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RIER V Gtte COURIER Lm4i In Dotb Nw &a4 Ctrcut V v Zhe COURIER Advertising Coiumni Bring Results. ISSUED WEEKLY PRINCIPLES, NOT MEN ONE DOLLAR PER- YEAR VOL. XXXVII ASHEBORO, N. C, FEB. 1. , 1912 No. 5 THE GOU PROSPECTS GOOD FOR NEW RAILROAD Everything Looks Like There' is a Decided Probability that , Aehebor will be on Main Line of Randolph & Gum kerf and. A With '(ha issuing f toads by - Migh Ppint ard , Winetin-Sa-lem f or ibe extrusion of ths Ran dolph and Cumberland the faith of v the promoters of the new road, took a great bound. Carthage, at the " ether end of the road, aecxna leady . to it up sme real "cash, so tbe Cucal'MitT of its early completion nnsniuoh larger than heretofore " That there will be a line through t4 Bt-ction, Mr. E. W. Shedd, the MBrnonr-tive of the II. & 0. ia poa. ' frwve. Hid proposition was to pat ' Aiheboro on the main line of the proposed road, if .the township wonld , TSte f50,000 in bonds. The com mittee, representing the business interests of the town, offered to lend its Bopport to an issue of $25,000. It seemed at first that the repre . sectatives of the new road thought this too emall.but on second thought and after looking into the shipping in and ont of Asheboro oyer the roads now here, the offer of $5,000 for the main line was considered more favorably. Mr. Shedd will now take np the proposition with the capitalists of tbe R & O., and at an early date is expected to let the Asheboro com. inittee know of their decision in tue matter. , As it is, the views of several re garding tbe Randolph and Cumber land have been materially changed'. At first many were inclined to think that the proposition of a new road for Asheboro wt s more or less of a joke, bnt the developments of the past few weeks have changed all this, and the voting of bonds in Guilford and Forsyth has made it look anite likely thfat.tbe new road is a question of the near fa tare." ' Hwfcarrie Council Installs Officers. Farmer, Jan. 30. At a regular seating of Uwharrie Council No. Ml Jr. O. U. A. H. of this plaoe a Saturday night, the following ware metalled as officer for the present term; J. W. Rush, councillor; J. O. Hammer, vice councillor ; B. P. Xidge, conductor; H. 8. Kearns, warden ; E. 0. 8pencer, inside sea nel;G. W. DorsetL outside senti- ael ; J. T. Stover, chaplain ; W. B. Keens, recording seoretary ; U. W. Bradshaw, assistant recording seore. tary;T. 0. Russelll, financial secre tary J J. O. Kearns, treasurer; trus ties, H. u. liewis, 11. u. flanoe, w. B. Kearns. This council ia in fine shape with a membership of 10T. There is do ' Moson why it should . not be 110 be. lore the close of the year. fforfolk Southern Called to Court A petition to restrain the Nor folk Southern railroad from pur ahaaing the Aberdeen & Asheboro, Carthage & Pinehurst, Durham A Chrrlotte, Sanford & Troy and Raleigh & Southport railroads in North Carolina has been filed in the United States District Court at Norfolk by Dr. Southgate Leigh, former surgeon of the road, who saya the company is due him $1 500 for services. The petition alleges that the road is in uau enape anu uuauie vu pay fixed charges and cost of mam tenance. The railroad ia requir ed to show cause January 81. Much is expected of the opera tions of the Norfolk Southern in Morth Carolina. Whether this suit, for so small an amount willl check, the railroad's plans of development remains to be seen- Rip Van Winkle Next Lyceum : Attraction. . The next and last lycenm attrac tion ot the season will be Rip Van Winkle, which appears in the school auditorium Friday night, Februa ry 23d. - Rip Van Winkle, though he slept 20 years', had nothing on the Asheboro people who do not take The Courier. They have been dead to the world since their advent into it. Moral : One dollar does i. .V- Increase in Efficiency The Asheboro Telephone Com paay announces that it will hereafter operate its Ceatral office eevea days in the week. It Vi-u Kaon f1A am i.. Ik!. time to observe Sunday hoars, keeping open only for a short time every Suaday morning. There is no better indication of the growth of the town- and community than the fact that this company feels justified in making the announcement that telephone service will he erven all day on Sunday, and it is cer tain that the news will be re ceived with pleasure from its list of patrons, not only in the town of Asheboro, but theentire field" in which it operates. List of Subs Paid Since Last Issue A A Spencer, Jessie Cross, J E Hardin. J