The News-Herald from Morganton, North Carolina • Page 1

il published by the Estate of T. G. Cobb. The BMr.reEaS.Bnt7HaW Consolidated November 29, 1901. Subscription Price $1.50 per Year in Advance J0L XXXIII MORGANTON, N.

SEPTEMBER 13, 1917. NO. 16. GRADED BURKE COUNTY'S ma iuuuui SCHOOL OPENS MONDAY. TAXATION MEASURE HAS PASSED SENATE WHISKEY MANUFACTURE STOPPED SATURDAY NIGHT GERMANY'S PEACE TERMS TO BE PUBLISHED SOON.

NEXT CONTRIBUTION HAVE BEEN MURDERED Lational Developments Have List of Teachers and Their Assignments. The graded school will open next Millions of Bushels of Grain hr United, States Will Now Be! Diverted to Food. Saturday night whiskey manufac-j ture ceased in the United States un-' Come About rom ueam ai Concord of Wealthy Chicago Woman. foncord has been much in the lime- Monday. Tne following are the' A Reported Outline of the So-Called Terms.

Germany will shortly be able to publish her peace terms, according to Dr. George Michaelis, the German chancellor. Dr. Michaelis in an interview said he had so informed the reichstag main committee, an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Copenhagen Sunday states. teachers and their assignments: Primary First Grade Miss Cornelia Carter, Morganton; Miss Millie Kate CcComb, Hickory; Mrs.

Mary during the past wee. uaau developments connected giiw msational the shooting oj. iuia. ith fPowe Starrett, Morganton. der the provisions of the food control law and the millions of bushels of grain heretofore used in making that form of drink 'will be diverted to food.

Importation of whiskey is also stopped. Just how much grain will be added to the food supply as a result is not determinable, but experts say about a wealthy unicago woman tng: near Concord on the night of Wust 29th out dark on tne evening ui Abe Mr? Gaston means, The mam said Dr. Michaelis, in the interview, had "tried to make final arrangements regarding peace conditions and the question of Alsace-Lorraine, but no decision has yet been taken. The question, however, was eagerly discussed and Gsr- brother Afton Means, and Capt. Lham, with a negro chauffer, drove town.

The machine stopped lar the Blackwelder spring. A few et from the spring Mrs. King was ht in the back of the head. fThe next day the newspapers con Second Grade Miss Janie Pearson; Miss Mary Moore. Third Grade Miss Pearl Holloway, Mrs.

I P. Jeter. Fourth Grade Miss Frances Mcintosh, Denver; Miss Sadie Patton, Morganton. Fifth Grade Miss Annie Spain-hour, Morganton; Miss Mary Glenn Tyson, Carthage. Sixth Grade Mrs.

W. Marbut, Morganton. Seventh Grade Miss Sue Cannon, Hendersonvflle. High Schoo 1 Miss Margaret Young, Union, S. Miss Beiilah Robertson, Raleigh; Miss Mary Shu-ping, Morganton; Miss Caroline H.

Robinson, Ivanhoe. The colored school opened last Monday with Rev. J. E. Holt, principal, assisted by Rosa Moore and Sadye Watts.

as s. -j nrrount ot tne anair tin v- Largest Tax Levy in History of America Passed Monday Night Around Three Billion to Be Raised. The war tax bill the largest single taxation measure in American history was passed Monday night by the senate. It provides for a levy somewhere under $3,400,000,000 as compared with the $1,867,870,000 proposal in the bill as it passed the house May 23. The vote was 69 'to 4, Senators Borah, Gronna, LaFollette and Norris being recorded in opposition.

The great bill, nearly four months in the making, was returned to the house Tuesday and then goes to con ference with enactment within ten days or two weeks probable. Of the $2,400,000,000 new taxes provided in the tax ill for the duration of the war, $842,200,000 is to be taken from incomes, corporate and individual, and $1,060,000,000 from war profits. Most of the remainder is levied on liquor, tobacco and public utilities. The principal eleventh-hour actions of the senate were elimination of all provisions for taxing publishers and increasing second class periodical postage rates and all consumption taxes on sugar, tea, coffee and cocoa, the latter reducing the bill $186,000,000. The senate also struck out the clause proposing repeal of the "draw-back," or re-export, allowance given sugar refiners and defeated proposals to add inheritance taxes.

