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CONCORD, N. C SA'. JR DAY. APRIL 13.1912.
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DANGE Or DISEASE 1B0M THE
SWAMPS AT TEE DEPOT. "
.Croak Bed Filled ' Witk ".Saad'.By
Heavy Bains, And Todi 8aeHing
Pool of Stagnant Water' Are Loft
Dangerous Condition' She-aid Be
. Eemedled Now. The Pnbllc Health
4 Demands It ' v - . ' - " v
, The people of Coneord have long
recognized the .danger of -disease
from too swamps at the depot. This
danger has now grown to men pro
portions that an epidemic of illness
ia immident. The recent heavy rain
filled, the creek bed with sand until
. the waters now spread over a wide
area and run in almost every direc
tion. In many plaoes in the marshy
swamps, -where the waters have re
ceded, cess pools are filled with fit
'thy, fool smelling, disease breeding
water with' neither an inlet nor an
: Outlet v ; : ; -. : .
Not only the creek ad . water cov
ered area are within themselves a
source of-danger but this danger has
been enhanced by reason of the fact
that there is no proper sewer con
nection where the ' city ' sewer emp
ties into the creek at the railroad
. bridge. Beginning at the bridge and
for o,uite a distance down the ereek
the water is green Colored with slime
from-which there emanates such a
stinking, sickening -odor that it is
obnoxious to people at the depot and
beyond. ' . ' y. "v
The big freshet of 1998 broke the
- sewer connection. Since that, time
it has . never been remedied. That
freshet, however, did not fill the bed
of the. ereek as the one did a few
weeks ago. For this reason the wa-
. ter: continued to flow and -was not
stopped and spread, out PDjtbe. marsh
as it is ai present "At a point about
200 yards from the inlet of the sewer
the ereek divided in three separate
channels, or at least spreads out into
three different' directions, as there Is
practically no-channel except the out
lines of the old : one that ia- filled
. with sand. This water is so shallow
that it cannot carry all the grimy
filth from the sewer, much of it being
gathered by the bull rash and shrub-ery.-
Mi-' '.:- . :. , ".-;; ". v
, The cause of the water spreading
out just below the bridge ean be east
- ly seen. . A 1 representative of this
paper visited the place yesterday ar-
' ternoon and at the point' where the
creek divides the old channel is fill'
ed with banks of sand. v This sand
bank continues for about : 230 feet
down the. creek. Near the1 point
where the sand ends the three branch
es of the creek flow back into the old
channel. If the sand were removed
in this distance it would give a tern
nnvarvawliAf t TTip can he no ner-
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manent relief until a drainage dis
trict is formed and the ereek. drain
ed with a dredire boat, y "
However, the problem thai Coneord
is now facing is too serious, and the
.risk too firreat to" even wait.: for.
' drainage district to be organized and
the work begnn, as great as tne need
for such a district is. S
The dangerous condition should, be
" remedied now. ' Every day - ados
greeted risk. If the work "is' done at
once a serious nublie -calamity may
be averted, ; but Sf 1 neglected - long
enough for petty politics to be played
" time alone-can only mart we iaiai
ities. r'. " v . ;
K$ It is estimated by a well known
- business man of the city, who ae
v companied the writer to the creek,
' that the sand bank ean be removed at
- a cost from $250 to $300, f The place
in point is just a short distance from
the city limit and the question nat
urally arises tx to who should bear
the expense, the city or the county.
It la verv probable that the matter
s can eaaily be adjusted by the ., otD-
eial8-"i---f:'-'-'i.'l" ';-'':
In the meantime the work should
k Ann and done today. IT eon-
tract cannot be made at once why
not let the eity teams go there and
haul out the sand. -It might delay
. lifiiB utrcet work but street -work
' 'can afford to wait but this wort' can
not. '
Th innumerable dangers that were
nointed out as a result of hog r.n8
inaiA th citv limits Dale into, insisr-
beside the dangers that lurk
. k. mramn at th deDot. especially
in tht nortion below the railroad"
bridge. The time is today. The peo
..nnot afTo-d to lot this work be
neglected. Public decency "defends
it and public health requires it,
1 Mr. Shapespeare Harris, left yes
terday for Charlotte to spend several
days. v.-.'' ,. . : , j 1 , -.
