The Asheboro Cornier
PRICE ONE DOLLAR A YEAR
Wm. C. HAMMER, Editor.
THURSDAY. April 12, 1906.
amendment which gives the Rail
roads the right to appeal to the courts
another thing the President has
agreed to allow the R. R. to file an in
junction against the rate fixed by the
commission and the It. R. can go
right on charging the old
rate until the case goes through the
courts. Senator Bailey's amendment
which provides that the orders on
commission remain in effect until
set aside by the courts will not allow
another like the Elkins-Knox pro
vision to pay into court money to
indemnify if the commission is sus
tained. The trouble is that the Presi-
There is a plan on foot settle tu uent 13 a (1UUU1 " " Y
thousand negroes;, on eighty-five j yielJa nnder PartJ Fissure,
square miles of laud in Mexico, who
will be left principally to manage I We want to see every man in
their own affairs. Many thinkjthat Asheboro own his home, 'and the
the colon v will degenerate when left best way to do this is to take stock
to their own devices"" become as ! iu the UnMing & Loan Association.
It is through the building and loan
! that every man, the poor mau and
the the man in moderate circum
stances alike, Jean own Jhis home,
every man iu Asheboro who lives in
a rented lnni.se can. with his rent
The Iligh Point Enterprise has
enlarged to a seven column four-page
paper and has put in a Mergen thaler
linotype machine, and is otherwise
greatly improved.
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK BRIEFLY TOLD.
are the negroes of the black Repub-1
lie of Hayti.
The Yadkin Ripple instead of
drifting jntojish and potato yarns
tells of a western potato grower who
planted potatoes and set up electric
lights in the field and the crop was
so bountiful that the owner had to
buy a stump puller to make a start
at digging, and after removing the
first one he prized the balance out
one at a time with a crow bar, and
the inference is he had to rent his
neighbor's farm on which to stack
them.
money, in a few vears build a home
better than the one he now lives
loor but industrious people can
through the building and loan asso
ciation, build for themselves homes
in Asheboro.
The liquor ideation will not be
an issue in the coming campaign so
far as the democratic party is con
cerned. It will certainly not be
issue in this county, for there is not
a foot of land in the countv where
liqnor can be made or sold. And
so far as we are informed there is
no desire anywhere to disturb the
recent Liquor Legislature. But on
the other hand there seems to be an
inclination on the part of
a 1 1 fair-mind ed persons
to give the proper time to as
certain true conditions and see how
the present liquor laws suit. Time
and experience may make it neces
sary to make changes, and the
changes mav be made when ex
perience shows the necessity therefor.
The public school teachers of
Robeson countv under the lead of the
betterment association have- accom
plished a jrreat deal for the better
ment of the schools in that county
On Friday of last week there was a
meeting - at practically every school
house in that county. The children
took pictures to the schools and
placed them on the walls, 'parents
and pupils cleaned off the play
grounds and planted shade trees. Act
iug upon the principal that the pub
lic schools are the colleges of the
people; they are the nurseries of
freedom: their establishment and
efficiency are the paramount duty of
a republic; the education of children
is the most legitimate object of tax
ation. Ihese Kobesou people are
iccomplishing great wonders.
RURAL FREE DELIVERY.
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The rual delivery carriers are in
structed from April 1st to make
daily reports showing the number of
pieces of mail handled on their
routes. It is said not officially.
There is no "boss" in State coun
ty or nation in the democratic party:
the rank and file of the party is a
law unto themselves. The only
Kinr and the onlv "boss"' who has ' but with some authority that the
any right or can dictate in deino- i st-rvice on routes handling less than
cratic councils is the will of the ! 7", f ? ,11 ,n0,lth "'I1? bf. re"
, .... , j dueed to a delivery only three times
sovereign people. It is in the repub- a week- In (.ommiluicatiOI1 t0 the
lican party where you find boss and Apex Journal, Mr. T. lvey, of Cary,
ring rule, it is there where you find , a rural delivery carrier, urge3 the
ring rule and court house "cliques. : P-"Tlt? ' the country to write more
It is in the councils of that mrk. miu iwucuiaiv iu uwenw-
Davidaon is to remodel its court
house.
E. C. Swift, the packej. died at
his home in Boston April 5th. lie
was the originator of the refrigera
tor car service.
At Wilmington last week T. A.
McCraw was sentenced to twenty
years in the State prison for killing
his mother-in-law.
J. M. Barr has resigued the presi
dency of the Seaboard Air Line
Railway Company to be succeeded
by Alfred Walter, April 30tb.
The B-mrd of Aldermen of
Raleigh have decided to borrow $lu
000 for the purpose of erecting a
City High School in that city.
At Salisbury April 3rd, Miss
Pearl Monroe and Mr. I A. Kidd,
were married at tne nome or ine
bride's father, ex-Sheriff Monroe.
