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LSp FAR. I u s ng the % ast falls, JX lis mag- Ta pproach T| If 4f 4f if flop t»l' ^ requires i-bound dreams icoming cription I, Milan, braids, ts. Baby ng little d, fairly r dre^* Switches for dis- *1 At *! kf «? ♦! fTED if ie Mrs. ellie B. reen in ooper’s f Goods Store. |is nothing bout them. If that His in" should travel leed of fifteen iteam He would Id it through , It is a de lead immortal This device ies people over earth at the more an houi lead souls to s the makers ,tes, or some sgislators, or ; of stocks*could ,W- , A REPUBLICAN NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE UFBUILDIN^F AMERICAN HOMES /J^D AMERICAN JNDU^RIES. [vol. n. li BURLINGTON. N. H?kPRaL 20,1910. NO. 49 um PAY YOUR POLL M FOR THE YEAR NINETEEN HUNDRED ANilNE ON OR BEFORE MAY THE FIRST OR YOUWia SE DISFRANGHM MWEST AND BOW !F VOTE SIANOS Berliflgton. L, Loi^ A. Workman, Swannie Patterson, '■ ^Ivrtle Isley, .. jiVrtle Tate, " [jilian Turner, “ T- 'iorisie Burke, •• CaHie Boland, “ Daca Davis, •' Eeriiia Lineberry Burlingtoa R. F. D’s. L;.-c Jinnic Whitsell R. 4, 6,175 6,025 3,150 1,000 875 550 100 100 100: An Open letter to the Republicans tmue to be made until the end c>f , _ „ I time. But we should profit by of Burhngton. I the mistakes of the past. There I write you this letter because been appointed a cc^mission I have neither the time or oppor- j to have full charge of the money tunity to see eacii one of you in derived from i.he ^^^d sale, com- fLMi’.d Overman R, 1. T' AuniG .*l.MtIock, R. 2, Ollic Ector, Route 2, Ko?:i Crou.se, Route 4, Mat t ie Pennington, R. Fannie Belle Stanford^ Route 9, SiHJW Camp, lliss Mary Stoiit, 2,675 1,050 400 200 200 2,100 100 6,250 600 200 300 100 4,600 2,375 250 fciri.ng Graded School, ^.yiviin Gi-aded School, r^ebane. tlisi Gi’ucy Aniick, '* liissit? iJocison, Flaw River, No. 1. kliss Cai'iie Albright, Eioii College, N. C. [Miss Mollie Baldwin, Union Ridge, No> L Miss Lottie Terrell^ Death of Mrs. Parks, Mrs. Elizabsth Ellen Parks kdSaturday April 16 at the home of jno P.. -^iiclieal and v/as buri- Monday at Friedens Lutheran church, funeral csriducted by the pasior Rev, C. B. Cox, assisted ly Kev. J, D, Andrew. Mrs, Parks v/as 73 years of age and. a conservative member of the Lut heran church. She leaves one son W. C. Parks of China Grove, Three daughters Mrs. Mary J. E.'rke of China Grove, Mi’s.^ Wm. Howell and Mrs. Jno, R. Michael of Burlington. Also one brother of Chatham county, Jessie M. Carrol Mrs. Parks has twenty gi'and children and one great grand child living. ^ » Death of Mrs. King. Mrs. Martha Fannie King, widow of the late William King, died Sunday evening at the home «f her son Mr. John G. King, of this place, at the age of 77 years. Mrs, King- was twice married, nrst to Mr. C. A. Duffer, later to William King. She was the moth er of ten ehiidren, three of whom preceded her to the great beyond. Mrs. King was a faithful con secrated Christian woman, a member of the Methodist Episco pal ehureh. Mr. John G. King, superintendent of the Elmira cot- tcn mill, \vith whom, she made aer home is the only child living in this city. The funeral was conducted wesday from the M. E. Church f ^er pastor. Rev. J. A. Horna- psisted by Rev. E. L, Ogil-' oy, the interment was in Pine niii Cemetery. The large num- Cl floral aesigns presented by ‘ler many friends showed a spirit ot love for the one whose form cold in death. We join the friends in extending sym- f's.ny to the bereaved family. The New M, E, Chnrdb. 1 for the foundation 'I ^ne new Front street Metho- cnurch was begun this week, e church is to be a handsome J;oern structure 85 x 115 feet, of pressed brick and stone, I;-cost of about $2.5,000.00. We e say no time or money will ' spared to make this one of the churches in the Vm^. hoped to have this edifice ready for wor- 1 later part of the year. >Mi! t;c remembered by our a ciit illustrating the Ar- the church person*. The object of this ap peal is to ask and urge your sup port for the pending bond issue. In as much as there is no politics involved I must appeal to your patriotism, rather than your Re publicanism. The Republican par ty is a progressive party, and it is this progressiveness that has made and keeps it the majority party Nationally. The Democrat ic party is a negative party, and therefore a minority party Na tionally. If the Republican par ty desires to become a majorty party locally (and I am sure it does), like our brethren in the Nation, we must not be a nega tive, but a progressive party, we should not oppose measures mere ly because they are proposed by Democrats, but rather from the standpoint of right and wrong. We should adopt such a policy as will appeal and bring to our aid the broad, liberal and fair mind ed conservative men of all parties. A bond issue for Burlington is inevitable, in fact the conditions make it imperative, it is bound to come sooner or late, or taxes greatly increased. Now which do you prefer, good streets and side walks and a moderate rate of tax ation, or no streets and sidewalks and a high rate of taxation. This is a cold blooded business propo sition, and one you should settle now and for all time to come. No use to argue how ma.tters have been conducted heretofore, but how they must be conducted here after. Some Republicans say de feat the bond issue in order to humiliate the present