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KstMtcii ?«biisii»« Ca»p*ay,
£>ftdliiiSt»e, S. C.
.at a ripkett. fre8!di>Bt
jsba^ s. mmAfi,
JSISSS S, FOUST, Seerfttuff *ad
md ^iixcM Mxoai>er.
Editor
Treaiwer
comodatsop> but build some
atrbn^g* ; ^ ^ad piain
faagnific^lE strqcture tiot for
present; needs, but.ample torneet
future requirements.
Oi;!^ First Pioor, Kauhui BuiWing.
Telephone No. 265.
s^cr!i>tioa. One Dollar per year, pay
able m a4T«ac^.:
A3 eommunicftti jRs in rega rd to eithei
>;5P*«??.ife8iii8 or biisinpss ujptters should
i^sed to Tie State Di^atcb aud not
SB* say l»d!viduaJ connected with fche
' * r
uot«8 and coinoiuaicatio/js of
mponaoce n»iKt be signed ;by the writer.
^ are not reBpoaeihle for opiniooft of
©07 correspondent*.
ftekseribdrs will take notice that no re*
ior ftnbseriptioK lor Tii« State Dwi^tei
^ be h^aored at this office unless it is
.;j®®tiwed“ with st'amped fieiipes.
Sfttiered 3w «econd-cla«s-aaatt«r May
at the- post office at Burling
ifm-th Carolina, under the Act oi-
iSasissess of Majrch 3 1879.
Wdbe^ay, My 16^
Tlie LawJEnforced.
f S^sst Sunday some i^erson faom
irnear by town took passage on
>f?e the cars of the Piedmont
£ Electric Company, • and
thereupon on his way to
ijsother town became rather
and began to use some
^gtiage thatgwas wholy uncall-
S for and as a result of all this
was arrested by one of the
street car authorities andUMon-
iay morning appeared in Court,
and pled guilty to the charge,
sd^itting that he had drank too
Lr®$ly of the juice of !the forbid
den fruit; and that he had talked
-sntirely too loud. The court said
pty $1^.00 and you may go for
jMstirne^
The; street car conlpany is to
de comfaendied for their strenuous
efforts in enforcing the law
of the' land.
1
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The Gr&de4 Scli^, ' *
TKt’ crisis is always reached
time in every '^an'a life,
same is true in the life and
i3ssi»ess career of e^ery institu-
iiett', Sach is the &se of our
^ity Graded- Sehoofi The last
%^lature saw it t4pas3 an act
aaaking- compulsorj^ att©,iid4.nce
assc^ef ceslain conditions; very
wise indeed was thi^ act and it
win add to the enrqilment and
^teBdance of our school from two
^o three hundred children. Where
5ve •shall place thtm and who
shall t«ach them is the question.
From time to time the citizen-
jhip of Burlington have failed to
aiake permanent preparation for
the care artd traiaing; of the
shii^rerj, rtdhor ihey hnve per-
jmd ajjproved temporary
>irrE!}vgement for this all im*
portant matter.
The time has Ccome when
must have iaeg^.t
^fer, afid morfe sanitary build*
fjngs for the accomodati on of the
shildren. This cannot be secured
without a sacriftce on the part of
some one. We regret to observe
ihat there is a feeling in the
^inds of many people who live
m Burlington, that concret side-
'valks and macadam streets are
of more importance than proper
jy trained and educated children.
When you fail to train and edu-
?mte the child you have destroy-
idbope and possibility of grow-
a man. Train the b:>ys and
i^!?te for the duties of life and
1^y will be capable of solving
&e problems that we are not
able to solve at the present time.
The reason of the bad condi
tions of our tx3wn is a result of
poor management conducted by
ncor^ipeteni and uneducated
If you would save to the
pe©i§!ie of Burling^on their just
iientage you must preserve,
irain;. educatc and develop its
boys and girls. You can have a
city without the t>est of streets
and sidewalks, but you cannot
8iven have a coinmunlty wlthput.
that ^u*e developed
^ men and
shantiefi ■i&e- ^echo^l &c-
Spanked hy Mama, Qkl S&oots
Herself,
New York, July 13. — So popular
was 15-year-old Mary de Martino
with the youths of her accjuaint-
ance that every afternoon they
would gather on the rcK>f of her
home at No, 3*37 East Forty-se
venth street to cons'erse with her.
