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A RANDOLPH COUNTY PAPER FOR RANDOLPH COUNTY PEOPLE.
VOL. 6. NO. 22.
ASHEBORO, N. C, . THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1910.
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR
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"Ransom" County
HIGH POINT HOLDS MASS MEETING I
IN INTEREST OF NEW COUNTY.
SOME SCHOOL TALK.
To The Patrons of the Public School.
Next week is court week in
Asheboro and we achool folks
are already dreading it. We
are not afraid of coming within
the jurisdiction of -sludge Allen
but we are fearing that our at
tendance will be cut down.
Usually about one fifth of our
students stay out either all or a
part of the first week of court
which of course seriously effects
the progress of school work.
The students, for the most part,
who stay out are the ones who
by all means should stay in
school. Now can't we arrange
to have them do so? Certainly
this is the patron's business.
We want to urge you to caref uhy
look after it. We are doing
business every day at the school
building and we want your child
to help us along with it. If your
boy or girl must stay out let the
time be as short as possible and
if he has no particular business
out send him to school. We will
turn out soon enough for all to
see what is going on.
We want the little folks to
come right on too. Arranger
ments will be made to pilot them
through the crowds.
The superintendent will meet
all those coming from the north
ern part of town each morning
at 8:30 in front of Mr. C. C. Cran
ford's residence and see them
to the school building. Some
one will see them back that for.
Should it be' necessary other
meeting points will be designat-
Down In The Southwest.
the school can
do business at the same time if
we can get the children. You
help us get them.
0. V. WOOSLEY, Supt.
Greensboro Daily News
High Point, Nov. 26. -There
is no doubt but that High Point
is going after that new county
with zeal and determination. - At
a meeting here today two ses
sions were held, there being
nearly a thousand people present
at the morning session, which
adjourned at 1 o'clock and as
sembled again at 2 p. m.
Prominent among those pres
ent were Messrs. W. G. Brokaw,
George Gould and Mr. Fleet,
wealthy northern men, who own
hunting lodges in Guilford,
Davidson and Randolph, and
they were enthusiastic for the
new county.
Mr Brokaw pledged $1,000 to
wards building the new court
house and Mr. Gould intimated
that he would give $5,000 for
this object should it become nec
essary. The Thomasville dele
gation had presented an ultima
tum that unless High Point
would agree to build the court
house and jail, that portion of
Davidson sought to be taken m
the new county would fight the
proposition.
Major Tate called the meeting
to order and extended a cordial
welcome to the large number of
visitors, and at the close of his
address called F. S. Lambeth to
the chair, who was received
with applause. Mr. Lambeth
said that he felt highly honored ,
to preside over ine nrsi meeuug The court and
of what would be one oi tne nest
counties in the state.
O. E. Mendenhall was elected
secretary.
On motion a committee of five
on permanent organization was
appointed.
ttti ! a 1 w 44 -v urn r nnf
wnne u c ,. There fa a boy fa Angon county
tnere were uiu, cv.... d w aceount
speeches on the new county pro J rentj a small farm
and con, Dr Peacock lading off own
witn a most nwm . and did not d nights in
covenng tne enure PP- drinki and carcusing around
ine speec ' """""J the community but got some
eral throughout the meeting and m epleasure at watching
touched almost every phase of ... , . Rt.,di
. . iV I WliC 1. COU1M i.iu xmw..
the new county. Among uiu&e
taking part were Mayor Tate, F.
S. Lambeth,-A. E. Tate, Dr.
Dred Peacock, J. El wood Cox,
John Lambeth, W. P. Ragan,
Homer Ragan, Col. D. H. Milton,
W. O. Burgin, Dr. Frazier, P.
W. Williard, Joe Smith, A. B.
" Coltrane, R. A. Wheeler. J. J.
Farriss, Wescott Roberson, T. J.
Gold. Dr. J. B. Richardson.
After the adoption of the re
port the committee on permanent
organization the question of a
name for the new county came
up and after a few remarks by
the chairman, J. Elwood Cox,
Wescott Roberson, T. J. Gold
and J. J. Harris, the name of
Ransom was voted unanimously.
At the afternoon session the
committee of 45 organized by
electing J. J. Farris as chairman.
Statistics were read by A. E.
