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If j if if . X-SX L ' """" , - - - i iinni SSiT-'-i v , . . . - : ".- -"v ; - " - - Vm TTM1T YYYTTI WTTXf "RlfP AQ LAURINBURG, N. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1915. $1.50 PER YEAR, IN ADVANCE 11 UlYCll U11C i AU11I DEWU THOUSAND DOLLARS FAVORS PREPAREDNESS Suit Against Laurinburg and Much to be Thankful for-Something Southern Ends With Verdict for Plaintiff. of the Horrors of War Abund ant Crops. The suit against the Laurinburg & Southern Railroad in which W. B. Hamilton, a Charlotte traveling man, was asking for damages in the sum of $20,000 against the defendant com pany for personal injuries he receiv ed in an automobile-train collision Thanksgiving day passed off quiet ly and pleasantly in the Fork, save the reports of the bird and rabbit hunters guns, as they resounded the fields and woods at brief intervals. Some of the neighbor boys called that p. m. and reported having killed some months airo. ended Tuesdav. the Ave "molly cotton tails" in the fora- iurv awarding- the nlaintiff damae-es noon. Showing that species of game C-j x - t in the sum of $1,000. The case was tried in Charlotte and was attended by some forty or fifty Laurinburg people. It' consumed five days of the first week's term. BETTY GETS A CHANCE. She was real pretty, and so full of fun that the dimples were always showing in her round red cheeks. Her eyes were big and brown, and nut colored hair curled naturally in little ringlets over her forehead and ears. She was just eighteen when we first met her, and so neat and attractive that one would think she belonged to the well-to-do class of working peo ple, but when we followed her to her home one day we confronted startling facts. The red in her cheeks was the flush of unnatural inward fever, the high spirits were a pitiful antidote to pitiless conditions, and the big, brown eyes saw only squalor when they were not fixed upon a typewrit ing machine or closed persistently to any view but an imaginary bright one. The room we entered was a gen eral living space, used also as an eat ing, cooking and sleeping apartment. There was but one bed, and Betty had to sleep in it with her mother, who was too weak to sit up. An open cuspidor sat where it would be con veniently near the bed, which placed it by the stove, where their food was cooked. The mother, who was suffer ing in an advanced stage of tubercu losis, did not like cold air, and her to be plentiful in this vicinity. So far as I have learned, there were but few visitors in the Fork on Thanksgiving day, a day of ideal loveliness, but we all had good, plenti ful dinners, mostly provided from the fruits of the farm and garden. I think I have never known a season when our people had greater cause for gratitude than this bounteous har- j vest time, when barn and store house i are filled with grain and forage, and the white dove of peace spreads her wings over our land. The various crops are about all gathered and stored, except the corn, i which is now receiving attention. The yield of sweet potatoes in this section is in abundance and fine quality, al most unprecedented. Before the dig ging season began, one of our wag gish neighbors remarked that his po tatoes were attaining such size and number, they were "groaning in the earth for more room." War, and its horrors seem undi minished. I have become so sur feited with the reports of it, that I rarely read them now-a-days. There seems to be great diversity of opin ion regarding the President's pre paredness policies, and the question is too large and important for me to vouch any opinion. I have thought it would be wise to strengthen our coast defenses, and gradually to add some submarines to our navy, but I trust there will be no need for building a number of great war vessels. We, who recollect the experiences of the civil war, can but shudder at the bare probability of another. To those who have never known the hnr. querulous demands caused Betty to ; rors of it this may sound cowardly Keep me-noor anu winaows ciosea. "Well," said cheerful Betty, with a laugh, "that isn t so bad as hot THINGS PERTAINING TO LIFE 'SCOTLAND SUPERIOR ! DENNIS WILLIAMS ! COURT QUICKLY OVER i "APPEALED BACK" By Harry M. North. SOLOMON ON THE SLUGGARD, OR THE LAZY MAN. seemed so diligent did Dennis j Rufus Ikenburger (ain't that a He plead name for a negro) drew 60 days for but I think my sad experience would absolve me from . that charge My onlv brother, aered 18. returned to us having any windows or doors to close no morp and th flear n1d fatw raTn is it? Things might be worse." j back a physical wreck, while my hus "Infinitely worse," said the Wise band.s only brother, captured by the One. "You might even take a notion ! enemy while doing duty beyond the to stuff the windows and doors with j confederate lines as a