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THE COURIER gSSggSaMMMlIK I. ,. ' ' ".,1, , MT-. - ' ' 1-,' - ; - Iff j- - f . MTrBr.-,T . - t ... m M-mi.- - ISSUED WEEKLY PRINCIPLES. NOT MEN ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR VOL. 40 Asheboro, N. C., Thursday, October 21. 1915 No. 44 WHERE WILL YOU STAND NEXT TUESDAY NIGHT ? HEARD IN THE COUNTY RAMSEUR NEWS LETTER GENERAL NEWS ITEMS FATHER AND SQN KILLED THE 6.SST SECTION OF THE LAST PERIOD CLOSES TUESDAY AT o 9 P. V YOUR VERY BEST THE FEW REMAINING DAYS OF THIS SLfc. ON THERE WILL AFTER Th "LOSE OF THE What a Club Meai. . Between New and Tuesday Night. Every club of ten annual subscrip tions to the Courier entires the con teet.nt to a certificate for 85,000 ex tra votes. Add to this extra 85,000 votes the 15,000 regular votes for ten annual subscriptions and the total number of votes for a club of ten amoants to 100, 000. These extra votes mr.ke winning easy for the candidates who ta!:e ad vantage of the opportunity. Begin to get the subscriptions now, don't wait until the last minute and expect to beat the other fellow. The more clubs the more votes. Make a special effort to get your friends to organize a club for you. The first section of the last period of this contest closes Tuesday night at 9 o'clock, p. m. The Premium Ballots. In addition to the extra votes for a club of ten annual subscribers there is an offer of extra Premium Ballots which you cannot afford to neglect if you want to win one of the cap'tal prizes. The easiest way to increase - your standing and put yourself in line for one of the grand awards is to get fcusy and win one of these extra Prunium Ballots. No offer could be more fair to the contestants. Five extra Premium Ballots are to be awarded to the contestants in each of the three districts regardless of the amount of work done heretofore. The -contestant who turns in the most money from each of the three districts !before Tuesday sight will be award ed the first and largest of the extra ballots and those from each district who turn in lesser amounts wiU re ceive the other ballots in proportion to the amount which tbey turn in to the coatest dt part meat. This first seetbn of lbs last period of the .contest oloses Tuesday night at 9 o'tkck, aid subscription mailed must bear postmark before 9 o'clock. November 2nd, to be credited on the offer for this section of the contest Th Extra Offer. A 400,000 Vote Ballot will .toe giw.n to the contestant securing the largest amount of nuney in each of the three districts between today and November 2nd, at 9 p. pi. The contestant rece'reing the second largest amount in eaith of the three districts, will receive 300,000 Vote Ballot The contestant securing the thtnl largest amount in each of the .three districts will receive 2!K))00 Vie Bal lot. The contestant receiving the fourtl largest amount in each of the three districts will receive 130,000 Vote Bal lot. The contestant securing the fifth largest amount in each of the three districts will receive a luO.OOQ Vote Ballot. Remember this offer applies to each of the three districts. This grand offer of extra ballots commences Friday October 15, and ends Tuesday November 2, at 9 p. m. Every Vote Valuable. Do not forget the fact that some times the race is remarkably close at the finich, even one more sub scription may make the difference to you between success and failure. It would seem very hard to miss what you want by just a few votes. Make it certain that you have left no stone unturned up to the last moment. If you should lose then you will have no reason to reproach yourself. If ytu win by a narrow Margin how happy you will be to think you overcome your inclination to neglect some last char.ce for votes. Just a Few More Words, There are but a few more dnys be fore the close of this first section of the last period of the contest. These last few days may be valuable if you use them to the best advantage. Few people will refuse you a subscription if you will go to them with the proper appeal for help. Will you go to those from whom there is a chance of getting a subscription, or leave it to your more enterprising rival ? BE PLENTY OF TIME TO REST CONTEST. Ask Your Friends to Help. Ask your friends to use a few spare hours in getting subscriptions for you If they even find one person who is willing to give a subscription it may be of the greatest importance fc you You want all the help you can get now. No candidate should be over confident. Over-confidence