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We are not nsponsibla for opuuons
the eorreiponaentt.
the money they are saving, if there is
any saving at .all. It would appsar
tc a layman that they woulJ be only
too glad -to ^taiementt in
iordei- that'*ltoi!fr-''w'h6 have suppf^
Aibicribera will talc* notice tliat s*
Mpt far xttbseription fw The SUlU
jmpatch will be honored at thii oltioe
«i»e* it is numbered with atam]^
Sutered a* s«cotid-cla»s matter
lUy 10, 1$08, at Uie p*ct eflk* at
Sarliissten, Nerth Carelina, un4tr t)u
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themselves what is being , done with nor. The county sourt house will only
For Congressman, oth District:
JOHN T. BENBOW,
of Forsyth County.
$11,000 A VE.\R SAVED BY THE
SALARY SYSTEM.
In Wake County, Sorth Carolina,
the county in which Raleigh is located,
the adoption of the salary syste^n fcr
county officers has saved the taxpayers
these three years $34,135, cr over
$51,000 a year. That is to say, after
paying fair salaries to all county of
ficers, they have turaed into the coun
ty treasury surplus fees for the thr«e
yeai-s amounting to 535,837,9r>, as fal
lows:
C. H. Andersen, Register of
Deeds, net balance .. .. ^(',247.85
Millard Mial. clerk-, npr Hsi!-
a/ice 6,775.7S
J. H. Sears, sheriff, net bal
ance .. .. li),694.84
G. T. Norwood, treasurer . 2,822 48
Total .. .. .. .. . - • .S35,S37,y5
Less net expenses of aud
iting . - - 1,702.10
Total saving to taxpayersS34,135.o5
Of course, Wake County is above
the average Southern County in
wealth end population, but we beli--;ve
it safe to say that every ?ounty _ in
the south should abolish the fe' sys
tem. Certsiniy all the strongerj^roui^
ties should do so. At any rate tSe
$;J4,000 saved to the Wake taxbay>rs
looks pdretty good to them. Other
counties may stick to the fee system,
il they like, but Wake isn’t troing to
change back just for the fun of giv
ing $11,000 a year extra to a f-’W
officeholders.—Progressive l*'armer.
Fti Wake County where a st.ite-
mcnt is pubii.'ihed .showing the saving
t. the taxpayers, there is no court
house ring, or if there is, they do rot
feel that the taxpayer.=, are their ser-
VHnis, but rather that they are ihe
taxpayers' servants and that they owe
it -to the taxpayers to let them know
hew their busine.^s is conducted, r.nd
besides the law provides for nn audit
tf the county bcoks, and they believe
in obeying the law. In Vlamance
county there is a strong court ho'ise
ring, that believe the people belong
to them, and who do not regard the
law, we are ashamed that this is -=0,
but TPe are unable to come ro any ith-
er conclusion in view of the way they
trample upon tiie rights of the 'ax
payers and refuse to enlighten them
as to the conduct of the county of-
fairs, no other county in the Sl.-3le
would stand for it, but ouv people are
so completely under the domination -f
the bosses that they are meek '.nd
lowly and afraid to assert their rights
ar.d demand of the said bosses that
they comply with the law and publish
such statements as show how our coun
ty affairs are conducted. There are a
few who have the manhood o assert
their rights and arc doing so every
week through the columns of The Dis
patch and in their talks with other
friends in the county. These few are
gods own chosen people, who will
rise up some day and drive these rir'pr-
sters from the court house and oat
of public life, the bread is leavening'
ard the day is not far distant when
thf' political manhood of this jtood old
county will undergo fsn awakening
and woe to those who are now defyjng
the demands of the people. No nne-
ki^ws in this county how much is be
ing saved by the adoption o the sal
ary system as against the fee system,
and no one knows except the officials
them so loyally may continue
so, and avoid any insinuation that the
money is not being diverted to^he
proper channels where it belongs,
refsial to publish this statement ^n-
not but cause people to wonder if«Jhe
money is being turned into the p#^p-
er channel, and is calculated to cause
many good men to wonder after all
if our affairs are being propei-ly con
ducted. If this impression :;ets
abroad in the rtiinds of the people
there is no one to blame, but the
oiBcials themselves. They have it i;;
tlieir power to allay, this suspicion,
will they do it, we shall see.
