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( THE HUSTLER, NORTH WILKESBORO, X. C. A! il San Jose Cemetery Wrecked by Recent Earthquake DOINGS 111 THE 11 TAR HEEL STATE Lift Off-No Pain! NEWS OF NORTH CAROLINA TOLD IN SHORT PARA GRAPHS FOR BUSY PEOPLE HIGHWAY SIDEWALKS PREVENT ACCIDENTS Bit Greensboro. Three negro children were burned to death in their home during a brief absence of their moth- I er, Bessie Dunbar. Ahoskie. May Day will be cele brated by the Ahoskie High School in the form of an outdoor pageant which will be presented under the direction of Miss Grace Oliver, head of the de partment of publit- school music. Fayetteville. An all-day celebra tion of the Fourth of July will be held here on the nation's birthday, accord ing to plans being worked out by of ficials of the Cape Fear Association, Fort Bragg. Winston-Salem. Fred J. Wood worth, aged 46 and unmarried, died at a local hospital from injuries sustain ed March 24th last when he jumped from a southbound train near Bald Mountain. Davidson county. Asheville. The annual meeting of the American Business Clubs of the United States will be held in Ashe ville June 17, IS, and 10. Delegates are expected from all parts of the Untied States. Local committees have been appointed to have charge of the entertainment. Henderson. Henderson at this time enjoys a distinction not held by any other towns or community in the State in that it has three units of the North Carolina National Guard located here. Two of these have only recent ly been formed, bringing the total strength to eleven officers and ap proximately 100 enlisted men in the three units. Kinston. Miss Mary Alice Smith, little brunette of Ayden. was award ed honors at the Sectional Exposition here as Eastern Carolina's most beau tiful girl. She won over 20-odd com petitors. Miss Elizabeth White, o Greenville, was second, and Miss Ail een Jones, of Snow Hill, third. Mis? Edna Spencer, a blonde, won over oth er contestants in a local competition. Gastonia. K. Levin, a shoe met chant, was held In $"0O bond in muni cipal court here charged with arson in connection with the burning of hia store six weeks ago. Wilson. Mrs. J. C. Pitt, while at tending devotional service in the graded school building at Sharpsburg uar the Nash county line, suffered an attack of the heart while kneeling a' prayer and died almost instantly. Wilmington. There is an unusual scarcity of edible fish in Wilmington and at all points along the Ataltni Coast as far south as Florida, due to th fact that cannibal fish are feeding upon the edible fish to such an extent that there are practically none to be caught by the fishermen, according to D. J. Fergus, one of the city's most ex perienced fish dealers. Asheville. Joe Rice, a special dep uty sheriff, was held in $10,000 bail on a charge of manslaughter as 8 result of the death at Woodfin, N. C, ot Garfield Haney, age 35 year?, a by stander, who was shot when the dep uty attempted to arrest a man. Gastonia. Graham Hawkins. 9 yc-ai old, of Cramerton, was drowned in a creek near his home. He and two oth er boys had constructed a dam in the creek and were in swimming. lie got beyond his depth and sank in six feet cf water before aid could reach him. New Bern. Charged with setting fire to her husband's clothing. Donia rollock. negress, and Will Henderson, negro, are in jail her". Sam Pollock, the victim, is in St. Lukes hospital with his sight entirely destroyed, and his body horribly burned. He has no chance for recovery, a hospital report says. Fayetteville. A temporary restrain ing order signed by Judge Henry A. Grady of Clinton, enjoining the com missioners of Cumberland county from selling $300,000 of courthouse bonds was tiled here by Oates and Herring, and Shaw and Shaw, attorneys for S. H. McFherson, a taxpayer of this county. Clarkton. S. O. Wooten, prominent Clarkton citizen, was badly burned and is in a serious condition as a re sult of an explosion of a carbide light ng plant tank while he was assisting a church sexton. Charlie Brown, negro, and his small son in making some ad justments to the plant. The aged ne gro and his step son were both badly scorched. Henderson Post office receipts at the Hendrson office for the first quar ter of 1924, ending March 31, last, show an increase over the same period of 1923 of $134.74, as shown by com parison with the totals announced by the post office last year. Receipts for the first quarter of 1924 were $3, 612.78 for the first quarter of 1923. Reidsville John Hickman, 70 years of age, committed suicide at his home near Ayersyille, 23 miles west of lleidsville. Hickman rigged up a forked stick to which with a string he tied his shotgun and sprung the trig ger, the contents of the shell going through his heart. Oxford Twelve cases of smallpox developed at the Colored Orphanage Asylum about two miles from Oxford. The disease Is believed to have been brought Into the institution by a child who came to the orphanage from Charlotte recently, who was just get ting over an attack ol smallpox. ri r " 1 "r i 1 ,1 feateasfeass L This is the first photograph received from San Jose, Cost 11 Rica, since the at work In the Heredla cemetery, where many of the burial vaults were reduced unearthed bv the temblors. New