N. C w e e need the nspection. in this p^. man Drug |ely the greatest >n of Boys' suits [rcoats we have lut knickerbock- Norfolk suits in pus new colors i’ns, tans, gravs |e serges. Stong, winter suits^— you are safe in They are L’n- [ues at the pric- ■e asking. Overcoats \c, I3,|3,5f!, !, I^D to E « I ' h 1 S'!; I 0 ■5' n y C H; III VI h Cotton seed We also have ;anuts, Apples, )f feed products. It 30 Days Irocery Co. ^ VALLEY FL0M le in r ' «'fV V --t— A PROGRESSIVE NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE UPBUILDING OF AMERICAN HOMES AND AMERICAN II^USTRIES. VOL. V. BURLINGTON, N. C, NOV. 20. 1912. . A-’r ms7 Annoaacemaat H ivin? decided the make applica-. t'on for the position of . Postmas ter of Burlington believing that the pati'jris of the office ^ prefer net to sign a petition at this tinve, I take this means to let you knnw that I am applicant for the ’ ’my orfi'jeand ask my friends to ^viiiihoid their promises until I §ee hem, which will be indue If I a-Td successful in geuirigthe office I promise to slve my entire time and to work ‘ - hs ttermentof the service. J. C. Freeman. tor SIDNA ALLEN THE WIT- TANB. I Next an>° fatch The Cootest Grow. Ws2k wil! make a hig Tb Time for closiag will be noanced soon. See where your Dsme stands. name no. votes W. J. Brooks 7340C Bertha May Horne 71300 Ad die Ray 56000 Aurelia Elling-ton, Mebane, R. No. 4, 52500 Mary Lee Coble, R. No.l 49800 Waller Workman 20(?00 Liz;ie Cheek 13100 Vv, I. Braxton, Snow Camp, 13900 Beiiie Lyde May 12;^00 Mrri, B. L. Shotlner, R. 10, 5100 Carrie Albright, 4900 Haw River. Mnrtin L, Coble, R, 1. 4300 T. F. Matkins, 3700 Gibson ville. N a n n ie Sue Terrell 3000 J. R. King. 1100, Greensboro. May Carr Hall 1000 Margie Cheek 1000 Doyle Heritage 1000 Anderson-Spoon Sidna’s Wife Testifies. ■ Wytheville, Va., Nov, 18, Sidna Allen on trial 'here for the murder of Judge Thornton L. Massie to-day took the witness stand in bis own defense, outlin ing his movements from the time ux the tragedy until he was captured in Des Moines. He spoke clearly and without embar- rassn(ient until he was asked if he ha^ intended leaving his wife and children. Then the rugged mountaineer b^oke down and wept. He denied that such was bis intention and stated that they were after him with blood- hounds and with instructions to shoot on sight and that he intend ed keeping out of way until things quieted down when he would have returned and given himself up. The prisoner denied that he fired at Judge Massie stating that he was standing talking to John Moore, a stone ma^on, about some work, when the firing feegan and that he did not fire until he saw Clerk Dexter Goad shoot at him. Then he emptied his re volver at the clerk, reloaded it and kelst up sh»x)ting after he had left the building. During the morning Mrs Sidna was examined and stated that Ployd Allen came home with her husband the night before the shooting and that they all sat by the fire talking, until bed time. Nothing bearing on the next day’s tragedy was mentioned she declared. THE BtlBUNfiTONS EGiNS TO LIGHT Death Of Baby A marriage which caused much { ^ « .urprise among_her many frionds! in the home of her parents on riere occurred Thursday evening at Durham when Maytie Spoon of this city and Mr, J, H. Ander- , „ o 1 son of Chester, S. C, were united!^ ^ months 3 days Anderson St Nov. 16. 191^ aged the parsonage ot the first) suffered intensly Baptist Church by the Pastor of ®>‘*' (h?:t church. Immediately after) the ceremony supper was served 1 All that bu^n akU could, at the hotel and Mr. and Mrs. the hope of Anderson went to Eaieigh where >>|f, ayi restonng they will reside. ' God saw fit to I'he bride was accompanied by T dcr sav- her call had the her h m . Little Mary reachtd that age when by pattle of"her little feet and by the sweet tones of her little voice she had increased the ties of the Miss Ruth Dameron and Dr. P. Spoon. The bride is the popular and charming daughter of Mr, and ^ ^ . Mrs. R, L. Spwn being held in "a*"™! parental love and to s-y high esteem by the brat social H*'®'' ones'*,I?a™ed eireles of our town. She was a I'he hearts ot parents and fnend^s. msmber o£ the class of 