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LOCAL NEWS IN TOWN AND COUNTY
The bird law is out and people are
posting their land to pretect them.
Mra. W. S. Welborn of Wilkesboro
leaves today to visit Miss Ida Greene
at Trinity.
Tbe two new brick store houses of
F. D. Meadows on B street were half
tip last week.
Mr. R. Walter Gwyn and family
bare moved into their beautiful new
borne on 6r,h street.
The Wilkesboro and North Wilkes
boro graded schools both close this,
Wednesday, afternoon until Monday.
Revs. N. T. Jarvis andHoIland were
holding a meeting in the lower edge
of tbe county at Clingman, Macedon
ia, last week.
air. w. j. Alien das accepted a
position with the Miller Grocery Com
pauy where he will be glad to meet
and serve his friends.
The wife of Judge Yates Webb,
who died several days ago, was once
Miss Emma Geary of Wilkesboro
Her father died in Wilkesboro and
was probably buried there.
In North Wilkesboro tbe stores,
other business bouses and banks will
be closed on Thanksgiving Day ex
cept till 9 o'clock that morning the
grocery stores will open.
Last week workmen began repairing
tbe brick front of tbe corner store at
Smoak Bros, by taking down all the
brick one at a time and sliding each
to tbe ground and will replace the
wooden beams with steel beams.
A fine Berkbhire etock hog was in
the depot here several days ago ship
ped fromPinehuret to Mr.JameB Ritch
ie of Pores Knob. We venture that
Mr. Ritchie is now on tbe way to
ward finer hogs than ever heretofore.
Mrs. Chap. Minton of Wilkesboro
Route 2 was pleasantly reminded of
her sixtieth birthday November 18th
by neighbors and friends gathering
at the home of Mr.andMrs.Minton that
forenoon with baskets that were
spread for dinner ber in bonor.
Eleven persons were baptised at
the First Baptist church Sunday morn
ing in this town as a result of the
week of meetings at tbe Baptist
church in Wilkesboro in which Rev.
James Clark of High Point had
been assisting the pastor, Dr. J. L.
China, and which cloeedSunday night,
resulting i n present and fu
ture good to tbe community.' At
the evening services the attendance
filled every seat of the main part
of the churcbj the afternoons at 2:30
also were well attended.
Net Monday night at 8 o'clock
Wilkea County Post No. 125 Ameri
can Legion will bold their regular
monthly meeting at tbe Commercial
Club rooms, after which refreshments
will be served and entertainment sup
plied. The Auxiliary is cordially in
vited and all Legionaries are request
ed and urged to be present. Service
men not now members of the Legion
are invited to attend and join the Lo
cal Post at that meeting. Specail en
tertainment has been arranged and
refreshments will be served.
tfarrsi Eriswold KeturoeJ Saturday from i
Year of Voyages -a Boy.
Warren F. Griewold, U. S. N. R.,
returned last Saturday io epeuu a '
weeks at home with his parents here,
D street, east, having landed in New
Yoi k from Europe, Germany, France,
England, Belgium and Holland and a
trip to the tropics to the Canal and
to Havana, Trinadad and other ports.
Warren Griewold has been gone a
year from home successfully working
bis way as hospital and commissary
steward with the U. 8. & American
Line of New York.
He is far-travelled young gentle
man for only about 20. He says
Germany is building more than ever
before, especially in Hamburg and
Berlin.
"the German situation is improving,
in fact there has been very little
trouble compared to the reports that
have beea made in New York papers.
HON, H N. HACKETT PASSES
FIFTY-SIX YEARS OF AGE
Daughter and Brother, J, 6. Hackett, Sur
vive Him Man wiiii a Most Brilliant
Former Congressman Richard N.
Hackett, of this place, died last Thurs
day afternoon at 1 :05 o'clock, Nov
ember 22nd, at Dr. Long's sanatorium
in Statesville, where he had been a
patient and critically ill for several
weeks, death resulting from kidney
trouble and complication.
Mr. Hackett was 56 years of age,
was born December 4, 18G6, young
est son of Dr. R. F. and Mrs, Caroline
Gordon Hackett. He was a nephew
of General James B. Gordon, of tbej
Confederate army. He was married
to Miss Lois Long, cf Statesville, in
January 1907. He is survived by one
brother, Mr. James Gordon Hackett,
and a daughter, Miss Lois Long Hack
ett. He was prepared for college by
Rev. Richard W. Barber, of this coun
ty. He graduated from the Univer
sity of North Carolina in 1887. He
studied law under Colonel Geo. M.
