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DISPATC ' Hjm rioru iub THE DISPATCH, WET IOt TOCI it it Hirrus 1T8 u THE DISPATCH OXLT 02TI DOLLAB A TliX THE PAPER OF lvPEOPLE, FOR TIIE PEOPLE AND WITH THE PEOPLE ESTABLISHED X882 LEXINGTON, N. C. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 1910. VOL. XXIX-NO. 7 THE iLJLo SO SPECIAL 8ESSI05 SEEDED. leveraor Bevekes Call for the Leg islator to Haadl the Bond 8K aaUoa m Beads Are Sold. There will be no special session of he general assembly , to meet the ond situation because the Issue of 3,430,000 has not only been bought ut has been ' over-subscribed $435, 00. The governor has revoked his all for the body to meet June 14. Ills pleasing result was brought .bout at a conference of the council f state and the bankers last Thu re ar. North Carolina citizens came to he rescue of the state and bid off he remainder of the issue of bonds irepared for the redemption of an old ssue maturing the 1st of next month. Lddltional bids were opened Friday ,nd today the bonds are over-sub-cribed by nearly half a mlllon. As stated last week the American roba'cco Company bid off a solid mil ion of the bonds, and that paved the ray for others to take, np the re aainlng bonds. Various banking ltt titutlons placed bids and there was o much enthusiasm and good teei ng at the meeting that when it was ilosed, the men of money walked out, Inglng "Carolina." The efforts f the New York owners of he carpet bag bonds which vere fradulent and issued by he mongrel legislature of reconstruc ion times, to injure the sale of these lew bonds and hurt the credit of the itate, proved fruitless and today the itate stands as well before the world is it ever did Among the people bidding for the wnds were Miss Rae Wiggins, of Wilmington, 129,000, Julian S. Carr, Jurbam, $25,000, Judge H. T. Phil ips, of Falrvlew, Buncombe county, ormerly of. Lexington, $5,000. Lex ngton banks did not place any bids. : Opening of College Heights. Next Saturday is the opening day it College Heights. At ten o'clock lie Southbound Investment Company will begin to sell lots -to those who rant them around the Southbound lepot, the new (part of town that art that Is going to grow more rap- dly than any other. During the day balloons will be lent up, a free lot given away, a rood band will furnish music for the xcasion, refreshments will be served, ind a general big time is expected, fhls is a rare opportunity to buy real sstate at a bargain and you will make t mistake it you do not attend this pening sale, and It would be better 'or you to look the property over be fore the day of sale and select what rotx want. The lots are going to go it a' low price, and they are going to Mil rapidly. - -.-" . Remember, Saturday Is the day, ten vclock Is the hour and the South- bound depot site Is the place don't ail to attend. - See page advertisement on 2nd page. . J .-' 1 Wake County Fanner Drowned. Raleigh' dispatch, 13th: News reached here this . evening of the drowning Saturday of P. G. Adams, a well-known farmer, out at Penny's pond, this county, while helping to rescue two boys, Percy Strother and Ernest Penny. All were bathing In the pond. Adams went to crawl np Into a boat In which were the two boys when the boat capsized. - He helped to get the boys out to shallow water and when they reacned tne bank badly frightened they were hor rified on looking back to see Adams sinking for the last time. It was an hour before his body was recovered. No water in his lungs Indicates that heart failure may have followed his exertion In saving the boys and that this rather than the actual drowning caused death. He was 40 years old and a bachelor. . , ', Taft Saabs a Congressman. President Taft refused to see Con gressman Francis Burton Harrison, democrat of New York serving his second term, last ' Thursday when Harrison and two other congressmen headed a deegation of citizens who wished to talk with the president Harrison recently criticised the president for a blundering effort on the part of the administration - to smooth over a rough place in the Bal- linger episode. A state paper was purposely misdated to deceive con gress and the public, , and the New York congressman skinned the pres. ldent and his assistants. He asld he dldnt care anything about going to the white - house but be thought things had come to a pretty pass la this country when a congressman couldn't discharge his duty without Incurring the presidential wrath. The fat president loses a little prestige every day or two. If be lost flesh at the asms rate he would be a counterpart of the celebrated living akeleton by the time his term expires. . '" V Officer Kills a Negr, Policeman W. H. Russell, of Rae- ford, shot and killed a -negro man named Joh Bootman last Thursday when he was trying to take him be fore the mayor because he had not paid his taxes. Russell claims that Bootman was advancing on him with a hoe when he shot, and alleges that he acted In self defense. A , magis trate, however, lodged him In Jail, and unless there Is more In extenua tion than appears In the report of the affair, Russell Is guilty of use less and Inexcusable homicide. 