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HICKORY Daily Record kal 1. No., 15. HICKORY, N. C. TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 28, 1915- Price Two Cents id i FURTHER GAINS REPORTS BY FRE Ot i Id New Offensive in Artois Region Continues to Make Progress Second Line of German Tremches Under Fire British Wounded I Arrive in London i, f (By ';ho As.sociiitcd Press) Paris, Sept. 28. The new offensive movement of the allies has resulted In a further gain in the Artois region s' liear Sourchez, the French war office announced today. Additional prog ress is reported in C hampagne. The German counter attack in the Argonne was repulsed. They left the ground covered with dead. The po rtion to which the Germans have re treated are protected hy a system of barbed' wire entanglements, making -attack difficult. THE LONDON REPORT (By tho A socinti'il Press) London, Sept. 28. The French are low battering the second line of the Serman defenses in Champagne, while the British to the north have been ible to crush all German counter at :acks. So far as the public has been tble to learn, the allies' offensive of Saturday and Sunday is about where ! t was. The counter attack by the German V nown prince reached the first line, ;ut was unable to break through. , While German prisoners are arriv ing in France by the train load, Brit- uh wounded are beginning to reach "M,ondon, All have the same story to tell. They regard it as marvelous that j invbodv should have been able to sur- j ... ,.. i i rive me umui ii iv-. How it happened that so many inwounded Germans were captured is )uzzling the public. Sir John's Natal Day. This is the (53 rd birthday of Field Marshal John French. The people are lot expecting it to be signalized by iny marked advance so soon after the rain already attained, but these ac somplishments have called forth par ticularly congratulatory messages, j The fighting in the east still fav ra the Russians, although there is no confirmation of the report that they lave reached the important railroad point of Kovlesk. I Bulgaria, although she has mobiliz ed her troops, intends to remain neu ral, says a dispatch from Sofia. ; Boston, Sept. 28. Although this was an open date for Boston American League team, the day was an active one. The'Red Sox were busy in prep aration for the world's series, in which they expect to meet the Philadelphia Nationals. f As the games will be played on the Braves' field, on which the Red Sox !are strangers, Manager Carrigan ord ered his men out to test the lights and .shades, said to be unusually trying because of the deep sand, to study the jlay of the land and to judge the flight of balls with respect to the great dis tances in the most expensive field in the country. On the same field Captain Evers of ,the Braves was contesting with the I Phillies in a four-game series. Ev iers said he still had hopes of pulling 'the lead of the Phillies down to a point (Where the Braves might win. ' At the headquarters of the Boston (Americans it was said that a large .number of orders had been received for tickets for the world's series. INTERESTING RUMOR Newton Enterprise. It may be gathered from an edi torial utterance in the Charlotte Ob server that the Southern Power in terests are planning to take over the Carolina -find Northwestern and turn it into an electric line. The Obser ver says that it is not only a possib ility "but may be said to be a prob ability." The recent trip of J. B. Duke through this section revived the RED SOU TRYING OUT BRAVES' -BIG PARK talk about the electrification of the i twirled his club to a 9 to 1 victory load. The Observer hopes for the over the two opposing pitchers, "Boh" time when you can step into a car at Rutherford and Ledbetter. "Slats," al Independence Square and go to some though an ex-member of the Detroit point on an extended C. & N.-VV. in the mountains. GREECE WON'T LET TROOPS GET THROUGH (By the Associated Press) Berlin, by wireless to Sayville, L. I., Sept. 28. According to the Overseas News Agency Greece has assurred Servia that she will resist any at- i iiunsucker; sacrifice hits, J. .Lyerly & i.m(a WW1,, v,rtl,fii- -,. .u-nu base on balls, off Miller 1; off Ledbet tempts to move hostile troops through 3 off Ru'therford 2.; stolen bases her territory. j Conrad, Hunsucker. NCH WAR OFFICE WANTED LIQUOR GUT STRO If you had wanted a pint of liquor and had paid a good dollar for it, how would you like to have somebody bring you a mixture of soap suds and kerosene oil ? This was the experience of Carl Lail. Caswell Sigmon and Herbert Wilson, three young white men of this city. They dispatched Will Morrison and Everett Horton, colored, after the juice, gave them a aonar, ana re ceived in exchange a pint of the mix- ture The negroes were tried in police court yesterday afternoon on the charge of selling whiskey, but Re corder Campbell could not convict them of that charge. They were cited to appear this afternoon on the charge of obtaining money under false pre tense, and the case