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V V i READ FOR PROFIT IMPOSTS PENNY ADS tt-ttt TrrtVSt FOR RESULTS ': FAIR TONIGHT AND . THURSDAY. T1 EVENING POST THREE ' - " : ; MONTHS FOR ONLY $1.00 ' (DAIill E VOL. 9. NO. 201. 1 Z SALISBURY. NORTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER Z, 1911 PRICE TWO CENTS ' , . , . , . r A GREATl CELEBRATION I OF LABOR DAY HERE! Spencer Did th Thing Biggest Pulling Off th the Southern lates the Celebrati and Proud in tie onster tion Some ofjthe Events Briefly Told. With the possi L exception of country the Spencer states. Both in point : tion eclisped anythife in several states f latter. the celebration of 1 interest and one th shout and will in North Carolina Taking conside t of the can be safely said as the in Salisbury-Spencei with people, and ma back The exact number vw passii along ing die day and nidt will never be back it as a record the arrival of the leaking irade, thousands great and would hav swelled the gathering to k staggering whole. The people begi ltd arrive earlv North and South, thYadkin and the loads of visitors, amine automobiles while the Httcks and je buggies began unloading their human freight with the earlier hours of e morning and kept it up for many hours. The parade, whi will be dealt with elsewhe, formed promptly on time, and marched tlough a perfect sea of peojit to Spencer. Winding its way through thitlense gathering of expects humanity the parade ended at the Spencertark and was there greeted fey a mass of humanity which filled the stree and oxerflowed into side stlpets, while from build ings and vehicle albr the street there were nkny thousands more standing shouting we me to the working men or. parade. Intermingled with the great force: if lalor were the merchant with their floats and displays and many hi :lreds of private vehicles, au ing a side interest to the monster display j laboring men. Each secti n of men received a cheer. As a favorite pproached a gathering of pn pie there was an out burst of approving cfenng. ,'. '.'Reaching the groL made lively ! the crying of husky Heed salesmen, j individual' members ok went to . surrounding the grandtand. ; ' Chairman Burton lade a brief ) bowed heads while MfThomas offered prayer. Mr. Burton then intro 'dueed Mayor Woodsowho spoke briefly to the crowfl paying tribute to !!the day, and the ocean. Following Mr. Woodson ! ayor Theiling, of Spencer,, spoke and e ided a cordial welcome to tt visitors. Speech 1 making was not a part' the day's program, said Cha; man Bufton. The management had preps 1 a splendid program of event for both morning and afternoon, as wells night and the long set spet :hes were for 'he day dispensed with. T mayors of the two cities maci short and appro priate talks. I The Parade. Early in "the morninj hose who were to participate in th arade be gan to get in readiness a numerous floats, uniformed men, appara tus and bands were beinj ted up on Main street south from k street. Chairman Burton had an need that tie parade would move ortne and it', vrtis not five minutes aa the ap-j uointed hour, 9:30, ble Chief j Marshal VunCannon gauhe com- j Aiand to move, and Assistl Marshal DonovanLled the way orlprancing steed. When, th commari as given there were. 10,000 or mor ?ople as sembled on Main street m Bank to the Western, railroad riew the pageant. , The Salisbury d under Director Proctor headed proces sion and th red coated mi ans pre sented a fine picture as th ept Step to their own music. Close ind this tand was an automobile itaining the two handsome young f execu tives of the twin-cities, ftr Wal , ier H. Woodson, of Salijy, and s Mayor . )& Theilinft Spencer. With thertrode Chairman H. Bur k on of .the celebration con tee and - one' of the three lpen. wr ere the fuiding spirits of the bij r. Then came carriages containing board o aldermen and city als 'of Salisbury, followed by om taining ex-mayors W. C. Cougher and A. H. Boyden. ' The next care con i 4 tained SecreUry J. M. Ellibsistant i VSecreUry C. W. Crowell Treas- " ifirer J. D. Carroll, of the br Day Hjcommittee, all of the celtfion of- ficials being attired in spo white. v Following these came tVarloug labor organizations, the firj which was the Railway Carmen, le head of their section was a hugi tilated hnt car. complete in evl detail, even to the air brakes and ks, and .Ms was loaded with wnelons which were enjoyed by thtmbers at the close of th parade, rching behind this float came the nen, a hundred or more strong, a inding bp