lwiiiiiiiik; liie - ' ' - v - - - 5 A Home Newspaper Published 1'. tna Interest of the People and for Honesty in Governmental Affairs, VOL. V. No. 32. Salisbury, N. O., Tuesday, July 27th, 1909. Wm, H. Stewart, Editor. 1 . STATESYILLE AND IREDELL COUNTY. Boy's Whereabouts Still Ounkown. Fannie Gillespie Married. statesviile Landmark, July 20-23. Dr. J. M. Wharoy, whaon Sun day concluded his service as sup ply pastor of th- Fir?t Presbyteri an church, left last evening with Mrs. Wbarey for their f.irrrer home at Davidson. The last of the week they will join the:r sou, Prof. Jag. B. Wharey, on a trip to Canada. Geo. M. Sueele, the aged colored citizen who has been intheeroplcy of the Wallace Bros'. Co fir many years, arid Fannie Gillespie, the aged colored woman who was charged with being implicated in the murder of the Lyerly family in R -wan county some years ago, aud who has made h'-r home here since the case was thrown out of court after the lynching of the murderers, were married Satur day evening. Steele's wife died about a year ago and he needed a horsekeeper. Bpxter Scott, a young manwho Jives in Bloomfiold, Las a bull t hole almost entire'y through .hip thigh as the result, of the hccideut al discharge of a pistol in his own hands Sunday afternoon about 3 o'clock. Two other young men of the community call d on Sctt Sunday afternoon aud askd to see his pistol and whi'e Scott wae handling the weapon in the pres ence cf his friends he accident'' pulled the trigger and a bullet entered the fleshy part ol his leg He was taken to the sanatorium later aud the bullet, which had barely missed the bone end had pas3ed almoBt entirely through the limli, was removed. The whereabouts of Foy Kurlee, the 15-year-old sou of Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Kurlee, who disappear ed rather mysteriously four weeks ago this morning, are Btill un known to his parent and they are becoming very anxious abouthim. The boy was last seen by acquaint ances at a point near the plant if the Statesviile Safe & Table Co., where he had been employed for some time, and where he went from there is wfcat is puzzling his parents and the officers. He had just been to the ofnoo of the Safe & Table company and collected the wages due him, and had re marked on leaving the factory that he was going back home. It w was known that the boy hadsavtd about $50 in cash and as the mon ey cannot be found at home it is supposed that he had it on his neisou at the time. Me was a rather backward and bashful boy, had never beeii away frum home very much ai-d his father says he knows of no reason why he should have run awav. At, times the father fears that his son has met with foul play; that he was pro bably killed for his money and his body disposed of. The fifteenth annual picuic for the benefit of the Barium Springs Orphans' Home will be held in Tempietou's Grove, MooreaviJle, next Thursday, 29th. L. C . Cald well, of Statesviile, will deliver the' address. L. B: Bristol was this week com missioned by jov. Kitchen ordi nance officer of the State Guard, with the rauk of major. The ap- poiutmeut was given Mr. Bristol without solicitati jm. He was on the staff of Gov . Glenn and was in the small arms practice depart ment of the State Guard. Miss Jane Snmmerell, daughter of Dr. aud Mrs. Mitchell Summer ell, of Rowan county, uudrwoi.t an operation for appendicitis at the sanatorium a few days ago and her coudition is favorable. Mrs. Summerell, who was here with her daughter and visited ' friends in Statesviile and vicinity, returned home Wednesday. Mrs . Wiley Horton, who lives north of town, was painfully in jured a few davs ago by being knocked down and trampled by two cows. She. was leading the cows to pasture when they became boisterous and in some manner knocked her down and then walk- COWLES' BILL UNNECESSARY. Congressman Webb Dissects the Measure Presented by the Congressman. Speaking of ihe bill introduced by Representative Cowles provid ing for the re-enactment of recon struction statu 8 having to do with the coudnct of elections, Represen tative Webb made the followmg statement to-day : "It is almost unbelievable that anybody should seriously thiuk of re-enacting those hated statues now. They are re'ics of the days when the Northerner had his heel on'the necks of the white people of the South; when the negro did the voting and the whittB were dis franchised and carpetbaggers had general control in the laud. The mere reading of these old sections of reconstruction laws revives I i ter memories ot sectional 1 .. 