The dye house of the Oneida Cot
ton Mills at Graham was destroyed
Friday night by tire. The loss of
$40,000 was covered by insurance.
Mr. Jesse Owens has purchased
the 100-acre farm of Mr. P. II.
Henley, which is oue of the best iu
Rowan county Salisbury Evening
Post. .
where
to more newspapers and adds:
The famous Tuskegee Industrial
Normal for the colored people head
ed by Booker Washington celebrated
its x'5th anniversary Wednesday of
last week.
A $40,000 lire in Charlotte oc
curred Saturday, greatly endangered
the fashionable suburb Dil worth.
The fire originated in the Dowd
Pipe Foundry.
The Eastern Noith Carolina
berry season will soon be on. Esti
mates place the crop at v',500 cars,
of 300 crates each. This year 75,-
000 acres are planted iu berries.
By an act of the board of Alder
men the license tor retailers or
spiritous liquors lias been raised
from $000 to $1,000; wholesalers
from $200 to $000, effective July
1st.
Judge Peebles favors a legislative
enactment requiring all magistrates
to appear at court Monday of the
lirst term of each year at which time
judges are to instruct them as to
their duty.
A fast freight train on the
Western road was wrecked on the
steel bridge -icross Second Creek
near Cleveland, Friday. Several
cars and a part of the bridge were
destroyed, but no one was hurt.
Last week the revenue officers
seized an illicit distillery, being op-
rated uuer a saw mill 14 miles
no r t h of II a m 1 e t. They
Iso seized 1,700 gallons of beer,
he saw mill and several thousand
feet of lumber, teams, etc.
Capt. II. C. Reece, of Siler City,
and W. Pool, of Raleigh, revenue
ollicers, raided and captured a home
made still of about 70 gallons ca
pacity. It was 200
In a recent issue of the JSews ana
Observer there was a communica
tion from the Burlington News in
which it w as said that the Alamance
jail was empty and that Alamance
perhaps was the only county in the
State that could boast of this.
Randolph county can say the same
thing. The jail is empty and every
thing bespeaks quiet, peace and
plenty for our prosperous county.
The jail doors have stood open
something like one third of the
time during the last three years.
Mrs. Nancy Ingram died at her
home in Anson county on Wednes
day morning of 1 ist week aged 84
years. She was widow of Benjamin
Ingram and mother of the late Ihos.
lugram. Mrs. J. G. Boyliu, of
Wadesuoro, is a daughter.
b. Spain, of Liuwood, Davidson
county, formerly superintendent of
Gov. ilolt s tarm at Linwoou. died
on Wednesday of last week aged tu
years. His death was caused iu
part by u fall down stairs seveial
days before his death.
The annual meeting of the North
Carolina State League of Building
and Loan Associations, will be held
in Wiustou-Saleui, Tuesday and
Wednesday, the 5th and (ith ot J uue.
Ben Williams and Garfield Will
iams we.ie found guilty of murder
in Wake county court last week.
The first was sentenced to hang in
May and the latter was sentenced to
19 years iu.the penitentiary. An
appeal was taken.
J. Van Lindley, of Pomona, has
been elected president of the Bank
of Kernersville.
Sam Smith, a negro, was shot in
the jaw at Whitney Saturday. Hej
was struck by a stray bullet" aimed
atone of the foremen by another
negro.
Two negroes quarrelled at a saw
mui near iew ijonuon. when one
pushed ttie other iu front of a fast
revolving saw, cutting him iu two.
The murder escaped.
Statistics show that Italian an
archists are Hocking to the States by
both Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
$10,000 has been appropriated by
the overnment for a public building
at High Point.
The case against G. L. Smoot and
wife, formerly of Wilkesboro, for
counterfeiting were convicted in the
Federal court at Greensboro Tues
day. Smoot was sentenced to two
years and his wife one year in the
Federal Prison at Atlanta.
GASTRITIS, SO PRONOUNCED
j BY PHYSICIANS, CUBED
i BY MRS. PERSON'S
1 REMEDY.
' Iluutersville, N. C, May 15 10O2.
! Two years ago 1 was completely
! run down.
vards trom a i j- .. ..n n. . .. . ..... .,
you l.na domination by, -Why not try to send at least one colored mans house "but no sus- "wu u' lue " ,e' ri"S 011 e
cliques and cuncuses. It is there ! pieCe of mail from vour box every ! picion was attached to him. i trouble was pro-
imd nothing .lone when in ' lav? You will then be l.kelv tn i 1 . .. nounced gastritis. I had no rope-
J I - . ,. , ,. . ' K,.nnhir fkoviiinn rif ,-ii-t li f!-irn. 1 tile 101' ailVt HllL'. and telt 1IO irif I n:.
