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R. F. BEASLET, i p,.iL,BBM,
G. M. BEASLEY.
Tuesday. December 2S , 1906.
Mr. Roosevelt 5UfKl Pat on the
DUmUaal ol Nep boWiers.
Mr. Roosevelt stand pat, with both
feet down, on the dismissal of the
three companies of negro soldier,
members of which attacked the town
of Browntrille in Texas last August,
killed one man, wounded other, and
hot at women and children as they
sat defenceless in their homes. It
seems that there were ten or twenty
of the soldiers who slipped out of
barracks with their rifles and terror
ized the tow n. It being in the d
of night, the spectators were of course
unable to identify the murderers,
and the other members of the com
panics refused to give evidence.
After a searching examination, the
President, acting under his right as
commander in chief of the army, dis
missed the three companies. There
went up over the country a mighty
howl about this, and when Congress
eonvened this month the Senate
passed a resolution asking the Presi
dent to lay before the body the
crounds for his action. lie did so
last Wednesday, and his remarks and
the evidence are sufficient, it seems
to us, to justify worse action than
was actually taken. Mr. Roosevelt
thinks so too, for he says:
"People have spoken as if this dis
charge from the service was a pun
ishment. 1 deny emphatically that
such is the case, because as punisn
ment it is utterly inadequate. The
punishment meet for mutineers and
murderers such as those guilty of
the lirownville assault is death; and
I punishment only less severe ought
to be meted out to those who have
aided and abetted mutiny and mur
der and treason by refusing to help
in their detection. I would that it
were possible for me to have pun
ished the guilty men. I regret most
keenly that I have not been able to
do so.
Some of the fools over the country
who have been talking about the af
fair, made the foolish statement that
because there was enmity against
the negro soldiers on the part of the
people of Brownville, the people
themselves turned out and shot each
other in order to get the blame put
on the soldiers, aa idea which the
President says is absurd, and in re
ply to the other foolish statement
that the soldiers were dismissed be
cause they were negroes, Mr. lioose-
velt says:
coforelf men is 'utterly w:illiouf foun
dation. Otlicersorenlisted men, white
men or colored men, who were guilty
or sucn conduct, would have been
treated in precisely the same wav
for there can be nothing more im
portant than for the United States
army, in all its membership, to un
derstand that its arms cannot be
turned with impunity against the
peace and order of the civil community."
After reciting the evidence of how
the scoundrels leaped from their bar
racks at two o'clock at night and
pounced down on the helpless town
with the Winchester rifles that the
government had put in their hands,
Mr. Roosevelt sums up as follows:
"In short, the evidence proves con
clusively that a number of the sol
diers engaged in a deliberate and
concerted attack, as cold blooded as
it was cowardly; the purpose being
to terrorize the community, and to
Kill or injure men, women and chil
dren in their homes and beds or on
the streets, and this at an hour of the
night when concerted or effective re
sistance or defense was out of the
question, and when detection by
identification of the criminals in the
United States uniform was well-nigh
impossible. So much for the origi
nal crime. A blacker deed never
stained the annals of our army. It
has been supplemented by another,
only less black, in the shape of a suc
cessful conspiracy of silence for the
purpose of shielding those who took
part in the original conspiracy of
murder, lbese soldiers were not
schoolboys on a frolic. They were
full-grown men, in the uniform of
the I nited btates army, armed with
deadly weapons, sworn to uphold the
laws of the United States, and under
every obligation of oath and honor
not merely to refrain from criminal
ity, but with the sturdiest rigor to
hunt down criminality; and the crime
they committed or connived at was
murder. They perverted the power
put into tneir nands to sustain the
law into the most deadly violation of
toe law. Ihenon-commisBioned ofti
eers are primarily responsible for the
discipline and good conduct of the
men; they are appointed to their po
sitions for the very purpose of pre
serving this discipline and good con
duct, and or detecting and securing
the punishment of every enlisted man
who does what is wrong. They fill,
with reference to the discipline, a
part that the commissioned officers
are of course unable to fill, although
the ultimate responsibility for the
discipline can never be shifted from
the shoulders of the latter. Under
any ordinary circumstance the first
duty of the non-commissioned offi
cers, as of the commissioned officers,
is to train the private in the ranks
o that he may be an efficient fight
ing man against a foreign foe. But
there is an even higher duty, so ob
vious that it is not under ordinary
circumstance necessary so much as
to allude to it the duty of training
the soldier to that he will be a pro
tection and not a menace to his
peaceful fellow-citizens, and above
the women and children of the
nation.
