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AAf' VYy r ft . ; I r THIS PAPER ISSUED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS, ONE DOLLAR A YEAR, Volume XV Lenoir, N. C Friday, June 6, 1913 No. 61 BOOST THE BACKWOODS. Commercial dubs and Boards of Trade Much for Devel opment of State. (.Greensboro New.) That North Carolina town is insignificant, indeed, that today does not have an organization Chamber of Commerce, Board of Trade, Boosters' Club, or what not working to promote the growth and prosperity of the municipality, and the recent or ganization of the North Caroli na Chamber of Commerce gives us a state institution of the same nature. Along what line the latter will direct its activities doth not yet appear, except in the freight rate .fight, but it is to be hoped that as soon as the pressing need of just transpor tation facilities is settled that it will turn its attention to boost fng the places that as yet have no organization to speak for them the "backwoods." North Carolina has always been the least self-assertive state in the sisterhood. But though humility may bean admirable characteristic in the individual, it is by no means always so in states. In the matter of soil, climate and natural advantages, we have inducements that ought to tempt the cream of the im migration that is coming to the United States. But the trouble is that the immigrants don't know it, and up to the present North Carolina has never taken the trouble to tell them. We know, in a vague sort of way, that we need people, especially trained agriculturists to work the thousands of acres that are now lying idle, and we also know that unnumbered thousands are coming to the United States ev ery year, searching lor cheap land; yet we have lain supinely on our backs while the aggress ive western states have been gathering in the newcomers. We boast of our Anglo-Saxon blood and shudder at the pros pect of a tide of "undesirable immigrants" flooding our terri tory. But no immigrant that sticks to the soil is undesirable. The off scourings of Europe are not going to follow the plow, and as we have no large cities for them to herd in, there is no danger of our getting anything but the select stock. It will be a surprise to the av erage man to learn, that the fed eral government maintains a bureau of information for the benefit of the newly lauded for eigners. True, tbe appropria tion is entirely inadequate for the work, but the bureau is there and through it those states that are willing to cooperate with it may reach the immigrant. Here is where North Carolina should make a. taove. Every maa new ly landed from the north of Eu rope, and those from northern Italy and the agricultural dis tricts of southern Europe as well, should have his attention directed to this state. We can raise more corn to the aore than any other land in the world. Why should the middle west bear the title of the corn belt? We can raise hogs and cattle more cheaply than anybody else. Why should the immigrant think that to raise! stock he must go westr The fertility of our soil is unsurpassed. Why should millions in other sections have the notion that the south is an arid region? The trouble is that we have never advertised. We have the goods, but nobody knows it. Therefore the cobwebs hang ov er our door. . . Rep ttUy Bata By Hi wife, H Say. Chicago, June 2. Attaches in Judge Gibbons court room took pity upon Alfred W. Walson, who declared that his wife used him as a punching bag and at tempted to persuade him to have another set to with Mrs. Wal son, who is suing him for di vorce. k Walson is a real estate dealer. To his wife's charge of deser tion he replied with a list of beatings during his married life. Judge Gibbons decided that $15 a week was sufficient for Mrs. Walson pending a hearing of the suit. This enraged Mrs. Wal son and she broke away from her attorney and ran down the corridor of the county building. Among the charges made by Walson against" his wife are the following dates of alleged "beat ings": December 3, 1911 Struck him with a beer bottle, broke it over his head and knocked him down. She also threw a rope with a slip noose over his head and nearly choked him to death. December, 1911 During this month after the first assault, locked him in a bath room and compelled him to sleep in the tub all night. May, 5, 1912 Attacked him and kicked him in the abdomen. As a result he was incapacitated for business for some time. August 1, 1912 Took his clothes, locked him in a room so that he was unable to leave the house, and he had to call the police. September 4, 1912- Assaulted him, screamed and talked all night. September 12, 1912-Struck him repeatedly in the face and blacked his eyes so that he was ashamed to appear in public. January, 1913.--Threw hot water over him, attacked him with a knife and drove him a- way, so that he was afraid to return for a couple of days. March 18, 1913 Attacked him with a carving knife, threatened to kill him and cut him as he dodged out of a door. April 14, 1913 This was the day they last separated. She threw a plate of butter over his clothes, bit his thumb so badly that the nail came off. April 29, 1913 Went to his office with a revolver and snap ped it at him. $65,000 Cfcatt At Sa Bottom. San FranciscoJune 1. Qapt, T. P. H. W hi tela w has located an iron chest which contains $85,000 in gold ingots at the bottom of the Bay of Angel Is land and will attempt to recover the fortune by means of an electro-magnet. The safe was dropped from the hold of the steamer Corco ran which was rammed and turn ed turtle after colliding With the steamer Seminole in a dense fog four months ago. Owing to the depth of the wa ter Captain Whitelaw has been unable to send a diver down to make a line fast so the safe might be raised. This will