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4i ,4 VOL. IX.- NO E6 UNCOLNTON. N. C. THURSDAY AFTE8N00N, JULY 15 1915. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR F-i v. r- i a v x ti ii i v it k i i i 1 ii 11 t i 11 11 m t i n SCHOOL OPENS SEPTEMBER 6TH Complete Lint of Teacher For Lin- eolnton Graded School! For The Next Term The Eleventh Grade 1 Will Be Added Will Be Several New Faces in the Teaching Force. The line-up of teachers for the Lin colnton Graded Schools for the schol astic year 1915-16 is as follows: High School W. H. Ward of Tigersville. S. C., mathematics in the high school and history in the eleventh grade. ' Mr. Ward holds an A. B. degree from Furman University of Greenville, S. C, and has had eight years of ex perience in elementary and high school work. Miss Louise McCrtw of Anderson Ville, Va., History and English. Miss McCraw holds a Ph. B. de gree from Elon College and has had one year of experience in the Elizabeth City Graded Schools and one year in Lincolnton High Schools. Miss Mabel Farmer of Virginia., Latin in the high school and French in the eleventh grade. Miss Farmer holds a Ph. B. degree from Elon College and has had two yesrs of experience in Ramaeur Grad ed Schools and one year' in Lincolnton Graded Schools. Grammer School. Miss Bettie Coon of Lincoln county seventh grade. Miss Coon received her training at Concordia College, Greensboro, and has had a number of years of exper ience in elementary and high school work, having been principal of the Daniels School for a number of years. Miss Kate Lowry of Clifton Forge, Va., sjxth grade. Miss Lowry holds an English certi ficate from Clifton Forge Seminary, attended Mary Baldwin Seminary and graduated at Virginia Christian Col lege with Ph. B. degt-03 and nlso holds a professional certificate in Grammar Grade work from Richmond City Nor mal. Also she has had two years of ex'eiience. Miss Laura Cornwell of Shelby, N. C., fifth grade. Miss Cornwell has completed a pro fessional course of two years in Ped agogy at the State Normal Collage, and has had several years of exper ience in teaching. Miss Cora J. Roberts of Marlon, S. C, fourth grade. Miss Roberts is a graduate of the Asheville Normal, having received special instruction in the Normal De partment Primary Department. Miss Irene Nixon of Top Soil, N. C, high third grade. ( Miss Nixon attended Southern Pres byterian College, having completed nn elective course. She has had several years of successful experience. Miss Lidie Pierce Horton of Greens boro, N. C, low third. Mrs. Horton has had three years of training at Greensboro College for Wo men and hri completed a special scien tific course at the State Normal. She has had several years of experience in teaching. Miss Eva Dellinger of Stanley, N. C, high second. Miss Dellinger has had two years : of training at Rutherford College, one year at State Normal with twelve years of experience in ebmcntary, graded and nigh school work. Miss Dellinger is now employed as a teach er of elementary work at Rutherford College Summer School. Miss Nettie McWhite of El'zabeth City, N. C, low second. Miss White has completed a course in special pedagogy at the State Nor mal College at Graensboro, N. C. Miss Daisy Flake of Wadesboro, N. C, first grade. Miss Flake has two years training at Asheville, Normal ana has had Nor mal training at State Normr.1, Univer sity and Harrishurg, Va. She has had ten years of experience hi elementary and graded school work. Miss Kate Shellem of Middlesex, N. C.. first grade. , Miss Shellem u a graduate of Peace Institute with special training at Southern Presbyterian College and has had number of years of experience in elementary and grammar grade work. Music. Mrs. Carolyne Coylc of Thomasville, Ga., Piano, Voice and Expression. Mrs. Coyle comes to us most highly recommended. . She is a graduate from the Conservatory of Music of New York City and has done post graduate work under some of the most noted European instructors, including the famous Heintz. She is now in New York City pursuing her studies. Lincolnton is. to be congratulated in securing the services of a teacher of such thorough preparation and wide experience. The following is a clipping taken from a newspaper pub lished in Tavares, Fla., where . she taught last year; "The Lake Region has heretofore commented upon the good fortune of our sister city of Tavares in secur ing the services of so noted a teacher of music and expression as Mrs. John Coyle, of Thomasville, Ga. In several exhibitions her pupils have shown the most rapid progress under Mrs. Coyles skillful training. At a recent State wide contest at Leesburg, a pupil of Mrs. .Coyle, Downing Ethridge, won first prize in declamation am! brought the medal back to Tavares. "We had the pleasure of witnessing