North Carolina Newspapers

HP TOTIT? JL nil llM NewmdS volume XXXVIII. PRICE $1.50 THE YEAR IN ADVANCE NEWTON, N. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1917. PRICE FIVE CENTS THE COPY. NUMBER 96. DEMANDS OPEN FORMULA ! MERCHANTS TALK ROADS COURT CASES OF INTEREST FARMER BLED TO DEATH ADMIRAL DEWEY PASSES CANADIANS RAID TRENCH BRIEFS FROM EVERYWHERE Bill in Legislature Would Force Pat ent Medicines to Give List of Drugs Used. Bills have boon introduced in the house and senate which propose that all secret remedies shall come out in the open and give their formula, if they are sold in the state of North C'arohna. This would be the first state in the union to require formu la, if the bills become laws. The measure is in line with the new gov ernor's attack on patent medicines. The bill imposes a graduated tax drugs, ranging from $5 on sales un der $2,000 a year to $100 on sales of $50,000 or more. A state inspector will be appointed. Excepted from the act are drugs and medicines pat ented by the U. S. patent office; any drug recognized by the U. S. Phar macopoeia; and any medicine com pounded by orders of a physician. Futher carrying out his reeom- mendations. there is a bul that pro- j town Tuesday and declared and that hibits sending any man to the county j his people were strong for road im roads whose sentence is for more provement. He told The Enterprise than two years. If more, he must be j turned over to the state i over to the state. A third i national bill ;s for the appoint- j of the governor, chairman of guberna ment ot the governor, chairman oi the tax commission and state treas- j paying tor roads is literally thrown Similar case have been brought in urer as a commission to make a away, because whatever is done, is j many other counties of the state! All comprehensive report on a system oi i only temporary, and cannot be other-j contend that when the national coun taxation at the next legislature. I wise; and to continue to spend money I cil of the order set aside the older Senator Scales introduced a num-j in that fashion simply means throw- j members into an insurance class to ber of state-wide bills. One pro- ; ing good money after bad. j themselves, denying them the bene- poses to substitute a state board of ;I am for bonds," said a well- j fits accruing from the addition of charity and public welfare for the ; known citizen; ''but before I vote ! new members and "fresh blood" present state board of charities, the j for them, I've got to know who is go- raising their monthely premiums and membership to be seven appointed by ; mg to spend the money." This senti- forcing them to insure themselves, the governor. Another bill provides ' ment is continually echoed, and it is ! the insurance agreement was violat an appropriation of 20,000 for the ' eminently sound business that the j ed and they want the money they work of this state board of charity ! voters know whose hands will direct j have paid into the order, plus inter and public welfare. Another bill by the expenditure of their cash. That ! est on same.' caies provides ior aosenr voters to ; vote in the general elections tne bill ; ueing on tne oruer oi ir e oin oiiereu ; uie idea ot men wno discuss tavor- ; forces litigants for sums under $500 .in the house last week by Doughton. ably the idea of bonds that the road to start proceedings in county court. Another bill by Scales would regu- ; commissioners, three or five, repre- The plaintiffs in these cases had no late the manner ot publishing legal ; sentmg both political parties and i choice, hence the suits were first fil notices in newspapers and fixing the coming from all parts of the county, ! ed m this court 'Should the issue of rates of compensation in accordance ; be named in any act authorized the the validity of 'the court go against with the desires of the legislative , issuance of bonds. j the plaintiffs ultimately in the su- comrmttee of the State Press asso- ! Another point that will engage the j preme court, they would, it seems, ciauon. bull anotnr bill by beale , attention of thoughtful citizens is j ose their day in court for the reason T . i. . . . 