sharp shooter rags to cut out what oxygen comes under stonewall Jackson, was con in through the cracks." j fined in Fort Delaware for 14 monthS) Red Cross Chr.stmas Seals, with ; and literally starved, so that his own the.r cherry message of hope, gave , mother failed to him i,on Betty a chance to get well after her mother died. Is it worth while to save the Bettys? Buy your share to-dav Dentists to Meet Here. Eastern Carolina Dental Society Meets Here Tomorrow. The annual meeting of the East ern Carolina Dental Society, compris ing the territory in North and South Carolina for a radius of about 50 miles around Laurinburg, will be held here tomorrow. The local dentists are making much preparation for the entertainment of the society, which will be represent ed here by about 30 or 35 members. The meetings will be held at the Chet vvynd Hotel. An interesting and instructive pro gram has been arranged and will be in part as follows: Address by Dr. Frank Lander, of Williamston, S. C. Clinics on Conductive Anaesthesia, by Dr. W. B. Simmons, of Piedmont, S. C. Demonstration of the Gysi Articu lator and Trubyte Teeth, by Dr. J. L. Gibson, of this city. Quart Law Upheld. Raleigh, N. C, Dec. 1. In G. M Glenn vs. Southern Express Co., from Wake county, involving the constitu tionality of the North Carolina quart liquor law, the Supreme Court, in an opinion delivered this afternoon, fully upholds the State law and the action of Judge Daniels in Wake county in declining to issue a mandamus com pelling the express company to re ceive in Richmond, Va., and deliver in Raleigh quarts of liquor within less intervals than 15 days and in gallon or larger quantities when marked "For Personal and Private Use." brought home to her at the close of the war. His health was so under mined that he never recovered, and lived but a short while. He brought with him a pint tin cup and iron spoon, this cup measured his daily ration of insipid broth, and worm eaten crackers, and he told us that the wharf-rats which infested the prison were chased and killed on every pos sible occasion, by our poor famished heroes, and devoured as dainty mor 1 T J j &eis. a trust nevermore to see my friends and loved ones under the ne cessity of marching away to the wars. I do not mean to make the impression that I would have them shirk their duty, provided our country were in vaded, but only hope that occasion may not arise. The Methodist ladies in and around Johns, and the Ladies' Missionary Aid bociety of Smyrna church met to gether in the home of Esq. J. M Graham on Friday p. m., the 26th inst, and spent a pleasant and in structive hour. The program con sisted of Bible reading and exposition of the Sunday School lesson for the following Sabbath, led by Mrs. Henry Jlcl,aurin, a very bright and charm ing little lady, and the Ladies' Mis sionary' Society under the leadership of its president, Mrs. Norman Stew art, took up the subject of Home Mis sions. There are several cases of malaria prevailing among the colored people of this section. The protracted tinues at Hebron. he would like to do as Williams, "peel back." guilty before Judge Carter and sought ( carrying concealed about his person a the mercy of the court which, to Cal's. late edition of Smith & Wesson's trea dismay and disappointment read ' ties on how to ventilate the human "Two years in the State prison at form. hard labor." j Ed. McNeill fooled with the prohi- Joe Little plead guilty to a combi- j bition laws enough to damage one of nation of charges including larceny, them and joined the good roads move vagrancy and carrying concealed wea- ment for four months, pons and goes along to make good J. M. Shaw was called upon to an roads for a period of 15 months j swer a charge of abandoning his "Bully Joe" was the next defendant. "worser half" as he would have the His crime would indicate that he had court believe she was, and too,' for been misnamed and that "Sneaking breaking up housekeeping in that he Sam" or "Glib of Tongue" would have ' smashed up the kitchen equipment of been more amoroDriate since he was his home, and vnt pio-ht mrmfhs frnm $1.50. Little, gUiity of securing a suit of clothes which judgment he also "peeled." from a nressine club that belonsred i ncle Remus' StoriesHarris. $1.00 1 i jHuAtovHrtJ Mifflin Cf . N. Y. Walking the proprietor. h4 pWd guil- ' i DtS frm JhnS' give itf withouf ,t ff Win rvtoKtaUteHwrtr, 75c. j , . . . ; i - t FV 1 I t If I i. L. Thaiiksgiving passed very quietly meeting still con- Old Fork, Nov. 29th Aunt Becky. It seems that the United States simply must make some kind of a noise like a belligerent. Now we've gone and issued a "White Book." "To hell with the hyphen," exclaims Col. Roosevelt. But why be so mean as to burden the devil with it? Where's Your Stocking. If you want something pretty and suitable to fill those stockings with for Christmas, you must wait and see what the Ellen Willis Missionary Society will have to show you at the opera house on December 10th. They will also serve salads, ice cream and cake. Adv. There's no pleasing the men. Out in Indiana they're objecting because the women crochet too much. mujo tiric.