North Carolina Newspapers

f till I Formerly McDotvell Democrat VOL XIV. v. .1 MARION, K C, THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1910. PROFESSIONAL T. A. MORPHEW ATTORNEY-AT-LAW -. Office over Merchant's & Farmers' v Bank. OLD NORTH FATAL MINE STATE NEWS. EXPLOSION sleeping after his long battle,, to rise onco more sound and sane, no (oncer shackled with the fetters of mortality, but a victor in the race of life, whose laurels we now sad Interesting Items of News Nearly 200 Men' Entombed ly but proudly lay upon bis grave. MARION - C. DR. J. GILLESPIE REID, BrieflyJSet Forth Fori v Busy Readers. - Raleigh, drugstores have gone out of the liquor business. Alder i men made the license tax $500 per. in Birmingham District- Feared Victims ail Dead Dentist- " Will answer calls at any hour of the night. :: Rooms 3, 4 and 5 First National Bank Building, Marion, N. C. McBRAYER & ROSS ATTORNEYS AT LAW Prompt Attention Given All Business Intrusted to Their vare. f - Up Stairs, Streetman Building "The muffled dram's tat roll tut beat the soldier's last tattoo. No more on life's parade shall meet that bra re and fallen few. On fame's eternal camping-ground their silent tents are spread, And glory gnards with solemn round the bivouac of the dead." - Birmingham, Ala., May 8. Forty-five white men and between 130 and 145 negroes are entombed in No. 3 coal mine at Palos tonicht nans are being made for the as the result of a terrific explosion M FTHnn I QTQ QT1I k erecuon or new ouiiaings, to cost occurring this afternoon at 1:30 $100,000,at the Thompson orphan- o'clock! and it is believed all are dead. Palos is 40 miles west of tiiuiiuuaui auu tJ iuiuvo j i , o al s n set . a. j u t-, ruw- naiea oouin lor rroniomon. uwucu ujr lua x aius vaju buu vvin.c company, of this city. Two bodies Asheville, May 5 The General I age (Episcopal), in Charlotte. " FOR TEMPERANCE That Committee Not to be Eliffll- DR. Wm. FLEMXLNTG DENTIST OFFICE IN STREETMAN BUILDING. C. E. HOUSE Surveyor and Draughtsman Make or Copt Maps Blueprints and Abstracts a. Specialty. Office in Streetman Bldg. Main St L. C. GONEKE, M. D. Physician S Surgeon .- OFFICES IN FIRST NATIONAL BANK V ' ON FIRST FLOOR . - wwww Special Attention given to office practice in the treatment of - chronic diseases. ;The Tenth Avenue Presbyterian I Sunday School of Charlotte will operate an excursion over the C. C. & O. Railway, to Spruce Pjne on May 20. . Lieutenant Governor Newland I announces that he will likely be a candidate for the Democratic nom ination for- Governor two years hence. The board of aldermen of East Spencer is up in arms against near beer and at a meeting Tuesday night placed the license tax at $2,000 per annum. The Annual Convention of the Episcopal District of Asheville, will be held in Waynesville June 14-15-16, Bishop Homes of the District presiding. A dead rattlesnake, pronounced the largest of its kind ever found in the State, has been sent the State museum from Havelock, Craven countyt It is nearly six ; feet long and nine inches in circum ference. were found early tonight, but it is Conference of (he Southern Metho- expected that few of them can be jdist Church today with great en recovered before morning. thusiasm emphatically reiterated The flames resulting from the I their stand on the question of pro- explosion shot into the air from Ihibition when, by an almost unanl the mouth of the slope for a dis-lmous vote, the Conference agreed tance of 200 feet, and the shock to susnend the rules and Dr. E. G. was felt for miles. Timbers from B. Mann, pastor of the First Metb the slope were hurled several hun- odist Church of Louisville, led i dred feet from its mouth, and rocks fight resulting in the restoration from the roof of the slope caved in of the word Temperance in the and made access to the mouth very I standing committees from which it difficult . , . . had been ousted yesterday by a The fan machinery was badly motion presented by James Can damaged but air is being pumped non, Jr., and Dr.