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JIIE UNION COUNTY PArHH HVEIiYEODY KEAD3 IT." "THE UNION COUNTY PAPER EVERYBODY NEEDS IT.' I 1 OP- oil- PUBLISHED TWICE EACH WEEX TUESDAY AND FRIDAY Thirtieth Year. No. 68. 'Monroe, N. C, Tuesday, October 2, 1923. $2.00 Per Year Cash BULL GORES MARE TO DEATHON ROAD Mr. Vickory Meets Bunch of Cattle and His Horse Is Dis ' , -, emboweled by Animal , Prospect, , Oct. 1. Mr. Sam Vick ory and Mr. James Lathan were rid ing down the Lancaster road. Satur day 'and met a bunch of cattle which Mr. McLean of Lumberton had bought further down the road and was driving to Monroe." In the lot was a thousand pound bull which gave the road to no one. As he was about to pass the mare which Mr. Vickory was driving he suddenly went ber serk as Jersey bulls will do. fie low ered his horns, gave out a bellow, walled his eyes, and in another in stant the "feleven hundred pound mare was dangling on his horns like a leaf. He had thrust his head under the mare's breast and lifted her com pletely from the ground. -Mr. Vickory and Mr. Lathan jumped out, of the buggy, and aided by James . Lathan Plyler who ran up, jumped on the bull with kicks and thrusts, themsel- ni fn Hon cor nf rpf-pivimr his atten tion. They drove him from the mare, which up to this time had not been hurt, but as he desisted from the at tack, he had made & last sweep with his horns, and this was fatal. They slashed a rip in the mare's abdomen and she died in 1 three minutes, with all her internal organs except heart and lungs rolled out on the ground under her body. Mr. Lathan was riding with Mr. Vickory to show him some lands. They were jogging along and thbught nothing of meeting a bunch of cat tle in the road. The bull, which sud denly became so fierce and, disas trous, was not supposed to be dan gerous. Mr. Lathan, though an old soldier, is still a strong man, and when he went for the bull and landed his foot in the bull's flank, that hull evidently thought a mule had hit him in the rear and he delayed his going only long enough to give the final rip to the poor animal that had ex cited his wrath. The bull was rear ed by Mr. P. W. Plyler, and is three years old. The "possum" crop in Buford is un usually good this year, and the sport of harvesting It is in full progress, Every night in every direction the, possum hound and horn is heard, the ( nlJZZ TYnan MrT.arrian has this ?J$J-2toX f .? I ?n nV n nrf Mtimktes that bv ,nl"Oe.?' " ?Bi!5il,aifi! na"Klv"'8 - rounds. .. 1 : . fa :?53held bock ' BXr who 'Ini U along on .this subjec lUs V'iL&VS mlsed'that he is no nearer a solution V&Hrtted to lewn thT the the land. They want the government Z wil I beein the work of f guarantee them a staple price of niiwriancaster roadTn the $1-75 per bushel. They are now get t0Ps01 .1?!he iff? u " ;ln Jn! ting less than 90 cents per bushel aud :trU on 'th's road vine between ltretch.nJ "kffn 33 nH lpft with a red clav becL fl8 lir, Lnld 4 ii i rata th Turnrt hpfora the fa!,LtV0ple.teAhlsS. ri,w IS! Winter KlimuiO, l w" Shin?" wSf be wfiSd' by Tseng r8C!. 2Li55 with some such title as "Prospect's Done and Left in the Mud.'' rae mm jutui. , . m.i. irst-anAaA n Tini- Vh. Will woevil 'MA roniiHerehle Bon th. boll weevil did jonside reb e lIllllMMrS fUOWUIVQ wv uv. damage to the bee keepers of unction. Many cloonies were so weakened that it is feared that they will not pass over the winter, i Despite the ravages of the boll weevil, which almost destroyed the August crop, cotton is turning out well in this community. Mr. Leonard Lathan is certain of four and one- stitutes his ndmduai crop. Uther cotton fields on his farm are yielding almost as well. Throughout the com- VUtLUIi HCiUa I'll ii mumty iaru.B io " r-th the party if there is any "meddling thirty to fifty per cent more of the Europe . staple than they at one time expect- ,f. In the jMe o( guch a proBpect the The bovs of the Buford" Literary ll "rt f of the community for a debate which will be held in the auditorium of the Prospect school building some, time this month. The men have