It
VOL. IV. NO. 276
HICKORY, N. C, MONDAY EVENING, Monday, September 1, 1919
PRICE FIVE CENTS
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"A
KNOXVILLE CALM TODAY
AFTER DAYS- OF RIOTING
Soldiers Patrol City ar everybody is Urged to
Stay at Home v rst Element of Both
Races Involv in Disgraceful. Affair
Saturday Night
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Hv the Associated Press
''K,,.vino, Tenn., Sept. 1. Knox
sil y was calm this morning after the
,...'.. rioting of Saturday night and
wM.r i rouble of Sunday as a result of
,1,,. action of civic and military au
tlill. it t in placing the city under mar
tial law.
Will, military patrol in the busi
es section and in the territory
j.iv the negro population is great
,,,;t. a constant watch is being mani--,..-ti',l.'
No disturbances occurred
duriii;.', the nigh.t.
i v spite the fact that this is a holi
day, id crowds appeared on the
.ti lt.-; dming the morning. Negroes
uh,, appear on the streets are being
-en lud and are not permitted to re
main in the business district unless on
Uis.ness.
i;i.jhp S. J. Hargrave, negro min
;sti nal vorker among the negroes of
tic i t , issued an appeal to the men
ai,. women of his race in which ho
iu;i' l that they maintain order and
i'i vain and refrain from violence of
character. He assured them that
white people are their friends. He
i teil that the trouble of Saturday
it and Sunday was due to the
li.v.t t types of blacks and whites"
: n 1 not to the better element of
I'thcr race, who deprecate the affair.
NVt Saturday the primary elect
ion incurs in which candidates for
Mayor and city commissioners wili
be nominated. The campaign has
lven intense.
Maurice Mayer, the negro charged
u t!i the murder of a white Voman
I- riilav night which act was the cause
of tinting here, made a statement in
Chattanooga Sunday in which he said
that Friday afternoon he had been
A-orking hf the interest of a candi
date for ir.itvor. Severn) mati "meet
ings had been planned for this week.
hut candidates have determined these
tratheriiigs should not be held.
It i.-s the opinion of many that the
rioting may have an effect in the el
ection in reducing the negro vote
particularly in the wards where the
iK'trro population is very dense.
The county court house and j.
coniniittce met this morning and or
dered work on repairing the county
jail, which was considerably damaged
by the mob on Saturday night when
it sought to obtain Mayes who had!
been taken to Chattanooga. The dam
age is estimated at $5,000. The jail
was considered one of the ftrongest
ion the south. Officers say that the
windows were dynamited after the
I'attering ram had failed to dis
place the barrier.
The list of casualties incident to
the rioting is two dead and 13 injur
ed. Of the latter one is probably be
lieved to be fatally injured. .Officers
assert that the situation is in hand
and that if today passed without un
toward developments, there is .little
kludihood of more trouble. Patrol
v.'ill be maintained during the day.
A "stay-at-home tonight appeal
' 'ring made in the hope that this
wil. prev-cnt gatherings on the streets.
The events of the past two days is
deprecated by the better elements of
ho Hi races.
WILSON
WON
I
PERSHING SAILS INFANT BURN:
DEATH TODAY
N HOME
FROM FRANCE
TODAY
TURN OVER
AP
By the Associated Press.
Washington, Sept. 1. President
Wilson declined today to give the for
eign relations committee the tentative
draft of treaties with Austria, Turkey
and Bulgaria on the ground that it
would tend to take the funcif on of ne
gotiating treaties out of the hands of
the executive.
In a letter to Chairman Lodge, Pres-'
ident' Wilson raid as the treaty was,
still in process of negotoiation, he con
sidered it impossible to give the ten
tative draft. Senator Lodge wrote
in reply that the committee asked for
the parts it was expedient to give and
said it was the president's right to
comply or not.
By the Associated Press.
Brest, Sept. 1. General Pershing
sailed from here today on the trans
port Leviathan, for the United States.
