North Carolina Newspapers

URIER. Issued Weekly. PRINCIPLES, NOT MEN. .00 Per Year VOL. XXVII. ASHEBORO, N. C, THURSDAY MAY 14, 190. NO 46. ASHEBORO GO BRITTAIN & OREQSON, ATTORNEYSATLAW, Asheboro, - North Carolina. Practice in ths courts of Randolph and adjoining counties; in Stubs and Federal Courts. Prompt at tention to business of all kinds. Wn. O. Hammer, j..,BPnot (Civil PMolictOnlT.) HAMMER & SPENCE, Attorneys - at Law Aabebom, N. C. North of Court Bouse.) Praodee in al the oourt. E. MOFFITT, Attorney - at - Law, ASHEBORO, N. C. -Phone No. 22. Practice in nil the courts. Spcciul attention given to settlemen of Estates. mb-Opftck Nrah Court Hours 0. L. 8AFP, Attorney-at-Law. traettae la BU( eat t inl OeerH. Ocrporatioe, OeaaeroUl aad Pre bWL. AH btudaeai proplj OAm la Rom Rh Baildlrf . S. Bryant, President J. I. Cole, Cashier V,e Btvnk of R.8.ndlemaLn, Randleman N. C. capital paid in, Protection to depositors, $20,000 40.000 Dikectoks: S. G. Newlin, A. N. Bulla, W. T. Bryant, C. L. Lindsey, N. N. Newlin, J. H. Cole, S. Bryant II 0 Barker and W K Hartsell. Sydnor & Hundley, Richmond, Va. I flmmd quarters for Bridal Suites Virginia's leading Furniture House begs to extend a happy New Year's greeting to our many friends and patrons in North Carolina, and to assure them that our stock of Fur niture and kindred branched will, in the future as iu the past, be STRICTLY UP TO THE TIMES. Sydnor Hundley 709-713 I. BROAD ST. -RICHMOND. VA. II YOV WANT- THE: BEST LAUNDRY Snd your Laundry to the Old UII1U CHARLOTTE STEAM LAUNDRY. They am better prepared to do your work right thun any Laundry jri the Stab?, and do it right, too. Leave your bundles at Wood & Moring's store. Basket leaves Tues days and returns Fridays. W. A. COFFIN, Agent. machinery. For the A B Farcmhar threshing machinery, saw mills, engines, etc write or call on Wilms L Fuekmak, Agent, Ether, N. C. Double Daily Trains Carrying Pullman Sleepers, Cfo Cars (a if 'arte) and tnaw uara peaia rrceA Bcctric Lighted Throughout CTWKKN Birmlieeaa, ncaphls aid Kaasai City Tuas, Ofclafcesu tad ladUa Terrttarics AND THI Far West and Nartawcst s only nraonoit aLBEcvM car l erwaaw rna sourHBAar and KfA3 CITY Dcacrlntive literature, ticket ar ranrrd and through reMrraUona made myoa applicauoa to W. T. Saunecaa, , Aef. hie 0m M Cuar, Tui.rw. Atimt. CU. ,W. T. SAUNDERS Cent t' Panfr 0p" , ATLANTA. CA, WASHINGTON LETTER. Post Office Scandal Investigation Mr. Hearst's Campaign Against Trusts Everybody Interested In General Miles' Report on Conditions in the Phillipines. Special CiirrwiMMiftcnoe Courier. Washington, 1). C, May 11. While the President of the United States is loudly inveighing against corruption in public and private life iu his speeches ut the dedication of the World's Fair building ut St. Louis, the corruption in the Post Ollice Department under his own administration, which is being daily nnenrthed by tlio investigation now froceeding, smells to high heaven, t is the expressed opinion of many officials of the government here that it would be the policy or consistency for the President to return here at once and see to it that the investiga tion is made thorough and that no guilty man escapes the punishment which is bis just uue. llie trutn ot the mutter is tnut this investigation in I lie rosi. uiuce iepurtmeii using' cine up more snakes than the ad ministration can conveniently kill, and the administration would like nothing better than to kill the inves tigation. When l ostmaster licnerul Pavnc returned here from his trip among tlio West Indies Islands with Secretary Moody and others, lie was amazed and terrilied ut what he found. When be left here and told First Assistant Postmaster Wynne to go ahead with the investigation he supposed nothing would be iinearin ed beyond a few irregularities which could be fixed by the suspension or discharge of a few scapegoats. hut be found was tnut u number of the divisions of his department were rotten to llie core anil that sev eral of the heads of those divisions had already resigned under tire, and that several moro would nave to re- sigu or be kicked out. The investi gation was cither unearthing more serious charges against theso men every day or else he was receiving from other sources serious charges. One of the men who already had re signed had his wife go to his old oflice in the P. O. Dept. and rillc a safe of papers that would, presuma