Y Sheets W D Moffitt, Beam Lowe, 0 H Julian, Mrs Solo mon Franer, Mrs M Elder,' Homer Allen, H I White, il L Parks, Man. ly Look, Mrs Adnie Ooppacb, Mrs Hattie Johnson, W 0 Wright, D A Sikes, Mis M J Warren, J W Brow. eriOK Leaoh, LB Linley, J W Tippett, E M Parker, Vance Wall, D Q McMastrs, R W Kea.ns, J A. McEinnon, Mrs F L Weaver, H H Kennedy, W 0 Vestal, D S Hoover, B P Alfred, R L Martin, A D Ham ilton. Mrs Cyrus Allred, P 0 Oheek, Z A. Lewallen, S Q Lassiter, N M Cranford, J W Parrisb, . J 0 Ridge, G 0 Redding, Eli Fieeman L J Brady, H B Rush, N C McLeod, J W Luther, A N Ouj-le, E S Rouse, A M Allred, Theodore Stevenson, W R Richardson, J M Brov?n, W N Elder, Juo. Pre3Dell, E. F Spivey, F G Fish, Eli Pritchard, 8p,ight U-ray, u ML T-oguon, S JbC liostick, G W Puh, Mary J Cox, T 0 Bow don, M R Langley, J S Piesnell, Wm Lvtle, D T Black, S T Spoon, Mrs L"D Miller. Randolph County Fair. By Carl Brown of PaUio Ghradad Schools XI. 1 Jw grsdo. As we neared the . town of Ashe boro how glad everybody seemed to attend Randolph a first Fair. As we assembled in front of the court house and saw the traction en gine headed toward the fair grounds how glad we were to think that onr County Superintendent took so mooh interest in yrotiuic ibt us to enter fiee. We irst went iu the , poultry de partment which wua ceitauiiy fine, iMonickeiii mi tne finest i ever aw. The golden pleasaut was the prettiest fowl their, and tbe African geese weie also attractive. The display of the roller mills were fine, also the Hardware . and Furniture. The dairy products were of the beat, Next was the Agriculture Department, the cora, cotton, wheat, oau, pumpkins and other1 farm pro. ducts oould hardly be excelled by any other county in the State. The fruits, lollies and canned goods were also one. We then went to the Wo man Department, the fancy work was the inoci attractive of all. The flowers wete nice but not so plenti ful. Special attention should be called to the children's drawing which was so nice. I'ne horses, males and cows were verv gxMl out ouuld be belter. The sheep and goats were good and the swine were certainly una. The airship was very attraotife to all that Been it. Mr. Joyner's address was very impressive. . We think that Mr. Ross was the right man in the right plaoe. We believe that the fair was a success and hope for a better one next year. Raracas and PMatheas to Give . . Supper The Baraca and Philathea olasses of the Worthville Union Sunday School will give an oyster supper on Saturday night, February third,' in the Junior Order hall for the pur. pose of raising , money to bny gas lights for the ' church. Oysters, coffee, lemonade, cake and pickles will be served. Everybody is invited to attend. An Unusual Record Mr. J. A. Parrisb, of Candor, who ' holds a responsible position with the Montgomery Gold Mining Company, recently paid a Courier ranrpauntafciTA hia an hanri ntion and remarked that he had taken The Courier for five years and has every copy on file. . ' , 25TH YEAR Of HAPPY MARRIAGE On last Friday night at their beantiful home on Sunst i avei tie, Mr. and Mri. M. L. David . eelebra. led their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. Tue home WiS beau tifully decor tcd( the f io it ptr lors and hall being in fiat with touches of -green in pot & plants and pine. Tnere were aumt one hundred and fifty who at' ended the rejention and each person congratu lated the happy couple u their youth, homa, children ami nany useful aud handsome gif's. The guests were received in the hali by Mr. and Mrs. Davis, Misses Msirgie and Annie Davis, and Mr. and Mrs. Breeden, of Greensboro and Miss Laura Stimson. Soon after the guests arrived they were ushered in to the east parlor, where punch was served by Misses Baxter and Terrell; visitors in the Davis home. Rev.; E. 0. Barbour made in place of the ceremony a most appropriate toast to the bridal conple, in which he spoke of their many blessings and contrasted the age in which they were to-day living to that of twenty, fire years ago when the love romance culminated in the union of their fives. He also spoke of the pleas ure that was being derived from this happy celebration and insisted that blessings be numbered and gratitude given. Rev. T. M. Johnson follow, ed with an appropriate prayer, in which not o ily the participants of the happy event but others were re membere'i. - - Mrs. E. O. Clark sang "The R . sary," Mrs. W. U. Moring and Mies inula played several instrumental selections and several of the guests joined