North Carolina Newspapers

NUMBER 44 aL-im T^- 7 : ~ (kljristmaa attii flraaiimwa Nm fear All THE POST' JjrtrtCK MOVED. Present* Han&MBtf Appearance With J?? Fixtures. ' ^ ! ' ..-**? Monday morning df last week when poet office patrons made their usual call at the location on Main Street they found a closed office with notices con spicuously posted directing them to go to the new quarters on Nash Street, In reaPof the First National Bank. Des pite the wide publicity given the Inten ded change the latter part .of the past week, the removal was made so quiet ly and smoothly that a great many pa trans did not realize that it was In pro cess until the feat was actually ac complished. In fact, the change had been so nearly completed on Saturday after business hours?that the Sunday papers and important letters were pla ced in the lock boxes at the new office. As this Is the extreme limit of service (except Special Delivery matter) that may be rendered lawfully on Sunday the removal worked no Inconvenience to any one. When the TIMES man made his us ual call to get Sunday's mall he found every department busily transacting business with a large crowd In the lob by. The first mail had notirriyed but SBaployeen were all busy and patrone got their usual prompt and efficient service. The TIMES does not.deero It fiecessary to give any detailed descrlp. +'pii of the furniture and fixtures, for .'r'irinf from the crowds seen In the ' *' "'y doubtless nearly all the patrons - hr ",i viewed them. _ There are lock boxes of all sizes, including both the key an3 combination style, while the throe windows are large and give am ple roo?> for service at alPthree at one time. In reply to our Inquiry the assistant postmaster stated that the entire force had worked hard and were determined to givo the public the best service It has ever had, although tSe mails were 'TOT lg??.?Hor-turtber f tat?! - that nothing would l& permitted to-teteiw fere with the sale of Thrift and' War Stamps, and requerted that the atten tlon of our readers be called to the!r desirability as Christmas presents. Speaking for many patrons we con gratulate Postmaster Davis on both the appearance of the office and ser vice rendered. The complaint so us ually made that postmasters fail to give thrir office personal attention, certain ly does not apply in his case, for he spends as many hours and works as hard as any of his subordinates. His I "ndminlstratioa^has been highly compli mented by many patrons. CHILD BURN'S TO DEATH. On Thursday morning of last week the little two-year-old child of Mr. George Joyner, of near Gupton. was i\'- firo. It seems that thefamrr^^^^WWassaiaE^Mate'taite ? room jyhere thero ms a nr? nmi it i. presumed It was playing in the fire. It was so badly burned when- found that it died on Friday at 2 o'plock. ^ ? o RUNAWAY. What proved to be possibly the most dangerous runaway that has happened in Louisburg in some time without se rious damage was when the team of horses hitched to a two-horse wagon loaded with seed cotton, and driven by Richard Wright, colored ran atfay down the College hill Tuesday morn ing. The team was seen a good dis tance up the streets and warnings soun ded down town. A bllggy with sever al colored boys In It was In front of the wagon and they were running their horse at full speed to get away from them. Just as they reached Nash Street the buggy turned West. The wagon also started in the same direc tion but its course was held down Main street. In passing the buggy the wa gon struck the hind wheels upsetting It and breaking it up and the horses plun ged into the heavy steel awning posts In front of Candler-Crowell Co., break ing them loose from the wagon and breaking the tongue. The driver .was thrown to the ground under the wagon and was pulled out. He had the lines tied about his neck. No damage was Hone either horse, that was noticeable, nor no injury to any person. The damage to th? vehicles was slight. -o ? Ring out the old year,, Ring In the new; Out with the c&muflage, And in with the trne. THE FRANKLIN TIMES MRS. W. H. PLEASANTS, SBt DEAD. ?. ? Mr?. W. H. Pleasants, widow ot the late Capt. W. H. Pleasant?, died at her home on Main Street Friday morning at 10:30 o'clock In her seventy-Tteyerith year. She leaves five daughters, sirs. H. A. Page, and Miss Sallle Pleasa^s, of Aberdeen, Mrs. E. L>. Odom, Mr*. E. F. Early, Mrs. Julia Scott, of Lou lsburg, and three sons, M. K. Pleas ants, of EVkiQ, M. C: and F. R. Pleas ants, of Loulaburg. besides a large number of relatives and ftflGnds. In addition to i^i^irj^er children the fol lowing grandchildren were present when the : fe. A. Page, Jr., Fred C. Pife^Ue-R.Page, Wm. F. Page, Mi??eS Roth Early, Mildred Scott and Katharine Pleasants. "Smooth the locks of sliver hair. On our Mother's brow: with tenderent care. Gather the robe In finSt fold Around the foilil so ?tlll