North Carolina Newspapers

I rsvi ksknrf jnA. : ':t?f?,:z,. l r - ; v. A Home Newspaper Published in the Interest of the reopie and for Honesty in Governmental Affairs. Vol. VI. No. 23. Salisbury, N, O. Wednesday, May 25th, 1910. Wm. h. Stewart, Editor. eJfe- " ''1' ' ' TWr watetimiiio km ;1 ' OUR NEIGHBOR TOWNS AND COUNTIES. Mailers of Interest Clipped and Prepared . From Exchanges for Our Readers. Albemarle and Stanly County. Stanly Enterprise, May Htta. The closing of Norwood High School will be celebrated to-night and to-morrow night with inter esting programs. John I. Kirk, 6 miles east of Albemarle, suffered a bad accident a few days ago while working at a saw mill, narrowly averting death by being thrown against the saw . His foot was badly cat and bruis ed, and Mr. Kirk has been laid up for several days. Our people are having their first experience with electric lights and paying light bills, so far as the town of Albemarle is con cerned, and it is natural that all sorts of - misunderstan dings are broadcast. The town has spent some $7,000 or more of the recent bond issue to put in the plant. The expeniiture of this money and the work incident thereto were directed by th6 regu lar board of aldermen and the ad visory committee which was ap pointed to act in conjunction with the board. Eleven arc lights and 52 tungsten lamps are distributed over the town, and an electrician who understands line work and caring for a lighting plant is now in charge. Several of our citizens have placed in fixtures and began using lights from the start. At present there is a monthly charge of 10 cents for eaoh lamp or drop, and these determine the mini mum charge per month. For in stance, 10 lamps are installed ; at 10 cents each, the minimum charge per month will be $1.00. The consumer pays at the rate of 15,cent8 per 1,000 watts until $1 00 worth of elestricity is meas ured off, when the rate becomes just half, of 7o per 1,000 watts', or for each hour. Rev. George H . Crowell joined his wife here Tuesday, and they will spend several days with rela tives before visiting at High Point and other places in the State. Dr. Crowell is a brother of cur towns man R. A. Crowell, . He was the sucesBful head of the High Point Graded school for a number of years, leaving a year ago for Okla homa City, to become dean of the Methodist College there. He was recently elected president of tbe Oklahoma City College for Wo men, at a salary approaching $4,000. It is with peculiar pleas ure we refer to the success achiev ed by young men who go out from ths county. Rev. Crowell stop ped in Salisbury, one day last week. He is well known here. Ed. Watchman. LEXINGTON AND DAVIDSON COUNTY. Lexington Dispatch. May lfsth. Charlie Patterson, colored, of Spencer, has brought suit against the Southern railway in this coun ty for $2,000 damages for personal 'injuries The new Dacotah cotton mill is now operating 160 of its 240 looms and the remainder of the machin ery is being placed in readiness for work. Beautiful plaids are made by the thousands of yards. The mill is a model in all respects f.loftn airv. well-built and W I J equipped with the latest machin ery which is operated by Southern Power Company electricity. There were 152 Confederate vet erans at the reunion last W9ek, at least that many ate dinner ; there might have beeen others. Mr. Shaw, of the Star moving picturet m -k - 1 sh jw, very courteously and Kindly invited the old gentlemen to see the pictures, which they appre ciated highly. At the meeting of the veterans in the court house but three deaths were reported during the year, and th's is plain ly not correct. Salisbury did her simple duty in votiDg a special tax for nhr.nl last week. Had she done otherwise sho would have been moat untrue to herself and the hundreds of children whose lives would have been adversely affect ed by defeat of the tax . In these days' no intelligent community can afford to hang back when the cause of education calls for help. We might add that no intelligent community will. J. H. Eller, who was arrested some weeks ago in Spencer for taking off a horse and buggy be longing to J. F, Hedrick, and who was placed in Rowan jail,' was brought here Monday afternoon by Deputy Sheriff F. S, Sink, and placed in jail. The charge against him haB been changed to cruelty to animals. He secured the team to go a few miles out in the coun try, and kept on till he got to Spencer. But for him the jail would be empty, as it has been for some time. That the subsoil of this section, the reddest of red dirt, will pro duce without fertilizer or other addition to it, has been demon started here in town where a yard was leveled up with the dirt that was left over when the sewer ditches were filled. A workman by misunderstandu g sowed blue grass seed in the plain dirt as taken from a depth of from five to 15 feet under the