Bogs, the old boat is going
font right. She it headed to
ward the winning pdrt, she has
the proper speed, she is Tunning
smoothly, the wind and the cur
rent ate wkh ns, the goal is in
sight, the watchers sie cheering.
Steady at the ears, no let ept
Pall right along one more weak.
It is gratifying to Gastonia sad
her friends to bear good reports
from Cherryville and River Bend
townships. Many of the good
people of those sections are Jfr>
* .30pMte*. with
toenr town and
Sg '
nee be slow aboat showing
oaf friendship for them arben
eccastna arises in tbs matter of
good roads or other pnbHc to
* g m M i mm * — d m g_ 11. ,
nap g piipgp OX tXIi TITSn HI UivUl •
AS Tf ML MVfMAirS IE PLY.
Like a bee In a tar-bucket,
Mr. L. M. Hoffman gets men
hopelessly Involved with eve ry
fatter. In bis latest circular ha
evades awntiala and quibbles
over non caiahHaM, and juggles
figures again. Let’s be quick,
brief, printed, but fast and ac*
Boiling down certainly we
it, Mr. Hodman. Our
aoinariri tseie written before the
advice waa given bat the advice
woaldpH apply bare at any rote,
■iaeeoer article is shorter, we
heMeve.br MO words than that
to which it waa farteaded to re*
ftt*
Ahnaa—No, no. Thera ia no
norerion to aeploy ahnaa.
Serif your organ at Kings
Mcntanln would* not have pro*
paaad to take pay for printing
abase of a landing citizen of
Palfaa, the newly adopted
county seat oi King county. We
gnMi year eMocts to frighten
people, hot it is scarcely fair to
planf abuse when yon have
niipgy otto Mciirta i itcut.
Cigif^rin that yon have al*
waya opposed raawval?—Never.
W« stated that we booored aad
wgirttl yon for-it. We did
('XpN yon deem tee conntry for
aaaMag tea right of tea peeple
te obt^ an^riacrioo oa ra*
Pyou didn’t core to
toeUt. The meat of the matter
*** Ok mileage but money, not
distance but dollar*. The cost
l* •«* exaggerated fifty per cent
<w wj other per cant, but given
•o correctly that: you write no
cihiciaw cl it at alL
Hour, now, Mr. Hodman, you
ouglu to quote accurately even
aa you inriot on being quoted ac
curately. We did not write,that
$1,000 had been “paid” rince
December. We did not refuse
to taka notice of any new notes
since made. The data suited US
all right., We took account of
qwi paid and notes wade sloce
December, and—without multi
plying words—wrote the net re
mit that “the indebtedness baa
bean reduced” by about $1,000.
No juggling in that. Not a flaw
anywhere, either in method or
results. You have simply gone
tangled again. If by ony.ttiag
processes for brevity’s sake we
published less than we knew, we
are still left on safer ground than
those wbo publish a littje more
than they know. A* to that
High Shoals bridge, the com
missioner* did not (dace it a
tnong the comity’s debts in De
cember, and they would not in
a sworn statement place it tire re
to-day. Still you keep on say
ing the bom is sixteen hands
Ugh. ___
XI cme were called upon to
naaae the moat popular innova
tion la governmental service
daring the two peat decades
looking to the greatest good to
the greatest number end in
creasing the intelligence ol its
citizenship each an one would
unhesitatingly same the estab
lishment of the rural free deliv
ery system. It b probably the
moat satisfactory, service for the
neat mass ol country people
that baa ever been undertaken
by the government. It gives
them many ol the conveniences
of a city life without the extra
com of living. It saves much
waste of time in going to and
from the poatoffice. It encour
ages the habit of letter writing
and increases at a manifold
ratio tbc circulation of newspa
pers and magazines. The farm
er b now able to keep informed
in respect to the markets and
the general movements in the
political and tnancbl world. In
deed. the establishment of this
system, in connection with the
telephone may be accounted
among tbc greatest of the edu
cational machinery of the coun
try, reaching classes of people
too old or too busy to attend
schools. Thu system makes
country life an ideal one.
