STAT ES VI LLE - AND IREOEU. COUHTY.
Sna. Mr. BlBsonrol Texas, Hire:
StatesvIUe Landmark Jafy 2n4. vlfc
J. L. Gibson, of Ganad6;Texas,
is visiting relatives in the county.
Ho arrived in Statesville Wednes
day and yesterday he ipent the
day with his coustn, Mrs G. M'
Austin. He wilI4spe$Pout ft
m o th here, th e greater part of
the time in the Cool Spring com
munity, where he was I orn. A
, little over 85 years ago Mr. Gib
jOnftiredelJ and moved to
;'T'huessee,'- After remain iner there
three months he went to Texas,
wnere ne has since lived, lie is
now merchandising at Ganado.
This is his first visit to Iredell
since he left.
Alborrespoudent of The Land
mark mentioned a few days ago
the death of Ernest Shaw,
which occurred at his home in
Turnerslmrg township soon after
midnight on Sunday morning,
Jane 20th. Mr. Shaw's remains
were b aried at Mt. Bethel church
at 4 o'clock on Sunday afternoon,
20th; and his young wife, a bride
of less than six months, wh o was
critically ill at the time of her
husband's death, died' Sunday
night, June 2 tb, aud was buried
at Mt. Bethel the following Mon
day afternoon at 4 o'clock. Both
diod of typhoid fever.
During the strm Wednesday
afternoon lightning struck S.
C. Tomlin's barn, on Elm street,
and damaged it to the extent of
about $150, th loss being covered
by insurance. Lightning struck
the comb of the building and toie
out a corner and the front end.
Fortunately Mr. Tomlin's h rse
was not in the yard at the time.
Mr. . Wm. Siceloff, who was
walking along east Broad street
when the!;? lightning .struck the
barn, was so badly shocked that
in an instant,7 however," and is
Buffering no ill effects aa a result
of the experience. The lightning
played m the air considerably in
east and north Statesville aud
quite a number of people were
slightly shooked. So far as known
the damage at Mr. Tomlin's was
the only makerial damage done by
the lightning.
Says Girls Tempt Chinaman.
Worthester, Maes., June 30.
"It is not the bad Chinamen in
fluencing American girls, but
American girls exerting wrong in
fluences over the mild and virtu
ous Chinamen."
Such is the claim of Mrs. H. E.
Mitchell, of this city, president of
the New England Chinese Sanday
School Union. She says:
"Chinamen coming to the Uni
ted States to become Christianized
are being victimized instead. Vir
tuous Chinamen have their honor
dragged in the mire, all because
of the American girls; good Chi
namen, striving in the face of
great odds to protect themselves
from the swarms of -American
affinites; Chinamen, kind and
docile as they art, do not like bad
American girls, and strive at ev
ery opportunity to avoid them.
They are cf even a higher moral
. i l a : ii4.r
tone than wa
Americans Haiti-
more Sun.
$100 Reward $100.
The readers of this paper will
be pleased to learn that there is at
leaBt one dreaded disease that
science has been able to cure in
all its stages, and that is Catarrh,
Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only
positive cure now known to the
medical fraternity. Catarrh be
ing a constitutional disease, re
quires a constitutional treatment.
Hairs Catarrh Cure is taken in
ternally, acting directly upon the
blood and mucous surfaces of the
system, thereby destroying the
foundation of the disease, and
giving the patient strength by
building up the constitution and
assisting nature in doing its work
The proprietors have so much
faith in its curative powers that
they offer One Hundred Dollars
for any case that it fails to cure.
Send for net of testimonials.
Address F. J. CHENEY & CO.,
Toledo, O.
Sold by all Druggists, 75c .
Take Hall's Family Pills for
constipation.
"'-4flMroWDviiocowin. .
ArpinentlJYBr i Cottar Bloam Thresh
Leiington TtJspafch, June 30th,
Threshing machines have been
busy all ovt-r the countv for
week. In spite of the damage
wrought by wet weather the Wop
is good, Some big yields are re
ported. r
W L. Smith, who lives ftear
Linwood, claims acres of cotton
blooms. A blocm he sent to the
office occasioned warm debate,
town farmers declaring it was a
hollyhock bloom, that it wasn't
the right color, and so forth
Others maintained that it was a
genuine cotton bloom and. we let
it go at thai.
