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VOL. XVI.
NORTH WILKESBORO, N. C, JULY 29, 1913. ISSUED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS.
NO. 40.
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LOCAL ITEMS tf INTEREST
lir. J. H. Thompson has been j whiskey has got to go. There has
appointed one of the assistants in the i been some stir among the officers since
North Wilkesboro post office and will j last Friday. Joe Gambill, who was
succeed later to the duties of assist- convicted of not directly retailing but
ant postmaster, Mr. J. R. Marlow. of being a kind of walking Saturday
Court on next week and one of the afternoon club, was fined $30. Fi
largest dockets for a long time. more Adams wa3 tried and convicted
Judge Cline, of CatawLa, will preside. and sentenced to the roads and sent
The calendar was being made out to the calaboose yesterday at noon to
by the attorneys for thn r.ivil imrt of I
the term.
Otto Wood, fleeing from the prison
authorities at Richmond, was arrested
near Oakvvoods yesterday morning by
Officer S. C. AVebster and will be sent
back there.
During the summer a drought has
prevailed around the W'ilkesboros ex
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tending for a radius of five miles north
and east and south and ten miles west
and southwest. Tuesday evening of
last week a- wetting shower fell in this
circle and on Sunday one of the most
plentious of rain falls revived the dy
ing and dead pasture land grass and
corn crops.
A basebajl game was pulled off at
Roaring Gap last Saturday between a
team of that place and Elkin who
drew on the Wilkes Twins for Messrs.
Archie and J. P. Rousseau and Robt.
Star returning here yesterday. The
score was 3 to 0 in favor of Roaring
Gap, at the end of tha 6th inning
during which an extra-ordinary ruling
by the umpire nuiified an inning or
two.
Mr. C. H. Somers, clerk of Wilkes
superior court, and Mr. A. R. Sher
man returned Saturday from Balti
more. Mr. Somers, while not entire
ly recovered and yet advised not to
return to his duties at the court house,
is improving most satisfactorily, and
is expected to soon be restored to
health entirely, his friends in the
county will be gald indeed to learn
from the doctors attending.
J. C. Henry & Company, North
Wilkesboro's shoe house, has taken
the place of the J. C. Henry shoe
Btore with Mr. Frank A. Miller joined
to the company. Recently Mr. Miller
moved here from Winston-Salem at
first connected with the branch
store here of the Jenkins Shoe
Company of Winston-Salem but
has become a member of the J. C.
Henry and Company. Since Friday
the company has had on a sale cir
culated as "Big Ben" and was a
uniquely mysterious advertisement
that attracted attention and is, these
gentlemen say, the promotion of a
successful sale.
Mrs. A. R. Smith entertained last
Friday evening at her home in Wilkes
boro at a porch party in honor of her
friend, Miss ' Lelia Rudder, of Knox
ville, Tenn,, who is visiting her, and
her sister, Miss Haynes.
The Baraca and Philathea classes
of the Baptist church in Wilkesboro
enjoyed a lawn party at the home of
Mr. T. M. Foster Friday evening given
by Miss Lelia Church, member of the
Philatheas.
Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Hart
- at Home
Tuesday Evening
The Twenty Ninth
Eight Thirty to Eleven
Mr. and Mrs. Tbos. E. Hart.
Intitute and pension board at court
house today. Hear "Home Building."
Can Cancer Be Cured? It
Can.
The record of the Kellam Hospital
is without parrallel.having permanent
ly cured over 90 per cent of the many
thousands of sufferers of cancer,
Tumor and chronic sored, that have
gone to this Hospital. The senate and
Legislature of Virginia have endorsed
this treatment, alter thoroughly in
vestieating the merits of same. If
you are afflicted and desire further in
formation address: Kellam Hospital,
Inc.
Richmond, Va.
P.S.
Dr. Harr7 Kellam will be at the
Bluemont Hotel North Wilkesboro
until Friday of this week for the
purpose of making free eiminations.
I fiefs Walkin? Satiirila Afternoon Club.
It looks like that bad, bad, old
awa1' further investigation ana pro-J
bably give bond; Adams claims, it is
said, that a friend living up the Yad
kin will go on his bond.
Yesterday the officers went to a
place and found 30 gallons of wine.
6unClub Saturday Evening.
