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1 f TRADE INf NEWTON WHERE EVERY DOLLAR YOU SPEND GOES TO BUILD A BETTER TOWN AND MARKET rm VOL. XXXVII NEWTON, N. C, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1915. NO. 65 rTV-TTTT- if ' E I , 1 i$ 1 i i J 1 mtmMam Sab. Lde -3 AND COUNTY NEWS ITEMS ,f 1 Happenings of Local Inter Vhat Foil s arc Doing. 1). E. Isenhour was n yesterday with acute in ioii an:l has been very low. . a as much anxiety about -1 o rtlay afternoon. Sunday School Meeting at Salisbury Nov. 22-24 NOTE OF VAST IMPORTANCE : exchange of properties m made by R. P. Cald well ; nd .Tames A. Garvin wherein- Mr. Garvin takes the Cald vei . res 'donee on Ninth street Mr. Caldwell gets tne property at tne cor Xinth and Pine streets. .copied by H. K. Fos- family is moving to West Virginia where r. Foster is engaged in demon- l 1 U . WOIK, as lie was uere. Caldwell will make repairs, :r:d move into his new home ar.d FhV'- Ti.W Ot WO Or. Gastonia "A. i with ; lositi ; .e . in v !;e Gazette says: Conoly. who has been Southern Bell Telephone for several years, filling with that concern in cities, has accepted a s supervisor of traffic Piedmont Telephone & Tvle-irapa company, having en tereluiion hi? duties the first. His w.'i rs covers the entire system e . e - lin? over number of coun .. North and South Carolina, vhh haul offices here." Mr. Conoly have been Wwton their home for the livinor The t hotel. Catawba county is preparing ing to send a strong delegation to the state Sunday school con vention which meets at Salisbury November 22-24. Undoubtedly! the convention wiil have the best bill of fare, writes the secretary, ever offered at a state conven tion. Topics will be fresh and timely and of vital interest to leaders of thought and activity in other lines than Sunday school work, Able speakers will ap pear before the meeting. The social side has been planned carefully. All the delegates will lunch together Tuesday and Wednksday of the convention. Salisbury has planned a religious pageant that is altogether new and alone will be worth the trip. Railroads offer reduced rates. It is suggested that all Sunday schools select delegates next Sun day and send their names to Frank R. Brown, Salisbury, chairman of the entertainment committee. .ur-. PROGRESS OF THE WAR GERMAN EDITOR'S VIEW '!!'! tY til.' t ..-'1 htened by on College morning, a be Mrs. (.!!!! 1 ;4 v :nts force a couple of street Wed horse being Albert Beard and ren ran away, turned over ana nurieu us to the ground with that Mrs. Beard was unroivcious for half an hour and ?u J!'. K I a fracture of her collar : . together with painful v. The boy and girl were :;:-iiv hurt. The horse broke he huggy pretty bad. Mrs. 1 : i vas carried to the near-by .-...!.., f S. L. Herman where r.t'lic ii attention was given and hf was sent to her home in the c'i'ihtrv. -"You'll have to take it all back." said a man alighting from the Carolina & Northwestern northbound afternoon train Wed iKs lay: '"all you said about this i.m' iivwl Other side of Mai ;en this afternoon the cars were hitting up such a lively clip that a crate of chickens in the express car was slung out the door and into a creek. The coop lusted and all but one of the 'owls went squawking into the '.voods beyond. The one got d:-own-ded. Funniest thing I ever saw, "he continued laugh ing. "We stopped and backed hack and picked up the coop, but the chickens were gone from there. You'll have to hand it to us this time." They must have been roing sort of like Osmond ilarringer when he went through Newton that time so fast he robbed The Enterprise devil of his shirt. - Dr." T. E. LeRoy of Gas- tonia was arrested here Tuesday -ternoon, charged with prac l;n medicine without license. Hnave bond in the sum of $200 an'v;as released. He denied M"aciising, saying he only went ound with Dr. E. J. Moore, also of Gastonia, with whom he la:i-" to Catawba. Wednesday toeing Dr. Moore was indicted practising in this county '-it registering. He claimed as is Fishin. Catching $1,200 worth of fish at one haul is slightly different from settin' all day on a mud bank of the Catawba and yank ing out six-inch cats, and it may interest inland fishermen to read about Captain's Owen's haul at Southport the largest catch ever brought to that port. Tuesday he ran into a school of mullet and loaded 70,000 pounds of them, and at least 20,000 of the 35,000 fish caught were roe mullet, and the boat load was sold at the wharf for $1,200. The packers will get 500 barrels of fish and 1,500 to 2,000 dozen roe, which sell at 50 cents the dozen, and will clear $1,000 