North Carolina Newspapers

1 ■ J... ' ■ '■■ ■•* ':': :■■'■- ■:''-"':'V';v’.:i"'-' A PROGRESSIVE REPUBLICAN NEWSPAPER DfeVOTED TO THE UPBtj|LDI]Srd OP AMiEEICAN HOMES AND AMERICAN INDUSTRIES. VI BURLINGTON. N. C., DEC 19.1913 Z7 licreased Pay. Meal Slopping Weather. ]{ a recommendation made by the u ..je Gommittee on Postoffices and Roads is adopted by Congress ru'*al carrier in the United g{at«s receive an increase in pay jpproxiwating $50 per year. The ac- »ion was taken by an unanimous vote the committee and probably will jjecon't' a law. -jliese people should receive, more ^v, even more than a raise of fifty ^oilars- There are no people in the jnsil ser%nce that do as much hard Tvork, and are exposed to cold and all Kiiids of bad weather than do the rur al carrier;5. The Dispatch wants to go record as favoring any reasoxiable increase that may be granted these ^eople. They should have and are en- ritied to at least twelve hundred dol lar? per year. We trust all our friends and readers favor this in crease aiul will use their influence to ijeip them secure it. We are at your service, ye faithful men and women. A1 School Come In. The Water’s Fine. The Burlington News and The Dis patch, both papers published in Burl ington have installed new machinery in tlieir offices with a view of facili tating their mechanical work. The town in ’.vhich they are published has been most liberal to them, in the way of advertising. Thus encouraging them and making it possible to im- orove their facilities. Great credit is due the people of \BurJirigton for their broad minded r.ess. It is an indication of a thrifty But those who haves Fine shopping weather is promised for the last full week before Christ mas. The United States Weather Bu reau at Washington makes this very desirable forecast in the weekly bul letin published yesterday morning. There may bs some slight local rains, but the protection of the Alleghany Mountains usually minimizes these disturbances for the vicinity of Phil adelphia. This ideal weather should further stimulate early shopping. Holiday buyers already have been out in great force in Philadelphia. Those who have acted upon the excellent advice to dp their shopping early can look forward with expectation of unalloyed pleas ure when Christmas morning dawns. They can then share in the joys of those whom they make happy. Noth ing of the nerve-racking strain of last minute shopping will interfere with the true spirit of festive gayety. Now the least of the benefits aris ing from early Christmas shopping are those confeired on the employes. They are now working under constant pressure and undergoing trials which customers do not always apprehend. Yet it is gratifying to think that once the people of Philadelphia were in structed in the advantages of early shopping during the holidays they adopted the idea as far as was feas ible. To be sure there will still be a suc cession of crowded retail stores until the closing hour on Christmas Eyia> hopped early Tiie (ioVerior Vites “No”. jlligent people.—Mebane Leader. Going Up. A subscriber who comes in these days and pays the printer, is blessed, and in the kingdom to come he will be given a place a little higher than the angels. His name will be written at the top of the column next to pure readi]ig matter and nothing in the iiouse will be too good for him. He will get comps to all the harp recitals ■ and have a reserved seat besides the liters, while all the delinquent sub scribers will have to carry water for the performers and sit up in the gal lery.—Altavista Journal, will have relieved the crush and obvi ated their own chances of disappoint ment in getting exactly what they wanted,—Philadelphia Press. Dr L. D. Crawford is Charged With False Pretense. Statesville, Dec. 15.—^*‘Dr.” L. D. Crawford, an Oklahoma land agent, who has been operating in Statesville and other North Carolina towns re cently, spending much time here, was today placed under arrest on a war rant from High Point, charging him with false pretense. [Mr. Cra^ord spent seveyai months in Burlington some time ago. and is remembered by the people of this place.] 