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KQPLE fBfM OFF" WHO HAVE BEEN HEARING OF CATAWBA SHOIMJ SEECATAWBA FAltf F HICKORY V0L. XXXVII r,N COUNTY NEWS ITEMS he Happenings of Local Inter H hat Folks are Doing. r; ;. school census of this V: totals 9l7 people of school I'he Startown district was .vir.ploted last week and; , 17.". school people. ;) tight Friday night up - ',.', Lewis, a young white ; severely cut, and John ;, ,!-; badly hurt on the i i a c hunk of coal. Stitches r,.vssary in Lewis' case. ,-,-v. 1 i m Green and Prof. ,1 ; wsonie are helping Rev. i; Sherrill in a two-weeks m the Main Street Meth r c;iuivh at Salisbury. Mr. n is paster of the Rock ritcuii andjMr. Newsome I ii i' of the singing- at Mr. ' . annus revivals. i i ". ' 1 nearly IS years old , !il for registration yes It is for a lot sold in : : . 19S. by 0. C. Overcash lite Alvin Hilderbrand. .i u erbrand, in considering " the lot to Charley Bos s unable to complete the t;;::' t w ;r.til his attorney, W. B. i. :; :xv. came upon the old deed. The synod of the Potomac, rv''.rr.ed church, opened last at llreencastle, Pa. Atten ,:':ijr ii'"m this section are Dr. J. ;. .Maii'hy. Rev. J. D. Andrew a v A. S. Peeler of Lenoir, Rev. I.. A. Peeler of High Point and 1; v. 1. A. Koons of Rockwell. I i !; y night Dr. Murphy deliv- , ,,f the principal addresses i ;he week's program. -'.eorge W. Setzer of the N'fV.t'n cotton mill went to laie-ville Saturday to consult a r cialit about an attack of I.U i mralvsis sustained one ' :;ht recently while at work in the mill. The right cheek, half the lips and half the tongue are ni'iWtoil and the eyelids, the ex ':!'),'' the affection ending ex . at the center of the face. friends sympathize with him ! trust that the trouble will nr. The North Carolina synod '". the Presbyterian church meets ; v. eek in Gastonia. An item ' rr.ia-h interest to this section ( ti e state is the proposal to re- ; ! i'.-e the presbyteries, cutting ' ':!' mountain counties and :.v: them into a new synod ' : Aii r.iachia and placing the I e'-ve;:i ana bherrills ford con izations in theKings Mountain i ivshytery. Rev. W. M. Sikes, l-:it-r, and Dr. Geo. H. West, -i'iYr, will represent the local church as delegates. Little Miss Katherine Wil i"p. j. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. ' ' '!' !( n Wilfong, was very suc- cess I ill w ith her poultry and egg lihils at the state fair. In the atic class of fowls she receiv A ed first premium on Light Brah mas and Black Langshan; fourth "m White Plymouth Rock eggs, third on White Wyandotte eggs, i' n th on Red Island Red eggs, third on Buff Ornine-ton. fifth on - J O 7 V. hito Orpington, first on Silver jangled Hamburg eggs, and Mid on S. C. White Leghorn 'v. - -nine premiums in all. The r:,!avba poultry and egg exhib '! a as very fine, we understand. Until December 1 taxpayers :t get their receipts for town k-es from James H. McCelland, tiv.v clerk and treasurer, by call i" " 'at his office. Until that time -1" :" cent discount is allowed. Xotir-,. the advertisement. Coun 1 '' :ml :tate taxes are being '''"h! along at the sheriff's '' '''c. Sheriff Isenhour will be I Holler's store thismorn i! "":nid at Claremont this after 1 '''''ii. Tomorrow he will spend '! ( fort-noon at Catawba and the :i'i'i iioon at Long Island; Thurs- he will visit Olivers cross ! ds in the forenoon and W. L. Alley's store in the afternoon. 1 t iday he goes toConover and to -Maiden, and will complete his ,5t round Saturday, at Sherrills '"'d in the morning and Terrell 11 the afternoon. By noting 'vhet e he is on a given day you toll whether your township are in the office here. New SOCIETY AND PERSONAL NEWS Mrs. J. O. Bishop of Lima, Ohio, returned to her home Fri day after having spent four weeks with relatives in the coun ty, v Misses Ina and Mattie Morrison of Staesville were here shopping Saturday, selecting hats at the Caldwell-Cochran millinery de partment, and visiting the milli ner, Miss CharTye Frye. Miss Frye had as her guest Sunday her uncle, S. G. Frye, of States ville. Robert Murray who left this county 15 years ago for the west and who settled in Washington, arrived Saturday to spend sev eral weeks with friends and re latives here and in the county. Mrs. L. O Cloninger and child ren of Dallas- are visiting Mrs. Cloninger's parents, Mr. and J. W. Killian. Mr. and Mrs. F. T. Cox left Friday morning for Lexington, Ky., where they will make their home. Very many friends re gretted their departure and best wishes will follow them. