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VOL. XXII, CONCORD. N. C FRIDAY, JULY 28.1911 Prioa. 40 Cents a Month. BimcU Ow, Oak NO. 12 TEE OLD STOBT OF A DEFECT IVE BOILER REPEATED. ' 0o. ' P. Blaekwelder, Hit Boa and , Two Daughters Badly Scalded .'"J Youngest Girl it Dead Part of Boiler Blows 80 Tarda. A telephone message to The Trib ; une Thursday afternoon told of the . bursting of the boiler at the sawmill : of Mr. Geo. P. Blaekwelder, in No. 7 v township, by which four persons were badly injured. Those scalded and injured by fly ing machinery were: Mr. Blackweld- er, bis son, Martin, aged 18, and his - -daughters, Misses Liaora and Tina, V aged 16 and 12 respectively, v ' The girls had been assisting Mr. Blaekwelder and his son in removing slaps from the saw. Without warning the hoiler burst, and all four were ; badly scalded and also Injured by the ' flying pieces of timber and macliin - ery. The youngest girl, Miss Tina, - is so badly hurt that it is not expect ed that she will live. The boiler was an old one. One pieee of it, as large as the top of a buggy, was blown 200 yards away. The engine was all broken up, and the .plant generally wrecked. The accident occurred at 1:15 o'clock. Dr. Matthewsof Mt. Pleas- ' ant, and Dr. Lentz, of Gold Hill, v wer secured as soon as' possible and rendered medical aid. Miss Tina is scalded severely all over her body and the right side of her face is badly lacerated. At the time the accident ocurred the two young ladies were sitting down about 20 feet from the 3 boiler. One Daughter Dies. A telephone message from Mt w Pleawmtthir,mirnrag at dO aVloek says that Miss Tina, the young daugh- ter, died" a few minutes before that hour. Later. TEE GOOD BO ADS TBAHT. t . la Concert Today Lane Audience Hears Lectors at Pastima Theatre The Southern Railway good road train, in eharge of Mr. X. J. Hurlburt, of the land and industrial department, with Messrs. U E, Boykin and U. 8. Fairbanks, engineers o4 tt United State Department of Good Bonds, is in Conord today. The purpose of the railroad in having this train to visit the towns and c'ties along its lines is to create stronger interest in building and maintaining, the publie roads and thereby adding to the wealth and prosperity of the section it traverses. The members of the good roads party lectured at the Pastime Theatre this morning at 11 o clock, where they met by an audience that crowd ed the seating capacity of the room, the most of whom were farmers. Mr. Hurlburt was the first speaker. He took as his subject two counties, one in Alabama and one in Tennessee, and showed the results obtained by them in building a system of roads af ter issuing (200,000 bonds. One coun ty hired an expert engineer at a cost of $2,500 a year immediately after the bonds were issued, and gave him instructions to make a survey of when; the roads ought to go, irrespec tive or what the property owners might claim for damage. When he had completed the survey the road commissioners asked for bids on the work. The contractors worked under the supervision of the county's road expert and a fine system of public roads .was the result. Mr. Hurlburt stated that county paid $10,000 in terest annually on the bonds and in order to meet this the tax rate was raised. Soon after the roads were built land values began to increase by leaps and bounds and new tac-, tories and enterprises were started up, I making the county so prosperous that the revenue was increased to such an extent tha.t the tax rale was decreas ed even lower .than it was before the' bonds were issued. Mr. Hurlburt stated that in his de partment they,-received a number of inquirers concerning farms in the South and that they were often visit ed by the prospective purchaser, who would return to the departmnet and report that he liked the farm, the climate the people- and conditions and would gladly locate there except the. roads -were, so bad. he puld -not get Ills produce to market after he had produced it. The other county he. referred to was in Alabama, where the road commis- i i , .i i j i. .. A message received by phone this fers aecmeo. mey wou.u uo gu , n ilj. Penf ? emptying a road ex- iwwu 1 inert but would let their own road su of. the terrible accident eays that Miss pervisors do the work. They issued T.ianm iJsn is not exoected to live, the $200,000 bonds and divided the All were burned worse than it was at county