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E GOTO ISSUED WEEKLY PRINCIPLES. NOT MEN ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR VOL, 41 Asheboro, N. C. Thursday, September 30, l?15 No. 41 MOW IS THE BEST TIME TO W T) if If i 1 ) O I KM WINNINfi WORK i 'mm CAR GASOLINE EXPLODES GENERAL NEWS ITEMS FRANKLINVILLE NEWS. EVERY OL1IB OF TEN ANNUAL SUBSCRIBERS TO THE COURIER TURNED IN BEFORE THURSDAY NIGHT, OCTOBER 14TH, WILL COUNT 125,000 VOTES YOU WILL NOT HAVE THIS CREAT OPPORTUNITY AGAIN EVERY MINUTE VALUABLE. WHAT A CLUB MEANS la 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 goed for 100,000 extra votes. dubs count more extra votes now than at any other future time in the eentest. There is ne limit to the num ber of clubs a contestant may secure. They sheuld 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 dubs 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. You want to win on! of the grand prizes, dont you ? There are a number of others who have the Bame desire for the grand award as you have and they are going to work just as hard as you are. Sometimes the race is remarkably close at the finish, even one more subscription may make the difference to you between success and failure. It would seem very hard to miss what you want by just a few votes. Make it certain that you have left no" stene unturned. If you win then you" will be happy to know that vou nut f ertTi" the really big effort when the big 'votes were on; if you fail you will have no regrets over what you left undone. There is no time to lose in any period of the con test, but there are times when a little more work than you ordinarily do will pay yos big dividends in large num ber of votes you will secure for your self. From now until midnight Octo ber 14th, is such a time in this contest, If you are really interested in winning one of the big awards you will not neglect to take advantage of every passing minute ef this valuable time. There is not a minute to be lost, for the subscriptions are valuable now, more valuable than they will ever be again in this contest. Why Not Win Someone will win the grand award and be pleased with the prize. Why not win it yourself ? There is nothing to prevent your winning the first prize if you vH try hard enough and take advantage of the big club offers this period to increase your standing among the contestants. If you are in the lead or are near the top you do not want some weaker candidate to get in ahead of you this period. But there is only one way to prevent it and that is to do more work than the other candidates. If you are not among the leaders in the contest you want to be there and there is nothing to prevent your getting there. If you will make the effort you really thinic you ought to before midnight October 14th, you would mot be disappointed to see your name among the leaders. There is only ene person who can put it there and that person is yourself. You "can do it if you will. These large votes make no candidate's position se cure. The candidate who does the most work, who gets in the most of these clubs of ten will find that there is big pay in putting in the big effort at the right time. Yeiir Chance. ' You have as good a chance for the grand prize as any of the contestants. mi , ... , no aucn mmg as navmg no raiJes cagt of Asheboro. She mar chance for the big awards. The big ried Mr B Brower, a son of Mr. Totes make it certain that you can Madigon Brower, of Franklinville. eome up apmong the leaders if you lived in Fayetteville and Wilm will You are the maker of your own inon for year8i but have lived position in the contest. It rests with in Mount for la8t four or you, what are you going to do about fin yearg- itT Yeu can lose if you wHl and you . . . ... can win il you will. ere Prom,nent an m section and their many friends and Wtwier ef the Extra Prize relatives regret to learn of the sad be- , i. a. rabbins ox Asheboro, was the winner of the extra prize offered last period. Extra Prizes For All To make sure you will get some thing this period for the work you will do we are offering to evf.ry candidate who secures .as many as ten subscrip tions to The Courier at the regular price, $1.00- a year, a gold band brace let. These bracelets are well worth the effort it will take to wia them, and and furthermore the voting power of the subscriptions will be counted to ward winning the grand prize as here tofore. Important One of the rules of this contest Is that there shall be no cutting in the subscription price of the paper. The money turned in on subscriptions is to be collected. Where