North Carolina Newspapers

- Mca, M (Mi ft IftwOu CONCORD. N. C WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 16. 1911 NO. 28 ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL. Followers ef Blackstoae Hat Wordy War Hon Serious Ooneoaneaooi . Hmtotd-AU Kn-Siriu ui Hafpy...,. ... ' Yesterday afternoon about 5 o'clock four members of tb local bar were ia Clerk of Court Widenhouse 's of fice busily engaged ia tracing records and gathering facta and information from legal documents, when two of tba attorneys, Messrs. T. D. Maness and H. S. Williams, became engaged in a rather heated discussion concern ing a judgment, which diaenaaion be came aa torrid aa the atmosphere on the outside.- Both being well trained to engage in any combat wherein words and logic formed the weapons, they were soon in a forensic fray that cracked -and thundered when their powerful bolts of learned arguments met ia mortal conflict. Bat soon their training began to ahow a weakness, the first jsvidence of which waa when one of the followers of Blackatone picked np an ink bottle, and it waa apparent that they were going to re tort to other methods .than following tha straight and narrow course of le gal procedure. When the ink bottle waa used as an instrument to empha sise the force of a point in ease, At torney W. O. Means brought his le gal experience of many years into play and with a keen insight into, such af faire be aaw the far reaching effect the ink bottle wonld have and he mounted a table, exclaiming that de spite the scarcity of water and the sweltering atmosphere he cherished no desire to take a shower bath with ink, but that henceforth be would act a referee of the hosilitea. By this time referee of the hostilities. By this time the command of the disputants had been exhausted and they evidently decided that time was altogether too short for research work, changing their methods entirely by proceeding a la Sharkey, Jeffries Corbett, Sulli van, et al Senatox Hartsell and Clerk of Court Widenhouse who had been sil ent, witnesses of the affair up to this , time decided fb enter the mill, not as seconds or participants, but to quell the disturbance, the Senator reaching out with hisTong- riffbt arm and. clasp ing tha arm of Mr. Manesa with a,grip as fast WSj a$eui tobat he wed on :the men who wore the mole skin while a star,atfHBitB famous foot ball eleven, while Mr. Williams wis taken in tow by Mr. Widenhouse in equally as capable a manner. Neith er of the combatants was injured in the least, and are at their offices to day presenting countenances that are unscathed. Guilford County Baby Spends Night In Woods. Greensboro, Aug. 15. After hav ing been lost for 24 hours in the woods near her home, two miles north of here the three-year-old daughter of Mrs. Emma Blackwell wandered to the home of Deputy Sheriff Lane Sunday afternoon and was, a little while latere returned to her mother. The child bad; left home Saturday morning and spent the night some where along in the country. The al most frantic mother and her friends had been searching for the child and at he time the mother had the child returned to ber she was organizing a searching party on a large scale. The child 'a umbs were scratched and bruised and she waa desperately hun gry. Otherwise she waa all right and when fed and given a bath she waa happy to be at borne again,. Skims Over Lake Michigan. Elkhart, Ind.J Aug. 15. Skimming over the southwest corner of Lake Michigan and then oyer the sandhills of northern Indiana. Harry N. At- wood of Boston in his aeroplane this afternoon flew the 101 miles from ' Chieaeo in two hours and 10 minutes without stoD. thus completing 387 mile of his 1.460-mile cross-country flight from St. Louis to New York and Boston. Atwood made the lOlrmilee from ' Chicago, in only 21 minutes more, than .no 111110 VI U1V AB.Vt HUH U HI. United States; which covers the dist ance between Chicago and Elkhart in h one hour and 55 inmutea. ; ; ; 1 Ensign Young Examined at Naval , Hospital at