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BURLINGTON. N. C, DECEMBER 21. ^^10.
NO. 32
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PLAIN
PHOPOSITiON
Some ReasoDs For Gull
Raleigli, Dec. 14. "'The Sup-
j*e v.e court in the case of State
Colcnial club, of Mecklenburg
tbrou)-!^ the controlUng opinion
01 ihe court by Justice Manning
thl.' afternoon reverses tlie ver-
(ju-r ihe lower court by Jiis-
fiee lUanning this afternoon re-
vcrscs ilie verdict of the lower
fvvri. thereby declaring that the
ciul) S'.as not violated the state
prohibition law in keeping indis-
erimiriate storag:e of beer for
niernbe\‘s and their friends on
presentation of coupons held by
inen'ilfers to the face value of the
beer they have in storage.
Dissenting opinions by Chief
Jastiee Clark and Justice Hoke
pronounce the Colonial Club sys-
ttnn a cooperative barroom.
The Colonial Club memi ers,
according to the evidence, made
tiieir orders of beer in quanily
fropj non-resident dealers and
turned \he order over to the club
steward, who depasited the
checkt^ to the credit of the club
iind sends orders with the checks
of the club treasurer for aggre
gate amount. The goods were
sent to individual members, care
the club, these shipments being
indiscriminately stored in the
club refrigerators, the members
receiving coupons as the beer ^ is
consumed. The opinion of the
majority of the couri, by Justice
Manning, holds this system does
not constitute a sale any more
tha,n the grain warehouse sys
tem of receiving planters’ grain
later measuring him out grain of
g&me quality quantity^ but
not all his own grain, constit ites
a sale on the part of the grain
■warehouse man.
In the lower court J\idge Loag
held it was a sale, and imposed
a fme of $500. This, the Sup
reme court through Manning’s
opinion, reverses. On the other
hand, Chief Justice Clark and
Justice Hoke dessenting, agrees
with JudKe Long and hold that
when money paid to the chib
steward by members it becomes
club property as moBey deposit
ed in the bank becomes the pro*
perty of the bank. Likewise,
beer received by the club and
deposited indiscriminately, be
comes the property of the club,
and members not receiving in
dividual beer, but gets the
amount he desires out of the en
tire stock goes to make this sale.
They hold also that pch a elub
it> simply a cooperative barroom
and that a book of coupons is
identical with the system used
by laundries, where a man who
pays cash in advance, receives a
book of coupons with which to
pay his laundry bill
The view was taken by leadmg
prohibitionists here that the ef
fect of the court's decision in
upholding the Colonial club
amounts to a nullification of the
state prohibition law, in that any
number of men at a crass roads
could get in a supply of ^ liqours
and maintain a co-op«rative bar
room that would nullify prohibi
tion.
Box Reel laereats«&.
'ilie Box Rent Rates have ad
vanced, to take effect January
1st, 1911 boxes that have been
renting for 45c per quarter are
now 60c, now 75c, thoe© which
ha ve been 75c now one dollar this
increase is mandatory under sec
tion 347 Postal Laws and Regu
lations which makes the grross
receipts of a P(^t Office and the
size of the boxes the basis for
the rental charged, the schedule
charged is uniform throughout
the United States.
Respectfully,
J. Zeb Waller,
Post Master.
[The above is what we get for
living in a live and growing
tciwn, those who objecr to the
advance should move to a dead
town. “Ed. i
The store of the Poster Shoe Co
Will be closed on Monday after!
Christmas.
Postmaster Douglas Imparts Infor
mation For Christmas Senders.
To the Patrons of the Greens
boro Postoffice:
I think I may safely say that
you can count on the men who
compose the postal service here
and elsewhere giving you the
very best service that they can
during the holiday rush, but at
the same time it should be re
membered that the large num
ber of letters and parcels to be
handled renders it impossible to
keep the service up to the stan
dard that is maintained under
normal conditions. My experi
ence and observation has been
Decides Outlook For Retail Busi
Res> In Soutli is Exceilent.
Columbia, S. C„ Dec, 12r-Pre3.