in eight districts, with eight tot thought. Mr. Blaekwelder and "STtKa SEft 4-Wb3 son are also in a vry serious condi- eondition as thev were before the tion. money was spent for thje simple rea- "" " son that they did not employ scienti- Additional Particulars. methods and knowledge in con- Our Mt. Pleasant correspondent structing them, but adopted the old sends us the following additional par- and antiquated supervisor system, tieulars in regard to the sad accident : Moving pictures were then exhibited Mr. Blaekwelder was struck by some showing various kinds of roads in ev flying. fragments of either wood or ery section, which were explained by imn and ia burned pretty sverelv. but Engineer Boykin. Mr. Boykin em- la atnfniforod danmmuia unless nn- nhasized the fact that the extra forseen complications develop. The blacksmith expense incurred by going girls, almost grown young ladies, were over oad roads would exceed the in older. I.izora. crease in taxes caused by issuing had perhaps two thirds of her body bonds. The pictures also showed the burned, and her younger sister, Tina, improved schools, churches, and corn was burned and scalded over her en- munities where good roads have been ha,, ' huilt and nothing more clearlv em- baa v mvuj i . j His son, Martin, received the prin- phasized that larger loads and more cipal injuries about the lower limbs convenient modes of travel than the hi onnditinn arwu. road 8 shown bv the pictiures. f fhAncrht tn tw oarinug. There are three cars to the good roads Just what was the cause for the train, one used to exhibits specimens, the accident no one knows except up- or road worK, one ior a leciuio v on the grounds that the boiler was and the third is the private car ot n l and unsafe one. It was carry- Mr. Hurlburt, in which the party imr at the time of the explosion about travels. They left this afternoon at flftv or sixty pounds pressure, but tached to No. 7 for Lnarioue. indcrinff from the force of the explos ion which was felt like an earthquake EIGHT HEOROES BILLED. Excursion Train and Fraifht Meet Beadoa Hear Samlet. Charlotte, July 27 Bearinjr 912 negroes from Durham bound to Char lotte for a day's outing, an excurnoa train oa the be board Air una plunjr- ed headlong into a freight train at Hamlet, 60 miles east of here, this moraing, killing eight of the excur sionists, injuring 60 seriously and 28 slightly. The dead, all of Durham, are : Edna HalL Edith Hall, Lisbon Hall, Rosa Perry, Dora Day, Sis Webb, Samuel Miller and John Cameron. Of the 60 seriously hurt, a score of more may die. - Four white trainmen were badly hurt. Engineer Ben Koonee, who was running the excursion engine, was mangled about the head and shoulders and injured internally; Engineer A. Taylor, the fireman of the freight en gine, was badly cut; Conductor W. H. Bowen, of the excursion train, bad bis side crushed and several ribs brok en, and' Albert Gary, fireman of the freight train was badly bruised and eut. The cause of the wreck is unknown. The freight was creeping into the yard at Hamlet from Wilmington and the excursion train, rounding the curve at good speed, crashed into it. The engines telescope and six of the 11 coahes of the excursion train crum bled like pasteboard. The great carn age was in the third and fourth can which wer old and frail. Samuel Miller was asleep with his head in a window. The telescoping walls clip ped off his head and it rolled into a ditch clear of the wreck. Physicians from neighboring towns responded promptly and a field hospital was es tablished. Fifty of the injured were brought to Charlotte tonight on a special train and placed in Mercy General and the (iood bamantan hos pitals, while 30-odd, who were consid ered too critically hurt to be moved, are being cared for at Hamlet, lbe property loss to the Seaboard Air Une will be in excess or $1UU,UUU. Just five years ago this month, within one mile of the scene of today s dis aster, a similar wreck ocurred in which 26 negroes met death. FAZM32LS' XffSTXTTJTES HEBE EEXT WEEK. Te Be Held ia Concord, Ml Pleasant Earriibnrg August L t and .3 FARMERS' CHIOS' MEETDTO. DEATH OP MRS. B. P.. CORRELL, Drought Very Serious. shock for considerable distance, the Salisbury Pt. pressure may have been more than , xue anuKm iu K!T7l:.j v.