' GENERAL NEWS.
The "French Siamese" twins,
Marie Anne and Anne Marie,
who had been joined together by
a ligament at the base of the ver
tebrae since their birth, were op
erated on in Paris last Sunday
and are getting on nicely.
Frank Stagart, a widower, shot
Miss Augustine Serpes in New
Orleans last Sunday and then
shot himself. She wouldn't mar
ry him was the reason assigned
for the crime. Both died in the
same hospital in half an hour.
It is reported that the Standard
Oil Company is trying to "freeze
out" competitors by lowering the
price of gasoline from 20 to 9
cents a gallon. No effects of the
freezing process have been felt
in this part of the moral vineyard.
The motorman who was respon
sible for the wreck near Norfolk
last week, whereby six lives were
lost, states that he was tired out
and asleep and did not see the
danger signals until he was with
in two car lengths of the cross
ing wThere the collision occurred.
The largest electric lamp in the
world was lighted in the New
York Navy Yard last Sunday
night. It is a searchlight and at
a distance of two miles it gives
an illumination of 450,000,000
candle-power. The light is visi-:
ble at a distance of 100 miles. I
Secretary Daniels has been re
quested by the House naval af
fairs sub-committee to submit a
statement on the question of
whether Peary discovered the
North Pole and, if so, whether
' he discovered it first. An inves
tigation of the Cook-Peary con-'
troversy is sought by Cook.
James T. McDermott. Republi
can member of Congress from
the Fourth District of Illinois
(which includes the stock-yards
section of Chicago, offered his
resignation on the floor of the
House, July 21, to take effect
immediately. He is under ugly
charges connected with lobbying
in Congress. He stated that he
would return to his district and
seek re-election as vindication.
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Bull's-eyes from Everything.
In all candor there is more
need for some moral laws some
thing to ston the crime wave in
North Carolina than there is for
a Statewide primary to keep the
Democratic politicians in power
and pie.
His North Carolina friends are
urging Judge Walter Clark for
the vacancy caused by Judge
Lurton's death. The Judge is an
able lawyer, and inasmuch as he
preaches so many strange doc
trinespossibly what might be
well defined as socialistic doc
trines, it would be refreshing.to
see him on the highest bench
handing down his views on the
railroads, for instance.
It appears to be lhe "consensus
of opinion" that Everything and
your Uncle Al is alone in oppos
ing the Statewide primaries if
you listen to the newspapers.
But your Uncle Al has letters
from many prominent Democrats
business men and not politic
ians, who tell him he is ever
lastingly right ; that the primary
scheme is purely a fight of the
ins against the outs and that
the scheme means absolute
monarchy as far as the Demo
cratic politicians are concerned.
And here is what is funny. The
politicians out and who are dying
to get in designate the ins as ma
chine politicians and as bosses.
Where is there any difference
except in the salary and the
power ? There is no honor in
politics.
Resolutions of Respect.
On the 11th day of July, 1914, our
Heavenly Master entered our ranks
and took from our class Loyd Willough
by, Loyd had been a cons ant attend
ant of this Sunday school since its or
ganization and of our class for several
years.
He was a gentleman and was a fine
young man. We all liked him and we
shall miss him greatly as the days go by.
We extend to his family our most
profound sympathy, and pray that God
in His infinite wisdom will deal kindly
with the family that survives him.
Champ Terry,
Wm. Bounds,
Hardy Rusy.
Their Executioner.
One day a negro woman walk
ed into the offices of the court
rooms of a Southern city, and ad
dressing the judge, said :
Are you the reprobate judge ?
I am the probate judge, he re
plied. That was what I was saying,
she continued, and I have come
to you because I am in trouble.
My husband was studying to be a
minister in a logical seminary,
and he died detested, and left
three little infidels, and I have
come to be appointed to be their
executioner.
STATE NEWS
William Robert Bond, aged 24,
committed suicide in Kinston on
Jul , 20. Ill health is assigned as
the cause of his self-destruction.
Ground was broke this week on
the lot on which the Red Springs
Baptist church is to be erected.
We learn that the work of build
ing will be pushed as rapidly as
possible, with Mr. J. L. Cooper
in charge. Red Springs Citizen.
Marc Spencer, aged 24, a na
tive of Virginia but a graduate of
University of North Carolina,
was killed at Badin July 20 by
falling on an upright piece of
scaffolding in the plant of the
Southern Aluminum Company, by
which concern he was employed.
A picturesque figure went out
of the Core Sound region of Car
teret county when Capt. Joseph
W. Smith died last week. He
was an old-time mariner, whose
last years were spent in the neigh
borhood of his boyhood home,
and so much beloved was he that
when he died his neighbors drap
ed their homes and business
houses in mourning. He was a
Confederate veteran with a clear
record.
At a meeting of the Anson
County Democratic Executive
Committee held in Wadesboro
last Saturday speeches were made
ao-ainst the recorder's court and
in favor of abolishing the office
of county treasurer, lhe matter
of the recorder's court is to be
voted on in the primary on Aug.
1 to ascertain the wishes of the
people. "Our representatives in
the next General Assembly are
expected to govern themselves
accordingly," is the conclusion
of resolutions adopted on the
subject.
Political dopesters are again
saying that Josephus Daniels is
to retire from Mr. Wilson's cabi
net and resume newspaper work
in Raleigh, taking the editorship
of The News and Observer off
the hands of E. E. ISritton, whom,
the same authority (?) says, will
be pushed by Mr. Daniels for the
postmastership at Raleigh. It is
said that this will involve a de
termination of whether a cabinet
member can select the postmas
ter for his home town, even tho'
the Senator controlling the ap
pointment may not favor it.
