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s f CILVRLOT TE DAILY OESlSTVElJ, 0U i UiiiiC 13, 15C3. suave 1 L U t -Oj7 .r 4 . .1... ' . mm- mim 'f.- '." t MiiMsl Misses' . - y, ? , ..:. . ;-. . -r X.. s.--:- ' ' .. - ? . . - "".,'1. .. v--: - Mssmb Hi - -1. " " Our Buyer has iust returned from 7a SPECMt TRIP to New York- We had such a Big Trade' in Suits' that" we werevcom a great many Stylish . :New Designs . inj'fegular . goods; in ' the; PopularlColors Most of .these arc . in and COMING;, EVERY DAY." v Tlyo SPECIAL )LOTQ&jr wect Op - to - of o - -j; A'..1' : ;-r,-vv';v4fe' Suite and Drosses In. addition to regular, goods we.securd a lot of 81 Suits ; froiQ They are bought LOT"! .the. Veribest Suit Companythich faUed: V, Un,tilC8e.two Iot?.e He compeiiea to cuarge lor all new,' stylisKjthis season's Suits,' which we .ar, ' BU 7 iauvi-tu7".u at about W price.. . ,r til-; kKf r , - Pretty Suits in 36-inch lengths, 'Broadcloth, :-.f , , ..i. MA vt-v n,,T. aconr - Hemngbone, Serges, etc., ; satin lm regularly $15.00 to $20.00. Qur special price, .V. $9.95 - Ke. lot Directoire style Satin Dresses that you will be rL0T 2 Up-to-date, stylish Suitsloiig length, variety; pleased with.... 4 V' of styles, all $25.00 gradeVand ;more. Our -cialN A lot Sample Suits at one-third off from our best jailor-; ; "j. priced. t VI Y ..' ' ? . . : $1495 ' v ing house. k (- . ; - Both these lots are made by good tailors, never 'inean' i.J;V'' f o - "sell for cheap Suits.' All .wool materials and W'eU fj t ' ' ' - : . ' tailored.. ,?"'. -v. Lnninl rtntfi '&hhfimmfi'7Ma V T.JI -"l OpCCiQl qIuCj QeCUred Pf !MI kinds, Voiles, Panamas, etc., in the 1 best; styles, v ' ;i 'ni.: x J;-' itiivJieTet made to sell for the. price; full , width, trimmed , 4II CJfOpOr&iTICn tO r Or, with buttons. You wUI recognize them at once as fine 1 IT..PAYS NewDress Goods, new Silks, new Belts, Bags, Neck "wear, new Sweaters new Mi : ;.-'.. TAn' exceiJtional opportunity to secure a nice Skirt for a :.J. '.'1i4'i, VIWATT ''"''. .' -j '''': : ' . .1 ,-.tefc illincry. etc etc. ; sr About lOO Slrirts in the lot, worth up to $10.00. . .-.$198 . 1 1 "'" It;.:: h " -.i4i'w,S';':i:' TT . 7 w 1 'i TORKVUXETS THOXK TKOB1jES mnchlsa or '- -So Trmnrhb' to Pld mont Tek-phoiie Compaay I4 QueatiAtv I'eUtton Bolr Circulat- , cd Calling For an IdocUon. -, ' Special t Th OterVr - YorkvllitL g., C. Oct 1 S.Tran .. chU or no franoiilM to (h Piedmoht Telepbona : Cotnpany" U (tin 4 very II v quaatlon that'Sa a!UUn; Tork- viUa.r.Tbe.teIepWn.-:omanr':. baa been; rnaklnj tranuoua efforta alnca It bought out tha local .'(Jontpany bera 'arveral yaart ajo to equr a new" and mora- liberal one in the place of the i one; granted, to, i the! old . company, which explra in , May, 10. but aa far baa been onuccefu(. The aitna- Aloa ta about . Hk.athUt JTha prleftial tf lephona ayatem ;."wa.''-.bullt about tn-lva or fourteen years ago by , 'Mr. 1 conaent of , (the, -owner iilarga .pro portion of tho i lihea 'were erected ihroujfb ' prlvateVlota, no hoiea at all txolng ' placed on thn principal , bual neu etreett. Later Mr.-Moor organ ized a atock company which absorbed ' the ayatem be had. built up and aub ' aeqtiently. the local company aold out to tha Piedmont Telrphone and Tele graph Company, a biajorlty of whose ' atoek Is Owned or controlled by tha Bell Telephone Company., At ,tl;a time tha local company waa abeorb ed local aubacribera were allowed all oonnectiona within tb city Umlta for It a month and -thoaa who paid 13 bad tha privilege el tha emtire county, .Including; alt country nnea, and all towna In thd county Including Roclt Hill, fort' Mill, Clover, Sharon. Hick ory Grove and Tirzah.;.Th new own- ; ors.' after making a frultleaa effvt to ' arcura a-new charter, finally agreed to continue - to give, the aama connec jiona at ,the - aama . charge, except when they aubstltuted. a Bell for a ..Home telephone tha monthly charge would J 11.25 for town connectJnna . and t2.B for the county. After thla agreement had been entered Into mat trt rocked along-wlth apparent-satisfaction' to all partlea until about a. month Or aix weeka ago when it 'waa made -public-that representatives of the piedmont Telephone Company had been ( negotiating for some time with ' the town