their section was a mi re but perfect engine cab.v Thes wore i Up in Great Shape,1 Thing of the Kind in Large Crowd Attended; Spencer Did Herself Labor Day Celebra- one ,r two of the larger cities of the' aborltay celebration was the biggest in the Southern : j and in general interest the Spencer celebra- kind ever undertaken in this state, and' i may be said with all safety that , . . . . . i vine s lactones, ine paraue proi-eea-here yesterday was an event of state wide , , ... . .. , lV, J ' A fpnin In. HnuntAutn oopr inn In tnt go down in history of celebrations crowd of folks here on Monday it biggest in point of number ever seen j were seven blocks of Main street lined into Bank, Fisher, Council and Liberty, i streets of Salisbury and Spencer dur known, but the POST is willing to J one. Again the cr$wd at spencer waiting tor who did 'not reach Salisbury, was in the day.l The earliest trains from first from iie Western brought train unloaded nfeny thousands of others, by the chatt of happy folks and the parade w it to pieces and the swell the crowd lich filled the park announcement ikd the great crowd white hats and blue shirts, men came the Southern Railway Equipment Painters wearing vhite pants, blue ties and whitefelt hats, also white shirts. They had a float on which was a big line man of the lines and territory covered iy the Southern. The noisy boilermaters came next and at the head of (jhis section wag a float on which wasj a .boiler. There were the rivet heaters and the big brawny fellows wii great sledge hammers pounding iay for dear life. These men wore black pants and ties and white shirts and hats. Their com ing was announced tpng before their arivel by clang, dang, dang, clang of their music. This completed the nrst envision oi tne Dig procession. Then came the second division headed by the crackj Artillery Band under Director Lassiier, all wearing pure white uniforms, This is one of the best musical organisations in the State and they enlivened the route with their splendid music. Just behind them came a bunch of clowns, Lattired in an manner or ridiculous p i . . . . t apparei unu tuning up every imagin able dido. Then came lady and men riders. The nex was Piedmont' Lodge of Machinists .with, a' floa$ on which was a lathe and other machinery in full operation. There were nearly a hundred these splendid fellows and they were uniformed in black pants, white shirts and hats and black ties, and had lines of vari colored , baby ribbon stretched along their line. Riding in automobiles with appro prite banners came the pipe litters and tinner next, and right behind ' them was the largest man in the pa. rode, a big fat clown. The Local Bar bers International .Union No,. 485 came next in a prettily decorated float.; Following were 'a number of decorated buggies and carriages, and then the Community Boys carrying banners with :, appropriate inscrip tions." The merchants and manufac turers floats followed," the first of which was, the big. ; auto truck of Overman A Co, beautifully decorated in white and containing a bevy of (Continued on page 6.) is President Wilson Started the Wheel i Moving by Sending Wireless Mess age Thousands of Persons Pros-1 ent. 1 Knoxville, Tenn., Sept. 1. The Irst' National Conservation Exposition j wan formally opened here today, pr- j ganized labor joined with exposition) officials in the day's program, which! included a celebration both of Labor j Pay and of the opening of the exposi tion. A pageant in which thousands of Persons Palpated was tne opening , ho 0.uihitw1 at ,h vnA sition grounds were carried through the streets on large floats, followed by hundreds of members of labor un- - 1 . 1 1 1 I V- on" , J oln"8 pioye ' .- I exposition grounds. I President Wilson, through a wire- loss mAim tra Avfonlinfr mnfrrnf llln- . , Lin ha.rtv th Mviio miiu ai vaaui j " j j with the undertaking, formally open ed the exposition. His message was received in "Joy Street," the midway of the exposition city where a wire less station had been improved. At the meeting whicn followed the receipt of the President's message, Governor Hooper and Major Heiskell welcomed the exposition officials and visitors for the State and city. Both predicted great educational benefits from the exposition. President Wright of the exposition responded. He outlined the purpose of the undertaking as the promotion of conservation of natural resources, particular reference to be paid to forests and streams. The exposition will continue until November 1. Among the exhibits art many by the Federal Government dealing with livestock and agricul ture. ANOTHER RATE n t Corporation Commission and Experts for the Cities are Holding Confer ence at Raleigh with a View of Asking for Another Conference with the Roads While Opinion Hold that Such Will Be and May Result ta. 