Lexington people are South
bound stirred. The prospect of a
new road, th3 expenditure of hun
dreds of thousands, the employ-
ment men can get, all combine to
make our citizenship enthusiastic.
Having wavered for years between
hope and dispair the people wel-
ome gladly the evidence that
there is no longer a doubt about
the much-talked-of Southbound.
There is instant recognition of
the advantage Lexington will win
and our immediate desire is to get
right in the fight for the shops
and all other possible benefits.
What has become of the propo
sition of making a map of David
son county? All our neighboring
c muties are having maps made
and now that there are signs of re
turning prosperity, Southbound
railway, Southern Power Com
pany, new factories, etc., and talk
of good roads, w ought to take
the matter up. Get a good sur
veyor and have a map made of
the, entire county, showiug loca
tion of roads, houses of farmers,
towns, railroads, streams, etc. We
u nderstand that ther wil 1 be peoj
pie Jbef ore the. boad -jaex t Monday
to urge that something be done.
Progress demands it.
An operator at a Sonthern rail
way station, thinking to do the
public a service, trimmed up a
time table so that it showed the
arrival of all pasaeuger trains.
It was one of those yellow papers
reserved for the use of employes.
The man framed it and stuck it
ou the side of the station and
many patrons of the road were
glad of it. Along came a red
tapeist, saw it, reported it and
then came a sudden order for the
operator to remove the table in-
stanter. A brakeman, hearing of
it. indulged in a little sarcasm.
- r
He said the red tape fiends were
getting easier on conductors,, that
they now allowed them to sharpen
their lead pencils every .trip -w-
stead of every Tound trip. v-
High Point Physician Hangs Himself.
High Point, July 1. A tragedy
occurred here yesterday afternoon
between 5 and 5:80 o'clock, when
Dr. J. W. Burton, a well-known
physician and prominent, citizen
of High Point, hanged himself in
his stables. He was found in the
oft of his stable about 5:30 in the
afternoon by his daughter.
The method of the suicide was
evident frcm the position of the
body, He had tied a hitch rein to
one of the rafters of the stable,
aud having looped the other end
around his neck, had jumped from
box out into space. He was
quite dead when found.
The cause of the suicide was
probably ill health and despond
ency.
Since the death of his wire
about two years ago, Dr. Uurton-s
health had been bad, and it is
thought that he had grown tired
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fchrAA anna and t,nr.e daughters
r .ce. : XT
is survived by
pecial to the Charlotte Observer.
A book on Rheumatism, by Dr.
Snoop, of Racine Wis tells some
plain thruths and in a plain
and practical way. Get this
booklet, and a free trial treatment
of Dr. Snoop's Rheumatic Remedy
for some disheartened sufferer in
rrmr vininitv . Make a grateful
and appreciative friend of some Not so with Dr. King's Ntw Life
one who is discouraged because of Pills. They never distress or in
the failures of others to help him. convenience, but always cleanse
Help me make this test, sand I'll the system, curing Colds, Head
certainly help your suffering ache, Constipation, Malaria. 25c
friend. Oornelison & Cook,
ALBEMARLE AND STANLY COUNTY.
More ot ffis SsnthboDotl Road. Attorney
will Iniestlgata Death of Young Man.
Starrly Enterprise, J rily 1st.
Prof. Ciarence Betts, of Salis
bury, has been spending several
days with his untHeandilon.imea8 foraUhat
and Mrs S. H. Hearne. -
Governor Kitchir. has appointed
1
D. D. Parker a member of
ij
National Prison Ass ciatl which
meets at Seattle, W$sh7n"rTyv
16. Quite an honor to vbhfdis
tinguishedyouug edunty treas
urer. It is x to 'behoped that
Dock" wtlpd proudly rep
resent his county and' State1.
A. P. Brewer, of Eagle's Springs
N. C , was here Monaday. As a
result of his visit, Attorney Z. B.
