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fO o State Librarv Vol. V. LINCOLNTON. N. C. TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 14, 1911. No. 91 - --v DEATH IN WIND'S WAKE Cyclonic Storms Sweep Over Three States Destruction is Videspread Many Are Dead and Scores Injured While Others Are Homeless In Bitter Sleet. Chicago, Nov. 11. Reports re ceived tonight by the Associated Press indicate that cyclonic storms coming between the abnormally warm period and the cold wave, have caused death and widespread destruction in southern Wisconsin, eastern Iowa and Illinois today. Seven deaths, several dying and scores of injured are known to be lying in the wake of the storm and suffering because of the bitter cold and sleet and snow already is be ing reported. Southern Wiscon sin was hardest hit, according to early reports. .A ear Orfordville, jsock county, nve persons were killed and another is not expected to live. At Virginia, ill., several were found seriously,' perhaps fatally, and fifty others slightly injured. In Iowa, a fifty-degree drop in temperature, accompanied by a driving storm of sleet, tied up traffic for many hours. An electrical disturbance which ushered in the storm here destroy ed several feed, wires in the city's electrical system and two men were injured. Property loss mounted up rapid ly in the path of the cyclonic bliz zard. Nearly every public build ing in Virginia, 111.) was demol ished; farmers' homes were wiped out in Wisconsin and the damage was increased by the heavy down pour of rain, sleet and snow. Later reports indicated that the dead in Bock county, Wisconsin, alone would reach a dozen. Two deaths at Milwaukee, Wis., were reported to the train dispatcher's office of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul Eailroad but the wires were blown down before the re port could be verified. Severe weather conditions are reported all the way from the Bocky mountains. In Chicago the wind blew 44 miles an honr . and in Yellowstone park and at ' Helena, Mont., the thermometers registered eight degrees below zero. Rev. Mr. Minter Preaches in Charlotte ' Church. . Charlotte Observer: "Rev. W. B. Minter of Lincolnton, the tal ented young moderator of the Presbyterian Synod of North Caro lina, preached yesterday morning at the First Presbyterian church. He was heard with interest. Mr. Minter has an engaging personal ity and a simplicity and direct ness of speech which is extremely attractive. "His discourse was devoted to an interpretation of the vision of John as recorded in the first chap ter of the Book of the Bevela tion." lathe absence of Bev. Mr. Minter, Judge Alfred Nixon con ducted services in the Presbyter ian church here Sunday morning. Ed. News. . A CORRECTION. Mr. Editor: Please correct the date of the reunion of, Bev. John H. Ballard at Kidsville. It should read the 28th instead of the 18th as it appeared in the issue of the 3rd of November. Yours tr"ly, J. M. Ballard. RATHER EXPECTED IT sr. it The Doctor Tour wife has water on the brain. Colonel Soak Well, I'm not sur prised. She's been trying to get me to iwear off for the last three years. 2$ c?m LINCOLN COUNTY LAD IN UMBO. Bycycle Dcspoller From Across River Arrested Yesterday. Charlotte Observer (Saturday). the Mack Duffy, a white youth of some 17 years, was yesterday ar rested by Officer McEnight some ten miles from the city in Long Creek township. The charge which , the boy will face at this morning's session of court will be one of the larceny of three bicy cles. The home of the lad is in Lincoln county, across the Cataw ba river from the Mecklenburg line, and it is in the immediate neighborhood of his nativity that he disposed of the stolen property. Among the losers by the boy was the local ladies' furnishing firm of Purcell's which was de prived of a modern wheel by Duf fy on one of his incursions into the city. This article was subseq uently sold to Levi Huskins of Lincoln county and was recovered several months past. Until yes terday, however, the boy had managed to evade the vigilance of the law, but upon the receipt of information that he might be found at a certain house in Long Creek township he fell an easy victim to the wily McKnight. It is understood that there is also a charge now pending against the youth in his native county. This one alleges that he made away with some $6, the property of a corpulent gentleman who at the time of the theft was cooling himself in the limpid waters of the Catawba, having previously left his clothes upon a hickory limb. Democracy. By Joseph W. Folk. Democracy is a religion; the religion of brotherhood among men and equal rights for all. It is a religion that would demand more of the Golden Bule and less of the rule of gold in goverament and in our daily lives. It would have all unite in enforcing the laws'' and in counteracting any attempt to defy them. It would hot ariav class against class, but would protect the rights of all by having each respect the rights ot the other. It would not attack wealth honestlv acauired. but would wage unending war against the privileges that produce tainted riches on one side and undeserved poverty on the other side. It would Drotect property rights, but would