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L jZ C C 7 ASHEBORO COURIER. Issued Weekly. PRINCIPLES, NOT MEN. $1.00 Per Year1 VOL XXVII. ASHEBORO, N. C, THURSDAY JUNE 4, 190?. NO 49 THE BRITTAIN & OREQSON ATTORNEYSATLAW, Asheboro. - North Carolina, Practice in thi courts of Randolph and adjoining counties; in State and Federal Courts. Prompt at tention to business of all kinds. Km. C. Hmnr, bpw (Civil Praoilo ObIt.) HAMMER & 8PENCE Attorneys - at Law Asbebom, N. C tt North of Court ns) Praotlce in all tbe courts. E. MOFFITT, Attorney - at - Law, ASHEBORO, N. C. Phono No. 22. Practice In all the courts. Special attention given to settlemcn of Estates. Mr-Owe it N rah Court House ' O. L. BAP?, Attofnejr-at-Law. fartM ia BtaU aaa rdal Oowta. OsrporttU. Oesamereial sad Pre at Law. All badaaaf pmapttf . Bryant, President J. I. Cole, Cashier E6 Ba.nk of Randlema.n, Randleman N. C Lapftal paid in, Protection to depositors. $20,000 40.000 Directors: S. Q. Newlin, A. N. Bnlla. W. T. Brvant C. L. Lindsev. N. N. Newlin, J. H. Cole, S. Bryant II V Barker ana W &. Uartscil. If VOV WANT- THE: BEST LAUNDRY Sand yau Lsundrr t in OU RUM CHARLOTTE STEAM LAUNDRY. They are better prepared to do your work right than any Laundry in the State; and do it right, too. Leave your bundles at Wood & Moring's store. Bosket leaves Tues days and returns Fridays. W. A. COFFIN, Agent. Have you ever read any of Swe denborg's works? If not, will you send me your addiess enclosing a stamp or two and I will mail yon one of his books free. State whether yon want it in English or in Gor man. ADOLI'H BOEDER, Rn Cleveland Street, 4-2-1 It Orange, N.J. TRUSSES! We have a complete line of Elastic and Hard Rubber Adjustable and Double TRUSSES With Water, Felt and Laid Pads to fit all sizes. Standard Drug Co. Double Daily Trains Carrying- Palimaa SlMtttrt. Cafe Can (a W mrta) uul Chair Can (aaata fra Bcctrtc Lighted Thrwf hovt Hratoxtasw fkmvUi m4 Kami Ot) MS T AM. HOTI IN Texas, OUafeMia art ladiai Terrtttrkt Tu West tad Ntrttwcst . mm em, tmmum auama cut una MTWBM IM IWimt AMD - KANSAS CJTV Dascrtptlr lltaraior, tickets ar narod and through raaarratfama mad poa applies tio to W. T. ( ttat. am Bat f.l.ajlAaft. Taw.PMa.Aa. Atwar, W. T. SAUNDERS twi At i hamii P h ATLANTA. OA. ' WASHINGTON LETTER. There will be Harmony in Democratic Ranks More about the Post Office Scandals Other Matter. BpovlAl ComKnlonoo Couorlr. Washington, D. C, May 30th.- Will there lie harmony in the ranks of the Democratic party nex year? Will the purty be able to get together and once more present united front to the common enemy? 1 hose aro the questions now upper most in the minds of all patriotic Democrats in the country. This is the political nerve center of the conn try. To this city come all sorts and kiuds of Democrats aa to a Mecca and when thev get here it is as unt- nral for them to talk politics as it is for water to run down hill. I have used the personal pronoun very little in this correspondence. My opinion as an individual Democrat amounts to very little, but for the purposes of this correspondence 1 have talked to almost every Democrat who has vis ited this city since tns adjournment of Congress and 1 have done so be cause 1 wanted to present to the renders of this correspondence the true condition of the party gathered from an intelligent consensus of opinion obtained from the leaders of the party in the Congress and out of t, ana 1 want to give my readers tne result of my research in that dircC' Uon. I want to say right now that theie is going to be harmony in the party next year and that all factions are going into the battle in serried ranks, with visor down and Jnnce at rest, all fighting as never before and for a common cause. All this scrapping and crimina tion and recrimination between the so-called Bryan nnd Cleveland fac tious of the party nt this time is mere by-play, ut least so far as the Cleve land faction is concerned. The ele ment of the party which left the. reg- lar organisation in l'.it wants to get back and intends to get back. his talk of renominating It rover Cleveland is all balderdash and tom myrot. That element is simply fos tering that kind ot talk in order to tryout the regular organization Democrats aud endeavor to show them the strength and power they possess in the East, what their de fection has cost the party in the past aud how much they can be worth to it in the future. They are not try ing to ride the party or dictate to it or reorganize it. They only want recognition. 