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LINCOLNTON. N. C. IUCS'iW. JANUARY 20. 1914.
ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR
IRON STATION v
CORRESPONDENT
THE CO-OPERATIVE
CREAMERIES
THE DRAINAGE
COMMISSIONERS
For Indian Creek Drainage District Ap
pointed Latf Thursday The Matter Now
la Their (lands.
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Live News Item Fox Hunters Killed For Norfb Carolina Are Proper, Bat Bewtre
Lini:it Cnos A Lirfe Porker Two I of Tb: Operation of Promoter Who
Marriages. I Leire Trail of Misinformition.
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Iron Station N. C. Jan. 16, The creamery promoter U
1911. Oar farmers ara making again abroad in the land telling
good use of this fine weather in the wonderful benefits to be de
plowing their land preparatory rived from buying his particular
for the next crop. This we think outfit. The creamery promoter
is wise. Fall and winter has its probably has retarded the de-
drawbacks sometimes, but we velopment of. dairying more than
never saw a farmer make a any other agent because of the
failure farming who plowed his many failures and discourage
land in the fall. Our fox hunt- ments left behind him. As a rule
era came near having an other the promoter's creamery is a
chase last Monday morning. It failure for he does not put them
seems that Reynard had lifted a where needed but they go in
chicken from the premises of Mr. localities where cows are scarce
John Shelton- near Denver, Mr. or where dairy products are al
Shelton notified the hunters who ready telling for prices far above
were soon on the scene. The that which the creamery could
fox was trailed by the dogjto'pay. '
the vicinity of Elbow schoolhouse .. The promoted creamery is al-
where the dogs jumped him, but
for some unaccountable reason
the dogs refused to give chase.
The fox was seen to run across
an open field by several parties,
who say that it was a very large
red fox. Our neighbor Mr. W.
W. Moore, killed a crane one day
last week. Mr. Moore shot it on
the win at a distance of 150
yards. Here are soma of the
dimensions of his craneship.
From tip of tail to tip of bill 4 ft
8in. From tip to tip of wings, 5
ft 8 in. Neck 2 ft 4 in; legs 1
ft 8i in. The crane was a blue
one and your correspondent pro
nounces it the largest on he
ever surveyed. -Since our last to
TheNe a cupid has not been
idle. Mr. Fairley Saunders, son
of Ir.V,'Hl SauCs, and VJss
Mamie, daughter of Mr. J. P. :
Lockman, were united in matri
mony the 1st Sunday in this
month, Rev. W. W. Rimmer pei
formingthe ceremony. On last
Sunday Mr. Gus. Pool and Miss
Gordie Withers were united in
marriage but as this was a sort
of runaway affair, we are unable
to give particulars. Mr. F. E.
Lof tin killed a porker last week
that tipped the scales at 572 lbs.
Has this been beaten this year
in the county? Mr. Loftin says
even the hogs seem to be deter
mined io reduce the high cost of
living. Mr. J. B. Hoke also kill-J
ed a ho that weighed more than
800 lbs. Alpha.
Local Confederate Commander.
Mr. A. C. Hartzoge, of Cher
. ryville, Commander of the local
Camp of Confederate Veterans,
was a caller at The News office
Saturday. He was here to at
tend the Lee-Jackson entertain
ment at ; Memorial - Hall. Mr.
Hartzoge told us a few war
stories, that are ever intere ting.
One that we especially recall
was about the second battle of
Manasas in which he took part
his company being in the rail
road fill. He told of. the Yanks
starting up the hillside and be
ing compelled to flee before the
onslaught of Confederates who
used rocks and stones in addition
to guns. The Confederates, he
said, made large piles of rocks at
the top of the hill and when the
Yankees started up the rocks
were rolled and thrown against
them with such violence that
they retreated in disorder, and
many were wounded and even
""killed by rocks thrown by Con
federates who - were short on
powder and balls.
. Three Coonties May Form Poultry Association
The three counties of Lincoln,
Cleveland and Rutherford will
likely combine and form a poul
try association. Opinions favor
able to an enterprise of this kind
have been expressed by the lead
ing poultry fanciers in the three
counties above mentioned.
