Tee Monroe Journal
PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS.
VOL 20. NO. 29.
MONROE, N. O, TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 1914.
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR.
THE STORY OF THE CONVENTION
What the Democrat Did in State
Meeting Last Werk The Platform
and the Minority lU'ixtrt.
Raleigh Times. Friday.
After adopting a platform which
progressive democrats today declared
to contain concessions, the state dem
ocratic executive committee last night
adjourned at 11 o'clock. There was
only one fight in the convention and
that was over the form of a primary
plank, the minority of the convention
wanting a law covering everything
from county to nation and the ma
jority contending for a primary for
; state, judicial and national officers.
The majority won by a majority of
more than two to one.
The convention was In session
about 11 hours, a third recess being
taken at 5:15 to enable the platform
committee to report, and adjourn
ment following on the first roll call
at the night session. Those advo
cating a limited primary on the
ground that a county should not be
forced to nominate its candidates in
this manner against its desire were
Cameron Morrison, R. H. Hayes and
R. A. Doughton, and those insisting
on a primary for county officers
were A. L. Brooks, John D. Bellamy
and C. C. McMichael. Delegates in
all parts of the hall showed impa
tience duing the debate.
In the afternoon Governor Craig
was called to the platform and ad-
' dressed the convention on state and
national Issues. He elicited ap
plause. In addition to the nomina
tion of Senator Overman, the con
vention gave its unanimous endorse
ment to the record of Edward L.
Travis, chairman of the corporation
commission. V. E. Daniel placed
his came before the convention, and
Mr. Travis modestly thanked the
convention for the honor.
While the convention was grinding
the platform committee was listen
ing to the appeals of the progres
sives for the Incorporation of the 19
resolutions adopted at the mass
meeting. J. W. Bailey, Clarence Poe,
J. C. Biggs, A. M. Scales and R. F.
Beasley spoke for these measures.
Mr. Bailey contending that the party
Dad to go forward.
The platform of the democratic
party of North Carolina, as adopted
by the democratic state convention
last night, Is as follows:
THE FLATFORM.
We, the representatives of the
democratic party, assembled in con
vention under conditions of demo
cratic responsibility in state and na
tion, rejoice in the large measure
of success with which democratic
promises have boon enacted into
law, and with which democratic
principles have""been applied in re
storing equal opportunities to all sec
tions and all classes. We reaffirm
our allegiance to the cardinal princi
ples of democratic government, and
we again present our cause to the
people in the full confidence that a
continuation of democratic control
will result In a complete restoration
of the high ideals of constitutional
government ns established by the fa
thers of the republic, and Interpreted
to meet the needs of the progress of
the times.
,ve endorse the administration of
Woodrow Wilson, and the broad
statesmanship, high ideals, earnest
ness and application with which he
is administering his high office. The
democratic party under brave and
wise leadership has merited the con
fidence and the support of the Amer
ican people. It has restored the gov
ernment to the people and wrested
the povrenment from the hands of
the favored classes, under which the
republicans had placed it. The tar
iff has been revised downward, and
. the power to tax the people wrested
from the favored few. It has destroy
ed monopoly of credit and enacted a
system which will Insure equal bank
ing facilities for all of the people
without regard to section or class.
We especially commend the Just
and patriotic foreign policy of the
president of the United States. In
dealing with other nations our coun
try under the guidance of President
Wilson's great intelligence and sin
cere love of Justice, has acknowledg
ed no standard of conduct beneath
that demanded by Christian nations.
We heartily endorse the record of
achievements and leadership In the
national congress of our United
States senators and representatives,
and take pride in the opportunity
that came to our state to furnish
their wise and seasoned leadership
in the successful working out of the
great problems of a national demo
cratic administration.
We endorse the administration of
Governor Locke Craig, and the other
state officials, and especially com
mend the successful efforts of the
general assembly, the governor and
the corporation commission for the
readjustment of our interstate freight
rates, and we express the confidence
that their Eeat in the cause will be
productive of further fruitful results
until discrimination In freight rates
will be entirely removed, and we
pledge a continuation of our effort to
remove all such discriminations.