a lengthy program of Mrs. Coyle's preparation at Tavares in January and thete obtained the idea that all was just. and worthily bestowed which had been said of her by the Atlanta Jour nal and New York Herald of last May. Beneath her double column picture the Journal said: "Mrs. Coyle is one of the most gifted musicians and ex pressionists in the South and is be ing urged by her host of admirers to go into concert work, making a tour of the South." "The New York Herald also reques ted a photograph of Mrs. Coyle, be ing desirous of printing her picture in a special "Dixie 'edition. Such re quests, the Lake Region thinks, are evidence of Mrs. Coyle's merit and wide-spread reputation as an artist in her sphere. On Friday, April 30, Mrs.' Cork's WILSON LISTENS TO THE COUNTRY President Regarded as Sure to Stand Firm by Principles of Law and Hu manity. Agree, As Before First Note, That There Are Worse Things Than War. Washington, D. C, July 12. Presi dent Wilson has been in constant com munication with the White House and State Department since the German note arrived, but he has discussed the situation with no one. Persons who are familiar with his mental processes agreed today that he, in the seclusion of the Summer White House, has his mind focused upon public opinion and that within the next few days he will conclude upon the course which he will follow in dealing with the Kaiser here after. Concerning the President's determi nation as far as principles are concern ed there is an unanimity of opinion in Washington official circles. The precise method to be pursued is being discuss ed. It is upon this point thut opinions vary. Cabinet officers and officials of the State Department, who have had a hand in the corespondence with Ger many, have no doubt whatever con cerning his position. They are satis fied that he will stand pat upon the principles of law and humanity which he has enumerated repeatedly to the Kaiser. Concerning the methods to be em ployed in impressing the American po sition upon the German Foreign Office there are two opinions. One of these is that the President will dispatch to Ber lin a short, firm, friendly note, advis ing the Kaiser that the position taken by Germany is repugnant to the Unit ed States and that he will omit no act hereafter to protect the lives of Ameri can citizens. The other view is that the President will advise the Kaiser that, as long as nis Amoassaaor remains in me united States, this Government will expect American citizens to be safe upon the high seas, and, if this assumption is not true, the United States is prepared to sever diplomatic relations without delay. At the Cabinet meeting immediately Ereceeding the dispatch of the first usitania note members called atten tion to the fact that the note would compel this country to enter the war if Germany persisted in killing Ameri cans after having been warned of the Administration's attitude. The sugges tion resulted in a short discussion. Sec retary Bryan and Postmaster General Burleson faltered momentarily. Final ly the Cabinet solemnly agreed that there are worse things than war. The note was accepted by every member of the Cabinet with the feel ing that America might be plunged in to the conflict. As far as it has been possible to ascertain there has been no change of sentiment in the Cabinet ex cept that shown by the resignation of Secretary Bryan. The President and his present Cabinet are determined to maintain the position of the United States at any cost, according to the most reliable information that can be gathered here. But there is a strong feeling among Cabinet members that every possible avenue should be left open to Ger many to alter her position before tak ing the final step that might mean war. There arn members of the Cabi net who have expressed themselves as horrified at the suggestion of lining up the United States in an alliance whose ratifications would completely change the -osition of thw country jn relation to world's affairs. On the other hand, there are mem bers of the Cabinet who appear to have taken tne position that it might bo bet ter for the United States to enter a war, even with such allies as Russia and Servia, than to allow Germany to continue to break down the fabric of civilation as reflected in international law. Privatelv, they have argued that, if Germany is likely to win the war, while setting civilization back 2000 years it would be better for the United States to throw its weight with the group which shows some respect for law, as a mere matter of self -preservation. talented pupils will put on the play "Miller's Daughter." "Again we congratulate Tavores up on having such a talented member of the public school faculty and we trust she will return next year without fail. Our interest in this is to see