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THE TWICfi'A WEEK PWPATCH, TI^pDAY, DECeMUOt », mt
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OAiiDALE ITEMS. m»s Eve and a >vord of chctr fci-
T^ie past week has beer very cold.! each one as he presented the pass
Fa; ■m work has beoi u.i a slundstiU | books. These, good loyal suid ti’ue
for sweral days. , .i operatives r.ppreeiate the iictio’i of
. Mr. aiid- Mrs. JJoIphus Kirare^’ ar'i
all ssuiies. It is a babj-girl that eair.c
10 make l;er home with them for a
whsie, Caod luck lo theni.'
Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Girtoii have
lefC us ^uid.aaoved near. Liberty. We
are sorry fo lose Wesley. ..
Mr. Kditor, you have bfc-n boasting
very much about other Statics ar.d
towns, What, about the cotto.n mi!U
in Aliunance? One of our neighbors
infoiweit Tis that they went througrh
same a£ our mills ia Alamance and
jiot one-half of the looms were run-
ning: and what was .j>unhirig was o.t:
X-2 time, or only three days a week.
That da»!i not look like prosperity
retujTiing to us. We were .^so in-
foniied that in one town iii N. C.'., peo
ple are burning their chairs to i:eeij
fire, when there is plenty of wood. We
do not, object to any one helping for-
eigjioi's (Belgians) but we think char^
ity oiii^t lo begir. at home.
Mr. Eugene Spoon, of Atiaiita Den
tal College and sister, Effie, of Greens
boro, win spend holidays with their
parents.
Mr. and Mrs. Buck Daffron took a
flying tri^ to Burlington Saturday.
Tbere will be so many hunters and
visitors with 5 duiing the holidays
that it is impo siblu for us to give
ali.
News is ve.> scarce as the weather
has been so bad that we have not been
able to get out and pick up m'leh,
Mr. A. T. Spoon, proprietor of Oak
dale Nursery, went to CErthage to sell
trees during court.
The Christmas tree and exercises
at Oakdaie will take place Tuesday
riigh.t, Dec. 22, at 7:00 oVioek. .Svery-
body tnWtcd to behave.
To look at the nice letter.' that the
■-•hildren have written to old Santa,
it seein.'. The Dispatch has a large
circoiation. I hope that all will be re
membered by old Santa.
tills pi-ogi-essive fljilJ tnaitagement, and
will r4>iide;' faithful and better ser-
vii'e I’ji- ihij kindness upon ths purt of
iVlr. Baker. Mr, Fj, F. .William.-, is
the superintendent of this largo ard
flut'i'ishir.g' manufacturing- enteiyrise,
uiid has been with the mil! io.’’?
that if Mr, Baker had undertak"i to
reward him for the long service per
formed it would have taken about ar,.-
other thousand to. have completed the
job. Te people of Alaiaance County
are proud of the management of the
Virginia Cotton Mills, and theiv one-
wish today and forever more, wiU be,
Long Live Mr, Baker, Long Flourish
the Mill Village of Swepsonville. Th;
Dispatch has ijiany readers and warm
fi lends at Swepsonville and it \g’ives
us pleasure to chroincle this p'iea.sar.t
reii'.einbraiice. ' A Merry Christmas
and a Happy ai d Prosperous New
.Ye.ar to all of you, is our oiio
wish.
‘■Statut-i of tiniitations” excuses th»
ope.'J account which you made- for
broad and meat. You must pay it in
cash of God siill malve yoiJ pay it in
fire and bi’i.'nstohe,—Tazeweli Enter
prise.
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THHll.UNG FfiATUKES
BOEA.”
Mr, E, May,'
Burlington, N, C.
i)ear Sir:—
We want to inforai you of the .nar.y
thriiiirig features that will be iixau-
gurated in “Zudbra” in the forth
coming episodes, as follows;
In Episode No. 3 we have a. mob
scene in which there are moie than
two thousand people. There is ;».n ex
traordinary climax i.i which an inno
cent man is saved from lytiehiflg.