1 C i! "11 j5P. 1 : wuuiu t- umua tne uptiouii any ; pnvoic injajjiLciia jui iusauc jjciauns I i tiana etie uuiit. iiie niiest roau in except such as ' shall be licensed by 1 the world will go to pieces in time the state. j unless it is kept up. On this point There is a bill to prevent boys un- j The Hickory Record voices prevail der 18 years old working as telegraph ing sentiment: operators and one to establish a re- j "And if the county undertakes to formatory and home for women at the state prison. The senate has a resolution to print 2,500 copies of Governor Bick- j done and that the highways will be ett's inaugural address, which has j kept in good condition, they will see been praised from one end of the the wisdom in the investment; other Jstate to the other. , ' j wise they will not care to waste their ; Senator Scales has a measure tomcey." prevent 6riving autos and met6r i jJavie and Burke Wide Awake. cycles J by person intoxicated. " " ave county one of the smallest - - Garon county, after s discussinA c urrties in the. stater long 's cursed . the pros and cons of thtt county line, j -. it'i rotten -roads, has already spent election whereby Gaston lost Kin? 17 '.,000 for roads and bridges, and Mountain town and six miles of ten- j the people are so well-pleased they - ritory to Cleveland county, has dfc- arc now calling for another hundred cided to ask the legislature to re, thousand dollars. peal the 1915 election act, and leav ! Burke county has spent $100,000 the territory in statu quo. If this re j not done, the suit against Cleveland now pending will be pressed. Gas- ton claims money and liquor and fraud and all sorts of ugly things j were used to cary the election. I The prohibitionists held their big j meeting in Raleigh this week and de- j cided to press their bill for com-; plete prohibition. An effort to keep ' Rev. R. L. Davis off the legislative committee was opposed and with-1 dawn. There is perhaps no very 1 strenuous opposition in the general i assembly against a tight prohibition j law denying even the shipment of a j quart; dui anumoer oi legislators, j including Henry Page, although dry men ,declare the presence of Davis, whom they term a lobbyist at $3,000 a year, is obnoxious to them. They "resent" 'him. State Institutions Want Much. The Caswell Training school at Kinston, for feeble-minded children, has 181 inmates and wants $258,500 for the next two years for perman ent improvements and maintenance. The hospital for colored insane at Goldsboro wants $350,000 for the next two years. More than $200,000 is wanted for the school for the blind for the next two years. Representative Doughton has in troduced a bill giving the right to vote to absentee citizens, so they can mail their ballots and have them counted. Had Buncombe county sol diers on the border been allowed to vote, it is asserted that there would be no muddle in the 10th today, be cause the boys would have given Weaver a decided majority. There is a pension bill raising the property limit of pensioners from$500 to $1,000 and increasing each pension $8. A republican leader has a bill increasing the pensions a million dol lars, introduced for political pur poses . Provision is made in a bill intro duced for the sending of all women offenders and vagrants to county far mers in each county, instead of to jail. There is strong effort for a re formatory or home of correction for wayward girls and women. Who Is Bickett's "Big Ike?" The Raleigh correspondent of The Greensboro Daily News says that there is great interest in the ap pointments Governor Bickett is go ing to make, but the governor says he is too busy just now to be think ing of appointing anybody. He has measures he wants action on by the general assembly, and that will take his time for 60 days, to come. The same writer says there is much spec ulation as to who will be the "Big Ike" of the administration. That is, who will be the boss, the chief ad viser, the kitchen cabinet, the head guy? The answer from some is "no body!" If ever a governor went into office without strings, without prom ises, without a political machine, and without any need of a "Big Ike," it is declared to be Mr. Bickett. It is expected he will be his own Big Ike. Elect School Boards. Yesterday's Raleigh dispatch to The Daily News says: Henry Page Charley Coonized the general assem bly Wednesday with a school bill that is a genuine, blown in the bottle (Continued on page four) fleeting of Retail Association Called For Tonight in the Court . House to Discuss Bonds. The discussion of bonds for roads throughout the county goes on. The condition of. the highways now in every township stimulates conversa- iiov.. Tonight a meeting of the mer- hants of the town is called ,as will be noticed elsewhere, to secure an expression from the business men of Newton on the subject. The meet ing of the Merchants' association is not alone for retail merchants but every business and professional man of the town is invited and urged to attend. Representative J. Yates Kiillan ar rived from Raleigh Wednesday night and he will be invited to meet with citizens and aid the meeting in for mulating any plans that may be ad opted, looking toward a bond issue. Frank E. Bot from Route 3 was in that it couldn't print too much read- ing