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fn : . 0 THIS PAPER IGGUkD TUEGDAYG AND mlDAYS, 6NE DOLLAM A YEAR. Volume XV ' V LenolrN. Friday, October 10, 1013 : No. 97 m : "-' - . . : i . . -, . . . . . , ! . . .. . . . Hon. W; J. Bryan Addresses a Large Crown Represent ing Three States. Last Tuesday was the 133rd anniversary of the battle of Kings Mountain and it was the pleasure of the editor of The ! News to be at that historic town on that occasion. Monday about 10 o'clock, when Mr. M. M. Courtney invited this scribe to join him and his wife, son Mr. 0. G. Courtney and daugh ters. Misses Alice and Faith, in a trip to Kings Mountain in his handsome Cadillac touring car, everything in this shop was left in the hands of the boys and at 11:06 we were off. In another car were Mr. and Mrs. J. B. At kinson, Mr. Bob Atkinson, Mrs. C. G. Courtney and Miss Fran ces Atkinson. Mr. and Mrs. S. F. Puette alsy were of the par ty in his Metz roadster. The run to Hickory was pleasant and made in good time as the roads in Caldwell are ki dry weather condition. After crossing the Catawba river we got into the section of good roads and from there on the traveling was in every way all that could be de sired. The day was perfect and over the magnificent sand clay roads, the car under the skillful guidance of Mr. Clarence Court ney was like a think of life and regular purr of the engine seen) ed like a song of deltght. A short stop in Hickory and then on over the fine new road from that place to Newton, a most delightful run and then we turned west across the country, where we found four or five miles of ordinary roads. About five miles out we stopped under the shade- of the trees and enjoy ed a delightful picnic din ner, most bountifully provided by the thoughtful ladies of the party. From that point on we had the best of roads as we came up on the newly graded roads of Catawba and Lincoln counties Our route lay through Lincoln ton, Dallas, Gastonia, Kings Mountain and to Shelby as that was the objective point for our car for the night. In all this distance the roads are perfect, being mostly of the modern sand clay construction and the trip was enjoyable in every particular, not a grade oi more than four per cent and al streams spanned by substantia bridges. The country through which the roads lead is good farming country, especially the red clay lands of Catawba. Wheat and cotton are the princi pal crops in that part of Cataw ba, while further down along the road some fine grass la grown near Lincolnton, but one is struck with the absence o: cattle. This part of the coua try has been gleaned of calves, by the hustling dealers of Hick ory and only a few herds of cafc tie were seen. Much wheat has been sown and Is coming up nicely and the land shows good preparation and tillage. The cotton crop is good and much of it is ready for picking. We saw many cotton pickers afield gathering the flee cy staple and Mr. Courtney be ing impressed with the fact tha nearly all this work is being done by white people, grew po etical and said: "Down here the white folks pick the cotton, be cause colored help can not be gotten." It occurred tons tha much of the. crop, will be lost for lack of labor to gather it. - I: they can not get it to marke during this fine weather, while! the price is around 14 cents per pound,' what will they do when the full crop is ready to harvest.! The small attention given to the growing of vegetables and ! fruits in this part of the state is a matter of surprise. It seems the farmers are given to the growing of cotton as their only source of making a living. We saw a number of good substan tial thrifty looking farm homes along these good roads, but their number was not strikingly arge, indeed we were impressed with the fact that Our mountain section was superior to theirs in point of home comforts. We arrived in Shelby about 7:30 and were greeted by friends. Dr. Sloop and wife nee Miss Cary Tuttle, with whom Mr. Courtney and wife and daughters lodged while Mr. Clarence Courtney and the writer found comforta ble accommodations at the Cen tral Hotel, Shelby is a pretty town with wide streets fairly well kept, good buildings, includ ing some handsome churches and a-splendid school building a hospital and good hotel. A number of nice homes with sha dy lawns, but the most attract ive feature of the town is the arge court square, embracing two acres, well