19U of-i conducted .by "he Burlington High School, later *" JitcndingschooiatMeredithand Oakdale King’s Business Colleges Eaieigh and the tiny body was laid to Mr. Anderson is a bookkeeper 1 i" the graveyard by the charch for a reputable Arm at Raleigh! P midst of eaks whose having met hia bride attending withered by the frost Kings Business College of that city. We join the many friends in extending congratulations to this -^appy couple and wish them i -undant success. Moser-Hancock Invitations are out announcing the wedding of Dr. W, D, Moser et this city to Miss Cornelia Han- cock of Richmond to take place Wednesday November 27th at o’clock at Bain Bridge Street Church. Miss Hancock is well known in our midst being favof- abiy remembered as one of our Oraaed School faculty for two I or more years. She will vbe ex- "er;ded a hearty welcome back. Kisg-Smith Mr. Walter G. King of Winston oalem and Miss Jessie Smith of ■ ^reensboro were married here this morning at the home of her jaunt Mrs. M. B. Lindsay, the ceremony being performed by \ T. A. Sykes of the Front ji^ireet Methodist. Immediately af :-r the ceremony the bride and groom left on the Northbound liram. iiiii>i I .u ■iiifciiiqiT Pitts-GufJbrie '^Vednesday morning November Will be the scene of a beauti- Ppl wedding when Miss Alvenia fyjuthrie and Mr. Oland Pitts of I' 2*038 Hill Ga. will be manied i0;45 in Front Street^Jdetho- Church by Rev., T. A. Syk-e« ’ pastor of this church. of Autumn, are falling to mother earth, Tlius v/e are I reminded by God’s voice in natui*e and in His providence that this world is not home and our little ones on the other side, "Safe in the arras of Jesus’' are looking this way” and waiting for us to come. DECUBE FAKE DETECTIVE tt Philadelphia, Nov. 13th, 1912. — Harry E. Stoudt, of Eleventh and Vine Streets,, was held in $1000 bail by Magistrate Gorman today, charged with impersonat ing an officer in order to obtain money from women of the ten derloin, He will be given a fur ther hearing tomorrow night. Magistrate Gorman ordered the police to bring into court the women who have been approach ed by Stovdt. TheBaracca class of the Bur lington Reformed Sunday School entertained the Philatheaand Jr, Philathea Classes in the Armory last Saturday evening from 7 to 11 o’clock. Oysters, chickens, cakes and fruits were served in abundence. The supper was well attended and the Baracca boys have the sincere thanks of ^e Philathea for such a good ti*me. Dont forget the F/ont street Methodis Philatheja oyster sup- pes to be given in W. Hay build ing Thursday from six to eleven. The spirit of the j^ople as for- trayed tin the foliowing -scripture is abroad in t|ie land today and the same ^ivine truths are just as applicable to people in . Ala mance County as they were to the Jewsf twenty-five hundred years ago. Hear God’s impend ing judgments against the sins of the peopl‘d in the following em phatic language. “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; BECAUSE THOU HAST REJECTED. KNOWLEDGE, I WILL ALSO RESPECT THEE, that THOU sbalt be NO PRIEST to ME ; see ing fhou hast FORGOTTEN the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.” Thus sayeth the Lord is the ultimatum, and man’s opinion to the contrary amounts to nothing. In the calm twilight of the evening when man’^s sober tho ught’s begin to come to him, or perhaps in the late still hours of the night when a man is alone with himself and his own God, our brother of the News, began to reflect upon the exciting tra- edies enacted jsefore the people of this county durifig the past mo^th and in commenting Jupon the results has the following to say in the NEWS of Nov. 13th uhdei* the caption Whati£ costs.” “IT IS NO SECRET THAT THERE CAN BE NO MAN ELECTED TO ANY OFFICE THAT PAYS ENOUGH TO SUPPORT HIS FAMILY WITH OUT BEING COMPELLED TO SPEND MORE THAN HE CAN POSSIBLY REALIZE FROM IT THE FIRST YEAR. Now the Newa makes an un qualified statement in saying NO MAN can be elected to office without being compelled to spend MORE than his FIST YEAR’S SALARY,.,,.,.,- i heard that my opponent spent money two yeiars ago. I did not use that statement during the campaign, neither do I naw