WILLIAM PENN WOOD
INTERESTING LIFfi STORY OF
ONE OF ASHEBORO'S. DISTIN
GUISHED SONS.
When the war clouds in 1S01 en
veloped the nation with their dark
wing3 and North Carolina cast it3 lot
with the Southern Confederacy, there
was on a farm in the Piedmont sec
tion of the State, to be more specifiic,
in Randolph county, a youth of only
17 years old whose heart and soul
were fired with patriotism for his na
tive State and he at once enlisted in
defense of the new born nation.
Though young in years he was stout
and brave of heart.
This youth was William Penn Wood,
now the auditor of the State of North
Carolina and though more than half
a century has passed his patriotism
has never waned nor his devotion to
his State diminished.
A vouthful and brave soldier
through that great struggle, he has
been no less faithful in his private
and public life since that time and
by his affability and genuine friend
ship has been successful in life and
has surrounded himself with a host
of friends, not only in the hills of
Occoneechee, but throughout the com
monwealth.
When young Wood enlisted In the
cause of the Confederacy he came to
Raleigh where he became a member
of Co. I of the Twenty-second North
Carolina Regiment. This regiment
was drilled at Raleigh by Walter
Clark, the drill master, who was
mere youth, and now the Chief Jus
tice of the Supreme Court of North
Carolina. James Johnston Pettigrew
who afterwards became a general
was the first Colonel of the regiment,
which when it left Raleigh was sent
to Evansport on the Potomac, and it
was there that Col. Wood got his first
experience of real war. At this point
the regiment had charge of a hattery.
From there the regiment ttos trans
ferred to Yorktown.
Col. Wood was in the most serious
fighting of the war and his -war ca
reer furnished many thrilTrng inci
dents. The principal battles he was
in were Sewn Days fight around
Richmond, second battle of Tilanasses,
second battle of BuTl Bun, Chancel
lorsville, Fredericksburg, the "Wilder
ness, Spottsylvania Court House and
North Anna River-
He was wounded art tthe second bat
tle of Manasses and he still carries
.the musket ball that entered h' body
nn that occasion. He was near Stone
wall Jackson, when that beloved
ehiefttun of the South was killed :at
ChaDcelloraville. Be 'witnessed the
inspiring sight of President Havhs
under musket frre and rallying the
men at Seven Tines. He beheld Gen
era! Robert E. Lee, She South's great-
t chieftain, under musket fire on an
Throng occasions. He was taken pris-
nPr in 1864 and taken 'to Point Look
out where he was confined until the
.iw1 nf !he war.
C6I. Wood is a Democrat of She all
wool and a yard wide type He .start
i wino- earlier than the average
voter. He cast hie first -vote for Zeb
Vance for Governor befone he was
i 1d. That was daring the
war. He acted n the principle that
if he was old erwugh 1o be a solflier
, a nn,wh to vote. Since
ne s
that time he has never failed to vote
5n an dectios and has never scratched
a Democratic ticket.
w ..iwa-vft taken a reat rnter-
Kt in oolities and in all campaigns hej
fc canvassed his county in the m-
f h TJemocratic tV-ket,
all State conventions f the party he
was a conspicuous figure ana
s, the councils of the party. K
one time he was chairman of the eo
gressionel convention when Randolph
.... ; -h fourth district.
He represented Randolph and Moore
counties in the State Senate in 1901.
In 1905 and 1907 he represented Ran
dolph in the General Assembly. He
introduced the bill in the Legffure
which established the Stonewall Jack-
tmSnine School at Concord.
also took an active part in other pre-
When SUte Auditor Dixon died in
1910, Col. Wood was nominated in
October of that year by the Demo
cratic State Executive Committee to
fill the vacancy, and he was elected
in the general election in November,
1910, and he was re-elected in 1912,
his term expiring in 1911. Thus it
' willbe seen that he is serving his first
elective term. His office, with its
capable force, is in splendid shape
and Col. Wood has a smile and a
happy greeting for all callers. He is
a typical gentleman of the old school.
