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COURIER 56 COURIER Loads In Both News and Circulation. T3he COURIER Advertising Column Bring Results. 7 ktt !SSUED WEEKij r PRINCIPLES, NOT MEN ONE DOLLAR PER TEAR VOL. XXXVI ASHEBORO, N. C, JULV 20, 1911 No. 29 THE RANDOLPH AGRICULTURAL FAIR be Held in Asheboro, -Farmers' Day Educational Day Good Roads Day Colored Fair. October 31 to November 3, 1 been selected as the dat& for the "laudolph County Agricultural Fair, The central committee has secured the old Asheboro Furniture site with all the buildings for tie v.0 of the fair, which will be conducted at that place. f Tuesday, October 31, will be Farm era Day. I Wednesday, November 1 will be Educational and Womana Day. On ihia day, it is the purpose of the Dounty Supt. of Schools to have yery school boy and 'girl in Ran Jolph County in a procession at isheboro. i Thursday, November 2 will be ealth and Qood Roads Day. Pre linens will also be awarded the inners on that day. A list of these remiums will be published later, f Friday, November 3 will be Col red People's Day. An invitation as been extended to Booker T. ashington to deliver an address on hat day. Fair week will also be "Home Doming Week" and a royal welcome ill be given by the people of Ashe to to all sons and daughters of adolph coding back from dis lit homes. Mr. M.R. .Moffitt Dead. lr. M. R. Moffitt a prominent !zen and confederate veteran Of ndolph county died suddenly at j home at Ulan on Tuesday night. o had been ii feeble health for ,e last two years bnt was able to be yut, ,was in Aahebnro on Monday ncl Tuesday attending court. tie was in his usual health went home on the afternoon train, ate supper ind at ten o'clock was taken Bick; jrhen he was taken he told his fain Jy that he was going to die. Mr, loffitt joined the army the second ear was captured .at Jordan Springs a., after returning home, he settled t Ulah where he has since made his, )me. He was married twice first i Miss Tilda Ann Luck and later Mrs. Annie Murphy. From this lion there were font children Mr. i. J. Moffitt, of Shiloh, Mrs. ion Lucas, of Ala., and Misses vj and Nellie Moffitt who are the home. All of his children rvive him as do two brothers, W. Moffitt, of Shiloh, M, U. Moffitt, Ashebcro, and a sister Mrs. Lizzie igue, of Sanford. lie was a man o had always tried to observe the den rule; he was honest and uj ,htin every particular, industrious id interested in all things pertain, g to the building up of the com munity in which he lived. Another f the old landmarks has gone to eceive his reward. New Law Partnership At North Wjlkcsboro. North Wilkesboro, July 17. The paitnership of Hackett and veil, fur the general practice cf begins business here today. F. Iacnttt has for a uumeer of j been tne of the leading law of this section of the state, and or Borne time grand master cf iate organization of Old eel 3ruce Craven, "though young law, is well known to the pub. hia work in education and j, and he has in the short' time , been here become an active v The new firm begins with i practice. cath of Former Citizen. F- A. Tucker died at his n Fair Bluff, July 6th, injuries received whi'e 1 timber some days before Tucker was a native of County- Some fifteen or .. . 8i ;rs ago he - lived near t and operated a govern illery for two or three Je was aout sixty years -.nd is eurvived by his i several children. Orie I. B. Tucker, is post i Fair Bluff and census r of his district. COUNTY October 31 to November 3 Report of County High School Work. Randolph county received from the estate last year $1,000 to be up plied to high school work, that is, work above the sevtnth grade. Trinity received $400, Liberty $300, find banner $3UU. These amounts wt-ie duplicated by each school out of its special tax fund or otherwise, which the law requires. The coun ty made an additional appropriation to each of theee schools of $150. This gave Trinity $950, Liberty, 750 ; and Farmer $740, making a total or $3,400 tor man school in struction. Not a dollar of this was used for any instruction below the eighth grade. In these public high schools 122 students were given high school in struotion : i'.imty, 43; Liuerty, 39, ana farmer 4U. ur tuis number 59 were girls and -63 wtre boys. In the eightu grade or first year of the nigh 8ciiooi worK there were enroll eu ,31 girJs und 3 toys; in the ninth grade or second year 24 girls and 34 toys; in the tenth graue or third year 14 girls atd 3 boy the eleventh grade or fourth year 2 