bly, lncriminato him and perhaps otners in his division of the Depart ment. Now comes a man named Seymour Tulloch, who had been cashier of the Washington City post office for over twenty years, uud was fired by Postmaster Merritt at the dictation of Perry Heath, who then was the First Assistant Postmaster General, because Tulloch refused to pay people who were carried on the rolls of the oity postoffico in a fraud ulent manner, '''ulloch charges that some men were on the pay rolls three tunes umkT different names unit were drawing three salaries; that a certain newspaper man was on the roils as the phvsieian to the city post oltice, and that he knew no more about the practice of' medicine than a hog knows about navigating u ship, yet ic was receiving a sumry ot $1,700 i year, lie snvs these minus ami irregularities have been going on ver sineo Perry Jleath, who now is the Secretary of the Republican Na tionul Committee, was installed ns First Assistant Postmaster General; that he has the papers in his posses sion to prove all his charges and on ly asks the opportunity to do so. From the way things look now he robably will not get the opportuni ty to prove his charges. Mr. Payne is making a bluff at investigating these charges made by Tulloch, but from his motions ho hardly will give Mr. 1 ulloch au opportunity to goon the witness stand. He sees whut the whole thing is leading Ut and is do ing his best to squelch any further investigation, lie is a shrewd poli tician, was placed iu the cabinet as Itoosevelt s political guide and coun sellor, and it evidently is his belief that a continuance of the investiga tion will result in serious conse- iiiences to the adniinietrutiou. Sen ator Henry Cabot Lodge, of Massa chusetts, who is the spokesman for Itoosevelt on the floor of tlio Senate, evidently thinks otherwise, for he said here the other day, after read ing in the Washington "Evening Star" a defence of A. W. Machen, Superintendent of Free Delivery, by Postmaster General Payne, that Ma chen would have to go and that his suspension or discharge had been ordered by the President before he left on bis western trip; that if the 1'ostmaster Ueneral did not get nd of Machen there would be something doing in the resignation line in Mr. Payne s otlice, and the Postmaster General would be forced out of the Cabinet Mr. Payne is now between the devil and the deep blue sea. If be kicks out lion Wynne, who start ed the investigation, Wynnewill pull down the temple. Machen knows uiu uiucu, auu li ne is aicKeu, out, he will play the same gume, and tbeie yon are. In the meantime the Democrat are holding their noses anu waicmng the fun. There are nearly 20.000 immi grants a week landing in New York, These men are coming over to enjoy the great prosperity in this country, The way tbey will find it is by tak ing the place of the strikers who are now on a strike for higher wages. In this way they will act as strike breakers for the trusts and the trusts will experience no diminution in their own prosperity, How does or ganized labor like that.' It is almost heartrending (?) to view the debris of busted trusts scat tered all over the country, wrought by the legislation passed by the late Republican Congress (?) The only trust in this coantry now in a bad war is the anthracite coal trust. It is in a hole with the sides soaped and no ladder in sights and it was not deposited in this cavity by tho Republican administration, but by a good Democrat, viz.: William Itundolph Hearst. Mr. Hearst's attorneys have proved every contention before the inter state Commerce Commission. They have bucked the trust up in u cor ner and the trust refuses to produce its contracts. The courts will be asked to compel them to produce them. Those contracts will prove them innocent or guilty of an infruc tion of the law regulating interstate commerce. It they were innocent. what sane man believes they would hesitate to produce; them and con found the man who is alter them. Remember, this is not being done by a Republican administration sworn to execute tho laws, but by a Demo cratic member of Congress who is doing it in the interest of law and order and the pockets of the people. There seems to be it growing dis cord in the prosperity chorus. The most of the trade and commercial journals of the country who make their living off the protected indus tries have been howling in one con tinuous and harmonious