North Carolina Newspapers

A Home Newspaper Published in the Interest of the People and for Honesty in Governmental Affairs, Vol. VI. No. II. Salisbury, N. O., Wednesday. March 2nd, 1910. Wmh. Stewart, Editor PEACE AND RECONSTRUCTION. Sees Things That Were Ooiag In Salisbury Three llonths' After tha SurreBder. . r i.1 T il TT-! T U lished here July 18, 1865. It brings to mind many incidents thai seem to have been forgotten hv thnsa hn lrnam thnm. and nnn. j - .w tains' refreshing news to othero. While; the military-was in charge of the place and of coarse de manded and forced discipline, yet the officers and the privates seem w ua9 uqqu aa jki u vi auu vuiibiuw ate as their positions wonld ad mit of. -. ' 'The blessings of a permanent and enduring Peace seems to have been at last secured to onr conn try. 4 Every where throughout the breadth i b United States, are the laws obeye , the Union rever enced, and the flag acknowledged. After four yearB of a bitter war, bias come a perfect calm, and the Rebel and the Yankee sit down in lriuuuisuip witu ulio auutiuur. , Those who lately grtsped the hot nun K rral rtrtw amnlro nniAfclir fcfiA ft... Ill . w. , ..W WW w . . v a w avv calumet of peace, and talk pleas antly enough over the memories of the past. The intercourse be tween the soldier and the citizen had rinnft mnnh onnri I r. nan shown the citizen that his enemy alter all is a man very muoh like himself, given to truth and hon rr u.rA oTArniainar mftcmanifftitv and benevolence, in the hour of his great triumph . Many friend ship? have thus been formed which will last forever, a- monument to the folly of rebellion and the ctuelty of war. All that is want ed for the people to understand each other is this intercourse Every acquaintance made by an officer of the United States army with our people, , is but another o T"fTTi iT-i anfc in tavirT rf tVi a TTrrion They behave so well and are so ' kind, that they cannot help mak ing Iriends even amcng those in whose hearts slumber the embers or Jteoeuion. . "Their Surgeons and nurses in tne noBDitai are aiso verv kiuu V' VJJ . . .1 1 J AtiirTMCAniivA so tnp hick ana wounded of the late i nfederate ni ill v . ad is a IUUUU1UE OJCU. DU - - lf w .f 4-Vi a ii nanla 1 rPVi a mnAiar in gray depending for his very bread, upon tne Kiua omcer 01 tn soiaier in blue. One of the union acld iers, named Bassett. who had been Ward Master of the Confederate ward, for some time, died yeBter- j t j : .i.j i ,i .day ui uibobso wutiwwu tu nu- MiM.iAa!nM Ajr1 LlllLllBbOi lug nu uui sivk uu wounded. He was kind and effic ient, and his unfortunate death is loucia boo as uj uu uukibucsi uiu we have the means we would have UUll UUCIOU WltU DAUB wio auu. nlftoe uDon his tombstone the in- :. hi t iiihiiiii . ivi n sn a nn nrr hd. ; A. zora axionigan, soiaier or ne ' 'i m 1 " 1 Jl l union army, wnoj died irom die- to the."vT and wonnded of the late Confederate army a noble soldier in a noble cause." "At the funeral of Junius A. along silently and sadly through the streets, we noticed among those who escorted his bodv to the' grave, the Union officer walk in4; in brotherly love with the man who lately wore a sword in the rebel cause. i5ut why particular ize incidents, when these things 'all bear testimony that we are one nannla m th nn rr nfc n4 in aani-i Ff a ment and that it was a fearful thing to decide our quarrel with arms -xeariui is ine responsiDiiitiy of those who were instrumental in producing this war, and who suc- : CctHieu tu luuauiiug tun ucarv auu UlBUUDUlUg HUO IUIUU Ul bUUBO W LIU i were destined to be brothers, citi zens and, coinheritants of this ; great Repnbiic. 1 "Rnt nflnnft had finmfl'ftcrin. nnrJ - .r. " r i-n f ,'4 Via rrvdafc vrrtrlr M ranntietiinntinn i'Antnt tnn nnftnin mmnanu nt anv. VW WWW,W, W . Arn ment left bv the war is ranidlv ' mtr nn PRnoniallv in ' Tlnrth Carolina Here Gov, Holden is working vigorously and enerneti- tne military win oe at nome, and the citizen will, be enjoying his p.ivil ritfhtB. and annreciatinff and V W W 0 W ft . TO : it. i:li - -experiencing once mxotv iuh nuerty of the Republican form Govern menti . CONCORD AND CABARRUS COUNTY. Pneumonia and Measles Getting In Some Work., Smallpox has Losl its Cunning. Concord Tirtea, Feb. 24. Freeland, the 12-year-old son of G. T. Beaver, of No. 7 township. died yesterday