North Carolina Newspapers

A. t : m -- A- - i K tVOL. XXI. Mc M Cast Kntk. ? CONCORD. N. CU MONDAY. JUNE 26.1911 SAD DXATH BT, AOCZDZXT. BlxtuTr 014 So f Hr. ami Mrs.- T. P. Johtm, f lWWry. to Km la Trala Wreck. ' 8peneer, 3om 84. Ralph Johaston, of Salisbury, to killed and 6. &. Johnston, of Spencer, ih dangerous ly injured on the western diviaio of the Southern Railway acren mile from Salisbury this afternoon in on of th wont ncki that baa occur red oa that toad for several year. Th iwo brother bad bean filing aad boarded an eaatboond freight for bom. They bad trawled only one aula when the train waa ditched, eight ran piled high in the air on. top of th man. Ralph John ton bad botb lag rat off and lived two boar. Hia brother waa injured internally and in an arm. Ha Waa taken to a hos pital in Salisbury for treatment. Both man are eona of T. P. Johns ton, a well-known financier and churchman in Salisbury. The train crew escaped without injury. The funeral of the young man will take place today, Samuel Johnston, who waa at first thought to be aerioua- ly hurt, u getting along aplendidly and may be able t leave die hospital tomorrow long enough te attend the funeral of hia brother. Ha haa given no eonearn to bis injuries since the disaster, his only thought being of his dead brother, who 'was only 17 years yearsold and was really in hia charge. It waa reported in Concord Satur day night that it waa Mrs- Johnston who waa killed, and tie report created much interest here. She ia a sister of Mrs. John M. Young, and first mar ried Mir. Will Winecoff. She made her borne Tier a number of years and of course haa many friends in Con cord. But? Day for King aad Qneen. , London, 'June 26. King George and Queen Mary returned today from Poniamoetb to be confronted with a programme. -of social functions and festivities that will mak tba week al " most aa arduous as that of the coro nation. A moot the mora important of thd royd engagement for the gala TUB X. 1. OKTKAXAQB Te Be LacaUd aa Dautom, Davidson . Ootnty, N It baa bean definitely decided to lo cate the orphanage of tba Methodist Protestant ehureh in tbo United Stat at Denton, Davidson ' eoanty. Thirty acres of land have bee pur chased in that place, and it ia ex pected that work will be started soon on the erection of tba buildings. A canvassing agent will be put out at an early data, who wil1 work to secure funds for this treat undertaking. Thte will be the orphanage f0r the whole church, and not for North Car olina alone. Tba Methodist Protest- ante bav4 200,000 member, and up to thia time the church baa not had an orphanage. Miss Mabel Williams is matron of the orphanage, ani Miss Ethel Umen secretary and treasurer. There are now 17 children in the or phanage, and an old frame house is being need at present. The Methodist Protestant of Den. ton are now putting op a $2,500 church building, and are also spend ing $500 on tba school building. Rev. D. A. Braswell ia pastor of tha ehureh, and ia also greatly interested in the orphanage work. White Woman Face Murder Trial Jackson, Miss., June 26. The regu lar term of the Hinds county circuit court, which opened its session here today, is attracting unusual interest throughout the State, because, for the first time in (be history of this county two white women are to be tried on murder charges. Mrs. Lulu Wilteher, one of the defendants was indicted in Yazoo county for complicity ki he murder of her husband', John Wilt eher, and her case was transferred to this county on a change of venue. For the same crime her brother-ki-law Lee Wilteher and a negro named Lee Rice, are now serving life sen tences. The other defendant is Clau dia Battle, a girl of seventeen years, who shot and killed her paramour in a dive in this wftf fy,$ llJ.II l.l'.l V', . Pasting of Hlstorio Boston Edifice. JiZiaKSt SS qataaW2ftbl 4av8en Jol tTTS eourtbouse of Boston, whose walls of- Wihnington 4XJ2k&'&3Ji tenewiththeekquoiceofmen friends for a 'Buckingham. Palac tomorrow after noon end the Shakespearian ball and gala, performance at His Majesty's (.Theatre in tfew "evening a visit to the ''. Royal Agricultural Show on Wedues f day,' rhe procession through London, '' tbejibankiving service at St. Paul's ' and tba ofliciai reception and Juncheon in the Guildhall .on Thursday, the - children' fete at Crystal Palace and the .dinner by tha Prime Minister on Friday, and the departure for Wind sor on Saturday, Beats 8lf-Bilin' Molasses. Site City Grit. A men living near Siler Cky was -toaking cider and had no barrel to , ' put it in but one fc'at bad held vine gar.. Filling the barrel with water and soda, he rinsed it out thoroughly - and ben filled it with his cider. He ' placed the full bare! in the cellar of I hia house and retired, fully satisfied 1 that'bis work was over. During the --. night be beard a terrific report as though a bung bed blown out and - running down to the cellar, be was amazed to find the place, which was ; . tan feet square and seven feet high, ! '' full of a liqnid and bad it not been ' for .a blind ditoh leading from the bouse to tbe creek, be verily believes tba house would have ben washed . away,';- We woukl like ro know what that extraordinary increase in his cider must be attribute! to-. ' Oatkolie Educator Meet Chicago, IU.rJun 26.- Many of the ' moatdisunituished educators of tbe Roman Catholic Church, including tweeidsnts and professors of tbe Cath- " ouc colleges oi tbe country ana eiergy and laity associated with educational work,' gathered in Chicago today to take. Dart in tha eighth annual con venuon of tha- Catbolie Educational Association. . The purpose of the as sociation is to bring about closer co operation among Catholic educators and a yearly interchange of plans and anntestion for promoting the ideals of, the ebnreb;4Tha principal ques tions selected for consideration at tba present meeting are the Carnegie Foundation and its relation to Cath olic, institutions, the relation of semi naries to other educational work, and tba courses of study in Catbolie high schools.' ; ' like Rufu Choate and Benjamin F. Butler, was disposed of at public auc tion today, preparatory to being torn down to make room for a "new struc ture. The structure was erected in 1837 on the site of em older court house, in which Captain Kidd was confined while awaiting trial. In the newer courthouse many- celebrated trials took place, including that of Prof. John White Webster for the murder of Dr. George Parkman, and many years later of Jesse Pomeroy, eonvieted of the ourder of little children. no roBzsT hill. Personal aad Xawa Items From tba Kortk End. Mr. Cbee, Coble, of Bessemer City, is visiting bis parenia for a few days. Mr. J. I Wright ia spending a few days in McAdensville with relatives. Mr. T. M. Hurt and family bare re turned to their borne in Shelby after spending a week in the city with Mr. W. P. Hurt. Mr. C. A- Shufordi and family ar rived in the city last week from Dar lington, 6. C, and will live on Vance street. Mr. Shu ford baa a position as card grinder at tbe Locke Kills. Mrs. ft, F. Crooks and Mrs. L H. Johnson have gone to Kannapolis for a lew days to be with Mrs. Tom Johnson, who is very ill. Mrs. L. W. Watson and son, Harry, returned Saturday from a week 'a visit to relatives at Amity. Miss Myrtle Goodman has returned to her borne at Amity after spending a few days in tbe city with her aunt, Mrs. U D- Moore. Mrs. Rittie Brown has moved into the new house erected by Mr. Gordon Johnson on North Church street. Mr. P. B. Raiford's household goods arrived last wee" and have been placed in the cottage of Mr. W. A. Foil on N&rth Un.on ctrcet. Mrs. Raiford and family will arrive t'.e latter part of this week from Mis eissippi. Miss Cora Cart hern, of Kannapolis, spent Sunday in the city with Mrs. H. C Raimer. The Besbemer City ball tavrvi had to take a walloping from the Locke Mill team again, this time on their own diamond. Tic gnmi wa: a close one and up to i he f!i;nb .iiii ing the Locke team was t tie uiule- do1.'. Sc-it. 4 to 3 in fnvir of (he Locke Mills. Manager Widenjous litis i live-wire organization and one that Korib Con cord ia quite proud of. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Hudson leave tomorrow for a week's visit to rela tives at Fayetteville and Wilmington. Mr. E. C. Geddie left Saturday for Fayetteville to spend a week with relatives Johnson left last week for where be will visit few weeks, Rev. P. H. Berney, of Texas preach ed morning and night yesterday at the McKinnon Memorial Church. The night service was made a union ser vice of this church and Forest Hill M. E. Church and was attended by a large number. RSSC3ALSXTX0Jr. Bom f tba Paeal Sara and Bsa vbeca Wa Oa and 0. Mr T. D. Manias ia spending the day in Salisbury. Mrs. J. If. Barringer and Children, of Spencer, are visiting relatives here. Messrs. Fret) Boat and R- L. Mor rison are spendsnc; tbe day in Char lotte, t -Mr. and MrD. M. Phillips, of Sal isbury, visited relatives here Satur day and Sundai. Tbe King (Daughters Circle will meet at tba home of Mrs. J. P. Cook this evening at: 73 o'clock. Miss Mikbred Slither returned to Salisbury this morning, after spend ing Saturday aad Sunday cere. Mrs. J. S. Smoot will return from Salisbury this afternoon. Dr. Smoot will remain in' Salisbury for a few days. Mrs. I. H. Eldrire an?) daughter. Mary Lilly, of Greensboro, will arrive tomorrow to visit Miss Anna Doug-J lass Sberrin. Miss Flora Melver has returned to her borne in Chartbage, after visiting Misses Mary and Adeline Morrison for several weeks. Messrs. G. Jenkins, of Petersburg, Va. and Joe Huntley, of Lebanon, Ky., were visitors in tbe city yes terday, guests at the home of Mr. D. B. Coltrane. Mrs. E- C. Register, of Charlotte, was a passenger on train No. 36 this morning, on. (route to Lenoir to at tend the meeting of the North Caro lina Press Association. i PROSPECTS IX)& COTTON OBOP.i DEATH OF Sinxle Tetai. 3. U PECK. On tba While Excellent Bala Badly , Occurred Sunda y Afternoon at 8 Heeded. O'clock. To be Buried at Bear Memphis, Tenn., June 25. The! Creek Church Tuesday. Commercial-Appeal tomorrow will say Mrs J. L. Peck, widow of the late in regard to the cotton crop: Ex-Sheriff J. L. 1'eck, died yesterday Rains fell in moderate to heavy at 2 o'clock at her home on East quantities in all parts of the cotton belt during the week except in west ern, southwestern ami parts of north em Texas and western Oklaliftua. Where rains fell, the cotton crop has been put in most, excellent condition and the outlook is good. The fields are well cultivated and the plant is green, healthy, growing and fruiting. Blooms are reported in tbe most northern districts. In Alabama and most of the ren- on Corbin street. Mrs. 1'eck was a na tive of Motre co.'.nty but moved to this county when sie married Mr. IVt-k and lias mode her home here for a imiiiber of years, where she was widely known anj r.nveiKally liked. She was 61 years of age and is sur vived by two children, Mr. C. H. Peck, of this city, and Mrs. J. T. Hartman, of No- 7 township. The funeral will be held tomorrow rjoniing at Bear I. .1 I. ti ...:m i rveK viiurcii. j ure win also oe a conducted by Rev. W. H. Causey, pas tor of the Reformed church, of which Mrs. Peck was a devout member. tral cotton belt. (Jie outlook is the i short service at the home at 9 o'clock, best in many years and conditions approach the ideal. They are a lit tle less favorable in South Carolina, where rainfall has not yet been suf ficient. In western Texas and Oklahoma, the crop has suffered no injury that rain will not restore, but the ground is becoming quite dry and' such light and scattered showers as have fal len have given but little relief. Rain is rapidly becoming a necessity for a good cotton corp. In Arkansas, Louisiana and South ern Mississippi boll weevils are be coming more numerous since the rains but are not so destructive as at this time last year. Death of Doctor J. B. Alexander. Charlotte, N. C, Juno 24. Dr. J. B. Alexander, one of the best known citizens of this county, died tonight after a long illness. Fourteen years ago Dr. Alexander was stricken with paralysis and for several weeks past he