A meeting will be called for
the purpose of perfecting an or
ganization, according to Secreta
ry Wright of the local association,
and the time and place will be
dttiiti Koa later.
ways put in where the farmers
and business men are uninform
ed concerning dairying and where
money is easy to get
Four to five hundred cows are
required to operate successfully
and many creameries are put in
where the product of only 50 to
100 cows is obtainable. ,
Nearly 100 promoter's cream
eries were built in Kentucky five
or six years ago. Less than ten
are operating today and few of
them have had any measure of
success.
Seven creameries built in
Georgia by the Chicago Building
and Mfg. Company have failed
completely except one that was
aided by a capitalist The Wil
liams Construction Company of
Chte&gosaid to be the-auccessors
of the Chicago Building & Mfg.
Company, are operating in the
state now.
Average milk in North Caro
lina cities bring) from 18 to 30
cents wholesale, per gallon. The
average price paid by North Car
olina creameries for the butter
fat in gallon of milk is from 10
to 12 cents.
A creamery cannot compete
with the city milk prices and yet
the promoter insists on placing
creameries in towns where milk
is scarce and retails for forty or
more cents per gallon.
The creameries of North Caro
lina pay an average of not more
than 31 cents per pound butter
fat and still this past season
sweet cream was very scarce for
40 and 50 cents per pound butter
fat The promoter' creamery out
fit is generally inferior both in
building and equipment The
machinery is generally cheap,
inadequate, and out of date ;of ten
second hand, being repainted,
worked over from a previous
failure.
Several localities in North Car
olina need creameries and any
one of them could build and
equip, with up-to-date "machin
ery for $2500 to $3500 while the
promoter works his outfit off for
$5000 to 6000.
A well conducted creamery
will do an immense amount of
good in a community where local
conditions favor it and the Dairy
Division of the States Experi
ment Station will assist any such
community to organize and build
a creamery including the super
vision of building . installation of
machinery, and will assist to find
a competent buttermakers to
operate and completed plant
Any, person knowing of the
operation of a creamery promoter
will do himself and the commun
ity a lasting benefit to report the
matter to Dairy Farming Divi-ion
of the Experiment Station at
Raleigh.
Our Division believes in local
co-operative creameries for North
Carolina hut discredits the opera
tion of promoters who leave a
trail of misinformrtion, closed
creameries and disappointed
dairymen behind.
ALVIN J. KEED-
Subscrib for Xfc Newt
A good crowd of citizens own
ing land in the Indian Creek
Drainage District of Lincoln and
Gaston counties were present for
the election held in Clerk Nixon's
'office Thursday from 11 a. m. to
2 p. m. The election was held
for the purpose of ascertaining
the three best men for appoint-
mentas "Drainaare Commission-
ers" for said district
The election resulted in the
election of J. W. Hoover, M. P.
Stroup, and A. L. Sullivan. Clerk
I Nixon then appointed these gen-
tlemen as the commissioners.
The Indian Creek Drainage Dis- cers were re-elected: President
trictis now established and the D. E. Rhyner Vice-President, C.
whole matter has passed from E. Childs: Cashier, M. H. Cline.
the hands of Clerk Nixon. The Messrs. Herbert Coon and W. E.
work of putring into effect the Anderson were re-elected as as
drainage law relative to said dis-' sistants to the' cashier,
trict, supervision over work and j The directors were authorized
all preliminary matters from now to make arrangements for enter
on will be in the hands of the ing the federal reserve system
three commissioners.
After Seventeen Years.
New York WorlJ. ..t
Seventeen years
publican party won
of the Government
ago the Re
back control
on the issue
of the gold standard and on the spirit in rural Wake is running
promise of favoring "all meas- People who live around
ures designed to maintain" the school houses which are not up
same. Seventeen years rgothe to the modern mark are making
Democracy was sent back into pilgrimages , to new and up-to-the
wilderness for trying to de- date schools. andtaking back
base., the currency .lo a. silver
standard. '
Durinjr sixteen years of this
period the Republicans held the buildings, more teacners, ana
Presidency, and during fourteen more earnest work, more confi
years they were in control of dence in the schools and more
Senate and House. Bat while realization of the demand for the
they were quick to put up the be3t which is bojnd to prevail,
tariff, they never did anything I The country boy and girl are
to make the eold standard se- going t have better opportun-
cure or reform tne currency in
the security of the gold standard.
They were as voluble for gold
and against silver in 1900
1896, but provided for an
as In
enor-!
mous inflation of bank note circu
lation based on Government
bonds or promises to pay, while
merely enacting a declaration
that the gold standard was the
policy of the country.
