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VOLUME XXXIV-NUMBER 81. • LAURINBURG, N. G,‘
DISTINGUISHED VISITOR
IN LAURUtfBURG MONDAY
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Baa. Daaial C. Bapar. FI rat Aaaiataat PaaUaaatar Oaaaral VWItad La aria
bail Moadajr Moralag—CaM to ThU, Hla Home Bartlaa, to DaBrar
AiMraaa at Baaaattarflia.
Laurlnburg had ths distinction at
having aa iu guest Monday mornimg
Hoe. Daniel C. Soper, of Washington,
D. C., who is First Assistant Poet*
master General.
Mr. Soper is well known in Laurin
burg and this section. He was born
at Clio, & Cm in Marlboro county, and
therefor* has many relatives and a
countless number of friends in this
county, who were delighted with the
visit from this distinguished gentle
man.
The purpose at hie visit to this sec*
tion waa to deliver the literary ad
dress before the graduating class at
the Bennettsville graded school and to
visit his relative*. The addreaa was
Friday evening. Previous to the ad
dress a rousing recaption of welcoene
was extended him, the exercises being
held on the school campus.
Ho cams to Laurlnburg by automo
bile with his brother-in-law, Mr. W.
N. McKenzie, of the Meson Cross sec
tion, whose guest ha was during hia
visit
Mr. Roper spent the short while ha
had here in meeting and greeting hia
friends and relatives. His coming
waa unheralded and for that reason
a great many of hie old time friends
were deprived the pleasure of again
meeting him.
Mr. Kopec returned to the country
home of Mr. McKenzie, and Monday
afternoon boarded the train at
Hamlet to return to Washington.
Reception at Washington.
Mrs. Daniel C. Koper eras at home
on Monday in compliment to her
daughter, Mrs. David R. Coker of
HartavflJe, 8. C., Mrs. John D. Skew
cf Laurlnburg ami Miss- EsdaJe Shaw
—““I ^{n* v*"™ Jaiiku B~‘1ftnr
hint—Washington, D. C., *oei«ty
not#* in Charlotte Obitrvar.
near-fatal accident.
Mr. Alex Everett Painfully Hurt
Mandagr Morning.
Early Monday morning, Mr. Alex
Everett, brother at litun. D. J. and
J. C. Everett, happened to what come
near being a fatal accident.
Mr. Everett waa engaged in work
with hie brothers who have the con
tract for remodeling the residence of
Mr. B. D. Phillips. In passing around
the house in the performance of acme
of his duties, a heavy piece of lumber
ons and one-half inches thick by
fourteen inches in width and about six
feet long, which was thrown oat of
one of the second story windows,
struck Mr. Everett on the head and it
' waa first thought with fatal results.
Ha was hurriedly carried to Dver
ington's Drag Store, where he was
given treatment by Dr. N. B. Can
naday.
Fortunately As place of lumber
attack him in such a manner aa to
cause a glancing Mow, and only a
painful scalp around resulted. Had
not the tick been a glancing one,
tharp is not much doubt bat that Aa
roooh would have proven fatal.
The lumber was thrown out by
Fred Maynor, colored, who waa am-,
played to do plastering, asid was'
purely an accident. No blame except i
that of slight carelsssnsaa is attached
to Maynor, who was discharged by Aa
contractors.
Murderer Captured.
A telegram waa received here Men
day by Deputy Sheriff Tamar P.
Smith from the anthorMea at Sumter,
8. C, saying that the negro men who
waa hunted bate in 8eotlaad some
weak* ago and escaped leaving a
stolen autamahOe behind, and who
was wanted for murder in Sumter
county, bad been arreatedf Saturday
night at Aberdeen.
A letter had been received a dap
> or two before the telegram ooatain
. «"* the —ggntlia that Sto much
waadai murderer wee thought to bo
hi hiding to this county and the of
dem were amktog a gaiat aearah far
him. / ^
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MORE IMPROVEMENTS.
