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VOLUME XII LENOIR, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JUNE 17 J9I0 NO. 66
THE PRESS CONVENTION.
We had the pleasure of attend
ing last week the annual conven
tion of the North Carolina Press
Association at Wrightsville Beach,
N. C. The meeting was in session
three days and a program replete
with able and interesting papers to
the craft had been arranged. The
attendance was perhaps the largest
in the history of the association,
many ladies being present adding
much to the pleasure of the con
vention. The sessions were held
iu the assembly room ot the spa
cious TarryMoore Hotel, which
occupies a commanding position on
the beach, where the delightful
sea breezes make all parts of the
immense structure comfortable in
the warmest weather. The hotel
is well kept and the comforts of
the guests are closely looked after
Last year at one time 400 guests
were cared for at this popular hotel
and this season a large addition to
the building has been made which
will increase the capacity of the
establishment fifty per cent. On
the beach is another large hotel
the Seashore, which will accommo
date nearly as many people as the
Tarry-Moore, and also numerous
boarding houses and cottages
Wrightsville Beach is a favorite
resort and is unsurpassed in the
South for fine fishing, boating and
bathing.
An electric railway connects it
with Wilmington, twelve miles
away, and cars run every half
hour. The Tide Water Power
Co. owns the railroad and also
furnishes electric lights and power
for the city of Wilmington and the
Beach. The company has just
finished one of the prettiest and
most modern concert and dancing
pa villi ti to be found in the whole
country.
Am nog the entertainments
given the newspaper folk was
Japanese dance at the Lumina
Pavilion by the Power Company
The elite of the city of Wilmington
and the beach, as well as the news
paper people enjoyed the occasion
and participated in the festivities
Another interesting feature of
entertainment provided for us was
a splendid banquet given by the
people of Wilmington at the Tarry
Moore. At this banqnet some able
addressees were made, among them
some high and touching tributes
to Mr. Joe P. Caldwell, for whom
a vacant chair was placed at the
table, and Mr. W. H. Bernard
two of the most brilliant editors
the state has ever produced and
who have retired from active work
on aocount of failing health. Capt
J. W. Harper, the genial owner of
the steamer "Wilmington," gave
the association a delightful com pi i
men tar y excursion down the Cape
Fear River to South Port, which
was much enjoyed by all. This is
one of the most pleasant short
water excursions one can find any
where and should not be missed by
unvone visiting Wilmington. This
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trip of ours was rendered doubly
pleasant by a nice luncheon served
on board the boat and the fact that
so many of Wilmington people
forming the Reception Committee,
were with ns to point out points of
interest.
Wilmington is a pros,rous pro
gressive city and is forging ah ad
rapidly. The business of the port
i continually increasing and the
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business men of the city are work
ing hard for the deepening of the
channel of the Cape Fear from
Wilmington to South Port to 30
feet so as to permit the entrance of
larger veswla than can now be ac
commodated. The general gorero
ment is now doing something
towards this important work and
it it to be hoped that the matter
will receira th attention .and as
sistance ita importance demands.
Hamilton Flie From New York To Phila
delphia.
New York, Juue 13. Charlie K.
amilton arose from Governors
sland in an aeroplane this morn
ing and sped without a break 88
miles to Philadelphia in a remark
able cross country flight uder the
auspices of the New York Times
and The Philadelphia Public Ledg
er. He made the trip iu 1 hour
and 51 minutes. The return tiip
was made in 1 and hour 36 minutes
at an estimated average speed of
54.96 miles an hour, which breaks
the record made in theCnrtis flight
from Albany to New York.
The flying machine like the au
tomobile, has come to stay.
Train Lifted Man From Buggy.
Statesville Landmark.
Several days ago a Mr. Cline, of
Catawaba county, was driving
across the railroad track near
Maiden, Catawaba county, when
bis buggy was struck by a train
on the Carolina and Northwestern
road. The incident was mention
ed in the news-papers at that time,
but the details which were unusual,
were uotgiven. Mr. C. L. Tom-
in, of Statesville who was on the
traiu,told the Hickory Mercury
about it. When the train struck
the buggy the vehicle was demol
ished and a gash cut in the mule's
flank. The unusual part of the in
cident was the result to Mr. Ciine
He was lifted np on the cowcatcher
still sitting on the cushion of the
buggy and carried several yards,
then dropped clear of the track
His collar bone was broken, scalp
cut in several places and his body
bruised. Almost miraculously there
were no really dangerous injuries,
unless so me internal trouble should
develope. The railroad men se
cured a cot and carried him to his
home, more than a mile from where
the accident occurred.