coys. One teacher in each school gave his entire lime to the work, whild at Liberty an assistant gave a part of her time to high school instruction. The .prescribed course of study for the tnree years which was followed vejy closely by all three schools, in cludes the following subjects : Eqg- lish lirammar, Compos, tion and Literature, Arithmetic, Algebra, Ge ometry, History,, .English, Ancient ana JNorth Carolina, Latin Gram mar, Caesar, Cicero, Physical Ge ography, Physiology, and Agricul ture. The entice county is divided among these three schools. Stu dents who live in certain townships around Trinity may go there free of tuition, but to neuhor of tbeothtr school.. The same conditions exist at the other two schools. . Thtte students who are able to lake only a part .of the eighth ' grade are charged for those atudies below the eighth grade which they may take. There is now no need f.r our boys and girls leaving the county to go to other parparatory schools. Tui tion is free at home and the instruc tion as thorough as can be found iu anj preparatory schoo in the tate. The three principals in .these schools are specialists in their line of work. Ihe .Betterment Association at Trinity made improvements among which was the paving ff a large debt on a piano the school had nought. The Bettermeni of Liber. ty did quite a lot of work. They linpiovtd the school grounds, laid out walks, etc., at a cout of $25.00;. placed a p. 00 clock in the building rurnisntd rooms wish many beauti tui curtains,' shade and picture?; bought druuid, water closktB at a cost of $10.00; and paid $100.00 on a $300.00 piano. At Farmer the Betterment Asso. ciation furnished the rooms with chairs, built a new stage la the Au ditorium and made some improve ments on the grounds. The fourth year a work will be added to the Farmer High School this year, the additional expense amounting to over $300.00 will be borne by the patrons who have stud ents in the fourth year. As soon as more money is avail. able one cf these schools should add a Normal Course for teachers, a sec ond, a course in Domestic Science, the third, a course in Farm Life and Agricultnre. Randolph county needs theee three things. Which school will be the first to take on a ptrs of this work? Epidemic Baffl es Physicians-. A peculiar and fatal malady heretofore unknown is prevailing in Mitchell county, and baffling skilled physicians. The disease manifests itself by small bloodshot stains ' on the tips of the fingers, which pass through the arm into the body and result in death within a few days: The plague has claimed a number of victims, among, whom was Dr. T. I P. Slagle. No permanent relief has been discovered, and the disease is spreading with alarming rapidity. it WASHINGTON LETTER Various Matters Discussed An Im partial Investigator Expensive Trust Busting. By Clyde H. Tavenner, Roecial Washington Correspjudeut ol The courier. Washington, July 17. Did Presi dent Taft throw open Controller bay under conditions especially designed to permit the Morgan-Guggenheim interests and to other to gobble up this richest of the Alaska land prizes before anyone else could have a chance to file? ThiB is the big important ques tion to which the House committee on expenditures in the interior de partment is Beeking an answer. If such was not the deliberate plan of the administration, why were these lands thrown open by such unnsual procedure by a eecret executive or der instead cf by rockmation? Another query: If there was no conspiracy between the administra tion and the big explaining interests, how dots it come that Speculator Ryaa, supposed agent of the Morgan. GugtnheiRis, alone knew of the in surance of President Tafi's secret order and w as able -to file a soldiers' scrip on ISO rods of Controller bay water front withia three days after President Taft signed the order elim inating the land from the national forest any other man eoald have known of the ordei? Another extraordinary feature of the case is tnis: The invariable rule had been to give 60 days notice beforeany claimant could hie on this land, but, according to Mr. lien nett or the General .Land Umce, whe the President's order first came to him the 60 day provision was in it and when he next saw the order there was no time allowed whatever for notice to the public not e-ven day. That there was actually an under standing between the administration and the men who were to profit through the President's amazing secret order is not a state of affairs so remarkable