The Lincoln County News.
JOHN T. PERKINS. Editor and Proprietor.
Eaterecl as Becond class matter December SI
1901, at the Post office at Lli a co "to u , K C,
under act of Conuress of Marcn 8. lbin.
ISSUED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, .1913
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The News makes a charge for all
cards of thanks at the rate of one cent
per word for each insertion. Cash
must accompany copy or no insertions
will be given;
One Southern State rents its
convicts to contractors for a lit
tle mere than $400 a year and
pays its teachers slightly more
than $300.
One firm in the British Isles
pays about $730,000 a year
for advertising and another
$486,000. A third issues a trade
catalogue at the cost of $246,000
every year.
. The next large crowd in Lin
colnton is expected next Satur
day, Oct. 18, to attend the mass
meeting of citizens of Lincoln
county at the court house to plan
for the Good Roads Days cele
bration. A GENT, who claims to know,
comes forward with the startling
information that mosquitoes can
be killed by electricity. Why
mention the mosquito? We be
lieve that enough electricity
would even jar an elephant.
Representative Dellinger
introduced a bill in ihe legislature
last Friday to move the capital
to Gastonia and appropriate
$1,000,000 to erect a state build
ing. Rep. Gould offered an
amendment that the citizens of
Gastonia should pay one half the
amount. This amendment of
course put the bill to death. One
half million dollars! Gastonia
would have found it necessary to
pass the hat in Lincolnton.
The circus crowd on Friday
was immense, which goes to
prove that when Lincoln County
people, get interested they will
turn out in large numbers. On
Saturday, October 18th, at 10:30
o'clock, there will be a mass
meeting of the citizens of this
county in the court house to dis
cuss and devise plans for work
ing all the roads in Lincoln Coun
ty on Good Roads Days. Let's
have a circus crowd at the Good
Roads mass meeting, Saturday,
October 18th. 7"'-", .
The Winston-Salem county fair
is not in for money alone. Let
others follow their wise course.
The Journal says:
"'"The Journal as a touch of
great respect lifts its hat to the
officials of the Winston-Salem
fair. They took a noble stand
for morality in the community
and for law and order generally
yesterday. The usual midway
at the fair grounds was ready to
start the week's round of festiv
ities. The usual gang of fakirs
had made their appearance and
were ready to pay a large price
for the privilege of operating, for
the privilege of robbing the gul
lible, the "green" and the reck
less.. "But early yesterday morning
the fair officials invited the sher
iff of Forsyth county, chief of
police of Winston -Salem and the
city solicitor to take a look over
e- w v-jyvi v lining-
diately every attraction on the
midway that even smacked of
gambling. The officers went on
a tour of inspection and reported
that they had found fifteen gam
bling places. Many of these, of
course, are not usually considered
as gambling joints, and people
always have gone to the fair ex
pecting to find them, but they
are open invitations to the spec
tators to gamble nevertheless.
"No sooner had the report of
the officers been received than
the fair officials ordered all such
places closed and their owners to
move out of the grounds. This
meant a sacrifice of several hun
dred dollars for the fair mnnno-p-
ment, but at the Bame time it
meant putting the Wmston-Sa-lfm
fair on a hiVVipr nlono
Between these alternatives there
was but one choice for the splen
did lot of Christian gentlemen
who have the Winoton-Salem fair
la cLsrge
An exchange tells us that it is
particularly important that peo
ple should not be misled into be
lieving that the label, ' 'guaran
teed under the food and drug
act" on cans and packages means
that the government has tested
these foods ajiiprorwunced them
pure and desirable. The govern
ment does not make the guaran
tee. The guarantee is made
wholly by the manufacturer and
means no more than when your
own corner grocer guarantees
that the sugar he weighs out to
you is all right. Examine goods
labeled "guaranteed" just as
carefully as you would any other
kind.
If You Have Tears.
A dyed in the wool Republicnn
farmer living near Dunn was so
sure of disaster when Wilson
was elected president that he
contracted to sell this years' crop
of cotton at 10 cents and thought
he was making a good deal.
Now that cotton is bringing
around 14 cents, he is a very sick
man, but has to come across.
It is said that some farmers in
Anson who agreed to sell their
cotton at a lower price than it is
now bringing are trying to craw
fish. Gambling on what the fu
ture has in store is a risky busi
ness, and those who do not thus
indulge are usually the success
ful ones. Wadesboro Messenger
and Intelligencer.
Keeping Sweet Potatoes.
By Mrs. J. A. Thompson.
I will give the best method of
keeping sweet potatoes I have
ever seen tried.
First drag off the vines, then
run a furrow on each side of the
row, running the far side next
to the potatoes, throwing all the
dirt to the middle you possibly
can. Run about three furrows
to each row, having the potatoes
gathered as you make each fur
row and place in boxes or baskets.
