North Carolina Newspapers

I ■ ' - • ' - ' ■”( 4 ’ ,1.1'" i 'I 1 A m^' ' A REPUBLICAN NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE UPBUILDING OF AMERICAN HOMES AND AMERICAN INDUSTRIES: BURLINGTON. N. C€J AUGUST 17,1910. THE CONTEST AND HOW THE VOTE STANDS Burlington. m:« Lois A. ^¥orkr^lan, 11,250 Swannie Patterson, 13,975 ■ Mvi^tle Isley, 3,150 ■• Mvrtle Tate, 1,000 ■■ Lillian Turner, 925 Burlington R. F* D^s. Jennie Whitsell, R. 4, 3,225 Knima Overman R. 1. 1,375 ■• Annie Matlock, R. 2, ■‘ biiie Ector, Route 2, •• Kosa Crouse, Route 4, Snow Camp. Mary Stout, Si.vjnti' i.inided bcliool, Svi\an (IrMtled School, Mebane. 3I;si Gva('e Amick, Haw River, No. 1. Tarrie Albright, Ek>n CoUege, N. C. .Miss Mollie Baldwin, Unloa Eidge, No« 1. Lottie Terrel], Sb 400 200 200 13.725 500 200 300 12,200 6,650 300 at ooiunon. The City Water, We learn that a recent analysis of the city water, shows a slight this shouJd not cause •ni. but should cause the i'-irV authorities to get busy and fscertain the cause. There is per- more than one cause for tills polution, and when any cause is believed to be responsi ve. it should, be removed. Jn :r.‘; rirf't place we think the city h.:i'ioriiies should take the mat- :e- ;n hand and have ail hog pens rjiat soetion of the citj remov- •:d. and conipell the citizens with :r. a suited distance of the well unti i'eservicr to connect with the k'. X) age system, thus abolishing :;.e dr\-closets, by this means a ste}:> will be taken towards ;i:t‘ keeping- of the city water yare and for the improvement of health conditions as well. In all probability the trouble is r^r caused by the evils above rr;endoned, but they exist in that :OC:iIity and all will admit that :hey are not conducive to good However something has m to be done, and when an evil dnuv:n to exist it^ is a very £00(1 idea to remove it. R. F. D. NO. 1. Miss Lois Reitzel left Monday :V:' .:>tatesvil}e where she will speiKi liie remainder of tiie sum- rnei' visiting 'relatives and friends. -Miss Carrie Nicholson of Mon- lofe is spending a while at home onXo. L Miss Joy Coble and R. S. Shoff- ner were united in marriage Sun day. The Rev. Williams perfor- the ceremony. Dr. L. G. Coble of Greensboro spent part of last week on our ”oute and took in the wedding ^umiay. •j. S. Dogget of Brown Summit spent Sund^ay night with J. F. Homewood. . Miss Georgia Holt of Greens boro who has been spending some on No. 1, returned home days ago. Ruby Loy is spending this ■veeK in Burlington. Another fine baby boy on No. 1 -■^;L. Combs is the lucky one. '•^-e will give some of the lar gest crops of wheat made on our route this year. Sunny Side Farm, 1300 bushels Grove Farm, 2017 “ Lien wood Farm, 1780 i- ii. Coble Farm, 1610 were a. number of other iat made big yelds but ihe largest. Sharp and Kirk Evans tiiers at Alamance Sunday 5-ois Clapp Nan and Eva ■ 'r.^ihaiTi spent last week ■ ^'arrie Evans. ;-ce Shoifner spent •iih her sister Mrs. J. Graham. T. Garrison 6f No. 'I week on No. 1 visit- ar.d friends. , u ;Mo Pattei’son is at; ;'er parents this week Two Administrative Changes Elon College—^New- Precept ress and Housekeeper. Elon College, N. C., Aug. 13.— Mrs. Maria L. Pretlow, who has served as College preceptress, having' charge of the young ladies in the new West Dormitory, for the past two years resigned her position on account of failing health. The College is very for tunate in the services of Mrs. Rosa J. Machen to fill this re sponsible position. Mrs.-. Machen now lives at Mobjaek, Mathews county, Virginia, but she is a North Carolinian by birth, a na tive of Warren county, and the daughter of Colonel Haskins. She is eminently qualified by temperament, experience and training for this responsible posi tion. Mrs. Machen is not a stranger at Elon Elon, for last year she was the Housekeeper in this same dormitory. The making of Mrs. Machen College Preceptress left the posi tion of Housekeeper open. This place has been filled by the elec tion of Mrs. Florine Peace, Creed- moor, N. C., to the position. Mrs. Peace is the daughter of Rev. M. L. Winston, a minister of the Christian church and prominent ly connected throughout the State. She has filled