And cold; i Lay 6n her bosdm, pure fls snow, The fairest, ?weetest flowers that grow, Kiss her and leuve her our hearts de llght; ? Hor pain la over, she sleeps tonight Mrs. Pleasants was a most estim able lady, tin?' to her friends and to her Savior, In whose service she rejoiced to be at work,,. Per home life was beautiful and was.one of her character. istics that bound to her lit friendship all who had tho honor,of being ber guest even for jux Informal visit. She I was a devoted mwnb'er of the Lonis burg Methodist Church, t*nd lived her I religion la her dally life. .Our little city and lt? hospitable people ever held a warm corner In her heart. It was here the best days of her life were spent and when ber last hour came and the Gad of Htemlty oalled her to her everlasting rest, it was her desire that beneath the f|hady trees of our Silent City on Its sloping hillsides, beside ber husband antjHurrounded By the beau ty, happlnedfcand contentment of our people, w lie re the birds warble their I mortal of her. The funeral services were held from the Methodist Church Saturday after noon at 2:30 o'clock and were conduct ed by Rev. G. F. Smith, her pastor. At this service a choir sweetly sang "Go Bury Thy Sorrow." "It Is Well With My Soul," "There Is Rest for the Weary." From the church the remains were gently borne to Oaklawn Ceme tery where the Interment was made in the presence of a large number of sor rowing relatives and friends. At the grave a cliolr softly sang "Sweet Bye and Bye," and "The Christians Good Night." The floral tribute *ai"pro fuse and beautiful, speaking In silence a message of love fend sympathy be yond the power of words. The pallbearers were as follows: Honorary?Messrs". F. N. Egerton. G. 71,11 .itJI'Ul. IViL?lSB^r=^*^!la!one^| Active?L. P. Hicks, J? W.TTng, F. B. McKlnne, W. R. Mills, P. A. Rea vls. J. M. Allen. Among those from out of town In at-l tendance at the funeral was Mr. H. A. j Page, of Aberdeen. General and Mrs. B. S. Royster, of Oxford. o SIB-COMMITTEF. AGREES ON MIIJTAttY ?RAINING | Washington, D. C., Dec. 21.?Legisla tion which would amount to a virtual reorganization of the army with protec- | tion from outside attack as a primarv] purpose and with compulsory military training for boys from eighteen to' twenty-one years of age as a 1 eadlng features has been agreed upon tenta tively by the Senate Military sub-com- j mlttee considering a permanent mili tary policy for the nation. Senator Wild1.worth, of New York, chairman of the sub-committee said tonight the leg islation would be put In final form dur ing the Christmas recess of Congress for presentation to the full committee when the Senate reconvenes. The legislation as agreed upon by the rub-commi'ttee. Senator Wad-worth j said is completely new and bears no: resemblance to the army re-organiza-1 tlon bill drafted by th$ general staff and transmitted to the House and Sen ate Military committees by Secretary Baker. While various minor details of tho plan remain to be worked out the com mittee's present agreement, Senator Wadsworth s aid, calls for a permanent standing peace army of 280,000, al though the committee may possibly reduce this number in the final draft of the b'll. The smallest possible stan ding army that will ?!?> flew?.n1 ? (Jljriatmau Sram lig Christmas morn! Tis C?Mami morn! 01 hear the iflrtj bell*! . How softly rare upoa IMr mellow eUala BehoM the skies' what?) Through ?Uent sjia? Like hrllllaat gems, fair 4 High net til i O let m be And wele#; We'll garner For MoM^te The bells well Our m/rrh we'll For bleueitti He Cheer&y ehaat 11 In * . .. Merrily, T1? Christmas mornl How swift thf hoars By| ^ And wlnged-fleofen qugle feet They Tanlsh like a sigh;. Now dreamy-dim o'er Or** Ah \ - The toM-frlnged eyes ?t mera Shed lorlnj? light on droxvWt Ere yet the day 1(1 Now gleams the star whUjUyaml afar Wenie Heaven's I How dove-demure,, Bright Star of I Then let us be peaeafal and Joyeosfcnd gay, And weIcom?.the PriMf with aLreet rirelay; Well garner the holly and eter be jltty. For blessed I* He Who h comlng'today. The bells we'll ring to prayer H Our lncease bring to pf For blessed IsHeWhote. Soalfall^slhg Hhn a I of this country is the aim of the sub committee, Chairman Wadsworth said. One big army composed of the regu lar army as now recognized and a re serve or citizens army is provided in the tentative legislation. Of the latter army the national guard would be a part, although the details of the organ ization of that service remain to be, worked out. A CHRISTMAS MESSAGE. (By Bonnie D. Bunn.) To each and every ^one In Dear 01(1 me as thehappiest and jpiphrntpii day in the calendar_^j*ear and ?his Xn>as above "all ChristmasIeS ~f5~ones to be long remembered. We now stand on the brink of a New era with a Newj Year peeping up as if it were the sun-* rise of Eternal Morn, full of promise and hope and aspirations for nobler and better things to comr. How well I remember the Christmas days of childhood. Carrying my mind back over those years that are passed and gono, there comes 'to me those wonderful, never-to-be-forgotten mem ories of carefree youth and boyhood as we hailed the coming of Christmas and actually spent it over and over in our minds for days and weeks before it ac tually arrived. Easter is a dav of triumph, the Fourth of July a day of celebration, Thanksgiving a day of gratitude and praise, but Christmas? that was the (^ay wo enjoyed tho most appreciating .those deep and spiritual things which really make life v.