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NORTH WILKESBORO, N. C, JANUARY I , 15)15. ISSUED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS.
NO. 40.
BRIEF ITEMS LOCAL NEWS.
A t'ivil service examination will he
hcli fur Boomer postoiliee some time
between January 10th anil 30th.
Mr. Ceo. D. Trogd..n ami sun Hay,
df High Point, were here until Mon
day visiting his brother, Mr. E. W.
TrugJon.
The Meeding fine report for North
y($ that practically every
rVrhai half a dozen families are out
with sufficient excuses.
Mr. Edward Finley received last
week a trio of Ringlet Barred Ply
mouth Rock chickens from E. B.
Thompson, Amenia, New York, the
three costing him $25.00.
Mr. D. W. lilevins, of Konnarock,
Va., arrived and spent last night with
his uncle in Wiikesboro. He has
been away four years and connected
with the Virginia Carolina at White
Top, now being appointed agent at
Jefferson and will visit his father near
Hays, Mr. Andrew Rlevins, before go
ing to assume his new positibn.
Foreman Bauguss, of work on the
Virginia-Carolina railroad in Ashe,
who had been here several days, was
to return Wednesday. He had about
30 Wilkes men to return with him
and said last Saturday that he wished
150. Wages paid are $1.50 per day
for ordinary laborers, or $1.10 with
car shanty lodging and board.
Down on Blairs row Saturday the
Kaiser's army was moving. "Hep!
hep! hep!" the boys,' small fellows,
were marching soldiers. They
paid no attention to a grown man
passing than if he were nothing pass
ing and reaching a certain point the
commander shouted fire! then hep!
hep! hep! on around the house.
Mr. W. R. Martin, who has been in
New York 2 months, left Tuesday after
spending the holidays at home. Judg
ing from an immense order for sawed
lumber given out hy a railroad com
pany in New Jersey the coming year
ought to start the lumber business.
Mr. Martin hence will be in this State
and though thinking of moving from
North Wiikesboro it is hoped not.
There is in the forks of Lewis Fork
Creek in the western part of Wilkes
county a strip of territory whose peo
ple need bridges, says Mr. W. H. Ed
minstin, of Elk township. By put
ting two, there, he says all of the peo
ple could get access to them which
when by having only one near the
present ford on the Tar Kiln road peo
ple living in the forks which comes
together just above the road would
still be without a bridge and no bet
ter off. The ford has always been a
deep one.
DEATHS.
Mrs. J. L. Sydnor.
A message was received here Tues
day morning by Mr. W. A. Sydnor to
the effect that Mrs. J. L Sydnor, his
step mother, had died, and he left on
the next train going to Richmond.
Mrs. Sydnor ouce lived in North
Wiikesboro and since Mr. Sydnor's
death about seven years ago had been
living in Virginia, recently at ilign
land Springs. She had been here on
a visit several times since and last,
2 years ago. Before marriage Mrs.
Sydnor was a Miss Brown, and she
was perhaps fifty years old.
Mr. J. M. Revis of Moravian Falls.
Mr. Joel M. Revis, who lived on
the road between Moravian Falls and
the Lithia Springs died Tuesday, 22d
of December. He was about GO years
of age and was the father of Messrs.
Leonard and Will Revis, and Mrs.
Meado Adams, Mollie Duncan and
Dora Estep, of Brushy Mountain
township, and Mrs. llattie Brock,
Moravian Falls and Miss Bertha l!evis,
of a family said to have numbered
ten children.
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YOUNG ROGUES ENTER
BAPTIST CHURCH
Hoys have been caught up with
stealing money from the Baptist
church placed there by the Baracoa
class, and this is not the first time.
