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r f TT X TT TT "TT" tan iibimmibhih t Ufie COURIER J c Advertising Columns' Bring Results. I me COUR.IER Leads In Both News and , FUB UJO.JD 2 v,ircjiauon. 1 I I EL I jsued Weekly. PRINCIPLES, NOT MEN. . ' ' ' : $1.00 Per xear VOL. XXXV : v ' ASHEBORO, Nj C, THURSDAY, February 10,1910. No. 6 THE FEBRUARY PRIZES. We are going to give a prize for February to the young ladyjwho secures the largest number of subscribers dnring that month, provided 'she gets more than 20,000 votes during the month. We are going to leave the selection of this prize to the Contestants, and want each of them to write us at once and let us know what she would prefer. We cannot give too expensive a prize but would be willing to give one costing as much as a buggy, a sewing machine or a scholarship to some Business College in this state. Please start right now and get ia line for the February prize. Get your friends to help you solicit subscriptions. LIST OF CONTESTANTS. Miss Nellie Jordan, Trinity. " Bertha Lack, 8eagrove, Route 2. - " Lena Cole, Dewey, Olive Moffitt, Asheboro, Route 1, " Mary White, Glenola, v " Fleta Free, Randleman, Route 2, " Maud Miller, Fallen, Route 1, " Nettie Lather, Eleazer, Miaa Maude Curtis, Ramsear - " Maggie Albertaon, Trinity, " Bettye Shamburger, Hilla Store, Mrs. W. P. White, Ramsear, " A. B. Coltrane, Glenola; Miss Lola Trogdon, Asheboro, Route 1, " Ida Cox, Ralph, , " Emma Pierce, Seagrove, " Effie PresneU, Mitchfield, " Linnie Doraett, Fanner, ' Effie Harvell, Abner. " Nannie Hill, Rachel. Mrs. M. B. Coins, Trinity. Miss Lydia Laseiter, Lassiter, . . " Estelle Cranford, Arohdale, ' " Maud Foushee, Staley, " Melia Frazier, Franklinville, " Oora Vuncannon, Seagrove, ' Moleta Yow, Central Falls, - -" Mary Stuart, FranklinviHe " Lizzie Cameron , Liberty , " Bess Farmer, Randleman ' Margaret Slack, Seagrove, N. C. Route 1, " Alice Burgess, Ratnseur, N. C, , . Eattie Luck, Seagrove Route 2, " Myrtle Pugh, Asheboro, Route 1, V Huhannah Coltrane, Randleman, " Myrtle Johnson, Worthville, ' Stella Kelly, Troy, " Hazel Stanton, Randleman, Route 1, HORRIBLE AND FATAL ACCI DENT. Mr.Robert Klvett Accidentally Killed by Wood Sawing Outfit. One of the -saddest accidents that ever eccured in Ratnseur took place thereon Thursday last, when Mr. Robert Kivett lost his life by acci dentally falling on a saw while cut. ting wood. The saw made- a large openiBg in the abdomen, cutting the bowels in several places and bruising them. He suffered great pain until the ioITowibg day wrrerr h gentry breathed his last. He was in the 'prime of a vigorous young manhood and bis death oocuring in such an awful manner, cast a gloom over the entire town. He leaves a widow and three ohildren, a father, several brothers and a sister to mourn their great loss. He was fully prepared for the summons when it came. Hay our kind Heavenly Father com fort and sustain the grief stricken family in this hour of dalkest trial. Randolph Men Traveling Agent tor l- & nr. Mr M. H. Tork, who is a son of Mr.- H. M. York, of Ratnseur, and who has been ticket agent at the Union passenger station at Bristol, Tnnn.. for the Dast four vears. has been promoted to the position of traveling passenger agent or ine Louisville and Nashville Railway, with headpuarters at Knoxville, Tenn. Mr. York went to Tennessee about six years ago and has risen rapidly in thn railroad service. His friends ' at home are glad to bear of his suc cess. , Smallpox at Orphanage. Dr. Julian, the orphanage physi cian, discovered a few days ago that there are fifteen cases of smallpox among the inmates of the Thomas ville Baptist Orphanage, Miss Olive, one of the teachers, being among the number. It is thought the die ease was brought to the orphanage by several children who were allowed to visit their mother during the holidays, the fact of their having been exposed to smallpox not being learned until the disease was dis covered in the institution a few days ago. Everything possible is being done to stamp out the disease among the orphans bat it is feared that some 01 inOSe wno nave it canaut rouuver. J. F. Ong, a prominent contract or whose borne was at Wilmington, N. O. , killed himself in a hotel at Augusta, Ga., Saturday night by blowing the top of his bead off with pistol. The coroner who held the inquest found nothing' to indicate why the man had slain himself. 