Newspapers / Goldsboro Weekly Argus (Goldsboro, … / Aug. 25, 1909, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of Goldsboro Weekly Argus (Goldsboro, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
... ....- jO- ; ' ' " ? "This Argus o'er the people's rights Doth an eternal vigil keep ; No soothingstrains of Maia's son Shall lull itshundred eyes to sleep." $1.00 a Year, $1.00 a Year GrOUOSBORO, N. C, W B DNES DAY. -A-TJGrTJST 25. 1909. TOL. XXTV NO. 77 L II I II I II I I I I I I VVi r V . yjff' ..I , n Geo. E. Hood Candidate For Congress Life and Career of Goldsborean Who Will Be In Race In the Third District. To the Editor: The friends of Mr. George E. Hood, of Wayne, will pre sent his name for nomination for Con gress to the Democratic voters of the Third Congressional District. No one who meets and knows George Hood, of Goldsboro, will for get him. He has a genial frankness of manner and sympathetic cordiality of speech that can not fail to attract. His look inspires confidence, just as; his hand-grip awakens friendship. His whole bearing is instinct with kindly courtesy and good fellowship. Andyet, he is not merely a "good fel low." With his kindly disposition and magnetic personality is allied activity of mind and strength of character such as stamp him a man of personal force. In fact, he has courage a plenty. He had the courage, when but a mere strip of a boy, to undertake to "hoe his own row" in life first as a farmer lad, then as a factory hand, messenger boy, telegraph operator and railroad employe. In every one of these capacities his work was marked with the most painstaking thoroughness and by absolute loyalty to duty. These qualities, quite as much as his personal popularity, are responsible for the success he has at tained In life and the high esteem in which his fellow men hold him. What George Hood is today he has become by virtue of his own -efforts, in great measure. In youth he lack ed many of the advantages given those more fortunately situated, but lie made up by enthusiastic toil, inces sant labor and close application what fortune and circumstances had with held. Employed by day in a furniture factory, he devoted a goodly part oi his nights to books; as a messenge: boy, he studied telegraphy; as a tele graph operator he put his spare mo ments studying law. Courage and determination of thit sort was encouraged by those whe knew what the boy was doing. Soor. after he became of age, he got his law license and opened an office in hit home town. Is it any wonder that success was assured him. from tht start? Within the year he was elect ed county treasurer. Hardly had his term of office as treasurer expired when his people chose him to repre sent them in the Legislature. Fronc the legislative hall he went to the mayor's chair a position to which he has thrice been elected. V And yet, withal, George Hood is without egotism. The honors that have come to him -thus early in life have not turned his head. He's just as cordial and as frank and as ' "home-folksy" "as he was when as a messenger boy he took -telegrams around the town, or as an o'perator he sent them over, the wires. He's lost none of the charm of simplicity. By the same token that North Carolina knows her former Governor asChar lie" Aycock, so Goldsboro knows hei ex-mayor and Wayne county its for mer treasurer and legislator a; "George" Hood. " . , -. His private life is just such a or. as you would expect such a' in sin t live. He was raised on the strift-F " lines by a mother who still liv:-i an watches with pride the career i.r i "boy."" From his earliest chutlioo he was taught to be rigorous in ntoi .ality and strict la his church rela tions. Yet in religious matters, as in all other relations of life, he is tol erant of the opinions of others and broadminded always. By George Hood, public office is re garded as a public trust. About no official act of his has there ever been the taste of taint or the breath of scan dal He has ever discharged his du ties in a manner creditable to both himself and his constituents. As a public speaker, he has a pleasing per sonality, a clear voice and a command of language that charm and convince the hearer. And yet he never speaks for the mere sake of speaking; he al ways has "something to say." His sentences are fluent to a degree, but one goon forgets to admire the choice words in listening to the ideas that they clothe. He is not a man of schol arly attainments, but he has that rarer quality good common - sense. His whole career illustrates his devo tion to principle and his sincerity of purpose is conspicuous fo all alike in his acts and words. Yours truly, W. D. CREECH. Goldsboro, N. C, August 18. PROGRESS ON THE JJJLAND WATERWAY COAST ROUTE Eng-ineer Stephen Harriss Will Begin Surveys Within the Next Few Days, That progress is being made on the inland waterways "project is evidenced by the arrival at Southport last Wednesday of Mr, Stephen Harriss, of Philadelphia, Pa., United States engi neer, who is looking over the terri tory