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Vol 3
MEBANE. N. C., lUUUSDAl'. DECEIV1BER 19 1912
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NO 4r
PERSONAL AND LOCAL BREFS
I'EOPLE WHO COME AND GO
terns of interest (fathered by
Our ReDorter
Mrs. F. B. Noblitt arrived in town
Saturday.
Mr. Jolm H( I ncs went up to Greens
b >ro Monday.
Mrs. H. F. Warren spent Monday
iii ('ri er.oboro.
vvli^s Pauline Nicholson spent Mon
day in I'urlington.
Miss Margie Scott spent Tuesday
nifflit in Greensboro.
Mr. and Mra. J. N. Warren visited
friomis in Efland Sunday.
Mr;. B. Frank Mebane of Spray is
visiting Mrs. F. L. Mebane.
Mrs. Iv. H. Tyson and Mrs. S. G.
A orj:an went to Burlington Monday.
Miss Fannie Vaughan Andrews of
Salisbury- id vis ting at the White
House
Miss Mossie Scott will spend Chiist-
inas vilh her parents and relatives at
Kamseur.
Miss Grace Amick who has been at-
tt iiiliiig school at Whitsett. is at home
i.u- the holidays.
Mrs H. W. Bason of Thotnasville
came down Tuesday to spend the Holi-
tlavs in Mebane.
Mrs. W. C. Clark and son Glennie
spent Saturday and Sunday in Burling-
t >n with friends.
Mrs. H. C. Foster of Burlingt(m
apent Sunday here with her brother,
Mr. J. W. Nicnolson.
Mr. G. W. Franklin and little grand
dciughter. Miss Mary Page visited Mrs.
1>. T. Hurley Sunday.
Miss Katie Davidson will viait her
old home and relatives at Carthage
during Christmas week.
Mr. and Mrs. P. Nelson left Friday
for Ashboro where they will spend sev
eral days with relatives.
Mis. H. a. Scott and daughters, Mrs.
Joe Vincent and Mrs. West Warren
went down to Durham Monday.
Mr. aT>d Mrs. B. T. Hurley left
Tuesday for Chowan. It is with re
gret that we see them go.
H'lln.es-Warren and Co., have layed
in a large supply of apples, nuts,
o;angesetc lor Christmas.
Mr. Smith ^and Mr. Rickers of
Greensboro are spending this week in
Mebane at the White House.
Mrs. T. B. Pettigrew and sister and
Mrs. J. N. Warren spent the day in
Durham Thursday of last week
A merry Christ mas and happy New
Year is the heading of the H. E. Wilkin
son and Co., ad. See it elswhere.
Miss Fannie Mebane returned to her
home in Mebane Saturday, after spend
ing a week in Greensboro with friends.
Miss Barbara Shaw, who has been
spending some time with relatives near
Raleigh, returned to her home in Meb
ane Sunday.
Mrs J. A. Holmes, who has been
spending some time in Lexington with
relatives, returned to her home in
Mebane Monday.
A big reduction in shoes and clothing
at C. C. Smiths. Don’t fail to take
advantage of it during the holidays.
See ad on third page.
Thursday afternoon Book Club will
meet with Miss Lenorah Hams at 3
o’clock. All members please bring or
send their books, per request of the
secretary.
Mr. 1. J. Mazer of Burlington places
a display ad in this week& Leader. Mr.
Mazer is doing a thiriving business.
He cfurries a stock that suits the trade
and TOlls them right, and then he tells
the trade through the Leader that he
has the goods.
Buster Brown is in great glee over
the .prospect of a happy Christmas,
and wants you to have a good time by
SToing to Holmes-Warren and Co., and
getting your Christmas supplies. A
full stock of all T inds of nice things
and goodies.
A Christmas service will be given by
the Baptist Sunday school on Christ
mas night at 7:30 P. M, at the church.
In 'iddition to a Christmas tree an
attractive program will be rendered
consisting of recitations etc by the
chiklren, and an address by Prof. W.
S. Crawford. The pubiic is most
cordially invited to be present.
