THE CAROLINA WATCHMAN, SALISBURY, N. C.
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THE TAUNTS OF A HIGH-SPIRITED YOUNG WOMAN
CAUSE SMITH TO MAKE AN IMPORTANT DECISION
THE PLOT AGAINST COL. BALDWIN IS AT WORK
Synopsis. J. Montague Smith, cashier of the Lawrenceville Bank
and Trust company, and bachelor society leader engaged to marry
Verda Richlander, heiress, is wrongfully accused of dishonesty by
Watrous Dunham, his employer, and urged by his guilty accuser to
disappear. Smith Strikes Dunham, leaves him for dead, flees the state
and weeks later turns up as a hobo at an irrigation dam construction
camp in the Rocky mountains, where he gets a job as John Smith.
His evidence of superior intelligence soon detracts attention from the
boss, and after a short time he is asked to join the official staff of the
ditch company, which is in financial straits. Smith demurs because
he doesn't want his past investigated, but Colonel Baldwin, president
of the company, urgently seeks the ex-hobo's aid. Smith saves Miss
Corona Baldwin's life and drives some claim jumpers off company's land.
CHAPTER VII. Continued.
If Smith hesitated, it was only partly
on his own account. He was thinking
again of the young woman with the
honest eyes when he said: "Do you
know why I turned Williams down
when he spoke to me the other day?"
Colonel Dexter Baldwin had his
faults, like other men, but they were
not those of indirection.
I reckon I dp know, son," he said,
with large tolerance. "You're a 'lame
duck of some sort. But that's our
lookout. Bartley is ready to swear
that you are not a crooked crook, what
ever else it is that youre dodging for.
Besides, there's yesterday "
"We agreed to forget the yesterday
incidents," the lame duck reminded
him quickly. And -then : "I ought to
say 'No,' Colonel Baldwin; say it
straight out, and stick to it. If I don't
say it if I ask for a little time it is
because I want to weigh up a few
things the things I can't talk about to
you or to Williams. If, in the end, I
should be fool enough to say Tes,' it
is only fair to you to say that, right in
the middle of the scrap, I may fall
to pieces on you."
Baldwin was too shrewd to try to
posh his advantage when there was,
or seemed to be, a chance that the
desired end was as good as half at
tained. And it was a purely manful
prompting that made him get up and
thrust out his hand, to the young fel
low who was trying to be as frank
as he dared to be.
"Put it there, John," he said heartily.
"Nobody In the Timanyoni is going to
pry into you an ,inch farther than you
care to let 'em; and if you get into
trouble by helping us, you can count
on at least one backer who will stand
by you until the cows come home.
Now, then, hunt up your coat, and
we'll drive over to Hillcrest for a bite
to eat. I had my orders from the
missus before I left town, and I know
better than to go home without you.
Never mind the commissary khaki. It
won't be the first time that the work
ing clothes have figured at the Hill
crest table not bv a lortg shot."
And because he did not know how
to frame a refusal that would refuse,
Smith got his coat and went.
Given his choice between the. two,
Smith would cheerfully have faced
another hand-to-hand battle with the
claim jumpers in preference to even
so mild a dip into the former things
as the dinner at Hillcrest foreshad
owed. The reluctance was not forced ;
it was real. The primitive man in him
did not wish to be entertained. On
the fast auto drive down to Brewster,
across the bridge, and out to the Bald
win ranch, Smith's humor was frankly
sardonic. He cherished a small hope
that' Mrs. Baldwin might be shocked
at the soft shirt and the khaki. It
would serve her right for taking a man
from his job.
At the stone-pillared portal he got
out to open the gates. Down the
road a horse was coming at a smart
gallop, the rider, Corona Baldwin,
booted and spurred and riding a man's
saddle.
Smith let th6 gray car go on its
way up the drive without him.
"So you weakened, did you? I'm
disappointed in you," was Miss Bald
win's greeting. "You've made me lose
my bet with colonel-daddy. I said you
wouldn't come."
T had no business to come," he an
swered morosely. "But. your father
wouldn't let 'me off."
"Of course he wouldn't ; daddy never
lets anybody off, unless they owe him
money. Where are your evening
clothes?"
Smith let the lever of moroseness
slip back to the grinning notch. "They
are about two thousand miles away,
and probably in some second-hand
shop by this time. What makes you
- think I ever wore a dress suit?" He
had closed the gates and was walking
beside her horse up the driveway. . .
