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COURIER J5he COURIER Lads In Both News and Circulation. T5he COURIER Advertising Coltimns Bring Results. TIE ISSUED WEEKLY - " ; ' ' PRINCIPLES, NOT MEN ONE DOLLAR TZR YEAR VOL. XXXVI ASHEBORO, N. C., SEPT. 28, 1911 , No. 39 ' t V. . , . " . Big Stick In New Role President Makes Another Mistake Other Matters. Clyde H. Tavenner Spec'.al Washington corres pondent of The Courier . Washington, Sept. 27. On the tenth day of May, 1902, the govern, meat filed a petition for an injunc tion against tbe beef trust in tbe ieaerai court at tnicnga. ua -j u. 6th, 1911, the packers, aftr hevnig obtained forty-two delays and , post ponements in the intervening vine ; l ,.,l nnf ...ill., ,l for the forty-third time their t.'ial was noatoono'l, this time am til Nov ember 2Qthof thi ye ;r. Every mao, wout'in and child in the country is convinced that the trust operates in vioiawaa or ias law, wtu niimura nuu ihji i, n iu yet nothing has been astern phshej in the alleged c;apaip;n to u no these violation? except the -disburse ment of thousands if dollars in tea for ''trnntbu3f 'P" att naya. "Biff (Slick" Ik New Ro4e. What the ppple of Aizona really have to do to outain a .v-'oseu' ;, i' a story that the- American v p'e Jme never fully hrartl. I ;ioi. mo tion baa gone out over tnu wiice from Weshln m that Pre Z.deut Taft will penfiit A .zona 1 entr the union iy tdmo! & nk'og the "recall of tne jnd ci j ' pvovijiu.. from its cons' ;i.ulioa. But oolv when the following fas'o are grasped : First, that the pf-ple of Arizona by a vote of thr- a Is one dc .laved in favor of the recall. Ainnni!. i.hnr. in nrr? tor rh' ?'n statehood the nmolp of Ariz dp. a must go back to the polls and vo' against a piinciple of 50ve10me.it which they have ahrauy vo' .1 '1 favor of, and wr-'cu they believe .q be right. By thus coerciDj therrpleto vote againbt thing Which their best judgment tells titem be wise, threatening to withhold from the people tinles-" uliey voff. ai the ch'ef exeoutke dicUrs, iigh!d i) w'veh they are justly eatitlsd uode?-ire -constitutiou, Incident T t h d committed himetlf ' au ac on which is without pr .edent in th? histoiy of the Amaricin govern -nent. While this method of forcing fcbt people to rot? agaiiBt their wJ.l may be perfectly compatible ) the mental womngs sr. au eiuur ve with a "jiu!io;al tempers Tien. " isn't it after all making a farce oat of reprc mutative government President Makei AuotUer Misttke It is difficult to so how President Taft's 13,000 mile .swing around the aivaIa nan iA in anvhintr hnfc a esr. ry spectacle for himself. - If he tells the i tonle the ' -uth about how be vetoed the honest at tempt of bolfTbrancheS of Cotv u to reduce tbe high coit of li .ug in he filled h's cabinet with men con nected with the law broking tfuats, and how fce tried and . v sac ceeded in giving Al-.eka awn" tit tbe lani grabbers, he will dsscr Jt hi 'i self. ' 1 ' If Mr. Taft iuzz'es in the f; .'ts in tbe slight; -t dt-gr ?, the Ins;:r geut "swinging along in h;s tivil," will point ont his wp-eprp-rpni-itio"? with such truth and logic tuu tiie President will be - morn onciwrt d thau it he had leuuiucd i Louie. . Pliodriy Wooleus The wool trust's practice of cheajj eniDg tbe quality of 1 produH while at the e.ame time maintaining prices at the higbrnt level ever k nowri baa drawn the hre of the medical journals valll over the country. .Through these journals tbe physi cians of tbe nation are pvoesciig against the lack of wmai and eudur ing underclothing, a fuct to which they attribute the iprerd of many injurious diseases. Women and children suffer most from this form nf DTPpH. 