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,0VI "FROM OFF" WHO HAVE KtiKN HEARING OF CATAWBA SHom.n SEE CATAWBA Fife AT HICKORY ... Mat 1 - 3 NlWT(TDM F.MnrTOTOTPTWTTQT ' 1 T" i""" , v m J-i J U U ill ULL JL11JJ U A V0L. XXXVII Ttt. AM (OI NTV NEWS ITEMS ,rt,rto!llif Happenings of Local Inter ' t,s! What Ft.lks are Doing. l-'ornu'r Sheriff M. J. Rowe I (.,;i :uito sick for several Z-i but h:ul improved slightly inu-kt-npox is rife, says the U'iuVnt of health, out it i i i -i .if. nta.u'ioii aoout wnicn id rule or regulation, a iiiikl alTair. ('!.- 1. 1 hut Sandy Ford road ar lit' ,,) that part of the road ;!. ;n: jnsitle town limits, is ready !',. t.-i soil and if anybody feels ui'iiating anyv of the stuff, rwouM gratefully received. and Ray Cline are :,';in!-.ir,g a motorcycle trip to .mi '.i tomorrow, or if the . ,;Ufitf is unfavorable, Monday. Li,- war they make the distance jn i hours. It is somewhere ,,:,!: jul ::() miles. Tin iv was quite a number 0f i ple in town yesterday, t -iO.mii to keep the merchants ;..:.;y a!i day, stocks were never ;.. hirgv or varied, offering no tLU.-e whatever for going to . "her towns. - Jacob E. Setzer, former reg :er of deeds, has taken a posi with T. F. Connor, the Ter :v! merchant, and will begin his l.r.ks Monday. He succeeds Waller F. Gabriel, whose greatly r-nvtted death occured several reeks ago. A Hickory dispatch says that Emeiine Smyre, colored, convict t d of having too much cocaine a:ui whiskey on hand, and who Hived four months for same, was freed in the federal court, JjuVe Boyd holding she had al xvAy got enough. The alderman have decided :h:tt this year no tax collector ill be employed until December ., and any taxpayer who wishes - avail himself of the discount raying his tax before that may call at the office of the clerk and treasurer. The un :n of paying a collector a emission to go out and urge ;r'!i'' to acccept the -discount i'r v-dit about this decision. The Startown school is in the :.:ukt i for a good farmer to take ihaiv" of the farm wTork under th" (iiioction of County Agent Ma !; at the farm life school; and a'. M wants a lady to take charge f the ;j iris' dormitory as a ma truti. A man and his wife in the .-e positions will get their hoard and .$35 a month $15 for the lady and $20 for the farmer. Several applications have been ina.l.- hut Supt: Geo. E. Long yesterday no selection has !''-;!) made. The right folks will tind a pleasant situation. T;o county commissioners ere all here Wednesday but out eat-Jde of turning over the tax 1 looks to the sheriff, transact- f-d no business. Commissioner HoIl-r stated to an Enterprise costs in each of two cases charg that nothing had been heard 1 ing disorderly conduct and as-fr-iin tho Southern Power com- sault with a deadly weapon, and Ki y in reply to the commission- 'Squire Propst paid cost amount- iu est for a prompt state-. rceiitof the company's intentions ivlarivo to the county's proposi ti that the company pay one tnird the cost of the Sandy Ford !-!''d.L'(! at Lookout. It is aslo Pi tied that Iredell has had no communication from the company f''i the subject. Only a week ago The Enter ing noted that quinine was sel !lrU' wholesale at 70 cents an 0 'ir.co, against the former retail M'icoof o(j cents. It is now quoted ?2.:io the ounce and going high-H- It used to sell wholesale at from 14 to 23 cents. All drugs :,!;,I chemicals are aviating. The server says everything in a ro has increased from 10 per f-!U to 10,000 per cent. Antipy !ln, hasis of headache remedies, jrone from $3 to $30 the I'fwid and bromide of soda and '.'f l"Aa:sh from 30 cents to $2.72. 1(-''hs and all sorts of things h ave .soared and the worst part 01 !t- is, the war conditions that Parted them up will keep them 'ng up. Varied Docket Tuesday In the County Court Practically the whole dayTues day was taken up by the trial of cases in the county court which came from presentments of the last grandjury, The most important of these were three counts against the Clyde cotton mill for alleged violation of the child labor laws. Only one w as heard and the mill being ac quitted, SolicitorWhitener refused to press the other two cases and expressed vigorous dissent from the action of the court, picked up his hat and walked from the room. Maggie Smith, the girl whose age was in question, was the only witness the state put up. She swore she was 14 years old. Overseer Stamey stated that she wished to change from the day to the night shift, and he ques tioned her father about her age. The father declared she was 16 then, and on the stand testified that he had told Mr. Stamey she was 16. The other two cases had to do with the ages of two boys, George Travis and Odes