North Carolina Newspapers

r v n v CO T5he COURIER 6e COUR.IER ' j B Advertising Columns Bring Results. ! Leads iaIBoth News e.nd Circulation. HF R ER. Issued Weekly. PRINCIPLES,' NOT MEN. $j 00 Per Year VOL XXXII. ASHEBORO, N. C, THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 29, 1907. ' No 26 Personal Sketches of Two North Carolina Folks. Raleigh Correspondent of New York Sun Gives Interesting Estimates of Men In the Pnblie Kje Down This Way Editor Daniels and Governor Glenn. (Correspondence of New York Sun.) Raleigh, N. C, Sept. 17. Passen ger rate regulation, a reduction from 3 1-4 to 2 1-4 cents, is the child of Josephus Drniels, the editor of the Raleigh News & Observe), the official organ of the State De mocracy und the "Democratic Bible," according to its editor's claim. Mr. Daniels has followers enough in North Carolina to start any move he wishes, and they believe religiously in him. While Governor Glenn was forcing a light that Judge Long had begua in the Superior Court, that Judge Pritchard had resisted in the .Federal Court, and that the people of the State never seriously thought about until the regulators got lonether, Josephus Daniels sat y and laughed, us he recalled t'ie poem many years ago wntteu of himself, "Murdecai at the Gate." This scriptural refer ence has eminent relevancy to his preseut championship ot the peo ple. Daniels is a fighter, at leist a logomachist. In 1887, when he lead the movement for a railroad commission, Judge Pritchard, who was then a Representative iu the Legislature, astced him: "How would you like to have the Legisla ture fix the price of your papei?" Daniels replied: "All right, if it gare me the right of eminent domain and kept the other fellow off my track." In this fight Dauiels lost, as he did almost consistently until this year, when he was rewarded foi his fierce warfare by seeing the Southern ''downed" by the State Legislature. The Republicans do not love Daniels, nor do all Democrat. Some years ago a witty Republican gave him this "side swipe" which he expected to make him famous: "We are going to beat out that Raleigh gang so completely that nothing will be left at Raleigh but the lunatic asylum, penitentiary and Josephus Daniels." Two days later he was completely crushed with this headline over his witeicism: "Three necessary institutions to keep radicals straight." Consider ing the number of Republicans in the peuiteutiary at that time, this was clever. To return to Governor Glenn, who has been celebrated throughout the nation. His methods have been freely described his teetotalism, his athletic predilections, his religious fervor, his stumbling ability, ind the rest. He is a power on the hustings but he has met his match more than once. Tom Settle beat him for Solicitor when Settle was a boy, but Settle has shriveled and shrunk and Glenn is now at his best. The memorable campaign of 1892, when Marion Butler, later Senator, met Glenn in joint debute, was not a Glenn triumph on the whole, though he was put up as the best man to meet the toughest poli tic il proposition Democracy ever encountered. In that year Populism was rampant and free eilver had crazed the wisest on both sides, Democratic and Republican. But ler challenged debate on it and I iaie- ubuiuuyhqi, ueuunce iu ukuiu- ; cracy's face, charging Grover Cleve land with being a gold bug. Glenn "hurled tbe lie" at him and silenced Butler by declaring that Cleveland had written the present Governor that he was a free-silver man. Not another North Carolinian could say Mr. Cleveland had ever written him such a letter, t.nd Butler was floored. And everywhere Glenn went .Re publicans and Populists were afraid to challenge him. - Glenn is a great big, emotional, happy, strong boy. He will never be anything else, even though be goes to the Senate. He likes power and influence. It is related of him that several years agj, when ho wanted to be captain of the Forsyth Guards, be was asked why he de sired such a position. Ilia reply was characteristic: "Well, I have never been captain." lie is u pray ii g mtn, gets down on Ins knees w ila he speaks, and is mighty earn est.. He calls often npo i the Ljrd and i ivokes Him in every mvc. I He is hard on liquor; his friends think he is hypocritical. He preach es prohibition exerywhere, since it is a popular issue. A few years ago a prominent Democrat spoke harshly of Glenn and the latter heard of it. Boy like and sensitive, he went to the man, put hit aim around him, and said: 'Look here, B , you don't like me aud I am sorry. I have done a lot for the Democracy of your county aud distric , and I wish you would tell me why you despi.