In a last effort of the high tax group to increase taxes, the senate re bv the Means brothers and ven 1 nnvnnor'o IlirV many will soon be able to publish her peace terms." What purported to be an outline of Germany's peace terms has been circulated among diplomats in Washington within the last two weeks, but has been regarded by the entente embassies and most of the neutrals as a "feeler." The origin of the so-called terms was not disclosed but they are said to have been written by Foreign Secretary "von Kuehlmann before his visit to Vienna, which since has been apt. rJingnam tu i effect the story was that the party int out to practice target shooting. Json Means and Mrs. King went to ie spring alone, which was some dis-nce from the road. Afton Means Id Bingham loitered near the road, i the spring according to Gaston fan's testimony, he laid a small au- 100,000,000 bushels are used by the distilleries each year, of which about 40,000,000 bushels are used in whiskey manufacture.

Customs officials throughout the country will seize all importations of spirituous liquors reaching the United States. Officers of the internal revenue bureau will see that distilleries make no more whiskey. Distillers may continue manufacturing alcohol for commercial purposes, and many of them have arranged for this work, others turning their distilleries into manufacturing plants for yeast, vinegar and by-products. Official estimate the quantity of whiskey in bond in warehouses to be about 190,000,000 gallons. Stocks not in bond will bring the quantity on hand in the country up to about 230,000,000 gallons.

The annual production of whiskey has been about 116,000,000 During the fiscal year ended June 30, 1916, 847 distilleries were registered and 635 operated throughout the country. These are the latest figures available. The most recent imatic revolver tne iunvs ui out five feet above the ground and ile getting a drink from the spring BURKE MAN HAS BECOME FAMOUS. pointed to as strengthening the probability that they bear evidences of authenticity. Briefly the so-called terms were as follows: "Restoration of -Belgium and Northern France, to be paid for out of the sale of Germany's colonies to Great Britain.

"Alsace and Lorraine to be independent states. (High French offi Men Who Will Leave for Training Camp on Sept. 19th. The following men compose the 40 per cent of Burke's quota, which will leave for Camp Jackson, Columbia, S. on September 19th.

In addition to the 48 men ordered to report in Morganton on the 18th of September, the Local Board has also ordered six extra men or alternates to report at the same time to take the place of any of the 48 men who fail to come. The last six men in the list are alternates and will be sent only if some of the 48 fail to appear on the 19th of September. Unless otherwise ordered these men will be lodged in town on the night gf September 18th and will leave on first train for Columbia on morning of September 19th, via Statesvilleand Charlotte: Eugene C. Denton. Ernest Walter Crawley.

Walter Winfield Giles. Bertie Lail Marion Alcona Branch. George David Cook. Hogue Lane. John Lindsay.

Prestley Hilderbrand. Willard J. Pless. Leonard C. Bridges.

Marshall Lee Cline. By num. Mac Deal. Isaiah Carswell. Monroe Smith.

J. C. Beach. Julius C. Chapman.

Jeff Davis Winters. Ernest A. Waters. Laban Smith. Douglass C.

Hamby. Sam Moffatt Joe Torrence. Frank C. Stacy. George Winkler.

James Wesley Gowens. Joe M. Benfield. Frank Murray Rhodes. Alexander S.

Hudson. Alexander Pritchard. Henry Norman. George Stanley Reep. Walter Lee Mooney.

Marvin Byron Kincaid. Charley A. Conley. Ed Ausbun Teague. Whit Alexander Dye.

Marshall Atlee Brinkley. Raymond Brown. Joseph Giles. William David Justice. Clarence H.

Benfield. Oscar W. McNeely. Robert Braswell. Frank Cobb.

William Owen Roby- Pinkney Shuffler. Hubert D. Setzer. John S. Simpson.

Felix Monroe Mull. Hoyle A. Barrier. Horace Frederick Connelly. James Vance Alexander.

Robert Williams. saw Mrs. King pick up the pistol, called to her to put it down, that je might shoot herself. An instant ter the pustol fired and Mrs. King Jl.

