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-:a I. Vol. XLVI The Lenoir Topic, Established 1875 The Lenoir News, Established 1898 CouoliUud April l, 1919 LENOIR, N. C, THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1921 Price, Fit CU tke Carr No. 45 0RK OF CALDWELL STUDENTJMTU.N.C. County Club Elects Officers; Activities of Some of the Boys and Girls. TOM WARREN ND FELIX GRISETTE WIN HONORS Active Part Taken in Athletics; Miss Bradshaw Only Girl in Pharmacy School The Caldwell County Clab at the University of North Carolina met Thursday and elected the following officers for the coming year: Felix A. Grisette, president; Miss Addie Brad shaw, vice-president; C. M. Andrews, secretary and reporter, and R. B. Crisp, treasurer. The purpose of the club is to unite the students in a body so that they may be able to do better work for themselves, the University and Cald well county. In order that the peo ple of our county may know what the Caldwell students h'.ve. been do in? during the past year a brief sum mary of some of their work is given. In addition to their regular col lege work quite a few of the boys have taken part in various campus activities. All have, made a credit able, showing, but the work of some deserves special mention. F. A. Grissette has served as treas urer of the Dialectic Literacy Society during the entire year. This society chose as its representatives in the junior oratorical contest Mr. Gris sette and Mr. T. L. Warren. The lat ter won the contest in spite of strong opposition from the Philanthropic speakers. Friday night these two gen tlemen won in the preliminary for the commencement debate and there fore will represent the Di society in one of the most important features of the closing exercises. Mr. Grissette, having won more debates than any other junior in the University, was recently unanimous ly elected president of the Debate Council, which has charge of all inter collegiate contests. Mr. Warren also was selected as a member of this council. Both Messrs. Warren and Grissette were among the five can didates who made the race for pres ident of the Student Council re- cently. Dwight Blackwelder, Otis Hedrick and Bowman Crisp were each nomi nated for various offices in the field of athletics for the coming year. Claud Andrews has served as secre tary of the Freshman Literary So ciety and also made the freshman de bate of the Dialectic Society. Cald well also prides itself on having the only female member of the school rof pharmacy, Miss Addie Bradshaw. Frederick Dula succeeded in making a letter in gym., which is quite an honor in the field of acrobatic ac complishments. There are a number of other things worthy of note that might be given in this report, but the above will give an idea of the work done by Caid well students in the University, All the members of our eounty club have enjoyed their stay at Car olina during the past year, and all are hoping that the coming year will rind us, together with a number of others from Caldwell, back on "The Hill." The club also desires to make spe cial mention of the splendid manner in which Miss Helen Shell, who is a teacher in the graded school here, has vcc-operated with it in its work, MRS. W. M HOLLIFIELD DIED LAST THURSDAY Mrs. W. M. Hollifield died at a hospital in Morganton Thursday, June 2, being 75 years of age, and "her remains were brought here Fri day for burial. The funeral services "were held at the home of her son, Mr. J. W. Hollifield, Friday afternoon at 8:30 o'clock, and interment made in Belleview cemetery, the services being conducted by Rev. A. A. Mc Lean of the Presbyterian church and Rev. R. N. Baldwin of the Adventist church. Mrs. Hollifleld'j maiden name was Jane E. Harris, and she. was born at vouecraviiie sept, ti, 1845. On Oct 20, 1865, she was married to Mr. Hollifield. To this union four chil dren were born, one dying In infan cy and another daughter dying after ner marriage to Mr. Eber Gragg of Watauga county. After living for some time at Colletteville Mr. and Mrs. Hollifield went to Idaho, but on account of the health of both they ,were advised to return to their native State, which they did. Mrs. Hollifield was a charter mem ber of the Adventist church at Col lettsville, professing her faith in Christ at an early age. The large crowd attending the funeral and the many beautiful floral offerings ghow- Bd tna hitrh astaiam In nrkl V v held. She is survived by her husband, uu, y. noiiineia oi Lenoir. One dflllirhtAi Mn A .: r- - P - ' nuiuo DVLia i.?5 Cottonwood, Idahof i eight ... u"ua ana nve great-grandchildren, . A 7 FAILURES SHOW DECREASES i The tide of business failures con tinues to recede