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A RANDOLPH COUNTY PAPER FOR RANDOLPH COUNTY PEOPLE.
VOL. 5, NO. 37.
ASHEBORO, N. C, MARCH 10, 1910.
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR.
The
Bulletim.
YOUNG PEOPLE'S CLUBS.
Prizes Have Been Arranged for Boys
and Girls. Agricultural Exhibit in
Fall. All Boys Under Twenty
Years old and all Unmarried
Women are Eligible
to Enter.
That the Young People's Farm
Lifo club-work is assuming gi
gantic proportions is evidenced
by the fact that over 100 boys in
the county have ; already signi
fied their intention of entering
the boys' corn-growing contest.
Several girls have joined" the
girls' poultry and canning clubs
also. To aid in this work the
merchants of Asheboro have
offered valuable prizes to be
given for the best yields of corn
and the best displays of poultry
and also canned goods. Plans
are on foot for an agricultural
exhibit to be held in Asheboro
some time in November. At
this time there will be an exhibit
of all the products grown by
these young people. Boys will
have exhibits of their corn and
girls can exhibit the samples of
their poultry and canned goods.
The prizes have not all been
arranged yet, but the following
prizes may be announced now.
Boys' Corn Clubs.
First, second and third prizes
of articles valued at $25: $15 and
$10 each will be given for the
highest yield of corn on an acre
of land by boys under twenty
years old.
Also, first, second and third
prizes of articles valued rat the
same prices as the above will be
given for the greatest profits on
acres of land by boys.
To the contest in this county
all boys in the county under
twenty years old will be admitted.
A boy entering the county con
test also enters the State contest
and has the opportunity of con
testing for the three State prizes
of $25, $15, and $10 for the high
est yield of corn on an acre of
land in the Fifth Agricultural
. District. This district comprises
Guilford, Randolph, Davidson,
Forsythe and other adjoining
counties. Also any boy living
within ten miles of Liberty has
the opportunity of competing for
the prizes offered by the Liberty
Industrial Club, announcement
of which was made in last week's
paper.
Girls' Poultry and Canning
Clubs.
The prizes for girls have not
yet been arranged in such shape
as to be published. It is expect
ed to give prizes valued at $50
' for the best displays of poultry
and'also canned goods. Of course
it is expected that these goods
are to' be on exhibit at the County
Fair next fall. Any one desir
ing to enter this contest should
notify me at the earliest date
possible. Complete directions
will be issued as soon as the
prizes and rules can be arranged.
All boys and girls living with
in ten miles of Liberty should
either notify Dr. J. D. Gregg,
Liberty or write to me for sug-
, gestions and application blanks.
It is expected that all boys and
girls who enter these contests
will sign application blanks and
work under rules and regulations
made by the Agricultural Asso
ciation. Bulletins, rules, regula
tions, application blanks etc. may
be obtained by applying either
by letter or in person to my office.
E. J. Coltrane,
County Superintendent.
Mrs. Rachel Ingram who has
been in a critical condition for
several weeks is improving.
REPUBLICANS M KING GAINS.
Hon. J. H. Pou, of Raleigh, one
of the ablest and astutest lawyer;?
in the State, is quoted in The Bal
timore American Thursday a3
follows:
The Republican party has
been gaining strength in every
election in our State for the past
ten years, or since the passage of
the suffrage law limiting the
franchise. The gain, of course,
has been among the white voters.
Colonel Bryan beat President
Taft in North Carolina by only
21,000 votes. Nearly 46 per cent
of the white electors are Repub
licans," and many of our young
men have aligned themselveswith
that party, there being no longer
any odium attached to member
ship therein or any efforts at os
tracism. "In this connection it is proper
to say, that the black population
of North Carolina is making sub
stantial progress along lines of
human advancement. We have
little racial friction and hear little
of a race problem. The negroes
are generally conducting then
selves well and before the next
census figures will show amazing
results in their favor. If I arn
not greatly mistaken as many ne
groes have acquired homes of
their own while' the past decade
in North Carolina as were own
ers of property during the pre
ceding 35 years. They are not.
however, the bulk - of our agri
cultural labor, most of them pre
ferring employment in the towns.