Portsmouth. : r. Portsmouth. Va-'Aug. 14. Ensign Robert 8. Young. Jr., of Concord, whose mysterious disappearance a few weeks ago from the Brooklyn navy vard waa responsible for a widespread search by his father, his fiancee and the Navy Department, was today x ftmitMul at the naval hospital h'rc'bv surgeons. Nothing will bVamomrMd as to the result of the exanvn&iion . until the surgeons' reports lias been - forwarded to Washington. - Death of Gov. XitcUa'i Mother. Ealeigh,.Aog; 15. Mrs. W. H. Kttehia died at her home in Scotland Neck this mornng at 4 o'clock after , , a critical illness of two weeks. Mrs Krtchin was 65 yean oW. Bhe leaves tnree sons, aminguunea w ,nie-uovernar w. w. ruteam, von- Tesemen Claude Kitohin, and Mr. : Paul Kitebin, who served 'repeatedly in tie State legislature.' 'U'j TEE COUNTY SUNDAY . SCHOOL CONTENTION. Prograua ef Aianal , Meeting at Cabarrus Oouty Suday. Scaoal , Aaaodatios Tomorrow. , i : t . The following ia the complete pro gramme of the Cabarras County 8ua day School Convention, -which will be be held at Mt. Olivet Methodist church, in No, 4 township August 17, 10:00 o clock a. m. Opening, De votional exercises, Dr. J. ILKhier. Ringing by choirs. , 10:307 Enrollment of delegates. Reports of officers. ' 11.-00 The Organised Sunday School, M. B. Stickler. . , 11:20 The Text Book of the San- day School, Ber. C P. HaeLaughlin. 12:10 Reports of Townships. Ap pointment of Committees. 12:30 Offering for the work of County Association. Recess. 1:45 Song service by the choirs. 2 :00 Recitations Miss Estelle Dick, Mr. Bob. Scott 2:15 Address, The Sunday School, a Recruiting Agency for the Church, Rev. J. A. J. Farnngton. 2 :45 Open discussion. Work of the Sunday School Association. .3:45 Report of Committees, elec tion of officers. Selection of place for next convention. Adjournment with singing "All Hail the Power of Jesus Name." Benediction. Music will be furnished by the lo cal and visiting choirs. ' There is a proposal to hold a two davs' session of the County Sunday School Convention after this year. . Please consider the above and pre pare to vote on same on next Thurs day at Mt. Olivet, August 17th. Following topics are suggested lor open discussion. Suggested Topics for Open Discussion. (1) What evidence is there of in terest in Sunday School work except during time of convention f (2) Can the effects of Sunday School work be hindered by formalism of too much organisation f (3) Why ia so little space given by the secular press to. Sunday School and church work "- ' - 4 Why does the Sunday School not appeal to the old I (5) fofewnar Talne- of T&nfct. anffltheoek spent yesterday afternoon Christmas trees in Sunday Schools. - THOS. W. SMITH, Free. CHAS. R. ANDREWS, Sect 'f. Negro Business Men Meet. Little Rock, Ark., Aug. 16. Be tween seven and eight hundred dele gates, among whom are scores of colored men who have made a sueess in commercial enterprises and others who represent prosperous towns eon trolled entirely by negroes, are at tending the twelfth annual meeting of. the National Negro Business League, which was opened in this city today. Booker T. . Washington is the president of the league, the ob ject of which is to inform the world of the progress the negro is making business -end to stimulate local business enterprises among the mem bers of the race. The present meet ing wil continue its sesions until Sat urday. The progress being made by the negroes or Oklahoma nas induc ed the officers of the league to set aside tomorrow morning as Oklahoma Day, when' delegates from that state will tell of the growth and prosper ity of the town of Boley, which is inhabited and controlled entirely by nenroes. One of the evidences or the town prosperity is found in the fact; that it has Inst installed a. $35,000 light and power nt.j 95 Targets of Possible 100. Charlotte. Aug. 15. Dr. J. H. Dreher, of Wilmington, wan the North Carolina championship at targets at the first day's meet of the Worth Car olina Trap Shooters '- Association, which was .held in