They should be handled very
carefully. If there are any cut
or bruised they should be left
out. : '
- The heaps should be made in
this way: Cover the ground well
with pine straw, placing boards
or corn stalks around the heaps
to hold up the dirt. Then wrap
them up head and ears with dirt
from four to six inches, owing to
the climate. Put a cover that
will not leak over them. You
can keep potatoes this way till
potatoes come by taking them up
as you need them, and when all
danger of cold is over fill up
barrells and cover with dry sand.
They are just fine like they
are in winter not sappy at all.
This method never, fails when all
others that I have seen have fail
ed. T '
She Got The Money.
The young wife of a Detroit
man,' who is not especially sweet
tempered, one day approached
her lord concerning the matter of
$100 or so, says The Chicago
Record-Herald.
"I'd like to let you have it, my
dear,"- began the-husband, 'but
the fact is, I haven't the amount
in the bank this morninjr that
is to say, I haven't that amount
to spare, inasmuch as I must take
up a note for $200 this afternoon. "
"Oh, very well, James," said
the wife, with an ominous calm
ness. "If you think the man
who holds the note can make
things hotter for you than I can
why, do as you say, James."
Marrv Young, Says Marshall.
Vice President Marshall cele
brated his eighteenth wedding
anniversary by boasting that he
did not have-to bereminded of
the event by Mrs. Marshall.
"When couples have no chil
dren, like us, it's easy to remem
ber anniversaries because they
have only themselves to remem
ber," said, the Vice President.
"I'm ending eighteen years of
very happy" married life today,
T 11. -
i wouia advise others to get
married younger and have chil
dren. I was 41 when I was mar
ried.
"I think men should be mar
ried before 30 and women around
25." , . .
The store of the only Jewish
merchant of Lincolnton, Mr. Sil
verstein, was closed from Friday
at 6:30 until 6:30 Saturday even
ing in observance of Yom Kippur
or the Day of Atonement, which
is the holiest day of the Jewish
calendar.
ABANDONED WIFE
SHOOTS HERSELF
Lenoir Woman in Precarious Condition
From M-Inflicted Wound.
Lenoir, ' Oct.: 9.'; Mrs, sChloe
Crump, who b'ves -in -the Western:
part of town, attempted to take
her own life Tuesday afternoon
about two o'clock, when she
placed a 38-calibre Harrington &
Richardson pistol against . her
temple and pulled the trigger.
The bullet entered the right
temple and came out near the
eye, inflicting a most dangerous
wound, and one that will likely
prove fatal. A physician was
immediately called and. is doing
everything possible to save the
life of the unfortunate woman,
but he states that she is in a most
precarious condition.
The attempted suicide was
without warning to members of
the family and several causes
have been assigned for her des
perate act at self-destruction.
She has been married twice, and
besides the elopement of her first
husband, who is now living in
the West somewhere, she has
been having trouble lately with
her second husband. Some time
ago, he left her, ostensibly to
find work and with the promise
that he would send for her, but
he so far has failed to send for
her, and he also carried their
only child along with him.
All these things are said to
have preyed on her mind and are,
assigned as theause for attempt
ed self-destruction. At times
she is rational, and she expresses
a desire to die because of her
troubles.
Mrs. Crump has for sometime
been living with her son, Hay
wood Jenkins, and she has al
ways borne a splendid reputation
but has been unfortunate in her
marriages.
What The Spider Told.
"I was spinning a web on a
rose vine," said the spider, "and
the little girl was sewing patch
work on the doorstep. Her
thread knotted and her needle
broke and her eyes were full of
tears. 'I can't do it!' she cried;
'I can't, I can't!' Then the
mother came and told her to
look at me. Every time I spun
a nice thread and tried to fasten
it to a branch, the wind blew
and tore it away. This happen
ed several times, but at last I
made one that did not break, and
fastened it and spun other
threads to join it. Then the
mother smiled.
" 'What a patient spider!' she
said.
"The little girl smiled, too,
and, took up her work. And
when the sun went down there
was a beautiful web in the rose
vine and a square of beautiful
patchwork on the doorstep."-
The Young1 Evangelist. -
Deep Plowing Now Will Help Next Summer.
I am glad that I plowed deep
last fall, not only with the turn
ingplow but "with the sub-soiler.
I plowed my corn land last win
ter and fall. -1 turned part of it
first, then subsoiled it deep, and
part of it I followed right after
the turning plow.
My corn is not burning up like
many other crops are next to me.
My land caught all of the water
that fell last fall and winter, and
now it is doing my crops good.