Tobacco Warehouses To
Cloi^e.
The Mebane Tobacco Warehouses
will close Friday the 20th of Decen«ber
and remain closed until the. 6th of
January. Farmers will please take
notice and govern them selves ac
cordingly.
The Kind of a Juror
Among the jurors selected in the
Blair trial now before the Court in
Greensboro was one who in response to
questions with a view of asjertaing his
e’igibility, said that “he had not saw
anything in the papers about the case.'^
It is this class of illiterates that makes
the kind of a jury that the lawyers
for the defense may depend upon.
The
New Fastor at the
M* P. Church
Rev. Mr. Swain the new pastor of
the M. P. Church preached his first
sermon in his new chaise in Mebane
Sunday night. Mr. Swain had a full
church lo welcome him and hear his
first sermon. We belieue Mr. Swains
congregation will find in him a go* d
paster, one who will labor earnestly
for the moral and religious uplift of
his people.
Green
and McClure
niture Co.
Fur-
We change the advertisment of Green
and McClurs Furniture Co., of Graham
in this weeks Leader and invite the
attention of our readers to it. They
are all clever, men, they carry a large he greatly disappointed if our stockings
Etland items
Miss Jennie Baccm of Hillsboro spent
part of last week with her sister, Mrs,
E. D. Thompson.
Mr. Frank Boggs took a trip to Bur
lington first part of last week and
spent two days.
Messrs John and Mack Efland was
ealled to Winston last Wednesday to
attend the funeral of their brother Mr
Herman Labberton who died sudden of
heart failure.
Mrs D, E. fi'oirest Misses Salile and
Maud Efland 'also accompanied their
brothers to Winston to attend ,the
funeral of Mr. Labberton.
Mrs. Tom Squires of Cheeks Crossing
visited her mother, Mrs. TaHtha Boggs
last week.
Mr. and Mrs. George Thompson have
moved to Mebane, we are sorry to
give up Mr. and Mrs. Thompson, but
wish them success in their new home.
Miss Bessie Baity is visiting her
aunt Mrs, Jack Price in Burlington.
We wish for Miss Bessie a pleasant
trip.
Mr. John Baity is at home with his
family for a ^ew d^ys.
Mr. Willie Murray went down to
Raleigh last ^Thursday to visit his
mother Mrs. Murray who is at the
Rex Hospital where she is being treat
ed for appendicitis.
Mr. Will Thompson spent last Fri
day in Efland.
We are sorry to note Mrs. Mary
Jordon is on the sick list. We hope
she will soon recover.
Mr. Joe Murray and three little
boys went down to Raleigh Sunday to
visit Mrs. Murray at the Rex HoepitaL
Mr. Jesse Baity called at Mr. Will
Richmonds Sunday aftemo'>n.
Mr. Mack Efland^ Sr. went up to
Winston Wednesday.
Mr. William Allen living four miles
South East of Efland lost his bam and
two fine young horses one fine colt
and a new buggy, wagon and harness
and a lot of feed all by fire Friday
morning about four o’elodc. It seems
these early mornings bam burnings
are getting very frequent and we
really think the one that does the
horid deed should be punished like
wise. Mr. Allen is a hard working
man, and the loss falls heavily on him.
Xmas will soon be here and we are
looking for “Old Santa Claus” and
ESCAP^DEATH.
Defenise Will Base
Ftg^ht Upon Effort to
Show Quarrel at the
Blair Home
Frees BUIR’S FiBHT WILL BE TO
Gov. Donaghey of Aijfc., who will
retire from office January 1, issued
pardons Dec. 16 to 316 State and 44
convicts as a protest ' against the
conyict lease system in in that
State* As a result three State convict
camps will be abotished. ^veral camps
where convicts are engaged in^ the [
building of good roads, however, will
be continued in operation. The convicts
pardoned were serving sentences of
from one to 15 years.
