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Volume XV Lenoir, N. C, Tuesday, August 5, 1913 No. 78
MR. J. G. HALL IS DEAD.
Expires at His Home After
Three Days Illness. A
Sketch of His Life.
Mr. Joseph Gaither Hall died
at his home on Mulberry street
on Friday at noon alter an ill
ness of only a ft. w Jays. His
death was due to injuries receiv
ed in a fall some time before
dawn Tuesday , morning. Ho
had gotten up that morning to
get a drink of water, and while
going to the washstand he fell
either from a stumble or a slight
stroke of apoplexy. He was
placed back on his bed by his
wife and daughter, and was
scarcely able to move himself
after this, his hip bone beiHg
broken. For several months he
had been quite feeble, though
able to attend to his business
and his physical condition was1
not such as to permit a recovery
from the fall, and his suffering
was intense, relief only coming
through anesthetics.
Col. Hall, as he was familiar
ly known to his friends, was
easily one of the most promi
nent men in this section of the
state, during his business ca
reer. Horn in Iredell county
on February 10, IkJj, a son of
Alexander P. Hall, lie was car
ried to the state of Georgia by
his parents, where he lived till
he was five years old. His par
ents then returned to North
Carolina and lived near Salis
bury with his paternal grand
parents. The eder'Hall being
a school teacher next moved to
Wilkes county, accompanied by
his family. He was a poor man
and was able to give his son no
educational advantages, except
what training he could give
himself. When the Civil War
came on in 11)1, Mr. Hall was
just l' years old, but he imme
diately volunteered, being a
member of the third company
that left Wilkes county. This
was company F. of the .VJnd
Regiment and he was made Or
derly Sergeant of his Company.
In February Mb- he was elected
"Jnd Lieutenant of the same Com
pany. He was engaged in the
battles of Gettysburg, Bristow
Station, Petersburg and other
tights around Richmond. He
was twice wounded but not se
riously. After the war. he returned to
V i kes count v. ami ne and ms
brother bought an old army
horse on credit, rented some
land and proceeded to raise a
crop. His farming operations
were not so encouraging as to
induce him to remain in this
work. He secured a position as
clerk in a store at WilWesboro
and after remaining here for a
while he accented a similar ik
sition with R. L Patterson V
Co., of Patterson. lu Novem
ber 1S7I he returned to Wilkes
boro and engaged ill the mer
cantile business with his broth
er The next year, they be
came partners with K. L. Pat
tersonof Hickory, the firm be
ing Hall and Patterson. He
lived in Hickory more than "JO
ears and was connected closely
with every industrial phase in
the life of the town. He was
engaged in the tobacco business
under the firm name of Hall and
Daniel and the Piedmont Wagon
Company owes its existence to
bis splendid business sagacity,
be being the founder. This is
now one of the biggest wagon
inannlacturing concerns of the
South. He was not only active
on the commercial life of that
town, but lie was the leader of
the people politically and edu
cationally, having served sever-
RUN DOWN OR ASSAULTED.
(The Observer.)
Mount Gilead, July HI. - Will
Morton, a young white man who
lives about two miles north of
town, was found lying in the
public road near his home last
night in an unconscious condi
tion, either the result of foul
play or being run down by an
automobile. On examination
the attending physicians found
that he had suffered a fractured
skull and other serious bruises,
from which his chances for re
covery were rendered very
doubtful.
A machine owned by Mr.
Frank McAulay of this place,
carrying his family and driven
by Mr. T. H. Harris, passed ov
er the siot a short time before
the discovery was made, and the
driver thinks that he passed ov
er the body. It is reported that
the young man .was seen a short
while before he was found in an
Intoxicated state and that friends
had tried to get him to his home
with considerable difficulty.
Mr. Harris, the driver, admits
that he ran over some object in
the road, but thinking that it
was a dog, passed on without
making any investigation.
al terms as mayor and alderman.
The remark is frequently heard
that "He built Hickory." He
was a director of the Chester
and Lenoir railroad and when it
went into bankruptcy, he was
apj)ointed receiver. In 177, he
was appointed a member of the
building committee of the State
hospital by Governor Vance,
and he served on the board of
directors of this institution con
tiuuouslv till his death. He is
the last member of this building
committee to answer the final
roll call.
