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cowucn Lada In Both News and Circulation." T5he COURIER Advertising Columns Bring Results. ISSUED WEEKLY PRINCIPLES, NOT MEN ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR VOL. XXXVI ASHEBORO, N. C, OCT. 12, 1911 No. 41 NEW RAILROAD SEEM8ASgD Ralieo-h Charlotte thern Road a Decided M. Willi J net ri The New Raleigh, Charlotte and Southern Railroad will be built un less the new owners change their minds. As was published in the last issue of The Courier, the original incor porators have transferred the char, ter to Mr. E. 0. Duncan and his as sociates, whose nanus are not dis closed, but are supposed to be the owners of tbe Norfolk and South ern which now has a road complet ed from Norfolk via Washington, JN. C, to Raleigh. , The new road will run by Pilts boro, Ramseur, Franklinville and Asheboro on to Charlotte, following along or near the survey of the old North Carol i n a Railroad. After leaving Asheboro it is expect ed it will follow that survey for many miles, leaving it and goirg by Albemarle instead of to Salisbury, going cne of those routes, cither by the Russell "mine or a -few miles west through the Chapel Hill sec tion, thence down the Beaver dam to the Yadkin. Short SchoJ Terms la his address on Founder's Day, at the State Normal College, Greens boro, Clarence H. Poe called alteL tion to the fact that only two states in the Union, South Carolina and Arkansas, have shorter public school terms than North Carolina. In the two states mentioned, the average length of school term is 93 days; in North Caroline, it is 101 days; while for the entire United States, it is 155 days. . Burglar and Slayer Convicted in James, colored, aged 19 years, was convicted last week in Davie county for breaking into the dwelling house of Mr. S. M. Call in Mocksville, and was found in the bed room of Mr, Call's daughter, whom he waked by placing his hands on her arm. He was senteneed to thirty years. It was shown to his Honor before sentence that he had broken into other houses in the nighttime. Jalius Clary was also convicted of manslaughter and Btntenced to five years in '.be penitentiary. It ap peared tbatth?re was a gei eral fight in which the C'arys ami the SwiBh era engaged in at a wheat threshing, in which Romulus Swisher was killed with a maul or pitchfork, some swearing one and another the other. The Clarvs and one or two otber wimess93 swore that the de oeased was killed by one of his brothers with a maul. Good Roads Days October 26th) 27th and 28th. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, October 26tb, 7tn ana 28;h of this year have been set opart as good reads dayB frr the en tire county and every overseer in tbe county will be expected to warn his bands who works the roads these three days. The law requires tbe overseers to have tbe hands to work tbe roads six dajs in tbe year, and it is the duty of the justices of the peace to see to it tbiu the road overseers do these six days' work on the roads not pieces or parts of days- Let ev ery oversell see to it that all his hands nre warned in due time to work these three days. Dd not stop with warning the hands, but invite those who tire not road sutjeets to go .out with their teams or with tools and help make the roads passable for the winter travt. : ' Do net put the matter off a day. Let everyone go out and help on these good roads days and help along the good cause. Township Meeting; About Fair The Providence farmers will meet fit Providence Academy on Saturday next at three o'clock . to plan their oxbibitsand demonstiations at the Fair, Asheboro township will .have a similar meeting next Saturday afternoon at the court hottse. i Other townships should meetings at an early date. have ' ENJOYABLE RECEPTION. The Missionary Committee Enter tains Members of M. E. Church' The members of the Methodist Episcopal cod gregation South, spent he hours from 7:30 to 10:00 last oday evening both pleasantly and blv. Thn misainnarv (nm. h-' . the church had Bent out mva. 8 last week for a reception to be gkv'en by them to the mem bers of the church, and it is needless to say that nearly everybody receiv ing an invitation was present. Mr. Jamea T. . Wood presided throughout the, evening, and int. r esting and helpful talks were made as follows: Mr. 0. V. Woosley, The