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X ' vr-^- .?.' F A. F.JOHNSON, EDITOR AND M, VOL. XLI. FUTURE OF LQUISBURG ... " SHALL -WE REMAIN JUST WHERE WE ARE It is Time the Citizens of Louisburg: were Considering This Question Very Seriously? It's Time to Move, This is a very important and serious q matter for the property owners and citizens of Louisburg. We had just as t well face the facts in regard to this proposition, as it will in the near future bo a proposition of considerable proportions. What are some of the tacts? Louisburg is dependent altogether ' upon the agricultural interest for its support and maintenance. There are no local industries here which furnish sufficient material for local trade; and if this is so the trade will have to come from the adjacent country. This being the case what adjacent country can we draw from ? On the South of us is the village of Bunn about 11 miles from Louisburg, which has a standard gtrtige railroad from Spring Hope connecting with Rocky Mount and Wilmington on the Atlantic Coast Line, thereby giving great advantage to these points in freight rates against Louisburg and cutting the trade territory for drawing trade about one half. On the east a large part of the trade that should come hei is diverted to Spring Hope and Nashville. On the south, west and north is Franklinton, Kittrell and Henderson which is a ground for severe competition. On the Borlhwest, we understand that two lumber companies have already finished their road within 3 or 4 miles of Centreville which is 15 miles from Louisburg and it looks as if we will soon lose pari of this, as the railroad from Henderson to Castalia is an. assured fact. These being the facts, there is only left a circle of territory of a radius of 6 or 7 miles from Louisburg, from which to induce the trade to come here What is the remedy? Of course good roads, 0 or 7 miles from Louisburg will remedy the situation to a- large extent We do not think this will be questioned. Good roads out of Louisburg 6 or 7 miles each way, should bring farmers to market their produce at least 10 miles, where they are not near other incorporated towns. Another and most important feature 1 is to establish more indusdustrial enter-! prises such as over-all factories, knit-j ting mills, tobacco factories and other i things and not put all the monev that you have and can borrow in stores, as the mercantile business is over done; here as elsewhere. These are only a few suggestions for property owners to think about, for it does not much mat-1 ter with the laboring man as he can { gel work anywhere, if he cudll work, and the farmers can mark t~their crops ! and produce at other places. Good roads will bring them to Louisburg. we are stalling to ouna g<>oa roads. Let us all pull together and .see if we cannot do something to meet the propositions that are sure to conic before us. Rev. L. W. Swope Resigns Rev. L. W. Swope has resigned his pastorate here of the Baptist Church, to take effect Nov. 1st, .1911. Rev. Swope tendered his resignation on acmuni i*f i'l hrnhhi, Wn knew wfi vnirft . the sentiments of all ^yvho~ knew liim, when we say that it is with sincere regret that the town and community have to give him up. To say that be will be missed by all is expressing the matter in a small way. He was a man of extraordinary intellectual ability, fearless to do. say and act the rightr His influence for gfcod was not confined to his own congregation, but to all who knew him *>r came in contact with him. Jt will he hard to fill his place as pastor, citizen and leader in thought, and all moral movements His departure will be a source of genuine regret to Louisburg and vicinity We extend to him < our best wishes, and hope that before j his time to leave expires his health will he so improved that he will reconsider Trt* resignation and remain with ?s, who love and admire him for ni? sterling worth, fearless denunciation^ wrong, and his example in evi eryday life as ah upright, conscientious christian. Reported Rucus and Result. Walter Hawkins and Walter Snead were jailed on Sunday lasi as a result ol a reported "rucua" on the southside of the river. It seems from all the reports we can gather that the wife of Walter Snead had been living away from him for sometime and finding that she was in Henderson, on Saturday night phoned her to come to Louiaburg as he was in trouble and bad killed a . V * > : t* *'{ "V Raj> ONAGER man. The alert officer hearing ot the phone message, began to investigate j and the result was that Walter Snead was lodged in jail for the supposed mur- | der and Hawkins held as a witness. On Monday it was found that Snead | phoned the message thinking that his wife would come immediately the kill- [ ing being a hoax in order to get his wife to come. No dead man being | found and no witness to identify the murderer or who heaid the reported shot, both Hawkins and Snead were released from custody on Monday. Snead says that hereafter he will be careful what he Bays on the phone line. Mayor's Court. v Several new faces greeted the hall