'I'hfl nipdir-iftl iilnr.i.lla ni-f demanding a repeal ot the h'gh duties-amounting to 100 per cent on the commoner grades of wool recognizing in these duties the sonrceof the evil of which they com plain. See Tft'il)e(et. "President Taft has declined a ehanoe to greatly cheapen the cost of clotheng, wire, etc ; and in so doing haj defended what he said was indefensible. The president's vetoes of the tariff bill will make jt defficult fov bimto be renomina ted. This is an extract from the weekly market letter of the New inston-Salem, Sept. 25.Thos. i "ow, for 30 years a prominent mi. " business affairs of the Twin-, - . va8 found in the ledge room of ... lasonic Temple this afternoon ar 1:3) o'clock, dead by his own hand with a bullet wound from a 22 caliber revolver over hia tight ear. In front of the dead man Btood the altar of the lodge rooms and on top of it a Bible, open at the 12th chapter of Psalms. In one of bis pockets was a note written with a l"fvi pencil in the willing of the de ceased. This note was a prayer for bis wi'o and two daughters to mo: v him in heaven, and ctvinar as canaa foibis act that he could see r.Y, rise of trying to fight it out. He reqaestrl an undertaker to buty him in his wedding suit and want.-'' Dr. Brown o pre;ch the funeral. The body wa3 found by the tot of the building and left untouch ed until the coroner canie. There was no need for an inquest, en the note and revolver l"ld the story p'"!nly. Poor heilth and despond ency are given psr the cause for the derd, e - be w' a man of exemplary life and numbered his frindu by the iniadndfi. , Ex-TVcasurer in Trouble In a raid on the stock invest ment offices of Jpred Fiagg- at New York Jasc Saturday, Flagg and seven others, one ot whom was former .United States Teas urer Daniel N. Morgr.n, of Bridgeport, Conn,, were k Test ed on a charge of fraudulently usin'j the muils in a species of endless cha'n sc-iernes to defraud investors- Toe prisoners, being unable to furnish bail, were lock ed up in the Toombs. Tar Heel Honored v The American Life Convention in session at Pittsburg last week elected P. Gold, Jr., of Ral eigh, N. C, president Mr. Gold has been 6 'st vice-president of the Jefferson Standard ' Life Insurav-e Company for . several yenrs- Me is a ?ton of Elder P. D. Gold, of Wilson, and is about 35 yeavs of age. The American Life Convention is composed of seventy eight of the legal reserve old line compa nies located throughout the Unit ed States. The combined assets of the comppniea represented in the convention aggregate $127, 000,C30 and insurance in force is over $1.0GO,000,0(X). Dying Mac Puts up F ght A Dibp.;toh f:om Atlanta, Ga., of Seni'mi, " 23, aiys: W. H. Job)Con, myoT of Oak hurst, a Suburb of Atlanti, wet U'U "i f dentil with ar i liogthis eve N13 by T. W. Zuber after the la vrHd 'ipn hot nd mortally woended by John a. Zuber was lusbol in 1 Atlan! :. f..,r m lical at t:nr:oo, wrvlo Johnsoa (,;ed at his home in about tlft;.u minutes aft?r the b'h. . The thspu', it, is s( V "d,'grow out of a3,T--ll Dill wl);cu Zuber cl.ii-OLd Joh'vioa owed b"n. SA York Oormlii'-itfl Sfouk Exchange titui of W. W. Ei wiT aud )o. It shows that tbe Xew York bub.bess lorrca - and Wall atn . t have con clude! tbut Tf rb c.n inot be r, elect ed r-d p'e prew iring ti tb o h'm OVf Su-jgcslion for an Article, In the Scpfemb' r Uolumbiaa Mag azine Se.'.i or B. istow, of Karsas, t lis 'tUow the Int.r'3 ConLol Amiiio. ," tnd wYle t's is an in-u:r.-.?tihg expose r -u one tbt eveiy ).)&;' re d, Le -'l T Biistow could pl'ttijii a rjnat msny people by writ ii'g anoth' r "' licle next month on 'Mow I block- 1 Dire ;t El'itioa of Seua'ors by tbe I'ople With an Amendment Which I Knew Would Kill the Bill." : An Excuse Only. When the standpat Republicans gave as their excuse for opposing the Underwood-LaFollette revision downward wool bill, the fact that the tariff board had not reported, they were only bluffing. The. veiy men who set no that excuse bitterly opposed the creation of the ttriff board in the first place, and will prove their inconsistency again by bing the first ones to raise their I, voice in an attack on that board to prevent tariff redaction when Con- gress comes to consider it again. AIRSHIP FOR FAIR Aviator Stroebel to Furnish Flights Every Day and Night of Fait On every day of the Randolph Agricultural Fair there will bd two airship nights. Every tight there will be an additional rl.tit. This was determined Us-. w ea at a m a. ing of the bustueks meu of Asheboio to consider toe aa'isjbility of suet a move. IVluh