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THIS PAPER ISSUED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS, ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. Volume XV V Lenoir, N. C, Friday, July II, 1913 No. 71 MAINTENANCE OF ROADS. A Timely and Interesting Article on The Proper um of the Road Drag. BOARD OF EDUCATION. If you look at' the ordinary country road after a shower you will see small 'puddles along the wheel ruts and sometimes larger I'OoU. This water Btays on the road surface because it cannot drain away into the side ditches. If you look closely you will see side ditches which have grown up with bushes and weeds in many cases, and which are so far from the traveled part of the road that the rain water does not drain into them. That part of the roadway where the wag ons travel is called the traveled way. To prevent water from Standing on the traveled way the road should be raised in the center and should slope gently1 into broad shallow ditches. , It is then said to have a crown. If it is 10 feet from the center of the road to the side ditch, the surface at the side' ditch should be! at least 10 inches lower than it is at the center where the horses travel. The road then has a 10-inch crown. The rain that falls on a road properly crowned will run quickly to the side and not soak into the sur face or form pools. The side ditches for surface water should in 1 parallel to the right of way, aud should be open at every low point so that the water can run out of them into neighboring brooks or streams. If the ditch es merely collect the water from the road surface and it can not run awav. laree podls will be formed along the roadside, 'which will gradually soak into the soil beneath the road and make it so soft that the wheels of wag ons will cut through the road surface and soon destroy it. Sometimes water runs from Und along the road into the road and forms a little stream down the wheel tracks or in the middle where the horses travel. When driveways into farmyards are built across the side ditches they frequently form channels for water from the farm yard to run into the road. The pqes under driveways become filled with leaves or rubbish and the water can no longer run away. If the driveways that stop.-tbe ditch water were rebuilt so that no pipes were necessary and the ditch could be left open, much trouble from surface water would be stopped. To keep a road smooth and crowned the beat method is to drag it with a road drag. A road drag is made easily with two halves of a log which has been split. The log should be about 6 or 8 inches in thickness and about 6 or 8 feet long. The two halves of the log are set 3 feet apart with the smooth faces forward and upright. They are then fastened together with braces set in holes bored through the log. A pair oi Horses may be used to drag the road and are hitched to a chain fastened to the front half of the log. The road drag should more forward so that It slants across the road in such a way that a small amount of earth will slide past the smooth face of the log toward the center of the road, thus forming the crown. The edges of the logs will smooth out the rots. The best way to drag is to begin at the side ditch nd go up one side of the road, and then down , the other. In the next trip the drag sh6uld SOME MORE BIG TREES IN IREDELL. (Statesvllle Landmark.) The California oak tree, whicli Holds Important Meeting, Tran- measured 23 feet and one incli acting Much Business of in circumference and was ex- Vital Importance. plotted-in Country Life as prob ablv the lanrest oak tree in the Mucl1 bness of great im xnA tuo- n,naaaaA hr tha portance was transacted at the white oak on the McLaughlin Ju'y meeting of the Board, co;n farm near Statesville, .which 8istinK of a two day8 session, measures 30 feet in circumfer- Monday and Tuesday pr.rpatt.ha amnnH Now t.hiJ The sixth term and 12th year rucnnl ha heen beaten, and of the useful services of M. G rirht here in Iredell, too. Mr. Shearer having expired, Mr. E. n u nj of ti.,. r B. Bush was welcomed as the mark office Saturday and told of new member a red oak tree in Cool Snrinir The remaining members part Township that measures 31 feet ed with Mr- Nearer with re in circumference at the irround Stance, after having been most and 18 feet in circumference 12 agreeably associated with him feet from the ground. The tree durin& the twelve years of the i r u; .o formative