Advance ment of the Courch; Mr. J. 0. Red ding, Business Methods in Missions; Rev. Mr. Taylor, of Central Falls, 1 he Uonuition of the Asheboro Uir cuit. Dunne the evening music was furnished by the church choir, . and after the addresses substantial re freshments were served. Everybody's Day at ThomaSville. More than seven thousand people attended tne fourth annual celebra tion ot Every body's Day in Thomas ville last Saturday. About fifteen business houses were represented by floats in the parade, The first prize for wagon floats went the Jewel cotton mill, which has a highly decorated wa gon filled with girls from the mill, followed by an ox-cart containing a bale ef cotton, astride of which Mausger Lillard rode in state; the second prize for wagons went to the Crutchfield Hardware Company. The first prize for antos went to Mis J. F. Hay den 'a pink and white car, the second to F. S. Lambeth's Black and gold one. The first prize fcr buggies was taken by the First Nat ional Bauk; the second, by the Peo ple's Mercantile company. A riding tournament, a potato race, a mule race and other freak events kept tbe crowd busy and amused until evening, when the dav'a events were closed with great fireworks display. According to their custom, the la-. dies of the civil league served din ner and supper to the crowd. Ibe proceeds will be used for the im provement of the town commons. Thomasville merchants, who for the most part, financed tbe entei prise are more than satisfied wit!'. the results of tbe day. One drug store sold not less than 1,280 coca colas during the day. The Golden Jub lee. The Golden missionary Jubilee in commemoration of the fiftieth anni versary of the first organized Wo man's Foreign Missionary Society work, will be held' in West Market Methodist Church, Greensboro, Fri day and Saturday of this week, Delegates from all tbe principal de nominations of the state are expect, ed to attend. , , Hon. Locke Craig, Democratic candidate for the gubernatorial nomination in 1908, hss announced his candidacy for the same race next year. The Stite Tuberculosis Hospital at Montrose is to have an additional infirmary in the necr future. Randolph Book Club Meets. The first meeting fcr the season of the Randolph Book Club was held wfcth Mrs. V. A, Underwood at her home on old Main .Street lust Fri day. afternoon. . An Interesting and instructive literary program was carried out. Mrs. W, C. Hammer read a paper on '-The Geography- of England"; Mrs. W. C. Hammond?, on "Eng land's Capital". Theu curient events were discussed and much pleasint social conversation enjoyed after which tbe hostess served dainty re freshments. The Club had present as invited guests the following ladies: Mes. dames S- T. Lassiter D. B. Mc Crary, Kemp Alexander, J. T. Un derwood, J. T, Penn, W. J. Arm field, W. A. Coffin, 0. A. and C. M. Haywortb. and Misses Clara Moffitt and Bertha Penn. The town of Asheboro is moving the dynamo and electric plant from its old site to the grounds of the pumping station and water plant. SHORT ITEMS OF NEWS Stanly county la j men are making arrangements to hold a county con vention .November 16 and 17. Nearly every business proposition looks like a Bure winntr. on paper. Fred Ritchier-a lineman in the employ of the Southern Power Com. pany at Lexington, was accidentally electrocuted one day last wees. ponductor H. A. Fore of Spencer, was painfully injured and several cars damaged in a wreck at Rudd, near Reidsville, last Sunday. Charles McLester, a white man of near Big Lick, Stanly county, has been arrested on the charge of criui nal assault on Miss Lou la Austin, of the same neighborhood. jrLesc wood, a seventeen year old boy of Buncombe County is un der arrest charged with the murder of his fourteen-year- oil sister. His parenls, George Webb and wife have been arrested as accessories. Mrs. Mary Allen Bennett died at the home f her daughter, Mrs. E. F. De Berry, at Mt. Gilead one day last week. Mrs. Bennett was in the 77th year of her age. Trouble between strikers aud strike-breakers in the Illinois Cen tral Railroad ehops at McComb City Miss., bee una so serious last week that, state troops were sent to the scene. A Florida paper suggests huj not talk to your boy about taking care of his Bcaool books? If he d ies not learn the value aud cost of pr p erty when young, he