matter about the road question. ; Citizens in that part of the county I feel that the 20 cents tax they are I reel tnat the 20 cents tax they are I is one point that will have to be made clear ought to be, should be. It is j , - i n t i- a me question oi maintenance aicer tne float a bond issue, provision must be made for the maintenance - f roads If the voters are sure this will be iepiacing the bridges the flood swept away, hiving seven steel structures already ; and is planning to spend $30",000 for good roads this spring summer. VARIOUS LOCAL ITEMS Minn Happenings Around Town and in the oCunty and Notes of In terest to Home Readers. Timcs-Mercurv: "Newton is a- oin agitating the question of a new depot. The town certainly does need depot accomodations." Times-Mercurv "A hoe was butchered on the farm of Frank Propst last week which tipped the scales at the 6401b mark. Just think gentle reader of the sausage and bacon and good old ham and spare ribs and backbone and liver and pigs feet and other meat to feed soldiers. Does it make you anxious or are you used to it? We are anxious." i Times-Mercury: "Friends of E. L. Shuford in Hickory are pleased of the consideration shown him by the First National bank of Lenoir. At the annual meeting recently held Dr. A. S. Kent was elected president and Mr. Shuford vice president. The peo ple of Lenoir learned of Mr. Shu ford's business ability when he was engaged in merchandising in their town. This bank at Lenoir increased its deposits last year over $100,000 and paid recently a semi-annual divi dend of 4 per cent." Hickory Record: "M. W. Mc Combs, of this county, and. Robert Smith, for several years master me chanic in the city guarage, have pur chased the business from T. W. Clay and will conduct it in the future as a partnership. Mr. McCombs will act in the capacity of secretary-treasurer and Mr. Smith will continue to devote his ability to the mechanical end. Both are splendid young men, know the repair business and will succeed without a doubt." Conover aldermen last night call ed an election on bonds for $10,000, same to beissued by the Conover graded school district, for school purposes, building, etc. Wednesday night, under the new bill of incorpor ation of the district, Claude C. Her man and Dr. J. J. Stewart were elect ed additional trustees the other three being C. R. Brady, S. D. Sease and" S. S. Rowe. Dr. Stewart is chairman and Mr. Brady secretary and treasurer. Yesterday morning before busi ness hours in the pool room, four young ' negroes Tom Whittenburg, Rob and Wess Wilson and "Bit,"Sims practiced a little pool to while away the early morning tedium. Bob Cline, owner of the place, was- in formed and slipping to the rear, he displayed an enormous gun and call ed their attention suddenly to the same. Simultaneously a loud crash of glass attracted attention to the uttermost parts of the square and Rob and Wes literally swarmed through a front window, sash and all while Tom cowered behind a stove much too small to hide him and "Bit" faded away under a pool table. There would have been four funerals had even a match been popped at the right moment. Scared? Well! Heptasoph Suits Today in County Court Issue as to Validity of Court Raised by Defense. Today in county court the cases of former members of the Improved Or der of Heptasophs will come up for their preliminary hearing; and the proceedings promise to be interesting for the reason, as stated in Tues day s Enterprise, that W. C. Feim ster, of counsel for the defense, has raised in his ; answer to complaints, the issue as to the validity of the county court. The answer alleges that the court is unconstitutional, in valid and hence incompetent to pass on these cases or on any other case whatsoever. Plaintiffs in the Suits. The plaintiffs are Dr. Geo. H. West, George Moose, J. B. Leonard and L. H. Phillips. The suit of D. L. Yoder has already been started in superior court All are based on is sues similar to those in the success ful case of F. M. Williams which the supreme court upheld some time since, lhis case, it is learned, may go on to the United States supreme court, or some other cr.se involving the same issues the same issues Had to Start in Countv Court The act creatW the countv court. (that all these suits against the Hep tasoph order, must have been start ed during 1916; and no new suit can be started now. Court Must Pass On Itself. The court will be in the funny posi- I tion of having to pass on its own constitutionality and validity and if the issue is pressed today as set forth in the complaint, Judge Jesse C. Sigmon will have to say whether or not he is a judge. Laymen are keen ly interested, and lawyers also. It has been asked that. if the