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lbtmmk w J. D. BIVINS, Managing Editor Established 1880 $1.00 per year, in advance VOLUME XXIV. ALBE-MARLE, N. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1918 NUMBER 42 PRESIDENT WILSON OPENS ' RALEIGH AND HENDERSON I L- ' ALBEMARLE IS RAISING THREATENED STRIKE OF CAMPAIGN AT LONG BRANCH ARE FRFE FROM TYPHOinl - " ' "" JIO.OOO mi. LEGE FUNl)' RAILROAD MEN AVERTED Fully Eifcht Thousand People Heard Reduction Due to Anti-Typhoid Vac His Acceptance Speech Warmiv Applauded by Crowd. cination Last Year and This. I Here at the height of typhoid fever Sept. 2.- season, Raleigh, Henderson and Vance formally county are enjoying an unusual free- Long Branch, N. J., President Wilson today opened his campaign for re-election dom from typhoid fever. Not a deatn with a speech accepting the Demo- from this disease has occurred in the cfatic nomination in which he cha'-jtown of Henderson or in Vance coun acterized the Republican party as "a ty this summer whereas last summer practical and tnoral failure," defend- there were 9 deaths and 75 or more ed his Mexican and European poli-lcases and summer before last there cies, recited ,the legislative achieve- J were 16 deaths and over a hundred ments of his administration and de-' cases from typhoid fever alone in the clared for a "big America." jtown and county. The President left Shadow Lawn at i This splendid reduction is due to 11 o'clock tonight for Washington. the interest that has been given for In his speech President Wilson was ( the past two years by the county and unsparing in his criticism of the Re- town to the control of typhoid fever publican party as a party of "mas- through anti-typhoid vaccination. Dr. terly inactivity and cunning resource-j D. C. Absher, whole-time town and fulness in standing pat to resist county health officer, has fought ty change," and said that old leaders phoid fever unrelentingly since his still select its candidate, but he did, election to this office, with the result not mention Charles E. Hughes, the that now there's practically no ty Republican candidate, by name. phoid in the county or town. He ha. The President spoke from the ve-: just closed a second county-wide cam- randa of his summer home to i paign against typhoid, having vaccin crovvd which filled 8,000 chairs an ! ated a majority of the people against overflowed the lawn. : this disease. Speaking in the open his voi'-e Acocrding to a recent issue of the could be heard by only a small pat Raleigh Evening Times, Raleigh is of the crowd, but those who did hearjnow entirely free from typhoid. "Such him constantly interrupted with ap- an immunity," says the Times, "cun plause. Once, when he said "I neith-' not be atributed merely to good water er seek the favor nor fear the dhi- or to sanitary requirements and hab pleasure of that small alien element its, contributing causes to public among us which puts loyalty to any health that these things are. It is, foreign power before loyalty to the on the other hand, directly due t) United States," the crowd stood and the campaign of last year for vacc in cheered, 'ation against typhoid, in which ten The notification ceremonies were thousand people were treated. The brought to a dramatic close when few hundreds of dollars spent in Wake more than a score of American flags county in that enterprise are already attached to parachutes were fired in- bearing dividends, beside which the to the air by mortars and unfolded profits of the most lusty 'war babies' over the President's head as a band are negligible." played "America." Afterward Mr. . Wilson stood more than an hour on the veranda and shook hands with1 STATE NEWS. several thousand men, women and children. I Rpnntnr .lmp nf KmtnrVv rhir.' w- S. Lineberry, superintendent o man of the notification committee,! the Soldiers' Home at Raleigh, has introduced the president. When he reslKnea declared that Mr. Wilson had kept A storm at Randleman, Randolph America at peace the crowd respond-; county, blew the top off the graded ed instantly and applauded several i acnoui uuuumg. uamage nunmwi minutes. He concluded by handing, at $1,500 to $3,000. the president a copy of the St. Louis j In Caldwell county Superior Court platform. i this week Ed. Shell was acquitted of Reading slowly but distinctly from . the murder of Jim Helton at Granite a printed copy of his speech and fre-1 Falls last May. The jury found that quently looking up to emphasize par-j Shell killed Helton in self-defence, ticular points, Mr. Wilson spoke of, The COroner's jury held Dr. A. C. the Democratic platform as a "defi- peaCock criminallv negligent as the nite pledge."' Reviewing the achieve- resut 0f the death of W. W. Jones ments of the administration he said of charlotte, Jones being killed by running over VICE-PRESIDENT MARSHALL FROM LATEST PHOTOGRAPH For Additions to Normal and Indus- Congress Acts Promptly on the Ad trial Institute One Man