His idea was that she stumbled dark on the rough ground and the fall the pistol was discharged. iThe jury took this explanation and lidered a verdict of accidental census of manufacturers taken in jected 65 to 15 the LaFollette substi cials recently have stated anew the determination of France to be satisfied with nothing less than the. recoverv Mr. D. F.

Asbury's Gun Invention Has Won For Hint' Fame and Fortune. Mr. D. F. Asbury, son of Mr.

and Mrs. S. M. Asbury, has won worldwide fame by an important invention for improving big guns an invention which is said to have revolutionized gun manufacture. Five years ago Mr.

Asbury while working as a draftsman in the war department had his invention patented and soon thereafter the British government bought the rights to use it. During the war the guns have been manufactured by all the allied governments and' Mr. Asbury has been receiving i i (Means and Mrs. Melvin took the jdy first to Asheville, for the moth-j, Mrs. Robinson, to see, and then to jiicago and buried it.

Nothing more as thought of the matter until the Iy Means and Mrs. Melvin got back Asheville. That day the papers Jntained a report that the body had ten examined by a Chicago coroner 1914 shows that 6,290 wage earners worked in distilleries. It is estimated that the total has since increased one-third. Kentucky with 202 registered distilleries aria California with 165 will be the States hardest hit by the new law.

Pennsylvania has 69, Ohio 44, Missouri and Maryland 28 each and New York 20. Distilled spirits yielded the United States in the last fiscal year $192,111,318. of her lost provinces.) "Triest to be a 'free "Serbia and Rumania to be restored, and Serbia to have a port on the Adriatic. "The Balkan question and the status of Turkey to be subjects for negota-tion. "Disarmament and international Id physician and they declared that' i loyalties lrura ins invention.

jvras a case of murder. Mrs. Mel-p ir a sister of the dead woman, i Gaston Means is a son of W. G. News From Chesterfield.

Mr. G. M. sVrney and son, Mr. "Freedom of the seas with Groat NORTH CAROLINA IS IN PROSPEROUS STATE Britain in control of the English kily has been prominent in Cabar-; George Arney, visited Mr.

and Mrs channel until 'the projected tunnel is Robert Sides at Lenoir Wednesday. is for generations. Gaston Means, built between Dover and Calas. after his graduation at the State This outline of terms, circhlated niversitv. became an errmlovee of the without definite stamp of anv official authority, it will be noted, bears in Manufacturing Company, and sent to New York, as quite a num-er of other bright.

Concord young many respects a resemblance to the general tenor of the peace proposals tute bill to raise $3,500,000,000 more taxes. Passage of the bill was devoid of the usual stirring scenes marking such an epochal measure. A parliamentary snarl and amendment made fight on the second class postage provision furnished the most excitement. After the McKellar substitute zone postage increase provision, applying to publications sent beyond 300 miles, had been rejected 40 to 34, Senator Hardwick's substitute zone plan applicable to advertising portions only was beaten 48 to 20. Senator McKellar attempted to offer another substitute with a maximum rate of foiir cents a pound instead of six cents, but Senator Salisbury, presiding, held that the house zone provision had never been formally eliminated.

Then the senate made sure of its determination to eliminate all postage increases and special levies on publishers by adopting Senator Weeks' motion to strike out the entire house clause, 59 to 9. The only postage features left in the bill are provisions for free transportation of letters for -American Soldiers abroad and for a cent stamp tax on parcel post raising about $4,000,000. The consumption taxes, of 1-2 cent a pound on sugar, two cents on coffee, five cents on tea, tree cents on cocoa and from one to two cents a gallon on molasses went out by over-welming majorities. A final vote on Senator Broussard's motion to eliminate them all was 52 to 28. Vrt n3T" been, to work in the New of Pope Benedict.

prk office of this great manufactur- By some diplomats such an outline i ig concern, From New York, he is regarded as presenting something nt to the Chicago branch. There susceptible of discussion. It is discussed merely a a posibility without having yet advanced fully into the range of probability. Shown By September Federal Reserve Bulletin For Richmond District. The Federal Reserve bulletin for September shows prosperous conditions in North Carolina and other Southern States in the fifth district.

