The Gastonia Gazette from Gastonia, North Carolina • Page 1

IONIA GAZETTE, PUBLISHED TWICE A TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS. SINGLE COPY 8 i DevotenJ to the Protection of Home and the Interest, of the County. $1.50 A YEAH IN ADVANCE. 1 vouxxxr GASTONIA, N. DAYr JANUARY 25, 1910.

NO 7 THE GAS' Personals and Locals. TERSE TOPICS OF THE TIMES. THE NEWS SUSPENDS. OVER GASTON COUNTY. INTERESTING PROGRAM.

CLARA CONCERT BAND. Entertained Delightfully by Ladles of the Avon Mfll Box Sapper Nets Nice Sam for This Promising Musical Organlzaton. On Saturday night last the ladles of the Avon Mill community delightfully entertained the Clara Concert Band in the Avon school house, having donated a large number of boxes and baskets of attractive and unique designs, filled wtth all sorts of good eatables. 1 Following an appropriate address by Mr. A.

C. Jones, these' boxes were sold at outcry to the highest bidder for cash, the sum realized being $16.30, which was turned over to Lowell Locals. Correspondence of The Gasette. LOWELL, Jan. 24.

Rev. R. A. Miller was called to Belmont Satur day conduct the funeral services v. Mary CuId.

a native of Cleveland 'county. She was an aged lady, being in, her 80th year. Mrs. fiv 'M. Roblnaon and Miss jwere Gastonia visitor -OUr.

can uetter, or Charlotte, wai In toWn Mr. and Oaston were Gas tonla visitors Thursday. Mr. Thom as H. Buxton, of Charlotte, was In town on business Saturday.

Mr. Dave Brown and family, of York' vllle, "have moved here to live and -'will take Up work at the Mr. Labe McDowell, of Charlotte. was a business visitor in town Sat urday Miss Vernie Funderburk was' a 'Gastonia visitor Thursday. Dr.

A. Stovall, of Gastonia, was 4n town Saturday on professional business. Mr. John Elllninon was a business visitor in Gastonia Thurs day. Mrs.

J. L. Thompson and Miss Bessie Cox were shopping in Charlotte Friday James Reld was a Gastonia visitor Misses Lottie ansVEthel Cox are vis- itlnir relatives in Charlotte this week. Mr. E.

P. Lewis, of route two, was in town Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. It.

Titman were Gastonia shoppers Thursday. Mrs. Joe Featherston was in Charlotte Saturday to see her daughter, who has been at St. Peter's, hospital for several weeks, but is much Improved. Mr.

S. J. Hand was a Belmont visitor Wednesday. Dr. Frank Robinson visited his daughter, Mrs.

J. K. Hand, of Char lotte. Friday. The surveyors are still at work in this vicinity.

Mr John Hoffman and Mr. Lafayette Hoffman and family, after spend Ing several weeks with relatives here, returned to their home in Cooleemee Saturday. McAdenville Matters. Correspondence of The Gazette. Jan.

24. Mr. Charles Fisher, "of Charlotte, was here last week on a visit to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R.

H. Fisher. The many friends of Miss Lottie Al- will learn with pleasure that she is rapidly improving aftef a severe attack of illness. Prof. J.

L. Webb spent last Wednesday with Mr. and Mrs. Dave Friday near Dallas. Mr.

James T. McAden is spending some time with relatives at Raleigh. Mr. George F. Curry, of Clarkton, prea-ident of the Catawba Store Company, spent some time here on business last week.

Mr. O. L. Sprinkle, of Charlotte was a business visitor here last week. Mr.

Thomas 'i Smith, of Charlotte, spent Thursday afternoon here on business. Mrs. C. M. Hernandeze, of Charlotte, was the guest last week of Mrs.

J. C. Walker. Mr. H.

M. McAden and Dr. C. A. Bland, of Charlotte, were business visitors to McAdenville last week.

Mr. C. L. Kerley, of Mooresville, was here last week on a visit to his mother, Mrs. M.

R. Kerley. Mr. R. R.

Ray" spent Thursday afternoon In ft Charlotte on 'business. Mr. W. L. Pierce, of Charlotte, was a business visitor here Friday Mr.

