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BURLINGTON. N. C, MAY 25, 1910.
NO. 2
m CONTEST AND HOW
THE VOTE STANDS
LETTER. ELON COLLEliE NOTES.
From oBr liegfular Correspondent.
7,775
5(X)
200
300
100
6,350
3,000
250
lune the first postiveJy the last
ir’v upon which you can nominate
favorite for the great con-
;'gs\ After June the first it will
finish.
\\-,n^inate your friend now, there
s no time lost provided you do it
the nominations close,
in the name at once and
’fiCn go 10 work. This 3s^ the last
.^nsinc^-. don’t get left. The vote
as follows.
Burlingtoa.
Lois A. Workman, 7,850
Sv.-aimie Patterson, 7,700
" Myrtle Isley, 3,150
^jvrtle Tate, 1,000
“ Lillian Turner, 875
■■ Flossie Burke, 550
' Callie Boland, 100
" Daea Davis, 100
■■ bertha Lineberry 100
Burlington R. F. D’s.
M;s? Jennie Whitsel), R. 4, 3,175
■' Emma Overman R, 1. 1,175
Annie M'atlock, R. 2, 400
" Oliie Ector, Route Z 200
"■ Rosa Crouse, Route 4, 200
“ Mattie Pennington, R. 2, 100
Fannie Belle Stanford
Route 9, 100
Snow Camp.
Miss Mary Stout,
Spring Graded School,
Sylvan Graded School,
Mebane.
.Miss Grace Amick,
■' Essie Dodson,
Haw River, No. 1.
Mist Carrie Albright,
Elon College, N. C.
M's=; j'lollie Baldwin,
Union Ridge, No„ L
.Miss Lottie Terrell,
Doath of a Youug Latly.
Miss Scillie Ella Graves dien
in ii'ie home of her brother-in-law,
M)'. T. L. Sellars, on Front street
2 o'clock a. rn,, last ii^*^' .,day
.M«y 28rd, 1910, aged 28 yaars 5
;r,onths and 9 days. For many
years Miss Graves had suff?red a
iireai deal from some neirvous
li’oubie. For about two or three
■rior.tljs she was unable to be up
L-.i all. She was a devoted mem-
iei’ of the Baptist church in Yan-
:cy\ iiie and a thoroughly conse-
ciated Christian, Before her
leath she made every preparation
: ,u' her funeral, selecting the Bi-
t'le lessons, hymns etc. At a few
rr:iniites before 6 o'clock in the
aiiernoon on the same day of her
death the funeral service was
ineld in the Baptist church in Yan
cey vi lie and her body was quiet-
iy laid to rest beneath the great
spreading oaks in the little ceme-
te)'v beside that church. A large
number of relatives and friends
■'Vere present to express their
?yrripalhy and take part in this
service conductfd by Rev. J. D.
Anrirew of Burlington. She
•‘eaves two sisters, iMessdames T.
i;-. iScllars and C. T. Holt, of Bur-
'■ns^on, and four brothers Messrs
^'i- S. Graves of Yanceyville, Wm.
'craves of Danville, Va., Ed.
'^’iayes and Houst jn Graves, of
^■'’-'rling;ton.
Whitsett CommeBcement.
A record breaking crowd as-
at Whitsett Saturday and
•'londay to attend the exercises
‘-'i the twennty-seventh annual
commencement. Saturday at 10:-
and again at 3:00 two beauti-
'^old medals were given by
liialectic and Athenian Liter-
‘‘j y Societies to the best declamers
*s:iJO Saturday night an even-
:n elocution was given by the
^Uir Literary Society Miss Mag-
s^>'L^^i‘ceson of Whitsett won the
as best eloc\itionist. Rev
ston Johnson of Raleigh
iJi't'acnod an able sermon Sunday
'[‘orning. Prof. Tho. R. Foust
■"•livi-red the Y. M. C. A. address
The afternoon, Monday the
'^^'.'MJay'' one of the largest
vfis in the history _ of the
was present. Mai. Stead-
■■Hui -y, Greensboro delivered the
vilr f ’l f;iterary address which
as i i- j instructive. Twen-
’■'■■'■''it-V(.j-ular Literary gradua-
' ';(‘eived diplomas. The ora-
'n'i '-vas won by Chas. D.
■li'-ly of Guilford County.
