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VOL XXXV
ASHEBO ;, NI C, THURSDAY, Aug. 4, 1910.
No. 51
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j NOIPLES. NOT MEN. ' $1.00 Per Vear
FARMERS' INSTITUTES. .v.
Randolph Gets Five Pine Prof rami is
((' : Each Place. ;,
"I wish to call attention to the
Farmers' InstitnteB that nave been
advertised for Randolph connty and
to nrge men, women and children to
leave their work for one day ana at
tend an Institute.
Before, Randolph has been getting
only one Institute, but the recent
educational and agricultural awak.
eninz in the count v has attracted
the attention or the state Depart,
ment, and arrangement has been
made to give the connty five Insti
tutes this year. Not another county
in the State bag been more savored.
Now, since we have these five Insti
, tntes. with an Institute party giv
ing almost an entire week of their
time to our interests, it becomes nec
etsary for the people to express their
f j .u j it T-.i.:
appreciation iuu ntbeuu bucoo aiuii
tutes. Every part of the county
has been provided. Dates and
places are published in another col
umn.'
People living in the edges of the
county may attend the Institutes at
Denton, Star, oiler Uity, Jamestown
and Thomasvilla.
There are more than 30,000 peo
ple in Randolph county. - Of this
number at least o,uuu snouia attena
these Institutes. If 1,000 farmers
attend it stands to reason that next
year mure win we x,wv ucivor ihuu
than we have this year, and the peo
ple are doing better this year than
ever before.
In Iredell connty last week 1500
people attended one Institute. Let
Randolph people break the record,
and have 5,000 people in rive Insti
tutes. Program of the Institute to be
held at Liberty is published else
where. An important feature of the work
will be the Women's Institute.
Miss M. L. Jamison ai.d Mrs. W. H.
Hntt will lead the discussions.
Such subjects as the Uses of Food
in the Body, Preventable Diseases,
Home Sanitation, etc., will be dis
cussed. The women should attend
as well as the men, and the children
should not be overlooked. Let ev
erybody attend. Prizes were an
nounced last week. If the people
will patronize the Institutes this
year, next year, instead of five, we
' will get ten Institutes.
Remember the dates and places
and come prepared to get the best
there is in life on the farm.
E. J. Coltrane,
Chm'n Co. Institute Com.
GENERAL NEWS ITENS.
King George, of England, is to be
crowned in 1911.
Mr. P. A. Martin, formerly of
, Lenoir, N. C, has been nominated
by a Democratic convention in Texas
for a judgship. . ; "'
Aubrey Hanes and Otis Dorsett,
two Greensboro boys, Blarted last
week on a bicycle trip to Washing
ton, Norfolk and other points.
A new chair has recently been ad
ded at the A. & M. College, Raleigh.
M. E. Sherwin, graduate and pro
fessor in the Universities of Mis
souri and California, has been elect
ed Prof esssr of Soils. "
Cloudbursts in Arizona last week
washed out , twelve miles of the
tracks cf the Santa Fe Railroad.
Hard rains in Kentucky also - dam'
aged crops badly, and washed away
thousands of bushels of threshed
wheat.
- Miss Helen Brown,daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Douglass Lester Brown, of
New York, is to be married to
Thomas Palma, a son of the late
Cuoan president, in a few weeks.
Miss Brown is a descendant of the
titled Douglasses of England and
Scotland. , ' "
Brickell's History of North Caro
lina, one of the rarest of the early
State histories, which was published
in Dublin in;1737,by John Brickell,is
being reprinted by the Secretary of
State under authority ef the trustees
of the State Library. ' ; ,
' The premium list for the Central
Carolina Fair to be held in Greens
boro this fall, is now ready, and can
be secured by applying to Secretary
Garland Daniel, of the Central Carolina-Fair
Association."" ' '
' Attorney Benjamin Lovenstein, of
Durham, was ou last Saturday bound
.under a $750 bond on a charge of
embezzlement. -
Notice of , Convention to Nominate
County Officers.
The f Democratic Convention for
Randolph county, to nominate can
didates for the general assembly and
for the various county offices, is
called to meet in the court house in
ABheboro on Saturday, August 6th,
1910, at 11 o'clock a. m.
The primaries are called to meet
at the various voting precincts on
Saturday, July 30th, 1910, at 3
o'clock p. m and instruct for such
nominees as they may desire, and to
send delegates to the County Con
vention; and also to nominate jus
tices of the peace and constables.
Every Democrat is urged to attend
the primary and vote for the men of
bis choice-
By order of the committee.
This May 4th. 1010. ;
W. J. Miller, Chm'n.
ftaee Riot in Texas.