that every Lake County school shall have the best that's to be had in this world." School officials are expecting larger classes and greater results in the de partments of Voice, Piano and Ex pression than ever before. Provision will be made for every student who applies for instruction in either of the above departments. Send in your ap plication early. Eleventh Grade. Of the newly added eleventh grade, Sunt Beam says: We trust that all the students who are eligible will avail themselves of the excellent course of study offered in the eleventh grade this year. We consider the course of study submit ted equal if not superior to freshman work offered in most of the colleges. Considering the fact that tenth grade students are not well prepared to en ter our best colleges, and also the fact that the ago of the average tenth grade student does not Justify the ab sence of home Influence and is not mature enough to safely undergo the many vices which are so often preval ent in our colleges and enticing to the oung man or young woman, we trust that the parents of our community will consider well the advantages off ered in the following course before ar riving at a conclusion to send their boys and girls away to college. The following course is respectfully submitted to the general criticism of the community: Domestic Science, including cooking and home decoration, taught by Miss Horton. Manual Training, including the use of tools and simple constructions sup plemented by general science, taught by Mr. Beam. English taught by Miss McCraw. Latin and French by Miss Farmer. Mathematics and History by Mr. Want MORE THREATS OF BOMBS ON SHIPS ECHO OF THE HOLT AFFAIR, A writton threat to assassinate J. Pierpont Morgan, Sir Cecil Springs Rice, Britiuh ambassador to the Unit ed States and to destroy by bombs British vessels clearing from Ameri can ports was received Sunday by a New Orleans newspaper from a person who signed himself as fi Pearce." Pearce declared that he had come to New Orleans to complete plans for the destruction of British mule trans ports sailing from that port and said the steamers Howth Head and Baron Napier, which cleared from New Or leans on the 8th for Dublin and Bel fast, probably would not be heard from again. Warning to look out for bombs concealed aboard was flashed these vessels Sunday night from the wire less naval station at Aryington. Pearce, the letter writer, profess ed to be an associate of Holt and said he would complete the work Holt started out to do, BURY FRANK HOLT IN HASTE. Dallas, Tex., July 11. Dashing out of th ! city at the rate of 20 miles an hour, the family of Frank Holt, bomb planter and would-be assassin of J. P. Morgan, eluded a crowd of curious when they buried the suicide's body in a country cemetery five miles from the city. Tho automobilo funeral was followed by five motor cars filled with policemen, who had nothing to do but watch a little group of dry-eyed mourners. Mrs. Holt was unmoved by the ser vices conducted by three Methodist ministers and she did not shod a tear. URGE THAT NATIONAL PROHI BITION BE SUBMITTED TO PEOPLE. , The National convention of the Anti Saloon League of America, in session at Atlantic City unanimously adopted resolutions urging Congress to sub mit the question of national prohibi ' tion to the people in the form of a constitutional amendment. I Congress also is urged to bar in ! toxicants from inter-State commerce and to nrohibit use of the mails from transporting liquors and carrying liquor advertisements into dry terri tory. P. A. Baker, general superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League, issued an appeal to "the people of the country in which he urges every effort to de feat candidates for Congress and the United States Senate who do not fa vor submitting national prohibition to the people. STANLEY ITEMS. Stanley, N. C, July 12. The convict camp No. 2 has completed the graded road! from here to Mt Holly and mov ed the camp to Cherryville township where they will build a sand clny road. Rev. N. C. Williams and Rev. Moore is holding a meeting at the Methodist church. Mr. Robert Peterson is visiting rela tives here. Mr. Poley Jenkins of Greensboro is here visiting his parents. Mrs. Mary Cross of Dallas is here visiting her sister, Mrs, Surah and Huldia Cloninger. The Stanley Mfg., has closed down for a few days for repairs. The hardest rain for some time fell here today about four-thirty; also a little hail fell. Thomas and Miles, sons of M. A. Carpenter of Gastonia is here visiting grand parents. Mrs. S. M. Stillwell of Mt. Holly has been here visiting her sisters, Mrs. Sarah and Huldia Cloninger. Mr. and Mrs. Leon Smith of Gasto nia were here Sunday visiting their parents. Mrs. Ethel McGinnia of Putney was here Sunday visiting home folks and attending the meeting. Messrs. John and Carl Carpenter of Gastonia were here visiting their parents Sunday.