Col. Wood was born in Asheboro,
his present home, but he was reared
on a farm. When he returned from
the war, he went to clerking in a
store, but soon he went in business for
himself and since that time has been
a successful merchant of that place.
Being a business man of ability he,
has always been an active force in
the commercial life of his native
town and he is still a member of Ran
dolp Business Men's Club. He was!
town treasurer from 1880 until 1888.
He was county treasurer from 1890
STATE AUDITOR WILLIAM PENN WOOD
OUR BILL FOR IMPORTED FOOD
AND FEED STUFFS
Mr. George W. Bradsaw, formerly
principal of the Asheboro graded
school, now studying at the State Uni
versity, and president of the Randolph
County Club, has prepared an inter
esting table for the University News
Letter, showing the food and feed con
sumed by man and beast in each
county more than the farms of the
county produced in the census year.
The figures are based upon food crops
and animal products exhibited in the
13fh census report,' and upon the aver
ages of per capita annual consumption
announced by the Federal Department
of Agriculture.
Neither the figures of the census nor
Mr. Bradshaw's use of them can be
understood as complete and final to
tals of food production; so, for mani
fest reasons. But in both alike the
counties of the state and the states of
the Union are figured upon the same
basis and in this way they stand upon
a level for comparison.
According to this table, Allegheny
county imports less than any other.
Randolph comes 57th in the list; Chat
ham, 50th; Alamance, 65th; Guilford,
96th; Davidson, 53rd; Montgomery
39th; and Moore, 41st. Mecklenburg
is at the bottom of the list, importing
more food and feed than any other
county.
AN OLD FRIEND RETURNS
Baltimore Sun.
We have been looking a long time
for the arrival of everybody's friend,
General Prosperity, but the General
!r undoubtedly heve at last. He has
come hand in hand with spring, and
promises to grow as fast as the leaves
and grass, and to increase and multi
ply in size every week. The stock
markets always know when he has
come back, and the way they have
been "carrying on" for the last few
days shows that financial nerve cen
tres have recovered their 'confidence
and their courage. People who deal
in money and its equivalents are easy
to frighten and hard to reassure, and
when they come out of hiding and be
gin to grow enthusiastic, we can feel
that everything is getting all right
again. It has been a long lane of
doubt and depression, hut we have
passed the turning point and are on
the high road to good times. The
glad season of spring is doubly wel
come this year in bringing ub busi
ness health and activity as well as
suniftiine and Sowers.
Washington, D. C, with 100KK) ne
groes, has the largest .colored' popula
tion of any city i the United States.
to 1894.
He har always taken jrreat inter
est in schools and has been a member
of the school board of AAehoro for
many years, giving up thi position
when he casse to Raleigh.
Having been raised on the farm ad
owning a farm near Asheboro he has
always taken a special interest is
farming and those things which would
advance the farming class of the S
Being a Confederate veteran
member of the North Carolina 1
erans Association, and a Colonel
General Carr's staff, he has al
taken a keen interest in every
that would aid those old soldier?'1 iftw
need assistance in their derljitnjr
days. He was one of the prime iv
era in the establishment of 'he Sol
diers' Home at Raleigh, and as' au
ditor, it gives him pleasure that he
has an oversight over this inHtuJion.
He is vice-president of the Home and
was one of the members of the Sol
diers' Home Board when it was first
established. -. 3 '
Col. Wood was married on Septem
ber 4, 1872, to Miss Henrietta Guriter,
of Durham, and three children blewsd
that union. Thess are Mrs.,, J..! 0.
Redding, Mr. Jonn wooti mm
W. A. Underwood. Mrs. Wood elicd
about 20 years ago.
He is a member of the Mettuxltst
church and has been a steward wt
1866. He has always had Id strong
love for fraternal orders and Y a
momher of the Knights of ryiVev
Masons, Royal Arch Mason?
Fellows, Junior O. U. A. M.j;
i-
i '
1 .
