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VOL. 40
Asheboro, N. C Thursday, September 23, 1915
No. 40
ATTRACTIVE PROPOSITION FOR THIS PERIOD
AGAIN THERE IS A CLUB OFFER WITH A HUNDRED THOUSAND
EXTRA VOTES THE TIME TO FORGE AHEAD CLUB OF TEN
EASY TO GET OFFER FAIR TO ALL
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WHAT A CLUB MBANS
In The Courier's Automobile
and Piano Contest.
Every club of ten yearly sub
scriptions to The Courier enti
tles the contestant to a certifi
cate good for 100,000 extra
votes.
Clubs count more extra votes
now than at any other future
time in the contest.
There is no limit to the num
ber of clubs a contestant may
secure. They should get as
many as possible.
A few clubs will place any
contestant in line for one of the
grand awards. These extra
votes make winning easy for
the candidates who take advan
tage of the opportunity.
Clubs are made up of six
months, and one year subscrip
tions, old or new.
The contestant beginning ac
tive canvass for these clubs
may become a leader. The
time to begin is NOW.
Get your friends to organize
a club for you. The more
clubs the more votes.
The period begins today and
ends midnight, October 14th.
The second period in The Courier's
Automobile and Piano Contest closes
tonitrht. and the winner of the ex
t.i Tn-i will be announced next
week. The club offer has met with
such favor that we are offering an
other special attraction in a club this
week. Those who did not tane iuh
advantage of the offer last period have
a chance to make up valuable lost
time.
It is an easy matter to get up a
civ of ten annual subscriptions to
The '"Courier. You are not confined
to new subscriptions. Old subscrib
ers may pay six months or a year and
the same will count on this oner.
This is an opportunity for you to in
crease your standing if you stand near
or at the bottom of the list. Get a
number of these $10 clubs and "cinch
the prize."
Interest Your Friends.
You have friends who are interest
ed in helping you win the grand prize,
and they will be glad to help you get
no these clubs. You have a mimDer
of friends who will gladly get you ,
up a club of ten yearly sscnpt.ons
ana uius nerp you ... - "!;'!
awards. A few hours work will mean
a club of ten, and a club of ten means
125,000 votes.
Offer Fair to All.
This offer is as fair to one as to
another. It is a little different from
any other offer that has been made,
we think will prove to be more popu
lar and more successful than offers
heretofore made because it will be
easy to get a club of ten. You will
find it easy to get a club of ten any
where and at any time, and there is
absolutely no limit to the number of
clubs that vou can get. This means
that all must work during this period
In fact, in a contest of this kind it is
necessary for those who expect to win
to "keen everlastinelv at it." This
offer means that those whp are be
hind may regain their lost ground by
jumping into the fight hard this pe
riod and securing a number of these
$10 clubs.
This offer cannot be overlooked by
any of the candidates. If you are
standing high in the contest you
should bear in mind that you cannot
afford to let some weaker candidate
send in more clubs than you do and
get the lead on you. If you expect to
win in this contest you must work
some every day from now until the
close of the contest. By this it is
meant that you must take up all of
you spare time in the interest of the
contest.
Get Busy.
There are lots of folks who never
get anything because they never start
anything. They want as much as the
other fellow, but haven't the nerve to
go after it. To get a club of ten an
nual subscriptions is an easy matter.
There is nothing at all difficult about
it Yaur friends will be glad to help
you get up a club, all you have to
do is to ask them for the subscrip
tion. The? will be glad to iubscribe
iu x iMi courier anu ui the 6ame time
help you get a valuable prize.
Schedule of Votes.
The prevailing schedule of votes
will be issued on each subscription
turned in during this offer and the
the extra votes will be issued in ad
dition. An extra vote ballot good for
100,000 votes will be issued on each
club of ten annual subscriptions
amounting to ten dollars. This means
that a club of ten annual subscribers
will count for 125,000 votes. Could
any offer be more liberal? Could
anything be more easy to get than a
club of ten annual subscribers to The
Courier ?
Schedule of votes good until mid
night, October 14.
1 year, $1.00, 2,500 votes.
2 years, $2.00, 7,500 votes.
3 years, $3.00, 22.500 votes.
1 years, $5.00, 67,500 votes.
(Continued on page 4.)
MT. OLIVET ITEMS
Mr. Yancey Bray accompanied his
little daughter, Gertrude, to the High
Point hospital Monday to have her
arm, which was dislocated at the el
bow about a month ago, set. Dr. Hay-
worth accompanied them.