Finley, of the Southern Railway
Company, who has been in the
south for the past two weeks, in
speaking of the business outlook
in this section, said:
“Internal business conditions
in the southeaistern states are ex
cellent, fundamentally, this is,
due to the generally prosperous
year that our farmers have had
Taking all things into considera
tion. I doubt whether southern
farmers as a whole have ever
had a better yeai* than that now
that as much as a third of the ^ ^J^ose. Cotton, the
Christmas parcels handled by the
postoffice ar^ delivered after
Christmas day. Sometimes this
is due to delays in transit, but
more often to the delay of sen
ders. i need not say that almost
any present loses just a little of
its welcome "f received a day or
two late, and for this reason let
me urge all who can to mail their
parcels in plenty of time. By
doing this you will help both
yourselves and us.
For yo»ir information, f will
say that merchandise is known
as “fourth-ciass’*’ and that the
postage rate is I cent per ounce
or fraction of an ounce; that
books and other printed matter
are known as “thix’d-class” and
carry a rate of 1 cent for each
tv/o ounces or fraction thereof,
and that all matter which con
tains writing or is sealed against
inspection is “first-class’" and
that the rate is 2 cents per ounce
or. fraction thereof. Third or
fourth class matter may contain
the name of the sender and a
short expression appropriate to
the season, such as “Merry
Christmas* but must not; con-
fcaln any wiiiting Other tha.i ihiisi
In view of the trouble we have
had in past years, I wish also to
call your attention to the fact
that Red Cross stamps or other
decorative stamps must not be
so placed upon parcels as to seal
the string down to the wrapping.
If this is done it renders the
package so sealed subject to pos
tage at the first class rate.
If there is any doubt about the
weight of the package or rat« of
postage consult the clerk at the
stamp window, who will weigh
packages or give the desired in
formation.
Robert D. Douglas, P. M,
[We print the above for the
beneiit of our readers, what ap
plies to one post office applies to
all, and we feel that all the post
masters where the Dispatch cir
culates will appreciate this an
nouncement, it is well to note
too that 3^mas day is a holiday
at the post office, and that you
can only get your mail at certain
hours.]
most important crop of the south
is moving at prices which yield
to tjie grower a generous margin
of profit. The southern apple
crop is large and profitable. The
southern corn crop has far sur
passed all previous yields and is
ha^fing a far-reaching effect on
business conditions. Heretofore
the| planter has drawn on the
proiceeds of his cotton crop to
J^Iebane, N. C., Dec. 19, 1910.
Editor:—The letter below
e^tlains itself. _
' Winston-Salem, N. C., Dec 12.
’ Mr. W: E. White, ■
Mebane, N. C.
Dear Sir:—Yours to hand of a
days ago in regard to the
salaries of our county officers,
beg to inform you that the Sher-
ifs salary is $3,500.00 Clerk of
Superior Court $3,000.00 Register
of Deeds $2,500,00 County Treas.
$1,200.00. The Sheriff being on
salary saves the County some
thing like $6,500.00 Clerk of Su-
pfonor Court $1,500.00 Register
0* .ijeeds $1,200,00, County Treas
000.00 to $3,000.00.
Yours very truly
H. W, HASTEN,
Register of Deeds
I'• Forsyth County.
P. S. The above figures are not
tilficial, but a conservative esti-
l have shown by the sworn
^statement of the Auditor of Guil
ford County that by adopting the
salary system for the county
By far the biggest surprise to
people in North; CaixtHna, yet'
sprung by “this years fedeic'ial cen-'
sus reports, is the ip creased ipo- *
pulati^ of^Guilfo^ co^nty.^ Iri Assault, Mwrrfer and Arson,three'
an editorial on “The Secret of; I ^ » . ..
It,” pubhshed yesterday morn-] Weao--i-ihe Cnmmal m JaiK
ing, the News and Observer thus xt n rs aa
enumerates some of the reasons' - xy. Ci, I;eCi 20.'-Dur-
for it.
ham h^s beeij stirred deeply to-
buy corn
for his stock. This i
'flie Sakn System Best.
According to reports in our
local columns the salary system
in Forsyth county proved a great
money saver during the year just
closed. In the report printed
elsewhere of receipts by the
county officials, only so*»e two or
thr^ thousand dollars are shown.