"Oh, I just guessed it," she returned
lightly, "and if you'll hold your breath,
I'll guess again."
"Don't," he laughed.
At the steps a negro stableboy was
waiting to take Miss Baldwin's horse.
- Smith knew how to help a woman
down from a side-saddle ; but the two
stirruped rig stumped him. The young
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woman laughed as she swung out of
her saddle to stand beside him.
"The women don't ride that way in
your part of the country?" she queried.
"Not yet."
"I'm sorry for them," she scoffed.
And then : "Come on in and meet mam
ma; you look as if you were dreading
it, and, colonel-daddy says, It's always
best to have the dreaded things over
with."
Smith did not find his meeting with
the daughter's mother much of a trial.
She was neither shocked at his clothes
nor disposed to be hysterically 'grate
ful over the railroad-crossing incident.
A large, calm-eyed, sensible matron,
some ten or a dozen years younger
than the colonel. Smith put her, and
with an air of refinement which was
reflected in every interior detail of
her house.
The dinner was strictly a famfly
meal, with the great mahogany table
shortened to make it convenient for
four. There were cut glass and silver
and snowy napery. Out of the past a
thousand tentacles were reaching up
to drag Smith back into the net of the
conventional. When the table-talk be
came general, he found himself joining
in, and always upon the lighter side.
He found himself drawn more and
more to the calm-eyed, well-bred ma
tron who had given a piquant Corona
to an otherwise commonplace world
Mrs. Baldwin saw nothing of the
rude fighter of battles her daughter
had drawn for her, and wondered a
little. She knew Corona's leanings,
and was not without an amused im
pression that Corona would not find
this later Smithsonian phase altogether
to her liking.
Smith got what he had earned, good
measure, pressed down, shaken to
gether and running over, a few min
utes after Mrs. Baldwin had left him
to finish his cigar under the pillared
portico with Corona to keep him com-
mm. ,
"You Have Committed the Unpardon
able Sin."
pany. He never knew just what start
ed it, unless it was his careful plac
ing of a chair for the young woman
and his deferential and perfectly
natural pause, standing, until she
was seated.
"Do, for pity's sake, sit down!" she
broke out, half petulantly. And when
he had obeyed : "Well, you've spoiled
it all, good and hard."
Smith was unable to imagine where
in he had offended.
"Really?"' he said. "What have I
done?"
"It isn't what you've done ; it's what
you are," she retorted. "You have
committed the unpardonable sin by
turning out to be just one of the
ninety-nine, after all. If you knew
women the least little bit in the world,
you would know that we are always
looking for the hundredth man."
Under his smile, Smith was begin
ning to understand what this aston
ishingly frank young woman meant.
S'he had seen his relapse, and was
calmly deriding him for it.
"You may pile it on as thickly i as
you please," he said, the good-natured
smile twisting itself into the construction-camp
grin. Then, with malice
aforethought : "Is it one of the require
ments that your centennial man should
behave himself like a boor at a din
ner table, and talk shop and eat with
his knife r
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MAN
"You know that isn't what I meant
Manners don't make the man. Its
what you talked about the trumpery
little social things that you found your
keenest pleasure in talking about. I
don't know what has ever taken you
out to a construction camp. I don't
believe you ever did a day's hard
work In your life before you came to
the Timanyoni."
It was growing dark by this time,
and the stars were coming out. Some
one had turned the lights on in the
room the windows of which opened
upon the portico, and the young wom
an's chair was so placed that he could
still see her face. She was smiling
rather more amicably when she said;
"You mustn't take it too hard. It
Isn't you, personally, you know; it's
the type. I've met it before. I didn't
meet any other kind during my three
years in the boarding school; nice,
pleasant young gentlemen, as immacu
lately dressed as their pocketbooks
would allow, up In all the latest, little
courtesies and tea-table shop talk.
They were all men, I suppose, but I'm
afraid a good many of them had never
found it out will never find it out.
I've been calling It environment; I
don't like to admit that the race Is
going downhill."
By this time the sardonic humor was
once more in full possession, and he
was enjoying her keenly.
"Go on," he said. "This Is my night
off."
