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LINCOLNTON. N. C. FRIDAY. APRIL 11, 1913.
Mo. 29
Vol. VII.
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UVE ITEIS OF STATE NEWS.
Accidents. Crimes and Other Incident
of
Life ia the Old North State.
Stateaville Landmark.
N Th Smithfield Herald has enter-
ed upon its 32nd year. It is a good
paper, Bound and courageous.
Long life and prosperity to it.
Rev. Dr. W. M. Vines of St.
Joseph, Mo., formerly of 'Ashe
ville, has been called to the pasto
rate of the First Baptist church of
Charlotte.
Through his father, Julius E.
' Sharp, W. K. Sharp has brought
suit against the Biltmore bon fac
tory for $10,000 damages for the
loss of three fingers.
Salisbury is progressive in some
matters. The Australian ballot
has been adopted for that town
and will be used in the municipal
election May 6.
R. N. Fleming, a well known
resident of South River, Rowan
county, died Sunday, aged 63, and
was buried Monday at Jerusalem,
Davie county. Family survives.
The' Concord Tribune says that
Dave Conner, an Iredell npgro who
is helping work the Cabarrus coun
ty roads, attempted to escape a
few days ago but was recaptured.
Haying failed to land President
Wilson for the 20th of May cele
bration, the Charlotte people are
now after Secretary of Agriculture
Houston as an attraction at the
Mecklenburg fair this fall.
Miss Mary Stikeleather, only
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. Stike
leather of Asheville, and Mr.
Nicholas N. Beadles, also of Ashe
villa, will be married soon. ' The
pneapemene was announced last
. o o
week.
Mrs. Chas. A. Webb of ' Ashe
ville, who was recently under
treatment in Baltimore, became
worse last week and was taken
back to Baltimore. After an op
eration it was decided that Mrs.
Webb cannot recover.
Dr. Walter Page, who had an
pncAPfiment to deliver a series of
lectures at Trinity College before
he was annointed ambassador to
- EDgland, will fill the engagement
Dr. Page is a. graduate of Trinity.
Judffe Clements, of the Inter.
Sf.ftt.Pi nnmmerce Commission, has
denied that he recently expressed
distrust with the North Carolina
corporation commission, as report
ed hv Secretarv Forester of the
Greensboro, chamber of commerce,
An act passed by the last Legis
lature and applying to Wilkes
pnnn tv. prohibits the selling or
shipping heifer calves for veal un
der the ae of one year, either
dead or alive. Violation of the
act is a misdemeanor, punishable
by a fine of $25 to o0.
It was reported a few days ago
by the correspondent ot the unar-
lotte Observer that Col. A. H.
Bovden has boasted in. Washing-
ton that he had the collectorship
"sewed up in a bag," or words to
- that effect, which CoLBoyden says
is not true and has no foundation.
Three townships in Stokes coun-
tv Meadows. Danbury and saur
atown have voted an aggregate
of $105,000 in bonds for road im
movement. The bonds were car
ried bv good majorities in each
case, showing a healthy prepon
derating sentiment for road im
provement.
John Baird. colored, adminis
trator of James Eric Baird, who
was drowned in the lake on the
property of the Asheville school,
has started a suit against the
school for $5,000, claiming that
the institution maintained an "at-
" tractive nuisance," as a result of
which the deceased lost his life.
Later reports of the death of the
3-year old child in the mountains
of Haywood county, ior wmcn tne
child's grandmother, JNancyii.ur
lee, is held responsible, is that the
little girl was left in the mountains
to perish from hunger ana expo
sure. Jo. and Lizzie Putman, the
stepfather and mother of the child,
were tried as accessories and aC'
quitted but were held as material
witnesses. The man gave bond
and the woman is in jail.
Mr. J. B. Abernethy has pur
chased a home in Hickory and
will move there this fall. Mr.
Abernethy is one of the good citi
.zens of Long Shoals.
STRUCK BY MOTORCYCLE
Young Gastonia Business Mas In Critical
Condition as Result of Injuries Sustained
in Motorcycle Accident Last Friday
Night Still in Unconscious Condition.
Gaitonla Gazette (Tuesday.)
Unconscious since 6:30 o'clock
last Friday evening, when he was
severely injured in a motorcycle
accident, Mr. Lee L. Brison, a
member of the firm of J. Jbiem
Johnson Co.. and one of Gastonia's
best known young business men,
lies in a critical condition at the
City Hospital. He has never re
gained consciousness, though at
long intervals he has nasnes oi
momentary . semi consciousness.