The steamer left port at 3 o'clock this
afternoon.
Marshal Foch came aboard the
I transport shortly before she sailed and
made a feeling address to the depart
ing general.
"In leaving Prance," said the mar
shal, "you leave the dead in our
hands. On our soil we will care for
them religiously and jealously. as
bearing witness of the powerful aid
you brought us. These dead will
bring from America many thoughts
of remembrance and pious visits and:
will bind still more strongly our al
ready close union."
EAKS RECORD
CONSECUTIVE
GAMES
M .
S TO ISSUES PROGRAM
FOR SHUEORD
REUNION
The infant child of Mr. and Mrs.
Jones McFalls was burned to death
about 11:20 this morning when fire,
originating from an oil stove, almost
completely destroyed their home just
this side of the Brookford Mills store.
Mrs. McFalls was in the yard dressing
a chicken when the stove exploded.
She rushed into the house for her ba
by which was about six months old,
but was driven back by the flames.
The Hickory fire department was
summoned, but the truck did not at
tempt to leave until the horse truck
was made ready and manned in case
of an alarm in the city. High pres-
sure at Brookford burst the hose in
use there and a second connection had
to be made. Part of the household
furnishings were saved.
The whole community was shocked,
by the terrible death of the baby at
Brookford, The body was carried to
Tipton's undertaking establishment
to be prepared for burial.
EXPECT T
OF ROB
0 FIND SLAYER
IN J. COOPER SOON
THE PRINCE OF WALES
GRANDFATHER
By the Associated) Press.
Boston, Sept. 1. Statistics compil
ed here show that Everett Scott,
shortstop of the Boston American
league club, has achieved a record of
playing in 501 consecutive league
games, beginning June, 1916. He has
been at bat 1,700 times, obtained a bat
ting average of 246 and a fielding av
erage of 966.
Previous marks for consecutive
playing were set by Eddie Colline
when he completed a run of 470
games and by George Burns, of the
New York National Club, who played
459 games.
AMU
M NER
IS
KILLED BY MEXICANS
By the Associated Press
El Paso, Sept. 1. Adam Schaffer,
an American citizen, was killed by
Mexican bandits at his mine August
2S, according to a telegram received
here today. Schaffer was an inde
pendent mining engineer and was 35
years old.
Misses Lottie and Edith Sutlemyre
have returned from a visit to Greens-
V-nrn
r ir ml "Urt rtfiimal 1
iviss ivxay xnoinpsuii uu "JTi smearcase, cheesecakes
tT-nm a rift ncntiui visit ui ocvciui ....
weeks to friends in Chicago.
It was in those dark days when the
15th president, "the Sage of Wheat
land," calling for a day of fasting
and of prayer as he did well to
while the United States government
with an empty treasury, had to beg
for money at 12 per cent interest,
when the American conttnonwealth
and sisterhood was menaced with
disruption that the Prince of Wales,
after King Edward VII, and peace
maker par excellence, visited us. We
have no wish to exaggerate or deep
en the shadows in our national pic
ture Still it is a simple
fact to recall that the great historian,
Edward A. Freeman, beTving that
the union was at an end, planned his
great book, in four volumes, on the
"History of Federal Government
From the Amphyctionic Council to
the Disruption of the United States
of America." The activities of Lin
coln, Grant, Sherman, Thomas and a
million or more of American patriots,
however, compelled a change in Mr.
