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V- ft, The News Printery 111 equipped to do your oett order of Job Printing promptly Don't send your work out of town- we will do It to suit you.' LKTU8 CONVINCKYOU The Lenoir News. t ; ... 11 . ., ,. . , !! '".ai 1 In tbe very beat Advertising Medium, beetius It It red by the Large t Number of the people of Caldwell County, : ONLY THKVKAR H. o. martiist, editor and Prop. PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS. PRICE 81 .00 THE YEAR. VOLUME XI. LENOIR, ST.C., AUGUST 20, 1900. INTO. 83 L-l, T T If I Jr II I Ml It 1 1 fc. News Items. Mr. R. T. Raymer of Iredell county, reports raising HO bushels of Irish potatoes on an eighth of an acre. Burglars have been busy in Kf a f not! i 1 1 jtswiik f 1 r A fmu niViia since six stores and shops were en tered in one night. Safe Craekers entered the post oflice at Gibsonville Monday night and robbed the oftiee of about 75 worth of stamps and a few dollars in money. James J. Hutchius of Iredell county, was arrested in Statesville last Monday for deserting the army. He had been grauted furlough for fifteen days aud when the time was out he failed to return, hence his arrest. A young farmer by the name of Weatherland was killed by light ning at his home in Davidson coun ty last Sunday night. He was standing in the doorway at the time and it is thought that a gun in a rack over the door attracted the lightning. K. A; Purser, of Charlotte, was arrested iu Chester recently ou the charge of seduction, the woman in the case being a Miss Hughes of Mecklenburg county. The young man refused to come back to this State to Stand trial so the Gover nor issued requisition papers for him. Mrs. Leslie Shaver, of Marion, attempted suicide last Sunday night by taking laudanum. She was discovered soon after taking the drug and by prompt action her life was saved. This is the second attempt she has made to k II her self and says she will yet succeed. SV is a widow with one small child, aud destitute circumstances are thought to be the cause of her desire for self destruction. jThe Reunion at Charlotte Rate of One Cent Per Miie. The State reunion of the Con fed erate Veterans will be held in Char lotte, August 25 and 2(i. Adjutant Geueral London has leen officially notified by all the railroads t'lat a special rate of one cent per mile will le given on ac count of the reunion. Tickets to 1 on sale on 22nd, 23rd, 24th 25th and until midnight of the 30th. The following is the program in detail : 10:30 a. m. Opening meeting. Prayer by Chaplain A. I). Bests. Address of welcome by Mayor Hawkins and Col. E. A. Osborne. Response by General J. 8. Carr. Address by Chief Justice Walter Clarke, ex Governor Jams and other distinguished veterans. Recess. Afternooi session Recitation by Mecklenburg Camp mascot, Miss Ruth Taler Porter. Recitation "Lee to the rear," by Miss Bessie Burkheimer. Introduction of Mrs. Burkheim er by Geueral Carr. Election of division and brigade commanders. Miscellaneous busineas. Evening, 8 p. m. Entertain ment by United Daughters of the Confederacy. Thursday, August 2f 9:30 a. m. Parade of Veterans. ll:30to 12:46 Reception to vete rans by Mrs. Burkheimer. 1 :30 Barbecue. We never see the target a man aims at in life; we only see the tar get he hits. Advertising is a tonic remedy that makes the advertiser stronger for every does taken, but to stop taking it means a relapse that may prove fatal. ADDITIONAL LOCAL. Unusual Marriage. Last Monday night a young man uamed Clyde Hicks and a young woman named Ethel Betser arrived in Lenoir on the 8:55 train and stop ed at The Martins. Mr. Farthing the proprietor noting the restless ness of the couple soon learned that they wanted to be married, but be ing strangers, in Lenoir, did not know how to proceed. Mr. Lawrence Wakefield and Mr. Farthing kindly came to their as sistance and went to Register Mil ler's and rousted him out of bed and got him down to his office in th court house where the license was soon prepared. Then it was but a small job to call Rev. J. W. Bell, who lives next door to the hotel, who iu the presence of a number of guests aud the proprietor and his wife, soon made the happy couple man and wife. 51 r. Hicks is a native of Randolph county but has been-living in Florida for some years and his bride is a daughter of Mr. D. C. Setser Nocth Catawba township this county. Why they came to Lenoir to be married is not known as they did not assign any reason for doing so. Peculiar Accident. Mr. W. T. Boughman, who lives a few miles north east f Lenoir, had the misfortune to loose a good mare last Wednesday morn ing in a v ery peculiar manner. He 'wast'oming to town with a load of lumber and a Mr. Kincaid, was fol lowing, also with a load of lumljer. At a bad place iu the road, Kin aids's team stalled and Mr. Bough- man took his team back to assist the young man taking the double tree oil' his own wagon and hitched to the end of the tongue, of Kin- caid's wagon. When his horses pulled, the fastening broke drop ping the doubletree on his horses heels causing them to run away. They ran to the top of the hill, where his own wagon was stand ing, in the road and in trying to pass it one of horses ran against the end of a plank and broke its thigh. The injury is so severe that the horse is worthless and has perhaps been killed by this time, to stop its