engenders defeat. There are many enterprise; candidates in the field and ycu do not know at what hour they may forge ahead of you. Do not wait until the last minute to solicit the subscrip tions. Some other candidate may have been there befoie you. A Very Important Rule. One of the rules of th's contest is that the Courier must not be sold for less than the regular price one dollar a year. Hereafter in this contest vot ing certificates will not be issued for subscriptions unless accompanied by a written statement signed by the con testant who turns in tho subscriptions to the effect that the subscriptions were taken at the regular price. (Continued on page 4.) TO HOLD FLOWER SHOW Woman' Department Club to Hold Flower Show List of Prizes Fancy Work Exhibit. The Woman's Department Club of Asheboro will hold a flower show in November. The proceeds of the show will .sro to further the work on the school grounds. The public is cordial ly invited to attend and assist the la dies in raising money Cor this work. Refreshments will be served. An admissio fee of ten cents will he charged. Frizes 1. Best geaeral collection of potted .plants. $5. Bank of Randolph. 2. Largest bloom on potted plant any variety, silk petticoat. Wood amtfMr. Kennedy. Moring. 3. Finest plant, ihree blooms, white, umbrella, R. C. Johnson. 4. Finest plant, three Jilooms, yel low, bedroom slippers, Coffin .& Scar- boro. 5. Finest plant, three blooms, pink piece of chin.a McCrary-Eedding Hardware Co. 6. Finest plant, half dozen blooms, white, prize, Cox & Lewis Hardware Co. 7. Finest plant, half dozen hlooras, pink, toilet articles, Standard Drag Co. 8. Finest plant, one half dozen blooms, jellow., statioacry, Asheboro Drug Co. 9. Fisest plant, half dozen blooms, bronze, water t--et, C. T. LofJin. 10. Finest xiiant, one dozen "blooms, mixed variety, 3 lb. can coffee. Lex ington Grocery Co. 11. One vase ten largest blooms white, bucket of snowdrift, J. C. Han- ner & Son 12. One vase ten largest blooms pink, one lb. Ferndale Coffee, W. D. Stedman & Son. 13. One vase ten largest t1oom$. yellow, one lb. Stokes Everyday Cof fee, A. O. Ferree. Ferns. 14. Finest Sword Fern, prize from Bulletin office. 15. Finest potted springeri prize Asheboro Grocery Co. 16. Asparagus plcmosus, Tray, Miss Esther Ross. Fancy Work. 17. Best collection fancy fern, Reed woik, gold filled brooch, N. P. Cox. 18. Best embroidered centerpiece, in white, prize Hoover & McCain. 19. Best crocheted centerpiece in white, oil painted picture, O. R.Fox. 20. Best centerpiece m colors, cro cheted baby cap, W. W. Jones. 21. Best piece in eyelet embroidery, pair of H. Baker & Co. scissors, Ran dolhp Supply Co. In case the exact conditions for prizes cannot be complied with, the committee may make such changes as may fit the case. Time and place will be announced later. James L. Harbin, aged 17 years, died at his home in Statesville Friday from the effects of a pistol shot wound which occurred May 22. WHAT OUR TOWN CORRESPOND ENT THINKS ABOUT MATTERS OF PUBLIC INTEREST NEEDS OF ASHEBORO AH of the banks in Randolph county are in excellent condition. Times are good and all the wise people are boost-, ers. --i ' The price of cotton has been mov ing up for the past several weeks and the entire world is going Demo cratic next year. There is but one reason why the people are behind President Wilson and that is because Wilson is right. The crops in Randolph are all good and the big prices are boosting business as it has never been boost ed for years. Wonder what has become of the h'ttle two by four Republican who said last fall that the Wilson admin istration was the cause of the low prke of cotton. Next.year the Democrats of this county purpose to elect their entire ticket and don't you forget that, Advertising in the Courier pays because it is read by an intelligent, enterprising, and thrifty class of peo pie. This makes it a desirable me dium between those who have some' thing to sell and those who want to buy. Advertise in the Courier if you want business. Advertising rates are reasonable and they will be given upon application. It is abaut time for us to remember the tired clerks and do our Christ mas shopping early. if you can't enjoy the glorious month of October in Asheboro there is something wrong with your physical w mental condition and you may as well quit trying to enjoy anything that this world -offers. It was our opportunity to visit our friend. Mr. W. M. Kennedy, of Trinity township, one day last week and we found him