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TUB ftiBni Hlfl WATnHMAH Beet for a Conntry Weekly?
iei out evoijr uinu "
i decide this fox himself .
"The Editor as a Town Boost-
PnMiohed every Tuesday at 120 West er." This last ord seems to
have been miss-spelled, Probably
WM. H. STB WAR I, Ed . and Prop-
Innes street.
Entered as second-class matter Jan.
l(Mk- IflOR' at the nost office at Salis
bury. N.C.. under the act of Congress
of March 8rd, 1897.
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE.
Carolina Watchman, one year, $1.00;
eash in advance, 75c.
Rowan Record, one year, $1.00; cash
In advance, 76c.
Watchman and Record, one year,1
$1.50; cash in advance, $1.00.
it should have been "Boaster.
See copy.
"Relation of the Press Toward
the Good Roads Movement in
North Carolina." It depends on
who writes this article. The
phonograph on which the record
will be run, however, is O. K,
"Why Every Editor and Pub
lisher in the State Should Belong
f.r t.hfl Press Association. ui
Saubbubt. N. C, Jukb 15, lWJy course this will be interesting,
but this only one side of the ques
The wheat and flour situation is tion.
another instance where the people "What can the Country Paper do
are waiting and expecting the of- to Promote Rural Development.
ficials to do their duty, and the Make free use ol the advance
officiate are lounging around wait- slips and be sure to give the Pro-
ing for some one to make a com- gressive Farmer full- credit.
plaint or swear out a warrant. "The Make-up ol a ouniry
Wfleklv" If vou want to do it
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"EVr-v. timn .f Vioa oAomori fn ATftAt V Tlffht K66D VOUT 6yeS OD
a. ui Dviuo viiuo av usa ww-vw- i j o
h an finav matter tn aAt a verdict the weeklv lesaon : The States
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for damages against corporations, 7ille Landmark.
and now, as indicated by a recent "Should the Subscription Price
nH-.Arnn.A nf a Kw Ynrk indsre. of a Country Weekly be more
lurries have a tendanev to nut the than a Dollar a year?" Yes,
law to a man of wealth. For in- each editor will
Jackson Still Safe la Hiding.
The expected has occurred again.
The negro, arrested at Sweflt water,
Tenn., turns out to be the wrong
man. There was hope at one time
that he might be the man wanted,
but Walter Crump, who went to
Sweetwater to see if he could iden
tify the man states that the pris
oner is' not Jackson. Mr. Crump,
who knows Jackson, made the
"trip at the request of Sheriff Mc-
Kenzie.
but
have to use his
stance, he said in speaking to a own judgment in the matter
... I iin a T71 - Ol m1t'l "t
man convicted of manslaughter: xtapm rire onop xi.. uuuu,
'I am convinced, that, if von had interesting, fine. The deyil and
haen a rich man nr a HtcianlntA man office towel will make it verv en-
the verdict would have been mur- joyable.
der." We hope the day will never And the annual oration. De
come when a rich man will be nnn- liver us. A pair of cats on the
ished merelv hecanan he ia rich, back fence will be about as in
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but we also hope that the day will teresting and edifying.
come when a rich man willbe given
Some Fine Hauls.
For some time the police have
been exercising a little suspicion
over certain persons who are said
to enjoy the rattle of chips, the
fascinating game in which the so-
called jack pot is a prominent fea
ture; craps, etc. Places where
these persons congregated have
been slosely watched and several
''swoops"7 resulted on Saturday
and Sunday nights . Eight men,
and it is stated one woman, were
caught in the nets the officers have
had out. Several of the defend
ants were arraigned before Judge
Miller Monday and ware fined $25
and costs eaoh. They gave bond
and appealed to the Superior
Codrt.
Four negro crap shooters were
landed as well, and these were ad
judged guilty and will pay fines or
serve for a time on the roads.
Hauls like these are apt to have
a tendency to discourage the
gambling habit. j
Civil Engineers Needed.
Washington, June 7. The War
Department has .made a heavy
draught on the Civil Sei vice Com
mission for junior engineers, sur
veyors and transit men, who are
needed for work on the surveys in
connection with the intra-costal
waterways from Boston, Mass., to
Key West, expected to last from
six months to a year. The sala
ries of junior engineers will range
from $125 to $175 a month, while
those of surveyors and transit men
will range from $100 to $125 a
month.