We rejoice In the progress our
state Is making In the cause of the
education of all the children under
democratic rule, and we pledge to the
people of the state the continued
support of the party until a six
months school In every district
'throughout North Carolina shall be
a realization, and the resources of
the state under democratic rule will
be used to promote this end as rap
idly as economical conditions per
mit, and to this end we urge the
adoption of the amendment to the
constitution providing for the estab
lishment of a six months school. We
urge that the effort of those men and
institutions engaged in the splendid
work of conserving the health of
our people and eradicating disease
and preventing infection be seconded
with enthusiastic and unstinted sup-
" both by state and local govern
ments. We stand for the strict upholding
of the laws prohibiting the sale and
manufacture of intoxicating liquors,
in the Inforcement of which great
progress has been made. We are
made glad by the evidence that both
drinking and drunkenness and the
crime that they bring are rapidly
decreasing.
We endorse the principle of a le
galised state-wide primary for all
national, state and judicial officers,
and we pledge the party to the en
actment of such laws as will make
their principle applicable to all polit
leal parties.
We recommend that our penal sys
tem be revised in light of the most
modern methods.
We congratulate all concerned
upon the advances made by our
governor and the general assembly,
and especially upon the epoch-mak
Ing victory recently won before the
interstate commerce commission, in
the mater of relieving North Coro-
lina points of the discrimination in
freight tariffs In favor of points In
other states; and we urge that the
struggle so well begun shall be
pressed until there shall not remain
a shadow of suspicion that the peo
pie of this state labor under disad
vantage so far as the common-car
riers are concerned, both interstate
and intrastate.
We likewise ask that the present
Investigation of insurance rates be
pressed to a conclusion .that will re
move all question as to discrimina
tlons adverse to our people on this
point.
We bring before our party the
especial demands and the needs of
the farmers of North Carolina, In
the conviction that all that serves
them serves all the people. We re
commend that the state follow up
its Increasingly useful work of in
spection, education, and instruction,
with aid to a system of rural cred
its, designed to enable the producers
of the wealth, from which the state
draws Its life, to manage their en
terprises at the lowest possible rate
of interest and to market their pro
ducts to the best advantage. We
urge our representatives in congress
to uphold the president in his plans
to aid our farmers In the matter of
rural credits. We recomend the,
encouragement of studies In practi
cal agriculture in our free schools.
We recommend the enactment of
effective legislation designed to can
trol our natural resources, especial
ly our forests and fisheries, Hnd our
wild game and that such legislation
be ns far as possible, state-wide.
We urgo the building of good roads
throughout the state and the, en
couragement of our fanners In the
splendid progress which they are
making in the improved conditions
of country life.
We demand every possible safe
guard for the health of the people
of the state, and that the govern
ment of the state shall be at all
times responsive to the needs, de
mands and happiness of our people.
CAMERON MORRISON.
R. II. HAYES,
JOHN D. LANGSTON.
J NO. C. LAMB,
WILSON G. LAMB,
D. F. GILES,
FRED O. COXE,
R. A. DOUGHTON,
Committee.
THE MINORITY REPORT
The following offered as the mi
nority report, was not adopted, be
ing defeated by a vote of 572 to
268:
We regret to dissent from the re
port of the majority of your com
mittee on resolutions and platform
with relation to any matter coming
before this convention, but there is
one plank of the platform which we
feel sure should not be adopted as
reported by the committee, and that
Is the one relating to legalized pri
maries for the state.
We believe that 'the democratic
party can only hope to succeed In
the state and nation by placing the
management of government affairs
directly in the hands of the people
and by proper election machinery,
enabling the masses to directly ex
pres their preferences In the selec
tion of those officers who are to ad
minister the affairs of their govern
ment. We believe that the democratic
party should either go back to the
delegate system of selecting candi
dates or give to the people an hon
est, bona fide primary election law
for all offices of all parties to be held
throughout the state on the same
day, the expense of the same to be
borne by the state, so safeguarded
by a corrupt practice act, that hon
esty in election will be possible.
We therefore offer as a substitute
for the committee's report on the
primary question the following:
We demand the enactment of a
legalized state-wide primary election
law, by ballot, for all parties and
for all elective offices, to be held on
the same day throughout the state
at the expense of the staje, and we
urge the general assembly to pro
vide such an act asVill clearly and
distinctly effectuate this purpose,
and properly safeguarded by a
drastic corrupt practice act.
A. J. McKINNON.
A. L. BROOKS.
The vote by which the state con
vention rejected the minority report
on the primary plank was 672 to
268. Then the majority report was
adopted without opposition.
CREAMERY ISUOIXtJ AHEAD.
Work Is Crowing Ilapldly and More
ami More Farmers are Sending In
Cream Many Have Nought Sew
rators Now Churning Every Day.
