3 JWy'SJ ii Vol. V. LINCOLKTON, N. C. FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1911. S State Library No. 48 THE RACE VAte"UP SENATORIAL TALK CHERRYVILLE ROUTE 3 NEWS. CR0USE NEWS. "WILD JOHN" IS NO MORE. 33 CONFEDERATE GENERALS. 1 n V i 1) r - v 1 f Mlii Willie Mac Heavner Retain The Lead With Miu Bryte Wood A Close Second Others Well Up In The Race. In the future we will only pub lish the names of the contestants that have over 2,000 votes. This does not mean that these names will be eliminated from the con test for such is not the case. ' The secretary has a record and just as soon as they secure additional votes to make their total over 2,000 the names will again appear in the regular list in the paper. This is by far the most popular contest ever inaugurated in the town according to the interest taken. Messrs. Buttle and Aber nethy are well pleased with the re sults. The vote up to Wednesday noon shows that Miss Willie Mae Heavner has the lead. Miss Bryte Wood, whb has been in the lead for several weeks is a close second and by the next issue no one can tell what will happen for all the contestants are in dead earnest and are workiDg hard for the piano. This is the vote up to Wednesday noon: Willie Mae Heavner Bry te Wood ' . Lula Fox Nellie Harrill Fleta Crow ell 11a Lynch . Ethel Long Ruth McCoy Naomi Sherrill Mrs.! Julia McCutchen Yelma Hauss Mamie Lineberger Jennie Baine Minnie Beam Linda Ward - Hattie Beam Made Sigmon Essie Leonard Brientie Scronce Vera Seagle Flossie Armstrong Barbara Hauss Bosa Nixon Janie King Josephine Mullen Eose Seagle Ethel Mauney Vertie Noles - - Margaret Motz Lillie Buff Edith Pence Maude Hoyle Sallie May Bollinger Julia Wingate Flossie Ramsey Lillie Lineberger Lucy Howard Minnie Baxter Gertrude Heedick Mrs. J. O. Allen Maggie Beattie Lucy Camp Ida Smith Margarite Rogers May Biggerstaff Cora Dellinger Pearl Michem - Annie Beep , Carrie Yount Carrie Ballard Dora Lawing Katie Hoover ' Dora Shrum Lula Lynch Coney Heavner - " Blanch Stroup Mary Quickel Jessie Bamsaur Pearl Smith 149,585 137,718 103,503 102,545 82,025 59,085 53,765 - 36,485 35,705 32,245 31,3Sf 23,147 25,880 20,150 20,105 20,100 14,300 14,060 12,890 ' 12,210 11,505 11,470 ' 8,000 T,515 7,315 6,795 6,330 5,975 5,620 "5,390 5,345 5,220 5,210 5,165 5,025 5,010 5,000 5,000 4,315 3,975 3,970 3,585 3,510 3,455 3,230 3,220 2,985 2,850 . 2,775 2,720 2,390 2,280 " 2,175 2,150 2,135 2,125 2,050 2,050 2,025 Possibly A Change In Clinchfield Rail road. It is rumored that the Seaboard Air Line and Chespeake and Ohio railroads are to lease or acquire control of the Clinchfield railroad. Officials representing all three roads met in Spartanburg, B. C., a few days ago. - The acquistion of the C. C. and O. by the O. and O. and the 8. A. L. will result in the extension of the Clinchfield , road from ' its northern terminus at Dante, Va. to a connection with the O. and O. at Elkhorn City, Ky. Prom Elkhorn City the C. and O. has a straight line to Kenova, on the Ohio river. The contract for the extension of the Clinchfield, a, dis tance of about 35 miles, was let two years ago, but held in abey ance until it could be learned what would become of the C. C. & O. The leasing of the Clinchfield by the C. & O. and theS. A. L. makes the shortest route between Chicago and Florida." . Mrs. M. L. Bynum, who has been absent from the city for sev eral weeks, returned home a few days ago. Such A Fine Array of Candidates That It Is Hard To Make A Selection Uncle Joe Cannon And The Fire-Water Proposition." Iron Station, June 12, We no tice that Uncle Joe Cannon tells a prominent Baptist that he is in sympathy with those who would stop the shipment of booze into prohibition territory, but that he fears that it would be unconstitu tional for the reason that it would be transfering the control of inter nal commerce from the national government to the State govern ment. It looks to a man up a tree, that after our United States Su preme Court has already decided that this whole business is a nui sance, that there could not be any great wrong in the United States government handing the control of this nuisance over to the states, especially after the national gov ernment has refused, or failed, to get rid of the nuisance. The truth in a nutshell is, there are only two things that would possibly cause our people to submit to this nui sance