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A Honie Newspaper; Published in the Interest of the;leople andBbr, Honesty in Governmental Affairs. Vol. IV. No 10. Salisbury, N; 0.i WEDNESDAYi? February 26tHi 1908. Wm, H. Stewart, Editor. CONCORD AND CABARRUS COUNTY. N. . Boys Rob Store. Cotton MillJCipital In creased. Several Deaths Noted. Concord Times, Feb. 18-21. - George-Lee an aged -citizen of No. 8 township of St, Johns, suf fered a stroke of., paralysis on Thursday morning of last week,, and died Sunday night. He was oi )uai ui ago.- E, A. Jerome died on Wednes day of list week at his home at Wingate, Union pounty.He was th father of Dr. J. R. Jerome. w , ; j formerly of Georgeville, and TlJ. Jerome, of Salisbury. He .lived with Dr. Jerome at Georgeville for some time, and had many friends in this county. .Many friends were pained last Monday morning to learn of the death of Mrs. W. C. Kime, which occurred at her home on Ohnrch street at 4 o'clock 4;his morning, after an "illness of some time of stomach trouble. She was about 60 years of age, and had been a resident of Concord for many years, , -5 Mrs. J. H. Newell died on last Tuesday night at the State Hospi tal at Morgauton, of which he had been an inmate for about three years. She was the widow of John H. Newell, a prominent citizen of No. 10 township, who The capital stock ot the Edge- ' r p . : r mbre jaanutactunug vu., ui wu ctord, was recently increased from $25,000 to $100,000 of which' $50,000 is 8 per cent, perferred stock. This is a consolidation of the Hanover "and Edgemere mills of Concord." J. R. Ervin, who has been teaching school in Rowan county, had to close his school last Saturday on account of the grip, the number of pupils having dwindled fromi 57 to 15 on account of the disease. Mr. Ervin is now in Concord. Miss Walker, the sixteen-year- old daughter of J. H. Walker, of White Hall, died last Sunday morning of. pneumonia. The body was interred Monday after noon at Rocky Ridge. For some time thieves have been breaking into the stores in the uannonvme section, ana al though it was suspected that the work was being. done by boys, it was difficult to run the offenders down. However, on last Tuesday night the store of Seahorn & McEachern was entered and about $100 worth of goods stolen there from. Entrance was made by boring holes in jtbe floor from un derneath audcutting holes in the a- , - large enough for a man's body to pass through was soon maae The goods in the store were torn up, and a lot Of jewelry, Khi shoes, soap, tobacco, can goods, and many other things re moved. From the prints in the soft soil Chief Boger suspected a cripple boy named Qumn urr, aged about 15 years, ana on being charged witti tne crime coniessea, also implicated Crawford lurner the twelve-year-old son of R. M, Turner, who he said was with him Youne Turner aiso coniessea when confronted with the matter The two boyis were before Police Justice Puryear Wednesday morn- lne, and pleaded guilty. A bond of $50 was required from each for their appearance at the next term of court in May. I wish that I might talk with all sick ones about the actual ai" t tr -i. Cause oi Oboniaun, xj-eaiu, uu Kidney ailments. To explain in person ho w weak Stomach uer ves leads to Stomach weakness. I am enra nrnn 11 int. a rest, all. And it is the same ' with weak Hearts or weak Kidneys This is why my prescription-1 Dr. Shoop's Restorative so promptly reaches ailments of the Stomach, Heart aud Kidneys. It is wrong to drug tne otomacn or Btimuiaia jne Heart or Kidneys. These weak inside nerves simply need more strength. Mv Restorative is the only prescription made expressly for these nerves. Next to seeing you -personally, will be to. mail you free, my new booklet entitled, "What To Do." I will also send samples of mv Restorative as well. Write for the book today. It - will surelv interest you. JAddress Dr Shoop, Box 8, Racine, Wis, Grimes Drug Store. , WILL RESENT INTERFERENCE. North Crolina Will Give a Solar Plexus Blow to the National Liquor Dealers' Assolatlon. Several liquor dealers Of the Statelet in Wilmington Monday to perfect a State organization of the liquor dealers, -which, acting in concert with The National Li quor Dealers' Association will furnish campaign literature And speakers-to fight State prohibition in the coming election, May 26th. Liquor dealers from - Salisbury, Winston, Rocky-Mount and other towns were -present. " The chief campaign arguments of the liquor dealers will be, (1) that prohibition does not prohibit; and (2) that this election will not effect present prohibition terri tory in the State. If prohibition does not prohibit then why should the National Liquor Dealers' Association be concerned. The fact that they will furnish money, liquor, liter ature and orators for the cam paign is the best evidence that prohibition does prohibit and that State prohibition will the more prohibit the liquor traffic in the State. Second. If the great majority of the people in the State want State prohibition as the election will fully demonstrate, why will not every