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VOL. IV.
A REPUBLICAN NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE ^UPBUILDING OF AMERICAN HOMES AND AMERICAN INDUSTRIES.
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BURLINGTON. N. C. APRIL 3. 1912.
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BlOOBHOljNDS TO
THilil
Hillsviile, Ya., March 31.--
Two keen-scented »nf't well train
ed hounds. I’smed for their achiev
ement in disproving Hemry Beat
tie’s story of an attac*k and mur
der of a lone high wav man. were
carried from here ye«rcr^ay af-
ternpon to Mt. Airy. Tt^day they
^ii be put upon the trail of Si^na
Allen and Weslev Ed wards and
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confusion of their human pursue
rs will be useless. The keen scent
of the dogs will penetrate the
thickest undergrowth. Their bay
will tell to the posse wen and det
ectives that the quarry has been
found. The work of the men
will be only to close in—to make
the cordon so tight that escape
will be impossible. The dogs
may never come back out of the
mountains, but their trainer has
no doubt but that once they strike
the real trail they will not stop
until they have forced an act of
hostility on the part of the pursu
ed.
KEPOBUCAN tMJMTt CONVEliTION.
The Republicans of Alamance i^ounty are hereby called
meet in the town of Graham, Saturday, April 13. 1912 at
2:00 p. ns for the purpose of ele^ng delegates and alternat
es to the State, Congressional, Judicial and Senatorial Con
ventions.
The precinct primaries will be held in all the precints in
the county on Friday, April 12th,.at 2 p. m.. except Mebane,
Haw River, Graham, North and South Burlington and Swep-
aonville, which will be hel^ at 7:S0 p. m. April 12th.
E. S. W. DAMERON, Sec.
W. W. BROWN,
Chairman.
for the first time since their mur
derous assault upon
county courthouse, the leaders
face a foe against which they
have no I'ower or skill to cope.
With the dogs on the trail the
mountain laurel will be a detri
ment rather than ?. vefutre to »-he
outlaws. It will be imoossible
for them to find shelter bfeneath
leaves and laurel while r.he ^det
ective? poke and search v'ithin
almost arm’s reach. Witii the
dogs on the trail Iasi week Det
ective I-Vli? .'^liVS
Hillsviile, Va., April l.-Two
bloodhounds today were set tip-
on the trail of Sidna Allen and
his nephew, Wesley Edwards,
the two remaining fugitives of
the Allen clan. Though given
what the detectives considered
was the best trail they had found
thus far, a heavy rain is thought
to have washed away the scent
and at nightfall the posse had
met with no success. The trail
given to the dogs began at the
Natural Cave, where on Saturday
a supply of rations and blankets
were abandoned by the outlawf
in a sudden flight caused by the
close approach of the posse.
The detectives have secured in
formation which tomorrow will
set the dogs upon a new track.
Scipio Gray, who lives in the
Fancy Gap section, reported that
the two outlaws had appeared
near his home yesterday. Gray
rn^^ir rM.ip.^nows the Allous very well and
th-i r'lrt’oll cl'^® considered reliable. It
is believed from Gray’s informa
tion that the two men are moving
back and forth between two bas
es of food supply, about ten miles
The report brought by Gray
vyas corroborated by Alexander
McGraw, who lives nearby and
also declared he saw the fleeing
men. Both Gray and McGraw
were agreed that the outlaws
wt-re headed toward the hom« pf
about
Natloiia] RooseveH Committee.
Alien and Ldwards would have
already been effected.
The twc dogs, fullblooded Cu
ban bioodhounds, were brought
here at noon yesterday from the
Virginia state farm. They >vere |
in charge of Trainer B. L. Layne
who at 4:-15 o’clock left with them
for Mo'.int Airy. It was his pur
pose to begin the journey across
the mountains to the point where
the posses believe they have the
outlaws hemmed immediately up
on arrival. He hopes to strike a
tmil for his dogs about noon to
day.
The two dogs are the same
which were used in the famous
Beattie case. When Henry Clay
Beattie drove into Richmond with
his murdered wife and told a story
of an attack by a lone highway-
nian, these two dags was hastily
sent to the scene. They found no
scent other than that which led
from and back to the point where
the automobile stopped. The man
who had trained the dogs and
who had seen them in action was
poRitive then that but one man
w as present when Mrs. Beattie
met her death. Mr. Layne, who
worked the dogs at that time be
lieves they will play an equally
important part in the capture of
the Allens. He thinks the moun
tain laurel will be an aid rather
than a detriment to the hounds,
and that had they been on the
scene last week, it would have
heen impossible for the outlaws
to lay concealed within a few
feet of their pursuers, as young
Friel Allens claims. Mr. Layne
says the dogs are the pick of the
Virginia farm, pack, v/hich con
tains 22 full blooded Cuban and
English hounds.
