North Carolina Newspapers

1 mm i IT?' V r .&-4ts r- 11., .. .w VOL. XVI, NOR' 'n WILKESBORO, NOVEMBER ISSUED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS- NO. 35. IM.I. id -J H HEARD IN WILKES What (tin- Tiittii Corn jmhiI iiI Hear" And Thinks Items ul I nt.T-t frmn All Over tile 4 u n t y . Trains ire ii i.v i mining into Jelt'cr- f son. A special train was run t the hew station of Denny Sunday where ;l big dinner was Ht-rwil. ! In spile-of l lie heavy don-pour of j rain a large crowd ntl. ri.ii il t he T'ey j 'n Heat Is at the Amuzu last Saturday ! night Arctl t 1 itn-tiiilmtni Inlay. j The llu.-ili-r is requested In aa i -i nil!." :! I.nx 5-ni'i it I . take .'ai-e .t tin- N r !i W'rke-l.nr B iti.-l clutch tn X t Si.iiinl.iy i.iyl.l a I S clock to which tlie public i-r cordial ly invited. Kev. Donald M elver, of Burlington ami a very siiccesstui rresnyienan minister, popular at home and in Pres tery, is to na-ist Kev. ('. W. Robinson in a protracted meeting at the Wilkes boro Presbvterian church beginning next Monday night. In Federal court at Asheville Friday ' a receivership was appointed for the Watauga & Yadkin railroad with V. ,1. Grandin, principal .stockholder, asisnutt, ci.irs ami ciiiietti s st-llir.tr receiver. The transaction is consid-; niote than $200 00 per annum $40. ered voluntary bankruptcy and itsj These, spi cial taxes are payable du' condition attributed to a failure to ' assessable in case of hanks) during sell hunt's in London This action : the month of November for eijriit will not the immediate operations of the company and business of the road. Messrs. 0. C. Wright, A. (1. Hend ren and Jones J. llendren left yester day for Greenville, N C. to attend the State meeting of the Farmers Union. Mr. Wright wojld not ac cept the presidency of the farmers Union of North Carolina- if elected, thought the desirableness of him as president has been warmly urged by members of this county. The dele gates expected to he joined hy Mr. T F. Calloway also at K-mlu. The Southern Railway's lundsnm" new station for a town of North Wilkesboro's size was sullh'iemly com pleted Saturday for moving the ex press and Hegraph office into it. Agents Clements says the freight office will probably be moved first of next week. Things were taking on shape down at the stati n yestenlnv. : Oak seats and l ew stoves in the wait- ing rooms, and concrete pavements arp hpimr hiilt. ill frmi. adioininn which will be a "' is..- pi I, thanks , to the Sou'hiMi Vhe holes a:- being: left along on ihe coneiHe. wail for : installing theteon iron posts and rail- ib)?' Wednesday Night! The Memlelssohus at Amuzu Thea- i tre. Tickets now on sale at North , Wilkesboro Drug Store. 2nd Lyceum Attraction. , Much space might be devoted to .i . i tu i'....i ii,..i J...llrt tne personnel me .auuia. .-.....-c Ketn liiact laren, who neaus me coin- spei't lust night in Aoriu v iinesiio: o : great Hollar between two mils which ne pany, has studied abroad with Sevcik 1 with six bead of nice hoi seses going j preferred as neighbors to some neigh and in th's country with other leading i to Elkin today. J bors isolated frommodem methods in masters of the violin is of suffii ient Mr. bnd Mrs. Sprinkle, of Elkin, ! deed though contending to the con import to establish the standing of , came up on the noon train Saturday, j trary. To this Mr. Triplett replied with the Mendelssohns. Miss Jettie Miller, who has bee;, j spirit and enthusiasm. Mr. Miller If you fail to see it you will wis1. ! teaching at. Granite Falls, came home (quoted in turn the legal provision per- you had. Richmond County Paper's Report. Uorlilhi-'luili, l'i'-l. From official returns of 7 "ut the 100 counties in the State it is al- most certain that al! of the ten ; amendments voted for have been de- feated by majorities ranging t'-om 6,000 to 10,000, witn the heaviest. majority against the seventh and : probably the smallest against the , amendment substitution to the "War : p,prwpen the States tor the wont. "Rebellion " The returns from ihe election, as printed in The Post last week gave the total vote for B. F. Reynolds, for register of deeds, and R. L. McDon ald, for county treasurer, as the same, each having received 1 ,329. Dr. Phin. Horton and mother, of W inston-Saleni, arrivea on me u.uu ; Saturday. j Some Recent Inwaa' iky;; in Tax Al.i ti..'