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ENTERPRIS
Vol. XXXIII
NEWTON N. C THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 191L
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No. 28
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NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS.
Live Items Culled From Exchanges.
.Iredell.
Statesville Landmark.
News of the death of Mr.
William L. Hill, of Winston, a
former well known resident of
Statesville, which occurred at
T : l a. rf i
uncuinion ounaay morning,
reached Statesville Tuesday
morning after The Landmark had
gone to press.
Some weeks ago The Land
mark told about Mr. John W.
Reavis, an aged citizen of
Houston ville, buying a monu
ment in Statesville to be placed
at his grave at death. Yester
day Mrs. Reavis was in and gave
an order for her monument.
Rev. W. A. Lutz performed a
double marriage ceremony at his
nome Wednesday morning at 11
o'clock. The contracting couples
were Mr. Robert A. Bra wley and
Miss Jessie Reavis and Mr. E. E.
Mills and Miss Julia E. Boovey,
all of St. Paul neighborhood.
As the result of a shooting
scrape in Bethany township late
Monday night Esly and 'Tons,'
Howard, young negroes, are
suffering from pistol shot wounds
and Sanford Bailey, also colored,
wno hred the shots, is in jail
awaiting a hearing. Esly
Howard has a bullet in his
abdomen and his brother 'Tons"
has a lacerated lip and hand, the
work of a bullet which passed
through the hand and lip. The
wounds of neither are consider
ed necessarily dangerous.
Master Raymond Sweezy, nine
year old son of Mrs. Kate
Sweezy, who has been making
her home with her brother, Dr.
C, M. Best, in Olin township,
was crushed to death beneath a
heavy log Wednesday afternoon. (
The child, with two other little !
boys, was in the woods near!
the home of his uncle, where a I
negro was loading a wagon with j
bgs. The negro had rolled aj
heavy log almost to the top of!
the skids when he lost control of
it and it rolled back to the
ground, knocking the little boy
down and crushing his skull so
badly that he died almost
instantly. The other little boys
were not struck by the log and
escaped injury.
Hickory Democrat
Hnte C.
" summer on Kcord. . The Gourd
Perhaps it is ironv tr nttor t.Q ? . , . -
vrords, but it is a m Uia Man Pearsali, of Rocky
vwu tztVji n i ii i ill. a. i
,. . iUlu"i wuocame into tne press
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mmm -
Fred Seitz and Marvin Turner,
charged with shootine- Mr
Julius Fry white
VW,1..J AUO
watermelon patch, have
their fines and costs ' of $61.25
each.
fact that. fV, ...
v.. ouuiiuer wnicn is
now nearingits end according to
the calendar, but not according
w tne mercurial
nas been the
thermometer,
hottest in this
ram-forsaken section .experienc
ed since the founding f the
weather bureau in 1878. How
much further back this record
holds good for no man knoweth,
nor wants to know.
iu o&ner wnrrfa tha i
XT T . - - . . ""
aisunguisned a man turned out f mm t,o k,,o . u
fV. O . ,VJ UU3J "CtlllU-
than Secretary of Agriculture er works for the past ninety
Wilson has been secured to speak days, averages up with a higher
at the Street Fair in Hickory; temperature than any correspond
which takes place Nov. 8, 9 and mg 90 days in the history of the
10. He has served through two weather bureau. More snpHfi-
or three administrations at cally there have been 48 days
Washington, and has done an during the past three mnnt.ha
immense good in perfecting the beginning with May 18, on which
n..lUn a service 10 its iarmers. tne thermometer has gone
Gen. Supt. Loyal, of Knoxvilte sailing above the 90 decree limit.
and Supt. C. C. Hodges, of Ashe- ad & two of these 48 days the
ville, stopped over in Hickorv mnest degree of heat has been
m - I ll'J J
luesday, telegraphing Secretary ueees.