1 have warrant for these statements. They came from the highest possi ble authority. ,. fhey came trom one of the leaders of this faction that re fused to support the ticket in 1890. have the same authority for tne statement that the so-called Cleve land faction of the party is going to give the ticket the heartiest aud armeet support next year and that that support will be given a candi date who is entirely satisfactory to the Bryan or regular element of the Unity. All they ask is a reasonable iutform and they will support the nominee with earnestness and enthn- SlUt-lll. They will do this for the one, sin gle and overpowering reason that they want to defeat Hoosevelt for election. They know that this can not be done with any man who Is not ccepUble to the regular Democrats bo loyally supported the ticket in 1896 and 1900, and they want to In order to do this they are illing to follow instead of attempt ing to lead, but they do not want to be kicked in the face as they enter the Democratic door and it were fol ly for the regular Democracy" to con tinue to bait them. They are afraid of Roosevelt, they do not want Roose velt at any cost and they do not in tend to have Roosevelt They will not ask for anything that tne so called Bryan wing of the party, or, f yon please, the regnlaa Democracy, cannot grant gladly. I think they would prefer an eastern man who is acceptable to Mr. Bryan and the reg ular .Democracy, ana I minx inis will be conceded them. If so, then they will support the ticket as loyal ly as any good Democrat did in tne years of 1896 or 1900, and will help elect him triumphantly, for Roose velt is their bete noir and they will go to almost any length to beat him. Bet the regular Democrats then stop berating the gold Democrats and the men who left the party in 1896, for they will be them in 1904 and on the terms dictated by the regular or ury- an Democratsr There is no occasion for the Republican smiles and cock 8urcness on this occasion. ' They are up against it good and hard. There is no further occasion for Democratic dumps, for the clouds are fast blow ing over. The party is in better fix today than it has been since 1892. All this 1 nave told yon is still an undercurrent and has not come to the surface, but it will in the near fpture and all will see it as plainly as I do. Democratic victory is in the air. " 'Night's candles are burnt ont and jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops. It now appears that all the titrable in the Post Office Department the favoritism, the wastefullnees, the ir regularities, the deficits, the Jobs. the scandals and the rest of it are the fault of one Thomas W, Gilmer, a $1,800 clerk in the Treasury De partment. Mr. Gilmer was an ex pert accountant i n't he office of Mr. Tracewell, the Comptroller of the Treasury, and in that capacity he had to examine accounts as to which his superior officer might be in and'more accurate information seem-1 ed necessary. Among these accounts mmiring exiert scrutiny and com-ltoP potent analysis a great mmj came from the Tost Oce Department, and it now transpires thut Mr. Gilmer's habit of asxing for explanations gave greut offense to certain high officials in that blanch of the public service, Whenever he found charges, entries. etc., which he could not understand and he seemed to have found a great many he went to the eminent personage supposed to know all about it, ami uoiuiy asKcu ior iignc i need hardly say that he was not do ing this on his own account, but un der the orders of his chief, C'onip troller Tracewell. At last Mr. Gil mer's activities became so offensive to certain postal officers, who had more important affairs than the ac curacy of their accounts or the pro priety of their expenditures, that they complained of him to the as sistant secretary of the treasury, Mr. Vauderlip. Gilmer was rude. He was meddlesome and intrusive. His requests for infoimation, which