shaded with beautiful maples and the grass and flowers well kept making a most inviting spot. Shelby has two newspaper! the Star and Highlander and we found Messrs. Weathejs and De Priest both busy as country editors usually are. They took time however to show us appreciated courtesies. Tuesday we had a ntost delightful run in the cool autumn air over the excellent road back to Kings Mountain, our party being augmented by the addition of Mr. Sloop and attractive wife, the big Cadillac being ample for the accommoda tion of the party of eight with comfort. At Kings Mountain, which is a thrifty, hustling, busy manufacturing town of about 3000 people, the ground was literally covered with folks Automobiles, carriages, wagons and every kind of vehicles- crowded the streets and the folks were there bent on having a good time. The train on which Mr. Bryan and his wife were to arrive was late and dur ing the wait of an hour or mqre the immense throng entertained itself in various ways, the merry go-rounds and hucksters stands doing a thriving business. At length the speaker arrived and was greeted with loud applause and escorted by Congressman Webb and others' to his apart ments at the Mountain view ... . . . Hotel. After a short rest, the procession wis formed headed by the 17th Regiment band of the United States Army follow ed by a float on which were. 13 girls or young ladies from Kings Mountain and neighboring towns, carrying banners repre tenting the original thirteen states, this was followed by an Other large float on which were 48 smaller, girls carrying ban Mrs representing the present number of states in the union After these came the speaker and other prominent visitors in carriage. The parade was long and , spectacular one, but some of the features including industrial and educational floats were left out owing to the late nesa.01 tne nour. as Mr. ana Mrs- Bryan ascended" the speak era stand simply :acres of hu man beings greeted thern. The exercises. were opened, by music , (Continued on 2nd page.) 1 USUI KBHIL BBS.- terns of Interest to The People of Lenoir and Cald well County. " Note the change of the Bank of Lenoir's ad. in this issue. Knox 5 and 10c Store has an ad. in this issue. Look it up. Mr. George E. Moore spent uesday in Charlotte on busi ness. Mr. S. E. Dula has our thanks for some of his toe Dula Beauty apples which are much appre ciated. Mr. P. M. Keever came up rom Liincolnton Tuesday on business returning home Wed nesday. . Mr. J. L. Nelson attended a meeting of the trustees of the Methodist Orphanage at Wins ton this week. Mrs. C. A. Little and daugh ter returned Monday from Knox- ville where they Cspent a week attending the fair. Among the Lenoirites attend ing the Kings Mountain celebra tion were Revs. C. M. Pickens, C. E. DuPont and Wiley Grist. No service, except Sunday school, at the Reformed church next Sunday. The pastor will preach at Blowing Rock that day. Mr. L. T. Nichols was here Wednesday shaking hands with friends and looking after the nterests. of the Carolina fe North Western Railway here. There will be regular services at St. James Episcopal church next Sunday at 11 a. m. and ser vices at unapei oi reaoe near Whitnel at 3:30 in the afternoon Miss Vail and little Miss Dorothy Cullan of Yonkers. N Y., arrived in Lenoir Wednes day on a visit to Misses Vanda, Augusta Little and other friends Dellinger's new Cafe in the Miller building is an attractive place and is quite city-like in appointments. It would do credit to much lancer towns than Lenoir. If you should happen to get sample copy of The News, re member that it is a polite re quest for you to become a mem ber oi tne large and growing family of News readers. The ladies Society of the Re formed church will have their first days sale of good things to eat, some to wear and some to admire on Friday afternoon, Oct 17th at the Lenoir Drug Store. .1 Mr. w. ti. snerrill has re turned from Johnson City, Tenn. wnere ne nas oeen engaged in business for several months and is preparing to move into his nice new bungalow on College Avenue and will likely spend the winter here. The Knox 5 and 10 cent store will be opened on the 15th in the building next door to the Lenoir Drug Co. The Store will be under the management of Mr. B. F. Campbell, who has been in business here before and will be welcomed by a large number of friends to our town again. Owing to the absence of the