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THE SUN, THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 10, 1919 AN APPEAL FOR LIVES Commissioner Young Makes Strong Appeal As your State official charged with the duty of preventing fires and accidents, I am asking every one in our beloved State to read and con sider the following: The lives of our people, especial ly our women and little children, are being sacrificed! For several years as your Insur ance Commissioner and ex officia Fire Marshal I have called to your attention the immense and useless loss each year of property within our State by fire. The appeal has not been without good results, though we are still losing each year $4,000,000 of property in North Carolina $11,000 each day. Now, at least, three-fourths of this loss is due to ignorance and carelessness, principally carelessness. This must be stopped if we are to meet the problems and difficulties of the re construction period. It is a shame on our people, their habits of care lessness and indifference to the fire hazard. But today I am not thinking of this immense loss of property its great waste. At the cost of a great outlay of money and labor it can be replaced. The loss of lives by fire is on my mind. Is it any wonder it rests heavily? For -several years I clipped from our newspapers items of deaths by fires and obtained about 150 or 175 each year. This was a surprise to me an dto others to whom I gave the figures. But after the Health De partment began to gather vital sta tistics the figures showed a loss of lives by fires in North Carolina in 1916 of 327 and in 1917 of 310 nearly one a day. Had the most ob servant of our people even imagined such a thing such a loss of lives! The statistics for 1918 are not yet available, not having yet been tabulated; but why wait for them? The loss of lives by fii'es in North Carolina since January 1, 1919, has averaged about two a day, and if kept up will total during the pres ent year 600 or 700 practically two a day. The papers carry each day such deaths and casualties from fires, to say nothing of those from automo biles and other causes, i Over three-fourths of the fires can be prevented with ordinary care. Will our people exercise it this care take the necessary precau tion? Will they cease to feel that fires and accidents will just happen? They do not happen. They have causes. Most of these causes are the products of ignorance or care lessness. This appeal is to try to arouse our people. Who will fail to joir in the crusade against fires and the loss of life and property resulting from them? The property can be rebuilt, even if the loss is irreparable ; but who can bring these dead ones to life? Who can restore even one of these little ones to life and loving parents? To your Tents, O Israel! A worse enemy than the Philistines is upon you. The world-war and its death and horrors have ceased, but not the loss of life in our homes. Your boys no longer lay down their lives in France to save the world and its civilization; but the lives of our women and children are still shamelessly sacrificed" upon the alter of American ignorance and careless ness! JAMES R. YOUNG, Insurance Commissioners and ex officia Fire Marshal. WATCH THE "HUMP" SMITH-NIX Celebrate The Fourth By Mar riage Mr. C. C. Smith of Union Mills, R-l, who lives in the Shingle Hollow section and Mrs. S. J. Nix of R-3, were happily married July 4th st 11 a. m. at the groom's home. The ceremony was performed by Rev. W. L. Haynes. Mr. Smith is a promin ent farmer and a well known citizen, while his bride is the widow of Mr. S. J. Nix, deceased and is an ac complished lady. A bountiful din ner and celebration was held at the groom's home, immediately after the ceremony which was enjoyed by many friends and relatives. Both have tried the matrimonial venture before but we join their many friends and relatives in wish ing them much joy and success in life. Subscriptions And Renewals Continue To Come In. The "Hump" continues to grow. ! During the past week 30 names were added to The Sun's rapidly growing list. The following are the names: Rutherford ton G. W. Henry, R-l $ .75 C. E. Justice .50 J. B. Elliotte .75 A. it. xeiton .o R. L. Taylor, R-l .50 W. M. Young, R-l .75 Mrs. M. S. T. Steadman 1.00 Sam Steadman .50 G. H. Morrow, R-l .50 C. R. Blanton, R-l .75 J. F. Roberson, R-l .50 G. W. Radford, R-l .75 W.J. Beheler, R-l .75 Geo. L. Jones, R-l .75 Forest City Kynard Bayard $ .50 L. B. McDaniel, R-2 1.50 R. R. Hardin, R-2 .50 Caroleen T. P. Martin $ .75 Birch Matthews .75 John Giles .50 Bostic Miscellaneous A. W. Smith, Woodward, Okla. $ .50 J. H. Melton, Wilmington .75 Lee Duncan, Dawkins, S. C. .75 