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AND RANDLEMAN NEWS. VOL 11. ASHBORO, N. C WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 18, 1915. NO 7 COUNTY TAX RATE IS INCREASED TO 90 CENT'S Along With Increased Assess ment The Tax Rate is Increased 8 Cents NO MID-YEAR ASSESSMENTS BELIEVED TO BE wnPK" rn? a n a xrn ivepun oi me r armers' Mutual Insurance Association At the last meeting of the Board of County Commissioners,' the tax rata for the county was increased from 82 cents on the one hundred dollars valu ation to 90 cents on the hundred. The order increasing the taxes is as fol lows: Ad valorem on each one hundred dollars worth of property as assessed for taxation 22 2-3 cents for State purposes, 4 cents for pensions, 20 cents for general county purpos es, all under the general revenue law of the State; 17 cents for public roads. Under chapter 582 of the Public-Lo cal Laws of 1915; . 4 1-3 cents for court house and jail indebtedness, under chapter 789 of the Public Laws of 1907; 2 cents for four months school, un der chapter 33 of the Public Laws of North Carolina, session 1913, and oth er existing school and revenue laws of the State, in response to the request of the board of education of Randolph ccunty as prescribed by law; Poll tax, on each poll, for the pur pose prescribed by the general laws of the State, $2.00; And there is also levied a license tax to the full amount allowed by law in each and every case where a State tax is levied under the general revenue and machinery laws of the State, ex cept that no county tax is now levied under sections 32, 48, 55, 66 and 69- of the Revenue Act of 1915; and under section 28 a tax equal in amount to one-half of the State tax, only, is levi ed. A tax of 20 cents on each hundred dollars of assessed value of property and 60 cents on each taxable poll is hereby levied on all taxable property and polls in Randlcman township pur suant to chapter 838 of the Public Laws of North Carolina, 1909, and the acts amendatory thereof. A tax is levied in each special school district in the county at the same rate as was levied last year. The members of the Board of Road trustees for Randolph County were appointed as follows: Clarence Parks, of Franklinville township, and a member of the Coun ty Board of Commissioners, appointed for the term ending 2nd, Monday of January 191. Arthur Ross, of Ashcboro township, appointed for the term ending 2nd, Monday in January 1917. L. M. Cranford, of. New Hope and R. D. Patterson of Liberty, appointed for the term ending 2nd Monday of January 1919, and the clerk to the board is hereby directed to notify said parties of their appointments, and of the fact that they aro directed to meet a i the Court House, Asheboro, on Mon day August 16th, 1915 for the purpose of organizing and transacting any business that may come before them, An order was signed appointing W. J. Scarboro, Ferd Ingold and Hal Worth a committee to settle with the sheriff. R. J. Pearce was reappointed ste ward of the county home or a term of two years, beginning October 1st, at a salary of $300 per annum, payable quarterly, present bond to be renewed. An appropriation of $150 was made to pay half the cost of constructing a bridge on Tibbs Creek, near Moffitt's Secretary, and treasurer W. R. Julian, of the Randolph county branch 5f the Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Association has made the following report. Number of members at this date, 1088, number of new members since the first of the year, 58. " Amount of insurance in force now $1,214,137. The amount paid out for osses last quarter was $66.33; for expepnses, $74.51. Amount of money on hand last report was $2,748,89. There will be no assessment before January, 1915. The amount of cash on hand is $2,567.39. We make this report for the infor mation of members and say further that if any mistake has occurred in any way the secretary would be glad to help correct it and would appreci ate any help in making the Randolph county branch the best in the State. Asheboro Store Robbed Also at Climax, Millboro, Staley, And Liberty The store of Mr. R. C. Johnson was broken into sometime Friday night and several dollars worth of goods taken. While Mr. Johnson cannot tell exact ly what was taken he knows the thieyes got four pairs of shoes, sev LEO FRANK LYNCHED Twenty-Five Unknown Assail ants Overpower Prison Authorities WHO HAS HUNDRED PER CENT. BABY? Randolph's Better Babies Con - test TVill be Held Here September. 