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van H XXVII NEWTON, N. C, TUESDAY, JULY 13, 1915. NO. 30 ILLnj Ll JTLi imlL ILuJlQlLLd A. NJ LJ V3 V V "V 1 1 1 L I in ' t.o HOIJXA NEWS EVENTS ; , at a Glance What is ;l Thn u;j;hout the State. Aton. riding a motor ed with a train near The train was not TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS ITEMS am ilcrmen have for- ti so of megaphones by , wish to advertise, -ance, anyhow. . colored, self-confess-, of B. N. Mann of .of robbery, was elec i the state prison last V:b, brother of Con Yates Webb, has the it for getting elected. F. Hunt for mayor of Thursday. rherford water and i has $700 cash on all expenses. Its in ;.i 0J a month and it oy for the town. Sheriff Joe Hensley .u.ough the stomach by ;von, colored, when ried to arrest him for . .rod in a drunken riot N. C, one night it a. the Uier notorious negro days when the was cock of the '.cm Carolina, is dead i. His wealth is esti y.iAv from $100,000 to ..-5 Collector Bob Rhyne ill . . u-ruton has a dun . . re are no tobacco ;r him to sell stamps . chief occupation is .shiners, and tjiese t disappeared. He .Ills in May and nine .: -ne in July so far. . .': find 'em any more, : "e 'em too well. , time Richard J. A iliiiington was elected surer of the Odd Fel was installed with elab- monies Thursday night ton. He is over 90 is the oldest Odd Fel . ;G and in point of seniori - state and has served as or of the grand lodge for s hand running. Every goes to his omce ana likn anv other business A Few of the Happenings of Local Inter est What Folks are Doing. The Mercury hears that Mr. Obe Ramsour wrill move to Shel by to live. Mr. Ramsour is a well-known farmer of Bandy's township. The steel awning at the Abernethy Cash Store 'was re moved Thursday, in keeping with the order of the board of alder men some time since, and a new one suDstitutea. Capt. Peter Mull of Newton was here a few days last week visiting relatives and friends. He contemplates having another Confederate reunion this sum mer, this time at Mull's Grove in Lincoln county. The date will be the last of August or first of September. Cleveland Star. The annual reunion of the Ramsaurs will be held August 25 at the old Ramsaur homestead where lhos. J. Kamsaur- now lives, two and a half miles north of Lincolnton on the South Fork Eyery is invited, especially al who are related th the Ramsaur clan. Train loads of horses contin ue to pass down the western road to Norfolk, the animals belong ing to the English and French governments. These trains are run as sections of passenger trains, but make better time than passengers. One went from Knoxville to Salisbury inll hours and covered the block between here and Claremont, six miles in eight minntes. Speaking of crop prospects, particularly of cotton prospects, Mr. M. M. Smyre, who is in the habit of making two bales the acre of cotton on a piece of his and at St. James, says he has already made up his mind to put all he makes on an acre this fall, Lincoln Times: "Dr. Rein- hardt reports that blackleg, the dreaded disease which is among cattle in many localities, has got into the here of D. M. Cline of Catawba county. It is said that he disease is liable to break out in most any section near affected cattle, if the carcases are not burned. Buzzards are said to carry the disease for miles and he disease is so easily contracted hat cows drinking in the same stream even miles below are liable NEWS OF THE COUNTY Terrell Items Terrell, July 11. -The third conference of the Rock bprmg circuit was held at Rehobeth Julv 3, The presiding elder Mr. J. R. Scroggs, was not able to attend, so he sent Mr. Richard son of Mt. Holly in his' place. Thp members of the conference luiacH, umess mcjf nayt I and the trustees 01 tne camp vaccinated. m-rainrl mvorl that ram r mppt. A sudden but violent storm ing will begin on Monday, Aug., I . .1 1 