S. B. Bry-tner was a business visitor to Gastonia Saturday. Mrs. A.

M. Dixon, of Gastonia, spent Saturday afternoon here as the guest of her mother, Mrs. R- R- Ray. Mr. Giles Me-bane, of Greensboro, was a business visitor here Saturday.

4 MAYESWORTH MUSINGS. Correspondence of The Gazette. MAYESWORTH, Jan. 25. C.

D. Skldmore and family moved from here to Charlotte Tfhnrsday. Cleveland Welch spent Saturday night tand Sunday in Gastonia. Miss Evelyn Boyd returned, to Charlotte Sunday evening after, spending the week-end here with homefolks. There are two cases of pneumonia in the place, being at the homes of Mr.

Brantley, and Mr. Jones. The baby In each home is the victim. Hubbard, of Charlotte, has accepted a position here In the mill and entered upon his duties last week. Deputy W.

Fuller, of Bessemer City, was here yesterday, we presume on official business. Ed- gar Lewis, of Gastonia, was here Rev. J. L. Shlnn, of Dallas, was in Gastonia on business yesterday.

Mr. George E. Marvin is spending today Id Grover on business. Attorney A. L.

Bulwinkle, of Dallas, was a business visitor in Gastonia yesterday. Mr. W. Love, of Spencer Mountain, was in the city on business yesterday. Mr.

J. R. Henderson, of the Union neighborhood, was in town on business yesterday. Mrs. T.

A. Norment and Miss Matttie Moore were Charlotte visitors Saturday. Superintendent F. P. Hall, of Belmont, was in Gastonia on business a short while yesterday.

Mr. H. F. Forbes, of Crowders Creek, was In Gastonia on, business Saturday. Mr.

Z. S. Quinn, of Southslde, was in Gastonia on business Saturday. Mr. J.

M. Wright, of Lowell, was a business visitor in Gastonia Saturday. Mr. A. B.

Lineberger, of route two, was in the city Saturday and paid the Gazette office a call. Mr. G. M. Gullick, the popular Belmont merchant, is having a handsome plate glass front added to his store.

Bascom Wooten, son of Mr. and Mrs. P. E. Wooten is able to be up again after an illness of about two weeks with grip.

Mr. William Crawford, of Belmont, left yesterday for Richmond, where he will enter the Smith-deal 'Business College. Mr. W. A.

Falls, of the Pisgah neighborhood, was in Gastonia on business yesterday. Hon. O. F. Mason, of Dallas, left last Wednesday night on a visit to relatives at Dothan, Ala.

From there he went to Florida where he will spend a short time. The Piedmont Directory Company, the firm which has just completed and delivered Gastonla's new city directory, is at work on a directory of Spencer. The Woman's 'Betterment Association of the Tanyard School will hold its regular monthly meeting on Friday afternoon, January 28th, at 2 o'clock. All members are requested to be present. Visitors cordially invited.

Mr. G. H. 'Marvin returned Saturday night from Atlanta, where he spent several days last week attending the Coca-Cola Bottlers' Convention. He was accompanied by his-daughter, Mrs.

R. W. Langford, of Atlanta, who will spend some time here with her parents. 'Mrs. G.

Rush Spencer and children left Saturday night for their home at Opelika, after spending several weeks here. Mrs. Spencer came to be with her mother, Mrs. R. M.

Gardner who has been very ill but whose condition is considerably Improved. Mr. and Mrs. P. E.

Wooten went to Caroleen last Monday to attend the funeral of Mrs. Wooten's brother, Mr. Edgar Randleman, who died at his home near that place on Sunday, January 16th. The body was buried at Providence church, the funeral services being conducted by Rev. P.

A. Rome. The. following from a recent Norfolk, paper will be read with interest by the many friends of Mr. J.

D. Anders, an old Gaston boy and a brother of Esquire A. R. Anders: D. Anders, the well-known contractor, will shortly build houses to cost about $10,000 each for Frank Dusch and Walter J.

Simmons. They wfll be located on Colonial avenue, near Arm ietead Bridge Road. Mr. Anders will also erect himself an $8,000 residence in Larchmont not far from the handsome home of T. Marshall Bellamy.