HAVE ALWAYS BEEN' .MADE
The annual statements of the re
ceipts and expenditures of the county
have always been published annually
hold four hundred. Your party only
casts about two thousand aad two
hundred votes, therefore, there was
hardly two thousand ptessnt, the,
ether sixteen hundred was at ^ome
writing letters to The Dispatc-h urg
ing us to keep up our fight on your
county officials* who are neglecting
their duty by refusing to make pubUc
the saving to the tax payers by the
adoption of the salary system. Y'ou
will hear from them later.
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TO OLR DEMOCR.\TIC FRIENDS.
Those of you who want to see r>
iiutemei'.t published showing the .‘=.'.v-
ing- to our tax payers by the aioption
cf the salarj- system, if you wiii write'
the Dispatch, a short letter telling
your views we will be glad to publi.-h
ii. we win not publish your name, un
less, yba desire it, but will just pv'o-
Ijsh the text cf your letter, withh''’a-
in£‘ your I'.ame, for your inforniati'^n
V-'iil siiy, the salary, system for o;:r
ct.unty cScers have besn in opera':on
and will be published at
time this year.
Our county officers are on to cheir
jcbs and ai'e doing their work to the
tisfaction of the public and are
drawing their salaries at the rate
named by the legislature, and their
official administration of affiirs was
unanimously endorsed by the Demi-
h? u?uu! f“r two years that is we have bcc
paying our county officers ?. salui y
lor two years, before that time they
received ths; fees from the work do!-.e
foi the people of the county, but other
progressive courrties adopted the s
ary system and were saving the t.;x
pr.yers so much money that oar comi
ty adopted the salary system also, h;:t
crats on.last Saturday.—From Burl-jour county officials refuse »o
ington News, -\ug. 20. This week.
Nay, nay, brother, you must post
yourself better chan this. Your party
has never published the receipt”, trey
h;ive published what purported ro be
he expenditures but no one hiis ever
knivv.’ whether this was coirect or
not, simply because no one iia.-? ever
know what the receipts were, there
fore they could not know whether all
that was received was spent cr not.
The taxpayers of Alamance county
have been and are now badly imposed
upon by their ofJrc’iaisI They are
kept in the dark.in regard to all mat-
ter concerning finances, our county
oflicials have maintained r. secrecy
which is equal to or more strict than
th« government war department. And
p.gain brother your party has not pub-
Ji.!S]hS}..J;he saving to our tax payers
bj the adoption of the salary sy-stem,
jCEH’t ySrget to do^h^s, we be-
ilieve you Want jfbur party to Jo right,
and you know and alt of us know, ihat
t»» wtihhold this information is wrong,
dead wrong, wake them up brotlier,
and crown yourself with glory.
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TO OLR SUBSCRiaERS.
The Twice-.A-Week dispatch needs
money. We do not want you to giv£
us anything, but we need the money
you owe us for wading our paper.
Vou may not think .so small amount
will help, but remember we have so
many small amounts due us. that if
we could get them all we would be on
easy street, so to speiik. If you value
oui paper and our efforts to give you
real live readible paper, pay us.
We have changed the paper to twice
a week, instead of once a week as
heretofore, and yet we do not rsk
I’ou to pay one cent more. Just think
you are getting double value and vet
you are slow to I'espond to our r.p-
peals for money that is honestly
nd justly due. Kindly send what you
can now, and if you cannot send all,
send again later. Who will be the
first to show their appreciation.
S’aper Mast be Paid for.
-^t a trial held before Judge Cle;iv-
tr in Martinsville, 111., a jury hns
awarded E. S. Clayton, editor of the
Planet, S5 damages in a suit bronyht
to collect a subscription which the r*e-
fendant said he didn't owe us he had
ordered the paper stopped.
The jury held that as long as the
piiper Was taken out of the ofSce, it
was suraly read and that the defer^d-
ant mu.'t pay.
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THEY WERE SATISFIED,
'Two thousand democrats who Wi're
in the convention at Graham last Sat
urday showed that they were satis
fied with the county officers. “The
Dissatisfied Democrat,” "The Old tine
Democrat” “The Old Time Democrat"
and all other kinds of “Democrats”
failed to be pja hand. They must have
been at home WT^ting more letter —
From the 8ur!ing[ton New5, Au^st
20ith, this week.