supreme conrt should ultimately decide the court unconstitutional, what would b the status of the gentlemen who '4-" various . timesTiave paid various awd sundry fines and costs into the cotart; and the lawyers just smiled and said there would be nothing do ing in the. line of rebates valid or not. McCorkle & Moose appeared for the plaintiffs in the Heptasoph case. - Verdict in Auto Case. E. E. Bost and C. G. Ramseur, owners of jitneys, were awarded $25 damage and costs in county court Tuesday, against E. D. Maynard, of Gastonia with whose machine a car belonging to the plaintiffs and driven by Rome Bostian, collided on the 11th county, had considerable property of November, in Mecklenburg coun- j and life insurance, and the disposi ty. The plaintiffs asked $215 dam- j tion of his assets are being thorough age, alleging that Maynard was re-) ly investigated. Baltimore papers in sponsible for the accident; and May nard asked $300 damage, alleging that Bostian was responsible. Wil son Warlick appeared for the plain- ' tiffs and Carpenter & Carpenter of; Gastonia and W. C. Femister for the defendant. Other cases handled Tuesday were: Monroe Young, adw., $5 and costs; Elmore Motz, adw., $2.50 and costs; Oliver Whitener, assault, $2 and costs; Clyde Setzer, $2 and costs; Ed. Eolirk and vife, Mary Ellen Bolick, j oi Newton, $10 and costs, each, on charge of disorderly house. The c?.S8 areprinrf gambling a gainst four young men foil down for lack of evidence and a nol pros with leave was taken. Charles Simms, state's witness, did not sluw up. THE DEATH RECORD Mrs. Cobb. George Cobb of the firm of Cobb & Coley was called to Hickory Grove, S. C, Wednesday by a distressing message announcing the death of his mother. Only this week he had re ceived letters from home stating that all were well, and' so he supposed that death came suddenly. Mrs. Cobb was about 65 years of age. His friends in Newton will sympathize with him in his sudden bereavement. Mrs. Martha Caroline Self of Hick ory widow of J. R. Self, died Tuesday morning at 3'oclock, in her 70th year. She was a member of Holy Trinity Lutheran church and the funeral was held Wednesday from the residence by Rev. W. E. Murray, pastor. Five children survive Perry and W. H. Self of Hickory; J. W. Self of Lenoir and Mesdames Mary Collins and ton Maynard. Bad Fight in Hickory. D. C. Spencer, brick mason, and Charles Witherspoon, baggageman at the union station, engaged in a ter rific fight in a cafe at Hickory Mon day night -at a late hour and both are laid up with severe wounds as a result. They fell 'out over a game of pool. Spencer and Witherspoon's brother had played, and there were words, and' Charles Witherspoon left the pool room at 11:30 o'clock and went to the cafe, where Spencer went later, and a furious scrap followed. Spencer was slashed about the head and neck, one lick barely missing the jugular vein; and Witherspoon re quired 18 stitches in his head and neck. Both men were placed under bonds of $200. Tuesday night, following the sen- ' sational encounter, the Hickory ! council revoked the license of the pool room where thefight got its in spiration, and the license of two ethers, to boot, one of them for col ored people. " There seems to have been complaint and the fight , says The Record, "was the last straw." Jesse Bost Accidentally and Fatally Cut With an Axe. by His Brother While Dressing Cross Ties. Tuesday night Jesse Bost died from loss of blood at. his home in the Love school house community, fol lowing an accident in 'which his bro ther, Henry Bost, cut him on the leg with an axe, servering an artery. The funeral was held yesterday and buri al made at Mount Ruhama. The Bost brothers, sons of Gov. Bost, were getting out cross ties, and were working back to back. Henry's axe slipped and the force of his stroke flung the axe around and it struck the unfortunate brother. This oc curred during the afternoon and that night about 9 o'clock Mr. Bost died. Dr. Glenn Long reached his bedside just before the end, too late to save him. . Mr. Bost was about 40 years old and leaves a family, for whom great sympathy is felt. ROBERT EDWARD LEE .Born January 19th, 1807 When the future historian 'shall come to survey the character of Lee, he will find it rising like a huge mounUin above iht undul ating plain of humanity, and he must lift his eyes high toward Heaven to catch its summ.;. II 2 posses33d evsry virtue of other great commanders without their vices. He was a foe with out hate; a friend without trcaca ery; a soldier without cruilty; a victor without oppression; &::d a victim without murmuring. He was a public officer without vices; a private citizen without wrong; a neighbor without - reproach; a Christian