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Volume XV
Lenoir, N. C, Tuesday, December 24, 1912
No. 15
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NEWS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Interesting Reading Matter of
Local and National Affairs
in Condensed Form.
William P. Blair who was
tried in Guilford county court
last week for killing G. G.
Thompson was acquitted.
The farmers and other good
citizens of Forsythe county are
making an effort to raise $4,000
for farm demonstration work in
that county.
Over '200 cases of typhoid
fever have appeared in Tryo,
Pa., and trained nurses for a
radius of 50 miles have been
drafted to aid physicians in their
fight against the epidemeic.
A destructive tire occurred at
Elkin on the 17th burning four
nice brick business houses with
stocks of goods and offices en
tailing a loss of about $50,(KX)
partially covered by insurance.
Bunker Hill, Los Angeles, a
barrier between the business
and a large residential district
now pierced by tunnels, is
crumbling so that complete re
moval may be necessary an
immense and costly undertaking.
Jacksonvilla, Pla., Dec. 19. -Contaact
has been let for the
600,000 canal to run from West
Palm Beach to Lake Okeocho
bee in the interior of the State
to the National Construction
Company of Birmingham, Ala.,
for excavating. The ditch will
be 47 12 miles long, eleven feet
deep and 75 feet wide and will
oien up many thousands of
acres of land. It is to be com
pleted by July 1.
China Grove, Dec. 19. Some
time Tuesday night burglars
broke out a glass in the door of
the department store of Patterson-Young
Mercantile Company,
slipped a bolt and entered. They
appropriated a lot of clothes and
carried them about a mile, se
lected what was wanted and left
the remainder - four suits and
parts of two others near Mr.
J. B. Goodniirht's residence.
There is no clue to the guilty
parties.
Greenwood, S. (, Dec. 19-
The second attempt within a few
months to wreck the Seaboard
train No. 32 was made Tuesday
afternoon in the Maxwell yards,
about two miles from the city.
A switch was divided by means
of a spike. Running at a rat
of about 40 miles an hour, the
train, due here at 6:36, hit the
obstruction, but only the bag
gage car left the tracks and no
one was injured. Railroad of
ticials are making a close inves
tigation.
Mr. Isaac Shores, aged about
35 years, was found dead in a
kneeling position at his barn,
on his farm, some 12 miles
southeast of Yadkin ville. Dec
8th. He was found by a colored
boy and his body was still warm
S. Carter Williams was apointed
a special Coroner to investigate
the case and placed in jai
without bail and Boss Plowman
was found guilty as an accessory
and bond recommended. The
wound which caused Shores
death was inflicted during a
quarrel with the defendants
some three weeks ago. The de
ceased was stabbed by Gates
Thore while Plowman held him.
Both of the defendants
are
borthers-in-law' of the man
whose death they caused. It
' seems that when he was stabbed
a small artery was severed and
drop by drop he bled to death.
Subscribe for the News.
Summary of the Corn Club Work. .
Although a large part of the
State experienced thej most
severe drouth in many years,
the result of the Boys' Contest
shows an increaced average
yield above 1911. Six hundred
and thirty-five boys have made
their report with a total yield of
39,800 bushels or an average
yield of 62.8 bushels per acre.
In 1911, four hundred and thirty
-five boys reported with an aver
age yield of 60.7 bushels. The
average cost in 1912 was 47c
while in 1911 it was 45c. This
increase cost is due largely to
the severe drouth in the Pied
mont section, which reduced the
yield and thereby increased, the
cost per bushel.
Two boys made above 175
bushels, live above 150, twenty-
one above 125 and seventy-five
above KX). The largest yield
was made by Richard Brock, in
Wayne county, but his cost of
production was so large that
the championship of the State
goes to George West, Jr., of
Kinston, with a yield of 1H4
bushels.
The two boys making the best
record in each district, twenty
in all, win free trips to the Na
tional Corn Kxposition. These
trips are given by the Southern
Fertilizer Association of Atlanta
Ga.' Many counties will also
sends boys to this Exposition.
One girl, Miss Ethel Smith,
of Stanly county, competed with
the boys and won third prize in
her district. There Were two
other girls in the contest in the
State, but their yields wore not
lare enough to win district
prizes.
EIGHTH DISTRICT.
Counties of Surry, Alleghany,
Wilkes, Alexander, Ashe, Wa
tauga, McDowell, Caldwell.
Burke, Mitchell, Yancey and
Avery.
First prize, Arthur Fox,
Dealsville, 97.6 bu. cost 11.5
per bu.
Second prize, Fred Morris,
Nealsville. H7.9 bu. cost 20.2c
per bu.
Third prize, (.'has. Hensley,
Marion, 95.1 bu. cost 24c per bu.