Mrs. W. E. Beck and son, Earl, re
turned Sunday from a visit to Mrs.
Beck's son, Mr. Rufus Beck, at Car
thage. Mr. Ulys William's little son fell
one day last week and broke his shoul
der. Dr. Hayworth attended him that
afternoon and the patient is getting
along very well.
Mr. Arthur Beck, who is critically
ill, does not improve.
Mrs. Minerva Phillips, of Asheboro,
has been spending some time with
relatives in our community.
Miss Beulah Mann, of Saxapahaw,
came last leek to visit her sister, Mrs.
T. H. Tysor.
WORTHVILLE AND RANDLEMAN
ROUTE 2 ITEMS
Rev. F. W .Shaw preached an ex
cellent sermon at the Union church
Sunday night.
Mr. J. W. Jenkins and family are at
tending the campmeeting at Chapel
Hill, Davidson county, this week.
Miss Narwegie Trogdon fe spend
ing a few days in Greensboro visiting
relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Hale, of, Green-
villo 3 r .kn koo, ,nf enmo f.'m
t home
Mr. Nathan Sheffield made a busi
ness trip to High Falls Monday.
Mr. D. M. Meredith, of Greensboro,
was in Worthville Sunday the guest
of friends and relatives.
Mrs. C. H. Henley moved to Ran
dleman last Thursday.
Messrs. Neal and Chas. Sheffield,
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tended the singing closing at Mt. Gil -
ead church Sunday.
Quite a number of our people at
tended the play at Millboro last Sat
urday night and reported a nice time.
Miss Lucilc Ingle, accompanied by
Mr. and Mrs. Ingle, was carried to a
hospital at High Point where she will
undergo an operation for appendicitis.
Mr. Willie Hinshaw and Miss Lillie
Williamson were happily married last
Sunday evening at the M. P. parson
age in Randleman. Rev. J. B. O'Briant
officiating. The many friends of this
young couple wish them a long and
happy life.
Dr. Wilkeraon and Family Safe
The Anchor Line steamship
Tuscania arrived in New York
Monday night with 339 passen
gers, YO ot wnom were oi tne
crew of the Greek steamship
Athinai, which was abandoned at
sea last Sunday afternoon after
being on fire for 36 hours.
Among the passengers rescued
from the burning ship were Dr.
and Mrs. C. E. Wilkerson and
little daughter.
Dr. Wilkerson was en route to
Egypt to enter the missionary'
hospital of the Presbyterian
Church. He recently operated a
hospital and practiced medicine
at Randleman. For a while he
practiced in Worthville. He was
a native of East Tennessee and
at one time an interne in St.
Leo's Hospital, Greensboro,
RAMSEUR HEWS
TRIP TO ORPHANAGE GOOD
FARMING ITEMS OF LOCAL
INTEREST.
Mr. J. O. Forrester is riding in a
new Ford.
A fine son arrived at the home of
W. M. Kimrey last week;
Rev. W. O. Johnson is away help
ing hold meetings this week.
Mr. Jesse N. Copeland is spending
some time at Hot Springs, Ark.
D. I. Wiigge'r spent the past week
end at Greensboro and High Point.
These folks are also taking great
interest in good roads and are making
their roads better all the time,
W. F. Allred has opened a first class
barber shop next to D. I. Wagger'e
store.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Watkins and son,
of Greensboro, spent Sunday with Mr.
W. H. Watkins' family.
Dr. C. S. Tate accompanied his
daughter, Miss Nina, to the State Nor
mal at Greensboro last week where
she entered for the term just begin
ning.
Karl Jasea, the noted Swedish im
personator and entertainer, gave a
delightful entertainment here last
Thursday night.
H. H. Kimrey, one of Ramaeur's
old boys was in town a few minutes
one day last week. He is now travel
ing for Barker-Jennings hardware Co.,
Lynchburg', Va.
Mrs. Walter T. Johnson and -little
girl have returned from Ivanhoe
where they spent sometime with her
brother.
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. York spent Sun
day with Mrs. York's father, Rev. Mr.
Raper, who is seriously ill at Greens
boro. They have our sympathy.
Mr. T. E. Burgess and family and
Messrs. Fred Burgess and Clarence
Luther spent Saturday and Sunday
last, at Greensboro, visiting relatives
and friends.
Mr. J. W. Parks, secretary and
treasurer of the No.'elty Wood Works
spent a part of last week in Western
North Carolina, Tennessee and Vir
ginia buying bobbin stock for the
above plant. ' - .
