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V )1 UME XXXII -NUMBER 23
LAURINBURG. N. C THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1914.
$1.50 PER YEAR, IN ADVANCE
SOMETHING INTERESTING
TO THE CONTESTANTS
This is "Get Busy Week" -Special Inducements Offered to Con
testantsGet In On the Club Proposition and Se
cure Extra Votes All Clubs Must Be
in By Saturday, the 13th.
REUNION IN RALEIGH.
Confederate Veterans Called to Meet in
r Capital City, June 9 and 10.
Miss Lois Pay lor
Miss Sarah Smith
EAST LAURINBURG.
Miss Myrtle Willoughby
Miss Sadie Thompson
Miss Lola Godwin
2, 000 1
2.000!
2,000
LAURINBURG, R. F. D.
Miss Alma Lytch
LAURINBURG, R. F. D.
Miss Bessie Muse '
Miss Marie Monroe
' LAURINBURG, R. F. D.
Miss Myra Jordan
- v WAG RAM.
Miss Jeanette Johnson
Miss Lola Thrower
Miss Jane McKay
Miss Mary Buie
GIBSON, N. C.
Mis3 Eula Sizemore
Miss Bernice Wright
Miss Annie Gibson
Miss Willie Gibson
Miss Wilma Gibson
Miss Lela Mudd.
GIBSON, N. C., R. F. D.
Miss Sadie McColman
Miss Willie Bulhrd
GIBSON, N. C, R. F. D.
Mrs. F. D. Gibsc
n
Alias
Beginning with this issue of I
ThE Exchange and continuing1
until Saturday, June 13, at noon,
we will make the following "Spe
cial Inducement":
For every club of 20 subscrip
tions, makesjio difference wheth
er old, new or renewals, we will
give a bonus of thirty thousand
extra votes, in addition to the
regular scale of votes.
For example: Should a con
testant turn in two clubs of
twenty subscribers, which would
make a total of forty subscribers,
makes no difference if they be
old or new, she would be entitled
to, on the club offer, thirty thous
and votes for the forty subscrib
er;?, and a bonus of eighty thous
and extra votes.
We will accept no portions
you must turn in one or more
clubs in order to derive the full
benefit of tr.is club offer.
Waste no time, Ye Wise Did
Owls. Wise contestants know
this and are w?.s.ting no time, not
even a minute that can be made
to pi oduce a subscription, cv even
a ;,:at of one. This is the time
l'i r concentration of thought,
then acti ve wcrk.
Don't take it all cut in merely
thikin, soliloquizing and deep
study, bv.t get right on the job
and bring in results, subscrip
tions ant plenty of them, it you
want to be anv other -than an in
terested onlooker when The Ex
change prize voting contest is
brought to a close.
Any contestant who will take
advantage of each and every of
fer given, from now until the
close of the contest, may rest
.veasy that when, the final count
comes she will' be right around
there, and will be one of 'the more
fortunate ones when the prizes
are awarded. You cannot possi
bly have too many votes, the
more the merrier, and by keep- The girl who wins is an average girl;
ing this in mind and carrying out
this idea, you will stand right up
at the top of the list.
Little by little the more active
contestants will force their way
to the top and stay there. The
weaker ones will gradually settle
on the bottom, then doubtless
their names will be dropped from
the list. So, kind friends, it be
hooves you to be "an active mem
ber" if you want your name to
be painted in big black letters,
"A Winner."
Start right out today with your
club and see how many clubs you
can turn in by June 13. There
is no time to be wasted. Every
contestant is meeting exactly the
same conditions that you are
finding as you canvass for sub
scriptions, job work or adver
tising, and it is merely a mat
ter of "the survival of the fit
test." and if you haven't "the
grit, courage and determination"
to go ahead with the work you
have started, you cannot hope to
win much of a prize.
This is "get busy week" be
in the fashion, stylish and up-to-date
busy.
JOHN.
Annie Belle" Jones
HASTY.
Miss Kalola Baker
Miss Hattie Jones
Mrs. D A. Hasty
Miss Eupha Hasty
M'COLL, s.
Miss Mary Parker
Miss Sadie EiS.terling
10, 000 j
14,900
17,960
NO. 1. "
7.200
NO. 2.
5,200
4,600'
NO. 4.
14,975
17,550
19,200
6,000
15,750
20,00b
16,550
6,750
5,000
6.275
2,000
NO. 1.
21,000
2,000
NO. 2.