Some time during the fall the same
act was committed and has just now
come to be known. The stealing was
traced to certain boys of the town
and their parents refunded the money
and it is learned now that some of
these same little apparently probable
parasites-to-be on human society, have
committed these depredations the
second time entering even the house of
Cod and stealing. A few days ago the
room of Mr. E. C. Woodie was enter
ed and a twenty-five-dollar watch
stolen and sold to Dr. 11. F. Baity for
one dollar, and also a ring. Such
things as these done by small boys
leads only toward the jail and peni
tentiary and parents who will not
keep their children from such are go
ing to be given a lot of trouble on
account of them if they don't punish
and stop them now. Entering a room
when locked is getting over the bor
der line itself for the future gen
erations and honest people might have
to move out and give up to depreda
tion if it is not stopped now. The
young chicken thieves have been do
ing business in Wiikesboro this fall
also. The officers say they are going
to go after these young boys, and
parents had better be looking after
these children. If you don't punish
them the State of North Carolina
will and the thing will be up to them
The officers say they can't enforce the
Curfew law about young boys on the
street at night just because parents
uphold them by saying that they sent
them, etc. Parents can sympathize
with children and console them in
their wrongs if they want to, and pay
no attention to the officers but now
just wait and see if they don't
regret it.
WRECK AT CURTIS
BRIDGE WED. MORNING
Lumber and chestnut wood have
floated down on the shoals of the riv
er b tween the two towns as a re
sult of a frightful wreck on the rail
road just this side of Curtis' bridge
between 9 and 10 o'clock Wednesday
morning as the mixed train was com
ing down from Elkville.
All at once a terrible crash was ex
perienced and a shocking stop; fire
man A. A. Lovejoy had jumped and
had doubtless narrowly saved himself,
while Engineer Wilson cooped under
the engine cab crawled out through a
small door uninjured, and a car of
lumber and one of chestnut wood had
been dumped into the Yadkin.
Neighbors heard the crash and saw
the steam and phoned thinking that
people most probably were killed and
injured and were loyally ready to help.
Mr. Royal Died Suddenly at a Saw Mill
Other Items.
Ourrespondnnce of the Hustler.
Vannoy, Dec. 24 - Mr. Connie Roy
al, while working at a saw mill, died
suddenly the other day. Mr. Royal
wa3 about 50 years old and leaves a
wife and six children. The mill where
he died is located at the foot of the
biue Ridge, owned by the Giant Lum
ber Co., three miles beyond here.
Mr. Ltir.ly Darnell was seriously
wounded while at a Christmas tree at
Logins School House, 19th.
Mr. E. H. Woodie had an ulcer re
moved from under his tongue by Dr.
llutchen.s of North Wiikesboro on the
24th, which had more or less impeded
his speech.
Women of Sedentary Habits:
Women who Set but little exercise
are likely to be troubled with con
stifl'ation and indigestion and will
find Chamberlain's Tablets highly
beneficial. Not so good as a three or
four mile walk every day, but very
much better than to allow the bowels
to remain in a constipated condition.
They are easy and pleasant to take
and most agreeable in effect. Ob
tainable everywhere.
Marriages.
Kobcrson-I.owc.
X!r. Mansfield Robeson and Miss
Charlotte Lowe, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs, C. A. Lowe, were married Dec
ember 22d at Taylorsville, Rev. J. W.
Watts, performing the ceremony.
They boarded the train at that place
giiing to Charlotte and other places
to spend their honey moon.
Kijririiis-llrown.
A voung couple from Watauga
county and Elk township of this
countv were married here last Satur
day at the residence, of Rev. Edward
Long pastor of the Baptist church.
The bride was Miss B. C. Brown,
daughter of Mr. Cieorge Brown of
Stony Fork, who was married to Mr.
C. S. Riggins of Watauga county.
The couple came down the river on
the train from Goulds Station and
probab.y returned that afternoon to
Stoney Fork. Mr. Riggins is a son of
Mr. J. I. Riggins.
Wellborn-II ulilmrd.
At the home of the bride's parents,
Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Hubbard in Wiikes
boro Wednesday afternoon at 2:30
their daughter, Miss Annie Calloway
Hubbard, was married to Mr. Guy
Wellborn, of Dellaplane, son of Mr.
Robt, L Wellborn, of that community.
