H. C. MARTIN, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND JRIOAYS PRICE 51,00 THE YEAR
VOLUME XII LENOIR N. C, DECEKEER 21, ISC9 NO. 13
Elijah H. Crump Dead.
This "veteran who wore the
Gray" died at his home near
Oamewell, Caldwell comity, on
Tuesday night, Dec. 28th, 1909.
He seemed during the day to lie
in his usual health and the call
came to him almost without warn
The Contradictory Pictures.
Charlotte Chronicle.
Listen at this unbelief Says the
Greensboro Record: With Dr.
Cook in exile, or at least gone, noi
one knows were, and Copenhagen
intimating that he is a fake, we
have about arrived at the conelus-
Shooting- at long Ranje, Never
Missing the Mark, Every
Shot Fatal.
ing. He was in the 73rd year of j01, expressed by the old lady who
Liaville Items.
Well. ( 'hi istinas is abnu
i
ami l'i! tltetnpt give the
i as thev are.
ovc
i'en
his age. He leaves his affectionate
help meet a widow, and a son, Dr.
II. P Crump, a prominent citizen
of Mississippi, also Hoy Crump and
brother, graudsons, living near
Gamewell to mourn his loss.
In his death our county loses a
good citizen and the Confederate
Veterans a brave and faithful
comrade. Sergeant Crump volun
teered for the war in 18fJ2 and
joined Co. H. 58th N. C. Keg't.
The Company was raised in Cald
well county. His first service was
in Tenn. and Kj. In August 18(53
the Regiment, with other troops of
(Jen. Ibickner's corps, then occupy
ing East Ten n., reinforced Bragg's
army near Chattanooga. On the
19th, and 20th of Sept. following
whs fought the great JIattle of
Chicamauga in which over thirty
thousand men were killed, wound
ed or captured. Sergeant Crump's
name was reported on the ofticial
list of the casualties as mortally
' wounded.
He was struck down by three
balls, near the enemy's fortified
.line, in a charge made ly his bri
gade on their stronghold. The
Brigade lieing temporarily re
pulsed he lay lor some time be
' tween the contending lines ex
posetl to the lire from both sides.
He had for weeks a hard struggle
for life but eventually was restored
to health and strength, though was
more or less a cripple for life from
his wounds. lie was an enthusias
tic Confederate Veteran to the day
of his death. These veteran or
ganizations receive no rcciuits and
the ranks are rapidly thinning out.
Soo they will be known in his
toi y and then it may lie said ot
them
"On fame's Internal camping
ground
Their silent tents are spread,
And (iloiy guards with solemn
round
The Bivouac of the dead . ' '
Sergeant ('run p's death comes
very near to the w ritcv, his Cap
tain in ISli.'i. and he feels deeply
his personal loss of a brave and
trusted comrade and good friend
in all these years of war and peace.
(i. Y . F. II autkr.
Murder and Suicide.
London, Ky., Dec. 22. A trip
pie murder and suicide occurred at
Pittsburg Ky., a mining village,
today when William Murray, a
miner, shot and killed his wife and
her mother, and Flbcrt Cole and
himself. .Murray's objections to
the alleged attentions of Cole to
Mrs. Murray are given as the cause
of the crimes.
Murray enteied the store and
without a word, shot Cole. Then
he went to his home nearby and
shot his mother-in law as she was
leaving the house. lie then shot
his wife, who was returning from a
visit to a neighbor. He dragged
his wife within the yard, laid her
dying beside the body of her mother
and fired a bullet through Mrs.
Murray's heart. He then shot him
self and fell lietween the women's
bodies.
Stung For l. Years
by Indigestion's pangs trying many
doctors nnd $300.00. worth of medicine
in vain, H. F, Aysoue, of Inglesi.le,
N. C, at last, used Dr. King's, New
Life Pills, and write they whclly
cured libn. They cure Constipation,
I Hilliousness, . Sick Headache,
Stomach, Mver, 'Kidney nod Howel
troubles. 25c at J. E. Shell.
was 93 veal's of age. One of her
children rushed into her room one
day and told her that Dr. Cook had
discovered the North Pole. Wait
ing just a moment she looked up
and said: 'He's a liar.' A few
days thereafter the son again went
in and told her that Peary had (lis
covered the Pole. 'He's a liar, too,'
remarked the old ladv and she
would hear no more of it. We
have almost arrived at the conclus
ion that the whole bunch are liars.