section of the State (whether wet or dry now) be af fected alike by the election and State prohibition will prevail. If the Legislature wisely left State prohibition to a vote of the people regardless of any political differ ences, nave not tne people a right to settle the question of State pro hibition bv their votes? And who shall question their right to do so? Shall a National Liquor Dealers' Association outside the State question the right of the people of North Carolina to vote their State .for prohibition and yet arguaTTnar'prom not prohibit? When did North Carolina give to tne national ijiquor ueaiers Association the right to say whether its Legislature should submit a State prohibition law to its own people and yet reserve the right to prohibition territory to its people 1 This campaign will be simply the National Liquor Dealers' Association's campaign. The Wilmington Messenger, which is fighting State prohibition states that "the State Liquor Dealers Association which it is understood will bocome affiliatod with The National Association for the purpose of fighting against the present-prohibition movement in North Carolina" practically ad mits as much and the people of the State will see to it that .The National Liquor Dealers' Associa tion gets it sclar plexus May 20th, 1908, Duplin Journal. Newspapers Compared With Hand Bills. A newspaper has 5,000 readers for each 1.000 subscribers. A Merchant who puts out 1.000 hand bills gets possibly 800 te 400 peo pie to read that is if the boy who is trusted to distribute them does not chuck them under the side walk. The handbills cost as much as a half column advertisement in the home paper. All the women and girls and half the men and boys read the advertisements. Re sults the merchant who uses the newspaper has 3,500 more readers to each 1 000 of the papers read ers. There is no estimating the amount of business that adver tising does bring to a merchant but each dollar invested in adver tising brings to the investor somewhere from $20 to $100 worth of business. Hickory Democrat. The Jumping Off Place.. "Consumption had me in its grasp: and I had almost reached the lumping off place when I was adyisod to try Dr. King s New Dis covery;audI want to say rght now, it saved mr lire. Improve ment began-with the first bottle. and after taking one dozen bottles I was a well and happy -man again," says George - Moore, of Grimesland, N. Q. As a remedyJ for coughs and colds and healer of weak, sore lungs and for prevent ing, pneumonia New Discovery is onn.ro mo ROn nrl $1 OO fit. fl.ll Druggists. Trial bottle free. STATESVILLE AND IREJELWOUNTY. . : : " ... Farmer Suddenly Goes Insane. Smallpox In Iredell, r Statesville Landmark. Feb. 1811. MessrsrA. J. Devereaux and P. S. Pope; telegraph operators at the depot, were called to Salisbury yesterday to stand the epe and ear examination which the Southern requires of ell its operators at dif ferent intevals. Mrs. Devereaux accompanied her husband toTSal isbury. The marriage of Miss Belle Mott and Allen Mills.will be celebrated at the home of the bride's broth er, Dr. C. B Mott, on Elm street, this evening at 8 o'clock. The ceremony will be performed by Rev. E. A. Osborne, of Charlotte. There will be no attendants. A. Privett, who was seriously injured and robbed by a highway man at Salisbury about three weeks ago and had since been in the sanatorium there, was brought o his home in west Statesville a ew days ago and is gradually re covering nis strengtn. Mr. Privett's skull was fractured by a heavy blow from some metal in strument and he narrowly escap ed death. .He will be confined to his bed for some weeks, but it is thought his recovery will be com plete. Judge Ferguson, who is to pre side over Alexander Superior Court at TayJorsville this week, arrived in Statesville Sunday and ent to Taylorsville yesterday on the belated train. Jonah Ryan, farmer about 50 years old, is violently insane at his home i01in township and an effort will be made to get him in the State hopital at Morgan ton. Mr. Ryan's, mind has been im paired for some time and last week he bacame violent and has e been uier guard. It is re- ptlJlyiig bean .a strenuous religious . fanatic for some years.-. Mrs. Julia Gaither, who suffer ed a broken limb by falling on the ice at the home of her son, A. B. F. Gaither,;iast Wednesday morn ing, died yesterday mcrning at 9 : 10 o'clock fro m the effects of her injury. She never rebovered from the shock caused by the accident . Dr. M, R. Adams, county phy. cician, returned yesterday irom m m north Iredell, where he had been to meet the county physicians of Yadkin and- Wilkes counties, to examine smallpox suspects There arerseveral cases which the physicians pronounce 1-tejallpox Those affected are in Wjlkes, Yadkin and Iredell counties They have been quarantined and disinfectants are being used to prevent the further spread of the disease. The cases in Iredell and Dr, Adams saw seven or eight are near Jennings. Both White and colored Jiave the disease. On account cf it the school near Jen nines has beeen discontinued fpr