V/hile here the dogs were given
food and water. They made a-
way with great portions ^f beef
in a manner which would have
caused fear to the most hardly—
|yen Sidna Allen would have
nickered at the thought of one of
those set of teeth taking hold up
on the fiank of his leg.
The arrival of the dogs will
mark a new stage in the noted
Virginia man hunt. With them
on the scene the cunning of the
outlaws will be of no avaii. Their
wide and intimate knowledge of
the mountaineers will be of little
value. Once the hounds strike
their trail there will be no stop,
ihe zig-zag maneuvers and dou
ble back methods which the out
laws have employee te the great
I Hubbard Easter, which is ^
' capture of ^ ^
Allep^s house. Hubbard Easter
is a close relatives of the Allens
and he, as well as other members
of the Easter family have been
under close surveilance by the
detectives to find if they were
furnishing food to the outlaws.
THE ALLEN MAN HUNT
March 14-Search begun.
March 20—Sidna Allen at home
Escapes posse by 15 minutes.
March 21—Trap laid to capture
Allens' Big secret posse on trail
Smaller one at Hillsviile a blind.
March 22—Sidna Edwards cap
tured.
March 26- “Jack” Allen offers
to betray his brother Sidna and
his neohews on promise that nfe
of his son Friel will be spared.
March 28-Claude Swanson
Allen captured. '
March 29—Friel Allen found in
carriage house at father’s home.
Sidna Allen and Wesley Ed
wards are the only two members
of the outlaw gang now at large.
To Have City Delivery
We understand that Post Mas
ter Waller, will make another ef
fort to secure city delivery, just
as soon as the street and syle
walk work progresses a little fur
ther. This will be good news tc
many, because the people livmg
upon the outskirts of the city,
have quite a little distance to
come for their mail. Several ef
forts have been made in the past
but always unsuccessful owing to
the conditions of our streets and
side walks. We trust the work
will progress rapidly now, that
warmer weather has come, and
we are not likely to have much
more bad weather, at least not
to last long at a time, besides de
livering the mail at our doors.
City delivery will give employ
ment to at least five people at a
fair salary, Sll of which helps to
build the town. There is already
sixteen thousand dollars paid out
there every year for the main-
tainance of the postal business,
and City delivery will add sever
al thousand more. In the lan
guage of the old lady every little
bit helps.
Mrs. Joe Gant and son of Alta-
mahaw are the guests of Mr. and
Mrs. J. Q. Gant.
The National Taft Bureau, in
the (Blfort to create and foster a
false impression as to the
strength of the Taft candidacy,
.is publishing daily a statement
purporting to give exact figures
as to the delegates elected to the
Republican National Convention.
They are now claiming to have
elected more than 270 delegates
for Taft. The best possible com
mentary upon this claim is the
letter written by Congressman
McKinley, director of the Nation
al Taft Bureau, to Mr. Taft on
October 28, 1910. Mr. McKinley
was then chairman of the Repub
lican Congressional Committee
and h ad directed the Congres
sional campaign of that year.
His letter to Mr. Taft was his
final report upon the campaign
and he put himself on record un
equivocally with a claim for the
certain election of a Republican
House of Representatives. Mr.
McKinley said
“Dear Mr. President:
“It gives me great pleasure to
inform you that every sign points
to Republican control of the
House of Representatives in the
62nd Congress. This informa
tion is based upon what I believe
to be reliable reports from prac
tically every one of the so-called
‘doubtful’ districts. We have
made, and are making, substant
tiai gains in di&tricts^ which we
we lost in the election bf two
years ago by a narrow margin.
“Three months ago ^ssimistic
Republicans and optimistic Dem
ocrats expressed the belief that
this was a Democratic year. This
prediction was not shared by
yourself, or others charged with
responsibility for carrying for
ward the Republican campaign.
“I am pleased to advise you
that there has been a decided
change in sentiment in the last
few weeks. Democratic hopes
are fading and Republicans gen
erally are now enthusiastic in
their belief that while this may
have been a Democratic year in}
June, it is a Republican year in j
November.^' I
Mr. McKinley closed his letter j
with exactly the same kind of a
statement he is now putting out
daily about the election of dele
gates to the national Conven
tion, saying, “I am looking with
the greatest possible confidence
to the result." The election to
which Mr. McKinley looked for
ward with such confidence, and
which he claimed with the same
assurance that now marks his
claims for Taft delegates, result
ed in a signal Democratic tri
umph. The Republican majori
ty of 41 in the 61st. Congress
was changed to a Democratic ma
jority of 64 in the 62nd. Congress.
These are the indisputable fig
ures of Mr. McKinley’s record
have been elected 62 delegates
favoring the nomination of Col
onel Roosevelt, 36 delegates fa
voring the nomination of Mr.