Up till June the first the Monroe
Creamery had been operating three
full months March, April and May.
The work of April was more than
twice as much as that of March, the
May work twice as much as that of
April. This Increase is due to the
fact that more people are finding out
the advantage of the creamery and
also that those already patronizing
it are increasing their number of
cows. There are now 55 regular pa
trons of the business. There are
three routes, from twelve to fifteen
miles long from which the wagons of
the creamery gather milk and cream
each day, going with the regularity
of a rural mail carrier.
But little milk Is now gathered,
nearly all the patrons having bought
separators and thus send in the cream
only, retaining the skim milk for use
at home, principally for feed to hogs.
Of the 55 patrons of the creamery
only five now send in actual milk,
the others using separators.
In March, the first month of op
eration, 460 pounds of butter were
made, and the patrons received $145.-
07 for butter fat.
In April 971 pounds of butter were
made from 6006 pounds of cream.
and the farmers received $277.53 for
butter fat.
In May 12619 pounds of cream
were furnished the creamery, from
which 2544 pounds of butter were
made and the patrons were paid
$664.40 for butter fat.
The price received for butter fat
Iz 30 cents a pound if delivered to the
creamery, and 27 cents per pound
when collected on the routes. The
yield of butter fat from average milk
Is about 16 cents per gallon of milk.
This leaves the skim milk for use at
home, and the special combination
which is advised for those who keep
cows, is to furnish their cream to
the creamery and give the skim milk
to the hogs. This is said to make a
paying combination. There is now
no reason to make poor butter at
home, which will not sell. Buy a
separator, get two or three good
cows, a brood sow, and you'll have
the combination. Last month the
lowest amount paid out to any one
patron was $2.19. This was where
only a small amount of cream was
sent in now and then. The largest
amount paid to any customer for but
ter fat was $64.02.
So far this month it has been nec
esary to churn dally.
THE ARLINGTON MONUMENT.
Confederate Memorial In the Shadow
of Washington Mrs. Butler .the
Moving Spirit.
Washington Dispatch to Charlotte
Observer.
Tho unveiling of the Confederate
monument ot Arlington yesterday
wa3 a unique performance In Wash
Ington, and near the burial place of
so many I nion soldiers. Tho blue
and the gray now dwell in peace at
Ailington, regardless of the fuss two
or three cranky Union veterans made
over President Wilson's disinclina
tion to attend the Memorial Day ser
vices while we are at a crisis with
Mexico.
The two persons most prominent in
the movement to erect and unveil
properly the monument to the Con
federates were ex-Secretary ot the
Navy Herbert of Alabama and Mrs.
Marion Butler of North Carolina
Mr. Herbert and Mrs. Butler have
worked for years to make yesterday
at Arlington historic.
Mrs. Butler, who was Miss Flor
ence Faison before her marriage, is
a native of the Old North State. She
has lots of energy and is very popular
in Washington. As a member of the
executive committee of the organiza
tion that had the task of building the
monument she directed the efforts of
many women In Washington.
Mrs. Butler was chairman of the
program committee that unveiled the
monument
Sanford's Snake Man.
Express.
Last Thursday a large black adder
crawled from under the old wooden
building between the stores of Carter
Furniture Company and Mr. W. F.
Chears on Moore street and was
picked up by Mr. C. H. Poe. Mr.
Poe attempted to chloroform him but
failed. Every person that came
along gave Mr. Poe and the snake
plenty of room. Mr. Poe finally took
the reptile by the tall and popped his
head off as a driver would pop a
whip. He says that he has never baen
able to find a snakes head after pip
ing it orr. He has made a study of
snake life as he has studied the
habits of certain varmints. Mr. Poe
has the nerve to pick up and handle
the most poisonous snake to be
found. He has been bitten by a moc-
cassin, a king snake, a black snake
and chicken snake. The poison from
the bite of the moccassln made him
sick and he had to take medical
treatment. He felt no ill effect from
the bite of the other snakes.
Had the Kale in Ills Leg.
Harry C. Wise, 60, woke up at the
county hospital at Denver, Col., af
ter a prolonged celebration. As soon
as he had gotten a line on his where
abouts Wise began to shout that he
had been robbed of $8,000.
To please the patient an attendant
brought In his cork legs, and in a
safety deposit vault Inside of one of
them they found $8,000 in certificates
of deposit.
PROGRESS OK SOIL SUR FY.
Engineer Now Hani at Work and
Will He All Summer What the
Work Undertakes to Accomplish
and the OhJect for the Same Will
Ho Complete County Map.