will be a spendthrift or a destroyer of puolic and private property. Leo Bei tie, the four-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. Moose, of near Albemarle, wes suf. focated one day last week by falling head first into a hole which hud been made in a pile of green seed cotton t j.give ventilation. L. J. Norris, accused of the mur der of J. b. Bissatt, at Raleigh, was found guiltv of second degree n ur, der in the Suptrior Court last week, and sentenced to HQ years in the state pr.son by Judge Peebles. Representatives from Jaoan, Aug. Inl'H, and iLcgla"d rimed with del arei from the Uimed Sta ts in the bourth Ecumenical Methodist Con ferenca at Toronto, Canada, last eek. Bishop J. 0. Ivlgo, of Dur. haui, we.3 one of the speakers. Mr. Ej. u. spencer and little son Joseph, of Farmer, spent last Tues day night at the Central Hotel with Mr. spencer's b -other, Mr. A. A Spencer, and left on the early train yesterday morning for Baltimore, where the little boy is being taken tor treatment in a hospital. At the meeting of the Appalachi an uood Koads Association in Roanoke, Va., last week. Dr, Joseph Hyde Pratt of Chapel Hill was elected president and treasurei and H. B. Varner, of Lexington secretary. Mr. A. S. Cate, proprietor of the Revolution and White Oak drug stores, and Miss Vallie Sanders, for a number of years chief operator fcr the Southern Bell Telephone uompany at ureensooro, were mar ried in Atlanta, Ga., one day last wees, airs, ljucy kj urien, an aged woman of Goldsboro, has brought suit against the town of Mt. Olive for $30,000. Mrs- O'Brien alleges that sue was permanently injured several months ago by falling over a stuoip near the edge of a sidewalk in Mr. Olive. The body of Arthur Owens, a young white man of Salisbury, was found with a great hole in the fore head by tbe railroad track near Bar ber, one day last week. It is learn ed that Owens had been put iff the train at .barber because he hat1 no ticker, and it is not known whether he boarded some train to return to oansoury, and tell irom it or was waylaid and murdered. . The Medical Society of Sampson Oounty met Monday the 2nd, and had a very interesting meeting. Al most every out cf town physician in the county was present. There were many interesting features of the meeting, the moat important of which was a address of Dr. Houston B. Hiatt, formerly of Clinton and now of Asheboro. This Society is doing a great deal for the promotion of public health in Sampson. Samp. son Democrat. ' - ASHEBORO HENS WIN INGUILFORD Local Poultrymen Make a Good Showing at Greensboro The poultry f-iaciers of Ashebo. ro were at Greensboro fair this week, Asheboro was represented by J. T, Wins'.ow, D. M. Sharpe, H. G. Fish and Johu M. Hammer. Balfour Routh, of Kandiaman, and others from tbe oounty were there. All won first and sec.md premiums in their respective classes. WinsW wit1 his Rhode Island Reds ; Sharpe aad his Black Mo iarcas ; Fish with his Anconas, and Hammer with bis White Orpingtons and Brown Leg horns. Mr. Hammer took both first and second priz s on White Orpington pullets. - J Mr. Hummer also got second priz, the highest pnz3 awarded on a pen of Brahma Leghorns to any exhibitors, there b;ing no first prize for this exhibit. -': $'be details of the prizes won by other exhibitors have not been re ceived, but will be given in detail late. Its is gratifying to know that the poultrymen of tis section are being rewarded for chair efforts to build up a large poultry industry and in tariff (rN fc) nX3;;ll itU others. The pjul:ry fanciers in this eec tiou ara on tip aud expect to remain t)?re. Lynehingin Sjuth Carolina. Willis JcckSJU a seventeen vear eld negro, was suogtoa telephone pole and his body riddled with bul lts at Houea Path, South Carolina last lutt3.ry f r criminal assault on m eleven yeir old vhUe girl. The negro wm tixan tnni otfiie.