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A REPUBLICAN NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE UPBUILDING OF AMERICAN HOMES AND AMEHICAN INDUSTRIES
VOL. IV.
BURLINGTON. N. C, JANUARY 31.1912.
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Delightfnl Week-End House Parly. Roy Fonville 5peaktr of Oc-|
Oaks, the beautiful';
“Mary Ann’' Monday Nigot. i
casio..
Bonnie
home of T\Tr. and Mrs. John . 4.U ^ n •
GanL has beenthesceneof t*'? f™.™
merriment during th« week-enU i ^ ^ s Raleigh News and Ob-
house parij, «hkh was giver, bvf«"«'> «’>?'=>» Saper^arned..tbe
and
ipicture of Mr. Le Roy R. Fon-
‘ i^ville of the Charlotte Bar who
Misses Jessamine
rliarmine- euosts of thf» (principal speaker at a
mSIs G^e:"^ies
Graham, Eugenia Clark, pgjjg., , hjrtenan Church at Raleigh Sun
lope Davis, Elizabeth Jones of
Raleigh, and Lucy Atkinson of
San Marcos, Texas; Messrs, John
Davis, Walter Clark, Jr., Kim
brough Jones of Raleigh, Roger
Gant, E. Palmer Davis of Duke,
John C. Woolfolk of Richmond,
Va.; Kenneth Gant and John Q.
day night. Mr. Fonville is one of
Alamance counties famous and
illustrious sons vs^ho is making his
mark in the world:
Mr. Fonville made an interest
ing and impressive talk on “The
DWigations of Strength.” Him-
jself a man of education and
strongly interested in his theme,
Gant delightfully entertained in
“ »i3aid\hTsp^ker"raan
to take dominion, anil
On feday night the Misses
At the creation of the world,
was bid.ien
ever since
then strength has been tiie dis
tinguishing quality of man. The
man of brawn and muscle, and
the man strong in self-control,
the ladies’prize for the most at- service and ehivah'y; has to this
M, day been the favorite m real hfe
and m fiction. Civilization has
One of the features of the eve
ning were I^eap-Year letters of
proposal, written by the young
ladies, and responses by the men.
Miss Eugenia Clark was awarded
tractive proposal, and Mr. Manly
E?^?; J but the ideal for the
; right use of strength. Those who
tc
eolation, being cut fci
m? • ' serve the world are the great
The pleasure of the evenmg ; Christ’s gospel is a gospel
was much added to by the ^ ^ 8 i
lightfol vocal solos of U The elemenis of strength for
of Graham, and Mr. Wwlfolk oi i young man or the young wo-
Richmond, accomijanied by Miss i ^ Fonville, are ihree,
Atkinson on the piano . i First, one must have and main-
At the close q± the game the j ^ proper physical endow'-
guests were i^.v^ed into the din ■ temple of God must
mg room, which was most at- treated well and reverently,
tractive in its decoratioi^ of second place, one needs
carnations and ferns. The color intellectual endowment—a
scheme of pink and gpen bein^ :quick, keen, observant mind,
artistically earned out. A delic- Ut^aptable and unshackled. One
101^ salad course was served. i n^^ds poise, judgement, and hu-
The popular guests ot (he Miss-1 i - ^ ■
es Gant's house Were j finallv, one requires spirit-
mingly entertained by Mrs. strength. The things of the
win A. Holt, baturday evening. • underlatc-d by many, are
not idle dreams. Ideals are be-
Anyone Beat This Decatur
Owing to the down pour ofi Pitcher’s Record
rainonb u small audience was I Even Cari Swanson's great
present at the Graded /pchool i pitching record with the Florence
Monday night to bear , ,Mary Athleties falls into insignificance
Ann,” il.e impersonator. ‘Mttry “ • _
Ann” in the person of Miss Da
vis, of Raleigh, of the faculty df
St. Mary’s College, and sisterof
Mrs, Erw’in Holt, was dressed
in a beautiful blue evening cos
tume. ' The play was di /ided in
to four acts and was very inter
esting from beginning to end.
“Mary Ann” was the maid in
the home of Mrs. Leadbetter,
and was acquainted with a Mr
before that of John Payne, the
fast young Decatur, Ned., twirl-
er, who has already signed >vith
Vancouver team of the Padfic
Coast league for next year.
Payne is but 20 years of age,
but has turned a trick which baf
fled most of the veteran heaver-j
of the big leagues, for during the
recent carnival at Decatur he
pitched his team to victory over
, vw . . . the fast Onawa, la.. aggregation
Launchlot who was a musician not giving a hit nor run, and al
but could not sell his music.