on the batch. A dispatch says you could get ali the mullet you could totr for a dollar that day. Americans Shippers Enter Upon New Phase of Commercial Relations Now. President Wilson and Secre tary Lansing have read Ameri can and British press comment on the note to Great Britian and awaited the effect of the docu ment upon British treatment of neutral overseas trade. So far as American shippers concerned, the note- marks a turning point of vast importance, for henceforth the United States is to consider the British block- ade as ineffective and inopera tive, and cargoes of non contra band goods destined for Ger many, or through neutral coun tries to the enemies of Great Britian will be viewed by this government as immune .from de tentions. Claims of Americans for detentions or seizures of such goods will be supported by the United States diplomatic machin ery to the fullest extent. American offiicials expressed particular concern about the large trade they claim Great Britain herself is carrying on with neu tral ports to which American ex porters are forbidden to trade. It is this feature of the situation which officials regard as most serious and indefensible. They say if Great Britain held her own shippers to a normal trade with neutral countries, the ap plication of rigid measures to American traders might be less offensive, though the aspects of law would not be affected. In allied diplomatic quarters the note was not commented upon officially, but a uniformity Sinking of the Ancona Startles Washing ton and the Allied Capitals. The sinking of the Italian pas- senger steamer Ancona bv an Austrian submarine in the Med iterranean sea Tuesday and the drowning of a hundred or more people, mostly women and chil dren, is the sensation of the week in war news. Some of the lost are Americans, .though the number is not yet known. The Washington government will wrail for information as to wheth ea the Ancona was to blame be fore taking any action. If it is found that the submarine violated any of the rules agreed on be tween the United States and Germany as governing the rights ot submarines and passenger vessels, the Austrian government will be held responsible. The next most interesting item in the war news is the departure of Lord Kitchener to the Balkan theatre. There are some sur mises that he is really on his way to India to look into the un favorable reports as to internal troubles. But this seems hardly probable. His mission to the Balkans doubtless forshadows important plans soon to be put into motion to meet the German invasion. The German, Aus trian and Bulgarian forces have occupied about two-thirds of Serbia, but the French and English troops from Saloniki are now in touch with the Serbian contingent and are putting a check to the invasion. The Ger man estimate is that COO, 000 English and French troops have to Get Superior Court Over Civil Cases Tried of The iurv decided for the defen dant. A luderment ot bl.lK.HJ was made in the case of Hudson C Hoke, against the Hickory Chair of view was noticeable that the, been landed at baioniKi. n mis United States was arguing on j is correct, on which the allies are technicial grounds and failed to! silent, the number is rapidly take into consideration the alter- reaching the requirements that ed circumstance of the present Greece set up before entering war and the enlarged facilities ! the war. Another circumstance for rapid communication by rail 1 confirmatory on this supposition Robert Fay, self-confessed German bomb-plotter, and half a dozen other Germans have been indicted by a federal grand -jury in New York on charge of mnsnirinsr to violate the laws of r - ' between Dutch and Danish ports, for example and German cities. French and Russian officials pointed out that their govern ments were in sympathy with the attitude of their ally, Great Britain. Among all of the allied diplo- ! w thni- thf nllip Have made the Greek government a new- loan of eight millions this week. There is no late report as to the progress Russia is making in the assembling of the 500,000 troops on the Roumanian border, the condition on which Rou- mats the view prevailed that the 1 mania would also cast in her lot i (,. 