this City today. Dr. Dreher's record was 05 targets out of a nossible 100. J. C. Crayton and Charles Nichols, of this city, tied for second -place with 84 targets each. John M. Todd, also of tms city, was third with fl targets. DrU Dreher's receives the championship gold medal and also gets one leg on the race for the Lyon cup. This cup was offered several years ago bv George Lyon, of Durham, and is to be shot for annu allv until some North Carolina marks man baa won it tnree tunes. it wiu then be bia private property., This cup ia one of the finest ever offered in the state. y - Secretary Wilson 76 Yean Old. Washinirton. D. C Aug. 16. Sec- r tary of Agriculture Wilson, wno is away on his summer- vacation tne most of which is spent in attend ing agricultural meetings and preach- lna- act nolle agriculture to tne larm- mt reached hie eeventy-eixth birth- dav anniversary today. . Secretary Wilson was appointed to office by President MoKonley in 1879 and has nin.mul in wMthiir ; the storms trough fur administrations and in-J Mentally has attained "tne distine- Hon of holding to bib portfolio long- r than anv other cabinet officer in the history t the "Federal govern- rEESONAL MENTION. Seme ef tfca People Sen and Sat wkere Wee Oosne and 0. Mr. H. O. Bits is spending the day ia; Charlotte. n ' Mrs. George Richmond ia visiting relatives in Harris burg. Mr. C B. Sears went to Kannepolis today on business. Mrs. Martin Davis, of Charlotte, is visiting Mrs. M. F. Ritchie. Attorney J. C. Brooks, of Marsh ville, is a visitor in the city today. Meadamee D. F. and J. A. Cannon are spending the day in Charlotte. Col. A. L. Smith, of Charlotte, waa a visitor in the city yesterday. Messrs. Martin Boger and W. A. Foil are spending the day in Char lotte. Dr. F. S. Packard, of Greensboro, is here today stopping at the St. Cloud. . Mrs. John Young and Miss Frances Young are visiting relatives in Char lotte. Recorder H. S. Puryear has return ed from a visit to relatives in Yad kin county. Miss Lena Biggers left this morning for Mars 'Hill Academy, to enter for the session. Dr. J. C. Black, of Pioneer Mills, was in the city Monday driving a new Maxwell runabout. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Litaker, of Enochville, are visiting at the borne of Mr. G. A. Moser. Miss Lola Phillips and Mr. Oscar Phillips, of Rowan county, are vis iting relatives in the city. Miss Martha Moore has returned to her home in Charlotte, after visit ing Mrs. Z. M. Moore for several days. Mrs. J. M. Moore, who has been visiting her son, Mr. Z. M. Moore, has returned to her home in Char lotte. Misses Claudie and Ponza Cline and Messrs. Gip Sherrill and Eben in unanoiie. Mrs. H. P. Guffy, who has been at Black Mountain, is now visiting the family of Mr. o. A. Woe, at Moms town, Tenn. Miss Ellen Gibson will return to morrow from visits to friends in Cen terville, Maryland, and other northern cities. Mr. Richard Boyd, of Fayetteville, who haa been visiting his mother, Mrs. W. C. Boyd, has gone to Blowing Rock to spend some time. Mr. and Mrs. J. Leonard Brown have returned from Yadkin county, where Mrs. Brown and children have been visiting relatives for several Wilmington AUigatoristi Find Nest of 43 Eggs. Wilmington, Aug. 15. John N. Bennett and Constable W. B. Savage, of this city, made a most interesting find at Carolina Beach yesterday. While enjoying an outing in what is known aa the "Big Pond," in the sound, above H. A. Kure's place, they came upon an alligator nest from which they took 42 eggs in process or hatching. Mr. Bennett brought some of the eggs to the city last night ilnd in the presence of a number of Mvigentlemen cracked one of the shells and disengaged from the thin, flimy formation just inside the shell a voune alligator, fully eight inches in length and exhibiting every sign of life. The alligator lays her eggs in the marshes of murk, mud and sticks, where the sun is 'allowed to hatch the youngsters out, according to the al- ligatonsts in this necK o ine wooas, and the nest