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t , - , -; he state Lhsnatch. - - : - , . ,s : -. "O.-.,. .1-: ' - :' , -" ? I ; s ' v - - 1 , " " - - t fe oner news items, g . .,-; L n vlV I OF INTEREST FORM ELON COLLEGE. OlElou College, February 5:The t-jies Aid Society neia its January irfivitiis this month at the home f)r. and Mr?. j. o. vv arson on liursonv eveuin. iub cvtuiug . . K.li.rhrfiillv snpnt in a nrap- h-a? VJl "ft"- r r -. f- ,r mie coutest, which introduced, aunt nt. 1 wo p izes were otterdj he Hist prize and the boody, prize. tirs. Jas. L Foster was the happy lecipient of the first prize aud Rev. . Wellons tne booby pnze. ffter the contest dainty, delicious 1 . 1 . .1 i'.-rlf fn I rcraclimoitti! nrAi.. ervetl, then folio. wed a periol of niirtli, gaily and jecese laughter uu- il eleveu o'clock -"vhen the guests "tireil to their respective homes avniiT speni a very pleasant-eveu- ' .1 . ji:uf..i 1 nir ill uns uuiiguuui uouie. - Suiulav the college pulpit was oc- upied by Rev. J. Y Holt, of Bur- t .1 11 intrton, Nvuose tneme was wnoie- R 1 j; 1 J m i- 1 oine, an vise, uisrtgarueu witn iatai jtilt-. Mr. Holt is always an ntertaining speaker and -a forceful re-enter ot tne trutn., tils etrort a tliis occasion directed mainly to he student body but interesting ilike to villager and visitor, was no sevption to the rule. His sermon received as it justly deserved the Lrge applause of those who. heard President Moffitt has aggressively utered upon his campaign to in rease the endowment of the College mj the sum ot $50,000. He is away his week working to that end and nil continue to be absent from the college most of the time from now ftintii commeucemeot in me luicrest wt this upward movement. It will e remembered only three years ago he magnificent West Dormitory i r- 11 ' il vas openea iormaiiy ior coiiege por oses, even now the college equip- ent in the way of buildings is not ufficient to accommodate the- m reasiug patronage. If the college s to grow and to meet the obliga- ions that constantly devolve upon t, there must be increase in equip ent on the buildings for library acilities ond ervmnasiums. That hese increasing demands be met it absolutely necessary that this 50,000 be raised and Dr. MoflBtt entered upon this campaign with hs iual determination and energy jancl will without doubt soon bring it f) pass. Prof. Wicker, who is a member of the North Carolina State Sunday ISchool Association Executive Com- 1 tending the session of that commit- proaching Statf; Convention which will be held at Concord Prof Wicker says that the prospect now is that a very excellent convention will be held this year at Concord and that a full proerramme will be 31 announced latter. Dr. Atkinson, for several yean- Professor of Latin in Elou College and chairman of its faculty and now editor of the Christian Sun and pas tor of the local church, is to deliver a lecture next Thur&day evening iu the College Auditorium on George Elliott's Adam Bede. Those who know the eloquence of speech and the real felicity of expression and tile Winning pViQi-m rt rlolivorv rf this gifted orator will expect from him On this occasion a very lucid delineation of this, the leading chara cter of George Elliott's masterpiece, and they will not be disappointed. Later on this spring Dr. Atkinson will deliver a lecture on Shake speeare's Brutus'. These lectures are open to the public as well as to the student body and are without charge. News Over the State In the near future Ex-Govef nor Aycock will move from ' Gofdsboro to Raleigh and take up the practice of law. ; One of the greatest educational ralleys that has ever been held at Wfidesboro took place last Friday. Fdrty-one schools of the county gathered together to hear the ad dresses by State Auditor Dixon, Dr. F. L: Stevens and others. Governor Kitchin last " Wednes day authorized the offer of a re wan! of $250 for the capture of d. W. Wralker, the white desprado, who killecl Sheriff Stonland, of Bruns wick county, and who broke out of jail at Southport last week. Mr. Addison Fletcher Cox, of Th.masvile, committed suicide last WTednesday morning by shooting himself. Ill health seems -to have been the trouble. He was thirty six yars old and was the owner and manager of Thomasville Picker tick Factory since going to that piace aDput one year ago. An illict still has been in opera tion just outside of the city limits of Raleigh When the deputies learn ed of it only a few