Stanly News and Press from Albemarle, North Carolina • 1

Cllbcmnrlc Enterprise BIVINS Mamafjnfl Editor Established ItfiO $100 per year in advance VOLUME XXIII ALBEMARLE EBRUARY 18 11S NUMBER IS REPRESENTATIVE BOST MAKES SHORT VISIT HOME Representative Makes ly ing Trip Home Talks About Leg islative Affairs at Raleigh Hon Luther Bost our Repre sentative in the General Assemblypent Sunday at his home in western Stanly upon his return from Mor ganton where he served with a leg islative committee in inspecting the State institution for the deaf and dumb Mr Bost spent a few moments with the Enterprie editor before leaving for Raleigh Monday afternoon He talked freely of the work of the Leg islature and especially of the bills af fecting Stanly county Messrs Mc Neely Eftrd and Bost have introduced several bills looking toward better conditions among our citizens We mention a few of these: A bill to abolish the office of County Treasurer in Stanly county ratified By the provisions of this bill our County Commissioners have a right to empower the banks to handle the eountv funds provided eveh banks give bond as did the county treas urer formerly within 60 days of the holding of peiuMgin by any political party Um MU We feel sure will meet the approval of most of the voters in the county A bill to abolish all slot machines punch boards and chance schemes of whatever nature where purchaser gets less or more than value render ed in each and every purchase This bill will work no hardship on our merchants will protect purchasers and at the same time be conducive to healthier morals A bill to incorporate the town of Oakboro By this bill western Stan growing town will have a chance to grow a mile up and down the Nor folk Southern Railroad A bill to amend the road laws of all the townships in the County with the exception of North and South Al bemarle The latter will be included in a separate bill By the terms of the amendment a majority of the peo ple in the different townships may determine whether they will work the roads by special tax or by free labor In the former ease upon the road supervisor being notified by petition that a special tax is desired the com missioners will levy a tax of only 10 cents on every $100 worth of prop cry or 80 cents on the poll In cane free labor is desired the bill provides that every citizen affected by the lawhall work the roads in Lis own sec tion at a rate of 80 cents per diem at a convenient time The foe of the highway commissioners Las been re duced to 130 per day the time ol meeting of the commission being set for second Mondays in April July October and January The register of deeds will act as clerk for the com mission as in the meetings of the county commissioners The road bill is a good one and should serve to do away with complaints about the way the roads are worked in the county Mr Bost fells us that bills seeking to provide a State Examination Board for teachers a State Highway Com mission and a State ish Commission will probably fail of passage on ac count of the large appropriations that woul4 be necessary to inaugurate these new features He expects a pro hibition bill in some form to pass The Legislature will close in about three weeks MR JEROME MOVES TO GREENSBORO Salisbury Post 16th Jerome left Salisbury yester day moving to Greensboro where he locates for the practice of law Mr Jerome and his family drove through to his automobile and the furniture followed to day Mr Jerome has made all arrange ments for taking up his home in Greensboro having last week rented home and office He will not be associated with any one in practice Mr Jerome is a man of unusual le gal ability and his friends expect him to do well at Greensboro Salisburyegrets to lose him and wishes him a large succesi in his new home Dur tag his residence in this city Mr Jer ome and his most excellent family made many friends and these will all take pleasure in watching hirrt build up a large practice in Greensboro and Ind a substantial place in the com munity life there Mr Jerome is a public spirited man and citizen and will soon become a strong useful cit izen of Greensboro DO YOU IND AULT WITH EVERYBODY An irritable fault finding disposi tion is often due to a disordered stomach A man with good digestion is nearly always good natured A great many have been permanently benefited by Tablets after years of suffering These tab Ista strengthen the stomach and en able it to perform its functions natur ally Obtainable everywhere Contracts have boon Mt in Chieff for OOOAOO pairs of army blankets fire tim naHaa GovunmauL CONGRESSM AN DOUGHTON I POLICEMAN ATT SNUGGS I PROGRAM OR BARACA GIVES BALE TO SCHOOL IS SERIOUSLY WOUNDED PHILATHEA CITY UNION Rowan Record Congrestman Douphton the wide awake progressive and abl'j member of Congress from this the eighth Congressional district