. Quite a number of gunning sports
were on the fair grounds Saturday
afternoon in the contest of 23 shots at
clay pigeons. Following is the score.
C. C. Gambill . 21
J. T. Finley
18
D. S. Lane
17
15
14
13
12
11
10
9
7
2
E. H. Dockery
rt. M. Brame
11. C. Caviuess
Eller Stafford
E. L. Hart
E. B. Barkley
J. G. Hackett 10 out of 20
J. J. Rogers
J. E. Phillips
W. R. Rogers
Winner last week was Mr. J.T. Fin
ley intead as printed erroneously.
Baseball at Purlear-Personals.
Correspondence of the Hustler.
The baseball team of Wilkes boro-Pole-Bridge-Adley
played Purlear
here Saturday winning by a score of
2 to 1. The Reddies River ball team
will give the team here a contest
next Saturday, August, 2d. Mr.
Bunker Cooper umpired the game
which was very interesting.
There was preaching at Arbor
Grove church Sunday night. Messrs.
Curgus, Charlie and June W. McNeil
returned home Saturday from a trip
to the Virginia-Carolina Railroad.
Mr. Green Bumgarner took dinner
with Mrs. J. F. Hays Sunday. Mr.
Jas. T. Nichols, of this place, visited
Sunday at Mr. T. S. McNeil's
Purlear, N. C, Jnly 28th.
Going to Have One This Time.
Lookout! Going tD have one sure
enough this time.
The Wilkes County Fair Association
has just closed a contract with Thom
as Brady Aviation Company of New
York for a flying machine attraction
for the coming fair September 23, 24
and25th. The aviation company agrees
to give six flights during the three
days of the fair, two each day, "no
flights, no pay."
The management will have coa
tract printed in the Hustler in later
Hsue says one of the officials of the
fair.
Strong Demand Made by U, S. on Mexico.
Sunday a dispatch from Washington
"Strong representations, the
most drastic in phraseology that have
been made since the present American
Administration came into power, were
made to the Huerta Government in
Mexico today.
The United States "Government de
manded not only the prompt arrest,
court martial and punishment of the
Mexican Federal soldiers who shot
Charles B. Dixon, an American im
migration official, at Juarez, Mexico,
but the immediate release of Charles
Bissel and Bennard McDonald, min
ing managers, imprisoned by Federal
soldiers at Chihuahua City and said
to be threatened with execution. So
serious were these incidents regarded
in official circles that they overshad
owed largely the theoretical consid
erations of policy which the visit of
Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson has
brought to a climax. The Ambassa
dor himself has been so exercised over
the developments in Mexico that he
dictated two strong telegrams, one to
the Ambassy at Mexico City and the
other to the American Consul at Jua
rez and while Secretary Bryan slight
ly modified their tone, they were ap
proved and promptly dispatched.
Beaver Creek Farmers Yesterday Held Best
Institute Yet in the State This Summer, j
A large crowd of the farmers of the
southwestern part of Wilkes attended j
the farmers institute in Beaver Creek j
township yesterday. A special train
schedule was arranged out from North
Wilkesboro by Manager H. C. Landon
of the new road and some parties went
on this train and some of the Agri
cultural party of the State also went
by hack, the former returning to North
Wilkesboro last night for the institute
in Wilkesboro today. Mr. C. L. New
man, Mrs. W. R. Hollowell, Miss C B.
Phelps, Col. J. S. Cunningham, of
Raleigh. The Beaver Creek point was
about one-and-a-half miles from the
railroad.
The Beaver Creek farmers, Prof.
Newman says, are some of the most
proficient of farmers and that the in
stitute held yesterday surpassed any
yet held this year in North Car-
olina. About 500 people attended
and a number were even crowded out
of the Beaver Creek church, where,
excepting during the picnic dinner,
the speaking was.
Prof. R. S. Curtis, interested in
livestock, joined the agricultural
folks here last night. Mrs. Hollo
well's talk on "Home Building" is
said to be an orator's discourse. They
go to Ronda tomorrow, next to Yad-
kinville, and from there to Booneville.
No Mexican Jingoism.
Atlanta Constitution.
While it is increasingly evident
that the United States will soon be
forced to declare a decisive attitude
toward Mexico, it is to be hoped that
President Wilson will continue his
policy of declining to be swayed by
talk of a jingoistic nature. The situa
tion is of itself sufficiently seriou s.
