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edolph A RANDOLPH COUNTY PAPR F01 RAN DC LPH CCL'NTY PEC PL E. VOL. 7. NO. 7. ASHEBORO, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1911. ONE DOLLAR A YEAR oMllethnnu Shrouded In Mystery. Samuel S. Kearns Found In Dazed Condition-Remained Semi-Conscious Till DeaHf Circumstances Surrounding Death Seem Suspicous. On Tuesday morning August 14th, Samuel S. Kearns who resid ed in the Salem church neighbor hood, Concord township was found lying on the floor in his home, dazed and irrational. Mr. Kearns lived alone and the last time he was seen was on the previous Saturday. His brother Lee Kearns, going to the resi dence on Tuesday morning made the discovery and summoned the neighbors and called a physician from "Denton. An examination of the hapless patient disclosed bruises on his face and body and that the blow flies had already been there and had gotten in effective work. It is claimed that the doctor made a test for paralysis, but the body was sensitive to every test, refuting the prevailing idea that the patient had been para lyzed. After lingering in a semi-conscious condition till Wednesday night Mr. Kearns passed to the great beyond, without having revealed any probable cause for the state in which he was found. Since the burial of the deceas ed on Friday it has been pointed out by some of the neighbors that certain valuables in money and papers, especially his last will bequeathing" his estate are missing from the house and this naturally gives rise to suspicion that probably foul play was used which theory is also sustained by the bruises found on the body of the victim. It is not known how much money Mr. Kearns had on hand, but as he was a prosperous farm er, he probably had several hun dred dollars in ready cash in the house, and as he lived alone, a designing party could have easi ly dispatched his victim and got ten away with the booty without detection. EXTRA SESSION OF CONGRESS AD JOURNS. Washington, D. C, Aug. 22 The extraordinary session of the 62nd, Congress marked by the passage of the -Canadian Reci procity bill, vetoed tariff revision legislation, the Statehood and other important measures, ad journed sine die at 3:02 o".clock this afternoon, President Taft, who had just vetoed the cotton bill, the last of three revision bills, adversely acted on, was present with mem bers of his cabinet. Presiding officers of both houses delivered T short speeches felicitatihg the members, re gardless of party, upon the good will shown during the session and expressing best wishes for them during the recess of Con gres. The regular session of Congress will begin on Decern ber 4. Atlantic Coast Inventors. The following patents were just issued to Atlantic coast in ventors, reported by D. SWIFT & CO., Patent Lawyers, Wash ington, D. C, who will furnish copies of any patent for ten cents a piece to our readers. VA. James C. Pettit, Crewe, System for locating errors in cal culation. N. C, John L. Latta, Hickory, Pump; James C. Lodor, Wilming ton, Lock; J. C. Moore, North Wilkesboro, Combination shoe. CHARLOTTE SHORT ON WATER Charlotte Aug. 21. -The Char- lo tte water situation become so acute yesterday that the city au thorities ordered the tank car lines to resume night and day operations between the city and the Catawba river. Since this service had been dispensed with for some days it took quite a while to get things running nice ly again. Upon the arrival here late Sat urday of the big pressure filter which the Charlotte authorities had purchased from the city of Asheville, the citizens at once thought it would be only a mat ter of a short while until they would be served with filtered Briar creek acqua pura. The residents had another think com ing to them, however, for the big filter which for some while previous to the installation of Asheville's gravity water system had been the means of purify ing the Swannanoa fluid for the mountain metropolis, rebelled at the idea of spending the test of its days at Briar creek. The big mass of steel behaved itself very well while in the land of the Sky and was loaded on the flat car without