besides being a good public servant a clever gentleman and much interested in the welfare of his constituents is also a man of public spiritedness in a way that counts When eotton was sell ing at 6 cents in order to improve conditions and assist some needy farmer he purchased at 10c per pound a bale of cotton in every coun ty in his district This was commend able but recently when called on for a donation fur the arm Life School he donated his Rowan bale to this worthy institution County Commis sioner Gray having received a letter from yesterday to this ef fect This is doing all that a Congress man could reasonably be expected to do in this line but shows how com pletely our Congressman is filling his obligations to his people If Con gressman Doughton has failed in any particular point to render full and acceptable service we have yet to hear the complaint Mr Doughton is highly esteemed and justly so here abouts BARACA PHILATHEA UNION City Sunday School Union Holds In teresting Meeting at irst Street Methodist Church On riday night of last week the Baraca end Philathea classes of the city met in Union some two hundred cr more strong at the irst Street Methodist church This was a most enjoyable and beneficial meeting ana one which demonstrated the deep in terest felt in united movement among the organized Sunday school classes of our town Our efficient president Patt Cog gin opened the meeting with a few appropriate remarks after which Rev Whitley led in prayer The business session followed Reports from all classes present were read giving membership collections new members added and other things ac complished during the month One class West Albemarle Baptist Philatheas reported membership ot ninety while the irst Street Meth odist Philatheas proved to be the banner class for winning new mem bers having added eight during the month Mr Griffin in his address of wel come made all feel glad that they had come and 'ssured us that the Sunday school of irst Street Metho odist church was glad to open the doors of their beautiful new home to all not only on this occasion but at all times Interesting programs were rendered by each ckss as fol lows: irst Street Methodist By Baraca and Philatheas The New eatures of Our Mim Nan Smith West Albemarle Baptist By Mr Russell teacher of the Philathea Class and by Rev Whitley Central Methodist On Philathea Soldiers The Shadows We Cast By Miss Mary Gulledge By Mrs Price All regret the absence of a pro gram rom irst Baptist church al though our president ably renresent edthe Sunday school The Union accepted the invitation extended by the Central Methodist church classes to meet with them on riday night March 12 It is hoped that the Sunday school classes from other churches of the city may join the Union giving and receiving help and inspiration through the spirit of united brotherhood Kirk urr While Resisting Arrest at Norwood Breaks Bottle Over Of ficer Snuggs Head Seriously Wosnding Him On last Saturday afternoon at Nor wood Policeman Snuggs a brother of Snuggs of this place was se riously injured by Kirk urr of Nor wood rom what we can learn Mr Snuggs had arrested urr for diaor dsrly conduct and was preparing to put him in the lock up when urr turned upon the officer Wilhoit had been deputized by Mr Snuggs who could use only one arm to as sist him in placing urr behind the bars While Mr Snuggs was unlock ing the door to the calaboose Mr Wilhoit was bolding urr At that point the prisoner jerked loose from Mr Wilhot picked up a quart bottle lying near and used it with telling effect on Officer Snuggs head Mr Snuggs was knocked down and kick ed several times by his assailant A bystander came up at this juncturend succeeded in getting urr in the calaboose The wounded man was taken to his home where his injuries were looked after by Doctors Hath cock and Campbell It was found that the skull had been broken and that there were probably serious internal injuries urr was brought to Albemarle on Saturday night and placed in jail to await trial urr Is only about eighteen years of age but has been arrested several times before for dis orderly conduct The outcome of his trial will depend largely upon whether Mr Snuggs recovers from his injuries or not Mr Snuggs son Collie Snuggs of this place was called by to his bedside Tuesday and it is feared that his condition is very serious 448377 BALES COTTON USED DUPING JANUARY igures of the Government Were Announced Monday Washington eb 15 Cotton used during January was 468877 bales ex clusive of linters compared 517299 in January last year the eeusus bureau announced to day Cotton used during the six months ending January 31 was 2591098 as against 2316625 last year Cotton on hand January 31 in man ufacturing establishments was 1515 39G bales against 1764361 a year agond in independent warehouses 4689 956 