after an illness of several weeks, oi measles. Columbus Goodman, of No 6 township, was taken to the Salis bury hospital last night to have an operation performed for a very serious throat trouble. Ed. G. Lipe, .who lives 4 miles from this city on the Mt. Pleas ant road, Mrs. Lipe and their son, Charley Lipe, are all three seri ously: ill of pneumonia. The lat est reports from them state that Mrs. Lipe is desperately ill and that there is very little hopes of her recovery. All of the smallpox patients at the pest house are about well of the disease, and those who have not already been dismissed will be in a few days. There are several families in the county under quar antine and if no new cases devel op before the time the law re quires for those under quarantine expires they will also be allowed their liberty. . Henry G. Ritchie, of No. 6 township, one cf the best known citizens of the county, left yester day for Wake county, where he will make his home, Mr. Ritchie has leased a large farm eight milts from Raleigh, and on yesterday he shipped all his stock and farm ing implements to Raleigh, His family will leave next week for their new home. Mr. Ritchie has rented out his farm in No. 6 town ship. R. P.jArthurs of No. 1 township, lost a pocket book about a year ago, and-had never been able to find it. One day last week he found it in the mud in his barn lot. The book had been tramped upon by the Btock, and was in a bad condition. On last Monday where the book was found Mr. Ar thurs found a 1 dollar bill, which looked like it had been chewed up. There were several other bills id the pocket book when lost, but the others have not been; found. Mr, Arthurs will have the. money redeemed. $230,000,000 tor Automobiles Ust Year The Association of Licensed Automobile Manufacturers esti mates that nearly 115,000 automo biles were manufactured in the United States last year. At an av erage price of $2,000, a fair esti mate, their value would be about $230,000,000. The development of this business is perhaps without parallel in in dustrial history. The output of cars in 1903 was about 11,000 and the output in 1906 a little more than 80,000. The increase in seven years has been about ten fold. Conservative estimates put the probable output of the current year at 150,000 machines, less conservative, but not unnecessari ly unreasonable, estimates at 200, 000. The duty on imported ma chines is 45 per cent, ad valornm. Last year there were imported 1,645 can, valued at $3,071,000, and 8,686 cars, valued at $6,890,- 000 were exported. Imports of automobiles were first classified separately in 1905, when 496 cars Valued at $1,866,400 were brought in. Exports were first separately reported in 1906, when $1,792,800 were sold in other countries. In fact, the average value of ex ported oars is now practically the same as the average value of im ported machines. Of the 1,645 bought abroad last year 918 came from France, 418 from Italy. 127 from Germany and 101 from Eng iana. ine cars exported went to all.the corners of the earth, to Atrica, Hiast India and to Ans tralia, as well as to Canada. En- rope aud South America, Ex ports to the United Kingdom were valued at $2,000,000, to Can ada at $2,400,000, to France at $846,000, to Mexico at $494,000, to eousn America at $24U,ooo, to British Australasia at $303,000 and to Africa at $49,000. Wash ington correspondence New York Sun. PROCEEDINGS OF THE COUNTY COURT. Carrying Cancealed Weapons. Breaking In to Freight Cars and Drinking Brings Tnem. In the County Court, on Satur day, Will Jones, a negro from the worst section of Sugar Springs, was up charged with carrying con cealed weapons and was found guilty. Will had been up before the court last November on the same charge and was fined $50 and the oost in one case, and had judg ment suspended in another at that time. On Saturday the court put a fine of $50 in the suspended judgment case, and, aB Will, through his counsel, gave motion of appeal- in this last case, judg ment was suspended in that. In case the appeal is taken the bond is to be $100. Henry Smith and Jim Brady, two negros who were run down last week by officer Atterway, of the Southern, and Sherriff Mckenzie and deputy Jas. Krider, were brought into court on Saturday charged with breaking into and robbing freight cars on the Spen cer yard. They, by