- STANLEY 20, PUTNEY 19. CLOSE GAME.' - Stanley, July 10. The Stanley sec ond nine Juniors went over to Putney and defeated the Putney Juniors by the score 20 to It). The hitting by Mc ginnis, Cloninger, Clemmer and Car penter were the features of the game. - Batteries McGinnis and Rhyne for Putney. Clemmer and Cloninger for Stanley. Umpire, Tom Carpenter. MT. HOLLY ITEMS Mt. Holly July 12. Misses Willie and Annie Dellinger of Ivanhoe is on an extended visit to their grandmother Mrs. D. G. Thompson on Route-1. Mrs. J. W. Patterson Vas called to Davidson last week to the bed Bide of her brother Mr. A. S. Cathcart who is critically ill. Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Kale of Lincolnton motored down Sunday to see their grandfather, Mr. S. A. Cannon. Mr. Earl Thompson has bought an interest in the Mt. Holly Drug Store and has already taken up work. Miss Ruby Kale of High Shoals is visiting Miss Ivey Abernethy. Mr. I. B. Covington has resigned as superintendent of the cotton mills here and at Stanley and with his family has moved to Forest City where he has ac cepted a similar position. We regret very much to lose these good friends. Mrs. Kendrick Webb of Charlotte spent the week-end here with her pa rents."'""; 1 " Miss Pearl Finger of Maiden arrived Saturday and will be the charming guest of her brother, Mr. J. L. Finger for the next week or ten days. Mr. R. G. Parker of Charlotte has moved here from Charlotte and will be superintendent of the mills of which Mr. Covington resigned. CATAWBA MAN SAID TO HAVE PERISHED IN CINCINNATI STORM Thirty -two lives were lost In a storm that visited Cincinnati on the 7th. In addition a hundred or more houses were demolished and other buildings damaged, while telephone, light and trolley wires wera put out of business. A telegram received at Newton tnys that A. E. Cline, son of J. J. Cline of Catawba county, was one of the vic tims of the storm. Young Cline had left Catriwba rome li.ie ago aider charge of retailing. ARTILLERY ACTION CONTINUES IN WEST Serious Fighting South of Lublin In Which Russians Claim Success On Italian Front. The Argonne forest in France, the region directly to the west of that wood and the section to the north of Arras are the scenes of the most vio lent infantry fighting now in progress on any of tne numerous battlo fronts, although a belated Constantinople re port says that on Monday the Allied forces made determined land and sea attacks against Turkish positions on the Gallipoli Peninsular, which were repulsed with heavy losses. At other points in the West there is a continuance of the artillery action ! and an Allied air raid on Lihercourt I between Douai and Lille, was carried out successfully by a squadron of ; heavy aeroplanes which threw down mnny bombs. South of Lublin there has been serious fighting in which the Rusiuns claim to .lavs captured during the week ending July 11, officers and men to the number of 22,761. The Rus-1 sian War Office also reports that . trenches extending over a territory of about one and a third miles on the right bank of the Pissa River in Po land, which were captured by the Germans on July 13 were retaken by ' the Russians by a strong counterat-1 tack. Incidentally, Paris decl.res that the ' LfCinian gam in the Argonne Tuesday did not exceed at any point a depth of over a quarter of a mile. The Germans asserted that in this region they had taken by storm Franch posi tions over a width of a , mile and four fifths and a depth of three-fifths of a mile. Although many thousands of coal miners in South Wales have declined to continue work many more thous ands have determined to stoD work despite the Government's application oi ilia munitions oi war act to tne coal mining industry, making the miners liable to heavy fines when they quit the diggings. The president of the British Bor.rd of Trade, however, is to resume nego tiations with the miners at the Doint at which they were recently broken off, and this .according to London dispatches, seams to offer a way out of the difficulty. the Italian comander-in- chief. General Cadorna in his latest official report, soys merely that the situation in tho Italo-Autsrian camDaicn is un changed. CHERRYVILLE SCHOOL ROW IN COURT. Judge Webb Issues Restraining Or der and Stopped Work on the New School House. Will be Heard Be fore Judge Harding on July 22nd. The Cherryville school house has now gotten into court and seems to be further from settlement than ever before. The new site crowd had al ready gotten to work and were going right ahead with the new building The old site people got busy and went before Judge Webb and secured a re straining order to atop the building. The papers were