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VOL. XXXVI
ASHEBORO, N. C, AUG. 31, 1911
No. 35
WASHINGTON LETTER
Mr. Taft Against Cheapej Woolens
Let 8s Alone -"The Richest
Baby" On the Job
By 0!-J? H. T.vinii(.'.Spoll Cotrepiilli o!
TneCow.v.. :
Washington, Aug.28 . President
lat s veto of the wool bill means
: there will be no reduction this win
ter in the price of woolen clothing
of any sort for men, women and
childroo, nor in the prices of blan
kets, nor any other f omds of woolen
niaiiUf act ares uoededfor wariutu by
the general public.
' And just so much s the. public
- would have savedln chfluper w salens,
together with the .amount the
farmers would huse sav:d in cheaper
. agricultural implements had the
prtB'.dent signed 4he fine list oill,
will be transferred unjustly to the
cotters of the woolen trr.et and the
harvester trust, Mro Btar contributors
. to the Republican campaign fund.
What is the President's defense
for refusing to penmit a redaction ,m
thj.coet of living? Letnc see! First,
he makes the point the wocl bill was
unconsidered, when as a.matter cf
fact the ways and. means committee
put, in .three months of Sincere ha
vestigation and study before the bill
. lengen or ume given 10 me considers
tion of the -woolen .schedule of the"
Payne-Aidrich bilind whirh docu
ment the, ptssiaent signed readily
enough.
Second, the president asks that
the people .continue. to pay .exorbi
tant prices for woolens until ho bears
.from his tariff board, which k pack
. ed with men who take the high-protection
viewpoint, and whose chief
. agents and alleged "impartial inves
tigators" abroad are writing back ar
ticles for American newspapers ridi
. culing and belittling the crying de
.mand of tha cons umers. for tariff revision-downward.
Mr. .Taf t'g message against cheap
.er woolens wiilo down as a docu
ment of Misrepresentation, false pre
pense and excuses. The real reason
the presuien. vecoea inexarioiw tar
iff bills W38 not stated in, any of his
messages: .It was because he was
under obligation to the beneficiaries
.of the .Payne-Aldsich law to .serve
their interests instead of tho public,
.interest. Mi. Taft was elected
president, it .should be remembered,
with .a campaign fend contributed
by special privilege. Then the
.great tariff trusts ez tended further
,aid and placed Taft furtker in
their .debt) by frightening their em
ployee into voting for Taft with the
threat their .factories and mills
would be closed .unless he was elect
ed. And, just as he was the candi
date special pri vilege,Mr.Taf t is al
so the president of special privilege.
Tims it is shown again how pro
t3cticn jrnakes politics a business
proposition" The fusts contribute
campaign funds to Use party ot the.
high protection wall witn the inten
tion of not only recovering from the
public in excessive prices the amount
of their campaign fund investments,
but wijbh the determination of extort
ing stupendous dividend as profits.
Mr. Taft proved an exceptionally
good invtstnient for the tariff
trusts. . t
"Let Us luue
The trust officials who appeared
before the various investigating com
1 mittees of Cur-gresB this summer, in
eluding G' W. I'ei'kin?, complained
bec;uau tne DcUHcra:s were tooac-.
tiv'e in inquiring into tboir business
meinodd. "lit us uiuue" id iuLi
favorite" wail whenever a' move is
made to determine iu what manner
Jhey are exacting tribute from the
people. ''The tendency to distrust
' big corporations," Baid Mr. Perkius, !
"is hurting business., Business de j
sires to go aneat unmolested .
The "Let us alone" policy would
suit the trusts' exactly. Having
gobbled everything in sight, natural
ly they resent interference. With
the tariff so high that they have a
monopoly on all the necessities of
life, and the anti-trust law so inter
: pretedtthat restraint of trade is not
.restraint so long as it is "reasonable,"
they are safe from competition, and
immune . from prosecution. . Hence
their desire to, be let alone.