between that oint and Little river, near Georgetown S. C, and will it is understood, begin within a few lays with a party of fifteen a survey from Southport to "Little river. As is known to the people of this section, the idea Is to have an inland waterway from Beaufort, N. C, down the coast and to a point in Texas. Ac cording to the present plans the route will be by Wilmington, down the Northeast river for a number of miles and on to Southport, and from that point to Georgetown down Elizabeth creek. At one time it was proposed to cross the Northeast river just above Wilmington and out to Lake Wacca maw, but this route is said to be im practicable on account of a heavy grade at Livingston creek, where it would require an excavation of seven ty feet. The fact that WJlmlngton will be on the route will add materially to the importance of this city as a port- The survey of the route from South port to Georgetown will require, it is stated, about seven or eight months It is understood that the survey will be commenced about September 1. The party desires torrent a gasolene launch 'for use during the survey which will require about six months to Little River, S. C. ' Chicago Provision Market. Chicago, August 23. Saturday's de clines were reflected in the early ca bles, showing declines of from 1 1-2 to 2. The opening in wheat was: Sep tember, 99 1-4; corn, May, 58; oats September, 37;. pork, September, 22.30; lard, 11.82; ribs, September, 11.75. ' THE SOUTH'S GREAT AUTO RACE TRACK Speed of One Huncred and Fifty Miles Will Be Possible. RAGES HELD III NOVEMBER Atlanta Audmubile AssccfatioB i ti Draw Large Crowds to South land By Ceistruction of Track. V Atlanta, Ga., August 23. Building a two-mile race track, where the pon derous machines can fairly .fly through space, and where a speed of Si) miles an i.our is made possiDie, s not an ordinary undertaking by any means l UOUSanOS OI men, IlUIlUi eua I of teams, and manv Kiant steam shov- els, are required to remove the dirt or the formation of this great track. Seating capacity for thousands 01 nthor Vi in era fnv their commod'ation. are necessary. Hons- es nave teen duui ior iue siunug ux I i , - , , , . I ninJti cr yo nHctonnc nave TO T& I erected, ftd railroad facilities have to be looked after, in order to handle the vast crowds going to such places. All of these things are being done"" . " . midst nf all the turmoil f the vastest I by the Atlanta Automobile Associa-1 tion, a company composed of business men and sportsmen, that is now build in "the fastest automobile race track in the world." The work will be fin- ished earlyin October, and the first race meet will begin on November 9, continuing for five days. The Atlanta Automobile Association is composed of enterprising men, who have put $300,000 into the enterprise, for the purpose of giving the South the biggest automobile racing plant in the United States. There is not a dol lar's worth of stock either owned or controlled by any one in any way-con nected with the automobile business. The entry list for the November meet will be one of the largest in the history of automobile racing. The weather conditions that usually exist I in the South, during November, and even later in the winter, are particu- larly favorable' for automobile racing, Tiaoirfoa hrinsriTiP- thousands - to view the races, the big track will also be the cause of scores of. automobile tourists coming to Georgia and the South. E. II. HARRIMAN SUFFERING Omaha .World Announces Grave Con dition of Railroad Builder. Omaha, Neb. August 23 The Oma- ha Wiprld announces this afternoon that E. H, Harriman has cancer of the stomach and has been given only a few months to live. The information is given the newspapers by an "in- nant, a blue cross on a white back- the child from me," said the woman, sider.," who stands so close to Harri- ground, ig the only flag that goes At police headquarters neither Gen man that there is no doubt as to its above the admiral's; the Secretary of try nor the woman would admit who authenticity. The name of the m- formant is withheld. - According to this report, Harriman was told by his physician before his trip to Europe that cancer of the stomach had a hold on him and that he had less than one year to live. The European trip was then made in nope that some of the great foreign physi cians might be able to offer some hope. However, the trip was without success, and Harriman is now return ing with his death predicted within three months. Because of the effect this report will have on the stock has been markets any inkling of - it Withheld. EXPRESS MESSENGER ARRESTED. George P. Turner Charged With Theft of Something Like $8,000, Salisbury, N. C, August 2 3.George P. Turner, a messenger for the south, ern Express Company, running be. tween this city and Ashevllle, was ar rested here at an early hour yesterday morning on a warrant sworn out by an official of the company charging him with the theft of certain parcels of money from one of the company's cars. Those interested