North Carolina Newspapers

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 ANNOUNCEMENT. t-The label on the paper gives the date to which subscription is paid. When change of address is desired give both the old and the new address. In accordance with the wishes of our patrons the paper is discontinued upon the written request of the subscriber. Arrearages must be settled in ful at the same time, at the rate of one dollar per year and ten cents a month for a part of a year. , , . . , , '. , When the date of the label is behind the date of this issue of the paper the label is a reminder that the subscription price is past due and is a polite request for the subscriber to call and settle. 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 114E 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.