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THE SUN
Has More Than Double The
Circulation of Any Weekly
Paper iu The Tenth Congres
sional District, Comprising
Thirteen Large Counties.
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THESUN
Has More Than Doable The
Circulation of Any Weekly
Papei in The Tenth Congres
sional District, Comprising
Thirteen Large Counties.
VOL. J6. NO. 2.
RUTHERFORDTON, N. C THURSDAY, CECEMBER 19, t9J2.
$1.00 A YEAR.
THE SUN HAS THE LARGEST CIRCULATION OF ANY WEEKLY IN THE TENTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.
WORKINGS OF THE
NEW PARCELS POST
THE SYSTEM APPROVED BY THE
POSTMASTER GENERAL.
Instructions As To Different Articles
To Be Transported By The Government-New
Branch Of Postal Service
Will Be Put In Operation January 1st.
(Clialottt- Duly Observer.)
The regulations that cover in detail
the workings of the new parcels post
system have been approved by Post
master General Hitchcock, and the
pamphlets containing them are being
turned off at the Government Printing
Office on a rush order for distribution.
This new branch of the postal service
will afford the American people the
opportunity to send farm and factory
products by mail from and to any
point in the United States or its pos
sessions. The minimum zone rate will be five
cents for the first uound and three cents
for each additional pound to any
point not exceeding 50 miles from the
office of mailing; the local rate, which
is five cents for the first pound and one
cent for each additional pound, ap
plies to all parcels the delivery of
which does not involve their trans
portation on railway lines. The rates
increase for each successive one of the
eight zones, the maximum rate being
12 cents a pound which will carry a
parcel across the continent or to any
of our possessions. Parcels will be
limited to 11 pounds in weight and six
feet in length and girth combined.
MAILABLE PERISHABLE ARTI
CLES. Butter, lard and perishable articles
such as fish, fresh meats, dressed
fowls, vegetables, fruits, berries and
articles of a similar nature that decay
quickly, when so packed or wrapped
as to prevent damage to other mail
matter, will be accepted for local de
livery either at the office or mailing or
on any rural route starting therefrom.
When enclosed in an inner cover and
a strong outer cover of wood, metal,
heavy corrugated pasteboard, or oth
er suitable material and wrapped so
that nothing can escape from the pack
age, they will be accepted for mailing
to any offices within the first .one or
within a radius of 50 miles. Butter,
lard, or any greasy or oily substance
intended for delivery at offices beyond
the first zone must be suitably packed
Vegetables and fruits that do not de
cay Quickly will be accepted for mail
ing to any zone ir packed so as to pre
vent damage to other mail matter
Eggs will be accepted for local deliv
ery when securely packed in a basket
or other container. Eggs will be ac
cepted for mailing regardless of dis
tance when each egg is wrapped sep
arately and packed in a container.
There is no restriction on salted,
dried, smoked or cured meats and
other meat products but fresh meat in
any form will be transported only
within the first zone.
Parcels containing perishable arti
cles must be marked "'perishable" and
articles likely to spoil within the time
reasonably required for transporta
tion and delivery will not be accepted
lor mailing.
MANUFACTURED ARTICLES.
Manufacturers or dealers intending
to transmit articles in considerabie
quantities are asked to submit to the
postmaster for approval a specimen
parcel showing the manner of packiner.
When sharp-pointed instruments are
offered for mailing, the pointed must
be capped or encased. Blades must
be bound so that they will remain
firmly attached to each other or with
in their handles or sockets.
Ink, powders, pepper, snuff, or other
similar powders not explosive, or any
similar pulverized dry substance, not
poisonous, may be sent when enclosed
in cases made of metal, wood or other
material to render impossible the es
cape of any of the contents. Flour of
all kinds must he put up in such a
manner as to prevent the package
breaking or cracking or the flour be
iDg scattered in the mails.
Queen bees, live insects, and dried
reptiles may be mailed in accordance
with the regulations that now apply
to other classes of mail.