KAXKAPOLI3 VVKS.
ICIUa Kunnlng run Tlaa. Kew
Boildlnjrj Aad Improvement.
Ktw Baptist CI area to Coat $7,-000-BaaebaIL
T. M. 0. A.
a; wort-
Kannapolia, April 12. This is a
very busy place at present. The mills
are both running full time, and out
side hands may be seen in every di
rection at work. A squad is busy
excavating for the new mill, and tne
new bleachery is oa too way alsOb. A
new story building is going np sear
the depot, besides a score or more
new dwellings art being built at pres.
ent -r '-. ?. -- ' ,.
The addition to the Cannon Hand-
factoring Co.'s spinning mill has, been
completed and the plumbing land
wiring has been done and now the
machinery is being placed. - ;
Gardening is now. the order of the
day and a great deal of it is being
done. ,, ;-- ."" ' v'.'i-.,
Bricks are being placed ' on the
ground for' the new Baptist church,
whioh will be built near the Cannon
Memorial Hall, and will be built at
a cost of about $7,000, which will be
in keeping with the other buildings
hich an being built ": : ; - ' .
Easter was rather cool for our
people to enjoy themselves as they
would have had it warm. L Services
were held by all the pastors in town.
Rev. W. B. Shinn preached two ex
ceptionally fine sermons, one at 11
m. on the Besurection of the. Body,
and the other at 7:30 p. m. on the
Immortality of the Soul We have
heard a number of commendatory re
marks about these sermons. ' -, ;
Bey. Dr. J. C. Row will hold the
second quarterly conference for the
Kannapolu circuit at Unity Satur
day. Preaching at 11 a. m. and con
ference at 2 p. m."
The Boy Scouts, under the leader
ship of Mr. N. H. Coggins, marched
to Coneord Saturday evening, return
ing on No. 12; , i;. i1'-";:'
The ball season has come, and our
boys played their first game on the
homo diamond - Saturday evening,
crossing bats with the Enochville
team,1 which "resulted in a seer e-of 2
to 1 in favor of the home team. 1. Our,
boys expect to make improvements
on their grounds and probably will
have it enclosed. We-are not pre
pared to give the personnel of the
team at . present but : we understand
that it will be a strong team.
Mr. George Sides and Mies Hettie
Trantham were married last Friday
night at the Kannapblis hotel, by Bev.
C. S. Andrews. We wish them much
happiness. 5 -' "
Messrs. H. A. uregg- and T. V.
Moose went to Winston-Salem Sat
urday evening 'after ' Mr. Gregg's
new auto, which he recently ordered
through a firm at that place. They
spent Saturday night with C their
friend, Mr. T, B. Moore, lormerly or
this place, intending to come hpme in
the auto, but unfortunately the roads
were in such a bad condition that
they left it at Lexington, and came
in on No. 35. The auto is a Mitchell,
five passenger .touring car and we un
derstand it is a dandy.
rMr. H. Wj Owens, the general sec
retary of the Y. M. CA here, will
go to JreenviJle, 8.- C, Saturday,
where he will address tne 1. U. Jw A
bovs conference. Mr, Owens is never
more at home than.' in a crowd -oil
boys, over whom he is exerting an in
fluence for rood. -1
The board of directors of the 7.
MC, A. met Tuesday night to trans
act business and elect a new board.
The following were elected :; Messrs,
H. L. Li do. 8. IT Carter, R: D. Grier,
R. H. Hare,-Lee Woodall, S. T. Boed
er, J. W. Bounds, B' C Propst and S.
E
Sloan. The officers will be elected
at the next meeting of the board. The
following is the secretary's r report
to the board for March, condensed
Membership at close of month,' boys,
79; men 337,-Total 416. No. commit
teemen, boys 12; men aa. iotai .
