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Fall Tern.
Daring the month of November
there has been an enrollment of 464
pupils in the graded schcoli; 329
whites and 135 colored. The whites
have had a daily attendance of 94.06
per cent, while that of the colored
school has been 90 per cent.
The following pupils having
made 90 per cent or more on all
literary work, with 100 on deport,
ment and perfect attendance are
placed upon the roll of honor:
FIRST GHADE.
Garret Allen, Richard. Barrow,
Willie Croker, Rath Cox, Tyson
Foster, Irwin Hooker, Alice Hun
sucker, Hannah Lew.B, Warner Mil
ler, Cleta Rich, Hazel Spoon, S.tan
ton Skeen, Ben Bulla, Georgia Es
mond, Mary Fox, Robert Jones,
Clyde Lewis, Clifford Morris, Jaaoa
Moffitt, Henry Rich, Millaid Smith
Clinden Lowdermilk.
SECOND GRADE.
Uralie Clark, Howard Dickens.
Rollins Miller, Baxter Stowe, Lucile
Ward, John Brittain, Grace Pits
nell, Eunice Bulla, Marjorie Men.
denhall, KateNewby, Hazel Kiv
ett, James Miller, Colon Bunting,
Ernest Bunting, Banks Richardson,
Dwight Richardson, Beula Webster,
Roy Berry, Faye Ferree, Ilallit
Bo?', Fern Ferree, Carl Rogets;
Gertrude Foster, Gertrude Auiuau,
Edith Bett, Curry Luilm Gusta
Humble, Colon Spoon.
THIRD GRADE.
Lila Slack, Dewey Webster, U;
sula Williams, (Nancy White.
FOURTH GRADE.
Cleon Spoon, Nannie rinnuner,
Villie Styres, Gertrude Aiken, Clara
Presuell, Rilla Spoon, Grace Ferree,
Mabel Parrish, Edith llunsucker,
Jessie Wood, Beatrice Lewallen, Lu
cile Scarboro.
FIFTH GRADE.
Thaddeus Lewalleu, Everett Ken
dall, Eddie Sledge, Willie White,
Ben Allen, Clara Brown, Lillian
Hendiix, Virginia Ileuley, Catliriue
Burns, Frances Walker, Cora Stowe.
Nellie Spoon, Hilda Slack, Fanuie
Newby, Louella Lowe.
SIXTH GRADE.
Mildred Birkhead, Janette Dick
ens, Maud Hal), Kate Hammer, Eu
genia McCain, Lillie Parrish,
ilyrtie Ridge.
SEVENTH GRADE.
Homer Allen, Virgie Dickens,
Ethel Ferree, Bnlah Laughlin,
Enolia Presuell, Allle Spoon, Liz
zie Winslow.
1IGHTH GRADE.
Nancy Lambert.
NINTH GRADE.
Lollie Jones.
Ramseur Items.
R v. C A. Wood conclude ' v ry interest
ing services ia tha M. E. Church Thursday.
Rev. J. E. Woosley and family arrive 1
last week and. aW comfortably lomiciled in
the H..E. parsonage, lie has m:my ac
quaintan s and friends here already as he
had charge of this circuit about 15 years
go.
Mr. J. C. Watkius ahd family spent
Thanksgivin g day here with Mr. and Mrs.
W. H. Watkins.
Mra. W. H. Watkins, Jr , and child are
spending sometime at Troy.
Mius Moicelle Olive, of Gr ensboro, visit
ed her sister, Miss C'ordiiy Olive here last
wee' , She returned on Monday and was
accompanied as f r as Franklinville ry
Misses Olive and Battle.
Miss M. J. Tate left Friday to vieit rela
tives at Atkinson and Wilmington.
Messrs. Clarence and Ernest Watkins
kille 6 j birds on Thanksgiving day.
Willie McManess killed two 11 months
old pigs that weighed 341 and 342.
A. B. Covington retires from the hotel
buuness this week. N. H. Slack takes con
trol of Hotel Iiamseur.