In the meantime, how about
prices? Ten years ago a pair of
five pound woolen blankets could
be bought for $3.75; today they
cost $5. At that time the price of
five yards of serge cloth, fifty inches
wide, was $3.75; the price now is
' $6.25. Ten years ago twenty yards
of unbleached cotton cloth conld be
bought for $1.20; today the cost is
Mr Ftanklin Auroaa Dead
i
Mr. Franklin Auman, a well
known farmer of southern Randolph,
died suddenly August 23. Mr,
Auman was 84. years of age. ' He
suffered a stroke of paralysis a few
years ago but had to a great extent re
covered and was considered to be in
fairly .good health for a -person of
his age. He appeared to be well at
sapper, and later ir the evening went
oat in the yard to get a drink of
water fromthe well when he drop-:
ped 'dead.
interment wasia the family bury
ing -gpound the following day in the
presence of many sorrowing relatives
and (friends. Mr. Auman -was a
prominent and well-to-do farmer
aud gud ciuzeu. He was for, many
years a member -of the Primitive
Baptist Church at Suggs Creek.
Eight sons and one daughter
survive. They are Messrs. Jason
Anman, of Richmond county; Jasper
Auman, of Hoke county; .Elijah
Auman, of Norfolk, Va.; Rufns
Auman, ofStar,M3tgomery county;
Franklin, Alpheua, Thaddeus, and
Lebbeus Aumau,allour of Randolph
county; and Mrs. C. W. Fields, .cf
Ciimax,;Gailford county.
J5rof..BanoVDea4
x Frof. James M. Band died atdiia
home in Greensboro Wednesday of
last week after a long illness.
Frof. Bandy was 61 years of age.
He was born in Catawba county,
joined the Confederate army as ;
drummer boy being too young to.
carry a gun, and was later promoted
to captain of his company. He
.was educated at Rutherford College
where he later taught,an& afterwards
held the chair of mathematics at
Oid Trinity, Randolph county for
several years, lie also had consider
able reputation as a civil engineer.
His wife had been dead for six
years. Nine children survive
him. They are: Mrs. B. EL Adams,
of Fanr Oiks, Mrs. Lula Q. Carr, of
Qreeneboro,Mrs Charles R. iLewis.of
Greensboro, Mrs. J. N. JEalifax,
of Spartanburg, S. C, Carl Bandy,
and William Bandy, of ureensboro,
Claude Uandy, of Four Oiks, Jidgar
Bandy -of Greensboro, and Walter
Bandy, of Florida.
.$2.20. Five yards of all woolen
fiinnel conid be purchased then for
$2.75; the price now is .$6.25
Flour sold for $3.50 less per barrel
denng the .civil war vfchau it does
now.
Jadson C. Welliver, one of the
very few Washington cewspaper
and magazine writers who write
what they think, has an article in
Hampton's magazine this month
which js of special interest, now that
President Taft has vetoed the cotton
bill. T:.i article is an asci Cut of
how the .cotton mUuicnuitcs kuj) up
iheir fat dividends amounting in
some lnttiDcta t j one hundred per
cent amnal'y ana at the same time
continue to plead for high tar A
without whicn tbay contend they
will starve to death. Ar, Welliver
begun bis article with a photograph
of oue James Nicholas Brown, sged:
eleven, whose wealth is estimated in
the hundreds of millions, tw;)ty cent
of wh ch wa3 made out of tie nigh
ly protected New England '.cotton
maaufactaiingiLduufr). "In 1908,
the- unn;e year, Mr. Wel iver
writes,1' thiifiottou trtst talaiy pa.d
iU usual Ut d.v.denuc. T.'Uc, its
already uudoipaid laoot una tj tu&er
sharp reductions; true, the wearers
of its pndacts had to pay increased
prices. But that was unimportant
to the cotton uiiliiona res. They
would have their dividends, and
they got them. They had the
power to extort them. They could
pay as low wages and charge as high
prices as they chose. The tariff walj
beld tnem secure in tneir uommation,
Senator Lippitt predicts this coun
try will be piuoged into the woist
sort of a panic if the regular flow of
profits into the collers of the richest
baby of the world is shut off.