In answer to his cricics, whom the
governoifquotes as having said that a
State penitentiary “could not be de
signed as a Sunday school/' he says;
“Nor was It desigfned as a revengeful
hell, and in a measure that is what
it has resolved itself into,’'
Great Tobacco Sales
The sales of leaf tobacco in North
Carolina for the month of November
has been phenominal. Mebane cuts
capers that are startling. She stands at
the head of the list of 19 prominent to
bacco towns, see for your self.
Mebane
La Grange
Mount Airy
Creedmoor
Youngsville
Apex
Smithfield
Snow Hill
B'uquay Spring!>
Wendell
Burlington
Madison
Pilot Mountain
Stoneville
RobersonVille
Williamston
Leaksville
Goldsboro
Statesville
499,297
416,861
385,331
328,946
300,150
283,942
263,686
240,217
199,967
201,033
198,813
168,145
147,401
yO,265
80,430
71,949
33,758
15.656
4,344
The Hefense to be offered by Wil
liam Finley Blair in ^his effort to es
cape the electric chair and possibly
gain freedom at the hands of a jury
is beginning to developed, notwithatand
ing the efforts of counsel for Blair to
prevent any leaks which might give to
the public an inkling of the character
of testimony which Blair will offer
as justification of his act, when on
'T uesday at noon, October, 29. he shot
I and killed George G. Tb^irpson. It
1 may now'be said with c^tainty that
the defense will rely soley
upon establishing in the minds of the
jury a belief that words passed be
tween Blair and Thompson after the
latter, by invitation, entered the Blair
home and that Thompson, angered by
Blair’s manner, struck his discharged
chief clerk —Greensboro News.
well selected stock of Furniture, and
will sell to you for cash, or on time
We hope the readers of the Leader
when needing any thing in their line if
convieitt call on them They will give
you a square deal.
are not filled.
We wish for you Mr. Editor, readers
one and all (delinquent subscribers
thrown in) a merry Christmas and a
happy New Year.
‘ ‘Paw-Paw-Queese. ’ ’
Coming to Mebane.
The Supreme Court of Oregon thinks
Mr. Sam G. Woods, one of the largest [ seven hundred and ninety years too
tobacco planters of Caswell County | long a sentence for any crime. Cer-
whose post cflSce is at Pearly brougl t tainly the earthly tribunal which pre-
Force Noble Standard
There are thousands of lawyers tc
day devoting their time profitably to
rullifying the peoole’s will as express
ed in law, to negotiations and conspir
acies in the interest ot monopolistic
combinations, to the rreation of false
issues, legal and political, intended to
exhaust the people’s patience, and to
action in an advisory capascitv for the
benefit of those who contemplate at
least the evssio.i of law.
Every one cf the- public enemies
against which the people have contend
ed so long has behind it a battalion of
lawyers striving to show how even
from the last ditch of
judgment the offender may escape Is
there a cause anywhere so corrupt and
oppressive that it cannot command at
the bar and in politics the service of a
host ot lawyers against the liberty and
1 welfare of the people.
We may well le%ve the ethics of the
The DeTelopment ot the
South.
Our **Para Politicians’’
Chance,
NO ONE FORBIDS BANNS.
Winston and Salem Bid
Fair to Become One
At an enthusiastic meeting of the
Board of trade last Thursday night at
tended by over 20o members, tho de
cision made to make an effort to con
solidate Winston and Salem was made
without a dissenting voice. Many peo
ple made talks at the meeting and no
opposition to the movement was ex
pressed. The circulation of the peti
tions was started at once asking the
Legislature to unite the cities under
one cnarter, providing for a vote on
tne proposition by citizens of the two
cities.
(Prom The Monroe Enquirer.)