the full prfce of the subscription is not collected votes will be counted for the amount col lected. (Continued on page 4.) THE NEW ROAD FROM COUNTY HOME TO COUNTY LINE The completion of the grading of the new road from the County Home around Caraway mountain and on to the Guilford line is a striking exam ple of scientific methods applied to road building. This road was not only laid off by a road engineer but in grading the profile.of the engineer appears to have been followed, except in a place or two where there is not quite enough fill, and the drainage in some places does not appear to be properly pro vided for. When the scraper is used to proper ly smooth the road and when a good quantity of gravel is placed upon the road thick enough and properly pack ed and made smooth it will be the best piece of road in this section of the state, and graded and .surfaced under contract ferThe tlre-rtngthdf the road at $624 per mile. Of course a civil engineer will crit ically examine the road before it is accepted. This grading areund the mountain will be completed within ten days One remarkable thiag about this road is that the grades are of only 4 per cent, the steepest are only a little over five per cent and that in only abeut two places. FUNERAL OF MRS. BROWER Many Attended Services at Bladen St, M. E. Church Yesterday. The following is clipped from the Wilmington Star of September 27: Many sorrowing friends were pres ent yesterday at Bladen Street Metho dist Episcopal church to attend the fu neral of Mrs. A. B. Brower, mother of Ms. J. B. Taylor, of this city, whose death occurred Friday morning at Rocky Mount, where she had lived the oast few vears. The services were conducted yeserday afternoon at 4 o'clock by Rev. George B. Webster, former pastor of the deceased, assist ed by Rev. T. G. Vickers, now pastor of Bladen Street Methodist church. Out-of-town relatives attending the funeral were Mrs. Harris Brower, of Savannah, Ga.; Mr. C. E. Brower, of Fitzgerald, Ga.; Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Brower, of Birmingham, Ala.; Mr. W. C. Vestal, of Hamlet, N. C; Messrs. E. F. Vestal and J. H. Vestal, Mi6ses Allie Vestal and Artie Hammer, of Asheboro, N. C; Mr. and Mrs. Louis Hollingsworth, of Rocky Mount, and the two sons ef the deceased, Messrs. F. J. Brower and W. C. Brower, of Rocky Mount. The pal'bearers were: Messrs. F. A. King, T. 1: Page, J. O. Powers and J. L. Middleton, of Wilmington. Messrs. J. F. Roff and E. G. Brogdon, of Rocky Mount. Mrs. Brower was born and raised 1 A 1 1 i.,nnB1i!ii tnrA on nna. in (uneiwra .- reavement Kiftr Persons Killed and Two Hund red Injured When Car ef Gasoline Explodes in Ardmore, Oklahoma. Fifty persons are believed to have been crushed or burned to death while pinned under the debris of stores, wholesale houses, and the Ardmore railroad station, as a result of the ex plosion of a tank car of gasoline, con taining 250 gallons, in the business section of Ardmore, Oklahoma, Mo a day afternoon. The property loss is estimated at a half million dollars The, greater part of the business houses on Main Street are in ruins and the flames spreading from there damaged other. property on adjoining streets. Two workmen were busy repairing the tank Monday afternoon when sud denly one of them struck it with a hammer. The spark from the blow ignited fumes escaping from a small leak and a terrific explosion occurred, followed by smaller ones. The rail road station and adjoining buildings were blown to pieces and the flames spread to other quarters of the city. Death of Mrs. John W. Curtis. Martha Jones Curtis, aged C3 years, wife of Mr. John W. Curtis, died at her home in Liberty Thursday, Sep tember 23rd after an illness of only a few hours. She leaves a husband and four small children, a father and a mother, Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Jones; a widowed sister, Mrs. Maggie Jones York, who lives near Grays' Chapel church; a brother, Mr. J. W. Jones of Dunn. She had a host of friends and was loved by all' who knew her. Her death came as a shock to her many friends aud relatives. Funeral services over the remains were conducted from the M. E. church at Liberty Saturday morning at 10 o'clock by Rev. G. F. Milloway, of Greensboro, assisted by Rev. G. E. Spruill, of Siler City; Rev. J. B. Wil liams, of Sanford, and Rev. W. F. Ken nett of Liberty. The pall-bearers were: S. C. Frazier, W. F. Swaim, B M Brown, Otis Brown, W. F. Gil liam, R. A. Smith, J. Rom Smith and J. A. Martin. The bearers of the many attractive floral offerings were Misses Lizzie Cameron, Ida Lawson, Nellie