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Abernethy, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Abernethy and Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Aber nethy, Miss Lenore Sourbeer and Miss Elizabeth Abernethy, of Hickory, motored to Newton Sunday and spent the afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Thomp son and Mr. Julius Abernethy. Dr. L. A. Crowcll of Lincoln ton left Friday for New York Boston and will be awav until the Gth of November, attending th North American Clinical Con gress of Surgeons which meets in Boston from the 25th to the 29th of this month. Dr. Crowell will spend the remainder of his time visiting New York hospitals. ' Mr. and -Mrs. E. S. Shelby wjll leave this week for Ashland, Va., where they will live. It is 1G miles from Richmond, where Mr. Shelby is in business, and this is the consideration behind the move. Their friends are sor ry to lose them and hope that thev'll come back some time. Dr. and Mrs. J, B. Little and son Byron motored to Stanley Sundav. and the doctor will re- main for a week on professional business. Mrs. Vena Little Goode of Charlotte spent the week-end at home. Mrs. L. T. Mann of Statesville accompanied Presiding Elder Mann to Newton and spent yes terday with Mrs. W. M. Biles at the paraonage. Dr. Robert II. Rowe of Besse mer City returned to that place Sunday after spending several days here, called home by the illness of his father, M. J. Rowe. Mr. and Mrs. Gwynn Harper and son, Rich Harper, of Patter- -i ii i- i i son, motorea inrougn yesceruuy afternoon, enroute to Charlotte. Governor Bickctt in Town. Hon. TA W. Bickett of Louis burg, attorney general of the state and candidate for governor, was in town yesterday, guest of Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Bickett. He left on No. 22 for the east after touring the mountain section. The Enterprise was favored with a call which was enjoyed. Mr. Bickett is very complacent about his nomination, finding the west pretty strong for him. He and his friends do not think there will be a great deal of time spent in the convention when it comes to nominating 'the next governor. Personally Mr. Bickett is a prince of gentlemen and on the stump, perhaps hasn't now an equal in the state. He comes nearest Aycock of being a peo ple's man in a Speech, possess ing an irresistable fund of humor that wins him an audience every where! While little has been said in this county about state is often necessary, tijat it is in nnlitiVs. Mr. Bickett has many 1 cident to life-that life is war, friends who will trv to hold the the fort for him hera. NEWTON, N. Talking Sweet Potatoes Origin of the Tubers The Charlotte Observer says: Historian Ashcraft, of The Monroe Enquirer, tells us in an other column the "how come" of the sweet potato, and hardly had we prepared his information for passing along, when Editor Wil liams of The Newton Enterprise sends in a song about the glories of the tuber as perfected by the Dutch farmers of Catawba coun ty. "The Catawba sweet po tato," he says, "was nevef finer than in this year of plenty. It is marvelous that so few people in this country of ours are ac quainted with the ambrosial de lights of a baked Catawba yam, yellow as gold, sweet as need be, delicate as a dream when broken tenderly and spread from time to time with Catawba butter." The Enterprise is disposed to bemoan the fact that the Cataw ba sweet potato is known to but comparatively few markets out side the state, but as the farm ers seem to be able to sell all tney raise tnis snouia not oe a matter of much consequence. It is a pity, though, that so large a part of the country is in ignor ance of what the real article of sweet potato tastes like and we suspect it is this aspect of the case that produces the sigh from Editor Williams. This is the note of The En quirer: Sweet potatoes, plenty of them for home cosumption, have been made in this county. Nothing better than a good, well cooked sweet potato, unless it is another potato. The sweet potato is a native of the West Indies. The natives of Cuba gave Columbus sweet potatoes. Sir Francis JDrake sent some potatoes to Vfhgland, but neglected to tell about preparing them for the table. The gardeners who plant ed the potatoes cooked the tops and pronounced the stuff no good. One gardener pulled his potatoes up and made a fire and threw them on it, tops and roots, to get rid of the worthless stuff and attracted by the pleasant odor he picked up a tuber and tasted it. Roasted sweet potato! He told his family and his neighbors about the "good eating." They tried the cooked potatoes and from that time the sweet potato has been in favor. Honeycutt-Fry Nuptials. The Easton, Pa., Daily Free Press, a copy of which The En terprise has received, contains an account of the recent marriage of Jesse V. Honeycutt and Miss Anna Dorethy Fry, which took place the 11th at the home of the bride's mother, Mrs. Anna Fry, Nazareth, Pa. The ceremony was performed in the presence of over