0 —r spug’ Movement Now Takes Nation al Scope. The so-called "spug” movement— Society for the Preventionof Use- iess Giving—has just been organized by the Woman’s Department of the Natio.nal Civic Federation under the honorary chairmanship of Mrs. Wood row Wilson, wife of the President. 'The movement, which began in New ^ork, has been federated in Wash- inErton through committees from var- '^113 states, the chairmen including: for Massachusette, Mrs, Charles ‘‘''r.rnlin; Pennsylvania, Mrs, James I. ’'■''iamberjain; New York, Mrs. August president of the society, and Mi.=;s Robinson Smith; West Virginia, ilrs. Arthur Lee; Maryland, Mrs. Uf-: California, Mrs. Julius Kahn; \i^ibama, Miss Manning Brewer; Ten- •^SKee, Mrs. H. Van Deventer; Dis trict of Columbia, Miss Margaret Wil- daughter of the President, bi a iitatfcment outlining the nation al j;cojie of the organization. Miss ^'nud 'vVetmore,'chairman of the Wo- iJepartment of the National -i'-ic Federation, tells of the good to accomplished in reducing useless among shopgirls and other ^■p.Efe-workers, and says the national %atr,zation stands for individual '^tedom in Christmas giving and for which spread happiness and One Way of Making a Record. “Tlie Attorney . General does not think that Mr, Hammer should be dis trict attorney," writes H. E. C. Bry ant. “He has practically said as much to Senators Overman ,and Sim mons. Btit Senato^ Qyernmn will in sist that" Mt. ■ Hatrwnei^ be ■^pointed. The Attorney General'will' give in. He has indicated that he would.” Assuming for present purposes that what Mr. Bryant says is true, and that he has not libeled the Attorney General, and incideritally Mr. Ham mer himself and Senator Overman— all of which it, of course, is possible he has done—Mr. McReynolds is left in a better light than was the Secre tary of the Treasury in the case of another North Carolina appointment| ]\fr. McAdoo said that an appointmenji;^ ought not to be iriade, and moreover that it would not be made. It was made—and confirmed aftei* - dark. Mr. McR^nolds is frank. Mr. Mc- Adoo was, to put it mildly, disingeRi ious*. ^ A sort of improvement is to be not ed in the way in which these , things are done. At that, it seem^, that vari ous branches of the public service are to be piae^ in thie han«te of men who, whatevei: may be their real vir tues and exciellencies, we;re officially declared unfit, ].ridr to appointment. —Greensboro News. Mr. L. C. Brogden, State Supervis or of Rural Schools, spent three days visiting the rural schools of Alamance county, this week. He talked to the people of Sjpring " .Hope Wednesday night; to those qf Maywood Thursday night; and to thos® of Mayhan Friday night., M.r Brogden understands thoroughly the rural school’s prob lems, and his talks are inspiring and practical. He pictures for his audi ence the type of the really efficient country sciftpbl—^the school that meets the demands of the country child. This school, he explains, should have an area of twenty-five or thirty square miles in order to insure enough tax able property for its support. This school shpuld have a school plat of not less than eight or ten acres, three of which should be used for play grounds and the rest for a demon stration farm and a home for the principal. In this school Mr. Brogden would place three teachers: the prin cipal, a man who dan spend twelve months of the year with his people and take charge of the boys in the farm demonstration work; the first assistant, Mr. Brogden would have organize the girls into a sewing and cooking c^ss; the second assistant he would have take' charge of the sc/cial clubs connected with the school. Mr. Brogden’s ihodfel school found .favor ih the ey«s of »il who heard him, and we look for such a school to be estab lished in Alaman(ie before very long. A box party followed Mr. Brogden's lecture at Mayhan Friday night. Ev erybody had a good time' and $71.15 was taken in for school improve- nients. The people at Mayhan a^rc ments. The people at Mayhan are enthusiastic , worfcei^ff and they art, hiaving a fine school. They have air ready raised nearly |1G0 this terrti for school eqiaipment^ So far as has been reported,: leads «very other school in the county. Hurrtikh for Mayhan. The Glfin^oe Sehp«>l fi^d a‘bbjK^£n.