'Settlement: 1 ! Raleigh, Sept.''2. J. L Graham, of Winston; J.T. Ryan, of High;;Pqint; W. S. Creighton, of Charlotte; F. C. Forrester, of Greensboro, freight ex perts are here today conferring! with the corporation commission regard ing the pending interstate freight rate controversy with the railroads. The general discussion of the situa tion and a possible resumption of ne gotiations with railroad officials are being discussed, but nothing is being given out as to conclusions. It is generally expected that there will be a resumption of the conferences with the railroad officials, with a possibil ity of a settlement on the most im portant matters at issue before the special session of the legislature called. Governor iraig nas issued a par don for George Kirk, of Mecklenburg county, convicted in 1903 for man slaughter and sentenced to seven teen years' service in the State prison CHERRY (IILL REUNION. Gathering Originated by Mr W. A. ' Sell Proves' a Big Success. . I'TUe reunion at Cherry Hill church, Davie county, Sunday was a big suc cess. There was a large crowd pres ent and the day was greatly enjoyed. The reunion idea originated with Mr. W. A. Sells of the Salisbury postoffice force, and its success was due largely to his efforts. Those present Sunday decided to make the reunion an an nual "home coming" affair and elect ed Mr. Sells chairman of the perma nent organization. It was decided to gather the last Sunday in August each year. ' Sunday's program included short and appropriate addresses by Messrs.. W. A. Sells, Henry Hobson, of Davie, Rev. N. D.- Bodie and. Prof.' John Hodge, the singing of a number of old songs and the serving of a big picnic dinner " and watermelon feast ' ' Charles M. Miller left today to enter Oak Ridge echooL . . ; Tollir McClung, a. Young Man of Greensboro Coming From Went Virginia, Arrested for Murder- Greensboro, Sept. 2. Tollie B. Mc- Clung, a young man of good address wno has made his residence in (ireensboro the past two years being one of the teachers in the Greensbiro Commercial school on West Wash ington street, was placed under ar rest yesterday afternoon by City Offi cers Causey and Bray in compliance with a telegram received from West Virginia stating tha McClung was wanted there for murder. Upon his arrest he was turned over to the :ounty authorities and placed in Guil ford county jail without bond on a fugitive from justice warrant issued jy Justice D. H. Collins. McClung is a young man about 21 years of age. His brothers, E. Alee McClung, and Elmore McClung, have ived here for several years, being the proprietors of the Greensboro Com mercial school, and he came here as one of the teachers in the school. He readily formed acquaintances and friends, all of whom were taken by surprise when they learned of his de tention in jail. Details from West Virginia wore lacking, there being no statement in the messages received here filing when the allged crime was commit ted or as to who the victim was. The county and city authorities received telegrams after the noon hour, one eing from the cousin of the nrts- oner and the other being from the Sheriff of Nicholas county. VNGRY WOMAN WITH HATPIN ATTACKS MAN AND OFFICER Asheville, Sept. 1. Following the icquittal of W. I.. Leiter, on a be- rayal charge, in the court of Justice f the Peace B. L. Lyda, Mrs. J. Haw- tins, the mother of the girl in the ase, attacked Leiter with a hat pin. She made a lunge at the dismissed oriBoner, it is said, but he avoided her Mid was not injured. When Sheriff Williams attempted to grasp the wo man, the two daughters of the latter, it is alleged, attacked the officer and H was necessary for the magistrate to take a hand Sn the case before the Sght could be stopped- . Mrs. Hawkins and .one of her daughters were sent' to jail for ten days foe contempt of court, while the ether girl was .told to go to her home. ?he is reported to haye declared that she intended returning to the sheriffs Affke later with a pistol, declaring her iatention of killing ' every mart irho had participated in the trial. ! The Optimist "Chr up. No news s good news." The Pessimist Wouldn't it e fine if the same rule applied .to luck?" Keep Poinding By