T 1
rowan jioufrrr's huances. -
CiBinitlM'&RpSliows $12,000 Bor
rowed and Only $ 1,062. 50Piid on Bonds.
he finance committee of Row
an consisting of Commissioners P.
B. Beard, W. P. Barber and W.
L Harris met one day last week
and Examined the books of county
treasurer J. R. Nicholas, finding
them in fine, shape. The books
show that Rowan has to its credit,
deposited in the different banks
oflhecity, $14,638 67.
The comity's money is said to
have been judiciously managed,
all bHlsJbeing met promptly. 'By
examination of the figures below,
however, it will be seen that not
withstanding the fact that the
county recently issued bonds to
the am iu nf $25,000, $12,000
has v 'ocr.'i borrowed from the"
sin ; .g fund ot ike countjr and
pi'- .in I railwiv accnu..t Another
imp .rta!i6'itm which is uut men
tioned, or eb dwiiiUK-d consider
ably, ib the great uuia' mad?, and
was so favorably commented upon,
as to that payment to be made on
certaiu bonds. It will be remem
bered just prior to the election a
statement waB in.de tha& some
$30,000 in cash was on hand and
that $15,000, or th reabouts, worth
of bonds was, to be paid for and
canceled. Now this statement is
severely Jquiet on this point, or
was all that noise over the one
little item of December 2nd, "By
amt. coupons and bonds paid
$1,062.50'?
We made a little effort to as
certain the facts in the matter.
One county official stated that the
bonds had not shown up yet, and
another said some had been paid
prior to the former statement,
just how prior we do not know,
probably some time as no such
item is remembered tn the last
statement. At any rate, taking
the statements as a guide, there
has been no bonds paid up. to
amount to anything. If the.
statement that $15,000 worth of
hoods, prior to the election, proves
a hoax, the people will not be so
easily deceived again and the
Democracy will have another hole
in her armor to patch. x
SCHOOL FUND.
Oct. 8. rp.amt. balance $7,533 64
Dec 2 Tj amt. reo. since 1,351.99
$8,905 63
Dec. 2. By amt. vouchers
paid 7,556.28
Dec. 2 To amt. balance $1,349.35
COUNTY FUND.
Sept. 2 By. amt, over
drawn
Deo. 2 By amt. county
vouchers paid
Deo. 2 By amt. poor
vouchers paid
52.63
4,974.80
420.77
$5,447.70
Dec. 2 To amt. reo.
Sept. 2nd
since
$5,860.47
5,447.70
Dec. 2 To amt. balance $412.77
KOAD FUND.
Sept. 2 Toamt. balance! ,698.92
Deo. 2 To amt. received
since Sept. 2nd 8,702.00
$10,400.92
Deo . 2 To amt. vouch
ers paid Sept, 2nd $9,405.95
-i
D3C. 2 To amt, balance $994.97
COUNTY AND SPECIAL RAILWAY
TOWNSHIP BONDS.
Sept. 2 To amt. bal. $24,939.08
Deo. 2 By amt. coupons
and bonds paid $1,062.50
Dec. 2 By amt. loaned
to oouuty fnnd 4,003.00
Dec. 2 By amt. loaned
to road fund
8,000.00 1
$13,062.50 !
Dec. 2 To amt. bal . $11,876.58
MONEY IN BANKS.
First National $2,436.85
Peoples National 6,903.84
Wachovia 1,243 64
Davis & Wiley 8,825.06
Cash and checks in office 224 23
$14,633 67
P. B. BEARD,
W. P. BARBER.
W. L. HARRIS,
finance committee.
The "Big Hog" Delano.
' With the ooming of cold weath
er will come the neighborhood
gossip that John Smith killed a
hog that dressed 450 pounds, or
Sam Jones killed one that dressed
475 pounds. ;
In the ordinary course of pork
making, with hogs that have not
been used for breeding purposes,
hogs of that size are no credit to
the intelligence of their owners .
