-. - j . . . . , r - r - ' , 1 - ' v " " ' - . , . .. - , , - . - ' ' ' , :: : " - " ' "" " f, ;M , '., , .- V ." ,.'. -,' , , - -. ' ,.,-'"'' - I : IMM lllm IfU l LuJ.UU lb U U iyj u VJ Will ILlll) W IrlnilliU : 1 - V. f s While we have had a big trade still as we told you, we must sell our immense stock of EIGHTEENTH. BY JJrSli LJ-JtTLX JtUXV3rjnL i JtL, JT1NI X dL, 1 9( )C) aud to do so we will cut the bottom out of High Prices. Kow is your chance to do your Christmas shoppfnir Every Artoclle Will Go Uimlcss Reserved For You ii 6000 yards of white cloth, worth ly 8 cents, now at The Biggest Line Toys, Vases and Glassware redy:tsatof:0u.t:ng9.t.0.he.8ic ever nas een bhown in Louisbure Percales worth 12 1-2 now at cents 8-9c Come in and look. Hats, Caps, Clothing, Shoes and every article goea, No manor what hear someone else say you come and look. The dollar will count in thin wle. VCUl 9c 5c per yard l vU-ri r-u wcn'JL J ill. 75 c PIGTXJR ES AT LESS THAN cost II A FIRE WORKS All kinds of Fire Works just been opened up. Come to 'see us before you buy. COME TO SEE US mi ALSTON y LOUISBURG, N. C oonnon fn Ul V XMAS TOYS PRICES LOW 1 n uuujnt is past due and :hhtc) you with a sharp . I FRANKL11N TIMES J, THOMAS, ED. & OWNER 01TB YBJLB, -8H MONTHS, THB2EX MONTHS, 1.00 J5 Friday, December 10 1909. The Onsug-report on cotton gin ned was made public on Wedmeiday wherein it placed iti figures at 8,878,- 277 bales that have ben ginned up to December 1st. Mb. H. A. Dbal, editor of the Wilkesboro Chronicle, ia to get bck in the newspaper bmincts again. For sereral months Mr. Deal, because of impaired health, has been forced to abstain from work altogether, and he has been recuperating in AsheriHt. In the meantime "his wife has been getting out the paper, llr. Deal ex pects to return to work the first of January. Tht knowledge that he has regained his health bringi pleas ure to his friends throughout the State. of Addison. Gen. Dnkn dVrnhfl hog-kilhng in the blue grai$ region when he was a lid. We ean nee the i fire kindled; we look on the Lank ot , water, made ready by the hot atonta ! heated in the wood fire ricrht at hand; we are carried back m memory ' to that claar, cold, criap, froeiy November day when the moon Special Sales f :at the Racket Store grand GRAND grand! Mon Us increase,' between the new moon and it full when the boya white and black roast the Laili of the porkera and their melt on tho hot rocks and fetisl to aarfcit on the aav. In Monday's Kaleigh Evening Times we notice that Governor Kitchin has appointed Senator B. T. Holden, as a delegate from Frank lin county to attend the National Good Roads Association, which meets in Topeka, Kan., December 14th to 15th, 1909. 2 I Auction Sale t 6 A T- t The 61st Congress pened on i Monday morning in its halls in "Washington' with a , very -good at tendance. From the appearance of everything it will get down to business right away and thereby do away with right rauoh of the pre limipary time killing. HOG-KILLING, TINE. Basil W. Deke is writing reminis cences of the big war of 1861-65, in which he played a brilliant part as the right arm of the darling and heroic Morgan. His stories are all entertaining, some of them thrilling, and related in atyle captivating for j the purity and gracefulness of its English. Sometimes the old rongh rider makes a disturaion, and the other day. in a chapter on the blus grass of his boyhood he had this to say: J It is the prtverbial inclination o old age to regard the pait with an appreciation it cannot accord the present. .In the winter of life we do not fin 1 the bloom and aroma that ory meat. Therv comes the period of parcrib, j backbone, sautage, hog's kead, pie'a ! feet, and what not, to b followed the varly fpring by jowl and turnip' aallat, a littU latr by !tmok4 cUior, , .1. . ! ana in miasummer nv m rvtn nam i Sample Line SPRINGHOPE, N Carolina I ON Mr. R. B. Raney, one of Raleigh's hiPireftt and best citizens nssaod nwav nn Wn... aftrnnnn H we perceived in its spring and sum a wife andree children who have P!' n.b UP0Q that period . , - - . tproagn. tne glamoar in which an old the sTmpathv of the entire, comtnun- ; v . " u s xt. to. u- : man views the soenes and events of bered in thrift to the city .