In 1894, Mr. Hall moved to
the Yadkin Valley section in
Caldwell county, but he still felt
the lure of the town, and the
next year moved to Ijcnoir,
where he lived tiil his death.
He took a great interest in tin
industrial, j ol itical and educa
tional life of our town, and has
always been considered one of
our most substantial citizens.
Almost the entire time of his
residence here, he has been en
gaged in the insurance business,
and no one was more familial
with the industrial life of the
county than he. When the
graded school was established
in l'.KX) he was one of tin strong
est champions of the institution.
He was a faithful and consis
tent member of the Presbyterian
church ami lor many years was
an elder in that church.
In ls7l' Mr. Hall marne
Miss Annie E. Jones of the Yad
Hin valley, lo tins union was
born eight children. He is sur
vived by his wife, five sons
Messrs. W. A., E. L-, J G . S
P. and K. H. Hall and two
daughters,1 Misses Gertrude and
Fries Hall
The funeral services were con
ducted from the Presbyterian
church Saturday afternoon at :
o'clock by Rev. C. T. Squires,
assisted by Rev. C A. -Monroe
of Hickory, and the body wns
interred in tlie'eemetery at the
Chapel of: Rest in the Yadkin
Valley.
The session of the Prexby
tcrian church acted as honorary
pallbearers and the active
i pallbearers were: Messrs. .Ino. j
I R. Steele. W. W. Deal, S. A. I
IGrier. .1. H. Heall, .1. C. Seagle
and James Martin of Hickory.
It is said that the farmer is
the most independent man in the
world. Ma.be so, maybe so.
When his wife is not at home.
COUNTY CORRESPONDENTS
Items From Our Regular Corres
pondents and Neighboring
County Papers. .
BU)WI.; KOCK.
We are enjoying delightful
breezes up here while much of
the country has been weltering
in the heat.
Recent copious showers have
revived the vegetation and the
prospects are good for large
corn and other crops.
Last week young Frank Mc-
Ninch of Charlotte, a lad about
17 years old, who is summering
here with his mother, fell down
the cliff of Glenburnie Falls and
was seriously injured. He suf
fered a broken limb and severe
bruises. His father was sum
moned from Charlotte and he
brought Dr. McNairy of Lenoir
to attend the boy. After exam
ination it was decided to take
the lad to Charlotte Sunday.
Mrs. C. A. L. Holshouser died
at her home here last Saturday
night after an illness of several
weeks of relajxse from measles.
She was about til years old and
is survived by a husband and
one daughter, Mrs. N. C. Greene.
Mrs. Holshouser was a faithful
member f Hethel Reformed
church near this place where
the body was buried Sunday af
ternoon. Rev. A. S. Peeler of
Lenoir conducting the services.
August finds the hotels and
cottages here well tilled with
the largest crowd that has been
here for years. The crowd is
constantly shifting and all who
come are cared for somehow.
but it is difficult to see how they
are sometimes accommodated.
H. C. M.
WII.KKS.
(Wilkes Hustler, i
V heat threshing the past
week was the order of the day
The yield, is the best for several
years and the work first class
Leap's Prolific is still in tin
lead and the farmers in this part
have no words of praise for Mr.
Link, but on the other hand ;ue
preaching his funeral before he
dies. In some instances where
i ii .i i
ne sold smooth wheat came
bearded and where he sold long
berry wheat it came smooth and
in most cases it was mixed with
several different varieties.
Tomorrow, Aug. .1 Rog
ers and son W. R. Rogers wil
take H)ssession of the Central
hotel and will run it as an an
nex to the Hlue Mont. The ho
lei patronage lias grown so m
j-the last year in North Wilkes
boro that it taxes the capacity
of the hotels to care for the
traveling public. Mr. Jones
who had charge of the Central
for the last three years has not
decided definitely as to his plans
for the future. It is hoped that
he will remain in North Wilkes
boro where he has been quit
successful in the hotel business
W
H.Harnett, of the Hrushy
Mountains, cut a bee tree Mon
day, on A. M. Vannoy's farm,
that netted him H0 lbs. of sour
wood honey. J- E. Plulhpsof
Hoomer, tells us that several
very rich trees have been cut in
his section this year.
A R. Holloway and Ah. e
Spicer. of Edwards township, f 1 A', m' ' .,, , ,j
were committed to jail Sunday 1 , 1 a,.n ..f"v"" and 1
There are now twenty prisoners', ort- h, saui, , Tl"' , ,nsOM j
in the county jail.