3rd Surely Randolph county has a per fect baby and we should like to know . .who owns him. Two babies scored 99 n i V x j i-i at the contest last year. The doctors Leo M. Frank, Georgia' noted life-, . . ... . convict, was removed from, the Geor- Better Babies Contest to be held in eral shirts, a suit case and several ia prison farm at Milledgevillc, Ga.. .the Court House on September the 3, pennies that he had left in the money i onday night by 25 armed men, who under the auspices of the Woman's drawer, lie thinks that many other cverpowered Warden Smith and other C1UD KWP UMar Bie ce P-1 things were taken, but as he had a . . . , calTiedeven m;e8 fOT him- Every mother wai large trade the evening previous and,1 a 3 d cameaeven mi'es breathlessly for the verdict of the Scoring Committee. Application blanks may be secured ROAD MEETING I J i i. . l lare-e niles of o-onds were pottered .away ana iyncnea. over the counters, it is, impossible to tell just what is gone. The robbers evidently got hungry while doing the job, for they went from Mr. Johnson's place to the gro cery store of B. A. Brown and forced en entrance through a front window went in and helped themselves to sar dines, potted ham, crackers, etc. The strangest thing of the whole operation was when they lifted about a dozen AN $100,000 MYSTERY Was John O'Connor and James Kirkman The Same? Leo M. Frank was fouid guilty of from Miss Esther Ross, Asheboro, N. the murder of Mary Phagan on Aug.'c., and should be filled in as soon as 25th, 1913, and sentenced to be hang- 'possible and returned to her and a cd. He was the superintendent of ' committee will see that each child the National Pencil company in At-'registered is properly entered as a lanta. in the basement of Which -he contestant. All hahies from 6 mo ' g.rl's body was found by a night to 48 mo. of age are eligible for this Ior ine x 18 1110111118 5 Da now The "$100,000 mystery" that for che past two years has, caused much specu lation among the people of Nebraska and the west and has aroused no little interest in the east, bids fairto have the last scene of unraveling staged with Guilford County in the spot light. This mystery, whfcti; is familiar to many in this section of the" country surrounds the identity of John O'Con nor, a cobbler who died two years ago in Hastings, Neb., leaving an estate valued at upwards of $100,000. Evi dence is being gathered now to show that John O'Connor was James Madi son Kirkman, one time resident of Guilford and a son of Harrison Kirk man, of Guilford College. Since the cobbler's death there have been over 100 claimants of the estate. Litigation has been in progress over it TOWN OF BIG LICK RAPIDLY DWINDLES Several Years Ago it Waa Thriv ing Place of Over 300 Souls watchman on the night of4 April 27. contest. Repeated attempts wer made in The State Health Exhibit will be in. the state courts to obtainja new trial Asheboro for ten days beginning Aug, To be Held at Glenola Aug. 21 '.lamp emmneys oi miter en t sizes, inis.- """ . .u. vv "- Want Connecting Link.. soes to strengthen the belief that "rts to obtain a writ oi jnaDeas ;o.-. j lessons on sanitation and hygiene. Interested parties have reauested i tllcre 1S an organized hand oi thieves fuo "l 1CUC1!U UB" - ,uv wu vx asucuviw uvo operating in different parts of the lanta ana nnauy in tnc supreme court an expense in getting tnis exniDit Otherwise the thCIt OI the l,i uiuu oiaws ncie iuu c ucic auu evejr wiic aii ivuuuvipu uumr The Bulletin to announce that a road meeting would be held at Glenola school house on Saturday, Aug. 21st, for the purpose of discussing ways and means for the completion of the road from Randleman to Progress thus making all the old plank road a gravel surfaced road. Speakers will be present from Ashe boro, High Point and Randleman and 11 parties interested are urged to at tend this meeting. This is an important piece of road work and no trouble should be ex perienced in raising money sufficient to grade and surface the road on the same score that road work has been carried on in tho county the county paying half the cost and the citizens a half by private subscription. Travers ing the richest farming section of the ccunty the people will certainly raise their proportionate part of the funds and it could hardlv be exnected that the commissioners would do otherwise! than "come across" with their part. Anyhow every citizen in that sec tion rhould make it a point to be' pre sent and show his interest. vvruutv. w uivi rvxoc uig wun wi , - lamp chimneys is inexplainable. On the night of June 21, this year, ty is invited to attend. Special hours The gang has robbed stores within two days before the date set for the 'for the colored people will be an the past four months at Cilmax, Sta- 'prisoner's execution, he was removed rounced later. I- - .... . ' V.a. I mi .11 . jl . a 11 1. ley, Millboro and Liberty, taking from the county jaU in Atlanta in,lj me ionowing is tne entrance DianK about $150 worth of shoes from one' rushed to the state prison farm upon for the contest. Fill it out today and store at the latter place. A negro orders from Governor Slaton, now re man has been arrested and placed in' tired. The next day the Governor u i- N. C. jail in connection with