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VOL XIV.
MARION, N. C., THURSDAY JULY M, 1910.
NO. ii.
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PROFESSIONAL
T. A. M OR PHEW
ATTORNEY-AT-IiAW
Office over Merchant's & Farmers'
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Bank.
MARION -
N. C.
DR. J. GILLESPIE REID,
Dentist r
Will .answer calls at any
hour of the night. :: ::
Rooms 3 4 and 5
First National Bank Building,
Marion, N.-C.
McBRAYER 5 ROSS
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Prompt Attention Given All
Business Intrusted to Their
fAlA '
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Up Stairs, Streetman Building
DR. Wm, FLEMING
DENTIST
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OFFICE IN STREETMAN
BUILDING.
C. E. HOUSE
Surveyor and Draughtsman
Make or Copy Maps
Blueprints and Abstracts a
Specialty.
Office in Streetman Bldg. Main St
Pi J. Sinclair
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
Poteet Building,
MARION,
N. C.
DR. R. J. BURGIN
DENTIST
Marion, North Carolina
Office in
POTEAT BUILDING.
ft. B. McCALL
O. JR. McCALL
UNDERTAKERS
Coffins and f Burial Supplies
Any business intrusted
to our care will receive
prompt and careful at- 1
tention. . , .".
Over McCall & Conley's Furniture
oiorc.
:- THE NORTH CAROLINA
College of Agriciilture and
1 Mechanic Arts. '
The State's college for training '
industrial workers. C Courses in
Agriculture, Horticultnre, Animal
Husbandry and Dairying! in Civil,
Electrical and" Mechanical Engi:
neering; in Cotton- Milling and
Dyeing: inVlhdustriaf Chemistry;
and in Agricultural teachine. -
Tr.nf mnft Aiftminntions At ftftch
county sea wuio am w ;iuijr.?
tTt' nTT T 'D iJi
IttZO de
4 West Raleigh,' N. C.
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OLD NORTH
STATE NEWS
Interesting Items of News
Briefly Set Forth For
Busy Readers.
Davidson tsounty will- build a
new and modern county home.
H. E. Shaw of Lenoir," was nomi
nated for solicitor of the Fifth dis
trict on the 511 ballot.
Mr. C. A. Gibbons, of Unity
township, Rowan county, threshed
last week 100 bushels of wheat
from 2i acres.
"White Horse," a Cherokee In
dian half-breed, known as a wrest
ler, is in jail in Asheville to answer
the charge of attempted criminal
assault, his victim being Martha
George, an Indian girl. The crime
was attempted in Asheville.
Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt states
that he has received donations
amounting to $2,500 toward a fund
for the survey and other prelimi
nary work for- the Blue Ridge
I Highway which is to connect Ashe
ville, Altapass and Linville.
'
Mr. Robert L. Durham, who
last year filled the chair of mathe
matics at Davenport College, Le
noir, has been elected to a position
on the faculty of Centenary Col
lege, Cleveland, Tenn., and has
accepted. The collegers a Meth
odist school and belongs to Holston
Conference.
The corporation commission has
begun the work of appraising the
tax valuation of the corporations
of the State, of which there are
5,000. The railroads come first,
but there will be little change in
the assessed valuation of these, as
they are assessed every four years,
when real estate' is assessed, and
next year is the time for this work.
Farmers' Institutes.
Raleigh Special.
Five parties of specialists are to
start out into different sections of
North Carolina about the middle of
July to hold series of farmers' in
stitutes for farmers and their wives
i and daughters, the dates for the
i five series being just announced-by
Director T. B. Parker. A series
on the Seaboard Air Line railway
starts July 12 at Pittsbord; a Sou
thern railway series starts July 14
at Cedar Grove; a central Carolina
series begins July 19 at Carthage;
a Western Carolina party starts
July 19 at Fletcher, and a party to
go into a number of the northern
counties starts at Oxford July 13.
The dates take up entirely the lat
ter half of July. There will be
i ladies in the , parties to hold the
institutes for the women. At these
i
there will be prizes of $l.each for
the best' loaf of bread cooked at
home by a farmer's wife or daugh
ter living on the farm.
Wilson the Nominee.