Seeds of fruit, Dursery stock, and all
other plant products for propagation
may be mailed under the same condi
tions. Candies, confectionery, yeast cakes,
soP in bard cakes, etc., must be en
closed in boxes and so wrapped as to
prevent injury to other mail matter,
Sealed original packages of pro
prietary articles, such as soaps, tobac
co, pills, tablets, etc., put up in fixed
quantities by the manufacturer, and
not in themselves unmailable, will be
accepted for mailing when properly
wrapped. ,
Fragile articles, such as millinery,
toys, musical instruments, etc., and
article consisting wholly or in part of
glass, or contained glass, must be se
curely packed and the parcel stamped
or labeled "fragile.''
UNMAILABLE MATTER.
The following matter is declared
non-mailable by law:
Matter manifestly obscene, lewd, or
lascivious; articles intended for pre
venting conception; articles intended
for indecent or immoral purposes; all
matter otherwise mailable by law, the
outside coyer or wrapper of which
bears any delineations or language of
a libelous, scurrilous, defamatory or
threatening character. All such mat
te., when deposited in a postoffice or
found in the mails, shall be withdrawn
and sent to the Division of Dead Let
ters. Spirituous, vinous, malted, ferment
ed or other intoxicating liquors of any
kind and articles and compositions
containing poison, poisonous animals,
insects and reptiles; explosives of ev
ery kind; inflammable materials,
(which are held to include matches,
kerosene oil, gasoline, naptha, ben
zine, turpentine, denatured alcohol,
etc.); infernal machines and mechan
ical, chemical or other devices on com
positions which may ignite or explode;
Jisease germs or scabs and other na
tural or artificial articles, composi
tions, or materials of whatever kind
which may kill, or in any wise injure
another -r damage the mail or other
property.
Pistols or revolvers, whether in de
tached parts or otherwise: live or dead
(and not stuffed) animals, birds or
poultrv: raw hides or pelts, guano, or
any article having a bad odor will not
b3 admitted to the mails.
TREATMENT OF UN DELI V HRA
BLE PARCELS.
Perishable matter will be delivered
as promptly as possible, but if such
uaa"tter cannot be delivered and be
comes offensive and injurious to
health, postmasters may destroy it, or
the injurious or offensive portion
thereof.
Undeliverable perishable matter
which in its nature does not become
offensive or injurious to health may
be delivered by postmasters to the
proper local municipal authority to be
distributed to hospitals, asylums or
other charitable or reformatory insti
tutions. If there is no such munici
pal authority, the matter may be de
livered to any charitable institution or
organization making application
therefor. If no application is made,
the matter will be destroyed at the ex
piration of two weeks.
Postmasters will refuse to receive
for mailing parcels not properly en
dorsed or packed for safe shipment.
When parcels on which the postage
is wholly unpaid or insufficiently pre
paid is deposited for local delivery
and the sender is unknown, notice of
detention need not be sent but such
matter will be delivered and the defi
cient postage collected from the ad
dressee by the carrier. If the addres
see refuses to pay the postage the mat
ter will be sent to the Division of
Dead Letters.
INSURANCE ON PARCELS.
A mailable parcel on which the post
age is fully prepaid may be insured
against loss in an amount equivalent
to its actual value, but not to exceed
$50, on payment of a fee of 10 cents in
parcel post stamps, such stamps to be
affixed.
When a parcel is insured, the sender
will be given a receipt showing the
office and date of mailing and number
of the parcel.
When a return receipt is desired by
the sender of an insured parcel the
postmaster at the mailing office will
note the request on the margin of the
insurance taer, and the postmaster at
the office of address will obtain from
the addressee a receipt and mail it to
the sender.
The liability for indemnity shall
cease when delivery has been effected.