Sanders left on Tuesday for Col
umbia, S. C , to investigate the
f-cts concerning the death in
April of Wm. R. Brewer, who was
a son of Mr. Brewer and a nephew
of Mr. Sanders. The young man
was on the construction force cf
an elevated, railway and was
knocked from a bridge while at
work bv a piece of timber striking
him. A suit may follow, in which
a considerable sum will be named.
S. H. Hearue a director of the
ua Southbound Railway, was
summoned to attend the meeting
of the directors at Winston on
Monday. Mr. Hearne say3 the
road will be built, and that bids
have been called for. It is some
what authentically rumored that
the new road will become part of
a main trunk line, connecting the
road of the Pennsylvania
Companv in the North with
the South, running through the
coal regions of Virginia aud Penn
sylvania. There is no way of es
timating the value of the project
to this section, and .AlbemarleJ
m ay in a"f e iwear - be ran ked with'
some of the State1! leading cities.
The Concord Tribune of June
26 has an article reeffcting on the
board of 'commissioners for this
county, in which the statement is
made that our commissioners need
auythmg but a nervine Some
months ago one R. R. Rogers and
wife were admitted to the county
horn1, and upon proper investiga
tion it was found that they were
subjects for Cabarrus county's
care. Feeling that they have evi
dence sufficient to show that they
are right charges upon the county
of Cabarrnft, our commissi ners
have committed these paupers to
she keeper of the county home in
Cabarrus. Stauly is not trying
to shirk a duty; but we are in
clined to think that when the
Tribune has ali the facts placed
before it, that the little bit of
Sarcasm indulged at the expense
of our county board will ba ex
plained and the facts in the case
published c
Georgia Railroad Arbitration Board Makes
Award.
Atlanta, June 30. The Georgia
Railroad striko arbitration board
decided last night against the sen
iority of white firemen over ne
groes. The arbitrators, however,
placed a premium on intelligence
among firemen, which, it is be
lieved, will ultimately result in
the gradual elimination of all ex
cept the moat expert negroes.
The decision was guardedly
worded and did not in any case
deal directly with the race prob
lem. The most direct reference
to the seniority problem was in
the words :
We find against proposition
C."
This proposition read: "All
fireaie when hired shall be placed
r
. " "eigni yaras or nosningservice
ana senior wnice uremea Buaii
have the preference of engines and
runs.
A Night Rider's Raid.
The worst night riders are calo
mel, croton oil or aloes pills They
raid vour bed to rob vou of rest.
at all druggists.
ternessee'becomesIry.
HoUadat State-Wide Prohititlon Law Be
came Effectiie at llidolght. V
Memphis, Tonu;, June j$0.
Bells in church and' town clocTc
steeples on tolling tlie midnight
hrvnr .(-. nicrVlt. murlrprl f.Ma" noaiinrr
a'A w stUo.ari,!
ni4itioh4aw went intf-effect. This
V.4'" t ' ii i . M- n . . .
jafaKes,uyuiegai tseu aiconoi
Phbvfira erea within fonftiniles of anv
ScHoolhonse in the Stfete. Only
two oases are left in a.l Tennes
see. Both are within .12 miles of
Memphis, near the Mississippi
State line. The nearest school
house is six
miles from both of
these poiutl,: but stp have al
ready been taken by winte ribbon
ers to have the county "board of
education erect a Bonbol house
within the distance prescribed by
the Holladay I ill, so .that there
will be no mecca in; the entire
State for thirsty pilgrims.
Thousands of men were thrown
out of employment and barkeep
ers are seeking better - irrigated
fields.
The passing of the saloon in
Memphis, and in other cities
throughout the State, according
to advices received to-night, is
marked by scenes of unusual hil
arity. The celebration-; started
early today and lasted until- the
moment of closing, when there
was a rush to purchase one last
farewell drink ovr the bar. Grog
shops were crowded with- lively
revelers. Extra police precautions
wer-i taken iu Memphis, Mayor
Malouey instructing thuchief pf
police to detail a patrolman to
eveiy block wherein is, situated a
saloon But it was on-Hhe.'main a
good natnred throng that indulged
in a farewell revelry.
. While the good, feflojrship Cot
tipplers was in progwgii iprohibPi
Prayers Wereffered cud' hymns
were sung in the 'homes of the
leading teetotalers, although no
public meetings were held at any
of the churches
What was Done on a North Carolina Farm.
