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TOlmiE-XVII BRBVABD, NOBTH CiKOlINA, FEIMY. SEPTBMBEB 13, 1912. mHlBEB-37
THE TENTH DISTRICT
A Review of All the News From the Counties Com-
poslng the Tenth Congresaonal District*
CHEROKEE
The county democratic conven
tion met at the court house in Mur
phy on Saturday, August 31, and
nominated the following men: A.
L. Martin for representative ; C. B.
Hill for sheriff; J. W. King and R.
B. Palmer for commissioners. A
motion was carried which Jeaves
all the other county offices to be
named by the executive committee.
Resolutions were passed endorsing
the candidasy of Woodrow Wilson
for president, Locke Craig for gov
ernor, and the whole state ticket.
Resolutions were also passed favor
ing the movement to put all county
•officers on the salary basis, and the
discontinuation of the treasurer’s
office, the work to be done by the
sheriff without pay. Harmony
prevailed and much enthusiasm
was shown.
Hon. Francis D. Winston, candi
date for elector at large, addressed
the people of Andrews on Wednes
day, the 11th. A large crowd was
present and all enjoyed the match
less oratory of the speaker.
JACKSON
Luther Nichols, the sixteen-year-
old son of Andrew Nichols of Cul-
lowhee, was drowned in the Tucka-
seigee river near the Cullowhee
bridge last Sunday. . Young Nich
ols, who was not a very good swim
mer, was in swimming with a num
ber of small boys, and in attempt
ing to cross the river he gave out
and was drowned before help could
be summoned. The body was re
covered and taken to Culberson,
N. C., for interment.
The Jackson County Fair will be
held in Sylva September 25, 26 and
27th. The event promises to be a
success. The Bryson City band
will furnish music.
The corner stone was laid for the
new Episcopal church in Sylva re
cently, and the building will be
ready for use by October 1st.
Miss Rosa Watkins of Dillsboro
and Mr. Coleman Cannon of Sylva
were married at the home of Mrs.
Kinkaid, in Asheville, Sunday
morning. The young couple left
immediately for Charleston and
other Southern cities.—JacKson
County Journal.
P O I. K
The current issue of the Tryon
Bee gives much space to compli
mentary remarks in regard to tlie
Tryon Scout Boys’ Band, composed
of a number Of the smaller boys
who are connected with the boy
scout movement.
Mr. Walter Havener and Miss
Victoria Mintz were the principals
in a quiet -vC^edding at the home of
the bride on Tuesday, September
3rd. The couple left immediately
for some of the mountain resorts to
spend their honeymoon.
The Polk County News an
nounces that the democratic county
convention will be held in Colum
bus on Saturday, September 21, for
the purpose of nominating a candi
date for the legislature and county
offices.
The Bethlehem Methodist church
at Mill Creek was dedicated last
Sunday, Rev. R. M. Hoyle preach
ing the dedicatory sermon.
A revival has been in progress
at the Ba|)tist church all this week
much interest is being mani
fested. Thirty-five additions have
been made to the church.—Polk
County News.
H A Y W O O P I
The boiler house of the Haywood
Lumber & Supply Co., of Waynes-
ville, was destroyed by fire last
Friday morning at three o’clock.
The damage is not very great.
The progressive party of Hay
wood county met Saturday, August
31. Delegates to the state conven
tion were named, and a meeting
was called for September 14, when
a county ticket will be named.
The republican party of Hay
wood county met Monday, Septem
ber 2. Delegates to the state con
vention were named, and a meet
ing is to be called some time in
September to nominate a full coun
ty ticket.
The Haywood County Fair will
be held October 1, 2, 3 and 4. An
attractive premium list has been
issued, and the eighth annual fair
promises to be a success.
The Bank of Clyde was recently
organized, and promises to become
a permanent institution. John D.
Wood is president and E. A. Wood
is vice-president and cashier.
SWAIN
A mass meeting of the democrats
of Swain county is called for Sep
tember 21st for the purpose of
nominating candidates for the
county offices. The republicans
will hold a mass meeting on Satur
day, September 14tli, for the same
purpose. It is not known when
the Bull Moore party will hold
their meeting.
John Shuler, aged sixty-four,
dropped dead while sitting on G.
G. Estes’ porch last Monday fore
noon. Heart failure was the cause.
He leaves a widow and four small
children.—Bryson City Times
McDOWEl^L
The democrats of McDowell met
in Marion Monday, September 2nd,
and held their county convention.
The meeting was very harmonious.
Miles P. Flack was nominated for
the legislature; W. C. Morris for
sheriff; T. E. Satterwhite for treas
urer ; R. L. C. Gibson for ‘ register
of deeds; Dr. D. R. Schenck for
coroner ; A. L. Bright for surveyor,
and H. A. Tate, T. W. Stacy and J.
W. Streetman for county commis
sioners.