unearthed yesterday con tained eggs almost ready for the hatching. - - Strong Subjects for Lecture, j Lafayette. IncL Aug. 16. What! is believed to be the first onion improv ment ; lecture train ever operated in this country was started on tour to day under the joint auspices oi me Chicago, Indiana and Southern Rail road Company and the agricultural extension department of Purdue Uni- .. . mi . fit . Ll versiiy. - xne tour wiu cover hkuuu of the state which has been found esneeiallT adapted to the cultiva tion of onions. At numerous points lectures will be men on the selec tion of verities, cultural methods, fer tilisation and kindred topics. Salisbury Post) ; Salisbury parties who bad contemplated going to the Davis White Sulphur Springs at Hid- demte this week were nouned yester day to delay their going for several days as the hotel at that puce waa crowded, and it would b impossible to accommodate any new, comers un til some of the rooms became vacant. This hotel was enlarged for this sea- eon out lis popuiaruy ana patron age has outgrown the enlargement rABMXES' CONVENTION. State Farmers Meet at A. and M. OoOagft August 23-31. The 6 tat .Tanners' Convention will be bold at A. A M. College, Au gust 29 to 31. f These meetings are a means of instruction and lnspira tioa to the farmers woo sttend. A large number aft expected to be pres The convention opens Tuesday morning, August at JU:J0 a. m., ith addressee of welcome by Gov. W. W. Kitohin, Commissioner W. A. Graham and President D. H. Hill. Three sessions a day will be held morning, afternoon and evening. The Drosrram ncludes a variety of subjects that will be of special inter est and help to the farmers. These subjects will be discussed by men who bave made a close study of the work they are going to present. 1AI the same time the Women ' Farm-Life Convention will be held at the college ia conjunction with the State Farmers' Conventon. The welcome to Raleigh will be gfiiven by Mrs. P. Hamson, presi dent of the Women's Club; the Wel come on Behalf Department of Agri culture will be delivered by Mrs. W. N. Hutt, chairman. Mks Eula Dixon, of Alamance county, will make the response,. The program of the Women 'g Farm- Life Convention will be devoted to subjects of vital interest to the .women on the farms that will prove very helpful. To Prevent Forest Fires. Raleigh, Aug. 15. The North Car olina laws for the protection of for ests as amended by the last legisla ture provide both criminal and civil liability for the starting of fires that through carelessness develop into for est fires. And Commissioner of In surance James R. Young is sending to the Bhenns and clerks ot the courts in all the counties copies of the law and big posters to be put up throughout the counties to get beofre the people just what is expected of them to protect the torests and pre vent fires and what the punishment is for for those guilty of either care less or malicious starting of such fires. The forest VftreJosees in the United States the Tjast year "amount ed to $25,000,000 and North Caroli na's share of this was far more, the commissioner says, than there is tha least excuse for its having been. Togo Ends New York Visit. New York, Aug. 16. The rapid- fine programme of social and official functions with which New York has entertained Admiral Togo, and which the Japanese naval hero admits has made the past few days one of the most strenuous periods of his life, was concluded today with a luncheon tgiven by Maj f Uen. Frederick D. Grant at Governor s Island. Early this evening Admiral Togo and his two days are to be spent before the transcontinental journey is begun. Pennsylvania Democrats Active. Harrisburg, P.a, Aug. 16. The Central committee assembled here to day for a meeting, the purposes of 'wjhlch are to consider proposed changes in the party rules, to be recommended to the next State con vention for its approval, and to carry out plans for the redistricting of the State, so as to abolish the nine dis trict now existing and to establish Si