THE GASTON I A GAZETTE
PUBLISHED TWICK A WEEK TUESDAYS AXD FRIDAYS.
VOL. XXXVII.
NO. 68.
QA8TOXIA, X. C.FRIDAY AFTERXOOX, AUGUST 25, 1916.
$1.50 A YEAR IX ADVAXOM.
HEW TR ADEJER R ITO R Y
COULD BE OPENED FOR 6AST0XIA
A LINCOLHJGOUNTY DAY
MAY BE SET ASIDE BY 6AST0N FAIR
BELLE NGESEHipiGED
COURT DOCKET CLEAREO UP YESTERDAY
COMING AND GOING-
ELEGTIN6 A PRESIDENT
7
Jackson
Defeats
Adams
In
1828
Election.
JACKSON.
THE Democrats nominated
Audrew Jackson of Ten
nessee in 1828, and Jobn
Qulncy Adams again opposed
blui. The ele.-tion occurred on
Nov. 4, and the vote, counted on
Feb. 11. 1C. was: Jackson, 178;
Adams. 8.5. Calhoun was elected
vice president. The popular vote
that year was: Jackson. 047.231;
Ada ins, 509.)7.
Jackson was again elected In
18.52. Tbe first national conven
tion was held that year, and the
platform was adopted setting
forth the policies of the Demo
cratic party.
Jackson was renominated and
was opposed by Henry Clay of
Kentucky. The vote was: Jack
sou. 219; Clay. 49. Popular vote:
Jackson. 087,502; Clay, 530.189.
Van Buren was elected vice pres
ident. (Watch for tha taction of Van
Buron in 1836 in our naxt issus.)
ANOTHER B!BFREE ACT
OARING FEAT SECURED FOR THE FAIR
ecretary Holland Closes Contract
for latest and Most Sensational
Aerial Stunt Known Balloonist
Shot from Cannon Five Thousand
Feet in Air Makes Three Para
chute Cutaways First Appear
ance in South.
Gaston county's second annua!
fair, October 3rd to 7th inclusive,
will have the distinction of present
ing, in its list of sensational free
acts, an aerial stunt which will be
seen fpr the first time in the South.
It was recently put on for the first
time In Canada and will be introduc
ed to this part of the world on the
Gaston county fair grounds. The
contract for it was closed by Secre
tary Holland this weex.
This act, which is in addition to
the high dive and fancy swimming
act, will be given each day of th
fair but with a variation each day.
Ou Wednesday, the first day of the
fair, the aeronaut win mane a piain
balloon ascension to a height of four
or five thousand feet and will de
scend by one parachute cutaway. On
Thursday when he reaches a height
of 4,000 feet, at a pistol signal from
the ground, the aeronaut, who wilt
be packed in a cannon suspended be
who was sheri of Buncombe county
nd the resulting explosion will
shoot him out of the cannon and he
will descend to the earth by one par
achute cutaway. The cannon auto
matically cuts away from the bal
loon and descends to earth.
On Friday the balloonist ascends
to a height of 5.000 feet and makes
his descent to earth by three spec
tacular parachute cutaways at a dis
tance of 1.000 feet apart. On Sat
urday he repeats the cannon act but
complicates his descent by making
two parachute cutaways instead of
one.
This attraction was secured by
Secretary Holland at large expense
and was selected from a large num
ber of the best free acts offered by
the various amusement companies
over the country. It will be worm
coming miles to see. When the pub
lic considers the fact that this is but
one of a large number of features or
amusement, to say nothing of the
varied line of exhibits to be seen, one
cannot but realize that the Gaston
County Fair is going to be well
worth the time that will be required
to take it in.
On the New Orleans market yes
terday spot cotton went to 14.75 for
"middling, the highest price in seven
years. December options closed at
15.04.
CLKO MADISON Broadway today.
Mr. Philip W. Shaw, an officer of
the Stonweall Jackson Training
School at Concord, was accidentally
killed yesterday when his clothing
got caught in the machinery of a
rock crusher. His skull was frac
tured and he died in a short time.