suffering. Zion Reformed Chucrh. The following services will le held on Sunday: Sunday school at9:45. a. m. The pastor will preach at 11 a- m. and at 8 p. m. You are most cordially invited to attend these services. Some people try to accomplish their work with one hand while holding on to the the tail of time with the other. Meets Death on Trestle. Marion, August 18. While crossing the trestle of the Corolina, Oliuchfield & Ohio Railroad at North Fork, seven miles from here Mrs. Fred Branes, aged about 40 years, was strnck Monday by a train and received injuries from which she died a short time after wards. At the time she was crossing the trestle there was a negro man and a negro woman just behind her. The man and woman jumped and neither was seriously injured, though the woman sustained severe bruises. It is said they were not aware of the approach of the train until it was too late. It is folly to talk of being guid ed by the light of your conscience when you take pains to keep it in the dark. Mr. Huffman Dead. Mr. Thomas M. Huffman, a well known lawyer of Hickor', died on the train between Greensboro and Raleigh, last Monday night from an overdose of morphine. Whether Mr. Huffman took the drug with the intent to commit sui cide or not, is not known. He was in company with a man from Burns villeandwa8 in good spirits and health as far as was known. He retired in the sleep' ng car about 12 o'clock and nearly an hour later his condition was discovered and a physician summoned, but it was too late and nothing could be done for him. A box containing 100 half grain morphine tablets was found in his grip, also some whis key. Mr. Huffman was well known i in Lenoir as he has been practicing in our courts for a number of years. He was a bright man and a good talker and writer. Homicide in Watauga. Dr. R. D. Jennings, of Banntr Elk, was in Lenoir on business Tuesday and toU us of a killing iu that couuty. Last Saturday a young man named Hardin, who lived a few miles from Banner Elk, went to the home ot a man named Beunett to borrow a banjo. Beunett told him he could hav-e the instrument and pointed to it hanging on the wall. Bennetts wife told the joung man he could not take it and after some parlying Bennett again told him to take it, which he proceed ed to do, the woman telling him if he did she would hurt him. The young man got the banjo and started away reaching the yard when the woman followed and picked up a small hoe used for dig ginggensangandhimstruckone lick on the back of the head. He linger ed until Sunday forernoon and died. The woman was arrested and held in custody awaiting the verdict of the Coroner's jury which was in session, when Dr. Jennings left home. The summer travel to Blowing Rock has picked up a good deal in the past week or so and there is now a pretty good crowd up there. The building of the proposed new macadam turnpike will increase this business four fold the first year, if a little judicious ad vertis ing is done by the hotels on the mountain. And as the seasons pass the busiuess will increase until that famous resort will be taxed to accommodate the guests. Howev ev, if the proposed new road is not constructed we may expect the people who have beeu going there to go to other and more easi ly accessible places. Big Money in Honey. Anderson Mail. Mr. Beauregard Thompson, who lives several miles below the city, has sold a little more than 1,000 pounds of honey this summer, which he gathered from 26 hives. He sold most of it to merchants in the city at 17 cents a pound, but sold a little of it perhaps 50 pounds, at retail at 20 cents a pound. Mr. Thompson was at no ex pense. All he had to do was to gather honey and deliver it to his customers. There was a ready de mand for it. Mr. Thompson says this has been an exceptionally good year for bees. The supply of honey dew last spring was the finest and largest he has ever seen, he says. The hair of the dog may be good for tb bite, but if a dog bites you, go after his hide. Lost in the Mountains. Charlotte Observer, Mr. Flynn Wolfe, who returned from the mountains of western Xorth Carolina yesterday, where he and a party of Charlotte young men had, been on a two-weeks' camping trip, brought back an ex ceedingly interesting story of a young lady's strange mishap there, Miss Loza Olds, of Columbus, O , by name. In the Charlotte party aside from Mr. Wolfe were Messrs. Batte Irwin, Johji Kirby, Graham Ross and Ed Andrews, and they were at Cold Spring, near Cpper Creek falls, in Mitchell county, 25 miles from Morganton. At Lov ing's Hotel there were many guests. Miss Olds being one of the number. A small company last Thursday morning left the hotel about 10 o ciocw 10 go nsning aim .uiss ius accompanied them. She is sup posed to have fallen behind to read a book and thus got lost from the - l . i . ii i r l i 1 -lest of the party. When she ob served that she was left behind she hastened ahead and thus became confused aud in a short time had become completely unnerved. Those ahead, thinking that she had re turned to the hotel, did not make any outcry until they returned and found the young lady missing. By this time, Miss Olds had wandered far away 'and could not be located. Search parties were immediately instituted but she was not found until next morningabout lOo'clock. She had spent the night underneath the protecting arm of a huge rock