- Riggs, making into the mine tonight in the hope the name of the committee "Moral that some of the men are still and Social Issues." alive. - After the explosion, local res- Greenlee News. curers at Palos began atoncetodo M- M n . . ntanmA . .i 1 1 i i i . " wnai mey coma, out reuei wo wr:n(,;n(..itKI,.r relief work was not started in earnest until the special train, from Birmingham ar rived shortly after 4 o'clock. This special train carried, state mine in spector James Hillhouse, J, J. Ruttledge, government expert in : charge of the geological station at Knoxville, Tenn., who happened to be in the district investigating the recent disaster at Mulga, eight h.vsicians and surgeons, four un- KING EDWARD IS DEAD British Empire Plunged into Mourning by Sudden Death of Beloved - Ruler. London, May C King EJ ward VII dicdsUllrlSo'dockUtlDtebL The Prince of Wales it king, as suming the title of George. V, and will take the oath before the Privy council at 2 o'clock this a'ternooo. Coming so suddenly the death of the king cannot but bring h greatest sorrow to the cation, in whose .hearts Edward, first as Prince of Wales, and afterwards as sovereign, held first place. v-w a mm ins short rtign ox nine yeari has been a history of stirring times. It ooeoed with condation of peace after a long and trying campaign In South Africa and con cludes at the crucial moment of one of the most momentous politi cal struggles of modern times, be tween the peers and comuont, in day the political outioAk of Great Britain has revolutionized. Throughout the empire the word was aasrea and today csgs are floating at half-mast the world a . m, over. Uesides the social gloom men me king s deaui casts over England, several important and long planned official events must be abandoned. HeadqiuiairiLeFS for FEED STUFE BynDdliinig Material BttoffaloeSuHevi ft f ILIL NEAR DEPOT. PltO.SC D7 for a' visit to homefolks, her sister, Mrs. Allan ach. Aleck Tate is home from Florida on a visit. William Bowman, the second son of R. L. Bowman, met with a' painful accident while driving a' team last week. Some bones of one of his feet were broken. Mr. Newton Buchanan is suffer- WASHINGT0N GOSSIP. Special to Maxxmi raoa. Washington, .May . ine re cently reformed" House Commit tee on Rules is proving to be as secure a catacomb for proposed I legislation antagonized by the special interests as was the old Rales committee of which Speaker I'jtnnnn thilrrnin t ir. t . u: M j I . . . ... , , - Aja & ampuicuw uA cSK5 uu dertakers and a number ot special mg irom a wns-wouna causea oy i , r.,. wVi . . ..j,, chickens continue d go from west- helpers. The hospital relief car of a fall. . aff onUwfa, oiu iiuiMi.vniuiiu w mo uuuu. itha "annMCM I Viol Iron and Kail P. J. Sinclair D. L. Caklton SINCLAIR S CARLTON LAWYERS Practice in State and Federal ,- v Ckmrts. ; Office over Gaston & Tate's Store.: MARION, N C. McCALL & LISENBEE ..", - i: : - i " ' -. : ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW The Hickory Democrat states that one firm there shipped 19,100 doz- n of eggs, and 1,500 pounds of I chickens between March 10 and April 15. ' At a meeting of the stockhold- ers ot tne V ance cotton mill in Salisbury last week it was decided to increase the capital stock from $100,000 to $300,000 and to increase the number of spindles from ten to twenty thousand." A weaving de partment will also be added and other improvements will be made. The JUexington uispatcn says Baxter-Shemwell has instituted road company "was also taken. This car contained helmets and all other necessary paraphernalia for entering gaseous mines. The first rescurecs who went in to the mine after the explosion were overcome by firedamp and had to be carried out. Airs. Mary Alclntyre, or Ueorg- gQcn M ,ucmr lrujl has been ia, is visiting her daughter, Mrs, reported favorably by the net ''"Greenlee. committee, Cannon dominates the The frosts which seem to have reformed body just as effectively wrought such havoc in some sec- as he did the old Rules committee, tions have touched us lightly. At So' far as practical results are coo present there is good prospect for cerned, it is difficult to