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i . . m THE SU1N Advertising Columns Brings Results vibe Job Printing Departrner t Solicits Your W oik. VOL. J8. NO. II. RUTHERFORDTON, N. CJ THURSDAY, MARCH IS, X9I5 $1.00 A YEAR. THE SUN HAS THE LARGEST CIRCULATION OF ANY (WEEKLY IN THE TENTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT BUTLER-PAINTER. Death Of Mrs. Sarah Thomas For est City Rural News. (Special to The un.) Forest City R-l, March 16. Owing to so much rain during the past win ter, the farmers are badly behind with tbeir plowinsr. However, we have had a few nice days the past week and we made erood use of it. We are sorry to note the sickness of Mrs. George Dogeett. We hope she may soon be well again. Mrs. Sarah Thomas died Friday and was buried Saturday at Bethany, Rev. J. M. Goode conducting the fun eral services. She is survived by two sons and a daughter, Mr. John K homas, of Forest City; Mr. Neal Thomas, of Spartanburg, S. C, and Mrs. June Hopper, of Rutherfordton Route 1, together with several grand children and great-grandchildren. We extend to the bereaved family and friends our sympathy. Miss Mattie Butler and Mr. Cecelia Painter were happily married Sunday at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Butler. Immediately after the ceremony they left in auto mobiles for the groom's home near Cbessnee. We extend congratulations to the happy couple and wish for them a long and happy life. STRUCK BY BUCKET. Marvin Whitaker Hurt While Fire In Henrietta. At Henrietta. March 12 A house be longing to the Henrietta Mills Company and occupied by the families of Messrs Robert Boheler and Thomas Grant was destroyed by fire at 8 o'clock iast night When discovered the fire had gained such headway that nothing could be done. It being too far from the mill for the hose to be available, bucket brigades were quickly formed, however, whioh by heroic work saved the nearby houses. A stiff breeze was blowing and a bucket was dropped from the top of a house, striking Marvin Whitaker ia the forehead, inflicting a severe and pain ful injury. A rather strange coincidence of the fire last night is the fact that eight years ago a Lou-e on the same spot was destroyed by fire in which I oar children ljst their lives and the other occupants o the house escaped by jumping from the second-story windows. The school at Providence taught by Miss May Young of Union Mills closed this week. The children celebrated the closing of tne schools by a ball game with Henrietta and a picnic at Flat Rock which is a favorite picnic ground nearby. GILKEY GLEANINGS. Box Supper For Benefit Of Gilboa Church Quarterly Conference. (Special to The Sun.) Giikey, March 16. There will be a box supper at GilKey school house for the benefit of Gilboa church, Saturday night, March 20th. The public is in vited. Mr. and Mrs. Douglass Simpson, Miss Myrtle Simpson and Mr. Kus sel Simpson of Rutherfordton, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Hines Sunday. Messrs. W. A. Warlick and W. O Geer were among the Gilkey visitors in Rutherfordton Monday. Mrs. H. M. Allen and children, of Rutherfordton Route 3, visited rela tives in Gilkey last week. Misses Logan and Hill spent the week end at their respective homes. Mr. C. F. Cline was in Rutherford ton today attending the stockholders meeting of The Citizens' Bank We are glad to see quite a number of our people out again after a seige of grippe and colds. Mr. Crawford Edwards has accepted a position the Clififside Mills. Mr. Gilbert Dixon, of Charlotte, is spending this week with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Dixon. Mrs. A. F. Geer, of Darington, spent Wednesday in town. The second quarterly conference wili convene with Gilboa church Friday, the 19th. Two services, dinner on tne grounds. Mrs. C. Buchanan spent Thursday in Union Mills attending the revival. Miss Eva Mashburn, of Union Mills, is visiting her sister, Mrs. J. P. Ben nett. Mr Clyde Edwards, a student of Round Hill School, spent Saturday and Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Edwards. BIRTHDAY DINNER SUNDAY Much Interest In Bible Class Oth er Rural News Notes. (Upeeiau to The un.) Chimney Rock Road, March 15. We are having some beautiful weath er now to the delight of the farmers. The Bible class at Piedmont, which meets every Thursday night, is pro gressing nicelv, conducted by Kev. W. F. Sinclair, ranch interest is being taken m this study. We hope to see some good results from these meetings Let the good work go on. Rev. G. G. O'Neil will preach at the Mountain Creek school bouse next Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock for the benefit of the old and feeble ones in the community that can not go out to church. We hope to see a good con gregation out to hear him. Mrs. J. A. Hodge and daughter, Miss Ida, are both right sick. Also, Mrs. Noah Hodge is right sick. We hope to see them out again soon. Mr. Jim Hyder and little daughter, of Green Hill, visited his sister, Mrs. B. W. Hyder, last Friday. Miss