11 Ik i .1 thp pnuni rv bv destroying ships i mntroversv would not become i with the allies. isui me loiui- of other harbors. countries in American ! acute, it pointed out that even if dence in all the allied capitals a deadlock was reached in the negotiations the Bryan peace Wilson Uses Scripture j treaties still were available for a To Back Preparedness i year's investtgation of the points 'in dispute. These pacts have President Wilson finds support ; been ratified between the United . ! rti - j I 11 nNino in the Scriptures for his policy of pies ana -an u c rt.u. national defense, and in a 1:1 !''t (ii. late license, which was uted, but the law re gistration in each county nhvsician croes. The es were set for the 23rd. uo.v is known locally as lre "Ccrrnan doctor" and he has iiV!cis lame among some people, Vf ' have gone to , Gastonia for 1) letter to Seth Low, who wrote the President commending his Man hattan club speech, quotes verses from the thirty-third chapter of Ezekiel. In the letter made public at the white house the presidentsaid : "I am particularly gratified that you should fully concur in the position I took in my speech to the Manhattan club. There is a quotation from Ezekiel which I have had very much in my mind recently in connection with these important matters. It is the second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth verses of chapter 33: " '2. Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, when I bring the sword upon a land, if the .people of the land take a man of their n i 1 coasts and set him lor tneir watchman: "'3. If, when he seeth the sword come upon the land he blow the trumpet, and warn the people; '"4. Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet and iai i taketh not warning, it tne sworn rl tnkp him awav. his blood shall be upon his own head. ".'5.- He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warn ing, his blood shall be upon him; but he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul. " '6. But if the watchman ii the sword come, and diow In German quarters, the argu ments in the American note were commended as sound and justified by international law. German officials, however, said they were more interested in what measures the United States would take to obtain acquiescence to its ex pressed views. In view of the length note, an answer from Britain is not expected least a month. that things will soon be going their way in the Balkans, inspite of the continued progress of the central nowers. evidently looks ' j. ' - to the early action of Greece and Roumania. The Russians continue to get the best of the Germans and Anstrians in the east. In the west neither side has lately gained any advantage. of the Great for at Where to Spend Your Money. Caldwell Cochran offer new ! millinery and ready-to-wear. New shipment of merchandise at Carpenter's. Cloninsrer's shoes ought to get your attention. A kitchen cabinet makes a heaven lv kitchen see Garvin's adv. Shoes for all at C. M. Rowe's rV3 at the Freeze Drug Co. 10 cents. Cotton. Cotton advanced four or five poiats yesterday over Wednes day on the New York future market, but the local price of 11 cents remains. Ten-cent cotton is being predicted by some, who argue that with the unpreceden ted weather of the fall, much more cotton will be produced than at first expected. One man oiipsspd 14 million bales and 10 - cent markets. The Newton Markets (Corrected Every Issue) Married. Yesterday at 11:30 at the home of the bride's father, William A. Hewitt, of this place, Miss Merlie May Hewitt was wedded to Mr. Edward Grigg. A sumptuous dinner was served the wedding orw fanrl the hat)DV couple left on No. 22 for the east. Rev. W. M. Biles officiated. un.-.uii -..i :. it- : v. i see bu ,u C4. u: i not the trumpet, and the people "'" time come, and take any person is taken away since for practising "' t ho proper credentials. To Mr. and Mrs. i: 'nl.ar-it, a son. W. A. among them, he in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.' " Greece is making no friends by her neutrality. She has hornswoggled the allies and now Knlcraria has given her the word that allowing allied troops to land at Saloniki is not very pleas ing to her. Cotton Cotton seed Cotton seed meal Cotton seed hulls Wheat Flour 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 . 11? 