should be inter esting. Tom Smith and David Holmes, col ored, who engaged in a fight last week, will be tried at the afternoon session, EXPECT COMPROMISE B Raleigh, Sept. 28. The Seaboard Air Line railway has until Thursday of this week within which to make its next move in the matter of the restraining order the company pro cured from Judge Connor of the fed era! court against the corporation commission, state treasurer and oth er state officers to keep them from enforcing the collection of taxes against the Seaboard on the basis of the new $20,000,000 tax assessment instead of the old $15,000,000 assess ment basis that the Seaboard insists is sufficient and on a nearer parity with alleged low assessments on real estate, other than corporate property in the state. f There has been "something doing" here with reference to the ultimate disposition of the case, but the de finite settlement is not yet available. General Counsel Leigh R. Watts was here in conference with James H. Ppu and Murray Allen, local counsel, and the three called at the offices of the corporation commission where they found all three of the commissioners were out of the city. Then they went to the capitol and spent a while in the executive offices with Governor Craig. They insisted that there was nothing at all that could be given out, but in timated that there would be some definite move within the next day ior two. ' PROMINENT MAN KILLED IN AUTOMOBILE COLLISION Ipswich, Mass.. Sept. 28. Benjamin Stickney Cable of Washington, assis tant secretary of commerce and labor under President Taft, was killed in collision of two automobiles on the Newburyport turnpike. QUIET IS REPORTED (By Associated Press.) Washington, Sept. 28. The Car ranza consul at Progresso denied.to day that Carranza soldiers partici pated in the border trouble in Teas. Thev were Mexicans, he said, tyho thought they could separate Texas j from Mexico and recapture the stte. i Although some Americans are leav- j ing the northern districts of Chihtia- j hua and Sonora in accordance wjth j recent orders of the United States, n-,r J oft t ' mere remain zo men ana o womn in that section. Conditions are re ported quiet. LENOIR WINS SECOND GAME FROM RUTHERFORD In a one-sided game of baseball staered at Rutherford College yester- j dav E. Miller, Lenoir's pitcher by perfect support of his team mates Tigers was hit timely by the college i boys during the half of the game he occupied the rubber. The mam fea tures were those pulled by the umps. His eyes seemed to be somewhat de fective, whether he was conscientious in his decisions is a matter of much concern, but with all advantages against the sluggers they counted nine times while the home club only tal lied once. The minor features were the bat ting of Hunsucker and P. YocTer, each getting three hits out of four trips to the plate. Summary Three base nit, Hun sucker; two base hits, Yoder, Frye, I NG SEA HARD CASE MEXICAN BORDER FIVE THOUSAND WALKING PAPERS 52 BODIES VOLUNTEER Chapel Hill, Sept. 28. "With the exception of Louisiana and New Mex ico, North Carolina has the largest percentage of native born white il literates in the United States." This was the declaration made by W. C. Crosby, secretary of the committee on community service, in an address at Chapel Hill on "Moonlight Schools in North Carolina." "We boast of our good qualities in North Carolina but conceal our faults. We hide our illiteracy as a horse trader does an old sore. The tend ency now is to uncover the sore and heal it with the salve of moonlight schools. In order to further the cam paign against illiteracy, the month of November will be set apart and will be observed throughout North Caro lina as "Moonlight School Month." A night school will be organized and conducted three nights a week for at least this one month in every school district in the state where such illit erates are to be found. The day school teachers will, in most cases, teach in these night schools. Five thousand teachers have already volun teered for the work. The state de partment of education will place in the hands of each of these teachers a little bulletin outlining the work to be done. The school will hold twelve night sessions during that month. Twelve lessons each month in read ing, writing and arithmetic will be given. The reading book will not be a primer such as the children use but something which contains simple sentences and yet which concerns the movement of people with whom those attending the schools are acquainted, together with such sentences as would inspire their county pride and awak en them to continued effort. We want to get the old people interested in this work and get them out to these schools. It is a fact little known that one-seventh of the voting population of North Carolina cannot read or sign their names. This means that one seventh of our homes are devoid of books or papers. This means that many homes are without the Bible, and eternity is approaching rapidly. The responsibility rests on us. Let us try to clear