pre sume to say that it is true. But the Burlington News who i.? in a better position to know the facts in the case, comes along with his sweeping unqualified statement and fully corroborates that cit izens stateroent "as to what was spent two.years ago and further more the News asserts that my opponent spent at least sixteen hundred dollars this time in ord er to secure his ejection. Well, I had reason to xbelieve that he spent a great- deal but did not know just how niuch I acknow ledge my indebtedness to the News for this information and appreciate his frank statement of facts. Passing strangerly that the News failed to realize before the election that money had been and was being used iPigitimate- ly in the p6litical campaign. A man has to spend, according to the New’s thinks at hast sixteen hundred dollars, or more, in ord er to secure his election and yet the News can’t realize that he spends ONE GENT of it to cor rupt the ballot. And in the next breath says the PEOPLE OUGHT to PROTECT the CANDIDATE from being a VICTIM of that class of people who sell thei» votes. Puli em off dear people says; the News, ‘ ‘they are killing m> duck,*' they are [robbing MY CANDIDAE of alHhat he has, and more Shan he will make dur ing his first year in office. Here is what he says:” We do not believe there is a cleaer set of men in NortiiCaro- olina thaub pur county offices and we are corificJeht they did not spend a single cent to corrupt the ballot, and while we do not know what money they expend ed, we presume it cost them more than it should have cost them. The reform can not be inaugurated by the candidate alone, the PEOPLE MUST DE MAND a campaign conducted upon a DIFFERENT SCHEDULE and thus ASSIST the CANDI DATE who is more of a VICTIM to THIS PRACTICE than he is a willing PARTICIPANT. Puil'em off, dear people, don't let 'em ROB MY CANDIDATE. Strang. pended. K makes no diffez^nce ' at to WH^ money it was, just so it was good legal tender. While he does not know WHAT money,, he does know HOW i MUCH: MONEY, because he starts by sayng NO MAN can be elected to office without being COMPELLED to spend MORE than his first ye»- s>alary. ^ He ^ys we are confident they did not spend a SINGLE cent to corruipt thf> ballot. Prejudice produces a sad blindness in the person who is addicted to strict ly partisan politics, and how can a person whd is blinded by part isan Zeal discern what some oth- er man ioes, especially when he is trying to keep the wide awake two eyed fellow from seeing him do it. How do you know it, bro ther. jBe honest and say you don’t know it, may be it was done., If a i^hole year’s salary was spent, what -was it spent for? One hundred dollars should have been an arnple sum for any successful candidate to have ex pended during ^the entire cam paign; and one thing is DEAD SURE if any candidate spent as much as one year’s salary, a large part of it went to purchase votes. Of course no intelligent man will deny that money was used in the last election right here in this ^‘HOME of THE BRAVE and LAND of the FREE.” Many a man was heard to say, he had been offered five dollars for his vote. ‘ ’He that has ears to hear, let him hear” and “he that'has eyes to see, let him see.” Why Jian if it costs a candidate six teen hundred to two thousand dollars to make a political camr paign in Alamance County and not a cent of it was spent to buy votes, i would not have had enough lo get to Patterson's township, I had a few brownies with me and got along all right and without DEAD BEATING. I never wrote a single letter ask ing for any man’s supi^rt I mailed a few printed circulars containing a ^art of, Mr. 0. F. Crownson’s editorial in regard to use of money in elections, which my friend of the News froiri some cauag, refused to publish, although I am confident he said he would insert it his paper. Perhaps owing to undue exeiti- ment existing at that time he forgot it. Of course, if he did it intentionally I forgive him, and don’t ask him to try to prevari cate out of the hole, but just lie still and evaporate out; But, brother I have SOMEWHAT against you for the treatment. Some of our fellow candidates re received at Burlington on the night of Llst uit. I. read an article some time last ■ Summer by a man whom I greatly admire for his neroic truenianhood, stat ing that there was an UNDER WORLD in Burlington and on the 31st ult; I was fully convinc ed that the statement was TRUE and that the OPPOSITION had a SAMPLE of It ON HAND THAT NIGHT. 