A National Highway From Coast to Coast How the Cumberland Trail Are to First Step In the Important Undertaking Is Representative Pearre's Bill Now Before Congress American Appian Way From Atlantic to Pacific the Ultimate Outcome Romance and Paat Glories that Cling to Old Cumberland Road. Bright Future Predicted For It TIIAT the time is fast approaching when the necessity for good roads in America will be a na tional Issue is apparent from the discussion of tlie subject, which is growing louder each day in all parts of the United States, says the Kansas City Star. Cities are looking carefully to their street paving, counties and states are talking more about their roads, and now the subject of a nation al highway has reached congress. The creation of the American Appian way. beijiiiiihig at Washington on At lanti" tidewater, following the trail of the historic national pike through the passes of the Appalachians and across the Ohio through the great middle west to St. I.o'iis. ami then in two great boulevards on to the l'ariiie, one of which will cr iss Montana to I'uget sound and the other over the S.mta Ke trail to San Francises, will lie the mag nificent fruiii in of pians the (irst ten tative steps of which have been taken in the introduction of a l i!l in congress by Representative tieorge l'earre of THE NATIONAL ROAD FROM WASHINGTON TO ST. LOUIS AND A VIEW OF THE SANTA FE TRAIL OF THE OLD DAYS. Maryland for an appropriation for the restoration of the monuments and landmarks and the reconstruction of the ancient Cumberland road that by Its building made an empire possible. Pledged to the support of this bill are the rapidly growing automobile as sociations of the United States, and the strong good roads organizations, fast Increasing in membership, are giving hearty co-operation t.) the project. America's First Roadmakers. Save to the historian and those who live along the dusty thread of macad am that binds together Washington and St. Louis, the story of the old na tional pike is an unknown chapter to the present generation, yet the flavor of romance, the memory of almost for gotten glories, of a noble, ambitious mission successfully accomplished, clings to ever' hoary monument of that ancient uiguway. And the word "ancient" Is used ad visedly, for the route Is prehistoric. Centuries before the daring ships of Raleigh or Smith touched the coast of the new world, long before the Indians had . invaded America over the van ished land bridge at Bering strait, ages before the mound builders had left their yet undecipuered messages, count less herds of bison roamed the con tinent. In their migrations they were America's first roadmakers, and they lid their work so well that a map of their trails and "traces" would be a duplicate of the great highway and railway systems of the present day. The national pike, or the Cumber land road, as It was popularly called, was fir: t a bulTalo track worn deep across the Appalachians by the pound ing hoofs of millions of bison. When the Indians came tlr.-y followed this same trttl! l i Ciur huutiiii excursions -and war expeditions, retreating over it to the west before the ever advancing, relentless fr uticr of t'l white man. Over this path came the Atiglo-Sax'jn hunter and trapper, followed timidly and falteriajrly by the homemaker. until at last the tile of emigration poure-l in a rieii'ge ihtvitiili the moun tain pas..os to the l:l! 1 of promise. To supply the tra !;; demands of this growi.ig woj-tcni population In the etir ly rT:vs la;.s t:r ::u of rack pxiiei plcke-l 'thVr way an I fro over the Road and the Santa Fe Be Restored old Cumberland trail from the Poto mac to the headwaters of the Ohio, to be displaced as increasing commerce and tratlie widened the track Into a road by the great Couestoga freight wagons and speeding mail coaches of the early days- of the century, in turn to vanish when the steam railroad ac complished the supposedly impossible feat of climbing the mountains. Every mile of the old Cumberland road is historic ground, consecrated by the bleeding feet of lierjie nation build ers. Over it toiled the young survey or, Washington, nursing dreams of empire in his prophetic vision. Later over this same route tramped the scar let coated Hritisli grenadiers, led by ho boastful lh-addock. whose grave is still green bed.le the deep trail cut by the ponderous army wagons of his ill starred expedition. After the colonies li.ul achieved tlnir independence the Iradd')ck road was the pathway over which t'.ie veterans of the Revolution plodded painfully to take up even a greater work in the settlement of Ohio. Keutucky and Indiana