accepted the challenge, and will send to meet ' the boys their bravest and best. They have gome good ones and so do the boys. We expect a hard lougnt Dat tle. . ' ' THE PRICE OF WHEAT BOTHERS REPUBLICANS (By David F. St. Clair.) Washington, Sept. 29. The Cool ldge administration has now come face to face with its second great dif ficultybelieved to be from the standpoint of politics the most diffi culty problem of all-r-the price of wheat at the threshers mouth on the western farm. The first problem was the coal strike and the President F3id the buck to Governor Pinchot wlso in turn passed it on to the con eu : iiig public with an additional 60c a . ton on coat, ua int wneai proo- Ion Ff-nstor Capper, head or tne tarm bl c in Congress, and Senator Borah n !n usually drives a one-horse team r f 1 i own, have passed the buck to ti i ie .'dent who in turn passes It to ficretary of Agriculture Wallace. 1'oor Mr. Wallace, who has been for months laboring under a cloud of ac cusations and threats of farm leaders, U now given an opportunity to either r ake or break himself completely. r: it assigned to the task of rescuing the grain growers in-a dozen hereto fore big" Republican states from bank ruptcy an-1 r-'n. His solution, if he ! as any, is to he forthcoming this ' COTTON UP AND COTTON DOWN At ten o'clock this morning the government Issued , its re port of cotton ginned up to Sep tember 25, 19233,215,394 bales. This was six hundred and fifty thousand less than last . ; year and the futures market went up 105 points. Then, at eleven o'clock, the government issued its report of condition up to September 25th, 1928, 49.50. Then cotton fu tures took- a tumble of 170 points. From the going up to ', the ' coming down thereof, this was a net loss of about seventy points. . ,- . The report also said that the indications ' were that this crop .would turn out only about 37 pounds of lint per acre planted. HERON HAIGLER'S SKULL CRUSHED IN RUNAWAY Brief, ; Oct l.--About Bix weeks ago Mr. Cleve Haigler fell from a truck, while working at Hilisboro. N. C, and crushed his skull. Thursday his young son, Heron, was thrown from a wagon, when the team be came frightened and ran away, and' crushed his skull. He was rushed to a hospital at Charlotte whete his wound was dressed. We are glad to report that he is at home now and resting fine. Mr. Charles Clontz anived Thurs day morning from Hilisboro to epend a few ; days with his parents, Mr, and Mrs. John Clontz. Mrs. John Boyette of Albemarle was a visitor at the home of Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Long, Wednesday. Mr. Loyd Hart sell has accepted a position' at Concord.- ' Miss Mary Long spent a few lay3 with friends at Midland last week. Mr. Webb .Clontz of Concord spent the week-end here with his jiareutts, Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Clonaz. . "Mr. Walter Tarleton of Concord spent the week-end here wltO Tiomo folks! ' ', Some thief stole about one hun dred and fifty pounds of cotton .from Mrs. F. K. Biggers last week. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Biggers and little daughter, Emily Howard, lu, Sunday for Raleigh to spend a raw day? with Mrs. Biggers'. parents.", ' The writer found a family of four teen boll weevils in one square last week. Can anyone beat it? Bruce Long- r Magnus Johnson. The fundamental facts are that the farmers in the great wheat belt want to raise all the wheat they can grow .because it is easiest and practically . .. , . t. a a aro losing from 30c to 40c on every bushel. These wheac growers are Ba'lnK the Government can guarantee the 11.75 staple price if it will cut ln two the. 22 cents freight on every bushel authbrized in the Esch-Cum l.w onJ n-lll n.nnomtP with Europe in some way to open it. food markets to American wheat. Whether the reduction In freight r9tP w nne-hnlf anil th rates o one-nait ana iub co-'opera- .. .., ... . ; .' A ; n uon wun Europe so us 10 opeu uiuiu mrket there wouId trom the Btand. point of mathematics Justify the gov- eminent ln stabilizing wheat at $1.75 per bushel, is