!ai -,. i.l !iy lli" m I "f O.-i .i-r 22:..!, i ll'.- i iv- November 1st, liU 1. f 1 1. tunic tn Janit irv si. Hi. ar. as mows: Hankers Fur cm h $IUKMK . ipi- Ul employed, inciu ling surplus and III, divided profits, if I 0". Brokers - .WO.OO each. I'att-ntir.iKors .;"().(H) each. I'liiiinieicial Brokers -if2t!.(H) each. ''..ii.iiiii-.sion Merchants - $2(1.(1(1 each The-ittvs Mti-ciims and Concert Ihil!,- iicc onling i s" ite I c;ii icily I', .in 2-Vi to NHI or ;n. ire, 25.M) to 1.1,0. Cil Us.-.- --.jillK'.llli e ich. Oilier Exhibitions or Shows niuiiey, $10 UO. Bowling Alleys Billiard Tallies, $5.00 for each f..r .ii,d .Hey or table. Dealers in leaf lotiacco Exceed ing sales of 101)0 pounds per year, from iptf.OC to $24.00, for saics of 50,000 puu. (Is tip to more than 100, 00(. pounds Manufacturers of cigars and inauu faciurers of cigarettes .$6.00 to $2,- 2!" 00, according to amount of Miles and dealers in niiiniifactured tobacco, j months or balance of fiscal year end- i ing June 30th, 1915 and if not paid, ! or in cas.1 of banks, returns made, on or before November oOlh, an addi J tiomil 50 percent, penally will be col lectible. Blanks will be furnished by collect rs as soon us received. Form , No. 457 in case of banks, and Form i No 1 1 A in all other cas -s. Stamp taxes on and after December ; 1st, 1914, to continue to January 1st, i 191G. I Documentary . On bonds of eor-j positions, certificates of stock, sale! agreements, promissory notes nd t - nowals t hereof, bills of lading, con tracts, conveyances, bonds, except those used in legal proceedings, pow ers of attorney, etc, etc. Proprietary. On perfumery, cosmet ics and similar articles. It. is confidently expected that full instructions as to documentary and pr prieta'-y s'amps will b" receive.! i on or before December 1st, 1914, and j in the meantime inquiries from parties i interested will be promptly answered by me riespeetfuHy, . ; '" ' ( , Pointedly Personal. j Mr, L). R. Il-mlren, of Clifton, iTenn., left vesterdai afternoon for that State after visiting his brother, ,yjr, R. ('. Hendren here. Mr. T. S. Miller left yesterday go- iny; to Rural II. ill to travel out from j tiiat point ihe balance of this week. ; i i t- i '. te i.:.. i .... i .nr. u. aoirn .- oi loiei'eau , Friday evening to be with her mother, j Mr. C. Y. Miller, who is nick. j WilKesboro Federal Court Posponed to May. : Notice of Adjournment of Xovem-! ,,. Tl,,.m f ,u, .v,i..r., crt, Par-: ti(.4 vVitm-ses, Attorneys and others jllterL.steil are notified, That the Regu- ar Novt.U)ll(i. -j'tnn 0f the " United ' gtate!j District Court to convene in : vowel letters in the columns of words, j Wilkesboro on the fourth Monday in 1 though some 500 are never used Xow miiHr, 1914, has been adjourned j saj, Professor Willis, was a stimulus 1 t() Rt.Klli.u. 'vna tl) (. lt.t,l on,t0 progresMon of the chill's mind . : the K"!irh Momliiy in May. 9I5. at 10 o'clock A. M. Nov 10, 1914. "Mu.tiin Mi Neili,, D. C. Notice Taxes! All persons owind town taxes for the year 1914 are urged to pnv same at once. lVimlty of 5 percent. will be collected on all taxes no. paid by December HI. 1 HI 4 as pro- vided for in the charter. 1'iease pay prorriptiy. Kespectiuliy T G. Kiujy, town tax collector GLUE B.SFELLFR NOT OBSOLETE At I. . .i-l I hat's hiit tin- l.iiili. s l)i' ci.li'il (mm iin 1 ,1 in ii ; ieiial I'nli lie lieliiite at the t tin it liiiust' l ii. I.i) Viiilit, The edncatioi d a-.,cialion of the county met at the court house last Friday i. ieln; a puldic d 'hate took place on whether the Blue Hack Spell er was the host imok to lie adopted in schools. Tlie alfinnative side was represent ed hy Mes-rs. F. 11. llendren, M. F. lliiiliiirner and I. -. Triph'tt, while the negative was presented t.y I'm lessors K 1'. '.Villis ,if the ,;rth Wilkeelioro i;r;i.l.. I sciiools, 1' A Mil- As a result of t he N'oveinlier elec h r of Arliofan.l l'rincip.d .i L A. Hum- j ti"ns there are now fourt-en states iranicr of the Traphill school, k was I if the dry column. They are Arizona, an interesting sueees.