"A clear profit of $2,500 a year
on the farm in the South is as
good as a $0,000 salary in New
Yor City, and far more easily
made." is the statement of an ag
ricultural writer. "Not only has
the Souh a monopoly of cotton
and of many types of -tohacco, but
the farmer here can get so much
higher prices for all kinds jpt live
stick and dairy products, hay and
corn, that a Buckeye Jarmer who
recently visited North Carolina
(ud will probably move later)
spoke of the matter .jyith some
amazement. The avefage- size of
the farms in tins Stateris more
thau 100 acres, but a Catawba
county farmer cultivating SOsAcvea
made $2,400 clear profit last year
raising hogs. He bad three en
closures of five acres each for soil
ing crops one in cwpeas, an
other in com, and another in
wheat aud clover; on. ,85 acres
more he ffrew mature corn for
feeding in ther ear. The hogs are
marketed as soon as they weigh
180 p junds, and, of course, only
improved, quick-fattering breeds
are usod."
Take a day off aud go to Ral
eigh, the capital city, on July 10
Fare from Gold Hill to Raleigh
and return, $2 25. Fare from
Salisbury and Spencer is only
$2 00.
A failing time nerveno longer
than the finest silken thread
takes from the Heart its impulse,
its ptwer, its regularity. The
Stomach also has its hidden, or in
side nervo. It was Dr Shoop
who first to.d us it was wrong to
drugawtak or failing Stomach,
Heart or Kidneys. His prescrip
tion Dr. Snoop's Restorative is
directed straight for the cause of
these ailments these weak and
faltering inside nerveB, This no
doubt clearly explains why the
Restorative has of late grown so
rapidlayin popularity. Druggists
Bay that those w'iO tests the Res
torative even for a few days soon
became fully convinced of its
wonderful merit. Anyway, don't
rime the organ. Treating the
cause of sickness is the only sens-
ible and successful way. Sold by
Oornelison & Cook.
CHAN6E FOR THE BETTER.
- Prohibitionists Placiog School Houses
Where Stils Formerly were.
Two of the counties that have
been, cursed with whiskey stills
stuck abut' in the caves and near
t he creeks, are Wilkes and Yad
kin . For 1 years lacking police
protection, these stills debauched
many of the jungrmen, increased
the crimes onhe climinai docket,
and oftenpro4tcejmurder. Some
days ago this paperf printed some
facts showing the remarkable .pro
gress in public-schools and rural
libraries in Wilkes county, o
day we are taking the liberty of
making an extract from, a
private letter written the editor
of this paper by a leading citizen
in Yadkin county:
"I thought perhaps you would
be personally interested to know
of the educational and moral pro
gress in Yadkin, Bince, in my
judgment as we'l as others, no
county in the state presents more
striking changes foV the. better
along educational' awakening
within the last eight years than
Yadkin county. The closing out
of the distilleries simply meant a
revolution toward a higher and
better life for all our people . Al
most every man, woman and child
you u.est now is interested iu im
proved school facilities. I do not
think that there is another county,
in the state of anything like the
financial standing of Yadkin that
can equal net in good school
houses and equipments We have
now only one log. school house for
whites in the county. Eight years
ago more than baJf the houses
were log, and hardly a school desk
in anyrural school house. ' The
school "property has increased in
value from a'- little morfF- than
$3,000 id 1901 to $18,000411 1909:
Setehtyifive per cent of theachoolr
naveurura jioranes. . Liooai tita
taking hold of the people "fed a
very encouraging extent, two elec
tions having been carried this
spring. Just now our people "are
interested in the Statesville Air
Line Railroad, and we think we
will get it."
This is the improved condition
iu Yadkin a condition that is
but an earnest of what the good
people of that county are going to
do for their children. No man
can read the above brief statement
without being thankful that the
school-houses are taking the place
of the stills. News acd Observer.
A Word For the Overworked Cow.
