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:KTYOUR CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY SUPPLIES PROM MERCHANTS WHO ADVERTISE IN the ent I .,.J .. . - ... ERPRISE r VOL. XXXVII WILSON AT KIS BEST. j.,;n;ial!y Striking iu His Columbus Speech of Friday. idont nson is always at when he speaks off- in every aay language, of the technical verbi Late papers. No man in a is ins matcn in an lm- eech. His words go l x. .3 0.1. 1 I! tie nean anu uie unuer- ot his hearers and o speech last Friday in Ohio, to the chamber '..,-v.!V.o!'ce. he electrified the ... with his brilliant sallies ,.,:" and his centre shots at ..'r.ess and politics. lowing are a few quota- hen the present great con in Kurope is over the world '..i'.iir to wear a different as "r." .i'. Wilson declared. "I 'i leiieve there is going to be ; iaiched-up peace. I believe V ih!i:.ditful men of every r : and of every sort will in : :.; when we get peace jv v.e shall have guaranteed n; will remain, and that the rr -mentalities of justice shall :ed above the mstrument f force. v iiemen, am a democrat, fobably have heard, and "I ; raiiitant democrat, but it :au.-e I believe that the pies of democracv will be of Service to the country than .her principles. I find that ,re of the few men of my i.vunnee who absolutely be-,-try word, for example, of irdilia bill of rights. This .X- Y : .7 ir.Lt when a government ;,.vc? unsuitable o the -life of i.e ' t'ople under iu (I am not v.-.-- the language but the ;ear.iiic) they have a right to or abolish it in any way that hoy plea; e. When things were ei ivAps more debatable than they X- now about our immediate ji .libor to the south of us, wt kno w how many men came :ve and suggested- that the jvornmont of Mexico should be '.ley.Hi .-is we thought that it :nt ne scriber altered, but being a to the doctrine of the ".yinia bill of rights, I could : agree with him. The Mexi co may not know what to do :h their government but that :wne of our business; and so Ml; as 1 have the power to pre vent it. nobody shall 'butt in' to a..;-,- it for them. "That is what I mean by being a (leiT.ocrat built on the original ln of the bill of rights. "X w those bills of rights say s things that are very perti-nf:-.: to business. Thev assert ti f absolute equality of right on g. part of individuals to access nportunity. That is the rea- ! I am opposed to monopoly, r.ot because monopoly does not woduee some excellent results of a kind, but because it is intend t i to shut out a lot of people v.-ho ought not to be shut out; and I believe that democracy is if e only thing that vitalizes a vnoie people instead of vitalizing 'a:y some of the people of the country. I am not fit to be the ti .-tee of prosperity for this country, neither are you; neither :s any yroup of men fit to be the trastees for the economical guid ance of this country. I believe in the common man. The coun try consists of him. . He is the backbone of the country. The nian who is above the average !es him, and ought to respect tool, ought to respect his m- uments, ought to respect the y&ins through which the very life kiood of the country flows. "So I want you to share with rr't' this vision of the future of -nierican business of a cosmo- fruian spirit, of a spirit of enter- r.u. . . . r. ... ., IT," 1 N laeout ol which the oia timiai fas gone. For you will "have tf admit, gentlemen that Ameri ca business men have been timid. They have constantly n'-n to Washington and said: Tt "OSS like rain; for God's sake K-ve us shelter.' You don't need Washington. There is genius enough in this country to master V' enterprise of the world, and !l 'fht not to ask odds of any j,'J('..v. I would like to have the filing pride of realizing that lr't was nobody in America who J a afraid to match wits with the When I move about this J'.'Untry I feel as you do, the ;;!ity of the thing that is going 1;; it, the quick origination of nrh when they meet .new cir . lances, the readiness with Americans adapt them- to circumstances that is spirit of conquest." 'lss Novella Leonard of Ca- t t V' ''a was among the shoppers !'nvn Saturday. N H Powder Town Goes Up In Flames Hopewell, Va., Dec. 9. -This mushroom town of 25,000 people, grown up since summer with the great new gun cotton plant of the du Pont Powder company, was completely destroyed today by a fire which started in a restau rant and did property damage estimated at from 81,000,000 to $3,000,000. Thedu Pont works outside of the settlement, was undamaged, but was once ser iously threatened. Villiages A. and B., near Hopewell, built to house the families of married employ es of the factory, also-'escaped. Scenes of wild disorder accom panied the fire and citizens lynched a negro for looting. There was no loss of life other wise and only a few minor inju ries were reported. Martial