3617 1301 3151 201 15197 200 1690 916 5001 2011 4213 200 28146 401 401 2000 4207 416 645 406 201 613 2'K) 1400 401 801 14892 1800 7415 0322 200 415 200 600 200 3723 1500 200 Says Democrats Will Sweep The State Greensboro Record. Congressman Fnge said in a re cent interview: The President is told t y Mr. Morehead, the new ' member of the Republican Congressional campaign committee for the state, that North Carolina is fallow ground from a Republican standpoint and Mr. Morehead predicts the election of five members of the House from the State at the next election. Mr. Duncan or Mr. Adams will assure the President that they are certain of six representatives from the State. The fight is on between the two rival Republican factions for two things patronage and campaign funds. And if there were a third faction in the Republican party some of its camp followers would-show np at the White Houbb and predict the election of the whole fix of Uon gressmen from this . State. But an even more interesting phase of the situation is this: At the very time that Messrs. Adams and Duncan are making their claims about what the Republicans are going to do in the next Republican election, the Uauoasian down here at Raleigh, re presenting now a faction of substan tial proportions, is declaring with might and main that the state or ganization is worried to death be cause as many as three Republican congressman were elected in 1908 and is laying plans now to prevent tne election of a single Republican Congressman this year to the end that it may have its own way in pit ronage matters! tin Census Bureau. Mr, Harry J. Overman, of Salis bury, has been appointed to a posi tioH in the census departmement and is known as special agent and his work will be in connection with the manufacturing industries in his district which embraces the counties of Rowan. Cabarrus. Stanlev. Da vidson, Guilford and Randolph, and will have two men nnder him, to be known as class 2. One of these will be Mr. William J. Weddington, formerly of Salisbury, but lately of Concord, and his headquarters will be in High Point. The other will be a Lexington, Va., man and hia headquarters will be at Handle man, while Mr. Overman will be lo cated in Salisbury. . Fearing a possible epidemio of smallpox as a result of court weeks' crowds gathering from all sections of the country, the Davidson county commissi oners have postponed the February term of two weeks. The situation is not alarming but it is estimated that there are 100 cases in various parts of the county, SUDDEN DEATH OF SHEPHERD. JUDGE Found Dead In Hospital After Operation ..one or state's ureat men. The following Bpeoial telegram to The Raleigh News and Obs r ver from Baltimore gives tne particulars of his death, which occured early Mon day night: - "Baltimore, Aid., reo. 7. Deatn came suddenly to former Chief Jus tice Jamas Edward Shepherd, of Raleigh, N. U at the Presbyterian Eye. Ear and Throat Hospital this morning where he had undergone an operation for throat trouble. a" Judge Shepherd, accompanied by his wife and Dr. K.P. Battle, his familv nhvsician. arrived in this city at. midnight on Saturday. He went to the hospital immediately, ine operation was performed by Dr. Kichard JoUbbod, at noon yesterday and, to all appearances, was success ful. "Last night Dr. Johnson announc ed that his patient was resting com fortably. A nurse entered toe room at 3 a. m. and noticed that the Judge was not breathing. She summoned Dr. Battle, who pronounced him dead. Death was probably due to heart failure." When God called James E' Shep herd, Noith Carolina lost one of its fiurest and ablest men, a truly great awver and jurist and a man who, as such, was greatly beloved by all who knew him, and especially by tne in ner circle of close friends, to whom he had been ' grappled witb hooks of steel." Few men die and leave so many bleeding hearts behind them us did this good mau and patriotio Ncr;h Carolinian; for, though he wis born a few miles over the border line, in Virginia, his lite since boynood had been spent in North Carolina, and it was this State and our trdmiring people who honored and appreciated his true worth. The preceding two paragraphs present the essence of the scores of tributes paid to his memory. Very few people knew that Judge Shepherd had gone to a hospital, and scarcely any one outside his im mediate family knew what he went there for. Inquiry developed the fact that last Thursday some particle of the food partaken during a meal believed to have been a small quail bone found lodgment in J udge Shepherd's throat It caused him some inconvenience and pain and he consulted Dr. K. P. Battle of Hal. eigh. The particle