the present. - The passenger train from Char lotte. due to arrive in Statesville at 9:10 a. m., did not arrive, yes terday until about noon. The delay was caused by a freight wreck five miles this side of Char lotte. There was a freight wreck somewhere between Barber Junc tion and Mooresville on the Wins ton & Mooresville division Satur day morning and traffic was de layed several hours. . There were three special school tax lectiona4n thexounty Tues day. Two of these carrie 1 - by a good majority butT the third fell flat. "In Coddle Creek township, district No, 4, (Linwood school, the election authorizing a special tax of 20 cents on the $100 valua tion and 60 cents on the poll car ried by a vote of 28 to 5, the reg istered vote being 32. -Willis Teague, a young whit man of Alexander county, who has been waated by the Federal officers for some time on a charge of, illicit distiHtg, but has always managed to aoage xne omcers, walked into ' Deputy Marshal Wrignt's omoe yesterday and Bur IBUUBltJU. xu uoiouio ui a vuw bond he was plaoed in jail. A HANDSOUE COMPLIMENT, ; The Old QaestioiL Concerning: State's Right iir Secede Discussed There has been running lately iif The Atlantic Monthly a series. "The Spirit of Old West Point," by Morris Schaff . The eighteenth chapter treats, of the instruction t tore in the interpretation of the Constitution, the text book on this subject for a long period after the adoption of that instrument hay ing beenthe treatise by William Rawie, of Philadelphia. The doc trine of State sovereignty, we are told in this chapter, was dominant at West Point prior to the , civil war, as a result presumably of the teaching of Rawie, who 'asserted he right of secession, which "dog ma" we qmote from, Bonaa prevailed, and it may be said," was "generally unchallenged at the adoption of the constitution." The magazine writer takes these sentiments from Rawie who, it is said, maintained, "without quali fication," that "It depends on the State itself to retain or abolish the principle of representation, because it depends on itself wheth- erit will continue a member or the Union. To deny this right would be inconsistent with the priciple on which all our political systems are founded, which is, thatthepeople have in all cases a right to determine how they will be governed The States then may wholly withdraw from the Union. . . . The secession of a State from the Union depends on the will of the people of such State," But what we have chiefly in mind is this foot-note from chap ter eighteen of Mr. Schaff s con tribution : "On July 1st, 1886, Jefferson Davis wrote to Hon. R T, Ben- nett, late colonel of the thirteenth North Uarolmy Infantry, a judge of xthf Superior Court of North uaronna, -antt-ner lionieaeraoy's calmest yet most profoundly elo- quent memorialist, 'Rawie on the Constitution was the text book at West Point, but when the class of which I was a member entered the graduating year Kent's Commen taries were introduced as the text book on the Constitution and In- lernawonai .jaw. oee oouwern . l T n n i Historical society rapers, vol xxii. p. 83 iJ ii -North Carolinians will read this with pleasure. To characterize Judge Bennett as "the Confeder acy's calmest yet most profound!; eloquent memorialist" is to pay that distinguished gentleman a very distinguished compliment. Charlotte Observer. Willow-dale to be Played at the Sumner School Housr February 29th. A comedy-tragedy play, to be played at the Sumner sohooLl house, on the night of February 29th, '08, by the Sumner Enter taining Club. . ,The play is pro duced by . the boys and girls, of Sumner to help the patrons of the school district with the improve ments they are making on the building. We have a fine play and hoped to be fully prepared to i i.1 I ii 1 1 meet tne approval ui tne pupiic on that date. Every "body is cor dially invited to be present. A large attendance is expected, and every effort will be made to ac commodate and entertain all. Ad mittance ; 25c, children 10c. ( L. C. Caubm?, Committee. J. J. Gasket, ( Rose Febpebman, The sad news of the death of Mrs. John W. MarBh, which oc curred in a hospital in Salisbury Friday morning about 9 o'clock, came as a great shock to the citi nens oi t lnomasville. Thomas- ville item. Grippe is sweeping the countrv. gets deeply seated. To check early colds with these little Candy Cold CureTablets is surely eensi- harsh or Bickanint t : would never appear if early colds wre promptly broken. Also good for feverish children. Large box - tablets. 