period of the Edu- now owried bv Mrs. Ada Moore, cational Awakening in Caldwell. The space covered by the branch Mr. Shearer during this long p mPRn, iao fppt i ne di- penott oi service proven not on NEWS ITEMS OF INTEREST. Interesting Reading Matter of Local and National Affairs in Condensed Form. rection and 131 1-2 feet in an other. On the same farm is a willow oak that measures 24 1-2' feet in circumference, which is larger than the California oak. A little later Mr. W. M. Nich olson came in to tell about a red oak tree that once stood on hismother's place in Bethany Township the farm is now owned by Mr. J. P. Gryder that measured 33 feet in circum ference. The farm was origi- ly efficient, faithful and progres sive, but has all the way through carefully watched the finances of the educational system of Caldwell. The Board parts with him with sorrow, but real izes it still has in Mr, Bush : man of energy and ability, and one who has the good of the public schools at heart. Y. D. Moore was re-elected County Superintendent for I of the time, as heretofore. The nally owned by the Wassons and Board hopes in the near future the mammoth tree was known to a superintendent for f tr and widp as the Wassnn oak. tne ent,re time- Tn later vr t.h nmnprtv Ml Following are a lew gleanings Intn the hand nf a man whn did from the superintendent's re not value trees-.alas! there are Prt: Total valu6 of 9011001 so many of that kind-and the PPerty, $58,87&; 6 new houses tree was killed. ouu uur,nK w,e r ttUU lc paired with public and private cost of $5,960; 78 school districts 37 having less than 65 census 82 different -schools taught, 70 with one teacher, 13 with two or more teachers. Nine teach the first 4 grades only. Aver age term in days, 86; Average for local tax schools 140 days 47 Libraries in the county, with 4176 volumes; 7 local-tax dis tricts in the county, 3 under special acts. Number of sol vent polls is placed at 2500, in solvent, 235; total poll tax $2.15 for schools, $1.65; entire schoo fund from county, state, local tax, and private donations, $27 Hon Of Prosperity. (Charlotte Observer.) A census or rlign roint re cently completed gives that town a population of 11,560, 'a rise of 2,035 over the Govern ment census of 1910. The lo cal census is undoubtedly reason ably within bounds, We did not think High Point is laying claim to too much, but the fact we want to 'bring out is the character of the population about one-half composed of wane-earners who are the best paid on the average of any simi lar workingmen anywhere." This means that the furniture factory pay-roll is a good thing for the mechanic to get on. There are other .manufacturing industries in High Point, but the furniture factory predomi nates. High Point is distmct ively a manufacturing center. It is a hive of industrial activi ty, and we doubt if there is an other town in tbe entire coun try with so great a proportion of wage-earners. It is the home of prosperity. The "Second Infantry, North Carolina National Guard, are in encampment at Morehead City, having assembled at Camp Glenn uesday, and it will remain there for eight days. I Robert Scott, colored, of Nash county, shot and killed a negro named Carey Silver Sunday af ternoon. The parties were said to have been drinking heavily at the time of tbe shooting. Early Tuesday morning W. H. Hodges, a carpenter, who lives near Wilmington, shot his wife he was pursuing another man, whom he alleges he found at bis home. His wife soon died rom the effects of the wound. A. D. Watts, collector of in ternal revenue for tbe western district of North Carolina will come from Washington to States ville either tomorrow or Monday and take the oath of office. His headquarters will be at States ville. Many a wife is distant cause iier husband is close. be- Mil. is. (Full Financial report will appear in next week's paper.) School Committeemen were appointed for the county, and the following attendance officer for each township: Lenoir, W. L. Swanson; Lower Creek. Rus sell Shuford; Kings Creek, H. G. Barlow; Little River, F. M. Whitner; Lovelady. C. G. Houck; North Catawba, W. M. Smith; Hudson, Monroe Sullivan; Johns River, A, T. Sudderth; Yadkin Valley, R. H. Pipes; Patterson, G. A. McCall; Globe, J. L. Gragg; Wilson's Creek, Vernon Crisp. County Superintendent will get out announcements as soon as possible to all the committee appointments and to the center itself. Small ridges of