Virginia's im perial gift to the Infant republic. Discontent, deep seated and bitter, followed the rapid settlement of the transappalachian country. Despised, ridiculed and neglected by the tide water patricians In control of the fed eral government, the settlers of the western valleys turned In almost Justl fiahlo treason to the support of the conspiracy of Burr, Involving the pa thetic tragedy of P.lennerhassett. Au Independent republic or group of re publics in the great central west seem ed a certainty. Road Healed the Breach. At this grave crisis In the affairs of the young republic farsighted states men united In a successful demand for a great road that would pierce the mountain barriers and bind together forever the states of the Atlantic sea board and the vast empire of the Mis sissippi valley. In 1S(I2 President Jef ferson signed the bill for the survey of the national pike from Cumberland to the headwaters of the Ohio. The first contract was awarded in 1811. and In 1818. the year of Its completion, a flood of trat'ic of unexpected propor tions began to pour over the new high way. The nation's first great prablem of secession had been met and solved. In 182." began the extension of the na tional pike from Wheeling to St. Louis, through the seats of government of the states of Ohio. Indiana and Illinois. The reconstrut iii?n of the old national road will resurrect In a measure the vanished glories of the famous stage coach days when John Bunting. Jim Reynolds. Billy Armour. Dave (J)rdon. Jim Burr and a host nf other forgotten heroes of t! ro.Til handled the Unci over mettlesome horses, with the sat isfying cor.sclousno-M !t::t In popular estimation they divl'el honor with men whose names are iivv Prperlshn bly embalniel in histo-y. Famous Tavtrns of Old Days. Scattered a Ions i';o ! i r j:td :t fre rinent Intervals wo'-o te ttv;.r:i:. the nerve centers of t'. 1 !'-. M-Miy of tlie-i were fioiew ! : -tel-'es In th-lr day. b'tt th r'o y h-:s i de parted, f.ily a f v.- r.ii-'l-'. U;.:it and mo-, -. ve t iin"! .-.f . f t' e r-ist. I7er " - - '- p!'- f. Old r-ll'K'- ' ' many instances others have been con verted Into farmhouses. It Is expect ed that with the reconstruction of the old road many of these ancient taverns will be rebuilt, restoring the most pic turesque feature of the life of the old turnpike. The first taverns along the route were built of logs -and consisted of only two rooms and a great fireplace, before which the tired travelers slept In their blankets, curled up on the puncheon floors. Their evolution Into more pretentious structures came with the increase of traffic, and in the palmy days of the great road they fur nished accommodations to suit the most exacting. Gathered Around Great Fire. The great fireplace was a distinctive feature of the old taverns. Some of them were capable of holding a wagon load of wood at a time, flooding the great room with light that made cau dles unnecessary. Around the blaze gathered the merry crowd of travelers, and It was a gala event for the inn when the central figure of the group would be Clay, Jackson, Harrison, Lin coln. Douglas, Cass or some other dis tinguished personage of the time, whose words would be treasured for years. Dickens. Mrs. Trollope. Prince Maximilian of Wield. Raflnesque, and iniMiy other travelers front Europe were guests of the old taverns and have left entertaining accounts of their impressions. At the side of the old fireplace hung the "Hip iron" and the huge poker, and so'.netii.ie-i the latter utensil was seven or eight feet long. Its use was Jealous ly guarded as a prerogative of the tav ern laiidl ml. None but the innkeeper c:n;M touch the great Are. which was ore nf the main features of their hos 1 itnlity. Eccentric old Boss Hush, says Mr. iiurlhurt in the "Historic High ways of America." kept his poker at his' fain. mis tavern at Smlthfield (Big Crossing.il under lock and key. But. whMo the automobile and the pleasure coach may restore the old taverns to pristine glories, yet the real life of the ancient highway has passed beyond recall. The caravans of great freight wagons and long processions of mail and stagecoaches were pictur esque M atures of the old life that his tory will not repeat. But the time that the life of the old highway throbU-d in its greatest Inten sity was when a president or a presi dent elect passed In triumphant proces sion along Its dusty stretches. It was the gala day of the "plko boys." All the taverns and houses along the route were bedecked in the welcome, and cheering crowds from miles around thronged the stopping places and cross roads. The finest horses and the