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MONROE JOURNAL, m CENT PLANT CENTS ' anar m Swial ' 1 ia a Jousal Special Notice i column of The Juur- , i and four kam-at vill he three fcn l ' douar. VOLUME XVI. NO. 27. MONROE, N.C TUESDAY AUGUST 3, 1009. One Dollar a Year. ITTTK it 11 1 1 m m KEEP RIGHT A t The FRONT There u wily one way to krrp riajht al the fount Read a bv. rvlia- and hikIimIiU daily nnrar and riw4 ery iaMMufiL Th pre ii the rn-atrst educational forca in the country - the public achoul ant eicepltfd. Only through the modern nrw(va-r ran yu keep thorouKk ly informed on the hutury of the world that ia in the making, on the law and ruatoma of your own and other rountriea and on the duvoveriea and invetitiona in th arientinr and industrial world. Suharribe for one of The Oberrver publioatiuna and keep poati'd on the eenta of the day. Five Olxerver publication and price: THE DAILY OBSKKVEK liornirura, Kvery laj in the Year. One year aXWI Si Mmlha .w Three Month line Month T5 THK SUNOAY OBSKRVER Kvery Sunday Morning. One vear tiOrt Six tionth 1 tl Three Month .50 One Month THE SKMI-WKKKLY OHSKRVER Twice a Week. One Year l. Six Month to Three Month ' One Month 10 We aend sample copie on request Plenty of it Henderson TAKE A THOUGHT FOR THE MORROW! Don't jog along in the old ruU when a new way of doing things has come about. The best business men regard a bank as an absolute necessity. A checking account is convenient and eliminates many troubles. Ever)' check issued comes back as a receipt. When you pay by check no dispute can arise as to whether or not the bill has been paid. In our vaulU your funds will be absolutely safe. If you keep your money elsewhere than in a bank it may be stolen or lost at any time. We welcome small deposits, any amount from one dol lar upwards. We furnish free of charge all necessary check books, etc. You are especially invited to call and have a talk with our Cashier about our banking methods. ::: ::: ::: We pay 4 Per Cent Interest on Savings Accounts. Compounded Quarterly. Tie Savings, Loan and Trust Company, R. B. ItEDwisE, President. The Necessity For Medicines furnishes its own reminder, but we would like to sutfest in passing that when any such unfortunate need occurs, there is no place in town where it can be supplied with more promptness, skill, accuracy, or with a higher class of Drugs and Chemicals, than at Simpson's Drua Store, " AT . T n baMkMhWH ttaf IW.eaiaWjtarH a mmm w, uk b..t. UWaak ummmt Mr. auaa. m4 mmti at a mxmm MM. TWajtka.hM.afllTrrta . .... RESULTi -' -rYr'i!n hTTI'T jim "'""" " THE LEADING TRAINING SCHOOL FOR GIRLS IN VIRGINIA. $150 C. .11 tmrm tur tt rmr. kwMtaf ttw kM. nf rw. W t. Iwadrr. Mfaal KMlai vkrnl nKm IV. MMU CANNON, INGHAM SCHOOL IT03 1910 r it it tan Haiiaal urn. emL THE EVENING CHRONICLE Every Day Except Sundav. One Year 5. Six Month 2.50 Three Month 1.25 One Month ... .60 THE SATURDAY EVENING CHRONICLE One Year $1.50 Six Month 75 Three Month One Month 15 The Observer C Circulation Department No. A, CHARLOTTE. N. C. Here Now! "INVINCIBLE" is the delight of the cook as well as the whole family. The Flour that is made for Monroe folks: the kind they love and thrive on. v v v Roller Mills, II. B. Clark, Cashier. raonroe i. apVte aMakanM aaa apaitaiMi akitk H ton. M, at A. ISkKkH. Va, ML. iiwiwi tm geuanf mi a urm 'Tl.irT .T". tm Ufa. - a fm . aipna a ia.a mm a ' a . .iwiua a TO RAISE FUNDS BY COUNTY BONDS. Countiea Which An Prepared Sfwml Money lor KuaJ building an4 Koad Malntainlnf Should Firat Utru What Type ol Mirh ways Are Brat Suited la Trail and Climatic Cooditiona W ben rioney ia Wasted The Im mense Value ol Properly Invrst rtl Funds. Ivnn Waller 1'ajfe, dirwlor of the ollice of public road! of the 1'uitrd Statin llepartuie ul of Agri culture, baa apwarvd before Htate lefiliiturai and rouuty boardii in varioua am'tiouaof theenuutry dur ing the pant few mouth in nwpoiua to iuvitaliou to tell what method are bnt fur olitainiog fuuda for road coiMtrurtioD and how the ioaU ahould be niaiutainrd after they have ouce been arrureL At tbe prearut litue there are two principal methods of raining fuuds for thtwe iurioiiea, but I'i-ret-tor l"age lielievea that bi-fore plaits are act on foot for raising fumU, much ahould be mid regard ing the niauuer in which such