Clothiii
Intire stock of
Nparate Pants.
Weights. Cool
medium weight
tlAL VALU^
through
collected S
m Sale «t ONE HAU
L BOYS
SUITS.
bn and Fancy colors
•liuc Sciges placed
iis sale at ONE
Id reduction.
jPants 50c quality at
Boy’s Pants i.Oo
ty at 75c.
liars
n
:rs,
: N. C
SEASON
•eady with
>ody conld
that is as
look
s we are
will be
omplete-
tion, the
y and the
nin price
TH.
N. C.
ite Wyaodotts^
Juff Rocks
ckcn and Eggs
for Sale.
EGGS $1.00
r come and inspect my
Poultry Farm.
sley, Prop.
ithern Poultry Fann
Street.
iiini a.
A REPUBLICAN NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE UPBUILDING OF AMERICAN HOMES AND AMERICAN INDUSTRIES
VOL- V.
BURLINGTON. N. C., JUtY 24. 1912.
Na 11
Social Events.
Misses Freeiand^s Entertain
\Iiss Mayme Guthrie deiisjht-! Misses Ada and Berta Freelan4
* pntertained at the home of oi near Havv River proved chania-
’ host-’ss Tuesday niglit July
fully
hfr -^1 *1
rutrrie last Tuesday night
toge ^row- ■■■""
joyed
»e o;
Mr. and Mrs. B. u
. A
was present and en-
occassion which was
Jiien in honor of visiting friends.
Friday night Miss Annie Mor-
tfan Faucette was hostess no a
Lge number of friends in honor
If Miss 3ue Foushee and other
friends from Greensboro. T^ir-
tv-five or forty were present to
i>e Miss Faucette’s charming
^jests and to remember her
hospitable entertainment. ,
One of the svvellest socials of
the season was Monday night
when Miss Iris iiolt entertained
in honor of Miss Blanche Whitte*
more of Durham, Miss Winfred
Habel of Raleigh and Miss Mam
ie Ball of Raleigh. About thirty
were present to enjoy the two
courses of refreshment and other
enjovments of the evening.
Optical College
Philadelphia, Pa.
Juiy 20, 1912
The Stale Dispatch,
Burlington, N. G»
My dear Sirs,*
Wo take the h^verty
to advise you that Dr. ..^,muel
H. Allen of Burlington, N. C., is
a recent Post Gr'aduate of our
college. He faithfully purged
our course of instruction passed
a most excellent examination,
and has proven himself duly
qualined to correct the eye by
approved scientific methods.
We therefore have nohesital^
in recommending him as an ac
complished optometrist, aod
shouid any of your family or
friends need optical attention
you may be assured csf the latest
and best at his hand.
Very Respectfully.,
H. C. Brown, M. D., Pses.
Dictated.
’ Hf) a number of friends
werij ivi wted' to their home in
t^onur o: their visiting cousin
iviihB Ethel Freeland of near
Meaiphis, Tenn. Friends from
Buriington, Graham, and Haw
River made the occasion on of
intermingled pleasurt.
A jolly street car ride, the
Closing of a sm^l brooklet, the
climbing of a small mountain
with picturesque scenery oit
every side, landed the parts^safe
at the Mi^es Freeland’s homer
where a hearty welcome awaited
each. An hour of ^mes and
social amusenient from t he porch
and grass covered law i protect
ed by the jOutstretch:'i bow.>, of
ihe elra made a cozy earner for
an outing of enjoymenc such as
Dame l^ature in her quietitude
offers.
The serving of delicious re-
fueshnaents caused a sensation of
unusual quietn^bs. .lust befwe
leaving when the minds of ail ap
peared channeled in on^ direction
After numerous expressions of
a delightful time the gay party
returned.
Those present were;
Misses Mary Walton, Chloe
Freund, Florrie and Bessie
Willis, Hortense Rimmer, and
Lois Woikman of Burlington,
Garlena' Fhiliips of Graham,
Liiliian and Evelyn Holt of Haw
River.