the stain from our state. Let us hope that when the census of 1920 is taken there will not be a single adult illiterate in North Carolina." MOTOR MAIL LINE TO A matter of considerable interest to Hickory is the announcement that Congressman Doughton has secured an automobile mail line between Len oir and Blowing Rock for the summer months. Many Hickory people are of the opinion that another mail line should run to Lenoir from Hickory 'in order to make the connection for Blow ing Roekr-and-bef ore -the next sum mer season arrives," it is probable that steps will be taken looking to sucn an arrangement. With the advertise ino tViA Rlnwinc Rock section is nrtW ing, hundreds of visitors will flock to ! the mountains every ..year, andj there. is every reason to believe that ad&i tional carrying facilities will be need ed. ; y "' Can the inventors' aboard devise a drastic cure for the professional alien ism ? Cleveland Plain-Dealer. How'd you like to have been a fly on the wall of the room in which Pres ident Wilson and his former secretary of state had their conference "last week? Manchester Union. -f v N CAUSE RUN TO BLOWING ROCK HAVE COME TO DUMBA (By the Associated Press) Washington, Sept. 28. Dr. Constan ts T. Dumba, ambassador from Austria-Hungary to the United States, telegraphed the state department from Lenox, Mass., that he had been ordered home by his government and asked for a safe conduct. In view of the informal notice from Vienna, the state department officials construed Doctor Dumba's action as meaning that he had been recalled and will arrange for his safe conduct. It is understood that the Austrian foreign minister had told Mr. Pen field that Doctor Dumba's recall is final. The state department under stands that Doctor Dumba will sail October 5. The papers seized from James F. J. Archibald were received by the de partment today from London. All the important details have been published. Officials would not say whether any action would be taken against Consul General von Suber, Captain Papen and others. MARKETS n NEW YORK COTTON (By the Associated Press) New York. Sept. 28. There was a renewal of general active buying at the opening of the cotton market to day with first prices twelve to twen ty points higher. October sold up many points during the early training, while January and May advanced to practically thirteen cents NEW YORK STOCKS (By the Associated Press) New York, Sept. 28. Indications pointed to another active session with many more high records at the op ening of today's market. Baldwin Locomotives were agam the features with opening sales ranging from 119 to 121 against yesterday's close at 113. New maximums - were also made by General-Metorsf -'-Vrrfi Steel, LacKawann ',Etee ' States Industrial Alcolu 1 Steel - all showing I specialties advancing rc:a'osejts two points included... 'Antuxnd.f. WppeT Railroad shares again were quiet. New York, Sept. 28. Cotton fu tures opened firm, and closed steady: Open Close October 12.10 December 12.50 12.22 12.49 12.64 12.95 13.05 January 12.70 March 12.95 May 13.05 THE WEATHER COMPARATIVE WEATHER September. 27 Maximum L Minimum L. ; 58 Mean -T, 74 Weather forecast for North Caro lina: Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday; fresh northeast minds. v y Mrs. D. E.Moose7 who has been liv ing with her son in Spartanburg will return home this evening, having be- ! come sick. Her daughter will meet her in Lincolnton and accompany her to West Hickory. 1915 1914 90 78 42 60 A Word About Dollar Day What is Dollar Day, of which a great deal has been said re cently ? Dollar Day means simply that the Hickory merchants have assembled one or more extraordinary values which they will of fer to the public for one day only Thursday, October 7, for the sum of $1. One merchant may have only one article or he may have as many as three or four articles to offer for this sum. - These articles will be worth more than the sum asked they will be unusual values. ' The person who fails to read the announcements to be made by the various Hickory merchants will not know how to go about securing these unusual values when the big day rolls around. Dollar Day is the simplest thing in the world. Every man, woman and child who can possibly do so should get hold of a copy of the Hickory Daily Record, in which will be announced these unusual values and then every person in this entire section should come to this city for that one day. Hickory merchants have been preparing for Dollar Day, October 7, and Hickory merchants have prepared well. All those who fall to take advantage of the special values on this big trade day will miss something, and miss it badly. ARE RECOVERED (By the Associated Press) Ardmore, Okla., Sept. 28. The dis covery of additional bodies today in the ruins of business houses and pub lic buildings, caused by yesterday's ex plosion of a tank car of gasoline, in creased the number of known deaths to 52. Investigation of the cause of the disaster was started by the city officials today. It is thought that