Fact is, science or no science, we
don't believe a man can tell when
he is at the North Pole; he might
pass all around it and not know
it."
One feature of t his North Pole
business that we have not seen com
niented upon is the "discrepancy.,
between the alleged photographs of
the Pole. Cook's picture sho vs a
flat field of ice, adorned with an ar
chitecturally perfect liiimo hut.
Peary's picture shows a lofty pole
of ice, cathedral shaped, just asone
might imagine the Pole to lie.
Our opinion, reluctantly formed,
is that Cook could not hae built
the hut under a week's time and
that Peary could not by any possi
ble means, have scaled the icy pin
nacle and planted the tlag that is
shown there in his photograph.
From which it is to be inferred
that almost unconsciously The
Chronicle has fallen into thelineof
thought oiced by The Record,
that Iwjth are liars.
Let It Be Preached.
The Observer has some sympa
thy with the position taken by Dr.
J. A. Burroughs of Asheville with
regard to the "Sanitary Sunday"
proposed by (lovenor Li itehin.con
templating a discussion of tidier
culos's by pastors from their pul
pits, but disagrees, nevertheless.
Dr. Bui roughs, we believe, does
not discriminate between the pro
priety oi a discourse from the pul
pit upon outside matters winch are
controversial in their very nalurei
like prohibition, for example, ami
such outside matters as the tuber
miosis problem. Suiely every one
will grant that I his greatest scourge
of the human race can never be
wiped out or materially lessened
until the people have Iwen educat
ed regarding prevention for its
prevcnlability s now a well recog
nized fact and cure. The tuber
culosis problem has been declared
by the most eminent specialists to
be almost altogether a matter of
popular education, ami mcasuics
by public health authorities in ac
cordance with the sentiment creat
ed thereby. Fverv one can do much
for himself if he knows how, and
what he cannot do the community
can. Jesus was teacher and heal
er as well as preacher; why, then,
should not His ministers wageedu
cational war against disease! They
are tn a position to help greatly.
Charlotte Obsei ver.
In this advancedage of great and
witty inventions, with itsextraord
inary improvements; we are led to
the conclusion that, the civilized
world has not outstripped passed !
genera' ions quite so ftr in any line
as in that of improved lire :.!ms as
now used, upon both sea and land.
It is indeed astonishing to see a
soldier carry ing a i i Ho by which he I
can throw a ball through a pi ce ut
Steele equal to two K. K. rails or
at least it would lie almo-t incon
eeivcable to our good fathers, of
150 years ago, as they carried the
flint and steel litle in search of
gam.1, but alas! it is yet too true
that "The children of this woild.
led by a great mastc spirit i the
devil i are wiser in their day ami
generation than the children of
light." For he, the great arch
fiend, by human agency, has built
and placed on every held of van
tage a great and awful gun which
shoots at long rage. neer nnssc-,
and every shot is fatal . W hen in on i
own good state he was wed entr n
chedm unions and sundry plans
yea. in almost every town and
hamlet his batteries stood in bold
defiance to all the best interests of
our fair land, cripling our church
life, dw arfing our citien ship foul
ing our daughters, ami ursing our
little ones in the tender years of
their iunocency , yes w hen all this
and inor , was true, there arose
over this dark ami dreadful lield of
carnage and death, a glitering star
of hope, yea louder than the cries
of orphans by the thousand and
deeper than the stile of crushed
and broken hearted mothers, or as
the cry of our good people for de
liverancc, until on that beautiful
20th, of .May 1908, thank God for
given us that day our good fatheis
and brothers the bravest of the
brave and the ti nest of the true
marched in solid Phaanx U tin
ballot box and gav e to us a prohi
bition law in the state, thus driv
ing from our own holders the
mighty battel ies of sntan. Yet
we lind his guns are hunt for long
range, never miss and every shot
is fatal. W e lind that he shoots
his fatal bombs, i ,1 ugs and I Kit ties i
f, oin one state to aim' net , and at
uc'ii distance he hits , v cry lime
i..d e ei shot is at ai . M an of us
Now Christinas !