17,900 Terdlet Against Wilmington. In the case of Susan Cregg vs. the city of Wilmington for $26,000 dam ages because, of the death of her hus band, E. M7 Gregg, who was killed by a pile of bricks falling on him on the street, the Jury on Thursday re turned a verdict of $7,000. The trial consumed six days. Suklde la Greeasber. Mrs. rnlily Powell, aged ti. com mltte.l suicide in Greensboro Sunday ii vin .in by cutting her throat from r t par, A ntfir was used by the i vti n ami tlie Jugular 1. 1.1 Idtkh Is given as In Federal Ceart at Greensboro. Among the cases In federal court at Greensboro last week were the following: - United States vs. H. C Grubb, Hor ace Simerson and Clarence Thomp son, of Davidson county, charged with defrauding the government of tax, compromised with commissioner of internal revenue on payment of $10,000. . Ernest R. Bunch, clerk In Hilton, Oaswell county, postofflce, charged with embezzlement of $40, required to pay costs and remain In Jail tilt June 11 Will Ball, of Winston, counterfeit ing, two years In Atlanta prison; John Hutchlns, Yadkin county, block ading, guilty. Judgment continued; David Joyce, Yadkin, blockading and retailing, guilty of retailing, Judg ment dnntlnned. L. V. fihennard. Al amance, guilty bt not effacing a stamp, $100 fine; D. B. Fields,- Ran dolph, guilty of blockading, sentence continued. V D re irgfets Elect Officers. In their annual meeting at Char lotte last week the North Carolina druggists elected the following offi cers: President, Max T. Payne, of Greensboro; first vice-president, G. A. McDonald, of High Point; second vice-president, J. P. Woodall, of Charlotte; third vice-president, E. T. Whitehead, of Scotland Neck; treas urer, G. E. Burwell, of Charlotte; secretary, P. W.- Vaughan, of Win ston; executive committemen, J. P. Stowe, of Charlotte, H. E. Kendall, of Shelby, D. L. Boon, of Durham, and Howard Gardner, of -GreenBboro. The next meeting will be held at More- head City. - Friday morning the board' of ex aminers passed 37 applicants for U cense -to practice pharmacy, among the new druggists being the follow ing: L. C. Ashcraft, Mt Airy, Jesse Carter, Jr., Aberdeen, G. C Emerson, Winston, H. L. Gwyn, Mt Airy, and B. Polk, of Charlotte, who stood the highest and won the Hancock medal for making 90.. Only 44 per cent, of the applicants passed the examination. Depnty Hid Tax Book. The Reldsvllle papers have been filled wjth discussions about the ac tion of a deputy sheriff a Leaksville who absented himself, along about May 1, so democrats couldn't pay their poll tax, and who refused to let the democrats see his books. The deputy, a man named Fagg, and his fellow republican bosses denied that anything crooked was t done, but one day last wek the democratic chair man got his hands on a telegram from: che Wentworth postmaster to Deputy Fagg,' which said:."! have seen Joyce. , Don't permit anybody to see your books." Joyce is postmas ter at Reldsvllle and chairman of tne republican committee. . Appropriations for Public Buildings. . A dispatch from Washington yes terday says: "It is understood that the house committee on public buildings and grounds has provided the ' following appropriations for North Carolina: Hendersonvllle, for site and building, $70,000; Charlotte, for remodeling, $300,000; Wllkesboro, for U. S., court building tamount not fixed); Hickory, building, $60,000? Reldsvllle, improvements, . $35,000; Winston-Salem, $250,000; . Rocky Mount. $60,000; Waynesville, $7,500; Washington, $30,000; Greenville, $45, 000 r Monroe, $45,000; Lumberton, $5, 000; Tarboro, $50,000.- Physician Suspected of Poisoning Pa- - tlent A dlBpatch from Swalnsboro, Ga., Monday says: As a result of the ex amination by the atate chemist at At lanta of the stomach of Frederick Flanders, a prominent citizen of this town who died June 4, Mrs. Flanders was arrested today and officers are looking for Dr. -W. J. McNaughton, the physician who attended Flanders. The report of the state chemist. It is said, reveals that the . stomach of Flanders contained a large amount of poison. Dr. McNaugbton, it is said, nas ais- posed of all of his property In this county and has disappeared. Astomoblles Collide. Thursday, night on the highway between Spartanburg and Greenville two automobiles met head on at sharp curve and were almost demol ished. . They were running at a rap Id rate. The occupants of each were Injured, one young lady sustaining such injuries that amputation ot an arm was said to be necessary. long as autolsts run recklessly fast these accidents will