most gorgeous coach procurable were assign ed to the task, and the proud position of "charioteer to the president" was given to the pick of the Jehus on the line, who ever afterward were marked and noted. Jackson, Van Buren, Mon roe, Harrison, Polk and Tyler passed over portions of the old road In digni fied presidential pageant, like the tri umphal Roman emperors. Clay, the great champion of the road and of the policy of Internal Improvements, was a favorite in every hamlet. Martin Van Buren's Mishap. The opponents of Internal improve ments were far from popular in this new country, as Van Buren discovered once when his coach broke down in a spot where the mud was deepest, the axle having been sawed almost in two by some waggish Whig. But the life on the old pike was not without its dangers. In the wild passes of the Appalachians lurked the proto type of the modern road agent, and daring bandits frequently relieved pan ic stricken passengers of their valua bles In the good old Dick Turpln way. Fatal wrecks sometimes occurred In which coaches were hurled from high cliffs, dashing their passengers to death on the rocks below. Hastily sketched, such was the past of the old national pike, which carried hundreds of thousands of population and millions of wealth into the west and which more than any other one thing served to harmonize and strength en. If not to save, the Union. Of Its future Mr. Hurlburt, an enthu siastic prophet, says: "It will become again the foremost of American high ways. Its historic associations will ren der the route of Increasing Interest to the thousands who In other days will travel over thtwe portions of the road which long ago became hallowed ground. 'The shades of death' will again be Oiled with the echoing born which heralded the arrival of the old time coaches, and the winding ridge will again be crowded with the traffic of a nation. A hundred Cumberland road taverns will be opened and bus tling landlords welcome as of yore tbe travel stained visitor. Merry parties will again fill those tavern halls, now long silent, with their laughter." Historic associations are not confined entirely to the eastern end of the pro posed national highway. From Kan sas City to the Pacific coast the old j Santa Fe trail will be the most impor- i tant and natural route, and where In the world Is a thoroughfare with so I stirring a history? There is much of j historical significance to be preserved on this famous trail, and the need of a government road from coast to coast Is ever present In the minds of military commanders. The automobilist will ball with Joy Representative Pearre's great project, and lie should have the co-operation of every farmer and every I class of citizen. I'ropowd Boulrvnrd at K1 Paoo, Tri. Befflnnlujf nt the city of EI Pnso. Tex., It Is proposed to lmlM p rond east to the county Hup, n rtNtanro of 150 miles, with trees In t:.e eentr of the highway aud driveway on each side. The rond. It Is repoi teu. will b niadt of macadam. REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE BANK OF LIBERTY nt Liberty, N. C, at the close of business Novem ber It, two. RKSOt'RCESj Loans and discounts fl8.8.MiRt) Overdraft 15" All other Stocks, Bonds ami Mortgages 750 00 KunkiiiK Hmi.-c Furniture and fixtures 9.448 311 Due irora Bunks und Bankers 18,870(11) Cush Items. Ciold coin. Silver cola, In cluding all minor coin currency 1,71641) National bank notes and other V 6 notes 1,117 00 Total 68,3711 80 LIABILITIES: Capital Stock paid in 5,oon oo Surplus fund l.mmoo t'lulivideil prnnta, les current espeues and taxes paid 2,618 22 Deposits subject to cheek &I.4WI l!i t'a.-hier's cheeks outstanding 204 98 Total 63,271180 State of N. C, bounty of Randolph, ss; I, W. H. Uiillin, Casirrof llie ulmve Imuk, do solemnly swear that the above Mut nienl Is true to the best of mv knowledge and belief. V. H. (iHIFKiN, Cashier. Correct Attest : W. A. (iKI.MKS A. K. LKW1S, Directors. To Be Given Away. I A Beautiful $2.00 and a Beautiful AT THE ASHEBORO 5 Every child under 12 yeais of age gets a chance at this doll for every 50 cent purchase they make here after December 1st till December 24th, and every man, woman, boy or girl gets a chance at the toilet set for every $1.00 purchase they make during the same time. We are going to offer some bargains that you can't afford to miss. Prices below will show you some of them. (lnsawnre worth 13 and rents nt lilHkswsrr uorlli 10 rriita al KuHrt- lot of Tlinvnrr rr plrrr Mntlnnr- worth -40 and crilt Buy hooks mill Inlfcrrs Men's anil liifllrs' crnt hose IS null 0 cent pleturea mill picture frame We are selling everything at reduced