Physicians, relatives and friends
watch and wait anxiously for news
from his bedside. It was stated
at noon today by his physician,
Dr. Henry Glenn, that there had
been no appreciable change in ms
condition since Sunday. There is
considerable hope for his recov
ery though his condition is re
garded as critical. Drs. R. L.
Gibbon of Charlotte and E. W.
Pressley of Clover, have been call
ed in consultation and are in Gas
tonia this afternoon for that pur
pose.
The accident in which Mr. pri
son was injured occurred near
Albea, between Lowell and Mc
Adeaville, about 6:30 o'clock Fri
day evening. He was returning
from Charlotte to Gastonia on his
motorcycle. A short distance
ahead of him was Mr. uiimer
Winget of Gastonia, also riding a
motorcycle and returning to Gas
tonia from Mount Molly, mr.
Winget saw an automobile ap
proaching and cut down his speed
to pass it. He knew Mr. Brison
was behind him but did not Know
how close or at what speed he was
traveling. - Mr. Brison, being un-
able it is supposed, to cnecK nis
speed sufficiently, endeavored to
pass Mr. Winget's motorcycle but
ran into it He was thrown vio
lently to the ground and was pick
ed np a moment later unconscious.
Mr. Winget was also thrown vio
lently to the ground and sustained
a number of bruises but no serious
io juries. Mr. Brison sustained
very few bruises and no broiten
bones. He was brought immed
iately to the City ; Hospital here
by Mr. C'A. Dilling of Kings
Mountain, who happened xra the
scene just at that time being en
route home from Charlotte. At
Lowell Dr. J. W. Reid was taken
in the auto and the injured man
was brought with all possible
haste to Gastonia.
Everything possible is being
done for the injured man and his
hosts of friends here and else
where are hoping that he will re
cover entirely from his wounds.
NOTICE TO TEACHERS.
; The next annual conference for
Education in the South will be
held in Richmond, Va., from April
15th to the 18th, 1913.
Topics on the program for dis-
cussion at the various conferences
seem to embrace all the most vital
problems of Southern education as
related to the improvement of
Southern rural life.
It will doubtless be a long time
hefore thia conference is held so
near us aeain. State Superinten
dent Joyner is very anxious that a
large and representative delegation
of teachers from every county in
the State take advantage of this
rare opportunity to attend this
great conference.
Teachers attending this meeting
cannot fail to acquire information,
inspiration and enlargement of
vision, that will be of great help
to them in their future school
work, t Longer school ; terms and
better salaries for the teachers are
forth-coming,, andthe people ex
pect them to make preparation to
do better teaching than ever be
fore. Railway rates 'are - reduced to
three cents a mile one distance for
the round trip. This April 7,
1913. G. T. Heafner, Co. Supt
Add to Your Phone List the Following,
.
156 Leonard Bros. Store; 29 3
S. Williams, residence; 185 a Log
an Sain, residence; 185 b L. C.
Yount, residence; -185 c Walter
Yount. residence: 185-f David
Hoyle, residence; 1851 Adolphus
Yount, residence; 185-m Caleb
Hovle. residence: 185-0 Samuel
Yount, residence; 243 Rev.
Warlick, residence
O. W.
ABOUT FAKE MEDICINES.
how the Unfortunate Sick and Suffering
Are Duped So-Called Consumption
and Other Cures Mosty Frauds Ration
al Living the Best Remedy Get-Rich
Schemes on the Same Class.
Consumption is curable, but
there are no get-well-quick schemes
whereby a consumptive may take
a few doses of Dr. Fakem's or
Prof. Killem's bitters cure-all, lin
iment, etCj and come out "cured"
in a few days or weeks. Conser
vative estimates place the annual
waste of money on fake consump
tion cures at $15,000,000, The
kind of fraud and deceit, that will
prey upon the helpless consump
tive, whose earning power is al-
most gone or greatly aiminisnea,
and take from him his hard earn
ed and much needed savings, is
about the lowest thine we know of.
Thn truth fthont the maioritv ot
these so-called sure "cures" "guar
anteed cures." etc., is that they
contain a condiderable amount of
alcohol or some other stimulant
which braces up their victims for
a while, usually long enough to
give a testimonial or two, and
then lets's them drop. These
"cures" never cure they kill.