» JnylWMarTm.
The Board of County Com
missioner* met yesterday morn
in* in imlu session and will
continue in session to-day. . The
jary list for May term jof court
was drawn as follows: 1st week,
S. W. McLean, J. W. Patterson,
B. W- Robinson, R. A. Lewis. J.
N. Roberta, R. R. Mauney. A.
R. Rankin, J. A. Costner, A. C.
Stroup, Jasper L- Armstrong,
G. Lather Beat, John W. Black
wood, Tbad C. Faires, B. W.
Boat. W. A. Lee per, Sr., B. T.
Lewia, J. R. Carson, Philip Jen
kins. Second week, Hugh L.
Black, M. A. Friday, John Q.
Rhyne, L. A. Friday, W. I.
Stowe. Martin L. Rudlslll, Rob
ert Mot on. Larkin A. Thorn bar*,
D. F. Friday, W. C. Williams,
J. C. Robinson, J. H.. RadisUl,
R. A. Caldwell, Walter Friday,
B. W. Goochy, J. R. Oninn, J.
J. Ratehford, Bd Kennedy.
The tax assessors sod Hat takers
will be appointed to-day.
an set
ita add
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REASONS rOR REMOVAL.
atleaa Which Nlkl Gastonia
the Ufkal Place for the Ceun
ty Seal.
r i l«W Mitur mi Uw OWMUi
The ordinary casual observer
says, Gastonia sboold be the
eonnty of Gaston county,
and active opponents of removal
say it will be some day. The
reason for these expressions
grow upon investigation. Gas
tonia is the popular center. It
is possibly not the geographical
center, but this is. of no impor
tance, since it is the citixens of
the locality and npt the locality
that goes to court.
Gastonia is a modem town,
having some 3,000 inhabitants
within its incorporate limits,
and some taro or three thousand
more just outside the limits.
One fourth of the people of
I Gaston county live within IX
miles of the town ball in Gasto
nia.
Gastonia * municipal advan
tages of water works, of electric
lights and pnblic schools are not
excelled in any town of equal
population and its churches
would be creditable to any city
iu tbfe State. Its commercial
future is assured, aud it is ex
ceptionally located for the con
venience of the traveling public,
cither within or without the
county. The main line of the
mutest railroad system in the
South passes from the extreme
east to the extreme west of the
county, so that the census of
1900 shows that ont of 27,903
people Is Gaston county, 10,168
Hyed within one mile of a sta
tion on the Southern Railway.
Poor passenger trains going
each way past Gastonia airily;
two going each way stop at ev
ery station In the county, and
the schedule* are as convenient
as persons having bnsiness at a
court ' house could reasonably
expect or desire. The Caro
lina and North-Western Rail
way passes through the county
from south to north and makes
Gastonia accessible from points
north and south.
Iu 1900, 16,888 people in Gas
ton county were just four miles
nearer Gastonia than Dallas.
With the increase of population
rioce that time it is safe to say
that two thirds ol the people iu
the county arc nearer to Gasto
nia than to Dallas by four miles.
It is also true that to one half
of the other third, Gastonia is
more accessible * and more con
venient, notwithstanding the
fact that Dallas may be aearer
to them iu point of distance.
Truly the section of countryi tn
mediately to the north of Dallas,
and a small scope east and west
of north is more convenient to
Dallas. On account of the Sea
board Railroad and the location
of the '.county roads Gastonia is
very accessible and convenient
to a great scope of the northern
part of the county. For the
practical purposes of transacting
business st a court house st
Dallas, our present railroad ser
vice is unsatisfactory. Very few
of us can depend on the railroads
to take us to and from Dallas st
the time we wish to go and
come, and as a rule to go to Dal
las mesas the time of a team as
well as of a man. Gastonia af
fords better facilities for appre
hending and holding criminals.
