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GET ENTERPRISE iAro nuiUAY SUPPLIES FROM MERCHANTS Wtt A AnVfrimSlT' fttf TOb Tmm Newton Entmrpjrisie B-"- " .... . " VOL. XXXVII IVAVN AM) COUNTY NEWS ITE'.IS a ik the Happenings of Local Inttr (t What Folks are Doing. Y. ( Feimster has purchas- ,,j ;i property of Capt. A. J. y. i.M.' on Main street, adjoining . . . i r msier residence. !1 lector M. P. Alexander l a blockade still a. mile he Lookout dam, inAlexan niy. Monday night. Over :tns of mash were poured i;t',' ' l'i ' i !HTO will be a meeting ht in the court house ii who have subscribed for o s;.v v in t lie proposed woolen mill r:A .iiiy who might be interested in ,ej.n i:iu- this industry for the 1 :i are invited to attend. The medal for the bestdecla ru;i;vi offered last Tuesday 1:; 'dt wiien nine young gentle-m,-' r ntested at Catawba col . was awarded to Milo Rose l mi:;. The college will close the 17! ii and 1'or the holidays, reop- The Lincolnton Baptist peo ple, hearing Rev. C. C. Wheeler wrV that minister was in this s -i nvrntly, having been in v: i oreach here and eise v.vre. called him forthwith, at si. oo . salary with $200 after one Year: and a local Baptist thinks Xevt:i has lost him. Muggins of Fort Rev. W. Barnwell, N. C may be invited here soon t supply the local church until ; : -n.-ae one else may be called. a: 1 Y;a county ginned 3.C51 i . - ! ;' ctton up to November 1 i. a ;ginst 1.771 bales last t:,,it ti.u.e, reports E. 1). ih'Y. a., rensa- agent. Alexan der gin u-d i7i against 757 last ;,,-ar: a v'i:tti( 1 V figures are L ! i 1 S ar. 1(5,588 last i .a inmd "),719 against car; Iredell 5,581 as -wi.l, -G. 135 in 1914: L I i)tK'l'r'l i lias o,8io against 4,930 in The total for the state is J : i . )7 this year; 5S 0,175 last. IVople in the Lookout sec i :-re still complaining that the ilhcrn Power company hasn't rwed timber and brush from IV U!''.r area to be submerged and are rig the officials to action. 'i ' j board of health several . -ks ago advised the company in,:! this timber must be removed .'hi I the company agreed to have ir otf before the river was im i our.ded, but citizens assert that this has not been accomplished and that it must be done at once, as the pond will shortly be all over the country. A. 0. Yount's "Ruby's Sport" setter dog, whose sale was M-jted Tuesday, fetched $750, at Waynesboro, Ga;, field trials, but it was a mistake that he won first. After making a good show in the first heat, in which poor 'logs are culled out, he wasenter- c i in the second heat for big money, and the scoundrel disap peared for 37 minutes. Trainer Vount got mad at him and sold him right off the bat. Had he waited, 400 could have been : 'Ided to the price he sold for, us another man wanted him that much. A few years ago he wron the championship and $1,000 was "ll'cred and refused for him. ( lover, S. C, Dry Once More. Since a law went into effect absolutely prohibiting the ship t ient of liquors into Gaston coun tv. Clover, S. C, just across the frontier, has been the shipping Kint for thirsty Tar Heels; and! vast amounts of the ardent were nt there. Now it is all chang- i " A South Carolina judge has resurrected an old dispensary law M ohibiting foreigners coming in- him mentally, temng tnuse wnu to South Carolina and getting! brought him that if he was held whiskey shipped to them. That j as demented, they would have to i, stopped the traffic. Gaston I swear out a warrant for his de v.ets will have to become natura- j tention, which they did not do i'wd citizens of South Carolina. I and he was taken back home. IVesident Wilson has com- eted his message and it will be "ad by him in person to the joint "ion of congress next Tuesday. SUM hiffoniers $4.75 while they last,1 a. (;.uii,'s. (Adv.) ; Big Volume Business Expected in Newton Because of large crops, good prices and abundant cash, New ten business men are looking for the best holiday trade in ten years. Conditions are universally good and the same story of pros perity goes up from every part of the country, particularly from the south. Catawba county peo ple though their cotton crop is short, have had a properous year and there is plenty of ready money for holiday stuff. Expecting a rush the stores prepared with the best holiday, stocks in a long while and folks may rest assured that they will get what they want and at at tractive prices. The Enterprise will be carry ing holiday advertisements watch 'em. Good times in Dixie have come and thronchnnt thp lnnrl thwo' will be a whale of a Christmas. Republican Scare Would Be Tonic For The Dems. Charlotte Observer; ''The Newton Enterprise is another paper that would encourage re publican activity in the state and j that would see good in the com ing to the front of a strong op nosition party. In times past The Observer's party loyalty had been laid under doubt because it had welcomed aggressiveness on part of the republicans. The argument that has been advanced, however, j is sound. The contention of The ! Enterprise is that if every demo-: crat would get scared in the' same campaign year, wo would . have a chance for once of finding out how many white voters there 1 are in North Carolina. 