A PROGRESSIVE NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE UPBUILDING OF AMERICAN HOMES AND.AMERICAN INDUSTRIES;
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BURLINGTON. N. C. JAN. 8.1913.
NO. 33
Ctrunty School Neus
Teachers Association
P.turday, Feb. 1,
1913,
11
meet
.00 A,
PROGRAM:
Honor System in School - Supt.
l,\j. Smith.
Discipline in Primary Grades
- Miss Pearl Robertson.
The Student that is Graded too
High—Prof. H. C. Stout.
UNION DINNER.
The County Board of Educa
tion and the Supt. went to Elon
Monday evening to a formal
opening of the New Graded
School building. The Eion peo
ple have just built a very hand
some two story brick building
containing recitation rooms and
a large auditorium. This house
IS a handsome and well arrang
ed fetructure. It is a beautiful
building and is great crdit to the
community, County & State.
The ceachers are now at work
TO put in a complete water system
v,’ith lavatories and drinking
lountaints at Elon.
An other good building that
rias just been finished is the
Hammer Memo'*iai Academy at
Snow Camp. It is |brick two
stories 64 feet wide by 75 ^ feet
long. It stands on a high eleva-
rioii and makes a handsome ap
pearance. The cost of the biiild-
:ng is about $7»00u. This school
was recently endowed by Mr.
Isaac Hammer of Kansas and is
named in his honor.
Sydney school of Pleasant
Grove township and Center school
of Newhn township have recent
ly installed water fountains and
individual drinking cups and
made other school improvements.
County to discuss this matter.
Of course, I always acquiesce j
with the majority, but under;
present conditions, I for one am
inalterably opposed to any in
crease, and as stated above, I
believe the salaries as made are
liber?], and I do not think it is
an exaggerating to say that there
i are hundreds of good citizens of
our County who would be glad to
serve the County at the present
salaries.
I want to say further that we
have as clever and accommodat
ing set of County officers as in
any County that I know of. and
they are all friends of mine I
believe, and I do not criticise
those officers for wanting more
money, however, as a tax payer
and with the present financial
condition of the County I am op
posed to the increase and I be
lieve that the majority of the
tax payers of the County will
take the same view that I have
taken in the matter.
Yours very truly,
W. E. White.
Interurban Contract Awarded
WiSt Pass Eurlisgton.
Last week’s issue of the Trac
tion Weekly carried a statement
saying that a contract has been
let by the Southern Power Com
pany for the construction^ of an
interurban line from Winston-
Salem to Durham, by way of
Green sV>oro, Burlington and
Chapel Hill. The article further
states that the work will be done
in sections. Movements are al
ready afloat in Chapel Hill and
Durham to get the. work begun
on that end of the line first.^ We
„ . ^ , , , . , are auite sure a squad will be
Spring Schwlgavea box i placed to work between Chapel
on the 28 of Dec. and made a xim Greensboro this squad
sum of several dollars. should come near onr town,
will be used for oiling tne school Think how fine it would be to
floors and other interior equip- take a street car ride to Durham
or Winston-Salem. We are wait
ing for the first ride.
Bellmont School has just pur
chased and installed 42 extra
good steel frame desks. This „ ,
valuable asset was secured by i Vuncannois Meoane
private subscriptioK. Beiimx>nt | Miss Pearle Mebane, daughter
has two teadiers and local tax, j-of Mr, J. R. Mebane of this city
Glenwood, the new school at I very pleasantly surprised her
the Alamance Mill, raised moneymany friends Saturday morning
before the holidays in th-e com-; when she and'Mr, Colon Vun-
munity by subscription and paint-'i canon of High Point were Mar-
ed the house. They paintKi pure ] ried at the home of her father,
white without trimmings e;xcent! Rev. D. E. Bowers of Waugh-
green blinds. The new house]town brother in law of the bride
DUBLIN MEHCUANT
GOES III CAeOLINA
S. A. Thorny To Locate In Btiding-
ton After Three Successful Years
In Georgia,
Mr. S. A. Thorny leaves Dub
lin this week for Burlington,
North Carolina, where he has
located and is running a mercan
tile business. His large stock
of goods already has been ship
ped and in a few days Mr. Thorny
will leave for his new home.
