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CHARLOTTE DAILY OBHVIIR, OCTOBi:i: 1 1. A. TOMPKINS , EVERY DAY IN THE YEAR r l BL1SHKRS ; AJINOCWC3EMEN T No. M Bout Tryao street Telephone numbers: BubUmm office. Bell 'phone 71; city editor's office. Bell pboae 134; , new editor's office, Bell 'phone 8J4. A' subscriber If ordering the address ; , hi. K. u. nnH 111 nlease lndl- cat the address to which It la going at the time to ask lor the changs ta be made. ... Advertising rate art furnished on application. Advertisers may (eel sure that -through the columns of this paper Ui.f may reach aU Charlotte and a perth of the best People la i tils State and upper South Carolina. This paper gives correspondents aa wide latitude aa It thinks public pol Joy permits, but It Is Id no case re sponsible tor their views. It Is much -1 prefarred that correspondents sign their Mines to their articles, especial ly in caws where they attack peoi . or Institutions, though this Is not ae auutded. The editor reserves the right to give the names of correspondents i when they are demanded for the pur- ."Doe of personal - eeive consideration a communlcstlon most be accompanied by the true name of the correspondent. FRTDAY, OCTOBER 80, 108. THIS YEAR'S' BETTING ODDS. Aa every one knows, then to al- ' -way more or less fake betting; la ' presidential campaigns (or the Pur pose of Influencing the remit. Some times bluffs go a long wavy and at aU rrents it may seem worth while to risk money against known probabili ties as a campaign expenditure. For many year Tammany ha regularly get aside fund for election beta in New York City municipal con testa Until recently, however, there was a place where the betting on national elections might with confidence be re garded as aim oat entirely genuine. Wall Street "curb odds" of the week . before election used to settle things positively with the exchanges and other speculative markets. This was because of the known practice whloh politicians on the Inside had of hedg ing publicly made bete by secret ; wagers through brokers when they believed their candidate's chances to have vanished. It became a Wall Street tradition that the curb market never pointed wrong at the finish. Even In 18S8, although Cleveland was the favorite throughout September at ten to eight, October saw the odds - reverse themselves. In 18l odds ' Just before election were three to one cut McKlnley. In 1104 odds) were two to one on Roosevelt early In October ' and reached Ave to one the day be fore election. In' this latest preced ing campaign the curb market gave an especially convincing demonstra tion of its value as an Index. Presi dent Roosevelt and his managers showed themselves much worried, and In ( the Interest of supposedly desper ate need for a gigantic campaign fund they did desperate things. Some of these things, too, notably the sum mons of E. H. Harriman to the White House, could not be kept secret until after the election. But throughout It all the curb market never wavered. Ottda on Roosevelt rose steadily from first to last. ." The point which we wish to make : is that there is no curb betting mar ket for the election of 108. Recent New Tork State legislation has , broken it up. There are many beta, of course, but all of an individual and : Irresponsible sort. Those who have : Inferred from the reported state of , election betting a certainty of . Mr. 1 Bryan's defeat are doubtless more or , leas familiar with the record above :. Set forth, but they need to consider, further, that the general clearing : house for election bets which made that record is now a thing of the past Mr. 3. A. Smith, the Republican can didate for Congress in this district,' . baa no Just complaint, under the law of retaliation, against Mr, Kit eh In. and : of course none against The Observer for printing what the latter said of him In his Charlotte speech Wednesday night, for Mr. Smith has said worse things in his speeches of Mr. Kltchln than this gentleman said of, him. filnce he has been on the stump he has denounced Mr. Kltchln as a liar ' or perhaps it was Governor Glenn; we forget, but If so it doesn't make any difference for he has spoken of Mr. Kltchln if not in these terms in terms equally offensive, and The Ob server has printed what he has said of both. Mr. Smith should know that , those of us who give must learn to take. , The weather considered, the audi ence) of Mr. Kltchln in Charlotte Wed nesday night was quite remarkable for size, and certainly it tacked for nothing of interest or Instruction in the speech heard. Very naturally the speaker was suffering physical fatigue hut there