regarded as a question for speculation. But the Republican party as now controlled by it finan cial Interests and pyschological fears, has no Intention of either reducing freight rates on wheat or making any advances to Europe to aid it in ex- win tQ the ,,vt k r. tecoucliables threfttea destruction of fore he is willing to assume the re sponsibility of calling congress into an extra session.' Borah and Cap per, who has passed it back to the "t8";"' J"'?' AVi?..C President, are paying he is right. pasaed t0 mja but Brookhart is de- manding that if Coolidge can not find a way to let Congress find it. But the present managers of the Re publican party, do-not want this con gress to find any thing if it can be helped. In the- meantime the autumn is slipping by and the West is going from bad to worse over into a great campaign year. ' The Democrats, who are standing on the wings of the stage, eager to ocupy its center, are telling the coun try that the only two immediately practical ways of relieving the situa tion are toxreduce freight rates be cause the railroads are prosperous and can afford the reduction, and re duce the tariff on all 'ommodltles and goods the farmers ' has to buy Both these reductlon.thev point out. will help to raise th farmers dol lar to an equality with th dollar of ithe manufacturer and the mill hand .who is paid $1 per dav. As they see It it is an economic battle between the man In the field and the man in the mill and the one Is armed with a club and the other with a machine gun.-' . , ' But the Democrats know their op ponents have even less intention of lowering the tariff than" in Joining th league of nations. The Demo crats freely predict that the Coolidge administration will not be able to make this second hurdle without a bruise. varalr Frmn what, hfl has been saV- Young World War Veteran Drops Dead While Driving Adron Tarlton of New Salem town ship, aged 27, a world war veteran, dropped dead Sunday morning while driving his car with his wife and two small children on the way to visit his wife's parents in Stanly county. Mr. Tarlton had not been well for some days but was up and about. The family had planned to visit Mrs. Tarl- ton's parents over in Stanly, and started on the trip early Sunday morning, by way of the Marshville and Euto road. They had crossed bridge, on Richardson Creek and Mr. Tarlton was driving slowly, not more than four or five miles an hour, going up grade. Without warning his heart gave way and he reeled in his seat to the left side of the car. But his last thought was for the safety of his Expect to Give Barbecue Free to Five Thousand Who'll give a pig to the local legion to help along in the big barbecue with which it expects to set ''up" every body 'who comes to the big cele bration on Armistice day? The boys have laid out their speci fication for ' enough barbecue to feed five thousand. They have employed an expert darbecuer from Georgia to come and make the barbecue. tThis man knows his business for he' was carried to' Cincinnati by the Shriners to show theYankees how to make bar becue. No real barbecue has ever been made in Union county, and just to have this' man come here and shot us how to do it will be worth all the ccst and trouble. Fop there -is one thing certain the man who once greases his lips with genuine south ern barbecue will never be satisfied without it again and again; And the man who has never eaten bar becue has never got on the high shelf in living. He's . got something coming to him.- He has never yet eaten anything. Barbecued pig to the white man in the south is what possum is to the brother in black. . ; The "Le'gion committee1 will wantl just 60 pigs, no more, no less, ana they expect, those. 