-ion ol discours es from beginning about 8 o'clock un til lini-bing up the rejoinders of live minutes each at 10:;!0. Quite a num ber of those occupied with teaching from over Wilkes were present aside from those of Wilkesliuio. Air. W. II. Foster acted as secretary and the speakers agreed to leave the decision to a vote of the ladies present. Some most interesting and humorous sallies were mad" as for and uglinst the time familiar I'due Back. One of tlie debaters yet restrictedly uses Noah Webster's book. Charlotte was sited as one of the cities in the State which uses the I Blue Back at present but of which it j was vi ntuied by the negative that it was not the only speller useil in the jt'liai lotto schools Others in the Slate ere said to have been doing so also but were not named during : thi 'li-'cns.-ion. The ii"gative argued that because jit was the book of its dav having been pubii.-hed in th century before I Wilkesboro and is about 80 years in the "last I-twcen 1775 and 1785 said age being elected to tho Stat" House Mr. llendren- was no reason why tojof Represen'atives suppose it was the right speller of j this day. That like improvements on! farm machinery there was no excuse' or reason for going bai i the old kootre plough. Professor Willis pointed out that if the ot her spellers such as Me Duffy's, Reed's and others, were adoptions of faddists only, then our much noised educational progress was all faddism and nothing more, classing those his opponents as stand-patters in educa tion, "just us we have stand-patters, extreme conservatism in politics, a person who sticks his heels in the ground and just won't go," said Willis i Thole are stand-patters in agriculture, in education who would prefer the old to the new. Mr. M. F. Humgarner impressed the j f.,,.f fl,.,t ll, ,.f H... lili.a ,..,r. I uv u una', bin, pf.ftc ui uuij i.mo i.ti ried a moral and Christian influence that may readily be pen eived, while his opponent and brother, Prof. J. L. A. Iiumgarner, made a convinc ing discussion in scholarly fashion and also compared one of the opponents who uses only the Blue Hack to an iso- i ..... i r. . i i? l: . i. t i ..e : laieo 1 1 leim oi ms ai me i.e.m ui a tabling to regulation of books used and considered the rythmic arrangement of words in the Blue Back as too ex tended and conductive to thoughtless repetition, like ba ca da fa ga, or j "be ce ,le fe ge,"approaching as a hm ; it "lady" and ' shady." ! The affirmative claimed that the ! arrangement of consonants as well as ', n,j Mr Hendren claimed it appealed to the mind of a child with 1 Listing impression as does the modern , books and euphonic method of learn- ing the sounds of the letters and then ... i . . - ...u : ' combining inese sounus in resua in a " wold and menial picture. Prof. J.h. !,lnlirnt.r showed that there was ' . ,. no picture t. the child when finishing aiistract. obsolete words as found in the Blue Back Speller copies I ! NtVVS FROM EVERYWHERE. lli iui ..I Inli'i-t'sl I roui All llirr Hie I iiiinli j In anil from I't'iiple mill the l.lnlii'. It has heen announced hy tile ex ecutive cemmittee that the fifth an nual convention of the North Carolina For 'stry Association will he held in Ualeinh on .laniiiiry 'A, l!tl."i, Charlotie Observer: The Asheville Citizen has an editoral on "The Re tirement of the iH'inanoj'iie." lie did net pretty much of a shove down grade in the recent election in North Carolina. Colorado, Georgia, Kansas, Maine, Mississippi, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Tennessee, Virginia, Washington and West Vir ginia. Mr. Hubert 0. Sink of the Lexing ton Dispatch has been to Atlanta where he attended the Fourth Ameri can Road Congress, which was in ses sion until Saturday. Mr. Sink rep resented Soul hern Good Roads, the official organ of the majority of the southern states. It was expected this road congress will be the biggest thing of its kind ever held in America. The Monroe Journal of Union county savs: "The highest Democra tic vote cast in the county was 1091 and the lowest Republican vote was 302. Squire W. (1. Long received the highest vote, and the other Domocratic candidates ranged along close behind." Mr. Long is the fath er of Rev. Edward Long, pastor of the First liaptist church of North The Georgia Federation of Wo man's