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) ' " - r f - - : : r -x ' vfn ' "t yr f VOLUME XXXIII-NUMBER 32. LAURINBURG, N. C., THURSDAY. AUGUST 12. 1915. $1.50 PER YEAR, IN ADVANCE BURGLARS OR PEEPERS, WHICH? TWO SUCH SATURDAY NIGHT Tuo Homes Visited Saturday Night by Negroes Both Discovered jjjpjg FAR-REACHING POWER OF PERSONAL Peering in Windows Causing Ladies Great Excitement Both Escaped and No Trace of Guilty Parties Found Close Watches Being Kept. Not for a longtime has Laurin hjrg sjtfered a burglar scare, this particular kind of devilment being so serious of punishment in North Carolina that but little of it has been practiced in this section, particularly in Laurin burg. Two occurrences took place right in the heart of the city Saturday night that were in all probability intended to be burg laries but were frustrated by hi lies in both instances. The ii-st happening occurred at the . .;ne of Mr. J. C. Morgan on The hour was about SURGEON-GENERAL SLUE HONORED. 11 m Former Scotland Citizen Elected President of American Medical Association. It will be of great interest and much pleasure to the Scotland friends of Dr. Rupert Blue, surgeon-general of the United States Public Health Service, to know he has recently been elected president of the American Medi cal Association. The following regarding his election is taken from the Ashe vi 1 le- Gazette-Times : "The following article from the Mi-. Morgan having" - Hospital Bulletin of the Univer se I Mr. Morgan and Mr. sity of Maryland will be of in 1). Curi i :1 were in the kitchen ' terest u the friends and relatives king preparation for their i i n t n x - May ine-ais. ivirs. Morgan opened to look out the kitchen aio.v and discovered a tall, i '.v -negro peering at them tin streei ' -. i - THINGS PERTAINING TO LIFE DR. W. C. CALDWELL LOSES TWO BROTHERS SUNDAY By Harry M. North. ti .!, the window. Mrs. Mor- s I ! i i . j. l J ...i r f rnrri if Tin int;i!itly called Mr. Moigan. The negro immediately ran and was nowhere to be found when Mr. Morgan had responded. An hour later Mrs. Joseph Epstein who was making prepa ratiu n to retire heard what she thought to be someone at her window and went to the window to investigate. She, as did Mrs, .Marrtnr. found hat.a negro man Whs standing close to the win dow. She immediately called Mr. Epstein, who was in the bath room, and watched the culprit. As soon as Mrs. Epstein screamed, the unwelcome stran ger crouched and appeared as if he expected to slip under the house, but instead ran and es caped. In both cases the officers were called and immediately respond ed, but were not able to find any clue of the guilty parties. The description given by Mrs. Epstein of the man she saw at her window differs from the one Mrs. Morgan described, which proves that they were two dif ferent persons. These happenings have caused the citizens of the town to main tain a close and. careful watch throughout the town, and it is sure that if the devilment is not stopped, some of the culprits will lo captured. in this state of Dr. Rupert Blue, surgeon-general of the United States Public Health service, who has recently been elected president of the American Medi cal association. The Bulletin stated that Dr. Blue was a native of South Carolina but by birth he is a North Carolinian. The Bul letin says in part: By election as president of the American Medical association the greatest compliment in the hands of the American medical profes sion, has been accorded Surgeon General Rupert Biue, class of 1892. Undoubtedly Surgecn Genera! ,Blue by his now honor becomes the most distinguished living aluminus of the University of Maryland. Dr. Blue was born in North Carolina in 1868. He was grad uated from University of Mary land in 1892, and became an in terne in the Marine hospital ser vice the same year. He was commissioned Surgeon General by President Taft Janu ary 13, 1912, which appointment was won by noteworthy and meritorious service, especially evidenced in the suppression and H T .1 . m men iancy tnat they can liv wrapped up in themselves and not affect those around them. Occasionally we hear one say, "It is nothing to others what I do' But it is something to them for a man's attitude has its influence upon all who see him. His very silence may reveal what he is and has done. The city set upon a hill cannot be hid. The oak tree stands all its days vrlth out the powrer to speak or to :; dl. yet it casts a shadow in which the weary may rest; and so whether we wish it or not there goes out from m an influence