without hypocrisy, and a man without guile. He was Caesar, without his ambition; (Frederick, without ,his tyranny; Napoleon, without his selfishness; and Washington, without his re ward. He was obedient to authority as a servant, and royal in authori ty as a true king. He was gentle as a woman in life; modest and puie as a virgin in thought; watchful as a Roman vestal in duty; submissive to law as Soc rates, and grand in battle as Achilles! Benjamin H. Hill. PROPST BROTHERS GONE TO LOOK INTO BROTHER'S DEATH A dispatch from Morganton Tues day said : Brothers of Ralph E. Pro pst, a former Newton citizen, who it is nllpcrprl tn hnvp dted rwpntlv from an ; accident, sustained tfftiile working (on bridge at Baltimore, McTarem that city, investigating suspicious circumstances surrounding the death, which is now believed to have been caused by a bullet wound in the head. An examination of the body, upon the request of Baltimore friends, aft er it had arrived at Drexel, showed the bullet wound, according to Doctor Riddle, of this place, who made the investigation. It is claimed young Propst, whose parents now reside at Drexel, Burke speaking of the death hinted of the suspicious circumstances surrounding the affair. Aviators Are Lost. Lieuts. W. A. Robertson and H. C. Bishop, army aviators who went out in their aeroplanes January 10, have been lost in the desert and mountain region of Lower California, and can not be found. It is supposed that they have died. Statesville is investigating the idea of a packing house. C. V. Hen kel was sent out as a scout to find what he could do. At Moultrie, Ga., he found about what Statesville wants, a plant costing $95,000 which took a monnths to build, with a ca pacity of 300 hogs and 50 cattle daily. The plant has stimuulated the hog and cattle industry and is an all around good thing for any town big enough to support it- Raleigh and Wilmington are both on the eve of establishing packing houses. Having found that the session of Hiram lodge, A. F. and A. M., opened at Raleigh on the night of April 17, 1865, was never properly closed, be cause just after it was opened the Yankee soldiers there heard of Lin coln's assassination, and an officer sent word to the lodge members they better get home the Masons gath ered for the 113th convention of the state grand lodge Monday night, con cluded the historic session and clos ed the lodge. The soldiers in Raleigh April had a mind to visit calamities on the city because of Lincoln, and an officer thought it safer for the Mas ons to shut up shop that night, and the members scattered without clos ing the session. RETAIL MERCHANTS MEET A meeting of the Newton Re tail Merchant's association will be held in the court room Friday night, January 19, at 8 o'clock, to complete the organization and se cure an expression from the busi ness men of the town on the sub ject of good, roads. At this meet ing every business and profession al man in town is invited to be present, and to join the associa tion for - membership is by no means limited to retail merchants, but men in whatever line of busi ness and the professional men, are all urged to join the associa tion for the upbuilding of the town. The association will be in the nature of a board of trade, or a chamber of commerce, and all business interests working to gether in it may accomplish much for Newton during 1917. F. E. GARVIN, President. G. F. COCHRAN, Secretary. Hero of the Seas Makes Last Voyage and Reaches His Home Port Ranking Naval Officer. Admiral George . Dewey, America's greatest naval hero, ranking naval officer of the world, died Tuesday night at his home in Washington. After several days of illness due to breakdown and arterio sclerosis he lapsed into a state of coma still be lieving he would soon be up and back at his desk as chief of the naval board. Arterio sclerosis for a year and a half had gradually been spreading over his body but he was of powerful physique and proud of his vitality, he fought it off with all his energy. Wednesday of last week he was at his office hale and hearty; the next day he collapsed as he was leaving his house Admiral George Dewey was born in the shadow of the Vermont capitol December 26,1837, and so was a little over 79 years of age. At 17 years of age he planned to enter West Point but there was no vacancy, and there was one at Annapolis, so he joined the navy instead of the army. He served through the civil war, and when the war with Spain broke out he was sent to the east, much a gainst his wishes, because he thought the naval fighting would be in the gulf of Mexico, and he would miss it. Instead, he had his fight in Manila bay and won undying fame. Con gress made him full admiral, and he was the only