of the Chamber of Commerce . AlthouS it has withdrawn
T 1 ..i if OAl w. Ill: m . .
joy tnat they would be here that minions or miles into
day. The purpose of their visit mteiPlanetary space, and has
was to show the plans of a pro- loxxfS been invisible to the human
posed new depot which the eye' HaIley's comet has been
Chamber, has been auietlv neId UP by local investigators as
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pleading lor. The plans were "uroing torce which has
seen by Dr. Nicholson. Mr. J. kfpt humanity in a swelter for
D. Elliott and Mayor Lentz and da-Vs gone, and Derhaps
the railroad people said they many more to come
intended to build the station iust Dr' W-- Jamieson, who has
as soon as they could get bids. n tracin up old records of
Ihey are willing to put up a lormer droughts and heat,
brick building and the waiting decIares that he has discovered
rooms will be about twice as taat tne dry nt weather in
large as those in the present 1882 arrived in the wake of the
great comet observed about that
time, and he has also found by
iuiuci luvesugation tnat an
unusual drought in the 30's was
likewise preceded by a mometary
appearance in the skies.
last Monday, Deputy T.I 7."""" "y ur.
CnlWtnrRnWwflnTOm J u-""cawu uas lue aavaniage of
a "lC,r:"Vjraf a being supported by the
moonshiner named Lane.
CDnyention at Wrights ville, last
year, tating a jug of prehistoric
wine dug from an Indian mound,
which he intended to present to
his friend, Josephus Daniels, has
sent to The Wilmington Star a
clean, swell-headed water eourd.
w oe used as a mascot to keep
off hookworm, appendicitis,
anthrox, trichinosis. Dellacrra
and all those other ailments that
people didn't uster have when
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mey aranfc out of gourds."
UMonel Pearsall,
the gourd, says:
and the
The Marriage of Children
Combs Case.
There is ho more striking ex
ample of the folly and shame of
children marriages nor of the
crime and absolute lack of a
moral sense of duty of ministers
and otheis who are vested with
iLnt.liMiifi 4- t .,
.uwivj perioral tne mar
riage ceremony, than the Combs
"iumcruase oi iredeil county.
ine husband and
Sherrill's Ford News.
Sherrill's Ford, N. C, Aug.
12 Still the drought continues
m this part of the woods. The
sick at present are Tomie
nroinerton and two of Mr.
Walter Linebarger's children
all have fever. Mr. James Bost
is suffering with rheumatism.
Married at the home of the
brides father, Mr. John Bost,
on August 3, his daughter, Miss
murderer is 18
- UMui,uCieuwiiewas flumaio Mr. Henry Smith of
1U' nainey bad been married Li ncolnton. Also on Sundav fi
UlUUbliS. 1 TIP. pnnnlo i-tn Mi- I '-. -1 If.n.. ...
- ".iv- I wai l iVicjeH. son 1T Mf
away and were married in South Thomas Mp.Rw wae mo-,
discoring on CaroUna, Some minister or Miss Bessie Mnndv. dana-htr of
j.ms member 4"ire omciated, civinsr them Mr. Hpnrp Mnn n
of u:i . .. . Ul . . j UuJl0,ui,uCpiiUiSs
uiuitaceus iamuy is "at to live together lesra v are nmminnnt j
" I mu . . .. " J 1 " J""", lr-WitUU
v. iCluuro dumjuuy. .ine pro union was not peaceful! we wish thpm
Jonan nad a hne one mere were quarrels. The voune throvsrh lifp'
uvct ms snacK' and a wanted to visit her narents. Mr n m tv, r.,.,
I i I -- o. uuuu J-FllliV t J I
...uiOUuuS ii ttUU lt witnered, uusoana obiected. There Tps 9ronn o ;4- v
. .... ' " m ucre auu
xCa,ViUti puoroia jonan with the was a connict, the woman was will return after campmeeting
hot sun broiling down upon his murdered, choked to death lying Glad to see them looking well'
The institute at Sherrill's Ford
an easy sail
The Sixty-first Annual Session Of
CATAWBA COLLEGE
OPENS SEPTEMBER 6, 1911.
id"?n,ftlnuinsitt".rit wrk -r. ,
rate cost.
assures
Excellent
Book keep:
h collet , A i "tJ!Lx?el,enl o
man ajui
ew axe ctfara.
talog and information aidre.
