" " . ' VW-. V,'.!:i N yioutmx . r. . ' : V Vol 12; Kiii? Mountain, N C'v Thursday, December ! Oi G PAGE, Editor and Owner PRINCIPLE FIRST t Horses Die ' MOULD POISON More -Teachers SHOP AT HOME 3 1 ' Th following article writtnn for last Friday's Qastonla Gi ette by DrMJ-IH. Parker, -vat J rlnarUvi, will be or interest to Herald readers, tit appeared in the Gasettea follows: To the Editor of The Gazette: For the past two or three weePa there has beeo much sick ness, among horses end mules 1 and a pood maiy have died from ' sting moldy corn. Almost every day weseethoe eases and hear of a .great many more cases in nearby counties. 'From all appearances,' the con-' ditiooa are becoming serious' for the stock owners. - This year the poisoning is much more rapid and fatal than -caual and, hi a number of cases, ' as many as two or three horses and mlos have died on the same farm. ' Treatment eeems to be of - no avail unless taken at the very - first signs of tbe attack and even 'then it presents muoti difflco.ty ' a the animal Is many times de lirious or vicious. ; A This disease is knon as "for age poisoning." "mould poison-, ing," "blind staggers,"" "sleeny taggers,'' ''cerebro spinal men- liigitit.," etc. Every year there is more or less loos of livestock from this disease in. the Middle 'West, South and Southeastern State. Many times the out breaks have very much' the p spearanoeol some highly Infec tious d -seas in that certain Jo x'Ulties lose" nig percentage of horses and mutes-ot il ages. . The csUsatWe ager is cot always- the --same," tait is due to' moulds ot'various kinds and oc vcaslonly poisonous bacteria tliit - j.htve rown-u ..the feedstuff, x tho gra'n or roughuess. Soxe '' essons are such as to favor the growth of the various moulds and bacteria, iteuce some years - the disease is touud so ol ten and : other yoars we do not find it. '.'; Lately the wiiter has had oc caalon to examine ' much of the ' feedstuff used Is Gaston and ad- .Joining counties. There istnech : vot the late corn and some ot the . early com that is affected -.with ) a pink mould pa Jho small end of - the ear and in trome cases -this mould ist not very noticeable. T,he pink mould,) in -m expert; ! nce. is the most poisonous .of .' all moulds found on eora and of 1 ten it will kill an animal in a few hours, 1 " The farmers ' and otockmen '.'.' that are feeding corn should look y. 'r carefully for :this; mould and - . should the com be affeobvlhe V aboutd stop folding it 'to his " ' Jioros''nd mJ)e Immediately It Is not neceesij-y that the corn be thrown away for in montcates f it can be fed to cattle and hoes as neither of these animals are - susceptible' to this disease. :-t ' 1 tTerethe old maxim of, :W ounoe of prevuntion is .woith- a1 pound of enre, " f more than r- u uq, ucvAung IU vao'J ir.v,, C vention is easy.and the curefis riciKsi noitejei inoitav riuwv. , SYMPTOMS OP. MOULD ' v . . poisoning : . ' .These :w::.greaV;;deat,.b 'those symptoms that are tnoro common i are: First, loss aVetite, .jetupid appearance, . .impaire4 -ye sfa;bt,.(weal(aess, J sUggery .gate, inability' to kwallo, ub -; normal ; temoeratore, weak arid j rapid pnlse. twitobing 0t imus - c' ' !, somctiToes a destre to-'push 1 r ;,it the wall,'"ra!' MUCH NEEDED The Kings Mountain Graded scool is making an excellent show this year in uoint of utten dunoe, and . the supurlnti-ndent and ieachers are doing their lev nlbsst and are accomplishing ful lv Bs. uiuch as eeuld possibly b expected of them. They aro al faithful, hard worki'ig teachers. They have the interest oi the school and community at heart and are showing great efficien cy. iut tney simpiy nave mor-t tlun they can do, The school is coagekted and needs more teachers, The board is liol pless oiBDioy more ' teachers with out more funds.. And hero we are. t 'obody de plores the large attendance. Wo are all glad of 't, Nobody looks to the teachers ore work.; Thev are doing as much and doing it as well as can be expected. Nobody blames the board of school commission rs for not providing more teach era. Tbey uet all the money at their command and us-' it Vise Is. Let's take a look into toe situation more particularly. Wo have au enrolment of 431 and an average daily attendance 01578. Deducting the average Attendance of the High school, turee mghmt grades, wuien is 42, we have left an avratre daily atteniian' for the element ary . school, ' the first seven gradus, of 320. which divided a mongst the 7 teachets of dop't gives each an average pf 47 pupils. All scltool aJthoritics aia uuw tgrtwa lute S3 pupils should be the maximum allowance for ono teacher with the V recommondatiou that the mo?t efficient work can be done with 30 pupils. Under present Conditions we have an excels of 12 above fie recognized ' ax'- mum. anu n a Dove tue uiosei ficient. 