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MARION, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1910.
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PROFESSIONAL
T. A. M OR PHEW
ATTOENEY-AT-LAW
Office over Merchant's & Farmers'
- Bank.
OLD NORTH
STATE NEWS
Interesting Items of News
Briefly Set Forth For
Busy Readers.
MARION -
N. C.
-DR. J. GILLESPIE REID,
Dentist
Will answer calls at any
hour of the night. :: ::
Rooms 3, 4 aad 5
First National Bank Building,
Marion, N.- C.
McBRAYER B ROSS
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Prompt Attention Given All
Business Intrusted to Their
Care. :-: :-:
COTTON MILL NEWS.
Over One Hundred People Now
Reside on Mill PropertyWeave
and Cloth Rooms About Ready
For Operation..
The work of setting up the looms
in the mill is being pushed rapidly
Mr. John A. Roebling, a former aD3 some of them will probably be
citizen of Asheville, now of New lD operation mis wee, me ura
Jersey, has civen the Episcopalians Per cmpanv of Hopedale, Mass.,
of the missionary diocese of Ashe- have fire men on this work in
ville 26 acres of land in the vicinity char2 of J. D. Bailey.
of Asheville, valued at $50,000. Mitcneii, wno movea nere
some time ago from Hickory, died
last Thursday afternoon from drop-
Mr. W. C. Dowd, editor of the Sy. Mr. Mitchell was an elderly
Charlotte News, who has several man and well liked by those who
times represented Mecklenburg came in contact with him. He had
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juuuutjr iu mo jcgisjiure, uas ueen oeen in failing nealtn tor over a
renominated for that position and year and his death was not unex
already a movement . has been pected. He was buried in Marion
launched to make him Speaker of Friday.
m a
Up Stairs, Streetman Building
DR. Wm. FLEMING
DENTIST
OFFICE IN STREETMAN
BUILDING.
C. E. HOUSE
Surveyor and Draughtsman
Make ok Copt Maps
Blueprints and Abstracts a
Specialty.
Office in Streetman Bldg. Main St
L. C. G0NEKE, M.D.
Physician S Surgeon
OFFICES IN
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
' ON FIRST FLOOR
WVWWV
Spscial Attention given to office
practice in the treatment of
chronic diseases.
the House.
Mr. W. W. Stuart has purchas
ed a farm two miles from Old Fort
and will move his family there in
I about ten days. Mr. Stuart has
been a resident of Concord for a
number of years and both he and
Mrs. Stuart have a large number
of friends who will regret to know
that they are to leave Concord.
Concord Times.
.
Announcement is made that John
S. Huyler has agreed to donate to
the Mon treat association the Pres
byterian assembly development at
Several families from Caroleenj
have moved here during the past
two weeks and are now employed
in the mill. This brings the num
ber of people living on the mill
property to over one hundred.
This number will be materially in
creased when the weave and cloth
rooms are started.
The management expects to be
gin the work of grading out streets
and. improving the appearance- of
the mill property in the near future.
A. F. Hunt, who is overseer of
the weaving room, states that he
has all the help needed in his de
partment and will be ready to be
gin o Deration iust as soon as the
Montreat the sum of $23,000, w6rk of adiusting looms is Bnished.
which is the amount of a mortgage Many of the people living here
I which he holds upon the property, vis-lted their former homes on the
provided the association will raise Fourth of July.
about $10,000 to make permanent
THE PROGRESS
BIG CONTEST
A Free Trip to tte Appalach
ian Exposition and Several
Other Prizes to be
Given Away.
We have recently put forth every
effort to make the paper bigger and
better, and we feel gratified at the
results of our efforts; but we are
not going to stop here. We realize
that a good paper can do good in
proportion to the readers that tt
reaches, and while our subscription
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list is oy no means small, we are
frank to confess that we are anxious
to make a substantial increase io
the number of our subscribers.
We would be glad to hare The
xEooress to visit every home in
this and adjoining counties every
week, and as a means to this end
k .ft
we neg to announce ttiat we are
beginning an aggressive campaign
to increase our list of subscribers.
During this campaign we are going
to give away several valuable prizes
to those who aid us in getting sub
scribers.
The prizes will include a free
trip to the great Appalachian Ex
position with expenses paid; a
scholarship at Rutherford College,
a handsome rocking chair and a
guitar. Should you desire one of
these prizes one can be obtained by
improvements.
The home of a man named Smih
at Rhodehiss, was hit by lightning
one day last week and at the same
time struck a tree in the yard.
Smith was in the house and the
bolt stunned him. When he came
Excessive Railroad Rates Reduced
Affect Western Lines.