happen. . Jones1 H. Lambeth a Suicide. , Jones Hi Lambeth, of Thomasville, commmltted suicide by hanging him self at the Insane asylum at Raleigh yesterday. A dispatch in this morn ing's Charlotte Observer says: . . Out at the . State hospital for the Insane this morning Jones H. Lam beth ot Th co as vile was found in death struggles dangling at the end of a sheet, which In his desperation he had tied tl a slip knot about bis neck, and fattened the ''other end of the aheet inte1 the wire net that serv ed as a guaitt for the window of his ward. Lambeth, who is a member ot a prominent fitolly in- Thomasville, had been quite sick physical? In addition to his mental derangement for some time. He wast much ot the time Id a melancholy state and complained in sanely of negect on the pari of his people. He w cut down as quickly as possible after he was discovered, but life was so near extinct that he only gave a fey gasps before death put an end to hit sufferings. He left a note that Is saldvo have referred es pecially to somt . supposed family troubles. This nols was not made pubi'.c by the hopruil authorities. The Demeeratie Primaries. To the Editor of The Dispatch: I think It well, with your permis sion, to call public attention to the fact that democratic primaries will be held for Davidson county on Sat urday the 25th Inst - Under our form of party organization, these primar ies give expression, to the voters wish as to who shall be the democratic candidates for state officers and a congressman for this district who are to be elected In November. If I am not mistaken, the chief Justice and two associate. Justices of. the supreme court four or five superior court Judges, two corporation commissioners are the state officers to be voted for, besides a congressman for this con gressional district and a solicitor for this Judicial district That is all, I think. At the county convention to be held on Saturday the 2nd day of Ju ly, delegates will be named for the several conventions, state, . congres sk al and Judicial, which will be held later for the purpose of finally nom inating the candidates for the offices aforesaid. I write this for the purpose of calling special attention to the fact that nnder this system, If any. one wishes his voice to be heard as to who the candidate for any one of these of fices shall be, he must make that voice heard at the primary on the 25th Inst It has -often been said that the people rule. It ought to be so. And this sys tem of primaries is adopted to secure that result It Is therefore a matter of the first Importance that every democrat turn out to these primaries. and thus make his voice heard and his Influence felt In this .. Important matter. The intelligent unbought suffrages of a free people, deliberate ly and bravely expressed at these primaries, Is a beautiful and strong thing, under our system of govern ment Upon this foundation rests the security of our free Institutions. These primaries bring the government home to the people; and every good citizen; owes It to himself, his children and his country to attend these primaries and there give his influence for the nomination of honest and able men for all these offices. We cannot all be candidates and hold office; most of us cannot But because of this fact we are not excusable tor the neglect of the public duty of seeing that those who are to fill the offices-shall be sound and faithful public Servants. The primary Is the beginning point and all good - men ought to take enough interest in public matters to Induce them to attend these meetings and make their wishes known. ' F. C. BOBBINS. June 13, 1910. Robbery at Spencer. ;. -. 'The Salisbury Post of ', Saturday says: . " One of the boldest and most dar ing robberies ever committed in Row an occurred at Silencer last night when three stores were broken into and a fourth visited unsuccessfully. One of the stores - entered was that of C. H. Morrison,, grocery, where the rear window was opened and the robbers crawled through. A quantity of canned goods, a razor and, pistol were taken. The grocery store of W. P. Young was also entered, the robbers boring holes in the rear door and lifted the Iron bar to permit ope ning the door. - A quantity of goods was taken Including some. Jewelry, here, and the place left in a general mixup, merchandise being scattered everywhere over the room. The Spencer Clothing and Shoe Company was not slighted. Here the big glass was removed entirely from the rear door and set against the wall. Then the iron bars across the opening made by removing the glass were . prized off. Some clothing and shoes were stolen, among the articles being two pair of low-quarter patent leather shoes numbers 9 and 10. At the bakery ot Mr. T. U'Swlnk a stop was made. . Mr. Swlnk had a large amount : ot bread on hand which he had removed fnom the ov en a sfort while previous