Folk, of Caldwell county and received
his law license in 1888. He was
elected to Congress in 1906 from the
old eighth district, having defeated
Spencer Blackburn. He was twice
elected grand master of the grand
lodge of Masons of North Carolina.
Before and since he was 21 years of
age ha took an active part in the
democratic party, campaigning the
state repeatedly. He was a member
of the state democratic executive
committee for the past 25 years. He
was appointed by Governor Morrison
attorney for the North Carolina rail
road, which position he held at tbe
time of bie death.
Miss Lois Long Hackett and her un-
cle.Rev. Mack Long, and tbe batter's
auot, Mrs. Adam?, ofStatesville, came
to the funeral, the former firm Nir-j
walk, Conn., where in school.
In the large crow J present at I he
home of his brother J, G. Hail i i
this town and attending the fu-ral
in Wilkesboro at theMethodist e;,..rc!i
and his burial at the Episcopal c me
tery between 10 A. M. and 1 o'clock
last Saturday, bis grave being near
i graves of his parents were the
following named Masons and friends
from a distance, other than many of,
the county!
Messrs. Mark Squire and La v; cr
Wakefield of Caldwell, Congressman'
W. C. Hammer of Asheburo,Leon;';.sh
of Winston deputy grand warden of
the State grand lodge of Masons, Mr.
McGuire and Joe F. Hendren of Elkin
Richard Fletcher of Watauga, Brown
of Winston, Hayden Burke of Alexan
der county, Parks and Dockery of
Surry, Ex Lt. Governor Newland of
Caldwell, and many others of tbe
Masonic fraternity of which the de
ceased was twice elected grand mas
ter during his life, and the members
of the local lodges of the two Wilkes
boros and county who attended in
a body. Tbe procession of automo
biles was more than half of a mile.
The sad crowd more than filled
the church and annex, Revs. S. M.
Needham, pastor, C. W. Robinson and
M. T. Smatbers officiating. The
Masonic burial ceremonies concluded
the funeral at the Episcopal grave
yard. Many beautiful flowers were offer
ed some being taken to the cemetery
later.
The following editorial comment is
from state papers:
North Carolina has known three
men of extraordinary historical lore.
One was J. Bryan Grimes, another
was Richard N. Hackett, and tbe
third, a lone survivor, is Walter Mur
phy. "Mr. Grimes died last summer;
tbe paper today makes record of tbe
passing of Mr. Hackett. When we
want to know of incident in tbe pant
history of the State we yet have Pete
Murphy's brilliant mind to draw
from and long may that be the case.
Mr. Hackett's personality was of the
irresistible kind. His mind was
North 'iVij.kesboro N.
THE RELIGION OF
THE NAZARENE
Last but not least, let os thank Cod that vt !iv. in u ChrifMan
country. I have seen the ignorant in Asia, hounded !v fear a id
superstition, bowing down before their bloody ido's. I haw re a
Brabniinisw in action with its terrible cruelty that mak j.rid. fu!
Pharisees of its upper classes and untouchble ciitens of i1.;
lower. I have Been Confueianists, practicing the pood wr:ih s''.---
common sense of their Master, but yet living ba-rco liv. hw.v:
the exalting power of love love for God and low for jiiu's feline
had no compelling place in their religion. 1 have seer, he dun
uitilious Mohammedans praying with faces tv ied toward a far
away Mecca, while they lived out a creed almost wholly i.icki. . i.
the tenderness and beauty and uplifting influences of Christianity.
The American who never goes inside a church or hears a -ennon
or opens a Bible should nevertheless stop at least ni.ee a year to
thank God that he lives in a Christian nation. tn spite of nil the
imperfections of its professed adherents, Christianity is y t the
salt that saves and sweetens our whole national rxistance.