days ago and went to the place, only a hole iu the ground was found, fpr'the distillery vas goue.j The still was located about two miles and .a half north west from the centre of tht city. Hon. John G. Grant, of Hender son ville, Republican Representative dect to Congress from the tenth North Carolina district, makes an nouncement that he has named as ins private secretary Mr. G. H. Valentine, a young lawyer of Hen -dersonville, who is also a practical stenographer. Mr. Valentine is a loyal Republican. The Clarendon bridge, the fa mous old structure spanning the Cape Fear river at Fayetteville, which stood so wonderfully during the August flood, the only means ot communication between Eastern Cumberland and Fayetteville, was burned at noon last Wednesday. The fire was originated from a smouldering fire in a heap of debris caused the great loss. The loss can not be estimated at present there be ing about $25,000 insurance. By setting fire to a trestle, an at tempt to wreck the Atlantic Coast Line night pa-senger train from Spring ope to Rocky Mount, was made last Friday night at a point two miles trom JNashville in the Hrection of Rocky Mount. Th' niscreant came near accomplishing is desire and had the train been a :'ew minutes later in arriving at thai oiut would have assuredly been through the trestle. A train had passed over the dge only forty minutes before and eported everything all right. Misa Rosa Cook, employed as .a i tress in Hotel Guilford at Greens .io, attempted to commit suicide ist Friday afternoon by taking an verdose of poison, probably lauda- 1- T'l ll Him. ,very meuiciuai am nas beeen rendered and it is thought that she will recover. Untill it few days before the act, Miss Cook ap peared to beiight hearted and hap py and no definite reason can be at tributed for the act. Before taking the poison she wrote a note in which stated she hoped the other waitresses would get along better than she had. She said she had been well treated by the hotel management and no . ... . .i. ij fault to nnd; but tne note indicated a general feeling of unhappiness. J 1 BLOCKADE DISTILLERY DESTROYED IN ORANGE. WicersGet the Only Moonshine Plant Known in That Section J-'nil.am, Feb. 4. Revenue OflB- Cer Move, Carter and Jordan this Worniny took to Kalpiorh two no. - . v on,es mid one white man whom they caught operating a 50-gallou still in Orange county yesterday evening. -I Uf,y landed ten gallons of booze 3lld tlll'iiorl nror monr Korrol a Though small, it appears to wow 11 eitrht '"t b(!( W tile onlv still notrmllv onpratpd in ..j j r. tuis district since prohibition went into effect. Commissioner Moye be lug in the raid refused to hear the case and sent it before the Raleigh commissioner. The white man gave bond but the negroes are in jail. A Beautiful Thought. We sometimes learn from thos'e who think differently from ourselves. It is the Persians who have the way of saying on the birth of a child, "O little one. vou come into the - world with cries, while all around are smiling. So live that you may go out with smiles while all around Lare crying. umuiesscu witmu this simple prayer are all the things that make life worth living, all the things that rob death of its terrors To go out with smiles, is the happy consciousness of a life well spent and with an unfaltering trust in the benificence of the unknown beyond May we all measure up this simple yet high standard, when life's work is done and we .wrap the drapery of our couch about us as it were and lie down to pleasant dreams Maybe California started alien tuss merely to anord the people chance to get Abe Riief off - theer The most disaastrous fire that has occured at pharlotes ville, Va., in twenty-four years, . bbke oat :' last Friday in the building of the Char lottesville 9 Hardware Company. Property to the valuation of $220, 000 was destroyed. Wm. L. Woodson, for six years editor of the American' Press Asso ciation, died in a hospital at Yonk ers, N. Y., Feb. 4th. His death was caused from injuries received in trying to board a' moving train last Saturday. He was 55 years old. President elect Taft has now com pleted his inspection of the entire ine oi tne canal, navmg traversed the Pacific Channel list Wednesday. He expressed himself as greatly gratified at the retult of the labor ers of the engineers. Ben L. Jones, one of the wealth iest men in. Geoxgia, while in a dp- pressed condition one day last week, shot himself through the head, death resulting instantly. Mr. Jones had been ill for some time and failing to recover as fast as he wished, became very morbid. 