'I
■I
. if
■ f; ■
I
; :
I ii
':4
a
'■i-:
I
7|
I
I
?: 'l; ,
I"
i
■ -i.'
I)
. >
.’ii
W
•■-i
I
i
> ‘
'V-
:ii;
i'"
It
V -
i -
I
I
■
I
4
.1
Dtspiich
IRTJILAJL CiV.RmER ITEMS
PENSION BILL VOTE
MAY GOST HIS SEAT
if. K m «0. 9.
Just seven years ago to-day we
commenced Irving the people of
No. 8 as mail carrier. That day
we had, I think, about 10 boxes,
and I carried 27 pieces of mail.
To-day we have 120 boxes and
deliver over 300 pieces *of mail
and collect over 50 letters and
cards. We have, by the help of
our good patrons, made No. 8 one
of the best routes from this office.
We have the best patrons on
earth. One thing that we don't
have, and that is any ‘’kickers.”’
We are proud to say that we
^ve never had a “kick” from ia
No. 8 patron, and we hope never
to have. Our people are good to
us. When they have anything
good they never forget the mail
man. We hope to serve them
many years and hope to merit
their kindness. W^ have made
mistakes (and who has not?),
but we want to say right here
that the mistakes we make are
of the head and not of the heart.
Now in regard to our No. 8
items. We believe the patrons
of No. 8, and also some other
routes, appreciate them, anj if
we have given anyone any pleas
ure in that way., we are glad^pf
it. Now patrons, if you will
k.'ndly help us by giving us news
of your visitc«-s, happenings, etc.
we will make No. 8 items worth
reding. We eao’t tell anything
unless we knov/ it, so give us
news items, ani we’ll make our
items worth reading. We thank
our patrons, one and all, for the
nice favors bestowed on us in the
past, and any time we can do you
a favor, don't hesitate to call on
us.
We regret to state that we
have at this time one crazy man
on No. 8. We refer to our good
friend, Jerome Isiey. A new
‘^gal” baby came to his house
last week. Ho|>e he will soon re
cover, for we like Jerome. We'd
like him better if he’d fix that
bad place in the road near his
house. Hope he will look after
that now.
With best wishes for 1912 for
?J1 our patrons on No. 8 and our
many friends on No. 2, 5, and
other loutes, we close.
Your Carrier,
Jan, 15, J, M. Hayes.
Raleigh, . N. C., Jan. 11. —ihe
vote which Congressman Gudger
(Democrat), of the Tenth North
Carolina congressional district,
cast for the Sherwood pension
bill will probably cost him his
seat in Congress,
Many thought he did so un
guardedly, but recently he print
ed a newspaper “card” in reply
to criticisms by Col. Gallert and
others of this district, ^ in which
he not only did not express re
gret, but defended his vote, on
the ground that the Democratic
National platform arid r^olutions
adopted at Denver four years
ago sustained his positions.
£ien (iQllege items.
The Executive committee of
the Southern Christian Conven
tion which is composed of Dr, W.
W. Staley, Suff qlk, Va., Hon. E.
£, Holland, Washington, 0. G.,
and Rev. N. G. Nfewmah, HdU
land, has accepted thi invltAtbn
Qi the Christian CHurch of this
place to hold its next biennial
session- here this Spring. The
Convention assemblesin April 30,
and will be in session .for four
days. The sessions of this Con-
-^fentlon are Icfoked forward to
this year as being o£ prime im
portance in the history of the
Southern Christian Church. It
has been 20 years since this body
convened at Elon College and
many changes have taken phce
in the College and its equipment
during this space of time. The
community here is rejoicing that
it has ^en privileged again to
entertain this distinguished
Body.
Rev. W. C, Wicker, A, M.,
Litt. D., Prof,. Philosphy in Elon
College is this week in Dayton,
Ohio, attending the session of
the Executive Board of the A-
merican Christian Convention,
of which Boajrd he’s a member
by virtue of his office as head of
the Sunday School Board of this
same convention.
Rev. diaries Underwood But
ler and wife, who won so much
eminent distinction as singers in
the Torry Evangelical campaigns
in the U. S. and other countries,
have been eiagaged to conduct
the annual series of protracted
services for the College, begin
ning Jan. 23, and continuing for
10 days or two weeks.
Tuesday evening at 7 o’clock,
in the Co liege'Auditorium, Prof.
