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JHLfi 13he COURIER Leads in Both News and Circulation. 6e COURIER Advertising; Column Bring Results, tfcued Weekly. PRINCIPLES, NOT MEN. $1.00 Per 'x ear VOL. XXXV ASHEBORO, N C, THURSDAY, March Jl, 1910. No.H . OPEN LETTER TO RANDOLPH BOYS FROM MR: COLTRANE Boys Urged to Enter the Corn Contest Now See our Father About the Acre of Land and Get Into the Contest, Then Write Mr. Coltraue at Once,. The letter follows. , - Asheboro, March 28, 19K To the Farmer Boys of Randolph County: I have bad a great deal to say about Boys Corn Clubs and the pos nihilities of this phase of the work. The time h&s now come tor every boy to act in some way. Over 100 boys have already taken the step, and this has inspired us to ask that another 100 follow the example If you are a boy on the f.trm and will not be 20 before AuguU 1st, I . wish yo;i would consider thi3 a per sonal letter. t I want you to get ready right now to grow an acre ot tne best corn ever grown in the county the very best acre you can possibly grow. Please do not delay the matter by saying that you will do this another year. JNow is your time. 1 have already made a fairly com plete statement of the prizes to be given by tne state ana tne county and also prizes offered to boys living within ten miles of Liberty, and to those in Richland, .Coleridge and Concord townships. All these prizes will amount to about $lr'0. Other prizes will doubtless be arranged later. Look at last week s paper for a statement of prizes, and also look out for other pr.zes that will be announced later. Our rules will be practically the Bame as those governing the State contest. Every boy in this contest must cultivate one acre in corn, do ing all the work himself, except he may have help to first break the land and also in gathering the crop; but after the land is first broken the contestant must do all the work himself. Not over $10 worth of commercial fertilizers per acre must be nsed. Lot and stable manure are not considered as commercial ferti lizer and may be used without limit. We shall expect every boy to keen a record of all fertilizers nsed, kind and amount, work done on the acre, and everything of the kind; also of the weather, rains, droughts, etc., and the condition of the soil when worked, the time of planting, culti vation, etc. A boy can not win a prize unless he keeps these records. We want you to get ready and go to work at once. Your father will let you have an acre of land, and if he does not think that be ought to furnish the fertilizer and manure, tell him that you will pay for it out of your coin crop. Where you can not get the land rent-free, offer to pay the rent also out of your crop. Let us not balk at anything. Do not dela until it is too late and then wish that you had won a prize of $25 or more. The other fehow will get the money and the crop too. Don't wait for somebody to eu-. courage you to enter the contest. Just decide now that yoa are going to do it. You do not have to sign a blank, but we would rather have your name in order that we may send you some literature that will be helpful. Prof. I. O. Schaub has promised to send you all the bulle tins that will assist you in growing your crop. We are going to ask you to cut out the application blank, which appears, below and send it to ns at once. It does not piecige you to anything; it simply gives ns your nam j, and then we know that you are interested so that we help you. See your father today about that acre of land and let us start to worn right away. We have no time to lose, A boy' can not enter the corn lilesville Has 25O,00O Fire. The business section of Lilesville, K. C , five miles east of Wadesboro, was entirely wiped out by fire last Saturday night. Thirty-three stores besides a dwelling house and the bank of Lilesville and several ware houses were burned. It is thought the fire was of incendiary origin. The total loss is estimated at $250, ,000 with very little insurance, prob. ably less than $20,000. Negro Baapected of Murder. Walter Williams, the young negro who was brought to jail from Moores ville a few days ago to await trial for carrying a conceded weapon, is . now believed by looal officers to be the negro who shot and killed an other negro at Harrisburg, Cabarrus county, March 6th. . AT FARMERS LAST SATURDAY. Meeting of Farmers Much Interest Manifested Prizes lor Boys and Girls; A large number of farmers were present in the meeting which was held at Farmer last Saturday after noon for the purpose of selecting and testing seed corn. County Su perintendent Coltrane and Mr. J. H. Ksarns, farm demonstrator, con ducted the meeting. The principal topics of discussion were preparation of the 8oi', better cultivation