law was proclaimed to night with the arrival of six ma litia companies, rushed from Richmnnd by order of Governor Stuart. The thousands of home less men, women and children had been sent to Petersburg and Richmond, but many men re mained to guard what little pro perty they had been able to save. The fire started in a Greek boarding house, on , CawSn street, in the rear of the Victoria hotel which faced on Broadway. It was caused when an oil stove was accidentally turned over. Several times sparks set fire to mule sheds of the explosive fac tory, but the. flames which fol lowed were quickly extinguished. When it was seen that the town was doomed and the great gun cotton plant endangered, or ders were issued suspending all operations and the factory closed. The employes were set to work protecting the buildings from flying sparks. The gravest dan ger was from woods nearby which caught fire and were still burning late tonight. Average Acre Value of N. C. Crops $20.18 The last News Letter of the University has a table giving the average acre value of the 1914 crops for the states. North Carolina stands 20th in the list with $20.18. But this is "the highest rating of any of the southern cotton states. In 1909 North Carolina was 9th. The decline in the column of southern states in 1914 was due to the low price of cotton last year. When the table for 1915 is work ed out, we feel sure that North Carolina will go back to her former place. Connecticutt heads the list with $41.50. All the New England central states stand well upon the list on account of the trucking profits, except Ver: mont which is just above North Carolina. The states immediate ly following North Carolina are Oregon, Ohio, Colorado, Michi gan and other grain states of the central west. Then come in the cotton states, fallowed at the bottom by the north western states, with South Dakota at the bottom with $10.79 per acre. The average for the United States was $1.34. Kaiser Recalls Two Attaches. Washington, D. C Empe ror William has personally with drawn Captain Boy-Ed and Von Papen. the naval and military attaches of the German Embassy here, and has made a special re quest that the United states se cure safe conducts for them and their successors. This has been formally announced by Secretary I Lansing. A communication from the German foreign office announc ing the action was delivered to Secretary Lansing by Count Von Bernstorff, the Gerjnan Am bassodor, who hurried here from New York when he was advised that a reply to the request of the United States had been receiyed to'the Embassy from Berlin. There was much satisfaction inofficial circles at the action taken by Emperor William and at the outcome of a situation which, for a time, appeared to i threaten serious difficulties. Hp NEWTON, N. C., REVIEW OF WORLD EVENTS Wide Survey of General News Given in Paragraphs for Quick Reading. The German papers advise Henry Ford to quitely take his ! excursion party back home. An explosion in the Bethlehem Pa. steel plant last Friday killed one man and injured fifteen others. This is the place where Mr. Jesse Hunnicutt of Newton, has a clerical position. There was the first hanging in Arizona, last Friday, since Ari zona became a state. The man was a Mexican and had been convicted of killing a deputy sheriff: The Minister of the Treasury of the Italian govermment fixes Juue 1917 for the close of the wra. He asks the Italian parlia ment ; to make financial plans with this date in view. Emperor William of Germany has announced the date of the marriage of his youngest son in February. The date was changed from Christmas because the Em peror says the war will be over by February. Ernest Isenhour, whose trial, in York, S. C., on the charge of being one of a crowd who had shot down a sheriff, deputy sheriff and a negro prisoner, guilty of assault on a white wo man, we noted last week, was found not guity by the jury. Last Friday, the last day in which Englishmen could volun teer for the army, found the streets in front of all the recruit ing stations packed with youths and middle aged men who en listed in order to avoid the dis grace of being conscripted. Can't Get Both Salary and Commissions The suit from Iredell county to determine whether, under the law putting officers on salaries, the sheriff could also claim com mission allowed under the old law for collecting taxes, was de cided against the sheriff' by the state supreme court last wreek. The facts in the case are thus given by the Landmark: Sheriff Deaton retained the commissions on the ground that they were a part of the fees due him prior to the beginning of the salary law. The contention of the plaintiff was that as the sheriff was paid a salary, begin ning with the hrst Monday m December, 1914, all commissions on taxes collected after that date should go into the public