-e nie." The politician said: "Yes, Bob, I did say hard things against you. 1 don't like any man who denounced Grover Cleveland while he held office under him. And then you talk of God Almighty hs if yoj and He were schoolboys together." STABS TEACHER. Pupil lt'rlmaiidi'd Fur Misconduct Assault Tile Tearher With a kni'e. Supt. A . T. Allen, of The Giu ham sch.tols, was stunned by one ot lii 3 pupils Tliurs'l.iy afternoon last, just after repiodching the boy fcr misconduct. The ooys name is Liws u Shields, aged 17 years. The vuapou used was a knife. If entered the right breast, inflicting a piiflful vou:id, but it will not prove fatal. Shields has a bad reooid at school, and last yeai attenpted the tame crime, except that it was a lady teacher be drew his knife on. THE NEGRO IN POLITICS. South Carolina Negroes Want Foraker For President. The New York Tribune publishes a letter from South Carolina ne groes saying the negroes of the South will tend all the negro delegates they can to the uatioual convention next year for tbe purpose or resist ing a ttampede to Roosevelt and trying to secure the nomination of Foraker, the "Negro Apostle". Cries Like Panther Bring Kescuerr, Taking their gun and going in search of what they believed to be a panther, from the wild cries, a number of citizens of Camden couuty found a young woman, half dead from starvation and exposure, I in a dense wood near Indiantowu. She was in a helpless condition and reason had vanished. She is about 18 years old, rath-r pretty, but her identity is unknown. Attempt at foul play is suspected. Hecame Suddenly Insane. Wednesday of last week, Harvey Watts, a lumber dealer from Tennes see, entered the station at King's Mountain, Va., aud placitig his grip on the flajr, asked Agent Van dyver to open it. "Now that you have opened it, I will open you", said Watts, and tskitig a pistol from the satchel shot the agent killing him instantly. When ar rested he could not account for his action and declared he had never seen his victim before. New Light on Gocbel Murder. New light has been thrown upon the assassination of Gov. Gobel, of Kentucky, by affidavits furnished by Mrs. Lulu Clark and her cousin Miaa Gertrnde Kintr. who rWlnre thut Turner Igo committed the cnme, and that John San lord is his accomplice. The affidavit, if the statements contained in it are true, will clear the skirts of Gov. Taylor and Secretary of State Cabel Powers, who are charged with the crime. Democratic Prohibition and the Con stitution. The State Election in Oklahoma last Wednesday resulted in an over whelming victory for the Demo crats, who lead by Chas. N. Haskell, of MusQogee, won by 20,000 plural ity. Prohibition was carried- by at least 30,000 majority and the con stitution adopted 3 to 1. Bell Companies Consolidate. The Bell Telephone companies operating in Eastern Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersev,. District of -Columbia and northern Virgiuia have consolidated with a capital of $30,000,000. The State N'ormal has over 500 students. CONDENSED NEWS. It is announced that Senator Carmack will enter the race for governor of Tennes-ee, and will de ma d a St ite primary. El S.vanv, an eight var old boy, wire p'aing with a 22 calibre pislo', was shot in the mouth. The i )ss of Hire? teeth was the result. The feed b.im of R. W. Winches ter, ff Sirniiierfiekl, was burned last Wednc'd-.iy. It whs set on fire by children who were playing with matches around the Lam. Sunday afternoon October 15th. the corner stone of the $50,000 Y M. C. A. Building will be laid at Winston Sulem with elahoia'e exer cises. The corporation committee has ordered the Seaboird Air Line and the A. C. L. Railroad Companies to maintain the connections at Max ton for passengers from