THE MEBANE LEADER
“And R(ght The Day Must Win, To Doubt Would be Disloyalty, To Falter Would be Sin.
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MEBANE, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 1913
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; , 1 li.-niont of the Nelson
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1 . Mt’huneis in Mebane for
. tay with relatives.
i;i Hinlon of Elon College
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lit went over
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■ in Clark of Durham spent
lit :uul Sunday in Mebane.
V'. Torbett spent a day or
; .(!i: the lirst of the week.
, 11 Slack of Greensboro
son Mr. II. B. S>ack Satur-
■ i i ttigrew returned Satur-
ir.'i!. a t-'n 'iiiys trip to Northern
Mr, Graham Pickett nrd fan ily of
iHcksor.vij’e, Fia., p s.xd through
vfebane in their automobile Monday on
•"heir way to New York, Miss Mjrt’e
v!c(i!;auley accompHnied them as far as
Cane Creek.
Mr. J. E. i^owHii of Durham was
here Tuesday. He will be back next
Thursday to take his position as a
lU^er on our tobacco market. Mr.
ijowlin is a clever gentleman and we
welcome his return.
Mr. John Mclntire and little sister,
Elizabeth, of Rteford, came up Sat
urday to visit their sister, Miss Mary
Mclntire. Mi\ Mclntire returned to
his home Monday, Miss Elizabeth will
spend some time here.
Friday evening near six o’clock dur
ing a severe electrical storm a bolt of i
lightning struck near the home of Mr.
Anthony in the Soiith Eastern part of
town, and stuned Mrs. Anthony quite
seriously. At the same time Mrs.
freeman, wife of the Druggist at the
Mecca Drug store was aK-o shocked.
Mrs. Freeman was at the home of
Mrs. M. B. Scott.
Thi Piedmont Warehouse
Wfi are carrying a large and
attractive advertisment for the Pied
mont Warehouse, J. N. Warren and
Co. Proprietors. This Warehouse will
be open for the sale of leaf tobacco on
next Thursday the 11 h of September.
The opening day will be a big day her*',
and you Mr. Farmer should be here
“/ith a good load of tobacco, there will
be liberal buyers here and you will be
sure and get the worth of your weed.
Ccmmissii ners Keport.
IfYou Want The Trade.
If you want the ch-.ss of tradti that
will pay, then advertise in the Leader
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Mebane Supply
;r>. Wiley James returned
r. r spending several days
il. llurdlc visited in Yancy-
, ,.vilk\ V:>., Saturday night
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Mr. n. P.. Slack and child-
wook for Charlotte tj
Graves is offering a
mjles for sale. See
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Bailey Circus are
they will exhibit in
(,)ct. 8th.
holson will build three
?iroperty of his in the
of Mebane.
Make Wire Connection
Its the object of Mr. George C.
Woodworth, the resident electrician
to connect up the wire just as fast as
he receives orders, of course in regular
order, first come first served. You
want to be in i^erfect shape when the
current is turned on, and that you
may be subject to no days, gi\ e your
order for a connection. You can reach
Mr, Woodworth any time during the
day up to C o’clock by phoring No. 50,
after that hour phone 70- A request,
on a postal would be better.
Wooden-Headed Aldermen
We are not surprised that Charlotte’s
wooden-headed board of aldermen
should object to “the publicity given to
the lynching of a negro.” Charlotte’s
aldermanic board belongs to that age
wherein publicity was unknown. That
bo^rd should get so much publicity ihat
it will never, as a body, serve another
term.—Ashville Citizen.
It may look strange but it is never
the less true that some public officials
do not seem to realize that it is their
duty to protect the cities interest they
serve. We have known some to rather
encourage crime, by offering slight
punishment for offenses.
Biggest Cotton Towns
Sometimes a great deal depends up
on who makes the figuies; at present
Memphis and Houston each seems to
be acting upon the principle that it
cares little which town handles the
Cedar Grove, N. C. Aug. 3 1913 spot cotton provided It ‘‘an sub-
Leader - ! statistics thereupon. With the
I w^ant to suggest to the people of j purpose to get as much Goyernnrient
Mebane, especially tho merchants and ‘ ^oney as possible for crop moving.