.-." 'i mt-rarr work. . i ri-
.wouu.uk raies. i orta
J. F. Buchheit, A. M. President
NEWTON. :: NORTH PiPni iw a
TRINITY COLLEGE
1859
1S92
1910-1911
11
Removal of thrConSc'To tt Gractin- of the Cbarter for Trinity CoUe.! tW
xt , . v-onege to the growing and nn-Kn. r t
I It-1 M.I 1 in e I ri - "i f 1 I a 1 . i
iU um LiLues ueiore ine me Knees or ine man-
war,' there were all kinds of brute. Was there ever a darker
uses to which gourds were put; Picture and all because a mini
the most important were the salt ster or justice of the peace pro
swuru no iamuy was without nounced the words which made
one the soap gourd, the milk 'hem man and wife?
goura, tne grease gourd for lard The State, the law, the
i iii&eu ousnei gourds then), i torn, an conspired to brimr t.h, r v, t?i
uC ui -uum, dui xne gourd 1 ui me murder, A clearer
thought the most of then was sense of responsibility on thp.
the cider gourd. It held over Pa"t of the ministry and others
two quarts and hune over the having the riehtf to
cus-
VT0 C" TTTS-tll n4-.A 3 1 TIT
no ncu diienuea. e are
glad to see our farmers coming
to the front Mr. Jim Black got
the one dollar for the best 5
acres of corn.
Mat Gabriel got the dollar for
New and greater Trinity.
ESSES SSfeS? w up,t and enlaced facUiHe,
r- . -js'taic aormitones and heantn-nl s - .
Z?23&!-- Ci.UEie.ricaT
For catalogue and other information, address
R L FLOWERS. Secretarv. Durham. N.;C
Carolina & North-Western Railway
Company
Northbound
of Terrel got
lest loaf.
the prize for the
Chester. .
Yorkville.
marry coup- in the Enterprise written by the Gastonia
cramped quarters.
Taylorsville Scout
While on a road after moon
shiners, in the Brushy Moun
tains, on
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o Vt, , , yU COma dnnk u neeaett and UU these editor on the good roads subject
UVA uwwajr uarea now unarstanu tneir and commend our board of com
v,u jUU uuutt, xnere weren't 1U" moral duty in the matter
any chills or fever then, children will continue to marry
especially when the cider got ani tragedies will multiply and
hard.'' Doesn't that
facts,
for the dry, hot weather and the
comets were both there he;i r
One day la.st week a man from out his statements, hnt. tho
vvatauga came along with a load weather bureau refuses to ac
of irsh potatoes and offered to oept this theory, and humanity
sell to Mr. George C. Eckard at is rather inclined to attribute the
6 per pushel. Mr. Echerd was whole business to an origin
not on the market for potatoes; somewhere in the regions near
but he sold the gentleman from which flows the river Styx, and
Watauga 12 ears of seed corn for in which water is a rare thing.
$1.23 cash. Of course this was Charlotte r!hrrm?,io
Ca,l3.-well.
I. ruir Topic.
In response to an enquiry re
cently made by the Topic, Mr.
Jaiius M. Smith reports that he
has threshed in North Catawba
township this year, 8,000 bushels
or' wheat, rye and oats, of this
amount there were 7,000 bushels
of wheat. The same territory
ast year produced 5,000 or 6,000
kishels, showing a very gratify-
fine corn and of an excellent and
improved quality.
