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The Asneboro Courier PRICE ONE DOLLAU A YEAR Wm. C. HAMMER, Editor. Farmers' Institute. There is activity in every depart ment of human eudeavor. And there is nowhere more advancement than in the methods of farming. The month of July, this year, is to be a record breaker in the holding of farmers' institutes for the farm ers, their wives and daughters. The institutes are planned for both men and women. Much good will result from this annually coming together. Last week we published a list of the places and dates at which these in stitutes are to be held in this section of the state. The institute for Ran dolph county will be held in Ash boro on August 1907, and it is to be hoped th it the farmers will turn out in large numbers on that day and bring their families and spend the day and enjoy the occasion anj be greatly benefitted Mr. Johnson, editor of Charity and Children, has been down in Eastern North Carolina and tells how that fair section is being swal lowed up by the Standard Oil Company. He tells of the buying np of timber lands and the fancy they have taken for saw mills recent ly and how they are sending millions of lumber out of the county. The Tidewater Railway, running from the coal regions of the west into the port of Norfolk, it is said, has ac quired the Norfolk and Southern running fiom Norfolk down our coast and including the Atlantic and North Carolina from Goldsboro to Mo'ehead. With all of the im proved facilities we agree with Brother Johnson that we don't like this iron hand of the alien dominat ing that fair section of our great State. The Sun, the new morning paper for New Bern madeits appearacce Sunday morning. It is published by the New Bern Pub. Go. and ably edited by Robert M. Phillips, a vet eran in newspaper work in the State. It is a six column eight page paper, bright and newsy, and its adver tising patronage presents a live ap pearance. In the destuctive fire at Pine Beach, just outside the Jamestown Exposition grounds, the newspapers reported that among the large hotels destroyed , was the "Outside Inn." A letter from Mr. Acre, the propri etor of the hotel, states that the report that his hotel was burned is : untrue and that he is still prepared to accommodate all who come at tb same reasonable trates. JtfASONIC GRAND LECTURER DEAD. ft. W. Hatcher, Formerly of liberty, Died at Albemarle Monday. B. W. Hatcher, Masonic Grand Decturer for North Carolina, who formerly lived at Liberty, died at his home at Albemarle Monday af ternoon. Ihe deceased was 56 years old. He is survived by a wife and one son, Marion F. Hatcher, of Al bemarle. Mr. Hatcher was born and reared in Johnson county, and at one time served that county as superintendent of schools. For 38 years he had been Masonic Grand Lecturer and devoted his time principally to upbuilding Free Masonry. He was a member of the Baptist church and lived a clean christian life. His death is a loss i both church and State and the Masonic fraternity loses a great man. Thomasville Telephone Improvements. The Thomasville Telephone Com pany is preparing to install addi tional cables to accommodate the growing commercial interests of that town. They now have 150 'phones in service. A few days ago a barrel of cement fell on Olin Jarrett, breaking his leg. He was unloading the barrel when his foot slipped and he fell. Miss Maggie Smitherman and Walter W. Dean, twe of Thomas ville's popular young people sur prised their friends last week by quietly getting married. They left at once for Jamestown to spend their honeymoon. Complying with the act of the last Legislature all the railroads be. gan the sale of tickets at 2 1-4 cents a mile except the Southern and the Atlantic Coast Line. CONDENSED NEWS. Hoke Smith was inaugurated Governor of Georgia Saturday. Lumberton has three cotton mills running and the fourth is beiug promoted. $75,000 has beeu sub scribed, and it will be built on the new railroad now under construction from Lumberton to couuect with the Atlantic Coast Line railroad. J. E. Kanoy, of Biscoe, has ben placed in the State Hospital for the insane at Morganton. He has been suffering with a nervous trouble for several months. The Georgia Pine Distilling Com pany, at Fayetteville, was destroyed by tire last Wednesday night. The loss is $75,000. The new house built by E. F. Aydlette, at the