waa little evidence of it in Ma vole or delivery and certainly he evidenced no mental weariness. He delivered .himself with fine force and Sect, making a telling Democratic argument on the lines of the State and national platforms, pleasing, mlght i'y. a fine audience which was thor oughly responsive, and which, by rood stories wU told, and by other wise throwing color into his speech, la entertained from first to last., It Is rather Interesting to ebsirv that -while an the other, papers and jfopia of tht country aura on their ) -ads about politics, nothing interests T e New Tork ; Herald, except r on ' laya, save the scheme it has on J for aa American-Chinese? still Strange paper The Hefaldr-'ty : aper m?n an Insoluble problem. y fl North Carolina canv ,- t..t it::..- . , ' y. : A CAMPAIGN, FOR VENGEANCE. The national committeeman of the Independence party for Missouri, hag it right when he say, In handing la hi resignation, that ,ht pasty Is operated for the sol purpose of de feating Bryan, for whom, by the way, this ex-eonunitteeman announce big intention to vote on account of the Bryan persecution by SearsU The object of the Independence party la this campaign is perfectly apparent and any Intelligent "person should have perceived it from the beginning. In States) which are close it if pro posed to draw' from Bryan 'all ' the votes possible In order to Tlv such States to Taft; and In States in which there . Is bo expectation of defeating Bryan the purpose is to reduce his vote as much as possible In order to discredit and humiliate him for Hearst Is a vindic tive person else why the speech of Col. John Temple Graves in Charlotte last week? If he had converted his en tire audience to the Independence faith not a person present could vote the Independence ticket next week for the reason that no electoral ticket of that party is being run in North Carolina. Hearst is out merely for vengeance. Having supported Bryan In two campaigns he conceived the idea that Bryan should have given him his influence for the presidential nomination in 1104. Bryan had too much sense and sense of the fitness of things to do so, and hence these tears. It is a mean, dishonest campaign In Its inspiration (this. It will be observ ed. Is not an accusation against Colo- nel Graves) and every honest man whether h is for Bryan or Taft, should resent It. A campaign of In direction la not necessarily a wicked thing; this Is dependent upon the un deriving motive; but this of the Hearst party is not among the ex ceptlons. It was stated In our Raleigh corres pondence yesterday that Democratic State Chairman Eller has found that the Republicans are issuing a circular setting out that the price of cotton un der Democratic rule was 4 to 5 cents and under Republican rule 10 to 15 cents, whlls the Democrats have shown conclusively by an authenttoat ed statement, compiled by Hon. Fred A. Woodard. of Wilson, that the ex act average of prices for cotton dur ing Cleveland's administration was 7 6-7 cents on the New Tork market, while under McKinley's administra tion It was only 7 l- cents on that market. Touching upon this (subject The Statesvllle Landmark of the ltth made the excellent point that cotton at Its lowest price in, the Cleveland administration was a better-proposition than at 8 1-2 cents, as it has been under Roosevelt, the Increased cost of labor and other things counted On the cotton argument the Demo crats certainly have the better of the Republicans. '' The matter of party unity cannot be regarded as an open question now that David B. Hill, a stalwart of stalwarts, has received William J. Bryan at Albany, dined with him and Introduced him to a great audience. saying "I am heartily In favor of the election of the Democratlo national and State tickets." If the Repub licans are depending upon Demo cratic division for the election of their candidate ff- President they will wake up next Wednesday morning to find themselves mistaken. From headquarters in Washington there has been eent out an official call for the fifth annual convention of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress, to meet In Washington De cember 9th-llth. Included In the In vitation are all friends of river and harbor improvements as an Impor tant governmental policy. We trust that North Carolina, than which few States have more , to gain from the success of this widely beneficent move ment, will be well represented. The streets of Jerusalem were kept clean by every man sweeping before his own door, which la a favorite way of saying that government la a matter of Individual responsibility. Reduced to a concrete