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itu - .i,ivnoo inia laauc ;ur inn, lliKFKlSE THEY ARE LIVE WIRES Thje, Newton ;:.ETOiRFMTrr V0L. XXXVII KKVIKW OF WORLD EVENTS !p Survc-v of General News Given in Paragraphs for Quick Reading. IV i'oderal grand jury has m- members and employes tin inn of the Tennessee Casket company for whiskey in coffins to ?y customers. .1. IAvnard Replogle, a man 38 old who started with the ( i ; Steel company of Pen .... va:li;i as water boy when he v;l;li ears old. has bought 300,-lu-t sh:iivs of the stock in the the bhj; Italian ship Ancono t to the bottom by a German i'Niir.i!! submarine, was loaded with tuu of all. kinds for the h.v:,l: trade in America many tlis v nuts: and a scarsity is v lifted as a result of the loss. I1 r is r.nnumeed that a military train:i:tr camp for civilians will !v e-ia!''ished in North Carolina eariv rext year, similar to the one conducted at Plattsburg, N. V.. l.-i?t summer when men in all wa.ks of life attended and learn e,j of war tricks. A soliooner-load of whiskey and thousands of bottles of beer have been seized in the port of Mobile. Ala., under the law for bi.blhm' the importation of booze in: that city. Georgia, which ha-i een technically "dry" for year, is passing prohibition laws that forbid the manufacture and -a'.euf anything with over one ha'i of one per cent alcohol. This is aimed at the breweries and t ie :tear-beer saloons. Kndand draws nigh the time when men will be compelled to take miilitary service. The re-i'1-aiting scheme used as a last report before conscription seem ed to work well for awhile but it is falling down. Men of mili tary a.q-o, who are not in vital mi! positions, are warned that WJiey do not volunteer they will .t? forced to enlist. The war is casting Great Britain over 21 mi!ii-ns every day and Sunday t";. It is rumored that at a meeting fi representatives of neutral will be held within the next two !:iMuths either at Copenhagen or Tlie Hague to work for peace in Europe. It is said that while states, men in warring countries can not take the initiative themselves, they would be in position to fol low the lead of a respectable neu tral proposition for peace ;and it is further said that every mother's son of them is pining and honing for somebody to make tnem quit full ting. A three-million-dollar fire in a iVnnyslvania steel mill making supplies for the allies; countless accidents and explosions and fires aboardship, and various and sundry other things indicate the activity of foreign spies and agents in this country; and a former Austrian minister to San Francisco has declared that Aus trian consuls in this country are taking orders from the Austrian consul general and the German ambassador, in a nation-wide war dn American industries. Pitts-England. Dispatch, 11th: Lenoir Dispatch, 11th: Dr. Halter I. Pitts and Miss Maude England were married at the First Methodist church Wednes day at noon.' The officiating minister was Rev. Zeb E. Barn hard t and the ceremonv was witnessed only by the relatives of the contracting parties. f he bride is the only daughter of the late Rev. J. F. England and Mrs. England, popular in ner ome town, and among a cquaintance throughout jvestern North Carolina; The ''I'idegroom is is a practicing phy S!Clan in Lenoir, where he has ln located for the past three ears, and is prominent among the Members of his profession. He is u native of Catawba county, be ,nK a son of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. - Jtts of Catawba. Aftar a brief .uing trip, Doctor and Mrs 'tU will return tn T.rmiv ond e at home on North Main street. ' Public Health Service On Pellagra Care Discovery of the cause and the cure of pellagra has been formal ly announced by the public health service of the government. The announcement follows the recent publication of a report by Sur" geon Joseph Goldberger on a vear of experiments in co-operation with southern state health officials demonstrating the cor rectness of the theory that a one sided bliet lacking in proteids would cause the disease and that a well-balanced diet would cure it. "The spread of this dread malady, which has been increasing in the United states at a terrific rate during the past few years, may now be checked and even tually eradicated,'' says the ser vice statement. "It is estimated that 75,000 cases of vthe disease will have oecurred in the United States in 1915 and of this number at least 7,500 will have died be fore the end of the year. In many sections only tuberculosis and pneumonia exceed it as a cause of death." The final dietary tests were made by Surgeon Goldberger and Assistant Surgeon G. A. Wheeler