surface, and to the surprise of his employer, a rank growth followed and to-day there is as pretty a stand of blue grass as can be found. Indeed, it is a much better stand than on another section of the same prop erty where the grass was put in on a fertilized soil. Engine No. 100 with a string of ten flat cars is the first South bound train. It arrived Thursday via Greensboro from Roanoke and went to work on the tracks laid south of the Southern crosiing, where there are, counting side tracks, now two miles of road. This week everything will be in readiness for laying track toward Fairmont and a force of 100 'men will put down a good deal of rail erch day. Supt.A. W. Johnson has been here in charge of the op erations. Work on the under ground crossing of the Southern and Southbound is going on. This is a vary eostly piece of con struction, and the masonry alone will cost $60,000. For 10 days the moBt absorbing topic has been the post.office ques tion and the citizens have been busy speculating as to the name of the aspirant who will win the ap pointment . So far as known the 3 men who stand nearest the plum are Victor Humphreys, Postmas ter J. G. Waiser and T. E. Mc Crary, although the only applica tions that have been filed are those of Messrs. Humphreys and Waiser. Mr. Humphreys n a democrat but he has the backing of the secretary of the navy. Mr. Meyer, who likes our townsman so well that he iB willing to lay aside political differences and make Mr. Humphreys postmaster. At first few had any idea the de mocrat would come within a mile of the appointment, regarded hiB candidacy as a joke and laughed about it. All such have had rea son to change their opinion. Mr. Humphrey's "pull" is stout. He and Mr. Meyer hunted quail to gether for several seasons ppet, and Mr. Meyer iB bringing his great influence to bear on the powers that be. So good are the chances of the democrat that there are crave misgivings among the republicans and whether Mr HumDhrevs lands or not. he has certainly made the G. O. P. in this neck of the woods sit up and take close notice. He haB a powerful local backing, having received endorsements from a great many of the people of the town . CONCORD AND CABARRUS COUNT! . Concord Times, May 19. A Teachers' Institute continu ing for two weeks will be held in this oounty during the month of August. It will most likely be gin on the third Monday. Although Congressman Cowles was ienominated at Wilkesboro Tuesday with an outward show of enthusiasm, it is well known that there is great disaffection in the ranks of the faithful. He has played some mighty poor politics and the rows he has stirred up in Rowan and Iredell will affect his vote not only in these oounties but all over the district, and in saying this we make due allowance for the proverbial abhesiveness cf the Repuhlican mass of voters LEXINGTON AND DAVIE COUNTY. Cooleemee Journal. Work on the knitting mill is going- forward The mill when completed will be a boon to the community giving employment to a number ef hands. The fact that contract has been let by the board of Trustees of Churchland High School for a dormitory to be erected during the summer with accomodation for one hundred students assures a still greater enrollment and de velopment of this useful and pop ular institution. The Church- land people believe in eduoation and are not afraid to go down in their jeana for the sake of it, Last Thursday night Herbert Hunse, one of the best behaved boys in Cooleemee, while return ing to his home, was struck on the top of the head by a rock, hurled through the darkness by a hidden miscreant. The boy was dazed and a t first feared to be seri ously injured . He staggered to the home of .Henry Pnce on Duke St. and Dr. Byerly was summoned The wound was only a flesh cut, and after attention Hunse was able to walk home. The affair created some excitement and some detective work was at once insti tuted, and Friday morning four culprits were brought before Judge Blount s bar of justice, and given five dollars each and costs, the whole aggregation some $8.85 each . Contractor D. K. Cecil, of Lex ington, hat secured a contract in Mocksville to build aWck block in which there will be a store, the postoffioe, a bank, on the first floor, and a Masonic hall on the eecond. The Drice is about $8,000 and work is to commence as soon - r as the building now on the site can be demolished. B. F. Aus band has the contract for fitting the building for electricity' and gas. Insurgentism seems to be get ting close home. Saturday when it became neccessary for the radi cals of Woodleaf to hold a town ship primary, a certain" element of the local rads of the said town ship who had been visited,. twice during the week by a trickster and an insurgent from the county seat, sat themselves up to pass resolutions den cuncing the Taft administration and especially their