25 cents. Vest Docket rioxes O Cents. OOlCl hv nnmai Drug Co, LEXINBTON AND DAVIDSON COUNTY. Prisoners Make Effort to Escape. Demand tor Labor Decreased. Lexliurton Dispatch, Feb. 19th. Pearl Taylor, who accident ally shot himself while out hunt ing at Whitney, is improving. We are plased to state that he will not lose the sight of his eye,' as was at first supposed. Coal has takenja slump in price, but few will ever find it out. An Ashevilie paper says that people are still paying $6 and $6.25 for the fuel, although over in Knox- villet Jellico coal is selling for $2.50 in ton lots, and the freight from Knoxville to Ashevilie is but 60 cents a ton. The BlumD in a price is due to falling'off of the demand, and the throwing into hands of receivers several concerns in Tennessee. One large coal oper ator said he didn't have an order for a ton. There is plentybf coal and little demand. The small fry on Friday night celebrated Valentine 4&j by noisy visitations to many 'houses, and rutM)luwu iuosooiar d ' threwgrocks. The house of Jessex Ford was rocked, for one, and Saturday several youthful of- lwuuo wero -ueiore me mayor. Let) Weaver, Luther Proctor and Holland Newsom were required to 8lve fronds tor tneir appear- anoe at court. Young Newsom le'ft on Monday, although his mother put up $50 in cash for him, and is said to have 'phoned from Linwood that he would " not attend court, but he came back Monday night, we hear, A well-known Guilford county man was in Lexington one day last week, and in conversation with Chief Hayworth stated that one of the foremen of Lane Bros., Hold him that Oscar Gaddy, the negro who murdered Foreman Eu- banka iatear -Lexington, was cer- tainly killed on the very day the murder was committed. Talking about the great change that has taken place in "business matters within the last few months, a man who employs good many men at times said: "PflnnlQ ant f ha idaa' in fViai I w vuoii head tbere never would be any more hardtimes. The com monest unskilled labor was sc in dependent ' that you could hardly keep a force. Men who had never ot more than 75 cents a day got $1.50 and didn't care whether they worked or not. I had some jobs last year that I had to com piete witnin a certain time, and the trouble I had with laborers almost rah me crazy. Now it is quite different. The demand for labor has gone and in its place there is a demand for work." But for an alarm, raised by oth er prisoners in the "jail" Sunday morning about 8 o'clocky at least two, and perhaps, more prisoners would have been missing when Jail er Johnson made his usual rounds at dawn Luther Snuggs and Char lie Smith, two young white men, attempted to dig their way out h h the brick wan df the buiid. I ing. The jailer was aroused by sev eral of his prisoners calling him, and on entering the room he found that the two men had almost pier ced the wall. They were using a piece of poker, taken from the 4. stove. Two holes had been dug, one at the side of the lower win dow on the north side of the Mail." and one directly under another window on the same side, both on the first floor. The first bad evidently, been abondone.d be cause the wall was too hard for swift digging. It was about half wav tnrougn tne wan. But the second hole reached to the last linn nf bricks and in a few mo- - ,r.i h.iiir nar. rt6d a maD t0 CTawi throngh A disastrous fije was narrowly averfed, at the Dixie .Furniture I tho alarm given atonce. lhe flames were quickly extinguished. It orginatedin a ventilator over the boiler room. Subscribe to The Watchman. SOME ERRORS OF ANTI-PROHIolTIONISTS. Some of the Points Brooght Out and An swered Why Prohibition Should Carn. EveryTman has a right to his opinion; but no man should be so ied down to his views as not to be open to conviction when the - weight of argument is against bim lhe object of this article is, to give our reasons why we differ from some of our good citizens, and to give some arguments for our way of thinking, v We believe that prohibition is for the better interests of our country; Yet some of our good honest citizens do-not see it in that light. First : Some think we have no right to pass a prohibition law, but many suclr laws have been enacted, and many more would be passed if it were possible to do so. If it could be done. Who wculd object to passing a law that would prohibit suicide, murder and rape t Ann it would pe wise ml any legislature to- bring about such action at once; and any oth er law that would be for the best interests of our country. No good honest citizen should object to. such a law. Then, if prohibition is for the better interest of our country, it is right to pass it, and every voters' duty to snpport it at the ballot box. Second: Some seem to think that prohibition is unscriptural. Let us see, "Thou SHALT not steal, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not commit adultery." In reality, the Bible is full of prohi bitory laws: Hence the Bible teaches prohibition, and if taught by Sacred Writ, it MUST be right. Third: The great argument produced by our opponents is : We cannot compel men to do right ; and the better way would be to train the children right. Train up a child in. the way he should go, and when he gets old .'he -will not depart fromit. This is a good argument, and Scriptural 4o. Certainly wa will not object to Bible teaching. And to our great pleasure this is the Very thing that prohibition wishes to do. Yes, Brother will you help us to do that? To do this successfully we should try to get as many of the hindering causes out of the way as we can. Join us in the coming, election and we will help you to do