has been at tbo point of death. Dr. Alexander was the author of Reminiscences of the Past Sixty Years," end otber works dealing with the life of tbe days before the war. The funeral service will be held to morrow and will bo conducted by tbe Masonic Lodge of which bo waa an honored member. Tbe service at the home will be in charge of Rev. J. L. Caldwell. Power Company Plant it Destroyed By Lightnlnf . Gastonia, June 24. The electrical power plant of the Spencer Mountain Power company, which rurnwnee light b and power for the town of Gastonia and power for a number of lactones in the county, is tonight a mass of ruins, the work of lightning followed by fire. Lightning struck tha buildinc. which waa located about seven miles east of Gastonia, on the south fork of the Catawba, river, at 3 o'clock this afternoon'. The loss is roughly estimated at $20,000. It is understood, that the plant will be rebuilt at once. Bill Fetzer Kow Manager. Suffolk Herald. Have you been keeping an eye on the Suffolk "Nancies" for the last thirteen games? Well, it's great just ' to watch (he percentage barometer Struck By a Burglar. sin(.e Munaser Fetzer. now the Na- Asheville, June 24 Mrs. Simmons, poleon of the Peanut City, has taken of WeaverviUe, is confined to her bed under his genial command the Nan today aa a result of an encounter with cies. It will be remembered that Em a burglar this morning shortly after poror Napoleon inspired the French 1 o'clock. Mrs. Simmons conducts a soldiers with emulation and eneour boarding house at WeaverviUe and agement by telling them that every this morning between 12:30 and 1 soldier carried in his "knapsack the o'clock, it ie learned here, she heard baton of the Marshal of France." a noise in the bouse and arising to in- Manager Fetzer has taspirf his boys vestigate went; t the dining room, the very cream of the Tidewater 'from where ib.y noise apparently I League until every ona.of. them j came, hhesays she no sooner entered favorite with the "fans" and the gen- the dining room than she was struck ei-al public. Instead of cursings and in the back by some Instrument in the revilings at an error, for all make hands of the intruder. Mrs. "Sim- .them sometimes, is heard from the mons, bowever, had & 22-caligre rifle bleachers and grandstand the en- in her hand and recovering her self- couraging wotfls, "Tlialt's allrigbit, possession to an extent opened fire on old boy, you have paid for it ten the man as he ran throjgh the door, times over " Manager Fetzer knows She fired five times, but does not know the game and plays it, too, using the Concord's Water Not Polluted. In compliance with the law requir ing that the city water be analyzed once a month. City Sanitary Officer Smith sent to the State authorities and received t he following report : Odor 0. Reaction Alkali ne. Chlorine (parts per million) 1.5. Nitrogen as nitrides very slight trace. Colon Raccalli in 1 c- c. 0. Colon Baccilli in 10 c. c. 0. Total number of b:iteria per c.c. 20(10. No Pollution. Sccial attention h.:8 been given the water at this season of the year and an analysis lias been from various sources en an average of every fort night and each report shows the water unpolluted. aTO, t TOWBbJXP. -Crops are looking fin ia otr igb . borhood. Moat of tba farmers are tbraogb hauling in wheat and oata. Hurrah for old No. ! Tba first cotton bloom on the 23rd of Jon. It wag seen on Mr. Jacob Harwell ' farm. ' " Mr. M. J. Rinebardt ia on tbe aw-ko Hst this week Mr. Victor Dry bad tbe misfor tune to get hia little finger broke ' last Sunday and has a very bad band. Mr. Tuck Penninger is in our naigh ' borhood with bis threshing machine this week. ' . : We are having a very good Sun" . day school at FrieDdaV.p ehureh. We would like te bear from our -Locust writer again. Com on and' tell ue all about the country. Quite a number of tbe young folk- are expecting to attend tbe picnic at Mission tbe Fourth. Come on Back Creek. Write mor.. and better news. .liulge Eure, of Greensboro, sen tenced to six months on the streets of the city the