Congressman, the Hon. Charles H. Cowles. But on the very eve of that noted meeting that ever viligant loyal and able C. F. Swicegood caught on to the treacherous game and appeared upon the scene with a host of his loyal friends aud did upon thn spur of the movement meet and fully overthrow this whole treach erous scheme so overwhelming that the word insurgentism passed with tha twinkle of an eye into utter insignincance. Don't Hurt the Toad. "The toad never hurt anybody organything and there is not the semblance of a good excuse for ever hurting it. Children should be taught to spare the toad." Below the above oJipping taken fron Oar Dumb Animals was the picture of a toad. The name given to the picture was "The Gardener's Friend." Here is a lesson mothers should use in teaching their boys. An Ideal Husband is patient, even with a nagging wife, f DriUerxnows she needs help. Sho mav ho so nervous and run down in heal? that trifles annoy her. 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"All who knew him.experienced a distinct shock Thursday when word was passed thai Capt. Milt L, Jones was deadMn Thorn ai ville. HewasoneLvof the most prominent men in the county and stood unique in alf tie state be cause of his amazingftchievements in the industrial nd business world, a man the county could ill afford to lose, 1, Double pneumonia of rapid de velopment caused his death at the Thomasville hotel-aout 5 o'clock Thursday morning. , A few days before he was exposed to a rain during an automobile . trip to Greensboro with ia party of r. riends, one lung became congest ed and then both, and although everything that medical science could do for him was done, it availed nothing, and he proved a swift victim to the dread disease. Captain Jones was bnrn in Guil ord county April $Qlh; 1852. He spent his school dajsrworking in a mine at 50 cents, day and for years afterward he.ffknew nothing more than what tV&'rbugh life of a day laborer in 'amine offers. Without ednoatioa or. training of any Kind whatsoever, from the depths of poverty ,ne finally rose and became a pctTjr,in the devel opment of this county by build ing a railroad from Thomasville to Denton, 20 miles, that opened up to a shut-off country a world of opportunity. The secret of his success and triumph over insuperable difficul ties was his keen native common sense and quick judgment, the boundless energy and iron deter mination of him. He may not have been a hero to those nearest hi ii, but he was of the clay of nhich those men are made who do things in this busy world of ours, and the people frcm Thom asville to Denton ought to erest a monument for him at Denton, for he did more for them and that whole section of the state than any other man ever has or ever wilt do for them. ' "Rough, caring not a snap of his finger for the little things that many worship, he met rich men in their swell offices north without collar or tie, and dealt with them on the same level. The keen eyes flashed supreme confi dence acd fear of no man And no man could be more generous and kind when occasion called for it. He was possessed of a keen sense of humor and knew human nature as very few men know it. He was such a man as one liked, whatever his faults may have been. He was no double-dealer. When he spoke, he meant what he said and said what he meant, and when he started anywhere, he got there. He was a very remarkable man, and we wish we might do him full justice. "Capt. Jones made a mint of mpney out of the Iola gold mine in Montgomery county, and this with hiB railroad and othr hold ings made him a rich man. What his estate is woith is not known He had an elegant home in Den ton and was planning railroad shops for the town and an exten sion of his railroad on to the south. He was right in the midst of a fruitful and successful career when the summons came. "Captain Jones was twice mar ried, and his wife, three sons and one daughter survive him. The funeral and burial was at Fair Grove Friday. A large number of people attended the services. Lexington Dispatch. Pine Tar and Honef Have been used for generations in treating coughs. Dr. Bell's Pine Tar-Honey contains both oombin ed with other valuable inere dients. Look for the bell on the bottle. Be sure you get Dr. Bell's. A BLIND SCOUNDREL JAILED. Prof. J. M, Massey Finally Got Bold Enough to Attract Official Notice. About one year ago we printed some ciiculars for the Rev. Prof. J. M. Massey, a blind man who was going about the country giv ing a kind of relio, humorous, pic ture and mussical nuisance, call ed an entertainment. Failing to pay up promptly and owing to his infirmity, we agreed to wait a while on him, .but being put off indefinitely and finally ignored, just like all thieves do, we say thief with full realization of the words meaning, because he who fails to pay any hoaest bill, or obtains something for nothing