bales against 2889942 a yeargo Exports were 1372175 bales against 1052272 last year and for the six months 3978329 bales against 6439752 a year ago Imports were 39229 against 90624 last year and for the six months 139 529 against 63523 a year ago Cotton spindles active numbered 30565470 against 31098178 a year ago A ROMANTIC MARRIAGE A very romantic marriage occurr ed in the little village of Cottonville Saturday the 13th Jasper Lowder and Miss Odessa Gilmore with a company of young friends drove to the parsonage at the Meth odist church and while the company all remained seated in their buggies and the large number that had gath ered to witness the affair stood around in the ehureh yard Rev Starr administered the solemn yet pleasant rite that made the pair husband and wife After the cere mony the company all drove to the home of Crawford Lowder where a table laden with good things to eat and a number of friends awaited to greet them We wish them a tong and happy life Cor ATAL ACCIDENT AT CONCORD Concord Ttimes Ira Mehaffey was instantly killed and Messrs WJdenhoure and Wright Tucker were painfully but not seriously injured when Mr Widen automobile crashed into the concrete steps in frot of Can residence on North Union street Sunday morning about 1 Mr Widenhouse was driving the machine a ord touring car and Messrs Me haffey and Tucker were on the reareat when the collision occurred The machine struck the steps with terific force and Mr Mehaffey was huried forward out of the car He struck the earth just to the of the stone curbing with such force that his neck was broken His head was also badly bruised and crushed Messrs Widenhouse and Tucker were not thrown from the car The front of the machine was badly damaged IVE CENTS PROVES IT A Geaeaas Offer Cut out this ad enclose with 5 cents to oley A Co Chicago HL and they will send you our trial packages of Honey and Tar Compound for coughs colds croupe bronchia! and grippe coughs oley Kidney Pills and oley Cathartic Tablets or sale in your town by rij dealero TAKES DANDRU HAIR STOPS ALLING Girlel Try This! Makes Your Hair Thick Glossy laffy Beautiful Within ten minutes after an appli cation of Danderine you cannot find a single trace of dandruff or falling hair and your scalp will not itch but what will please you most will be aft er a few use when you see new hair fine and downy at first ves but really new hair growing all over the scalp A little Danderine immediately doubles the beauty of your hair No difference how dull faded brittle and scraggy just moisten a doth with Danderine and carefully draw it through your hair taking one small strand at a time The effect is amaz ing your hair will be light fluffy and wavy and have an appearance of abundance an incomparable lustre softness and luxuriance Get a 25 cent bottle of Danderine from any drug store or toilet counter and prove that your hair is at pretty and soft as it has been neglected or injured by careless A you surely can have beautiful hair and lots of it if you will just try a little Danderine To Be Held in Central Methodist Church on riday Evening March 12 7:30 Blest Be the Tie That Binds By City Union Will Hopkins BARACA By our Central Methodist Chureh boys IVE MINUTE How to en list young men in Baraca work A Bivins SOME POINTS ON THE PHILA THEA IDEA Miss Houser CHORUS By Central Methodist Philatheas SONG By West Albemarle Classes IVE MINUTE What we ex pect of our Union By William HerrinC By Miss Cora Parker SONG By West Albemarle Baptist Classes SONG By Miss Belle Kirk ADDRESS Class Loyalty By Jas Smith By Miss Mabel Pennington SONG By irst Baptist Classes By irst Street Methodist Classes ADDRESS After Winning New Members How Can We Hold Them? Griffin SONG By irst Street Methodist Classes Miss Ellen Harkey Rev A Taylor PROGRAMME Of Woman's Missionary Society En tertainment to be Given at Palmer ville Baptist Church Sunday Night ebruary 21 Exercises to Begin st 7 Holy Holy Holy Lord xl Almighty By the Pastor SONG The King's Business The Man that Died for Me Mrs Woodson Have You Known it all the Time and Never Told Mrs Johnson SONG Why Stand Ye Here Idle? What Have You Given Martha Pressley READING The Meaning of Het Tears (True Miss Nora Ed dins SOLO Here Am I Send Me Miss Nellie Nichols The Postage Stamp Mavis Edwards Saint Peter at the Golden Miss Odessa Morgan SOLO The Mods! Church Hicks The Conversion of a Confucian Atheist Miss Ethel Hicks We Can Do Mrs Morgan MALE QU ARTETTE Messrs Geo Palmer Earl Lefler Milton Cole and Chas Lefler TALK BY THE PASTOR COLLECTION AND Hear the Pennies Dropping Throw Out the Life Line BENEDICTION CENTRAL METHODIST CHURCH Theme for Sunday morning Price of Our Evening theme the Ethiopian States man Came Into the We had a good congregation last Sunday evening and it was very en couraging to the pastor One some times wonders hw