Wallace Reld and Cleo Ridgely,
"The Selfish Woman," Ideal today.
Spend Your Money With Home
Merchants. -
Buy It la Gastonia.
Building of Two Short Stretches of
Road Would Divert to Gastonia
Large Volume of Trade from
.Northeastern Gaston and South
eastern Lincoln that Formerly
Went to Charlotte Washing
Away of Rozzelle's Ferry Bridge
Makes It Possible Business Men
Interested.
A large volume of country trade
can be easily diverted from Char
lotte to Gastonia, say local business
men, if the board of county commis
sioners of this county can be induc
ed to construct at once two short
stretches of road. Tbe section from
which this trade would come is in
cluded in northeastern Gaston and
southeastern Lincoln. In this terri
tory are the towns of Mariposa, Den
ver, Triangle, Lowesville and Lucia
and a number of very thickly set
tled country communities.
Heretofore the trade from this
section has gone almost exclusively
to Charlotte, the merchants hauling
their goods by wagon from that place
and crossing the Catawba on the
Rozzelles Ferry bridge. The recent
floods washed this bridge away, cur
ting off all communication between
that section and Charlott except by
ferry, which is expensive and incon
venient. The construction of a three-mile
stretch of road from Hoyle's bridge
on the Dallas-Stanley road to Stan
ley, a distance of three miles, and o'
a two-mile stretch from the Five
Forks school house to the Lincoln
county line would give a splendid
sand-clay and macadam road direct
from ail these points into Gastonia.
These missing links could be built in
a very short time and at no very
great expense if the county commis
sioners would take the matter up and
push it vigorously. The two-mile
strejeh from the Five Forks school
house to the Lincoln county line is
in pretty fair shape in the summer
time but will have to be sand-clayed
in order to be made a good road for
winter travel. The building of this
road has already been authorized
but has not as yet been reached in
the course of construction. It is
stated that one of the road forces is
now engaged on the Stanley-Spencer
Mountain road but this work, it is
further stated, could be temporarily
abandoned and deferred without in
convenience to the public because or
the fact that the bridge across the
South Fork at Spencer Mountain was
washed away.
Iocal business men are enthusias
tic over the possibilities that lie in
the construction of these two shore
stretches of road and it is altogether
probable that the matter will De
taken up at once with the county
commissioners in an effort to get
them to build these missing links at
once.
Said a prominent business man
this morning one who is thorougn
ly conversant with conditions tn
those sections of Gaston and Lincoln
referred to "If those links are
built now. while the bridge connec
tion with Mecklenburg is broken,
you will see this fall and winter
hundreds of faces in Gastonia thar
you do not see now. If we can divert
this trade, which 19 large and valu
able to Gastonia now we can hold it.
It ought to be done and it's up to,
our business men to go after it and
get it". He voiced the sentiments C
the other business men of the town.
"NOT IN FAVOR OF EARLY ADJOURNMENT"
Since Lincoln Association Has Aban
doned Fair for This Year Secre
tary Holland Has lrooed a Lin
coln County Hay at Gaston Fair
and Idea Meets With Fnthusiastic
Kndorse.iiient by lauding Lincoln
Men Would 0erate Excursion
Details not Worked Out.
There is a strong probability that
one of the five days of the Gaston
County Fair, which is to be held Oc
tober 3rd to 7th Inclusive, will be
designated as a Lincoln County Day,
ail of Lincoln county being given a
special invitation to be present and
special features being incorporated
in the program for their especial
benefit.
Secretary Holland of the fair as
sociation conceived this idea as soon
as the announcement was made re
cently that the Lincoln County Fair
Association had abandoned the pur
pose to have a fair this year. The
organization in that county is a new
one and this would have been their
first fair. The recent floods ana
consequent damage to crops and all
agricultural Interests led the Lin
coln people to postpone their first
fair till, next fall.
