m . r i ' t 'T E"y n fcsr u s3- ATS. rrpT tBYERTisis: w A A ii U Rad Hy Mort Than BMW Fopi. - i i THIS PAPER ISSUED TUE6DAYG AND FRIDAYS, ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. VolumeXVI Lenoir, N. Cm Friday, May, 22, 1914 No. 54 f Vv- LDGALS MID PERSQIIAL&. : v Items of Interest to The People of Lenoir -and .CaloV . v - well County. , Bom to Mr.: and" Mrs. 8. H.' SENT A PIG TO SCHOOL CflLlKEIM EXERCISES AT OAVEflPORT COLLEGE Ernest on the 18th, a daughter. decided m send three or four this Mr. W, J. HortonVofElkvilie, year; They discovered that going is spending a few days in Le.- to 800001 WM a 80 Mg for thi noirT . ' :-v , " - -i ' ' 1" ' - ' - ' Mr, Isaac a member of the Burke county bar, is attending Caldwell Superior court this week. . . Attorney Sam Irving, of Mor ganton, is in Lenoir this week attending .Caldwell" County Su perior Court. Rev. .Harold Turner, of Win- . In some parts of the South . we have a bard time eetiioe the par-v ent to send their children to school The Exercises of this Year Surpassed Those of For- but there is one community. in Teonessee where .they sent a pig to I :hool last year and the experiment was so successful that they have de-1 mer Years, both in Attendance and V in Programme: pig.' It might be a good thing for a lot of our schools to do. . Iu this Tennessee school com munity was a patron with an economic turn of mind. He was all the time studying how to save what was iready made, for he felt that it was just as important to save anything as it was to make it. He was also a man who was inter ested in .his school and went over ston-Salem, ' .were among the ry little while to see how it was commencement visitors in 'Le .'noir this week. Rev. C. M. Campbell, pastor of the Methodist church m Granite Falls, spent Monday and Tuesday in Lenoir . ; Don'i forget . the Boys' porn Club meeting-to morrow, Mr. T. E.; Brown, State Agent, ' will be here anof address the meeting. getting along. He seemed to have the idea that a school was run for something more than merely to supply a place where parents, could send their children, to keep from having to be bothered with them daring the day. So be visited his school every little- while, .some thing very unusual for parents, but he did. His economic mind, like Mary's lamb, followed him to With the annual address, de livered by Rev.- Sam A. Steel D. D., of Columbia, S. C; on Wednesday mbrning at 10:30 o'clock,, the commencement ex ercises of Davenport college for 1914 were brought to a close. The commencement this year! can easily be said to have sur passed those of other years both in attendance, including in and out of town visitors,, and the splendid program presented. The annual sermon and address have unhesitatingly been pro nounced by the people to be the best delivered at this institution in recent years. On Monday evening at 8 o'clock the gold medal contest HEV51TEMS OF IliTEREST GOUHTY COHRESPOHDEflTS Interesting Reading Matter of Items from Our Regular Carres - Local and National Affairs in Condensed Form. pondents and Neighboring County Papers. J Mr. Joseph H. Young has been elected president of the Norfolk Southern Railway to Hix, who side ration of a single construct ive statement Dr. Steel .assigned four rea- succeed Charles H. sons for opposing the suffragette recently resigned. democratic spirit, which produc ed the French revolution and several other disasterous up heavals'. "The women now have the ballot in ten states, yet they have not voted out the saloon. On the other hand they have voted it in several states. The right to vote is a political privi lege and carries with it a corres pondingly political activity," and he characterized the pernic ious vote seekers as "pestiferous petticoats '. The fundamental Charlotte celebrated The date for putting into efiect the reductions in freight rates as agreed to in the State be tween the railroads and State officials last summer has announced for June 20th. After a fight extending over a period of several months, Otho Lunsford has been nominated to be postmaster at Durham, by Major Charles Stedman of the fifth district. - BCSHVILLE ITEMS. Mr. Julius