The report for- the Richmond district says: Business in general continues unusually active, particularly in manufacturing lines. The conditions existing at the present time are so unusual and in their effects present such widely diversified features that it is difficult to make either any sound comparison with the past or a conservative estimate as to the future trend. We can only take conditions as we find them and live from day to day. married a Chicago woman, and oat three years ago. through his fe, became acquainted with Mrs.

laude A. King, a woman who had re eved a million dollars from the es- Mr. and Mrs. Moran Harbison, of Dogwood, were visitors here the first of the week. Mrs.

J. P. Barefoot and small son, William, are spending sometime at the home of her father, Mr. W. W.

James. Mr. J. E. Hood spent last week with his brother, Mr.

J. G. Hood, at Montezuma. Mr. Lucius Wall, of Lenoir, visited his brothers, Messis S.

S. and B. W. Wall Sunday. Mr.

John Crump and niece, Miss Aurella Crump, of Gamewell, are visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Smith.

Mesdames Nestor Parks and Frank Garrison Morganton, spent Thursday as guests of Mrs. Nora Miller. Misses Bruce, Mary and Ruth Sparks were the week-end guests of Miss Essie Conley. Miss Beatrice Hood left last week for Greenville, S. where she will enter school.

Mrs. Kate Warlick and Mrs. J. E. Lackey spent Thursady with Mr.

and Mrs. George Ramsaur Worry. Mr. Bradshaw, of Finley, was a visitor here last Saturday. Mr.

R. W. Sudderth spent Saturday night and Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Will Hallyburton.

Mr. and Mrs. Billie Wall and Mrs. John Powell, of. Quaker Meadows, were here Saturday in their car, en-route to Lenoir.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Garrison, Mr. and. Mrs.

Nestor Parks, of Morgan-ton, spent last Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Hood.

Miss Augusta Smith spent Sunday The inflation in prices, in every direc tion, is reflected the increased amount of capital necessary to transact business, but unprecedented prof its in most lines seem to have made this a matter of little moment. General reports are optimistic and there jte of her deceased husband, a lum-Ji- merchant. Means left the Cannon pmpany to become secretary and Jancial advisor of Mrs. King. Mrs.

pg's mother, Mrs. Robinson, her $ter, a Mrs. Melvin, Means and his fe all lived in luxurious apartments with Mrs. King in New York, ney also traveled together and spent fcch time in Chicago. Young Means the financier of all the women it is said served them well in making investments and saving Mrs.

pg's fortune. jMeans and Mrs. Melvin are back in Oncord. Solicitor Clement has been Concord making investigations. is waiting for a motive to be dis-L ered before opening the case, but jto a visit to the scene of the does not believe Mean's story.

KingS tW0 CnicaS brothers -Irs. Robinson have employed jonsel to investigate the "status of p- King's fortune and call Means accounting. In this investiga- Valdese Red Cross. Correspondence of The News-Herald. Saturday night, Sept.

15, at 8 o'clock, the Red Cross organization of Valdese has decided to give a box supper in the interest of the work which they are undertaking for our soldier boys. They want to make woolen garments that will be proof against the severe European winters and hope to raise enough money to buy the wool. It is understood that large quantities of wool have been secured by the Red Cross for such purposes and that it be supplied to devoted workers all over the Uniten States at cost prices. We' are proud to know that our women have determined to put in a good deal of time in honor of our boys "over there" and feel sure that all the men folks will be on hand Saturday night. We would welcome visitors.

The Valdese Band, skilfully led by Mr. Gordon Queen, of Morganton, and now able to render very good music, has promised to make its debut on that occasion. are few discordant notes. "The selective draft and the necessary preparations to take care of the men called to the colors have been a most disturbing element in the labor will be a community fair here this fall. These fairs are a new movement in North Carolina, but will be a great factor for progress in rural districts, and will be an uplift to each place where held.

Quite a number of the fairs were held last year but more will be held this year. Gilboa News Items. Correspondence of The News-Herald. Mr. and Mrs.

Monroe Causby were the guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Duckworth. Mr. N.