three young men who made an assault upon a detective em ployed to ferret out blind tiger cases. Champ Clark Dcflta Tift Washington, June 24. Speaker Champ Clark issued a deS to'th ad ministration today on learning of re ports that President Taft proposed to. veto any general tariff legislation at the extra session of Congress- Tbe speaker in a formal statement declar ed that hie whole tariff ought to be revised and that tbe Democratic party would rest its case with the country. "The tariff ought to be, revised from top to bottom," said Mr. dark. "The people of the land so decided last November. That is their latest mandate. The House decided that K is best to revise t schedule by sche dule. We have made a good atart on that plan. We will continue as w have begun. The country endorses what the House is doing. If tba Republican Senate beats our bills, or the President vetoes them, wwiU appeal to the country and it will sus tain us. We believe we are right. We are not afraid of a contest." Orphanage Day at Baptist Orphan age. Next Wednesday, the 28th, is or phanage day at the Thomasville Bap tist Orphanage. Tbe exercises this yeatr Trill be unusually interesting. The annual sermon will be preached Tuesday night by Rev. T. W- O'Kel ley of the Baptist church, of Raleigh, Jeter C. Pritchard' will deliver an address. The Thomasville Junior Or der will present a flag and Bible to the Orphanage Wednesday evening. Dr. Charles E. Brewer, of Wake For est College, will deliver the address in the afternoon. After Near-Beer. Atlanta, Ga., June 25. A State wide movement having for its object the repeal of the near-beer clause and the abolition of locker clubs, was launched throughout Georgia today by the Georgia Anti-Saloon League. Letters bad been sent to the pastors of all the churches in the State and these were read at today's services. Resolutions accompanying the letters also were presented to the congrega tions. These approved the proposed near-beer bill and called upon the several Senators and Representatives to work and vote for its possage. wliether or took effect. not any of the bullets Child Fell Into Well Spencer, June 24. Olin Dunlap, a ten year ond son of J. C. Dunlap, of Norwood, Stanly county, fell 65 feet into a well vesterdav and was but slightly hurt. "oft pedal" talk which has become very popular b-A.h with his biyifiil bunch of townmates and the public. Winston-Salem Ministers' Union Af ter Vaudeville Performances. Winston-Salem, June 24 RepreJ sentatives from the ministers' union The well was being appeared befoie the board of alder- sunk by two colored men, who were men last night, in special session, and in the well at the time. The lad was testified that many parts of vaude- playing around the top outside. See- ville performances as presented in ing the boy falling one of the colored this city were disgraceful and should men braced himself with great pres- be barred. The ministers had had a ence of mind, stretched his arms, committee to attend various pcrform caught the lad and' saved bis life. He ances and they told the aldermen of was, however, ihimself crushed to the various instances in which they re ground by the force of nhe body of garded the laws of decency violated, the lad falling 65 feet. The colored After considerable discussion, it seem- man was taken from the well in a ed to be the sense of the meeting semi-conscious condition. The other that the present- laws were sufficient colored man in the well, stepped to (0 keep a proper surviillanee over the one side and was uninjured. I tie ooy vaudeville shows and to punish any Dr. P. F. Misenheimer, of Morven, who has been visiting his cousin, Mrs. M. L Buchanan, has gone to Mt. Pleasant to' vrstTt'elative. ' ! - '" Itch relieved in 30 minutes by Wool-. ford.' Sanitary Lotion Never fail Sold by- M I JdarihjpgtfsC' was unconscious for a short time and will soon be all right. objectionable pated thtrein. persons who partici- Of Dearth of Electric Fans in Charlotte. Charlotte Observer. There is a shortage of electic fans in Charlotte just at