Accompanied by The Gazette man
Secretary Holland spent a part of
yesterday in Lincolnton in confer
ence with the fair officers and other
leading citizens and found an en
thusiastic interest among them in
favor of this arrangement. On ac
count of the absence from the coun
ty of the president of the association,
Dr. Kiser, no definite action was ta
ken but there is every reason to be
lieve that the officers of the Lincoln
County Fair Association will indorse
the idea. As soon as this is formal
ly done Mr. Holland expects to in
augurate a lively advertising cam
paign with a view to acquainting ev
ery resident of Lincoln county witfi
the features of the Gaston County
Fair.
It is proposed that on Lincoln
County Day an excursion train will
be operated over the C. & S.-W.
from Hickory to Gastonia with a
low round-trip fare. This train
would return that night, giving the
people of Lincoln and Catawba coun
ties an opportunity to spend practi
cally the entire day here.
From Lincolnton Mr. Holland and
The Gazette man went to Newton
and Hickory at both of which places
they found an active interest in tne
Gaston county fair. Assurances were
given that both of these progressive
Catawba county towns would send
large delegations on Lincoln County
Day, especially If an excursion train
is operated.
It is probable that all the details
of this plan will be made known
within the next few days.
CLKO MADISOX Broadway today.
Reports from Germany are to the
effect that the Deutcshland arrived
safely at Bremen on the 24th. Oth
er dispatches state that her sister
ship, the submarine Bremen left for
an American port a week ago.
Wallace Reld and Cleo Ridgely,
"The Selfish Woman," Ideal today.
Mr. Z. V. Martin, now employ
ed in the Arlington Mill, expects to
leave Monday with his family for
Albemarle, where he has accepted a
position in the Eflrd Mill No. 1.
CLKO MADISOX Broadway today.
Slayer of Delia Farris, Colored, Sen
' fenced to County Roads for 12
Months Case Consumed All of
Wednesday, There Being Mucii
Interest Shown by Colored People
of tbe Town Court Adjourned
Yesterday at Noon.
Belle Page, colored, was sentenc
ed to work on the public roads or
Gaston county for a period of 13
months by Judge M. H. Justice at
yesterday's session of the August
term of Superior Court, for the kill
ing of Delia Farris. another negro
woman, on May tith. The Farris
woman met her death as the result
of injuries received in a free-for-all
fight In which the Page woman
played an important part.
The Page woman was first given a
one-year's sentence In the State pen
itentiary but later the sentence was
changed to the same length of time
on the county roaas. This case con
sumed about all of Wednesday and
much interest was shown in the case
by the colored people of the town.
Several cases of minor importance
were disposed of yesterday mroning
which cleared the docket, and court
adjourned at noon.
Following are the cases which
were disposed of since Tuesday's is
sue of The Gazette:
No. 32. P. A. Ixng, S. B. Spar
row, C. A. Jonas. H. A. Abernethy
and High Shoals Mfg. Co., failing to
pay license tax. Nol pros as to all
who have paid the tax.
No. 40. John Edwards, burglary.
Defendant called and failed. Judg
ment Ni si sci fa and capias.
No. 4 4. P. H. Welch, false pre
tense. Nol pros.
No. 4 9. Milas Stowe. cruelty to
animals. Judgment suspended on
payment of costs.
Nos. 68 and 69. Ernest Costner
and W. F. Talent, transporting li
quor. Assigned to work on public
roads for 10 months. Notice of ap
peal. Bond fixed at $500.
No. 71. Dick Sanders, retailing.
Nol pros.
Nos. 72. 72-B and 72-C. Dick
Sanders, assault. Assigned to pub
lic roads for 12 months.
No. 84. James Blake, f. and a.
Not guilty.
No. 103. Coster Williams and
Josie Ervin, f. and a. Not guilty.
No. 107. Ernest Hager. assault
Continued, bond fixed at $200.
No. 108. Eph Hicks, nuisance
and Sabbath breaking. Continued.
Bond fixed at $300.
No. 4.". I. J. Burton, murder. De
fendant allowed 10 days to serve
case on appeal.