mishap. Upon its arrival in Charlotte the city fathers contracted with J. P. Carr to convey the filter to Briar creek. Trouble was Mr. Carr's portion for although he thought he was getting the strong est wagon in Charlotte, it proved helpless under the weight of the monster from filter. The wagon wheel was crushed into numer ous small narfcicles beforp he had proceeded very far; another wheel was supplied, but more trouble came before he went much further. Tonight the fil ter is somewhere near Briar creek and may. possibly be placed in a day or so. A Very Mean Man Secretary Wilson of the United States Department of Agriculture says that about the meanest man he ever heard of was the one in a Southern state whose boy 1 .1 1 t 1 a asKea mm ior tne use oi one acre of ground to plant in corn so that he might compete, for a prize, and the father told the boy he did not believe in such foolishness. The boy persisted, however, and the father finally pointed to a rough hillside, over grown with brush and spotted with stumps and stones, and told him if he would grub that acre and move off the stones, he could have it. The boy went to work and finally cleared it. Then the old man said, "That acre is too good for me to lose. I think I will plant it myself." The boy cried and the father finally said, "Well if you will clear an other acre besides that I won't take it away from you and you may plant it and do what you please." Thereupon the boy again went to work and cleared the second acre. He planted it in corn after our directions, and as a result he made eighty-eight bushels. At the same time his father planted and cultivated the adjoining acre, using the old way. He made just eighteen. Since then the old farmer has been converted to our way of farming. He goes with his boy to the agricultural fairs, and tells about the eighty-eight bush els of corn they raised on an acre, saying, "That is what me and my boy done." In such circumstances can the boy be blamed for leaving the farm? Exchange. Asheboro Public School flnpns Spnt 7th Thp Tp.acherS wvbu w jj a f m v Prospect Good For Prosperous Year. By order of the school board the next session of Asheboro Graded schools will open Thurs day morning Sept. 7th at 8:45 o'clock. The school proper will open at this time but the classifying ' of those students that did not re ceive promotion cards and stu dents that are entering school here for the first time will take place Wednesday morning Sept. 6th at 9 o'clock. It is important that this schedule be complied with. The prospects for a good school are most flattering. Of last year's teachers we have Miss Erwin in first grade1, Miss Stim son in the second, Miss Miller in the fourth, Miss Byerly in the seventh and Miss Wilson in the eighth and ninth. Miss Cora Womble of Moncure, N. C. will have charge of the third grade. Miss Womble is an honor gradu ate of Littleton Female College and comes highly recommended. Miss Bertha Penn from Stella Va. will take the fifth grade in hand. Miss Penn has had sev eral years experience in the Vir ginia schools. She was educated at Farmville, Va. and during the past summer attended the Uni versity - of Virginia summer school. Miss Penn will most assuredly make good. Miss Mary Wilkinson of Reids ville, N. C, will teach the, sixth grade, iviiss Wilkinson-iAt ($, twa years i taught the six an grm at Jamestown High school m Guilford County and was elected for the third year but decided to cast her lot with us. Miss Wil kinson is from our Normal Col lege and has had valuable exper ience. In short our teaching staff in spires us with the feeling that this will be our best years woik Of course we ask the cooperation of the patrons of "the school. We trust they will continue to deal franKly with us and we will con tinue to tell them directly just what we want. They are invited and expected to visit the schoo at any time they have the time A limited number of boarding students will be welcome. 