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m CONTEST AND BOW
THE VOTE STANDS
jjje Time to Enter ,Will Soon ht Up
Xhe nominations in the voting:
contest will positively close June
1st H vour favorite is not in
*he running by that time, there
j;;no chance to vian. But the
real contest is just starting, so
send in your nomination and
fhen get down to business. No
candidate is so far ahead as to
iiscoiirag’e the rest, and none is
hr ahead that they cannot be
’Qffiten. if you are thinking of
enitring do not let this idea de-
ler yoiK get right in and get
vour friends busy, the rest is
;-iSv, The prizes offered are the
r.-jo^L valuable ever offered by
anv newspaper in North Caro-
>'0u may not have another
;hc'a;oe like this in a life time,
ire you going to let this one
..iip'/ It only takes 79 yearly
i.ub5cribers to beat the strongest
;;and;uate now, then get a move
:,n you, it will be dead easy to
i-atch up with the highest caiidi-
daifc fiow, and once ahead you no
iioiibi can stay ahead. Just as
{•ooT) as the nominations close
.,e will then set the date for the
•ontest to close. The time is
,eetiin,y' short, if you want to v/in
;ou wiii have to hurry, get busy,
L'ei your friends busy everybody
lei i)iK;y, and the grand prize
^'^.ay be yours. The vote stands
t./uf.' as follows:
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When the Earth Parses Through
Tail of Hailey's Comet.
Cambridge, Mass., May 17,—
Harvard astronomers expect the
passing of the earth through the
tail of Hailey’s comet to be ac
companied by a shower of mete
ors.
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There will probably be an un
usual glow in the heavens/' said
Prof. Edward C. Pickering today,
‘‘or a few rneteors or falling
stars, but it is doubtful if any
of these will be visible, as the
atmorphere at the comet’s tail is
100 times rarer than the atmos
phere near the earth. The comet
IS so tenuous that it is possible
to photograph stars right through
it._ "
‘'The best observations will be
obtained in Japan.
‘ ‘The comet and earth are ap
proaching one another at a speed
of 43 miles a second. The time
of transit we expect to be 58
minutes, showing that the tail,
where the earth will pass through
it, is 150,000 miles wide.
“The transit will begin at ex
actly 10:50 p. m. Wedneisday,
and will be concluded at 11:48
p. m.
Burlington.
Lois A. Workman,
S'vvanriie Pattei‘son,
Myrtle Isley,
Myrtle Tate,
IGTON 49
7,200
3,150
1,000
875
550
100
100
100
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steel Roller
OUT
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Lillian Turner,
Flossie Burke,
Callie Boland,
Daca Davis,
Bertha Lineberry
Burlington R. F. D^s.
, Jennie Whitsell, R. 4, 3,125
" Emma Overman R. 1. 1,175
“ Annie Matlock, R. 2, 400
“ Ollie Ector, Route 2, 200
■ ■ Rosa Crouse, Roiite 4, 200
■ Mattie Pennington, R. 2, 100
" Fannie Belle Stanford
Route 9, 100
Sn&w Camp.
uss Mary Stout,
Spring Graded School,
van Graded School,
Mebane.
Grace Amick,
“ Essie Dodson,
Haw River, No. L
Kiss Carrie Albright, 5,800
£lon College, N. C.
I^'iss; Mollie Baldwin, 3,000
Union Ridge, No. 1.
Miss Lottie Terrell, 250
WILNINGTON HAS
A STWIJNG CASE
Wilmington, May 12. — Start
ling revelations of the receipt of
more than seven hundred barrels
and eases of liquor by little more
than a dozen consignees in Wil
mington since January Ist, 1910,
were made today at a continued
OUI RALEIGH UTTER.
Spwial to the Dispatch.
hearing before the mayor under
the special statute of the Revkal I Bailey faction today lield a miss
P^aleigh, N. C., May 14.-The
Democratic party in Wake coun
ty, the metropolitan county of
the State, has split; and not only
hay two factions begun a war of
extermination, but they are
charging and countercharging
every manner of infa.my.
The Josephus Daniels—J. Wm.
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Labor Conditions.