turned over to Sher iff Davis on last Friday afternoon and he had Deputy Sheriff W. A. Dameron to serve the papers and Btop the work. The new site crowd was in town Saturday and preparing to meet the opposition. The order was made to be heard before Judce Hardin?, on July 22nd, either at Charlotte, or Biacic Mountain, tms will be decided by the Judge himself. Messrs. Ryburn & Hoey represent the old crowd and Mangum & Woltz, of this city and Tillett & Guthrie, of Charlotte, rep resent the new crowd. There seems to be a hard fight ahead, and it is likely that this question will split the citizenship of the town of Cherryville into two factions and cause much bit ter feeling. The Gastonian. ROUTE FOUR NEWS. Dear Editor: As I have seen no news from Route-four in quite a while will send in a few lines. The farmers are about done laying-by in this part of the county. Miss Bessie Keever spent Sunday with Miss Tena Finger. Misses Ocie Keever and Wil lie fiumgarner spent Sunday with Misses Lillie and Martha Bumgarner. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Philips and chil dren spent Saturday night and Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Philip Campbell. Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Hurbinson nnd chil dren spent Sunday night with Mr. ana rars, ineo. ZJumgarner. There will be preaching at St. Matthews the third Sunday at three o'clock, Miss Alda Ledford spent Sunday with friends in Maiden. Mrs. Frank Boyd and children have gone to Hickory to spend a few days with her daughter Miss Lora Boyd. Mr. John Boyd 'is at home now from Belton, S. C, where he has been at work with the Southern Power Co. Mr. Houston Auton has purchased a new automobile. The girls say they alt like his boys now. Mr, F. L. Keever and mother spent Sun day night with Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Withers. There will be a ball game at Maiden Saturday July the 24 Lh., Buf falo will play Bost ball team. Mr. Avery Keever was in Maiden shopping Tuesday. Mrs. D. F. Finger spent Sunday evening with Mrs. Theo. Bum garner. The big meeting at Ivory Memorial will be given on Wednesday night before the fourth - Sunday. Wishing the News much success. Gold Dust Twins. A CHURCH IN A DAY. About 100 men gathered at Oak Forest church near Morganton Satur day and in a single day erected a church building ready for occupancy. Sounds like a fish yarn but it's so. Brick pillars had previously been built and the lumber received. By ten o'clock the framing was up, and weather boarding well under way. By 4 o'clock in the afternoon the building was prac tically ready for holding service, and it is a creditable one, built by the best workmen in Burke county. Each man contributed day's labor. 100 day's work was done Saturday. The scheme was one of Rev. A. C. Swafford, pas tor, and Rev. Kelly Houck, and servic es were held for the first time Sunday night. Co-operation will do anything under the sun but hurt co-operators. Newtaa Enterprise. SUBMARINE USED SHIP AS SHIELD. Captain of American Ship Makes This Report at London. . Liverpool, July 13. How an Ameri can ship is alleged to have been used as n shield .y a German submarine for sinking another vessel is the story of the crew of the American bark Normandy, here from Gulfport, Miss. Their story is that the Normandy was stopped by the German off the Irish Coast Friday night. Tho captain was called aboard the submarine, where his pnpers were found to show that the ship was chartered by an Ameri can firm. The captain, it was asserted, was allowed to return to the Normandy, but under the threat that his ship would be destroyed unless he stood by nnd obeyed orders. These orders, it was slated, were that he was to act as a shield for the submarine, which lay around the side of the bark hiding itself from an approaching vessel. This Vessel was the Russian steamer Leo. Presently the submarine sub merged and proceeded around the bow of the Normandy, so the story went and 10 minutes later the crew of the Normandy saw the Leo blown up. Twenty-five persons were on board the Russian of whom 11 were drowned including thrae stewardesses. Those saved included throe Ameri cans, Walter Emery of North Caro lina. Harry Clark or Sierra, and Har ry Whitney of Camden, N. J. All these three men .corroborated the story. They declared no oppor tunity was given"those on board the Leo for saving life. The Normandy's captain told the survivors he would have liked to'. . , , . . , 1 nave signaiea tneir danger to them, out tnat ne uared not to do so be cause his uninsured ship would then invitr.tion from Secretary Daniels to claimed for it that it Was "the infal have been sunk. i head an advisory board of civilian lihle mniKi nf owni-incr at nn bw SINKING OF SHIPS GOES ON. The Italian navy has suffered its first serious loss, an Austrian subma- rine having tornedoed the cruiser Ainalfi in the Adriatic. Most of the crew were saved. This is the second allied warshin to fall victim to an Austrian under- wuter erait. 