- ... ' Th in.fche lower art of Davidson county noise and jar of the explosion brought is said to be very Mrious AU crops to the neighbors as did the cries of the are reported almost totally "P v. h. n ' I im MAfiu sinn i -utim inu win wciib nuu vv -w - Uitthavg. or mi. r-ieasant. aau yi. i urviuic up. """""" . Lents, of Gold HiU, were on the scene visited in this section yesterday and ww,vvy.. , I . . ,, ... T.i Ka warn mm. -L ii A.iijiAf nMflin . TnnTTiHn L . i r . I nn mut Lin rink ujb. w Kb U mum, 1 I . . tr . vn Krfl.Vino- inn I rwtllttd to drive ten IDlleS OUt Of IUS ja.umm, iiiiifciiiK ivuv,.' n ir i r - . . of 20 miles in his auto w reach the in- way in order to get water for lu iured. ; - ' horse. The water in we- ereeaw Yesterday was an uniucny u nuw w uu - j steam Douers. iubi aa ui nyw iquuu ui A Family Reunion. Last Sunday, July 23, will go down in history wth the children and grand children .of Mrs.tharlotte E. Bostian, who lives two miles northwest of China Grove. Mrs. Bostian has just recently moved into a new home which was purchased some time ago by her son, Jacob J. Bostian. Mrs. Bostian 's maiden name was Moose. She was twice married. Her first husband was Julius M. Heilig. Unto this un ion was born three children, only one of whom is living. Later she again married, and is now the widow of the late D. Monroe Bostain. Unto this union was born seven children, five of whom were living. She lived in her old home fifty-one years, Mr. A. A Koon, a son-m-law, being here from Texas, the children decided to show to their tried and always kind mother some apreciation of her ser vices toward them and help her to apeprciate her new home! At about twelve o'clock all the living children, consisting of 0. L. Heilig, J. J., J. A., Maggie K., a. A., and W. k. uostian, and twenty-five grandchildren, A. A. Koon and a few mends, gathered to the new home to make it all the more pleasant and appreciative. At 1 :30 dinner was announced and a dinner like unto the occasion in Schenck na tion needs no explanation. Tuesday morning Mr. Koon and daughter, Miss Julia, left lor Jfort Stockton, Texas, where Mr. Koon is located. Miss Julia's mother died when she was iust a mere infant. Mr. Koon has been in .the west for the past sixteen years and his greatest mission to North Carolina was to take his daughter home with him to live. Mrs. O. L. Heilie is a sister of Mr. Kann and has reared his daughter from an infant. May the union oi this father and daughter be one of iov and sincere happiness. Farmers' Institutes will be held at Concord, Tuesday, August 1, Mount Pleasant, Wednesday, August 2, Har risburg, Thnrsday, August 3, begin ning at iq 'clock. At the same places and dates will also be held institutes for women by Mrs, F. L. Stevens and others. The objects of these Institutes are to bring together the women from the farm homes, that they may become better acquainted and talk over among them selves subjects tending to the better ment, of conditions in rural homes, such al better and more economical foods and better methods of prepar ing them, home sanitation, home fruit and vegetable gardening, farm dairy ing, poultry-raising, the beautifying of the home and home surroundings, etc The Farmers' Institues are held for the benefit of farmers, and none but strictly farming questions will be discussed. It is, therefore, especially desired that a large attendance of farmers and their families be secured. and to this end all farmers are urged to a present and to induce their neighbors to do the same. The institutes for women will be as interesting as the institute for men and should be as largely attended. They will be held on the same day as the men's institutes, beginning at the same time Mr. Parker has addressed to the women of Cabarrus county the follow ing letter: It is the purpose of the department to make these institutes of value to you in your daily duties and home life. Come out and help us to ac complish this purpose by letting us know what you want, that we may send lecturers to the next institutes who will give you the kind of talks you want. These institutes are yours and you can make out of them what you will We will help you to make a success of them if you will let us. Mi. Parker asks "that very farmer and every farmer's wife attend these meetings and bring ell of the chil dren. The bright boys and girls of the farm will get many now ideas ixnfx the speakers that will do them gbttd in years to eomev ' ; At Concord the men's meetings will be held in the court house, and those