in
our sincere thanks ana appreci
ation for all that they did along mg her for a month or more and
that lino T fol r am that, it win savs she died of a typical case of
rucnlt in miinh and lnntintr imnd pelegra. Mr. Forrest moved here
fnr that, turrftirv and that, it. will a year or so ago and has Deeu em
Death from PaJagra.
Miss Bessie Forrest, lb year-old
daughter of Mr. E. B. Forrest,
died at the home of her parents
Lenoir here last Wednesday about 1 o'
clock. Dr. Kent has been attend
be tbe means ot bringing many
more people into our mountain
section next season.
"Please convey this to the differ
ent ones interested.
"Yours truly,
"E. F. Bkii,"
General Passenger Agent.
Old Vt
Mr. Gordon Morrow died at his
home at Valmead northeast of town
last Wednesday. Mr. Morrow was
an old Confederate veteran of un
surpassed bravery and courage, a
member of Co. H. 58th North Car
olina Regiment,
man of strong
reached the advanced age ot 98
years. The body was buried Wed
nesday at the Absher
ground.
ployed by the Kent Furniture Co
and his daughter has been suffer
ing from the disease for perhaps
three years or more. Other physi
ciaus who saw tbe case are of the
opinion It was a typical case of
Pelegra. The body was taken to
Eh" and, Orange county, the former
home of Mr. Forrest, for interment
the party leaving on the early
train yesterday. (
Judge Long's Ultimatum.
Charlotte News.
Judge Long told Sheriff Wallac
this morning in empaneling the
He was always a jury that at the next term of th
constitution aud court he should have some ot the
bankers and merchants summoned
to serve as jurors and not to put
burying the burden of running the courts
on the farmers of the county who
are busy with their crops at this
time of the year.
THE BUSINESS OUTLOOK SOUTH
Dr. Taaaaaa E. Brewa.
The following additional facts in
regard to the death ot Dr. Tho. E.
Brown of Asheville are gathered
from The Asheville Gaette News
of recent date:
When Dr. Brown If It hereabout
two days ago for a trip in the west
he was apparently in perfect health
For a time the news of his sudden
death was hard to grasp by thoe
who weie first acquainted with the
fact, aud the family was not noti
tied until undisputed evidence had
been secured that the Dr. Brown
Mr. Edmouds calls attention to the .. D . . .,,
referred to was the Asheville man.
great immigration tide that has . ., . , , ..
i In the pockets of Dr. Brown s
set in toward his
laflwaatieJ Naw Faglaaa Paper Predict a
Bright Fatare far Taa Soatk.
Under the above caption, The
Boston Transcript, New England's
greatest newspaper, has just pub
lished an exhaustive and able re
sume of the conditions of the
South aud a clear analysis of the
prospects along commercial and in
dustrial lines. The article was
written by Bichard H. Edmonds,
editor of The Manufacturers' Bee
ord, and is therefore authoritative.
pockets
were found prescription
blanks with the imprint '. A.
i in inr
section, uMngi
Texas as an exampie. Ihe article
Walker, Asheville, V (. ., and
., i ..I, rf .1' h ink tKu , - i. .nth
fe the physicians who were called
emer does not fully understand, '.ml. .- i
J i at Memphis at once notified
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Dr.
New Teacher.
The trustees of Lenoir Graded
School have elected Miss Sadie
Jones of Lenoir teacher of History
and Miss Edna Forney of Greens
boro teacher of English in that in
stitution for the term beginning
next Mondky the 5th.
The selection of two new teaeh
ers was made necessary by the res
gnation of Miss Alice Wilson who
goes to Centenary College, Cleve
and, Tenn., and that of Miss Mary
Fries Hall who resigned on account
of ill health.
In addition to these Miss Mary
Peary Blount of Washington and
Miss Mary Louise Brown of Greens
boro were elected teachers in the
school some time ago.
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Hudson Item.
Correspondent of The News.
Mr. and Mrs. John Mullis and
children of Morganton visited rela
tives and friends here over Sun
day. Gli to see them back. Mr
J. L. Sigmon went to Lenoir on
business Saturday. A number of
our people are attending court this
week. Mr. O. P. Lutz and fami
ly spent Sunday in Hudson. Mr.
F. M. McCall went to Hickory
Monday on business. Mr. and
Mrs. F. D. Powell and children of
Lenoir were here Sunday. Mr.