a spark from a hammer of a workman started the explosion. Eye witnesses said that a flame shot into the air before the explosion, scattering the burning liquid several hundred feet high. Ardmore today was virtually under martial law, while business was sus pended to permit the work of rescue to proceed with greater speed. The downtown district was a scene of disaster. From the railroad station to the Whittington hotel all business houses have been razed by the ex plosion, many buildings on the oppo site side of the street destroyed and the plate glass fronts of many stores damaged. Two Explosions. The greater part of the city was in darkness last night, the electric lights having been cut off owing to the dan ger from prostrate wires. Furious flames spread over the nwned district. The loss in plate glass alone has been estimated at $50,000. Railroad men in the yard say the gasoline car was shunted to a siding on account of its "bad order." The car was leaking gasoline so that a pool had formed under it. Ira Woods, car inspector, railroad men say, unscrewed the tap and peer ed in. Just then the gasoline became ignited. Woods, the car and every piece of loose material were hurled into the air. Reports that there were two explo sions were confirmed today. Dynamite in a freight warehouse exploded. The damage caused by the shock was greater than the fire. Death List Grows. Some wooden structures occupied by negroes collapsed and fifteen neg roes in a pool hall on an upper floor were killed. "'tfThe official number of dead was ften at 10 o'clock as 52, of whom 33 " white and 19 colored. SAYS MOUNTAINS ARE Mr. T. W. Bicknell of Linville Falls, who was a visitor to Hickory today, said that if the people of the United States realized, the curative value of the North Carolina mountains, this section would be the fountain of health for the world. Mr. Bicknell re called that he left Des Moines, Iowa, seven years ago practically a physi cal wreck and that six months in the mountains brought him out. He re fers to the mountains as "the great human repair shop." Mr. Bicknell is an old newspaper man. The state of Utah is going to de prive the I Won't Workers of their song writer, hence the loafers are threatening the life of the governor. Rochester Herald. Russia has unlimited resources, but may find herself in the position of the man with a'bank account who has to borrow carfare. Washington Star. Should conscription come to Great Britain, due credit requires the label, "Made in Germany."- Omaha Bee. rt : s s ; 1 1 : : : 1 1 : : 1 1 1 1 : : 1 1 1 : : : : t : : 1 1 1 1 1 : f . : : 1 1 1 ; ; ; s IN RUINS HUMAN REPAIR SHOP COTTON IS NOW BRINGING TWELVE CENTS A POUND North Carolina Markets Offering Largest Price In Two Years for Staple Catawba Crop not Yet Ready for Market May Get Higher. AUSTRIAN NOTE S QUITE (By the Associated Press) Washington. Sept. 28. Ambassador Penfield notified the state department today that he had received Austria's note in reply to Secretary Lansing's answer to the Austrian note regard ing the shipment of munitions of war to the allies. The new note is described as very long, and the new answer is on the cables. MRS. HENRY CABOT LODGE (By the Associated Press) Nahant, Mass., Sept. 28. The sud den death of Mrs. Henry Cabot Lodge, wife of Senator Lodge, at her home here last; night, was announced here today. She was 65 years of age, and was born in Chambridge. She and Senator Lodge were married immed iately after his graduation from Har vard in 1871. FOR BIG COUNTY FAIR Gastonia, Sept. 28. Final arrange ments for the Gaston County Fair to be held in Gastonia October 12-15 are being made to have everything in read iness before opening day of the fair. The fence is about completed, work on the office and live stock buildings is being pushed and tents for the oth er departments exhibits will arrive in a few days. In about ten days Louis Gertson, the star aviator of the Loung Aero plane Company, will be in this city with a staff of assistants and mechan ics preparing for the greatest aerial attraction yet to be conceived the ini tial performance in this state being held in this city during the Gaston County Fair. This attraction is the battle between the monoplane and the forts and while this war feature will be shown but three days, October 13, 14 and 15, Gertson will make two aeroplane flights each day of the fair. On the opening day, Tuesday, Oc tober 12, special; demonstration of quick starting, accurate landing and high altitude flying will be given for the benefit of the thousands of school children who will be trie guests of the Chamber of Commerce. The battle between the aircraft and the forts as well as the aeroplane nights will take place inside the fair grounds. The Midway. One of the big features of the mid way will be the cowboy band, made up of real live cowboys from the wooly west. Included in this snow will be found a wildwest, a wild animal and several other good clean shows as well as a motordome. All the amuse ment attractions will be furnished