of crops and better seed selection. The people of Concord township are much alive to the better methods of farming. This fact is wdl shown by the money voluntarily offered for prizes in the young people's contests. Without much effort $25 wa3 raised to be given as prizes to the boys and girls who enter the contest. A prize of $8.00 will be given to the. boy in Concord township who raises the most coru on an acre of land, and second and third prizes of $ 1.00 and $3.00 will also be given. Prizes for girls will be announced later. A movement is planned to' have twenty boys and thirty girls to enter from Concord township. In the fall a township exhibit of the products will be held at Farmer. Boys from the township who wish td enter the contest should give their names to Mr. J. II, Kearus, or writi direct to the County Superintendent. THIS LOOKS BAD FOR ARSON SUSPECTS. Goods Found Which Seem to Have Been Removed Just Before the Fire. Statesville, March 28 Deputy In surance Commissioner fecott and Sheriff Deaton went to Mooresville Wednesday and seized all the pro perty there belonging to R. L, Bame, the merchant, who ;s charged with firing his store at Granite Quarry, and who is to be tried in Salisbury April 1st. In searching the home of Bame at Mooresville, the officers found about $100 worth of goods, which it ia alleged were taken from the 6tore before it was fired. The goods wer hid about the house in closets, under beds, etc The seizure of the goods is in accord ance with attachment proceedings instigated by the insurance compan ies from which Bame collected $1, 100 of insurance money shortly after the hre. About $800 worth of goods alleged to have been removed from the store at night a short time before the hre, h ve been found at the home of M. L. Parker, who lives about two miles from Granite Quarry, and who is indicted along with Bame. These goods have also been seizei by the officers. The Road Drag. The road drag costs very little and is not difficult to use. Directions for miing the drag have been pub 1 shed in The Courier several times. Also a cut of the drag has been nub lished in this raper. Tho3e who have mislaid The Courier containing directions for making the split log drag, can obtain all the information desired by writing to Jos ph Hyde Pratt, Chapel Hill, N. C. lbe split log drag can be used only in riiny weather or when the roads are muddy. It is a waste of time to use the drag when the roads are dry. . Henjy Staabury, a half witted Durham boy drank fire ounces of car bolic acid last Satnrdy night and died soon thereafter. contest after May 10. The boy who decides that he will do his best in work of this. kind is the chap who will make a man of himself. Please tear off the coupon today and mail it to- E. J. Coltrane, Co. Supt of Schools. .191.. P. 0. - State Mr. E. J. Coltrane, Asheboro, N". C. Dear Sir : I am thinking of entering the Randolph County Boys' Corn Con test this year and I am sending you this blank just to let you know. I wish you would Bend me just as soon as possible the printed suggestions and bulletins from the Department of Agriculture. My age is , and 1 live. in... ....... ..township. Yours very truly, . Name ...... ......... ... A STEADY GAIN BY WORKERS There has been a gain almost all along the line of The Courier work ers since the last issue of The Courier. It is not known how many subscrip tions are held back by the contest: ants. v All who expect special prizes for March must make returns on or be fore April 1st. Special prizes for April will be announced in The Courier next week. Get in the race for the April prizes. We shall offer a special prize not only for the one receiving the largest number of subscriptions for the month of April, but also the one collecting the largest amount on new subscriptions. LIST OF CONTESTANTS. Mrs. A. B. Coltrano. Glenola 56,865 Miss Moleta Yow. Central Falls 54.397 Miss Mary White, Glenola 25.509 Miss Lizzie Cameron. Liberty 12.665 Miss Bettye Shambnrqer, Hiils Store 89.34 Miss Nellie Jordan, Trinity 7,731 Miss Bessie 'Farmer. Randleman 7.122 Miss Maud Curtis. Ramsetir 6.601 Miss Ellie Presnell, Michfield 6.519 Miss Lena Cole. Dewey 6,551 Miss Myrtle lohnson. Worthville 5,376 Miss Alice Burgess. Ramseur 3,746 Miss Bertha Luck. Scaunus. Route 2 3.701 Miss Maud Miller, Fullers. Route I 2.560 Miss Maud Foushee, Staley 2,200 Miss Stella Kelly, Troy 2.200 Miss Maggie Alberlson. Trinity 2.020 Miss Emma Pierce. Seagrove 2.000 Miss Elfie Harvell, Abner 2.543 Miss Mary Stuart, Franklinville 1.800 miss Cora Vuncannon, Seagrove 1,502 miss Ida uox. Kaipn 1,001 Miss Melia Frazler. Franklinville 951 Miss Myrtle Puuh, Asheboro, Route 1 1,400 Miss Lydia Lassiter, Lassiter ' 613 Miss Linnie Dorsett. Farmer 418 Miss