For all these larger blessings that our whole section enjoj- as
well as for countless others that have come to individually, J, us
indeed be grateful. And as we think of them we shall, no doubt
come to echo the fine thought sofittingly expressed bv I'hiilins
Brooks:
"And so let us give thanks to God on Thanksgiving Day. 'a
ture is beautiful and fellow-men are dear, and duty is cha- lie side
us, and He is over us and in us. What more do we want ex. in,
to be more thankful and more faithful, less complaining of our
trials and our times, and more worthy of the tasks ami privilege;
He has given us?" Clarence Poe in Progressive Farmer.
moved by instant wit or wisdom, as
occasion rt quired; one never wanted
tbe spell of his narrative talent brok
en. His presence at all times meant
the best of coniradship. Among the
mountain f. Iks he was loved as a
brother; in any circie he invaded all
bands wire extended in gladness,
There was no evil in his heart; he
was of the type marked with the
open token that he loved his fellow
man. He was a lawyer of fine quali
fications and Governor Morrison bad
selected him as a guardian of the in
terests of the State stockholders b
the jYiilh Ca.vlina llailioad Company.
Tliis vril.T is in ;-. p isilion to bear
testimony to Lis a-imir:.! fidelity l-
the ir;nl. i ;,ovi u :n Lis pas.-in.
In days to ct.iii-.i, w i.eii traversing the
peaceful valleys which be loved to
roam, or in visiting the rnaji.-tic
mountain in whose glories he was
wont to revel, we will feel that some
thing is missing with Dick Hackett
not there. Charlotte Observer,
Hon, Richard N, flaekett, of Wi!k.
ftboro, who died yesterday, w3 cue
of the most brilliant men of bis day
who graduated at the Uuiversity. He
was HttJactive, popular, and singular
ly gifted. He served as State Grand
Master of Mason and in Congress and
in other positions of leadership. Many
friends will deeply regret his death.
Raleigh News and Observer.
Death of Esq. J. P. Woolen at Ronda.
Mr. J. P. Wooten of Ronda died
Wednesday morning of last week at
his home after serious illness for
several days. He was a man who had
passed the three score years and ten.
He breathed last at about 7 o'clock
He leaves a wife and grown sons
and daughter. Mrs. Nora Parks is
his daughter and lives at Ronda; bis
sons are Messrs. Robert and Elsa of
Maryland. He had one daughter to
die 25 or SO years ago.
He had been a justice of the peace
and for several years conducted a
feed business and produce Luoiness
and was widely known as he also ran
a boarding house for many years.
Boi Supper at Millers Creek Next Saturday
Night.
Millers Creek High school will hold
a box supper in the school building
on Saturday night, December 1st, to
raise money for additional equipment
for the boys and girls basket ball
teams. The boys are playing a fine
game and tbe girls soon will be
Come and help for tbe Hake of clean j
sport and health The building will i
be lighted by a Delco light plant fur
nished by Ogijvie Bros., of North
Wilkesboro. Reported.
Prof. J. K, Weaver and family will!
leave today for Chapel Hill and
there will see the V a, -Carolina game. I
C.t November 28 1
Says Veterans' Bureau Shield Act a- At
torney, Washington, Nov. 25. -The V. ter
ans bureau "should act as an nw
ey" for rx service m. n irs pre.-
claims and capable e,ur .- I !.. if '
provided where leal a.-.sii
sought in prosecuting esi-es i, . ..
the di. trict boards of appeal !' ,
tor tunes has auviseu mstnc
agers of the bureau llirougi
country. . Settlement in t!.e c
man's favor in ''border line
was urged.
"Find a way to render r. !ii
t r than to b!i.ck or ;leia.' i ,"
: logau adopted. -'V I n !
! '-usinalde tlmilt - re r
lake lb rc-potm! '.''. of
claims favoiaV; to disa',1
Director liines warned the
in '.
iit t:
s-iil.
C.i;';.
.t.iiig
ollieials against
li
of patients fri-m hospitals a ,d d- -dared
the policy of putting di-ai-h d
men in hospitals vithont delay - and
nrguirg about detail .nfterward- -should
ije fiDi;nri!! follo'v-l"
With the 'U, be m(. ! ,:,ei!ii;;, .,,
of li:-.!;i!tftll;vi,i -:i vil. ;-n;r;,tf ,
of reeoVtry. '.
The district nm
!i; ;j,e-
to discourage t!:; :-o call,' I "
treotment'' of t':oer-:u!o'; p
and urged idt-r !!: i.f . .ve
hospital, particlilirif tlne ,
Veterans' bureau.
