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THE COU ( "Che COURIER Leads In Both News and . Circulation. 1 ohe COURIER i i Advertising Columns Bring Results. ! RIER. baued Weekly. PRINCIPLES, NOT MEN. " " 31.00 Per Year VOL XXX1VI ASHEBORO, N. C, THURSDAY, September 2, 1909. No. )7 MISSIONARY MEETING MUCH INTEREST MANIFESTED . Several Out-of-Town Speaker Pretest -Delegates Lunch In Church--Judge Eure Speaka. The annual meeing of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Greensboro District converted in the M. . church here en Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock. Mrs. Blanche Carr, of Greensboro, presided and devotional exeroises were conducted by Rev. 3, A. Wood. The first speaker on the program was Mrs. Crawford, of Winston. She is secretary of the Womans' Foreign Missionary Society of the Western North Catolina con ference. Mrs. Crawford spoke up on the subject, Woman's Work for Woman,"bringing out some of the important points in the lives of heathen women, and told of the . work that the society was doing for them. Miss Irene Boyles, of Greensboro, fave a delightful talk on "Why We hould Study The Foreign Field," explaning the need of the Mission study class, its interesting points and the work it accomplishes. Judge Eure, of Greensboro, was introduced and in an eloquent ad dress disscussed Missions in general, dwelling upon the subject iu all its magnificense and grandeur. Dur ing his remarke Judge Eure reveal , ed the need of the Christain reli gion in foreign countries, saying that this above all, could place them uuontbeir feet and lift them to a plain of higher civilization, Mrs. Alley, of Greensboro, spoke briefly of the need of a larger local organization and succeeded in se curing some honorary members. Special music comb ihed with the splendid talks made the evening an enjoyable one. Wednesday morining was devoted to the reports of delegates after devotional exercises by Mrs. R. R. Alley, of Greensboro. First came the report from the children' socie ties, followed by reports from adult societise, several delegates making interesting taiks. Miss Irene Boyles, of Greensboro, read a paper npou the subject "The Necessity and Influence of Young Peoples' Societies," which was very interesting. Following this, Mrs. R. R. (Alley made a few remarks upon "Our Indivividual Relations to Missions," dealing with the respouBibilits of each Christian woman ac J. her debt to the heathen world. After devotional exeroises by Mrs. Crawford, adjournment' was taken !ior dinner. - ' Lunoh was served in the Sunday school room to all present. , The afternoon sesai6n was de- voted to Round Table Discussion, in which almost every one present took part. Many delegates were present and much interest was manifested in the meeting. The local organization feels bet ter able to go on with its work after associating with thwe ardent work- ers who came from afar to be with us. We invite them to our city again. ' Hotel ColIapMa. A large hotel in course of con strnction at Marion colli psed Tues day afternoon and three persons were probably fatally injured in the accident. For some mioutes after the collapse no one dared enter the building as the outer walls did not fall and therefore much heavy tim ber was still overhead with the prospect of faliicg at any .moment. Several other peisons were slightly injured, all being emiioyed on the work. Mr. Zeb V. Turlington, representa tive from Iredell county in the last legislature, was light badly hurt in a runaway at his home in Mooresville last week. A bone in his left hand was brokea and he otherwise bruised up. Mrs. Turlington and a little daughter were also slightly hurt in the runa way. SavsthnMh . j of Charlotte Observer of the C ne nr"ieot cotton of the season was sold on this market Jeweidjiy, bringing $75.75. .It was fZn tbJ Cr-ortey Green on the Mmf,f F-8tonback. f Man fall 1 cl?y Unda with normal "' "wi i will, make average crop, -aj land not so good. ABOUT RURAL TELEPHONES. A Warning Agalnat Allowing the Bell Telephone Company to Cet Control. StatesTille Landmark Within the past yer the Bell Telephone Company has been mak ing great efforts to secure rural connections in this part of the State. The newspapers that are under ob ligations to the Bell, either by re. ceiving free service or service at greatly reduced rates, and ether pa. pers which have been innocently worked on the idea that they were helping the farmer, have beea liber ally used to exploit the advantages of the telephone in rural communi ties. As a part of this plan for the promotion and advancement of the Bell in rural communities, an "Ag. ricultural Conference" been called :o meet in Chailotte in the near future. Speakers