7. 280
14,500
16,777
10,1500
7,200
.6,500
mm news notes. TRAIN CRASHES AUTOMOBILE
C.
17,750?
0,500
To the Girl Who Wins.
BY M. R. MARCUS.
Her hair can be plain it don't have to
. curl ;' '
She need not have any peculiar luck
i Just steady, and earnest and full of
pluck.
"No5' or
When asked a question she does not
"guess"
She knows and answers
"Yes."
When set a task that the rest can't do.
She buckles down till she puts it
through.
Three things she's learned that the girl
who tries
Finds favor in the whole world's eyes ;
That it pays to know more than one
thing well.
That it doesn't pay all she knows to tell.
So she works and waits till one fine
day,
There's a Player-piano coming her way;
And the girls who shirked whenever
they could,
"Get the laugh" from the girl "who
made good."
For the girl who wins is the girl who
works, -Who
neither labor nor trouble shirks ;
Who uses her hands, her head, her
eyes- -
The girl who wins is the girl who tries.
Standing of Contestants.
Look over the long list of
names and see if that of your sis
ter or sweetheart does not ap
pear. If not, now is the time to
enter her, as there is no time
like the present. Remember,
this contest will not run always,
but for only a short time. Time
and tide wait for no man, so get
busy and remember th3 closing
date, July 29th. Below you will
find the standing of the contest
ants :
) LAURINBURG.
Miss Mary Covington 16,760
MissEmmaNealCovington 12,990
Miss Eugenia Cassidey 15,950
Miss Anna Meta Buchanan 4,500
Mrs. Lamar Smith 5,000
Miss Nannie Hammond 5,750
Miss Laura Wall Everett 20,000
Miss Margaret John ' 4,950
Miss Olivia Russell 15,670
Miss Ellie Birmingham 12,960
Miss Mary Phillips 7,200
Miss Irene Sanford 6,000
Miss Ida Wilkes 7,100
Miss Eleanor Calmes 2,000
Miss Mary Russell 2,000
Miss Margaret McNeill 2,000
Miss Annie Laura McDou-
Cotton Square from Gibson. '
Jasper Brown, a farmer from
the Gibson section of Scotland
county, sent to The Exchange
office two cotton squares on May
28. He reports his farm in fine
condition, and says he had cotton
squares in evidence . a week be
fore he sent the specimens above
mentioned.
Card of Thanks.
We desire to extend our sin
cerest appreciation to our m iny
friends, who were so kind and
thoughtful during the illness and
recent death of juur loved one.
Mrs. Eliza Sanford,
Mssi Mittie Sanford,
JJD. Sanford.
After being in session tour
days -and taking 471 ineffectual
ballots, the Tenth District Demo
cratic Congressional Convention
at Waynesville adjourned June 2,
after adopting a resolution pro
viding for a district-wide primary
on Aug. 15, to choose a Demo
cratic nominee for Congress.
W. Lester 'Davis, a citizen of
considerable wealth and standing
in Davidson v county, was last
week sentenced to 18 months on
the chaingang for selling liquor.
Appeal was taken' under a $4,000
bond.
General Order No. 52.
1. The annual reunion of the
North Carolina Division of the
United Confederate Veterans will
be held at Raleigh on the 9th and
10th days of June, 1914. Veter
ans on their arrival at Raleigh
must register at the railroad sta
tion, and will then be shown to
vheiruarters It would be well
if every veteran would "wear a
badge, giving the company and
regiment in which he served, and
all camps that have a flag are re
quested to bring their flags and
other banners with them. .The
hospitable citizens of Raleigh are
making ample preparations for
the entertainment of all veterans
who do not care to pay for their
meals and lodging, and all veter
ans who may desire such enter
tainment must, as soon as possi
ble, notify Captain A. Greig, at
Raleigh, so that quarters may be
reserved for them. The com
mander of every, camp is urged
to send at cmce to Captain Greig
the number of veterans who wijl
attend the reunion. Unless this
is done, there may be confusion
and delay in providing the quar
ters for them. Every veteran
should bring with him a blanket,
as all the cots may not be pro- j
vided with blankets. Quarters
will be provided at the A. & M.
Col leg-? for as mp.n y as can th re
be accommodated, and others
will be enU-i caine at the homes
of the citizens of Raleigh.
