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PTTYfn" E COUE n IN? 11 M A II ISSUED WEEKLY v . PRINCIPLES. NOT MEN ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR VOL. 46 ' , Asheboro, N. C Thursday, July 1. 1915 No 26 . , - LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS GREAT PROGRESS IN ASHEBORO SHOWN BY MANY IMPROVE MENTS DURING LAST FEW MONTHS . During the last six months, the peo ple of the town have not been idle. There are a number 01 new ana at tractive dwellings being erected in various parts of tV.e town. Among tViPtn are Sheriff J. W. Birkhead's home in South Asheboro, which is commodious and attractive. Mr, Birkhead's family moved into their new home the Dast week. Two other additions to that end of town are the bungalows now being erected by Mr. Basil F. Brittain, on the lot between Mr. T. J. Hoover and Mr. Walter Presnell; and that of Mr. J. A. York, between the M. P. church and the resi dence of Mr. W. D. Stedman. All three of these homes are on South Fayette ville Street. Mr. Joe Betts has etarted work leveling his lot on Sun eet Avenue next to Mr. H. H. Kennedy preparatory to building as Boon as possible. And, of course, we are all justly proud of the new jail which is prog ressing rapidly. It is to be equipped with all the modern improvements and built throughout with a view to the comfort and sanitation of the inmates. It is situated, very conveniently, to the rear of the court house. An addition to Depot Street and the town, is almost completed, a garage which is owned by W. D. Stedman & Son. Among the new enterprises of the town is a new and sanitary botling plant on Church, Street, owned and operated by Capt. A. E. Burns. The reporter's attention was called to the the absence of flies and the sanitation of the place throughout. The plant is owned by Capt. Burns and Mr. Dennis Hardin. Dr. Moore has erected a new, and attractive store building on the eame street, which is operated by Mr. John Turner. George McCain, a re-1 spected colored man of Ashebovo, is erecting a store holding in the ex treme northern part ofhe town? '" And while we aro on the subject of improvements we must not fail to mention the good work that has been done on the streets for the put ton days. It is splendid us far s it g es. and our main treats are now looking as they should be kept. The people of the town enjoy living in a clean town with attractive streets the year round just the same as during Chautauqua. Why not extend the work to the town limits? Everybody pays tax. Let us suggest that garbage cans be placed on the streets. Let's have a big town meeting after Chautauqua ard make cmA nlans. then out them into irac- 4: THorvhmlv seems interested; now in the looks of the town and it will be a very opportune time for such a meeting. GERMAN REPLY SECRET The nature of the reply which Ger many is to make to America is said to be secret even in Berlin yet. The Foreign Office' is understood to be working on four different draft3 and trying to select one that will recon cile the viewpoints of Germany and the United States. DEATH OF MR. BINGHAM Mr. L. G. B. Bingham, aged 79, died of heart heart trouble, at his home at Flora, June 9 and was buried at Canaan. Revs. Trogdon and Sted man conducting the funeral. He is survived by a wife and nine children, The children are: Messrs. Webb and Thomas Bingham, of Bombay; Green Bingham, of Denton; Mrs. Wiley la! lev. of Randleman; Mrs. Nannie Wei born, of Trinity; Mrs. Wesley Mitchell of Bombay; Mrs. N. C. Ridge, and Mrs. C. G. Loflin, Flora; and Mrs. W. N. Morgan, Farmer. Mr. Bingham was a highly respect ed citizen and a Christian gentleman. He had .served one term in the legis lature. He was a member of the M. P. church ' at Canaan, and will be greatly missed in the church and community. PIG CLUB BOYS Seven hundred and fifty boys are enrolled in the Pig Clubs of the State for 1915. Sampson county leads with 119, followed vby Johnston with 106. Both counties save supervisors. There are boys from 46 counties. Randolph has 14 boys enrolled. HUERTOETAINED FORMER MEXIC .ARRESTED BY Ui RELEASED ON $15,000 BOND The United States Government has frustrated for the present an attempt on the part of Gen. Victoriana Huerta and his associates to launch from American territory a new revolution ary movement in Mexico. . Detention of the former Mexican dictator with General Crozco and oth ers at Elpaso last Sunday followed three months of espionage by govern ment agents. The Department of Justice has instructed United States Attorney Camp of the western dis trict of Texas to take into custody these men, who seemingly were en gaged in violation of