slowly, according to reports received by Bradstreets for ??ntJ f -My- ' Th Showed 1,838 .failures for the month, a de crease of 7.4 per cent from the April aggregate and the smallest monthly total since NovemberrJ920. VACCINATE AGAINST FEVER INCALDWELL Campaign to Begin Early in July Vaccination Will Be Free to All About this time of the year typhoid fever begins to make itself notice able. Here and there all over the county cases appear. The summer months, June, July and August, are the bad months for typhoid. Sep tember is little better. Flies furnish a mighty easy method of transmitting the disease from family to family. The people of this county are go ing to have an opportunity this sum mer of getting protection against ty phoid. The board of county commis sioners have made arrangements with the State board of health for free dispensaries to be conducted in con venient places throughout the county. That typhoid fever can be pre vented has been amply proved right here in North Carolina. In 1914 there were 839 deaths in the State from this cause. Last year there were only 323. Improved sanitation and vaccination are the reasons. Typhoid fever is the most easily prevented of all the preventable dis eases. Anti-typhoid vaccination gives protection for at least three years, and may be taken without inconve nience or ill -effects. That is why the county commissioners have ar ranged for the free dispensaries this summer. The treatment is harmless and practically without pain. It causes no sore arms or unpleasant after ef fects. It will not stop a person from engaging in any ordinary work. The treatment is given hypodermically in the left arm. Three doses must be taken to be effect. ve. A person so vaccinated is' imimune from typhoid fever for at least three years. The board of commissioners have arranged with Dr. Morrill Isley to administer the treatment in this coun ty. The anti-typhoid vaccine is sup plied free by the State board of health. There will be no charge made, and all the people, young and old, white and black, rich and poor, are urged to take advantage of the opportunity thus offered. The place and time of each free dispensary will be announced at an early date. MR. PRESTWOOD HAS PEACHES Mr. C. E. Prestwood, who lives one mile west of Hudson, brought some fine early peaches to the News-Topic office Saturday morning. . He says that h:! has not m "J . crop in fi-e years, and that h hns quite a iV v peaches this year and will have som-i to sell later. These peaches have a good flavor. He also says he has a good crop of June apples,, and in a couple of weeks will have apples to sell. Mr. Prestwood says that he would have had a bumper crop had it not been for the freeze. It is with a great deal of satisfaction we hear that there is still some fruit scattered about through the country. BUSINESS BUILDINGS ARE BEING! PROVED Work Begun on Opera House; Dr. Kent Making Improve ments on Drug Store Improvements on the league build ing on South Main street are about completed. The front has been in and other inside improvements are under way, The front is finished in rfea brick, which imake an unusually attractive building. The stairway has been changed Jeading to Mr. Teague' studio on the second floor. The building when completed wiil be occupied by the Lenoir Five and Ten Cent Store, which is now located in the Lenoir Drug Company building on West avenue. The place made va cant by Mr. Dinglehoef has been leased to tne Hose r ive, Ten and Twenty-Five Cent Store organization of Henderson. Improvements on the Kent build ing are. alio moving towards comple- uon. anis ironi is oi wnite concrete brick. The floors, ceilings and roof have been raised several inches. The building is to be very attractively finished both inside and out Tiling for roofing the cornice on the Harrison building came in this week and will be put on within the next few days. Just as soon as this tiling is put on the scaffolding will be torn down from around the build ing. Already work has been started on the opera house, which is to oc cupy the space at the rear of this building. Ground wa- broken early this week and nchinl , -vvvw uvvivu ucto begun. PYTHIANS ELECT OFFICERS Knights of Pythias Tuesday night the following officers were elected for the six months' term' J, Broyhill, chancellor commander; J7 R. Ingle vice-chancellor commanded B. F.' Williams, prelate"? J. H. Beard, toas ter of works: W. A. Huntley, masfet 8t an?5; H- MtGowan, innef u2rd;,w; c Blannon, outer guard. The, JnAva will t,M 1 . j , . peciai meet ing Friday night for work ia the third degree. Friday's meeting is being called because of the fact that some voiiumowso ur tne tmrd de fhlMHy 5, 12. 