one of that grade in the navy, and because of his 62 years service in the navy, was ranking naval officer of the whole world. The burial will be at Arlington cemetery. His second wife and his son, George Dewey, jr., survive. The funeral is tomorrow. DEEDS FILED FOR RECORD Deeds have Ke:n filed for record as follows : J. F. a-arnairy to R. T. Hines, two transfers, on? for $340 and -one for $170. W. P. L'mgarner to A. W. Wagner for $150. W C. Curlee to M. F. Carpenter for $300. J. A. Seal to Ralph and H. L. Arndt, $700. John H. Deal to V. H. Nichloson for $1,615. Mrs .Lillie Fields to M. P. Sloup for $5,000. D. S. Fry to U. S. Fry for $200. H. C. Goodson to Emerson Propst for $400. W L. Hutchens to O. V. Hutchens, two transfers, $500 and $750. E. T. Harwell to B A. Carpenter for $1,075 . Q. A. Hedrick to E. R. Sigmon for $50.r - - - :- r v T. M. Hoke to Mattie S. A. Deal for $500. R. T. Hines to E. O. Blackwelder for $250 W. C. Kenyon to H. J. Clark for $1,000. A. P. Price to A. W. Wagner for $800. Mrs. v,. F. Propst to A. W. Wag ner for $300. Arthur Webb to Olin Webb for $400. Mr. DeButts Promoted. Richard H. DeButts, district pas senger agent for the Southern rail way with headquarters at Charlotte for the last six years, has been pro moted and will go to Washington city in a short time. Friends m the Char lotte district will learn with pleasure of his promotion but will regret to have him leave. W. N. Foreacre, now general su perintendent at Charlotte, becomes general manager of all the lines east of Atlanta and Chattanooga as far north as Washington. He remains at Charlotte, however. This means that a large number of clerks now working at Washington will be sent to the Charlotte office. E. H. Coap man, vice-president and general manager, will continue as vice-president with direct supervision over the entire system, as heretofore. Railroads Lose Millions. Test cases, regarded as decisive, of about 800 railroad claims against the government for approximately ?35, 000,000 additional compensation for carrying the mails from 1907 to 1911, were decided by the supreme court against the railroads. Appeals of the Chicago and Alton and Yazoo and Mississippi railroads from rejec tion of test claims were dismissed. Last Dollar of a Fortune. A cotton seed oil man in Charlotte has come into possession of a dollar bill on which is written this: "Last dollar of a fortune of $659, 000 left me by an aunt in California, June 1912. Cotton, Dec. 1916. Good bye." It is thouught tthe man plunged in cotton during last year and so lost his little old $659,00 that way, and then went and killed himself, which would have been the proper thing to do for a greedy fool. Thirteen Comin' An' 'Er Gwine. Eph Stowe, colored citizen of Mecklenburg, helped his 13th child get marriage license in Charlotte last Tuesday; and he told the register of deeds that he had "13 mo' dat een't marr'd yit," but hoped to be if they lived long enough. He has been mar ried three times, first wife dead, second "deevorced' and the third liv ing with him 26 children in all. William Little of the Claremont i section was brought to jail Tues day night on a commitment for lun acy, and held until yesterday, when "the family made arrangements for his release. This Mail Carrier Wealthy. Martin L. Henry, said to be the wealthiest mzil carrier in the coun try, killed himself in New York Sun day because he was "tired of life." Although he has amased $300,000 worth of real estate, he clung to his little job of mail carrying paying $1,200 a year. He had caried the mail for 35 years. He fell come time ago and hurt his head. Attack in Snow Storm on Somme;News Miscellany Covering the Hap Front Brings Minor Success to penings of the Week Here, There Allies Other War Fronts. and All Around Snapshots. On the Somme front, winter has : Judge Thomas J. Shaw sent 15 re sealed military activities on a large ;cruits to the roads i.i Buncombe scale but raidinsr parties and fre-1 county during the last sitting of quent bombardments still go on. The criminal court. Canadian troops in a snow storm' At an estimated cost of $32,000 a Wednesday raided a thousand yards I swamp near Mt. Olive, WTavne coun of German trenches, capturing a i ty, can be diained and 6,000 acres of few gHns and 100 men, mostly Sil- j fine fertile ground reclaimed, worth, esians and Poles. They claim to : it is estimated, $640,000. have inflicted heavy losses. ; Congress does not want an extra The Russians and Rumanians seem-; session and there is nt a de eo. to nave stmenea up a little in Ku-, termination toclean up the business mania and at points have turned on before M h 4 their enemies. It may be they are tired of running, or have worn their! J- W. Bales of