Donates; amson Bill Limiting Day's Work to Two Acres of Land. ! Eight Hours. "alike in. the domestic held and .n the wide field of the commerce of the world, American business and life and industry have been set free to move as they never moved before." , He said: "We have provided for national defense upon a scale never before seriously proposed upon the responsibility of an entire political party.'; Concluding his list of measures Dr. Peacock's machine him. Ex-Mayor- John Underwpod of Fayetteville, who has been traveling "up north," has come home and put out the word, that Woodrow Wilson will carry Pennsylvania. Almost too good to be true. . . , . , A jury in Buncombe Superior Court gave Mrs. Louise Orr a verdict of passed by Congress in the last three $10,000 against John Rumbough and years, the president declared: "This extraordinary recital must sound like a platform, a list of san guine promises, but it is not It is a record of promises made four years ago and now actually redeemed in constructive legislation." others for the death of her husband, Bart Orr. Orr was killed in Rum bough's garage in Asheville about two years ago when a gas tank ex ploded. Ira Trexler, a farmer living seven miles south of Salisbury, was instant- t 1- 111 - J fH I i TT .. c.tw .lnn rohnVinir fon-Hrn:')' lue8uaJ mwriiuun. ne was born Americans who are not loyal toj in buggy when some part of k- TT;f SttpB. h said: lne narness Drone ana me norse jer- "I am a candidate of a party, but I am above all things else an Ameri can citizen." ed him forward and , out of the ve hicle. Mr. Trexler was about 45 years old and leaves a wife and sve eral children. I A compromise has been effected in J. RUFUS MORTON ACCI- j a Buit brought against the Southern DENTALLY KILLED. j railway by P. R. Carroll of Wenonda, J. Rufus Morton, a son of the late Va., for injuries sustained in the dis Rev W. G. Morton, of this county, , astrous passenger train wreck at was accidentally killed in New York Jamestown several months ago. Car City last Friday. He was engaged in! roll, who had an arm and a leg brok- work on a sieei structure wneii uieu, m ouuiu" umci ...jm.o, in fatal accident happened. The four.-1 stituted suit for $25,000. He compro- Vt i . ; ' ax 4. I I t i ' ' sr : I HQ Great enthusiasm is being exhibit-! 'rhe threat of a geneial railroal ed here over the new proposed addi- st. ike which has been hanging like a tion to the Albemarle Normal and In-1 P l over the country fo:- a month dustrial Institute, plans for which ae v,,a lifted Saturday night, on foot. A large new dormitory Is Three hours after the senate had one of the new proposed improve-. Parsed without amendment the Ad ments. S. H. Heame has agreed to fT-on eight-hour day bill, passed by donate about 'two acres additional , the house Friday, the heads of the land to the institution and the citizens four great railroad employees' brotii of the town are responding liberally erhcods telegraphed 600-odd code with cash subscriptions. There is a" messages to their general chairmen possibility of obtaining the services in all parts of the country cancelling of Rev. A. B. Shive, of Davidson, to; the strike order issued a week ago to come here and take charge of the in-; take effect Monday morning at 7 stitution. Mr. Shive has agreed that .'o'clock. if the citizens of the town subscriba The legislative expedient to avert $10,000 that he will see that a like, the strike was passed in the senaie amount is raised, making $20,000 to by a vote of 43 to 28 almost a strict be used for improvements. This is; party vote amid stirring scenes, aft one of the best girls' institutions in er many Senators Democrats and the State as it gives especial advant- Republicans had fought desperately ages to girls of limited means. Rev.) to amend the measure by provisions Shive has just completed securing the designed to prevent industrial disas balance of a $100,000 endowment foi-jters in the future. Some Senators, Davidson College, and a large sub-j thoroughly aroused, declared Con scription for Clinton College in South fve.;s was being coerced into enact Carolina, and Albemarle will be fo'.-jment of legislation that it did not tunate to secure him for the local c!