Rosa was the daughter of Mrs.
Leadbetter, whose mother de
serted her brought up like a lady.
Later on, “Mary Ann” inherited
five billion dollars, and still later,
Launchlot made a success of his
music which sold well, he and
“Mary Ann” finally marrying.
Temp Eranee Lecture.
Hon. Jf!0= G. Woolvy, twice noni,-;
inated on the prohibition ticket|
for President of the United:
States, and R. L. Davis Supt. of'
the Anti-Saloon league of die:
state were present at the Bap
tist Church Monday night av.d
addressed a small but attentive,
audience. Both indicated their
belief That the bill now pending;
Congress to protect interstate
commerce against the shippii;g
of liquorous beverages will be:
passed.
To petition the passage of this,
bill petitions were circulated at
the various churches Sunday
morning with a viev/ of getting
all the voters who favor the pas
sage of this bill to sign. These
petitions will be sent to our con
gressman and senators.
Social at Mr. Barnweirs Home.
Saturday right tweuty or more
of the friends of Mr. and Mrs.
Robt. L. Barnwell were deligh?:
fully entertained at their hon:e:
orr Washington Street in honor
of their friend Miss “Curly '
Kennon of Mebane, the cousin of
Mrs. Barnwell. Games were
played, refreshments served and
the evening spent in a very de
lightful and enjoyable manner.,
Wonderfol Law.
We want to say in the begi’v
ning, before we say anythins>
else, we are prohibition and it
strong believer in prohibitionl
But what tickles our fancy and
makes us laugh up the sleeve
this wonderful prohibition law id' |
ours, and the great good it ir«_ EiCt |
corapliKhing. Generosity, kiii.d-j
ness, free-licartedness, it hh.sj
them ail. Out of half dozen re-
coni ai'rests nil for rctailin
eatr. swore vei'y [.'.j;siii vely
■'A’iiier” was g
tho);:,. ^-jLipuose wo puss a
, hind every groat thing. The ca
.^ipacity j'or drenniirg which bs-
' longs to youth is a promise of
great things, a thing for which
everyone ought to be profoundly
thankful. Cynicism, the denial
of ideals, is of the pit. The re
suits of it are passimism and fi
callous calm, a kind of soul-
death.
Tdeal?, said the speaker, are
bard to keep up—hard like other
things wort h while. Just as it is
hard and worth while—to con
quor the air, to manage a groat
business, to conquer a passion,
to overcome a physical handicap,
, so it is hard and worth while to
stand alone, to be dilTerent, to
stay away from the crowd when
the crowd is in the wrong. Life
at its best is not easy.
Strength, said Mr. Fonville, is
a sacred trust which one dare
not refuse to employ for service.
From him who has received much
shall much be required. One
must face life in a spirit of grati
tvide for strength and with a de
termination to fulfil the obliga
tions which strength entails.
Be Pleasant.
Although the streets are slop
py nnd everyone is proned to kick,
be ijleasant, remember our town
and historic old county of Ala
mance is by far bettei than ma
ny places in Tar Heel State
where lowlands!and marshes ex
ist. Keep in view the fact that
onl^a few days which will fleet
way qvickly will bring the bal
my days of spring with their
sweet perfume, and the melari-
hoJ.\’ weather will be no mor^.
Be pltisjnt and keep sweet, it'
will alvv..ys pay in the end.
Resolutions of Respec.t
The Teachers' Association of
Alamance County: having lost
one of its Charter Members: Mr.
James I. White wishes to place
on record this expression of ap
preciation of his life and charac
ter.
For nearly half a century Bro
ther White has been a faithful
teacher, a member of the County
Board of Education, and a mov
ing in our association. By his
noble bearing upon his associates
he won their confidence.
Resolved by the Alamance
Teachers' Association that the
sympathy of this body be express
ed to the family of the deceased
and that as an evidence of the
esteem in which he was held,
this resolution
the minutes of
lowing no one to reach firs c base
his control and support being per
feet. But twenty-seven raeri fac
ed him, and the final score was 3
to 0. This great game was pitch
ed on September 9. It is a record
in this state.
He has pitched twenty-six
games this season, of which five
were shut ones, Of these he won
twenty-three and lost three
struck out 213, walked but thir
teen and allowed but 132 hits.
He has batted a little over .300
per cent.
