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THE . COURIER 15 COURIER Lead in Both Nw and Circulation. , ' . -mi Coiumna f Jrlng Result. ISSUED WEEKLY PRINCIPLES, NOT MEN ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR VOL. XXXVII ASHEBORO, N. C., JULY 25, 1912 No. 29 FIRE AT TROY Plant of Gfuilford Lumber Company Destroyed Night Watchman's Lantern: Exploded .in Boil'rroom Fir Spread Bap . Idly Rough Lumber and Fin ished product Burned Loss $25, 000 to $50,000 Presbyterian Church and a Number of Cottages Nar Lnibr Plant Endanred. Troy, July 23. Fire, the largest and most destructive that, has ever occurred In this town originated , last night about midnight in the plant of the Guilford Lumber Manu facturing Company, completely de-Brroylng- the plant and a large por tion of the lumber yard. Thousand of feet of rough lumber were stack ed on the yards and the sheds were filled with finished lumber ready for shipment. Thev loss cannot be stated accu rately, but at a conservative esti mate it will be from $25,000 to $50,000, partially covered with in surance. The fire had its origin in the roof of the boilerroom, theexplosionof a lantern used by the watchman be ing the cause. When the lantern ex ploded fire was scattered among the timbers of the building, which were covered with dry sawdust, and so fast did it spread that before the watchman could giv the alarm the building was in a mess of flames- ' Other Buildings Endangered The lumber plant was located just outside the corporate limits, but was near the main business section of town, and had it not been for the stillness of the night the damage that would have been done is In estimable. For a time little hope was had for saving the Presbyterian church, which was located just across the street from a corner of the Guilford plant. Several cottages were also in danger but for a slight wind which turned the course of the - flames they would have been de stroyed also. The Guilford Lumber Manufactur ing Company is a branch of the Greensboro firm of the same name, Its plant here was one of the larg est lumber plants in this section ond was one of the largest manu facturing establishments in Troy. Vlt was located here more than 12 . jears ago, being moved from Ashe boro to Troy, and has been the ceang of giving employment to hun dreds of people, bringing thousands of dollars to the town. Should th company decidee not to rebuild it , will be a great loss to the town and section. Confederate Veterans Headquarters Randolph Camp No. 1646, United Confederate Veter .ans. Asheboro, N. C, July 23rd, 1912 The members of this camp are will be held at Winston-Salem on hereby notified that the annual re union of the North Carolina divis ion of United Confederate Veterans the 7th and 8th of August 1912. Reduced rates on the railroads lave been applied for and the exact fare from any station can be learn ed' by inquiring of the local agent All Confederate Veterans are cor dially Inyltd to attend this reunion. All who enjoyed the hospitality of our hosts four years ago and ar able to attend will be glad to accept this invitation. A. C. McAllster,. Commander P. H. Morris, Secretary. Special Rates to Good Roads sociation Oouvntlox As- Arrangements have. . beea made with the railroads for excursion rate to Charlotte and return on ac count of the North Carolina Good Roads Convention which Is to be lield there August 1 and 2, from all points In North Carolina and - from Portsmouth, Suffolk, Boykins - and Danville, Va. These excursion tickets will be on sale going from July 31 and on trains icheeduled to arrive at Char lotte before noon of August 6. Pas- , sengers must plan to reach original starting point not lateer than .mid night of August 5. The excursion rates are on file at the depots, and, In each case, is approximately equal to one fare plus one-third, except where the original fare is under one dollar- ' JOSEPH HYDE PRATT Sec. N. C. Good Roads Assocla. Miss Frre Entertains Ramseur, July 19. Miss Lelyer Ferre entertained a number of her friends this evening at a social In honor of her friend, Miss Lillle Richardson, of Asheboro- The guests began to arrive about 7:30, and were met at the door by Mrs. H. F. Brady, Bister of the hos tess, and were ushered into the re ception hall, which was handsomely decorated for thte occasion. There they were met by Miss Ferree, wjho welcomed them In her charming manner. Games were played, and music by Miss Ferree and Miss Pauline Smith added very- much to