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2 J.w' f ONE DOLLAR PAID-IN-ADVANCE GETS THIS PAPER TWICE A WEEK FOR A WHOLE YEAR. Volume -XV Lenoir, N. C, Tuesday, January 7, 1913 No. 18 NEWS ITEMS OF INTEREST. I COUNTY CORRESPONDENTS! KILLING AT RH0DH1SS. i DAMAGE TO CORN CROPS MUST HAVE GOOD ROADS. THE PARCEL POST SYSTEM. Interesting Reading Matter of Local and National Affairs in Condensed Form. Items From Our Regular Corres pondent! and Neighboring County Papers. Noah Mathis Beceives Shot Some of The Insects Pests Which More Interest Manifested Than Wrinkles Will be Ironed Out in Ever Before in Cald- Few Days' Practice on well County. I Part of the Public. Intended for Gaither Teague. Damage Growing Corn and Cause Great Loss. An emidemie of meningitis is! watai ca. prevailing in Dyersburg, Tenn. j .Watauga Democrat. There have been sixty five cases Miss Alma Moretz music and a id thirty-five deaths from th? I primary teacher in Oak Hill disease in the vicinity. Academy, Caldwell county. Two newspaper men of Boise, inline over Friday and remained Idaho, have been sentenced to until Sunday at noon with home pay tines of five hundred dollars each and be imprisoned ten days e'W.'h for contempt of court. T.iey criticised the decisions of Idano Supreme court in the paH?r, hence the indictment. The worlds production of gold d iring the year 1912, was four h indred and sixtytive million d liar about five and a half mil I ons more than in I'.Hl. The production in the United States amounted to little over ninety one millions a slight falling off from the amount in l'.U 1. A young man by the name of Walter Messer, a tlagman on a freight train had a leg and arm crushed off by a train in the yards at Waynesville last week. He stepped off of the freight train and was run over by a passenger train backing into the switch. He is not exacted to live. The Democrats and Progres sives, of New Hampshire, elect ed a Democrat for Governor of that state last week, in the leg islature. At the November elec tion no candidate received a ma jority of the votes cast and the election was carried to the leg islature and a combination of D -moo rats and Progressives elected a Democrat to the office. Reports from Washington in dicate that the new Parcels Post started in with a big business on Wednesday the 1st and was handled with fairly good results for the first day. Some tins takes were made, mostly by persons using ordinary jxistage stamps on their packages when .1 i f i i tlie rule is lor special parcels p st stamps. All packages weighing over four ounces are now sent by parcels post and not in the ordinary way. The new Commissioner of Ag riculture for Catawba county entered upon his duties last week. He is an Ohio man and is said to be well qualified for the work. Mr. Ernest Perkins of Caldwell County, was elected to this position, but owing to the fact that he had only taken a two year course in the Agri cultural & Mechanical College, instead of four year course, he was not acceptable to the Chica go organization that was fur nishing half of the money for the work. The Democratic senators in Congress will likely work against the confirmation of Col. Goethals, as Governor of the Panama Canal zone in case the President should nominate him for the place. The Democrats want the place filled by an ap pointee of Governor Wilson when he enters upon the duties of President.. Col. Goethals has been in charge of the work on the canal for some time and is- said to be well qualified for the Hsition of Governor. A German scientist declares that every cubic foot of air con tains :.(),()(H),(XK) insects. A traveling man says that if it is a fact, some beds in, which he has recently slept must be built en tirely of air. folks and friends in Boone. A more popular, accomplished or better prepared young lady nev er left the village, and we are all glad to know that she is suc ceeding so well with her work, and that her lot has been cast, for the present, at least among a people to w hom she seems perfectly devoted. j While the public generally was enjoying the festivities of the holiday season, that devout man. Rev .1. M. Payne, was conducting a revival meeting at Middle Fork, which closed on Thursday, the 2th. As a result of his labors there were s ad ditions to the church, 2 by letter md ti by baptism, and a great awakening of the church people throughout the community. The efforts of Elder Payne for the cause ol his .Master, seldom go unrewarded. Young Dr. Honda Hardin. who is now finishing his third year in the Charlotte Medical College. sHmt a part of the holidays with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. 11 J. Hardin, near the llage. Tln young man has any warm mends here who are always delighted to see mm and to knolv that he is one of the leaders of his class in Hit Medical College. Mitt Mary Emma Graham Patsei. Last Saturday Mr. Luther Hoffman received a telegram calling nun u) uie oeusiue oi ins ir . 1 . i il I . .1 . ..re stepdaughter, Miss Mary Gra ham, at Cleveland, who as many of the readers of The News know has been a sufferer from turberculosis for many months hater advices say the young girl passed away on Sunday af ternoon and the body was buried yesterday at the family burying ground near the former home of her parents in Kowmi county Kev. E. V .loyner of the Kpis copal church, Lenoir, attended and conducted the funeral ser vices. Miss Urahain s case was a pathetic one, as she was bright engaging young girl just budding into woman hood, when the dread disease attacked her Everything possible was done to arrest the progress of the dis ease, but in vain. Her mother was a victim oi the same trouble and died only a few- months ago, and Mr. Hoffman has the deep sympathy of our whole community in his double bereavement. Miss Graham was a member of St. .lames