by the Big Four Amusement Company, one of the best and cleanest show com panies on the road today. PRESIDENT WILSON VOTES IN PRINCETON (By Associated Press.) .; Princeton, Sept. 28. President Wil son returned to his legal residence to day to cast his vote in the Democratic primaries. f On his arrival he was greeted by a large group of faculty and students. The president walked privately to the voting precinct, followed by a crowd of students. Entering the election 'booth, the president was handed a ballot. After voting the president prepared to return to Washington in time to deliver an address to the Grand Army encampment tonight. (By Associated Press.) Washington, Sept. 28 President Wilson left here today for Princeton to vote in the statewide primaries. He will return tonight. FIVE KILLED BY TRAIN (By Associated Press.) Philadelphia, Sept. 28. Five men were killed and eleven others, all for eigners, were injured, six probably fatally, when a passenger train rush ed through a gang of tracfc men, near here today. Clearwater, Sept. 28. With Thomas Palmer, attorney for defense in the case of J. J. Mendenhall on trial for murder here, still speaking late to night, the indications were that the case would reach the jury tomorrow. N GASTONIA PREPARES Twelve cent cotton has come to pass. Catawba county farmers, with their crop not yet ready for the market, must be awaiting with unusual inter est reports from the New York stock exchange, where every day the price goes higher and higher. Mr. A. A. Shuford, president of the Shuford Cotton Mills, reported that the staple was bringing twelve cents a pound in Charlotte. Yesterday it sold for 11. Mr. Shuford was asked several days ago why cotton was so active. He did not know why it was going up. At that time- futures were selling for less than ten cents. March and April futures opened on the New York exchange at 12.95 and 13.05, and even the near months, like October and December, stood out prominently at 12.10 and 12,50. As indicating the tendency of the market, futures alone are valuable. They are pointing to higher and high er prices, and indicating more pros perity than the south has enjoyed in years. RUN DOWN BY AUTO Asheville, Sept. 28. Rocky T. New ton had a close call when the motor cycle upon which he was riding a few miles from Asheville was run down by an automobile containing a number of Tryon people. The young man was thrown beneath the automobile and the machine was stopped with the en gine just over him, his clothing being scorched by the heat. Bruises about the body and legs were sustained. The motorcycle was wrecked and the automobile was considerably damaged. Mr. Newton and his companions failed to get the names of the Tryon people although it is stated that they put forth their best efforts to avoid the accident which occurred at the in tersection of two mountain highways. BIG NAVY WAR OCT. 6 (By Associated Press.) Norfolk, Sept. 28. The opening of the navy war game has been deferred from October 3 to October 6. Admi ral Fletcher has issued orders to the ship commanders that will put every craft under mobilization at midnight, October 5. EMORY TRIAL IS SLOW Will Probably Go to Jury Tonight Moonlight Schools in McDowell. Marion, Sept. 28. The seventy-fifth annual meeting of the Green River Baptist Association will be held at the Chapel Hill Baptist church, three miles south of Marion, September 30 to October 3. B. B. Price of Marion is the moderator. This association in cludes 48 churches with a member ship of 5,000 in the counties of Mc Dowell, Rutherford and Pope. Progress in the Emory trial has been slow on account of the great number of witnesses to be examined. It is hoped that the case will be in the hands of the jury by Tuesday night. While there is much interest in the case the public is doing but to the outcome pre ferring to let the court try the case. No other business ol any special im portance has been transacted at this term. The McDowell County Teachers' Association met in the auditorium of the graded school building Saturday at 10 o'clock. The general subject of discussion was the "Progressive School." After several interesting talks on this subject bringing out the relation of such a school to the indus trial civic, social and Teligious life of the community, the teachers divided into sections to discuss problems pe culiar to their own work. The most important number of the program was moonlight schools. Fifty-eight teachers pledged themselves to teach in the moonlight schools of this coun ty. It is the ambition of Superinten dent Conley 'and his assistant, Miss Barnard, to establish a moonlight school in every district. SIX HUNDRED ATTEND T (By Associated Press.) Hot Springs, Sept. 28. More than 600 delegates representing synods of the Presbyterian church, U. S. A., ar rived here today for the southern dis trict efficiency convention, which will hold its first session tonight. The real business will begin tomorrow. GAME OR CONVENTION V
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