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plain official sLionttni eif "iba facts, pleasure cut off the fort they sailed
"ftfua ' 'itlot"Ji" comment: How h8 roady they returned.
r 4i i . Tho rate ra ones. They went in.
vpcnuuu re pw.wttw j,. awa,lrt,if wa i (J
Mr. and Mrs. Clark Kirkman, of r is sufficiently OlastraUd by m , Atmosphere ef, Whiting's perfect re.
Pleasant Garden are the parents of of these Incident. Having jnade hia Lianee en the rmprtnMlity -of Che
triplets, two girls and a boy. The corps dispositions and eil being in "njalaiolf. There was a .rode
mother and children are doinr nicely, readiness, he ge te one of his 1 awakening-; but Bragg could, not
Mr. and Mrs. Kirkman are weli-known lieutenant generals orders . to attack have-jemedied ,. the 'defect in', the
and prominent citisens. at dawn, others te avail 'his open-uhort period of hia command. - -
ln- Thero waa no attack atf dawn. nntnder, ; "Brgr went
The High Point, Thomasville. and Then a second order: no attack. ' waKIT k trw.fc
Denton Railroad baa resumed opera- Finally, Bragg sent a staff officer, ton of drfl engineering. He
tion for the first time since February and found the lieutenant general in ! juj September t ?. . 187ft. la bis
1. 1923. when the old Carolina and his rocking chair awaiting his break-tKa .nthr avs: ."This
Yadkin Valley railroad station was fast. He said that he bad ordered Lolume is written neither to defend
burned and the una sold to the pree- the attack. Such throwing a jnonxey 'no, vindicate. General
ent company, ine nm , snipmem wrencn into ine maenmery ox a
from High Point will be to Tampa, great movement was by no means
Fla. Only carload shipments will be solitary among tne western su Dor
set pted at present, it was ennoune- dinatea.
ed, but it is expected that within . v Later, Bragg became the military
snort urn large smpmenta can . do adviser of Fresident
handled. nominally ihe general
EICH POINT ENTERPRISE
INSTALLS NEW PRESS
!Tke High Feint Enterprise recently
announced that they bad purchased a
st 82 pare big speed rotary press
which will bo installed at a very early
dot te ks 4eM tv North Main
Street, High Point. The officials of I
the Enterprise state that the pur-1
chase of the new press win not only j
fill a need that has been felt in the
mechanical department for sometime ,
bat that it will onablethe manage-1
sent to produce a larger paper and
also enable them to produce a neater:
and better print. I
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U. S. CeBecter ef Internal Revess
Ralejga, North Carolina
Jane J, 1U.
FARMER NEWS
NOTICE
We have 1 Samson Tractor
and 1 Fordson, both new. Spec
ially priced for immediate sale.
Will trade for Automobile. See
L. M. Miller at
THE MOTOR CO. t
Winston-Salem, Universal Bldg.
or Address P. O. Box 1667
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DELC
Rev. G. W. Clay is attending the
summer school for ministers of the
United States Collector of Internal M. E. Church, South, at Trinity, and
Revenue at Raleigh, North Carolina, his family is in Whitsett while he is
gives the following information as to away.
payments on Federal Income Tax Re- i Mr. J. Allen Austin of Hira Point
turns. took Mr. Clavs sei iln mt Fanner on
The new law states: "Any taxpayer Sunday morning, making an excellent
waking return, for the calendar year address on love and Christian service.
192S, ef the taxes imposed by Parta ; A number of Farmer people attend
1.ML2 l V.Ue 2 of. V. Kvenu Act ed the funeral of Mr. Thomas Birk
of 1921 shall be entitled to an allow- head at Oak Grove Sunday morning,
ance by credit or refund of 26 per Misses Kate Nance, Emma Ridge,
centum of the amount shown as the and Kate Dorsett are at home forth
tax upon his return. summer vacation after teaching at
.Accordingly there must be paid on various points in the state the past
or before June 15 at least one-half of year i ' l"3
the total income tax due as stated , , .r'
above for the full year. I t Fr PP! glad to see r a
This is important because neglect 1 ?Urt M?g I?,d towfd JT
to pay this amount in time automat- houv A Y11'. wfh
ically makes the full tax due and col- ifeet ln dPth: 18 being sunk, It is
lec table. I necssarv to have the well ready for
Many taxpayers paid the full tax e J""0"8 when,the 1!?us beP,
due for theendaVyear of 1923 in W hop tin walla going up to
one payment and to such one-fourth ia wec"- 'rfW
will be refunded without necessity of I
request by taxpayer, so soon as the
clerical work can be done.
Those who paid three-fourths of the
total tax under the old law now be
come full paid under the new law.
Many desire to settle in full at this
time and all such will have clear re
ceipt by paying three-fourths of the
full amount shown on the original re
turns because of the twenty-five per
cent credit allowance, but this does
not include any additional
NEWS IN BRIEF
NOTICE Or DISSOLUTION
O-LIGHT
Reduction nowlnforce
hawbrouifht DEICO-LIGHT
Prices bacR. to tKe Levels
of 1917.
WW do without electricity
whan DELCO-LIOHT low price
nd an unusually esy finano
ind plan place it so easily
within your reach.
your
See Local Dealer-Tor
Prica and Tarms
E. C. COX, Dealer
Asheboro. If. C.
Box 491
Notice is hereby given that by mu
tual agreement, t the partnership
heretofore existing between Mrs, E.
N. Wall and Mrs. Hattie Howell of
Randleman, N. C under the firm
name of Mrs. E. N. Wall & Co.
Be and the same is hereby disolved;
the said Mrs. Hattie Howell have
sold all her interest to the said E. N.
amount Wall her nartrwr in th sniH firm ftf
fbund due upon careful auditing of ' Mr. E. N. Wall & Co.
returns and correcting mistakes. I The business will be continued by
is that one-half of tax due -this full 'the said Mrs. E. N. Wall, who is to
The main point to be borne in mind settle all claims araitiKt. the naiH firm
year must be paid before June 15 or.0f Mrs. E. N. Wall & Co.. and also to
collect all debts owing to the said
firm.
And the said Mrs. Hattie Howell
will not be responsible for anv rtohta
ivirs. inos. Connor, wno nas Deen that is contracted after this date
taxpayer is delinquent.
EDGAR NEWS
ill, is improving.
Rev. Jeff Jones, of Deep River
church, preached a good sermon at
Marlboro last Sunday.
Owing to the funeral of Mrs. Lydia
Farlow being held at Marlboro last
Sunday afternoon the Children's Day
exercises were postponed until next
Sunday afternoon.
Miss Clara Davis has returned frem
This the 27th day of May 1924.
MRS HATTIE HOWELL
-MRS. E. N. WALL.
4t-6-12-24
The bill authorizing construction of
eight scout crusiers and conversion of
several coal burning battleships for
on burners was passed- by the Senate
last week, lhe measure was iwnm-
j Spencer, where she taught school tiei mended by the Navy Department as
past winter. I necessary to bring the American Navy
i Miss Daffie Davis, of High Point up to the standard established as a
Route. SDent a few davs recently with nart nf the pniint.i-v'a navnl nnlW Tf
Phone 168 , relatives in this section. I had already Dassed the House and will
Robt. Wall is in declining health. I new be sent to the President.
J. E. Allen, of Liberty, has been
elected principal of the Lexington
District High School. Mr. Allen is
well known in Randolph and his
many friends regret that ho is leav
ing Randolph but has been elected in, Btroy Butler is averted
Lexington wmcn is saia to do among Bragrt report: "The
all the armies.
As such bo ' ordered Hoke's move-
DlM.MtL aJ VT. Ram
U6Uk VII AlJTUJVUbU ttiiu iicw wu, 'y.
and the defense of Richmond , T
against Butler's advance. It is no
table that Whiting's failure to de-
to only in
results an-
Braro s Dlaee in the annals or war
most always remain large where the
recesds . are ! eorrsctiy. read.-, Tne
eresentation of the General's career
i fair.' impartial. , and historically
Davis and of particular value, for while the
in chief of 'torv of the struggle at the east has
often been told, that at the west is
not so well known.
cpwnp prove popularity
of "StandaYd"Gasolini
li you happened to count
the gasoline pumps, at we
have done, over miles oi
city strests and country
roads, we know you would
he impressed by the large
showing ol "Standard"
pumps. In a popularity
contest on gasoline a count
oi pumps will prove our
leadership.
Made in the
Carolinas
As you go bowling along country
roads you can't help noticing ,how
much the "Standard" pumps outnum
ber others. If you are engaged in man
ufacturing or in sales you know what
ceaseless efiort it takes to get such
universal distribution, to hold the
public's approval year after year as
"Standard" Gasoline has done.
f
y"
The "Standard" pump at every turn
in the road is a monument to the in
dustry, skill and optimism of the
thousands of engineers, chemists and
organizers who keep "Standard" Gas
oline the recognized leader in its field.
There is only one way we keep that
leadership. That is to keep quality up
to the highest possible notch and to
be constandy on the lookout for ways
of raising it still higher. We have
done this since the earliest days of
motoring.
STANDARD OIL COMPANY
tiVettjency
r3
mm
, TW wonderful new fciel "Stanclard" Ethyl Cwiimacm tvaiV
. U at many "Standard" jnjtmp, completely tlimlnatcf gM knock
, More power on the hiH! htm teat shifting! Let vibration I Ask
, ' lhe roan at the pump about It . ' ; .
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"ttanJjri u lU trait mark cflht StaruLri Od Co. (N.J.), '
rr'',trrcl in tht Vnlltd Stattt anJ many frdn tovntrici.
tne rjesi scnoom m tn aiaie. nr. ai- HVinfi tv. .v w nnt
len succeeds J. Sipe Flemming, who tllli realised: but from no want of
goes to Warsaw. Mr. Allen will move foree on ouf part, n0r from error
to Lexington at an early date to be to plan this
ready for the opening fa" term. teken u an fliuatration of the ab-
" sence xf criticism observable
The North Carolina Bankers' Asso- through6ut the volume. There are,
ciation in session at Kenilworth Inn, however, some very-H enjoyable ob-
Asheville, last Saturday lined up and servations on mismanagement, es-
fought out on the convention floor pecially at Washington City,
the branch banking question. The North Carolinians will be most
ones opposed to branch banking won interested in the fall of Fort Fisher.
by a vote of almost two to one. ine Unfortunately for Bragg when the
question of branch banking came be- Cape Fear was .threatened and Whit
fore the convention in the form of a ing, long in command, made an ur
resolution asking state legislation to gent appeal for help, the President
prohibit- the establishment of branch sent Bragg to take, command. On
banks in North Carolina in tne future, arriving, October 25, 18b4, Bragg
wrote to General Lee detailing what
an attacking force might do. He
said that "the most simple and
dangerous operations to us" would
be for them to take possession of
Smith's Island, or "to make a des
cent with a land force on the pen
insular above Fort Fisher, entrench
but not applying to branch banks al
ready established.
The city of Dallas, Texas, which
has been chosen for next year's Con
federate reunion, last week insured
the United Confederate veterans,
"their heirs, next of kin, administra
tors or executors" for f 1,000,000 the across it, and thus control the river."
policy being issued by the Bank of The Cape Fear defenses were in
Commerce and Trust company of charge of the State until August 20,
Memphis. The policy becomes pay- 1861: but in July, 1861, Colonel
able if Dallas defaults on the prem- 4Brown of the Confederate army was
mm, and the premium is tne gooawin sent there to take command. Oap-
of the citizens of Dallas to guarantee tain Winder, the engineer, and this
next year's reunion to be a great writer, took Colonel Brown to the
success, lhe policy is DanKea ny a head of the sound, showed him the
warranty deed on the city of Dallas, two batteries that had been erected
"executed" by the mayor and commis- on the beach, and the plan for a
sioners. ' covered way near the beach so that
the Confederates could prevent any
The pending deficiency bill carrying attack of the fort by a land force
approximately $200,000,000, of which' from that side. Colonel Brown en
$131, 943,000 would be for meeting the tirely approved. However, soon
first years cost of the soldiers' bonus, General Anderson assumed charge,
and the last of the supply measure Months passed. Years passed. Fort
late last Fisher was made a "malakoff": but
with no proper provision against a
Federal land force occupying the
peninsular. October 25, 1864, Bragg
saw the possibility, "most simple
and most dangerous." But Whit
ing, an engineer of great repute,
virtually a citizen of Wilmington,
had long been in command, . had
was passed Dy tne senate
Friday night.
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True bills of indictment were re
turned at Greensboro last Tuesday by
a federal grand jury against a group
of persons, numbering 30 or more,
charging violation of federal laws in
connection with the sale of stock to
taling more than $1,000,000 in Bailey thrown up tremendous defenses at
Bros., Incorporated, of Winston-Sa- old Brunswick, higher up the river
lem, large tobacco manufacturing con- on the-south side and elsewhere;
cern dissolved recently by court order, and, like Colonel Lamb, in command
Officials of the United States court of the fort, regarded the particular
refused to divulge the names of the defenses Winder had planned in
ones under indictment and newspaper 1861 as not material: and even after
men were not permitted to read the the lesson of the enforced evacua-
charges preferred by the grand jury, tion of Battery Wagner at lharies
The failure of this gigantic concern ton, presisted in the obsession.
marks one of the biggest crashes that j On November 22, Bragg was or
ever occurred in the tobacco manu- dered to Augusta. On December 17th
fnrtiirinc industrv in North Carolina, he returned, a week later he re-
T)i fniinrp took nlare in December. Darted that the federal army naa
hK?3 whAn Railev Brothers ti ed a occupied the beach. However, arter
voluntary petition in bankruptcy in
the United States court. Liabilities
of the concern were listed as slightly '
more than $711,000 and as-ets at ap-(
proximately $2,000,000.
. . .
Al Jolson, famous comedian, and
the world's most noted actor and sing
er has lost his voice and for several
weeks has been unable to sing before
hi larire crowds of admirers. Mr.
Jobon has boen suffering with throat
trouble for several months but short
ly after completing a tour of the
Western states he began to grow
worse which finally resulted- in the
complete loss of his voice. Ho went
to one of the most famous specialists
in New York City and it Is hoped uuu
the voice of the great entertainer will
soon be restored.
demonstrating that they could at
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SEITZ'S LIFE OF . '
GENERAL BKAUU
One of the best books of tho year.
the life of General Braxton Bragg,
one of North Carolina's groat Gen
erals, by Don C. Belts, tho bi man ot
the New York World. '
General Bragg was one oi mo six
full Generals of tho Confederacy. He
was tho brother of Governor Bragr.
one of tho state's boot Governors, x
Bragg graduated tn ' the class oi
84, standing fifth In Us elssa rank.
In JM7 ho won renown b tho MxK
eaa War. After that ho married and .
became a planter in LMtlsaaty -.
When tho Conioaeracy tm wrnw,
Praalrfent 1 Davis mads him Brigadier
I General and gave him beauty st Pen-'
aaeola. After that, ho was made,
rvtnk Vrnimaiwler . under General
Sidney jonnson. Aiier jonnwwi j
wound whim eaua wm to diwq vj
death t Bhiloh, Bauregard who was
Brsgg's superior, being sick was suc
ceeded by Brsgr who became the
most prominent figure in wo
Army. . ' . , ' , . J
Captain H. A. Ane in a rwern
view of ReiU's Biography of s Bragg
write Interestingly. , ,
And fnow the naraure ooconwi
valuable Mitorically. .. It may 60
. 1,4 that the Confederate troops wi
der I-ee and thooe et IM wesx were
about the same In tffldeney, but tho
Wtrn tmops Of Ui ' Nortn -j were
probnhly of superior metal to vwse
,The commander at tne vm,
fftnroorrr, trainee in UDorainun,
while In lirsrg's army tmharni'r
there w rtot tho Mmo li-bncr-tlon
In wrvlre. Many of the nr-
mmnUMH fn Oil emrMrtimi sre
,r.iiril detailed by the auUmrj (
I but ho contents himself with tho
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