1 incidentally discovered you that night oh the outskirts of the audience, and so you had personal knowledge of what occurred and yet you never offered one word of apology in your paper, neither did you eX“ press any disapproval of such conduct as NONE but denizeins o^ on UNDER WOULD would be GUILTY of such an occasion. Your conscience, friend, must have been in^total elcipse at that time. But now I can rejoice with you in the fact that you are com ing to yourself and are beginning to see the light. And you will make even greater discoverua yet if you will “w^lk in the light” and keep your eyes wide and well tiiained open, and your ears tuh- ed to the signs of these modern times. I hope, you will soon get a clearer vision and take a stand with>me on the side of RIGHT and-help me fight the devil in politics and help create PUBLIC SENTIMENT against all the evils and corrapt practices ,in Alamance, Coiihty. J. A. W. THOMPSON. Nov. 18.1912. -■ of The Cincinnati Ehquifier Monday stated that Me8L_. Hilles, Tafti Wickershj^; etc. j pirposed to.hold eT c6siifa*- ence ih Washington^ some time during January^ the purpose of reor^nizlng ; the Republican party^^ and cilim- iting the Mr, Roosevelt. - As a contribution to th0^0&ntry of nations, this willfae tvorthy of a place in history. ' Thespectibal of the boneheads who wrecked the Republican party i^orgwj- ing ojr eliminating . anyitl^ng oit; anyjone is the acm*^ of tragie humor. Had any or aJI of them the slightest underataridinjpT of the real meaning of thin^ipacre of Tuesday last, they would eliminate themselves, as they are beyond any human povirer in* so far as a reorganjzatibn is c6n- cernedi Eliminating Mr. Roosevelt is about as easy as chanj^ing the course of jthe orb of day. Hcf dosen’fr stay eliminated long enough to create any notice commend. Mr. Ta^ft isgoiiig to ’defend the constitutibn,,” God save the constitution frpni such defence! If the Progressives and their leaders will thorpughly organize in any state, eity and distiict and sit tight fdr the next two years, itis a safe bet that the r^ctionaries ;0f both the Democratic and the'remnentis of the Republican parties will make the Progressive party the majori ty party instead of, as how, the minority parry. 0, ft. ii^heri Philadelphia, Nbv* 13.; Wise Girl. There boat was driftihg^ idly; the sun shone above, soothing the sole, andtheskywas serene; while she—she was sitting snugly hot on the same side, of the- ship. Then he propos(ed:* JPirom . the opposite side of the cr^jt she gazed at him calrmly. Mrs, Ada Patterson spent part of last week at Greensboro the guest of Miss Mary Cateis, who has rec ently made her home there after having lived in Burlington Jor many years. . ” As a matter of conawion^nce, realizing that we are in this boat on watOT which is mp^^ fifty feet deep, and that if^ you weire to act as yOu shold act if 1 accepted you know we WPuW tie capsized, I will deisUhe ^ 3^ proppsal at the ntipihent; jbiit, George row as fast as you can to the shore, and ask me again P^nnjetoiK N* llov. ~ Fresident^ict Wbodro# Wil^ announced, tonight the tariff and t ne tipn that Jift . puj pciii't d to ; Car^ Hit the pledges he i*iiide ia Jbfe campaign sj^ch^ to cut pri vilege out bi tai^ scheduler prevent nn&hr m business and |tb destii^ priyatt' moho^ly.,,.- ^ Thei^riei^di^i)-eM4)^ aiski^ whether pondence he xeccav^ to eleetion|eo]qitalned loiy foiqttiirief as.