HOLLAND. Tim n1nclpa value of ad vertising consists in the fact that the influence of ad vertising Is cumulative. ' It gains .strength by repetition. , This os not nienn the repe tition W one advertisement indefinitely. A chauge of copy i deslnilile. It nieiins the couUnnid iidvertlKlng of otie's bitslnena li as effective n mnnrtpr h nosHlble. . Qtie inrtn liA been In bust- -no, in . the town twenty years;." .another , opened bis ., store lost week.. Both may, . Weonallv hdnesbeouolly eh J of credit; and, (fuetom. Bilf- wnicu nas tne peiier repuui tionT Ksturaliy the man who . has been doing business In the same" building for twen ty years. It U the result of persistency, the inevitable cumulative effect Ion ennt get awny from it .-your reputation will cither' get better or worse as your business . methods iKscoroe known. Itepetltlon impresses the fart evei ott the carolens observer." Remember this in your ndrertiKlog: : Don't ex pert to make a 'fortune by 6ne effort but 4se It as one stone to help build the tower that will raise: you higher snd higher. - , ' , . ,; , . MAKE YOUR AOVERTlSi". INO TODAY HEUP YOUR. - BUSINESS NEXT YEAR.1 HARRY KENDALL THAW r V . - f -1 w . . I ' i i - ' v v t MM KM IN ff RECK-A REAR END COLLISION ON N. Y., N. H., & H., ROAD REPORT SAYS THAT FIFTEEN A ND UP ARE KILLED AND A HUN DRED ARE INJURED WHEN EARLY TODAY AN EXPRESS EN CJNK PLOWED ITS WAY THR O.UGH THREE CARS OF. A SOUD PULLMAN TRAIN AND DID D CAR EIGHT TAKEN FROM 4- New Haven, Conn., Sept. 2. Many persons were killed and nearly a h dred injured early today when White Mountain express on the New York, New Haven and Hartford road crushed Into the rear end- of a Barr Harbor express -near Wallingford, Connecticut The earliest reports place the number of dead at fifteen, i hese wire injured, some of them fa Eight bodies have been taken out j tally. Both trains 'were in motion from the wreckage within two hours j when the White Mountain ' express after the accident occurred. The Barr; bore down on the ill feted express Harbor express was a solid Pullman ahead. No satisfactory explanation train of eleven cars. The two rearj 0f the wreck, has been offered. ' The coaches were . reduced to kindling; Pullmans wrecked were wooden cars, wood, the third ca. from the end was; The Barr Harbor cars had come to split in twain and the engine of the; an almost standstill, why is not ex White Mountain plowed its way plained. The engineer of the White through into the middle of the fourth car from the end. Most of the dead bodies were taken from the last two cars. Hurry calls were sent to Hart ford, and street cars are being used to bring the injured to the hospitals at New Haven. The collision is said to have been due to a heavy fog. Owing to the last two Pullman cars being demolished completely the ptisengers who escaped death ; in these cars are terribly Injured. The work of rescuing them from the tan- AGAIN LOOPS THE LOOP. Juvisy, France, . Sept 2. Before a commission of army officers. Aviator Pegoud this af ter oo It again looped the loop in a Monoplane' of the Bleriot type. ' Of his achievement the aviator said, - '"This demon strates that wel can build an uncapsisable aircraft and re- duee the danger of aviation seventy-five per cent" "It's the little things that count," quoted the Wise Guy. "Perhaps," re plied the Simple Mug, "but : don't lose, siglit of the fact that it's the big gest fish that always get away." An impediment in the speech may be a blessing in disguise. If more of us stuttered there wouldn't , be much gossip in this world. , . so Don't fail to read the Peoples Drag Store and the Smith Drug Co., auto contest ad. , AMAGE TO THE FOURTH HEAVY "WRECK WITHIN AN HOUR. gled mass has been difficult. ' Resi dents of Wallingford hurried to the scene to render aid. Lots of the pas sengers were in their berths when the crash came. Both trains were west-j bound and were filled with vacation ists. In one of the cars were forty hoys from New Yorfc City Who were MtiiinW from a eamnlne trin. . All Mountain train said he saw no lights to indicate this. His train it is esti mated was running at 40 miles an hour.' The engineer and his fireman saved themselves by jumping. The railroad, has issued a statement say ing all passengers were in their night clothes which makes identification impossible, ' Engineer Miller of the White Moun tain Express was arrested soon after the wreck and is held for action of the coroner. ' TO REMOVE REFUGEES. Washington, D. C Sept. 2. The abolition of the