'On ac- count of the hopelessness of op position tickets,' it instances, 'from 25 to 50 per cent of the democrats east of Charlotte stay at home on election day. Even compulsory for the entire term, in Mecklenburg, which has three The teachers are well paid, re times the population of Catawba, ceiving from $3.50 to $6 a day. the total vote last year was no ' A township embraces six miles larger than ours, where, on ac- and nearly every township has a count of the equal division be- : high school. Many of the dis tween the parties, a full vote tricts have been consolidated, was cast.' We cannot quite fol-1 Where the distance from home low The Enterprise in its estimate ' of the results. That paper says: ; Tf the republicans can make the democrats all over the state closed, and equipped with a stove think they are giving us a close ; during cold weather. The town race, the democratic majority ships furnish the wagons and the next year will be 100,000.' We drivers the teams and they get would put it around 70.000 and '$2.25 a day. It is a common stand pat. : Case of Lmford Garrison. A Maiden dispatch to The Charlotte Observer Monday says: Linford Garrison, a white man about 35 years old, living on the farm of J. C. Crow a mile from j here, became demented early this morning, and with a double ! barreled shotgun proceeded to clear the premises of his wrife and several children, except a baby a few months old. After driving his family away he re turned to the house, took the baby on his lap and stood the gun against the wall in easy j reach. It was risky but some citizens later entered the house and secured the gun but he re fused to surrender the baby. An officer was called in and he was later taken to Newton. Physi cians could detect no insanity and he was brought back. Gar rison has been in poor health for several weeks. This together with a probable fit of jealousy, is responsible for his vicious con- duct. Garrison told quite a different story to Dr. Geo. W. Shipp, county health omcer, and tnat official found nothing wrong with I . .11 1 11 Al 1a A. RnrnTo Mr. and Mrs. Will Lominac, twin sons, Wednesday night at their home ' Newton. ; in North Buy a guaranteed sewing machine for $17.00 at Garvin's. (Adv.) NEWTON, N. SCHOOLS IN INDIANA STATE Rev. B. L. Stroup Writes Interesting Letter About Things in Adopted Home. To the Editor of The Enterprise: Again we are submitting some notes from the Hoosier State. This isThanksgiving day and it is warm and blustery, but we have already had a touch of winter. The ground was frozen hard and snow has fallen three different times. (We are to have thirteen snows this winter because it snowed on the 13th of Novem ber. ) Corn shucking s are the order of the day among the farmers. Much of the crop is shucked from the stalk in the fields and then the fields are pastured during the winter. All the fields are fenc ed. The corn crop is good and the price is quite satisfactory 50 cents the 100 pounds. I believe I spoke of the apple clearings of the larger cities dur crop in a former letter. I never m the past month or more. For before saw so many apples, and line ones, too. Nearly overv family has from 50 to 100 bush els stored in the cellar. Also there was quite a yield of Irish potatoes this year but! sweet potatoes do not grow well and the variety is not good. I Your scribe and family are very1 us a crate of Catawba yams for j solid price foundation, more di Thanksgiving. j versitied crops and economy in But the thing I esneciallv de-; production are declared by busi- sired to write a bo ut in this letter rVhen consider-! is the schools. W ing the call to the church here I ; enquired about the schools and i the reply was that Indiana had the best system of public schools in the United States. As to the i truth of this I am not prepared j to sav. but I do know that the! state has good schools. j All the buildings are good, built of brick. The term must le at least six months and often runs longer and attendance is j to school is oyer a mile the stu- dents are carried in wagons, which are comfortable, all en-! thing to see a good brick school house