fifty guests, by Rev. Charles D. Kreider. The bride was at tended by her sister, Miss Clara Fry, and the best man was Frank M. Fry, of Duran, N. M. The bride wore a gown of white crepe de chine, en train, with lace and pearl trimming. The veil wras caught up with lillies of the valley and a bridal boquet of roses and lillies was carried. The bridesmaid wore blue crepe de chine and carried pink roses. Speaking of the bride, TheFree Press says: "She is one of the best-known young women in Nazareth and is prominent in musical circles in Nazareth, Ekston and Bethlehem. She was instructor for music in Salem College for Women, Salem, N. C, and also at Catawba college, Newton, N. C. The groom js employed in the Redington plant of the Bethlehem steel compaiiy. They will make their home No. 933 Leigh street, Easton." Presiding Elder L. T. Mann preached a sermon Sunday night in the Methodist church that held the closest attention of his hearers. During the discourse he took issue with Bryan's peace propaganda, pointing out that war ' and that out of war comes bles- ' sings for mankiud. C, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1915 Community Club Formed At Startpwn Friday The first of clubs for civic the community betterment was organized Friday at Startown high school with Mrs. Phillip Coulter as president and Miss Wike as secretary. A second meeting is fixed for November 6. . Inspirational talks were made to the half a hundred people bv County Agent Mask, Professor Proffitt, Dr. Geo. E. Shipp, coun ty health officer; Principal Seck inger, of the school; Supt. Geo. E. Long, and others, including former Congressman A. C. Shu ford, who commended the ideals of the club movement and joined with all in offering hearty co operation. It is the intention of the offi cials to visit all parts of the county and organize these clubs which have for their object the betterment of every phase of community life. Sunday School Workers Here Next Sunday i There will be a mass meeting of the Sunday school workers of Catawba county at this place next Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. The purpose is to study the subject of Sunday school as a potent force in modern life and to arouse greater interest in in telligent and efficient Sunday school work. It is planned to organize a county association which shall in clude people of all denominations. There will be an interesting pro gram , good music," good speak ers, and a pleasant social gather ing. J. Walter Long, state secretary; Prof. Chas. M. Staley of Hickory schools; Rev. W. M. Biles of the Methodist and Rev. W. W. Rowe Reformed church, will church of the deliver addresses. Every Sunday school is urged to send representatives, Meanwhile, further information may be had from W. E. Bacon of Newton, Revs. J. D. Harte, J. G. Garth and E. O. Smithdeal, of Hickory. A lot containing a bit over an acre, lying just below Clare mont and belonging to the estate of Ellen Hunsucker, colored, was sold at auction yesterday by Geo. E. Setzer, commissioner, of Clare mont, and bid off by Rev. Jim Cline, colored, at $81.50. It was declared to be worth more than that by several colored people interested, one woman delaring it had a peach tree on it worth a lot itself; and so the sale is left open 20 days for a 10 per cent raise. Mr. and Mrs. Charley Rufty and two sons of Catawba were in town a while yesterday. Cotton Breaks Some More. The cotton market yesterday broke again and dropped about 30 points. The local price is 12 cents. The ginners report show ed 5,713,347 bales ginned up to the 18th of October. The Newton Markets (Corrected Every Issue) Cotton Cotton seed 12 55'" 1.75 65 to 75c Cotton seed meal Cotton seed hulls Wheat Flour $1.25 $2.90 to $3.00 Bran Corn Corn meal Oats Rye Peas Irish potatoes Sweet potatoes Dried fruit Chickens Eggs Butter Beeves Calves Hogs Sheep Dry hides i Green hides 1 85 75c and 1.00 1.20 60 1.00 1.25 75' 40(' 3 10 and 25c 3hto 4c 10? 15 12i? Enterprise . : Get Fine Equipment For Farm Life School The new administration at Startown has gone in for com plete equipment for the farm lifp school and is succeeding ad mirably in assembling the num erous badly needed articles. Yesterday County Agent Mask gave out a list of things which he calls "some" of the new equipment, meaning thereby that they intend to keep on hunt ing for articles that can be used in the conduct of the "college" out there. The list to date in cludes a big Bull tractor, 25 horse power: two "James" sanitary cow stalls; a "Liberty Bell" power washing machine; a "Mc Kay" disc plow and sub-soiler; an "Oxweld" acetylene genera tor for lighting the boys dormi tory; a "Bostrom-Brady" farm level, an instrument for laying off terraces, etc.; a complnte can ning outfit, which the Home