these robber-'rcunced that he had granted a pe- Parents Name I there has been no one able to establish a valid claim. About three months ago, J. F. Kirkman, of Omaha Neb., became interested in the identity of John O'Connor through descriptions carried in the Nebraska papers and fi nally came to the conclusion that the dead man was his father. He began immediately to make investigation and since then has traveled through Kan sas, Illinois, Indiana Ohio, in search of evidence, and yesterday he arrived Un Guilford County on the last lap of les. BIG CROWDS ATTEND THE COBLE REUNION Reunion of The Descendants of George and Jacob Coble is tition made in Frank's behalf asking .Address that his death sentence bo commuted Name of Child in full to life imprisonment. Age in Months at time of contest. A few weeks ago an attempt was.ex made bv J. WiHiam Creen. another convict, to kill Frank by. cutting his PROPOSITION PUT UP throat. Frank's condition was seri ous for some days, but it was announc- t Mi rc0w P.na ABfc,hnr, ia Journey covering over 10,000 miles lie ueueves unit ne nas esiaousneu a chain of evidence that will prove con clusively that John O'Connor was Ja mes Madison Kirkman, his father. According to Mr. Kirkman's story as related to a Daily News reporter, his father was born in Guilford Coun ty in 1838 and left for Indiana in 1855 or 1856. There on December 237-1861, TO THOMASVILLE 'pe married Mary Trickey and to them I 1 ! J W TTfl ITaM o !"VK1a P1mio1i una ivi sujb uaj, uui. ir oimvuiiv,-1 was Dorn one cniia, j. r . unanan. ""u 'ed recently that he practically had re-,11 rroper support is neceivea child Convict Killed at State Farm. Hiram Sykes, one -of the four gun- t i rv t t i-i . men sent to the ocate r arm in December of last year for felonious assault in which a member of the Charlotte police force was seriously injured, was shot and killed last week at the Caledonia farm camp No. 2, in Halifax county. Sykes was serving a 12-year sentence. He attempted to escape when returning from work. Gallimore Gets Two Years. At Davidson County Superior Court Jim Gallimore, who shot and seriously wounded his cousin, Cora Gallimore, a girl of 16, about three months ago near Denton. He was given two years on the roads. He was drunk at the time of the shooting and shot entirely with out provocation. A crowd of people estimated at( anywhere from 1,800 to 2,500 assem bled at Coble's church, near Julian, Wednesday to attend the reunion oi tne ODie lamiiies. ihe morning was very unfavorable, ihe skies threatening rain, yet the people came from every .direction in alt kinds of vehicles, wagons, buggies, ,and auto mobiles, on bicycls and on foot. The services consisted of songs and quartets and addresses. Rev. H. W. Jeffcoat conducted t!ie devotional services. Th family historian, Rv. D. I. Off- man made his report. George and Jacoob Coble were born in Hovenheim, Germany, and came to this country about 1750 or later They both married daughters of Phil ip Gless, who came from Germany too. These brothers reared seven sons and nine daughters. Alh these marri ed save one and from them decended many of the Cobles in this section. Anthony Coble, a cousin of the above George and Jacob, also came from Germany and settled on Beaver covered. RANDOLPH SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION Will Electrify Road Between High Point-ThomasviUe was five years old the father disappeared. Nothing was ev 1 er hear i of him in that section after he left, and, following his disappearance At a meeting held in Thomasv:lle in Indiana nothing was ever heard of ilast week representatives of tho Coler.him again there. A year after this m i 4fffjvrARt.s mHf tho. citizens a nronosi-'second disannearance the wife died. Win convene lomorxow luurninx ----- i - " v. . , , , , "Triw - iPCn wnicn ll accepted. as it prouauiy xne ooy wim was iext au uxpuau nv At 31. U. LmcnjftXWWn - win be mean more to the indus- the age of 6 years, grew up in Indiana of Ramseur development of that city than and then went to Illinois. Later he . anything in its history. In a nut-went to Kansas, and about a year ago The Randolph county Sunday school shellj the proposition) accopted, will 'moved to Omaha, Neb. He was then Association will hold its annual con-- , . , . . Thomas hess than 150 miles f rom the mace vention, beginning tomorrow morning ( h&ye & street railway ser. where John O'Connor died, and the i- ii l .1 1 1 T1 I I tA the M. E. church m Ramseur, Two Dead and One Wounded in Elec tion Riot Two men were killed and one man eriously injured in an election day riot in Breathitt county, Kentucky last week. GUILFORD TO DO HER PART Will Soon Finish Road Toward Ran dolph County. Many have been the questions as to why Guilford county has not iuv i-hed hr part of the joint road from Asheboro to Greensboro and last week Road Supervisor, J. A. Davidson of