Mr. Thomy came to Dublin
about three years ago and show
ed his good business judgement
and progressiveness from the
start, with the result that h^ has
made a success here. He secur
ed one of the best store buildings
in the city, the old Laurens Bank
ing Company stand, and carried
a line of goods and practiced such
methods as soon won fo^ him a
large share of the dry goodi^ and
notions business of Laurens
county.
Mr. Thomy is bound to succeed
in Burlington if he is received
into the confidence of the buying
public as he was in Dublin, and
his friendjs believe that he will
be. Mr Thomy’s reeord as a
merchant, together with his per
sonal traits, won for him many
friends during the thi ee years
he has spent in Dublin.
Laurens County Herald
Mr. Thomy although he has
been in our midst only a short
while has made a fine impression
and is recieving a goodly patron
age at the Corner Store opposite
the Alamance Loan&Trust Go.
His cleverness and genteel man
ner of dealing with the public is
to be commended- His selection
of Burlington as a progressive
business town shows a marked
choice which might be wisely
followed by many other merch
ants.
‘THOSE THINGS WHICH
ARE BEEOm
Progrssive Leagues.
The National Progressive Con-
feren ce in Chicago is an event,
not a begining in the progressive
campaigns of 1914 and 1915.
The begining was made before
the votes were counted in half
l0( ks clean and good.
The County Board of E>iuca-
tion met in reg^ular session last
Monday,
letlaF From Mr. White.
Mebane, N. C.
Jan. 3, 1913.
Mr. Editor:
I have just learned that our
County officials are going to peti
tion the legisLture to increase
their salaries. Of eourse, we all
know that our County officei’s
went on a salary basis December
1st, 1912. These salaries wer^
tixed by the last session of the
legislature and our p^i'esent Coun
ty i>ffice»”s knew the salaries that
were naaied iia this bill, and of
course, these salaries were satis-
faciory to these County officers
or r.hey would not have stood for
re-r;omination asid re-election.
I want to say that this is not a
personal matter at all, but simp
ly a matter of business. I am
veiy interested as a eitisen and
as a tax payer, and further, be-
eause of the fact that I was the
one to agitate salaries for
our County officers as I believe it
is rivrf best thing to do, and I
beh.-v'e now that the present
which I think are fair
lit;8ral, will mean a saving to
! .*x payers of from fou/ to
thousand doHai's annually.
iiHve that I have_ voiced the
linent of the majority of the
M^ofthe County in saying
' they are opposed to any
ftce, at least I think that
ii>:itter ought to be discussed
. before such a measure is
ough the legislature,
advised by one of the
Commissioners that y^Vl-
County went in debt the
year about $16,000,
(ti: course if we increase the
•='-1! u 'ics of our Connty officers it
-i i ii', ‘an this additional expense.
^ ' ill to suggest to tiie County
i'i iifiiissioners that before they
en.i- r-e this increase in the
sahU’h s
'Ufv;
the states showing that the new
officiated. Those pr-esent other party had become one of the two
than the family were Rev. J. D. leading parties of the nation.
Andrew, Mrs. Chas Staley of
High Point and Mrs. D. E. Bow
ers of Waughtown sisters of
the bride.
Miss Mebane is a very attrac
tive young lady with many
friends while the groom is
in high esteem by his
friends in his home town.
held
many
sal-1
I
t/i-
aui!
Lights on Comer.
The Chamber of Commerce of
pleased to annouce that the town
is now erecting the cluster of
lights on the corner of Front and
Main Streets donated by it to
the town. So far as is known
this is the first of its kind rn any
city in the state.
Sunday's Greensboro Daily
News publishes that the con
tract for the interurban Road
from Winston Salem has been let.
We also understand that work
has been resumed on the Greens
boro Northern and Atlantic
Railroad from Greensboro to
Pittsboro and will be pushed to a
finish.
It can be seen that our Cham
ber of Comerce is a live one and
isspaeing nothing in the up
building and growte of our city
For Sale at Bargain.