with il a c"ld bias' :':.
and p'c!'. y of sn ,. . T'.i
col ! s we.it 'see e ha
..light
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anvil in
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in the name of our grown sons and
fair daughters and for the sake of
.our innocent little ones who prat
tle about our feet. Let us do all
that we can to enforce the prohibi
tion laws of our state, and to sup
press or check the satanic Imtn1
being showered upon us from with
out the stale, nn. let the oltic is
I and parents get as neatly as p..s
s li ': i between the guns ol th
em inv and their children aid in
as many cases as possible ward o'f
his fatal shots for it does not re Uu? exeicise presents for the clit'.d
quire the imaginative powers of a rci. and every bo I v weie t.ik' u
poet to see in our own ami other i,(,m a lo ided tree an I deliver-d to lkuowth.tr
towns, .luring the next ten days lhl.m Then an intelligent address
Billy, He's fnci h.
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;anv scarred and blurred face-
was given by Prof. Sheperd M.
ana moiiiers ne res ci ushen ty l lie ; Duggar, after which the audience
fatal shol of the long range gun. 1 w Us dismissed and ail went home
"Men and brethren" we are in ; happy and wi ll pie ised with their
e crisis in this awfu! matter, now 1 ,, ....
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Mr. and Mrs. I',. J. Y'oung of
Foscoe hav e moved to the Nursery,
a place near here. W e are pleased
to h ve good people move in.
Mi. 1 one Lovcu went to his
store this morning and found the
to this
ut h 1 ng has i, eii I i is
..I W ,.s II.Ci 1 . .g t 1
.1 .. 1 . lie W se V el I i I t
.i.e lU'llSe. 1 "Hi"
opened the door.
Mr. and Mrs. IMS. Loven and
laiuiiy took dinner at Mr. Me
iU e's unlay . i hey u-poiiagood
lh
is the time lor all good men who
love our chinch, our state and
our (iod to stand tine, 1st by
hiding hiuiselt from the fatal gun.
2nd. by so lar as possible prut ct
ing his own household old. bv
keeping w atch over his neighbors.
H!i, by talking ami praying to the door st Hiding open. I p
law makers of our countiv foi time n
help. Ciewi
Mas the sjiii it of ( ind guide n
in this aw in! matter.
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1 t -Hi j. t. it ion for a
v ouiisters :n r he vvV-r.
Km 1 l.-lieve,l our Kiily hid the
COIiriirel tO Test.
An' when 1 e re't I nnn-il h mo" the
ever w tit i u -mri'i
TiiHt lie l.ke iinlih'u sa'pints in
iif" patliw v, every wheres.
1 Hir " II, lit? ;r i iis,., fa.it 'if nl to lie
k -erf ul. an' . Ilowvd
He'd (mild a re;i nation that'll maku
us tuightv proud.
Hut it seems as how my eoimsel sort
o fadeil from his mind.
An' now the bo 's m troudle of the
very wusfest kni'i'
w i :
side
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s h el -. I ii
s Stil'.l
Ills I.-tt-o
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so s,. iloru t hat I
r- kin. ,.!
a trim e on ;i
. y i . ..hi;
l'i igllied he would
! in sti.-tllie.
'vieil.i w.ili er his ol'
. ire, I name.
The Game of Pi?.
Any one who has not played tl'ctmu
game ol rig has yet to learn v lust
a really thrilling game is. It can
le played either for prizes or with
forfeits and is cither wav delight
ful. The cards u.scd are those of
the euchre deck which are dealt as
for Old Maid. Players sit around
a general table and cards are dealt
face down. Kvery one matches the
cards dealt to him as quickly and
quietly as he can, the object laying
to get out of cards as soon as possi-
Mr. ami Mis.. John Henly are
hack liom Krwin, Tenn. No one
w ho stays at Lmvillea w hile can
afford to leave to stay.
ble. As soon as any player finds
himself out of cards ( which is done
by drawing and matching as in Old
Maid i he says nothing about it,
There has Ihhmi a lot ol boo.e here
during Xmas, but every body
seemed to know how to take the
boo.e.
