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VOLTJME XI. LENOIR, JULY 20, 1909. 70. 74
Smufjnni: Jewelry.
Philadelphia, July 14 When
Mrs. Annie Abbott, who once
shone on the stage iu this country
and in Europe as the "Little
Georgia Maguet" reported the theft
of jewelry rained at 1200,000
her home in North Creighton street
to the police, it attracted the at
tention of the customs officials.
They had received information
that she had brought into this
country at various $mes Jewels
worth more ' than', t3Q,000. .upon
which there Fas. nbrjcDrd, of. fluty
paid, and' began au investigation.
Mrs. Abbott said that she had
brought about 187,000 in jewelry
to this country from Europe. She
made three trips, landing in New
York in 1897, and at San Fran
cisco in 1901.
"At Baltimore 1 showed men iu
the uniform of custom house offi
cers my jewelry. I told them that
the Jewelry was presnted to me by
friends. I gave one inan $25, au
Other 10, aud a third $5. They
passed me through and I did not
have to pay any duty. I thought
it was all right.
"When I landed at San Fran
cisco I again showed the jewels
and gave a man $50 for passing me.
I have not seeu any men from the
customs since the, but am ready
to meet them at auy time and tell
them all about my jewelry."
Special Agent George W. Btrat
ton of the customs service declined
to say what action the govern
ment proposed to take.
First
Sentence to
Chair.
the Electric
In Robesou county Superior
'ourt tnis week Walter Morrison,
' colored, was convicted of criminal
assault, his victim being Polly
Rogers, a Croatan Indian. Judge
Lyon sentenced Morrisou to death
and unless the case is appealed or
reprieve or commutation granted,
f Rjcrs will be put to death by
electricity in the State penitentiary
at Raleigh, on the 10th of Septem
ber. This is the first death sentence
under the law passed by the last
Legislature, which requires all exe
cutions to take place in the State
prisou and by electrocution. The
law requires the judge to put his
sentence in writing, a copy to be
filed with the clerk of the court
and the warden of the State prison
at Raleigh.
New Cannon Invented.
Pittsburg, July 14 That a hand
made cannon not much longer than
a man's arm will fire a projectille
through a seven-inch steel plate
has just been successful y demon
strated here by Carl Schmek, who
manufactured the gan with crude
tools at his home.
Mounted on wheejs, its height is
not more than two feet. By an
arrangement the breech and an
odd construction of the rifled bar
rel, Semelz.has proved that thecau
non can withstand the highest ex
plosive. He made a clean, hole through
the plate in his demonstration. lie
says the gun can be fired one h.uui
red times in rapid succession with
out becoming heated, i
Will Contest Election.
Bristol, Va., July 13. On the
ground that 125 Illegal votes were
cast in the local option election
held here last week which resulted
in a victory for the "wete" by 82
majority, the temperance leaders
this evening decided to contest the
election and selected a committee
with power to proceed to retain
counsel and file suit attacking the
legality of the election.
C. & N. W. Depot at Yorkville
Destroyed by Fire.
Charlotte Observer.
Yorkville, S. C, July 15. The
freight and passenger depot of Car
olina & North Western By., locat
ed East Liberty street, in this
place wai destroyed by fire this
morning between 1 and 2 o'clock,
together with the contents of the
building. The loss is total except
a part ot the waiting room for
white and colored, people. The
amount of the loss can not be stated
accurately at this time because of
lack of information as to the
amount of freight stored in the de
pot, but a reasonable estimate as to
total loss, including the building,
freight and the furniture and office
fixtures belonging to Mr. E. W.
Long, the agent, would be between
$2,000 and $3,000. The origin of
the tire is not kuown, but is at
tributed o rats and matches.
Will Build a Sample Road.