the enjoyment cfl the occasion. At about 9:30 the guests were ushered into the beautifully decorat ed dining room. There dainty re freshments were served by Miss Fer ree and Mrs. Brady. After faring sumptlously for awhile they return ed to the reception hall and played untiU eleven o'clock. Those present were, Misses Dixie Carter, Pauline Smith, Pearl Leon ard, Lula West, Olivia West, of Ramseur, and Miss Lillie Richard son, of Asheboro; Messrs. Lee Craven, Fred Leonard, Chen Forres ter, Fred Burgess, Woosley Marley, of Ramseur, and E. J. Craven, of Warrenton. At about eleven o'clock the guests departed for their various homes. Mrs. Monro Entertains Mrs. V. J. Moore was Tuesday afternccn at a hostess cubical heart party given on the porches aid1 lawn of her residence as a compli ment to her nices, Misses Bessie Hylton, of Winston-Salem, and Gladys Porter, of Wayeross, Ga. The occasion was enjoyed by friends of the hostess 'and of the young lady guests, whose former visits .here Attracted them - many friends and pleasant acquaintances In affecting a decoration scheme which in its very simplicity was Jove ly sweet peas in, abundance were used.--1 The prize, an attractive whito lan, was won by Miss Cora Redding making the highest score. Ices and cake were served by the hostess, assisted by Miss .Nannie Bulla. A Delightful Reception In Ramseur The home of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. King was a scene of lovliness as well as merriment when about twelve friends of Misses Beulah and Essie were honored ywith an oppor tunity of visiting their home and en joying thir hospitality. The guests were received by Miss Essie were honored with anioppor- where they were at once made to feel at home and after a short time jolly conversing the guests were invited to the lawn and under the soft rays of the moon many inter esting games were played in which happiness reigned supreme. They were then invited1" into the dining room which was quite en chanting in its lovliness. Here in deed it seemed as If fairies ' had made busy for a while. Delcious ic cream, cakes and other refresh ments were served In lovely taste. About eleven o'clock the guests departed thinking 'themselves lucky to share such an evening of jolly fu Those present were. Misses Jes sie. Whitehead,, Ollle Spoon, Carrie Scott, Lola Jones, Mary Cox and Messrs. Samuel B. Black, J. Clyde Luther, Wesley Phillips, Glenn Scott, J, Preston Cox, Clyde Akin and'E-R.- Baldwin. "Boys' Bay" Worthville ' Union Sunday School will ohaeroa "BnTi" nnv" nert Sun- I 7 " - l-Tlay, July 28.. Old boys, young boys. good boys and bad boys are invited 'o be present and take part in the exercises. Boys will have singing, imitations, tc. At 10:00 o'clock Rev. J. A. McMillai of Asheboro will address1 them during the Sunday School hour. At" 11: 00 o'clock he will preach to the boys- Everybody invited' to come. "Boys' Day' sou venir badges will be given to all boys present at Sunday chool - GENERAL NEWS Baltimore, Md., July 22. peter Pryal, formerly quartermaster on th steamship Majestic, of the ' White Star Line, and long since retired, declared Saturday that he had seen Captain Smith, commander of the Titanic, on the street here and ad dressed him. He said he knew him well, having served under him years ago. ! Kearney, NJ., July 2. Many persons are suffering from mosquito bites never before so large and vi cious as at present. Thomas Devoe, aged 19, died last night at his home here of blood Phoning due to a mosquito bite. Greeley, Colo., July 22 That the style of woman's clothing today was responsible for both the murder of Julia Connors by Nathan. Swartz, in New York, and for shooting affray yesterday in Denver is .the opinion of Dr. G. Stanley Hall, president of Clajk University, Worcester, Mass., expressed here; "While this is an extreme case," Dr. Hall said, "to my way of thinking the reason glv en by Swartz opens up a wide field of careful study. The present-day fashions arouse in the minds of men and particularly young boys a feel ing of sex consciousness " Dr. Hall said probably the high altitude was partially responsible for the so-called sex degeneracy in Denver. By "sex degeneracy," he explained, he, meant young persons matured more rapidly in the west than in the East. Wilmington. July 22. On the eve of a two weeks' term of superi- "r court for the trial of crlmnaal Ja&es, police officers headed by Chief of Police Fowler raided two socalled social clubs eary yesterday morning, arresting