- man iliio , j.l V-i.v himself that he was constant tn ered by lazy people. In his wntings he breaks out many times about them and gives us some fine points about their characters. It seems tome that we might spend the hour profitably m talking about what Solomon had to say of such men. The lazy man has a ready excuse for not working. He declares that it is too cold to plow, yet he does not realize that plowing would make him warm by getting his blood into circu lation. But He does not want to get his blood circulating; he wants to sit still. He goes out hunting occasion ally for the pleasure of it, but when he kills any game he will not dress it for eating, claiming that he is too tired to work. Again, all sorts of imaginary dangers come into his mind. He will not go forth to work for fear something will happen to him. He says, "There is a lion in the streets; I shall be slain in the streets." At the same time there are frail wo men and timid children going to their duties and nothing harms them. This slothful n an is a great lover of ease. He calls for a little more sleep and a little more slumber and a little more folding of the hands in sleep. As a door turns on its hinges so does he turn on his bed. He hears the bell ring and the whistle blow, but decides that he will sleep five minutes longer, and so he is a failure for the whole day because he did not begin it right. The wise man declared that drowsiness wrould clothe a man with rags.. These rags might be hanging on the mind and the spirit as well as on the body. The lazy person is wiser in his own conceit than seven men who can ren der a reason. He is always standing around where work is going on, and is very ready to give his advice. He can tell you just how the house should be built, but he has not himself built a single house. He knows hqwjy land mifht. t.n he riiltivaten. ". 3 7 , does not raisg any crops. He has an opinion tions and will giv and he will put his judgment against these seven men who know both how and why, and who have had experi ence in these matters. Go tomorrow to where others are working and see if the lazy man is not there giving free advice to the toilers and fret ting them. See, however, that you do not happen to be the man yourself of whom I am speaking. While the hand of the diligent bears rule, the slothful man will always be under tribute. He will have to go to the diligent man to borrow from him, and to get recommendations and to re ceive employment from him. He must forever wait outside the door of the industrious man until he has finished with the other sluggards. This lazy man desires until his desire almost kills him; he covets earnestly all day long; his hunger is as keen as that of anybody, but there is nothing to satis fy his longing. His house is bare and the children hungry while his neigh bor has enough. Did you ever see a person with many wants and without the energy to meet them? His poverty comes upon him as one that traveleth. If you wish to get poor in a hurry start out traveling. Everything is going out then and nothing coming in. Your want will come as' an armed man. As though want were personified and came to you with a gun and called for your life or your money. Solomon said that the slothful man wculd beg in time of harvest. Now harvest is the season of plenty for other people, but this man did not sow anything in the field and now he has nothing to eat. He is a consumer and not a producer; he depends upon his friends and acquain tances to keep him up. An able bod ied man with work to do but who will not wrork is a source of shame to those who know him. The great God who made us is always toiling, and he ex pects us to do in our measure what he is doing. The slothful man is sent to the ant to learn from her a lesson. The ant has no guide, over-seer nor ruler yet she provides her meat in the summer and her food in the harvest. This lit tie creature has in her an energy that sends her forth under unfavorable conditions to seek her living, and she finds it too. All day long, seemingly without weariness she labors without any one to force her to it. How dif ferent this is from what the wise man saw at the home of the slothful fellow He said, "I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding; and lo, it was all overgrown with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down. Then I saw and considered it well; I looked upon it and received instruction." Now while the garden was getting in this condition and the sluggard was sleeping, the ant was filling her house with