2 Greensboro son the 15 en and Ififfc fnn tl. n.i emonials. 7 7 eer"l PETITION IS TURNED DOWN BYM BOARD Commissioners Won't Abolish Office of Farm Agent Is Doing Valuable Work Little was done at Monday's meet ing of the Caldwell county board of commissioners. The only matter of importance, aside from routine busi ness, to come up was regarding the petition asking that the office of county farm agent be abolished. These petitions were submitted at the meeting on the first Monday hi May and were carried over until the last meeting. Without a dissenting vote the board voted not to consider the petitions, but to continue the office of county farm agent, and to continue Mr. Roberts as farm demonstration agent f These petitions are said to have been the outcome of some personal feeling that arose following the un fortunate difficulty that occurred be tween Mr. Roberts and Mr. Fry some weeks ago. This difficulty was just an ordinary fight between two men, and the general feeling is that such a matter, while unfortunate, was un avoidable, and therefore it should not be used as a means of abolishing one of the most important offices in Caldwell county. It is the opinion of all that the work of Mr. Roberts as county agent has beei of immense value to the county. NORTH CAROLINA CITIES DO NOT SPEND MUCH MONEY North Carolina cities are spending per capita on their city governments only a little more than half the per capita cost of the cities of the United States as a whole, according to s re port by T. R. Buchanan of Staunton, Va., to the North Carolina Club of the University of North Carolina, which is this year making an urban and ;ndustrial study of the State. Diving city expenses into such terms as general government, protec tion, health conservation, sanitation, highways, charities, education, recre ation and miscellaneous expenses, Mr. Buchanan reported that the per capita cost for the United States cities was $16.38, but for the North Carolina cities it was only $9.93.. "Considered from the viewpoint of the average city in the United States," he said, "it will be seen that North Carolina compares favorably only in matters of education, protec tion, health and highways, with the per capita even in these being lower except in health. Especially are North Carolina cities deficient in handling the problem of recreation. Other cities spend 3.5 per cent of their incame on recreation; North Carolina cities spend only .02 per cent." In more definite instances he cited the fact that 146 American cities be tween 30,000 and 50,000 in popula tion spend $34.88 per capita annually for city government as against $29.94 per capita by Wilmington, $28.84 by Winston-Salem and $18.76 by Char lotte. 84 PER CENT OF FAILURES DID NOT ADVERTISE In business, as in advertising, the man who hangs on is the man who wins out, Eighty-four per cent of business failures are among firms which do not advertise. A success ful business grows. Growth can only come through new customers. To get new customers advertising is nec essary. Can you survive without ad vertising? tan you curtail advertis ing and make progress: EUBERT CRISP WINS THE NEWS TOPIC PRIZE The $5 cash prize offered by the" News-Topic for the best arguments ior tne graaea school bonds written by a pupil of the graded or high school was won by Eubert Crisp. The three students who submitted the best arguments on this question were Eubert Crisp, Green Thompson and Max Warlick. The judges were J. T. Pritchett, B. F. Williams and H J. Singleton. LlNNEY HEARING PUT OFF" Yesterday's dispateheg from Wash ington stated that the Llnney hear ing was to be put off again. It is the belief here that it is just one of the efforts to get Mr. Linney to with draw for the race for district at torney, and throue-h this wav be saved from the humiliation of having his appointment turned down through the efforts of negroes'. NOT THE RIGHT Kim Acting Oil tip that a freshly mad 5ve in tne wooos near south Kich mond, Va., might possibly contain contraband whiskey, a squad of city and county police opend the grave and were startled upon finding the carcass of a mule in a coffin, inquiry disclosed ihnt fclm animal waif h nat Ct some children and had been given a coinn ana a lormai burial. TO LET CONTRACT FOR SCHOOL BUILDING Proposals for the constructions of the Grace Chapel school house are being advertised f of by Y. D. Moore, county superintendent, and C. A. Bewpnan of Granite Falls, secretary of , the ' building committee. The building will cost at least $20,000, and it is to be entirely of brick con struction Messrt). Laurie Parks and Jim Deal Of Lenoi rprA vfnit.nr in thfl eitv last nigh--Hickory