to those who have been closely following things Washington. There have been pre cedents exactly paralleling such performance. When the railroad regulation bill was sent to the last Congress by thePr-esident the public .was iu absolute ignorance of its con Sents. But the fast developed later that although the President had not seen he. te take the public -into his confidence, he had allowed the rail road interests not -only to suggeBt the Unes along whnh the bill should be framed, and to load it with jokers against the public interest but to actually pass upon and 0. K. the bill before the people were even per mitted to know that its preparation was contemplated. Before the investigation into this newest Alaska land jugglery is fin ished it promises to develop a condi tion or anairs beside which the at tempted theft of Alaska lands is in. consequential. The probe is in charge of Kepre sentative James M. Graham of I Hi nois, one of the really big men in the Democratic house, whose career from the very first day he entered Con. gress has. stamped him as a man aooue partisanship and one especial ly qualified by service on the Balling er investigating cammittee to make the inquiry he is now so conscienti ously engaged in. An "Impartial" I u vest! gator. G. Yf, Burton, special agent of the tans board who is now travel ing in Europe gathering "exact im formation" to be used as the basil of tariff revision by the Republicans, is an Aldrich stand-patter on the tariff question, and was undoubtedly selected because of this qualification. Burto on the side, has been writ ing letters bacK lor publication in the Los Angeles Times, a high pro tectionist paper. This ''impartial" investigator, gathering "exact im- formation ,m a recent Iettsr declar ed that: ''Your tariff revision de mand, fellow Americans, is a fad." In another letter, excoriating the whole tariff revision suggestion, this "impartial" investigator made this judicial and carefully weighed ob servation: "The merchants of our country who are so inadvisedly shouting for lower duties in order to get the cost ef living reduced, should stop making so much noise until they learn what they are talking about." All of which is interesU ing in view of the fact that Presi dent Taft insists Congress should not touch tin. iniquitous Payne. Aldrich rates until this "impartial" investigator, G. W. Burton, has told what it ought to do. DEATH TO FLIES. Rale!?h Health League Puts Boys and Girls After the Pests Prizes Offered. A fly killing contest was started in Raleigh last Monday, which is to continue three weeks. The Health League and the two daily newspapers in co operation have of. fered $100 in 36 prizes to the boys and girls under 18 who biing the largest number of dry dead Mies to the office of the sanitary inspector, Capt. T. W. Davis. The children are urged to handle the Hies as little as possible and to wash their hands frequently, as the flies may carry the germs of disease. A Remarkable Record. Mrs. E. L. Shaman, of this city, Nrho is a 5 years old and still hale and hearty, has a remaikable rec oid, which is perhaps, without parallel in this country. She was born and raised three blocks from the public square and has only moved oue time in her life, and then she moved within one block and half of the square, where she has lived, Mrs. Shuman was married but lost her husband and all her children years ago. Salisbury Poet Assault in Rockingham. Ua ouuday morning the peace waB broken when the news was spread over Rockingham cf the as sault on Mrs. M. E. Beck, a respect able widow of aoout 60 years. Mrs. Beck lives alone with her 10 year-old granddaughter in a two roomed house. Sometime between 3 and 4 o'clock Sunday morning she was awakenpd by a man, or rather brute, choking her. By the dim light she could not tell whether he was a white man or a negro. As sooa as he loosened his grip on her throat she had her granddaughter to go tcr help, and as the child opened the door to xto out the man fled Some of the aeighbors saw him but couldn t tell his color. Bloodhounds were put on the trail within thirty minutes. Gov. Kitchin added $400 to the $100 reward offered by some of the citizens or Rockingham. The only clue is the sizs of cap and shoe, the cap being dropped from the head while he was in the house of ilre. Beck. Chickens Coming Home To Boost. For many years the government paid a handsome rental tor the use of the Union building in Washing ton. xt develops now that on of the principal owners