recognize the fact that oroDertv rights are best protected by preserving inviolate the public rights. It would not combat men but the evil that men do. It would seek as a remedy for exist ing evils not less government by the people, but more government bv the people. It would place conscience above cunning and the public good above, private greea. It would not offer a man an advantage in the " shape of a subsidy, or bounty, , or protective tariff, enabling him to maice monev at the expense of his fellow men, but it would assure him that it would give no one else such a special privilege over him. It would guarantee to all an equal opportunity to live and labor and enjoy the gains of honest toil. This is Democracy as I understand it; .. Southern Power Co, 's Policy, New York World. Nearlv 810.000,000 of the profits of the American Tobacco Company, now under Federal scrutiny, have been turned into the Southern Power Company by James B. Duke and his brother, Benjamine The company now has net profits of more than $1,000,000 a year; controls the power in three fourths of the cotton mills of the South, controls the lighting and power for street railroads in 45 cit ies and towns, and owns the leading water-power sites throughout North and South Carolina. Several far-seeing representatives of cotton mills say that while the company thus far has been of great benefit to North and South Carolina, the day is not far dis tant when it will have power of life or death over all the cotton mills and other industries of the two states. " BEING TOUE TO THIS OFFICE. JOB WORK MEMORIAL TO LINCOLN His Cabin Home Enshrined, in .Granite Temple The President Takes Part The Temple is' Gift of Thousands From all Ranks in Life, Both Rich and Poor, Hodgen ville, Ky., Nov. 9. In a drizzling rain 10,000 persons, from all sections of the nation, today assembled at the Lincoln farm near here to take part in the dedication of the granite temple which enshrines the cabin in which Abraham Lincoln was born 102 years ago. The skies cleared, however, shortly before Presiden t Taft was introduced as the princi pal speaker of the day. The memorial is paid for and an endowment of $50,000 set aside for maintenance. There is little else to say it is a simple, direct tribute of a grateful people to the memory of a great American. Items Clipped From Catawba. County News. Mr, Frank E. Bost of route 3 tells us that a fine horse belonging to Mr. Kent Turbyfield died at Mr. Sid A. Turbyfields's the other day, with something like colic. It, was a No. 1 animal and was a sore loss. Mr.. Host's orother, Mr. E. 0. Bost, has succeeded finely, with his horse that was hurt last summer. Dr. Beinhardt at Lincolnton performed an un. usual operation on it, removing a I piece of its skull a couple of inches square, and . patched the wound up so that it has healed and the animal is serviceable. Ever hear of such a surgical operation on a "hosst" The Startown school will open Monday and a large attendance is expected by the faculty, especially in the high school department. Rev. H. G. Kopenhaver is princi pal and will have with hi a Miss Emma Lutz of the county and Miss Eerley of Burke county, who taught at the Eillian schoolhouse last season. Startown is one of the state high Bchools and is a splendid institution. It was the first local tax ; school in Catawba county This week some improve ments are being made on the building, a new belfrey being one of them. Dr. Fred T. Foard of. Bandy's township visited the city Tuesday and remembering' about a prom ising piece of corn he had, a News man asked him how it turned out. The doctor made 700 bushels on about 14 acres. He is putting this land in. wheat this fall. From about 5 acres he has made 7 bales of cotton the , big boll kind, many stalks having 100 bolls. He made this by broadcasting a vast amount of manure last fall, and using 400 pounds of 10-4 fer tilizer to the acre, 200 pounds be fore planting and 200 under the seed. : The rows were 5 feet apart and the stalks 12 inches apart. Dr. Foard is one of the county's crack farmers, and he makes things hump on his place. - t - - A belated clipping from a news paper at Ardmore, Okla., giving the details of the trial of the man, J. E. Sorrels, who killed Preston L. Yount of this county several months ago, which The News noted, reproduces Sorrels' confess-' ion to the court as to how he killed Yount They had words about a card game in which Yount claimed Sorrels cheated an old man he played with, and he says Yount cursed him with vigor and that he Sorrels flew into a passion, seized a double-bladed axe and proceeded to chop Yount up. The details are horrible. "He was saying something all the time," says Sorrels, "but I do not know what it was. I was so mad I do not know what the : was saying." This was after ' he had horribly chopped Yount all over the body; "I caught hirnby the hair on hia forehead with ,jfiy left hand and tried to cut his' (.3 d head off with " my knife, which I had in my fright hand." He got life imprisonment." The other man, Dennison, has never been tried. Mr. G. T. Chapman brought a peculiar looking radish to The News office Saturday. Several off shoets had sprung from the main body making in all eight almost perfectly formed radishes f rm one seed. The cu riosity grew on Mr. P. C. Chapman '8 farm i near the Lincoln Lithia Springs. .