fumls ahould be expeuded. If the voter of a couuty show a readiness to spend a poncrous sum in iin proving their roads, it it of para mount iiiiortance to them to first ascertain what elawt of roads should be roustrucled. It ahould not be assumed that simply because a county owns Uar rim from which trap or limestone rock ean be secured that the ex pensive macadam road must necea sarily be built. The qualifications of auy rock cannot be definitely decided upon until laboratory testa have been held. Much money has been almost thrown away in this country, however, on the construc tion of rock-surfaced roads, those having the const ruction in charge neglecting to call in the service) of exM'rt chemists, and lining rock totally ununited to their trallic or climatic conditions. In many, many rases, the results were disas trous, the roads quickly raveling and going to pieces because the cementing value was lacking. A county which shows sutlicient progress to bond itself in a liberal amount for the purpose of securing improved roads should keep its money intact until its odioers have learned exactly what class of roads will beat meet its requirements: what type of road it is beat quali fied to const met and what it can beataflord. Those facts can be se cured through the aid of the Na tional Government, the Ollice of Public Koails standing ready to give gratuitous advice and to sup ply skilled highway engineers who are qualified to tell what type of highway would best meet that county's requirements and to dem onstrate those decisions by super vising the building of stretches of model highways, after which local officials may take pattern. Wide awake State and county officials are now allowing the live liest appreciation of the results which follow a vinit by these skill ful men, and the demands for their services are so heavy that it is im possible for Director I'age to meet more than 20 per ceut, of the re qncsta being filed in his office. Wheu county officers learn to ap preciate the fact that road building is an art, they rely more aud more upon exiert advice and scientific demonstration, and when they have learned what class of roads is do Hi ruble, they will const met them and theu guard them. Therein lies one of the most im portant of all American highway questions. Americansbuild as good roads ai Knglishmen or French men, but having done so, they rest contented with their effort and let each passing breath of air, speed ing automobile, or drenching raiu blow or wash the road surface away. I n the countries of Kurope, where the well nigh perfect roads are the pride of the citizens and the envy aud admiration ol visitiug Ameri cans, most jealous care is constant ly given; a careful (lay by day in gpection is made and every depres sion ia quickly filled and all in equalities rolled or tamped. Two requisites, therefore, con front the county sutiervisor at the outset first to ascertain what roads would be most suitable to that par ticular section, and to provide for funds to eipeud in their mainteu ance after com Diet ion. Those are vastly Important ami the uatiou's very small percentage of improved roads is due largely to failure to give consideration to them. Millions of money bave been wasted in building roads which local conditions made impracti cable and out of all cost prtiKrtion to the county's revenue. There are exceptions to all rules, however, and 1'ike county, Ala., atands as a glittering exception to the usual const met ion blonder, There the county officials had plan ned to expend Isrge sum iu the building of gravel roads. W. L. Spoon. United State so tierintendent of road construction, being sent to make an lusectiou of the county's road possibilities, learned that ToOmilesof important routes needed improvement. lie figured that the cost of gravel roads would be 1,000 a wile-plainly a sum greater than the county could be bonded tor. lomlitloos, now ever, were ideal for sand clay con traction and be strongly nrged its adoption. Hy a legal proviso the county could be bonded for only 34 per centum of the assessed value of the real and personal property. The plan was decided npon and an Uueof H.I, ooo was voted. Oue ' hundred thousand dollars' worth of bonda were quickly sold, being dia punrd of ia ."K),0o0 allotments. Tbe first allotment brought a pre-! uium of ;.'