These meet'ngs were not atallto
the iikmg of Misi Mary's mother
and a week ago oid-tasbioned
punishment was administered by
che parent much to the girl's pain
and humiliation.
Following the first chastise-
ment the girl in some way got
possession of a revolver. To her
youthful admirers she confided
sevei’al days ago she proposed
killing herself if her mother ever
span ked her agafn;; r ,,-
Miss Mary and her chums were
on the roof Saturday afternoon
when suddenly Mrs. de Martirie's
Head appeared above ther scuttle
The girl vyaa taken to her 'home
down the kairs and the ■ mdtheit
used a «trap.
Shortly t>ef')re 5-o’clock when
she returned to the roof the boys
laughed at h^, vBhe said:
‘M I'd make her sorrsr if she did
it again,
Then Miss Mary drew the re
volver from the folds of her skirt
and the boys scattered. Some
fled down the scuttle others. lad
behind chimney^ ' * '
The girl with a cr;y/placed the
revolver's muzzle "'ag^iin^?t h^r
right breast and fired.
Some one .notified. -,MrLi, /.-de
&lattino. She ran'se'feamih^ to
the street. Patrolman Lang/ of
the Last Fifty-first street station
found the girl on the roof w^’ik
from loss of blood.
Dr. Waltmarsh hiu.rried her to
flower hospital where;!t was found
the bullet had passed through the
right lung. Her conditioR was
said to be eriticai.
Questioned by the police, the,
girl’s parents said they had never
seen the revolver Jn the/hou^e
and suggested that it had" be^h
given her by/^on^. J'at 't>by..
■admirers.'-: :[
.. The weapon couSi'Be'foun^
in the. street, ,'Wh6re the.'-.girl'.ls
said to.have.:,fete?’aw« ULr/i.Mrs.'^
Martino said last night to a i^e-
I did whip her this aftereoon
with a stra» after I fpimd-;her ©n
the roof with those boya;"^"'' '
Gsfl Ge^’$499 Fri.i(a
■Dabvine, Vk, July 9V^feate
Eilia, a nineteen-year-old girl,
was awarded $400 damages ag-
ains?t the Chesapeake and Poto
mac Telephone company by a
jury in the Corporation court
yesterday afterr^oon after an
hour’sdeliberation. The case
was '3tarf.ed early in the marn-
iog and occupie-^:i pnictie illy the
■eotire day’s business, of the
court. No motion tor a new
trial was made;
Miss Efiis irta^itiited the-; .«ui
throu.gh Mr. L.. L. Hudson sev
eral vveeks ago asking for 2,000
damages as result of injuries she
claimed chat she sustaixied'when
a scone hurled some -seventy
iards a«,’5ay by force of a dyna
mite explosion struck her in the
side as she was seated upon' the
porch of her home on Peach
street. Tha telephone companys
men wer^ engaged in blasting
holes for the erecting of poles
when a charge was fired, blow-
ijftg |;he port,ion of a rock con
siderabie -
r ■*‘4 ; V-"
'Motfcer’aad'DauglSeif Safetdl From
: Dfowisdag^' - '
c-
"Providence, ,'ia~
Picked up last nigrht from the
sinking yacht. WiUiara Jennings
Bryan off Stratford shoals, Conn.,
Mrs. Mary and her daughter,
Mrs.- Ltouis . Lewis,, of Jackson-^
ville, Fla., were brought Info this
port today aboard.:the^ Cofonei.
liner Lexington.
Their hustaod3.^:.^Sobfirt■ -Ste
wart and James;.|^;ewis^. Jacks,on-
ville millionaires and k sailor,
remainded with the yacht in the
hope of beachins? her off
port Jefferson, N» Y.