to bless or to curse. What we are determines what our influence will be. With no thought or intention to do so we are forever telling the world what we are. Because the sun is a great, burning body itsheat comes swiftly to the earth; it INFLUENCE who knew him. He started many young men on the right course in life and after his death they kept on that way. These in turn led others to the right, and so it has come down in un- The Laurinburg friends of Dr. broken succession until morel Wilton C. Caldwell, of this city than one hundred and twenty sincerely sympathize with him in Deorde hav hPpn hlPQQAH hppaiiap '. the sad bereavement which has this man lived well in his time Capsizing Launch Carries to Death Four Men, Two of Which Were Brothers of Dr. Wilton C. Caldwell, of Laurinburg Trag edy Happened Early Sunday Morning, When Party of Five Attempted to Cross River. cannot hold its heat and lig it would. If men are light will be certain to shine; if, are salt they will save. If has laid up in his characters! it if ;hey ;hey one jres of truth and honor and fidelity, these are the very things will come forth as he passes i the way. It is surely true one can not take from h what has never been in it. We are letters known and of ail men. Have yq thought how you read of the people whom yonf the street each day?' somebody speaking to yo row; now 4 soon. ..your ... . changes to suit his. Buy" with the bright happy tr fieri v, i i ng ifhat lfe n i bad 1.1 L".V !S f ft P i What prophet t can say that his influence will ever have an end as long as the" race is on the earth? Like compound interest the effect for good increases from life to life gathering power as the years go by. It is a solemn thing to under stand that you are unable to re call all the bad influence when once it is started. A certain in fidel had published many books against the Christ, and they had a wide circulation, It came to pass later that the man was con verted to a belief in Christ, and he wept much because he could not gather in all the books h had sent out and stop their effect for evil. Even if he had been able to buy them all and burn them still the poison had gone into the minds of men beyond the seas whom he could never find. What a terrible, thing is.personal influence; how jealous we should be for its use. invested the affair with the ele ments of a calamity. Under the double - blow visited upon him, the father of the young, man been visited upon him in the sud- staggered, even in the sustaining i l i - i - . t ' f j r f l ! t . - . t 1. n . i " . aen ana tragic aeatn oi two o his brothers, who, together with two other, men, lost their lives in the Cape Fear river at Wilming ton last Sunday morning when a launch in which they were at tempting to cross the river cap sized. The party consisted of his two brothers, Dr. Morris and Mr. Clell S. Caldwell, Dr. J. Henry Bornemann and Chief Engineer Warvell, of the German steamer Nicaria, and Chief Engineer Rei mers. The party met at the dock after having spent a pleasant knowledge that the heart of the entire State 13 moved with sym pathy with him. Charlotte Oo server. Dr. W. G. Caldwell left Lau rinburg Saturday morning to visit his parents near Concord, and was there when the distress ing news of the terrible tragedy was received. The bodies of the unfortunate young men were recovered Mon day about noon, and, together with several members of the stricken families and a number of sorrowing friends, passed here HELD UP AND ROBBED. m 1 . evening at Elks Club, and board- esaay morning en route to zon ing a boat belonging to Engineer ' cord near which place the bodies Reimers started across the river, j were buried Tuesday afternoon. When a part of the distance had I cn,nr"iB ai,nn Mr. W. A. McCormick, of Route 3, was a Journal caller last week. Mr. McCormick, who is farming for Mr. A. P. Gibson near Elizabethtown, says he has the finest crop he has had in some time. He has about 100 acres in corn, 800 in cotton and GO in oats. Bladen Journal yours light up too an the heart to beat fasten e 1 A t ns and habits are all having jheir daily influence over us either for good or for evil. I wonder what sort of letters the folks are read ing in our faces and carria?e. Would we blush to have them read aloud? The influence of a life lasts for a long time; in fact I think it immortal in some cases. It has j Young White Man Knocked Down and Re-j 11 eye d of Money, EaKv'SuhflaYmorriintr. about 1 pat and had-.