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A SKETCH OF THE LIFE AND TIMES OF 1
"GENTLEMIAN" JOHN PEIRKONS
and of his contemporaries, successors and descendants; together with av glance at the history, customs and de
velopment of what is now Caldwell county and of the adjacent country, during the latter part of the eighteenth
and the beginning of the nineteenth centuries
LENOIR NEWS-TOPIC, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1919
by W. W. Scott.
The above is the title of a serial article that is to be begun in
the News-Topic with the issue of October 10th, and to continue
in every succeeding issue until completed. The article will
probably not be finished for several months.
The compiler of these memoranda says: "These compila
tions do not assume the dignity of history or biography, but
are submitted as material tnat may be used by exact historians
after verification."
The compiler has been collecting the interesting data for
publication for at least ten years, and these articles, independ
ent of the interest it is hoped they will be to the general reader,
will be read with special pleasure by the hundreds of descend
ants of "Gentleman" John Perkins living in Western North
Carolina.
Those of his descendants who do not subscribe for this paper
but who wish to read and preserve these articles, are invited to
subscribe at once, as the management desires to print a suffi
cient edition to provide new subscribers with the whole series.
ORGANIZE NOW TO COMBAT
PLAGUE OF INFLUENZA
The State board of health has sent
a copy of the following letter to pa
pers throughout the State, with the
request that it be published:
In view of the fact that we may
have an epidemic of influenza this fall
.and winter, and remembering the
devastation and havoc wrought by
this disease last fall and winter, it
behooves us to get each county and
community thoroughly organized to
care for those stricken if this disease
should again show itself in an epi
demic form. Thorough organization
inspires confidence in battling with
any foe and there is no doubt that
thorough organization will allay the
fears of the people and tend to lessen
the nervous condition of those strick
n. There is not a particle of doubt
that fear and a nervous condition in
creased our mortality in the influenza
epidemic of last fall and winter.
We are writing to ask that you call
a meeting AT ONCE of all the public
welfare agencies in your county
health officers, public welfare officers,
farm and horn edemonstrators, super
intendents and supervisors of schools,
both white and colored, ministers,
doctors, lawyers and all other patri
otic citizens. Let these patriotic citi
zens form an organization after the
plan outlined below. If influenza
comes you will be prepared. If it
does not come, so much the better.
Plan of Organization
The public welfare agents and pa
triotic citizens in meeting assembled
should appoint a county supervisor of
health to co-operate with the county
board of health and the county health
officer. Tho county supervisor should
appoint a local supervisor in each
township. Duties of the local super
visor are to keep in touch with the
people in order to learn the degree
in which each community is affected
by influenza; to keep the county su-,
perintendent informed of local condi-'
tinos and needs, and, should it be- j
come necessary, assist in relieving
the helpless. The chairman of the
board of county commissioners
should send to the State board of
health the name of the county's su
pervisor and the township supervis
ors. All calls for outside aid should
be made through your county super
visor. These calls only will be. re
garded as official by the State board
of health. The State board of health
is at this time perfecting an emergen
cy organization of physicians and
nurses of the State, who will be will
ing and ready to answer any emer
gency call sent them by the State
board of health. The State board of
health urges that the men or women
selected as township supervisors
realize that a great responsibility
rests upon them for the saving of
lives and the alleviation of suffering
in their community. To aid them in
their work the following plan of local
organization is suggested to town
ship supervisors:
The supervisors of the townships
should appoint a chairman for the
following committees:
(a) Intelligence committee.
The chairman of this committee
should be especially active and intel
ligent, thoroughly acquainted with
the community, and willing to gather
accurate information daily in regard
to the sick. -This chairman should re
port daily to the township supervisors
the number of new cases, the condi
tion of previous cases, and any emer
gency need, food, medicine or nurs
ing aid.
(b) Food committee.
This committee should be held in
readiness to supply simple, whole
some food to those families in actual
need.
(c) Nursing committee.
This committee should have a list
of all available persons in the com
munity who will voluteer to do ordi
nary nursing in case of need. Many
persons sick with influenza do not
need the services of a trained, nurse,
even if one could be obtained, but
many families do need the simple
home attention which can and should
be supplied through this committee.