Messrs. Archie Cook, E. M.
Cheek, Ijee Luterloh, E. Faust
and George Freeland of Burling
ton, Dr. Wilkins, Mr, Freelat^
and Mr. and Mrs. Dr, McPher
son of Haw River, and Mr, Free
land of Tennessee.
Daoferomly Shot S»y £sira(ge4
Simon Stevens aged ^ed 65
shot and das^gerously wounded
Robert Ov€T«naii ^ iboth of
near Snow Caa?p MioJiday morn
ing. The two men met an the
road leading f poro Snow Gamp
to Liberty where the shnoting
occured. It i« e^d the two had
disagreed on a line between
farms. Ovemian was shot ithru
the breast.
THE FLY
Some Esientia! Factj About Flies
a^d Health Ordiaances Goveni'
ing the Breeding Place ojf the
By.
“Flies are the filthiest and
most dangerous enemy of man.
Every summer they kill more
people in North Carolina than
are killed during the entire year
by murderers, lightening,
stoil^BQis, cyclones, poisonous rep>
tiles, mad dogs and other vicious
iwimals combined. Howdothey|
do|t? By carrying the germfi of;
typhoid fever, dysentery, infan-;
tilediairhoea, tuberculosis, small*!
pox and probably hookworm an^
many other diseases to our
In fret, the only objection tcf
calling the ordinary housefliet
“Typhoid Flies” is that it might
leave the impression that tyi
phoid is the only disease they
carry, while in reality they spread
the Bacteria of almost all disi
eases. f
’ About ninety-five per cent of
p II flies are br^ in manur^ F^
male flies lai^ from one to fourj
or even five lots of eggs, and a-
bout one hundred and twenty
eggs at a time. In early spring
or late iall these eggs develop
into fulKgrown flies in froih
twelve to sixteen days, while in
warmer weather it takes only a-
bout eight to ten day s. In warm
weather these eg^ develop into
the larvae or maggot «tate in t-
bout eight hours. The Embryo
:Sy remains in tlte maggot sts^e
for about five days, burrowing a-
round in the fllth and feasti^
on it to his heart’s content. Dut-
liiunes of T^oie
rtmd the Dispatch Confoit.
kept at least every other
and the manure or barh>^dl4^
ings of any kind shalU once
each week, from April list, to
October 1st, be removed by the
owner beyond the city limits;
Provided said person, firm or
corporation may, in their discre
tion, provide a suitat>le box, bin
or other receptacle for the keep- j ^ j grQoks
ing ^d st(^n^ of said , manure lM;ryl^e Cbble,"R. N5.1^
and b^ cleamngs: s^d recep^ Waller Workman
tacle to be »o instructed as to
NASSE
Bertha May H^rnie
Addie Rsty ;
Aurelia Ellih^tph;
Mebarie,
Hb**4,
The party from Burli^ton was j ‘“g these five days he sheds ras
chapeioned by Mr,
Z. Waller.
and Mrs. -J,
Children Day Eau^fise Brick Oiu-
Ab
Mr. A. A. Russell, -Chief
Police gave the foIlowiffl|g letter
to The State Dispatc^ wliich was:
recieved from the Chief Police ;
^tjOamville, Va. . i
Chief «f Police
Burlington, G. |
D^Sir—
We sure trying to ifiiid
lilrs. Mildred KimSoeioagih*
berdaugihter died here a few;
^o leaving an insuomee
poUcy. 1 £hink, it is payable to
hec. She leaves one child 3 «or 4
years of ;age and no one to caxe
foTiher,
^ you can locate this-w(miaD
please »>rite ;and oblige.
Very Hesp.
J. a. Bell
C. P.
There will be a Children Di^y
Service at Brick Church on Sa£.
Au?, 3.