S. R. Gillespie, Ellenboro .75 W. S. Daves, Mooresboro, R-2 .50 R. H. Shotwell, Charlotte .75 W. H. Krause, Union Mills .75 W. E. White, Shelby, R-5 .50 HILL SCOGGIN DIES Well Known Rutherford ton Man Passes Mr. Hill Scoggin of this place de parted this life last Saturday after noon. He had been in declining health for some years. He was a middle aged man and was well known and highly respected. He was proprietor of the City Cafe for some time and was also manager of the Scoggin Grocery company. He is survived by his wife, little son, Hill Jr., two sisters, Miss Em ma and Mrs. W. W. Wright of At lanta, Ga., and one brother, Lewis, of Wadesboro. The funeral was conducted at his home Sunday afternoon by Rev. J. A. McKaughan assisted by Rev. J. C. Grier. He was laid to rest in the Rutherfordton cemetery. He was a member of the Baptist church. We sympathize with the widow and son in their bereavement. Smokehouse Burned Mr. J. M. Goode, who lives near Mt. Vernon, on Forest City R-3, woke up last Saturday night at mid night to find that his smokehouse was in flames. The family retired at ten o'clock. There was no sign of fire then. Mr. Goode lost some meat, molasses, tools and his build ing. The total loss was over $200. No insurance. It was only by the heroic efforts of his neighbors that his home was saved. The origin of che fire is still a mystery. Meeting Closes A series of revival meetings which have been in progress for two weeks at the Cleghorn Mills Welfare house came to a close Sunday night. Revs. Clayton B. Miller and J. R. Jackson conducted the services. Large crowds attended and much in terest was manifested. Two addi tions to the church were made. "Men who can neither brag nor flatter need not fear being loved by women." Mc Arthur-Brock Mr. J. L. McArthur of Welford, S. C, and Miss Ellie Brock of Ashe- ville were married here July 4th by Rev. J. C. Grier. The couple de sired a little romance and hence came here and married. Both are well known in their respective com munities and we bespeak for them much success and joy in life. Wall-Lovelace Mr. Frank Wall and Miss Rachel Lovelace of the Cleghorn Mills vil lage were married Saturday after noon at 3 o'clock by Rev. J. R. Jack son at the bride's home. Both are well known young couples and have a host of friends who wish them well on their new venture. The summer resorts are thronged with pleasure seekers, which shows that our people have plenty of mon ey, for it calls for wealth to spend a week at a summer hotel. CRIMSON CLOVER THE WONDEBFTTL BOIL IMPROVING- CROP. An Excellent Winter and Spring1 Grazing1 Crop Best of Early Green Feed Good Kay Crop Crimson Clover can be sown from the first of July to early In October. It is particularly valu able as a soil improver for corn and cotton, sowing: it at the last working-, turning it under the following May, and growing in creased crops each year. BE SUSS TO SOW WOOD'S SEEDS They are carefully selected and tested for germination and free from impurities and objection able weed seeds. SEED POTATOES for Fall Crop Potato growers are getting won derful prices just now. Plant a liberal acreage in June and July. Potatoes may sell high again next winter. Write for "Wood's Crop Spe cial" giving timely information and prices. Mailed free. T. W.WOOD & SONS, SEEDSMEN, Richmond, Va. MOBILE SCHOOL HERE Green River Baptist Associa tion Mobile School The Green River Association Mo bile Schol will meet at Rutherford ton Baptist church July 21 at 7 :30 p. m. and continue to the 25th. Ev ery church in the Association is ex pected and earnestly requested to send some of its Sunday School workers and teachers to this school. It is an opportunity and means for training for better service in the Lord's cause brought right to our doors, and we should not let it pass unused. The cost to each one will be a small item. Room for the night and breakfast will be furnish ed by the Rutherfordton church. J. A. McKaughan, pastor of Ruther fordton church, will be host and dean of the school. The faculty consists of J. M. Tay lor, Sunday schools, Rev. W. T. Tate, The Atonement, Rev. A. W. Setzer, B. Y. P. U.; Rev. D. J. Hunt, Stew ardship and Missions; Rev. L. W. Teague, Bible and Rev. W. E. Goode, Preacher. This is a strong faculty, and it will be a real school doing real study in the Bible and different phases of church work, which is so much needed by church workers. The school will open each morning at 9 :30. Thirty minutes will be devoted to intercession and North Carolina Baptist drill, and from 10 to 12 classes will be in session. At 2:30 p. m. the school will reassam ble for study and adjourn at 5 p. m. and 8 p. m. preaching service. Bro. Goode is a strong preacher, and will bring soul stirring messages. The public is cordially invited to the preaching seivices. 