Onr people in the country are
peaceable aud law abiding—
the best citizenship in toe
world—but the disturbers of
society float along the rail
roa.! t and congregate in the
centers. The advantage of a
court house and a jail in a
center it double. It exercises a
wholesome awe upon the law
less and saves the expense of
transportation of the prisoner to
Soother town. A court house
and jgil hi Gastonia would save
the county about $300 per year
ou mileage of witnesses in state’s
cases.
‘ The court house should be iu
the largest town in the county
in order to give the greatest
possible protuiuence to all
bnainasa affairs of a public
nature. Foreclosures, judicial
sales of laud, or any kind of
sales nnder execution advertised
nod sold at a court house door
iu Gastonia would insure more
bidders and better prices titan
io n small town, and would give
an opportunity to more of our
citizens to acquire valuable
property.
A court house iu a commercial
ceutcr, like Gastonia gives
better opportunity to know the
location of the land. It makes
the connty records more con
veniently accessible to the busi
ness world and thereby increases
the market value of landed and
other property all over onr
countv.
The saving of expense and
improvement in the market
values of property is not the
greatest good that would neces
sarily couie to the county by the
removal of the court house to
Gastonia. Removal has an
educational value. A county
seat in a large accessible town
is a city set on a hill. Many
citizens of Gaston county come
to Gastoaia every day, on busi
ness or for pleasure.
County government located at
Gastonia rvonld be a continual
object lesson of our municipal
affairs. The facilities for be
coming acquainted with our
county government and all
affairs of a public natnre would
be increased and an incalculable
benefit conferred upon oar
citizenship. Our conrt rooms
loo, should be large and com
modious; not only for the
witnesses and suitors, but for
our good and intelligent citizens
Our courts arc valuable instruct
ors to our people in law and in
morals. As a rule a judge’s
charge to the jury is a good
plain, simple and yet compre
hensive statement of law to an
intelligent school boy who is to
become the citizen of] a great
county it is worth days at school.
In $ live busy town like Gastonia
the citizens of the county would
find flme to drop into court and
spend an hour, not as loafers, but
as good citizens learning some
thing ol the public affairs of
their country. Judge Hoke’s
charge to the grand jnry at the
fall term of our conrt for 1902 as
well as that of Judge Shaw at
the spring term of 1903, should
have been heard by jost as many
young men in Gaaton county as
possible. Pat the court house
in Gastonia; hold np yont light!
A court house in Gastonia
could be used os a place for edu
cational and philanthropic meet
ings, for Sunday school- conven
tions and like meetings of non
sectarian character, and on the
main line of the railroad would
make all advantages of this kind
most accessible to the county.
Government and all its func
tions exists for the benefit of the
governed. The convenience,
the advantage of the people, the
greatest good to toe greatest
nnrabeHistbegoverning principle
and the motto we cannot forget
without injustice to ourselves
snd our fellow citizeus.
Business men have been com
pelled to establish their stores,
their bonks, their hotels, and
we to locate our schools and
churches with refereucc to this
principle.
What our honored forefathers
did in other times, under other
-- ■ . . -
circumstance* Is an incident oi
history. The duty of tbe pres
ent, the eternal now, b npon us
and we must meet it.
We need a new court bouse,
briefly becahse tbe seating capa
city oi the old one is not suffici
cieut. There is no petit iury
room. No convenient waiting
room (or ladies who may have to
attend court—the offices are
small and the county superiuten
deut of public instruction has no
suitable place to conduct his
teachers examinations. Judges
condemn court houses these days
and we have too much county
pride ever to be put in the Ire
dell and Caldwell Co., class in
that respect. Let us build it
now while we have the opportu
nity to put it at Gastonia, and
have a measure! by which we
may pay for it.
A court house in Gastonia
means that the best and most
progressive county in North Car
olina has made a step forward;
that among her sister counties,
she is in a position to claim
the honors and emoluments to
which she is most justly entitled.
It means a united county at work
for the interest of every man in
it. It means increased value to
your property, permanence and
solidity to every institution; in
spiration a nd success to your
men of ambition and public
spirit; it means progress to the
community and good 10 all.