Thomasville Ophan age was opened last week Miss Parker is in chaige. The Watson house, built by the daughter of the late John Watson, Mrs. Purefoy, of Asheville, will be opened soon. When arrested for poisoning her parents and three other members cf her family, by putting rough on rats in the coffee, Cora Setzer ex plained that she wanted to see the effect of the poisou. This is the third attempt she has made to test poison in this way . Prof. D. Mat Thompson has beeu elected superintendent of the States ville Graded Schools, and Prof. II. B. Craven, principal. Wm. Holland, a prominent citi zen of Wake county died suddenly at Fuquay Springs last week. He was sitting in a chair at his home when the end came. Beulah, Laurel Hill and Shady Grove towuships in Sampson county, have voted a special tax for the public school fund. Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan has written uov. uieun that he will at tend the State Fair at Raleigh and deliver an address Thursday, Octo ber 17th. Gov. Glenn has appointed Jag. 3. Hooper, of Wilmington, Vice Presi dent for North Carolina of the Descendants of the Signers of the Declaration of independence at Jamestown July 4th. He is a brother of Millichampe, of High Point. 181 suits against the Southern Railway have been instituted by merchants and manufacturers of High Point for delays and damages in transporting goods to and from the city. Mr. Shields Bishop, of Kansas City, and Miss Estelle Fairbanks, of Thomasville, were married at St. Andrews Episcopal Church at Greensboro Monday morning. Mr. Irenus H. Russell and Miss Lillie C. Ritchie, of Stanley County, were married at Greensboro Monday afternoon. The second and third regiments of the North Carolina national guard will go into camp at Jamestown August 12th, the beginning of North Carolina week. The corporation commission has deeided that eight hours shall con stitute a days work, in answer to a petition from the railroads to be al lowed to work operators more than eight hours a day. John S. Henderson, of Salisbury, is being favorably discussed for the Gubernatortal nomination. He has for twenty years been recognized as one of the ablest men in the State, and his friends are trying to induce him to announce his candidacy. Miss Fannie Vestal and R. H. Brooks, were married at High Point last week. Mr. Brooks is a traveling salesman for the Odell Hardware Co. The sentiment is growing in the State favoring the requirement that all the principal State officers reside in Raleigh, and give personal atten tion to the duties of their offices. The Cape Fear, Southport & Wil mington Railway Co., ha3 been char tered with a capital of $1,000,000, for the purpose of constructing a rail road from Southport to Wilmington. Philadelphia capitalists are in crest ed in the enterprise. The will of the late John A. Lindsay, of High Point was pro bated Wednesday of last week. Mrs. Lindsay is named as executrix. His estate valued at $100,000 is left to Mrs. Lindsay and three sons. The High Point Post office has been moved to the old Everett Hotel building on South Main Street. Miss Marsh, aged 16 years, was killed oy lightning near her home at Pinnacle, Stokes county, last week:, one was in the held assisting her father, A. S. Marsh, in harvest ing wheat. Wilsie Harris was killed by light at his home near Swan Quarter on Tuesday of this week while sitting by the stove drying his clothes. The lightning struck the stove pipe. The eight year old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Merntt. in MecLleuburg county, died from fright Monday of this week while scrambling beneath a fence to get away from a cow which was pursui g him. While four men were working in field near Ne v Bern on Tuesday ot this week, one was killed by light ning and three hurt. Moore County Teachers' Institute begins Juiy 15th in i tl! continue 5 days. J. Van Lindley will j'uip 300u crates of peaches and 800 crates oi plums from Southern Piues this season. A pipe organ factoy is utiounced for McLeausville, tight miles from Greensboro. This will be the only organ factory sout'a of the Potomac ri ver. Blood poison develnpitig ftoiu the peck of a settinc hen caused of Jan. U. Biyui), asjeil ?o ywirs. at Andet SOU, Iud. lie lUtviupted V; lift the hen from der neit. Arthur Lyon, -jf Hi Pvat, has patented a dust proof, roller top typewriter cabinet. The cabinet, with disk airaagemeuts sits on any table, pedistal ur stand at.d weighs 50 pounds. Judge Jus. E. Boyd hm issued an ordej for an odjonnie-l term of Federal Court a; Greensboro the ti.st niOiiday in September. It is called to try the ten blockaders captured a few days ago in S'oks and to clear the docket of a iniinVr of jail case.'