Mr. and Mrs. Sears, of Rockingham,
visited Mrs. Sears' brother, Mr. E. M.
town
Hurley and other relatives
Saturday and Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. I. K. Grimes, Mrs.
Meyers and Mr. Meredith, of High
Point, spent Sunday in town with
friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Warren, of
Greensboro, spent Sunday and Monday
in town with Mr. and Mrs. W .H.
King.
Muck Williams, one of Randolph's
best farmers, brought a load of splen
did apples to town last Saturday. Our
farmers are raising fine apples every
year.
The ladies of the town and country
round about are being served effk!
cntly and satisfactorily in both style
and prices in the latest creations in
millinery at Carter Mercantile Co.,
and Wagger Clothing Co. Come to
Ramseur for aynthing you want, la-
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dies.
R. T. Finison and family and Mrs
M. Finison spent Sunday at Thomas
ville Orphanage. Mr. Finison reports
a great work going on at Thomas
ville and wishes every patron of this
institution could pay it a visit, for it
would surely inspire the spectator so
much that funds for the maintenance
of the little ones would no longer be
lacking; but the work already great
would be greater. About 500 children
are cared for here, 20 odd of whom are
under the age of 5. A fine Sun
dnv school was looked into, the many
creat departments gone through, the
dairy, the farm, etc., all found to be
kept as clean as a dining room and
ma naced like clock-work. A great in
stitution, worthy of the support of
its people.
The writer was out in the southeast
part of Columbia township Sunday
afternoon and was made to feel proud
of this section of the county when he
saw the progress being made in the
farming that is readily seen on these
farms. If you wish to be encouraged
in your county or neighborhood's ag
ricultural work just pay a visit to J.
R. Rightsel, Mike Rightsel, R. W.
York, I. W. Parks, W. T. Foushee,
Wesley Frazier, Clint Burgess, Eu
gene York or any of the rest of the
Yorks or other citizens of this com
munity and if you don't say they are
doing some fine farming you are wear
ing blue glasses. They are the folks
that "live at home and board at the
same place."
lUHIiWlIiNEWS
MR. TAYLOR LECTURES BIRTH
DAY DINNER PERSONAL
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Miss Effie Belle Frazier is visiting
her mother this week.
Monroe Craven and W. R. Hughes
exchanged homes last week.
Mr. Dennis Hayes, of Cedar Falls,
spent Sunday night at W. P. Moon's.
Misses Fannie and Laura Sumner
left last week for the Normal College,
Greensboro.
Rev. J. T. Rogers preached two able
sermons in his pulpit at the M. E.
church Sunday.
Mr. Willard Brown, of Asheboro
Route 1, was a visitor ia this place
Sunday afternoon.
Dennis Allred (colored) met with
the misfortune last Wednesday to lose
a good mule.
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Schoolfield, of
Greensboro, visited Mrs. Schoolfield's
parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Jordan,
and other relatives in the community
last week.
Mr. Peter Allred was at work in the
Gray's Chapel neighborhood last week
where ho has a contract to do a lot
of painting.
Mrs. H. H. Slack, and Master Her
man, of High Point, sepnt last week
in the city with her mother, Mrs. Em
ma Phillips.
Mr. John Langley, of Asheboro,
has moved to this place and will have
charge of Mr. Clarence Park's farm a
short distance east of town.
Misses Ethel Burrow, Blanche Moon
Beatrice Trogdon, Vallie Moon, and
Mr. Roy Staley attended E. C. Hamil
ton's singing at Bethany near Liberty
last Sunday.
Mr. Alfred Brown, of Ramseur, and
Miss Josephine Cross of this place
soent Sunday afternoon with W. D
Cross on Randleman Route 2.
Mr. W. A. Grimes took an auto trip
to Montrose last Wednesday where
he took Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Jones to
attend the marriage of Mrs. Jones'
brother , Mr. Rufus Craven, to one of
Montrose's fairest young ladies.
Quif$1i: jpumber of relatives and
friends gathered at the home of Mrs,
Jennie Browers Sunday who royally
! entertained them and at noon spread
quite an elaborate dinner ior ner
guests which every one enjoyed to the
fullest extent.
Mr. Edward B. Taylor, of Gaffney;
S. C, spent Saturday night and Sun
day in town with the family of J. H
Fentriss and A. W. Farris. At the
M. E. church Sunday morning he Je
livered to the Baraca class an excel
lent lecture on intemperence not only
on strong drink but on living ad talk
ing as well. Mr. Taylor is a high
toned Christian gentleman and is
very much interested in church and
Sunday school work and will be given
a hearty welcome at any time not only
by our Baraca boys but by all our peo
ple as well.
