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FRANKL1NT0N
Our Regular C
: ? Items of Interest (
and Near Our Sistei
CLOSES ON
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Song Forsaken.
When I went forth singing.
Then all things made me glad,
Flower, star, and songbird.
Such joy I had.
Ah, the dreams I cherished.
The songs I fashioned then,
You shall find tbem treasured up
In quiet homes of men.
The wise man canie and counseled me
<<iold to win, to keep.
_ I heard his eyil counsel,
I put my soul to sleep.
i
a I have a silver tankard,
A golden finger ring.
- But my soul withers in me,
I have no songs to sing. |
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?Every one y?u meet says
"isn't it hot." i
?Its a fine boy and R. C. Perry *
is wearing a broad smile. 1
?Mies Allie White spent several ^
"days in the country visiting relatives. ^
?The Fourth passed off very
quietly here, only small crowd in
town and not even a colored ball
game. ' -t?J.
V. Finlayaon, West Holmes 1
and Scott Xorman, of the S. A. L. I
fo'oe, went to T.ouisburg Tuesday11
to see the ball game. t
?Mies Salterfield, who has been '
with Mis. M. C. Henly as milliner, <
went to Baltimore Tnesday to spend *
her vacation. She will return in the 8
fall. t
?The case of B. S. Kearney '
against the Good Roads for $5U0 ^
damage to his lands, waA tned.Tues-! e
day before three referees. They j
allowed him #20.
If'
?William Thomas, eleven inontbs | ^
old son of Lonnie Evans, died Junej ^
24th and was buried at the family j ^
burying ground in Granville county |
June 25 th.
?Misses I.allie White, Lena Elh- j g
ridge and Ruth Blackley spent a few ^
days in the conntry with Miss
t Eleanor Winston the past week. t|
They report a grand time.
?During the storm last Tuesday
night lightning struck and set on
lire the tool bouse of Capt. I. II.
Kearney at his saw mill below tow n y
and burned it to the ground. The y
loss was very small. el
Personals . b
Miss Katie Bet Morris is visiting K
in Clayton. r<
Mrs. Lena Etbridge is vmitin^
relatives in Laurinburg.
C. C. Kearney visited Henderson 8I
Saturday and Snnday. c
B. W. Ballard went- to see the o
ball game at Louisburg Tuesday. w
Mrs. J. O. Perhetl, of Statewide, *
is visiting her uncle, E. W. Morris.
B. J. Blackley and wife spent the 11
Fourth with relatives in Granville l'
county. n
Miss Janie Etbridge is on a visit
to Miss Annie May Blackley, at ^
Wilton. .
Misses Annie Hamlet and-Lizzie a
Ezzle, of Raleigh, is visiting at A. i
B. Wester's. j
Br. S. 0. Ford and wife went to I
Louisburg to see the ball game (
Tuesday. <
W. M. Person, one of Louisburg s 1
prominent lawyers, was in our city I
Tneeday. * l
Mr. Brume, ot Macon, who has '
been visiting at F. M. Brake's, re- 1
turned home Tuesday.
Mtse Lucy Stovall, who has been
visiting in town, returned to her 1
bouse st Stovall this week.
Misses Lizzie and Nellie Whitfield,
who have been on-an extend
ed trip to Richmond, returned this
week.
Miss May Blackley, of Cheraw,
S. C., spent sevetsl days visiting
fnendr sad relatives in and out of
town.
J. L. Myron and wife, of Maple
ville, who have been, visiting her
lather, B. S. Kearney, reterned
I
Y
_NEWS ITEMS
oiTCspondent
jathered From in
r Town Each Week
WEDNESDAY
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home Sunday.
(-'apt. E. J. Cheatham and his
neice Miss Kuth Whitfield went to
I'owrsville. Tuesday to visit ; their
uncle, Capt. J. B. Hunt.
Mrs. Chas.Titnberlake ana sister,
of Youngsvi le, and I. B. Williams,
of Franklinlon, visited Miss Eva
Tomlinson, near town, the past week.
T. W. Whedbee and wife, Mrs.
J. S. Morris, Miss Minnie Morris
and W. D. Morris took a trip in their
automobile down to J. C. Pools,
twelve miles south of Kaleigh the
past week. They report a delightful
lay spent in the hospitable home of
Mr. Pool. Notwithstanding the bad
road8 after leaving Franklinton
township they made th<5 trip without
i bitch in two and thrve quarter
hours, covering 41 miles.
MR. PtERCE DIES SUDDENLY.
Standing In Store Door at Henderson
He Fails to the
Floor.
Henderson. Julr 1?Mr -T s .