0. V. Woosley, Supt. SEVENTY-TWO HUNDRED PEOPLE TREATED FOR HOOKWORM DI SEASE IN TWENTY DAYS IN FOUR COUNTIES. In the counties of Sampson, Robeson, Columbus, and Hali fax 7260 victims of hookworm disease have been treated at the State and County dispensaries. Nearly double this number have been examined. During the first five days the dispensaries were open only 615 cases were treated whereas during the last five days 2808 were treated. During the twenty days there were treated in Sampson 1682 cases; in Robe son 1352; in Columbus 3047; and in Halifax in 12 days 1169 cases. The County Boards of Educa tion, to show their spirit of co operation, are having sanitary privies installed at all the school houses being used as dispensa ries. Af ter about two weeks the dispensary work will move into new counties. Cumberland, On slow, Wayne and Northampton counties have made the neces sary provision to have the dis pensaries next. The Commis sioners and people generally are highly pleased with the work of the dispensaries. IN MEMORY OF Y. H. COX. "When a good man dies his friends do weep". On August 12th it became our most painful duty to lay to rest the remains of Yancey H. Cox, and while we bow in humble submission to the will of God, we regret keenly the loss of this friend and neighbor from among us. We would, therefore to re-, fresh our recollections of .his past life, take a retrospective look into the mirror of memory, and see there reflected the noble virtues of his character. In writing an obituary, it is not seldom that the good quali- ties of a man are enlarged upon while the less admirable traits are minimized. , In the case of Y. H. Cox this is not necessary. His life lies before us as an open book. It needs no shades. It needs no colorings. Let us merely read the truth from its varied pages. Y. H. Cox was born in the year 1846. At an early age he was left fatherless to face the realities of life alone. He had O. meagre educational advantages, gaining most of his knowledge oy ooservation and experience. y nis unusual perseverance he was soon iar in advance oi ms contemporaries and began to teach school. For nineteen years he instructed in the public schools of the county. He was converted in his youth and after ward joined the Society of Friends. To this church he was loyal till his death. He entered Knto public life in his early man hood and was always a zealous advocate of the cause of right. He was an eloquent orator, a fluent and forceful speaker. He was among the first to advocate the cause of prohibition in Ran dolph county. He was surveyor and county treasurer, and in short, he was any-thing he tried tcs hp Was pnnnl to pvprv oc casion. Strong, resolute, manly- H man that he was master of cir cumstances. Thirteen years ago he retired from public life on account of certain conditions of health which to some extent incapacia- ted him for its trying perplexi- ties. He then devoted his en tire time to farming and stock raising, with an increasing prac- tice as veternary surgeon. He pursued this occupation un- til his death which occurred Aug. 10th 1911. "Who will take the place of Y. H. Cox in our community" is a question that has been asked over and over again. It would be difficult to find a man who has not been benefitted, in some way by Y. K. Cox, no night so dark, no weather so cold, but that he would go to the aid of his neighbor. He was better to his friends than he was to him self. In matters pertaining to religion he was liberal. He cared little for creed. Only the essen tial thing interested him. He always encouraged his children especially those engaged in re ligious avocations, with this fa miliar admonition of his, viz: "Go a-head and do all the good you can". How they should all feel encouraged by remember ing these words of his. He Jov- ed his children dearly and had an intense interest in each of their noble lives. Be ic resolved that the neigh bornood and surrounding couu- try have lost its most useful citizen; that every neighbor has lost his best neighbor; that every man has lost his best friend; and that the bereaved family sustains- Randolph Agricultural and Edu cational Fair, Oct. Jl Nov. 3d. Township Committees. (Continued from last week.) New Hope Township. J. W. Luther L. M. Cranford M. L. Loflin J. B. Carter B. I. Sheets Mosas Morgan l C Elliot