one day longer, viz: Appe tite and the greed of mammon. No matter what the people or the courts may think or do. about it, the whole thing is wrong, and as sure as there is a God in heaven, it will be righted. If heathen China can suppress the opium traffic which has had her people enslaved for ages, surely Christian United States, by the help of God, can suppress a traffic which has had her people enslaved for a little more than a century. Tour cor respondent recently heard a group of Democrats talking over the Senatorial contest. All except one were undecided as to their choice of candidates. This one was a Kitchin man straight. It seems to us that this is one time that we have a superabundance of great men. It is going to be hard for well-meaning Democrats to decide. With Chief Justice Clark, the peerless. The game cock, chip off the old block, popular Governor Kitchin, the never-to-be-forgotten ouster of fusionism in the Stater Senator Simmons, and the great apostle of white supremacy, the noblest Roman of them all, who did more to bring about a rattling among the dry bones of our educational forces than per haps any man who ever lived in the State, ex-Governor Aycock. This indeed makes a strong team and the people will be satisfied with the election of either of them. All they desire is that the cam paign shall be clean and free from all bitterness. The declaration of Mr. Aycock that he is not able, or willing, to finance a campaign if he was able, will find a happy re sponse in the hearts and minds of all right-thinking people. If this abuse of money in our elections is not checked, it will not be long until all the offices will virtually be put up to the highest bidder, and a poor man, no matter how worthy, will stand no Bhow., The best people of all parties are get ting tired of , these corrupting in fluences in our elections and it is to be hoped that all the candidates for senator will take the stand that Mr. Aycock has. This is harvest week with most of our farmers, and wheat is not as good as was expected a few weeks ago. We are still a little dry here, but corn and cotton are doing very well Rev. W. J5. McClure preached at Mountain View church last Sunday to a large congregation. The sermon, which was based on the last verse of the 14th division of the Psalms, was a ve:y instruc tive one. Alpha. Your home paper is really a tiresome letter writer, if nothing more. Week after week we pre pare this printed letter for those living here and for those who have moved to some other locality, telling of marriages, births, deaths the coming and going of people, of business efforts and progress, accidents, crops, improvements, meetings and so on. In fact every thing of importance and interest. If you should undertake to write a letter to an absent friend every week telling him all the news, you would get a faint idea of the task in preparing a newspaper. Many of our townspeople recog nize this and take pleasure in giving items ot news. It helps us and is appreciated. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE NES An Interesting Communication One of the County's oldest Citizens Sick Oth er Newt Notes.. Cherry ville, N. C, Route 3, June 12, 1011. Mr. Editor: Please allow me space for a few items from this county once again. Misses Minnie and Lola Beam. have returned to their home after having spent a few days in Cherry ville as guests of their sister Mrs. D. E. DeLane. Mr. and Mrs. Jno. Queen spent Sunday with their daughter Mrs. Dorus Craft. Mr. and Mrs. Claude Harrelson of Cherry ville were guests of Mr. C. E. Carpenter Sunday. Mr.'and Mrs. J. 3. P. Carpenter and Miss es Bryte and Blanche Beam of Cherry ville rode up in Mr. Car penters fine touring car Sunday and wete guests at Glenwood, the home of Mr. C. W. Beam. Miss Maymie Craft of Gaston coun ty is spending this week with her sister. We are very sorry to note the serious illness of Mr. N. H Mauney, one of Lincoln county's oldest citizens. Mr. A. F. Craft made a business trip to Charlotte Friday. Mrs. Nettie Connor who has been confined to her room for several weeks with a severe attack of appendicitis is now recovering under the skillfullness of Dr. L. L. Self of Cherry ville. Let us say a few words about dreams and the realization of them. Most dream ers are counted idlers and worth less by their fellow-men until they realize their dream