Fourth prize, .1. J. (Mark,
Morganton. 106.5 bu. cost 32.1
per bu.
Fifth prize, Rom Houk,
Marion, 11)4 bu. cost .(.i.4c per
bu.
Sixth prize, Joseph L. Green
lee, Old Fort, 103.2 bu. cost 31.;
per bu. ,
Seventh prize, J. Y. Yancey
Marion, 109.7 bu. cost 46. He jr
bu.
Final Crop Eatimate.
The governmen't final esti
mate on crops shows that the
value of the 11 principal crops
this year is $3.91 1,4 49, (XX), an in
crease in value of over 50 mil
lion dollars as compared with
last year.
Corn stands at the head of the
list, with 2(X) million bushels
more than was grown in l'.HMi,
when the largest crop ever pro
duced was turned out. The 19
12 crop is more than a half mil
lion bushels larger than 1911
The value, of the 1911 crop, the
price December 1 being Is cents
against 61 cents last year.
The total wheat crop was 109,
029, (XX) bushels greater than last
year; oats was nearly a half bil
lion greater and all through the
i list of 1 1 leading crops, the in
crease over 1911 runs into the
millions,
Whenever a man tells us that
he has never spoken an unkind
word to his wife we wonder if it
was chivalry or prudence.
CDilbuB
The sands that count the year are low within
the upper glass,
They slip away, these little years, so swiftly
do they pass;
They flit like shadows to and fro the longer
we may live
But, ah, they take no more from us than they
may freely give!
They take the song, mayhap, but leave the
echoes sweet that hum
The year is dying, but there is another year
to come.
Then why gaze at the' trickling sand with
heavy sigh and frown ?
Turn it down! Turn it down!
There are smiles and laughter waiting where
the other joys came from.
Turn it down! Turn it down!
There's another year to come.
Another year is coming now its hailing call
we hear
With golden smiles to pay us for each jewel
of a tear,
With clover nodding in the rain and dew upon
the rose,
With silver store of moonlight, and with
ivory of snows,
With lilting laughter for the lips that long
time have been dumb
The year is dying, but there is another year
to come.
It is the twilight of the year the sands are
almost gone;
But turn the glass and wait to see the glory
of the dawn,
And wait to hear the mellow chord that
pulses with each word
That will build up the coming song the song
you've never heard.
Why brood above the days now gone, and
seek to find the sum
Of bitterness and happiness? Another year's
to come.
So tarn the glass and start anew the current
golden brown
Turn it down! Turn it down!
There are light and laughter lurking where
the other joys came from.
Turn it down! Turn it down!
There's another year to come.
(Copyright, by
School Building Collapsed at Elkin.
Six persons are believed to
have received fatal injuries and
from 20 to 30 were more or less
seriously hurt at .lonesville high
school one mile from Elkin, N.
C, at about 9 o'olock Saturday
night, when a part of the second
floor of the school auditorium
containing about two hundred
people collapsed. The names of
the following were believed to
be fataly hurt: Mrs. Nancy
Swain, Miss Le-xia Lussmau,
Lonnie Hanks, Reuben Ball,
Mrs. Smith.
Kyi
Why hold the glass and watch the sand with
gloomy sigh and frown?
Turn it down! Turn it down!
The melodies of joys to be already throb and
thrum
Turn it down! Turn it down!
There's another year to come.
W. O. Chapman.)
Mr.. W. W Curtii Dfid.
Mary, the wife of Mr. W. W
Curtis, died at the home of her
; son
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Mr. F. P. Curtis, at Globe,
N. C, Dec. 17th. 1912, where
she had been living for five
years. The deceased was in her
eighty tith year.
The man who flatters others
may be justified in doing it, but
the man who flatters himself
has little excuse for the waste
of time.
Kept Pittol in Hit Room at Jail.
Asheville, Dec. 1H. That
Sherrilf Buckner, of Madison
county, allowed him to keep a
pistol in his room at the jail, al
lowed him to eat at the family
table and allowed him to drink
whiskey whenever he so desired
were the startling statements
made on the witness stand y ester
day by Champ Briggs, who is on
trial here for the alleged mur
der of Baxter Shelton several
months ago. Briggs' case was
transferred to Buncombe county
from Madison because the State
insisted that it could not get a
fair trial in the latter county.
Sheriff Buckner has not yet
taken the stand, and so has had
no chance to either connrm or
deny trie charges maue oy
Briggs. Mr. Buckner is the
ame sheriff who was recently
severely reprimanded by Judge
Boyd in Federal court here for
arresting a witness ana taking
dm back to Madison county be
fore the Federal court had re
leased the witness. At the
time Judge Boyd delivered a
severe lecture on the rights oi
State officials to interfere with
''ederal cases and only a quick
apology saved Sheriff Buckner
from serious consequences. ,
Briggs and Shelton quarreled
so it is testified, over political
differences and it finally led to
the killing of Shelton. Briggs,
on the stand yesterday, claimed
that he shot in self defense, al
though he admitted having shot
six other men in the past twenty
two years since he moved to
Madison county. He says he
las shot at about fifteen men in
that time.
