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A PROGRESSIVE NEWSPAPER DEVOTEB TO THE UPBUU^DlNfc OF AMERICAN HOMES.AND A.MERICAN INDUSTRIES.
lOL VI.
Ei^RLINGTON. K C. JUKE 18, 1913.
NOS
3S falsehood^
it is out ag:ainJ
)f Spencer aeJ
UsiU Tata In Faree Comedy. | LaFeyiette Cox -Kilfed By Aa Elec-
‘’Mr, Bob” will be bere next I Shock.
miesday night at the Graded
B^’hool Aoditoriom. “Mr. Bob”
che naiise of a farce comedy
^ hich ■will be put on under the
luspices of the Civic League by
Hoad talect. Mr. and Mrs. J,
Adams who have just reeeiv
V Btaged -'Mr. Bob” at Greens-
tKvrc EBd Raleigh have been sec-
jred to train th^-i cast here and it
fi.vfieeted that on next Ti^esday
! g-.ht. Barling Um people un ] 1 have
i:h€ opportunity to see somethmg
■ely c>ot of the ordinary in the
!',vu.v O'*' home
hu'fits. Tiie
Salisbury, N. C.^ June 15.—La
Fayette Cox, aged 30 years,
engaged in helping erect an
aatomomatic signal line for the
Southern ^Iway between Spe
ncer and Charlotte, was electro
cuted eight miles south of this
city today by touching a live 'wre
on a pole which he had climbed.
Forty-four hundred volts passed
through his body when he grasp
ed the wire. His home was at
Paw Creek, near Charlotte.
There wese no burns or bruises
tajeni entertain- iqi} the body, but it is the general
I opinion that the man came in
t mhp joyson, JonnLas]ey,| contact with a heavy voltage of
RA}beit Browj), Earj Sikes. 1 electricity- A death certificaie
buirsmie ^harpe. ; signed by a physician, gave
jvather^Be lioger.?, ii;Ila Rea electric shock as the cai3se of
death. Mr. Cox lived ai Hunt-
R. F. F. D. No. 8
Miss Daisy Wy^tte of No. ^
spent Saturday and Sunday visii^
ing Miss Mary Hayes. Glad i»
have the young lady with us.
She must get her igood loo^
from her mother, for she ceirtai^-
ly did not get em from her ’ ’Dad
dy.”
Miss Grace Somers has b^n
on the sick list for a few days.
Hope she will soon be able to be
out for. We miss her.
Thanks to .our good friends
who remembered that our cafc->
bage patch is late. , /
Seems like we heard a. noifie
from Altamahaw No. 2 last
week. That carriers passes,
i^'rank Barbers box about
hour a head of us. That accounts
Mayor’s Hall be put in an sanit
ary condition aiod that two nice
offices- bearrang-ed in the rear
f jr the confer ieuces of the Mayor
the tax collector and thatthe of
fice of the Water Light and Pow
er Commission be moved to this
place as was advised by the Sec
retary the finances were in good
shape at present but that certain
expense woald be necessary the
first of the month and in his
opinion would be nece&SLry to
borrow $1,000.
Rev. J. B. Andrew made a
shsrt speech to the board thank
ing them for pass eourteousies
and placed the board in thehr
I dignity keep the town in a good
| mora3 condition and high stand-
■ ling of diy rig'hteousness.
Marion Bryant, >3e]lie Davis.
Refeecea Lake, Mai-garet L^avis.
Fatly, liijogen Scott.
Pl^iRSOI^AL C‘F ChOBUS
Misses Blanche Storey, Nettie
I)aii€fy, Ella Robertson, Luia
Kate Clendenin and
for the fact that we failed to git
i any rabbits or anything out of
•n IT ^ 4.U -u I that box for the last six months,
erevil e H)s father here I beats .me to it every
lonjghi to iooij aj-ter thebodv. We wonder' what he does
Mr. L. W. Cates Looses Nice Colt.