Mr. .Peter Childers, an old
soldier and one of Alexander's
good citizens, died, at his home,
in .Little Kiver township, on the
13th. Aged about 70 years
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xie is survived Dy nis wile and
nine children, six sons and three
daughters His remains "were
laid to rest at Three Forks
church on Tuesday 15th.
increase.
John Sudderth, while running
-'! lathe saw s, t Mortimer Monday
corning, was seriously hurt.
He was under the saw trying to
;"inove a strip and, without
tr-inking, lifted his face in con.
'-i. wiui me saw, receiving an
Rightly gash across his fore
head, nose, and cheek. He was
orought to Foot Hills sanatorium
n the afternoon train and is re
ported to be doing well.
:' i th is about 15 years of
:-' ''t is a son of the late
-.J'i ierth, of Collettsville.
Sud
age, Kell
,:',:n iton News-Herald.
! e W. Pw. Allen of the
"th Carolina Supreme Court
1 -' th, was a welcome visitor in
r
-" 'iantDn on Tuesday. He and'
; i- iamily are spending awhile
1 'on nelly Springs.
W. Walter West, son of
J. II. West, former presid
fclder of the Morganton dis-llr-t,
was married on Wednes
August 9th, to Miss Emma
at Greenwood, S. C. Mr.
v-" st is well known and has
lr"tny friends in Morganton. He
'11 be one of the professors at
Jtherford College next year.
Ar the recent district conference
Charlotte he was liscensed to
X-iIncoiri.
Lincoln County News
Capt, Abal C. Hartzoge passed
through Lincolnton yesterday on
his way to Cherry ville where he
is arranging to move about
September 1st.
Capt. 1. K. Self went up to
Newton Wednesday to be the
guest of his old commander,
Capt. if. M. Mull and also to
attend the old soldiers' reunion
held there yesterday.
The nice, new and up-to-date
three story brick building which
is being erected by Esquire John
K. Cline on his lot facing the
court square is about completed.
The first floor will be occupied
by Cline and Asbury. The
members of the firm are Messrs.
Jno. K. Cline and son, Guy, and
Mr. W. C. Asbury. This new
firm will carry the International
Harvesting Company's entire
line of farming machinery.
Industrious Hen Lays Egg on Back
of Sleeper.
New Orleans, Aug. 18. A hen
that persists in laying eggs on
the family bed yesterday
attempted to deposit her jiaily
offering on the back of a summer
resident, who would not permit
his name to be divulged but
whose veracity is not doubted, as
he lay asleep in his home at
Waveland, Miss , a suburb. The
slumberer awakened when he
felt the scratching on his back,
"shooed" the hen out the window
and went back to sleep. Shortly
afterward he was i awakened
again by loud cackling to find
that his hen had returned and
laid her egg where the first
attempt was mader
That Big Apple Tree.
North Carolina keeps empha
sizing that its place is at the
head of the procession and once
again it scores as carrying the
banter.
mis time it is in having the
largest apple tree in the United
States, and it is an apple tree o
liuujeuse proportions. It 13 Oil
the land of Mr. W, G. Smoot
near Trap Hill, in Wilkes county,
and is owned by Messrs, J. B
hlorton, of Elkin, and H. W,
Horton, of North Wilkesboro
Ihe known record shows that
the tree is 16 feet 5 inches in
circumference at the ground and
12 feet 6 inches just below the
first limb, making it 5 feet
inches in diameter at the ground
and 4 feet .2 inches at the first
limb, which is eight feet above
the ground.
It was a large tree ninety
years ago, and it is known to be
over a hundred years old, 'and it
may be a hundred and fifty. It
bears apples right along, the
variety unknown, the people of
that section calling it the "Rich
Apple," because the color is
rich, yellow-red striped and the
flavor rich. 'The fruit matures
in September and keeps until
late fall and is of medium size.
Pictures of the big old apple
tree have been sent the Depart
ment of Agriculture and men
shown in the picture standing by
it look of the size of small boys.