The last sentence tells the secret
why negro troops will never do in
times of peace in this country. The
army is for the protection of the cit
izens. You can never teach the class
of negroes that enlist that this is so.
They think that when they become
soldiers they are privileged to be in
solent, offensive and menacing to or
dinary people who are not big people
like soldiers in bright uniform.
There are some things that negroes
are not fit for. This paper is not a
negro hater, in fact it has a contempt
for the thoughtless vaporings of
white men who nuke wholesale
charges against the colored race.
We know that there are thousands
of that race ho are idle, vicious, in
solent and worthless. But on the
other hand there are more thousands
of them who work hard, try to live
honest lives by their labor, and are
good citizens. To say such a thing
is rank heresy, of course, but it has
the commendable feature of being
the truth. When the critics sought
to damn the Master because he con
versed with the bad woman, He ask
ed the one who was without sin to
cast the first stone. Tis true that
there are many worthless negroes,
but before we can condemn the race
as a whole we must get rid of a good
many worthless white people, or else
fall a victim to our own logic. There
are just two difficulties to be expert
enced in discussing the negro ques
tion. One is that many of us want
to measure him by the white man's
standard. The other is that we look
at the question entirely from our
own selfish standpoint: we want the
negro to work for us, at our price, to
suit our convenience and to thank
fully receive whatever treatment we
see fit to accord him. He is every
day getting more and more in a po
sition, owing to the increasing de
mand for his labor, to refuse to do
these things, hence we curse out the
race and say they are no account It
is the place of honest and square
men to look at this question from
the colored man's standpoint some.
e must not let our selfishness get
the better of our justice. So, this
paper desires to be regarded as
friend to the colored race when it
says that their place is not in the
army.
News in Waxhaw and Vicinity
W.ili.w Kntrprir.
The I-adies' Aid Society of the
Methodist church gave an oyster
supper Friday night at the residence
if Mr. and Mrs. r. A. Krauss. The
supper was well patronized, and the
the management of the supper in
nanu.
A long-felt need in Waxhaw
at last been supplied by a gasoline
wooa-sawing outnt recent v pur
chased and put in oieration "by Dr
W. R. and and Mr. J. W. McCain
They have a good six-power casoline
engine and can saw from 15 to 20
cords of wood a day. They are get
ting all the work they can do.
Beautiful invitation cards have
been issued here reading as follows:
air. John David Taylor reauesta the
honor of your presence at the mar
riage of his daughter. Marcarette
Agness to Mr. Frederick Harris, on
v eanesaay evening, December twen
ty-sixth, one thousand nine hundred
and six, at seven o'clock, at home,
Waxhaw, .North Carolina."
Mr. J. L. Rodmans larze and
handsome new brick store buildinc
wnicn nas oeen in the course of erec
tion for some time past, is now com
Dieted and thrown open to the pub
lic ior ousiness. it is a twin build
ing of the one on the corner of
.North Main and Broom streets that
has for many years been occupied
as a mercantile house by Mr. Rod
man and his business associates, and
it adjoins it on the west side in such
manner as to become reallv one
large building, having 66 feet front.
90 feet lonu. and Inn stirioa hirrK
and wdich is easily one of the larg
est and best arranged department
stores in Union county. Both to
gether have a floor space of about
a.uuu square feet. The two build
ings and lot cost about 110.000.
Along the entire front a costly and
Deaumui cement sidewalk has been
constructed.
Mr. J. N. Bingham has just fin
ished canvassing Jackson township
ior me purpose oi collecting the an
nual membership dues to the South
ern totton Association. In this
work he has been quite successful
but some failed to pay who should
have been glad to pay, as they have
been much benefitted by the Asso
ciation a work. Mr. Bigham, who
is a very ciose observer or things,
also tells us that there has been
more wheat and oats sowed in this
township this season than for manv
years past. He thinks that the cot
ton acreage in the township cannot
be near so large next year as this.
for the reason that much of this
small grain has been sown on cot
ton land. Mr. Bieham also says
that the land on which the wheai
and oats are sown has been much
better prepared than ever before.