of the building is a daugnter-in-iaw ot senator llale, and that Senator had inserted in the Senate appropriation bill an item which compelled tne government to lease the building. Senator Hale also caused millions of dollars of public moneys to be expended on a naval shore station off the coast of Maine, the bulk of which expendi ture was 8,neer waste. The pnnci pal mission this yard performed was to provide a place for Senator Hale s political henchmen. Nor was that all; While Hale Senator was in exer cise of almost ut.limited;potver iu the senate as chairman of the appropria tioua committee, his son, Frederick Uale. secretly received a fee of $s. 000 out of tne secret service fund tor alleged diplomatic labois in help. ing out to fix a Canadian boundary line. No one can find out what youn,; Hale actually did to earn this- $o,000. Inese .and other acts of Mr. Hale while he was Senator jus. tify the demanu that he be given an opportuuuy to explain. Perhaps he will demand it in justice to himself If moJeaty restrains him, tne oppor tunity may be torced upon him by ioae or the House investigating com niittees. Kxpeuslve Trust IJu&tlu;. Fifty-nine thousand dollars was the amount paid i rank B. Kellogg the Republican trust-buster, by the government, between 1907 and 1911 it is believed that Kellogg received as much, if not more, from the trusts. It was developed before the anley committee that in one in stance he received fees from the steel strust while being paid by the government to prosecute its friend and ally, the oil trust. J. B. Mc- Reynoids, anotner trust-buster re ceived $64,000 from the public treasury for his services in the to bacco and coal-carrying railroad cases. In all, the Republicans spent more than $3,000,000 in ten years for trust budting" and the trusts are still with ua. ) CONFEDERATE To be Erected by August 1 Date of Unveiling to be Set Soon Monument One of Which Randolph Citizens Should be Proud. SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS - Speaker Champ Clark has accept ed an invitation to address the teacher's assembly at Raleigh next December, Of the 62 candidates, who took the state pharmay exanination re cently, only 32 passed. Among these was J. S. East, of Asheboro. Mr. E. W. Turlington, of Mt. Airy, won the Cecil Rhodes scholar ship to Oxford University given this year to a member of the graduating class of the State University. As a result of a crap gume near Elizabeth City last Monday, Scrap Holly and Norman Sutton, two ne groes are dead and officers are scour, ing the country for the murderers. Miss Ann Aspinwall,a young lady from Montana, arrived in New York one day last week, having ridden all the way on horseback from San Francisco, Cal. As a result of a .knife wound in the breast inflicted by Alex. Jerni gan, in a fight at Richardson's Mills, Johnson county, Albert Todd, a young white man, is dead, and Jer nigan is a fugitive from justice. In the collapse of a traveling crane bearing a 14-ton steel girder at Meyersdale. Pa., last week, five men, structural iron workers, were killed and two serionsly injured. One of the injured was Mr. A. E Kluttz, of Salisbury, N, C. Two Dreadnoughts of 30,000 tons each, coating $15,000,000 each will be added to the United States Navy within the next year or two. These vessels, if built as planned, will sur pass stay .fighting machines now afloat. Charles A.' Lutz, a white man who had been brought all the way from Indiana to stand trial in vViust n Salem for check flishing, jumped from a moving train at Pum .na last Thuisday night and escaped, though handcuffed at the time. Washington Martin, colored, in in jail at Raleigh on a charge of bur glary in the first degree. He is ac cused of entering the house of an other colored man about mid-niht one night last week. One day last week, a bo!t of lightning entered a house ai Mc- Henry, Miss., knocked down a wo man in the house and tore her shirt, waist to shreds without seriously in juring her. In the gigantis case of the Ware Kramer Tobacco Company against the American Tobacco.Co. in the Federal Court last week, the jury pronounced the American an out j law of trade. The verdict of the court was for $70,000 against this gigantic trust. A eommitteee that has examined into the office seconded by Attorney -general Wickeraham .recommends that Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, . pure food expert and chief government chemist be removed from office. They charge that Dr Wiley violated the law by