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mm VOLUME XXXIII - NUMBER 28. LAURINBURG. N. C. THURSDAY. JULY 15, 1915. $1.50 PER YEAR, IN ADVANCE J. L. JAMES AND E. J. TILLMAN CHARGED WITH CONSPIRACY THINGS PERTAINING TO LIFE Editor of Laurinburg News and Private Citizen Arrested Upon a Charge of Conspiring to Defame Character of Judge Walter II. Neal Case Grew Out of Article Published in the News. A small-sized sensation was created here Wednesday after noon of last week when warrants were served upon J. L, James and E. J. Tillman, charging them with entering into a conspiracy to defame the character of Judge Walter H. Neal. The case grew out of a combi nation of happenings and cir cumstances that have been trans piring during the past few weeks. The beginning of the matter was a foreclosure proceeding in stituted by Judge Neal against a portion of the plant of the Lau rinburg News, Judge Neal repre senting the plaintiffs in the mat ter, who are the Dodson Printers' Supply Co., of Atlanta. Ga. Immediately following the seiz ure of that part of the News' plant involved, the paper appear ed in a small form, having been printed on a job press, and in the miniature issue, without calling names, intimated that something irteresting to the public would be forthcoming in the next issue. This came the following week and contained intimations of se rious charges that reflected upon the character of Judge Neal. The circulation of the paper caused much talk and comment. In the indictment against the defendants, it is charged that the two, both Mr. James and Mr. Tillman; conspired to defame the character of Judge Neal, and that Mr. James is one of the con spirators because of the fact that he assisted Mr. Tiliman in assem bling and publishing the charges made. The case will be heard before 'Squire H. O. Covington at the court house Monday next. Judge Neal is represented by Weather spoon & Russell, and Messrs. Tillman and James will be repre sented by Messrs. G. B. Patter son and Solicitor S. B. McLlean, of the Robeson county bar. PASSING OF GOOD WOMAN. Rambling Rumors. by '76." Snead's Grove, July 12. Layin'-by time. Miss Sarah Parrish, of Ben netts ville, S. C, is the guest of Mrs. P. M. Parrish. Misses Viola Jordan aid Mudd, of near Gibson, were pleasant visitors in our commu nity last week. Mr. J. A. Patterson, of Rae ford, was a Sunday visitor in our neighborhood. Messrs. W. P. and W. B. Snead spent last Thursday and Friday in Dillon county, S. C. Mr. S. A: Snead and family motored up to Lake View last Thursday to attend a picnic. Misses Mary Blue and Lucy Douglas Snead entertained with a singing last Sunday evening. The farmers in this section, generally speaking, are complain ing of a short crop of cantaloupes. Seems as if we orter git at least as much for them on the local market as we did last year, if short crops have anything to do with highering or lowering the price. By Harry M. North. M'NAIR MILLING CO. A NEW ENTERPRISE nr a TO OUR PATRONS. At a meeting of the directors of the Bank of Wagram, held Wednesday, July 7th, 1915, in structions were issued to the un dersigned Cashier that he must in the future refuse to pay all checks, the payment of which will cause the customers' account to be overdrawn. This step was made necessary because' of the growing habit of customers of this and other banks to abuse the privilege of over drawing accounts. And too, it is the part of good business. The rule safeguards the security and strength of the bank, and makes the institution safer, stronger and more dependable. W. T. CRUMP, Cashier Bank of Wagram. Adv. Miss Flora McNeill Dies After an liiness of Two Months End Came in Hospital. After an illness of two months, during which time she suffered much, Miss Flora McNeill, one of the most beloved women of Lau rinburg, died in the Highsmith Hospital, Fayetteville, Saturday at midnight. Miss McNeill had sought relief from the serious stomach trouble, with which she suffered, in va rious hospitals. She was first carried to Johns-Hopkins hospit al, in Baltimore, and finding no cure there, about three weeks ago came to the Fayetteville hospital. Despite the best medical skill and attention she continued to grow worse and the end came as above stated. She was born in Scot land, then Richmond county, and had spent her entire life of 70 years in this community. Ten years ago, with her nieces, Misses Flora, Ellen and Bess McNeill, she moved to Laurin burg from Spring Hill township and had since made Laurinburg her home. She was, until stricken, despite her years, a woman of wonderful activity, and as she went in and out among the people -who had learned to love and honor her so universally, she always perform ed the duties of life with such a gentleness of spirit and kindness of heart that her life became a sweet benediction to all who came in contact with it, and her passing. removes from. our midst one who will be sorely missed. The body, accompanied by a numbei of sorrowing friends and relatives, was brought to Laurin burg Sunday afternoon and car ried to her Laurinburg home on Main street, from where the funeral services were conducted Monday morning by Rev. J. M. Rose and Rev. J. M. Dixon, the burial being made in the city cemetery. Miss McNeill is survived by a number of close relatives, besides one brother, Hon. Franklin Mc Neill, of Raleigh. The pall bearers