by bringing to this world a great invention, or something similar, which gives them honor and fame for life, and stands as a monument afterwards. Then they are called the honor of their country. Their tame was won by dreaming and then doing. Sir Issac Newton was a dreamer. The great theory of gravitation was solved while day-dreaming. Col umbus was a dreamer. He pictured in his mind'seye if not a new con tinent at least a new way to get to an old one; and found America by acting out what his imagination told him must be reality. Cyrus W. Field, of .Atlantic cable fame was a dreamer; so are all inventors up to the time of re alization. ' Benjamin Franklin was one of the world's greatest thinkers and dreamers or else he would never have been led to those investiga tions which resulted in tLe iden tification of lightning and electrici ty; and the invention of the light ning conductor. Washington had a dream of free dom and by working on the im pulse of the dream he was gratified to see it realized. He was the kind of dreamer of which the scrip ture speak: '"Not alone dreamers but doers of the word." We must have strength of mind to realize our dreams. The girls of the piano contest will never win the piano by sit ting idly at home dreaming of the time the piano" will grace their parlor, and of playing soft, sweet and low, in the twilight while their lover bends overgently turn ing their music for them. What they should do is to work for the Lincoln County News. Dreaming is no good if realization comes not. No man, it is safe to assert, has ever achieved success, financially or otherwise, who was or is not a dreamer, a thinker, a planner. Nothing of real worth comes with out serious thought and planning. It is not sufficient to picture in your mind being a student with honor, but study to attain such honors, but Longfellow says: "Hights by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight Bat they while their companions slept Were tolling upward In the night." The successful farmer is one who knows his work in advance, then carries out the plan; he is a dreamer and most of his dreams are realized. Reality is what we are dreaming for. The mechanic must have an idea before he can excel; so it is with any other class of workers. To dream of greatness and then not act, to strive for it, would be the same as to die of thirst with a beautiful spring of clear water at your feet; wher by stooping upon its bank and placing the parched lips to the cooling waters you could draw in the life saving ele ment So: Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any late, Still achieving, still pursuing. Learn to labor and to wait. A Subscriber. The Coming And Going Of The Folks Of This Enterprising Little City Crops In Good Condition. Your correspondent enjoyed a pleasant visit to Mrs. Ida Heafner Saine'sthis week, in upper Lincoln We were very much impressed with the beautiful cotton crops. We didn't see a single farm on our fourteen mile drive but what was clean of grass and weeds "nd a good stand of healthy growing cottony speaking well for the thrift and industry of our farmers. Mr. Sidney Carpenter spent the week end here with his family. Mr. Karl Carpenter, who is at the Asheville Business College spent Saturday and Sunday with his parents here. Rev. Dr. Turren tine. Presiding Elder of this dis trict, held quarterly conference at Antioch Saturday and Sunday. Mrs. Jno. T. Carpenter is visiting her daughter Mrs. Lafayette Car penter this week. Mr. Bub Heaf ner is spending a few days at home this week. Mrs. Alpha Reynolds remains in a critical condition from cancer on her face. Mrs; Jennie Cornwell and daughter of Gastonia are vis iting at Dr. W. W. Nolen's this week. Misses Vena and Emma Lee Carpetiter were in town this week. Miss Marie Beam is visit ing, Miss Nanette Budisill this week. There will be an ice cream supper at the academy Saturday night B. To Run A Special to Florida. Mr. G. C. Hughes, the genial manager of the Dixie Grocery Co., and a Florida land crank, returned yesterday from a week's visit to the land of flowers and reports a delightful time. Instead of find ing it as hot as he expected it was cool and pleasant, especially at night. Crops are looking fine and everybody seemed in good spirits and pulling for Florida. Mr. Hughes expects to return to Flori da the last of the month to make