have been secured from Agricultural Department at Wash ington for this conference and "The Rural Telephone" is one of the top ics to be discussed along with "Soil Renovation," "GrowiugSmallGrains" etc. While ostensibly an agricuitur. al conference, it is apparent tbatthis conference is in reality for the ex ploitation of the Bell telephone. It was promoted by a Bell man whose custom it is to work for his com pany after this manner. The advantages of telephones iu rural communities are apparent. There is no argument on that point. They are not only a luxury and con venience to rural dwellers, but they have become a necessity and, The Landmark urges the establishment of telephone lines in every neighbor, hood. But the public Bhould remember an important fact right here. Woo gave the rural communities this great convenience-? The Bell com pany? Not at all. Before the ex piration of certain telephone patents, a few years ago, there were . no rural telephones in . the small towns. While the Bell controlled the service was so expenshe that telephones were in use in only a few of the larger towns of the State, and only to a limited extent m these towns These patents expired. The manu facture of telephones and telephone matrial was begun by other compa nies and the products sold at great ly reduced prices. Independent tel ephone companies were organized in the small towns and villages and in the rural communities and telephone lines were stretched all over tne State, the service being pnt at a price in the reach of all. All this, mind you, was independ entof the Bell. When tha monopoly saw the spread of the service, saw that the telephone had become not only a luxury but a necessity almost everywhere, it Bet about to get pos session of the whole field. Inde pendent companies were bought or crushed, put out of business wher ever possible; and it is always the case that wherever the Bell gains tuture control rates are raised, often where the service is no better and iu some lustances not as good. This is the case in towns and it will be so in the country if the rural dwellers don't have a care. Those who fall into this trap so skillfully laid by the smooth tongned gentry employ ed by the Bell, will suffer in the end. The history of the past shows that. The counties in the State that have the most rural telephones, where the service is the best devel oped and of most benefit to the farmers, are these where independ ent companies prevail. Union and Iredell counties show this. The farmers should organize, control and operate their own lines and keep them free from any entangling al liances with the Bell company. In cases like Charlotte and Salisbury, where the Bell controls, rural lines will of course have to make arrange ment for connection to get into the towns, but they should make these contracts with care or they will find themselves bound hand and foot. It is only recently, we repeat, that the Bell company has begun to give attention to rural lines. It is doing that now because the inde . pendent companies have developed the field and given the farmer ser vice at small cost. Now great in terest is manifested in the welfare of the farmer. That interest, as the facts show, is self-interest. Il some cases, for purposes of ite own, the Bell will offer the farmers fairly liberal terms to get them enlisted. But if they get where they can't help themselves look oat for the squeeze. That has been the case in urban communities; it follows that it will be so in rural. In an ad joining county, where the Bell con trols, The Landmatk is advised that country people who ba?e 'phones have to pay to get into the county town. In the case cited the dis tance was only 12 miles. At the same time free connection was given to btatesville and other points where there are independent companies. Almost any concession is made to destroy a rival, but once competi tion is destroyed the monopoly re cuperates by excessive charges. Last week the Bell company was given permission to raise its rates in Wilmington and Asheville. The races were already as high $2 $2.50 and $3 per month as the av erage man can afford, but they were raised 50 cents in each inatince. The company offered figures to show that; it was making nothing from its investments in Wilmington and Asheville. It is easy to Jo that if one accept the figures of the company. In a recent issue of the Baltimore Sun stock of the Ameri. can Telephone and Telegraph Com pany (che parent of the Southern Bell) was offered for sale as an in vestment. In this advertisement it was stated that for 25 years stock in the comnany had not paid less than 71 per cent and that for the past three years it had paid 8 per cent. In addition, says the adver tiseme