Mr. J as. Cibbs and little son,
Roy, have gone to Yancie county
to visit friends and home folks.
Was pleased to see the Kelsy
Items in hist issue. Hope they will
come often and give us a long
I lo W . . i'. i
All III I 1 1 e d 1 1 -1
il.tddv s lion
He writes from out in Denver, an' the
stors s niic'ny liort.
I just can't ted ins mother; it'd crush
her po r o!' heart !
An' so I reckon!, parson, you inili
hrenk the news to tier
Hill' in the Legislator'.
di .e-n'f sa v what fur.
tint lie
The Attorney General on the
Near-Beer ase.
I n aiguing the case of State vs.
I inneburg, in the Supreme Court
last week, in support of the Char
olte ordinance, and the right of
North Carolina cities to control the
near Ihs i problem with license tax
is within their discretion. Attorn
ey (ieiiera! lli 'kett said: "What is
near beei? The testimony in this
i
case shows t hat it is a beverage
This is a signal for all players to, Mi. W alter ( . ragg of N.g.naw UuU w as ; susti
do the same thing that is, to lay has gone to liui iisviile, ancle
aside their cards and observe si county. Wonder why he went so
lence. but most players arc too m far away to take Christmas?
tent upon the game to notice the
silence reigning in other parts of
but folds his hands under the table j1
the tai.le. vine ny onetlicy i.ccome , s;l s , h(1 MRnv is ,inl.(i M, i..i v
aware of this fact ami .piietly !' tlal xv!)i,.kl can't pass.
now ii in. ir earns. i ne last in no
so is the Pig. who must either for
tuteforre.il beer. Our bibulous
citizens cry foi it as children cry
for Custoria. It is made by the
Mr. Monroe Colby, of Piuola, j people who make beer, and drunk
came up to Linville to day and lie I by the people who drink Iwer. It
aiesoiry that we ,a t go lo on , ' 1 his chance lor t he pi i.e or pay
a fnrtcit accord l ng to the arrange
incuts made in advance of the garni
Kieh Men's Hilts Are Poor,
beside this: "I want to no on record
nssavinir that I retrard Kleetrie bit
ters as one of the greatest Kitts t hat 10i' lo not f latter you i-sel ves.
sistei states and dine b I in liom
Ills hold t hei e, t hat is not in our
power, but are we entirely help
less can wedo nothingat ail! Let
us reason a bit, when the I led men
carried t he lw and arrow in our
country we could not prevent their
shooting but, we did have enough
sense to use rocks and trees and
other hiding places to prevent our
lives I icing taken, so in the davs of
the late rebellion we could not
keep the yankees from shooting
but, we could by means of embank
ments trenches ctc.,ottcn save our
selves from the bullets. Yes you
say thaf sj'ight but now when the
devil gets over into K. Y. and
other places, vvheie he's well re
spected, and sets up his guns a
great many of our men, young and
old, often times good people, so
called, stop out and from their
hard earned money, pay the devil
an enormous price to get him to
shoot at them, especially all during
Cm istinas and other holidays. Now
if
M iss I i'fia Cotl'ey will go to l-'os
cue to begin a three or four montiis
school the lirst of the year.
Now good readers come on with
A number of rounds are always your items and let's make the
played in order that a number of ' News li cly .
i . . . . . i .. t - .
Luck to the Ivlitor.
pigs shall be made. -Woman'
Home Companion lor December.
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Dec. 2i, W).
(bid lias nirtile to woman, writes Mrs I you thus defy him he'll hit you
(i. Hhinev.mlt, of Vestal Center, ! and knock yon, as helms many
i. l., 1 enn never forifet what it
has done for me." This Klorious
medicine gives a woman buoyant
spirits, vigor of body and jubilant
health. It quickly cures Nervous
ness, Hlepplecsuess, Melancholy,
Hetuhiehe, Hackache, Fainting and
I)i;.7.y' Spells; soon builds up the
weak, ailing and sickly. Try them.