Charlotte. Rhv. G. P. Harrell, for four years pastor of the Baptist, church at Thomasville and also the Orphan age, h is resigned. His successor has not been chosen. The North Carolina Postmasters will meet in coiivintion at Baleigh October 15 and 10. Several of the officials from the department at Washington will attend. Dr. Joel Hill, of Lexington, left last week for Ei Paso, Tex., to spfinl a fw months in .tha irtirest of kis health, says the Davidson Dispatch. Col. G. T. Leach caught aming others a large bass weighing six pounds while oa A hiin.ig nip in Moore County last weer. Entei prise. Euisley McGee and B. F. Mc Clu e, of High Point, have applied for a patent on an ironing board, which will .revolutionize this care of the home. David Ciotte, the venerable keeper of the couuty home, of Davidson county, died Thursday, Sept. 12th, aged 87 years. He had been keeper of the county home for 19 years, and was que of Davidson's best citi zens. Thos. R. Patton, a retired nier chitit of Philadelphia, died last week leaving over $1,000,000 to the Masonic Lo ge of Pennsylvania as a fund to establish an institution for educating male orphans of Masons. Crazed by morphine, Henrv An dersen, a machinist, of Salisbury, stabbed his wife, lie recently weut to Salisbury from Columbia, in search of his wife, whom he found. Mrs. Anderson may die. C. L. Lewis was struck on tbe head by a ball while witnessing a gitne ot base ' all at Walnut Cove. Saturday, and received in jnrien from which h died a few hours later. He was 32 years old and leaves a wife aud several children. Gov. Conuer, of Alaba.na, declares that unless conditions chtnge. iu the railroad service in this State by time he returns to Montgomery Oct. 7th, he will call a special sess ion of legislature to further legislate to govern the common carriers of Alabama. The Thomasville Machine Co. is a new euterpiise for Thomasville. It will conduct a general repair shop and handle all kinds of ma chinery. J. II. Burns, of High Point; R. W. Welboru, of Greens boio, and Chas. E. Bennett, of High Point, are the incorporators. W.. H. Leighton, who has been iu the jewelry business at High Point for six years, died last Wtdnesday evening. He was a native of Vir ginia. The body was interred at Greensboro. The deceased was 83 years old and is survived by a wife and two sous. A succession of earthquake shocks tnding with a severe snap tnat caus ed fear and trembling occurred at ban Barnard i no, Cat., ibursday evening; the shocks were the most severe in the mountains, the trees swaying as if whipped by a tern pes The Thomttsville Times sav llm P. C. Thom-is originated the idea uf harnessing the Yadkin River tit th narrows. In 1892 he conceived tin idea and 'succeeded in craaniy.ing is company with a capital of $5,0(10; 000. M. E. Shedd has gone to Tifton, Ga., wherejhe becomes castitr of a b ink. Carthage Blade. Thos. Lutterloh, of Sanford, and Miss Delia Sellers, of Moore county, were married at Sanford last week. G. L. Antony, the well known nurseryman, of Vandilia, died last Saturday. He stiffs ed with bright disease. Frauk L. Page has r signed the position as superintendent of the Statcsville cotton mills and will be associated with the Odell llard.vare Co. at Greensboro after Qjt. lot. Robert Sutton Thompson, aged 35 years, died at Pittsboro Friday morn ing, lie was an expert telegraph operator, was highly esteemed wher ever kno.vn. R. A. Jarvis, ma hinisl at the Mt. Airy Furniture factory, was pro bably fal'lly burned last Thursday by a steam pipe bursting, throwing steam and hot water over his body. At the annuil meeting of the Anti-Saloon League of America, at Norfolk last week, liishop Luther B. Nelson, of Chattanooga, Tenu., was elected President. Col. Leomdas Canipten Edwards, of Oxford, died last week after a lingering illness lie was for years a leader of the Oxford bar. He was 83 j ears old. Fire swept over a section of Mitdrid, Spani, Ust Thuisday, and tnoimn l of people ren ler..'d home less ry i.M- none, are occupying tents and sheds ou the streets. . Fneiels of Wm Jennings Brvan d cans th it Bryan is anxious to make the rr.n again for i'resulent, and that he dej not i.isist upon his hobbies. Agostino Grosso, an Italian