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if if Published Tuesdays and Fridays. LOCAL NEWS IN TOWN AND COUNTY We are informed by Mr. I. C. Church that the postoffice at Mint Ji cancellation the past quarter amount ed to $44 99. Mrs. Mattie Darlington informs us that three of he Silver Wyandotte hens laved six eggs last Friday. This is no snake story. Mrs G. W. Isley, of Wilkesboro, received a telegram from her son, Pvt. Henry Isley, Wednesday night stating that he had landed at Charleston, S. C. Rev. Dr. S. B. Turrentine, President of Greensboro College for Women, will preach at the North Wilkesboro Methodist church Sunday morning and night. Forester & Eller is the name of a new grocery concern that is open for business on 10th street in the store room building next door to Red Top Bottling Company. The proceedings brought against the town of North Wilkosboro for failing to work road from railroad crossing to Yadkin river bridge was declared unconstitutional by Judge Webb. Mr. R. E Faw brought a coop of chickens to town yesterday and sold them to Mr. E. E. Eller one hen in the flock, Barred Plymouth Rock, sent by his wife, Mrs. R. E. Faw, came to $2.70. Rev. L. P. Gwaltney will preach a sermon in memory of Ronda Hendren at Betheny church near Gilreath postoffice on Sunday, April 6th at 11 o'clock. Rev. R. Lee Davis will also be present. Mr. J. T. Finley has just received Bome New River corn that he will Bell at 10 cents a pint. There is no better corn anywhere for early roast ingears than New River corn. Call on him at bis place of business on C street, The following o f men from Wilkes county landed at Charles ton, S. C, last Friday from the trans port Pocahontas; Pvt. Perves Phiimore Rhoadep.son of Mrs.Nancy J. Uhoades at North Wilkesboro Rt. 1; Pvt. John Snyder, Wilkesboro. Mr. U. B. Walters has sold his res idence on D street to his brother Capt R. E. Walters, and in turn has bought Mr. J. N. Ashkettle'a residence on C stroet. Both families have already moved. Mr. J. N. Ashkettle will live with his daughter, Mrs U. B. Walters. The sale of the furnishings of the late Dr. J. J. Mott's home on North Center street took place Saturday and yesterday, being conducted as an auc tion sale. The furnishings were sold to different individuals at an aggre gate sum of $4,818. Statesville Landmark. The pastor of the North Wilkesboro Methodist church has gone to Boone to attend a District Council meeting in the interest of the Methodist Cen tenary movement, Dr. Ware is the District Director for the North Wilkesboro District. Every pastor in the district and one or more lay re presentatives from every church are expected to attend this meeting, Capt. William II. H. Cowles came in on the noon train Tuesday from He has the courage of his father, Col. W. II. H. Cowles, de panned, veteran of the Civil war, and a man that lead in charges during the war nf '61 Lu Co. Lap,. LG.Y.C3 13 a "chip off of the old block." He will be here for only a few days, having not yet been mustered out of the ser viceexpect to come home about the 1st of May to stay. Mr. R. S. Griswold and family of Gilreath postoffice, Brushy Mt. town ship, will move to Waynesville in ubout three week to superintend the Richland fruit orchard at the above named Dlace. The orchard above named has been leased by Mr. W. S. Brown and has five thousand and five hundred bearing fruit trees 7000 bushels of fruit was gathered from it last year. Mr. M L, Davis will look after Mr. Griswold's orchard while he is away. Civic Welfare League. The firs meeting of the Civic lea gue sinee it wa- orgari;z"d was h Id in the Commercial Cluli rooms Tues day at 3:30 In the future this wi.l be the place where the business meet ings will be held, the date to be an nounced later. The president, Mrs. II C. Snyder, wishes it to be announced that the mayor has promised that all rubbish will be hauled away if it is gathered and left in a handy place for teams- sters. Mrs. L. Vyne, Mrs. A. E Spainhour and Mrs. F. D. Meadows were named as an inspecting commit the to see that this work is done. Another committee was chosen to get the children interested in flower culture. The seeds will bo furnished free. More on this subject will be announced later. The ladies chosen were Mrs. C. J Cate, Mrs. L. Ulrich, Mrs. E E Eller, Mrs, E. G. Albro. It was thought but to ask the pub lic interested in the work of the Lea gue to contribute five cents per month to defray what expenses may arise. It is hoped the good people of the town will aid the League in the work to have an attractive city. Roller Mill for Brushy Mountain. Mr. J. T. Humphries, of Moravian Falls, is installing a roller mill at the Parker mill place, near Gilreath post office on the Brushy Mountains. He recently bought his mills at Salisbury He claims Go foot water fall and more water than at Moravian Falls. Greer and Smithey, who have had charge of the lighting plant at Mora vian Falls for several months has turned the plant back over to Mr. Humphries, Mr. Colinan Wallace will superintend the plant for the present for Mr, Humphries, who is spending much of his time at Gilreath install ing the machinery for