Washington, May 21.—While
the Sunday Civil appropriation
bill was before the House several
very illuminating tariff speeches
wer^made, and two of these by
Special to .The Diepafccb.
Elon College, May 23o~Aphone
message from Dr. Long, Dr.
Moffitt’s surgeon in Greensboro
this morning brought the grati
fying intelligence that Dr. Moffitt
Mr. Payne, Chairman of the Ways' fntinues to itnpr9ve and is able
and Means Committee, and Mr.
Fordney, a member of that Com
mittee, should be read every vo
ter who wishes^ to know the truth
about the framing of the law and
the result of its operation. No
Democrat has attempted to ans-
wear these speeches; no Demo
crat during the debate attempted
to show that th-e result of the new
tarijff law had not been extreme
ly beneficial both from a revenue
standpoint and as a protection to
American labor and industries.
Mr. Payne’s speech was devot
ed almost wholly to an explana
tion of the w''ay the bill named
after him was framed in the
Ways and Means Committee and
afterwards perfected in the Con
ference Committee. Mr Fordneys
speech was an answer to the
speech recently made by Senator
Beveridge, and not by those who
think Mr. Beveridge right, but
those who think him wrong upon
the tariff question should read
this speech of Mr, Fordney'sand
see whether or not he has proven
the inaccuracies which he claims
are to be found in great numbers
in Mr. Beveridge's recent speech.
Another very interesting speech
recently made in the House is
that of Congressman Morehead,.
of N. C. Mr. Morehead. calls at
tention to the .financial and in
dustrial conditions under Bucha
nan and Cleveland as compared
with present conditions throagh-
out the country, and then devotes
the remainder of his speech to
the very remarbable progress
made by his own State, N. C.,
during recent years, concluding
with an appeal to the people of
the South to throw off the thral
dom of tradition and prejudice
and vote for self interest as does
every other section of the Union.
This recent aggressivness on
the part of the Republicans shows
that the confidence of Democratic
leaders as to the out come of the
election this year ]s not well
founded. The fact of the matter
is that while Democratic press
have been claiming every thing
in sight, the Republican leaders
have been working quietly but
most efficiently, and if at any
time there has been any doubt
as to the complexion of the next
House it will be entirely disipat-
ed long before this Session of
Congress comes to an end.
Not only will the Republicans
most ably and successfully show
that the new tariff law has been
beneficial in every way; but a
large part of the legislation ask
ed for by the President and which
was pledged in the party platform
will be enacted into law. It is
now thought that this work will
be concluded, and that Congress
will adjourn between the 15th of
June and the 1st of July, Then
after a vacation of a few weeks
the actual Congressional cam
paign will begin in earnest
throughout the country. There
will be more speeches made dur
ing September and October of
this year and more literature dis
tributed, more editorials and gen-
ral articles printed than ever be
fore in our history during a Con
gressional campaign.
There is no agument w'hether
upon the tariff question or upon
general legislation, or the record
of the Republican party or the
work of the present Administra-
tion that the Republicans will not
have the best of it. There is no
argument whatever that the
Democratic party can present ex
cepting the general negative one
of finding fault with the existing
conditions and of wanting to get
the Republicans out in order that
they can get in. That will be an
office holding argument pure and
simple, and it will not again de
ceive the people as it has once
or twice before midway between
two Pj'esidential campaigns.
Rising wages all over the coun
try,' falling prices, general pros
perity, a redemption of party
I pledges and savings by the Go-
i vernment of niillions upon mil
lions upon millions of dollars
to be propped up in bed for seve
ral hours in the day, though his
fever continues rather high, ave
raging 102. He is still able to
take nourishment, digest it, and
he rests v/ell.
There is profound regret here
that he President’s sickness will
prelude the possibility of his per
sonal attendence at the commen
cement. This is a very impor
tant session of the board of trus
tees and the President had mat
ters of weight and account to
present to that body.
Large preparations are being
made for the approaching com
mencement which begins on the
28th of May with a play, Valley
Farm, by the members of the
Elon College Dramatic Club, this
being the 4th and concluding
play by this club during the col
lege year.
The regular college program
begins on Saturday evening with
the'Class Exercises. The Bac
calaureate Sermon will be deliv
ered on Sunday morning, May
29, Society representative Mon
day evening,The Literary address
and the Musical Concert will oc
cur on Tuesday evening, the
Graduating ex .rcises and Alumni
Address coming Wednesday.