for the women at the Elks' Home. At Mt. Pleasant the men's institute will be held in the auditorium and the women's in the College. At Harris- burg the meetings will be held in the school building. A premium of $1 will be given for the best loaf of bread backed and ex hibited by a girl or woman living on the farm. A premium of $1 will be given for the best five ears of pure-bred corn. A premium of $1 will be given for the best pure-bred, pig between 8 and 12 weeks old exhibited by a man or boy living on the farm. The Institute will be conducted by Prof. F. L. Stevens, of the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, with competent assis tants, who will discuss questions of interest to the farmers. A Question box will be opened in the afternoon, and a full discussion of the subiects- presented will be given. Morning sessions will open at 10 o'clock and afternoon sessions at 1:30. Ends After Twe Days' Seaatos En dorses Ebmsntary Agricultural Ia strnctioa In Public Schools. Salisbury, July 27. The midsum mer State meeting of the Farmers' Educational and Co-Operative Union came to a close tonight after a two days' session. State President Alex ander called the meeting to order this morning at 10 o'clock and an execu tive session wss at once gone into. A number of resolutions were presented and turned over to the resolutions committee. The last Legislature grant ed the union a new charter which is a business one and the question of adopting this was deferred until the midwinter State meeting in Decem ber, the executive committee to decide upon the place of holding this meet ing. Mr. E. P. Shaw, of Duplin county, addressed the meeting on education, favoring the teaching of the element ary principles of agriculture in the public schools. He was followed by President Hill of the A. & M. College, who extended an urgent invitation to the delegates to attend the State farmers' institute to be held at this college July 29 to 31, inclusive. The resolutions committee made a partial report. The endorsement of the farm life schools was unanimous by the convention. It was decided that where a county decided to adopt this school the State union would send a lecturer to the county to spend a week making campaign speeches. National President C. S. Barrett, of Union City, Ga., came into the con vention just at noon and was given a great ovation. He addressed the convention this afternoon. A brief business session was also held this af ter noon, the meeting adjourning at 4:30 o'clock and the delegates went in a body to the Grubb theater where thev were guests for an hour or more of the merchants of the city at a spe cial motion picture and vaudeville, af ter which many ot them were given a car ride to Spencer. Tonight Mr. O. Schaub, State president or the Boys' Corn Club, addressed the dele gates in the auditorium at the public school building where all or the ses sions were held. The Southern Railway good roads train arrived in the city at 8:30 this afternoon and was sidetracked at the passenger station. Many of the' delegates to the farm ers' union visited the exhibition as did also hundreds of citizens of the city and county. . Occurred This Morning at f:M O'clock, After Two Tears of Pa tient Buffering. In rbe death of Mrs. E. F. Correll, which occurred this morning at 6:30 o'clock at her home on South Union street, Concord loses one of its most widely beloved and most excellent Christian ladies. Mrs. Correll bad been eon fined to her bed for the past eighteen months wirb paralysis, and for the past week it -was kiowri that her condition was growin worse and her des'h this morning was not un expected. Mrs Correll was formerly Mua Ellen Cochran, daughter of Mr. sod Mrs. J. C. Cochian, of Newells, and was born near Harrisburg April 27, 1862. She spent her childhood in that section of the country and on October 4, 1883, she was married to Mr. E. F. Correll and has lived in Concord since that time. She was 49 years of age and 's survived by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Coehitn, of .Newells; two brothers, Messrs. Charles Coch ran, of South Carolina, and Theodore Cochran, of Newells, and two sisters, Mrs. A. il. tTopst, of tins city, and Mrs. J. N. Hunter, of Charlotte. Of her immediate family she is survived by her husband and six children, one daughter, Miss Edna Correll, aud five sons, Messrs. Ernest, Fred. Leslie. Jo seph and