A delegation of Mt. Airy citi
zens, headed by Mr. Thomas
Woodruffe, went before the Surry
commissioners at Dobson at their
last meeting and asked au appro
priation of $500 to help build a
mile of road near that town. The
request was presented by W. Car
ter and the money was appropriat
ed. The citizens estimate that it
will cost about $3,000 to build the
mile of road and will raise $2,500
by privatesubscription. The News
says it is the purpose of Mr. Wood-
ruffe and the other citizens to show
to the people what a great thing
it wonld be if Surry had hr roads
properly made and thus start a
work that will uot stop until all
the public highways are a credit
to the county.
$100,000 Short.
New Orleaus, July 14. Wyatt
H. Ingram, Jr., trust officer of the
Hibernia Bank and Trust Compa
ny, of New Orleans, was arrested
at his home hero this evening on
the charge of being a defaulter and
forger.
"It was declared that Ingram's
defalcations have extended over a
period of fifteen months.
Ingram was said to 1k tuo ill to
arrest when officers leached his
home. But District Attorney
Adams insisted that the accused be
brought to prison without delay.
He was carried to police headquar
tens in an ambulance.
Do Grab Worms Poduce Sassa
fras?
There is a legendary story that
sassafras sprouts spring from de
funct grub worms, but the editor
tor of this paper could never be
made to believe it until Saturday
last, when Lee Caskey brought to
this office a partially petrified grub
worm from which was a growth of
some kind of vegetable matter. In
deed, it was a sprout of some kind,
but whether a sassafras or .some
thing else we are not prepared to
say. The writer, however has
heard many men assert the fact
ghat if you pull np or dig out a
young sassafras" Sprout you will in
variebly find a grub worm at the
root. Hazel Green Herald.
"IS it possible that we old farm
era who have been digging up sas
sasafras sprouts for 40 or 50 years
never discovered the grub worm at
the root. I reckon we never did,
and I guess we never will." C.
Get DeWitt's Carbolued Witch
Haxel Salve when you ask for it.
There are a great many imitations,
but there U just one original. Thla
salve ii good for auythlng where a
salve is needed to be used, but it is
good for Piles. Sold by J. E. Shell,
Lenoir Drag Co. Granite Falls Drug
Co.
Prophesies Snow For July
This startling warning comes
from no less a persouage than a
celebrated scientist astronomer,
Edwiu Fairfax Nnlty, who has de
voted a month to the study of the
nowest discovered comet, said to
be gyrating at present round in
space some millions of miles away
from the earth.
Prof. Nulty from his long study
of the now comet asserts that the
people of Boston and elsewhere
in the same zone that have been
sweltering under the merciless rays
of the sun may soon be goiug about
with-earlap and mufliers, and his
prediction that the snow shovels
will be used is thoroughly borne
out by the movements of the new
est celestial distrulor.
Only once has the coinasphereor
head of this body been seen, and
then for only a very short period,
but the tromeiulous radiance to its
light from the comma, or tail of the
traveling body is said to be tne
power by means of which the
people of Boston and vicinity may
within a short time enjoy a var
iety of weather that will cause the
oldest inhabitant to hold up his
hand in amazement.
Already, declars Prof. Nulty
has the light from this comma
reached and so flooded the planet
Mai's that it is possible strange
things have happened there by this
time. Ex.
"We are willing to lend our
overcoat to some one that thinks
they will need it for the balance of
this month and take our chance
with the snow." News.
The Oldest Tree in the World.
The oldest tree in the world is
said to be a cypress tree standing
in the province of Chepultepec,
Mexico, with a trunk 118 feet 10
inches in eifemtference. This has
been shown to be (as couclusivoly
as these things can be shown)
about 0,2(50 years of age. Nor is
this so remarkable when one stops
to think that, given favorabrecon
ditions for growth and sustenance
the average tree will never die of
old age. Its death is merely an
accident. Other younger and more
vigoro us trees may spring up near
it, and rob its roots of their proper
nourishment; insects may kill it,
floods or winds may sweep it away,
or the woodman's axe may fell up
on it. If uo such accident happens
to itja tree may flourish aud grow
for century upon century and age
upon age.
Gamewell Items.