"The general condition of our
people, and especially of the till
ers of the soil, proves that thf
South is a land of plenty anri
prosperity. The farmer is occu
pying a seat on the top rail. B;
intensive cultivation he can make
a bale of cotton to the acre and
every bale, including the seerl,
is worth $85, at least half of
which is profit. Twelve years
with as large a cotton crop a?
was raised in 1909, : the whole
South received for ifc- leading
product only $350,000,000, while
the last year's crop was worth
to the planters almost $900,000,
000. How is that for an increase
of wealth from a single source in
so short a space of time. In the
same time, too, North Carolina
has come to be one of the great I
cotton manufacturing centers of
the nation. Years ago our farm
ers were glad to get $50 a bale,
and that was all the value the
section where it was produced
retained; to-day that same cot
ton is spun and made into fabrics
that bring the worth of the ma
terial up to 40 cents a pound and
fix the price of the bale after be
ing manufactured into cloth at
$200. This quadrupling of values
is what is making the South
rich. "-Charlotte Observer.
RANDOLPH CLUC ELECTS OFFICERS.
At a meeting of the Randolph
Club Monday night officers were
elected as follows:
D. B. McCrary, Pres. : H. M.
Robbins, Vice-Pres.; F Ingold,
Sec; John M. Neely, Treas.
Board of Governors, H. M
Worth Seth W. Laughhn B.H.jforthe division of time ht
Hiatt.J. T. Redding, Clarence thought it ought t0 be or his
Th! pn,7irA n,u : ...,.. ! Pty had pledged. The Romans
, incorporated organization, whose
object is to advance its members
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Oil I VS7QT7 Ifci mnn hn. Ui v Z
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limited to one nundred. .
Dr. W. H. Wakefield, of Char
lotte, will be in Asheboro, at the
Central Hotel on Wed. March
16tH, one day only. His practice
is limited to the medical and
surgical treatment of diseases ;of
the Eye, Ear, Nose ana Throat
and Fitting Glasses.
Copyrighted 1910 by C. H. Ronth
For March
O, have you heard about the hog
, Since it is worth its weight in gold?
They keep a heater in its pen
And give it quinine for a cold.
You wouldn't know the lucky brute
Since pork went up to thirty cents,
They pet it so and keep it in
Such unheard-of magnificence.
The farmer always tastes the food
To see if it will make him ill,
And rich and appetizing soups
Are given it instead of swill.
The best and most expensive foods
Aie set before it without stint,
And indigestion is forestalled
By capping hem with creme de mint.
You wouldn't know it for a stye
The hog is quartered in today.
It has a valentine fan,
A roof, a skylight and a spray,
And how it sleeps, eats, drinks and
feels,
And how to safeguard it from harm,
Is all they think and talk about
These piping days upon the farm. - -
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The farmers lie awake o'nights
Devising prophylactic troughs.
The doctors fly from farm 10 farm
Examining hiccups and coughs;
And nowadays when farmers meet
Each other out upon a jog
There first and most solicitous
Inquiry is, "How is your hog?"
March was the favorite month
of the old Romans and the be
ginning of their year. It was
named for Mars, their god of
war, and continued' to rank the
other months until 44 B. C,
when the peace party in the
Senate allied with the insurgents
and reduced it to third place on
the calendar, Brutus and some
of the others thought the empire
ought to make less of war and
more of business, so they made
January, named for the Two
faced Janus, the beginning of
the year, and the month Februus,
who typified the dark and evil
ways of business, to immediately
follow. Caesar, who was speak
er of the Senate, stood pat on
the old calendar upon the ground
that while war, as someone had!
said, is hell, business, when it;
reaches the trust stage, is-a good j
deal heller. A few regulars of j
the 'war party supported him, I
but the allies were irresistable, j
and he was finally stabbed.