were : Messrs. W. D. B. McEachin, R. D. Phillips, M L. John, J. C. Morgan, A. F. Pat terson and N. P. Gilchrist. Among those from out-of-town here to attend the funeral of Miss Flora McNeill, Monday, we note Mr. James McPherson, Miss Kate McPherson, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Evans, Mr. J. G. Shaw and two sons, Duncan and Alexander, and Mrs. Fannie Mclntyre, of Fayetteville ; Mr. and Mrs. John McEachin, of Raeford, and Mr. Franklin McNeill, of Raleigh. Besides these three were many people from Wagram. Mr. A. T. McLauchlin, of At lanta, Ga., visited his brother, Mr. A. H. McLauchlin, here du ring the past week. The broth ers had not seen each other for fourteen years, and the fact these two are the only surviving mem bers of a family of ten children, made the meeting and visit one of peculiar pleasure to both of them. Monday brought the hottest weather we have had this year, or for that matter for two years. About noon just before the rain fell a standard thermometer, placed in the shade, registered 100, and an hour after, 98 de- grees. i his is tne hottest weath er, according to those who keep records, that we have had for more than two years. An effort is being made to get Mr. E. L. Cummins, of the Co operative Marketing Agency, un der the traffic department of the A. C. L. railroad, to talk to the truckers of Scotland county on the sale and distribution of ship ments of cantaloupes from this territory. It is probable that Mr. Cummins will be here Tuesday and will deliver the address in the court house. This will be a good opportunity for truckers to hear something to their great advantage.' THE You have accounted it tragedy when men would but can not ; yet I say that it is more tragic when one can but will not. Men speak eloquently and some times bitterly concerning those who beat up against the bars of their environment desiring to do the things which they may never do. But the tragedy of the soul that fails or goes wrong is worse than any other. Tragedies of time are not so great as eternal ones, and those of tha body not so terrible as tho3e of the soul. To begin with, how awful it must be for the. child who finds out for himself that father or mother is false. He h id been used from the beginning to look upon them as embodying all vir tue ; no breath of suspicion has come to it. Slowly it dawns up on him that his parents are living double lives ; or it may be that an angry neighbor will suddenly blurt out the terrible truth to the child, and ail in a moment it sees and understands. The very earth appears to have opened beneath his feet and there is no confidence to be found anywhere now. Fath er is bad, and mother is a com mon woman. The white drawn face of the little child speaks the asronv of his soul at such a dis covery, and when the night comes he lies sobbing in the little bed over a snattered faith. There is again the tragedy of the wasted life. Ample powers of the body and mind, but they were all squandered upon what was selfish and worthless. Time there was to have worked out a glorious destiny, yet it was thrown away as a useless thing. Precious gifts had been bestowed in abundance, but they were left to perish as though they were of no worth at all. God-given birth rights were sold for a mess of pottage. Can you imagine th tragedy of such a soui when it comes to itself in the end and finds that heaven's best gifts are irretrievably gone. It is no use to wring the bands now and say, "Give me back my youth again." The tragedy of the soul that goes wrong. It stood once with the light in its face and then plunged into the outer darkness. Once it walked the good road, then later turned down the left hand way into sin. This soul was misdirected because self-directed. May be in the far-off years the eyes will be opened; but the way is long and time too short to come back and begin life over once more. This soul may repent and be saved, still the life behind it is lost. Who can tell of the horror of him who awakes for a brief moment in his coffin only to know that he is buried ? Yet is this any worse than the feelings of the man who awakes in old age to realize that his life has all been in vain ? Tragedy, you say ? Yes, deep and full of sorrow. Note the tragedy of the small soul one which has not been widened by lofty thought, broad interests, noble purposes. This soul came to the estate of man hood or womanhood, yet never left childish things. There are grown people who spend their time playing with rattles and blowing bubbles for fun, who dress up and play make believe that they are human beings. Thi3 is worse than retarded physical growth, worse than deformity of body, and the pathos of it is seen in the fact that they are all un conscious of the smallnes of their souls and lives. Their friends and kindred weep over them in secret places and talk in hushed voices over this grief more terrible than that of a child coming into the world hav ing no mind. Once more, it is tragedy to live in a spiritual world and not be able to discern the things of the spirit. What would you say of one who was on the earth yet could neither feel, hear, taste, smell nor see? Would you not declare that for all practical pur poses he was dead ? So it is in the spiritual realm people have eyes but they see not, ears but they hear not, and they do not feel. Flash the brightest light before