Kvery little loy could tell
some mighty mean tales about
the little bov who lives next
door, if it wasn't for implicating
himself.
TRAVELING SCHOOLHOUSE
New York Central Will Teach
Safety to Its 150,000
Employees.
New York, July '-'A. To in
struct the l.")0,(XI0 employees on
its lines how to protect their
lives, limbs and even thumbs,
the New York Central opened
yesterday at tin1 Grand Central
Terminal the first traveling saf
ety schoolhouse. Kach employe
will be required to take a course
under Head Teacher M. A. Dow,
general safety agent, and his
assistants, who originated the
plan.
Two cars will make up the
student train, which will be tak
en over each of the divisions,
and lessons will be given at ev
ery station. Stereopticon lec
tures on safety will be given in
one coach. The other contains
pictures of the right and wrong
ways of performing scores of
operations in connection with
railroad work.
Mr. Dow found from investi
gations that l'OO men on the road
mashed their fingers last year.
To prevent this instruction is
offered in the proper way to
drive a spike. Lessons, aimed
to do away with fatal accidents
also will be given.
The safety exhibit car con
tains models of the machine
used in the shops of the compa
ny, showing the precautions in
the way of guards on the ma
chines that are used to prevent
injury to the workmen. To
start a campaign to lower the
number of persons killed tres
passing on railroad property,
one section of the cars picture
gallery contains views showing
how people risk their lives in
this way. Ten thousand were
killed and injured trespassing
last year in the United States
The car will bo ojen to the
public until tomorrow, when it
will make its first trip over the
system.
Train Falli Fifty Feet Into Stream
Chester. S. C, July ;10. Two
persons were killed and fifty
were injured when two passe n
ger coaches of the Lancaster
and Chester railway plunged
through a trestle and fell fifty
feet into a stream late Unlay.
The wreck occurred at Hooper's
Creek, seven miles from here.
V. H. Craft, of Anderson, S.
( '., and Klijah Hall. a negro
of the train crew, were killed.
A number of others, it is he
heved, will die. The train was
a mixed freight and passenger.
The six freight cars and the en
gine passed over the trestle in
safety
Serred 34 Year.
Thomaston, Maine. July :!().
Samuel I). Haynes. of Detroit,
walked out of the prison gab's
today after serving IU years for
the murder of James L. Kobbins
a policeman, at Rtx'kland in
s7'J At midnight his sister.
, Mps KoK(rs of Oetroit,
telephoned the prisoner that
Governor Haynes had pardoned
him.
"Thebattbj is won.' Haynes
told Warden Ham, "but 1 hate
to leave." Outside the prison
he held a nveption for a b'g
; crowd who Knew him as a mod
I V" T V., . . . ,
but I feel that I have paid my
bill to society. I have been in
prison since I was 17 years old
' but I have spent the better part
of my life here trying to be use
, ful. 'There is no failure in such
i a life as that " .
KILLING IN AVERYJ
i Watauga Democrat.),
On Monday night of last week
one of the little children of Ro-
by Carter, was taken violently
ill, and as he was working for
Mr. C. H. Voncannon, he took
the privilege of going to his
stable and getting a horse to go
altera physician a mile away.
The horse was missed, and Bai
ley Johnson, who knew Carter
well, started in. pursuit, tar
ter had gotten a prescription for
the little child and was hurrying
homeward when he nn-i .iuan
son who tired upon him twice,
both shots going wild. Carter
cried out, "dont shoot! It's
Roby." Hut again the report
of the rille rang out on the mid
night air. and the unfortunate
man fell to the earth fatally
wounded, crushing the much
prized bottle of medicine in his
fall. We are told that his as
sailant, seeing what he had
done, went for a physician and
then left for parts unknown.
The latest report is to the effect
that the little child who cost its
father his life, has since died,
and the mother is absolutely
prostrated with grief. We have
never heard of a more pitiful
heart rending case, but it goes
without saying that the dead
man technically violated the
law, but under the same condi
tions who of us would not have
done the same thing?
8 PERSONS KILLED AS MOTOR
CYCLE EXPLODES.