^to his attitude on tlie ftartilF or monopoly probleiiui. V ‘*Do you mc»n that jpeopl^ taice it for granted you will » the pledjges made In your : cam- imign speecheshe, was asked. “Yes, they certaiply v?ift be miried out SO" iar^ 1 am con- cerred.” In his eampaig’B speeehes til# Governor '^often reiterate that revision of the tariff should . ^ undertaken immediat^iy. It it bdieved that this idea how wiH find expression in a iall for^ a* extra isession of Cong^is tt> ebn-^ sider the tariff questioh well as other subjects wfiieh w^re issues in the eampaiii?n|iast cios^ ■ ■ 7'' Governor Wilsm Snow lit hand a fairly compleite list of aB the men who have expressei theinsel vies publicly on the ind visa^ biJity of an extm BemiOh^ It ic known ithat ;the Piesident'eliee^ had made up his n^ix}d the sdbjectand soon will niake known his a.ttitude. He is of the idea that the work of tarift revisioB be undertake wil^out & f eriep of long investif^tionsv ‘There have been investigj^ tions in every the Governor. ‘ Tve ^tudied the problem 2^1 my life. I Wiiiik there is iatdefinite. idea or wh^ ought to be 20 Hurt; One May Pie As Residt D»url«utt Fire^ ; Durham, Nov, 18.—Twenty persons were severly burned or hurt by jumping from; the windows of an assembly hall in Edgemont Subutb last night, and one wothfen is probably fatally injured. A hanging lamp^ w^s knocked from the ceiling duriRg a session of a conv§htioh of the Holifte^ people, the s^irway caught fire and escape wijs cut off except by windows of the room, which was bn the second floor. Something like 100 were in attendance and in the inad scranible'for the win^pwas mahy were hurt, : Mrs, Judge Pope 61 her nose split, lost her left eye and was badly jarred as a insult of her leap. She is in the hospital at present and it is feared that she may die. J, J. Kingjpf Clinton is severe ly burned, also Amos Biradley, a minister to Central America, Rev, H. B. Martin ha:9a blistered head. At first it was , thought that several persons had been burned in the building, but early this morning those in attendance stated that every one had been accounted for. The preachers refused all medical attendence until something like quiet had been brought out of confusion. Several of the burased are siderM to be in critical tion, though it is not thought likely that anybody will ;die ex cept Mrs. Pope. : ^ J The building was a structure supnlied by two small stores and'the assembly hall on the second floor. The whole is a total loss of about $^00. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Spoon desire to thank friends and neighbors for kindness in sickness and death of their 19 months old daughter. con- While the^E^i3enfe-rff^ reading aasidu«»l3^ihe^v^ a^ut an^xtra he is just as carefully refi^look ing at the various speculationi which are being ^nt^^a^ toSthe probable personal of his Cabinet This was revealed in connectioB with the visits today of Jud^ William Ri Kinj^, Democratic National committeeman from Oregon and Lieut, Nels^^ A. Miles, U. S. A. retired. Gov- ernoi Wilson said General Miles had called unexj|ectied)y to pajF' his respects. The eoiresppnde«4; informed him that the names both General Miles and Judge King had been mentioned in dis patches from Washington coa-~ cerning the makeup of hiB Cabinet. The tGdvernor said lie did not know of this. ‘I’m. fortunate/^ he said “ia not reading i^the speeulati6ns>8« Pm .innocent of any embarrass ments.” The President-elecI toi^ n^Jbng walk late in the aHemoon. A short stout man apparently intoxicated, emerg^ from the woods .and insisted on shaking hands with £the (Governor. turned awayJbut reappeared » few minutes later trying to take Governor Wilson . by ' the iam The secret service ihen interven ed aud led him away. He, pro test id that he meant no harm. Taft Fwvors Single "tcrnj Washiigton^ Nov. 17.—Prwl^ent lafts deelaritibn in fayoir of « constitutional iglnMd»ent te limit the presidential tenua* of office to a single tepn of six years, with enlij^bifity to rather a succ^ding or non>oonsecutive term and President-elect Wil son’s endorsementof the Democ ratic platform favoring such a limitation, are believed h^re to foreshadow strong presrarefdr legislation along this hfie early io the coming Congress. Numerous measures have been introduced in both hwises Of Congress looking to a change lt» the presidential tenure. ,Tbt Senate Judicary Committee wrestled with the problim in the last session and Senator Cummins proposes to pi^enl the measur^ congress eonyenes. .m ► , A C (t.'. j >r->l a * : I.: -' -r* ■ >;.'r .t" will p«*y- ■V' tsiig

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