Wilson. Supervisor Robert L. Shu ford, who hadibeen presented for alleg ed failure to have a road worked, showed that the road in question j was not in JacobsFork "township, and a nol pros, was entered. Sidney Asherbranner was ac quitted of a charge of having bought the vote of Henry Seagle. It was in evidence that-told a: gave him a dollar election day, but Seagle testified it was to buy a pint of liquor, which he didn't get. Asherbranner took a hand in examining him and asked if it wasn't the day before election, and whereupon the witness said, "Well, I believe it was." Neighborhood troubles in the Witherspoon school community were aired Tuesday when cases charging disturbing the school last year were tried. Too much talk, it seems, about one thing and another, had got a lot of people on edge and they met at the school house one day to thresh the matter out, and inci detally they disarranged the days wTork in the school house. The then teachers, Misses Ora Smyre and Cora Witherspoon, testified that the school was broken up for the day. The up shot of the hearing was that Ja cob Witherspoon and A. S. Low rance were taxed with $4.75 each; Mrs. Lilly Withersppoon with '5.20 and Mrs. Lola Setzer with $11.50. Bandys township case was one in which Ernest Costner and J. Alonzo Propst, magistrate, figured. Costner, who was drink ing, wanted the 'squire to sell him a box of sardines one Sunday afternoon. He refused and there was a row, during which the 'squire shot Costner in the hand. Costner was allowed to pay $7 ing to $18. 2o. Robert Smyre, colored, paid $14.25 for using a deadly wea pon. John Setzer was charged with assault on Mrs. Haley Hew itt, a woman of 82 years, but the case was continued. Failure to list taxes was charg ed against Charlie Sherrill of Mountain creek, and he was call ed and failed, and a capias issued Cotton a Little Weakish. New York cotton closed yes terday 30 points to the bad and the market had a rather weak tone during the day. There is a ginners' report due the 25th and a break may be in the nature of a discount on that. Local cotton remained at 12J. An excursion train running from Chester to Gastonia Satur day ran over and killed a negro named Bud Jackson at Clover ha triprl to s winer on a crowded car and fell beneath the wheels. NEWTON, CATAWBA IN THE CENSUS Resume of The Showing Made by the County in Government Statistics. Fred H. Deaton, student in th university and member of the North Carolina club in that in stitution, recently compiled a very interesting array of facts about Catawba county in a paper prepared for the club. It shows where Catawba stood in the last census, which is the basis of study of the counties of the state. With 261,120 acres, the county ranks 60th in size among the 100 counties. It stood 32nd in population with 27,918 people; 19th in density of rural popula tion with 39 people to the square mile. The whites outnumber negroes 8 to 1 and the negroes decreased at the rate of 1.1 per cent during the preceeding 10 years. In illiteracy, Catawba stood 33rd, 10.6 per cent of her white people 10 years and over being un able to read and write, there be 1,S19 suchx people. The state average of illiterates is 12 per cent and the United States per cent is 3. With 659 wrhite illiterate vo ters, the county stood 34 in this particular, fhe per cent being 12.5. The state's average is 14 and the country's 4.2 per cent. In white school attendance, the county ranks 28th, he percent age being 77.5. There were 1,148 children between 6 and 14 who were not in school. The percentage of attendance in the state is 75. It stood 26th in ne gro school attendance, the per centage being 68.3, and there 287 children between 6 and 4 not in school. In the particular of salaries paid white teachers, Catawba stood 82nd in 1914, paying an average of $184 against $235 in the state. School expenditures per $1,000 of property were $8.74. The state average $8.03, but McDowell, a near-by county and commonly supposed not to be as good a county or asX weal thy, expends $20.85 per $1,000 of property for schools. CatawTba will increase her per cent this year, 2 cents on the $100 having been levied. The rate of marriage per 1,000 population 15 years and over, wras 14.2 per cent in 1913 as com pared with 16 in the state and 37.5 per cent in Pasquotank. The population of narriagable age was 18,612 in 1912, and there were 264 'marriages. The death rate for the last four months in 1913 per 1,000 popula tion was 10 as compared with 17.3 for the state in 1912 and 15 in the United States,' which is a good showing. The birth rate wras 24.3, wThich is about 2 per cent less that of the entire coun try. The county was 18th in total farm wrealth, the