The last hundred pounds made by
such hogs probably cost three
times as much as the first or .sec
ond hundred pounds and is al
most invariably made at a loss
If while the last 100 pounds Js
being made it is necessary to fur
nish feed to keep alive three or
four hundred pounds it will cer
tainly require more feed than if
only 100 pounds had to be sup
ported. No hog tor pork-making
has any business or right to live
for more than 10 months or a
years, or to weigh more than 225
to 800 pounds Raleigh (N. C.)
Progressive Farmer and Gazette.
Something Jost as Good
Can only be the case when it is
another Cottle of Dr. Bell's Piue-Tar-Honey.
Every bottle the
same. Look for the bell on the
bottle.
Rational Diversification.
No new orop should be planted
on a large scale, until a"few acres
have been grown for a year or
two, and the culture of the crop
learned.
It is safe to stick pretty closely
to the well known crops, corn,
oats, hay, sweet potatoes, and
such other crops as" there is a
ready market for and those we
know how i.to grow 'and for the
production of which experience
has proved the county is adapted.
New crops should be sought
and thoroughly tried, but only
small areas should be planted
until their r culture ' hasr been
learned and it has been demon
strated that they ca nbe profitable
produced. This can be done be
fore the arrival of the boll wee
vil so that when it becomes neces
sary to largely discontinue the
growing of cotton, which should
always be done for two or three
years after the appearance of the
weevils other tried crops, with
the culture of which we are fa
miliar, may be substituted. Ral
eigh (N.C.) Progressive Farmer
and Gazette .
Not (food
for everything. Sutherland's
Eagle Eye Salve is good for noth-
mg but the eyes. If you use it
and are not satisfied oome back
and get your 25c. You be the
judge.
The Value Of Good Literature.
To the man who has learned to
read, who has developed a taste
for good literature, who reads
thoughtfully and careful t v. for
instruction and inspiration as
well as for entertainment, all the
thoughts and dreams and achieve
ments of the wisest and best of
all the ages are offered for enjoy
ment and for possession. He
may make them his at his will.
The person who has not learned
to read and many who ar6 far
trom oeing illiterate nave never
learned what to read or how to
read misses more than he can
imaging loses a wondeifully large
part of the sweetness and beauty
that should belong to life. Rafr
eigh (N. C.) Progressive Farmer
and Gazette.
Wants To Help Some One,,
For thirty years J. F. Boyer, of
Fertile, Mo., needed help and
couldn't find it. That's why lie
wants to help some one now.
Suffering so long himself he feels
for all in distress from Backache
Nervousness, Loss of Appetite
Lassitude and K'dnev disorders
He shows that Electrio Bitters
Wrk wonders for snch troubles
"Five bottles," he writes, whol
ly cured me and now I am well
and hearty." It's also positively
guaranteed for Liver Trouble.
Dyspepsia, Blood Disorders. Fe
male Complaints and Malaria
I Try them.
50o at All Druggists.
PiCTRRE FILMS FIGHT TUBERCULOSIS
"The Red Cross Seat" Portrars interest
log Drama la a JUi Yorir TeneiseBt.
Moving picture theaters have
been listed in. the army of crusa-
pders fighting tuberculosis by sell
ing Red Gross Christmas Seals,
and on December 16th in all parts
of the United States a , film en
titled JThe Red Cross S?al" will
be exhibited for the first time, ac
cording to an announcement of
the National Association for the
Study and Prevention of Tubercu
losis. The picture drama has been pro
duced by the Edison Manufactur
ing Company in co-operation with
the National Association for the
Study ana Prevention of Tubercu
losis and the American "National
Red Cross. It portrays an inter
esting story of New York life, and
is besides filled with educational
scenes that show how tuberculosis
is contracted and how it may be
prevented and cured. The film is
1,000 feet long. The tuberculosis
workers in every state of the Uni
ted States are urging their local
theaters to exhibit the picture .
The plot of the story centers
aoout tne winning ot the prize
$100 for the best design for the
Red Cross Seal for 1910, by.Ellen
Williams, a poor girl of tbe tene
ments who makes her living by
deflating lampshades for very
meagie wages. She has applied
to the art school where Bhe longs
to take a course of study, but
find that the cost, $100, is too
much for her purse. A3 she turns
to leave .tne school, a young man
of wealth seas her in the office and
is struck by the pathos ot her
beauty aud disappointment. Tired
of his purposeless life, Jordan re
solves to see for himself "how the
other half lives. ' Dressed as an
-ordinary day laborer, therefore,
he rents a room in the same tene
ment with Ellen, and soon be
comes greatly attached to her. He
sees her struggle to win the $100
prize for the Red Cross oeal de
sign, and finally Bees her win it.