This is not a full showing, for
the reason that the sheriff makes
no retura to the county of any
large amount save in the collec
tion of taxes. He is paid a salary
of$3,5oo. By the collation of
taxes under a salary basis instead
of the five per cent fee system,
he saved the county some $7,000
or $8,000 which would make a
total of some $10,000 or $12,000
which the salary system has
saved to Forsyth county ourmg
the fiscal year just cloeed.-The
Union j^publican.
Miss Baldwin Thanks Her Friends.
I take this method of thanking
my many friends who rendered
me such valuable assistance dur
ing the recent voting contest of
THE State Dispatch, in. which
I was successful winning the
beautiful GOLD WATCH. I wiW
be pleased not only to give you
the correct time but return the
favor whenever permitted to do
year he will buy much less corn,
and at the same time, will have
moire home-grown meat. He is,
thdrefere, in a much stronger
financial position and is able to
spend more money on buildings
and other improvements oh his
fai^i, to buy farm implements
anf to make larger purchases of
geheral merehandise.
‘'As a result of the good agri
cultural situation the outlook for
retail business in the south is al
most uniformly excellent. Deal-
er4 in dry goods, clothing, gro- '
ce^ies, boots and shoes, hard-.
wdre and stoves, and merchants
generally repcwl a %ood volume
of i busiivess with: en couraging
refepec.ts, • /
. ? . of yehif;/''^
and agricuiturai implements, and
other manufacturers who selll
principally to the southern trade,
artticipate good spring business.
'^The fertilizer Btisiness of the
south is one of large importance,
and it is predicted that this sea
son's movement, which v/ill be
gin in January* will be substan
tially larger than that of last
yeaTi*’-
Speaking of industries manu
facturing for tihe general trade,
Mr. Finley said:
"‘Turniture manufacturers are
now filling moderate orders and
are looking foward to larger
sales after their new styles have
b^n displayed at the January
expositions in Gncinnati, Chica
go and Grand Hapids. The
southern cotton situation is
uneven. The long-delayed re
adjustment of the prices of mill
products to the higher price
level of the sanae raw material
not yei fully taken place,
mere, however, an active de
mand for some special lines of
goods. Jobbers are reported to
have relatively small stocks. The
situation is, therefore, promising
for an active business as soon as
sellers and buyers can get 1;o-
gether on prices. Leading cot
ton manufacturers believe it is
not unlikely that such a sitaalaon
may be reached aot later than
the early spring.
“The dettuind for iron aad
steel is active. Lumber has
also been rather ina.etive, but
ihills in m^y k^lities are now
Teporting a brisk demand ana
l^^ly increased sale^
The financial situati«a in the
ak>u^ is strong, Mcmey is easier,
and especially in localties where
the farmers have miffketed a
Ikrge proportion of their cotton,
band deposits are incipeasing.
(pollections are generally good
except in some localities where
cotton is being held.
syst^sm saved to the tax payers
of Guilrord county last year
S|0,800,00. and the above letter
from the Register of Deeds of
B orsyth County estimates a sav
ing of $11,200,00 this year. What
are the tax payers of Alamance
jroing to do about it? Our Rep
resentative in the next Legisla-
iyure, Mr. J. Elmer Long, I am
sure will advocate what the citi
zens and tax payers of our coun
ty favor.
Our present board of County
Commissioners have served no
tice on the people, that the coun
ty is without funds to continue
improvements. If we put our
County officers on salaries, giv
ing them fair aind liberal, but
jiot extravagant salaries, and
'tornpel aH Goilnty officers to col
lect all fees in full, putting these
fees and commissions in the gen
eral fund, will give our County
Commissioners jat least $5,000.00
each year.
I regret to note that our Coun
ty Press, with the exception of
the Dispatch, has not had one
word to say editorially in favor
of this measure, although every
one knows that every statement
that I have made is true. This
is a business proposition and
means at least $5,000.00 annually
to the tax payers of Alamance
County. Shall we save this
amount, or shall we increase our
taxes. Ye can rest assured that
you must do one or the other.
W. E. WHITE,
ff
In the Bnrlins^ton Sunday Schools
Sunday, Dec. ISth 1920.