Gastonia, July 8.- Hurried to a
decision by sheer exhaustion, the
twelfth judicial convention this af
ternoon nominated . George W
Wilson of Gaston county for the
solititbrship over the three .other
candidates, Smith and Shannon-
house of Mecklenburg, and Chi Ids
of Lincoln. The following was
the last count: Wilson, 132.36,
Smith, 56.03; Shannonhouse, 49.68
i vnnos, x.o. iuo sciwwwu n
made on the 840th ballot and the
third taken . after the convention
assembled following" a' noon ad
journment. ;'":' ;:' ' ' ' "r '
Three Congressmen Re-Nominated.
Democratic Congressional Con
vention have nominated for re-elec-
won Congressman John tl. &mall
9 the first district, at Edenton;
Congressman R. N. Page of the
seventh district at Rockingham
and Congressman-Claude Kitchin
of the second; district at Rocky
I Mount.
. - There's notmn&r so rood lor a sore
l throat asDrr Thamaa' Electric Oil
fhrrfift It in a few honra.
Believes
pato in any part - -
any
CITIZENSHIP AND
PUBLIC HEALTH
-.
Responsibility for Public Health
Our Greatest Civic Respon
sibility. The essential difference between
the citizen and the savage is the
expression in his daily routine - by
the former of the principle, "No
man liveth unto himself." This
biblical axiom is the basis of civili
zation, because it expresses a" re
lation that law defines and controls.
It naturally follows that the clear
er our mental perception, the more
distinctly will we recognize "the 1 districts France and England
many and subtile bonds that unite " we saw them two years ago
our fortunes or our fates into a when our muad roads shall giro
web of weal or woe. Knowledge wa 10 atiful highways; when
gives acuteness of mental vision, our fields 8han rtdeevncd to life
and, therefore, it is knowledge and usefulness; when our half-cul-that
opens the gates of a higher patches shall be converted
civilization and irives to him who into brod & fertle fie,ds; beo
desires the ouoortunitv to become
a better citizen.
ine relation ot one man s pro
perty to another's is easily recog
nized, and is firmly established
upon universally accepted princi
ples of civil law. The relation of I
one man's life to another's has on
ly within the last half century been
established upon principles of na-
tural law But, as yet, the W I
iwjgo ui mesa D&iunii laws nas nut
been-widely enough disseminatfHl
t produce sufficient public senti
ment to weld them into our stat-
utes.
Man's greatest civic obligation
is to the public health. This sounds
like the exaggeration of an enthusi
ast. Nevertheless, it rests upon
those primary and fundamental
principles or law manor over iour
thousand years have been the basis
of-civilization. Writ in tables of
stone by the Supreme Judge Him-
self, these legal principles are so
comprehensive as to embrace man's
every possible relation: His re
lation to the Court of Heaven; his
relation to the court of the home.
and his relation to the court of
man. Bat note, and note careful
ly, that the first of the five rules
governing man's relation to man is
the law protecting life. First,
not by haphazard, but first by
Omniscient design, because it is
just as fundamental to the last four
of these five laws as life is funda
mental to chastity, property, repu
tation, and neighborly comfort.
Note further, that "Thou shalt not
kilP carries no provisions limiting
its application to the 5,000 deaths
occurring annually in the United
States through willful acts of com
mission, and excluding the 500,000
deaths annually occurring in our
country by an act of passive omis
sion. Every citizen who does not
take a serious interest in the pub
lic health of his or her. community
is a partisan to this criminal de
struction of life. Like Lady Mac
beth dipping her bloody bands in
water, we say, i1
Out! damned
spot," but it will not out, for all
the real and feicmed iimorance and
indifference into which we 8Ub-
merge our individual and public
consciences.
And now, lastly, how can the
conscious citizen this does not in
clude everybody discharge this
obligation! He can easily inform
himself, with, a total amount of
reading of not over ten hours, of
. M ft ft ft
the principal tacts which will en
able one to take an active and in
telligent part in this work. He
can be suppliedwithout cost with
this literature by writing the .Sec
retary of the State Board pf Health
at Raleigh to place his or her nam
on the mailing list for the monthly
Bulletin He can read articles on
this subject appearing in thispapW
mbnthly. 'He can vote for" alder-
county icoramisiioners, and
legislators who are informed in re-
gapl to thU important problem.
D....-t...- n.-j-
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Johnson City, Tenn., July 8.