city ad ministration, because it is Demo cratic, and after we have done this, then we will vote a bond is sue and thus relieve the situation. Now from a political standpoint alone, this might be a good poli cy, but it is cheap politics to say the least. Will such a policy appeal to the element necessary to make us a majority party in the future, and can we as loyal and patriotic cit izens afford to play cheap politics, when the credit and future rep utation of our town is at stake. It costs money to hold elections and the condition of our city treasury is such that there is no money to waste. The open in debtedness of the city is about forty thousand dollars and may be more, certainly no less, twen ty-five thousand of this was bor rowed to do permanent street will compare in importance to the improvement, and for which the people of our county with this, city finds now that in order to the erection of a hospital within posed of Joseph Holt, Winslow W. Lasley, James G. Holt, and Ernest H. Mdrray, together with Mayor A. F. Barrett, as chair man, whose duty it will be to have all permanent work done as long as the money lasts. To vote against the bond issue, virtually says that you have no confidence in these men, and that you care nothing for the reputation and good name of your city. The proposed arrangement is the best proposition ever submitted to our citizens, and it is the earnest de sire of Dameron, Hoffman, Brown and myself that this measure re ceive the unanimous support of every Republican in the City of Burlington. If the bond issue is defeated let it be done by those Democrats who say they have no confidence in their own city ad ministration and not by the stal wart progressive and loyal Re- pubhcans who care more for the city's future welfare than for any temporary advantage over our political opponents. And we will not only have built wisely but well. Yours for progress, J. Zeb Waller. The Hospital Question. To the people of the cities of Burlington, Graham and Haw River, and to the people of Ala mance county in general. At a regular meeting of the Alamance county Medical Society, in accordance with a resolution unanimously adopted, we, the un dersigned Committee, were ap pointed to announce to you that you are cordially and earnestly invited to meet with us at our next regular meeting on Monday the 9th, day of May 1910, to take steps looking towards the erec tion of a hospital at some appro priate place in Alamance county. This meeting will be held in Graham, N. C., on the day stated at half past one o'clock, sharp, and all who feel interested in this movement are requested to come and take a part in our delibera tions. We wish to get started in the nght way to compass this most beneficient and necessary enterprise; and so your counsel will be valuable to us as well as your contributions. We have said this most bene ficent and necessarj' enterprise. There is nothing in contemplation or actual course of erection that renew the loan they must pay an her borders. For numbers of pa- V, design of our paper only a few Guthrie, who was 'Leo's Hospital at nday to be operated '-rV; did ti s, underwent . Alunday and at the doirjg nicely. We recovery. exorbitant renewal premium in i tients are taken to institutions in addition to the legal rate of in-1 other counties every year, and terest. The city administration i every month in the year, who asks us as citizens and tax pay-: could and‘ought to be cured here, ers to come to their aid, vote six- i Many are thus transported who ty thousand thirty year, five per are in no way fit for such trans- cent bonds, pay off the twenty- portation, and their lives jeopard- five thousand dollar loan, stop ized in the journey; and in »)ther the excessive renewal premium, cases sacrificed because we have divide the remainder of the bond no safe place in which to treat issue equally between the four them. wards of the city, the small ward^ Then, there is the way-faring getting just as much as the larg- man and the stranger within our er ones, and not less than one- gates, for whom we are commai’d- third to be spent in sidewalk im- ed to care as much as for our own provements. people. How can w^e egectively Now we are all citizens of Bur- care for him if we have no place lin^on, each striving in his own for him? We all know that a way for the upbuilding of the hotel is a poor substitute for a city. Are you going to allow hospital. your prejudice to influence your, And there are hundreds of our vote to your own hurt and the own people stricken with diseases detriment of your neighbor? Sup- other than surgical, to whom a pose war should be declared be- good hospital would be a blessed tween this country and some boon. Cases of fever, of pneu- foreign power, what would you monia, of chronic troubles requir- think of the Democrats if they ing persistent and skillful attend- should sympathize with the ance and special conveniences, foreigners, and against this na- can thus be cared for in the per- 1 tion, and refuse to help defend son of the poor as well as of the I their country because the Re- rich. Last and least for our con- ipubhcans were in' power? We sideration, is the fact that many, i would call them traitors and say many dollars of our money go i they deserved to be shot, as they away from us that should be I no doubt would be. Now because kept here. i the city government is in the ^ Come and meet us, and let us I hands of the Democrats are we build a hospital whicli shall be a I going to be disloyal, and vote blessing and a credit to our peo- 1 against the bond issue? Are we pie. Signer I not a part of the city government , C. A. Anderson 'and should we not come ito the; J. W. McPherson, ;rescue of those who are charged' T. S. Faugette, I with the administration of the 'city affairs. There may_ have ■ been mistakes made and will con- L. A. Walker, W. E. Walker, J. W. Page. HE PAID FOR PROm licted Blind Tiger Causes a Insatson^—Startling Accusa tions. llmington, April 12.