T-e morning service beginning
at 11 o’clock will be recodered by
the boys and girls of the Sunday
School the pastor or sonae other
od speaker Refreshmects will
be serv€;d on the ground. Come
aud spend a day of profit and
pleasure with us!
Large Tomato
Our friend Gill Sharpe who
was once a politician havingat^ne
time made a desparate fight for
the position of town commission
er has changed his ambition - and
is doing excellent gardening.
He imforms us that he got a
tomato from his garden that wei
ghed 1^ Ibs.j and meaured 16
iches in Circumference. He
cliams this to be the largest grown
in our city this'year.
Steam Roller Going to Chicago.
Quite a number of
the citizens of our town saw the
steam roller pafs thru Monday,
The idea was readily grasped
v/ithout asking further infomati-
on that the roller was en route
from The Holt Engine Co., where
it had been repaired, and was go
ing to Chicago to be present at
the nomination of Col..Ro®evelt.
The nomination, steam roller
and Holt Engine Co., all have
our best wishes.'
Somebody ought to warn. Mr..
Joryan to beware of rabid-do^
these hot. days.
Aiamance GiMity B«y PrmnotdL
Mr. A. E. Eeifczel, whose moth
er lives at Hartshorn who has
been money cmdca’ cl^ in v the
Post at GieensDbro for
number of years has been trans
ferred to Washington and given
«mploymeDt under tjie United
States CiviJ Service Commission.
lie is another pf those illustrious
sons of Alamance who is continu
oiisly pushimg himself to the
front. He is secceeded by Mr
E. L. Neal of Washington. •
■coverii^g twice a«i «mei^es ii^
the pupai^rrestiKfe jstage,, Fr?m
this stage the full griOiWn fly e-
merges in about ti>ur1io:^ve di^s
axid sets-^t on his
death.;deaH«g career,
the tot^ period development
of the about days in warm
weather. Under very favorable
comditioitt as regazids heat, mois
ture and<h, they may even
velop in eight daj^ Fli^ do
net grow -after passing the pupa.
_ little Hies^iometimesob-
fidrv^ wee of a diifemsnt kind
from the «rdinairy iM>usefiie&
Immediately after hatching in>:
to A fuJj-grown fly., first im-
is to£e^ He ^usually gets
his initial meal right at his birth
pkee. Be is never particular a>
batnt tihe kind of food he eats. It
maitexs little to him if it is ma-
masE;, garJsotKe, human excrement
or emetiiing else. He rarely
£stablkheB7peimanei»t quarters^
howev!ec, -atMsbiri;hpilace. Short
1:^ a£ber birth he takes his initial
to some 2>ear-i»y Mtchen or
dinio^coom. Should screens at
the windows and docuss embar-
jcase him^he is very willing to
take a iew mealsat the open gar-
ha^ while wai^g his
chance to get into the h«jse.
FUes are prodigious > eaters.
They have been known to de
vour' iSearly half their weight of
food at a. time. Furthermore,
they iiKe to eat at very brief in
tervals during daylight hours.
And here follows one of the most
dangerous., .as well as nauseating
features about flies. Their di
gestive processes are extremely
simple and the food they eat
Cabbage Head W eighed 16 14 Lbs.
We are told from a reliable
source that cabbage heads which passes through their b(^ies with
weighed as high as 161-4pounds thegreatest facility.
be absolutely";fly proof and to be
approved by tiiie Chairman of the
Board of Health.of the. .city, and
the contents of each receptacle
thoroughly cleansed once every
thirty days drtTing the time^c^;
said.