council for the granting of - a charter. , At the instance of Mr. Oi H. O'Leary a public meeting, attend d by a goodly number of citlrena. '-was held for the purpose of ascer- '.ainlDg exactly -what the' telephone people wanted and what the council . had done or proposed to Jo about tha matter. At that meeting Mayr Hart . made a frank statement u to tha wiahes of the. telephone campany and what action had been Liken by the council rp to that tim. '. Tha tele- - phone company wanted charter to extend over a period' of tvepty-flve' j-eara, avllowin it free use of the : atreets of ih city, aa l nn iis part it asred to RubBt'.tute thv- latest 1m-, proved metallic circuit qystia in the place of the onn now in uj, ch:irire local subscribers tl.25 a ' month 'anJ thoiw . havii!g out-of-town privilvea 11.50; to cur. off Rock Hill ami Fort Mill and to maintain th-?e nitoa until the number of connectiona reached 850. -when another 50 cent would he aJJi-J- Thr proposition T a i not r.p- - To dulckiy d.c- 'k a c. i. COiJ Cure Tablet r'.'.'J Frt rntie? erf al-o f.r.f f.-.r tv Take Fi fV, !.i fct ' '..B.l f-T i I ': '4. 5 . f c: : are 'Us-. t'J proved by tha ctttsena and oh motion a committee of several cltUim waa appointed to aiaka a proposition from thel - , viewpoint Subaequontly tha coratnltte submitted ita report. In aubatanoa it waa that the Ufa of tha franchise be ten instead of - twenty nva yeara, that rates remain as a present, and subscrl burs aUll ba al lowed connection with Rock Hill and Fort MllU iTha'- proposition waa promptly turned down by the tela phon company.. i -. In tha . meantime somebody : had bn studying, tha ; town 'charter, it facing the kind provided nder tha general- Incorporation act for towna of from on to- flveJ thousand popula tion, and discovered that It provides that.it may ba amended at any time on . a - petition - slgTjed by a majority of the freeholders and a majority vote of the qualified electora at an election that muat be called by the council oh' presentation of tha presoiibad pe tition. A petition, la now out aaklng for ah1 election to decide -whether or Cot Ah right of tha city "council to grant: franchises of any kind without the approval of . a majority , of tha votera ahall be taken awayj' ?.Th petition is b!lng freely signed." ; ; Tha subacribers feel that If it ia tb pur poaa..- of tie 'telephone company . to give them a square deal they are as well 'off without a.' charter, as they would--be with one.' aa noj-effort t la vey likely to be mad so long as they stay good to' oust them. and . If they do not stay, good -the town can tell them to get off those street they ara now using and freeholders can order them off their lots; while on- the other hand If they gat tha kind -of franchise they . ara asking for- the- people, ara sura to get ; less,. than they-ara , now receiving and to nay. mora for it to say- nothing - of their absolute inde pendence of the public , . ,,: . i. .-- ' -Several officials of ..tha telephone company were In town last week for the purpose of trying to indues tha town to aeo the matter from their viewpoint and after they -had failed to do so It is, said that they advised the local manager that unless they got what they wanted at tha hands of the town they proposed to close their local exchange and.' cease doing "bust-' ncss here.- - -.,:,-.V.4 ? . ,;-'i.- Utigatlon For Poaewloir of Jpartan- . . burg Property Knded. Special to The Observer. -M; ?f ,'v:," r Bpartanbutg, . S. 'C ' Oct. 12.-Th case of the Central National Bank vs. T. C. Duncan. . former preFldent af 'Union Buffalo Cotton Mtlla owner of a valuable business block here, for the possesion of what Is known aa the Palmetto corner,, was ended hero to-day, the defendant giving a new lease on the property.. A lease was made in 1 9 OS for tha corner for a period of twenty years-and the de fendant objected to a certain clauea in the. lease, claiming chang waa made after the contract - had been signed.- Tha contract was canceled and the bank people commenced suit for possession of the property, . The new lease is the ame as th former one except that there Is a iiht inn crease In the .rental price for the last tea yeara, end the lease is to -became operative January 1st next. The property is, one of most valuable In the-city. fctorm Frco Vricl to Anchor. Norfolk. Va., Oct.: 12. Thirty or more aailine; v?eU. storm bound In Hampton Roads, which jjtit to f-;t with thf Una weather - of Jv.t-r.lay.. w t-Ta f T'-f J . latkto-1ay by Mro'iir i,,,. j. -;i'!s .and hih -. 