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county has 31,242
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ing aa increase of 38.3 per
cent, a gaia unequalled by
any other county ia Stats.
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yOL-XLL NO. 196
GASTONIA, N. C.f, MONDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 16, 1920
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MOWS A RECORD INCREASE i POPUIilTOI
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RUSSIANS ARE PRESSING
THE FIGHT ON VARSAV
LATEST FIGURES SHOW GAIN OF 38 PER CENT
PERHAPS LARGEST OF ANV COUNTY IN STATE
Armored Flotilla Patrol Viitula River to Pre
vent Russian Bolsheviki From Crossing to En
circle Warsaw
LONDON, Aug. 16. The Russians are
preening their fight for Warsaw within a
doses, miles of the capital on the north
out, it ia indicated from Sunday's offi
cial statement from Moscow, received to
day. They report the capture of Ead
sqmia, in this sector, and the continua
tion of the battle along this front, and
also near Novo Georgrievsk, to the north
east of Warsaw.
The capture of Soldau, about 12 miles
awtheast of Mlawa, the east Prussian
frontier, also is announced. The state
sneot reads:
"We captured Soldau after fierce
fighting. Fierce fighting is proceeding
Jong the line of the river Vara and the
regions of Novo Georgievsk and Isegerah.
Om Aogust 13 we captured Radzymin.
Fighting is continuing on the front of
Badxyasin, Okuniew and Dyubo station."
WARSAW, Aug. 15. An armored flo
Cilia ia patrolling the Vistula river be
tween Warsaw an Thorn to prevent the
Russian bolsheviki from crossing that
treasn in the movement to encircle this
city. Many of these boats saw service
along the Pripet and Dneiper rivers,
soma having been captured from the bol
sheviki -and moved to the Vistula by rail
road. Soviet cavalry is working westward
along the Prussian frontier and was re
ported at various points northwest of
Warsaw today. These horsemen are a
source of constant anoyance, many de
ft u 4 rv ntd tni lna.in a tYia taiiia altntA.)
by General Budenny, on the southern
Polish front on raiding districts, endeav
oring to drive in behind the Polish lines
and spreading consternation among the
peasants. Estimates of the number of
these raiders vary, but it is reported
there are several thousand of them, some
of whom were infantrymen, who have
taken horses from peasants and moved
forward.
It ia known the bolsheviki had a cav
alry division upon their extreme right,
and it ia this organization that has been
snaking headway and against which
armored motor boats and other fighting
craft are prepared to battle in , the event
of the cavalry trying to force the Vis
tula, sever the Warsaw-Danzig railway
and possibly totally isolate this city
from the outside world
Depots are still thronged and trains
leaving the city continue crowded, but
the city of Warsaw is really quieter than
a week ago, officials asserting that most
of the panicky persons have left. The
racing season having closed a fortnight
ago, 300 horses which were entered for
the various events have been taken to
Posen. That city is so crowded that the
government has started requisitioning
rooms and buildings for various govern
ment departments.
GASTON'S GROWTH
Gaston county 38.3 per cent
Gaatonia city .... 123.3 per cent
Belmont 130.1 per cent
Mount Holly 120.3 per cent
Stanley 81.9 per cent
Cherryville 63.4 per cent
Bessemer City .. 42.3 per cent
Lowell 32.3 per cent
Dallas 31.3 per cent
McAdenville .... 18.2 per cent
PONZI UNABLE TO
GET OUT ON BOND
AMERICANS LEAVING.
WARSAW, Aug. 14. American resi
dents of this city have been gradually
leaving during the last fortnight and
Warsaw's American colony may be said
to have shifted to Posen. There is
scarcely an African typhus expedition
and newspaper correspondent. Jay
Pierrepont Moffat, third secretary at the
American legation, is still here looking
after the interests of the United States
government in Warsaw. Polish soldiers
who have been slightly wounded during
the recent fighting have also gone to
Posen.