and had the windows hoisted fox. the purpose of cooling the bread and was in the building keeping watch and saw the men, who were frightened away. There were four of them and they had two horse wagon and two were on norseoacK. Alter oeing mscover ed they drove off, leaving their tools at the store of the Spencer Clothing ft Shoe Company, which must have been' visited after leaving the Swlnk bakery. Later Mr. George Safrlt, Conductor on the Salisbury-Spencer Street Hallway, who, lives midway between Salisbury and Spencer, heard wagon drive in his rear lot and went to Investigate. The men then started off and Mr. Safrlt went back in the house when he heard one of the party remark: "He's gone baok in, we better get out of here.' They came on toward Salisbury. : Centos Enumerators Kick. A dispatch from Louisville, Ky, Sunday says: Mora than 200 census enumerators in Louisville and Jeffer son county have formed - themselves Into Census Enumerators - Union No. 1, with a view of making complaint to the United States government about the additional work which they had to do In April and the delay In payment of their salaries. L. P. Tom pert was elected president He says that -the organisation has the sup port ot enumerators in sixteen other cities where extra work had to be done in connection , with enumeration after the government had put them under a $500 'bond' for the faithful performance ot their duties. . The extra work was that ot dis tributing special schedules in addi tion to their own official schedules. J. Duff Reed, supervising enumerator for the fifth district stated that this was a matter which did not concern his office, but the censua bureau. Mast Quit Selling Weod for Meat The wholesale meat dealers In New York were haled to court last Thurs day and Informed that when they used the wooden "spreaders on scales to hold meat while It was being weighed they must not charge the weight of the spreaders to the retnllers. - In other words, they are to sell meat not wood at uinnt prices. In the pnnt the retailers could not help l!i.n,wln and In turn they cl!arr-'t ti,e erg up with d 9 . s. BEST MEETIX6 IX TEARS. Press CeaveaUoa largely Attended aad the Session Preves to be Very Pleasant and Proltabie. The 38th annual meeting of the newspaper people last week at wnghtsvllle Beach proved to be the largest and best meeting in years. ana was nigniy enjoyed by every one present The election of officers re sulted in the selection ot Hon. M. L. 8hipman, of Hendersonvllle, state commissioner of labor and printing. president; Mr. J. j. Farrtss. - of High Point first vice-president; Mr. ti. uaine, of Ashevuie. second vice- president; Mr. T. G. Cobb, of Mor- ganton, third vice-president; Mr. J. B. Sherlll, of Concord, secretary and treasurer; Mr. G. B. Wlchard, of Greenville, historian; Mr. J, H. Cow ant of Wilmington, orator, with Mr. J. P. Cook, ot Concord, as alternate. The meeting was held at the Tarry- moore Hotel. Wilmington and Wrights rllle spared nothing to make the del egates welcome and to give them a moat pleasant time. The local news paper people were fine hosts and the city government in addition to the cordial welcome, spent $500 ot the public funds. ; . .- - - . The addresses delivered by the ed itors were of a high- order and ele vating. Mayor Walter- G. MacRae de livered a very fine address of wel come to which response was made by Maj. H. A. London of Plttsboro. Mr. J as. H. Cowan spoke In behalf of the local press. . President J O. Atkinson, of Elon College, delivered the annual address on the subject "The Faith of a Journalist" Col. Wade H. Harris. of The Charlotte Chroniole, spoke of "Harmony in the Sanctum;" ,"The Business Side of the Newspaper" was the theme of Editor O. F. Crowson, of Burlington; Mr. R. . w. Vincent, man aging editor Of The Charlotte Obser ver, talked of "Our Problems Viewed Through Blue Glasses," insisting, however, that the lite of a newspaper man was "just one damn thing after another." Mr. Vincent . sprung the idea of er cting a monument to the much beloved humorist, "Bill Nye, and the suggestion met with Instant favor. - . .- Various other addresses were made. Including one by Mr. H. B. Varner on "How the Press May Help the Good Roads Movement In North Carolina,' this being at a Joint session of the press people and the North Carolina Good Roads Associations Ber, H. A. H. Holshonser Approves Home CeaUnt Week, To the Editor ot ThwfHspatch:' V -I have Just read in tk week's Dis patch of the plans for "home coat ing week in November. Items of this kind are read with considerable Interest by those ot us who havr been away from the county and state for awhile. This la my sixth year ' in Kansas. Kansas is a great state. My work Is In fine shape and I am very much pleased with the progress made. But I am still deeply interested In my native state of North Carolina. Near