Record. LEXINGTON FOLKS HEAR GYPSY SMITH Big Crowds Attending Meet ings, Says Lexington Pa per They Like Him It is said that probably 3,500 peo ple heard Gypsy Smith, Jr., in the opening service in Lexington Sunday night. "If the big tent on Ford field will seat 3,000 people, and it looks like it will, then at least 500 more than this number heard Gypsy Smith, Jr., in the opening sermon of the se ries of the union services last night," according to the Lexington Dispatch. "Every seat was taken early and hun dreds stood up around the tent to hear this earnest, forceful preacher." Two hundred or more singers of the crty filled the big choir loft specially built for them, filling the big tent to overflowing with music pleasing in both quolity and volume, under the leadership of Mr. Charles F. Allen, with Miss Abene.thy at the piano. "It wasl a straightforward, well and forcefully told story that the preacher presented to his congrega tion, reading the entire story of Sam uel s glory and strength, his playing with his weakness for woman, his downfall and ' humiliation at the hands of his enemies, and finally his reconsecration and the close of his career in a blaze of glory that imounted to more than all he had done in his life." The town has been divided into wards, and each ward is having a prayer service, in the interest of the imeeting. WAGES OF 2,000,000 R. R. EM PLOYES TO BE CUT JULY 1 Approximately two-thirds of the wage increase granted railroad em ployes last July by the railroad labor board was last week ordered deduct ed, beginning July 1, in the board's decision. From the increase last year of $600,000,000 a year in sal aries of railroad labor nearly $400,- UUU.UUU will be cut, it is estumated, by the reductions directed by the board. In the case of the general class of maintenance of way laborers the en tire increase of 8 cents an hour was withdrawn, while in others of the class having the larger number of employes the cuts ranged from 13 to 8 and from 10 to 6 cents an hour. as compared with the award of last July. Although the wage cuts are to ap ply only on the 104 roads which had filed petitions for the decreases, the board's announcement said that ap plication of others roads would cause the same reductions to be placed in ettect on those lines. The decreases it is estimated, eventually will affect ,U0U,UUu men. 1 he general average decrease is placed at 12 per cent, as compared with an average of 21 per cent increase granted last July. Union leaders withheld comment on the board's decision, but it had been freely stated at sessions of the railway employers' leaders in Chicago during the board s hearings on the decreases that cuts of 10 to 12 per cent would meet little opposition. Leaders of the four big brother hoods have called a meeting in Chi cago for July 1, when the wage de creases are effective, to discuss the award. SURVEY OF SCHOOL GROUNDS IS MADE Mr. S. B. Howard, county highway engineer, has just completed a con tour survey of Lenoir's new school property preparatory to the erection of the new school building. The ath letic field was also surveyed and it is hoped that the baseball field can be fitted up at an early date. A meet ing of all interested in baseball will be called at an early date in order to raise the necessary funds for the purpose. Lenoir will have one of the finest athletic fields to be found in the State. Estimates are being imade now of the cost of fitting it up. It is believed that the citizens of Lenoir will respond heartily toward this wor thy project, which will not only fur nish a splendid place for town base ball contests, but will give the school an athletic field second to none in. th State. TWENTY MILLIONS TO BE PAID FOR ROADS THIS YEAR The State highway commission, in its meeting last Week, adopted the resolution limiting th State's expen diture to $10,000,000 for road work this year, and fixing a similar limit for the total funds to be loaned to the State by the counties." Combined, the total for road con struction in the State during the coming year will run to $20,000,000, and plan were discussed in the meet ing for ffnaking the necessary addi tions to Commissioner Page's staff to push the building forward without delay. FASTS UNTIL HE IS BLESSED BY GOD HE DIES Walter Oliver, son of a wealthy faffner of Selma, Iowa, died a few days' ago on the 60th day of a self imposed fast Oliver was a conscien tious objector and was sent to the penitentiary when he refused to don a uniform at Camp Dodge. Upon his return to his home he became a re cluse and later entered into a fast, declaring "I will not take food until the Lord blesses me." Miss Minnie McConnaughey of Morganton is