the new roller mill. There is somo talk of the town of Wilkesboro leasing the electric plant of the Moravian Falls Power company and thereby try to improve the pres ent condition. April 5th Day of Fasting for Methodist. Next Saturday, April the 5th., is i he Centennial Day of American Meth- dist Missions. The day will be ob served as a day of fasting and prayer mong the Methodists of the world. A song and prayer service will be conducted at the North Wilkesboro lethodist church 12 to 1 o'clock noon). All are invited t o this loon-day service. Revs. W. F. Staley ind C. W. Robinson will have charge f this service. Residence of John Cooper at Purlear Burn edGun Explodes. The residence of Mr. John Cooper, near Purlear, occupied by his son, Mr. R. D. Cooper, was destroyed by fire Tuesday. Tha fire caught from a defective flue. Mr. John T. Vannoy was one of the first to reach the fire and assist the family in saving the furniture. A shot gun that was in the house exploded and one shot struck Vannoy in the eye, which has caused him much pain. Mr. Cooper's loss is estimated at $1,000, Farmers' Union Men Unload Fertilizer from Car. The Wilkes County Farmers' Union received a car load of fertilizer Wed nesday and on yesterday the farmers from over lue cuiiuly came and unloaded the car and took it home with them. Something like ten wag ons from the Purlear community were here. Several other car loads are ex pected in the next few days. Box Supper In Seiners Township $129. 30. The school taught by Misses China K. Redman and Myrtle Mayherry in Sumers township District No. 3, clos ed last Friday evening. Mr. W. L. Lonsford informs us that they had a snlendid school this year. On Satur- i day night following the closing of the school a box supper was given from which $129 30 was realized. North Wilkesboro, N. G, 119TH INFANTRY COMES INTO PORT WITH MEN OF 30TH DIY. Troops of 1 1 7th Infantry, 1 1 3th 6un Battalion, and 105th Machine Sanitary Train. Hy Assix'luU'il Tress. Charleston, April 2 The transports Madawaska and Huron reached port today bringing more that 5,000 offi cers and men of the heroic 30th di vision, former Tennessee, North and South Carolina national guardsmen. Altho not allowed to come into con tact with citizens until after the nec essary sanitation measures at Camp Jackson, the returning troops were welcomed from the docks while the mayor's committee mot them down the bay. The 9G officers and 2,307 men aboard the Madawaska were entrain ed during the day for Camp Jackson, Columbia. Troops on the Huron are to be debarked tomorrow and sent to the Columbia camp. Tho soldiers returning today have formed a permanent association, it was announced, with Col Holmes B. Springs, of Georgetown, S. C, as chairman of the executive committee. The purpose of the Old Hickory Di vision association is to perpetuate the record of the division and to provide for an annual reunion through which officers and men will continue in friendly contact. Offeers and men of the 30th, it was said, feel that they are justified in perpetuating the memory of their achievements in smashing the much vaunted Hinden burg line. Brig. Lawrence D. Tyson, of Knoxville, and other officers of the division are said to have given their hearty indorsement to the movement. Brig. Gen. S. L. Faison, who arrived on the Madawaska, in a very brief statement said that "we met the Ger mans and you know the result." In the old Hickory division, he said, hrav ery was to common to demand indi vidual citation. He was proud, he added, to have been assigned to the division, While here General Faison was greeted by Maj. Gjn. Henry G Sharpe, commanding the southeast' em department. The men, as one voice, asserted their joy at getting back on Ameri can soil and announces they anxious for their honorable discharges so that they can resume civilian life, A mascot of the division is a large German shepherd dog, captured in a shell hole at the Hindenburg line with a shrapnel wound in hind leg. The dog now is the personal property of Ralph Mitchell, a North Carolina sol dier. Colonel Springs, who commanded the former second South Carolina in- fantry, said that while the men were anxious to return to civilian duties thev had been greatly broadened their experiences overseas, and that their outlook on conditions was enor mously changed. Charleston, S. C, April 2 "Please tell the people of North Carolina for me that I am proud to have been iden tified with the units from tho Old North State. They did their part. and if anything a trifle more, in break ing the famous Hindenburg line and leading to the last chapter in the war that made the world safe for demo cracy. North Carolinians have every reason to be proud of the Tar He troops, and 1 tnow l voice the sen! ment of the entire body today when I say that the thought uppermost in every mind is one of thankfulness that they are back in the United State." This was the statement made by (Continued on page four.) The ladies of the Methodist church who gave a dinner and supper in the Brame building yesterday realized $8000. There will be a pie supper at De hart church on Saturday night, April 12th. We are