T-t I raoWl in Clinps tnwnshin through 2 and continue tnrougn -j? riday REVIEW' OF WORLD EVENTS NAVAL LOSSES OF GREAT WAR the community in which Mr. r . Dellinger lives, last Thursday, and the wind blew crops around pretty roughly. Lightening struck a bench under a tree in the yard of Mr. Dellinger, just as an old hen and a squad of small chicks ran out of a wheat field, and killed them all. The bolt didn't come down the tree, but Aug., 6. : Tuesday evening, June 29, Miss Minnie Wilson delightfully! entertained a number of the young people at her home, Green wood. After spending several hours playing games On the lawn, ice cream and cake were served. i Miss Helen Wilson of Sherrill's Wide Survey of General News Given m Paragraphs for Quick Reading. Moved by speeches from alleg ed prominent speakers from the south, the Christian Endeavor Societv in session . at Chicago Thursday, voted to extend the hand of fellowship to the negro. Fire on board the steamer Minnehaha, loaded with muni tions of war, is thought to have been caused by a secretly placed bomb of some kind. There were 15,000 tons of. explosives on board. The shiD Dut into -Hali fax, with the fire under control The government, convinced the German-owned wireless station at Sayville, N. J., though which it is possible to communicate with Berlin, was beiner used in an ur neutral manner by the Germans, has taken it over and it is now in the hands of American naval officers. AMONG CATAWBA'S NEIGHBORS Allies Have Seen a Hundred Million Dol lars Sink Beneath the Waves. After 10 months of war, says an Associated Press dispatch from London the losses suffered by the contending navies present some interesting points for spec ulation, affording a comparison of the various offensive weapons in the naval struggle, and show ing how costly it is to the coun tries concerned to indulge in mi nor encounters. Summarizing the losses under types of vessels, Great Britian and her allies have been depriv ed of the services of eight battle- seemed to hit the bench straight Ford is spending a few days in out, and up the trunk of the tree was a bruise as if it had deen hit with an axe. Mr. Dellinger says it was the stranerest trick of lightening he ever saw. A letter from Mr. A. O. Yount, who, with his son Guillam News Items From Surrounding Counties What the Lolks Are Doing. C. T. Cain, new city manager of Morganton, has taken charge, succeeding R. W. Pipkin. Jacob Monroe Saine died in Lincoln county July 3rd, in his 63rd year. A wife and one child survive. Lawyer L. C. Caldwell, who is also mayor of Statesville, has a farm on Fourth creek where he sowed 37 bushels of wheat on 30 acres of land and threshed out 500 bushels. Rev. Dr. W. S. Wilson, pastor of the Mooresville Presbyterian Davidson as a guest of Miss Johnsie Shelton. Miss Winnie Gabriel and Mr. Neil Sherrill motored to ; States ville to the picnic of July 5. Terrell now has a well! organ ized ball team. The boys played game with Cornelius team on ships, 14 cruisers, four gunboats, six destroyers, 10 submarines, 14 church, has gone with his family boats and six armed merchant- to Marion and Black Mountain to men and auxiliaries. spend a month before taking up Separating the losses under his duties as pastor of the Pres- the various causes, neglecting byterian church at Lincolnton. auxiliaries and armed merchant- rwQT. Wori,vi- rf t win A fnrrmpr Hnvk of ATPoklpnburff 131,000 tons of allied vessels, the LomT,iaiT1 of dull times. The 1 va rt I X Numerous adventurous young mine oU,0UU tons, gunhre j ZY,UUU Mecklenburcr man savs thev ruin- Americans are reported as having tons and 22,000 tons have been ed his office when they cut Qff and Mr. J. W. Martin, is at tne home ground, Saturday, June Forbes. North Dakota, training bird dogs, says that the mosqui tnp? nrp so had out there that it is some times impossible to work in thp nnpn. Smudcre fires built in pastures will attract the horses. 