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Hickory If You Have Anything to Sell, Advertise it. Record Want Ads Bring Re sults. VOL. 1. NO. 178 HICKORY, N. C. TUESDAY EVENING APRIL 4, 1916. Price Two Cents 4 .1 SENDING MORE TROOPS GUARD COMMUNICATION Funston Dispatches Additional Soldiers to Keep Line Open Pershing Not to be Reinforced Other Mexican News Told in Today's Bulletins. (By Associated Press.) Washington. April 4. Private ad vices seeming to show that Villa has ''definitely been located south of Chi , huahua were received today by the state department and were at once " turned over to the war department for transmission to General Persh ing. FUNSTON GETS NEWS. (By the Associated Press) San Antonio, April 4. Official ad "mission of the belief that Francisco Villa had fled far beyond the Amer ican forces and now is operating south of Chihuahua City was made at . General Funston's headquarters to day. Since yesterday much information indicating that the bandits were moving towards Parral has been re ceived, but that regarded by General 'Funston and his staff as most re liable came from the American con sul at Chihuahua. If it is proven that Villa is on his way to Parral, the campaign cannot be carried on much further without the use of the railroads, officials here declare. . ( By Associated Press. I Washington, April 4. General t Funston advised the war department j today he was sending more troops in- ; to Mexico from Columbus to protect the line of communication. ! So far General Funston has not .i ; -(,.: i r,,v.r.u I ,'ing's forces except to protect the line and there was no intimation that troops were wanted for other serv ice. WOMEN ORGANIZE IN ENGLAND. (By the Associated Press) London, April 4. The board of ag- friculture has appointed ten women I "organizers," who are to see that ev i ery county in Enirland is organized i down to its smallest village, for the Votiim Manulacturer s Associa ,.r i.,k tion todav. Ihe convention will close 1 I'm nlovmenf . - - - ui w unit, ii laiiui nil iiic i ana oom women arm uirmers win oe - - 1 1 . 1. I - I i . Ml L acquainted with their purpose, In- f farms. Registers for women candi- I dates will be ononed in each village. ! 'i struction will be given in light farm work and milking, and in the care of pigs and poultry. Already 15,000 women graduates of such courses ot instruction are at work on farms. DANES TO ENGLAND. (By Associated Iress.) Copenhagen, April 4. Danes, all sons of farmers, are going from Den mark in batches of 200 to help make up the shortage of labor on English farms. SCORES KILLED i FACTORY (By Associated Press.) I London, April 4. The explosion of a powder factory in Kent has caused the death or injury of 200 persons, it ; was officially announced today. The official statement says: '"The ministry of munitions reports r thatd urintr the weeK aserious lire broke out in a powder factory, which i led to a serious explosion in tha I t works. The fire was accidentalu. The I approximate number of casualties Is i I 200." IN POWDER Whitener, Lyerly and Cilley Win in Election; $35,000 in Bonds Voted Hickory voters yesterday elected a mayor, two aldermen and determined 1o spend $25,000 for a new public school building and $10,000 for water and sewer extension. The vote for mayor stood: P. C. Setzer 244 S. L. Whitener 322 Whitener's majority 78 For alderman from ward one: U. M. Bumgarner - 216 Kubert Lyerly - 348 Lyerly's majority 132 For alderman ward two: J. L. Cilley 322 Frank P. Johnston 248 Cilley's majority 74 For school bonds 389 Against , 34 Not voting 195 Registration 618 Majority for bonds 80 For water and sewer 360 Against , 35 Nut voting 223 Majority for 51 From, the time the polls opened SAYS WAR W LAST GOOD WHILE YET (By the Associated Press.) London, April 4. In opening his budget speech in the house of com mons today the chancellor of the ex chequer said it was assumed the war would last during the whole of the financial year. SOUTHERN STORxM. (By the Associated Press) Washington, April. 