"I've said enough; too much, per
haps. But when you were walking
with mamma, you reminded me so
forcibly of a man whom I met just for
a part of one evening about a year
ago In a small town in the middle
West He- was one of them. He
drove over from some neighboring
town in his natty little automobile
and gave me fully an hour of his valu
able time. He made me perfectly fu
rious!"
"Poor you!" laughed Smith; but he
was thankful that the camp sunburn
and his four weeks' beard were safe
guarding his identity. "But-why the
fury in his case in particular?"
"Just because, I suppose. I remem
ber he told me he was a bank cashier
and that he danced. He was quite
hopeless, of course. Without being
what you would call conceited, you
could see that the crust was so thick
that nothing short of an earthquake
would ever break it."
"But the earthquakes do come, once
in a blue moon," he said, still smiling
at her. "Let's get it straight You
are not trying to tell me that you
object to decent clothes and good man
ners per se, are you?" .
The colonel was coming out, and he
had stopped in the doorway to light
a long-stemmed pipe. The young worn
an got up and fluffed her hair with the
ends of her fingers a little gesture
which Smith remembered, recalling it
from the night of the -far-away lawn
party.
"Daddy wants you, and I'll have to
vanish," she said; "but I'll answer
your question before I go. Types are
always hopeless; it's only the hun
dredth man whp isn't. It's a great pity
you couldn't go on whipping claim
jumpers all the rest of your life, Mr,
Smith. Don't you think so? Good
night We'll meet again at breakfast.
Daddy isn't going to let you get away
short of a night's iodging, I know."
Two cigars for Smith and four pipes
for the colonel further along, the tall
Missourian rose out of the split-bottomed
chair which he had drawn up to
face the guest's and rapped the ashes
from the bowl of the corncob into the
palm of his hand.
"I think you've got it all now,
Smith, every last crook; and turn of
It and I reckon you're ! tired enough
to run away to bed."
Smith took a turn up and down the
stone-flagged floor of the portico with
his hands behind him. Truly, the case
of Timanyoni ditch was desperate;
even more desperate than he had sup
posed. Figuring as the level-headed
bank cashier of the former days, he
told himself soberly that no man in
his senses "would touch it with a ten
foot pole. Then the laughing gibes of
the hundredth woman gibes which
had cut far deeper than she had imag
ined came back to send the blood
surging through his veins. It would
be worth something to be able to work
the miracle the colonel had spoken of ;
and afterward ...
Colonel Dexter Baldwin was still
tapping his palm absently with the
pipe when Smith came back and said
abruptly :
"I have decided, colonel. I'll start in
with you tomorrow morning, and we'll
pull this mired scheme of yours out
of the mud, or I'll break a leg trying"
to. But you mustn't forget what I
told you out at the camp. Right in the
middle of things I may go rotten on
you and drop out."
CHAPTER VIII.
The Sick Project
Brewster had grown into city-charter
size and Importance with the opening
of the gold mines in the Gloria district
i and the transformation of the sur
rounding park grasslands Into cultt -
ranches. A summer hotel on thi
eore of Lake Topaz reached only by
&3tage from Brewster had added its
fffluence; and since the hotel brought
rjgopie. with well-lined pocketbooks,
re. was a field for the enthusiastic
ral-estate promoters whose offices
ed all the odd corners in the Ho-
a House block.
Mn one of those offices, on the morn-
fig following Smith's first dinner at
xiiucresi, a ratner caustic coiioquy
a in progress between the man
wBose name appeared in gilt lettering
o&; the' front windows and one of his
unofficial assistants. Crawford Stan-
he of the window name, was a
i&ln of many personalities. To sum-
visitors with money to invest,- he
wis the genial promoter, and' if there
vre suggestions of Iron hardness in
te sharp jaw and in the smoothly
s(pven face and flinty eyes, there was
aio a pleasant reminder of Eastern
iness methods and alertness in the
pJmoter's manner. But Lanterby,
tiping" uneasily in the "confidential"
chair at the desk-end, knew another
ani more biting side of Mr. Stanton,
as.a hired man will.
?Good heaven! do you sit there and
teme that the three of them let that
hq$o of Williams' push them off, the
ma.jp? And do you say all tiis hap
pened the day before yesterday: how
dofts It come that you are just now re
peating it?"
e hard-faced henchman in the
chair made such explanations
ashe could.