50 pigs to be donated for the occasion. Dr. Alexander has donated the first one and will receive donations from others, or Sam Lee will receive them. The committee aims to tell . the world through the papers the names of the. - donors, for they are to be honored not only for WOULDN'T HEAR HIS WIFE'S PLEADINGS SO NOW HE'S DEAD "Oh! my God, if I had only, listen ed to you, I would not have been in the fix I am in tonight. It is too late now. . You begged me and pleaded i with me to Stop going up there to that place, but I wouldn't listen to you and now I'm going to die." , kAATi li fhaoA a sin Vila lirta Vlto life-blood pouring from a gun shot wound in his abdomen, Elisha B. Goodwin breathed his ' last in the arms of 'his wife at their little home in Hertford, Tuesday morning at three o'cl6ck, says the Elizabeth City Independent. As the stricken man's lips and eyes closed when his strength ebbed out with the new flow of blood that fast emptied his arteries, Herbert chap pell) 19-year-old country boy whom the dying man accused of firing the fatal shot, fell in a faint near the doorway of the Goodwin home and did not revive until Sheriff W. D. Wright took him in custody to place him in a cell in the Perquimans County jail. Thus ended a final chapter in the story of the life of a man who as many another, brings trouble and misery on his family in the following of evil companions and the liquor ma lady, which ' today seems growing in proportion to conditions a year or. two ago even. Before Elisha 1 Goodwin breathed his last he reiterated to his wife, the statement he had made shortly be fore ' that Chappell had shot him on the lonely Chinquapin road near the pimple point schoolhouse, Some 12 miles from Hertford. The grief stricken wife, 'who had been wait ing up that night for the return of her erring husband who had been a way all the .day before with his two small children, looked into the eyes of the ' Chappell boy and sobbed: "Herbert, did you shoot 'Lisha?" "No Ellen, I didn't shoot 'Lisha, and I don't know who did," the boy replied, and this is the story to which he stuck when interviewed in the Perquimans County jail Wednesday morning. Young Chappell stuck to his story, altho he had not retained any lawyer to tell him what to say. Chappell's obstinate denial that he shot Goodwin is giving the episode an air of mystery to many people in Hertford, even in the face of the ac cusation of the' dying man and the testimony of two witness who swore they saw him fire the fatal shot about ten o'clock Monday Tiin-ht, when Good win took part in a deference, ensuing between the Chappell boy and his young 18-year-old wife. Witnesses testify that the Chappell boy in a drunken fit, wfts trying to frighten his wife from the car he wis dr'vinsr. and Goodwin, who was t'.j ...c!a' of wife and little children, and h:s hands clutched the sterring wheel long enough to turn the car to the left, and his foot slipped from the gas feed.The car turned from the road and stopped against a small clay root, and its owner was dead. The car turn ing from the road probably prevented its rolling back down grade with dis astrous results. " Mrs. Tarlton, and the children, hor rified at the terrible thing that had overtaken them, called for help as soon: as possible from a nearby house, and the body was taken home. 'Mr. Tarlton was the son of Mr. Raymond Tarlton of New Salem. He saw service in France. He was about 27 ' years old. : - The remains were buried Sun day at Pleasant Grove church, Rev. JaF, Mills' conducting funeral service. their patriotism in helping the soldier boys pull off a great occasion, but they will go down the annals of time as the persons who helped introduce barbecue in Union county. And when barbecue is once introduced here it will never die. Down ast where .they make barbecue all the year round there are men who make a speciality of raising pigs just for barbecue. They' have standing orders all the year round from the epicureans who know what is what in eating. Trie committee wants fifty pigs j none;' over one hundred pounds. The boys say that they are certain' as shooting that fifty pigs will be given them for this purpose a free barbe cue. In addition to this thev w'vll ask the good ladies to give them two hun dred and fifty pounds of butter. They will supply the' rest, including four hundred pounds of beef to make brunswick stew. They have engaged Mr. Crowell, the Sandy Ridge flier, to be here with his flying mahine and take up passengers that day. The flying field has not been selectedL(but' will beprovided in due time.5 "" ' ". ,v ' '"' It's 'been a long time since there was a real old time democratic free dinner for the multitude in Union county, but, praise the Lord, and the T . 