The only real cure known today
for consumption is rational living
back to tiature living. It consists
of fresh, outdoor air twenty-four
hours e.ch day, rest, and abund
ance of good, pure, easily digested
food. There probably will come
some means of increasing the phy
sical resistance to consumption or
some means of immunizing our
selves against it, and possibly some
one will find a sure enough cure
some day. Indications seem to
point that way.
The thine to be rememoerea oy
the individual stockholder in this
business of life is to beware of the
get-rich-quick scheme, or "there
shall be taken away even that
which he hath." It pays to be
conservative in this game. If you
play your last card and lose, you
are out. It is far better wiettne
scientists try out the new cures, as
they come along, on guinea pigs
and monkeys, before giving np me
well tried, conservative meinous
of treatment above cited.
MissfimeUne Yoder Fell Through Floor
Into, 30-Foot Well.
Hickory. Aoril 7. This morn
in?, at the home of her daughter
on Tenth avenue, Mrs. jsnneiine
Yoder, an aged widow, fell through
the floor into a well and sustained
a snrained ankle and was other
hadlv bruised. The floor
hart hpnnme decayed and her
weight caused it to give away
Her cries for help were heard by
her errand-daughter, who secured
the help of the street force work
in? nearbv. who rescued her from
her perilous position.
The well was about 30 ieet aeep
and the water was also well be
vond her depth. She had to brace
herself against the walls to keep
her head above the " watery - and
when the men succeeded in reach.
ing her, she was well-nigh exhaust
ed. Her escape is made more
wonderful because of the fact that
she was 72 years of age. and very
fleshv.
Mrs. Yoder had only recently
returned from Sugden, Okla.,
where shehad spent some time
with her son.' This afternoon she
was reported . as resting quietly,
and the attending physician ex
presses hope of her recovery.
Parks Williams of Iredell County Under
' $(,000 Bond,
Statesville. April 8. After hav
in forfeited a $500 bond and
eluded officers for more than two
months. Park Williams, a citizen
of the northern section of the coun
tv marched boldly into the court
house and . surrendered to Sheriff
Deaton. .He eave a new bond in
tie sum of $1,000 for his appear
ance at the next term of court and
then left for his home. Williams
was arrested some months ago and
gave (500 bond for bis appearance
at the last term of court to answer
charges of retailing. He attended
the first two days of court, but on
the third dav slipped away. In
discussine the matter with Sheriff
Deaton he said that he wanted to
get rid of his case at the last term;
but when he found that the judge
was sendine both old and young,
black and white to the eang, he
iuafc couldn't stay for his turn. He
i has been hiding in wnites uounty
ever since be neu tne courc room
MONROE MAN ATTEMPTS
TO ADDRESS U. S. SENATE
From Gallery He TrieYto Deliver Mes
sage as "Herald of The Prince of
Peace? -Says He is George B. Clemmer
From North Carolina.
(By H. . C. Bryant, in Raleigh News
A Observer.)
Washington, D. C, April 7.
"Mr. Chairman," shouted George
B. Clemmer, of Monroe, N.O.,
from the men '3 gallery in the Sen
ate today, just as the routine
opening session was taking a recess
until 2 o'clock.
AH eyes, were cast in the direc
tion whence issued the cries. They
beheld a young man of about 25,
smoothfaced, being forcibly led
out of the gallery by Doorkeeper
Dougherty.
As he was led away, Clemmer
said he was "herald of the Prince
of Peace." ; He had cards giving
Mmnolf thia Hpdiomfttinn.
ite was taken to the office of the
captain of police, where he was
interrogated.. He is looked on as
harmless crank.
Clemmer said to a' newspaper
men
"I have a message from Jesus to
deliver. I have to deliver it, if I
die."
Asked what it was, he refused
to say.
Clemmer told Capt. McGrew
that he was an evangelist of the
Methodist Church South. He
seemed inoffensive enough, but was
turned over to tne mxtn street
police station.
Clemmer -will be examined ior
sanity..
HOME HISTOBT OF THE HEBA.LD.
Monroe. April 7. Your carre-
spondent called on A. J. Clemmer,
father of George Blaine Clemmer,
at eight o'clock tonight and found
him eogaged in family prayer.
The boy was born in jut. iiouy,
Gaston county. His mother died
when the boy was 12. The boy is
21. He was licensed to preach, at
Moreantoh. at a district conference
several years ago. He joined the
Methodist church at 15.