Freeman's views and plan. Only one
volume appeared and the work re
mains a torso. Moreover there weic
some of his auditors whose eyes
twinkled when a dozen years latei
in New York and elsewhere they lis
tened to his erudite lecture on "The
English People In its Three Homes
For we must confess that despite tht
let that one of his kin had come over
after 1855 and settled in Virginia,
the man so mighty with the pen ana
author ot Ihe Norman Conquest,
did not receive as a lecturer the title
which our Ii'oquois in their venacular
gave to Red Jacket, "He Who Keeps
Them Awake." In a word, we for
gave and bore no malice, but welcom
ed the ilearned gentleman who in the
third home of the English people in
America, told us about our fort'
bears. Nor did we twit him with
having discoursed on the "Disrupv
ion of the United States," for rarely
was a copy ever seen in Appomattox
On the other hand, it was an evei
grander voice that laid emphasis on
the creative and unifying forces in
American history. He proved the
true prophet. It wras no less a per
sonage than the Prince of Wales,
England's future king, who in 1860,
as Lord Renfrew, visited us almost
incognito, and certainly without os
tentation or a trace of snobbishness
He came unexpectedly into the state
house at Philadelphia and was
mightly interested in Independence
hall. -3U
But, oh, what did he see in the
hall-way and underneath the granu
ftaircase? Listen ye daughters xof
the American Revolution of 1919, to
whose mothers we owe so much,
while some there be yet who remem
ber and can confirm what we tell
Literally, they took up the bell, which
the men had put down. What did the
prmce, to his disgust, see but an eat
ing stand and materials of quick
lunch, whose steaming odors filled
the place? We, with our juvenile
Keystone state appetite, voted these
viands an ambrosial and fit for the
cods. There we took our Philade!
phia pepperpot, waffiles, hominy,
noodles and sm.ts tor Mannattan-
and dump
' ers wo t.rnnslnf-.fi wheat, f lour riouem-
balls. dried apnles and ham boiled
together and served with molasses.
To crown the vision, beheld a3 joy
fullv by the Quaker City small boy.
who concealed a mammoth cave under
his dianhram. as it was sorrowfully
looked unon by the surprised prince
! there sat a g-oddess of liberty in the
jform of a fat lady, who might have
tinned the scales at a quarter of a
T thousand pounds. Red faced and
beaming wth motherly good nature, 1
BULGARIA
ON
S
TO RECEIVE
TREATY
By the Associated Press.
Paris, Sept. 1. The supreme
council today discussed the Austrian
peace treaty, which probably will be
delivered tomorrow to the Austrian
plenipotentaries. The council also had
under consideration the Bulgarian
treaty, which is expected will be
speedily completed,, except a decision
of the Thracian question involving an
outlet to the. Aegean for bulgaria.
The partial program for the Shu
ford reunion Thursday at R. L. Shu
ford's farm has been issued.
The meeting will be called to order
by President J. W. Shuford at 11
o'clock. Opening prayer, Rev. W. W.
Rowe.
Address, Capt. A. Nixon.
Address, Judge Geo. A. Shuford.
Hickory Tavern as pertaining to
the Shufords, E. L. Shuford.
Historical address, Rev. J. H. Shu
ford. Following dinner the Shuford Me
morial and Historical Association will
be called together by Mr. A. C. Shu
ford to hear reports and consider
plans taking care of the old cemetery.
Five minute talks will .be made by
Messrs. W. J. Shuford, A. A. Shuford,
Jr., Dr. J. p. Shuford, Roy Aberneth
C. E. Mcintosh R. H. Shuford. B. B.
Blackwelder, W. A. Self, J. W. War
lick and others.
-The closine- nrvaer will hp maAt
6y Mr. Rowe.
READY TO RESIGN
LENOIR COLLEGE 10
I
OPEN
111
Opening exercises in the college au
ditorium at 9:30 a. m. The addres8
will be made by the Rev. Arthur M.
Huffman, chaplain m the U. S. army
overseas. All students should be
present for enrollment and class reg
istration. Regular class work will
begin Wednesday morning at 8:30
Friends and patrons of the school are
invited to the opening exercises.
The Ladies Aid and Missionary So
ciety of Holy Trinity Lutheran
church will meet Tuesday afternoon
at 3 o'clock at the church.
GRAND
N
FOR PACIFIC
FLEET
By the Associated Press.
