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I J 1 1 . '.'ft. jftl f ",. -a . 1-31 1 ; r 11 II 1 pf- ESTABLISHED 1S76 LINCOLNTON, N. C TIIURSDA.Y AFTERNOON-JUNE 20, 1924 5 Cents Per Copy, $2.00 Per Tesr 1 Sefe0I:;' election BrilaiI:Gataw1) si urn The school elections held Monday in worth brook mm l.-nt:iwtia ' shinny Townships carried by unusually lai4C majorities. The people of tlitse sec tions expressed tnctnselvcs unmista kable in favor of hell er .c-ppo s tvmttua . for their ciuldren. : 1 ho interest , m these elections wan keen and the reg istration of voters was surprisingly large, .be in;; niiout, eqiml to the vote cast in the last general euvuon. Tne interest displayed durin;; the cam- painii which preceded the election ami on election day indicated the vn;tl m- . . ...... 1. t.... :.. it. - 1 ici est Wiiicti vui puiiu c iu utu improvement of the educational . ad vantages ot our county. ' The success of Mondny s election 'makes the most progics'.-ivc step f-o far taken by our 1'ounty, or by any other , couty in this section' of the Stato. Under the provi.-sions of thee elections about litteen small, unniod 1 ei n and . nicf f-icient schools will be nbanihmed avid the six lai-ga schoois, three in each township, will -take their places. Thes-o senools will be handsome and up-to-date and will be modern in every respect.. Tue build ings will be of brick, will be well lighted and ventilated and .will be ' CITIZENS OF CATAWBA- SPRIN VOTE IN FAVOR OF MODERN DISTRICT BROTHER HOOD MEETING Tho Lutheran District Brothel hnod .Meeting will be held at Chapel Lu theran Church, East Gaston's, N. C, Sunday, June 20, 102 J, 3:110 P, M. Topic: Making the Brotherhood a Tower in the Laval Congregation A. Roscon Rhyne, Leader. . Program: x Opening Hymn," No. .".PI. v Sciipture Lesson,' Phil. 3:7-15 and prayer, E. S. Rhyne. Outline by leader. 1. As. a Power in the Sunday School, C. E. Carpenter. . , N ... s m a . a -....-., v supplied with electric lights, running water, sewer anil steam heat, the building will be cquipod 1 with the most modern furniture throughout. Tlio TLgh Schools will be fully stan- ' u.irclizod and accredited, by the State Department , ot Education and will offer courses in vocational training irt addition of those of tne regular . hie-h school course. . The organi.a- turn of both the elementary and high schools w be the veiy best and most efficient type. the Hoard of Education of our county recently adopted n County. ide plan for the consolidation and organization of our schools, and the elections held Monday were Called in I order to give those sections of our j County an opportune Ui carry out , the county plan as it relates to them, Ihis plan contemplates slandaid ele- mentary and high scnools for all the children of the county and will enable every boy or girl in the county to attend a fully accredited high school without being awny from fcomo at nif.ht. "Lincoln County has had no standard high school advantages for her bovs and girls, except those pro-1 vided by the town of Lincolnton; but GS ANDJIOWARD'S OREEK TOW SCHOOL HOUSES, SIMILAR TO THE ABOVE TYPE BUILDINGS. I Solo, Mrs. Jno. L. Yost. II. As a Power in the Home, Bis marck Capps. ., ..Anthem, Chapol Choir. III. As a Power in Membership and Mamie Increase, R. F. Shelby. Duct, Misses Lillian Clemmer. Hymn, No. 376. Business Meeting.' . Bring Lunch, This district Brotherhood is nifrrl im of male meniher? of the Lutheran Church, iii Lincoln, Cleveland, Meek Uv.iuirg and Gastoti Counties. Prof, H. F. Kraus, of Lincolnton is jrcfMcnt; Mr. . Avety R. Rhyne of Charlotte is vice-president; O. B. Robinson of Gastonia is secretary. Thi meeting will be at Chanel Lu North )a Springs Majorities the plans now under way will provide immediate lemedy for this condition in the eastern and western sections of the county and it is hoped that something can soon be done for the other sections. The people are m earnest about tho education of their children and all they need is an op portuiuty to express themselves. The vote cast in tho different vot- ing piecmcts is given below. Every precinct gave the proposition a sub stantial majority: Catawba Springs Township: Denver Precinct: Registered vot ers 840 ; votes cast for Bonds and tax 240; against 14. Maionty 140. Lowesville Precinct: Registered voters 228; votes cast for bonds and tax 148; against 2i. Majority G8. Tiianglc Precinct: Registered vot ers, 109; votes cast for bonds anl tax G8: against 4. Majority 27. North llrook Township Hay Precinct: Registered voters, 312; votes cast for bonds and tax 200; against 31. Majority 88. Beam's Precinct: Registered vot ers, 320; votes cast for bonds and tax, 189; against Do. Majonty 52, v - 1 - - i . t'. NSIIIPS OF LINCOLN COUNTY theran church East Gastonia, N-. . A new church building costing $50, 000.00 has just been opened for wor ship, and a f 4,200.00 Mohler pipe or gan used. EPISCOPAL SUNDAY SCHOOL WILL PICNIC NEXT