your good work. Who would expect to'' raise1 nice, sober set of boys in the yard A TT oi a sun nouse7 xiow can we preach morals and Christianity in a man tnat is drunk ah our ministers have been preching this to our boys for many years, but intemperance seems to be growing evry year. Why? Because two parties have hold of the ropes the churches and ministers at one end, and the saloons and bar keep ers at the other end. Cut the ea loons loose and the way will be open for the churches to do wha our brethrenwant. At a meeting of the saloon keepers it was asked. What shal we do to keep up our trade? The old men will die out, and our counters will be vacated and our coffers will be empty. The an swer was, "Induce the young men to drink, invite them in and give them as much as they want for nothing and after they have form ed an appetite, we will get their trade, and our money back." How can the church teach morality when this is a constant fact? Prohibition does not claim to try to.torce men to do rignt, tnat is not the thing in ; view, but to help them do so. it any man-, or set ot men. papers or preachers wish to teach morality, tney snould vote tor . . . . . - rm prohibition, remove the great hindering cause and there will be a success. Some claim that the taxes from the barrooms does much to edu cate our children in the towns. Well this may be a fact. Our people are able to educate their children, and, if the money that is spent for liquor would be spent for dry goods, (and much of it would be), our towns would be ALBEMARLE AND STANLY COUNTY. Fiddlers Popular In Stanly. Hardware Stoek 1o be Sold at Auction. Stanly Enterprise, Feb. SO. William B. Lilly, son of Mr. and MrsrJ. F. Lilly, of the vicin ity six miles east of Albemarle, died Tuesday morning ' about 7 o'clock, in the hospital at Pur- ham. He was about 24 years of age. Mr. Lilly contracted a severe case os pneumonia just a week be fore his death. His father. and brother James were at his bedside, but he was conscious only for a moment after his father's arrival. Mrs. Eunice Caldwell, widow of the late Hall M. Caldwell and formerly Miss Eunice Palmer, of Statesville, died yesterday at her Home, bhe was a sister of Mrs. B. GlovejLand the latter was with her when she died. On Monday, afternoon Mrs. S. H. Hearne and daughter Miss Bess while out driving were thrown rom the buggy. The latter sus tained a heavy gash over the right eye, five Stitches being necessary to close the woundf Mrs. Hearne was somewhat" painfully bruised by the fall, but fortunately the accident did not result seriously to either. Mrs. Emma Carter, wife of George A. Carter, died Saturday afternoon, after a lingering illneBS rom tuberculosis, aged 28 years. The Old Fiddlers' Convention was a great success, and the lar gest house greeted the perform- ancethat was ever known in Albe marle. New London is preparing to give an 4,01d Tyme Fiddlers' Conven tion" on night of March 4th. William Arthur Austin- died Friday in Oklahoma from tuber culosis of the lungs. He went West several months ago for his health and it is with sorrow that his friends and relative! here learn' olJusjdeath. ,. The stock of the Ritchie Hard ware Company at Richfield, is to be sold at public auction on Feb ruary 27th. Richmond, Va., Feb. 21. In the matter of the reduction of the compensation of the employes of the Seaboard Air- Line Railway, United -States Circuity Judge Pritchard stated today, in a con- . ference on the subject with coun sel for the receivers, that he was very anxious that there should be no reduction in the wages of the operatives of the road, such as conductors, engine men, firemen, et4?;idjxasted that the re ceivers and chief executive of the road jneet here in the; neaz future for the purpose of considering the matter and reaching a conclusion. better, business more prosperous and the country more happy. In short, I wish to ask one ques tion and hope every one will an swer, it honestly and conscientious ly. It is this: Does the liquor traffic do us more harm than good? I answer most emphati cally, YES. If we admit jthat in some eases (and. these oases will be provided for) it is beneficial, when we look at the other side, and see the many crimes, the drunkards graves, the impoverish ed and uneducated .children and the broken hearted mothers, we must say that it does much - more harm than good, and when this is a fact, it becomes a duty of every man, minister and editor, in pri vate and publio to work in .favor of prohibition. R. L. Bbown. Everything taken into the stom ach should be digested fully with in a certain time. Wheujrou feel that your stomach is not in good order, that the food you have eat en is not being digested, take a good, natural digestant that, will do the work the digestive juices are not doing. . The best remedy known today for all stomach troubles is Kodol, which is guar anteed to give prompt relief. It is a natural digestant ; it digests what you eat, it is pleasant to take and is sold here by James Plum mer and all druggists. .
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