standing'unused, the result of consolidation of districts. Some townships have only one school. In Montgomery county in which Sugar Creek township is located, said to be there is a building a model of its kind. it has 10 rooms and is three stories high, equipped with steam heat, water closets, hot and cold shower baths, sanitary drinking fountains and electric lights gen erated' in the building, There is also a well-equipped gynasium. Remember that this school is lo cated out in the country not an incorporated town in the town ship. The plant cost $40, 000 and was built without a special tax. Last Saturday night I attend ed a match game of basket ball, double header, played in the gymnasium of this school build ing. The place was crowded with farmers gray-headed fath ers and mothers were there "rooting" for their sons and daughters. We are glad to note the awak ening along educational lines throughout North Carolina. May Newton catch the inspiration and build a commodious building worthy of her good citizenship. . B. L. Stroup. Colburn, Ind., Nov. 25, 1915. Tonight at the Piedmont hotel Principal L. E. Rudisell of the Newton high school will be host to the tenth grade at a banquet, which will be attended also by teachers and others interested in the school work. You can buy a now, at tarvin's. "Hoosier" for Iess! (Adv.) C, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1915. FULL CHRISTMAS STOCKINGS Unprecedented Prosperity Prevails in Every Section of the United States. A Washington .dispatch in Wednesday's papers makes good reading; it says: ProsDeritv pre vailing in the southern states was reflected today in reports of busi ness conditions from all the popu lation centers. Heavy early buying pressages fuller Christ mas stockings than in several years at the close of an autumn season during which regular trade has been unusually heavy. Farmers in the ' south having received good prices for big crops have been spending money more freely than at any time in in recent years. Their prosperity is being shared by merchants in every line, large and small. A sure index of the wonderful ly improved conditions in the south are the remarkable blank last week Memphis reported the high water gain in .clearings, an increase of 63.9 per cent over the same week lasf year. At lanta reported an , increase of 47.2 per cent while every city which reported from the south showed gains of almost similar proportion. nes3 men to be leading factors in improved conditions. More! foodstuffs were raised by south- j ern planters than ever before '; and thus much of the money ; which went elsewhere for neces-j saries of life in other years was j kept at home. The south has not profited di rectly from war orders as have other sections of the country, it North Carolina do earnestly ree l's said, but some lines of trade j ommend a reduction of the cot haye received an 'impetus be-1 ton acreage this-spring of-at cause of the war. For instance, knitting mills have been work-1 ing night and day, according to reports, manufacturing the cheaper grades of hosiery which formerly bore the familiar trade mark "Made in Germany." Although no such freight con- gestion is reported as exists in and around New York, the termi. nal facilities of every southern port are said to be taxed to ca pacity by the heavy coastwise and export trade. AT THE CHURCHES Services at the Presbyterian church by Rev. W. M. Sikes, pastor, subjects: At 11 a. m "Congregational Evangelism;" at 7 p. m., "The Results of Un heeded Reproof." Cotton Weak Again. The New York cotton futures market was again weak yester day, being down abont 10 points as compared with Wednesday. The local price is 111 cents. The Newton Markets (Corrected Every Issue) Cotton 1111 Cotton seed 55c 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 i Oats 60 Rye 1.10 Peas 1.25 Irish potatoes 90-$1.00 Sweet potatoes 40 Dried fruit 3' Chickens 10r Eggs 25.) Butter 25" Turkeys '124c Beeves 3 to 4c Calves Hogs 10'c Sheep Dry hides 15? Green hide 12if Iron beds from $2.50 Furniture Co's. up at Garvin (Adv.) MR. JONAS ON COTTON He Does Not Distinguish . Between Cur tailment and Abandonment. To the Editor of The Enterprise: I have noticed several editorials recently appearing in your pa- per relative to the present price . jobs. Much speculation is poing of cotton, in which you say the on about the object of the visit, crop is short in Catawba because I The allies believe it was to force republican .farmers listened to Austria to cut out efforts to con republican speakers who predict- j elude peace with Italy on her ed low prices, and on that ac- own hook. count many republican farmers I The campaign in Serbia