chorus about the abundant and Republican sont prosperity. Some of them are beginning to "back-pedal" and to assert that we have already ceased to be prosperous. Xhe most pessimis tic of these is perhaps the "Wool and Cotton Reporter," which explains the poor sales of woolen goods this year and the prosperity oi tne suouuy industiy by saying that tho coal and other trusts "have brought about such high prices that the purchas ing power of tho people is curtailed and that they cannot afford to wear any but cheap clothes, which, ac cording to the Republican idea makes a cheap man. Is it possible that the trusts are going to begin makiug mouths ut one another, that tho pot is going to call '.he kettle black? If so, honest men may get their dues. It is believed here that the Presi dent bus arrived at an acute period of his candidacy for the Republican nomination, llu has got to the baby-kissing stage of the game. Next on the programme will be the trust-hugging stunt. Everybody interested in the ad ministration is beginning to shy rocks at General Miles for his report of tho conditions existing iu the Philippine Islands. He recommends in that report that tho army iu the Philippines be fed on lieef on the hoof killed fresh, because he ascer tained that tho urmy is still living ou embalmed beef. The War De partment pays no attention to his recommendation for the reason that tho beef trust could make no prof i t out of the government if (Jen. Miles' suggestion were complied with. How long will the people stand it.' If the President will return and make us close a study of the work ups of tlic civil service hero as he made of the animals iu Yellowstone Park, he will find some game that has crept in under tho civil service tent more worthy of his gun. In triist-bamiig, publicity seems to be one ot President Roosevelt s strong cards. Why does he not try some of the publicity medicine ou the scaudaU of the nur and l ost Ollice Departments of his ewn ad ministration? The Amphitheatre donated to the University of California by William Randolph Hearst, mentioned in my lost letter, and in which President Roosevelt will speak when he goes to Berkley, seems to be a superb gift. As everybody knows, Mrs. Phoebe A. llearst, the motner oi uepresetiia tive llearst, has given one million dollars to tho University of Califor nia, and is devoting her time to the supervising of plaus uud details in the development ot this great insti tution. Mrs. Hearst, by the way, is the only woman Regent iu the United Slates. Mr. Hearst's Am phitheatre is modeled after those of the ancient Greeks. It will cost one hundred thousand dollars when compleUd. It will contain nine sections of seats, each section to nave more than twenty tiers. They will be on a steep incline and will Beat eight thousands persons. Around the top a broad wulk will furnish staudiDg room for two thousand more persons, lielow the tier-seats will be a platform level with the stage provided with seats. The Amphitheatre will accommodate in all fourteen thousand persons. "Considerations of moment not confined to Porto Rico," have caused the administration to let up ou the prosecution of officers down there who are accused of smuggling. 1 he American District Attorney already had a lot of the Lativcs of Port Rico in the penitentiary for the same offense, and was proceeding against the American officers when he was stopped by the above telegram from the Attorney Ueneral. Diva that mean that the same condition exists in the Philippines and the airing of the Porto Rican matter would pre cipitate the prosecnlion of men in the 1'hilippinesf That all the rot- tennoss coming to the surface at one time would swamp tho administra- and knock out the nomination of Roosevelt? That certainly is "con siderations of moment." Where, oh where, is that universal panacea, publicityr CHARLES A. EDWARDS. On the first and third Tuesdays of May and June the Frisco System (Saint Louis k Sun Francisco 'Rail road) will have on sale reduced one way and round trip tickets from Birmingham, Memphis and Saint Louis to points in Arkansas, Mis wnri, Oklahoma, Indian Territory and Texas. Write W T Saunders. O. A., P. D., Frisco System, Atlanta, Ga., for information. Dr. Stephen W. Caddell Was born near Carthage, Moore county, June 16th, 1858, and is 44 years old. When a small boy he de cided to study medicine and pre scribed for the boys in school. When