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—jf £*a ~m «.i- -wi Lrmrt^
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we five he.e a summary of the
speeches made oo the occasion. Mr.
PIMMJ Peel called the meeting to
order by.a tap of the favel at about
3 o'clock, lir. Peel was elected
permanent chairman of the Meeting
and a»fe a few pointed remarks
oca nag wpvoojcci oi ik mfci"
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A sketch of the speech delivered
the Good Roada tweeting. «s taken
t» MrWWteriMfcel ftw s*ld\M
put; "W* v* -»•• iM 1 1
"Neighbors, friend* and geatle->
men. this conventionAas been call*
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ed wttlMU true and aubiaep and
motive unou actual iu«l.s
ep»-w**w
Mmhml* W «M aim t «
(iciuanus ui »ii nnern-icmiip ]>ro
pie, who love their .' county at
poned nnUriofcitf etarv *anr*«hl
his vo ce against the present unfair,
iiniiniLftnri wianmhlr road tyAtMu
I unjust and
should not be allowed, In this
convention to day we want every
one who will to express his own
Urge. Not to tell of take gone by
bat to produce evidence why or
wky not the pre*nt unjust labor
system jnft system
whereby sll-daases may be£t their
equal proportion of the batdea as
they do in the maintaeance of all
otbet publ* property. »| ~jf ;
"I want to state to yon gentle
men that this meeting was not call
ed foe •ow owp» laudatory fooling,
but being placed id the position we
ate; we have heard the complaints
of the people and have seta their
neeft uhfff W that a dhafcge
was inevitable and. my good
friends, the sooner we make it the
TT^yritff
IWInX
red years cities had
and for thatand many oGber tea
wardneas m. China has but awake
to pfoifrerity as Oar own-Republic;
/that onr children, our grand-child
ren and even our great-grand-child
rwiFßsm,%
arise from the slumber yon have
been sleeping and look back and
ruiawi rtmsiws of Nwif Ba
bylon and see what her first pro
moters in art. science, commerce
and governmental affairs wen,the
WKhways. Think
Christian era. Think of Rome,
500 years before the birth of our
Think of Napoleon building roada
pnsinwiu
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to help us.
"^ lth good
will he as near neighbors. 'Amafket 2
only be th* garden spot but the
pleasure grounds of l4hxti»s6int y.
Mr. Hy«u« Pstl followed the
chairman in a very timely speech.
He said in pmiV r *
"Mr. Jim Ed Mcnae weey said a
truer thing in b& life whe* haaaid
ha conld allow an opposing lawyer
to be of an opinion directly hoatile
to his own; yet, there would be no
haiil feeling at 41. Now that is
exactly what we want here to-day.
pre want free'and opeta discussions
on the matter of good roada. aad
there should be no bad feelings
manifested.
burg qpunty is in the lead in North
Carolina because she has the best
highways.
"Taxation is for the benefit of
iH. Jtt.SPMtea»gL ! . The man
thing. Your factories and ho nets
may ba burned up, bwt gda4 ro9|i
asa permanent Look to the ia
tnre and be manly my countrymen!
Not only will yon reap the benefit
that all who were in favor of better
roada please rise on their feet. The
1 Or. Vf. Peel spoke at fd&Wf:
"The young men are no better
than their fathers to work the roads
of this District. The only trouble
is that they are too lazy, confound
them. v
"The people sre being ground to
death by the oppressive hand of
taxation. Vou come here with this
movement of good roada and you
aeek to pot the weight of tax ou
the shoulders of tbcfce who bore up
the standard of the lost Cause aad,
who spent the vigon of their youth
A le field. You bring
°Cb»y hairs in sorrow to
the |
| SMI of Mr. W. C. Manning:
"Wdbhairmau and Fellow-citi-
Mw! 'We are hdl heft
taxation of the people. Trtiis
meeting .was called after AaadfclP
beration by the spontaneoas out
cry nfihe people The
argument of my 'predecessor is
based On absolute ignorance of
the situation. In this grand old
Republic of ottrs iaxadoikis used
to the best
mote the general ""welfare of the
*** grind them
to death. If we were Savages like
the Indians before the' Revolution
we wohld licSrVTlftltln, we
would, in other words* . have no
agents to carry p« pur govenifieut
lot ds, Would have to be at
war with our neighbors and our
lives would he in danger every
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uaiVKioii piy iiirett.uiK's as nitu t>|
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lafimJ grj-u-ul *v\A/i« Knl to Hav
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Mhm then follow dtiaeas—with
oat an taxation we can
take the surpln| Off hand and we
WU improve the- leading roads pf
t&e chanty, starting at the &ntra'
points, and Step by Vtep we cahjm
prove all tKe letting roads of eiich
township throatftfftit the bounty.