In Episode Ko. 7 we have a do^ls | ur.d-only, clainiod mein honest
sensation reproducing the blo.ft ist/^ •
THE LATEST ULTIMATUM. '
Goit, Gott, dear Gott, attention yleas^
Your bardner \'‘ilhe)m's here,
U;;d had. a vord or two to say
inV,) your brivute ear; . .
So turn avay a!i udders nov;
Und listen veil to jne,
For vat I say. concerns us *nu'h,
Meinself and Sheriuaiiy.
You kjiow, dear Gott, I vas your friend
Und from mftin hour of birth
I quietly let you ruje de HeJfon
Vhile 1 r«l«d o'er de earthy
Unil yen I told mein soldieri
Of hy^gone iwitUe day.s,
i gjadly split de glory
Und give. you. half ,de .praise.
Ii; fcVC'3'y vay I tri.ed io prov.e
ilc4n hean to you. vas true;
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ABOLITION OF OFFiCK OF
TREASURER.
Henry A. Pagftj. of Moore County,
^vho has represented his county hi tho
legislature for several terms, is not
only a successful business man. uut is
a forward-looking: man. In the Jegi*
lature two years ag'o Mr. Page .‘ntro-
duced a bill to abolish the office of
county treasurer and aliow banks to
handle county funds, which the banivs
would be glad to do without co?t. As
most legislators much prefer t>' cre
ate an office rathen than abolish one,
Mr. Page had little company in hi«
effort to abolish comity treasurer’s
jobs. But he pers}?ted In passiu'^' the
bill fnr his own county nnd a f;nv oth~
ers johieti him. Here i^> the of
Mr. Pnge’s county: A contract was
made witJj a bank to handle the coun
ty's funds. The bank not only charges
nothing fov service^ bat pays the
county 2 percent on daily balances.
The salary of the ireasurer in .’\Joore
county was about $1,200. That sum
is not only aved to the taxpavor.i, but
in addition they get interest on their
money deposited in the bank. If about
to 100 per cent, of the men sent'
lie would be very muck the gainer.— *.£**■ these remarkable Episodes,
StattisviiJe Landmark, [
This sounds good to thi* R«r>ubU^:;in
Pro^^res>lv5.>s of Almancc Couretv who
.•{dv'ocatt"t this mea.sure the
iampaigi'. We were rij»hl chi'n, we
ACTS SANTA CLALS IN PEKSON.
Mr. A, li. Baker, President -'>i the
Virgima Cotton Mills, at Swej^son-
vills, acte^ good old fashioned Pintti
Claua to ail liis active raiU operatives
in a most unique and clever way. It
has b&ea the custom of Mr. Baker to
show Iris ajjprecition of the loyalty
of his TTJUiy operatives every year,
let thiie.s good or i)ad, ana Ihi^
year was no exc»'inion to tho:?e pu-^t.
Year before la.sV it was a tvjp l>» th^*
State £'^a;r. I.asl yeai' a trip lo the
great BarauiTi & Bailey Circuit and . an* rijrht now, and sooner jr later
this yenr fe»!iiig that owing tf> uti- ts'’nu/iT. We need this nioii'*y !li-t
settled con.ditions in the mill huidness, paid -ru', uselessly, lor the bu I roads
as weU as the commercial world, Mr.!that are ret4irdsng our progress, who
Baker conceived the idea that it w^ould I^he first Denicci“«t of prc^mi-
ba a good plan to encourage his oper- rence to staj't a petition to our ropre-
ativeii in ftrt of saving, to carry j tentative to piis»s a bill to libo^iwh h*?
uiit- thw program it rcijnireci a greai. of county tre-isurci* ftr Ala-
un4iMNbftking as well as a good sum manoe County? You will cove^* your-
in catsh. In «>rder to impress upon hh ^elf with glory, even if you In
mi!! fcelp tha importance as weil IS the with the politicians.
conv6men»Je of a savings account in j —o—
some good financial institution, Mr. j Othej- counties are abolishing the
Baker deposited a sum of money ia!office Count}' Treasurer, and 5a\-
the Coit&a^ifircial National Bank, rf ^ ing the taxpayers hundreds of dollars.
