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W. J. BTKKLT
ALEX CHATHAM
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H. H. LEWELL YN
▼•tor* stay away from Um polls hsre
far tha raaaen that they think it sat
worth whila to bother shoot rathf,
since tha Steto will go against them
aaywsy If thaaa ia u| troth to the
big Bepobliean fond hainr provided
it Moot he their ptaa to got eat their
vote thia jwr.
One of the interesting facts of
•( tha rotors have ever voted. In
tha aarijr history of thia tuowtoj only
shoot oka third voted, and during
aD tha years the naasber has slowly
ineraaaad on til today about half the
voters bother to go to tha polls.
If by soom means all tha people
three foortha of tham, no telling how
the coont would show. It is said
that today this State would go Be
publican, if there was aome way to
get oat the entire Republican vote.
Bat then the tame interest that
would get out the entire Bepobliean
vote would also bring oat. possibly,
sn even larger nomber of Democratic
Anyway, Democrat* msy look oat
for s bfg fund with which to hire so
tomobilea to bring oat the indifferent
voter this year. It is in the sir that
the leaders of the Bepobliean party
fear that no candidate will get
enough votes to elect and that Con
gress will hsve to select the Presi
dent, aa the law provides, where no
candidate secures s majority of tha
electoral votes.
Prom this day on there ia sura to
ha one of the liveat political contests
waged in this nation that the coon
try has seen. _
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A TUCK or
Two fan ago Dr.
th* Doctor did should not be
to find ao easy a tray to Map*. It
la Jut rack that make* many feel
that the country needa some other
, force along with the law to make
the conditions safe about aa. the Kn
Klux Klan. for instance.
I FOR OUR FAR AWAY
READERS
This newspaper has subscribers
watttnd ow IW wholr country
from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
Here and there are one or two sub
scribers who have pitched their tent
in some far corner of the earth and
! desire to keep in tooch wit* the folks
! back home. These are among our
' moat certain subscribers, far they ap
1 preciate the paper and look far it
J each week as though it wers a letter
' from home, aa they often express it.
Those of oar subscribers who live
in the far wast whsrs they hare hot
little rain should ha hsrs with us
now sad sea what rain haa dons for
us. Thars never was a bettor ooadt
tioa created **»»» that which —fc—
It possible for the rataia to coote as
they do la this dtaaata. But It is a
fact that we have entirely too much,
msasuisd by huasan opinion, at
times aad not eaouch at others. Just
now whsa the ttea of year far har
vesting the erops la bsre wa are
visited with a protracted wet spell.
Thousands of buahala of applte an
ready to gather aad from day to day
the rains have made K out at the
Al- • ■ » a . ^a .a, _ ■ « A
this wwi. KTMHiiuy to• mnif os
feed Is being badly dslayil and
much will be les| aa ttM result
Along about this ttaaa of HayW
ovary o^®a ah^mt here ^psts the spirit
of Fair Thus ta his boass aad looks
forward to a week of great fun see
Jam- the righto at our annual Pair
rains have mads ths grounds as wet
that It wffl he hard to put oa the
rasas, aad beeaaae of the ssad ths
Palr arfll not bo enjoyed aa It anally
is. But before the week safe the
sua may soass out aad ths wtate blow
aad chaage all this, which It saa ds
I in a few hours whsa wsathir modi,
jtioaa get right
m 9*m wwm\^
«l to Hm
m4 k.
t* Mr to
off «»
to to i
It Of • Mt
to to tt» M*
on tko
Tko MCini floor of the
hofldtec io taken op with ei
which intereot tko women folk
I jr. Horc the oekoob •i tko
Hoplay tko work of tkoir
in m
etc. Tko health
exhibit olwlin tko ntkoiW of pre
renthre AM tko kootko for
tko display of pastry article*. flow
era and needlework are all filled to
their caparity.
