»e«<*d witbiu the next few
weeks.
condition of Mr. P. O.
McCorkle, who met with a aeri
nwawey occidrut last
Thursday a week ago, is ex
tremely critical. Up to last Fri
day morning his mends were
disposed to be hopeful of bis re
covery; hot dnee then many of
them have concluded that the
c**a is worse than desperate.
Watchers at the bedside, espec
laHy since last Friday, have
been fearing that the end might
come almost at any moment.
The faarily of Mr. William
Brown, near die Tavara Cotton
mill, met with a strange adven
ture, yesterday that came near
resulting in the death'of all Its
■embers. Shortly after dinner
everybody who bad been at the
table became deathly ferick with
nausea, accompanied by vomit
«ng. Nobody eeemed to know
what the trouble was. Dr. W.
6* White was telephoned for
end shortly after his arrival con
cluded that, poison had been ad
ministered in some way and at
once began to administer anti
dote*. It developed that Mr.
Walker Brown, who suffers from
asthma, had been induced to In
hale the smoke of jixtson weed
•asremedy, and he had under
taken to prepare the weed by
grinding ft in the coffee mill.
The mut was afterwards used
for grinding coffee for dinner,
and in this way the members of
the family got a dose of the
poisonous weed in their coffee.
For a time it looked aa if five
■embers of the family might
die, but since then all have re
eoveted and are out of danger.
»«Mh *1 Cart. Rufus Roberts.
Shaft? Dslhr Km. XXfc
Capt. Rofus Roberts, whose
iUnew baa been noted in these
columns, died feat night sbont
12 o'clock. While the end was
£f y«t the news of
Me death which quickly spread
over the town and county this
Cept, Roberts was one of our
P* • consistent mem
ber of the Methodist church for
top**! 60 years. He was s
Confederate Veteran-Captain
&2T‘ut.(L ^E2L,“S£r
Capt. Rufus Roberts has never
,.C*pt. Roberts was married
three Umes. First to Mbs Mar
Hi* Sf/Sf.* "'S*1 *° MiM
tha Wilkie*, tod last Mum Sarah
Randall who survive* him. He
McADCUVttiir
McAdenvillc, June 22—The
protracted me* dug at the Bap
thit church cloned Tuesday night
•Iter a- pioStable series of ser
vice* by Revs. Church and Vip
pvtmuo. There were five addi
dittoes to the church besides a
number who were revived; al
together. it was a good meeting.
Mr. J. P. Clemmcr add force
am during more carpenter work
making additions to some of the
dwellings arid repairing other*.
**« “*“**£« an improvement on
Mr. a. B. Brymer’s house also.
.Mi*J Maggie Lytion of Gran
ville S. C. who has been here
several months has returned to
her home.
Messrs. II. L. Jackson and E.
H. Hooper, of Salisbury, were
here Sunday to see Mr. Hooper’s
mother who la critically ill. We
are sorry to say that Mrs. Hoop
*T’« condition is touch worse
this morning and it is thought
that the end is near.
Miss Eliza Jenkins, of Char
lotte, spent a few days here last
week visiting friends and rela
tives.
Oscar V. Hare of Bessemer
Citv is hen recuperating after a
prolonged siege of chills. We
think he has them broken up
now.
Mr. I,. B. Reeves spent sever
^ d«y* to Hickory last week.
The game of hall here last Sat
urday between Lexingtou and
McAdenvillc was good especial
ly the latter part of the game.
uuv ugi ugys were neicaicti in o
«orc of 5 to 1. Wbcu we con
sider that Lexington is one
of, if not the best amateur teams
in the state, it shows that onr
boys played well.
Onr boys will try their hand
wain with the Charlotte Pipe
Foundry boys on the ground
here next Saturday evening.
The Jr. O. L. A. M. and tnc
Sunday school* of this place will
unite ia a big basket picnic on
Saturday July 1st. Arrange
nude lor an eu
joysble time. The Chadwick
Band will furnish music and
there will be singing by the
children and then there will be
wem~?e by c<*«P«tei.t speakers.
Mr. Editor yon must come over
and help os enjoy ourselves.
THEY BEAD JESSE JANES.
Evil Effect of BaadU Bara U(.
mtm and Pfctnra Shows.
Wtlraiojrtoa Mar.