Parcels may be re-mailed or forward
ed on the payment of additional post
age at the rate which would be charge
able if they were originally mailed at
the forwarding office, in which case
the necessary stamps will be affixed by
the forwarding postmaster. Payment
must be made every time the parcel is
forwarded.
Parcels must be prepared for mail
ing in such manner that the contents
can be easily examined. A parcel
will not be accepted for mailing unless
it bears the name and address of the
sender preceded by the word From."
In addition to the name and address
of tbe sender, which is required, it will
be permissible to write or print on the
covering of a parcel, or on a tag or
label attached to it, the occupation of
the sender and to indicate in a small
space by means of marks, the letters.
numbers, names or otber brief descrip
tion, the character of the parcel, but
ample space must be left ou the ad
dress side for the full address in legi
ble characters and for the necessary
postage stamps. Inscriptions sucn as
"Merry Christmas," "Please do not
open until Christmas," "Happy New
Year," "With Best Wishes." and the
like, may be placed on the covering of
the parcel in such manner as not to
interfere with the address.
The law requires that the postage on
all matter must be prepaid by distinct
ive parcel post stamps affixed. Post
masters cannot receive for mailing
parcels that do not bear such stamps.
Parcel post stamps are not valid for
the payment of postage on matter of
the first, second and third classes, and
when used for that purpose, the matter
to which they are affixed shail be treat
ed as "Held for postage."
Parcel post maps, with accompany
ing guides, are to be be sold to the
public at their cost, 75 cents, through
the chief clerk of the Postoffice Depart
ment. In ordering maps care should
be taken to specify the postoffice from
which the postage rates are to be
determined.
LIQUOR BILL UP.
Denunciation Of Mail Order Business
As An Enemy Of State Proeibition.
(By the Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16. Denun
ciation of the mail order liquor busi
ness as the enemy of State prohibi
tion, characterized the opening hear
ing today in the Senate for the pas
sage of the Sheppard-Kenyon bill to
prohibit the shipment of liquor across
State lines into "dry" territory. Gal
leries were thronged with men and wo
men identified with the National Tem
perance movement.
Consideration of the bill was devot
ed to addresses in its support by Sen
ators Sanders, of Tennesse, and Mc
Cumber, of North Dakota, both of
whom had introduced bills similar to
the measure pending.
Legislative rules threw the back to
the regular calendar when the short
debate was interrupted by the conven
ing of the Archbald court of impeach
ment. Members will demand that a
gain it be taken up, however, and an
effort probably will be made soon to
have it brought before the Senate as
"unfinished business" insuring its
daily consideration until it finally is
disposed of.
Interest in the constitutionality of
the proposed law was manifest through
out the day's debate. Senator Mc
Cumber declared efforts to give State
governments power to seize liquor
shipments as soon as they crossed the
State lines must fall, because the Su
preme Court invariably had held such
legislation to oe unconstitional.
The Federal Government has entire
right, he declared, to prohibit the ship
ment of liquor into prohibition States.
The measure pending which passed the
House as the Sheppard bill, prohibits
the present mail order and express or
der business in liquor, in States where
local prohibition prevails.
PELLAGRA SPREADS.
In Six Years Disease Has Claimed
Not Less Than 30,000 Victims.
(By the Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 Pellagra is
spreading in the United States and in
the six years it has been known to med
ical authorities has claimed not less
than 30,000 victims with a fatality rate
in excess of 40 per cent, according to a
report of the Pablic Health Service to
day. "It has reached," the report contends,
"the dignity of a public health question
of National importance."
The report gives these figures by States
for the period 1907-1911 :
Virginia, total cases 628, deaths 349,
deat rate per hundred cases, 35 per cent ;
North Carolina, cases 2,412, deaths
1,067, rate 44 per cent; South Carolina,
cases 1,880, deaths 582, rate 31 per cent;
Georgia, cases 4,558, deaths 1,582, rate
34 per cent; Kentucky, 513, deaths 220,
rate 43 per cent ; Alabama, cases 3,314,
deaths 859, rate 37 per cent ; Mississippi,
cases 2,895, deaths 1,250, rate 43 per
cent; Louisiana, cases 670, deaths 296,
rate 44 per cent
The figures show pellagra either prev
alent or sporadic -in the greater part of
the United States, but particularly se
rious in the Souih.
