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T H TfTtntt I l il t Mi W fclt i H'lif . i l' y,i1 y"v-'w:'v-' S TP tomrnw VOLUME XXXII NUMBER 4 LAURINBURG, N. C, 'THURSDAY. JANUARY 22, 1914. $1.50 PER YEAR, IN ADVANCE MR. G. H. RUSSELL TO j CONDENSED HEWS AiCOLUMN OF GET THE POSTOFFTCE FROM EVERYWHERE; " STATE NEWS Long Fight Over the Laurinburg Postoffice Finally Settled G. H. Russell Will be Named for the Postmastership and His Strongest Opponent, Mr. A. H. James, is Offered a Washington Job. -Mr. Mr. G. H. Russell will be Lau rinburg 's next postmaster and the? first Democratic officer to serve this people in fifteen years. During this period two mighty good men have held the position and have given a highly satisfac tory service to the public. On March 17th, 1899, Mr. W. H. Cooper became posmaster, having succeeded Mr. D. D. Me Intyre, who was the last Demo crat to serve the Laurinburg of fice, and for eight years gave to the patrons a service that was rightfully commended and served until June 10th, 1907, when Mr. W. H. Cox, the retiring post master, took charge under a re cess appointment made by Presi dent Roosevelt and which was confirmed December 17th, 1907. During the service of Mr. Cox and his efficient assistants the office has steadily grown and is now a second-class office and pays $2,000 per year, with most liberal allowance for clerk hire. The service given during Mr. Cox's term of office has been of highest class and the public has been served with politeness, dis patch and given the most courte ous treatment, and, like his prede cessor, althoicgh of a political faith that is not the popular one here, is one of the most univer sally liked men in Laurinburg. It is not a case of a fellow losing out, but the political custom to take it away from you of differ ent faith and give it to one who helped us to win the fight, it is what we often hear referred to as political pie. Mi. Russell needs no introduction to the pa trons of this office. He is known far and wide and his appoint ment is entirely satisfactory to all Laurinburg. Not even those who opposed him in the fight feel that he will not make Laurinburg as good postmaster as any who aspired to the position. It has been a hard fight, a long drawn out contest, and one of which the result has ever been a gamble. Mr. Russell received the en dorsement of Congressman Page early in the fight, in which were engaged Messrs. Russell, A. H. James, J. L. Paylor, L. A. Ta tum and J. C. Birmingham. This endorsement Mr. Russell receiv ed on June 21st, 1913, but as had been predicted, and was freely conceded would be the case, Sen ator Simmons held upv the ap pointment and contended that Mr. James be appointed instead. This objection to Mr. Russell on the part of Senator Simmons and the holding out of Congressman Page for the man, has kept the matter from being seltled for these seven months. There has been frequent talk of a dark horse, a third party winning the nomination, but the leading can didates, Messrs. Russeil and James, have stuck out to the last, and both of them have always contended that either one or the other be named. . Last Friday Senator , Simmons and Congressman Page held a conference and finally brought the matter to a close by agieeing upon Mr. Russell for postmaster, ship and offering Mr. James a position in the Census Bureau at Washington. At this time Mr. James has not definitely decided what he will do regarding the Washington job. While the name of Mr. Ru3sell has not been sent in by the Pres ident and the actual appointment has not been made, the with drawal of the opposition to him ; virtually means that he will re ceive the appointment, and it is expected that his name will be sent to the Senate this week. junk! BY WADE FERES. Now the turkey trot, tan go! Dr. Anna Howard Pshaw ! If Arkansas Maryland, what did Tennessee ? Isn't it getting about time for Woodville to have another school election ? According to recent reports from bacterial experts, it's get ting "rail' dang 'us" 'to be living at all. The indications are that it will eventually be about as hard to get married, legally speaking, as it is to slay married, generally speaking ! ."Now is the time," says an ad., "for the wise man to pro cure his cantaloupe seed." The question is, does the wise man buy 'era any more ? That old hen that set on ten eggs and hatched fifteen chicks, and on being carried to market (2) two miles away, laid thrice en route, evidently had some de lay. That reminds me, since they have got to V carrying eggs by "partial post,'a South Carolina carrier, I hear, y. is complaining that the yolk is heavier than