FRANKLIN. TIME 1 F. JOHNSON. Editor and Mana . If R YlAR, - - *1 ??x months, ntCKK MONTHS. The Ranch or the Han. ^ Pretty Molly Perkins took a hoi stead in the West; Her quarter of a section was the lov lest and best, And proudly did her heart beat Molly Perkins' breast. Pretty Molly Perkins lived alone uj j her claim. But the men for miles about her si heard about this dame * And then they called at Molly's hor stead with marriage as their ai And there was one among them? name was just plain Jim? But he was tall and handsome, e wondrous string of limb. And Molly soon admitted that e thought a heap of him. But Jim would have a wedding with< four years' delay. Which meant that Molly's homest< must be just thrown away. And Molly thought about it for man; troubled day. So pretty Molly Perkins just thouj and thought and thought. And she grew more undecided,, t more her hand was sought? And that's the situation, the last wc that we caught. ?Arthur Chapman, in Denver Repul can. Friday, August 11 1911. And Congress still holds on. The Commissioners did not ta action in regard to the Superintec ent's salary. The good road work in tl township is moving oS in pre) good shape. We oan'i say what the tronbie Dut the city water now is not hoi ing out as good in quality as should. The little Senatorial whirlwii has just about pasaert. Let us. bo it may not be resurrected again sometime. A bkpoet comes from D?nn gi ing that progressive town the crec of having within its borders a foe legged rooster. We are blessed with a good su ply of water, but for some eau every once in a while it gets pretty bnd shape. If any of the friends of the edit thinks he doesn't like watermelor cantaloupes, etc., they should ju try him and see. Gov. Kiicbis is to be congrat lated upon revoking the Dardon . Wiley Black, the notorious la _ breaker of Ashtyille. If our County Commissioners a not going give us a new court houi they should at least make some n pairs to the old one. Attend the Fat and Lean gan of ball at Williamson's park Tue day. There will be a barrel of fu in store for you. Go out and enjc it. Db. Wiley is going right on tr; ing to find out what beer is. Wfc don't he try Budweiser??Wihninj ton Messenger. He is evidently a poor judge of good thing. Fbanklih Superior Court w convene in Louisbnrg on- Monda August 21st, 1911?just one we< Monday. This however is a crin: inal court only and will bold f only one week. If circumstances remain tavoi ble many of the citizens of tl township, in the eastern part c; have the privilege ot hauling th< products to the market this ye over a good road. It naw looks as if the Daugbtc ot the Confederacy will soon beg the erection of a Confederate mob ment in Louisburg. On Toesdi the Boerd of County Cotnmiaeione denated to this cense $1,000, whi raises their fund to about $2,0f v . :iyfi g It seems an if the town ordinance = prohibiting the erection of poets on the sidewalks for the purpose of sus00 pend,ng eigne and awnings has been jj? lost This ia to be regretted as it totalis that our streets will be tilled r-rr with these unsightly obstacles and the tearing up in tnanr oases the ne- pavement we have been so long in ! getting, eh- > . | Kaii.koau wrecks are becoming ,n . ~ very common ot late?three having | occurred with the past ten days. | The last happened Monday morning .on j between Norlina and Petersburg on the Seaboard a..d killed an engineer ne~ anil tireman. It was the night pasim? senger train that was wrecked aud j his waa caused by being turned into a j siding where a freight was standing?j the switch being left open. >he | Some have suggested that as so j >utI many towns were erecting Confederate monuments, why not Louisburg ?d erect one to the memory of the raising of the first Confederate flag, j r By changing it around in this way I would make it no less a Confederate"^ jht , monument, but at the same time j would be a matter of moLe interest [ owing to the fact that there would j >rd ba only one of them in existence. ?? ? -)1J_ .. ' Ovb city authorities should in. _ struct the Clerk to deduct one-third from the bills showing that the min- j w imam has not been used or such amount as may be equitable from the electric light bills for the month ,ke of July. It will be recalled that u- tuere was wn days ot July no current could be gotten on account of a break down. This however will his not