clubs, in state convention at Albany, Ga., pledged every member of its 214 clubs to make one cotton garment to be sent as a gift to the women and children of Belgium who have been made destitute hy Ihe European war. It is estimated that there are 25,000 members of women's clubs in Georgia. The women also endorsed a cotton petticoat campaign which is to pledge every woman to buy one or more cotton skirts. Boston Negro's Impudence to President Wilson, Mm. roe Journal. A delegation of negroes went to the White House yesterday to call on President Wilson to jaw about what they claimed is discrimination against the negro clerks in the departments at Washington, because they have been separated from the white clerks. President Wilson received them with proper courtesy, as he does all who are granted an audience, and heard what they had to say. He then told J them thatj,e na( investigated the matter and found that there was no j just cause for complaint, whereupon i the leader of the delegation, a negro I named Trotter, flew into a passion and made offensive remarks to the President of the United States. The President dismissed them with the remark that if they had anything else to say to him they would have to get some one else to sav it. That's vour I ininudent Bostin Niirurer. No Droner- ,y raiged coUnA man f.nm the wou,(, have h(,en Kity f su,h had miinn. of which are often eaten and remain it is presumed in the stomachs of men I to this day, Mr. Hendren for one hav-! ing declared getting on the outside of one each term. "If Kooct worils Hiul ut nlli- lie an- tvlll mil ......Inl.ii lli.i u lotinrt ll.iiv inn.l hi. .li.aill : wUh ln ,.(, manner." is the moral following the picture of 1 the boy in the apple tree, at last stoned out. perhaps to which Mr. ,. ....... j ..... u . . . iiumgarner reieri eo. as wen as rne Partial Judge, whose ox was gored, the eat and the rats in the Hour, Many of the ladles did not vote wlien called on for the deeision which was in favor of the affirmative. Roaring RWer Roaiing River, Nov. 14 About thirty-five of Mrs. R. A. Reeves' friends gave her a complete and pleasant surprise Thursday night by' going in a lody to her home about 7:M0 o'clock to celebrate her birth day. They car ried refreshments with them; and about 8:30 o'clock the table was spread and all present partook of a hearty supper. The crowd remained untii about 10:110 when they took their departure; each one wishing thai Mrs. Reeves would enjoy as many more happy birth days as this one. We must not tell a woman's age but it was ten more than the days of this month, now guess. R. A. Reves went to Elkin Thursday on business. Mr. W. F. Alexander, Jr., left here Thursday morning for Chase City, Va., on business. Mrs. .). W. Elms, of North Wilkesboro, spent Thursday night here with her hus band, Mr. J. W. Elms. Miss Nell Hamlin and Mrs. A, H, Carpenter of the school faculty here, went to Wilk esboro Friday at noon to attend tlie teachers' meeting. Mr .1. Q Black burn w. nt to Wilkesboro Friday night to hear the debate between Miller and llendren, and learn the f at e of old Blue Book. Mr. G. R. ('rouse arrived here Friday from Sparta with some good horses to trade. The box supper that was to have been pull.d off at the school house tonight was postponed on accout of the rain. It will piobably come off next week. Mrs. C. N. Bedenheinier and lilLle daughter of Elkin are here visiting her daughter, Mrs. W. ('. Greenwood. Rev. L B. Murray uill preach at the Baptist church here Thursday night the 2(ith (Thanksgiving). Everybody is cordially invited to hear him. Mr. T. J. McNeill went to North Wilkes boro Saturday on business. News from Grandin. lioI'l-eHpontli'lli.e of lilt" IhlMI.'r. Grandin, Nov. 16 The school un der the management of Prof. Smith is prospering; the average attendance nearly doubling that of last year. Mrs. B. H. Wilson has returned from Dr. Long's Sanitorium of States vi Me, where she underwent a serious operation. Little Miss Dorris Hunt while play ing a lew days ago j ibbed a nail in her knee and her father has made several trips to North Wilkesboro with her. The Misses Greer's are having their home remodeled. Mr Jack Doliver, of Louisiana, is visiting his mother and sister, Mrs. Delos