Take Notice
N. C. Aug. 3 1913
.vav
. Davis sloped over in
. i.t the night with her
]. U. Singleton.
. vvc learn will open a
the store recently vacated
and Smitl.
K. ,\Iile.s and R. C. Smith
: their feed and grain
■■ ‘he Bobbitt Store.
Goodman of Hawfields
Bradshaw of Hillsboro
. White House Monday.
;_y Shaw returned home
. :i Chase City, Va., where
vi.siting friends for seyeral
tobacco warehousemen, the urgent j
importance of working the road from
Orange County line near Mr, Bob
Tates to Back Creek, a distance of IJ
miles, this is an imjK>rtant road There
is more guano and tobacco hauled oyer
this road than any road leading to Meb-
bane. Last winter and spring this road
was almost impassable, and could hardly
get over it with an empty wagon.
If you . people want us to come to
youv town then give us a road that we
can go over.The road from Cedar Grove
Ridgeville, Corbett, Prospect Hill and
Carr to Bob Tates is always very good,
but as soon as we gee to Alamance
County the road so bad we can’t
haul over it We want to go to your L
tow^n if we can have a road that we
can pull a load over
Tobacco Grower.
The Memphis Commercial - Appeal
claims more cotton than Houston and
New Orleans handl*» combined. It
alows New Orleans 144,‘iiS? bales and
Houston 142.394, as against 422,925
claimed. But listen to The Houston
Post Official figures of the Houston
Cotton Exchange as quoted by it show
net receipts of approximately 900,000
bales for the 12 months ending August j
31. We have not yet
New Orleans papers, which might un
dertake to raise the figures for their
town as much as The Post has raised
those for its own; and certainly the
Memphis partisan put New Orleans!
'also much too low. —Charlotte Obsei-
! ver.
Grahum, N. C. Sept. 1st, 1913.
The Board of County Commissionera
of Alamance County met in tlie Court
House on the above date at ten o’clock
A. M in regular monthly mee^jpg with
the following members present.
Geo, T. Williamson ch.
W. H. Turrentine -
Chess. H^ Roney
Chas. F. Cates
W. H. Fogleman.
The following business was transacted
Ordered. That the W. S. Tate estate
in Boon Station township be relieved
of tax on $1088. for 1912, same listed
twice.
Ordere(L That G. Ab. Fogleman be
authorized to investigate the* bridges
asked for by 7^ L. Hutspn et al in
Patterson creek
one at the Bo'H’man ford and the othi r
at the ifluliss ford near Kimesville.
Ordered That the Supt. of the County
Home be authorized to receive Mr.
Albert Brown and wife and child as an
inmate to the County Home.
Ordered. That the* report of Chas.
D. Johnston, Register of Deeds as to
cees collected for the month of August
je received and filed.
Ordered. That John Paris be relieved
on tax of fifty acres of land valued at
$250 00 and same be charged to the
Robert Hunter estate.
A petition from citizens in Thompson
township asking for a Publtc cart way
from R. B. Newlins to the Road leading
to Saxapahaw having been filed with
this Board; It is ordered that same be
laid over and heard by this Board the
first Monday in October.
It is ordered by this Board that Geo.
T, Williamson, R. N. Cook and W. H.
Turrentine be and are hereby appointed
a con mittee to investigate selling the
old jail lot and buying a new lot and
getting plans and cost of a new Jail.
Be it resolved by this Board that G.
A. Fi>gleman, Supt. of Roads be
authorized and directed to remove or
have removed all poles located on Roads
in Alamance County where the said
poles in any way interfere with the
repairing of said Road or travel on
same and that the same be done at the
expense of the ownsers of said poles;
provided said owners be first notified
to remove said poles and be given ten
days notice to do so. It is further
ordered that all persons are forbidden i
, 1.1. • to place polls on Public Roads in
ea rom e | County in any way iriterfere-
ing with the Roads or ditches.
The Board adjourned to meet Septem -
her 8th. 1913.
Chas, D. Johnston, Clerk to Board.
