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Vol. XXVII.
HIGH PQLNT, GUILFORD COUNTY, UST. C, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15 1905.
No. 5
THE NARROWS.
A Remarkable Work Going On.
The Enterprise had' a talk Sat
urday wit ' a High Point contrac
tor who is assisting in . the great
work being carried on by the
Whitney Company at the Narrows.
There are now hundreds of men at
work there and within a few weeks
there will be 2,000 employed on
the dam. The dam will bea quarter
of a mile wide. The canal will be
four and one-fouth miles long with
a depth of 25 to 75 feet. There is
an electric line running from the
dam to the site of the power bouse.
There is an air of activity around
the place seldom seen in tbeSouth
The company is running several
large engines and the Steam shov
els are enormous. One firm at
Pittsburg has a contract amount
ing to $1,500,000. This is only
for part of the work. We look for
great things to come from the im
provements at the Narrows.
Pinehurst Party.
Mrs. M. H. Bowman, Miss Bow
man, Mrs. J. K Beeson, Miss Bee
son, of Uniontown, Pa., were at
the El wood Monday en route
to Pinehurst.
The Meeting Last Friday Night.
The meeting held last Friday at
the Manufacturers' Club to con
sider the South-Bound, railway
project was a very representative
one and much enthusiasm pre
vailed. Every one present en
dorsed the movement and the
special delegation that will go to
Winston Wednesday are empow
ered to act according tto the senti
ment of the meeting. For obvious
reasons we shall not go into the
details of the meeting at this time.
The spirit of the meeting was all
that 'could be expected and the
very kind to bring about anything
we desire.
40-MILE PASS FOR TIE PASS.
Wearied Japs May Lag Behind No
Other Hope Left Russians.
St. Petersburg, Dispatch, 10th.
General Kuropatkin is giving
ground before the armies of Japan,
and yesterday he abandoned posi
tions $outh and southwest of Muk
den, burning such of his supplies
as he could not carry with him,
The Japanese artillery is thunder
ing at the very gates of Mukden,
which position the Russians still
hold but which they are admittedly
prepared to evacuate, changing
their base to Tie Pass, which is 40
miles north ofJMukden. So far as
the retreat has progressed, it has
been orderly. What the Japanese
may have in store far the defeated
army on its retirement northward
remains to be disclosed There are
reports that General Rennenk
ampff , the foremost cavalry gener
al of the Russian army in Manchu
ria,- has been cut off on the east
from the main force, and Japanese
troops in considerable numbers, are
said to be already in the vicinity
01 Tie Pass. 1 ne retirement un
questionably cost the Russians
dear in the matter of supplies and
beavey guns. Neither commanders
nor correspondents have yet ven
tured to estimate the number killed
or wounded in the eleven days of
fighting. The Russian casualties
in the fighting Tuesday on the left
flank are said to have been fully
7.000. :
. ' Fine Quality.
W. C Stepp returned from Mt.
Airy Thursday. He brought with
him a sample of fine coal recently
discovered ac Walnut Cove.- The
vein is 5 feet thick and it has
been traced for a distance of ' five
miles. The coal seems to be of
first quality. ,
Contract Let.. -.;..-.-
-Mr. Bagby has let contract to E.
T. Hedrick for the . large brick
building on Main street. ? The
building will be 75 feet front, three
stories. The two upper, stories will
be used as a moderate rate hotel
and 'Will; be leased to one of bur
townsmen. '::' . v
WINSTON AROUSED.
Meeting for the Delegations Wednes
day. This city is thoroughly aroused
and enthusiastic over the building
of the Winston-Salem South-Bound
Railroad and the approaching
meeting. Wednesday.next, at which
a tremendous crowd of visitors are
expected. And this enthusiasm
and confident expectation of so
large a number of visitors, is based
upon the overwhelming indorse
ment and approval of the leading
citizens of the Twin-City and high
ly encouraging reports from every
section south through which the
road may run including the city of
Charleston. .