Miss FanDie Tearce visited friends at
Cameron last week.
Mr. E. I. Smith went to Greensboro Mon
day. Rev. Mr. Smith, of Elon College, has been
engaged as pasto r of the Christian church
for 1908.
. Ge Allred, of Greensboro, was a visitor
in town last week.
II C Free killed two pigs Tuesday that
weighed 405 and 410 pounds. Fine Pigs.
FraakllavUla Glcaalag.
Rev J E Woosley, our new preacher a
the M E Church, preached two very instruc
tive sermons Sunday. Mr W oosley was
pastor of this church about sixteen years
ago and is loved by all our people.
A number of eur peop'e are attending
court at Asheboro thin week.
Quite a large crowd attended the Odd
Fellows speaking at the Acadt-my Saturday
night and all were highly pleased with the
address of Trot O M Weatherly. .
Several large pig were killed last week,
and among the lnrgost was Mr C E Stuarts'
which weighed 400 pounds.
James Buie and T M Jennings visited
relatives and friends at Worthville Suuday.
Our new free delivery mail route from
this place is now in operation. The first
trip was made Monday
Mr John Brady has accepted a position as
loom fixer iu the lower mill at Cedar Falls.
Messrs VV H and Albert Tippett, of Siler
ity, sp nt Sunday in the city.
Mrs Chloey Moon, wife of th 'ate H H
Moon, died at her home Friday evening and
was tenderly laid to rest iu the M E church
cemetery Sunday evening. Rev J E Wooss
ey conducted lb funeral service. She wa
72 yeava old and hud been sorely alllicted for
several months but bore her ufllictions pa
tiently till the end came. She had been a
ineinlier of the M E church for several years
and 'ived auoniU'nt and upright life and
left assurance tint she was only passing
from this to a more congenial clime. She
was a good neighbor, a kind and loving
mother. She leaves two sons, one daughter
and a host of friends. Tlie sorrowing ones
have the sympathy uf the entire community.
Xc;v Hope Xttvs.
The school at New Hope Academy is pro
gressing nicely under the profess rahip of
Mr. H. L. Johnson, of Bain.
Mr. Jesse Luther is teaching school at
F int Hill, Monigomety cennty.
Mr. Allen Vainer has accepted a position
w ith the Pcnton Linn er Co,
Missei Jennie Lassiter, Ula Cranford and
Jessie Lyndon are away teaching school.
Yr. G. C, Snyder has moved to one of
Mr. C C. Shaw"s farms near New llojie
Academy.
Capt. J. L. Lyndon, of Town Creek, Ala.,
and Mr. Emery Lyndon, of High IYiut, hav -been
visiting relatives near here during the
last two weeks. Capt Lyndon moved from
Randolph couuty to the State of Tenuessee
in 1S."4. lie served in the Confederate
army of the west ami was wornded in the
battle of Shiloh during the war letween tke
States. After the surrender he settled in
Alabama where he has since lived. Mr
Emery Lyndon lBalsi a Confcdrrate veteran
and served iu the army tf Virginia. He
was severely wounded at Frazier's Farm iu
the seven days light around Richmond. lie
is now a resident of High Point.
Worthville Notes.
Mr and Mrs John W Williamson and little
son, Robert, have been spending a few days
in town wtth relatives.
Mr I FTrogdon, another Worthville yonng
man who has located in Greensboro, spent
Sunday with his father, Mr S H Trogdon.
Ora, the 12-montrs old child of Mr and
Mrs William Spivey, died suddenly last S t
urday morning. The chi c" seemed to be ss
well as usual early in the morning, but later
in the day its mother went to the cradle to
take it up and found it dead. This is the
fourth cbild that has been found dead in this
wiy in Worthville in the last 10 or 12 years.
The Barara (Mass of the Worthville Sun
day School will have a reunion some time
during the Christmas holidays, when all the
old members who have left town will be in
vited. The Philath-a class will unite with
them, and ihe plan now is to havr an yater
supper and a pleasant social evening together.
Grays Chapel News.