effect the man who has used tty above the minimum, but does effect the one whose bill never reaches the minimum. In this case the latter is >1 is, entitled to one-third off. d_ > it All Over The State The box shop and lumber plant of j' Burbank & Dillion, at Kernersville, was! id burned Wednesday morning. The loss j, is $5,000. No insurance. !, y" I jn Eight "blind tigers" were captured | by a plain clothes officer a* Fayetteville Thursday. In most of the cases the j officer. A. A. Lindsay, purchased Whis-11 v- key from the defendants, lit As the result of a wound inflicted j ] ir- when he was kicked by one of his j horses at his home at Rocky Point Sat- ] urdav, C. J. Miller, aged 58, a prom- | inent fanner of Pender county, died at! < P" the Wilmington sanitarium Wedues-! I Be day. !' I in Bulletins have been issued in Spen-!. cer announcing that the Spencer shops of the Southern Railway Company will i go on a full six day working basis in- ' J stead of tive days, as heretofore. j j In Union county, Monday morning, i. I8t 5-year-old daughter of Wm. Walters i swept up trash in the yard and set it on 1 Are. A gun shell was in the refuse and j u when it exploded the shot took effect in I' the child, inflicting serious wounds. j { w Palling from the Norfolk & Southern j i depot wharf at Elizabeth City Wednes- 1 day, William Jenkins, a negro man, was drowned before he could be rescued, s re Lat* in the afternoon the steamer' 1 ,e Alma was being loaded with various I j and sundry freight. The last freight ! c i were some horses and in trying to keep j v out of the way of the animals' feet, the .1 negro lost his life. ? ie Earl Tyson, the 18 year old son of R. b s- L. Tyson, of Carthage, was killed by a E D stroke of lightning on the baseball c grounds there Tuesday evening. \ He t ^ and other members of the team were J practicing on the grounds when a cloud F gathered and just before the rain com- ,J )' menced the stroke got in its fatal work p iy on Tyson, who was in the open field ?. playing shortstop. Parsons pond, near Morven, for the first time in the memory of the oldest inhabitant, has nearly dried up. C. C. Moore, oi Wadesboro, was at the pond | Tuesday and reports that he saw a e iH bushel and a half of fish dead in one 1 hole that had dried up. In all it is sup- ' ' posed that some four o? five bushels ( of fish have died in the pond where c it- they were caught when the water evap- i or orated. East bound passenger train number i 22, on the Southern! Railway, running ( a_ from Asheviile to Goldsboro, was de- ' railed five miles west of Salisbury Fri- \ "* day afternoon and twenty passengers 1 an injured six of whom were seriously ! sir hurt. While makin; full time the ob- { 8r serration ear left the rails and all other ] coaches follosred in quick 'succession, I the chair car plunging down a thirty { foot embankment, eliding to the hotirs torn. - , j tff Elder L. H. Hardy, who waa convict- ' o- ed of contempt of court by Recorder Humphries, of the Seidsville recorders 1 court, com* time ago, sentence upon whom was suspended, appealed to the 1 Superior court and the case was tried J 10. j before Judge Lyon Wednesday. Judge Lyon held that the article published by Elder Hardy, though very harsh was not in contempt of court, and the verdict ot the lower court was set aside. Within plain sight ot helpless passengers on the passing Carolina special an automobile with five occupants turned turtle on the level Asheville highway near Hcndersonville Saturday morning. Three prominent people of Charlotte and Columbia, passengers, were caught underneath the car with possibly fatal injuries to one of them, Mrs. Fred H. i White, of Charlotte, who sustained a broken arm and serious internal injuries. Inglesic'e Items Crops are looking well, only the corn needs rain. The old men and the boys played a very amusing game of ball here last Saturday atternoor, the game resulting in a score of 14 and 9 in favor of the boys. The old men enjoyed themselves line. Glad to note that Mrs. Tom Ed wards, who underwent an operatiouj a few weeks ago is well again. Many of our people went to Norfolk last week. Those that went wereyMisses Ethel and Susie Williams and Ssllie Louise Macon, Mrs. W. L. Beasley, Messrs. W. L. and Fisher Beasley, Ollie Macon,' Billie T. Person and Henry Dickerson. They reports tine time. Mrs. W. C. Koberson and