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No 26
VOL XXXIV"
ASHEBORO, N. C, THURSDAY July 8, 1909.
COURIER.
OLD TRINITY SCHOOL
County May Buy This Historic
School Property.
$8003
FOR BUILDINGS
GROUNDS.
AND
Interesting Newi Xotes from the Meeting
oftlie ( unity School Hjrd--Ur.
Weeks to Head Trinity llifjh Hchool.
The Couurv Board of Education
was in session at ihe CourthonBe
Monday and TuesUv.
The Hoard r lec d Pnf. E. J.
Coltraue County Suj etinteuueui if
Public InstnioHin. Prof. Coltrane
has made a caret ul ud energetic
superintendent and the schools have
progressed under his management.
The Board also fixed tbe salaries
of the teacaers, and appointed the
school committeemen for each dis
trict. The average salary of teach
ers for next year will be $32.15.
In school improvements the boatd
autoorized the erection of s.veral
new school buildings. Marlboro
school, district No. 3, and Level
Cross, district No. 5, or New Mark
et township will have $1,200, and
$600 building3 respectively.
Otbeis are Black's school, district
No. 2 and Payne school, district No.
3 of Liberty township and Shepherd,
district No. 5, of Tabernacle.
Repairs and additions were ordir
ed for Bombay Institute and Pleas
ant Grove school house.
A full C3rps of teachers have been
elected for the State High Schools.
Dr. Stephen. B. Weeks has cou
sented to bead the Trinity High
School and will be assisted by Miss
Alice Hayworth, of Asheville, aud
Misses Elbie Miller and Oorrinna
Auman, of Asheboro, will be assist
ants. Prof. T. D. Sharpe, of Greensbo
ro, a graduate of the State Univer
sity, will be in charge of the Liber
ty High School, and Prof. , Geo. W.
Bradshaw, of Virginia, at Farmer
High School will be assisted by
Miss Mamie Lanube, of Jamestown
and Miss France Marshall of Mt.
Airy. Miss Clyde Kearns will
teach music.
An interesting item to the people
of tbe county is that tha Board of
Trustees of Trinity College have of
tered to sell the countv the buildings
and grounds of Old Trinity College.
The price offered is $8000 and it
is believed that the county will take
over the property and make "Old
Trinity" the largest and best equip
qed High School in the State.
The Board has the matter under
consideration.
SUICIDE AT HIGH POINT.
Wtiile Despondent Prominent Physician
Hangs Himself.
Dr. J. W. Burton, a well known
physician of High Point, committed
suicide last Thursday by hanging
himself in his stables.
Ho had tied a hitch rein to one of
the rafters of the stable, and having
looped the other end around his
neck, had jumped from a box out
into space. lie was dead when
found.
The cause of the suicide was pro
bably ill health and despondency.
Since the death of his wife about
two years ago. Dr. Barton's health
hai been bi d, and it is thought that
be had grown tired of Buffering, tie
ia sui v.ved by three sons and three
daughters.
Dr. Burton was an uncle of Mrs.
H. H. Kennedy, of Asheboro.
Boy drowned at Coltraue' Mill.
The 15 year old son of Shube
Walden was drowned at Coltrane s
Mill Saturday. Young Walden
with two companions were in swim
mmg, and while attempting to cross
the pond he became helpless, and his
comrades could not rescn mm in
time to save him. His body was re
covered a short time after.
He ward forShelton,
Got. Kitchin to-day offered a re
ward of $210 for Marvin Shelton
who murdered Oscar Woolwine in
btokes county last Easter. The two
had been friends and quarreled
aoout some trilling matters.
Monameat Unveiled.
QAt Guilford Battle Ground Sat
nrd&y two monumeuti were anveiled
one, a massive granite monument
im memory of Dr. David Caldwell
and the other a statue of "Clio," the
muse of History. Several thousand
peeple witness the ceremony.
MRS. J. M. MILLIKAN DEAD.
A Good Woman Passed Away After a
Liugeriog llliien Mt firceiisburi.
Mrs. Janiett M. Milirau, waose
illness has been noted in ties col
umns from time to time for tue past
several weeks, died Saturday in fi n
ing at her home at Glen wood,
Greensboro. Her death was caused
by turn r of the bruin. Mrs. Milli
k.iu bee line ill some time go and
vas taken to Baltimore , f;w weeks
ago for iin operation in the hope of
'.enefitiiJa; er. Tni openttion was
perform1 c! by au eminent upeci.tlisi.
