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Volume XVII
Lenoir, N.,C Thursday,, May 6, 1915
No. 14
COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE
Items of Interest From Our
u Regular County Cor
respondents. OAK HELL ITEMS.
The amendment to the road
across the mountain, leading
from Deal's mill toward Granite
Falls, was completed last week
with the exception of a short
portion near the township line.
This amendment gives us 2miles
of as good dirt road as is to be
found anywhere and it is made
through the most rough and rug
ged part of this immediate sec
tion. The grade is uniform and
is not more than four per cent
at any place, the road bed is
wide enough to admit the pass
age of wagons, etc., at almost
any point and the soil is of a
gravely kind which will never
cut up in ruts. The work was
accomplished by public labor
and it is a good example of the
kind of roads we could have all
over the county if we would only
get to work and make them.
There are several other needed
improvements to be made on the
roads of this community and we
would be glad to see them made
during the coming fall and
winter.
' Mr. Jim Smith is right sick
with pneumonia at this writing.
Mr. and Mrs. Raleigh Sims,
who have been teaching in the
- middle eastern part of the State,
returned to their home here on
the 22nd;of April.
Miss Effie Settle, of Wilkes
county, who taught in the school
here during the past term, is
visiting in this community a few
daysSthis week. She will go to
Granite Falls from here, where
she will spend a few weeks with
friends and relatives.
While hauling some wood for
Mr. Lvnn Martin last Wednes
day, the 28th of April, Mr.
Christa Martin was right seri
ously hurt by a mule kicking
him. It seems that the mule
was not pulling very well and
Mr. Martin stepped up close in
order to make it pull, when it
kicked Ratting him just under
the left eye, inflicting a right
ugly wound. The blow knocked
Mr. Martin down and as he fell
struck a rock, inflicting another
wound under his right eye.
Oak Hill Council, Jr. 0. U. A.
M. willjmeet next Friday night,
the 7th. There will be initia
Won work in the hrst, second
and third degrees and nomina
tion of offices for the coming
term.
Rev. J. C. Keever will conduct
services atiShady Grove nex
Saturday I afternoon at 8:00
o'clock and his appointment o
Cedar Valley on Sunday is
changed from 11:00 a. m. to 3:00
d. m. on account of Children's
' Day service which he will attend
at Mt Hermon at 11:00 a. m
Sunday. Uncle Joe
May 5th, 1915.
YADKIN VALLEY ITEMS.
The condition of Vance Welch
remains critical, though a bit
better. His recovery was dis
, pared of for a few days.
The Rev. Maston Bradshaw
will "conduct religious services
atPiney Grove next Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Walker
and Lela, of Kings Creek, spent
a flfw days with ' friends near
their former home.
Finley Hawkins has returned
home -from ' his school term at
Boone.
Mrs. Lutiier Pipes is slowly
recovering from a severe case of
grippe.
Carter Winkler, of Wilkesboro,
spent a few days with friends
here.
The live' stock farmers of this
section are planing to attend a
meeting at the court house, May
7th. Two experts from Raliegh
will confer with the dairy and
beef men. A full attendance is
expected. I. M. H.
May 4th, 1915.
HIBRTTEN ITEMS.
The farmers are about through
planting corn and are glad to see
the rain this morning, (Monday).
Miss Clara Shuford spent Sun
day with homefolks. She was
accompanied by Misses Alida
Edwards and Nell My res of
Davenport.
Mr. H. G. Powell left Sunday
or Chattanooga, Tenn., to visit
his daughter, Mrs. J. M. Brown.
Quite a number of Lower
Creek people attended the sing
ing convention at Blair's Fork
Sunday and report it a success.'
M r. R. W. Barlow lost a good
young horse last week trom
getting choked on shelled oats.
Messrs. Albert Kirby and
George Bowman, who have been
working near Chase City, Va.,
returned Sunday. Amos.
May 3rd, 1915.
ROUTE NO. 4 ITEMS.
Mr. Robert Prestwood and
three children, Miss Wren,
Hill and Kirk, spent last week
in Burke county.
There will be preaching at
Oakwood Sunday morning.