In connection sritb the recent
arrest of the Mason boys aod
young Guthrie, chsrged with
highway robbery on the East
Wilmington rood, it is related,
as a matter of fact, that their
undoing is traceable to an in
dellible impression made upon
their minds at a recent moving
picture exhibition of the exploits
of the James boys ia Missouri at
a recent carnival in this city, ac
centuated by the reading of
nnmerous dime novels detailing
the -deeds of daring bandit
heroes all over the country. The
boys were nightly in attendance
upon the moving picture exhibi
tion spoken of. and very soon
thereafter were possessed with a
consuminjf passion (or the cheap
literary trash so common in eve
ry neighborhood. Since then,
witnessing the moving picture
show and their introduction to
the outlaw series of the ten-cent
novel, the mother of the Mason
boys is quoted as having said
she could do nothing further
with them. They went at ev
•rytbing with reckless abandon
and. it U said rigged up a Jessie
James show of their own at their
house in the southern part of the
Ci¥i»e boys will be tried at next
week’s term of the Superior
Court*
0LD FUENACE.
Old Pomace, Jane 20—
Harvest ia about over, the wheat
nop was not good.
(To say you cannot be fitted iu a ready-made suit. d
if you think so it is evident ths.t you have not tried V
on one of our suits. Let’s talk it over. r
\ 20 PER CENT OFF t
m In nud-snmmer meant a great deal, just when you d
■ need seasonable goods. V
i Our Clean-up Sale Gives i
I You This Opportunity \
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j Swan-Slater Company S
f Head*to-Foot Outfitters for Men aud Boys. ^
MEETING OP GASTON'S
BUBAL LETTEB CABBIEBS.
Hr. Bsyeter Appoint ad Dele (ala
to A ah wills MeoliaC-Poor
Hundred Miles et B. P. D. Sor>
▼Ico.
The Gaston County Rural
Letter Carriers’ Association met
at Dallas Thursday night June
ISth, and had a very interesting
meeting though the nllcndaucc
was not what it could have been.
Among other tilings that were
done, they applied to the State
Association for a charter, and
elected Hr. Tboa. S. Royster a
delegate to Asheville to the
meeting of the State Association
to be held July 4th.
The next meeting of the
" Gaston boys” will be held some
time in July and one of the
members was instructor! to
secure et least two good speak
ers—men who know something
of the R. P. D. service—to be
present and address the boys.
We feel safe in saying that
every carrier in the county will
be well paid for hia time in at
tending this meeting.
The number of routes in Gas
ton county is rapidly approaching
! the twentieth mark and this
means nearly rw duci ok r, r.
D. service for the rnral popula
tion of the county.
CAPT. BASON S DISCOVERY.
The Pot-Keek ef tke Guinea
Causes Insanity Among Can
try Woman.
Charlotte Ob«cnci. 20tb.
Capt. George F. Bason, a ver
satile citisen of Gastonia, is in
the city. Between business
hours at the Federal Court be
converses with the boys, and
! lias a good time. Several yean
ago, when lying HI with a fever,
lilce Peter’s wife, he discovered
the reason for s greater per cent,
of insanity amoug country wom
en than any other class. As the
captain rolled helpless and ner
vous upon his ben a neighbor’s
guinea came to the back fence,
monoted to the topmost rail and
hollered: "Pot-rack! pot-rack 1
pot-rack.” The wierd, ghost
like call got on the patient’s
nerves. At every note the cap
tain felt like he would die, and
finally told his son, George, that
if be did not drive that guinea
away or kill it bis daddy would
die of prostration
The racket ceased and Capt.
Bason recovered, but he had
learned a lesson, and it was to
this eNect, that the calling of
the guinea-chicken causes in
sanity among country women.
He has told of his discovery in
every county where he practices
law. The guinea, he says, is
the greatest nuisance la the
wotla.
Now it The Tima
to taka advantage of the Ad
ams Drug Company’s one-hall
SHORT NEWS ITEMS
Lauty Craven, a ten-year-old
white boy of Lexington is in
jail ‘ for stealing thirty dollars
from a trunk. Suspicion was
directed to the boy by bis pur
chasing a bottle of giugcr ale
and tendering a iS bill in pny
raent. The Dispatch says the
boy is a terror in his neighbor
hood, and an effort is being
utadc to get the North Carolina
Home Society interested in his
ease.
While traveling seventy or
seventy-five miles an hour the
Twentieth Century Limited, the
fastest long distance train in the
world, ran through an open
switch at the little town of
Mentor, east of Cleveland Wed
nesday night, causing one of
most homble wrecks in the
history of the road. Nineteen
people are dead and many in
jured ' and the famous train
demolished.
Mr. E C. Edwards, a proini
Bent.X®unE tn*n 29 years of age
waa killed bv ■ train Monday
alternoon at Heoderaou. Mr.