Smirched With Blood.
How many of our readers grasped
the full significance of the list of
cases set fo# trial at the forthcoming
term of the Davidson county crim!na^
court which appeared in these cnlumns
last Wednesday? In that list appeared
the names of thirty-two persons who
are to be tried on charges of murder.
Some ot the cases have been in the
courts for a long time, but others are
very recent.
Six women and twenty-six men are
defendants in these cases.
Is this a record to be pround of?
Rather is it not one that should make
every decent citizen hang his head in
shame? Is Davidson county a slaughter
house?
Human life has become about the
cheapest thing known in this section.
A man tires of the scarlet woman with
whom he has associated and she
promptly gets a gun and sends him to
the grave. Whisky robs a man of his
reason and with the revolver purchased
in defiance of the law he runs amuck
and leaves a trail of blood and death
behind him.
Thirty-two men and women facing
charges which, if established to the
satisfaction of juries, mean the gallows!
What do the citizens of the country
think of that? What are boasting of
our civilization, of our religious institu
tions, of our schools and our charities;
what of our record as to crimes of
violence?
This is a matter that should make
urgent appeal to the conscience of every
thoughtful man and woman. Murder
can never be chocked as long as the
law is sneered at. Open and notorious
violation of legal inhibitions in one
matter breeds the same attitude
toward all others.—Nashville Tenness
ean.
An Other Version
We d^ not like to criticize but we
feel that when some seeming wrong
has been done to spejik out our opinions
In refference to the death of Mrs J. E.
Keith in an elevator last Friday morn-
mg that her daughter Meda, had been
to the office of Dr. Joseph Graham for
consulation in the Tiust building in
Durham.-^Ed An other repot.
This office is on the fourth floor, and
they were returning to the street. The
elevator stopped at the second floor to
take on another passenger. Mrs. Keith
thought that she was at the bottom
floor, and while the other passenger
came into the elevator she started out.
The Boy running the elevator had his
back turned and did not see Mrs. Keith
start out As soon as the other pas
senger got in he pushed the door shut,
catching Mrs. Keith’sT dress between
the door and the doer frame. Without
looking around, it is alleged, he sent
the ''levator down at full speed. Be
fore he could stop the machinery Mrs.
Keith had been caught between tht
ehafting and the ceiling of the car.
Now if this report is true there was
gross negligence on the part of the
elevator boy, and all the jurys on e?rth
can not excuse it. Before clo««ing his
elevator door, or starting his elevator
he should have seen that no passengers
life was endangered. It is no excuse
to say he had his back turned, he is
there to see, to look out and protect
passengers from danger.- Ed.
Mr. il. i.. V\ ilkinson returned from
the N'a-rii-jf: Markets last week where
he [iur' h..£..:i a large stock for his fall
busir.e;.-.
Opera
Mr. .1. 1-.
Sulurd..;- all
at Alla .M-
adelpiiia.
Mrs. J.
tlarbai-:
spendin ,
the cou- !! y.
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trousor
See ad
bite returned to Mebane
r. spending several days
ily, New York and Phil-
.^haw and daughter Miss
urned to Mebane after
. rill days with friends in
At The Academy cf Music
The M^'aaielvrotwCarCo.i The followine ia a partial IW of
! plays booked by manager J. W.
Elsewhere in this issue will be found j Burroughs for the fall season of 1913.
an advertismont ol The Mebane Motor
Car Co , of Mebme This company is
preserting in an illusLration a picture
of one of their handsome touring cars,
perhaps the best and most complete
car made.
Recently this company compleeted a
large brick erarage with cement floor.
They have arrangen^ent for the storage
of 500 gallons of gasoline and expect
to carry a full supply of all kinds of
lubricating oils. They have just
received and have in storage one of
the little Maxwell Cars, one of the
first shiped to the State. They also
have on exhibit one of the large
touring cars. They invite you to call
and see their cars. A car load expected
any day.
Hutchins shoes for the
,, ai'.d a nice line of boys
recei\ed at J. S. Clarks,
CT>-..v.hcre.