2. The railrond . companies
have given the low rate of one
cent a mile for this reunioA as
they have heretofore done at our
previous reunions, so that th ex
pense of attending this reunion
will be very little, and it is hoped
that there will be a large attend;
ance. iiaxies jci. dunnsuu
and Mr. H. H. Carr have gener
ously off-ered give free tickets
on the strestvaiilway iK 4teig
to all veterans attending, the re
union.
3. On the 10th of June will
be unveiled the monument to the
North Carolina Women of the
Confederacy, given by our late
comrade, Ashley Home, and a
special invitation has been ex
tended to all veterans to attend
and participate in the unveiling
ceremonies.
4. Veterans will not be ex
pected before the morning of the
9th, and the first meeting at the
reunion will be held in the City
Auditorium at three o'clock that
afternoon, and all veterans are
urged to be prompt in their at
tendance, and the last meeting
will be held on the 10th in time
for the veterans to depart for
their respective homes that af
ternoon. By order of
Major General J. S. Carr.
ll. A. London,
Adj. Gen. and Chief of Staff .
Effective Tomorrow.
The new. express rate adopted
by the express companies and
which has recently received the
sanction of the State Corporation
Commission, will become effect
ive tomorrow.
The new rates, which apply to
packages weighing less tharMOO
pounds, is a considerable reduc
tion from the former rates, and
is a great benefit to the shipper
of small packages.
As an example of the reduction
made, we find that a package
weighing 21 pounds to Charlotte
today would cost 45 cents ; the
new rate will be 34 cents. On a
package weighing 16 pounds to
Ashe vi lie the old rate is 70c.., but
under the new rate the charge is
only 39 cents.
On packages above one hun
dred pounds the rate has been
slightly increased. -
Movements of Residents and Visitors in j
a Thriving Section.
Wagram, June 1. ,
Mr. William Johnson, a native'
of this community but who moved i
about twelve years ago to Vir-
ginia, spent a few days recently i
in this vicinity. He said that he ;
Knew of no section anywhere that ;
has made such wonderful prog-
ress as has this one-since his'
viait here six years ago.
i
;r Misses Isabel and Mary Mc
Kenzie, two bright and attractive !
young iaaiesot Uhadbourn, spent
a few days recently at the home
of their grandmother, Mrs. M.
A. McMillan, on their return from
Meredith College, where they
were students the past term.
. Mr. Lock McKinnis, a promi
nent citizen of St. Paul. SDent a
CHARLOTTE MAN INJURED
Automobile (Driven by M M. Smith and Containing Thr?e Other
Persbns Struck By Laurinburg & Southern Train
Monday Afternoon W. B. Hamilton, of
Charlotte, in Hospital.
SNEAD'S GROVE HEMS.
Doings uf the ' People, and a Rat Story
That Wins the Msdah
X .
BY BUMPS.'
Snead's Grove. June 2.
Setting out 'taters is the order
of the day.
Politics is forgotten, for we've
gone to working cotton.
The Woodmen memorial exer-
m' a a ittJII ha o f KolP nocf tYir'ack in
j . - , i wjvj vviii ctn uau-(jaoi till ill
tew days recently at the home of ; the afternoon next Sundav.
Mr. Charles Livingston. j Among those going to the
Mr. R. L. McMillan, of the Co-1 Woodmen unveiling at Raeford
lumbia University law school, is ; Sunday were' Mr. S. M. Jackson
at home aerain and is receiving i and son Walter.
Regret to chronicle the death
of Mr. Isam Watts, a brother of
Mrs. Millard Dawkins. Mr.
Watt3 suffered from a complica
tion of diseases. He was buried
at the Huckabee graveyard Sun
day afternoon, Rev.' Mr. Parker
officiating.
Somebody was telling us that
Melvin Bowen was sieving "at
most of the time these
coraial greetings from his raanv
friends in this community."
Mr. D. A. Shaw, manager for
the Rochfish Trading Company,
was a recent visitor in this com
munity. Misses Kate and Eulie Watson.
Mary Patterson Livingston and
Kate Matthews returned a few
cays ago from Raleigh, whither i home
they went to attend the Meredith ! d v.