- desire, and that it knew would re lege. The subscription was started turn to plague it in the fu'ui-e. last week with a $500 cash donation! In both houses the measure was by one citizen and the canvassing ' sigi.ed within a few minutes after committee is out now and report that the final vote in the senate and it was subscriptions are increasing rapidly ?f"'t at once to the Pre -.ident, who and it is thought that before long the1 signed it at the union station In $10,000 will be subscribed. It is; his private car at Washington, wheie thought that if the proposed amount! he stopped on his way friri Shadow is subscribed for by local citizens that; Lawn, N. J., to Hodgenville, Kv. the Mecklenburg Presbytery which That there may be no question as to meets next week will come strongly; the legality of the measure as a re to the assistance of this worthy insti-u't of it having been signed on Sun ii'tion. This institution has the rep-;'' the president will affb: his signa utalion of being the only girls' school ture again upon his returi to Wasn in the Smith that furnishes tuition, ; ington. board and loom to its students for Officials of the brotherhoods who the sum of i?100 for the entire ses- j v' 'f K'ssed the final passage of the bill sion. Mc.i of means throughout the' hi'' announced early in the night that State have bren donating a ' of scholarships to students school. CHURCH NOTICES. MOB BEAT THE SHERIFF. Failing to Get Prisoner, Ohio Tortured Sheriff. Mob dation of the building for some rea son gave way and a 3-ton steel girder as a result fell upon Mr. Morton, kill ing him instantly. The deceased was about 44 years of age. He was an expect worker in steel and had reached the point where he could command good wages. J The body of Mr. Morton wa3 brought to this county and interred at Kendall's church cemetery Monday afternoon. mised for $5,000. Mr. C. Edgar Graham of Greenville, S. C, has sold his home at Montreat to the North Carolina Presbyterian Synod. It is announced that $12,009 will be expended in enlarging and improving the property, which will be used for a home for ministers, evangelists and other Christian work ers during the summer assemlbies at Montreat James H. Johnson, a member of Surviving the deceased are his wife, ; the Cumberland county bar, who was six brothers and two sisters. His pardoned by Governor Craig in May, wife, Miss Jennie Parker before mar riage, is a sister of Messrs. A. C. and Dave Parker of this place. after being convicted for selling wine in unlawful quantities and sentenced to three months on the roads, was found guilty of the same offense in Cumberland Superior Court this Mrs. S. T. Gaddy and children have returned to their home in New- week. Prayer for judgment was ton after visiting Mrs. H. Morns. continued 10 nexi term. Enraged at the success of Sheriff Sherman Eley in spiriting , away Chas. Daniels,- a negro, accused of attacking the young wife of a prominent farmer at Limo, O., early Wednesday of last week, a mob captured the sheriff, se riously wounded him, placed a noose around his neck and forced him to di rect a cortege of 100 automobiles in to the rough country north of the city, where it it supposed the negro prisoner had been hidden. The mob formed around the Lima jail before dusk and leaders de manded admittance. Chief of Police Kinney called out his entire force but the officers were overpowered in a hond-to-hand fight. It was announc ed that the negro had been taken by Sheriff Eley to the Ohio State Hos pital for the Criminal Insane. Re fusing to accept the announcement the mob forced Mrs. Eley to open the cells. Sheriff Eley returned at 9:40 o'clock and was met by the mob :it the city limits. They demanded that he deliver the prisoner or tell where he was hidden. The sheriff reached his residence and refused to give up the negro. The mob then broke in the front door as Eley escaped through a rear entrance. He was caught when entering the Elks' Home and attacked. His clothes were 'stripped from his body and he was uatterel . kicked from the trollc a street car and the noose placed about his neck. After half an hour of torture and insults the half unconscious man sur rendered. He was taken to a wait ing motor truck which formed the head of the procession of automo biles into which the mob climbed. The procession then left the city at high speed. number! cancellation of the strike would not ... ! U 1 1 ..M .i i ... in this,"'- ui-uereu unm me diii ran been signed by the president and actually had become law. But later they conferred, changed their minds and flashed the come messages signalling to the waiting trainmen of the coun try through their chairmen the mes sage that a satisfactory settlement had been secured. The bill that stopped the strike provides that after January 1, 1917, ANNUAL VIRGINIA EXCl itSION ' First Baptist. P.obert P. Walker, Pastor. Sunday school meets at 10 A. A. P. Harris, Supt. Organized classes for both old and -eight hours shall be regarded as M. To Richmond and Norfolk, by. 