our people spend their Sunday evenings that so many of them fail to put in their appear ance at public worship Rev Gentry preached an edi fying and instructive sermon to the county prisoners at the eamps just north of town last Sunday afternoon The men made a most attentive and respectful audience On Wednesday evening of next week we wish to have a combined social meeting of the members of the church and church conference Keep It in mind and wait for further an nouncements The committee on Evangelism is making plans for holding some cot tage prayer meetings in various parts of the town during March Kentucky Mob Lynches a Man Mayfield Thomas Tinker a white man charged with shooting and killing Constable Richard Part at Melber was taken from the county jail snd lynched by fifty men Tinker killed Part when the later went to arrest him on the charge ot house breaking Redwine of Monroe has been nominated a trustee of the Uni versity of North Carolina and will be elected by the legislature along with a number of others The posi tion is considered by the University men one of great honor and is held by the most prominent old students of the University throughout the State Monroe Journal tovlgorottag to tto Polo aofi SMffp THE RELECTIONS EAST PRUSSIA HAS A NORWOODITE BEEN EVACUATED The few days of sunshine frrantel us recently have been enjo! to the fullest by our people The! automobiles have been pulled fremi winter quarters and have been rpin ing along as of other days Look8 good to us But we are not in posi tion to criticise the weather man for so much rain Only a few days ago we saw a severe criticism of the old stand by Blum's Almanac because the maker did not provide for a full moon this ebruary The only miti gating circumstance in the case was that the shameful omission only oc curred about three times in a century I cannot find it in my heart to con demn the old Almanac by which our mothers planted the beans and pota toes and always had them in the right in th? But it must not thus offend too often But the rain ought to be a blesring to us in rhore ways than one Besides storing avt a vst quantity of water in the subsoil for s'ln me use and to tide us over a possible we should allow it to remind us of the need of better streets and sidewalks Here we have been wading and pull ing along in the mud all winter and at night we have not had the advan tage of street lights just because we are minus those useful tokens of civi lization for public spirit and some money with which to We have two excellent opportuni ties for lights The River View Rol ler Mills are situated about two miles away on Rocky river and would lend us the wonderful water power which goes to waste all night long while we grope in the dark If we only had the money to put in the dynamo and to put up the wires! Then there arc three other plants both in town and both run by stean One of them could hitch a dynamo to its engine at dark and run all night without im paring its work at all But our people do not think we can do it There does not seem to be any senti ment in favor of making such a move or any attempt to better the condi tion of streets or sidewalks But loves Albe marle is little better when it comes to the matter of streets and side walks But I will not attempt to right the capital of the county lest some one should truthfully say before your own Now seriously why can we not be a little more progressive? Our people have many strong points They are a sturdy race and deserve much but are a long shot too It is much easier to get into a rut than to get out The ad vantages of Norwood as a location for a manufacturing plant are hard to over estimate Its railroad facilitiesre equal to the best in the state It has outlet in all directions by rail and it would seem that when war times are over there surely will be an effort to utilize the wonderful advantages here afforded Local conditions have much to do with inducements of capital for invest ment in any place Let us make this the best town of its size in the state and make it so desireable as place to live that people will be attracted here Our school is a fine institution The churches are active and busi ness as good as other places perhaps Let us see to it that the laws are properly enforced and that right liv mg shall be encouraged CITIZEN ODD BITS NEWS Vernon Pa Spontaneous combus tion in a piece of dried cheese set fire to a house recently The cheese had become dry on a shelf and the fire was discovered in time to save the house Winsted Conn Miss Elizabeth Kilboum the first woman in the world to take a stitch on a sewing machine died here recently at the age of 86 Oxford The only woman Civil War veteran Mrs Robert Brownell died here a few days ago She enlisted with her husband in the irst Rhode Island Battery of volun teers and saw active service for nearly