the eminent personages in question could not impart amounted to an insult Off with bis head! And off it went This occurred in 1899, nearly four years ago. Gilmer was put where he could no lenger offend the great men of that day. At the time Comptroller Trace well was mystified. Indeed, as late ly as the 2nd of the current Jmonth, he wrote to the Post Master uoneral these words: "Mr. Gilmer was a most competent painstaking and indus trious clerk. In my office he dis played none of the traits of charac ter of which these complaints were mode. Mr. Tracewell has amended and qualified this verdict in the last three weeks under what inspiration I shall not stop to consider. In his letter to the Postmaster General. May 23, the Comptroller discovers all sorts of shortcomings in the clerk to whom he paid such a glowing tribute juBt three weeks before. He now regards Gilmer with suspicion and speaks of him in torms of dis paragement r.videully the time has come when good men must stand together and when virtue must rebuke wickedness. There is further testimony to the bad character of this wretch, Gilmer. It comes from ex-Attorney General Griggs and from ex-Assistant Secre tary of the Treasury Vaiidi-i-lin. If he had only refrained from asking those silly questions of such men as Heaven and Machen and l'erry Heath, the country would not now be shocked by the. disgusting dis closures now coming to light every day in the Postoffice Department. What the government departments at Washington need is a thorough cleaning out with a Democratic broom and the people can furnish it. Will they do it? Manna s announcement that Koose velt by telegraph had asked for Ohio's siippoit caused amusement hore. The day before Hanna's an- nouueement Roosevelt had officially declared that he had asked no one s support. CUAULB8 A. EDWAItDS. Tax Listint Penalty. The impression as to taxes nnd listing has somehow gotten abroad that property in North Carolina if to be uniformly assessed higher than sual in the coming assessment month of June. Such is not the case. 1 lie aim ot the state is merely to cause the burden of taxation to fall on all alike, the present rate be ing considered high enough, in view i)f the improvement to property within the past year, to provide all necessary funds for the state. It is a fact that an nnnsuul effort will be made this year to discover property subject to tax that has not hereto fore been listed, but no one will charge that this is even an indirect way to raise tuxes. The full penalty ill be applied to those who fail to list. Greensboro Patriot. One oa the Politician. A politician vouches for the story of the humiliation of a Democratic campaigner in one of the counties of Maryland a few years ago. The sneaker of the onnosition had charged one of the candidates with being too fond of drinking, and, as many of the residents of the district were known as being fond of liquor, the speaker undertook to make a point by telling what a good thing whiskey is. "Whiskey," he said, "is a good thing. It hurts nobody when drunk with moderation. I have noticed in my study of history that all great men drank whiskey. It is true, and I challenge you to deny it Why, whiskey, my friends, makes men smart; it makes them great" "What's that?" asked an old farm er, who, strange to say, in that local ity was a teetotaler. "Whiskey," repeated tbe spell binder "makes men emurt;' it makes them great "Well," replied the farmer, "you'd better get 10 barrels and begin on it at once. Sessoa. Ths commencement season is now on. Mary's little lamb still follows her wherever she goes; the boy is still on the bnrniug deck; the Turk sleeps in his guarded tent; the star spangled banner still waves over this free land from the cold, blue lakes on the Canadian border to where the warm waves Ian softlv nnon the vi-1- low sands of the Gulf, and the effus ive high school girl, bless her dear, little white robed self, she writes original essays on subjects too deep for mortal ken; the marshal is abroad in the land in all the glory of blue ,nd. "riegated rosette, and the madal 'er spouleth on every hill ndot!th. Ter7 wfleJ Urange ( a.)Uierver. WHISKEY DID IT ALL. A Warning to Those Who Use Spirituous