'ir.- ; it v.. : ,in :st an'-iir H iincu-t- -i I . woodjiex ranrEii - moxtmext. "'-..-' .-:, " - - v i " Biff Crowd Attends Kxrrclsea at High l"oln in Memory of W. n. Tajrloo, Special to Tha Observer, , ; High Porat Oct 18-Two thousand people gathered to witness the exer cises by v Piedmont Camp No, I!, Woodmen f tha World, of thla city, at the-unveiling of 'tha monument to the lata W. R. Tayloa, a fellow mem ber and sovereign, la beautiful Greek HiU .Cemetery, yesterday ... afternoon. Tha. member of Piedmont Camp and tha visiting, sovereigns gathered In tha Odd Fellows hall from where they marched Ina body to tha 'cemetery, Arriving at the grava tha usual wedge waa formed, enclosing speakers, quar tette, family and relatives of the de ceased, reader, of poem , and band when the following programme was carried outf Selection by High Point band;- quartette. Miaa Lacy Bene I man, Mra,"J. Y, Wilson and . Messrs H..B. Hyda and A. It. Burns: reading and exercises, by officers 'of the camp;' se lection y quartette; reading of- poem by Miss Blanche Burgess; unveiling of monument by master of ceremonies; selection, by High : Point andj axer ciaes by offlcera of camp: selection by band;- address, "The Deceased sover eign, by Dr, j. T. Burrus; address, "Woodcraft," by Mr, R. T. Pickens; selection by quartette; address by Mr. E.. B. Lewis, of Kinston. Stateanager Woodmen of tha WoHdr closing exer ola of camp; mnslc. toy band; ptayer. S It was ah auspicious- day lor Wood craft. The' cemetery waa .- literally covered wlthA feopla 'whormalnad throughout tha entire exercise. ; Pic tarea wr made of tha .laraa crowd and also of tha members efWoodcraft and the monument r The runp hero la steadily on. the increase in membar ship and la at . preaent , the aeeohd largest fraternal order in the cltyj ? '; ; '. . '' ". ' r"-'-: r.' '' GOES TO XEW. VORK, TO C1TDT. Gaffuey Young-' Lady vath Kplwdld . . Maaical Talent to CnlUvate It Ver ; dirt of, 2,090 -A gal us Southern. L Special to Tha ;Obrvar, yX. :y -' 5 Qaffney, B. O. Oct. tsMIss Lotilla Pottrt second daughter of Wt. lt. -O. Potter, of the Gaffney Manufacturing Company, will leave Gaff ney Wednes day ' for. New York City, wh&re aha goea to take a "post-graduate course in music. tTho yoyo? lady graduated last aessioit at ximestone College with tha highest honors and waa pronounc ed by; Professor luring" tor hv ona of the jhotit" proficient pupils whom, ha had -ever -tan ghfr. - r - - v . ., Col.' "T. U ' Butler returned" "from Spartanburg Saturday where- he ob tained a verdict of Siepagafnstvth9 Southera Railway, for killing a "negro named Dan Brown at Greer November- 2Sth tB.Thw ease wsa hotly contested and th verdict- waa Quite a triumph for. Colonel Butler.: : Mrs. T. B Butler and .children left to-day for New Tork City, where Mrs. Butler joes to Hsit Mrs, R B. eteed ley, who formerly resided here. Dr." SteedW has another yar in-hospital work in New Tork whvn he will re turn to Oaffney gnd. resume practice. Leg Broken by a 511U-p- 6 peel si to The Obwrver. . Gaffncy, S. C Oct. 12,-Maglstrata Camp, who some time ago had tha miFfortune to sustain a ' severe frae ture of one of his l-ga while in tha set or alif htlng from a vehicle, last Fatiir'lay afternoon while walking on th (nJ. wfHl; ma la a tnltp and ).roV - th liinb in tlie same plat-oThe accl i-nt Is v. rx- painful. and If will I.h n r.!i i- r.!.i. t'ns' b-for ' Mr. -v.;.i t a .!-- to cma to hi RE.1L1 Estate market ltvelt. Farm Land Selling . High la ' York County, S, C Desptto Low - Prica e Of Cotton and the PanloCoUon , Kales Light ' '- Bpecialto Tha Observer. ' ' ' ' 4 . Torkvllie. . t,;Oci, IL It la said that tha sale of cotton on tha local market sine tha price dropped below tlcenta has 'not avaraged a' do'ien bales day ,v Mora cotton has been ginned so far this n0on than for tha aama tiAia last year; but this la not due to the fact; that" mere is being mad, but to the fact that the season has bean unusually favorable to har vesting the crop and that practically all of it Is open. , As ths reason advance- the estimate ' made - several weeks ago that the yield would hard ly exceed two-thirds of that; of last year seems certain of confirmation by actual experience. r-ii-.