requested to announce that everybody is most cordially invited. APRIL 4, 1919. J:m Rose, Mountain Outlaw, is on Trial for His Life. Asheville, April 1, Jim Rose, noted mountain outlaw, captured last Feb ruary near Jtffry's Hell, in Cherokee county, in a pitched battle with S. Glenn Young, former special agent of the department of justice, and a posse, was taken to Murphy yesterday from the Cuncombe county jail, and is now on trial before Judge P. A. McElroy, of Marshall, for his life. Rose is be ing tried for killing old man "Abe" Wilson about two years ago, the lat ter having been killed one summer morning, as he stepped out on the front porch of his mountain cabin to wash his face. Sheriff Gentry and a deputy from Murphy came after Rose, who had been held here for safekeeping and they stated two eye-witnesses, Wil son's widow and daughter, would tea tify that they saw Rose rise from be hind a tree stump several hundred yards away, with a rifle in his hand, as old man Wilson fell, mortally ounded. An examination showed that Wilson had been killed with bullet from an army riflj, and when Rose was captured he was found with such a rillf, with three notches cut o it. esumntion of Trade With German Austria Authorized. Washington, April 1. Resumption of trade and communication with Ger man Austria, effective tomorrow, was authorized in an order issued tonight by the war trade board acting in ac cordance with an agreement reached by the associated nations, The only restrictions upon imports into German Austria will be on all commodities of a military nature. Merchandise destined to German- Austria, the board said, should be ship ped on vessels proceeding directly to Adriatic ports, perferably to Trieste, The board's order also authorizes the resumption of postal and cable com munication. Importations from German Austria to the United States, the board said, would be governed by the same regu lations applying to importations from the European neutrals. The re-opening of trade with Ger man Austria constitutes the first di rect trade relations to be resumed by this country with any enemy state. Body of Child Found in Hollow Log. Information was given out last week that the body of Abrauam Lin coin Ramsey, three-year-old boy who became lost in the Smoky Mountains March 11, had been found in a hollow log in a dense forest about three miles from his home it Newport, Tenn. The lad had attempted to follow his sister to a country store and on being turn ed back took the wrong fork in the road and disappeared. A search had been kept up by neighbors for many days and nights, It is supposed the boy, becoming wearied from his wan derings and with night coming on, crawled into the hollow log and either died from exhaustion or hunger. Lexington Dispatch. Wilkes Commercial Club Notes. The monthly meeting of the gov ernors and committees of the club will be held on Saturday night, April 5th. at 8.30 p. m. All chairmen of committees and as many of the com mittees should attend these meetings if possible. It is these meetings that plans are ma.de for developing the Wilkesboro3 and Wilkes county, Dou't forget, that the 3rd. Friday night of each month is an important date. Jim Reins has promised an un usually attractive program for this date. Mr. F. D. Meadows will begin woik next week to build another story on to the store room building south of the Brame drug store. The Brame Drug Company recently purchased this building and they contemplate having their office in the second story This building will be joined with the Brame building on main street by a passage way qverhead across the alley DEBS THREATENS GENERAL STRIKE-ROUGH TIME IN TOLEDO Will "Tie Up Gountry" Unless "Something Further" is Done. Akron, Ohio, March 31, Eugene V. Debs, socialist leader, today threaten ed to call a general strike of his party throughout the country unless he is granted a rehearing in the courts on charges upon which he was convicted under the espionage act. Debs was confined to bed with a bad attack of lumbago at the home of Mrs. Margaret Prevey here, when notified the United States supreme court had refused him are hearing. He refused to Bee newspaper men but through Mrs, Prevey issued the fol lowing statement: "The matter is in the hands of my attorneys. "Unless something further can be done the program of the party to tie up the country in a general strike will be fulfilled. 