The following program has been
arranged for Wednesday:
PROGRAM.
Music.
Call to order by W. T. Brown,
President of the Board of
Trade.
Address of Welcome, Mayor O.
B. Eaton.
Music. v
South-Bound Railway, Hon. C.
B. Watson.
Music.
Response from all points repre
sented. Broadbay Township.
High Point.
Randleman.
Asheboro.
Music.
Troy.
Harrisyille.
Mount Gilead.
Gibson's Mills.
Music.
Rockingham. .
Hamlet.
Gibson.
Thomasville
Music.
Jackson Hill.
Lexington.
Millegesville.
Music.
Gold Hill.
Mt. Pleasant.
Monroe.
Albemarle.
Norwood.
Wadesboro.
Music.
Charleston and S. C. points.
RECEPTION COMMITTEE.
J. M. Rogers,
T. L. Vaughn,
Jas. A. Gray,
J. W. Fries,
W. A. Blair,
Joe Jacobs,
E. D. Vaughn,
F. B. Efird,
E. H. Wilson,
J. T. Griffith,
J. C. Bessent,
G. W. Hinshaw,
E. E. Gray,
G. A. Follin,
J. J. Norman,
J. G. Young,
A. F. Pfohl,
J. A. Nancej
C. E. Crist,
T. Ht Volger.
ENTERTAINMENT COMMITTEE.
F. J. Liepfert,
B. J. Sheppard,
B. F. Huntley,
P. H. Hanes, Jr.,
A. S. Hanes.
A Card.
'Editor Enterprise:
We have heard on the streets of
High Point an assertion which we
would not attempt to contradict, if it
were not for the fact that it has
been ' frequently repeated and is
calculated to do- the Wachovia
Loan & Trust Company more of
less injustice. ,
I refer to the statement that the
Wachovia Loan & Trust Company
is taking money away from High
Point and investing at other places
and I am in a position to state that
the Wachovia Loan & Trust Co.
has now more money loaned in
High Point than - they have depos
its in this city, saying nothing of
the amount invested in real estate
at this" office, and that instead
of taking money out of this com
munity it has been and is bringing
itin. .' v ,
I trust you will do us the favor
to insert this in your paper as a
communication from me., .
- - ' - Yours truly,
' " , C. L. Glenn, Cashier.
TO MAKE SURVEY.
Surveyors Employed by Officers of the
South-Bound.
The officers of the South-Bound
Railroad have secured a corps of
engineers to go over and run one
or the other or both of the propos
ed lines for the rqad, starting from
this city and goiug south.
The surveyors are expected to
arrive here in a few days to enter
upon their work.
The purpose of these surveys is
to ascertain the cheapest and best
line and will enable the manage
ment to more promptly complete
the contracts for construction when
the bonds of this and other com
munities are finally voted for the
building of the road.
The registration books for the
South-Bound bond election was
opened in Winston-Salem last
Tuesday. Winston Sentinel.
An Arrest Expected.
San Francisco, Friday, 10 It
is expected that an arrest will be
made today of one or more persons
in connection with the Stanford
case. All servants in the Stanford
household have been questioned
again by the police and it is learn
ed friction existed among them."
Scarcity of Cars.
There is much complaint about
the scarcity of cars. Several of the
factories here have beep unable to
get cars for their v shipping during
the past week. Mr. Spencer, the
agent,' is doing all in his power to
meet the demand, but the entire
state seems
condition.
ato be in the same
Funeral of Senator Bate.
Washington, Friday, 10 Fun
eral .services over the remains of
the late Senator Bate were held in
the Senate chamber at 2 o'clock
this afternoon. Every Senator in
the city, with many Representa
tives, were present. Others es
pecially invited by the Senate were
the president and members of the
cabinet. Rev. Edward Everette
lale, the Senate chaplain, offi
ciated, assisted by Rev. Samuel H
Green, pastor of Calvary Baptist
church, and Rev. Prettyman.of the
Mount Vernon Place M.E Church
South, of which Senator Bate was
a member.
