NEWTON ENTEBFKIBJS
Published Tuesday! and Fridays
F. M. WILLIAMS
Editor ani Owner
G. F. COCHRAN
News Editor and Manager
Entered February 19, 1878, at the !
postoffice at Newton, N. C, as second
class mail matter. '
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION
One Year 1-50
Six Months -75
Three Months - -40
There can hardly be a comparison of
Greece with Belgium, for the allies
have not devastated the land, killed
non-combatants, or carried them ou
wholesale into slavery. In other
words, "frightfulness" has not been
tried on the Greeks, and on the whole
they are relatively lucky.
CURRENT TOPICS.
HOW BESS BROUGHT WORD
FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1917.
THE SHORT BALLOT AND COM
MISSION GOVERNMENT.
The sensation sprung in Buncombe
county over the secret sale of county
bonds is still the subject of animat
ed discussions. Two propositions are
now under consideration for restor
ing confidence in the county govern
ment and preventing a relapse in the
progress of road-building and other
pubiic work for which Buncombe
has been noted among the counties
of North Carolina. One is that the
present board of commissioners re
sign and a new board be elected in
their place, and the other that a com
mission form of government be es
tablished by the Legislature to su
persede the old county government
system under which Buncombe and
all other North Carolina counties are
now running. A mass meeting will
be held in Asheville tomorrow to dis
cuss these propositions and other
questions following the secret sale
of county bonds. At this meeting in
structions will be given the Bun
combe Senator and Representatives
as to the kind of legislation they shall
enact to meet the present emergency.
The commission form of govern
ment for State and counties is in line
with Governor Bickett's recommen
dation in his inaugural address for
the adoption of the short ballot. By
the short ballot is meant the election
of only a small number of State and
county officers, who will have direc
tion of all State and county depart
ments and administration and ap
point the assistants necessary to car
ry on the work.Governor Bickett'sidea
is that all State offices except Gov
ernor and Lieutenant-Governor be
abolished and that the work of all
State departments be done by ap
pointees of the Governor, under his
supervision and responsibility. This
would make the business of the State
similar to that of a great corporation
and would be conducted on modern
business principles.
The short ballot idea applied to the
counties would contemplate the elec
tion of one man who might be given
the title of County Governor or some
thing of like meaning, or a commis
sion of three men, as is the plan of
commission gomernment in a num
ber of progressive towns. Under
either plan, all county officers would
Bills are aluready before the Leg
islature to carry out two of the re
commendations of Governor Bickett.
One is to appoint a commission of
State officers to study the financial
and taxing systems of other States
and make a report and recommenda
tions to the next Legislature. In the
Governor's opinion, no just or suc
cessful plan can be adopted that does
not give separate sources of revenue
for State and county purposes. This
is getting back to the amendment
which caused the defeat of all . the
amendments voted on four years ago,
as the sources of revenue cannot be
segregated without a constitutional
amendmei.t. It may be possible that
he study of the special committee
may enable them to so word the a
mendment as to overcome the objec
tions raised against the last one. Ar.d
it may be that a plan may be formu
lated by which bonds, notes and oth
er kinds of invisible property may
be taxed, as well as lands and other ! 0 go the school
("Observer," in Asheville Citizen)
"Stranger, there's queer things
happen in this world, and that's a
fact, sure. Folks generally don't be
lieve dogs can reason, for instance.
But me, I know different. Take that
hound dog there, now. She came
back home that afttmoon and told
us about Bud getting killed on yon
side o fthat mountain. Tne rest of
the pack staid there and guarded the
body." He stooped over and patted
the old hound, whose tail wagged un
derstandingly. He stood, an upright figure of a
man at the Balfour station, a long
rifle resting in the hollow of his arm.
The shadow of Stoney mountain
reached halfway across the little val
ley. The lonely pine on its summit
stood solitary and apart from its fel
lows, fire-killed trunk and branches
sharply revealed against the after
noon sky.
. "Bud" the old hound looked up
quickly at the name "and the dog
were babies together, almost. I've
always kept nigh a dozen dogs on
the place, you know, for it seems like
I couldn't get along with less. Eut
Bud and this one here took naturally
to one another from the start. The
boy'd often save some of his own
dinner to feed the pup, and it grew
to be the stoutest of the pack.