in singing .longs of tbe long ago.. At 10:30 Mrs. W. H. Morii-g began the wedding march and At. and Mrs. Davis, bride and groom of twenvy.five years ago led the way to the dining room, which was most attractive in the green and white decorations. The table formed a wedding bell with bands of white crepe paper banging from the chan delier to the corners of the table. A large white bell was suspended above and altogether it was very artistic and beantiful. Long leaf pino served as the grtenery for'the color scheme. A delicious salad course was served, after which the bridal party repaired . to the gift room, to where a large number of presents were exhibited. Following the refreshments Miss Maggie Davis, who graduates in ' elooution at Greensboro Female College in Jane, gave three delightful readings. At 11 JO the guests said good night and repaired to their various nones with the thought that this had been one of the happiest social events of the season. Among out- or-town guests were Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Breeden, Greensboro: Mrs. Ciciero Davis, - High Point; Misses Helen Baxter, Durham, and FIom enoe Terrell, New Bern. Plows Acre ia 4 1-4 Minutes. The world reeord for plowing was recently broken in a demonstration at Perdue University, Indiana, in which a gang plow having SO plows and drawn by three traction engines turned over a stubble field at the rate of an aere every 41-4 minutes. This mammoth plow outs a strip nearly 90 feet wide, and turns over 7 aoies for every mile it travels. Eaoh of tbe 50 plows is independ. ent of the others, rising and falling as easily and naturally as a wooden cb p on the surface of rougn wu-r, so that tbo surface of the macnin is not coi.fi aed to ground absolute ly level. foputar mechanics. Bank ot Denton Increases its Capf tal Stock to $10,000. At a special meeting of stock holders of the Bank of Denton the capital stock was increased $3,500 making a total . of $10,000. The bank has been in operation le?s than two years, end has enjoyed rapid growth, the first year's earnings less expenses, being about 7 percent. J he most experienced business men and moit substantial farmers of oonnty are among the stockholders. " North Carolina leads all other states in deaths from pellegra, faro. iahinir 81.0 of the total. Raleiffh leads the list of towns an! eities - with 23 deaths. 71 per cent of those dying were females. When you Slip up on The Ice- . You may be as dignified As a Senator from Maine. You aaay change the fate of na tions Bv the cower of vour brain. You may have a mighty fortune That for Croesus would sumce. But you can't help looking silly When you sip up on the ice! You may have the airy grace Of a swan upon the wing. And may trip along the pave ment With a most alluring swing: You may shine in brilliant ball rooms, And vour dancincr mav be nice. Rut you can't helping looking . foolish If you slip up on the ice! You may be so truly good That you wings begin to grow; You may not have a longing That your wif ey doesn't know: You may be as meek as Moses, And be free from every vice! But you can't help saying d it! When you sit down on the ice. -SALISBURY POST. Now is The Time to Subscribe Bernie, Missouri, Star, A man who was too economical to purchase or to subsorib? for a paper sent his little boy to borrow the copy tak . n by bis neighbor. In his haste tbe boy ran over a $4 stand of bees and in 10 minutes looked like a war ty summer squash. His father who run to his assistance, failing to no tice a barbed wire fence, ran into that, cutting a handful of flesh from his anatomy and ruining a $4 pair of panti. The old cow took advantage of the gap in tbe fence and got into the cornfield and killed herself eating green corn. Hearing a racket, the wife ran ont, upset a four gallon chnrn full of rich cream, into a bas ket of kittens, drowning tbe entire litter- In her haste she dropped a J35'set of. false teeth...