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THE GLEANER ISSUED EVKBY THURSDAY. I J. P. KERNODLE,EdI«or7 »t.OO A YEAR, IN ADVANCE* ADVERTISING RATES •me asuare (1 In.) 1 time SI.OO, -r eaon *ab- S insertion SO cents. For more space ||4 looser time, rates furnished on applies •■---• *k». Looal aotieeilO ots. a Une (or flrst insertion; subsequent Insertions Seta, a line Iranalant advertisements must be paid for The editor will not be responsible for views expressed by correspondents. ■enuredat tbe Postoffioe at Graham. try N. 0., as aecond ot matter. GRAHAM, N. C., Dec. 5, 1912. ' 'f ~ ■ Thanksgiving Day has come to be a national athletic day. The Governor of Mai yland has appointed Wm. P. Jackscn, a "stand pat" Republican, to succeed the late lsador Ray nor in the U. S. Senate. Thus the prosective Democratic majority in the Senate has been re duced to a very narrow margin. The Turkish-Balkan war was ex , peeled to end Tuesday with the signing of the armistice, but Greece stands in the way as yet, refusing to sign the 'protocol, hence the outlook for peace'in the Fast is not so gcod 1 as It appeared a few days ago. The short session and the last of ' the present Congress convened Mon- | day. President Taft's message was re- i ceived Tuesday. He devotes more at- t tention to "Foreign relations" than e anything else. Few recommendations i art made, as he recognizes little e time or attention would be given I them coining from a retiring-head c of a retiring party. - I _ b President-elect Wilson expresses a g willingness to formally take the oath f of office on the 4th of March and to a postpone the formal ceremonies till I the laat Thursday in April. For nearly 125 years March Ith has been the,day and, as the event *comes but s once ia lour years, why not stand * /by the landmark? ~ . t The two great foot ball games last Thursday in which mere ~North * Carolinians were interested than in 1 any others were those between Caro lina and Virginia at Richmond and A. A M. and Washington and Lee at 1 Norfolk. Virginians won both games—the former by 00 to 0 and ' the latter by 10. to 6. What's the ' matter with the North Carolina boys? ' Tomorrow a final appeal will be « . made to the Governor of Virginia t for Clemency in behalf of Floyd Al- i Jen, who was convicted and sentenced to Siaon 13th for the part ho took f in sTfooting up the court, at Hills- t rill* last March. A petition of 75,- ( -000 from all walks of life will be > presented in his behalf. An opinion haa been ventured that the Gov. will i not interfere. \ The canvas of the vote of the 1 State in the last election qhows that t Craig received 110,075 votes, a Mearcs 49,930, Settle £43,025. The ( presidential vote was: Wilson. 144,- I 507, Roosevelt 03, 130, Taft 29,179. I By statute the vote for Governor I determines the status of the party, g and accordingly, aa neither the 1 Republican nor Progressive candi- ( date for Governor received 50,000, I doth died a statutory desth. Ii Governor Kltchin has commis- , stoned Gordon Smith, of Haleigh, [ adjutant general with the rank of j, brigadier general, to succeed the g lata Adjutant General H. L. Leln- P ■tar. Smith has been acting adju- t tant general since Leinster'n death. j Bo will serve until Gov. Craig is s: inaugurated. s Miss Luelle Harris, of Dunn, n Hdrnett county, was bequeathed tl SIO,OOO by her grandfather, James h Kain, Sr., who died in Richmond, o November 21. According to the Ii terms of his will, this sum is left - I* tfust to her until she Is 30 years of age. Then she is to come into I possession of it In fee simple. JP. Humbles, a young farmer of Pitt oounty, committed suicide at hfs home between. Ayden and Ridge Springs a few days ago,* family misunderstanding over wUeh be had been brooding be lt the probable cause. Humbles' wife saw bim take a gun out of the room ia which she was fitting, bat thought that he was going to; the woods to hunt. Instead be wont to another room and blew his The surgeon general of the army Istimates that $83,000 will be re quired for the purchase of artifi cial limbs and apparatus during artificial legs, one foot and live I arms were distributed- to afflicted soldiers. Under the act of Con -4 - • E Chapel Hill Items. Correspondence of Tri Glsajvck Of extraordinary interest each year _ is the annual report