$ PARENTS AND TEACHERS. Supt. loyner Urges Co-operation Between Home and School, Parent and Teacher. The following from Hon. J. Y. Joyner, State Superintendent ot education, should be read and stud ied by every parent who has child ren in school or of school age: I wish to make an earnest plea to your readers who are patrons of the public schools for the active co-operation of the home with the school, of the parent with the teacher, in securing increased and regular attendance upon the pub lic schools and in enforcing discip line and faithful and conscientious performance by the children of assigned school duties. ! Statistics show that only 45 per cent, of the total school population between the ages of 6 and 21 is in daily attendance upon the public scnoois; ana that only b.i.t per cent, of the total number of child ren enrolled in the public schools attend daily during the sessions of the school. It. is impossible for any teacher, however interesting he may make the work of the school, aud however faithful he may be ut the performance of his duties, to secure regularity and punctuality or attendance of the faithful performance of school duties, especially of work assigned to be done out of school hours, without the hearty co operation of parents at borne. Many parents do not realize that after, a child begins to attend- school should be and is the main business in life. A childhood is the habit-forming and character fqrmiog period of life, the manner in' which he does his school work, and the business habits that he acquires in the performance of this mam business of the formative period of his life, will determine the manner in which he will per form the main work of his life in the world as a man, will fix the business habits on his life and the most potent in the shaping of his character. ' If he is allowed to be irregular in his attendance upon school, careless, slovenly and unsystem atic in the performance of his $ther school duEIeS, vliff wilt " not only be unsuccessful in his school business, but he will almost certainly form and fix business habits that will doom him to failure in manhood in an exact ing business world, where compe tition is growing sharper every day. The child that is allowed to stay away from school upon the pretext of bad feeling, bad wea ther, or the placing of a day's pleasure before a day's duty at school, will almost inevitably grow into a man or woman that will put pleasure before duty, that will be frequently found absent from his business and his post of duty up on the slightest pretext, that will lack grit and strength of character that will enable him to overcome obstacles and to perform unpleas ant duties for duty's sake. In the name of the child, " for his future welfare, therefore, I most earnestly appeal to every parent to co operate with the teacher of the child in securing regular and punctual attendance, prompt and faithful performance of every school duty, and prompt and cheefful obedience to reason able requirement of properly con stituted authority in childhood, in the formative period of life, for the formation of habits and the devel opment of that strength that alone can give any reasonable assurance for success and service in man hood. PRESENCE OF MIND ': Doctor Well, how are yon today? Patient No better, doctor. Doctor H'm, I think you would better leave off taking those pills I or dered you. Patient I haven't taken any of them yet Doctor1 For goodness sake, then. take them, & CENTRAL SALES AGENT Is Aim Ot Farmers Union in Establish ment of Local Warehouses. (Greensboro News) Prominent farmers and officials ot tne state warmers' union were here last night for au executive session of the advisory council of the union, the meeting being held in the McAdoo hotel and lasting through several hours. It was announced that the object was solely to discuss matters ot a business nature pertaining to the union and that no action sufficient to warrant public announcement was taken. The principal busi ness was to consider certain con tracts before the union and to dis! cuss the situation as regarding the local farmers' warehouse. Members of the council and here for the session last night were: H. Q. Alexander, president of the state union, of Mecklenburg; Dr. J. M. Alexander, vice presi dent, of Wake; E.C. Farriss, Cleveland; J. Z. Green, state or ganizer, Union; J. B. Eives.state business agent, Lee county, and the following members of the ad f visory committee; I. P. Coggins, Chatham; Prof. C. C. Wright, Wilkes; W. H. Moore, Pitt; T. D. Brown; Dr. J. T. Smith, Surry. Another matter of general inter est which was discussed by the council was the approaching state convention which is to be held at Wilson Dec. 13th and 14th. It was stated last night that B. N. D. Wilson, of Mississippi will be present at this meeting and that he will explain fully the far mers' consolidatedlwarehouse sys tem which has been used so suc cessfully in Mississippi. Chas. S. Barrett, national president of the Farmers' union will also be pres ent, while many other prominent workers in behalf of the farmer have