As a result of a race riot near Pal
estine, Texas, last Saturday and Sun
day fifty engroes and seventeen whites
are reported to be dead. The trouble
started about a promissory note
which a negro bad given and a white
man had endorsed. The note came
due and the negro refused to pay or
renew ana trouble over the matter
resulted in a pitched battle between
the two races. Eight arrests have
been made and others may follow.
Vote of Democratic PrimariesJuly" 30th.
Trinity, 3.00 3.00 .20 .80 1.50 1.00 3 00 1.50 3.20 3.08 .48 .94
W. New Market, 2.47 .25 .18 .71 36 .17 1.76 1.70 1.30
E New Market. .75 .16 .09 .54 .18 .28 .13
Providence, 2.58 LOG .36 .36 .65 .73 2.06 1.25 1.50 .12 .01
Liberty, 8.00
Tabernacle, 2.56 .21 .72 .51 .97 1.27 1.36 .46 .09 3.43 .48
Back Creek, .77 3.23 .78 1.80 .90 .52 2.06 .78 .13 1.03
W. Franklinville 3.00 .87i 1.36 .77 1.22 1.78
E. Franklinville, 2.66 .42 .09 1.83 2.68 .17 2.25 .67 2.83 1.08 .42
Columbia, 5.60 .66 ,52 2.22 4.26 1.21 .24 3.29 2.22 5 37 1.05 .36. '
Concord, 5.00 2.00 .28 3 81 .03 .28 1.18 3 82
Cedar Grove, 1.16 .51 .14 .10 .30 1.35 .23 .12 .31 .24 .07 1.38
Coleridge, 2.22 3.29 .40 3.77 1.37 .35 .51 .44 4.35 .08 1.13
Pleasant. Grove, 1.45 .55 1.27 .73 2.00
New Hope, 2.90 2.33 .77 .38 5 25 .37 .54 .92 2 80 2.54
Union, 3.33 .67 .32 3.30 .32 1.28 2.18 .18 .36
Richland, 2.19 .14 167 2.66 .93 .14 .27 .38 2.86 .64 .12
Brower, 2.00 2.00 2.00
ABheboro, 6.18 2.70 .84 .28 2.53 4.50 1 26 1.66 4.33 . 2.86 2.17 .64
Randleman, 8.00 1.40 .40 ,14 3.90 .78 5.32 .41 .21 8.77 .61
Grant, 1.80 .60 .60 .90 2 .10 .90 ' .90 .30 .90
57.62 30.38 7.36 6.64 30.77 32.66 9.86 20.71 22.72 34 01 '. 19.93 16.21 .01 .13
Outside the above tabulated state
ment many of the townships failed
to muke returns for other candidates.
Fifteen precints voted by accla
mation for Geo. T. M unlock for
Register of Deeds.
Eight precincts votes for Com
missioners, their returns showing
that Mr. Foushe, H. T CavinesB, J.
M. Caviness, I Fletcher Craven,
and B. F. Bulla had been voted for.
The votes for members of Legis
lature were returned from few town
ships, but the same were scattering;
those voted for being T. J. Redding,
J. O. Redding, Dr. It. L. Cavines3,
H. M. Robins, T. J. Finch, J. Rom
Smith, I. F. Craven and J. D. Ross.
For Coronor two precincts in
structed for Dr. Fox, and one pre-r
cinct instructed, each, for Dr.
Moore and Dr. Sumner. .
Two precincts instructed for H.
A. Albright for Surveyor, one pre
cint for J. D. Welch.
Field Agents Appointed. ;
Drs. B. W. Paie, of Sneads' Ferry;
O. F. Strosnider, of Wilmington;
and Claude L. Pridgen, of Kinston;
have recently been appointed by the
Hookwirm commissioners for the
campaign against the ' disease.
These doctors will be assigned to
sanitary districts consisting of five or
six counties each. They wi.l work in
co-pperatien with the doctors, teach
ers, editors, local improvement lea.
gues and other agencies. The dis
ease has been proven common in all
parts ot the state, and the work of
eradicating it should receive the
hearty co-operation of every citizen.
Literature on the subject may be had
by applyng to Dr. John , A. ,Ferrell
assistant secretary for the hookworm
disease, campaign Raleigh, N. O.
Flovd Smith, a cotton mill opera
tive of Cooleemee, was drowned last
Thursday while attempting to swim
across the river just above the dam.
He was 1 probably attacked; with
cramp or lecame exnausieu. . ,
A movement has been started in
New Orleans, . La., by Confederate
veterans to erect a monument to the
former Blaves of the South. I -,.
