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ONE DOLLAR PAID-IN-ADVANCE GETS THIS PAPER TWICE A WEEK FOR A WHOLE YEAR. i i Volume XV Lenoir, N. C, Friday, November 22, 1912 No. 6 BOrS CORN CLUB MEETING Some Interesting Fact to The Boyi by Mr. D. TaL mage Smith. To the Corn Club Boys of Caldwell County aDd those who wish to be Corn Club boys next year: The Corn Club work fo this year is about finished and I feel sure that we have all been ben etitted, in some degree, by hav ing been members of the club. It has been a source of real pleasure and bentit to us to have met and mingled together as we have since last April. We have met and become acquainted with boys from all parts of the county, who we probably would never have known, except through the Hoy's Corn Club. We have not only become ac quainted with each other, but we have learned things that will materially benefit us. We have demonstrated the fact that we can grow as much corn on one acre of land as our fathers have been growing on five or ten acres and with as small or smal ler cost, and with one-fifth the work. Now, I am not saying this in a boastful way, because our parents have heljx'd us to demonstrate this fact, but the Boy's Corn Club certainly was at the bottom of it. We all know that this season has been a very unfavorable one for corn growing in this part of the country, but, so far as I have heard, all the Corn Club boy's nave made real v troou vieias when you consider the season. Of course we are not all going to win the prizes, we are not ex pec ting to. The truth of the matter is that winning is not the principal object of the Corn Clubs, but only an inducement. The principal object is to teach us boys how to farm in a busi ness like way; to teach ushow to grow as much corn on one acre of land as we have been grow ine on five or ten. and at as small a cost as possible; to teach us to keep an accurate account of all the work done, fertilizer used etc. So that, at the end of the year we might know just how much we lost or gained, therefore, whether we made one hundred bushels on one acre of land or only twenty bushels, wi should be proud of the fact that we know just how we made it and how much it cost us. If we have learned these things, whether we win a prize or not, we will never have any cause to regret that we belonged to the Caldwell Ceunty Boy's Corn Club of 1912. There is always a winding-up time to all kinds of business Saturday, November 30th, 1912 at Lenoir, is the time and place set for the winding-up of the Boy's Corn Club work for this year. On that date every boy who joined the Corn Club last Spring is earnestly requested to be present. Mr. I. (). Schaub of Raleigh, N. C, will make us an address at 10:30 o'clock in the court house and he will have something good to tell us. You will miss a treat if you are. not there to hear him, After Mr. Schaub's address we will hear the report of the boy's corn crops. I want each one of you (the Corn Club boy's) to take your seed corn bulletins and go to your corn pile and select the ten best seed ears of qorn that you can find, judging to your Heed corn bulletin, and bring them with you to the meeting.. By doing this we can determine the variety of corn that does best on the different soils and thereby III Mother Sell Her Blood. Baltimore, Nov. IH. Desert ed by her husband, with no sup port for herself and 7-year old boy twins, and ill in the Johns Hopkins hospital, Mrs. Ethel Brown gave up a quantity of her blood in order to obtain money for the support of her children. This sacrifice of the mother became known here when De tective Quirk returned from Vinelaud, N. J.,' with Charles Leroy Brown, the husband and father, who has been indicted by the grand jury here for de serting his wife 'and failing to provide for the sup' port of her self and little ones. Until about three months ago the mother worked to provide for herself and children. . At that time she was removed from ler home to the Johns Hopkins lospital. and in a few days was the mother of another bouncing baby boy. During her illness ler small savings had slowly dwindled, until she had but a few pennies left. learning that a patient in the institution was in a serious condi tion and that the only hope of the surgeons was in transferring some healthy blood into the body of the patient, Mrs. Brown offered to sell some of her blood The surgeons accepted her offer. Mrs. Brown stood the operation very