Tate showing that the new coun
ty would be 15 miles long and 22
miles wide, with High Point
nearly in the center. It em
braces all of High Point and part
of Jamestown and Deep River
townships, in Guilford county;
all of Trinity and part of New
Market townships, in Randolph,
and all of Abott's Creek and
part of Thomasville townships.
Davidson. The taxable as-
First of A Series of Letters from the Odd Places of New Mexico.
(By M. J. Brown, Editor Little Valley, N. Y., Hub)
A BOY THAT WILL MAKE GOOD.
ed and followed the best and
most up to date methods of farm
ing and we have it on reliable
information that he will clear
not a cent less than five hundred
dollars on the crops raised by
hiTYieplf after rent and m all other
expenses are paid. , He began
during the first of the year and
now has a few months to spend
at another business where he
will clear a few dollars every
week. The man who thinks
and works is making money, the
man who lofes and dissipates
ought to starve. Wadesboro
Ansonian
Eczema
Is considered hard to cure. Try
Dr Bell's Antiseptic Salve and
you will change your mind. You
will see an improvement from
the first applteation.
in
sesse'd property is something over
$6,500,000. with 24 miles of rail-
road and 24 miles of telegraph
lines. The population is 25,000,
and the number of voters 5,000,
very nearly equally divided
among the two parties.
The estimates given were that
the county,- without increasing
the rate of . taxation a penny,
would have a yearly revenue
from the beginning of $24,000,
amply sufficient to run the coun
ty, and it was stated that with
a proper salary bill for the new
county officers, these could be
provided at an expense not ex
ceeding $7,000 per am.uni.
The whole meeting was per
meated with enthusiasm, and
from the method adopted for
prosecuting the campaign tor a
new county, it is evident that
they are going after it with a
determination to win.
I hadn't been in Las Vegas an
hour before a reporter had his
semaphore against me and
wanted to know what I thougtof
the city. I suppose he knew 1
was a stranger because I wore a
black hat and smoked white
cigarettes. I told him it was the
best town I had seen since Trin
dad. He didn't seem pleased,
and I asked where I left the trail.
But I had said it too soon and
there was no use trying to square
it. The hotel, clerk told me what
the bad brake was. He said be
tween Trinidad and Las Vegas
was a few sarid towns, Wagon
Mound, Shoemaker and Arriba,
and the comparison was not
flattering. One must have an
open season mind readers' license
to please these rival town patriots
I took a street car as far as it went
then jumped into a Mexican cart
and rode several miles into the
country. And when I had climbed
a sand butte overlooking Las
Vegas, I found another traveler
had beat me to it. He was an old
German from Iowa. We watched
a gang of Mexicans and a dredge
cutting irrigation ditch down
from the mountains, and the old
fellow remarked: "Up in Iowa
we pay big money for ditches to
carry the water away: down
here they spend, millions for
ditches to bring it in". v
The people are land crazy and
water crazy. There are irrigat
ing companies, land companies,
development companies, co-operative
companies all kinds of
companies; some on the square
to develop and reclaim the land,
others to separate a man from
his money.
It seems to me that nature
was more wise than man where
years ago this part of the coun
try was heaved up to cool off ,
and wait for land - agents and
Missourians. From Pueblo south
for hundreds of miles there lay
millions oi acres, as level as a
floor and fair to the eye wait
ing for a time when crowding
men shall devise a means to
make them produce. And there
these acres lay, wanting but
water to make the deep rich soil
produce anything and every
thing. And when our elbows
begin to touch and necessity de
mands more room and more pro
duce, then will the means be
forthcoming.
"All this country needs is I
water," is the observation you
will hear everywhere, and com
ing from the east end of this
dump of a country, where the
rain falls on the just and unjust
every ten days, I can't help but
come back at them with the old
retort that that is all hell needs.
Men come here in hundreds
from the east and middle west,
attracted by the cheap lands and
the Santa Fe's pictorial folders.
They come here with a little
money to try "dry farming"
and they go back with a prairie
schooner and sad experience.
For over three hundred days in
the year the sun beats down,
with never a cloud, with never
a drop of rainfall.
But I didn't come hereto write
you of land values and .rainfall
statistics.
I left the train here to get the
Hon Jas.G' Camp to
Lecture.