Una and Senator Daniel, of Virgin- j tion to eat. This brought on nervous
when in dav!' You will then
power except strife and contention I receive (including your papers) one
i . - or more pieces. A route with
Hepburn bill, with little or no i
vision, will eventually be passed.
, ,'. 1 , . . ,. , eighty boxes receiving one and dis-
In the history of their party in this . Vjitciag one pjece each to the box
State they have been obstructionists every day for twenty-six days, will
and have oppose i material and in-; amount to 4,100 pieces per month,
dustrial improvement when i ' and such a route will hardly be dis-
power. inev nave arrayed tliem- . . . . ,, r j n. Ij. mirkueau lias been made
selves aaint"the sovereignty of the carner: Occasionally I see some hi f th .dtoml Bank of
bento i,.uiit inc .unci0ui 01 me exnressious in the papeis indicating T . annr. ti,,. w
people against public improvements, that both editors and earners in- i f mSton.. succeed ng John Vv.
. , i i ; i i .i .ii I Boring, resigned. Mr Boring will
against the improvement of high-: du ge the opinion that earners are t0oFritzgerald, Ga., where the
ways, against the farmers, the tax "t permitted to act as agents for pa-1 cxi ton Es'tate & Trust Co.
payers, the laborers, ami grui; j- of heavily
improvement. When in power' ; i,.,a f.,...r i1(.pn m,i,-fif'i i "'""-'leu pioperry.
in North Carolina they made changed, this writer has uo knowl
no public improvement. The only ' edge of it
monument that marks their efforts "Rural carriers must not act as
.. i vi . : agents, salesmen, or solicitors for ex-
13 the penitentiary, and thev did not ; n . . ' , , , ,
. ,.T ., I press companies, w holesale houses
complete it. Not anuleof perman-jcor)orationS) or urni8
et road nor a public building did j They may act as agents for news
they ever erect. Yet w hen out of j paper publishers, sell newspapers or
power they talk about what thev j periodicals on their own account or
would do and what ought to b; jeeeptnd collectsubscr.ptions for
done and yet they have done nothing : 0w, live up to this order strict-
wuen in power. lue people nave, y and induce your patrons to sub
la, were in conference with the pro&iraiion, anu me lease excite
President last week on the rate I went brought on a nervous Bpell aud
bill. Senator Overman thinks the U could hardly control myself. I
long memories and will not forget
in the few short years the record
of wreck and ruin.
It now looks very much like con
gress will pass the Hepburn Rail
road Rate Bill with the great Reve
nue Amendment agreed to by the
President and other members in a
recent White House caucus.
This amendment gives the circuit
courts of the U. S. privilege to re
view the orders of the interstate com
merce commission. The President
started out and was going to do big
things. He winds up his exploits
in this particular by agreeing to an I ance 0f the free rural delivery.
scribe for many good papers (draw
the line at trash). Receive their
subscriptions and send it in to the
publisher, deducting money order
and postage fees."
The rural delivery system has
done much to brighten rural life.
Good schools, good roads, telephones
and free rural delivery give to the
farmer almost every convenience
enjoyed by a resident of a city, with
all the advantages of country life,
the need in most homes is of a week
ly giving all the news of the county
seat, and the county villages. Every
one wants the home news, and gener
al news, fresh from the presses,
with the latest ntws, and other
literature. It will help to educate
the family and guarantee a con tin u-
could not get any natural sleep as a
resulttf this nervousness. I was un
der medical treatment for four years
and was not even benefied.
I then determined to try Mrs. Joe
Person's Remedy, bought one-half
dozen bottles and I commenced to
improve when on the fourth bottle.
I was much stronger, slept better,
did not have those nervous pells
nearley so of ten, and knew that my
l general neaitn was building up. My
E. II. Pass, one of the oldeft, appetite was improved audi began
wealthiest aud best know citizens ot to enjoy eating and what I ate agreed
Davie county, died recently at his with me. With all my ailmeuts I
home three miles from Mocksville ma neuralgia of the bowels, which
aged 70 years. The deceased is a! caused me in ten so snAWi Afr 1
brother of J. W. Pass, chairman of took six bottles of the Remedy I
iounu i was certainly mending, and
the Democratic executive committee
of Yadkin county.
Moses N llarshaw has decid
ed to become a candidate against
Blackburn -for the republican
nomination for congress. Mr.
Harshaw is solicitor in the 13th
district and his judicial district em
braces a part of the counties com
posing the eighth congressional
district.
