fr* ■ 4 WtiiiP** A REPUBLICAN NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE UPBUILDING OF AMERICAN HOMES AND AMEHICAN INDUSTRIES VOL. IV. BURLINGTON. N. C, JANUARY 31.1912. N0.88 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.” ■ ;:ni tfi; llu’ si,;;! 1:;.; lu would ,6 '-m!'! ■; ive to tuy 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. ■ fii, I s;. -Tt-i ' . ■■ 'R 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-*•'

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