About twenty and more invited guests
were present, in the candle-lighted
parlor of the home lovingly decorated
with the Lebanon plant and a beauti
ful arch. The formality began with
a song, "1 Love Yon Truly," sang by
little Virginia Hubbard, a neicy of
the bride, after which Mrs. R. E.
Prevette sang "0, Promise Me," fol
lowed by the wedding march played
by Mrs. Warner Miller during the
ceremony by tiev. Mr. Jones, pastor
of the Methodist church, while the
bride dressed in a suit ar.d wearing
a hat, and the bridegroom in con
ventional black, stood beneath the
arch as the ring ceremony was
said. After a course of refreshments
served to the party the couple left
amid best of wishes. Quite a number
of attestations from friends for re
membrance were received.
DEATHS. 1
Mr. Joel Dim met to.
Mr. Joel Dimmette, ex-Confederate
veteran, died at his home with his
son, Mr. C. A. Dimmette, of Edwards
township, December 24, Thursday of
last week, about 2 a. m. His wife
died about 9 years ago.
Mr. Dimmette had served in the
Confederate army under Colonel Mc
Mikeal of Wilkes county and under
division commander General Hill. He
has four sons living and one daugh
ter, Mrs. J. 0. Hoots, of Austin,
Messrs. J. F., North Wiikesboro Route
2, J. Isom and C. A., of Dimmette,
and J. W. Dimmette of Elkin. His
remains were "buried at Macedonia
church Christmas day, the funeral be
ing conducted by Rev. C. F. Fields
and Rev. Mr. Bryant, Masonic honors
being dispensed with on account of
the inclement weather.
Mr. Dimmette had been unable to
get about since a stroke of paralysis
lagt may. He was a constructor of
mills and had built mills at numbers
of points in the county.
Death of Mrs. Snsana Davis.
The death of Mrs. Susana Emeline
Davis, born in 1833, Lewis Fork
township, occurred last Saturday, she
being 81 years of age. Her husband
died several years ago. One son,
Mr. J. Frank Davis, and father Of
Mrs. Frank P. Blair of this town, is
the only living son and child and now
lives in Muskoogee, Okla. The burial
took place at the family cemetery
near Goshen Sunday. Dr. James
Davis, now of the Dr. Long, Sanator
ium in Statesville, and a grandson,
was among those who attended the
funeral.
Eighty-five bushels of turnips sown
on the first day of September on one
half acre of ground is the record of
Mr. C. A. Dimmette three miles north
of Ronda. and this a late season for
sowing.
United States Demands That England
Criange Attitude.
The United States today dispatched
a Ion;: note to Great Britain insisting
on an early improvement in the treat
ment (f American commerce by
British tleets. It warned England
that much feeling had been aroused
in this country and that public criti
cism was general over unwarranted
interference with the legitimate
foreign trade of the United States.
The document, constituting the
strongest representation on the sub
ject made by the United States to
any of the belligerents, was cabled
to Ambassador Page to be formally
presented to Sir Edward Grey, the
British Foreign Secretary. Its prep
aration was begun a month ago by
Solicitor Cone Johnson, Counselor
Robert Lansing and Secretary Bryan
and during the last two weeks had
the personal attention of President
Wilson, who revised its phraseology
with minute care.
As the detailed point of view of
the United States in the numerous
specific cases of detentions and seiz
ures of cargoes had been set forth in
a series of emphatic protests, most
which have gone unheeded, today's
communication was couched in gen
eral terms covering the entire sub-
ect of the relations between the
United States and Great Britain as
affected by the latter's naval policy,
considered highly objectionable to
this Government.
The note declares at the outset
that the representations are made in
a friendly spirit but that the United
States considers it best to speak in
terms of frankness less silence be
constructed as an acquiescence to a
policy of Great Britian which in
fringes the rights of American cit
izens under the laws of the Nations.
Since France has virtually adopted
the same policies on contraband as
Great Britain today's note is a state
ment intended for all members of the
Triple Entente.
