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The Polk County hews.
Columbus, N. C.
Cetered mi the Foet-office . totombi. Pelk
couaty. N. C. . at 2d-clatt mall matter.
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DIRECTORY FOR THE CWIRCHES
OF COLUMBUS.
PRESBYTERIAN T. C. Cbokeb, pastor
Preohin every third Sunday, 11 A.M.,
and ad night v - .-
BAPTtST Preaching ?.by appointment
- Sunday sohool every Sunday at 10 A. M.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL Preaching
: first second Jmd -tourth Sundays in each
month byRey. J. R. Wellbobn.
- Sabbath school at 10 A. M.
. OREBN RIVER CIRCUIT METHO
DIST? BHISCOPAL CHURCH SOUTH.
Ret. H. Psrbt, Pastor, Mills
C?ig, N. C.
OR I A L
JUS" KEEP ON KEEPIN' ON.
,If the day looks kinder gloomy
An your chances kinder slim ;
; If the situation's puzzlin",
r An the prospect awful grim,
An perplexities keep pressin'
Till all hope is nearly gone,
Jus brjetle up, and grit your teeth,
An keep on keepin on.
Fumin never wins a fight
! An frettin never pays ;
There ain't no good in broodin in
.. Smile jus kinder cheerfully
When hope is nearly gone,
1 An' bristle up, and grit your teeth,
! i f An" keep on keepin on.
! 1 There ain't no use in growlin'
I ) An fiTumblin, all the time
"When music's ringin everywhere,
An everything's a rhyme
Jus' keep on smilin' cheerfullv,
. If hope is nearly gone, "
An' bristle up, and grit your teeth,
An keep on keepin' on. .
. Anon.
THE IRREGULARITY OF THE
MAILS.
We have heard quite a good deal
of complaint in regard to the irreg
ularity of the mails in this county.
Now just where the trouble is we
cannot say, "but surely there is
something rotten in Denmark."
We receive letters most every day
from different sources complaining
uboul not getting their papers.
Some say that they get their paper
two or three weeks after it has been
printed. Some never got them at
all.
. Now what is the trouble ? The
answer is, simply carelessnes of the
postmasters. A postmaster has a
responsible place to fiiU. A place
which should be filled with much
are and pride, and unless so filled
the postmaster is not worthy of his
Jjigh calling.
Now let us do better in the fut
ure and not have so much complain
ing along this line. It is just as
easy to be careful in handling the
mails as it is to be careless, regard
less of the grave responsibility,
which , rests upon the postmasters.
. At the term of Polk County
Court just passed, the case of A.
Ifrench et ah against the Commis
l eioners of Polk County et al. was
tried.
' Xx. G. C. Justice and TL R. "TCavAa
secured a. decree declaring Mia
bonds valid and holding that the
Acts of Assembly under which they
wwc Kuwu were passed in accord
adce with the state constitution
This .forever sets at rest the valid
;ty of the bonds.
BRIEF AND B&EEZY.
If Jim Tillman' took any part in
entertaining the President in. South
Carolina the newspapers didn't
mention it ' . ;
Senator Depew wishes it dis
tinctly understood that he is not in
the market for grizzled and hoary
jokes ; he's got them to. give away.
Thft orn tinmen of the House
committee that has reported a bill
for an elastic currency are not nec
essarily rubber-necks.'
Minister Wu would doubtless
pay liberally for the privilege of
doing a little talking back at
Senators.
All coons look alike to the people
of Lawton, Oklahoma, and they
like none of them.
-New York policemen are red hot
reformers when there is no chance
for them to profit by winking at
law-breaking. - ;
Fitz Lee says he isn't seeking a
diplomatic job, but that is no
reason wh j ne should refuse one
big enough if it was offered him.
The " steering " committee of the
Senate has pushed the Ppilippine
bill, which is likely to be jawed
over for weeks, ahead of 'the Nicar
auga canal bill. But its members
still insist that the canal bill Will
be given a chance
Senator Jones, of Ark., is doubt
less glad now that he owns that
stock in the round bale cotton
company..
Is the Clark family trying to form
a Senatorial trust? There will be
three Clark's in the Senate when
Clark, of Ark., takes his seat.
Outside trust companies will not
be allowed to handle estates in
Connecticut; unless a decision of
the Supreme Court of Errors can
beknocked out ,
According to the report of the
Grand Jury of St Louis its official
bribery has for years been quite up
to the New York, Chicago' or Phila
delphia standard. If a few of the
criminals can be , convicted in time
they would make edifying exhibits
for the exposition?.
Humph ! So England is going
to protest against the action of Con
gress in favoring our own people
by abolishing the export duty, on
hemp shipped direct from the Phil
ippines to the U. S. The protest
is likely to be just about as effect-
ve as one made against a parent
uvjring his own children.
The men who are about to put
$6,000,000 in Marconi's wireless
telegraph system are not nerveless
whatever else they may be.
Bank looters have been actinir
on the idea that the small banks
had too much money on hand.
Danger at a football match isn't
confined to the players. The col
lapse of a stand at Glasgow, Scot
land, killed 21 and injured 250
persons. , ,.
That Berlin has some wideawake
real estate operators was shown by
the offer to sell a palace that its
owners didn't know what to do
with to the U. S. for our embassy.