Antiseptic to Protect Surgeons Doctor Who Faced Death Has Remarkable Recovery. Baltimore, Md. Septic poisoning, long considered the most terrible per sonal enemy iihysicluns encounter, Is being successfully combated by a new antiseptic developed at Johns Hopkins hospital here. Although the experiments at the Brady Urologlcal Institute have cov ered a period of five years and have been successful In many Instances In the last year, the new treatment has become known to the public only through the remarkable recovery of tar. Curl V. Vischer of Philadelphia. Dr. Vischer, a surgeon at the Hahne mann hospital, suffered n needle prick while performing nn operation at the hospital last summer. He contracted septic poisoning, and though his most skilled associates undertook the treat ment of his case, It was believed he hnd a very small chance of surviving. In the months that followed, he fought a steadily losing bntle with death. The flp of the finger was sacrificed, but lie deadly poison continued to creep through his veins, scarring his hand with deep marks. Doctors Still Experimenting. As a last resort, his physicians, Dr. Edmund B. Piper and Dr. John Dean Elliott, used mercurochrome In a solu tion of sufficient strength to net on the staphylococci germs which caused the Infection. Now, entirely recovered, Dr. Vischer has returned to his home with only scars to show for his des perate fight ngalnst death. For the development of mercuro chrome and Its use In fighting blood poisoning, medical science is indebted to four Baltimore physicians. Dr. Hugh II. Young, director of the Brady Uro loglcal institute; Dr. Edwin C. White, Dr. J. C. Hill and Dr. John A. C. Col ston. All are reluctant to discuss the drug and Its use, although papers on the subject have been prepared and pre sented to several medical societies. Dr. Young admitted, however, thut he had been in close touch with Dr. Yiseh er's case and was familiar with all its aspects. He had hesitated to make the dis covery known while It yet wns In an experimental stage, lie said. The fact that it is not Invariably successful also has deterred him from announc ing it, he said, for fear It might be thought undue claims were being made for it. In the year It has been used nt the Johns Hopkins hospital, hew ever, he said, it has been successful In many cases, often when the patient wns desperately ill and literally be yond hope of recovery. In these latter cases, Doctor Young said, the cures hud been complete. New Method of Treatment. "We now are using mercurochrome In many cases of blood poisoning due to staphylococci and other bacteria," Doctor Young said. "We also are ex ST BERNARD DOG IS PUT TO DEATH IN AN ELECTRIC CHAIR One Shock Ends Life Homeless St. Bernard. of Lynn, Mass. Nero, a St. Bernard dog, homeless and sick, paid the death penalty In the electric cage at the Animal Rescue Home on Neptune street. Nero was executed because he had no guardian and, running nt large, had become a menace to the public. The dog was led to the ext-cutlon chamber after the hair around the neck had been cut close and a steel collar connected with electric wires put around his body. His feet were doused In water and he stood on a steel plate, making a circuit for ,500 volts of electricity. That death was Instantaneous was proved Then the cage was opened twelve seconds after the current had been turned off. The dog was found perimenting with other 'antiseptic dyes,' which are being used In other cases of blood poisoning." Mercurochrome, it Is said, long has been used ns nn antiseptic for exter nal application, but Its Injection Into a vein Is new. It Is uot a serum, however, but comes under the head of chemo-thernpy. Perhaps more tbnn any other medl cnl discovery, It Is of value to physl- clnns themselves, for they, more than any other class of persons, always have been sufferers from the ravages of this disease. It very often Is caused by Infection resulting from a tiny prick with a surgical instrument when performing nn operation, ns In the case of Doctor Vischer. Once septic poisoning sets In, the patient's chance for recovery formerly was very small n chance which has been multiplied many times by the new use of mer curochrome. Doctor Vlscher's Illness attracted widespread nttentlon in the medical fraternity. His father, Dr. C. V. Vischer, died 17 years ago from the same disease. Waterworks Is Given to Village by Woman Bennington, Vt. The voters of the Village of North Bennington at their annual corporation meeting recently accepted from Mrs. Laura II. Jen nings of New York the water system recently completed, her testimonial to YEAR-ROUND SCHOOL PROVES FAILURE IN Pupils Need Rest to Assimi late Education. New York. Schools must close for the summer vacation if the children are both to get and assimilate their education, Dr. David P.. Corson, su perintendent of schools in Newark, reported in a survey of all year In struction. Several of the schools In Newark tried the twelve-months' sys tem, the experiment proving a failure. The all-year pupils were expected to complete the public school work In six years. Instead, It was found they were graduated at an average age of four teen seven-tenths years. The small difference was more than offset In the