1 , strife and race feeling. Why a young white man of the South who was born since the civil war; should want to re-enact such ob noxious laws 44 years after the civi1 war, is past understanding. "I do not believe you could find a half-dozen Northern Republican Congressmen bitter enough to stand for such laws again. In re vising tho criminal laws of the United Stfttes in the last Congress, when the Republicans had a lar ger majority, no 'Republican, North cr South could be found who was willing to suggest the re eutctment of these statues. 'The auth r of the bill under takes to justify his action by say ing that, there are no State or Federal statues to "punish election thieves. He shows remarkable unfamiliarity with our own elec Cion laws in making this state ment, for there he will fiud it a crime to abet il'egal reg stration, to bribe or attempt to bribe a vo- ter, intimidate a voter or aiscnargo an employer ou account of ti is vote disturbing elections, fraudulent voting, impersonating another yo ter, treating with liquor, false en tries by election officers, failure of officer to make returns of eleetiou, false return, etc. Our laws to protect elections are as good as any State has, North or South, andthe unscrupulous aud dishon est e'ection officers cf whom Mr. Cowles complains surely do not live in his district or he would not have been elected. 'Section 5,515, which it is now proposed to re-enanct, makes it a Federal offence to violate a State law in regard to eleetionp, which means the turning over complete ly of our criminal laws relating to elections to the Federal authority judges and marshals. There is no State in the Union to-day that would stand for such an extreme and dangerous proposition. "Surely our young friend does not understand the full import of his bill Let us hope that he does not," Washington dispatch . . flictinr 6 : f i ed acr ss her body, in painful wounds with their feet. Iu the fall Mrs. Horton's right arm was brokeu just above thw wrist. Work has begun on Fred H' Conger's new home, corner Broad and Tradd streets, and will pro gress as rapidly as possible until the handsome residence is com pleted. It will be one of the finest homes in Statesviile, modern in every particular, and will cost ap proximately $15,000 Including the rooms in the basement to be used for the hot water heating nlant. lauudrv rooms, etc , the house will contaia about 15 rooms. Sees Mother Grow Young, "It would le hard b overstate the wnderful chai-g in uiy moth er since she began to use Electric Bitterd," writes Mrs. W. L. Gil patrick, of Danforth, Me. "Al though p tst 70 shesoems really to be growing young again, She suffered untold misery from dys pepsia for 20 years. At las& she could neither eat, drink nor sleep. D ctors gave her up and all re- medies failed till Electric B tters of Rustless, Ky , "when all doctors r,,,A D-.h n,Amiara fp hafif.iiaH ttn!rio..)a a cs -1 health. " Their invigorated all vital n i-iro n a r.nra T.ivar ftnrl Kid. uey troubles, induce hleep, and Sores, Eczema, Salt Rheum, cause of sickness is the only sens imDar . strensth aud aDDetite. Corns. 25j. Guarantefiri hv n ble and successful way, Scld by Only 50.3 at all druggists. CONCORD AND CABARRUS COUNTY. A Splendid Gift to the Jackson Training School. Residence Burned in No. 3. Concord Times, July 22ud. The Southern Conference of the North Carolina Synod convened at St. Andrew's1 church here to day, July 22, 1909, at 10:30 a. m. The opening sermon was preached by the secretary of the conference, Rev. C. P. Fisher. The Woodmen of the World are looking forward to a big time at their picnic at Bethel next Tues day, July 27. There will be lever al good speakers present, and music will be furnish d by the Woodmen band. Of course there will be a big dinner. Walter P. 'White died at hii) . 