Complete rehalaliiaiion of th
abled veter.. is, 1 rector iliaej
is attained onlv after he h pa,
tie
ail
d m
the work for which ho has trained
and to facilitate immediate placing
of these men in industry Jie u'-d
"more rigid supervision" over voca
tional students and got the possible
results from their training. He said
preferential consideration should be
given these men in the matter of
employment and retention in service
Hand Gut Otf in Corn Shredder.
R. A. Baown had his right hand
torn off in a corn-shredder Thursday,
15th. evening while feeding the ma
chine at his farm ten miles east of
Lenoir. Accerding to information
reaching here Mr. Brown thought the
machine had choked down and hail
run his hand into the feeding im envn
ism to clean the blades. The ma'-i-iue
had not choked down and th" f e I
rollers caught his hand and b -fi re
the belt could be thrown or ttt m
gine stopped it had feed it into the
cutters.
Mr. Brown was taken to HV:;,,v
immediately, where his hand, wi.:, h
rut into shreds, amputated at
w"!,k Ju,ul
-Lonoir New-Topic.
FOR SALE!
breeding. Price S
One lurge lioik
shire boar for s.ilo
o prevent in-
Price $7 at the farm.
Registration papers fma.i ni. Hroi
Knob, N. C.
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s;r(M GOORT TO PASS
e
Cii THE OQWfE ACT, A!f J T- Prevette "turned oath
, i noon train last Thursday.
to tn e euinratutiouality of
Act Ar'icl'! V, section 4,
sit i, of the State constitution, which
ren-H as follows, and is ottered by the
opponents:
' !'.';! the bonds of the State shall
he at par, the General Assembly shall
h' at par, the General Assembly shall
h ive no power to contract any new
detit or pecuniary obligation in be-
j half 'f the State, except to supply a
. ! deficit or for suppressing inva
sion or insurrection, unless it shall in
th" same hiil levy a special tax to
j pav the interest annually. And the
jGercral Assembly shall have no pow
1 er to give or lend tbe credit of the
Slate in aid of any person, associa
: ii":; or corporation, except to aid
i in the completion of such railroads
i as may be unfinished at the time of
, the adoption of this constition. or io
which the State has a direct pecunia
ry interest, unless the submitted to a
difct vote of the people of the Slate
and ba approved by the majority of
i tin-.- - who shall vote thereon."
! Tin- Supreme Court (says the Win
j stun .Journal's opinion) will have to
jstre'e!) the tearing if it permits this
'fr li ei to stand before the people of
j North Curoliua and the opening of
; the rich northwestern territory and
i be completion of a through-line rail
road across Nofth Carolina from east
! to west. The framers of the Con
' siitution did not intend by this sec
lion to prevent the Legislature of
; '"r.f her generation from building a
i v railroad if it wanted to build one.
licit- i ! the reason why they began
I'V waiting "until tbe bonds of the
. Si ate ohall be at par."
This section of tbe Constitution al-
so plainly declares that the General
Af-mbly shall have power to lend
tlie credit of the State in aid of any
j.ison, association or corporation.
Hut that does not in any way prohi
bit the General A-eanl.ly from ap
i projiriating funds for the State to
I liuiM a new railroad. When the Gen
' oral A-' a-mbly passed the Bowh Act
I was not prepaying to lend the credit
: of the S ate to any person, associa
tion or corporation. It was propos
! ing to go into the railroad building
; i-nsiness on its own accounu.
For the reasons it is dilliuult to
: htdiev" that the Supreme Court will
j -.'if. thid Kreat rr.ovenknt that ffieana
: au much for the commercial and In
dustrial development of North t'aro-
iiiKi. The Voice of the dead should
' be mu :h clearer and more certain
, than this in its meaning, even ih so
, uacred an instrument as the Const!-
i
tution, before that voice shall be per
mitted to control tbe acts of the liv
ing to the point of thwarting the pro
gress of a great civilization. Winston-Salem
Journal.
; Boone Trail Highway Hard Surface Road
'. Five or Sit Miles.