"Bud always wanted to get out in
the woods and he could handle a rifle
better than most men before he was
ten years old. Wherever he went
this hound went with him. He used
you see beyond
visible kinds of property, without i those pines over there on the Ashe
resortint? to an amendment. The viiJe road. The worst fight Bud ever
other bill is one to regulate the use
to the place where Bud's gun had
dropped. We figured it out after
wards that he'd stubbed his toe.
He must have died quickly.
The Strange Part.
"But the strange part of it .all,
stranger, was that the other dogs
were around the body. One of the
other men happened to find them
& M. SHORT COURSE
FOR TEXTILE WORKERS
The cotton mill men of the state
should be interested in the announce
ment that the textile department of
,he North Carolina College cf Agri
culture and Mechanic Arts is now of
fering a short course in textile work
and sale of patent medicines. It will
require printing on the bottle the
names and quantities of the ingre
dients and the appointment of a
State drug inspector to enforce the
law, the expenses to be met by re-
got into was when one of the other
boys there rocked Bess. Seemed like
they were better friends than ever
after that. One of the rocks hit the
dog on the leg. She limped for a
long time and Bud used to carry
food down to the barn. They wtre
good friends, hey Bess ? "
The blear-eyed hound whined un-
quiring retail dealers to pay license easily. She looked intently at the
taxes graded on the amount of an- ! an, "n e ne restm eaf u.v In
wn- ijuiiun ui mo anil. lief Lail I1U
longer wagged understandingly but
the light of intelligence and affec
tion shone in her eves. -The
Fat Pine.
"Well, then, one afternoon, about
this time, Bud said he was going
hunting. He'd done his chores and
of fat
in the
nual sales.
t
Henry Page's bill making it man
datory on all boards of county com
missioners to call an election for
school boards and county superin
tendents on the petition of a majority j split up an extra supply
of the voters is ve ri.r a. av from ! pine for his mother to use
the uniformity in the c-uucr.ti, .nai sys- I kitfhen stove next morning. Bud was
a uiuuniiui uuj, iur nis age, ana
since he's gone his mother and Bess
, . , 1 T-W I
nim get anywnere near sua. tie was
stretched out there as peaceful -as if
he was in his own bed. I remember
there were some sumac bushes close
by and the sedge grass was so high
that at first you couldn't see the boy,
or the dogs. We heard them, or they
heard us, when we were a good two
miles off, and j their baying lead us
right to the spot, with Bess far a
head. The first man to find Bud had
to run back, for the pack showed
their teeth. Bess was standing by the
body, and stranger, I never want tc
hear a dog howl again like she dio
that night. When I got there the
hounds made way for me, and Bess
just stopped and followed us home
her tail down. She wouldn't eat fo:
a day or two, and she's the only doj
my wife will allow in the house to
day. Sometimes I think they un
derstand one another better than
do. But Bess likes to go with me
once in a while. Generally she stay:
around the house, for she's old."
He picked up his long rifle ant
throwing it in the hollow of his arn
prepared to leave. Far down the rail
way tracks a white cloud of smokt
appeared. The dimly heard whistle oi
the approaching passenger train was
heard. His listener picked up his
traveling bagr
"So that's why I say there's
strange things happen in this world,'
repeated the man with the rifle. Tht
hounds came nearer and looked up
into his face, tail wagging under
standingly. "I've always believed that Bess
waited as long as she could for us to
come after the boy and then she told
the other dogs to guard Bud while
she brought us. If that aint reason
ing, I'd like to know what is."
The train slowed down for the sta
tion. Ahearty handshake and as the
traveler looked from the Pullmar
window he saw a tall figure, some
what stooped now, slowly making it's
way across a field covered with browr
sedge. A this heels walked an an
cient hound. The valley was som
bre with the shadow of approaching
night and here and there lights
gleamed in distant farm houses.
first, and the hounds wouldn't let j for mill men, beginning February 12
und extending through -riareh
This course is espeicaliy designed
for busy people who wish to cover as
much ground as possible in a short
length of time and will inciude such
subjects as picKing, caramg, spin
ning, loom fixing for plain and fan
cy weaving, cloth analysis, design
ing, and dyeing. Any and all of these
subjects may be taken in the six
weeks. These subjects will be taught
practically and as thoroughly as the
time will permit so that the mill men
will be able to get as much out of the
course as possible.
At the last meeing of the North
Carolina Cotton Manufacturers' as
sociation a number of manufacturers
signified their intention to send men
;o take this course. Since that time
)ther manufacturers have notified
-he textile department that they ex
pect to send representatives. Pre-!