Burin— Section of Laaxinburg Coa
tie am to bo laprerd
In the bonne— section of Laarln
burg there Is always some decided im
provement* going on. The old bond
ings thet here become unsightly end
dilapidated looking as compered with
the new and modern business houses,
are constantly receiving the atten
tion of the ewnere of such property,
and every few weeks sons bonding Is
remodeled end made over.
Laurlnborg has long suffered Is re
spect to the old business building*
thet have become baefcnumbers es re
gards their appearance, end it is
most gratifying to note the continued
and almost inc—nt Improvements
being mada^ln them.
The latest mere to this and Is on*
by Mr*. Gporge D. Kvsrlngton, who
will soon have the store room occu
pied by Mr. J. C. Birmingham com
pletely remodeled. A new front of
pressed brick end plate glass will re
place the old one and the building will
be otherwise remodeled.
Mr. L U. Kincaid has the contract
to do the work.
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Jeha-HeUaad.
Invitations as follow* have been is
sued:
Rewreod and Mr*. Roderick Briton
John
request tke honor of yoer presence
at the marriage of their daughter
Margaret
to
Dr. Nathaniel Thomas Holland
on Wednesday evening, the seventh of
. M ' __ .Jane * _
" **t seven o'clock ‘N
Centenary Methodist Chnreh
Smithfleld, North Carolina.
Doing Kin* Bu: inrea.
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Among the new enterprise* in Lao
rinburg that are doing an unusual
amount of basinets la the McNaii
Milling Co.
The people of Laurinburg hare no
Idsa what this plant turns oat, neither
did we until we began to ask ques
tions.
To give you some Idea of what is
being done, It requires two cat loads
of wheat each week to keep the flour
department, which is only on© of aev
«ral. hi operation. At the prevailing
price of wheat, this means an expen
diture of approximately |8,000 pm
week for wheat alone.
Sura, there is a fine market right
h«e for aU the wheat Scotland tar
mare win produce, and the beet part
of ft is that it will keep our money
circulating her* at home.
Ifhmlst, N. C, May 22.—Kim
Blanch# Thomas, at Jackson Springs,
N. C, and Mr. W. N. Coaby, Sr, of
Harriet, war# married at tha home at
Mrs. Hugh Beaeham in Hamlet on
Wednesday evening, May 17tb, at fl
o'clock, her. M. H. Tattle, pastor of
Hamlet Methodist church, performing
tha ceremony.
At the appointed hoar. Mm. W. D.
Jamaa, dame ad honor, entarad from
tha stairway, followed by the groom
and beat man, J. A. Winslow; tha
bride entering with Dr. W. D. Jamaa,
who Rare bar away, tha wadding
"wtrh being played by Mra. Kate
McDonald Whitfield.
After receiving congratulation* at
their many friends tha happy couple
drove to the Seaboard depot, where
they departed for a trip to Ktw York
and ether Northern cities. After May
U they win W at home at Hamlet.
The bride la a graduate nurse, har
ing recently graduated at the Hamlet
hospital, and has made many friend*
hmw The groom, who la familiarly
taowu as "Dick Coaly" by all Me
Mauds, baa far aaaay yean bean an
mgiaeer m the Seaboard, touring to
witorisgtea. Ha has far many yuan
Neo n, at tha lauding man of Ham
1st, and is mm earring hie third farm
as one rf the town maniiwlnimr
(Mra Coaby ia well known hen
•here the aarrad as a nurse la the
Junta* Sanatorium far a long white.
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h* tha happiest
THINGS PERTAINING TO LIFE
BtHmitM.
THE gPOlTIMO
Pleasure If pursued aa no end tn
Itself becomes an evil. It Is un
worthy a human being to mako pleas
ure (fa* great boeisaas of hia life.' I
think that possibly tha majority at
tbs games and recreations which wo
hare are hi thsasasivss harmless.
They become evil as men derots them
selves to than. It becomes the pen
sion of one's Ufa to seek a good time.
Such a man dissipates tha energise at
body aad mind. It takaa more and
more to satisfy him.
To be a confirmed sport is a very
unenviable character. A sport Is or
who has enough to Uto upon an®
devotes hi* whole time gambling. A
semi-sport it one who has to work
part of the time for his support, aad
who takaa tha mat of the time for
following pleasure. But hia whole
life would be devoted to this end tf ha
could Hoc without work. The profit
»i—I dob man for instance, what
part does ha play ik our eivftisatlon?