Then he sees her give up all the
ambitions of her life, when she
turns over the $100 to a , neighbor,
So that her consumptive boy might
have a chance to be cured at a
sanatorium .
Struck by the noble sacrifice,
Jorda'n unknown to Ellen, buys
the tenement, renovates the neigh
boring apartment,, enlists the co
operation of a district nurse, and
helps thus to restore the consump
tive to health and remove from
his family the danger and further
infection.
Thus, in the end, when Jordan
revral'3 to Ellen his identity, she
i;
finds in his proposal that she share
with him his palatial Fifth Ave
nue mansion, she has gained a
great love, a home, and the satis
faction of her. ambition, all be
cause of the Red Cross Saal.
Drain Arid Clean Off The Fields,
Oftbing9to be done this
fall
for
and winter in preparation
next year's crop, there is none
quite so important as drat laga.
It is true that all the land, may
not be drained, but if one hun
dred acres can not be drained this
winter, is that any rwason why
the ten acres which need it most
should not be drained? Or, if
not ten. tnen nve, or as much as
can be drained.
Tile drainage is the best, but if
that is n?t possible, is that any
good reason for neglecting the
drainage question entirely.
Over a large part of the South
there are ditches, gullies, galled
spots, stumps bushes and trees
which interfere with the use of
machinery, break the cultivated
lands up into patches and pre
vent economical cultivation .
Can not something be done this
winter to remove these obstruc
tions to gjod farming? Raleigh
(N. C.) Progressive Farmer aud
Gazette.
, Antiseptic Remedies
destroy disease. germs, Dr. Bell's
Anti-Pain is an antiseptic remedy
for external and internal pains, re
lief , is almost instantaneous. Sold
by all dealers .
- ' rr
. Rural Mfit In lanan.
So far as robse; vaf i4r8sI
have se9n nothing to. indicate I
th'at the rural population of Ja-
jpan is notnow as- hapy. as the
rural population in .meric, If
their possessions are fW,sq. are
their wants. In fact, Dr.-Jnichi
Soyeda, one of the. country 6 lead
ing men, in talking to me,ex-;
pressed a doubt as to whether the
new civilization of JapaiV will
really produce greater, average
happiness than the oljl rural se
clusion and isolatioal (a doubt,
however, which J. d not ap
prove). "Our farm, people," he
said, "are hard-working, frugal,
honest, cheerful, and-while hav
ing little, there is JHtie , actual j
want among them;' a greater , -
number than in rnost other coun
tries are home-owners1, and alto
gether, they form the backbone
of an Empire." He went in t5
give a noteworthy illustration of
the affectionr of the people- for
their home farms. " The Japan
ese," He" saidj'have a term of
contempt for the. 1, man who
sells an old homes tad. There
i3 no English word, equivalent
w it, but it mean's. ;aT seller
oi-hhf thft ftnCnatral land." and to sav
it of a man is almost equivalent
to feflecticg upon his character of !
honor I I wish that we might de- I
velcpe in the South such a spirit
cf affection for our farm homes.
O'arence Poe, in Raleigh (N. f
C ) Progressive Farmer and Ga
zitte. - v
Course In AgrlcuHore - ?
On January 4jh, a one week
corn course, and on Jauuary 11th,
1911, a seven-weeks course in ag-
rioulture will begin i4 .Rajeigh at
the A, and M. College .-These
courses are very instructive and
valuable and should ba taken ad-
vantage of by those who, wish to
ascertain the lat8st-and best
methods m farming
rca.
sary information may
be
obfcain-
ed by addressing D
H. Hill,
president, Raleigh, N
flake Up Your Own Mind
When in the nesd of a cough
medicine. If you buy Dr. Belt'B
Pin-Tar-Honey we 1 guarantee
you get the best.