council, waiv ed a preliminary examiation and were ordered to be kept in jail for the May term of Superior court. T. C. Linn and son, Stahle Linn, representing the railroad, asked that they he required to furnish such bond as would insure their appeal ance, as it would probably develop that they belonged to a gang who has for some time been systematicalv robbing cars on the Spencer yards. Although there was a big crowd present when court opened on Monday morning there was only a few cases to be disposed of. Three drunks were let of? with the usual fine of $5.00 and the cost. One who had no money nor friends here was ordered kept in jail a day ot two so that he might sober up and hear from friends in Ten nesee who he claimed would pay his fine Four negroB who were arrested at the power house on Saturday night and who had been kept in jail since on a charge of gambling wf re dismissed for want of suffici ent evidence to convict. UrPER CABARRUS. There was a right lively affair, in the way of a joint debate, pull ed off at St. John's sohool, in Cabarrus County near Mt. Pleas ant, Saturday night. The subject for discussion was: Resolved. "That Washington Should be Honored More Than Columbus" Those taking the affirmative were Edgar Ridenhour and Wright Petrea, and those of the negative were Willie Boger and Clyde Ritchie, The negative side of the question was decided the victor Quite a number were present to hear the debate, after which an oyster supper was held which was also well attended. How Good News Spreads. "I am 70 years old and travel most of the time," writes B. F, Tolson, of Elizabethton, Ky. "Everywhere I go I recommend Electric Bitters, because I owe my excellent health and vitality to them. They effect a oure ev ery time. lney never fail to tuie the stomach, regulate the kidneys and bowels, stimulate the liver, invigorate the nerves and purfy the blood. They work won ders for weak, run-down men and women, "restoring strength, vig r and health that's a daily joy . Try them. Only 50c. Satisfaction is positively guaranteed by all Drug gists. Preparations are b3ing made for a big school celebration and exhibition at the Holehouser and Lyerly school house, seven miles from town on the Gold Hill road, on Saturday March 5th. Every body is invited. Morgan Town ship string band will furnish mu sic for the rccasion, and a good time is promised to all who at tend. It expels all poisons, stimulates the internal organs, cleanses the the system and purifies the blood. Such is Hollister's Rocky Moun tain Tea, the most effective pre ventative and cure of bad blood, constipation and sluggish liver. Cornelison & Cook, ALBEMARLE AND STANLY COUNTY. A Liielj Spelling Bee Is Polled off A few llore Die, Stanley Enterprise, Feb. 34tn. Morton Mrs. L, O.I Morton's son (by former marriage) 'died Saturday. , '"" Pbnkington. Mrs. John; lived just west of town ; died Sunday. mobton year-old child of Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Morton ; died Saturday. ----;! , B orris On Friday afternoon the 15-year old daughter. of Mr. and Mrs. Silas Burris,! Efird Hiii. v;...-.-..',-; Mason 15-year old ."daughter of Jas. A. Mason, of Eflrd Hill, died of pneumonia . iollowing measles. - Lentz Alma, the . joungest daughter of Mr. and Mrs.' Albert S. Lentz, died at 7:30 o'clock Monday morning. i The spelling bee in the court house Tuesday evening fwas all in the way of interest the most ardent expected. It wits pure fun to hear the old spelling and to see some of the best 'spellers take seats for missing " simple words of the Webester Blue Blaok variety. Inerest was-; at fever heat when the contest narrowed down to three and three, Mrs. J. W Tucker, Mrs. R. L. Smith, and Mrs. J. M. Brown on the ladies' side and W. Alain Smith, S. D. Arrowood and Charlie Council on the men's. The three ladies "held their own" to the finish, when Mr. Smith took hi seat after gallantly spelling for sometine against the heavy odds of three to one. Among the vis iting spellers were Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Littleton and Sandy Low der. Though only a small ad mission fee was charged, about $55 was raised . The Efird baud enlivened the occasion with good music. The ladies are naturally jubilant over the victory, and the men are already talking of issuing a challenge for another contest. REFUSE