Good new five room cottage
located three blocks from Post-
office, Address Care State Dis
patch, Burlington, N. C.
m
— “How about your gemetry?
want you to do something
tll31 ^ ^
‘‘Well, it’s this way, father
Unless I make a certain percent
age in foot*ball they won’t let
nie take gemetry at all.”—Kans-
sas City Journal.
Already enthusiatic State
meetings ha/e been held, and
State leagues formed in futher-
ance of the Progressive cause.
In Pensylvania it was announced
that a State league would be
formed with a membership fee
of one dollar, some time follow
ing the national conference.
But as soon as this announce
ment was made for application
for membership accompanied by
the fee, came pouring in and it
was necessary to organize the
league at once without waiting
for the national meetings.
In other States enthuastlc
meetings have been held. It is
epochal, even revolutionary, in
the history of politics, this gird
ing for the battle before the
smoke of the last battle has clear
ed away. It shows the princi
ples behind the movement. It
refutes all the sneers of the
enemies of good govermnt, term
ing it a one man movement, its
principles, terming it a one man
movement, its principles, nos
trums, and its followers, neuro
tics.
The spirit of preparation for
the next campaign should be
developed in every State leagues
formed, based on the '’contract
with tht people ' ’ entered into
by the leaders of the crusade of
1912. At one leap the new party
has gone over the heads of Pro
hibitionists, Socialist and Repub
licans to second place. It should
be a much easier step to first
place in States, Legislature and
Congress in 1916,—Sioux City
Daib' Tribune.
—Nell—Miss
up terribly
Belie
woman
that they call a mass cept her
r of the tax payers of the' Record.
723 have already our Christmas
Savings Club.
This means that $23,780.00 will
* be distributed here next Christ
mas. Only 277 more blanks left.
When they are gone and they are
Yes. I really think that j going fast, the Club closes for
makes up evervt hsfg ex-' this year. Better not put it off
mind.-Fniiaaaiphiaj longer but join today.
» Alamance Loan & Trust Co.
Yollowleaf maizes
But this one thing I do for
getting those things which are
behind and reaching forth unto
those things which are before. —
Philippians, iii, 13.
In themselves, the words taken
fcr a text form no unusual senti
ment. Many persons proceed
along much the same line, ‘ ‘for
getting those things which are
behind and reaching forth unto prVna*n
those things which are before. ”
It would be well for all j^rsons
to do, since this is the wise and
sane way to live.
When we stop to think that
St. Paul wrote these words while
in prison, they become more im
pressive. It is one thing to hold
to certain principles while free
to do as we may choose; quite
another to remain steadfast when
deprived of bodily freedom or
harassed by the consciousness
that we are being unjustly
punisned.
The greatest of Christians was
not to be swerved by bonds and
fetters. Vigorous of mind and
body—a vertiable giant for good
—he found his faith in his Master
sufficient for every need, and
from his cell sent out to friends
and converts those inspiring let
ters which still strengthen the
faith of those who believe in the
same Master.
So when he speaks of forget
ting things that are past, and
reaching forth to things that are
to come, the words bear to us a
message that is manified by the
state of the writer and his un
usual past.
He had to forget doubt and
grief .. He had to forget persecu
tion of those who wei*e martyrs
to the cause in which lie himself
now was leader. He had to for
get much more than the aver
age .idividual is trying to remem
ber that surely no one of us
should feel it impossible to follow
in his steps in this particular.
St Paul knew, as does every
one who seeks knowledge through
experience, that one of the most
burdensome of loads is that com
posed of past deeds and misdeeds.
He knew, as any one may learn,
that this load is not only heavy,
but galling because of the fact
that it is borne to no worthy pur-
pse. It does not permit the bear
er to keep his eyes on the road
in front, hence he constantly is
stumbling and falling.
One of the commonest criticisms
aimed at the doctrines of Christ
ianity has to do with their em
phasis of the future. This like
many another criticism is based
chiefly upon personal or denomi
national construction of these
doctrines. For many years, in
certain churches, too much em
phasis was laid on a ‘ ‘heaven
beyond” too little attention was
paid to a world here which was
much in need of uplifting and
and purifying influences.