The interesting announceme nt
has been made that former Senator
Nelson Aldrich of Rhode Island has
purchased a home on the fashion
able Massacnusetts avenue, near
Sheridan circle, in 'Washington, and
that he intends to make his future
home in the Capital. The announce
ment is of exceptional interest inas
much as the tariff fight in Congress,
within the next two or three years,
is to be fought to a finish.
SHORT ITEMS Of NEWS V
A dispensary for the treatineet of
hookworm has been established at
Fayetteville.
An institute for Chatham county
colored farmers was held at Pittsboro
yesterday.
-The Crystal Ice and Ice Cream
'Company of Lexington has been
chartered with $50,900 asthorized
capital and '$15,000 subscribed,
'Jefferson County, Alabama fea
which Birmingham is located hes
recently veted for a return to open
saloons.
The Aberdeen and Rockfish Rcil.
road, which now reaches Hope Mills
seven miles from Fayetteville is te be
extended to t fayetteville.
' une man was Kiuea ana two in
jured by lightning during a Farm
er's Union meeting at Erosville, Va.,
last oataxlay.
Fire of unknown origen destroyed
a sash and blind factory at Rocky
Mount last Saturday night causing
a loss ot ij4D,uuo with Ui,C0 litsur
ance.
J. Frank Skinner, said to be the
tallest Ell: in the wcrld, die at
his home in Augusta, Ga., one day
last week. Skinner was .7 feet and 4
inches high.
Zack Marks was recently arssted
in Milton, Fla., brought baok and
landed in Harnett -county jul
charged with the murder of Charles
iiillen nine years ago. .
Twenty-fcve persons weie killed
and more ttan 60 miirsd list Sat.
nrday night when a moving picture
Clm exploded in the opera house at
uanonsburg ra.
Miss Ella KcLendoD immona, a
daughter of Eenator and Mrs. F.M.
Simmons, was'-married in Newbern
last Thursday to Wade E. Meadows,
a prominent young business man of
that city.
HoraceGentry is in jail et Durkam
fox-stabbing water' Stanbury eeveral
days ago, cut too throat -with raz
or last Saturday night'. Both " h'j
and his victim ase expected to ire
cover. ', "Buck" Kivett was skot nd
killed by his undo, "Pitt" Baliew,
one f the oldest locomotive en
gineers in the Soctb, in a quarrel at
AshvlKe one day last week. Ballew
is under a $15,000 bend for appear
ance at court.
A large barn, containing two fine
males, a wagon, farming implements,
feedstaffs, and thirty bushels of
wheat belonging to Mr. J. R.
Wright of &andis, Rcwan county,
was destroyed bv fire of unknown
origen last 'Friday night.
Fire destroyed the plant of the
Statesville Lumber Company last
Saturday morning entailing a loss
$8,000 with $5,000 insurance. Hy.
man Harrison, a boy of - fifteen or
sixteen became so overheated in run
niag to the fire that he died.
Mr. II. R. Walter, a white man
27 years of age, of Burgaw, commit
ted suicide one night last week at
Wrightsville Beacb by shooting him.
self while standing on a trestle
across Banks cnannel. His body
fell over into the water and at the
last reports had not been recovered.
Mrs. A. M. Fry, of Swain Coun
ty, applied for license to practise
law l8t Monday. Mrs. try is the
second woman in North Carolina to
tr.ke the examination, a Mies Holton
a sister of District Attorney A, E.
fcloltOD, of Winston balem, having
passed in 1878. Miss Holton was
from Yadkin county. She has since
died.
LaBt Friday night, while sitting
in the dining , room, Mr. W. A.