Congressman 'Walter - P rest on
Brownlow died here tonight at
7oVclock of. 'BrightV -disease,
Mr. Brownlow was 60 "years old.
He represented the first Tennessee
district seven terms 'in succession
and had been ''nominated for an
other term. Mr. Brownlow
a widow and fi ye cbildrenT
leaves
EDUCATION
AND PROGRESS
The School the Hope ot the
South-Give the Child
a Chance,
By CUrcao Vv, Im Ttf rroff tr rarmr,
Traveling this week across a
considerable section of our Pro
gressive Farmer and Gazette terri
tory, we could but dream of the
time when all our Southern coun
try shall become as fair as the in
herd of tie and flock of sheep
li it i . ,
snu ao1 our nuisltlfts; when ful
ly shall be reckoned a disgrace and
a fire-ruined wood a crime; when
cabins and ugly cottages shall be
replaced by homes made beautiful
by loving care, however humble
they may be; and when a thickly
settled and well trained population
shall not only relieve country life of
a . a ft k
devc,opmenl bul
inai isolation wmcn has most re-
give needed support for all the
conveniences of twentieth-century
rural life rural telephones, water
works, the township high school
with its public library and lyceum
course; the school a center of in
tellctual and the church of spirit
ual activity, each giving symmetry
and beautv to a community life
wmcn nod s its material basis in
nigh deffre 0f efficiency
nart f th kroner m.n
on the
Even as the painter when he
goes to his canvas, sees with his
mind's eye some beautiful vision
which he is to work out, even so
all of us should have before us
as we go about our dally tasks this
vision of the South that b to be,
and the part, however insignificant,
that we may have in helping its
fulfillment. We should all of us
like to see it with our own eyes, as
Moses yearned to see the promised
Canaan to which he led his people.
But whether we shall see it with
the physical eye or only in our
dream, it is enough that we may
have a hand in bringing it about,
enough that we may work intelli
gently and unselfishly to hasten
the comiDg of this better day.
And the one way is by giving
the child a chance. That boy of
yours, that boy of your neighbor's,
who already has the basis of all
character in that he is learning to
work, that boy who "warms his
feet cold mornings in the place
where the cows lay the night be
fore" he is the hope of the South.
That girl of yours, that girl of
your neighbor's, whose mind and
8Piritvi11 8011,6 d ve n
color to everything in a home
she is the hoDe of the South. And
only through
the school they can
be developed.
The boy and girl in the towns
are getting good schooling; the
farm boy and girl in the North and
West are getting good schooling.
Shall it be, then, that among all
our twentieth-century American
youth the Southern farm boy and
girl alpne, shall enter life's race
handicapped by shackles of ignor
ancel -
It roust not be so. The best in
vestment the South could make In
1910 would be to double its school
tixes and double the patronage of
?ur bh f hooIs D1 collegea. Only!
P'viaing ine oesi or isciuues
a e aW.ract .to tbe.S?lh
lld? or migrauon wmcn we need
w crease our percenuge or wnite
oopoMuon ana xo rei evo rurai
me oi isoiuon-, mm oniy oy eau-
caiing an oarpcopie can we ever
work out our dream of a bouth the
. , , ,
I hp nnt r of wnrwA rural and urban
,fe the intelligence and efSciency
of whose people, shall make it in
deed the foremost and the,' fairest
section of America,
Davidson county boasts or rais
ing more wheat to the acre than
I any other county in the State,
which ia 43 bushels per acre,
ORDERS RATE
REDUCTION
In North Carolina Freight
Cases State AVins But it
is Only a Near Victory. '
Washington, Julj 7. The. Io-
ter-ttate Commerce Commission
today ordered t a "reduction in
through PifM Ln WtninnJs1im
and Durham from Rdknoko dl1
Lynchburg, ' Va. It amounts to
about 9 centa a hundred pounds on
class freight and frotfl 4 to 8 cent
a hundred pounds on hay, grain
and packing hoose products.
Some time ago a complaint wa
filed with the commission by the
Corporation CommUiioa of North
Carolina atrai at t the Norfolk &
Western Hallway Company and
other earners alleging discricuina-
Durham by the railroads and all rg.
log also discriminatory and on-
reasonable rate to those points
from Chicago. Kast SL Loma, Cin
cinnati and Louisnlle. through
Lynchburg and Hoanoke.