treas ury. An agreed case was made up and at a hearing before Judge Lane, in chambers at Concord, the decision was in favor of Sheriff Deaton. The supreme court having reversed that de cision, it is assumed to mean that the sheriff must turn over to the county the commissions in eontroversy. However, no di gest of the opinion was published and its full meaning is not yet positively known. Great Britain Heeds American Protest. Washington, Dec. 9. Great Britain advised the United States today that in response to the state departmen't protest in the case of the steamship Hocking and other vessels of the Ameri can trans-Atlantic company, or ders requisitioning the Hocking and Genesee would be cancelled and test cases would be tried promptly in a prize court to dis pose of the charge that the com pany is partly German owned. " Two of the steamers seized by WW 1 British cruisers, the WmnePago and the Kankakee, will be re leased under bond. The Hock ing and Genesee cases will be made the basis of the test. To accelerate disposition of the issue, these cases will be trans ferred from Halifax and St. Lucia to London,- thus avoiding delay by appeals from subordi nate courts. Notice of Great Britain's action came to Secretary Lansing through Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, the British ambassador here, and Ambassador Page, at London. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1915. SOCIETY AND PERSONAL NEWS Students and the fpeople of Startown high school community enjoyed a very pleasant session Friday evening when: the com munity club met and the students gave recitations, musical num bers and a play. About 20 new7 members were enrolled in the club. Refreshments were served. Principal Seckinger made a fine address on the subject of co-f operation. Mrs. F. M. Williams visited Mr. and Mrs. f. .H Aderholdt of Catawba Saturday. D. A. Finger of Maiden called yesterday. His daughter, Miss Pearl, left Friday for Milstead, Ga., to visit her brother, George A. Finger, and will visit friends in Atlanta. Robert M. Warlick, who h'as been with Ashcraft & Lockhart at Hickory, has taken a position with Shu ford & Ransom, depart ment store, in Lenoir; and may later move to Lenoir to live. Dr. Henry Nes of Philadelphia arrived Saturday to take his annual bird hunt in Catawrba. He is stopping at St. Hubert Inn, and as usual, will be here until after Christmas. Friends made through the years he has visited Newton are glad to see him. Mr. and Mrs. John Bishoo of Asheville came down Saturday and spent Sunday with Iiss Pinkie Shuford. Mr. Bishop, who is a Southern railway engi neer, was badly hurt in a wreck at Nebo two months ago and is not quite sufficiently recovered to resume his work in the engine. Cotton. Census Agent E. D. Hewitt reports 4,907 bales of cotton ginned to December 1, as com pared with 6, GST bales this time last year, when the total crop measured nearly 10,000 bales. Going by last year's figures, there ought to be quite a bit more to report for this year, eve a if the crop is short. De cember 1 last year about two Uiiids of the crop had been ginned. If two-thirds has been ginned this pear, there will be something like 1,500 bales yet to come, which ? would make the entire 1915 crop equal to about what was ginned of last year's crop up to December last year or about two-thirds of normal. The government's estimate of Saturday is that the 1915 crop will be 11,161,000 bales. For the state the estimate is 703,000 against 930,000 in 1915. The market yesterday here went off to 12 cents. In New York there was a bit of excite ment over something or other and at one time the market lost 30 points futures, that is; but it recovered about all it lost by closing time ana the ena was about what it was Saturday. It is probable that the market here todav will be 12 cents may be more. The Newton Markets (Corrected Every km) 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 12? GO? 1.90 75c $1.30 $3.00 to $3.20 1 85 75c and 80 1.00 60 1.10 1.25 9or-$i.oo '40? 3? r: Butter Turkeys 12 4 Beeves Calves ! Hogs Sheep Dry hides Green hide Emtieiipmis A BOY HERO ADAM DRUM Eleven Years Old, With a Catawba Coun ty Name, Deserves a Hero Medal. In the fire at Hopewell, Va., in which the greater part of the mushroom town, built within a few weeks to house the powder makers, was swept away by fire, Adam Drum, a Richmond boy eleven years old, distinguished himself above all others. He bears a good Catawba county name, and we doubt not that he could be traced to Catawba coun ty lineage, as some of them have gone to Virginia, But regard less of where he hales, the follow ing account of his bravery will be interesting to Catawba read ers: The three-story restaurant which first caught was binning when Adam Drum, an eleven year old Richmond boy, arrived on the scene. He had left his