it, there is always a surplus. "For the five months of the present year, ended May 31, the company had a balance, aftr payment of in terest and dividends out of eirmngs of that period, of $0,229,685, or nearly $1,000,000 greater than for the corresponding period of 1908. This statement is quote I from the advertisement of toe company and it means that it earned enough money in five months to pay all ex penses, interests and dividends for the period and to put aside about six and a naif millione ai a surplus If the company admits it is making that much money, it can easily be imagined that its real earnings are more. How does it make so much money? By charges for its service such as are made at Wilmington, Asheville and elsewhere. But enough for the present. The Landmark desires simply to remind the people of the smaller towns and rural communities especially; that the tfcil didn t give them ser vice and they wouldn't have the ser vice to-day bat for the independent companies; and to warn them to be ware of the agents of the monopoly, whether they come in the guise of agricultural conferences, religious meetings, or what not; and they might take with some grains of al lowance the utterances of newspapers that exploit things for pay, dnectly or indirectly. am Hant Blaody. Two negroes were lynched, a prominent white man was shot and killed and several other persons were wounded near Soperton, G ., last Friday. One of the negroes lynched was an escaped convict while the other was put to death for harboring the convict. The white man was a member of the posse after the es caped convict and was shot by him. The sheriff of Montgomery county was also probably fatally wounded before the negro was finally shot to death. Mrs. Ellen Holton, of High roiot, wno wnne on a visit to her son, Mr. E. W. Holton, of Morgan ton, recently fell on the sidewalk of Ervin street at Morganton, and broke her arm, has entered suit against the town for damages. She claims that the injury was doe to the dangerous condition of the side. walk at the place where she fell. Death of Mr a. Johneon. Mrs. Johnson, wife of ex-sheriff J. J. Johnson, died at her home at Pittsboro last week of typhoid fever. She contracted the disease while nursing her son, who is now on the road to recovery. Wadeaboro Wanta Shope." The Deoole of Wadeabnrn urn making a strong effort to have the shops ef the Southbo md Railroad located at that place, and will inarfe some special inducements to the Company to get them. Mr. Jaa. A. -filakenev anA fh first bale of new cotton at Charlntu Saturday. The bale weighed 496 pounds and brought Mr. Blakenej it cents per ponna. LETTER FROM MR. FARLOW. ! See Some ol the Beneflta of the Farm ers' Union in Mecklenburg County Recently. I would like to say iust a few words to the farmers again this week. I have been workintr in Ta bernacle township and find that sen timent is almost unanimous in favor of Unionism, still there seems to be a holding back, a fear, or doubt, in the minds of a great many of our farmers as to the genuineness of this great plan for self-protection. Of course we are glad taat our farmrrs take time to consider carefully, not only this movement, bnt all other problems that present themselves to tne farmer of the present day, and I for one urn glad that it is so. It proves to me that we are living in a progressive age and that we want to reach that high standard of civiliza tion and morality whioh we can hope to reach only through and by education, and to get this education you muit use your God-given power and begiu to do some right down hatd tbinkiux. If vou will look aiound yon and see who is the most prosperous farmer in your neighbor hood you will find that it is the man who uses his brains as well as his nuscles. While we are as a whole on au upward move I am sorry to note that some of our farmers are still going on in that old way, breaking their ground, sowing thei seed wiouc a thought as to what the harvest will be, consequently a poor crop, not enough in mauy cases to pay the expense of sowing and reaping. Now, brother farmers, I want to say to vou that the Farm era' Union is calculated in every way to help you. We can educate oueselves through the Union. It is an advantage to us in buying our supplies irom the smallest household necessity to the most importaut purchases that we are comnelled to make. "Most of us in Randolph county do not know what a great organization the Union is. We have between two and three million mem bers, and in the States, and even in divi ual counties where strongly or. ganized, they are doing a great work I was down. in Mecklenburg coun ty some days ago and saw with my own eyes sme of the Union ware houses which the farmers of