J. 0. Atkinson of the Depart
ment of Political and Social Sci
ence, delivered the first of a se
ries of FacuUy lectures for this
year, his subject being the Char
acter of Adam Bede. The lec
ture \yas listened to with pro
found interest and showed a wide
and masterly grasp of George
Eliot as a writer and as a deline
ator of character.
The enrollment, for the year so
far reaches ,a total of 249.
Notes of Interest.
Mr. R. S. Neville, carrier on R.
No. 3, walked and carried the
mail on Tuesday morning when
the earth was covered with sleet.
He managed to get to White
Cross, eight miles, and rode the
balance o^ his route.
We are now in the midst of
the real thing for winter—snow
and sleet. This spell reminds us
of the big sleet in February 1906,
only it. is more milder. The sleet
that year used us .roughly.
Scarcely any traveling “ior a day
or so. The ice was so thick on
the trees that large limbs were
broken off and scattered over the
streets and side walks, Buf the
cold weather we experienced a
day or two before the snow fell,
was the coldest in several years.
Mr. Ernest Markham, carrier
on Durham R. No. 1 which comes
within a mile of Chapel Hill,
walked and carried the mall
Tuesday, a distance of 24 miles,
going into Durham about on time.
Truly, Durham and Orange has
some plucky mail carriers. The
people they serve need never be
uneasy about getting their mail
as long as such determined car
riers are on the routes. They do
not seem to mind the weather ‘‘so
de wind dpn’t Wow "
J. C. Squires, the Biirlirigton
horse and mule dealer, is here
with some good stocl* just ship
ped from Virginia. He invites
the public to come and look his
stock over before buying. Now
is the time to buy while the pric
es are low,—The Chapel Hill
News,
CtUDSillMI MWffiE
Raleigh, Jan. 11.—Thr two-
year-old child of N. E. Turner,
who resides about ten miles from
this city, was burned so badly
today that d^th resulted after
severai hours of suffering. The
father was a juryman in a mur
der case and had to be excused
by Judge Bragaw, who allowed
him to go to his child.
The child caught fire while no
one was in the room and was
very badly burned about the face
and body.
LAWYER BADLY CUT
Chnton, Jan. 12.—Capt. C. M.
Faircloth, a prominent lawyer of
this place, got into an altercation
with a negro tenant named Har
vey Rich this morning over their
settlement and Rich cut him sev
erely on the neck, narrowly miss
ing the jugular vein. The wound
may not be fatal.
The negro and his v ife, who
helped him in the fight are nol!»
yet taken, though a posse if after
them.
They went toward Warsaw.
About Leap Year
About Leap Year there always
seems to be a misty, hazy kind
of idea ‘ ‘sorter not remembering
or. not understanding its raison
d’etre.” Its origin seems to be
somewhat clouded. An Atlanta
woman took the trouble to dig
and delve these facts out for The
Journal.
The astronomers of Julius
Caesar 46 B. C., settled the solar
year at 365 days 6 hours. These
hours were set aside and at the
end of four years made a day
which was added to the fourth
year. The English name'for
bissextile year is an allusion to
the result of the interposition of
the extra day; for on the 29th of
February a date “leaps over’'
the day of the week on which it
would fall in ordinary years.
Thus a birthday on June 10, a
Monday, will in the next year, if
a Leap Year, be on June 10 Wed
nesday, "leaping over’'Tuesday.
Of the ori^n of the custom for
women to woo during this year
no satisfactory explanation has
ever been offered. In i§88 a new
law was enacted in ScoltlaiVd that
“it is statue and ordaint that du
ring the rein of hir maist Blissit
31egeste for ilk yeare kuowne as
leqe yeare, ilk mayden ladye of
bothe highe and lowe estait shall
hae Ube?lo"to bes’pek^. ye man
she likes/ albeit he refuse* to talk
hir to be his lawful wyfe, he shall
be mulcted Ine ye sum of ' ane
pundis or less, as hia estait
‘•A Welcome Cka^ to
Those Who Soffer.”
Coming to Burlington, N. G.
On Monday, Jan, 29th, 1912.
I'o Stay at Hotel Ward.
Dr. Francis S. Packard
of Greensboro, N. C.
One Day Only.
Consultation and Examina*
tion Confidential, Invit
ed and FREE.
OINB DAV OINI-^V.
EXCELLENT BARGAINS
GIVEN
Frtm a Late Snafthtt
To see all of his regular Patients end snch
tiew Coses, as may vdsh to consult him.