Episcopal church, having been confirmed by Bishop Horner a few years ago. A Mississippi man advertises that In teaches the piano. After he has taught the piano, we suppose he will look around lor some pupils. When a man oilers you a cigar and then hesitates in dee pes thought, don't think that he is philosophizing. He is simply trying to recollect, which side of his vest, contains the gift cigars. Under some circuuistances it is bettor to loave than to be left. Last Saturday afternoon about five o'clock at Rhodhiss Arthur i Hollars shot and killed Noah Mathis. It seems Hollars and man named Teague were in ' a difficulty and were about to tight, when Mathis came in as peace -maker and in attempt ing to prevent a fight was shot, the ball taking effect in the head and producing death in less than an hour. There was not a par ticle of feeling between Hollars and Mathis as far as we can learn and Hollars, who was dainking heavily at the time says he had no feeling against Mathis. Hollar surrendered to the police of Khodhiss, who immediately notified Sheriff card, and Hollars was brought lere Saturday night and placed in iail. lie has very little to say ibout the unfortunate affair. more than asserting that he was drunk and does not know what ic said or did, but he insists he w;is not in the least out of hu Mini' with the man who was .i.i i filled. He has engaged Mr. M. N. Harshaw, of this place, to .ippear for him and the prelim mary trial will hKeiy he neiu this week, but the time has not yet been announced. Profitable Poultry. Mr. John N Smith, of Route 1. this County, who is one of the most successful poultry raisers of this part of the country, gives us the loilowing details oi his work in this line last year. He had a flock of seventy hens on an average during, the year. mostly of the Brown Ijeghorn breed. From these hens he gathered UU2 dozen eggs, worth at the prevailing prices, $207. It). In addition to this he sold $ls.(X) worth of chickens, besides using all the chickens his family wanted, for which no account was taken. He made a careful calcination oi me eosi oi iceu ing these chickens and found it to be Ul.2."), which shows a net profit of S 1 1 for the year and he now has more chickens than he began the year with. Mr. Smith lets his chickens run at large about the place and while they did some damage to his growing crops, he estimates the insects destroyed by them and the fertilizer gathered from the roosts to much more than com pensate for the small damage they did. Off for Raleigh The Caldwell delegation to Raleigh have gone to be on hand at the meeting of the Legislature toworrow. Lieutenant Governor Newland left Sunday and Mersrs Lawrence Wakefield, senator elect; and E. D. Crisp represen tative elect loft Monday at l:l." and tod day Mr. Mark Squires who is, we understand, a candi date for re-election to position of Reading Clerk of the senatt Mr. .1. A. Bush who has served as Stationary clerk for two terms to tin senate, is also a candidate for re-election and left on the early train Monday for Raleigh. Many a man thinks he wants rest when he wants exercise and many a man thinks he wants exercise w hen he wants rest. It requires a mighty small tack to puncture a fellow's good intentions. 1 have been studying the eno mies of growing corn during the past Summer and am convinced that Caldwell County lose- thousands of dollars every yeir through the ravages of Coin Root Worms. The worst of these is the Southern Corn Rxt Worm and is commonly known locally as the Bud Worm. This Bad worm is the young of a twelve spotted beetle, yellowish green with twelve black spots on its back. This is not the regular melon bug although it is seen to some extent on the young melon plants. The regular melon Bug has yellow wing covers with black stries running lengthwise and feeds on the young melon vines while its' youg feed on the roots of the young melon plants by cutting off their roots. The vounir of the twelve spotted beetle feed on the roots of corn and sometimes bore into the stalk just above the roots under the ground. These cut into and kill the young corn in some cases while in every case they do serious damage by cut ting off the roots of the corn and thus dwarfing it even when they do not kill it outright. The damage done is much greater than most people are aware of as it is done under the ground ami out of sight. There is another solid colored, yellowish green, hug, the larva of which feeds on the roots of corn and destroys millions ol dollars worth of tnis great crop every year in the United States. Fortunately, however, this bug is found chielly in the Western Corn Growing States and I be lieve that we have hilt few, if any, of these in Caldwell Coun ty. 1 he ire worm also leeds on corn roots. It is a redish vel low, hard worm, and is the young of the Snapping Bug, or .lack Snapper. Still another worm, The Larger Corn Stalk Borer, which did a great deal of damage to corn in North Carolina last year, was found by me, person ally, to be present in this Conn ty. The first generation then are two generations of this worm in a year, feeds in th top of the corn while the corn is growing and the holes made by these may be seen in the leaves after they grow out. This worm feeds as low in the throat of the plant as the water or dew wil allow and if the bud is eaten off to that point the stalk will be ruined as it will not tassel. Later on thev bore into the stalk near the ground. Tlu second generation feeds for a little while on the lower blades and then bores into the stalk near the ground where it eats the pith out of the stalk. After a hard wind, if the stalks are found to be broken at the ground, they should be searched for The Larger Corn Stalk Borer as that is what probably caused them to break. These worms pass the winter iu the tap roots of the corn