at the farm of the Mississippi penitentiary where half a dozen convicts were given pellagra by feeding them for five months on bountiful meals consisting chiefly of cereals and sweets and lacking in meats, milk, eggs, beans and peas. The victims recently were pardoned by the governor and are now being restored to health through a corrected diet. In earlier experiments about two hundred pellagra patients had been cured by balanced ra tions, and at the end of a year there had been a slight recurrence of the disease in only one in stance. Reception at Startown-- Progress of ihe School Friday night the girls' literary society of Startown high school gave a highly enjoyable recep tion to the new students. Games afforded amusement and refresh ments were served. Apparently they had more fun ont of Pro fessor Proffitt than anything else, in a game, "Brother, I'm bob bed", or something like that. He was blindfolded and beaten over the head until everybody was sore laughing at the frame-up they had put over him. A large time was had by all. Another item indicating the progress of practical improve ment in the farm life department is the piping of water into the domestic science quarters of the girls' dormitory. With the nearest well a couple of hundred feet away, the water had to be toted. It was the same old prob lem of many farm women, over again. So the male contingent rigged an impromtu water sys tem, and now they pump the water to improvised tanks, and another step has been taken in the liberation of woman from the drudgery at which all social betterment efforts aim. On the farm the boys have grubbed the decayed peach trees, made arrangements to set out new stock, and planted a number of things. .. The school is getting along fine. The only fly in the ointment now is the want of room for boys. The dormi tory is crammed with them and a new building is needed. Suicides On Wedding Tour. Wade Holman Gooch, wealthy capitalist of Clarkesville, Va., who only a few days ago wedded Miss Margeret Radcliffe of Lex ington, N. C, shot and killed himself in the presence of his bride on a train near Weimar, Texas, Sunday morning. No cause is assigned. Keller-Null. Sunday at the residence of the bride's father, Rev. M. A. Aber nethy, Mrs. Mamie Null and Mr P. A. TCpIW werp wedded. Rev. W. M. Biles officiating. NEWTON, N. C, SOCIETY AND PERSONAL NEWS 'Squire S. E. Killian of Hick wras in town yesterday. Miss Henry Penn of Daven port college has been the guest of Mrs. R. B. Knox. Mrs. R. F. Cox of Belmont has been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Self. Mas. Lee Sherril and sister, Miss Annie Bost, have returned from Charlotte where they were guests oMrs. C. C. Moore dur ing the fair last week. Mrs. M. A. Hewitt willl move from her farm in Caldwell town ship to Newton this week and make her home with her son, ex Sheriff R. Lee Hewitt. Mrs. Belle Wilfong has return ed from a two months visit to Watauga and Henderson counties part of which time she was with her .son, Walter Wilfong, in Henderson. Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Beatty are moving this week from Terrell to the T. R. Abernethy property where they will liye until their new home in Dixiedale is com pleted. Mrs. Roland Clark and Miss Mamie Setzer spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Smyre at St. James. Mrs. Clark arrived last week from Springdale, Ark., to be with relatives in the county for some time. Mr. and Mrs. LaFayette Ever hart of Davidson county have returned home after spending several days with Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Everhart here. Mrs. Thos. Watts and Mrs. O. F. Poole of Taylorsville are visiting at the" Everhart home. Mr. and Mrs. Obe Ramseur were here yesterday. Mr. Ram seur is moving to Shelby Decem ber 1. He had half a notion of moving to Newton, and said he may yet buy property here. Newton would be glad to have him. The teachers of the graded school were entertained Friday evening by Misses Cochran and Gantt at the Cochran home. Among the events of the even ing were a recitation charmingly rendered by Miss Mary White and musical numbers given by Mrs. A. S. Ballard which were very much enjoyed. i Rev. and Mrs. V. L. Fulmer, Mrs. Ben Gaddy and Miss Lois Houk motored to Statesville yes terday, Mr. and Mrs. Fulmer and Mrs. Gaddy to visit Mrs. L. H. Phillips, and Miss Houk to visit her mother, Mrs. S. D. Houk both being patients in the Long Sanitorium. Mrs. Phillips un derwent a serious operation last week and is reported as getting along as well as could be expect ed. Pr6f. James Fry of Catawba college left yesterday for Allen town, Pa., to attend the largest