-Boogerfleld' and his two partners 've
befcn hidin' out somewhere; I allow
tnly was plumb ashamed to come In
anil tell how they'd let one man run
'eni off."
VWhat do you know about this fel-
loM Smith? Who is he, and where
dlaihe come from?"
3&nterby told all that was known
offgihith, and had no difficulty in com
pressing it into a single sentence. Stan
ton' leaned back in his chair and the
lidgr of the flinty eyes narrowed
thoughtfully.
here's a lot more to it than that"
he) said incisively at the end of the
reflective pause. Then he added a
curt prder: "Make It your job to find
out
lanterby moved uneasily in his In
secure seat, but before he could speck,
his'fmployer went on again, changiaf
the atopic abruptly, but still keeping
wlthjn the faultfinding boundaries.
"What sort of a screw has gone
loosl in your deal with the railroad
meri$ Williams got two cars of ce
ment and-one of steel the day before
yesterday three hours after the stuff
carnin from the East"
AgVin Lanterby tried to explain.
"Dougherty, the yardmaster, tosk
the t bank roll I slipped him, all right
enough, and promised to help out But
he's Jcared of Maxwell."
"Maxwell Is a thick-headed assl
exploded the faultfinder. "His entire
railroad outfit, from President Brew
ster Sown, is lined up on the other side
of t&e fight But go on with your
dickering. Jerk Dougherty into line.
Now?-go out and find Shaw. I want
him and-1 want him right now."
TbB hard-faced -man who looked as
if hefmight be a broken-down gambler,
Unjojxted his leg-hold upon the tilted
chair:' and went out; and a few minutes
JateraQother.of Stanton's pay-roll men.
drifted in. He was a young fellow
witngsleepy eyes and cigarette stains
on bjs fingers, and he would have
passed for a railroad clerk out of a
job, rhlch was what he really was.
"Wll?" snapped Stanton when the
incomer had taken the chair lately va
cated by Lanterby.
' "I Shadowed the colonel, as you told
me tel," said the young man. "He went
up t$ Red 'Butte to see if he couldn't
rope in some of . the old-timers on his
ditch, project 'He was trying to sell
some3 treasury stock. His one-horse
company Is about out of money.
Mickte, a Clerk in Kinzie's bank, tells
me' that the ditch company's balance is
draws down to a few thousand dollars,
withjio more coming in."
"Dsd the colonel succeed In making
a raie in Red Butte?"
"iry," said the spy nonchalantly.
"Drake, the banker up there, was hh
one;jbest bet ; but I got a man I know
to give Drake a pointer, and he curled
up like a hedgehog when you poke It
with" a sharp stick."
"That's better. The colonel came
backvesterday, didn't he?"
"Yesterday afternoon. His wife and
daughter met him, and told him some
Ihingor other that made him drive up
to th dam."
fht plot which Eastern capi
talists have made to steal the ir
rigation ditch from the original
owners is unfolded in the next
installment. John Smith acts
with decision.
(TQ BE CONTINUED.)
Beginning Early.
"Fsher, aren't little girls silly?"
"B! you think so, son? Mother and
I worg thinking you might like to have
a litte sister."
"T&nks, father; but don't trouble
on m" account, because I've got all I
Can di to keep away from those girls
at school. I don't mind their giving
me presents, but I do hate to hav
them -;tag after me going home from
school." '
Zs. . An Explanation.
Charlotte had been taught to say the
grace" before each meal. One day she
was invited to a little friend's for din
ner, i When the father antf mother ol
Charlotte were seated for dinner. Brad
dockjpa three-year-old brother, bowed
his hc?ad and said: "Amen, God, Cba
1 lotte' gone.
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COUNCIL NAMED
FOR LIBRARY IRK
GOVERNOR APPOINTS BODY TO
DIRECT CAMPAIGN FOR
TATE'S SHARE.
DISPATCHES FROM RALEIGH
Doings and Happenings That Mark
the Progress of North Carolina Peo
ple, Gathered Around the State
Capital.
Raleigh.
The North Carolina Library War
Council, which will have in charge the
management of the state campaign to
raise North Carolina's share of the
Million Dollar Fund for Libraries for
the nation's soldiers and sailors, was
appointed by" Governor Bickett.
The council is composed of Mrs.
