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iD COUNTY NEWS ITEMS
( v, of the Happenings of Local Inter
c si What Folks are Doing.
Si u ly Enterprise advertise-
The first issue of The Hick
oiv Kocord will come out tomor-
HICK U) 11.
-License has been issued for
marriage of W. W. Price and
s Corlia Bryd.
There will be an ice cream
i -r and cake contest at the
;h Newton Methodist church
,i i ov night at 7:30 o'clock,
i v one is invited.
A child of Mr. A. B. Throne
was bitten by a copperhead
! this week, whiler cutting
- an the premises rear Star
ir.it prompt medical assist
obviated any of the danger
' usually attends a bite of this
;onou3 snake. "
Cor.over advocates of the 30
:0 cents tax for a graded
oi, for which an election is
1 for October 11, will meet
i.;lu to plan for the campaign.
iv is said to be strong opposi-
' to the tax on the part of a
to:i
Kv
:lcr ol good citizens, but it is
; d by the pro-school people
as the election approaches,
;ch of this will disappear.
-Chattel and land mortgages
unusual numbers for this time
ot ear are being filed for record.
w deeds are coming in. Among
those- filed yesterday were: F. C
ll-.uck to M.V.Houck for $1,733.-
u. lot adjoining Henry Elliott
property, Hickory; C. H. Geitner
to -J. I. Kegan lor abzo, lot on
11th street, Hickory: Mrs. Belle
Hefner to Southern Power Com
pany $704.40, two tracts on the
river.
A marriage excites a lot of
interest,1 no matter who the vic
tims may be; and yesterday af
ternoon when a couple of color,
Will Flowers and Carrie Fish
of Catawba, appeared before
U"gister Sigman and got a "pair"
license, and sent for the near
er minister, Rev. , M. A. Aber
r iliy, a crowd gathered and
wLnc.-sed the proceedings in the
rc-lster's office.
It will gratify many people
to know that Mr. Earl Bost, who
ha been quite ill with fever, is
getting better. There are two
other fever cases in that part of
t vn and all are traced to bad
' fit water, which wTas subjected
to analysis, There is no case
within the city water limits. Mr.
Clarence Wilson, who was badly
hurt in falling from a Southern
freight near Claremont, is con
valescent. Mr. John Carper was
carried to the hospital at States-
iilo
Wednesday by Dr. Camp-
ii at
ma is considered in a serious
condition.
B )ard Will Protest
To State Commission
The county attorney, A. A.
Whitener, Esq., of Hickory, at
the instance of the board of com
missioners, is drafting a protest
t the state tax or corporation
onmission, against the order
raising the assessment of proper
ty in Catawba county 15 per
rent.
The protest will state that the
l"ard believes the increase both
u:i lair and unjust and calls the
; iojiition of the commiasion to
' i fact that the county assessor
a i'l his assistants have already
i- i ( the valuation of both real
;i'vl personal property to a total I
"F $800,000 more than the valua
tion of last year. The commission
i ; therefore begged to reconsider
its action.
Similar protests are going for
ward from other counties in
which the assessment has been
(T'1 red raised varying per cents,
T m 5 to 30. The action taken
l'.v the state officials affects 80
f the 100 counties in the state,
and has created a stir through
wit the state. Whether or not
the ommission will hear the
llea for withdrwal or modifica-
tion of its order remains to be
seen.
SUNDAY AT THE CHURCHES
The usual services will be held
at the Methodist church Sunday
preaching by the pastor at 11
a. m. and 8 d. m.. Sundav school
45 a. m. There will be a re
ception of members at the morn
ing service. The meeting at
Middlebrook continues with much
interest. There have been more
than 100 professions and quite a
number have given names to join
some church in town.
Services at the Reformed
church Sunday morning and
night. Preaching by the pastor.
It is desired that there be a large
attendance of members and
friends to give the old and new
students of Catawba College a
cordial welcome. Sunday school
at 9:45 o'clock. Let teachers
and pupils be on hand. A cor
dial welcome to all to attend the
services.
Wholesale as well as retail
dealers in undertaking supplies
find an unprecedented dearth of
business. The country over the
same condition exists. The death
rate at this season is lower th an
in many years. It is ascribed to
more enlightened treatment of
contagions and to sanitary meas
ures which prevent typhoid and
other diseases. Better care is
taken of infants, whose mortality
in the heated season has always
been high. The testimony of
these dealers is a fine tribute to
the effectiveness of the new
health propaganda and to the in
telligent attitude of the public
toward the teachings of the health
people.