My land had a right smart of hu
mus on it and that helped to hold
the water it catches if it is rot
ten. Now is the time to turn
under the weeds on the wheat
or oat grounds. I hope every
farmer this year will plow deep
errand plow in the falFand wirir
ter, not wait till spring.-1-P. A.
Bryant in Progressive Farmer,
Tyner, Tenn.
Frank Stumps, postmaster at
Stillwater, Saratoga county N.
Y., aroused at 3 o'clock in' the
morning by the sound of an ex
plosion in the postoffice, about
100 feet east of his residence,
took his rifle and fired at random
through a window by the side of
the safe, instantly killing an un
known man who was attempting
to rob the safe. Two robbers
stationed on the outside ran away
after firing on the postmaster.
Mr. Frank Love, a student at
the University of North Carolina,
( is here on a visit to his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Love. '
STEAMER BURNS
IN MID-OCEAN
The Wireless Call for Help Was Answered
by Other Liners, Bat They Were Unable
'. To Aiist on Atwooat'.pf Raihi Stofrtt. '
v. London, Oct. 11. Not since
:the Titanic sank has Europe been
so thrilled as by" a wireless "mes
sage today telling of the burning
of the steamship Volturno in mid
Atlantic with a loss so far as is
at present known 'of 135 lives
and the rescue of 521. The sur
vivors are' now aboard a fleet of
steamers ; summoned by the
Yolturno's call for" help, some of
which are bound eastward and
others westward.
' The Volturno sailed from Rot
terdam on October 3 for New
York. According' io ?he official
statement, she carried 22 first
cabin passengers, 538 steerage
and a crew numbering 96.
unable to save.
The rescue ships; reached the
scene of the disaster in plenty of
time to save all, .but.for hours
stood by the blazing . vessel, im
potent because of the, storm, to
reach the agonized "men, women
and children crowding the after
part of the ship, a stone's throw
away. ' '
All night Thursday the life
boats made a desperate effort to
get alongside the Volturno but
the waves beat them back again
and again and not until the storm
abated at daylight Friday did the
rescuers succeed In removing the
survivors from- the doomed ship.
Even now only the fringe of one
of the most thrilling tales Of the
seas is available. Exactly how
the rescue was . effected is not
known. '. -,.
CARMANIA FIRST ANSWERS.
The steamer Carmania, bound
from New York for Liverpool,
was 78 miles away when the call
for help was sounded. : Captain
Barr ordered full steam, and
drove through the seas at 20
knots an hour. The' Carmania
was first of the fleet to reach the
burning vessel. '
Indications are that there were
no native born Americans on the
steamship Volturno. A nearly
complete passenger list received
here from- Rotterdam , .showed
that practically all on board were
immigrants, mostly bound for
Canada. -.
October And November Farmers'
, Union Topics.
The Program Committee of the
National Farmers' , Union has se
lected the following topics for
discussion at the local Unions in
October and November; '
For October:
Our Declaration of Purposes.
"What is Our Local !' Doing to
Carry Out its Principles?"
1. In encouraging scientific
farming. rx:r
2. In encouraging business co
operation and better marketing.
3. In promoting brotherly love
among our members.
For November:
"Discouraging the'Credit and
Mortgage Business." "
" "What Can-We Do-In Our
Community to Carry Out Thi4
Second Great Principle of Our
Union?" "
For the October meeting it
will only be necessary to have
the members study,, the Declara
tion of Purposes and hare suita
ble speakers prepared to discuss
the various phases suggested.
For the November! meeting an
investigation should be made as
to the extent to which tW credit
and mortgage business ' prevails
in the neighborhood and the var
ious plans for a better system of
CHARLOTTE FAIR
October 28, 29, 30 31, Ml
Bigger and Better Than Ever.
Horse Races Daily.
- Wright's .Flying
Machine
Will Fly Twice Each' Pay,
Carrying Passengers, Weather
Permitting. , '
The Best Exhibit 'of Live Stock and
Farm Products Ever Shown In
Mecklenburg County.
rural credit should be discussed.
In this connection we think it
well to reprint herewith the
"Declaration of Purposes" of
the National Farmers' Union and
we would suggest that it be read
aloud, at. th next : meeting of
each" local, and speakers : then
designated for the October and
November programs herewith
presented.
DECLARATION OP PURPOSES.
To secure equity, establish jus
tice and apply the Golden Rule.
To discourage the credit and
mortgage system.
To assist our members in buy
ing and selling.
To educate the farming classes
in scientific farming.
To teach farmers the classifi
cation of crops, domestic econo
my and the process of market
ing.
To systematize methods of pro
duction and distribution.
To eliminate gambling in farm
products by boards of trade, cot
ton exchanges and other- specu
lation. To bring farming up to the
standard of other industries and
business enterprises.
To secure and maintain profit
able and uniform prices for cot
ton, live stock and other products
of the farm.