ly seven years of my life were spent in Da.idson county. I have read The Dispatch for. about 14 years. May your anticipated gathering be one of mucn interest and profit i ' Fraternally, H. A. M. HOL8HOUSER. Dwlght, Kans.. June 11, 1910. Federal Prisoner Escapes. While Marshal Rlpton W. Ward and two guards were carrying six prisoners from Raleigh to the Atlan ta prison, H. H. Freeman, of Moore county, sentenced to a year for block ading and retailing, escaped Friday. Freeman was the only white man in the crowd ot prisoners and he was handcuffed seperately. The officers and prisoners had a special car. Along about 1 o'clock in the morn ing, when the train was . speeding along between Mountville and Green wood, S. C, Freeman crawled through a window and was not and when they looked for him they found only the scars on the car where his body bad raked when he swung off. South Carolina Farmer Killed. Greenville, 8. C, dispatch, 12th: West Knight, a prominent white far mer of the Laurens road section, was shot down in the public road today at noon by John Babb, a neighbor. He was brought td a local hospital where he died at midnight The men had been on bad terms for several months and when Babb and his wife were enroute to a neigh bor's today they met Knight In the road and began quarreling.. Babb got out of his buggy and as he did so, Knight It Is said, advanced on him with a knife when Babb pulled his gun and fired four shots, each bullet taking effect la Knight's abdomen, perforating the Intestines in several places." , . : : Babb is In Jail. Sjnallpox Epidemic la Xexleo. El Paso, Texas, dispatch, 12th: An epidemic of smallpox has been1 rag ing Id the district Ozumbs, northern Chihuahua, Mexico, for several months and thepeople have been dy ing by the hundred. The presence ot the disease has been known for some time but the extent of the epidemic was not learned until today when the people made an appeal to the federal government for medical assistance. It Is stated In the appeal that the civil register of'Oxumba shows 600 deaths from the disease In six months. Mormon colonies are situated In this region but not a single Mormon has died, showing the results of proper treatment and sanitation, It is said, for many Mormons have had the dis ease but recovered. . ' Cera Jadging Standard. The state board of agriculture has adopted a corn Judging standard which gives 10 points for unformity of exhibit It points for maturity and market condition, 10 tor trueness of type, 6 for shape of ear, 5 points each for purity as shown by color of cob, color of kernel, type of butts, 'tip and space between the rows; 15 points for pr cent shelled to the ear, and 8 points each for shupe of ffrain, uni'.m y of (tru'n and Iw of ear and c. ..-r-iw e Kr. Xeares Writes ef the Haft Halt Case. To the Editor of The Dispatch: On Monday morning. May . Hub Holt known at the convict camp at JSlxin aa Herbert Holt appeared at mr farm where hi wlfa with fW. lit. tlrhiiHrn w h.. iivw , l past six months, and openly showed me his discharge from the camp by order of the prison authorities at Ral eigh. His discharge read, "Hub Holt of Davidson county, N. C" He said that he was called np, told that he was free, given a ault of clothes, some money, his discharge papers, and he at once came to my farm where he knew his wife was at work. I hired him a couple of days after his arrlv- He was not In hiding at any time while on my farm and worked for me with the exception of one day that he was sick and one day when he went to Salisbury, which was Tuesday of the following week. That evening about 5:30 the officers, Mr. Johnson and Mr. Swicegood, came af ter him. He, returning from Salis bury, stopped at 8pencer, so his wife, who came from Salisbury on the cars direct to' Holtsburg, told me. Mon day, the day before he ran away, his wife went to ' Lexington to see his lawyers, and find-out about the valid ity of his discharge. She brought word back to "be on the watch out" that the officials were going to come after him. He told me this on Tues day morning In my room where I was lying, sick in bed. He said he knew he was In for 15 years, but could not tell why he was turned out, and that if a man was turned out like he was and his discharge papers given him, he would be a fool to stay in the camp, and he said he wanted to go to Salisbury to consult a law yer who could tell him that he could be put back if he was discharged by some mistake. I sent him to Clem ent & Clement, and his wife told me when she came back at 2 p. m. that Mr. Hay den Clement told him after seeing his discharge papers and after being told bis sentence was for 15 years, that he could be sent back to serve his term out His wife told me that the Lexington lawyer said If he would get him up $20, he would get up a petition and go down to Raleigh and get him out (Of course I