see what plenty of fruiL . I the common people gained by the Cnnid'a enenminm of onr nhlitr. lenlarrinc of the committee and - - m WATCHES! JDST RECEIVED. A fresh lot of 0 Sire 6 Size 12 Size ISSizc Watches J. FRED SPIGIIE JEWELED and OVTICIAlJI MA. HI Oft, A J- JVO-XTIt CA.'XOUtA. John Peyton Greenlee. Special to Marion Progress. On Sunday, May 1st, the re mains of John Peyton Greenlee, i eldest son of the late T. Y. Green ling carrier on Route No. 1 would be generally endorsed. By-the- iway, is the correspondent from Stingy Valley Dan Cupid himself. or his sister 1 The face of the gen- lai earner nas sometimes a preoc- the elimination of the Speaker. 0 The report that Roosevelt had written letters to President Tafu son-in-law Longworth and others. inHnraintr tf Tft administration. i 0 rt 1 1 I a. I . . . I " iee, oi ureeniee, were .orougni, capied expression, and there are -rma tnven wida nahhriir b th home from the Morganton hospital circumstances under which the oc- . OM a ... I ' ror miermeni in ouoam cemetery, i casional misplacing of papers might hrinra ont th fart that all of th The funeral services were conduct- he fortriven. I . ,.t;i i tk an a o7 ui LU.uttVMu stw sv v ws m The People's Forum seems tolrmpbatically deny having received be one of our paper's most popular such a letter. And Roosevelt de-1 ALL THE GIRLS LIKE KISSES TTe make them fresh every day. Cooai-.st Kh&es, Crcta Kisses the test ever. Our Crwra Pui Ltiy Rrxtn, Macaroons and DocxhnuarOa, My! ibey are tpoi, tii fresh daily. We MaK. a Specialty qf Fancy and ffirtitty Plain, Layer and Old Fashioned Pocr4 Cake, Fnri Cake, Es. Yocr Cake to Order. Poteet Building, MARION, N. C. V ft. E. McCALL O. ft. McCALL suit against the Southern railway ed by Rev. Mr. Rogers and a large for damages on account of. the company of friends and neighbors story given publicity that heat- gathered to pay the last tribute of Lq, and is lhe most cl area that .h did not write any- icuipiu iuiw, tuo wuwv-i ucoF inrorraincr. J? rom it we Dave learn- thm? that could have witn reason a fast tram Jto stop the tram at sympathy for the pain and sutler- how to spe hcrb w,thout an h, been so construed. at Lexington on the night of March hng of the long, darkened years th0 it is the uneducated class in 31. The story was denied ana at- witti wnicn nis me ciosea years rntri.n(i thatrons ita h' nrin th firt thr J.raof ... , ., ..... . .. A J T . I. . . I I 1 " nrmed and tne suit ougnt to Dring in an. inree sisiers, airs, xveoec- :OM of mooted theoloincal Mav th crornmfnl irwnl t. ca late, Mrs., M. M liurgin, Airs. nnestions. and that the one thini? ?j fWW.Sl mora than it took in. H. A. Tate, and two brothers, W. McDowell countv lacks ia a Wo- ThU wronlfl IndlratA that th n. and: it. l. ureeniee survive mXQs Betterment Association. Uriff law U a failure inasmuch as! mm.- I Dim. - I A lent tKftt. tVlA nriA tKirfV n-Vfill tnl U ia! nrlninrf iniAAl rrw Mr. Greenlee was one of the make our countv a bowlinir success lnue to meet the exrje&je of the communication' withlirovernmenL out the facts. In a fire in Hickory last Wed nesday night Clarance Seabock was burned to death while still in i bed. It seems that the young man younger volunteers from this coun- socially is e . a . . . . k-i who was inst 20 vears old was ty to the civil, was, and Deing a "Janus." Well, well! We don't fileeDinir uDstairs. : and when the! man of splendid physique and in-(know . whether Janus knows all house caught fire it was not dis- domitable courage, made, a : grand nbout such things or not, -but feel good Republican is a member of Fresh Bread and Sandvkh Bens every day. Hc RcCi crcry Marion Bakery, J.T. Cartee.Prop. Cullowhee Normal and Industrial School Maintained by the State for the boys and girls of Western North Carolina. .'