Vork, Aug. 31 _t>i i
g formulated
lorate the eentpn
h of Sir IsS "pK
antor of modern
I 100 years ago next i
I large committee
. and public mtn
If support to the
them are Governor ©•|
ois himself an ^
shorthand writer-
etary of the Tv
•«,, who was for
shorthand repoitei f 4
rander Mathews
i?j;^®*J"?fmoration exe!l
II be held 'oincidenta?i I
nl^ celebrations in Ca^
1 England, ApDmnr^^
swill be held
in which shorthand
in vented his sys.1
'horthand m 1837 an/4 'I
s knighted by Queen ViH
his services in thisdiretj
voted the greater pan c
to a study of phonetic
peliing reform. He die
ining in Post Office aj
ton, N. C. Aug. 31, 1912.]
men:
er Scales, Wyley WaJ
oj
ns calling for anv of these!
vill please say “AdvertiJ
d give date of aa.eftisedl
J. Zeb Waller,
Post MasterJ
some other states-l
e prohibition nominee re
hat there is no limit to the
of times a man may
iate.
1
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A PRCM5RESSIVE NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE UPBUILDING OF AMERICAN I0MES ANI> AMERICAN INDUS^E^.
VOL. V.
BURLINGTON, N. C. SEPT. .11 1912.
Tib»se Whn Have En
{erecl the Oispatdh Contest.
Arkaosas Election.
NO.
VOTES
63000
4.
.48000
4570C
IboOO
17700
13100
9000
NA’>^ -
Horne
Aurelia Ellington,
Mebane, R. No.
IV. J. Brooks
Ilarv Lee Coble, R. Ndl
Waller Workman
Lizzie Cheek
Bettie Lyde M^y ,
W, I. Braxton, Snow Camf, 7900
j^Iariin L. Coble, R. 1. 4300
T. F. Matkins, ' 3700
Gibsonville.
CaiTie Albright. 4900
Haw River.
Mrs. B. L. Sboffner, R. 1K 3000
J. R. King, 1100
>eensboro.
May Carr Hall 1000
Margie Cheek , 1000
D?yle Heritage 1000
Tobacco Market to j)pea.
The Burlington Tobace^ Mar
ket 'Vill open for the sale of leaf
Tob.-icco Thursdav, Sepi. 12th
with a lali corspe of 'buyers.
Prices will be g->od. Bring a load
to tr.i^ opyi-ing sale.
Brick Warehouse,
Hook-er, Thorn:)'urg& Allred,
Pt'oprietors. ■
Little Rock, Ark., Sept. Be
cause of the length of he ballot
and the slow method of counting
only meager returns from today’s
^66o! Stare election had been recieved
up to 11 o’clock tonight, and
wijile the negative side of the pro
position for the adoption of a pro
hibition amendment had a slight
advantage, ^e returns in hand
cannot be taken as indicative of
he result. The usual Democratic
majori,ties for State officers is
being rolled up.
In the larger cities the advan-
tage was in favorof the “wets*'
but in the country districts, es
pecially in the northwest section
of the state, the “drys’’ polled
a .lkrge vote. Likewivse first re
turns showed slight majorities
against the adoption of the sor
called ‘ ‘grandfathe r c lau se ’ ’.
On the several other proposals
the returns were not indicative.
The vote polled was large and
dispatches from a number of
points indicate that ^jeturns
sufficient to degnitely establish
the result will not be available
until tomorrow.
Roo&evelt Headquarters Thu
rsday and Saturday night.
The Roosevelt Club Vill hold
reguiar meetings in the club rocwn
in the old Armory over Stokes
Furniture Store each Thusday
and Saturday night. All who
favor Roosevelt are most cordia
lly i.vi ted to attend and join.
Mass Convention
The Progressives of Alamance County are hereby
called to meet in the town of Graham. N. C., Saturday
Sept, 21, 1912, at 2 P. M. for the purpose of nominating
a full Legislative and County ticket, and for the trans
action of such other business as the Cdnventioa may
deem right and pro^r, includiijg a permanent organi
zation of the party in this coijo^y. Everybody in sym
pathy with the Progressive pwem this County,
regardless of |)ast political affiliations are urged to be
present and join us in this great cause. “The people^
shall rule." *
WW.BROWN,
Provisional Chairman.