"St
ASHEBORO SHOULD HAVE A
PUBLIC LIBRARY
Every town, no matter how small,
should have a public library as soon
as possible.. "It should be the town's
best investment, paying the largest
dividends in education, character, cul
ture and development," says one writ-
Some of the advantages of a public
library are summed up by the Thom-
asville Times as follows:
A public library in our community
would be an influence for good every
day in the week.
It would make the town more at
tractive to the class of people we want
as residents and neighbors.
A library would be the center of our
social and istellectual life asd would
stimulate the growth of clubs for
study and debating.
We need a library to carry forward
the education of the children who
leave school at an early age; to give
them a better chance for self-educa
tion.
To enable adults to get an education
who have lacked or failed to make use
of early opportunities.
To provide fresh, strong, wholesome
books for young and old, rich a"d
poor, for the teacher and the pupil
for the student and the working man
We all want a library for ourselves:
for our neighbors, for the good of our
town. Why not establish it now and
be getting the good out of it?
IT MUST BE TRUE
Asheboro Readers Must Come to That
Conclusion.
It ift not the telling of a sinir' onsr
m Ar,'-boro. but a number of citaeiin
testify. Endorsement by people you
know bears the stamp ef truth Th
following is one of the public state
ments made in this locality about
Doan's Kidney Pills:
S. W. Presnell, liveryman, S. Fay
etteville Street, Asheboro, N. C says:
"I used to have bad spells with my
back and my kidneys acted too freely
at times, then again they were con
gested. I felt restless and nervous
and had dizzy spells. I have taken
Doan's Kidney Pills off and on for ten
years when I have had these attacks
and have always found them just as
represented, getting quick relief.
When a cold affects my kidneys,
Doan's Kidney Pills never fail to help
me right away."
Price 50c, at all dealers. "Don't
simply auk for a kidney remedy get
Doan's Kidney Pills the same that
Mr. Presnell had. Foster-Milburn Co.,
Props., Buffalo, N. T.
FAITHFUL "BLACiMAMMY"
The old "black mammy" given to
Mrs. J. M. Cole when she was married
to Mr. Cole, in 1858, is still with them
in the same capacity as in slavery
days, having refused to leave the old
home when the slaves were freed.
This old colored woman ts now 69
years of age, and looks after the
chickens and cows as was her wont
in the days before the war; and to
say that she enjoys all the comforts
is putting it mildly, for there is noth
ing too good for old "Mammy
Moore County News.
I nd
I ill
w. ouiu a medicine give
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy a trial
y will understand why It has become
so popular zor coughs, colds
txoup. For sale by all dealers.
DOCTORS MUST REPORT
A recent bulletin, of the State
Board of Health calls atention to the
fact that doctors, midwives, end un
dtwtakers have been delinquent ir. re
porting births and deaths to tho local
registrars as required by the Vital
Statistics law. The le.w requires thfe
doctors, midwives, and undertakers to
report thes matters without the regis
trar having to look them up and ask
for the information.
"Leprosy is curable and there is lit-
tfe danger of contracting the disease,
(;s I have shown by having none but
prous servants In my house for
years, says Dr. Adolph Uoehner, who
has recently arrived In this country
fi-om Siam.
TV a
... -.JS
BOR.4K A FLY PREVENTIVE
Thc Bulletin of the United States
Department oC Agriculture! speuking
of the favorable results obtained by
use of borax on manure piles to
cure iiy larvae says: ii possesses a
marked larvicidal action and appears
to exert no permanent injury on the
fertilizing vaiuo of the manure.'
The Bulletin reckons the cost of bo
rax treatment, usin.tf ordinary com
mercial borax costing 5 to 6 cents per
pound ,to be one cent per horse per
day, and recommends about a pound of
borax to every 15 cubic feet or twelve
bushels of manure immediately after
its removal from the stable, or in oth
words, about a pound per horse per
week. It further advises the sprint
ling of the borax through any fine
sieve over the manure especially
around the outer edges if placed in a
pile and that the whole be sprinkled
with three to five gallons of water.
While the State Board of Health
would not for a moment frown on the
use of borax where borax is needed
or where for some reason prompt re
moval of manure seems out of the
question, but attention should be call
ed to the neglect of ordinary cleanli
ness. In other words, beware of per
fume where a bath is needed.