divisions, one tor eaen congress ional district. President Taft Tuesday afternoon sent to Congress his message vetoing the resoluting admitting Arizona and New Mexico to statehood, basing his objection on the provision in the Ari zona Constitution making the judi ciary subject to th recall. The President vigorously denounced this proposed system as pernicious and destructive of free government. lfcr. - if in j Qomtoit or unrr-omt m CMtCUM Mcoum Wlta TBt MQMMt rotr riHD kicxs $jk r to asrn. o BJND-IV$t Vfja VAILT W AUOVK1 HUOVD, rITM ITi MOVtlHOLD dOOOOKT.OK tO ' CONCORD NATIONAL BANK. Capital $100,009 . Burping 30 OC 4 Per Cent. Interest Paid on Time ' Pepoatta, y. IT DEATH TO TOT7BXBTS Eff MOLTEN FLOOD. "PaaeiTe" Volcano Lets Loose With out Warning. Tokio, Aug. 15. More than 30 er sons, half of whom are believed to have been foreign tourists, were prob ably burned to death on the slopes of Mount Asama-Yama, a usually pas sive volcano, about 90 miles from this city, when it suddenly burst into violent eruption today. The volcano has been one of the big points of interest to the visitors to Japan's lesding summer resort, Kariuzawa, and the tourists who lost their lives today were from that place. lucre is a well-traveled road ex tending from the bottom and winding along the sides of the mountain al most to the crater. Parties of tourists were toiling up this toad when there came a sudden ploion, and hundreds of tons of mol ten lava poured fromt he top of the mountain and through the many As sures on the sides. All the parties lower down on the mountain escaped. Abandoning their effects, they fled in terror and were soon out of harm's way. Iwo big parties, however, were nearly at the summit. It is believed they were overwhelmed by the gas eous smoke and their bodies inciner ated in the burning lava. The identity of the tourists has not been learned, but it is believed they were Europeans. Dr. Caldwell Improving. Wilmington Star, 15th. Many friends throughout this city and elsewhere will be glad to learn that Dr. Morris M. Caldwell, who un derwent an emergency operation Sun day evening, was reported last night as resting very comfortably and get ting along as well as could be expect ed. The operation was performed at the James Walker Memorial Hospital, by Dr. Thos. M. Green. Dr. Caldwell became suddenly ill Sunday, and the only hope for his recovery lay in the operation. His brother, has ar rived, to be with him; also Dr. R. L. Gibbon, of Charlotte, and Mr. and Mrs. R. V. Caldwell, of Concord. Dr. Caldwell is one of Wilming ton 's ablest and most popular physicians and hundreds of naeflds in this city and elsewhere throughout the state earnestly hope for his speedy recovery. Lafferty Boger. Handsomely engraved invitations and cards reading as follows were is sued here this morning: Mr. Martin Boger requests the honor of your presence at the marriage of his daughter Amanda Pearl to Mr. Parks Moore Lafferty on Wednesday evening, August toe thirtieth, Nineteen hundred and eleven at six o'clock Saint James Lutheran Church Concord, North Carolina. Reception at the home after cere mony. A savings of $9,000,000 would be effected in transporting mail if the railroads were paid on the basis of the actual space occupied by the mail while in route acocrdmg to a report made to the White House by Post master-General Hitchcock. SEE IT PAYS. Thesis Silk Hosiery With Written Guarantee. Beautiful ehimmery, perfect fit and guaranteed to wear. Made of finest quality Italian Thread Silk, heretofore obtainable only in high priced silk hosiery. 