six in one and four in the other on charges of gambling- They &ave bond for appearance before I ho recorder today. This is believed to be only the beginning of , a serfeV of police department raida 5f which Councilman B. C. Moore has charge during the present term of court. One restaurant was also raided and a quantity of beer found in the plae. It-ls sad thafc at the recorder's court today the Identity of two detectives who have been en gaged for the past several weeks in gathering evidence against blind tigers and gambling joints will be revealed. Frankllnvllle News. Mr. and Mrs. G. B- Phillips and daughter of Greensboro spent Sun day here with his brother J. L. Phil lips. Clarence Parks visited his parents Mr. and Mrs. J. W- Parks near Paris' Cross, Roads Sunday evening. Mrs. W. C. Jones is on the sick list this week. T. M. Jennings attended meeting at Gray's Chapel Sunday. W. C. Vestal is tickled some more. It's a ten pound Democrat. Mr. and Mrs. Harris Cranford of Farmer spent Saturday in the city with their daughter, Mrs. F. A. New- som, and returned to their home Sunday accompanied by their daugh ter and some of her small children. Messrs. Peter Allred and B. A. Allred are building nice residences on their lots on Asheboro St., near Rev. J. F. Allred 's poultry farm. Iaham Jones has been indisposed for a few days. -We are having nice showers of rain and corn and vegetable crops are looking-iine, but wheat that has been threshed was the poorest that we have had la this section for years. George Martlndllle of Fayetteville was In town last week. Mr. andMrs. Tom Hayes of Dun ham spent Saturday night and Sun day with Miss Pattie Luther. . Mr. John Burrow' who has th com tract for the brick work has a lot of the brick ready and will soon go to work on the new M. E. church which ,will be built on a vacanft lot near the depot. Hattie the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Cox died Sunday night and was buried In the M. E. church cemetery Monday evening. Rev. J. F. Allred conducted . the funeral services. The bereaved pa rents have the sympathy of all our people. REMARKABLE : HIGH POINT BED By Thornwell Haynes. High Point, N. C, July 20. A bd in which T. DeWlt Talmage, Thomas Edison, Zeb Vance, Bishop Marvin and L. Benson, the author of "Fifteen Years in Hell," have iail slept is a remarkable bed al most too remarkable for belief, but it exists, and is in the posesslon of Krs. Jarrell, of High Point. Think of it! One of America's1 greatest divines, the world's greatest Invent or, a marveIous governor, one of the greatest bishops the nation has evear had.and the country's greatest drunk ard, all sleeping, and dreaming per haps, in the same bed. And there is something more remarkable about it still, in the house wherein stood this remarkable bed every governor who ruled the State of North Caro lina fifty years has spent th night. Even the celebrated Siamese twins, who created such a furore with Bar num and Bailey's circus, had i.o come and lay themeselves down in this bed not once, but many times. Just now this old house, always known as Jarrell's Hotel and which three' generations ago was built not forty miles from the center of the state, is being torn down to make way for a moving picture show, a. magnificent brick and stone struct ure, but if the shades of the old hotel's departed guests, and all they did, could pass before us they would make the western' scenes and' love dramas soon to be thrown upon the screen very tame. The commencement at old Trinity College.the first institution of hgher learning in North Carolina, then situ-i cted at Trinity, seven miles from High Point, and later removed to its present location at Durham, was one of the greatest annual events in the state, and as the orator at this commencement, Dr. Talmage came three different years, always stop ping and spending the night at Jar rell's hotel. Of 'course there was no road-- to High- Pothtr and' the' doctor always traveled by what was known as the old plank road which si retched from Fayetteville to Winston-Salem, N. C, a distance of on rndred and twenty miles. This wa it that time the gr.'n-est novelty in road building in America. The planks were eight inches wide and ten feet long, thus containglng a total of over five million feet. The road was owned by a joint stock company which established toll houses at regular intervals, but with- in a few years the planks wore out and the up-keep was abandoned as a losing proposition. When Bishop