R;ileig^, N. C., to the credit of oiu*hj^-^hv not Alamance?
employee, and had a pass book made \ O
out in each «?mployee’s name with' PAY VOUR DEBl'S.
the anioiLTt cr^ited therein and the ' More and more we are convinced
operatives can add to this amount, or that what this counti*y most needs i»
withdraw it just as they desire, there a religion or training that will make
are no resicTCiions or strings tied to it, ja nian pay his debts. Shouting does
l o ali j not settle accounts with God or man.
J those ' Often we want to bounce a fellow
up
of ii Ijattleship wiiich win portray viv
idly i'ome of the extraordinary things
whiv-h will happen in naval battles in
the different sections of thif* world.
We have aUo bought. oi’.e of the
ir.ost expensive mansions in suburb-
and N’ew York whic*h will be burned
up to furnish a thriller.
In Episode No. 8, we give the pub-
Hc an ejctraord-'nary battle ?o rescue
“Zuiiora” Ui ^\"h^ch four me/abers of
the Thanhouser Syndicate Corpora-
tioj! were severely iniui*ed. Nothing
so ;en.^u ional has ever been shown on
the .serene.
In Episode No. 9, by special ar-
ningemep.t with the Pennsylvania
Railrod Company we blow up a
fiXMghi (r-aifi in order to furnish ^pec-
lacular tinish to the reel. This has
bec‘n considered the biggest thing yet
in the way of a thn'Iler.
Beginning with Episode No. lO we j
ini: ..dace the celebrated favorites of ,f j.ji
the .\{y=,tery, including Klorsnce La- j.,, ^^11 de vorW de fact,
In great deeds dat We do.
You could not haf a better fdeiidt.
In sky, or land, or sea,
Dan Kaiser Vilhelm number iwj,
De Lord of Shermuny.
So vat I say, dear Gott, is dis,
*>at ye sohulU still be friendts,
Und you soyld help to send my foes
To meet deir bitter ends.
If you, dear Gott, vill dis me do
PlI nothink ask again
Und you and I vill bardners f:e
For evermore—Amen.
L'lid listen, Gott, it must be quick
Your help to me you send
Or el.se I hnf to stop ttack
Und only blay defend.
So four und tventy hours i gif
To make de allies run,
Und put me safe into mein blacc—
f)e middle of de sun.
mpH GttAP£S,
A-i various times^ since the
we have noticed that inany Democratic
newspapers have professed to be en-
ti^ejy satisfied vi-ith the way thi.ngd'to
i:tirned .iStf 14*^ admit tjiat
their party lust rather ii^ylly in’tlie
election, but say tiiey do sot regret
this as they had too large a majority
in Cong-ress any way. This view of
the situation ;ridirate.-; a willingrness
to accept reverse.s pbilosophjcaUy, out
it is not very good logic nor does it
in all probability meat wth the Up-
proval cf those Democrats inrho were
defeated. Mr. Gndger of the tenth
district for instance, did T^ot seem to
teke his failure irt a very meek and
contrite .spirit. On the contrary he
gave out a statcineht in which he
spoke rather bitterly of th.e Denio-
cratic voters of his district whom he
charged with haying- betrayed him.
It is quite true that the Demoeratie
majority in the last Congress wia.s
very larjre, t-ntirely too larg-e in iact,
but before the elc*ction came off we
did not hear any Democrats complain
ing about it. As a matter of fact!
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PAVIKC PAKT ON DBW8.