Pittsburg, March 11. Special
Seven persons were hurt by trolley
car accident this morning. Car in
which they were riding jumped
track at sharp curve. Car plunged
over a ten foot embankment alight
ing on one end. Five seriously
in urea.
Waiting.
While the Ware and Leland
Commission House was still open
on last week, there was posted a
conspicious notice to the effect that
no .new trades were being made,
the quotations which were receiv
ed being simply for the conveniece
of customers who had been patron
izing the firm and who are still in
the market.
This action of the house referred
to does not mean that the Woodard
bill is to be no longer contested,
but simply that the management is
awaiting advices as to the course
to be persued. It is understood
that counsel hsve been engaged by
the several firms doing business in
the State, who are representatives
of brokerage firms having seats on
the various regular exchanges and
are awaiting their formal . opinion
as to the effect of the act before
again commencing business. If the
legal advice should be that the law
is unconstitutional, the . course to
be followed would probably be to
have an indictment brought for
the purpose of testing the law, as'
the lease would thus the more
quickly get before the Supreme
Court, the manager of the house
admitting the-fact and moving a
dismissal of the case on the ground
of the unconstutionality of the act.
-Raleigh News & Observer.
The discussion when the bill was
before the legislature was plain as
to the intent and extent of the law.
Met Again Monday Night.
The stockholders of the High
P6int Savings & Trust Company
met Monday night and elected S.
H. Hilliard treasurer. The organiz
ation was - completed Tuesday
night." " ' -
THE SOUTH BOUND.
What Those Along the Line are Doing
Lexington Meets Monday.
Citizens all along the proposed
lines of the Winston-Salem South
Bound Railway in the counties of
Davidson, Stanley, Montgomery,
Union, Anson and Richmond in
this State are deeply interested iu
this great enterprise and are pre
paring to hold meetings with a view
to doing whatever is essential to
th" construction of the road
The following is from Lexington
and indicates the feelings general
ly of of southern neighbors:
"A meeting of prominen citizens
of Lexington was held last
Monday night for the purpose of
considering some action as to the
Winston-Salem South-Bound Rail
way, projected to run from Wins
ton to some point south, Wades
boro, Hamlet, or Monroe. People
here are much interested and it is
believed that they will do what
ever is essential to the construction
of the new road via Lexington.
Many leading citizens are expec
ting to attend a meeting at Wins
ton on March 15th, to confer es
pecially in reference to the mat
ter." It may not be generally known
that an act was passed iu the - re
cent South Carolina Legislature,
granting a charter for a proposed
railroad from Charleston, S. C. , to
Monroe, in Union county in this
State.
Being many miles removed from
this section, these good people have
naturally an imperfect idea of the
size and importance of Winston
Salem and know perhaps, as im
perfectly the connections we have
north over the Norfolk & Western
and are not fully advised, if at all
of the fact, that in building less
that one hundred miles of railroad
from Winston-Salem to Monroe,
Wadesboro. or Hamlet in this
State, and connecting with the At
lantic Coast Line, that this link
will give Charleston the mo;t di
rect route possible to the great
markets of the north and east.
Had these facts been fully known
when the act above referred to was
before the Legislature, it is quite
likely that co-operation would have
been asked of us, instead of it be
ing as it now is, the other way.
At the meeting to be held in this
city Wednesday, March 15th, it
will develope that in the building
of this link of railroad from Winston-Salem
south, our people will
accomplish more for the rapid de
velopment of the two Carolinas,
and especially in building up the
port of Charleston, than anything
that has been done in the past half
century. Journal.
Sensation at Winston.
Attired in the garb of a boy
consisting of a knee-pant suit of
blue serge, a fancy vest, patent
leather shoes and a golf cap,a girl,
who gave here name as Eula Jack
son Caruthers Newman, and her
age 18 years, occasioned consider
able of a sensation at the municpal
building last Friday.