uubmitr d by Charles J. Strowce', aviator, were accepted and the aiiuo'p uded wili be the one now - flyiug ut tie App... lachiau Epsit'.on in Kuoxvule, Teun., and l"cu vviil be tue feature of the Virginia 0. tte Fair tbs fall. Aviator. iStr -'ooel h;-i sevt-ral ar- sb'ps, and way u-si-'ng birilruen lu b'8 employ. His price for the w: ek, $800 00, was promptly a cep" drtn.i muie than half thesuMi u ale 1 yl-del by tl 0; at!ebdir,g ibe ui' tt ng Wcdn sd.y night of last w - k. imx that time other3 bae cooje forw'd with aid and by the ead of tne it is confii)' a.ly ex. si, -.I u ic.ve lH.sed the ent'-e a'noc Work on 'be Fair g.oonds, wh;ch include the lot of 1 lie old AsHevo o Furtiituie Cli'-np.i y au.i adj went territory to the extent of about fie acres, hiM began uaUer tue ircl'.on of Cap"iu Krtrinedy. The work will be rushed . 10 early completion aud the floor soace for exi"bition purposes, nomt.i'iig like one and a naif acres, will be gotten 10 readi ness in the shortest lime possible. Airship to be used in flights of fair by Aviator Parker Shooting Near Seagiove. As Rev. R. L. Jordan was diiv ingaloogin the public highway n r 8eag)Ove, last Saturday, he passed the fields of CunruiDS K'ug, in which King's son Bascom was pick ing cotton. Af" T Jj dm had p .'s?d by without a word tshg exchanged betrn tbe two, King iked ut bi n with a sbot gao Lorn bei'Qd, sever al shots uierciog too bkio, lu't not makicg u ingerous wounds. A doe- tor was lalleJ," and succeeded in get'i'S out el tbe shot except one in Mr. Jorum s bead. Kev. M". Joiuau baa lren very ronve in opposing illicit c'stillio.? and selling of whiskey in Lin com inunuy. A few uiontus ago, he prose cuted Curp-n-ns King lor coiiu-c-' on with a bliod tier. Sold Borrowed Horse ArlhurWinslow, a fifteen-yei.r old boy of Tabernacle township, came to Asheborp last Alouday and sold to Mr. E- G- Morris for l!j dollars a horse wovih about 76' dollars. The b y remained in town that night and left the next day without arousing suspi cion. In tbe meantime, Mr. Morris sold the horse to Messrs J. A- Holder and Chas-'Williams. On Tuesday, however, Mr. J. D. Royals, also of Tabernacle township, ai rived in Asheboro searching for a lost horse, and it soon developed that the horse sold by the Winslow boj had been borrowed from Mr. Royals on Monday morning pretendedly to do some farm work. A war rant was. sworn out, officers went in search of the bo , and captia-ed him about three miles below - Franklinville. He was brought to town and lodged in jail Tuesday nigh, but was re leased yesterday on a $100 bond. Two More Murders at Henderson viUe Will Fletcher was found dead on the Southern Railway track at Hender3onvi!le last Saturday and, as in the lake tragedy, offi cers failed to locate the murderer The verdict of the coroner's jury was that death was caused by r blunt instrument in the hands of persons unknown While Coroner Kirk was listen ing H the verdict in the Fletch er case, Anna Wili'ama, a colored woman twenty-eight years of asre, was almost carving to pieces, Mamie Bridges, another colored girl of seventeen within a block of the oflke. The Williams wo man made no attempt to escape and is now in jail. Her victim has since died. X. John Turner, a whi'.e man, was found Uing uuconsous in a pool of his 011 blond in the pa lie road be tw iu iir ns'ioro anu Guilford B-it-llti Grouud last Sutuiday night, t'uvoer aid two other men had been drinking a id he remembers a diffi cile v. The m tn is esp. cted ti re- V 'VVl . Tbe Greensboro News siys, and trnthfull , that "Ttu-re isn't mnch hoiw for the boy who needs a job ana will nut k- op it bt-saase the work is hard." This kind of boy and tiere are Mo urtny of bis class will never climb abovrt the first round of Uthl-r i-f .si) -cow. SUlibbiiry Who Can be Admitted Free to the Fair Maoy people are asking tbe ques tion, "If I put on exhibit in the Fair can I go in free?" Yes. if you exhibit anything that is at all meritorious, you will be ad mi'ted to th Fair one day free of cua-2e, and if tbe exhibit demands yon attention yon will be passed in and out ou an exhibitfH'3 