26. The Cornelius team was bad ly dadly defeated. Saturday, Julv 3. thav nlaved at Mono gram with Monogram team and the score was 7 to 3 in favor of Terrell. Next Saturday they been forced into Fnglish armies, lost in various other ways. upon their arrival on cattle boats The German, Austrian and in Ene-land. One case, that of Turkish fleets have been deprived i Steve B. Tessier of this state and of .13,000 tons of war vessels by Louisiana, reports that he woke means of the torpedo, 23,000 tons ud from a souse to find himself of the mine 81,000 tons by gun- who draw near in order that the piay the Cooleemee team at Cool smoke may drive away the pests, eemee. Mr. Thomas Edwards of this n1arp livpd in the Dakotas and r rank Holt, the Cornell pro or who attempted to assassi . T Piprnont Mortran last :rday morning, committedsui Tuesday night by jumping of thp in.il window to the it paving fifty feet below : in the day he took the rub . : ;Vom the end of a pencil, ; cd the sides of the brass !.','. together and with it cut a in his wrist.' He missed the . and was discovered before : Mood was lost. There is .. .! strong belief that he is the H ; ;rl professor, Muenter,who . red his wife in 1906. Sev- vi ; , ons who knew Muenter -v ;i i vard visited the iail Mon- ; Ail said the resemblance is ' . Hiking, but none would i '-itively that he was Muen- V'. dpt.ermi nation to kill i- -if lends strongly to the sus into one bale. If this sort of thing obtains generally, the cot ton crop will be mighty short. Tuesday afternoon there wras case in the county court in which Mr. R. L. James of Ca tawba was suing his brother, Mr. John H. James, for possession of some material left over after the plaintiff's house near Catawba was built. The court gave the plaintiff possession, or the equiv alent, $30, in cash, and the de fendant paid the $30 and the cost of the action. Bam Corpening and Maggie Pendelton, colored, visited the court house Friday, which is hanging day, and secured license tomarry ;and obtained the services of Rev. W. W. Rowe, who was trained dogs for many years,, and he too says that it is intolerable ncr horse can stand the swarms of insects. They carry no malaria with them there, as some species do in the south. The official farmers' institute dates for this county are: August 4 at Dr. Foard's store; August 9 at St. James high school; Sep tember 18 at Lenoir College. Burke county's farmers are bill prl fnr one at Mount Pleasant August 3. Caldwell will have three at Granite Falls August 5, Oak Hill the 6th and Patterson the 7th. There will be two in Cleveland, Shelby the 9th of next month and Casar the 10th. Ire dell has three billed-July oU at thp Harmonv farm life school;! the test farm July 31, and at Lin wood August 10 -near Moores ville. Two are set for Lincoln, Reepesville the 5th of August and Lincolnton the 6th. Insti tutes for women will be held at A number of men surveying for the Southern PowerCompany are encamped near the Moores ville toll bridge. enlisted and the American of fiVials are trvinsr to cret him out. Thp F.nfTiish erovernment is moved to protest against the ac tion of this country m stopping recruiting for the English armies. declaring that furnishing money to go to England on is not re cruiting. She wants this country to let her send home anybody who wants to join the army Fivp mpn havp been indicted for recruiting in violation of neutrali ty laws. fire, and 13,000 tons from various other causes. These figures show that Eng land her allies have lost 230,000 tons of ncval fighting material approximately $100, 000, 000, while the Teuton and Turkish losses total 140,000 tons, worth about $60,000,000. whiskey and cocaine from the negroes. No inquests are being held. Mrs. Kate Shuford of Lincoln ton last week learned of the death in Wynne, Ark., of Mrs. Eliza R. Dixon July 5th. She was 72 