It is threatened with complications in
the shape of bumptious war talk in
both house and senate. Senators
and representatives of the immediate
border states are, here and there, dis
playing an inclination to force the
hand of the government .
It is going to be no child's play, no
duplication of the easy conquests of
the Philippines and of Cuba, if we go
into Mexico. It is a foregone con
clusion that the moment American
troops cross the border, Mexican feuds
will be forgotten and the warring ele
ments will unite against ou r forces.
In the long run, of course, there can
be but one outcome, and that victory
for this country. But the victory
may cost millions in money and thou
sands of lives, and the conte st may
stretch over many years and evolve
into tedious and protracted guerrilla
warfare.
Our duty to the other nations, under
the Monroe doctrine, not to mention
our duty to our own citizens and their
property, will probably compel us to
come to an early decision. We can
not require that Europe "hands off'
while its citizens are being m urdered
and their property confiscated or de
stroyed. But whatever steps we take
should be in full knowledge of the
consequences and not in response to
hysteria and impulse.
Little Girl Walked Into Greek and Drowned.
Hickory Democrat.
baturday afternoon lust after a
hard rain that visited nearly every
section of Catawba county, Rachel,
the littfe two-year-old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. P. H. Punch, of the Fair-
grove church section, wandered about
200 yards from the house and was
drowned in Clark's crank. Thn
girl had been in the habit of playing
in the creek with her brothers and
Bisters during dry weather when the
creek was low. A little wagon which
the little girl had carried with her was
found on the creek bank where the
children had been in the habit of en
tering the creek. The creek was
swollen and the current very swift
after the rain and it is supposed that
the little girl walked on into the
stream, not knowing the danger. The
body was found about a half-mile down
the stream in some drift.
Yon can get the news twice a-week
by sending $1 to the Hustler.
Moravian Falls.
Miss Esta Pardue is visiting reia-
tives in Cineinatti, Ohio. Mr. Fletcher
Bobbitt and family, of St. Petersburg,
Fla., are visiting friends and relatives
here. Mr. Jue Pearson returned home
from Jenkins-Jones, W. Va., where he
holds a position as superintendent of
a large construction company. Misses
Mabel and Francis Hendren, of
Wilkesboro, spent Sunday with their
uncle, Mr. W. 0. Hendren. Mr. J. A.
McLean, of Cricket, was here Sunday.
Mr. R. C. Jennings and wife left Sun
day for Blowing Rock, where they
will spend a few days. Prof. U. A.
Miller is conducting a few days sing
ing school here. Prof. Miller is a
competent and thorough teacher; and
has a large attendance. The school
will close .Saturday night, August lind,
with a concert. Everybody is cor
dially invited to come ouc. The pro
tracted meeting at Boomer Baptist
church will continue through a part
of this week. Several were baptised
Sunday. The pastor Rev. Watts is
assisted by Revs. Geo. Bumgarner and
Shaver.
Lost Their Shoes and Stockings.
Two small children of Mr. and Mrs.
H. C. Caviness caused a sensation in
Wilkesboro Friday night by making
an unknown departure from home that
afternoon without returning. When
night came and they still did not re
turn their parents' anxiety increased.
The only guide toward them was the
meagre clue of having been seen play
ing at the ford of Cub Creek about
3 o'clock on Brushy Mountain road
which leads southward out from
Wilkesboro. Persons sought in differ
ent directions until after nine o'cloc k
with no success when about 9:30
some one found both children, ages
about 8 and 12, asleep soundly under
the dwelling house, near the creek, of
Mr. John Church. One child had lost
its shoes and stockings and feared a
little to return home without them.
Cattle Famine May Apply to Wilkes.
Richmond Journal.
Virginia farmers are already feel
ing the pinch of a scarcity of cattle.
Tempted by the high prices when beef
became scarce last year and the pack
ing houses were scouring the land
for a supply to keep their trade go
ing. Virginia farmers sold off all
the beeves they could spare and even
allowed cows to go, for which the y
are now in great need.
The Carroll Journal bemoans the
cupidity of the farmers of that county
in selling off their stock and declares
that it will take five years to re
stock the farms with cattle to the
amount that existed in 1911. "Dur
ing the fall of 1912," says this con
temporary, "Corrall county farmers
sold off their beef cattle, their calves,
their work cattle and even their cows
at fancy prices.