DEMANDS FOR BETTER WA6ES. Action Taken bv the Employes to Press the Demands Will be Slmnltaneons. Ceveland, O., Feb. 24. The replies of the Southern railroads to the wage demands of the Broth erhood of Railroad Trainmen and the Order of Railway Conducts, were opened here tod-ay . The re fusal of the roads to meet the men's terms was unanimous. This places the Southern rail road situation in practically the same ft ate as that in the territory north of ahe Chesapeak and Ohio and east of the Mississippi. It is now certain that any action taken by the men to press their demands will be simultaneous in the East and South . The result of the strike vote of the Baltimore & Ohio men will be known to President W, G- Lee of the trainmen and Grandfather Garretson of the conductors early this coming week. If the decision is to call a strike as it is expected to be, the execu, tive councils of ihe two orders 11 1 i - m- . wnicn win meet nere .later, are expected to submit to the men on all the railroad lines the ques tion .whether a general strike shall be called. The strike votes on the Balti more & Ohio and at large will not I. W . -tr . do immediately anective. it is understood at the brotherhood headquarters here that the votes will be used as ammunition by the chiefs of two orders, to be used only in the event of a final refus al by the roads to concede the wage adjustment asked. In any evout, affairs will not reach a crisis, it is now expected, for two weeks at least. Messrs Lee and Garretson wiU go to Bal timore to receive the result of the vote on that line Tuesday or Wed nesday. A further request will then be made of the railroad: offi cials to concede. Meanwhile test negotiations will be in progress with one of the Southern railroad lines, sim ilar to those held with the Bal timore & Ohio. As the railroads have acted tosrether hitherto, it is anticipated the replies will be similar to that made in Balti more. "I cannot make any prediction as to the outcome of either the Baltimore & Ohio or the Southern situation," said President Lee to night. "The negotiations in the South wilL bet conducted in the game manner as those with the Baltimore & Ohio, EI6HT NE6R0 6AUBLERS CAU6HT, The Sheriff and Pollca Officers Uike aa "Important Haul Tbarsdtf light. Sheriff Molfenzie, Chief Julian, Officer Frank Cauble and Town ship Tax Collector A. M. Rice, raided the home of Stella Evans, a negro woman whov occupies la house across the railway tracks at the passenger station, at 8 Velock on Thursday night, 'and bagged a gang of eight negro gamblers. The officers were evidently working on information and when' they ap proached the- house the sheriff and Officer Cauble went to the rear, Offioer Rice stationed him self at the front corner, and Chief Julian went to the front door. As ho entered the door his pistol was accidentally discharged giving the alarm to the gamblers, as well as to the officers outside, who, think ing that the chief had been fired upon, broke down the rear door and rushed into the house. No resistance was offered -and the whole bunch was locked up and was tried in the county court on Friday morniug. All of them were fonnd guilty and a fine of $20 and the cost was put on three of them, J. A. Noble, E. 0. Thom as and Dock Weeks. Judgment w was suspended on the others, Dan Nicholson, Fuller Caldwell, Mon roe Dolphns, Andrew Gowm, Wal ter Cook and Ruf us Hunter . No ble, upon whom a pistol was found when the search was made, was found guilty of carrying concealed weapons and was fined $30 in that case. 1 No "Ni-Beer" tor Monroe. No near beer for Monroe, neith er for Bentonville, nor the regions round about. J. R. Funder- burk came to Monroe last week from Salisbury, rented a small room in Bentonville. sot license from the sherriff to sell near beer, unloaded several barrels of some kind of hog wash from a wagon, and ws about ready to create a little hell for the peolep of that community, when something hap pened. They didn't threaten him, they didn't intimidate him, they didn't say they would burn him out, or shotgun quarantine him or night-rider him, or any thing else. One of tho leading men who lives over there just went to Mr. Funderdnrg and per suaded him to hitch np and go back' where he came from or some where elie. It was a simple case of moral Buasion, of good chris tian argument