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NORTH WILKESBORO, N. G, AUGUST I, 1913. ISSUED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS.
NO. 41.
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LOCAL ITEMS tf INTEREST
Lots have been surveyed at the
station of Ferguson and sold for busi
ness. Wilkesboro's commissioners have
taken steps to contract lights from
Mr. J. H. Humphries for power from
Moravian falls. A franchise has
granted.
Sixty-five tickets were sold at the
Southern's office here Tuesday for
persons going to Norfolk on the spec
cial train on which they will return
this morning.
Mr. John Staley, of Millers Creek,
was taken to the Wilkes hospital
Tuesday evening where he underwent
an operation for appendicitis about 5
o'clock, and is now recovering.
The Hustler has been requested to
announce that the fair grounds are
now open to all persons. The race
track is in condition for driving and
all are cordially invited to give it a
visit.
Eigh ty-three buhels of wheat from
3 acres of land is the yield of Mr. F.
S. Brown, of Poors Knob, this fine
season. His land was used last year
for pasturage and sown with seed
from T. W. Wood & Son at Richmond,
Va.
Quite a number attended the farm
ers' institute held at Ronda Wed
nesday and many of whom attended
the match game of baseball between
the team of that place and the Wilkes
Twins. The score was 8 to 7 in fa
vor of the Twins.
The pension board of Wilkes in
session Tuesday passed upon 16 appli
cations acting favorably upon 13 and
rejecting 3. Eleven widows of ex
soldiers were included in this number
of successful applicants, and one
among the 3 rejections.
Mr. T. H. Hines, inspector of rail
way ties for the Southern, has taken
up several 'thousand ties here this
week, including about 4,000 which the
Southern purchased from the Watau
ga company here and to be taken up
next week at Browns Ford.
Mr. R. Don Laws, of whom it was
thought had suffered a stroke of
paralysis, was sufficiently recovered
to guide Messrs. J. A. Humphries
and Mr. Coachman, of Florida, to the
top of Poors Knob, a three-thousand
foot elevation, Wednesday.
Mr. Ruffin Wilmoth, of Surry coun
ty, was one among a number of wit
nesses of the eastern part of the coun
tv who appeared here yesterday for
a hearing in a real estate suit before
the clerk of the superior court of
Wilkes on account of whose illness the
hearing was postponed to another
time.
Social.
Miss Jettie Miller entertained at a
lawn party Wednesday night in honor
of her guest, Miss Maude Minish, of
Lenoir and of the faculty of the grad
ed school of uranite r alls, in pro
gressive rook Mr. Lee Hemphill won a
box of Huylers candy.
Miss Nellie Rousseau entertained
friends Wednesday evening at 6
o'clock dinner.
Miss Annie Hubbard of Wilkesboro
entertained a few friends at whist
last evening.
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Union Republic.
An order confirming the sale of the
tangible assets of the Yadkin Lime
Company was signed by judge Lane in
the superior court, July 25th, in the
case of the People's National Bank and
others vs. The Yadkin Lime Company,
Inc., stockholders, A. J. Wellingham,A,
F. Messick and A. F. Messick Grocery
Company. The report of John M.
Robinson, receiver, showed that the
tangible assets of the company, con
listing of real estate, machinery, tools
and personal property used in connec
tion with the plant situated at Lime
Sock, N. C, has been sold to A. F.
and C. K. Messick, highest bidders,
for the sum of $4,500.
Kortk Wilkesboro's In Hotel and Cbangi
ii Proprietors.
A change of hotel management in
North Wilkesboro will take place this
Friday morning. Mr. J.J. Rogers,
proprietor of the Blue Mont, will as
sume charge also of the Central hotel
for the present. Only one dinning
room will be maintained and that will
be the present one at the Blue Mont
place, and the Central will be used
only for its sleeping rooms and ladies'
parlor. Mr. Roger's son, Mr. W. G.
Rogers, will, more or less with Mrs.
Roger, have more immediate supervi
sion of the old Central. Mr. A. F.
Jones, who has been conducting the
Central for the past few years most
satisfactorily to his customers, has
not yet fully decided upon what he
will pursue other than the fact that
he will likely continue to live in North
Wilkesboro and may enter the insur
ance business.
The new arranging of the hotels
will not however be very permanent.