Deaths t Fri rf invllle ,
' 5
Oa last Sunday; 0 rning, the
death angel hovered over the village
of Franklinville and claimed for its
victim Mrs. Sarah Craven, widow
of the late Henry Craven. Mr.
Craven had been ill for a short
while and her death was unexpect
ed. The funeral service was con.
ducted at the resinence Monday
morning by her pastor, Rev. J. E.
Woosley, after which the remains
were laid to rest in the cemetery of
the M. E. Chursh, of which she
was a member for a number of years.
Mrs. Craven was about 63 years
of age. She leaves a large . family
of children and grand-children, who
will sadly miss her.
Mrs. T. B. Prevo died at her
home in Franklinville last Friday
after a critical illness of some time.
She was laid to rest in the Baptist
cemetery Saturday evening, funeral
service being conducted by Rev. J,
T. Byrum, her pastor. She (was a
devoted member of thr Baptist
church.
Mrs. Prevo was about 50 years of
age. She was a devoted wife and
kind mother. Her husband and sev
eral children survive.
Randolph County Teachers' Institute
" Now in Session. '
The Randolph County Teachers'
Institute which meets every two
years, opened Monday morning with
an enrollment of about eighty-five
teachers. Mr. Avent, superintend,
ent of the Goldsboro graded schools,
and Miss Ada Womble, professor of
pedagogy, Peace Institute, Raleigh,
are conducting the Institute, There
has been a change in the way the
institutes are being conducted from
that of two years ago, when more
attention was paid to higher grade
work. This year primary work is
receiving mote a'tention. The (en
tire work is of a more practical na- j
ture than has been heretofore.
Sometime during the Institute dif
ferent Speakers will be here, who
will make addresse: on educational
topics. Mr. E. C. Brooks, editor of
North Carolina Education, is to be
here on Friday, August 5th. Dr.
H. B. Hiatt, of Asheboro, will
speak this afternoon at 3:30 p. m.
on "Sanitation and Hyigiene in the
School Room."
On Friday night there will be an
Educational Rally at Spero. Prof.
Avent, the Institute conductor, and
Miss Womble, his assistant, will be
the principal speakers. Everybody
is cordially invited.
On the afternoon of August 11,
there will be a special program for
School Betterment Work.
? At a meeting of the State Demo
cratic Executive Committee on Aug.
1, Hon. A. H. Eller, of Winston
Salem, was re-elected Chairman by
acclamation. Mr. W. E. Brock, of
Auson County, was elected Secretary
to succeed Mr. A. J. Field,' who
finds it impossible to keep, np both
the duties of this position aud . that
of private secratary to Governor
Kitchin. j- , ' , ;
Dr. H. H. Crippen, the Ameri
can dentist accused of murdering his
wife in London a few months ago,
and his stenographer Miss Le Neve,
were arrested last Sunday , when
about to land in Canada from the
steamer, Montrose. .They will be
taken back to England for trial.
A Rat large as an Opossum, Killed at
Atneviue.
Aslievllle Citlien.
' Mr. G. W. Stevens, of No I
North Main fttreet probably holds
the record of having caught one of
tne largest rats in this community.
and possibly in this part of the
country. The rat measured 19 1-4
inches long, from tip to tip, which
in the world of the rodents is "so-oe"
rat
Mr. Stevens has been bothered by
the rats some time, and has lost sev
eral chickens and a number of eggs,
so one day last week he moved the
chickens from the coop to the bars.
Yesterday he caught a glimpse f
tne giant rat, which looked very
much like an opossum and he at
once began a search for it. When
he tore the planks from the floor he
he discovered the rat in his hiding
place and killed it. When he
measured it he found it to be exactly
19 1-4 inches from the tip of its
nose to the end of its tail.
Plate 'Oatefc
, On July 26, 1910 a number of
rple seined the mill pond or. Jar.
S. Parrish and George Pierce,
caught a large number of fish, the
five largest weighed 66 pounds.
Sie largest one of the bunch weigh
19 pounds.
John a, Carlisle Dead.
lion. John u. uarusie died in
New York City last Sunday from
heart failure and oedema of the
lungs
Mr. Carlisle was born in Camp
bell county, Ky.,in 1835 ; began the
practice of law at the age of 23 ;
served in both the State Senate and
House of Representatives of Ken
tucky ; was seven times elected to
Congress, being made Speaker of the
House in 1883. He wts appointed
Secretary of the Treasury under
Cleveland. Since Cleveland's ad
ministration he had practiced law
in New York, He was a man of
strong convictions and a masterly
statesman.