"Now the perplexing thing with
the farmer is 'Where can he get cat
tle to stock the farm with and to
grow into beef.' The county was com'
pletely scraped in 1912 for everything
that had hide and hoof. Today there
is more last years hay stacks stand
ing in the meadows than has ever been
known before with prospects looking
to the same conditions next year,
This most deplorable condition is not
confined to this county alone, but
exists throughout the State of Virgin
ia, and is a condition which is going
to greatly cripple the increased farm
production of the old State to a great
t) Aleut fur the lie At live years."
The packers themselves last year
sent out a warning against the
slaughter of calves as the only means
of preserving the cattle supply and
the Department of agriculture is issu
ing bulletins to the Southern farmers
to preserve their cattle against a
dangerous unstocking of the whole
country.
These warnings are not only timely,
but nearly to late.
"Were all medicines as meritorious
as Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy the world would
be much better off and the precent
are of suffering decreased,4 writes
Lindsay Scott, of Temple, Ind. For
sale by All Dealers.
Personals.
Miss Laura Smith, of Wilkesboro,
went Saturday to vis;t her father, Mr.
J. 1. Smith, at Taylorsville.
Mr. Crawley Henderson left here
Sunday for Dallas, Tex., where he
expects to make his future home.
We are sorry that our industrious
young men leave our community, but
h re's wishing them every success.
--East Bend Pilot.
Mr, Coachman of Clearwater, Fla.,
arrived Friday and has been at Mr.
J. II. Ilumpries' at Moravian Falls. It
is said that Mr. Coachman is interest
ed in the power of the old Moravian
mill-water falls.
Miss Ethel Messick, of Hickory, is
visiting friends at Lenoir and the
Happy Valley.
Prof. E. G. Suttlemyre, of Catawba
county, is traveling a month fur
Lenoir College.
Mrs. Neta M. Hedgpeth, of Conway,
N. C, is spending a few days with
Mrs. Corrie at her cottage on the
mountain.
Mr. A. 0. Bray returned Saturday
from recreating at Virginia Beach.
The family of Mr. S. L. Boyd, of
Greensboro, were expected here Sat
urday en route to Glendale Springs.
Mrs. E. 0. Penny, of Wake county,
arrived Saturday and is visiting her
neice, Mrs. Jos. M. Prevette.in Wilkes
boro. Mr. and Mrs. June Davis and Mr.
Robt. and Mrs. Farlow, of Randleman,
Randolph county, arrived Saturday,
visited their aunt, Mrs. F. M. Welborn,
and Mr. W. S. Wellborn above Wilkes
boro, returning to Randolph Monday
leaving on the early train, Mr. and
Mrs. Davis had just returned from a
bridal trip to Florida, the former be
ing agent for the Southern at Rand
elman, while Mr. Farlow is inspector
of the offices of agents for the Dan
ville division.
Mr. W. B. Henry came in Saturday
from Edenton to spend a few days on
the Mountain with his family.
Miss Gay Holman returned Satur
day from attending the summer school
at the Greensboro Normal.
Miss Elizabeth Piluon returned Sat
urday from Greensboro.
Former Congressman Cowles return
ed Monday from Greensboro having
left Saturday.
Miss Ella Hollar went to East Bend
Saturday to spend a few days.
Miss Ethel Dimmette, who had been
visiting at her old home in the county,
was on the train going out to Win
ston Saturday afternoon.
Miss Annie Sue LeGrande, of
Greensboro, is visiting Miss Nellie
Rousseau in Wilkesboro this week.
Miss Madine Smith, of New Frank
lin, Missouri, is visiting Mr. W. R.
and Mrs. Martin.
Miss Hassie Bobbit, of Florida, arriv
ed yesterday to join her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. J. F. Bobbit, who are visitng
in Moravian Falls township.
Mrs. H. G. Sanderfur returned to
North Wilkesboro yesterday.
Mr. F. 0. and Mrs. Foster, of Blue
field. W. Va., and children, arrived
here going out to their old home in
Lewis Fork to visit their parents, Mr.