. Enraged blockaJers of Smithtow n in Stokes county, visited a distillery belonging to Joe Batemau, in that section last week, aud destroved it They claim that the ten blockaders recently arrested there were reported by Bateman's son . S. F. Edge beat all automobile records at Loudon, Eng., Friday bv driving his auto 24 houia at an av erage of 6fJ miles an hour. At times he made 72 miles an hour. J. Fraak Coble and M-ss Annie McCulloch, of Greensboro were unit ed in marriage last Thursday night. The marriage was solemnized at the home of the bride's parents. Rev. and Mrs. J. F. McCulloch.' The groom holds a responsible position with the Southern Real Estate Co., at Greensboro. Rev. H. A: McCulloch, formerly president of Mt. Pleasant Collegiate Institute, has assumed his duties as pastor of the Lutheran church at Albemarle. J. L. Freeze, of Franklin, Rowan county, is displaying a chicken hatched last Saturday with three eyes and two beaka. savs the Salis bury Post. Rockingham has received its first automobile. It is called the "A. B. C Automobile" and is manufactur ed in St. Louis, Mo. Mr. A. B. Cole, a North Carolina boy, is presi dentof the company. The one here is owned by Mr. Robert Steele. Rockingham Anglo Saxon. The Southern Railway has began the preliminary work on a $100,000 office building at Spencer. Gov. Glenn has offered a reward of $100 for the arrest of John Dix on, colored, who outraged Mrs. San- phire Scott, a white woman of eood i. : tir.-i .. icyuur iii ri nauu county. Sallie Phillips, a white Iconvict from Yadkin countv. died in th penitentiary a few days ago, leaving a two nionins oia cnna. Under the law the clerk of the court of WaW county must have the child bound out. The Stokes County News, a ntw weekly paper, made its appearance at Walnut Cove last week. Mrs. Carrie Nation is snenilinor several days at Salisbury and de clares to tne saloon Keepers that she has buried her hatchet, but with the ballot she proposes to put them out of business. On account of the shortage in the fruit crop Messrs Garrett and Co., of Norfolk, have sent a mau to Winston-Salem to buy blackberries in this section. He will spend $75,000 and will stnrt the market at 90c a bushel. Dock Johnston and Luther Alls brook have been arrested for se riously wounding Spencer Gladden, at Salisbury. All are colored. They will plead the unwritten law, their victim having unmercifully beaten a sister and 6ister-in-law of the de fendants. The Lindsay Chair Co., of High Point, was placed in involuntary bankruptcy Tuesday. C. A. Cline is made receiver. The liabilities are $45,000 with $20,000 assets. STANLY NOTES. Mine to Be Opened Xear N'ew l.jndun Other Notes. Mr. Ed. Lyon, of Greensboro, and Mr. Briukerh- if, of Pittsburg, Pa., are preparing to open a mine near New London, lhey have cleaned off a park near the depot and opeued th tine mineral spring ou the prop err v. Mr. Jones, f. rmerlv foreman of the Albemarle I Hep.) Index, is pre paring to lauuch a new paper at that place. The Stanley county commission eis have received p'ans for an addi tion to the jail, which will double the capacity. J. Graham Howie, brother of H. B. Howie, of Albemarle, met instant death while at work on the capital at Washington last wk. He had loaded i heavy piece ef steel on a hoisting crane, and when he at tempted to dodge the whirling mo tion of the steel he lost his footing. Falling 45 feet he struck on his head crushing his skull. In the death of Mrs. Martha Nsah at Gold Hill on Saturday the 18th instant, there passed away one, the beautifying influences of whose life wese shed abroad in her life of a few years in ou- midst in such away as to draw the love and warm esteem of everyone to her. She was the niotnerof J. W. Leonard, of Albemarle, and another son and two daughters survive. Enterprise. TOWNSHIP CONVENTION. Sunday School Workers Will leet at Arc lid ale. Trinity Township Sunday School Convention will meet at Archdale Sunday. July 7th. The following is the program: 10.00 A. M. Singing followed with prayer, by Rev. D. C. Cox. 10.15 Address of Welcome, J. W. Blair. Respouse, J. J. White. 