1 j.l 1.1. . ijegion Doys ana we men wno are going to donate the- pigs one of them grand old time days is coming back, for "Them days is not gone; forever." young Maude Chappell, interceded in her behalf. It wa then that Herbert Chappell, who, had got out on the road, ordered the uncle of his wife to let him alone. "If you take another step, I will shoot you down," he said, and when Goodwin advanced he fired at him with a single-barrel shot gun from a distance of three or four yards.. "I had no reason to shoot Elisha Goodwin,"' says Herbert Chappell. "iHe and I were the best of friends. We had been good pals and it was he who set me up housekeeping and helped me to get my furniture." Pleads the ignorant country boy who bears the marks of a liquor addict, the marks of poverty' and seems to have had little culture or advantages. e Herbert Chappell, . the accused y outh.is the son of W. Richard Chappell of the Piney Woods sec tion above Belvidere. His mother is now in an insane asylum. The Chappell boy lived in an old house with his wife and 18-month-old baby, and tended a few acres with teams for which he traded his own labor with bis neighbors. ' Accused of Selling Liquor. Goodwin, the man from Hertford had been making frequent trips up in that section, and was suspected of handling liquor. His neighbors say he had done, no work ' for two years. In fact at the time of his death, he was under bond for his appearance to answer a charge of transporting and possessing liquor, at the October term of Federal court in Elizabeth City. He was appre hended on this charge about a month and a half ago by Deputy Marshal J. W .Wilcox and was able to put up his bond. He occupied a neatly kept and well-furnished home on Grubb street, in Hertford, with his attrac tive wife, and two young children, Martha, aged 13, and Gladys, aged nine. '. '. The Plea of a Troubled Wife Mrs. Goodwin says she had been pleading with her husband to stop going up in the Piney Woods sec tion, and that she was never at ease when he was away. She says she didn't want him to go with the crowd up there, and the inference is that he had been keeping the company of undesirable men and women. . She says her husband was a moderate drinker, but that he had only been "out of the way" but once recently and had promised her to never let it be the case again. For the past few weeks, she says he had not been go ing up in the country so often, but that he left home on Monday morn ing in his automobile, taking his tTt daughters with him, to pick cotton in the field of his brother-in-law who lives near the ' Pine Point school house. Goodwin was on his way home' Mon FINAL REHEARSAL FOR BACHELOR'S HONEYMOON The final rehearsal for "A Bache lor's Honeymoon," which I to bo given on the 4th and 5tn, vl:l be held tomorrow night. The following Is the cast: Miss Mary Stewart, the cantauker-1 ous old maid. , Harry Coble, the Irish feardner. i Miss -Louise Bender, the winsome maid. John Lee Austin, the bachelor. Prof. Culbertson, the deacon. Bright Hamilton, Mattie Header sou, Mary Hazel Long, Minnie ' Lee Selgler, Mary Douglas, Pat Benton, Lucy Lee, Lila Foy, Anna Potts Heath, ' Martha Bradley, Elizabeth Parsons,'. Sara Presson, Margaret Henderson, Mary Myers FaulKnar, Elizabeth Miller Caldwell, France Shute, Margaret Lee, Frances Green, Katherine Kyle Redfern, San Arh craft, Celeste Armfteld, Ellie Howard Hudson, Mary Browning, and Louise Anderson, form a big beauty chorus. : Musical Numbers , 1. Opening chorus. Medley of popular Bongs. 2. If They'd Only Move Ola Ire land Over Here. 1 3. Down to the Oil ftwiininiig Hole Raeford Laney, Dot Lee and chorus. 4. Character Sonii' "At Nig.it." 5. It's a girl like you t'lat keeps a fellow guessing. 