well." and in a few weeks was able to leave the institution. She received $:!.". Raleigh. Nov. Is. To be caught under a pile of coffins while selecting a casket in whicl to bury his wife, who died last night, was the fate early today of George Newton, an employe of the city sanitary department. Both legs broken, several rib dislocated and the chest pushed in was the extent of Mr. New ton s injuries. At the hospital this afternoon, where one of the legs was amputated, it was stat ed that the man had rallied from the effects of the ether and would likely recover. He is over 00 years old. Picnic at Colletttville. Lodge No. 330 1. O. 0. F., of Collettsville, will celebrate Thanksgiving Day by giving picnic, on that day. We expect to have a brass band and some able speakers, among them Rev N. W. Harrison. Everybody cordially invited to come and bring a well ".afl basket and enjoy the daj . W. R. Bkaswkll, Sec. enable ourselves to obtain the vW v best seed corn for next year. This meeting will not on ly be a winding-up of this year' work, but it will be the begin ing of next years work, there fore we earnestly request that each boy in Caldwell County between the age of ten and eigh teen years, be present and en list for the Corn Club work next year. We want the County Cor Club, next year, to be better and more interesting than it has ever been. There should easily be one hundred Corn Club boy in Caldwell. Come and hell push the good work along an you will always be proud of having done so. We will be glad to have any older people who wish to, to be with us for Mr. Goforth, the County Pern onstrator, is going to be with us and will have something good to say. ' Everybody be on hand by 10:30 a. m. D. Talmauk Smith, Co. Pres. Boy's Corn Club. Not 19th. 1912. BUILT A FUNERAL PYRE. I Princes Zekie, Her Husband With the Turkish Army, Kills Herself. St. Petersburg, Nov. 17.-Ac cording to a Russian correspon dent who is at Constantinople, Zekie, the oldest daughter of Abdul Hamid, the former Turk ish sultan, and who is very pat riotic, was overcome with de spair on account of her country's disasters and dramatically com mitted suiside in the garden of her magnificent palace at Abu sheir. Her husband was Noureddin Pasha, a general of a division of le army and a son of the famous Osman Pasha Ghazi, the victorious." He was fight ing under .Naziin I'asna, trie urkish minister of war. who. although he declared to the sul an that he would die on the bat tlefield rather than return in de feat, has been overwhelmed with deleat and is now advising the 1 urkish ministers to aoan - don the war. As the news of the successive urkish defeats came in Prin cess Zekie became morose and refused to converse with her friends. After the defeat of theftific treatment to a state of per- urks at Lule Gurgas became Known in the uttouian capital the princess determined to com- mit suicide. She built a funeral pyre with her own hands and decorated it with flowers and priceless tapestries. The servants were very anx- ious over their mistress be- navior, but they did not dare in terfere. The princess spent a ong time in her apartments in silent prayer. Finally she came out her hair mowing and attired m a long garment, ascended the yre and then applied fire to it. She was burned to death while the servants stood around la menting, but. with characteris tic Turkish fatalism, did not at tempt to prevent the saddened woman from taking her own ife. Afterward a letter from Prin- cess Zeki to her husband was found, in which she declared that she could not survive the ruin or her people and cursed the beaten army for its loss of the ancient valor. The letter closes with a prayer to Allah not to permit the complete de- strection of the Ottoman nation. Juror for Caldwell Superior. A two week's term of court for Caldwell County will begin next Monday, Nov. 25th, with Judge C. C. Lyon presiding The following men compose the jury: FIRST WEEK. Leonard Annis, T. W. Maltba, G. P. Houck, S. P. Parsons, J H. Wilson, M. A. Crisp, J Coffey, R. A. Woods, R. T. W. Le- Lenoir, Jr., E. E. Tolbert, D. H. Warlick. S. Payne, W. 1). Icenhour, Molton Triplett, Eu- gene Bean, Herman Smith, R. H K'irhv John FViy. John P Curtis, J. 1). Hood; V. B. Arney, M K ThnmiNoii .1 A Mnllis. E. T. Estes. SKCONI) WKKK. J. B. Webb, L. C. Link, .1. L. Shomaker, .1. E. Martin. J. H. Clay, Jr., T. Coffey, .). A. Turn mire, Otis Setzer, L. C. Reid, W. C. Tolbert, T. L. Anderson. Jasper