McConns, Dafuy Bowman, Dora Moore, Maude McPherson, Esther Reece and Anna Ashburn. The largest crowd that ever attended a funeral at Liberty was present. Interment was made in the Liberty cemetery under the direction of the members of the Order of the Eastern Star. SINGERS' UNION CONVENTION Sixth Annual Convention to Meet Sec ond Sunday m October at St. Paul's M. E. Church, Randleman. The first session of the convention will be held Saturday evening, Octo ber Dth, at Mt. Lebanon M. P. church, The convention will be called to er der and the devotional exercises con ducted by the president, Mr. A. M. Fentriss, of Pleasant Garden. Rev. J. B. O'Bryant will deliver the address of welcome. Sunday morning, October 10th, at 1C :45 in the morning, the second ses sion will be held In the a1 Paul's M. V.. cl-urch. Rev. Mr. Christenberry will deliver the address of welcome. The annual sermon will be delivered by Rev. W. L. Maness, of Hemp. The third session will be held in the same church in the afternoon at 2 o'clock. This service will be taken up princi pally in singing. The fourth and last session will be held at Naomi church Sunday evening. Rev. W. L. Maness will preach the closing sermon, of the convention at this session. The Singers' Union is an organiza tion effected six years ago by Mr. A. M. Fentriss, who is the president of the convention at this time. It meets every year and brings the best musi cal talent of the county together. Be tween one hundred and two hundred are enrolled as members and these members are expected to attend this convention. John Wade, the High Point white ago on the Greensboro-Hirii Point nan wno was caoturea several nava road with his automobile well filled with whiskey, was arraigned in Su perior court Friday at Greensboro and entered the plea of guilty to the charge of having whiskey in his pos session for the purpose of sale. Ha was sentenced to serve a term of 12 months on the county roads. RAMSEUR NEWS LETTER. PLAY SATURDAY NIGHT BEGIN WORK ON STREETS SPRINK LER NEEDED. Mr. E. M. Hurley went to Grens boro last week. Mr. J. F. Aiken of the grip spent the week end at home. Our community was well represent ed at Gray's Chapel last Sunday. Ms. E. B. Leonard and Mrs. M. E. Johnson went to High Point one day last week. " The Ladies' Aid Society of the M. E. Church, South, here will give "The Old Maids' Club" here Saturday night, October 2nd. Everybody will get their money's worth if they will come out and hear the ladies. W. H. Watkins, E. C. Watkins and family went to Troy Sunday, Rev. T. J. Rogers filled his appoint ments Sunday morning and night, preaching two very helpful sermons. At the morning service he received two little girls into the church, Misses Margaret and Lilly White. District Attorney W. C. Hammer and Corespondent, Mr. Hunsucker, of Asheboro, paid us a pleasant call one day last week, , Miss Ora Scott left Saturday to ac cept a position in the graded school south of Greensboro. Mr. R. I. Mclntyre is spending the week at Mt. Vernon Springs. Miss Francis Carter, of Greensboro spent the past week end with relatives in town. Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Gant visited friends at Stokesdale the past week, Miss Pearl Leonard went up to High Paint last week. She has accepted a position in the graded schools there and will teach this session. Mrs. and Mrs. Geo. AUred, of Greensboro, came down Sunday to spend the day with their parents, : They were accompanied by their mother, Mrs. J. W. AUred, who had been spending some time with them The farmers of this community have been too busy to come to see us for two weeks because of their using the opportunity to harvest feed for the . coming year. We hope this harvest is abfout over for it is lonesome here without the presence of our farmer friends. A number of our folks went to Greensboro last Friday, among whom were the following: E. C. Watkins and family, E. B. Leonard, H. B, Moore, J. C. Luther, Chester Bostick Waldo Leonard, I. F. Craven and fam i!y, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Watkins, Miss Pearl Leonard and Miss Lee Craven-. Our town will soon be improved by further work on the streets. Mr. J.'E Jlrady and his force of men having StDout completed the Richland and Ramseur highway, will soon begi: again here in town and we hope to see much improvement made on some of the other streets than the ones wtrked heretofore, The next thing needed in Ramseur in the way of civic improvement is sprinkler. Under the present condi tiens it is almost unbearable. The peace and satisfaction of living taken away, to say