Nannie Hill, Rachel 406 Miss Lola Trondon. Asheboro. Route 1 404 Miss Mamie Ellis, Millboro 400 Convention of Woman's Foreign Mission ary Society of t lie M. P. Chut-chiii High Point Next Week. The Wouians' Foreign Missionary Society of the M. P. Church in North Carolina will hold it" annual con ventiem in High Point April 6th and 7th. . Mrs. joy Harris Glasscock announces the program in out Cburch Record of last week. The ladies done a splendid Work in Japan and have since the last meeting, sf.nt a worker into China. The meetings will be held in the M. P. Church in High Point with the following pro. gram: Tuesday evening, 8 to 10, recep tion to visiting ladies. Wednesday Morning 10 O'clock. Praise Service, led by Mrs. W. A. Fouat. Address of Welcome, Mrs. A. G. Dixon. Response, Mrs. A. B. Kimball, Roll.call of Officers. Reading of Minutes of last tneet insr. Enrollment ef Delegates. Paper "Our Missionaries: Where They Are and What They Are Do ing," Mrs. J. F. McCulloch. Appointment of Committees. Business. Adjournment. Wednesday Afternoon 2i30 O'clock. Devotional Exercises, Miss " Susie Stafford. Beading of Minutes of morning session. Report of Corresponding Secretary. Reports of Committees. Treasu er's Report. Paper A Plea to the Church, Mrs. IuezE. Foust. Business. Adjournment. .1 Wediicsduy Eveulng 8 O'clock. Devotional Service, Mrs. A. G. Dixon. Address, Mrs. Stephen S. Myrick, Announcements. Benediction. Thursday Morning, 10 O'clock. Devotional Service, Mrs. S. H. linsoi. Roll call. Reading of Minutes. Reports from Auxiliaries. Reports from Supts. of Depart ments. Pager Our Duty to Our Auxili aries Miss Etta Auman. Thursday Afternoon, ill 30 O'clock. Devotional Exercises, Rev. A. G. Dixon. Reading Minutes. Round Table, Conducted by Mrs. W. 0. Hammer. Subject, The Auxiliary with all its Interests. Election of Delegates to Execu tive Board Meeting. Paper, Miss Susie Stafford. Selecting place for the next meet ing. . Miscellaneous Business. Benediction. ' Mr. and Mrs. Claude Hoover.who have been in Greensboro for some time, have returned and will make their home here for a few months. , Week April lIO. For thirty-two years societies seeking to exalt the Lord's Day in Europe and America, have' asked God's people to observe one week in April as Lord's Day Week. Because we are in the greatest crisis of the history of the Sabmth in America, both in the United States and Canala, the International Jjederation of Sunday Rest Asso ciations of America ask with incieas ed emphasis that April 3rd to 10th 1910, be observed as Lord's Day Week. The liquor and other powers of evil, knowing that if "the sabbath be destroyed, Chnstiauity win perish, are attacking this di vine gift as never before. In twelve or more states efforts bave been made to legalize Sunday sports, mainly Sunday ball games The wild craze for amusement which always conies on the crest of great national wealth, continues its debus iug influence, notwithstanding all laws of God or man. It is planned to make this attack still more vigor ons the coming year. . Hence we ap peal to all lovers ot God and human ity to rally at once to the "help of tne Jjora against the mighty " But fi rat we must praise God for His gift of cne day in seven to Rhut out ordinary work and worldly pleas ure and let uoJr bave full possession of the inner life; for the defeat of most of the efforts to legalize Sunday sports; for the co-opt ration of Roman Cuthohc Bishops, especially in New York and Canad t and all Protest ant authorities in lighting Sunday sport;; for the assurance ot the Sec retary of the Navy that he wil check the Sunday ball games of ths JNavy; for he passage in , South Dakota by a popular vote of a very strong law forbidding Sunday sports; for the hearty co-operation in Canada of the authorities of the provinces for the enforcement of law; for the reorganization of the Aaierican Sab bath Union as the Lord'a Day Al liance ot the United States with plans to secure auxiliaries in every state; and for victories over Sunday lawlessness in the United States and Canada wherever there has been or ganized, persistent effort to that end. Will each one prayerfully ask hiin-elf the following questions: 1st Do I appreciate the value of the Lord's Day to body, mind and soul and so spend it as that its cleans ing and quickening' power beautifies my home, social and business life, my relations to my employees or my employer and gives me power to put down evil in mv community and win the perishing Christ? 2nd Do I realize the cruelty of driving many to Sunday toil in order to give others amusement on that day, in view of the soul ruin of Sun day sports and Sunday toil as proven by the reports of criminologigis and others who have made a close study of this question, and all testify that Sunday sports so weaken the moral fibre of those who give even a part of the day thereto as to make them a more ready prey to temptation to other crimen? 