4. The south ern storm was off the Virginia capes and moving northeastward today. PREVENT CRISIS (By the Associated Press) Atlanta, Ga., April 4. The various phases of the cotton manufacturing industry as affected by the European war and the future of the industry after the war were the chief features iof the "reruns region ot the Amen , . . . , " " Among the speakers were members of the association and others not di rectly connected with it. Among the latter were Charles H. Ilerty of Chapel Hill, N. C. president of the American Chemical Society, who brought to the convention an outline of the shortage of dyes, which he said would place the American manu facturers of cloth in a serious crisis unless congress enables manufactur ers to make dyes in competition with foreigners. Chief blame for the condition was laid to the Democratic party. Mem bers of the convention wanted a tariff laid on foreign dyes, a bill for which already has been introduced, but has been effectively pigeonholed, it was said. SECOND HAND PIANO BUSINESS BOOMING ; (By Associated Press.) i (London. April 4. One of the most ! curious results of the war is a ver- itable boom in the secondhand piano ; business. The reason for this is that I the work of making munitions for the men at the front has enabled so many people to think of a piano i who never thought they would own one and their added income is just enough for them to afford an old in strument. "Less than two years ago," ex plained a dealer, "pianos if more than 20 year old, were a real drug on the market and many had to be sold at firewood prices. Now we dealers' cannot net enough of them to sell for very fair prices I paid a cus- tomer the same price for a piano that he paid me for it sixteen years ago." yesterday morning at sun up until they closed at sun down the candi date and their friends were active not only in behalf of the men who were to succeed Mayor J. W' Shu ford and Aldermen J. A. Moretz and VM- A. Rudisill, but in the interest of the school and water and sewer bonds. The scene about the polls was never dull. From half dozen to nearly a score of automobiles were busy dur ing the entire day, and every voter could ride in a fine car lor one day at least. lEarlv in the day it was evident that Mr. Whitener was leading for mayor IN COTTON GOODS and that Messrs. lyeri" anu iuney i the board of health and oara oi eau were running ahead in their contests : cation, asking for $600 to prosecute for aldermen, but the figures were not i a campaign for vaccinating against obtainable. The bonus were aououui part ot tne day. out in me anernoon every man who came up seemed to desire to vote for them,, and before aii i i i : a a-a , the polls closed it was evident they were on the safe side. The election was quiet and friendly, and if there were any hard feelings they were not in evidence about the fire station. The new officers will be sworn in Monday, May 1, at 10 a. m., and the bonds will be issued as soon aa notice can be given. MAILED TO ON GERMAN SISTERS BORDER (By Associated Press.) Harrisonburg, Va., April 4. After confessing, according to the police, that she sent boxes of poisoned "April fool" candy to the Kyger sis ters, Mrs. Margaret Sipe, aged 55, was placed in jail at Grottoes today. Mrs. Sipe is alleged to have admit ted a strong dislike to the sisters be cause of the attentions of her son, and is declared to have said that she would break the attentions up. Boxes of candy were received through the mail by Lily Kyger and her sister, Mrs. Hattie Bower of Ba sic City. These two and a younger sister, Cora, became ill from eating the candy, and are better. The woman's daughter told the po lice she (Sipe) wrote the April fool inclosed in the candy, but supposed the candy was all right. JURORS ARE DRAWN T Newton, April 4. The county com missioners were in monthly session yesterday, all members present, and were more or less busy the entire day. Among the items was the drawing of a jury for the two weeks of civil court next month. The following were drawn: Catawba township, first week . W; A. Loftin, J. II. James. W. W. Er vin. and Ti. P Setzer; second week. O. D. Murray and P. H. Setzer. Hickory township, first week Jas. A. Propst, J. E. Bowman, J. R Bum garner and G. F Herman; second week. A. H. Parker, J B. Johnscm, James Beard. Mt. Creek township, first week J. A. Gabriel. D. F. Punch, T. J. Sher rill: second week. R. H. Whitener, L. A. White and J. T. Punch. Newton, first week J. F. Kanipe, W. R- Fry and J A. Yount; second week, C. S. Simmons, L. S. Fulbright and J. J. Campbell. Bandv, first week C C Rudisill, W. F. Mall, second week. P. A. Ful bright, W. L Whitsnant. T. H. Rudi sill. Clines. first week Nelson J. Pope; second week. J. F. Hoke. Caldwell, first week L. W Bandy; second week. J. R. Wlhisnant, P. D. Drum and W. W Caldwell. 