Death Of A Go(id
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NO. 18
THE HYMN
OF
Enjoins
Paper From
Rooserelt
Freedom^s
Hill.
Tr.ere will be preaching at
Frtedom’s Hill next Sunday,
Sep'.. 14th and 15th. Mrs. Mary
yiki will preach there os Sat.
night and also os Sunday. Ev
eryone is invited to attend,
Announcements'will be made
at the.se services «f revivals soon
to be held in
Freedom HilL
the vicinitj^ of
Agriciliturai ExlSiit Car C«eiaiig.
The Agricultural Exhibit .car
from the State Test farm wiii be^
sided on the sidi«g in the eity of
Burlington Octo^r 12th. The
car will arrive on train- No. 108
and will be near passenger wait
ing room during the day.
The Exhibit is complete in
every detail consisting of da®-
erent varieties of corn showing
height size etc. also museum.
In full it will show complete,
thingsgrown on a farm. It will
pay you to see it.
Gas Plant Assnred.
Philadelphia captalists have
accepted the franchise with all
the terms., conditions asi^d restric
tions contained there iaa from the
ci'y to install a gas plant for
h-iiting, icooking, lighting, and
ina various uses of gas for Bur-
hngton and adjacent tpwDS and
'iijages. They expect to com-
men*2e the work in aboat two
months the cs^ntract calls for
at least five miles main within
12 months. It wil’ cost, when
completed, from $100,000 toJ|150,
WJO. Do we realize fully what
the spending of this money and
the convenience of this means to
oar city and county. It is one of
the biggest forward steps that
c Jr city has ever hal3, aiid possib
ly means more for the growth
fcnd .development of our enter-
Pr >es than we realize.
J. W. Cates, Secretary
of Chamber of Com.
. We guarantee a god pav
ing position to every young Wo-
itian who finishes, our course in
stenography and typewriting as
soon as her preparation has been
completed, and furnish instruc
tion in FJnglish and Arithmetic
‘Vithout additional Charge.
Littleton College,
Littleton; Ni C.
Raleigh, N. C. Sept. 8.—The
State Dispatch, former Repub
lican organ of Burlington, flying
for the first time the Rooseveltr
Johnson ticket, has been tempor
arily enjoined from printing
editorials by Postmaster '‘ ‘Zeb”
Waller.
The editor of the
paper declares that he is led
to change his editoral policy be
cause Taft "^as nominated by
fradulent votes and that 9C ,per
cent of the people of this country
are Roosevelt men, that/one ma.v
count the Taft supporters on his
fiagers and that they are all office
holders. •
Postmaster Waller 'brings the
injiunction the gr»und that
thpee years ago the Di&patch ap
plied for a charter to ran a “re
publican newspaper^ a«d that in
espousing tlae Iloosev«lt ticket
theipaperha® violated the terms
of its franchise. The pe«tmaster
alee points o«t that in changing
» By George Sylvester Yiereelc
“And I stood upon the sands lof the sea, and I saw a beast rise
I up out of the sea, having seven hea,ds. * • * And he gathered
them together in 4 place called in the Hebrew tongue Armaged
don. * ♦ « And the great city was divided into threfc parts.’
The Apocalypse. i
Apocalyptic thunders roll out of the crimson east:
The Day of judgement is al haiwi, and we shall slay the Beast.
What are the seven heads of hjm, the Beast that shall be slain?
Sullivan, T^gart, Lorimer,«Barnes, Penrose, Murphy Crane.
Into what cities leads his trail in venom steeped and gore?
Ask Frisko, ask Chicago, mark New York and Baltimore.*'
Where shall we wage the battle, for whom lunsheath the sword?
We stand at Azmageddon and we battle for the LordJ
The city of BurUhgton wal9
shocked last Friday, Beptw 6th
^hep the newa spi^d over the
(ity that J. Cyrus was
dead. He had l;»eh sick ohly a
little more than one Weekv^^
he had a kidney trbubie. He
later went into , typhoid feVer.