decline to talk concerning, the case, but it is under stood that the amount ' Turner is charged with lifting is something like $3,000, Held for Setting Fire to Stabje. Durham. N. C. August 23. For set- - -" ting fire to a livery stable Sunday to belong to the seminary pigpen, was He was twenty-two years old and is morning Frank Allen, colored, was ar- seen in the possession of the missing survived hy his parents and three sis rested. The fire department stopped priest, so It became known today a ters. He was taken six weeks ago to v. Mo7i how qtitt resi Acme era wool hrmrfl after the findlne of done, CHRIST DOMINATES IN MODERN LIFE Rev. Davis Delivered Strong Sermon Sukday " MsrningJ MASTER OF LifERflTURE. Shakespeare Omitted From Five! Feet of tiooks Will Sarvive All New Theories la Ages Ti Come. j Before an unusually large congre gation at St. Paul Methodist Church Sunday morning, Rev: E. H. Davis de livered a powerful sermon on "The Dominance of Christ, in Modern luuugui anu j-iiic. nc. nana uaocu i bis theme imnn the text fonud in Dan - iel . 'It matters little what the beasts in Daniel's vision may have meant. Most scholars agree, however, that Baby- lUlllCLUL, A CI QlCLil, Ul CCIL . CLXJ.U. XWiUaXl . p-nvpmTTipnts wpta lnfllpared. They I are merely referred to to impress the Pf been ln' comared ith 7 " . ' er Powers indicated by the strife . f ' arises lue one wuo ""j- . 7 I jurist. rats iiau it wmie ueie 'u flnoh Tfor i q vr1-w calf on Qaran aa I UCi,u uvxj, "" never another had. He snowed it in his temptation. Not bread, not the improper use of power already His, I nrv nrTvoY rf onv erT4- imnrnnorlv rk I , r " . purpose. Tnose wno are caiiea ms are not rightly go-called except as they' show the same gplr1. But the dominion, and glory and power of Daniel's vision foreshadowed by these. are only ln much vaster sense has he that dominion to day vaster still the sense He is to have it in the days that are to follow. See his dominance in the literature of today. Shakespeare is a master though he may. have been left out of tne nve ieei 01 essential uoons uauteu by one who calls for a new religion He will continue a master when those who thus leave him out will not be a memory. The most orthodox of Chris tians today could scarcely be more so In the fundamentals of their relieion mnof same effect Goethe, Carlisle, Tenny son, Whittier, John Wesley and Phil- lips Brooks were quoted. Christ has glory in this day, too. The time spoken of by the Apostle wnen; every knee should bow to Him and every tongue confess Him may not nave come yet still in most quar- I ters of the globe His name is already I above every other. The church pen- the Navy and the President's. But a I dominion that is only Indicated by a flag while there is the utmost loose- ness ot morals by those who display it is not grateful to Christ and is not the sort that He wants and is to have rather the tribute of lives to whom His Word is supreme." SUSPICION IN MURDER. CASE STRONGLY AGAINST PRIEST Rochester, N, Y August 23. Exact ly two weeks after the murder of sev- euteen-year-old Anna Catherine Schu macher in the grounds oi the Holy "Sepulchre Cemetery, two weeks of un remitting efforts on the part of the police to establish the identity of the murderer, which until now have led nowhere, it became known today that at . last suspicion Boints strongly against an indiYiduslwho left Roch eBtef immediately after the finding of he drl'. hortv The man the nolire are ReeMnsr tonisht Is a nriest.of the . - et ' - " -- faculty of St, Bernard's Seminary. From the time of the discovery of the murder ' all Rochester has specu lated as to the identity of "the man in black" .who was seen in -the ceme tery near the spot where . Miss Schu- macher had gone . to put flowers on her father's grave. Today three per sons came forward to swear. that they saw "the man in black" walk out the cemetery with the - girl at four o'clock on the afternoon of August 7, The shovel with which the murderer I buried his victim and which was found oody. FATHER ASSAULTS HIS OWN DAUGHTER Attacked Girl While Recover ing From Typhoid Fever. TAKEN TO DOBSOH JfilL Wbei Crime Became Known Lai si Crowd Gathers to Lynch Frank Martin, a White Man ot Mount Airy. Mount Airy, August 22. There was an arrest in this city last night that created intense excitement and will, if the story told by a daughter of Frank Martin, a middle-aged white man, is true, send him to the electric chair mo ui. iu,i afeius lOWD - daughter. The alleged crime was committed night before last while no one was in the house except the perpetrator and his victim, and she, a girl of about sixteen was just covering from a spell of typhoid fever and too weak to arpflm nr rf?