Mr, L. W. Cates while leading
his beautiful bay colt on Front
street Saturday evening happen
ed with a very serious accident
I when the colt became frightened
CmsBsbcrc B«feais Batrlingloa. j and reared, being tightly reigned
. - J- . with overcheck became over-
After a wa5i of aoout one hour t balanc^ and fell fracturing his
skull from which.it died instan
tly. The colt was very beau*
tiful of which Mr. Cates was very
fond having fed it with a bottle.
and a half due to a punctured tire
the Greensboro imsebal) team
^rriyed at the Piedmont Park last
Saturday afternoon and played
Ihe iocal team to the tune of 4 to
1 in favoj of Greensboro The
game j-eally better than the
score wc=Uid indicate and while
the pitching of Mitchel for Bur-
]injrl-orj was- fa:r)ygood had Evans |
betni abie lo have been m the box
would have won the victory^
and like Comodore Peny of his-
tiiricai fame returned and annou-
g:iad riding '‘We have
.'fuvi it!r e.r.emy and he is ours:~'
I'rit ',x”eerjsboro team played
:inai)[)\ baj] and deserved much
]mme i oi ba.se stojj ]j n g. The
vvas umpired by James'
Hot«mar.d of E:i]]sboro.
time,
with
He has no
to carry -it-
have to in-
fa
Cs^wford—Kra!>er
Mr. E. P. Crawford of this city
went to High Point last night ac-
j companied by Mr. Clyde .Horna-
day where Mr. Crawford was
united in marriage to Miss Fory
.K raber at the home of the brides
mother, Mrs, J L. KraberaiS;3C _
Rev. B^irnhan pastor of Washin-1 boro spent
ton Stre^'t Methodist, ch^irch of-
^ ficiated only a few intimate
I friends were present to witness
among
the stuff, he gets,
wife and orphans
home to. We will
vestigate.
Miss Addie King
on No. 2 visiting her uncJe, Wm
BcK»n. We are* sorry to hear
that Mr. Boon still continues
very sick.
B. W. Ross is painting his
house. HuJps the looks quite
a last.
J. D. Simpson is home looking
after his wheat crop and other
things.
Mrs. J. P. King is spending a
month in Danville, Va, vrith her
husband wno is painting there.
She returned home Tuesday.
The farmers on No. 8 have
about finished cutting their
wheat. Wheat is better this
than the air nge.
Mrs, ii'ranR Clark of Gre€'.j?5:>
Sunday at J;
Tine Fkst NaSH®ual Baak
Hice Deposit
The Secretary of the Treasury
of the United State.s recently
announced that his department
would increase the deposit of
public money of the Government
in National Banks. Last we^k
this bank having been designated
a ‘ ‘Depository for Public Funds
of the Government received from
the Treasury of the United, States
the sum of Ten Thousand Dollars
as a first depcffiit. Only seven
teen banks in the state were so
designated and received a portion
of the amount distributed. We
are glad to know that, in distri
buting this, money over the coun
try, the Treasury Department at
Washington, recognizing the
strength and progressivenesB of
this bank and the i.mportaneeand
prosperity of this. Country, saw
proj^r to allow this .amount to om
National Bank. Since theii organ-
J.zationin.i907 no bank in thecoQ-
jntry has shown mOTe. rapid and
jri:
of
Ak-uso Ha3] to Wed.
at
fering with
rew fiiied hisj
t St. Marks
the ceremony among those was
Dr. and Mrs. Geagson of that city
Mrs. Grayson being an sister of
the groom shortly after the eere-
roong Mr. and Mrs. Crawford
left for Norfolk from where they
Mr. Alonzo Hall son of Mr, wj 11 sail for New York. After
atif. fyjjs; R. J. Hall_ of this a visit of about two weeks they
di;. Wi I.! be married to_Miss M_acie will return and reside .in this
Famter of News Ferry, Va., town.Dr. Crawford is phar-
Tuesaii.v ,junel‘4 at 12|o’clock. j mast and manager of the City
Tp.ecermony will _ber>erformed|Drug Co. and although he has /
::r,;'j rcb tc whi'^h numerous j been a resident of our town only
Irierfyv ure invited^among those;about a year has many friends
whe w.,)) go from this place are I who wish him much happiness
-pa.feriis, Mr. and Mrs. R. J. daring his married careeir. Mrs.;
Mrs. Jack
boro is visiting
chems this 3^ear.