them, play the sweetest music unto them, tell over to them the marvelous things of the GEDIES OF LIFL. ereat eternal kingdom, and it is rS though you had spoken to a tree, so dull and so senseless are they to moral truth. Unless they go to One who is greater than all else, let Him say to the closed senses, "Be ye opened," they will die without knowing. Is any thing more tragic than to die wichout knowing the things which make for your eternal Local Corporation to Build Large Flour Mill Here Contracts Let and Building Under Course of Construction Will Manufacture Flour, Meal and Feed Stuff. Machinery Purchased. BASEBALL TEAM RESTING. who loses faith ; a soul that goes peace l A little child a wasted life ; wrong : the soul that should have ! been large but remained small instead; a spirit that is blind to its own chief good these are things which should cause angels to weep and men to repent. A Needed Invention. They were coming into the city from their suburban homes in an aeroplane. Brown was reading the fifth early morning edition of a metropolitan dailv. Browd ob served : "I see advertised in this paper an entirely new thing. A kind of vest that 'cures every disease without the use of medi cine.' The cat is a picture of a one-armed man with a waxed mustache and a bad eye, who stands in an Ajax defying the lightning position, with his hand on his hip pocket, ready to shoot anyone who says the vest will not do what it is represented to do." "The world is getting overrun with these magnetic things," re marked Jones, as he elevated the aeroplane into another current of air. And then he continued to philophize on the subject : "They have breast-pads, knee-pads, electric soles for shoes, electric brushes, and everything else a man can think of, and the prob abilves are tnat ere ten years ardw.t, somebody will invent an el tie Nothing Doing for Two Weeks Teaifis to Be Strengthened. The local "fans and fannabells will hear with great disappoint ment that there will be no base ball games on the local lot for two weeks. But it will be glad news to them to know that after that time there will be baseball a plenty and of the best variety. Right now all of Scotland county is busy gathering and shipping tne mammoth, cantaloupe crop that lies ripening on hundreds, even thousands, acres, and nobody has time to think of the great game or anything but getting those luscious cantaloupes picked and shipped to the market. Within two weeks the crop will be gone and the population will settle down to normal condi tions and be red hot for more baseball. In themeantime a strong team will be gotten together and the lovers of the sport will be given an opportunity of seeing some of the real article. Red Litchfield is playing du ring the two weeks with Lum berton, uut will return to Laurin burg when the team is reorgan ized. Ralph Thompson, who has been catching for the team a part of the time, has gone to Green ville, where he will play with the Greenville team. The McNair Milling Co. is the name of one of Laurinburg's la test enterprises. The company has recently been organized and received its charter. The incor porators are Messrs. J. F. Mc Nair and James A. Jones, of Lau rinburg, and R. L. Stevenson, of Greenville, S. C. The company will manufacture flour, meal and feedstuffs, and the equipment they are putting in will turn out 100 barrels of flour, 100 bags of meal and 35 tons of feedstuff per day. The contract for the building, which is now under course of con struction, was let to the Barber Paschal Lumber Co., of Maxton. The building is to be 40 bv 70 feet, four stories, and is to be completed within 60 days. The actual cost of the plant will approximate $20,000 this, however, does not include the capital which is to be used for operating the plant. This enterprise is one that Lau rinburg ha found the need of, and as soon as these enterprising citizens recognized the need, no time was lost in making the bus iness a reality. Mr. Stevenson will come to Laurinburg and have active con trol of the affairs of the compa ny. Officers for the company have not yet been elected. The plant will be located near the Laurinburg & Southern Rail string mat a .man can fpund hisj finger and then go and bid grim Death defiance. t the world needs is an elec hat, for the fellow who has been out with the boys nearly all night, and w-rikes up in the morn ing with every hair standing the wrong way and trying to pull out by the roots, and his scalp so dry that it feels like an old army blanket, and his nerves so badly shattered that he turns his cup of coffee down his left sleeve in stead of down his throat. Then is when the electric hat would come in, and if anybody will in vent one it will be a perfect bo nanza. Just think of putting it on the head and feeling a gentle glow come into the weary stom ach ; a cool relief to the ihroo bing brow ; a dewy moisture to the parched tongue, and above all a relief from that 'Feel-like-I-had- been - dragged - through - a sewer' feeling, that always comes after oh oh, well, unless you have been there you never will appreciate the divine beauty of the electric hat." "Umph ! Yes; I guss so," re plied Brown, who observed also that we are nearing our stop ping place "Everything. NEGRO HELD UP AND ROBBED. Three White Men Accused of Grime. Happened in East Laurinburg. Tuesday afternoon about 5:30 o'clock, as John