-s after au autouuoiie racj of tnji-e than hundred miles. Golden Wedding , Ihe following invitation has been received m Asheboro: Dr. eni Mrs. Fraukiin Harris Wood request the pleasure of your presence on Mon1iy evening, October the twenty-third Golden Wecdiug at the home of ilr. and Mrs. J. J. Fames Hifih Point, N. C. Murder at Ash ville W. J. Holland shot and then beat to deth Jainss N. Edwards in the woods near Asheville Saturday night The cause of the trouble was undue familiarity of Edwards with Hol land's wife, who was present when the shooting occured. , Holland surrendered to officers. Married Mr. Ernest Lnthbr, of Eieuz?r, and Miss Ola J. Russell, of Pinson were married Sunday October 1. EDUCATIONAL DAY AT FAIR. State Superintendent Joyner Com ing Premiums Offered to Schools Superintendent Lassiter is send ing out this week a circular htttr to all the committeemen and tauch. era urgiiig them to get all thesciiool children to Asheooro on November lsf, Educational Day at the Fa.r to enter tbe Grand Pai ade. The Board of Eduction ordeied all tha schools of the cunty to open on the lust Monday in Octobfr for the purpose or getting the children together. A premium of Sa.OO is tmred to that rural school having the largest per cent of enrollment b;,sed on school census of 1910. The second is a large blackboard. This doe9 not include city or town schools, and any one school will have as good a chance to win tha premium as any other, although the number of pupils may not be very large. state Superintendent Jt. Y. Joy ner will deliver an address' to the school children that day. Ihe county superintendent will be glad to have the committeemen and teachers correspond with him offering suggestions and helping plan to get all the children to the fair on that day. Senator Lee S. Overman ia one of the senatonal committoe that will sail next Saturday for Panama to inspect the canal. RANDOLPH'S A G RICULTU RAL EXHIBIT. To Be Held in Asheboro October 31st to November 4th. An attractive premium list con taining several hundred premiums to be awarded to those who are suc cessful in the exhibit has been ar ranged and published in pamphlet form and will be in Tho Courier next week. Farmers liitereUd. . Every farmer is especially inter ested in this exhibit, for the fair is more for his benefit than anyone else. This is a fine agricultural section and now ia the time to let the world know of our wonderful resources. Live Stock and Poultry, The live stock in this section is most creditable. A special feature of the fair will be the live stock and poultry exhibits. This agricultural exhibit will mean a great deal to this section as to Asheboro. No Fakirs or Gamblers but a Mammoth Airship. The committee on arrangements irom tne start decided that no fakirs and gamblers would be permitted on the fair grounds or elsewhere so far as they could prevent, but r&ilizing tnat some drawing card must be se cured for the fair besides the nu merous fiue exhibits, they set about to get the great airship which has been at the Appalachian Expo. sition at Knoxville for several weeks. Eight hundred dollars has been raised by private subscription to se cure this airship as a daily attraction at the fair. Burglary at Monroe. The town of Monroe was excited over twojhouse-breakings by negroes early last Sunday morning. About 2 o'clock one of two young ladies sleeping in a room of Mr. W M. Harris' residence awoke to find a negro ransacking a bureau. The negro, pistol in hand, told her to keep quiet. The other girl awoke and screamed and the negro fired, shooting one of the young women in the hand, and then fled. A youn.g man .boarding- in the house came cut of his room in time to shoot at the fleeing negro, but could not stop him. Ed. Smith was arrested and put in jail on sus picion, but there is no direct evi dence agaicst him. The other ca3e was at the Cald well boarding house between 1 and 2 o'clock when a lady awoke to find a negro 4n her room. Her husband started after the burglar, but he es caped and has not been apprehended. Needham-Yow The home of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Yow, in Coleridge township, was the scene of a beautiful home wedding when their daughter, Miss Roella. became the hrirle of Mr. Robert Needham on Sunday i morninc. Ocr.oh.er 1st.. OnTv n : few-near relatives and friends i tast. the, cn'y certain, way of were present. To the beautiful ; aiding hostile criticism U not strains of music rendered by j t0 U33 tnen1. However, if you Mrs. T. E. White, the happy i feel that you ara made happier party entered the beautifully I by thora' J'ou may use them decorated parlor, where the cerjj- Wlthin certain limits! If you mony was performed by Rev- T. "u? "ie reai1 0(i quality of E. White. The-attendants were 1 Pure Perfumes, and