so to speak, and it was put so earnestly that Mr. Funderdurg said, "Well, if the sherriff will give me back the money I paid for the liencse, I'll quit." "It's a trade," said the gentle man who was doing the talk, "and if the sherriff can't give the money back it will be found somewherh else." Sherriff Griffith was only too glad to return the money and cancel the license, because he wouldn't issue one of the things at the start till the Supreme court said he had to. Mr. Fun dertmrk got his money back and on last Friday he loaded up his near-slop and went back. Mr. Funderburk is not so bad, even if he did want to sell such stuff. You haye often heard that no one is altogether bad wno is subject still to moral suasion. And Mr. Funderburk was subject and the good folks who live over Brenton Hill believe more than ever in moral suasion. No near beer for Monroe. Monroe Jour nal. Make Your Dollars Extend. Our agency will prove that thir ty-five years big sales and pleased users of the L. & M. Paiat will save you dollars, because when paintinz with L. & M. you are us ing metal Zinc Oxide combined with White Leadf Zinc Oxide is imperishable, and makes the L. & M. wear and cover like gold. The L. & M. Colors are therefore bright anU lasting . You won't need to re paint for 10 or 15 years; besides L. & M, Paint costs less than any other, say about $1.80 per gallon. Sold by: Salisbury Supply & Commission Co., Salisbury. AN EXHAUSTIVE PUBLICATION. Ti eatH&lri Report ef the N. C. Oepart i Beat of Labor mil Printing. The Twenty-third Annual Re port of the Department of Labor and Printing of the State of North Carolina has been issued from the office of Commissioner M. L. Ship man. The chapters of the report -cover, as usual, farms and farm labor, wages of farm hands and cost of production of farm products, con dition of the trades, miscellaneous factories and industries, cotton, woolen and silk mills, furniture factories, newspaper statistics, and railroad employes aud; wages, In addition to this, there has been added a classified list of fac tories, the labor laws of the State, and a resume of the reports is sued for the past ten years, and other interesting information, An excerpt from Chapter I says: Primarily, the purpose of the statistics is to show hours of la bor and. wages, conditions of la bor, and to give an idea of what progress is being made in an edu- cational and moral way, whether tnere is an improvement in gener- al proficiency, and the relation of supply to aemand. In some quarters to which the report is sent, these purposes- are overlooked, the recipients expect ing rather a directory of manu facturing enterprises. Under the peculiar conditions of the law governing-. the Department and the manner of collection of statis tics, it has proven impossible, ex cepting cotton, woolen and silk mills, to secure a complete list of the factories. So far as the means at hand have allowed, it has been the pur- rtnao in innlnilo ovelrv f aotrp rf what kin pmnlnvinc, fiv nT . 1 tr j b to reach. Chapter II, farms and farm la bor, shows an increase in the val ue of land in eighty-seven comi ties, decrease in two and ijto change in nine Fertility of land is reported maintained iu eighty- four counties: fourteen renort that it is not maintained . Six counties report a tendency to have , larger farms ; ninety-two smaller. Eighty-six counties re port labor scarce ; twelve plenti ful. Ninety-five counties report negro labor unreliable, two reli able, and one, no negro labor. Sixty counties report employment regular; thirty-eight irregular, Every county reports an increase in cost of living. Chapter III. covering the trades, says: In addition to the specific infor mation asked for in the blanks sent out, the Department has ta ken a general survey of the con ditions under which the trades. or, more properly speaking, the body of working men and women, are now laboring. The conolus ions preached, based on the an swers to inquiries which appear in one form or another on all blanks relate to phases of the question tnat cannot ne answered compre hensively by yes or no, or by any figures. A certain amount c f the losses in quantity of Work offered and prioes paid for service which occurred in the latter part of 1907 and 1903 have ben regained, and while employment is by no means so easi'y found, and it may