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TilE NEWTON ENTERPRISE KAILROAD SCHEDULES Southern ,v cstbourid No. 157.20 a.m. No. ;;o. 11-10:55 a.m. No. X. 35.11:10 p. m. No. Xo. 214:08 p.m. No. Eastbound 369:23 a.m. 22.12:28 p.m. 167:15 p.m. 12 5:55 p.m. Carolina & Northwestern Northbound Southbound No. 10-10:55 a.m. No. 93:08 p.m. Newton-Hickory Jitney .Line Leave Newton Leave Hickory 7:20 a. m. 8:20 a.m. t:-J0 a. m. 10:20 a. m. I ::; p. m. 2:30 p.' m. O p. ni. 4:30 p." m. 7::i0 p. m. t 8:30 p. m. Fare 35 cents; Newton to Conover in rents; Hickory to Conover 25 cents Newton. Maiden & Lincolnton Jitney Starting Point Lincolnton Depot !..-:iv Newton Leave Lincolnton , :"'J a. m. 9:15 a. m. 1 p. m. 3:00 p. m. ::00 p. m. 7:00 p. m. Fare: Newton to Maiden 35 cents, Maklento Lii.colnton 40 cents, New to Lincolnton 75 cents. 1 KIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1917. LOCAL ITEMS -Statesville Landmark: Ur.kel has bought from G. "C. V. V. Kel- r of Charlotte a valuable farm near , r i. Ya. The farm contains 2,000 i, and the consideration was $36,- A ( herryvilie dispatch savs: "lit! S. Falls has sold his home the Baptist church to S. C. ;u-n-ir;ck. This splendid property-. wis once owned by Dr. B. F. Falls, : v. of Laurinburg, who was for : wit.y years a practicing physician !W. !V." Mrs. Louise Patterson of China ,,i vt.', who died recently at Ashe-j ... left the United synod of the - Lutheran church, $1,000 for :....-lo:,.. Mrs. Patterson was a very .: ; i:t worker in Lutheran church , .ivies. She was the mother of Mrs. ..avnee Clapp of this place, and of - i .. i c-: L i 1 here. -Hickory Record: "J. A. Whiten-! .. L:u- sold his river farm to R. T. ! iuiock of Boone for $6,000, but will depose of his place nearer Hick . . .r his herd of Ilerefords. The in Mr. Banock bought contains 140 ;. : - and is located on the Henry i r river three miles from Hickory , i - one of the best in this section." The shed of the old stables of A. .V. t.'orpening & Son collapsed Tues ..v night andsmashed up some bug-:w,-'. For two nights previous a : . tain apple peddler had slept in wagon in this part of the barn, i u; Tuesday night stopped his team .. :.. u the middle of the building and -I.;: there. "There wouldn't have Jr. anything to do but bury me ais morning," he said Wednesday, :.M.;;ing at the ruins. -Shelby Star: "Mrs. Ida Ham ! .right was married on Sunday to Lander Putnam of Y'ork, S. C. The taarriage took place at the home of Mrs. Hambright's mother, Mrs. Iav:s near Stince's Shoals. Shs is ti - former popular milliner in Sqfuth -,iby." The lady's first husband v.iu killed at Maiden by coming, in i c ilact with a power wire of high vol tail. Suit was instituted and a com-(ir-mise effected whereby the com ::y paid considerable damages.? Fred Hildebrand writes his fath er, A. C. Hildebrand, from Fort B:iss tnat the boys expect to be home by March. Nearly all the other troops in the division in which the Hickory company is enrolled, have been sent away. Fred writes that his company was to go on patrol duty on the bor der last Tuesday, for 20 days. The weather has been hot, yet pneumonia is not uncommon. The company has the best football team in the regi ment and Fred is captain of it. The government furnishes the uniforms. Lester and Eugene Reinhardt and Lowell Yoder arrived here Mon day night from Miami, Florida, in a Id-car. having made the 1,500 jour ney in just a week. They had no trou hies of any kind along the way un til they reached Lincolnton. Be tween that town and Newton they had troubles aplenty, for sleet cover ed, the ground. They reached New Ton with both front tires gone run ning on the rims. Five fonths ago they motored down to Miami and have been working in orange groves since then. Monday's sleet storm extended fr,,m Texas to Virginia, every south ern catching it except Georgia and Florida, which did not suffer much. Traflic everywhere was crippled and business more or less held up. Snow fell to a depth of 5 inches in some places, but the visitation appears to have been more of a sleety nature than snowy. Low temperatures pre vailed "throughout the area affected Newton and the county got between 2 and 3 inches of sleet; and farmers who had to come to town, if not too distant, walked in. A few ventured in their automobiles. A. M.Smyre, formerly a citi zen of Newton and an uncle of M. S. Smvre. is one of a number of Gas- tonia business men who have organ ized a new cotton mill company at Gastonia, with $200,000 capital, to make fine number yarn. There will be 10,000 spindles. It is planned to have the mill in operation in early fall. Gastonia has a score or more of cotton milis and organizes a new one every little while. Mill condi tions were never so favorable and new plants are springing up all over the south. The hearing in the case of Supt. Chas. E. Mcintosh of Hickory schools charged with whipping excessively Tony Starnes, a disobedient student, will be held in