that county are now using to handle their cotton and -other products. Before I close I want to ask that every local of the Union in Ran dolph county send a representative to our meeting at Asbeboro next Saturday, September 4th. Do not fail to be there, as there will be some important business to come be fore the Union. Everybody get to tninking and help us to make old Randolph one of the best union counties in the State. Let us, the strongest power in the world, join bands in one brotherhood that we may lift up the downtrodden and establish universal peace and hap piness throughout our land. Very truly, W. E. Farlow, County Organizer. Far Bale of Cocaine A. J. Christian, a colored physi cian of Winston-Salem, was arrested last week on a charge of illegally selling cocaine to a negro woman. However, he testified that he gave the prescription in good faith and after examining the patient. He was taxed with the costs in two cases by the recorder, and took an appeal and was pat under a $50 bond, ' New Mill for Smlthtield. Smithfield N. C, Aug. 30. The Ivanboe Manufacturing Company will. build a; new cotton mill here which will be equipped with 5,000 spindles. W M. Sanders is presi dent; J. H. B. Tomlinson is vice president and F. K. Broadhurst is secratary-treasurer. The brick work ana been begun and the mill is ex. pec ted to be completed by February next. Breeee and Dlckeraon Convicted, Wo. E. Breese and Joseph E. Dickerson, the Asheville bank offi cials who have beea on trial since July 26, were found guilty by the jury Saturday morning ana were sentenced to serve two years in the Atlanta penitentiary and pay a 'fine of $2,500 each. Motion tor a new trial was made and the hearing set for. September 14. They gave a 5,000 bond for appearance then. A near argument is one in which nobody gets angry. BAD FLOOD IN A MEXICQ CITY Loss of fjfe Intimated at SOO to I.OOO-- .Property Loae 5, 000,0 oo to 7,000.000. Monterey, Mexico. August 28. Eight hundred persons drowned, 15,000 homeless and property dam age to the extent of $12,000,000, is the result of a flood which struck this city between 1 and 2 o'clock this morning. Laredo, Texas, Aug. 29. Direct communication with Monterey was re es aonsned over the Associated Press leased wire at 10:30 tonight. The number of dead will reach 1,200. The Monterey News was compelled to suspend publication two days owing to high water and liirht and nower rin, nfc nff WeTTfrom OOoToOO to estimated at from $12,000,000. Last night in Monte- I rey was one of death, desolation ' darkness and sorrow. The flood waters of the Santa Ca- tarina river continued on their ram pant course thioughout the night and to add to the horror of the situa tion the rain commenced to fall and caused untold suffering- to the thousands of homeless peons who congregated oh the various plazas lbe destructive flood, due to the continued fall of rain for the past 96 hours, swept everything before it and hardly a vestige is left of what was a conglomeration of Bmall huts swarming with families belouging to the poorer classes. The loss of life, which cannot now be accurately es timated, was among the poorer class es, and is variously placed at fiom 400 to 1,000. The crest of the flood reached its apex between 1 and 3 o'clock this morning and many families were swept to a wateiy death with hardly a chance to fight for their lives. Pandemonium reigned and as the poor wretches were swept from their homes on the tops of which maay had sought shelter, pitiful appeals for assistance could be heard rising above the roar of the onrushing waters. Lust night every effort was made by the kind-hearted citizens to shel ter the women and children.' Their homes weie thrown open to the euf ferers, the police station, many of the hotels and private clubs as well as the rooms of several organizations were placed at the disposition of the an thou ties and for the greater part the women and children were cared for. It is thought the damage will be far in excess of first estimates. The Monterey smelter, one of the largest in Mexico, suffered a loss estimated at from $1,000,000 to $2,000,000. The Monterey steel plant, the only plant of its kind in the republic, and which cost originally $1 ,000,- 000, is reported to have been dam aged to the extent of from $2,000, 000 to $3,000,000. The electric light and street railway system of Monterey, modem in every respect, was damaged to the extent of ap proximately $1,000,000. The Monterey water and sewerage system suffered a loss estimated at $1,000,000 or more This damage, together with the loss resulting from the complete an mhilation of approximately 5,000 huts, adobe hous-s and some struct ures of more pretentious appearance, together with