Liquors The End is Death Physical and Spiritual. At Butler, Mo., the other day, they led Dr. J. L. Gartrell out on the scaffold. Around him were stern faced men, ready to perform an aw ful duty. On the trap stood the old man. His hair was snowy; his beard was long and white. He had lived two years beyond the span of life allotted to man. Think of passing 72 years in this good world, and then, within sight of the graveyard to feci the clutch of the law at one's neck and be hanged. Once he was a famous lawver. He held crowds spellbound by his elo quences People used to say, "Great iiiuu, that Gartrell, he can be any thing, do anything." He was elect ed a county judge, then he was sent to tho lexas benate for two terms He was a man of affairs, highly edu cated, keen, intelligent He loved as other men do did this hangman's victim. Eight children were born to him aud there was not a happier rami I y in the west. It doesnt seem possible that a human being would deliberately tip over the magnificent structure that had taken the liest years of his life to rear. Dr. Gar trell did that very thing. HE BEOME A DRUNKARD. The old man stood on the trun The rays of the morning sun crept into the jailyard and touched his wrinkled face aud massive forehead. He didn't look like a murderer or a bad man. You would almost as soon suspect your own father of a crime as that patriarch of murder ing a friend for a few paltry dollars. Yet he did it Listen! He is speaking. He is telling the white faced crowd of his full, and the last words that pass his lips are: "Whis key did it all." The trap is sprung, and J. L. Gar trell, patriarch, is shot into eternity. Winston Journal. "Back to the Old Time Way. "Every child hns the right iglit to demand of that we train him wholesome respect for law," say the Male Principals' Association of New York, who wish to return to the good old customs of the rod nnd switch and ruler. The question with us is, will the going hack to the good old days ac complish tbe end desired. If so we are in hearty accord with this as sociation. There has been a constant and persistent getting away from this position by the modern school teacher. And without pretending to know which is better, the old or t he new method of teaching, we con fess our preference for learning lo spell before reading and for the old "blue-back spelling book; also for conservative se of the switch in he school room. Raleigh Times. Trees for Old Fields. The question of forest preserva tion and forest reproduction is one that forces itself upon every intelli gent mind. What shall be done to prevent the United btates from be coming a treeless region.' It is alarming to see how rapidly the for ests are disappearing and imt little cure being taken to reproduce them. More than thirty years ugo the writer suggested that all old fields that had been abandoned on account of sterility should not be taxed for a period of ten years, provided the owners would plant them in trees and cultivate the same until they should become firmly established and reach a condition of vigorous vitality. 1 his suggestion met with favor from the public press, but some of the States having constitu tional inhibitions in regard to ex- mptihg property from taxation prevented action on the subject by the legislatures. If such old fields cannot be exempted by reason of constitutional restrictions, the tax could be refunded to those who pay it uiHtn proof that the abandoned fields have lieen reforeste-d. This work of restoration should begin with the old fields, transforming the valueless into the valattvle, ugliness into beauty, barrenness into fertility. Wot to take better care of the forests is a crime against posterity. The present destructive methods com bine the stupidity of unthinking barbarism and the cupidity of un principled selfishness with the wan tonness of unbridled license. Col. J. B. Ki Hebrew in Southern Farm Magazine of Baltimore for June: Crazy 0a Relirjoa. Charles Atkins, a splendid citizen of Forsvth county, became violently insane last week on the subject of religion. He ran his family from home and terrorized the entire neighliorhood. He went to Saints Delight and broke all the windows in the church, after which