Taft, 2 delegates favoring that
of Senator Cummins, and 10 that
of Senator La Follette, 94 dele-
^tes have been elected vrithout
instruction. There are pending
contests as to 112 delegates.
These contests are alm(^t wholly
in the Southern States where’the
Federal office holders’ machine
has operated regardless of right
and decency to jam through the
selection of Taft delegates, with
out regard to the will of Repub-
I licans and without consideration
, of party regularity or precedent.
The only other important con
tests are in Indiana, where in or
der to secure a show of victory
the Taft machine counted the
votes of 126 contested delegates
to the Indiana State Convention
upon the question of their own
right to sit in th^t conventi6n.
The accompanying table presents
in graphic form just what has
been done to date in the election
of delegates to the Chicago Con
vention;
Alabama, Roosevelt 2; Con
tested, 20.
Dist. of Col., Contested 2.
Crlorado, Taft 8.
Florida, Contested 12.
Georgia, Uninstructed 2; Con-
Indiana, Roosevelt 2; Taft 8;
Contested 10.
Iowa, Taft 8; Cummins 2. .
Michigan, Taft 4; Uninstruct-
ed 2.
Mississippi, Roosevelt, 20.
Missouri, Roosevelt 6.
New Mexico, Roosevelt 6; Taft
2.
New York, Taft 2; Uninstruct
ed 84.
North Dakota, La Follette 10.
Oklahoma, Roosevelt 16; Taft
EpiKopal (fanrdb Notice.
The Church of the Holy Com
forter, The Reverend John Ben
ners Gibble, Rector.
Holy Week and Easter Day ser
vices as follows:
Monday, Tuesday and Maundy
Thuwday befor© jester, 5 p, m.
Wednesday before Easte^ with
address, 8 p. m. Good rWday,
Pro-^Anaphora with short smnon
10:30 a. m. The three -hours
Devotional and Cbmmemorative
Memorial Service of the Crucifix
ion from 12: noon to 3 p. m, ad
dresses on the 7 last words from
the Cross.
Blatter Day, Early Celebration
of the Holy Communion 7:30 a. m.
Morning Prayer, r^rinon and
second Celebration 11: a, ra. Sun
day School Easter Festival 4:00
p. m. No Sunday School in the
morning. ^
Public cordially invited to any
and all of these services. Pews
free; Polite usheris, Vested
choir. Good music.
Foaiiii ^4 Near
John Henry Moore, a ecloi^
man of ibout imdiile aee, who
liv^ neiur Trollinv^odd was found
dead near his home H^wday at
afternoon. He was oil his way
to work. Heart trouble is si^p-
osed to have been the cause of
is death.
Beautilal MiDmiy
The various miliiner.v openings
Thursday night Friday and Sat*
urday were attended by larse
crowds from BurUn£ton‘ and the
adjoining towns. Th^ hats
unusually beautiful' this spring
and are being seen on our streets
every day. Not necessary
to Greensboro or Durham to ^^t
a hat when you can get one tnat
will look just as well or better at
home. ■
Everybody Concemed
(ilainet of Tltose Who Have^ En
tered the IKi^tch CoBteit.
Are you co-operating with the
town authorities to make Burling
ton a Cleaner and Better town?
Private citizens have taken ad
vantage of clean up day to place
the accumlation of winter trash
where the carts can reach it.
How about ouf merchants?
Don’t let us be mortified arid’
humiliated by dangerous and un
sightly filth in our midst. Des
troy the breeding places of the
deadly fly.
NAME
Aurelia Ellington,
Mebane, R. No.
NO. VOTES
Philippines, Taft 2.
So. Carolina, Roosevelt 2; Un
instructed 4; Contested 10.
Tennessee, Roosevelt 2; Con-
t^'Sted 14.
Virginia, Uiiinstructed 2; Con-
t)0S^€(l 22»
Totals: Roosevelt 62; Taft 36;
Cummins 2; La Follette 10; Un
instructed Contested 112.
Entertainment at Friendship.
An entertainment will be given
at Friendshii) High School Easter
Friday Evening at 8:00 o’clock.
It will consist of songs, plays,
recitations &c. by the schdol
children. An admission of fif
teen cents for adults and ten
cents for children will be charg
ed, the proceeds of which will
be applied to^ beautifying the
school building and grounds.
Easter Monday at Harden’s Park.
Oak Ridge ^d Elon College
Important Masonic Meeting
Bula Lodge No; 409 A. F. and,
A. M. will have a regular com
munication next Friday night,
7:30 o’clock, April 5th 1912, for,
work in the third degree. Lee-
tures J. W. Patton has been with
the Lodge . for tw^o weeks and
another GrahH Lod^e offidal will
be present, All viBiiSng brethren
are invited to come; ; good
many are exi>ected from Gr^aim
Elon College and GibspnTille lodg
es;-'
J. H. Vemori, Wi M. ■
E. W, Atwater, Sec'y.
4, 16000
W. J. Brooks 16200
Addie Ray 16000
Bertha May Horne 13400
Mary X«e Coble, R. No.l 13400
Lizzie Cheek 8100
Bettie Lyde May 8000
Waller Workman 6600
W. I. Braxton, Snow Camp, 3700
Mrs, B. L. Shoffner, R. 10, 3000
May Carr Hall lOOO
Margie Cheek 1000
Doy/ie Heritage 1000
Carrie Albright, 2000
Haw River.