- o'clock as Mr. Walter Cole was going from up town to his home in East Laurinburg and was passing on McKay street, he was suddenly assaulted, knocked down and robbed. According to Mr. Cole's state ment, he was attacked by two negro men who sat on an em bankment on the righ1: side of the been covered some member of the party stood up in the boat, caus ing it to dip and fill with water. In a moment the whole party were plunged into the stream and only one escaped death, thi3 being Engineer Reimer, who, with great difficulty, managed to i reach the shore toward which they had started. Mr. Clell Caldwell, together j with his family, had been at j Wrightsville Beach for the week COlTk.3 Up tiAWiK Candidates for Different Jobs. We were startled at the head letters of an item in .The La!Hn- mington on their return to their j ourg rxenange use wee wnicn v, n..,ri orri cfr,rQi i read "'Joe Little in Trouble." 110111c, ilea. vJiiwviu, ciiu k-'bi'oju over to spend the night with Dr. Ciild .veil and family. Dr. Morris Caldwell vas well 1 1 1 1 w .- s Known nere oy a large nuuiwei li young business and professional men, having been a classmate both at Davidson college and at the Jefferson Medical ! The cir-iri,-i mn nnt vptpv hnw. ever, to Hon. Joseph W. Little, of Wilmington, who is becoming i so popular as a congref ional candidate. Bhden Journal. walk. Before he realized what I with several of them. was happening he was struck down and his pockets rifled and the highwaymen were gone. eradication of bubonic plague in been Rlany centuries sinceAbel i They secured $12'40 in cash" ,1 'i 1 ;- jTvfc- 4, San Francisco in 190, which work brought him instantly into such prominence that his fitness for the position of Surgeon-General could not but be recognized. A few years ago Dr. Blue spent some time in Europe studying preventive medicine, as practiced there, and in 1910 graduated from the London School of Trop ical M( dicine. In May of the same year he was detailed to represent the P. H. and M. H. S. at the inter national congress on Medicine and Hygiene at Buenos Aires and while there took advantage of the opportunity to study pos sible routes by which plague and yellow fever might be brought into the United States from South America. Surgeon -General Blue hopes to be in Hot Springs, North Caro lina, in August to visit his brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. B. I. Nicholson at their summer home, Sunny bank." walked the earth and t.hefclsnf-1 Ihe matter was immediately fered death at the hands j f his! reported to the officers, but up to brother, still it is said of him thi3 time trace of the robbers that he being dead yet speaketh. ha3 been discovered. Two ar rests were made Sunday atter- This is all the more remarkable since we have no account of any sinsrle wTord he spoke while he lived. His character was 5.0 ex- and they were released. Both the Messrs. Caldwell were young men, successful in their chosen professions, and their tragic death, together with their unfortunate companions, has cast a great grief over all the State, and especially is the tragedy de plored here because of the sor row it brings to one of Laurin- Master Dannie Parish. The 14-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Parrish, of William son township, who was the suc cessful contestant in the spelling match held during the county school commencement. The young man represented Rockdale school and was one of forty contestants. In winning this honor he won for the school he represented a silver loving cup. He personally received a handsome dictionary, the gift of Mr. M. L; John. cellent that it still has its power i over the lives of men. as the! light of a star keeps on shining long after the star itself is biotted out. Possibly your father and mother have been gone these many years, yet their influence is now sironp1 upon your life so that their presence is almost felt. Let me tell you of two men who lived in Laurinburg a long time ago. One of them exerted a bad influence over his asso ciates, and the sad part is that 1 . . n noon, but Mr. Cole stated that burg's prominent young protes- they were not the guilty parties sional men. Referring to the sad tragedy, the Wilmington Star and Char lotte Observer contained the fol- TEACHERS' INSTITUTE For Both Races Opened Monday Negroes Show Best Attendance. The Scotland County Teachers' Institute, for both the white and colored races, opened Monday. The department for the white race is being conducted at the city graded school building and is under the direction of Prof. Barron P. Caldwell, superintend ent of the schools