good things, and in the day of need she had enough, while the slothful man went hungry. Week's Term of Criminal Actions Negro Who Picked Pocket of SupL Lasts But Two Days Only One Jury Trial. Scotland Superior Court for the trial of criminal actions convened here Wright, Writes Judge Gibson Let ter Asking to go to Roads. Some days ago Dennis Williams took advantage of the hospitality of PUPILS' READING CIRCLE. To be Organized in the Scotland County Schools. At the meeting of the Teachers' As sociation, which was held November 13th here in Laurinburg, Superinten dent Peele advised and urged that a Pupils' Reading Circle be organized in the county, and we are glad to note that this is to be done. The purpose of the Pupils' Reading Circle is to secure the careful read ing of a numbr of good books at an age when the tastes and habits of the children are formed. At the next County Commencement a certificate to every boy and girl who satisfies his teacher that he has read six books in this year's reading course. The teacher must give some form of oral test to each child so as to determine whether or not he has read the book intelligently. Miss Mary G. Shotwell, School Supervisor of Granville, so success fully carried this plan out in her coun ty that forty-six diplomas or certifi cates were presented at the last Coun ty Commencement in Granville. All teachers are urged to co-operate to the end of securing these books and encouraging the pupils to join the circle. Books to be Read During 1914-1915. Robinson Crusoe Defoe. 40c. Amer ican Book Co., N. Y. Little Lame Prince Mulock. 30c. D. C. Heath Co., N. Y. LittLf Men Alcott. Monday for a term of one week, but Supt. Of Roads, J. E. Wright, and found only enough business to hold ; while riding with him in his buggy, the session for a couple of days. ( picked his pocket and contributed to Judge Frank Carter, of Asheville, ' his own use of the county's money presided and dispensed with business ; the sum of $12.50. in a rapid and business-like manner. Williams was tried upon this charge That the court had before it a guilty and sentenced to the roads for eight aggregation of defendants was evi- j months. From this judgment of the denced by the fact that in every case ' court Williams appealed to the higher called and entered upon the defendant , court, and failing to give the neces plead guilty to some degree of guilt ! sary bond was remanded to jail for his and took his medicine, except one, who i safe keeping until the "big cote" met. maintained his innocence and elected j After a few days waiting ita jail, to take jury chances, and the jury j during which time he had opportunity declared that he was not guilty. to think well over the matter, Wil- Sidney Jones was the first defendant ' liams' mind changed and he decided and , submitted that he was guilty of ' to "peel back" as he expressed it, and disposing ot some ot Lol. Fairbrother's . wrote Judge Gibson the following embalming fluid, sometimes known as booze. The judgment of the court was that he pay the costs and give bond to show correct living for three years, and even in that case it shall note, which we reproduce in the man ner and style in which it was written. The note was as follows: Nov. the 23rd 1915. laurinburg, N. C. not be a full guarantee that sentence j Mr. Judge gibson i toll you Saturday may not be pronounced at any time, that i would take a peel But i studdy Cal. Meares next faced the court, i over it i dont want a peel to Big Coat Cal. was charged with stealing a cow j i take my 8 mont and go to the rode hide from Mr. L. A. Monroe, and had j Please sir let me peel Back and go on been declared guilty in the Recorders my eight monts court and sentenced to a term of eight j dinish wiiliams months on the roads. From this j Williams was accordingly accomo judgement he appealed, and doubtless dated. " k w - T Bvftv N. Y. Ways of Woodfolk Long 50c. Ginn & Co., N. Y. Heroes and Martyrs of Invention. $1.00. Lee., N. Y. Anderson's Fairy Tales. 45c. Rand, McNally Co., N. Y. Grimm's Fairy Tales. 50c. Mac- Millan Co., Atlanta. Hans Brinker Dodge, $1.50. Scrib ners' Sons, N. Y. Life of Washington Scudder, 40c. Rand. McNailv Co.. N. Y. Colonial Children Pratt. 40c. Ed ucational Publishing Co., N. Y. Two Little Confederates Page. $1.50. Scribners' Sons, N. Y. With Wolf in Canada Henty. 75c. Donohue, N. Y. The next two cases called were de fendants charged with taking life. Edco Lockhart was the first. He was charged with the killing of Mingo McKay, and through his attorneys W. H. Cox and G. T. Goodwyn submitted to a charge of manslaughter and was sentenced to serve two years on the roads. The other defendant, John Fairly, submitted through his attor neys W. H. Cox and M. L. John to a charge of manslaughter and received a sentence of six months in jail to be hired out in the discretion of the coun ty commissioners. Fairley killed Hugh McLaurin in a fight at John several weeks ago. J. M. Shaw who had appealed from a sentence in the Kecorder s court tor Green Mountain Boys Thompson. assault of abandonment, plead guilty buc. uroweii & uo., jn. i. Last Days of Pompeii Lytton. 