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The Lenoir News. The News Printery J A TWlCE-A-WtES FAMILY NEWSPAPER. THE VERY BEST ADVERTISING MEDI UM. BEAD BY KYiRIBODI. ONLY 91-00 THEYEAR. K ISSOW PREPARED TO DO YOUR JOB PRINTING. ALL THE LATEST TYPE FACES USED. GIVE U3 A CALL. A TRIAL IS ALL WE ASK. i H.C. lAIlTIlSr, EDITOR AND PROP. , PL'BUSHD TUES2ATS W3 FEIDATJ. PRICK Sl.OO THE YEAR. VOLUME X. - LENOIR, 1ST. C., NOVEMBER 15, 1907. NO. 18, CRUEL TREATMENT OF A CHILD. Child Was so Cruelly Beaten That When The Situation Was Found out The Child Was Almost Dead. A short out line of the story of the brutal treatment of the little four-year-old Fields child: Several weeks ago the little four year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Fields, of High Point, went to Thomasville, to visit Mr. aud Mrs. H. B. Shofa, friends of the Fields family. While at the Shoaf home the little girl was so cruelly beaten by Mr. aud Mrs. Shoaf that when the situation was found out by neighbors, the little girl was almost dead. It is said that there is scarcely a square inch on the entire body of the little girl that does not have a bruise ora scratch. The little girl was taken to her home in High Point and is there under the care of physicians. The Shoafs have been arrested and placed in jail awaiting the turn in the condition of the little girl before a preliminary examina tiou is had. It is inconceivable how much brutality could be practiced by human beings. neatly it is more brutal than human aud of a very low order of brute at thaL The only reason assigned by Mr. and Mrs. Shoaf for the inhuman treatment of the child is that she was dirty and always kept the house "in a litter." Feeling is so high and talk of lynching so bold that they were carried to the woods last Sunday night and also Monday night and secreted by the Sherifi", and guard ed by him and his deputies through i a . 1 i ... . 1. me nigm, anu reiurneu iu me jan next morning. At last reports the child was getting on nicely and that it is now thought it will recover. The Shoafs are in Charlotte jail. Kinj's Creek News. Died, Saturday October 12th, at seven o'clock a. m of typhoid fever, in Agnne Hospital, Kansas City, Mo., after an illness of 12 days, Koby Carlton aged 21 years. Second son of Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Carlton. The greater part of Roby's life was spent on the farm on Illinois Creek. He was tutored by his mother until 9 years of age, when he entered the district school. He entered Centralia High school at 13 and graduated four years later. Entering Atchison Business College in September 1903, he graduated in spring of 1904. Since this time he has been engaged in stenographic work in Kansas City, No., at the time of death he was in the employ of the Kansas City Bridge Co. He was a young man of promise trusted by his employes and loved by his associates. He was pos- sesed with an unusually kind and affectionate nature and the happy smile with which he always greet ed his friends, spoke a heart full of joy and good will. He showed his appreciation of his parents by his loving obedience to their wishes, his kindly sympathy and confidences. When the people ol our little city heard of Roby's death it could be truly said, there was but one heart, in Centralia and that sore save from sympathy- with his bereaved parents and brother and grif at the loss of such STATE NEWS ITEMS. SuterTille Landmark. Raleigh will vote December '26 on the question of prohibition or dispensary a sort of holiday elec tion. While riding in front oi a work train in Charlotte Saturdav Laban rapp, colored, fell across the rails and was killed. The North Caiolina Methodist Conference meets at New Berne December 4th, Bishop Galloway, of Mississippi, presiding. The postofhce at Mill Springs, Polk county, was robbed last week of $200 in money and stamps. The safe was opened by the com bination and no clue left. John Blair, apainterof Asheville, staggering home drunk Saturday night, fell over a 14-foot embank ment and was picked up dead with his skull crushed. He leaves a wife and three children. The Postmaster of Gasconade, Slo., Daniel A. Bugli, says of DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Pilln, "I am do ing so well and improving ho fast in health, that I cannot say too much for your Kidney & Bladder Pills, I feel like a new man." DeWitt's Kid ney and Bladder Pills are sold by J. E. Shell, Dr. Kent and Granite Falls Drug Company. Boone Items. Buttons on Rattler's Tail. From Outfog It, is a very common fallacy con cerning rattlesnakes that each seg ment oAhe rattle indicates a year of the serpent's existencs, and it will probably be accepted until some one devisee a safe method of examining the teeth. One hasj only to stand for a half hour in front of the rattlers' cage at any zoological