Messrs. E. B. Derrick of the Na
tional department of agriculture and
S. O. Perkins of the State depart
ment, working jointly, have complet
ed gathering data for about 175
square miles of the 565 square miles
of this cownty for a soil survey map
of the county. These gentlemen
think that the field work will be com
pleted by the middle of September
and that their data will be turned
In complete by October first. It will
then require about eight or nine
months for the printing of the maps.
So we may expect to have maps in
something like a year from now.
Two thousand will be printed and
can be secured by individuals in the
usual way for securing free docu
ments. .The object of the survey is to fur
nish aid to farmers In the better fer
tilization and use of their lands. Ev
ery piece of soil of a distinctive char
acter will be shown on the map in
colors provided It is as large as ten
acres. A bulletin will go along with
the map giving information as to the
treatment and fertilization of each
character of soil. By the use of the
map each farmer will know what
kind of soil he has. He can then
write to the State department of ag
riculture at Raleigh and get analy
sis and directions for the treatment
of that particular soil. Beside map
ping the foK which is the primary
object of the work, the map will lo
cate all roads, streams, towns, rail
roads and all other things usually
shown on maps. And it will be ac
curate. All the work is subsidiary
to the soil mapping and put In only
as an aid to the same.
Interesting News Items About Win
gate. .
Correspondence of The Journal.
Wingate. June 8. Mr. M. A. Grif
fin, a medical student of Chapel Hill,
is spending a few days with his pa
rents, Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Griffin.
Miss Mary Sherrin came in Friday
night from Red Springs College. Miss
Sherrin will probably spend the sum
mer In this, her home town.
Misses Osee and Annie Long re
turned home Friday from visiting the
family of Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Griffin.
His friends will be glad to learn
that Mr. Calvin Edwards, whose 111
ness was noted a few days ago, has
about regained his normal health.
Dr. D. L. Hunter of Huntersville, a
recent graduate of the University at
Chapel Hill, on his way home, spent
t riday evening with friends in Win
gate. Mr. W. Thos. Cutrhin of Baden. N.
C. spent Sunday with friends In our
village.
Misses Gladys and Nell Hefner and
little brother, Cecil, spent the week
end with relalves about Shiloh.
Mr. Henry Broom and family left
Saturday on a visit among relatives
in Concord.
Any one who will listen attentively
for thirty minutes to the charming
music of a mocjeing bird, then say in
his heart that there is no (iod, can
find his brother's name in the 14th
Psalm of David.
His friends and old comrades will
bo sorry to learn of the death of Mr.
George P. Austin of Cabarrus county
at the age of 80. Bro. Austin was a
former citizen of this county. He
was a member of Co. I, 53rd N. C.
Regt., a true and gallant soldier as
well as a splendid citizen. Heart fail
ure was the direct cause of his death.
Mr. J. F. McCoy has a right sick
child, but it is hoped that it is not
dangerously ill.
Mr. Smith completed that well for
Mr. Ed. Williams Saturday Two
days and a half and water plenty.
Vann Is an expert in his line, and he
"goes down after it."
Mr. John W. Blvens left Friday for
a few days outing. He will visit the
home of Prof, and Mrs. B. Y. Tyner
of Fredericksburg, where he will Join
Mrs. Bivens and their daughter, Dor
othy, who will accompany him thence
to Washington city. They will return
about the 11th, inst.
Rev. T. J. Hugglns supplied for
pastor Williams of the Methodist
church. Bro. Huggins always has
something interesting for his hearers.
O. P. TIM 1ST.
Beat His Wife Tp.
Chatham Record.
Quite a little merriment was
created here a day or two ago by
a wag of the town. This wag told
one of our most prominent citizens
that Mr. So-and-So had beat his wife
up that morning. Then the wag
left to tell some one else of the aw
ful facts. The first citizen was
thunderstruck, and he told somebody
else. The other man was horrified.
The story spread from man to man;
then the women got hold of It and
in less than no time it was singing
In the mouths of everybody, while
the poor Innocent man of all this
trouble was busy at his work. If
some of the women could have laid
hands on him the wife-beater would
not have fared so well.
When the other side of the story
got out every body looked like April
fools. They never once thought that
the husband got out of bed first and
his wife afterwards, therefore beat
ing her up.
Mr. James Harty, the oldest clti-
sen of Charlotte, died Friday. Mr.