of tribulation last week. Jim Brady, for carrying concealed weapon, found guilty and bound over to Superior Court. Now in jail. Dock Winston and Hun Bridgets, boisterous jonahing finally led to swearing, etc. As result were adjudged to pay $4.90 each. Red Men Organized J. T. B. ifoover, Siaje Organizer of the Improved Order 01Red Men, sailed the applicants for tribal charter together at the Louisburg Hotel Friday evening at 3 o'clock. The object of the' meeting was to elect temporary officers for the Tribe. The following officers were elected: J. A. Turner,Temporary Sachem. J. S. Lancaster, Keeper of Wampum. S. C. Holden, Chief of Records. The institution of the Tribe will take place later. Death of a Good Man. The sudden death of Mr. W. G. Riddick, Cashier of the Bank of Youngs ville, was a great shock to friends and I relatives. Mr. Riddick died in Raleigh on Tuesday the 15th at the home of his son Dr. I. G. Riddick. He was a man of sterling character and uncompromising honesty. He never dreaded the "grim monster Death." His trust in God was absolute. His death was almost painless, and he quietly passed away. We extend our sympathy to the family, j relatives and friends. "" A Great Lecture Those who Mere present at the Baptist church om^kst Sunday morning, heard one of the gfeatest lectures ever deliver d to a Louisburg audience. Dr E. W. Sikes, of the Chair of History and Political Science at Wake Forest College lectured on the obligation and iufluence of the Sunday School. It was a masterly treatment of a great subject, and those who heard it will not. soon forget the bold truths presented. Our people were delighted with Dr. Sikes and we hope he will come again. He lectured at Corinth church on Saturday, preceding the day he lectured here. T? Your Questions AnsweredIf you would like to have answered any particular question each or any week fro u "The Suggestive Questions on the Sunday School Lesson" bv Rev. Dr. Linscott, send in your request to this office, giving the date of the lesson and the number of_ the questions you wish answered. You may se'ect any question except the one indicated that it may be answered in writing by members of the club. Dr. Linscott will answer the questions either in these columns or by maiT through this office. Don't forgot to state what benefit those "Suggestive Questions" are to you. Give your full name and address. Send your letters to The Question Editor of the Franki.rs Times, Louisburg, N- C. A CardTo the parents in Louisburg township: There is an order of the Hoard of Graded School Trustees requiring every school child who haB not had smallpox to show a scar of successful vaccination within the last two to five yearB (time conditioned by existence of smallpox in community) before they ean enter the public schools. I would suggest that parents send their children to their family physician or the Health officer to bo vaccinated before school opens?so that if they should have sore arms they will get well before time to enter school. This plan will save time, expedite and dispatch the work. To.The People of Louisburg: and Franfclln County Planks to the laws of Hygenie and Sanitation the county and town is in a comparatively hearty condition. In the application and execution of the laws pertaining to health there has been no friction ot unpleasantness except the hard work and work is always a' / r-.'W 'C ' - A-' . -t"'' AV^-J ?u., y> 'y.yp&h xwm?JWW?M; B 4KLI THE COUNTY, THE LOUISBURG. N. C.. I pleasure to perform when well done and appreciated. There has been no intentional violation or infringement of the laws, uo indictment, no tines. Now let us go to work and keep up this good and pleasant state of affairs and continue to have a healthy town and county. We would suggest to the good people to begin Monday the 21st day of August and clean up your cellars, back yards, pig pen and out houses for on the following Thursday the health department will come around and inspect conditions?if the same are not in good shape a written notice will be sent to ail heads of families and in 24 hours the nusiances are not removed?a fine will be imposed according to law for eyery day until they are removed. Tobacco Farmers Preparing to Fi?rht Tobacco Trust. On August 26-26 will be held in Greensboro an Inter-state Convention of the Farmers' Co-operative and Educational Union of North Carolina and Virginia, the object being to urge the farmers to pool their tobacco. It is expected that between 1,600 and 2,000 farmers .will be in attendance. The meeting promises to be one of the most important ever held by the farmers in this State. Owing to the poor crop of tobacco this year the farmers believe that they can get good prices for what tobacco they raise, if they will only hold it for these prices, forcing the tobacco trust to come to terms, as it were. It is Understood that the farmers are in hearty sympa wiy witu me proposed move an<T\wiIl be present to manifest their desire to each other. % Charles S. Barret, president of the National Farmers* Union, will be present to urge the adoption of the