garden or museum to hear it repeated several times, to gether with many other bits of misinformation which make the i Baulk of Leeoir, Lenoir, N. C. (ESTABLISHED 1894.) average "Nature Story' fact seem a by com The discussion on the proposed Appalachian Park is waxing warm in this county. The Watauga Democrat is ipublishing lengthly articles for and against the meas ure. TVIany of the lumber men have been uneasv and have made extra efforts to get their lumler cut before the park is established. A miscellaneous debate is to Ihj held in Blowing Rock today on the merits of the bill. As stated several times before, the West end of the county is greatly excited over preparations being made in regard to boring for oil near Mast, N. C. The . parties are erecting an eighty foot derrick and putting in machinery at a great expense. They claim that they have 130,000 faith in finding a gusher. County Superintendent, B. B. Dougherty, is greatly pleased with the progress being made in the nnblie schools. Several new houses have been built and anum ber improved since last year. The attendance is very good . He goes through Tenn. to reach the schools in North Fork, so he visited the school at Trade last week. The Appalachin TrainingSchool has purchased a small lot of land from It. M. Green, which extends the school farm to the turnpike This will enable the school people to get better use of their farm. A. H. bright, pure voting life from our community. The funeral was at the Congre gational church Monday, October 24th. The strong loving hands of his school fellows bore him out in to the autum sunshine and all that was mortal of Robv Carlton was laid to rest in our cemetcrv soon to be covered by the grassy cover let of Cod. Centralia Journal. Roby's father and mother wet formerly Caldwell people. His father, Tom Carlton, was a broth er of our county men, 'John Carlton and Hack Carlton. His mother a daughter ol the late in. u. Kendall and a sister of Mrs. J. C. Powell, of Lenoir, Mrs. L. C. Fer guson, Kendall, .V i ., and .urs. J. L. Laxton, of King's Creek. Mr. and Mi's. Carlton have the sympathy ol' I heir many friends and relatives in North Carolina. Quite a number of them remember Koby visiting North Carolina, when a boy of 13, with his mother and brother, Homer. It excited me when 1 saw my other piece in print. But there has been so many urgent appeals. for T. Y. to come again. I will try it. Mr. Walter Ernest and family, of Lenoir, have moved to King's Creek . We are glad to have them with us. Mr. John Ernest and wife, of Va., is visiting at Mr. Ernest's old home on K. C. Mr. T. L. DlalocU, missionery from China, gave us an interesting talk Saturday. Wish he could be with us again before he returns to China. The whooping cough is till in our midst, some taking it new. There will be a town election in "Tug Hill" shortly and I wil write more then and let you know the result. I think next time I make pleasant call at the News office the Editor should say something about it Vithout me having to report it, for several have said if T. i would come again they would sub scribe for the News, and one lei low is going to treat the writer on genuine old "wink eye." See It makes my mouth water, so will quit. T. Y. J.N.Seale, managerof the north ern and eastern divisions of the Southern railway, was stricken with paralysis while at Salisbury Saturday morning. He was taken to Washington and died there yesterday. Thos. L. Cass, foreman in the plant of Moore county Lumber Com pany at Sanford, was struck in the stomach Thursday by a piece of timber thrown from the machinery and died of his injuries some hours later. The programme for the railroad rate hearing changes with every passing breeze. Last week it was an nouneed it would liegin in Ral eigh Monday and since then by agreement it has l)een postponed to the 20th. In Wilmington Saturday after noon Isaiah Abner, a negro, shot and almost instantly killed John Robertson, also colored, at the lat ter's house. Abner boarded with Robertson. The cause of the kill ing in not stated. Abner escaped. Turner Whitsett, colored, who was charged with attempted crimi nal assault at Reidsville, Miss John ston being the alleged victim, was tried in Rockingham Superior 'ourt last week and the jury dis agreed. It is understood the jury stood ten for conviction and two for acquittal. The Wilkes Patriot says the fa mous Stone Mountain, in Trap Hill township, Wilkes county, has been sold by the North Carolina dranite Corporation to the Wolf Hock (J ran te Company, the consideration named in tne deed ueing ii ;,uwu. It! is understood that the property wijl be developed. The Newton News says that Sarah Clontz, of Conover, was bit ten by the family dog a few days ago. The head of the dog was sent to the Pasteur Institute at Richmond, where it was found that the animal