0 ne on Bell avenue last Tuesday moruiug about 4:30 o'clock after a lingeriug llluess of consumption. Mr. White had been a sufferer for several years, and for a number of mouths lived in Asheville. He returned toOoucord last April to live, rrjd remained here uutil his death. Two Concord ministers are be ing voted for iu the Lexington Dispatch's contest for the most popular minister in each county. Rev. J. W. Long has 200 votes and Rev. W. L. Hntchius 100. Miss Mary Hendrix has returned from the Whiteh.jad-Stokes Sani torium at Salisbury, where she was operated on for appendicitis She has many friends in Concord who will be glad to know of her recovery. The relativrs and friends, of William A. Caldwell were shocked Mouday evening when a telegram was received hero announcing his sudden death which occurred a bout 5 o'clock in -Greensboro at the Williams Sanitorium, where I he had goife for treatmentou Sun day afternooii. Mr. Caldwell had gone out to mail a letter to hit wife, aud retired to his room on returning to the sanitorium. Shortly afterward when fouud he was quite dead, his death being the resu't of heart failure. There was no one with summons came. him when the On last Suuday night the resi dence of J Frank Smith, one of the most prominent citizens of No . 3 1 iwusbip, waB destroyed by fire. M . Smith discovered the hre about 10 o'clock, being waked by the light and roaring of the flames. They succeeded in getting out several trunks, two feather beds, a few quilts, etc , but prac tically nothing else of value was saved. Tbe-loss is estimated at $1200 or thereabouts, with $850 insurance on both 1 uildiug aud contents. James P. Cook, chairman of tno board of trustees of Jackson Training School, authorizes the announcement that a prominent citizen of the State and his wif . -i... e iU pleat fly-killer is a weak solution whose names are withheld for tho F. . 3 , , , , . t. L j j iJAof formaldehyde in wateritwo ta. nrnaont. fin vaat.arrln.t7 rlrrno far! - . , u nwH.ywTv the funds necessary to erect In dustrial Hall, which is now being built there The building is to be the work shop for the Trainiig School, and will cost $3,500, and the entire cost will be borne by the geutlemau and his wife re ferred to. Work is now going on i i the erection of the buildiug. . frost In Watauga. Fr st a-plenty was seeu in dif ferent sections of the county yes terday morning by those who aros ) early. Dr Hodges re ports naving wntieu ni. name iu frost at Banner Elk. This is quite 8nd unusual occurrence for this season of the year. Old men 8:iy they uever saw frost in July befon m the mountains.- Boone Special, 21st, to Charlotte Obsei ver. Tortured on a Horse. "For ten years I couldn't ride a horse without being in torture iles," writes L S. Napier, -r-w ... . ri.m rt ! cured m." Infallible for Pilaa Ttnrna Snftiri Hnfa nnn Guaranteed by all J druggists. LEARNING TO PPVEHr COM.UW PR.OV . Country Loses UIIIisi Yeariy In Wasted Edicition. fiOOO.OOO Die. Over 2,5000,()b0of the 17,000, 000 scho it children euiolUd iti$he United States : h?e dunug the school year jusUclosed. been syste matically instructed concerning the dangers of VVonumption ac cording to a staiefttent issued to day by the National" Association for the Study and- Prevention of Tuberculosis, v ' Besides the 2,5Qb0,000 children thus regularly,iuslructed m their schools, the Nticjftl Association estimate! that fulty 1,000,000 more have received instruction at the various taboronlqsis exhibits held in all parts of the country or in seperate classes abd organizations. A number of investigations con ducted iu various parts of the world show that a. large percent age of the children iu the public schools have tuberculois before they are eighteen.. That a large number of them d not die, is due to the fact that healthy children are able to resist the at tack of the consumption germ. On account of th$ prevalence of the disease amon children, the National Association considers their education to be of prime im portance. . -; Iu Boston, a speoial commit sion which recently investigated the subject, found that over 5. OX) aohool children in that city alone had positive case&rof tuberculosis. In New York, a receut study showed ovir 25,000 tuberculosis children in the 'schools. Ou the basis of these and othtr investiga tions, it