It is thought that Payne a[V- a
year's experience on the coast,
will be heard from among the
big ones.—Ex
(Mr. Payne, with his his fath
er, Mr. W. T, Payne, of Graham
No. 2 was in The State Dispatch
office Monday. He i§. an Aia-
manee County boy who is des-
tiped to be one of- the world’s
greatest ball players.) Local
Editor.
Church News
Dear Editor: Owing to extieme
cold weather and bad roads we
held our first service at Lows for
1912 it was very cold rctods still
bad we had a very encouraging
turnout. When such men- like
Johnnie Coble and Jsicob Sharp,
in their four score years can come
five or six miles it looks like the
younger ones could attend. We
missed Riiey Brown and wife.
All our former Pastors know how
faithful, but the infirmaties of
old age and affliction prevent
their regular attendance, but the
influence of their example is seen
in the regular attendance of their
children. Like others though
dead live through their children
and grandchildren. There are
be spre^l upon j gQ^e very faithful and true work-
. X association, j gj.g_ church has a more
a copy senvto the State Dispatch i earnest and faithful Sunday
for publication
H. C. Stout
E. C, Rumbley,
Minnie Montgomery Sec.
Committee
OvermaK-Hodgin
ID
Twelve Persons Drown
Missbsippi.
Carlo, III, Jan 28--Twelve per
sons are reported to have been
lost today when a rowboat in
which they were crossing the
Mississippi river from Birds’
Point,' Mo., toCario was caught
in an ice jam. They were being
ferried across to the cotton belt
railway station here.
Searching parties have been
unable to find any trace of the
lost boat or its passengers.
Fire At Glen Raven
The storage room of Glen Rav
en Gotten Mills caught fire Mon
day about ejt;ven o’clock and was
bale;
tlie I destroyed by fire with
i School Superintendent than Lows
i in wilbur Clapp always at his post
; of duty. He made a few very
earnest remarks for all to make
this year a pov/er in Sunday
School work. I do hope his re
marks will be heeded and that
, « ,1 , I the young will take more interest
grooin s I ^j]| gjyg them
mother, Mrs. Sarah Overman in I ^vamnlp
have not much sickness
26 19U Mr. Chas, Overman and
Miss Cassie Hodgin were happily urs. Austin Coble has been
united in the bonds of matemony
Esquire H, F, Moore officiating, improved. ' Her son
^e wish them a long and happy jg happy another young
_ ... . _ lady arrived at his house a few
' days ago, it came to stay.
Should Have a Gas Plant They say he is very proud, I dont
\/f .. blame him. With best wishes
Mayor Free.and ha* ^^cently success of your paper,
received a communication from a
Kumnerll & Co. of Philadelphia! a iteaaer.
Pa., with a viev/ of seeing the
business men of Burlington in the ;
near futuj e relative to establish-!
ing a gas plant here. This firmi
Winston-Salem Neitro Handled
Roughly.
Philedeilphia, Pa. Jan 26—Sisecial,
With a clothes line around his
neck, his face and body battered
by blows and kicks, Brewster
Hurston, a ].^year-old negro boy
who came to this city from whist-
on-Salem, N" C., escaped being
lynched by the narrowest margin
on the parkay at Twenty-first
street last night. It was only the
arrival of Policeman Chamberis of
the Twentieth and Butterwood
streets station that saved the
youthj According to the testi
mony at the house of detention;
Chambers fought his way into
the infurated crowd of men with
his revolver and held the crowd
at bay un til the patrol crew ar
rived from the station house.
Hurston was arraingned before.
Magistrate Yates in the house of
detention today and was held un
der $500 bail on a charge of high
way robbery. He was covered
with bruises and, cuts
and showed plainly the effects
of the treatihent he' received last
night.
Witnesses testified that Miss
Jessie Smith of No. 631 North
Thirteenth street was waiting
at Twenty-first and Spring Gar
den streets for a car last night
Hurston came down Twenty-first
street, and as he passed Miss
Smith, he pulled the hand-bag
from her wrist rah west on Spring
Garden street. William Ruoff of
No. 2A15 North Twenty-third
street, who was riding on a bi-
cyclci started after the runnin.g
youth, shouting “Stop theif”.
A large crowd collected and some
one shouted that Hurston had
attacked a wqman. While the
crowd was thumping and kicking
the boy, some one , got a clothes
line. This was thrown around
his neck and he was being drag
ged towards a lamp-post when
Policem*Uri Ghambei’s arrived.