Mrs. iMillikan ws born in Kan
duljih Cjunty thirt) -eight years mjn
and was married to J. M. Millik:u,
U. S. Marshal. som? time befnr
they moved to Greensboro ubou t
twelve years ago. San is survived
by her husband and four children,
two boys and two girls, tleyonugest
being only ten months old.
Mis. Millikan was a woman of
many lovable traits of character.
Early in life she joined the Method
ist Church and when she went to
Greensboro she had her m-mbeiship
transferreJ to Grace M. P. Church,
of which she was a loyal and devout
member at the t'me of her death.
The funeral was held at Grace M
P. Church at 10 o'clock Sunday
morning. Rev. T. J. Ogburn, the
pastor, conducting th service.
"The state Democrat."
Mr. J. C. Caddell will begin th
publication of "the State Democrat"
at Raleigh the first of August. It
will bs a seven column four page
paper.
Mr. Caddell was for many years
raveling correspondent for the
B.blical Recorder, and was at one
time the editor of the Raliegh
Evening-Times. He is a writer of
force and ability, and his friends ex
pect that be will make his n?v
venture a most interesting and
readable paper.
Big Treasury DeHriu
On July 1 the end of the fiscal year
the Treasury of the UniteJ States
found its receipts behind its expen
di tares to the tune of about $94,000.
000. The total receipts were $597,
000,000 of which sum $298,000,00
were derived from customs, $242,000,
from internal revenue, and $5(i,000,
000 miscellaneous. The expendi
tures are about $691,000,000, of whin
amout $154,00,000 were civil. $128,
000,000 for the War Department,
and $115 ,000,000 for the Navy De
partment.
Night Riders Get New Lease.
Jackson, Tenn, J ily The
cases of the eight night riders, 6 of
whom were under tbe death sentence
charged with the murder of Captain
Quentin Ra kin. at Walnut Log, on
Keel foot lake, October 19 last, were
reversed by the State buprenie
Court today and were remanded for
new trials.
Drank Carbolic Acid.
Ex-Policeman L. D. O'Kelly, of
Durham, drank carbolic acid for
whiskey Monday morung and died
a short time after. O'Kelly was
sick and took what he thought wis
a bottle of whiskey from the mantle
anddiank. It proved to be carbol
ic acid.
Death of.Mrs. Kllgo.
Mrs. Catherine Kilgo, mother of
Rev. J. C. Kilgo, D. D., of Trinity
College, died a; her home at Blen
heim, S. C, last week; She was 82
years old and bad been an invalid
for two years.
Early Goes to New York.
John Early,the leper, has beentaken
to New York where he will be
treated at a skin and cancer Hos
pital. He left Washington for New
xork last Friday.
Death at Mocksvllle.
Mk. C. O. Sanford, one of Mocks
ville's most estimable women died
Monday morning, aged 53 years,
Besides her husband she is survived
by. f our children.
Confederate Reunion at Charlotte.
The lonfederate Veteran's Re
union at Charlotte will be held An
gust 25th. A special rate of one
cent a mile has been secured from
the .ailroads.
Yadkin Man Suicides.
David O. Hutchine, of Yadkin
County, an inmate of the State Hos
pital at' MorgantoD, committed
au'cide Monday by hanging him'
self at a secluded spot in the woods
In... ihi knmk1 '
MKRKDITII NICHOLSON,
WHY I AM A
Or. rint i loru iovedith Vinhnl.
son, the well known author living
Indianapolis, wrote an article greyest Kiory uau ue possi
ving reasons whv he was a Demo- I ble under a government created by
crat and why the Democratic parry
Dlimil,i tnlit. th Bimnnrt o fl'tlm
triotic an 1 liberty ivmg cii,ze..s.