is estimated by certiin authorities that there are nearly 1,000 CKX school children in the United States trwlay, will prob ably die of tugroalosi8 before thny haya 'aiWa - tbe'-agevOfJ eighteen This would mean that the public schools cf the country are payini? annually about $7,- 500,000 for the education of children who will die before they reach the age of eighteen. At least one-half of this sickness, and I i i .i r x i - i i j P8ni inree-iouring oi it, couia be preveuted, if the municipal and Btate goverumeLt would' adopt better aud more hygenic methods of controling and teaching the children, aud f the public in general were alive to the need for tuberculosis prevention. The National Association de Clares tr.at the best way to wipe out consumption among the chil dren is to educate both them and their parents so that they wil know that tuberculosis is a com muuicable disease, that it can be cured and that it must be pre vented. To Kill Flies. The London "Lancet," the lead ing medical journal iu the world savs that the best and sim blesooonsful to the pin). Place in plates or saucers throughou the house Ten cents worth o formaldehyde will last an ordina ry family all summer, it nas no offeusive smell, is fatal to disease organisms, and is practioally non p ns tnous except to insects. Pyrethiom powder which may be bought at auy drugstore, burn ed in the house, will also kill the flies . A failing time nerve -no longer than the finest silken thread takes from the Heart its impuls, its nower. its regularity. The Stomach also has its hidden, or in side nerve. It was Dr. Shoop who first told us it was wrong to drug a weak or failing Stomach, ears or xviuueyo. a.io preHutip ti on Dr. Shoop's : Restorative is directed straight for the cause of these ailments these weak and faltering inside nerves, ThiB no doubt clearly explains why the Restorative has of late grown so rapidlay in popularity. Druggists Bay that those wio tests 4 he Res f Aafiua Avon TAf o ran nana anrtii J-orawve Te, QJ ? became f ully convinced of its wonderful merit. Anyway, don t drug the organ. Treating I f?,e aV.a BUTZ C . Corneluon s Cook. 1 T : : : LEXIN8T0N AND DAVID ON COUNTY. Southern Power Company Condemns Land tor Right of Wat. Still Destroyed,. Lexington Dispatch, July 21st. Typoid fever has again made its appearance in many parts of the county and several deaths have occurred. A Cotton Grove farmer here yes terday told the Dispatch that Grady Frank, a son of W. H. Frankr. found 62 snakes under some cord 'wood which was being moved, and killed them all. They were garter snakes. This is a true story. The revenue officers visited the lower part of the county again last week, searched some houses and hunted about until finally they came on a blockade still of the reported capacity of 150 gallons. The officers are getting busy with Davidson moonshiners aud the latter by this time must know that Uncle S&m must be onto them. The fireman on No. 64, local freight, due here about 7 o'clock, wag badly scalded after the train reached Hih Point Friday. He was sprinkling coal iu the tender whan the nozzle of the hese flew off and a stream of hot water struck him about the knees. He was looked after at High Point aud returned to Spencer. His name is McCarn. Friday (Drs. Long, of Greens boro, and Buchanan and Hill, of exington performed an operation on the smail son of John Push. removing f a piece of dead bone rom the lad's leg, which was orushed in a buggy wheel some months ago. The little fellow suffered a frightful accident and has had a hard time of it. but is now resting very well aud it is (hoped 4 bat since the opexatiog ; tit will rapidly recover. Thursday S. H. Kindley and Miss Ethel Davis, the latter of High Point, Daughter of Ransom uavis were marriea in the regis ter's office here. During the week, also Emory , Holder, of Rowan, and Miss Bessie Byerly, secured icense to marry; H. A. Swice good and Miss L. E. Essick, also, D. H. Crowell, of Stanly, and Miss Neta Feezor, daughter of W. L. Feezor, of Healing Spnugs. Sunday morning Rev . Parker Holmes announcei f;om his pul pit in the opera house in Thomas- ville, where the Methodist con gregation have been worshiping for the past year, that the service