proposition. Hon. Joel.B. Fort, of Adams, Tenn., will also make addresses before the convention. ?Nashville Graphic. Graded School Notes. The Graded School offers High School course of study that will compare favorably with other public or private High Schools in the State. Why incur the expense of sending your children away from home to school when the' work can be done in your home school. \ ou arc paying for the school at home, why not get the benefit of it? In addition to the regular High School course, the Graded School will offer this year a strong course in Shorthand, Typewriting, and Book-keeping. This course will be free to any pupil who is ready for admission to the High School. Why pay ?10.00 per month tuition in Raleigh or Richmcnd when you can get the same thing at home for nothing? The High School is free to boys and girls of High School grade from any district in the county. W. R. Mill, Principal. Munn-Shipp Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Sine announce the marriage of their sister. Miss Erin Eleanor Shipp to Mr. Alexander Neal Munn, of Phoenix, Arizona, the ceremony to take place on Wednesday, August 23rd, at their residence on K-' -?. ivcnmore Avenue. U- D. C. The members.of t;he Joseph J. Davis Chapter D. D. C . Louieburg. desire to return their sincere thanks to the Board of Commissioners for Franklin county for the liberal appropriation they have made towards the erection of a Confederate Monument, to be erected in Louisburg. The funds collected by the chapter and the appropriation amount approximately to <2000,00, It is necessary to have about $1000,00 more to com. plete the enterprise so dear to the hearts | of the ladies of the U. D. C. The ob-1 ject which we have so earnestly labored I for and for which so long has been a beautiful dream, Will before many months, materalize into a grand add beautiful reality. We are anxious to have a dinner for the veterans on Thursday 31st day of this month and it is proposed to make this occasion a basket picnic in honor of the "Old Vets. " the old 'Vets" of course being fir.it served with dinner, but there will be plenty for all. It is also proposed to have a band of music and an orator for the occasion, if it is possible to get them. If the country people favor this proposition and will join us in our effort to make the | occasion a grand success, we if ill thank | one and all to come and bring a basket and will appreciate their efforts in this j direction. We want one and all to come and join in and feel that it is as much your picnic as ours or anyone else. Any suggestions or expressions of interest will be gladly received. Mas. W. E. Uzzell, Secretary. N T. ! STATE, THE UNION. 'RIDAY AUGUST 18, 1911. THE MOVING PEOPLE THEIR MOVEMENTS IN AND OUT OF TOWN Those Who Have Visited Louisburg: the Past Week?Those Who Have Gone Elsewhere For Business or Pleasure. Judge C. M. Cooke spent Sunday al home. J. R. Collie returned from Washing ton Saturday. Miss Mary Williams is visiting ii Winston-Salem this week. ^ Master George Ford is visiting friend: at Wilsons Mills this week. Miss Lucy Wiggs, of Bunn, is visitinf at T. P. Alford's this week. Daye Spivey, of Youngavflle, was i visitor to Louisburg Tuesday. Horace Cooley, of Nashville, was ! visitor in our town this week. Miss Ellice Alford is visiting he: brother in Nashville this week. W. M' Person paid Nashville a professional visit one day this week. Mrs. E. S. Ford and children left thii week to visit her people in Selma. Miss Helen Cooke is spending thi week with her nephew, C K. Cooke, i Mrs. W. J. Nicholson and children, o Kinston, are visiting her people here. Miss Mary Judd, of Dallas, Tex , ii visiting Miss Lillian High this week. Miss Marie Stark, of Oxford, is visit ing Miss Annie Belle King this week. Dr. Sykes was a visitor to Attorne; General Bickett last Saturday and Sun day. P. B. Griffin and A. F Johnson lef Sunday for a few days visit to Ashe ville. Edwin Cooke who is living ii naiiaoury, is visiting ms people thu week. 0 Walter Tucker, of Raleigh, is visitinf his brother, Chief of Police Tucker, thi weeK. Miss Lois Rackley, of Greensboro is visiting her sister, Mrs. F. R. Pleas ants. Miss Jennie Duke, of Castalia, i visiting at Mr. Stamps this week nea town. Miss Bessie Blacknall and Kearne' Williams are visiting at Mrs. Su Hayes'. Mrs. John O'Donnell, of Lakeland Fla., is visiting her mother, Mrs. Willi Hester. Miss Agnes Lacy, of Raleigh, is visit ing her sister, Mrs. R. Y. McAden, o this city. Mrs. L. P. "awyer, of Nocona, Tex is visiting her sister, Mrs. M. M. Perry near town. Mrs. C. R Church and children, o Norfolk, are visiting at D. C. High'i this week. Miss Biah Person. who has been vis iting i datives in Kinston, returnee home yesterday. Miss Gussie Blacknall. of Henderson is visiting her cousin Miss Virginia Foster this week. Mrs. F. N. Egerton and son Frank are visiting her brother in Warrei county this week. E. ti. Person and family, of Macon Ga.. are visiting his people, J. J. Per ton Esq., this week Mrs. J. P. Winston and son, William are visiting friends