&r rpfitatannfi Whun hor grandfather the parent of Martin, called yesterday, morning the girl told him the story of her disgrace at the hands of an inhumane father. He , -,-, . , . prompny nan ine gin removea 10 nis home for protection and tne st0ry leaked out. When Martin, was arrested and brought up town a large crowd as caTni,iaj . ,oaD onll tar-a. woo mivu i. vjul k,m. u-uu buvi v n ua . . .. ... considerable indignation, but no threats of lynching. However, Sheriff f! H Havnes decided to send his nris- ' r to thft rmiTltv iail at. Dnhsnn and . . .. .. not risK mm m the city prison He will be given a hearing as soon as the young woman is able to testify. While Martin has. borne a good reputation in the past there seems to be no doubt of his guilt. TOPE K A' KIDNAPPERS ARE CAUGHT IN MISSOURI Kansas City, Mo., August 2?. Little Marion Bleakely, the St. Louis World's Fair incubator baby, who was kidnap- ped at Topeka yesterday, was taken from her captors by the police here late last night. Mrs. Edith Barclay and John Gentry, who had the child in charge, were arrested at the Bur lington Railroad bridge in this city The man, woman, and child were passengers on a Chicago, Burlington and Quincy train, which they had boarded at Atchison, Kan. When the police boarded the train at the bridge Mrs. Barclay held the child clasped to her breast. I "Are we in Missouri?" she asked of the detective who told her she was under arrest, "Yes, you are in Missouri," was the reply. "Then we are safe. Thev can't take their alleged accomplices wen.-, I Mrs. Barclav was until November. 1907, the legal foster ' mother of the child and entitled to its custody in the state. Her claim that the child can- not be taken from her in Missouri is based on the contention that the adop- tion papers, . drawn at St. Louis in 1904, have never been annulled by a Missouri court REV, F .SWINDELL LOYE APPOINTED TO PASTORATE Succeeds Late Dr. F, D. Swindell as Pastor of Kinston Methodist. Church. Bishop Candler, who has charge of the North Carolina Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South l'as appointed Rev, F, Swindell Love tr the Kinston-pastorate made vacant by the death of Rev. F, D. Swindell re I'euwy. w bjujuiuhhwi, a,o uwwuu u4 x. xv. .1,1 , J iV. NT TD district. The pastor occupied his pul pit on Sunday, morning and evening. : Honor Paid Chief : Pickard. Durham, N. C, August 22. Acspe- cial train from Chapel today met the - 1 body at University Station of Walter Pickard, who died last night at of Richmond hospital. The young man was chief of the Chapel Hill fire de partment, owned one of the Durham- Chanpel HU1 automobile lines, and I "" J 1 . . T a 1 was a partner in me . rienara nocei. the Richmond for treatment for chronic heart trouble. JUDGE W. R. ALLEN IN ABLE CHARGE SCORES GAMBLING j AND TAME BLIND TIGERS Heavy Docket To Be Disposed of At This Tferm of Court Which Began Monday. BRIBES OF MILLION FAIL TO TEMPT JUDGE LINDSET Although at Times His Friends Have Deserted Him, Yet He Has Won Fight. Judge Lindsey is known to the world at large for his work in the Juvenile Court of Denver; and, to his little court room there, come Chil dren's Society agents from all parts of the states, visitors from England, officers from Germany, and govern ment officials sent from Sweden, Aus tria, France and Japan, to study his laws and learn his methods. But to himself, to Denver, to his friends, and most of all to his ene mies, his famous juvenile court is only an incident, a side issue, a small detail in the man's amazing career. For years he has been engaged in a fight of which the founding of his juvenile court was only the merest skirmish. It is a fight that has carried him into politics to find both political par ties against him It has been carried on without the consistent support oi any newspaper, and with now one, now the other, and at times all the' party organs in Denver cartooning and attacking him The thieves, the gamblers, the saloon-keepers and the prostitutes have been cheered on against him There have been times when even the churches have been afraid to aid him. Men of wealth the beads of street railways, the telephone company, the gas and electric com pany, the water company and most of the other Denver corporations and combinations of finance have made it their particular ambition ana person al aim to beat him down and crust him out of public .life. He has fought alone at times absolutely alone. And he is still fighting! He has been offered bribes that might buy a millionaire. He has been promised a career in politics, a for tune in law. He has been given hope of worldly preferments that might se duce the" highest ambition. When these have failed to win him, he has been threatened with all the punishments that the most unscrupu lous power and bitterest hate could onceive. To destroy his reputation, fal&e affidavits have been sworn out by fallen women accusing him of the lowest forms of vice. Attempts have made to lure him to houses of ill repute where men were lying in wait co expose him. The vilest stories about him have been circulated- in venomous whispers from man to man and woman to woman. Friends have been frightened or bought or driven from him. His life has been threat ened. Special laws have been intro duced at the State Capitol against him! The Denver Chamber