To strive for harmony and
good will among all mankind and
brotherly love among ourselves.
To garner the tears of the dis
tressed, the blood of the martyrs
the laugh of innocent children,
the sweat of honest labor and the
virtue of a happy home as the
brightest jewels known. Pro
gressive Farmer.
A Knowing Parrot.
"What a fine parrott you
have!" said Harold to the young
woman on whom he was calling,
relates The Baltimore Sun,' How
is he on imitating?" ;
"Great," ' said the hostess.
He can imitate almost any
thing." ; ; :
"Over at Smith's," continued
Harold, "they have a bird that
can imitate a kiss to perfection.
Can your bird do that?"
"No indeed," answered Mabel
indignantly. "Parrots can only
imitate, and it is not likely that
our bird would repeat a sound it
is not accustomed to hear."
Then Polly spoke.
"Don't, Will! don't, dear," it
said. ; "Wait until I take this
wretched bird out of the room."
Hickory Bonds Sold.
Newton, Oct 9. The second
half of the Hickory Township
road bonds were sold at the com
missioners meeting Monday to a
firm in Toledo. No bids were
received for the Newton bonds.
The Hickory bonds bear six per
cent interest and runs for 20
years, while the Newton bonds
bear five per cent interest and
run for 30 years. "
The Treasury Department has
deposited in national banks $30,
408,000 of the proposed $50,000,
000 of government crop moving
funds About $19,500,000 more
will be put out during the next
few weeks. Of this amount
North Carolina has received
$1,250,000.
- Several from Lincolnton at
tended services at the Presby
terian church at Iron Station
Sunday.
Miss Annie Lonz of Matthews
spent the week-end here, the
guest of the Misses Harrelson,
teachers in the graded school at
this place.
Fire Works Each
Night. .
Attractive
Midway
Takes t Hike.
Agents of the Southern Power
Company are now busy in Ca
tawba and Alexander counties
paying over the money-; and tak
ing deeds or laiyJs. -a.lpng.the
river on which, the Company has
options; One' man ,jwho had
given an option ori his land for
$1,200 took to the woods when
M j
You can have a warm dining room cer
tainly you can.
Your fire never goes out in
H. E. RAMSAUR
& SONS
Sea th nam "CoU'i" on the
of ach itov. Nona genuine
No End of
NLESS you
(Hi Duy a nay
i Drovided
nating dangerous foot-feeding and increasing
capacity by even operation; the bale chamber .
is of just the right height to permit convenient
tying of the bales; the bale tension and- roller
tucker make for uniform, compact and attrac-
tive bales; the toggle joint plunger is the most
powerful and simple compressing device ever
used on a hay press though producing great
. est pressure, it requires least power to operate.
I H C Hay Presses
cannot be surpassed in convenience, durability,
simplicity, and economy of operation. They
will put your loose hay into neat, compact -bundles,
occupying but one-fifth the former
- space, increasing your available barn room,
and making it possible to sell your hay in dis
tant localities at the highest market prices.
You will find three sizes, i4 x 18, 16 z 18,
and 17 x 22-inch bale chamber, in the IHC
hay press line, baling, at a most conservative
estimate, from six to sixteen tons per day. If ,
your choice is a horse power press, you will be
interested by its special features, the pull
power principle, compound leverage, and the
low step-over. If you desire a motor press,
study the durable power jack. Remember,
too, that this is, an all year round machine, for
the engine may.be detached and used as a
regular portable power plant to run saw, pump,
cream separator, churn, feed grinder, electric
light plant, repair shop, etc, :
Study IHC hay presses at the local dealer's.
Get catalogues from him, or, write the
International Harvester Company of America
uacorooraieiv
Charlotte
R. M. ROSEMAN, Local Agent.
Several Champion
Hoe and Disc
Drills
. At a Price, That You
Can't Help But Buy.
R. M. R OS EM AM.
he saw the agent coming. He
thinks he has agreed to sell at
too low a price. No information
has yet been given out as to
when work will begin. Newton
Enterprise.
Mr,- J. P. Wise, who lives 2J
miles from Iron Station, is mak
ing preparations to sell out and
move to Lenoir.
"Why- let chilled fingers and a
blue nose spoil the buckwheats and
a cup of good coffee?
Cole's Original
Hot Blast Heater
Even thecheapest grade of coal put
in the night before will be a mass of
glowing coke in. the morning, and will
heat your rooms perfectly for two or
three hours without a fresh supply.
Burns anything soft coal hard coal
lignite or wood.
It is guaranteed.
Come in and See It. ' "
3
fted door
without it
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Good Reasons
buy carelessly, these
are a few of the features that will
lead vou to the I II C line when vou
press. I H C presses are
with self-feeders, elimi
N.C.