Hickory tomorrow before Recorder B. F. Campbell. Hickory people are reported as very much divided on the matter. It is said that at first sentiment set strongly against the school man but strongly anainoi ovuw . that since, public opinion s not so one-sided over it. People all over the ;Q0c:t0,i in tho outeome. rmmtv arp interested in the outcome Self, Blackwelder and Shuford will conduct the case for the defendant, and A. A. .Whitener and Murphy ap pear for the state. CASTOR I A For Infants and Children In Use For Oyer 30 Years Always bears the Signature of Catawba in Days of Yore Every Tuesday The Enterprise will publish in this column inter esting articles dealing with the early days of Catawba. The writ er is a scholarly gentleman who loves to dig into the past and bring out bits of local history, but who prefers his name kept out of sight. Editor. The Widow Doffs Her Weeds. I have told you how George Wil fong came to Henry Whitener's and lived with him for several years. He came from Pennsylvania and was a German. The name was originally VV oiffgang. When Weidner came back from South Carolina, Mary the widow of Abram Mull, came with him. She was even then only about eighteen years Vi"!and as Prettv as she was young. Wilfong, himself but twenty-two, could not help noticing this. Living in the same house together, the young widow could not fail to see what a handsome man young Wilfong was. On Sundays, when Dr. Martin, the German Reformed preacher, was in the neighborhood, they often went to church together at St.Paul's. George rode horseback and Mary rode behind him on a cushion for that pur pose. This was the usual method in those days for a young man to take his sweetheart anywhere. And it was by no means an unpleasant way of traveling. What was so easy as to tickle the horse in the side with the spur? And when the h ed, who could blame the frightened em ior noiaing very tight to the strong man in front.' The road from St. Paul's to Henry V hitener's was about four miles long It ran through beautiful oak and pine forests. In the springtime when the dog-wood blossomed everywhere, it was all too short for the young couple. They often lingered along the way and tried Mother Weidner's patience by being late for dinner. During one of these little journeys our hero plucked up courage and per suaded the widow to leave Father Weidner's and cast her lot with his. The very next time Dr. Martin came to preach he performed the first wed ding ceremony in the South Fork Valley, and Mary "Mull became Mrs. George Wilfong, your great-great-great-great-grandmother in two ways. One of their sons, John Wilfong, was wounded at King's Mountain and fought all through the war. Wilfong Lake at Guilford Battle Ground is named for him. He was a very weal thy man as well as prominent poli tically. He was once presidential elector, voting for Van Buren. Major Wilfong's Clothes-Line. George Wilfong took great interest in military affairs and when the great war broke out he was appoint ed major in the Second Rowan Regi ment, to which Captain Matthias Barringer's company belonged. Not all the people wanted to be free. These were called Tories. Some of them were the best people, and were honest in their belief. But there were many bad men who mere ly wished a chance to rob and plund er.Thinking that the British would be sure to win, they called themselves To: :s ar d thus gave all Loyalists a baa nam j. They robbed only the " 1. is, a 5 those who wanted to be i.ee were called. They knew that if i.;e . colonies, were defeated theyi oe'd no- be punished for their evili dees . Cie dav during the war, while Ma jor Wilfong was away, two of these ory outlaws came by his house. oeemg .that there was no one at noma but women and children, they boldly entered the house and took all the Drovisions and clothes they want ed. Putting these in bags, they car :;el them to the barn. Here they selected two of the best horses. For some reason hey could find no bridles vjoi.-.g back to the house they cut down the clothes-line, which was made of good hemp rope. This they fashioned into halters for the two horses. Putting the bags on the horses, thev mounted and rode away. When Major Wilfong returned home and learned what had happen ed, he was very angry indeed, lie im mediately made up a party and start ed in pursuit. He chased them as far as Wilkesboro, and was so close after them that the yleft the horses and goods and took to their heels through the woods. Now that he had his horses, did not follow them any further. But he sent the clothes line halter3 to his friend, Colonel Benjamin Cleveland, who lived at Wilkesboro. He sent him word that if he caught the robbers he should fcancr them with the very rope theylrecard the teaching of sanitation harl stolen About a month afterward the two robbers came slipping back out of the mountains. Some of Colonel Cleveland's men caught them and brought them, before him. With Major Wilfong's