W. W. Stiue brought his bride
home Sunday and on Monday
night they were treated to a good,
old-fashioned serenade. Another
fox chase came off Saturday night
and we understand that the fox
whs caught this time.
last year one railroad carried into
Texas 89,000 settlei-s from the
West and Northwest. On one day
that line took out of Kansas City
as the gateway into lexas over
5,000 settlers. Careful estimates
make the number of new people
locating in Texas during the last
year or two average 100,000 an
nualiy. It is a notable fact that
they are as a whole well to-lo, a
yery large number of them travel
ing in Pullman cars and having
ample ready money when reaching
Texas to purchase land for culti
ration. Many of them are locat
ing in towns and cities, for there
is a remarkable growth in such
placw as San Antonio, Dallas,
Houston, Fort Worth and other
large cities, while towns are spring
ing up almost over night, but the
majority of the newcomers are farm
ers wno have been selling their
high-priced lands in the West and
investing in Texas, expecting to
reap a profit in the advance of
lands, just as they have done in
the West. While some of them
are giving their attention to cotton
raising, most of them are going in
to diversified agriculture, especial
ly into fruit raising and trucking.
"It is interesting to note," says
Brown tor consultation and after
tween Asheville and Memphis it
became certain that there could lie
no mistake.
The attending physician at Mem
phis gave out the follow ir: state
ment:
4,Dr. T. E. W. Brown was trav
eling through the Southwest and
stopped to spend a short time in
Memphis. He had leen here a
couple of days and seemed to be in
good health. Aliout 5 o'clock
while lying on his bed resting a
friend who was with him noticed
that his respiration was embarrass
ed. He was spoken to but made
no response. A physician who
was in the building was called and
restoratives were administered, but
without effect. He was dead with
in 20 minutes of the time the first
symptoms of distress appeared
BRIEF ITEMS OF NEWS FROM
ALL OVER THE COUNTRY
Geaarel Hasewaiags ai tka Uaitea Stetee
TeU ia a Few Ward.
Asheville and vicinity was visit
ed by an unusually heavy rain fall
last Tuesday night and much dam
age was done to property.
Hon. Iredell M ears of Wilming
ton has been nominated for Con
gress by the Republicans of the
sixth district. '
Atiout 1,500 farmers from all
parts of the state attended the
Farmers' Convention at the A. &
M. College, Raleigh, this week.
The tirst bale of cotton of the
North Carolina crop of 1910 was
sold at Morven Monday and
broughth sixteen cents per pound.
A freight train was wrecked on
the Seaboard Airline railroad neai
Sanford last Sunday night and a
flagman was badly, though not
seriously, injured.
An unknown negro man was
run over and killed by a trolley car
in Salisbury last Monday night.
The man was walking beside the
track and slipped and fell in front
of the car.
The heaviest raiufall for many
years fell in, the vicinity ot Charles
ton, S. C, last Monday and Tues
day, nearly '5i inches having fall
en. No serious damage, however,
is reported.
The Seaboard Airline's tine pas
seuger train number 66 ran into it
washout near Savannah, Ga., last
Tuesday morning and tbe engineer
was killed and the fireman badly
wounded.
The Raleigh News and Observer
Death was due to heart failure, the I says Gen. J. S. Carr has chartered
exact nature of which can only be a special train at his owu expense
Life on Panama Canal.
ham had one frightful drawback,
malaria trouble that has brought
HufTerlntr and death to thouHandt.
The germs cause chills fever and Have you got yours yett If not,
ague, blllounnew juandice, lamitude, pav UD jues an(i one year n
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Our knives are going pretty fast.
weakness and general debility. Hut
advance and get one.
Electric Bitters never fail to destroy
them and cure malaria troubles
"Three bottles-ootnpletely cured me , In buying a couRh medicine, dou't
of a very severe attack of malaria," be afraid to get Chamberlain's
. writes W. M. A. Fretwell, of Lucauia Cough Remedy. There is no danger
N. C., ''and I've had good health 1 from it, and relief Is sure to follow
ever luce.'". Cures stomach, Liver Especially recommended for ooughs,
- and Kidney Troubles, and prevent colds and whooping cough. ' Sold by
Typhoid."" 50c Guaranteed by 3. E. J. E. Shell, Druggist Dr. Rents,
: Shell DraggM:T-'V :' "' 'T ' J Druggist.
A young man in Venice suddeu
ly discovered that his tinancee was
spending 4000 a year on dress.
He instantly broke off tha eugage
ment and is now married to the
dressmaker.
Staffer Skeptic.
That a clean nice, fragrant com
pound I ke Bucklen'B Arnica Halve
will instantly relieve a bad burn,
cut, scald, wound or piles, staggers
skeptics. But great cures prove its a
wonderful healer of the worst sores,
ulcers, bolls, felons, eczema, skin
eruptions and also chapped bauds,
sprains and corns. Try it 85c at J.
E. Shell's, Druggist. ' '
Mr. Edmonds, "that the old States,
such for instance, as North and
South Carolina, have been making
such marked progress in the resto
ration of the fertility of their soil
and their average yield of cotton
is now larger than in the past, aud
larger even than in the almost vir
gin soil of the Southwestern
States."