Revising the calendar was as
great an issue in Roman politics
as revising the tariff has become
in our own, and more than one
J r hcr(,iimw trover oarhr in rhPlV
history that it is in the nature
! of man to revise something, and
they finahv agreed upon the cal-
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jendaras the thing over whicn
I-X, u,. u
uie politicians couiu nni, wiw
the least damage to the peace
and prosperity of the people as
a whole. 1 .
The melancholy days will pass,
and spring will come again to
freshen up the faded grass and
wake the hearts of men. The
grounihog will awake again,
borne out upon the whole, and
the gees i will march across the
sky to see abqut the pole. The
thrill of spring will run along the
backbone of the calf. He'll buck
and dance upon the mead and
hoist his hinder half. He'll
drearn of blooming clover fields
and waving curly dock, and gam
bol with his rigid tail stuck up
at 6 o'clock.
The blithesome meadowlark
will sing the glories of the dawn,
and the robin will turn somer
sets upon the greening- lawn.
The spring-intoxicated colt will
do-si-do about, the festive frog
will wake to help the Weather
Bureau out, the pOor consumer
will rejoice and hope for better
lucK, ana tne trusts win sit
11 1.1 Ml
around and dam the coming gar
den truck.
On the 4th Mr. Taft will cele
brate his first anniversary in the
White House with a masquerade.
There has never been a masquer
ade there, but Mr. Taft is very
anxious to have everybody come,
and in viaw of the unsettled po
litical conditions, the Ballinger
Pinchot controversy and some
other things, he feels that as
long as nobody can determine
positively who else is present,
i there will be no occasion for any
one staying away. Pink tea will
be ser.-eci, and there will be a
picture of Mr. Roosevelt under
the'coal pile in the basement.
Take-off? on the consumer, al
lusions to June 15, costume
caricatures of Speaker Cannon
arid other eussedness that Demo
crats, insurgents or Pinchot men
may be up to, will be censored
at the door.
And then the ides will come around
In sorrowful progression,
And all the peanut carts will form
In annual procession.
They'll whistle up and down the
street
Their s irilly admonition,
And bid us think upon the price
Of temporal ambition.-
terrible tne way we are
the
dishearteaed by example. It
matters not which way we turn,
j v;e always see a sample of some
one like us who aspired at unac
customed angles, and always got
it in the end where Cora wore
the bangles. - You know the Ro
mans unc srstood our metes and
limitatioi and what fools are
we that aspire above our lowly
stations. . They used, to have a
man to meet the victor home
from battle and mount behind
his chariot, amid the din and
rattle, and while his vanity was
roused with great acclaim to
chortle and keep repeating in
his ear, 'J Remember, you are
mortal!""
They kept a lot of Romans straight
That otherwise had strayed ;x '
Holly Springs.
QSickness is in almost
family, of various names.
every
We have been
rrivon n -Paw
days of real spring weather. But
will take several days of such
weather to better the condition
of the roads very much.
The school at Center closed the
4th, with a large and enjoyable
crowd present. The fourth hon
or roll ended with the last two
weeks of the school, with Katie
Cox, Clarence Bird, Floy Bird,
Colon Bird, Ray Bird, Nellie
Bird, Carl Hinshaw, Eulah and
Lillie Macon, Earsley and Hulon
Stout, as the successful ones.
Wiley Cox and Garland Craven
are critically ill with supposed
fever or pneumonia.
Several from these parts at
tended the exhibition at Parks
X Roads the 5th and report a
good time.
Adenijah Stout was brought
here for burial from Franklin
ville (his home) last Sunday
about 12 o'clock m. The be
reaved ones have the sympathy
of the entire community.
The school at Hickory Grove
was out the 1st.
Mary Hodgin has a severe at
tack of pneumonia.
Come out with the news corre
spondents.
GRANT TO BE RE-NOMINATED
A recent dispatch from Ashe
ville says:
At a meeting of the Republican
Executive Committee .of , the
tenth Congressional Disiricthere
to-day, with a full attendance of
delegates, it was decided to hold
the convention for the nomination
of a candidate for Congress on
Saturday, April 2nd. A call was
issued to all the counties of the
district to hold conventions and
appoint delegates at least by the
middle of March.