Mr. To ml in Rays he has seen
some queer things, but the picture
of that man sitting on a cushion
on top of the pilot, was about the
strangest and queerest.
Hickory' Creamery Begin.
The Democrat.
Mr. C. P. Tassel Chambersburg,
in the noted Cumberland Valley,
is the ney butter maker and is
well pleased with the beginning
made. The cream wagon runs two
routes, one toward the Dutch Dairy
Farm, the Robinson, Propst and
other farms, and the other route
toward the Catawba river. The
creamery is receiving 350 pounds
of cream a day is turning out 200
pounds of butter a day at present.
The butter goes to customers pre
vionsly supplied by the individual
dairies.
With the channel deepened Wil
mington would at once take the
commanding position, as port of
entry for the whole South Atlantic
Seaboard, that her geographical po
sition entitles her to. The news
paper people were much impressed
with the volume of business done
by the city, the exports for the
year 1909 being 20,479,726, five
times as much as Charleston and
more than twice as much as Nor
folk and Portsmouth together. The
city has over 3,400 school children
enrolled in the public schools and
school property to the value of
1115,000.
There is much of historic inter
est about the Cape Fear region of
which the outside state may feel
justly proud and the hospitality of
the Wilmington people is noted
far and wide. The newspaper
folk are deeply indebted to them
for one of the most pleasant meet
ings in the history of the associ
ation and rejoice with the food
people down there over the prog
reas and ttrosoeritv of the chief
I city of the state.
Alligator Got Loom.
Greensboro Record.
Mr. John It. Goiter was m Sav
annah the other day and a friend
gave him two small alligators and
told him to bring them home for
his children to play with. They
are harmless when very small.
Putting them in a pasteboard
box Mr. Goiter started home, tak
ing a sleeper out of Savannah.
What to do with his pets bothered
him a little but seeing nothing else
to do he placed the box in the
berth an upper berth, by the
way and went to sleep. Early
next morning he felt something
crawling around on his body and
at once realized that one of the
alligators was out of the box; then
he tried to catch him, but the little
fellow was elusive. The result was
that in a moment the 'gator had
lalleu through to the lower berth
occupied by a fat gentleman; the
thing tell smack on him, he felt it,
realized that it was a "foreign"
substance, perhaps a snake aud
then he got busy with hands, feet
and mouth; the drapery around
his berth was torn down in a jiffy
and the man took to the aisle of
the car. The noise he made
aroused other passengers, male aud
female, and they joined him in the
aisle, all hands leaving their berths
in their night clothes aad all yell
ing at ouce, especially the women,
most of them thinking a rat was
loose in the car, but when one of
them learned that it was nothing
but an ali gator, she went back to
her berth.
lhe alligator, however, was
found after a long search under
one of the seats and was returned
to his box.
Capt Brook Die At Soldier' Home.
Chronicle Bureau.
Raleigh June 14. After an illness
of more than a year Capt. R. H
Brooks died at the Soldiers' Home
this morning. He had been for
twelve years superintendent of the
home a work in which he gave the
greatest satisfaction. He was 69
years old and served in the Teuth
North Carolina Artillery through
the civil war. He becme superin
tendent of the borne in 181)8 sue
ceeding Capt. Fuller Louisburg.
He leaves a widow and three sons
It is announced that the funeral
will be from the first Baptist church
at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow arfcernoon
The Unloaded Piitol Again.
Yesterday morning in Raleigh
North Carolina, Joe Jones, who
is not auite grown, and his
younger brother were in
room at the home of their
father, Ranee Jones. They were
fooling with a pistol which was
out of fix. Joe had been workimg
with it when his younger brother
asked to see it. He was handed
the weapon and began to work
with it when a shot rang out and
Joe fell with a bullet in the right
side of his forehead. Medical aid
was summoned but nothing could
be done, the boy dying in an hour
or two after being shot. Ex.
(Pistols are dangerous things to
handle either loaded or unloaded
better have nothing to do with
them. News)
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Marchal Field & Co. Buy Cotton Mill.
Probably the largest deal in cot
ton mill stocks that has ever been
made in the South and ooe of the
largest iu the whole cunntry has
just been consummated by which
Marshal Field & Company, of Chi
cago secure the controlling interest
in several at Spray this State.