pastor Rev. C. T. Squires, who is attending a session of the North Carolina Synod at Greens boro, there will be n6 services in the Presbyterian church nex Sunday night Rev. W. SherriH will preach in that church at 11 o'clock Sunday forenoon. llllW MOOTS SIDE Mrs; Louie Crump Try to Take Her Own Life by Shoot ing Herself. Last Monday afternoon about o'clock Mrs. Louie Crump, who was stopping with her son, Mr. Haywood Jenkins, just south of the Lower Creek tres tle on the Carolina & North western Railway in the South western part of town, attempted to commit suicide by shooting herself with a 38 calibre pistol. She had gone to an out house in the yard and persons near hear ing the report of the pistol went to investigate and found she had shot herself through the hesd. The ball entered just in front of the right ear and came out just under the left eye, de stroying tha sight of the left eye. At first it was thought he could not live but a few hours but she rallied from the shockand is still living and con scious at this time and her con dition is favorable for recovery. She is now repentant and is anxious to recover. She gave trouble as the cause of her rash deed. She has had a rather checkered career, has been twice married and she and her ast husband did not get along well and had separated, he tak ing their only child and this seemed to give her much troub- e. After the attempt on ber ife her husband was wired for and came from Hickory where be was working and we under stand is with her. Dr. Wilson her physician thinks her condi tion is favorable and if no com plications set in the chances of her recovery are good. s VIRGINIA WOMAN IS NEW NOSE. CROWING Washington, Oct. 6. Her nose lost as the result of an ac cident Miss Nell Radigan, of St. Elmo, Va., is in a local hospital growing a new one, but at the sacrifice of the index finger of her left hand, and surgeons to day believed that one of the most ditncuit operations ever performed here would be entire ly successful. Their belief wil not be proved or disproved for two weeks yet, however. Miss Kadigan s nnger was split and the flesh sewed into place over the nasal passages the finger bone forming the bridge of the nose. At the ex piration of two weeks, when the surgeons believe the skin graft ing will have proved successful they will amputate the finger and from it form the new nose. In the mean time, Miss Radi gan is securely bound in plaster casts to prevent any interfer ence with healing process. Helen Keller At What. (Daily News.) Winston-Salem, Oct. 6. Over one thousand people tonight as sembled in Memorial Hall, Sa lem Academy and College to hear Helen Keller deliver her world famous lecture, ''The Hand." Miss Keller could plainly be heard in the further most corner of the auditorium, so rapt was the attention of her audience. Before speaking, her teacher, Mrs. Macy" told of Miss Keller's remarkable develop ment. After her address, Miss Keller answered the questions oi. her audience in a manner which Impressively revealed theacuteness and alertness of her mind. - - . A lost fortune grows in pro portion to the passage of time. ANT EATERS EAT WAT BILLS. (Jefferson CHy Dispatch.) A brace of armadillos, (ant eaters) from some point in South America, came to the Wells-Fargo express office in this city two weeks ago, addressed to ry Crawford," Jefferson "Har- City. There is no person of that name in the city. The animals have been an un ending source of trouble to the agent, Edward McKenna, They escaped from their box one night, and after playfully chew ing up all the way bills, station ery, and . everything' else that was loose in the office, they got down to the basement and bur rowed so deep that, in digging them out one was injured so badly it died. Rinpp i.hpn tho ntor h Vuan disconsolate, and has repeated ly tried to get away. It succeed ed last night and today several men were differing for it under the building in which the ex press office is located. McKenna says that as express matter aromdillos are worse than the guinea pigs, made fa mous in Ellis Parker Butler's scory, "Pigs is Pigs." DANIELS SATS DRUNKS NOT TOLERATE. HE'LL Washington, Oct. 6. Secreta ry Daniels will insist on an offi cial report on the case of En sign Chevalier, one of the navy aviators arrested in Baltimore after running down two boys with an automobile. The secre tary also announced that he pro posed to deal drastically