50c. Ginn & Co., N. Y. Heroes 75c. Mac- 50c. Four American Naval Bebee, 50c. Werner, N. Y, Scottish Chiefs Porter. millan Co., Atlanta. Tale of Two Cities Dickens Houghton & Mifnin Co., N. Y. Last of the Mohicans Cooper. 45c. Ginn & Co., N. Y. Bonnie Prince Charlie Henty. 75c. Donohue, N. Y. Last of the Barons Lytton, 50c, Ginn & Co., N. Y. All of these books can be purchased and was sentenced to serve six months in the assault case, and the other case was left open for three years pending his good behavior. Shine Chavis and Robert Smith plead guilty to a charge of trespas. in our town and we noticed that the usual amount of hunting on this day was less than former times. Mrs. W. B. Parks and her daughter, Miss Aileen, of Atlanta, Ga., after a few weeks stay at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. John, left for southern Florida for the winter. School closed for Thanksgiving day and the teachers gave the day follow ing also. Miss Janet Weatherspoon spent the holidays with her parents at Sanford, and Miss Alma Adams spent the time with her parents in Four Oaks. The Caledonia church, which was begun last year, but owing to the de pression in financial circles, was not completed, will soon be finished. The contractors, Messrs. McCollum and Benson, of McColl, S. C, are build ing a neat, attractive building. The ladies of the new Caledonia church gave a rummage sale Satur day, clearing a neat sum which goes rm 3 4. .c -U a- 4-1 they pay all the costs in the case and to give bond for good behavior for three years. They were also to reim burse the father of Smith for all the money paid out by him in the case. Henry Baker plead guilty to a charge of assaulting a female and took eight months. Ticy Bruton plead guilty to a like from Alfred William Company, Ral- I harge and was fined $10o and the eigh, N. C. costs. Esias Fletcher charged with retail- Do That Christmas Mioppmg. . tb i on the crjmi 7 ir nal docket that was heard by a jury, With the Ellen Willis Missionary , 0 deciared him to be not guilty. Society at the opera house iriday, Qne ciyil action was heard by the December 10th. You will find a beau- nnrt it bemcr an action for divorce tiful line of useful gifts suitable for brought by w. C. Winburn vs. Lizzie Christmas giving you will oe wei winburn. The decree was granted. come and your buying will be appre ciated by a society that needs your help,' and too, you will get something worth while in the way of Christmas j e-ifts. Salads, ice cream and cake will be served. Adv. Santa Claus. It Points the Way. Remember the Christmas sale that will be held by the Ellen Willis Mis sionary Society of the Methodist church December 10th, at the opera Thousands of dollars will be spent house. There will be many beauti v -" i- uia ,,T.it.v in ful articles appropriate for Christ uy tne - mas eiving. The ladies will also serve doing their tnnsimas siiums- . - The ads in this paper will point the -alads, ice cream and cake.-Adv. way to the stores with the best bar- Mr. E. E. Chandler, who began cut ting the fine body of timber located on the Martin tract about a year ago has about finished, and will soon move his mill to the M. L. John land near . here. Mr. Chandler recently moved j his family to Maxton, where he has re ! cently built a new home, j Mr. N. C. McRoy spent Thanksgiv ing with his parents at Whiteville, returning Sunday night. Little Clinton Overstreet who has been sick with the "grippe" we are glad to say is very much improved. Supt. Wright, of the county road force, is doing some needed work on the roads in this section. Mrs. Robert F. Stewart spent the week-end with relatives in Mullin, S. C. More perfect weather could not be asked for and most of the farmers have made good use of it by planting all their small grain. Cotton is near ly all pincked and the large gins have closed for the year. Miss Anna Belle Jones spent the week-end with her sister, Miss Pearl Jones at Kings Mountain. Miss Peal is a member of the graded school fac ulty at that place. gains. The live merchant will take prompt advantage of this opportunity Santa Claus Here the 10th. Meet Santa Claus at the opera house t-. -i T-v V 4V. 1 rtfV Xtirr lino t,-. tv -o-Vif- war is JPTiuay, uettmud "" babies brought into the world by par ents with fool ideas of patriotism Ellen t Adv. I It's no use for mere man to stand in the way of equal suffrage. Who ever heard of an argument in which wom an didn't have the last word? When King George begins to talk of "my empire" and "my subjects." he's simply loo much for the American sense of humor.