P. Bush is getting along right well under the cir cumstances. Dr. Goodman,, the attending physician, has given favorable reports of bis " quick recovery. The grit and courage displayed by Mr. Busbr during the runaway and white been setting his leg is a very fine ex-. ample set to the young peoples He sat up in bed and "bossed" the job. Mr. J. L. Bush spent week-end with his father. Mr. Robert Blades of Bait-' more, Md., spent Saturday with her Lawyer Bush. Mr. Blades was the iMr aeortre'F. Ivev returned school. He noticed that the child- iA hnm in HipWtr WodnM- ren took their dinners with them day afterooon, -after spending a and most of them had more ; than few days in $ Lenoir, taking in they ate, which was thrown away, lie aepioreu mis wnsi o uegan w Davenport commencement. Dr. John Squires, who holds resDonsibre position with the Du Pont Powder Company, spent several " days in Lenoir this week with his brother, Mr. Mark Squires. , . Dr. C. Banks McNairy, super intendent of . the State Feeble Minded Institution at Kinston, Is spending a few days in Le- onder how all this good food could be nut to some good, when' the Idea came to him, why not have a pig" there and have all the children save everything they did not eat, that was suitable for pig feed and give it to that pig. 7 He determined to try it Out, so gave the school a pig. They built a pen off to one side and after eat ing, the chijdren would give the claim that woman is equal to Twentieth of May Declaration a cousin and a close friend of man, is a fallacy, for each is dif- of Independence in grand style Mrs. Nora P. Enos's deceased in the elocution and the music : ferent in nature and can not be Wednesdav. Vice President husband departments occurred. The con--compared, and any comparison Marshall was the orator of the test for the medals in both of is an injustice to both. Many the day, and he was greeted by these departments was very fantastic castles have been built thousands. spirited and the production of a ton this fallacy of equality. The high order. The following ballot is not a right but a privi selections were given in the ele- lege and lies in the State not in cution department: "The Legion the individual. Woman suffrage of the Organ Builder,", Miss contradicts the Bible ideal of the Mary Pence; "Massacre of Zor- woman in society? and there are oaster," Miss Lucy Price; none more ideal and true in the "Naughty Zell," Miss Iris Pitts, world than the Biblical woman. The musical contest consisted of The discharge of political duties original compositions ana tne is incompatible with tne proper following, selections were rend- discharge, of .domestic duties, ered: Nocturne in Bb," Miss and the home is the vital cell the Watauga," Miss Maud Mast: Several of the people here at tended the Davenport Com mencement at Lenoir this week.y Asa result of the primaries Mr isaac Cotton, preacher inv. neld m uatawba county on last charge of Bushville Station oaturaay, v. u. maimer was 8Dent a Dart of last week visit- "The .West Wind," Miss Nell Mast. THE AlfNUAL, SERMON. The annual sermon was de- FINAL CONCERT. Austin Woods for Register of Deeds; and Walter Sherrill for County Treasurer. There was no nomination for Sheriff and Clerk of the Superior court It is now practically assured that Representative Webb, of the Ninth North Carolina Con gressional district will succeed Representative Clayton of Ala- ing friends in this vicinity. Mr. A. E.' Helton wilL con" , duct a singing at New Collier's 1' next Sunday at 10 o'clock a. m. May 18, 1914 nolr with his family, and tatting tne scraps. Two boys were de in the commencement at the gjgnated each day to supply him graded school. Miss Lucy Camp, of Lincoln-j corn from home. The school child ton, spent a few days in Lenoir ren became, very much interested in this week. taking in "the '''.'com-, their pig. While 'the pig did not mencement at Dav$nport cob grow very fast in his studies ne did . lege. Miss Camp was a member in weight.. Before the school was of the class of 19i3, and is well out he was sold for. enough money rakn Vioro to fence the school campus; This YADKIN VALLEY. 