be the first time magnets have beon used for this purpose here. We hear people talk about waiting for their ship to come in. If you are a good advertis er, you will not have to wait for your ship. If you are not going to be able to pay a bill when it is duo, take the matter up with the payee before it becomes due, and not after; : . , THE SOIL IMPROVEMENT. Biggest Problem Before The Farmer Better Land and Fewer Acres. iB. L. MvKs, in Tbe Farmer. Progresie The biggest problem in the agricultural world is the prob lem of getting and maintaining rich land. It overshadows even the big problem of rural credits and of co-operative marketing, and must always do so as long as we average our pitiful one third of a bale of cotton and 15 bushels of corn per acre. The best farmer in the world will find it difficult to make money on washed-away hillsides; while an ignorant Negro, by keeping down the grass and weeds' alone, can make a bale of cotton to the acre on the deep, rich, alluvial lands of the Mississippi Delta. What, then, is the secret of profitable crops? Rich land. Rich land, to be gotten by ro tating crops, by growing cow peas, soy beans, velvet beans, peanuts and clovers. I tell you that unless you have a cover crop of crimson clover on every foot of your last year's cotton land you are neglecting your du ty to yourself, your land and your community. Crimson clov er is a demonstrated success from Delaware to Texas; one acre of it is equal to ten tons of stable manure. Can we afford to be without it? Perhaps we may differ with Prof. Massey on some things, but when it comes to crimson clover he is, in the language of William Green Hill, about "the Tightest man they is." When Sign Says, "Eat," To Obey. He Just Had New York, May 31. "Eat" 1s the sign above the door of the restaurant at No. 342 East thirty-fourth street. About 10 o' clock last night a neatly dress ed quiet man walked in, sat down and proceeded to obey the in junction. This is what he swal lowed in fifteen minutes, the restaurant owner says: One order of clam broth; one portion of bean soup; one large steak, smothered with onions and mushrooms; two orders of ham and eggs! seven wedges of pie and seven cups of coffee. Then he sighed contentedly, arose and prepared to depart. The waiter intercepted with check for $2. 50. The diner look ed at the check, looked at the waiter then patted the region of his waistcoat and remarked, happily, "My stomach is full, but my pocket is empty." Patrolman Miller took him to the East Thirty-fifth street po lice station, where he said he was Lawrence Neville of No. 234 East Forty -second street. He explained to the lieutenant that he was "an investigator and experimenter, " and was making scientific comparisons between home and restaurant cooking. The experiment, he said was a success. He was taken, however, to the Night court charged with disorderly conduct. Magistrate Freschi lined him $3. He could not pay the fine and was sent to the workhouse for three days. Persistence is a good trait of character; but when it develops into pig headedness, it ceases to be a virtue. There may be off seasons on the various lines of goods in your store, but there should be no off season on the advertising. ONE KILLED, NINE INJURED Train Leaves Bridge and Plung es Into Deep River, Near Cumnock. (Tbe Observer., Sanford, June o. Train Dum ber 10 of the Raleigh, Ctiariotte and Southern Railroad was wrecked at Deep River bridge near Cumnock, this afternoon a bout six o'clock, the entire train going into the river. The train is a mixed passenger and freight running between Mount Gilead and Colon. The engine, tender, three box cars and one coach fell into the river, killing one man and injuring a number of others. The dead is Mr. Bowden Stew art of Hemp. The injured are Fred Burns, Osgood, seriously hurt, R. C. Blalock, engineer, bruised and scalded on arms and back, George Blalock, brother of Engineer Blalock, seriously scalded, Conductor Beachman of Biscoe, seriously hurt in back, legs and head, Gus John son and Milt Johnson, passen gers, hurt in back and legs,' not serious. Arthur Leak, colored fireman, scalded on head and se vere gashes on head, Spencer Tyson, colored, arm broken and hurt in head, not fatal. Fletch er Legrand, colored, leg hurt not serious. The last three are trainmen. As soon as news of the wreck readied her Dr. Charles L. Scott left in an automobile for the scene and later a special train over the Southern Railway carried aid. It is not known what caused the accident and more complete details are not obtainable at this hour. A special train over the Southern brought. the injured to the Cen tral Carolina Hospital at San- ford, where every attention is being given them. Men Skated And Women Flopped. Washington, June 1. The crowd that frequents the soda fountain at the drug store at the corner of F and Fifteenth streets just across from the treasury building, where women in their new gowns leave the street cars to commence the parade up fashionable F street, had a grand time for two hours Sat urday. A barrel of syrup dropped from the tail end of a transfer wagon, the head of the barrel came out, and 50 gallons of juice covered about 200 square feet of sidewalk. Five women wearing tight- fitting skirts went down almost In a heap when they struck the syrup. The tight skirts kept them from skating through, as the men did. Soon an army of drug clerks were out "shooing" the people around the slick spot and escort ing those who fell into the store to have their clothes cleaned Three men who dashed to the rescue of women lost their feet and went down with them. Twenty-six skirts and 14 men's suits suffered. Several women whose skirts were a little high and who wore up-to-date sum mer under-outfits declined the offer of drug store help and