^y Saturday night and raised ?45.00 for tlieir school. The Primary, Department of the El mira School and the young people of that commynity ^^ave a play bh last Saturday night, to the delight of a large au4i?nce that was presents A small admission fe was charged that aihqunted t;0 $18.:60. Next Saturday, Decembet 19, will be pelebrat^ in, the schools of the edunty an4 in^Ahe schools of the State, North Q^olina Day. Thiis celebratioti is an annual custbrii b^t this year for thelirst time the celebra tion is to be in the interest of th^ farm and faritn life. The day is tb be observed in part as Enapp' Me- morjai^: Day in honor of the late Sea man A. I^n»pp whi) was the origina tor, of tp have farm culture and the stiady of plant life irtai|igurat$^d. in the schools of this section of the country' On the day of celebration^ there will be a collection taken for JCnapp Meinbrial. TMs meitwl’ial be ■ a demonstratioii ^ar|^ at Tenn., whei:© ^outh of the! entiipe South may go for The Governor of Illinois, who has r^ently been called upon to cast his vote; whether sex hygiene shall be taught in the schools explains his vote as follows: “I honestly fear that if sex hygiene be taujght ih tiie schools and young boys'and g^irJs in the open classroom are made a^re of things which may ^ tought in 'the line of sex hygien-j, it may cr«ate, and probably will cre ate, in their young minds a prurient curiosity 'w?)iich will induce, rather than sisppress, immorality and unr chastity." ■- The National Committee's fireat Duty. It is g^ratifying to know that a clear majority of the Republicans of tlie National Committee are believed to favor catling a special convention to meet nesrt year.. It is perhaps natural that inembers from States that will lose delegates in the Nation^ Conven tion: by the proposed, change in the lu&is of reprefientatibh should sling to the present method and oppose a special convention. But just here they make a great mistake. All shou should be for the special con vention and the rehabilitation of the Republican party. No system can benefit any portion of the Republican party that means the defeat of that party. In order to win anywhere theparty must get to- giether Set its fac«e toward the morn ing and show by its action and atti tude that it is now as it always has been the one constructive and pro gressive party in the country. It should welcome new ideas and test them and keep abreast of the grow ing aspirations of the people. The causes of division and discord within the party must be removed. The old method: of basing represen Death of a Colored Man. John Holt, a colored barber of Gra ham, died suddenly Wednesday morn ing at his home in Graham, while milking. Upon learning of his death several people were seen rushing to the, barn and other supposing there was a fire hastened to turn in the fire alarm. Fi^st Cafoiiiet Dinner Given by the President. Washington, Dec. 18.—^The first Cabinet dinner under the present ad- ministiratidh^jwas given by the Pres ident and ^r^., Wilson at the White House toni^t. Besides members of the Gabinet„their wives and daugh ters, the Vice-President and Mrs. Marshall, ^retary Tumulty and some close friends of the Wilson fam ily Were invit^. Covers were laid for fifty. : Oijtside pfi/the Cabinet circles, the guests included Mayor-elect John, P. i tation in the National Convention on Mitchell, of New • York,, and Mrs. j instead of votes . must be Mitchell ; Cteirman William F. Me-• jjhanged. It is seen to be unjtist. It Combs, off Democratic National^, gjygg greatly excessive influence in ComnMtt4e,>nd Mrs. McCombs, Pres- National Convention to those iden^ Ha^y ,:A. GarfieM, of IfViiiianiS ■ Stat^ which never respond by giving Collfeg#, andvMrs. Garfield; Prof. H. any considerable support to the tick- B. Fiiie, of %ipceton University, and nominated. That has always caus- Mrs. Fine; Jit.,lind Mrs. Ralph Mt- !ed,;dissatisfaction and in the last Re- zer, of New york; H. B. Th.oiflpfion, publican convention was made the of Wilmington, , Del., Thomas D. and basis of dividing and subsequently de- David B. Joii^, of Chicago, all three feating the party. If the party is to tiTustees of Princeton University when recover ground that rock of office Mr. Witobn was president there, and must be removed their wives, ^ Miss Jones; Robert TJig Republicans of the country ^re Bridges, of New York, a classmate a; majority of the people ^nd \70t1ld of the President, at Princeton; Mrs- bu^ for a whplly ^hhecesssry dMs- William R. %11, of Washington; C9I. ion o| its stren^ in cor^rojv m W. Harts, rftillta^y aid* ^ the^ ig thW diity thoise in^ijfen of i^esideni^^S, Dr. Casy Graysbn, ^ U S. thorii>y "^hi|i the painty to »se ^that i^,,-and^;Mis^.i^niie' A^^st^rong, to bifing that party togetlier Priijcetbn, Thottvas Sc Coursey Ruth, and solidify it bn lihes of progress, de- MisS Marion ^ Bavid, and Charles velbpment and growth. To take any Star , del, the last’four of ;whom, to- other action is to betray the party and gether with Miss Margaret Wilson doom it to further ^efekt. furnished the musical, program that Thbse who for selfish reasons use' followed the dinner. their power in that direction and seek The dinner was thp first state to prevent the specml conyention with function of the season,, and is to .be all Its opportunities ftare eneinies of follpwed by dinners by Cabinet mem- th^ Republicaft party;- They must be ^^i^ to -th^ President and the usual voted down todai? at the meeting officii receptions. Announcement was of the National Comttiit^ and th|, m^fr. today, however, that the diplo-* - necessalry steps tp pfeparis he now di- in^ic reception, ^h^ujed for Jan. vided and defeated Republican paity 6, will be.postpofried on account of the for a new career of united, agressive, President's absence on liis vacation, progressive and triumphant action. Jn:xhad';;PreviciiUSly;''' been.; announced . ' ■' \ ; ' .tha;V:-th©3Custoiaary'N«w Year,'a Re-. . ‘ . * ' ' ceiption-haa'iJbeeft abandpni^ on this Crack Safe at .Terrell and $7QO.ftO. ^^lirton, Dec. 18.-^Sheriff P. Lee Hewitt received a telegra:m this morn- account. ini' ,to ,cojhe to Terrell at ohc6 and instruction in agriculture; ^“lofulness, as against collective giv- and formal exchange of gifts. Some of the latter practices are char- ^'-’t^riaed as forms of ‘petty graft” senseless and stupid. Among the Washington recruits to ranks of the “spugs” are Mrs. Clark, Mrs. Henry Wnite, 'wife the former United States ambas- to France, and Mrs. Franklin %rV Girl Can’t Recover. Statesville, Dec, 18.—Miss Vance Clark, who was so severely burned at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John W. Clark, some miles south; of Statesville, is reported in a dying condition. According to her own statement Miss Clark went to sleep while seated with her back to an open fireplace and when she awoke her clothing was on fire. Screaming for help she rushed from the house into the yard. Her two sisters, Misses Mona and Bert Clark, who were in another part of the house, were at tracted by the screams and gave chase, but it was with, much difficulty that they overtook their sister and beet out the flames with their hands. Will Stop at Asheyille. Washington, Dec. 18.~Secretary and Mrs. Bryan will leave Washington at 5:50 to-moiprow afternoon for Mi ami, Florida. The secretary has not been able to visit his niew southern home .since it was completed and he will spend a couple of days there looking over his place. The Secretary will stop at Ashe ville, N. C., from 10 a. m., Saturday to- 4 p. m., and will also make a short stop at Jacksonville, Fla, The party expects to arrive at Miami, Sunday. PlunJkctt-Bamhardt Weddihg Last , a rbobery that had taken - Greensboro, Dec. iS.j-^^ne, of thp Place there last night in T. F. Con most beaatiful ■ Weddin^fs of tHe sea7,. npr's store, son occurred last evening at GM^e A^ut 8 o’clock last night two Methodist Proteatarit Church Mfhpn strange men were ^6en going in the Hiss Mamie Plunlcett was hak^ppily direction of the stcire. About 12:00 united in .marriage to (J. C^ Barnhardt, ‘ o’clock i>i|l|r8. Connor heard the e;xplo- of High Point. The ceremony was.