CALOMEL DYNAMITES A SLUG
GISH LIVER
Crashes into Sour Bile, Making You
Sick and You Lose a Day's Work
Calomel salivates! It's mercury.
Calomel acts like dynamite on a slug
gish liver. When calomel comes into
contact with sour bile it crashes into
it, causing cramping and nausea.
If you feel bilious, headachy, consti
nated and all knocked out, just go to
your druggist and get a 50-cent bottle
of Dottson's Juiver lone, wnicn is t
harmless vegetable substitute for dan
gerous calomel. Take a spoonful and
if it doesn't start your liver and
straighten you up better and quicker
than nastv calomel and without mak
ing you sick, yeu just go back and get
vour monev.
If you take calomel today you 11 oe
sick and nauseated tomorrow; besides
it mnv salivate VOll. while if VOU take
Dodson's Liver tone you will wake up
feelintr srreat. full of ambition and
ready for work or play. It's harmless
pleasant and sate to give 10 ennuren
they like it.
UTILIZE THE CORN
In these days of high-priced wheat
it is well to remember that corn me;
in many instances, is fitted to take
the place of flour if properly handled
The United States Department of Ag
riculture has gotten out a most useful
bulletin, telling all about corn meal
and how to use it. The pamphlet con
tains 60 recipes ranging from com
meal mush to most elaborate confec
tions prepared with corn meal as a
bask
This bulletin, to which The Courier
has referred in the past, may be had
by anyone ,who will take the trouble
to write the United States Department
of Agriculture, Washington, D. C,
and ask for Bulletin No. 565.
SHOULD NOT FEEL
DISCORUAGED
So man? neople troubled with indi
gestion and constipation have been
benefitted by taking Chamberlain's
Tablets that no one should reel dis
couraeed who has not given them :
trial. They contain no pepsin or other
digestive 'ferments but strengthen the
stomach and enable it to perform its
functions naturally, tor sate by all
dealers.
VIBGINIA-CAROUNA BALL
GAMES
Five thousand people attended the
VirgiMa-Carolina baM game at Greens
boro, April 10. It is said that 72S
automobiles were counted at one time
aroun4 the gates of the park and in
the Steeet. The Rrealer part of these
thousands were Carolinians, yet the?
had to Bee their team go .dawn in de
feat, ihe score being o to 2 in favor
of Yirjp'nia.
However, the Carolinians evened up
the argument witih their ncient ri
vals by a score of 8 to 5 at Durham,
on Monday afternoon. Tis game
was also attended by an immense
crowd, and the Tar Heels eelebrated
their victory in great style.
HOOVER HILL MINE
Hoover Hill gold naiae, near Cara
way, owned by Mr. Lee Briles, is now
reported tm be turning out rich ore.
The mine was formerly worked by
another company to a depth of 350
feet; and at this point In the sottom
of the (haft, the ore was found to be
very good. Another vein of rich ore
ten feet wide has recently been found
at a depth of 150 feet. The value of
the ore in this nine varies from $10
to $500 per ton.
NOTICE
Having qualified as administrator
on the estate of Mrs. Swanna Daw-
kins, deceased, before J. M. Caveness,
Clerk of the Superior Court of Ran
dolph county.
All persona having claims against
said estate are notified to present
them to the undersigned, duly verified
on or before the 8th day of April,
1916, or this notice will be nleaded in
bar of their recovery; and all person
owing said estate will come forward
and make immediate settlement.
Tiiis 6th day of April, 1915.
ARTHUR ROSS, Admr.
ITEMS OF LIVE NEWS GATHER.
Ei) FROM OUR EXCHANGES
AND CONDENSED IN BRIEF
FORM FOR BUSY READERS.
The British government has decided
.igainst p'.acinj
cotton 011 the contra- 1
and list.
General Julian S. Carr, of Durham,
will be the principal speaker at Oak
Ridge commencement, May 18.
John Gardner, aged 99, the oldest
active banker in the United States,
died in Norwalk, Ohio, last week.