proposition. If North Carolina Democrats do their duty by the national, State, congressional, legislative and county tickets of their party, It is not theirs to worry about what any of the neighbors do. The political forecasters are now pretty well agreed that not only will Illinois, aa virtually conceded J1 along, go for Taft but that Deneen. the Republican candidate for Gover nor, will win also. This meant that Uncle A dial Stevenson will fall by the wayside, W , can only say that w are very sorry. W call special attention to a Washington Herald New Tork special as reprinted , in this morning's Ob server, it is convincingly eet forth that "there yet remains . . abundant foundation for Democratic hope and for Republican fear.". : . W ara expecting eny day to hear that at least one of the two Ameri can who fell thousands of feet With a balloon near Berlin some time ago and escaped ' unhurt baa broken bis neck by falling downstairs...' r. j; Jt "week' from this" tim-th aewe- papera of the country will be engaged in editorial discussion of. "Why is Crime On tb Increase and similar sprightly topics. t To Republicans who Utin an as sured victory: There's tnany a slip betwixt th enemy's five-yard '. line and his goal and Mr. Taft ia no where near Mr. Bryan"! fire-yrd line. CERTAIJf METHODS DENOUNCED Voter Registered TJnde Grandfather . . Clause Challenged la Aalamance ; county and Many ClUsens, Regard i less of Party, Ara Disgusted With aoenv v '(;'' - '. To the Editor of The Observer: - - I read with interest in your isu of October Md,Negro v Votes for Bryan," and especially your comments on this matter. in Alamance county the parties are mors evenly dlviaea than In Mecklenburg eourfty. in tact, the county is in th balance and our present county officers are about even' ly divided between th two par ties. We have in ' our ' county, and especially in the northern part of the county, a good many neocle who are commonly known with fas as the "Old Issue," or negroes that were "free' or their ancestor wera free, before tne war. These people) are almost entirely farmers and own their own farms and are, as a rule, successful farmers and good citizens- One of them only a few days ago told me that he had sold his croo of tobacco for $1,600. There are about 200 of these people registered In Alamance county (and 74 of them ara In Pleas ant Grove township) under the grand father clause and are on the perma nent roll, "the roll of honor," and nearly all Of th people have been voting sine 1100. For reasons best known to the leaders of the Demo cratic party, last Saturday every on of this class in PJeasant Grove town ship, 74 of them, was served with the lonowing summons; , SOItTH CAROLINA. ALAMANCE COUNTY. Pleasant Grove Township, Pleasant Grove Voting Precinct. To Jeyhew Man ton: You are hereby no- tlfled that your right to vote In the elec tion on the Id day of November, 1908, has been challenged, and that your name Is Improperly registered as .a qualified elector. Too are further notified that th registrar and Judges of this election precinct will hear and determine said ob jection or challenge on Friday, the 80th day of October. IMS, at the usual 'polling place tor this voting precinct, to wit: At Pleasant Grove, between the hours of o'clock a m. and 4 o'clock p. m, 10th day of October, W0I. , W. B. SELLA R8, Registrar for Pleasant Grove township and Pleasant Grove voting precinct. Every one of them registered under the grandfather clause and is on tne permanent roll. This aotlon on the part of the Democratic leaders of Alamance county has caused consid erable excitement, and numbers of the best people of the county, regardless of party, denounce these methods In unmeasured terms and the Demo cratic poll holder In Pleasant Grove township, one of the best men In the county, has resigned as poll holder and says that he cannot be a party to such methods. I would also say that two white men who are registered under the grandfather clause and are on the permanent roll were challenged on account of being illegitimates. Now, I ask in all candor, what are we coming to and what will be the end should these challenges of the latter class be maintained? The best peo ple of our county, regardless of party. deplore these methods. W. E. WHITE. Mebane, Oct. Zlth, 108. WESTMORELAND'S ADVEJfTCRES. Horse Walk on Nsked Sleeper But Finally Dropped tp Death Owner Also Goes Down But lives. Lexington Dispatch. One night last wek WW West' moreland, who had. been to Lexlng ton to se if his name was on the per manent roll of voters, returning home, drove onto the Flat 'Swamp bridg at the Cal Harris place and lost his