Not alone is this big tree declar
ed to be the largest apple tree in
the United States, but it is be-
ieved to be the largest in the
world. If cut, the stump would
give room for several men to
stand on at one time, and if it
was hollow and lying down and
ordinary cow could walk through
its length and not touch her
back or sides.
nark back to barefoot days on
the farm? We have often
shocked our friends by expres
sions of our bad taste, but it is a
iact that any day we would
rather reach down into a pebbly
bottomed spring with a long
handled gourd, than to pull a
bottle of exrra dry out of a
basket of crushed ice. Charlotte
Chronicle.
Davie County Develops a Good
Citizen.
Recently Mr. William R.Craig,
a big-hearted, broad-minded
gentleman, a native of Vicks-
burg, Miss., who now lives in
New York and is connected with
the cotton exchange, in looking
around for a good place to rest,
leased the home place of the late
S, J, Tatum and is repairing and
painting the houses, bdildingdog
kennels, etc. The result is that
the ancient villiaere of Jerusalem
is naving an awakening and the
people of the township have be
come interested in good roads.
Ta " -
xt is understood that Mr. Craie
has leased the hunting privilege
of 25,000 acres of land in Davie,
Davidson and Rowan counties.
He of course, being a progres-
sive man. is interested in good
roads and in order to have a
road for the people of that town
snip trom Jerusalem to South
river, Mr. Craig made a propo
sition Saturday that if the citi
zens of the township would build
a sand clay road for a distance
Kji. kui ee mims irom ooutn river
to Jerusalem that he would pay
half -the expense and furnish
road graders and other machin
ery for the building of this road
and any other roads that the
people of the township desire to
build. He also proposed to these
people if they would build and
complete this road by December
1, before bad weather set in.
that he would make an appro
priation sufficient to increase the
school term in every school dis
trict in Jerusalem township to
eight months in the year. The
citizens accepted DroDosition
unanimously with great enthus
lasm.
(Combs was but 17 at the time
of his marriage and he killed his
wife in less than four months
after his marriage. Statesville
Landmark.) .
missionets for the steps they
nave taken m regard to the
xvttua. ajcu iue Kooa work go
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Lincolnton
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Hickory. . .
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Mortimer. .
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Greeks
are
Finding the
Land.
Promised
Students of local events are
endeavoring in various ways to
account for the ever increasing
number . of Greeks who are
making Asheville their per
manent home. Corner talk is to
the effect that the sons of Greece
who have planted themselves in
the local soil are not of the usual'
"banana and .candy" type, but
hail from the better classes, and
it is stated that there is in this
vicinity Greek artists as clever
as any who eyer bleached a hat
or blacked a shoe. Close ob
servers, too, say that the
Grecian vanquard, which settled
here over two years ago found
business unusually good, and
sent back home for reinforce
ments. Brethren in the larger
American cities were also told
of the discovery of the Promised
Land in North Carolina and they
came on successively until now
there is quite a colony of Greeks
in Asheville.
As a rule they do not talk
much, except among themselves
An effort to engage one in con
troversy yesterday resulted in
information to the effect that
"there are not many dudes in
Asheville," a statement which
was doubtless inspired by the
fact that as yet the young men of
Asheville are still addicted to
t -
free shine" stands where the
latter .still exist. Asheville
Citizen.
Him I don't know how to tell
you how I love you.
Her Don t worry about that
I'll take it as it comes. What i
you want to be nervous about is
how to tell papa about it.
Ada Cholly Saphedde was in
a brown study the other day,
and 1 offered him a penny for
his thoughts.
iditn. ou spendthift! You
never did know the value of
money!
Mon. only
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CONNECTIONS
55??routhern p-' s-A-L-and l. & c.
lORKV ILLE Southern Railway.
Concordia College
CONOVER, N. C.
GASTONIA-Southern Rail
LINCOLNTOX-S. A. L.
NEWTON and HICKORY Southern Railway.