1.90 75c $1.30 $3.00 to $3.20 1 85 75c and 80 1.00 60 1.10 1.25 90 One Man in Europe Who is Able a Clear Viewpoint. Herman Bernstein, editor "The Day," a German publica tion, reports a conversation with Maximilian Harden, German editor and publicist, a part of which relating to America, is quite interesting. "The military authorities are incensed at Amerca over the question of ammunition, and the people at large fed on newspaper accounts inflaming the passions of the mob against Americans on this point, are of course all aroused. Only this evening as I came in from the city one of the railroad guards remarked to me: "Those cursed Americans are again supplying ammunition to the French and the British, with which thousands ot our men are killed. But we will teach them a lessson for this. We will give them the whipping they ih - serve." "This is the attitude of the ignorant people. But if the German 'here knew a little more of the truth about America, and if the Americans knew a little more of the truth about Germany, I feel certain that such a state of public opinion could not pre vail." "But this view is shared no only by the people who are fa miliar with the facts, "I remark ed. "I understand that in high political spheres in Germany such views have been expressed open ly. I have learned from a mos reliable source that a well known German diplomatist said to a prominent American several months ago: "It would be well for America to realize that there W , t- AAA d Ik are ouu,mu uerman-iimencans in the United States who would rise at a moments notice from the German government. The soon er America realizes this the bet ter for America." ' "The American replied to the German statesman: "You are mistaken. There are no German Americans, or any other hyphe nated Americans who would rise against America by order of another government. And I can assure vou that if there were. if so-called Americans would rise against America by order of another government, there are enough lamp posts in American on which to hang them all.' " Harden shrugged his shoulders and said: "I am astounded to hear that a statesman should have dared to make such a statement. but then in these days of madness people seem to have forgotten how to speak and think rational ly. My teehng concerning the German-Americans is this: If the Germans in America want to be so thoroughly German that they are displeased and openly discontented with America, they should have remained in Ger "They is no denying that the Germans in America constitute ll 1 i 1 4- one oi tne uest eienieiusuL me American people, and I know that most of them are patriotic Americans. It is quite natural that their sympathies should be on the side of their old home. It is human. But the German Americans should employ in a a crisis of this magnitude all the tact and good judgment at their command, and they ought to realize that the best way in which they can serve their old home is by showing they are good Americans, by actuallybeing and acting good Americans today. "If they have gone to Ameri ca they must have gone there to find something which they coiHd not find in their old homes, and if they stay there they must found what they sought. They are guests in Ameriea Thev have been welcome guests 10 l there before the war and they Superior court adjourned for the term Wednesday afternoon, the cases on the calendar set for the remainder of the week being continued until next court. A case of some interest was that of Mrs. A. H. Whitener vs. Morris P. Sharpe for alleged damages as a result of a collision between NORTH CAROLINA NEWS EVENTS Eiief Items Shoeing at a Glance What is Transpiring Throughout the State. Asheville has voted 200,000 of bonds for a new high school building and other school pur poses, by a good majority. William J. Bryan spoke at Goldsboro Monday night and de livered a rousing speech. He paid high tribute to the president, the motor car of the defendant ; thouffh he differs with him on and the buggy of the plaintifi. j the defense of the nation pro gram. Octavius Smith, colored, had a row with his wife and three daughters over some cotton they Manufacturing company, a com promise being effected. Judgment for $1,398.87 was s-iven in favor of Mrs. Essie M. Jones vs. T. L. Henkel, Z. B. Buchanan and S. D. Campbell, action being on a note. Daniel Isenhower was awarded $200 against N. O. Coffey, this being the last case tried. Judgment for S50. the return of a $20 mortgage and $150 was made in the case of A. G. Daw son vs. J. B, Lowery, et als. Divorce was granted in the case of Henry Hefner vs. Maggie Hefner. Mack Setzer, white, who plead guilty to larceny, and was fined $20 and costs, having no money, was sentenced to jail 60 days. Loii Archer, a colored woman, was sentenced to jail with privi lege to the Commissioners to hire Clay Houk, who confessed to participation in the robbery of the Farmers Union warehouse, of which Frank Travis and Pat Thornburg were acquitted, was ordered to the Jackson Training school at Concord until such time as the court officials think he should be released. Judge Adams goes from Ca tawba court to Mitchell county. Each visit he has paid to Cataw ba has increased his popularity among the eitizens. No finer gentleman or abler lawyer and judge comes to the