Dr. Evans, the Chicago health
commissioner, is quoted as saying
that God did not make cows to
supply milk for human beings;
that the original intention was
for the cow to only furnish enough
nourishment for the calf, and that
man took a hand in the matter
and by much feeding and much
milking she has been forced to
gradually increase her supply of
milk so it may be use . for human
needs. This unnatural forcing
process has lowered her power of
resisting disease and the modern
cow is particularly susceptible to
tuberculosis. The doctor appears
to be of the same opinion as the
lady ranchman in Texas who ex
plained to her visitors that the
absence of milk on the . table was
due to it being out of season. The
cows gave milk for a few months
of the year and dried up, and then
the milk season closed. The dairy
press of the country is almost
unanimous in their view that it is
almost time for Dr. Evans to dry
up. Exchange.
Sees Mother Grow Young,
"It would be hard to overstate
the wonderful change in my moth
er since she began to use Electric
Bitters," writes Mrs. W. L. Gil
patrick, of Danforth, Me. "Al
though past 70 she seems really to
b growing young again, She
suffered untold misery from dys
pepsia for 20 years. At last she
could neither eat, drink nor sleep.
Doctors gave her up and all re
medies failed till Electric Bitters
worked such wonders for her
health." They invigorated all
! vital organs, cure Liver and Kid-
j ney troubles, induce Bleep, and
j impart strength and appetite.
Only 50o at all druggists.
THOUSANDS CHEER WRIGHTS,
Time After Tine Orlvlile Wright Encircles
Fort Mjer Drill SroBflds ia tils Aeroplane.
Wa8hingtohnly'i;--Calmcou-fident
and ueverless,OrvilleWright
late to-day encircled theFort Mey
er drill grounds time after time
in hiB aeroplane in three success
f uj flights while a crowd of thous
ands cheered him for the success
that attended his persistency and
pluck. While ,th9 machine oscill
ated at certain points in its flights
and dipped and roBe suddenly at
other doints, it was evident fro m
the regularity with which these
things happened that they were
due "tooths condition " of the at
mosphere and not to any fault of
the machine.
For the first fight the machine
got away with a fine start, Down
the field the aeroplane sailed,
curved gracefully and came back
up the east side of the field along
the edge of Arlington Cemetery
The machine seemed to be behav
ing beautifully. The first round
was made in fiity seconds. Five
times the machine skirted the field
attaining a height which varried
from 15 to 30 feet..
On the sixth round Mr. Wright
came to earth within a few hun
dred feet of the starting point,
completing the flight" in exactly
five minutes. The landing was
perfect, . the machine swooping
down in successive glides until
within a few feet of the earth,
when'Qrville pulled the ' string
which stops his motor and the
aeroplane glided smoothly over
the grass on its skids until itcame
to a scop. ,;i ne machine wasjre
turned to the aiartinapjparatus
a ad agaiu wai-plaped lEL-pTpsitron
and -another flight Jwas esssayed,
!Tie start was as auccessf ul vaatha
first lHeohtivili
uiitutf-uiuc a -wilier turn? - auUx rose
totr a 7 greatetehwghtYWHbttr
Wr ighi-watcned'Svefytailtsf
the flight with care.
It was noticed that at times the
motor skipped, but this seemed to
have no effect on the progress of
the aeroplane. The starting rai
runs downward into a little hoi
low in the field and whenever the
aeroplane plane passed over this
hollow it dipped noticeably and
wheuever it passed over a vacant
space between two of the stables,
it was seen to rise as though on a
billow of air, but these atmos
pheric conditions were easily over
come by manipulation of the
leavers. Ou his second flight,
Orville made nine rounds of the
field in a few seconds less than
eight minutes.
In his last attempt he remained
aloft for a few sesontls more than
nine minutes;. nd encircled the
field niue ancf one. half times. For
one complete round he flew very
close to th a ground , evidently pre
paring to land. This he did with
in two hundred feet of the aero
plane shed. During this last flight
he went higher than on his pre
vious trials, reaching a height of
forty feet. Just before making
hiB landing the left wing scraped
rhe ground and raised a cloud of
dust, but Mr. Wright continued
to fly half way around the field
before descending.
First Bale of Cotton For Season Brings 85
Cents a Pound.