3d Am I doing all in my power to better cab bath conditions in my own community: Such careful self examination will prepare for the effective prayer and labor. Prayer without self-sacrificin labor accoiding to opportunity i mockery and labor without wrestling prayer is ineffective. Let us thus prepare for a year of effective service in behalf of God'3 holy day and the millions defrauded of it by toil and sport. Will all religious editors urge the observance of this week: Will every pastor put this appeal in the hands of members of his church? pteach on the subject and devote tone prayer meeting to it this week or ss soon thereafter as may be convenient? Will every young people's society, ministers' meeting, men's club or brotherhood, Y. M. C. A., Y. W. C. A., W. C. T. U. and Lord's Day association give one service to study aad prayer on this subject. Prayer and labor especially: 1st, that all Christians may make the whole Sabbath a holy day of joy to young and old, and their homes free from bunday newspapers and social functions. 2nd. That ail employees may be secured a full rest day each week. drd. inat a nation may be awakened so to study history and criminology as to realize the serious peril of allowing Sunday sports, 4th. That the Christian forces of each community may federate for kind, persistent work 1st, to edu- tord's Iay A GUN FIRES IN THE POLITICAL REVOLUTION. There is doom and Desolation in the Camp of the Republican High Muck-a-Muoks. When a 1400 majority rock ribbed Republican Gibraltar district in Massachusetts elected to Congress a Democrat by 5000 majority it shocked Alr.ch, Payne, Cannon, Taft aud the wholj outfit. Coming on the heels of.tbe taking of Cannon off the Committee on rules in the ilousr, thereby denying him a privi lege always heretofore accorded a Speaker of the House, it is cyclonic in its effect upon the Republican leaders. , The defeated candidate gives the high cost of living as the cause of his defeat. He says: "If the result will serve to con vince the .Republican leaders at Washington that something must be speedily accomplished in the way of lowering the cost of living, I shall reel tnat my deteat has not been witnout value." Never in all its life have the pros pects been so gloomy for the Repub licans. The Springfield Republican writing on the political situation says: "The outlook for November is the gloomiest for the Republicans that can be recalled in a generation. Jiven in 18U0, the proepect prior to the election was not discouraging to the Republican ' leaders. Under Speaker Reed, the party in the House naci been solidly united and had made an extraordinary record for ef ficiency in transacting legisla'ive Dusintss. Mr. lieed himself was apparently a very popular figure ss he tt ured the country appealing for a vmaicauon. xne mc rim ley tariff had aroused as yet no such protest in tne .Republican party as the Payne-Aldric'h schedules fuve in the past year. The tidal wave that finally overwhelmed Reed and Mc Kind ley, and left the Harrison ad ministration to buffet with a hostile Congress daring the rest of its life. came as a surprise tj the country, wnicn naa anticipated a political cieiuge ot no such proportions. "Today, tne forecasters are al most invariadlv extremists in their pessimism concerning the fate of the Republican party, and it must be conceded that the conditions seem to justify their views. Something must happen very soon to alter the face of things, if a disaster of great proportions is to be escaped by the 'party or government in the autumn appeal to the ptople. The Boston Globe says: "The effacement that took place in the I4th district is not local. It is na tional. Tariff schedules are inequit able." The Boston Heiald thinks the result, startling as it may be to those who wilfully or carelessly have ignor ed the ysry evident signs of the times, is only the natural working out of causes which have been contributed by the leadership :f the Republican party in Congress." lne Boston Post conclude? its re view of the result by saying: "Massachusetts tells the country today that she is weary of Rei u bit- can professions that havt produced few results: that she is disgusted with a tariff law that is still in the interests, of monopolies and over grown 'infant industries:' that she demands relief from high prices on foodstuffs, beef in particular, which could be easily brought about by a tew simple changes in customs clauses, and that, finally she wholly distrusts the party in power and would gladly see it turned as soon as possible. Like