Mr. .\i !r i y Ferguson went to Danville
Va., fiay. Mr. Ferguson is
husy straight for the opening
the l’iv.,'i;nont Warehouse.
The Misses Long Enter
tain.
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IS beginning to advertise her
I little early, some towns do
!.'C them at all, and then
i!'"y they do not have a crowd.
\v'arrcn a young man of
iiiiile good qualities left
y for Oak Ridge where he
hodl. The Leader follows him.
;''U not been waiting long
‘ lat settling that subsciiption
Leader. We need it and
> better time than now to
' -I't us hear from you.
" Tobacco Warehouse of
oti take a whole page advertise-
tho (iold Leaf 'Jhere is a
>p of tohricco this fall and
'V nrehouse wants its share of it.
- v.v Caudle of near Richmond,
lit part of last week at the
: Mr. R. W. Bright, returning
■ :iccompanied by Mrs. Caudle
' been spending some time here.
Misses Olga and Sophia Long enter
tained Monday night in honor of their
guest Miss Leona Hinton.
The Japaneeselanterns strung around
under the lovely maple trees made a
picture of faiiy land. Old fashion
games were played and delightful re
freshments served.
Those present were. Misses Leona
Hinton. Etta Compton, Nannie Boon,
Smythie Ham, Lois Ham, Sudie Cook,
Lena Foy, Maiy Mclntire. Mr. and
Mrs. S. G, Morgan, Messrs I. D. Ham
HurbertCraig, Dr. Hurdle, J. S. Claik
Glenn Scott, Glenn Satterfield, Coy
Patton. Ed White, Charles Dillard and
Sam Long.
Sept. 17—Little Boy Blue.
Sept. 20/—Al G. Fields’ Minstrels
Sept. 26—B»ack Patti
Oct 1—The Leopard’s Spots
Oct. 2—The Little Millionaire
Oct. 4^Mutt and Jeff
Oct. 7—The Herald Square
coma.iy.
Oct. 10—Annie Rusell
Oct. 17—The Conspiracy
Oct. 25 -The Girl of My Dreams
Oct, 31—Edison Talking Pictures
Nov. 1—Edison Talking Pictures
Nov. 4—Shepard of the Hills
Nov. 7—Trail of the Lonesome Pine
Nov. 21—Concert
Nov. 27—Coburn’s Minstrels
4 - Howe’s Travel Festivals
8—The Girl Who Dared
16 —Mary’s Lamb
Dec. 17—Seven Hours in New York
Dec. 31—Al Wilson
Jan. 2—The Spring Maid
Jan, 21—Pittsburg Ladies OrchcHlra
Jan. 31—Fine Feathers
Feb. 5”Officer 666
Feb. 6—Paul Gilmore
Feb. 7—Polly of the Circus
Feb. 14—Bought and Paid for
Feb. 27—Wilhin the Law
Feb. 28—The Smart Set
March 18—Every Woman
March 27-George Evans
IMPERtTOR, UR6EST
SHIP AFLOAT, SWEPT
BY FIRE THURSDAY
Vessel Lay at Her Dock
When Flames Broke Out
Woman Aged 97 is Rejuv
enated.
Mrs Mary Jaspers of Ketchikan,
Alaska, who celebrated her ninety-
seventh birthday July 24, has surpris
ed her friends by growing a new head
of hair.
For fifty years Mrs. Jasper’s hair
had been as white as snow. About a
year ago it began to fall out, and in
a little while she was bald.
Now the new hair, thick, black and
curly, is coming in, and it promises to
be a luxuriant growth.
About 20 years ago Mrs. Jaspers lost
her last tooth. Since then she has
worn false teeth. Now, with the
growing of the new hair, she is cutting
new teeth. Four teeth already have
appeared and she is now cutting two
molars.
Mrs. Jaspers is the widow of a for
mer Mayor of Ketchikan and is in ex
cellent health.
Dec.
Dec.
Dec.
Pleasure to Millions
The Vendell
We place an advertisment in this
weeks Leader for the Vendell Mills.
