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"That's funny," talc Mr. Crockett.
"Mrs. Hamilton Hurlburt Dtckon re-
quest mjr presence at bridge Mon
day afternoon and she request It tn
the most expensive engraved old Eng
lish, too:"
"Why funny T" Inquired Crockett.
temporarily suspending the reading of
the sporting page. -Did you expect
her to pick the letters In a pin or
make a transparency of It!"
Mr Crock turned up her no at Ijauon o?n-u:
ti'.m. "It Is funny - she said, "because ped wllh consplrin.
Suicide or Runaway.
Spencer, Feb. 19. Mystery sur
rounds the disappearance of L. IV-
rrcsiding Justice Adjournctl Court
to Fight.
W. H. Knowles presides nt the
Vault Hines, a well known travelling commissioner's court a county trih-
ruan of Greensboro, whose clot hint
was found late Sunday afternoon on
a pier of the Piedmont Toll Hridge
near Spencer with a note saying:
"I have decided to end it all and
wish to thank my friends for kind
nesses" and signed L. 1. Mines.
With the clothing was a valuable
gold watch running and a good ring.)
unal probably somewhat like our
boards of county commissioner
at Midland. Texas. The other day
Know it s made an assertion about a
former ruling of the court. "You're
a liar. Judge," said Commissioner
Jules Driver, a member of thi
court.
This court wl'.I stand adjourn
I have not the slightest idea who Mrs.
Hamilton Hurlburt Dickson is have
you 7"
Crocket laid down his paper. "Never
heard of her," he said.
"Put think, Jimmy," begged Mrs.
Crockett "Was she on your list when
we sent our announcement cards?"
"She was not," sang Crockett In de
scending scale. "To the best jf my
knowledge, she Isn't the sister or
mother or relative of anybody I know
or ought to know. Why should she in
vite you?"
"Well, as to that, why shouldn't
she?" bristled Mrs. Crockett. "And
It's to be at the Northedge club, and
I'm dying to see the Inside of that
club. It's two weeks off, so It must
be a big party."
There are a number of theories as l ed," announced Judge Knowles.
to tne matter, une Is that Hines was
laboring under a melancholia fit and
ended his life by jumping into the
river. The bridge is about 20 feet
above the water, which is about five
feet deep at his place.
It is said Hir.es was seen making
a trip from the Kowan to the David
son side of the bridge and was not
seen to return late Saturday night. '
It is stated that he travelled for
the American Art Works of Coshoc
ton, Ohio, and that he attempted to
get drafts on this house cashed In
Spencer and Salisbury Saturday, but
failed.
He left his home in Greensboro
unceremoniously last Monday and
his family believe that he Is tempor
arily demented.
The officers believe that Hines re
turned to Salisbury Sunday night af
ter the alarm had been given and
boarded a train for the South. The
theory of suicide is discredited by
the officers who have worked hard
on the case.
Hines has a wife and child In
Greensboro.
un
il I whip the man who called me a
liar."
Then it happened. Tho.-o who
witnessed the fight say the Judge
scored the greatest number of pugil
istio points. A few minutes later
the Judge reconvened court, fined
himself for fighting and paid the
fine. The court then went back to
Mr. R. II. Yarner. editor of the
Lexington Dispatch, who recently an
Bounced his candidacy for the
Democratic nomination for the State
Senate, has withdrawn from the
race. He is too busy looking nfter
the Underwood presidential boom
and other matters to run for the
Senate.
work and its dignity was not fur
ther ruffled.
Had Her Coffin .Made to Order.
Lumberton Robesonlan.
Mrs. Eliza Pass, who is nearing
her "yth birthday, has stored in a
barn at her home on the northeast
ern edge of the town the coffin In
which she wants to be burled. She
does not want to be burled in a
store bought, machine manufactured
coffin, so Borne time ago she gave
.Mr. A. A. Ivey. who works nt the
Kingsdale lumber mill, an order for
a coffin to be made according to
her own ideas. The coffin was de
livered last week and will be kept
against the day when it shall be
needed which her friends hope
will be many years yet.
Georgia Republican State con
vention Wednesday endorsed the
Taft administration and the four
delegates at large to the national
convention were Instructed to vote
for him. More than half the dele
gates to the convention were ne
groes and a negro was
chairman.