Oar Greatest Trouble.
The lack of feed is, in the opin
ion of the writer, by far the great
est obstacle to successful live
stock growing in the South. Of
a i i . r t
course, tne quality oi our etocn is
not good, but no animal, it mat
. i i -i
ters not wnat nis oreeaiug in .y
te, can prove protitable without
feed and reasonable care. When
it is proposed to winter live stock
on the range (?) or to furnis!
them pastures 10 to 12 mo .ths in
the year, we know at once that
failure is assured. A few may be
able to coiue out with a profit on
that basis; but the maj rity. will
continue to fail aB thoy have 'in
past.
Winter pastures are helpfnl aud
will furnish much feed : hut the
man who expects to make a sue
cess of live stock production must
provide much stored feed for the
winter months. The cheapest of
these are the legumes, silage and
cottonseed meal and with these,
the winter pastures, and thelough
forage which may easily be pro
duced, our short winters should
not stand in the way of successful
live stock growing. Tait Batter,
in Raleigh (N. C.) Progressive
Farmer and Gazette.
Saved From Awful Death.
How an appalling calamity in
his family was prevented is told
by A. D. McDonald, of Fayette
villo, N. C , R. F, D. No. 8.
"My had consumption," he
writes, "she was very thin and
pale, had no appetite and seemed
to grow Wbaker every day, as all
"emedies failed till Dr. King's
New Discovery was tried, and so
completely ured her, that she
has not been troubled with a
cough since. Its the best medi
cine I ever saw or heard of.'V For
coughs, colds," lagrippe, asthma,
croup hemorrhages, all bronchial
troubles, it has no eaual. 50a:
$L00. Trial bottle free. Guaran
I teed by All Druggists.
SOME INTERESTING CORRESPQXDEKCET
C E. Mills Tells his Whole, Slanders
Others And Tbeo Turns About Fact. 7
, In view of past eyents and pres
ent cond itioni, having come a
cross fthe following - correspond
ence, we publish it merely for the
interest contained therein.' . Com
ments i wouldprove entirely super
fluous. '" fc
' WilksbSro, N. O.,
Nov. 17, 1910.
Mr. C. E. Mills Editor,
The Weekly Pioneer,
Salisbury, N. C,
Dear Sir : '
.1 notice that you have some-
thing to Bay occasionally in the
editorial columns of The Weekly
Pioneer in criticismtof me in ref
erence to the appointment otMr
W. H. Hobson as postmaster at
Salisbury. It was my intention
not -to notice what you said, but
you seem to want to keep, it up,
soI have decided to send you a
copy ofietter you wrote me. on
May 4th, 1910, strongly endors
ing Mr. Hobson'sKPPoinmeni
and at the same t time, expressing
yoar4opinion of those; who were
opposing him. I . have since
learned that you were expecting
the appointment as assistant
postmaster under Mr. Hobson at
the time you wrote this letter and
after you lost out and Mr. Dorton
was selected you-changed your
i position in the matter. This,
after all, is the only thing that
troubles you in regard to it, and
had you received the appointment
as assistant postmaster! latJSalis
bury you would have been su
premely happy and wouldn't have
thought that any other Republi
can in the district would have
had a right" to comnlain about
anything, that had been done.
CJ
, Read your letter again, Mr.
Mills, and see the difference be
fore and after taking, and learn
what manner of man you are.
Ypnrs truly, Chab. H. Cowles.
Salisbury, N, C.
May 4th 1910.
Charles H. Cowles,
Hon.
Washington, D. C.
My dear Sir: i
Had I knwn that you intend
ed receiving delegations on the
Post Office I would have availed
my 8el f of the opportunity to have
paid my respects to. you on the
acQonoii. but my idea was that
your visit was" mere of a private
nature. 1 beg to summit you-a
few comments and honeBtly criti
cisa some who had the boldness to
toake an appeal to a republican
in behalf of anything. It was my
pleasure to act as Judge of elec
tions in the South Ward last
November and . with no one but
Mr . Hobson to assist me on the
outside I made the handest fight
of my life. I was determined
that the Congressional and
County tickets should nave a
fair count. I handled every tick
et tht went into the box and
handled every one that came out
in the count incuring fairness.