These Mills are situated about six
miles North of Mebane, and recently
have had new machineiy installed in
every department. It is an up to date
mill, and make the best of flour. Try
a sack. That Prince of good fellow
Ralph Vincent is proprietor.
All
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' Virginia Davis of Greensboro
1" 'it two weeks with her cousin,
■J li. Hiiigieton left Friday even
's' iior home in Greensboro, leav-
regrets and leaving regrets
'> liiud.
Ellis-Stone and Co.
The death recently in
Michael Maybrick, better
his nom de plume, Stephen Adams,
will evoke a passing tribute from mil
lions of English-speaking readers who
fondly recall the once familiar songs
he gave to the world, “The Foly
City” is popsibly most widely known,
but an earlier generation knew the
time when the “Blue Alsatian Moun
tains” and *‘A Warrior Bold” were
household airs. “Nancy Lee” and
! “The Midshipmite,” the latter a bal
lad of the Crimean, war, accompanied
the drumbeats of Britain around the
world.
The popularity attained by his songs
for exceeded in scope and duration any-
The steamship Imperator, largest
vessel afloat, was swept by fire at her
dock in New York last Thursday morn
ing as she lay at her dock in Hoboken,
with her crew and 1,131 steerage
passengers aboard.
Second Officer Herman Gobrecht, who
led the crew into the hold to fight the
flames, was cut off from his men, en
veloped in a cloud of smoke and suffo
cated. His body was found an hour af
terwards, untouched by fire, and brought
ashore.
The small army in the steerage,
aroused from their sleep by the crack
ling of flames rushed panic stricken for
the pier, where most of them spent the
rest of the night huddled in discomfort
at the shore end ot the pier.
None of the steerage passengers had
inspected by the customs or health
authorities. Because of this, armed
guards surrounded them. The immigra
tion authorities rushed them to Ellis Is
land at the earliest possible moment
Officials of the line estimated that the
damage to the vessel itself would not
be great.
Nearly 2,000,000 gallons of water
were poured on the fire. The company
announced that the ship would sail
Saturday as scheduled, and that the
damage would be repaired, so far as
, , possible at sea.
known by ALL ASLEEP EXCEPT THE WATCH
The great ship was dark and all on
board asleep save the officers on watch
when smoke ascending from the pro
vision room was discovered simultan
eously by a seaman on deck watch and
a petty officer on the bridge. Almost
at the same moment the crackling of
flames was heard in the steerage quar
ters.
A quiet alarm was sounded. Commo
dore Russet, commander-in-chief of the
vessel, was among the first to respond.
The crew of 1,180 men were, in their
places in a minute. The complex fire
fighting apparatus of the vessel was
set in motion.
AR6EST WOMAN LANDOWNER
Mrs. Jessie P. Williams,
Former Greene County
Girl, is Husband’s Heir.
Mrs. Jessie P. Williams of Atlanta,
foimerly Miss Cora Taylor of Bullhead,
Greene County, has succeeded to the
princely estate of her late husband,
who was a noted Southern capitalist.
Mrs. Williams becomes the largest approval
landowner of her sex in the world and
he richest woman in the South. Cap
tain Willianrs died several weeks ago,,
leaving no children and no will, and
his wife became the sole heir.
His great estate is variously esti
mated at from J5,000,000 to $10,000,000
She is the only woman in the Southern
States to control a . 200-mile interstate
railroad, with its trains, stations, shoj^s
terminals, docks and a steamboat line.
She owns a quarter of a million acre
of farming and limber lands iii Georgia
and Florida. Mrs Williams is well
fitted to manage the property, haying
acted as the closest counsellor of her
husband and virtual manager of his
extensive interests during the last
tew years, when he was an invalid.
Captain Williams is survived by a
brother at Mount Olive. Mrs. William
is cpnnected with leading families of
this section.
Wilson and Cleveland.
(Collier’s Weekly.)
There is an odd analogy between
President Cleveland’s last administra
tion, twenty years ago, and President
Wilson’s. Each had a tariff question.
Each had to deal with treason on the
part of some democratic senators.