nothing of the menace to our good health by having our lungs filled with the filth of the streets. If the auto drivers would be a little more considerate of the foot men and housekeepers it would not be quite so bad, but when a machine is going above 10 or 15 miles an hour dust envelops the people on the side wait and finds a resting place ia the parlors and on the dining tables and other furniture, etc., of homes. While we are waiting for the sprinkler please "think on these things" my dear auto friend. GRAY'S CHAPEL NEWS Automobiles! automobiles! They were certainly at Gray's Chapel last Sunday. Mb. Will Blair and family, of Greensboro, are visiting relatives aad taking in the meeting. The many friends of Mrs. John Cur tis, of Liberty, were saddened te hear of her death which occurred at her home there on last Thursday. Mrs. Curtis was raised in this community and was a most estimable woman. Mrs. Curtis has the sympathy of the entire community. John Carter, a negro employes ef the Lowdermilk road force, on the Denton road, in Davidson county, was terribly mangled by a dynamite ex- plosion Thursday afternoon. No hope entertained for his movery. ITEMS OF LIVE NEWS GATHER ED FROM OUR EXCHANGES AND CONDENSED IN BRIEF FORM FOR BUSY READERS. The Forsyth County Teachers' As sociation has decided to hold a county commencement next spring. J. M. McGee died Monday afternoon at his home in High Point at the age of 66 years. There is more than twice the tobac co in Alamance county this year than last and the market has opened with fair prices. Contract has been awarded to W. B. Barrows,of Raleigh,for the erection of a new school building for Chapel Hill. The lot and the building will cost about $35,000. Announcement was made at the op ening of Salem College Wednesday of last week that the $300,000 endow ment fund had been completed. The agreement between the Anglo- French financial commission and the American bankers has resulted in the establishment of a $500,000,000 loan. As a result of the great union meet ing recently held in Lexington, tne Lexington churches Sunday gained 128 new members Major H. F. Shenk, one of the most highly esteemed men of Cleveland county, died at the hospital at Ruther- fordtoa Friday after undergoing operation two weeks ago. More than 240 new game laws were enacted in the United States in 1910 larirer number than any previous year except 1911. North Carolina leads with 61. As a result of as argument, J. V. Smith, a prominent farmer living near Littleton, was hot at his home Satur day bv William Alston, a negro em- ployee. The negro was arrested and nlaced in jail. The National Religious Training School, one of the most important ne- gro educational institutions in the South, was sold at auction in Durham fnr $21,500. The school was i j sold to meet the requirements of mortgage. Judge Elbert H. Geary, chairman of the5 United StateSteeL .Corporations directorate, believes that the Europe an war will end at an early date and that an era of great prosperity for the United States will follow. Governor Walsh, of Massachusetts has been renominated by the Demo crats of that state to succeed himself as Governor. As his opponent the Re publicans have nominated Congress man McCall. A group of German firms have off ered to buy 1,000,000 bales of Amen can cotton at 16 cents a pound pro vided it is delivered at Bremen. It will however, be impossible to get this cot ten to Bremen unless the British Mers-in-council are changed. Davidson county officers captured two illicit distilleries last week. One of these was located near Cid, in Em mons township, and the other near Snider. The capture of these two makes a total of five illicit distiller ies captured in Davidson county dur ing the past three months. Mrs. Beulah Hoover, of Weaverville, was killed Thursday when the automo bile in which she was riding was hurl ed inte a tree and demolished. The driver was bringing Mrs. Hoover and her daughter to Asheville where the young lady was to take the train for Spartanburg, S. C, where she intend ed to enter Converse College. Neither the driver nor Miss Hoover were hurt, One death and the injury of three other persons resulted from the cav ing in of the street ever the new sub way in Broadway, New York City, near 38th Street Friday night. The ac cident is believed to have been caused by the weakening of the supports in the subway, due to the weight of the traffic. The pit caused by the cave-in was about fifty feet long and thirty feet deep. It is rumored that the Southern Al uminum Company has sold the bi electric plant at Badia to the Ameri