is over planted small crops and are now j sorry they 4 'were fooled by re-j publican spell-binders." Just in order that we may keep history straight, I desire that your readers know that there were ethers besides repuplican speakers who feared low prices unless the crop was cut in two this vear. The last legislature was overwhelmingly, democratic, and following is a joint resolution passed by that body, the demo crats voting for it and the repub licans against it: "Resolution No. 1C. "A Resolution For ."the Curtail ment of the Cotton Crop. '"Whereas, there are still sev eral million bales of cotton still held on the plantations of the farmers, and ether millions of bales stored, in the value of whicn tne tarmers still nave a j Whereas, the value of ail the i cotton now he'd will bo affected directly by the estima of the coming crop, and :?.ted yield "Whereas.an undue addition to the cotton carried over at the end of the season will result in a VERY LOW price for the cotton on hand. as well as for the cotton i grown during the coming season, i therefore, "The genera 1 assemblv of i least fifty percent, an I to that end it is recommended to all farmers' organizations, business men and citizens generally that they exert every influence possi ble to secure such a curtailment of the cotton acreage. "And the general assembly of ; North Carolina respectfully invite tbe(authorities of the other south : era states interested in cotton to take whatever action is possible in the premises. j "Resolved, That the governor! of the state be requested toj transmit these resolutions to the ! executives of the cotton-growing! j states. ! "In the general assembly read three times and ratified this the 2nd. day ot reDruary, iio, It would seem trom the above that the democratic party of North Carolina realized that the onlv wav to keen the price of j . . . cotton normal, on account of WAR (on business), was to cut , CUL The farmers the crop in half. tnougnt tne pari hi pu uuKil ; to know what it was going to do with business, and they took the" advice, cut the crop almost half j in two, and thereby the price ; was advanced to normal. ? When was it in the past that we heard that old, familiar cry of over-production? j Will you kindly give your .1 1 A At J ...Vl4- readers the benefit of this nice bit of democratic legislation to the end that thev may know there was ground for republican misgivings : Ciias. Lincohiton, N. C. Nov. 27. 1915. A. Jonas (We respectfully ask Mr. Jonas ! to give the dates and quote the language of the several editorials in which The Enterprise said the cotton crop is "short in Catawba county because republican farm ers listened to republican speak ers who predicted low prices, and on that account many repub lican farmers planted small crops, Ctt. l Until Mr. Jonas does this, it is into nby pTyd -T TUn TTntorTMMOO if he cannot go it, ne puts mm-1 self before the readers of The (M Drpsrs. Bads. Rockers, all un- derprked at Garvin's sale. (Adv.) Progress of the W ar Interesting Speculations Following a visit to Emperior Franz Josef of Austria by Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany, three Aus trian ministers vacated their and the Bul bars and Germans seem to have accomplished all they wanted. The Serbians have been all but cleaned out of their country and the Austrians are now going after little Montene gro. That country, however, is very rough and mountainous and the people have never been con quered, even by the Turks. Fighting on. all the other fronts seems to be going on about as usual. Italy is making tremendous efforts to blast her wav into Austria. Congressman Britt Strong for Army-Navy North Carolina's only republi can congressman, Hon. J. J. Britt of the 10th district is strong for preparedness but he doesn't know whether he will vote L lu? f cause ne oeiie es ne wants a Dig- ger navy and a stronger army than the president wants. Mr. Flritt is '4strnnrv finvinppd th.nti we should have a verv large amount of monev for the army and navy," says a discatch to The Greensboro News, "but he foi tw o,r,i0ft,v w i 1 1 not cm fnr pnnrh ' -The Woman's club yesterday agreed to concentrate on court square improvements until that place is properly beautified, mak ing all other committee work secondary, using an tunas tor . the case affainst Thomas E. Wat this purpose. Red Cross seals Augustaf Ga., in which weretak-en up and the ladies j the famous writeri and publicist ii n i i iiii r wi sp thpm. thp timrts o-oiner . to the usual purposes of the Red Cross society. Ent erpnse as manufacturing the premises on which his argument is built. There is as much difference re tween curtailment of a