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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.
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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.