The purchase includes the con
trol of the American Warehousing
Company, with its mamoth finish
ing plant, warehouses, etc.; the
Spray Woolen Mills, one of the
largest wool mauufactuiing con
cerns iu the world; the Lily Mills;
the Rhode Island Company and
the Nantucket Mills. Through
the deal Field & Company acquire
control of practically all the manu
facture plants at Spray except
three, these being Spay Cotton
Mills, the Morehead Cotton Mills
and the Leaksville Cotton Mills.
To Save Robin From Pie.
New York, June 13. Mrs. Rus
sell Sage today gave $15,000 to the
National Association of Audubon
Societies for its work hi the south.
Earlier in the week she gave $500
to the association . The $15, 000 is
to be used in educational work in
Georgia, Florida, Alabama, North
Carolina and South Carolina, along
the general lines of work of the as
sociation, whose object is to pro
tect wild birds and animals. The
$500 was given to start a special
Robin Protective fund," which
the association is raising in an ef
fort to protect the robin from ex
termination in this country.
T. Gilbert Pearson, secretary of
the association, says the fondness
of some southerners for robin pie
is reducing the number of this spe
cies to an alarming extent.
Young Woman Kill Hereelf.
Greensboro, June 13. Mrs. Li
lian Powell 22 years old com mi ted
suicide Sunday morning about
o'clock at her home near Guilford
station, by slashing her throat from
ear to ear with a razor. Her bus
band and her mother, Mrs. Julian
Dean, bad just left the room for a
few minutes when the rash deed
was committed. Mi's. Powell had
been ill for several days with ty
phoid fever and stated to her hus
band Saturday night "You would
just as well go get a preacher for
I'm going to die." She seemed
much more cheerful Sunday morn
ing.
Surviving are her husband, her
parents and an infant child two
months old.
An Automatic Plow.
automatic plow is said
An
to
have been invented receutly by
citizen of Winston Salem, Mr. C
R. Trexler. This plow is similar
to other traction plows except that
it plows automatically aud does
not require a man to operate it. It
consists of a traction engine oper
ated with crude oil and a plo
The real invention consists in the
ingeniously arranged wheels which
cause the plow to run around in
each furrow automatically. The
first furrow has to be plowed with
a man steering the machine and
then he may turn it loose and it
will do the work, guiding itself
and keeping the machinery oiled
automatically.
If the invention proves practi
cable it means much for farming
operations, especially on large
farms. Landmark.
P. G. Adams a farmer of Wake
county was drowned last Sat
urday while rescuing some boys
who were inbathiug with him in a
pond. He got the boys in safety to
shallow water, but was himself
drowned.
The Man Who Didn't Sleep For Twenty
Year I Dead.
New York, Jnne 13. Alonzo
Wire, former police chief of Hack
ensack, N. J., who asserted that he
had not closed his eyes in sleep lor
20 years, died Friday night from
an affection of the lungs and bron
chial tubes.
Mr. Wire's strange ailment was
believed to have leen the result of
a lightning stroke which grazed
him thirty years ago, when he was
driving a team of horses. The
animals were stunned and Wire
was deafened for a long period.
Soon afterwnrd he began to develop
insomnia and ten years 'later he
frequently would spend entire
nights without sleep.
During the height of his strange
malady he was engaged as night
watchman for the Lackawanna
railroad. During the day he
would merely recline on a couch,
but would not close his eyes. In
spite of inability to get rest such
as other people enjoyed, Wire did
not seem to be affected, except that
he lost a little weight.
Throughout his recent illness he
was just as wakeful as ever and it
apparently did not effect his vi
tality seriously.
Girl' Pitiful Plight
Special to The Observer.
Greenville, S. C, June 13.
While making a search in the
woods near the city today for a
negro wanted on a trivial charge,
Sheriff Poole came upon a young
white girl about 16 years old who
had almost goue back to the primal
state. The girl was asleep when
found lying on a bank of moss near
the river bank, and when accosted
by the officer she declared that for
several weeks she had made her
home in the woods, living on
berries and sleeping in the open.