can Aluminum Company. While the officials ef the company refuse te give any definite information, they make no secret of the fact that negotiations are pending and that the surveyors are making a complete new survey. Whether this survey is the beginning of the work of the American Alumin um Company or for their information is not known. It is reported, however, that the contract of the sale is on the way to France to be signed by the proper officials of the Southern Alux inum Company. Items of Local Interest Committee ' to Superintend Work on Cemetery Death of Mrs. Dove. Rev. W. O. Johnson preached two sermons in the Baptist church Sun day. Mrs. Georgia Ann Pender, of Whlta kers, mother of our popular depot agent, W. D. Pender, is spending some time in the city with her son. Messrs. Chas. Allred and Theodore Kinney spent the week end at Cedar alls. Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Russell, J. T. Buie, Misses Edna Hutcheson and Mattie Buie spent Sunday in Greens boro and High Point. Miss Cladie Marley, of Ramseur.was the guest of her cousinj. H. Marley, last week. Quite a number of our people at tended meeting at Gray's Chapel Sun day. Mr. H. R. Pender and family, of Hobgood, spent the week end in town with their brother, Mr. W. D. Pender. Misses Edna Hutcheson and Vivian Mason made a shopping trip to Greensboro Saturday. Miss Wiley Bagwell is spending the week at Roanoke, Va. Dr. and Mrs. F. E. Asbury, of Ashe- boro, were in the city Sunday. Messrs. J. C. Kivett and W. R. Hughes made a business trip te Greensboro one day last week. Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Edwards return ed from their honeymoon trip to the city Saturday and received a hearty welcome from their many friends. Ihe following committee, Messrs. J. R. Luther, C. H. Julian, J. W. C. Crav en, J. L. Jones, and L. F. Fentriss, has been appointed by the pastor . of the church, Rev. J. T. Rogers, to have charge of any work necessary to be done on the M. E. church cemetery and to devise a plan to raise the funds to meet expenses. At a meeting of the committee J. R. Lutterloh was elected chairman and C. H. Julian sec retary and treasurer, and it was de cided to employ some one by the year to keep the cemetery cleaned off and in order and dig all the graves and in order to raise the necessary amount to defray expenses it was further. de cided to ask all those interested to pay a certain amount each month (or by the year if preferred), and it is earn estly hoped that everybody interested will subscribe as liberally as possible for it is the purpose of the committee to beautify and make permanent im provements on the cemetery as soon as sufficient funds are raised. Any one living at a distance who would like to help will communicate with C. H. Julian who will be glad to receive your subscription and any explanation you may want. The death of Mrs. T. B. Dove which occurred last Tuesday morning and was noted in The Courier last week, was quite a sad shock to this commun ity. She was but 21 years, 10 months and 18 days old and was married to Mr. Dove on last Thanksgiving Day. She was born and lived at Ramseur until the death of her father, the late Henry Steele, when with her mother, Mrs. Mary Steele, and sister, Thelma, she moved to this place and they made their home with Mrs. Steele's father, Mr. T. M. Jennings. Mrs. Mabel, as she was familiarly known, professed faith in Christ when quite young and joined the M. E. church at this place and has ever lived a beautiful Chris tian life and has been a useful mem ber of the church and Sunday School and at the time of her death was su perintendent of the home department and it seems hard to give her up but we humbly submit to Him who doeth all things well. The funeral was con ducted Wednesday evening at the M. E. church by her pastor, Rev. J. T. Rogers, aimd a large concourse of sor rowing relatives and friends and the remains were taken to the M. E. church cemetery where they were ten derly laid to rest. She leaves a hus band, mother and one sister and many relatives and friends who have til sympathy of the entire cermnuflity. HARTNESS TALKING IT OVER J A Hartnes, as yet unannounced endidate for Secretary of State against Col. J. Bryan Grimes, is be ing urged by his friends to make defi nite announcement of his candidacy without further delay. Mr. Hartness prefers to wait, but he ia giving his friends and their suggestions careful consideration and it is believed that there will be a definite announcement of his candidacy before a great while.
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