norse ana was Dadiy nurt mmseii. Since the ffeshet last August this bridge has been unsafe, and th creek ha been forded. The southern end of the bridge was moved while this end was intact Before he knew It Westmoreland was on the bridg. His horse had walked more than Its length on a naked sleeper. It fell so that it was caught by a plank and a sleeper. Leach Davis and Cleve Dan iels were in a buggy close behind and they helped aU they could. The horse fell Into th creek 18 feet on the rock and wa killed. Going back to ths bridge to save his buggy, vvestmore land fell backward to th rocks and was badly hurt. He lives In Denton, but was cared for at the home of Darr Daniels near by. One report yester day says that he Is not seriously hurt. and another that he may die. FINDS ELOPING DAUGHTER, Farett Morgan, Who Ran Away With V . it, cratg, la Located in Paris. New York dispatch, 28th. J. L. Morgan, a Maron, N. C. mil lionaire, after a chase of several weeks, has located hi daughter. Miss Fayette Morgan, who eloped with W. L. Craig. She la la Parla Presi dent Thomas J. Simmons, of Shorter College, at Rome, Ga., who has aided in the hunt on this side of the water, received a cablegram from Mr. Mor gan, containing the foregoing infor mation. So far as is known, Craig is not with the girl. He is believed to be In Parts, and, It la supposed, continu ing his right for th band of th girl. Mrs. Leo Fisher Did Not Go on Stand. To the Editor of Th Observer: In your Issue of October Stth. 1108. in giving account of the trial at Co lumbus, Poul county, N. ,C of La Fisher for the murder of R. F. W- All ston. late of, Tryon, N. C, yoa stated that Fisher's wife went oh th stand and testified to th insult whloh Fish er stated she had told him that All- ston had offered her. I writ to ask you to correct this statement , as, though Mra Fisher was in the court room all during tba trial and, if there bad been any insult offered, might to easily have corroborated her hus band's statement, she never '.went ea the atand at all. , . 3. K. SHIPMAN. Attorney tor Prosecatloa, Hendersonvll), Oct Jlth, 1108, . . . ' . Youthful Composer, Concord.Tribuaa.. - . V . Master ' Arnold Dennis, th young son of Mra. Ida Dennis, of this city, who has been at th Odd Fellows Or phan Asylum at Ooldsbor for several years, has composed several verses, entitled. -Tn Noble Band of Odd Fellows. Th plac Ha Men set t mnaio and I bow on of ths greatest fraternal songs of th age. Arnold la srobably not mora thaa 16 years of ags and his accomplishment la this respect has caused fats friends la this city to tak a new Interest la th littl fellow.. -f ' , Redrns Editorship of Smith's Paper - to Vots Jrt Webb. v King's Mountain Herald. ' ? " v ; Mr. J. . W. Allen, editor of 3. A. Smith's Bessemer City Mesnger, has resigned and has left Bessemer City unawares It is understood that he left a note of explanation, addressed to Mr. Smith, statins; that he was go ing to vote for Webb for Congress, The running ff Tbe M.-sreT was not dose to icr, Area's notion, Tales if BY BCD ; CoL' Romulus Z. Linney( known to political fame as tb "Bun of the Brush," is one of th best lawyers la wasters North Carolina. H rev els in th criminal practice and would rather defend than prosecute. ' Any case, that is wrapped ia mystery ap peals to his Imaginative 'mind. Dr. James -Campbell, of Newton, to n of th most delightful story-tellers la the State. He has a vivid imagina tion, an easy flow, of chaste- and elo quent language, and a retentive mem ory. .These two men aroused In me aa Interest in a noted Wilkes county citisen who xnet a tragic death In Ca tawba about twnty years ago. . One' day whll taking; me for a diiv Dr, Campbell pointed hia whip to m large, horizontal limb on a mag nlflcent tree, said: "There is where they hanged Llg Church." "Who hanged him f "No en ever knew; h waa lynch ed. :;, :tSi.4; -i i . .. ' ' .- .-.; This excited my curiosity and 1 plied my companion with questions. FOUND THE DANGLZNO BODY, 'Tea; T was the flsst man to pass after th fellow was hanged," said Dr. Campbell. "i had been far In th country that night and was on my way horn when I saw th body swing ing from that bough. ' Th moon was shining and th atmosphere bracing Turning my horse I drove up to the man and caught hold of his leg. Life was extinct but th body waa still warm. AU that I could tell about the man waa that he had a whit face. Leaving him I went on to town and Informed some friends and an inves tigation revealed the fact that 4 white prisoner,- who had been spirited away from Alexander county, had been tok en out of the Catawba Jail and hang ed by a party