gathering the Reformed church will have this year, when 2,000 laymen will meet for the discus sion of subjects connected with the laymen's movement. Pro fessor Fry will be the only repre sentative from the western part of the Reformed church in the state. Booker T. Washington Dead. Booker T. Washington, noted negro leader and educator, is dead at Tuskegee, Ala., of hard ening of the arteries. He had been in failing health for months but only recently became serious, ly ill and last week hurried from the north that he at least might die at home. Washington was born in slave ry in Virginia in 1857 or 1858. He was an ambitious boy and saved his money, working his way through school. In 1881 he organized an industrial school for negroes at Tuskegee and has since remained principal of the institute he founded. He did a great work for his race and stood forth as the champion of the idea of industrial education for negroes. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1915. ANCONA REPORTS CONFLICTING Italy Declares Ship Sunk Without Warn ingAustria Denies it The War. The Italian government has dispatched a note to neutral gov ernments, says yesterday's war review in the Observer, denying that the Ancona, sunk by a hos tile submarine, carried arms or contraband, or had on board any person in the military service of the belligerent countries or that there were any circumstance jus tifying the attack as a neccesity oi war. The note further declares that the Ancona was not warned, but was fired upon by the submarine and that boats in which passen gers were attempting to escape also were fired on, many persons being killed or wounded. There has been only artillery action on the western line. Italy's entrance into the Bal kan campaign is indicated ac cording to Saloniki dispatches, by the arrival at that port of the Italian cruiser, Plemonte, The cruiser bombarded and destroy ed the railroad station and a large number of cars loadedjwith war munitions at Dedeahatch, Bulgaria. Austrian aeroplanes have again dropped bombs on Verona, Italy. Thirty persons were killed and 49 injured. The Austro-Hungarian admiral ty has issued a statement an nouncing that the Ancona had been warned by one shot across her bows, but that she fled at full speed. When she finally stopped, which was "only after being hit several times," the ad miralty says "the submarine al lowed 45 minutes for the crew and passengers to escape." Denial is made that the sub marine shelled the Ancona's life boats, such reports being charac terized as "mendacious inven tions." .. - In the only fighting reported from northwestern Russia, in the region of Rigi the Germans were repulsed by the Russian artillery fire. Further south Berlin reports for the Germans another advance through the Russian lines near Czartortysk and the repulse of Russian attacks north of the Koven-Sarny line by the Austro Hungarians. Serbian forces continue to re treat in north Serbia. Berlin de clares that the Serbians have been thrown back along the whole front and that the Ger mans and Bulgarians are advan ing from "the southern Morava. In the south the towffof Teto vo has been the scepe of spirited action. The Serbians captured this place, but ' later the Bulga rians are reported to have reta ken it. In the Babuna , mountain re gion the Serbs and the troops of the Entente allies have occupied several villiages, and the French have taken a villiage and a Bul gar fort north of Valandovo. Mrs. P. S. Ramseur leaves to day for Paris, Texas, where she will spend the winter. The Newton Markets (Corrected Every Issue) Cotton 111? Cotton seed 50? Cotton seed meal 1.90 Cotton seed hulls 75c Wheat $1.30 Flour $3.00 to $3.20 Bran 1 85 Corn 75c and 80 Corn meal 1-00 Oats 60 Rye 1.10 Peas 1.25 Irish potatoes 90?--$1.00 Sweet potatoes 40? Dried fruit 3? Chickens 10,c Eggs ' 25 Butter 25? Beeves . 3 to 4c Calves Hogs , 7 10? Sheep Dry hides 15? Green hide 12i? AT THE CHURCHES The Baptist have invited Rev. Creasy C. Wheeler of the eastern part of the state to preach for them here next Sunday morning at 11 o'clock and that night, and he will also preach at Cedar Grove next Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. It is desired that mem bers of all the churches of the pastorate attend one of these services. Mr. Wheeler is a young man oi years, and is very highly spoken of by Rev. Living ton Johnston, to'whom the pul pit comittee applied for help in securing a successor to Rev. M. A. Adams, whose resignation takes effect January 1. There will be a special meeting of the Ladies Aid society of the Reformed church this afternoon at 3 o'clock at the residence of Miss Etta Moose. A