E. Craig, T. J. Phillips, L. J. Lane, Pickens Mean, C. E. Miller, J. C. Smith, :M. W. West. This court will be held for the trial of civil cases only. Subscribe for the News. THE DULA BEAUTY Famous Caldwell Apple Wins High Praise Wherever Shown. Charlotte Observer. One day the past week, Tie observer opened a box of apples from the orchards of J. A. & S E. Dula, in Caldwell CounU. We had been prepared for wbut to expect through a letter fron these apple specialists, to thi effect: Enclosed you will find a bill of lading for one box ol 'Dula Beauty' apples, which wt are sending in appreciation ot what you have said and done f0r us anii this section of the State And further, to bear you out in the contention that we can grow as fine and as good an apples as can be grown anywhere when we use modern methods." The Observer has often written of the Dula beauties, but as the contents of the box came to view, we felt that too much had not )vm saiu 0n tht COntrary tllis prouUt.t of the Dula orchards ilils nnt the mount, of new Lapor publicity it deserves. The Dula Beauty lias been dt veloied by long stages of scein fection. It has been made the subject ot a bulletin by the bnit ed States Bureau of Plant In dustry, which handles it in the consertative manner characters tic of Government publications Sparing of adjectives, Doctor Galloway, the Government's ap pie expert, say "Tnis variety is doubtless a oollintr nf the Limhei-twi.r as L originated from a collection of soeds of tilis variety which were pianted from stocks. The gen- cral c haracteristics of the tree give additional evidence oi sucn an origin. Tne tree, however, is more thnlty and vigorous than the Limbertwis. It origi nated at Lenoir, Caldwell Coun ty, from seed planted by Mr. J. A. Dula, who knows the variety as Dula's Beauty, but under the rules of the American Pomological Society this should be reduced to Dula. It has not yet been widely disseminated. it is a large, dark red, more or less striped apple of good dessert quality, keeps fairly well, and is a prolific bearer in the vicinity of its origin. It is considered an appie oi niucn - i , i - e L value as a long keeping variety both for home use and for maket and is said to do well either on bottom land which is a sandy alluvial soil or on hills and ridges where the type approach es ueeu ciay. ine elevation where it is most grown is 1,000 to 1,200 feet." Luther Burbank never achiev ed so great a success in the vegetable kingdom as the Dulas have scored in the propagation of this apple. It has reached its present state of perfection through a series of experiment Hon on whole root grafting by the Dulas. these apples are now grown not only in Caldwel County, but in Burke, Aver y and Watauga, and the territory is being increased as fast as tlx Dulas can supply the demand. Of course, the Dula Beauty is a prize winner wherever ex hibited. U attracted perhaps the most notable attention at the Paris exposition, where it was given a series of prizes. But the Messrs. Dula are not demonstrators of one apple, only. They grow 1-1 other varieties, of lesser size, less beuutiful in color, jiehaps, thanna. NEWS ITEMS OF INTEREST. Interesting Reading Matter of Local and National Affairs in Condensed Form. The Colston Roller Mills were burned Wednesday entailing a loss of about MO.LU) with "500 insurance. The committee investigating the condition of Schrank, the crank who shot Col. Roosevelt, say they find Schrank insane and he will be committed to a hospital for criminal insame. Governor Mann, of Virginia, has given Floyd , Allen and his son, Claude Allen, two of the Hillsville, Va., murders, who were sentenced to be electro cuted today, a respite, until De cember 13th. Nashville, Tenn.. Nov. Robbers at 230 o'clock this morning held up night oxrator Huff of the Louisville & Nash ville Railroad at Gallatin and took S1."