'The congestion is felt mainly In the 2nd. grade in which we have erii-ol'mnt.of 63 and an atendance.bt 57 uhderone teach er. and also in the 5th. 6th. and 7th. grades, in which grads a total attendance . of 100 is miintaiued under two teachers. In our High school department also there is need of another teacher. With our present three years course and two teachers including sperintendeutit is im possible to prepare our students for unconditional entrance into the freshman class of the stand- vrd colleges of our state, with the addition : of inotber teacher, we would be able to add an elev enth grade, and. would aiso give -our Mperiutendeat some time for supervision. ' .Can somebody suggest how we can provide more school f uuds? The A. J. P. Bazarr . - A' Success. '; The bazarr conducted -by the ladies oUne .A -R. P. church in ta Hort? building Friday was quite a iiuccesvJThe ladles had tnad ample prepara tion for 'the event and the people responded promptly to their ; invitation to eatgood things and purchase nic tanayi worit. avei yinintj, was sold at reasonable prices ' and therefore sold well. From the effort the ladies - realisid about forty dollar for missions. . Somacases remind 6ne of a Md .animal and are vicious. Let this be- the slogan of Herald readers this holiday sason. buv your Christmas preens from your local merchant. Look through the advertisements In ihis issue of 'he Hei-ald and let theui be your directory. Next week we will have a still - larger line of Christmas offering. Where Will You Where w'll you spend Christmas and whom are you expecting to visit you? The Herald would like to have these questions ans wered in next weeks issue. As the Herald will not issue . the week following Christ mas we will not be able to tell who went and name and we wish to give much detail of the contemplated move Offer Expires Our big subscription offer of fourteen months for a dollar to old subscribers who f.ro more than a year in arrears will be withdrawn December 31st. We sent out cards to sodjs of our delinquent sub scribers a few weeks agj Our Christmas Issue Out Christmas isue will come out Tuesday of next week. Jt wi'.l be clothed in a beautiful holiday cover and will eurry-s-ome good Christ 7fie ffcSwae'n To SBij S. Although .they did not brinir but three women over with the company. -more werev brought later, and if we should, ludge from CHptian ' Young's bopnti ul npply,, they . must have come in numbers. He married 27 wives, and had 87 concubines Later he built a home for 26 of these wives, which is yet In tse, a Louse with thirteen gables on either (tide, "with as many de partments, or homes, for each of th" 26 wives. For Amelino, his favorite wife, he built across the street . a mansion. : Brigham Young, is now dad and Joseph Smithsis now . President of the Mormon Church, but none aro looked up to as was Brigham; he was not .only .their leader but was their God. Notwithstand ing all oi his wives, felt himself so Holy that on one occasion he actually tried to walk on the water, stepping put of a boat on the Lake. This attempt almost, oust liUn his life, and would have, bad it nol been", for othew res-; cuing him..) Dispite of this, he was a man o,f,;ftreat courage, a noble leador, and founder of: a city that has done him. credit. He built the great Tabernacle, in which is Jocated the largest pipe organ in the world, and on which tue -daily concerts are given. It required sixteen years to build the roof of this buila intcaloue, with a much Icnger time to'build the' walls.; It V re quired forty' years to build the Templsv which tost pyer V two .,n?i't'"mi.'w "imnftl ' lift Tnese bib your own Lome, merchant". . They have bought thesj itxids for you to buy and have thought enouirh of the proposition to toll you about it through these columns. Now be loyal. Shop wnen you get ready but be sure to shop at home. Spend Christmas? ments of the people in next isjue as possible. That will be oar big Christmas edition anyway and 've want all the goo local news wc can get. Let everyone who reads this article et together all such information as possible and mail iti to the Herald- tomor row. Hut be sure to sign your name to it or it will go inlo the waste basket. With The Year makiug them special offer for immediate settlement. A good many have resnond ed and we hope' that the balance will befoie the end of the year for these offers will also oe withdrawn and aiehert'by withdrawn Dec ember 31st mas stories. It will also have the finest array of ad vert's isg this paper has published under fWe present manage ment. Keep it in mind. our tcSwain '"Holy of Holies," in which only the very best (just a few) of Mormors-inay enter. - We stated farther up that tho Mormons are losing (.round, as well as weakening in their faith. We might add to this that none of them are .now weakening in their faith' We might add to this that none of them are now allowed to have. more than one wife, a law having been passed, over their heads,' by . the state prohtl-itinir more than one mar liage, or one wife at a time thwe having more than one at '.he time were foroed to choose between them and let the rest go free. , There . are many othw changes taking place that are gradually but surely., working out And donig away with the old Mormon principals and .ideas. Salt Lake City is a thriving place, has splendid school -fac ilites, girls and boys having sep erate buUdings; .has .very . fine water secured from a mountain 9 miles away. They nowhave under construction a new Capi tol building, which is being built entirely with Utah labor; a very Dice building situated on high porttoa of the city. There is also a great ' deal of mining the vicinity of Salt Lake City, as well, as immense vegetable firming and kindred -industries. ' Att3r spending, threft very pleasant hours in the ' Morm.on City' we leave over the TAe'nyer at our next object." Pssing out from the oity.We get, a. vle-v .oi A' tii Salt 14 ks'.