GIRLS CAUGHT IN FIRE.
In Need Rush For Safety, Many Ar
Killed.
cramps out of a pair of eastern
lezs and ret away irom iiarvy
eating houses for
hours a day off to get my ap
preciation to working for the
wonders and ruins of the wierd
old places that I will soon visit.
But odd spots and strange peo
ple may be found anywhere in
New Mexico and Arizona.
Last winter, from the moun
tain Mexican hamlets south of
Toas, I wrote an article of the
Penitenties, that strange band
of self-scorging Flaggelants of
whom we Americans know so
little. For days I was snow
bound in the canyons, and I saw
them at their pagan rites and I
drank the poison that was intend
ed to stop my investigations.
I had supposed and learned
that only in the remote moun
tain hamlets were these Mexi
cans allowed to practice their
wonderful fanaticism the most
wonderful and awful in the civi
lized world but I find that right
here in Las Vegas, almost in
sight of the big brick blocks of
American capitalists, this relic
of barbarism of the Middle Ages
is still practiced, and men who
are American citizens, men who
serve as jurors and try white
men, men who will soon be
recognized under a new state as
a part of our Union these men
still scorge themselves, flog their
naked backs with quirts until the
hlood drips from their heels; car
ry loads of cactus and crosses,
lie on cactus beds and perform
these self-tortures that are in
credible and almost unbeliev
able.
And less than a dozen miles
outside -of Las Vegas these Mexi
cans practice their self-scorging
today. Out here in the foothills
are communities of this strange
religious sect, which during the
forty days of Lent, perform then
barbarities, scorging themselves,
running half -crazy through the
mountain paths, calling on the
people to repent until overcome
with pain and exhaustion.
The authorities have long since
stopped the crucifixions that
were once a part of the rites of
these fanatics, but they do not
interfere with their little annual
tortures, so long as they keep
them out where the newspapers
can't feature them, and there
they exist today.
AH of these mountain towns,
big enough to have decent hotels,
are filled with men and women
who come here for what money
can't buy at home health. They
come in the first stages of tisic
and the third degree of tubercu
losis; for cigarette throats and
asthma; for hard colds and dissi
pation. Some come because
fashionable physician has sent
them here to sober up and get to
eating; some because a specialist
has heard this country was a
good nerve factory; and some be
cause the white plague has forc
ed them to the ropes and is about
readv to count. Of the last class
eight out of ten have waited too
long. They come here for the
last chance, and the chance is
gone. The towns force them out
into mountain camps, and they
die.
But enough of this.
Tomorrow I leave for the
mountain regions and the Cliff
D wellers ruins up the Rio Grande
and Santa Clara, where a people
and a civilization lived and
perished without ever having
seen a white man, leaving be
hind monuments more wonder-
twenty-four j ful, mysterious and interesting.
than anywhere elsa in our coun
try. I will spend days and days
Friday night Dec. 2 is the time
for the second Lyceum attraction
at tha school auditorium the
entertainment this time will be
given by Hon. Jas. G. Camp of
Georgia, who is one of those
wonderful orators which theSouth
sends forth every few years.
Gordon and Graves have
charmed the continent for the
last ten years, and now Mr. Camp
comes with an imperial oratory
that has never been surpassed.
His splendid, gracefu1. periods are
interspersed with enough humor
to prevent a surfeit of beauty.
Mr. Camp has just completed
eight seasons of Lyceum lecturing
He has delivered nearly 1300
lectures in that time and we have
never had one word of criticism.
His endorsements are from the
leading men of his state ex
Governor Northen, Senator Clay,
ex-Governor Atkinson, Senator
Bacon, Gen. John B. Gordon,
Hon Clark Howell (editor Atlanta
Constitution) and Dr. J. B.
Hawthorne. The South has no
higher authority, and we un
hesitatingly commend him to our
patrons. Mr. Camp's subject for
Friday night is The Daughters of
Eve. Tickets on sale at the
Standrad and Asheboro Drug
Stores.
A SUCCESSFUL BOY FARMER.
Jerry Moore, of ' Florence
county, South Carolina,, made
22SS bushels of corn on one acre.