TUESDAY The chickens are squalling and the fcatheis arc flying and every member of St. Lukes Church Sunday School ij wearing a smile for Tuesday, July 1st, the children will' picnic at the Buddy Grier place near Machpelnh Church. The trucks will leave from the Parish House ft the Church that happy morning and returning that afternoon. Needless tosay everyone is going to bringjots ol grub. LINCOLN FAIR WILL BE HELD The Lincoln County Fair has been reorganized, and put on a cash ba sis and hopes to have the biggest and best fair this fall that they have ever had. The following officers were elect ed: Mr. J. L. Lineberger, Pres.; Mr. Fred Ramsaur, Vice-Pres.; Mr. C. D. Stroupe, see.; Mr. J. W. Hoover, Tres. Knowing that each fair has been better than the one before and that Lincoln County needs a County Fair, these men have put the lair on a sound financial basis and are asking every person in the county to co operate to give Lincoln County the biggest and best fair this fall that has ever been held in the county. The date of the fair and the supt. of each department will be anounced later. -. ; Washington, June 23.-HPerishable fruit products from eastern North Carolina are to be expedited to northern markets. William P. Bart ett, diiector of the bureau of service of the interstate commerce ; commis sion, has informed Representative Abernethy. Service Agent Ford went over the route on Atlantic Coast Line trains to see what the trouble was.' Tho bathing girl doesn't care a wrap. . LOCAL NEWS BUDGET FROM HIGH SHOALS High Shoals, June 23,-The business situation at High Shoals is not gloomy like it is in some of our neighboring mill towns. With the mill running full time night and day a new mill being erected and thirty new houses going up you could't call tnat a poor business out look. People front the neghboring towns see what the company is doing here :nd scotes are turned away each day who are hunting work, Since! pur chasing this mill has made every pos sible effort to improve our communi ty. So lets all go for a better world and especially our home community. so let s all go to gether and boost High Shoals and our company and put our town above the average. J "" The "Willing Workers of the High Shoals 'Methodist Church went on a picnic to "Armstrong Park" in Gas tonia last 'Saturday evening, A small thunder shower had just passed over that section when we arrive which made the outing much more pleasant. After we had walked over the park, the girls came back and spread out the delicious lunch which they had prepared. , Everyone showed how much they enjoyed it by the way they ate. If they didn t like the food we would sure hate to cooke for them when the did like it. After supper part of us took a delightful dip in the swimming pool, while others amused themselves in other ways. After spending a mbst pleasant even ing the crowd came home hoping to enjoy another outing like this in the near future. Playing under a terrific heat the locals overwhelmingly defeated the fast Flint Mill Club of Gastonia. The locals started to hit at the beginning and pounded the ball for ten runs during the remainder of the game, while Scott had the visitors at his mercy throughout. One of the visit ing fielders suffered from overheat and had to be taken from the game. frrye, a local player, went in in his place and then is when the fun began. The . fans started ragging him but when he made a ibeautitul catch their jeeis turned to cheers, he also got a threebagger. The visitors three runs came in. the last two innings when they managed to get three across. The game was not exciting but everyone had lots of fun. Mrs. T. C Adams and daughter, Elizabeth, returned from Rock Hill, C. Sunday where they have been visiting relatives for the past week. Mr. 'Clarence Kanipe, popular yo&ng man of this town, has 'been promoted to the overseer s place in he Ware and Waste house. Mr. Ka- l'pe's many friends are glad to see him receive this promotion and hope him a great success with his new work. . ; '' ..s Rev. Mr. Stanfield, , pastor" of the South Gastonia Baptist Church, open ed a revival meeting in the High Shoals Baptist church with a very good congregation out to hear him Everybody should attend these meet ings a Mr. Stanfield preaches only the plain Gospel and it will help both christians and sinners. Your presence will help with the spirit of the cam paign. AH singers are specially in vited as all the Baptist's are trying to furnish good singing throughout Mr. Stanfield s stay here. The meet ing will probably extend about 10 days or two weeks; the time will be measured by the" success of the meet ing. - '''"". '---- -' Miss Ora Keener, Myrtle Cloniger, and Mr, Gary Hovis left last Tuesday for Greenshoro where they will at tend the Annual Epworth League Conference. The Epworth League meeting which was to be held in the High Shoals Methodist church last Sunday night on account ol a large nunroer oi members