The document points out that com
plaints on every side and public
criticism in the United States hold
the British policy as directly respon
sible for the depressing in many Am
erican industries. Keimbursement
alone for cargoes unlawfully detained
or seized, it states, does not remedy
the evil as the chief difficulty is the
moral effect on American exporters
who are restrained from taking risks
or hazards which in no case ought to
surround legitimate trade between
the United States and other neutral
countries.
Washington, Dec. 29 President
Wilson, referring to the American
note to Great Britian insisting on bet
ter treatment of American com
merce, declares large damages will
ultimately have to be paid by England
for unlawful detention of American
cargoes.
First at White House in Many Months.
Washington dispatch, 2Mh.
President Wilson tonight began re
ceiving messages from foreign rulers
congratulating him on his fifty-eighth
birthday anniversary. The first to ar
rive were from King George of Great
Britain and President Estrada Cabre
ra of Guatemala.
Led by Secretary Bryan the Presi
dent's Cabinet called at the White
House during the evening. Because
of the cancelation of all State dinners
and receptions after Mrs. Wilson's
death this gathering was the nearest
approach to a social affair held in the
White House for many months.
Among the messages received were
several from parents of children
named for the President because their
birth anniversaries were the same as
his.
Mr. Wilson usually answers such
messages personally.
Messrs. Oscar Martin, Joe Ellis and
Misses Minnie Queen and Bernice Ul
rich won in a contest for selection
at the graded school before Christmas
to represent North Wilkesboro's
school in the State High school con
test at Chapel Hill.
SUMMIT ITEMS 0FFI -
CERS MAKE RAID
Summit boasts of having more snow
and rain during the month of 1'ecem
ber than ever recorded before.
We have apple mud with which to
build good roads if properly used, the
people round Summit are unanimously
in favor' of good roads even at enor
mous cost; but one fellow says we all
want a good road to our dooT built
on the other fellow's land.
The Missionary Baptist church is
prospering better under the pastorate
care of Rev. W. F. Carlton now, than
for many years past.
The Evergreen Sunday School at
Summit, has been a success for the
last year as usual with Mr. H. H.
Church as superintendent. On the
night of December 24th a surprise
party gathered at the home of Mr.
Church, their old superintendent, and
had an enjoyable time, being treated
to apples, chestnuts, etc. Finally
''Santa" joined the crowd and left
with Mr, and Mrs. Chruch quite a load
of gifts of a dozen sorts, Mr. and
Mrs. Church being greatly surprised
and delighted.
Miss Eva Foster, of Call, N. C, is
teaching our school at Summit with
a record breaking attendance, the
best school in years.
Mr. Everett Lee, of West Virginia,
is spending a few weeks with his
fiiends and kin folk at Summit.
The revenue officers recently visited
"West Cove" two miles from Summit
and created quite a stir among the
citizens of that section. They carried
away one of the boys just for com
pany. There are other classes of
folks just as welcome in that section
as revenue officers.
The European war has not effected
the apple supply at Summit. There
are thousands of bushels stored here
waiting for better roads and a better
market.
Summit, N. C, Dec. 30th, 1914.
WALTER DOESN'T HOLD
THE EASIEST JOB
Going out or. Main street westward
after one of the late trains at night
came in a stout young fellow passed
another. "Going out on Tinth?"
"Yes. Guess you are going across
Blue Ridge?" as he carried a'white
sack as going round on a lot to his
wagon. "No I'm going home." Wal
ter has been news butch since
September, or as he said, "bi tv.i try
ing to news butch," on the early and
late train from here to Greensboro,
walks two miles early in the morning
and two back at night and says it's
not altogether an easy job but rests
"just a-little" after he gets cn, he
said.
School Vacation, Poultry Business and Di
versions. Oorrcispondcnce of thu Hustler.
Wiikesboro Route 1, Dec. 23.
The school at Mountain Valley closed
last Friday for two weeks.
The farmers of this section have been
busy getting wood and killing hogs
since the cold weather.