No. ."0. Thos. Propst and R. L.
Carpenter. transporting whiskey.
Fined $.'0 and one-half the costs.
Defendants appeal to Supreme Court.
No. ."3. Jim Douglas, transport
ing liquor. Not guilty.
Nos. 57 and .S. Loge Nesby and
George Nesby. assault and battery.
Loge Nesby fined $40 and one-half
the costs: George Nesby fined $5
and one-half the costs.
No. ti. Ben McKinney, keeping
whiskey for sale. Assigned to pub
lic roads for six months.
Nos. 73-A and 73-B. Jess Berry,
transporting liquor. Eight months
on roads.
No. 79. Peter Hastings. Tobe
Costner and Will Hastings, making
liquor. Peter Hastings called and
failed. Sentenced to 60 days on
roads.
Nos. SI -A and Kl-B. Leni Mitcn
em. retailing. Given six months in
jail with privilege to commissioners
to hire out.
No. 9.".. Hobson Elmore, resisting
officer. Not guilty.
No. 101. D A. Knight. larceny.
Given four months on roads.
Nos. 4 8 and 9 6. Mack Page, as
sault. Judgment that he be Impris
oned in county jail for 12 months to
be hired out to T. L. Craig. Esq.
Two dollars and fifty cents are to be
paid each week out of the wages of
Mack Page for benefit of the chil
dren of his wife. Belle Page; $250.
amount of a forfeited bond, to be
paid into court and to be applied as
follows: $117.15. amount of costs
incurred by Sheriff Davis in the ar
rest and detention of defendant, to
be paid into office of sheriff; costs
incurred in Issuing and serving sci
fa to be deducted from said amount
and balance to be held by clerk Su
perior Court for the support of Belle
Page.
No. 56. Brinkley Lfneberger. c.
c. w., $10 and costs; order changed
to 30 days on roads.
Nos. 66 and 67. J. W. Jenkins
and Roy Seals, assault. Fined $10
and costs.
No. 68. Ernest Costner, keeping
whiskey for sale. Six months on
county roads.
No. 70. Robert Rector, L. M.
Gunter and Cliff Gunter, affray. Fin
ed $20 and costs.
No. 88. Son Jackson, c. c. w.
Three months on roads.
No. 89 and 89-B. Effle Usry, as
sault. Not guilty.
No. 94. Charlie Moore, retailing.
Six months on roads.
No. 97. Jake Feimster, false pre
tense. Not guilty.
No. 98. Hub Easter, false pre
tense. Nol pros.
No. 99. Joe Williams, retailing.
Not guilty.
Horn
To Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Haynes,
Sunday, August 20, 1916, a daughter.
BRIEF ITEMS ABOUT THE MOVEMENTS OF GASTON PEOPLE
Dr. E. W. Pre8siey. of Clover,
f". C, was In the city yesterday.
Mrs. Fred M. Stagle is spending
ten days with friends in Ashevllle.
Mr. H. B. Moore and ramlly
have returned from a visit to rela
tives in Ashevilie.
' Mr. J. V. Harper returned home
Wednesday from WrlghtsvIIle Beach
where he spent several days.
Mr. W. L. Hutchison, of Char
lotte, spent several hours In the city
Wednesday on business.
. Mrs. A. G. Myers went to Char
lotte Wednesday where she will
spend a week with homefolks. "
Mr. Floyd Simmons, of Char
lotte, was a Gastonia visitor yester
day. There will be regular services at
St. Michael's Catholic church on
Sunday, August 27 at 10 a. m.
Dr. and Mrs. H. M. Eddleman.
Mrs. E. C. Wilson and Miss Sallie
Dixon returned Tuesday from a Btay
of some time at Chick Springs. S. C.
Messrs. John Shrum and Clyde
McLean, of the J M. Belk Co., ar
tended the reunion of the RudislII
family yesterday in Lincoln county.
Miss Willie Choate. who has
been the guest for the past week or
Miss Mary McLean, returned to her
home in Huntersville on Wednesday.