Is he not sdflalmeas personified!
Trace tha lift at the sport from
boyhood to manhood. Ha waa pos
sibly humored aad pampered whan a
child, not being denied anything which
ha wanted. Be followed tha line at
least resistance which la tha Una at
pleasure, and grew up to think that
gomes, pastimes aad shows were tha
batter part of Hfu Pi table at aQ
times, be Is doubly so when he be
comes an old man. By the time the
•artier tendencies have borne their
full fruit. That dignity which should
comport with old age la turned into
e mockery. As for hlaeaeH he has be
come jaded and surfeited, while to
others he ia disgusting. You have
sesn him frequently at the games aad
have noted his oaths aad loud talking
and betting. Decent men shun him;
the little boys look at him with epea
eyed wonder. He hsooms* a gating
steel pfor the world.
oun uj never nma lab inspi
ration of a worthy purpose. Ha ha4
»,high &" -* an ago bat ft# ^ md
•naumr It There w*r* many gja?
osa impulses but they Anally spent
their force on himself. The gleet
problem* of his tiase and community
did not appeal to him and engage* hie
effort In fact, ha created problems
Instead of solving them.. To him tW
i<Wa of prosperity is that there it
something doing in town for him to
go to see or to hear. He is a oomsum
■r rather than a producer. For othar
men the day dawna an groat teaks to
perform, greet difficulties to sotv^
aad the night brings the deep UUi
faction of having accomplished some
thing worth while. But not eo wi£
him. HU one aim has been to grati
fy himself and the eaa task waa to
overcome all that stood between him
and hU pleasure. Year city can ad
vertise for better classes of people
than meo of this sort. Thw nu?
spend money In your midst, hot they
win also lower the ideala ad our poo.
Pie.
Note the narrowness od the sport
ing man’s horiaoa and the pettiness
of all his life. Everything has been
pathetically small. He has had but
one point of contact with ths world
There has been but oos way to imelt
his soul. His conversation has over
bsen about ths trivial affairs af Ilfs'
His literature has boon the sjnu^
journals and the light stories of the
whioh he makes to them
u a warning to them,
concerned to the man
baa H all meant to
he tea say Sa the end
aa bean to maty gam a, par
in every pleesarv, tasted of
what good haa it broaght (
A selfish Ufa eaa not he
than a mod-puddle
empty, starved tool
poor thing to have to 1
of sock a world aa thia <
that after ad Cod has ]
natter, tha people too, -
I went of all the man 1
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Fag Mra. HlWa. J
of alahorate entertain- j
daring the past j
of Mra Chaa Hilbum,
vho waa the guest of '
. D. B. MeEaehin.
Hilbum, who is cleanly re
Mr. MeEaehin, waa oa her 1
to her klaspeople tn thia
Mttoa^Bto returned to her home *
fmimg the social eeartesiee shewn 1
ware the following:
Matt and Era MeEechin
party Tusaday in hem- j'
The guests were I
the door by Miss Matt Me- 1
Punch eras served by Mra '1
Morgan and Miss Margaret 1
The highest genu score:
by Mrs. A. I,. James, who |
box of crepe haadltvrebiefa .1
prise wee a pair of silk 1
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J»m Btmrt fare a dinner
P*U Thursday evening in bar honor.
T%» •toning waa devoted to mnak.
A. L. Jamee and her danghtar,'
ectartainad Tharaday;
of Mr*. HSbnrn. •
»et at tha door by!
»' inhered into tha ;
Peter McLaan,
rved tan fay Miaa
Mr*. Hinton Jamea and
iry Fairley Pattaraon. Pre
rook waa played and Mr*,
made tha bighaat acora ,
a box ef correapondenee i
Doer received the
n blue fan on n
Hilburn received aa the ‘
n lovely band-pain tod hat
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vening Mrs. MeEarbin
bar. Daring tha rven
tha following program waa rand- <
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Osr Boat—Cowen—
Solo—Two Larks—Miaa Ca
Thankagivbig
COMMENCEMENT BEGINS
TOMORROW EVENING
at CHj IHiwIi it Bui fn gram Btgbm Tmaanm xiffct aal
Wia d» Tamiar Nlgfct VI* UUrary kik ~ - iiTtij dam
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RESIGNATION REQUESTED.