who wanted to attend the meeting which is being held in Dal las Those who attended the service from here enjoyed hearing "Parson Jack" preach and the splendid musi cal programme. Mrs. Vera Little Goode is the pianist for the meeting. Mrs. Carswell and her two song, Bud and Tommie are visiting rela tives in Canton this week. Miss Best Costner popular member of last years school faculty was in town last Sunday. THIS YEAR CITY ORDINANCE TIES OR PENS UP DOGS At a recent meeting of the Board of Aldermen of the town of Lincoln ton, an ordianee was passed requir ing all owners of dogs to chain same. This was done to protect the public as there has been recently several dogs running loose which are said to have been mad. The Board of Aldermen and town officials want the cooperation of the citizens of Lincolnton in enforcing this ordinance which is as follows: Be it Ordained, that the Board f Aldermen of the Town of Lincoln ton, do enact the following Ordinance, to wit. That all dogs must be penned or chained on the premises of their re spective Owners, beginning the 30th day of June until the 1st day of Sep tember, 1924, inclusive. All owners of dogs are urged to strictly adhere and comply with this Ordinance, and that all dogs must be strictly confin ed in the manner and means set out above, regardless, whether or not said dogs have been treated for ra bies or any other form of dog diS' ease, or madness. Any dog running at large within the Town of Lincolnton, N. C, is hereby declared a nusiance which en dangers the health and safety of the public, and the police are hereby au- tnorized and directed to kill or im pound same. Any owner of dog or dogs violating the above Ordinance shall be subject to a fine of twenty- live dollars.. CONVENTION HALL LANDMARK OF THE OLD NEW YORK New York, June 23. If ghosts of all the revelers should come trooping back down the decades today to tip toe through the dingy portals of Mad ison Square Gaiden where once they footed it so bravely, they would halt amazed at the sight which greeted them. Before their eyes in the dim light would lie a vast stone platter, filled to the brim with waiting rows of chairs. Above them would spread a huge canopy of red and white and blue.i shot with huge stars. And everywheja-iround the circling bal cony rails they would see Old Glory flags in thousands to deck the open ing Tuesday of the democratic nati onal convention of 1924. . The ancient hall stands waiting for what will be perhaps the greatest days ;t has ever known. It is Wait ing, stangely diessed in bright colors within; grim with age without; old, unfashionable in its frills and furbe lows of stone work amid the stately, sky piercing structures that surround its jumbled pile. . HULL IS PROSTRATED BY HEAT & GOOD DEMOCRATIC REPORTS New York,; June ;23. 'Chairman Hull , of the Democratic national committee was confined to his bed today recovering from heat prostti lion, exhaustion from jverwoik acute indigestion and shick from learning suddenly that the nation; committee had been able to pay all its debts and would enter the Piesl- dential compaign with a clean slate. The strenuous hours . devoted to pre-convenfion arrangements and the quadrennial ticket scramble be gan to tell on he chairman yes terday. , As a grim coincident, Mr, Hull toppled out of the chair at his dask last evening in a faint as "the finance committee reported that a debts: were paid. Mrs. Hull put her chairman, to bed and was guarding him today against all visitors, sympathizers, and ticket seekers. The physician said ho expected Mr Hull to be able to take the gavel when the convention goes into ses sion. DOHENY AND ROCKWELL DENY CONTRIBUTIONS New York, June 23. David Ladd Rockwell, manager of ,the William McAdoo campaign, tonight denied statement published here today that E. h. Doheny, the oil man, had con tributed $10,000 or $35,000 to the Me adoo campaign for President. "The assertion contained in an ar ticle in Tho New York Evening Post, owned and controlled 'by the rich re publican Ciirtis interests that the pre-convention campaign of McAdoo was financed by E. L. Doheny, is, of course, an utter lie' Mr. Rockwell said. "Mr.jpoheny has not contribut ed one cent to the McAdoo cam paign. Such a flagrant and patent misrepresentation comes from but one cause.the determination, of the predatory interests at all costs to -oiocK ine . nomination ol the . man whom they justly fear." ARMY FLYERS CROSS STATES SETTING A WORLD'S RECORD - San Francisco, Calif., June 23. Lieut. Russell L. Maughan, army flier successfully completed his day-light-to-dusk flight from New York to San Francisco when he landed at Crissy field at 9:48. He arrived in San Francisco at 9:44 p. m. As soon as the plane landed news- paper men broke through police lines holding back a huge crowd lining the field and greeted the flier. A . few seconds after the mammoth throng of spectators, cheering and shouting, while automobile