F. Rusmiselle, of State Hospital, was in this vicinity last week. Miss Mary Williams visited hei4 sister, Mrs. M. A.

Buff, Friday. Mr. John Reid Brown left last week for Norristown, where he has a pisition. Mrs. B.

F. Walker spent Thursday in Morganton. Mrs. Smith and Miss Sudie Smith visited Mrs. T.

L. Duckworth recently. Mr. Jake Mooney made a business trip to Construction Saturday. Miss Eula Mae Tate and Master Johnie Tate accompanied their father to Glen Alpine Sunday, where thef will enter school.

Mr. Kelly Bowman, is spending a few days mith his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Mike Keller spent Sunday with Mrs.

Keller's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Pearson. Quite a number of our people attended the singing convention at Pleasant Hill, near Enbla, Sunday. Mr.

and Mrs. M. A. Buff and chil: dren spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.

Champ Buff. Ju a motive may be found for get na of the roman with the money. Revival at Bridge water. There will be revival services in the Presbyterian church at Bridgewa-ter beginning on Sept. 16th, at 11 o'clock a.

and continuing through the 4th Sunday. Rev. J. M. Clark, D.

evangelist, will assist in the meetings. All denominations are cordially invited to participate in the meetings. the meantime, Means professes for currency in the interior is much ce in being able to establish with Miss Ruby Baird. omenta c.nnf: larger than usual. "While financial demands for cron Mrs.

G. M. Arney and son, Mr. Ernest Arney, are on a visit to Mrs. Arney's brother Mr.

W. M. McLain, in Caldwell. 1 1J. a tiiai 1UI Jder is instituted.

Mrs. Melvin t0 Means, but her mother and 3 ai'e suspicious. raising have been unusually heavy and the demand for rediscounts above the situation which has been generally disorganized and complaints in regard to it are universal. The work on the cantonments at Columbia, S. C.

and Petersburg, the naval base at Norfolk, and government work contemplated at Richmond have called for an unprecedented volume of labor. Very high wages are being paid, the result being to take laborers from manufacturers, industrial plants of all kinds and from the farms. Many complaints are heard of inability to harvest the growing crops. The large amounts paid out through these laborers have been an artificial stimulant to trade, from which there must necessarily be a decided reaction. "Crops in this section are reported unusually good.

Wheat is above the average, corn is said to be the best ver raised in the district, tobacco is up to or above' normal and while cotton is below the average in output the high prices will so far as valuev is concerned, more than offset the decline in volume. In prices of all these crops are high, tobacco has already commenced to move and the demand is one of the most sensational Edwin Cox ever stapd in son and Lawrpnce Garrison Rnfmt. tbp wi vai uitiiu i week-end with the family of Mr. and Singing Convention Postponed. The singing convention of the South Mountain association, which was to have been held at Connelly Springs on the third Saturday and Sunday in this month, has been postponed until a later date, not yet an al at Glen Alpine Next Wednesday Night.

dere he a social at the school m.g at Gle Alpine next A critic says the American people have their hammers out. In Congress it is a case of using the bellows too much. Charlotte News normal, many banks still report a surplus of funds and the general demands of the district have been handled without any strain. "While a considerable amount of the late payments against liberty bonds have been redistributed among depositaries in the district, all calls made by the government have been promptly met and the subscriptions of the district to the last issue of treasury certificates was not alloted in full but sealed on" account of the general oversubscription to them." tne proceeds to be used i nounced. Mrs.

Horace Conley. Mr. Ben Hood has gone to Raleigh where he has accepted a position. Mr. Waits Deal Morganton, visited friends oil Lower creek Monday.

Carpenters are at work on a new residence for Mrs. Nora Miller. The daughters of Mr. and Mrs. E.

B. Hood visited Miss Louise Hood here Sunday. We are glad know that iiiere Re- Lne benefit of the scheol Pments win be served. Caldwell County Fair will be held at Lenoir October 3, 4 and 5. openings are sche- Death at Drexel.

Mrs. W. H. Brittain died at her home in Drexel on Friday, September 7th. ra be held next Wednesday and Mr.

Frank Donahoe, of Weaverrille, spent Sunday in Mroganton..