This morning the stockholders of the
newly organized hotel stockholders,
the Gordon Hotel Company, will meet
and decide upon plans and architect
for the erection of the fifty thousand
dollar hotel on the corner of the Cen
tral's site. Thirty-five hundred dollars
was lacking in subscription when Mes
srs. Smoot and Rogers agreed to as
sure this balance. The work will not
be done under contract but designat
ed supervision. The W. H. Waugh
& Company here is to take a thousand
dollars worth of stock.
Bad Conditions in Davidson County.
Lexington, July Hotli, dispatch.
Lee Ford, the man who shot and
killed Policeman J. M. Garland on the
streets of Lexington April 4, 1913,
was arraigned in Superior Court here
today. The court house was crowd
ed to suffocation when the sheriff
brought Ford in. Ho was neatly
dressed and apparently in fine health.
He took the proceeding very calmly,
showing no interest in it.
When it came time to set the day
for the trial and arrange for a special
venire to try the case, Solicitor Bow
er made a motion that a jury be sum
moned from another county to try
the case, and Mr. J. F. Spruill of
counsel for the prosecution read a
number of affidavits that bordered on
the sensational. These affidavits,
signed by citizens of prominence and
large influence, stated that owing to
the corruption that exists in David
son county they believe it would be
impossible for the State to get a fair
deal in the trial of the case.
The affidavits stated that 25 or 30
per cent, of the citizens of Davidson
county, whose names are in the jury
box, can be bought and sold in an
election. While not admitting the
truth of the statements in the affi
davits, the defense offered no ob
jections to the drawing of a jury from
another county, and Judge Shaw
made an order directing the drawing
of a special venire of 35 from Forsyth
county. The case was set for trial
Monday morning, August 4.
For the Rescued Children.
Charlotte Observer.
The management of the Alexander
Rescue Home has arranged to give
the inmates an outing for a month at
Hiddenite, where a comfortable house
has been secured to shelter the party,
The plan is one that will appeal fa
vorably to the friends of this insti-
tubiou ami to carry n ouoauocesBiuiiy
some aid in the way of funds is nec
essary. It will require but little be
yond the means of the managers of
the Home, and the Charlotte public
will no doubt be prompt with the
needed contributions. The Rescue
Home has proved an institution of
great good to the city, and has been
doing fine work for the town and com
munity. The month's outing will
prove of benefit to the children in
many ways and the people of the
city should see that it is made fully
successful by a well-equipped com
missary. Mr. J. C. Steele returned last night
from Booneville intalling a private
light plant.
Mm and Worcei Tuesday.
About 25 farmers attended the
meeting of the Farmers' Institute at
the court house Tuesday. About
an equal number of their wives and
single ladies attended the Women's
Institute held in the Northeast room
on the first floor of the Wilkesboro
high school building morning and
afternoon by Mrs. W. R. Hollo we 11,
ofGoldsboro, and Miss Phelps, of
Raleigh. Prof. Newman made the
principal address.
Among other things he alluded
to water as being either a very des
tructive force or a good fertilizer.
He said that water destroyed twenty
five times more in North Carolina
than fire. A number of answers
were given to the question, "What
is fertilizer?" Some gave the gen
eral answer that it was plant food.
Speaking of the uselessnesss of buy
ing certain kinds of fertilizer for
certain soils, he said: Wilkes county
farmers with red soil should not buy
a muriate potash, sulphur pota sh
or cunite, because the soil now alrea dy
has this in it, abundantly. In Wayne
county, he said farmers should no t
buy a phosphoric acid fertilizer be -cause
the land there has it plenti
fully. The time to sow alfalfa in
Wilkes, he advised, last of Septem
ber and first of October, and sowin g
25 or 30 pounds to the acre. "If
I was going to sow alfalfa, I'd star t a
year or two ahead to prepare my
land for it." He spoke of lime ai be
ing necessary in the soil of this coun
ty he thought for the growing of th e
alfalfa. For innoculation go into
the soil three inches and drill it into
the alfalfa land late in the even ing
to prevent the rays of sun destroy ing
the bacilli.
In a class room of the graded scho ol
building, Mrs. W. B. Hollowell, Miss
C. B. Phelps, and Mr. Jno. E. Ray
addressed a small number of ladies
on important matters relating - to
homemaking.