They were still talking of gold
and against silver in 1904 with
out doing anything to . put the
gold standard above the whims
of a Secretary of the Treasury
for its enforcement
They were jarred by their
panic of 1907 to enact an emer
gency currency law in 1908 which
has never been used, and into
promises of currency reform
which stopped with the creation
of the National Monetary Com
mission. That commission reported in
January, 1911, but, with the
party still in control of the Pres
idency and Senate, nothing was
done with it in the long Congress
session following, and in the
platform, of that year itwas ig
nored, while the country was
once more reminded that the
party "has always stood for a
sound currency and safe bank
ing methods."
What that party so long prom
ised to do and - never did it has
remained for the political out
cast of. seventeen years ago to
return and do to put the gold
standard into the warp and woof
of the country's monetary fab
ric, to provide an elastic curren-
ry, to substitute a real system of
credit for one without system,
to do away in time with the one
fiat element now existing, the
bond-secured bank-note, and to
make such panics as that of 1907
again impossible. .
American politics has never
before seen so remarkable a turn-
about in parties as this.
Mr. R. L Sigmon was a Char
lotU Tieiter last Friday.
ANNUAL MEETING
Of First Nalioail Bank-Officers Reports
Directors Elected Other Business Of
Interest Transacted.
The annual meeting of the
stockholders of the First Nation-
al Bank was held last Thursday
and much satisfaction was ex-
pressed with tke showing made
by the institution during the
past year. The bank is in
healthy and vigorous condition
and the past year was one of
i rosperity andsuccess. Theen-
tire board of ' directors was re-
elected as follows: D. E.Rhyne,
John K. Cline;' C. E. Childs, J.
H. Ramsaur, E. 0. Anderson.
At a subsequent meeting of
the directors the following offi-
created by the Glass-Owen bill,
and Cashier Cline says he has
made application.
Our Country Schools.
Raleigh Time. ;
It is evident that public school
home pews boitthera. -,Thi9 is
going to mean more consouua-
tions, more local taxes, better
ities this year than ever before.
The compulsory law goes ,into
full force and it has the most
r -i e n t i u:
poweriui ui an uiUMiijji m una
world, public sentiment infinite
ly more powerful than bayonets
or imperial commands, because
it comes from the hearts and
minds of the people themselves.
What has been done in the way
to better schools and compulsory
education and longer terms has
been brought about not by the
governor's order, but by the
resolute determination of "the
people themselves, and out of
this come also the high schools
in the country, which have al
ready brought half a dozen fine
results, not the least being the
far better preparation of young
men and young woman for the
college and for higher education
generally.
Ask President Hill at the A. &
M. College or the Heads of the
University of North Carolina. the
Normal and Industrial College at
Greensboro and the East Caro
lina Training School for Women at
Greenville and they will answer
in a moment that they see what
J has already been brougntaoouc
i and yet know it is onlyabegin-
ning. uo to an up-to-aate coun
try school today and look at the
teachers and the pupils and there
is a revelation for you. They
are the very essence of the ne v
life of North Carolina; getting to
be more and more a splendid
life: bionder, fuller of opportun
ity, more joyous because of the
knowledge which is power. The
modern country school is stamp
ing itself upon the Btate at this
good hour.
The Charlotte News says Mr.
G. Morgan Rainwater of Char-
lo"e, a traveling salesman for a
(Charlotte wholesale house, was
found dead under his automobile,
on tne Mint r0 aoout ten
miles from Charlotte, Thursday
I morning. The road was torn up
and the indications were that he
Lad loet control i tha Burhiae,
Orfanuatien Perfected Friday Niht-
Scout Master Elected, Also Trailer i
Master. I
Wilt we see the boys marching?
The Boy Scouts.
The kind of Boy Scout organi
zation Lincolnton will have now
depends on the interest the boys
take in the ortranization.
The Local Council for the Lin-
colnton Boy Scouts met last Fri -
day night and perfected a per-
manent organization. The mem
bers of the Council present were:
Rev. T. J. Rogers, J. W. Mullen,
A. Nixon, J. A. Shuford, J. B.
Johnston, A. M. Hoke, D. A.
Yoder, W. H. Sigmon, J. T.
Perkins.
umcers or tne uouncn were
elected as follows: President J.