full attend ance is desired and requested. There will be week of prayer services all this week at the col lege and Rev. Shu ford Peeler of Greensboro will conduct the ser vices. He arrived yesterday to be with the. Y. M. and Y. W. associations. Rev. Dr. R. L. Fritz of Lenoir college is unable to preach in the Lutheran church next Sunday but it is announced that he will preach morning and evening on the first Sunday. The usual ser vices will be held at the church next Sunday. Harold Yount will be the lead er at the meeting of the Luther league the 21st, and Prof. L. E. Rudisell w7ill discuss the topic, "Prayer as a factor in public af fairs." Fencing a Great Help. - One of the Progressive Far mer's prize letters in a recent issue was written by L. L. Hoke of Hickory, on the subject of fencing, as follows: Good fencing is a great help to a farmer in many ways. It ena bles him to keep cattle. The more fencing he has the more cattle he can keep. Good manure, and plenty of it keeps a man's farm improving from year to year "and in that way he can save those big fertilizer bills. In fencing wTe use good sea soned post oak posts six feet long and put in the ground one and a half feet. We burn these posts long enough to form a good coal, and then they don't rot so easily. We set the posts about 20 feet apart. We use Pittsburg Perfect hog fencing, two feet high, and then put on two strands of good barbed wire on top, making a cow and hog pas tor all together. A farmer without good fencing does not need cattle and a man who keeps no cattle is not a pro gressive farmer. INVESTI NG COTTON MONEY j S. O. Murphy of Crouse also! had a letter in the same issue j about investing cotton money, as j follows: , Most farmers are now market- j keting cotton and 12h cents makes them think themselves rich. Forgetting to give praise to where it came from, some are now wondering where they will put their gatherings. Below are seven places where the farmer should put his money: 1. In livestock. 2. A new subscription to The Progressive Farmer, or pay up back subscription. 3. In advertising your wants or advertising what you have to sell. 4. In good farm machinery 5. In better equipment for the farm and home. 6. In good fertilizers. 7. In time to read, think and learn. . In short, put your money where The Progressive Farmer has been pleading with you to put it, and you will have "Diver sification and Independence." The semi-weekly Enterprise one dollar per year. Trying to Deceive About Tax Increases Some wonderful stories are being printed by republican papers on the subject of the in crease in real estate valuation by the state tax commission. A stranger coming across one of these would naturally think that there was a horned devil at Raleiglwho galloped roughshod over the defenseless folks and made them pay tribute like slaves. The Statesville Landmark raps on The Times-Leader of Mt. Airy, which had the following: '"Why have property values in North Carolina been raised? In order to raise more taxes. Why did the corporation, or state tax commission, order an increase of from 5 to 30 per cent in about 80 counties in the state? In order to raise more taxes. " The above are the opening sen tences m an article in the Mt. Airy Times-Leader, a republican paper, and the purport of the article is an attempt to make it appear tnat tne state tax com mission has arbitrarily increased assessments simply tp, raise more revenue to meet the extravagance of the state government. With out attempting to answer now the charge of extravagance, which can be com batted, it would be of interest if the Times-Leader would tell its Surry readers why if assessment have been arbi trarily raised by the wicked democrats simply to get more money to squander the republi can county of Surry escaped along with 18 other counties. Surry's assessment, made by local au thorities, the state tax commis sion found proper. The commis sion also found that 80 other counties in the state had not as sessed as fairly in proportion to value as Surry and property in these counties was increased to put them on an equality with Surry. The Times-Leader knows these are facts has the proof in its own county. It is trying to deceive its readers for partisan purposes. Would Open the .4. &. M. to Young Women Students It is announced from Raleigh that there is agitation for open ing the A. & M. college to young women students. It would only cost about $5,000 to prepare for them and it is argued that it would be of vast benefit to the state. Young men trained at the college in the technical and agri cultural courses light a rag as soon as they are graduated be cause they get more money