The latest tomfoolery in connec
tion with that special embassy to
tne coronation of iung, Edward is
that its members are to pay their
own expenses. It is aueationablft
in the minds of many whether this
embassy; should have been named.
but so long as it was named and as
it will appear as the representative
of this nation its expenses should
be provided for by Congress.
When contractors fall out the
State learns that it was robbed.
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At least, it turned out that way in
juontanna. ; . . ....... w . .
The IT. S. and Mexico have ar
ranged to give the Hague arbitra
tion commission its first job.
A fact difficult of Explanation ia
that : some of the world's best
humor was written by men in tne
deepest trouble, mentallv an d
physically.
Jonn Bates, who has been n,r-
rested for a murder committed in
1895, is another believer in the
adage, " murder will out" v
Cecil Rhodes and Andrew Car
negie appear to have had some edu.
cational ideas in common, but.
Rhodes waited until after he was
dead to put his into practice.
Italy is threatening to engage in
a scrap with the Sultan of Turkey.
Perhaps the Turk may think the
dago about, his size and meet him
half way.
The question of . bar-maids or no
bar-maids is safd' to be causing
more agitation in ; Great Brittain
than the Boer war.
CLOSING EXERCISES ORTHE
CENTRAL INDUSTRIAL ;
The Central Industrial school,
under the iable , " eftrpervision , of
Misses ' McClahahiin ' and -Webster
will close Friday, April 18th, 1902.
The closing Exercises will be held
Friday evening, aVeigiit o'clock.
All parties a're invited to attend.
The programme tor the evening
follows :
: : : PROGRAMME ': : ;
Song,
PAYhB,
M edley oi Ntttional Airs
The School.
Rev.
T. C Croker.
Recitation,
Our Flag,"
Miles Gray.
Keoitation,
" Don't Jb'ret,"
Bessie Henderson. . 1
Recitation,
Song,. -
A Happv Little Cripple,"
Yates Arledge.
"Drive the, Nail Aright,"
The School.
Dialogue, " Stipe's Question,''
Myrtle Ham)ton and, Boon Arledge.
Recitation, "Elder Luuib's Donation,"
Bertha Gray. , .
iNSTEUMEXTAIi Solo, - :; - -
Itx Hampton."
Dialogue, "Columbia the Gem of the
Ocean,"
-Five Students.
Nankapoo from Japan, - Lillie Weaver
Hans Urinker from Holland, I). Hampton
Ali Hanan from Anabia, - J Arledge
Donna Isabella from Spain;' E. McFurlani
Rose Standish from England; L. C'ami)bell
Wild Bill from the Pampas of S, A.,
- Charles Gaze
' Minnie Arledge
- Courtin,"
Coin T.bia,
Recitation,
Mable Carson.
Song, , - , - " Tlfe Gypsy Song,"
lie School.
Recitation, The Crooked Mouth Family "
Lizzie Weaver.
Recitation,
"A Reverie in Church,"
Maud Newman.
Shadow Pictures.
Song,
"Beautiful Moonlight,"
- "The Dead Doll,"
Recitation,
Myrtle Humptoh.
t 1 - "True to the Flag,"
The School. .0
Song,
Recitation.
The Blue and the Gray,"
Mildred Wellborn.
Recitation, 44 When spies her Beau,"
John Arledge.
Fan Drill.
Catholics
of Montreal have been
forbidden to
attend the Passion
free advertising.
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cough. Price 25 cents.;
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children. It is cruel Vot to admin
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felt want in the hardware trade. We appreciate the
liberal share of patrotiuge extended to uk during the
past year and shall put forth our best eflorts to merit
a continuance foi the same
If in need of hardware,
harness, paints, etc.
we can
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(Opposite freight depot).
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digestion. They will purify your
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Gen trullndustrial
. uPena September, 2nd, 1901.
lhrk0linS thrOUgh f uiPPed Prepared to do the yery '
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Primary, Intermediate,
College Preparatory, Music.
A temperance community with good moral and social surrounding
Two well arranged dormitories under good management. .
Good attention given to all classes of students entrusted to our care!
Good Literary Societies.
' fhgiibray V ReadinS R00m Pen to.ali students without extra
; "Write for any information desired to i
MISS MAY
mil fc,
during the present yar.
buggies, wagons, saddles,
make it to your interest
your order, that' is, if prices1
plows, hoes and farming, toow
go at low prices. : :
Co,
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ase.rbmbmbbr.
All matter for advertising and
changing of '1 adds r should reach
us not later than Monday! noon.
This iijaturb id on crery box ofjtho genuin
Laxative BromoQuinine Tablets
the remedy that enres n cold in one day
.vteiercnee Awards at 2 greatest World'i Ei
.tion8 and thousand of graduates in vosltl '
-out or Full Biuineu Course, including
-on. Books and Board in family, about 90.
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'iTThe Kentucky Univerlty Diploma, under t
- rarded graduates. Literary Course free, if der '
'JVoTwcation. Enternow. Graduates enccc.
. In order to have your letter reach us, addre ', j
WILBUR R.SMITH, Lexington .
Note. Kentucky University resource. t500.C .J
'-d nearly low iwdmtt in attendance last lear.
Ctrlctly high-grada Family
Machine, possessing all m
Sewma
mbdern
improvements.
Guaranteed Equoltoihe Best.
Prices very reasonable. Ootaln them
m Trom your local dealer and
. i , maxe comparisons.
POLK COUNTY N. C.
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A
E. McCLANAHAN, Principal ! '