He added that many farmers who
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uau m auwu wueai in many years
before have pnt in good quantities
uiu season.
exercise his political freedom. But
a challenge stared him in the lace.
The poor fellow put down the ticket
and walked away sorrowful. North
Carolina says to that poor fellow
"Yon shall not vote, but yoa must
pay tax, if it takes the last mouthful
ol rour bread.
I once saw two boys tried in the
courts of Union county. They were
about .thirteen and fifteen yean of
age respectively, and were mea lor
breaking into the dinner buckets of
some road hands. I learned that the
mother of the poor boys was dead
and that there had been trouble
when the next mamma came along,
and so the bovs resolved to run
away. The jury found them guilty
and when the judge sentenced them
to the roads it not only brought
tears to their old father's eyes but to
the eves of Mr. Jerome (their coun
sel) as welL
T.xIst in our State prison there is
a poor motherless girl, twelve years
of age, from Cabarrus county, who
killed a man whose object was her
ruin. Her sentence was twelve years.
What will that girl be at the expira
tion of her term?
Previous to the year 1S25 North
Carolina had onlv one man out of
twenty who could and write. But
when" Bartlett Yancy and the good
people of the State made earnest ap
peals to our Legislature, me nrsi
appropration was made for public
schools. Now you seldom see a young
man, white or black who has to make
his mark.
I heard a man say today that we
should have the whiping poet instead
of the reformatory. I wonder if this
is the belief of all the opponents of
the reformatory? I beg to inform my
friend that we are not progressing
backwards. Back in the oO s 1 saw
white men put in the stocks and in
dark dungeons, chained to the floor
of their cells, and this, too. before
they bad been tried. I also saw
men in the debtor's cell, whose only
crime was poverty. And 1 saw all
this in I nion county.
The State prison and the chain
gang do not learn young criminals
to read and write. The reformatory
is coming. The Baptist State Con
vention to a man voted for it The
North Carolina Methodist Confer
ences did practically the same. And
we find the old blue-stocking rres
bvterians on the right side. Our
good women are urging this reform
with all their might and strength,
just as they uJged help for the un
fortunate insane who were pining
away in chains in our jails and poor-houses.
Talk about our good old ante-bel
lum negroes, Harris Men hirtir,
Monday Starnes and Garry Howey.
ho raised them.' n bite men, ot
course, ttui wnai cnance uoes a
white man now have at the negro
youth? None at all. But put them
in a reformatory, Uh good white
men to train them, and we will have
more Dr. Miepparos ana ixxmer
Washingtons.
So kind friends, fall in line.
have an insane asylum at ltaleigh
J ...Ik.. U..MMn tr9 Ilia
the negroes. We have Crittenton
home and orphans' home all over the
Mate. Then give us a reformatory
also and save the boys.
Torse units.
Miss Hallie Horn f
" Belle llowte a
" Pattie Lee Hl
- Pearl Rodman tt)
" Alma Marsh 0
" Faye C.addv 3d)
" Margie Williamson JD
" Mary Lee Bivens 3D
" Connie Horn U
" BerniceWalkup 110
- Miry Davis 1)
" Florida Morris 1H)
" Bright Richardson 13)
" Eva Richardson 0
" Beulah Price H
" Bessie Price W
" Clara Richardson 30
" Yerdie Snider .
" Essie Secrest
" Ashe Caddy
" Julia Hunter
" Arlie McCain
" Lottie Williams
" Julia Crillin
" Mattie Rone
" Lillie Tillman...
" Maggie Davis
" (Irace Marsh
" Mattie Perry
" Pearl Cordon...
" May Weir
" Mattie Carter ...
" Nora l-ee Fincher
" May Fincher 130
" IXroaBvnira 10
14 Lilhe Ross 670
- MaudPlyler 70
Jewel Krauss 40
" Ola Beckham 30
" Ida Austin 30
" Blanche Staten 110
M Sarah Jane Lingle 10
" Lizzie Williams 30
" Ada Austin 10
" Eliza Mangum 10
" Mattie Cribble 10
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Illustrations fnsnt the Union Coun
ty Court House.
Sqolr 0. C M.lltnlM ia Vutn Ilrpr1
Twenty years aim a nonr ilWiti.
mate boy, badly clothed, stole a pair
oi panta wortn about f i.w from a
merchant at Monroe. lie was tried,
convicted and aent to the State prison
twelve months. From the day be re
turned until now he baa kept the
law, so far as I know. 1 saw him so
to the ballot box, ticket in hand, to
Vote for Your Choice.