We hope our friends will
after some of those bad , mud
holes ruts in our road now. ' they
are getting very bad
look
With The
preens-i bank. They have a eapj'tal of
John- Mea-i$60,000.C>0 and . assets art uad
$350,000.00, or about six times'
their capital They own theii-'
fouT story banking and office
building-the largest bestequjped
and most beautiful building of the
kind in the county. Their Board
of Directoi"3 is competed of some
lau&cudHty of 1% Camp Makes
EmeinBOiis Amomt of Wwrk bb4
Expense, But EveiTtluttg Wiill
Be In Readinest for Reception
isf Veterans «i^ the Blie
and Qtky,
The days are fast approaching
for the great encampment of the i
Blue and Gray at Gettysburg and
in the battlefield town all is
bi^stle. Grsi^at are the priepara-
tions being raade and Weather
permitting, the biggest crdwd
will be on the field since the
battle. An idea of the proyisons
being made may tjie following
items:
E very item connected with the
celebration runs into startling
figures when provision has to
be made for 40,000 veterans.
For example it was at first con
templated to spread tables at
which all could be seated, bat it
found that this would require
4® acres of ground, which would
have to be leased irom private
owners. The tables alone would
cost $75^000. Therefore tables
alone 40 feet long will be esta-
biished in the rear of each two
rows of tenths a,nd connecting
with the kitchin. These will
seat 20 on a side, with one on
each end, and with the meal
hours ex tending over an hour
and a half for each, all can be
served without crowding or
hurry. .
Fourteen refrigemtor cars will
be required to bring the meat
and other perishable food and
serve as storehouses during the,
Encampment. It will require
three carloads of ice cresarn to
furnish air that will be supplied
on the Fourth of Jttly., .,, The
amount of fresh beef contiracted
for is 130,000'-'Pounds, with 20,-.
■ pounds, of bacon,. poiin^'
•Of corned beef, .pounds
of flour, 180.,000 pounds of po-
10, '00i[). pop lids of t)nJosn s,.
Father.
Han
Hai!
s:;8T.ers, Misses 011a, Ruth
.^vJary and Beulah Foster
.ft'ieasrs Vitis Holt, Claud
'■or and George.Isley.
Crawford will be extended , a
most cordial welcome to out
jtown.
il,
^ORTH CAROLINA
Stale Normal and
mal College
.1 i,
l^feainuuned by the State for the
’^'onsen of I'lorth^Carolina. Five
Courses leading to de-
^Special Courses for teach-
i' ree tuition to those who
to l>ecome teachers in the
Fall Session begins Sep-
]7th, 1913. For catalogue
other information^ address
JULJUS I. FOUST
J’REHWEJsT
GKEEJSl SBO.ro, N. C.
Wo»an and Her Ea.t.
(London Opinion)
on
The Board of A.lderman ’met
Monday nighi in their regular
semi-monthy meeting. In coin-
pliancfe to the request of of num
erous citizen for improved tele
phone service Mr.- Sphere of
Charlotte was present and sub
mitted a formal contract to board
for their reproval or rejection.
The board did not accept the
proposition submitted but left
' it off for further investigation
Just believing that not only
should the common Battery be
placed in our town but also the
h'
a^^jetter. . ..There is an sgenioos
madiine tliat 'Sticks stamps on —,
letters at ;;th^ rate of ' several j that the remuneration received!
j of the vers’ best business men of
the City, men who,, by their own
efforts, have been successful in
business and accumulated pro-’
^ perty. A great deal of their
I time and personal attention ; is
given to the bank and its inter
ests.. This bank has been of
much benefit to the community
in assisting public enterprises asl
well as deserving indi.yiduals.