next Sunday morniug will be held for the first time in the new Methodiet chush, which has just been completed. The new church has just been built at a cost of $15,000 and now at itB completion it stands with every dollar paid and not one cent of indebtedness , It has just taken a little bit over one year to build the church, The final report of the county superintendent of public instruc tion, Prof. P. S. Vann, shows that there was collected from all sources for the school during 1908- 09 the sum of $25,384 40 ; and that of this sum there was expanded on the school $23,457 97, leaving a balance of $1,926 83. The sta tistical report shows that there are 8,118 white children of school age, and 1,155 colored children of school age. From general poll tax the schools received the sum of $5,318 10; general property tax, $18,925 45; fines, etc , $1,011.20. The total county fund, exclusive of a 1908 balance broueht for ward, amounted to $20 263.45. The first condemdation proceed ings instituted by the Southern Power Company for a right-of-way in this county were heard last week befvre Clerk C. E. Goodwin, who decided that the company has the right to condemn,, and he ap pointed E. A. Rothrock, J. A. Young and G. F. Moorefield a jury to assess damages in Lexing ton, and M. L. Ritohie, A. L. Boggs and W. L. Myers as the jury in Thomasville township. The lands that figured in the con troversy belong to T. S. Eanes, W. W. Pool, of Salisbury, W. H., PLANS TO BUILD A NEW TOWN. A Now Town on bocky RUer, Between Stan! and Aosoa, to be Built. , Wadesboro, July 15. Several representative men of the county, led byjA, H. Richardson, of Anson ville, are taking the initial steps looking 'forward to the develop ment of the northern section of the county, Mr. Richardson is a large land owner and has employ ed surveyors who have made plans for a hydro-electrio plant near Kendall Ferry in Reeky river, 15 miles north of Wadesboro. At this point the building of a dam and power house which will cost over $400,000 will produc from 6,000 to 7,000 horsepower. The plans as drawn provide for a dam across the river which is only at the home of Mr and Mrs. W. 200 feet wide at the proposed T. Efird, a quiet wedding was per point with a high bauk of rock on rm6d, which united T. Ben Ross, the Anson county side the main dam will extend 300 feet beyond the river bank with abutment and a core wall and earth dam 880 feet in length. The natural sur- rounding-, are perfect and back of this dam there ill be a natural reservoir extending for several w iigo OVU vrTVSU 1U1 UO JJUllOU miles. The line of the new South- Knitting Mill, which recently in bound railway passed within a creaged its capacity about25 per mile of the site for the power oent ftnd is now irj8talliDg new plant and the promoters of the machinerv. Our mills are strictlv idea expect to see a new and man- ufactunng centre established, with the cheap power generated at the plant large cotton mills can be operated at a good profit, The work to be done just now J is the securing of options and the organization of the company for the purpose of securing the needed capital. It is thought that the entire work can easily be done by the enlistment of local financiers. Fierce Hurricane at 6aliestoa Sea Wall Sates tie Cltj. Man's " strength and ikill were pitted against the iuty bf the elements today and man won, when the city of Galveston, safely entienched behind her impregna ble 17-foct sea wall withstood, with ' comparatively trifling loss, a tidal wave and hurricane equal in intensity and destructive force to the one which destroyed the city September 8, 1900. Outside the limits of the city, where the wall had not been reared apd where the city had not been elevated, the waterB had their way, but the warnings of the weather bureau had been heeded and the luhabitantB had removed their possessions out of the dauger zone From other cities in the affected area come tales of narrow escapes and much destruction of physical property. The only auxiety ex pressed now is for the smaller towns, villages aud summer re- church here, performing the cere sorts with which the gulf cost is mony. The couple are residents so thickly settled, Iu the history of Cooleemee and were aocompa of other gulf storms it has bee u nied by a couple of friends, having this type of village which suffered most from the waters. In Galveston and vicinity not a single life is believed to have been sacrificed but the material loss is thought to be quite extensive. The hurricane swept the entire gulf coast with an intensity and viciousness that has seldom been equaled in a country where de structive storms are not unusual. It had its origin on the Atlantic coast and swinging westward and southward, devastated the entire gulf coast even as far south as Matagorda bay. Galeston, Texas, Dispatch. 