Sunday School Totals,
Attendance Collection
M. E. 205
Baptist 209
Presbyterian, 121
German Ref. 113 '
176
104
194
Christian,
Webb Ave
M. P.
$8.64
5.20
; 4.^
2.39'
3.36
2,08
12.38
1008
$36.16
MBN^S BIBLE AKD BARACA
CLASSES TOTALS. \
Attendance. Collection.
M. E. 29
Baptist 61
Pi^byterian 12
Christian 28‘
M, P. 32
G&m&n Ref. 22
Wehh Avenue 17
^.02
2.74
1.90
1.22
1.32
.60
.72
$10.^
! Old fiddlers Contest
i This contest which is to be the
^vent of the Christmas week,
ivill be. given on Tuesday Dec
ember the 27th at the Holt Guard
i^rmory at 8 p. m. Also in Graham;
so.
Respectfully,
MoLLiE Baldwin.
bn Thursday December the 2Bth
^t 8 p. m. at Montwhite Theat;er.
i'here are about sixteen prizess^to
be given away at each place. All
very useful to the fiddlers. Ail
who fiddle ladies or gentleman
players, banjopickers, hiick
dances, all old time song singers.
All who play are urged to ,be on
ihand at both places.
Total today 179
Men, rember next Sunday is
Christmas Day. It is the birth
day of Jesus. Let us be present
next Sunday in honor of our
Savior's birthday.
GGLDEN TEXT: Christmas.-*
“For unto you is born this day
in the City of David, a Saviour,
which is Christ the Lord. ”
A Happy Christmas and pro
fitable New Year to all is the
of your President and
Secretary.
T. D. Dupuy, President.
John H. Vernon, Secretary
The state voted for prohibition
and if the present laws will not
prohibit it is the duty of the
legislature to enact laws that
will—Durham Herald.
from 39,074 to 60^497/, _
gest gain of any county in North
Carolina-“indeed> nearly twice
as big a gain as is shown by any
other county in the stated
Why did Guilford make this
big increase? There is no single
reason, but all thte reason spell
Progress. For many years
Greensboro was a sleepy, fine old
to%n, with sterling population,
but it was sleepy and unprogrieS'
sive. The Guilford people were
industrious and thrifty, but
seemed satisfied to puH thrpugii
mud roads and to send their
children to short-term schools in
sorry school houses. This,^ ^ t
in a county with splendid private
schools and the stimulus of a
Friends college. Suddenly, as
it seemed, there came a change
in the spirit of the people. It
first took concrete fom in vot-^
ing bonds to secure the location
of the State Norinal and Indus
trial college. That vote carried
the dynaniic force in Charles D.,
Mclver to Greensboro. Its peo
ple found him as a citizeh what
iMaj or Bingham called him, “a
steam engine in breeches.” No
dreamer, he bi^t a constructive
statesman. It was through his
leadership,^ that Guilford voted
a local tax in most §c|iool districts
while the rest of us were talking
about It, and 0|ilford fen
years ago, 2^ #stfeitirof
rural scMols, taken as a
far and away better than those of
any county in the state. And it
is mainly due to this increased
interest in public education and
the education of the children that
produce the other good thin^
that attract folks to Guilford
county, -The .first thing t6 do,
therefore, if you wi$h your coun
ty to grow, is to educate the Child
ren, provide good schools for
them by local tax, send them to
school and they will jh turn edu
cate the elder folks to progress
in every way.
The second big step Guilford
took was to vote a $300,000 bond
issue to build good roads, and put
the spending of themoney in the
hands of practical mcsn who used
it to build roads andpermitted no
politics or favoritism to ihterfeire
with making good roads. The
other coun ties in the state ^should
study the growth of populatioh in
Guilford in connection with the
building of good roads. Men who
go to seek new homes in the coun
try are chiefly influenced by the
quality of roads and schools. If
you will study the growth of pop
ulation in the state, you will see
that it has been larg;Mt wherei the
people have beeii progressive
enough to tax themselves to fur
nish the nec^sities to secui^ im
migration and to veprime lie^
to larmers and their children.
Guilford has been progressive in
other ways. It iias had wise
legislatore who look^ ahead.