San Francisco, Sept. 1. The Pacific
fleet, piloted by Admiral Hugh S. Rod
man, swept through the Golden Gate
and by the famous old ship Oregon,
the reviewing ship, in a marine spec
tacle which thrilled a multitude 1 o.
spectators. It was the reviewing of
the new fleet before Secretary Dani
els and other officials.
Rev. J. H. Shuford, Mrs. Eli Ram
seur and Mr. Jacob Geitner attended
the Ramseur reunion Wednesday at
the home of Mr. Tom Ramseur.
HICKORY LODGE NO. 343
A meeting of Hickory Lodge No
By the Associated Press.
Budapest, Sept. 1. The govern
ment of Premier Frederick has off
ered to step down and out. It is
reported that the premier has offer
ed the entente the resignation ot
the entire cabinet.
BASEBALL IN CHARLOLTTE
By the Associated Press
. Charlotte, N. C, Sept. 1. Morning
and afternoon gamtes here today
will decide the championship of the
South Atlantic League.
Columbia has a lead of one full
game and two pomts on Charlotte
and the home club must take both of
today's games to win the pennant.
TO MEET TUESDAY
The four circles of the Woman's
Missionary Society of the First Meth
odist church will meet at the home of
Mrs. Clarence Keever Tuesday after
noon at 3:30. . All the ladies of the
church are invited to meet with them.
MORNING BASEBALL
By the Associated Press.
National:
At Chicago, 4; Cincinnati, 3.
NEGROES DON'T NEED
ANY YANKEE HELP
By the Associated Press.
Austin, Texas, Sept. l. Resolutions
declaring emphatic opposition to "peo
ple of the north who do nojt under
stand conditions in the south inter
fering with our relationship," adopt
ed by the execuive board of the St.
Johns Missionary Negro Baptist As
sociation were made public at a meet
ing last night by 2,000 negroes ana
100 white citizens.
HAROLD
SHUFORD
IS
CITED FOR BRAVERY
Nashville Police Believe They Have Clue to
Murderers of Lawyer Entered Automobile
With Intimate, it is Said Further De
velopments in Case
NEW YORK LABO
URGES TRUCE
INLAND
By the Associated Press
New York, Sept. 1
all strikes throughout the United
States and the declaration of a labor
truce on the basis of the status quo
for six months or more to enable
President Wilson to bring about a re
duction in the cost of living is recom
mended by a committee of the New
York state federation of labor, made
public today.
BETTER PAY
POSTAL
URG
higher
By the Associated Press.
Washington, Sept. 1. A
wage standard for all postal or.
ployes, time and a half for over
time, double time for Sundays and
holidays, and a 30-day sick leavt
were recommended today by ThcnKu
Flaherty, secretary treasurer of the
postal employes' association."
By the Associated Press.
Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 1. Robin
J. Cooper, Nashville attorney and
slayer of former United States Sen
ator Edwin W. Carmack in 1908,
whose body was found Saturday in
Richland creek, near here, after he
had been missing for two days, was
killd by two or more men, and the
murderers will be arrested in a few
days, according to announcement to
day by Chief of Police B'artell.
The theoi-y upon which the police
are working was not revealed. The
Suspension of I chief said no woman was connected
with the case, so far as he could
learn. '
In pursuing a suggestion that Mr.
Cooper might have been the victim of
bootleggers, all men suspected of con
nection with the traffic have been forc
ed to disclose to the satisfaction of
the police their movements Thurs
day night when Mr. Cooper Was call
ed from his home in Belle Meade
park, to be seen no more by the mem
bers of his family until his dead bctfy
was found in the stream.
A house girl in the Cooper home
said that about 9 o'clock Thursday
night she heard some one call Mr.
Cooper and she went to the window
overlooking the front porch. She saw
only the shadow of the man who
stood in the yard. The man did not
come on the porch, but joined Mr.
Cooper in the yard, went with Mr.
Cooper to the garage and went with
him to the automobile.