American neu trality laws which forbid the recruit ing of men, purchase of supplies there for, and the organizing of a military expedition on the soil of the United States to be used in operation against a people with which the country is at peace. When assistant Attorney General Warren called to the attention of Sec retary Lansing the fact that General Huerta and his supporters appeared to be ready to set on foot an armed expedition into Mexico, Mr. Lansing indicated that this was a subject for the Department of Justice to handle, and the arrests ordered. Later, he was released on $15,000 bond. A PROBLEM Trinity R. F. D., June 29. On last Thursday evening as Mr. D. K. Myers was walking across Mr. E. C. Cran ford's plantation two miles and a half south east of Trinity, he passed by a clump of bushes in which he' discov ered two holes about six or eight feet deep which showed that they had been dug only a few days. They were on either side of a pine tree which was cut down about six years ago. The tree marked the resting place, cf some people by the name of Lamar, who were the grr ip..rU of the late Mfos Hannah L n :r. Three people had been buried :r.-re than a century. One of the holes was dug before the rain on Friday the 18th; the othe.' after the rain. Upon inv"-ti ition of the unearthed dirt, some pieces of pine plank to which was attached some human hair were found. The tracks of live men were found passing through Mr. Cranford's corn field. These tracks were evidently made during the night because sever al stalks of corn were broken down and at the holes, small pieces of half- burnt pine were found. Who the diggers were and what they were after is uncertain; although it has been handed down for many generations that the Lamars hid pot of gold on the place when they owned it. The supposition is that they were after the aforesaid pot of gold. Subscriber. 950,000,000 BUSHELS WHEAT TO BE HARVESTED The monthly agricultural report is sued for June, estimates the greatest 'wheat crop the country has ever known, for the coming harvest. The report places the yield at 950,000,000 bushels, which will exceed last year's crop by over 59,000,000 bushels. The area of wheat planted is 59,417,000 acres, compared with 53,541,000 last year. The area of oats planted is 40,100,000 acres, compared with 18, 442,000 last year, production estimat ed at 1,288,000,000 bushels; COX-McNEILL Mr. Hobart Cox and Miss Etta Mc- Neill were quietly married last Tues day, at the residence of the officiat ing minister, Rev. R. E. Powell. Im mediately after the ceremony, Mr. and Mrs. Cox drove down to the home of the bride's parents at Seagrove for a visit of a few days. Mr.. Cox is a son of Mr. and Mrs. N. P. Cox, of this town; while his bride is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alex. McNeill, of Seagrove. Their friends wish them joy throughout a long life. -Thomas , Lawrence, a citizen of Randleman, died Tuesday night at 9 o'clock, of tuberculosis, and was bur ied at the Holiness church cemetery near Worthville. He is survived by a wife and three' small children. " FORESTS PURCHASED DICTATOR UNITED STATES APPROVES PUR ED STATES ph ASF np Q7rr appps part OF WHICH IS IN NORTH CARO LIN A The purchase by the Federal Gov ernment of 97,888 acres of non-agrl cultural land in the White mountains of New Hampshire and the Southern Appalachians was approved by the National Forest Reservation Commis sion, last week, bringing the total area so far approved for national for ests in the East up to more than 1, 275,000 acres. This latest acquisition will involve an expenditure of $380, 000. The largest parcel is in the Boone purchase area in North Carolina, a block of 36,386 acres, which the own ers have agreed to sell for $1.90 per acre; the next largest is in New Hampshire, a group of tracts compris ing 23,518 acres, the price $7.21 per acre. There are other smaller tracts in West Virginia, North Carolina, Virginia, Georgia and Tennessee. The lands have been examined and appraised by the Forest Service and sales contracts will be concluded with the owners by the Secretary of Agri culture as soon as possible. Practi cally all of the l?nd is mountainous, non-agricultural, and. valuable only for forests. Much of it has been cull ed or cut-over, but several large tracts are comparitively heavy timbered. About half a million dollars now re mains available of the money which Congress appropriated for carrying out the Commission's plan to acquire about 5,600,000 acres for watershed protection, timber conservation, recre ation and other uses. 10,000 BALES A MONTH The British Government has an nounced at its embassy at Washing ton an agreement with the Swedish Cotton Spinners Association for unre stricted importation iiito Sweden of 10,000 bales of cotton each month if consigned to the. 