. and the second one of V--V Forty thousand dollars' was at once spent for mule aud Kev. J. lAiwrle ilaon, died at Ab road building machinery aud work grille, a t, and tbe local paper, was started. the Abbeville I'm aud lianuer, With the aunt remaining, lis contained a rather unusual and aiiles of tbe finest sand clay roads' stinging criticism of tbe waouer in in tbe South bad been built within! which tbe fuueral was conducted. two years from the date of the bond iasur; a generous sum was still on hand: eight gangs were at work, and Ihe people were so pleased that they stood ready to take up the remaining issue of fl.1,000 aud expend it in the same way. It is the belief of tbe director of the office of public roads that such facts should be impressed upon tbe people of all countiea desirous of externum: aud Improving tbetr highways belore actual work Is un der way. When that has been done, be is warmly in favor of the raising of funds by issuing county bonds with tbe restrictions which the Virginia highway law imposes, vii: that all moneys so raised shall be sient under the watchful super vision of a State highway commis sioner, because otherwise tbe mon ey may be wasted. Many farmers fear bond issue as they do the visit of the chinch bug or the Kansas graashopjier, but the benefits they derive from that method of raising money for road improvement are far reaching and immediate, while the individ ual tax on each is so small that it is scarcely noticeable. In reality, borrowing money through the sale of road bonds is like buying a house, a farm, or a business on the installment plan. Tbe purchaser receives tbe object at once and de rives the benefits from it while pay ing for it. As the lie ne tits derived from perfected highways cover long periods of time, fairness aud equity demand that the rising gen eration should bear a portion of the cost and that the iucreased cit izenship, always attracted to the locality by system of good roads, should also aid iu paying for the added benefits. Resides that, there is a financial wisdom in floating county bonds for road improvement. In many cases those bonds sell at a premium, and everybody Interested gains a benefit, in some Southern States good road bonds bave brought a price so high that the premium has wiped out two or three years' in terest on the principal. In Brad ley county, Tenn., but a few years ago tbe supervisors voted a bond issue of tW.fKM). Those bonds bore interest at the rate of 5 tier cent. So enthusiastic were the citizens for roitd improvement, and so much confidence did they bave in the lo cality in which they lived, that the premium was 'J0,(XH), the cash sales plscing in the county treas ury iuoysM). It bas beeu ascertained by tbe Office of Public Roads, the Uureau of the Federal Census, and the land aud industrial divisions of twelve great railroads, thst the building of modern highways immediately enhances the value of tbe property through which they run to a mark ed extent This increase is esti mated by the most conservative at an acre, and by the more entno siastic at fit. All concede, how over, that the increase is immediate and inevitable. Place the acreage of the rural portion of a connty, therefore, at 200,000 acres and the increased valuation due to tbe con struction of better highways at but 1.50 an acre, and it will be seen that the property holders whose land is to lie thus benefited would gain not less than f!iuo,iiuu. ho great an increase in the assessed valuation of a county wonia cer tainly seem to constitute a power ful argument in favor of a liberal first expenditure. Two Young Women Drowned. Unolr SprrUI, 'Mil, U.l'h.rlolU- Ohwrtcr. The news reached here tonight of the death by drowning at Mortimer of two popular young women of that village, Miss fiannie Bailey and Miss Jet j. The tragedy occur red late this afternoon in the pond adjacent to the mill of the Hitter Lumber Company at tbat place. Tbe bodies were recovered shortly afterward and the funeral will take Dliiee some time tomorrow. Tbe details of tbe accident which has enshrouded the little town of Mortimer in gloom are meagre aud it is impossible to obtain further information tonight Whether the vonne women were boating or bath ing and Just how they met their untimely end bas not