21st. J. A. and W. L. Elliott. Two of the biggest lawyers in thesUteap- peared with local attornevs. Judge ampn.h ,,rn fnr thQ J ' w "o "r. " B ot Charlotte tor the power people, The jury here in Lexington yes- terday afternoon, after a lengthy argument by counsel, agreed on $75 damage in the case of Mr. Pool, and iu the case of Mr. Eanes, gave $100 damage. Pain can be easily and quickly stopped. Pink Pain Tablets Dr. Shoop's stop Headaohe womanly pains, any pain, anywhere, in 20 minutes sure. Formula on the 25c. box. Ask your druggist or doctor about this formula it's Ene. Bold by Oornelison fe Cooks AL6ERUARLE AND STANLY COUNTY. Cotton Uills Declare Dliiduds. Xorti Carolina to Lead he East. Stanley Enterprise, July 12, A mass meeting will be held in the court-houBe Friday evening at. 8-30 o'clock, to discuss the question of issuing bonds for the town. J. C. Masters, of the Albe marle Development Company re turned to the city Tuesday. Mr. Masters has been traveling over several States, and he says that North Carolina is being discussed everywhere, and that in the near future it will be the leading State east of the Mississippi River. Tuesday afternoon 'at 3 o'olock, f New London, and Miss Myrtle Brown as man and wife, Rev. H, A. McCullough performing the ceremony. A11 the logal millg deolared a 8emi.annual dividend on last Thursday of 4 per cent. This is a in theffirat. rank. .,hanD mill. now nnder process of construction emphasizj the success that has at- tended the management. Jno, 8. tpr-a :j. e Lillian Mill, vice R. A: Orowell. resiened; It mav be noted tnat of the gn Ann naid ont M di: deud -f no les9 thaQ on6.third goes infeo .ha uRna ftf nnrhnmA nennla. - r- " W. H. Parker of Norwood died very suddenly Monday afternoon shortly before 3 o'clock, He was apparently in his usual , health that morning, and made no com plaint of feeling ill when he ate his dinner . After dinner hh iiy down, and sometime afterward! when Mrs. Parker went to arouse him she found him dead. Acute iudigestion and heart trouble are supposed to have caused his death. He was familiary known as "Samp Parker." The remains were in terred Tuesday in the cemetery at Randall's church. Mr. Parker was one of the county's well known and most substantial citi- zens and was a successful farmer, Ha w. ahnnt 4ft ve.ra of And is survived by a wife and three children. Married in the Public Road. A Will Fills. Chas Mills and Miss Mamie Parker were marribd in the public road about two miles above Mocks- ville last Thursday afternoon, Rev. Oashwell, pastor of the Baptist passed through town, about 2 o'clock. It was the intention of thelcontracting parties to keep the I affair secret for a while but they f failedto do so. A section of the north wall at the east end of the large two-story brick building adjoining E. E. Hunt's hardware store fell in Sat urday morning about 3 o'clock. It is fortunate that it occurred at night, as during the day there is almost always some one near the 8Pot and horses and vehicles are many times left standing or hitch- ed where tbev wonld hftva haftn certain to get killed or destroyed had the wall fallen during thedav. The front part of the building is 1 s - tg used by the Mocksville Chair Co, 8 a storage house, but the affect- , . j I ' sd red unsafe, consequently the damage is small. Moeksville Courior, July, 22. 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 your vicinity. Make a grateful &od appreciative friend of, some one who is discouraged beoause of the failures of others to help him. Help me make this test, sand I'll certainly helD vonr unffaHna f "end . Cornelison & Cook, 1