earth will be thrown in the horse track and smeared men of their . i . . . . by the round side of the log the time and place of meeting in smoothly over the road. The eRcU. townP for faction smearing of the earth by the drag is called ' paddling" and it tends to make the surface of the road smooth and water tight after the sun comes out. The road is always dragged after it has rained and not when it is dry. A good, horses with a teachers. These meetings must betrin as early as 15th, of this month. Y. D. Mookk, Co. Supt. J kill Her a Coibrim SceM. Atlantic City, N. J., July 8. Mrs. Annie Cbanano, dubbed strong pair of I the woman with tbe serpent well-built drag tongue,' who lives at M North candrag about 8 or 4 miles of JZZ roadin a nay, ana it is me d" chanred bv her neighbors with way to maintain good roads, in being a common scold every county some farmer along Twenty appeared against her Ah i milwi of road ah'onld own The court sent her to jail and - A..n,i tu -a Vw, said LOAi a upon iurtner inves a drag and drag the &d when ...... v,- a . tha be started little near the cen- 11 nn- Hft W4uld . Jnd 8tories told by her accusers he iJpAnd the last trip orer tbe the road in good condition when wm banish the woman from tbe road the drag may, worn ciose ne goes to maruet. icny The safe in the law offices of Bellamy and Bellamy of Wil mington wa robbed of $990 in cash some time between Sunday morning and Monday morning. Officers are working on the case but so far no arrests have been made. John Dobson, a farmer, aged 50, residing near Central, S. C, died on Tuesday from wounds received in a pistol duel with hi seventeen year old son. It is said that the boy attempted to aid hts mother, whom Dobson had been mistreating. Will Ferrell and Jack Temple, well known young men of Kins ton, miraculously escaped death, when an automobile in which they were riding turned a com plete somersault down a 14 foot embankment on one of the county roads near the city. Fire, early Monday morning, was discovered in the store building occupied by the Mount Olive Clothing and Furnishing Company of Mount Olive, and before it had been extinguished practically the entire stock of goods had been destroyed, en tailing a loss of $12,000. While swimming in a log pond, on the property of the Waynesville Lumber Company, John Dean, who has been em ployed by the lumber company for the past several months, was drowed Monday afternoon The deceased was 24 years old and was a native of Copperhill, Tenn. Joseph F. Tayloe of Wilming ton has been appointed cnief clerk of the senate finance com mittee by Senator Simmons Mr. Tayloe will assume his new duties at once, relieving Col. A. D. Watts, who was recently ap pointed collector of internal revenue of the Western North Carolina district. Walter II. Page, American Ambassador in London, is still on tne payroll oi Louoieaay, Page and Co., at the salary he received as editor of the World's Work. The salary of $35000 a i i vear. wnicn ne receives irom the firm, of which he is a mem ber, is said to have made it pos sible for him to accept the am bassadorship. His salary as ambassador is $17,500 a year. THE WOMAN VOTER. (Spri.igfield, III., Dispatch.) One million six hundred thous and women today become voters in this State, Governor Dunne having signed the suffrage bill passed by the Legislature to be come effective July 1. This means tnat 'Illinois voting strength is approximately doub led, the total vote in the last presidential election being 1,446,- 193. Celebrations of the suff rage victory are being held throughout the State today. The praises of the 1913 Legis lature and Governor Dunne are being sung wherever women gather. Mrs. Dunne, the wife of the Governor, herself a suff rage leader, is coming in for her share of recognition. Mrs. Dunne .has shown intense inter est in tbe outcome of the strug gle for the ballot, which has been won after a half-century of effort. Among other women whose names are heard in cele brations today are Mrs. Grace Wilbur Trout, Mrs. Sherman M. Booth, Mrs. Antoinette Funk all suffrage campaigners who worked here for a week to get the bill passed. They, together with Mrs. Dunne, were present when tbe Governor signed the bill here on Thursday. COUNTY CORRESPONDS IS S.A.L. Freight Gom lata River. Petersburg, Va., July 7. A freight train on tbe Seaboard Air Line railway was wrecked at an early hour this morning at Nottoway river bridge, twenty miles