and relatives in Raleigh this week. Mrs. lvey Allen and children returnee Mondav from an extended visit to rela tives in Warren couuty. J. T. Short and family, of Rock} Mount, were in the city this week, th< guest of J. S. Lancaster. Miss Pearl Lancaster returned home this week from a visit to friervds anc relatives in Rocky Mount. ^liss Susie and Mr. Hugh Hayes are spending several days with Miss Annie Belle Alston of Warrcnton. it. G. Allen and wife left Wednesday for an extended tour, making their headquarters at Boston, Mass. Miss Krnestine Hayes has returned from Warrenton where she was visiting Misses Kate and Dell Williams. J. P. TimbeTlake, C. K. Cooke, R. Y. Mi Aden and C. B. Cheatham went to Raleigh by automobile Friday. Malcolm McKinne and family returned home one day this week from a vi?it to his people in Johnston county. Clarence Stimpaon and wife,whohaye been visiting their people in StatesviU?\ returned home one day this week. Mrs. B. F. Wilder and little neice, Miss Mattie Allen, are. visiting friends and relatives in Burlington this week. Miss Aq?ie Rowe, of Franklinton, who has been visiting Miss Lillie Leo IMES \: ; nard. near town, returned home Tues' day. Cliairman T. S. Collie left Sunday to attend the convention of County Commissioners, which was held at AsheviHe Tuesday. Mrs. Dr. E. 8. Green and Mrs. Dick I Sykes, who have been visiting at Mrs. K. S. Green's, returned to their homes * at Monroe Saturday. Mrs. B. N. Williamson and children, t accompanied by Mrs. Delia Williamson, are visiting friends and relatives in Wilsons Mills this week. Loyd Lyles and wife left Tuesday i for their home in Charlotte, after an extended visit to Mrs. Lyles parents, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Green. S N. M. Perry, Mrs. W. E. Perry, Mrs. J. R. Mitchiner and Ale^ and Hugh ? Wilson returned Wednesday from a visit to relatives In Hyde county. 1 Miss Lillie Leonard and Miss Mattie Lee Smith of Red Bud, passed through i town on Tuesday to visit friends and re'ativen in Franklinton and Raleigh, r Miss Mary Hayes left the past week for Denver to visit her sister, Mrs. E. _ F. Killiam. While away she will visit Wadesboro and other western points. , R. Y. McAden who was former cashier of the Farmers & Merchants 5 Bank here, who .recently sold his stock in said bank, is on a visit to Jackson Michigan. * Their many friends are glad to see Mr. and Mrs. Thomas D. Tyack s back home again. They have been spending the summer in the mountains * of New Hampshire. Misses Helen Beddingfield, of Rocky f Mount, Alice Reaves^ of Greenville, " and Thelma Beddingfield, of Wake Forest, are visiting Misses Bessie and t Lillie Hale this week. K. K. Allen, who has been on an extended visit to Hot .Springs, N. C , rcl turned home Saturday. IIis many 5 friends here were much gratified at his great improvement in health. S Dr. S. P. Bert left Saturday for s Richmond, to accompany Mrs. A. S. Sherrod and Miss Alma Scull to hospital for treatment. Little Alma was ac. companied by her mother also. Miss Mollie King returned Tuesday s from Port Norfolk, Va., and Warrenr ton. where she has been visiting her people, and while in Louishurg she is v the guest of Mrs. P. G. Alston, e Paul Bernhardt and wife, of Salisbury, who has been at M. S. Clifton's the past week, left for Tarboro and ^ Morehead City by automobile Monday, accompanied by Mrs. -M. S. Clifton and children. f Mr. M. S. Clifton Electedt * At a meeting of the Board of Direct tors of the Farmers & Merchants Bank on last Saturday, called for the f purpose of electing a Cashier ,to suc3 ceed Mr. K. Y. McAden, who has so successfully tilled this responsible position for eighteen months, and who onj ly a few days previous sold his interests in this well known institution to the local stock holders that he might be ? free to engage in other business, which ^ ^he considered more profitable, Mr. M. S. Clifton, one of our most popular and , deserving young men, and who has i been assistant cashier for some time, wss unanimously elected cashier, and Mr. W. E. Uzzell, was promoted to . assistant cashier and book-keeper. Since his connection with the bank here Mr. McAden has made many i friends who will regret to learn of his decision to sever his connection with it, j but wish for him much success in his other undertakings. Messrs. M. S. Clifton and W V. I ^ zell are both worthy and able young 5 men and have a host friends here | who will rejoice at their promotions. ^ j The other officers of the bank remain j j the same as heretofore. J The Riverside Announcement5 As will be seen from their advertisement in another column the for mal opening sale of th e Riverside Inde pendent Warehouse will be had on Thursday, August olst, 1911. This j \ house has a reputation that s too well j known for us to dwell on having served i practically all the tobacco farmers in this section since its beginning. Jn i j their announcement will be seen that i j Mr. J. R. Collie, who has been so long i I connected with Hart/6 Warehouse here, 1 has become a member oj^*he firm, who 1 ! will run