Well, you have Mr. Stack's first
letter this week. There will be no
break in them from now on. They
will get better and better all the
time. Put in your votes.
Remember, Mr. Stack is going to
bring back ten nice souvenir presents
from the land of the Bible. Three
will go to the three lucky names on
the eligible roll, three to three min
isters who get the highest number of
votes, three to three younu ladies,
and one to a mail carrier.
Every old or new subscriber who
pays one dollar in advance gets the
label on his paper run' up one year,
gets the regular premium, and his
name on the eligible roll for one of
the three presents. Then he can cast
1. Ten votes for the preacher of
his choice.
2. Ten votes for the young lady
oi nis cnoice.
3. Ten votes for the rural mail
carrier of his choice.
Then buy as many votes as he
wants at 10 cents per hundred
The voting now stands:
HAIL CARRIERS.
Jacob R. Little 160
J. E. Duster 1380
8. H. Rogers 1720
O. E. Cunnighain 200
A. CPenegsr 190
8. M. Harrcll 160
J. H. Mills 100
T. L. Love 300
W. B Presson 110
W. B. Jones 80
Zeb Presley 40
Pearl Bturdivant 90
Huxley McNeeley 90
L 8. Griffin 140
J. T.Coi 170
Thoe. Little 80
John Fullenwider 400
W.L.Belk..... 130
F. C. Broadaway 150
A. J. Green. J 130
J. L Smith 20
O. W. James
J. E. Garrison
MINISTERS.
Rev. J. M. Price
G. IL Atkinson
J. A. Bivens ........
W. R. Ware
J.F.Mills
C. A. O. Thomas
D. A. Snider
L T. Mann
Geo. Stevens
J. P. Hipps
R. II. James
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. 30
140
250
1120
280
70
190
170
190
50
320
110
J. II. Phelps 30
A. Marsh 180
J. G. Gulledge 30
J. L McKinstry 30
T. P. Utile 80
A. C Davis 50
W.F.Eetridge 60
W. E. Abemethy 40
J. L Bhinn 60
M. D. L. Preslar 20
Henry Taylor 30 :
VOTING (WIUV.
To tli Editor of Th Journal :
Enclosed find $ , for which
credit my paper up to date and on
year in advance, place my name on
the Eligible roll, mail me premium,
and cast the following votes:
Rev.
Mis
Mail Carrier.
Nume of subscriber:
Address:
Rev. A. Marsh, of Marshville, of
ficiated at two weddings in New
Salem township Wednesday after
noon at almost the same hour. The
first wedding was at the home' of L
A. Staten, and the contracting parties
were Mr. T. C. Edwards, of Marsh
ville township, and Miss Veda Blan
che Staten, dauchter of Mr. and Mrs.
L A Staten. The second marriage
was at the home of the bride's father,
Mr. Watt Iarker, and the contracting
parties were Mr. J. . Helms and
Miss llattie L. Parker. Only a few
near relatives and friends were pres
ent at each wedding. These are all
popular young people.
Re-Sale of Land.
Ht virtu of m uixtrr mavi I A Armflld.
elrrk lh nrl.f t'ourt. In tW "pan iJ pr
vHlinc rmnleHl M HtnMi. .mliiiiruf
irt HinaMin, Vwms. HiMlry HtuwMi (
U., IIM ttDfcTl4(rHI BlMken Will. UH
Monday, Jitnuary
t tbrt h.taias sftutirtn alitanw.K 0.rl!
ftl ptilxtr tUfti. W M hts(bt UtMrfth 4
luinsT .tnrn irmrt tf ttnd ijin la Matvs
W ublp, avl),tirttiast It lauttf H.m Hmn
tn latiew, h wit Ail Utt P parc!
lnJ knowi ftM Mri Huiwosi trwl
twin lh rrmin.t-r t4 the RinsM it" twrp
frwl tWtntsM t Anj Hifin torh Mitt
ttt tthJAitrU, I, ami rrcurxtrd Itt H-n k faksfv
111. ia th trhr ! ih lt'jtMr IiMs t
I nlu ftintf. sifter k.cMHt and .Hia1init
wlarivw al.t i iff tu.iaari. HinuAtm Iwt Marrh.