from Petersburg, and some eight or ten loaded freight cars were thrown from tne bridge into the river, while number of other cars which did not leave the bridge were badly wrecked. A portion of the bridge was also broken. What caused the wreck cannot be as certained. The only person said to have been injured was Edward Saint sine, of Raleiirh. N. C. He was riding in an empty freight car and had his leg broken. The in jured man was brought to this city and taken to Petersburg hospital for treatment by Dr H. A. Burke. Today trains on this road have been running only as far as Me Kenney, but it is expected to have the track open for throug travel some time tonight. Charlotte Wiremao IntUntly Killed Charlotte, July 7. Grady Deannand, of the trouble de partment of the Charlotte Pow- er company, was instantly Kiuea at 3 o'clock this afternoon while making wire connections at the smelting works of the North Carolina Partridge Company, a new industry recently located near the city pumping station. He was standing on a short lad der and was at work on the wires when he toppled over backward. He was picked up dead, two burned fingers on the right hand showing that he had caught hold of a live wire of 2,300 volts, which brought about his death. terns From Our Rfegular Corres pondents and Neighboring County Papers. KINGS (.'KEEK ITEMS. We are having quite a dry spell. Gardens are suffering for rain. Corn is looking tine, but needs a shower. I think everybody in our community tooiff, In the Fourth at Lenoir, and everybody re ports a tine time. Plenty of good things to eat and drink, and the people ar$ loud in their praise of the treatment of Le noir, and we want to see an other fourth come. Mrs. Robert Livingston and two daughters of W est Va., are visiting their people her for sometiirie. A crowd of young people from, Kings Creek took in ' Grandia ast Sunday, and were very triuch pleased with the new town. Mrs. Mary Dula visited Mrs. kller Pen nell last Sunday. Misses Grace and Eva Hass entertained quite s crowd of young people last Sunday. Mrs. Herman Brookshire of Lenoir has been visiting on Kings Creek. Miss Edna Barlow who has been spending some time with her people here, returned to Grandin last Sunday. X. Y. Z. July. 10th 1913. 6- aud FigktAt A Ovtk. Tahlequab, Okia., Jnly Henry Sanders was stiot killed and his father, Matthews Sanders, a former sheriff of Cherokee county, was staobed and probably fatally injured at Dykes chapel, a country cburcn, five miles south of here tauay as the result of a difference with, Henry and Will Johnson, mem bers of the church, over tne management of a Suud iy scnool class. The Johnsons lied. The disagreement arose dnr ing the services. Tiie princi ples left the building, tbe au dience following, but when the congregation reached the scene the tragedy had been enacted. Young Sanders died in a few minutes and his father, suffer ing from several knife wouuus, was lying on the ground. John D. Rockefeller made Andrew Carnegie disgorge. So wrong in John D. Andrew nev- et harmed a hair on John's head. Thomas Watson, one of our leadiug stock dealers, drove out of Watauga a few days since to the railroad at Shouns, Tenn., flock of nearly 1,000 lambs, for which he paid 7 cts. per pound. the lightest ones weighing 60 pounds each. This, perhaps, is tbe largest shipment of Iambs ever made from the eastern part of the county, and has certainly left Quite a lot of cash in the Dockets of our farmers. Wa tauga Democrat Sturgi. Ky Almoet Fire. Destroyed By Nashville, Tenn.. July 6. A special says Sturgis, Ky., a town of about 2,000 people on the Illinois Central railroad 40 miles south of Evansville, Ind., was practically destroyed by fire tonight. The fire started at 8:43 o'clock tonight in 8. E. Graves' drug store. At 11 o'clock all the business houses were in ashes and about 20 dwelling houses had been de stroyed, and the fire was still raging. The town has no wa ter works and the people are fighting the flames with a bucket brigade. The last message f um Sturgis stated that the whole town was doomed. Tbe Illinois Central railroad has sent an en gine to Sturgis to help tight the flames. It is estimated the prop erty loss will reach $250, ( 10 or more. The Illinois Central railroad was threatened at 11 o'clock tonight. Street car steps are to be lowered in New York. There's many a rip between the foot aud the step.
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