Messrs. A. G. Myers, L. II. lxng.
J. E. Page and Hazel Long left Wed
nesday for Morehead City where
they will spend several days fishing.
-Mrs. J. Lean Adams returned
home Wednesday from Clover, S. C,
where she spent several days with
homefolks.
Mr. Hope Adams and daughter,
Miss Margaret Adams, of Rock Hill,
S. C, are visiting in the city as the
guests of Dr. and Mrs. C. E. Adams.
Mrs. W. T. McLean, of South
Point, is the guest of her sister, Mrs.
J. G. Mclean. at her home on East
Third avenue.
Mr. W. L. Walters and family
have returned from Mooresville,
where they spent a two weeks vaca
tion visiting friends and relatives.
Mr. O. M. Boyd returned home
Tuesday from Hickory where he
spent a week visiting relatives and
friends.
Mrs. .1. I). Post, of Newton, ar
rived in the city Tuesday afternoon
to sKnd some time with her daugn
ter. Mrs. Chas Ford
CONVENTION CliOSKH.
V. P. C. 1. Fleets laniard Xeill. of
Gnstonia. President, and Miss Mur
Karet Whiteside Secretary.
t-tatesville. Aug. 24. The closing
session of the second annual conven
tion of the Young People's Christian
I'nion was held at the A. R. r
church here last night The election
of officers resulted as follows: Pres;
dent, Leonard N'eiil. of Pisgan
church, Gastonia; first vice-president,
Horace Stikeleather. of States
ville; second vice-president. Miss
Morrow Coffey, of Chalmers Memo
rial church. Charlotte; corresponding
secretary. Miss Margaret Whitesldes.
of Gastonia; second vice-president.
Miss Evelyn Douglass, of Charlotte;
treasurer. Miss Louise Griffith, or
Ebenezer church, Mecklenburg.
Kings Mountain was selected as tne
place for the next meeting, the date
for which will be designated by the
executive committee later.
The convention was successful
from every standpoint. Before the
close of the convention nearly one
hundred delegates had been enrolled.
The spirit of enthusiasm exhibited
throughout the meeting was marked.
Grand Knrampment, I. O. O. F.
Raleigh. Aug. 23. Durham gets
the 1917 session of the North Caro
lina Grand encampment. I. O. O. F.
that city having been selected In the
closing hours of the convention here
today.
New officers elected and installed
were: Grand patriach, H. T. Green
leaf, Elizabeth City: grand high
priest. Col. W. J. Bissent, Winston
Salem ; grand wardens, J. D. Berry,
Raleigh, and John L. Wade. Fayette
ville; grand scribe, L. W. Jennerei.
Ashevilie; grand treasurer, John E.
Wood. Wilmington; grand marshal.
O. W. Jones, Winston-Salem: grand
sentinels. Winston Davis. Ralelgn,
and T. W. Phillips, Washington;
grand representative. W. B. Bagwell
Durham.
The grand encampment turned
over to trustees of the Odd Fellow
Orphanage, Goldsboro, funds raised
for the erection of a modern dairy
barn.
Rev. H. H. Jordan, pastor or
Main Street Methodist church, will
preach next Sunday night at the un
ion service in the tabernacle.
Beginning next Tuesday, Au
gust 29. Train No. 6 on the Carolina
& Northwestern Railway will be op
erated north of Lenoir. After that
date the new, schedule, as published
In today's Gazette, will be carried
out in full.
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Dr. L. N. Patrick and Mr. R. C
Patrick motored to Hamlet Tuesday,
returning home Wednesday.
Messrs. L. T. Llneberger and R.
S. McLean motored to Lincolnton
last night to attend the Browning
Stapleton Meeting.
Friends of Mr. Will 8. Torrence.
who has been quite ill for the past
few weeks, will be glad to know that
he is somewhat improved today.
Mr. J. F. Rawllngs, who nan
been spending two weeks with rela
tives in Albermarle, returned to tne
city yesterday. Mrs. Rawllngs wtll
return home later.