'Thomas Grafton, Thomas Dula, F. L. Little, C. E. Setzer, E. D. Benton, R. M. Gabriel, J. W. Lowrance. G. W. Josey, B. C. Robinson, Coyte Rob inson, Perry Hunsucker and H. A. Ilawn, were all relieved of poll or small amounts of property tax, polls on account of infirmities and other tax on account of errors. All owners of stallions and jacks were relieved of the county tax on such animals, for 1915. J. R. Abee was authorized to collect the balance of the 1914 school tax in Longview district. Sarah Starnes of Hickory was al lowed $1 a month as an outside pau per; John Kyles and wife of Catawba were admitted to the home; Noah Her man was increased from $1.50 to$2. The petition for fa change in the road in Mt. Creek leading to the steel bridge on the Beattys ford road, passing over lands of Mrs. Nancy Gordon and others was filed for next meeting. The board accepts the re port of R. A. Wilfong, J. H. Shuford and L. L. Hunsucker, road jurors providing for payment of $20 dam ages to Mrs. Eliza Reinhardt. peti tioners to pay. The report was also accepted by Jurors M. M. Smyre, T W. Coley and J. L. Drum, providing for payment of $3 to J. R. Campbell and no damages to Manuel Wilson, for a road touching their lands peti tioners to pay. Supervisor Z. G. Shel ton of Mt. Creek is to inspect a road leading to Alleys store to Mountain Mill and report next meeting. This road has been built bv private sub scription but has never been declared a public road. Abutting property owners are asked to sign a petition for it, after which it will be declared a public highway. The change in the road from near F. A. Lackey's to Buffalo shoals road near L. F Wil son's was granted, petitioners to pay all damages and work out the road. The petition to change the Island Ford road trom Shiloh church to Mciven zie canine-round was filed for next meeting. The chancre on road from David Ramseur's to Chas. Hoover's on Hickorv-Lincolnton road was granted, petitioners to pay all dam ages and expenses. Wilson Warlick was paid $10 for attorney s services to the game war den for six months. ! List takers for the several town ships were named as follows: North Hickory. Chas P. Bolick. South Hickory, A. M. Williams. Catawba, C. K. Edwards. Newton, Arthur Yount. Caldwell. W. L. Withers. Bandys. Eli Speagle. Mt. Creek. D. A. Gilleland. Jacobs Fork. David Ramseur. Clines, W A. Turner. The board took under advisement a nronosal frnm Sunt. Geo. W . IShipp, health department, signed by smallpox and typhoid. Tne ooara is , - . - also considering reauest from Sol icitor J. C. Sigmon that his office be put under a salary system. S. A. Brown of Mooresville. large owner in the Mooresville bridge, ap peared before the board to urge that this county agree, as Iredell has agreed on $12,000 for the Moores ville bridge. The board talked about bridges again, until as usual things got to going in a circle and then dropped the matter for this time. FOR SUPERIOR UR MASSED (By the Associated Press.) Home, via London, April 4. Wire less reports from Switzerland state that Holland has closed her German frontier and massed all he,r forces on the German border. VILLA REPORTED By the Associated Press.) El Paso, Tex., April 4. With Francisco Villa in flight and his whereabouts still unknown to his pursuers, the campaign of the United States troops in scouring the country continues. Jvlew troops have been- ordered into Mexico from the military base at Columbus to guard the line of com munications. Villa has been reported at many points. The last Mexican report had him heading for Parral. The difficul ties of the pursuit have multiplied because of the misleading informa tion given by Mexican peons. Army men believe that as Villa moves southward with his ti-ail well covered, it will be . necessary to es tablish new army bsiao and strong ly guard the line of communications. The use of the Northwestern Rail road will be essential if the pursuit is to be maintained. ::::j:::r.tirrt:::::::::n:tt MARKETS COTTON FUTURES. (By the Associated Press) New York. April 4. The cotton market opened steady today to a de cline of one to three points, but prices steadied right after the call. Fluc tuations were more irregular during the morning. The market closed steady. Open Close May , 11.86 11.85 July 11.97 11.99 October 12.05 12.08 December 12.22 12.22 January 12.31 12.30 HICKORY MARKETS Cotton 11 Wheat $1.40 NEW YORK STOCKS. (By the Associated Press) New York. March 4. Yesterday's advance