TO PREACH IN CHARLOTTE
Vance Heavenef, the Catawba County 13
Year Old Preacher Will Hold Two Ser
vices in Charlotte Next Sunday.
The fame of the Catawba coun
ty boy-preacher is extending over
the state. He will hold two ser
vices in Charlotte next Sunday
and a protracted meeting in Octo
ber or november. The following
is taken from Tuesday's morn
ing's Charlotte Observer:
Arrangemets have been con
cluded with Manager R. D. Cra
ver of the Broadway, whereby
Vance Heavener, the 13-year-old
lad whose preaching has been a
sensation in the western portion
of the state, will conduct two ser
vices at the local theater on next
Sunday. The first service will be
held at 11 a. m., asd the second
at 3 p. m. A special musical
program will be given under the
direction of Rev. D. E. Dorch, an
evangelical singer of considerable
reputation, Mr. W. B. Blanton of
Carolieen will officate at the
piano. Mr. Blanton has been pro
nounced the equal of Mr. Barra
clough of the Chapman-Alexander
meetings, and is one of the
most finished pianists in the
South.
The lad who will preach in
Charlotte on next Sunday is the
son of a farmer and was born
near Hickory. His entire school
ing is said to consist of two days
spent at a rural institution in the
county of his nativity. Notwith
standing his entire lack of educa
tion, those who have heare the
sermons of young Heavener pro
nounce them startling in the won
derful choice of words, the wide
scope of his vocabulary, and
above all, the ease and marvel
lously impressive manner of de
livery. The lad has been preach
ing in the section in which he
was born for the past two years
and has conducted services in a
number of the towns and villages
adjacent to Hickory. During
this time, his reputation has
grown until the churches have
recently been unable to accommo
date the throngs which have as
sembled to hear the youthful
prodigy,
Rev. Mr, Dortch, who com
pleted arrangements for the ser
vices of next Sunday, stated yes
terday that a meeting would be
held hv voune- Heavener in this
NEWTON, N.
REVIEW OF WORLD EVENTS
Wide Survey of General News Given in
Paragraphs for Quick Reading.
The biggest shipload of gold
of all, was received in New
York. It contained $80,000,000
in gold and American securities.
At Provident, R. I., Sunday
night Judge Knowles was shot
and killed as he came out of his
house by a man hiding in the
shubbery. The assassin is sup
posed to be a man who had been
a litigant in Judge's court.
Wheat exports for July showed
a surprising slump. They were
only 7,819,600 bushels compared
with 25,000,000 bushels in July
1914. Bureau offcials explain
the slump by saying there was a
rush of wheat exports in the
Spring months, to clear the way
for the bumper crop of this year.
Cotton exports showed a large
gain.
United States Senator Sher
man of Illinois in a speech to his
constitutents one day last week
endorsed in the highest terms
the course of President Wilson
in his dealing with the warring
nations of Europe and denounced
Theodore Roosevilt in severe
language. He said politics should
be laid aside and everybody
stand by the President.
One American was lost in the
sinking of the Hesperian, the la
test ship sunk. His name is
Wolf and he was from New Jer
sey. President Wilson is wait
ing for all the facts before mak
ing anv announcement. There is
some doubt as to whether a tor
pedo or a mine did the work.
Newton Business Men
In Session Tonight.
Called primarily to consider
the bringing of Catawba woolen
mills to Newton, there will be a
meeting of the business men in
the court house tonight to take
up the creamery proposition too,
and other subjects.
Every citizen interested in se
curing two new "industries for
Newton has a cordial invitation
to attend. It is distinctly a
booster meeting. Talk of getting
the woolen mills here has been
up for months past. It is a plant
operated by Mr. Thos. H. Phillips
and others at Plateau and its
possibilities have long been recog
nized by JNewton business peo
pie.
The creamery idea is a new
thing, sprung recently by farm
ers who are anxious to locate a
plant of the strictly co-operative
kind. The Enterprise has pub
lished a number of articles about
it and these have met w ith the
warmest reception by Newton
people. Everybody realizes that
the subject offers Newton an op
portunity that she has never had.
A creamery is not a thing to
be despised and will be an asset
to any community.
Farmers who are interested are
expected to be present to night
and tell the town exactly what
the town is expected to to.
It will be a meeting packed
with possibilities that will appeal
to town and country.
Every farmer who might be
interested and every townsman
who wants to swell, the town's
business resources are cordially
invited to be present.