Marvin slept In the old Jamil bed it was also on the occasion of Trinity commencement whither he came on two different oc casions to deliver the baccalaureate sermon. He, too, traveled over the old plank road, and In 1872, the date of his last visit, he was the officiating: clergyman at the marriage of Miss Emma, the "daughter of Dr. Baxter Craven, then the president of Trinity, to Prof. Edwin Pegrim The occasion of Luther Benson.the reformed drunkard, stopping at Jar rell's is especially Interesting. He had been secured by the temperance organization of the state to come South and lecture in behalf of the prohibition cause. Upon arriving In Greensboro h got on a drunk and came down to Jamil's at High Point to sober up, whereupon the saloon keepers, with the intention of strengthening their cause.lmmediate- ly Issued circulars, signed by prom inent citizens, setting forth Ben son's eMapade, and scattered them all over the state. A few days later Benson was to lecture at Shelby, a small town in the southwestern part of North Carolina, and thousands of people, knowing the circumstances, gathered to hear Just what his de fense, if any, would be. Upon hist arrival in Shelby everybody was on the alert, none more so than Thos. Dixon, the author, who at that time was a barefoot boy Jostled here and there in the crowd. On his" way to the place of speaking a copy of the widely scattered circular fell into Benson's hands for the first time, but unabashed he mounted the plat form surrounded by the .multitude breathlesly awaltng to denounce his hypocrisy, and slowly and in a clear and distinct voice he read the circu lar. Then looking around in care ful earnestness upon the thousands of upturned faces, he exclaimed: "Men and women, I am here to tell you all of it Is true so great is the power of this terrible demon drink." And from that he proceeded to give one of the most powerfully convinc ing lectures he ever delivered. After a successful lecture tour throughout the state, Benson return- d to his native home Indiana, and later was elected from there as Unit ed States congressman: Thomas Edison, the great inventor, made two visits to this section, on!."lgn ,IU "owea that in two days each of which he spent several iof the "ottl ten and with fifty- nights at Jarrell's- For a long num her of years considerable quantities 1 of gold have been found in Randoloh f - ana Macon counties, ana on Mr. uai- son's first visit he brought an in- strument with which he thought gold could be located, but after sev eral unsuccessful attempts he ac knowledged his failure and returned to his home in the North. In 1906 he came again looking for mow azite, but with no more success than formerly. If you have not read perhaps you have heard of a book called "A Fool's Errand-' The author was Judge Tourgee. a Northerner, known down .South as a "carpet-bagger," wno soon auer me war came 10 North Carolina and eventually be- came a man of great wealth. Most of the manuscript cf the book was written while stopping at Jamil's, and the intent of the author was to show that the fool's errand con- s.lon w,n be restricted' to no state slsted in his coming South and try-. , lin?a- Ing to civilize North Carolinians. The ' The plan of the finance committee book hod quite a sale for a number la to ralse the flrst U6.000 and o-years, and to the extent of bring- !en launch a broader campaign.. ing considerable monr -to the ' ?.help-, ?urpoe ? to fB0"clt ub8Cr,P- " . tions from the twenty-two thousand judge, belied its name. -members cf the church in North A family of O'Malleys from New Carolina, the forty thousand mem Haven, Conn., who frequently stopp- bers In Maryland and the hundreds ed'at"JareH's on -their way,- to of thousands of members through and from St. Augustine, were aniong , out the South and the nation. Sub the wealthiest guests the old hotel scriptions will be restricted to mem ever had. It may be remembered by bers ' the denomination, however, some that most, if not all, their Outside help will be asked because wealth was lost later in defending a son of the family, Ed O'Malley.who was indicted for the murder of Miss Jennie Cramer a murder which at that tme, and for years after, was spoken of as the most sensational in America. - There was a Dr. Whitmore, also of Connecticut, an immensely weakly. man. who freauentlv stODned here: also the 8ons of Governor English, of Connecticut, and Senator Robertson. Tnese young fellows often shot as many as fifty quails a day