its busy as a bee and happy on the way. He has a fine crop of corn and -tokacco. Mr. Kennedy is as expert maker of molasses and is well prepared to make the "golden drip" There is no downing such a .man aa I The writer had the pleasure .of visit ing Bennett Monday. It is a -.growing town and there is enterprise in lue very atmosphere down there. Loo out for Bennett, it is coming. Look rt the date on the label oppo site your name and see if your sub scriptioT- is paid up. If it is expired or will soon expire put a dollar bill in envelops- with your name and address and mail it to some candidate in The Courim contest. Every automobile not having a s-lf- starter has to be wound uphy a crank and some arc wound up by .two cranks lit an optimist, it will make you fed better and will make every one else fot-1 better. The members of the Methodist church at Iiiscoe are contemplating the building of a modern new brie house -.of worship. Anyway, if you have the price, you can go to the great State Fair at Ral eigh this week, so there's little room for kicking after all. Good roads should be a natural con sequence. When living in the country miles are veduced to minutes, country and town become neighbors with the balance in favor of the country. feilow citizens and countrymen After we get all the public roads lead ing into Asheboro graveled we will have time to take up the task of mak ing Asheboro better and brighter, Have patience, go slow. Who knows but that we are on the eve of a big boom ? From what we have ben able to learn from interviewing the farmers of this county they will put in much more wheat this year than heretofore. The school fund is the biggest tax item in the county and the county has abundant reason to boast of its splon did public school system, and to point with pride to its remarkable progress within a few years. There is need of a cotton mill Ashoboro. Asheboro has everything a town could need except a cotton mill. If our moneyed men would co-operate and build one it would be a great thing for the town. Several families from Surry county have moved to Brower township and are making tobacco with their own ef forts. They constitute a small settle- men of prosperous farmers who are good neighbors and prosperous inhab itants of the commtmity. We want DEATH OF MISS FLETA PARKS- GOOD FARMING ITEMS OF LO CAL INTEREST. Messrs. Max and Robert Wagger, of Randleman, visited friends here Sun day- Misses Ometa Bray and Edith Scott spent the past week in Greensboro. Misses Jessie Whitehead and Edna Brady and Messrs. Earle Frazierand Fred Finison went, to Pinehurst Sun day to spend tho day. Mr. and Mrs. Best Brady, of Greens boro, were recent visitors in town. Mr. John T. Turner is not only a fine furniture maker but a very suc cessful farmer. His corn and pota to crops were fine. Messrs. Geo. Elliott and Ralph Rus sell, of Randleman, spent Sunday ir town. Mrs. M. A. Stedman recently visit ed her daughter, Mrs. Kelly, all San ford. Messrs. Hocut Way and Dewey Whitehead, of Guilford College, spent Sunday with relatives and friends. Miss Fleta Parks, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thos. B. Parks, died at her home Oct. 17th. . She was a most es timable Christian young lady and was loved and esteemed by a large circle of friends and relatives. Her father preceded hjr to that better land in May, and her death following so soon falls very hoavily on the devoted family. May God's richest grace sus tain and comfort the grief-stricken family. The many friends of Mr. W. H. Wat kins will regret very much to learn that he has been confined to the house for several days. Mr. Chas. Crawley, f Greensboro, was a popular visitor here last week. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Watkins, of Greensboro, spent tbj past several days with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Watkins. Rev. W. O. Johnson filled his pulpit in the Baptist Church Sunday preach ing very able and interesting sermons. Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Coble returned Saturday from their bridal trip to Washington, New York and other points. They will reside in Greens boro. Mr. and Mrs. Hornbuckle, of Gib- sonville, were recent visitors at Mr. E W. Edwards. They returned home Sunday afternoon. Mr. Leo. Barker and Miss Annie As bury, of Asheboro, visited friends here Sunday. John W. Stout has opened a general stora in the eastern suburbs of the town. DEATH OF SIRS. HOOKER Mrs. Julia Hooker, daughter of Wm. Smith, and widow of the late Odom Hooker, died Sunday at the home of her son, Sam Hooker, after a lingering illness of nine months. Mrs. Hooker was 74 years of age, a member of the Presbyterian church here and a woman of excellent charac ter. Two daughters, Mesdames J. F. Lewis and Wm. Lewallen, and two sons, Messrs. W. M. and Sam Hooter, survive. Funeral services were conducted Monday morning at the M. E. church by Rev. J. E. Thompson, and the re mains were interred in the M. E. cem etery. DISTRICT MEETING OF THE JR. O. U. A. M. Th district meeting of the Jr. O. U. A. M. of the 12th district will meet in Asheboro the 27th and 28th. This dis trict comprises the counties of Ran dolph, Guilford, Rockingham, Caswell and Alamance. The membership in this division consists of about nine or ten thousand. Quite a number cf del egates are expected, and also National Councilor C. B. Webb and State Coun cilor W. A. Cooper. Thursday night, the 28th, will be a public meeting to be held in the school auditorium, and all citizens are invit ed to be present. Every mpmbei' of this organization, as well as other rep resentatives in Randolph county espe cially, are invited to attend ihese meetings. that sort of community sprinkled all over Randolph county, for the small farmer working his own place and permanently located is the highest type of permanent American development ITEMS OF LIVE NEWS GATHER ED FROM OUR EXCHANGES AND CONDENSED IN BRIEF FORM FOR BUSY READERS. Francis Joseph the aged emperor of Austria is reported very ill. Friday and Saturday of this neek the colored folks of Lexington will hold a county fair. The formal entry of Bulgaria in the war on the side of the central powers makes the twelfth nation now in the conflict. witMitJ j... Unofficial returns indicate that the cause of woman suffr-ige would bs defeated by a majority of nearly 50,- 000 at the electros held in New Jersey Monday. Mayor J. E. Bell, of Indianapolis, Ind.,was acquitted by a Marion county jury, after a trial lasting five weeks on the charge of election fraud con spiracy. The Salisbury Normal and Collegi ate Institute, the school for girls es tablished in Salisbury, opened its doors Wednesday morning for the 1915-16 session. Harper Lovette was killed last week while working at the Smoot tannery at North Wilkesboro. He was caucivt between a beam and crushed to death. The first moonlight school in David son county met in the West End Sun day School room, Lexington, Thurs day night Nine men, 4 white and 5 colored were arrested in Lexington Tuesday n warrants charging them with the illicit sale of whiskey. Arrangement for Farmer's Day and night at Troy is nearing completion The exhibit of farm products is ex pected to be the best ever seen in th county. Nedl McNeill, a prominent citizen St. Paul, Robesnn county, was fa tally hurt in an automobile accident at St. Paul Saturday morning when his car threw a front tire and turne "turtle." Miss Margaret Radcliff t, of Lexing ton, and Mr. W. H. Gonch, o? (Marks vtllc. Va., were married at. ,eing'.on KrVay. In an address at Indianapolis hist week Secretary McAdoo announced that the administration would press a measure for the unbuilding or th American merchant marine at the next session of Congress. The estimate for national expendi tures for next year, submitted last Friday, amounted to over a hundred million dollars more than ever before. The proposed increase of $150,000,000 for national defense is responsible for these figures. Vensstiano Carranza was formally recognized Tuesday as President of Mexico by the United States and the republics of South America. Henry P. Fletcher, at present American Aio bassudar to Chile, has been appointed to represent tho United States Gov ernment in Mexico. A plea for & navy which would make the TTmtprl Sf'ifoa ot.U ('.,.. any other world power, and a $40,000, 000 merchant murine to be used as a naval auxiliary in case of war, was made by William G. McAdoo, Secre tary of the Treasury, in an addroes before the commercial club of Kan sas City, Mo. Ncffotations with Germany looking to settlement of the cases of the Lusi tania, Cushing, Gulflight and Nebras kan will be resumed this week by Secretary Lansing and Count von Bernstorff, the German Ambassador. The agreement in the Arabia case h expected to mean prompt settlement in the cases named. Major J. C. Hemphill is to be man aging editor of a new paper to be es tablished at Charlottesville, Va. Ma jor Hemphill was for years editor of the Charleston News and Courier, then editor of