been asrer tained. Mortimer is an olierore mountain village, eighteen miles from Lenoir and tbe telephone con nection is poor. Miss Tlailey was a daughter of Mr. William Bailey, manager of tbe Hitter Lumber Company, and a student at Davenport College at tbe past session. Miss Jets was a damrbter of Mr. Jets, tbe saw filer of tbe lumber company. Miss Bait ey had many friends in Lenoir. The best remedy ws know of in all caaes ol kidney and bladder trouble lad tbe one we always can recommend it Da Witt's Kidney and Bladder Pillt. They ar antiteptic sod at one aisiit tbe kidoeya to perioral tbeir important work. But baa yoa sk for thsss cause constipation and headache, pilli be poaitivt tbat yon gat DaWitfaljnnjio. complexion, pirn- Kidoev sad Biaddar Pilla. Thert are,,,... ,nA Wni-j.-. Uaai nf anrtatite. imitation plaid opoa aals to deceive HU II JVUI aaauvi r'r"F JV,, ... U laV OBLaa aa r(uaaDthlnlaiplacaBllham.,h'lI P jour Bealtb. 230., at Sold by English Drag Company. WKirNtl THINU5 AT IVNEKALS' Preachers Severely Criticized lor I Long Funerals and Indiacrimi. nate Eulogies. !" hi, u..i..' Recently a promineut minister. ' Said the I'rmh aud Ilauuer: "r.very aeai w a occupied, oiauu ing room was all taken, aud many who came Ute lingered about the dour without comiug in. Theweath er was warm, but it is presumed tbat those who had seats were com fortable enough. Those who had staudiug seats were tired out long before the expiratiou of the hour and half, to which time tbe ser vices were prolonged. The Hev. Mr. Law read tbe scriptures aud delivered a talk which bad not been carefully di gested or reasonably well prepared. ltev. Mr. tiregg talked for a long time in commonplace. Kur own judgment is that tbe funeral services were not up to what might bave been expected of so good a man as Dr. ilson, while they were cruelly long. 'Kven In the prayers there waa a dearth ol thankfulness lor toe life of tbe good msn who had so long labored amoug us, aud whoso lately entered npon that great sleep which men call death. "We are inclined to tbii.k (hat on occasions of this kind it may reasonably be assumed tbat the Lord knows a little of us, aud for this reasou the speaker need not bore an awaiting audience with a commouplace recital of facts that are known lo us all. 'It is simply next to unpardou- able to keep an audience waiting an hour and a half that the speak era may talk themselves instead of eulogizing or portraying the char acter ol the dead." (Vimmeiitiug npou these remarks, the Cireeuville (S.C.) News says: This is a remarkable piece of writing, but it deals with a prac tice that is too common in the clergy and oue amnit which we have often given serious reflection. Our contemporary has no doubt hurt some feelings and mounded pride, but it hit the nail on the head just the same. What occurred at the funeral of Dr. Wilson, as described by the Press aud Banner, is by no means au exceptional rase. Many funeral services are too long and one of the main causes of this is just what our Abbeville contem porary points out: preachers too frequently fail to assume that 'the Lord knows a little about us.' " There is much truth in what is herein said, but the criticism could have been made more effective had it liecu written in a different spirit The tone would indicate that the writer was in bud humor, possibly because he was one of those who had to stand during the service; and being iu bad humor his re marks are rather bitter and per sonal. The friends of the preach ers criticised will certainly resent the remarks aud harm instead of good will lie the result Had the remarks been general and i in per sons!, without citing any particu lar case, they would bave been ef fective and helped to correct a cus tom that needs correction. There is no question that many reforms are needed in our manner of conducting funerals. First, the practice of preaching funeral ser mons or delivering eulogies needs to be abandoned iu most cases, and it is gratifying to note that many preachers of all denominations now confine themselves to a simple burial service. In some case the eulogy is peruiiasabte, but it should be simple and brier. A good many people bave an idea that an elab orate funeral service must be held; a biographical sketch read; a eu logy pronounced reciting ail