Religious meeting including boy?
meetings and Bible classes, 15: total
attendance, 1,457; ladies nights 4, at!
tendance 300 . Daily average attend
ance in the buildinir: Members 194
visitors 40; band concert.-1, attend
ance 225; moving picture shops 9, at
tendance 2,275; Scout metings 4, at
tendance 74: night school XI - ses
sions, atetndance 194;. No. .library
books used 144; illustrated lectures
3, attendance 450; Health League en
tertainment 1, attendance dUU; put-
lio school entertainments 2, attend
ance 1,200; baths taken 1,052; Boy
Scouts handled cleaning day, March
23, 127; Tomato Club organized with
20 boys." ' - -
J The gymnasium is being used by
the boys and men every opportunity
Pool and bowling "games running at
their full capacity. '.There are a let
of other items In the report 6f minor
importance. Although the building
large, still the Y. M. C. A. has grown
that it is thought by many that an
addition is necessary, to keep pace
with the growth of the town. 1 U.
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DISCOVEEED IK AH OLD STABLE
4; OK BELL AVENUE.
Saea by Colored Has WMle Cleaning
. Out the Stable. Child SU Boas
t Dead Two Weeks, But Body Was
'Well Preserved. Well Developed
Ifulatto Baby. Evidently a Case
v of Murder. No Cine as to. Who
; Mother Ia,v.-;- V.-.
While cleaning out an old stable on
Bell avenue in the rear of the resi
dence of 'Squire G. M. Lore, John
Morgan, colored, shoveled out the
corpse of a little male mulatto baby
yesterday afternoon about 6 o'clock
The negro has hauled several wheel
barrow loads from the stable to the
garden and. as he Attempted to clean
beneath the trough the horrible dis
covery was made. "At the time Mr.
Lore was standing only a short dist
ance from the barn. - The negro call
ed for him and told him what ha had
discovered. " Mr. Lore looked at the
corpse and sent a call to the police
headquarters, instructing tbem to no
tify the coroner. The sheriff was al
so notified and in a short time a cor
oner's jury was empaneled.' Messrs.
Boyd Moose, I. L Davis, T. T. Smith,
W. T. Wall, H. M. Shinn and John
W. Propst composed the coroner's
jury. Joey visited the scene with
Coroner Isenbour in a short time af
ter the. body was' discovered. After
making an examination of the 'sur
roundings the jury decided to meet at
9 o'clock at Bell & Harris Furniture
Store --v:
The body of the baby was remark
ably well preserved. It is supposed
to have been in the stable about two
weeks and .there is little doubt but
that it was put there immediately
alter it was Sort. The" baby, weigh"
ed possibly.' nine pounds. - The hair
was slightly kinky and every appear
ance strongly indicated that it was
very light mulatto. Over its mouth
and nose -was tied a rag which had
been drawn 80 tight that the features
of the fdee 'fere hardly discernible.
There is little doubt but that the rag
was tied around the baby's mouth
and nose. for. the double purpose, to
murder it and suppress it s feeble
cries. . A- short time before the in
quest Dr. B. M. King and Dr. B. S.
Young made a 'post mortem exami
nation at the furniture store where
the body, had been moved. Both of
the physicians Stated . that in -their
opinion the child was a well-developed
and normal when born and that it
was a case of murder. ;", ' V ?
At the coroner's inquest John Mor
gan, colored, testified tbat tie was
hauling litter from the stable for Mr.
Lore in tlie afternoon and as he went
to clean out the- trash from, beneath
the trough in the stable "his shovel
struck something soft and the baby's
little feet shot up out of the trash.
The witness said he then called Mr.
Lore, who was a few feet away and
tbat Mr.- Lore came and said tbat
her would notify the police. . -
Mr. ' Lore .was e-anlined and cor
roborated the witness's testimony. He
said that he 'phoned for the police
and told them to notify the coroner.
Ha then told Morgan to put th$ body
back where he found it and await, in
structions from the authorities. . "
Dr. B 'It'i King ' testified that in
his opinion the child bad lived; that
its lunga, contained air and. in ap
pearance there: was nothing to. indi
cate that it: was not a healthy well-
developed child at birth.