clothes-line for ropes he hanged the robbers on the same tree. Major George Wilfong lived to the age of seventy-six, Mary, his wife dying two years before him in her seventy-second year. They rest side by side in the church-yard of St. Paul's, the oldest church west of the Catawba river. Great Rifle Makes History. Because he was the oldest son and a big strong man able to handle it, FnlVier Weidner crave Daniel the great rifle, and he carried it through- out the Revolutionary war. When the British invaded North Carolina, our ancestors met them at King's Moutain. In the American nrmv were our kindred, Daniel Whitener, Abram Whitener, and John! wntong. Anoe.f?""h" sftf drawn up on a hill on the side mountain, and fought they could repulse any number of Ameri - cans mat aiivuiu u""uufev tnem . iney "ri"! sToXTto Sal method of attack. But the A- mericans had learned some tricks m the Indians. They slipped i Trom tree 10 tree, ur xium iu iaj iuliv, keeping as much as possible out of thwty of the English bullets. Hav - j u f and 'Hi they shot on? whenttey CThe Eritith tro ts' were under the ! farm. With meat selling for 14 cents command of Lieutenant-Colonel Fer- I P? s accruing fro m the mvest c o Kr-c, cniHir- snri ,mnH nf- i ment can be surmised. The girl car- &wow., e . ficer. He sat on his horse on the very top of the hill, his soldiers drawn up all around him, but some distance away. He could be seen very plainly by the Americans, giving his orders and encouraging his men. But he was too far away for their bullets to reach him. Many men were killed and wound ed as the battle raged. John Wil fong was shot in the arm, and Abram Whitener was killed. This was the greatest grief of Father Weidner's life, for he had counted on having his youngest son live with him in his old age. But he filled an unknown grave on a famous, battlefield. When Daniel Whitener saw that his brother was killed, he resolved to avenge his death. He gave the long rifle an extra charge of powder and selected the smothest bullet in his pouch. After loading and priming very carefully he slipped like an In dian from rock to rock to a boulder. Cautiously looking over it he could see the British commander. Using the boulder as a rest, he took care ful aim. When the great rifle crack ed the gallant officer fell dead. With their leader dead, the British seemed to lose heart. In a short time they retreated to the top of the hill and finally surrendered . The battle of King's Mountain has been called by historians the turning point in the war, when the British power in America was broken. The turning point in the battle was when your great-great-great-grandfather fired his father's famous rifle. That this is a true story, we have the word of John Wilfong and Mich ael Schell, who saw the incident. This weapon, which no doubt changed the whole history of America, now rests in the museum at Guilford Battle Ground, and there it will remain al ways, to remind us of the virtue of our ancestors, who "feared God and took their own part." Daniel V'hitener Gi.es Away a Pup. While Daniel Whitener, was a man of courage and "took his own part," he was uit!e a;vl kind I )ke hit father, Heinrich, he would not will ingly wound the feelings of his neighbors. Though Thomas Jefferson wrote that all men are created free and equal, there were from the beginning in this new country, different classes of people. That is, some thought themselves better than others. On what grounds they based these dis tinction in the early days, is not clear. I do know, however, that in the South Fork Vallley to this day, those who own "bottom land" along the rivers consider themselves al it tie higher in the social scale than those who dwell on the less fertile "ridge land." It is probable that the young man in this story did not own any "bottom land Abram Seitz, a neighbor boy, fell in love with Marv. one of Daniel Whiteners daughters. He began to make frequent visits to the place. Whitener, suspecting his intentions, discouraged him as much as possible without telling him plainly that he was not welcome. Young Seitz saw that his courtship was not progress ing very rapidly, ana deciaea mat me i - . - - , trouble was with his clothes, or rather his lack of them. I He had his mother raaKe mm ai new suit of homespun, colored with "1916." The American eagle in full j Pointed to have charge of it, two at walnut bark and copperas, and or- flight is shown on the reverse side of I $500 and one at $2,000 a year. Lead dered from a cobbler a pair of shoes.; tne cojn njs wjn,s almost to the fuller Mann of the republicans was the Dressed in his new nnery he marcnea , .... . 