1 he rrench cruiser Leon Gambetta, earlier in the war, was caught in the Ionian Sea. As an offset, it is claimed that a French warshin has sunk n German submarine in the channel, while the' British admiralty announced that it i WIlllu tne ' was a British submarine which tor - 1 iti" 9?? T.f Bal: "V. I " "-"" Buueu id me nriei statement. SOBERS TO FIND HIMSELF IN BRITISH ARMY, Wasliington Special to Raleigh News Ami Ubserver. spirncv to violate tho neutrality law Stevo D. Teffier, a Louisiana youth of the United States, waived exnmi less than 19 years old, arrived in nation at El Paso, Texas .and was England some time ago on a cattle held in a bond of $15,000 for the Fed boat and proceeded to celebrate. He eral prand jury nt San Antonio, Tex- WaS arested bV the British Dolico On'na IWomher M H.iortn rpfnauul tn a chnrgo of drunkenness and sobered , up as a recruit in the British armv Now he is a member of the awkward squad and is being drilled prepara tory to service at the front, in spite of the fact that he is nn unwiliW .member of the army. ' mis is the statement on which F. M. Teffier, of Franklin, an older ! brother of Steve, has appealed to Sam L. Rodgers, Director of the Census, to intercede for the youth at the State Department. The case will be taken un with the British government in an effort to have the youth released. Ac cording to his representation he was conscripted. SWAP DISABLED SOLDIERS. Berne, July 1 1. The exchange of soldiers wounded and incapacitated for further service has been resumed between France and Germany. Two Swiss hospital trains, each carrying about 300 men, atarted in the evening one from Constance.'Germany and the other fiom Lyons, France, and passed through Switzerland during the night. Altogether net ween 400U and 6000 awaiting transportation home. WARNS ENGLAND SHE STILL FACES DEFEAT London, July 10. Sir John Simon, the Home Secretary, speaking at an open nir meeting at Iyton today, de- clared emphatically that if Eng'land uuea hul uo mure in tne iuture llian she has done in the past she is going to be defeated by Germany. The assertion came after the Ionie Secretary had expressed the greatest confidence ii. the future, saying that victory now appears an absolute cer tainty because the nation has awaken ed. He added that this awakening was absolutely necessary, finishing with ine aseriion: ir we ao not do more in the future than we have done in the past we are going to be beaten." He told his audience that ho knew there was great concern in Germany over the consumption of ammunition. A Russian general told him that in four hours the Germans had fired as many large calibre, high explosive shells at Przemysl as Russian experts imu inuugiit Bui iicient ior a six-month siege,. FATE OF VICIOUS BULL. Mr.. Henry Seegersf Jefferson. S. C., had a battle with a vicious bull a few davs airo in which It ... "nin an tuck" for b mBru M,' c ' an tuck" for the mastery. Mr. See :. . . i . . . , , -"nor mansiaugnter. At a cnicxen ngnt invalids are at Constance and Lyons in Alexander county John Hafer, son gers went to his pasture and a bull ?9mPlnK counties oi l,incoln, which before that time had been Cleveland and Gaston Of course alum docile became enraged and made for "nd forTr Btuden,t of other coun Mr. Seegers. knocking him down and U?hn weleome nd invited t0 meet trampling him. Mr. Seegers caught us. til v th? a"'mal .and manaKed to; S. S. Webb, brother of Congressman Jni-llwmi,'??ffihlm '"J Z?1 Yate" Webb. has the family talent out his pocket knife and succeeded in for getting elected. He beat J. F. Hunt tttfl'totiny' blindinr himye The fr mayr f G Thur8d wounds the bull received enraged him ' The Clark's week drainage folks all the more and his eforts to fight met vesterdav and had rather a warm were frantic. Before the f iirht waa over Mr. Seegers succeeded in climb- posed new territory and postponed ac-' the screw propeller, which he patent ing on the bull's back. The bull was tion on redredging the creek until ed in 1843. killed to get him out of his misery. . September, Newton Enterprise, 13th. It will be seen from this that Dun- A fellow with an engagement ring.' is pretty sure to get tne gtaoT band people are on the defensive and eth from some girL era are en the fence. SHORT NEWS ITEMS According to the estimates of the wheat crop in the State this year 10,900,000 bushels tho State has for the first time since 1900 produced enough again to feed the population. Thurslay night for the sixtieth time Richard J. Jones of Wilmington was installed grand treasurer of Odd Fellows of North Carolna. An ordinance