It is best to begin at Willianiston
and Tatm-svitie 'ihA -fhe other im
portnat tow as and isn prove them
first for they are used mor a and
would be direct pall
right away."
MSOLPTIONB ADOPTKD.
PXRAMSLK ■*
Be it resolved that the citiaea
tax-payers of Griffin's Township do
aak ihat the fceprtaentative of Mar
tin county ra tlw 0 ext Legislature,
have the following resolutions pnt
through lor the connty of Martin,
provided the county eUimissiotiers
endorse this resolution, if not, this
iifc»tß(i6n'Muffi apply toOrtffin**
TWWnship.i. j- >f r '
BKSOI.UTION
. Be it enacted that the County
Martin county, and. furthermore
that all o—is icts convicted of petty
offences be placed upou our roada;
'»!rr k /Yfer!P te
be at the discretion of the connty
commissi oners.
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CaiaUs a4aii
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The startliug anueuncenient that
a preventive of suicide had been
diacovered will interest many. A
ran down system, or despdndency
iuvaribly precede suicide and some
thing has been found that will pre
vent that condition which makes
MHeMelttfetf. At the first thought
of self destruction take Electric
Bitters. It being a grert tonic and
nervine will strengthen the nerves
and build up the system-. It's alsd
a great Stomach, Liver and Kidney
liglhtir. flbly 90c. '^Satisfaction
U It Is extffmiieil by
wbteb to m-srlr dmii.la the Bgnra at
Isas than ten years ago ' This groat
expansion of tba HMmue-tud the (swt
al expanse as well, wbleb Is ITH
grsater-flalargely due. of contse, to the
gNSfeut ttir rural free dellrsry
The spproprlstlon for the rural free
delivery service for the coming year
to rM.77n.7n0. but (Ms mm Will «Sf
enable the depsrtaient te create ss
many new route* ss were possible tost
year. The reason for tbto to tbst 07
per cent of the spproprlstion will be
HMd to pay sslsrles at carriers tinder
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order of thing* ft will bo possible to
establish routes st Ute rate of about
600 a month. At this >otlrs
pointed s rural msll carrier on a roote
that lias been given op by two man
hsianst of the rigors «t the posltloo.
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This disease has lost its terrors
since Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera
and diarrhoea into
cases of bowel complaints in child
ren i^^avyt^jyherever
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mtomam annuau.* IN
I*MN rtaasss *Mkm MbUI af Ik*
w»M» •* i*u>el|igtoee ma B*lM
tt» AnMrWaMpl* haw MHO* to
•WwUU tbe (act feat tbe food road*
qaeetkui appears at last to be taking
and ettorty fflagmlsd oa the other
teaA at oar almost total lack of good
im* and w slmoet atjpr want of ap
preclatton of the advantages of prop
arijr Improved highway*. Aa a result
of this. ear daplorablo roads have at
taloed a worldwide reoown, which
Km Or detraeta from oar reputation of
B an nt sptlnaally enlightened and
progress! va people.
11*™ willing sohmlaa lon of tba A mar
DU people to tba asedlfeas and burden
L MM condition of ow country roada la
I a ramarkabla ctrcumstancs. Careful
I iotudr of tbia matter aeems to Indicate
'that tbia to wholly due to lack of
knowladira nad appreciation of tht
comparative tuned to of Improved road
ways over bad aato and tba onae and
low coat by which tba beat of roada
I may be secured.
, "It la wholly Inconsistent with tba
, characteristic aatarprlae of Americana
mat tbay aboak) willingly aubmlt to
• tba conttnoooa and nssdls— loaaaa dot
t to lack of good roada. rapectally whan
thaaa loaaaa nraao (rant la a tow yeari
' aa to equal the coat of balldlng tba
• ft beet roada to tba world throughout
I tba aatlra comity. Thla ramarkabla
tact can only ha accounted for y tba
raault of oar deplorable Ignorance of
tba compnrattr* sronomlss. comforta
and plsasarae of good and bad roada.
It la coasirvstlTwly aatbuated by
gotenuaeat officials that wa are nesd
toaaly losing ar waatlng over 9000,000,.
o«> aach year bacanae of oar bad
Hloada. inn king a pad tag of ovet 93,-
'1900,000 tor every working day In tbe
ilfaar aad an Individual Ut of nearly
|*M each year tor a vary person In thin
EK -Thla aatlmala li for tba direct mon
! ay.laaa aad taksa no acroaat of the la
, cMaatal disadvantages, diacoraforta
aad toauavsalsnesa at bad roada.