three years Chicago Ill When Rogen stein died here recently it was discov ered that was a woman and had been married for several years wife was at the beds1 de when died The two young women had so that the could do a work and make more money Chicago The department that caused the most' comment at the ashion Show that opened here this week was the one devoted to smoking apparel for women Although the Blackstone most exclusive hotel has permitted women to smoke in tire public dining halls for several months but two or three women have made use of the privilege Post Tex This town has the most complete cotton factory in the world The cotton is taken from tire wagons ginned spun woven into doth and made into sheets and pillow cases in the one factory This Causes Grcai Rejoicing Among Germans The p' Germany are cele brating the evacuation of East Prus sia by the Russians which is hailed ns another great victory for ield Marshal von Hindenburg England is not attempting to hide her elation at the success of her airmen's raid on the German positions in Belgium and all Europe is eagerly discussing the American notes to Great Britainnd Germany and contemplating what the replies will be Great Britain has already intimat ed that British merchant ships have been advised to use neutral flags only in care of emergency and no general use of such flags is antici pated The German minister of the Hague has issued another warning to neutrals to the effect that in view of the alleged declaration of all the British ports at war ports and the use of neutral flags by British ships it would be dangerous for neutral merchantmen to visit the prescribed waters after ebruary 18 So far as the East Prussian situa tion is concerned the Russian offi cial report indicates that the Rus sians having evacuated the greater part of the German provinces are making a stand on or near their frontier whether for a pitched bat tle or to delay German advance it will take a few days to tell Bettie ollows Battle Rattle is following battle on the eastern front where Russia single harded is fighting the forces of Ger many Austria and Turkey The Rus sians have held their lines against ield Marshal von Hindenburg's army which attempted last week to break through to Warsaw and ap parently have checked the Austro German offensive in the Carpathians They are now defending positions they won in east Prussia and north ern Poland The Germans are transferring mennd guns to the east Prussian border and on the right bank of the lower Vistula where their advance has brought them in the district of Bier pec which the Russians occupied a short time ago It is impossible say where the next big battle will take place Grand Duke Nicholas with whom the ini tiative remains may either strike be tween Tilsit and Insterburg in east Prussia or threaten to cut von Hin communications with Thorn by a movement along the low er Vistula No further change is noted in the Carpathians but the Austrian official report which omplains of the ob stacle of snow and of the strong pressure of the Russians suggests that their offensive has partly failed While the Austro German force in the eastern part of the range seems to have been strong enough to com pel the Ru sians to retire from Bak owina the Russians appear after the fierce battles of Sunday last to have almost complete command of the middle and western portions of the mountains To Continue the War In the meantime the powers en gaged in the war are putting their houses in order for a continuation of the war The German emperor has returned from the eastern front to Berlin to 'onfer with his generals including von Moltke who was re tired after the first stages of the war inancial experts in Berlin are re ported to be arranging to float an other internal loan of 1250000 000 It is said that Russia also contemplates floating an internal loan of 250000000 In England the increased cost of living occupies the attention of the government and while Premier As quith has declined to assent to the fixing of maximum prices steps are being taken to improve the situation The government too is considering mens to carry on a more stringent campaign against German trade AN OLD TIME ID DLERS' CONVENTION To Be Held in Albemarle March Names of Contestants Desired Prizes to be Awarded An old time convention will be held in the court house at Albe marle March 6 1915 at 8 A genuine good time is expected but the success of the convention will de pend largely upon the spirit in which the good fiddlers of the county enlist in the worthy cause Prizes are to be awarded All who wish to contest for these prizes will please write to me by Monday March 1 Each fiddler is to be allowed a second man as assistant Please ad vise me which one of the three priree7 5 and 230 you will contest for Remember the date HOLT Box 145 Albemarle NQ.