The ObMTver lesms thiouigb in
quiry that its sugirestions in the
of sailing a kale are being acted I
considerable e.'Ctent b/
farmers. They
't'.on in sufficient quanti
to meet a obligatioMigt
the banks, ynd in this way are nut
ting a good deal of money into cipcru-
lt‘tion, to the material be.'iofit of local
conditions. These farmers are taVii^
the view thai it is the proper
to do under the circumstancies, aitd
the money they are payiniC “ito th«
banks has Irf^en going out to the mer-
cliants and through the m^hsmts in
to the general trade channels, som$ of
it iindr'ig its way faiick to the fArmear,
as ■ wo5.id naturally . be the case. It
is a much hetter plan to sell a b»J*
at some Io.^s and .pa.y debts, than to
hold the bale in the hope of finallj get
ting ten cents, thus in the mcantims
adding to the distress of the situatioB.
Charlotte Observer.
badie, Frank Farrington and Sidney
Braocy.
When you snnouno* these Features
you win not be able to handle the
many interested patrons that will
dfK-k la see “Zudoca." Don’t forget
Ihiit the first few episoles were sim
ply thi! .settings for the extraordinary
!iiil you ,-ire aware that a,T extraordin
ary stoiy is impossible to unravel
riijhl off the reel. There will be noth-
to the North Carolina legislature i inif but enth'jsia.sm on the part of
were of the Henry Page type the pub-' every exhibitor and patron wl-.e’i they
Thanltouser Syn. Corp.,
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it is a gift pu>e and simple,
the oldest employees that i:
who hav« been with the mil! for a num
ber of years their pass book contained
a deposit of |b,00 and to all others,
regardless of the time they had been
employed their pass book contained a
deposit of |2.50, Thera are a large
number of opertives employed by this
mi!] and the sum deposited to their
credit an^ount«d to more than a tfaoas-
and Miars. hit. Baker presented
nhe!;e pkss books in person on CUrist-
rifiht out of Church beca'ase he went
fishing- on Sunday, but never say .*1
word to the pious scamp who never
pays his debts, and such peoplfr are
doing the Church more harm than any
lot of Sunday desecrators, for there
are more of tJtam in the ChurcK Read
ers, are we getting close to you?'Then ing?”
UNCLAIMED t.ETTE8S.
The following letter.^ reniaini in the
pii-sfofiice at Burlingtxin, N, C,, un-
clainwd by the person to whom adr
i(res£c(J OR Dwember 19, 19M:
George Pritchard,
Bogue Urilfin,
Prof. William Kct’k,
W. K. VIevins,
.iim Murphy-
fJuiwn N, Hunt,
Miss Loua Hughes,
PcrEOtis calling for any of these
letiera will pjeaaa say “Advertised”
an»i give dots of advert ired list.
O. F. CROWSON.
PaMnuicter.
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WHY ADAM DIDN’T 1ET KIS
MO.VEV.'J WOKTH,
Old Man Adam didn't get is money's
wortli. He never drank any likker;
he nev'er had an afttnity; he never
smoked cigarettes, he never chewei*
plug tobacco; he never got stung by
endorsing for a friend; he never dodg
ed his taxes—^he simply made one
little error and hnaugh disgrace Upon
himself and his heirs. He mi;;sed so
much and paid so dearly for the little
fun he had,—’Sverjrthing.
O
GOT HIS.
“Did the play have a happy end-
lay down this paper and go and pay
up and you can read on at ease. And
don’t you stap paying because the
“You bet it di^. Someone {b the
gallery hit the villian st^are in the
facr with a tomato.”—Uo}jstQn Post,
But if you don't, den I must tinU
It is a hostile act,
r>on var at once I vill declare
L'nd in mein angs^r rise
V.’nd .sc'id moin Sepp’In ships t;; wage
A tiirht up in de skies,
nirf ultimatum, now, dear Goti,
Is von of many more
ilcin mind is settled tp to clean
l»c whole world off de floor,
ticcause you vas mein bardnor, Gott,
,-Vn extra chance is firiffen.
So help at vonee, or soon I’ll bo
De Emperor of Heffiin.