Their progressive, liberal and
concerative methods of business
have won for them the good w il
and patronage of a large num
ber of friends. An institution
of this kind, always looking and
Woman'cannot stick a hat -ju . j j i— — w.,
head aa you stick astimp on wives should be put underground ^ striving for the upbuilding of
• • to this request the Southern Bel] j (he
telephone company answered', theirprofit, app-
. -- -- , J, „* ,Tedat2fl^''an#assi8iBng the small
tWasand W/.hour. But nobody' "
M fflCyiMED LmEBS
Post office at
, Jcn& 14, 1913.
‘ ;fnam;mg in
^^'*-'iing:ton, N,
Aggie Dangerfield, Mrs.
Galloway, Miss Maggie
-i^siss Edna Totton.
'^;!*yons calling for any of the-
’■'U-eiiB will please say '”Adver-
' and give date of adver*
J. Zeb. Waller, P. M.
So.int StrawhesTy.
'1. Bollinger has placed on
*^’-tio.n in
• Ai wberj.i
hall
' pint Ci
on
grocery store
' that weighs fw.o'
oarees and will fill
'p. Mr. Bollinger
the .Tiaiket with
TAihr']}' f'very' day
has invented a machine for stick
ing hats on the heads of women.
A man can buy a hat in five
minuets, but no woman woald
dream of buying a hat in less
tiian an hour. Often a women
will acquire a splitting headache
in an attempt to find one hat to
suit her out of a hundred, and
not seldom she carries away the
headache without a hat on it.
The hat hunt is only a small
from the service at this place
would not justify them in putting
in this under ground wire sy
stem.' A petition was raised
asking that a concert side walk
be placed on Webb Ave. extend
ing the present side walk to
Webb Av. church, the property
owners agreed to pay half the
expense for same petition was
granted an apptrication was read
asking of all boarding or Hotels
with ten or more rooms be grant-
part of the daily agony of shop-1 €;d n???
ping, and yet a man would rat
her cot his throat than engage
in a hat hunt as a dispassionate
spectator. Men prefer to hunt
for fox on the stag, the tiger or
the Mon, the grizzly or the grouse.
A tiger hunt is not nearly so
perilous as a hat hunt.
Bfl:een Gallons Seized.
Spencer, June 16.—Acting up
on information that a (Shipment
of liquor had reached the deopt
at Spencer, Sheriff J. H. Me
Kenize and Deputy James Krider
this afternoon seized fifteen gal
lons of whiskey in the office of
the Southern Express Companv
here. The siiipment was sd
dress to John Carr and otherg.
Carr declined to own the ship
ment and escaped. Sheriff Me
and that this be gr&nted Pied
mont Hotel. The board left this
matter unsettled till another
meeting. The matter of paying
Gilbert C. White, the balance of
$3^ 00 due for engeering caused
much discussion certain member
of the bc^rd believing that gross
erros had been committed by Mr.
White that this amount should
not Ite paid other member believ
ing that it should be paid.
The raising of the salary of
certain officers was next taken
up it was agreed to raise the
Mayors salary from 400 .to 600
per year and allow him fees as
here to fore.
Greatly increasing his present
dlJties. the Chairman of the Water
Light Power & Commission was
allowed $6.00 per month the
other two membsrs each $4. DC t
customer or borrowei', realizing
that the small farmer or busin
ess man is as much entitled to
credit as the man of larger means,
is of great value to any commt).
nity and should be liberally pa
tronized. We congratulate the
officers and directors of this
good bank, who by their untir-
ingefforts, have built up .such a
strong and popular business and
we believe that greater prosper
ity is ahead of them.
ProgressiTe News Service.