:
Program or Randolph County Woman's
School Betterment Association.
On Thursday, Aug. 11th at 2 p.
m. there will be a special program
on School Betterment work. Each
orgrnization is requested through
The Courier to send a delegate to
this meeting which will be most in
terestingand helpful. The public
is invited to attend.
Pboobah
The Organization of Betterment
Work Miss Ada Womble, llaleigb,
N. C.
Possibilities for Betterment Work
m Randolph county Prof. D. M.
Veatherly.
Round Rable conducted by Miss
Llbie Miller. .
Election of Officers.
Mr. R. C. Plyer, of Iredell county,
died recently at the age of 85 years.
Mr. Plyler is survived by two twin
sons, Rev. A. W. Plyler, of Char
lotte; and Rev M. T. Plyler, of
Washington; both of whom are
leading Methodist ministers. Rev.-A.
W. Plyer was fer four years pastor of
tne Asneooro M. church, and was
much beloved by. his congregation.
i i
' After a long deadlock, Majir
Chaa. M. Stedman was nominated
on the 438th ballot at Fifth District
Congressional Convention in Greens.
bcr j lust week.
MR. ROGERS WRITES AGAIN.
Another Wonderful DreamA great Po
llttcal BattleThe Good Road.
Mr. Editor:
Will you please allow me space in
your worthy paper to tell of a won
derful dream I had last night. I
dreamed that 1 was in a large cave
had been directed there by some
supernatural power to hunt for hid.
den treasures. While I was in the
cave I got lost and was wandering
about trying to find some way . out
and finally came to a beautiful road
that reminded me very much of the
old plank road at several places be
tween Asheboro and High Point. I
sould look each way and there seem
ed to be a dim light which, showed
the road was being used. Just then
I heard a mighty rush and roar as
if a storm was passsing over. The
noise seemed to be coming directly
toward me. I hid myself to see
wnac it was. it seemed there had
been a great political battle upon
earth and this great underground
passage was a dividing line between
Randleman and Asheboro precincts
and the noise I heard was the rush
of candidates trying to get through.
as tne noise advanced closer 1 could
see it was a treat thronir of oeoole
both men, women and children some
praying, some crying and some sing
ing. As they passed I learned that
there had been a . great, calamity on
earth and more especially in Ranolph
and Guilford counties. It appeared
that after the , Republican Conven
tion and the nomination of the coun
ty tickets for the offices ef the two
counties the Democrats fell out and
had a regular stampede, and declar
ed war against the Prohibition and
refused to shake hands with the So.
cialist. This of course caused a
family row and many were compell
ed to take refuge in this county.
Well after they had passed I felt
good as I knew I could take the
back track and get out- So I started
and bacl nx&gone far hen I heard
another roar. I could feel the force
of the wind in the narrow channel
as the noise came closer. So I started
to one side to let it pass. The light
was very good but the object passed
me so quickly that I could hardly
tell what it was. It was not gone
but a short time unlil I heard it
coming back. Of course I got out
of the way this time. I could tell it
was a horse and buggy and the horse
wore a very short tail. Well this
aroused my curiosity to know what
it was. Just then I heard another
rush coming back. I prepared my
self that I might see who it was. As
th9 object advanced it appeared to be
the films of a moving picture. The
horse and buggy looked natural but
the man seemed to change and ap
pear styles. Well I was puzzled to
know what was the matter . Final
ly the thought came to me it must
be the .Editor of the High Point En
terprise out driving his Kentucky
bred bobtailed horse, in the interest
of the good roads movement. Well
1 stood there and waited for him to
come back but he never returned. I
I wanted to find out what had hap
pened outside. Well I had started
to make my way out when I met the i
Editor of the Randleman News. ' I
was glad to see him but I noticed he
was a little bit excited. He asked
me if 1 had seen anybody coming
through the cave. I told him, yes,
a man passed me in a buggy back
there. He wanted to know if the
horse had a short tail. I told him
yes. He started on. I said, "Hold ou
Editor, tell me what is the matter."
He hollowed back, "That was the
Editor of the High Point Enterprise
down here telling people that the
good road is coming and I want to
catch him and find out if it is com
ing by Randleman." Well just then
i woxe up ana was giad to Know
that it was only a dream.
T. L. Rogers. .
Death o( Greensboro Woman.
Mrs. B. H. Merrimon, of Greens
boro, died suddenly last Saturday
nigntat late springs, Tennessee.
Mrs. Merrimon was for many years
a leader in the religious rnd social
life of Greensboro, bhe was a sister-
in-law of Senator Lee S. Overman.