Cleveland had three traitors--Gorman
of Maryland, Brycj of Ohio and Smith
of New Jersey. Wilson has only two,
the two from Louisiana That difference
of one in the quantity of unfaithful
senators has made the difference
between what Cleveland described as
“party perfidy and dishonor” and an
honest and satisfactory tariff revision
Cleveland had a banking and currency
problem just as Wilson has. Cleveland
had a difficult foreign question, the
trouble with Great Britain oYer Vene
zuela, just as Wilson has the difficulty
with Mexico. Wilson may well hope
that his foreign question will end as
happy as Cleveland’s. “Twenty Years
of the Republic” thus describes the
reading of President Cleveland’s
message to congress on the yenezula
question:
“The reading of this message was re
ceived in each of the two houses with
a tumult of wild applause from re
publicans and democrats alike. The
former, if anything, were the more
enthueiastic. . . At once Mr. Hitt
of Illinois, the republican leader of
the house, introduced a bill appropria-
time $100,000 for the expense of such a
com*t!ission as the President had sug
gested . . It became a law within
three davs. Not a single vjte in eith
er house was cast against it. Repub
licans yied with democrats in praisirg
the boldness and patilotism of the
President. From all over the country
came messages of congratulation and
The most partisan of re-
publicpn newspaper . . . eulogized
the President’s action.
Remedy for “Undressed
Dressing.
Easily Pleased
, thing attained by the meretricious
Ellis-Stone and Co., of Durham great j Qf the ragtime era of late
dry goods dealers are showing some of j years. The art of song writing has in
the pretties*; ladiea ready to wear suits I gQjjje degree passed through the same
seen this season. They have tht m in transition as the art of
different patterns, and different weaves,
but all very pretty. A full line of all
classes ot goods a lady wishes. See
them and you will want to purchase.
novel writing.
The deep and lasting impression pro
duced by the composers of Adams’ day
was matched.—Pittsburgh Post.
Mr. W. M. Miles came in Tuesday
night. Mr. Miles is busy getting ready
for the opening of the Planters
house.*
Ware-
Silence ia the unbearable repartee.—
C. K. Chesterton,
He was a poet, says the — j
Enquirer. Therefore, it was not to be
manage his own affairs. But when he
proposed for the hand of the fair
Gwendolyn her father was unaware of
chis. But, there being nothing against
him, he was accepted and the months
went by happily, without any mention
of a wedding. So papa took things in
to his own hands.
“Don’t you think,” he said, “that
it’s about time the date of your wed
ding was fixed?”
“Heave all that to Gwendolyn,”
was the reply.
“Oh, well, wh«^t sort is it to be?
Smart?”
“I am leaving that entirely to
Gwendolyn’s mother.”
“That’s all right. But there are
some tilings—the bridesmaids’ pres
ents, and so On. And, by the way,
what is your income?”
“That,” said the young man, mod
estly, “I am’leaving entirely to you.”
(From Collier’s Weekly.)
The Paris dressmaker has become
a degenerate, and as such it is time
that every decent American woman
should leave her designs unbought.
Thousands of clean minded and clear-
thinking American women are already
doing this, and the steady trend toward
American fashions for American
women and the wonderfully rapid
spread of the idea throughout the
country, are the first awakenings of
American womanhood to the right
thing to do. Nor is this trend con
fined to the American woman. The
rebuke being administered to Paris,
which particularly this Summer her
dressmakers have felt in a marked
. falling off in trade, is world-wide. In
Cincinnati j dressmakers are united in
a campaign for Italian fashions for
Italian women; Spain is standing for
Spanish fashions for Spanish women;
in Berlin a dressmakers’ union has
established a school for German fashions
for German women; the women of the
Netherlands have absolutely refused to
buy “Paris styles” for over a year,
and now comes London in registering
an emphatic disapproval of the Paris
modes.
In the absolute loss of its once
superb art in dress designing, Paris
is on the wane, and no one realizes it
more clearly than do her own couturiers.
So alarmed are these dressmakers over
the tide of revolt in America that
three of their leaders came over here
during the past year “to see what was
the matter.” The present outburst of
indecent dressing from Paris is the last
I gasp of a vanishing art. Paris, as a
fashion center, faces the setting sun.