What came near beir.g a fatal
accident occurred Monday after
noon in East Laurinburg when a
train on the Laurinourg & South
ern Railroad ran into an automo
bile in which four persons were
riding. The automobile was
wrecked and Mr. W. B. Hamilton,
a traveling man of Charlotte, lies
in the hospital with a broken leg
and a broken shoulder ; Mr. Wal
ter Roper was badly bruised, and
but for good fortune would have
been crushed by the wheels of
the train. The party, composed
of Messrs. M. M. Smith, fhe own
er of the car, Walter Roper and
a colored boy, of Laurinburg, and
Mr. Hamilton, of Charlotte, left
Laurinburg about 4:30 in the af
ternoon to go to Maxton, and on
crossing the tracks of the Laurin
burg & Southern Railway, the
afternoon train from John struck
the car. Just before reaching the
tracks the parties heard the train
at 'the Dixon mill, but say that
the view was cut off by the resi
dence of M J. R. Murphy and
a bunch of trees. At the point
where the crossing is located the
Co
th
new six-room dwellir.
lege commencement,
y greatly enjoyed.
The
v
had erected has been rented b
bpnng Mill cnurcn to be use a as
a parsonage by the' new paster.
Rev. W. E. Goode, who will enter
upon his duties the third Sunday
in June. ,
which ! wi.at
Of course y-u can
rhiclvMr. Jchn P. Snaw rece-
lSiiS ciZ
s priding
but will
ment.
guess i
'iiome'' means. ' j
Brack Covington, who fin- j
at Trinity thi.i term, isi
a lev nays at nome,
return for comraence-
)?ich
from
the Ln
nnnurg
fter I1:
speaking ol
rpUable
r
I
A. meeting at Milton's Chapel,
in which the pastor! Rev. H. G.
1 D. Dywas assisted by Rev.
day- ! -
Mr. Lacy McFadyen, a con
tractor of Raeford, has moved
into the house recently occupied
by Mr. E. T. Melton, agent for
the A. & R. Ry., who with his
family left a iew days ago for
Bennettsville, S. C.
Rev. R. P. Bievin, pastor of I closer observation
the Elkin Baptist church, spent
several days in the community
recently. '
Rev. H. G. Hill, D. D.. of Max
ton, . preached in the Presbyterian
church at Wagram, last Sunday
in the afternoon. Although about
eighty-four years old, he preaches
with his usual vigor and is always
heard gladly by the people of
this community.
tl:
gra-..
the fs
o. brakes
stop the
rats, v;e heard a
ii 111
very rPuaoie bunaay scnoo; ooy
tell of an experience 2 had not
so long ago with a rat. He
faverred that on one occasion he
went to spend the night with a
boy friend and when he got
home he placed his lunch basket
on the mawtel end thoVe was some
cold bread left in it. That night of the
when the lights were growing dim
and he wras verging on the border
of dreamland he heard a commo
tion in one corner of the room
and looking that way he saw his
lunch basket going up the corner
of the room as if by magic. On
he saw that a
rat had it. Arriving at the ceil
ing the crack was too small to
admit the basket. v What did his
ratship do ? Well, sir, he open
ed that basket, took' out the con
tents and placed them in the loft
and returned the basket to" its
proper place ! Now that's the
truth.
appro
side is down graiie. an,
ca1" hid turned down
Mr. Smith, who was
saw tine train corning,
supply was cut and t!
applied, but too late to
car. which had almost crossed the
track when the train "truck it.
As soon as Mr. Roper saw the
danger he leaped from the car
and in some manner slid under
tne moving train, but was quick
enough to throw his body from
under the train and save himself.
The raitt .struck, the, rear part
llidVIIIllO C4T7U O".
CJiarles Becker, New York po
lice officer convicted a second
time of complicity in the murder
of Rosenthal, has again been sen
tenced to be electrocuted, this
time in the week beginning July
6, but another appeal acts as a
stay and it will probably be a year
before the next legal move is
made.
The Southern Presbyterian Gen
eral Assembly before closing its
session at Kansas City last week
went on record as favoring na
tional prohibition. Next session
to- be held at Newport News,
Va., May 20, 1915.
Peterson -Morrison Marriage.
Wednesday afternoon, May 27,
at six o'clock, Miss Esther Mor
rison and Mr. Luther S. Peter
son were married at the home of
the bride's mother. Mrs. L. M.
Williford, of Laurel Hill, N. C.
Dr. J. M. Rose, 'of Laurinburg,
very impressively performed the
ceremony.
The bridal party entered to the
strains of Mendelssohn's Wed
ding March, rendered by Mrs. J.
L. Gibson. The only attendants
were Mr. Morrison Peterson and
Miss Eugenia Morrison The
bride was attired in a simple
white dress of crepe de chine and
carried a lovely bouquet of bridel
roses. The wedding was very
quiet. Only the immediate rela
tives and a few close friends
were present. The interior of
the home was tastily decorated
in green and wThite and the mar
riage was a very pretty one.