che mist, has discovered a compound that will convert animals to stone. The cln mical is administered hypo dermicaliy and about 3 hours is re quire 1 to complete petrification. L. V. Edwards, of Merry Oaks, Chatham county, who has been a memoer of the force of civil en gineers surveying the Stacesville Air Line, has gone to rsew lork to en ter school. President Roosevelt will leave Washington next Sunday for a tour of the Si'Uth an i West. He expeoN to camp out in Louisiana and ht.nt i u the cane brakes. He is buokti' for speeches at 15 points on his tiip. It is reported lv Grand Seoivtw Woodell, of the Lodge of Odd Fel lows, that there are now 222 lodtreo in the State vith a membership of 10,000; I he net g-tin for the tirst six months of this year, was over 900. The Sanford Commercial Club is stimulating interest in the pro gress of the town. Through it the piople of Sanford are becoming in terested in sewerage, and the e re-it ion of a public building for the town officers. Mis. Carrie Nation was arrested at Washington, D. C, hist week for lecturing in front of the postotlice department, thus blocking the street. Upon default of a hue of $25, and upon her retusil to promise to dis continue her pei fortnances, she wat sent to the work house for seventy five days. The third knitting mill for Bur lington will be put in operation about November 15th. The mill will be known as the Sellars Hosiery Mill and will be under the manage ment of D. E. Sellars, The com pany begins with a capital stock ol $15,000. Lem Wrenn, of Reidsville, was kicked and killed by bis horse at Reidsville last week. He was at tending a public -sale of stock. Walking up behind a horse he slap ped it on the rump, and immediately both hoofs of the horse landed on the unfortunate man's breast. He lived only ten minutes. Pretty Wedding at FrankllnTllle. One of the prettiest home wed dings was solemnized at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mis. John Luther, Sunday, when Mr E-lgur Btiiiress and Miss Nannie Lut her were united for life, Rev. ,'. F. Allied ollieiat.d. Mr. Bur !i' is u prominent fanner of th Suidv ("reek sec' ion, aud Miss Ltniier is one of our mo.-t cbainii.i i,n i aeei nipllf bed youli ladies. v Mi for the happy couple nitieh k:iclcss in their future life. Asheboro 's Future Bright New Industries. FOREIGN MISSION CONVENTION Wonieii'n Society to Hold Annual Session at Ashtburo. The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society will meet iu annual s ssiou in Asheboro Wednesday and Thurs day. October 2d aud 3d. A large attendance of delegates is expected. The piograui has been arranged as follows: MOKXINti SESSION', 10 O'CLOCK. Devotional Exercises Miss Velna MeCulloch. Roll Call. Reading of Minutes. Address of Welcome Mis. W E. i Swain. Response Mrs. Ada G. Hunter. Business. Report of Auxiliaries. Miscellaneous Business. Adjournment. AFTEKNO0X SESfSIoK, 2 O'CLOCK. Devotional Exercises Mrs. R. R. Ross. Roll Call. lieu ling of MinulesT Report of Auxiliaries. Report of Cor. JSec. Treasurer's Report. Paper Cniua, iis needs and oppor tunities Mrs. W. T. Manner. Solo. Echoes from Board Meeting-Mrs. S. tJ. Tomlinson. Question Box. Miscellaneous Business. Adjournment. EVENING SKSiilOX, 7:30. Devotional Exercises Rev. W. E. Swain. Solo. Missionary Drill Dr. Ilarris-Glas cock. Address Mrs. J. W. Frauk. Literature, an aid to Missions, Mrs. J. F. MeCulloch. Benediction. EXPENSIVE ADVERTISING. Placed In the Kaleih lcniii Times by the Southern Kail way. At the North Carolina rate hear ing at Washington Monday the ex amination of the books of the South- ru Railway revealed the fact that dining tl.e mouths of 1906' thiit company paid the publishers of the K ileii'li hvening limes, "for adver tising and special notices" the sum of !