This was not the fault of
Christ’s teachings, but of their
faulty construction by men.
Certainly none ever taught more
fully and clearly or lived more
completely the lesson of living
first for what we can do and be
in this life. And in these days
of greater enlightenment and
larger feeling of brotherhood,
Christianity is being made more
and more a matter of the Now
and less and less are we being
urged to think only of “mansions
in the skies.”
Yet always it has been, and
always it must be the religion of
the Better Tomorrow. And to
attain to this better tomorrow
we must cast away Constant con
cern over things that have gone
into the past and fix our aims
upon that future where our hopes
abide, not necessarily a future in
some other life but>the finer and
higher possibilities of this ex
istence.
To the real Christian, like
Paul, there always is light ahead
however dark the past may have
been; however dull and cheerless
the immediate piesent may be.
From the prison cell of whatever
sort of imprisonment ours may
be seen the dawnpromise of at
least another chatice or two to
be of use, and while we know
we can be of us^i we cannot
de3p;’i'\ .v,
Before us lie great opportuni
ties to help; greater now, per
haps, than at any previous time
in the history of the world. For
men and women are beginning
to sense the social spirit of
Christianity, and the field for
such effort is as broad as the
world itself.
So, aside from the personal
application of the text, there is
a wider reading of it, and to look
behind now, when we are so able
to answer! some of the calls for
help, would be to desert the
Master's work. For he lived
and died for those things which
still are before us.—North Am-
Aii olheir Editor Goes to The U. S.
Senate.
Little Rock, Ark,, Jan. 6.—J.
N. Heifskeil, editor of the Arkans
as GaJ:ette, of this city, today
was aippointed United States
senator by Governor George W.
Donaghey to succeed the late
Jeff Davis. The appointment is
for the short term ending
March 4.
John Netherland Heiskell is
40 years of age and is* a native
of Tennessee. Fo/- a member on
years he was engaged in news
paper vsrork in Knoxville and
Memphis and served in as
editorial capacity in the Chicago
and Louisville offices cf the
Associated Press before coming
to Little Rock as editor of the
Gazette of which he is part own
er.
Mr. Heiskell has never held a
poltical office and today said with
the election of a senator at the
coming;session of the Arkansas
legislature he will return at once
t o Little Rock and resm^de his
editorial work.
Connor b Likely to be Speaker of
House,
Raleigh, N. C., Jan. 6.—Cxeo.
W. Connor, of Wilson, conight
seemed assured of the nomfiha
tidn f«^r- speaker of the hpuse at
the caucus tbrdorrow night; ffil^ny
representatives saying that it
was doubtful if any other name
would be presented.
In the lobby of the Yarborough,
where the poiiticiai)« have con
gregated. Mr. Connor was the
centei* of interest, which amount
ed almost to an ovation. Mark
Spuires, of Le^^'oir, tonight tele
graphed his withdrawal as candi
date fof* reading clerk of the
senate, leaving R. M. Phillips,
of Greensboro, without opposi
tion.
Many senators and representa
tives, place hunters and peren
nial hangers-on have already
arrived, and the hotel lobbies
have the old-time appearance.
It is a jolly crowd assembled
here, and there are no disappoint
ments yet, because candidates
for the various offices have not
received any jolts. It is safe to
say that tnere are at least five
applicants for every«position.
Parcel Post Information.
mailing in such manner that the
con ten ts can he examined.
A parcel must not be accepted
for mailihg unless it bears the
name an^ address of the sender,
preceded by the word “From."
Postniasters will refuse to re
ceive for mailing parcels not
properly indorse or packed for
safe shipment.
Parcels must be mailed at a
post office, branch post office*
named or lettered station, or sueli
numbered stations as may be de
signated by the postmaster, or
delivered to a rural oir other car
rier duly authorized to 'receive
such ma;tter.