1 These are Baptist institutions. They are called Mobile Schools be cause they are movable, and be cause they are mobilizing the Bap tist people of North Carolina for ac tion in the great day that is now breaking upon the world. Five days of intensive drill work will be done in this school. It is ex pected that at least two members from each Baptist church in this section of the State will be in at tendance at this school. Entertain ment is on the Harvard Plan: bed and breakfast free, dinner and sup per to be paid for. This Mobile School work is a new line of work in the churches ;it shows how the Christian denominations are mobilizing and drilling i'o t the crpm- quest of the world. Our crowns must be made into Christian armies now, or what has been gained in this great war is lost. J. A. McKAUGHAN, Host and Dean. BRICK PLANT AT BOSTIC A VISIT TO HOLLIS Hon. J. P. D. Dithrow Will Er ect Monument To Soldiers The editor made a Fourth of July trip to Hollis and will wager that he had a better time than the folks who went to big celebrations. He saw no airplane or parade, no great throng of sweltering people, but en joyed the hospitality of one of the most wholesouled merchants in this entire section. Mr. Withrow announc ed that he expects to erect in front of his rock school house a huge mon ument to the soldiers who went from that section, two of whom lost their lives in the recent conflict. In addi tion to this Mr. Withrow expects to erect a large stone church and al read has the stone out to begin work. His fruit crop is' not up to the av erage, but much better than in the lower section because he is in the iso thermal belt and never makes a com plete failure. He will sell hundreds of bushels on good markets and al ready some of the fruit is being sold. Mr. Withrow gets his water sup ply from a spring on a mountain be yond his house. It flows by gravity to his house and about the store and premises, supply fresh cool water at a number of places at a pressure as strong as the water of Shelby at the spigots. The water is conveyed in galvanized pipes for three miles. Mr. Withrow has another announ cement to make at an early date which will attract considerable at tention and many visitors to his love ly mountain town. Cleveland Star. "BAYER CROSS" ON ASPIRIN Always Ask for Genuine 'IBayer Tablets of Aspirin" Bostic Wins School Election Saturday Personals (Special to The Sun). BOSTIC, July 7. The Bostic Brick Company, under management of Mr. Kendrick from Cherryville, have begun clearing ground for the erection of the brick plant. Pro posed plans are on a large scale, and it is expected that they will be mak ing brick within sixty to ninety days. The people of Bostic welcome this new enterprise. Private Arbeth Clemmer, member of 317th machine gun battalion, 81st division, returned home a few days ago. Mr. T. C. Howell attended the Shriners meeting at Hendersonville July 4th. Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Browne of Cherryville spent the week-end with Mrs. Browne's mother, Mrs. M. L. Clemmer. The Bostic baseball team played Dobbin's College Saturday, score 7 to 5, favor of Bostic. Batteries for Bostic, Rollins and Allie, Dobbin's College, Downey and Hardin. Sgt. D. D. Green, formerly with the 81st division overseas, has ac cepted a position with the Bostic Bank. Mrs. R. L. Likens enteitained a crowd of the young people Satur day evening. All report a good time. Misses Allmae and Winnie Davis of Forest City spent Sunday with their sister, Mrs. Buron Harrill. The election for voting bonds to build a new school building is to be held next Saturday, July 12th. Con siderable interest has been aroused, and prospects are very bright for the election carrying in favor of the bonds. If the election carries favorable, the proposed building will cost around $10,000, and it is intended for the building to be com pleted for the coming term. I am Sincere! Stop Calomel r I Guarantee Dodson's Liver Tone Listen to me! Calomel sickens and yon may lose a -day's work. If bilious, constipated on headachy read my guarantee. f Every druggist in town vour lruirist and evervbodv's druggist hiis noticed a great fallinr-off in the sale of calomel. Thev all ffive the same reason. Dodson's Liver Tone is taking its phiee. ."Calomel is dangerous and people know it. while Dodson's Liver Tone is perfectly safe and rives better re sults," said a prominent local drusr srist. Dodson's Liver Tone is ?"er eonallv guaranteed bv everv drug gist who sells it. A large b costs but a few cents, and if it fails to give easv relief in everv ease of