in specialties, especially war shares, was resumed at today s opening- with gains of one to four in Bald win Locomotives, Studebaker and Willis-Overland. Coppers were promi nent, but slightly irregular. Utah showing slight recessions. Industrial Alcohol gave promise of going high er. Kails were again steady. iiiiiiiii;i!ii:;i!imuiit!!ii;!s;?nm iWashington. April 4. For North Carolina, partly cloudy tonight, Wed nesday fair moderate to fresh west winds. i COMPARATIVE WEATHER Anril 3 1916 1915 Maximum : 65 42 Minimum 41 30 Mean 53 36 BUTTER IN TEXAS. Kingsville is shiping 20,000 pounds of butter each month and could sell twice that much. For this product it receives $8,000 cash or 6.000 per an num. As a by-product of the dairy it sells $60,000 worth ot hogs. Add to this the increase in cattle and it will swell the proceeds another $60,000'. Pract ically $200,000 is being brought into a country by one industry which five years ago was valueless. Kingsville is in Kleberg county, down the gulf coast. Conditions are not more fav orable there, with respect to the dairy industry, than they are in Jefferson county. Men of affairs in Beaumont are overlooking a good thing. They should wake up and take a hand in establishing a creamery in Beaumont. They should lend assistance to farm ers writh a view of enabling them to engage in the dairy and hog rearing business. i Some fun occured at the last of the session when Commissioner Hol ler moved to exempt a man from poll tax because his house had been de stroyed by fire. Commissioner Sig mon opposed on the ground that other such requests had been turned down, and to grant one would mean letting down the bars. The question was put. Commissioner Stroup being ab sent. Commissioners Holler and Wil fong voted aye; Commissioner Sig mon voted nay. and then Chairman Brown voted nay, so it was a tie. and that ended it. Spectators laughed loudly and the board joined. AT MANY POINTS THE WEATHER STILL WAITING N GERARD'S REPORT (By the Associated Press) (Washington, April 4. In the ab sence of conclusive evidence on the sinking of neutral ships, President Wilson and his cabinet today post poned decision on the course of the United States. Until additional infor mation indicates that the English man and Sussex were torpedoed is received, nothing will be done. Officials say Ambassador Gerard will report definitely within a week whether Germany denies or admits torpedoing the vessels. Recent re plies against Americten protests against mail seizures were also laid before the cabinet. WILL INVESTIGATE E (By the Associated Press.) Washington, April 4. Treasury officials said today that Carl E. Whit ney, a New York lawyer, had filed charges that a number of deputy rev enue collectors there are involved in a tobacco fraud. More than 100 deputies are suspected. The frauds involve $20,000,000 alleged to be due the government in revenue taxes. Mr. Whitney made his charges to Assistant Secretary Malbourn, but declined to give the names of the deputies. lie is counsel for some of the tobacco concerns, and it is de clared will turn the evidence over to the government if the cases are brought to trial. According to treasury officials, Mr. Whitney charged that some deputies had not only been receiving remit tances weekly, but had approached other manufacturers and pointed out the eas with which they could escape payment. A new deputy at New York made the discovery of the alleged frauds. IN HAPPY VALLEY Emma Sanders a white girl aged 17 years, committed suicide in the Happy Valley section late Sunday afternoon by shooting herself with a shotgun. the load taking effect in her head and death being instantaneous. Jealousy is said to have been the cause, and she left a note saying that everybody had treated her badly. She had been employed as cook at the home of Mr. I. M. Hawkins in the valley. According to the Lenoir News, the girl used a twelve-gauge breech loader and a sixteen-inch shell, the shell of course being much too small for the weapon. The first shell ex ploded, and was prized out with a knife, and the second shell was fired by means of a string attached to the trigger and pulled with her foot. The funeral was held at Ferguson. a small town on the Grandin rail road, yesterday morning. BE NO CHANGE IN POLICE DEPARTMENT Whatever may be the changes made bv the new administration mliOTi it nnmna intn PYlRtpnCP Mon day, May 1, the Hickory police force will nnt vf pffWt.pd. Tt. was