Harty made the boast that he had
never lived off of Tryon street and
that he had never cast a vote except
in Charlotte.
WILL STACK KILLED.
One of the Well Known Desjieradoe
of Chesterfield t'ouuty Hit the
Dust at the Hands of James Par
ker Saturday Morning End of a
Loral Terror.
Will Stack, who, with his brother.
Walter Stack, has been a terror in
the upper part of South Carolina and
the lower part of Union county for
a long time, was shot to death at
four o'clock Saturday morning by
James Parker, at the latter's home in
Chesterfield county. The report is
that Stack had threatened to kill
Parker and that he went to the lat
ter's house and by abuse and brava
do, sought to get Parker out. Final
ly he attempted to get into the house,
when he was shot by Parker with a
shot gun. The shooting took place
about four o'clock Saturday morning
and Stack died that night The load
of shot entered his side above the
hip.
When told by Dr. D. II. Funder
burk that he was going to die, Stack
is reported to have said he didn't
give a dam, as he would rather die
and go to hell than to stay here.
And this is the end, as the end al
ways comes, of a man who did ev
erything possible to make everybody
in his section fear and hate him.
With his brother, Walter Stack, he
has been a terror to decent people
for several years. He was in Mon
roe some time ago on the occasion
of the couny school commencement
and was then arrested by Chief Laney
and Constable Starnes. He had a
quart bottle of liquor in one pocket
and a high power automatic Colt's
revolver In the other. Not very long
ago he went to Trinity church in
Buford township and shot under the
house while services were going on
and was run away by some of the
brave men of that community. It is
said that he had boasted for some
time he expected to kill four men be
fore being killed- One of the men
marked was James Parker who kill
ed htm. He was concerned In a kill
ing at Pageland two years ago. He
was a young man under thirty. His
brother, Waller Stack, has beeu even
worse. Last year he hilled a de
fenseless negro on his own piazza,
and was tried In Lancaster but got
off. He was with the notorious Ben
Hunter when the latter was killed
by the Belks. Walter Sack came
here not long ago and bought a tick
et for Mississippi and left. .
No Change in Gloomy Report.
Monroe N. C, June 5, 1914.
The Commercial Appeal,
Memphis, Tenu.
D?ar Sirs:
The crop prospect is exceedingly
poor. This is one of the few dictuins
which excites no controversy. There
is at this date a practical suspension
of all agricultural endeavor over u
very large area of tho county.
"Watching and waiting" for ruin and
speculating upon its probable effect
upon dry and half germinated seed Is
the business of u halt-hearted, appre
hensive citizenship. Barren, bone-
ury lields ttiianted only by clods,
seems a tantalizing panorai.ia spread
by famine. Should the seed in the
fields devoted to cotton fail to re
spond immediately to p.ectpilation
and the plant, to evince vigor, there
will be a marked curtailment of acre
age, as these fields will he planted to
corn and peas. Observation and in
quiry discloso no change in percent
age of stand and condition, that is to
say, 30 per cent in first and 65 per
cent In second condition.
Very truly yours,
GEO. E. FLOW.
Claude Kitchin Fighting With Labor
and Farmers' Unions.
Washington Special to Baltimore Sun
Claude Kitchen of North Carolina,
the next floor leader, and Robert L.
Henry of Texas, chairman of the
rales committee, will lead the fight
in the house this week for a stronger
amendment to tho Clayton anti
monopoly bill exempting lobor and
farmers' unions from prosecution
under the Sherman antl trust law.
They will have as their lieutenants
Represenatlves Lewis of Maryland,
Sherwood of Ohio, Buchanan of 111.
and other labor union congressmen.
The fight over the amendment
promises to be a warm one. The
labor forces claim they have enough
votes to carry their amendment. But
some of the most conservative labor
union Congressmen are hoping that
a compromise will be agreed upon
before that provision In the Clayton
bill is reached and thus a bitter
struggle avoided. Represenative
Lewis is one of the men who are
working for a compromise.
Representative Kitchin will line
up with the labor forces on the
ground that the two last Democratic
platforms pledged legislation which
would specifically exempt labor and
farmers' unions from prosecution un
der the Sherman law. He holds that
the party cannot afford to break this
pledge in the face of the coming
campaign. Mr. Henry takes the
same view.
Notice.
For nearly twenty years I have
been in the lightning rod business in
this section. I am at home. I can
be found any time. I guarantee my
work and you know where to find
me. Because I am at home, have ev
ery facility for doing good work,
have no heavy traveling expenses, I
can and do, do your work cheaper
than a crowd of strangers traveling
through the country at enormous ex
pense, and whom you'll never see
again. Call on the old reliable home
man to do your work.