amount being $8,454,030, and in the increase of farm wealth from 1900 to 1910, the county stood 23rd, gain ing 156 per cent as compared with 130 per cent increase, ave rage for the state. The increase in the value of domestic animals in the county from 1900 to 1910 was 116 per cent; against 109 in the state and 208 in Robeson county. The total taxable prop erty in 1913 was $8,648,072, and the increase from 1903 to 1913 was 73 per cent against 81 per cent in the state. There were 140 negro farm owners in the county, which made a percentage of 51 against 33 in the state. White farm owners numbered 2,1?4, which was 74 per cent, against 66 per cent in the state. The county stood 40th in tax rate, state and county, on the $100 of property in i913, the rate being 90 2-3. Sixty counties have a higher rate, Yan cey's being the highest $1.68.. The county stood 85th in the tax value of farm land as com pared with the census value, the percentage of tax value to census value being only 27. The state average of tax value to census value is 38. The census value is somewhere in the neighbor hood of the market value; the tax value is usually around 25 N. C, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1915. SOCIETY AND PERSONAL NEWS Frank Lide and bride of De catur, Ala., who have been spend ing their honeymoon in western North Carolina, arrived Wednes day to be guests of Mr. Lyon's cousin, Mrs. R. B. Knox. The Enterprise has received the following: The Orticers and Members cordially invite you to be present at the . Celebration or the Twenty-Filth Anniversary of the pastorate of the Reverend Joseph Ii. Murphy as pastor of Corinth Keroriued Church Hickory, North Carolina, November seventh nineteen hundred and fifteen Miss Katherine Mather, domes tic science teacher in Startown school, arrived yesterday from Columbia, S. C, and is working with the faculty in preparation for the school opening. Gilbert Cline, wdio attended the Tennessee synod at New Brook ln, S. C, as delegate from the Newton pastorate of the Luther an church, returned yesterday. Rev. Mr. Fulmer and family will return within the next few days. Miss Terissa Hoyle of Gaffney, S. C, registered nurse, has lo cated in Newton, and is making her home with her aunt, Mrs. J. A. Young. A verv pleasant social wras given last evening in the annex of the Methodist church by the members of the Missionary So ciety to the ladies of the congre gation. Ice cream, and cake and coffee were served. The object of the gathering, wThich was greatly enjoyed, was to increase the membership of the society. AT THE CHURCHES t Services at the Reformed church Sunday morning and evening. Subject of the morn ing sermon, "Old Testament Benediction"; evening sermon, "Learn to Say 'No'". The evening sermon will be of spec ial interest to young people. The public cordially invited. Rev. WM. Sikes will preach and hold communion at Sherrills Ford Presbyterian church Sun day morning at 11 o'clock, and at Denver school house will preach Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. The Newton Markets (Corrected Every Issue) Cotton 12l" Cotton seed 55 c Cotton seed meal . .75 Cotton seed hulls 65 to 75c Wheat $1.25 Flour $2.90 to $3.00 Bran 1 85 Corn 75c and 1.00 Corn meal 1.20 Oats 60 Rye 1.00 Peas 1.25 Irish potatoes 75' SwTeet potatoes 40" Dried fruit 3- Chickens 10 and 12i(' Eggs 25; Butter 25' Beeves Shto 4c Calves Hogs . lO' Sheep Dry hides 15r Green hides 121 per cent of the market. In the matter of mortgages on farms the county ranked 37th, the percentage being 29 against 17 in the state, for whites, and ranked 35th with 37 per cent against 26 per cent in the state, for negroes. The state overages 18.5 per cent mortgage business for both races. The county was 39th in good roads in 1913, the percentage of improved roads being only 8. Since then Hickory and Newton have built good roads and the outlying townships have done some work. Additional statistics will be given in a later issue. LATEST WAR NEWS Serbians Putting Strong Resistance Russians on the Offensive. The Serbians continue their stubborn resistance to the Aus-tro-German advance in the North and to the Bulgarians along the Eastern frontier. Their lines have been broken at places and some of their towns have been captured, but, from all reports, the progress of the invaders has not been great. French and British forces are being landing in large numbers at Saloniki. Some of these have been engaged with the Bulgar ians, but the greatest effort of France and England apparently is to concentrate sufficiently troops at strategic points and along the line of defense to make their services count. The British Government, ac cording to The London Daily