Canner Co., of Hickory bestowed on the school: a combination apple and peach parer, contri buted by the Rhyne Hardware Co. of Newton; one "Bill" broad caster lime, manure, and fertili zer spreader; a complete exhibit showing the manufacture of "Union" carbide. The live wires of the school went atter these things and got them, and the upshot of it is Startown is the best equipped farm life school in the state and is going to be a model for all of them. The prospect is that great things will be accomplished there this year. About Preparedness and Other Things. To tho Kditor of '. iJnierpi lse: Having read your article of October 19 on "Peace Depends on Preparedness," I would like to submit a few remarks. It seems very strange that all the i naoers in tnis countrv unti j recently except the strictly Ger- I man publications, have f rom the have beginning of the great struggle that is devouring Europe, preach ed "had Germany not been pre pared, there would have been no war." In the first place, the United States refused at the be ginning of the war to hear any of Germany's arguments, so far as the press was concerned. The reason for that, I suppose, is that if England says North Carolina is a county in Sout Carolina, of course it is so. Can it be that we Americans are getting down to realize who and where our place is? Let me venture to say that Germany has done nothing to compare with England to hurt America since the beginning of this war. Germany of course has killed a few supposed-to-be Americans protecting English ammunition. For instance the Lusitania. But if there is a man in the United States who can prove that the passengers on ship were other than English and French sympathizers, I will eat my hat. I notice in your article that you have not forgotten our "friend" on the other side of the Pacific of which England is backing every step she makes. Can any right-thinking American dispute that? So let us keep up the good work 1 as Americans and don't look for trouble but be ready to strike on the Atlantic as well as Pacific at the same time, which 1 we certainly will have to do some day. H. H. Smyre. Charleston, S. C, Oct. 21, 1915. Where to Spend Your Money. Comforts, blankets, etc. at Caldwell Cochran company's. , Skirts and coat suits at Aber nethy & Thompson's Cgsh Store. American Girl shoes see Car penter's adv. Week-end toilet sets Good man & Frieze. Bulbs at the Freeze Drug Co. Z. B. Buchanan, C. A. Moser and C. L. Whitener of Hickory were here yesterday. NEWS OF THE COUNTY Claremont News. Claremont, Oct. 25. Mrs. John Bollinger and children of Rich mond, Var: are spending a few days with Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Huitt. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Du laney of Asheville are spending a few days with Mrs. Dulaney's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Setzer. Mrs. Cleveland Little of Newton spent Saturday here, the guest of her sister-in-law, Mrs. G, H. Huitt. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lentz of Statesville spent the week-end with Mrs. Lentz's parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Arndt. Wade Gantt, Herbert Setzer, Frank Moser and Russei Shook leave today for Lynch burg, Va., where they will take up work for the winter. Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Setzer of Ashe ville are the guests this week of Mas. Setzer' s parents, Mr. and Mrs. K. S. Sigmon. Miss Nellie Huitt and Ross Huitt, students of Lenoir college, are spending several days with their father, J. H. C. Huitt. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Winters and family of Newton spent Sunday with Rev and Mrs. R. M. Carpenter. Mrs. C. M. Bost, Misses Mae Huffman and Modena Baker motored to Newton Saturday to do their fall shopping Mr, and Mrs. J. M. Morrison motored to Statesville Sunday to spend a few days with Mr. Morrison's daughter, Miss Lucile Morrison. Mr. and Mrs. Avery Deal of Catawba spent Sunday with Mrs. J. D. Kelly. Mrs. Dr. D. M. Moser is spending a few days in Conover with her mother Mrs. Mack Yount. Mrs. Sallie Huitt has returned home after spend ing a few months with her daughter, Mrs. R. L. Fritz of Hickory. Tom Deal of the South ern spent a few days at home last week. Carpenter, Yount & Co. have finished making molasses for this season, having made 3,000 gal - , Jons. Mrs. Elizabeth Pope, mother of H. P. Pope, an aged lady of 87 years, is very ill with pneu monia. Mr. and Mrs, Sam Gantt are all smiles its a girl. In the South Fork Valley. Hickory Rt. 1, Oct. 25. - The yield of sweet potatoes is very abundant and farmers are getting more than they expected. The houses wouldn't hold all they raised and some had to build new ones. A few have sown some wheat and many are ready to