So determined was the demooracy
to do Bomething that they chang
ed Poll Holders on me during the
progress of the voting and I know
how every man voted in County
and Congress affairs. The vote
of Mr. Blackburn cbmpaired with
yours buows. tne very splendid re
sults.
I am informed that a number of
citizens called called -upon you
upon your late visit here to
champion thejeause of Mr. Ram
say. It looks well for a man to
present his claims by bis fellow
citizens but it would very much
strengthen his position could he
induce members and working
men of the Republican party to
add their testimony to his be
half. Withdraw Mr. Ramsay,
Dorsett, Proctor and Graham
trom delegation land you
have before you the. meanest bal-
14. Knv-Knl !,. tha rinmn-
f L. . .. . , . .
pariiy can lay ciaim to.
Men who have acted towards and
done deeds .against the Repubh
nan nartv that would make the
T '
-rri xu: 1 J
jvu xvi Ui iu iiuais uaiuiyoa utb
v,i0K Kilr k .4fc
' Ten Things To Do This Month.
(1) Keep plows going wherever
lauds will not wash; plow deep,
especially on clay lands,' and fol
low-'with cover crops wherever
possible 1 ; . ' ;
(2) Drain wet lands; make ter
races and . ditches, if you must
have them, so that Jthey can be
worked lover: get out stumps,,
brushes; and stones ; repair fences
and outbuildings. ,
(8) Lay out your work far next
year, planting crops with special
referenoe to the building up of
soilfertility.
(4) See that all farm animals
are well housed, that they are fed
on the feed they need, and that
they are kept comfortable.
(5) Haul out manure as made,
it possible; buckle down to the
study of fertilizing problems and
tea u you cant get more for your
fertilizer money next year.
(6) Kill the hogs as soon as
they become fat and the weather
admits; it doesn't pay to keep a
pig after he has, reached the
"killing stage."
(7) Get catalogues from the im
plement makers and study up on
farm machinery ; try - to arrange
to do cheaper work next year.
(8) Keep an eye on your school;
co-operate with the teacher ; help
and enoourage the children in ev
ery way you can,
(9) Plan a reading course for
the winter evenings, one which
will be helpful to 'you and in
whioh the whole family can be
come interested.
fiO) Get ready for Christmas;
don't make it a time of self-in-
dulgenoe or of-reckless spending,
Dut aimeor gladness tor tne
little folka and of good-will to
all men. Raleigh (N, C . ) -Pro
gressive Farmer and Gazette .-
existed and they failed to inherit
them. ,
As to .Mr.- I saw him
vote, handled his ticket, he, voted
for yon. purely, put of antagonism
to Thos. Vanderford and prohibi
tion. He scratched one or two
men on the county ticket and vot
ed the straight Democratic ticket,
and he will vote for Murphy as
sure as he ruus, or for any other
Democrat that is ' not an avowed
Prohibitionist. Mr. ( )
anotner ot your callers, 1 am
afraid I will fail to find language
to fully illustrate thekind of Dem
ocrat he is, who would stoop to
any tnmK that would deiame or
injure the Republicans, fully cap
able ot maxing tne basest asser
tions and endeavoring to instill in
the pnblio mind such bitterness as
mizht not only lead cnem to en
dorse his oontempt for us but urge
them to do violence to Republi
cans personally. Several good
men on our late ticket could veri
fy what I say by his scurrilous at
tacks on them. Now every .man
that was in the delegation that
called upon you in Mr. Ramsay's
behalf bear the same ear mark as
and not one of them will vote
for you in the coming election, but
will use every effort to defeat you,
honestly if they can, dishonestly
if they must. I -hope that they
have not lead you to think you
can claim their friendship. The
Democracy, have encountered
m- tl? 1 1
a solid i&epuouoan, coiumn . op-
I posed to the re-appointment
ot Mr. Ramsay and-they have
found out tnat tne claim oi
the Republicans to name a post
master is an earnest one . . The
Demooraoy have enjoyed this
pleasure for a long time and thy
are making this U rand btand play
to mislead you if possible to think
the County is lost it a, change, is
made. No use to shed teat? at
Mr; Ramsay's going out, he is not
old. he has been there for twenty
two years and has grown fat in
the office . The claim made by
Mr. Ramsay's friends tnat Mr.