PEOPLE'S FORUM.
(ThU pwnl U UMiml tor W r frM
U m mpowtU ft tt itovt m4 to iwwifu
AO WMfcDM m to tc?aX;y
ft J for mmt ytmlm U tW mm m;
to wUtoM tm frhfWtfc.
A Plea for Fair Plaj.
Jolj U brr acJa tiki matt of oar
public achool booM will tooo m crowd
J with IU rril of fnw mxA chtrae
trt of children mxam camicx to school
for th firtt Uom, thj bat c to Ur
thU xw epoch of th(r Urwi atxa who
Urt yr rcJr4 th4 first tut of thos
mrtrioM book as4 with Mf mio.!
oooM to Imtd txtor. ni who
few &mj lAt rrr. jot tirvd. null mxA
are her arJa with rrrj littl l&lonUota
of itytn thi titiM, ocm cocnituc W-
CaOM iU CtMlOQATJ tO to School. MM
tO hT f food UtD, M4 fW With
dsir and a dtn&iatfoo to Umra.
And orer thU ootsrIi bancb of ha
howrrvr. thw tx foothl la
dtrkt hal mm aH thm. !
kotvoftcMtodjUit jwr whrv a
ooc&aittrvt&Aa rmiMi a russSA. aS
hd th Umcit r4 TUt Uzl thTM
wkj Ukm h rfsjMl to Umrd wtlh
him. Bach tarrow gii&!x. m Ills U
do ocJ &mms Vet thrd aa4 rLc9
Ioqj aa4 lis to b h7C4 th4 Vch cn-
ditiocss wtn mxm onwmi to site
W do bot wxt or tKt
for fitsrr mad brpocracr Inl f do
wmat a racAtU aoncst cjf occstano
sn a&d hj all rwwrs w &l fair
pi 7. aod aUl w do r It ax4 a U4-
Ur alrr th tUtu I of Umcbrt aol
schools win rvt&ala whwrs tsWr art
JL TKACttC3L
THE SOUTH IAKD
Old Fcrtt Wants Ccrr.r.iniocer.
A i the elpctloo U rrowitg tih.
the taxpayera Ugio to think mho
ia going to maxg lh carx for
the coontj. Tb wraUrn part of
maalty U. xxMnUf, oo rro. tyUd coaoty thbka thy are :titll
by th oommn&lty at th Ucht.m toooe man is coo sty coensduuooer.
8omUaxw ah (or h) U m pvoa who have a taaa who t tht&k will
can par a avotrac ia toflish orsdr aalUfactory to the thrtNi wrtero
a proUm la cuU root and Kxtia townthipa, ar4 tftat man ti Ym. J.
th U Dot. bot a a roU th uche U a Fortune of (Hi Fort, U of
maa or a womaa who ooom to th
school with a darnr aad tnUatsoo of
Broad Hirer.
Dtntoraurv
CBt Waxra Utxs Unx)
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VTrUVUrS UkI
Laad ti tl iiz aaul trxiiftl n.
LaxS tt th (Xtlc LUsea.
L4 cf thCVM hjui Kt fWih ra-a.
Laz.1 cf tl kac Urf t nrsi nrala.
Thy akJ smsa sWrr aaa,
n?w jfch as4 fir Uy UWb;ms arx
SstdKUUIa aa4 i ai4 striae.
DrQMlh Uy dr9 IlWA U-K '
Or. ht tf&e t&arsa ci?4U trrw.
Aa4 riliUrs &h a&d (Wa.
Ah? tl a rd a4 ivWy la&4. .
rvh ta toes afiS caa,
Tis rkh ta Utj act wUh arts
That a Vt trVha taary tbarisu
To LsiA fma hoMst kia
Lsv4 rvh ta fj aa4tres,
TWy thy crtrwa yrmZs af.
Thy hViilJy iLls w.lh 1m fi
iterv wWlh thrry yWi. thaa ttbart r
Oo4 ks9 tha Usii ta jtniy.
Ill rraw sc ah
Aad r?r stath hcKts lh c&iswrtxf
Ko L4 wwiJsh ca wta
P. J. SlNCLAIE
D. L. Carlton
SINCLAIR & CARLTON
LAWYERS
Practice in State and Federal
Courts.
Office over Gaston & Tate's Store.
MARION, N. C.
McCALL & LISENBEE
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
W ashington Dispatch, J oa t9.
Decisions were handed down to
day by the inter-State commerce
commission country-wide in impor
tance. They affect freight rates
hnt.h class and commoditv on all
to, it was found that the lightning transcontmental lines operating be-
naa maae a picrare or me nouse twcen the Atlantic pacific
on his back a good photograph. I
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ordered.