There was no other evidence sub
mitted that would in the least reveal
the identity of the murderer or mur-.
derers. fter going over what' facts
that could be gathered the jury ad
journed to meet Friday night, April
Every phae of the case is filled
with shocking, revolting features. The
perpetrator of the crime is as myste
rious as when tne body was xouna
The jury, however,, has evidence to
which they attach strong credence as
to the time the body was placed there
and, taking this as a basis; they hope
to unravel the erime.; - There are two
other facts that stand out clearly
in the caw The crime was commit
ted by some one who was familiar,
with the surroundings and there is lit
tle doubt but that more than one
person is guilty of the heinous slaugh-
among Buenuani wuu into cuim
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officers, are going to sift the matter
to the bottom. - Although they have
nothing tangible now, they feel that
the natural circumstances ami con
ditions attendant upon such a crime
will furnish them, with a source
gather evidence that will fasten the
. vUiM U
erime apoa the part or parties who
committed it 1' , ;-
The body was tamed over to Bell
4 Harris for bariaL
NEWS rOBXCAST PO .
TEE CC2CXXa WEEK.
Washington, D. C, April 13. Im
portant fixtures on the political cal
endar of the week will include the
following: v
: , . ' Koaday.
Republican territorial eoaventioa
of Hawaii, at Honolulu, U select del
egates to tho aationsj aoavention.
Republieaa . Stat convention , of
Connecticut,; at New .' Havea, to se
lect delegates to tht aational con
vention. - "
Republieaa State tonventions of
Delaware, at Dover, to select dele
gate! to the national eoHTention.
:.t-VcwoWay;f .
.: District eonventiohs of Republicans
in Connecticut, to aeleet delegates to
the national convention. '
'District convention of all parties
in Illinois to select delegates to the
national convention."
rriday.'j:
.. Direct primaries of" all parties in
Nebraska to aeleet delegates to the
national conventions and name can
didates for United States Senator
and State officers.' "
Direct primaries ofaU parties in
Oregon to select delegates to the na
tional conventions and iqxpr1 PN'
erence for 'United Statiea Senator..
State conventions of all parties in
Illinois to select . the ' delegates-at-large.te
the national conventions. '
Nearly all of tb "presidential as
pirants will be in the field during the
week. " CoL Roosevelt is .expected to
confine his activities' to the eastern
States. Woodrow Wilson will speak
in Georgia and Florida, -Governor
Harmon in the middle West and
Senator La FoUette in the far West.
William J. Bryan will", add to the
gayety of the situation? by speaking
against Harmon in the latter 's home
State. 1 ". - '. .-.
The unveilinff of the statue erected
in tlie national eapital iff inemery 'oft
John Paul Jones, the revolutionary
naval hero, is fixed for Wednesday
and will be made an occasion for im
pressive military 'and civic exercises
in .which President Taft and other
notables will take part. ;
The" consecration of Father Austin
Dowling as Roman Catholic bishop
of Des Moines will take place Thurs
day in the cathedral in Providence,
B. I., with Bishop Harkins officiating
as the consecrating prelate, j
- A central eclipse of the sun is
scheduled to take place early Wed
nesday morning, visible as a partial
eclipse in' the eastern portion of the
United .States and Canada. ; i J'
The eonventiona of the week will
include the Episcopal Church Con
gress in St Louis, -the Conservation
Congress 'of the Men and-.Religion
Forward Movement in New York
city, the national convention of the
Daughters of the American Revolu
tion in Washington, and the Interna
tional Conference on the Negro at
Tuskegee, Ala.
NO BASEBALL TODAY.
Charlotte Team Did Not Oomo Over
on Account of tho Threatening
Manager Clark, of. the Locke. Mill
baseball team received a 'phone -mes
sage, tfaiav morning from' Manager Os
teon, of the Charlotte Hornets, etat
liig that the weather looked threaten-
ing and no eouianoi onng jus team
Over today for the game scheduled at
Locke Mill Park this afternoon. , -
" Only a few unpretentious H louds
hung in. the 'skies. Poor, tender,
frail, ; fragile, dainty, - winsome, weak,
little Hornets, i What a pity it would
be. for a few drops of pure rain wa
ter to fall upon your precious ana-
tomies; r;y ,k .