-orth living. The hustle and bustle and rumbling of th0 Christmas drum, the bringing in of ths Christmas tree, the sight of beautifying it with tensils and Illum inating it with colored candles to show forth the ornaments of rainbow hues?those days of anticipation, won riering what St Nicholas would leave in our stocking.;, how well I remem ber them ?11. Then Christmas morning, creeping down hefor- day break, to see what St.! Nicholas had left, '.he wonderful din-j ner, playing with the toys in the after noon, then Christmas night, visiting grandmotlier's how I would drop asleep in moth r's arms tired but nappy, then enjoying the h . oak fire which grj*n<t Now that I have grown old I find it all too easy to lose track o* Christmas and its significance, as do all of us more or less? For too many of us Christmas is but a day of feasting, the giving and receiving of gifts, and en Joying only the.materia' things of life. Christmas to every one should ;r?ah more than this. It is a time to get a glimpse on the high and holy and re consecrate our lives for a life of ser vice in the New Year. Christmas day should be a time _to take a stock of the past and thin-king a bit of the deeper and worth while day to relax and banish business. Let vour mind wander hack nver thp rnrri dors of past years jwhich were once a~ reaT as Che days of the present time. To every one of us. qo matter our re ligious creed or beliefs? Christmas should hold a fascination and chantmenf. The meiuories of othW Christmas days, now departed, roll Ov er our head bringing * back to mind most precious recollections and re memberances of those happy days of youth which were care-fn ? and bur denless. Hbw we prize those memor ies and how important it is to take time and bring them buck once more. Christmas day is only twenty-four hours long but the lessons, the vast amount of spiritual help we gain from observing the Day in a proper manner will live with us forever. Let us all make the most of Christ mas. this Christmas, remembering, thone who through sickness or mis fortune may be in distress. We have been taught around the fireside at homo "That it is better to give than to i receive" and Christmas Day above all , days is the day to put this Into pra - ; tice. Plant a seed of friendship in the heart, of some frieixl on Christmas day and cultivate it three hundred and sixty five days in the year and you will be "led in the green pastures and bo side the still waters and your soul shall not want." To every ono who knows me. or who may be a friend in the future, I again wish a "Merry Christmas." lA us enjoy morally ami spintually with a free mind for after all this is the true mission of Christmas. I challenge any one to nmJle at me 5n Christmas day for he shall surely r*4 ??.*? -?iurr. MR. PETERSOS DEAD.* Mr. Peter Peterson, father of Mre. Malcolm McKlnne, who had been mak ing his home In Loulsburg wlttv, his daughter since his retirement from bujine^a In Chicago, on account of his health-Beverol years ago, died at the home of Mr. and Mrs. McKlnne on Kenmor* Avenue on Thursday evening ot last week in his eightieth year. Al though he had been In Loulsburg only i taw years during which time he was deprived of mingling with our people to any great extent on account of fall ing health, he had made many friends who foqnd him to be a true Christian gentleman, a man of broad understan ding, and gentle sympathies. He was among the class of men that makeB one feel better for having met him. The remains were taken to Chicago, til., on Friday for Interment, and were accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm McKlnne. FOUND DEAD. Israel Williams, more generally known here as "Kooch," was found dead in the grsdod school grove about half way i>etween the building and the street Friday morning. ""He was taken up and removed to the court house where phyftlciam made thorough ex aminations kod pronounced life ex tinct. When found his body was warm and other conditions seem to in dicate that there was a possibility of bringing him to. * ~ BIG HOGS. Reports have been handed us the past week of the killing of the follow ing big hogs: A. A. Fuller, Hoyesville township, two, thirteen months old, weighing 441 459. S. Af Foster, Hayesvllle township two Weighing. 