years old, a native of Lincoln, having been a sister of the late Henry Ramseur, and was the last of her immediate family. Machinery for the silk mill of the Waldensians at Valdese has been held up by the war, in nonv.hv nnrl wprp married in the iiVUi m y - j - register's office. The explosive vexy name of the groom caught the s -t Osmond Barringer! crowd who witnessed the nuptials gomeh0dy went through Newton and it was Bam, Bam, Bam 1Jke a wraitn early last Thursday on all hands for awhile. Jno- Hrivintr a little motor car that went so fast early risers Yoder, of Route 2, was in the naci a notion they were still halt- city Wednesday on business. He dreaming and really didn't see rpnorts snlendid nrosnects for a 0 n vthincr The car nassed The v f JL A- l A V Win J- - big yield of corn this year, es pecially if the good seasons con tinue. Mr. S. L. Ritchey, of Jacobs Fork, Catawba, was in town Tuesday enroute to Wades boro. He remarked to a News man that there was the most With Our Subscribers. Tuesday Mr. D.' E. Yount of Route 3, Hickory, called and left a dollar. Mr. Yount says, "The paper is very welcome and more satisfactory since it comes twice a week." So say they all. "Mr. Yount brought Rev. J. P. Miller with him, who had been visiting in the county. Mr. Miller was enroute to Charlotte where he had been a teacher in Elizabeth Col lege. Since the removal of that institution to Roanoke, Va., he has accepted a pastorate at Try on, Pa. Among the new ones this week is Mr. Lee Bandy of Route 2, Newton. They are coming in, one by one. Another new one is Russell Whitener, who is cutting the wheat crop in Oklahoma, along side of Claude Lutz, of Newton. Mr. George Moose is among the renewers this week, as is Mr. W. A. Setzer, an old. soldier who visited town Monday. Mr. W. F. Honeycutt of Gas tonia is a new name this week. County Bills for June, bills presented to The bills presented to the countyT commissioners lor June and ordered paid were: New ton light department, $5.49; -m. - 1 Catawba County rsews, jod weapon plays printing and advertising, $9.o0; In gunfire England has estab Scott & McCollough, auditors, &e( a iong lead chiefly because balance due of $56.90; Phone tne German ships at large when rents $5.99; Clapp's Drug store war was declared have been de $3.20: Gilbert Cline, blacksmith .trnvpd bv this means. In the The figures also show that the Switzerland, and Senator Sim- miscellaneous losses officially re- mons, who has been working on corded are proximately the same the case, announces that the on both sides, while from torpe- English government has ottered do, gun and mine the British and to get it started toward America. their allies have lost nearly n Brawlev of Iredell plant- double the tonnage that their op- Gne-eigth of an acre in onions ponets have lost by the same tnjS year.and gathered more than causes. By torpedo the British 50 bushels, or at the rate of over loses are 10 more than those of 4qo bushels to the acre. - A dozen the other side, which shows of tnem weighed 19h pounds. clearly how important a part that seed were sown in Septem ber and the plants re-set in November. work, $13.50; C. K. Edwaras, deputy, expense of taking Will Ross to jail, $3.70: Times-Mercury, court calendar $4, advertise ment 50 cents; Enterprise, ad- armed merchantmen and auxilia- 1 1 1 J. r 4- 4-nnr---k ry Class me net leistex tumic of allied ships detroyed amounts to 30,000, while the German, Austrian and Turkish losses vertising, $1.40: Edwards &i stand at approximately double Broughton, printers, tax books, J tnat figure. The total financial l: Dads Filed for Record. on r.are-er to Luther L. 1 r, lot in Bobtown Hickory nnie B. and R. P. Dakin Buchanan, lot on 12th Hickory, $4,000; Sue A. . I-!. Anderson, lot on 12th Hickory, to Annie B. Da- 1.200. ie B. Boyd and J. R. Boyd !).