hurried home. Women have no sense of hu mor, unless it is in their choice of husbands. Judge. As often as not is the con sciousness of a lack, not of a pos session that prompts us to pnSach or to brag. Husbaad Com; Sm Piwu Hr ChiUrea. Hutchinson, Kan.. June 2. Elmer Manny, fireman at a Hutchinson salt pUnt, who in heritod 4:J,000 in the will of his grandfather, and who has gone to Des Moines, la., to claim the estate, left a wife and two small j children destitute in HuU hin-i son. It developed in court here that ttie wife, desjvrate iu the extremity of poverty, had liter ally pawned the two children, Margaret, aged four, and Ole, a baby, for a debt of $20. The mother left the children with the landlady of a local rooming house, where she was in debt, with the understanding that they were to keep the chil dren as security for the $20. plus the cost of their care, while the mother worked out. Finding she was unable to pay the debt, and hearing that the rooming house landlady was about to leave town with her children, the desperate mother appealed to the police judge to help her recover her babies. "No mother can - pawn her children in that manner legally, held Police Judge J. M. Jordan, and he ordered the landlady to return the babies at once, not withstanding the unpaid debt. A warrant will be issued for the arrest of the husband, if he can be located. Several months ago he was advised by a Chica go attorney of his inheriting an estate. The latter consisted of Chicago property, and in the settlement, it is claimed, Mam my received $43,009, deposited in trust for him in Des Moines, Iowa. Prosperity proved too much for him, however, and he promptly deserted his humble wife and children and has not been seen or heard of since. To "Take The Crow" Out Of Roosters. Washington, May 31. Assis tant Secretary of Agriculture Dr. B. T. Galloway has received a letter from a correspondent who claims to be "the guy that can take the crow out of the rooster." Dr. Galloway was so rejoiced at the receipt of the news, which, he thinks, will eventually put the chicken in every back yard, that he asked the bureau of animal industry to experiment at once with a view to soft pedaling crowing roos ters. The author of the letter says that, by removing one of the vocal cords of an ordinary roos ter, which can be done by simple operation, the noise that "wakes" people at the break of day can be eliminated without injuring the rooster, except his feelings. The desire to crow through the motion of flapping the wings, arching the neck, and opening the mouth, but the effort is noiseless. It was suggested that absorb ent cotton be put.in the neck of the rooster after the operation, as a precsution. The cotton, the correspondent said, not only served the ordinary purpose, but produced, when the rooster tried to crow, a pleasing, whist ling sound. Tho names of the men who tak no trade papers are all o'n the ' sucker lists," and they are valuable additions to tho lists. Advertising means something more than merely buying news paper space and filling it up with type. Adverting is making people want the goods. 'NEWS ITEMS OF INTEREST. Interesting Reading Matter of Local and National Affairs in Condensed Form. Marvin M.invs. ayoursf wb'to man 1 veer old. droned in a mill ind near Mt.ton late Sunday afternoon. The First Baptist church at". Wilson was burglarized Monday'1' night, and a baptismal Mit. toi gether with several other arti cles was taken. Hon. Thomas R. Marshall, Vice-President of the United States, delivered the Commence ment address at the University of North Carolina Wednesday. Dr. T. B. Kingsbury, one of the state's most gifted literary men, died at his home in Wil mington, late Wednesday alter noon, after a lingering illness. Prof. Alexander Graham, who has been superintendent of the Charlotte public schools for 25 years has been ousted of his po sition and Prof. Harry P. Hard ing elected instead. A section of Robeson county was visited by a severe rain and' hailstorm Monday afternoon and : all crops consisting of cotton corn and tobacco were beaten to pieces in a strip estimated one mile wide. Fire, believed to have been started by small boys smoking cigarettes, completely destroyed the high school building, a four story structure at Newport News, Va., Tuesday night, en tailing a loss of $40,000. At a big mass meeting of the citizens of Guilford county Mon day night, resolutions calling upon the Governor of North Carolina to call the General As sembly in extra session to tree the people of the State from the present unjust and unfair dis criminations in freight rales were strongly indorsed. R. R. Hughes, a white man of Avery county was tried Wed nesday in the United States court at Greensboro on the ' charge of using the mails in ' furtherance of a scheme to de- fraud and was found guilty and given a 15 months' sentence to the Federal prison at Atlanta. Hughes was captured at Spo kane, Wash., and while being returned to the state, jumped through a car window at Salis bury and escaped for a couple of days. Hudson Nws. An entertainment is to be given at the school house Satur day night, June 7th, by local talent. A small admission will be charged, the money raised to go towards buying some desks, etc. for the school. All are cordially invited to come. Miss Martha Mast spent Sun day in Hudson With relatives. Mrs. C. H. Throneburg went' to Hickory Monday. Our new Town Board is com posed of the following gentle men: Mayor, T. J. Lutz; Com missioners, J. L. Sigmon, E. T.. Hickman, J. A. Lingle, C. H. Throneburg and B. B. Uayos. Mrs. B. B. Hayes and children last. week. Several new lxoks have been added to the Hudson Library re cently. T. Send us 25 eta. in Stamps and . mi. . xt o tt get i ue news a montus.
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