(U in money and some mileage books. Officers from Nashville were sent there this morning. The four "Gunmen" convict ed of the murder of Herman iozenthal in New York at the instigation of Police Lieutenant decker, have been sentenced to death by electrocution during the week beginning December th. This is the fifth person sentenced to die for this foul murder, Becker having been convicted and sentenced before. A collision occured on the Seaboard Air Line near Norlina Tuesday morning in which eight men were killed and several in jured. The engineers and fire men of both trains were killed with four other expressmen and members of the train crew. No passengers were killed. l he collission is said to have been due to misreading of train orders. Wasington, Nov. 20. A na tionwide raid, involving the practical simultaneous arrests of 173 persons in the principal cities of the country was made today by iostottice insieetors and United States marshals up on doctors and drug concerns, charged with misuse of the mails to solicit criminal medical prac tice or to dispose of medicines and instruments connected with such practice. Clinton, Nov. 1. News ot a fatal turkey hunt in Sampson county reached here today. Nat Strickland was accidentally shot and killed by his brother, W. H. Strickland, Saturday afternoon. They were out turkey hunting. Both had whistles and were calling wild turkeys. Each took the other for a turkey by their calls until they came very close together, when the deceased was shot, his brother thinking he was shooting the turkey The deceased was about forty five years old and a man of gtxx standing. No suspicion what ever of foul play is connectei with the matter. The advertisement that gels read is the one that builds up the business. If you can, t write readable ads, get some one who can to do it for you. the Dula Beauty, but all of fine flavor and quality. The apple orchard of the Dula's near Lenoir is an object lesson in what can be done in the way of apple growing in North Caroli- THE COUNTY HOME AGAIN. Plauditor Endorses the Position of the News on the County Home Question. Mr Editor You were wise and bold, the other day, to broach and urge the changes needed in the administration of our dejendent and criminal af fairs. We are father out of touch with the spirit of progress of our time in the matter of deal ing with these classes, than al most any thing else. What, besides, has not adjusted itself to conditions of a larger, more varied and more intelligent population? Where ever private or coriHirate. there is steady de velopment and adaptation to new conditions. No need to socialize; only look uroiind. The community's dealing with its dependents and the State's with its criminals, are practical ly if Jnot literally, what they were s in days wholly different from the, present, and from the assured modifications of the fu ture. If we. of this section of the land, are but just beginning to pay due attention to things of this jsort, it is to that extent well, for long, long have we seemed to sleep on it. I here are two main issues at the basis of any thought upon our dual resionsibility to our selves, in our attitude towards our less fortunate fellow-mor tals. Tht1 first is a moral principle. The life of those who fall, by whatever step, within the cor porate care, is of the highest importance. Consider: In the bosom of every one of those in our alms house and our prison house, is a heart, down cast, may be out castand to what extent by our own neglect, God knows! a heart capable, and perhaps full, of the emotions, impulses, affec tions, hopes and longings, that possess our own hearts, who en joy the sunlight, and Ireely walk among the children of men. It is a rude hand that unneces sarily shuts the door fast upon these helpless ones, a rough foot that heedlessly walks past them, if not over them. The largest thing in the world is Humanity. ror humanity s sake now, when in so many smaller concerns human minds are planning for the best, we ought to so manage as to find promote the best in those whom misfortune or wickedness has made our special care. We are a Christian people; we are a moral folk are we not? This is a moral question, and into the heart of our citizenship it must be taken, and sifted and decided. Then, Sir, as a matter of prin ciple, on the basis of "good business," the economy of the whole proceedings, bring us to our senses, or at least it ought to. We look at things so different ly; some of us are moved by con siderations of life, in its moral individual aspect, and others, not by any means from sordid motives, at the practical, cold business face of a matter. There is a clear, if not cold, business side of this matter; but it is too large to venture u i Kn now. An other time, by your kind ier mission, Mr. Editor, let it be re curred to by Yours respectfully, PuvrniTOK One good combination dog, if kept in a narrow yard, can do the barking for two houses at night.
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