His age w^ 49 yeara, 2 months
and 2 days. On the 12th of
Oetober 1887 he liqiai^ed^^
Isabel! Keneday., They had no
children. He is survied by the
widow, an. ia^d mbther find
one brother. Mr, Shepsi^ was.
oiie of the best earpehters in the
wunty. He was a ihember of
the Indejpendent Oi^er of Odd
Fellow, tne Jr. Ordei of Wted
American Mechanicsi and''the
Daughters of liberty. He had
served as noble Grand ’in the
Odd Fellows lodge and twice as
Councillor in the Jr; Order more
than once he ^erved these lodgeis
in tfiieir state meetihgia/ . '
But perhaps his besjt efforts
were expended ^ih the chutch of
Which he was a member. Oh
the 14th of August 1S!03 he was
received into membership in the
Burlington Reformed church.
Very soon thereafte' he was
elected a rulingeider in the Con
gregation and the teacher of the
Baracca class. Sev^erai^ times he
represented his charge in the an
nual meeting of the- Ciassis of
North Carolina and in May 1911
he represented che North Caro
lina Classis in the triennial ses
sion of the General Synod in
Canton, Ohio. Soon after join-
said to his
mg the church he
Though Iseil spit forth its snarling host we shall not flinch or qnail, pastor that felt like he pught to
For in the last great skirmish God's own tbrath must prevail. give more in time and money to
Have they not seen the writing that llaims Uipon the wall, his church on the ac^ of his
Of how their hoiase is built on sand, a«td how. their pride must \ comi^)g in late in life. True to
Hhis idea he suppoirted every
The cough of little lads that «weat where never san sheds light.
The sob. ©f Si raivijrwi a: children a«d their Kipthers in the ni^t,
These, and the «'rong of agea, we carry ^s a swwd.
Who stand at Armageddon who batbtle for the.LordJ,
... ‘ ' .
God’'s s&idiers from the af'e we, Morth And East and
South,
The seed of them who fiueg ^die tea into the harbor'’s mouth,
And those who fought where Grant fou^lvt and those who fought
wiith Lae,
And those who under alien ^stsars first dcearaed of liberty.
Not those of little faith w&ose ^ecfe 4s soft, wh»e ways
dark.;
Nor iSioae wpon whose f^Msdhead the Beast has set his mark.
are
the ®)olicy the Roosevelt men, | Out the hand'ef justice we smatch her faltering swwd,
thoKsgh owning less stock than ^ * jj j jt... .li.. t ...j«
himself, outiwjted himl The ap
peal was made to Judge Whedb^
and mil come up in GMsensboro
Moiiday.—Phiia. North Ameri
can.^
Additional jMadunevjr
The Daisy Hosiery has
added sfifty feet two stories with
basement, this will enable them
to add more machinery. Their
orders at present far exceed their
production andl^ey are n©w in
need of fifteen or twenty saaore
•employees, Mr. Mav is wide
awake arid keeps pace witk the
(times, if you are out of emjsloy-
isar6nt better see him.
JMotor Cyclist Seraoosly Hmt
Mr. Ernest Summers wMle
speeding a Motor €ycle near
Ossipee last Saturday evenii^
ran into a carriage bdonging t©
Brown and Lewallen of EIchs
College and narrowly escaped i
deatk The tongue of the ve
hicle broke Mr. Summers breast
bone and several ribs. Although
serious doubt of his recovery
has been entertained he is still
Uving. /
Roosevelt Snake.
Last Saturday morning on get
ting up rather early Henry Simp
son of No 8 thrust his hand in
his shoe far the tongue, feeling
something cold thinking it to be
a watermelon rhine on bringing it
out fou^id it to be a king snake
about three feet long. If it had
not been he was one of Roosevelt’s
men and that was a RooseveR
snake he surly would have been
bitten H. J. Simpson.
Jf a woman will prevaricate
about her age, sometimes a man
v."!]] lie about his income.
Some men’s idea of justice is
get what they want instead of
what they deserve.
A Card Of Thanks
Words fail to express my most
sincere appreciation of the many
kindness shown me and my hus
band in his last sickness and
death. I pray that God jmay
richly ble'ss every Tieart that
responded in our sorrow.
Very truly, .