Clarence Johnson, Raleigh, president
State Federation of Women's Clubs;
Mrs. LJlliam Griggs, Durham, presi
dent of the North Carolina Library
Association; Judge Jeter C. Pritchard,
Asheville; Mr. J. Frank Wilkes, Char
lotte; Mrs. B. D. Heath, Charlotte;
Judge W. P. Bynum, Greensboro; Mrs.
R. J. Reynolds, Winston-Salem; Mrs.
James Sprunt, Wilmington; Mr. Geo.
W. Watts, Durham; Hon. Locke
Craig, Asheville; Mr. E. F. Aydlett,
Elizabeth City; Mr. John Sprunt Hill,
Durham.
This council met in Greensboro,
with the committees of the Greens
boro district At that time, the coun
cil determined the goal which the
North Carolina workers will under
take. The districts into which the state
has been divided and the cities -embraced
in those districts for the pur
pose of the campaign are the follow
ing: Charlotte District Charlotte, Pal
mer; Davidson, Mecklenburg; Con
cord, Cabarrus; Gastonia, Gaston;
Shelby, Cleveland; Monroe, Union;
Wadesboro, Anson; Albemarle, Stan
ley; Rockingham, Richmond.
Greensboro District Greensboro,
Guilford; High Point, Guilford; Reids-
ville, - Rockingham; Burlington, Ala
mance; Graham, Alamance; Winston
Salem, Forsyth; Mocksville, Davie.
Durham District Durham, Durham;
Chapel Hill, Orange; Hillsboro, Or
ange; Oxford, Granville; Roxboro,
Person; Henderson, Vance.
Raleigh District Raleigh, Wake;
Wake Forest, Wake; Louisburg,
Franklin; Clayton, Johnston; Fay
etteville, Cumberland.
Goldsboro District Rocky Mount
Edgecombe; Wilson, Wilson; Kin
ston, Lenoir; New Bern, Craven;
Greenville, Pitt; Washington, Beau
fort; Goldsboro, Wayne.
Wilmington District Wilmington,
New Hanover; Lumberton, Robeson.
Salisbury District Salisbury, Row
an; Statesville, Iredell; Hickory, Ca
tawba; Lexington, Davidson.
Asheville District Asheville, Bun
combe; Waynesville, Haywood; Hen-
dersonville, Henderson ; Morganton,
ton, Burke.
Case of Attempted Bribery.
A special agent of the department
of justice here stated that papers in
the case against T. M. Stikeleather, of
Iredell county, had been forwarded
several days ago to District Attorney
W. C. Hammer, at Asheboro, and that
the arrest of Stikeleather on the
charge of attempting to bribe Dr. W.
G. Nicholson, who is chairman of the
Iredell county local exemption board.
should occur at once. It is alleged
that Stikeleather several weeks ago
offered Doctor Nicholson $25 to ex
empt from the draft a negro tenant
on the Stikeleather farm near States
ville. Special Agent Dorsey Phillips
was sent to the state to investigate
the rumors growing out of the alleged
attempt bribery, and he stated that he
secured both oral testimony and affi
davits in the matter.
Regulate Cottonseed Industry.
Information has come to the office
! of state food administrator irom
Washington to the effect that the cot
tonseed crushing and refining indus
try will, in all probability, be placed
under regulations similar in some
measures to those governing the sugar
Industry. This action was discussed
at a recent meeting of representatives
of the cottonseed crushing industry
with the food administration at Wash
Ington.
If this program Is carried into effect
it would seem, judging from the re
suit of regulations on the sugar in
dustry, that licensing must inevitably
tend to the elimination of hoarding
and all forms of speculation.
To Buy Jersey Cattle.
Mr. R. H. Mason of the office of
dairy farming has gone for a trip to
certain parts of Ohio for the purpose
of obtaining two carloads of pure-bred
Jersey cattle. Most ot the cattle
which he will purchase have already
been ordered by citizens of Harnett
and Granville counties. The estab
lishment of the calf club In Harnett
county is already bearing good re
sults, as many o fthe farmers In the
vicinity of Coats have ordered pure
bred cattle.
Feed Soidlers Carolina Yams.
North Carolina yams and-every oth
er variety of sweet potato has been
added to the list of supplies compos
ing the United States Army rations,
according to a letter Governor Bick
ett received from Brigadier General
Thomas Cruse, of the Quartermaster
Corps.