It is not generally known that Ahe decisions are of what podu-
Newton has a citizen who has never l&rly are known as the Pacific coast
ridden on the train. - No, it is not cases. The cases were heard last
an infant only a few weeks old autumn by the commission on its
but a crown man in his 57th year, six weeks' trip to the Pacific coast
Uncle Bob Michael, our industrious and inter-mountain territory and
WftoVsmith sAvs hft has naver hen have been under consideration ever
cm n. train pYfpnt on ft hor car to since. In every instance reduc
doinjf th bast thy csa. bat (U do mat-
tr bow 1oto thrir dssdm U or bow
bard they try to do th rlht thlo wry
oftea iU not looj( UU sons oo U "kick-
injr" and to th yooax norpritKd
UsK-hr what ca U mors dnocriac
than to reflect that sh ha trtd so hard
to sUrt th school rtjebu do hrr doty la
Terythinf and amzdtgcly to oo pSmcX.
Sk V
Sh taowa Saxhtny foil down whU
pUrlog at noon aod disnird hi tt
bot how oa aarth cod sh bar
rotd it. rerhaDa h had mt with far
a little effort on your part in get- mora serious aocidat at bom axd th?
ing subscriptions to The Progress barrly matlohd. Joaal sprala
among your friends and neighbors.
We would be glad to hare you
enter the race at once." Full details
ill be found on another page of
The Prooress or can be had at
any time by calling cs up or call
ing in person at The Progress
office.
Have a friend send in the nomi
nation coupon or send it in your
self, then go after your friends for
subscriptions and ask thera to work
for you.
So locx a d -ly U lb beat txAa
cxlthtr iba coc'lry ii aa'a.
oosoo o o co-c o o- o-oc-ac- &-! oerc-a o ft &
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Goood for 500 votes
unload some goods. Newton
terprise.
En-
Poteet Building,
MARION,
N . C.
. Mrs. Peter A. Ferecks, of Salis
bury, has donated to Bishop Hor
ner of the district of Asheville all
the machinery and tools belonging
to her late husband. Mr. Ferecks
was a machinist of wide reputation
and had perhaps the best collection
of tools and machinery to be found
in the South. All of these have
been shipped to Lenoir and will be
j taken to Valle Crucis where the
Bishop has established a machine
shop and wagon factory in connect-
ion with the Valle Crusis Industrial
(School.
tions in the existing rates complain
ed of were made, and in some in
stances they amounted to nearly
50 per cent. The commission
found, tnrougn its inquiry, a re
markable fate situation existing on
the .facinc coast ana even a: more
remarkable one in the inter-moun
tain territory.
Astonishing facts were develop
ed by the commission in its hear
ings concerning the earning ca
pacity of the Pacific lines. The
commission shows that Vduring
the last two years the operating
revenues of the Southern Pacific
Company's Pacific system has in
creased $8,000,000, while its opera
ting expenses had decreased $5,
DR. R. J. BURGIN
DENTIST j
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Marion, North Carolina
Office in
000,000, thus producing an increas-
The case of E. E. Powell, of M operating income of over $12,
Scotland Neck, which was put on 000.000 or a net increase of about
I trial in Warren county Superior $2,000 per mile of road.
Court at , Warrenton . last week,
ended Wednesday with the accept- ReCCade's Invention.'
ed his ankl whU roaaiec aflr oo of
th Bixhbor itmw Ut rprtec. hi
mother doctored him op aad had no
kick comiojt bat wbo b rpriod th
aakl pi jinx ball at school hi
mother wants to ma th uchr oat of
tha ooaotry for ImHcjc tu aoooast aad
carols to allow lu JUaal fall oat of
th ttU loft Last winUr and brok hi
arm, no kick cotal&c bat whm b fall
oot of a trw at arhoot and srtrala hi
wrist tha doc U to pay with h toaxh-
er for allowla: him to climb tr Ua
perhapa Jtut tha day brfora sba pll4
the littl acooodrvl oat of a tr aod
forbid him rllmbiog aad h vu atir to
gt oot of bar mght this tim. Th
Utchr hars of th sxook hi father
raised atnot It aod rira hr "Uttl
dears" a talk aad pmmiww to whip th
next oo who Is cmacht cilmbinr. Th
next day Willi l caoxbt jampiojc frota
limb to Limb of a tall trm rzhitili&x
hi dxtrity aod skill a wU xcla-
ln nmnf Af IVrarfK't ttii m nf Mnt.