I Which woald probably exceed the dl
ract moneyed loss. Besides thla, tba
Inai aaaad valaea of farms reached by
pood roada woald amoont to aa anor
moaa sum. la Now York and other
etataa tbia tamaae to selling values
baa squalad from pi to 9100 aa acre
la many caaea
"Aa latraaaa of only 98 an acre on
tba eotimato of acraa for
tba coon try would amount to some
thing like £((,000,000.000. or mora than
enoegb to balk) tba beat and finest
main roada to tbe world-aboat 1,000,-
00D mllaa— throughout tba entire coun
try several times over, aad by recently
developed methods to road building the
Mat roada caa be built for a coat which
aboald not.ogcaed aa average of 92,000
g mil* Tbe Interact oa tbia awn of
-90,0004)00,000 at 4 par cent woald build
all the mainly traveled roada In tbe
country to ¥aa than ton years at a coot
of only 10 par cent of the Increaaed
farm rslaa.
"Proas tbla it appaara that wo woald
rocelve benefits from Improving our
main roada la the tocraato of farm val
tia alooe equal to two and one-half
told, or HO per cent of their aoet.
-A direct as ring of 9900,000.000 a
year, Igwad at 4 par cant Interest,
woald aarry a coat of 112,800.000,000.
Tbla la over six tlmea, or 000 per cent,
af tba naciaaary eoats of the main
, roada for tlio entire country.
"If the Indirect comforta, benefits
aad aavtnga will eqoal the direct sav
ing we will have another Item of 9000,-
000,000. Tbia makes the total baoaita
from good taolil roada equal to some
thing Ilka 990L000.000.0Q0. or fifteen
" dates their coat Tba latanat from
tbfe suu) at 7 per cant would pay tbe
Set of building the finest and best
main roada la the world throughout
Ibe entire country each and every yaar,
•These benefits are ao aoarmoua that
Lla difficult to rightly comprehend
m without making soma cootparl
-1 eons. Tbe benefits of *80,000,000,000,
tor Instance, are nearly a hundred
tlmea tbe amoont of tba coat of the
1 Spanish war anl cartalaly appaar to
make- thla the greatoat economic qu«a-
Ooa before thla eoaatry at tbe present
(Mir Nr tba VinMn.
Many tlmea it happens that tbe farm
dra In tba atonay season en nnot get to
tbe railroads, ami therefore tbe prod
ace whirl] ha would like to market and
for which tbe market ia elamoring ia
cat off by bad roada. Could tbe farm
4* at aU aanaooa draw bis produce to
the aadreat shipping point he would
aae his own time to better advantage
becaase be woald do this drawing NT
dull sea eons, and tbe rolling stock of
tbe rallroada would be far more ef
fsgtud. because a steady supply of
freight woall In a measure do away
with tbe congestion o t truffle wblcb
happsaa from time ia iiw« aad which
to a aoarce of great loas to all con
▼agvaata Work sis Ossiala aaaAs.
Oeoigla'a new vagraney law makea
It lawful to pat to work on tba high
ways any adult cannot abow be
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A THEFT FOLLOWED BY
BLOODY FIGHT
Will Small wood Shot Cliff Bland Five
Times, Three Balls Taking Effect,
I Then Made His Escape v
Bland went early Sunday morn
ing to catch the fellow whom ha
auaplcioned waa stealing hia fiah
out of hia neti on t! a cieek. Ht
went In pursuit of him from the
wharf but could not catch him ao
he got out. pointed hia gun at the
negro—after he saw him fiahing
with hia nets and aaw the water
dripping from them—and a treated
him Ho mat!e the negro row up
to him and take him to hia canoe,
which he had left down the river.
When they were about to change
frem one canoe to another, the
negro catching the eye of dland,
ran up to him before he could do
anything, and shot him three limes
in the mouth. They had a scuffle
in the canoe and creek, and the
negro shot him two more times.
Bland crawled on the canoe, for he
waa almoat exhausted; the nrgro
hit him on the head with the pad
dle, and went to hunt a pole to kill
him with. When he came back
Rlgnd pretended like he waa call
ing some fr ends to his assistances
ami the negro ran away from fright.
Th- piatol ball was extracted
Mm Blond s neck Thursday even
ing. •
I he negro is in jail suffering from
a lick inflicted on hia head.
BUil'i Statemeat
l ast Sunday I went U* the river,
saw Small wood with a sack and 1
emarked to three young men who
were standing near, going ;o
get my fish andl can catch him too
I forthwith peisued l>im to the
mouth of the creek. He ha just
fished the net and the water w>s
dripping off ot it.
Then 1 followed him tip the creek
to catch him and I found that I
could not catch him, lor he had to
minutes start on me,so 1 landed and
made him come across the creek to
m« by arresting him with my gun.