Miss Wren Prestwood spent
Friday night with her cousin in
Hudson, Miss Marylou Prest
wood.
We are glad to say that Mrs
Loula Suddreth is getting better
with her hand. A Reader.
May 3rd, 1915.
DRAUO ITEMS.
The farmers in this section
are about done planting corn,
there has been a large crop
planted this season.
Mi$s Beatris Downs, of Tre
land, who has been visiting
friends and relatives around
Draco for the past few week, ex
pects to return home Wednes
day.
Mrs. Sarah Watson, who has
been sick for a long time with
the fever, is able to sit up and
will soon be out again.
Miss Icey Walker has been on
the sick list for the past week
or so. but is better at this writ
ing.
Rev. I. A. Swanson or Mr.
Burgess, of Lenoir, will preach
at Draco next Sunday at eleven
o'clock.
Mr. W. L. Brown attended
preaching at Kings Creek Sun
day.
Rev. J. M. Shaver filled his
regular appointment at Union
Sunday. '
Mr. Rufus Pennellhas return
ed home from Pinehurst, where
he has been working in the lum
ber business for a while.
Mr. Bud Pennell was a visitor
at Mr. J. F. Walkers Sunday.
Success to The News.
Wesley.
May 4th, 1915.
GREEN MOUNTAIN ITEMS.
A nice showeif of rain visited
this section Sunday night and
Monday morning, which was
MATTERS ABOUT TOWN.
terns of Interest to the People
of Lenoir and Cald
well County,
Rev. J. M. Dow num came over
rom Boone Monday for bis va
cation, he is a teacher in the Ap
palachian Training School.
Miss Laura Norwood returned
home yesterday from btates
ville where she has been visit
ing Mrs. T. S. Coffey for sever
al weeks.
Mrs. F. A. Linney passed
through Lenoir Wednesday re
turning from a visit to relatives
in Alexander was on her way
home to Boone.
Mr. Boone Clarke came down
rom Boydton Sunday and
moved his family to that place
this week, where they will re
side for the present.
Mrs. C. A. Cilley passed
through Lenoir Monday, return
ing from her home near Patter
son to Hickory, where she will
reside for some time.
Edith Warren, was the winner
of the third pize for the best
essay on "Why the town should
be cleaned up," given by the
Betterment Association.
The many friends of Mr. Wade
H. Cloyd, who has been con
fined to his home for two weeks
by rheumatism, will be pleased
to learn he is slowly improving.
Mrs. Addie Bogle Little, of
Boone, passed through Lenoir
this week on her way to visit
relatives in Alexander and was
the guest of Mrs. Kate Winkler
Tuesday.
Mr. W. H. Dunwick returned
from Lexington Tuesday, where
he has been visiting for several
days and he was accompanied by
his son, Mr. Fred Dunwick, who
will spend some time in Lenoir.
Mr. H. W. Mason, of Spartan
burg, has been in Caldwell sev
erai days doing some wortc on
his farm a few miles west of
town. He is experimenting with
dynamite as a means of draining
some of his land. He opens
holes 10 to 20 feet deep in the
wet soil and then fires a large
charge of dynamite in the hole,
thus breaking up the subsoil to
great depth and loosening it for
quite a distance from the hole
thus enabling the water to drain
away. He thinks the work wil
be a success.
very much"needed by corn and
other crops.
Mrs. J. L. Summers spent
Saturday and Sunday with her
sister, Mrs. Frank Wilson, of
Lenoir.
Mr. Elam McCall, of Lenoir,
is visiting relatives and other
friends in ; this community at
present.
The Sunday School at this
place has been much benefited
bv the new organ, which was
received last week.
Miss Nola Livingstone, who
has been at Lenoir for some
time, returned to her home last
Sunday evening.
Misses. Blanche and Pear
Barlow visited at Mr. B. C
Janes' Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Barnctt
spent Sunday at Mr. J. M
Beach's.
Mrs. Sid McDade spent Sat
urday and Sunday with his sis
ters, Mrs. Alphonzo McDade, of
Lenoir.
There will be a singing at this
place Wednesday night. Every
bdoy is invited. " H. B.
May 4th, 1915.