New York, July 1 The first
bale of cotton raised in the United
States this season was sold at auc
tion in front of the cotton ex
change to-day as ib the yearly cus
torn with the first cotton bale. It
brought 33 cents a pound. Leigh
M. Pearsall, the buyer, will ship
the cotton to Ellison & Co., of
Liverpool, Saturday, on the
steamer Carouia. The bale was
grown in Hidalgo county, Texas,
and shipped to Houston where it
was sold at. auction at 85 cents a
piund, and then consigned here.
Tortured on a Horse.
"For ten years I couldn't ride a
horse without being in torture
from piles," writes L. S. Napier,
of Rugless, Ky., 'when all doctors
failed, Bucklen's Arnica "Salve
cured me." Infallible for Piles,
Burns, Scalds, Cuts, Boils, Feyer,
Sores, v Eczema, . Salt Rheum,
Corns. 25o. Guaranteed by all
druggists.
CONCORD AND CABARRUS COOXTY.
Cow Killed bi UgBtAiog. - Found Dead In
ner&ed. - . m,.
Concord Times. July 1st.
Lightning struck and killed a
cow belonging to Walter Dorton
of the Missouri City Merchantile
Co , last Monday. The animal
was tied under a tree at the tiinef?;
On Tuesday Mrs. ftkaggie Bur- ,,
rage, wife of Luther Burrage, was
found dead in her bed at her home
on Meadow-street. Slie had been
in ill health for some time, but
her death was entirely unexpect
ed.. -
Messri. T H. Vandorf ord and
T. J : Jerome, of Salisbury, were
in Conoord Tuesday on? business
cennected with the proposed street
railway for which they have'secur-
ed a charter as promoters of the
Piedmont Carolina Railway Co.
They put up the sum of $1000 as
a forfeit for failure to begin work
on the railway within 60 days
from the time of granting the
franchise. Thev state that work
will begin on the construction of
the line within a short time, as
they do not expect to wait until
the 60 days have almost expired.
It is expected that dirt will begin
to move in a few days.
A few days ago, Prof. Chas. E.
Boger sold to B. L. Umbergej the
ot on Corbin street next to Mr.
Jno. K. Patterson's. The backbf
this lot adjoins the court house
property. In order to estabUih
the corner the reoords were referr
ed to and all partiea were amuedL -
to find thaVno deed to ithe eoutt i- "
I house lot'oould;' be ; iaunde-in; the v; I
clerk'i office; andthat it had ney er
been -recorded in the ofltoe iof tthe
Register V. of Deeds. A : through
rrch "was made e yerywherd in
hoth4bffice3, but-ny deed or record;
XU1M:
was ohairman of thedtnlty com
mi8ioners at thi time. The
county has been in peaceable pos
session of the property for much
longer than the required time,
and it is therefore safe in that
possession. It is a myttery, how
ever, what became of the deedjand
and why it was not recorded.
Old Fashioned Womanhood.
The old fashoned woman looked
well to the ways of her household.
She was not particularly ambiti
ous for a career or a calling. She
did not know that she was down
trodden, or realize her ignomini
ous servitude to a false assump
tion of superiority on the part of
the unfair sex. She" found the
homage and chivalry of mankind
delighted, and took it at its face
value. Nor did she trouble her
self about the potential recon
struction of the family on a new
basis of relationship. . She was
not struggling to be recogniied as
man's equeal, for she found it tac
itly admitted on all sides that she
was man's superior. She felt a
deep and rational delight in vari
ous concerns and enterprises, but
these were not of such a nature
as to call for the sacrifice of her
first and nearest interest, which
were material and domestic.
Philidelphia Ledger.
DuriDg the storm which visited
this section last Saturday, the
new school house in East Spencer
was struck by lightning and dam
aged to the extent of about $25.
It is insured and will be repaired
without unnecessary loss of time.
Any lady can get a silver "No
Drip" Coffee Strainer by writing
Dr. Shoop, Racine, Wis., Send no
money. Simply ask for the "No
Drip" Coupon privilege, - giving
your name and address. Dr. Shoop
will also send free his new and very
interesting little book describing
Dr. Jhoop's Health Coffee. It is
such a close imitation of real Coffee
that it requires an expert to tell
the difference.. And neither is
there a grain of real coffee in it.
Made from pure toasted grains,
malt and huts, its flavor and taste
is exceedingly gratifying; - No
tedious boiling either. "Made in
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