About fifty witnesses for the
defense remain to bej heard.
Taft to Accept Yal' Proffer.
Washington. D. C, Dec. In.
President Taft has made up
his mind to accept the proffer of
the Kent professorship of law at
Yale, recently made to him, and
probably will take up his duties
at New Haven early in the
spring.
He will not be restricted mere
ly to lectures to ale students,
but will be permitted to lecture,
if he desires, in other law
schools, or upon the platform,
or to engage in any other occu
pation which he sees fit.
The analogy between the
Yale professorship and Grover
Cleveland's relation with Prince
ton appealed teMr. Taft strong
ly, and when many of his clos
friends and advisers wrote to
him approving his acceptance of
the chair at Yale, he decided to
take it.
The president expects to
spend several weeks after March
4. in Aueusta. Ga., Where he
has passed two winter vacations
Secretary of Agriculture Jas
Wilson urges farmers to raise
sheep. Mr. Wilson declares
that'niutton will help materially
to-save the country in this turn
of high cost of living.
"Tell the jwople to eat mut
ton -mutton ," said Mr. Wil
son to a correspondent, "Tell
them to grow sheep. More unit
tm! Every farmer can produce
a few sheep."
The South Atlantic States.
Delaware, Maryland. Virginia.
West Virginia, North Carolina.
South "Carolina, Georgia and
Florida had 2.7.XK) sheep in
1912, the average farm price per
head being $3.52. North Caro
lina had 193,(XH, Virginia 7M,
(XX), South Carolina 34,000, Geor
gia, 174, (XX) and West Virginia
t3H,000.
COUNTY CORRESPONDENTS
Items From Our Regular Corres
pondents and Neighboring
County Papers.
WATliUA.
(Watauga Democrat.)
On last Sunday a most deplo
rable and much-to-be regretted
affair occurred on Brushy Fork,
three miles west of town We
have not the particulars in full,
but here is the way we have it,
A number of boys were out at
play when two of them, boys of
14 summers, one a son of Mr.
Thomas Bingham., the other a
son of Jessie H. Brown, got in
to a dispute and some hot words
were passed, when Brown and
some of his associates turned
and started off. Before, going
far he hurled a stone at young
Bingham. Bingham resented
this oy rustimg upon his as
sailent, stabbing him in the
shoulder. Brown started to
run but stumbled and fell, and
Bingham inflicted two more ugly
wounds in his back and side,
one being about four inches in
ength. The wounds are not
considered necessarily danger
ous by his physicians but he is
ight badly hurt. When last
leard from he was resting well,
and his earlv recovery is ex
pected.
Will Pennell in building a
nice residence near the top of
Deck Hill on the old Blowing
iock road.
Raid Show Horrow.
San Francisco, Dec. 18.
IxK'ked in steel cells in a dark,
evil smelling Chinese building,
United States immigration of
ficials in a raid early today found
five Chinese women who recent
ly had been smuggled in from
the Orient, and arrested two
men alleged to be the leaders in
the traffic.
Under the leadership of Unit
ed States Immigration Inspector
Ainsworth and Federal Attorney
McNabb, the entire local staff of
the immigration officers battered
down steel doors at the entrance
of the building. Pitch dark
ness greeted the officers. Not a
stairway was found in the build
ing, access to each floor being
gained by a trap door reached
by a ladder. Far below the
street level in a maze of under
ground passages the women
were found huddled in the cells.
The raid adds to a chain of
events which have cost much
bloodshed in Chinetown. A
Chinese informer who gave in
formation to the Government
leading to a previous raid en
deavored to return to China to
escape the vengence of the
smugglers, but was killed on
the liner Korea.
His slayer is now awaiting
trial in Honolulu
Appointments for Lenoir Circuit.
The following are the ap
H)intments for the Lenoir cir
cuit tor the coming year.
1st Sunday. Pleasant Grove
11 a. in. Gamewell ;i p. in. Col
liers 7.;i0.
2nd Sunday. Laurel Hill 11
a. m. Moores Chapel :; p. m.
Littlejohns 7 p. m.
3rd Sunday. Olivet 11 a. m.
Collettsville 3 p. m.
Mh Sunday Littlejohns 11 a.
in. Colliers 3 p. m.
5th Sunday Colletts ville 11 a.
in. Olivet 7 p. m.
J. H. Curtis, Pastor.
A man of words and not of
deeds is like a garden full of
weeds.
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