. .. ... McCall Eros. UNDER TAKERS Coffins and Burial Supplies Any business intrusted to our care will receive nrnmnt and careful at-: f - . , ..... . tention. ' "." y i : Over McCall & Conley's Furniture Store. ARFRNFTHY. nVblllb" ooo AA " n f Hairla lnn naid I Yr KrY ISL LU. last week to just a few of Haywood President Tafta definition ofaj SpCCial GoUrSC For TcacllCrS - Uridgetvater, J. C. " Manufacturers of all Kinds of ; LUMBER. Fioring, ceilingsiding, mould jngs, doors; sash, frames,; and -all kinds of building material. AUo Manufacturer covered until too late to take him soldier, serving his cause faithful- sure Jane does. out of the building until the smoke iymmany batties.-Jeverai wounds, We hope that E. R. K docs not and flames had done their deadly one of them in the some, and pns- min(j a ijtlie jjood-natured banter work. . on narasnips resui in insanuy. gnd thal we shall hear from him - Of the two brothers, John and aeain The practical discussion of t r- 1 L t L I ..... .The Waynesville Courier saysl ; , . ' pracucai suojecis oy progressive DM- Cagle of Clyde, shipped togetner in meir coumry s service, citizens is . more interesting than last week to the Southern, market and of whom died in it, how bog-winded political harangues to - xu j - infinitely more costly was the sacn- some of us. three thousand dozen eggs, lie u , Ocettx. j u ein aa Thfl fice made by John than that of his ! vjueux. paid for these eggs f510.00. lne , . . , v . . . , - .1 tAlflnted but less Dhvsicallv stroncr same weefc he smppea six nunarea 1 4t "Hwft CAn pi0A n rinamHa. and fifty hens, tor wnicn , ne . paia , . , . . - 0h, IPVT.I H.I 111 f " the close of the war. Bothcoured not fulsome, perhaps, to say ont the ricn wine of life in fall without qualification that Howe's ,..r. Kt a aha Tti nd . i. 1 Great London Show, which exhib- wirM rftmftouicklv. while the other itcd in Charlotte twice yesterday. waited wearil v for them throuch " the cleanest, most unique Unted I .. .!.! amusement enterprise tnat nas vis ited Charlotte in years, and thou Congress who will vote for legisla tion endorsed by the President whether said Congressman believes the legislation would be good for the country or not. ens and eggs. Iotte, rThft pntrasrement of Editor J. C. n.n u n.inHa Vaoe nil I loner vears of pain. Life is some- Miss Louise Wadswortb, of Char- times harder than death, and how is announced.- ; . glorious a rewara ao some oi our soldiers earn. Awaiting wis iaitn- a A-irf TATimaasm. or a twinare ful soldier on the other side were o f First Class1 UricK ef neuralgia, whatever thetrouble ia, a noble company of brave com- S 1 rrun.mWv1oin'a T.iflltnPIjt drives EWftTl . . thTpato Tat once and cures the com- rades, the flower of our county. irsi aypucawuu who had served witn mm inrougn Old Newspaper? for sale Jffi35rSSSS, sands took advantage of the oppor tunity to hark back to the dava of peanuts and red lemonade, and see a circus that was, in one breath. old-fashioned and yet more up-to- the-minute in many respects thin many of the largershows that hare run rnrrura rxroastaTiojr Ausaxra R. L. MADISON, Principal, ctNJ: Brown New Corporation Con- jnhsioner. . Balelgh, May 6. Henry Clay Brown received this afternoon a commission from Governor Kitchin to succeed the late IL F. A j cock, as corporation commissioner! Mr. Brown, who has been secre tary to the corporation commission for eighteen years, was summoned to the governor's ode about noon and soon thereafter the am .-.ce ment was made that he : A leo named. for the commie -onershlp for which there were just twenty applicant, Mr. Brown not licg among the number. This appoint ment will vacate the accrttarjahip of the commission, the plaee to be COMMUNITY GROWTH Every visitor rcxaaiki ca the growth and jtds pcrity of Marioa. ThU growth Ext beca raidc pos sible bj the effort! of our dtixeat xzd wila the xld of the banks. Thb bank has dese lis ctocst to encourage the forrLn ahead cf He ci tires s asd Las helped Ihera la ercry possible way; safcuardisf their money, coUcctia their checks and drafts, ard lendLn mcocy to legitimate cslerprixcs where jto tcctioa was assarcd. Become a easterner that yea may help oar pro gress and receive belp la tara thrcah this baak. The Merchants and Farmers Ban!: filled by the commission. at this office, r i all druggists- , the war. " He is not dead, hut come this way in a decade.