50c. at J. E. Shell
others onto the chain-gang or to
the peuitentift,y and also, too
likely he will knock you into hell.
Now as a brother I bog to plead
with our offcers our parents and
citizens, that in the name of our
churches, in name of the father
and motherhood of our good land,
The Air gun.
Perhaps one of the saddest death
in the history of our town occurred
this morningat SL;0 when Winston,
the 12 yearold son of Mr. and Mrs.
F. V. Morton, breathed his last
while being opefated upon by Drs.
Shuford and Muiizies, for a gunshot
would in the left eye. Monday
afternoon the (leceased boy in co
mpany with another boy was driv
ing the street in a wagon when
Flom Aberneth v, the young son of
Dr. Henry Abernethy discharged
an air gun. the ball taking effect in
little Winston's eye inllicting a
painful wound from which he stiff
ercd intensely until this morning
when it was decided an operation
necessary. Drs. Shuford and
Menzies undertook the operation
but the little patient had suffered
so intensely that he died before the
operation was completed.
Yes there is danger in the air
gun.
The woman who tries to conceal
her age is generally old enough to
know better.
looks like Inc. smells like beer and
tastes like ivei i. Il ;s set veil by
the stii. e whreapioueil, many
chinned l'i mml who was wont to
comfoi t ii - in i .1 ; ei da s. It is
shoved aciiiss tlie old oaken count
er, and inirroied hack bar, with the
picture of Aprodite springing from
the foam, making the illusion com
plete. Ami sometimes in th gloani
ing the a che... of i di I'le". pro
jected 1 1 i mi a ;..'!;eeni,i!.'s expau-
. I siv e i.ack . even as t he thi'siy one
The Washington News says that bits the c n ' ':C 'n-s. i- ar- Uer
in December, lStOM, the number u becomes 1 i,, ..,'. .l,i;..
cases before the mayor was 7!' and1 "Ami vei th
i
this y ear the number will not ex
wed 20. The holidays from De
cemlier 21st to December 2Sth last
year, produced 12 cases; this year
only ". While much liquor was
shipped in during the holidays,
there was much less drunkenness
during the Christmas season than
when bars and dispensaries ran
v, ide open.
AUHNK IN SAW MILL
NIUHT
AT M1D-
unniinilful of dampness, drafts,
storms or cold, W. J. Atkins worked
ns Night Watchman, at Manner
Springs, Tenn. Such exposure gave
him u severe cold that settled on his
lungs. At last ho had to give up
work. He tried many lemedies but
all failed till he used Dr. King's New
Discovery. "After using one bottle'
he writes, "I went back to work as
well as ever,'' Severe Colt's, stub
born Coughs, irtbunod throats and
sore lungs, Hemorrhages, Croup and
Whooping Cough get quick relief and
prompt cure from this glorious medi
cine, 50o aud $1.00. Trial bottle free,
guaranteed by J. E. Shell. .
Mil I is itsk( d tJ
leleg-ite this lustiy beverage, this
socio of centiii ies of vats to the in
sipid level i f soda water. Perish
the thought. It proclaims itself in
North Carolina as the sole heir anil
suecessur tot e candy fluid. It
boasts of its bubble and sparkleand
snap. It says to the disconsolate
legions in an arid land, "I may not
lie entirely wicked but try me."
It capitalizes its kinship with Hud
weiser and Schlitz. It scorns soda
water as Koosevelt scorns a molly
coddle, and Icrds over grape-juice
like a mint julep over milkshake."
The synipeoins i f kidney trouble
are urinary disorders, weak back and
backache, rheumatism ami rheuma
tic pains and twingos, pains in the
groin, etc. There is nothing as good
forkidnev and bladder trouble ft3
DeWitt's Kidney anil Bladder Pills.
You may depend mbn them to give
entire satisfaction. They are an
tiseptic, act promptly and soothe
paiu. Sold by J. K' Shell, Drug Co.,
and Hranlts Falls Drug Co., Granite
Falls.