The party ' had beea c.ruisiog'
along the coast froni Florida for
three or four weeks. They left
^Bridgeport late yesterday for
vOyster Bay when their boat
sprung a leak, disabling the
engine.
When the :lCo!onia[ liaer came
along they signalled her with a
lantern and the v/omeri-, scantily
clad were taken aboard. They
left for New 'Yurk'o'ri the'Lekiir)g'>
ton this aftemoon.
Are CMred by Dr. Hobson’? Ec
zema Ouitraent, which heals all
ikin eruptions. No matter how
lottg you have been troubled by
itching, burning or scaly skin
htamors, just put a little of that
soothiiig aKltis^tic, Br: Hobson’s
'Eczema Ointmeht,’ on the sores
and the sutoing stops immedi
ately. Healing begins that vei y
mimite. Doctors use it in their
practice and recommend it, ,Mr.
rpl^l liittletown Pa.,
i^ays: “Had eczema op forehead
Dr. Hobson’s Eczema,.. Ointment
cured it in two weeks. ” Guaran
teed to relieve or money refund-
Ail druggists, or by mail.
Price 50o..' Pfeiffer Chemical Co.,
Philadelphia and St. Louis,
nmB GO,
'lS»*,E»rai .Cut
'0». > ;
Winston-Salem^ July Id. -Dis
trict Attorney Bolton, while in
Jef ferson, looking over some re
cords in Ashe ciriufity courthouse
the past week, found one that
wai truly u iiqua.
It showed that at the March
term of Ashe court in the year
1809, a white man was convicted
of burglary, Judge Francis Locke
presided over that term, and his
ease r jads as follows;
“Tnat the said Carter be fined
ten pounds that he stand in the
pillory for one hour, at the'expira-
uon of which time both ears are
to be cut off—entirely ^levered
from his head-and that the
earii. so cutjdff b^ nailed to the
pillory by the officers, and there
rem.iin the setting of the sun.”
Sayte a Dfsscendent of WilikmsQa.
We were ■ thinking that it was
about time some famous one
caipe ak>ng who waS; descended
from North Carolina ancestry.
And this tir?ie it.only helps to
bipd President Wilson and family
closer to North Carolina than
before. Mis? J/essle Wilson ^s
finance, Francis Sayre, comes
from a North Carolina family.
The press dispatches read:
"His mother was Martha Finley
Neyin, a daughter of John Wil
liamson Nevin, theologian and
piesident of Franklin and Mar
shall college at Lancester, Pa.
She is descended, from Hugh
Williamson, of North Carolina,
one of the framers of the Con
stitution/^
Now watch the South Carolinas
rave.—Gaston Gazette.
DAVIS m
NEW
FigWiig Soil Weevil.
■,Atlatita, Ga.Jiily 13., — Far
mers iti Western Alabama
aM Mississippi are making a
d^terniined and winning fight
against' the boll wee vi 1 and are
being given Soyal support by;
Businessmen, declares:.Mr.
Pi«^«ikett,. Ma.najgftr ol-i'the Depr-,
I Imi)rovement'
Work-'of'-the-'Sddthei^h: Railway
■Assist&ht tb-Preiid'i^t Finley,
has Just completed an inspec-
Southern Railway, the Mobile
arid Ohi^ Railroad, and the Ala
bama Great Eailroad in this ter-
ritpry.