After the above was written,
Mr. Miles S. Smvre, who is a
creamery enthusiast, called by
The Enterprise office and stated
that he would be one of five men
to furnish $500 each for a building
for the creamery, and then rent it
to the dairymen or "sell it to them
on suitable terms, his idea being
to place a building at the dis
posal of the dairymen and let
them ero ahead and make the
butter and run the place to suit
themselves. He knew of one
other man who had already
agreed to a similar proposition
all of which indicates what New
ton wants to do to get the
creamery.
city at some time in October or
November, provided that ade
quate vuarters may be secured.
C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1915.
REPLY TO "WAY WOMEN DRESS.
A Catawba County Woman Gives The
"Lords of Creation" Some Plain Talk.
Look over last Friday's Enter
prise and read the item, "Way
Woman Dress." I shall give a
reply although it wasn't asked
for, if our dear editor will permit
my mite to be published. I so
often read things and want to
answer back, as good as is sent.
Never before, have taken the
courage. But I can't say half
that is on my mind and my
mind being soover flowing I may
get mixed. Many intelligent
women of today are slaving to
keep up with; the foolish Paris
styles. But rriore, a great many
more are . struggling with hard
tasks, that some of the lazy men
who have easjy jobs or none at
all should be doing there should
be a lawT to take the easy jobs
from the high-headecl evil-lusting
men and give to the hard-working
women, that are so ignorant
they don't know how to dress,
and yet I will venture to say one
third and there may be more that
haven't got haff enough to buy
cloth enough to make long sleeves,
high neck with big lace collars,
or standing collars that have to
be sent to the laundry and cost
money every time, or skirts
wide enough to go half round the
garden if the garden wire have
to be used for clothes wire and
many, many things have to be
substituted while the men walk
or ride along with a big long five
or ten cent cigar in their mouth,
and a bottle in their pockets and
the little short cut pants they
have substituted for the big nice
long pants they had been wear
ing and pulling up to their knees
everv time thev sit down to show
v,- v,v n,v0 fi-ii fnnnu
trauze socks were fastened and
ri'f vr.o;-;,r f tuOTV, .0o.
a verv hot coat in the summer.
fv,A,v -r, i;f-f? Ta tv,o
what they, want theu women to
do?
The doctors may sav they are
powerless to abate women's evil.
But I say we women (for this is
a women talking) are powerless
to abate men's evil, and if the j
doctors know how to tell the;
truth they will quicker say, "the
evil is too many are going bare
foot, heart-broken, restless and
alone. There are so many lust
looking men making mean ex
pressions about every girl and
woman that if the Bible speaks
the truth (which of course it does)
thev will have plenty to answer
for in the next world, iney!
won't have time there to look and
see which girl angel will have the
most decent robe, or just how
far up or how far dowTn the robe
goes. And to the man who
watches these things most, I say
besure your wife or sister what
ever it may be, has money enough
to get the whole dress, with the
lace you like to see. Don't send
her to get a dress and hat and
shoes and gloves and entire wear
ing apparel, may be groceries,
and you a shirt writh three or
four dollars in her purse, with a
"Hurry back now, and don't
spend all that money if you can
help'it," when she has already
been wondering which she must
leave out to make ends meet, and
then finally decides she can just
get a few yards, it will not take
so much using thatshort-sleeved
low-necked narrow skirted pat
tern. While the men carry the
pocket book which ''both" have
earned and when he does give
her a dollar hold it so tight the
eagle hollows before he turns it
loose.
Ridicule then it is?
Ridicule I say, ridicule let the
undertakers get rich, they get
rich on more drunkards and
fighting fools (pardon me I should
have said sinners) bound for hell
and damnation, than they will on
women wearing low necked
dresses while a few do go to
the extreme, they should not be
numbered with the majority.
I'm for woman suffrage and
war, or almost a man hater.
Ridicule will you?
Now srirls and women who
have any feeling towards this,
OPENING WEEK AT COLLEGE
Total of Students Will Be Around Four
. Score and Ten by Today's Session.
Eighty-six students had enrolled
at Catawba College up to yester
day, following the opening Tues
day. Numerous new students
are on the campus and the board
ing population is very large but
there is a falling off of local stu
dents as compared with last
year. This is explained by tar
diness in matriculating and the
second week is expected to show
up better.
At the opening Rev. John C.
Peeler of Conover and Mr. John
F. Carpenter of Maiden delivered
short talks, supplementing the
regular exercises by the faculty.