Cincinnati, July 111. Out of
the 35 persons who suffered
burns when the explosion of the
gasoline tank on Odin Johnson's
motorcycle at the Legoon, Ky.,
motordome last night, shower
ed sixvtators with burning oil,
eight had died up to 9 o'clock
tonight. One other, a woman,
cannot recover, the attending
physicians say, while seven oth
ers are in a serious condition
and not out of danger Of the
others Is suffered more or less
painful injuries but (Ud not re
quire treatment in hospitals.
The explosion occurred after
Johnson had collided with an
electric light ole and the racei
himself was among the first
victims Statements from sev
eral of the eye witnesses nidi
cated that Johnson s daring at
tempt to pass another rider was
the primary cause of the acci
dent.
He i said to lia e come m
contact with the machine pilot
ed by Gabanna. of the Cleve
land team, while trying to pass
tbt' latter on the upper eleva
tion of the track. 1 he impact
was slight but enough to force
Johnson to head Ins imiehint
toward the upper railing. H
apeared at this tune to hav
plenty of room but the machine
seemed to refuse to right itself
and crashed into a pole that was
some distance beyond the dan
ger mark on the track
Warrants were issued today
at the instigation of the coroner
which charged voluntary man
slaughter and were directed at
tht1 three heads of the amuse
inent park
Bond was given for the men's
appearance in olice court on
Saturday.
Miss Viiginii
Yours received Tl
"seaboard" does not
Kh.abeth
ie word
re f r to
what sadors lu e to eat
The advertiser no matter how
small ins favors is like the brave
j nr1' l! !,, considers his place
V the h-d of the column
NEWS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Interesting Reading Matter of
Local and National Affairs
in Condensed Form.
A party of Baltimore sports
men are planning to lease a tract
of 10,000 acres of land for hunt
ing in the Claremont and Cataw
ba sections of Catawba county.
The Newton McArthur Lum
ber Company of Faetteville,
but whose plant is located at
Eliz-lbethtOW n. ll Is been iMf'.Ced
in the hands of a receiver by or
der of court.
losiah W. Bailey of Raleigh
las been recommended for col-
ector of internal revenue and
William T. Dortch of Goldsboro,
for marshal in the Eastern
North Carolina district.
The month old infant of Mr.
and Mrs. A. E. Fryar, prominent
people of McLeans ville, died
Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock
as the result of having been
given a dose of morphine by its
mother through mistake.
District Attorney Manwell and
tow deputy sheriffs of Yuba
county Cal., wore shot and killed
on Sunday and six others
wounded including two women
when a sheriff's posse endeavor
ed to quell a hop picker's riot.
It is believed that over $1,
000,000 will be placed at the dis
posal of North Carolina banks
for the movement of the cotton,
tobacco and other crops in the
state during the fall. This fund
will be loaned the national banks
by the United States govern
ment.
Two members of a family of
eight are. expected to die and
the remaining six are seriously
wounded as a result of an attack
by a negro with an axe on the
sleeping household of George
Hod i ford, a farmer, six miles
north of Cairo, Ga., on Friday
night.
Clarence Howies, a young
white man of Iredell county wai
knocked from an excursion tram
near Barber Junction on Frid ty
morning and killed. He was
hanging out from the stes of
the coach at arms length when
the train passed over the bridge,
his head and shoulders si lking
a beam of the bridge.
While endeavoring to enforce
the law he represented Deputy
Sheriff Robert L. Bam, of the
Pomona Mill village, near
Greensboro, was shot down in
lus tracks by Jim McCloud, a
negro, Saturday evening at 0: 45
o'clock. The shooting was the
result of an effort by the officer
to arrest the negro for his part
in a small rucus that had or,
curred a few minutes before le
tween negroes and white boys.
In a final but unsuccessful ef
fort to save the life of a person,
whom he did not know, A. A
N'elins special officer of the At
lantic Coast Line, on Friday,
afternoon ,u Wilmington, sub
nntUvl to an oeration for the
transfusion of blood to that of C.
W linden, manager of the Na
tional Biscuit Company in that
city. Buden was suffering from
typhoid fever and had lost so
much blood, that the only lu)e
in saving Ins life was trau.slu
sion of blood from another. He
died a feu hours after the oer
ation.
When a man ha been married
ten years and his birthday comes
around, you n ay deeid on it
his gift w ;s purchase! at a liar
gain co ui 'er.
Tie- Lenoir News 1 tlejear.