in his teens ho went to school at Edcnliorough, in Robeson county, uud read medicine under Dr. Hector McLean. After remaining in Robe son comity a yeur or two reading medicine and attending the public schools, he decided to return to his native county and entered Lniou Home School. Later he went to Lumberton and seemed a position in a drug store, lie continued to reud medicine with Dr. J. I). McMillan, of that placo, for a year or more, when he returned to Moore and taught iu the public schools of that county. During va cations he read medicine and assisted Dr. R. J. Mulone, of Richlund township, this county, iu tho prac tice of medicine. hi the full of 1888, after having earned enough to enter college, he entered tho medical department of the Uuivcrsity of Tennessee, from which institution he graduated in 1802. He returned to Randolph and lo cated in Pleasant Grove township. near Holly Springs church. In Au gust, 1K!)5, he was married to Miss bullie K Brown, the youngest. daughter of the lute Rev. W. R. Krown. To them were born three children, two boys and one girl, two of which arc living. Brother of Col P. M. Pearsall Killed In Georgia. Col. M. G. Pearsall, solicitor of the city court, and Dr. Frank Dan iel, physician for the Georgia North ern Ruilwuv, were killed May 7th bv Di. Daniel s motor ear colliding Willi a log train ou the Georgia Northern. The gentlemen had been lishuigaiid were returning to town in the motor. A heavy rain was driving in theii faces ami they held au umbrella in f l out. Neither saw the log train, which ivus backinsr. Six cars of the train were derailed. Col. Pearsall was from Morganton, N. C. und was a brother of Col. P. M. Pearsall, private secretary to Gov. Aycock. Prayed to Deaf Ears. About nine miles from Camilen, S. C. .May 7, Spain Kelley met W. F. Creech iu the road riding in a buggy with a friend. W lthout a word of warning, Kelley stopped his horse, levelled his gun and tired. Cieech, who was wounded, raised up and begged his ussaillaut not to kill him, but Kelley fired again. A pusserby took the wuonded man into his buggy und rode rapidly away. Kelley took his horse out of the buggy, mounted him, pursued the flying vehicle for about three miles, when he overtook Creech and fired upon him with gun and pistol eight times, killing him despite his pleas for mercy. Creech was a lenuessee- an. The trouble, it is said, was about Kellcy's sister. Obedience and Punishment of Children. There is uo diversity of opinion as to the necessity of obedience to a child's well-being, but in the methods whereby obedience is secur ed there is a wiilo difference in the practises, ut least, of parents. In a paper in the June Delineator Mrs. Theodore W. Birney gives some emi nently sane advice on obedience and punishment. Mrs. Birney is not partial to the rod, and she holds that incorrigibility iu children is more often due to a "luck of self-control and knowledge of temperament and child nature in the parent than to any abnormality in the child. 1 here is, doubtless, au cloment uf truth in that, though some may disagree. However there are other points in tho article that many parents will do well to take to heart, 1 he author shows a wido knowledge of the nature and needs of children. New Idea Woman's Magiilae. Brides, graduates, and flowers are the dominant features of the first month of Summer, and tho June number of the New Idea Woman Magazine treats of them all. "J one, the Month of Roses," is a practical floral paper, by Benjamin B. Kerch, charmingly illustrated. Sarah Sla- tet contributes a noteworthy article ou "June Brides;" Agnes Warren describes "June Fetes; and Kate Marston writes of "A Woman and her Pin Mouey." In addition to these distinctly timely themes, the several departments of Society Fads, Good Housekeeping, Embroidery, aud Home Dressmaking receive novel treatment, characteristic of the season. The short stories and verse are of exceptional excellence. The McAdoo Hotel in Greensboro, will in the future employ only white help. Sam Jones on His Travels in Tennessee and Texas. Atlanta .liiUMuil. Texas is "humping" herself to get in her corn and cotton crops. They have the largest ami most promising small grain crop pel haps in the his tory of the State. The farmers are talking corn; cotton is the queen eon sort, but corn is king in Texan this year. 1 h( average J exas farmer is tired shipping Ins corn trom the northwest and they hope with the wuctu, ours aim corn cio is ut gain back their independence which they have surely lost in the past three years. 