Soma of our farmers are not yet through
owing wheat.
Mrs J Pugh ia in feeble health; she is
suffering with herrt trouble. '
The three-year old child of Mr. and Mrs.
John Smith was bui ied here one d?y last
week
Mr and Mra Geo W Pugh have a new girl
boarder at their house.
Mr L P McMastera visited his aged mother
laat Sunday. Mra Mc Masters lives with her
daughter, Mrs O P Ward.
Mr Will Mills and family moved to Ashe
boro last week. "
Lou of wood is being shipped from Md
low and Lineberry to Greensboro.
(i tenuis Items.
Tie new school h' use at this place will
soon be completed; it is a very handsome
and commodious building, and adds much to
the appearance of our town
Mr. and Mrs, E. L, Tomlinsou returned
home one day 1 . t week from a visit to
Mra. Tomiiuson's father, Jlc John Peters, at
Silver Hill.
Earl White of Greensboro, spent Thanks
giving with his parents, Mr and Mrs. R. I
White.
-irs. Slate, of High Point, ia visiting h?r
father", W. B. L'iushaw, this week.
Mr. and Mrs. D. B Eldridge and Master
Thomas, ol Bijth Point, spent Thanksgiving
with Mr. a d Mrs. S. S. Eldridge.
A number of our people are attending
court thia week.
Oscar Kelson and son, Master John, went.
to Spero Saturday aftemoen, returning
Monday
Mrs. R. B. Strickland of High. Point, and
Miss Fannie Gray, of Asheboro, were gu ata
at G. G. Gray s Thanksgiving day.
Messrs Joe and Jesse Eldridge, Chas
Strickland and Remus Ingram retained
home Saturday night from Farmer section.
where they had been on a hunting trip of
several days. They report a fine time and
pleoty of game
Speaker Cannon ia filing up tbe
Cjmmittee'on Ways and Means so
that tbe stand pattera can contioled
the tariff issue.
Fair View Items.
Mrs. Maggie Blair and dadpbter, Misa
Nellie, who have b en visiting at Fair
vipw for a few davs, have returned to their
home at Thomoville.
Mias Rhetta Bb.ir spent Thankgiung
with her ' rother, Mr. Roland Blair in High
Point .
. fevernl of our young people attended the
"candy pulii,.g at His llary White's on the
evening of the i'uih. Every on seemed to
enjoy it very much;
EUse Hate a. -
8. 0. Garner, of Banner, S. O., spent a
iew days ia Eli e last week. He - has re
turned to Mints, where he has a p aition in a
dry goods store.
P. M. Stewart was painfully injured laat
week by getting his foot mashed.
Mra. H. C. Burns and family are visiting
in Star.
J. W. Page's mother, of Burlington, is
i ' i i t & it.
Misses Alice and Lennie Ritter are visit
ing at Greensboro. 3
i'ommie Ritter is at le to be out ugain.
Misa Nettie PriteWd is depot agent at
Elise.
Mr. Bray is building a dwelling house in
Elise.
Rev. J. W. Hoyle preached his farewell
sermon last Sunday.
George W. Horner, who is charged with
burning his store in which the postoffice at
Hemp was kept was to have been tried at
Carthage last week, but upon agreement the
case was removed to Pittsboro, Chatham
county,
Vv.C. Bums is away on a business trip
south.
An interesting Thanksgiving exercise was
held at Elise last Thursday.
Kaauy Dots.
We all enjoyed Capt. Siler's article on his
Jamestown trip iu the last issue of the Cou
rier. The people about Kanoy are in very good
spirits no as our bridge i; Hearing com
pletion. It was crossed Thanksgiving day
for the first time, and we all feel thankful
for the powers that made it possible to have
the bridgo. It will almost open a new
world to us, and to future generationi. From
the looks of the piers, they are substantial
enough to last for ngiyj.
Mr. ii nd Mrs. Hill, of Indiana, are visiting
Mm. Hill's sister, Mrs. Owen his week, also
h r npirv. Miss Beeson, of Guilford.