without the owners knowledge and consent, is a thief, so, we began to investi gate This investigation has led us from one town to another, both in this State and Virginia, always leading us to information pointing out a thief and scoun drel. This was unpleasant infor mation and it is upleasant to make public, but in a measure some relief. We are glad to note his arrest and incarceration. May he get all that is coming to him in the way of justice. The Monroe Enquirer tells the story of his latest enterprise as follows: Prof. J. M. Massey, a blind mu sician who has bean living here for several years and giving entertainments at different places is in jail in Hender son, N. C, charged with obtain ing money upon worthless checks. Massay is wanted here for that same thing he is being held in Henderson About two months ago Massey passed a number of worthless checks on merchants here. His trick was to draw a check on some out-of-town lank, the banks at Jefferson and at Pageland, S. C, being his fa vorites, mffke the checks payable to himself and sign some fictici ous name to them. He would take some well known surname in the section in which the bank is located and put any old initials to that name, make the check payable two weeks or ten days from the time he presented it to a merchant, put up a hard luck story about needing money. We learn that Massey get about $300 in this way . After Massey got the worthless checks cashed he left town. Chief of Police Laney, learning that Massey was in Vir ginia "put a tracer after him," but was unable to locate him until yesterday when he received a letter from the ohief of police in Henderson stating that Mas sey was in jail in that town on a charge of obtaining money upon worthless checks. Mr. Laney wired the officer in Henderson to hold Massey. Of course Massey got some one to fill out the bogus checks, and that will call for more talk. A Regular Tom Boy was Susie ciimoing trees and feuces, jumping ditches, whitling, always getting scratches, cuts, sprains, bruises, bumps, burnB 6r scalds. Bat laws I Her motner just applied Bucklen's Arnica Salve and cured her quick . Heals everything healable Boils, ul cers, Eczema, old Sores, Corns or Piles, Try it. 25o at all Drug gists. New Odd Fellow Officers. The state Odd Fellows in their meeting at Goldsboro eleoted the following officers: ex-Congressman R.N. Hackett, grand mas ter; W. H. Overton, deputy grand ; P. H . Williams and Per rin Bu6bee, grand representatives ; Charles Dewey, grand warden. Winsston-Salem was chosen as the next place of meeting. The Ja- cobi memorial building on the orphanage grounds was received, it is in memory of Nathaniel Jacobi, of Wilmington, who was the father of the Odd Fellows orphanage at Goldsboro. Dr. Bell's Antiseptic Salie Is guaranteed for tetter, ring worm, eczema, chapped hands and lips, running soreB, ulcers and in fact all skin diseases. Good to use after shaving. 25c a box. 1 CHAMP CLARK ASSAILS THE REPUBLICANS Asserts That He Looks Forward to ths Next Election Day With Joy. Washington, May 22. Special. Ihe Payne-Aldrich-Smoot tariff revision was upward 1 It was upward by approximate ly 1.71 per cent I It has already resulted in in creased prices all along the line I Thus did Champ Clark of Mis souri, loader of the Demoorats in the House of Representatives. thunder his reply to the speeches of President Taft and other Re publican leaders who have at tempted to feed the public on the assertion that the Payne-Aldrich bill "was the best tariff bill" ever passed, Mr. Clark's speech had been carefully prepared. It was a complete and effective answer to the countless bald misrepresenta tions that have been manufactur ed by the Republicans, who are desperately iu need of campaign material of any sort for use in the approaching Congressional elec tions. The Minority Leader denounoed the proposed appropriation of $250,000 of the people's money for the purpose of enabling the Republicans to gather data with which to prove that the new tariff law is a God-send to the country. He denounced the jo'ker in the sugat schedule. He deplored a condition which permits the steel trust and other monopolies to sell their manufactured products cheaper to foreigners than to Americans, Iu short, Mr. Clark's speech will go down as one of the great Democratic keynotes of this session of Congress . "It is true," admitted Mr. Clark "that we reduced the duty on lumber, and that the lumber trust marked un the nrice of K lumber $1 per thousand feet be fore the last of us got out of Washington. And if tne depart ment of justice had done its duty' it would by this time have filled the jails so full of lumber trust magnates that their arms and legs would stick out at the win dows and the doors. "Mr. Payne, the Kepubhcan leader, says that he and his cohorts will meet us in November. Glory be I glory bel I never look