crop and planting none at all as there is between amputating a man's arm to restore health or insure life and cutting off his head. Curtailment is a treatment that has always been recommended when a specially large crop has unduly lowered the price and the North Carolina legislature's reso lutions were in line with the res olutions passed by all kinds of farmers' societies and perhaps legislatures in previous years when big crops caused loss to f tut: iui mers. Therp were several such years under repubHcan administrations, We advocated reduction then, as we did thi3 yean It fa fl common gens3 1ardIess of j. and wan But tQ CQme back tQ Mn Jonas fictitious premiSe: We challenge him to produce a line from The F . - t f, fiff.t that we attributed the falling off in the cotton crop in Catawba county to republican curtailment of acre age. We, in one issue, said that several republican farmers had taken the advice of republican politicians and had not planted a row of cotton, and were very sick of the imposition that had been practiced on them by politi cians who had made them believe - - cotton could never again bring good prices under a democratic administration. Not a word was said about the crop being short in Catawba in consequence of this foolishness. Now if you want to controvert that statement, after extricating yourself from the predicament in : which the first paragraph of your present comn, unication pu you Enterprise.) Yea miss the opportunity of your life j if you miss Garvin's sale. (Adv.) NO. 71 NORTH CAROLINA NEWS EVENTS Brief It ens Shoeing at a Glance What is Transpiring Throughout the State. A Charlotte grccery store has a big American cheese weighing; 1,175 pounds. They are going io cut it December 15. O. Max Gardner continues to improve in the hospital at Salis bury where he is being treated for wounds received in the Thanksgiving wreck at Salisbury. The supreme court has pro- nounced the quart law constitu tional, and an appeal will be taken to the U. S. supreme court. The court in deciding the case upheid the Webb act. The plaster cast being made for a bronze statue of Zebulon B. Vance is about completed in New York and the statue itself will be ready for placing in the hall of fame at Washington by the middle of January. The spur line from Belmont junction to Belmont town is about completed by the interurban electric line between Charlotte and Gastonia. Belmont will vote on $25,000 of school bonds next Tuesday. The Union county register of deeis reports that he has marked off more mortgages this fall than j in any fall in four years, some of them being papers seven or eight j years Goed times in Dixie. land! Mrs. Rita Horner and three ! children of South Africa have j j York, and ordered deported be- cause nc me?ns of SUP" Prt; but her daughter, Mrs. U 4- Tli:.-. T,1! XT - J. Beach of Hildebrand, the officials that she ' notified i wouId take ca1 of em and j ney have been released, ! - Mistrial in Watson Case. The jury could not agree in was charged with sending ob scene matter, through the mails. Watson tvas his own chief coun sel and made a whale of a speech before the jury, declaring it was not the United States but the Roman Catholic church that was after him and telling the jury that democratic institutions, free speech and liberty, were within their keeping. The jury was out 30 hours and stood ten for acquital and two for convic tion on every ballot to the last. Chdd of Lee Drum - Smothered in Cotton Yesterday a 4-year-old child of Lee Drum in Caldwell township was smothered to death in a pile of cotton in which it had been playing. Mrs. Drum had given the little one permission to play in the cotton and later upon go ing out in the yard, fouud the child's feet sticking out of the pile. It had apparently digged a hole in the stuff and slipping down headforemost, could not get out. The case of the three men who assaulted Albert and Julius Abernethy at Hickory several nights ago, in a most outrageous manner, was heard yesterday in Hickory, and two of the men, Alexander and Phifer, were fined $100 each and costs; Lockaboe, a third, was taxed with costs, as was Albert Abernethy, and Ju lius thereupon agreed to pay costs, too. though he might have escaped paying- The recorder at first was minded to pass a road sentence on Alexander and Phifer, then fined them S150. later reducing it. The upper South Carolina Methodist conference voted down by a big majority a resolution opposing the president's pre paredness program, declaring the president should be supported rather than opposed. $8 Iron Beds for $5.75 ;t Gsryin's Bis (Adv.) Sale. I
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