E. W. POINTER.
Monroe, N. C.
ITEMS OF NEWS.
More or Less Interesting Things Re
duced to Paragraphs for Short
Siace and (juick Heading.
Dr. Plato Durham preached the
commencement sermon at Trinity Col
lege Sunday and declared that the
basis of the Church was freedom of
thought. The equality of every man
in the sight of God. Of all institu
tions in the world the Church of God
was pointed out as the one liberal
minded, one that allowed heresy if
the heart was right
Generally fair and hot weather east
of the Rocky Mountains Is predicted
for this week.
Eleven candidates have entered the
primary for Governor of South Caro
lina, and an even dozen is expected.
The State campaign begins on the
17th, and the primary will be held
August 25th. The candidates will
all speak on the same day at each
county seat.
Capt. James C. Marshall, one ot
the best known citizens of Wadesbo
ro, died Sunday. Capt. Marshall
graduated at Chapel Hill in 1861 and
immediately entered the Confederate
army.
Government engineers are now en
gaged in making a physical examina
tion of the Norfolk and Southern rail
road under the law passed by con
gress directing a physical valuation
of all railroads in the United States
as a basis of rate making. This is
the first work In this section of the
country.
The State Crand Lodge of Pyth
lans is in session in Durham this
week.
A brother and sister, white, were
found guilty of retailing in Ashe
ville Saturday. The brother was sen
tenced to the roads for five months
and the Bister to the county home
for 30 days.
Mr. H. A. Hayes, formerly super
intendent of the Methodist Chil
li rens' Home in Winston, was brought
back there from Chicago, 111., where
he was recently arrested by Chief J.
. Thomas Saturday night at 9:35
o'clock, where he will answer to the
charges of having embezzled the sum
of fl.6S5 from the Children's Home
a little over a year ago.
Mr. J. C. Little, a native of this
county, and at present Senator from
Wake county, was defeated for re
nomlnatlon Saturday. Mr. Little
made a splendid record as Senator
in the last Legislature.
The engagements of William J.
Bryan for Chatauqua lectures for this
summer embrace three dates in North
Carolina, though the towns to be fa
ored have not yet been made public.
The State Board of Agriculture
lias appropiiated the sum of $15,(Miti
for making a State exhibit nt the Pan
ama Exposition in San Francisco next
year. J
Mr. Johnathan Mooney and Mrs.
Margaret Deaton were married at
Cornelius Friday night. The groom
is over seventy and the bride sixty.
General Huerta yesterday with
drew his orders for a blockade of tno
port of Tampico. This removes a
point of friction for the time being.
Three hundred and forty-six men
were killed In and about coal mines
in the United States during the month
of April. This is an advance over last
year for the same month. The civil
war raging about the coal mines of
Colorado continues.
Yesterday the mediators on the
part of the United States presented a
plan for peace In Mexico. This plan
Is in substantial agreement with one
decided upon by the South American
mediators. The details are not given.
Weddineton News.
Correspondence of The Journal.
Miss Amanda Morris, who has been
visiting In Charlotte the past two
weeks, returned Friday.
Mrs. M. C. Harkey came home
Saturday from Lenoir where she has
been visiting her daughter, Mrs. L. .
S. Coble.
Mr. Joseph and Miss Taulino Tay
lor spent a part of last week with
their uncle, Joseph Warden, near
Derlta.
Mr. R. W. Lemmond of Monroe
spent the day at Mr. Stanhope De
Laney's Sunday.
Miss Elizabeth Norwood of Lenoir
visited Miss Ethyl Price the first of
the week.
Miss Dawson of Matthews visited
friends here last weekk.
Mr. Cletis Deal has returned from
Trinity College, Durham.
Mrs. Harvey Helms is very 111.
Aged Woman Saves a Train.
A trestle on the C. and N. W.
railroad near Newton, was discovered
to be on fire Monday by a Miss Haas,
an aged lady, who lives about a quar
ter of a mile from the rallrotfd, Just
before a train was due. She ran to
her home and got a red cloth and
stopped the engine just before It
reached the burning trestle, saving
the train from destruction. The
framework under two lengths of rails
was burned away and in the act ot
falling. The work train brought
new rails and trestle timber, and af
ter several hours work the bridge
was repaired sufficiently to allow
trains to cross.