be that wages are slightly less than in the ifioodtide of 1907, on the whole, conditions affecting the trades may be said to be in a shape fully as satisfactory as at a ay time in the industrial history of the- State. Chapter IV, miscellaneous fact ories, says that general indica tions snow tnat tne lactones are rapidly being put on a substantial basis that is, show an absence of musnroom growtn. or wnat is commonly known as "schemes." reported, Few new factories are bat, on the whole, conditions may be said to represent a stable prog ress, sufficiently rapid to show growth, but at the same time at a rate that would seem to indicate only the meeting of a demand WORK OF THE REAPER. Urs. Uallnda Wood, Ulss 'Uatfie Raney, Yester Uorrls, and Others. The Infant child of Mr. and Mrs . W. A . Foster, who moved from Salisbury last year to Jack sonville, Florida, . was brought here on Saturday night for burial. The child died there some six months ago and the parents, wish ing to have it buried here, had the body embalmed and kept tnere until such time as it could be moved. The body was taken to and kept at Wright's undertak ing parlors until Sunday at noon. The funeral was oonduoted from there and the burial was at Oheit- uut Hill Cemetery. Mrs. Malinda Wood, 77 years of age, died &t the home of A. L. Cozzens, 917 S. Main street, on Saturday morning, from aooute indigestion. She is survived by seven children, all of whom live in Salisbury except one son, Wal ter Wood, who is foreman in one of the departments of the cotton mill at Oooleemee. The funeral was held on. Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Chestnut Hill Baptist church bv Rev. J. M. Mc- Kenzie, and the interment was made in Chestnut Hill oemetery. Two deaths have been reported from Granite Quarry. On Wed nesday afternoon Vester, the 15-months-old ohild of Mr. and Mrs. John MorrisJ died at their home at that place after an illness of nearly a year. The funeral was held from Shiloh M7 E. church on inursday , morning, at 11 o'clock. The second death was that of i8B Ma"ie Ra,ney J501 . , ' . t rY ernoon at tne nome ot ner ratner, a. a. Kaney, trom the effects of tuberculosis. Miss Raney was about 28 years of age I j r r n o of the firm of Snider-eRaney Com pany, of this city . The funeral was held on Friday afternoon at St. Pauls' Lutheran church and the interment was at Faith . na may reasonably be expected 10 D0 permanent. Chapter V, covering cotton. woolen, silk and knitting mills. gives general conditions, and much detail information. Chapter VI, covering furniture factories, reports : The furniture manufacturing interests represent a quiet, but at the same time an important and substantial industry in the life of the State. While the supply of raw material is by no means a- cutely short, great inroads are be ing made on the timber lands that furnish this material, and it is a source of regret that, appar ently, no steps are being taken to preserve or provide a supply fo? use after the present supply has been exhausted . The . newspaper situation, as covered by Chapter VII, shows that in keeping with the advance in every other line tof business, the newspapers and institutional publications show an increase ft r the year of eight in number, and of 187.242 in circulation. The follows a list of papers, wi h names of editors, proprietors, cir culation, etc. Taken all in all, the publica tion represents a deal of crystal lized information, evidencing i lot of patient and careful work. Counterfeit Quarters In Circulation. While good money is scaroe, it is said that quite a lot of the bogus kind is being circulated in aud around the city. A package cm- taming seven spurious twenty-fiv-- cent pieces was picked up by Frank Bradshaw, a colored resi dent ef Dixonville, one of the col ored suburbs of the city on Thurs day. The coins were very good counterfeits and but for the lack of weight might be passed any where. Three of the coins bear the date of 1900, the others were 1907. A paper dollar, hot so well executed as the coins, is reported in circulation around tAwn. We in circulation around' town. We would warn all newsgaper men. boot-blacks and others who handle large sums of money to look at all bills carefully before taking them. Don! t shove it in the pocket in a careless way and discover later that you have been bit.