Better revise your figur5S neigh-
. - f'--
public the amount we are saving and
what they are doing ivith the money,
which we are supposed to be saving,
jiist why they are doing this we .io
not know, but they ate doing it just
the same, several of the taxpayers
who have wanted to know how much
we are saving, are writing cr h«,e
written, let us hear from those of
you who would like to have this infor
mation . Your name will be held
strictly confidential. Y'ou may de
pend upon this. Address your letter
to the State Dispatch Publishing V.,
Burlington, N. C.
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The four hundred democrats who
attended the county convention last
Saturday altogether they renbmsaiited
all the old officers except one county
commissioner and he was renoitiftiated
but was counted oat later, becaws* h«
v.'as not a ring man, all these sfoor
hundred were not satisfied, ev»n if
they did give the old officers a renom-
inction, they had to do it, the ring
had decreed it, and they dared not
disobey the ring, and besides there
were no other candidates, it was n^ n-
iiiate these, or no one. The ring wa.s
S'.» strong and so completely dominated
the politics of the county that other
people who might have wanted to run
for .some office was afraid to do so,
knowing the ring was all supi'eine and
that if they did oppose them,- that
they would not even be appointed^tax
lister, poll holder or to any other ^K»-
■sitioii, which the ring controlled. H
you want expert testimony hov;
strongly the ring is entrenched in
tlif county hourt house, ask Dr. Dick
Freeman, late candidate for county
treasurer. He was a man ivas had
given a life time ser\-ice to the cause
cf Democracy, this good mao aspired
tr he county treasurer, but the ring
was against him, and he fell by the
wayside. A victim of the ring. Hc«
Icng oh how long wil! the your.g man-
hooil of -Alamance county Democracy
akep, awaken young giants and put
o* your armor for the mighty conflict.
Y’oiir future political existence is
a, stake. Swat the ring, and sw.it ’nm
hard.
Oui' fellow townsman, Hon. William
Houston Can oil, recently chosen Dem
ocratic County Chairmar, has been
fanner oi'.iet in polities for sometime,
owing to ■•■onf’ictin!; views between
h:vn and the ruling powers in the
Democratic party, but the time has
conic when they need his wise coun
cil his splendid oratory, his consist
ent position upon all public questions,
h*s ijns'vverving belief that the people
sh:\U role, and in their extremity they
hav again called him to ths leader
ship of the party. Thi^ action cf
the Democratic party proves con
clusively that the party leader who
maintains a consistent attitude upon
alt public questions and regards .the
jri^hts of individuals can come’ hacTt,
^.o matter how far he may stra^ from
the self-delegated leaders of tha par
ty who believe they are the only j.eo-
ple who entitled to opinions.
We say in all sincedty since Mr. Car
roll has again been called to lead his
psi-ty, although it is in opposition to {
cur party faith, may be lead them
wisely and well.
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-At the Democratic county conven
tion held in the court house last Satur
day, our townsman Hon. W. H. Car
roll, -xas elected county chairman, and
we trust that Mr. Carroll •vill main
tain his fenner views, that our cc.iii-
ty officers are tha sen-£.!;s of the
people, and therefore ate entitled to
iet the people know how their business
Is being conducted. .And will see to
it that they make public sll state-
r.ients concerning the county finances
and the saving, to the county if any
frcni the adoption of the salary sys
tem. Do these things, and you v.’ill
immortalize yourself with tne tax
payers cf this tax-ridden county of
Alamance.
No Proclamation Required.
There are people in this counti-y
who will postpone the payment of
thoir debts, a month or even more,
without any proclamation of mora
torium.—Boston Globe.
O—
"Is the man Avho works with his
hands or the one who work.? with his
head the harder worker?"
“Don’t ask me, I use a typewriter.”
—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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-An equal doom clipped Time's blest
wings of peace.—Petrarch.
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To Whom It May Concern:
Having heard a good deal concern
ing the excellent qualities of t':e
James Oliver Plow No. 11, sold by
Coble and Bradshaw, Burlington, \.
C., caused me to call upon Mr. .Iame~
H. Coble, Burlington, Route 1, who
owns one, and has recommended it so
highly. After observing it work T
was convinced that the James Oliver
Plow No. II, was the plow for mt.
And without further investija or
hesitation, I purchased one,
I c.m now satisfied that the Jame^
Oliver No. 11 sold by Coble and Br"d'
shaw beats any plow I have ever se?n
or tested. And if 1 i^ere certain that
I could not get another fifce it, I
would not dispense with mine for ?150.