ticket, but uo complimentary tickets will be le bued, aud you must exhibit if you get in tree. Geo. R. Ross, Sec, Wreck Saturday Night As the incoming train from High Point started to cro around the "Y" last Saturday night, a detective switch cuscd the en gine to tu-a over on one side, and the train came ner jumping the t rack. No one was seriously injured, though Engineer Al bright and Fireman Lloyd had narrow escapes by jumping from the engine as it tinned over. Mr- "Albright was bruised to some extent, and Mr. John Bulla, a passenger on the train, was somewhat shaken up by the sud den stop. Other passengers were only, frightened by the real dan ger they had encountered. When the engine was ditched the Whistle became caught in such a way that it began shriek ing like the fire alarm, and both hose companies rushed to the scene and began throwing water on the near-by plant of the Home Building & Material Company. The families of the train men learned of the wreck and rushed down to the track feaiing for their loved ones. Hundreds of people were soon on the scene and for a short while, wild ex citement prevailed. A movement is on foot in Dorbsm county for a connty fair next year. SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS Dr. Harvey W.Wiley declares that the health of the nation is worth $540,(00,000,000. Tne pictures phviog cceacj ( - n ; c i with tbe Beili e f. ?e ve appejred in Salisbury. The $25,000 dormitory for Greens, boro Female College is to be buo the first of next year. It is rumored that Judge W. J. A damp, ol Carthagp, will at an early date, tender his resignation and re tain to the practice of law. Gaston Smith aud Al Jones, two'; Mendelsohn's wcdding march whi'uiys have Urn arrested forlPlayedby Miss Maiion Moring, the killing of lacy Hackett near the young coaple entered the Pomona, September 6. ! tastefully decorate 1 parlor.where The Gnilford Chapter Daughters of the Confederacy are preparing to i erect a monument to tbe Confederate soldiers of Gnilford county, A horrible story comes from Acala, Mexico, of tbe crucifying of a resident of that place, the massa cre of babes and other barbarities by rebellious Indians. The commercial organization of Winaton-Salem have pledged $1000 of tbe necessary $2000 to complete the Winston-Salem and High Point oad. As a result of a pisPduel with a party of negroes in Degba county, Ark., last Tuesday, Sheriff W. D. Preston, Deputy Sheriff Barney Stiel and three of the negroes were killed. Rev. B. L. Padgett, a Holiness preacher of Atlanta, Ga. has been arrested on the charge of luring from her home at King's Mountain Carrie Stockton, a sii.t'en-year old ghl. MrB. E. B. O. Hambley, of Char lotte, has sold the mining property in Montgomery county adjoining tee famous tola mine to Mr. Eli Sheets, of Wfiihingtod City, for the sum of $16,000. Dr. John A. Ferrell, in charge of the hookworm campaign in North Giro v was elrjt:d president of tue Southern (Jonference of Hook worm Forces at Ntnhville, Tenn., lest week.' Mr. L. Scott Allen, formerly as sistant land and industrial agent of tne Southern Kail vay dcd at his home in Wi thingn, D. C.,one day last wi :k. Mr. S jfcfc laid off the town of Spencer and had built the first rrr.'datnror.iinRawan county. News h-i rr -.ched Mr. Charles M. Griffith, of .Thorn lt lie, that his son, Cha lci JI. Griffhu, Jr., a stu dent at the State Udveis.ty, was in some way shot thiouh the leg li'st Monday mornng. Particulars were not g'veo, but the wound was r lid to now be serious. Aila'.or Frank H. M;Jler, of To ledo, wai burned to death by an ex ploiiou in mid au- at a county fair at Troy, Ohio, l.