“We did not find a commun
ity/^ says Mr. Plunkett, ’’where
ther^ is--aa3?^^xcitejpiei
slightest 9ig;n of pahic Mt every
one is ili -like d^'tiisnined'to' pi^o*
duce cott6h-:knder boU weevil
conditions. Thousands of adult
weevils were destroyed while
the cotton was amail -and where
they, skimped- ,.f^|mers'' are -.deat •
•royihg 'infectied, "-squsresi,' :-i-:V.'On
evrry-.hapd we fouod.-,-apprecia
tion of the agents of our depart-
‘r&efeit fat‘)!Tfters' are) jgenerally
heedii>.^;their, advice in' fighting
the weeyil, I have been m close
touch with the boIJ weevil srhce
1900 and I believe that farmers
in ibis territory have heeded the
warrtm$?-'gi.vea ^:them' sind will
not suffer aaf'-did famers farther
west,.,'' , •' ^ ■
".‘Farmers who ■ .adopted
the methods by our
•..agejits are expeetmg' tnerea.sed.-
yMd'& m-spite of the >veevil,--’and
with tht? determined fight now
beip.g wag'edi I -see no reason
w hy the ;g-eo^rar'y field in this
great sectiqa should a.o€ be nor-
tholigH indi'tKcf.6.d' farmers
w:lio h^.ye,;reffised to cake the ad*
'-■/ce of experts are L^iure co lose
ht'-xvilv/'‘
aeys
ei?rh Juiy 12..-Attor
for Rev. R, L-^. Davig^ su^’epsncen-
dent of the North Carolina .A.fi£i-
Salwn League convicted of a.s-
salti g Wiley Straugh n with a
liquor appealed to Jad.ee Cook fn
Superior court_ thn caoratng: co^
grant the niintster 3. n.ow'’ fcraii..
In_asking that the verdict be set
aside the defense . assured ■ che
prosecution that they would neith
er ask nor expect CG-nsideratioE
the next time this famoas case is
staged in court.. The: golidtor
and representatives of the pri';rate
prosecution opposed the grannng
of a new trial and .fudge Goak
announced that the eourft wou[d
take the matter dhtfer'curisidera-
tion and render its dectaifin later
Greens^boro, Jaly 12 — Brood-
,In.^ over Jiaaneiai obagauofis he
was u.».able to meet,. Archur L.
England actempr.ed sdcide in the
Hallway of the Eagie Hose Com-
pany.^ for which he was driver,
here Fddaj'^' moroffig. .ffis at
tempt will nodooht prove siicces
afu..L as he is.lying; 3,t the hospi
tal, jo. a precarioui conditioii.,
Kt8 child are
wit.h hirn... The 'vvi.iuod is aear
the fteart and co.flicted. with
Religions Services For Soldier Bo>s
ja Camp.
Camp Glenn. Moxehead City,
July 13.—Religious service was
held at this post at 11 o’clock
Saturday morning, conducted by
Rev. N. Harding, the aged cham-
plain of the Second Infantry.
Champlain Hording, who ranks
as captain is th^ oldest officer in
th^ North Carolina state troops,
and Wears a medal showing ser
vice pf the, longest term recogn
ised by the stot^.
Fo]i;Sl Weieks ip the year he iis
the rector of St. Peter'^ Episedi
pal, church at W^shinigtdn and
-i#Pft^' 'y^^rs^.:., btii'
qdriRlWciitiphivn periods.'fMrt
Harming is an enthusiastic soldi^j;
—the best loved of all in hji
regimfeiit. He a veteran d
the Confederacy also. The Sjfer*
vice today was albrt, simple and
wjII attended l|>f officers ard
men. An impr(^ised orchestra
fromvthe band ^yed “What
a Friend We Hi ve in Je8a!i, '^
&nd Nearer, My .God to Tiiee,
^^ile fhe knaki'fiSad ccngirega-
^lon- sang the old hymns with
rare spirit. The venerable cha
plain dressed in the bli e uniform
of his r^nky. -led, in prayer and
made th^^pl^iei^ a little
J^oAer Sboots Brother.
Wilmington, Jul3^.ii-Some
thing of a sensation was created
on W^i^rhtsville Sound Mondav
night when it became known
that Louis Hanby had shot his
brother Archie Han by, at the
home ,,, of the former
following a . general distribute,
it is alleged by the latter,
;TViree shots were fired, but
pMy one took effect, and it passed
through the calf of the in-
Inictiting only a flesh wound,
Louis B^ih by surrendei*ed to
justice George Harris and was
recognized for apjpearance;
The Hanbys are prominent,
and it is claimed tl^t there has
been some coistrdveicy between
them with refernce to division
of their father’s estate, which is
ia.r.ge;
Judge Cook will oiake known his
decjsiosi aome this afternooE.
tid$itach{f £>t. Mtim'
Wilson Goes Exploring.