This mysterious caller, it is now con
sidered certain, was an intimate ac
quaintance. The indentity of that call
er and the significance of Cooper s
remark made as the automobile left
the home, "If you had asked for more
you could have had it," are believed to
be all the information that was passed
The funeral was held today.
FOR
MEN
ED
ORGANIZERS
ID
FOR
PLAY NG
POKER
CALM
N CHARLOTTE
S REPORTED TODAY
Edwin Harold Shuford, son of Mr.
and -Mrs. J. W. Shuford, has been cit
ed for gallantry in an order issued
July 18, 1919 by Major General Rob
ert L. Howze, commander of the
third division, and also recommended
for the distinguished service cross.
Another member of this , division,
Lieut. John Geitner, has been cited
for gallantry and his citation also is
in the list in which young Shuford's
appears. These are the only two
Hickory men in that division and it is
noteworthy that both won honors.
Mr. Shuford's citation follows:
"Shuford, Edwin H., private 1st
class. Batterv B. 10th field artillerv.
8:00 Was a mpmhpr nf T?. C detail dnrini?
343 will be held tonight at
I o'clock. There will be work in the the operation on the Marne July 14-15
second degree, and mi memoers are an(j rendered valuable service until
raN(S iAIMBD AND BLIND BUT FOREVER HONORED
Veterans of the world war leadin g the great parade , M
a French priest who served with the "Blue Devils" fose and: arm
.sacrificed to his country, have been replaced by the military medal and the
corix de guerre. ,
amid appetizing clouds of vapors, she
i presided over the steaming pots and
pans, kept calorically high over live
charcoal in sheet iron bases. This lady
, bountitful dispensed soup, beans, pret
izels and pickled tripe with especial
I floy when candidates for her pine
j benches began to multiply, at 12:05
post meridian, and she soon had a
waiting list. The more the merrier,
' seemed to be the motto of herself and
her maids. There was the Liberty
i Bell, which, then set on rough tim
bers under the stairway, furnished on
its platform a dresser for dishes.
! But, oh, what a debacle from au
I o-nst historic memories! Was the
treasury -of Penn's city so poor and
even as llow as that of the Buch
anan government in 1861 that the
city father must rent out the sac
red edifice for the mean revenue of
an eatiner stand? The future Ed
ward VII was so horrified. Then
' and there, he the prince
spoke out strongly in his mothers
English, which we give in para
phrase. He intimated that it was
the duty of the Philadelphia munici
pality to end such base usage of an
orlffifo enn serrated bv noble memor
ies. For. let it be recalled today,
f none more than Edward knew tne
true inwardness of the revolution, m
1775, on American soil with blood
(Continued on pae 4)
urged to attend.
D. B. Taylor, secretary.
j badly wounded. He was untiring
his efforts to continue communica-
tion, fearlessly making frequent trips
Miss Lucy Bradley has returned to ever the lines and effecting repairs
her home in Rutherford College after under heavy shell fire."
spending a few months in Hickory.
DEATH OF MRS. POOVEY
Mr. Charles Stevenson of Norfolk
is spending a few days here with his Mrg Catharine Setzer Poovey,
parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Steven- widow of the late Taylor Poovey,
SOn. 3,-0(4 nf l,OT. hnme- in Wst Hickorv
j early Sunday morning at the age of
74 years four months and 14 days.
I The funeral was held today from Mt.
Olive Lutheran church. Mrs. Poovey
is survived by several children, was
a consistent Tnember of the Lutheran
church and was an unusually good
woman.
COLUMBIA TAKES
PENNANT
5 TOO
By the Associated Press.
Charlotte, Sept. 1. By shutting out
the locals, 5 to 0 in the morning
gamle here today, Columbia won the
South Atlantic championship. The
two teams were so close tfcat had
Charlotte won both games, it" would
have claimed the championship.
.Mrs. M. H. Groves and daughter,
Lela, of Salisbury are guests of Mrs.