,ent indications point to a large at
tendance, making it advisable for
myone intending to take this course
to write to the textile department im
mediately. All supplies used in the
jvork will be supplied at cost and no
charge is made for tuition.
A'
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TO
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tern that Governor L.e!:eU so s.rong
ly enjoined in his inaugural address.
But the introduction and discussion
of a bill to emphasize the mongrel
character and tendency in public
school work may La.e tl ? good ef
fect of restoring real uniformity by
repealing all the speical county bills.
The meeting o fthe Republican Na
tional committee in New York Mon
day on a call of chairman Wilcox to
cement more firmly the solidarity
of the Republican and Bull Moose
forces, was a failure. Even Geogre
W. Perkins and Colby of New Jersey
who appeared last fall to have re
turned to the Republican party for
good, kicked out of the traces and
declined to break bread with the old
lines who got complete control of the
committee. They issued an address
after the meeting, which Roosevelt
seem to act different. Me, 'pears
like I have to talk about it some
times or I d bust,
stranger? Yes?
"As I started out to say, Bud went
hunting one afternoon and the whole
blame pack of dogs went with him.
They saw' Bud with the gun and Bess
here trailing him and God Almighty
couldn't have kept them dogs on the
place then. I watched him go down
the hill and strike thepath across the
fields to the Asheville road. His
mother stood close by the big oak at
the house, shading her eyes from the
sun. She always did say that Bud
j was too young to be trusted with a
verv Coat and Every Coat Suit
in the House and All Millinery-
Cut Fifty Per Cent.
Found a Sure Thing.
I. B. Wixon, Farmers Mills, N. Y.,
has used Chamberlain's Tablets for
years for disoorders of the stomach
and liver and says, "Chamberlain's
Tablets are the best I have ever
jsed." Obtainable eveywhere. adv.
CONFERENCES ON MEXICO
HAVE ENDED IN FAILURE
be abolished and the functions of the l has endorsed, renouncing fellowship
county commissioners, board of edu
cation, sheriff,clerk,register of deeds,
treasurer, coroner and surveyor
would all be under the immediate di
rection of the county governor or
commission, as the case may be, and
the work done by heads of depart
ments appointed with a view to their
fitness for the sp .ial work and f or J
economy and efficiency of service.
This is the meaning of the short
ballot system, and Governor Bickett
has started an interesting line of
thought and discussion. We take it
that the mass meeting in Asheville
t morrow will give this subject some
consideration and that it will be come
a live question all over North Caro
line before many other campaigns
are waged.
One o fthe chief features of gov
ernment under the short ballot sys
tem will be publicity, frequent state
ments of financial transactions, and
minute itemizing of all sources of in
come and disbursements, and the
practice of sound business principles,
efficiency and progress in every de
partment of county work
The county commissioners of Ca
tawba have subjected themselves to
some criticisms similiar that in Bun
combe for disregarding the accus- j
with the Republican party as it' is
now led and declaring that the pro-
The commissions appointed by
Mexico and the United States to a
gree on some sort of conditions which
Are you interested I would insure peace and order on the
porder, were dissolved-Monday, hav
ing failed to agree on anything. Car
ranza refused to sign the protocol,
and the whole matter reverts to the
president to settle as he sees fit.
There seems a desire to withdraw
the American troops from Mexico,
but at the same time it appears that
this will not be entertained until Car
ranza can say that the bandits which
infest the border have been broker,
up. In fact, the troops will very like
ly not be withdrawn until the presi
dent Knows lor sure that no more
Statesville is going to enlarge her
limits and take in 2,500 more people :
with three-quarters of a million dol- '
lars of property.
Bad Habits.
Those who breakfast at eight
o'clock or later, lunch at twelve and ,
have dinner at six are almost cer
ain to be troubled with indigestion. !
They do not allw tima for one meal
to digest before another. Not less ;
than five hours should elapse be- '
tween meals. If you are troubled '
with indigestion correct your habits !
and take Chamberiain's Tablets, and
you may reasonably hope for a quick
recovery. These tablets strengthen
the stomach and enable it to per
form its functions naturally. Ob
tainable everywhere. - advt.