1 1 over to Whitener's the next Sunday "United States of America," "E afternoon. Daniel met him on the : pmrjbus Unum," and "Quarter Dol porch and inquired. ; lar" appear below. Connecting the "Well, well, Abram, what can 1; lettering above on outer circle are do for you?" j olive branches with ribbon that is Abram, seeing that his new clothes stirred by the breeze. had made no impression, sought ex- cuse for his presence and made the j . , first one that came to mind. j A foot should elual length one- "I heard that you had some young ; seventh of the height, pups, and I would like to have one," : : he replied, not dreaming that there t was a pup on the place. . : "Andy," called Daniel to a little j negro playing in the yard, "go and briner Abram a PUP." Andy obeyed and brought Abram J a hound puppy irom a niter in me barn. Having now what he had ask- , ed for, there was nothing left f or j him to do but take it home. As he j walked along with the pup in his j arms, he decided that it was no use J to try to marry Mary Whitener. i She afterwards married Jonn oetz er, grand son of Captain Matthias Barringer, and was therefore the p-randmother of Mrs. Virginia Shipp. Abram afterwards married one of j John Mull's daughters. IREDELL TEACHERS WANT MORE SCHOOL SANITATION In their monthly meeting the pub- ; lie school teachers of Iredell county , . 1 M 11 1 1 1 adopted the lonowmg resomuon mai will find support throughout the state: , - "Having had our attention directed to the great waste to our county and state in human life value by death from preventable disease and sick- i:CS3 thereupon, and feeling convinced that the successfal teaching of sam- tation and hygiene for the prevention cf sane in our stato, necesscr.Iy falls upon the public school teacntis in the rural districts, and because we and hygiene to the rising generation,! a unit of education so important, that we ,the public school teachers of Ire- dell county in monthly meeting as-: sembled. do hereby petition the leg-; islature now in session, through our, senators and representatives to se cure the enactment of a law that will i require the county boards of educa-; 1 . . 1 1 11 iJ. x. tion in eacn county in tne siate tu maintain at each public school house ; in the state sanitary containers forj wholesome drinking water, and'; two sanitary privies one for eachi sex, and charge the expense o fsuch! accommodations against the puDiic school apportionment o feach district as necessary facilities for the proper teaching of sanitation and hygiene. We respectfully request the press 0f the state to give publicity to this ! resolution, and we call upon teachers' ; t associations inother counties to take i similar action in regard to this all important educational matter. c,ub WmnKtm j Durham county has a 14-year-old! J caliber . f tipulationg of the ! , gtf ide pig club Pcontest. Miss j , Dli; r rV Tolr Henry school has made a notable ex- the Vroon of a grade j Berkshire pig according to official resf C-Unty J f 2 s , - , 00 j r : months old yielded I 232 Poimdi of ! meat. One sack of shipstuff and thirty-five pounds of meal represent- ed the products fed the Berkshire : A fT. rr mtnnt g Qtono "" Editor Clark Indisposed. The friends of R. R. Clark, editor and owner of The Landmark, will re-! . ji t 1 . . j , 11 f 1 gret tnat ne nas not Deen wen ior some days. He will rest for a few weeeks before returning, to work. He is at Long's sanatorium for the pre sent. His condition is not serious. Statesville Landmark. Esraraii Wonderful Stomacli Remedy win cnange thai 'Long KicqI And One Dose Has Often Dis pelled Years of Suffering. Mayr's Wonderful Remedy can real ly be termed WONDERFUL. No matter where you live you will find people who have suffered with Stom ach, Liver and Intestinal Ailments, etc., and have been restored to health and are loud in their praise of this remedy. It acts on the source and foundation of these ailments, remov ing the poisonous catarrh and bile accretions, taking out the inflamma tion from the Intestinal tract and assists in rendering the same anti septic. Sufferers are urged to try one dose which alone should relieve your suffering and convince you that Mayr's Wonderful Remedy should restore you to good health. Put it to a test today. Send for booklet on Stomach Ailments to Geo. H. Mayr. Mfg. Chemist. 156 Whiting St.. Chicago, or better still obtain a bottle frc n your druggist.' For Sale by Freeze Drug Company. NEW TWO-BIT PIECES EAGERLY SOUGHT AFTER Monday when the disbursing of fice of the government at Washing ton began issuing the new quarter dollars, a dispatch to The Daily News says, people lined up early, eager to be among the first to get the new coins. The design of the new coin is in tended to typify in a measure the a wakening interest of the country In its own protection. The design on one side of the coj' shows the full. length figure o fLiberty, front view, with head turned toward the left stepping forward to the gateway of the country. Her left arm is raised bearing a shield in an attitude of protection. In her right hand she carries an olive branch. - Along the edge of the coin are in- w. scrjbed the words "In God We Trust 0n the field above the head the word "Liberty" appears in semi-circular form an( at hpr fppt tu fio-nrps o wth of tho in Th inepi-intinns Have & Bottle Handy! Sloan's Liniment is assigned its place among the trusted family 1: : i 1 e if 1 cujcuics in uiuusanus 01 meui . , Confnr.