464, 44?. ' Om fourteen months old, weighing 300, 336 317,346. ; j COAL BOARD TO BE APPOINTED TODAY Washington, Dec. 18.?President Wilson v.'ill announce tomorro^c^^ personnel of the commission to inves tigate wages and general conditions in the bituminous coal industry, it. was stated authoritatively tonight follow ing a conference of Atrorncy-General P:;lmer and Director-General Hines the President. The two government officials most directly concerned in the coal situation during and growing out of the recent _1Iquse_T~lt war understood however, that they discussed the statement to be i issued by the President in connection with announcement ,of the members of the commission, which under the pro visions of the settlement accepted by the miners, will be composed of a. rep resentative each of the miners, opera tors and public. MORE THAN BILLION POI NDS SUGAR EXPORTED EXPLAINS SHORTAGE, CLAIMS REPORT Washington, D. C., Dec. 21.?In the faee of a growing scarcity of sugar, mure than a billion and a quarter pounds of sugar, valued at nearly $397. 000,000, were exported from the United States during the first ten months of the present year, a Department of Com merce report issued today shows. Exports which went, largely to the United Kingdom and France, exceeded in quantity 339 per cent, the amount sent out of the country during the same period last. year. While this sugar was being shipped of the country American importers brought in more than eight and a quar ter billion pounds, valued at $481,424. 000. The imports increased only 27 per cent, which, in comparison with the much larger export, incije^se, offic ials were of the opinion, undoubtedly accounts at least in part for thexdiffi culties the American housewife if? hav ing in obtaining sugar from, her grocer. Our very.1 dear friends the Reds do not like the idea of being deported from the United States. Well, we can't say thai?' we banker to so? fhe^j 30. They should be hung 'notend. AMONG THE VISITORS SOME TOU KNOW AIVDSOK* Y9& DO NOT KNOW. ;W Personal Items A boat Folks Their Friends Who Travel Htn And There. V A ? Miss Kathleen Egerton is spending the holidays at home. v I ? i u ' r Mi8s Louise Smaw left the past week for her home in Raleigh to spend Christ mas. Mr. F. L. Edens, of Washington, N. C., is a visitor to Louisburg for the holidays. V Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Person and lit tle Mies Lucile Person spend Saturday In Raleigh. Miss Mattie Jones, of Rich Square* is spending the holidays with her mo* ther near town. Miss Frances Egerton, who is atten ding school at St. Mary's, Raleigh; is spending the holidays at home. jflJ r Messrs. Joseph Harris and Bugeiljp Wilson of A. & E. College, Raleigh, are spending the' holidays at-home. Miss Mildred Scott, who is attending school at State Normal College, Greens b^o, is spending the holidays at home. Misses Mattie Allen and Jewell Bry. ant, of Converse College, Spartanburg, S. C., are spending the* holidays at home. Messrs. Clyde White and Edward Williams, who are attending school at Oak Ridge, are spending the holidays at home. Mr. Geo. W. Ford,,Jr., who is at tending Porter's Military School, Char leston, S. C., is ?pending 'the holidays Misses Ruth Early and Elizabeth Al l$n, who are attending ity CollogOjUjjjbii^a^^s pending the lome. Misses Louise Cooke, Mary Exum Hurt and Katherine Pleasants, of Sa lem College, Win?t'0n-Salem, are spen ding the Christmas holidays at home. ?. Miss Margaret Hayes, r.-no lias been teaching I* Greenville, and Mis? Una May Hayes, who has been teaching in Apex, arc spending the holidays at home. meuical course at Jefferson College, -PhttuUelphja, is spending the holidays with his parents here, Rev< and Mrs. G. F. Sn>:th. on, S. C.rfiFiperid t: with his parents. ? Miss Sallie Ogburn, who is attending Massey's Business College, in Rich mond. is spending the holidays at home accompanied by her cousin Miss Pran ces Eland, of that place. Miss Eleanor Yarborough, who has been teaching at Wendell, and Miss Camilla Yarborough, who has been teaching at King's Mountain, have re turned home for the holidays. Mr. Otto Gunther, of the U. S. Navy, stationed at Norfolk, is at home for the holidays. His friends will be in terested to learn that he expects to sail early in the New Year for a trip ar ound the world. The following young men, who are attending school at the University ot North Carolina are spending the holi days at home: Messrs. Wm. T. Kin*. P. Maury Cralle, James Massenburg, Willie Floyd Gattis, W. K. White, Jr., Napier Williairwon. Jones Parhara. William Neal, W. H. Ruffin, Jr.. Les lie Perry, Clyde Harris, P. A. Reavis, Jr. Wilson says the senate knied the peace treaty, and the senate says Wil son killed it. Now, to- be politely blunt, who lied? Editors are born, But not made; And often promised, But not paid. [>_ fl.60 Per Year In Advance.