arrangements to take a car or more of people down to look at the coun trya'ud have a good time like he always has when he goes. He says that Florida crops are so much better than any he has seen in the Carolinas that he is afraid to take very many people down for fear they will not come back and he has no tents and but few houses at present But Mr. Hughes assures us there is help at hand. ' He has bought a saw mill and hopes to have it run ning in time to saw some boards to cover the cow house before it snows. Watermelons and canta loupes are ripe but he does not want everybody to know it, as the patches are not very large, usually one to three acres. Mr. Hughes says if you want to have a good time go to Florida. adv. Cows Killed By Lightning. Mooresville Enterprise. During an electrical storm last Sunday afternoon, lightning struck a tree near a barbed wire fence on the Dr. Ramsey place just over the Catawba river near the new steel bridge, killing instantly two cows and injuring another one belong ing to Mr. Locke Beatty who lives on the place. The cows were in the pasture browsing in close prox imity to the fence when the lightn ing ran along the wires, charg ing the animals with sufficient cur rent to kill instantly. The third cow was badly injur ed and at last account was expect ed to die. The cow barn of Mr. Watt Sherrill, at the Joe Corne lius place, was also struck and a portion of the roof was torn away, but the cattle escaped injury. Rev. T. T. Salyer Dead. Rev. T. T. Salyer an honored superannuated minister of the Methodist " church " passed " away at his home near Norwood on June 5th. Mr. Salyer was pas tor of the Lincolnton Methodist church from 1901 to 1903 and served several other charges near here. ICE CHE AM SUPPER AT CROUSE. There will be an icecream sup per at Crouse Acadamy June 17. Everybody cordially invited. Proceeds for church purposes. O.B. Mysterious Hermit of Cherokee County, S. C. Found in the 'Woods Suffering From Pneumonia and Taken to Coun ty Home Where He Died Took to the Woods Forty Years Ago. Special to The Observer. Gaffney, S. C., June 13 -One of Cherokee county's greatest cur osities is no more. "Wild John" Starnes, otherwise and better known as the "Wild Man of Cherokee" is dead. It became known several days ago that Starnes was sick and a party went in search of him, go ing down into the most secluded portion of the county where he lived land found him. He was brought to the county home near here, suffering from pneumonia and was kept there until Saturday night when he died. "Wild John" has long been a curiosity. Many have gone into the forests in search of him, only to be disappointed, while there are some few who have seen and talked with him. He had been living the life of a hermit for something like forty years. It is stated that when a young man of some twenty years, Starnes, for some reason, became mentally un balanced and took to the woods. He constructed a hovel of goods, boxes, a very inadequate shelter, and there he has dwelt for the last forty ears. Many conjectures have been indulged in as to what caused this strange action, although it has been rumored that Starnes was the man who accidentally shot General Stonewall Jackson and that this unbalanced his mind. He was as shy as a deer; hard to get sight of and harder yet to talk to. One time, when sick, he was taken to he home of a relative, but as soon as he regained his strength he hied back to his hovel where he barricaded himself and defied those who wished to take him, even as a hunted animal brought to bay. Good homes have been offered him time and again but all to no avail ;he has utterly shunned socie ty. V When taken to the county farm it was much against his will and he caused no little trouble while there. He would not stay in bed and as soon as the attendants back was turned he would leap out of bed and huddle in a corner with his hands clasped and head bowed. He pleaded with the superinten dent' of the home with tears in his eyes to let him out on the ground to die in peace. The house and its covering seemed to have affect ed him most deeply. Saturday night the end came and "Wild John" is no more. First of Fleecv Staple Brings $2.05 Per Pound.' Houston, Texas, June 12. Es tablishing a new record by 11 days j for the first appearance of the new cotton crop a pale ot Lameron county staple was received