with cases of drunkenness among na val officers. If an employer chooses to overlook intoxication in one whose waxes he pays that is another matter," said Mr. Dan lels. INo one is hurt, out m- toxication of a naval officer is a reflection on the entire service and on the administration which fails to deal with it effectively and firmly. The naval officer is in the pay of all the people, a public official, and must not give occasion to public scandal." The Apple Tree Pert. Through the State Depart ment of Agriculture, Franklin Sherman, Jr., entomologist, has issued a bulletin about the leph idosaphes ulini, or oyster shell scale, which is said to be devas tating some ot the appre or chards of the State, and whose a..0 nr.;wi in Mecklenburir, Stanly. Rowan, Davidsonand other Piedmont mnntle. Mr Sherman .avs tun,T tAf).o R9n Tnca this pest is the most irreatlv to h fpard - When not, looked af. ter it kills an apple tree as dead as a woodmanVaxe could kill it. The remedy is 'in sprayintr and the bulletin gives the differ- r.Tarotina in Qin other information of value to om nf nnio trooo Th. mtn send the bulletin free on appll lyu Editor And Mayor Gat Diplomatic Job. wasnmgton, uct. o. fresi dent Wilson this Week expects to send to the senate the nomi umiuu ui u. w. rinuen, ue paper editor of Peoria, Ills., to be ambassador to Russia, and that of Mayor Brand Whitlock, VI luiwuw, w ue umiiswsr uu glum. '1 here still is a possiDUl ty that William F. McCombs, Democratic National chairman, will be nominated far ambassa dor to France. PS ITEMS OF I Interesting Reading Matter of Local smd National Affairs in Condensed Form. Ralph Gibson, a Catawba County boy who had joined the Navy was drowned by falling overboard a vessel on which he was stationed. Mr. Claude Ramsey a North Carolinian who has been living in Seattle, Washington for a number of years, is prominently spoken of as a candidate for mayor of that city. Dvinsk, Russia, Oct. 6. Fourteen passengers were killed and M injured today when tne express from Kiev to St. Peters- bure collided with a stalled lo- comotive near the station here. Columbus Preston an opera tive in the White Oak Cotton Mills of Greensboro was so bad ly burned by coming in contact with an electric light wire at the mill that he died in a few hours Hon. William Jennings Bryan; was the principal speaker on brother-hood day at the West ern North Carolina Fair at Ashe- ville Wednesday and addressed an audience of 3,000 on f rater nalism. The series of base ball games being played by New York and Philadelphia teams, for the championship of the World has attracted much attention through out the country. The first game Tuesday was won by the FrmadeLptiia team with a score of 6 to 4 and the game Wednes day was won by New York by a score of 3 to nothing. Durham, Oct. 6. Special,. Lattle Kobert Fendertrrast, a four-year-old boy, was seriously injured this afternoon by being run over by a street car at Lake- wobd Park. The rear truck of the car ran over the boy's feet and one of them had to be am- putated. The other was badly crushed, but it is thought that there is a possibility of the phy- sicians being able to save it. Produce House Lenoir needs a cash Produce House, one that will pay spot cash for all kinds of properly handled country produce. Ma ny kinds of farm products are now eagerly sought by the Le noir dealers for which they are Kiaa 10 pay casn, yei mere arw I -1 1 . . l A A l . J may wans Iorced to Iur" tner because they cannot sell " eir siuu Here a living I i i iL a r i - a l . Price. There are a number of dealers here who handle pro dce in a way, but none of them can handle il in sufficient quan tlties to luote and suPPl car load shipments hence much busi- n88 inat snouia oe nanaiea nere tyJ is forced to go elsewhere. A str0nK firm able to toke " of all good stuff offered in this I market and in a position to sup - P1 cities and Iarer towns with mountain products in car lots', would make good money and in a short time build up an im mense business. It should be bought and sold for spot cash, - forby such transactions only Ln t.ho nrrvWor fool aunroH h - Lj getting actual value for his - tnff. Thpre scorns tn he ft good opening here for a busi- ma9 0f tnis kind. Rma Qra -..timio that - they wouldn't pay a compli- ment without taking a receipt for it. 1 Subscribe for the Nevfs.
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