of unknown men, who cam In that night on horseback and quietly did Its work. "What .had Church done?" X ask ed. v "Robbed a home and killed an old lady. Th running down of th-murderer makes a moat entertaining story. It waa months, I think, before any clue was got Finally, however, a young chap, Harrison Dookry. of Wilkes, was arrested, cast into pris on and Induced to confess. Soon af ter the news of th confession, which Implicated Church, began to spread Church gave himself up and got the 800 reward offered for his arrest. While in prison he tried three times to kill Dockery, once by hanging him to the ceiling and twice by poison, and Just the- merest accidents saved his life. Following close on the heels of th last effort came the lynching." Th recital of these facts by Dr. Campbell .created la m a desire to know' the full story of Llg Church and for several years I have desired to Interview Mr. Linney, who knew all about th affair from beginning to end. MR. LINNET TELLS THE STORY. "I want you to tell me about Life Church, his crime, his arrest and hi death." said I to Mr. Linney on the train the other day. "Ltge Church was one of the smartest men I ever saw on the wit ness stand." said ths lawyer. "Why. he waa a cunning as a fox and aa keen aa a Philadelphia lawyer. "Many years ago, near Hlddenlte, the daughter of James Thompson, aa aged farmer who horded money, was beaten to death by aom villain with an axe. The crime was committed in daylight, some time between noon and dark. - "Thompson a good farmer, a thrifty husbandman had th repnta tlon of being a person who kept about his premises much money, especially silver. A large guard dog ran at large in the yard to protect the place from trespassers. ' . "On day Thompson went to a back field to work. He had been there less than two hours when his dog ap peared and began to behave In a strange way. Th brut seemed to be wrought up and uneasy. . " His bris tles were lifted and he would start, running toward the house, and turn and come back, as If trying to get his master to aecompany him. But Thompson plowed on until dark and then went home, v On bis way to the front door he stumbled over tbe RESENTS KITCHTNS ATTACK. . . A. Smith, Presents Affidavits to Prove That Ha Quoted tbe Demo cratlo Candidate Correctly a to His Alleced Remarks Concerning Igno rance of Mill Operatives. To the Editor ot The Obrvr: t mmm in vour paper ot thla date a slanderous attack pn me, purporting to hava been made by" W. W . Kltchln, the Democratic . candidate for. Gov ernor, ia his speech in your town last night- ' j . - t intanA ta bold Th Charlotte Ob- server accountable to circulating this slander on me, even though uttereo a political demagogue. , I nave uttered'-, it lit ot slander on Mr. Kitchin. X? have only repeated what ha said himself in th presence of hundreds of. witnesses, and h least I can ask you t do now la to publish thla statement' over my signature. I am responsible In every sense ot the word for It. ..;,-; . .N-'V:'"- ' J" . The A in my name etanaa xor i .r. - ui came to John Aanew Smith. ;il waa named at tee my grand father: of the same- name, who waa ons of the signers of the conuUen ot North Carolina, an Instrument which demagogues Uk Kltchla.know so little about ' ' Please publish th attached affi davits, signed br twn good tlsns and endorsed by a minister of - the Gospel, and I will tret hundreds mors Bessemer City, Oct. th, 10 John' B. Cole and Hi P. Rollins, be ing, first duly sworn, depose and say. wrwre at King's Mountain a few wek ago. d heard W. W Kltchln, Democratic candidate for Governor, say that the Republicans were the Ignorant classes ia North v Carolina; that every man In ths penitentiary waa a Republican: that that was the reason a few mountain counties went Republican, because th people In those counties wer - the - ignorant classes, -and that th cotton mill help was sa Ignorant class of people, and v, . w . T3.n.hM.n. A t A not belong to the respectable class of people of nortn Carolina, . JOHN B. COLTS. Hie X Mark. ' R. P. ROLLINS. -V" ' IVrsonally appeared before m this ltd day ot. October, 108. John B Col and R. P. Collins, -who signed snd swor to th abov statement in my presence. - . - JOHN P. CHANDLER. - , ' : ' Notary Public - I endorse Rollins ana Coles state ment above sworn to. I heard Mr. Kltchln say thla and I win make oath te it if asked to. . u j. pknlet; " Pastor ML E. Church, King's iloun- end ths Times DUCK dead body of hla daughter, where it naa Deen Aeneaaea witn an axe which lay near. . , ' .' " - A, CLUE IS OBTAINED. "For ninety days we heard a o thine. Try as we did . we. could get no