The grand jury of Guilford Su
perior court has returned a true bill
against the Southern Railway Com
pany and C. T. Welfare, watchman
for the company. Both are charged
with criminal negligence whereby
five persons lost their lives in the
wreck on the Greensboro yards in
Februrary. I
The Iredell Democratic commit
tee met at Statesville Saturday. The
primaries will be held Jnne 30th,
followed by the county convention
Monday, July 2nd.
bought six more, before I had fin
ed the dozen bottles the neuralgia of
the bowels was completely cured. I
took in all a dozen and a half bottles
which restored me to good health.
I feel that I owe my life to Mrs.
Joe Person's Remedy. I was not
able even to keep house, bat had to
employ help for everything; I was
run down so that I felt that life was
no pleasure in a certain sense. Now
I am able to attend to all my house
hold duties and feel that I am some
good, once more to my family.
If any one has indigestion or ner
vous prostration, my advice is to
take Mrs. Joe Person s Remedy, and
if one will only take enough to build
up the system, it will surely cure.
Mrs. W. S. Caldwell.
To Cure a Cold in One Dav.
Take LAXATITIVE BROMO Quinine
Tablets. Druggists refund money if it fails
to cure. E w GROVE'S signature is on
each box. 25c.
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Claudius Crater, grandson of P.
H.Morris, while ' riding yesterday
evening, was thrown from a pony
sustaining a broke his arm.
Mr. M. H. Moffitt, -vho has been
confined with illness for two weeks,
is able to bffout.
Mrs. J. W. Johnson died at her
home near Pomona last Thursday
and was hurried Saturday at Red
Hill church. She leaves a husband,
seven sons and a daughter.
The Randolph Book Club meets
with Mrs. J. D. Ross on Friday at
4 p. m.
Mr. George Hunsucker is here
with his family. He is a railroad
man aud spends very little time at
home.
Miss Ethel Page, of Alamance
county, is visiting relatives in town.
Dr. F. II. Wood, of Trinity, will
preach at Belvidere, in Back Creek
township on the fourth Sunday in ',
April.
Dr. F. II. Wood will write
some reminiscenses of Ran
dolph Methodism and on other sub
jects for The Courier in the near
future.
The Thomasvilie Telephone Com
pany has declared a 50 per cent,
dividend. i
Business Integrity.
There is nothinsr that erives as
much confidence as square and
fair dealing with the public. We
do not use any fake schemes in
our business. Firms giving due
bills to apply as a payment if you
buy a piano from them is only a
form of graft. It is an easy
thing to add $50.00 to any piano.
Then what does a customer gain
if he is given a due bill for $50
It is simply a fake and in nine
cases out of ten if the due bill is
used it will be a very cheap
piano or the price of the instru
ment is raised $50.00 to cover
the receipt. Write Stieff before
you buy.
Southern Wareroom,
No. 5 West Trade Street,
CHARLOTTE, NC,
C. H. WILMOTH, Mgr.
SOUTHERN MACHINE
WORKS
We build Machinery to or
der, overhaul and repair ma
chinery, cut gears, make
patterns, models, etc.
Southern Machine Works,
High Point, N. C.
Why Pay More?
Face the question squarely. Are you buying your
goods as cheap as they can be bought.
Don't be gulled into paying high prices for the sake
of a few days time; pay cash and hold on to your own
hard-earned money until you find a place to spend it.
Hold the dollar so tightly that the eagle screams, and
the Goddess of Liberty shouts, Go to Hayes' New
York Racket Store for your Dry Goods, Notions, Em
broideries, Laces and fancy goods of all kinds the
cheapest store in town.
We sell McCall's 10 and 15 cent patterns. Mail or
ders promptly attended to. Fashion sheets free every
month.
Any lady returning
this coupon in person
to Hayes' New York
Racket will receive
any one of the follow
ing articles free:
1 paper of Needles,
a nice Picture, a Thim
ble or some other nice
article absolutely free.
E. P. Hayes.
Hayes' N. York
Racket Store,
E. P. HAYES, Manager,
Randleman, - - N. Caro.
Driving; or Farm Horses.
We have a fresh car loa
of good Horses and Mules
suitable for logging, farm
ing, nice toppy drivers, in
fact any thing you want.
If it is a good brood mare
we have it. We will sell
you any thing you want at
a very short profit. Come
and see them and you will
be convinced that they are
the kind to buy, for they
are the blocky kind and
all good ages.
Mcdowell bros.,
Asheboro, N.
Furniture
y 15 he Car.
In buying this way we secure the best at the
lowest prices.
Just Received,
a large line of Furniture embracing Bedroom
Suits, Couches, Iron Beds, Dining Chairs, Rockers,
Hall Racks, etc. We carry a nice line of jewelry;
also handle a full line of heavy and fancy groceries.
See our prices and inspect our stock and you are
sure to be our customer.
The Crescent Furniture Company,
Ramseur, N. C.
N. B. A full line of Coffins and Caskets can
be found at this store.
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