Telegraph, has proffered to Greece the Island of Cyprus, if Greece will enter the war with the Allies. Greece may be given the alternative of plainly defin ing her attitude in the world conflict. Diplomacy has been at work at Bucharest, and a Roumanian commission is reported to be on its way to Paris, first having made a brief visit to Odessa. In explaining in the House of Commons his reasons for resign ing from the Cabinet, Sir Ed ward Carson declared that he held views with respect to the military situation in the East strongly at variance with other members of the Cabinet and that he felt his presenee in the Cabinet would be of no further service. He declared he had acted in the best interest of his country. Premier Asquith's continued illness has relieved for the mo ment the tension in England caused by the threatened Cabinet crisis and temporarily quited the controversy which had arisen over the Ministry. In the eastern and western war zones the war drags on. In the west the Germans have been bombarding heavily the district to the east of Rheims, while the French batteries have exploded munitions depots in the German lines on the Aisne. Except in northwest Russia the Russians are vigorously on the offensive and are taking towns and positions from the Austrians and Germans and inflicting heavy casualties, Petrograd re ports. General von Linsingen's army along the Styr River is on the defensive against the Russians. There is still some doubt as to whether they have cut the rail way near Vyrauya. The Ser bians report that the Bulgarians reached the city but were driven back. The general opinion is that the Germans in the first place aim at the Serbian grain country, of w7hich Pozarevac, which they have have already reached, is the center, while the Bulgarians are making straight across the coun try for Macedonia, where they will find some of the population friendly to them. The Anglo-French forces have been in action near the Greco Bullgarian frontier, but seeming ly the battle was not inportant as no official reports have been issued with regard to it. The Germans according toBrit ish and French statements at tempted offensive movements near Hulluch and Rheims yester day but again suffered severe re-1 verses.' On the other hand the Germans claim success near Prunay, in the Champagne dis trict. Mining operations have occu pied the attention of the Anglo French troops and the Turks in Gallipoli, where from Mesopota mia it is unofficially reported that the British are within a few miles of Bagdad. Considerable importance is at tached to the arrival at Odessa of a military mission en route from Rumania toParis. Its object is not known but it is thought Sheriff Isenhour Begins Collection of Tax for 1915 Wednesday the county com missioners turned over the tax books for 1915 to Sheriff John A. Isenhour, who immediately be gan handing out receipts. The first man to pay was "Doctor" Dan Watts of Catawba township. The second was A. J. Bumgar ner, who was also the first from Clines township. The newT books represent a total of $102,000, with which sum the sheriff is charged. In 1914 the total was $96,000, so there is an increase of $6,000 this year. Bond was given in the sum of $20,000 for the state and the same for the county and the school fund, with the follow ing as sureties for the sums named: G. A. Warlick, K. Z. Menzies, E. A. Herman, L. E. Hunsucker P. E. Isenhour, P. C. Setzer, A. D. Herman, R. P. Caldwell, S. L. Hunsucker, S. L. Killian, G. W. Sigmon, J. D. Ellliot, A. L. Shuford, J. A. Propst, J. W. Shuford, J. C. Yount, R. Lee Hewitt, Clarence Clapp, J. H. Yount, P. O. Carpenter, W. J. Shuford, J. Yates Killian, J. A. Gaither and W. L. Yount. Sheriff Isenhour started out yesterday on his "first round" his appointments being for Rudi seli & Anthony's store and W. P. Workman's store. Today he will be at Mulls store till noon and at Ford & WTiisenant's store this afternoon. Tomorrow he is billed for Brookford mill store in the morning and the city mana gers office at Hickory for the afternoon. Herbert Sigman, general utility deputy for any officer in the court house ring who might need his services, will be office deputy for the sheriff and will keep house while that officer is out collecting. Where to Spend Your Money. Chance to get 27-piece dinner set at Clapp's for half the price. Cadet hosiery best in the world at Caldwell Cochran's. Boys and girls, get a coaster at Freeze Drug Co. Carpenters value's - still pleas ing shoppers. Drum's is family headquarters for all sorts of things. Garvin Furniture Co. has a new advertisement. Go to the Hickory fair read the adv. Go to the sale of household goods tomorrow Mr. Cox and Miss Shuford. Buy wearing