You never had a finer opportu
nity to save money on these
goods
JANUARY SPECIALS STILL ON SALE
Caldwell-Cochran Company
"The Leading Ladies' Store"
Three captains of the regular army j
have been dismissed on ehare-e of !
having traced the fortifications of I
b ort Leavenworth and turned them ;
n as original drawings. i
gun, but I laughed at her. She nev- i bandit troubles will arise
er says anything about it now, :
though. But she acts different, some
how." .,-
The shadows of "the mountains
were lengthening and the old hound'3
..tze routed on outstretched naws.
The man placed his gun against the J
side ot tne stone station and looked
with .steadfast eyes at the clouds in
the western sky already beginning to
hold promise of many colors. "An
other clear day, stranger, for tomor
Children Ury
FOR FLETCHER'S
iASrORIA
The Habit of Taking Cold. ;
With many people taking cold is a '
habit, but fortunatelv one that is i
easily broken. Take a cold snonee i M
t oath every . morning when you first 53
;ct out of bed not ice cold, but a i
emperature of about 90 degrees F. I
-jso sieep wnn your winoxw up.
-his and you will seldom take
.Vhen you do take cold take Cham
erlain's Cough Remedy and get rid ' I
f it as quicKly as possible. Obtain- I
ible everywhere. advt !
JThe Chinese ; government is about
to open its first aviation school.-
Winter We
es F. j S
. Do i j
cold. j ii
'ham-! J
Pete Wright and Aza Pruette of i S
jfo. 11 township in Cleveland county
iave been arrested by revenue of
icers on charge of making whiskey.
lhey are out on bonds of $300, cash
lor their appearance the 23rd at
Shelby.
Has no effect on the extra
ordinary values we are
offering in ladies1 and
misses' ready-to-wear
and all win
ter merchandise
gressives and standpatters are. now n he TeU .i'lef S a space.
further apart than ever. The Demo-
'Bud didn't come back that night.
cratic party offers the only place in ! We waited until nine o'clock or there-:
which a Progressive can land. ! abouts, thinking maybe he'd stopped 1
; at a neighbors along the road. He !
The Congressional investigation of ZJl htte feJIow tnftheyfl
. alwavs marte him stav fnr n hito rr a fl
the charges that advance informa- j few tunes on the organ or bank Tint
tion of President Wilson's peace note : we couldn't wait any longer then, and!
was peddled by men in the confidence!1 started out. I inquired at maybe aj
of the administration to certain stock a??en Vcea ii-tttey d seen id that
speculators and that cabinet officers 1 Upards Stoney mountaTn over
and members of Congress made mon- j there, they said. I searched alons
ey in stock transactions on account ' until nearly midnight, 'hen I went
of the "leak," is now on in earnest. ! back and tojd my wif,e- She. put a
tttv fV,, , . .., . ., , , i wrap on and went and told some of
When threatened with jail unless he ! the neighbors and I went another
give the names of the men he had j way and did the same thing. 'Long
heard were the guilty parties and the about 3 o,clock in the morning there
name of the Congressman from ftiaye fifteen or more m n hunt
whom he had gotten his inflation, Jj SLTi
iom Dawson, tne sensational Boston : had to ro too. for I couldn't hardlv
,
ffiEAl
speculator, named Henry of Texas,
the chairman of the committee as
the Congressman referred to "and
brought in the names of Secretaries
Lansing and McAdoo, a Senator who
was known as Senator O, German
Ambassador Bernstoff, Secretary
Tumulty, a newspaper correspondent
White, and several bankers. Chair
man Henry and Secretary McAdoo
have indignantly denied Lawson's
ure
ments
HIGHLY
! ., All U i!
tomed rules of publicity, in their fail- j " " persons mention.
to publish the items of disburse- j cu "ie merman moassaaor,
-uu a guuu many umers nave oeen
summoned to appear before the com
mittee. Lawson does not claim to
have any information more than ru
mors and the promise of a woman
who professes to know it all to tell
it when put on the witness stand.
She has been served with a summons.
Confidence in the men mentioned has
not been shaken by Lawson's gossip
revelations.
1
ENTERTAINING ARTI
CLES.
"Catawba in Days of Yore" as set
forth in" the weekly articles which
The Enterprise has been publishing
is quite the most readable and en
tertaining local history ever pub
lished in the county; and this paper
is very glad indeed that it has been
favored by the author with the series.