he can bear. Why the duce, do you reckin', he don't beat it ? We are tald by some that "a radical reduction of the tariff" means that the country is going to the dogs. The dogs certainly have our sympathy ! Most of us do not appreciate the fact that every day begins a new year, and hence offers op portunity for new resolutions. Otherwise we would not have so much to do about the first of the year. The "New Freedom" enthusi asts say that the depression in business is nothing but "a safe and wholesome slowing up while it adjusts itself to changing con ditions," while the opposition points with knee3 shaking to the fate of the Irishman who turned loose to spit on his hand3 ! A writer asks, "Has any one yet found out what Huerta's offi cial vote in the electoral college was ?" I dunno, but I rather think it was a mistake. A Column of the Week's Happenings Throughout the World Told In Brief Gathered From Our Contemporaries and Boiled' Down For Our Read ers. . The Chinese parliament has been dissolved. The inhabitants of Albania are facing starvation. Chicago will have a wet and dry election in April. All the railroads of Portugal are tied up with a strike. Two Japanese towns have been buried in ashes from volcanoes. The first country to appoint a woman to a diplomatic post is Norway. s Twenty-five cities are after the proposed government armor plate plant. Princeton University has an annual shortage in funds of from $60,000 to $90,000. The public health service is investigating another new me thod of treating tuberculosis. President Wilson says no to the return of the "spoils" sys tem. The city of McColl has a new system of water works and elec tric lights. The official conduct of Judge Emory Speer of Georgia will be investigated by congress this week. A nation-wide campaign to se cure a constitutional amendment giving suffrage to women is planned, i In the placing of an order fon projectiles for use in the navy, Secretary Daniels, saved to the navy one million dollars. A committee appointed by. Sec retary Daniels have recommended the equipment of every battleship with at least one aeroplane. There is no longer any doubt about the fate of the Steamer Acilia. The Short Items of North Carolina News of ' General interest To Scotland County in Condensed Form For Exchange Readers Gathered from Con temporaries. Whitehead Klutz of Salisbury was Saturday appointed Secre tary of the International Boun dary Commission at a salary of $4,000 per year. Early Saturday morning fire destroyed the two principal build ing of Oak Ridge Institute and the Methodist Prostentant church entailing a loss of probably $40, 000. Three men lost thair lives Fri day in the main shaft of the Coggins Mine in Montgomery county. The men were riding the skip and when within about 100 feet of the surface, this turn ed over, throwing the men 200 feet to the bottom of the shaft. Lillie Baker, the four-year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Baker died at Greenville one day the past week. The child was known as the fat baby. Only a litlle more than four years old, she weighed 118 pounds. While playing with a dynamite cap Friday Robert, the six year old son of Mr: and Mrs. Frank H. Whishart of Lumbe'ton lost the greater part of his hand when the cap exploded. Only one fing er remained and the ones blowTn . off could not be found. GOV. COLE L. BLEASE'3 MESSAGE LEGISLATURE South Carolina's Governor Sends Message to .General Assembly That is Biting and Sarcastic Attacks Josephus Daniels and Editor Gonzales, of Columbia State Wants Smoking in Restaurants Stopped. Following the finding of the body..of William Lawson a far mer k Surry County buried in a 'Lit, " L)Uucr,v 'grave, two ot' his sons agd 17 and 20 years have con fessed to the killing and claim that they did so in defense of their mother. Mrs. Catharine Williams Mc Fadyen, a Missionary of the Southern Presbyterian church and wif& of Dr. A. A. McFadyen German ; a Missionary-physician at Hsu steamer , chonf u, China died at that station with its crew of 48 and 50 pas- of pneumonia Friday night. Mrs. sengers is lost. McFadyen was a daughter of Mr. It is thought by some thatlhe and Mrs. Jno. Williams of Lin action of Gen. Huerta in holding den, Cumberland County, up interest payments was a de- In a statement to the press, liberate move to force interven- Congressman Page denied that tion. he has or will take any hand in A bold bandit boarded a West- sht being waged against W. em and Atlantic passenger train j ?' Hammer who is a candidate atVinings, Ga., Friday night, jor District Attorney. It has robbed the passengers of several been said that Congressman