prices. Come at once before everything is picked over. We are going to have a nice lot of Christmas goods to please the children as well as the grown people. Z. T. BIRD C SON. The Christmas Thought Ra- diates FR0MIEVERY SECTION OF OUR BIG STORE FRONT EVERYWHERE GOODS FOR CHRIST MAS GIFT'S Our Holiday Specials are Represented in Large and Attractive Assortments of French and German Novelties in Bisque and Metal, Gold Inlaid on Glass, Pottery, Bric-a-Brac, Brass and Copper Articles, French China in a great variety of Beautiful Plaques, Plates, Comforts, Trays, Cups and Saucers, Tanquards, a Grand Array of Japanese Pottery and China, Chinese Porcelaines, Artistic Pieces in Small Furniture, Screens, etc. OurGeneral Stock Offers Many Useful Gifts Year after year THE USEFUL grows more into favor, and this Christmas season our splendid stocks of things useful are in entire harmony with the Christmas Gift demand gifts may be easily chosen customers will find no such variety elsewhere. Toys. Doll' Carriages DolUGo-Carts Doll Beds Boys' Tool Chests Toy Pianos Toy Trunks Boys' Steel Wagons Boys' Automobiles Boys' Coasters Furniture. Bedroom Suites, $12.50 to $40.00 Dresden Toilets, $10.00, $12.50, $15.00 Coucbes, $5.00 to $25.00 Mattresses, $2.00 to 12.00 Rocking chairs, $1.00 to $10.00 Iron Beds, $6.00 to $15.00 Art Square Rugs, Matting, Oil Carpet, Hall Racks, 7.50 to 15.00 Easles, .75, 1.00 and 1-50. Up-Tc-Date State ol North Carolina I Department of Stute. CERTIFICATE OF DISSOLUTION. To All to Whom These Presents Muy Come Greeting: Whereas, It appears to my sutlsfaetlon, by duly authenticated rccuid of the proceedings for the voluntary dissolution thereof by the unanimous consent of all the stock holders, de isisited in my otlice, that the Ashcboro Cann ing Company, a corporation of this State, wliiw! principal office is situated In the town ol Asheboro, County ol Raudol ph, SUito of Nnrth Carolina, K. Molntt being the agent therein und In charge thereof, upon wliora process may be served), has complied with the requirements of Chupter 21, Revisal of 1UO&, entiled "Corporations," preliminary ;o the Iss-ilng of this Certificate of Dissolution: Now, Therefore, I, .1. Hrvun (irimes. Secretary of ,-iUite of the Sluie of NorU Carolina, do here by certify that llie snitl corporation did, on the 8th la of December, llKHi, lile In my office a duly executed and attested consent iu writing to the dissolution of said corporation, executed by all the stockholders thereof, which said consent and the record of the proceedings afore said are now on llie in my said olllee as pro viiled by law. In Testimony Whereof, I have hereto let my lmi.il and allixei! my official seal, at Raleigh, this 8th day of December, A. D. 1000. J. BRYAN (JRIMES, Secretary of Mute. DRESSED DOLL, TOILET SET AND 10 CENT STORE ....10 . ...o. Collar and Cuff Boxes Military Sets Comb and Brush Sets, .50 to 5.00 Manicure Sets, .50 to 3.00 Shaving Sets, 1.00 to 4.00 Ladies' Work Boxes, 1 00 to 3.50 Jewel Cases, Gold, 4.25 Cracker Jars Bisque Figures, .25, .50, .75, 1.00 and 2.00 Bust Figures, .75, 250 and 3.00 Clocks. .75, 1.00, 1.50, 2.50, 7.50 Silver ware Butter dishes, Bread Trays, Knives and forks Albums, .25, .50, .75, 1.00, 2-00 Musical Albums, 3.50 and 4.50 Pictures from .10, .25, .50, 1.00, 4.00 Umbrella Stands, Jardiners Mirrors AftPr Thnimht SHOES, SHOES! All new goods and ttllCI IllUUgill. in the latest styles! King Bee, for Men King Quality. Society King " " Queen Quality for Ladies. Wood Moring. Clothiers and Furnishers. J.me.T.norehe.d r t fcp, Morehead & Sapp, Attorneys at Law, Greensboro, N. C Will practice as heretofore In Randnb.h Principal otlle in Greensboro, N.c Hi00 In office and In communication with np on of Kandulph County. m aK I'rtl High Point's NEW STORE The Ladies' Shop ping Emporium Everything; in style and the price and quality are our best advertisement. Ready-to-wear gar ments of all kinds, Cloaks, Skirts, Dress Goods, Silks, extra length Gloves and everything in Ladies wear. If we sell you once you are sure to come again. Mail orders given prompt atten tion: We pay ex press on amounts of 5. and over. When here call on us. Leonard- Beavans-Sta-mey Company. (Next to P. 0. Building) High Point, N. Special to the Ladies. This week all cloaks and furs will be reduced 10 per cent from former Erice. We have some eauties left. You men will need a New Suit, Over Coat or Raincoat for Christmas. We have them just in, and can fit you. Our store will be kept open each night until 9 o'clock. Goods well dis played and priced. Come and see before the rush. and Boys. 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