The McDowell County Fair will
be held on October 16,17,18 and 19.
Plans are already on foot looking
to*the success of the fair this year.
On Wednesday of this week Hix
Parker and Garfield Gibson killed
thirteen rattlesnakes. The largest
one measured something over five
feet. The other twelve somewhere
from one-and-a-half to two feet.
On the same "day James Gibson
killed a large pilot and six small
ones.—Crooked Creek correspon
dence of Marion Progress.
It is not related what brand these
gentlemen had been drinking.
The county commissioners of
McDowell have let contracts for
two bridges over Hill creek, just
west of Old Fort, the bridges to be
completed by December 3rd.
The Marion graded school opened
Monday with Prof. I. C. Griffin in
charge. The prospects are bright
for a most successful year.—Marion
Progress.
The Old Fort * graded school
opened Monday with Prof. N. F.
Stepp in charge. A high school
department has bebn added. Three
years work are required to com
plete this department.
RUTHERFORD
E. C. Carver, who has for some
time been the efficient chief of po
lice at this place, has resigned.
Bill Hamrick is serving in his place
until another is secured.—Forest
City Herald.
Long & Heffner have had the
back of the postoffiije building fitted
up and are preparing to oi)en up a
fruit and news stand.—Forest City
Herald.
Barney Scruggs of Caroleen has
opened up a first class restaurant
in the Alexander Block, in Forest
City, according to the Herald.
MACON
Mr. Arthur Waldrop and Miss
Goldie Kiser were married at the
home of the bride, near Winyah,
last week, Mr. George Burgin offi
ciating.
The graded school opened Wednes
day of last week with between
three and four hundred enrolled.
Everything seeras to foretell a rec
ord-breaking school term.—Frank
lin Press.
NOTICE
The regular annual meeting of
the Greater Western North Caro
lina Association will be held at the
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offices of the association. 62 Patton
avenue, Asheville, on Friday, Sep
tember 20th, at 12 o’clock noon.
The annual report of the associa
tion, and other matters of impor
tance, will be brought before the
meeting. W. E. Breesg, Jr.,
President.
CONCERT BY ORPHANS
The singing class from the Odd
Fellows’ orphan home at Golds
boro gave a concert at the Audito
rium Saturday night. The attend
ance was not as large as the concert
deserved, but those who were pres
ent enjoyed the songs and recita
tions of the children very much.
There were thirteen children in the
class, which was under the man
agement of Mr. Ed M. Davis and
Miss Julia Dulin, the music teach
er. This is the second year the
Odd Fellows have had their chil
dren out on a concert tour, and the
program rendered this year was
much better than that of last year.
VOTING PLACES CHANGED
At a recent meeting of the county
board of elections it was ordered
that the voting places in Little
River and (’athey’s Creek town
ships be changed. The voting
place in Little River township will
be changed from its former\loca-
tion to the new school house near
the Baptist church and Taylor Mc
Call’s residence.
‘ The voting place in Cathey’s
Creek township is moved from the
old school house near Cathey’s
Creek church to a place at or near
the forks of the road that leads to
Lem Brooks’, near J. C. Whit
mire’s old store.
These changes were asked for by
petition of the voters of the two
townships concerned, and are made
in order that the polling places
will be more conveniently located.
If you knew of the real value of
Chamberlain’s Liniment for lame
back, soreness of the - muscles,
sprains and rheumatic pains, yon
would never msh to be without it.
For sale by all dealers.
THE HIGH GOST OF
LIVING EXPLAINED
INTERESTING PAPER BY
MICHIGANDER
Mr. I. D. Miner Says It Is Due to
Cheaper Money and Increased
Gold Production.
[The writer of the following ar
ticle has served several terms as
county surveyor of Branch county,
Mich., elected as a republican. In
later years he has seen the error of
his ways and is now in the race tor
the same office, having been put in
nomination by the democrats in a
rock-ribbed republican county. As
this bids fair to be a democratic
year, aud as Mr. Miner has an ex
tensive personal acquaintance, in
Branch county, the unexpected may
happen, and he be selected to serve
the county as surveyor again at 74
years of age.—J. J. Miner.]
(Read before the Coldwater Grange Tues
day, August 13.)
In these days when everybody is
complaining about the higher cost
of living it is well to study the
cause, and knowing that, if possi
ble effect a cure.
It is not in good taste to hurl
vituperatives at the money trust,
or the tobacco trust or any other
good trusts unless their guilt is ap
parent, for God knows they are
guilty of enough. Anathemas
hurled at the middlemen are likely
to rebonnd back upon the source
whence they came, unless some
means of demonstrating their guilt
is available.