the position before and well, resigning to take up similar work elewhere, Her return to Elon ic a source of congxatulation to the institution’s friends and patrons. Miss Linda Barnes, of the Mu sic Faculty, is very sick at Vir- gilina, Va., where she is visiting. Mr. J. Beale Johnson, of Ral eigh, is here looking after the interests of the deep well project of which he is the Committee Chairman, Miss Holt Entertains. Miss Birdie Holt delightfully entertained a number of her friends last Thursday- evening between the hours of 8:30 and 11 p. m. it her country home “Elm Side.” The lawn and porches were decorated with Japanese lanterns. Music and games were played until the guest's were invited out on the lawn where refreshments were served. Those present were Misses Lillie Turner Madge Thompson, Miriam Qua- kenbush, Clara Stewart, Lillie Shatlely, Mamie Holt. Messrs. Romeo Holt, Hilary Rauhut, Date Jones, Tom Stafford, Wade Thompson, Earl Hatch, Ernest Evans and Fred Holt. Each one present expressed themselves as thoroughly enjoy ing the evening. REPUBLIk^ NO. 14 The greatest convention ever held by the Republicans of NoHh Carolina, convened in Greensboro last Wednesday, August 10. So large was th€| attendance that e\f~ ery aceomrnodation of the city was taxed to its utmost capacity', and the personnel, a finer body tie had been elected by a major ity of 359, the vote standing: Settle 737. Ewart 378. Mr. Set tle's election was made unani mous, and T. J. Harkins was chosen. Secretary* After a very brief speech of ap- preeiation, Chairman Settle an- of citizenship could not have beeh | that the next busmess found an ywhere. It seems that TP® election of a chairman of every one of the 1126 delegates I Committee, had the one purpose “Victory without further ^ceremony over the Democracy in 1910” as ^ famous his aim. The haniiony which!., prevailed throughout all the pro-1 stage and m a speech of fif- ceeding showed the best of judg- j mmutes placed Mr. _More- ment. There was not the least! ■ in nonrination.^ District At- sign of strife during the entire! Herbert B. Seawell spoke program and today under thell^^f^ minutes in placing E. leadership of Hon. John Motley ■ ^ Morehead, the Republican party ^heconvention. Major J. E. Alex- stands united and ready to fight, i W mston-Salem^,_ was It was 12:30 o'clock when Judge' before the convention ^by Adams, chaii*man of the State! V county, committee, called the convention! k J to order. The spacious theatre ■ by Henry C. Dockery, of was packed long before the hour, i declared set. Prayer was offered by Rev. i ^.1 proudest moment of his E. K. McLarty, of Greensboro,J ? when he had the the vast audience standing, and of seconding Mr. More- keeping remarkably quiet. The Jake prayer was exceedingly appro-: ^ pnate, At the conclusion of this Chair- man Addressed the convention. He came, he said, to place back in the hands of the party the commission entrusted to him four years ago. He was anxious to place tlie chairmanship in the hands of some one—a patriot first and a partisan next. He read from his Asheville speech, urg ing two strong political parties as the bestriieans of securing the seconded by Col. V. S. Lusk, of Buncombe county. At this juncture of the proceed ings Mr. J. J. Britt, of Asheville, announced that he withdrew the name of E. Carl Duncan from the i-ace and requested all of Mr. Duncan’s friends, to vote for Ma jor Alexander, but Mr. H. 0. Sapp, of Forsyth county with drew the name of Major Alexan- ! der, and the election of Mr. i Morehead was made acclamation. best government to the people He plead for his State and urged tit patriotism. He had attended ey-' 4.