SECOND. That every
son, firm or corporation kee^ng
less than three Ba^s or muJra
or a cow or cows snail be requir
ed to clean each stall or stable
every other week and the ma
nure and other bam-cleanings
of any kind shall, from April 1st
to October 1st, be removed by
the owner beyond the city limits:
Provided said person, firm or
corporation may, in their discre
tion, provide a suitable. box, bm
or other receptacle for keeping
and storing of said manure or
barn-cieanings,; Said receptacle
to be so constructed as to be;ab-
soluteJy fly proof and to be ap-
prove^l by tiae Chairmian of the
Board of jHealth of tae city, and
the contents of «aid i^ceptacle
shall fee removed by the owner
beyond the city limits and said
receptacle thoroughly cleansed
evei y isixty days during the time
aforesaidi and however, screened
or protected, if same shall be
come offensive w the prince
of fly maggots shall be discover
ed .therein, such manure shall be
iiM.rQ^iately jreM!oved as afore
said beyond the dty limits. The
Jtiealitii Officer of the city, shall
have access to^ny stable or lot
wit^ the dt;F during the hours
of daylight for ‘ the , purpose of
ase^taimng whether the fcarego-
E«egulatiana are kept: Pr^
viied, however, further, that
nothing in ordinance shall
be!»o conBfctueu as to pzev0nt
tise ecatteia»g of such mam}U*e
gardens or lawn» for feila-'
liaer j3nnxMMe8»
'nilRiJ. That if any pmon,,
firm (NT corporation shall .^1 andi
refuse Co i^emov^ the maaiure or;
harn-deaiungs as prescribed by '
t^ foregoiiig sections of tMs or-
diaance, the city Seavengei; i
siftll, upon notice from the Bobrd
of Health xaf the City, go up6n
the premises and remove the
same at tl^ cost of the own^r;
iuad it shall be the du^ of the
chief policy pioce each w«ek> to
insp^teadi stiEU>le g»vea>ed:>y
section one thereof, and mee
every two w«^s to insp^ each
stable g!>3^exaed by section two
thereof, aad report to the Chair
man of the Bosurd of Health any
.violation of the foregoing ordi
nance; and any person violiating
the foregoing ordinance, after
notice by the chief police, shall,
upon conviction before the May
or, be fined $1. 00 f or each day
such violation may occur.
FOURTiL That all ordinanc
es or parts of ordinances in con
flict with this ordinance are here
by repealed.
FIFTH. This otdinanee shall
be in full force and effect from
and after its passage.
Board of HbXlthof the
City of Burlington.
Lizzie Cheek,;
Bettie Lyde May
W. L Braxton,rSiiQw iC^p, 7900
Martin L. Coble^ R. lil'
T, Fi lljErtkins, ;
Gibson ville.
Ckcrie Albright,
^ ' - Haw; River. ”
Mrs. B. L. Shoffh^r, R. 10,
J. R. King,
i Greensboro*
May Carr HaJl
Margie Cheek
Doyle Heritage *
Death of Mrs. Greespn.
A very sudden death occurred
Friday July 14th about: eleven o^
clock when Mrs. Nellie Mary Ra
chel Greeson^ widow of the late
Wiiliam Greeson and daughter of
Ludury and Polly Fogleittan,
passed away in the 71 year of her
age. She lived in the )iome of
Mr, Martin Shoffher. It lacked
only a few days of eight hionths'
since her husband died and two
days of eight weekg since her
sister was taken' awiay^
. Mrs, Greeson was hot ;sick
more than half an hour. They
were unable to have ^ physician
in a short time, but he was uh-
aMe to anythin^^or^jber.^/
was caused by ah at&ck of heart
trouble, from which she had suf
fered previously.;. After servic
es conducted by het pastdt at
Jbew’s churcii,, the body V was
to rest ill the gr^yey^d by the
aside of her hust^d i and two
efeildiren. . She; lejayes a mother
54 years old, tliii*^ l^rc^Hers' ah
three sistjers, and quite a number
of relatives and friends, y" ,
Sh^«* the sistiir ^
known and highly est^mi^
toWniKttxi Mt; G^. f^bffleman
who attend^ tlm^iuneriU.