-u,t Friday eveuiog. Miller knew li! machine wab crip, pltd and wr unwilling to make the flight, bn' jc 13 of the crowd forced him to do so. Mr.Georg? Pritchard, a son 0 Judge Jeter C Pritchard, and Miss Mary Robena Rcimond, of Marshall, were married one day ast week. Charles E. Umsted. chief of police of Coatsville, Pa, anti Stanley Howe, a policeman, were au-ested on the charcre of man slaughter in connection with the burning of Zack Walker, a nerrro murderer near that place August idtn, and two other men were arrested on the charge of murder m the same case last week. Dr. Vernon Liles Andrews and Miss Lola May L"e, a daughter of Rev-and Mrs J. Alexander Lee, of Mt, Gilead, are to be married October 11th., , Dr. George Wilkins. a promi nent dentist of Courtney. Yad kin county, and Mr. D. I.Reavis, a prominent and substantial citi zen, were arrested one day UBSt week on the charge of illicit dis- twins', receiving and concealing j blockade whiskey and brandv Mr. Reavis is the father of the young Lawyer Reavis, a member of the General Assembly. Gov. Plaisted, of Maine, has appointed Obadiah Gardner, of Rockland, to succeed the late Senator William P. Fi ve- This gives Maine two Democratic Senators and reduces the Repub- lican majority in the Senate to seven. , LOVET.r-AUMAN Pretty Morning Wedding of Popu lar Young; Couple Last Thursday morning at the hour of 10:30, the handsome home of Mr- and Mrs- Alson Au man in West Asheboro, was the scene of a pretty though simple wedding when their daughter. Miss Esther F. Auman, became the bride of Mr- Marvin Lovett Only intimate friends and rela tives of the contracting parties ! were present. To the strains oL mey were met Dy itev. k. a. Wood, who used the beautiful ring ceremony of the M. E. Church to make them one. After receiving the congratu lations of friends, Mr. and Mr. Lovett left on the 11:30 train for the "Land of the Sky" to spend several days Mr. Lovett is a successful young business man, assistant Superintendent of the Acme Hosiery Mills. Mrs. Lovett is one of Asheboro's most popular daughters. She has been for some time, one of the town's leading milliners. A large circle of friends wish for the young couple much joy along the jour ney of life. RIBBONS AND WiNNERS. High Watermarks to Be Establish lished Preparatory for Great Crowds To Be a Btg Exposition Agriculturee has come to the front and is carrying the flag. There will be more exhibit " at the Big Fair in Asheboro October 31 to November 4, than were ever seen at a fair in this l ctiou of fie State. Everything will le in order the first day. Tbe oveiflow exb;bits will be cared for in tuts or nearby buildings. , Farmers r l ze the ge od that would result ia haviug the bojd. from 'he farm attend th sfair. Sunday tchoils, day schools are being encouraged ia attend by tho wide-awake farm- rs of the county. The fair grounds will present a a bonufiful pic.uie. Schools Interested. v Since agriculture is to be tanght in the public schools the teachers are taking geat in'oresu. The Educational Day, Wednesday, November 1st, is to be one or the features of the week. Details and programme for the day will be duly announced. Ladles' Da v. One of the features of the fa;r will be the day set apart lor women. The value of tile fair aud home com ing wi-jk to the liv'ua cannot be overestimated. Home ia not only a place for a niaa h rat, sK -p pd J W-iBh, bnt it should be ''Hi'ui , Sveet Home," in every sense of ibe word. Set h"arr, wifeand m.-tber should not be kept at borne. They will enjoy and get as much good from the Lir ua anyone. Reciprocity Dead Issue Now ''I do not believe anything will be done in the next Contrress over the proposition of Canadian reciprocity," said Chairman Un derwood, of the House Ways and Means Committee, when asked what proposition would be made on the matter at the next session. The reciprocity act cou'd hardly come into Congress until the governments make negota tions, and this not being possible now, I do not believe there will be anything said cr done." Canada Rejects Reciprocity In the Canadian election hM last Thursday, reciprocity and the Liberal mrtv anfforoA whelminc rWpnf. Sir! wnf, Laurier. who for almost twenty years, has directedZthe destinies of Dominion, will be succeeded asprhne minister by Robert L. Borden, the leader of the Conser vative party. , , Tbe Civio League of Maine has given out that an error of 165 votwi in one case alone clerk and the official decision will be in favor of retention of prohibit tion in the constitution
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