T. F. Matkins, 2000
Gibson ville.
J. R. King, 1190
Greensboro.
Precinct Primary.
The Republicans of South Bur
lington Precinct will meet in pri
mary convention at Dorsett’s old
store building on Davis Street,
Thursday night, April 11th, at
8 o’clock, for the pnrpose of elect
ing delegates and alternates to
the Republican County Conven
tion to be held at Graham, Sat
urday, April 13th.
W. J. Horn- Chairman,
F. S. Cheek} Secretary.
Died Near Lakeside.
Mrs. Rosa 6. Morton died near
Lakeside Mills March 19th at the
age of 63 years. She leavies a
husband five children and fifteen
grandchildren. She was a mem
ber of the Christian Church at
Union Ridge since early Hfe. She
was buried at Bethlehena, funer
al services by Revs. J. W. Holt
and A. B. Kendall. A most ex
cellent woman. *
Pl^y Easter Monday at
The ^osevelt National Co^^^ Harden's Park. The game virill
mittee has kept with much cai^ called at 3:^. Many visitors
a full a^d ffrom both places will accompany
ery district and State convention +y,p,
tlmt has elected delegates to
Chicago. Compilation of these
figures shows that to date there
Something doing every minute
when “T. R.” takes the stump.
Isley-Bryan.
In the Reformed Parsonage
here last Wednesday at 6:30 p.
m. Mr. John Isley, son of Mr.
Frank Isley, and Miss Lizzie
Bryan, daughter of Mrs. John
Bryan were happily married by
their paster Rev. J. D. Andrew.
These are most excellent young
people and begin life t^ether
with the good wishes of a host
of friends. '
Maryland has decided that she
can drink or let it alone.
PREMIUMS OF GREAT VOTING CONTEST
1 ford, Model, T. 5 Passenger Touring Car
1 Indian Motorcycle, ' ' .
1 Pony, Harness and C^t . ^ ^ ^ ^
" 1 Gold Watch, Diamond set in back. Ladies or Gents
1 Diamond Ring. Ladies or Gents ^
1 speedmore Bicycle Ladies or Gents
1 Ner’ Home drop head sewing machine ^
1 Bed Room suit „ . ^ „ ■
1 Scholarship Draughon’s Business College : /
1 Double barrel breech loading hammerless Gun
1 Automatic repeating rifle ; • ^ ;
1 Leather couch ^ '
Three months subscription entitles you to 100 votes, six nionths 300, nin^ ^ojpths one yew 1^ votes.
votoa. Ne so»iae>s iriYan »akss saife at»cmpanies.scbs#fa>tiio.C^ ,
$900.00
250.00
250.00
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60.00
60.00
50.00
40.00
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Robert Workman spent Satur
day night and Sunday the guest
of friends on R. No. 6.
Miss Annie Bennett stenograph
er for the Piedmont Trust Co., o
spent Saturday night and Sunday
at^ her home at Reids ville.
One of the strotigest gai^es
for the season will be the game
Saturday, April 6th at 3:30 p. m.
at Harden Park, Burlington, be
tween Bingham School and
Whitsett Institute. A splendid
band has been engaged to furnish
music, . The teams fot both
schools are unusually strong this
year.
Cary Isley knd Rube Eldridge
while returning from Greensboro
last Sunday evening on their mo
tor cycles ran into an automobile
about two miles from Greensboro.
The machines were badly smash
ed and the boys slightly injured.
Mrs. R. M. Andrews returned
Monday from a visit to relatives
at Henderson.
Misses Flora and Pearle Meb-^
ane have been the guest of rela
tives for a few days returning to
High Point Tuesday morning.
Mr. John Jones, a prominent
farmer of Haw River, R. F. D, 1,
was a business vi($>itor in town
Tuesday.
Mrs. Geo. Williamson and
daughter Miss Ethel of Saxpa-
haw were in town Tuesday shop
ping.
An Easter egg hunt vrill be
held by the Iteformed Sunday
School next Monday. AU the
children and frieh(te Who wish to
enjoy the occasion vrill bring their
e^gs to the church at half |kast
nine o'clock Monday mommg.
Parents and teachers are asked
to go along to help the children
to have a good time.
The Lords supper will be ad
ministered at St. Marks Reform
ed 'Church next Sunday at 11 a.
m. and at Whitsett at 3 p. m.
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