Elliott,, manager of Cloverleaf Dairy
near lj?noir was hred at by an un
known niau from outside, who miss
ed bis mark and ran away. Latar
someone was heard walking in the
yard, and Mr. Elliott went to see
who the intruder was and was again
fired upon, one of the bullets pass,
ing through the crown of his hat
and singing the hair on top of his
head.
Capt. William H.Van Schaik.who
commanded the ferry boat General
blocum, when it burned in Hell
Gate near New York in 1904, with
the loss of a thousand lives,, was pa
roled from Sing Sing prison by the
United States government last Sat
urday. He is more than 70 years of
age, and has been a federal prisoner
on the charge of criminal neglect
ever since immediately after the
catastrophe.
Grandson Arrested for Well Mys
t?ry. Sam Walker, a colored bov, is in
jail at Albeoar.e charged with the
murder of his grandmother, "Aunt"
Hannah Jcnes, who was beaten and
thrown into an old well near Milling,
part a week ago last Sunday night.
The poor old woman was fosnd by
passers-by on Monday and rescued,
but died from her injuries Tuesday,
She was resptcted by both white
and colered, and had some property,
which probably furnished her
grandaen with a motive for the mur
der. The preliminary hearing
set for Friday, September 1, when
another negro, will probably face the
same charge as the Walker boy. A
son who accompanied the old wo
man that fatal Sunday night, is
deaf, dumb, and almost an idiot
hardly being a competent witness,
However, the murdered woman be.
fore e he died gave a statement im.
plicating her grandson.
The list of dead from the storm
at Charleston Sundar has grown
to nfteen.
Vaccination agiinst typhoid fever
was made compulsory for all of
Uncle Sam's soldiers undo 45 ' last
Monday. '
Dr. L. N- Burleson, a promi
nent physician of Concord was
arreeted last Tuesday on a charge
ot selling cocaine.
John Smith, a white boy, was
fatally injured by jumping from
a train near Concord last Satur
day night.
Messrs- S. L. Davis and J. E.
Kirkman, of High Point, will es-
taonsn a mammoth garage in
that city at an early date-
J. E- Brown, a white man of
Wilson is under arrest charged
with criminal assault on Mrs. W.
O. Barfield.
Two special trains carrying 403
"boys ot the Navy from Norfolk to
ban Francisco passed through Sal
isbury last Sunday morning.
Walter Brown, a young negro.
had both Jegs cut off by falling
under a Coast Line engine at
Wilmington last Monday. He
may die.
James Sherwood Rogers, the
eight year-old son of Mr, and Mrs.
-biUgene Rogers, of Raleigh, was
drowned at Buckhorn Falls last
Sunday afternoon.
George W. Crawford, a well known
and highly respected citizen of Ala
mance county died last banday aged
7.
J. E Grady shot and proba
bly fatally wounded his friend,
Thomas Owens, in a trivial quar
rel at Greensboro last Monday.
Grady is under arrest
The trial of Henry C Beattie
for the murder of his wife in
July has been in progress at
Chesterfield courthouse, Virginia
ever since Monday of last week.
J. H. Edge, of Yancey county re
cently found, a massive crystal of
mica 34x28x17 1 2 inches that will
probably bring him several hun.
dred dollars.
The Statesville Lumber Company,
whose plant was recently burned,
gave orders' for new machinery to
take the place of that destroyed be
fore the hre had died down.
At the Farmer's, Institute in
Asheboro last week the one dollar
prize for the five best ears of seed
corn "was awarded to Mr. John Bee
son, of New Market Township.
- A movement is on foot to be cele
brate in 1915 the hundredth anni
versary of unbroken peace among the
English speaking nations.
Mr. C. H. Smyth, of Raleigh, was
eeizsdJn Nash Square last Saturday
night by two unknown highwaymen
chloroformed, robbed of $i2,50, and
taken but in a field while away,
where he awoke next morning.