The prospects are considered
very good for a large enrollment
after the institution gets well un
der way.
The faculty is all at work and
.i.. ' t j - ,
routine recitations nave com
menced and are progressing nice
ly. The town bids the old and
1 J 1 T
new stuaents welcome ana m
view of the strong fight by
citizens last spring, is expected
to give liberal support during the
year, batawba has done much
for Newton and the county and
confidently expects local people
to swell the enrollment to grati
fying proportions bv another
week.
Married.
Saturday night Mr. Charles L.
Miller and Miss Ethel Setzer
were married by Rev. M. A.
Abernethy.
Fdl From Coal Chute
And Fatally Injured
' Mr. Ed. Sipe, employe at the
i Southern coal chute in Claremont,
! fell from the top of the chute
! Tuesday night to the railroad
beneath, 20 feet, and received
iatai injuries. Une arm -was
1 -v
broken all to pieces' and his skull
fractured, He was taken to
Statesville but the doctors say
there is no hope for him. He was
working with John Q. Setzer on
the night shift just as a Ti eight
came in to get coal and stumbled
over a priece of timber. Setzer
ran down and got him clear of
the rails before the freight ran
over him. Mr. Sipe married a
daughter of the late Jesse Gantt
and has a family.
PresidentWilson is to give much
personal attention to appropria
tion bills of the next Congress,
in conference with leaders of
both houses of Congress, he will
urge much economy and a reduc
tion of appropriations except for
the army and navy. And in these
departments reforms will be" in
stituted so as to make it possible
to carry out the plans of improv
ing the means of defense without
increasing largely the appropria
tions.
President Wilson has requested
the Democrats of New Jersey
his home state, not to endorse
him for another term as he
thinks this action might look as
he was taking advantage of the
international situation to gain
personal advantage. The Ken
tucky Democratic convention
has already endorsed the Presi
deet. But the President will be
renominated and reelected
w7hether he seeks the office again
or not.
The Thursday Book Club will
hold its first meeting Thursday at
3 p. m. at the home of the presi
dent, Mrs. C. Feimster, when
the year book will be made out
and other business attended to.
say what you think on this line.
I'm getting this too long and
the good editor will not let me
in this time, much less come
again. I want H. K. Reid, school
teacher in Mecklenburg, to see
this, please Mr. Editor, manage
to get him a copy of this paper,
may be he will like it so wTell he
will send you a dollar for another
year, if you assure him I will
come again more newsy.
Buttin.
SOCIETY AND PERSONAL NEWS
Mr. M. P. Taylor of Maiden,
here yesterday, left $2 on renewT
al, and told us of a trip he had
just made to Lumberton, to his
son-in-law, Mr. B. G. Floyd,
head man for Mr. L. H. Caldwell,
a man who operates a $50,000
store and a $50,000 farm. Mr.
Floyd, we are glad to know is do
ing fine.
Mr. J. L. Thompson of Euf ula,
Ala., is withMr. JuliusAbernethy
this week.
Miss Marguerite Wright leave3
today for Greensboro to enter the
State Normal.
Mrs. R. I. Allen has returned
from a visit to Charlotte-
Mr. W. C. Feimster and chil
dren have been sojourning in the
mountains around Asheville this
week.
Wednesday afternoon Mrs. F.
T. Cox entertained 37 young
people in honor of her small
daughter, Miss Lois. Cake and
cream and candy were served on
the lawn, Misses Virginia Phillips
and Rebecca Boone serving the
guests.
Yesterday afternoon Miss Matt
Williams entertained the young
ladies who will attend her at her
approaching wedding to Mr.
Marion B. Adderholdt, the young
ladies being Misses Louise Little,
Margaret Kline, Mattie Rein
hardt, Nancy and Willie Rhyne,
Frances Wright and Annie
Killian.
Mr. A. L. Quickel of Lincoln
ton, secretary to the house judi
ciary committee under Chairman
E. Y. Webb, spent yesterday
here on business.
SOME ARE DISAPPOINTED
The Critics Disappointed By the Settle
ment With Germany.
Most Americans will be greatly
delighted with the peaceful ter
mination of our submarine con
troversy with Germany, which
is now promised by the prelimi
nary assurance oi onnt von
Bernstorff. But unquestionably
Germany s surrender will cause
great disappointment in some
quarters, It takes the political
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winu completely out oi uie sans
of both Colonel Roosevelt and
Colonel Bryan and leaves them
becalmed in the doldroms. That
arch-politician, Woodrow Wilson,
has slipped by them both in the
international yacht race, and
with all nis canvas spread and a
spanking breeze behind him is
sailing merrily along the main of
public confidence and popular
favor.