Editor-News.
May I slip in and say a few
words about the folks at Game
wel!t
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Watson,
gave an ice cream supper, to a
number of the young folks, Satur
night. Miss Bessie Parsons, visited
Miss Jessie Puett, Saturday, and
Sunday.
Rev. Mr. Cook, preached at
Gamewell, Sunday evening. Hope
he will come back, and preach
again soon.
The farmers, arc about through
working corn.
Miss Grace Tuttle, is visiting in
Virginia this month.
Some one robbed one of Mr.
Kelley Thompsons, bee gums, Sat
urday night.
There will be a singing conven
tion at Collettsville. next Saturday
and Sunday, Clarks Chapel,
Flemings Chapel, and Green Val
ley are going to sing.
Success the the News.
A Rkader.
Ncie Dance.
There was a nice little dance
given by the yonng men at The
Martins last Friday evening. The
large dining room was cleared aud
tastily decorated with cut flowers
and made an ideal dancing place.
About twelve or fifteen couplets
participated in the dance, while
quite a number of spectators were
present.
A pleasant innovation, to the
men at least, was the fact that they
dispensed with coats while danc
ing, the dance being a "shirt waist
dance." The music was furnished
by the Lenoir Orchestia. assisted
by I'rof. Rumble, and it was tine.
Some More Weattur Sijns.
Last Sunday, the llth, was the
first dog day and it didn't rain.
According to the old saying, we
will have forty days of dry weather;
but they tells us if the moon
changes in the fore part of the day
we will have rain, and if that be
so we will have plenty of rain dur
ing this month. See Blum's
almanac for changes of the moon
during July. The dog day sign
says no rain. The moon changing
sign says rain, cv) there you are.
We will see what we see. Lenoir
News.
With the sign of the Virgin
Mary's visit failing, and two sure
signs directly opposite, the be
lievers in signs are in a truly
pitable plight this year. The only
sign that we ever knew of, that
did not fail was that of a bent pin
on the seat of a chair, whic indi
cates an early spring. Lincoln
Times.
North Carolina Wheat.
The Western wheat farmers, of
whom we read so much do not
know it all. Here is General Jule
Carr, who always dresses like a
gentleman and wears a carnation
in his coat lapel, running a thresh
er on his Occoneechee farm and
sacking up 5.000 bushels of wheat.
The Durham Sun says it is worth
$10,000 converted into flour and
all off of 130 acres.
Aho Items.
Rye harvesting is on and the
crop is good.
We are havingsunshine now and
the indications area good hay crop
will be harvested, and crops gener
ally look well excepting fruit. We
will have but little fruit in this vi
cinity owing to late frosts.
I notice Bristol, Va. has uoted
to retain her saloons. I suppose
they are tired of sending their
money away to build up other
towns and cities and have decided
to keep their mouey at" home and
at the same time secure some rev
enue in the way of license taxes
from the liquor traffic. I say "hur
rah for Bristol.'' It is bad policy
to send our money out of the State
to build up other communities, as
North Carolina and some other pre
tended prohibition States are do
ing.
Success to The News.
S. G. L.
To the Committee ot Caldwell
County.
Have you secured a teacher for
your schoolT If you have not
write Mies Ella Kirby, Boone, or
Granite Falls, N. C. who is Sec. of
the "Caldwell County Teacher's
Association of the A. T. School"
and she will will send you a list of
the best teachers in the county,
who are now attending the Normal
part of the Appalachian Training
School.
A good teacher is known by the
effort they make to be a better
teacher.
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He Made a Scoop.
A paper iu a good sized town in
Oklahoma recently published this
item:
"The business man in the town
who is in the habit of hugging his
typewriter had better quit, or we
will publish his name."
The next day thirty seven busi
ness men called at the oflice, paid
their subscriptions and left behind
them thirty seven columns of ad
vertising, and told the editor not
to pay any attention to little fool
ish stories.
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Chamberlain'B Colic, Cholera anil
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