Gko. W. Wilsok.
Gastonia, April, 13, 11K)3.
List-Taken sad Tax Aasesaers.
At Tuesday’s session of the
Board of County Commissioners
tbe following were appointed list
takers and tax assessors for the
several townships, the first nam
ed in each list being the list ta
ker anil the two followi ng tax
UKSiors:
River Bend Township—J. M.
McIntosh, W. C. Thompson, R.
K. Davenport.
Dallas Township—E. L. Ma
son, John J. O. Pasour, G. R.
Rbytie.
Chcrryville Township—Jacob
Kiser. Melvin L. Rudisill, Hen
ry Kiser.
Crowders Mountain Townsliip
—C. E. Whituey, J. T. Oates,
S. M. Wilson.
Gastonia Town—W. I. Stowe,
J. Lee Robiosou, T. W. Wilson.
Gastonia Outside—A. C.
I Stroup, R. A. Caldwell. J. P.
McArver.
South Toiut Township—L. E.
Rankin, A. J. Smith, Rufus A.
Rate Ilford.
It was oadered by the Board
that the macadam road be ex
tended through the corporate
limits of the town of Lowell and
to tbe bridge at McAdenville.
Waste Filled
Promptly by an advertisement
in onr business locals depart*
meat. Ten cents a line for first
inacrtioui five cents a line for
each insertion Afterwards.
MorreAGEE s sale, or land.
Moafey. iyril IS. INI.
sSk v*siaf
k^o-rxtC jsfeassiraaas
| 2 < uitt not* or 1»««.
! t> la
Gaston Loan and Trust Co.,
Gastonia, N. C.
(Incorporated under the laws of North Carolina.)
Capital - • $ 12,000.
C. C. Cornwell,
J. 8. Torrence,
J. W. Moon,
T. I* CreJjr,
1. White Were,
C. M. Doan.
STOCKHOLDERS:
J. Let Robinson, M. A. Carpenter,
R. B Babington, O. R. Rhyne,
J» E« P*Wi Li P> Orovea,
W.T. Rankin, B. O. McLurd,
J. P. Thomson, Oeo. W. Wilson.
T. L. Clinton.
BOARD OP DIRECTORS:
K. M. Reid.
J. II. Wilkin*.
W. T Love.
C. Ii. AnuMruitK
S. M. Koliimon,
• #
J. Lea RoUiuon, W. T. Rankin, J. L. Craig, 8. G. McLmd, W. T. Low.
I OFFICERS:
an, A tty.
f opened
mpnslnjr
lepoiiti;
and life
wiodata
trace* of
i for our
will be glad to bare yon cooler
transact liar yon.
SUCH A BUSINESS
There is a rec^n forL'our
stores being the busiest
stores in town, and perhaps
you mayjlearn the reason
by looking through, t s
We have thrown on our
counters some big attrac
tions for this week. They
are worth your attention. .
Never before have we
met with such satisfying
success as experienced In
our Millinery Department
so far this season. It Is,
to say the least, the most
magnificent stock we’ve
ever shown. : : :
The giddy [whirl of fash*
in always finds us ready
with the latest require*
ments of the hour. t t
Our stock changes so
rapidly with our great
trade that the goods do not
have time to get £out of
date. * i t i s
All the new things are
here all the time and at
bottom prices. Visit us
often* alwny glad to show
you throi ih.
THOMSON CO.
$ S> THE PEOPLES STORE.
L. .. —. i ■ ...... . ... .. . Mm
HORSES MOVING
We now have on hand only about 25 head of Horses and
Mules. The last car load for this season has already
anrived. : :::::::::::::::
Twelve car loads is our record for this season I The
choice stock we now have on hand is moving fast; come
nt once and make yonr selection.
NEW BUGGIES.
With the arrival of spring we have recived a lot of nice
new Buggies just out of the factory. We aTe going to sell
them. Get one and enjoy that faster ride you are plan
ning fur.
CRAIG & WILSON
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