Announcement was made today that
governmental authorities had not set a
day for leaving the Polish capital, and
this seems to have had a crieting effect
iioii the population. Business is going
on as usual, with all the stores and coffee
shops very active. Women are about the
streets, their summer dresses and bright
parasols contrasting with the black war
material being hauled through the city.
FEDERAL OFFICERS WILL
BRING JOHN J. McGRAW IN
NEW YORK, Aug. 16 Federal pro
hibition enforcement agents were order
ed today to bring John J. McGraw, man
ager of the New York Giants, to the
United States district attorney's office
to be questioned concerning a report
credited to him during the Slavin in
vestigation that he had purchased liquor
at the Lambs Club.
Mr. W. J. Swift and Mr. C. E.
Whitney, of Bessemer City, have re
turneil from :i ten-day trip to Washing
ton, New York and Canada.
BOSTON', Aug. 16. The inquiry into
every ramification of Charles Ponzi's
spectacular financial activities again oc
cupied the attention of stats and federal
officials after their week-end respite, but
they tO': up their task with the assurance
that the discovery of further damage to
the financial fabric of New England was
unlikely.
Ponzi's counsel centered their efforts
today on attempts to obtain the bail
neeessary to effect his release from the
East Cambridge jail, where he is held by
the federal government on a charge of
using the mails to defraud. Should a
bondsman be found, the sheriff was ready
at the jail with a wararnt npon which
Ponzi would be rearrested for the state
authorities on a charge of larcency. The
bond required by the federal court is
$25,000.
To gain his freedom from the common
wealth he then would have to supply a
bond of $10,000 -on a three count larceny
charge standing against him and what
ever additional bail may be asked on the
fifty-three count larceny charge that has
not been served upon him. Attorney
General Allen said that although no
amount had been agreed upon in the
latter case, he personally would approve
of bonds of $50,(100. According to this,
Ponzi will have to procure a total surety
of $85,000.
I A heavy gflard remained around
Jpunzi's home at Lexington and several
of them accompanied members of his
family whenever they left the house.
Threats are said to have been made
against Ponzi by persons who were at
tracted by his offer of "50 per cent in
45 days'' and preparations were made
to guard him carefully if he is freed
today.
A search for possible hidden funds
entrusted to the Old Colony Foreign Ex
A TICKET THAT CAN'T BE BEAT
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Courtesy .Morganton News Herald;
LUTHERAN CONVENTION
ADJOURNED FRIDAY
Correspondence of The Daily Gazette.
DALLAS, Aug. 16. The seventh an
nual convention of the Woman's Mis
sionary Society of the Evangelical Lu
thc ran Tennessee Synod, which convened
here for three days, closed its last ses
sion Friday.
The whole convention was marked by
enthusiasm and interest, every point be
ing thoroughly considered, thus bringing
out the increased work accomplished in
the past year and of the even greater
service mapped out for the future.
Aside from the responsibility of all
the woman's missionary work in the for
eign fields, the convention adopted the
president's recommendation of having
some definite work and voted upon the
fcitatesville church for home and the Hol
land scholarship for foreign.
A strong and most earnest appeal was
made by Dr. George Brach for the medi-
cal work in India. The most promising
fields are Rajahmundry and Guntur,
with a hospital at each which must be
closed unless medicaf assistance can be
secured, especially the woman's medical
work, and much depends upon the
woman's missionary societies to be the
leavening influence of the whole congre
gatiou toward developing the missionary
spirit and the education of more young
people for the ministry.
Mrs. (J. W. Nelson, president of the
Luther League, in addressing the Luther
convention, said a young person must
look into the future and decide what he
is going to be before he decides what he
is going to do; he must be a definite
character before the whole world; must
have self respect first if he wishes the
respect of others; that first our duty is
to (iod, secondly to our neighbors and
thirdly to ourselves.
Kev. Isaac ('annad-, missionary to In
dia, in delivering the annual missionary
sermon, based his remarks on the l.'ltii
chapter of Acts, in which the ancient
church of Antioch is described, compar
ing it with the present church and show
ing our deficiencies. J hat church was
free from prejudice, race, caste and
color. In that church was found the true
missionary spirit and vision. There also
were found good leaders, Paul and Bar
nabas, and that is the need today in In
dia, in the I'nited States and in all the
world.