j.' u Kearns gam yarner Tj0iph Crowell Grady Thornburg Irvin Lassiter Jesse Luther Arthur Loflin M. W. Garner Concord Townsiiip Marvin Kearns Mrs C. C, Hubbard Lee M.' Kearns Carl Nance WillParrish Ernest Ridge Liberty Township J. M. Williams 0. A. Brower W. F. Swaim Wade Hardin Jno. Devinney Wm. A. Brown A. F. Ward H. C. Causey A. F. Jones Jnes Wm Burrow Asheboro Township Zell Brown Mrs W. D. Stedman Jno. Skeen F. G. Fish Grover C. Redding Jno. M. Hammer Jno. M. Trogdon C. T. Loflin R. Fox H. E. Moffitt Promdtnce Arthur Stalev w R Julian y Ruth Jno. Frazier Wister Routh Glenn White Cecil Fields Coleridge Township J. G. Lowdermilk F. C. Caviness Waite Lambert Coley Gee Thos. A. Cox Cedar Grove Jno. Rush RobaTant E. E. Vuiicanon Hal Kearns jnQ gtout W. W. Hockett R. A. Hinshaw B. S. Moffitt T. S. Graves C. T. Macon I T. J.. Green R. L. Caviness G. D. Allred E. H. Whatley L. T. Branson N. C. Lassiter Grant Vuncanon Irvin Cox v FranklinviUe M. L. Winningham Jim Letterloh E. L. York Jno. R. Brown T?Wf inr-Aan . M. F. Hinshaw IVvUvl V u VJ-uuii " - ; ?uth L. F. Fentress D. N. Trogdon W. P. Conner Broiver Robert Tysbr Garrel Suggs J. S. Macon M. F. Wrenn Ben F. Kearns Wister Moffitt Thos. Maness Clyde Gatlin Lonnie Owen T. B. Tysor Nero Burned By Mob. Coatesville, Pa., Aug. 10 Zachariah Walker, a negro des nerado. was carried on a cot from the hospital here tonight and burned to a crisp by a fren zied mob of men and boys ori a fire which they ignited about a half mile from town. The negro who had killed Edgar Rice, a po liceman of the Worth iron mills, lastf night, was first dragged to the scene of the shooting beg ging piteously for mercy. He had been arrested by a posse late this afternoon after a search which had stirred the country side. When the posse finally located him, he was found hid ing m a cherry tree and with the last bullet in his revolver shot himself in the mouth, fall ing from the tree. He was re moved to the hospital and placed under police guard. a ; reater loss than we can find w lids to express. Together wi m the amily let us all hope anl striv. to meet him in Heaven an i when the perph xiti'-s ofjife gather th:ck : oout is, nen tne i louds ol li apjK)i itmc it hng jlow, when tk begi i to .eel v1" .rp.l let us emeinDer nus paternal advice to his children an ahead and uo all the good you can -A Friend. Miss Cynthia Thornburg " Sallie Hicks Mrs Wilson Hill H. G. Lassiter Jno N. Kearns Mrs Fannie Skeen Miss Tura Cameron " Troy Nance Maggie Horney Mrs P. P. Jones " J.Bom Smith " Lucy Swaim " W: H. Hardin Miss Ida Williams " Chas Smith Mrs v A.Coffin Miss Etta Blair " Laura White Township Mrs -Abe Adams " S. E. Coble Miss Alma Barker Sarah Wood " OBie Redding Mrs W; R. Craven "-W.F.Bray " Amos Hinshaw Miss fidna Caviness " Aline Moffitt Mrs. Mattie Lassiter Mrs Mattie Lassiter Miss Mamie Luck SMaie Ashworth Rosa Barnes Township Mrs Elwood Ferree Miss Berta Ellison " Julia York . Mamie, Ellis .Clara Conner Township " Mrs B. F. Brown " C. M. Tysor " Wm. Moffitt Miss Mattie Beck " Mattie Leach Store and Pottoffice Burned. Spencer, Aug. 18 Fire, which is supposed to have been started by rats, destroyed a large two story store and ppsteffice build ing at Barber-s Junction, Rowan county early today, entailing a loss of $5,000 with $3,000 insur ance. The fire started at 2 a. m. and E. A. Barber, the postmaster who was asleep in the building, had a narrow escape from burn ing to death. A large stock of merchandise and all the mail in the building was burned. Roosevelt Heard From. Pittsburg, Aug. 21. Former President Theodore Roosevelt in a letter to Alexander P. Moore, editor of The Pittsburg Leader, made public today, says: 4iI must ask not only you, but every lriend I have, to see to it, that no movement whatever Ls made to bring- vme forward for the nomination in 1912. I should esteem it a genuine calamity if such a '-movement, were under taken." 'J"'ie leader has been ad vocal - 4nj;'the nomination of Mr. Roost- vc.c ior President in 1912. I Mr. Sidney Anderson and dau- 1 crhter of Greensboro are visiting 1 Mrs. Annie M. Robins.
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