tue good deeds of the deceased, care fully omitting the faults and prais ing all the virtues; and then a long obituary and a card of thanks printed in the papers, before one can be uronerly laid away. It is proper to nonor tne ueau, oui in : i ..... most rases our faults surpass onr virtues, and it is hardly proper to magnify the latter and leave off the former. Certainly the practice will not create resiect for the dead; on the contrary when one is eulogized whose faults were conspicuous and this is often the case in indis criminate eulogies that very fact will make bis faults shine in con trast and set all who hear to think ing about them if not talking about them. It used to be that almost all minister thought it necessary to preach the dead into heaven to avoid offence, regardless of the character in life. But most of them bave reformed In this respect. DtWitt's Little Early Kiteri, the pleatant, safe, aura, easy little liver pill. A salve yon may always depeod upon in any cat where you need talve, ia DeWitt's Carboliied Witch Hatel Salve, especially food lor piles. Sold by Eoglnh Dru( Company. The man who bas made no mis take is tbe only one who ha lacked opportunities. The Crime of Idleness. Idleness mean trouble for anyone. It' the same with a laxy liver. It ; h , tr vtnir'a New Life English Drug Company's. niSS PCI .LEY A HEROINE. Treated Brutally AU Her Ute, She Deaervc Better Things Now that 5he Killed the Old Man. tvtrr thrwuta It will be rrmemtwred by many in tbe county that there once lived near the mouth of Burgaw rreek a notorious character named Jo Pul ley, who was arrested for illicit dia tilling. Pulley left the county about two years ago and went lo Smithfield aud from there moved to Selma. He took with him his wife and little girl, Mary. Mary bad been in acouvent but bad been taken out by Pulley. His treat ment of this little girl is the most inhumsn ever beard of in civi lized land. The way he beat her, the hard work be made ber do, work too heavy for her strength, aud tbe way she waa deprived of the necessaries of life, rend more like savagery and cannibalism than the history of a North Carolinian. Saturday night Pulley decided he would make this child leave home and told her if she was there next morning he would beat ber aud if she didn't leave then be would kill her. Sheknewhemeaut what he said, for old Pulley was known to do what be said even to meeting bis obligations. She went to sleep dreading to see the dawn of next day which waa to bring her such trouble. Just at tbe break of day the whistles of the mills woke her and she faced a crisis. She would have left home but knew no one, never having been anywhere in the neighborhood. She then went to the yard, got the axe and going in the room where Pulley isy sleeping, struck him on the head several times. She never left the house but remained for the of ficers to come aud get her. She was placed in jail to await tbe ac tion of tbe gram! jury which meets in September. When arrested she bad nothing but a dirty cotton dress; this she worked in, slept in aud wore all the time. When taken and dressed she was found to have a number of bad sores on her back with bruises and other signs of ill treatment. She was taken from jail by Mr. M. C. Winstead, president of the Selma Bank and of the Lizzie aud I'.llie cotton mills there. When re leased from jail she was asked what she was going to do and said she was going to do anything Mr. Winstead wanted her to. She is very appreciative and the people ol Selma have given her a gieat quantity of clothing, etc. Mr. Winstead was here Monday looking for evidence in the rase nil secured a watch ami chain sod pair of eye glasses old Pulley had stole from Prof. Turlington' home in Smithfield. Pulley's father came up to the burial of his notorious sou and Btated that Pulley had killed four men and two women in his life and had been a criminal ever since he was 14 year old. He killed one of his wives when living in Pender but stated to parties at Salma that the people here were afraid to prosecute him. National dinners' Report Shows Bad Condition. Mrntplii. tiltrh,th. The report made on cotton con dition up to July 25 by the Nation al Ginners' Association this after noon, gives the general average as 71.7. The average by States fol lows: Alabama, 