home in Dupont city to visit the business district and was attract ed to the scene by the crowds that lined the streets lending to the burning building. He rushed into the building and up to the second floor. He heard the screams of a baby and rushed into a front room on that floor. He appeared at the front window a second later with the infant in his arms. He shouted to the men below to hold a blanket, and hardly had they grabbed b?d covering from among those thrown from the building before the boy leaned forward and with a cry fell for ward with the infant in his arms. The mother of the infant rush ed form the building a second later, her dress on fire. The boy landed squarely on the makeshift net and firm arms helped him to his feet. The flames that enveloped the moth er's dress were extinguishedv He turned and rushed into a building next door and brought out a second infant, this time from the first floor that had been left to burn by its parents. By standers were astounded at his daring conduct. Men with guns strapped to their sides carried the boy away from danger down the dusty street on their shoul ders. Mothers and fathers with infants in their arms fled from the frame buildings that were hurriedly thrown together during the summer to accomodate the Dupont employes and several were injured, although no deaths were reported from burning. All Clerks of the Court for 50 Years Still Alive. A few weeks ago Anson coun ty bragged of its living ex sheriffs, naming six, and doubted if another county could show as many, whereupon The En terprise counted seven in Catawba and headed the list. Refering to this the other day, Walter Hoyle, carrier on Route 1, called The Enterprise's attention to an in teresting fact, one we had never thought of, that all the men who have held the office of clerk of the superior cour of Catawba county for the last 50 years are still alive. They are six in num ber. M. O. Sherrill, state libra rian for many years, and living in Raleigh, was elected in 1866 and held the office 16 years; P. A. Hoyle of Newton was elected in 1882 and held eight years; J. F. Herman was elected in 1890 and had four years; J. W. Rock ett came in 1894 and served four years; L. H. Phillips served eight years from 1898, and was suc ceeded by C. M. McCorkle who served eight years, from 1906. Filling county offices in Catawba, therefore, is a very healthy oc cupation, it would seem. Yoder-CIark Co. This Week. A new visitor to Enterprise ' 1 mliimns t'nis wppk is the Yoder- Clark Clothing company of 1 TT- 1 STrAr and niCKorv. vjeorue kj. iuuw Neill W. Clark, clever clothing 3J to 4c men, known well and widely. ' They make assertions about sa v. vino- von cash, and their word is sgooa- Read their half-page adv. this issue and consider what it 15? says, and watch for a new adv. 12i? Friday. Genuine Old Time Snow Precedes the Holidays The biggest snow7 recalled as coming before Christmas, and one of the most pronounced snow storms in recent years, broke over the countrj Saturday after noon and Catawba county seems to have been the center of it. Eight inches fell here, although Lincolnton, only 15 miles south, got only three inches; Charlotte on our east got only an inch; Asheville on the west and in the midst of the snow country, had six inches, and Greensboro five. It is remembor that at least one bigger December snow came Christmas day, 1877, if the date is correct, but Saturday's was the biggest before Christmas that is now recalled. With the snow, which fell thickly, the flakes being all sizes from pin points to big ones, there was wind enough to make it really a snow storm like those which characterized the winters of long ago. Delighted yells from the kids, as usual, were heard all over town, but the man with a short woodpile had little spirit for festivities. The outlying spurs of the Blue Ridge were white yesterday morning when they couid be seen and as far west as one could see from an elevation, the hills were covered as the ground was here. It was "some" snow all around. An ice-cold wine began coming in from the mountains yesterday afternoon and a decided change in temperature occured. - With Cur Subscribers. "Do your Christmas subscrib- ing early" was pur into practiee by a number cf friends last week, and the most satisfactory part of it was, don't you know, that practically every one had something good to say for the paper as well as to pay over a bit of cash on subscription. The Enterprise's holiday subscription business is growing. You can send no more pleasing gift to a friend, particularly a Catawba county person away off some where, than the Enterprise for a year. Twice a week for 12 months he or she would bless your soul. All new subscriptions, are being dated Januarv 1, 1917. J. A. Sherrill of Sherrills Ford was in town Saturday, along I with a lot of others, and