The following comes as a fitting
climax to an article that was well
calculated to instill a greater de
gree of respect in the minds of New
Englanders lor this section: "With
three times as much coal area as
Great Britain, Germany, France
and Austria combined; with over
40 per cent, of the standing timber
of the United States, with irou ore
in keeping with its vast coal re
sources; with a practical natural
monopoly of the world's cotton pro
duction; with water-powers suflic
ient, if fully developed to create
power equal to that now required
to run every wheel that turns on
rail or in factory in the United
States; with a variety of soil nn
surpassed for every kind of agri
culture; with a climate ranging
from that of the high mountains of
North Carolina, almost identical
with that of Canada, to that of the
Gulf coast, the South has marvel
lous potentialities, the develop
ment of which has only begun. Its
resources make the South a nation
al asset, the utilization of which
will enormously enrich the whole
country."
determined by an autopsy.''
Item From Catawba County New.
Miss Mary Babb and little sister
of Lenoir are visiting the Misses
Reinhaidt.
Rev. C. F. Sherrill has resigned
the pastorate of the Shelby Meth
odist church to take effect in Sep
tember and will go to Charlotte to
Itecome district agent for the Perm.
Mutual Life Insurance Co.
Several times of late Frank
Phelps, the halfwitted fellow
everybody knows, has been thrown
to carry the North Carolina veter
ans to the reunion at Norfolk, Va..
on the 6th of this month.
A five-weeks-old baby was left
on the porch of Rev. Dr. Paish
of Mooresville last Tuesday night.
A neatly written note in the basket
said the child was of the best of
parentage and was named "Catbe-
rin Virginia."
A young man named Peter Long
was instantly killed by a falling
tree near Concord last Monday .
Long, with two companions, was
into a perfect frenzy of anger by cutting timber when one tree lodg
persons who in charity may be ed against another and in, trying
lll thnne-htWa un.l it nnirht in W QlSlOClge It VOUng Long WBs
be stopped. We understand that caught and instantly killed
Lmcolnton protects Jack Edwards, The Democrats of the sixth con
a similar character, by an ordi gressional district will holda second
nance imposing a hue of 5 on primary on September 15th to s
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uiwemiu iirawi mm, uu uit i iect a candidate ior uongress as
Lenoir, which is the homeof Frank the select committee appointed 1
Phelps, has a law of the same kind settle the differences betwee
there in regard to Phelps. Newton Clarke and Godwin decided neith-
ought to make it hot for anybody er of them had been legally nomi
who, in the posessiou of all hisfac nated.
ulties, would worry this untortu
nate. When angered he utters
the most fearful oaths imaginable,
and the man who causes him to do
it should be punished just as if he
himself was doing the cussing.
When Officer J. W. Black na 1
began reading a warrant to V. A .
fowe at Spartanburg, S. C, lai
Thursday, Towe showed signs i
resisting aud the officer drew hi
gun, he says, to scare him. ll
fired two shots to scare him ami
the third one hit the youngster in
the head killing him instantly .
Black nail surrendered.
If your liver is sluggish and out of
tone, and you feel dull, bilious, con
stipated, take a dose of Chamber
lain's Stomach and Liver Tablets to
night before retiring and you will
feel all right in the uiorulng. Sold
by J. E. Shell, Druggist, Dr. Kents
Druggist, .
Buffale Item.
Correspondent of The News.
Misses Parolee and Olla Hamlett
and Ila Triplett visited Mr. J. W
Cottrell Sunday. Mr. B. L. Mil
ler of Buffalo visited at Finlev
M.Vr..nAUM .T nav by taking this paper until Janu
of Lenoir are visiting friends and H 1911 for onIy 25 nts-
relatives at Buffalo. Mr. J. W
Hamlett and daughter, Miss Olla
went to Lenoir last week on busi
ness. Misses yay Pipes and Mol
lie Davis visited Mr. L. A. Rob
bins Sunday. Mr. John Nelson of
Patterson Ls spending a few days
Get all the taews of the campai-'
Struck A Rich Mine.
S. W. Bends, of Coal City. Ala., su
he struck a perfect mine of health i
Dr. King's New Life Pills for th.
cured him of Liver and Kidm
Trouble after Vi yearn of suffering.
They are the Went pills on earth I .
Constipation, Malaria. Headai-li s
DeMlity. 55c at J. Shell's Drug gl. N
on Buffalo. Messrs. James and
Joseph Cottrell visited Mr. J. W
Hamlett Sunday. Mr. J. L. Mil
ler and family have returned from We give you a nice fresh' pai
j s i. ii a. ria. frr I a. a
a iew uays visit at atony rorg. two times a wcck ior a wnoie ytt r
Mr. B. L. Bobbins has gone to and a nice two bladed knife all K i
Boone to spend a few days. only onedollar
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