visiting Iter sister, Mrs. F. C. Hanks; , TELEPHONE LINE ON BROWNMOUNTAIN Forestry Service Building Line to Lookout Station; 4,000 Pine Trees Planted Work was started Monday on the telephone line to be built on the original Boone area. The line will be only about three miles long, and will lead from the lookout on the top of Brown mountain to the railroad station at Hutbur, where connections may be had with Forester Monroe Coffey at Edgemont, who is in charge of this area.. Late this fall it is ex pected that this line will be extended to the forestry station north of Mor timer and extensions or lines may be run to other points in the national forest. The forestry service is planning to build a home for Forester Coffey within another few months. The lo cation for the home has been op tioned and the approval for purchase is expected to be made at the next meeting of the commission. For sev eral years the forestry service has been trying to get a suitable location for such a home. The location they have selected is about one mile north of Mortimer on the road leading to Globe, and known as the old Taylor Hayes place. In connection with the forestry home other necessary building and much additional equipment will be added. In developing this central station considerable work towards re forestation will be done. A nursery for growing white pine and other trees is said to be in the plans. The actual work of reforesting the cut-over and burned-over land in this area has already begun. The past spring imore than 4,000 young white pine trees were planted. This work was done under the direction of Ed Robbins, owner of the. Kelsey nursery at Pineola. Mr. Robbins is gather ing and shipping thousands of rhodo dendron and laurel shrubs and leu cothoe spray shrubs. An agreement between Mr. Robbins and the for estry service was effected some time ago whereby Mr. Robbins is to plant a pine for every shrub he takes out. Next year Mr. Robbins plans to set out many thousands of trees. He has just put out thirty pounds of white pine, seeds from which he will grow stock for future plantings. PLENTY OF PEACHES ON LICK MOUNTAIN J. F. Bollinger says that the Lick Mountain orchard peach crop is good again this year. More than 200 bush els, he says, will be gathered. The apple crop on Lick mountain is also good, Mr. Bollinger says. He gath ered one 8-inch twig from an apple tree Monday and it contained sixteen apples. The Lick mountain orchard originally belonged to Mr. Bollinger, but he sold it two years ago to some Gastonia. people, and they later sold it to E T. Hickman of Hudson. CHILD DIED FROM INJURIA AT ILL Ten-Year-Old Boy Fell Across Shingle Saw Son of Mr. Hester Shuford Dan, the 10-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Hester Shuford of Yadkin Valley, died Monday night at 10:45 as the result of injuries received on a shingle saw in the afternoon about 4 o'clock. The boy was off-bearing the shingles when the shingle block flew or?, and the boy, having his arms full of shingles and trying to dodge the saw, is thought to have lost his balance and fell on the saw. Both bones of the left leg below the knee were cut in two, and the foot was cut about half way its length. It is thought he also received some inter nal injuries. Dr. A. B. Goodman and Dr. Carter1 were called immediately and dressed his wounds. He was made as com fortable as possible, but his suffering was intense. He was exceedingly weak from the loss of blood. The funeral was held yesterday and burial was at Mariah's chapel in the Valley. He is survived by his parents, five brothers and two sisters and his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. H. B Steele. LENOIR PLANNING BALL TEAM FOR THE SUMMER Local baseball fans art) planning to develop a team for this' season, andhe organization has been effect ed. Quite a number of former bas ball players are taking an active part and practice is being held sev eral times each week. J. D. Mathe son has been elected manager, with Victor Abernethy as assistant mana ger and W. L. Lenoir captain. During the past few days the work of laying Off a diamond on the new school lot hast been in progress. Fig ures about the coat of fixing up the baseball ' grounds" will be prepared and submitted to tftose who are in terested in seeing Lenoir have a reg ular baseball team. If the cost Is not too great it is planned to solicit funds for making the necessary improve ments. MOVES PICTURE FRAMING SHOP Mr. A. M. Powell baa moved his picture framing shop to the old building on West avenue formerly occupied by Keiu Bros. BIG ROAD MEETING FOR BLOWING ROCK Believe Outlook is Good for a Through Free Road to Blowing Rock-Boone