75c per pair or Four pairs for $3 Guaranteed Quarter Year. Double strong at 'heel and toe with extra lone. Lisle garter top. Black only. Each box of four pairs contains a Written Guarantee of three months wear or new hose free. KAYSE&S Italian Gloev Silk Stockings, the kind limb uvu It i w iuii, u uigu mm) rink, wtute and tsiacx at $1.50 pair. Fishers ON THE SQUARE. tfisbers THE LAMEST ir?UE THEE. NorU Carolina Has the Largest hi the United fitatea, Perhaps la the World, and it k in Wilkes County. North Carolina keeps emphasising that ita place is at tfae bead of the procession and onee again it scores ss carrying tne banner. This time it is in havinv the Unr est apple tree in the United States, and it is an apple tree of immense proportions. It is on the land of Mr. W. G. Smoot. near Tran Hill in Wilkes county, and is owned by nears. J. a. tiorton, of Elkin, and H. W. Hortoi of North Wilkesboro. The shown record shows that the tree is 16 feet 5 inches in circumference at the ground and 12 feet 6 inches just below the first limb, making it 5 feet 5 inches in diameter at the ground and 4 feet 2 inches at the first limb, which is eight feet above the ground. It was a large tree ninety years sgo, and it is known to be over a nindred years old, and it may be a hundred and fifty. It bears- apples right along, the variety unknown, the people of that section calling it the "Rich Apple," because the color is rich, yellow-red striped and the fla vor rich. The fruit matures in Sep tember and keeps until late fall and is of medium sixe. Pictures of the big old apple tree have been sent the Department of Agriculture, and men shown in the picture standing by it look of the size of small bovs. Not rIotia ia this big tree declared to be the largest appie tree in iue United States, but it is believed to be the largest in the world. If cut, the stump would give room for several men to stand on it at one time, and if it was hollow and lying down an ordinary cow could walk through its length and not touch her back or sides. Four-year-old Girl Burned at Stake. New York, Aug. 15. Annie Hus band, four years old, is dying from being "burned at the stake." Chil dren playing tied her to a chair and had DSner burninc tthnnt. Iir 1 Tot- dress caught, burning her frightfully oeiore me names could be extinguished. You are cordiarinvited to come to The Fall Opening to be held at our store Aug. 17, 18, 19 when the representative of Isaac HamburgeV & Sons America's Premier Custom Tailors, Baltimore, Will be here with a Magnificent Display of Merchant Tailoring Goods for coming season. Fit Guaranteed. E L PAKKS '& M ' 1 i 1 4m 6m 0m . ttm NOETB CaEOLTTa XTWX Late Items ef New frea Vera, There and Efeijwaare. Mr. Job P. Wyeit, a protntneat merchant of Baleigh, who eat hie throat last week in a moment of men anebolia doe to ill health, died Toes day morning at 9 :40 o 'clock. Says the Durham Herald: "If Greensboro's plan of workng coavicte on the city streets proves a paying proposition there ia no reason why some of the other towns should not try Mr. R. J. Rosa of SUnlv eoontv ha on exhibition at the Store of H. E. Ross ft Co., New London, a encumber weighing live pounds, fourteen inches long and more than a foot in ekeum- ference. Charlotte has just sold $300,00 worth of bonds for an extension of its water system. It ia the purposes to go to the Catawba river, fifteen miles away, for water and work will begin at once. Charlotte ia thus pro viding adequately against a repetiton next summer of the consequences of drought from which it suffered this summer. The management of the State fair at Raleigh has at last ruled out dane-ing-girl shows, gambling stands -and all other fakirs' establishments. As a result of this ruling, which haa been given publicity in the theatrical and show journals, it is stated by the management that this year there will be a much higher class of amusements than has ever been offered at the state fair before. Democrats Will Caucus Today. Washington, Aug. 15. The Demo crats of the Senate will caucus tomor row regarding amendments to . the cotton bill and the date of adjourn ment, while the House Democrats will hold a caucus probably en Fri day to consider a legislative program for the remainder of the session, as well as the date for adjournment. . - Hope has not yet been abandoned of bringing Jbe session to an end Sat urdayt tbiJu'gh there is a strong possi bility 'that the session will run into nest week. 1 A Mm i r 4 '.r