About ten years ago was start
ed a movement in the United
Slates of making the conditions
of labor better. That movement
has not stopped yet. This month
of May has seen the usual num
ber of labor disputes,^ and it is
J^oticeable that the wishes of dis
contented workmen are often for
something besides more pay and
less work. They have demanded
better surroundings where work,
in a good many instances. Em
ployers of labor have sometimes
yielded to the workmen and have
taken part in some team play by
capital and labor; others have re
fused and are still combatting
tne suspicion of their employes.
Some people call the present
rriovement “industrial better
ment.” Others call it “welfare
•vork.'’ Whatever it is called, it
stands for better factories, places
ork in that are hygienic and
|i-nitary, it does not necessarily
include club houses or paternal
'■^'.re, because American workmen
not like to be patronized.
Industrial betterment has a
influence on both the busi-
and the morals of the whole
J'^mrnunity. Some of this good
'■'.orK is probably done by em-
ei’s selfish reasons; much also,
than most people think, is
u . :;? nrough sentiment and kind-
ing. There are precious
in business that money
rot liuy. It can and does buy
and good will, which are
.• valuable to the employer.
Spring Cleaning Days.
Inasmuch as the warm summer
days are about due, according to
schedule, when malario and ty
phoid ai’e most prevalent, it is
the purpose of the city to rnini-
mize the dangers from these
causes, and with this in view
days have been set apart for
cleaning and removing from the
city all filth of w^hatever nature.
The citizens of the first and
second Wards are asked to have
their premises cleaned and the
filth placed at convenient places
on the streets in front of their
homes, when the city will re
move the same without cost to
the property owners Tuesday,
May 24th.
The citizens of the Third and
Fourth Wards are ask to do the
same work so that the filth may
be removed on W’ednesday and
Thursday, May 25th and 26th.
It is important this work be
done on the day before the above
dates, as the wagons will be sent
out to take up this filth on these
days only.
Don’t overlook the old tin cans
and other receptacles of stagnant
water—breeding places cf mos
quitos.
A. F. Barrett, ]\Iayor.
Altamahaw No.!, Items.
Bro. DuRant preached at Shi
loh Sunday. A large crowd was
present.
Since our last writing two of
our old friends Altamahaw died.
Uncle Jack Burch and Uncle
Elija Sutton.
Uncle Buck Faucette was out
again from his sickness and has
been plowing some.
Capt. R. H. Faucette fell on a
stump and hurt himself right
bad, and he is in the bed sick
from it. Hope he will soon re
cover.
There was a girl at Shiloh Sun
day without a wash tub hat, but
she made up for it with horns
made of ribbon on the side of htr
Mr. Joyce has arrived from
Stoneville with his machinery to
cut the hickory timber in our
neighborhood. He cuts handles
of all kinds. It is something new
in our big woods to hear .the hum.
of the saw and the toot of the
whistle.
John Jordan and John Faucette
visited at J. R. Smith's Sunday,
as they most always do, esjjecial-
Iv Mr. Jordan.
' Miss Yirdie Faucette visited
her father Saturday night and
Sunday. ,
- J. M. Jordan and v/ife visited
her father Saturday nigftt and
Sunday. _ ,
Mr, Mat Huskey, wife; and
daughter visited John Chatham
Saturday and Sunday. ^
John Faucette plowed some of
his corn last week.
Curry Cobl), and Zan Matkins
are done hilling and have planted
about 16 thousand tobaccoplants.
Hurrah for Curry and Zan.
Our mail earner on No. 1 lip
don’t hang as low as it (li^ he
’ has got him a new suit of cIOL-nes,
of 1905, these disclosures coming
upon the submission of the re
cords of the local Seaboard Air
Line freight agency given by
General Counsel Leigh R. Watts.
Subpoenas were issued yesterdjay
for the receiving clerk and a.n as'
sistant in the Seaboard office, the
names of suspected parties, in
cluding eleven near beer dea,lers,
and these negro draymen for sa
loons of that character.
The investigation was prosecut
ed by Attorney J. 0. Carr for
the Citizens’ Committee and; the
shipments were given in detail
w^ith dates. The consignments
ranged in the aggregate from
five to 350 barrels to each person,
removing the quantity beyond
the range of personal or private
consumption. Further in^?esti-
gations of the records, which it
is stated will be used as corrobor
ative evidence, are said to l)e on
top with the likelihood of whole
sale prosecutions to follow.
Haw River Items.
Hailey’s comet is the talk now.
Some of our people set ther alarm
clocks to get up in time to see it
and then missed seeing it. It
goes on just the same.