The program is as follows:
Saturday. May 28, 8 P. M. Class
Day Exercises—Class Histoiry,
Miss Nannie Emma Farmer; Pro-
phency Miss Macie Farmer; Man
tle Oration, C. C. Fonville, Class
Poem, A. C. Hall; Class Will, Mr
W. W. Elder. Music.
Sunday, May 29, 11:30 A. M.
Beccalaureate Sermon, Rev, A.
W. Lightbourne, Ph, D. Dover.
Del.
Monday, May 30, 8 p. m. Socie
ty Represerjtati ves - Philologian,
Messrs. M. W. McPherson and iE
T. Hines, Clio iMessrs. R. iL. Wal
ker and J. S. Lincoln, Palphelian
Misses Beulah Foster and Bessie
McPherson.
Tuesday, May 31, 11:30 A. M.
Literary Address by Rev. D. A.
Long, D. D. L. L. b. Graham, N
C. Four P. M. Annual Meeting
Alumni Association, Rev. C. H,
Rowland, Franklin, Va. Presi
dent. Eight P. M. Annual Con
cert.
Wednesday June 1, 11:30 A. M.
Graduating Exercises. Three P.
M. Society Reunions. Four P. m
Art Exhibit. Eight P. M. Alum
ni Address, by Miss Jennie Hern
don, "9Q, Greenville, N. C.
BOR RALE16H LETTER. a«e the tax payersget-
LisI Your Tarts.
I will be at the following places
at the following times for the
purpose of listing taxes for North
Burlington Township:
Glen Raven, June 1st.
Burnettes Store, Wednesday
June 2nd,
Elmira Office Monday June 6th.
Bellevue Mills Wednesday June
8th.
Lakeside Friday June 10th.
All other days will be at the
Ofiice lot in Burlington.
Notice is hereby given that you
must list your property during
the month of June when the
books will be closed.
A. M. Garwood, Tax Lister.
South- Burlington:
I will attend the following ti
mes and places in South Burling
ton, for the purpose of listing ta
xes:
M. J. Anthonys Wednesday
June 1st.
D, M. Elders Thursday June 2.
Aurora Office, Tuesday June 7.
W. H. Laytons Store Thursday
June 9th.
Balance of the month in Office
lot.
R. A. Lutterloah,
Tax Lister.
3p«r.iial to the Diepatch.
Raleigh May 21. — N orth Car o-
lina now has |3,400,000 worth of
iOiiy year 4 jjercent bonds for
sale upon the market. The last
session of the Legislature, in or
der to take up the bonds of the
State due in July, 1^10, and to
provide permanent irnprovements
in the State Hospitals and possi
bly some other Institutions, pro
vided this bond issuse. Since the
present outstanding bonds of the
State fall due in July it is neces
sary to sell the new issue before
that time, Accordingly the State
Treasurer advertised for bidders,
but the propositions received by
him, and ope^hed this week, would
talie up but little more than a
third of these bonds.
it was fctund.apparently impos
sible to interest large northern
financial institutions in the bonds
of this State and many of them
gave as a reason that the bond
market was over stocked on ac
count of the reclamation and ir
rigation bonds that arebeing float
ed in great quantities. The Con
stitution of the State provides
that bonds cannot be sold for less
tiian par. From this statement
of facts it will be seen that Gov.
Kitchin’s administration now
faces, a situation which must be
met at once. It Is believed that
nearly all of these bonds can be
disposed of-at par or a little above
par to persons within the State
of North Carolina. This must
bfe done within two months or
the holders of the outstanding
bonds would make demand upon
tJ.ie State Ireasurer for the same.