M uiisey Buildi&s^
Washington, D.^
June 13, 1913c
The Progressive^ in the House
of Repreisentatives have promp
tly siez«d the opportunity offer
ed by President Wilson's
ence upon the enaftment g( s
currepee bill at this session t#
emphasize the fight they art
making for genuine publicity in
the public business. At the
first meeting of the House Com
mittee on Banking and Currency,
Mr. Lindberg, of Minnesota, the
only Progressive on the commi
ttee, submitted a motion that
all meetings of the committee
thereafter should be open to the
public. This included the publi
cation of the record of all votes
in the committee. This comjsafii-
tee is composed of fourteen
Democrats, six Republicans and
one Progressive Mr. Neeley* of
Kansas, a Democrat,' promptly
movM to lay Mr. Lindb)^>8
motion on the table. There
been so much agitation on tihe
question of publicity, howe«er^
and the Democrats are so tlKMf-
oiighly committed by their pro«
mises and their declarations
the principle, althoiugh in prac
tice they have steadily diaregar-
ded it, that the majority mem
bers of the committee wepe not
ready to take the drastic aekom
proposed by Mr. Neeley. They
sought to get around it by ap
pointing a sub-committee coipt
posed of Mr. Bullfilev, of oScj:
Mr. Wingo, of Arkansa’s, Mr^
Seldomridge, of Cbloritfii J)era-
ocrats; and Mr. Platt, bf
York, and Mr. Smith, of Minne
sota, Republicans/ tb hold i heaip-
ings on Mr. Lindbergh‘s motioBi
and recomhaend a course of
:$i.ction to the fiJl!.''eom^
"■■■ .;SUbrC^^ ^ Ott
juhli iOtB, with'ibijr'of**its jp'em-
:.herS-p!^8ent,:,;jSfr. Seldom,nd!i^
;being;in;P|ha:mla.^
I4,0(K) pounds of ,:CQ|fee arjd: 35,: j bergi], sp® .for the 'part
000 pounds of sugar. - , I an.hour'.-^tn. behaif.-of 'l?is ■ i.prx>-
There will 'be two basins'. sup- |p,osition. He urged the ^'ayffeon
plied for each--‘t.ent,'.; and. 30,#0 lbf.. .his. 'motioh^^ on -'the broad.
pegs wi31Jt>e required for these j ground of the right of the peo-
require ,j. pie to toiovy what their '.repre”
30f00u,000 sentatives in Congjress are’dbing
at ..all stagis ' of Congre»9ioirii
work« ■ ■■ ■
It is, of course, well linawn to
persons familiar wit1i‘tbft Work
•of Congr-ess.that. at verj- ';Iarge
and important part of it is mc-
complishQd in committees, ithiiiiE
been possible to accomplish »
great man y u ndesirabie things
in years gone by which would
never have been’ possible if com-
mjtlee meetibgs were open and
if the public were able at alt
cooks could be spared for the! times to know what went, bn m
camp,, and it is expected to bring i committee meetings.
in|cooks:who have had experience■], ■ The fight the Progressives are
in National Guard encampmeotgi making.foil* open meetings, is the
and others of Mm^lar- experience. vfirsfc^iiStent- ahfi :^ust,ainBd
The head cooks will arrive.'June ! effort t'&t has .been made, aloni’
alone,
56 pegs, making over
for the 5,500 tents. There
■be 70 miles of ditches around the
tents and 70 miles , of main dit
ches connected with these, mak
ing altogether 140 miles' of tren
ches.
,A brigade of 1,'900 cooks will
be Inquired to prepare the rati'pns.
At the head of these will’ be
cooks from th^ reg'ular army,
trained in preparing great quati-
ties of food and in handling the
culinary force. Not enough
Kenize'is-working ,pn a clue to l^i-ng necessa:5-y by ,ibe board to
..'»e t:.rop Oeg-an
■‘:i>oro BuijJelin,
■ ■ C-L’-'td jn 6
to ripen.