Governor Bickett is happy, and so
will the soldiers be after they sample
the "taters," for the CrOemor isays
that once soldiers eat them, they -will
fight for them. The letter from Gen
eral Cruse was in answer to one the
Governor sent Congressman Dough
ton, the farmer representative from
this state in Congress, ill regard to
numerous complaints that sweet po
tatoes would not be allowed by tas
war department as a component of
the army ration.
His letter to Congressman Dough
ton is as follows:
"My dear Mr. Dough ton: I enclose
herewith some correspondence In re
gard to sweet potatoes. All I have to
say is that if the President, or any
body else fails to put sweet potatoes
on the soldiers' bill of fare while in
the South, he does the soldiers a
great injustice. Evidently these peo
ple do not know anything about North
Carolina yams. I hope that you can
do something to get the sweet potato
introduced in the military circles.
Once the soldiers eat them they will
fight for them."
Brigadier General Cruse wrote as
follows :
"My dear Sir : Your letter of the
15th, addressed to Hon.'R. L. Dough
ton, member of Congress, relative to
the addition of sweet potatoes as a
component of the army ration, has
been referred to this office for action.
"In reply, I have the honor to state
that the uestion of the addition of
sweet potatoes to the list of articles
composing the army ration has been
under consideration by this depart
ment, and the Secretary of War has
decided that this article be added to
the list of supplies composing the
army ration, and all purchasing off I-
xiers were advised accordingly."
Adjt.-Gen. Cant Grant Dlsscharge.
Men who are serving in military
units that formerly composed the
North Carolina National Guard can
not receive discharges through the
office of the state adjutant general,
regardless of how meritorious may
be the grounds upon which they make
application. All such applications
must be taken up through the regular
channels of the War epartment of
the United States. The North Caro
lina National Guard ceased to exist as
such on August 5 last when it was
drafted into the federal service, and
became a portion of the armed forces
of the national government.
This was the statement made fey
Adjutant General Laurence W.
Young, who explained that a great
number of applications are dally
reaching his office. In most cases
these applications for discharges
from the service are being made on
behalf of the enlisted men by mem
bers of their families, and not by the
men themselves. In many cases the
papers filed or voluminous. But Gen
eral Young says that his office has
no longer authority to act
Preserve Sweet Potatoes.
Dr. B. W. Kilgore, of the Agricul
tural Extension Service, again calls
attention to the fact that it is of the
utmost importance that the large
sweet potato crop in North Carolina
be preserved during the coming win
ter months. As an aid in furthering
this work, the Extension Circular No.
30 has been issued, which treats In
detail of the methods to be pursued
in successful storage, and gives a typ9
of storage house which has been used
by the Pender branch station at Wil
lard with satisfactory success.
All growers of sweet potatoes are
(urged to write for a copy of thifl cir
cular in order that they may be pre
pared for handling the crop this fall.
Each year North Carolina produces
an abundant supply of this crop, but,
on account o'f improper methods of
storage, practically none are kept
throughout the entire winter.
Prizes for Teachers' Essays.
For the best essays on "Why the
United States Is at War," written by
public school teachers of North Caro
lina, prizes aggregating $300 are of
fered by the National Board for His
torical Service. To elementary teach
ers, five prizes ranging from $10 to
75 each, and to high school teachers
seven prizes ranging from $10 to $75
each, are offered. Essays must be
submitted by January 1, 1918,. , ;
Similar contests are being conduct
ed in 14 other states. $Jie winning
essays in each state will e entered
in a national competition in which
additional prizes of $75 each will he
awarded.
Full information, including the con
ditions of the contests and references
to material, may be obtained from
D. W. Connor, secretary of the North ,
Carolina Historical Commission. ja- B
leigh, N. C. '- ;f;'-:-'
Secretary Issues Charter.
Charters were issued from the of
fice of the secretary of state for the
following corporations to do business
In North Carolina: , .
Piedmont Hosiery Mills, of Lawn
dale, with $50,000 authorized capital
and $10,000 subscribed. The Incorpor
ators are Decatur Elmore C. J Ye
ton and A. E. McKlnney, all of Lawn
dale. The Lawndale Auto Company, of
Wilson, amended it charter tfi Increase
Its capital from $25,000 to $100,000.
-r .5.