The articles appear each Tuesday
but shop difficulties prevented the
publication of the installment last
Tuesday and it appears today. Scores
LINCOLN NEWS NOTES
(The Lincoln News)
V. P. Asbury of East Lincoln, was
r -o v,- v.oA ,fi,; I among the few visitors in town to-
. j . ss. vt Vliab XfXX XTXitlV
say about the articles, and from their
expressions we judge that pleasure
in reading them has been universal
among Enterprise subscribers. The
present supply of installments is not
quite exhausted and before it is quite
used up we aim to importune, be
seech or bully the delightful writer
into making up some more. He has
delved quite entensively into colonial
records and tradition and the result
is the scholarly, accurate and very
readable chapters we have been pub
lishing. X
No doubt the allies are bullying
Greece and violating her rights; but
the wail she is putting up sounds
weak and silly when compared with
the groans that issue out of Belgium.
Ann Ballard, an aged lady of the
Kidsville section, died Saturday night
at 7:30. The funeral and burial was
conducted Monday at Marvin church,
Rev. Dodson conducting services.
There will be a birthday reunion at
the home" of Mrs. Eliza Heavener,
on Saturday, January 20, in honor of
R. L. Harmon, who is 76 years old.
Everybody is cordially invited to
come and bring well filled baskets.
Lector Ledford and Miss Minnie
Weathers were happily married Sun
day afternoon at 3:30 o'clock at the
residence of Rev. L. L; Lohr, who
performed the ceremony. The groom
is oi Lleveland county. The bride is
the adopted daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. A. S. Scronce, of Lincoln county.
Children Cry-
FOR FLETCHER'S
CASTORIA
travel, I was that tired. His mother
never x said a word, that morning.
She just sat there in a chair, and
rocked and rocked. I couldn't do
anything mare for a while and laid
down to rest."
-What Bess Did.
The hound had dragged herself
along the sand : and now her long
head .rested on- the man's foot. "If
it hadn't been for Bess, here" and
again the tail " wagged approvingly,
"if it hadnt been for Bess it might
have been days before we found the
boy."
The deep banked clouds were now
tinted with delicate rose. Here and
there a green sky was seen in their
drifts. The lonesome pine on Stoney's
summit waved its fire-scarred arms
against the coming glory of a moun
tain sunset.
"Along about this time, or earlier,
Bess came back. She came at a lope
and tried. to get into the house. Her
whining and scratching at the kitchen
door aroused my wife and when she
opened the door the hound jumped
into the room something she had
never done before, for my wife never
would allow the dogs in the house.
The hound kept running from one
room to another and I jumped up out
of bed and spoke to her. I asked her
just like I would a human, where was
Bud? When she heard the name
she bayed like she was going to split
her throat and run out of the house.
I followed and she made off down the
hill. She crossed the creek and I
followed on the swinging bridge.
Then she cut across the fields and I
stopped at two or three houses on the
way and called for the men to come
along. By the time we'd gotten to
the Asheville road there was -a-half
dozen others with me.
"Well, I reckon you're getting tir
ed, stranger? Seems like I feel bet
ter after. I talked about it for my
wife, she never says a word. She
didn't want Bud to be trusted with
a gun, you . see. . She always said he
was too oung. I wish-"
The hound was standing "now look
ing intently at the steep mountain
side, deep in , purple shadows while
the dying day was passing, in an in
describable ' glory .. of colors to an
other world. .' "Long . about . this , time
Bess always looks over yonder at, the
mountain. I, .don't" belie.ve she's ever
forgotte'ri the time , she- took us all
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TREMENDOUS SLAUGHTER OF PRICES BEGAN
YESTERDAY-WILL CONTINUE FOR 10 DAYS ONLY
We have just finished bur annual inventory and wish to
clean out our store of WINTER MERCHANDISE to make
ROOM FOR SPRING GOODS. We have cut and slashed
right and left to make these goods go. Men's work shirts,
overalls, hats, etc.; ladies' and children's woollen head
wear and sweaters; hosiery; dress geeds and 1,000 pni--s of
shoes all thrown on the bargain counter. We can save you
money on every article. Prices have gone away up ; but ours
have coe down for ten days only. Come to Maiden
at once and see the beginning of the biggest cut-price sale.
We can save you good money on shoes.
Whole Stock Under the Bargain Knife
In many years of mercantile experience we have never
known a better time for siio ppcis to buy than now. Al
though our stock is 1917 winter stck, yet it was bought be
fore the market made such amazing advances and you can
get goods at old prices that are far less than the new spring
prices are going to be. V "
This is particularly trua of shs. Old prices are away
below the present wholesale marke-
And then we buy and se i for cash and you can alwavs
I a get it cheaper at
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