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I t.i,'.; Iv t.iJK *ili> (UM
' i.Ui.i:i,i t ruU udiiU' Piif
giy^L- t'.asi: an
ia>'S
i.* * PA2.0
cl jtchitip,.
several other parti.es supposec
to'be in3p).icate.d -as :the-sh,iprpenx-s
e.xeeeded the-amount allowed, by'.,
ilaw. ■ '"j ,
Now - Is A Goop.l^ii
To
iSUE-
(SCRIBE To The DisMtCH.
pay the officials in order to keep
^eo-od .rn^i on the board as Y^as ^
e:gj>ressed V^y. ■ .©r^e of the.|
fatheri "’the reason we don’t j
get any thing- done v\e dan’t pay
any. th ing lor *t.' ’ A .motion was.
made by Mr. Jas. King that the
33 Takes Civii Serdce E:s:aiBka~
6i>ns.
33 persons about eqally divided
six took, the civil service ex
amination Saturday in the room
of the Carolina Business College
over the Holt-Cates Store. The
examination continued for 4
hours from 9 to one civil many
of those who took examination
finished the work in much short
er time, the examination as is
generally reported by those who
took it was comparatively easy.
The , examination conducted by
the local exan-iiners organization
and was under the direct charge
of Ml. J. C. -^ones and 'Miss
Maude!Gunter. T Jsexama a ion
was held for the purpose ol se
curing eligibles from_ whicl>. to
select or more clerks in the Bur
lington Post Office.
27 and begin their preparations,
and other cooks Jdne 28, and the
work;of .issing rations will (horn*
•toence with supper, June 29.
The washing of the dishes will
be an; immense job and vdll be
provided for by a crew especial
ly selected and assigned to the
work.
^ Mrs.iA. C., ,Coble, of Byrling--
ton. ft.\F. f),'No. 10 who h^s
been
j-v.
turned home
ibe guest of her son, Mr,
Goble and iamily, has re-
Getisbwg Mec^i
That the old soldiers will be
well cared for in the matter of
eatables is a foregone conclusion.
The bill of fare is one of good
substantial food, different from
wartime menu in many ways,
having a greater variety and not
such an abundance of beans
Just glimpse this list that will
be in fashion from supper of
Sunday, June 29th, to breakfast
of July 6th Monday.
Salmon, Beef, Chickens, Miit
tons, Pork, Cold and Cured Meats
Beans, Peas, Onion-s, . Tomatoes,
Turnips, White and Sweet Po
tatoes* Prunes, Apricots, Oat
meal., Rice, Tapioca, Apple. Sauce
Puddings, Fried Mash, Eggs,
Macroni, Cucumber; Pickles,
Bread, Butter, Cakes, Pie, Cof
fee, Milk, IcedT^a,-IceCream,
Cigars.
the whole
of ^ securing
disintertes-
of public
J©st Pie.'
Simmons' the
appdint^ent^of t% , debijty ,col-.
lectors in this state. .. Fie is pie
whether large or small and there
is aivvays somei to scrap over.
~ Newberu Sun. /
this line. It aims to accomj^ltSfe
probably the greatest single re
form in CongT-essionabprocedure
that could be accomplished, the
reform which will be of the
greatest benefit to
country in the way
honest, faithful and
ted consideration
.measures. .
After having spokea sonie
time, Mr, Lindbergh was sul^-
jected to a considerable cross*
ejcaminatiqn by the DemocratUi
members of the full committee
who were present. Mr. Korbly^
of Indiana, Who is the ranking
Democrat on the co:;ii>
spoke for some time in
tion to the motion. He had &
difficult task in view of the gen
eral Democratic pronouncement
in favor of publicity and especi'
ally in view of the repeated dec
larations of the President and -d:
the Cabinet that the policy of the
Administration was “pitiless
publicity^’ as to alL goverrrentaS
affairs. Mr. Korbly ^rgued at
some length that the physical
difficulty in the way of opening
the meetings of th^ 'inking
and Currency Committee to the
public was -Such'as to, preclude
the possibility. He e^^ntendeaJ
that the meetings v.7oi:ld
run with ail kinds of idea? on th#.
currency and that the
would neter be able to ?ccorii-
plish any, work. Althoug'^
^or.bly. did riot say so, this
in fact very close to the heart of
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