Mr8.HolloweH's remarks were chiefly
concerned with the care of babies,
and her talk contained much practi
cal information that every mother and
public school teacher should have .
She protested vigorously against many
unsanitary practices common in the
care of babies, and brought out
strongly the supreme importance of
keeping everything pertaining to the
baby absolutely clean and sanitary.
Following is in brief her timely infor
mation about baby's food and how and
when it should be taken.
The baby should not be given any
thing but water and mother's milk un
til he is six months old. He should
be allowed to nurse once every two
hours in the day time, and less often
at night, until he is several weeks old.
After that the time between meals
should be increased gradually . If the
baby does not retain the milk, give
two tea spoonfuls of water before
nursing to prevent his taking too
much milk. All water given to the
baby should be boiled and coole d. No
solid food should be given to him un
til he is abla to chew it. Strained
oat meal, hominy and rice, if thor
oughly cooked, (not a minute lest
than three hours,) are go od foods.
Unthickened gravy and butter may be
used with these foods. Good cow's
milk takes the place of mother's milk
when the baby is weaned. The milk
should be allowed to stand for an
hour or two before giving it to the
baby. Then the top of the uilk should
be taken and diluted with equal parts
of boiling water. If this does not
satisfy, use a smaller proportion of
water, or water strained from thor
oughly cooked barley meal or oat
meal. Baby should be weaned when
about 9 to 12 months old, and before
the beginning of his second summer.
Mr. Ray spoke in the interest of
blind children of the State, pointing
out the importance of educating them
for intelligent and useful citizenship.
He gave some interesting instances of
cases that have come under his own
observation, showing how a course in
the school for the blind has raised
many from the condition of pauper-
Cepyty Sheriff Shoots and Kills Hear
Wilkes Llie.
Near the Wilkes line in Caldwell
Wednesday afternoon a shooting and
homicide took place. Word came to
North Wilkesboro by parties from
Boomer yesterday that Deputy Sheriff
Robt Thompson in company with one
or two other officers were cutting a
blockade distillery, and a man named
Robert Beaver ran to get away from
the distillery and officers, though
not the owner and not wishing to be
implicated. The point was about
seven miles southwest of Boomer on
the Caldwell side of the line about
two and a half miles. According to
reports the officer says that the shoo t
ing was accidental. They returned
to Lenoir by way of Kings Creek , it
is said, with the captured still, and
that the fatal shot was fired from th e
rear to frighten and cause Beaver
to stop instead of fall dying shot thru
and through from the back the ball
coming out in front just above the
heart.
One of the men of the officers it
was said is a son of the sheriff of
Caldwell.
Hammer Is An Ail-Around Big Man.
Winston Dlspntoh,
When the Hon. W. C. Hammer b e
comes United States District Attor
ney for the western district of North
Carolina, as he will undoubtedly do,
looking for a foregone conclusion ,
juries who have to do duty in that
particular tribunal, where Mr. Ham
mer will hold forth, will have no
trouble what ever in hearing what the
District Attorney remarks, ne'ther
will the witnesses, unless they are so
deaf they would fail to hear the
booming, of a 12-inch gun three paces
off. Mr. Hammer does not yell, but
he just naturally has a big voice.
However, his size, his brain, and his
courage are in strict Keeping witn
this vocal ultra largeness.
Col. Hall Injured from Fall.
Early Wednesday morning says a
dispatch from Lenoir, Caldwell, Col. J.
G. Hall stumbled over a chair or some
obstacle in his room and was badly
hurt. The extent of his injuries has
not been fully determined by attend
ing physicians, but it is feared that
one of his hip-joints was dislocat
ed, or that he has suffered the frac
ture of the thigh-bone. After the
accident he was placed in bed and
had not been moved and can
not bare to be handled. Colonel Hall
is a Confederate soldier and has been
in feeble health for some time.
ism to self-support an! independence.