General Huerta, the Mexican trou
ble maker, is in New York City, he
says, for business and pleasure.
A St. Louis minister recently pray
ed for those of the congregation, who
were too proud to kneel and too lazy
to stand, says an exchange.
The total number of free seed pack
ages sent out Dy tne unuea oiaies
government this spring will amount to
75,000,000.
The solid silver gold-lined commun
ion service was stolen from St. Tim
othy's Lutheran church, Wilson, last
week.
The commissioners of Greensboro
have awarded to R. G. Lassiter, of
Oxford, the contract for laying ap
proximately 75.000 sauare yards of
paving, the cost to be $87,350.
The death of fifteen persons, ten of
whom are women, in the collision of a
trolley car and a freight, in Detroit,
last week, is charged to the mexpen
ence of a student motorman.
Chief Gunner's Mate Crilley went
288 feet under the water last week,
and walked along the top of the sub
marine F 4, which disappeared
near Honolulu, March 25th. This
said to be the world's diving record.
After investigating under the food
and drugs act, a large number of prep
arations advertised as consumption
cures, the Department of Agriculture
has not been able to discover any that
can in any sense be regarded as
"cures" for tuberculosis.
Great Britain has offered a "full
and ample apology" to the Chilean
government for the sinking on March
14th, in waters belonging to Chile of
the German cruiser Dresden, the in
ternment of which had already been
ordered when the Britivr souadron at
tacked the German.
W. T. Mangum, superintendent of
Durhum county home, has resigned
As the result of charges that have been
made or were liable to be made
against him because of a whipping ad
ministered young Wesley Perry pris
oner at the home, for some slight
breaking of the rules.
England experienced the second
Zeppelin raid one night last week,
when German airmen made an exten
sive flight over the northeast coast.
Very little damage was done, owing to
to the fact that the cities and towns
in that part of England were prompt
ly thrown into darkness. One or two
people were slightly injured.
Mrs. Martha E. Grissom, mother of
the late Eev. W. L. Grissom, of
Gxeensboa-o, died at the home of her
son in Spencer, recently, at the age of
76 years. The deceased is survived by
two sons and a daughter, H. B. Gris
som, of Spencer; E. K. Grissom, of
Montgomery county; and Mrs. Ida
Bmnacraft, of Greensboro.
Ray L. Jobson, a Kinston machinist,
has gone to Washington to exhibit to
Swretar? of War Garrison an infernal
machine fhat he almost expects to rev
olutionize warfare. The machine,
which he .calls a "land torpedo", con
sHU of a cylindrical tube, mounted
on a small chassis, a motor in the rear
end of the tube, and 200 pounds of
dry explosive packed away in an inner
receptacle.
Judge. C. C. Lyon dissolved the order
of restraint in the case of Dr. and Mrs,
3. A. Turner, of High Point, V3. the
city of High Point, the North Carolina
Public Service Company, and the Car
olina ;aad Yadkin River Railway Co.,
oae day last week. The injunction
was granted 'bjr Judge T. J. Shaw re
cently, stopping the construction of
eormectias tracks by the two defen
dant companies at High Point, and the
building f spur tracks to business
houses for the delivery of freight
GIVE SKIN TO HELP CHARITY
PATIENT
Six nurses, a physician, and the
wife of one of the patients at St. Leo's
Hospital, Greensboro, have recently
volunteered to have skin grafted from
their bodies to the body of a little boy
of six or eight, a charity patient, who
was accidently burned in a serious
manner a few days ago. Two brothers
of the little patient refused to submit
to the operation to help the little fel
low, but the others responded and
each was asked to give only a small
piece of skin to hasten the healing
process. It is now expected that the
child will recover rapidly.
A DAVIE REPUBLICAN FAVORS
WILSON ADMINISTRATION
m Chcbtie 0!-.-rverJ
The U-:pi'.b:U'.m ncwsvnpnrs arc fi
lcnt in seven lnpi-uages when they
consider thai business is getting bct-
taP an,i better with every passing day.