The examinations will be held
June 21, 19Q9, and applicants will
be rated accordfng to their ' train
ing and experience. Applications
for blanks should be made either
o the the Civil Service Commis
sion or to the secretary of the
board of examiners at the postoffice
at B ston, Philadelphia, Atlanta,
Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Paul,
Denver, San Francisco, the ens-
toms house at Jfew York, New Or,
leans or the old customs house at
St. Louis
exactly the same punishment that
is given ta others, with his money
to the contrary nevertheless.
As will be seen in another col
umn another fruitless effort has
been made to capture John Jack
son, the negro who shot and killed
Officer Munroe. There being such
a great similarity in the counten
ances of negroes that it is difficult
at times to identify them, even by
parties well acquainted, and this
difficulty, of course, is greater
where one is not known. This is
all ta the negroes' advantage and
makes it easy to elude the officers,
to say nothing of the assistance
generally rendered the criminal by
members of his race. This, there
fore, often makes it necessary to
run down scores of negroes in all
parts of the country before cap
turing the right one, if than. Tge
consequence of this condition 4s
discouraging to officers who en
deavor to do their full duty, and.
another matter, which is also dis
couraging, and to the criminal s
advantage, where officers are dis
posed to shirnk their duty, lies in
the fact that sheriffs are not al
lowed to collect the rewards that
are offered, but must provide the
funds for the numerous and costly
trips out of their private purses.
Why should a sheriff send, or go,
after a man and bear the expenses
of such trip more than any other
good citizen? He is performing a
service for his county and the
public in general, and it would
seem but just that some provision
be made to cover such cases. TV
give a sheriff a $2 fee for capturing
a criminal at an expense of $25 to
$50 looks very unreasonable to us.
Sheriff McKenzie at least de.
serves much credit for the persist
ent efforts he has made to capture
this negro Jackson. And while
we are at it, we want to congratu
late Rowan on account of its
sheriff. If he stays in office long.
and there is no doubt of this, Row
an will become one of the most
law-abiding counties in the South.
rapers mat or piacea in nis, or
his deputies, hands are never al
lowed to get cold. Something is
doing at once.
The Fight on Tuberculosis.
Germany has 82 sanatoria for
tuberculosis, which hold over 20,
000. Through organized effective,
methods, Germany has reduced
the death rate from consumption
by one-half throughout the na
tion. In the German Army, tu
berculosis has diminished 42
during the past 20years (from
83 per thousand to 19 per
thousand of the effective force).
That consumption can be per
manently cured is demonstrated
by some figures published by Dr
A. Van Bneden cf Belgium, who
says that 75.8 of the patients
treated in the Bourgoumont Sana
fcorium in 1903-4 have continued,
four years after treatment, to im
Drove, and are in a condition to
return to their' regular occupa
tions.
Dr. Shannon of Edinburgh re
centfy stated that out of the 1.000
city children under three years of
examined by him, 647 had tuber
entasis, in some form.
Dr. Wilf redQrenfel, the f amou?
Librador explorer and social work
er, says that in the interests of
the campaign against tuberculosis
he haB induced most of the na
tives to weave the motto, "Don't
Spit" in their' rugs, instead of
other homely sayings, which were
formerly used.
THE NORTH CAROLINA PRESS
ASSOCIATION.
The organized editors of the
State, known as the North Caft
lma Press Association, and the
type foundries', paper houses' and
typesetting machines', companies
.drummers and bill collectors, will
meet in Hendersonville, N. C,
next week. They count on hav
ing a good time, and, as they are
a bunch of fine fellows, we hope
they may secure all that is coming
their way.'
A programme has been arrang
ed for the ocoasion which we in
- tend to criticise a little, as follows:
. 4The future of North Carolina
and the part to ba played therein
by the press." Well, every editor
should be there and secure his or
ders. No doubt they will be worth
hearing.
"Is the cash in Advance System
Stole Honey and Bees.
A correspond ant of -The Dis
patch in the country writes that
recently Mrs. D. Webb Thomas
lost a lot of wild bees and honey
by theft. It seems that she dis'
covered a beetree on her property
and hired several people to hive
the bees and get the honoy. The
bees went to the gum all right
and about 20 pounds of honey was
lest in a tree until a more conven
ient season. Next morning when
the owner of the- swarm went to
see about it, the gum was gone as
well as what honey was left in the
tree. The corresyondent closes
with "the crooked shall be made
straight and keep your eyes open
for you will hear tell of a new bee
8 warm in the neighborhood be
fore long,"
National Educational Association, Denver,
Colorado, July 5th-9th, 1909.