The Health committee of tne
Woman's Betterment Association
will meet this afternoon at 4:50
o'clock with Mrs. A. F. Whiteside
on West Franklin avenue.
miss .Nettie Kobblns, who has
been visiting friends for the past
two weeks in Ashevllle, Chimney
RocU and Tryon, returned home
yesterday afternoon.
Mr. J. F. Thomson, of tne
Thomson Mercantile Company, lert
Wednesday night for Baltimore, Md..
w here he will spend a week or ten
days buying fall and winter goods.
Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Terrell and
Mr. H. E. Terrell, Jr., of Gainesville,
(Ja., are spending some time in tne
city as the guests of Mr. and Mrs. U,
E. Terrell.
Mrs. B. E. Atkins and Miss Lil
lian Atkins and their house-guest.
Miss Flora Steele, of Tazewell, Va.,
went to Lincolnton today to attend
the Brownlng-Stapleton meeting.
Mrs. Lena Warren, who has
been the guest of her brother, Mr.
J. K. Page and family, for a week or
more, left yesterday for her home at
Marietta, Ga.
Mr. and Mrs. George E. Marvin
will leave tomorrow for Atlanta,
where they will spend a week or ten
days with Mr. Marvin's sister, Mrs.
R. W. Langford.
Mr. A. B. Taylor, manager of
the Western Union Telegraph Co.,
left the city Wednesday for Jackson
ville, Fla.. where he will spend 19
days.
Mr. George M. Nolen, of Wash
ington. D. C, arrived in the city
Tuesday to spend two weeks' with
his parents. Mr. and Mrs. W. M. No
len. Rev. S. J. Hood and Mrs. Hood
returned Wednesday to their home
in Iva, S. C, after being the guests
for several weeks of Mr. and Mrs.
Ed Whitesldes and other relatives
here.
Ashevllle Citizen, 24th: Mrs.
Fred Seagle, of Gastonia, is tne
guest of Miss Bessie Sheppard at her
home 94 College street. Mrs. Seagle
lived in Ashevilie for some time and
has a large circle of friends here.
Miss Ruby Falls, of Pleasant
Ridge, returned to her home yester
day from Statesville. where she at
tended the State Convention of tne
Y. P. C. I', of the Associate Reform
ed Presbyterian Church.
Col. T. L. Craig, Mrs. Craig,
Miss Lillian Watson and Mr. J. Rob
ert Craig will leave tomorrow for
Ureen Park, where they will spend
a week or ten days. They will make
the trip in Mr. Craig's car.
There will be an ice cream sup
per at the Ixjray Park tomorrow
night for the benefit of the Loray
band. Music will he furnished by
the band and everybody is cordially
Invited.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Timberlake,
who have been visiting their son.
Mr. J. W. Timberlake. for the past
two weeks, left Tuesday for Louisa,
Va., where they will spend several
days with relatives before returning
to their home in Strasburg, Va.
-vjMss Bertha Fulenwlder, of Bal
timore, Md., who has been visiting;
relatives in snemy, spent yesterday
here as the guest of her cousin, Mrs.
Hugh Wray. She will spend some
time in Atlanta, Ga., before return
ing to her home.
The President Always Busy.
"Deeds not .words!" While tne
Republican candidate is swinging a
round the circuit at the rate of some
score thousand words a day, tne
Democratic President la calling , to
gether the leaders of every side of
the threatened great strike and forc
ing them by the power of his pres
ence and logic to enthrone reason
and not utterly upset the country's
commerce. It has been notably an
administration of deeds as any citi
zen may learn for himself without
requiring six months to investigate.
Just a nominal feet, $1 a year, t
charged Its members by tbe Gastonia
Public library. For that amoant
yoa have access to hundreds of good
books, including many of the latest
volumes of fiction. -
Richmond county la to have a
whole-time health officer. v-
South Carolina's first bale of new
cotton was sold at Lamar. S. C Sat
urday by E. B. Boykin and brought
15 cents.
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