UNION MILLS MATTERS.
A Busy Week With Round Hill Stu
dents Personals.
fSnerial to The Sun.)
UNION MILLS, Dec. 17. Attorney
Robert S. Eaves, of Rutherfordton,
was up Sunday to see his mother,
Mrs. J. B. Eaves, who has been quite
sick for some time, but we are erlad to
learn is much better.
Mr. John Stallings, who has been
engaged in railroad work in Georgia
for the past several months, has re
turned to his home here,
Mr. Vivian T. Davis, of Forest City,
spent Saturday and Sunday in Union
Mills with friends.
Messrs. P. B. Logan and G. W.
Morgan made a business trip to West
minster Saturday.
Mr. T. A. Bridges is having lumber
delivered on the lot he recently pur
chased from Mr. J - C. Guffey, where
he will build another store house at
an early date.
Our mayor is due a vote of thanks
for the improvements that have been
made on the streets durinf the past
few days, which had been needing very
much.
Mr. D. G. Padgett, the famous cab
bage plant grower, of Rutherfordton,
R-l, was in Union Mills last Thurs
day taking orders for his plants.
Everybody is looking forward with
much pleasure to tho Mclver's public
Friday night next, which promises to
be one of the best of the season. There
has been no pains spared in ureparing
the proaramme, which is said to be
exceptionally good. If you want to
spend a deliarhtful evening, come out.
It is a busy time with the Round
Hill students this week, preparing for
the second quarterly examinations,
Thursday and Friday, but, as the
holidays are almost here and they will
get to rest, they do not care so much
for it. The school will close Friday
and remain closed until Tuesday,
December 31st., when it will take up
again.
There will be a Christmas tree at
Round Hill church Christmas Day for
the Sunday school students and the
little ones are looking forward with
pleasant anticipations.
Mr. Frank Freeman has gone to
Caroleen where he has a position in
Savings Bank.
Mr. L. A. Hamrick, who recently
sold his house and lot to Mr. C. M.
Lewis, is this week movinsr io Spar
tanburg, S. C, where he is engaged in
business. We are informed that Mrs
McCall, of McDowell county, will
move in the house vacated by Mr.
Hamrick the first of the year.
GILKEY NEWS.
School To Give Christmas Enter
tainment Friday Night.
(Special to The Sun.)
GILKEY, Pec. 18. Mr. C. F. Chne
left Monday night for a short trip to
Asheville and Canton.
Rev. Albert Shernll's first, sermon
on Wednesday night was very much
enjoyed by the Gilkey people.
Prof. E. J. Abernethy, of Caroleen,
spent Saturday in Gilkey.
There will be a Christmas entertain
ment at the school house Friday night,
December 20th. Following is the pro
gram: Song: Welcome Glad Christmas
Time.
Recitation: Let All The Children
Love Him.
Recitation: A Christmas Thought.
Song: Baby Dear.
Recitation: I Wonder.
Sonsr: Jolly Old St. Nicholas.
Recitation: When Santa Claus
Comes.
Song: Come And Spend Christmas
With Me.
Recitation: Signs of Christmas.
Dialogue: Trials of a School
Teacher.
Play: Christmas Night.
Song: Joy Bells.
Recitation: Forty Years Ago.
Song: The Song of Songs.
Recitation: Annie And Willie's
Prayer.
Play: Christmas at Skeeter Corner.
Miss Pauline Geer, who is attending
school at Mars Hill College, is ex
pected home soon for the Christmas
holidays.