It has already been worth its price
to me, and I have only had it two
weeks.
My advice to fellow farmers is that
if they desire to percserve ten or fif
teen years of their lives, that the ssn-
cst and best way to do so, is to pur-
chast a Jamas Oliver Plow No. 11
from Coble Bradshaw.
Sincerely,
Greene A. Nichoison,
B-24-14. Burlington, N. C.
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SALE OF REAL ESTATE.
By virtue of the power of sale con-
t.'sined in a certain deed in trust exe-
tuted to the Central Loan & Trust
Co, on the 18th day of June, 1914, by
Charles Smelhers and wife, .•ind duly
recorded in the office of the Register
of deeds for .Alamance County, in book
No. G6, pages 35 to 42 of Mortgage
Deeds, to secure the payment of ten
certain bonds, default having been
made in the payment of the monthly
ii'stalraents on these bonds, the under
signed Trustee will expose to public
sale to the highest bidder for c.ish
the Court House Door of j\lamancc
County on Saturday, September 26th,
1934, ai: 11 o’clock A. M., the folloxv-
ing land conveyed by said deed in
trust:
certain tract or parcel of land
lying and being on Hawkins Ave„ in
the town of Burlington, North Caro
lina, adjoining the lads of F. S. Stock-
ard, Ruffin Street, and others, and
bcunded as follows;
Beginning at an iron bolt on Hawk
ins -Ave.. comer with said Stockard,
thence E. Aith line of said Stockard
to an iron bolt ori Ruuiii Street, thence
with line of Ruffin Street 70 feet
to an iron bolt, thence in a westerly
direction to an iron bolt on Hawk
ins, Avenue, thence with line of .said
Avenue 70 feet, to the beginnig, the
same being lot No. 50 in the .sub-divis
ion of lot No. 187 in the plat of the
•oxm of Burlington.
This the 25fh day of Augu.st, 1914.
CENTRAL LOAN & TRUST CO.,
Trustee.
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Low Roood Fares
, Md
on account of th«
NafioiialStar SpftQgled Banner Centemiial
^piemoer 6-15, 1914
VIA
Soutliem Railway
Southern Railway will sell mund ri«ket« from all
points to'Sftltiinore, Md., this Celebration.
Dates of sale Sept.^tb, Sth and 10m. final return
limit to reach original starting point priot to midnight of
I September 19th. Stop overs will be permitted at wash-
I ington on return trip within limit of ticket. Excellent
! opportunity to visit Baltimore at small cost and witness
i one of this greatest events of the age.
I A million dollar display of Historical P-’geantry, In-
i dustrial and Patriotic parades, Carnivals. K. vel electric
! illuminations, Army and Navy parade. Fireworks and
; Bombardment. Middle states Regatta; National Athletic
I Union Events on land and water.
Round trip fares from points mentioned are:
From Burlington, N. C., $10.90.
: “ CbapelHill, N, C., - 10.90.
“ Durham, N. C., ...... 10.90.
“ Henderson, N. C., &.60.
I " Oxford, N. C., 9.60.
I “ Raleigh, N. C., 10,95.
I “ Selma, N. C 11.55.
1 Low round trip fares from all points not mentioned on
I same basis.
I Southern Railway offers excellent tnun service from all
points. GoiHl opportunity to make side trips to PhiladeN
phiR, New York, Atlantic City, etc.
For detailed information and fares from any point on
i Southern Railway, apply to ady Southern Ry. Agent, or,
0. F. YORK
Traveling Passcngei Afeot Raia|ii, N. C.
BUCHANAN’S
"5, 10 and 25c Store
Give Your Dimes and
Nickels A Chance
High Cost of tiring Reduced
BUCHANAN’S
Wbitied’s 0!d Sl&ad
The No. 11
James Oliver Sulky
PloVi}—^The best sulky plow you
The plow and
ift.nct draflSed.
can ouy.
driver are earrk d
V^'a went , ou ta be carricd. Gome in
ar.(i let 1.3 show you all the good
points on tills plow and you will be
carricd eway witli it.
Simple ca'iatrucfton, il^t
easy durability, a&d peifect
u ork—t.bat*a tfcc
No, 11 Ja:ttes Oliver
Stil’ry Flow
COBLE-BRADSHAW CO.
BURLINGTON, N. C.
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