He is the' contractor for eight houses in Walks and Holt streets, to be built by J. E. Barry at a cost of $23,000. Anders was the lowest bidder on the Queen street fire engine station and on the remodeling of the Virginia ma voiumoia moving picture emu- 1 1 Mrs. Ella Starr Young, Chicago's school superintendent, has Introduced In that city a plan of continuation schools, whereby pupils may alternate a week of school with a week of paid work in a shop.

Newspaper Plant Levied Upon by Creditors and is In Hands of Slier- Iff. Deputy Sheriff J. Madison, Ken-drtck Saturday closed the doors of The Gastonia News office and posted notices on the door to the effect that the property had been levied upon by the Richmond Type Co. and Messrs. J.

L. and J. B. Beal, owners of the building occupied by the paper. Mr.

Hugh Long, owner and editor of The News, was here Saturday from Spencer but returned to that place Saturday night. Whether he will make an effort to satisfy his creditors and regain possession of the property so he can continue publication or. will let the plant go to sale to satisfy the claims is not known. The News was established about ten years ago as a semi-weekly paper and was owned and edited by Mr. Hugh Long.

Since Mr. Long went to Spencer some two or three months ago to become principal of the graded school the paper had been issued only once a one side being printed in Concord. Mr. John Gaddy, who has had charge of the paper since Mr. Long removed his residence from Gastonia, left yesterday for Charlotte.

The steps which resulted in the closing down of The News did not occasion any great surprise as it had been generally rumored for sometime that the paper was financially embarassed. Mr. Long has a large number of friends in Gastonia and over the county who regret exceedingly to learn that his journalistic venture proved so financially disastrous. TRAGEDIES OF THE ARCTIC. Peary's Description of Explorers' Graveyards In Frozen North.

Commander Robert E. Peary in Hampton's Magazine for January. Several hundred miles beyond the Arctic circle we came to a most significant point in our upward journey, marking as it did the grimness of the task before us. No civilized man could die in this savage north land without his grave having a deep meaning for those who come afterward; and constantly as we sailed on, these voiceless reminders of heroic bones told their silent but powerful story. At the Southern limit of Mellville bay we passed the Duck islands, where is the little graveyard of the Scotch whalers, who were the pioneers in forcing the passage of Melville bay, and who died there waiting for the ice to open.

These graves date back to the beginning of the Nineteenth century. From this point on the Arctic highway is mark ed by the graves of those who have fallen in the terrible fight with cold and hunger. These rude rock piles bring home to any thoughtful person the meaning of Arctic exploration. The men who lie there were not less courageous, not less intelligent, than the members of my own party; they were simply more unfortunate. Let us look along that highway for a moment and consider these memorials.

At North Star Bay are one" or two graves of men of the British ship North Star, which wintered there in 1850. Out on the Cary islands is the nameless grave of one of the ill-fated Kalstenius expedition. Still further north, at Etah, is the grave of Sonntag, the astronomer of Hayer's expedition. and a little above it that of Ohlsen of Kane's party. On the opposite side are the unmarked places where sixteen of Greely's Ill-fated party died.

Still further North, on the right hand of Greenland side, is the grave of Hall, the American commander of the Polaris expedition. On the Western, or Grant land side. are the graves of two Or three sailors of the British Arctic expedition of 1876. And right at the shore of the central Polar seas, near Cape Sheridan la the Dane, Peterson, the Interpreter of the British Arctic expedition of 1876. These graves stand as mute records of former ef forts to win the prize and they give a slight indication of the number of brave but less fortunate men who have given the last possession of mortal life in their pursuit of the Arctic goal.

When I first saw Sonntag's grave at Etah, I carefully replaced' the stones around it, as a tribute to a Dr. Snyder, of Wofford College, and Prof. P. Cook, of Concord, to. Address County Teachers Next Saturday.

-V As announced In Friday's Gazette, the County Teachers' Association will hold its regular meeting in Gastonia next Saturday, January 29th, at the Central 'graded school, at 1 o'clock In the afternoon. The program as prepared by Su perlntendent F. P. Hall, promises to be of especial Interest to the teachers of the county. Dr.

Henry Snyder, president of Wofford Col lege, Spartanburg, S. will deliver the principal address. He will be Introduced by Mr. J. H.

Separk. Prof. J. P. Cook will address the teachers upon the work of the Stonewall Jackson Training School, the new State institution at Con cord which is starting off with the promise of great success and use fulness.