The Giants and Athletics battled
for Supremacy during a snowstorm.
Mack and MeGraw cranked up $20,
000 arms of Combs and Mathewson
during the freezing weather, hut Os
teen's dear, dainty boys are too
precious to- run the risk of being in
one of April's gentle showers should
the shower eome. .
The violets, the little' pinks and
the little pansiea just love an .' April
shower, i It causes their little heads
to pop up and smile at all the world-J
But the Hornets are 'too tender
plants to be exposed.
And this is the ban,team unar
lotte is going to send after the bunt
ing in the' Carolina League Here is
hoping they will win; but' we sug
gest to, Manager Clark that the next
time he issues a challenge to them to
put it carroms instead of baseball.
.Miss Bailie Morgan has returned
,to her home in Heath Springs, S. C,
- l 1. . .1 . 11. 1 TIT
to after visiting her father, Mr. A.
f 1 ,
j Morgan,, for several days. .
111 III;
FOUND UGLY L00K2XQ CLASP
. KBTTB IK MAN'S POCKET.
Arrested After Twice rordnf Els
Way Into Private Part of Mas
sioa. -Claims to Be a German Sub
ject Said He Didn't Intend Any
Ham to President Taft
Washington, April 13. A man
giving his name as Michael Winter,
was arrested at the'White House to
day after he hadtwiee succeeded in
forcing his way into the private part
of the executive mansion. The guards
found an ugly looking clasp knife in
tho man's pocket This is the first'
time in years that an nn welcome vis
itor has entered the Presidential
borne. The man elaimed to be a Ger
man subject, and said he had applied
unsuccessfully to Count von Bern
stoff, the German ambassador, for a
letter of introduction to President
Taft "' - ' ,
When Winter reached the White
House he ran up the steps and dash
ed past the -doorkeeper. For a mo
ment he was lost in the darkness of
the hall from the searching ushers.'
A few minutes after being ejected,
Winter repeated the performance. He
said that he lived in Baltimore, and
protested that he did not intend to
harm the President.. Winter is 36
years old.
Birthday Party Monday.
The - following invitations
have
been issued: .
Come play with me
from 4 to 6 Monday afternoon
April fifteenth
Georgie Elisabeth Calloway.
1906-7912.
A: Another Atro-oaut Killed.
Bernedue, France, April 13. Lieu
tenant Boneourt, reconnoitering in a
monoplane today today, lost control
of the machine, fell 200 feet and was
instantly killed. 1 .
CAPITAL $100,000
SURPLUS 33,000
New Accounts
Large or Small
Welcomed at
TblsBank.
Concord
National
Bank.
FOUR PER CENT. Interest
- V. Paid on Tima Doposita.
:EC2SS !
SUCCESS is only a Telative
tenn.vVjti";;:'4:;v.''i-J
- It is attaining the succes
sion of objective points set by
a man of business.
When some of us were shopT
boys at three dollars a weektL
it was our ambition to makeT
fifteen dollars a week. . z: T
Today some of us who have J.
made fifteen a week are mak-?
ing 'four times that amount, e
J, yet we find Ourselves quite as A
aissausjiea as in our aays
when we made three dollars a
week. It will not be for more A.
money) ior our amuiiion may
extend to politics or a strate
gic position in the trade in A.
W . nrnt. STJRnr.SSES r in
L proportion to our hopes. We
omy cease 10 progress as we
cease to hope. . Our permanent
J, stopping place ia where we
eonsiuer tne next iep impos
sible the unobtainable.' v
It ia Impossible for every
man tn Conocrd 'to haave a
HOME OF HIS OWN Men,
Will yon say It Is impossihleT
CABARRUS COUNTY Bn L.
1 In Concord National Bank.
- RECEPTION YESTEBDAY.
Brilliant Punctioa Givea la Honor of
Mrs. B- 8. Sanders."