of the Registrar of the University, setting forth a general statistical surrey of the 800 y or more students. The total enroll * ment in all departments for the ses sion of 1912—' 13 is 816, only 55 com ic ing from other States and countries. * Florida contributes 13, and far-off Persia sends 2. The remaining 40 hail fiom scattering districts of the country —from the State of New York to the Lone Star State. The representation of the various coun ties in this State sending ten or more students to the University, are the - following: Mecklenburg 38; Orange B 35; Ouilford and Wayne 33 each; Johnston 27; Forsyth 23; Rowan 22; Wake 20; Robeson and llockingbam 9 1G each; Durham 15; Alamance and j Buncombe 20 each; Beaufort and , Davidson 13 each; Iredell, New Han over and Granville 14 each; Union , 15; Cleveland 11; Wilson 15; Edge combe 12 and Cumberland 12. There are ten counties unrepresented. Ac cording to church affiliation the di- i . vision is as follows: Methodist 257; i Baptist 21C,' Presbyterian 143; Episcopal.! 24; Christian 15; He- t brow 12; Lutheran 11; Moravian 8; Quakers 5; German Reformed 5; Dis ciple 3; Roman Catholic 3; Chris- tian Science 2; Armenian 1; Saints i Holiness 1; no church affi'iations 8. * The distribution according to oocu- 1 paticn or profession of the fathers, a is as follows: Farming 201; mer- y chandising lfiG; law 55; medicine a and surgery 57 ; manufacturing 38; miniatry 32; teaching 23; public t service 12; railroad and shipping 18; » banking 14; contracting 14; lumber o dealing 14; mechanics 13; real es- P late 18; traveling 13; tobacco 10; P book-keeping 7; brokerage ft; en- P gineering 0; insurance 6; livery 6; P printings; fishing 4; dentistry 3; 1 architecture 2; chemistry 1; mining 1; photography 1; and tanning 1. Tom Cabe, an Asheville black smith. a witness in a liquor case, said he had not bought liquor from the defendant, but he added that lie had bought lotsof»whis key in Asheville since the city be came dry, and expected to buy more. Thereupon the court asked Cabe to mention names and dates. He refused and as a result landed in jail for 30 days for contempt; A correspondent writing from Brevard about the forest fires in the mountains, says that at one time three fires in different sec tions of tlio mountains could be seen from the street* of Brevard; that a number of homes in the mountains were burned and the damage to timber is great the amount cannot be estimated. In the Pink Beds section on the Van derbilt estate the damage will ag gregate thousands of dollars. Two accidental fatalities were recorded at Greensboro Sunday with the death ot Houjamin Cla rida and Osborne Smith, the former a well-to-do farmer and the latter a son of C. A. Smith, a sawmill owner of Guilford oounty. Clarida stooped to pick up a rab bit which he had shot when a dog in tho chase jumped at him, catch ing its foot on the hammer of his gun and causing its discharge. The ontire load of shot entered Clarida's side. Young Smith was injured while operating a saw at his father's mill several days ago. Introducing Gov. Kitohin, who welcomed the North Carolina Drainage Association to Raleigh last week, Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, State geologist, said the Governor recommended and urged through the 1909 Legislature a general drainage act that has made it pos sible for progress in drainage to such extent that of about three million acres of drainable lands in tho State about one million acres have been brought under the operation of the State drainage law. . are; actually weak, run down —they are slowly deteriorating—they need strength and nourishment for body and brain. Scoff's Emulsion corrects nervousness—it is essentially a food—a concentrated, nourish ing, curative food to restore tha healthy action of body cells, fortify the blood, sharpen the appetite, make health, energy and vigor. As pure as milk, it is readily assimilated —nourishes every organ and every tissue. Phy sicians everywhere recom mend Scoff's Emulsion with I absolute confidence in ita I beneficial results. Don't wail I —start now, but insist on I II About UjOM Office* to Apportion Among 1,000,000 Applicant!. r WuhlnffUra Dlapatob to Greensboro Mew*, r During the four years after a March 4 next, 143 Republican 3 first, second and third class post - masters in North Carolina, who - draw salaries aggregating nearly - 1300,000 a year, will be replaced i. by 143 North Carolina Demo- T crate. ) The figures are taken from the » latest issue of the official Postal r Guide and are accurate. The i sums paid to fourth-class post - masters whose salaries range to » SI,OOO a year are not included. A ) few weeks before election Presi > dent Taft issued an order placing ; all the fourth-class postmasters under the protecting wing of the civil service law. Great pressure will be brought to bear upon President Wilson by Democrats from all sections of the country to rescind this order. He may, and he may not, do eo. Comiug as he does from a section of the country where civil service is more highly regarded than in soine other parts of the country, the new cratic President will likely think twice before he abolishes the Taft executive order. All told, not counting fourth class the Wilsonad ministration will have places for about 11,000 favored The average salary is about $3,000 a year- So the total "spoils of war" for the entire .country is about $33,000,000 a year. >vei;0,100,000 persons voted for Wilson and Marshall. It is con sidered low to say that 1,000,000 of these think their fair recom pense would be a Federal office paying say $3,000 per year. The problem to be solved is that ap portioning 11,000 places among 1,000,000 applicant*. North Carolina News. An apartment house costing more than SIOO,OOO, steel and con crete construction, fireproof and eight stories high, is proposed for Raleigh. Robert Knight, owner of more cotton mills than any other indi vidual in the world, died at his home in Elmwood, R. 1., Tuesday of last week, aged 80. lie was a native of Rhode Island. One hundred thousand settlers from the United States eutered western Canada between April 1 and October 1, according to figures of the Canadian commissioner of immigration. The Concord folks, who held out for steam beat, tile floors and train sheds for the new station which the Southern proposes to build there, have won out on the steam heat and tile floor. Manly Morris, who shot at one and instead, hitting and fatally wounding Sam Mor gan, in Concord Friday night a week, surrendered to the officers Tuesday. Morgan died in a Char lotte hospital Wednesday. Sir Edward Richard, chief com missioner of tho London Metro politan police, was shot and seri ously wounded Wednesday 'night*, a week by a man who had an al leged grievance against him. The, man was arrested. "Not guilty," was the verdict returned by the jury in the case of Joseph Ettor, Arturo Giovan ni tt I and Joseph Caruso, for the murder of Anna Lopizzo, who was killed in the Lawrence, Mass., textile strike last winter. J. T. Nalle, a Philadelphia hunter, who arrived in Newton Monday a week, the opening day of the hunting season, came to grief at once. His gun burst And a piece of the barrel spilt his thumb to the bone, inflicting such injury that he left for home tho same day. Starting the engine of tho roller mill at' Granite Palls, Caldwell oounty, Wednesday a woek, J. O. Deal was caught in tho belt, his right hand ras ground off and he was otherwise injured. He was taken to a hospital at Blekory and his arm amputated below the elbow. Will Aiken, a North Carolinian and formerly an Asheville news-, paper mas, has been private sec retary to the Governor of Mon tana through two administrations and Gov.-elsct Stewart announces that Mr. Aiken will continue in tKat capacity. A general ten per cent, advance ia furniture from manufacturer to dealer will be a result of a con ference held in- High Point a few days ago by about 100 representa tives of furniture manufacturing plants in the Southern, Northern, New England and Middle Western States, according to a statement given out Representatives of both the Southern Furniture ' ' Merle 11. Nortons presentation of The Henry Miller Savoy Theatre New York-Success Monday, Dec. 9th "The Servant In The House" By Chas. Rand Kennedy jB ■ PS JK B £■ jM|L . .. JBI i I # ' /} f* •» 1 K ■ . / 1 ■ fFr"' ' J" . _ssßgg^sssagßßsasaclssßSßßsll^^^^^^Bsß^S3^BS3Bss^3[^S \ ' * "'"" ~ ✓ " . As produced 1 year in New York City, 6 months in Chicago, Now Playing all over Europe Scenic Production Complete In Every Detail Seats on sale at Graham Drug Co. .25, .50, .75, SI.OO, and $1.50 > Jesse Smith, a negro, was shot in the stomach and Fred Under wood and Garfield Johnson, also negroes, were badly cut in a free fight at a hog killing near Wade, Cumberland county. Smith may die. J. M. Leasi'a shot and probably fatally wounded Jerry Garew in Wilmington Sunday night. The shooliog took place on the street, but what it was abont is not stated. Leasia was arrested. Mr. Rufns T. Lenoir died Satur day at his home in Happy Valley, Caldwell county, in his 87th year. He was the son of Col. Tbos. Lenoir and Lonisa Avery, who was a daughter of Col. Waiglitstill Avery, a signer of the Mecklen burg Declaration of Independence. "Gyp the Blood," "Whitey Lewis," "Lefty Louio" and "Dago Frank," the gunmen convicted of the murder of Herman Rosenthal, in Vew York city, have been sentenced to die in the electric chair at Sing Sing d u ring the week of January 6. Andrew Gorchitz, of Newburgli, N. Y., after being a prisoner for 13 days in * car of apples, into fehich he bad crawled at New , burgh, was released when the car was opened atSionx City, la. The man's feet were frozen and may have to be amputated. lie had eaten nearly a ban el of the ap ples. The National American Woman Suffrage Convention in Philadel phia adopted reeolntions demand ing an equal standard of morality for man and woman; commend the government for its efforts to end commercialized vice and favor arbitration among nations "to the end that wars might be pre vented." Alfred Dawns, sentenced to death in Mecklenburg county in 1801 for burglary, and whose aen tenoe was later commuted to life imprisonment, gets a commuta tion to 25 yean from Governor Kitohin. Dawns baa served 21 yearn. The judge, solicitor wad prosecuting witness are dead and the son of the proeecntor favors pardon. t Dawns waa 91 years old when be committed the crime. WBinmn^MNsißi Restored to Health by Vlnol Rev. D. Schneider, who Is a wall known minister la Rice La** .Wis, writes: "I had a very saver* stomach trou ble last year from which I waa kept la bad three months. I had ensfcged the aerrtoea of a doctor, but to BO avail. I then read of Vlaol aad deter mined to try a bottle. Before It waa naad np I waa oat of had. and tour bottlee made ma a wall maa. Vlaol la a splendid medicine, and I aaa gladly recommend It" Prominent men from all over the eovatry do not hesitate to eadoraa this wondeful toalc. Bar twelve years Ttnol haa been sold OB the "money back" piaa. aad andwwe b^w^^'U Ready for Business \ ■ [ » l | n With the Largest Stock and ,i Best Assortment of FURNITURE 1 Ever Shown in Graham 1 We can furnish every room ,k t ki your house from the §y||&§| kitchen to the parlor I ~ Our building is more, than double, and our M L stock more than three times . J as large as before. ~ OUR PRICES AND TERMS ARE RIGHT ||Hh We will be glad to welcome you to our place. . Green & McClure Furniture Co. GRAHAM, N. C. ( 'PHONE DAY OR NIGHT 251 L. , i H 1 '»!»*•> »■ as albs ■ alb» .as aIL» ■s« afHna mWa m i« .ft | a large touring car ran over and crashed his dog, near Erie, Pa., Lloyd Pastorous fired both barrels of a double-barreled 12-gauge shot-gunt pointblapk at the rear end of the automobile, it ia alleged, and as a result three] persons were sent to the hospital riddled with floe bird-shot and Pastorous was arrested. MEYSMDNEYPniS KM BMMCM KIMOHIIO BU»U V ' t Mill OTHER GRAYS SWEET POWDERS A 2-year-old child of Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Aiken, near Charlotte, was BO badly burned Sunday a week that it died two days later. Child'H clothing, caught fire while it was alone in the house. A dispatch from Collins, Miss., »y» posses totalling rnuly 800 mi vita two packs ©f blood hounds wen Sunday night a week Marching the swamps 12 miles aoatb of that place for a lone bur gin* who early Sunday shot and dangerously wounded two men nnd burglarised a half dozen resi dences and stores. OtWltu Risers, Dragged from her hone, her heal and legs cut off' and the body cut in two by persons as yet un identified, waa the fata of 17-year old Mary Barnham, the daughter of a prominent farmer near Pleas ant Ridge, Ark., whose diameai bered body waa found near her home Friday a week. Banf to the Pleasant Ridge poatoffioe Thursday and waa ro turning home when attacked.
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