Church Notite.
Church of the Holy Comforter,
John Benners Gibble, Rector,
Services: Frida]^, February 2nd.,
Purification of the Blessed Virgin
Mary or the Presentation of
Christ in the Temple, Holy Com-
raunion 10:00 a. m. this date is
also the first anniversary of the
Rectorship of Rev. _Mr. Gibble of
St. Athanasius Parish.
Septuagesima Sunday: Sunday
School 9:30, Holy Communion,
11:00, Evening Prayer 7:30, Ser
mons at the Church S'Srvices.
Confirmation Lecture 3:30 p, m.
Public cordially invited. Paws
free. Polite ushers. Fine vest
ed choir.
BAD FOR RiCHESON
Boston, Mass., Jan.; 25. —Silas
N. PhelpSj of Monroe, the mur
derer of ^Deputy SherifF Emmett
F. Baskins^ has lost in the fight
to escape the electric chair, the
executive council today bis)' a vote
of 7 to 1, refusing to commut^
the death sentence.
Phelps probably will be execut
ed early tomorrow ^and certainly
before sunrise Saturday. Phelt>s
crime was the killing of Dejiuty
Sheriff Emmett P. Haskins on
June 12, 1910; On the previous
afternoon Phelps, had stabbed
Wm. Penn, superit^tCindent; pf a
paper mill where he was eiiRpldy
ed and Haskiijs with a posse had
been sent to arrest him.
He was convicted of mtirder in
the first degree in November. ,
1910. •
PItES. WRIlim
KMUO FOi EUlil
Elon College, Jan., 25. ■^Presi
dent Ha’'perarrived on thie hill
at 9:27 tonight and madie the an
nouncement that the special fund
of $50,000 for Elon CdU^ge had
been c6nipleted> He hab b^n at
work on this fund ever since the
latter part of September and has
completed it wit!hin less time than;
seemed possible w^hen he under
took the task. President Harper :
says it was not easy to refuse to
let people give When they T^lly
wanted to, as ;, they ceriaiitly ;
wanted to in thi^ it^se. smil
es and declareiSi sirhply that lie ,
did not h^ ve the lieart t6 refu^
them the opportunity they desir
ed. But" we suspect sotne of
them would' not have given if ^
tliey had hot been intervieweit!,";
“Only one man has denied the
privilege of giving to this fund, ''
declared the president. “Who
was that?’’■ asked a clioi,us:, of
anxioiis voices, ' W. W..
Staley, of Suffolk, Va,,.” Was the
respoonse, ‘ 'an^ the reason was
that Dr. Stjiley served the college .
11 years .as president vvithoUt ^
salary, and during that time gave
$3,500 of his own money to the
college.” Then everybody agTeed ;
that the gift had beeii' properly
refused. ■ “But.” declared the •
speaker, ‘ ‘Dr. Staley cpuld not be
outwitted, for he gave for his,,
wife and also for each of his
three children.”
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would ,6
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A ia\v, , y
,ay! Why not pass a vk
Pi'oliibilini; till- sate of shoes ;,r'
clo’J'and rccoive these a.li fr
A v.onderl’ui law, isn’t it to ;;-i3
sure. Charitable, benevolent ;t
has ihom all.
In our opinion it is proving to
be one of the most wonderfitl,
laws on the statute and we wca-
der why some smart ike doif't
pass others similar. I;
of cotton toi'fil loss of cotton arsd I the record ior births was broken
in t])is (‘.ity, tvvo seta of triplets
beina- boin here .Mv. a.nd Mrs. D,
New Pipe Organ Installed
, In the latter part of last year
is putting in plants at Henderson ; we published the fact that Messrs
and Ehzabeth City. This will be a J. Harvey and William E. White
splendid industry for our town and their sister, Mrs. Phil Car-
and should be encouraged. leton, now of Richmond, p.ropos-
!ed to give the Presbyterian
Two Sets of Triplets. I^^urch a.handsome pipe organ as
■a memorial to their mother, the
Gaffeny S. C., Jan. 26—Yes-' )at5 Mrs. Emma, V. White, Be-
terday in Gaffney was indeed a fore Christmas tlie pulpit plat-
bay to make the heart of,, Teddy \ form vvas changed and a recess
Roosevelt’ th?itable enemy of race; built at tli4f rear for the reception
suicide, happy. It is thought that
Chamber of Commerce Banquet,
The Chamber of Commerce
will give a Banquet to the busi
ness men of Burlington that are
interested in the present and fu
ture of our city at the Ward
Hotel Friday evening at 8:30
Feby. 16th,
In order that this may be in
every way satisfactory wewill
charge $1.00 per plate_ a:nd we
believe that we will have
a Itirge attendance of the business
men of Burlington. We will have
someone as representative of our
neighboring Cities to talk to us
as to what they have done thru
this avenue.