-The baby, naving been left alone, crawled through tbe spilled milk and into the parlor, mining a brand new $20 carpet. During tbe excitement the oldest daughter ran away with the hired man, the dog broke up 11 set ting hens and the calves got out and chewed the tails off'n fonr fine shirts. A committee from the Cham ber of Commerce in Greensboro was appointed recently to solicit funds for a new dormitory for F.T. ICollege. This Icommittee has estimated that the boardimr students spend $15,000 in the city store each year, and ngure that tbe 72 additional students Srovided for by the proposed ormitory will add $12,000 in ex penditures to tnis figure. They areue also that the city is proud of this college, the oldest female college in the State and second oddest in the south, and they speak of its civilizing and refining influence. They state also that many of the young ladiBs, attracted here by the edu cational advantages of the city, fall in love with the city, and endy making their homes here after marriage. . A Mecklenburg county man, who fought the proposition to issue bonds in bis county years ago tor good roads, was asked by a Lne county man a few days ago if he would be wrung to change from the good to the bad roadi were his taxes reduced. He replied by stating that he would not be willing to do without the good roads if his taxes on road bonds were four times as high as they are present. Said he: 'I live eight miles from Charlotte I have a lot of small timber on my farm suitable for fire wood. Before the roads were improved this wood was practically worthless to me so far as sel ing it was concerned. Now I can haul to Charlotte with as much wood as I can pile on my wagon without hurt. ing mv stock at the least and get from S3 00 to $4.00 per cord for it. No farmer should fight the proposi tion to issue bonds for good roads -Ex. It is expected at Pekin that the armistice between tbe Imperialists and the Revolutionists which ex expired Monday will be renewed. There were 436 business failures in the United States during the week ending Jannary 25 against 161 the week previous. HOW TO FIGHT CONSUMP- TION Education is the Best Weapon of Attack and Well Enforced Laws Make the Best Measures of De fense Consumption is a preventable disease. Yet we continue to have more deaths from consump tion than from any other disease. Why? Largely because some of our consumptives continue to spit, cough, and sneeze in such a manner that their friends and associates are infected. These, then are the people that cause us so much trouble, that increase our death rate and decrease our population, that increase our poverty and decrease our wealth. that increase our misery and de crease our happiness. But why do they do it? First because they do not know any better, and second, because they are willfully or criminally care less. What is the remedy? For the first class the remedy is edu cationeducation along the line of sanitation and hygiene. Such education m regard to the very fundamentals, of . how to eat, sleep, bathe, breath, and live, works wonders with this class. For this class the remedy is com paratively simple. The best place for such education is, of course, in the schools. There, it reaches the greatest number of people. There, it is easily taught and well remembered. There, it reaehes the coming generation- Tremendous results can be ac complished with the masses after the school periods. For them there should be lecturers riven by the county superintendents of health, city health officers, phy sicians, ministers, and well-informed members of Anti-Tuber culosis and health leagues. For this purpose the State Board of Health, as well as many city boards of health, distribute liter ature on consumption and other health subjects. Countless means of public education may be used, as for instance lantern slides showing pictures and health sentences, signs in street cars and on bill boards, notices from the press of pulpit, tuber culosis exhibits, etc. After the public conscience is somewhat awakened to its sense of duty we should have free dispensaries and visiting nurses to carry the gospel of health to all classes. For the willfully or criminally careless class it is necessary to enact and rigidly enforce anti spitting ordinances Ordinances requiring the reporting of cases of consumption to the health de partment should also be enforced. Literature and oral instruction may then be furnished and dis infection of houses may be ac complished after each removal of the inmates. Consumption, like yellow fever. will soon be a disease ef the past when the masses are properly educated to their sense of respon- sibihey and the criminally care- leas are made law-abiding. A Stung Thomasvillain. We clip the following melancholy tale from the Spencer correspondence of tbe Durham sun: "A well known conductor on the Southern railway running into Spen ccr is authority for the statement that a Thomasville citizen recently ordered a piece of furniture from sears, Roebuck S Co., of Dbicago, The purchaser is an -employe of i furniture factory and to his great astonishment when the piece of