W. Mullen; Treasurer, D. A. Yo
der; Secretary, J. T. Perkins;
Executive Committee, R, L. Sig
mon, J. W. Mullen, T. J. Rogers.
A committee to secure a place
for meetings of the Boy Scouts
was appointed as follows: J. B.
Johnston, A. Nixon, J. W. Mullen.
Scout Master J. B. Johnston
was elected to this important po
sition, and the boys will see him
and get such information as they
desire in regards to joining.
Trailer Master-W. C. Warlick
was elected to this position. The
Trailers are the little fellows
who are not large enough to join
the Scouts, but they will be
trained along the same line as
the Scouts and when they are
old enough they may join the
Scouts.
Alt tooys over 12 years or age
interested in the movement and
wishing to join are requested to
see Scout Master Johnston this
week.
REEPi GR3VE HEMS.
Mr. F. E. Willis is very sick.
He has teen confine J to his room
for several days Mrs. J. C.
Hull has been bick for several
days. Their family physician,
Dr. W. C. Kiser, says she will be
out in a few days Building and
repairing phone lines seems to be
the order of the day at present
Messrs. W. T. Bracket and S. E.
Peeler and Burt Pendleton have
put up new posts and cross arms
from the central at Toluca as
far as C. L Heavner's store
Reeps Grove section has a pro
fessional thief; he is trying to
head off the high cost of living.
A shoulder of meat is missing
from J. C. Willis, two shirts and
five pairs of socks from J. C.
Hull's and some shucks from Mr.
Joe Canipe and chickens from
Clarence Mode's Mrr Adolphus .
Boyles of the Morganton section!
visicea Air. aamuei iount mis
week The school at Boyles
schoolhouse is progressing nicely
with Professor Lester Boyle as
principal and Ellis Hoyle as as
sistant teacher. X.
Reepsville, Jan. 16, 1914.
The Foot-Path to Peace in 1914.
To be glad of life, because it
gives you the chance to love and
to work and to play and to look
up at the stars; to be satisfied
with your possessions, but notl
contented with yourself until you
have made the best of them; to
faespise nothing in the world ex-
cept falsehood and meanness,and
to fear nothing except cowardice;
to be governed by your admira
tions rather than by your dis
gusts; to covet nothing that is
your neighbor's except his kind
ness of heart and gentleness of
manners; to think seldom of your
enemies, often of your friends,
and every day of Christ; and to
spend as much time as you can,
with body and with spirit, in
God's out-of-doors-these are
little guide posts on the foot-path
of peace. Henry Van Dyke.
-
Mr. K. B. Nixon was a Char-
kttt visitor last Friday.
reetinj Ul friendly Conciliation Rather
Than Hostile Antagonism
The President's Plan.
Features Of,
I
Peace and not war, a feeling
of friendly conciliation rather
than of hostile antagonism and
yet a constructive programme
tht will eliminate uncertainty
I about the law and stimulate the
growth of legitimate business-
! these are the fundamentals of
tne President's plan of action, to
be embodied in the message he
will read at a joint session of
Congress this week. He pre
sented the document to the cabi
net Tuesday. So far as known
the cardinal features of the
President's plan are:
1. Supplementing the Sherman
anti-trust law to reduce the de
batable area around it t
2. The prohibition of inter
locking directorates.
3. Location of individual re
sponsibility and the fixing of per
sonal guilt for all violations.
4. The creation of an in-ter
State trade commission to per
form the functions of a bureau
of information, and to determine
by its investigations whether de
crees of dissolution or mandates
of the court are carried out
The President is proceeding on
the theory that legislation is nec
essary at this time, and that
there should be no delay in ac
complishing these reforms. The
recent action of J. P. Morgan
and company in voluntarily with
drawing from numerous directo
rates on account of "a change in
puMic BCiiUment" - ia ct d by
administration supporters as
evidence that the business world
expects interlocking directorates
to be dissolved.
In this connection President
Wilson believes the whole course
of public opinion has undergone
a remarkable change in the last
few years. He believes there
has developed now an acceptance
of the principle that private
monopolies are indefensible and
that trusts practice certain
things which ought to be pro
hibited. The President also is
reiterating to those with whom
he is discussing the subject a
view expressed in his pre-con-vention
speeches two years ago
-that to stop "joy riding," it is
necessary "to arrest the chauf
feur and not the automobile."
He is expected to recommend in
h s message that the law with
respect to personal guilt should
be vigorously enforced and pro
vision made in all legislation for
individual offenses.