- Notwithstanding the low -. price - ef cotton.-'the high price of practically everything else and apparent lethargy in business generally, the demand for real estate,, especially farm lands, has been quite good at prices that would have - been considered . high a year ago and exorbitant four or Ave years back. 'One of the largest deals In several nopths was mada last - week by' Mr. J. C. Wliborn,.a local real estate broker, when he: sold a tract of 40 acres of as fine farming land s there Is ia York county belonging to Mr. S. M. Jones, of Chester, to Mr, Gordon Hughes, who at present live aear King's MonnUln. N. - C., for flS.OOO. Mr. Hughes la a young man. of exceptional ability and has achieved wonderful - success In his chosen calling, farming, and wilt no dout raise record-breaking crops on the farm he has Just purchased. It is located about eleven miles aouth eaat of Torkvllie and about five miles southwest. Of Bock HI1L The cross value of the producta of the. farm last year waa aboat ll.e, Th fanners of this county are cal culating on seeding tha largest acre age of -wheat ; and oata, especially oats, during the present fall and win' ter that has been sown in the past several years, si .i t,---. Vc f 1 ' ' " -. - , - . - .r 1 ,': ' '- tPer The - Observer. - 8TLEST aTIC.-.r;v,V.- There Is music ia the' silent aotes of love, There is muakr is tha biusb that ooraes to- the eheek. '. . .- ' - : ,-.' . Tavbeauty there is music, far above ""vi The musie of the harp and wards ,ws . speak. ;,".-. ,-: ', .' i - )'-..'--.--'"C.,"-. '' ---ii,"; There is muslo in the bank ef violets blue, That yields Its odor to the passing i , breese. ; ; ' ." -' -. ' - ; Apt symbol of love' and friendship true.' Or or prayers that ascend, from pious -: :.- knees, f-;- ;-a . , ,'4 ' There- is niusio faT th twinkle ef the eye ' of the lore... -i , . ' ; That makes a eordji the soul of man- Soul-muslo that Appoilo can ne'er aur pasa, . . ' On luis or harp. 'ea try as he can.'. , There 1 muslo In the crystal tear that .- rolls ., ... ., - Down tbe cheek of the loved and true; Through the eye it play en vibrant soul. , And run Into music, like mists into v , - dew. - .. - j What grander music to mora the - soul ' Than the bursting of bud Into flowers - i blowing? . - Thsfi the march of sprlng-tuie out of the old. -.'.;. , -. Into the eew--th living groa log? - ' , P. V. T-.'..ll.JN.-.'N'. t ' -Jev-,, ' f 1 :l -'i.;-1 ,1 -f- 1 . " I j -r , ? 'r r 1 E'-:' Li' i ! "1 i I ' ;- t 4 ', -It.. ( t Ta?:r r 1 ' ' f ' i J : Th T, Charlotte flanatorium. now nearing completion, J going to be on of the : most ! attractivs jbuUdings -fit the kind In the country. At a cost of not less than HO,00 the men behind the hospital have erected a magnifi cent plant modern and complete In every detail. From top to bottom H Is as perfect as a seaehetl. An Ob server man; accompanied by M las E. Ethelyn : Cherryman, -t formerly ' of Grand Rapid, Mich., now here to be snpertntendent of. the sanatorium, went oyer : the - ; building - Baturday, peering into halls and rooms.' ' - - - Three floors above ground and basement with .room for 0 private patients, briefly., describes - the-, plant The outsldt walla are of ftressed brick ,,The Charlotte Sanatorium. ' In front and the inside ones of tile and cement, enameled and cream col ored. - --j. ,'!-v..;r,-' i-sV - '. The basement contain the kitchen, dining room, laundry,. - pathological laboratory, rooms for hydrotherapy and electrotherapy and boilers to fur nish' high pressure steam for operat ing 'rooms and other ' purposes. On the first floor will be th offices, tbe general ' office, : reception rooms, sun parlor and private rooms . for1 pa tients; on the second, a large reading room, four sun parlors, private rooms, single and in suites, and the -woman's surgical ward; en the third, operat ing rooms, recovery room, anaesthetio room,; surgeons'- and nurses rooms, baths, lockers, sterilising room, men's surgical ward and JO rooms for pa tients; and tha. fourth and last floor, a beautiful roof garden and sun par- : lor.' i'-'v iy'---ir: 'Vi'-v 4 . - The building ta fireproof through out - The floors are of tlle the steps of marble, tha doors and stair rails of mahogany, this being the only wood , used in -construction, and the door knobs, save in the operating rooms, where glass Is used, of old brass. The electric and gaa fixtures are. of the, most approved sort- A private tele phone system extends through the building. Mr. J, JX Brown; the con tractor' says that .it is- onoAet the most complete plants . that he Ttas . . ever sen. ,Tho finishing touches will ( be put en within the aext sixty days. .