After the ceremony refreshing
purch was served by Misses Kate
Price and ' Marie Monroe. The
guests were then ushered into the
dining room where Misses Mary
and Brown Morrison served a de
licious salad cours followed by
mints and coffee. t
The happy couple left jn a car
for Hamlet in time to catch the
train for Washington, where they
will spend their honeymoon, ' On
returning, they "will make their
home in Rowland, where Mr. Pe
tersonjs in business.
The bride is the eldest daugh-
! ter of Mrs. Williford and has a
large circle of friends throughout
the State.
Ttfe groom is a prominent
young business man of Rowland.
The fellow that's afraid of vac
cination never saw real smallpox.
Scared by Roadside Advertising.
A mistrial was ordered by Judge
W. J. Adams in- Charlotte last
week in the case of Boss Riggins,
a young farmer of Mecklenburg
county, against five leading Char
lotte firms for $50,000 aggregate
damages as a result of serious in
jury to his wife in 1912, when his
horse took fright at their flaming
advertising posters on the ten
mile post on the Providence road.
The jury, after being out eight
hours, reported they could not
agree. They stood seven to five
in favor of granting the nlaintiff
damages, the advertising would i
haVe been more effective, and1
without evil results, had it been
in the newspapers. Ed. Ex
change. Death or Mrs. Catharine Miliican.
In the death cf Mrs. Catharine
Miliican, which occurred at the
family home in East Laurinburg
on May 23rd, there passed from
this life a woman of extraordi
nary virtues. Mrs. Miliican was
a dl voted church member, a good
wife and mother and spent her
life in doing kind deeds to others.
The body, accompanied by her
sorrowing husband,. Mr. J. J.
Miliican, Mr. and Mrs. E. B:
Miliican, Mr. and Mrs. J. C.
Quick, was carried to W7hiteville
for burial. ,
The Senate has amended the
naval appropriation bill so as to
authorize the sale of the battle
ships Idaho and Mississippi and
the construction of a modern
dreadnought with the money.
Greece is understood to be the
.prospective purchaser.
Cadet Wm. R. Bowlus, of St.
John's' College, Annapolis, Md.,
was shot and killed in a "hazing"
fracas last week. Five cadets
are under arrest for the killing
rL itj
tossing the occupants out. For
tunately, none of the party was
seriously hurt, Mr. Hamilton,
who was on the rear seat, receiv
ing the most serious injury,
which consisted of a broken leg,
just above the ankle, and a broken
shoulder.
The news of the acnident spread
rapidly and soon a large number
of people were on the scene.
Mr. G. F. Avinger, secretary
of the cotton mills, was at his
office a few yards away and im
mediately went to the scene in
his automobile and brought Mr.
Hamilton to the James Sanato
rium, where he was given medi
cal attention. At this writing
Mr. Hamilton is resting easily,
and as soon as the broken mem
bers are healed will be able to re
sume his work, which is a trav
eling representative for a milli
nery house.
So far as can be learned, there
appears to have been no negli
gence or recklessness on the part
of, railroad or of the auto party.
It, just appears to have been one
of those unfortunate accidents
that no one is to blame for.
GGvarnmant Crop
condition of
lowest since
The cotton crop
the country is the
1871, with the exception of 1903
and 1907, the Department of Ag
riculture announced on June 1.
It issued statistics showing the
condition on May 25th as 74. 3 per
cent tof a normal or seven per
cent below the ten-year average.
In North Carolina the crop is
about two weeks late, due to dry
cool weather. The early planted
cotton, however, is reported as
in almost perfect condition.
Throughout the cotton belt the
crop is from one to two "weeks
late, owing to dry, cool weather.
The condition by States is : Vir
ginia .83; North Carolina .72;
Georgia . 80 f Florida. 82; Alabama
.85; Mississippi .87; Louisiana .82;
Texas .65; Arkansas .79; Tennes
see .80; Missouri .86; Oklahoma
.68; California 100.
McNeill Sculptor Selected.
The John Charles McNeill Me
morial Committee, of Charlotte,
has entered into a contract with
Miss Mabel Landrum, of the Chi
cago Art Institute, for the bust
in marble of the lamented poet,
which is to be unveiled in Car
negie Library, in Charlotte, Oct.
116, next.
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