chil clren went to Maoon last Friday to visit her mother, Mrs. M. S. Phelps. S. A. Walker, of Vaughns, whb has been visiting at J. E. Beals, his brother, returned home last Saturday. The children's day exercises will be held at Corinth Baptist church tomorrow August 12th. Public cordially invited. Garland Davis and wife gave an enjoyable ice cream supper last Friday night. All report a nice time. Mies Annie Macon has returned to her place of business after spending a few weeks at home. Miss Hallie Davis came home Saturday to spend her vacation. Best wishes for the Times. Ground Puppy. SEEMED TO GIVE HIM A NEW STOMACH. "I suffered intensely after eating an j to medicine or treatm nt 1 tried seemed to do any good," writ a H. M. Youngpeters, Editor of Thki un, Lake View, Ohio. "The first few doses of Chamlerlain's Stomach ai JsLiver Tablets fave me surprising rel ef and the second jottle seemed to give ne a row stomich and perfectly go id health," For tale by all dealers. Any intel eetual pepton may earn a ?ood income corresponding for newspapers: experience unnecessary. Send itamp for full nkrttgulars. Empire "resa Syndicate, Middle port, N. Y. r?vt Land Sale. By virtue of the power of sale confined in a certain mortgage deed executed on the ljth day ol March, 1908 >y J. D. Morris and wife to A. F. ilorrix to secureaaJndebtMnese theren expressed, default in the payment of which has been made. I will on Monlay, the 4th (lav of Kentrmhew 1911, ell at public auMftEto theiiighest cidder for cash at the/ court h^use door , n thobtoam of I.ohiaburg tn|r certain ract of Jant situateJn Fnynilm county, I State ofjfcfcth Cafgnua, end la Youngs- , ilie towlunip, described follows: loundwl oh the east / t\ J: lands of C. I 4. Coqke; on the tuaftb by the lands of , lick Hart and T^B. Gill; on the west ' >V the lands of 1/C Myfcher.er; on the I orth by the llaads of fc. M. Nowell; , ontalr.lng tijrrty-fiye /(36) acres more ' r leas, amTheiit-flie/ lands conveyed | n J. 0. Morris by/deed from J. B. i lorris recorded in Book 156 page 63 tegistry of Kranflta county. This 3rd | lav August, 1911. i J. S. Mourns, 1 Lssignee of Mortgage to A. F. Morris. I Bickstt A White, Atty's. , Sale of Valuable Timber. \ G nder the authority contained In an | irder of the Superior Court of Frank- . in County in tlie special proceeding, I ntttled, Martha At Moses, Victoria | doses, et als vs. Roger C Moses,' Jss. 1. Moses, et als, I will on Monday, the ' Ith day of Septenmer, 1911, sell at | >ublic auction to the highest bidder for laxhf all the timber! squaring six (6) ' ncKes when cut eighteen (18) inches | rofis the ground on taat certain tract >f land sHuate in Franklin County, State of NorHvtf rulirsi, and in Cypress \ Ireek Townehip^S^udried on the North >y the lands of wMUe Bowden, The ireenlief-Johnson LuCfber Co., and Willis Bowden; on tne Kkst by the and* of Ifn- Laura Grmpedge^Mithe South by the lands of lbs. Laura Ohs* >edge and Mrs. Splvey; bn the West by " tie lands of Jno. Wood ind Mrs Sallle Holllngsworth. the entire tract contaInner aboot two hundred land sixty-five (266) acres, and being known as The Luther Mosea Home Flat*. The oak trees on the lot around the some are not included in it he timber to >e sold. Three (8) years will be given in vhich to cut and remote the timber 'rom the land. Partiea desiring further! information rill appiy to the undersigned cormnialioner. This the 3rd day of Aegnst, 191L R. B. White, Commissioner. jfkiv-.v ' ' J' .dwHH ' ' X "1, l ' ??? r?xirv?xi tvxi cvx-? r>?xi o>?o | ? -? vbur chilorci n,ee:^^$o - put .some|nt For them {to; work for thE bani If Adam 4,004 B. C., had lived and earnkd $10 less than 22 million dollars. If he had fcund o compound interest that one dollar wonld n< Make Our Hank Your Hank. We pay lib&ral interest cone THE FARMERS AND LOUISjjyjPG{ C. B. Cheatham, Pres. F. X. Egerfcn, Vi M. S. Clifton, tAssiel UNDER SUPERVISION OF ... THE c-?ti ?>?' *'" it 1 3 . ^ "'/>*' , ' * v ' . \ V// V . ? * . . \ '**?.? * : ii i -7' ]W:^ "^HBihsbb s| MIGHT r Money -he Bank it WILL M IN THE I^v ,. ?***%!* Trday until now, he would have earned ne dollar and put it out at one per cent >w amount to $664,597,604,385,947,648. listent with safety 4 per cent, compounded quarterly MERCHANTS ~ BANK N. C. " J IS ce-Pres. R. y, McAden, Cashier, taut Casliier. 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