He made a strong appeal to all to
acquaint the authorities at Raleigh
with any case of partial or total
blindness that came under their no
tice. Some interesting statistics were
also given by Mr. Ray. He gave the
number of blind people in North Caro
lina as 1917. Of these 417 ought not
to have been blind. Their eyesight
would have been saved if before they
were a day old their eyes bad been
washed with a weak solution of boric
acid. Boric acid can be bought at
any good drugstore in small ten-cent
packages, each containing enough of
the solution to save the eyes of two
babies. It should be diluted with
sterilized water until it does not burn
an adult's eye, and then applied with
soft clean clothes to baby's eyes, nose
and mouth. Use fresh clothes to
Miss Phelps gave some suggestions
on economy in house keeping, and
pointed out the importance of having
on hand such simple nrst aids as
absorbent cotton, clean cheese cloth
bandages, adhesive plaster and dis
infectants. She suggested turpentine
and listerine as good single disinfect
ants and camphor phenique as the
best for dangerous accidents, such as
a wound from a rusty nail, where there
is danger of lockjaw. All wounds
should be washed in a basin, which has
been sterilized by rinsing with a so
lution of bichloride of mercury. A
good disinfectant should then be us
ed on the wound, and it should be
carefully bandaged to keep out dirt
and germs. Quick lime was suggest
ed as a good disinfectant for cellar,
ditches, etc.
Personals.
Attorney S. Gwyn Finley, of Spar
tanburg, S. C, arrived Tuesday night
and is visiting his sisters, Misses Clara
and Annie Finley, and Mr. J. R. Fin
ley this week, and may visit relatives
at Lenoir, in Caldwell,before returning
to South Carolina.
Mr. W. T. Richards, of New York,
arrived Wednesday at 1 o'clock going
co visit his son at Poors Knob. Mr.
Richards is interested in the European
Steamship Company.
Mr. S. 0. and Mrs. Bury, of Seattle,
Washington, arrived at the Central
Wednesday at noon.
Dr. M. C. and Mrs. Kerr, and ch ild-
ren, of Pennsylvania, passed through
Wednesday for Grandin, where the
former will be physician for the Grand
in Lumber Company.
Mrs. J. E. Johnson, and two child
ren, of Fair Bluff, N. C, arrived Wed
nesday at noon and went out to Poors
Knob that afternoon- to visit Mrs.
Roundtree.
Contractor M. C. Triplett, of Le
noir, was here this week interested in
bidding on some of the new building to
go up in North Wilkesboro.
Mr. A. P. Hall returned via Hid
denite here Wednesday after spend
a few days at Davis Sulphur Springs
hotel.
Mr. H. R. Cowles has returned
from a trip to the mountains of Vir
ginia Statesville Landmark, 29th.
Miss Maud Minish, of Lenoir, is
visiting Misses Jettie Miller, Nettie.
Smoak, in Wilkesboro this week.
Mr. Y. A. Royal left Wednesday
for Goldsboro on business from where
ho intended returning to Chase City,
Va., yesterday.
'Misses Blanche and Rhea Lyde,
who had been visiting at Mr. T. B.
Finley's.left on Wednesday afternoon's
train.
Dr. Plato Bingham, of Watauga,
has been visiting relatives in Wilkes
boro since Tuesday evening.
Mrs. N. A. Bingham, who had been
visiting in Watauga, returned to
Statesville Tuesday.
Mr. J. C. Cooper and Master Fow
ler, of Statesville, arrived last Sat
urday and are visiting at Mr. C. Y.
and Mrs. Miller's in Wilkesboro.
Mr. John L. Cooper, of Norfolk, Va.,
travelling for a saw manufacturing
industry of Philadelphia, brother-in-law
of North Wilkesboro's citizen,
Mr. L. Ulrich, was here last night.
Mr. Thos. K. Miller, of Ore Knob,
Ashe county, was at the Blue Mont
yesterday having accompanied here,
the engineer for the copper mining
company at the Knob to Greensboro,
Mr. Parsons and daughter, Miss
Gertrude Parsons, of Richmond, Va.,
arrived yesterday at noon going to
Boomer township to visit Mr . Isaac
Broyhill.
Miss Carrie and Naomi Triplett, of
Jonesville, spent last Saturday with
friends in Wilkesboro.
Miss Inez Billings, visiting relatives
in Ashe county for the past few
weeks, returned to Elkin Tuesday,
Mrs. Billings meeting her at this
place.
Mrs. James snore ot Konaa, is
visiting Mrs. James Forester in Wilkes
boro.
Miss Genevieve Wright and mother
left yesterday afternoon for Norfolk,
Va., after spending several weeks at
her cottage on the Mountain.