superior physical and mental state of the latter group, Doctor Corson as serted. Particularly noticeable Is the defect In the nil-year school when the boys and girls are ready for high school work, the superintendent said. A lnrge proportion of them, through being "forced,'' have been "left back" and retarded In other ways during the pri mary grades work. On reaching high school their deficiencies become more obvious, and there Is a large percen- lifeless on the bottom of the cage. hlf eyes open. Experts who saw the execution said that a similar machine, but larger and with a heavier voltage, could be suc cessfully operated in slaughter houses nnd undoubtedly would he tried In the near future. The execution cage is the Invention of Huntington Smith of Boston and Prof. William L. Pusfer, formerly of the department of electrlcnl engineer ing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. u S. Bureau Organized in Three Major Groups Washington. The work of the bu reau of agricultural economics, United Stntes Department f Agriculture, Is now organized In three major groups dealing with the economics of produc tion, marketing and general agricul disastrous eurthqu'.ike. It shows men to ruins mid numberless bodies were her husband, Frederick B. Jennings, who died in 10120. The property conveyed cost about $170.OW). The deed of gift provides that $40,000 of Income from rentals may be expended In the construction of a sewer system. Once the system has been built the net income from water rentals Is to be expended for the benefit of the Inhabitants of the village. DEFENDS ILLICIT LIQUOR Dr. T. II. Price, a prominent Dis trict of Columbia chemist, who litis made an extensive study of Illicit liq uor, has Issued a statement that 09 per cent of the bootleg whisky which he has analyzed Is not poisonous. CITY OF NEWARK tage of "mortality," or dropping from classes, among them. One argument that favored the all year school wns a greater economy to the school board and city. Doctor Corson strongly denied that any such saving accrued. Had It been possible to graduate the pupils In the sis years, as was contemplated, this saving would have been met. In view of th failure to accomplish this, the ex penses proved as great as. If not greater than, the vucation school sys tem. Doctoi Corson's report wns original ly read before the meeting of the de partment of superintendence of the National Education association. His experience tended to end the putting forth of suggosilor.3 to apply modem efficiency methods to primary children, or to force education by hothouse methods. In the nll-yenr school there are five reorganizations of clnsSes in the course of each twelve-month period. These cause considerable confusion In the matter of examinations, acquiring of new teachers nnd turning to n new subject, to be taught In a slightly dif ferent method. tural matters that concern both pro duction and marketing, Including agri cultural finance, land economics, agri cultural co operation, and farm popu lation and rural life. The organization comprises a Wash ington office with 000 employees nnd a field organization Including 148 branch offices In 79 cities and employing 030 persons. The bureau hns contracts through Its own staff with every Im portant agricultural Industry. The leased telegraph wire system of the bureau, covering more than 7,000 miles, formerly used for market news only, has also been made avail able for the dissemination of i-rop and live stock estimate Information. A sys tem of radio broadcasting provides communication with nil the Important agricultural sections of the country. Sheriff Doesn't Fear Mob Lufkln, Tex. "I don't want any rangers here," declared Sheriff Watts In discussing his successful defense of the county Jail against n mob. "When I can't handle my Job, I'll quit und let some one else take my place." The Increase In automobile traffl a! late years has brought among oth ers one very serious problem, the pro tection of pedestrians who have to travel along the public highways. Recent figures compiled by a large life insurance company, rovering cas ualties on highways of a certain state for the heaviest traffic season, showed that out of 427 deaths In automobile accidents, 47 per cent of them were of persons who were walking along pub lic highways and were struck by mo torists. As a result of the alarming Increase In accldtnts of this type, authorities have Instituted campaigns of various kinds to reduce casualties, they have broadcast rules which pedestrians should follow when forced to travel along the highways. People afoot have been warned to carry lanterns af ter dark and to walk on the left side of the road so that they will see on coming vehicles In time to get out of the way. But all these precautions cannot eliminate these accidents altogether; thev can only reduce the number. RenHzlng this, state, county and city authorities Id various parts of the h"isS.