W. A. Hall.
Mr. and Mrs.- John Holshouser of
Concord are visiting . Mrs. Hols
houser's sisters, Mrs. J.
and Mrs. C. R. Warlick.
Mrs. C. T. Anderson and little
daughter Sarah, of Monroe are guests
of, her parents, Mr .and Mrs. J; C.
Frvo,-
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Fisher return
ed to Salisbury today after being
guests of Mrs. Fisher's sister, Mrs.
P. P. Jones.
A High Point special to the Ral
eigh News and Observer under date
of August 18 tells of a raid on labor
union officers who were playing po
ker and the checking up of books to
see if te funds of the organization
were appropriated by the gamblers.
The fee collected from each member
is $1.50. Here is the High Point
story:
Police Chief Welch and assistant
made a big haul yesterday when five
leaders of organized labor taking
part in the differences between man
ufacturers and employes here, were
arrested while at a poker
table and later placed under $5C
bond each for their appear
ance at trial today. The men indict
ed are Scott Kiser, treasurer of the
(local union of carpenters and join
ers organization; A. M. btewart,
head of the textile workers; Roy
White, financial secretary of the
textile workers; Charlie Kitchin, an
official of the furniture workeis.
The fifth member of the parly, W.
S. Hurman, forfeited his bond by
failing to put in an appearance at
the trial today.
"Kiser was fined $100 aid given
the alternative of going to the roads
for six months, while Stewart held to
be less guilty, was fined $50. White
and Kitchin by reason of their tes
timony were discharged but were
held under bond to appear in the
case charging Kiser with retailing,
warrants for which were issued by
Chief Welch at the conclusion of
the first and main trial.
"Evidence was offered by White
and Kitchin, who were placed or:
the stand by the state, that the
men had previously played at th !
same place and that the gallon and j
a half of whiskey found Saturday
right was partly sold by Kiser two ;
pints having been procured from j
him earlier in the day. Over six
quarts of whiskey were found in the j
room where the game was Agoing on 1
and which is used by the union as
headquarters. j
"Scott Kiser, the testimony show- '
ed, had given a check for bond mon-,
ey on an' official union check which j
Chief Welch had cashed prior to j
the trial. Attorneys were bitter in
their denunciation of men who would
violate the trust of workers who had
placed their confidence and their
' money with them. Their remarks
were not forthcoming until a wit
ness stated that the fundt, were sup
posed to be forwarded to the great
headquarters of the carpenters and
joiners organization at Indianapolis,
but none had been forwarded
as yet.
"Kiser, White and Kitchin were
remanded to jail following the
L. Murphy1 trial because ot tneir maDiuty to
I give bond.
"President Jones, of thtT carpen
ters' and joiners' union; had taken
over the books of the union from
Scott Kiser and this afternoon was
By the Associated Press
Charlotte, N. C, Sept. 1. Quiet
prevailed here early today and city
officials announced they expected no
further disturbances. Street cars are
operating on the same limited scale.
In a public statement, Mayor Mc
Ninch called upon citizens to observe
the . law and accompanied the state
ment with an announcement that the
administration was in position to en
force law and order.
Mr. Joyce Eckard has returned
home after spending a month in
Merriwether, S. C.
Mr. D. E. Eckard has
home after spending some
South Carolina.
returned
time in
Mr. J. F. Peterson of Winston-Salem'
spent the week end in the city.
Messrs. Carl Loughridge and
Charles Robinson of Gastonia were
Hickory visitors for a few hours yes
terday. .
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SERBIAN CROWN PRINCE MAY,
RULE HUNGARY
A London dispatch is reported
stating that the Crown of Hungary ig
Upon the finding of the bank will
M?ca a Nnrt lff. this mnminfr depend whether Kiser was short any
for a. business trip to Greensboro. Jf the union's funds.
to be oered to Crown PPrince Alexan-
having them balanced at the bank. ( der of Serbia. The photograph is one
of the more unusual and unconvention
al snapshots of the Prince.
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