6. Bamboo Bablss. , 7. Cairo Lane. 8.i I want a man. 9. Finale Let''i all bo j.;oo-l pals together. ; Pianist, Mrs. Ray Furtde;-burk. : Special music by orchestra. Dance specialty by little Miss Simpson. Death of Mi.' J.' j, Gathings f Mrs. Ada Williams Gathings, widow of Mr. J. J. Gathings, died at her home in Wingate last Saturday morn ing , at the age of 44 years. She had been sick with pellagra for many years, gradually growing worse and worse as the, disease went its us ual .course. She is survived by ., her two children, William, aged 18, and Mildred, aged 16, both of whom were devoted to their mother. For a long time the daughter has been the con stant companion of her mother and nursed her 'wlth.th. cax&and.ateadU nees. remarkable in one of her age...; The funeral was held at ten oclock Sunday morning by Rev. J.'E. Hoyle, pastor1 of the Meadow Branch church, of which Mrs. Gathings was a life long member. Mrs. Gathings .once lived in Monroe and has friends here who are pained at her death. During her long illness she bore it with forti tude. She must have been sick in an about twelve years. The following .brothers and sis ters survive the deceased: Mrs. J. W. Bivens, W. B. Williams, Mrs. J. B. Outen, Mr. J. Frank . Williams ' of Monroe, Mr. Jesse A. Williams - oi Waxhaw. Mrs. Will Sanders or Jonesboro, and Mr.. F. A. Williams, PREACHER BLOWS BRAINS OUT IN COURT ROOM Snarta. Ga.. SeDt. 27. The Han cock superior court was thrown into a state of panic last night about 9 o'clock when Rev. J. W. Brown, thir ty-five years old, a Baptist minister walked into the grand jury room and calmly blew his brains out with a revolver. Brown s wife was suing . him for divorce, and and the case was being heard by Judge Parks at a night session of the court. Judge Parks had just decreed that Brown's wife was entitled to a divorce and should receive alimony in the sum of $50 per month, and that Brown should be placed under bond as good faith in the performance oi tne court s order. After the sentence, he turned and asked Judge Parks "if he would not suspend the bond so that he could go on preaching and make tne money to pay the alimony." Judge Park told him "to let his lawyer do his talking." v At this juncture, he turned, and slapping Sheriff Jackson onthe back, walked into the grand jury room, where his suitcase was located and before any one thought of his inten tions, he had removed a revolver from same and had ended his life. For the past year, Mrs. Brown and several small children had lived here in SDarta while Brown attended Mer cer university in Macon, and -also preached at several country churches. His wife claimed that he had deserted her and left the children and her with out suDDort. which neighbors testify was true. Mrs. Brown is a sister of Rev. Z. M. Leverette, a prominent Barjist minister of Crawfordville, Ga., and had moved there recently - to make her home. Rev. Brown was a native of Walton county and his re mains will be taken there for inter ment . day nieht when he was shot. The shootinsr occurred at about 10 o'clock. Ernest T. Lamb, who lives near the scene, testified at the coroner's in quest as follows: - ' , Wanted His Wife's Kisses "I heard a gunshot and went out to the road and found Elisha Good win lying at the side .of the road vi.j "a gunshot wound in his side. He told me that Herbert Chappell had shot him and asked me to tell his wife to come and kiss him be fore he died, as he wau sure going to die." ' - v " . PARLEY DID NOT UKUFUKAD A T ALL Says the Report That He Had was breatly Exaggerated Old and New WaxKaw Waxhaw. Oct. i rtno a, i . . - vx.v MOb Week tn npura wont ii.uJ nr. rarley McNeely, the popular carrier u luuie two irom Waxhaw. hud dropped dead. Now, the patroiis of the mute like Pai-loir A i-V,.. tainly were sorry to hear the news. i. io leyonea mat some or them had even begun to gather flowers for the funeral. And thir surprised next morning to see him on his rmito with i tv u 1 ".. ure mail as USUBi. ne uegan 10 get tne news as he went the round unA umo .n -.j , 7"" niiic ourpriseu than anybody else to hear that he 7 uunearappea dead," as one of the COloreff rmtrnno nut it TCI ir.