^sip^n ana upoh“ an iriv'estigatloii it perforraeJ promptly at 8 oclock and found that the safe had been the, marriage vows were read by Rey? v;M.lown open and near $700 in cash G. H. Johiison, the bridc’.j former pas- stolen. The men accomplished their tor, assisted by-the Rev. R. M. A«- Purpose by using nitroglycerine. The drews, pastor cf the church. The' handle had been broken oif the safe church was l>eautifuHy de2::irated for iind the liquid poured in through a' the occasion with ferns, ^ alms^ and small hole where the handle had been flowers. attached. Some checks, notes, stamps, Misa Mi.y Bai‘: w?i the maid of etc., that were in the safe were un honor, while Wesccitt Roberson, of moli^ted. The men entered the store High Point, acted as best man. Mrs. through the rear door-by prizing the '.s dame of hon- The ush' bars. About 1 o'clock Mrs. Connor, who tar; ■'eir veagh, wife of the farmer sec^ ay of the Treasury. Mr; Hall Isley, who has been cpn- nected with The Alamance Insurance & Real Estate Company, has rwently resigned Ms positiojv and accepted a position as stenographer with Mr. J. N. Wililarasoh, Jr. He entered up^ on his new duties Monday^ ' There are mighty few men who can pay you a just debt without act ing: as though they were doing you an awful favor. Clothes may not make the man but some how. or other we never associate a fellow with prosperity if the seat of his pants Ippks like a mirror. firshmoirOrae taoi et eta etao etaoin S. 0. Plunlrptt acted er, gaverhcr marrr^ge. er. gave her lo mai*ri;;'’e.' The ush- i lives a short distanpe below the store ers were Dr. .S. S. Coe, High Point; j on: the Mooresville road, saw the two N. W. Kirl.rr)*n p.nd Rol ert. Troxler, I &®jng in that direction It is of this city ard Mr. Pvoberson, of' supposed that they separated later Graham. Lit tle Vista White was the * a|^d ,^ent on towards Mooresville. ring bearer. J SheriflF Deaton, of Iriedell, and Sher- After ^be rehearsal o’i Tuesday iff. Hewitt, of Catawba, who reachec right tl\8 bridal party was e. tortain- the scene of the robbery early this ed by. Mrs. N. S, O'Connt^r. with morning, failed to find a definite clue whom the bride has made her hpme uppn whiqh tp work. A diligent hunt since coming to this city. ; | is being conducted and the men wil Mr. and Mrs. Barhhardt left on likely be apprehended within a few Train No. 38 for a trip tp Northern days. cities, where they will " spebd several Mr. Connor conducts a large store \ hisses Pauline Coble, Ella Rae Clar: and Chloe Freeland arrived hoin.^^, ^ursday from Salem College,where ^ey Have been in school. “ , The old fasfeioned man uaed to patrpni^e the *‘Bijo” racket store aad said tl^at the trains came: deppo wsvwJly had money send hia to'pollegfc^^,' Here is a gloom from The New York World; ‘*The country , has had its Jeff Davis, of Arkansas, in the United States Senate, and Vardan^n, of Mississippi^ It is promised Cgle Blease. Now, it is thrtotened with Hobsbji, ^ Alabama.’ One thing about :our' ispul^ern neighbors,they do hot'care » bth^r ioI^m, think'heroes. weeks. Awoman’s ideft of Heaven isi to be able to worry whether to go south ; for th? winter or stay liorth and wear her $2,000 set of fUrs. . Marrying oar opposites does not mean that a beardless youth should ho4c who iias a fair* ,, JQlogs ore a lot lik% humans. When a cg^rnmkoni dog jleetf alhother dog witlii a v^bl)onAajt»undl its ;;t&e «ioni^n ,do|f it i« a*fit p^-a fight th4>:.be>riMbiBed^ pbiodlA. at Tyrrell, 15 miles east of N0wton It was at first thought ti^t some men from tlwt immediate neighborhood did the work, but the investi^atprs ^y that they were prtfesjsionals. Onc^ in a while you will a. giri who i^ M homely .,;^i^^on would lidi cari^ ii she ,£d nu^j^te chewing gum ^hen you were