Some lookers-on at the political
game think all the talk ground
less and that it is given currency
to stir up animosity between Dan
iels and Simmons, the restored
friendship of the two not suiting
certain political elements.
Long-Lost Ring Found in Ship.
A press dispatch from Wash
ington says that Secretary Dan
iels has forwarded to Mrs. Francis
D. Winston of Windsor a ring
which her father, Dr., Kenney,
lost on the old sailing ship Con
stellation, during the Civil War.
Its recovery -after fifty years
makes a most remarkable story.
When Mrs. Winston, who is
the wife of the United States
district attorney for eastern
North Caralina, saw in the news
papers that the Constellation was
to be overhauled preparatory to
taking part in the celebration at
Baltimore of the centennial an
niversary the "Star Bangled
Banner," she wrote Secretary
Daniels, saying that her father
had lost the ring during his ser
vice on the ship during or after
the war.
Mrs. Winston said that her
father always said the ring would
never be recovered until the ship
was overhauled in some navy
yard. The ring was given Dr.
Kennedy by his mother and he
prized it very highly.
Secretary Daniels forwarded
the letter to the commandant at
Lthe Norfolk Navy Yard where
the ship was being overhauled
and the workmen kept a watch
for the token. It was found un
der the iron covering plates on
the gun deck forward and to
day reached the secretary. He
immediately forwarded it to Mrs.
Winston with a note of congrat
ulation. The ring was a small gold cir
clet and was perfectly preserved..
Dr. Kenney came to the Constel
lation from Maine, but after hav
ing retired from service went to
North Carolina to live.
Robeson Officers Cooping Blind Tigers.
Deputy Sheriff W. W. Smith,
accompained by Night Policeman
J. A. Feacoek started out in an
automobile over Lumber River
early Wednesday morning and
before breakfast had caged four
black blind tigers: Dunk Leach
the old he tiger, Date page
Quincy Robinson, and Walter
McColl. He also brought in
Donny McNeill, colored, charged
with false pretense. The tigers
were arraigned before Recorder
Sellers, and it was proven that
Leach had been ordering the li
quor in the name of the other
three and giving them a portion
for the use of their names. He
was sentenced to the public roads
for thirty days, while the others
who did not appreciate the value
of a good name got off lighter.
We are informed that the
road sentence has been chang
ed to a fine. This is about equal
to a license.
Mr. Smith also went up to
Laurinburg that morning and
brought down a negro who was
wanted at Rowland for shooting
another. A pretty good day for
the officers, but the reverse from
the standpoint of . the caught.
Maxton Scottish Chief.
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The Bible as a Newspaper Serial.
( For a newspaper to reprint a
"best seller," a chapter or two
to the issue, is no journalistic nov
elty. Yet, oddly enough, the
idea of publishing in serial, form
the best seller of all best sellers
is an experiment so unusual that
it is attracting wide publicity,
If you haven't happened to notice
the statistics, ypu may not know
that the book which leads ail
others in sales is the Bible.
Editor W. W. Folsom of Hope,
Ark., is reprinting this Best of
Books in his Gazette, a chapter a
week. To date he has completed
the publication of the Four Gos
pels, and the feature has proved so
popular that the other day he
notified the Little Rock Board of
Trade that if he lives long
enough (he is now 76) to reprint
the New Testament in its entire
ty he will then begin to reprint
it a second time. Collier's
Weekly.
Have we any advantage over
Mexico when in this so called
Christian land we override the
law and take life by lynching
without giving the accu".'j5 a
trial guaranteed by the const
tion ? Wilmington Star.
Should be selected with the same care that you select your physician.
Our Prescription Department is in charge of a Thoroughly Compe
tent, Registered man, who has had a wide experience and knows
how to properly compound medicines, and in asking for your pre
scription business we do so with a full confidence in our ability to
serve you as you desire to be served. We fill any physician's pre
scription any time and deliver them as we do anything in our stock,
with dispatch.
Our stock is up-to-date, fresh, clean and complete.
We have an especially attractive line of Stationery and Toilet
Articles.
Sole agents for Norris Candies, Waterman's Ideal Fountain Pens
and Velvet Ice Cream.
Our Fountain is the Coolest, Cleanest Place in town.
Let us serve you.
TRY A JIN-JER-PEP AT OUR FOUNTAIN.
Our store is not opened on Sunday except for the dispensing of
necessary medicines.
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A Safe Bet.
The Charlotte Observer one
day the past week contained an
advertisement from a local gro
cery house that they had on hand
a car of LAURINBURG CAN
TALOUPES. ,
We have no information as to
what became "of the cantaloupes,
but we will wager our reputation
against a year's subscription to
The Observer that the natives
gobbled them up right now.
SUMMER RESORT
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Rates $8.00 to $10.50 per week, $2.00 perday.
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Remerhber, I guarantee to give you entire satisfaction.
I keep all styles and kinds at a reasonable price.
R. G. STONE, Registered Optician.
Seasonable cut flowers. Palms, Ferns.
Floral arrangemens for any occasion.
Prompt attention to out-of-town orders.
SCHOLTZ, The Florist, Inc.
Phone 1443. - 306 N. Tryon St. Charlotte, N. C.
BLUE'S DRUG STORE, Agents
Farms For Sale.
"We sell the earth sliced to suit."
Seaboard Real Estate Co., hamlet, n. c
All sizes, all kinds, everywhere.
Terms to suit.
Tell us your wants, we have them.
List with us for quick action.
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