It was said to-day that the re
nomihation of Congressman John
G. Grant will be made unanimous,
as there has not been another
active candidate spoken of.
The members of the committee
are of the opinion that the out
look for carrying the district is
very bright. Congressman Grant
has written Logan that at the
convention he will have at least
two speakers of national reputa
tion. But, anyvay, the seventeenth
The Irish will parade
In memory of him who did
For Irish snakes the same
As Roosevelt is doing now
To Ruwenzori game.
Mr. Morgan will continue his
flight from Halley's Comet, pass
ing through Paris about the 5th. I
Mr Rockefeller, emboldened by
his escape from Judge Landis,
will not run. It is likely, how
ever, that his benefactions will
discreetly increase as the comet
continues to approach. Mr.
Carnegie will also give away
money on a larger scale now.
The moon will be on the celes
tial equator on the 12th. This
will be a fortunate combination
for Pinchot, and he may be able
to make a point that some of the
rest of us can see. The Spring
Equinox will come on the 21st.
The storm will be central around
Ba!'l"f er!fj',0b af d Wi" COntinae
until tne zocn, wnen xne moon
will be full. If the sky is clear
we will be able to see if he
still on the jobt and, if so, what
is probably holding him up.
And then the April wind will blow
From Araby afar,
And oh, the 1st wei; shall recall
Whatibols we mortals are.
THE DEATH OF W. A. BRADY.
Mr. W. A. C. Brady, a highly
respected citizen of Erect,
Brower township, committed
suicide at his home sometime af
ter midnight of the night March
4th.
It was early Saturday morning
when members of his family
discovered the dead body of Mr.
Brady hanging by a rope in barn,
bearing mute but unmistakable
evidence that death was self in
flicted. No cause is known for
the rash act, but it is probable
that brooding over imaginary
troubles unbalanced his mind and
in a moment of great despondency
he sought relief in self destruc
tion. '
Mr. Brady was prominent in
his neighborhood and was num
bered among the best citizens.
He wa3 a deacon in the Antioch
Christian church and served as
school committeeman, being a
member of the building commit
tee that erected the new school
house at Antioch. ' On the day
preceding his death, he attended
the closing exercises of Antioch
school and signed the school
documents with the other com
mitteemen. When a photograph
was taken of the school, by Eli
Yow, Mr. and Mrs. Brady ap
peared in the group. . This
shows that his mind was appar
ent! v sound just preceding his
Brady was twice married.
His second wife and seven sons
survive.
The whole communisyni
thTzeswith his bereaved family.
A Friend.
Union Grove.
Rev. J. R. Comer preaced an
excellent sermon at this place
Sunday.
Rufus Brown spent Sunday
with his parents Mr. and Mrs.
Eli Brown. .
Miss Rona Yow of Seagrove
who has successfully taught the
school at this place returned to
her home 'Saturday.
Kirby Cox has returned
home from his saw mill on Burch
Creek.
Walter Cox of Ulah attended
preaching at Union Grove Sun-
day.
E. C. Brown who has been on
the sick list for the last, month
is improving.
B. B. Phillips of Greensboro
and sister Miss Myrtie of Ram
seur R. F. D. spent Sunday in
this vicinity. ,
Elmer and Miss Ila Bird at
tended -the schoplxhibition at
Parks Cross Roads Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. EL C. Brown
spent Friday night
at John
Browns.
Colvin Bird visited at B. B.
Brook's Sunday.
Listen for the wedding bells.
With best wishes for the Bul
letin. - .
HAND CUT OFF WITH SAW.
While at work on his saw mill
near Ralph, last Thursday eve
ning, Millard J. Humble had his
left hand so badly .mangled with
the saw: that amputation was
found jiecessary. Mr. Humble
was cleaning saw dust 1 from un-
! rlov flip cisiw nnrl in sums wav his
! hand come in contact with the
saw resulting as abov stated.
A surgeon was called I who ad
vised that amputation apove the
wrist wai the only thing to do.
At last accounts the patient wras
doing well. ,
J. C. Allen of Coleridge town
ship was a business visitor at the
county seat; Saturday.
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