A. M. Foster and Mr. Lee Watts.
Mrs. C. V. Mason, Mrs. Chas. Mc
Kibbon, Master Chas W. Mason, of
Raleigh, and C. W. Mason, Jr., of the
U. S. Navy, arrived Friday night at
the Blue Mont and went out to the
Mason place near Poors Knob, ex
cepting Mrs. McKibbon who returned
toward Raleigh Saturday.
iurs. xi. Li. rass aim sou, mr. d. v
Pass, of Yadkinville, passed through
yesterday at noon en route to Elkville
to yisit Mrs. James Horton.
Mr. A. F. and Mrs. Long and child
ren, of Tobaccoville, arrived on the
noon yesterday going by carriage from
here tp visit relatives in the new coun
ty of Avery.
Mr. C. C. Foushee, of Jonesboro,
was registered at the Blue Mont Sun
day.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Hamp. Forester, of
Asherille, who are visiting lelatives
in and around the Wilkesboro, will
remain for several days longer before
returning to Asheville.
News from Counties Near.
Mr. Culey representing here the
Garrett Wine Company of Norfolk,
Va., left on Saturday afternoon's train
east ward.
The primaries for selecting a Demo
cratic candidate for governor in Vir
ginia, says the Grayson Gazette, is
next Tuesday.
The Catawba "ounty creamery will
soon be completed and the machinery
installed in a large establishment,
says the Catawba paper.
A revival meeting is to begin next
Sunday, August 3d, at Dobson; Pre
siding Elder R. M. Taylor, formerly of
North Wilkesboro, will preach.
Fig correspondent of the Ashe
county Recorder says: Most of our
iburing men are preparing to "leave"
for the new Railroad as soon as crops
are laied by.
Morganton Herald: Mrs. W. M.
Michaux took her little son John to
Dr. Long's Sanatorium, Statesville,
last week for treatment. While there
with him Mrs. Michaux was taken
suddenly ill, and it was found that an
operation for gall stones was necess
ary. It is gratifying to the friends
of the family to know that both Mrs.
Michaux and little John are getting
along very well.
Watauga Democrat: W. J. Gran
din, President of the Watauga and
Yadkin River Railway, was here the
first of the week in conference with
Attorneys Linnel and Coffey and Prof.
B. B. Dougherty. He says he is will
ing to give bond to the State that the
road will be built into Watauge when
the convicts offered are put to work.
This is sounding good again, as the
State proposes to put at least 100
convicts on the road, when the bond
is made.
General News.
American Embassador Wilson, of
Mexico, reached Washington Saturday
night by way of the New York port.
The International Institute of
Agriculture reports over 12 per cent,
increased grain crop in this year in
European Russia.
Mr. T. G. Cobb, of the Morganton
News Herald, is undergoing treatment
at Dr. Long's Sanitorium in Statesville
for several weeks.
Miss Mamie Jenkins, trained nurse
of the Presbyterian hospital at Char
lotte, arrived yesterday and is visit
ing her brother, Mr. C. E. Jenkins.
Mr. Thos. and Mrs. Hart, newly
married couple, returned from Blow
ing Rock Saturday.
Dr. Harry Kellam, son of the estab-
lisher of the Kellam cancer hospital
at Richmond, Va., is in North Wilkes
boro this week.
Dr. A. H. Myers, who has been visit-
his sister, Mrs. T. R. Parlier, left yes
terday afternoon returning to New
York.
Mr. John Cranor and two children
and Miss Fannie Cranor left yesterday
morning for Statesville to see Mrs.
W. H. McElwee.
Mrs. W. A. Jarvis and daughters,
Misses Letha, Electra, and Stella, and
little Miss Bessie Taylor, of High Rock,
are visiting relatives at Roaring River.
Mrs. W. A. Burchett, returned
first of the week to her home in
Oklahoma after visiting relatives in
Wilkes and Watauga courties.
Miss Hanna Taylor, of Rocky
Mountain, came in last night to visit
her sister, Mrs. Louis Ulrich.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Mewborne, of
Kinston, came in last night to visit
his sister, Mrs. J. J. Rogers, at the
Blue Mont.
Messrs. C. A. McGlamery, S. L.
Pardue, D. J. Brookshire, N. S.
Forester, and Mr. W. L. Stimpson,
will leave oi the excursion for Nor
folk this afternoon.
Special Doctor Monday.
Dr. M.A.Royall, of Elkin, will be ia
Wilkesboro, Hotel Smithey, Monday,
August 4th. His practice is "limit
ed to diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose
Throat and fitting glasses."