was not located, however, ana Judge Shepherd, with Mrs. Shepherd and Dr, Battle, on Sunday went to Baltimore for the purpose of receiving expert treat ment at the Presbyterian eye, ear and throat hospital there. In Baltimore an operation was de cided upon and performed. - Advices received in Raleigh from Baltomore indicate that death was due to weak ness of the heart, resulting from the ether (or other anaesthetic em. ployed) administered daring the operation. When Judge Shepherd breathed his last he was alone, the nurse find ing him dead npon her return to the room. How long the nurse was ab sent is not at present known. - In South Dakota. ' A letter from Rev. U. S. Crowder to the editor gives the information that he is located at - Fairfax, South Dakota, and is pastor of the first Methodist church at that place. Mr. Crowder was born and reared in this county and for many years lived on Squirrel Creek, near Spoon's Chapel. He is the youngest of a large family of children, all of whom are dead, unless it is possibly ' one, Monroe. Mr. Crowder in 1893 married a daughter of Capt. E. P. Lewis, of Beaufort, N. O. She died tour years ago, leaving three child ren, the oldest a boy, now a fresh, man at Pennington Seminary, at Pennington, N. J. Mr. Crowder's many friends in North Carolina will be glad to learn of his continued prosperous caree in his chosen call ing, the ministry. . . Medical Society To Meet. Randolph County Medical Society will meet in Randleman en the third Tuesdav in February. 191Q. Papers of importance will be read. Dr. F. E. Asbnry, the president of the society, will .deliver his ainoal address at that time. All members are earnestly requested to be pres :it. Remember the time and place. Randleman. February 15, 1910. .. Dr. F. E. Asbury, Pres. ', Dr. W. J. Moore, Sec, HEWS ITEMS. Mr. Green Newson, aged 76 years, died recently at Waugh town. - . Major G. W. Clegg, one of States ville's oldest citizens, died at his home there Saturday. Alleghany County's jail bill for feeding prisoners during the last year was only $2.83, Isabel Fitzgerald, of Reidavill?, said to have been 104 years old, died at her home at that place this week. Meisenheimer Springs, Stanley county, have been sold and new ho tels and buildings are to be elected. ' Mrs. V. A. Whitlev, aged 54, wife of Dr. V. A. Whitley, died at her home in Albemarle one day last week. ; y Win. Dortc, Jrh., of Goldsboro, died suddenly Monday morning in a Richmond, Va., hospital of heart failure. The Sher.ff of Cumberland county captured' two blockade stills lest week. This makes thirty-five he has destroyed. Th people of Jonesboro township, Lee county, voted a $15,000 bond issue on Saturday of last week for good roads. .- Mr. D. L. Arey, Rowan connty's wealthiest citizen, was stricken with a Bevere case of vertigo last week but is said to be improving, ... The Standard Mirror Company, of Pittsburg, ra., will erect a branch plant at Winston-Salem in. the near future. . Fifty-three applicants for license to practice law were examined by the supreme Court at Kaleign this week Two of the number were negroes. Stokes Carr ck, a native of David. son county, chief car inspector of the Southern Railway, died of para, lysis in Greensboro recently. David Swing, a well known farm er of Davie county, was probably fa' tally injaed by being run over by bis wagon in Lexington on Monday, . Dr. L. C. Eeerans, one of the best known and most highly esteemed physicians of Charlotte, died at his home at Belmont, a suburb, Monday night. . Emma Walker killed another dis reputable colored woman in Greens. boro last Saturday ' afternoon, after a quarrel over a nan. ' The killing was with a pistol. -The fire loss in the United States for the year 1907 amounted to $456, 485,000, and caused the death of 1,449 persons. This is exclusive of the los from forest fires. Bondsmen of ex-sheriff Doraett, of Davidson county, paid over $6,000 Monday to the county, which was the balance due on the amount owed the county by Dorsett. Herbert Bailey, a young man of nowan county, was aiiieo r naay oi last week on the farm of T. R. Kluttz in the western part of the county by being caught nnder a falling tree. For two years in succession, Row an conntv has been ' Dlased bv Mr. O. R. Hudson, State farm demon strator for North Carolina, at the head of all-counties in the State, as to tne yield of corn per acre. J. A. Stafford, chief inspector at the camp of Walton and Co., south bound railroad contractors, was bad ly injured in a premature explosion of dycamte near