Hamlet, shot just legs down to where they can't run. before Christmas by Tcm Hare, his Russians are said to have been dis- father-in-law, at Fulton. S. C, died appointed in the Rumainians as fight-; Thursday night. Hare is hild for ers and the Rumanians seem surpris- murder. ed at the poor show the Russ has The Jap cruiser Tsukuba was des made. Both have put up an inglor- troyed by an explosion in a Jap har ious fight. bor this week, 53 killed and 157 There are indications that another wounded. The giant ship was 13,500 big offensive is being planned by tons, and was only about 9 years old. the allies on the French front and big ( She was at the Jamestown exposition, doings in Macedonia and Serbia are A Danish steamer of 3000 tons expected. But this has been expect- v as destroyed by amine or torpedo ed for a couple of years. The trou- at the mouth of London-s ble seems to be m Greece The allies river this week The gcan. fear to leave Greece m ther rear for dlnavian nations, all of which have an invasion of the Balkans. m merchant ships, have lost as ery little has been going on m heavily in the war as if thev had army circles but a lied merchant ves-sbeen combatants. sets are being sunk daily by German , . . , , . , , . . subs Thousands attended the funeral of " German Raider at Large. ffal ?iU Denver" . Masn and Reports of another German raider Elks nd otner organizations, citi roaming the seas seeking what allied from niany western states and ships it may devour, have been sent bdrecs of children participated in out. As many as ten ships are re- h ceremonies. The body wiL be ported sunk. On two of the ships Iaid t n a rock vault on the there were 63 Americans who ship- summit of Lookout mountain. ped as hostlers. A Brit'sh captain with a wooden Entente Files Another Note. ' cannon and smoke bombs believes he President Wilson has received an scared away submarines ,on his trip amplified answer to his note asking over to New York. If his ruse was the belligerents what they wanted, effective, he showed poor judgment This second note explains why Tur- in bragging about it in public, for key must be expelled from Europe, he may not find it worth anything Alsace-Lorraine ceded to France, next time. why Italia must have the Italian pro- The extent of the moral wave a vinces of Austria, and setsforth other gainst vice, whiskey and fast living territorial changes demanded. Peace generally may be estimated when is not possible, declares the note, un- NewT Orleans closes cabarets and sa til the shadow of fu'.ure wars is ban- loons on Sunday. Of course many of ished. Treaties off r no safeguard, the saloons kept the back door open it declares, because they are treated last Sunday, but closing even the as "scraps of paper." front door is an innovation in the Crescent City. PLAYTnli?OTDEnSr-wY Kin- A dollar and costs was a11 the nT TONIGHT COLN lu KID awarded Deleon Smith of Lenoir .The Country Kid will be present- ed at the rgadeu school tonight by the department of home economy and domestic science, to raise money for the purchase of a range to be used by the young ladies who are learning how to cook. The play it-; court thought ovnLrwise. ... self is laugh-compelling; the charac-1 IT . ters have been well-trained smd theX --Thomas II. Peoples ofoutarVar-z 15 and 25 cents will prove a small lln J"3 heateear Qe price for the fun and then you will Palmetto governor next time and help mighty worthy effort. Cle Blease, twice governor, defeat- : ed candidate for the senate, then de- Several more cars of corn have feared for governor last time, is al been shipped into the county, and the so expected to toss his sombrero m price has gone up, the grain being e circIe- As a candidate he is sort worth $1.25 by the car load. It sure of an evergreen or perennial, is a novel thing to see such farmers The Charlotte Observer editor, af as Sigmon brothers shipping in corn ter a visit to Raleigh, says that while to feed their stock . the lower rooms of the governor's mansion are well-furnished and the PLANS TO MEET DEFICIT Increase in Revenue E pec ted to Ex ceed Half a Billion Dollars An nually Preparedness Costly A dispatch from Washington Tues- day stated that administration plans for meeting the treasury deficit at the end of the next fiscal year took the form of a definite program Tues- day, embracing increases in the in- heritance tax, a new tax on excess profits of corporations and partner- ships, and a bond issue of $289,000,- up like a man sobered up alter a 000. A bill including these proposals carousal. and bearing the endorsement of Pres- a robber grotesquely disguised, a ident Wilson and Secretary McAdoo man may be, but suspected of being will be framed at once and pressed a