Her husband and ten children sur
vive. ,
BurrowCummings.
On last Mondav. Mr. Iaaan W.
Burrow, of near Asheboro. and Miss
Znla Cummings, of Gibson ville, were
married in Greensboro at the office
of the officiating . Justice of tbe
Peace. D. H. Collins.. Their man?
friends wish them a long and happy
life.
MIKE WRITES PAT.
Modern Annanlas and Sapphlra worse
Thin Judas.
Deer Pat:
uiaentj you near that rumbling
sound tother night kinder like a
earthquake when ole Annanies turn
ed over in his grave? Well, its.
enongh to make him turn over, if
anything would, the way the Radi
cles spin out their newspaper arti
cles which are not only false, but
which allways show that they're
false before they git the artickle
finished. Sum of these newspaper
artickles amuses even an ole ignor
ames like me, specially that one by
that ole sore-head democrat in the
Rftwlv RuVukvnn an that, lttt.la 91
x 3 desendent of the ole man which
Balam rid, when be went down to
cuss the Israelites, that rites about,
that Tarf club down in Chatara
ooullty. The latter sines hiz name,
that iz the first part ef it, Jew. Of
course he's a fraud. Hiz only claim,
to bein a Jew iz that the .ole man
Baalam rid one of hiz ancestors.
Now Pat, if you dont think they
tell false tales about polyticks jis't.
read one of their artickles through
ah youll see them giving the lie at -the
end of the thing to what they
sedatthe beginnin. The ole Ram
goes on to tell about certain demo--crats
a gittin messages from Satin.
He's a , . dnnnA for tellino- folks
through the newspapers what Satin,
tells him in the strictest confidence..
Highwaymen stick to each other
faithf uler than that, an if he dont.
keep hiz pal's secrets he'll soon
have no partners in hiz newspaper
bizness. .
If the Kawkashyun man an the
Chatamite were man an woman I'd
call em Annanies an Saffirie. One
of em sez the Radicles make prices
high to give us prosperitee an the
other sez that they have made the
price of cotton so high the cotton
mills cant run on full time. It re.
minds me of ole Dinger.Bill's feedin
hiz daug Tige with a tough peace of
trust beaf. He ties a strong string -to
the beaf, an when Tige s wallers
he pulls it back out of him, au pass
es it on to hiz nabor, who iz jist
like him, to feed hiz daug John.
One dang has to give up hiz beaf so
that the other may have hiz dinner.
So it is with Radicle prosperitee; .
they take it away from the farmer .
so that the mill can run a while, an
then they take it from tne mill man
and let the farmer run a little while.
Judis Iscariat was a daisey com
pared with these little Radicle
boasters who brag about raisin the
price of Cotton. What did ole man
Wickersham, the greatest sham the
country ever produced, try to do for
the peeple who raise cotton? He
tried to take the whole Department
of Justic (a sham name with him at .
the head of it), an put the prise of .
cotton down so hiz friends could get
enough to cover their shortage.
Listen at the ole hipercrits a
braggin about the price of beaf that '
the farmer sells! An the same-
crowd bf Radicles let the beaf trust,
with more 5 than hundred cold stor
age plants.run the beaf market to suit,
em, an it suits the radicals to Bend it
across the Atlantick Oshin, and sell
it cheaper in Urip than our own
hungry peeple can buy it. Ole Jude
Iscariat wouldent do sich a thing
for all the silver in this country.
.Now, I'm Bure that Hawkashyun.
lecturer iz a goin to runin Daniels,
Glenn, Simmons an Tillman. Hiz
lecture on temperence an morality
are well worth throwin in a dung,
hill bnt he'd better let Ben Tillman
alone, for while Ben dont pay at
tention to disgruntled Baalimites,
he knows what a farmer sometimes
uses a pitch-fork forto move the
contents of cow stables-an he mite
stick it in the Kawkashyun corres
pondent, an throw him out in some .
poor corn field.
When he hits at Bob Glenn, Bob
Says less attention to him than he
oes to an Eastern Karoliny must-
sseeier. ne Knows tne oie itam ' iz
mad cause the Democrats took .the
whiskey away fiom hiz croud, an
left em without both the whisWiT an
their revenue jobs. An he's mad at
Simmons and Daniels cause they
helped do it. Give him hiz licker
back boys, if you want him to git
in a good humor.
Mike Dooganshield.
Died.
Ex-Sheriff Nathan Jones, of War
ren county,-died last week from con
sumption. ' , .
Hi. M. A. Thornbnrg, a brave
Confederate veteran, ot Newton, N.
C., died last Thursday.