When the G. O. P. leaders killed the
ship-purchase bill they thought they
had put a quietus on prosperity for at
least two years and they don't know
what to make of the wonderful im
provement in business now taking
place. Winston-Salem Journal.
The above was clipped from a Dem
ocratic paper published in North Car
olina, and deserves more than a pass
ing notice, for if it is a true indict
ment of the Republican party, every
honest, patriotic citizen of this coun
try should join with the Democrats in
1916 and relegate the once "Grand
Old Party" to utter oblivion. If Re
publican members of Congress (many
of whom voted against the ship-purchase
bill and are candidates for the
Presidential nomination) are made of
such stuff as described in the above
clipping, the sooner the people know
and realize who they are the better
for all concerned. No political party
deserves to win whose motives are so
sordid and whose patriotism is of such
a low standard.
Every citizen of this great nation
should vie with each other in uphold
ing the hands of "our President" in
his laudable efforts in observing a
strict neutrality while this terrible
war is raging across the seas. . Not
only should we stand by him, and "our
Government" so far as the European
war is concerned, but we should cheer
fully and wholeheartedly endorse his
course with reference to Mexico. Why
should any civilized and sane Ameri
can want to see our country go to war
in behalf of a lot of mongrel Mexican
greasers? The life of one good Amer
ican is worth a carload of Yaqui In
dians and Yucatan half breeds. This
is our country and 'our Government,
the peace, prosperity and happiness of
our people is of far greater import
ance than the success of any political
party either in 1916 or any other year.
If the above clipping is a true indict
ment and the rank and file of the Re
publican party becomes convinced of
the fact before the election in 1916,
the Republican candidate won't make
a black mark on the board. I cast my
first Republican vote for William Mc
Kinley in 1896. I was an admirer and
supporter of Mr. Taft in 1912, but
like all the rest of the Taft followers
in Davie was steam rollered in the
county convention and sat in mv seat.
flml heard a "irrand dilnnuent Kimnort-
cr of Mr. Roosevelt (with a commis
sion for a Federal office in his pocket
signed by President Taft) paw up the
dust and proclaim in the honor of his
triumph that all the people of Davie
county were for Roosevelt, except the
Democrats, "niggers" and Federal off
iceholders. Clearing out himself, of
course, for the duties of his office had
expired, but when the election came
on in November, Mr, Taft received
over 800 votes and Mr. Roosevelt a
few more than 300. Your scribe has
felt ever since that he was in better
company with the Democrats, "nig
gers" and Federal officeholders as al
leged, than he would have been had he
belonged to the gang that ran the 1912
Republican convention in Davie coun
ty. Because I have voted the Republican
ticket is no reason why I should en
dorse and uphold at this time all and
every position taken by the party (to
which I have given allegiance),
whether right or wrong. The time has
come in the life of this great Nation:
when all men should lay aside their
prejudices and stand out boldly and p
unequivocally for the right as they
see it. Fealty to party and party
principles is all right as long as those
principles are right and best for our
country and its people. We are now
crossing a dangerous stream and its
no good time to even discuss snap
ping horses. One country, one peo
ple and ono destiny.
E. H. MOKiiiS.
Mksville, April ".5. ' " '
AN OLD GOOSE
Mr. Editor:
While in the vicinity of Glenola, my
old friend and neighbor, Allen M.
Kearns, showed me an old goose chat
was raised by Samuel H. Hale, form
erly of Caraway, and was sold at his
sale and bought by Cicero Spencer.
Mr. Kearns bought her of Spencer 26
years ago. He says Spencer owned
her for two years, making said goose
28 years old since sale. There is no
one living that knows how old she was
when first sold. She might have crown
the quill the Declaration of IndeDen-
donee was written with. Mr. Kearns
told me the old goose had laid every
spring since purchased till this SDrinir.
She was out in the snow the 15th of
March and it is supposed her feet
froze, so she cannot walk. My friend
showed me a flock of fine geese, that
he said were her offspring. Besides,
he had sold a great number of fat
geese for Thanksgiving and birthday
dinners. He could not approximate
the number he had sold.