- Campbell and Z. B. r an, lot 1, block B, Town 's and, Hickory, for $300; j) same, tor h400, lot on iion street, Hickory. i. Campbell to A. A. Fry 3, lots 39 to 43, Will Fry wonderful improvement in Lin coln speaking especially of the good roads. He said progress chnnlrl hp snplled with a big P when it comes to Lincoln." A force of seven men has arrived to remove the telephone poles from around the square, and change the lines so as to con form to the order of the board of aldermen which demanded that the poles be off the square in 60 . . -n i days. The cable lines win oe run from the exchange in the Enterprise devil, on his bicycle, and the suction was so great, it pulled the shirt off the boy's back. In The Observer Friday morning was a piece from J. W. Cannon, of Blowing Rock, saying Barringer arrived there at $14: Abernethy Hwd. Co., $1.50. plaster and express; Rhyne Hardware Co., $45.23; cross in dex book $64; Dr. Shipp, county physician, $44.67; Newton Elec. C, plumbing for jail, b.zu; clerk's office expense $2.80; CD. Drum Co., $9.14; Holbrooks & Seagle, teaming, $8; Terrapin , 1 . creek bridge, $bo0; county nome q00. expense $2.15; closets at home, $14.09: J. H. James, material for T J loss in this instance amounts to about $15,000,000. Thus 10 months of skirmishing and preliminary actions, leading to no definite result so far as the question of naval supremacy is concerned, has brought about the destruction of about 460,000 tons of warships, costing $175,000 - . Andrew Windsor and Ed Tol bert, brothers-in-law in Iredell county, had a fight Wednesday afternoon that was 'Signis." Tolbert is a tenant on Windsor's farm. Windsor told him to water a horse at a certain point in the branch, but Tolbert water ed it somewhere else, and after they went from the field to the barn, the fight occurred. Wind sor used a bridle on Tolbert's head and Tolbert stuck a knife in Windsor and drew it across his breast nine inches. Tolbert is in jail. Memorial to Caldwell. It was briefly mentioned in the last issue of The Landmark that the State Press Association, at Montreat last week, endorsed a U Cilley to Hickory Chair- Manufacturing Co, for $1,-9-10 acres adjoining com s land; W. R. Killian to C. j- itncr and P. A. Setzer, for ), brick store on 14th street "y; Pink Ekhard to R. E niun, for $600, in Highland. 8:30, with The Charlotte Obser ver, in time for baeakf ast. He made the distance, about 100 miles, in 3 hours, 56 minutes run ning time, in a Saxon. On the car was a streamer, "Charlotte Observer to Blowing Kock or Bust." It was doubtless the earliest Blowing Rock ever got -r- 11 The Observer. ive ganons 01 gas were used. men in the Dunn cotton mill. Mr. J. S. Rudisill of Cliffside favors the office with three "bucks", paying up and - forward. Tho mun who made more oats than Carter left $2 in the office Worl n prH av Mr. W. F. Rader of Newton. Mrs, W. L. Heffner of Maiden renewTs ner subscription. Re newals and "newals" are coming in in a most encouraging way. Folks like the new "semi" well. Mr. Honeycutt is one of the fore- Lyles creek bridge at Catawba, $41.18; G. A. Arndt, lumber lor Stine ford bridge, $6.14; F. B. Ingold, hardware, $5; Piedmont Wae-on Co.. S3. 60: Conover roller mill $20; sheriff's office $25.68; j janitor for court house, $12.60, W. E. Houser, work at court house, $2.25; jail, SlU.oZ: piers for Lyles creek bridge $51o.33; Mill creek bridge $2S5; Clark's creek bridge $265-total $1,264.- 19; jail fees for month, $80.90. The bills of most of the tax list ers were paid at the rate of 4 cents the name and $2.50 per day for assessors and listers. v t v. rvi;n4 EVrarcinn in Richmond. 