on the Houston cotton exchange , today. It grew on the farm of Ernest Motz and will be sold to the high est bidder. -Part of the bale's journey from Cameron county to Houston was made , on a special train because it was reported oth er "first bales" were en route for the exchange. The cotton was sold at $2.05.84 per pound, the total weight being 493 pounds, and the price, $1,015. This was the highest price ever paid on the Houston exchange for a bale of cotton. It was classed as strict middling. Death of David Carpenter. Gastonia Gazette. A peculiarly sad death was that of young David Carpenter, the 15 - year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Carpenter of High Shoals. Young Carpenter was brought down on the C & N. W, Thursday after noon, suffering intense pain from an acute attack of appendicitis. He was taken to the City Hospital where an operation followed. He was not benefitted, however, and all that tender skill and loving hands could do ministered unto him in the hope of saving his life but all in vain. Sunday afternoon in the midst of a terrible wind and rainstorm he breathed his last Capt. C. E. Childs was a Char lotte visitor Wednesday. Colonel Tones Give List of Those Who .Survive. From the Augusta Chronicle.. Col. Charles Edgeworth Jones perhaps one of the best posted men in the South on Confederate his tory and whose historical works on Georgia have been widely read and quoted, contributes . to The Augusta Chronicle a list of the 474 Confederate officers and their grades. Of these but 33 are still living. Mr. Jones says that so far as his knowledge goes the lists are absolutely correct. The survivors are divided up as follows: One lieutenant-general, 5 major generals; 27 brigadier generals. Lieut. Gen. Simon B. Buckner, Rio, Hart county Ky. Maj.-Gen. Robert F. Hoke, Ral eigh, N. C. Maj.-Gen. L. L. Lomax, Gettys burg, Pa. Maj.-Gen. G. W. C. Lee, Burke Station, Va. Maj.-Gen. E. M. Law, Bartow Fla. Maj.-Gen. De Camille J. Polig nac, Orleans, France. Brig. Gen. Arthur P. Bagley, Hallettsville, Texas. Brig. -Gen. William R. Boggs, Winston -8alem, N. C. Brig.-Gen. F. M. CockrelL, Washington. Brig. -Gen. William R. Cox, Pen elo, N. C. Brig. -Gen. Basil W. Duke, Lou isville. Brig. -Gen Clement A. Evans Atlanta, Ga. Brig.-Gen. Samuel W. Furgerson Guayaquil, Ecuador. Brig.-Gen. Richard M. Gano, San Antanio, Tex. Brig.-Gen. George W. Gordon, M C, Washington. Brig.-Gen. Daniel C. Govan, Marianna, Ark. Brig.-Gen. George P. Harrison, Jr., Opelika, Ala. Brig.-Gen. Adam R. Johnson, Marble Falls, Texas. Brig.-Gen. Robert D. Johnson, Birmingham, Ala. Brig. -Gen. William R. Kirkland New York City. Brig, -Gen. Thomas M. Logan, Richmond, Va. Brig.-Gen. John McCausland, Macon Courthouse, Virginia. Brig.-Gen. William McComb, Gordonsville, Va. Brig.-Gen. Thomas H. McCrary, Arkansas. Brig.-Gen. William E. Miles, Miss. ' " ' Brig.-Gen. John C. Moore, Mexia, Texas. , Biig.-Gen. Thomas T. Mumford, Lynchburg, Va. Brig.-Gen. Francis T. Nicholls, New Orleans. Brig.-Gen. Roger A. Pryor, New York City. Brig.-Gen. Felix H. Robertson, Crawford, Texas. Brig.-Gen. Thomas B. Smith, IN ash ville, Tenn. Brig.-Gen. Henry H. Walker, New York City. Brig. -Gen. Marcus J. " Wright, Washington. " Two of the above named Gen erals are Liucoln county men, viz: Robert F. Hoke and Robert " D. Johnson. EAST LINCOLN NEWS. Triangle, June 12 The longest drought in the history of the pres ent generation was broken last week when a beautiful rain fell. The growing crops in East Lincoln are ia a remarkably fine condition, when the fact that no rain has fallen since the seed were planted is taken into consideration. Pos sibly the greatest damage was done to cotton that was planted late where there is a poor stand. The following girls and boys who have been away to college at various places have returned home for the summer vacation, Misses Bessie Dellinger, Blance Nixon and Beulah Cherrv and Mr. Havwnnrt King Two rural mail routes with Denver as central office were es tablished June 1st This is of great benefit to the people from Denver Triangle a distance of five miles where heretofore there has been no mail service at all. The ladies of Salem M. E. Church will give an ice cream supper at the home of Mr. W. E. Long Saturday night 17th for the benefit of the church. Romeo. Mr. Jesse Caldwell, of Dallas, spent Tuesday here with friends.