Ansonvule Satur day afternoon, tie win lose one eye. Three negroes were killed in a race war at Hale s Bar, Tennessee, near Chatttn .oza. Tuesday morning. There had been trouble brewing among the whites and blacks at a contractor's camp, at Hale's Bar, for some time which resulted in the killing on Tuesday. - It is stated that a home for aged and infirm Masons will be located at Mooresville. A correspondent of the Charlotte Observer says a committee of Mooresville business men have closed trade for the Christenbnry and Smith land, 11 acres, lying about a half mile northwest of the towuwhich will be the site of the borne. The case against , C. Watkins, the Black Mountain Uonstable who last summer killed J. H.' Bunting, of Wilmington, and seriously wound ed rani U. Uollina, of Hills boro, in a Black Mountain hotel, has been postponed nntil the April term of b court at Ashe ville, - The trial was postponed on account of the Ulneei ,of a witness in tne case. Republicans In Congress, in World ot Trouble. The Columbia State says: . The "high cost of living" which Congressman Payne and his Repub lican associates propose to "investi- e in bo far as it is the result of political policies, is the result of Republican--policies. Consequently, when Mr. Payne proposes investiga tion, it implies some degree of party contrition and there is self-assumed by the Republicans the burden of clearing themselves of the suspicion tbat naturally rests upon them. ins admission that the price of meat, of clothing, of flora r, of shoes and of other necessaries may have been neatly and larely affected by acts of Congress is in itself an in. dictment of the Republican party, from the Democratic point of view. Dem"crit8 believe tbat the citizens should be protected in life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, with the least possible interference on tbe part of the government, and when it is tacitly conceded that prices have been artincially lowered or incr;as;d by the laws, it amounts to confession that the government has strayed from its functions and filched from the privileges reserved to the people by tbe constitution. In any investigation of this char acter the Republican party will be confronted, to begin with, by the staring truth that a few persons have immense wealth by reason of tne tariff laws who, without the tariff laws, would be without their wealth. The task, therefore, of proving that the few may be enriched through an artificial enhancement of prices with out a corresponding impoverishment of many persons is by its very na ture beset with embarrassment. Xhe people should demand of Mr. Payne that be explain why, when the prices of commodities are so high that good living is impossible even with tJ-e nominally good wages pre vailing, the wealth of the manufac- tnreis and other beneficaries of proj tection continues to expand. . There is at this time no complaint from the capitalists. The mills are all running and the production of mines, lumber yards and shops is at a high rate. The murmuring comes frjm the wage-earners, the "Ameri can laborers," and Mr. Payne and his party have been proclaiming for half a century that protection means, primarily, the "protection of Ameri can labor" from the competition of "the pauper labor of Europe." Mr. Payne would better have ''stood pat." . Undertaking to con vince the wage-earners of America that the tariff schednles are just to them, at a time when there is no abatement in production and yet their earnings are not sufficient for the maintenance of themselves and their families in the comfort to which they have been accustomed, be cuts out for himself a contract of staggering proportions. Everybody in America,- land-owners, planters, professional men, merchants, bank ers, contractors, is rich except the "American laboring-man," for whose especial blessing -a protestive tariff was contrived, at leaBt so say the Republicans. Of Interest to Patrons of Rural Routes. The following letter, 'relative to the placing of loose coins in ratal route boxes, has been sent out by the Fourth Assistant Postmaster Gen eral : "In view of the extent to which the practice of placing loose coins in boxes by rural patrons has grown and the delay in the delivery and collection of mail and the hardship imposed on rural carriers incident thereto, you are informed that commencing Febru ary 15th proximo rural letter carriers will not be required to collect loose coins from rural mail boxes. Pat rons should enclose coins in an en velope, wrap them securely in a piece