left a dollar. J. B. Gabriel, an old friend in the state of Missouri, mails a dollar. A new subscriber was J. F. Moose. L. M. Robinson left $2 for The Enterprioe and The New York WTorld five papers a week the World costing 65 cents, i however. Airs. W. B. Setzer, J. P. Cline, N. E. Brady. T. K. Robinson, Lonnie Jones, Lee Robinson and W M. Robinson all sent in and brought in from $1 to S2 during the week. Christmas Running Riot in all Newton Stores It was declared yesterday that not in years and perhaps never have Newton markets presented such splendid stocks of holiday goods of so many varieties and ' and of such high class as they are now offering to all Catawba county. Every store is in holiday dress and already the holiday trade is swelling like anything. Saturday morning there was an especially strong run of patron age here. The Entesprise is but serving its readers when it calls attention to wThat the merchants are offer ing and in advising them to read the advertisements in this paper and call on the merchants represented in its columns. You cannot possibly shop for Christ mas with more satisfaction, men tal and finaffcial, than in Newton stores. Variety of stocks, at tractiveness of displays, reason ableness of prices you get ail these in Newton. Add one word more Do your buying early. A rush at the last is a bad time for cus tomer as well as merchant. J A NO. 74 PROSPERITY NOT DEPENDENT ON WAR Muofactariag Centres Refasing Muni tion Orders. Reports have come from Lon don and Paris recently that American manufacturers would soon be deprived of a large por tion of the war orders. Tke New York World asked its cor respondents in some of the large industrial centres what effect the stoppage of war orders would have. Replies show that there is already under way a strong movement on. the part of indus try to divorce itself from strictly war orders. This is due to a rush of domestic business of a more stable sort. Reports from some of the industrial centres follow. Pittsburgh, Pa. War orders are now' taking second place to domestic orders at premium prices and with mills operating 15 to 20 per cent above normal. At the offices of the Carnegie Steel company todav officials said they would not be surprised if the United States Steel corpora tion should announce in a few days that it will decline any further wrar contracts. Wheeling, W. Va. -Officials of the big mills in the Wheeling district say business outside of that created by the European war has taken such a sudden bound that it would be impossi ble for them to handle war or ders and they are not sought. Harrisburg, Pa. Most of the plants in the Harrisburg district are not concerned with war or ders. The'Harrisburg Pipe and Pipe Bending company for months has been making tons of shrapnel and other munitions, but David E. Tracy, its president, said to day that the concern is devoting more attention to'domestic orders of the stable kind, "which are coming in encouragingly. Indianapolis, Ind. Reports from all of the manufacturing centres in Indiana show that business conditions are improv ing. War orders have not play ed a prominent part in this re vival, as few factories are filling them. Cleveland, Ohio. Manufactur ers in Cleveland find so many orders for the domestic ftrade in their Christmas stockings that they have begun to turn down war munition business. Several Cleveland manufacturers, who last summer made strenuous efforts to book sub-contracts for the making of shrapnel shells and rifle parts, are nowT content toilet such business go elsewhere. Annual Estimate Cotton Crop Made. Washington, Dec. 11. The 1915 crop amounts to 5,333,538, 000 pounds exclusive and is equi valent of to 11,161,000 five hun- i dred pound bales, the department of agriculnure announced today in its final estimate of the sea son. That is 2,300,000,000 pounds less than last years record crop. The value of the lint this year, however, is approximately $78, 000,000 more than last year's great crop. Cotton was being sold by farmers on December 1 at 11.3 cents a pound while - last year on that date they were get ting 6.8 cents a pound. At the higher price this year the crop is worth $603,260,000 while last year's lint crop was worth S525. 324,000. This year's cotton crop will amount to 11,161,000 bales of 500 pounds gross weight, enclu sive of linters, the department of agriculture announced today in its final cotton report of the season. That compares with 16,134,390 Dales last year, 14, 156,486 bales in 1913 and 13,038, 235 bales, the average total pro duction, exclusive of linters, for five years, 1909-1913. i Mr. F. L. Can of Wrflson is looked upon as a possible candi date for Congress in the second district against Claude Kitchin, and he is described as a very strong and able man. N
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