I ;r. Packard enjoys a sta -vide reputation,
monglhe profession and the Public oJ
. orth Carolina, where for more than 26
■/e,ar$ he has devoted his entire time to the
.;2tudjr. Treatment and Cure of Chronic
ideates. The Doc^tor has had wonderful
success in his chosen work, that of curins
chronic sufferers. Men, Women and Cfaii'
.iren. The Patients he has restored tc
(health after they had given up all hope
/If beinflr Cured are numbered by the
Thousands. ■ He is a kind,' geserons,
democratic g^Ueman to meet, of high
.'oholar'y attainments, and dignified per-
' onality. Coupled with a Brotherly inter-
vst, in all who seek his advice.•He does
\ot take a Patient for Treatment unless
L ■ eaaj foresee a Cure of the Case. The
. ost efMr,mendahle feature of his work,
4JtieiWt appeals to the ordinary sick
"terkoBf ifi tW fact ot his charges beiof so
i v.a*onal:4tf moderate as to make it
, Uliin tlie i '-iiirfii of even the very poor.
At ryy time da the cl.arges amount to
inoi'C $7.00 a wonlh or about $1.50
a v>'t;ek;> JIc give? hie owu medicines,
and tlicrr art* no extra Charg'es. It takes
m never itrtttf than from few to six
IJojiLh.s lo Curc «xCa»e wnd^erTreatjK^pt.
■Ml Cases, evefl thpse'who'h*ve
given up as lncuri*bl*pr tU>g>el«t*c^ e
Cured and to perfect, .
health by this Brilliant Ph7*i««" and the
wonderful methods he cmploji.
If you want t3 meet him and haX'e hJoi
e->;apiine you, go to iee hitp, Atid taUc th«
matter over with him. ‘' It Will - cost you
nothing it he. does not put '^ou liuder
treatment. T f be takM >’Ottr it fnU
cost you a verj’ small suni to we!).
Remember the Date—
Mid come early, '
Monday, Jan. 29th.
on,
N.C.
this cold weather. Your stock and cattle need
rich wholesome feed. Wc have all kinds, Corn,
Oats, Meal, Shipstuff, Bran> Cotton seed hulls and
cotton seed meal. If yoii want more milk and
butter, try cotton seed meal. Nothing near so
good, and it is cheaper than shipstuff or any other
cow feed. Ask your merchant for it, and if he
hasn’t it, tell him he can gel it from the-^
Guilford County has had a regis
ter of deeds, and certainly for
the first time since Roy Jones has
been ^ issuing marriage licenses,
two licenses were giv«n by him
last week, one each to a mother
The mother! ap-
r
It is Leap Year and Thil Lady
Took Reigns tn Her Own Handlsi
punaiB or less, as ma estait may
Possibly for the first time since be| except and awls gif he caini g
make it appeare that he is betro-
thit to ane ther woman he shall
then be free/'
A few,years later ti like law!
was passed in Frauce, and in the
15th century the custom was leg
alised in Genoa and Florence.
and her son. .
peared in pewon with her bnde- The latter part of the year pre
groom for their license, and at
the same time she procured one
the marriage of her son.
Both marriages oecured on the
same day in High Point. The
mother was Mrs. Flora Cook, and
she was married to Calvin A.
Wagner on Thursday, January
4th, before Rev A. S. Caldwell.
The same day and but a few
hours from his mother's wedding
Peter Cook, j ust twenty-one, was
married to Miss Hattie Hay worth
before N, W. Beeson, a magis
trate.—Greensboro News,
ceding Leap Year must have seen
all the desirable “maydens"
snapped up, or a general exodus
of all the desii'able men to parts
unknown. The idea of finding the
men who did not marry before
Leap Year sounds characteristic
of the canny Scots, and probably
originated in the brain of some
undowered and unlovely “may
den” of thatnaiion.
- Five
i '■ on Broad 'gtriC'
* A -|t;" af' !§ See
/com cotta
.>Hice|^aV Jft ' af b^a|%
jAlsmancc Insurance '&
yor beadache i>r. Miles’ Anti-Pain PiUfc
Greensboro Hog Law No More.
Monday morning Judge Eure
of Greensboro decided the hog
law unconstitutional which pro
hibited the keeping of hogs with
in one quarter mile of the city
Hmits. Following this decision
order was made that the three
dollars cost assed against 45 de
fendants had up before him in
the past week and on whom
judgement was suspended on
payment of the cost for violating
the ordinance, should be refund-,
ed to each.
One Killed And Three Hurt.