don't know how true this story was.) Any how, Hub said all the lawyer wanted was the $20. His wife came to my barn to milk about 5:30 p. m., Tues day and I asked her where her hus band was and she said he had Just gotten back, that he had walked from Spencer, and would be there In a few minutes' to help feed up. About this time Mr. Swicegood ap peared at the barn and when he ask ed.. Hub's wife, about him, she told him this (as I did.) It is about 60 yards from my barn to my dairy, In my yard, in a few minutes Hub came on towards the barn and got about half way down towards the barn when he evidently saw Mr. Swlcegood's shotgun and stopped and hesitated. I at once called to him and asked him to give himself up, as I had advised him early in the morning. He whirled and ran, Instead, and Mr. Swicegood leveled his gun on him and I called to htm not to shoot him In my yard, as my daughter and . my cook were about the house and dairy getting ready for supper. About this time Mr. Johnson came up with his shotgun and bloodhound and gave chase. They got a glimpse of Hub as he lit into my back pasture and Mr. Johnson shot (he said afterward, on ly to scare him.) Hub had on his run ning clothes. Soon we heard the hound on the scent In my wood's pas ture along the creek and back up In my big woods and old fields and pine thickets. Mr. Johnson said Hub dou bled about and they chased him till dark. He then ran Into Mr. Crook's hog pasture and the hound lost the scent Mr. Johnson said a bloodhound always loses a scent In a hog pasture. The writer Is not overly found of con victs (and rabbits) but he believes that he can bat all the convicts that the aforesaid bloodhound catches (and he Is no cannibal, either.) There Is one thing sure it Is rotten careless ness and negligence combined to dis charge by mistake a 15-year convict at the end of two years: 4 W. B. MEARES. Lin wood, N. C, June 13, 1910. The State Normal and Industrial College. We desire to call attention to the advertisement of the State Normal and Industrial College ' which ap pears Id this issue. Every year shows a steady growth in this insti tution devoted to the higher educa tion of the women of North Carolina. The College last year had a total enrollment ot 993 students. Ninety of the ninety-eight counties ot. the state had representatives in the stu dent body. Nine-tenths of all the graduates of this Institution have taught or are now teaching in the schools of North Carolina. The dormitories are furnished by the state and board is provided at actual cost Two hundred appoint ments to the dormitories, apportioned among the several counties accord. lng to school ' population, will be awarded to applicants about the mid dle of July. 8tudenta who wish to attend this Institution next year should make application as early as possible, as the capacity ot the dor mitories is limited. . . :. . ; Marpav Sever Tetod Republican, The subject of "Who scratched his ticket r has grown to be a very live matter tn the 8th district It will be recalled that the statement was made that one ot the democratic aspirants for Cowles' seat In congress voted the republican ticket, or part ef it some years ago. It is said that one of the candidate voted for Black burn when he ran and that the same one or another one voted for Cowles two years age. The Dispatch Is in formed by gentleman who keeps tab on things that R. L. Doughton, of Alleghany, was the man who voted for Blackburn, bnt be doesn't know who voted for Cowles. Walter Mur- phy, ot Rowan, makes the statement that he Is in nowise guilty ot voting the republican ticket in any degree, and eays he has ben voting the dem oernMc t!t since he was It years I i.t.1 ai--a t keep it up till he, is . y i id . List Taxes Jan nary L The News and Observer says: No body has made a more sensible sug gestion' In North Carolina on taxa tion than was made by Mr, Maxey L. John, city attorney ot Laurln burg, at the recent municipal con "urR.' municipal venuon m wmston-salem. He aug- gested that the time for listing taxes be changed from June to January, as is done in Virginia and South Caro lina. In a communication in The Charlotte Observed, Mr. John says: I advocated this change for the reason that nearly every business man knows more nearly his present worth the 1st of January than any other day of the year, and every far mer knows better at that time what Is his true worth than at any other time ot the year. His money la in the bank and his products In his barn. The merchant has just taken his inventory, or Just begun taking it and every corporation has some sort of accounting concurrent with the calendar year." There's sense In the suggestion of changing the date and the next leg islature should act upon Mr. John's suggestion. He adds: It a system shall ever he advised ,that will put property on the list at Its real value, the tax rate