sore oz ctu. t . oas day, however, a postal card cam, asking if any re ward had been offered tor the arrest of- tha assassin of Miss Thompson. The. card was mailed at .Grassy Creek, Alleghany "county. , I got Into my ouggy ana went to Grassy Creek and inquired of the postmaster and others concerning recent visitors. - I was toia mat two' strangers ; naa - been there about the time the card was mailed, and one of, them had left a foreign coin for a quarter. Out ot 1600 la coins that wera taken from ths Thompson home the only one that tne owner could Identify was the one I found in Alleghany. I knew' that J was on the right trail; but at first it seemed Impossible to get any clue as to the name of the strange men. But as ! talked to th older persons I noticed that a bright-eyed,, 6-year-old lad followed me and listened in tently to every word that waa said, and nnany at a lull in the conversation he declared: 'I know their names.' . - What were they V I asked. . . 'Life and Harrison,, waa ths re ply, 'for th tall man said to the oth er: "Harrison, play a piece on the banjo for the chaps," and the short one answered. ."All right. Lire." The boy then took us to a plank on a ortage wner Llg cut his initials E. L, C.'V W knew then that Llge Church, a notorious fellow, who lived In Wilkes, about thirty miles from the Thompson homer was ons of the party. ' Later we had Dockery ar rested ' on suspicion and Ineid ot a week he confessed. He and Church traveled all night to get to Thomp son's. They went by a roundabout route to escape detection. After entering the house and robbing It of ita horded wealth, they went to the woods to divide the spoils. As they worked the old lady, who saw them, said; 'Lige Church, I know you.' Hav ing pondered over thla Lige declared, after dividing Dockery hla ahare of the money: That old woman knows me. I will have to destroy that evi dence.' Mis Thompson was mur dered. UGB CHURCH-SURRENDERS, "When thla came out Church sur rendered, '-. with tbe ' understanding that h was to get the reward. It was discovered that he had concealed la his shoe sole, between two strips of leather, a burglaKawfil which he Intended to Use In making an escape. "Llge was given a hearing before A Justice Of the peace. Dockery re lated his story, Just as he had told It In Ja'l. and w corroborated it as we , went along.. He said that on th way to Alexander from Wilkes Lige had stuck a needle in a pine stump. A runnsr was sent out and the stump and needle found. A portion of the money, said the witness, waa burled In a stump ths stump waa located but the money had been removed: "But with all this, Life Church trtod to prov an alibi and produced four or five witnesses to prov that h was on the-banks of the Yadkin, more ' than thirty miles from the Thompson place, after midnight the morning of the day the homicide was committed. He said that th fish law ran cut at It o'clock that night and he was waiting on th bank to set hla traps- as soon as It was legal to do so.. I askod him what he. a man who nad been convicted of felonies- and had atrved terms In the penitentiary, eared for such a small .thing as a fish law . His smart re ply was to thla effect: No man knows better that the way of the transgres sor is bard than I, who have served sentences for breaking the law, and when I grot out the 'ait time I made up my mind never again to offend, not even agi'nst a fish statute.' That was a very clever speech. ."Lige -was bound to court and for Safe-keeping was sen: to Newton, but When th people realized that he was luch a alick fellow they did not let the taw ;ak ita com no. Llg was taken from the Catawba county Jail and lynched by masked men." , PROHHHTION IN FLORIDA. Traveler" Tells What He Found In . City of SavannahNo Trouble to Get Drinks, He Says To the .Editor of The Observer: The writer spent Saturday the 24th, In Savannah and thinking they had th Hd en tight as In Charlott aaked a friend if he knew where a bottle of beer, could b had. Th friend r. plied, ''Why, certainly, nothing secret about it; all yoa have to do la to walk Into that building Just' across the street, turn to your right open for anybody." I did so.1 found the same fold bar room in full operation with possibly twenty-five people drinking beer and whiskey,- so I got my bottle of beer and no questions asked. . I re marked to thx proprietor, "Tod seem to be doing qulte a business for a 'dry. town,- "Oh, yes he said, tw hav been Jblng right along Just th same. ; . The . city jerks us all un in bunches about three or four times a year: and find us about the same as the city license formerly amounted to, but the