use a very -Mr- M. C Yow and Miss Efita sms.il amount, jou are -mpar-Brown, Mr. L. B. Garner and!atiVely sufeJ tut even t! n cer- Mis3 Laura Yow, Mr. B. P. tam kinds . should ce voided. Moffitt and Mhs Maie Yow, Mr. l Gardenia, heliotro; e, lilly-T'-the-G. K- Needham and Miss Cladie I vallev are or;g those to which Fesmire- After the ceremonv , m?ny People object- the haDnv nrirtv rlrovA rn tha home of the groom where a nice j dinner wa3 enjoyed. We wish 1 for them a long and happy life Celebrates Ninetieth Birthday Apout a hundred children, grand. children, great-grand-children, otber ralatives and friends met et the hnmo nf Mf 'flUiK,. Vuo'-c.l 1 sr;i. City, one day last week to' celebrate ' his ninetieth birthday. A snmpt th birthday. A sumptu-1 ous dinner was erjoyed and several short speeches made. Mr. Vestal, who is ninetv Tears old, has been married more than sixty years, his wife and he yet liv ing happily in the same house they have occupied contiuously for the sixtv vears of their married life- tt i,ao i,0 axx hinrr ttL rn .i havirg cast his first Presidential .vote for him. NO SHOWS AT FAIR The Board of Town Commission, en at the meeting, held Tuesday night adopted the following: 'Wheraas the( time from the 31st day of October to the 4th of Novem ber, 1913, has been Belected for the Randolph County Fair and Home Coming Week; and whereas the pro moters of suid fair are of the opin ion that during said time - the pres ence of shows and merry gc-roucds, pedlers and other attractions in the town of . Asheboro would detract from the interest taken in said fair; and whereas the town of Asheboro desires to encourage the aforesaid air and protect-it from said shows, etc. : Now, therefore, it shall be unlaw ful for any show, merry-gnround, peddler, or other attraction to t xhibit or operate in the said town of Ashe boro from the 30th day of October, to the 5tb day of November, 1911, and the mayor is instructed not to issue any license for any of said objeets during said time. It is ordered that this be published in both the County papers. This the 9th day of October, 1911. Farm Demonstrator to be at Court- hous?. The County Agent of Demons tration Work, will have an office in the Court House he will be in the office of the County Commissioners each Saturday, to meet any farmers who may wish to Bee him in regard to any matters connected with farm work. The Agent will not be in his office the last Saturday of each month," but will be in the office on the the first Monday of each month in stead. Thie arrangemeU has been made, in order that all the farmers in the County may have the opportunity to meet with the Agent and ditcuss his firming operations, get any instructions as to fertilizers, seed or deed selections, and the Agent will also keep on a hand supply of Bulle tins from the United States Depart ment of Agriculture, for tbe use of the farmera who desire'thein. SESSION OF SINGERS The second annual session of the SiDgars Union Conuention will be held at Pleasant Garden November, i and 5. DIED Mrs. Loula Plummer died at her borne at Farmers on the 4 h of Oct ober, after an illness of three nonthi". The deceased was the wife Mi. K. P. Plummer. 30 veurs old ai.d a verv devout Christian, hiving len an exemplary member of toe Liberty Baptht church sinoe early g rlhood. ine lmeral took place a'- L.bertv near tie home of h r fa't-r, Mr. Hendeison Heplcr. Two em-.l chil dren and rer husbi.td survive her. The Use of Periumes Siire perfumes are unpleasant t0 m.a,ny People, and are often considered to be in quest onable In using any i erfume. iceeD a sachet amon j our c!o: hss, rather tiian ase a frm that has t' be i nnnliprl. Tho hoc htnA nf annUnt- f iJ w v.L.t ...iiy vi CU-UCU- powder one that almost every body likes is one of pure vio'et and orris. This gives a fragrance that is pleasant and yet hardly noticec.bIe- Avoid anything containing musk or ambergris-they are the U marks of everything which , -7i lonave associ- ated with you. Remember that if you make yourself conspicu ous, as you do if you use strong perfumes, you challenge criti cism, and if there is any detail of your appearance that is not quite perfect, it ia emphasized- The Youth's Companion. . When arrested for vagrancy a naturally has a pinch. look.
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