l t . r non t 1 1 a -1. I '
snows wiai, .vov.i lanes i uca H 1 duly whiop-d. m hom
of the Southern Railway, constitut- with a grt story of bloodshed aad hU
ing 30 of the entire mileage of mother, withoot nukla: a diaa-ocsd of
th ca. comn orer to th school oxt
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Block System on the Southern
The bulletin just issued by the
Interstate Commerce Commission
giving the mileage of railways in
the United States operated by the
bjock system on January 1, 1910,
To the portoo who cotaicatra lb izzr cf tbt Graol o
2 Priw, The IrioaE will pt 1,00 tn Ccuh. SeTtrsi
of Coctrat 3a azolbr pace. . t
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the system, is now equipped with
this safety appliance. Included in
this is the entire main line from
Washington to Atlanta and on to
Birmingham. The line from Bris
tol to Chattanooga, that from Chat
tanooga to Atlanta to Macon, and
other important sections. Io the
entire United States there are only
seven railway systems with a great-
moraing and gir th Uachr a pi
of her mind" aad darea her "to Lay th
weight of her finger oo a yoaogvra of
mln again. The or others equally
so absurd ar th eoodiUoo with whkh
some of w teachers hare to oooUsd.
To be sore there ar time) when w
do th wrong thing bat not throogh
prejudice or dislike for the pupil, which
I often the ce when a patron find
fault with the teacher. If you find
POTEAT BUILDING.
R. E. McCALL
C. B. McCALL
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ance or a veraict oi muraer in me The Hifftuander, eheiby.
second degree. Judge Geo. W. I ; Rev. Baylus Cade, who was Gov.
Ward,' who was presiding, imposed Russell's private secretary and has
the full penalty of the law 301 filled ably many positions, returned
years in tne otaie prison, uh recently irom a mp to irnuaaei-
March 4 last Powell shot and killed phia, where two expert machinists
Policeman Chas. W. Dunn, at are building his first type-setting,
Scotland Heck, and seriously or composing, machine. These
wounded A. P. Kitchin and E. L. J two experts rceive $12 per day for
Travis, prominent ' lawyers and I their work. - The first machine.
members of theX3gislture Tra-J with a type-writer key-board con-
CoffinS and Burial Supplies vis has not yet recovered from the taining over two hundred charac-
WOUnQS inniCwea Uy ruweii. iwrs, wtn wsi iuuro uiau a
and dollars and w.ll be completed
in two months.
Rev. Cade is enthusiastic in
Marshall, June 30. A serious Ufaise of the machine, which is
i accident occured at the works of said to be a marvel of simplictiy.
the North Carolina Electric Power! occuDving small room space. - He
Company, two miles below, hereJsays it will, not cost, over $500,
this morning, when - two men, a while the Mergenthaler costs $3,
negro and a white man, were killed 1 250 and is a complicated machine.
oy a premature uxasu jl ue uerv dimcult to Keep in running oraer.
was entirely covered with rock and
dirt being killed outright, while Thb Pboqbess big contest is now
the white man lived a short tune. I on. Who will you nominate I
er mileage so operated than has the I fault with a dool let your boy know
Southern. No other railway in the wlu frevt deal woew-oom
South operates anything like M "d e jat with u. and not
. . . . , . . . , 1 start a kj vi nmwDM mmup isq isi
large a mileage with the block I hoodj aW th 1ait
system. I don't happen to like the teacher and
The system in use on the South- I had rather have aomeooe else you know
srn T?;iv U ht t hnnwn Of to t each th echooL
the "telegraph block." SuvUble
semaphone signals are selected at
intervals of about five miles along
the road to guide the eugineman
in the control of bis train. The
space between these signals is call-
-i li i i & . :
ea a uioca auu iwo PuKer vraius i.m-,., children and IT1 ruaraa-
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tare by no circumstances permuted I te she will do Trjthing the poaaiUy
in a single block at the same time. I can for your boy. Don't rsfu to b-
llere the little thing the find wrocg
Of course
had rather bare your broiher lo Uw's
wife's first cousin for a teacher but
eTerThody can t ee it your way. so I
what's the ne making the teacher mia-
erable and trjiag to kick op a row J j
Speak to the teacher pleasantly ertry
time tou hare a chance. Visit her
school, speak kindly of her to your
A IrVord to Parents,
Young Men and Young Women
STANLEY McCORMICK SCHOOL, kortd i! BURNS
VILLE, N. C. destfes 10 call the ipcoal ancs&oci cf the
younj people of adiaemi counccs to ths foCoar fata:
Sixry Thousand DoCirs his betn cxpoicd in tZL- z tr.d
cquipmctiL A r.cv dormixry for the tojn hn Juu tccn cco
r!cird and furnished si cm: of S20,OiX3. Thli tv2i-t, t
ttthcr with the ciris' ctorm::ory, hai a2 r-owlcm vr.?txrr&.
menu and convcnrtncca.