is being passed in Asheville to eliminate the megaphone from the advertising field in Asheville. Spielers have been announcing through megaphones the advent of bar gains, entertainments, etc. At Rich Fork church, Davidson county, between Lexington and Thomasville, on the 9th, Masons un veiled a tablet to John H. Mills, foun der of the Oxford Orphanage and the Baptist Orphanage at Thomas ville. The Wilmington chamber of com merce has adopted resolutions urging President Wilson so far as consistent with the rights of this country, to bring about a speedy conclusion of terms whereby the exporting of cot ton to neutral countries may contin ue unimpeded. . The Salisbury Watchman says that refused to "shock humanity." But, if two weeks ago a cow belonging to the worst should come to the worst-, John Louis Holthouser .who lives she may draw it from ite century-o'd near Rockwell, swallowed an umbrel- hldin8 Pla,e- and the mos ghastly la rib. Two weeks later the cow horrors yet known in warfare will died and the umbrella rib was found scem humane in comparison with the with one end in the stomach and the effects of .thlB engine of destruction, other had cut through the liver. I was mvented by Thomas Coch rane, tenth Earl of Dundonald, an ex Roy Plymouth, aged 22, was killed traordinary man who hr.d an extraor at London, Ohio, Sunday when a bat- dinary career. He offered it to the Kn l k; l,v,;l IVU Ob Un. Illfll WVIMIIU , . Thomas A. Edison has accepted an inventors for a bureau of invention our' maritime superiority and of here and development to be created in the after maintaining it in perpetuity of Navy Department. ; at once commencing and terminating Geo- M. Rav, editor and publisher f Democratic weekly paper at In- .dianapolis, Ind., is umfer sentence to P". n. 1ne 01 ia and ?Pcna Lays 3"" for contempt of court. Kay commented on the activities of the KZtS "'"i "f'i3" nnanlari ppeaiea, In the belligerent countries of Eu- l a. i i Spewo.m JT"? .pui".R ,J80rL" - " - b etsablished to toto n clerks. Women, savs a disD?.tch from nii !,.. jn ,ij .. on the German railroads ci ticket choppers at the stations, as guards etc., and are now being installed by the management of the Bromberg railroad as section hands. Gen. Victoriano Huerta, the Mex- lean ex-president, charged with con furnish bond and was sent to Fort Bliss, where he will be guarded. Five associates of Huerta, arrested on sim ilar charges, also waived examina tion, but all save one gave bond. The last hope for Chas. Becker for mer New York police officed under sentence to die on the 26th, appears to be gone. Justice Charles E. Hughes has refused the application for a writ of error to the United States Supreme Court made in behalf of Becker, and Gov. Whitman has refused commuta tion. . Following a heavy rainstorm which turned a big ditch in Goldsboro into a raging torrent the 2-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. John Edwards fell into the ditch. The child's mother saw his danger but he fell in before she could reach him. She plunged in after him and brought him safely out, without damage of consequence to either. Gov. Craig has pardoned Junius Bowman of Catawba county, who had served five years of a 7-year sentence for manslaughter. At a chicken fight of Poly Hafer, was killed. Bowman and Frank Propst were both sent up for the trouble, but Propst was par doned about a year ago. - Gov, Craig had twice refused to pardon Bowman. Will Bell, the negro electrocuted in the State prison at Raleigh last week for the murder of a Durham citizen, had requested that his funeral be held in the court house at Dur ham, as an object lesson and a warn ing to others. Permission was given to hold the funeral in the court house yard but this was subsequent ly withdrawn on account of protests and the funeral was helotat a nekgro church. 1 Deputy Collector Bob Rhyne of I Rutherfordton has a dull time. There are no tobacco factories for him to Be" "tamps to and his chief occupation ' ' catching moonshiners, and these hav almost disappeared. He raided 'ive st'"' May and nine in June DUt none J'y 80 ar- Says he can't fm 'm Bny more, as the boys hide i w" The July Gaston Lutheran, just out says: There will be held on the grounds of the Lutheran Chapel church, near $?. the .l, tha' !hu.rch "f' V"'"'. ,Ve,TTn u Ji' f "7 aaX August 16, 1916. pi all alumni Hnd former students of Lenoir Coll ege session, at which thev voted out nro- Neutrality demonstrate that some ENGLAND POSSESSES MOST TERRIBLE SECRET WEAPON Great Britain has in reserve a weap on of war she has not yet dared to use. In military circles it is spoken of in a whisper as "Dundonald's De stroyer," says the New York World. A recent articlo has revived interest in this almost forgotten terror, al though it is mentioned in the ency