'iVay of Southern Railway, Thursday, Sep tember 14, 1916. young people. Preaching at 11 A. M., and 7:30 P. I M., by the pastor. ! Morning subject, "The Anointed O.ie." . . , Evening subject, "Confession." ' The Southern Railway will operate j , The evening services are evango low fare excursion from North Caro- j list'c always. , lina territory to Richmond and Nor. j N Praver meetings on Wednesday folk, Thursday, September 14, 191U. evening during the Presbyterian tent Spccial traiii consisting of both day meeting. coaches and Pullman sleeping1 cars to' AH members of the Sunday school leave Charlotte at ff:30 P. M. I are ure(l to be present next Sunday The following fares will apply from ! morning. stations named to both Richmond and ba;;is of reckoning for a day's pay of men engaged in the operation of rail road trains fn interstate commerce (excepting roads less' than 400 mile. long and electric lines), that they shall receive pro rata pay for work in excess of eight hours, and that their rate 'of compensation shall not be changed pending an investigation from six to. nine months of the ef fect, of the eigh-hour day upon the railroads by a commission to be ap pointed by the president. Efforts to amend the bill in the Norfolk : Salisbury $4.75 i Albemarle $5.25 j Fares from all intermediate points ' on same basis. Tickets good going only on special train except that from branch line I points, passengers will use regular ' Visitors, strangers, traveling men,; senate were futile, the supreme effort and students sojourning in our town i to alter it having been led by( Sena- will find a hearty welcome to all of these services. Bring your friends with you Lutheran Church. Rev. V. C. Ridenhour, Pastor. Sunday school at 10 A. M., Prof. O. train conecting with special train at j D. Ritchie, Supt. junction points. Returning, tickets1 Men's Bible Class, for men, taught will be good on any regular train by the pastor. leaving both Richmond and Norfolk, Services at 11 A. M. and 7:30 P. M. up to and including Sunday, Septem-! Morning subject, "Christian Nen ber 17. Pullman reservations should trality." be made in advance. ! Evening subject, "Secret Disciple- R. H. DeBUTTS, D. P. A. ship." tor Underwood, who sought to pro vide that insterstate commerce commission should have power to fix railroad wages and hours of service in the future. This amendment was defeated by a vote of 57 to 14. Charlotte, N. C. tend these services. i0 ! The members of the church are urg LH-Fos, A MM, ENMtfrt UxatKrt I Lmr Tonic Don not urtpa aor nsnn nw snoucRL In addition to other properties, Lax-Fos contain Case arm in acceptable form, a timulatineLaxative and Tonic. Lax-Foa acta effectively and doet not gripe nor disturb stomach. At the same time, it aid digestion, arooaea the liver and secretions After listening for four davs evidence and arguments in the case ec to he present. of Hyman Epstein charged with the murder of Leonard Edwards, the jury disagreed and Epstein is liberat ed under $10,000 bond for his ap- pearance before the November term ! of Wayne Superior Court. Central Methodist. R. G. Tuttle, Pastor. Sunday school, 9:45 A. M. Preaching by the pastor at 11 A. M. The trial , Theme: "The Use of Our Talents Un- of this case in Goldsboro has attract- der a Gospel of Grace." ed State-wide interest. The evening service will be calle l ! in that the congregation may join in 1 the service at the gospel tent. Charles A. Carter, of Westrys, Nash county, was killed last week atj Bion H Butler of Soutnern PineSi a public road crossing, about eight. wag the guest and speaker at a re miles from Rocky Mount, when his,cent businesa rally and barbecue of auto was struck by east bound At-,the Durham chamber of Commerce. lantic Coast Line passenger tram , The undeve,oped tourist-trade pos- No. 68. He suffered a fractured 8ibilitie8 of Durham and North Car. Huu wra ouier injurie., wu ruaneu . oHna were discussed by the speaker! to a hospital, where he died in about j v- mu ,M ,,, , i : two hours. ! ti .(.w.j xti, o,i: j HC piLkUICU lW bit viuviiua DD MIC greatest winter playground on BICKETT SATURDAY. j earth." Dont fail to hear Thomas Walter! NEW KNITTING MILL WILL BE BUILT. Preparations are under way for the construction of a large two-stor brick knitting mill by the Wiscassett Mills Company. The mill be 100x300 feet and is to be situated near "Bun- galow Town," just to the north of the The public is cordially invited to at-!e't.v- ine new mill will manufacture hos iery exclusively. The first venture in hosiery manu facture for Albemarle, was made about sixteen years ago. The first knitting mill constructed was "The I Windemere," now one of the Wiscas sett Mill divisions. The Windemere was successful fror.i the start. Later ;the Lillian Knitting Mill was con ' structed. The new mill wiil be the third of its kind to be built in Albe marle and will also prove to be the third textile plant to be constructed in 1916. The situation of the mill, suround ed as it will be by a large number of handsome bungalows, will prove ideal. A spur-track will probably be built out from the Yadkin railroad. Bickett, candidate for governor, at Miss Carey Morris is visiting rs- and restore the healthy functions. 50c. this place, Saturday, at 2 o'clock. Ilatives in Troy. Whenever Yen Need a Qeaeral Toole Take drove The Old Standard Grove' Tasteless chill Tonic i equally valuable as a General Tonic because it contains the well known tonic properties of QUININB and IRON. It acts on the liver. Drives oat Malaria, Enriches the Blood and Builds up the Whole System. SO cent.
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