Mr. H. S. Edwards, accompanied by
J. T. Buie, left last Tuesday for San
ford where Mr. Edwards was married
Wednesday evening to Mrs. Carrie
E. Starkey, of Sanford, and left for
Washington, D. C, and other northern
points to spend their honeymoon. The
groom is one of our popular and most
useful young men and is manager of
the store for the Randolph Manufac
turing Company. The bride is the
accomplished daughter of Mrs. Cate
Makepeace, of Sanford, and a sister
of Mrs. Hugh Parks, Jr., of this place.
We extend to the happy couple our
heartiest congratulations and wish for
them long and useful lives and are
glad to have them make their future
home in this place.
On Sunday September 19th, quite
a large number of friends ar.d rela
tives gathered at the beautiful coun
try home of Mr. and Mrs. G. H.
Black one mile south of Franklinville
to celebrate the 70th birthday of
Mrs. Ruth A. Murdock. The weather
was ideal and about twelvs o'clock,
automobiles well loaded with baskets
of rich food arrived from the homes
of nearby relatives. The celebration
was indeed a secret for Mrs. Murdock
did not know of it until the arrival
of her friends. People from Greens
boro, Asheboro, Franklinville and
Ramseur together with the neighbor
ing friends joined with one another in
making the event a joyous one, one
which will long be remembered. At
one o'clock we gathered on the shady
lawn around a long spacious table
loaded with all the good things any
one could wish to eat and beautifully
decorated with fragrant flowers. Be
fore partaking of the royal feast, Rev.
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS
ITEMS OF LIVE NEWS GATHER
ED FROM OUR EXCHANGES
AND CONDENSED IN BRIEF
FORM FOR BUSY READERS.
The ministers at Thomasville, N. C,
observed last Sunday as graded school
day. All the pastors' preached cheer
ing words in behalf of the schools.
It is reported that the Silver Hill
mine in Davidson county will be re
opened and worked in the near future.
The mine has been closed down some
thing like 40 years.
The war has raised the United
States to second place as a ship-
owning nation. We now have over
eight million tons of shipping. We
are still far behind Great Britain,
which has twenty-one million tons,
The largest American submarine
M 1 was launched at Quincy, Mass.,
last week. It is of a new and power
ful type; can steam 5,000 miles at 16
knots an hour without taking on fuel.
She has four torpedo tubes and a deck
gun. A still larger under-water boat
is building.
Helpless otherwise to resist, the
Belgians still in Belgium have tried
Doycorang, silence, and other non
combatant ways of showing their dis
pleasure at the presence of their Ger
man conquerors. A military order is
sued by the German Governor-General
now subjects them to $2,500 fine and
five years' imprisonment for such
practices.
Great quantities of gold have come
to the Uunited States to pay for our
exports. For the first time in our
history exports are not balanced in
the usual way by imports, earnings
of American stocks and bonds held
abroad, rents to absentee land
lords, spendings of Americana in
Europe, or remittances made by im
migrants to their friends abroad,
The United States now has more gold
than any two other nations. Our
banks hardly know what to do witn
it, and would much rather have tn
American stocks and bonds that are
still held in the warring countries,
But investors there seem resolved not
to part with their American invest'
ments.' They look to America as the
one spot on earth that is financially
safe.
TRINITY LOUTE 1 ITEMS
Quite a number of the school boy
and girls spent Sunday at home.
Mr. Cicero Peace visited his sister
Mrs. George Spencer, Saturday.
Mrs. J. M. Spencer has returned
home from the High Point hospital
where she recently underwent an op
eration.
Miss Honolulu Farlovv, of Greens
boro. visited at the home of Mr. T. E,
Farlow Sunday.
Mr. Ira Kennedy, of Asheboro, spent
the week-end with relatives on the
route and attended the singing clos
ing at Gilead.
Mr. Roy Kearns entered school at
Trinity Monday.
Mr. Raymond Gadilis, of Asheboro,
spent the week-end at home.
Several of our people attended ser
vices at Providence Sunday.
Mr. Guthrie Shore expects to move
his family to the Sam Miller place this
week. We are sorry that they are go
ing to leave our community, but hope
they will like their new home.
Mr. Carl Kearns attended the lawn
party at Mr. J. R. Jordan's Saturday
night.