Orange flnp trial indent ia TrseMe
With Board.
Chapel nm, May IE—At a meeting
of the board of education of Oral—
county bold at Cedar Grove this after
noon tho county superintendent, 8. P.
Lockhart, waa aahod to band la Me
resignation. Mr. Lockhart rsfoosi to
acoado to tho request at tho board. Ho
claims ldgal title to the cOee for an
other pear and insists on flllii* oat
hie unexpired tom. The general
charge of tho board waa booed apoa
hie failure to adjust himself to the en
larged rducrtioeel plans of tha esoa
tp. Another charge preferred against
Mm was that be has antagonised tho
work of tho county sapervtaor. Mlaa
with bar In plana for county reboot
enlargement.—News end Oboorver.
Mlao Cooaidey, who ia rafarrad la ia
tha above, ia tha deeghter at Mn, A.
J. Caasidcy of Laurtnborg. She baa
won quite an enviable repatetiao M
edorotienal week hi the State and It ia
pleating to nota that the baard of
education of Onsage county, are
standing with this aatimabio young
lady.
a miar r»pon uyi;
Hills bo ro. May 18.—3. P. Lockhart,
superintendent of public instruction
far Orange county, la still standing
on what kc calls hie legal rights in
oenrection with tha odka which tha
county board of education, by unani
mous vote, has asked him to vacate.
The matter has created much interact
throughout the county aad, it is said,
| the people are backing the hoard fat
whatever steps it has taken or will
■ And necessary to take in.obtaining the
■ end to winch its effort• art directed,
lit is understood that the board, hi
tWs' KSpRitltuodcm Lock** vet
persists In bis position, has pitas by
which it can fores his resignstisn aad,1
it is said, the members of the board 1
have made up their minds to employ
those plans if H is found to be neesa
ssiy.
Mrs. Evelyn Hawthorne, a bride of
a week, lost her nerve and could not
' carry out bor part in a suicide part,
so Arthar Goodman, a well-to-do far
mer, who lived near WilliamsviDo.
| Mo., shot and mortally wouudod Men.
Hawthorne and than killed himself.
Tha girt died a few houn later. Mrs.
, Hawthorne, who la 17 years old aad
i pretty, was married last Slid ay. Be
|fore aha died rim said aha and bar
j stepfather had arranged a suicide
agreement because they loved each
1 other aad because she would haw to
|lsaw bar stepfather’s hams. Tha
I girl’s mother had boon sent to the
1 home of a neighbor aad tha girt aad
bar stepfather planned to kill thou
. selves whflo aba was absent When
the time came, ska said, aha did aot
| haw the nerve to shoot herself and
1 Goodman consented to do the double
.killing.
Fifteen men are in the Kingsville p
(Tax.) jail aa > remit of what Sheriff
Scarborough and we ret service man y
aap waa the plat of Joaa M Morin, „
format VUla general, to blow up the r
| Kingsville bank and a hardware store a
i The officials my that it waa piaawad
to aet Are to a ham at the adga ef the ,
; town, attracting the attention of the ,
I people, and then net off the exploe- '
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We regret that we axe compelled to l
emit from tide issue an interesthm !
letter from “Aunt Becky.*' Oar eel- .