In anticipation of an unusually
heavy Christmas rush, calls for extra
assistance, it is reported by the Post
office Department, are being made by
postoffices all over the country. The
fact that the parcels post system will
be inaugurated January 1 also con
fronts postmasters and many of the
emergency employes may become per
manent fixtures as the result of the
increased work.
WALLS NEWS NOTES.
Mrs. D. M. Spratk Returns Home
From Hospiial Personals.
-.
(Special' to The Sun.)
WALL'S, Dec. 16. We have been
having some favorable weather this
week. Farmers are plowing some.
Mr. W. E. Padgett spent Sunday at
Mr. W. L. Lee's.
Mr. E. A. Jones is very low with
pneumonia. We hope he will soon
recover.
Mrs. D. M. Spratt returned to her
home near here Saturday from the
Rutherford Hospital where she has
been for some time. We are glad to
see her home again.
Miss Annie Harrill. who has been
with her sister, Mrs. W. D. Edwards,
for the past two weeks, returned home
Sunday.
The Wall's school is in a flourishing
condition just now. We are proud of
Mr. Stockton's fine work. The school
will close Friday for Christmas.
Mr. W. L. Lee made a business trip
to Forest City Saturday.
Messrs. J. C. Bridges and J. E.
Bostic returned last week from Meck
lenberg county, Virginia, where they
have been inspecting land. They will
probably move tneir families there.
Mr. E. T. Weasj has moved his saw
mill from our section to Mr. Dile
Bridge's place near Hopewell.
Messrs. E. T. Weast and W. L. Lee
will make a trip to Juliette, Ga., in a
few days.
Miss l assie Byers, our assistant
school teacher, spent the latter part of
last week in Ellenboro on account of
the illness of her sister-in-law, Mrs.
Chivous Byers. Miss Alda Bostic
had charge of the school during Miss
Byers' absence.
Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Early visited
Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Davis Sunday.
Mr. Jeff Earley will move into the
Bud Davis house soon.
Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Padgett, of Bos
tic, were here one night last week
Mr. Fay Hollifleld was here Sunday
in his auto.
Dr. C. O. Champion, of Mooresboro,
was in this section Thursday.
RABID FARM MULE
BREAKS INTO HOUSE
A STRANGE STORY FROM BOIL
ING SPRINGS, S. C.
The Mad "Critter" Enters Mr. Charlie
Chapman's Home At Late Hour In
Night And After Breaking Up Furni
ture And Frightening Family Is Shot
THE FIRST CHRISTMAS TREE
Custom Originated With Northmen
Hanging Their Stockings.
Across the English Channel, where
the Gauls and the Franks and the north
men observed the stern rites of the se
vere religion of a strong hearted race,
trees formed an important part in the
festal observances of the feast days.
The pine tree ever in all ages an object
of deserved admiration was greatly re
vered by the northern folk. At the time
of the midwinter celebration the north
men hung gifts upon the tree for their
gods. As is readily seen, when the ear
ly fathers of the church came to this
fierce people with their message of peac?
it was easy to change the ideas of gifts
proffered to heathern deities into a cus
tom where offerings were made to the
Christian God.
Thus from such humble beginnings
began the cherished customs which are
our heritage of today. Gift giving on
the birthday of Christ may be logically
traced to that observance prevalent in
the middle ages of having Christmas
boxes wherein offerings were placed for
the priests. Christmas boxes erradaally
became au institution in Christian fami
lies as well.
Hanging op the stockings on Christ
mas eve, as the institution of good St.
Nicholas, old Santa Claus, is of purely
Christian origin and started in Germany
many hundreds years ago. It has be
come one ot the most cnensued or
Christmas customs of the civilized
world. National Mothly.
UNION MILLS RURAL MEWS.
Big Tract Of Timbered Land Changes
Hands School Entertainment.
Special to The Sun.)
UNION MILLS, R-l, Dec. 17. The
Oak Hill School will give an enter
tainment consisting of dialogues, rec
itations and vocal music on Friday,
the 20th instant, beginning at 1 p. m.