- In it .'. 'fine closets, onnaence in it is I based on the uniform effectiveness with which it banishes the pains of rheumatism, neuralgia, gout, lumbago, aore atiff mutclet, bruiiea, aprains and trains. Cleaner and easier to ue than muiiy platters or ointments. It penetrates and relieves quicklr without rvbbtncr, At all druggists, 25c. 50c. and $1.00. TheBest Ice you 1 1 1 MONO Id Send Your Orders Early 'v Today for Sunday Delivery. NORTH NEWTON DRUG The Nyal Store Phone 158 SCRAPS OF IHTETCC3T A Whole Lot of News Boiled Down tm Short Paragraphs Movies of the Day's Occurantes High Point has "some" measles now and unless parents are very care ful, there is a possibility of the dis ease being epidemic, so that the schools will have to close down. The American Steel Wire company has. donated a wire fence and sent an expert to place it around the elk and buffalo pastures in the Pisgah mountain national park reserve near Asheville. Persons break arms frequently while cranking automobiles but sel dom break their legs. Nelson Gaddy of Asheville generously offered to help a friend crank a big car that had grown cold, slipped, bent his leg out of shape and fractured the bone. Congressman Webb has returned to Washington after an absence ef several days, having been called to Shelby by the illness of his father, whose death followed a few days afterward, Mrs, Webb has been call ed to Gainesville, Gn-, by the illness of her mother, Mrs. Simmons. The present public building bill is declared a national scandal. There are said to be items that amount to simple robbery of the treasury. Towns of no more than 1,300 in habitants want $50,000 for public buildings, though the postofflce busi ness is not over $3,500 a year. Pres ident Wilson is slated to veto it if it passes congress. A Charlotte doctor prescribed dis tilled water was a man whose sys tem was all poisoned up with toxins accumulated from drinking unhealth ful water, and now he says there is quite a fad in the city for distilled drink. The man in question got so fat -and healthy his friends didn't know him. The base ball players of the coun try have threatened to strike and have applied to the American Feder ation of Labor for a charter and membership in the union labor coun cils. The base ball magnates say they have enough players under con tract to start the ball season, strike or no strike. William J. Bryan and Josephus Daniels, invited to address the gen eral assembly, albeit the general assembly wasn't crazy to have either one, replied to the invitation that they regretted their inabilitq to ac cept. Mr. Bryan addressed the pro hibition meeting Monday, and was heard by a great audience in the First Baptist church. Major Stet'.man, congressman from the fifth disLrict.has secured the pas sage by tho house of a bill making Guilford battleground a military park, three commissioners being ap only man who opposed the bill and he later withdrew his opposition and voted for the measure. L,acy irutcnnem, a small negro boy, accidentaly shot and killed a little white girl named Desirre Miles, in Guilford county Friday. The girl fraternized with the negro family near her home, and was in the kitch en at the negro house when the boy fired a shotgun not knowing it was loaded. Her head was blown away. Nothing was done about it. The girl's mother allowed her to asso ciate with the negroes, and the other white children of the neighborhood would have nothing to do with her. During all the sleet and . snow of Monday 50 women stood as sentinels outside the white house grounds, with their suffragette banners, all to let President Wilson know that they were on their job and wanted him to realize it. The women have had pickets at the white house for a j week. Even if women everywhere j were given the ballot, these could not! vote because they live in the Dis-j trict of Columbia. j Drew Caminetti and Maury Diggs, j two San Francisco sports who took i an interstate joy ride with two girls, j and who were convicted under the ! anti-white slave act, and sentenced j to prison, lost their appeals in the ! supreme court Monday and will j have to serve their time. The court ! declared that the act annlied to pri-1 vate escapades as well as to com-' mercialized vice thus giving the law' such a broad interpretation that the : department of justice can now go af- j ter violators with a vengeance. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy Most ; Effectual. "I have taken a great mar.y bot tles of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy j and every. time it has cured me. I! have found it most effectual for a hacking cough and for colds. After t j taking it a cough always disappears." writes J. R. Moore, Lost Valley, Ga. 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