A mule belonjrinff to Mr. Martin
Wall was choked to death on mixed
grain one day last week.
The singing closing at Gilead Sun
day was well attended and the pro
gram splendidly rendered. Mt. Ver
non and Mt. Olive classes and the
Worthville quartet v.c-ie present and
did fine singing, which added much
to the occasion. All the singers de
serve much praise, but we especially
commend the Worthville quartet for
their songs were unusually good, and
everybody enjoyed them so much.
Mr. Fentriss is a fine teacher and
those who have not attended either,
the singing or the closing exercises,
have missed a treat.
Mr. T.ogers made a very appropriate
talk in which he dwelt upoi the splen
did works of the good woman in whose
honor we had assembled.
There were over a hundred pepie
present and if any of the number were
not possessed of a hearty appetite
they were greatly to be pitied.
Everybody enjoyed the day which
soon came to a close, and we departed
wishing Mrs. Murdock many more
happy birthdays. One Present.
WASHINGTON LETTER
EXPOSURE OF WORLD WIDE
WAR TRUST FACTS AND FIG
URES BY TAVENNER.
It is interesting to note that the
per capita appropriations by Congress
for all purposes is climbing up just
about in proportion to the increased
cost of the navy, as the following
figures will show:
Navy ap- All appro
propriations. priations.
Year. per capita.
1890 $20,000,000 $6.15
1900 48,000,000 6.05
1912 126,000,000 10.73
1914 140,000,000 11.09
It is pertinent to inquire where the
millions that have been poured into
militarism to the enrichment of the
armor and ammunition capitalists
came from. These millions were not
picked up in the streets, and they
were not contributed by the rich. Our
citizens have not contributed in pro
portion to their wealth, but the poor
man has paid on an average almost
as much as the rich; and since there
are 66 poor to every rich man, it
means that the millions that have pil
ed up in the pockets of the armor-
plate magnates have come from the
pockets of the poor.
And this is the feature of militar
ism-gone-mad that strikes home the
fact that the wasted millions did not
come from an income tax or inherit
ance tax levied on those best able to
bear the burden, every penny of the
$2,000,000,000 expended on the army
and navy in the last 10 years came
through the customhouses and the in
ternal revenue offices. Since custom
houses and internal revenue offices do
not levy taxes on men according to
their wealth or ability to pay, but
solely upon things the people eat,
wear, and use, it means that the peo
ple pay the armor-plate makers' bills
in the increased cost of living.
Therefore it is but logical that the
cost of living must increase in pro
portion to the cost of militarism
and it does, as the table heretofore
given shows beyond successful cow
tradiction. The people may a3 well
know that as the cost of militarism
increases in the future so will the
cost of living.
To make clearer my statement that
the poor man has been paying almost
as much toward defraying the expens
es of the Federal Government as the
rich man, permit me to correct the
impression of the average person that
some part of the taxes he has been
paying to his local tax-collector has
been sent to Washington for the pur
pose of maintaining the Federal Gov
ernment. The truth is that not one
penny of the taxes we have been pay
ing our local tax collectors has come
to Washington. Every penny of such
taxes has gone toward defraying the
expenses of township, city, county and
State. Therefore if a millionaire pays
a heavy State tax none of it goes to
ward defraying the cost of the army
and navy or maintaining the Federal
Government. The manner in which
the people have been supporting the
army and navy and meeting all other
Federal expenses has been by paying
increased .prices for things eaten,
worn or used. The local grocer and
dry goods merchant has been the
Federal tax collector without know
ing it, or without his average custom
er knowing it. To the extent that the
average poor man eats the same
amount of food as the rich man he
has been paying as much tax. Funds
for the maintenance of the army and
navy, as well as all other Federal ex
penses, have thus in the past been
raised wholly in the form of increased
cost of living. ."tkz&
It is true, of course, that we how
have an income tax law on the stat
utes, and this will help some; but un
til the tax on incomes in excess of
$10,000 annually is increased much
above the present rates, and derive
the greatest benefit from military ex
penditures will bear the heaviest bur
den of their cost, as they should, the
poor man will continue to carry the
heaviest load in proportion to his
ability to pay, just as he always has
done and just as the stone in the bot
tom of the wall bears more weight
than its more fortunate brethren on
the top.
It has been announced by the Guil
ford county authorities that the work
of repairing the road from High
Point to the Randolph county line via
Archdale will be begun this week and
pushed to completion as rapidly as
possible.