Parcels collected on stisur routes
must be deposited in the next
post offi^ at which the calmer
drives and postage i^^ged at
the rate from that
A mailable parcel On which the
postage is fully pr^p^dd may be
insured again s t loss in m amount
equivalent to its actual value,
but not to exceed $5^, on pay
ment of a fee of 10 cents in parcel
poiit stamps, such stamps to be
affixed.
The following matter is declare
ed nonmailable by law (see secs.
211, 212 and 217 of the Criminal
Code of the United States, ap
proved Mar. 4, 1909):
1. Matter manifestly obscene,
lewd or lascivi^s; articles intend
ed for preventing conception or
for procuring aborion; articles
intended for inde(^nt Or immoral
purposes; all matter otherwise
niailable by law, the outside
coyer or wrapper of which beare
any delineations or language Sof
a libelous, scurrilotni deDan^tory
or threatening character;
Spirituous, vinoua, * malted,
fermented or other intOxidating
liquors of any kind: |}oidons of
every kind and articles and C3m-
positions containing ]^i8on ( ex
cept a§ 19);
poisonous and
reptiles; explosivelQFj^^ kind;
inflammable irnaterii^^ are
hel i toincludeinatcheis, kerosene
oil, gaspline, riaphth^
tutpentthe, denature^i Alcoholic
etc.); infernj^ an4
mechanical, chemical or otheir
devices, or compoBitfoJis which
may ignite or explode ;fe4isease
germs or sca4s jekciept^as pre
scribed in sec. 36); and other
natural or artificial articles, com
positions or liiCterials of what
kind Which may kill or in tny
wise i Jjure another lor damage
the mail or other projJ6rty.
Pistols or revolvers, whether
in detached p its or otherwise-;
live*or dead (and not stuffed)
animals, birds, or poultry (ex
cept as a prescribed in sec. 29
and. 34); raw. hides or pelts,
guanei or any article haviuga
bad odor shall not be admitted
to the mails,
^ A parcel ^post map and guide
for determining postage rates
may be obtained by remitting 75
cents by money order to the
chief clerk, Post Office Depart
ment, Washington, D. C.
Be careful to 3peeify the city
or town where the map is to be
used.
Further information may
obtained at any post otece.
The act of Congress authoriz
ing the establishment sf a par
cel post system provides that on
and after January i, 1913, fourth
class mail matter, including farm
and factory products, not now
embraced by law in either the
first, second, or third class, not
exceeding 11 pounds in weight
nor greater in size than 72. in
ches in length and ^rth combin
ed, nor inform or kind likely to
in j ure the person of any postal
employee or damage the mail e-
quipment or other mail matter,
and not of a character perishable
within a period reasonably re
quired for transportation and de-
hvery.
The law requires that on and
after January 1, 1913, the post
age on ail matter of the (ourth
class must be prepaid by dis
tinctive parcel po.st stamps affix
ed (see sec. 3). Postmasters
can not receive for mailing par
cels that^ do not ; bear such
stamps.
Parcel post stamps are not va
lid for the payment of postage
on matter of the first, second,
and third classes, aiid, when used
for that purpose, the matter to
which they are affixed shall, be
treated as “Held for postage,”
as prescribed in section
. i'arccls must be prepared for
be
The Contest
NAME
NO. VOTES
Addie Ray
W. j. Brooks
Bertha May Horne
Mary Lee Coble, R No.l
Aurelia Ellington,
Mebane, R. No., 4,
Waller Workman
W. I. Braxton, Snov/ Camp,l,^GO;i
Lizzie Cheek liSioO
Bettie Lyde May 1^00 .
Martin L. Coble, R. L, 840G
Mrs. B. L. Shoffner, R. 10, 5100
122,300
11590C
105,600
,54900
52500
Carrie Albright,
Haw River.
T. P. Matkins,
Gibsonville.
Nan nie Sue Terrell
J. R. King,
Greensboro,
May Carr Hall
Margie Cheek
Doyle Heritage
490Q
370Q
3000
1100
iOOO
1000
looa
— “Yes, my friend, I was a-
bout to marry the countess when
I suddenly learned that she spent
more than $12,000 a year on her
dressmaker.'* ^
^ “Then what did you do?”
Married the dressmaker.”
—McCall’s Magazine.