The committion held that the
complainants charge of disc rimi na
tion was not sustained, lut that
the present class raUs of the Nor
folk & Western from Roanoke and
Lynchburg to Win ton -Sal era and
Durham were unreasonable; and
that the existing claw rales via the
same route from Cincinnati
to I
Wiosloo-Salem and Durham were
unjust and unreasonable.
Renting Yenus Owning.
Last week wilneaard the oriraai
zation of a development company
in Wades bo ro the object of which
is somewhat different from that or
dinarily proposed for such com
panies. Willi an authorised capi
tal of $100,000, of which $12,000
ill be paid in before business Is
begun, the Dixie Development
Company will purchase farming
lands for the purpose of renting
them to farmers oo such terms as
will make the renters eventual
owners of the soil. The re is a
large class, says the Anson Ian,
who rent farm land from year to
year and pay therefor a portion of
the crop. The company ptopo
.
to purchase tracts or una ror rent-
a . ft
ing purposes bul win male a con-
tract with each renter for a definite
period, with the provision that at
the expiration of that period the
land will be deeded to the renter
or his heirs and assigns.
The new organization should
play a big part in the development
which is now to noticeable in
Anson county, and ahould make
that development both more rapid
and more substantial. A farmer,
renting his soil from year to Tear
has little or no incentive to make
improvements, and without these
his agricultural methods are likely
to fall into the rut of stagnation
and retrograde if only from the
reason that they do cot progress.
On the other hand, if that farmer
knows that his land will eventuUly
become his property, there will be
the best reason in the world why
he should make every exertion to
improve his surroundings . and
bring hb land to as close an ap
proximation as possible of its ulti
mate possibilities of production.
The new company means the pro
verbial growing of two Uades of
grass where but one has been
grown, and Its operation will be of
interest over a far wider stretch of
territory than is Included within
the county which gave it birth.
, Crooked Creek News.
Crocked Creek. Joly t We mxm fcar
Ira; aota "Tixat akw vmIW bow for
Uri&jC br com. ,
We are fUA to wlocxa Uru Faa&ie
Uogsa aail cMUrea of Cufloo, & C,
tck to t&e aoaatfti&a for tbm
Mlae JttmU Tlaaier of Kbo. who
will t"ch the DHhlebra acboU. hs
arriwd.
Cropa are looking Co oo Um crk
bow t4 toidut peotl are abovt 4ao
Ujinx-ly. ,
'. Hi ZSU OibKM kaa gooe to Oardea
CtrT whrre abewill act aa edr'asl
teacher ot that acbooL "
Dora, to Mr. aad lira, Uliah ttr4
Shaw the rd. a imnt hte.
Now. CNarU. Aiy O.Tva Ilar
for UorU lie be to a rwrf old snaa If be
U a bachelor.
PEOPLE'S FORUM.
(TfcU Arfurt ft.
$mm mm fUs fc. TW
U minimi MttfttVftiWftt
Mcuntiiq Scenery.
Aahford, Joly 4. Ilecectly a
member of the F. aad L Order of
mtJ'Jn?n
aayi it waa the original Chsckey
Joe, but that way worn warxiertr
must hare dird locg ago), a ad wt
made the ascent of HooeyccU
cxmntaln (3T00 to iSCO ft) to
gether; I as pilot for
and be for the prakm. Froo Lia
ille Falls station to fklii oq
westerly slop, at summit. caJUi
three and a half tailra; bet safer to
aay'orer four up, aad czAtr ihrw
down by the aaxt rvvl Tb
IVooytraSU re in a few pUc
fwC Uiod. U fairly
well defined and rarely tery aip.
It pass a bore the Cl Face cl5.
and higher up. imnxrlUuly at lam
of a long lit of prtxipitot erafv
Here, right br trail, u an excelled
rain rtot (a d ox-en or rore recti
find ahelur) ealletj Cal Cabin.