—Marion yinner, a middle aged white convicted in the Superior Saturday night of selling jkey and sentenced to six Ihs on the roads, Judge Cooke liined the judgement of the rder’s court, today made a litional affidavit in whiph he I3 a full confession and de- Id that there are more than Ihimdred holders of govern- [t liquor license in Wilmington the “blmd tigers” have a :)ugh organization known as |30ciati0n No. 6," that he has regularly into the coffers of jissociation $5 a month to be I for political purposes and Jrwise; that the members had |i given to understand that if Isted and carried before the Irder the severest punishment lid be a fine and costs; that jase public sentiment was such I it Vk^ould be necessary to give iDcid sentence the members to be warned in ample time, afilant then sets out that he not warned, and that he has la "made a scapegoat of by his Iner pretended friends. In elusion and exposure of those lays have deserted him is made jtlie sole purpose of aiding in his effort to have his seii- j!e striken out or reduced, iinner’s attorney will go be- I Judge Cooke tomorrow and I for a hearing of the matter. J is understood that mar?.y^ii*ank liibitionists will give Winner [r moral support in view of liilfidavit. ow isn’t this a pretty how d ;: and right in dear old nch democratic Wilmington re they shoot negro’s to keep |r democracy regular, and to |ntain their party standing, would' be delighted to have opinion of the News upon |i doings. Or will it content ff to merely say that we are g all in our pov/er to bring disrepute the proiiibition Remember dearly beloved I; this is a serious reflection your party and in all such [}s you are expected to do your duty to the contemporary |> dares to give publicity to 1 grave misdoings, will you ijqual to the occasion, we shall Fishing for Fan. YofK World. there be a time for every lig thit is the time for fishing lot fishing for the market, but ling for fun. To most men, ling means hard work with a lie or dull work with a hook line. Fishing for sport is l,e with a rod and reel. The [is out of the northern lakes I streams but their waters are ji and clear. Fish that live in |tn are firm, quick, pugnacious in their intelligent. The man b gets a few of them must j»w where they live, under- jtid their habits, possess an Ifit of approved fitness and be |>ert in its use. Lngling in warm waters for h and indifferent fish, aweary In can hardly forget business Ies, for there is not enough ex- fcment to occupy his mind, (crating in a northern lake or jiok in early spring, with the listance of a good guide, his hd is intent only upon fish, lere no anxieties of trade, no Ifessional perplexities, no lial domestic worriments, no lubles of any kind, for a man Iwhose eyes the flashing sun- Iht is rejected and in whase Is the reel is ringing. Khis would be a better workl la good many respectsif every- Ing would do a little genuine Ibiiig once a year. Gill Sharpe Takes A Shot At The Aldermen. To the Editor State Dispatch: Please make room in your valuable paper fora few thoughts along the line of city government. I anl glad that my old man did not get to be one of the city alderman. If he had, and voted for air this trouble--if he had not resigned his position I would have left him, I would not live with a man that could not have done inuch more than these men are doing. *I blame the citizens of the town for letting these men go on like they have. If these are the best men in town I think they had better elect women next time. If we would not do any more than these are doing we think it V70uld be a poor do. If the women of the town will help^we will run the town com- rnissioners out of town, and the civil engineer too. They are not fit to stay in this tovirn where civilized people live. ■ Mrs. G. A, Sharpe. From the looks of this town it looks like these men are wasting a sight of money. They are mov ing a sight of dirt unncessary. I can’t find out who is the boss of this road. The town commission ers say old man Carter is sup posed to be the boss, but he don't claim to be the boss. He has ruined the road, I would not claim to be the boss either. It is the first jcb I ever saw with out a boss. The tixrmers say we have got the men running the town who have got the least sense of any men in the world, their work has proved it if you will look at this road. They say we must have plenty of money the way we are spending it. It looks hke it to look at the road from where I Hve to Laytons store. It is all sunk down water on top nearly half knee deep. That’s a nice road, isn't it? The farmers say they don't see how they are going to miake nice roads out of that. I say myself that they will have to tear it up like everything else they have done. When they haVe gbt anything good enough