been invited to make ad dresses or take part in the gen eral discussions. The union is now establishing in a number of counties local far mers warehouses, which are being used as places of distribution of farm products. The aim in the establishment of these local storage houses is to"1" work ""a general " consolidation of all the local warehouses and establishing a central selling agent, whose du ties shall be to find the best markets for the products of the farmer. The belief is strong among members of the union that such a consolidation would give the state organization a stronger commercial rating and would also greatly aid the movement to work about better cooperation through out the state. Keeping the Dollars at Home. Exchange. Ten years ago a farmer put his initials on a dollar bill. The next day he went to the nearest town and spent it with a merchant. Before the year was out he got the dollar bill back. Four times in six years the dollar came back to him for produce, and three times he heard of it in the' pockets of his neighbors. The last time he got it back was four year3 ago. He sent it to retail ' Mail Order House. He has never seen that dollar " since, nor never will. That dollar will never pay any more school or road tax for him, will not build or brighten any of the homes of the community. He sent it entirely out of the circle of usefulness to himself and his neighbors. Former Lincoln Citizen Dies In Taylors ville. Catawba County News, Mr. David W. Moose, father of Mr. T. B. Moose of Newton, died Wednesday morning at his home in Taylorsville, aged 91 years and 9 months. Last Saturday he sus tained a third stroke of paralysis, but so stout was his - constitution that he bore up under the stroke in such a way as to give ground for hope. Mr. Moose was the father of six boys and two girls, all of whom are living. He is also survived by Mrs. Moose who is over 90 years old. The couple have been remarkable for their good health throughout their long life. Mr. Moose was born in 1820 in Lincoln county before Catawba was established. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE NEWS. BALE TO THE ACRE This is What State Prison Made Thi Year on 1500 acres' Enough Cora an & torage tor Two Years A Splendid Record. (Raleigh News and Observer) The management of the State Prison since the Democrats return ed to power in 1898 is one of which the party and the State have a right to be proud. Under the Re publican administration it lost money and at one time became au object lesson of bad management, and some of its emploves were guilty of crime worse than those of which many of the con victs had been convicted. With the election of Gov. Av- cock, all that changed. The man agement was capable and it made a good recoid; the record was im proved under Gov. Glenn, and it continues to improve under Gov. Kitchin. When the Republicans ran the prison, the State had to issue bonds to pay the deficit Now the penitentiary earns more than the cost of maintaining the convicts, and in addition money is turned into the State Treasury. 1 was talking yesterday about the good management of the farms under Superintendent Laughing house shortly before meeting him on -the street. He looked like a man who had been doing a good year's work for the state. He is a far mer aud a good farmer and he knows it and has a right to be gratified at the success of the State farms uuder his practical direction." We have made the best crops on the State Prison farm3 ever made," he said in an swer to a question. "We put 1,500 acres in cotton and we will make 1,500 bales. We will gath er 5,000 bushels of corn. We have made enough long forage to sup port the State Prison for nearly two years. Besides we have built spacious barns and doubled the room for caring for stock and storing our provender. Best of" all, we are building up the dykes on Roanoke river and if there is no big freshet next spring we will so protect our lowlands on the Roanoke " that " we will- raise so much corn as to surprise the whole State. The breaking down of the dykes years ago has caused much of the State's land to srrow un in bushes. As soon as we eet the dykes finished the State can grow corn to beatJEgypt." ibat is good news and will please all North Carolina, whose people will congratulate Captain Laughinghouse and all the other officials, directors and employes who have worked together for the good results which they have brought about. Miss Sarah Loftin, an aged maiden lady who lives near Lowes ville ' was .taken to Morganton yesterday to be placed in the asylum. Seven or eight jears ago Miss Loftin contracted a severe case of typhoid fever and after her re covery it was found that her mind had become impaired. She has been living with rqlajives during these years of affliction, and she becoming aged and feeble it was thought ' best to place her in the asylum where she will receive the best - of attention, -Messrs. P. V. Cobb and John L. Abernethy escorted the old lady to Morganton. SAD EXPERIENCE There are over 24,000 newspaper and periodicals in this country." "Been looking up statistics "No, I've been trying to sell a story." SUBSCRIBE FOR THE NEWS. ill- t
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