The girl was discovered at the
home of Ada Burns, colorded.near
the Not folk & Western depot by
Officers Pratt and Hasten Fri
day morning. A report had been
circulated that a white girl was
stopping, at the Burns woman s
house, and the officers called to in
vestigate.
The woman objected to the offi
cers entering the house, but Mr.
Pratt pushed the door open and
walked in. The girl was lying on
a bed and in response to questions
she admitted her sex, and said she
was ready to tell all about it. The
policemen escorted her, with the
colored woman, to the office of the
mayor. To Chief of Police Crutch-
field she told the following story:
"I was eighteen years old m No
vember. My mother died a year
ago at Finnix, va., in Bedford
county. My father is a farmer. He
treated me so badly after my
mother's death that I left home
shortly after going to Holllns, Va.,
where my brother and half-brother,
George Newman and Price Rober
son, lived. They would do noth
ing for me and I returned to Roan
oke and went to work for Dr. Tip
ton, cooking. , "
"I had my hair cut. and bought
this suit of clothes
The girl was sent back to Roan
oke' and the negro made leave the
city.
SIDE BY SIDE FOR 50 YEARS.
Mr. and Mrs. Lambeth Celebrate
Their Golden Wedding A
Notable Event.
The following notice of the cele
bration on March 1st of a golden
wedding, taken from the Daily
Bulletin, of Brownwood, Texas,
will be of interest to the older peo
ple of this city who knew the par
ties in the long ago:
"A charmiDg event of the week
was the celebration by Mr. and
Mrs. J. W. Lambeth of their fif
tieth anniversary or golden wed
ding at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
J. W. Malone ou last night. The
guests on entering this pleasant
home, so brilliant on this occasion,
were first conducted to the register
where presided Mrs. C. J. Tanne
hill. After inscribing their auto
graphs in the register book, on the
cover of which was a hand painted
picture of Mrs. Lambeth as a girl,
the guests were introduced by Miss
Hattie Tannehill to Mr. and Mrs.
Lambeth who were seated in rock
ers in the parlor. The evening
was spent in pleasant conversation
in which the happy old couple took
a prominent part, until time for
refreshments, when Miss Mazie
Malone, Miss Lena Coggin and
Miss Grace Harrell. in a most
charming manner, served the
guests with delightful two course
luncheon, consisting of salads cream
and gold cake.
"After refreshments were served
Rev. F. M. Gilliam in behalf of the
guests assembled, presented Mr.
and Mrs. Lambeth with $50 in
gold, representing a dollar for each .
year of their married life. Manv
other handsome golden presents
were presented to them."
Mr. and Mrs. John W. Lambeth
emigrated from High Point to
Texas about 26 years ago. Mr.
Lambeth is an uncle of Mrs. B- A.
Best, of this place, and Mrs. Lam
beth an aunt of Mrs. W.L.Stamey,
of this place, both of whom receiv
ed unique and handsome hand
painted cards executed in gold, tell
ing of the happy event.
Explosive in Letter.
Lexington, March 7. While
stamping a lot of letters in the
postoffice yesterday afternoon , Post
master J. G. Walser was slightly
injured and greatly frightened by
the explosion of the contents of
one of the letters when it was
struck with the stamp. Mr. Walser
received an injury in one eye by
powder burn, and his face was
blackened by the explosion. The
report was like a pistol shot, and
being heard some distance, caused
considerable excitement. There is
some mystery about the matter.
The letter containing the explosive
was mailed here. Postmaster Wal
ser withholds the name of the ad
dress thereof.
Woman Poisoner Submits.
Lynchburg, Va., March 8. Mrs.
Sallie Hanna who administered
rough on rats to a family of six
persons because the family had
given shelter to the husband of the
prisoner, whom she had run away
from home, appeared in court to
day.waived trial by jury and threw
herself on the mercy of the court.