E. F. REID. G. P. AGT. CHESTER, S. C
session opens
"I think the doctor is about
through with me. Told me my
ailment is practically cured.
What did you have?"
"Three hundred dollars origi
nally.''
How it Was in 1845.
In 1845 the corn crop failure
was so complete in upper South
Carolina that farmers had to go
or send to North Caroii nil and
Tennessee for planting seed for
1846.
There -vas no railroads above
Columbia then. A merchant of
that city had a shipload brought
by water to Charleston and oyer
the old South Carolina Railroad
to Columbia. He soM it out on
credit and received full pay for
every bushel. There were no
such things as crop liens and
mortgages in those days.
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A Mammoth Sunflower.
Seattle. Wash., Aug. 15 -A
woman living near Asotin, Wash.
has grown a sunflower, the cen
ter of which measures 42 inches
across, with 12-inch petals, mak
lag the total diameter of the
1- 1 - !" 1
sunuower oioom oo mcnes, or
five and a half feet. This giant
flower is snpsorted by a stalk
that has expanded and grown
under the weight of the bloom
until it is five inches in diameter
at the base and about four inch
es thick at the heigt of five feet.
It was grown at the top of a fill
ed up well.
Recently a mushroom apoear-
ed from this well and reached
the abnormal size of three feet.
It cracked under the pressure of
rapid growth and rotted before
it could be preserved.
The thirteenth annual
September 13, 1911.
Thorough instruction in courses leading
to degrees for male and female
students.
Buildings renovated and improvements
made.
Board witt be furnished at cost and will
not exceed eight dollars for month
of four weks.
For further information address
Geo. A. Romoser,
PRESIDENT.
MONUMEN
TS
This is your opportunity to buy Monuments and Tombstone at
a lower price than ever. We are going to move our stock away
from Statesville this summer and we are making our prices
at enough above cost to get out the work and letter it. If you
want to save some money and have a grave that you ought to
mark, write us for prices at once. Very truly,
COOPER MARBLE WORK
R. H. Warner, Mgr., STATESVILLE, N. C.
Claremont College
HICKORY, N. C.
If you have a daughter to educate and
desire to place her where she will re
ceive ine best instruction, under fhe
most competent teachers, surrounded by
influence which tend to develop the
highest type of character and for the
least money, then you had better write
JOSEPH L, MURPHY, PRES
Claremont College
HICKORY, N C
THE NORTH CAROLINA
College o Agriculture & Mechanic Arts
THE STATE'S INDUSTRIAL, COLLEGE
Four-year courses in Agricultural; in
Civil, Electrical, and Mechanical Engi
uccnug; ili inausinai vncmisiry ; in
Cotton Manufacturing and Dying. Two-
year courses in Mechanic Arts and in
Textile Art One-year course in Agri
culture. These courses are both practi
cat and scientific. Examinations for
admission are held at all county seats
on July 13. For Catalog address
THE REGISTRAR,
West Raleigh, N. C.
CASTOR I A
. Per Infants and Cnildrea.
Tfo Kind Yea Kara Afrajs Bssgist
Bears the
Jgnatore of
THE NORTH CAROLINA
State Normal and
Industrial College
Maintained by the State for the
Women of North Carolina. Five
regular -Courses leading to De
grees. Special ' Courses for
teachers. Free tuition to those
who agree to become teachers in
the State. Fall Session begins
September 13, 1911. For catalog
and other information address
Julius I. Foust, President,
GREENSBORO, N. C.
Mattresses and Springs
at prices so low that none need
be without them. Hammocks
at actual cost. Druggets and
mattings at practically whole
sale cost and substantial reduc
tionion ail kinds of Furniture.
Large and improved line of
coffins and caskets. Moderate
prices. Efficient services.
M. J.Rowe & Co.
Home Outfitters.
Undertakers.
THE NEWTON ENTERPRISE
One Dollar a Year.
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