umm warn running over whan the lat
ter nuna, which was only a tow hours
I before going to prone. Our opoiogies ‘
to "Aunt Becky**, whose Intereetfag •
csnununlcatlone always Aad a warm J
welcome from ho* the Exchange aad 1
Ha loyal rmdin. 1
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Chief of Police Breewelf, of Ham- 1
let, caught the negro that eo aarioaaty 1
rot him some weeks ago, Taeaday. *
The negre returned to Hemlah aad H
l« veld, had given It out that he had
i Ntornad tor tha purpose of MB*
the officer, which he tried to de be
' located by *e
inapt if to got away, aa
hy runaiag. Ha waa
hy affiear Braswell aad eap
I tured. Hla wmata, whOa eartoas,
! ere not neeemarfty total. TMa Is *o
l mbetnnee of a report (hat rear bed
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Tha storing imliN at tha Lauria
bwg Graded School. win begin to
morrow (Friday) might aad wiU eoa
tinaa uatU r
Tha aorni [j'"
been carefully _i par
hap. tha aioat elaborate that (ha Laa
riabarg aehoefc hart tent offered, aad
will mtaik tha risaiag at one ol tha
■eat auccearinl jnean that tha ichaoia
have arar had.
The program to ha wajahl dating
the tone k aa fallow.:
Friday. Kay Mth. S:80 F. IL. la.
ter-aeciatjr Baaariaaa.
fcaday, May SMS, ilriO A. IL.
10:10 A. IL, Gaataet for j
Kodak.
■« P. IL, Gradaatiag battkaa.
Addraaa by Dr. J. 8. XriTat. Dm •
Weet, S. C
Awarding at Friaat aad DlpWanae.
■■awrenee Oihooa
Calhoan. EOia Mm
ak Joom.
Leach; Archibald !
neon EVlVTWim
dippeniga AD Om Urn World fa
Harrison Jofaea, aged 161 Tan,
America'* eUaat KIk and cnc of the
roaltkioot ettiasns of ColumWit, Him,
bod sown! day a ago. Up to asrrral
■Mrtha ago he had tajoyed (ho boot of
health and waa rarely dele.
The increase fa wages granted %y
the anthracite coal operators will nst
the miners $600,000,600 during the
ml-fear years. Coal minors will so
Mhrs 40 cents an hoar; miners' labor
ws SO cent* and common laborers, «S
ueata per hoar.
Former Congressman Richard P.
Hole on was defeated for ttcl-ntim
fer Congress fa the newly-crcated
tenth district of Alabama by William
P. Bankhead, son of Senator Bank
bond. Hobaoa lost by SI rotes and
asserts ho will contest the w-wa.,
At a conference between Coe.
Dimaw of imnola, Warden Zimmer,
af JoUst penitentiary, aad Prison
Cmmal as leper Byan, it baa been
agreed that the beam system aa now
aaed fa Jottet will be followed thin
Prison by prison lobar. ***
QHad «w Um death ad Us wild as.
baleaead the aiiad el William D. Dol
lar, Of Peru, i *A., aa ai—glitUy Oat
ha ahot and killed Ida mother, Mr*
Aaaa Dollar, his daughter, 4 gate,
agad flea yean, waaadid Ua bain.
George, aged 11, aad daughter, Ida,
agad two, aad Ihca want to a seeea
tery and committed atoeide,
Mia* Rather Cleveland, daaghter ad *
the lata president, la studying a eye.
teas ad alphabetic laatraaUan at the
Pennsylvania Institute for Um Blind
to Philadelphia, prior ta sailing far
Prance where she wtl teach ankUaaa
who have lost tiieir eraalght Miss
Cleveland already has qualified aa a
The kalseb of Gwnuy to rHTT*Td
to tor. toMisIto Opt. Kat) Boy Ed,
rotmar naval attache at Wsshlngton,
ahh the Ordcd ad the Bad Eagle, third
dan with sword*. Boy-Ed arms ay-'/
pointed to the Washington embassy to
lBii. After vastoaa charge. had
beca lodged against him haltost
Wilson requested Ms recall
Mrs. Martha Xewkirk, U years aid,
died a few days age at Wooeter, O,
after existing far 40 days withoat
had haan a suMsrar from ihrinsilMS
and finally to hasaasa a physiaal im
possibility for her to pnrtnk* of either
feodardrtak. With aaly her haahaad
as a- oosapeatoa, aha slowly starved
to death.
Mayor Bara t Meals, sf Xante* .
sS&sStaasS:
the girls that to wuMQyto Psfsete
frosa kiss lag hasaasa of gems, aad >
that htodag east tew people to the