Let all who love school children come
and we promise to please you.
Mr. P. Wilkerson and family, who
moved to the cotton mill last year,
are moving back to the Cove and say
they like here best of all.
The Hutton and Bourbonnais Com
pany have bought a tract of timbered
land from Mr. J. Yancey and others.
Mr. E. C. Harris has just surveyed
the purchase and is finishing the plats
and informs us it includes Indian
Grove, Mikes and Rich Mountains
and the Pinnacle and contains 1,500
acres. Only a few years ago this land
was sold for one dollar per acre; the
present purchase is at 80. 50 per acre
and still is -'dirt cheap."
(Spartanburg Herald, the 14th.)
Aroused from their slumbers at 4
o'clock yesterday morning by a furi
ous battering on the front door of their
house, near Boiling Springs, Charlie
Chapman, who lives on J. D. Collies'
farm, and the members of his family
jumped hastily from their beds to find
out who was trying to batter down the
house at that unearthly hour of the
night-time, when suddenly the door
fell in with a fearful crash and Mr.
Chapman's fine farm mule gave a fu
rious snort and plunged into the room
and cavorted around at a furious rate,
putting the occupants of the house to
flight. It was a fearful moment f-r
Mr. Chapman and the members of his
family, for they were in constant dan
ger of being struck by the iron-shod
hoofs of the rabid animal or being
bitten. The mule lunged and pitched
about the house, rising up first on its
hind legs and pawing the floor and
snapDinff at everything in sight, then
kicking up its hind legs, knocking ta
bles, chairs and other pieces of furni
ture into smithereens.
FAMILY IN DANGER.
When the mad mule first broke into
the dwelling Mr. "Chapman was so un
nerved that he lost control of himself,
not knowinsr ust how to handle the
situation. He soon recovered himselr,
however, and made a desperate effort
to get the animal out of the house,
though he dared not venture close to
the rabid mule. He threw open all the
doors, thinking perhaps that the mule
in its mad career about the house
might perchance leap through one of
the openings and thus free himself
and family from all danger of serious
harm. Hismuleship, however, refused
to leave the dwelling, but held the
fort, as it were, smashing pieces of
furniture in first one room and then
the other by its wild antics.
RABID MULE IS SHUT.
After toying for more than an hour
to put the mule to flight and failing,
Mr. Chapman decided to use force and
arms in regaining possession of his
home. Securing his gun and after
seeing that it was heavily charged he
opened fire on the mad animal. When
the first shot was fired into the mule's
head it gave a hoarse bellow like some
wild beast of the jungle and nlunged
about the room like a whale struck
with a harpoon. He fired again and
again, the fifth shot putting the mule
out of business.
NEIGHBORS GATHER.
There was no more sleep for the
members or the Chapman family after
their exciting experiences with the mad
mule. When daylight came Mr. Chap
man called at the home of several
neighbors, related his unusual exper
ience and asked that they come over to
his place and assist him in removing
the dead carcass from within his
house. The news spread rapidly
through the country and many farm
ers from the surrounding neighbor
hood gathered at the house and aided
Mr. Chapman in getting the dead ani
mal out of the house, which was no
small task.
GENTLE THE PRFVIOUS NIGHT.
In telling his friends of the incident,
Mr. Chapman said that the mule ap
peared to be perfectly gentle when he
fed his stock the night before. He en
tered the stall occupied by the mule
and placed the corn in the trough and
the animal showed no unusual symp
toms, but on the other hand, appeared
to be perfectly docile. After feeding
the mule he securely fastened the door
to the stall. Dnring the night the ani
mal became afflicted with rabies, broke
down the door of the stable and made
for the home of his owner and pro
ceeded to break into his house.
Mr. Chapman is unable to account
for his mule going suddenly mad and
if the animal was ever bitten by a
rabid dog he is not aware of the fact.
Mr. Charlie Chapman is nephew of
Mr. H. Al Bell, of this place. The
Sun.