Now let us get together for 'a
long steady pull in 1912 for the
upbuilding of Burlington.* Any
one that is interested and wishing
to attend vvili get their card from
either the President or Secretary
upon deposit of $1.00 and this to
be done not later than Feby. 13
as we must know by that time
just how many will be present.
W. E.‘Sharpe, Pres,
J. H. Vernon, Sec,
Knocked Into a Cocked Hat
From the Chattanooga Times
Dem.
We shall be somewhat surDris-
ed if the verdict of I the country
followit^g this incident is not that
building' eslirnaf'ed . at 'v/.50(l.
Thv.- oi'i^TUj of Ihe firei^ UDknown
Some oi tiif' baiei’ of coUon wa3
si ill biii'n;r;g Tuesday it ’ '
oa^'-n it;; ■\v;-y into th
b;;.dly it could noi
c(i. It Y\-as reuMzcd iVom
lUVii
so,
exiiiiyuish- j the
the i
Fai'ris are i'e.ioicing over tw‘J
giris ard one boy, \vhile a sim
ilar hap].>y o.V(.;''t. occuiTed anioti^
po]'iu!at.ion at the iioine oi
h Deal. Six in one day arooii-
vva:
first that the cottor; couM not be i two lanalies is a good record
i for any town, and the tact th-at
— I “Galiney Grov/s Great” cannot
The Republican National Con- be disputed,
of the instrument, A choir plat
form has been built between the
organ and the preacher’s de.';k.
The installation of the ins'i;j’u-
nientwfis couipleted last 'vvoek
and on Saturday night an inior-j Death rates from typhoid
raal recital .wiven L>y .t-'ro. pn North Carolina municipal citi
jJiy the oi; Burlii".;o'ton, who knov. sjes of over 1,000population in 19-
10 were 57.7 per 100,000 it was
The. Death Rate From Tj.phoid
Fever,
'^Vashington, I>. C., Jan. 25.—
fever
vention will meet in Chicago,
June 18th and name the nexc| Acetylmethlenedisahcylic acid;
President. The Democrats will jg the "latest cure for rheuma-1
meet in Baltimore on June 25 and tism. Pronounce well before I
give each other black eyes and in- takino-
cidently name an “also man. ”
. hnv/ to handle'an oragan. me
; organ is of splendid volume and
' sweet and meilovV tons. Our
■Presbyterian friends have just
'.cause to feel proud of this splen-
! did organ.—Alamance Gleaner
Miss Sue Mebane of Mebane
spent Sunday with her parents
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Mebane.
announced at the census bureau
today’ No records are available’
for previous years.
ed Bryan into a cocked, hat’’ by
outdoing him at his oWn game-^
selfish perverseness and wilful
disregard of the obligations qf
personal friendship and politic;M
partisanship. It is melahclioly*
too, that it appears so, for Gov
ernor Wilson was at one tinie the
most promising figure ^mong all
the Democratic entries for the
Presidential nOminatiOD.
Against Kitchin.
Gov. Kitchin, who now thinks
he is running for the Sena^, _
will berenieberedinRocking^arti'
as the gentleman who used to,
have forty fits a minute cussing
the tobacco trust when he was
v\ranting sonie oflice and wdio af
ter he was elected Governor ap
pointed an oScial of the,.trust
a director of tlie North Carolina
Railroad—an d that, tob, after
the aforesaid trust official had .
worked andlielped to defeat the-
lace lamented Reuben D. Reid ,
for the senate in the' year 19G8v
iieuben Reid fought for the to
bacco farmers of our State "While
he Vy'as alive and now^that he
dead and gone to a reward'
we believe that, the tobacob' fiar-
iners are . going - to do a little
fighting for liini. —Madison Her
ald. ■
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Jno. R. Foster received a tele
gram to-day stating that his:
daughter Miss yraM who is visit
ing at Suffolk'Va. is ilhand it is
thought she h0,s appendicitis,
Atlantic City is having its annual
spasm of ^Virtue, which doubtless
vvill continue vin til the advent of
warm weather makes it interfer
with cash registers.
If-wiTJW aw-*•'