Vinnie Walker visited Miss Ida Hodge last Sunday night. Mrs. B, W. Hyder is visiting her sister this week at Green Hill. Mrs. Bob Hix Allen is right sick at this writing. We hope she will soon be out again. Mr. John Owens gave a birthday dinner last Sunday, it being his fath er's birthday and, also, two of his daughters'. All report a (rood time and wish Mr. Owens and grand-children many more birthdays. UNION MIL' S MATTERS. Westminster Oefeats Round Hill In The Third Baseball Game. (Special to The Sun.) Union Mills. March 16 -Mr, F. P. Freeman, the clever and genial assist ant cashier of the Peoples' Bank,went to Mooresboro last week to act as cashier of the Bank of Mooresboro during the absence of its cashier, Mr. McCardwell. who is taking a two weeks' vacation at his native home in Kentucky. In the third game of baseball be tween Round Hill Academy and West minster School, which was played on the Westminster ground last Satur day afternoon, the latter won by the score of 15 to 4, Arrangement for two more erames between these two schools have been made, one to be played on the local ground next Mon day afternoon and the other in Ruth erfordton a little later. Round Hill has a game scheduled with Boiling Springs High School to be played here Monday afternoon, March 29tb, also. Mr. J. D. Layne, a teacher in the graded schools of High Point, is in Union Mills, visiting his daughter, Miss Judidah Layne, a Round Hill student, who is ill with grippe. THE WAR S LOSSES. Interesting Facts About The Great European Struggle. Early in the war Lord Kitchener had said that the struggle might last three vears, says the Review of Reviews. What seemed a mere rough estimate becomes far more significant examined by the few statistics yet available, which show the wastage of war. Thus it seems fair to estimate that Germany has now in the field 3.000.000 men, France 2,000,000, Austria 1,000. 000, Russia 3,000,000. England at no distant date will have 1. COO. 000 on the continent. Serbia and Belgium may be reckoned to have 250,000. Now, as far as Russia is concerned her supply of men is for the ordinary calculation inexhaustible. That she can keep her European force at 31, 000,000 for three years despite battle losses, is hardly debatable. As to England, her ability to maintain an army of 1,000,000 on the continent in definitely and despite losses is equally to be accepted. It is different with France. Her available military pop ulation may be reckoned at 4.000,000. Of this she has already lost 1,000,000 by death, capture, disease or wounds Haif of this number may be reckoned as permanently lost. At this rate, France will be reduced at the opening of the third year of war to 2,000.000 With her allies she will then have 6, 000,000 men. But her losses in this year cannot be made good, save by the new class coming to the colors In 19 '7 and levies from her colonies. The Germans may be reckoned to have had 6,000,000 men available for service in July, 1914; 600,000 more will be supplied by the combined classes if 1916 and 1917. German losses in t) e first six months may be estimated at 1,800,000. At this rate l,8C0,000.witl be removed permanently from the Ger man lines in each of the first vears f war. Thus at the opening of the third year, Germany will still have 3,000,000 men to draw on. But her losses there after will be definite,, because she wiil have texbauste her reserve. As to Austria she has lost more than 1,000, 000 already in her many disaster-. She may still have 1,000,000 in the fied but a year hence, two years hence, she can hope for no more, and her r sources, too, wiil be completely ex hausted. Thus as the third year of the war opens not more than 4.000,000 Austro Germans, the last line, will confront 6.000,000 Russians, British and French, helped by some hundreds of thousands of Slaves and Belgians, be hind whom will stand Russian and British reserve of at least 4,000,000 This means, with every discount for the roughness of the estimate, that some time in the third year, while Rus sia and Britain are still able to keep their armies at their present point Austro-German forces will begin to decline rapidly, and a tremenduous advantage of numbers will belong to the enemies of Germany Such 1s the statement of what may be called the mathematics of murder. FOR PERFECT REGISTRATION. North Carolina Soon To Be Recognized A Registration State. North Carolina will soon take her rightful place among the States of the Union as a registration State. This is all due to a law just passed perfect ing our registration of births and deaths. Hereafter, upon the death of any person in the State, the under taker or person acting as such wiil be obliged to file a death certificate with the local registrar in exchange for a burial permit witbin seventy-two hours after death or before the burial of the body. Heretofore, in the country, ten days were allowed tor filing such death certificates after the burial of the body. As a result a large portion of deaths in the country were forgotten, over