CRUSHED TO DEATH IN
ELEVATOR
Mrs. Betsy Ann Keith is
Caught in Doorway and
Head Mashed to Pulp in
Presence of Her Daughter
One of the most horrible accidents
that has occured in Durham in recent
years took place at 11:15 o’clock last
Friday morning when Mrs. Betsy Ann
Keith, wife of Mr. Jerry Keith, had
her head caught-between the top of a
descending elevator and the third floor
of the Trust building, her head being
broken and her akail crushed as though
it were an egg shell. Death was
instantaneous.
Coroner Jordan held an investigation
Friday afternoon, but the evidence
was that it was an unavoidable accident
the unfortunate woman herself being
responsible fcr the mistake step. It
appears that Cheatham Stone, the
elevator boy, did all he could to prevent
the accident, but the the time was too
short and his physical powers were not
equal to the demands of the occasion.
Mrs. Keith and her daughter. Miss
Med 1 Keith, had been to Dr Joe Gra
ham’s office on the fourth floor of the
Trust building for the purpose ot
having Dr. Graham treat Miss Meda.
They called the elevator to go down
and at the third floor the car stopped
to take on Mr. W. B. Kiker who
wanted to go down. Just as young
Stone started the elevator, Mrs. Keith
probably thinking that they were on
the first or ground floor, attempted
to leave the elevator. Young Stone
lealizing the danger of the situation
attempted to pull her back with one
hand and stop the car with the other
but her weight prevented his either
pulling her back or pushing her out
and her head was caught between the
top of the car and the floor they were
passing, crashing out life immediately,
and the limp botly with blood and
brains covering the upper portion fell
into the elevator. Dr.
summoned and responded at once but
there was nothing for human skill to do,
as life had been snuffed out in the
twinkling of an eye.
The body was carried to a loom on
the third floor and Coroner Jordan
sent for. The coroner was out of the
city and it was more that an hour be
fore he could get back. In the mean
time the relatives of Mrs. Keith were
notified by 'phone. A great number
of people in the city were attracted to
the scene, and officers were called to
keep the crowd back from the imme
diate vicinity of the accident until the
coroner could arrive
When Dr. Jordan arrived, he imme
diately examined Cheatham Stone, the
elevator boy, and Mr. Kiker, after
which be and Dr. Graham made an
examination of the body. They found
the head crushed both in front and
back, and the neck broken. In the
back of the head where the top part
of the car struck there was a great
hole which penetrated the brain. The
face was mashed.
Cheatham Ston’s statement was
substantially as follows: This morn
ing two ladies, strangers to him, were
carried in the elevator to the fourth
floor. A little later while he was on
the fifth floor, the indicator registered
a call to the fourth, and he found the
same two ladies wanting to descend.
At the third floor Mr. Kiker was
waiting, and entered the elevator door
about ten inches-towards the closing
point and started the car down when
Mrs. Kei^^h attempted to get off
Seeing the danger she was in he tried
to pull her back with one hand and stop
the elevator with the other, but being
unable to do this he tried to push her
out, which was as futile. The top of
the descending car struck the back of
Mrs, Keith’s head forcing the face
against the floor of the building. The
car was stopped and the body fell limp
back into the elevator.
Money Misusee.
The Thaw money is more in evidence
than the Thaw brains or the brains
that the Thaw money might be sup
posed to buy. The Thaw money got
a murderous degenerate out of Mat-
teawan and spirited him away, but
those who revived it appear to have
taken him to a place from which his
return, soon or late, is certain.
Money is powerful, but money mis
used, whether lawfully or unlawfully,
is one of the most helpless things in
the world. When money is lavishly
employed to override law, it would
seem that ordinary shrewdness on the
part of its possessors would at least
seek in return for it the best that is
to be had in the markets where vill
ain ly displays its wares.
The Thaw money is not unlimited,
but it is likely to finance a continuous
performance as long as it lasts.—New
York World
Youth is the time for beginning. The
storehouse of life stands wide open, for
the treasures tj be garnered therein.—
Edward Garrett.