Mrs. J. G. Shfepard,
We stand at Armageddon amd we battle for the Lord!!
The sternest militant of God whisjsse iferum^ in the fiaor
Has like eity into three shall lead us cn this day.
The holy strength that David had is Ms, the faith that saves,
For he shall free the toilers as Abe linooto freed the «laves;
And he shall rouse the ijMsewarm and those whose «ytes are dim;
The hope of twenty eentuaies has found a voite in him. .
Because the Beast shall froth with wrath ond perish *by his sword«
ile leadB a^t Armag^don the legions of the iktrdl
e
he #iall aasove the moui^toins that groan with ancient sham,
Aiad mete wit^ equall measure to the lion and the laiiab.;
And he shall wipe aw^y the tears (Mt bum on woman's cheek.
For the nation’^s council hence the mothers, too, shall speak.
Through Mm the rose of peace shall blow from the red rose of
etrife, ,
America shall write his name into the B^k .of Ldfe.
And where at Armageddon we battle with the sword
Shall rise the newborn commonwealth, the City of the Lord!
j[ cause in the church Work and was
i always present at tbe servioes
j unless prpvidentiany ; hindered.
[His funeral was conducted by
Ms paptor Eev. J, D. Aiidrew in
t^ church at^4:; Pv 1!^
of rdatives and w^^ihg
His body was laid to r^st in Pine
[ Hill cemetery.
\ Sad Death Of A Y«|vds Man.
j J«sse M. Huffman cairie to his
Ideath in Spencer by a falling
'scaffi9ld Sept. 2* 1912 at the age
of 26 y«ars, 4 rnonths and[ 19 days.
He was the soil 6f Mr. and Mrs.
William Huffman of the. St.
Marks Reformed Church com
munity. The funeriilv was held
,in tlae St Marks Chur^ Sept. 4
j byRev. J. D. Andrew and was
‘attended by a very large crowd.
For five yeai*s Mr. SHuffmlm Ikd
been in the employ of th^e . Con
struction foirce of the Southern
R. R.
The whole community felt the
shock of this sudden death* He
leaves an aged father and moth-
«er, one brother and one sister.
REGISTRARS ANB POLL HOlfiESS FOR NOV. ELECTION
Dr. R. A. Fnseman, Will S. Long, Jr., and R. N. Homaday hW-
ing been appd«ted County B«ard of Elections for Alamance Coun
ty. a meeting was held at Graham on the firat Monday of Septem
ber 1912, with Dr. R. A. Freerann and Will S, Long, Jr., present
and said Board organized by electing K. A. Freeman, Chairman
and Will S. Long, Jr._, Seeretaay.
The folkjwing Registars and poll holders were appointed to hold
the election in November, 1912,
EEGISTEAB
Jot McPherson
Green Nicholson
W. T. Noah
C. M. Pritchett,
W. J. Graham
J. M. McCracken,
C. M. Holt
Caleb McPherson
T.'A. Morrow
J. Pope Bradshaw
G. A. Mebane
TOWNSHIP
Patterson
Coble
Boon Station
Mortons
Faucett
Graham
Albright ,
Newlin
Thompson:
Saxapahaw
Swapsonville
Melville „
Pleasant Grove W. B. Sellars
N. Burlington R. L. Sutphm
S. Burlington L. B. McAdams
Haw River J. H. Blackmon
WILL S. LONG, Secretary
JUDGES OP ELECTION
Paul Coble, David Lashley
Gaston Sharpe, L. L. Patterson
M. A. Atkinson, J. W. Ingle
D. M. Ireland, John F. Sutton
Chas. Wlson, Sam Lineberry
R. L. Holmes, R. G. Foster
B. W. Johnston. C. Thompson
Walter Stockard, S. E. Moody
Sv "*7, J-A.W.Thompson
W. C. Neese, T. A. Burke
W. W Corbett, D. A. Whit«
S. E. Tate, Zari Barnwell
C. B. Eilis, A. 0. Hurley
C. R. Love, C. H. Walker
W. T. Williamson, G. W.P.Catek
R. A. FREEMAN, Chairman
Dispatch and Cast Your Vote for me
of inir contestants.