Miss Blanche Mollltt commenced her
school neur Brown last Monday, and Miss
Evelyn Mi Mitt at Tregdon's the week before f!
Jackson Creek Items.
The new school house at Piney Grove has
hi en oi mpleted.
Thomas Ingram, of Bombay, will begin
school Monday.
Mrs, Martha Can-ell, of Seymour, Mo.,
has been isitiug relatives and friends tn
our vicinity for the past three or four weeks.
S e was formerly Miss Miller, and left our
country 28 years ago.
Chorl. s Strickland Remus H. Ingram
and others, of Glenola; Ernesf Ridge, of
Farmer, and Hal Lackey took a hu t in our
neighborhood Thanksgiving.
I. M. Nance and Harris Hoover will move
their saw mill ts E. L Wood's farm in the
near future.
Miss Emma Pierce left Thanksgiving day
for Randleman to visit her uncle, John
Pierce.
Trinity Items.
Rev. R. L. Owenby, of Wilkesboro, the
new pastor here, made his first visit Sunday
and preached two able sermons
Rev. B. F. H rgett went to his new
work st Mt. Pleasant Sunday.
Misses Cora V. Sinoot and Susannah G.
Michaels spent Thanksgiving at Durham.
Miss StelU Nox Norris spent her holidays
at High Point.
Rev. James Craven is spending a few
days with his mother. Mrs. Nannie Craven.
All the students have returned from their
Thanksgiving vacation, and are now ready
for hard work.
"Trinity High School" now under the
management of its new leader, Prof. H. G.
Jerome, is making gteat progress.
While onr Republican financial
doctors are disputing tbont the
treatmeut to be given the panic
patient, the "neophyte" doctor :n
charge of tbe United Sta.tes Treas
ury is trying t reduce the tempera
ture by more inflammation.
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Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root is not rec
ommended for everything but if you have
kidney, liver or bladder trouble it will be
found just the remedy you need. It has
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work and in private practice, and haa
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which all readers of this paper, who have
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Thanksgiving
Offering.
We want to thank our patrons of Ran
dolph add adjoining counties for their pat
ronage during the past year. We want to
show onr appreciation bad for the next 10
days, including court week we offer
Merchandise at a
Big Sacrifice.
Furniture Seven-piece parlor set, in
cherry and leather, was $00 now 50.
Seven-piece parlor suits, upholstered in
rluh. .....45.
Other seven-piece Miits $ 40, $ 35, 25.
Three-piece sui'a. . i . . . . f 15.
Handsome oak suits reduced from 00 to
$40 Other suits ranging from f 40 to $ 15.
Pedestal Dining Table 20.
Ten-foot Extension Tah es at $ 10, 8, 5.50'
Library Tables from f 5 down to 1 .
Oak Pedeetals from. . . $2.50 to 1.
Oakw o Bafes v jio.
Kitchen Sofes from 3 to 10.
Sideboards $35, 27 50. 2.50. and 10.
Oak Dressers $5 to 25.
Chiffoniers $8 to H.
Leaeher Couches $10, 12 and 15
Bed Lounges $8.50 to .0.
A large assortment of chairs in varied
styles and prices.
Oak chairs $1.25 to 7.
Mat.tiesBe...., jo to 5
Felt Mattresses.. ' ..fVto 12.
Great reduction in Tables, Rugs, Matting,
Suit Case ,otc,
For 10 Days Including
Court Week.
We make n special cut price on the cele
brated OiilTon Clothing. We have -a nmv
and handsome line of these goods and we
offer the unequalled opportunity to purchase
holiday suits. They are high class tailored
goods made of the best fabrics.
WOOD & MORING.
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Mrs. Black, of Rockingham, has been
visiting her sister; Mra. Bad Tyson, of
Montgomery.
The school at Auman's Hill ia prospering
under the management of Misa Belle Rey
nolds, Mtasea Lenora and Prisoilla Boon spent
Saturday with Grandma Ashworth.
Mr. John Ashworth accompanied his wife
to Salisbury Monday where she went to have
an operation for canr er. Mr Aahworthre
turned home Saturday and says she is get
ting along nicely.