Pierce, about-49 vp?? of age, died s
luddenlr today, about lit o'clock, of I
leart failsre. He war etaooing io c
be door of J. S. Poytbree* & Co., '
alking with Hugh Jordan about
onie work,.when, without warning j,
te fell to the #oor and w? dead be- h
ore medical aid could be sytmmoned.' p
Che deceased learres a wife and ??t- }
ral children.?Italeigh Timee.
"Jeff" Pierce ? well known in Bl
'rankliD-.on, where be liatr a boet of) ft
rienda rud relatives. He was a j ft
rotber of our popular meschaut,. j?
I. E. Pearce and was bora and |
lieed near this town. He rar 4b 1 _
cj
ears of age, and married a Miss j ?
aria, of Wrte county, who with w
ve children ipirvive him. He was-i a
uried in Henderson Si?rr3~ay after-;
oon at 4 o'clock. Hie family* have ^
le sympathy of this entire com- w
lonitr. y t
??j si
Fire In Frankllnton J
.About 1&30 o'clock Fririay nig hp ^
ye old Methodist church, r*t acroee- n
ye street from the Franklin Groc- o
r* Co., and being need by tberu a ay J
storage boose, was discovered to- *
e on fire. The discovery was- i
take by Mr. W. J. Ballard, w hetome
in the Ballard building.also oOy'
>e Opposite side of the street, who | o
romptly gave the alarm. A. large ! *
rowd soon gathered but too late to t
tve the building. The tire also onsamed
tile old Bullock building j
n the corner juat to the South of it, i t
rbicli burned verv fast and was soon ' *
in ami of ruins. It wos indeed for- '*
i-a*
(him iw wiou ai an wae oiow-i ^
ig and this and the heroic effort off j
he bucket brigade which waa-orga-1 s
ized saved the residence of Mr. B. i I
. Blackley only a few feet to the! 1
rest of tire burned buildings,, the-j 1
lome of Miss Josephine Henley the-' ,
lasoniu Looge and the stores- j,us?
cross the street occupied by Messrs.
[\ C. Joyner, Poetoffioe, Whedbee Jfc
lorris, Citizens Bank. Mrs. S-. &. '
iritt, Franklin Grocery Co, aid -j
,'rscent Drug Co. A strong wind
rould have been very disastrous, i
jlowing from either directo?. The
reavieet loes not including the build. 1 '
nga was sustained by The Frank- (
tin Grocery Co., which amounted to ]
ibout^SOO with $200 insurance.
The orgin of 'he fire in unknown, i
It cangbt in the top of the building 1
and might be attributed to spootan- 1
sous combustion, or rats. This
should swsken our cittsens to the
great need of some meansol fighting
fire. Lists get together sod find
some wsy. Only by the merest '
ohsnce the whole business part of
the town was not burned.
Right m your Mdeet season when
yea Save the least time to spare yon
ere most Hhely to Have diarrhoea and
lose several ddHL titoe, nnlees you have
Chamberlain's 0ajk, ( holrem and
Diarrhoea Bamady ad^hsnd and takes
dose on the first sppeerihe# of the (heseas.
For Mle by all dealer*.
A . BATTLE ROYAL
loot* Fight For tho 'Championship"
tho Wilderness.
An hour, it sccmcil, the two
moose had battled, neither appearing
to gain a point of advantage.
Their sides showed red gashes from
the savage ripping of horn points.
Their eyes were nyiueiied,?and
there was crimson in the flecks of
froth that flew from their nostrils.
The bog was churned into a black
slough of muck beneath them. The
first streaks of dawn were showing
when?was it fate, luck or the better
strategy of the newcomer??
the advantage of position was taken
from Bilhorn's stag.
Now the newcomer could stand
off a locomotive. He could even
recover a measure of his wind,
while his opponent must continue
lo weaken. And the effect soon
lold. Suddenly be seemed to gather
himself together and bring all his
jreut force of bone and muscle into
me grand, herculean effort, and
Bilhorn's bull slipped backward.
Sis adversary was actually forcing
hog and all back with him, the
ipongy mass soughing np behind
lis helpless haunches. This was a
langerous turn in the fray. - He
realized it and struggled to gain
i stay somewhere, anywhere, but
Ibere was nothing to hold to. Back,
jack, be settled on his haunchee
intil he" was- driven squarely over
>n his broad side, hopelessly out of
iction, terribly at the mercy of his
foe. who horned him brutally again
ind again until sheer lack of
>reath forced him to draw back for
m instant.
Up from the reddened slough
he vanquished beast staggered, a
earful spectacle. Not an instant
lid he falter, but, with his dark lifeilood
pouring from his sides, drove
traigbt at his eDemy again. The
est is sooe told- As the dying stag
ame o^. blindly be stumbled and
ell squarely on the lowered ahtlers
f his conqueror. Viciously the
tending hull strove to eitricate r
us horns from beneath the heavy
ody of his victim, bat be was
inned fast.