there would be no ne^ of co-6p-
eration to improve' school and
town and state and national con*
* ditioris, but caA Not Ion;
NO. VOTES. ago I was in aoothei* town an
60000 oppbsit» a house in
51000' which were , sev^l cases of
i i whooping C0u|:h. • The childrten
45800 instej^ of heinjg kfept in tl^eir
43700 yiard were allowed the free-,
3^00 dom of the struts. The well
14600 children had to quaratktin^ them^
11100 selvesrthe well children were
i^OO compelii^ to stay away from the,
spring--thifair faifFprite
4300 caiise the wht^pii^g cough child’^
3700 monppolissed s^irinfiis,
Probably those people did not
3^ kiiow 10 p«r ce]Dt; of whoop
ing d(Wgh pauents ^ v/hili^ oiily
3000 B per cent of diptheria patientx
1100 die. Ewn scarfet fever cairriea
off only 2 per OMit more than
lOOO does whooping £ough. It is high
1000 time we were knowing and realf
XOOOjiii^ing that whooping cough is
more fatal than dipth^a and al
most as fatal as s(^et fever.
What would you think of pwnts
who would allow their. ^idren
to flaunt scarlet fever and d^pth-
eiia germs ^road or what of the
town? 1 think our people, to^
heed to team these things and
our town needs to, quarantine
whooping coi^h ; and meaiales
which latter diseaw is 16 times as
futalas smAil pox. ,
were raised this sea,son on the
farm of Dr. Coble in the extreme
eastern part of Guilford County,
Freen township. Some of this
cabbage measured as much as
42 inches in circumference. This
is a record-breaker.
Meeting of Rural Letter Carriers
The Association of Rural Let
ter Carriers of Alamance County
is hereby called to meet Saturday
night, July 27, 8 o’clock p. m. in
the Waller Building, Burlington,
N. C., for the transaction of im
portant business. , All members
are urgently requested to be pres
ent.
W. J. Brooks, Pres.
Notice Juniors.
A very important meeting of
North State Council No. 34, Jr.'
0. U. A.M, next Friday evening,
July 26. Ail members are urged
to attend. Refreshments.
Many sub
stances eaten by flies pass
through their digestive tracts un
changed by thur weak digestive
fluid. As a result, after a fly
has dined on tuberculosis sputum
or typhoid dejecta, analyses of
the resulting fly-spects show the
presence of the livegerms of
thesie diseases.
In view of these facts concern
ing the fly, the Board of Health
of the. City of Burlington, deem
ed it well to recommend the fol
lowing ordinances which were
adopted by the Board of Alder
men of the City of Burlington in
meeting July 15th, 1912^ as fol
lows:--
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD
OF ALDERMEN OF THE CITY
OF BURLINGTON:
FIRST. That every person,
firm or corporation witlun the
city of Burlington# keeping more
ti^n twb horses or mules shall
to clean each stall ex
stable in which such stock are
EDrro^:
Mrs. Hms. I. Coble
irs. S. L
The of
W. C. T. U. will held with
Mr& L. ~ Morgan on
North DaviS; street, Monday
afternoon at 4 o'clock, July
29th. Bus^y mothers esped-
ally invited. ^
In various partsdf the country
the Woman’s Ohristiian Temper
ance Uhipn has used a system of
Medal Contestis as a means of,
furthering the e d « c a-
tion of ybunig {leoi^i on temper
ance subjects. The boy & and^rls
are encouraged to talfe patt, sel
ections are taken from, the books
furnished by rW.XJ. U. Iw the
purpose, judges sure provid^ and
a silver med^ awa^bd thp h^t
speaker. If a iM^pd cmtcist is
held, he who 1^8 the sil ver nied-
al, may work for a gold, aisd oin
tothedi£U7tai^m€id^/ih a third
contest Out tjliibn" is mh in
this world’s gj>ods only as DIckent
county riches; he said: man
is his in« ^
cdm«; a mim is nd!i h^ saveSi
fifty'»nt&** 1 qik)ie this be
cause IwaiBi tb say tha^ pur
Union f^fii itsetf.^^abte
eht to hold evPn « ^ Medal
Contest, but hoping for the sup^
port of mc^b^wd friends, we
are ^lanm'ng.to dbso later. Any
mie interested in this matter
will please let us know if tie is
willing to tittkk« the cont^t pos
sible. 'The hiembers mii^ asste
by pivmptly paying dues
when called upon ^ hy the eol-
1^1^ ih the next few
honorary members,. men, iifty
cents a year* devoid to Bur
lington intercM^ aclSve loain-
bers 60 cts, 10 esnts of which
goes to work; the remain^
der to the state Union and to
White RSbbcmfuIn^
MksJ S. L. Morgan.