We who live here in the South
realize t-hat our sectiHi of otmncry is
rapidly developii^, but being **on the
ground" we do not fully realize the
magnificent development of this the
best part of the best coantry on the
face of the earth. Hie Manage*
taiers Record is authority for the ^ quarters in
following concerning the South: ^*lt
is producing moie than 45 per cent
of the merchandise annually exported
from the whole country and sending
nearly 35 per cent of the total
througe its ports, and that, with less
than one-third the area and with a
population 18, (KM),000 fewer that the
population of the whole country in
1880, the South has $700,000,0d0 more
capital invested in manufacturing than
the whole country had in that "^eat, is
vielding $238,000,000 more from its
farms and about $5,000,000 *more from
its mines than the whole country did
at the earlier period. It is but natural
for manufacturing to seek as it is do
ing in the South, sites close to the
raw material and having the advan
tage of comparatively short hauls to
the seaboard, as far as it is concerned
with foreign trade, and as the South
is one of the great sections of the
country still capable of supporting a
much larger productive population than
any other section has at present, the
relative importance of such cities as
Boston, New Yoric, Philadelphia and
Pittsburg must inevitably decrease.
B. R. Tillman, Jr., Wins
Fight For share in His
Uhildren
By unanimous decision of the
Supreme Court of South Carolina, the
custody of the Tillman children will
be shared in by their parents, B. R
Tillman, Jr., son of Senator Tillman,
and Mrs. Lu‘'.y Dugas, Mr. Tillman’s
divorced wife. The father will be
allowed charge of the chMdren for two
months of the summer vacation, and
.‘7" i l^alf of the Christnr.as holidays, and one
conviction and , , .
week each spring.
A Search In Vain.
four heavy loads of tobacco to the
Mebane market on Wednesday Dec-
11 Mr. Woods home is within 8
miles of Danville, Va. This shows how
the straws are drifting our way, tht
is a reason, our people pay the good
prices.
Fire Traps
There are a rumber of diliquent
subscribers to the Leader that could do
much to make the Editor happy by
reniiiing us a dollar on subscription.
It is about the best thing you can do
with a dollar.
Mr. Charlie Harris and his daughter
Miss Emma went to Charlotte Monday
to attend a birth day party of Miss
Kuth Porter, who it will be remembered
refit(*d so splendidly last fourth of
July here
M. Gladstein a popular
Durham carries a nice hdin the Leader
and would appreciate the trade of
people of this section. Large stock
and low prices, is their motto. Don't
tail to see them.
There are some fire traps in Mebane
that should be kept in much better
condition than they are. It would seem
it was an act of providence that these
places ere this were not reduced to
ashes. It is decidedly easier to com
pel! the exercise of proper, and rea
sonable procaution, than to suffer fire
losses from a reckless disregard of the
plainest efforts at protection. The of
ficials of the town of MeHane owe it ^ y
to its citizens, and property holders to \ ^ 4-
, t., J « Asked whether he desired to
enforce reasonably precautionary mea
Burers.
sumes to impose it possesses a
inaccurate idea of the limitations
its jurisdiction.
very
upon
A story comes from Richmond that
Thomas Fortune Ryan wants to give
Jefferson’s Monticello to Virginia, and
has offered Owner J M. Levy $750,
000 for the property as it stands.
No Date For Wedding
Announcement of the engagement
of Miss Helen Miller Gould, of New
York, to Finley J. Shepard, a promi
nent railroad man of St,*" Tx>uis, was
made Sunday afternoon at the resi
dence of Mr. and Mrs. George J. Gould
Christmas and New Year
floliday Excursion Round
Trip Fares via Southern
Railway
Account Christmas and New Year
Holidays, the Southern Railway an
nounces the sale of low round trip tick
ets from all stations.
Dates of sale, Tickets will be on sale
on December 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21st,
22nd, 23rd, 24th 25th 31, 1912 and Jan
uary 1st, 1913.
Tickets will be limited returning to
reach original starting point not later
than midnight of January 6th 1913.
For full and complete information,
ask your agent, or write,
J. 0 Jones,
Traveling Passenger Agent,
Raleigh, N. C.
Organized holders of the carpotbtg
bonds bearing the name of North
Carolina but no m^^re a real obligation
of this State than they would be bear
ing the name of Turkey, are at their
old tricks again. The speculative
clique known as the (Council of Foreign
Bondholders, purporting to have head-
London, has raised what
noise it conid in flnan ial journals and
the New York Stock Exchange against
the bond issue recently advertised.