of paper or dtposit them in a coin, holding receptacle. The Growth of Albemarle. Albemarle,, the county seat of Stanley county, baa grown rapidly the last few years and has recently attracted to that healthful section capitalists from Illinois and else, where who have organized the Albe marle Development Co, A saniton nm, hotel, etc., are to be built. More than $200,000 will be invested. . Two cases of smallpox were dis. covered in the Rowan County jail at Salisbury, Monday. ' The sheriff and prison attendants are quarantin . ed at the jail and no fear of a spread oi fcue ultimas is , LAYMENS' MEETING SUNDAY. Large Audience at the Mass Meeting at Graded School Auditorium Work Getting Under Way, ' Pursuant to tne call of the joint committee appointed by thechurches of Asheboro to consider the advisa bility of holding a Laymans' Mis sionary Movement Convention for the county, the congregations closed their respective churches last Sun day morning and assembled in the graded school auditorium at 11 o clock for a mass meeting. If any had supposed the large audience came together without purpose there would have been a change of mind when the intense interest of each, eager to catch every word, was so evident. The addresses at this ser. vice were by Mr. Aicbibald John son, of Ihemasville, and Mr. Unas. H. Ireland, of Greensboro. The object of the meeting was to create and arouse interest, in the movement. There was manifestly present an intenseness and power not due solely to meu's words and wis dom. One could scarce refrain from thinking not, "If it be of God," but that "It is of God." The afternoon service for men only was for the purpose of hearing the report of the committee referred to above. Tne committee's report was to the effect that the suggested convention be held two or three months hence. A goodly number of men attended. A fixed purpose char- -acterized each prayer and each talk. There was considerable discussion, not in opposition but as to details of the rather large task of interesting the people of the whole county in the convention. "We can and we will," seemed to be the prevailing thought. One of thi visiting lay men stated that Bandolph county, in launching this movement, is the first county in the State to under take to carry the Laymen's Mission ary Movement to the rural church, and that the result of the effort will be watched by other counties with eagerness. uut "we can and we will,' - whether otners watcb or do not watch us was the prevailing spirit. The report was unanimously adopted. A committee was author ized to be created, two members from each church selected by the churches respectively, to plan for the conven tion and tb work out the details of the plan. A very important part of thia-will be the deputation work, visiting the remotest parts and every part of the county to create interest and to induce an attendance at the convention from all over the county. Details as to date, program and all matters pertaining to the work will be announced later, -The committee hopes to interest persons in some localities, that these in turn may interest the churches and people in their respective vicinities. t or tbe mgnt services eacn concre tion went to its own church and in most instances was addressed by the visiting laymen J. Norman Wil- lard at the M. P. church, Archibald Johnson at the Baptist, Chas. H. Ireland at the Methodist Episcopal, South. Mr. Miles, who served on the executive committee of the Greensboro convention, was also in the meetings for counsel. Altogetber it was a fall day and a good day in Asheboro for the Lay men's Missionary Movement. The idtereSt here is increasing. There are those among us who Bee difficul ties, not imaginary but real, and frankly point them out. This not in opposition - buf' that we may "ceunt the cost" before we begin to build. Randolph County Confederate Monu. ment. Contributions to December 31st, 1909, $646.75. Contributions in 1910:- Jakuart. C. C. Mc Alister, Fayetteville, $25.00 T. G. McAlister, " 25.00 T, J. Redding, Caraway, 25.00 B. G. Worth, Wilmington, 10.00 C. R. Makepeace, Providense R. I. W. J. Miller, Asheboro, Jesse Scarboro, " Mrs. T M.Johnson; F. S. Lambeth, Thomasville, Febeuabt.i T. O. Worth, Durham, Sulon Stedman, Asheboro, 1.00 5.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 $15.00 5.00 George G. Penny.High Point, 25.00 Mrs. W. J. Armfield, Sr. . High Point, 1 : 5.00 Chas. H: Troy, aged 41 years, died last Sunday in Fayetteville, at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. CTroy.