Colonel Roosevelt will probably
think that this change of base on
Germany's part constitutes a
greater outrage than the invasion
of Belgium and calls for the
sternest reprisals. The tone of
his comment reveals the bitter-
I ness of his spirit at this last act
ot German barbarism, as ior
Colonel Bryan he may begin to
lose faith in human nature and
to doubt the existence of such a
thing as hu.nan gratitude.
The v. crst part of it is that
Germany sams beginning to
share the opinion of the Ameri
can people coming to regard Wil
son not as a dreamer or a molly
coddle, but as the real mouth
piece of the United States and a
practical and scientific statesman
of the first magnitude.
All the critics who have been
belittling the President's diplo
macy look and feel very foolish
in the faee of its success. They
hoped it would fail either because
thev wanted him to come a polit
ical "cropper," or because they
wanted the United States to take
a hand in the punishment of Ger
many. And theirdisappointment
is correspondingly keen over a
result that realizes neither of
these hopes and leaves them
politically empty-handed and dis
credited. Baltimore Sun.
Mr. Eulan Shook of the Freeze
Drug Company, has been ill this
week, and yesterday left for his
home at Catawba.
NO. 47
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS EVENTS
Brief Items Showing at a Glance What is
Transpiring Thronghout the State.
Davidson College has a Fresri
man class this year of 13S. The
full enrollment is about 350.
The social feature of the State
fair is to be emphasized more
than usual this year. Mr. R. O.
Everett of Durham will be chief
marshal and Mr. John Hall
Manning-of Kinston ball manag
er. Senator Simmons was inWash
ington Tuesday and went to
Philadelphia at night to take his
wife to North Carolina. Mrs.
Simmons has been in a hospital
in Philadelphia several weeks,
and has been improved.
Rev. W. G. Mallonee, widely
known Methodist minister in the
western part of the state, died
at Statesville Tuesday night. He
spent 34 years in the Methodist
ministry.
The class of 1905 of the State
University has presented the in
stitution a purse of $1000 to be
used for any purpose the au
thorities think best. The out
look this week is that the regis
tration will exceed all previous
ones.
An election was held in Craven
county Tuesday on the stock law.
The proposition was voted down
3 to 1. Up this wray all counties
voted out the free ranging of
stock so long ago that it is diffi
cult to concieve of so old fash
ioned and antiquated system still
existing anywhere in North Car
alina. Marion Butler has been spend
ing his time on his farm in Samp
son county this week working out
a Dlan by which the negroes can
register and vote in North Caro
lina. His brother George will
run for Congress next year in
the Goldsboro district against
Congressman Hood and give the
plan a tryout This news came
from the Washington correspon
dent of The Greensboro News.
Representative E. Y. Webb is
in Washington this week and ex
pects to call on President Wilson
and discuss important legislation
that will come before the ap
proaching session of Congress.
To an interviewer he said the
people of North Carolina are
prosperous and happy over crop
prospects and business and that
they are greatly pleased with
President Wilson and his peace
policies. What they now most
wish him to do is to make
strong demands on England
for freer commerce. He is
against extra large appropriations
to the army and navy, but is with
the President on a conservative,
sane national defense programme.
What One Acre Was Made
To Produce This Summer
Mr. P. E. Fry has submitted
figures for operations on not
quite one acre of ground this
year 29.30 of an acre, to be
exact. He had it in clover first
and then in corn. His itemized
statement shows the following:
Mr. Fry received 1,300 pounds
of seed, which, at Z cents the
pound, equals $45.50. The cost
of harvesting and threshing wes
$5.25, leaving $40.25.
After the clover Air. Fry put
the land in corn, and while it is
not matured, he estimated it by
counting the number of rows
and ears to the row, finding 170
ears to 35 rows or 5,950 ears;
and 114 to 17 rows, being of un
even length, making 1,972 ears,
or a total of 7,922 ears. Count
ing 130 ears to the bushel, though
100 ears is nearer, he figures out
not quite 61 bushels. Counting
it at 75 cents, " he figures $45.75
worth of corn; and adding this to
his clover profits, he has a net
return of $S1.75. The cost of
the corn he figures at $4.25
corn amounting to $41.50 net
and clover to $40.25 net. As a
record for an acre this is good
enough, made better by the fact
that not a pound of fertilizer was
used