furniture arrived it was an article that he himself had been employed to finish right here in North Caro linr sold him through the Chicago firm when he oould have bought it on the local market. It is needless to say that his name is withheld for the reason that he dislikes to be taken in this manner," - this is of a piece with tbe sad. sad story we published some time ago of the lady who discovered that her Paris-bonght f urnitnre was made in High Point; and both the woeful tales point ont the self -same moral namely, buy your goods from mer. chants who advertise io The Die- patch. Despatch. President Taft has appointed Secretary of Commerce and Labor Nsgel to saoceed the late Justsce Harlan on the Supreme Court beneb. NEWS BRIEFS OF GENERAL INTEREST Gen. Julian S. Carr, Durham will . be with J ndge Pritchard at some of his appointments. St. Phillip's Episcopal church wasl dedicated at Durham last Sunday by Bishop Cheshire. The Rev. Chares Y. T. Richeaoa, murderer of Miss Avis Linnel, was expelled from the Baptist church at Cambridge, Mass. " Legislative measures are to be taken by the . Philippine Assembly to relieve the situation onated by the partial failure of the rice crop. Italy has agreed to surren der the Turks taken off the French steamer Manonba and the incident has been closed satisfactorily to both nations. A bill has been introduced into the Russian Duma to prohibit the admission of Jewish citisena of the United States into Russia. Twelve additional companies ef infantry and two of cavalry were ordered to the scene of the woolea workers' strike at Lawrenceville, Mass., Monday. Fire stopped a San Francisoe wedding just as the officiating min ister raised his hand to begin the cereintny. The decorations of the altar broke into flames and the men of the bridsl party hi A to fight fire. Mr. Thomas J. Pence, Washing. ton correspondent for Mews & Ob server, had tbe misfortune to fall on the ice and break his collar boue. He is now ia a hospital in Washing ton. Elon College has raised $50,. 000 to be spent in improvements, which have already been made, consisting of a new dormitory and a college heating and water plant. nu. r nc .i hoase Monday .decided.': Jbj a Vote-of 98 to 68 to rtarrv nnt Undenrnnd'a j - plan of retrenchment and to elimi nate the appropriations for publie buildings and battleships, amount. ing to $40,000,000. Judge Pritchard, of the United States Circnit Court, will spend six weeks addressing audiences in North Carolina, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York and Ohio in the interest of the temperance movement and ia behalf of the training school fee colored children at Durham. Two children of a Mr. Smith ef Montgomery county, were burned te death a few days ago one three years old and one three months old. ' The mother leBt them in the housa while she went to the spring. Whe she returned the ch ldren and th house were afire. She removed1 the children from the hause but the building was destroyed and' that children died from the burns. Polk Miller, the famous Rich mond lectures in the negro dialect, announces that he has. quit the stage, the platform and. the public gaze forever and ha disbanded his famous negro-. quartet v Old age is assigned aa. the cause. Mr. Miller has been, in Asheboro with his quartet and tbe people here as well as. throughout the south, will re member him, his old time stories andBong. Bruce Clcdf alter, a boy 12 year old was awarded the $25 pnia of the Guilford County Agricultural Association last Saturday for the boy entering the corn growing con test and making from a single acre the greatest yield, cost of production being also oocsidered. The young man harvested 113 bushels from his i acre, his closest competitor, Arthur Ptaley, nuking 103 1.2 bushels. v Staley was awarded the second prise, $15 in cash. Third honors went to Dewey Groome, his prize being $19. Groome's yield was 97 bushels. Ohas. W. Morse, .the New York banker, whose prison - sentence was recently commuted by President Taft, left tbe Army Hospital at Fort McPherson Sunday. He was taken from hotel, in Atlanta where he will stay untill he is able to be moved elsewhere. It is probable that he will be taken to some Florida resort Morse was accompanied byhis wife and sister. Miss Jennie Morse. The military reservation in an anw! buanoe. His physicians thought the removal from the hospital, where he was transferred, from the Federal penitentiary two months ago, would aid his improvement.
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