Ki(se H,,k u. sur i"T. 1 l4 ttvtfWtrr
t'fflftM, and a. arrpuu ti atrr tktv1
inaaid tiosMNi Hinta xi th Auut. m w
Ifcma . ar It ia uil oitt . and beinsT a
tract of i'i sw-rr to lr -ld. Trai of '.
rax a. Hi.W to iwsfia at f. th hit hainsj
l-r tmMhi lutliuaaivuut. Tnu Droetr M.
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Land Sale.
Bt virtue nf an orhr ftnd 4wrif the Ctork
Af the Wrt,r t'trtitt t Colon fmint.r. N,rlh
('angina, in a wvial pnicrtltnn thrrvtn n,l
tiur vhrivin I. L ,r!ttin 1 al arr plaintiff
and A I ior i.nilin rl al-ar tWtrndaata. 1 lll.
Monday, January L'Stb, I'M):,
ripiMt t a at puhll atu-tt.tn to th htrhrt
tultrr.at thtoHin houw d.H,r In MiHin. S
t' . tliat certain .iw. trm'l or parrel ol land,
lvm an.l lln,c in uau! county of I'ulon, tttat
of North Carolina. In MarhTtll lomnvntp.
hound-,! and dM-rlll a follow: hVt-lnntnif
al a tlake btr a pinr. a corner tf J t . Marnh
elate land and H Trealaa;' corner and
run. Mid Trv4'lv line ft. M', W. tt
chain. paliift- hie corner and with 1). V. tirtf
nn' line to a r,n-k. ht comer, thence Nil
t mchalne to a In a Held: thence K M!,
K id 4i-haln ui a ttaie: theace rt MVY.UT
chains to a flake, I. M Mar.tr corner, thence
villi In. line H. TJ, otchaine l the he
trlnnlnc. containing M at-re more or lee, and
Iwlntl that rt of the U 1.. tlrittlne.tale land,
that wa ailitted to hi ldow, ttaiuatilha
tlritfln. a her dower.
Term, of Male: one-third rah and the re
mainder in a crclit of I month with ap
proved erruntv and lllle retained until all the
pim-ha nione ha been paid.
Thl the 11. t dav of Iteeenilvr, A. D 1M.
K. It RtiISK.tomnii..i..ner.
Retlwlne A hike. Atty.
a Great
The Reformatory Has
o ue a-uiMH of iW A'tihtfl '
rietwe anow me space in your
paper to say a few things in re
gard to reformatories. What has
been said in different newspapers
lately, nas put me to thinking more
on tliat subiect than ever before.
In an article in one of the eouuty
papers, Mr. Hincon referred to the
public schools. He evidently forgot
mat we nave no compulsory school
law. And if we had, the public
scnoois would tie no place for
young criminals. The reformatory
must be open twelve mouths out
of every year. A four months'
term would not do at all. A train
wonder if Mr. Hiuson would
be willing for his children to tro to
scnooi wun a crowd of young cnni
i nais.
"The place for the reformatory
work to be accomplished is at baud
in the home, and at a very early
age," nesays. Agreed. Hut
that argument s gainst a reforma
tory f Certainly not It is a sad,
yet an undeniable fact, that the
home influences thrown around
some children are not very eleva
ting. These are the children that
are branded with crime at an early
age, nere is wnere the State re
formatory can do a treat wo; k.
The reformatory is to deal with
young persons who have violated
the laws, and must therefore be
taken in charge by the SUite.
They are too bad to let go free on
society, yet too young aud imma
ture to be pat with vile criminals
snd further mined, instead of
helped to reform and lead worthy
uvea.
Should North Carolina allow
those children to go to wreck and
ruin because reform should have
begun in the home t A thonsand
times no. Surely there is nobler
blood court ne throoKh our veina.
The ease of the two boys who came
all the way from Alabama, and
broke into a peaceful citizen's
bouse has been referred to. I will
admit that they landed Just where
they ought to on the chamc-ane.
I know nothing of those boys' his
tory, out i dare aay that wasn't
their first crime. If they had been
taken in charge by the Htate a
few years ago just after they had
stolen their first chicken or bad
committed some other petty crime,
their lives might have been
changed. Bat not so. Time passed
on, crime followed crime nntil at
last they landed on the chaineann
disgraced and forsaken. And thou
sands of boys are traveling the
same road to day. Let's not blame
them, bat let's blame ourselves and
form a resolution that such a reck
less waste of lives shall stop.