The judge announced that he
would take the matter under ad
visement and it is probable that be
will hear the evidence in the case
tomorrow.
Died on His Way to Visit His Daughter.
' Pleasant Garden, March 7.
At 6 p. m. today Mr. C.G. Harris,
of Davidson county, a clerk in the
house of representatives of North
Carolina, died very suddenly. He
was on his way to visit his daugh
ter, Mrs. Chas. E. Dickens whose
husband is superintendent of the
Fentriss mines near Greensboro.
Mrs. Dickens met the train with
conveyance to take him to her
home but finding him tco sick to
travel she . took . him to Dr, C.
Gray's office where he received all
possible medical attention to no
avail.
The Enterprise will be pleased
to print communications of reason
able ; length from candidates or
their friends.
H0M0CIDE.
A Negro Kills Another Over Game of
Cards.
Early Saturday night, about 7
o'clock, the watchman of Lindsay
Chair Company heard a groaning
in a box car on the siding as he
passed ana" oa going to the door of
the car. found Austin Turner, col
ored, lying in the car with his
skull crushed. The watchman re
ported the matter at once to the
police who hurried to the scene.
Medical aid was summoned but
the wounded man lived only two
hours after he was found.
It has subsequently developed
that Austin Turner and Bud Hol
land were gambling in the car.and
that a fight arose over the game
with the result as recorded. The
slayer of Turner told some of his
friends of the occurrence and then
took to the woods. Dr. J. P. Turner,
the coroner, held an inquest over
the body Sunday. The following
citizens acted as jurors: T. P.
Redding. H. C. Field, J. L- Se
chrest, J.W. Harris, J W. Sechrest
and H. C. Pitts. The verHiotmao
that deceased came to his death by
blow on head infiicte'd with piece"
scantling in the hands of Bud Hol
land. The sheriff offered a reward of
$25 for the apprehtnsion of Hol
land.
High Point seems to be at the
mercy of a lot of toughs just sow.
Can t we stop this whiskey selling.
gambling and firing of pistols
at
night? Something must be done.
The Town Will A6t.
Every indication now is that
High Point will take decided action
on the Southbound Railway
scheme. There will be a meetinc
0
in Winston on the 15th and our
town will be well renrespnterl
This is a matter in which every
body should be specially interest
ed. It means a great deal to the
future of our community and every
business man here should roll up
his sleeves and go to work to get
this road.
The editor Enterprise received
this morning the following letter
from the Winston Board of Trade:
"The Southbound Railway.' the
charter for which was passed by
the present North Carolina Legis
lature, has been organized under
the provisions of the Act and ihf
prospects for building the road
irom winston-oaiem south in the
direction of Charleston. S. C. . are
bright if sufficient encouragement
in me way 01 ngnt ot way are se
cured and corporate subscriptions
from counties, townships, cities
and towns are made. The citv of
Winston-Salem has already taken
steps preliminary to taking a vote
on a liberal subscription.
"At a meeting of the Board of
trade of this city held on March 2d
a resolution was adopted inviting
communities and cities lying south
of us which are interested in the
building of this road to come and
also to send representatives to a
meeting to be held at Winston-
Salem on Wednesday, March i5th,
for the purpose ot presenting the
wishes of the several sections which
they represent in regard to this
matter.
"It is important that gentlemen
who come to the meeting be pre
pared to state the advantages which
the road will derive from the coun
ties through which it would pass
and which they represent, and also
be in some degree at least prepared
to give privileges as to the amount
of subscriptions which they can
A. - A - A 1 1 . f
voie 10 me undertaking.
It is hoped that as large-a repre
sentation as possible will be pres
ent as the surveyors are now ready
to begin the survey.
Horses Comieg.
Geo. T. Penny shipped a car
load of large carriage horses to
Baltimore this week. He will re
turn through the Valley of Vir
ginia and buy a nice load of driv
ing horses to ship home. Call at
his stable last of this week and see
them. ' . , f -, . m. ' -. ,,v