Two Land Deals.
Two farms were sold in Lin
coln county last Thursday that
brought good prices.
Mr. D. B. Thompson and wife
sold a tract of 211 acres on the
sand clay road adjoining the
farms of A. P. Setzer and W. W.
W. Hines and others. The price
was $1,200.
Mr. E. M. Asbury and wife
sold to Mr. D. B. Thompson a
farm known as the John Asbury
home place in Catawba Springs
township, 14 miles east of Lin
colnton, the consideration being
500 Tne farm consisted of
i og acre-
This is a fair price for farm
land and good roads, -no doubts
nad 8omething to do with the sat
isfae'tory
brought
price the property
Out of Sympathy, They Should Also
Be Out of Doors.
Washington, Jan. 15. Sena
tor Overman today asked Presi
dent Wilson to remove the Re-
1 publicans from office as fast as
possible and give the positions of
responsibility to Democrats. He
explained that the Republicans
jare not in sympathy with the
I Administration and should bs re-
placed with Daiiirat3.-H. E.
I C Hryaat ia CJuurkUe Ofiaarvcr.
I
If President Gives Eadorsemmt Bill Will Go
Before Congresses an Administration
Measure.
The local Cavalry Troop will be
interested in a proposed bill be
fore Congress for pay for State
Militiamen.
Secretary. Garrison and adju
tant generals representing Na
tional Guard organizations of
more than 30 States have agreed
on terms of the nrorjosed militia
pay bill, under which the Feder
al government would provide pay
for militiamen, who in turn would
enlist as "Federal reservists"
subject to the call of the Presi
dent to dujfy either within the
United States or abroad.
It is proposed that the militia
bill shall prov de an annual ap
propriation of $14,500,000. Of
this $4,000,000 would be for en
campment and maneuver pur
poses, $8,000,000 for home ser
vice pay and equipment.
Secretary Garrison will lay a
draft of the measure before Pres
ident Wilson, with an explana
tion of just what the Federal
government may expect in re
turn for the money appropriated.
If the President gives his en
dorsement the bill will go before
Congress as an administration
measure.
From Cherryville Eijle 15th.
Miss Lula Beam of North
Brook a student in Kings Big
ness College, Charlotte, returned
last Saturday to resume her
studies, after upending the holi
days with homefolks.
Mr. R. J. Dillinger of this
place has been honored by re
ceiving the appointment of cap
itol policemen at Washington.
Mr. Jacob Baxter one of North
Brook's prosperous farmers was
a business visitor in town Fri
day. Mr. R. A. Hartzoge, of Lin
colnton. was a Cherryville visi
tor Sunday, the guest of his
father, Mr. A. C. Hartzoge.
Mr. John F. Black, of North
Brook was in town this week.
Mr. J. C. Beam, North Brook's
Cou ty Commissioner, was a bus
iness visitor in town Monday. '
BONOS BOLL. .
Following is the Honor Roll
for Haynes School from Decem-
Kaii 1 fVi 1019 T..,... 1C.U
1914:
First grade. Leonard Wright,
T Al j-tii;w.
uawi euce Aiejiauuer, in ewe rac
Gee, Clara May Williams, Robert
Scronce, Zora Biggerstaff.
Second grade. Austin Weaver,
Bert Mace.
Third grade. Alda Ramsey,
Essie Scronce.
Fourth grade. Ula Beal, Ma
zella Cornwell.
Fifth grade. Maude Ross,
Prue Ramsey Ira Cornwell, Claude
Weaver, Crowell Ross, Paul
Cornwell, Marie Cornwell.
Sixth grade Marshall Ramsey.
A. E. RAM3EY, Teacher.
Violated School Law.
In Cleveland county since De
cember 15 there have been 15
arrests and convictions for viola
tions of the compulsory Bchool
law as a result, Bays the Shelby
Star.- so far as the attendance
officers can discover, there i3 not
a child in the county between the
ages of 8 and 12 out of school.
We advisa ' everybody to read
closely all the avdertisements in
it a. i it . .
mis paper mis ween ana me suc
ceeding weeks. This is the sea
son when merchants make big
reductions on all kinds of dry
goods and clothing to make space
for the approaching new season.
The weather people say we .are
just beginning to have real win
ter weather and the bargains in
winter goods will coma in m ighty
fcaadj.