- Mia Cherryman Is directing the tnait detail. VEW HLBPnoy BETS. OX CCRB. Lack Of the !BaroBeter That Cxisted v:.; ,-.'..-?-;. 1st Other Years, i' . New; York'fEventaf -Pot.7r'iv.. f ;. la other campaigns the Kew Yark curb market betting has been proved a- good forecaster of the result. but this yearr owing to the an ti-betting lawa of tha State, J the barometer , is tacking. f ? .-' 3 There have been few curb bets on the result ; of - next month' national and State voting. . The few have been personal wagera and not publicly an nounced, ' f Personal- beta it will be recalled, were recehtiy Interpreted by Justice w. j. Gaynor as not inclnded tn the anti-gambling statute, , v- ; - In the course of his decision, hand ed down ea August Sth Justica Gayf nor- said:1- - .' : ;. " 'Ordinary betting ha never been made-a crime' (Peopl va Stedeker, 17S, N. Y., 57, i2U Atl that the taet Legislature did In respect to the gam b lin; laws was to -make them apply insiJe a race-track, the same as out. side. It in no other way extended or added to the said law (law of l0t, ch. e(. . - As to the -writing of the memorandum of a bet on a card by the relator, it Is enough to Mr tht Rect'.on 35i of the penaf cotlf" la t-i, r ri reJ in plain terms ta tii cose of persons who engage ta the record ing? or registering af tha beta, ef U comers as a practice or business. That is common gambling. r aiding and abettlnx common gambling, whl4t the law does not tolerate. . - An ordinary bet ia not a crime, "whether mads la your parlor, or on a golf links or race track, nor ia the making of a note of. memorandum thereof; but If you hold yourself out to- set and bet with -all comers, or generally, or become the general: recorder of such bets, -or at bets between others, you are gullty-of a trime.".,'--'rlQ'xJiri ': The earb flrrts'whlchvwre promi nent ia placing wager , before ;the t8t law became effective have done absolutely nothing this fait and they have shewn no deslra aa yet to take part in the placing of : wagera.' A representative ef one of- them,,when It was called to his attention that Justice Gaynor decision apparently gave a chance for individual - beta, without9 the- mediation of a -broker or other third party, evinced no inter est. 1 Ha seemed to fear that any in dulgence' la betting would bring trou ble to him. : , . , . "I; know Of no stock exchange Arm that are placing bet this year. and -X understand that the- men wlo control the curb market have p.-,1 a bilu-Un tii a t uivlf r' no c!i . . t 1 will aay betting be allowed, wher the brokers congregate to trade 1 stocks."-' he laid.' - "As to tha amount ef mon ey placed In the financial district in previous years. I can hardly form an estimate whether it was half a mil- -110b dollara, or twice jthat , am' Inclined -.to think i there waa jood deal of fake' betting,, but 1 haven't the evidence of how extenslve'thls was -"Tha total amount of the bets ''. l to have bea- made was large, but I cannot belleva that all of them act u ally -were placed. , Stilly there werf some large bona fide bets: enough, ap parently. - to show' howi. competent authorities thought the election won! 1 go. This year 1 think yea will tr ! that there will be no lars bts 1 th financial district, for th res -that most men do not want to f. j a prinrlpals. : : As for th comn: Bioas charged, they were variant 1-8 ef 1 per cent and upward." . MIXD YOCB BI SIM5 If . you doot nobody wilt It ' business to keep out el all the t yon tn and you can and Will kr 1 tuVr'snd bowel tro- l-'e If you t King's NwLi.eP:"-. T"-r i; --v ' r . i- - " v
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