Th”' Wall Street Journal pays out the
familiar string of intentional misrep
resentations— never once intimatine:
that these _*'defaulted obligations*'
were nothing more than Reconstruction
plunder of a people helpless under
militiary rule. They are sought to be
placed in the'simple attitude of heinous
repudtatton of -their j\ist aiSd un
questioned debts. Mississippi is
coupled with North Carolina in the
present performance. Regret is
professed that '‘parasite politicians
have put this stain upon the credit of
their States.” Herein The Wall
Street Journal, often better than its
name, represents that Wall Street
which not merely indiscriminate but
intelligent public sentiment condemns—
the Wall Street of devious speculation
—and becomes worse.—Charlotte Ob
server.
The Trust Companies
(Frmn the Wall Street Joumab)
Hillsboro News
Miss Glenora Crawford and grand
mother Mrs. Crawford who have leen
United States Mortgage and Irust
Ck>. is distributing the 1912 edition of
“Trust (Companies of the United
States” In the preface President John
W. Platten states: ‘’The record of
trust company achievement has never
been more strongly marked by con
stantly increasing evidence of a rare
combination of progressivfness and
conservatism than during the year
ending June 30, 1912. More and more
clearly has it been shown that the
trust company’s functions and its op
portunities are capable of a legitimate
expansion unrealized in former years.
As a result the trust companies of the
country stands higher today than ever
before in public confidence, material
resources and usefulness to the com
munities they serve.”
Reports of 1,579 companies are giv
en, with total resources of over $5,-
490,000,000, showing a gain in assets
of over $322,000,000, compared with
1911, and of over $1^500,000,000 since
1908.
visiting relatives
returned home.
in Durham ~ have
It will be recalled that two years ago
Dorothy Arnold of New Yorkdisan
peared, all search for her has been in
vain. It is said that there has been i
legal profession to its members. Some i $100,000 to fina her and now the
tim^the highminded among them will i that she is dead, an
enforce the noble standards which they
have set up. But while we arc wait
ing for this reform we are foolish in
deed to place our Government so larere-
in the hands of a class that has not
yet learned how to govern itself.—-
New York Worid.
A tariff which yields revenue and
gives no protection is like a river of
great hydraulic power running to
ocean undeveloped and letting all the
power go to waste.—Charlotte Ob
server,
And a tariff which yields inordinate
protection to a privileged few without
producing reyenue for support of the
general government—as is the case
with many schedules of the Aldrich
{law—is like a river so obstructed by
1 dams ard cut-offs that the fructifying
merchant of ^hjch should give fertility to all
the territory from source to mouth are
diverted to th3 sole uses of favored
monopolists here and there along tiie
route. —Norfolk Pilot.
say
anything additional concerning the en
gagement, Mr. Ck>uld laughed Jind re
marked that there will be nothing more,
^ except that this engagement is most
the (pleasing to Mrs, Gould and myself.”
Mr. Shepard has long been promi
nently identified with railroad fin
ancial affairs in the west. He is at
present assistant to the president of
the Missouri Paci^c railroad, with
headquarters in St Louis.
Miss Helen Gould has been
the worlds great benefactors, m. wom- j
ad who has given more liberaly, and
more wisely perhaps than any that
How vastly her life differs
from that old she shilock Hettie Green
who has nevei* given anything to the
world but a lot of cheap advise..
With Teeth.
The Durham Herald presents this
surface fact: “The legislature has
been Democratic for several years and
everybody of course understands that
if the party had wanted an anti-trust
law with teeth it could have had it.”
It might be added that a good many
well meaning and conscientious legis
lators really desfred to bring about the
enactment of such a law; but on some
occasions they have found little encoura
gement where they thought they had
the most reason to look for it.—Greens
boro News
Mrs. John Laws went to Durham
Tueseay evening to visit .her sister
Bliss Allie Graham who has been very
sick.
Mie. Sue Fayes has been very sick
for the past week.
Miss Linda Roach spent the day i
Durham Wednesday shopping.
Mr. J. C. Scott is visiting relatives
in Goldsboro and Fremont this week.