Mr. Rimer and two of his chil
dren, of Mebane, attended wor
ship at Haw River Sunday.
Pastor Ai-net filled his appoint
ment Sunday morning and ad
ministered the ordinance of Ba.p-
t nn Sunday evening. There
were twelve baptized—three wo
men and nine young men.
The Sunday-schools are v/ork-
ing like beavers g'etting ready
meeting in Raleigh and nominat
ed a ticket from top to bottom
against the present county offic
ers. This ticket is to contest
with the “Ins” in the Democratic
Primary June 26ttx. Now some
of thei Democratic Executive
Committee are claiming that per
haps these Mass Meeting Demo
crats, who have defied the coun
ty comniittee, have ruled them
selves out of the party and may
not be allowed to take part in the
primaries.
The speech of J. Wm. Bailey,
before the Mass Meeting today,
breathed defiance and dennunc'a-
tion against the present party
management. He declared that
the Democratic party in Wake
county was now run selfish ends
and denounced in severest lang
uage The State Democrat, with
out naming it, a weekly paper
here edited by J. C. Caddell, who
was stigmatized by Bailey in the
severest terms. He asserted that
this paper was a subsedized and
could not exist when cut off from
the county treasury. He also
asserted that a County Commis
sioner now carried elections at
Wake F'orest precinct with whis
key.
The platform adopted by the
Daniels-Bailey crowd reiterated
the previous denunciation of the
present Democratic County Ma
chine, calls for representation at
the polls in the coming Demo
cratic primary and demands that
the county officer ^ be put on a
salary basis.
The ticket nominated By the
Daniels-Eailey faction was E. W.
THE LADIES INTElim
i ALAMANCE
for. the township convention j ^ professor^ in Wake
which meets at the M. P. church
at Haw River the fourth Sunday
in May.,
Arthur Neece, of Lexinjaton,
was in town s^iaking hands with
his many friends. Vv^e saw Mm
with his best girl, we suspect the
wedding bells will ring in the
near future. She is all 0. K.
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Crutchfield-
attended the school closing of C.
R. I., returned home and reports
the best closing in the hlsttirj'.
Capt. S. A. Vest has made
some improvements around his
front yard which will add niach
to the appearance.
For^jst College and formerly of
Unioh/county, for Senator; and
Richard W. Battle, lawyer, Ed.
R. Pace, a mechanic., and John
Judd, a farmeisD for the House.
The County officers are to be
Dillard Mial, for Clerk of the
Court; C, Anderson, for Register
of Deeds; H. D. Rand, for
SheriiT; and Geo. T. Norwood,
for Treasurer.
Opposed to this ticket the Am-
stead Jones faction stands for
W. M. Riss, for Clerk of the
Court; J. J. Bernard for Register
of Deeds; Brown Pegram, for
I Treasurer and J. N, Sears' for
When will the good roads force I Wm. E. Jones and Jno,
come this way? We have waited | W* H^n^ale, jr., will again run
long, our time will come after a; for the Senate and House respec-
while: ’ tively.
Judging from the visiting I Many people _ of this county
drummers here, business must: disgusted with the row be-
be looking up for the bette]-. I tween the pmhioition Democrats,
TheM. P. church contemplateheaded by Daniels and Bailey,
holding a series of meetings, be- ■ th^
ginning the second Sunday in ^ crats, headed Solicitor Armstead
June Come all ' ■ Jones. It is a war to the death
MikesRosaandMattieThorap-lnow and many predict the dis-
son, of Burlington, and Miss ruption of the Deniocratic party.
Mary Thompson, of Whi tsett, ^ At a recent meeting of the
spent Sunday in town v/ith Miss | B^rd of Aldermen of the City
Nettie McClure. “Tink’' was i of Raleigh, the drug; stores m
along too i stated that they could
Mr. J.‘ H. McCracken and ; n>t Pay $500.00 licepe to sell
daughter, of Graham, spent Sun-1 whiskey. J Sherwood Upchurch
day with her mother, Mrs. Ben I favored reducing the license to
Clark i the original $125.00, saying that
Miss Annie Belle Jones, of | he had only asked to have the
Orange county, is spending- a i m order to see
There is eyeiy probability that
the men of Alamance will in the
near future erect a county hos
pital on suitable location^ to
chosen by them. Whgit more fit
ting than that-the women of the
County should furnish this hos
pital, if posssible/ entirely, but in
part at least? With this object
in view we wish to call d mass
meeting of the _;womeri pf Ala
mance, to meet in the Alamance
Court House, May 24th, 1910, at
two o’clock p. m. Come pre
pared to talkj to express your
opinions and adva.nce ideas as to
the best ways of doing this.