in other states than at home; but young women, it is argued, train- ; ed in the fine arts of raising poultry, canning products, run ning a dairy, etc., would stay at home. The subject is expected to come before the teachers' meeting in Raleigh Thanksgiving week, and there is likely to be much said about it pro and con. j The Sick. Mrs. D. E. Isenhower, who I was quite low with acute indi t crpstion last week, is verv much better and out of danger. Former Sheriff M. J. Rowe, wTho has been very feeble for sometime, remains about the same. Dr: Robert H. Rowe of Bessemer City came Sunday on a visit to his father. Mrs. Albert Beard, who was i r n " j i x. 1 , ...'Usm I paimuny mjureu x her horse threw ner ana iwo children from the buggy on College street, is reported as getting along very well at her home in the country, being con fined, however, to her bed. H. Q. Blanton, who has been nfined to his home with a broken leg.as a result of a motor accident, went to Hickory Satur day to consult Dr. Shuford at the hospital relative to his injured limb. It was found that the hurt is getting along as well as possible, but it gives considerable pain and walking is as yet al most impossible. His friends sincerely hope that Mr. Blanton will soon be out again. NO. 66 NORTH CAROLINA NEWS EVENTS Brief Items Showing at a Glance What is Transpiring Throughout the State. Pilot mountain and about 3,000 acres of land have been sold f c r $26,000. The new loan of $375,0(0 negotiated by the state to tide over the institutions until tax comes in and to pay off loans al ready made, has been secured at a rate of 2 per cent as compared with 3i per cent, the lowest ever secured until now. . A stone the size of a goose egg fell 86 feet and landed on a negro miner's head in the Howie mine near Waxhaw and knocked him unconscious. After he came to he found he had developed a limp he didn't have before the rock hit him. Outside of laming him a little, no untoward effects were noticed. A man in Lexington called on a pair oi railroad lawyers and informed them he was going to sue the railroad for $100,000, wTould they take the case for half? It developed that he had bought him a ticket at a junction and boarded the wrong train, getting set out on the ground as a result thereof, and was much aggrieved thereby. Yet there has been many a case of no more and often of less merit against the railroads. A Newspaper of 1852 Glimpse of Politics Then. Mrs. Nancy Shuford has come upon a copy of The Weekly North Carolina Standard of Raleigh bearing date of June 23, 1852, and it has many things of inter est. William W. Holden was editor and proprietor and the paper in the year named had reached its 18th volume. Its w-kiy edition sbld for $2 cash, $2.50 on six months time and S3 on a year's time. The semi weekly edition sold for $4 the year, cash, $4.50 in six months and $5 in 12. Advertisements not exceeding 14 lines cost 1. "Letters to the editor must come free of postage." The paper is lousy with politics. There is a card "To the Demo cratic Republican Party of North Carolina," which title reads oddly m these days. lhen, it was Wigs and Democratic Republi cans, Federals and Freesoiiers and what-not. Franklin Pierce and William R. King had been nominated for president and vice president. King was a North Carolinain, which pleased the ancient newspaper much; and as for Pierce, it is said, "He is en tirely sound on the slavery ques tion," which was sufficient re commendation in these days. Winfield Scott and Wm. A. Gra ham of this state were named by the Wiggs. The first tender green shoots of prohibition are seen in the action of a mass-meeting in Wake county in which a resolution was adopted deploring the ruinous effects of liquors enduring of a political campaign and asking all candidates to'abstain from"treat ing" their constituents. The free suffrage bill was up in 1852, a measure aimed at the destruction of the right of fran chise based on property and not manhcod.. "Suppose two re spectable neighbors had each a son." one speaker is quoted as saying, "that one of them had fifty acres of land, worth per haps not more than 25 cents an acre, and the other had no land, but was a good blacksmith or shoemaker, and his standing in society irreproachable, why will you allow one to vote and not allow the other?" That sums up the wray things went. You had to have 50 acres to vote. Died. After a phone message was re ceived here Thursday announcing the death of one the twins re cently born to Mr. and Mrs. Wes ley Drum of the county, the other twin died, and both were buried atCCenter church Thursday.
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