Mrs. J-. Rosemond spent the day in
Durham Tuesday shopping.
Mrs. Charles Roberson and daughter
Miss Emma went to Durham Tuesday.
Misses Sue Rosemond, Margret
Spurgen and Mildred Durham were in
Durham Tuesday shopping.
Go to N. W. Browns to get your
Christmas toys.
Mrs. N W. Brown gaye her Sunday
I into a dry state,somebody is unwitting-i class of the M. E., church a
ly fixing to kill the goose that lays the!Friday after-
golden egg, because a way will be
found sooner or later to prevent the
circumvention or the violation by in
unsolved death. Search was made in
every city ot the country and on Mar.
18th, 1911 Central Park Lakes were
dragged for her body but of no avail.
It is a mystery that the best of dectives
can not solve and will go down in his
tory as unsolved.
To Kill the Goose
Liquor in vast quartities is being
shipped into the state just now, accord
ing to some observant contemporaries.
This is one of these evils which will
doubtless work its own cure, ultimate
ly, by becoming too obvious. When
special cars are engaged to haul liquor
direction, of a law which undoubtedly
has the support of a majority of the
people of the state
All Because.
Four Events of 1912
(From The Christmas Herald.)
Four events will distinguish 1912 as
Virginia juries weakened so on the
Allen case that thev came d angerously j
near fluking. Half of their members j epochBl years, viz: the trans-
did fluke, in fact. And the outcome, formation of China from a monarchy
18 at least half a victory for the in
fluences which are defeating justice
one of every day. But, considering how
A wom- i nearly impossible it is to do anything
to a white man who confines his mur
derous activities to his own sex, we
to a republic; the upheaval in Mexico
reorganizing the social and political
conditions of that country; the eman
cipation of Portugal from the incubus
of Romanism, and the European down
fall ff the “unspeakable Turic,” stung
noon at 4 o’clock. The room was
beautifully decorated with hoUy, several
games were played and puzzels were
worked out by the guests. Delicious
refreshments were served, each one
present received a nice box of candy
from their teacher. The guests present
were: Misses Virgin Cole, BeraDunn,
Elma Shaffner, Emma Roberson,
I Glenora Smith. Ivey Smith, Iver
Williams, Flora Ray, Grace McBioom,
Margret Spurgen and Master Henry
Brown, Jr. The party was enjoyed
by every one.
grant that Viipma acquitted-herself I h to death by the Balkan
well enough.-Charlotte Observe*. j
and oppressed for centuries. Last
j not least is the political revolution
She Innocent Eider Duck
(From the Toronto Globe.)
The king eider keeps well out of
piach of human aggression, but his near
filatives are systematically despoilee
of their eggs and the down with whicH
they line and cover up their nests. In
Iceland and Norway the ancient Eskimo
practice of nest^robbidg is a source
of income. The northern eiders nest
in holes in the sand, sometimes in
convenient liollows in stone fences. The
mother plucks the down from her
breast to line the nest, and also
provides sufficient, to cover and con
ceal the eggs when she ventures
abroad. The white natives, who
provide convenient nesting places
which the elders innocently use, remove
both eggs and down. More down is
provided and more eggs laid, and again
the mother is robbed of her treasures.
Northern birda seem to have a strange
capacity for resuming the production
of eggs when their nests are robbed,
a provision of Nature cited to excuse
many depredations. It may be safe to
despoil the mother eider three or four
times, but when the presence of darker
down is detected, showing that the
drake has been called on to contribute
from his breast, it is not safe to
continue the process of spoliation. The
brood is then hatched without inter
ference, for the people whose incomes
depend largely on the collection of eggs
and eiderdown are careful not to
discourage or drive away thei*^
beautiful visitors.
Whiteiaw Reid Dead
Express Rates to Drop
Don’t send us any news without your
signature. We must hayo it as an
evidence of good faith, or we might
publish something that was not cprrect
We will not publish your name unless
you should wish it.