^ ery convention since his m.ajority speech in which hestat^ that to and recounted the trials and trib- aota?;? victory this Fall he ulations of the party in those support, by days; they were loyal then and of every Republican voter they are loyal yet. He wanted state, that, if successful, the Democrats to understand that ^ honor oi it all would wot be the Republican party was as pa-i other triotic as it. He prayed for the R^P^bncan. day when the Southland should take its place in the councils of nation. He recounted the his At the night session the conven tion got down to business. T. T. Hicks, R. M. Douglas and W. P. tory of the party under and juk I no™i>»tion previous to his administration, n ^ - - - - - ; second ballot Mr. Hicks wasinom- giving election figures from year R. F. D. NO. 8. Misses Carrie and Julia Horna- day of No. 4, spent a few days last week visiting at C. E. Tap- scotts. We are always glad to see Miss Carrie, she taught school at Maywood two years ago. Miss Alma McCullock of At lanta, G^., is spending a few weeks at the old homestead visit- idg her brother and sister. C. E. Tapscott and family visit ed and attended church atFried- ens in Guilford Co. last Sunday 7th, We regret to note that Mrs. G. A. Simpson still continues riglit sick. Euliss Simpson spent several days in Burlington visiting his sister Mrs. J. A. Lowe. Thanks to G, W. Barker and Andrew Ross for nice melons, Mrs. Robt Foster fora nice large basket of apples. P. F. P'aschall and Annie Va lentine of Greensboro and Mrs. Fannie Brannock of Rockingham Co. visited at W. A. Paschals. Glad to see these good people. Miss Estha Rippy of Burlington is spending a while with her sis ter i\irs. Bertha Ross. W'e took our wife and Hal and ! spent several days of last week visiting in our old home county Orange. While there we had the pleasure of visiting Allen R. I Hayes and J. J. Taylor. W^een- I joyed our visit very much. to vpnr qhrvwino- that hv-nAapp-Judge ^ Bynum having Kthtdrwlthta thPparty there had been a great increase i and E. vV. Timoerlake, were in the State. He said the Demo-1 n ed f or Associate Justices cratic xjarty in this State is torn j f | ^ F®. all to pieces; that in the Sixth ife®. w^'^hdx'ew and Col. Harry district there are two cnndidates! ^ named in his pl^e. and possibly three, in conclud-!., ing he made the declaration, > State Executive Committee, Work as hard to elect your tick et as you have to get delegates to this convention and we will wipe the Democrats off the face of the earth.” The secretai^ then called the roll of counties and contests were reported from Carteret, Clay, Cumberland, Durham, Vance Wake and Wayne. The commit- j tee appointed to acton these con tested counties was as follows; L M. Meekins, First district; J. M. Mewbome, Second district; Thos. E. Owens, Third district; J. E. Mathews, Fourth district; R. J. Petree, Fifth district; D. R. Johnson, Sixth district; J. P, Ratosey, Seventh district; A. H. Price, Eighth district; J. D. Al bright, Ninth district; W. E. Lo gan , Tenth distr’ ct The conven tion at 1:15 o’clock, on motion of I. M. Meekins, adjourned for an hour and a half to meet again in the Auditorium. At this place, when the con- representing the Congressional (iistricts in the order named: I M. Meekins, D. W. Patrick, Geo. Butler, J. J. Jenkins, B. S. Rob ertson, S. A. Edmunds, Frank W. Hayes, C. H. Cowles, C. E. Green and F. A. Fanning. The ten members at large will be named by State Chairrpan More- i'Lvet Bryan NOTICE. The Burlington Merchants As sociation has prepared a folder, printed in colors and setting forth a few facts, in regard to Burling ton and Alamance County, its advantages as a farming com munity, as a manufacturing op portunity and a place for ideal homes and town life. These folders can be dropped in the ordinanry commercial enve- Idpe and have been prepared for the purpose of distribution to tlie thickly settled cities and states of the West, North and Northeast vention reassembled ample room i They can be had by calling at the was at hand, and while waiting Secretary’s office, which is No. 4, for the credentials committee to Second Floor of the First Natio- report Hon. Thos. Settle, District nal Bank Building. In fact the Attorney Holton, Col. Lusk, Col. Association urges that* every W. R. Henry and others enter- j business man, every workingman, tained the gathering with short j e^^eiw farmer and' every other talks. It was after 4 o'clock j person, who is interested in the when the committe reported, j up building and extention of our This settle^, the pemianent industrial activities in Alamance chairmanship was taken up. 1 County, to call and get as many Thomas Settle was placed inlof