70; Arkansas, "(i; Florida, K,ri; Georgia, 7!); Louisi ana, Ci'i; Mississippi, tit; Missouri, 81 ; North Caroliua, 7.1; South Caro lina, 77; Oklahoma, 79; Tennessee, 77; Texas, liii. The report says: "This is the lowest condition ever known at this season of the year and indicates a crop of around 11,000,000, and unless good rains fall in the next week throughout almost the entire belt, but more es pecially in Texas, southern and western Oklahoma and Mississippi, the crop will be under that figure." Washington' Plague Snot lie in the low, marshy bottom of the Potomac, the breeding ground of malaria germs. These germs cause chills, fever and ague, bil iousness, jaundice, lassitude, weak ness and general debility and bring suffering or death to thousands yearly. But Klectric Bitters never fail to destroy them and cure ma laria troubles. "They are the best all-round tonic and cure for ma laria I ever used," write R. M. James of Ixiuellen, 8. C. Tbey cure stomach, liver, kidney and blood trouble and will prevent typhoid. Try them, 50c, Guaran teed by l.nglnh Drug Company. Union Fall Term open Monday. Aug. , m. Institute. Faculty full of competent ex perienced teachers, all college trained. No mistake or cause for reirret in patronizing this school. The work done here in preparing students for college, is appreciat ed by the University and the best colleges of the State. Many of the students of this school have successfully entered the learned professions and responsible lucra tive business vocations without ever going to college. No cheap er school of the grade and quali ty in the State. For catalogue and other infor mation, address 0. C HAMILTON or ) p..--r. u r.ARHisnM i rTmcipais, ' UNION VILLI N. C. 000000C00 am Stop There, Right Now! 9 If you are thinking of buy- ing Furniture, makes no diff erence how little you want, 6 neither how much. :: :: Cheap Furniture or High Grade Furniture x We have both kinds, and the surest way to convince you that we have both grades will find Furniture anywhere Furniture and get our prices. We are here ; t. p. dillLON I ! CASH OR CREDIT. WHEN YOU do your grocery business at Doster's you know that you are getting the best the market affords and you are getting it at the lowest figure that goods ean be sold. You are getting it when you want it, and we al ways satisfy our custonieas at any cost. Try us. The Doster Grocery Company We can show you the most up-to-date line of Parasols in the city. We beg to thank you for past business and solicit your further patronage. Yours respectfully, IilcRAE MERCANTILE GO. Phone 45. Loan and Trust Building. Tbe Wingatc School Prepares for College and University, and the ordinary vocations of life. Fall Term Opens flugust 10th. Tuition rates unusually low for school of its class. Special inducements to Music and Elocution students. Boarding Arrangements Excellent Board in private homes $8.00 to $8.G0 Board in "Girls' Home" $8.00 Board in Boys' Club $fi.50 to $7.50 Special arrangements have been made for the care of boarding students. Girls will be in a home prepared for them, under the care of the lady teachers. Boys can obtain board in good private homes, or in the boys' club, which is run under the supervision of the Principals. B. Y. TYNER and J. G. CARROLL, Principals. Littleton Female College. One of th moot aueceaafut and beat equipped boardirar school In the Smith with hot aratar heat, e tar trie lighta and other modern Improvement. xth annual eon will bea-in Sept 15, ..... For eatakirua addreaa J. M. Rhodes, Preaident, Uttletn, N. C MEREDITH (faraxi fr MS Amonf Dm foramoat Coll for . it M ' echoou: An ana ncamrea, aiuaic, . WnafortjUkxrM. o as cheap or cheaixr than you is for you to come and see our ' for business. Reward! To all the people who read this ad. will be given a reward in the way of information as to where to buy all your Clothing, Shoes, Hats, Shirts, Dry (iootls of all kinds, Ladies' Parasols, Shirt Waisths, Skirts, Hosiery, and in fact everything in the line of General Merchandise. :: :: We call your attention to i lot of Ladles' Shirt Waists at reduced Prices. :: s s s COLLEGE, UntvrmH far Wmmm) Kin, n. i. ' i. Women bt the Smith. Fir dirtiwt atM . a. A a- t?tm at Tuft iwcwuw am .-" - R. T. Vamn, f'f.
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