stalks. Any farmer who saw any sign of round holes cut in the blades of his growing corn during the past Summer should examine the roots of the corn stalks which are still standing for these worms. If worms are found to be present a round hole will be found in the stalk near the irround and the stalks should The need of doing something thing for the roads of Caldwell County is the pressing quest ion that seems to be upermost in the minds of our eople. They are beginning to realize that Caldwell is not keeping pace with the procession m this re spect. The plans for see u ring better roads are almost is varied as the number of roads in the County. The sentiment for is suing bonds is growing steadily and will in a short time, with proK'r pushing, carry in some townships of the County. There are many persons who hae never favored a bond issue who are beginning to see that it is the only practical way to do the Work The ex penence and e ample of Hickory and Newton townships m our sister county of Catawba is having a good ef feet on the people of Caldwell. t is thought by many persons that a bond issue of reasonable amount would carry in Lovela ly, Hudson, Lenoir and lwer Creek townships and the senti ment m favor of it is growing all over the County. There are many and strong arguments in favor of it and those who pro pose any other means are un able to show how then- plans would he better than the issuing of township bonds. The meet ing of the committee here next Saturday promises to be well attended and to lie full of interest. be pulled up and laid in the hot lorn of the furrow at the tune the land is being plowed, which should be between the fifteenth uid thirtieth of March, or earlier as the worm turns about that time to a brownish yellow moth. This Larger Borer, as it is call ed, is not likely to be bad where a good rotation of crops is fol lowed and corn is not planted on the same land oftener than once every two or three years. Land which is planted every year m corn will have to be closely watched or this borer will damage the crop unless the stalks are buried m the furrow very deeply as stated above. There are several remedies for the small Bud Worm, or Southern Corn-Root Worm, which does us so much damage but none of these is perfect in so far as 1 know. Fall breaking does some good and frequent cultivation and rotation of crops both help. Very early or very late planting also aid to some extent in keeping this pest un der control. Prof. Massey says that if kainit is put under corn the bud worms will not kill it I have never tried this remedy I asked every man whose record in Demonstration Work I took, what treatment he gave for but worms. Mr. .1. S. Sears, of Dudly, was the only one who had used any treatment what ever and his remedy was One Table-spoonful of Spirits of Turpentine to each gallon of seed corn. Mr. Scars sprinkled the turpentine over the corn. He states that this remedy aided him a great deal in keeping off the worms and was also bene ticial in keeping moles from cut ting off' the stalks of the young corn. The United States Depart ment of Agriculture has promis ed to send a man here next Spriug to investigate the insects which injure our corn. G. M. Gokoktii. Washington. .Ian operation of the new system has loaded with freak shipments, of packages so Two KtlVt'l st, p' )stoltlces thousands! :i.pro:x'rly wrap'ped or packed th it they can not be trans(orted and t'.ous mds of others stamped with oni.niry postage instead of the spec: al parcel Hstage stamps. Most of the packages have gone through but the two latter classes will have to take the slow course through the dead letter office. Postoftice officials, however, are confident that the wrinkles in the new system will be ironed out with a few days' practice on the part of the public. President Taft received one of the first packages. It con tamed silver sKK)iis from John Wanamakrr. of Philadelphia. Postmaster General Hitchcock has received several packages. Eggs from Long Island, ;(X) miles away passed the local postoffiee safely. officials de clared many other fragile ship ments, proerly packed, were being handled without mishap over the country. All classes of merchandise and, of course, all mail matter formerly designed as fourth class, continued to pour through the postottices. Officials say the new service is destined to have a phenomenal growth. New York, .Ian. 2. The first violation of thtf parcel post law- was discovered here this after iHxm when a queer looking pack age, addressed to Philadelphia, was opened to reveal a live lob ster and a handful of live shrimp. iinuer the law live 1 T 1 .1 i 1 sheiinsh are classed as un mailable matter." The package was held up. More than l.bdO packages were mailed at the general post office here today and many thousands more at the branch s.(XX) bundles came in during the morning from suburban towns. Among them were 10 cartoons confining eggs. Only a small percentage of pei-sons using the parcel post today txk advantage of the privilege to have their packages insured. Postmaster General Hitchcock today issued an order amending the parcel post regulations which would bar from the par cel post service "pistols or re volvers whether in detached parts or otherwise." A fair correspondent asks: "Will you please send me a re ceipt for a nice home-made pie? "Yes, Edith, we will send the receipt in the very first mail after we have received the pie. No man knows whether he is honest until he has had a chance to steal. The most distinguished set tlors in the South are those who settle the first of the month. Put your life into your work, or your work will take the life out of you. Whether will mix mixer. business and religion depends upon the If things will not come your way you had better go their way.
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