Truthful James,' she may say. Which is whyl remark, and my language is plain." lhe New York Times thus states the meaning: "lie significance of his election in a district hitherto strongly Re. publican and by a large majority, is therefore perfectly plain and not. to be clouded by sophistical argument. The first opportunity the Republi can voters in Republican Massachu setts, and a stronghold of protection, nave naa to express their dissatis faction with the Payne-Aldrich bill and the circumstances of its enact ment, they expressed it vigorously and unmistakably." lhe New York Evening Post says cate all, especially non-church goers, oy puunu meetings, use or tne press, and f tequent distribution of leaflets in every home, as to the purpose and value of Sunday laws; 2nd, to induce every citizen to obey Sunday laws and the proper civic officeis to see thai they are obeyed. the result must make even President Taft realize how the country feels about the Payne-Aldrich tariff, and it atlde: "Rarely is the meaning of an elec tion so clearly written on the face of the returns. Ten thousand men who, in 1908, voted the Republican ticket, voted a year and a half later, for the Democrat candidate. More than tha they cast their ballots for a man who only recently deserted the Republican party, because he could not stand the tariff iniquity. Mr. Foss made his campaign on the tariff and the high cost of living, and let every voter in the district understand his attitude." The New York Mail, Republican, says: 'The overturn in t'ne special elec tion in the 14th Congress district of Massachnetts is the most startling piece of political news since the capture of the Democratic party by the silventes in 18!)G. So far as it is fairly significant of general condi tions, it indices apolitical revolu tion, a shifting of the balance al most beyond precedent." MARTIN LUTHER IS FOUND IN THE UWHARRIE RIVER. Martin Luther, a Cripple, Believed to Have Committed Suicide IJccause His Mother Wanted Him to Go to School Sad Tragedy. The body of Martin Luther was, found by Jej0e Luther, Rufus Las siter and othei-3 in Uwharrie river last Monday. The young men were fishing on Piaster Monday and saw the body floating in the river in the Lassiter mill pond nearly half mile above the mill. This young man disappeared from home on November 16," 1909, and bad never been heard from since. He was tracked to the river aud the river was dragged for several weeks but nothing could be found and it wag believed by many that he had run away or had been enticed from home. The body was found above where the dragging in the river was done and above the Doinfc where tMn tiacks of the boy were traced to the river. A reward of $200 was offered for him. He evidently committed sui cide and it is thought that it was on account of his people insisting on his going to school. He was a good bov, the constant companion of his mother, was slight ly crippled and on account of this deformity did not like to go to school. His people insisted on his going to school when he disappeared from home He was 16 vears old and had never spent but one night away iroin nome in his lite. Import! nt Meeting at flint Hill Sext Saturday. The farmers of northwestern Ran dolph are invited to come to Flini Hill nexi Saturday to spend the day. A meeting for their benefit will be held in the school house. In this meeting the principal SDeaker will be Mr. C. R. Hudson, farm demon strator for North Carolina. Other speakers of ability will be present. The county superintend ent would like to meet all boys and girls who are at all interested in young people's clubs. The county farm demonstrator Will also be pres ent, .partners should come rre- pared to spend the day. The meet ing will be open at 10 o'clock in the forenoon. It i? earnestly horied that several farmers will bring sev eral ears of their best seed corn. For the best specimen of ten ears on exhibit a prize consisting of a year's subscription to the Progressive Farmer will be given. Annual Sunday School Convention la Wilson Next Week. The Twenty-Seventh Annual Con vention of the North Carolina Sun day School Association will be held in Wilson, N. C, April 5.6-7. Mr. JMijan Momtt, of Asheboro, who was elected President of the asso ciation at Concord last April, will preside. A most interesting program has been arranged and indications point towards the largest attendance in the history of the organization. Messrs. Tullar and Meredith, of New York City, will conduct the music. - Randolph county has been fortu nate in holding the banner for a number of years and we hope she will again meet the requirements. Mr. G. W. Ililliard went to GreenBboro Tuesday.
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