the Riverside this year. Messrs. l | E. S. Ford and B. N. Williamson, the I managers of this well known warehouse 1 | the past-season, and who made them- i selves popular by their gentlemanly 1 I dealings with their fellowman ^ will also be connected with the j warehouse again. Each member of t the management of this warehouse are ! splendid judges of the weed and aie 1 1 justly popular among their many friends ^ . - \' l . >. . SUBSCRIPTION $1.00 PER YEAR NUMBER 2e and customers. Read their advertisement. The Dangerous Age The following article was taken from the August edition of Current Literature: "If men should suspect what was going on in us women as soon as we had reached the fortieth year, they would fly from us lite the pest or kill us like mad dogs." So exclaims one of the characters in a Danish novel that is now engaging the attention of all Europe. The book is entitled "The Dan- -?v, gerous Age," and is described by the eminent French critic'.Marcel Prevost as "the most- sincere, the most complete, the most humble and the most disquieting feminine confession that has perhaps ever been written." Its author, Madame Karin Michaelis, has been for some years attracting a constantly circle of readers. In Germany, the work has sold to the extent of 80,000 copies, enjoying a popularity greater than that of any other of the year's novels, native or imported, and arousing a storm of discussion that has by no means suDsided. Its title, with the opportunities it affords for piquaht opinions as to what is the dangerous age in woman, has brought it into the pages of Judge and sirnilar humorous ' papers, and furnished a basis for caricatures and cartoons. The work, how* over, is far from humorous; a certain desperate seriousness has forced all its reviewers to take it seriously. Madame Michaelis has already published in Germany the story of a child, "Little Poucet," and "Bachel," a humorous tale of Ghetto life. Tier "Bettv Rosa," the life-struggle of a girl's inherent longing for purity against the dark inheritance of her mother's career, showed preoccupation with feminine psychology, and "Past Understanding," a study of an all too fine spun and delicate woman, foreshadowed what the German critic Hans Franck called her "preference for exceptions." All , these tendencies appear in her bestknown work, which is the self-revelalation of Elsie Lindtner, a woman of forty-two, who, beset by what she thinks is a longing for solitude, amicably divorces her husband and retires to an isolated country house, attended only by two female servants. She has now time and undivided attention to give to her own case and those of four women of her acquaintance who have / met the same dangerous forties with / various resulting catastrophes. While / there is not an erotic incident, and the heroine has not only lived an irreproachable life, but declares that hacK she her life to relive it would besot the same character, yet her self-revelations, with their implied application to her sex in general, are always disquieting and sometimes startling.- The conclusion of the story is no less painful. Sick of solitude, Elsie Lindtner summons to her retreat a man much younger than herself, who she knows has loved her long and secretly, whom for years she has not seen. They both hope for a happy future, but at the first glance each realizes the truth: she is growing old anil he is a young [man! They part at once with no word of their dead dream. She writes to her husband, suggesting that they might possibly reunite their destinies He replies announcing his betrothal to. a young girl and with a parting letter that is every line a velvety scratch, Elsie leaves for indefinite foreign travel, the last refuge, as she says, of the hopeless. The keynote of the book Is struck in the words with which this article opens, the utterance of a friend of the heroine, who soon after kills herself while an inmate at an insane asylum. The author, however, does not take refuge in the irresponsibility of the speaker; she makes Elsie herself comment: "One could say that on the whole surface of the globe not one man understands a woman. No man ever understands any .woman Between man and woman, is the truth ever spoken? ,..i. There reigns between the sexes an irreducible enmity. It is dissimulated because life has to be lived, and it is lived more comfortably so, but the enmity is never disarmed, even in those supreme moments when the two sexes merge their destinies." She adds that any woman will admit this if asked separately, and that two women will admit it to each othfjJvbut "let a man suddenly enter the conversation, and they will unite to cruBh the truth under their feet like a venomous serpent." A woman, she says, always reserves something of herself, her secret self. To ceep this hidden from man is her ultimate modesty*- Yet she will deliver ier secret to a woman,?and that is vhy, while honest friendship between men can come to an end without rancor, i friendship between women, having something the nature of a masonic seContlnued on Fourth Page. vkr^j ' ' "' * ' ' '