Now please turn with me to the
U. S. treasurer’s report for 1895, two
years after the bankers’ panic of
1893, when confidence in the money
trust had been restored so that
business was resumed and a good
part of the money that had been
frightened into the bank vaults
was afloat and a reasonable degree
of ])rosperty smiling, and we learn
that on November 1, 1895, we had
of gold $8.78; of silver $8.89; of
paper $5.92 ; total $23.24 per capita
of value mesure with which to con
duct our commercial transactions.
This was an increase of about 300
per cent above what we had in cir
culation in 1893 but we take it as a
basis of comparison. Now on De
cember 31, 1910, we had—gold
$18.35; silver $7.83; paper $8.41;
maLing a total of $34.59 per capita
of value measure. From these fig
ures we see that our gold has more
than doubled and our paper has
nearly doubled and silver dropped
off one dollar per capita. How
ever, this sho ivs a net increase of
46.6 per cent in 15 years and two
months. In twenty years from
1893 to the present our value meas
ure in use has more than doubled,
though the statistics are not at
hand for reference.
Now let us see what is the cause
and effect of this increased volume
of money.
While these dollars are more eas
ily procured, their purchasing
power is less, is a law of finance
tuught by all political economists
the world over and are consequent
ly prices of the products of labor
should be and are double what they
were in 1893. Not each and every
article follows this rule but it will
apply to the aggregate of all the
commodities included in the ex
pense account of a family.
Now is this good or bad fortune?
Whatever the answer is it is out of
the reach of politics. It has been
brought about by the increase in
the gold supply, which came as a
result of increased knowledge of
where and how to get it. We have
learned how to dip it from many
fathoms below the surface of the
water and wash it aboard dredges
-which have been known to produce
as much as fourteen thousand dol
lars in one day by a single dredge.
I And now there are machines of
this kind working in the mouths of
nearly all the rivers that rise in the
gold-bearing mountains of the
world as well as in many other
places. The cyanide process of
treating certain gold-bearing rocks
has had much to do with the great
increase in the world’s supply of
the yellow metal in the last twenty
years which metal goes as money
as soon as it can be shipped to a
mint anywhere in the world.
The following figures should in
terest everybody as an exhibit of
the conditions present and past and
place him on liis guard as to what
should be expected in the future.
JThe world’s supply of gold at the
time of the discovery of the metal
in California was about equal to
the whole production since the dis
covery of America, less 24 per cent
which was probably used in the
arts and amounted to $2,299,539,548.
In the following nineteen years
this quantity doubled and then con
tinued about stationary until 1890
when the cyanide process of dis
solving auriferous rock was discov
ered when the output of the yellow
metal began to increase by leaps
and bounds, so that in 1911 $454,-
703,900 was added to the world’s
supply of the precious metal—an
amount equal to almost the entire
output from 1380 to 1885—equal
also to the production from 1700 to
1740. Now while this is value
measure according to weight and
fineness, as soon as mined, and is
the standard upon which nearly all
paper money is issued it is plain
that it must require a greater quan
tity to measure the value of any
commodity that enters into the liv
ing account.
For instance : the pound of steak
at 20c cost only 10c twenty rears ago,
Hani the same. Chicken the same
Coffee that cost 10c twenty years
years ago now costs 25c. The hand
that worked for $1 a day in 1892
(lid work that we now have to pay
$2 or over per day for, and any
hand that does not get double pay
ment for his services of 20 years
ago gets too little, or else got more
than he then earned.
And the woman we now employ
at a dollar a day, then expected
only two or three dollars a week.
The farm that then brought* $50
per acre now sells readily at $100 or
even $200 per acre without a differ
ence in value by improvements.
But why multiply instances while
everything goes to prove that facts
agree with the foregoing figures
fdom the treasury reports and aud
another object lesson to prove that
the purchasing power, of money
depends on its plenitude or volume
per capita. These conditions are
identically the same as we sought
to install in the nineties by adding
silver to our money under the slo
gan of “free coinage” that would*
then have doubled our money vol
ume, except that in that event the
effect would have been very little
felt except here in America, where
as now it is of worldwide extent,
though not as emphatically so as
here in the United States.
We then gave the proposition of
“cheaper money” a black eye by
popular vote. If it were to be re
submitted to the people it is be
lieved that present conditions that
make money cheaper would be
adopted with emphasis—regardless
of the high cost of living.
No,w from these figures what can
we forecast for the future? With
this constantly increasing gold sup
ply cur value measure is constantly
growing cheaper and no amount of
law can stay it. Not even an in
ternational treaty could have any
effect' toward establishing an un
changing standard of value exce
perhaps the demonetization of all
metals and the adoption of an un
changing volume of paper, and that
adopted by all the nations of the
earth simultaneously. And there
is no probability of that being done.
Now what shall I do to take advan
tage of these conditions? Answer:
Go in debt on twenty-year promises
to pay them easily with dollars
only half as large as these we now
use; since in that time the world’s
volume of gold will again be dou
bled. I. D. Miner.