Prof. I. C. Griffin, state director
Salisbury, N. C. has selected the
Southern Railway, via Ashevilk,
Knoxville, Louisville and St.
Louis, as the official route to Den
ver and return for the above occa
sion, passing the mountains of
western Carolina, and the blue'
grassregion of Kentucky.
Prof Griffin, and a number of
the delegates, will extend their
trip to Seattle, Wash , taking in
Yellowstone Park en route: "re
turning via San Francisco, Los
Angeles, Salt Lake and Chicago.
Through Pullman car to leave
Goldsboro at 2:05 p. m. July 1st.
Circulars showing full itinerary of
route will be furnished on appli
cation.
For surther information, and
Pullman car reservation, please
write
R. L. VERNON, D. P. A.,
Charlotte, N. C.
Estimate of CoMon Acreage of the United
States, May, 1909.
With a view of obtaining the
most reliable information possible
concerning: the cotton acreage of
the United States for 1909, Lat
ham,' Alexander fe Co., cotton
commission merchants, of New
York, addregsed 5,000 letters to
banks, bankers, cotton commis
sion merchants and responsible
planters, embracing: every cotton
growing county in the South, ask
iug acreage estimates.
Up to JuDe 1st, they had secur
ed 3,906 replies, of average date
May 25, and the following tabula
tion is the result. They say: "In
our opinion it is as approximately
correct an estimate of the cotton
acreage as could besecuved by di
rect communication with parties
competent to judge, residing in
the Southern states.
"The total estimated decrease
of cotton acreage in the United
States for 1909 is4 7r or 1,570,
985 acres less than last year, and
the average planting of the crop is
eight days later than last year.
firm i i' - .
. me normal tendency to in
crease the cotton acreage from
year to year has been checked this
season by the determination to in
crease the acreage in small grains
due to the high prices prevailing
for all kinds of provisions. This
is less apparent in Texas where
the droughty conditions prevented
early planting of grain.
' ine continued excessive rain
fall in the central belt mikes the
present out look gloomy for that
j..' i
section ana may cause some
abandoment of acreage.
"The spread of the boll weevil
to the lower Mississippi Valley has
caused apprehension and curtail
ment of ootton acreage in that
section."
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en's Suits, $6.98.
ONE or twe suits of a kind. Coats and
pants, aloo three piece suits that were
$8 50 to $12 50. All go at
the one price
$698
Men's Negligee Shirts 50c
50c
An extra nice shirt, nice pattern,
cut full and a rel 75c value at. .
Only the Plain Truth,
The only difficulty about the
blind tiger is that the fools in
many of our towns and- cities are
allowing the law to ba administer
ed by men who are at heart op
posed to prohibition, and would
do anything to discredit the law.
When we have officers in charge
from mayor down to the humblest
police officer whp favor the en
forcement of law, the blind tiger
will get out of the way as readily
as the moonshiner. In fact, with
all the advantages of city organi
zation it ought to be easier to get
rid of the tiger. Let the people
see to it that the officers enforce
the law or get out. North Caro
lina Christian Advocate.
A Truth Well Stated.
A whole volume ot sound sense
is compressed into a few words by
President Finley, of the Southern
Railway, in his address to the
University of North Carolina
Among other things he said :
Iu whatever career the young
man of the South may select, he
will find opportunities at home
among his own people. He wil
not find it necessary to go to the
North or to the West. As time
goes on he will find these oppor
tunities in increasing abundance,
for the economio strength of the
South, already great, is constant
ly increasing.
The wealth of our section in
natural resources is being supple
mented by increased financial
strength, and Southern communi
ties are" becoming better able to
finance their own enterprises and
less dependent on outside capital
The Sooth needs every "one of
her young men, and those who
are faithful to her shewi'l bounti
fully reward.
Great as has been the growth of
the Sonth, that section is only at
the beginniug of its career, of de
velopment. The South is not
overcrowded with population and
can for many years yet furnish
opportunities for all who earnest
ly seek them. Far-sighted finan
ciers, railroad men, and other
leaders of industry are almost
unanimous in predicting that the
greatest development of the next
two decades in this country will
occur in the South. Washington
Post, June 1, 1909:
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Senator Oveman Heard From.