1111 I II I II 111 1IUL IVLUl OIVH -vr 1 . proposition for the erection ot a The Southern railway win oper- monum'ent to the late J P. Cald ate the annual July North Caro- . tJ itor of the lina excursion to Richmond, Va., jndm2Lrk anj the Charlotte Ob- Shuford Family Reunion. v m 1 P TT -1 , ShufordNational bank building to Mrs. K. U Fifth street, thence east toWpa aavises . T' T ca,i n Kpcond reunion wm ue iieiu xxuBuo street, uic r 1 , , uPJ,ntl-fni farm street, and along Second street y --; toMain street onand souin.xt wn - . . nr take two wees tu uu inC - ;tA sn oWMit $9 000 for work, ranged aim naJWUJ1 The who is related to the snutoras lliatXAUA MT I - frw hpnnti- Each is removal ui uie unc 1.3 T-:V. Una l haetifpr iui A good evidence of the rising r. rf V. Qnnth is fnnnd the statement just issued by the The body of Frank Holt, jvho Southern Railroad from its head commited suicide Tuesday night office in Washington, its opera ting income in May 1915 was, $1,337, 535 ;in May 1914, $955,897, an increase of $381,638. And in this connection we invite every carry spread X .1 11" , y.tter There will be some addresses and been elegantly paveu aim - ln the day uiatiutiit-i at night with a white way would do credit to any town. interesting. was on weanesuay positive identified by detectives who had measurements and pictures "of Muenter as the Harvard man who was charged with killing his Wednesday, July 14. The round trip fare from Newton, Hickory, Morganton and other points near, is $5. The special train, consist- ino-of first class coaches ana Pullman cars will leave Charlotte at 9:15 p. m., July 14, arriving at Richmond at 7:30 a. m.. July 15. Returning, tickets will be good on any regular train leaving Richmond up to and including train No. 11, at 11:15 p. m., July 17 Regular trains on branch lines will be used to connect with innftinnS. Local agents will give v.Q Mto frnm anv noint. The server, a committee cumpuaevi of Editors Archibald Johnson of Charity and Children, H. B. Var nerof the Lexington Dispatch, Wade H. Harris of the Charlotte Observer, Jas. H. Caine of the Asheville Citizen and R. RClark of the Landmark was appointed to take the matter in hand and arrange the details. Until this committee can meet and arrange its plans, no authorized statement can be made as to the procedure, but it can be said that the idea is to offer the friends and admirers of Mr. Caldwell an opportunity outing is very attractive, allowing L contribute to a memorial to be three days and two nignts, giving oltpj tn n;s memory, as it - .... . -M J I v-v, - - - . -1 i ll i. reader to read the article on first wife. It was also louno ouv coming Tide of Pros- he had a snori urne io. T4- Jo frnm tho WPSn- LLa.Ctt.eU -MAI. luuifo"", perity. ' , j; What he ington Post, an independent pa- w suaia uin-. per that Republicans quoM ma w - very , freely last year, because ng J-"-'-"h. i? :4. wifincm nf 'thP VVl SOn niS W11B III JLCAtxo 01 its uxiwwo m vc ; f J-.--s,; orl ita rPccPTms- used lit m setting uumuo .i. aammisuauuiiauu - - :n on x.-- f hnsinpes. The nassenger snips. uieiuvumauuvx iuicuww T , , a.:. ,o-r r. Post is now telling a very differ- Phiiadeipnia; on , -ent tale, so optimistic that even Europe. She notified ship officers Republicans ought to be convinc- and the ships were searched and e(j no dynamite found. fnr sidP triDS tO U1Q 11CVHV.V Point, Washington, Baltimore, etc. Pullman reservations should be made in advance. Address R. H. DeButts, D. P. A., Char lotte, N. C. known that he-had many friends who desire this privilege. The form of -the memorial will of course be determined after the necessary funds are raised. Statesvill Landmark. 1. 1 tttj Monrtn mil nr 1 1 iii iiiin-ic 1110 A Launnburg dispatcn eu- . - tj w a iKsnai nre-camDaiem annouute- nesday says tnat ex-juuc f. - , . . xtQo1 started Droceedmgs mem uum "toi " ... I . 11 1 T tti 1 1 nrmin against r.o. 1 - " r; nptt vear. 4-1, T oiiT-mhnrtr News and J. Lu Seey ui u. v"" . t r ;nv tr, Hpfame ies. ouuer & lunu ov.v,0 James iui r v.. ncioiw . M character. The suit will be win oe repeateu u on articles recently ap- wu to w.uw mau. appearing in the News. ty. 1
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