begin. Mrs. Fannie Blackburn, wife of Henry Blackburn has bought nine acres of land in Blackburn at $48 an acre. Walter Black burn bought 10 acres of E. L. Dagenhardt fo"f $512. The republicans are not blow - ing their ram's horn about five cent cotton as they did last fall. Prosperity seems to be : prosperous m spite oi tne war and everything else. j Enloe Yoder has gone to Vir-' ginia to survey a tract of 1,500! acres south of Lynchburg, for G. D. Mosteljer. ! Miss Stella Yoder of Hickory has been a week-end visitor at ' j the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Yoder. Mrs. Yount ! of Conover has also been to see ! her father, G. M. Yoder. If you vrill notice, it will hold good that when it is cloudy on a j Sunday, it will remain so until I about Friday of the week. P. R. Yoder and his brother Alf have been out on another trading exposition. Witherspoon School Case. It should have appeared more plainly in the report of the trial Withers poon school house case in county court last Tuesday, that a ! plea of nolo contendere was offer ed and accepted by the state in the case against Mr. and Mrs. Witherspoon and Mr. Lowrance, who were discharged upon pay ment of costs. NO. 60 FIGHTING ON ALL FRONTS Balkans Continue to be the Center cf World Interest in the Great War. A continuation of the progress of the Teutons and Bulgarians against Serbia; fresh advances by the Germans in. northwest Russia and the sinking of a Ger man arrnored crusier by a British submarine in the Baltic Sea. arv? the outstanding features in the world war, as reported in the official' communications, accord ing to the Observer's review yes terday. Uskup, a junction point of great strategic value on the Sa-loniki-Nish and Saloniki-Mitro-vitza railroad lines, and Kumano vo and Veles has been taken by the Germans, while in the north the Austro-German along the entire front are advancing against the Serbs, who continue to make the invasion costly by their vigorous resistance. Another crossing of the Dan ube has been made by the Ger mans at Orsova, in northeastern Serbia, near the Iron Gates of the Danube, where the river leaves Austrian soil. The Bul garians to the south of this region have crossed the Timok river between Kniazevac and Zajecar, and a battle is in prog ress for the possession of the former place. The French in the vicinity of the Greek border have captured the village of Rabrova, nine miles south of Stfumitso. The understanding at Saloniki, according to a news agency dis patch from Athens, is that the bombardment of the Bulgarian coast on the Aegean sea is in connection with the Allies plan to make a landing at Porto Lagos to the west of Dedeaghatch. That heavy fighting is almost continuous along the Dvinsk front is attested by both German and Russian official communica tions. By a violent concentrated artillery fire, the Germans pre pared for the storming of the ! , i attacks lasted throughout an en tire day, at the close of which the Germans occupied the town. The losses on both sides were heavy, as the battle was carried into the streets with the bavonet. Austria and Italy are fighting with the utmost determination along the Austrian-Italian fron tier. The Italian war office re ports that "a new and brilliant success" has marked the Italian offensive in the Ledro valley. In the Carso district, the deadly ef fects of the Austrian artillery are admitted by the Italian offi cial statement which says not withstanding this the Italian in frantry advanced impetuously and captured ground on the left wing east of Peteano, and in the center of the front. In the western zone, the eighth attack by Germans in five days t in the Givenchy wood, north of ' Arras, was put down, according to Paris with heav; I attacking forces. losses to the Otherwise there has been little fighting ex- ; cept by the artillery m the entire region from the Belgian coast to the Vosges. No details are given in the official statement from Petrograd reporting that a German armored cruiser of the Prinz Adalbert class has been accounted far near Libou by a British subma- rine. Vessels of this class carry a complement of between 500 I and 600. ; Germany's official explanation of the execution in Belgium of , the British nurse, Edith Cavell, i is that Miss Cavell headed a con- spiracy which had "succeeded ; for nine months in rendering ! valuable service to the enemy, to I the disadvantage of our army." Mullenaux-Reitzel. Sunday afternoon in Hickory Mr. Loy Mullenaux and Miss 1 Edna Reitzel were united m marriage by Rev. J. D. Mauney. A number of friends from New ton attended. They will live here. The groom is a son of Mr. Felix Mullenaux and the bride is a daughter of Mr. R. R. Reitzel "kW "' ..- - . ' v'
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