Cornish, N. H.. July 11. ~-
President Wilson went exploring
in his automobile today. He took
an unfrequent road and his big
car picked its way slowly aiid
^utiously over a mountain ridg4
The trip was made without mis
hap and the view of the sur-
bills amply repaid
the Preaidentfor the bumping he
got.
On one occasion the Presidents
u. to a natural stop
a :S2 caliLife pistol Mo- ofie was! oft the road entirely into
in flight wfcieo. the shot was fired. i^^nty&rd. Half .of the road
Notes to other firemeo disclosed i covered with oil
' and tnife other half was blocked
by a team. In order to avoid
i getting out of the machine the
i resident suggested that his ear
driver over a little knoll into a
a farm house
iiad''passed. , It.
V w^^tltir In den t iw^ led to a
r«tirt the P^sid^t plunged
Anyone can Aff
the reaBon
cat^\wba college
good biiidm/is, heaitb-
fiil looation, i^trongf/ieuliy, j'
terms. Fall term op(f^\
3udfl91S. f'vr oa taJogiie write to
J. 0,
mmz of genuine si ,
Hose costing no more
than cottonl That is
just what wc offer you ia
our new line of Phoenix
Silk Hose at 50c a pair for
men’s anS 75c for women’s,
_ No other silk hose at any
price contain bettcsr silk or are better
Imitted. They have all the soft luster
and ‘‘cling"* of the very costliest hose—amd
they wear ^ that we will replace anj
pair th^t doesii^t give good service. Come
and see this remarkable hosiery—then youll
understand why we are so enttiusiastic about
it. Ail the popular colors are here. Just &a^
‘‘Phoenix^* to our clerks. ‘
/N.:c-
Buggies! Buggiesir Biggies!!!!
Our line has'iiievcr been morc'comple.£e,. we
rneet &11 classes of c3mpetition,. Oinr prices wil).
certainly please you.
Wagons, Harness, F’Iomfs,
Every farmer needs a good ^gon, anil certaw
ly must have good harness. Who can form wish
out gold plow- ? Coble-Bradshaw Co., is tfie
farmer > tHendj they have the gfeods
1 ^ for your neighbor to do ymir 'mow
ing whcii thei w^thcr is such he does not care ro
rti^W'at 'home. ...Bay a .mower, .afed..rate. Yoi.
win si ^ ^pth and h^y. -
: ■ ' All Kin,ds 0F SMALii-HAB|>WAs;E„r;^
Coble-Pradthaw Qi).,
.. .^''iwrHryiMc^
. . 1 ' ’.V-?:- -.•i' .»,• J ^ ’I . . ', .
• Itis irec^itMcii.s .now you can
locsl &ri(i long distance tclepiione ssr"
vice in your home at very small co.st.
^ Send for it today. Write nearest Bcii Telfs-
phone Manager, or
FARMERS’LIPIE DEPARTMENT
SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE
AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY
S, FRYOR STREET ATLANTAi 3A,
Now Orily
.lAbisiia-tou syciFiip
••'itH ;Montkly.
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iS visitms
igrs. Lafa^
jf'g. Li. Sul
the
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r.EossStej
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ff.'
le Da,i?y
Tvac&t'ion
iK«r.e Wit4
Yb.. Sun(
bob'ile.wit
Cliestej
[■•teft. MorJ
where
ra.i days
VValtei
.day'.from|
l:i,a few d^
da.
^uses Paul
■ning and.
been vis
[returned
jtses Etni
cman and
Ipent Sun(
4. the
and Fk
le Beilmoi
Haw R
was two
yf ten
[ .(iiiver.
k and Mral
to Chat!
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^vera! d|
^hibehes
^ng.
Mattie j
I Visiting
and thl
CaroUniJ
^ome witl
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