Brown, a colored man, was coming from East Lau rinburg on the track of the Sea board to his work at the Scotland Crate Co., where he is employed at night, three white men. who are said by .the negro to have been Jim West and Vernon Can non and another unknown to him, met him and at the point of a pistol compelled him to submit to being relieved of his watch and chain. After robbing the negro tne nignwaymen beat him up right severely and escaped. Officers have not been able to locate any of those suspected of the crime. West, it is said, visited the place at which Brown is employ ed Monday night and tried to buy the watch from him, but could not ind ace the negro to sell. Can non is a new citizen, having come here from McColl, S. C, only a few days ago. How to Make and Keep the Road Dry. Water, plus clay or ordinary earth, when mixed, invariably forms mud. On ordinary earth roads the rains and melting snow furnish the water and the passing traffic the mixing, and the result is muddy roads. Take away the water or prevent it irom mixing j with the clay or earth on the foad surface and little or no mud will result. In other words, keep your road dry if you wish it to remain hard, smooth and free frm mud. Exiept in very sandy or arid regions, good drainage is the cardinal principle in the mainte nance of earth and gravel roads. Get the water away from the road as quickly and completely as possible. Water naturally seeks the lowest level. You cannot keep the water from falling on the road, but you can assist its natural inclination to get away to a lower. level. Keep the ruts filled and the road crowned with a slope towards the side ditches of from three-fourths to one inch to the foot, and the water will not collect on the road to soak in and be mixed to mud by passing traf fic. Keep the side ditches clean and with frequent outlets to get the water away from the road en tirely. Do not let the culverts clog up or material accumulate in the ditches and hold back pools of water to soak into and soften the foundation of your road. Water is an enemy that will run away if you will give it a chance. Do not neglect to give it every chance. It will pay and pay well. Like moit other enemies, water is not very destructive or danger ous until it collects in force. Therefore, get the water away from, your road at every available opportunity and before it has time to collect in sufficient vol ume to be dangerous to the road, and do not invite certain disas ter by making your culverts too small to care for the largest pos sible storm. Furthermore, build the culverts so that the water will, of necessity, flow through them and not find a way arouna or beneath them. Properly de signed substantial wing and end wa!l3 are the fortification which protect the culvert from attack and destruction during severe storms. Do not build dry weath er culverts ; build them with a view of caring for and protecting the road during the worst possi ble storms. Make your road dry, build it hard and compact with a crown sufficient to shed water rapidly The cantaloupe crop promises to be unusual in that it will be rather long drawn out. Hereto fore the crop ha3 been ripening in a rush, and before the second week of gathering came around the bulk of the crop was moving. This year the picking began ear- lv n crfflt. manv think tnn onrlv at an rate, some have been pick ing ten days, while others have only just begun. A good many of the earliest shipments were made before the 'lopes were ripe enough and some kick was heard. The best, most selected part of the crop is to move yet. Prices are very good. Monday only 20 cars moved from here. There is a lively contest be tween the Blue's and the Red's, two departments of the Baptist Sunday school, to see which de partment will have in attendance the greatest number of pupils for a given time. Last Sunday the Red's won the honors by having 78 present, while the Blue's only had 58 present. Mr. S. W. Covington has re ceived his commission as United States Commissioner. The ap pointment was made some days ago. The office is a part.of the legal machinery of the new Fed eral Court established here some months ago, the first session of which is scheduled to be held here in September. to the side ditches, and with am ple culverts and drains. To keep your road dry maintain the drain age in good condition. Drag youi roads after each rain ; dragging fills in the ruts, smooths the sur face and maintains the crown. On a road which has been prop el ly dragged the rain finds no place to collect and soak into and soften the surface. Unless the rain is of long duration the sur face is softened but very little. As soon as the rain has ceased and the road surface dried so that the clay is not sticky, but while it is still plastic, drag the road again. Any depression or ruts which have been formed during and after the rain are thus filled, and the surface smoothed up and plastered over with a thin plaster of clay or earth which packs and becomes very hard under passing traffic. Therefore, in order to make and keep your road dry, first provide for good drainage and then maintain the good drain age by systematic dragging after each rain. Diligent attention to these points will, in general, in sure an earth road fairly passa ble at all times and very good most of the time.
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