(i.000. Vouchers in favor Of tht Ctuiiloiie Obseiver allowed an aver- ige of $21 a i.outh aud the Wash ington Post $89. The State's itti rnevs are highly elated over the niyster.ous find. Standard Oil l-'.arnlns. In the government suit against th3 Standard Oil Compauy it is shown that Mr. Rockefeller owned 250,854 shares, or more than one fourth of the Stand ar Oil Compa ny. Based on the earnings of the company as placed ou record during the past eight years, have aggre gated almost $125,000,000. At luesday s hearing it was testified that iu the years from 1899 to 1906 inclusive, the btandard Oil Compa i.y had earned total profits of $490,- 315,934. Fire at Thomasville. The plant of the Lee Mfg. Co., manufacturers of tables at Thomas ville, wa destroyed by fire Friday night. The loss will reach about $20,000. The plant was employing forty hands on full time and repoits a good business. The directors of the conpany announce that the plant will be rebuilt at once. Married. At the residence of the officiating Justice of the Peace, S. M. Barnes, in Tabernacle township, Mr. Ed Hughes aud Miss Cora Summy cn September 22, 1907. New Cotton Mill at Troy. Mr. S. J. Smithertnan and three of his son-in. laws will next spring erect a $200,000 spinning null at Troy. It will be built in the east ei ii artof town. Mr-. Elizabeth Spain died at her home mar Kaudleman T"esday of of this week. She was 50 years of .i -e. Movement On Foot to Secure knitting Mill Other I :n terprl-.es Will Thrive IntereKting Loral Ntus, New Factories. Asheboro needs and must have a cotton mill, a knitting mill and a table and kitchen cabinet factory within the next twelve months. There will be no trouble in estab lishing the knitting mill and the table and kitchen cabiuet factories, but the 1'ttablishiiienr of a cotton null will be more delicult. No in vestment iu manufacturing pays go much as stock in a spinning mill. These enterprises can and will be tsfahliihed in Ashebjro iu the near fui me. No town in the State is growing as rapidly us A;hj'j)ro, new build ings ate iroing up eery where and paients ae moving u he' there is emplov m-ut for everybody and plenty of room mi one of tLe best craded schuo's in the Sta'3 for every child in to.vn; . Our Population C;roviii. Let our business men and every body beiu a campaign to get more people to move to Asheboro. Write your friends ih other counties to send you names of people who may be induced to move to Asheboro. Tell your friends and write them of the superior advantages of this pro gressive town, whose growth is wonderful. ASHEBORO GETS LEAGUE CON VENTION. Kent Annual Meeting of Ipworth league tu Meet Here. The Epworth League Convention which met at High Point latt week was well attended. Large delega tions were present from Greensboro, Raudleman, Asheboro and Thomas ville. Mies Merrie Richardson, of Ashe boro, read an interesting paper, and also Miss Harris, of Trinity. The convention closed Thursday evening at which time Rev. J. W. Moore delivered the closing address. The invitation of the Asheboro delegation for the next annual meet ing was accepted. DEATH blrllRSrMERRITT. Followed an Operation in a Hospital at Wilmington. Col. W. P. Wood leceived a tele gram Saturday night announcing the death of his niece, Mrs. F. C. Merritt, at Will .iugtou. Mrs. Mer ritt was a patient iu a hospital there where she uuderwentau oper ation. The deceased was boru in Ashe boro and was a daughter of the late Geo. W. Ried. She had mala her home at Wilmington for many years. She leaves a husband and an infant child. Mrs. Merritt was also a niece of Rev. F. U. Wood, of Tiiuity. SPECIAL SERVICE. Ret. C. A. Wood and Mr. C. II. Ireland at M. I'.. Church Sunday. Next Sunday at the M. E. Church, Asheboro, will be an interesting day. There will be an address from Rev. C. A. Wood at 11 A. M., and Mr. C. H. Ii eland, an active layman of Greensboio has been in vited to deliver an address on the lavmen's movement iu the church. No one of tLe congregation should miss this service. They will speak at 7:30 also, and at Ulah at 3 P. M. Hallltield-Adkins. Mr. Frank Uollifield left Mon day for Whitmell, Va., where on Tuesday he was married to Miss Bessie Adkius, The ceremony was performed at 2 o'clock. Tuesday night he returned with his bride to Asheboro. Mr. Uollifield holds a position with tbe Crown Milling Co. Mrs. ItialrGetH New Trial. A dispatch from Columbia, S. C, says Jude George Johnstone has granted Mrs. Ethel W. Blair a new trial an "ufter-difCovered evidence." The case will coin? up again for trial at the Feb. u.ny term of court. Bond is being arranged to secure her i dense until that lime.