in North Carolina will be cut down very low. As it now Is, people who have money seeking to invest in North Carolina, ask what is the tax rate. and, being told that it is frequently more than two per centum, they of ten shun North Carolina. It is $2.16 on the $100 In Charlotte, and higher still In some other places. And this is not Charlotte s fault either. It Is $2.13 1-3 for all purposes state, county, and town and school In Laurinburg." Immense Value of Carolina Imports. In bis report to the semi-annual meeting of the state board of agri culture Commissioner of Agriculture W. A. Graham, in. summing up the crop conditions in this state at this time, - declared that the wheat crop is perhaps 10 per cent Increased in acreage and in generally fair condi tion!, although there is considerable complaint of damage from fly in some of the best wheat sections. . The oat crop, he says Is in good condition, and perhaps larger than in ten years. Cotton acreage is about the same as last year, corn and increase, of per haps 6 per cent, but the prepara tion of land for corn and cotton was the best ever known, and a large amount of both Ibarnyard (manure and fertilizer was used. The cold weather of the spring, he says, has Interfered with the stand and caused some replanting,, but taking the state as a yhole-, the stand la perhaps an average, but at least two weeks late. The same 'is true as to corn,' but if the cold nights continue longer the cutworm will materially affect the stand. Should the weather become favorable and continue so through out the season, an average cotton crop may be expected and a large In crease In the corn yield. 1 Fruit in the highest mountain sec. tlons was damaged . by frost and freeze. In the rest of the state pros pects are good for large - yields, although there are local complaints of damage by blight or other cause. The trucking season, he says, seems to have been profitable so tar and an improvement over last year, with good prospects for the whole season. Commissioner ' Graham laments the fact that North Carolina Is still pay- lng out tor farm products purchased in other Btates something like $34,- 000,000, concentrated feedstuff's, grata, flour, have meal and hog products making up a large part of this that ought to be produced at home. He declared facetiously In his report that it Is the hogpen rather than the goose quill that Is mightier than the sword in the case of the farmer, the pro duction of more corn and meat and other staples being essential. The Lexington Land Sale. The dally papers of Sunday carried advertisements of the Southbound In' vestment Company's sale of real es tate the 18th, and The Dispatch cop ies the following from The Charlotte Observer: As will be seen in a halt page announcement elsewhere In to-day s paper the Southbound Investment Company, Lexington, North Carolina will offer for sale on June 18, some thing over two hundred choice in side lots. ' ' The Southbound Invest ment tract of land before the new railway- was secured by Lexington and its property ls close to the new passenger depot and but five blocks from the main street of the city and within two blocks of the Lexington graded school building. The large map accompanying the company's an nouncement gives definite idea as to location of these valuable lots. The plan of sale is novel. There will be no auction Just an opening day and on that day the sale commences and the opening sale will be on for per haps thirty days. The lots are tagged at a price twenty-nve pen cent tow er than they will be sold for after the opening sale closes and the first come first served. - The officers of the Southbound In vestment Company are men well known in the successful business world and their property, being In side, will doubtless attract Urge num bers ot people Mr. H. B. Varner, ed itor Lexington Dispatch is president of the company and sales-manager and he urgently requests all Inter ested to attend the opening day sale and asks all Observer, readers to write him tor literature and further Information. ' Herse Thief Killed. , Gainesville, Ga.. dispatch, 12th: Hill Loudermllk. a young white man of Isabella, Tenn., accused of horse stealing and chased acroris several counties, was shot and killed In the public road near Concord church, this afternoon, by Deputy Sheriff Coffee ot Cherokee county, North Carolina. Loudermllk, it is alleged, stole anile and a horse in Cherokee doun ty. When Deputy Sheriff Coffee and Bherlff Horn of Union county, Genr gla, came up with hltn Vwiny Ixn ! milk reslHted errent anl w fmm the mule he was r. Vv-r, . y. IXWS FB0X EYEBTWHEBJE. Current Events la th Called State and th World at Large Briefly Set Frta, . Bishop John C Kllgo delivered the M. C A. address at Washington and Le University last Sunday. Prof. J. ' D. Lents, superintendent of the Concord graded schools, died