1 ho projected cotton crop of Texas is not ns largo in acreage this vear as it has been for the past several years, I am told. I have not seen a stalk of cotton np in lexiu, though thero may be sonic coming up in southern Texas. Thousands f acres of coi n are up in good shape. I suppose the State will not be short on fui iii labor, for tho tens of thous ands of emigrants which have loaded everv train coming from the ea I. ince last fall will certaiulv supply the demands. Texas is certainly a rathole for humanity. Pel haps more than a hundred t hiuisaud einmigraiits come into this State every winter, and they "settle nround ami fall into line and there seems to he surplus and no overplus. Texas can curry a population of twenty millions without a jam, when she gets ready to do her best. Texas towns are too thick to thrive. There is no longer a raco between Dallas and Fort Worth. Dallas is outdistancing her too far for the rare to continue. Dallas will take in her suburbs and show up at tho next census with largely over a hiindered thousand. The Armour and Swift packing houses saved Fort Worth from a decline, no doubt; she is now good second class city and will re main in that class. Dallas and Houston will be the rival cities of Texas and they will grow and glow. Fort Worth is now entertaining u street fair with "strictly moral" pla carded ou the front entrance. What a shame to civilization, much less to Christianity, these dirty things are. I suppose Atlanta has hud her last, s she has uud only her hrst 'strictly moral show." Hotels, ea- lions, gamblers and bawdy houses are about the only concerns that prosper during such carnivals, and it's a pieuic for ull of them. No self-respecting city will ever have more than one street fair of the stripe and kind Atlanta witnessed u few tnorths ago, aud I think that is the onl1' kind there is. I 'spent laRt Sunday at Memphis and preached at the liist Methodist church. That city is a dirty hole. buliHiiiH, dry goods stores, groceries, etc., open Sunday morning for busi ness ou .Main street just Iiku it was Monday. You can huv anything from a cravat to a mule in Memphis ou Sunday. Basel) ill galore, und against this there is very little protest. The state of things in Memphis would be unthinkable iu Atlanta. Meiu- his needs Chief Ball and Judge liroylcs bad. Memphis is a wide- open city and I am told that sort is always prosperous. But I was bjld that Memphis treasury was empty. Streets torn up ami no money to lix and nave them. Too much money going for beer and booze in many of our cities, no wonder thev are Imrst cd. "Poor old St, Louis!" But beer is getting scarce in Ten nessee. 1 am told that in only six places iu Tennessee can w hiskey le sold. Memphis, Nashville, Clarks- v 1 1 If, Knoxville, Chattanooga mid Winchester. 1 am told again that the anti-saloon league of Tennessee has designs on these six places und 1 am sure they will drive whiskey out of the State it the whiskey gangs in those cities continue to violate law aud defy decent public sentiment. if they die it will be suicide, a clear case of suicide. They revel and rot and rot as they revel. North Caro lina, irginiu, 1 enncssee, Mississippi and Texas look like they will drive the trallic from their midst forth with. So mote it be. Amen! I am lecturing in many lexas towns und all arc drv, very dry, and all proud that they are very dry. Galveston is the only Texas town that I lecture in on this tour that has saloons. Iloorah, for Texas. Pistols uud bottles are on a gradual decline in Texas and the fools who cai'y them arc growing beautifully scarcer eacu year. I like the way Governor Durbin, of Indiana, goes for them. He noti fied the mayor of Hammond, ln.l., and the sheriff of the county that if they could not or would not sop pool selling at tho race track that he would send the State militia there aud put a stop to it. Nothing like a good mun tor governor, ami a gov ernor who is a good man. Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Texas all have the best governors they have had in my day. The power of a good governor who is on the moral side of all issues is incalculable. Next to him is a decent, fearless judge. Next to him is a brave, clean mayor. Next to him is Chief Ball. It docs me g.jod to brag on Atlan ta and tell people of other cities of her growth, her sky scrapers, her 41.000 license, her enforcement of the law. her thiet nii.i, her .lunge Brovles, her Ch.ef Joiner, splendid nisachers, and her'"acmieduct,"etc. And they believe an my talcs because they are so. 1 Hope soon l can re place the cow shed in my eulogies with a magnificent new union sta tion. - Youis in Texas, Sam P. Jones. Send lis your Job Printing if you want it done right. The Ideal Farmer's Life, It is the time when the spring poet tools like making rliyiues and espec ially the time when professionals of all sorts sit iu the house ami prate about the "Ideal Life of the Fanner." Hoth classes of writers are to be taken with n "grain of salt." The average spring poet finds a place in the waste basket, and the profession al view of the ideal fanner is nega tived by tho plain, luud facts iu the case. A Inter 81 muter on this subject ,,,,,. certain slutemeuts to news- ; ,,.,,., notice, which would make an old eow dance iu derision and scorn For instance the following: "The farmer if he does not feel well call rise iu the morning at what ever hour it pleases him to dp so, for un hour or so or a 'day or two does not make much differeiicr in his ul fairs, except ut painting and harvest ing." That "green goose" could not cackle about the horny-handed sous of toil who rise at 4 o'clock summer and winter and get u running start on the day's business. They know they must rise early and work con stantly until davlight closes in uud watch ull the corners if they expect to make "buckle uud tongue meet at the cud of the yeur. That story will not go down with the average hay-seed, much, more th men w ho understand the outs und ins of farming. Tilling the soil is no easy work. It needs bruw n and muscle as well us common sense und judgment. The idea is insinuated that brain workers are not expected to be found among tillers of the soil. That is a mistake und facts go to prove it. The same sort of mei.tal acuiueu must attend agriculture that goes with ull mechanical or industrial oc cupations. Take for instance the man that delivers milk iu tho city or large towns. The milkers must get to the milkinir place hours before daylight. uud then the milk cans ure loaded into tho carts, and the delivery be gins about 4 o'clock or earlier in the .summer time. Competition is so great lie must be extra careful to be very clean in all respects us well as obliging to bis customers. Unless a man has some other busi ness bv which to aid his farming operations he is a very hard worked man, utter lie makes a living, una that only u plain living for his family. If a mun owns his laud and puts ull his spare time into making im provements on his place he may make himself comfortable by hard work and close economy, but the man that must plow and hoe and dig ami ditch with his own hands is a very fortunate person indeed if his individual etiorts will feed, clothe and shelter his young and growing tainily comtorlably. The independent farmer is the one who hires but little labor. It is unreliable hired labor that is eating up southern farms, lie must either bold the plow or drive. Stop this tattle about the "ideal farmer." It makes the real farmer ret,v tired. Funning that pays means hard work, close attention, strict economy and more than average common sense. Mrs. W. II. Felton in Atlanta .Journal. To Prevent the Black Rot of the Grape. The black rot can be quite effec tively controlled with u little proper care and attention. The following is a siinnnai v of the treatment re commended: 1. Gather up and destroy all old leaves, rotten grapes uud other trash in the vineyurd; and cultivate the ground so as to cover such material us cannot be otherwise disposed of. a. Keep the vines in us healthy, vigorous condition as possible by the use of proper cultivation and fertil izers. ,i. Spray thoroughly at least six times during the season. First use copper mlphate, six pounds to the barrel of water, applied to parts and vines before leaves appear. Second, use Korduux mixture (5 pounds cop per sulphate, 5 pounds of lime, f0 gallons of water) after the leaves and fruit buds appear, but before the llowers open. Third, just after blos soming, when the fruit is obout ten davs old. The other Bprayings may follow at intervals of ten "davs. In crease the strength of the Botdaux mixture in hot, muggy water by the addition