Any who have taken the Red Cross
course in first aid and hyme hygiene
should be especially valuable for this
work.
(d) Finance committee.
This committee should secure vol
untary contributions for the neces
sary relief of afflicted families, which
may be destitute. There are likely
also to be families who are tempo
rarily in need of financial assistance
because of the epidemic.
(e) Transportation committee.
This committee should be prepared
to furnish mean sof conveyance and
a local guide in case a doctor or a
nurse is sent to the community from
some distant point. They should also
be prepared to meet the needs of the
other four committees.
The State board of health advises
that the local township supervisors
appoint only the chairman of each
of these con. .littees, leaving the
chairman to secure such assistance as
is deemed necessary for the work.
Either a man or a woman can serve
acceptably as chairman or as a mem
ber of any of these committees. The
main point is that the chairman
should be a worker and should be
held responsible for the work of the
committee of which he or she is
chairman. This plan of organization
may seem to go into unnecessary de
tails, but past experience tells us
that we cannot be too strongly organ
ized. In the late epidemic of influ
enza whole families were stricken so
that no member of the family was
able to get out and ask for aid. We
do not want this to happen again in
North Carolina. The State board of
health urges you to ACT promptly.
Don't wait until your community is
actually stricken before taking steps
to combat the epidemic that may
come.
MINERS WANT 60 PER CENT IN
CREASE AND SIX-HOUR DAY
Demands for a 60 per cent increase
in all mine wages, a limit of six hours
upon the day's labor underground, a
five-day week, with time and a half
for overtime and double time, for
.work on Sundays and holidays and
important improvements in condi
tions of labor were adopted Tuesday
afternoon by the United Mine Work
ers of America in convention at
Cleveland, 0. The convention then
adjourned to await the result of the
joint wage scale conference with the
operators of the central competitive
district, which opened in Buffalo yes
terday. Should no agreement be
reached in time to be ratified and
come into effect by Nov. 1, a general
strike of all bituminous coal miners
in the United States will automati
cally ensue on that date if the inter
national executive committee and the
representatives of the Canadian dis
tr'H o determine.
JONES COUNTY GIRL IS SHOT
WHILE ASLEEP; DIDN'T WAKE
Quo Vadis Wkoten took a nap at
her home in Jones county. She awoke
to find that she could not move. Quo
Vadis is white. Members of the fam
ily doctored her for "aches." They
gave her cooking soda and other
things. They worked over an hour
without success. Then a fleck of
blood on her back was discovered by
accident. An investigation developed
the fact that while she had slept a
7-year-old sister, playing with a .22
rifle, had shot her in the back. A
doctor was summoned and said the
bullet had probably lodged in her
spine. The lower part of her body
was entirely paralyzed. She was
taken to Kinston and will be sub
jected to an X-ray examination. An
extraordinary fact about the case is
that the girl was not aroused by the
bullet, but slept until she awoke at
someone's call. She did not hear the
report. Her condition is serious.
Negro veterans of the world war
are eligible to membership in the
American Legion, but the composi
tion of local posts and State organi
zations will be left to the members
themselves, according to instructions
made public by Henry D. Lindsley,
chairman of the national executive
committee.
To abort a cold
and prevent com
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only in sealed packages
Price 35c.
THE MOST
DANGEROUS DISEASE
Ae organ of tho htnasji body aro oo
taaswrtant to health ana Ions His the
klsncya. When they alow up and com
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rind out what the trouble l without
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or -nave pains In the back icase up
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aro signs to warn you that your kld
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which aro causing yoa distress and will
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A number of negroes residing near
Lexington, Ga., have met and adopt
ed resolutions approving the action
of whites who recently lynched Obe
Cox, a negro accused of assaulting
and murdering the wife of a white
farmer. The resolutions condemned
in strong terms the crime that
aroused 1,000 men and set them to a
24 hours' search of swamps and
woods which was concluded with the
shooting of the negro and the burn
ing of the body. Negroes who took
the stand that the lynching was jus
tified were said to have consisted of
some of the most orderly and pros
perous in Oglethorpe county, where
the white woman was killed.
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