Edwards waa walking on the
track at the time near the Ox
iora depot, ana within the
yards at a point where the
view of the track was obstructed
by a long line of empty freight
cars, and the train was within a
few feet of him before be was
aware of its approach. Kre he
could step from the track be
yond reach, be was struck in
the back of the head, receiving
a blow which fractured the
skull.
The News and Observer says:
Col. W. B. Rodman is in the
city from Washington, North
Carolina, and report* affairs as
blue with the farmers in bis
section. He says that potatoes
are uow selling at 00 cent* a
barrel, while a year ago the
price was $2.50 a barrel. "It
costa 43 cents to dig them and
put them ou the wharf" said
Col. Rodtnhn, “and the price
they get means a loss of from 40
to 50 cents on the barrel. The
big crop is the trouble, and it is
enough to make the farmers
blue."
Henry Noland, candidate for
governor of Georgia, is now in
jail in Carroll connty, charged
with the murder of his wife,
Mrs. Minnie Noland, by poison.
Ao Atlanta special dated the
20th says: Solicitor General
Render Terrell, of the Coweta
Circuit of the Superior Court of
Georgia, baa brought to State
Chemist McCandless the
stomach of Mrs. Minnie No*
land, which wilt be examined
by the latter official to aee if the
charge that the came to her
death from poison administered
by her bnaband, Henry Noland,
can be substantiated by chetn*
Leal proof.
A Salisbury special dated
June 21. ears: Mrs. Praneea
C. Tiernan. beat known through
put tbe country aa "Christian
Reid,1’ this morning suffered a
painful injury by a fall. Ska
was going from the drawing
room Iato tbe bail and slipped,
making a acre re fracture of the
kaee, from whkb aha will likaly
be disabled for quite a while.
This accident to thin gifted lady
will be aonowfal news to a
whok country of admirers,
bar books being generally read
throughout the Union. It oc
curred abont JO o’clock thia
moraine ami to night aha k
resting (airty wad.
lav. K. L. Own* ay to Harry.
Cards have been issued to the
marriage of Rev. R. I„ Own
bay ami Mks Pauline Egbert,
ghkb will ha solsmciaed at the
lorne of the bride's mother ia
Richmond. Va. The groom
mm formerly pester mf the
Shelby eirenlt and has many
taJBBB® MB » He® »Vwa I Jr,
ffalmerihn far Trig (Usgm
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1 Saturday §
I and Monday 1
I JUNE 24th AND 26th S
I White Madras Cloth 1
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Special for To-morrow and Monday
9c g
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136-in. Linene, Genuine i
Linen Finish g
Special for To-morrow and Monday
9c
riled S22.M6.
D. L. Arey, the well-known
Salisbury distiller, who is
charged with very extensive vio
lation of the internal revenue
laws in the operations of his ira
raeuse distillery at Salisbury was
sentenced by Judge Hoyd in the
United States District Court
Wednesday. In pronouncing
indgment Judge Boyd designated
taro penalties, either of which
would be acceptable to the court.
Mr. Arey was given time to con
sider tbe details at length and
after advisiug with bis attorneys,
to make known his choice to the
court. He may serve two years
in tbe United States prison in
Atlanta, and pay a fine of $6,000;
or if he is willing to return the
money of which he defrauded
the government, then the sen
tence imposed would be two
months imprisonment with the
nominal fine of $200. The costs,
amounting to $2,500, to be added
in either event. Mr. Arey was
due tbe government $22,000 for
spirits rectified ou which no tax
had been paid. This being sat
isfactory to the prosecution a
indgment was signed requiring
Arar to pay this sum. Tbe de
fendant admitted his guilt. He.
will pay the fine rather than be
imprisoned.
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Make. • specialty ot Con tot.
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SALESMEN WANTED.
WANTED—Salesmen and coltect
w ors to handle our good.s and ac
counts. Will furnish horse and bug
gy. M. C. D. Owen, Manager Sin
ger Sewing Machine Co., Gastonia.
Dr. W. H. Wakefield
OF CHARLOTTE
wiU be in Gastonia at the Pall*
House on Thursday. July 27, lor the
purpose of treating diseases of the
Nosc and Throat mid
Hitting Glasses.
poctnr can be seen in his
Charlotte office in the Hunt Build
*"JP 011 cv<?ry Monday and Tuesday.
Aleo on Sunday by emergency
_ Ptn.
NOTICE.
Saturday, Jsl/ t, H*S
ft thy hour ot tra. o'clock a. «.. the lollow
11 * .dT*CI ^fd r*al estate Isis* mar lu and
A. O. Wampum. ConmUnhmei.
FOBECLOSUBE OF BEAL ESTATE
Salt of Lnl la Btumtr CHy
N. C.
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