in the tr rltory surrounding High Point, all of the birds being turned over to the hotel Being on the direct route from tie erect the first building. The p:-opo-North to Florida, many wealthy Bitten, snys the Greer.Bhoro News Northerners. passlng to and from the has appealed to all mAnbers of winter season South, stopped over-'the church In this stateand the Among the many was a Mr. Chapin, numbers of the committee have ex of Boston. It was he of whom, it Pressed gratification at the magnifi- . ... nent ntirfl Hherol rprmra wh1ti has was related that when shown to his room by the old negro porter, he re-: marked:, "Well this isn't so bad after all." He referred to the Brus- sels carpet and furniture, wheh in (he eyes of the old darkey were the grandest furnishings this side the golden streets of the new Jerusalem, and such scant recognition of their grandeur Incensed Sambo to such a degree that he came down the steps two at a time muttering, "X jeB' hope h '11 be so full er dese d Yankees deir feefjl outten e win ders" Yes, the Siamese twins slept here, too. The reader may know that after their contract with Barnum and Bend M. E. church the first Sunday Bailey was finished they bought a.,n August at 3:00 p. m. We want home in North Carolina where they ch school to be well represented. hved until their death, with the ex- ception of the occasion they were in-1 duced to return with Barnum and j Bailey's aggregation long enough for, its trip around the world. Of course every one Is acquainted with their hove affairs So the old landmark 'that sheltered the good and bad, the preacher and sinner, and many otlr characters TO RAISE FUND FOR M. P. ORPHANAGE Denomlbstion Throughout America) Will be Asked to Aid. Mrs. Wm. C. Hammer, president o; the church mission board and the church orphanage committee and a member of the executive committee of the orphanage attended the meet ing of the building committee at. High Point Monday of this week. Reports received yesterday from live of the sixty te?nis engaged in a statewide canvass to raise a fund of $15,000 for the beginning of work oa the Methodist Protestant church orphanage to be locateed near invu teams in the rural sections yet co report, more than half the total fund httA heon rnliuul Tlio. tntoT . " , subscriptions as reported to the of- flcers of the flnaQce commlttee ag grgated $8,071.75. The teams re- porting had assignments In the cit ies, Greensboro, High Point and Asheboro teams making especially fine returns. It was stated yesterday that the raising of $15,000 is merely the be- ! ginning of a campaign to extend throughout the territory of the Methodist Protestant church in America with a view of raising by (individual subscription a fund of . 130.000 for th rhurph ornhannpo. with th f, t m tne flnace j committee proposes to buy a farm, upon which an option is now held j and to erect the first building. jThe home, while under the influences ot the Meetthodist Protestant; church, s to be opened to all homeless children who prove worthy.. Admis- Tne fPse. ". -e a m tor worthy children of any denomination or for those who are . alligned through inheritance with no denomi nation. It is simply to be a place of rcfuge for any worthy homeless thUdj and lt ls on thl8 ground that Uhe committee will base its appeal 'or aid to all people. The twenty- three Methodist Protestant churches ,n Baltimore, Md., have Signified a desire to he'.p the movement. and and desire to help th1 movment to a realization. ' , The committee believes that the first campaign will secure more than $15.00, but trusts that this amount, will be available at. once. This sum is rpouired to Ley tVe farm and ; 1 ?a ,?4wn lur,ng the nrst two i days of the canvass. Farmers' Union Picnic There will be a Farmers' Union picnic at Graves' Siding, ten milea south of Asheboro, on Saturday, August 10. Everybody bring bas kets, will have a long table to fill.. Several speakers will be present. We expect the Farmers' Brass Band to furnish the music. Speaking will begin at 11 o'clock. A Member. The Asheboro Township Sunday School Convention will meet at West D. M. SHARPE, Pres. which perhaps were not just what the world thought them, is being de- mollshed. ComeB the great inventor -who slept herf and tears away his comfortable bed, and brings mor wonderful scenes before the eye, of sober people than ever a drunkard. beheld In his wildest delirium. :. i .: i 1 i i j-; i,i : . ... . .
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