of Kinston. this influence did not end when I Prof. Caldwell is ably assisted by Jumped Gamblers. Saturday afternoon Officers D. B. Brown, L. P. and Frank Smith flushed a bunch of fifteen or more colored gamblers in the woods beyond the town limits north of the Laurinburg , and Southern tracks. i The gamblers saw the ap proaching officers in time to make a break for safer territory, and all but three made a success in their get-away scheme. They were Mingo McKay, Cash McKay and Henry Smith. They were declared guilty in the Recorder's court Tuesday and fined $10 each and the costs. There may be nothing in a name, but Cash McKay was the only one of the trio to cash up and go free. the man died, it is still felt for evil in the year nineteen fifteen. He taught several others to drink and swear and to be impure, so that their lives were cursed be cause he lived. But the matter did not stop here for their lives in turn influenced a multitude of others to do wrong. These in their day are defiling and cursing every one who touches them, and they will pass it on thus from generation to generation like an endless chain letter. Who can measure the ruin that the in fluence of just one bad person works upon the earth? The other man was good and exei ted a fine influence over all ivirs. JLi. J. oievens, ui ouuiupuu. The department for Colored people is. being conducted at the Laurinburg Normal and Indus trial Institute (colored and is under the direction of Prof. Le vi ster (colored), of Shaw Uni versity, Raleigh. Of the white teachers register ed there are 26, and of negroes 32. The greater number of negroes than whites in the county insti- lowing editorial expressions : No more striking illustration of the uncertainty of death could be made to any community than the sad tragedy of the drowning of the four young men in the Cape fear river at an early hour yes terday morning. Verily, in the midst of life we are in death and no one can tell what a day may bring forth. Representing the flower of Wilmington's young manhood, two of the victims of the tragedy bring to a close ca reers that gave bright promise and. much good to the community in which they lived. In the case of the two other victims, stran gers within our gates for the time being, their deaths are even more sad because of the absence of those nearest and dearest to them. , The Wilmington commu nity has scarcely ever been shock ed or saddened more acutely than in the deplorable affair of yester day morning. Wilmington Star. The drowning of the two brothers in the Cape Fear river at Wilmington was a circum stance of more than ordinarily distressing features. They were tute is accounted for in the fact j young men of excellent citizen- that a great many of the white teachers have attended summer schools elsewhere. The county institute will con tinue for two weeks. ship, thoroughly representative of the most useful element in the professional and civic life in North Carolina. The loss of either would have been cause for deep regret ; the taking of both J. E. Matkins rf Greenville was arrested at Rocky Mount the College other day under a charge ofs jsaulting the fire department. The firemen were fighting a fire and the young man persisted in getting too close to the fighting apparatus, whereupon the fire men turned the water on him. He backed off to a pile of brick and proceeded to fight the de partment by throwing bricks at them. The city court separated him from S14.75. Mrs. Mary Huntley of Anson county hos just passed her 93rd birthday. Gaston county has just voted $150,000 for good roads. The Moore County New3 says -"Sheriff Blue is able to be out again after his automobile acci dent and says that it is foolish to run so fast unless you are in a hurry. Twenty-eight candy manufac turing concerns in California paid $1,191,000 in wages alone for candy made for distribution in the State. The Germans have invented a wholesome meal, selling for a penny, which will satisfy the most ravenous appetite, accord ing to recent reports. Food ex perts in Berlin and Wurttenburg have furnished the recipe for the new mixture, which consists of maize, flour,, dried vegetables, dried meat and macaroni, all flavored with meat extracts. Guy Loehr, Dennis Brice, John DuFrain and Clyde Eckerman, who escaped recently from the tsuena vista reiormatory, near Cripple Creek, Col.,f robbed a road gang of $300, raided a ranch and committed other crimes be fore they were rounded up and returned to prison. t, .
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