The State is now making a survey
J for the Boone Trail Highway bard
i surface road toward Winston-Salem
j from North Wilkesboro. It looks as
if tbe road will be changed at a point
just oeyona tne laamn iriver bridge, bad wasted valuable time before De
leaving the present concrete road tn- Df, admitted to hospitals was also de
the right arfd running in a south east- Cared to be unfounded, and Dr.
ward direction to the main street in Townsend or any one else is invited
east Wilkesboro (entering main street j to the bureau any specific case of
al C. Y. Miller's 2nd J. J. Ww resi-; rD1TWt
dence) and running down main street
to the corporate limits,' then leaving
j the old Salem road and crossing Cub
creek and up the Penden hill leaving
the residence to the left and coming
out into the present highway near the
Ike McLean old home place. Tbe
hardsurface contract will be 6 miles
distance and 18 feet wide. No grade
work will be done on this road
before spring.
Governor Morrison has refused to
pardon or parole Baxter Shemwell
who is serving a sentence on the Da
vidson county gang. Shemwell claims
be is physically unfit to do duty. If
not, the Governor says, the prisoner
should stay in the county jail. The
Mooresville Enterprise,
Established July 1896
i PERSONS LEAVING AND RETURNIK8
the! Mr. .1. L Garwood want to Irdll
is last Thursday tn sell An nriran la
church in that county.
Mrs. William Marshal, of Winston
Salem, came in Friday to visit her
mother, Mrs. Octavie Greer at Mora
vian Falls.
Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Butler, of Mt.
City, Tenn., arrived last week to visit
their daughter, Mrs. C. H. Hulcher,
in Wilkesboro.
Rev. L. B. Murray of State Roadi
left home by auto Monday of last
week fofr Watauga to begin a series
of meeting? near Boone.
Miss Minnie Gilliam is at the home
of ber parents near Haya visiting a
few days from persuing a business
course at a college in Thomasville, N,
0.
Mr. Lindsay Cashion, a former N.
Wilkesboro boy and living in Winston
several years.wbere he married, whom
we saw last week, is still with a
printing bouse there.
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Moore, Jr., and
children motored to Edgemont Satur
day to spend the week end with Mr.
Moore's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. C.
Moore. Lenoir News-Topic, 20th.
Mr. C. D. Hanris and family, of
Moravian Falls, have moved to Hidde
nite. Alexander gaines a splendid
citizen. Mr. Harr.s is a man that al
ways tries to live close to the Golden
Rule.
Mrs. J. II. Johnson of Elkin, (to
where they moved from here two
weeks ago) has been spending a few
days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
W. H. Waugh, accompanied by their
baby.
Mr. Ed. Harris of Wilkesboro bat
been in Texarkana, Texas, several
days having left here Nov. 18th sum
moned to appear there in court to
show tbe letters be received from an
oil company indicted there. It ia said
they wish to prove that this oil com
pany guaranteed 250 per cent.
Dr. M. L. Townsend, Former Wilkis Citi
.zen, Raps Veteran Bureau,
Wnshington, Nov, 24. Cbirgei of
inefficient administration and flTorl
tism in personnel appoints fllid by
Dr. M, L. Towoaeun, former tntdloil
officer of the Charlotte silb-dialflet
oihee, against M. Drjson, manager of
district No. 5, of the Veterans' bareaa,
were declared to be unsubstantiated
and without foundation by Gen. Frank
T. Hines, director of the bureau, to
day.
An investigation of the condition!
of the Charlotte office was made re
cently by a representative of the in
spection service. Dr. Townsend, who
preferred the charges, was discharg
ed from the veterans' bureau last
May on account of inefficiency, it U
alleged, in that he permitted exces
sive medical expenses to be incurred,
and that his services were generally
unsatisfactory.
Dr. Townsend's statement that
veterans suffering trom tuberculosis
The invitation failed to disclose
anything to the discredit of Mr. Bry
son, it is declared.
Mrs. Byrd of Ronda Deal.
Mrs. Lonnie C. Byrd of Ronda died
Tuesday night of last week at the
Wilkes hospital where she had been
live or six weeks following an opera
tion for appendicitis.
She was a young woman being
eighteen years, five months and
twenty-two days old, and was th
wife of Mr. Eugene Byrd who, alona,
so far as children at least ia concert
ed, survives. Her parents and toil
parents of her husband are living, f
The burial was atMacedonia church
Wednesday afternoon.
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