Doliver, of Imporum. N. Y , and siste", Mrs. C. B. Austin, of New York City, who are stopping at the home of Mr. J. C. Steel's. The Grandin Literary Socity gave an interesting program Friday night. The query discussed was: "Resolved that North Carolina is the best State in the Union " The judges, Mr. Hunt, of Cuba, N. Y., Mr. Stemple, of Mill Creek, West Va., and Mr. Williams, of Grandin, N. C, rendered their de cision after a warm discussion, in fa vor of the aftimative. The society will meet the Kings Greek Literary Society in a joint pub lic debate at Grandin December 4th, The following question will be discuss ed: "Resolved that an educational and property qualification should be the sole basis for suffrage." The Grandin Literary Society h is the af firmative. The public is cordially invited. Birth Day Party Celebration i Items. (Special Sal AT IERiS . Saturday, November the 21, 1914. Sale stalls as soon as the tioors are opened. One lot Ladies Underskirts, from ."Oc to $1.1X1 values, Colors: Em oral Purple. King Blue. Black, Tuniio and Blue, Green and Red Stripes, Special Saturday, November 21st, 25c eack' See intliiw Display. PURPOSE OF N. W. M, R, A'N N. ilke-lioro Merchant Aisni'lutliin Si ts Kiirth lis I'm pnnes til At'ieinpllsli. There has been organized in North Wilkesboro a local branch of the Merchants Association of North Caro lina The object of the State Asao ciation is to safe guard the interest of all the Merchants of North Caro lina, to correct the evils attending the credit, system, and, if possible, to provide an interchangable system through the secretaries of the rari ous local organizations throughout the Slate, to abate trade abuses, injuries, and unbusiness like practices, and to secure the cooperation of all manu facturers and wholesalers in produc ing a more helpful condition of the trade. To secure state and agitate National legislation favorable to re tailer and consumers, to oppose suck legislation as would prove detrimental to their welfare. To protect the public against the sale of impure food, misbranded and short weight goods, to diseminate trade information, encourage improved business methods, and generally to advance the interest of merchants, secure more friendly relations, and to affiliate with the National Association of retail Mer chants of the United States. The object of the Local Associa tions is for mutual protection, to en courage improved business methods and generally to advance the interest of merchants to secure more friendly relations among our citizens of Wilk es county, and cooperations in the material advancement of this com munity. Merchants Association is not a collection agency, but the system of information given enables the asso oiation to make collections, which otherwise would be impossible. It is more the moral influence which induc es the debtor to pay. The fact that merchants of this community can and will secure the information, and that their credit rating will be impared by refusal to pay up accounts goes a long ways towards making the fault ing debtors pay their just and honest debts. The efforts of our Merchants Associations will be more and endear or to eliminate so many uncollectable and worthless accounts, and to bring about realization on the part of indi viduals of having a good credit rating. To teach honesty and endeavor to make honest men out of those whe go from Merchants to Merchants with out ever making an effort to pay their just debts. Much money can be saved by mer chants through this Association is keeping out many of the advertising fakes and other Trade Grafters. An advertising committee will be elected to consider all advertising proposi tions, the refusal of the Merchants to take advertising unless it has bees endorsed by the Association, will re sult in a great saving and annoyance. For the benefit of the members of our Association we have added to this office a checking system to correct all freight bills, such as overcharges in freight rate. Trusting we will soon have the co operation of every merchant in Wilk es county to help make this work a success, we are, Yours very truly, Merchants Association. For Sale. Two (Jood heifers, part Jersey. E. Haney, Jeffries Farm N. Wilkesboro, N.C. e!