the Richmond Ttmos Disspatch, then the Charlotte Observ er, and later of the editorial stoif of the New York Times and Philadelphia Ledger. The old frigate Franklin, flgship of Admiral Farragut on his trip to Europe at the close of the civil war, has been placed out of commission at the Norfolk Navy Yard, preparatory to being sold for junk. Tne Franklin has been a receiving ship at the Nor folk yard for many years. She is one of the last of the old wooden war ves sels of the navy and was built at Kit tery, Maine, in 1855-65. W. L. KIVETT AND SON BLOWN TO PIECES BY DYNAMITE EX PLOSION FORMERLY LIVED IN RANDOLPH. The accidental explosion of a quan tity of dynamite Saturday morning, the Kivett farm, on the Oakland road, two and one-half miles east of High Point, hurled W. L. Kivett and is 10-year old son, Burns Kivett, into eternity, and scattered their bodies, torn and unrecognizable, over 75 yards of ground. Kivetfc and his son together with a negro farm hand went to & field to blast stumps. The negro stated that he went into the woods a short dis tance away to cut a stick for tamp ing the charge of dynamite and there heard the explosion. Going back he looked for the man and loy but found only a yawning hole in the earth where he had left them only a few minutes before. After a search the mangled body of Burns Kivett was found in the- eastern part of the field, and in the opposite direction, about 25 yards from the scene of the explosion was found the fragments of Mr Kivett's body. Both bodies were mutilated to almost beyond recognition. How the deplorable accident occur red will never be known. However,. certain evidence gathered leads to the theory that the sticks of dynamite in the box exploded while Mr. Kivett and his son were standing on opposite- sides and leaning over the explosive. It is said Mr. Kivett was examining the caps and in some manner exploded one, which in turn set off the dynamite in the box, 11 sticks. Mr. Kivett was 49 years old and i survived by a widow and eight chil drcii. The funeral was conducted from the First Baptist Church, High Point, Sunday afternoon. W. L. Kivett, better known as Lar kin Kivett, was a brother of Mr, Carma Ktvett of Liberty Township,. Randolph county, and a brother-in-law of Mr. D. M. Holliday now of Greensboro but formerly county treas urer o.t Randolph county. Before moving to Guilford he owned a farm " two miles this side of Liberty adjoin-' ing the Kivett tan-yard tract. Ha raised great quantities of potatoes, onions, and cabbage on his farm. He astonished the community in produc ing more than five times the yield per acre as had ever been known in the section where he lived. He grew many potatoes and other products which he hauled to Asheboro and to the river towns. He grew so much on his firm and the markets were so far away he decided to move near :. larg? market, henco his reason for moving to a farm near High Point. He went there and ar.d pui chased about 250 acres of land and devoted his time largely to intens ive farming. It is said that he sold mjra than $2,000 worth of cabbage plants the last season ami did corre spondingly well in othw branches agriculture. He was just getting his farm to where it was becoming known .1,. f..:teLi i r throughout Guilford as a modef. STATE SUNDAY SCHOOL CON VENTION NOVEMBER 22-24. The Staty Sunday School Conven tion, which was to have been held this month, has been postponed u.uil November 22nd. The convention will meet in Salisbury, and everything indicates that this will be a fine meet ing. Dr. W. A. Brown, of Chxago, one of the International Superintend elents, will be present in this convene tion. Dr. Brown visited Randolph County last year and those who had the pleasure of hearing him then will no doubt be eager for an opportunity to hear him in the State Convention. The usual registration fee of $1.00 will be expected of the delegates this, year, but entertainment by the peo ple cf Salisbury will be free to all del egates, and the delegations are not limited. The Randolph County Sun day School Association hopes to have at least fifty delegates from Randolph in the convention this year. Some are planning to go in automobiles, and others by rail. Expanses in either case should not be heavy, and we hope there will be a large delega tion. Any one desiring information re garding the convention should confer with Miss Dora Redding, Randleman,. Rt. 3, or L. F. Ross, ABheboro, N. C, at an early date. i
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