Misa Polly King is very ill and little hope
of her recovery is entertain' d.
George Fre man is erecting a new store
house and dwelling.
We are glad to note that Graham Cagle's
health is much improved at this writing.
This vicinity haa Lad an epidemic 'of
colds.
Why Not Items.
Messrs. J, B. and G. N. Slack spent Sun
day at Carthage.
Mrs. J. P. Boroughs, of Asheb to, spent
a few days at Why Not this week.
Mr. E. B. Slack, of Biscoe,"spent Sunday
with Mr. and Mrs. John King, of ilichfi Id,
Several from here attended the Lowder
milk reunion Thursday .
Miss Annie Redding viaited her brother
in Moore county last week.
Miss Jewel Allen spent a few days last
week i t her home at Aconite
Miss Sallie Slack went to Asheb to shop
ping Saturday.
Miss Etta Auman returned from a visit to
Asheboro Saturday.
Mrs. O. D. I-awrence has been spending
several days here with relatives.
Misses Pauline an 1 Delpliiue Lawrence
spent Saturday night with th-ir aunt, Mrs.
J, A. Auman.
Mr. Q. H Bjan is quite ill at this writing.
They are doiug their best to stop
the panic in Brooklyn, with a bank
president in a cell and the cashier
out od bail.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.
Washington, D. C, Nov. 30, 1907.
Whereas, by satisfactory evidence pre
sented to the undersigned, it has made to
appear that "The First National Bank
of Asheboro" in the. town of Asheboro,
in the county of Randolph, and State of
North Carolina, haa complied with all the
provisions of the Statutes of the United
States, required to be complied with before
an association shall be authorised to com
mence the business of banking.
Now, therefore, I, William B. Ridgely,
comptro ler of the currency, do hereby cer
tify that "The First National Bank of Ashe
boro.'' in the to ? n of Asheboro, in the .
county of Randolph and State of North Car- .
olina is authorized to commence the business
of banking aa provided in Section 5109 of
the; Revised Statutes of the United States.
In testimony whereof witness my band
n (1 seal of Office this 30th day of November,
1907. WM. B. RIDGELEY,
(seal) Comptroller of Currency .
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NOTICE!
I will attend at the following times and places for the
collection of taxes for the year 1907.
Mechanic, Cedar Grove Township,
Farmer, Concord
Delk & Cameron's Store, Concord "
Clay Johnson's Store, New Hope "
Judge Shaw's Store, , New Hope "
G. E. Carter's Store, Union "
S. A. Cox's Store, Union "
Seagrove, Richland
Cedar Falls, Franklinville "
Franklinville, Franklinville "
Ramseur, Columbia '
York & Frazier's Store, Columbia '
Staley, Columbia V
Liberty, Liberty "
Red Cross, Providence
Widow Chamness' Providence "
Level Cross New Market "
County Home Back Creek "
Flint Hill Back Creek
NoahSkeen's Tabernacle "
Fullers Tabernacle
Fairview Lodge Trinity ' "
Archdale , Trinity "
Trinity v Trinity
Edgar New Market
Sophia Back Creek
'G- W. Eliott's Store Randleman
S. E. Allen's Store Grant
Kemps Mills Grant "
Thomas Hinshaw's Coleridge "
Moffitts ' Coleridge " .
Coleridge Coleridge ,
Cheeks Pleasant Grove "
Henry Jones' Pleasant Grove '
Erect Brower "
Yows Hill : Richland
Michfield V Richland "
Ulah Richland "
Central Falls Franklicsville - "
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tle the State tax by January and the public schools must have their money. So I must
collect the taxes. Please meet me at the above named times and places and save further
trouble and costs. Also all persons liable to any privilege or license tax are asked to meet
me and settle same, as the law makes it a misdemeanor for any person liable to such tax tn
practice any trade or profession without having a license. -
This Nov. JOth. 1907. , : S. L. HAYWORTH, Sheriff Randolph County.
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