Tust at the time that this mat
ter is receiving the attention of
the State administration come the
decision of the Supereme Court
to the effect that the surplus of a
bank invested in State bonds
shall be deducted from the value
of the bank stock. While the
effect of this decision does not in
a.ny way rriake bank stock non-
tftixable, z.i some have tried to
create av''^y-rroheous impression,
at the same time its effect will
be apparently to enhance to some
extent the value of the State
bonds. The decision of the court
Was rendered by Justices iMann-
i»g, Brown and Walker, while
Chief Justice Clark and Justice
Hoke dissented. The Chief Jus-
I tice in his dissenting opinion con
cludes by stating that the opin
ion of the court will not hold and
atempts to put prospective buyers'
of bonds on guard. Those wha
uphold the decision of the Suftv
I Dsme court claim that these words
I of the Chief Justice are nothing
I less than an overt attack upon the
! credit of the State,
i The entry of Ed. Abell, of
1 Johnston County, into the' race
I for Solictor of the Sixth Judicial
I Diistrict is a piece of shrewd po-
I litics, Mr. Abell is said to be
i tlie iManager in Johnston County
I for Frank Daniels in his race for
i Jiidge of the Superior Court,
; Heribert Morris of Wake County,
. ig a candidate for Solicitor and
J. C. Cliford of Harnett county
is a candidate for Judge. It
seams that Norris is not alligned
I with either faction in Wake coun-
fty, but that CHfford is supported
j by the so-called Ring. It is said
that Norris will control the Wake
and Harnett delegation; that the
Johnston delegation will be in
structed for Abell, owing to
the “unit rule” prevailing in
Johnston County;'^and that the
Wayne delegation will be unin-
Btmcted for Solicitor; In addi
tion to the vote of Wake and Har
nett, Norris will need about twel
ve votes to secure his nomination
aiid to secure these Wake’s vote
for Judge must be given to Da
niels. This indicates that Frank
Daniels will be nominated for
Judge and Herbert Norris for
Solicitor.
Ciimbeirs or Ct^nAiiirerl Wiiicb Are
President all mean a rallying cry
that it will be impossible for the
Democratic orators and editors
to successfully combat. The vic
tory is already won; the next
'House will have a substantial
Republican majority and the
next Congress will go
on conti-
tir^ough appropriations and eco-i nuing the splendid work begun
nomies in the Departments and | during the first year of President:
the increasing popularity 61 our Taft term.
Usually the Case.
When you hear a man sneering
at the local paper because it is
aot big, cheap and newsy as the
&ty papers, you can safely bet he
does, not squander any of his
fvealth in assisting to make it
better and that generally the pa
lmer has done more for him than
'te has for it. The man who can-
Bot see the benefits arisi^ig from
a local newspaper is about as
Biuch value to a town as a delin-
aaent tax list—Ex.
T1N6 A SP8E DEAL
Mr. Editor:~I hear the above
question asked almost every' day,
and I think it is about time that
some one who ought to know,
siliould answer the questioini. This
article has reference: to the per
manent, or socalled permanent
street work. Some of pur best
and oldest citi zehs doh ’t think the
tax payers are getting a square
deal, and although I hav6 contri
buted some little effort toward
helping carry the bond issue in
order that these in authority
would have the means to continue
the work. I am now coming to
the conclusion that unless the
new commission can and will do
the work better than it is being
done now, we Had better reject
all bids for the bonds and stop
the work, I am told that when
you approach the street corhmit-
tee and call their attention to the,
way the work is beipg* done, that
you are coolly informed that noth
ing has been accepted,, and that
it is all up to the contractor.
Now while this may big partially
true still I am of the opihion that
it is now time to begin to hold
somebody responsible for the way
the money is being Spent. I am
getting dubiovis, of the often re
peated statement that it is all up
to the contractors, either this
statement is: not true, or if true
the contractors are the biggest
gumps that ever undertook a piece
of work like this. No on6 with
any judgement at all wduld be
lieve for a moment that a Iset of
men would deliberately do a piece
of work that they did riot believe
would be received when complet
ed, and if such is the case. The
street committee owe it to the
'people who they represent as well
as to the contractor to make it
plain to them that they are do
ing the wrong, and they \yill not
be paid for it. The work is the
poorest-that v/as ever done in
any town or village, there is not
a piece of it right, and unless re-
mendied at
thing but worthless. Look at it
since the recent, rain, and you
will see that it has wa,sh6d.badly,
not a piece of it no rhatter how
long finished, would stand just a
hght shower like fell last week,
what would become of it should
there come a hard and long sho
wer, there would be nothing left
but the largest stones arid
too, might be washed away, every'
body has criticised Davis and
Spring streets, but \ the ardent
friends of the work would point
to Front Street, now lets see what
happened there during the light
shower that fell last w6ek. The
street although rounded up in the
middle was to lov^r by an inci^ for
the M^ater gutter, therefore the
water could not run into the
v/ater table, but had to ru?i upon
the macadam, liow what M^as the
result, it washed a trench at least
an inch deep in the macadam,,
now if tiiis happens with a light
shower what would be the result
with a hard rain, why is it that
those who are doing the work, or
those who .are representing the
tax payers virill not have all this
remedied, their attention has
been called to it time and time
again, and yet they jpermit: the
same kind of work to be done up
on the other parts of the streets.