The girl's clothing was wet by the
continued rains and she appeared
in a somewhat exhausted coudi
tion.
lhe shenfl took the girl in
custody aod placed her in charge
of the authorities at the emrgency
hospital in the Salvation Army
citadel. She was later i lentified
as Leonie Anderson, and physic
iaus say she has been suffering
from temporary mental at)erration
Floating Log Plunged Eight Eeet
Steamer Hamilton.
Into
Eli zabeth City, June 14 The
steamer Hamilton of the LeRoy
line, had a most remarkable ex
perience Sunday night and that
the big boat did not go down
considered miraculous. While
plying up Roanoke river she ran
into a big elm tree floating in the
water and the tree plunged into
the side of the ship just below the
the water line and penetrated
through the hull eight feet. Work
was immediately begun to save the
boat, but it was found thai the log
had so wedged into the side of the
hull that there was very little leak
age. The tree was sawed off from
the outside and with the eight
foot beam sticking into her side
the Hamilton steamed back to
E i zabeth City.
Dies Worrying For Wife.
Altoona Pa., June 13. Worry
ing over the critical illness of his
wife Jacob J. Wilt, aged 70, a civ
il war veteran, died today follow
ing a 23 hours sleep. Mrs. Wilt
has been ill some weeks, recently
undergoing a serious operation
and her condition greatly alarmed
her husdand.
When Wilt came home from his
work in the Pennsylvania shops
Thursday evening he was exhaust
ed mentally and physically an
and sank into a stupor from whi U
he could not be aroused, sleeping
on into death.
"Postal Authorities Are Enforcing the
Rule."
Inland Printer
Newspaper sukscriptions must be
paid. That is the dictum that
comes from Washington.
In a recent letter to an Iowa
editor, Congressman Jamiesou
sends out the following warning:
t4My attention was cabled a few
days ago to the case of one of the
Iowa newspaper men. the publisher
of a county weekly, who was cited
by the Postoflice Department to
show cause why he should not be
deprived of his privilege to send
his paper through the mails at the
second class rate, because it ap
peared that he had not been living
up to the regulations which re
quired that his subscribers must all
have renewed within one year.
"Of course, you remember the
ruling made a little over two years
ago that subscription must be ex
pressly renewed within the follow
ing periods: Dailies, within three
months; semiweeklies, within nine
months; weeklies, within one year,
etc. I know that some newspaper
men have neglected this rule of the
department, and I want to call
our attention to it, as it may save
serious trouble and embarrassment
u the future. The third assistant
states that they have taken up
thousands of individual cases, call
ed to their attention by complaint,
aud they are enforcing the rule
strictly. Just at this time they
have one special agent working in
owa."
Funeral Of Rer. R. A. Willi.
Special to News and Observer.
Elizabeth City, June 14. The
remains of the Rev. R. A. Wil
is, who died Sunday night at the
home of his son at Littleton, ar
rived here yesterday morning and
were interred in the afternoon in
Hollywood cemetery. The funeral
services were held from the First
Methodist church, the pastor Rev.
J. D. Bundy, assisted by the Rev.
R. H. Broom, Rev. J. H. Buffalo
and Rev H. M. Jackson conduct
ing the services.
Rev. R. A. Willis had retired
from the active ministry two years
ago aud had not enjoyed very good
health for sometime. He was on
a visit to his sou, the Rev. R. H.
Willis, who is pastor of the Meth
odist Church of Littleton, he hav
ing made his home there for sever
al years, with his daughter, Mrs.
Joseph P. Kramer, and had been
critically ill for several weeks.
He was 75 years of age.
The deceased is survived by his
wife, three daughters, Mrs. J. P
Kramer, Misses Naunie and Emma
Willis, all of this city, aud one
sou the Rev. R. H. Willis, pastor
of the Littleton Methodist church.
( Rev. Mr Willis is remembered by
a number of the people iu Lenoir
haviug been a Presiding Elder of
of the Statesville district about 24
years ago. News.)
Board Medical Examiner.
Wilmington, N. C. June 14
The annual meeting of the Board
of Medical Examiners is being
held at Tarrymore Hotel, Wrights
ville Beach, having convened to
day, for the purpose of examining
the applicant for license to pratice
medicine. There are something like
135 applicants. The board will be
in session until some-time n e x t
week. The North Carolina Medical
Society meets Tuesday of next
week and continues in session
through Thursday.
Alter quarreling all night Alleu
I !'tul of Richmond Va., shot and
Killed his wife Sunday morning,
and then went to his room and
killed himself blowing his brains
out with a pistol.