berty iving
While the article relates to tbe issues
of the canmaicm rive vears aero, vet
fho nrinf.iniq;rp,9fit-forth in aifh'Hn
ntelligent and illuminating manner,
we publish the article in full. The
reasons assigned then by this distin
guished and great thinker should ap
peal to all thinking men today, j
The article is worth preserving
in your scrap book,
The article in full is as follows:
I am a Democrat. My i.arri an-
ship does not rest on the St. Louis
platform alone, or on any other par
ty statement, but on the prim try
and essential ideals of government,
dating back to the founders of the
republic the eurly interpreters ol
the constitution, of which the Dem
ocratic partv has, by tbe procesess of
time, become the special custodian
and defender. The St. Louis con
vention of 1904 offers the most reas
suring evidence wejhave bad iu many
years that popular government has
not been yielded wholly to buck
rammed bourboniam and that the
yeast of democracy working in tbe
hearts and minds of men, has not
lost its potency. Tbe permanence
of a republican form of government
reats upon open and free discussions
of matters of public policy. The
Republican convention ot 1904 was
meiely a gathering of delegates
assembled to do the bidding of the
select coterie of bosses and magnates
which dominate the Republican par
ty. The difference between the two
conventions marks the difference be
tween autocracy and democracy.
The J republican party s arrogaut
assumption of all right and all vir
tue, an attitude bred of long con tin
nance in power and personified with
amazing candor and violence in
Colonel Roosevelt, is well calculated
to give pmse to young Americans
who do their own thinking, and
are able to approach tbe etady
of recent American history abiaed
by old and worn out qi e :tione.
The Republicans are eager to en
list young voters, and make a cheap
bid for their support through ap
peals supposed to be particularly en
ticing to youth.
But a young voter who can read
the history of his country with un
derstanding is likely to question the
arrogant pretentions of a party
which measures his intelligence by
bis joy in brass bands, and takes it
for granted that an ugly corsair like
Pierpont Morgan, a snivelling hyp
ocrite like Thomas Piatt or a sub
sided comedian like Ghaaney Depew,
will be accepted by American yonth
as examples of American manhood
and olean citizenship. He mar
Question, too, if he be cf an inquisi
tive turn, just how John Rockfeller'i
annual income of forty fi t bMU
n Woll Kaavra Writer,
DEMOCRAT.
I dollars a vaster sum than
dreamed of by Solomoo in the days
j the simple homespun tolK who said
they were tired of kings and would
jsufferthem ro more. Tbe
young
man who believes that such fortunes
B tose of the Gin Us, tha Rock-
fellers and the Carnegies c n be
1 amassed without the connivance ot
law aud the prostitution of govern
nient must be a reader of dream books
and the prey of the green goods man'
1 di not believe that the young
men of Indiana are of such flimsy
stuff that they can be lowered by the
cry of the bugle or led by the j ingle
ot gold.
ihe Republicans can leil you
that their party the party of Lin
coin saved the nation. I do not
forget the Civil War; I yield to no
one in my loyalty to the memory of
Lincoln or in my joy tht slavery
was destroyed and the Union pre
served. My father was at Shilob
and on to the sea. But the Republi
can party, fonnded on a moral issue,
has become the instrument of power
wielded by the few for the oppress
iou of the many. The Republican
party has not, in forty years stojd
for an idea that was not based on
greed. If Wendell Phillips and
William Llovd Garrison might
speak to-day with the r old fire we
should hear their voices raised
against a party which, trading on
public confidence, has intrenched
itself behind the doctrine that might
makf i right and that prosperity and
success are inherently the outward
mark of righteousness, Prosperity
is not in itself an ideal. Kings
prosper. The pirates that lay in
wait at Tarifa piopered. Our law
protectd and law enriched commer
cial barons prosper and will oontinue
while their ally, the Republican
party, continues in power. The
Republican party of 1904 is no
more the party of Lincoln than the
Church of the Inquisition is the
church of Rome we know to-day.
Men change, institutions totter and
fall; only righteousness and hope in
the heart of man abide.
And while we are referring to
moral issues let ns not overlook
the pleasant picture offered in the
sovereign State of Utah, where the
Republican candidate for Vice-president
has lately been making a sneak
ing tour with our old Mormon
brother, Smoot, whose wives number
four, with nil tbe returns not yet
in. The party of I'latt, Odell and
Smoot may be the party of Lincoln,
bat.i it has certainly changed
its clothes. I admit that all Demo
crats are not saints, but I must in
sist that the spectacle of the poly,
gamist Smoot sitting on the Repub
lican aide of the Senate with Depew,
Pairbaoka and Piatt is as droll a
democracy ever offered in its darkest
days.