of a littlejmoro copper sul phate and lime. . ie4 s'iJ 4. Be careful in mixing thcJJHor daux mixture und use a tine nozzle iu spraying. ft. Iu so far as possible pick off and destroy the diseased leaves Jand berries that you may notice. Eii23 0. If your vineyard appears to Ik-over-run by the black rot, and seems to be for this year profitless, do not neglect it. Such a season is just when the vineyard needs the most cure. Give it a thorough treatment and stamp out the infection. B. W. Kilguru in the Bulletin. Bought His Moooment Before Deatlr. Mr J E Efird went over in Stanly lust week and'sold a nice large monu ment to a man who is not yet dead, old uncle Andrew Honeycutt, well known by all the old people of the surrounding country. The old rnil,.tnnn i now in his 05th vear. but has lieen eonimcj to ms oeu ior four roars. He bought the monu ment" for himself, his first wife, and his present wife, who yet lives an! is mil? HUmt 40 vears old. The old mail aavs that he baa caught wild horses In Stanley iw hi vonth, shot buffalo and killed deer innumerable at the big salt lick, now the city of Big Lick. Monroe journal. H.A. Moff itt & Co. Having bought out the stock of goods belonging to Worth Store Co., we are now prepared .o meet the demands of the country trade. Having just returned from the Northern Markets, where we bought a large stock of goods for two large stores, enables us to buy much cheaper than our competitors. We wunt your trade, we need your trade, and we must have your trade, if ju ices are uny inducement. Just listen to some of our low prices, if you please: Good calicoes worth 01 going at 5 cents. 28-inch colore lawn worth going ut 5 cents. Punt Goods worth 20 cents going ut 15 cents. 1 yard wide percule worth 10 cents going ut 7 cents. Oak window poles worth 15 cents going at 10 cents. Ladies' trim hats worth CO cents to $2.50. Ladies' sailor hats worth 50 cents going at 25 cents. Ladies' purusols worth 50 cents to 150. All over laces worth 30 cents to 75 cents per yard. A good line of white shirt waist goods from 10 cents to 25 cents per yard. RiljUm and embroidery from 5 cents Ladies slippers worth if 1.2o lor $1.00. Mens' shoes worth $2.00 for $1.60. Men's and boys shirU) worth 50 ce nts for 35 cents. Window shades with epri ig rollers only 10 cents. Ladies' belts from 10 cents to 25 cents. Nice bed steads worth 3.0(1 for 2.50 cents. Nice center tables woith 1.25 for 1.00. 3 cakes toilet soap for 6 cents. 3 cakes laundry soap for 5 cents. 10 cent bottle sewing machine oil for 5 cents. Good oil cloth worth 20 cents for 15 cents per yard. We invito you to call and examine our new and up-to-date line of goods. All kinds of produce taken in exchange for goods. All kinds of groceries on hand. A few 2 horse Syracuse plows on hand which we w ill sell cheap. H. A. Hoffitt & Co. Worthville, N. C. Successors to Worth Store Co. I Of Moneu Saved! BY BUYING YOVR DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, CLOTHING, GB NTS FURNISHINGS, FURNITURE, &0.,&O.,of WOOD & MORI IV G. Largest stock to select from and prices that are sure to catch those seeking bargains. We've Got Just Stacks of every description and of the very latest styles, and when you want a new dress, new hat, new suit of clothes, a new pair of shoes, or anything else that is up to date, why just go to see Style Originators. New Goods! WE ARE pleased to announce to our friends and customers that have the latest and most exquisite styles in white goods, lawns, dimities, and dainty shades in dress goods fabrics are now awaiting your inspection. Our large as sortment will convince you that we are leaders in dress goods. Gents Department! OUR CLOTHING counters are laden with rare bargains, and we can fit you out spic and span in a new suit, shoes, hat, etc. All the styles in shirts, collars and neckties at prices to command a purchase. Come to see us. ARGAINS! WE ARE lose Our Clothing, as we Haven't Room to Carry it. You can secure some good bargains iu Clothing, Shoes, and in fact anything kept in a general store. We mean just what we say. We are closing out o-jr Clothing alioul 90 suits. Come in and be convinced Yours to please, 'Phone 42. RIDGE, DICKENS eV COMPANY. D. M. OSBORNE & CO. Ue Largest Independent Manufacturers Harvesters in the J. H. to 30 cents per yard. of NEW GOODS WOOD & MORING. .Miller Wood. GOING TO Out and Binders World. CURGSSS, Agent, Famaeur, N.C.