apparel from the department store of C. M. Rowe. Write L. B. Bristol, States ville, about those farms. "Gilt-edge" ready-to-wear at Abernethy & Thompson's. Monkey Rum as a Luxury. Coincident with a police raid which developed eight blind tigers, officers in Lexington learned that a man had distilled eight gallons of booze from four bushels of corn, added 200 pounds of sugar and brewed out of the mess 43 gallons of monkey rum which he retailed at the prevail ing high prices. It is known that he made as much as $172 out of the investment and it is thought he even got as much as $300. Monkey rum is named thus because it makes the folks who drink it revert to first prin ciples and act like apes. A cotton seed oil mill in Edge combe county has installed ma chinery for making peanut oil. It is found that the oil commands a higher price, that a ton of nuts produces 50 to 60 gallons against 42 to 47 produced by seed, and the residue contains a larger per centage of ammonia than seed meal. here that such a mission hardly would be undertaken unless Ru mania contemplated action on the sirlp of the Allies. The Germans are employing their Zeppelins against the Brit ish and Russian submarines in the Baltic where German ships have been suffering heavily dur ing the past fortnight. NO. 59 REVIEW7 OF WORLD EVENTS Wide Survey of General News Given in Paragraphs for Quick Reading. Three more German sailors are missing from the interned cruis ers at Norfolk, making nine who have disappeared, six of them being officers who bought a yacht and lit out for some unknown port. Mexico is once more in official touch with the United States. Carranza has been recognized as provisional president and Henry P. Fletcher, ambassador to Chile, has been selected as ambassador to Mexico. In an altercation between Frank Carmichael and his brother Lawrence at McColl. S. C, Tues day, a knife was used in self- defense by the former and the latter's nose was sliced off during the melee. Woman's suffrage was defeat ed Tuesday in New Jersey by more than 50,000 majority. President Wilson's own precinct, where he himself voted for suf frage, went against it 2 to 1. The women are not disheartened and say they will keep fighting for the ballot. We get fruit from Central and South America but that doesn't prevent our shipping fruit down there. From New York a ship has sailed for Argentina carrying 2,000 tons of Oregon apples, 45, 000 boxes of apples, many pears, 1000 tons of potatoes. The apples and pears will retail at about 15 cents each down there. Taking advantage of the situa tion brought on by the war and its demands on American indus tries, organized labor everywhere is calling for the eight-hour day and the employers are fiercely resisting, but the odds would seem to be in favor of the labor unions this time. Many plants have already put in eight-hour shifts. Germany is wrought up over the allegation that the English crew of a gunboat which sank a submarine, shot and killed in cold blood the struggling crew which tried to swim-to the Eng lish vessel. It is sworn by a number of men, Americans among them, that the Britons killed several of the Germans after they had reached the gun boat and the rest in the water. The point that concerns this country is whether the gunboat carried our flag. Grand Theatre Leased. Wednesday E.. Lee Schrum. owner of the Grand theatre, leased the building to W. De brell Allred of Hickory, and associates, who will take charge November 1, and operate the show. It is understood that the consideration amounts to $90 a month rental. Mr. Allred. who until recently was with the Clapp drug store here, will come back to Newton to be manager of the Grand. The theatre is elegantly equipped and the new managers promise the best service possible. An Ancient Clock in Hickory. A Hickory dispatch says: Charles Bolick of this city is the possessor of an old clock, still running, although its wheels are made of wood, and its history can be traced back for over 40 years. Besides giving the time the clock has pasted in the back some statistics. From this clock it is learned that in the yaar 1S20 the postage rate for a single let ter for a distance not exceeding 30 miles was six cents; over 30 miles and not exceeding 80, 10 cents; over SO and not exceeding 150 miles, 12 cents For a let ter of more than onesheet, the rate was doubled, and a letter weighing an ounce, the postage was quadrupled. North Caiolini in 1S20 contained 638, S20 people and the United States 9,625,730. Judging from this record in the back of the clock it must be at least 90 years old. Rev. E. O. Smithdeal of Hick ory was a visitor yesterday. - .-: . - . r
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