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-v. The News Printory 111 'equipped to ' do your next order of Job Printing promptly, JJou't send your work out of town we wijl do It to tult you. JET US CONVINCE YOU. The Lenoir News. fit the very beat Advertising Mediumi becaane it ii read by the Largest Number of the people of Caldwell County. ; ONLY fcl.OO TIIKYKAR "ono H. O. martin; Editor and Prop. PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS. PRICE 81.00 THE YEAR. w-l & I II i it i II it m i 1 VOLUME XI. Decennial Anniversary. The completing 6f Bishop Horn er's ten years service as Bishop of the Jurisdiction of Asheville, was most fittingly celebrated at Ashe ville last Sunday and Monday. Tho Anniversary sermon was preached Sunday by Itev. Johh S. Moody of Hickory, and Monday evening Bishop Gaylor of Tennes see, conducted the exercises. A handsome Pictoral cross of pure gold properly engraved, was pre sented to the Bishop, Dr. Swope of Biltmore, making the presentation address, and a cash donation of nearly $700 was given to the Bish op. The scene was a touching one, the Bishop being almost overcome by emotion. The memorial is a gift from the Bishop's many admirers fand lov ing friends all over the district, and is much appreciated by him. After the presentation exercises at Trinity church, a nice banquet was enjoyed at the Battery Park Ho tel. The Fiddlers' Convention. The Annual convention of the Caldwell county Fiddlers was held last Tuesday at the Henkel Opera House. The afternoon session was not largely attended as the occa sion had not been extensively ad vertised. The night session, how ever was well attended and much enioved. Good old time music kept the audience in a state of jol ly good humor for over two hours. Sixteen fiddlers and live banjo ists contested for the prizes, each performer playing two selections. The first prize for the best tid dler was awarded to H. L. Tolbort, the second to J. R. Swanson. N. (i. Cozort won the prize for the most comic fiddler. A. S. Hartley was awarded the prize for the best banjoist'aud S. Y. Reed the prize for the bets dancer. "The night was tilled with music and the cares that infest the day," were temporarily laid aside and every body present had a jolly good time 'Tis ' But a Little faded Flower. Tis but a little faded flower, Hut oil, liow fonilly.ib-ar! 'Twill tiring me back one golden hour Th roupli many a wtary year. I may not to the world impart The secret of Uh power, Hut treamired in my inmost heart, I keep my faded flower. Wl ere iH the heart that does not keep, Within its inmost core, Some fond rememberance, hidden deep, Of days that are no nioror Who hath not saved some trifliug thing More prized than jewels rare A faded flower, a broken ring, A tress of golden hair? Smith Beach. On December 24th, atGp. m. a quiet wedding was solemnized at the home of Mrs. Elizabeth Beach, when her attractive daughter, LilHc, was united in marriage to Mr. Cleveland Smith. The cere mony was performed by Kev. J.C. Benfield. Only the immediate re lations of the bride we're present Near Poetry- "I tnought my Pa would injure me By cutting down my siiumon tree. He did not injure ine at all, For I had slmmons all the fall. Now this is up to A. M. Mast, A Caldwell poet of the past; And if he fails to take the floor, The prize will go to J. K. Moore." If yon want a twice a-week pa per, get The News. One dollar per year The Lenoir News only $1.00 year, An Evening Enjoyed. A large crowd of young people enjoyed the reception given by hil Johnson last Monday evening. Entertainment had ben arranged, and was carried out perfectly, amuseing every one and causeing eleven thirty o'clock to come early. Misses Lina Ivey, Joe Newland, Annie Shearer, Flora Rutledge, Hose Stacey, Mamie Sue Johnson, Jessie Earnhardt, Minnie Downum, Stella Cloyd, Jean Tuttle, Annie Miller, Messers Lum Andrews, Marshell Courtney, Vincian Ivey, Jeff Courtney, Lucius Stacey, Arthur Ford, John Steele, Lin Corpening, Ed Tuttle,and Christian Shell were among thosewho enjoyed the contests and dainty refresh ment. Culinary Horrors. Charlotte Chronicle. A few days ago The Chronicle told ot the stir created in Ph iladel- phia by the discovery that the bakers in that city were using rot- ren eggs and other offal in the preparation of bread and cakes. It would have baeu supposed that the city or health authorities would have put a stop to this sort of bus iness, but not so. The bakers per sist in it and even attempt to de fend it. They not ouly refuse to dincontinue the practice, but regard themselves as doing nothing wrong. The Evening Times says that what at first sight is the most surprising thing about the trade and the feature of it and the hardest to comprehend is not so much the fact that men will sell the stuff, but the fa"t that people can be found to buy it. That, too, ceases to be a matter of wonder when one remembers the present day rage for cheapness, the desire to appear to have that which one really has not, the eternal reaching after that just beyond one's reach, the pretences, so to say, big and little, of our modern life. It seems that cake made of foul .eggs, "deodorized" by the introduction