but when discovered was so stiff from the exposure it having rain ed during the night that she was unable to walk without assistance. Owing to the roar of the falls and the rugged nature of the country it was impossible for her to hear the shouts of the searching party. Mr. Wolfe was the member of the party who found the young woman. Her place of refuge was not more than a mile and a half or two miles from the hotel. Miss Olds stated that she distinctly heard the lierce growls of wild animals din ing the night and a mountaineer who join ed the searching party declared that there were numerous bear tracks in the immediate vicinity, left the night lefoie after the rain had fallen. Negro Bu siness Men are in Ses siou. Ijouisville, Aug. IS. Colored men engaged in commercial pur suits in all parts of the country are in Louisville today and took part in the inaugural programme of the 10th annual session of the Nation al Negro Business men's League. Dr. Booker T. Washington, of Tuskegee Institute, is president of the league, and will preside at all the sessions, which will extend through three days. An old fash ioned Kentucky barlecue will be held tomorror and a formal lan quet on Friday. Reports intro duced at the convention show that the negroes of the country and es pecially in the South, are rapidly forging to the front in a business way. Governor Wilson welcomed the delegates today Cholera Infantum Cured. "Something like two years ago my baby, which was then about a year old, was taken seriously ill with chol era Infantum, vomiting and purging profusely, writes J. P. Dempsey, Ala. I did what I could to relieve her but did her no good, and being very much alarmed about her went for a physl clan but failed to ftnd one, so came back by Elder Bros. & Carter's store and Mr. Elder recommended Cham be r Iain's Colic. Cholra and Diar- rhoe remedy. I procured a bottle of it and went home as quickly as pos sible and gave the baby a dose of the remedy. It relieved her In fifteen minutes and soon cured her entirely. For sale by J. E. Shell and Dr. Kent, Druggists. Arc You Planning a Little Home of Your Own ? Won't you come down here and let us help you plan it ? You'll tind the planning so much easier. We oiler you the helpful suggestions of the finest and most complete assortment of housef urnishings in Lenoir, low prices and liberal credit. Won't you come in ? It will be a pleasure, we assure you, to aid yon in any way we can. " What we sav we do we do do. " Jfi HE COLLAR THAT SUITS IS THE COLLAR THAT SELLS Our large stock, varied patterns and sizes enables ou to uit your wants whether it be a Scotch, throat less or cased collar with black back or rim, or full russet finished. We tan our leather with the old bark pro cess, which gives it life and vitality. This is why we said last year "WHEN IN DOUBT, BUY OF PRICE!" Canning Tomatoes. Pender Chronicle. Wednesday before the Moorre's Creek celebration, Messrs High smith and Nunalee, overat Currie, put up 3,200 cans of tomatoes. Mr. Mit Johnson sold them a large part of his crop in addition to the thir ty acres at Millbrook Farm, which were planted expressly for them. They have a capacity of 150 bush els per day and double that amount by working at night. They also offer to buy every tomato at a very reasonable price. Of course many crates at the first of the season may be shipped at better profit but still the canning factory could take care of the big bulk of the to matoes raised in this section. Be sides tomatoes, corn, potatoes, beans, okra, peaches, etc., could be canned and thus establish in oar midst a market for all of these vegetabler we could produce. A factory complete, where steam is already available, could be erected and equpped at about $1,000 cost which would handle 250 bushels every 24 hours. It is the simplest kind of enterprise and one we most need. We notice a policeman in Durham was fined $50, for striking a man with his billy when it was not necessary to hit him. n I For months past the Southern j Railway Company has had contrac tors at work cutting a line of track ( through Lynchburg, by which the 1 route will be shortened seven miles, j Of course tunnels figure largely in the new line. In one of these tun nels, 1,300 feet long, .fire broke out last Thursday and was not extin guished until Saturday. The fire caused the destruction of about $3,000 in timber work and caused acaveiuofa portion of a Lynch burg street under which it passed, The ultimate completion of the tan nel is thus delayed, but the enter prise of the Southern is undaunted. This com pauy long since gave the South as fine a road as the Penn sylvania, and its present determina tion seems to be to give even a bet ter one. Evening Chronicle. TWAS A (iLORIOTJS VICTORY. There's rejoicing in Fedora,Tenn A man's life has been saved, and now Dr. King's New Discovery is the talk of the town for curing C. V. Pepper of deadly lung hemorrhages. I could not work or get about, he writes, "and the doctors did me no good, but after using Dr. King's New Discoveryjthree weeks, I feel like a newsman, and. can 4o good work again." For weak, sore or disease! lungs, Coughs and Colds, Hemonhages. Hay Fever, LaQrippe. Asthma, or anv Bronchial affection It stands unrivaled. Price 50c. and 11.00. Trial Bottle free. Sold and guaranteed by J. E. Shell.
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