Three years ago he claimed to
have been called to preach during
a revival at Lilesville. held by
Rev. D. G. Elhom, evangelist, then
of Raleisrh. He lived in Anson
connif three-years j moved to Mon4
roe 30 days ago. iie nas not joo
here, is depending on God to take
care of him. his father.'said.
Mv bov has views people don't
understand, the father continued,
and his message will never be
known unless he is permitted to
deliver it. It is not written. He
is deDending on divine guidance
There is nothing wrong with his
mind.
Congress better listen when God
sends a messenger. My boy will
do as the Lord directs. He will
follow the spirit. That's our
e-uide. I have been praying for
a
o .
him all dav. said the father.
This boy went -to -Rutherford
College two sessions. The report
for spring term, -1911, by . George
B. McKav. Secretarv. puts him in
class A. He attended a mereaian,
Miss., school last fall. Dr. Ben
son refused to ht'r him deliver a
similar message at-t public gather
ing. He has several class pictures.
He has cards printed with name
and address and also "Herald
Prince of Peace" on the corner
His father has no course outlined
for future. They are strangers
here. All appearances indicate
the father unbalanced.
Care of The Forests.
(North WUkesboro Hustler.)
The recent storms bring to the
minds of our people of the moun
tain section the forestry question.
Our mountains - should never be
deforested and become great barren
water- guileys, like,, those of the
East v Recently Clarence Poe has
brought this before our folks of the
South And the United States
Agricultural Department has also
been trying to prevent this by
forestry laws and other ways, and
our people should never let pre
judice to truth ruin them. No
doubt the people of the western
areas who have just met such
disaster of life and property build
ed in the low lands when the forests
protected from such awful floods.
Miss Myra Nixon left on last
Wednesday for Bahama N. C.
where she will visit her brother,
Mr. Joe Nixon for several days.
MAKES INDIAN BRIDE
A Romance of The Vilds of Canada. A
Young Hunter Bears Lost Child, They
Fall in Love Minister Now Seals
Union..
L Toronto, Ontario dispatch of
March 22nd says: Like a flight of
imagination reads the story of love
and marriage of Charles Stewart
Richmond, son of Rev. J. . R. Rich
mond of Gaspe Bay, ana Hopnia
McEenzie, a beautiful Indian girl,
who. her relatives claim, is a ds-
scendant of Sir Donald McKenzie,
discoverer of Mciienzie Ktver.
About eleven years ago young
Richmond, attracted by the call of
the wild and the lure of tne mining
life, was one of the first whites to
break a trail east of Hurncanaw,
now the scene of a rush of pios
pectors. Blazing trails through
the bush, he found on a small un
known island, a little Indian girl,
deserted by a stepmother and left
alone to face starvation and perhaps
death but for the turn of fate. The
child as she was then, could not
could not tell the tale of her suffer
ing.. ."
Taking the little child to his lit
tle camp he tenderly nursed -her
back to health, and between them
there grew a love which, without
the benefit of clergy took its natural
course. In the years that rolled
away the father and stepmotner
found out the child and claimed
her.
Well supplied with all the
necessities of life, Richmond's
generosity to the natives soon
cemented their friendship, and the
father gave nis daughter in mar
riage to him. The only ceremony
attendant on the first union was a
solemn promist exacted by the
girl's father that as soon as they
could get out of the bush to a point
of civilization where there was a
clergyman, the marriage would be
performed in the-legal way.
Arriving at Cochrane, Marca
22od. thev were legally married by
Rev. J. R. By thell of the Anglican
Church, who afterward baptized
the children.
THE PBESBYTERY WILL MEET
ON TUESDAY AT 8 P. M.
Below lis a partial program of
Presbytery's sessions: -
rues." AprlMflth Spv un-ttpw
ing sermon by Rev. J. H. Hender
lite. Election of officers.
Wed. 11 a. m. Sermon by Rev.
Thomas Bateman.
Wed. 8 p. m. Home Mission
Meeting. Annual Report and Ad
dress by Rev. Messrs. G, L. Cook,
3. Rankin, O. C. Carson, K. b.
Burwell and Ruling Elder J. H.
Kennedy.
Thursday 11 a
m. Sermon by
Rev. W. 8. Lacy.
The daily session of presbytary
will be from 9 a. m. to noon, 2:30
to 5 p. m. and 8 p. m. to about
9:30.