&'C",fc sri 1 mmmmmimmm "mm mm am. Sidewalks Safeguard Pedestrians. country are now building concrete sidewalks along the highways In the more heavily traveled regions to safe guard pedestrians. And this plan as shown in the Illustration Is really the only one which can prevent accidents to pedestrians along the highways. "Widen, Repair," 1924's Sign for Road Builders Highway builders of America have (greed on two vital planks in the 1924 road Improvement platform. The first will safeguard the annual Investment of more than $1,000,000,000 for highway construction and exten sion by the establishment of definite and systematic maintenance and re pair. The second will make this huge In vestment pay record dividends by rais ing degree of improvement Justified by Its traffic. In some cases this will mean doubling the. width of existing ar teries ; In others the straightening of all dangerous curves and the construc tion of subways, overhead bridges and traffic "gyrations" to Improve traffic conditions snd eliminate danger. Thomas II. MacDonnld, chief of the United Stales bureau of public roads, first emphasized both of these needs In outlining Ills basic principles of highway management and financing during the coming year. He urged all states, where the first or "hack bone" system of pavements Is nearly complete, to concentrate now on build ing the big channels up to their prop er earning capacity, and to set aside a certain part of all road revenue for the annual repair and maintenance of Its built roads. Improved Highways Will Help Roadside Markets The rapid spread of a good Idea Is noted In the marvelous growth of the roadside market plan In the United States. It Is stated by a bureau which has studied the situation that fully 600,000 wayside farm markets will be In successful operation during the summer of 1024 In this country. With the coming of the auto Into common usefulness; with the opening of goocW roaas leading rrom the city and town back to the farm, nnd with the ex posure of th extortion prevailing on the way between the producer and the consumer, a lot of consumers and pro ducers have reached the sensible con clusion that they had better get to gether for their own mutual well-being and do their commodity dickering direct Assist Better Highways The President of the United States Is so much Interested in good roads that he has appeared In a movie film which Is good road propaganda, spon sored by Henry Ford. The hero of the little two-reeler Is a country boy, who Is presented by the President with a scholarship for a prize essay. Later the boy becomes a civil engineer, de voting his life to the building of better roads In order to make his section of the country a better place In which Hi S L k. I ft V - ' ' Doesn't hurt one bit I Drop a little "Freezone" on an aching corn, instant ly that corn stops hurting, then short ly you lift It right off with fingers. Your druggist sells a tiny bottle of "Freezone" for a few cents, sufficient to remove every hard corn, soft corn, or corn between the toes, and the foot calluses, without soreness or Irritation. Leaflets on Stalks The box-elder, or nsh-leaved maple, Is to be distinguished by Its ash-Ilka leaves of three to five leaflets on n single stalk, coarsely toothed nnd usually deep green, says the American Tree association of Washington, D. C. The bnrk on the trunk resembles that of the ash, and Is light brownish gray, with narrow, shallow furrows. The young twigs nre a light olive green. Nature Magazine. EIGHTY-FOUR STILL RUNS FARM Widow of Veteran, War of 1812, Says That She Has Taken Black-Draught for Twenty Years. Amerlcus, Ga. Mrs. Cornelia H. Clopton, who lives near here, is 84 years old, but keeps house for herself and has active charge of the manage ment of her farm. She Is the widow of Dr. Thomas Clopton, who fought with the Virginia militia in the War of 1812, and she draws a pension from the government for that reason. Mrs. Clopton, according to her statement, has had a long experience with Black-Draught. "I have been taking Black-Draught constantly for the last two years," says Mrs. Clopton, "and I find that It Is the best relief for constipation that I enn use. "For over twenty years I have known about this splendid medicine. A neighbor of mine recommended It to me that long ago and I hnve taken It when I needed anything of the kind ever since. "For the Inst two or three years I hnve been troubled frequently witn constipation nnd . . . complaints and, when these troubles come on, I take Black-Draught, I keep a box of Black-Draught always In the house. We are never without It." Millions use Blnck-Drnught. If your supply is running low, get more from your druggist todny. FOR OVER 200 YEARS haarlem oil has been a world wide remedy for kidney, liver and bladder disorders, rheumatism, lumbago and uric acid conditions. correct Internal trouble, tmu!ats vltiS organs. Three sizes. All druggists. Insist on the original genuine Gold Medal, MADE THE SAME AS THIRTY YEARS AGO FOR 30 years physicians have prescribed Gude's Pepto-Man-gan because it contains a form of iron which is readily absorbed, does not upset the stomach or affect the teeth, and is a splendid tonic and blood enricher. At your drug gist's, in both liquid and tablets. Free Trial Tablets Th.-E value of Gude's Pepto-Mangan, write today for generous Trial Package of Tablet!. Send so money just name and address to U. J. Breltenbach Co., CS Warren St., N. Y. Gude's pepto-angan Tonic and Blood Enricher IlPl 1 W. N. U., CHARLOTTE, NO. 16-192
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