Jerry is a 15 ye3r- old boy, the
son of a Methodist preacher He
entered the boy's corn growing
contest in South Carolina and he
made a wonderful success. The
and he used w as just ordinary
poor land. It . ad been improved
from year to year and built up
to a high state of fertility and
probably under ordinary cultiv
tion would not have produced
more than 10 or 15 bushels of
corn, but Jerry did things differ
ently and succeeded. It is worthy
of note here that he bought his
seed from J. F. Batts, of Wake,
who last year broke the record
with a yield of 226 bushels. The
boy, however, with Mr. Batts
own corn, went him one betrer
and beat his recordr There is
inspiration here for the southern
farmer. What this 15 year-old
boy has done they can all do if
they only will. W ell perhaps not
that, but if one acre can be made
to produce more than 200 bushels
surely the average acre could be
made to produce 50 bushels. And
what a wonderful harvest that
would be if every acre of corn in
the south produce 50 bushel. And
what a wounderf ul south it wduld
be and how we al would pry-r
and thrive and grow.-Raleigh
Times.
Newark, N. J., Nov. 26
Trapped in an inferno of flame,
tour nunarea men anu guw
fought for their lives when the
six story manufacturing build
ing: at High and Orange streets
were destroyed by fire today. ,
The blaze is believed to have
een started when a live cigar
ette stub was thrown among
waste paper on the first floor,
occupied by the Newark Paper
Box Factory.
By noon fifteen bodies had
been recovered, 30 were missing
and 75 victims, many of them
believed to be mortally wounded,
lay in the two chief hospitals of
the city.
Many of the thirty missing
are believed to have lost their
ives when the upper floors
crashed through to the basement.
At the height of the fire three
Roman Catholic priests fought
their way past the police into the
burning stucture and while the
flames roared about them and
falling glass and timbers crash
ed on every side, administered
the last rites to the dying.
The destroyed building was a
veritable fire trap, being ot
frame construction with only
one fire escape.
Upon this the frenzied girls,
and several men, flung them
selves. Most of those whose
bodies have been recovered were
hurled from the fire escape by
the struggling crowds and were
crushed to death on the pave
ments. .
Chief Astley declared that a
rigid investigation, to be fol
lowed by arrests would be made.
"Why that building, was per-'
mitted to stand is a mystery to
me,' said the chief. "'My men
were powerless. Those poor
girls were killed and maimed in
a fire trap.',
Make Up Your Own Mind
When in the need of a cough
medicine. If you buy Dr. Bell's
Pine-Tar Honey we guarantee
you get the best.
Parks X Roads.
Sawmilling is all the go in this
section.
D. A. Cox and daughter visit
ed at B. F. Craven's Thanksgiv
ing. F. r. r.raven and L. B. Gard
ner 'visited at P. E. Highfill's
Sunday evening.
Miss Pearl Mann visited at W.
S. Gardner's Sunday.
Cleve Dorsett and W. E. Bur
gess visited W. S. Garder last
Sunday night.
Miss Sallie Coward "and Mrs
Paola Coward visited at B. F.
Craven's Wednesday.
The democrats are all elected
for the next two years and are
hoping for the president in 1912
and I hope they will get him so
they will have plenty of soup.
Playing Safe.
Johnny," said the teacher,
''this is the third time I have had
to punish you this week, why are
you so naughty?"
"Because," answered the incor
rigible youngster; "grandpa says
the good die young, and I aint
takin' any chances. '-Chicago
News.
far bade from
i ioi'Owin-r am-
-n1
to
Wants To Help Some One.
For thirty years J. F. Boyer, of
Fertile, Mo., needed help and
couldn't find it. That's why he
wonts to help some one now.
Suffering so long himself he
feels for all distress from Back
ache Nervousness. Loss of
Appetite, Lassitude and Kidney
disorders. He shows, that Electric
Bjtters work wonders for such
j timie. Five bottles" he writes
; "wholly cured me and now I am
wp'l ?nd hearty". It's also
prtitively guaranteed for Liv?r
in- Trouble. Dyspepsia, Blood Dis-
mericans I orders, Female Complaints and
T.
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torost to we second.
who know so little of our cour.-'j Malaria. Try them. 50c at J.
trv's wonderful museums hidden Underwood s. Next door
hunting out these remote ruins i down here in the dry land. ' Bank of Randolph