Miss May Stuart, of-the Gastonia graded Schools, will illustrate first grade work. The general topic set for discussion at this meeting is the Teachers Reading Circle, a subject whose consideration will doubtless prove of more than usual Interest to those who attend the meetHng. oFthe flF.oz. ETAOIN TET Plea of Indian Woman Moves V. S.

Supreme Court. Baltimore Sun. The Supreme Court of the United States is supposed to be a sanhedrim entirely devoid of human emotions, but now and then a trace of moving drama breaks its customary calm. This happened one day last week when an Indian woman of the Wyandotte tribe stood before the learned judges and made an elo quent plea for the bones of her peo pie. Uncle Sam, it appears, owns the ancient Indian cemetery at Kan eas City and wants to sell it; but selling it would mean the removal of the brave old dust beneath Its sod, and so the Wyandottes of to day are bitterly opposed to the sale.

The fact that they chose a woman to be their spokesman, instead of the blanketted warrior of tradition, shows that Wyandottes, despite their superstitious reverence for the heroic dead, have succumed at last to civilization. The woman they sent to Washington, let It be known, was no barbarous old squaw, no doddering relict of a half-forgotten chief; but a Portia in a tailor-made. gown with a small library of law books in her trunk and a license to practice law in her pocket. She appeared before the court, not to crave Uncle Sam's favor, but to argue a point of law. The government, she contended, had no authority to sell that obscure graveyard, because its true owners was the Wyandotte tribe.

So much for the law. But before she left the brisk lawyer forgot her reports and precedents and became the simple Wyandotte woman, plead ing for the sacred ground of her tribe. The place, she said, was hal-. lowed "to all her blood; their forefathers rested there; it was all they had left of the vast prarires they once owned. It is recorded that this plea pierced the judicial armor of the court; that the judges, becoming suddenly human, yielded to the drama of the moment.

Let it be hoped that fhey will find some way to make the laws yield, too. The Wyandottes were once a great people, but time and the young re public have dealt harshly with them. We can afford, in this case, to take their point of view; to let their sentiment be our sentiment. At her home on Long avenue this afternoon Mis Edith Fayssoux is entertaining the Sans Soucl and S. D.

Clubs. Don't forget that the Woman's Betterment Association will serve oysters, coffee, cream and cake Friday and Saturday in the Kendrlck-Torrence store room. Everybody In vited. store. Mr.

Price, our market man, seems to be doing a right good business from the" way, we see him cutting and weighing out his meats. R. L. Wray was a visitor In Lowell yesterday. The mill was closed yesterday from 12 o'clock nntll 3 on account of the electric current being off.

Otto Cox, of Gastonia, spent Sunday here with his mother. Breezy Briefs Bunched for Busy ReadersA Concise Chronicle of North State and Miscellaneous Matters. Prof. Luther B. Lockhardt, of Orange county, has been appointed State chemist.

More than forty people were killed In a wreck on the Canadian Pacific Railroad Friday. Because they were not fed enough macaroni a large number of Italians engaged in construction work on the Atlantic Coast Line Railway near Wadesboro left. Ezro Kendall, the noted comedian, died Saturday in a sanatorium at Martinsville, Ind. He left the stage three weeks ago because of ill health. He was 49 years old and a native of Pennsylvania.

Rowan county citizens will have the pleasure this fall at election time of voting for two more county officers than they have ever voted for before, viz: judge of the coun-ey court and county solicitor. Anson county needs a new court house and the grand Jury, in its report last week, recommended that the county commissioners sell the old one, buy a new site and build a new one. Work on Fayetteville's Federal building is temporarily suspended because the cement obtained for use by the contractors failed to measure up to the requirements of the government. Saturday night Salisbury officers raided a gambling den in the business section of the town. The gamblers all made good their escape but it is said that warrants will likely be issued for a number of prominent citizens.

J. T. Paxton, a Philadelphlan of pVominece, was found dead in his room at a hotel at Durham Saturday. He was a member of a well-known family and a popular traveling salesman. Pneumonia is supposed to have caused his death.

The laymen of Greensboro have pledged $19,172 for foreign missions this year, nearly three times the amount contributed last year by all the Greensboro churches for this purpose and $4,000 more than the recent laymen's convention apportioned to this town. Charlotte people are still eating meat. Up to the present, says The Observer, there are no indications that Charlotte will Join in the movement now gaining headway in many of the larger cities to boycott the meat dealers till the price of this commodity is lowered. At Greenville, S. Saturday night West Dockery was shot and killed by T.