sirens shrieked in a bedlam of noise, surged over the field and surrounded the plane. Matighan's landing at 9:45 p. m. made his, time for the 2,670 miles airline dash from New York, includ ing five refueling Mops, enroute, 21 hours, 48 1-2 minutes, slightly under bis original estimate of the time of the flight would consume. Restore Glean Govern ment Pleads Sen. Harri son in Keynoter at The Democratic Mississippi Senator Tells New York Meet Republican Administration is "Honeycombed by Graft and Cor roded by Corrpution" Says Policy Kunckles to Special Privilege Warns Democrats to Cease Bicker ings Praises New Tax Cut Bill Forecast Victory. Madison Square Garden, New York June 24. Assailing the Harding Coolidge Administration with a sav agery and ferocity seldom equalled in keynote add i esses, Senator Tat Har rison, of Mississippi, opened the Democratic National Convention here today by ; sounding a party tocsin that, he warned, will ring from Dem ocratic lips throughout the campaign: Restore clean government! This was the focal point of his key note speech. Around it he marshall ed in orderly array all of the scan dals and unsavory incidents of Re publican Administration that have kept the country in a ferment for the last six months. And coupled with this two-handed attack on the Ucpublican record was the pledge that, if given the oppor tunity, the Democratic party would lead the nation back "to the high plane and purpose" from which, he said, it had been dragged by "art Administration honeycombed with graft and corroded with corruption." Hays Republicans Occasionally Senator Harrison de parted from his main theme to make satirical references to the Cleveland convention dominated by "The Three Musketeers Butler, Stearns and Slemp," to denounce the Mellon tax plan as a scheme to aid the rich; to deride the Administration for its fail ure to put the country into the World Court, to sympathize with the farmer over his misfortunes- the last three years nut Illways in the end he came 'back to the scandals and cor ruption which, he charged, have per meated the Government at Washing ton since Woodrow Wilson limped from the White House to go into re tirement and death three years ago. Ho struck out at Republican rule at home and abroad with equal fervor and barbed wit. The foreign policy of Harding and Coolidge he described as a spurious coin passed in laat); their domestic policy he portrayed as vacilating at every point except its "subservience to special privilege." "Show Them Oil Well." "Crooked business needs only to gesture, or special privilege to wink to make th's Administration under stand and do," he said at one place. And in another: Show this ' Administration an oil well, and it wil show you a foreign policy. Pizarro and his adventurous band, as they set their faces toward the Uolden West, were not more inspired in quest of treasure than this Admin istration. Senator Harrison also b.nrl anmo advice for' the Democrats here assem bled. He took Cognizance of the tense situation prevailing over the - plat- torm and the rival Presidential as pirations of tho scoie of candidates by uttering a warning that was at once admonitory and significant. 1 his isJ a Democratic Vear." he said, "and. victory is within our grasp u we Dut rcacn out tor it. Let us re memVr that too much is at stake for the hideous form of friction to frown upon this convention. Our Buns and all our guns against the common ene my! ... . . . 'Can Be No Mutiny. "Nothing must happen here to di vide our councils or dampen our ar dor. The fires of Democracy must not flicker. There must be no sulk ing; there can be no mutiny. Strategy is no sin. Far better is it for t.ho American people and the Democratic party that in this convention we den v to ourselves some vaunted expression or surrender some temporary advan tage tnat we may succeed in this campaign than tenaciously to persist and lose. "No matter who may- be the choice of this convention we will rally around our leader, clad in the armor of a righteous cause. As we fight this great battle there will accom pany us the invisible presence of the fathers of Democracy. ., It would seem now we can hear" the soft voice of sweet reasonableness coming to us from iMontieello,, the voice of 'old Hickory coming across the Blue Ridge from the Hermitage ,and from that historic crpyt at St. Albans we hear the mighty voice of Woodrow Wilson wistfully calling Us: 'To you, from failing hands, we throw the torch. Hold it high! Hold it high! Carry on carry on keep the faith; keep the faith,!" t'raise Tax Reform Bill While denouncing the Mellon tax plan as one that would afford appre ciable relief to onlv "a few thousand millionaires" and leave the millions of small incomes to carry the burden oi payment. Senator Harrison had high praise for the comprosime bill finally passed. He referred to the Republican platform pledge to 're form' the bill. "The Republican nominee (Cool