The Republican party's chief ap
peal to consideration in the year of
icui Lad, 19(4, ii Isstd on materia
aud mil $u",L'braT
-pK-n tiil altar to mammon aim
thi iws over ii. the stars and s:ripjs.
It chuges with disloyalty aud trea
son ail who (jiit-stion its wisd m o.'
thiciiru its overtnrow. Young
uien ate urged to become Repub
licans because Roosevelt, backed by
Wall Stref's ageuts in co igress "do
things." Aud they do! They have
made popular government a farce
ney have strongly entrenched iliem
selves by the su e of special privil
eges, and the Hopes or tne D;cl.ir..
uou of Independence anl fae solem.i
uai. nues ot' trie coustitu lo.i they
ijae isneeringly and wiin inceasiLg
lullti-nce ign..n-4. Talk about tLe
sanctity of the ll ig! Tuey have in
voked it as a fetich aud counteifeited
it for puny trade-mark.
Territorial expansion with i ta
greater opportunities for war, blood
shed and avarice, appeal uaturally
to the imperial Napoleonic mind of
the Kepublican candidate for Presi
dent. 1 believed aud still believe
that.our interference iu Cuba was jus-
uueu on humane grounds; but to tree
Cuba and siezeas the spoils of war an
Asiatic Empire, requiring the main.
teuance of military andoolonial gov-
e-ument at vast expense an origi
nal items of twenty million dollars
to the conquered foe, as the hrst
item proved glaringly the auiaz.ng
capacity of the Republican party for
sowing the multiplying dragon's
teeti of mischief and rain. But
the device of diveitng attention
from home affairs by schemes of war
and conquest is as old as Ceasar and
aa fraugut with peril as Napoleon.
We have realized in Colonel Roose
velt ail the worst elements found in
us s a people by foreign critics,
bombasts, uunicombe and brag. It
is beside the point that he is trained
iu business save policies aud has
been practically all his life a seeker
of political jobs; but it is certainly
fair criticism th : he not only lacks
the sobering inilance of a knowledge
of law, but shows a temperamental
disincliLation to Bubmit to law.
No lawyer would have set the stage
tor tbe opera bouffe strategy that
delivered Panama into our hands;
No lawyer would have signed pen
sion order 78 in contravention of
existing law.
Protection for the sake of
protection is now brazenly pro
claimed by Col. Roosevelt ai the
prime article of Republican faith.
A hot-house commercial system
that must be co.xeo, nurtured and
np-held ty legislation lavoiab'.e t"
a few tribute paying apital;sis a d
trusts .'s rot en and doomed to die.
Col Roosevelt, u one time favorable
to tariff rtviciou, just as he was once
an honest advocate of the merit sys
tem, has yielded to the hour's exi
gency and recognizes that rspubu-
can;sm depends absolutely on main
taining ids present co-partnership
wiin trusts and monopolies, without
the good-will tf the trusts monopo
lies; without the boodle of the tariff
beneficiaries, the Republican party
would no: live to see another cam
paign.
Col. Roosevelt has captivated his
party with his notions of wider hori-
zous and greater spheres of influnce.
tie would impart to America a vil
lage bully's proclivity for ''butting
He is distinguished by a max
imum of physical energy and a min
imum of moral earnestness and
steadfastness. On our side of the
Alleghenies he is the unbridled
broncho buster; in the East he is a
reformer and a good boy of aristo
cratic Knickerbocker blood. His
vaulting ambition has led Col.
Roosevelt of late to square himself
with tbe corsairs and the chief's of
bis own patty whom he bad estrang
ed at times when it amused him to
play at the scholar in politics.
After years of pretended devotion to
civil service reform he destroyed at
one blow tbe esprit ae crops, of our
army by crowding over the hiads of
hundreds of veteran officers an ob
scure doctor named Wood, who was
his personal friend. He found a
job in the New York custom house
for Clarkson, an Iowa spoilsman
who was tbe rankest dispenser of
pap that the post office department
ever knew. He has lately made
peace with "Lou Payn"and enter
tained him at the White House,
Payn being a New York politician
of low g ade, whom Uoosjvelt when
governor ot New York, lemoved
from office for cause. A protective
tan i to fon the people by artificial
prosperity and to insure a lepublictn
campaign fund; a long tenure of
offices to avoid any opening of the
books and an occasional war to keep
(Concluded on Foarth Pag)
NOVEL BALL EVENT
Asheboro Base Ball Team Will Play
Cherekee Indians.