It would appear from the testimony
oi W. F. Blair who is on trial in
Ireensboro for murder, and that of his
aoparently coached witnesses that
IJ lair did a good thing when he sent
l or Thompson to come to his home, and
then killed, ana that will be theposible
V e .v the jury and court will take of the
matter, and how do you expect other-
wise with our criminal courts run in
tlie interest of high price council.
List of Letters
Remaining unclaimed at this office
in the week ending Dec. 14 1912
1 Letter for Mr. John T. Moore
1 “ “ Rev. J. B. Hall
1 “ “ Mrs. Emily Jane Holdman
1 “ “ Miss Emma Grace
1 P. C. for Miss loui&e McAdams
1 “ “ Mrs. Fogg
These letters will be sent to the
Dead Letter Office Dec. 28 1912, if
not called for before.
In calling for the above please say
‘Advertised” giving date of ad. list.
Respectfully,
S. Arthur White, P. M,
The enactment of the Parcels Post I
law has brought the express companies
into a cemptition that they have de
cided to meet.
All express company rates will be re
vised before January 1 to meet the I
parcels post rates and arrangements I
already are under way to extend the |
expre&s delivery service everj’where. j
The Government dared not tackle |
this blood suckii^ octopus, that
And she iright have acquitted her
self better if she had not have gotten
i one of North Carolinas criminal lawyers
1 over there to defend the Aliens,
i
I
Attorney-General Wickersham finds
that there is fine competition in the
packing business since the National j
Packing Company was dissolved, but j
we are willing to wager dollars toi
doughnuts that the discovery will be !
news to the Armours, Swifts, et al. 1
h^reathome, which changes the poli
tical map of our Union and introduces
new policies demanded by the nee Is of
the times.
liWhitelaw Reid, the American am
bassador to Great Britain since 1905
died at his London residence, Dorches-
t)r house, shortly after noon Sunday
from pulmonary oedema. The end was
contempt. I peaceful Mrs., Reid and their
daughter, Mrs. John Hubert Ward
were at the bedside.
t^n-
The postoffice appropriation bill,
aggregating $278,489,781, including
. $750,000 tor parcels post equipment
nualy reaps a rich harvest of revenues , $25,000 for the Parcels Post
of more than 33 per cent, on a lai^ely
watered stock cor|(p^|tioii. It goes at
it gently^by expeixlii^ iix hundred thou
sand dollars for parcel post.
How to Bankrupt the Doc
tors.
A prominent New York shysician
says, *‘If it were not for the thin stock
ings and thin soled shoes worn by
women the doctors would probably be
bankrupt.” When you contract a cold
do not wait for it to develop into pneu
monia but treat it at once. Chamber
lain’s Cough Remedy is intended espe-
Commission, was reported to the | cially for coughs and colds,- and has
House last Thursday. The total is a won a wide reputation by its cures of
decrease of $3,301,727 from last year’s {these diseases. It is most effectual
estimates, * [ and is pleasant and safe to take. Fori
sale by all Dealers.
Money To
Loan
We have several thousand
dollars to loan on Real Es
tate Security. We desire to
place this Money on Ala
mance or Orange County
Real Estate at fifty percent
of it’s value. Make appli
cation to Orange Trast
Company.
HlllslMiro, BI. C.
Mr. T. M. White left Sunday for
Mebane, N. where he has accepted
a position with the White Furniture
Company, of that place. Mr. White
came to Clayton from Concord several
years ago, and daring his stay here
held a prominent position with the
Clayton 0)tton Mills, and has also been
connected with the Clayton Building
and Loan Association and to him is due
much credit for the standing this
institution has reached. Mr. White is
a thoroughly capable and energetic
young man and we congratulate Meb
ane on securing him as a citizen. He
has many friends here who regret to
see him leave our town.-Mi;iayton.
News.
Some increases in thp production of
wealth come from incoeased exploita
tions of old sources unknown before It
is ratimated that the seed of thepresent
cotton crop is worth $131,000,030—with
out reckoning the values added by
manufacture. A generation ago sim
ply could not have been believed.—^
Charlotte Observer,