Sunday morning, after an illness ot three weeks. The nlan to furnish autnmnhllna : for the vice-president and the speak er was killed some more last Friday when the bill came up. Greensboro sold $35,000 of school bonds Friday at a premium of $378, the Western German Bank of Cincin nati being the highest bidder. , ' John Campbell, a guard on the . chaingang who- killed an escaping prisoner at Columbia, 8. C. was tried for murder last week, and acquitted. A young woman, daughter of Pe ter Moore, attempting to cross Thompson' creek in Anson county Friday, was drowned. Her compan ion, a girl, was rescued. The Southern will place five new lo comotives on the Ashsville division of the system, each weighing 90 tons, having 58-lnoh driving wheels, and ' being brand new and of the latest . type.' - Judge Robinson, the most impor tant witness In the night rider trials at Hopklneville, Ky., was ambushed and killed Friday to prevent his tes timony from being used to convict the night riders. The 2,106 telegraph operators on the Southern will received a total in crease of $88,000 in wages per year and will work fewer hours. The ar- ; bltrators appointed to settle the mat- Eighty Chinese otter hunters tm. the Russian-Chinese frontier were at tacked by brigands and slaughtered May 19, according to dispatches re ceived last week. The brigands .se cured more than a thousand otter skins. . .. . Friday It was announced that th . Portuguese army was in almost com plete mutiny, there being hardly enough soldiers to guard the king. V There is a movement to dethrone the king and put his uncle, the duke of Onorto. on the thrane. The Atlantic Coast Line announce a new train between Wilmington and -Sanford. For years the neonle have , : complained about the services and' wanted an additional train, and so th a ' annoucement is of interest to the people along the road. - In South Carolina the governor has - the power to appoint a special judge as occasion may arise. Last week, for . '- Instance, he appointed W. B. Grub er . of Walterboro, a special Judge because the regular Judge. Dantz ler, was ill and could not hold court Running 60 miles an hour, Fred B. Blee lost control of his automobile at Cleveland, Ohio, Friday and plung ed 90 feet from a bridge, meeting bis death. A man standing on the bridge , suffered fractures of both legs. These accidents are common and are due to the Insane thirst for speed. The house has passed the postal bank bill by a vote ot 195 to 101. The democrats offered a substitute mean- ure which was defeated by 196 to 113.' If the bill becomes a law you can deposit money With the postofflce and get 2 per cent Interest on it ' Any amount from 10 cents up may be deposited. Governor Kltchln . Is doubtless de- lighted that his old friend, the to bacco trust came to his aid in the bond matter. It couldn't have been ' more generous if Locke Craig had . been governor. In return for the help ' ..... mill ,A U 1 . -1 Ui. VI UBV 1,1 CALTOVib VJ im IV. OIULQ in North Carolina in the future as it has been In the past; and the bank ers, too, may expect some little fa vors for their help. Stateavllle Land mark. ;. i. ..' A terrific storm visited Anson county Friday and did much damage. The cotton crop Is reported injured, farms were flooded and land badly washed. Lightning struck and burn ed H. H. McLendon's barn at Wades boro, causing a loss ot $1,500. Dur ing another storm two mules and two hogs belonging to a negro farmer named Ben Dorsett were killed by lightning in Chatham county. , Elsie 1 Johnson) and Robert two white boys enroute from Winston to Charlotte, are in Iredell Jail for go ing Into a .. residence and helping themselves to ration provided for -others. They said they had eaten nothing for a whole day and couldnt resist the temptation. Mor than on boy out ot work these hard times 1 tempted to steal. - The working man never saw times so hard aa now. Clyde Varner, a newsboy In Spar tanburg, was run over by an auto- -mobile Friday driven by Dr. J, J. Lindsay. The lad dldnt see the me- (.hln TYlA nthttv Haw m v,nw man In Catawba county crossed the rail road track about the sametlm a train arrived at the crossing, and was ' hnrled'a good many feet accompan ied by hie mule and buggy. The pa per in reporting It said he never no ticed the train till It hit him. W.'.'A. Carver, a wealthy lumber man ot Rougemont, states that hi son, 15 years old, has been kldnnppnd by a man who lives in Pennsylvania but who has a country home v tr Richmond, Vs. The agent at h -nlston, Va., saw the boy tlte dny be arrived in that place, with the slrrn ger. Th departure had been so t den that the lad wore ovnruiia In ?i he had been playing when lie h i ' home. A lari?e reward is c." v-n-J j Carver for the buy. Mr. A. L. Pic t-r Rt V.. ' i ! 1 v
The Dispatch (Lexington, N.C.)
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