'association. BENNETT LETTER Glorious Fourth to be Celebrated in Great Style. Dennett, June 28. We have just received news that Uncle Sam and his wife and several children are now at Ore Hill, resting up end drinking Mt. Vernon water. They will spend a few days there and will arrive at Bennett on the early morning train, July 3, in full uniforms of 1776. They will spend the entire day, taking part in man of the amusing stunts of the occasion. They will be met at the train by the band and escorted to the grand stand. Those who who do not see them will miss a treat. Train arrives at 8:3U in the morning. The baby show will' be at 2:30 in the afternoon. The mule race for the slowest mile on Raleigh street will be in the after noon, under the management of Geo. Phillips. It will be one among the amusing stunts of the day. No one allowed to ride his own mule. A two dollar bridle, the mule's dinner at the livery stable, and one pound of soon crackers will be given the owner as s prize at Pcoce & Company's Hard ware Store. A. D. Phillips, manager of the old relic museum in the old Union Store Building, expects to have quite a num ber of old-time curiosities, each la beled with the owner's name and the date made. Everything will be well cared for and promptly returned. A pair of trousers has just been receiv ed that belonged to a man who was in the War of 1812, they being his wed ding trousers in 1795. They are now 120 years old, but the older a thing is, the better we like it for this occa sion. We congratulate the people of Ben nett in being so fortunate as to se cure one of North Carolina's noble and worthy speakers J. L. Griffin of Pitts- boro, for July 3. We know it is an honor to us and the county of Chat ham that' we do not have to go or send obroad to get a speaker for th great- and glorious - Fourth of July. We have them at home. . The potato and bag races and many other amusing stunts with valuable prizes will be announced, in the pro gram on July 3. . Come early and join the long parade. Arrangements will be made for all picsic baskets to be cared for in a nice room that can be i locked up. LONG SHANKS. ; THE STATE FAIR RALEIGH, OCTOBER 18th TO 23rd BIGGER, BETTER AND MORE INTERESTING THAN EVER The North Carolina State Fair is to be held at Raleigh October 18th to 23rd, and plans for the biggest, best and most interesting fair the State has ever had are being made. The next State Fair is intended to be the means whereby some of the oppor tunities of the State are to be made known, and it is a matter in which all alike are concerned. The State Fair is not a money-making institution, but afcreat movement for the welfare of the whole State, and it is hoped that every man, woman and child will put forth their best efforts to make this the greatest fair held in the State. The managers can not make it a suc cess without the co-operation of the people, to whom the fair really be longs. Capt. E. J. Parrish, President pf the North Carolina State Fair says among other things: LMMany new features are under con sideration. The agricultural features will be in keeping with the plans for a bigger and better fair. We hope the manufacturers of the State will show what they are are capable of doing. "We are expecting not only a great number of county and individual ag ricultural exhibits, but we must have great exhibits of our vast and varied industrial products from our manu facturers. We already have assur ance of some great county agricultur al exhibits, also, the promise of many industrial exhibits, and of course we expect many, many more. We are looking to our cotton, tobacco, furni ture and scores of other manufactur ers to make creditable exhibits of their products, and to show the world what 'made in North Carolina' means. Let us show the world what North Carolina can do." One new feature this year is that in charge of the Woman's Suffrage Clubs. They have not outlined their plans 'yet but it is sure they will have soilfchlnjr worth while: Any one wanting to know anything abmit making exhibits, or anything pertaining to the Fa'r can pet such information by writing Col. J. E. Poguc, Secretary, Raleigh, X. C. MEXICANSJTALK PEACE The leaders cf. the two warring fac tions in Mexico have agreed to dis cuss peace, perhaps within two weeks, announced Jose Robles, Minister of War in the Cabinet of Eulalio Gutier rez last Tuesday. DR. WILKERSON TO EGYPT He and Mrs. Wilkerson to Go as Medi cal Missionaries to the Far East. Dr. and