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F. D. No. 8.
( rc.Avded out last week.
wisii to thauk our good frieJid
Clvde Isley for uiee work ou our
roads, is iifl onr patrons would look
liter tlie bad plocea close to their
jiaintd we would have an easier time,
;uk1 be.sides it ought to be a matter
>f pride to iiave good roads through
voiir tarnis. Our overseers are do
ing some work too. The only trouble
iLey put it oif until they get
hrougli with their tarm work, and
hen bad weather has “sot in” and
lie work don’t do nearly so much
;Oud.
Corn shucking dinners for the
■arriers are bright spots in our lives,
tve enjoyed dinners at J. H. Ross,
E J. Koss and R. k. Matlocks
^ince our last report, George Barkers
ivill come in due time.
What^s the matter with “Bud”
uttou? They say he fed his hor&e
wice Friday morning and put sip
is corn in a neighbors crib, and
one “jess like” a crazy man, It's
fine girl. Congratulations to you
lend Sutton.
Our clever colored friend, Walter
uljer has about completed a com-
irtable Ios£ house on his farm and
ved in, we are glad to see our
loreci patrons g'^tting on so well.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Somers at-
nded serviceii at Gilliams Sunday
e 22nd.
Mr. S. B. Matlock, Mr. Adams
d iVlr. Hunt, of Greensboro spent
[lay last week at R. A. Matlocks
imting rabbits. Its funny how
ese to'-^'n folks love rabbits.
Mrs. Nannie Graham, and Miss'
arah Graham, of Union Ridga,
ijicses Haseie Greesou, Swannieand
lulia Horuaday, of Burlington,
ent Saturday and Sunday at C. E.
lapseotts.
If this does not hit the wast**
sket, maybe we w'ill write some
ore.
R. F. D. No. 1.
Jowded out last weeK.
J. F, Coble done our roads
[roe good last week, by fdling in
OS with roeks, but he missed
se at the creek. Fill then) in,
cle Johncy.
J. A. Loy spent lost Friday
ing land and setting out eab-
ge. He has a large field of
fdra and we expect to get our
re of them.
attersou Bros, started their big
shredder up last week. They
it does the business,
iiss FJorine Kobertsou, one of
teachers at Friendship, aban-
ued her work Monday for a
t time. During her vacation
J will go to Richmond, Va., to
end the wedding of one of her
ends.
I News Over the State I
Last week in. the North Carolina
Supreme court in a case> against
Fulton of Guilford county, it was
decided that it was not a crime for
a mau to slander his wife.
The Greensboro High School
Football team defeated Durham last
Thursday by a score of four to
nothing. This gives the High
School championship of the State to
Greensboro.
George J. Gould, who owns a
private lodge at High Point, arriv
ed last week in his private car. He
was accompanied by a friend and
they will spend three days hunting
birds on bis estate.
At Richmond^ Va. last Thursday
the University of Virginia won a
victory over Carolina by a score of
thirty-one to naught. The game
was witnessed by about twelve thou
sand supporters of the two games.
The great Southern Mica Com
pany, whose headquarters are at
Cleveland, O., has decided to cen-
teralize all its southern, plants at
Asheville. For this puipose th«
building of the Carolina Coal and
Ice Company has been leased.
Work on the new buildings of
the colored insane asylum of the
State, near Goldsboro, is being push
ed rapidly. The new buildings are
four in number, of brick, two of
which will be for the care of tuber
culosis patients, and two for epile^t-
tic patients, male and female.
The A. & M. boys defeated the
V. F. I, by a score of six to five at
Norfolk on Thanksgiving day. The
gaxne is said to have been one of
the fiercest ever witnessed on a
southern gridiron. Twelve thous
and people were present to jom ia
the cheering and see what the vict
ory would be.
Henry T. Deehert bid in the
Odell Mill property which was sold
at Concord last week. The pur
chase price was §165,000 and notes
and stock in other property which
brought the amount up to fl75,-
400.50. The sale will be submitted
to the supreme at Grt-eusboro Dec,
7 th.
Rev. Johu E. Wool, former pas
tor of Oxford Presbyterian church,
lias resigned the pastorsliip of tlie
church in Wil.'ion and accepted
charge of country churches in Gran
ville. His faiuliy ni-^ke their home
with the aged mothei’of Mrs. Wool,
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Lacy and Will Huffines of
accompanied *'y Lawrence
fckle, spent a few days at Dr,
[ley’s last week, hunting,
]A crowd from Alamance, headed
Ed Waddell, gave the rab{)its a
i\e chase last week—half a day at
ime—they bagged 64 rabbits with
[eral squirrels and birds.
iarly Lowe came to see us last
fek, and brought us a load of wood
and wheat, we don’t care if he
les again.
>ur good friend and noted 7 car-
. sent ns down 2 nice messes of
ik last week. Thanks.
VVe wish to extend our .thartks
the nice fruit, apples, peanuts,
,, we received this week.
IMrs. P. E. Shaw is on the sick
It we are sorry to note, but hope
je will soon be out again.
1 We wish our patrons next Mon-
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ington, X. C., Nov. 1.4, 1908.
TLEMEN—
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, Esq.^ Prof. Hall, (Col.) Mr.
uston Knight, Baxter King, Esq.