Major Albrrt S. Sexton, a promi
nent citizen of Alabama, was acci
dentally killed in his home at Mont
gomery, Ala., early Tuesday morn
ing. He was going through his
house, pistol in hand, looking for
a nurgiar, wnen ne supped on tne
polished floor, his pistol was di
charged and the ball entered hi
brain, killing him Instantly. A
open door was evidence of the pres
ence of the burglar, but he escape
Let us nave neither the cons"rva
Hon of stagnation, nor the radle::l
tsm of imiiscrlminating destruction
permanent j We want progress along right lines
MULE
Caj: Load Received To
day. They are Beauties.
Be Sure to See Them.
: Yours truly,:
THE 518
11
Monroe,
North Carolina.
Well, why don't you go?" asl-.cd
Crockett. "You've got tho ticket let
ting you In."
"Go to a party given by an utterly
strange woman. demanded Mrs.
Crockett. "I have heard of women
who were social climbers Inviting
women they wanted to get In with,
even if they hadn t ever met them.
Maybe"
Darling," interrupted Crockett, "I
em loath to blast your sweet Illu
sions, but why should anyono as ex
pensive as Mrs. Hamilton Hurlburt
Dickson looks to be from her inrl
tatlon card be sitting up nights plan
ning how to get acquainted with a
perfectly sweet lady living In a $43
flat and able to afford one tailor gown
a year?"
"All this," sold his wife, "comes
from having a legal mind! Put I slm-
ply don't understand! It Is address
ed to my full name and the address
is right!"
Mrs. Crockett stuck the card la her
dressing mirror so it would be handy
to ponder over. Py diligent search
she found that Mrs. Hamilton Hurl
burt Dickson lived on a boulevard
quits near, and sho walked by the
house without getting any further
clews. Every night she told Crockett
that she simply must find out about
the Invitation, so she could either ac
cept or decline It.
"I'd hate to offend her by declining
It If It really Is some ono I ought to
know," she walled. "Put, of course,
I don't want to thrust myself upon her
If sho doesn't know me! Consider
how awkward It would be, Jimmy, for
a perfectly strange hostess to meet a
!erfectly strange guest, and neither of
us have the slightest common ground
to stand cn! We can't even ask how
each other's families are, because wc
don't know who belongs to the fam
ilies! They say that Xorthedgo club
Is perfectly beautiful. Of course I'm
not so crazy to go that I want to ac
cept this Invitation, still and there's
my new velvet dress, and this would
be such a good chance to wear it."
"Well, go on and go!" urged Crock
ett. "Oh, I wouldn't dream of such a
thing!" cried his wife, "put do you
think it ' would bo awful If I did? If
she's asked me she should take tho
consequences, shouldn't she? Of course
I shan't but. then don't you think
that last hat I got looks particularly J
well with the velvet? I'm lust dying
for a good game of bridge I've got to
write my acceptance or regrets today,
'.nats all there Is to it!"
That afternoon, as Mrs. Crockett sat
down at her writing desk, her sister-
in-law came in. She saw the card
from Mrs. Hamilton Hurlburt Dickson, I
ana reached out a casual hand, when
Mrs. Crockett told Its story.
Oh, that's meant for me!" she said.
"Mrs. Dickson Is a bride, and I'm a
friend of her mother's and her moth
er Is In Europe, and she didn't know
my front name, so the looked in the
telephone book and when she found a
Crockett on this street she thought the
nrsi one must be L I wouldn't have
missed that party at the Northedaa
club for anything!"
Crockett heard about It that oven
Ing. "rm awfully sorry," he sympa
thized, "when you wanted to go so
badly!"
It waa then that his wife exploded.
"Why, James Crockett!" she cried.
'am If I ever dr-r-eamed of loin to
her old party! The Idea! I should
say not!"
I-arcr Xanibr rf IjiImh- VmU
ArrrMttl ia I'oowvt in Uh
mite 'wiinirv. i
The Coiled Statts government has
arrested almost all of the fifty-four
men indicted ia the dynamite con
spiracy rases.
It took into custody within a fe
hours practically the entire official
staff of the International AsMX-iatioa
or lindge and Structural Iron Work
ers including the chief officers, mem
bers of the executive board and
about SO business s.;en'.s and former
business agents. Those included
rrank M. Ryan, the president. John
T. Cutler of Puffalo. X. v., the 1st
vice president, and Herbert S. Hock-
in, the 2nd vice president and suc
cessor of J. J. McN'aniara. as secretary-treasurer.