Miss Cora McNeill, one of the as
sistant teachers st Mountain View,
is at home spending two weeks with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Mc
Neill. Misa Hattie MeNeill, her sis
ter, returned to Gastonia after spend
ing several weeks with her parents
also.
Rev. Grant Cothren has been filling
his regular appo ntment at Pleasant
Dome where a week's singing has been
conducted by Prof. L. B. Pierce.
Mr. Ed. McLean and family have
moved from Millers Creek to Tennes
see to make their future home.
Rev. William Castle was to deliver
a Christmas address to the school at
Cross Roads Wednesday, 23rd.
Mr. Charlie McNeill, of Cross Roads,
is in the poultry business and has
been deterred on account of bad roads
from getting the right kind of poultry
food.
: NEWS FR0M wmm.
Governor Craig is preparing his
message to the Legislature which
meets next week and will be deliver
ed on January 6th.
Admiral George Dewey, the Amer
ican commander at the naval battle
of Manila, celebrated his 77th birth
day last Saturday in Washington.
The shipment of holly from Duplin
county to cities this year amounted
to thirty-, iht car loads being ship
ped from Magnolia, Rose Hill corning
second with twenty-five.
A dispatch from Raleigh says that
interesting relicts of the Civil War
and of the great I'ettigrew planta
tion near Plymouth have just been
placed in the North Carolina Hall of
History by Miss Mary Pettigrew,
who received them from a Yankee
soldier who pocketed them when the
Pettigrew place was looted in 1864.
The articles are a paper cutter and
a gold letter seal.
Personals.
Mr. B. II. Haighwood, of Winston,
returned Monday after spending a
few days with friends in Moravian
Falls township.
Mr. and Mrs. Clem Wrenn returned
on Monday's noon train from a trip
out of town.
Miss Mabel Crittenden of Randle
man, has been spending the week
with Mrs. A. R Sherman in Wiikes
boro. Messrs. Eller Stafford and John
Hauser have been spending Christmas
at home.
Messrs. Thomas and Richard Finley
came in from Davidson College last
week.
Misses Katherine and Edith Cranor
returned last week and have been with
their brothers Messrs. II. A., John and
Frank Cranor, having returned from
Paris and the European war zone early
in the fall at the time of the highest
excitement.
Mr J. A. Gilliam has gone to
Stuart, Va , to book-keep for his un
cle there, Mr. Will Wiles, and will be
gone two or three months.
Mr. and Mrs. James L. Poindexter
spent Christmas with Dr. and Mrs. J.
M. Turner.
Mr, W:averly Morrison, Wiikesboro,
returnod Monday from a trip to Salis
bury and Statesville.
Mr. Carl Lowe, of Galax, Va., who
has been visiting his father, Mr. John
Lowe, at Poors Knob, return home
Wednesday.
Mr. Sandford Cowles, who is read
ing law at the University, came in on
the noon train Wednesday,
Mr. G. Q. Parker, of Chase City,
Va., has been visiting his former
home community on the Brushy
Mountain
Mr. and Mrs. Cherry and Miss Bes
sie Lewis, of Elkin, have been visiting
at their uncle's, Mr. J. II. Lewis, in
Wiikesboro.
Messrs. Chas. and Robt. Reins, of
New Bern and Lenoir, respectively,
came in the other day and have been
seeing their friends and home folks.
Mr. and Mrs Lindsay Cashion, of
Winston, have been visiting his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Cashion.
Mr. Rayner Edwards is spending
the holidays at home.
When a Man is Poor.
('iviHO'i! loan KxchnnKe.
"A man is poor when he lias lost),
the confidence of his friends, when
people who are nearest to him do not
believe in him; when his character is
honeycombed by deceit and punctured
by dishonesty. He is poor when he
makos money at the expense of his
character, when he does not stand
clear out, supreme in his idea. When
this is clouded, he is in danger of the
worst kind of poverty. To be in the
poor house is not necessarily to be
poor. If you have maintained your
integrity, if your character stands
forth square to the world, if you
have never bent the knee of principle
to avarice, you are not poor, though
you may be compelled to beg bread."