looked and unrecordea, and our vital statistics, particularly for rural dis tricts, are of very little value and In many cases worthless and even mis leading. These conditions were so self-evident that the Federal authorities re fused, and rightly, to recognize North Carolina as a registration State or to give our statistics a place beside the statistics of other States with prone laws. It is not known it North Caro lina will be recogoized as a registra tion State for 1915 or not, as almost one-fourth of the year will have passed before the law can be put into sction, but there is no doubt that the figures for 1916 will be accepted by Federal authorities. After that North Caro lina will be favored with emigrants seeking healthful climes who now have no means whatever of knowing whether North Carolina is a healthful State or no. SHIP BILL DEFEAT ENORMOUS CRIME Senator Simmons Declares Killing Of It Will Cost The United States Millions Republicans Prevented Passage. (Special to New York American.) Washington, March 6. In the j 'g ment of Senators who fought for ship purchase bill, the remarkable e n dition of the ports of this com ' y, with no sailings for the next week or ten days, emphasizes the crin a.l character of the fillibuster on the ; .rt of the Republicans that prevented vhe passage of that law. "The exact situation that I h-ve feared has come to pass," said S na tor Simmons, of North Carolina, chair man of the Committee on Finance, ho was the President's lieutenant in the ship bill fight. "This complete paral ysis of ocean traffic as outlined b the New York American today brings viv idly before the American people their helplessness when the interests of the ship owners are considered rather than the interests of the whole people, "The business interests of the coun try will soon Jearn that the defeat of the administration's bill was 1 ttle short of a crime, and when bus:n99 suffers the people is individuals suffer along with it. The spectacle of Amer ican goods being stored in all our sea board cities and no ships with h cb to send them is a sorry one to con template. "The action of the British govern ment in withdrawing tne ships of that nation from the fields of commerce to the purpose of war emphasizes tie ab solute dependence of the United States on foreign transportation for the de livery of our products. - "A business man who would depend upon his competitor to haul his - da would soon go into bankruptcy et that is exactly the situation in which this Country finds itself todas administration offered a way by which we could escape from that cependxr ce upon our national rivals, but the Re publicans prevented its adoption "I have always believed tbM the real emergency would come after his war is ended. 1 believe the bil 'ha was vefeated would have been of ir timaole value to our people for st v r al years to come, for the situation trial will confront us durintr the next ten days will be increased a hundred fi ids after peace is declared. "Then we will find the merchant ma rine of tne nations now at war carry ing on the trade of their respective countries and giving only incidental attention to the commerce oj the Ui it ed States. "We are seeking to build up a trade with South American countries. As an excellent beginning in that direc tion we changed our banking laws to permit the establishment of b: i ch banks in those countries. But this will not avail if we must continu to depend upon foreign shipuing to trans port our goods. "England, France and Germany, af ter peace is declared, will make ut us ual efforts to regain the business U ej have lost in those countries during the war. We can expect no consideration from them in their fight to oust us from the trade we have taken from them. And yet, to continue that trade, we will be at the mercy of the ships of our competitors. "The New York American made a great fight to aid in the passage of this bill, but success was impossible in the face of the organized fillibuste "I believed the failure of the ship purchase bill will cost us untold mil lions. A crime was committed when the ship bill was defeated, and the enormity of that crime will become more apparent when peace is resto ed and our rivals re-enter their id fields." Mail And Express Car Burns. The mail ana express car No. 16 on the the Seaboard was burned Friday evening. The car caught fire between Alexis and Stanley Creek, and after being sidetracked at Stanley the c ir was burned up completely, togeiltr with all the mail of every description. The express packages were rem ued and saved. A lamp in the mail car was overturned, the oil causing a q nek fire. The negro mail clerk did not im mediately give the alarm, but attempt ed to extinguish tne blaze himself, a d did not notify anyone of his trounles until the train reached Stanley, hen the crew and passengers disci. v. ted the fire. The burned car was then de tached and set on the siding at thai place Lincoln County News. 1
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