4 Six men were killed and several injured in Centeral New York one dav last week when a construction train of the New York Central rail road ran down a party of tract re pairers near University Heights. A gang of laborers, all Italians were workiug near a curve when the train swept around a bend, plunged into the group and scattered men in every direction. ' Secretary Cortelyou today an nounced that he has made a call on ill temporary national bank deposi tories for about $30,000,000 govern ment deposits to be piid on or be fore February 24th. There v were wer -1,000 temporary depository anks .and the Secretary's call will eave exactly $10,000 in each as he instructions will be to remit vervthing above that sum. The town of Tehama, near Chico, Cal., which had six hundred inhabi tants, is under five feet of water and t is . impossible to get into com munication with it. The Southern 1'acitic Railway operator at Tehama function, half a mile from the town, . . i -l i vi vs mat tne at pot is gone ana a ilock of houses has been washed tway. lne nouses are noating t wenty. feet above the city streets. Two freight trains collided on the aboard Air Line railroad near Greenwood last Wednesday, result g in three men being killed and everal injured. The wreck was aused bv the engineer on the extra ittiug his watch one hour wrong Hie engineer and fireman jumped md saved their lives. Breakmau fyi us was buried underneath the lebris, and engineer Moore, of Chester, and fireman Nichols of the ocal train were both killed. Drawn by some irresistible im- pulbe to return to the seene where iie killed a man when he was fifteen years of age, Manly B. Tripp, after roaming over a -good portion of the work! for ten years, last, week sur rendered to the sheriff of Laurens county, Qa. For some days he had there and was an interested specta tor in the court house during a trial He was not recoguized until he voluntarily surrendered, tie was a well known youth and is promin ently . connected. He shot James Hood down on the street in 1899. He escaped an effort to capture him failed. mm. Says President Didn't Strike Girl's Horse. Washington, Feb. 1. For the first time making public a disclaim er of published reports that Presi dent Roosevelt, while riding in Rock Creek Park, near thi3 city, struck the horse ridden by young woman who happened to, ride near his, party, the White house to day gave out a letter received trom the voung woman s mother. It was dated at Los Angeles Cal., Jau. 27, and read as follows: "My daughter, Miss May Rhodes, whose horse, it has been widely re ported you struck while' riding in the park last Thanksgiving day, most emphatically denies any knowl edge of such an occurence, and as it is deemed of such importance .as to be referred to in Congress, may I be permitted to ask you r why you do not deny this story? ' . Yery Sincerely, ft We have on exhibition at the Bur- lington Hardware Company fjor your inspection a limited amount of the very best silverware on the market, made and guaranteed by the Sim mons Hardware Company, of St. Louis, Mo., This is free to any lady that wish es the best sugar shell, teaspoon or a set of knives and forks that mon ey can buy for your table. We want every lady that passes the Burlington Hardware Co.'s store to stop and see this ware, they will be glad to show our premiums to you. Our terms are for a set of tea spoons, six yearly subscribers or their eqivalent. For the grey finish teaspoon, eight subscribers or their equivalent. For the sugar shells, two yearly subscribers or their equivalent. And for a set of knives and forks, thirty yearly subscribers or their equivalent. The retail price for this ware is $250 and $3.50 per set for the tea spoons, $.75 eacMor the sugar shells and $14.50 per set for the knives and forks. All we ask of you is to ex amine the quality of the articles and you will be convinced that we are offering you rare values. Get busy now and get a sugar shell then the spoons and you will not bAe without the knives and forks. Send your subscriptions to :THE State 3 spate BURLINGTON, N. . G. - ' r V" ' ZC w S t . ; -4 j- f ) - r- f " v t 1 - A it At ' 4 ' . ' Tl - ; '4 I ''1 i' ' t 'v.;- ' i ' - ." - " ; 1 A r - - ? - . 'if rjj SQWibe for the Dispateh. minds. ELIZABETH M. RHODES. IT."
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