present. Several Prof. 0. C- Hamilton, on account of failing health, has resigned" as principal of Union Institue and Prof. Horace Stewart, who was last year n UUn UndMnUd. Notwithstanding Jack Frost deaU ao severely with tbe flower last year, th ladies are making mor extensive rrngemonta than ever before for the tnmiai flower abow. Great interest is being iaket in th culture, of th ' athrvaanthemum. and an effort will b mad to bar a grtaUr. variety of r faney work than of any prewou year. Concord Popl hv have already begun to look forward to this annual '. ,Tnt with gr inter : - Talk on Manner and Customs Native Africans. Mr. F. H. Ball, who is supply rector of AH Saints' Episcopal church here during th absence of hu father, itev. W. H. Bell in Europe, occupied the pulpit of Central Methodist church 'ast night, making talk on the "Manners and Custom ' of Native Africans." Mr; Ball' father -waa a Missionary in-Southern Africa for many years and Mr. Ball was ' born and reared there. H waa th first Whit child ever born in tbe Basuto trib among whom bis father labored. Mr. Ball's address was exeeeding'y interesting, and gave hia hearer aa insight Into tbe missionary field about which they beard bnt little, 't-j JMSB"aMSlB ' 8 Th Time Jot Job Plintimr. Bar. Geo- H. Atkinson Her. Rev. Geo. H. Atkinson, of Albe marle, is soendine several days in the aitv. working in the interest of the mission schools of tbe Presbyterian church. The month of June waa set aside by the Presbytery for this work and Mr- Atkinson waa assigned to direct it. He is principal of one of these schools at Albemarle and has attained high rank in this phase of educational work. Mr. Atkinson preached at the First Presbyterian church yesterday morn ing and evening. Cow Killed by Umbrella Wir. Newton Enterprise. Mir. Ed Huitt, of Caldwell town ship, ost a valuable cow last rnurs day night. He bad been doctoring har for some time ana oeing puweu over her strange malady, b bold nnat mortem examination ana louna a piece of wire about four inches long, one end in die liver and th other in the pelt. It was piece of nmhmlla wir and waa nearly atraight Mr. Huitt think aha must have swal lowed it in eating cotton ed. koom hlriT.nt are nn the wav hut princiapl of the Monroe graded . , ..... , ... . , as yet none has arrived alibougn scnoois, nas ueen eieciea m-i-rc.- ihav ara amwlM lAllV. ThA Rhort- UlIIl. aire is explained dv reason or. toe heavy demand of the past six weeks, the Oharlotte Power Company having installed over 200 within the past short times. Other electric fixtures concerns have aloo done a thriving business, with tbe result that there are but a few left. The experience emphasizes the old saying that it is "an ill wind that protttetb nobody. While the sun has beat down furious ly day after day tbe electric fan con cerns have prospered greatly t Here by. After the Wheels of Forton in tba Drug Store. A surpirse waa sprang by the grand iurv at Guilford Superior court last week when it returned true bins against a number of owners of drug and cigar store here for conducteing lotteries, or "wheels of fortune" as thev were called- Under a recent ruling of the Attor ney General the wheels ao often seen in drug stores, in which money is dropped 'and the buyer always gets one dnnk on cigar for his nickel ami some times more, are lotteries. All candy schemes and pris offers, where I Capital $100,000 m man dnea not know deOmtelV What ba ia ettina for bis money are un-l t Par cent, interest rata on Tim dertbeben. : Ppoitt. Ml tr ITI 4 QOVTIOH or unrr-omi J CMiCKISO jiccoum miTK TBB UONMt roo rino urictt M4KT ro Hirt ON HAND- U T DU VAILT TUB AUOUNt NK1DSV. wmw IT$A KOUttBOLD ACqOOMT ok ro $oilHMM-ruvoiu. CONCORD NATIONAL BANS Surplus fs ' st of a collar is (C- xy imber of its ; trips V laundry.' Get: ; Collars mm p ub on their laoodrytrip A A I find that they not only r t V . but also told their shape V y Cum. Cm a G tttaw ' " V Y i: I 1. i- . ASK TO SEE, The Newest Collar out. 50c Silk Half Hose, 3 pair for $1.00. Silk Lisle , Half Hose; 25c. r-"t :'