-ih;. fact' psss GR FIRST Millard am, Roy Hor Ilobert , Freno Sty era, Anna Myrtle Hullender, gaL, fcJva uaiubie Lily May, Miller. Sudie White, Wlllit' Pearl Herd, Nannie Plol beth Peterson, Albert Horace Allman. Charles li Royce King. Eugene I. Parks F.sher. SKCOND GRADE R u f Mitchani, Helen Forest, Jac Ramsaur Orangel Barrett, Char lie Carpenter. May Costner, Mar g&rette Cornwell, DeWitte Corn- well, Charles Fulton. Lois For tune, Lorene Cornwell, Bertie Lee Hambright, William Jack son, Kathriue McAllister. Mar garet McPinnia, Francis Mau- eny, Loreda Ramsev, Bright Richardson. Ida Walker, Fthel Styers, Clyde Hullender. THIRD GRADE Wilma Mer cer, Margaret Osment, Lona Sipe, Pearl Stvers, Margaret Barnes. FOURTH GRADE Margaret Lackey, Julia Cathqrine Mau ncy, Ruth Wilson. SIXTH GRADE Winnie Vera Mauney. Ruth Plonk, Ger trude King, Gussle Huffstetler, Miram Goforth, Lexter Ware, Eleanor Gamble, J. D. Ho'd, Robf rta Kunta, Nellie Graham, Neil Cansler. SEVENTH GRADE Sara Ful ton, Jaunita Mauney, Mary Plonk, Sara Allison. EIGrlTH GRADE Lois Uudis ill, Lena Rcdkill. I TENTH GRADE-K.at.hleen Williams, Mary Fulton," Mattie Ware. Vester' Davidson, Mary King, Kateleeh Hord, Nina Hunt ter. . ;.' 4 ' R. A.-YODER Supt. Friday wiii be the last session of the singing school at the Bapt ist ch'irch -until weathnr coti ditious nn prove. over a part of it. The lake is abput 100 by 60 miles, and con tains water six times as salty as the Ocean;' or about 22 per cent salt. This is, of course, as above stated, caused by being down in a valley with io outlet for the water except by v evaporation. The salt is of course settling . all the time,- and the laxe is be coming not only shallower -but smaller from year to year.. , This salt is gathered in t,reat, re fineries beiug located here. . On this lake is located the famous Salt Air Beach, where the bath mg suit beauties may enjoy their favorite pastime without the fear of drowning, as we are: told it is almost impossible to sink in this water, but you .bad beat .keep, head above water it ' wlfl almost put your eyes opt it is so salty, and one comes out With a white coat. of. .salt. It t8",v"yery healthful, however, and the . re f sort is well patronized. ' -No fish are lonna . nere, n: r laci no creatures in the water except, a very small shrimp. V-:; ;i ; Passing on we cross tho River Jo-dau which connects the 'Sa't Lake with Utah Lake, much, in the same manner as does the River Jordan of the. Holy 03 oonueot the Sea o,Ga,Ui.G with the Dead Sea. Wc sopn,bpi,n to mpnnt tne wanach, range, of mountains, which reach to gret heights, and many are covered with perpetual snow.-' ,' K ' .-.(Tq-M'pnt'd rl w-' ,' Grofl here oay sen intorste- at work. special inv secret o! cess. We ha cause is two and Philatheac Miss Meldonna leading spirit WeA an eliieriy mcmix church Monday and the above. as their said that for a long had sought ways ai enli-iting the old people found it onlv when they al the Baraca- Philathea meet championea, -v; 1 invincible Misu 'Livi The onion- will - anti await th'e.Grove'r lfleetind Kings Mtri. Herald. -r ' King Mtn.l There were 18.111 bales ton ginned in Cleveland col prior to Dee. 11WS as cod ed with 19 93S bales (tnut or to Deo. i Ifll. y hu-r JJ,L.'Tth. " ''..Spocul Agent. I,. ',. ' .it-.'. .. ; Progress Sew erajje'HWork; The first two t weeks on our sewerage work was fine,,: The weather was" good and lots of prog?ss was made. 'During the two weeks Railroad avenue from W, L, Plonk's residence to the' overhead " bridge.' King .street between Rail, pad a yen Piedmont '.: treet,fIiodrn(mt' b tween Tting , fCnd.f Mountain' streets, Mountain s'tjeet between' Piedmont and Railroad, avenue, and Cherikee street fi,' Ricardson stables o the Bon nie Mill) wera w6rked., NotRbin features about the work are fjhat no prolauity is hvatd, no beating of tijne. expert leadership and' thorough business principles '. -But the snow Saturday nighf halt to tho wot k and threw ped- estrians woefaUar :,into the mod;.'. Quarterly Confer ence Saturday nig;ht .."Tho first quarterly metlcg the ,Kings,Mitu.n.tahjL c,bj,w w'l' he bold, of xt Weslyan MHw iat GhuTch uext SatUKJay, i9""V?. r:. Anns!, frvr;;3,.'wjl),.bf.(ii.'yy'ci.;.f Clemnt. wiij,'pcb 1 - .", J'urdaji'niicht v' c ; y Every ow