The street committee said that
Davis street was a hard proposi
tion owing to it being so that it
could not be rounded up in the
middle right in" heart of town,
and that vifhen they get around
upon Front street they would
show the people that they knew
their business, mafty of us beleiv-
ed them, but we are losing con-
Mence now. The people are
getting tired of seeing their mon
ey thrown aw^ay^ and there should
be a stop put to it, the sooner the
better. If the street committee
don't know what, the;^ aire doing,
then it is time the town plfieials
were sending after some one who
has had experience in doirig such
work, and getting an expert to
say if the work is being done
right. All the work done in the
main business portion Pf the city
should be raised so that the water
could, run from the street on the
water table or the water tab\e
lowered so as to serve the i same
purpose. This is a seripus mat
ter ^should demand immediate at-
tentipri, and if the proper officials
refuse or neglect to take steps to
We are eaeh of us either a
climber or cumberer. If we are
not a lifter we are a leaner, if
we are not getting better We are
surely grcxwing- worse-^ there is
no Sending sml—we are either
moving forv?ard or backward,
upward or downward. We should
all be climbers. All have a work
to do, mission to fulfill ant* the
All-Wise Creator intends sor each
of us froni the last to the ^eat
est to irhprove oUr talents be they
many or few.
But the ladder of life Is not an
easy one to climb, it so steep and
rugged^ snares and pitfalls are
thick in the pathway, dark storm
clouds boom up before us at un
expected time on every hand and
so darkens the pathway that at
times it seems impossible.
The downward way looks so
much easier and so much more
pleasant! Teiriptations come
thick and fast, we are almost
tempted to just stop at the foot
of the ladder, we can stay there
without any effort and the sum-
mit looks far away, anyway we
can never reach it; and suppos-
in,g we should attempt to
reach it and fail; failure wouM
be worse than not trying at all.
Would it? Never! ‘‘jNptfailure
but low aim is crime." I once
heard a yonng man say he “firm
ly believed it rtiore disgrace to
try and fail than to not try at ali
and, anyway, it didn't pay this
straggling to reach the top, bet
ter rest easy and just have a
gppod time at the bottom. ’, Now
God had blessed this man with
many talents, but he folded them
up in a napkin and has practiced
what he preached and the result
is he is a miserable failure. He
is certainly at the bottom round
and most likely will stay there,
having an easy tinme at the bot
tom while his wife sews day and
night to support him and the
children. ■'
If we aipi at nothing we will
surely accomplish nothing. Set
your standard high. There are
heights to he won every d^y and
our standpoint today should be
in advance of what it was yester
day. I remember a Httle poem
in an old reader:
‘ ‘Drive the nail aright boys
Standing at the foot boys.
Gazing at the sky,
How can you get up boys
If you never try?"
If you never try, that is the
secret. Without strong persist
ent effort little will be accoin-
plished. “Nothing great is easily
won."
- Perhaps our climbing very
often is something like a snails
pace, so slow we can't see we
are making any progress, but we
are moving in some one direction,
and a right effort is never lost,
though we may go down to our
graves with our hopes crushed
and ambitions not realized; if
what we have worked for and
longed for is that which God and
goodness sanctions though we
seem to have made a failure, we
are nobler for the effort and that
effort is not lost. No matter
which round of the ladder of life
we are upon or if we are even
standing at the foot, let us ever
strive for the topmost round. No
matter how thick the storm
clouds gather round us, no mat
ter how hard opposing foes press
us upon every side, no matter
how far we are from glittering
heights we so long to reach, per
haps we may never even catch a
glimpse of them, but our efforts
will never be lost; our lives will
be nobler, sweeter and grander
for having striven for the goal if
even we do not attain it and per
haps who knows? Our example
may give some other discouraged
climber courage to scale the rug
ged heights and mount to the
summit..
Ruby Evron.
Jno. R. Hoffman and Miss
Swannie Patterson spent Sunday
at Whitsett commencement visi
tors.
protect the tax payers then an
injunction should be applied for,
restraining them from paying out,
more money. You are upon no
tice now gentlemen what do you
propose to do.
Yours for a Square Deal,
ATaxFaykr.
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