Bring your neighbors,
(Signed)
Mrs. W. is. Stafford,
;; L. C. Carter,
John Q; Gant>
Finley L, Williamsoh,
James N; Williamson,
Ben R. Sellars,.
Luther Atwater,
“ J. M, Browning,
“ T. S. Faucette,
“ J.H. Vernon,
“ J.L. Scott,
William J» Graham,
“ Benj; J. Williamson,
“ George Thompson,
L. , Banks Williamson,
“ G. R. T. Garrison,
Ashley L. Baker,
Mary Belle Scott,
“ Sam White, ,
“ J. U. Newijian,
“ W. P. Lawirence,
Ben S, Robertson,
“ Will Andeirson,
“«A. WV Haywo^
“ John McPherson,
“ Geo^e Rogers,
“ Bob Scott,
W. R. Goley.
J. D. Albright,
■ ‘ Tom Coble)
“ J. W: Menefee,
“ Jack Scott,
“ J. Harvey White,
“ A. T. Allen,
James V. Pomeroy,
“ J. Elmer Long,
“ A. K. Hardee,
“ Ned Parker,
' “ ■ I>.;'BaMks Holtj'v \
Miss Eula Dixon,
“ Annie Harden,
‘ ‘ Mamie Parker.
the'
tail,
now:
R. F. II. No: 1.
W. L. Spoon
of Dur-
while with her sister, Miss W
Crutchfield.
Mr. J. E. Carrigau
ham, is visiting at the
Mrs. B. L. Robertson.
B.'L. Robertson, jr.,
ham, spent Saturday night
Sunday in town.
Miss Isla
Greensboro,
who was selling the whiskey, the
drug stores or the near beer
joints; that the stores refused to
Qf the increased license and stoped
I selling whiskey; that he believed
nnr- ^ the people now knew a few
and ^things.
' In the appointment of Henry
J. Stratford of i Gray Brown as Corporation Com-
is ’ spending some I missioner to succeed R. F. Ay-
of
time with her grandfather. Mr, i cock, deceased, Govpnor Kitchin
N H. Trollinger. i probably made the best selection
Miss Patsy Robertson spent i he could from his party, but poli-
last Thursday night in Greens-1 ticians /admit that he_ made a
boro, where she attended a ban-i political blunder. Kitchin got the
quet given at the Guilford Hotel, i nomination on the strength of
Miss Woodfin Chambers will, his anti-trust, anti-railroad plat-
arrive Saturday from Raleigh to ^ form- ,^et, ^when elected, he
spend the summer here. ' framed the Legislatoe s trust
—- — - I bill, which Josephus Daniels says
Seven women, the oldest, of is without teeth, appointed Man-
them 87, three of them more; ning to the bench and showed his
than 80 and the others between; friendship for corporations. Now
70 and 80 years old, occupied the’when it came to naming a cor-
same pew at a recent service in a j poration commissioner he had a
; church at Danville, Pa. All of | chance to gratify the element of.
! the women were widows. ' his party which gave him
Mrs, W. L. Spoon ahd little
daughter spent last week visiting
Mrs. Spoon's father near Chapel
Hill
Misses Minnie and Ethel Mont
gomery left Tuesday for Wash*
ington, D. C., where they wjll
spend quite awhile.
Uncle Wesley Coble is right
sick at this Vi^ritipg, also Mr.
Sidney Jerrel is quite feeble.
W. L. Isley, Jr., came to
Dr. Isley’s Saturday to make his
home with them. Luck to the
boy.
A. C. Atkinson and family
visited in Burlington Sunday.
Mr. J. C. Simmons and child
ren, of Gmham, spent Saturday
at Shady Side Farm.
Master Marvin Clapp, of Gib
son ville,. is spending the week
with his grandparents, Mr. , and
Mrs. W. V. Montgomery.
Thanks to Grace and Ward
Atkinson for cherries Monday,
Georgia Isley for strawberries
and cherries last week a^nd J. S.