said to day that Chief Lentz and his force would stand well witti the next coun cil, and that it would be hard to bet fr tVipm There have been rumors of a change m city attorney, and it was said tnat Judge W. B. Councill would be re tm'npH lep-al adviser. Mr. M. H. Yount prosecuting in the recorder's court. Mr. D. L.Russell was elected some time ago to fill the vacancy roused hv the resignation of Mr. C. W Ratrhv. TVio fpvms nf f.itv Manflp-er Ballew CAUt Knnprintendent Stalev and Re corder Campbell will expire, but there has been no intimation as to any changes in these positions. GOVERNMENT PRINTING. i (By Associated Press.) i Washington, April 4. Printing re ! quired for all branches of -the gov 'ernment service cost $7,111,075 last year. AH except $833,009 worth was done in the government printing of . f ice. , - ANOTHER HUGE ORDER. (By the Associative Press) Tokio. April 4. iRussia has placed in Japan another huge war order which is asid to reach $22,000,000. . Them unitions will be turned out by ' government arsenals and the first de i liveries will begin in 1917. HUG FRAUD CHARGE COMMITS SUICIDE ANOTHER LULL OCCURS IN VERDUN ENCOUNTER No Infantry Engagement Occurred During the Nihgt French Push Way Back Into Position Norway Asks for Information About Submarine Policy WN T RELEASE MEN GRABBED U.S. (By the Associated Press.) Washington, April4. Great Brit ain's refusal to release the 38 Ger mans, Austrians and Turks taken from an American steamer near Shanghai was received at the state department today and will be given out later. The note is understood to give reasons why the prisoners cannot be released. tThe intention of the United States is to demand the unconditional release of the prisoners. 1RITISH WEALTH (By the Associated Press) London, Apil 4. Income tax payers who are now sending their checks to the treasury, the tax being payable before April 6, have had to pay just 30 per cenfcmar.g than last year. and next year will have another 40 j per cent, added to the bill. This was provided for by the finance act of 1915. Some people the tax hits pretty hard but there is little grumbling and 1 the collectors report that the tax has been paid even earlier than it was last year, when the large tax payers sur prised the treasury by paying long before it was due. An effort has also been made to in crease the amount received from in come tax by including smaller wage earners and providing that all income wherever derived shall be subject to taxation. Before the war those earning less than 160 pounds were exempt; now the figure has been lowered to 130 pounds but these small wage earn ers have been given the privilege of paying quarterly instead of yearly. Many Americans resident in England have been affected by the decision that all income, whether brought to this country or not, is subject to tax ation. Heretofore, an American resi dent here simply paid on his earnings or the income which he used in this country. Now he must make a return of his income from investments abroad. Canadians like Americans, who often send their savings home for investment, are now on an equal footing with their British neighbors. The Americans of course also have to pay the American income tax. This is what induced a number of them, who have long been resident in this country, to take out British naturali zation papers a year or two ago. TO CLEAR FRONTIER OF AIL BELGIANS (By the Associated Press.) Bergen-op-Zoom, Netherlands, Ap ril 4. Several recent indications point to the fact that the Germans in Belgium intend to entirely clear the region immediately next to the fron tier of its inhabitants, with a view, presumably, to further facilitating their strict control ot the Dutch boun dary. They have already evacuated the strip of country situated between their two barbed-wire fences in a part of Flanders, and the arrival here of many refugees from the Belgian village of Putte (situated just north or Antwerp,) strengthens the view generally held in the frontier dis tricts that the people who have so far stuck to their homes in the rest of this zone will, in due course, suffer the same fate. ' The latest lot of refugees, men, wo men and children, fled through the barbed-wire entanglement of the first German barrier in order to escape the ever bitterer want reigning in their village. It was a sad sight, these penniless and homeless people who arrived in the market square in their wagons, there to apply