their contents, will ring the financial loss up to ap proximately $7,000,000. Montersy, Mex., Aug. 30. While rescue work goes on reports of greater loss of life are com'Dg in from every section of the devastated zone, making it possible that the death list will reach two thousand, perhaps higher Twenty thousand homeless fami lies are living on the roofs of nib merged houses and slowly starving to death. An area of thousands of square miles fromMatamcras toTor reson is under water. People are floating about on improvised rafts. Famine is staring the Monterey people in the face Crops are destroyed, the railroads are washed out anu all wires are down. The sickening sight of death is everywhere. Mexico City, Ang. 31. A special from Monterey, which was swept by a floo i a few days ago, says that 300 bodies wers found this morning grouped about an old well near the iron foundry, on the outskirts of the city. Approximately 1,000 bodies have been recovered to date, and it is believed that the statement that the total death list will amount to 2,000 is well within the figures. As the reports come in, it is seen BIG DAY AT FARMER GOOD CROWD WAS PRESENT. Rig ninner Speechaa by tiupt. ! tfane and OtheraBall C;aiae la the Afternoon. . Saturday, August 25th, was a red !t tter day for Farmer. The occa sion was an educatinca! n'lv for the peupie of Bonth western Randolph. Although the rnlly h.vl not b?e advertised bu; a shor whi'e, quite a crowd as present to receive the ed ucational iuHiiretion I uniltd out. iSaperiutendeiit E. J. Ookraue had arranged a splendid Parana and w , r .V e!8 f d-.y. After an add-esj by Snpenntend- "tOoU outlining tgeneral w"? u nannoipn, ana IP11 ticularly of the hi,'j schjol at farmer, he introduced Superintend- mt Robertson, of the Kandlemaa Graded School, who made a rousing speech on the general subject of ed ucation, ills remarks were well re ceived. After an hour for dinner the meet ing took a triangular turn. Super intendent Robertson addressed the school committeemen present, show ing them very plainly how they can be a strong factoi in making a good school. Superintendent Woosley, of the Asheboro graded schools, directed his remarks more especially to the teachers, lie urged them to make themselves felt not only in the school room but in every interest of the commuaity. The Woman's Betterment Work waa well presented by Miss Lmnie Shamburger, of the Jamestown High School. Her remarks on how to keep a clean school room and grounds, were interesting and to the point. Following these ad dresses inspiring talks were given by Dr. Hubbard and Rev. Sharpe, both of Farmer. During the afternoon Mr. Geo. B. Bradshaw, principal of the Farmer High School, outlined the work of the incoming year. Mr. firadshaw is enthusiastic over the prospects for the ensuing term which begins September 2nd. The raljy was followed bynaa iaw teresting ball game. Troy Item. Troy Montgomrian, Aug. With. The people are going to give the Confederate veterans a great day on Saturday, Sppt. 11, and everyone who can should attend. Mr. Ernest Wade of Capelsie left Wednesday for Lared, Tex., where he will be married to Miss Millard E. Burr, of that city, on Sept. 1. There were more people in Troy last Saturday than we have seen be fore in one day this summer. Many were here to attend the lot sale of Hammer & Company and a good mauy of our count.y people bought lots. Money eeeine i to be plentiful and our merchants sold lets of goods. Killed in ICxploiiioii. Ten men were k:lled outright and five others were probably fatally in jured iu a dynamite explosion on the Florida East Coast Railway near Key West, Fla., Friday. The ex plosion was caused by an employe of a construction gang throwing a lighted cigarette into a box of fuses. Wadeaboro llaa Klre, Fire in Wadesboro last Friday morning caused a loss of about $6,000, probably half covered by in surance. But for the sp'endid work of the local fire department the dam age would have been much greater. The Negro KipoaiOoa. A movement is cn foot among the prominent negroes of the State to have a semi-centennial celebration of the abolition of slavery throagh a great negro exposition to be held in Raleigh. Furniture Hualneaa Picking Up. The Southern Furniture Journal, of High Point, reports that among she various factories of that town there areorders for four hundred cars of furniture to be shipped oat at once. Thirty-one cars were shipped from there Friday of last week. that the situation at Monterey is more serious than at first sappoeed. The city lacki food and water. The Federal government has seat an ad ditional $20,000 to be expended for relief. ,
The Courier (Asheboro, N.C.)
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