Hooeycutl moucuin culnir-atrs
in two well dcfitmj kto'jt, lh
South Knob, and htrhest. aji
as the lower North Koob, icr
gtnlly on the west, oo rasUm
side oterhaajif the r&cr txirtherly
end of the Vale of Cbesloth (North
Core) With hasgitg wools arl
many bold arJ pktarq cragi
under th kdg of whkh ooe caa
often Cl fthelur from siiea
thunder ahoera. This is the cm
at Drown crar. froo whch Ihere
is a fine view of th opt? 1 of
North Core, and trlow u wa dis
tinctly J. H. KlUVa, Mrs. Pirk
McCaira, Wtlftoa'a, Joe CocJevV
and as far dowo it T. II. Brow a a;
and looking across the lorr uplift
of the LiariUe rage, rie lh
tilled table-top of Nasxxia (Tahie
Ilock) and to left of ii sharper
crags of Nokatta (Hawksbtll).
South of TaUo I lock show Lopa
only of the grated prtcipkra of
Cocnatara (Chimoey oosctaia).
These cliffs form the tcott wotider-
rtMUM
ft wttJftatS U f mm Hi, i
I eeoeoeoeoeece&e&eceoo-eocco-c-ae.
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NOMINATION COUPON
Goood for
To Uxtsnx far;aEft. Urv, ?.
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Signed.
P. O.
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To the penoQ who notaicais the wtair cf lbs Graj
Prize, The Vtxirm will give StjOO tn CarA. SfwTtrst
of Cootesi oo another pag.
ooecoeooecoeoo-ooo
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 &o
you can spend the winter com
fortably. Write at once or apply
in person to the
Hewitt Construction Co.
, A. a HEWITT. Sec SL Trtas.
Pembroke, - Kentucky.
and get the work, make the mo
ney and have a good time.
fcl Walrcrgvs Wa!L wiU ar3
witchlike, ta all li Orrr IV cf
Ottaray (HigUaais cf Weatera
North Carol! rai Far ctir li,
Utra ti Cre tzzrti c'.f ifiAi
stooe) of li IiarilJe brlL,
aod ti trta oorc rzxxJ rar-t
exteodirg frcta Jcm Iliige (oa
this low there is IxrtizS HcUO to
ShorVcf (Oc Uy -tar kX tLrccgh tbe
dcpi and cra!eal casyoa cr
coctUin com taut cf tbt Kcky
focstalrj. The wtll-ktra Hkk.
ory-cct Gap (EmkUv Gorgt) b
Rctherford cectty, is txA at leer,
tor as deep, arJ Ira. IcUJy ji
tsresqct; Inieetj lit Lb t ills Gcrre
b ao wilily rcgtd cc4 ma a Ira3
as yet petlrstra its rtccaurjs, wLtre
bear u still kiHed txAy ersry
seaaoo. Ost rtcexUy hrr'di tar
Alupao bet escaped Izlo tbt LcrI
Laods ca lisTilk,
Looking wrattrarif froo Htrri
cqU there Is a fsB tk cf tLt
whole razg cf li tUack
Ui SeeooyaaX. izdvilzj: ML
MiUhn, fc,7ll fU Utukc!i);si
ia ti cttJut G racl falbf r eaocd
Ula (Tarawha) yearly ,0.0 fL
To left f Ul, HacxisjT Hck,
Scgar Mocaula, FU'g lWh (Klco
UakaV. the Hcr:p(clc cf Hi
Iliige (Kcctasci); aiJ to htl cf
the ICvcls, .SLaky IlaiJ cf HkUrj.
octGap,5srir Lcf (Saicla) la
liroierioQ cocilr; aocliwaris
Macka.ra ula az4
Hole Knob; rrt cf li Ses'-h
Mocataius (OalaacLsX aiil tziz,j
cdert, A grar4 tkw, ati wilila
not over focr cr r zz.',c cf
Allarja; ai etva cmartr to Aa2
ford-
TVere art to g-aoi cccrtry
ttcma ia li rxar
aJ
lirrw gwJ ioardlg Locint;
w McCalfa, aoi Jaa. IL
miio
Hroa'ft, as4 Saa BmwaV, a3
wiihla abcKil a ;&artr cl cf
Ilaile Falls &tg sta'Joa, whkh la
aboct Cftom c?e conh cf Mark-a.
AlliUiie al Aahford aiot ITD L
Yocn trsly.
Hcrxixsiourr Vtx
Free trip to Aptlchlaa fix;ca
lioa. DoQt tsiia this cjcrtctity.
Sead ia li txcaiaalka cos pea asi
iik yocr f riecdi to Lep yea. Yea
caa wia with a i;' tfforL
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