of Com merce has publicly branded him an enemy of the state. At times the very lights in his rooms at the Court House Have been cut off as the last and smallest annoyance of spite and he hue had to go to the corner drug store at night and buy himself candles to continue his work! Haryvey J. O Higgins, in September Everybody's Senator Perkins 70 Years Old. Oakland, Cal., August 23. Congrat ulatory messages from friends and ad mirers in many sections of the coun try were, received today at the home of United .States Senator George C Perkins in this city to remind him of his seventieth birthday. Since the ad journment of Congress : the senator has been giving much of his attention to the arrangements for the coming visit of President Taf t" to California. He intends to join the Taft party on its trip through this section and doubtless will take advantage of the opportunity to impress upon the Pres ident the growing necessity for strong fortifications on the Pacific-coast, of which Senator Perkins has long been an ardent advocate. . TODAY'S COTTON MARKET. New York Futures. Open. October . . . . . . . 12.23 December .... . . . 12.22 January . . . . . . . .12.19 --cal spots, 124. ClOB 12.24 12.27 12.24 The more a man denies himself the more Lo will receive from heaven. In an able and impartial charee at the beginning of the August term of buperlor Court here Monday Judge W. R. Allen scored gambling and blind tigers. He told of the duty each in dividual OWed to the rntnn,,mtt State and nation and that each mem ber of the jury should see that the laws were obeyed. Judge Allen en larged upon this duty, after which he stated that it was also a duty of every citizen, whether prohibition or anti prohibitionist, to see that the State law was not violated by the existence of "blind tigers." In speaking of gambling, Judge Al len stated that there was two classes, the open gambling by negroes on the streets, and the secret gambling. His Honor added that the latter was the most difficult to apprehend, but that he would not be as severe in punish ing the former as the latter. The grand jury is composed of the following: J. A Westbrook, foreman; Daniel Jones, Allen Wooten, G. B. Cuddington, C. L. Gurley, J. B. Gran tham, John D. Davis, H. J. Smith, J. Wi Hosea, J. W. Pipkin, M. T. Best, J. B. Hunt, J. A. Howell, C. W. Best, J. Wt Saddler, G. P. Britt, C. H. Mor een, F. P. Becton. LESLIE MILLER SEVERELY STABBED SATURDAY NIGHT Attacked by Jolm Henry Sutton, Col ored, at Cole's Store Physician Dressed Wounds of Victim. Leslie Miller, whose trial for assault with a deadly weapon was called for today, was seriously stabbed by a ne gro, John Henry Sutton, Saturday night about twelve o'clock in front of Cole's store in Webbtown. Dr. T. L. Ginn was at once summoned, but be fore the physician arrived, Miller nearly bled to death as the result of a severed artery. There seems to be two versions as to the cause of the attack, one is that Miller threw water upon the negro and the other that he pulled his gun on the negro. Sutton threw his pen knife at Miller and ran. The knife struck Miller just below the right ear, cutting a deep gash and severing the artery. Millers condition was serious to day, as the result of loss of so much blood. Sutton escaped and has eluded capture so far. ENTERTAINED IN HONOR OF MISS LUMLY OF GOLDSBORO The Twin City Sentinel of Winston- Salem, gives the following account of an entertainment in honor of Lumley : , "At the home of Mrs. Cornelius, on Spring street, last evening Miss Mary Powell entertained delightfully at a watermelon party in honor of Miss Susie Lumley, of Goldsboro. The con test of the evening was a "Courtship in the Vegetable, Kingdom." Miss Lumley won the first prize and Mr. A. C. Perry carried off the booby. Dur ing the evening Miss Inez Day ren dered several beautiful instrumental and vocal solos." . Sons of Veterans' Encampment. Washington, D. C, August 23. The annual encampment . of the Sons of Veterans of the United States opens here tomorrow, and delegates and vis itors are arriving in the city in large numbers. It is expected that several thousand members of the order will attend. The opening session will be called to order tomorrow morning by Commander-in-Chief Edgar Allan, Jr. One of the most important questions which will come up for discussion will be the erection ln Washington, through the, joint efforts of the Sons of Veterans, U. S. A., and the United Sons of Confederate - Veterans, of a monument commemorating the estab lishment of peace after the Civil War. Mrs. Willis Peele Dead. The death of Mrs. Willis Peele. aged sixty years, occurred Wednesday on the old Atkinson ' Dlant.at.lnn in Hood Swamp township and the Inter ment was made yesterday In the Peele burial ground. THE WEATHER. Precast for Goldsboro and Vidn Jty. Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday. ;
Goldsboro Weekly Argus (Goldsboro, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Aug. 25, 1909, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75