Ouilford county gave out an inter view in which he stated that the road would be completed shortly, and in this connection it might be stated that Randolph yet has a few miles to gra and the sooner the ' better .or soon will the winter weather set in and the road should be allowed to set- tit before a freeze hits it. The road from Asheboro toward Greensboro is one of the finest roads ever built in the county, wide, well graded and straight, the road from Asheboro to Randleman being an ex cellent piece of work. Inm-fMnl cidinfrc of If o TnoTni-'mncf rTincfanf TfciiKlicif.T7 anrmt. thp 1 1 I - (An, interesting program, has ben -. a t. electric 1 ration over the deceased cobbler's es- prepared and Ramseur is likewise .ailway connccti0n with High Point.'tate finally attracted his attention, prepared to entertain the convention ' fa raiiroad facilities unsur-'.He became interested first because the in royal style. tmased hv nv ritv of its sizo in the man had been a cobbler, a shoemaker. r j y v REACHES NEW YORK'minary steps wcre taken looking to-liarly crippled thumb, that he knew to wards securing these much Fifty-Two Millions Worth Of 'advantages. desired Gold and Securities Sent By Bank of England have been possessed by his father. It was then that he determined to take up the investigation, and he has been ... i TT n Naturally You Would " " steadily ever since, ne is a aay r-aa A nonpr that not onlv trives all laborer, a biacksmitn out naa Deen aDie A snecial train carrvine $52,000,000 of the news, but with it includes a to gather together a little horde against the coming: of old age. That TV JL lIl VJ. gUlU ailU ovuilbivo nuivu till t J -1 W 1 page liiag ailllC liiivi nin - Wn ct,;nn1 the Bank of England nf the heRt. T.iterarv Criti- Uttle Fum laid awav has come into a i " i i , i i .. r tt i-j xt o . . mr t i j ii 'ri mimncA now? ann rnmmnea wili Creek, ?n Clay township. He reared ,lrom "naon via naiuax, in. o. arnv- cisms, Art, music, roetry ana f r-rr- ---ftl,t , t. . La ot New YnrV last. week. L ... R,inHv mao-arine illustrated and it is a native instinct for ferreting out iour sons anu seven aaueniers. rrom,vu "v " j these are decended many Cobles in Guilford and other parts of the coun try. Goethals Retires November First Gen. George W. Goethals will re tire as governor of the Panama Canal zone November 1st, according to the terms oi his resignation recency filed. Storm Blows Down Tent. A storm at Mt. Gilead, Montgomery County, blew down a tent in which Evangelist Ragwnond Browning was conducing a meeting. No one hurt. Heavy Canteloupe Shipments. Fully 1,000 cars of canteloupes have been shipped this season from Fayet- teville, Wilmington and other sections in Eastern Carolina. There were three brothers, David, enry and John, who came from Pennsylvania, and settled in Alaman ce county. Their decendants are quite numerous. Again there were four others, John, arbara, Catherine and Peter, came from Germany with their parents and ettled in Alamance. There are many of their decendants. Still there was another one, John, who lived in Randolph prior to 1792 as he was a prominent man in the Lutheran church congregation at that place about that time. He left many descendants, among whom is ex- Judge A. L. Coble, of Statesville. N a grove Roller Mill Will Soon be Completed. The new roller mill of the Seagrove Iill and Store nnmrmnu will ROOn be vv..T.v ' completed and the machinery from the present mill will "soon be installed in the new building. The mill will be Modern in every respect and is a Alamance S. S. Convention. The Alamance County Sunday School Association will meet at Swep sonville, August 28th and 29th. Jamestown School to be Completed October 1st. The new $20,000 High School build ing at Jamestown, Guilford county will be completed by October, 1st. Boy Dies From Being Struck by Base ball Ivan Johnson, a 16-year-old Raleigh boy died from being struch in a ball game by a pitched ball last wecK. Guilford Property Shows Increase The increase of taxible property in Guilford county is about one and splendid enterprise for that section 'half milion dollars. oj the county. Moonlight School Rally at Lexington. There will be a big Moonlight School tfaily, at Lexington, N. C, August Rantists in Session at JL lllllOliiTV Greensboro The Upper Line of Primative Bap tists of North Carolina held a tnree- a j. day session in Greensboro last week. The train was composed of several printed in colors. This is what you steel cars and was guarded by 40 arm- get by buying "The Philadelphia ed men. Press." Of the total shipment $35,000,000 ( in the daily paper each day a film was in gold and believed to be in the posed by the king of fun makers of form of American double eagles. The the movie screen is given. Who is 'weight was about seventy-five tons, the king? Why Charley Chaplin of It was said to be the largest single course. See him every day in "Tho shipment of gold ever sent across the Philadelphia Press." Atlantic in one vessel. It was brought over in a British bat- L. H. Allred Assignes Proppertyy lo tleship, which was conveyed through Creditors, the war zone and across the ocean by , L. H. Allred, prominent lawyer, leg- a cruiser and a flotilla of torpedo boat islator and until Friday night mayor destroyers to guard against attack of 0f Smithfield, filed a petition in bank- German submarines. The cost of ruptcly Monday night, and assigned transferring it from London to New au hfs property over to J. H. Agell, York was estimated to have been $250- trustee, for the benefit of creditors. 