idge) in reluctantly signing the measure declared for its immediate reform. What does he mean bv re- form? Does he propose to change Convention the law by transferring the burdens carried by 3,400 whose backs are broad to the 3,500,000 whose backs are bowed? Is that his challenge? Then we accept it." Ihe temporary chairman declared under the leadership of Simmons in tne benate and Garner in the House, the Democratic tax reduction proposal triumphed, "not because we were numerically strong, but because we were assuredly right." Ihe Republican Tariff Bill came in for fiery denunciation. It had. he said, increased the cost of living to the American people by four billions a year, and at the same time afforded no relief to the long-suffering farm er.- "Special Favors For Some." "The doctrine of equal rights for none and special favors for some was never more firmlV embedded than in the Fordney-MeCumber Tariff law." 'Republican claims to economy and budgetary reform were denied. He pointed out that the Budget law was first passed by Democratic votes and was vetoed by a ' Democratic Presi dent only in order to make technical changes in it necessary to make it constitutional, and asserted it was finally adopted by the Republicans in virtually the same form as the Dem ocrats prepared it. . Republican claims to prosperity weie met with the statement that from the Democratic years of 1917 to 1919 the country experienced a total ; of ten tank failures. "Within less than four years of Re- ... publican normalcy,' he said, "more than 1,357 banks hae failed, and millions of people were bankrupted." Scandals Are Pinioned. Ironic attention was called to the fact that the Cleveland platform ut terly fails to mention the Ship Sub sidy Bill which Harding endeavored -to put through Congress and which, Harrison asserted, would have taken millions from the tax-payer for the shipping trust. - But always he returned to the scan dals of Washington. "It is the brazen effrontery of this Administration that challenges our -attention," he said. They (the Ad ministration) wpuld halt these in quiries by hysterical cries and fore boding predictions. They say, 'You are hurting business' and 'You are destroying confidence.' Our answer is, 'We are helping business' and 'wo are restoring confidence.' "Theirs is the Spartan morality. Not the corruption, but the discovery of it, constitutes the crime. Instead of applauding the investigators they make war upon the investigation. Defies Consciencless "In this Campaign let the consci enceless leaders of this Administra tion deride investigations. Let them accuse Congress of deteriorating; let them continue to shield those who conspired against the 'Government; but in this dark drama the American people know and prefer the highly patriotic and cleansing work of Thomas J. Walsh, to the foul infamy and thievery of Albert B. Fall." "The least that the American peo ple expect of their public servants is common honesty. They will foigive, their passivity, overlook their indis cretions, and, too often, forget their impotency, but to them corruption i3 inexcusable, graft is indefensible." Senator 'Harrison was unsparing in his criticism of former Secretary Denby and Fall, former Attorney General Daughetry, Charles R. For bes, former head of the Veterans' Bureau and former Senator Newber ty, of .Michigan. He paid high tri bute to Senator Thomas J. Walsh, of Montana, prosecutor of the oil in quiry and others connected with the various investigations. Fi.-aud Orgy Is Bared "Decry them as they will, the American people know that it was these investigations conducted bji 1 Democrats, but through Republican committees that ' sent Albert B. Fall to Three Rivers a disgraced man. It was these investigational that com pelled Edwin Denny's retirement from the Cabinet. It was these in vestigations that drove Daugherty back to Washington Courthouse. It was these investigations that caused conspirators against their Govern ment to take their own lives rather than tell the truth. It was these in vestigations that pointed to the im-" moral orgy of Forbes and sickening scandals in the Veterans' Bureau. It was these investigations that tint n ftepuMican Congressman behind bars and lashed Newberry from the Sen ate, it was these investigations that informed the American public that the first official act of Calvin Cool idge was the appointment of a pri vate secretary who had traded and trafficked in public patronage. It was these investigations that led a Republican benate to convict its own Republican National Committee for 'framing' a Democratic Senator be cause he dared to do the right." U. V. Lacks Guidance Comparing the investigations into Democratic and Republican adminis trations Senator Harrison said it was "not graft alone that of few in the two Administrations such happy com parisons." "During these little more than three years," he said, "we have seen Continued on Page Four. -