10.30 How best we may interest and obtaiu the help of the old people in the S.S. Prof. D. C. Johnson. 11.00 Oue or two things that Sun day Schools teach, Dr. C. C. Hubbard. Solo, Miss Myrtle Spoone. 11.30 Who are excused from at tending S. School, Dr. F. H. Wood. 12. M. Adjournment for dinner. 1.30. P. M. What help is the S. 3. to the young in forming charac ter, Prof. N. C. English. Duet "Face to Face," Mr. J. Parkin. Miss Bess Parkin. 2.30 Reports of the S. Schools in township. Followed by: Item of encouragement in regard to the S. S. work in Randolph Co, Miss Dora Redding. 3.30 A comparison of the S. Schools of to-day with those of twenty years ago, W. N. Elder, J. Parkin, and others. Election of Officers. Adjournment. Trucking la Duplin County. Last week was Bean Week in Fai son, three to fonr carloads being shipped daily. The prices ranged from $1.50 to $3.00 declining this week to $1.00, which closed a profita ble bean season for these truckers notwithstanding; the early gronnd hog weather. Cucumbers began to go forward in toll blast Monday when 1,200 crates three car loads were shipped, followed by large shipments each day since, which will amount to 5,000 baskets this week. So far the price has been most satisfactory and the truck growers wear smiles daily now, Tliomasvllle's Development. Thomasville is making a record for industrial progress this summer. Jost now a $50,000 chair factory is going up; a fifty barrel roller mill; a larger plant "for the McKnight machine shops, and more than fifty dwellings are being built, all of which have 1 een contracted for by incoming people. Other improve ments have already been finished this spring and summer. TRINITY GOLLEGE. Four Departments: Collegiate, Graduate, Engineering: & Law. Large library facilities. Well equipped laboratories in aU depart ments of science. Gymnasium fur nished with best apparatus. Ex penses very moderate. Aid for worthy students. Young men wishing to study law should investigate the su perior advantages offered by the Department of Law in Trinity College ' For catalogue and further infor mation, address D. W. NEWSOM, Registrar, Durham, North Carolina. Political Movements. Concluded fron first page. timber. Nobody doubts th sound ness of their democracy or their qualifications for the office. What is wanted, however, is someone nom inated who can wiu. Carrie Nation is now living in Washington City. She was arrested there the other d iv for disorderly conduct, and was lined $25. Love for our heroic, warlike, peace-making Presideut is so great in Russia, that one writer r rediota that the name of that country will be changed "from plain Belle Russia to La Plus Belle Russevelt." The Russian bear under that name would certainly be a greater belle than the Teddy bear. Mr. Henry M. Whitney, of Bos ton, is making a gnat hit in his speaking campaign iu Massachusetts for tariff reform, which is added to by the dist nction heaped upon him from the White House of being the original member of the Ananias Club. Mr. Bryan is reported to have said at Richmond that he would be a candidate for ,the Democratic nomination for presideut, "if the party demanded it aud if he con sidered it for the good of the party." A very neusible conclusion. President Roosevelt has so far en dorsed the Labor Uuions' program for a shorter work-day by advocat ing au eight-hour day for wives and mothers. Kaoiseur Items. Mrs. Will Smith, of Florida, aud Miss Winnie Nelson, of Millboro, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Ed Siler Messrs. H. B. Carter and J. O. Forrester attended the conference at Liberty Friday and Saturday. Messrs. Beume ocott, ot states- ville and Norman Melton, of Ran dlemau, aie visiting at Mr. and Mrs. B. S. Scott s. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Jones and children, of Frauklinville, spent some time with Mr. and Mrs. John Turner the cast week. Mrs. E. M. Grady and children, of South Carolina, aie on a visit to her parents here, Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Free. The Golden Deed Society gave a delightful ice cream party last week. Tars. A. Melton, of High Point. is visiting her daughter, Mrs. B. S. Scott. A beautiful little daughter came to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bnrgess last week. Kev. U. A. Wood attended the conference at Liberty last week. Columbia lownshipo.S. Conven tion will meet in the M. E. church at Ramseur July 14th, at 2:30 p. m. The following program has been arranged for the occassion: Sone By the Audience. Heading of scriptures. Prayer Rev. C. A, Wood. Address What Are Some of the Needs and Work oi the Sabbath School I. F Craven. Address How to Increase an Interest ni Reading and Study of the Scriptures Among the Children M. E. Johnson. Singing by the Audience. The Best Ways to Improve the Song Service in Uur Sunday School John H. Dixon and Jas. A. Parks. Address How to Regain the Truant Teach er and Scholar T. A. Moffitt and E. B. Leonard. Address The Model Superintendent T. E. West and W. T. Foushee. Singing by the Audience. General discussion on the "Needs of Onr Sunday Schools" led by Capt Y. M. C. Johnson. Election of Officers and Other Business. Benediction. Try It And Be Convinced. Do not sit and ponder over trouble you cannot dispel it by making your- sen miseraoie. jm ever look into the future with despair: von con not cross a bridge until you 'come to it. uon i narrow yourmina over things that cannot be helned. Liv confid ing in the present. The past cannot now oe remedied, ana you nave yet to try the future. Now ia when you must act if you act at all, Now IS when VOU must be hannv if vnn expect to enjoy youaself. So do not mope, ftorce yourself to be cheerful. The bin pa will not. arnv long if you don't embrace them. v nen you are tnreatenea witn an attack whistle "Yankee T)nodle" n roll out "Old Hundreds" and we pledge our word for it. vou can snnn laugh with the best of them. Show us a person wno can wnistie or sing when disapointments come and we Will Show VOU one who M nswr troubled with the blues. Try it and be convinced. Exchange1 Cures Hlood and Skin Dlseaseltchlng, Humors. Send nnmnnnlm.,h .....i .... n......i. Blood Balm at our expense. L"x u"cr ,rm ulcers, eczema, scrofulu, Blood Poison, cancer, eating sores, itehing skin, catarrh or any blood or skin diseiwe, we advise pevially recommended tor old, obstinate, deep seated cases of nmllnuant blood or skin dis eases, lieitaiise Botanic Bloo.l Bilm (B. B B) kills the poison iu the blood, cures where all else fails, heals every sore, mukes the blood pure and rich, fives the skin the rich growth of health B. B. B., the most perfect blood purllier -made. Improves the digestion, strengthens weak kid neys. Thoroughly tented for thirty years tl per large bottle at drug stores, with complete directions for home cure. Sample of Blood Balm seutfreebv writing Blood Balm Co.. AtUuta Ga. Describe trouble aud tree medical advice seut in sealed letter. Vick s Tar Heel Sarsaparilla. One Dollar Size for 50 cents. GREAT SPRING TONIC AND BLOOD CLEANSER. Full 5.100 value for cents. L. RICHARDSON. Manufacturing Chemist, Greensboro. 7i. C. Don't Forget Create strength for aged. weak, run-down and debilitated persona and strengthens weak lungs. Vlnol Is a Cod Liver preparation true that's why it is valuable but it contains no oil and is delicious in warm weather. STANDARD DRUG COMPANY. Trinity Park School A Kirst Class 1'iei a.'alory School. Certiorate of Cirmiuiition Accepted fur entrance to leading Soul hern ColleScs. Be s t Equipped Preparatory Schools in the South. Facul ty of Ten Officers and Teach ers. Campus of 75 Acres. Library containing 3D Thousand Volumes. Well Equipped Civiuua fixim. Uiiih Standard and Modem Method of Instruction. Frequent Lectures by Promi n e n t Lecturers Expenses Exceedingly Moderate. Seveu Years of Phenomenal Success. For Catalogue and other iiforma tiou, address H. M. NORTH, Headmaster uur ham, N. C. GO TO J. L. NORMAN'S CASH STORE For Bargains in Groceries, Notions and Shoee. A bran new line just in. 10" JONES' OLD STAND. Iftt North side Depot St. Asbrhoro. SUMMER BARGAINS Our Spring trade has been so good that It eo ablca us to sell a lot of hats and some of ta trimmings we no have in stock at reduced prices We also nave a , new line ot gloves aud fancy collars and are daily expecting a very desir able let of the American Beauty corsets, all can be sultod. A new and more complete line of the cucumber pre pe ration just received. MRS. E. T. BLAIR, Ajbeboro, N. C. Saw Hill Machinery I immi im.Miijj ii . i i mil i ! Cotton Gin Machinery 1 Engines and Boilers Shops Bach of Above LIDDELL CO., Charlotte, N. C.
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