Goldsboro, Jan. 15—An acci
dent, which created something
of a sensation in this city yester
day, was the explosion of a hot
water tank at the home of Attor
ney John .D. Langston, killing his
cock, injuring three of his child
ren and completely wrecking his
kitchen. The explosion occured
about 2 o'clock yesterday after
noon arid was caused- b]^ the ac-
cjaraulation of steam in th| boiler.
It was attached to tlie Icitcli^
range, the water: being heated^^
it passedr-Jto^cugb the, boiler from
the city water supply pipg;' "
$5.00
Miss Morgan Sings Ragtime
New York, January 10.—If any
one doubts that Miss Anne Mor
gan, daughter of J. Pierpont Mor
gan, can sing, and sing, and sing
ragtime at that, he only has to
ask a few persons who were in a
hall on the fourth floor of the
Enginneering Building, 29 West
Thirty-fourth street.
With 250 girls assisting her,
she rattled off the chorus of Oh,
You Beautifal Doll and liked it
so much she followed it up with
Mammy’s Shufflin’ Dance and
That Mysterious Rag. Mrs.
Francis Bacon and Mrs. Charles
Israels, who are waging war a-
gainst ragtime in dancing, were
there at the time. So when Miss
Morgan and her 250 girls started
off with Alexander’s Ragtime
Band what could they do but
join in?
Just to show her repertoire was
complete she gave them the
Oceana Bell and then followed it
up with one or two others.
The occasion when Miss Mor
gan displayed her unexpected
talents'was at an entertainmen t
for the giris who are j members
of the vacation savingv fund of
the women's welfare department
Qjyiq Federation^
.Advertise in the Disjpatch.
any case of croupe
that Spoon’s Croupe
and Pneumonia Salve
will not relieve in from
ten to fifteen minutes.
$5^00 Reward will
be given for any case
of sore throaty or ton-
silitis, that Spoon’s
Croupe and Pneumo
nia Salve does not re
lieve in two hours.
For sale at Drug
and Grocery stores.
: Furs Wanted:
Mink, $3, $4, $5 Each.
J. D. Payne> Burlington N. C.
C. V. SELLARS
ART STORE,
BURLINGTON, N. C.
Carries in over
300 different paterns
■ of
No use to order
go see it.'
In the Burlington Snnday Schoolt
Sunday, Jan. 14, 1912.
Sunday School Totals:
Jftfnd.-inrp
Collection
M. E.
171
5.93
Baptist
Presbyterian
German Ref.
125
4.83
Christian,
105
4.24
M. P.
87
2.55
Webb Ave.
45
L36
533
$18.91*
in
pbeumpjqiija
('olJevtion
men's BIBLE AND BARACA
CLASSES’ TOTALS.
Attandnnte
Baptist
Presbyterian
Christian
M. P.
German Ref.
Webb Ave,
M. E. : ;
Bfe^iiining Monday, Jan. 22
and ending Saturday, Jan.
27. Our invitation to the^
sale is cordial. We hope
you Avill attend.
5,10 and
25c Store
32
1.82
17 , .'
1.35
2()
1.50, ;
24
> 1.00
25
1.49 -
124
$7.16
Total today
?hn H. Vernon, Secretary
Lost our female bird-
dog, white and black spot
ted (setter), hardly
grown, with nice collar
on, comes to the name of
“Queen." Anyone find
ing same and returning to
J. A. Hali
BURLINGTON, N.C.
will be liberally rewarded
VOL.
Thefo|
jbaen api
t!ie chui
operate
paittee oj
Associat
iPresN
Mclver,
ette,
ora T€
BurlinI
J. D. Ai
M. Moni
sell, Mrif
The
donia
Pastor,
ee
I)
ChurcJ
in the 0|
forter, .
Sunday
follows:
Mornij
Eveninf,
day
tim Le(
raplic
Jree.
vested
St
In tht
next Sal
3. D. Ai
preach
ship an(
At 7;
“The
Year.”
As ah
lind yotti
vitedf.
Wed(!
this ha3i|
pose it
was elii
ive F’arr
“The]
known
"■T^fean.. ■ 1
■Having]
faking
posure,
ditional
how he
cently It
in the S|
There
Civic
Februaij
By-law^
ward
man, wj
tereste
willpU
ing to
state!
Notu
meetii
Execut
held it
Wedn«
at the
P. M.
The
design^
holdini
name
Republ[
and fo|
other
come
tee.
Thisl
of tha
paign
urged
Be
indicat
ing.
Gi
of a cro^e -or 1
An
in the
chase
to be
terian |
is the
village
havini
ly.
last oc
BMM