Oar poor are cared for by the
county and oar insane by the
State, bat oar youth who are neg
lected by their parents are also
neglected by us. Who can aay
that they are not diamonds in the
rough t
Let's throw off oar old selfish
disposition and take a broad view
of things. When we do that then
I believe we will welcome the State
reformatories. B, K. Fork.
Re-Sale of F&rrn Land Near Altao.
By virtu if an imler matt by K. A. Arm
fWM.Ovrfc f ihf Suiwrlort'oim, in a wtiTial
tintfaardlnic entttlrd J H IKxlrr rt al. v K I
Uwtrr rt al. Itir undf rmirned ronitiiiliiipr
will scsim for pi le at jmMic atsvUtiu.for i'ah,
to th hiKlttM)t l.i!dr, n
Mouday. January 28, lH)7f
at tioVI(Kk.at th court hou door In Mn
ms, Nf., th folUtainsr 4ltarrilHl tract nf land.
IvIiisTand IwMntr tn HiifoMt.wnhlp, a0ln.iiK
lh r-tataft land of ItarUns lUla and other,
hmimlfd and dfwfrtltrd a fallow-: HnrinntntT
at a p. ft- 1t a - and two pin tn John IIhm
It-r' I In and run lh division hue N. K tJ
rhnln and 7f ltnki.rrwinK ih Adanm hrant-h
to a h. j t'jr a p and hlcktorr and b j. tn litis
of the Mk furvry , thf with Mid Itnf H. W1,
K 4'ohain to a b 1. hy two p. u, and two b. )
In larlinC Hflk n llns, thrnc ftilb Haiti lliit
N. i VY. IT chain to a .!. t l.larli by a b j..
p . and two hu-kortf. thrnrt wtia ttarra of
J.hn iMtrr' llnfN ai follow. N W,
rhaln-and 'it link toaplnr: llirrto 8 71 W
lochaiiH and A' link, crowning thf lirauch to a
l o, hy a pine and two p o ; them's- N. 44 W
iMchain ami tut liniw to th lKnnlnff. tttn
tainlntc acrtHi and lafinir th Und dcttd
.wtld iKmier to rVrvna Ikicr for her life
time and at her death to her children. ald
deed laflnsj recorded tn Hook of Ieep No. a.
IMasfen isi and IMS, In the oilii-e of the Kcfrlwter
of iteetU of In ion county, lernmof aale;cah.
Hidn will l in at -d.
Tins UrH-rnilwr the i-.'nd. 1W
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Br ttrtu if an order and deere made by
' jut iK- ir-fiuiiiK ai renruary term
f the Huierlor t ourt of I nion county. North
fru.iiis, in ni-u action i herein pennlni
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White la defendant, wc will, on
Monday, Jannary 2S, 9079
exnoe io naie at puniic auction, al Ihf court
nouetKMir in Monroe, n r., that certain piece
tract or parcel of land tytn and heimr in Jack
on Uwnhlh. In ald couniv and Atmt .t
joinlnay the e-late laudi nf Mr Julia Cure ton
and other, bounded a follow: (in the South
i.y me line net ween l he state or North Carol I
na aud Mouth Carolina: on the North and Kii
hy the e-siate land of Mr. Julia Cure ton (now
air a j. namup!. and on the West by tfa
landx of Jane Hood and David Hikodinow Mr
It. B. Hotxh.rtmtalniiis? i'i a're atorc or lea.
and known a a part of the Alexander H.i
irwi oi me eiaie lamia uf Jatucc Hood, dec d
irrm" oi mie ; i a-n .
Bidding to atari at t-W m. rated Md.
KKANK A KM Kl ELD,
it. B. KKDVUNK,
tommlaaionera.
THE
5 & 106. store
Is the place to fet your MXmas"
post cards. Don't delay & mln
ute, they are going at once.
We are getting in other "Xmas'
goods almost every day and it is to
your benefit to come in before they
are an picxea over.
Nice Toilet SU from f 2 to $10.
Just received nice line Lamns
irom luc. to 91.
Toy Ited-room Suits 75c
Toy Sideboards f 1.
Toy Bureaus tl.
We have dolls, carriaces. wheel
barrows, wagons, and almost any
thing to please the children.
So come along and make them
happy.