around. : Thifere are all sorts p^ple iir the In^lii^n^^ the roan who gets on a crowd^ 0art^ lear a pound ov^oat pocket;"’*' • Must Mvt? ill Twa Yeatl Fr^ W. Anheu^erI, lawyer and city prosecutor of Omah&r Nebraska, has had 800 proposals of marriage in two vreieks, and his oiSSjc^is fairly swamp ed with letters Uiat have hot yet been opened. Most of the , offers are from blondes, .as Anh998er is piuitial to that type., ./;]^acficaily^^‘^ l^hsas^^ Neinraslw^ Dakota, sithpugh. I^Iinnesbtit ind Mi^uri are fairly well represe^led^a^^ thft ap plicants.. . .;v' The rush ik due fact that Anheuser’s uncle: died about a month ago and left him a legacy of $60,000, provided) he married and settled down witjiin the next two years. Immedi ately after the funeral the will was read and its provisons got into Omaha newspapers. Alsb the announcement ^ that was made that unless he secured the wife withjin the'spi^ified time he would lose all claims to the $50,000. Further, Anheuser's partiality for blond^ was enlftrg^ upon. Fred’s first iproposal came within less than twenty-four hours after the terms of the ; will wiere niade known. The applicant was ah Omaha girl and in her l^ter sl^ told Anheuser that she didn't wkiiit tJie $50,000, but was willing to help him out by marrying him at once, “ite sure We will be happy together," twid the writer of 'the letter.,' Btefore Anheuser had an opportun ity of; answerinff thfs Omaha girl, let- tiers began to; .cpm«i in from others towns, At firjst they were in lots of twos and threeif^, but about the third day them ail: carrier brough them in by he sackf?4l. > In the early days of his “courtshipi'’ A^eiuser made a res olution to ans^fer'every one, but now he them by-a -stenographer, who prepares them, for a hasty reading by her employer. The sl^nographer goes around ;all day a broad grin on ifT' face and Anhetti^r is afiraid to “Ayj^rman .got in: eni^y’.." 1156^000.; S'he '^anis^ ebmie to ler and be a farmer. We can get such a nice faiini and have enough eft over for an soipmojjile for that 1)50,000, she writes^ ; A giri jfrom Ken tucky, Neb., say? jier Hair with stand every tfefet, and that if she can help ■hi^ gain that IJiOiOOft^^hVs '‘there like a iduck.” ' jFrom Canistoga; 3. D., “Marie S." her she y^ij get a divorce wjt^in a yisar ahd can then money viften, them. Aaothfr South Dakota giifl writes a loving missive in soh^ titles.,.,.;,. A beat quality her 8m«Jl foot and that Mr. Ahheuser will h»«« diflfenlty in fit|lii^.in; love her. She stipu- lal^s, howeverf that^tl^^y in^ lire in “d^ar old S A Perry v(Iofira)^f^^ by telling Ai^euser she dic^'t pve a ii^p for his $jSO,OOOi but tllilt en; desp^ititely in lOye with his pid- ture she ‘‘seen ill • the newspapers.” ‘‘Throw the the birds and copie on over^^l^ me^" Jthe ad vises. . A Manhattan (Rah.) miSs who de scribes herself at 19 years old, blue eyes, golden hair, plump and called pretty, is so sure that Fred will be tickled to death with her that she is ready to leave: for Omaha upon re ceipt of a t«5legraham“^or the pur pose of being look^ over.” “I’m not the kind of a girl who has been 20 years old for the last five years,” says a Belle Fourche, S. D., giri. “Ill bear inspection.” “This pic ture ^f riie is no good, love, says a Mankato, Minn., charmer, who in closes ,R pt^otograph o^ t^ fashion of big, slieeves. ' ' A girl in Lewis, la., modestly telis Anheuser: “I have pretty lips and a naturally rosy complexion. I am naturally etaoin Shrdl cmfwyp cmfw handsome and I have a string of beaux over here longer than the Riv- er-to-River road.” Tjmdall, S.: D,, is - represented by five girls, the last ^ite of whom says they want an ojipartuiiity to mend socks, do up the dislies, cook ham hock and cabbage and milk the cows. “1 don't see w^t ,tjie old man want ed to get me in^^ for, any way," I^miblea “And I've got a girl of iny And the letter soiling in at the i^te Of fifty to 9«yent]r-five a.day. RidiiMNI nlBit i^yg old, 4i?fant ofwa6l Mrs. ttay»', died ihetr lioiM Rev. Mcl^, eblidtie^ tlMi fuheral at the Jii^ Wedinl|dbiy. IHne Hill eemetery. .