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Happenings Throughout The
Country as Culled From
Our Exchanges
Col. J. S. Pearson, of Morgan
ton, was last week appointed
referee in Bankruptcy by Judge
James E. Boyd.
J. C. Dallanger, of Washing
ton, N. C, was killed near Pet
ersburg, Va., last Sunday by his
automobile turning over on him.
Mr. H. M. Miller, of Atlanta,
has been appointed Vice Presi
dent of the Southern Railway to
suceed the late Col. A. B. An
drews. A blockade stilling outfit was
destroyed about ten miles from
Newton, in Catawba county, last
week by the sheriff and some of
his deputies.
A severe hail storm visited
certain parts of Buncombe coun
ty last week and it is said
damaged crops bridges building,
etc., to the extent of $100,000.
The body of Mrs. Allie Owenby
was found in the French Broad
river near Asheville last Thurs
day and it is not known whether
she committed suicide or fell in
the river accidentally.
A drug store in Charlotte was
raided by the police last week
and forty quarts of liquor was
iouna. two white men and a
negro were arrested on the
charge of selling liquor.
The Women's Clubs of the
State will probably take up the
matter of furnishing a number
of wards of the State Tubercu
losis Sanatorium in Moore
county. The Oxford Women s
Club last week started the cam
paign by arranging to raise $50
towards the work.
oix persons were arrested in
Watauga, in the Elk Creek sec
tion, by sheriff Moody and his
deputies last week and were
bound to court on the charge of
making and selling liquor.
There were three men and three
women, all white and all were
caught at the still, which was
destroyed.
Ed Walker and Jeff Dorsett,
two negroes who were tried last
week at Greensboro charged
with killing a white man named
Swain, last January, were con
victed and sentenced to be elec
trocuted. They appealed the
case and may get a new trial
They both declared they were
innocent of the crime.
Mrs. Marion Hartline, o
Troutmans, was killed last Sat
urday by falling on a wood saw
She was ou years old and was
active and about the wood yard
where her son was working
with a wood saw and accidental
ly fell against the machine and
was fearfully mangled and
fatally hurt before she could be
rescued.
Rae Tanzer, the New York
Milliner, who recently institu
ted suit against James W. Ors
borne for fifty thousond dollars
for breach of promise and who
he said told her his name was
Oliver Osborne, and then with
drew the suit, claiming she was
mistaken in the man, has again
identified James W. Osborne as
the man she was associating
with. He sister, Dora, also
claims that James W. Osborne
was the man who called himself
Oliver Osborne. It looks like
Miss Tanzer' millinery business
being a littfe dull she is trying
hard to black mail sombody
witB hopes of getting money
easier than working for it.
Srpru Marriage.
Many readers of The News
will be interested to learn that
Mr. Gaitber Hall surprised his
home folks and friends by being
married Monday of last week at
Richmond, Va.. to Miss Char-
otte E. Tees, of Guilford, Conn.
They will make their home in
Spartanburg, where Mr. Hall is
manager of a Gresham Hotel.
Boyt Reception.
Friday evening, April 30th,
the Gaston Literary Society had
its fifth annual reception, for
which the beautiful home of Mr.
and Mrs. J. M. Bernhardt was
opened to about 75 of the young
people of our town. The fine
grounds were gaily lighted by
numerous Japanese lanterns,
which gave the festive netting
for the merrymaking of the
guests. After refreshments,
consisting of ice cream and cake,
were served, the girls and boys
enjoyed music furnished by dif-
erent members of the company.
The reception was one of the
most enjoyable of those for
which we are indebted to the
Gaston Literay Society.
D. Kanoy.
GOOM Xfclk.
Since reporting the aged gan
der owned by Mr. Galley Kirby,
of Kings Creek, who knows the
bird to be 25 years old, we have
had our attention called to "an
old gray goose" in Randolph
county known to be 28 years old.
Mr. M. C. Spencer, who is now
in Lenoir visiting relatives,
owned a flock of geese in Ran
dolph county 26 years ago and
had kept the geese for two years
and sold them to a Mr. Kearns
of that county who still has one
of the geese. A clipping from
a Randolph county paper tells
of this old bird having laid ev
ery year since Mr. Kearns has
owned her until this spring
During the past winter the birds
feet were frozen and Mr. Kearns
thinks this is why she did not
lay this spring. Next.