he visited the home of Mr. Bunvan Linville. where he struck a horse belonging to Mr. Adolphiis Sink a terrible blow with an axe, sinking it into the animal's body. 1 he horse kicked and jerked the axe out of the mad man's hand. Mr. Sink and others caught and bound Atkins and then brought him to jaiL He will be carried to tbe asylum. The Mu Bebiad the Plow. Mr. Walter II. Page, editor of The World's Work and a member of the firm of Doubleday, Pago & Co., of New York, delivered the commence ment address at the A. & M. College at Raleigh, May 26th. His subject ... Tk. u.nR..i.;n.i k. Pi RALEIGH LETTER. The Haywoni "earing Before justices Douglas and Walker Now in Pro gressMuch Interest in the Case Being Manifested. Raleigh, N. C, June 1. The one engrossing snhiwt h- for a week has been tho hearing of the r.rncst Uaywood case before Justices Doug las and Walker, of the Supreme lourt, in the application of tho de fendant for bail. A great mass of testimony has been adduced some of the witnesses differing as widely as the poles in their statements of what provoked the shooting and killing, and the po sition and attitude of the two men at the time; and I am sorry to be forced to add, tbe usual "Smart Aleck." who "saw it all, and saw it difler- ent from most others, but insisted that .his was the only true nnd accurate version (although farther off than any other man who testihcd was on hand, as usual. Numerous witnesses for the prose cution swore that they saw no physi cal difficulty preceding the shooting (the attention of nearly all of whom was first attracted by the reports of the'pistol shots) aud some of them declared that Skinner was off the sidewalk when Haywood fired the first shot (or that they saw him there "Immediately after" the Urst shot) and was nearly half way across the street when tbe second shot was fired and fell on the street car track nnd expired a few seconds thereafter; that ho staggered and reeled and changed his course ufter the first sliot. STRONG KVIDKVra VoH HAYWOOD. But after all of this !character of evidence, ;this fact remained: The defendant produced some'strong tes timony in his bebait by about a doz en witnesses. Four of thcsu.were eye-witnesjcs of the tragedy who saw THE TWO ME, BEFORE EITHER SHOT WAS FIHEO. All of them'iswore positively that Skinner struck Haywood in the face and partially knocked the latter down and that it was wnen ine lat ter arose that he pulled his pistol and fired twice in quick succession. That Skinner jumped back several fest after striking Haywood and had his left side turned to Haywood (Skinner being left-handed and be ing shot near the left nipple) when the first shot was fired ami was beat ing a retreat when the second report was heard, etc. A deputy sheriff, who arrested on the snot, testified that Haywood hud a red scar on the right side of his face when arrested; the jailor noticed the scar next morning and asked the prisoner aliout it (lie was not allowed to tell what Haywood faid.) Hay wood's hat was shown to huve fallen off; and witnesses swore they saw dirt on it (Haywood wits noticeable always for his very neat and cleanly appear ance) as the officers passed by them with Haywood in custody. Then, ns bearing on the conten tion of defendant that Skinner made a motion or effort to draw tbe pistol (afterwards taken from his left hip pocket, after lie was dead) when he jumped back, after striking Hay wood, but that the latter was quick er than he, in getting his gun out there whs this evidence: Dr. Jordan, the coroner, put on the vest, coat and overcoat worn by deceased, and after placing his hand near his hip pocket the hoies through the lapels corres ponded. With the overcoat aud un dercoat hanging naturally these bul let holts do not correspond. Coroner Jordan also swore that iu his opinion, the fact that the mus cles were not in their natural posi-i tion at the time of the shot, was the reason his efforts to probe for the ball were unsuccessful. All the witnesses for Haywood I noted uboe proved the best of char acters, including the one negro man; so it may be fouud a rather difficult thing for the prosecution to prove (on the triul proper when it comes up in July) "beyond a reasonable doubt"' thut these witnesses were mis taken or unworthy of belief, and un less they can do that Haywood can not be convicted of murder in the first degree. At least that is the opinion held by many, although the preponderance of evidence (so tar s the multiplicity of witnesses is concerned nnd the conclusions nnd inferences to be drftwu from their testimony) would indicate that it was the second shot that took effect, in stead of the first shot, as contended for by the defense. At this writing (Monday) the hear ing is still in progress. Seat to the Pea Fifteea Years. Jmlgi.