NOVEL FEATURE OF BASE BALL
AT NIGHT.
lied Men B'nt A-lu-lxiro In Sensational
(.aiiir I iiiisiial Attract itati of Hasp
Hull t iider ,. Odo ('simile Power
I'.lerti ii- l.itiiH m It HI Kt Play
ed flmr day, July l.'Ui.
A e y novel eveit wii! ,ii will
t ik" place Hi Abhe'KTo on .lie 15th
i.i.-t in tin- i'uine of b, 8' h.i be
tween the local leiMii and 111" Chtro-
kce Lidhui?, on .if-:n -vy.
of the 15th intt.
The gre ;t fe.tun-, f r
in our S'a'e heretofore, i
of luts-e ball thtit. will De
uiLit bttwceu the lotal
lie Indians under t
...u ! night
never tetn
i the game
played at
team and
brilliant
illumination f'f fifty thorsitud candle
power electric ight, which tbe In
dian management bring with them
as part of their equipment. They
also bring along portable grand
stand, which will be used in order
that all those attending the games
will be comfortably seated. This
will be used in connection with the
grand stand with which the park is
already supplied, to gnarantee that
the large crowd, which will undoubt
edly attend this unusual exhibition,
may be comfortably accommodated.
The'first game will be called at
3 o'clock Thursday afternoon, and
the night game will begin at 6
o'clock.
LINE-UP.
Indiuu Translation Position
Peuobsqu'S Spotted Tail lb
Guispansis White Cloud P
Apohaqui Three Rivers L F
Waumbeeka Scar Face 2b
Secontee Red Horse 3h
Itasc Sitting Bull, Jr. O F
Natalonita Man-Afraid-
of- Himself SS
S-isquin
Agudwum
Cobossee
Minnetonka
Obasco
Big Bea er R F
Navajo G
Swift Horse Sub.
Bad Man Charlie P
Black Eagle P
Asheboro Presnell, lb; Free and
Cox, Pitcher.; Davis, L F; Arm
strong, 2b; Fox, 3b; Worth, C F;
Rush, & S; Winslow, R F; Stedman,
Catcher; Spencer, Sub.
TERRIFIC STORM.
Many People Injured In Wrecked Base
Hall Graad Stand.
A terrific rain, wind and hail
storm passed over Greensboro Sat.
uuday afternoon. The Grand Stand
at White Oak bill park was blown
do a and several occupants were
injuied. liaywood Myrick, a menu
b r of ihe Revolution Band suffered
a broken arm and Wm. Price, aged
15 years was seriously injured, Oth
er buildings were seriously damaged
by wind and tbe lightning tore away
one end of St. Paul's M. P. Church
at the Revolut on Mill.
Crops are badly damaged.
Kamseur Negro Found Dead.
The body of William Moffitt, a
negro who up to a tew months ago
lived near Uamseur, was found
dead in a wooos near Statesville.
He hud been dead some time as de
composition had set in. After a
thoro gb investigation by the coro
ner no evidence of foul play whs
found. Moffett had been dodging
the oflbers of Randolph for several
months on account of a warrant
charging him with an affray.
Base Ball
On Friday afternoon tbe Oth inst.
a quick and mappv game of base
ball will be plaved by the White
Oak Base Ball Team and the Ashe
boro Base Bull Team at the Ball
Park, game to be called at 4:30
o'clock sharp.
Ihe same teams will play a second
game, on the home grounds on the
afternoon fcl'owing the first game,
tbat-iS't )-say, on Saturday aft jrnoon
the 10th inst. at 4:30 o'clock.
Both these games will be good ones
and the public will be well paid for
their attendance.
Botlsr xpUdas.
Mr. A. A. Potts, aged 45, was
killed and his son, George Potts,
aged about 21, was mortally wound
ed by the explosion of a boiler of an
engine while operating a threshing
machine on the G. A. Allison place,
one half mile from Advanct, Davie
ounty, Monday morning. Mr. A.
I A. Potts ig survived by a widow and
several children.