State and county get nothing. The, only trouble we . have t there are between, five and six hundred of these places hers now against about two hundred formerly and the profits are divided mere." , " - s -j I noticed thla place and about' fif teen or twenty ? others I passed had their doors closed t with entrances either . on the side, or ' through the stores adjoining and people were, com ing and going, possibly to see the time of day. - v, 1 Tbe waiter at a restaurant offered me choice of three kinds ef beer with my- dinner A In fact,- the abundance seems to be unlimited and : nothing hid. ; In answer to my inquiry as to what the preachers and leading pro hibitionists were doing about it, Z was told that they had not' been beard from yet ; . - ' : So the .' prohibition law has really proved a good thing financially for both Savannah and Jacksonville. The last-named city averages $23,000 a day- for whiskey shipped out There are ,aboat one - hundred wholesalers and bars here who pay about 81,550 a year -each for license; but I sup pose they don't mind the tax and the c!tr to on - a boom. - The statement about the 82S.O0O was mentioned by one of our daily papers here recently.! - . - - v- TRAVELER.' j . Jacksonville, Fto,'----,?:. ,' -".:-. Stir Caused by Sllsunderstandlngv TaylorsvHle Scout' ; " TV J 1 In regard to the stir among the railroad men In ' our last week's is sue we stated that the cause waa a car of wood "dead-headed" to Char lotte. We hav been Informed since that th freight had been prepaid but the wy-b!U was not made out at the time but was to follow by tnalL This caused a xnlzusdarsaccling among the . ww-s ? f 1 t t $ t$ tf t t f e r --y7 s? -'M.-'-';v''- & W'fe-'i;' v To-day we place on sale a snappy eample lot ChiU" f tlren's.Coats, bought from a manufacturer at 1-4 J off - We made two lots of them.: -r ; ' $150 and $6.75 y ' ' : - ; "r 1 :- y'' :-. There are Coats" worth nrst cnoicei , Nev Window Swell Neckwe 1 Those new wide stripes,' f "n r patterns. Each 50c .t,, 4 . ; ;,V 1 . - ' ? . We AnItte "Emery;? Shirts v , ,- "No matter whether it's a $1.00 or a $3.00 Shirt, : whether it's a 1-4 stiff, 1-2 stiff or full dress shirt, ' oat style or plain, it nts just the- same. .Wear it' ... " once and you'll thank us for the Emery" Shift ' Knox? and VSorosis" t5hoes Two as snappy and co youll find anywhere for $5.00 and $6.00. Our "Dil- - worth'TO to $4.50 Shoes, for $ten are taking the '. . town. '. Shoemakers tell us there's no better Shoe 'on the market for the money. ' . ' - r ' " t '. Women'fArtistic" and Porosis1' r - , ' t . - .V ' ,, t .'. "- i - a t4 111 ' Any, jeatner m eitner or ' ' , A'.'!'1"- JetAMMW . JVw: AMW:,tATVA'M t . m i i rr'N v- ii i mii v w i it i li-Li i. and well pleased. Ave . Gunmetals and Tans; JJutton, BalandBlucher,plaui . or cap toe, $3.00 to $4.00. , ; '.; . ' New' Stock Rubbers 'J '.' .'"'.V'-'' :'.' vgk Boots, Arctics,' Sandals and -light weight Rubbers v; with heary turned soles; - Men's, - Women's and V;Children's.'; Prices rightVgg;; ' Boys'. Suits v, r , - . , - , t - . . , u We sell only full cut, well made and well tailored t Suits for Boys; ages 3 to 17 years, prices $2.00 to ; ; .$10.00. : Specials in School Suits $3.50 and $5.00. " Boys' Eaincoats . " v . ' .Answer for Overcoat and Raincoat. Prices -$3.50 - . to $70. " t,' lien's Snappy Suits $15.00 to $30.00 y , 1 . f -- ' - Two special lots of Men's new, stylish Suits, one'at ,$15.00 and the other at $22.50. These are swell '.patterns. , ' ' - '-, Ilea's Overcoat3 and Eaincoats : ! ' ' We are showing a splendid assortment. ' A beauti fful Tan Covert Top Coat for Young Men at $10iX). -' jx sweu one iur Jiie-u. aw pxo.w. jixtu a wercuais - in Black and neat Mixtures $10.00 to $22.50, and ' . Raincodts $7.50 to $22.50. r - . Fancy Vest3 . :; If you want the latest and the loudest and tha . r . swellest, see ours at $2.50 to 7.50. - ' . -; - - rt' Catrttt i -. J 'i t i ; s,7 - .. z r r V - ' - s h .. " 1 ''. --T-.V w :.'H' -r 9 it,?. s. . CflfLDRtTJ'S COATS to $12.50. Who gets the i ' . . v ' t - . t ' i '- y ' I ' ",r fl'Wt f ' 'I '' 1 v' -f ' . ' 'it . - v t -i . "'l ' t' ' . kt V j " ' X h ? i. ,, h '.': "! -1 '",J 1 - I t I 1 ..:-2s i. ....-4. ' ,' . ar ' ' latest shapes and swellest nafortabU ' Men's Shoes as :'-Vi- M i II ' ... I ' Aa ' " ' i.' 4 - f. inese. two.'.fcinoes . looxs w ft '. rlt 11 V. a at.kaMAU-Al1 aa " inn . isnr, ivi t i'jiiiiiiii i.mi in have them in Patents," Vicis,
The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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Oct. 30, 1908, edition 1
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