Mrs. C. E. Wilkerson and family, of Randleman, will leave in a few days for Egypt, where they will act as medical missionaries. Dr. Wil kerson has been remarkably success ful in surgery and medicine and the people not only of Randleman, but of a large part of the county, regret to see him and family leave for such dis tant lands but wish them success in their worthy undertaking. Ferree Memorial Hospital at Ran d'.eman was founded by Dr. Wilker son. BOOZE IN A COFFIN A recent dispatch from Charleston, West Virginia, says: "Waiting at a railway station was a hearse and one hack with three men. When the train pulled in a woman dressed in deep mourning alighted and from the baggage train a child's coffin was unloaded. In moving the casket from the baggage car, however, the bottom fell out and its contents, bot ties filled with whiskey, fell with a crash to the floor and broke. The en tire party was Arrested by agents of State Prohibition Commissioner Blue. "The plan was to actually bury "the child," as the grave had already been dug in the cemetery, and then go out at night and dig it up. 1 "So stringently are the prohibition laws being enforced here that it is al most impossible to smuggle liquor into the city or to sell it." DEAD Thomas Franklin Johnson, aged 10, son of Mr. W. A. Johnson, of Greens boro, and a grandson of T. O. Spen cer, of Sophia, died June 11, and was buried at Marlboro the 13th, Rev. Amos Gregson conducting the funeral. HEARD IN THE COUNTY WHAT OUR TOWN CORRESPON DENT HEAR? AND THINKS ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTY. Matrimony has its faults. But it is about the only thing that will cure a girl of giggling. Of course Col. Roosevelt can have a seat on the Wilson band wagon. But the front seat is amply occupied by the solid and substantial figure of William H. Taft. There is reliable authority for say ing that much building is planned about town which has not been com menced. Carpenters and masons are busy with the out look for still u ore work. All the cussedness is not in the large cities. Every small town ha3 its full share and plenty of it can be found in the country, too. Some peo ple go to the cities to work it off. Mr. W. T. Ledwell, of Trinity Rt. 1, is one of our best farmers and a farmer who farms scientifically, us ing every means to make his crop3 large. Mr. Jesse Coletrane, of Randleman Rt. 1, says he is now over 93 years of age and that he has been taking his county paper ever since it wa3 founded. Mr. Coltrane is one of those men who, though living on "borrowed time", still keeps up the interest in affairs about him and thus remains young in thought and feeling. Mr. I. J. Fuller, of Fullers, has tak en The Courier ever since it was found ed and says he couldn't live without it. Mr. Fuller is a mighty good man and knows a good thing when he sees it. Mr. S. W. Kearns, a prominent cit izen, of Farmer, was in town Monday. Sheriff Birkhead and family moved into their new house last week. Mr. A. S. Pugh, a prosperous far mer and saw mill man, of Millboro Route 1, spent a short while in town last Saturday. It always makes a good looking man mad when he sees a pretty girl with an ugly man. The adens,a'rid fruit trees in and around Asheboro are yielding a goodly store of vegetables and fruit. Black berries, too. are geltting ripe and the en,oyamo time oi tne season is ap proaching. Mr. W. T. White, a traveling sales man for the Liberty "Picker .Stick and Novelty Company, has just returned from a trip to 'the New England States and reports business good. He has been working these States for six years and says business is the best now that he ha ever found it. Our roller mills are buying a lot of new wheat . Wheat is now brini ng $1.10 per bushel. Mrs. Tom Y v is very sick il u.is writing. Sbp rc. with lur son Mr. O. R. Yow, o' Kanrlloman. Automobiles are getting to be verv thick around us now as many of the people are availing themselves of the opportunity and purchasing same. es, say look upward and progress with the times or else you will rind yourself way behind. That is the way the pedestrians and the ox-cart find it today with the automobile. Our attention has been attracted to the rather general blight on the fruit trees, especially apple and pear trees in this county. The leaves of the trees dry up and turn black and in many cases the limb of the tree also become infected and die. It is a pe culiar blight and we think the fruit crop will be appreciably affected by it. It is noticed that the blight is much worse among the unsprayed orchards. Mrs. Catherine Yow is in very fee ble health. She lives with her son. Air. John M. Yow, on Seagrove Route 