9 Mr. Henry Hamby. sustained). -' the loss of his house ' by ' fire Monday afternoon with t,he AntirA nnntents. He ift :& One of the. most pleasing and bama, as chairman of the House on the Pattereon-School ' enjoyable features oitfte com- i miu,. m. farm having lived there severaT years. The fire spread from livered on Tuesday morning at of good music, was the final con- J""B m aui defective flue during the absencer fl o'clock, by Rev. J. Stuart oert on Tuesday evening. This resident wuson. ' of the family, and aided bj a stiff wmu wawi fuvs w vnuft u vu i . . , . . i fc i s I a t . t i. I Ala KAtMifn fMnolin I svmf- amIa mmnn fr I ... I m i Lr. rxencn seiectea as nis suo- "BUUlow ujuoicm cu;imiucu asaeiecuves, iour men Kaineu i larsre iamuy wasnwasona uno ject, Trustfulness, and stated I ever presented at uavenport entrance to a Broadway motion this saved their clothing. There that the present tendency Of the college. It lasted fully foe an picture theater , early today, was no insurance. times was away from his sub- hour and three quarters and then made the watchman a prisoner, ject, As a basis of the first part the vast audience was loathe to handcuffed three workmen and of his remarks, he took the 5th. leave their seats. The selections blew open the safe in the box verse of the 37th, Psalm:" Com- consisted of choruses, piano, office, obtaining $10,000. The ' .-, m.;k...m Mifi'KM tKimit toy. way unto tne uora, I iuuu m", i roooers were in tne ouuaing Mr. H. L. V. Shinn who) has . fK5o -kV tk trust also in Him, and He shall sextets etc, and reflected much three hours and to avoid sus his A., M. degree om Heid1- found that it teaches the students bring it to pass." s The speaker credit on the mrisic department picion of their presence, com- ourg univensty ana nas spent - . said tnttt this was a specific ex- V1 "U,,HWB- 1 uerw . u 1 4-1 DAmtnttMif AT I . I . . , . T Ulittoan nnrnkdN an ft lwij veiviB in iiuw dcujiuw j v i . p . , .j . - Tmrpssinn nr r.rnar. ana mh maiiH a i j'J'" uuiuwio i t ," . , -, . i-Tv Place ana turn n into money, it - . tDeKeiormeacnurcn maya, - SA .VMthfim80m hin.r Dractical Powerful plea for rvW! ...Ml MMaK n thaRufnrm. O " Ohio, will preach In the Reform ed church Sunday morning. He is A, niost pleasing speaker. You will enjoy hearing him. A cor dial invaQtatioa to all. The special train, which left and twenty five young . ladies part in the program. Work on the fields is now very; difficult owing to the dry harl soil. ' '.'j v Crimson clover and alfalfa ap- pear rank and heavy. The new song books at Piney - were pelled the watchman to wind the Grove Sunday School are keenly ; some various wat'.hrtmn's clnr.ks in I oninwvl hv an inrtiaspd uttem the theater at regular intervals, dance. , i took THE GRADUATING EXERCISES. It would mean many to Lenoir Thursday morning dollars saved and also teach the about 8 o'clock, being three students how to make two dollars hours late. Most of the time iswhere now one is thrown away. "said to have been lost on the the necessity to oflcnnV their minds while at W1 ""u 1U "w BV wf t rhnol: It aim makes the narente ent time, saying that th,e people - 'Jjut. j .k. oKnni are only trusting him in' -a half wL. u w: hearted manner. As an illustra- Tbe graduating exercises oc wise wouia De lost. -T . U. .,,u j t,v, a a ve ttemDanw, oi iew uneans, cm- 82 BktMu. mon Peter, sloeoinut calm and w.ovu raucs uu owns .uu ui- . . . , cm a. . ' . i ..J .i. mnuuuwu uiu mi.ua u- w n., 1V tA k . . , :, .v-i., . . . ..miinnn th n rht Kflfnivi Mil DlOOiaS WMfB UIKSeUlCU HJ ... - . ... I iUI3. K.IUUICl nreuiinu uu .1 4 rihM.A- .LY, n , execution. following young ladies by-Presi-r, . T . 82nd birthday Friday, May 15, vv,u - ru""r,,v! WJf' v ,u. uWu .., r Mont nt.Mn- MissAs .Anni t"csou,"UB lm6 18U. children. OTand children. the address. ----- ----- creation of a racing commission ' " A - , Florence Heafner, Annie Olivia 1 . , . . - great grand-children , and many un-wadnesday morning at iu:Kenti Mary HenJry Newland, - ----I wiV IZXul beingpresent. 