The school has a coepcttm corpi cf teachen tpcdtZf
trained for their respective department!.
The rarcs are so lov thai parents an rotisrtly kttp their
children in Stanley McCorrr.jck Schoci ch carer than they ai
keep them at home. The rate Is $7.00 pr nor.th. hih in
cludes tuition, utlz board and furnished rooca. Music is 2
per month extra.
BurruvvHc b an ideal IccaDon for such a schocL The
lude (nearly 3.000 feet) caranreca hcalJuIncsa. There is
no betier water in the worU. The rthps and socaj In
fluences are all thai could be desired ty the most cxisr.
Special arranixmcna have teen prowfed for the yonr.ztt
boys, who t3 room scparaicly from the tarjre tors and j3
x under the direct care of competent and pau-uukr: teacher.
There is no betr school, no cheaper school than Surrey
McCormick SchooL The r.cjci term epena Auvi lliX
1910. Young men and young w omen ho seek an educa
tion, and pxrena who are in:ercs:eid in the cducarn d their
children, should at once confer im the lYincrpaL Informa
tion cheerfully fumbhed. Address
C R. HUBBARD. Prtncpol. BurrarCc, N. C
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McCa.ll IBros.
UNDERTAKERS
Any business intrusted
to our care will receive
prompt "and careful at
tention, v
Over McCall & Conley's Furniture
Store.
CHICHESTER S PILLS
tJLrCw : TIIK DIAMOND BKAJW. J
Ilcal ATw wrama AX
Chi thm tort DUHMBruiAV
boxn, mia with Bla Hlbbom. ,
Tmk m eiksr. By f ymj .
Pi .tut. AkWCriW,!IE.Tni
i1johi krand ruxs, tot a
lniimlilTniT l-'riT " r
Two JCilled by Explosion.
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Will go Right to Work.
Asheville, Judo 30. Ala recent
meeting ofthe executive committee
of the Blue Ridffe association held
at Montreal it was. decided to go
to work at once upon construction
of the hoildiocs, etc, and the busi
ness committee, which, under di
rection of C. II. Hobbs, a well
known Asheville lumberman has
charge of the construction work.
hopes to have the grounds ready
for the holding of the next year'a
conferences of the oung Mens
Christian association, the Young
Women's Christian association and
the Young People's Missionary
Movement.
It is the general belief that Got-
ernor Mann, of v irgmia, will ap
point former Governor Swanson to
(ill out the unexpired term of John
Warwick Daniel in the United
States Senate, though the Gorer
nor has never said anything pub
licly to this effect.
with yocr boj which joa yoarseU didat
know b may hare joq foobd.
I heard of a tchr who wtat to
boy's mother and asked her If tha ooald
thlak of any way to kp Oorr frota
nata so moch tobsbeca "VThy. 0rr
doarat am tobxo," ah aaid. Tba
tachr tarsed to his coat which w
hangHixg ta tha hall aad poQd most a
nlojc from his pockK. WLn asksd
about it, ha aald yt ha had ba asioc
it two rr- afaaj tloea Uachrrt ftod
habita aad faalu ia chtldrra of which
their father aad mothara ar tocract
and rafoaa tobXUTwhkhcascmaiij
a poblic school dLstarbaaoa.
Thr ha b(o a crrt adraaevtarat
aloa; odocatiooal Utx ia oar coon 1 7.
The board of education aad pctal!y
Mr. Ollea oWtthi tha hljtht prais
for what they hara dooa la th wj of
boJldi&r xrw school Looses) and aaooar-
4in local tax. Mr. Oilr ha ralasd
tha ttaadard of tachci aad Ull c w
ara to rala tha staadard of com ta unity
life la th district wbert w tch." Ia
many Inataaoea thi U doo bat its I
awfol hard aad padally whra thrJ
ara aareral chronic rramUera sad at-
ara) bora kickrra. r clad to aafJ
LABORERS WANTED
Wages $1.65 Per Day
Take a nice trip, see the beau
tiful country and find out what
other people are doing. Make a
pocket full of money quick bo
you can spend the winter com
fortably. Write at once or apply
in person to the
Hewitt Construction Co.
A. C HEWITT, Sec L Trcas.
Pembroke, - Kentucky.
and get the work, make the mo
ney and have a good time.
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