county. Solicitor Hayes, who is just be ginning his term as solicitor, has already shown that he is master of his job and is well liked in the j eountv. Farmers Make More Than Ever Before slit the throat of three daughters, and then left his home, which is near Fayetteville. Dr. William Louis Poteat, president or Wake Forest college has has been awarded the Patter son cup for the most notable lit erary production in the state dur ing the year, his work being a book. "The New Peace." Rev. George Sweat t, pastor of a Wesleyan Methodist church near Hamlet, was shot and killed Monday night while driving along the road to his home just outside the town of Hamlet.N He had been active in the cause of law and order and that leads the opinion to believe that some tough took vengence on him. Hon. Claude Kitchin, house leader of the democrats, called on the president by appointment Monday and they conferred over the president's program of na tional defense. Mr. Kitchin de clared that he could not support the program, differing with the president; but said he would not oppose the subject as leader of the house, only as a private in the ranks. John T. Marsh, employe of the Clinchfield Manufacturing com pany at Marion, shot and killed J. R. Ray Tuesday morning, sur rendered and coolly told his story which began several years ago when Marsh alleges Ray drugged his wife. He alleges Ray re cently dogged his steps and taunted him, and he put a gun on his hip. luesday morn ing they met, Ray raised a pick er stick as if to hit him and he fired. He has a wife and six children. The principal crops of the United States this year will be worth 500 million more than in 1914, in which year the record was broken. The estimated value this year is five and a half billion dollars. Corn, measuring three billion, a hundred million, bushels. 34 million less than last year, is worth nearly two billion dollars, or almost 200 million more than last year. Wheat, with the biggest pro duction ever known, over a billion hnchel is worth 932 million, or MViuitv-f - 54 million more than last year, the record crop. The U. S. this year grew about one fourth the world's crop. All other nrmcioal crops were good and worth much monies. Died. One of the twins recently born to Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Drum died Vvednesday and was buried yesterday afternoon at 2:30 in Center church graveyard. The funeral of Harry Barrin ger, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Barringer, was held Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock in St. James Lutheran church and in terment made in the graveyard there. Rev. C. I. Morgan held services. A large number of sympathetic friends attended and the floral offerings were quite numerous and very beautiful. The greatest sympathy is felt for members of the family. --$1.00 40 o 25c will be welcome after the war -11 1 4. f.l--nl1 j is enaeu, out uio "uuiu 3i to 4c ! tactful. Dr. Murphy's Record. Hickory dispatch: Since tak ing up the work of pastor of Corinth congregation the first Thursday in November, 1890, Doctor Murphy has preached to the people of Hickory 3,500 times and the congregation has increas i in rnemhershin 5S2 per cent. ! Contributions to congregational nnrnoses have increased 52o per . cent and to benevolent objects the contributions have increased 1,729 per cent. For every $100 worth of property the congrega- , nnococswl 9 vears ago it now has $1,000 worth. Of the original membership only 2S are now living who attend church. A few are living who do not attend. "Mud Cut" Now "Coleman." It won't be Mud Cut after to day. This little station on the Southern railway will be erased from the company's time table, schedules and what not, and if you look for it, you will not find it. But you will find Coleman, which replaces Mud Cut. A ser mon might be written on the change. Probably a number of years ago Mud Cut was good enough for the natives, maybe it connoted and denoted a realty when the station was named, and maybe it didn't. At any rate MudCut is no more and with its passing comes Coleman. Hickory Record. 10 W. C. Feimster, Esq., was called to Charlotte yesterday on 15 ! legal business. He will be back 2c ' today. Dredging out the slides in the Panama canal is going on fast but it will be January 1 before the canal is cleared for ships. It is announced from China that there will no change in the form of government this year i but returns from the provincial elections indicate that the people have adopted the proposition to change the government back to a monachy.
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