When other big counties werfe
contip^t to ^y county facers big
ger ^lims tV» th€> state paid its
goverhor, the Goilfoi^ legislators
imssed a law to putwunty offieigrs
on salves, thereby saving $10,-
000 annually to the county, and
still i^yixig county officials fair
salaries. While other counties}
made little effort to put all prop^
eity on the tax books and many
seem^ to try to make ass^t-
ments to low, Guil:(ord has had a
capable official who put nmny
thousands of dollars on the tax
lists and started a mMOvement
that will, nex:t year, s^cui^ even
better and larger asstessment of
ail property for taxation. Guil
ford’s progress in the matter df
county administration could bfe
wisely followed by most counties
in the State.
Of course, there has been
marked enterprise in business
and manufacturing and agricul
ture in Greensboro, High Point,
and other towns, and in the
rural districts, without which
The census reports show that
within ten years the population |
of Guilford county has grown i ®
^ ' murder and arson last night IB
Granville county.
Sheriff Wheeler rush^^the
criminal across the country^is
morning at 7 o’clock hMng
fpund him in his honieabomt 1:^
after little or no preliiniinary.
The discovery of fire in J, L.
Sander's home, near Hester, last
night aroused the neighbors
about 10 o’clock. They reached
the burning house but no one
was about. ; ■
On the ground were found a
terrible tell tale of assault and
murder, a girl's hair and clothes,
torn from her blood in a copious
pool over the grotmd. Near the
tom up ground. Near fhe tons
up ground was a Wg pocket knife
bloody, unquestionably the in
strument of death.
When the fire died down, (the
charred bodies of . Miss
Sanders, and the little
daughter of two years were
found- A rieighbpr immediately
recognized the knife and ascrib
ed its ownership to Nathan Mon
tague.
Sheriff Wheeler was called hy
telephone and went immediately
to the negro’s home. He found
the fellow trembling, bloody,
with hair on hirii. There wAs m
resistance. FVo^ra that pJace h.e
hurried the fellow to Durham.
Already a,t Oxford
has |3^wn
ggurin^ of the fehife the ar
rest of the negro was not a piece
of desperate grasping for a clue
It so happened that yesterday the
young girl was at a neighbors,
assisting in killing hogs and the
negro was ^ao#i®Pe. The knife
that he used in scrapingtfe
was the knife remembered by
the relatives and friends of tlm
girl. When seen it w&s imme
diately recognized as the possi
ble property of the murderer.
Sheriff Wheeler kept the pre
sence of the nesro as a
secret here as in Granville follow
ing the coroner^s inquest.
Decbion of City Vs N. C Ry.
In a recent dedsion rendered
by Judge Boyd in the case oi the
City Vs North Carolina Rsalroad
in which the &t^ d0mmd8 the
right to cross the J^aihroaid track
with Worth Stoeet near the
water tank Judge Boyd dedded:
First that the dty had a right
under its present chfMrter to cross
the property of the Mo^h C»ro~
lina Railway. Second the
Railway Company is a party to
the sui^ and that ten days will
be given for the Railway Com
pany to take an appeal after
Which time if .an ai^peal is not
taken the city will have the right
to o^n the street, antthe South
ern Kailway will have W
bring suit for damage. If ^ ap-
peal is taken during the teii dayt
it will be decided by ajuvoz.
Thanks of Mbf Kerr Ha!L
Miss Mary iterr Halt dauirhter
of Mr, and Mrs. D. S of
Front Street desires to thank her
many friends for their kind
assi^iance which rencteied^^
possible for .^her to be vietwiou^
m winning the beautiful piajio
given by rate Coc^wr Dry Good
Co. If e«ich o^e*
home she will be pieam te
charm their fincy wj th faetnai-
ing and melodious music.
Read the ads in the DisFAtca
this process would have feaea
impossible- But the sttideat^
conditions ? must give the chl^
credit for Guilford's ^owth t«
its primacy in providin
J prc
schools, good roads, g:c^govis^^
ment, and to the spirit -of wet-
come and persistence and well-
directed advertising that iiii
distinguishd the county and it»
people during the p^t ten'yeam
iing
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