these folders as he or she can ^ nomination for pennaiient chair- j conveniently use. They cost you man 01 the convention by Col.! nothing, and may be worth hun- issiowly! that "the "gr^^ at St Pauls! Harry Skinner, Hon. C. A. Rey.; dreds and thousands of dollars to We are requested to announce s Lutheran church, on R, _F. D, ii.Closure of eating*No. 1, will be cleaned off next Ksq. Loy Monday. I Saturday August 20. Everybody Olio hand in your j that has relatives or friends bur- r» -p a -v will ried there are requested to comejtion by J. J. Britt, oi Asheviiie. nolds, of Winston-Salem, second ing the nomination. Ex-Judge Hamilton G. Ewart, of Hender son .county was placed in nomina- 'naay your carrier them. out and assist in the work. The vote by counties shov/ed Set- our town or county Burlington Ivlerchants Asso ciation Hard Times, “Nit.” Upnn August the 9th, there steamed out of this city ah excur sion train bound for Norfolk, Va. The fare foi* the round trip was $3.50, spending two whole days and one night in Norfolk. One hundred apd nLinety-^nirie persons from Burlington bought tickets at a cost of about $700.00, there were as many more taken on at Graham aixd Haw River, to say nothing of those from Gibson villa, Mebane, Hillsboro; arid on down the line. At the same time there steamed out frorri Gieensboro two more excursion trains still heav ier loaded thari the one which passed- here, these two trains went by way of Danviliey arid it is estimated that in all, over twQ thousand and one hundred pa* sengers Were aboard these threP trains. Each individual speilt at least |15.00 ^ piece f or the entire round trip, some,: much; morel making a grand total of thirty- one thousand five hundred dollars. What a stupenduous sum to be w’^asted, or still wOrse, actually thrown away, right here too, in the midst of the most severe panic the country has ever Witnessed. Is it not awful to think about such reckless .expeinditure by those who were pleasure bent.: It must have sent cold shivers down the backs of the Democratic dem agogue and so-called politicians. Suppose these splendidly equipp ed excursion triaPs had have steamed out of Greensboro and Buriington during the time the Democratic party had the reins of the National government in charge, with a round trip fare of ten cents and the promise of free soup upon arrival at Norfoik, how many tickets do you suppose would have been sold ? ; Not more than fifty for the three trains, and yet our Democratic friends tell us that we are in the midst of the most awful, ^starvation times that ever confi!‘Onted the country. Will our esteemed Dem ocratic contemporaries kindly combat these statements with facts and figures to back them up. Will they point out a single excursion train going to Norfolk, Asheville or any other place, naming the fare for round trip and number of passengers car ried, during President Cleve land’s, last administration. If you can’t do it, then wont 'you for the sake of decency^ stop your howling and admit that it has all been done for buncombe, in order to fool the average voter and stop the growth of the Re publican party. Now let’s hear from you, and rerrtember that an honest confession is g:6od for the soul, even if it will look' bad for the Democratic party. H. F. 0. No. 2. The protracted series at Stoney Creek last week were well atten ded Rev. Groom of Leaksyille as sisted the pastor Rev. Sarhple in the preaching. No. 2, can boast of ^ some big threshings this year considering the fact that Tobacco is their mai'ri crop grain being a siele line Sheriff Kernodle threshed more than six hundred bushels Gus A. Garrison more than seven hund red R. L. Holt about seven hun dred Sterling Foster eight hurid- dred and several other large crops. Rain was a weleome visitor on No. 2 and crops are looking much refreshed, Mrs, G. R. T. Garrison aud lit tle Mary Beth spent last week on No. 1 visiting Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Pattersons. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Graham of Egst Texas are visiting Albert Graham. Misses, Blanche and Lillie French Roberts of Va. are spend ing a few days with relatives oh No. 2. Miss Lula Wilson of No. 3 vbit- ed Georgia Garrison last week. The effect of the good roads is now bad if you can-1 understand travel from Gleiicoe to Burlington we are looking for results' later though. Misses Lillie Martin of. Reids- ville and Lillian Aldridge of' Union Kidge spent a few 'days visiting Brona Garrison last week Misses Annie Holt, % : .Bertha Barker and Lillian Wellohs ,spent Wednesday euening visiting F Pearl Walker. THE FIFTH OiSTHICT CON’ Robt. Patterson, visiting Cross this week. at Hi^gh Rev. W. P. Campbell of Wise is the guest of relatives ih town. Conyentite Met iaunid Adjonni^ te I Meet in Greensboro, N. €.» Angus! IdlO. I^ursitant to a call issued by j Chairman Jno. T*. Beiibow, of Winston-^lem, the eonve.'? tioh for the Fifth Congressional diS'. i trict coiiyened in the Court HouaK ■ in Greensbc^Q, N. G., promptly at 6:30 o’clock Tuesday mgltt' Aug. 9thi All of the following;; counties comprising that district ; W^ere represented: Alamance, ’ Surry, Stokes, Caswell, Person^ i Durham, Fprsythi Guiiford, Or- y ange, Rockingliam, and Gran ville J, 2. Waller served as Secretary, i assisted by J. Bi Goslen, editor Union Republican, and Jno. E. 1 Hart, editor of the State Dis- ' PATCH. There. being no contests in the conyention, the comrjiittee ob; i credentials was dispensed with I and the temporary organization ' was made . permanent. Upoc. motidrii after some discussion th« i convention adjourned by a vote^ of 142 to 30 after the State ; Gohvention^^Pl|il^e date choseasi was'Aug. '2i|^g;'';When. the co»ff., vention wilf^ilt' at. ,-;Greens,l3^i(ie .i and ndhiinat^l^e next Congi^^-i ! man froni the^ District. flaw River Iteinsv \ Miss Isla Sti^fbrd returned ta i her home in Greensboro Sunday * after spending two weeks in the * eity.-,; ^ ■■■■ Mrs. M’. J. Brady has returneld ’ after a six weeks visit to friends , and relatives in ' Charlotte and I Gastonia. Mrs. W- H. Anderson returned \ Saturday from plileigh where ‘ she attended the funeral of her, cousin HubertItand, ■ , Mr. and Mrs. J, Long have re- ! turned from their camping triipf i at Lock Lilly. Miss Payne of Washington ' O', visited Miss Katie Leigh:' Bapks'last'.week.: s / Miss Isla Stratford returned hi her home in Griensboro Sunda^v ' after several weeks visit to her ■ grandparents W. H. Troling^r. Miss Rebecca Scott of Grab am spent several days with Mist r Gena Robertson la&t w ! Messrs. Goble and Thompson - visited Abe Coble’s old home Sunday; and Abe said it had beea * so long since he had been thers r he only reconized oneperson .thaili! one had a wooden leg. you ouglifc [ to visit often. Thos. Foster and wife ai® ‘ spending a fe# .days with Mra, | Foster’s mother and sisters; she is remembeired very kindly as Miss Laura Clark. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Clark i Saxapahaw are visiting his pa-! rents Lueco Clark and famiijj, D. H. Sykes and w Orange Grove spent last Taesd»;-y : night with her aunt Mrs, G, .y\l. ‘ P. Cates very pleasantly. * We make a polite bow to • A. ] L. Anderson for a basket of nicap i tomatoes he has the finest patch j we have seen. i E. Wi Lashley of Burlington who managed the bank basiness in the absence of Mr. Long made; many friends herelias returniesd; home. ■■ ; i Miss Lizzie Ru.ssell is visiting relatives and friends at Summer- field, N. C. we hope her stay wifi ; be pleasant. Mrs. G. W. Franklin and - her ; two attractive daughters Misser ' Ruth and lola of Durham are spending some days with S- A., Vest’s family. Rev. D. W. Arnette pastor of the Baptist Church moved here Wednesday we welcome him into our midst. Mrs. Anna S. Brooks who has been by the bed side of her - sis ter in Raleigh who is very ill re- ; turned Saturday and repbi’tedi , her better. About twenty-six of our people left for Norfolk last Tuesciaj night returned Friday morning niuch jaded. They report a mmt enjoyable trip and going in surf. ' ■ ■ It was the writers privilege visit some of 1:he paths he trod when he followed. Geri. Lee the- scenes had blianged ^ about Fot»; Monroe, 'Norfolk and Portsmoutfe we hardly , could recognize them^ we noticed soniething about ‘Suf folk that reminds us of ,other years when w^ wore the grey.