H. Lindsay, Mr. Freeman Lesith,
. H. McPherson, Henry J. Mason,
q., Mr. Pricy Patterson, Mr. Wil-
rt Thomp.son, Mr, R. M, Ward,
A. Williams, Esq., Rev. J. W.
alker.
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Ethel King, Mrs. Mary
'nip-son, Miss Miriam Workmaa.
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Post Master.
subscribe for the Dispatch.
Wake Forest College was iht
^vinner in the dei>ate bi^tween that
school and Randolph-Macon, ol
Asheland, Yu. The subject of the
debate was “Resolved, That Injunc
tion Ouglit to be Allowed as a
Means of Preventing Strikes.” The
Virginia boys, although defeated,
inad(^ a fine showing.
Among the candidates for Presi
dent of Harvard University to suc-
ced President Elliot, resigned, is
Dr. David Franklin Houston, who
is now President :>f the University
of Texas. Dr. Houston was born
it Monroe, N. C., is only forty-two
years of age and has had consider
able experience in the work of
education.!
Mr. J. E. Cole, of Liberty, was
robbed of f3lO early last Wednes
day morniog at Clegg’s Hotel in
Greensboro. Early iu the morning
the watchman informed the night
clerk that a suit of clothes was on
the floor of room No. 47, which
was the room that Mr. Cole' occu
pied. Upon investigation it was
found that the money wsn missing.
News come from Bombay, a
small town in Randolph county, to
the effect that a family of that place
is very much wrought up over the
fact that they have been drinking
milk from a cow that has gone niad,
and eating pork that they have
reason to believe had the poison in
it, or at least that the hog had been
bitten, as another hog in the same
pen went mad.
At his home in Cary on Monday
morning, Rev, A, D. Himter, a
well known Baptist Minister, of
Wake county, committed suicide by
cutting his throat with a razor. The
cause of the rash act was due to’
financial troubles, which was
brought ou by Mr. Hunters race for
the nomination on the Democratic
ticket for Treasurer of Wake coud-
ty. Having spent large suras of
money trying to buy the nomina
tion was overcome by the Demo
cratic machine, hence the fatal act
of Monday morning is the result of
that defeat.
I Brief News Items.
At Madison Square Garden, New
York, in Doraudo Peitri of Itly,
defeated John J. Hayes, of New
York, in a distance of twenty-six
miles.
Harvard College beat Yale in a
fi.K)f ball game by a score of four to
nothing. The game was played on
last Saturday at New Haven. Conn.
This Avas the first time in seven
years that Harvard had beat Yale.
Stanley Ketchel, of Grand Rapids
Michigan, regained the middle
weight championship of the world
on last Thursday from Billey Fake,
of Illinois. The contest was held
at Arena, San Francisco, Calfornia.
One hundred passengers lost their
lives ou a burning vessel which
caught fire on the Mediterranean
sea one day last week. The fire
made such a rapid sweep of the
vessel that only a few lives were
saved.
At Keasby, N. J., on last Wed
nesday a conflict occurred between
seven hundred strikers and twelve
deputy sheriffs in whish six of the
strikers were shot down. The State
National Guard has been called to
the scene.
The date of trial for Duncan B.
Cooper, his son, Robert J. Coo|ier,
and John D. Sharp in which tney
are charged with the murder of
former United States Senator Car
mack has been set for the eighth of
December. All phad not guilty.
Frank H. Hitchcock has been
offered and accepted the position as
postmaster general in the new cabi
net that, is to be. Mr. Hitchcock
has a technical knowledge of postal
affairs as he has had considerable ex
perience as first assistant postmaster
general.
The biggest tobacco deal on re
cord was closed between the Ameri
can Tobacco Company and the Bur
ley Tobacco Society ou last Thurs
day at Ijouisvilie, Ivy. The deal
involved about 80,000,000 jx»unds
of thbacco which cost the American
Tobacco Company about fil4,000,-
UOO.
Twenty-five persons are missing
a.s a result of a gas explo.siou which
nccurred at Brooklyn, New York
last Friday. It io deiiuately known
that fifteen are dead and the other
ten are missing and are sii[)posed to
be dead. The gas main recently
sprung a leak which caused the ex
plosion./
At Hot Springs, A"a., on- last
Saturday President-elect Taft and
Rej)resentative Burton, of Ohio,
held a conference, at which the
speakership question was discussed,
as well as nearly everything else, as
Mr. Taft put it. Mr. Taft will
fight Mr, Cannon if necessary^ for
tariff revision.
The Comptroller of the Currency
is going to establish a quiz class for
bank directors to find out plainly
unequivocally how many of them
understand, and pe.i’form their du
ties—in other vvords, if bank direc
tors directors. In view of recent finan
ciering, the inquiry is not only per
tinent—it is also imperative.
On last Thursday at Woodland
Mills, Ala., the wife of Tom Rich
ardson, her mother and three child
ren were burned to death. The re
mains of the children were found in
the barn, which was burned also.
Several theories have been advanced
as to the origin of the fire, one being
robbery, no one can positively.
The following persons were par
doned by Gov. Glenn on Thauks-
giving Day; Jeff Mace, who was
convicted in Madison Supreme court
in 1906; Walter Newton, of Gran
ville county, convicted of murder;
Will White, (col,,) convicted in
Iredell court of burglary, Moses
Pender, (col,.) convicted in Edge
combe court of murder in the sec
ond degree. All of the prisoner°
have records and t’neir pardon is
asked for by the prison authorities.
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