Isley for cabbage Friday. The
cabbage were godd, hard heads,
and was set out this spring. Joe
is a hustler any way.
“Dan Cupid, ” of No. 7, has
made a visit over on No, 1 and
done some good work. The
young man, who has be^h treait-
ed by Dan, has bought, him a
mail box of his own, took the;
farm in charge, and is done work
ing corn the second time. We
expect Dan had better get : hold
of some more of our boys.
Our friend J. S. Isley, who car
ried No. 7 a pig last week, wants
to know v^fhat makes No. 7’s
chickens feathers all turn towards
their heads.
Mrs. G. L. Simpson spent Sat^
urday night and Sunday with the
writer and family.
T|ic Cmnei ^ndl Fear,
Betw^n each seventy-five?
and seventy-eight years since-
long before Christ wa^ bom,
Halley^s Goniet has regalarly re
turn^ to the sun and blazed
upon the earth. It is as much a
part of our solar system as Mer
cury, distant Jupiter, or
moon.
How many times its
through which the earth is .
passing, has switched us, no one
defiriitely knows, but for cen
turies this brilliant messenger of
the skies has been a terror to
humanity. Only within the last
century has the mind of man
risen to calmness in conteraplat-
ing it, ;and came to realize its;
ma^ificent procession is not a
token of the wrath of God, but a
Superb illustmtion of the per
fection of his laws.
Hailey’s c 6 met has never
wrought the earth or its peo{)le
harm, but for generations, pn its-
approach, bells were rung,
churches thrown open, special'
prayers for Divine protection of
fered, invocations made against
“the evil tiling. ”
To-day no such spectacles are^
v^itnessed. Swirling through
space at the rate of dver three?
million miles a day, Hailey’s-
comet is welcomed by millions as -
a marvelous, educational, soul-
inspiring phenomenon of those -
heayens studded with stars to •
the honor and glory of God.
Man has grown nearer to Godt
thrpugh the ages, and that is the ^
most helpful lesson Hailey’s
comet imprints upon our hearts"
this day. Intelligence is replac
ing ignorance and superstition,-
and the more intelligence there
is in thijs world,; the clearer will-
God's merciful face be seen shin- -
ing beyond the comet’s flare.
Death at Altamahaw.
Elijah Sutton died at Altama
haw Saturday May 14th, and was'
buried Sunday afternoon at Beth
lehem, the funeral and burial
service conducted by Rev. J. W,
Holt, of this city. Mr. Sutton.,
leaves, a widow, five children and'
two sisters who are bereft by hi&’
death. He v^as 62 years 7 months;
and 22 days of age, was a good
neighheir,, clever citizen, and for
a number of years a worthy mem
ber of Bethlehem church. He
will be greatly missed in the
home by his loved ones, in the
neighborhood by his many friends
and in the church by the entire
congregation.
Bascom Hornaday, who has
been selling nurserv stock in S.
C., is at home this week.
Commencement Sermon.
The annual commencement ser
mon of the Graded Schools will
be preached in the School Audi
torium, Sunday May 22nd, at
8:00 p. m.
The congregations of the var
ious churches of Burlington arf..*’
cordially invited to worship vrith
us on this occasion.
The sermon will be preached
by Rev. W. A. Lambeth, of
Winston-Salem» a former pupil'
of mine.
Mr. Lambeth is the young man,
who, upon his graduation from
Harvard, won so much distinct
ion and favorable comment on
‘The New
his graduating thesis-
South.”
Frank H.
Curtiss,
Schools.
nomination but instead he has
seen fit to delight the railroads.
The Governor ‘dropped his last
theitrtlmp.
Miss May Barrett delightfully
entertained a number of her
school mates at her home on
Means street last Friday night by
giving a ‘ ‘Tacky Party. ■* Every"
one invited were requested to»
dress tacky, and tacky they were
dressed. Of the tackies, Hallie
Ree Mebane received first prize
as being the tackiest. A contest
was given in which Margie Loy
received the prize and Claud
Holt the booby. Refreshments
were served, games played and
the entire crowd returned thanks
to Miss Barrett for the pleasant
evening of amusement and en^
joyment.
That the United States will re
ceive a million immigrants dur
ing the fiscal year ending June
30 is the .prediction of the officials
at Washington. During April
133,276 arrived, making a total
of 801,2^5 thus far this year.
The last million immigrant year',
was in 1907.
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