YOUTHFUL DREAMERS
The paper* win be t long time 4it
cu**ing the case at Leopold and Loeb.
the two millionaire murderer* who
got a priaoa *entence for • cold
blooded murder. prMBedttated ■ alt
it* harrowing detail*. The court*
found that the boy* wrre youthful
dreamer* and that they had pemittod
themaelve* to Indulge in bad dream
that were finally worked oat in their
Hm
And from all thi* there may be
valuable leaeon* to learn. Eeery
youth ia a dreamer to *onte extant.
The youthful dream* that all
people have are more or lee*
and bad, and the nature of the dream*
or air-caatlee aa they are, will to a
large extent he worked oat hi their
future life. The boy who is too in
different to he a dreamer, a builder
of exaggerated air eaatlea, ia not
likely to ever amount to much aa the
world valoee men. But a wide-awake
hoy. who let* hi* imagination rua
wild and build all kind* of imaginary
condition* for hi* lttm Ufa, ia the
boy who make* hi* life count for
good or bad, largely in nmfwmitf to
the air castlae he build*. Ia the cm*
at the Chicago mmderot* they
Th^y
life. And ee it I* well
to cncoornge thi* habit of holding
air-caatlee, hut let it be tmproceed ea
the mind* of the youth that aa they
build them they are likely to ftad
they -will later bo
into aetoal Hfe
Vra mi A Bmm Trail v
J. Hampton Rich hM placed HenA
Airy m a Boom trail. Thi* wa.
placed i tablet of Daniel !
High School ground* of thi* city. Hm
awrker la of a hrme color
M a granite slab and *taiM
three toot high an* ia a Hkenea* of
thoee u*ed on other Boom trail*. The
eraetor had planned a ptugiam to M
ieate the tablet on it* oroctioa M
for aeaae rum It wa* net carried e«t
and Mr . Uch|
Dr. Im iS»iai hu been tinl— In
Mi efforts to prnuM tiM Hmttof
Ml himsetf wHh until men intereet
hu iwt only been irttvc III Mtorivf
has pmm»T put Into tke •eeerml
"oontlee alonr the ravte prnwat
«d local read bond ieeaee and irmil
'<*al «en»l cut In ftrrwr of (nod road*.
Recently Dr. Roeenbeha made a
H«H to tMe Hty la the later—t «f
the Toot# ssid continued hif Jovrncy
through tke «tate to Charlotte.
THOU SHALT NOT
ef jrnn ago the wiaaat
wrote for Ms paopl* ten eaaa
m mm of which ia a
Thoa Shah Nat.
If ha had Hved in an aft of auto
mobile* and fa*t train* and all tha
complieatad machinery that thi* aga
ha* developed, no deobt ha would
| have made a hundred Thoa Shah
Note where he made tan.
There are many people who are ao
constituted that they aeeai to be re
bellion* against any refutation of
their conduct. .They pt op in ana*
againat any and every regulation that
tha wiaeat men we have try to put
into effect in an effort to make Ufa
m?re tolerable. Every community,
every atrect, every town ha* it* eM
xena who are against what they think
1* a limitation of their Hbertiea. They
oppoae prohibition, they oppoaa tha
■top law at railroad croaalng*, they
oppoaa tha coaapolaory school law,
they oppoae anything that they think
takaa their lUiiilie* from tham.
The fact remain* jnat tha una that
in thi* aga of tnventioa man who aaa
with open eye* know that thera moat
be moch ragulation of
duet if wa are to bve at
moat ha many Thojj Shah
tan, even if tha unthinking are op
poaad. Thaaa folk* wha ar* for
ever in appoahion ar* net the folk*
who nova tha world, rather are thay
tha ooea wha atend foravar la the
way of tha march ot,
We h*re a wonderful collection a#
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These Bargains
Our buyers hare just returned from the North
ern markets where they purchased many wonderful
values which are now arriving and will be offered
you just as soon as they can be unpacked and put
on the ahelf
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J. E. Ayers k Co. and solicit your patronage.
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