was affected with hydrophobia. Miss Clontz went to the same institution for treat. ment. statement of bald partson . Although the young rattlesnake comes into the world equipped with but a single button on the end of its tail, when a year old it may have as many as a half dozen seg ments, while three a year may be taken as a fair average development In hunting, crawling over rough country and through tangled brush the rattles are apt to be injured or lost, and occasionally a very large specimen is seen with but two or three segments, while one of the banded variety procured in Peun sylvania lor the Bronx zoo, was less than three feet in length and possessed seventeen perfect rattles, the absenceof the terminal con genital button demonstrating that one or more pieces had been lost A segment is added to the rattle each time the snake casts its skin, and this may occur every month of the snake's active season, which in the Northern States lasts from earlv Mav until the frst severe storm of winter drives it to the den for its long hibernation. This casting of the skin, which is com mon to all serpents and many of the lizards, is a curious provision to protect the reptile from disease and discomfort and, like most of nature's provions, it is a wise one. Since the day when the the ser ncnt was condemned to crawl ab jectly on its belly, instead of wrig ehng irraeetullv upon its tail, as a punishment for whispering sugges tions for the fall into the eager ear of Eve, it has been peculiarly liable to injure its sensitive integument. and spending its existence in close contact with the ground it Incomes the unwilling host of many ticks and parasites which are harbored by the decaying vegetation. Any unfortunate who has accumulated a few wood ticks and laboriously removed them from his hide with the point ol a knileand ammonia will artnreciate how much easier it would be to grow a new skin and euvv the serpent the ready means at its disposal to rid itself of the ! unwelcome pests. Resurces and Responsibility Over $300,000. Banking Hours: 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturdays 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Xnsui.ran.ce Department The Lenoir Realty and Insurance Co. Strong, Lilieral, Home and Northern Fire Insurance Companies, representing in assets nearly $35,000,000.00. All lines of Insurance placed Fire, Life, Accident, Health, Burglary, Fidelity Steam Boiler, Plate Glass Employers' Liabilty Live Stock. Your policy, large or small, will have the same careful attention. Let us write it for you . J. L. JARVIS, Manager. AtSilerCity, Chatham county, Friday, the sons of D. L. Webster andM.W. Woody, aged about seven years, got hold of a shot gun. Fortunately the gun was loaded with a blank shell but the wadding of the shell entered the shoulder of the Woody boy. His face and shoulder were terribly burned but he is expected to recover. In Anson county a few days ago Melvin Lowe, white, and Chas Smith, colored, each about 1 6 years old, went hunting together. Lowe's gun was accidentally discharged and Smith died a few hours later. Lowe was taken into custody until an investigation was made but the coroner's iury decided that the shooting was accidental. Dead Sea Bathing Baltimore Sun. In an article on bathing in the Dead sea, a clergyman, w ho has made the experiment, says: ''No sooner has one plunged off one's feet and goes bobbing helplessly about, like a wretched cork. In the effort to regain one's footing and get back to shore one's feet and shins are barked by the jagged stones and pebbles, and when at length one does emerge from its treacherous bosom with the lower limbs bleeding and torn, one be come aware of a horrible tingling and burning sensation in eyes ears, nostrils, mouth aud almost every pore of the skiu trom tne brine and bitumen which have pen etrated everywhere. Unless great care is taken, the bather in the Dead sea, is liable to an eruption, which breaks out all over the body, and which is commonly know as the Dead sea rash. The best au tidote is to hurry across as quickly as possible to the river Jordan and to take a second plunge therein. The soft and muddy waters of that sacred but dirty stream will ef lectually remove the salt that has incrusted the body.'' X t Do You Want to see the nicest and most varied line of Dress (ioods ever brought to Lenoir! Also Ladies and Chil drens Wraps or Coats. A com plete line of -Underwear. There has never in the history of Lenoir leeii such a line of X SHOES, HAT AND CLOTHING- as we are showing us for correct makes, today. See Very truly yours, I J. W. SELF, ; ; LENOIR'S CHEAPEST -STORE FOR QOOD X GOODS. .... I 'Phone No. 106. T H4 The News Printery is the only print shop in town turning out first-class work. Try us. dfi & & 1-
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