ed forward to any day with such joy as I do the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November ex cept to my wedding day and .the dayB on which my children were born. "My Democratic brethren, at last, after hard trials and great tribulations, thank God we stand here shoulder to shoulder, heart to heart, solid as a stone wall, inspir ed by the hopes of coming victory. Democrats are getting together eveaywhere, while the Republican party presents to the astonished gaze of men the appearance of a dissolving view. "Oh yes, my Republican friends you will meet us in November, because you cannot help your selves. And when von do meet ub in November you will receive the bloodest licking you have had since 1892. "Up. guards, and at ir J them!" Although the colossal sum of $5,000,800 is being spent annually by the government for the main tenance of soldiers' homes, the Republicans are forcing the old soldiers of the nation to subsist on from 11 to 14 cents worth of food per day. An inspector of the war depart ment reported that the food in the soldiers homes was no more in quantity than that supplied tie prisoners in the federal peniten tiaries. An idea of the wasteful methods employed in conducting the homes may be had from the fact that although the cost of maintenance more than doubled in the 10 years between 1898 and 1908, and num ber of soldiers cared for had in creased but 7 per cent. "Let your imagination spread this outlay of 14 oents over a day's food supply," suggested Repre sentative Cox of Ohio, "and you have an accurate picture of how the nation's heroes are beisgJ ed. Observe the evening meal, and you will appreciate what it was that moved Inspector Brewster to pity, and inspired his recommen dation that there be at least a bowl of milk added to the scant evening fare." Frederick M . Kerby, the young interior department stenographer who was dismissed because he ad mitted that Oscar Lawler. an ap pointee of Ballinger, had prac tically dictated President Taft's letter exonerating Ballinger, was the sole support of a mother, wife and babe. He had worked hard, and conscientiously for five years to reach the position he occupied when dismissed. Kerby was positive he would be discharged if fie told his story. ue thought the matter over care folly for several weeks. "I concluded that any allegi ance I owed Mr. Ballinger," said Kerby, "wasancelled absolutely' when, by his silenoe, he became a party to an attempt to smother the truth." By. making his exposures Kerbv was probably treacherous to Bal linger and Ballinger's plans for turning over Alaska coal lands to the Morgan-Gnggenheim I syndi- oate. But it is diflfanlt tn A how he was treacherous to the public in whose service he was employed. ' "The new rates and classifica tions in the cotton schedald," says Senator Dolliver, repnbli- can, "operate to increase duties very materially on most cotton cloths used for womens and chil uren's summer wear, and on all mercerized cottons. In faot, the Aldrioh revision of this schedule was one of the most daringly in- lquitos features of the new tariff. The production of agricultural im plements is lorgelyin the hands of a trust, and the trifling reduc tion of 5 per cent on these pro ducts was merely for the purpose of attempting to fool the farming vuuiuiuui.jf . In his speech on the tariff Champ Clark declared that if President Taft hadj vetoed the Payne-Aldrich-Smoot tariff bill, he could have written his name among the country's greatest benefactors, "But he let the golden opportunity go by unim proved," added the minoritv leader, "and it will never return , to him as long as the grass grows or water runs." Anmmnniln (' 25c Is i Scall Acoust Yon would not suffer one day for five times that amount. Then try Sutherland's Eagle Eye Salve. We guarantee it to cure. ItV painless an4 harmless. Seven Bishops Elected. The General Conference of the M. E. church, South, in session at Asheville, elected the following as bishops. Rev. J. 0. Kilgo, North Caro lina; Rev. Collins Denny. Mary land; Rev. W. B. Murray, Mis sissippi; Rev. E. D. Mouzon. Texas; Rev. W. R. Lambeth. Tennessee; Rev. R. G. Water- house, Virginia; Bev, J. M'Coy, Alabama. Dr. Thos. N. Ivey, of Raleigh, was elected editor of the general conference organ published at Nashville, Tenn. State of Ohio, of Toledo, ) Lucas County. v ss. Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is senior partner of the, firm of F. J. Cheney & Co , doing business in the City of Toledo,1 County and State aforesaid, and, that said firm will pay the sum of One Huhdbbd Dollabs for each: and every case of Catarrh that cinnot be cured by the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure. Fbake J. Ohxnst. Sworn to before me and sub scribed in my presence, this 6th day of Decembor, A. D. 1886. (Seal) A. W. 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