woman, leaped upon a taxi in in the house. Kinston Saturday, in which J. Fred The increase in revenue under the Taylor, a cotton mill man, was rid plan is expected to be more than inir ith $1,800 to pay off his hands; $500,000,000 annually, and if it fails and using a gun, forced Taylor to to take care of the deficit, a $100,- hand over his money. Sid French, 000,000 issue of treasury certificates the taxi driver, was arrested as an of indebtedness may be decided on. accomplice, and it is believed that As agreed to informally today by rne robber was a demi-moade with democrats of the ways and means whom French has been living, committee and approved by the R Q Ale3cander Bible student, president and secretary of the Lreas- prophetj and maker of sensational ury the excess promts tax woj1. b- proCTOStications declared in an ad at the rate of eight or ten rv ce- dress in Washington that the BIble on such returns in excess oA cig 2 -00 s foretold the present per cent on investment and would war d the Unked States wiU yield something more than $200,000,- invaded It also advises us to get 000, the inheritance tax would be re2(iVj he 5 England is doomed to raised to one and one-haif instead of lose this he further saV5j and one per cent on minimum estates, France 11 gain a dominant position, and from 10 to lo per cent on those Wheat the BIble predicted, rvou:.! go of more than $lo,000,000 yielding an to - the 5ushel fore the h. 1. additional revenue of about was over 000,000 and the bond issue of $289,- T . ' . . , .. T . 000,000 would be designed expressly Jonn? Hopkins hospital uas i, un x for emergency expenses, such as the "sefor human derelicts, wcr. j:a Mexican trouble, the Alaskan rail- er e very winter in a enty c,.. way, the new armor and nitrate Pe ?ita pays them Sl ,atdayJ plants, purchase of the Danish Indies KeeP their blood m good conditio for and appropriations for the shipping trVT PP of transiting same jJoard whenever an opera cion of tnat cnar- In "this form the program will be acter is necessary, and each gets $23 submitted by democrats of the com- fort every operation. The aown-and- mittee to their republican colleagues, outs af tesd (or . bIood V'tJ, who will be asked to make anv sue- mofe ttban ? having undergone gestions immediately so the measure ce3ta tftl5 "inter- may be brought" into the house. So far any pestilence in the war Leader Kitchen expects it to pass has been avoided save in Serbia within a week. where typhus almost completed the destruction of the nation, American TO CONOVER SUBSCRIBERS physicians stopping it finally; but now ruoercuiosis nas increased in Learning yesterday from numerous country over there. Ambas complaints from people living on sador Gerard says it has jumped 300 Conover routes that they had not re- Per c!nt 1,nI- Germany. Thousands of ceived their Tuesdays papers, The F renFj soldiers have it. In Belgium Enterprise tried to find the cause of conditions are fnghtfuL Eminent the trouble and learns that the pa- speciansas say this country must pers were not put off at Conover frd against importations of the Tuesday morning from No. 15. being sease. We have enough white evidently carried by. The bundles Pla-Se our own. were returned to Conover Wednesday Senator Overman denounces the and doubtless subscribers received revival of republican efforts to cut them yesterday. We just wanted to the representation of the south in state that the trouble was not in this the electoral college and in congress, office, though we regret it just the by having elections In the south in same, vestigated to see if any citizens are '. M. McCorkle has bought from Capt. J. W. Pope his Wilson creek clause," cesigned to disfranchise ne water power site near Mortimer, groes, are the target for resolutions where from 1,500 to 2.000 horse-pow- directing an investigation, all to the er can be developed. It is near the end that a law be enacted shaped to railroad and r J i A. Xhe Kinston p,.,. which pub lished the news of a murder and tne COToneTs verdict that the man died a natural deathj Smith the cor oner He held the publication , Sq nnn vrv, w t,a state pays for the household expen ses, the upper rooms are barn-like in furnishings and comfort, and al together, the state has nothing to brag of in its management of the mansion. A Richmond hotel and bar propria- tor declares that prohibition has done Richmond a worid of good- His hotel is running smoother and his soft drink bar is making more mon- ey than his hard drink bar did before, Bums and loafers have gone to work and the whole city has straightened denied the right to vote. Espeically states which have a "ranHfartor i -m. i uum-wuj j' g imiy . m . - r ueveiopmenu troi OI JHe national.