to the Dutch police for a temporary shelter and for a ticket enabling them to proceed to one of the Belgian refugee camps in this country. The immediate rea son for their expatriation was that jfor a fortnight past the Germans ! have refused to allow any further : food to be brought to this region i.prisoned between their two formida ; ble barbed-wire fences, while from the Dutch side practically nothing could reach the villagers. FROM PAYS MORE TAXES (By Associated Press.) There is a slight lul in the battle raging around Verdun, following the violent fighting yesterday by which the French pushed their way back to the northern outskirts of the Cail lette wood, between Douaumont and Vaux and regained a footing in the village of Vaux. No infantry engagement occurred last night, according to the Paris bulletin. French artillery is continuing a vigorous bombardment on the Vaux Douaumont sector. The Germans are declared to have made only a feeble" response. Northwest of the fortress artillery on both sides has been actively em ployed along the Avocourt-Haucourt front, and the salient is gradually be ing straightened out by the southward push of the Germans. The German lines at Malancourt have been sub jected to a heavy fire from long range guns. Norway, says a Copenhagen dis patch, has asked Germany to investi gate whether German submarines have been responsible for the loss of a number of Norwegian vessels. TOOK MEDICINE AS DRUG. (By the Associated Press) Chicago, Aprjil 4. "Wrne of Cardui" was taken by one woman as a substitute for ad rug after the Harrison law went into effect. Dr. Newson of Ruby, S. C. testified to day in the $300,000 libel suit of the manufacturers of the medicine against the Ameican Medical So ciety. SMALL BLAZE AT BROOKFORD Fire before noon today did damage amounting to about $175 in the card room of the Brookford Mills. It was not known how the blaze originated, but it was observed in the "rover" through which the cotton runs. There was no excitement and the company's sprinklers put out the fire. ASKS FOR DIVORCE. Grand Rapids, Mich., April 4. Mrs. Clara Louise Heck-Waite today filed suitf or divorce here against her husband, Dr. Arthur Warren Walte, who has confessed to the murder of her father and mother. COLLEGE GAMES. IAt Raleigh: A. & M. of North Car olina 12; William and Mary 2. At Wake Forest: Wlake Forest Col lege 3; Richmond College 2. lAt Chapel Hill: University of Virginia-University of North Carolina, rain. OFFERS TO SURRENDER. (By the Associated Press.) Torreon, April 4. General Reyes, commanding the Villa forces in this locality, has sent a letter to the Car ranza commander, oft-ering to surren der with all his force if given am nesty. This information was given out today by the Carranza commander. delaThearing T Greensboro, April 4. Hearing of the case of Gilbert Newell, a clerk in the employ of the North Carolina Public Service Company, and Walter Bradley, a former pool room manager, today was postponed until tomorrow. They are charged with having rob bed the company's vault of $543.75 Saturday night or Sunday morning. Newell was found in the vault nearly suffocated, it was believed, and he told how he had been thrust inside and the safe robbed. His step-mother was said today to be seriously ill. His father gave bond for him last night. The arrests came after a day and night of most careful watching of all suspects by the police. A man was kept Sunday night in hiding in the rear of the Public service building and the building across the street in which Bradley lived was under strict observation. Newell was said by the police to have been seen enter ing the building and a search warrant late yesterday enabled the officers to discover a large portion of the money. The caches revealed $420.40, accord ing to the checking up done by offi cers of the company last night, leav ing a balance yet undiscovered of $26.95. ,The officers arrested the two young men and also held for a few minutes two others, until explanation of their presence in suspicious places were satisfactorily made. There was no in timation last night from headquarters that any others were believed to be implicated in the robbery or that there would be other arrests. The youths taken were carried to the police offices in the municipal build ing and there their clothing was searched. Less than $5 was found in the pockets of Bradley and very lit tle in those of Newell. AGAINS TWO YOUTHS