Hobson is too young is amusing
when we come to think that Mr.
Ramsay went in office younger
than Mr. Hobson. Well Sir the
matter is for you to settle and I
hope that you wili cautiously con
sider the appeal, made to you by
the united Republican party in
Kohlf of Mr. Hobson. then com-
wwmv- - '
OIT8 WHn DUttl- Kivou iui. xkiui-
iay by h r Democratic all ieB 1 he
- mant ig now ended. Y m are
I tue iuiv, the final charge has been
- made .and your friends await your
I decision
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- oigueo; v. nt
ELI WHITNEY.
Some cf thereat Results from His Inten
tion of the Cotton 6lo.
-
Eli Whitney, inventor of the
cotten gin, was born 145 yearr
ago Thursday (December 8th) at
Westborough, Worcester County,
Massachusetts.
No single American has done
more to makehis country com
meroially eminent and prosper
ous . In civilizing influence, no
achievement wrought by the in
genuity of man through all the
ages hasr been marked by such
useful results to the wosld he en
riched by his . discovery - or the
country to whose fame his genius
has' given enduring prestige.
More wonderful'than the wisard-
ry of an alchemist or the sorcery
of a master of legerdemain is the
of the evolution of the cotton
industry, to whioh Whitney story
gave life and vitality .TUp to 1793
when Whitney evolved his gin, bo
little cotton was raised , in the
states south of Mason and Dix
on's line that the British Cus
toms' pfncials, thinking they weru
being deceived by fajse invoices,
seized the first eight bales of it
entering Liverpool from this
country iu 1784 on the ground
that such a quantity could not
have been raised here in a single
year.
In the 117 years since. $16,000,-
000,000 worth of cotton has been
exported from this country. In
the face of his it is difficult to
conceive that there was a time
when we grew so little of that
now indisnensible stanle that its
appftrance in a foreign .mftrket
exclted auSDioiori. - But for cot-
ttu cu4.m k
debtor instead of a creditor na
tion. To-Whitney and , his gin
it owes the fact that it has had
$7,000,000,000 thebest of it in
the international balance of trade
in the last 100 years.
All that Uacle Sam now needs
to complete his absolute domina
tion o the textile field of the
world is control of the linen in-
dustry,
which he has set about
resting from England. Al
though the largest producer of
flax,, paradoxical as it may sem,
the United States, up t some
years ago, used not a poui d of it
to make linen. Millions of tonB
of straw after yielding its seeds
have befell burned up as v iste on
the f arms of weft as they used to
do with cotton before Whitney
conceived his gin. As Whituey
showed the way for the commer-.
cial utilization of cotton v ith his
gin, so did Mndge with hi Oxford
proceBsess make available for
manufacture of American, linen
the once valueless flax str ; v. In
what these two ingenius Ameri
cans have accomplished ia their
respective spheres tbeio is a
striking analogy. With his gin,
Whitney performed the w rk of a
thousand men ; with hie secret
processess Mndge made it possi
ble to accomplish her in two
dayB what required fro:r. twenty
to thirty weekB to effect .abroad.
Both men were revoluf nists in
that they set at nai..;'U the
traditions of the field in which
they worked and laid the i inda-
tion for new native industries,
for which their country : d pos
terity must ever be their U' :or.
A Splendid Almanac.
The Turner-Enniss N-rt:
lina Almanac for 1911 har
r. aro-
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this office and as is alv ; y i the
ease with this 'publication, it is
exceedingly welcome. It. 1- per
fectly reliable and is tho and
ard. For S9ve'iity-four yars it
has been getting better : J bet
ter; it is of unquestiona' W value
to every one, and give - tisfac
tion to everybody. Price 10 - jnts.
Enniss Publishing Co., K !igh,
N.C.
v It goes to the root of ilease,
strengthens and in vigors t a Its
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