O
U ,seem.-i strange to us that whei:
a high protective tariff is robbing the
people, and ivhen a Republican admin
istration i,s ,squnnderine the people’?
money in pensioning Yankee .soldier.s,
and Eepiiblicar. pontmaster.s and Rev
enue doodlers, are disgracing the gov
ernment, that business is good jill ov
er the country, hunks are just groan
ing with money which they are anxi
ous to loan, labor is always employed,
the dinner pail is ful!, railroads are
tjiiced to tiroir fulleat ca’pacity to move
the freight and the traveling public,
the price tif cotton and other furm
produc'.s are high and the people hap
py.—Yes, strange isn’t it.
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*2 WHKAT PREOICTED IF WAS
LASTS ANOTKER YEAR,
Portland, t>re,, Dec, 23,—Portland's
grain market continued on the upgrade
today. Futures held steady but in
:ipot dealings there were gains from
a half to one cent in most ^rndes.
Dealers on the exchange -were predict
ing that wheat would reach fl.50 a
bushel by the end of January and $2
in another year if the European wr
continued.—Philadelphia Press.
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ONE REASON.
“I wonder why there are so few
women architects?”
“Perhaps women are afraid they
might be called designing creatures. ’
—Boston Transirijit.
THE GKOL'CH,
„ -£11 J , 1 J, . The world of todiiy is no pla^;e for
It ’.vas .specifically urged by the Ad-| , r .
ministration and the Democratic lead-!'"®
ers that all the Democratic congr-.-s.^-^
men should be returned as an en-j‘®'^'
dori^ement of President Wilson’s pol-
icies. The President him.self v-c-. tempera-
many letters in behalf of the Ue:>;_- ‘‘''erything is awry
cratic candidates, in most case.s with-1 >iimself,
out any avail it is true, still it showed! “
that he did not think the Democratic I J""''
majority in Congress was too laige. ''
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THE I'OOLLSH WHIKL-A-GIG.
If a Burlington man buys in Rich
mond and the Richmonder buys in
Baltimore and the Baltimorean buys
in New York, and the New Yorker
buys; in London and the Britisher buys
in Paris and the Parisian buys in Ber
lin -who is helped and who Is hurt?
If the Burlingtonian buys in Burling
ton, he parses his dolfar on to hia
neighbor and this neighbor passes it
on to another, and this one pays a
bill wth the dollar and by night the
dollar has paid a number of bil?B and
ends up in a Burlington bank* ready
for another day’s work iii the inierc.t
of Burlington,
Start a dollar by mail, and it*jj
goodbye doUar.
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.4.S congress j.s one of those Ihinnra
that we hav'c to put up with, we arc
not worrying over the prospects of an
extra se^ision.
it w^en it is right before his
eyes.
The grouch get.*; into the bad habit
of snarling and snapping at everybody
and everything. He thcnks it meas
ures his importance in the comroun-
ity.
But he fools nobody but himself and
sours everything within the radius of
his disposition.
The grouch can no longer conunand
an audience, and a grouch witkont
llstenerB might as well be marooned
on a d> ^ert islar.i. So he is being
to his own company to die out and
become extinct like the mammotb.
Like tJ»e fungu,« on a tree he dies be
cause there is nothing to feed his
growth.
The spsce in the world occupied by
the grouch Ek bocoming less and leas.
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Poets are born, not made; so then
is really nobody to blame.
Man who have money to burn vcty
frequently have cold hnmea.
J. B. Jones Clo. Co.
BURLINGTON, N. C.
W‘
fE wish to thank oar many castomers for their past
patronage during the year that is drawing to a
close. Wa feel that we have served the people
with the utmost care and courtesy. We kno^ by the way
oar store had been crowded during; the holiday trade and
the amount of business we did, that our customers know
that we are giving them a square deal for their money.
We beg to serve you in the future as we have in the past.
Hoping you enjoyed a Merry Christinas and that the
New Year that is drawing near will bring you good health
and prosperity. We beg to remain.
Yours truly.
J. 6. Jones Clothing Co.
BURLINGTON, N. C.
IN MEMORIAM
PIEDMONT TRUST COMPANY