Dallas is twice honored in having two
of her influential women on the official
staff for the ensuing vear, Mrs. A. P.
Rudisill, retiring magazine secretary, to
the presidency, ami Mrs. Frank L. Car
penter, thank offering secretary.
Two cordial invitations were extended
for the next meeting place, one from Em
manuels, Lincolnton, and the other from
Mt. Moriai., "'ar China lrove. Objec
tions were raised as to the latter being
a country church and inconvenient to the
entertaining of so large a convention,
but Mrs. W. C. Wessinger, wiPe of the
pastor and president of the missionary
societv there, appeared in person and
Belmont With Gain of 150 Per Cent Shows
Greatest Gain of Any Town in County - Three
Towns Have More Than Doubled Population
Every Town Except McAdenville Has Shown
Increase of tylore than 31 Per Cent - Detailed
Figures of Townships and Towns of County.
Special to The Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 Gaston's great growth give
promise of carrying away the palm for all population records
of North Carolina counties in the Fourteenth Census. Fall
statistics of Gaston county, just announced by the Census
Bureau, show what is perhaps the largest growth of any
county in the state, the increase having been 38.3 per cent for
the ten years since 1910. In the county three incorporated
places have more than doubled their population in the ten
years. These are GASTONIA, with an increase of 123.5 per
cent; Belmont, with an increase of 150.1 per cent, and Mount
Holly, with an increase of 120.5 per cent.
Every incorporated place in Gaston county showed an in
crease in population of more than 31 per cent, excepting one
place McAdenville, which showed 18.2 per cent.
Following are the Government's statistics of Gaston county's
population as issued by the Bureau of the Census:
Minor civil division
1920
1910
1900
GASTON COUNTY 51,242 37,063
Cherryville township, including Cherryville town 5,390 4,328
Crowders Mountain township, including Bessemer
City town 3,8.59 4t;82
Dallas township, including Dallas town 4,566 4,384
Gastonia township, including Gastonia city J!, 502 12,268
River Bend township, including Mount Holly and
Stanley towns 5,.'!38 4,531
South Point township, including Belmont, Lowell
and McAdenville towns ' 10,587 7,170
Incorporated places
1!20
1910
27,903
3,737.
3,516 '
2,885
7,728
483
5,674
1900
Belmont town
Bessemer City town
Cheri.v ille tow n . .
Dallas town
Gastonia city
Lowell town
McAdenville town . .
Mount Holly town . .
Stanley town
2,94 1
2,176
1,SH4
1,397
12;871
1.151
1,162
1,160
584
1,176
1,529
1,153
1,065
5,759
876
983
526
321
145
1400
1,008
514
4,610
290
1,144
634
441
Gastonia City by wards
1920
Gastonia city
Ward 1
Ward 2
Ward :t
Ward 4
Ward 5
Ward i
Ward 7
12,871
2,102
3,000
1,034
1,738
1,21 1
1,343
2.43
TENNESSEE WILL DECIDE
FATE OF SUFFRAGE TUESDAY
Ratification Already Passed in
House Will Be Voted on In
Senate Tomorrow.
NASHVILLE. Teun.. Aug. 16 r'ate
of the federal suffrage amendment i"
Tennessee may be known tomorrow
Members of the legislature predicted to
day that the house would vote tomorrow
on the ratification resolution which has
soon cleared that idea, by stating that i.,. o,im,tefl lv the senate. Both suf
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roomv houses and automobiles were
plentiful and at their service, so Mt. Mo
riah's invitation was accepted, and the
August convention of 1921 will be held
there.