E. F. Correll, Jr. immediately alter she moved to Concord Mrs. Correll made a large circle of friends and throughout the years of her -esidence here this num ber was constantly increased. Her chief interest, however, centered in her home, her children, and her church, being a devout member of Central Methodist church, i.nd it was through these her strong Christian character reigned supreme and proved a 'benediction. Although stricken -18 months ago to her bed from which, she was never able to be removed, her interest in these things never faltered and at no time did she fail to make constant .inquiries concerning Her friends, church and loved ones. Throughout her long siege of illness she suffered with sudh patience, for titude and bravery that it proved a blessing and inspiration to those around her and never at one time did she ever murmur or complain. The funeral service will be held to morrow qionring at the home and will be conducted by her pastor, Eev. Plato Dnrhanr, assisted by Rev. T. W. Smith. BOIL YOU WATER, China Grove News. Tlio Rnramn class of the Methodist hurch gave an ice cream supper Sat- An Exceedingly Interesting Film to be anown at The Pastime Tomorrow. reached here of the explosion nowa , -& g lamer abov ftera .was . wm and jar J-" A.g m in a trZ$? yJ :tVM SoV roller distressing accident at the home of hk the boiler room Fo4.Bfc roller Keeter Tue8Cay milk. Immediately the report came tntwhk' f i . orirZvailed This tempting to throw a belt from the r The a mistake Wve of the machine Ida lve waa found, however, to be a mistaite. . , .ni w- The supporting timbers gave way ana , ! tS'-Jih hTi, t .ink into the cas- literally in, eausing steam and wtr pip8 to der. hmalr. which made a pretty fair imi-1 rv, rwwF. Rid. of Nashville. tation of small explosion. No one was sry 0f the laymen's missionary hurt in the least and the null will be mOTttnent 0f tne Southern Methodist running again by tomorrow. ' . ehureh. -addressed a large audience i , , Tuesday night in Salisbury. ' Dr. Eeed ' '-" Est. W. A. Hough, of Cornelius i, DOted speaker and was for a num min nmifth to the Baptist congrega- w of veers a missionary to China . . r . , .. , . ' O...J.- . - IA V A 1 ouuu; ma ll now one ox toe ww uuwu uuw tion at Ksnnapolis . next morning at 11 p clock, c -ut in hit church. Killed by Train. Southern Textile Bulletin. With the words, "coys oe goou, Albertua Bersrin separated from a at voune men standing in front r . . n - n of the postomce at iJessemer oun dav nislht about 10:30 o'clook pre- nmhlv to o to his boarding place. Walking less than pu yaras ne eat dnwn on the track of the- Southern Railway and in a few minutes no. au, nu nt fche Southern's fast trains, struck him, knocking him from the track and killing 'him instantly. , J&n gineer Ed Smith saw the man and putting on the emergency brakes, did hia utmost to avoid the accident, many of tho passengers, it is said being thrown from their seats, but it was too late. His remain were carried to Gastonia, the home of hk parents, at 4 O'clock this morning. 5 ; .; ' k sold watch bearing the monogram "J. T.H waa found in he stomach of a giant alligator killed near Forsyth, Ga.. Tuesday. Reridonts believes this explains the. disappearance, of Janet Thornton Vi yean ago. ;; . t New Items From Salisbury Post. Mrs. L. W. Blaekwelder, of Quincy, Fla., is visiting 'her mother and other relatives in the city. Miss Fay Polk, of Concord, is vis iting her sisterfMrs. C. B. Dycus, at Snencer. Miss Verna iJlume, or uoncoro, wno i has been visiting her sister, Mrs. W. M. Crowell, At Spencer, for a week, returned to her Ihome this morning. Mass Maggie Bromley, of Black Mountain, ia spending the week with Misses Rose and Ida Fesperman. She will spend the summer in Salisbury teaching music. urday night at the home of O. B. Hur- Lley's. Miss Mary Uittord, wno nas oeen sick with fever is able to be up again. Some one entered J. B. Brown's jewelry store Sunday night, but did not get anything of value. They made their entrance by breamng me large plate glass with a wagon wrench. Miss Bernice Hurley, of Biscoe, N. C, who has been visiting her brother, A. O. Hurley, is now visiting Miss Oraee McDonald, of Concord. Pauline Edwards, who fell and broke her leg several weeks ago, is getting on nicely. Mr. T. S. Lefler and Bittle Kimball spent Monday with Mr. Letter's fath er, near nansDurg. xuvy repuii. nice time and plenty of watermelons, canteloupes, and peaches. Mr. John Goodman, or saiisDury, was visiting his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Goodman, Sunday. Mr. J. C. Keever is attending the district conference at Norwood. Cotton Mills Closed Down on Account of Lack of Water. Continued droueht is proving a ser ious problem to the mlil owners and niwratives here; The mills that get their water supply from tho creek at the niepot are closed' down on account of the supply being exhausted, these mills being the Cabarrus, Young-Hart-aell. Brown and Franklin. They will resume operation as soon as the water supply is replenished. What About Judge Clark? Winston Sentinel The contest over the TJnited States Senatorship is being discussed by a few local politicians these days. In a primary it is predicted that Kitehin and Ex-Gov. Aycook would get a mv iority of the votes in 'Forsyth. A leading Democrat from Wilkes stated tfldaiv that in hk opinion that county was about equally divided between Simmons, Aycook and tutenuw Very Latest News. Th Southern Textile Bulletin. The Manufacturers Record of Bal- jtimore, Md., publishes tee iouowing item in oneir issue oi iai "W. M. Smith, John Odell, Uavid frttnnon. Concord. N. C will organ ize a company capitalized at $200,000 to build a cotton mill. . This item of "live news" appeared in the Concord Sun of July 14th, 1883, and is therefore only 30 years old. rrii Concord Tribune recently pub lished the old notice as a matter of historic interest and CLe manuiac turers Record, which is usually very accurate, took it for a new item and tha ioke is on them.' The John Odell mentioned in we item k Capt. J. M. Odell, the vet eran cotton manufacturer, who is now dead, as the item refers to the original organization or lthe uaeii Mills. Every man, woman and child jnust not miss a picture that will be on the program at The Pastime toworrow. The title of the picture is "Boil Your Water." Among tne many germs shown in the water is the typhoid fever germ magnified 40,000 times. This film is not only i.-teresting, but exceedingly instructive and will show tho great danger of typhoid fever that lurks in every glassful of water taken unboiled. Hookworm Dispensaries Treat 1,285 People in One Week. iRaleigh, July 27. The remarkable success of the dispensaries establish ed this month in the counties of Sampson, Columbu, Robeson and Halifax for the free examination and treatment of hookworm disease has surprised even the most ardent ad vocates of the dispensary method for carrying on the hookworm campaign. The four district directors of the campaign treated 1,285 cases last week and the prospects are that the number will be 2,000 for this week. At the dispensary in Columbus county 412 people were treated foi hookworm disease in in day. Those counties having the dispensaries are so high ly pleased that they are already ask ing that the dispensaries remain in the counties for a longer period than was at first agreed to. Several coun ties adjoining those in wftuch dis pensaries are located have already offered the financial aid which lis necessary to make possible the dis pensary work. Wool Tariff Revision Bill Passes Sen ate. WaRhinarton. July 27. The compro- wool bill offered by Senator La Follette, a modification of both his own and the House bill, passed the Senate. 48 to 32. through the uunion of Democrats ana nepuoucan insur gents. Upon this middle ground the uemocrsts joineu m xmjjjuuuobu unrent forces. . The measure adopted reduces the raw wool dutv to 35 per cent, a valor em and correspondingly reduces du ties on woolen articles. Prays for Rain;' Gets Deluge. Florence, S. C.July 26. Because hk prayers for rain during a recent dry spell were followed by such a copious and prolonged downpour that their cotton crop was damaged, ne'ghbors of the Rev. Mr. Moore, a Methodist minister, threatened to go into court and get an injunction restraining him from offering sudh prayers In the fu ture. At ter much talk the proposed proceedings have been dropped. Mr. Moore is the father of Jernr Moore, the 1-year-old champion corn grower, who raised 228 bushels on one acre last year and was taken to Wash ington by the Department ot Agricul ture in token of his acnievement and introduced to President Taft, San Francisco's municipal election will be hold in September and a hard fight is already under way to oust t be labor control of the city government. C