S.1
In
the Graham Presbyterian
(dbnrdb^ September 2S^9.
PROGRAM
The County Association—Its
work for us and claims oh us.
The To wnship Association—Its
Place in the System.
The S. S. a Church Work/ or
the Whole Church at work.
!Hie Parentis' work out and in
the S. School.
Leaks and How to Stop Them?
Good apd Bad Methods of
Building Up the School.
S. S. Training , for Church
Membership. ^
In Bible Study.
In Church Doctrines.
In Prayer—Private and Public.
In Singing.
In Beneficence.
In Holy Livings \ ; "
In Iteli}2|^s Activity.:
S. S. Pupils and the jPa^i^ichihg
Servicei
:^ow to Organi:^^^|^'^P|^^
Pra^ti^rReIil^ous‘W^
The S. S. and Evi^ngelism.
The S. S. »nd Morw Reforms.
Mission Study in th^ Glaiss and
School.
Variety in the S, S.
"■>. '■ Ll W. Holt, Pres.
Wants M««ie News.
Oak Ridge, Ni; 0. ,
. ' Sept 8, 19ia
Editor State Dispatch,
Burlington, N. C.
Dear Sir:
Please send me the Dispiatch •
till I notify you to stop it
My people take it at home but
I apa in school at Oak lUdge and
I am anxious to keep up with
the Bull Moose men (as I am
one) and the local hews,
y Yours truly,
H. V. Murray. .
pi|r TelephoBW^
We Would speak a word in be
half of our telephone operators
wrongly termed “Henogirls'\ as
it detracts from the d^ity of
their calling. No o^upation calls
for quicker intelBgence, more
alert thinking and acting at the
same time than that of telephone
operator.
We have in our local telephone
exchange a superior class of
•girls who are trying to do their
duty to .their employers and the
public. It is always a difficult
matter to serve the public and
extremely so in the telephone
business. If you want to tay the
metal of a man or woman let them
call the exchange for a number
and be told the “line , is busy*'
nine itimes out of ten they lose
their temper and abuse the oper^
ator, not always stopping with'
decent language either. It\ is al
ways the mark of an ignoble
nature to lay the blame on the
other fellow’s shoulder. It as
usually what we call our “best
people" who do these things, al
though that .very, thing shows
something sadly arniss in their
make up.
. No amount of religion you may
profess to have, no amount of
money you may be worth can
possibly cover up your lack of
courtesy-^ and gentle breeding.
tocrat if you plesjiie - is as cou^-^
epus to the wortiiiig £^rl as to
lady of his own class. The sub
ject of class distinction, we
consider put of place here and
too big a subject to be handled
in a short article, but if we v/ere
to invoke justice, according to
Plato's ideal of the individual and
state that some natures have in
their make up gold, others iron
and still othe^ copper we are
afraid that too often, the ntiiui
with material possessions would
be set down in the class with the
“copper natures".
Back to our subject our tele
phone operators deserve more
sympathy and respect than they
get. We get better service here
for le.4s money tiian any other
place of the same size.
If you are not convinced of the
streneous life' of the telephone
operator, visit the exchange and
^e for yourself. Put yourself
in the operator's place you might
not do so well.
^ It behoouls the people of Bur
lington tx) be more considerate of
and more courteous to the tele^
operators. /
If you ^e a business man or
wise, you get more returns
from the money expended in a
telephone than any other invest
ment qi the same amount
. .■■■■ P. B; ^
Sept. 5th 1912.
I S. CONVENTiOK
Held at the Presbyterian ^
Church Sept. 22 at 3.30 p. m.
3.30 Devotional Exercise,
Conducted Rev. D. Mclver
3.45 Address, Teaching the S. S,
Lesson, -
Rev. A. B. Kendall.
4 OdIRound Table, How to Keep
the Sunday Schoo! for Church
Services, Conducted by Rev. R.
M. Andrews.
4.35 Reports from the different
Schools ill the township.
Ele^on ef oiPQ»9, 8eIec
^ent^, aiiid adiourhment. v
J. G. Rogers, . 3. R. HoffnMn,
President
Standard Oil cast on the
troubled politicai waters onlr in
creases the trouble. '
HP"'