2. It is understood that Asheboro is to have another mercantile establish ment in the near future, but public an nouncement is withheld at present And thus the town goes forward. Mr. Dan Sharpe. the popular rural mail carrier on Route 3, has only one milch cow and has sold $153.90 worth of milk since April 1st, 1914. The worst citizen in any communi ty is the man who violates tke law for gain. He ought to be made to vpar stripes if nothing else will stop him. Among the renewals this week is Mr. Eli Freeman, of Ether. Eli says he is about ready to give the Germans a good spanking and bring the war to a close. It may be well, however, for him to wait until a while and let taly have a little turn in punishing the obstreperous Germans before he essays to administer corrective meas ures. GENERAL NEWS ITEMS ITEMS OF LIVE NEWS GATHER. ED FROM OUR EXCHANGES AND CONDENSED IN BRIEF FORM FOR BUSY READERS. Clifford, the 8 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Tysinger, of Thomas ville, is recovering from at attack of typhoid fever. Twelve kegs of whiskey and six cal- lons of beer were captured on the premises of Oscar Weavil, nine miles south of Winston-Salem last Satur day. Weavil escaped. Mr. C. C. Pickett, of the Welcome neighborhood, near Thomasville. lost a valuable horse, barn, some grain, farm implements, etc., by lightning yyeanesaay or last week. Fortunate ly the 1915 crop of wheat and oata had not been housed. Saturday afternoon between 3 anil 4 o'clock a prismatic circle was ob served around the sun. Some feared it might portend war with Germany at an early date. The Greensboro News pronounces it a corona. rsnJ by the defraction of light by suspend ed moisture or fog. Peter Battle, a negro resident of Battleboro, alighted from a train last Friday with twenty quarts of liquor m his grip, and when rrct ij that they were not his at all, that he nad one bottle for "mother. grandmother, wife, and uncle, two aunts, a sister and 10 of his cousins." Fire of unknown the home of Frank Furlough, in Edgc ville, Greensboro, last Friday night, and all the household property and the family's clothes destroyed. There had been no fire in the house since the afternoon before, and the family had retired only a couple of hours be fore the fire was discovered. meeting attended ! i number of the leading business and p.o.esSiona men of the State was held in Raleigh last Tuesday, to r,... ect an organization for promotinff the interests of all Xorth CnJ and inaugurating -i s,.,n,.li;.. ,' ana u,u,MUgn ""'Pawn of advertisi,,. tho evinces and advantage of the Mate! The southern's big- two-in-one en-" R.ne which is known as the "Subma rine among railroad men, was givi, a trial trip Saturday, the first fW some changes have been made i , il-make-up since its trial trip Mttl9 weeks ago. It pulled 2.750 to f, Spencer to Goldsboro on the .-u-,rday tnp. Monday she was put on u rega lar trip to Monroe, Va. Since the war bn.kr ain and her allies h, . - t treat Brit- " Ivst eight bat 'isewvour gun , ten submarines, six armed mer- tleships. fourteen boats, six destroy fourteen boats aw chantmcn ard auriluries. The losses i Germany ami her r.lli,: ':S consist of one oati!esh:n. twentv-lhw-, : fifteen gunboats, thirteen torpedo cratt, six submarines and twenty armed merchantmen and auxiliaries. John M. Slaton retired as Governor Georgia at noon last Saturday and was succeeded by Xat E. Harris. There had been much demonstration by people who disapproved of his ac tion in commuting the death sentence of Leo M. Frank, and both infantry and cavah-y of the Georgia National l.ua,d stood guard at Slaton's coun try home, where he went after retir ing from office. The deepest well in the world is in Ui a -German Empire jn Uppcr SiIesia t is a diamond drill hole in a coal held and ls T,:!o0 feet deep. There is a well in the United States which is claimed to go deeper. It is 7,174 feet ai present. This well is four miles north west of McDonald, Fa At ,-ick City, Pa., there is a we.l M " deel- is probably tna second deepest in the United States. A terrible "varmint," thought to be a Psorophora, appeared in Greensboro recently and created quite a bit of ex citement. It is a cowardly little ani mal which will not fight in the day, and when attacked always run to cover. It will attack any person, how ever, at night. It is of the blood-sucking variety, and does a great deal of harm, sometimes bringing on blood! poison. They are natural cannibala. and eat each other. This is the first, that has ever been seen in Greens boro. The places where it has been seen will be raided.
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