commerce court, and a hundred thousand dollars appropriation to trans port American refugees from Mexico were included In the House Deficiency, bill today. Five thousand dollars was ap propriation for . a postoffice building at Lumberton, N. C Th Ant nt dontamher frnrtUT ally considered the beginning of au tumn September, October and No vember being ' classed as autumn months. , But according to that reli able, source of -: information Blum's almanac autumn will not' officially begin until, the 23d . of September, when the days and nights will be of equal length. ,- . Influence is all right in its way, but it is just as well to remember that the people with a pull dont always pull together, ' ' HABEAS FOR HARRY THAW Hearing Held In Chambers ' Before " Canadian Judge Whe Has Several . Courses Possible Before , Him Fight Reaches Interesting Turn. : , Rjither strange proceedings mark-l the Thaw rase these days. Thaw -the much advertised man, is in the . role of a defendant trying to avoid ; leaving the Jail, and when ho court ' convened today at Sherbrook three . . courses will be open to Judge HutcV ; lnson. He can adjourn court, and ask ' for briefs from each side, he can sus-! Uin the writ and liberate Thaw, thus V throwing him into the hands of the i immigration officials, or he can order . him back to Jail and there await the ' October term of the court, and this latter Is what his attorneys are seek ing to have done with their client ' - Sherbrook, Quebec, Sept 2 When ; the hearing of the habeas corpus pro- ceedings was called today for passing on the Thaw case only a limited num ber was admitted. The hearing was in chambers before Judge HutehlnS and not even W. T. Jerome, seeking Thaw for the New York officials, was permitted to be present , Sherbrook, Sept 1. Police ar rangements to meet possible pro- , Thaw demonstrations in, the court . room or on the streets were held in : abeyance tonight, although it was un derstood that secret service and uni- ; formed officer would be on hand in v case of emergency. ' , . The holding of the hearing in,, chambers raises a nice problem that no one here tonight cared to solve iff hand. It was this: If the writ is sustained and. Thaw is automatically set at liberty will the immigration officers have a right to enter the chambers and arrest mm. E. Blake Robertson, assistant superintendent of immigration, with two assistants, 'will station himself in the corridor s just outside the chambers and watch;, the door like a euL'lf Thole with the gambling instinct 1 dominant were wagering two to one tonight that the writ would not be up Four Persons Were Killed and Others , Injured In Automobile Race et Ten- , lessee State Fair Grounds en Labor Day. . - - Nashville, Tenn., : Sept L-fFpar t persons were killed and three injured here today when four of the six tak ing automobiles 'competing in a 25 mile race at the .State fair grounds track were wrecked. ,A Labor. Day crowd of five thousand witnessed the accident 'The dead are: ' 1 John W. Sherrill, driver; Thomas P.y Bridges, mechanician; . William i Sherrod, driver; "Gooch" Brown, me- ; chanlclan. . The injured are: ' . ' flwt Dnnovan and Edward Polk. ' drivers, andvFreeman Ormsby, rfech- aniclan. The accident occurred at a point on the mile track directly across the -field from the grand stand and in plain sight of the crowds. The six cars were running at terrific rate when Donovan, ' who ; was 1 leading, was compelled to swerve suddenly to avoid running down a' small negro ' boy who had run. across the track. In doing this he burst a front tire, and F in an effort to clear the course turn ed his car into the fence. ,; The car crashed through the barrier,' which fell hack on the track. The car just behind was able to avoid the wreck- , ago; but the machines which followed were not ;" so fortunate. Sherrod's racer struck the obstruction, leaped high in the air and turned a complete " somersault Into thia mas sof wreck- t n1iinrl ShArrdl'B ear.- ' The ma. - J O J"- . ; I china was " demolished, driver , and mechanician being instantly killed. . The machine driven by Poly was only slightly damaged. : All the dead and injured lived her 5vM",j:;'fi"7ft:- '... . a :' 'e. ! NINE MEN KILLED. : Carlyle, England, Sept fc ' Nine were' burned to death, engineer Instantly killed, ' and ten injured when a Manchester express, on the Midland rail way, telescoped the London ex press near Hawes Junction to-, day. , - s RACES DEATH '1 v
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