Washington, June 12. Senator
Overman, of North Carolina, to
day made a speech in the Senate,
denouncing the tar riff bill as fram
ed for the privileged few and de
claring his intention to vote
against it.
He declared that across the bill
should be written, "Bad faith,
broken promises."
'Though revision downward
haB been promised the people,"
he said, " the high protectionists
are again in the saddle riding
rough shod over the people and
unmindful of the great trust re
posed in them. The '-stand-paters"
he continued, "are again in
control. ' X
Death of Noted Unitarian.
Boston June 10 Kev. Edward
Everett Hale, chaplain of the
United States Senate, died at his
home at Roxbury, Mass., this
morning of heart failure. Dr Hale
has been sick three weeks and-de-
clined rapidly -
Dr .Hale's sister, Dr. Temple,
his physician, and several person
al friends were at his bedside when
the end came peacefully, Dr. Hale
dying as though falling asleep.
Belk Harry Cj., the wide-awake
merchants, have a chinge in to
day's Watchtnau. It contains
Ji. It J
lo-uiB inat may interest you
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MEN'S Patent Oxfords, two or three
pair of a kind, what we sold - A Qfi
for $4. Clean up price, . . . gjfc
Shoe Counter.
ON this counter are Oxfords for women,
andjichildren, all kinds and at jast a
bout half the regular price .
Box of Pap jr and envelopes 5c and IQo
Table Oil Cloth 12ic.
We were fortunate to secure another lot
of what table oil cloth, white and fancy
regular width and vou all know 01A
what it's worh. Our price. ... a2v
Millinery Very Cheap.
You ought to see the pretty Hats our
trimmers are turning out now at
$1.48, $2.00 and $2.50.
They , would have been worth about
double in early part of Besson,
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Pretty sheer white lawn, worth 80,
Special, 5c
Nice, smooth sheeting 33 in wide 5c
Ladies 10c Black and tan hose for 5o
Box of nice toilet soap for.. ..... . 10o
Lots of other good bargains we haven't room to mention.
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108-110 W. Iunoss St.,
Salisbury, IV. C,
Carry a full line of Caskets, Cof
fins and Burial Robes. Latest im
proved equipments consisting of
Hearses, .Casket Wagons, Church
Tracks, etc.
Special attention given to all
calls, day or night, by their un
dertakers, Mr. T. W. SummerBHtfc
and Mr. R. M. Davis.
Phone calls: day, 224; night,
529 or 201.
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The Curse of the South.
What iS the ma'ter With the SOUth? According to government report of
1908 "TheSrtcret is out at last the Southerner, contrary to cuneut
opinion is not lazy, shiftless, indifferent or careless. "He is sick"
the South is afflicted with and harbors that most dreaded treacherous
aud destructive of all diseases Aumia, Pernicious Anemia The
average Southerner is a sufferer of this health destroying parasite
which destroys the red bloood cell,) producing an impoverished con
dition of the blood ; characterized by extreme pallor, general debility"
weakness, loss of vig r. lack of ambition, and general undermining
..f vit.uUtVi. Thw climate and atmospheric conditions destroy the
vitality. Let him get over it. Get rid of it. Get 'well, and he is
3ood physically as the best American can boast. If t.hpro ;D
of the slightest degree in your system, "WAKE IT UP I CAf T TT
FORTH. PULL YOURSELF TOGETHER 1 MAN womav
CHILD; all can and thould be well, lo neglect y jurself is to renVct
nron the wisdom of vonr Mater. Vitnra mtflnj n i . .
--j "-v. iuucuuo an uumanity to
enjoy a full measure of health and vigor. If you do not th fanlt i
your own, for you are yourself to blame for it. Wonders have been
accomplished for the people of Tenneessee, Alabama, Georgia and
Mississippi, let us now do as much for the neonle nf t.ha Porif., a
postal will bring you the necessary information. Send no monev
writato-day . Don't neglect this chance here offered you. Address
ne uieveiana institute of medicine and Surnerv.
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BAL1LBURY, N. C.
Does a General Banking;
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We pay 4 per cent on time de
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three mouths.
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For Pure drugs,
Prescription ac
curately tilled,
and anything in
an up-to-date
drug rftore at,
lowest prices
call at1
iii:
or phone 133.
Formerly tl-- T. W. Grimes Drug Co.
2-10 (mo