In these sessions reports from all
th- churches on everv place of
church work will be made and
discussed:. plans considered and
adopted for the coming year, and
such items of business as electing
commissioners to the General - As
sembly, conferance on every mem
ber canvass- and evangelism, etc.
etc. ' ':
To all of these sessions the public
is cordially invited any one may
feel free to come or to leave at any
time at his convenience. The
writer is confident that the keys
ofLincolnton will be turned over
to these our guests of next week.
W. R. Mintee.
Scientific Fruit Growing.
(Watauga Democrat.)
Mr. David Bourne, a noted
orchardist. Boomer. Wilkes Coun
ty, who has spent the best part of
three months in Watauga trying
to interest our people in scientific
fruit growing - and - farming,Uia3
just returned from a visit to his
home, where he disposed of his
laree auantitv of select and scien
tincallv raised fruit, that he has
been holding for a fancy price
Ha has on exhibition at the Cottrel
store a box of choice fruit packed
for shipping that every fruit grow
er should see and profit by.
. NOTICE.
There will be a meeting of the
Children of the Confederacy held
in the Reinhardt building on Hat
lirriav afternoon at 4 o'clock.
Mrs. R. S. Reinhardt, Leader.
WANTS TO KEEP M0YING.
Mr. I. V. Mullen Writes an Interesting
Communication to The News la
Which He Advocates More and Better
Sidewalks.
Editor News: For half a century
the good people of Lincoln county,
blinded by partisan bias and with
too little conception of the spirit
of progress of the times, have been
content to follow the trails located
bv the Indians, which for the sake
of regularity have generally been
referred to as public roads, isut
now a new area has dawned.
These same eood people have been
aroused from their Rip Van Winkle
slumbers, and now with factional
differences and partisan prejudice
laid aside, old Lincoln is preparing
to build modern roads, boon sue
will take her place with her wide
awake and progressive sister,
Mecklenburg, the mother of good
roads in the South.
While these improvements are
going on in the county, why should
our beautiful and historic old town
prolong the sleep of a century!
Shall we continue to wade through . v
mud and water to church and bus
iness and school simply because
our forefathers did so a hundred
years ago. Certain it is that if the
patriots who rest beneath the
vine covered mounds on Ramsours
Hill should awake, our sidewalks
would be the most familar sights
that would meet their heroic gazes.
Our goad women are doing a
splendid work in cleaning and
beautifying the town so far as in
their power lies. But they cannot
build side-walks and cannot even
vote for those whose duty it is to
do this work. Therefore it is up
to the men of Lincolnton to give
heed to the present imperative
need for side-walk improvements.
Next month we elect those town
officers who will be empowered to
take the proper steps to relieve the
situation. Let us make side walk
improvement an issue in the cam
paign, and have full expression of
views on the subject from tnose
who may be candidates. Let as
elect as mayor and aldermen only
those who are ready to relieve an
intolerable condition. -
As a starter, I would suggest
side walks for the two principal
streets and on one side only. The
cost would be small and the relief
remeudousrBuiId a cement want
three feet wide on one side of Main
street from the Motz place to Dan
Seagle's, and the same size walk
on Aspen street from ir. bridges'
to W. E. Grigg's. This would
Drobablv cost $2,000. Let the town
pay half and the property owners
the other half. These two wanes
would accommodate, practically
the entire population to business,
school and church. The improve
ment could be extended to less im
portant streets as rapidly as the
finances ot the town permitted,
until within a few years residents
could navigate from one point to
another in all sorts of weather in
comparative comfort and without
J. W. Mullen.
Mitchell County Apples. '
(Mitchell County Kronlcle.)
The depot agent at Toecane tells -
us that over 6,000 bushels of apples
have been shipped from that
section this year. .
Mr. Lyon, an apple buyer, says
that more were shipped from Green
Mountain than from Toecane and
a report from Johnson City last
fall stated that Mitchell County
apple wagons were arriving here
at the rate of 20 a day. At the
least calculation we have it that
20,000 bushels have gone out of
Mitchell County this year. By
those who should know we are told
that the amount sold represent
less than one-fifth of the crop.
This brings Mitchell up to if not
beyond any county in the State,
Car Rosin Shipped."
(Troy Montgomerlan.) .
Twenty years ago shipping of
turpentine and rosin was the
principal business of this section,
but not so now, but Wednesday of
last week Neal Clark shipped a
carload of rosin that had been left
near Fly for his brother, W. D.
Clark, destined to the Southern
export market. A shipment of
rosin is such an unusual occurrence
at Trop that it becomes news when
a car is shipped.
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