80 o'ciocit tne annual address parity Eleanor Nipper, Mary "VT ?, uZSZl -A toble meaaurjng aboat29 feel was delivered by Kev. BamBteei ri,, ck.ii uni.iv.tn. wiu """"r" vw ww ... i-i nn tk un-nli fin "T&ZCSm rrr 01 West, Beulah Mae WU- ZSZ. with the daiotiest and most palata. wrru" yT6T ' "r rr ''if 7:uH n may. no oe wniss Mis8 Elizabeth Miller, ..Bx President Theodore Koose-with pleasure to see this aged eofcpte. cars.,,: vi ; saves every luuestnngaDu p.ev to remark herethat he istheon- graduate in pianQ, Miss Marion velt, returned to his home in partoke of the viielicious dinner Ke?,.4tti .nioaiTii,;, paawr orirpowai. iai tjo; r u.. x ly southern man, wno nas ever StephB8bn Long, graduate , tn Loog IsUnd, N. Y. on last whicb had been so carefully plan. ui HwuiuBwuivvisv.yM.-. i- J toeeu luviteu w iwiureuu ovuuu lexnression: Misses Knoxie Vir-resaw rom uis tisicoi many toed and prepared. The oeeasiQ church, High Polnvspeptafew fturseof a year. . . ern history at CQrneU, Cnlver- in South America. Uasverj much enjoyed by all. oays injuenoirnis-woBii u . wsuu. ow.w., 8lty, located in icnica nx, Montsinger. graduates In art. Friends, whohaa been alarmed Mr. and Mrs.' Palmer are the his brother, Rev. Z. K. Barn- may not learn much bat ne win ue gu introductory remarks were 1 rrk. ,rai aWawirf bv reports of Col. Roosevelt's most felicitous, and he soon had lowSS rt medal, Miss Ethel illness were greatly surprised this community, he being 91 years his audlapce in a' happy mood. Montsinger; Expression medal, when they saw him. He was ofage'and she 82. She is blind , Trie speauer took xor nis suo- MIhs t uc Price: Scholarship noUcably tbinner, and ne used they live to enjoy many more ,Ject Woman bufferage, and nis M.aai Mi rMrv Rvers? Mnsin la cane, but his face wore a ,jrZ;t, Maud Mast. ' healthy tan " and he apparently h'ardt. " He left on the afternoon the cause of our learning mueh.- trelii Wedoesday for Morgan toni Bx. ; '"' where he delivered the itddress :J . RlFLE jWOUNri. that nWkut the elosimr. exer 1 . v .foo-'nf tM Mnrcranton Graded Wounding an enerny in war school. birthdays. T1' - V' v he is captured it T imposes on W Smefltty Lenoir folks took side the burden of taking care of He characterized . the trampiog advantage -of tlie cheap rates him: The Balkan War ha again of the streete by women in suff- had not lost ' an -ounce of his vigor anid energy. The Colonel refused to discuss politics, but Hmm Destroy 4 by Fim. The house owned by Mr. Jo- ragette parades, as brazen mod esiy, an4 said that than had ; al Vletr Muflo't HlvtJ. r jr . M A - - liAMa Piaw tance or rail Tictor Hugo fell into stated that he would not run for Sparks, of Adako, located Mnaaatinn with m . BtrftSffer WnO I lirwamnr nT Mom Vftrlr vu' wre vamncu wiu . 'LWIMi M the 'Carolina . NoVth-Western Itallway, . . and ,111 go stiaight through a went to Charlotte on the excur- man, penetrating the moat vital " slon' train: Wednesday..1 They orgaoiwlthdutkUlnglmah4 ' " returned late' Wednesday " night has evert found Ho go throughf w and retorted 1 a Jbfc time in the ? w ' m" .?n, ;r r -ir , , " iithni", 'IKK rtnra mom iinr, m innin . -..' . . i a.:.i.:n ' .r . s l , ' :-' v ;. : i vvuv r - 7- ur oe as Deinir one- unuieraoiv , rv -xir tn imnw j..iw-i a V;.rwi.tv.'Vr .0f iBkt. hat at the sametlme it is a. - :. :t7 v l! ..A : uu."4v r-rr- rmmes wim lamu. wavii been the nrotecor -of: woman trntertamed .the ereat author With and that therd was ndcatisfbr much egotistic ;.tak;t-The author ot - prieA ' completely destroyed by kWterVor JvrkrinV andlnlnsticeV W .1 ''rlL: Wednesday aboutAioon. A; 7." ." ' . hk 'dMnatioiL. was aoout to leave wmuwi.uvurj .. - . , - . r rVti"iJL i i I . ?!7 vX. MDDOsed' tki tb6nioyenieiiit (uid I vli am Is am .Victor Huiro. . i W,i1.iAMiC.'fkldaW-. ' a.M tim,"fet!wttv"fthnM.'fiir remarked that the movement had How oddr remarked tne. mi county line,' near Hartland was Are . Mi. Heruoted Ambassador ames SK the stranger .a Bufive years later all you hear GreenewasHving to the.honsa word, that "" Tf V'V: tents were lost. we uneretivnd the loss was about 2,C00 telth Vice-President Marshall. his life. Popular Mngziiie. ,never received tbs serious con-; Hugo. Qet The News twice-a-week for$l ,$1400 Insurance. .1 J, Ay

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