000. Mr. Allred's liabilities were estimated It was said that the British battle- at $25,000 and his assets at half that 1.1' I . 1 1. X .1tr tho tKf ft(( A 1 . .-Infi,,.. onil frionils The historian has gathered over 3,- smP mKai. v j amount, uuk ' AAA ; rani) otiH conliritlO!; TAr New hie raliaf 000 names of the dependents of these , . "J- taillc w lorK, dux aiso a snipmenu uj. gum uco early settlers ana mere are yet many. ' .,,. f.ilwrtv Girl Leaves Training School to be gathered as many have removed " vjohouo, " Qoilie UmioV a white irl Lj-Ii. T Jcently sent gold amounting to $135,- Same Amick, a wnite gin to distant states, from Indiana to ! xr..,. ' r oh,t ok vts feat libsitv UUUjUUU lu iNew xorn. - from the Caswell Training School at . . . i , i i . j it TMern Convict Hated Work; Killed Winston, tne state institution ior w California. Nearly every family in the adjoin ing counties has intermarried witn the Coble family. Prof. J. B. Robertson, supennten e i i J J rprL. A m KAliavnH An unuioal case i's reported from a to have left the place clad only in bent of the schools of Alamance coun- convict camp in Guilford county. A :ZZZ convict named Stuart ended nis y, " "77 "7 buried facts that has proved even more valuable to him. He first went to Hastings, the scene of John O'Connor's last years, and procured from the courts copies of photographs and other data necessary in the work to follow. Five small pho l tographs were found among the dead man's possessions. Two were of him self, taken when he was still a young m V 1 1 1 1 J man. rnese were mentinea yesteruay by people living near Guilford College as James Madison Kirkman. A pho tograph taken of him after his death is also exhibited by Mr. Kirkman, and be says that several people in this county to whom he showed it thought at first it was Harrison Kirkman, of whom John O'Connor is now supposed to have been the son. Among other photographs cherished by the cobbler was one of a young wo man, and another of this same woman with a babe in her arms. Mr. Kins man says he found people in Indiana who positively identified this woman as his mother. One of the apparently insurmounta ble obstacles that stood in the way of identifying the dead man as James Madison Kirkman was that he wad married in Indiana as Gov. N. Kirk- ty, whose mother was a descended negro convict ' . ' , as ossibly barefoot man. The son believes now that this ex- life by annKing aisiniectmg uuiu uu - ;- M . , w been finany overcome. He says that several Guilford County people . . .i -fri. J Ct Antnony ODie, maue a iiivat " - . , , an . M.arvod fccllent address which received much eating soap. Mr. Davidson, m cnarge . ... ' Draise 1 of the camp says that this negro hated " A sumptuous dinner was spread in worK so msucn tnat it was me the grove and was heartily enjoyed only reason ne enaea m& mc. by all present. Thomasville Losing Poppulation. A iccent census of the town of Thomasville shows a decrease of 243 in population. D. H. Coble was elected president of Lexington Child Run Oyer and Killed the association; J. Frank Coble, vice) Little Clay Waitman, son oi o. a. president; H. C. Coble, secretary, and Waitman was instantly killed at Lex- Rev. D. I. Off man, historian. jingtgon last week when he fell from a Wednesday after the second Sun- woodsaw wagon driven by his brother pally owned gas plant in the State op day in August, 1916, was selected and was caught beneath the wheels, erating on a paying basis, the time for the next meeting. Rocky Monnt Sets a Pace. Rocky Mount has the first munici- 11-Cent Parcel Post Stamp An 11-cent parcel post stamp has have told him that James Madison was also known to many while a resident of this county as Governor Kirkman. He believes that when the youth went away and wished to sever forever his connection with home and relatives he took"up the nickname and carried it until his second disappearance. Mr. Kirkman considers his work now practically complete, and expects to return shortly to his home in Oma ha. The thread J of identification that Albemarle, Aug. 15. Not. a Nizhni Novogorod inhabited one-half of the year by a large population to be aban doned the other half for her silent