Page hundred dollars and after engag- was aidin his brother wno 18 ing a deputy sheriff, who was a wing the fight. Senators Over- . . ..... - TTWn nrr Cimmntia rrn coin tnnt passenger, in a pistol duel jumped; TT naramer would De appointeo. from the train at Dalton, Ga. Thos. F. Ryan said of Presi dent Wilson, "The only trust I know is to trust the President. I am willing and glad to do that and so ought everybody to be, after what he has done. He is a great man :nd a great President, and the greatest thing about him Mis. Fields Fnteiiains Music Club. The St. Cecilia Music Club held a most delightful meeting with Mrs. J. T. Fields as hostess. The program was, as U3iial, most en joyableit had these selections : Piano solo, from Tannhauser, -by G. Larere. bv Miss Rosa Caldwell. selection from La Traviata, by j is that he plays no favoiites Miss Eva Covington ; preludes, by Chopin, by Miss Katie Mc Lean; vocal solo, "Sognal," Miss ! Covington; piano duet, "Capri can te," by Waco, Mr3. John John D. Shaw and Mrs. Walter McEa chin; current topics, Mrs. Cal vin McKinnon. Mrs. Fields serv- Raleigh News and Observer. Many laws of an unusual na ture were recommended for pas sage by Governor Cole L. Blease in his annual message to the Gen eral Assembly of South Carolina! He suggested among other things legislation to prohibit football playing, and in this connection incorporated in his message a newspaper article concerning deaths in football accidents last autumn. One of the most drastic acts which he proposed was as fol lows : "I respectfully recommend that you pass a law prohibiting the board of trustees of any State college in this State for white pu pils, or any public school for white children which receives any of the tax money of the peo ple of the State, or any faculty of any such institution, from ad mitting any negro, Chinese, Ja panese, Cuban, or other disagree able and incompatible race, into said college or school with white pupils." The Governor included Cubans as a fling at his enemy, Wm. E. Gonzales, formerly editor of the Columbia State, now U. S. min ister to Cuba, who is of Cuban ancestry. In another part of his message the Governor said of Mr. Gonzales that he is now "where he belongs." $; The Governor recommended with emphasis the passage of an "act prohibiting any white per son from teaching in negro schools or from teaching negro children." He also recommend ed a law "which would have the effect of disbanding negro lodges." He asked the lawmakers to re quire the editor or manager of a newspaper which published an injurious or erroneous statement concerning a person to publish a correction "in the same column of the same page, and with as large headlines as the original article appeared wherewith the oerson was misquoted or mis represented." JN umerous otner laws were re commended for passage in the Governor's message, which was printed book of sixty-eight A couple of colored boys living near Gaff ney, S. C, aged nine and eight year had a disagree ment while playing. The elder boy notified his younger compan- .1.1 i , ion tnat ne was going to snoot ; him, and goins to his home se- ! pnrprl n onn nnH rptnrnintr shot. ed elegant refreshments assisted j the boy in the gomach inflicting by her little daughter, Miss Ma-! a wound from which he later ry andMiss Eugenia, and Mar-! e(j tha Fairley. J3er invited guests i were : Mis. John McDougall, of I As the pallbearers were leaving Wilmington, Mrs. Will James, j the home of R- D- Lankford, of Mrs. Robert Correll and Miss ! New York vice -President of the Rose Duer. ' Southern railway, with his body, - . the coroner interfered and re- Whst the Virginians Foand 0in j fused to let the .body be buried The Richmond bankers who ; until a box belonging to the rail came to ask for the co-operation j road man had been turned over of North Carolina in securing one; to him. Lankford was found ot the regional banks, discovered jpa(i 1a,t wppk nf1 fhp to their dismay that while North ' ?ad Iast week andTth. Carolina is not. the mother of0 advanced. Nothing was President i u? v is she a door-i found- in the box to throw any mat. Charity cu?d Children. light on the question. In setting aside a verdict for j $70 given by a Cabarrus County jury against J. C. Horner of Hor ner's Military School to M. F. Teeter, Judge Harding said that if a principal of a school could not have authority over the stu dents the school would have to close its doors. Teeter's son had been sent home because of his in fraction of the rules and his fa ther was suing for the return of the tuition monev. G. J. Hart of Wilmington, who held a position as clerk