Several days ago, Wbit Taylor of
Durham, while intoxicated "cussed"
Dr. A. 0. Adams' of that city call,
ing him the ugliest of names. The
doctor waited for the man to get
sober. A few days later, meeting
John Neatherly, Taylor's doable, he
proceeded to give the man a sound
thrashing. Neatherly soon cgn
vinced the doctor of his mistake,1
and the physician took him into a
drug store fixed him up administered
to him, paid all costs, and felt rather
sorry for his mistake. The costs
and fine were more than $10. '
Final Arrangements for "Unveiling
Day" Important Notices.
Opening exercises begin at 10:30
a, m ,
Procession forms at court house.
Order of procession to graded
school.
Chief Marshal J. D. Ross and
aides.
Winston band.
Speakers. t
Confederate Veterans.
Daughters Randolph Chapter U.
Children of Confederacy.
Wives and Widows of veterans.
General public.
Exercises at graded school audito
rium. Procession returns to monument
ia order in which it came.
Unveiling exercises.
Basket picnic dinner on Presbv-
iterian church grounds.
r40RTA3JT K0T1CE6.
Marshals meet Mr. J. D. Ross,
Chief Marshal, at Col. A. 0. Mc
Alister's office at 9:30.
Veterans meet in' court house at
9:30.
Wives and widows of veterans
meet at Presbyterian church at 9:30.
Waits-esses -meet on Presbyterian
church grounds inside ropes at ta
Dies at y;3U.
Daughters of Confederacy meet
on Presbyterian church grounds
at :ju.
Children of Confederacy meet on
rresbytcrian church grounds at 10.
Mr R. L. Cavincss of Coleridge
State Junior Officer.
The twenty-first annual meeting
of Jr. 0. U. A. M. State Council of
North Carolina met in Greensboro
iasfc week.
The complete list of officers elect.
ed for the -ensuing year follows: U.
X. GiUigan, of Goldsboro, State
councilor; N. L. Sure, of Greensboro
vice councilor; Sam F. Vance, . of
Winston-Salem, secretary; George
F. Fulp, of Kernersville, treasurer:
Cloyd PenneL of Asbevilie. assis
tant recording secretary: J. A. Fet-
zer, of Reid8v(lle, conductor; 3. - P.
Eagle, of Statesville, warden; R. L,
Caviness, of Coleridge, inside sentinel;
D. T, Perkins, of" Wilson, outside
sentinel.-
The reports submitted show that
the order in North Carolina is in a
flourishing condition. The mem.
bership is now 26,722, a gain of
1,169 during the past year. There
are 307 councils in the State, whi e
the property owned by the State
councils was shown to be $184,285..
61. During the year a total of $2-
52,-288.41 .was disbursed in the
benefits in the State and the balance
in the treasury is now $12,167 22.
The next annual meeting will be
held in Raleigh.
Tobacco Farmers Meet.
The convention of North Carolina
and Virginia tobacco growers was
in session in Greensboro last Friday
ana Saturday, mere were between
six hundred and a thousand dele
gates in attendance. Plans to pool
the 1911 tobacco crop were unani
mously adopted. Toe farmers
agred to hold their tobacco for 15
and 20 cents a pound according to
grade, also to plant grain and food
crops for home consumption, and
nse tne tobacco as a money-makng
product.
Death of Mr. James York.
Mr. James" York, of . Back Creek
township, died at his home about
three oiiles from Randleman. Au
gust 21, and was laid to rest in the
cemetery at, Davia' Chapel church
the following day.
Mr. York was more than 81 years
of age. He is survived bv four
sons and one daughter. ' They are
Messrs Brazil la York, of Charlotte ;
John, Ross and ClarkYork all of near
Randleman, and Mrs. George All.'
red, also of near Randleman.
The deceased was a prosperous
farmer and good man. He had been
a church member for 40 years or
more. At the time of his death he
was a member of the Congregational
church at Davis' Chapel.