1 am prepared to fight to the end." Mrs. Prevey said Debs' condition is not serious. Washington, March 31 Eugene V Dobs' application for a rehearing of his appeal from conviction and sen tence to 10 years imprisonment for violating the espionage act was denied today by the supreme court. In filing his motion for a rehearing Debs, who claimed the court's opinion amounted to the trial of a person of an undisclosed "state of mind," that he has been denied the privilege of showing his motive in making the speech for which he was convicted and that the court had failed to decide all of the questions presented to it for review. The prosecution resulted from state ments made by Debs in a speech in Canton, 0., last June. The supreme court affirmed tho conviction on March 10, Unless executive clemency is ob tained Debs now must serve his sen tence. He is at liberty on bail. In Toledo, Ohio, Sunday afternoon, city officials refused admission to Memorial hall, a city building, where Eugene V. Debs was scheduled to speak, and 5,000 persons stormed the place, broke windows and doors and then paraded the streets, crying, "To hell with the mayor"! And all the time Debs was in bed in a Cleveland hotel, where, it was said, he was too ill to appear in public. A substitute speaker for Debs appeared about 3:30 o'clock, but when he attempted to make an address in public was chased away by policemen. More than 75 men were arrested, including Thomas Devine, socialist member of the city council. Charges of inciting to riot were placed against them, but after 300 policemen had succeeded in breaking up the mobs the prisoners were all released with out bail. Announcement that Debs would not be permitted to speak was made late Saturday night, after the socialists here had prepared to handle an over flow crowd. The announcement ap' peared in the morning papers and was the first notice the socialists had that their meeting could not be held When the hour for Debs to speal arrived, there was at least 6,000 men and women congregated about the William McKinley monument in the Courthouse park, across the street from memorial hall, A man mounted the base of the monument. We'll use memorial hall this afternoon if we have to wade through blood to do it"! he shouted A policeman grabbed him and he was thrown unceremoniously into a patrol wagon. The man who essayed to speak next also was arrested. As the crowd sensed what was oc curring the radicals began to hoot ana boo the oiucers. Ulubs were drawn and the crowd was got moving Then came the parade through the streets and cries of "Down with the mayor"! "Hang him"! "To hell with the police"! and others of a similar Established July 1896 PERSONS LEAVING AND RETURNING Mrs. Marcus Moore returned Tues day from a trip to Winston-Salem. Mr. J. T. Prevette is at the north ern markets this week buying cloth ing. Dr. J. M. Turner went toElkin and Statesville this week to see relatives and friends. Mr. R. C. Jennings and little Bon, R. C. Jennings, Jr., of Winston-Salem came in on the train yesterday. Mr. John G. Quin, of the Meadows Mill Company, left today to tell the world that the "Meadows meal is the best." Miss Fannie Cranor went to States ville the first of the week to visit her sister, Mrs. W. H. McElwee, for two weeks. Mrs. Lydia Griswold, of Madison, N. J., arrived Tuesday to visit her son, Mr. R S. Griswold at Gilreath on the Brushy mountains. Pvt. T. R. Teague, of Parsonville, arrived on the noon train yesterday from overseas. He belonged to the 30th Division and was wounded. Pvt. M. S. Blalock and wife, of Coolleemee, came in on the noon train Wednesday and went to Champion to visit her grandfather, Mr. E. II. Dockery. Mr. and Mrs. P. M. Williams and little daughter Mary Gwyn, left yes terday morning to visit in Charlotte and will go from there to visit his parents at Wallace, N. C. Pvt. George W. Maness, of North Wilkesboro, arrived on the noon train yesterday from overseas. We printed letter last Friday written by him. Mr. Maness says he is glad to get home. Attorney T. C. Bowie, R. L. Ballou and J. B. Council came in on the noon train Wednesday from Raleigh, where they had been attending Supreme court, and left for their homes at Jefferson. Mr. C. M. Adams came in yesterday from Chase City, Va., to spend the months of April and May at his home near Hays. Mr. Adams is of the op inion that the farmers of this section should grow from two to three acres of tobacco each year. Mrs. Sarah Jane Frazier Dead. The following appeared in Tuesday's Statesville Landmark: Mrs. Sarah Jane Frazier, wife of . R. Frazier, of Poore's Knob, Wilkes county, died Friday morning at Long's Sanitorium. Death result ing from an abscessed appendix. The deceased is survived by her husband and several children. Mrs. Frazier was 56 years of age. The body was removed to Poore's Knob for burial. Miss Myrtle Hickerson Died Thursday. Miss Myrtle Hickerson, who has been living in Elkin for some time, died Thursday morning and will be buried Friday at Ronda. She was a sister of Dr. James Hickerson, deceas ed and Mr. R, G. Hickerson. Miss Hickerson was 68 odd years old and a member of St. Paul's Episcopal church. The funeral services will be conducted by Rev. J. D. C. Wilson of Wilkesboro. Mr. Lee Dowell Died Monday. Mr. Lee Dowell, who lived near Rock Creek church, Rock Creek town ship, died Monday morning about 11 o'clock of heart trouble and dropsy. He was 70 odd years old and leaves a wife and Beveral children. The bur ial services were held at Rock Creek cnurch of which he was a member. Mr. Dowell was a great uncle of Mrs. J. V. Bauguss. nature. It was after 5 o'clock before police were able to disperse the crowd. Fist fights by the dozen occurred on street corners. Hotel lobbies were invaded by the malcontents. Street cars were held up and threats of serious outbreaks were to be heard on every band.
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