in the of fice of the Wilmington, Bruns wick and Southern Railroad was discharged because of a telephone conversation he held over the wires of the Southern Bell Com pany, and now he is suing the telephone company because the said company permitted the con versation to become public when it should have been private. The very person he desired to keep ths matter a secret from, within a few moments after he had the chat, dropped into his office, re peated the conversation and sep arated him from a job which paid $100 per month, and now he wants the telenhone people to Pay him $5,000. a pages ATTACKS SECRETARY OF THE NAVY. Mr. Gonzales was not the only person at whom Governor Blease took a fling. Repeating state ments he made in a newspaper interview last year, the Governor in his message inveighed fiercely against Josephus Daniels, secre tary of the navy, who aroused Mr. Blease's ire by saying he would not make improvements at the naval station at Port Royal unless the sale of "blind tiger" liquor to the men at the barracks was stopped. This the Governor took as a reflection on his manner of enforcing the liquor laws. Mr. Blease said.: Josephus Daniels is a very small man and is not of the men tal calibre to fil' the position to which he has been nppointed. So far as I am concerned I want him distinctly to understand that am not askins: for any of his Yankee money, never have pan dered for it. and would not bow to him or any other man to ge it. and if the condition of his giving it is for me to beg for it he can keep it in the United States treasury and I believe thi3 is the sentiment of the peo pie of this State either keep it in the treasury or stick it in his ears, as may best suit him." Governor Blease also bitterly attackad in his message Judge H. A. M. Smith, of the United States District Court at Charleston, who, he declared, was retaining his position on the State histori cal commission, violating the pro vision of the State constitution that more than one office of pub lic trust or honor shall not be held by the same man at the same time. Governor Blease char acterized Judge Smith as "a lit tle cheap partisan politician," and said of him : "Next time. he sentences some one he should say, 'I am also a violator of the law ; you can't sentence me, but I will sentence you ; you are a common citizen, but I am big (?) judge ; I can violate the law ' and defy it, but, you little shrimp, I will teach you a les son." SAYS STATE'S RIGHTS MARCHED ON. Governor Blease sounded the alarm in hi3 messasre that "the United States government not only under the Republican ad ministration, but now under the Democratic administration is daily encroaching upon the rights of the States, and takinsr from them the Dowers which have been theirs, nnd which of 4rii?hk belong to them under the constitution." "One of the greatest and no blest battles ever waged," he continued, "was fought in the sixties for State's rights, and we cherish the memory of those who gave their lives in that great cause. Now, are we to sit idly by and see , their work undone, and the results achieved by them set at naught ? It is time we should begin to ask ourselves the question, what are our rights ? and to arise in defense of them. Some of you may consider it a ight matter, but it is serious, and getting more serious every day, and if some effort is not made to stop it, it will soon be too late." The Governor mentioned. sev eral laws which he said had re cently been passed by Congress and which he said were an en-' croachment on the State's rights. "I notice one," he said, "fix- ing dates tor minting purposes within the borders of our State. This is only an effort to protect a certain set of Northerners, who come down 1 ere and buy up large tracts of land and then prohibit our home people from hunting on it. The United States govern ment, because these people are rich,' is attempting, in their in terest, to deprive the people of our State of their God-given lib erty and right to hunt and fish for the game and fish which an all-wise Providence had provided free to all mankind." - SMOKING IN RESTAURANTS. The Governor has aSked the Legislature to pass a law prohib iting smoking in restaurants fre quented by women. He discuss ed this matter at length, saying in part : 4 'Those of you who are as old as I, will recall the time in South Carolina when if a gentleman smoked a pipe or a cigar while walking along the street by the side of a lady, he was not regard ed as wTell reared ; and such a thing as smoking while riding in (Continued on page five) 1 .s. il i i1 t Vi t f
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