Free Passes to Old Solditrs
" The A. & A.Railway will ffurnish
free passess to all old soldiers living
along its route on next Saturday,
Unveiling Day. Those entitled to
fhfiOA naaiiAl wntd A. ayivlv in lumnii!
to Dr. F. E. Asbnry, Asbury, N. C '
who has them in his hands. ,
STORM ON COAST.
Seven Lives Lost A Mill on Dol
lars Damage Communication
Cut Off.
A terrific storm of wind and rain
struck Charleston, S. 0., last Sun.
day afternoon, causing the deaths of
seven persons, probably more,
the injury of many, and destruction
of property estimated at a million
dollars. A dispatch from Charles
ton on Monday said :
"The harbor is filled with wreck
age of small boats, schooners and
launches, many piers are washed
away along the waterfront, and in
the city the streets are strewn with
fallen .trees, roofs, fences and other
debris. Among the principal build
ings damaged are the custom house,,
poatoffice, St. Michael's church and
Wahhoo fertilizer mills, which were
practically ruined. The street car,
electric light, telephone and fire
alarm systems are entirely out of
commission."
The rice and cotton crops around
Charleston were also badly damaged
There was much damage to prop
erty from the storm in Savannah,.
Ga.. but no Hvph ra rennrturi t.n .
i have been lost. The city was cut
off from all wire communication.the
streets were in total darkness Mon.
day night and street cars were put
out of operation for several days.
The tides were so high at Wrights
ville Beach, nine miles from Wil
mington, that many summer viiitors
hurried to the city. A vessel com. .
ing up the Cape Fear was stranded,
but suffered no real damage.
Monday night Beaufort and Port
Royal were entirely cut off from the
rest of the world by telegraph or
train service.
Report of Asheboro's HomC'Visita-
tion
Oa the last morning of the Countv
Sunday School Convention, August
iocu, nome v lsitation was observed
i i Asheboro, and the entire town
was canvassed in about one hours
time. Abont seventy workers assist-
ed in the canvass, a little over half
of the. number beinj town people
and the others were visiting delegates.
While the forces were not as thor
oughly organized as they should cave
baon.they i nteredinto the work with a
determination todothir beat.ani the
results were very satisfactory. The
visitors were asked to get a Church
and Sunday School record of the
people in each home, and ta leave a
printed invitation to attend the
Church and Sunday School pre.
ferred.
It was found that 1297 people
were visited, with ten families report
ed out of town, no record secured.
599 were reported as being enrolled
in Sunday School. The record by
denominational preference or mem
bership ia as follows :
Methodist Episcopal South,
Methodist Protestant,
515
361
140
73
60
52
30
17
7
5
2
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Missionary Baptist
Friends,
Christian,
Presbyterian,
Holiness,
Primitive Baptict,
Wesleyan Methodist,
Episcopalian,
Reformed Church,
Lutheran,
Boardeis.detjoininatioa not givau, 33.
ine record earns are defied and
ready to be turned overto the various
Pastors, to be used atom their own
denominational lines, and if the
work is followed up the iucrease iu
Church and Suuday School will be
wonclerf nl.
The Home Visitation Slozan is:
"We cauaol suve the people unteS3
we teach them, and we caunot teach
them unless we reach them."
Visitation will reach everybody,
everywhere, and it p!ace3 some one
in vital, personal touch with every
one it reaches.
Robbery Near Randleman.
5 The highway robbery in the sub-.
urbs of Randleman when two mask
ed parties stopped Floyd Rich) the
son of Mr. W. A.Rich, on his way
home from his father's store after
dark, pointing pistols in his face,
has attracted considerable attention
and awakened interest and a desire
to apprehend the miscreants. It was
dark and drizzling rain, and Mr.
Rich could not identify his assail,
ants, bnt there are some important
circumstances pointing to the identi
fication of parties who made the as-
aanU
'I he robbers got little, for
the reason that the young man had.
had little on his peroou. '
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