of a poisonous preservative, looks and tastes like cake made with fresh eggs. The swallowing of poison is thus the penalty paiil by the poor for trying to live, with slight means, as do their more fortunate neighbors, to eat something that looks and tastes like something else, though it kills them a characteristic of all man kind, however and not one confined to the poor. It is said that I'hila delphia has no law to reach the case and the people there seem content to let the matter rest at that. The indifference of the peo ple of Philadelphia to a condition of this kind is passing strange. No Southerd city would stand it for an hour. No Southdrn city would be called upon to stand for it, for the bakers in tho South are both tfivilizcd and human. Beware of Frequent ("olds. A succession of colds and a pro tracted cold is almost certain to end in chronjc catarrh, from which few persous ever wholly recover. Give every cold the attention It deservet and you may avoid this disagreeable disease. How can you cure a cold? Why not try Chamberlain's Cough lleniedy? It is highly reccommend eb. Mr. M. White, of Butler, Tenn, says: "Several years ago I was both ered with my throat and lungs. Someone told me of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. I began using it and it relieved me at once. Now my throat and lungs are sound and well." For sale by J. K. Shell, Drug gist, Dr. Kent, Druggist. The true source of happiness is to make others happy. A smile is the brightest sunshine of the soul when clouds of trouble are gone. LENOIR, 1ST. C, JANUARY 1, 1909. Earthquake and Tidal Wave Work Havoc and Destruction in Southern Italy. The earthquake, tollowed by an immense tidal wave, that visited Southern Italy last Monday was the most appalling catastrophe of the century. Thousands dead and cities swept out of existence. Rome, Dec. M. The death list from the earthquak, in Southern Italy becomes more and more ap palling as tho days go by. While the uumber of dead will probably never be known, some of the esti mates late today place the list as high as 200,000 dead and doomed. It is said that not more than half a dozen people of the city of Reggio, with a population of45,000, survived. All the towns in the district suffered fearfully. Warships have been dispatched by all the European countries to the scene of the disaster to render any aid possible. The work of burying the dead goes on rapidly. Relief work is being pushed and many lives are b2ing saved, people imprisoned in the ruins being dug outand6aved. Many have lost their reason with the horror of it all. No news has been received from any Americans who were in Messi na. It will be several days liefore definite information concerning them can le obtained but Ameri can residents hear fear their couu trymen have met a common fate. Fires are still raging in many of the ruined towns. A rigid enforcement of martial law has brought a semblance of ol der out of utter chaos at Messina but in the outlying districts com plete anarchy reigns. Messages from the warships at Messina say the rescurers are ut terly swamped and will require several days to effect an adequate relief system. Pneumonia and meningitis has already broken out I he survivors are starving m many places. The food supply has been completely destroyed. It will be several days before the rescurers will be able to reach some ot the points of greatest des titution . It is absolutely impossible to identity the hundreds of dead. The rescuers are simply gathering and burying the dead in great trenches. If your Stomach, Heart or Kidneys are weak, try at least a few dosee only of Dr. Shoop's Restorative. In five or ten days only, the result will surprise you. A few cents will cover the cost. And here is why help comes so quickly. Dr. Shoop doesn't drug the Stomach, nor stimulate the Heart or Kidneys. Dr. Shoop's Re storative goes directly to the weak and failing nerves. F.aeh organ has its own controlling nerve. When these nerves fail, the depending organs must of necessity falter. This plain, yet vital truth, clearly tells why Dr. Shoop's Restorative is so universally successful. Its success is leading druggists everywhere to give it universal preference. A test will surely tell. Sold by J. K. Shell's Drug Store. o investment that we can make will pay larger dividens than energy, tact, produced and common horse sense. If our Christianity will not make others happy, then it will not pre pare our souls for Heaven. ANTIQUITY OF THE COFFIN. Probably a 8urvival of th Mummy Case or tho Dolmen. The shapes of familiar objects of human manufacture do not U3 a rule excite our curiosity. The box- ike form of a coffin, for instance, suggests nothing. Even an under taker has no views on the raison d'etre of coffins save that they con duce to decency. Yet on grounds of propriety many nations, such as the ancient Romans ami the Hin doos, liuve preferred cremation to interment, since the latter involves the disfigurement and gradual de cay of the dead. Collins indeed arc not explainable on grounds of hygiene or seemli ness, for which primitive men cared very little. Rather mutt we see in the modern wooden coffin a copv of the prehistoric