-of. 11- m brPardoned for be- A u ni5, r?. T.iki-w- ,ra"uS eoiae resoects H was ! j l, - better and happier than 'the one in Hih ramftina wprfl entfirred vtster- rr v D wuo lu day. whicb We are -living. That is the feeling of everyone t Me. Howard A. Banks has bought whose locks are frosted - with - the from Mr. W. C Dowd, of Charlotte, touch of time. In youth we see the Hickory Democrat, and will in things with the imagination; in age the ! future devote his time to that they are. revealed to Ufby, the em- paper and to Hickory. Mr. Banks is 1 ory. -f If with our experience of more recognized as one .of1 the. best: news-- than jbalf a century we could return paper.men of the Stated He was' for to the exact conditions pt aur boj"- a long time conner.iea wnn ine KJimT' mo aimmnon wouia oe ,Bupir Jptte Observer, ;and later ' with the intolerable to all cf us of " threescore Philadelphia Record and other north ana upward unlew We could discard ern papers. 1 3f or tne past three years l iu recollections tnat nave come he has been city editor of. the Char- lto ua-meanwhile. lolte -News. tie wm give , mckory K' Witfc i Wt miht- feW-writ- x ten thebest chapter "it the ' Spectator in the world, pickled praeiielr right ; in salt, saltpeter, and sucafr, cured ! to an exact turn with smote trora . tweeeorncoba from which the gram is jfcifct shelled and hickery- athes thoroughly leaehed. But hog-killing time wa the glorious season, and came wl(h that harvest home the eorn ahftcking. Thoneh that and theae ira cone forever, they will survive yet a little while in memories like Basil pake's. Washington Post. The above , description of an old, time hog killing is not altogether a thing of the past as we havJj a few farmers scattered here and there who! still raie their 'hog and hominy" at hom. And this time is looted for ward to with much ntkusiiam. DEC 14 AT 1 1 A. M. ON GROUNDS SHAWLS TOBOGGANS CAT Si: ITS KASClNATOhS LADIr HATS BABY CLOAKS MISSKS CU)AKS I.INRN TOWKIil I TUESDAY, z t V l t ' . .... 6 oc 1,. Vf,et tUjM Uc-,t ll K, 6 k t'-k Lev... . . . . i . . . . ' 2J ! a good paper in 'every respect- .AUTOMOBILE FOR SALE. Five Pasaentrer White Steamer Tour ing Car, 4kh.g of the highway;" to be sold before the 20th. Original cost $2500 and freight from Cleveland. Ohio In thorough repair and is guarantee k uo any taing tnat can tm done by any automobile of inv mke ' nv tle.: Will sell on approval to res pen - uie anq reiiaDie.- persM; wbo ineajis business. Noiieleaa. ordrlssa aad da crankinjr. Easiest ridlifsr car made. lr Will dlWrH inmV. t. North Carolina,- Virrini or Sooth Cr- 51. over any. road.' Kun t Miun?. bought two just alike at a wain. WW show you, will seU for S.t?i ? todJwrit7 and at a sur pxt.stegly low price.' Car can be handled tU rrT. A care ol r bank Times, LouUburs:, N. C. IF YOU WANT TO GKT BAR GAINS SURE ENOUGH. NOW IS THE TIME .Everybody Invited. to " oar XMAS HOLIDAY GOODS I 1 Z NTWIT!!5TANtU.S- THAT 7111 rui wwrrTis M-JUMaiiuri: am. uj. i t $ UKvi: a (kii a,s a.vt riaiixnn j EASTERN CAROLINA Z OX l&O l,0 1S fed tLU tvJU 1 V . ; One Fourth Cash and Satis factory Arrangements for the WccMt.n ! Jt uW. Mm, f Ut t, ,f . f . s ot4 the sasI !-rr; &d Ut t. r.t aaj porfv. V. v.J U. a .jd U u titalk &iaac Lw- a cto . rU -,.. fc: Tb(anooaIMjr Uroln. tU iJ, t,3S, .t ,tt.t . U.U rrt U tsut, f,7 n,, ,, M(! tral t . tLt :l J4d MRS.A. M. HALL LouisnuKG. k. c AMERICAN miTi & AUCTION COMPANV Crcerukiro, K. 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