Singing Convention.
The Caldwell County Singing
Convention held at Blair's Fork
church last Sunday, was attend
ed by an immense crowd. All
parts of the county were repre
sented and a good many persons
were there from adjoining coun
ties. The church would not ac
commodate more than one third
of the people who gathered to
hear the music and enjoy a little
visit witn inenos. The singing
we are informed was fine and
much enjoyed by those who
were fortunate enough to get
near the singers. A bountifu'
dinner was enjoyed under shade
or the trees and all in all it was
a fine picnic occasion. The As
sociation would do well to build
a pavulion at some convenient
place and hold these conven
tions oitener. They are very
helpful in many ways and are
enjoyed oy ail lovers oi good
music. If some public spirited
citizens would take the matter
in hand and erect the pavillion
the expenses incurred could
most assuredly be repaid by
simply taking a popular collec
uon at tne meeting or the sing
1 1 IT m
ers ano classes, ino church in
the county will accommodate the
crowds that are attracted by the
conventions and with a comfort
aoie pavmion wnere every one
would be assured a good Beat in
hearing of the music, the atten
dance would be very much
larger.
Bettor got The Vtws awaile!
MATTERS ABOUT TOWN.
terns of Interest to the People
of Lenoir and Cald
well County.
Mrs. L. B. Huntley went to
McAdenville Monday to visit her
parents for a few weeks.
Mrs.T.L. Nelson who has been
visiting at Mr. C. L. Triplett s
for several days, returning to
Statesville Monday.
We learn that the Creamery
Route recently established to
Hartiand, began work of collect
ing cream yesterday.
Mrs. Fred Shell, of Charlotte,
arrived here Tuesday on a visit
to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.
, Allen, and other relatives.
We hear that the turnpike
road from Lenoir to Blowine
Rock is in the best condition it
has ever been and that a trip
overit in a good car is a delight.
Mr. W. H. Sherrill returned
Tuesday from several weeks
stay at Hot Springs, Ark., where
he went for treatment for rheu
matism. He is much benefitted
by the treatment and is loud in
his praises of Hot Springs as a
health resort
We have received a copy of s
new little song Twilight
Dreams," music by Carl Heil
and words by Mr. James A.
Robinson, of Durham, N.C., who
is known to many newspaper
readers of the country as "Old
Hurry graph." The song is very
pretty and the words good and
the publishers are Marks-Goldsmith
Co., of Washington, D. C.
Mr. W. C. Newland went to
Netown Wednesday to appear
for Dr. G. W. Flowers in a dam
age suit pending in Catawba
court for malpractice. As we
understand the case the doctor
was called from ohe sick patient
to another and it is alleged he
attended the second patient.
without taking due precaution
to disinfect his hands and in that
way communicated the disease
of the first patient to the second
one.
Tomorrow, Friday, is Clean
Up Day and the Mayor asks us
to say that citizens of the town
are requested to collect all refuse
and trash and place it at some
convenient place about the front
of the house so the teams can
get to it and all collected will be
carted off by the teams employ
ed by the town. The trash
should be placed in boxes or bar
rels as far as possible or kept in
some convenient condition to be
gathered easily.
Mr. H. C. Landon, of North
Wilkesboro, G. L. Hadlock, of
Grandin, Judge Jones, of Ashe
ville, and a number of other
gentlemen interested in the Cor-
pening and Gibbs controversy
have been here several days this
week in attendance upon the
"hearing before Hon. W. D. Tur
ner, Messrs Squires & Whis
nant, W. C. Newland, M. N.
Harshaw and perhaps other
members of the local bar are
attorneys in the case.
Ivey Kaylor, a young man
from North Catawba township,
this county, was taken back to
Georgia yesterday, where he
had escaped from custody. He
killed a negro in that state some
time agq and was sentenced to
four years imprisonment, but es
caped and had been living in
this county at his former home.
He was re-arrested Tuesday up
on advice from Georgia and de
puty Walter Payne left here
with him on the 1:85 train yesterday.