they won’t let it aloiie. Th« road is completely worn out, it is in worse fix than it has ever been. When people over it they go che-bump, che- bump. Now they want another election to get more money, they want it to waste like they have been wasting it. They don't think about interest that has got to be paid, and the principal sometime, I think these men have handled enough money n^ better than they are using it, If they are let al ne they Will borrow all the monf jy that is in the North. For gracio IS sakes, men go and regis ter, j ay your poll tax vote against the bonds. We doh^t know how much ntioney they have borrowed. They don’t tell anything about the money mat ters. Anybody can go before commissioners meeting, they keep no order, people laugh all the time. The aldermen set up there and whisper. It looks like they would talk so people could hear. It's a secrect buisiness. They don't tell where the money goes, you need not go before them to ask about the money. People who have eyes can see where it is going out in the vacr ant lot. They contract to men and turn them loose in the town. They don't care how many fences they tear dowri or how many corners they destroy. It looks looks like it's dangerous for a In a railroad office in West Philadelphia there is an old and trusted clerk of Celtic extraction, iwivo 11-o xvx «, who keeps his associates in a man, wonaan or chiW to go along of good humor by these high banks with big cakes unending senes of witticisms, of dirt sliding down. It is a interspersed occasionally with “bulls'i so glaring that even he shame and a scandaK the way , they have damaged the people in L.™ this town. G. A. SHARPE, The reports complied in Reven ue Agent R.B. Sams’ office at Asheville, N.C, , shows that dur ing the month of march deputy collectors working from the Ash eville office destroyed a total of 41 distilleries and bound over to United States District court 2© men on charges of illicit distilling. The collectors also seized 3,267-5 gallons of whiskey. The value of [the siezed and confiscated prop erty for the month is, $5,470. • Prosperous Uncle Sam* Like the railroads and the great industrial cori»ratioris and like the vast majority of small business concerns, the Federal ^vemment is enjoyihg a. great increase in income and is finding it much easier to ; keep its outgo down nearly to the limits of its receipts. There is a fair chance that the balance will soon be on the right side. The growth of the national I revenues is many-sided. It is greatest in the customs receipts, but it is large! in internal, taxes, especially on spiritupus liquors. Thereis a remarkable gain, like wise, in postoffice income. The indications are that the fiscal year which ends with June will close with only a small deficit by coriiparison with the figures for the preceeding year. The actual difference between reve nues and expenditm’es may be reduced to almost nothing. At the end of March it was only about $12, OOOj000, and there had been a large surplus for that month. As for the Postoffice Depart* ment, at the end of the first half of the fiscal year there was a de ficit of a little more than $4,000,- 000 against a deficit of more than $10,000,000 in the correspondihg part of the previous fiscal year. The second quarter had shown a good surplus, and the end of the year may find the receipts and expenses of the. department near ly balanced. All this is absolute proof of national prosperity. Such things cannot happen in time which are not rich in expansion and pro gress. Woman Sut^age Question, WaBhiDgton Star. Nothing more forcibly shows the growth of the woinan suffrage movement than the situation in the South. That section under the old regime w^ the paradise of the housekeej^rs.:^ x iantatioh life and the life in towns—there were few cities in the South then —were no$ favorable to club organizations for women, or plat form appearances for them of any kind. It wjas not good form for a woman to occupy herself, ex(^pt by reading, with matters political or governmental* All of that was set apart as '‘men's business.^' But in the South now, as else where, the new note i!g sounded. As able and as earnest advocates of the ballot for women may be found in the Southern States as in any of the other states, and in the great temperance Wave which has been sweepi|ig oyer that sec tion the women, although with out votes, have been leaders in the cointests and quick learners in the arts of jparty organization and vote-cdrraling. The cause is still a long way from goal. Some of its most vigorous and determined oppon ents are women themselves, con tented with their present sphere of activity and of opinion tnat it is by no means sufficiently im proved. They, as well as their suffrage sisters, sure in action, and between they are waking uf> menHto a new and larger view of the whole question. Sounded^st When Silent. that invariably follows such a “toeak” on his part. There was some tjrouble on the telephone one day recently, and Mike, as he is called ainong his friends, lost much of his usual good nature in his efforts to get the gist of a message that was being sent from another office. The man on the other end of the wire finally became exasperated and asked Mike if he was losing his hearing. ■ ‘I can hear you all right until you begin to talk,'' said mike, “and then I can't understand a word you say." C'M vv-’a If i!