streets to become overgrown with grass and weeds, but rather a deserted village typical of the one so vividly described by Oliyer Goldsmith, is the plight of a once thriving little Stanly county town. This little village is Big Licks, quaintly located among old oaks and elms, which for 70 or 100 years have sheltered the villagers from the summer sun. It lies just 12 miles west of Albemarle. This now almost abandoned village got its name from the habits of the deer which for years before the first dwellings were erected came from all directions and licked the soil over several acres where the little town was built. Dcjr hunters therefore, used to buili "blinds" as they called them, of brush in which they would conceal them selves from the timid buck and roe which frequented the "big lick" as ti finally came to be designated. From this the village which was built on the site of the "big lick" derived its name and when a post office was es tablished there it was named Big Lick. For a long time before and after the Cival War, Big Lick was one of the largest towns in Stanley county, being about the size of Albemarle up to about 30 years ago. The little vil lage reached its zenith of glory about 15 or 20 years ago, when it had a re sident population of about 300 people, an excellent high school, a roller mill. s cottonseed oil mill, a coffin factory and about 10 stores. The high school was largely attended by students from all adjoining counties and many from South Carolina, and from Sep tember 1 to the middle of May the lit tle town was alive with youth and laughter. Then came the beginning of the downfall, with the construct ion of the Yadkin railway from Salis bury to Albemarle. Thi3 caused Al bemarle to make unprecedented pro gress and in this whirlpool of Albe marle's growth, many of Big Lick's , best and most substantial residentJ were caught, and "Forced from their homes, a melon- choly train." they bent their energies to the up building of Albemarle. This exodus continued and then went the cotton seed oil mill. A few years later the high school closed down for the firs;; time in many years. Next went the roller mill and then the last and fatal blow was landed when two years ago the Norfolk Southern railway was built from Mt. Gilead to Charlotte. The survey missed Big Lick just . a little more than a mile and a half. The depot was located on the farm of C. C. Furr, who began to boost and sell off lots. Oakboro grew up almost over night as a result. Then one by one the residents of Big Lick moved to Oakboro. The village teacher went, the village preacher and one of the churches moved, Oakboro applied for and was given a post office. This however, did not at once discontinue the Big Lick office, but several days ago the postmaster, through failure of the Big Lick office to pay for the trouble, resigned and the Big Lick of fice, which had been in existence for 75 years was discontinued. Thus ihe passing of a once thriving village from the ring of laughter and shouts of youth to, it looks like, the "bis lick" of wild animals and the home of owls and bats, for "Have we not seen at pleasure's lord ly call The smilling long frequented village all?"- But it may be in the near future that Big Lick will far Exceed her past glory, for Oakboro, which caused her downfall, is situated less than two miles east of that lovely village site, and has already shown her tendency, as seems to have been the case in the experience of most cities and towns, to grow westward and already has stretched herself for three-quarters of a mile up toward Big Lick. There fore, as Big Lick is much higher and a more beautiful place for residences, she may yet come to life and become the resident section of Oakboro and the former residents of Big Lick may "As a hare whom the hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the place from whence at first he flew, Still have hopes, their long vexations past, Here. to return and die at home at last." Mutt And Jeff Again. Bud Fisher, who furnishes the Muttbe has soughtout and found will later Southern More A 1 W.. nrA Whislrev In the various addresses at the an-, been authorizd by the postoffice de- and Jeff feature to the papers, has be gathered up by an attorney he has rnal meetine of Friends at Guilford partment. signed a new contract wmcn wui orwg ployed in the case, PnlWe this week the sentiment was The new stamp is to be dark green him a salary of over $1,000 a week Court8 have been threshing out strong against war and strong for and with the profile head of Benjamin more than the President of the U. s. prohibition. - Franklin. . Receives. (Continued oneditorial page) Lets Contract For Double Track. The Southern Railway has let con tracts for double tracking for 36 miles between Concord and Greenville, S. C. Tags for over 700 dogs have been is sued in Greensboro. The license is $1.00 a head.