paying an employe of the department $20 a day when onh $9 was allowed. i On the excursion that came down from Wilkesboro Thursday was a man about six feet tail, weighed about 160 pounds and is 62 years old. Accompanying him, iu strik ing contrast, was his wL', who is very little over three feet tall.weighsi about 75 pounds and is 27 years old. They are Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Gregory, of North Wilkesboro. They have been married seven years and have had four childrenall of whom died in infancy. Winston Journal. Robbers, thought to be three in number, dynamited the station at Marion Junction, on the Carolina, Clinchfield, and Ohio Railroad last Monday morning, however findini only $4 in the safe. The robbers went toward Ashvil'e, and later when Sheriff Marshburn attempted arresting them one struck and in flicted painful injuries on his ankle. A posse at Old Fort took up the pursuit and a boy in the party was shot in the arm. The robbers escap ed to the mountains. MONUMENT As has before been stated there was some. delay in the erection of the Confederate monument. The new 'contract with the Blue Pearl Marble and Granite Co., of Winston, says that the monument will be erected by August 1st. There are a great many citizens in Randolph county who have not contributed to the monument and it is earnestly hoped that all who will, will send a donation to Mrs. J. D. Ross, Treas. at once in order that the monument ' may be paid for when erected. If any of the veterans who have been trying to comply with the request (each raise $5) have any funds on hand, they will greatly favor the committee by sending same in at once. The final arrangements are being made and the date c f unveil ing will be announced very soon. The monument is going to be one of which the entire citizenship of Randolph county will look upon with pride. Now is the time to lend a helping hand. j FARMERS' UNION RALLY At Why Not Last Friday Able and Instructive Speeches Basket Picnic Despitethe unfavorable weather a large crowd gathered on the camp us of the Why Not Academy last Friday and er joyed a very pleasant as well as a very profitable day. lhere were some five or six hun--dredpeojle who remained for the day. The visitors and all the commu nity are indebted to the Why Not Local Union for arranging the day and making possible an occasion so valuable to thefarmers and theif families. The exercises were opened with a prayer by Rev. J. H. Stowe, after which Prof G. F. Garner, prin cipal of the Why Not Schod, with a few words welcomed each and every one to the schod grounds and village. Mr. B. F. Keams, of Kanoy, re sponded to the address of welcome. Mr. J. M. Allen, an active mem ber of the Farmers' Onion, made the introductory speech of the day. He dwelt upon the needs of our boys and girls for a practical education, outlining the Farm Life School Law as passed by the last General Assembly and urged his hearers . that some step be taken" to secure one of these schools for Raudolpb. The following speaker was Mr. J. Z. Greene, of Marsh vil, Union county, wbospoke upon the large field of the Union, 'he goi d it had accomplished and the gieat policy it had for the future, urgirg that aU farmers connect iheishes with some local union. iMr. Greene told his fads in a very i tenBting ' manner, and often convuled the house with his variety of jokes. At tbis time came the moat inter psting evidence that the farmers of -Randolph are well fed. A tuble 150 feet long was burder.ed to hold the many products of the farm kitchen. Aftrr all were satisfied enough food remained for several hundred more. The afternoon exercises consisted of a very interesting uldress by Prof. T. C. Amick on Education and the Fa mer. Prof. Amick spoke enthusiastically for the boys nd girls to have an opportunity tq prepurp themselves for the conipeti t.on th'-y will rnr-et in life. He also urged the older folks to real regularly some good farm p;ip r. Theiast speaker on the program was Mr. Geo. R. Ross, of Asheboro,' Manager of the County Fair. He spoke of the fair this fall, and then for a few minutes spoke upon the. breadth of the term agriculture, and the power possible to the farm ers if they work with progres sive agricultural methods. Ice Cream Supper for Denton Or phanage There will be an ice cream supper at the residence of Mr. W, A, Pres. nell, of Seagrove Route 2, Saturday night, July 29. the proceeds are to go for the benefit of the Orphanaga at Denton. Everybody is cordially invited. r