Then came tike- spectacular finish
( this battle, worthy of the most
xacting Roman arena. Slowly but
a rely the victor began to lift the j
uge form of the- fallen stag until
ith one mighty upward sweep he
urled it fairly over his back, where j
: struek on the rock with a sicken- I
ig tbad and felt at its base, a i
uivering, shapeless mass of manted
flesb and bone. The victor]
Keeled and gazed for a moment j
t the qniet form.
To- the trembling, panting figure ,
f the man on the rock he paid no i \
eed. Satisfied that his adversary j
onld trouble him no more, he'
urned and with heavy swinging!
trides went back into' the swamp'
roiw which he had come. Thus
ell the king of the Allagash, not
rom any cunning or draft of puny J
lan. but in a battle royal, worthy
f the Spartan kings, waged with a
oe deserving of his blade, in de- :
ense oi his crown and realm.? 1
Kiting kfagazine.
Peace on Eartte
Have you ever thought seriously ]
f the meaning of that blessing giv-1
n to the peacemakers? People are I ^
lways expecting to get peace iD
eaverr. Bnt you know whatever
leaee they get there- will be ready
nade. Whatever making of peace
hey can be blessed for must be on
he earth here, nob the taking of
v..A Ul- L13- ?
lura a^aiUAL, UUb CUB CKDlUlllg OI
iests amid its "sea oi troubles,"
ike tbe halcyons. Difficult enough, i
on think. Perhaps so, bat 1 do not
ee that any of as try. We com- ]
iloin of the want of many things?
re want votes, we want liberty, we
rant amusement^ we want money.
Vhith of us feete-or knows that he '
rants peace??John Ruskin.
The W my. at the WieS
The velocity of the winds is as
bllows:
Gentle wind! (a breeze) traverses
!0 feet a second.
Moderate (an easy gale), 16 feet a
>eeond. . .. ___ ]
Violent (a. squall), 35 feet a secmd.
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Storm, slight, 43 feet a second;
mnsidorable, 48 feet a second; vio- ;
ent, 54 feet a second.
Hurricane, of the temperate
rones, *0 feet a second; of the towid
zones, 120 feet to 350 feet a
lecond. ?_ The
Strength of Shellfish.
A limpet may appear a poor dabby
creature and yet he can pnll
1,984 times his own weight in the
air and nearly double tort in water.
The Mediterranean cockle can
exert a poll equivalent to 2,07 i
times his weight. The force required
to open an oyster shell is
1,319 times tbe weight of the oyster
without his shell. Were aa
average man at strong in proportion
to his weight be would ee able
to lift 2,000,000 or 8,000.000
pounds!?London Answers.
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MR- FA
I ^Ha/ve Just
One Car Load c
Mow
s'
Ope Car Lopid of Mc(
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\Car Lood of Coli
t sell everything that is made by the Inten
ry a stock of Buggies, si rries, carriages and
harness flitting,irobes, i hips, horse medici
Don't comWio Louisbu
a look at f le coraple
TV aohinery
Improved machinery sav is labor and makes
time if you don't farm a ith improved macl
with a light crop to harv sat, whichNneans
fellows will call no "nea " or "farmeries".
YOUR RUE
K. P.
WE HAVE (
Those Sewi
T HA
YOU HAVE BEEN
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-When you see them you will be convinced h
without one. They are needed in every hou e
ind sht will nevecget through thanking you f<
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rhe Price is so Small Everypc
CALL INxflF
Mfy entire lina of Furniture is always kemNn f
not find a better selection to choose from 1 even
We Are Detfermi]
UNDERTAKING
Shall be Secoi
And although we hope you may not deed our s
member we are alwayi ready to
W. E. Whiter Fa
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RMER
; Received
>f McCormick
ers *
Jormic Rakes, One
imbus Wagons I
lational Harvesting Co. I also car>
,
a full and complete stock of Harness
ess you take
te stock: of Farm
I carry.
'six
l money for vou. In this dav and
linery yoo will find yourself next fall
little money to you, and the other
I sell on good easy time.
I FRIEND I
HILL J
OT THEM]
ng Tables I
1 LOOKING FOR I
at no woman can successfully keep house
hold. Make your wife a present of one '
>r it..
tdy Can Afford to Buy One. I
ID SEE IT I
irst class shape and we are sure you will I
in a town three times large as Louisburg I
tied That Our I
DEPARTMENT!
ervices, still if you are so unfortunate, re- I
do all in our power for you.
rtiiittre Company I
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