Engagement Announced.
His many friends in this com
munity wiUlearn with pleasure
of the engageniept announced,
the cards read as follows:
Mrs. Margaret Lea Cotton an
nounces the engagement of her
daughter, Eula to Dr. Lucian
Graves Coble, of Greensboro, the
marriage to, take place early in
September.
Mr. Coble is the son of Mr, and
Mrs. A. L. ^Coble of E. F. D. No.
1. He formerally lived in this
county but moved to Greensboro
for the practice of his profess
ion, denistry.
Our agitation concerning a
milk inspector seems to have died
out. How far are the mothers
responsible? Aren’t we the ones
most vitally concern^ ? A meet
ing of 25 or 50 mothers to dis
cuss the matter, to a^tate it and
to determine to bring about such
strength of public sentiment as
is needed, vybuld restilt in our
town having a milk, inspector.
Neariy everybody, if the facts
were known/ wbuld be willing to
pay a cent or two more for milk,
which cent or two woiild enable ^
the dairyman to pa:y the fee
which the town must cbllect to
pay th6 milk inspectori The re^-
tilar monthly mother’s meeting
of W. a T. U. will be held Mon
day 29th with Mrs, Edward L.
Morgan. All the mothers are irt-
/ l^atii Of Mii. Dtaay JMb^.
Mrs. Denny May died at at her
home in eastern Guilford County
Saturdfty after mu^ painful
suffering for sevml years ^with
cancer. She was about 65 yeaiv
of age and agood Ohrtetian wom
an. She leaves a husband two
sons and one, Daughter, Messrs.
McBryde and Lawrence and Miss
Louise May. The remains were
buried at Brick' Church Tiies-
ice Cream Supper.
The ladies of Stony Creek will
give an iee cream supper on the
evening of July 26th, on the chu
rch ground. The proceeds will
^0 to the church. Everydody
myited and liiring a little pocket
clpi^e and let us have a
crowd.
Ice Cream Snpper.
ment s,eps at the church and
parsonage. There vrill fee ice
caeam. cake and lemonade.
Th^ will bemnsic by the Aurora
Concert Band, ^verypody comeV
out and help a good cause.
An Ice Cream supper will be
given in the Office Lot Saturday
_ , July 27 by the Luther League of
vited to be present a^d discuss ■ the Lutheran Church. The pro-
this and other- questions. This ceeda will go to help build the ce-
reminds us that one of our town's'
best c^izens—a gentleman of the
old-time type—told me he had
tried to form among his lady
friehds a iptother’s meeting and
after working awhile found that
if it were formed he would have
to be pr^identl How long,
mothei^, shall find time to do
everything else hut co-operate to
study the physical and moral
needs of our children 1 Co-oper
ation is neices^sary to meet the
larger needs. If everybody
could keep a cow and kee{> lot
and cow clean and duly inispect*
ed, there would to no need of
such co-operatiDn. If you could
help your 16-y^rpld boy and
1 always at nonw where there
gWi
is only goodneite and parity,
Wk7^He Is OiHposed to it
(Four The Durham Heraldji
Oert.unIy the Colonel is cmpos-
ed to thi^ waving of the bloodp
shirt. He wants Southern votei
even if he does, not get them.
Mr. Bryan’s home folks save
him a grand Utile welcome. Hit
hbnw rolks / do hot live in the
state that Chftmp ^es
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