- Nenl at Winston-Salem last week sentenced a negro man nam.il Terry and a white woman named Al.n Petree to the ieniten tiary fcr fifteen years. The man and w (-man, who have been living together, pleuded guilty to the charge of attempting to make a criminal assault uiiou a seventeen- year-old white girl. Distillers' I kense. All distillers' annual license tax are issued to May 31st, and as the Watts b'll putting out of business all those distillers outside of incor- psrated b v ns does not go into effect uutil July 1st, so there is no pro vision for operating these distilleries during June. Attorney General Gilmer has, however, rendered an opiuiob to the effect that the State Treasurer tan instruct the sheriffs to issue a license for one mouth at a prorata rate. ITEMS OF NEWS. J Rush Brown, a farmer of Mock linbiirg, was burned to death by the explosion of n kerosene lamp on last Thursday. Diplomas were delivered to 52 vouiiL' ladies ut Salem Female Col lege last week. The graduating class was from ten different states. Judge G. H. Allen decides that Chatham county cannot collect stock law tax from the railroads. The ounty commissioners have appealed to the supreme court. Tom Hedrick, colored, of liouun county, has been arrested in Cabar rus, and lodged in Salisbury jail for criminal assault upon Mrs M A Sides. Hedrick is a bud charactei mid had skipped. Miss Myrtle Surratt, of Jackson Hill, a daughter of Mr Samuel Sui- ratt, won the mathematical medal ut Pence Institute this venr. Miss Sur ratt is a neice of of Rev G F Smith, pastor of Edeuton Street Methodist church, Raleigh. The marriage of Mr W 1 Under wood, city editor of the Evening Chronicle, Charlotte's bright new paper, and Miss Marv Hancock, u sister of Mrs W M Burlier, of Greens boro, took place iuesdav evening of this week at the home of the bride's uncle, Mr G C Heard. 508 M street, N. W, Washington, D. C. No lu minous liave Urn issued. After Juno 10th thev will be "ut home" t !K)S South Tryon street, Charlotte. Those Reminiscences. No series of at tides ever interested Thi Courier renders more than did those "Randolph Reminiscences." All history, especially local history, is interesting to the older leaders and profitable to the voung. No county in the state is richer in remi niscence, personal aud local history, than Randolph. A few weeks ugo The Courier published an interesting sketch of Hon. J. If. Bulla, now of J unity. He is worthy of all that was said. Though several years younger than he, I was a student with him iu the Af heboro Brooks preparatory Acad emy. William Marsh, Jumes Marsh, David north, Henry Marly, is. r. Elliott, John Henry Ellmtt, Z. F. Rush, He.ekiah Fuller, M unlock and many others were iu the school at the same time, 1848. Of all these noble young men, none surpassed ''Ruff Bulla iu menial und moral qualities. Nature inclined him to humor, and I noted when at his home in Trinity, three years ago, thut age and acnes had not dunned the mirthful twinkle of his eve. Paralysis had leaned him n little out equipoise, and into close company with a cane; but mentally he held his old-time brightness and balance. Loug live this one of the few survi vors of those who digged out "square roots" and put Virgil and Caesar in to passable English. Truly Asheboro 8 mule and female Academies have made their mark for good in the moral, mental and domestic life of old Randolph. The town is still in the front in all that favors in its youth the unfolding of highest qualities of manhood mid womanhood. Two of the above nuincd school mates I met among tin or fifteen hundred captured Confederates at Falling Waters, on the Potomac, a few