5 and 10c. Store.
still in the Ring
to blow Fancy
Groceries and
Bob White Coffee
- the best for the
money.
Go to J. A. Lingle's for
-ts- j i
JEIOU UUUU9 uuu
Coffee.
Baking Powders and
Pictures Free.
Hurler's Bonbons,
fine mixed Candies
. and Fruits of
all kinds.
J. A. LINGLE
HOiXISTtsa
Rocky Mountain Tea Nuggets
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Brfmn U BNiik mi nl Tin.
A irweiSe ttw r i.ftnTI . t. thiMil. I.I
n4 i1-r TmblM. Plmpl. InmL imaf
Blunt Bxi Brauh. IWuniih Sownta, Hovlx-b.
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4 rarm, m mmM a fM. onnlM mto bt
ouiarfa Dm Gomrirt, Madta, Wl.
fiOUU IUSCSTS F0I IAU0 ftOPU
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Always B usy at Belli Bros.
New Attractions at Money-Saying Prices
Put on Sale Every Week.
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New Plaid Woolens.
A number of styles in pretty bright Flaid Mixtures, very popular for children
and rnisaes dresses, ... - - - -- 43 cents a yard.
Another lot 32-inch SCOTCH PLAIDS at 25 cents.
20 c. Cotton Novelty Plaids at 16 2-3 c.
One case 27-in. Arnold's rich dark Novelty Ambre Plaids, price reduced to 16Jc.
An entirely new lot of Grey Dress Goods, both in fancy, plain and neat
plaids, big value, - 48 cents.
Underskirt Outing.
Heavy, both sides fleeced Outing, solid colors and mixtures, - 8J ct.
One Case Dark French Ginghams.
A. F. C, Renfrew and Bates, 12J cents quality, our price, - 10 cents.
Big Line Cotton nd Woolen Underwear.
Indies and Misses Ribbed Vests ------- 15cta.
Heavy quality Vests and Pants, 25 eta.
Ladies' Vests and Pants, ribbed and fleece lined, Essex Mills, splendid value, 48c
Table Linen for the Holidays.
68c., 70-inches wide, all Linen Table Damask, - - - - 48 cts.
A much better quality. Satin finished, ------ 75 cts.
$1.25 Silver Weeched German Damask, $1.00 yd.
$1.50 Extra Heavy 72-inch Damask. $1.25 yd.
Napkins to match all the above qualities 50c. to $3.98 per dozen.
Always Something New in Ladies' Jackets and Millinery.
We are keeping our Jacket Department right up-to-date,
new lots come in and we are always glad to show this line.
Every few days
BELK BROS.
tadluction Sale!
of Valuable Lots !
ON!
Thursday, Deceiiiljer 27, 1906
we will sell on the grounds, at public auction,
on Two Years Time, 130 valuable build
ing lots in and around Monroe.
One hundred of these lots with which sale will begin arc
at Vann Heights in the eastern part of the town, beautiful
ly located, overlooking the town of Monroe, and adjoining
the llailroad's proposed company shop property, near Oil
Mill, Monroe Manufacturing Co. and ltoller Mill; 13 of
them adjoin the Icemorlee Cotton Mills property, also lie
high and dry and likewise have a magnificent future, as it
is onlv a matter of a few months until more mills will be
built here; also 15 other lots within 6 minutes walk of the
courthouse square, being on Crowell street the only close
in property in town that can be bought reasonably. Any
one purchasing these lots will surely double his money in
a year or two. Monroe is one of the best cities of the Sea
board Air Line, situated in one of the best counties in this
entire section, so this will be the opportunity of your life
to secure valuable lots on easy terms.
Why Keep Your Money
in the bank or loaned at 6 per cent, when you can buy this
pronerty and double vour money. The terms of this sale
will be only onc-fifth cash, ba ancc in four equa insta -
mcnts, payab e in six, two ve, eighteen and twenty-four
months, with six per cent, interest.
FREE CARRIAGES
will be furnished, and a FREE LOT, and a valuable
one, unconditionally given away at the close of the
sale; so everybody will be given the same opportunity
to get this free lot.
For further information, address
MAUPIN BROS. & PENNY,
Real Estate Auctioneers, Salisbury, N. C.
T. J. MAUPIN, Monroe. N. C.
EUGENE ASHCRAFT or FRANK ARM FIELD,
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managers, monroe, N. C . JJ
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