COAL OPERATORS OFFER
COMPROMISE TO MINERS
CLEVELAND, 0., Aug. 16 The bi
tuminous coal operator! of the central
competitive field ia refusing the miners
demand for a $2 s day increase for day
and monthly men aad tea cents a ton
for pick aad machine mining, today of
fered the miners a proposition agreeing to
correct the seeming inequality of the
present contract by advancing the wages
of the city aad monthly men the equiv
alent of the coal commission's award to
the pick miners, giving the day and
monthly men an increase estimated at
from 35 to 72 cents s day.
change Company, which was compelled to
close last week, was made today by offi
cials engaged in tracing that concern's
operations on a "100 per cent in six
months" basis. Charles M. Brightwell.
Raymond Meyers and Fred Meyers, the
three officers of the company who were
locked up on charges of Jarceny, , have
not procured bail. They are held in de
fault of $50,000 bonds each.
Bank Commissioner Allen announced
that the audit of the liabilities of the
Hanover Trust Company, which the com
missioner closed last week, was almost
completed. Ponzi made the Hanover-
Trust Company his chief depositary and
was a member of the institution's direc
torate and a stockholder.
fragists and their opponents dec lured
they were confident of success.
The house committee to which the suf
frage resolution was referred plans to
consider it tonight aud to make a re
port to the house tomorrow morning.
It was considered likely today that ma
jority and minority reports would be
made. Efforts to secure the adoption of
one or the other was expected to result
in a roll call which would indicate the
line-up of house members on ratification.
Leaders of both factions said they
hoped debate would be brief, so that
a vote could be taken at one of tomor
row's sessions. 8uffragists were plan
ning to force a night session if necessary.
They declared they were confident that a
majority of the members of the "house
was in favor of suffrage ratification.
Speaker Seth Walker, leader of the
anti-suffrage forces, however, said he
was "reasonably sure" the house would
reject ratification.
.Lobbyists today continued their line up
votes one way or the other on the rati
fication resolution. Reports that some
house members considered in the pro
suffrage camp were changing their
views caused the suffragists to increase
their efforts to keep them in line.
LLOTD GEORGE SERVES
NOTICE ON GEN. WRAIfGEL
LONDON, As. 16 Premier Lloyd
George stated ia the house sf commons
today that the government had made it
clear to General Baroa WrangtJ, aati
bolshevik leader ia soot Russia, that if
he further. attacked the soviet forces he
must do so sa his own responsibility ,
BOTH SUFFS AND ANUS
WORKING HARD TODAY
Redoubling Efforts to Win Over
Advocates From Both Senate
and House.
K.VLEICiH, N. C. Aug. 16 Predic
tions ,y leaders in the North Carolina
legislature, that the senate within the
next few days would vote on ratification
of the federal suffrage amendment caused
stiff rngists and their opponents totLiy to
redouble their efforts to secure pledges of
8upiort. Neither the fenate nor house
was in session, both having recessed
over Sunday until late tomorrow.
The senate, party leaders said, prob
ably will begin consideration of the rati
fication resolution as soon as it recon
venes. Some senators who said they ex
pected the debate to be brief predicted
that a vote might be taken tomorrow
night.
House members generally were of the
opinion that the house would take ao
action on the suffrage resolution until it
has been disposed of by the senate.
Opponents of ratification ia the house
were said today to be awaiting the re
turn from Nashville of Representative W.
W. Neal, who was reported to have gone
there to learn the status of suffrage in
the Tennessee legislature . It was said
that North Carolina anti-suffragists had ;
proposed an alliance with opponents of
suffrage in the Tennesse legislature ia
an effort to defeat ratification of the
suffrage amendment by either state.
North Carolina foes of the Suffrage rea- -
olution are said to have assured nwnv-
bers of the Tennessee legislature who
are hostile to ratification that if the ,
Tennessee house votes down the suf- -
frage resolution the North" Carolina house "
will do likewise. ,
Clemmer Family Reunion. V- - -
The annual reunion of , the Clemmer '
family will be held on Friday, August
20, at the home of Mr. 8. 8. Clemmer ci
Gaatonia route four. All the f rien ! -neighbors
of the community are '
to eome and bring bak-t j: