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r VOL. 1. NO. 15. FAYETTEVILLE. N. C. WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, !. il A YEAR Plans Are For a Magnificent Event Liberty Point Day Gteat Celebration Chitl Justlct Wilier Clark to Speak Here Grand Parade, Militant Dis plif. fire Works. Water Works. Water Contest, Baseball Came, Dinner, Lie. in Fatetteville hue 21 st -The Programme. President Taft has made hi much heralded visit to North Carolina and rpoken at Charlotte and the signing of the Mecklen burg Declaration of Independence Y.Ri been celebrated. Now the next overshadowing event in the way of a celebration in North Carolina Is to be teen in Fayette viile on June 2lt, the occasion being the celebration of the an niversary of the passing of the "liberty Point Resolution" in 1775. The celebration here June 2Ut is to be an event of State wide interest The orator of the oc casion will be Chief Justice Walter Clark of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, historian, statesman, the State's most dis tinguished jurist, an able speak er and a thinker than whom the State has none mure pro found. On that day will be placed the corner stone of a mon ument to be erected on Liberty Point in this city to the memory of the Patriots who signed the "Liberty point Declaration of Independence" 131 years ago. Besides there will be the firing of salutes, a grand parade, fire men's exhibition, concert, auto, mobile races, dinner to visiting veterans and military, military irill, water display and water! king financial assistance. Ut contests, nre worKS, etc. ' Lbnlrw.n J. I). McNeill says it h to be one of the grandest celebration ever seen m this city or section- likely to surpass that at Charlotte last week. Chairman NcNeill has kindly sent The Index the following for publication: "UBOTV POINT DAY" To tb KJiU-r of Tt lo.lft, The Indies' Liberty Point Mon ument Association desiring to perpetuate the historic event connected with the passage of the "Liberty Point Resolutions" by the Caw Fear Patriots on June 20th, 1775, propose to cele brate the IJlth anniversary o that event by laying the comer stone and making the day a memorable one on Monday, June ZlH. next. May I ask for them the use of your valued columns to give publicity both to the Resolu tions" themselves (a copy of which is enclosed), as well as to the following programme which we expect to carry out on that date. Respectfully, J as. IX McNeill, Chm. mington. Raieigh, Clinton. Lum ber Bridge, BemietUville and ai Local Military. Jr. 0. U. A. M.-Every auto mobile from 10") miles around (who will also be asked to com pete for prizes in Auto Races on our Bitulithic gtreets). Floats of all description and "Floral Parade" of decorated carriages and frutos for prizes. Parade to form on Green and Gillespie streets, march up Hay street to A. C, L depot and counter march to liberty Point. 12:30 p. m. -laying of Corner Stone and Ceremonies at liberty Point. Oration by Chief Justice Walker Clark. 1:30- Dinner by the Ladies to Visiting Veterans and Military. 2:30 Automobile Iiaces on Hay and Person streets, A. C. L. depot to Liberty Point and re turn (1st. 2nd and 3rd prizes). 239-Military Drill on Green and Gillespie streets for prizes. 4 w- League Baseball at Fair Grounds. 6;00 - Water Display and Water Contest by Fayettevtlle Fire Department 8:30-Fire Works at "Eccles Park." 9:30 Public Reception and Colonial Ball, open to all, at the Elk's Temple. Railroads will be asked to give round trip rates and to have trains arrive earlier and depart later than present schedules. Committee of both ladies and gentlemen will be appointed to look after all details in ample time, Coupon circulars are now being mailed to a large number or our representative citizens. eocooooocooccooecocececocococoo j Jeff's ftfjtude to Bladen Bond Election Doubtful Pj ir U Tim ladei. Llizabethiown, N C, May p. m. - Eiizabethtow n township gives 88 votes for bond iue out of resrislration s of 115; HoUow 47 out of 101; Bethel township very doubt- f ul. Election will be close. There ill not be a difference of 10 votes either way. Much interest wa manifested and some excitement, especially in Elizabethtown. The three townships voted to-day on a ?40) bond issue to buil i a railroad to Eliza iethtown. 8! 0 O O o o o o o South Unchanged a possibiht that they wiii not only continue until late in the day but that they w:ll 1e extend ed into the night. The Hous will make no especial effort to gather a quorum daring the week." The annual meeting of the American Cotton Manufacturers' GG8GCOO$GCO90O3$OO$$C$&$CGC?&COO Association was held in Rich- mond, a., on Tuesday. On Tuesday also convened the Synod if the lie formed Presbyterian Church of North America at Chi- cage. On Wednesday at Knox- Latest Views of What is ding ville, Tenn., will be held the en in America and Elsewhere general Assembly or ire inited Awful Tragedy at Parketsburg One of Sampson's Most Highly Esteemed Citizens Shot to Death by Rural Mail Carrier on Sunday. Cof r-ptodeot of Tbt 1q4i. What The World is Doing These Days This Week of Interest to Our Readers. Interest centers this week in ; college and university coramenc j- ments; the annual meeting of On Ia3t Sunday afternoon at .J u HULA Mllal'l JJaao, ui 4 .. , r r..uk, eu,. -.i t.ni m, (American Cotton Manufacturers a u-.n, i. at Richmond, and the Presbyterian Church of North America. NURSES GRADUATE dreary even body respond. Let's make deserted. Bass, after he rilOGHAMME The Committee on Arrange ments propose to anticipate the 1th of July this year, which corner on bunday..and to make Slonday, June 21, "Liberty Point Day," the day we celebrate. we hope, expect and if our appeal for financial assistance will justi fy, will carry out the following programme on that day: SunriseThirteen Guns. y:30a. m. Band Parade from A. C. L. to Liberty Point Con cert at City HaiL . 10 a. ra.- Fireman's Exhibi tion at City Hall. 11 a. m. Assembling of local Military and Horsemen to Meet isiting Military at lH?pot L45--(;rand Parade, consbt ",'g of MHintel llice, l.UtH) Mounted Men and Ladies. Car nages Containing Orator and "Jhtr Distinguished Guests. iK-.scen.Unts of Original Signers uoerty Point Resolutions. Major and City OtHciak, Oilicers ' .the "Uberty Point" and UVH?" lemonal Association and laughters of the Confederacy, eterana from Cumberland, hobeaon. Bladen. Sampson, Harnett. Moore and other Count ea (all of whom wUl be invited) ; Military Companies from Wa it a day to be remembered. Respectfully, jas. a McNeill, Chmn. Coni. of Arrangements. The "Liberty Point Resolu tions were pnnteu m full m THE index of March 21th, last. Mrs. S. (J. Ayer sends us th following: the same place. The facts in the case, according to the best in formation gathered, are about as follows: Bass was drinking and had boasted that he intended killing three certain men. Mr. Parker was clerk in his nephew's store. Bass asked him to sell him cart ridges. This he refused to do. Whereupon Bass shot him in the left breast just above the heart. When Mr. Parker was shot he was standing on the platform of the store. Immediately he walked down the steps, seme fifty yard3 around the store and fell dead. The villagers witnessing this awful sight tied for their lives. For some hours the village was had grind of Congress. In foreign agairs the chief item is the trial of Amerian Missionaries for alleged libel. Tnis is commencement week with the four coIlered at Raleigh the A. &M., St. Mary's. Peace In stitute and the Baptist Universi ty ir Women. Dr. Hubert A. Roller tt Deliver Ad dress in titetleville Tomorrow Night. The graduating exercises of the Highsmith Hospital training school will be held tomorrow night. The feature of the oc casion will be the annual address by Dr. Hubert A. Royster, of Raleigh, dean of the Medical De partment of the University of North Carolina and one cf the State's leading physicians and surgeons. His subject will be "The Ideal Nurse." The diplomas will be presented by Dr. J. F. Highsmith, and the class pins by Dr. Seavy High- (murdered Mr. Parker, broke into Howard University in Wash ington fivfitil tri thp l-iiirhpr I smith wili have as its commencement! LThe Fayetteville people and speaker this year the President , the ,.!t .of. lVw Kuest3 ,are of the United .States. The ex- cordially invited to attend these erciseawill be held Wednesday exercises, which will be held in afternoon. Ithe Armory, beginning at 8 The President on Saturday will 0 c?cK LADIES OP COUNTY INVITED 'The ladies of the different townships are invited to join the riorai t'araue June 21st. AI who will do so will please send their names to Aire. W. F tiiount, rayeueviiie. mat we may know whom to expect. This is a time when you may show your pride in your patriotic an cestry. The celebration here on June 21st commemorates the one hundred and thirty-fourth anniversary of the signing of the uoenyroim declaration oi in dependence. It was signed by thirtymne patriots of Cum berland county. Brave men Let us keep their deeds ever in our memories, and by building monument at Liberty Point. perpetuate to rising generations ii i .. meir oravery, uet otners Know that there was laid the founda tion of our grand and glorious liberty. Mrs. S. (J. Ayer, "Chmn. Liberty Point Com." Night School ai Holt-Morgan. oigbt school wai opened in tha UoluMorgati graded chool buildicg Monday eight, oooductcd t . J. M. Uibb sod t'rof . V J ones. 1 o soduol will be opn three eights each wek Mondaj, Wednesday and Jrriday. It it ewnuatly and argently reqated that ever? on interested at all m th ohooi meet the principal to night whether they bare decided to patron iw the school or not It w the purpose of the youog meu in charg to conduct a eohoot taut will be cf great beoeat to all who will attead, of whatever degree of advauoeoieut. They are excwlleut young meu aal ate eaxtaialy not in toe biuifiesti merely to mat money, for the rates are oaly 5 ceats each per eight It auord a fin opportunity for thoae who are in need of th beuefite pf eohool aod hav not th privilege of at tending day aohool. Let th peo el of the II olt-Morsraa tillage aod other ia reach eo oat to-night and lnd aa enoouragiog hand. I v a uiu;. siuir, vanillic uiu.icta n re-anns, anu ammunition, men he went liome and shut himself up with his wife and child. A crowd soon collected but there was no talk of lynching, Plans were laid for capturing Bass, but perfect order was pre served. No one was deputized to take him. Extreme darkness and the fact that his wife and child were in the house prevent ed action, so the guard had to wait. About three o'clock Bass lighted a lamp, the lighting a cigar, walked out into the ve randa. One man of the guard fired at him. the rest following. Bass fired back and broke for the woods. Later he slipped back into the house. At 6U o' clock he walked out and sur rendered. He was at once placed under arrest by Messrs J. D, Johnson, magistrate, and D. U Cromartie, of Garland. He was given into the custody of Coron er farker who carried and placed him in the county jail at Clinton. Mr, A. Bradley Parker was a Christian gentleman and a law- abiding citizen. He was seventy- four sears of age. He was a Confederate veteran, having serv ed faithfully and well all through the civil war. He was a consis tent member of the Methodist church and belonged to the Ma sonic order, r or several years of hU life Mr. Parker was a citizen of Fayetteville. For many years past he has run a store for his nephew. Mr. C. P. Parker, at Parkersburg. where he met his tragic death. He had many friends in this section and attend the fifth annual meeting ,The baccalaureate sermon to the graduating class was preach ed by Rev. Watson M. Fairley a a . 1 t 1 T Wr ir me associated esrern ia e r;,ihs at Pirrsl.unr Th mot. ed by ltev. UatsonM. 1-airley at in will onen Fridav and the the .First Presbyterian church President has arranged to be !fcvmday morning. present all day Saturday and to steak at the banquet that night. He will visit the Allegheny Country Club at hewickley. suDurb. wnere mere win te luncheon and sports, including a game of baseball. The commit tee in charge hopes that the President will be inveigled into a a game of golf. I he annual meeting of the asso ciated Harvard Clubs also will be held on Friday and Saturday, the meeting place being Cincinnati The gathering will be notable be cause of the presence of former President Eliot and President Powell. The matter of athletics at Harvard w ill atford the sub ject for several speeches at the banquet which will bring the occasion to a close. Among foreign affairs of the week considerable interest attach es to the trial inLeopoldvilleof two American missionaries, William Morrison and W. H. Sheonard. on libel charges brought by a rubber cratherinir company. I he men are accused of slandering oihcials of the IteJgian govern ment. The case is expected to be a test between the Belgian government and the American missionaries, who have long made themselves a thorn in its flesh bv charges of maladministration aud oppression of the natives in connection with the rubber trade. The Venezuelan Congress which his. untimely end was a terrible tima nj4 jm;ni.tf;A t uwk ww enure wuuuuuuy. ( President Gomez will consider a La r y m hf e Mr. Parker mar-; Uberal wviskn of the ccautution ritxl Miss Annie bnead, of Sami- d f u nKxlil'vine son. who died years ago. lie ms;tim ft( f.n in th is survived by a son, Mr. illiam ; pj Parker, of Rocky Mount, and a i r daughter, Mrs. L. L. Costner, of -tions t0 weloome lhis week lead Lmcolnton, N. C. The funeral ' ; ientisU from e cornr takes place today at the 1 arker j of the carth to the KwmXi, inter. homestead in Cypress Creek township. Parkersburg. May A aUtua to Dr. John A ither- spoon, oua of th aigaer of the DKilartktion of lndepenueaoe, was unveiled with impressive cererua niea ia Wahiugton Thureday. national congress of applied chemistry, which will convene Wednesday and continue for a week. The American contingent will number upwards of 100 men eminent in chemistry. Sir Wil liam Ramsey will preside. Following is the roll of the class: Miss Alic Watson, Fayette' ville; Miss Nannie Thames, Park- ton; Miss N. (J. White, Lumber- ton; Miss E. K. McDiarmid, Rocky Mour.L Mr. A. 5. Hill on Slock Law. The Senate programme for this week includes nothing but the Tll your neighbor how yon Uk tariff. The sessions will continue hb Ikdk. to begin early and there is now To ras Editok of the Ikdei: 8 )ir.etinjtj ago I noticed an arti cle) from my esteemed friend Mr. W. L Huh in which he make tue iiupreasion that if the vuters cf Cumberland ojunty will vote for lock law that there would not be aoy fenoe to be built. I am inre that Mr. Holt did not intend to mislead the people. No doubt he wa led to believe euon from the act of the late Legislature c sUb- liehing itxk law for our eiiter county of Moore, which does not provide for bauding a fence on the Moor and Cumberland line. Section lfct3 cf the Revisal read a follow: "Th stock law authorized by this chapter shall not be enforosd until a fence shall have beea ereH- d around any territory proposed to be enoloaed, with gates on all public road passing into and go ing out of said territory: Provided, all streaai whioh are or may be deolared to be lawful fence shall be euilioieat boundaries, in lieu of fenoes: Provided further, no fence shall be erected along the boundary line of any county, township or district where a stock aw rrevail. It U clear from the above sec tion that Cumberland would be compelled to fenc on the Bladen and SaDon and Harnett lines, a distant of not less than one hun dred miles. I am told by men who know that it would c-ost about two hun dred dollars per mile. That being so, it would oust not less than 20,- OCX), and thia amount would have to be levied upon the real estate (outside of Fayetteville, the prop erty of Fayetteville having beau exempted from fence tax by an act of th Legislature of 1S03). 1 here being only about $-,000,- 000 worth of real estate outside of th town in the oounty, it would take a special ajeessinent of $1 00 on tha $100.00 worth of land in the oounty to pay tor the fence. A. & Hail. President's Speech at Charlotte Crowd Estimated at 100,000 000 Gathered at Mtcklenburg's Cap ital to flnpr the Great 20th of Mar Celebration and See and Hear the President of the United States President W. H. Taft was the honored guest of a large assem blage of North Carolinians at Charlotte Thursday, his presence being a notable feature of the celebration of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence. The President spoke principally of his policy toward the South, and spoke at 'ength on the East ern judgeship appointment. The number of visitors to Charlotte was estimated at 100,0). In his address to the people of North Carolina late in the day the President took occasion to explain more fully than he did at Peters burg on Wednesday his olicy to ward the South. His recent ap pointment of a Democrat to the Federal bench in this State gave him an opportunity to expand upon his views. Mr. Taft urged again the advisability of an intel ligent, logical opposition party. "I do not believe that we are on the point of a iwlitical revolu tion in the South, said the Pres ident. "I never have had such a dream. What I do desire and be lieve we are on the eve of is a complete tolerance of opinion and that there shall grow into respetfe and power an intelligent opposi tion party in every State in the Union." The President's political utter ances were received with tha same fervor of enthusiasm as hia tribute to the signers of the Meck lenburg Declaration. The audi torium where he spoke was Crowded to its capacity, and he. was constantly interrupted bv the cheers that rose spontaneous from his Southern hearers. Mr. Taft's plea for political tol erance in the South and his state ment that he wanted the people of the South to know that the Washington government was not a government alien to them, had all the effect of extemporaneous utterances, for the President spoke without notes or manu script once ho had drifted into politics. RUSH FOR PRESIDENT'S BOX A cloud burst breaking over the city during the afternoon. just as the spledid military, floral and civic parade was passing in review ot the President, promised serious consequences tor a time. t set the densely packed thronir in front of the reviewing stand into a panic, and there was a wild rush for shelter. The President's box was a goal for many men and women, and the chief executive had to be surrounded to save him from the sudden rush. In the midst of the storm a passing in dustrial iloat was entangled in a ive electric wire and tore it from its support, the slender thread of opper sagging almost to the heads of the scampering crowd below. WILD fONFl'iW.V While the confusion was at its height, and to add to the tense situation, there was a blinding llash of iiame not fifty yards from where the President stood. It developed later that a quantity of black powder which was to have been used for saluting pur poses had been prematurely ig nited. No one was injured eith er in the explosion or the crush about the reviewing stand. The President received quite a drenching, and tor a time it seem ed that the frail canvas covering the reviewing stand would tum ble about the heads of those be neath. Among these was Mrs. "Stonewall" Jackson. When she had met Mr. Taft earlier in the day she had earnestly said, "I (Continued on page 3. )
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