The home of Mrs.. A. M. Brown
Was the seen of a festive occasion
yesterday afternoon, the event being
a reception by Mrs. Brown and Mia
Blanche Brown in honor of Mrs. Roy
S. Saunders. For more than three
hours the handsome home was mark
ed by the visits of throngs of hand
somely gowned women and the af
fair was one of the most elegant and
charming social wvents of its kind of
the spring season.
Welcoming the goests at the door
were Mrs. C. P. MaeLaughlin, Mrs.
L. A. Fisher and Miss Maude Brown.
Mesdames A. M. Brown, R. S. San
ders, B, A. Brown, E. IL Brown, W.
M. Linker and Misses Blanche
Brown, Ruth Coltrane and Graee Pat
terson received in the parlor, which
waa beautifully decorated in white
lilacs and white iris. From the re
ceiving line the guests ere ushered
into the hall, which had been eon
verted into a veritable flower garden
with huge banks of white apple blos
soms, thence into the dining room by
Misses Myrtle remberton, Zula Pat
terson and Wilma Correll. Receiving
in the dining room, which, was most
gorgeously decorated with huge bou
quets of wisteria, lavender lilacs and
pink apple blossoms displayed with
remarkably pretty effect, were: Mes
dames E. A. Moss, B. E. Bidenhour,
M. M. Linker and Miss Rose Wille
ford. A delightful salad course was
served. From the dining room the
guests were shown to the coffee room.
Coffee was poured by Mrs. D. B. Col
trane and served by Misses Laura Mc-
Gill Cannon, Alice Brown and Mary
remberton. The spring-like effect of
the lovely apple blossoms was most
attractively carried out in decora
tion in this room. '
From 150 to 175 guests called dur
ing the receiving hours. -
The town of Albermarle has let
the contract for waterworks to the
Central Construction Co., Lexington,
Ky. The men are there and the work
will hAPin In A fw A4avar-" - -
Start
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TONIAN STYLES YOU. SHOULD SEE
THEM AND TRY THEM ON. COMFORT;
ABUNDANCE. STYLE ASSURANCE AND
WEAR INSURANCE. YOU WILl BE
UNCONSCIOUS OP' YOUR FEET FROM
COCK-CROW TO v NIGHT-CAP i JN
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PRICES -.-1..1 $3.50, $4.(W AND $4.5o!
Agents for French Shriner & Urncr Shoes for
Men. Prices 'JLL J$5.00 AND $8.00.
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DD3COYEBED ; THIS M0BJOTO '
ACCORDING TO EXPORTS. ; .'
Plot Also to DynanUto Public Bmld
inga la Mexico. Twenty-Flf Ar
rests An BportadvPoUoa An
Trying to Suppress News. . '.. .
New York, April 13 A plot to
sassinate President Madero, of Mexi-
eo, and to dynamite tho publia build
ings haa been discovered, according .
to advices received here today by fin
ancial interests. It is reported that
twenty-five arrests have been madeo"
Advices say the police are trying to
suppress the news. ; , . T ,
TWELVE SERIOUSLY HURT.
Floor Collapses In Distillery, Injur- '
tog a 8cort of Studanta. , ...
Peoria, 111, April 13. A score of.
students of the Bradley Polytechnic
Institute were injured, twelve being' .
hurt seriously, today whea the floor -collapsed
at the Woolner distillery,
Ithrowing 50 young people to tho
ground. The party were inspecting,
the fermenting room. '
A Mysterious Murder.
; Lynn, Mass, April 13. The police
are baffled over the murder of Mil
lionaire George E. Marsh. , It ia de-'
dared to be the most, 'mysterious
murder in the history of the common- '
wealth. An examination of a woman, -supposed
to have been seen riding
with the millionaire, proved that she
was not in his company after 3 p.m.'
Thursday. It is certain that Marsh.!
was not slain until that night Tho '
police are convinced that jealousy or
revenge was the motive for the erime.
Miss Lennie Mann, of High Point
trtbe' guest of Mis Edna Correll. -
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