clopaedias, which however, give no hint as to its nature. They could not for the secret has been guarded as no such secret has ever before them kept. The fact that England has the weap on in reserve is no dream, no buga boo; it is attested by official docu ments and the official reports of com mittes of experts. What is this extraordinary weapon ? Only a few highly placed persons know. They do not tell; they have not told; tho reason for their silence being the horror of it. Great Britain was on the point of using it against Napoleon and again in the Crimean war, but in each case her rulers drew back shuddering and British government, which twice ap- pointed a committee to pass upon it. He ,Wl,ipH kin unnt tn th.n t1t ... m s5,nd' afrainst it attacks." The committees rennrtH thnt hi. cli wr nt v,rt,t tw Mo d irresistible and 'infallible ; . 1 I .. .1 rr-l . u indubitable and absolutely certain. But thev ur8ed that it be not adopted jt waa efficent destructive: its devastations would be too inhuman. inn Tirar nt thaaa rtmri' oaii Sh 1 11 , 3", IE. of VoA, Second Ion of George . ? the ay. cnairman, Admiral lxira Keitn. Ad- miral Lord Exmouth, two of the most experienced men in tho navy, and the two Congreve brothers, of tl.e ordi nance department, one of whom, Sir William, was the inventor of many valuable military and industrial ap pliances. A more competent and au thorative committee could not have been found. In spite of their recommendation that Dundonald's invention be kept a secret the British government wanted to use a part of it against the French at Toulon. Dundonald refused to con sent to this and the committee back ed up in his refusal, on the ground that such partial use would reveal the secret to the enemy and to the world, and enable other countries to make use of it against England. In order to demonstrate its power, however. Dundonald ordered to use it ae-ainst the French fleet at Flushing wnence iapoieon was planning an in vasion of England; but this only on conditii l that he use it in nil its ted rible fullness. This the government re fused on the ground that it would not be war; it would be annihilation. The second committee was appoint ed in 1846. It waa as authoritative in its make-up as the first had been. It was directed to ascertain if the de vice was as efficient and as dreadful in the then relatively advanced state of military science as it had seemed it years previously, l.ie committee reported in January, 1847, that Dundonald's device would not merely defeat, but actually destroy, annihilate sweep out of existence ,any hostile force against which it might be direct ed. But it was too awful to contem plate, and its first apnlication would reveal the simple sacret to the world. During the Crimean war, when Se bastopol and Cronstadt seemed im pregnable, Dundonald offered to re duce them in one hourt The British fovernment hesitated, and was still iscussing the matter with the inven tor when the war ended. Dundonald died in 1860. His plans are still in the nrchivos of tl.o British war office at least there is no rea son to supose they had been destroy ed and it is possible that, should the war take a turn disastrous to Great Britain, they may be brought out and made the final weapon in an Armageddon. This would end the war, and it would end not merely the war but all war for all time; as, with all the world in possession of a device with which armies and fleets and fortresses could be annihilated in an hour, a device so simple that anyone seeing it once could put it into prac tice, no nation would ever dare to make war. War on such terms would mean annihilation for victor as well as for vanquished. The Earl of Dundonald, inventor of this destroyer, was a most extraordi nary man. He was born in 1775 and was a captain in the navy by 1800. exnloita in sea f irhtimrT kt & Z ne won tame tor nimself by brilliant ' Li?. i , I reled with his superiors and got in U reled with his superiors and got into serious trouble through financial spec ulations. He made a name in pailia ment through his exposures of abuses in the navy, and when kings became too unpleasant for him In England he went to South America, where his mil itary genius materially aided Chile to throw off the yoke of Spain. Had he not been famous as an ad miral, Dundonald would have been fa mous as a scientist, for his inventions were many and practical. These in cluded a lamp for burning oil of tar, i in?, steam enitin fnr morini ..u. nA iiuw meinous oi excavation and min- oonald was an inventor whose de vices had to bo taken' seriously. He was no dreamer, bat practical hard Continued oa taat paga
The Lincoln Times (Lincolnton, N.C.)
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July 15, 1915, edition 1
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