stone or chalk re ceptacle which was a conventional reproduction of one of two things the mummy cases familiar to stu dents of Egyptology or the dolmen (or stone house) in which prehis toric non-Ayran races, especially around the .Mediterranean from Egypt westward, were in the habit of burying their dead. Coffins were, as Lord Avebury points out in his "Prehistoric Times," apparently unknown to very ancient man. The dead were buried in a sitting posture or in the attitude of sleep in what were re garded as a kind of ghost houses. Ihe most elaborate and fully differ entiated of these houses of the dead are, as Professor Sergi maintains, the pyramids, with their mummies and various precautions against the decav of the body. A less elaborate differentiation of the house idea is to be found in the dolmens still remaining all over the world from India to Great Britain. A dolmen, built of five slabs of stone, covered by a tumulus, crown ed by a menhir, surrounded by a stone circle, as at Stonehenge and Avebury, and led up to by an ave nue of standing stones, is, in fact, a rude adumbration of the pyramid. Inside the dolmen the dead sat crouched among cooking utensils, arms, etc., put there for their use in the spirit world. Is it too much to suppose that the earliest stone coffins were imitations of the dol mens in fact, dolmens in minia ture? Whether this be so or not, it is very probable that our old fashion ed standing tombstones, and cspe cially our table tombs (which are live sided), as well as the family aulfs of great families, with their traditions- of embalmment and their leaden -.hell coffins which conven tionally outhne tin- shapes ot the dead within, are so many relics of the remote epoch whin a tomb was cniieen ed of as a house in which the dead continue to live their for mer lives. The leaden shell coffins just men tioned may indeed have originated the modern coffin. The latter was j-till, for no apparently sufficient reason, to he constructed in ac cordance with careful measure ments and in conventional imitation of the human shape. The leaden shell in the family vault sometimes goes so far as conventionally to pro servo the outline of the fingers of the corpse, and this fact would seem to point back to a time when corpses were not confined. Thus the shell, and afterward the coffin or elaborated shell, might be re garded as interpolations in the dol men scheme of burial. London Lancet. Rl Self PotMttion. Not long ago a young couple en tered a railway carriage at Shef field and were immediately put down as a bridal pair. But tnej were remarkably self possessed and behaved with such sang froid that the other passengers began to doubt if their first surmise was correct aft er all. As the train moved out, however, the young man rose to remove his overcoat, and a shower of rice fell out, while the passengers smiled broadly. But even that did not affect the youth, who also smiled, and, turning to his partner, remarked audibly: "By Jove, May, I've stolen the bridegroom's overcoat !" London Tatlcr. . How High? Ned was telling Fred of the many accomplishments of his new dog. "Why," he said emphatically, "ho can jump as high as the barn door." "And now high can the barn door jump?" asked Fred innocently. Start The New Year Right By refurnishing the home. 1 Oue way to make the New Year a happy one is to have a comfortably furnished home. Why not take advantageof our liberal offer ings. Our goods are always the best, " and our prices the lowest. IF W rseauumiiy nana-uecoratea & DINNER SETS. Remember we Give These Dishes to You Absolutely Free! Our plan to enable you to secure a Dinner Set free is to give you a coupon with each cash purchase. The amount of this coupon to represent the amount you purchase: for,a " cent purchase we give you a 5 cent coupon; for a 10 cent pur chase a 10 cent coupon; a cent purchase a '." cent coupon, etc. When you have collected coupons enough for the dish es you bring them in and make your selection from our large assortment in exchange for the coupons. This is your grand opportunity to secure that extra din ner set w hich you have been wanting for so long a time. This set will beautify any table, whether in the mansion of the rich, or the home of the modest wage earner. If you knew what a choice, dainty, handsome dinner set it is you would send for it at once. We want you to secure one of these hondsome sets so as to advertise our business and show in a sulwtantial way that we appreciate your trade. We are not making any money on them we don't expect to we make this offer simply to please our old Customers. This is a splendid opportunity for you to secure a handsome set of dishes FKEK. We are going to furnish you with this Handsome Dinner Ware as an advertisement to increase our business, and to show in a substantial way that we appreciate your trade. FREE-Absolutely-FREE A fine Dinuer Set to the person holding the greatest amount in coupons. The presentation will be made ou Saturday. January 9th, at 8:30 P. M., by a disinterested party. Call and Learn Particulars! ! THEO, P, KINCAID & GO. NO. 1 7 IHHORKBSBBBCBSnl E EX 1 - h r. i-'j
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