Then I made him paddUe ma down
to where my boat was. When 1
went to shift canoea he caught my
eye and as I turned, he jumped at.
me and shot me three times in the
mouth. Wa went together and
fought in the canoe and fell into tne
creek. He shot twice while I was
in the creek. .
He tri d to drown ma but he waa
unable tn I crawled up on the ca
noe almoat worn out. lie hit me on
the head with the paddle and said
he was going to get a pole and fin
iah me.
I had cruwled out on a log and
u I heard him I holloaed come on
bnygl come onl
This frightened him and h* ran
away. Thit is what saved me. 1
crawled and walked about two and
one half miles to Mr. Wilson's.
Smaiiwood's SUlement ♦
Mr. Bland went down there
drawed hlg gn» on me and told ma
1 had been stealing his fish. He
made me come to him with my
boat and be got in my boat. After
paddlinc >r " , y boat to the mouth of
the rivof* wjtli his gun on rte. -*He
told m ho was of a g«>o > mind to
kilt me anyhow and he struck me
over the head will, his gun. I shot
bun three lime*and th b attorned
A Sianr COM *
A summer cold ia not onlv annoy
ing but if not relieved Pneumonia
will be the probable result by Fall.
One Minute Cough Cure clears the
phlegm, draws out the inflamation,
heals, soothes and straightens tbe
lungs and brooical tubes. One Min
ute Cough Cure i 4 an ideal remedy
for children. It is pleasant to the
taste and perfectly harmless. A cer
tain cure for Croup, Cough and
Cold. Sold by Anderson Crawford
l&Co.
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lover in the creek. I went out first!
Will Small wood was caotured till
the wood* of Bertie county Tuesday
■bout i a o'clock, u a result of the
strenuous work of Sheriff Crawford
assisted by Chief Page.
He was jailed about 4 o'clock.
The court house yard was. almost
full of people as the Sheriff drove in
with the prisoner.
A * Mil
N rvnvvi fIIIVVII rnt
is one that will cleanse the system,
set the liver t» action, remove the
bile, clear the complexion, cute
headache and leave a good taste iu
the mouth. The famous little pills
(or doing such work pleasantly and
effectually are DeWitt's Little Early
Risers. Bob Moore of Lafayette Ind.
says:"All other pill I have used
gripe end sicken, while DeWitt's
Little Early Risers are simply per
fect " Sold by Anderson Crawford
& Co.
Rural Routes
Washington, N. C., Aug. 4,1904
To the Editor:
I will you kindly to publish
a brief communication in the inter
est of the extension of the rural
free delivery service, the value and
convenience of this service to the
farmers who live more or, less re
mote from existing post offices can
not be qmntioned. If one doubts
it let him go into the homes of
, those who are now served by the
, rural carrier.
There ate at preaeut 57 routes in
, operation in this district. The fol
. lowing counties have two or more
existing routes: Pitt, Msrtin.Beau
fort, Pasquotank, Chowan, Hyde,
Perquimans and Washington. Pitt
stands at the head of the list and
has in actual operation 24 routes.
The next in order are Martin 8
, routes, Ben n fort 6 routes snd Pas
quotank's routes. The counties of
Chowan,; Perquimans and Hyde
have eaCli four routes and Wash
ington county has two routes.
There are jitious pending for 21
routes starting from s number of
post offices. It is significant that
the applications for this service arc
more numerous and insistent where
the service ha- already been estab
lished.
There are six counties in which
no routes have yet been established,
namelv: Currituck Camden,Gates,
Hertford, Tyrrell and Dare. Ap
plications are pending in Gates
county for one route each from
Coreapeakc and Sunbury poet of
fices and ati application for one
route in Hertford county is pending
from Ham llsville post office.
It would be extremely gratify
ing if this, service could be extend
ed into sections of Curiituck, Cam
den and Tyrrell counties. It is
probable that the >ervice could
not be established in any part of
Dare county except on Roanoke Is
land where probably an ideal route
could be arranged.
It is necessary that the people of
the locality which desires this ser
vice shall first move in the matter
by laying out a route and getting
up a petition aud map and forward
tbe same to their Representative.
All that your Representative can
do is to call the matter to your at
tention and empasize its importance
Any citizen who takes an initial
part in thi« movement will deserve
the thanks of his community.
I shall be happy to hear from any
citizen and to forward literature
and blank petitions. Each route
must start from a post offioe, pre
ferably on a railraad or at the
County Seat. It must embrace a
distance of about 25 miles and there
must be at least 100 heads of fami
lies to be served.
Yonrs respeztfu'ly,
JOHN Hf Small.
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