CALDWELL CHANGED TO ' SEVENTH DISTRICT (State Commission Appoints a ' Committee to Hold Meet ing at Blowing Rock The outlook for a through State road leading across Caldwell eounty from the Catawba line to Blowing Rock, with all toll gates taken off, is believed to be mighty good by local road men. In all probability a part of this will be hard-surfaced. In connection with this road the State highway commission will send a com mittee to Blowing Rock on Monday, June 20, to go over the entire prop osition. Another important matter so far as Caldwell county is concerned is the change from the eighth district to the seventh district This change was made at the meeting of the State highway commission in Raleigh early this month. The change was asked for by the Caldwell county road com mission, which sent one of its mem bers, Mr. J. L. Nelson, to Raleigh to take up the matter with the State highway commission. Commissioner McBee of the eighth district readily give his consent to the change and Commissioner Doughton of the sev enth district accepted the change and assured Mr. Nelson that he would strive in every way to serve the county as best he could. The committee which is to be sent to Blowing Rock will go over the turnpike with the view of consider ing a proposition of the owners which is now before the commission. This proposition is said to be the offer of the turnpike to the State highway commission, the value to be placed by the members of the State highway commission. Named on this commis sion are Chairman Frank Page and Commissioners Wilkinson, Doughton, Cox and Hart. The meeting will be in session two days, and it is very probable that matters concerning other roads in this section will come up for discussion. It is believed that the commission will make an inspec tion trip over the Yonahlossee road frotm Blowing Rock to Linville and from that plate to Newland. Another road likely to be investigated i that from Newland leading through Ban ner Elk to Boone. Gov. Morrison will probably attend this meeting. The turnpike proposition) is the only road in Caldwell county that is now before the State highway com mission. All other roads or proposi tions have been waived in favor of the opening of a free road north and south through the county. Hickory is lending force to this project, and it is believed that Lincoln and Char lotte will want to connect up with this north and south road. Caldwell county and Burke county have agreed to complete the connec tion of the road between Lenoir and Morganton. The section of road in Caldwell county Is now nearly com pleted an.d. the Burke county road force is working this side of John's river. Within another week or two' the Caldwell county force will have reached the line just beyond Hart land, and it will require only a few more weeks for the Burke county force to reach that point. When this road is completed it will mean only about a thirty-minute drive bfr? tween'Lenoir and. Morgan ton. MRS. HARHSAW DIED THURS DAY IN Morganton Mrs. Mary Michaux Harshaw died Thursday, June 2, at 8:15 o'clock at Broad Oaks sanitarium in Morganton following a long illness, and was brought to Lenoir the same day. The funeral Services Were conducted from the hoime of her son, Mr. J. M. Har shaw, by Rev. A. A. McLean. Mrs. Harshaw was born Aug S, 1840, on John's river, in Burke, coun ty, and was the daughter of Mr, and Mrs. R. V. Michaux. She was edu cated at St. Mary's Home in Burling ton, N. J. She was married to .Mr Anderson Miller, and to this union one child, Mary Annie, was born. Mr. Miller died, and she was married to jwr. Moses M. narshaw, and to this union two children, Jacob N. and John M., were born. Mr. and Mrs. Harshaw lived in Marion when they were married, then moved to Colletts ville, where they lired until about twenty-five years ago, when they . moved to Lenoir. . .. Mr. Harshaw died March 20, 1620. He had been prominent in political circles and was a member of the local bar. Mrs. Harshaw Was i tfiembefr hi the Baptist church, her membership being n ithe First Baptist church here. She was originally an Episco palian, but after her marriage Joined with her husband's faith. On April 27, 1920, Mrs. HarshaW was taken to Broad Oaks sanitarium for treatment, she having been in poor health for a long time. Had the ' lived until August she would have been 81 years of age. , , She is survived by one daughter. Mrs. W. W. Scott of Washington, D. C. and one son. Mr. John M n. shaw of this place, and a number of " irrandchildren and amarnl , m grandchildren. SUFFERS BROKEN HIP Mrs. Alvie Barlow of King Creek fell last Monday and broke her hip.
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