Roberts is still at the Lithia.
Lawyer J. H. Burke, of Taylorsville,
appeared yesterday in the preliminary
hearing at the court house of a seduc
tion case.
Mr. C. R. Siddle, of the Western
Union Telegraph Company with head
quarters at Columbia, S. C, was here
yesterday between trains regula ling
the three Master clocks of North
Wilkesboro.
Miss Nannie Williams, representing
an orphanage of the State, was at the
Central yesterday.
Mr. Joe Holbrook and two grand
children, of Traphill, have been visit
ing Dr.H. T. Smith's in Alleghany, says
the Star. i
Mr. A. B. Johnson went to Winston
this morning.
Depot Enlarged and Other Building at Rar
ing River-Moving Folks.
Correspondence ot the Hustler.
Mr. J. C. Parish, of Greensboro, is
here with a force of carpenters en
larging the depot, which when com
pleted will be much more convenient,
going for the public than the old oner
Messrs. C. H. and S. J. Greenwood
expect to complete their new dam to
morrow, and will be able to grind some
this week. Carpenters are at work
on the new residence of Mr. J.Q. Black
burn.
Mrs. T. J. McNeil went to North
Wilkesboro Saturday to do some shop
ping. Mr. S S. Blackburn went to
Guilford College Saturday and spent
Sunday with his wife and parents, Mr.
and Mrs. S. W. Blackburn. Mr. Thom
as Carter, of Elkin, was here front
Saturday to Monday relieving Agent
S. S. Blackburn. Mr. John Morrisons
left for Roanoke, Va., Saturday after
spending a week here visiting his
folks. " Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Harris left
for their home at Siloam Saturday
after spending a week with his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Harris od
Route One. Mr. J. Alexander went,
to North Wilkesboro Saturday on
business. Little Misses Jessie and.
Lillian McNeil went to Champion Sat
urday to spent two weeks with their
grandmother, Mrs. S. A. McNeil. Mr.
J. F. Haynes and sister, Miss Victoria,,
of Clingman, spent Sunday 'here with
their sister, Mrs. Loyd Mathis. Mrs:.
Augusta Forester, of North Wilkes
boro, got off the train here Sunday
evening and went to Brier Creek to
visit relatives. Among those who
went to Norfolk Tuesday on the ex
cursion were Messrs. H. E. Parks, I.
N. and J. M. Church, Robert Byrd..
Samuel and Robert Warner. Mrs. J.
E. Greenwood and children are spend
ing a few days visiting relatives at
Round Mountain. Mesdames R. A,
River and E. B. Sparks went to North
Wilkesboro today to do some shopping-..
Misses Lelia and Laura Warner went
to North Wilkesboro today to do sowfle:
shopping. Mrs. A. D. Cooper and
sister, Miss Stella Foote, returned',
here after spending a few days with
relatives at North Wilkesboro. Mrs.
Charlie Reves, of Ronda, is spending:
a few days here with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. R. A. Morrison. Mrs. W. A.
Bently returned to her home at Brier
Creek today after spending a few days
at North Wilkesboro with relatives.
B.
Roaring River, N. C, July 30th.
Two Deaths.
Mr. James Woodie at 70 Years.
Mr. James Woodie died at his home
near Champion postoffice Monday at
the age of about 70 years. Mr.
Wooodie has a number of grown chil
dren living in Wilkes among whom
are Messrs, Lindsay and I&aae Woodie.
He had been living near Champion
only about two years having moved
from his former home in Jobs Cabin
township. His wife is also living.
Miss Miller.
The news was read here yesterday
in the Charlotte Observer of the deatht
of Miss Mary Miller at Lenoir. Miss.
Miller had been ill a year or more.
More than two years ago she was:
temporarily in Wilkesboro as stenog
rapher for the Grandin Lumber Com
pany while that company was record
ing and condensing its deeds at the
court house here. She went from
here to Tideout, Pa., for that com
pany, returned to Asheville seeking-.
to regdiu tier iieaim. cue was once
for a while in Charlotte and the Ob
server says "she was a young woman,
of bright mind and attractive person
ality." Team of Mules and Wagon..
Terms reasonable for sale at once.
T. G. Walsh.
Boomer, R. F. D. 1., N. C. .
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