Kach of these men
was required to five $10,000 bond
for his appearance for arraignment
March 12.
More than 40 of the men. c!.lef!y
.s. w ho mv c.ur-
to des'r y by
uynamiteornitro-giyccr.no the pr p-
erty of employers of non union la
bor, were under arrest by night
and it was declared the apprehen
sion or ail the others would follow
within 4$ hours.
ny us action ine government re
vealed the Idem Lies of the men
whom It charges with being tho ac-
aceompliees of the XUA'anaras n-id
Ortic E. McManiga! In the dynamite
plots, embracing almost 1 00 explo
sions which were begun iu. Massa
chusetts in 1905, which were scat
tered over the country for six vears
uuu kimcii resuneu in me wrccKing
of the IyOs Anceles Times' building
and an attempt to blow up I'resi
dent larts special train at Santa
uarbara, Cal., last October.
'Spink of the Vast Loss
ffliffraa. -?
ty fire ia this country every year.
Midi) mmi million of dollar
worth of rwrrty goes sip 1
mnke. TtioHp who tuul the for.
lght to irwtrrt tlH-niM-lvrs with
tire iaoaraare WM nothing. Those
who were without li-iea la many
re were rained. IV-uer Join the
firt rlaMf by having u iuoure )oa
t once.
'Phone 209.
First !! Year Maringe- in Wilkes.
Wilkesboro Chronicle.
home of the girls In Wilkes be-
ue.ve in exercising tnelr leap year
privileges. Out on the Prushies last
week a 16-year-old girl derided
she wanted a husband und she also
decided exactly who she wanted.
So she put on her "meeting
ciotnes and about dark went over
to where he lived, found him
and unprotected, kidnapped hi
"torce and arms, carried him to
Rowan
girl's
the boy's la Yernon Childers.
Gordon insurance & Investment Co.
Stock of Goods
at Altan
For Sale.
Until 6 o'clock, Saturday, February 24th, I
mZ wiU receive bids for the W. M. Starnes stock of
..VM at Altan N - which inventoried about
$2,573.00. Parties interested will see me at
once. Will arrange to allow inspection of the
a wagon and when found was froze stock any date convenient.
stiff in the wagon.which had lodged
This February 17th, 1912.
O. B. SNYDER,
"Trustee W. IU. Starnes, Bankrupt.
Andrew Jones, an old colored man
who lived in Cumberland county
was irozen to uentn in the snow
storm Saturday night. He was go
ing rrom r ayeiteville t0 his home In
against a tree. The mule had brok
en loose from the wagon and was
wandering in a nearby field
After a spelling match nt Pool
school house in Providence town
ship. Kowan county. Tuesday night
a crowd of rowdy boys fired pistols
as tney left the place. A ball
took effect In the knee of Arthu
hrlck, a young man who was walk
lng In advance of the party and who
had no part In the shooting. The
wound will probably render him a
cripple for life.
bend ten trial subscriptions to
The Democrat nt 25 cents each fori
a year, and get a $1.50 fountain
pen free. Ten names and $2.50 gets!
tn pen by return mall.
Falsehoods.
Falsehoods not only disagree with
truths, but they usually quarrel among
themselves. Webster.
No Chance There.
Kind Hearted Ywmian rln conntir
-i
villager a man lis strung us you me
ought to lie nble to find work. Haven I
you nny regular occupation?
unyfarer (with his mouth fulli-
Yes'm: I wnrsn t Is winders o sky
scrapers. Chicago Tribune.
Difficult Alternative,
"What I want to see." said the econ
omist, Mls a system which will compel
these big enterprises to get out and
fight each other to a finish."
"In other words, your idea Is that
the only way to prevent collusion Is to
arrange a collision."
Squelched Him.
Sir. Hoopah You's de onllest kirl I
erer loved, Delia!
Miss Cole You kin set heah an' say
dat till you turns black In de face, but
I ain't gwlnter b'liove yo'!" ruck.
What Do
you Have ?
We have everything; that a
first-class grocery store should
have to supply the wants of a
fine trade.
Fresh buddIv of fine hams
and breakfast bacon. Dound
cakes and fine loaf bread.
Respectfully,
M. WALLER
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