liver sluggishness and constipation, von have onlv to ask for vour tnonev back. Dodson's Liver Tone is a pleasant tasting, purely vegetable ivi'.; harmless to hath children and sdnl. Take ,-i spoonful at night and i.'ake Ho up he I a i the feel in d-cin'. :i .I bo-wel lie.v'1 ( ; i lf it stoiUHe lay lil, nisneps, sieic i or eonsfi t'r ,Trine all I 1 r?el LIFT CORNS OR CALLUSES OFF Doesn't hurt! Lift any corn or callus off with fingers Do you not laugh, oh, listening friends, when men praise those dead whose virtues they discovered no when living? It takes much marb to build the sepuleher. How litt of lath and plaster would have paired the great ! Bulwer. ) I ra NOTICE OF SERVICE BY PUBLICATION North Carolina, In Superior Court Rutherford County, Aug. Term, 1919 T. P. Coakley, plaintiff, -vs- Ad die Coakley, defendant. The defendant above named will take notice that an action has been commenced in the Superior Court of Rutherford county, North Carolina, by the plaintiff against the defend ant for the purpose of obtaining an absolute divorce from the defendant on the ground of ababondment and the said defendant will further take notice that she is required to appear at the next term of the Superior court of Rutherford county, North Carolina, on Monday, August 18, 1919, at the court house in said county and answer or demur to the complaint filed in said action or the plaintiff will apply to the court for the relief demanded in the com plaint. This July 5th, 1919. D. B. JOHNSTON, Clerk Sup erior Court Rutherford countv. M. L. EDWARDS, Atty for Plaintiff cor r r t ip re- The Sun, your county paper $1.50 "Rather than make love in clumsy language, bite your tongue out." From the Japanese. Don't suffer! A tiny bottle of Freezone costs but a few cents at any drug store. Apply a few drops on the ns, calluses and "hard skin" onJot- of feet, then lift them off. X neii Freezone removes corns from the es or calluses from the bottom of feet, skin beneath is left pink and healthy and never sore, tender or irritated. Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S C ASTO R I A NOTICE All persons holding receipted shares of stock in the Farmer's Warehouse of Forest City are here with notified to present and file same with the undersigned on or before Thursday, July 24, 1919; and per sons who have not receipted shares but who wish to file claims on ac count of stock will file verified state ments on or before said date. The undersigned will liquidate and settle the affairs of said warehouse at so id time. June 23, 1919. W. M. WATSON, Pres. JNO. P. BEAN, Sec. & Treaa. The Standing of a Company in its Home State, where its Management is Intimately Known to Neighbors and Friends, is of the Greatest Pos sible Significance. : : : : The statement below shows that in 1918 the JEFFERSON STANDARD LIFE INSUR ANCE COMPANY, of Greensboro, N. C, led all Companies in the amount of business written in its home State, and among its competitors were all of the oldest and largest companies in the United States: STATEMENT Old Line Companies, as given by the North Showing amount of ordinary insurance JEFFERSON STANDARD $8,725,570 Metropolitan Life 4,744,403 Aetna 3,738,352 Southern Life & Trust 5,770,876 New York Life 3,281,593 Mutual Benefit Life 3,094,437 Mutual Life of New York 3,072,891 Equitable Life Assurance 2,575,444 Life Insurance Co. of Va. 1,220,957 Atlantic Life 2,205,032 National Life of Vermont 1,329,938 New England Mutual Life 725,562 Union Central Life 980,009 Prudential of America 601,535 Carolina Insurance Department : written in North Carolina in 1918 Travelers Life $1 Guardian Life Penn Mutual Philadelphia Life 1 Volunteer State Life State Mutual of Mass. Phoenix Mutual Life Fidelity Mutual Life Northwestern Mutual Pacific Mutual Life Mass. Mutual Life Home Life of New York Security Mutual Life Reserve Loan Life by leading ,105,466 871,336 932,093 ,108,040 616,936 253,941 472,284 345,122 397,900 822,077 603,894 227,008 252,335 149,500 At The Close of Business December 31st, 1918 Assets - $ 9,703,324.95 Surplus to Protect Policyholders - 1,099,322.36 Total Insurance in Force 81,644,994.00 The well-known and carefully followed policy of investing its money in those sec tions from which it collects its premuims makes the JEFFERSON STANDARD essential ly a Home Company in every section in which it operates. I have a proposition for a good man in each township in Rutherford, Cleveland and Polk Counties who can give a "few hours time each week, to help us place the New Special Benefit Policy among his friends and neighbors. A. L. PERDUE & SON General Agents and District Managers Rutherfordton, N. C.
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