miles above Harper's Ferry. The swollen river had prevented their successful crossing with the rest of Lee s iirinv the night before. Going among them 1 called foi Randolph county men. They, and others, re sponded. They were hungry, aud 1, too, became hungry before the night of that hot July day. I had given to these my old classmates the entire contents of my haversiick. No doubt there were abuses of prisoners on both sides, but I never saw a Confederate insulted by a Federal, and never but once was there an un soldierly word spoken by u Confeder ate to me. Heaven bless and keep the surviving brave and true of both the grey and the bine. To me all are brethren, all emially dear. If the spirit of Christ dwell within our hearts it must ever so lie. H. Y. Ri-sn. Extract from Dr. 0. T. Winston's Ad dress Before North Carolina Society in New York Recently.! "It has liceu said of North Caroli na, 'She is the best State in the Union to move from.' Cornwallis found it so after the battle of Guil ford. Nearly half the colonial Gov ernors 'moved out.' To live in North Carolina has always required moie virtue than to move out. Five years before the Revolution the sleepy old province of New York borrowed from North Carolina Governor William Tryon, a rather promising individual, who had given up all hope of gov erning the land of Tar Heels, Hor net's Nest nd Regulators. History constantly repeats itself. In recent years the birth of Greater New York could not be accomplished without a Tar Heel mayor. As the streams of the Blue Ridge carry wealth of soil from North Carolina to other States, so her ceaseless streams of humanity have enriched and glorified the an nals of every State and territory in the Union. Such wealth of man hood, so lavishly bestowed, may ex plain the phrase 'a good State to move from;' a good State to move from, because a good state to be born and raised in. Let the phrase be changed to read. The Old North State, a nursery of men. Ask your neighbor to take The Co una. 3) S3! 3 BARGAINS AT WORTHVILLE! And the people are finding it out from the way H. A. Hoffitt & Co. are selling the goods since they bought out THE WORTH STORE CO. We are well aware of the fact that-big prices will not do in these times, when even the wealthy cannot afford to waste their money and the poor require double duty of every dollar and every penny. Who can tell the waste of money when you get your goods of houses that buy and sell on long time? Compare our prices below with those of other haiises where you have been buying same goods: Good Calico, worth 7c. for 5c. yd. Colored Lawn, worth 10c for. 5c per yd. White Lawn worth "l 5c for 10c yd. Bleaching worth 10c for 8c vd. Ratter & t'o's. Oil Cloth worth 25c for 15c yd. Apron Ginghams worth Tc for 5c yd. Block Dress Goods from 15c to $1.0(1 per yd. Open and Shut Fans worth 5c for e. White Shirt Waist Goods from 8c to 15c. Ladies' l'arusols from 50 to $150. We keep in stock all kinds of Shoes, Hats, Trunks, Furniture, Mens and Boys' Clothing, Hardware, First-class Groceries, and, in fact, almost anything usually kept in first-class General Stores. We invite an early ami rcpeau'u visit aim inspection, r.verjoouy nmicu liieiyoouy m-ituim-. H. A. Moff itt & Co. "Ceeapest Store on the R.iver." Worthville, N. C. Successors to Worth Store Co. Oi Moneu BY BVYING YOVR DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, CLOTHING, GENTS FURNISHINGS, FURNITURE, &0., &0., of WOOD Afmj'ivn. 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 dross 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 6uit, shoes, hat, etc. All tho styles in shirts, collars and neckties at price to command a purchase. Come to see us. BARGAINS! WE ARE lose Our Clothing, as we Haven't Room .to Carry it. ', You can secure some good bargains in Clothing, jjishiK-s, aiid"Jinj.;f anything kept in a general store. We mean just what we say. 'We a closing nut o-r Clothing aliout SK) suits. Come in and be convinced Yours to pk-ase, 'Phone 42. RIDGE, DICKENS eV COMPANY. D. M. OSBORNE & CO. Ue Largest Independent Manufacturers af Harvesters In the J. H. Saved! cf NEW GOODS WOOD ot MOKIIMU. .Miller & Wood. GOING TO u t ... and ISinders World. CURGESS, Agent, Ramseur, N.C.