T. Poole and the latter is reported to be dying from the effects of knife wounds inflicted on him by the man They were employes of the Woodslde and Carolina Mills and had been at outs for several days. Capt. Henry W. Clark, one of Charlotte's oldest citizens, dropped dead Saturday in the office of a commission house on East Trade street.

He was over 70 years of age and a native of Boston. Capt. Clark was a miner and was formerly manager of the Rudiaill and St. Catharine mines at Charlotte. Five stills were destroyed and gallons of beer in the "Dark Corner" of South Carolina last week, this being the largest capture for a year or more in that section.

At one of the stills the "moonshiners" were warned by three young girls of the approach of the officers and made good their escape. Ferguson-Shannon. A wedding of much interest to the numerous friends of the contracting parties took place at the residence of Rev. A. S.

Anderson, pastor of the Loray Presbyterian church, on Tuesday night, January 18th, when Mr. Thomas M. Ferguson and Miss Mollie Shannon were, united in marriage In the presence of a number of friends. The bride is the daughter of Mr. J.

R. Shannon, while the groom is a well-known and prosperous farmer of the Pisgah neighborhood. Immediately after the ceremony the bridal, party drove to the home of the groom's father, Mr. Alfred Ferguson, about' two miles south of Pisgah church, where they were given an informal reception followed by a sumptuous wedding supper, Mr. R.

P. Parker, an ardent sup- porter of this organization, for the benefit of the band. The rivalry shown in obtaining the boxes and baskets led to some spirited bidding, running up the price of some of the articles to $2.25. The band, with Mr. Kenneth Todd, its talented and faithful instructor, entertained the audience throughout the evening with many choice musical selections.

The school house was full' to overflowing with sweethearts and lovers, elderly people and the young of both sexes, who had come to enjoy the evening, especially the social feature, when the purchaser of a box or basket sought the one who prepared it that he might share with her its dainties. The ladies are to be commended for this good work. The present need of the band is for uniforms, all Instruments, about twenty in number, having been paid for. It is to be hoped that others will show like interest in aiding these young men in this worthy cause. The Corporation Tax.

Savannah News. There. seems to be no doubt that the big corporations are going to have the corporation tax law passed upon "by the Supreme Court before tb.ey give up their money, and it is probable that the small corporations will await the result of the efforts of the big ones to have the law de-. clared unconstitutional. The corporations are saying very little, but they are doing a good deal of consulting with their lawyers.

Just when the battle will begin isn't known, but it is probable that the first gun will be fired as soon as an opportunity presents Itself. Some of the ablest lawyers are of the o-pinion the government will never be able to collect the tax that the tax will go the road taken by the income tax. The tax that some of the corporations will harve to pay is so large that they seem to be justified in wanting the law tested before they pay. The Steel Corporation, for Instance, will be called on for approximately $1,322,000, the Pennsylvania Railroad for $254,245, the Standard Oil Company for about $500,000, the American Telephone Company for $258,000, the American Tobacco Company for $191,000 and so on through the list. There are many thousands of corporations that are liable for the tax and none of them is going to be in haste to give up their money until they have to do so.

It promises to, be a hard fought and interesting legal battle. It may be well on to midsummer before the Supreme Court Is called on to pass on the issues that will be raised. Plenty of screws, strap-hinges, hasps, gate-hooks and eyes come handy around the farm. Try a box of such in the shop. brave man.

At Cape Sabine, where Greely's party died, I was the first man to step into the ruins of the stone hut after Schley and Emory took away the seven survivors years before the first man, and I stepped into those ruins In a blinding snowstorm late in August and saw there the mementoes of those unfortuates. Passing the Duck Islands on upward voyage, approaching Cape York, in 1908, and thinking of the grave there, Commander Peary concludes. "I little dreamed that a loved member of my own party. Prof. R.

G. Moss, who ate at my table and acted as my secretary, was fated to add his name to this long llt of Arctic victims, and that his grave, in uncounted fathoms of black water, was to be the most northerly grave on this earth' yesterday helping to brush up and rearrange the stock of goods in the.