-i- rwam said when he heard a reDort mmu tie was dead, Mr. McNeely in formed his i friends that the report "was crroottr, i. j Ihe renort rminfo4 ii- old citizens of the story about old uncle Klllv V.rv a fo l -, . ' -""uuo i-iiarucier oi this section years a?o. VnnU BUly s sister had been sick for some time and was not expeeted to live. vi.B Bvenmg jate a neighbor who had been over rn)rl TTnz.li. t:ii 1. . had just been to see his sister and said that she would certainly die that nitrht. Thprp.wora n : nor automobiles in those days and " uuiituiv. do uncie umy ..v vc io iiiim xnat night to 20 to hi a ctovo ....kt - -- ..ui ran near the cemetery, he got up some hands and went out and began digging the grave. Then another neighbor came along and told TTWia Pin,, us-.: sister was not dead, but had taken a turn for the better and would prob -rv yjixie cmy lam down his SDarie onH eaiA "Tirii nn 1 . ... durned." 7" "c"' 111 08 The Rodman and. Heath cotton mill, now under the supervision of Miss Pearl Rodman, is being over hauled from top to bottom: The. new supenntendfnt is Mr. T. W. Harvev who was once superintendent of tlie Old mi I in Mnnrx. AT .. ... . c. i,ow uuuers are t '"tk Put S and very worn part m ii """-UUKiy oemg replaced. MI. Harvev cvnuf. k-,. it. ....-n ,i rw vu nave H1B inujl in 100 per cent condition and hontm a !i OT aoour xmrty days. ternoon romarl-pri k .. . ... Saturday afternoon in Waxhaw is not what a Saturday used to be. The most significant thing is the lack of color ed people on the st.root Tki. i-j - - ; . v. 1COU ' to the fnauirv nn tn ynm of the colored people have left this section. All this count Once a cotton ennntrv an4 fV.. were many negroes. From the Mar vui aim weaoington sections above on down to South Carolina-a large portion of the colored population has departed. All over this country . the farmers are complaining about the lack, of help, especially cottoii pick- .There is another way in which VVaxhaw has changed. That is the Character of th morpriantila kiiol. ness done there. It used to be that practically all the business was time supplies, nay oacK mere A. vv.. Heath ITld .11. Pnrlmon AiA 1m.' v. M. .WU...M.l UIU 1111- mense business of this kind. t They brought in corn and bacon fev the hundreds of car loads during the year. On their books were hundreds of accounts that were not settled from year to year. The cotton that was maoe was applied on account and often an account for the next year was begun by the time that cotton picking was over. , Both of these men of course ownnH mimh land and ' furnished their own tenants' but thev furnished nracti. cally the whole country besides. Sometimes the losses were heavy, These two men though rivals in busi ness were good friends and had a respect for each other. In the year 1901, the wet year, when all the crops were nearly a total failure, uiKiiy . ouupiy uuuses ail over mo south went to the wall. Messrs. Rod man anH TTaath an nrall aa tka . nthai merchants in Waxhaw who had be gun doing a time business, were bard hit Nobody paid any bills, there was nothing to pay with. The question was what to do about it, especially ItUVUV i UUlllllg U1U VUOWHICI n UV HAU fallen by the wayside. One day Mr. Rodman met Mr. Heath on the street and said, "Allen, what are we going to do about it?" "Pocket the loss and go on, I rec kon," said Mr. Heath. And that was all that was necessary to determine tne matter, iney went on and sup plied their customers next year. I T . ' .1. . . .1.1 1 . .1 . now, mere is comparatively uttie Hitm hnninpaa rinna in Wurhnv. A fpw accounts are carried but they are small and are paid up promptly. Lit tle corn and bacon are shipped in. Mr. W. R. Steele told the writer that where the merchants then bought ba con by the car load they now buy it oy tne iew nunureo pounds, waxnaw is doing about the same kind of busi ness that other towns of its size do. People who years ago saw little cash and never handled a check, have mon ey in the bank and pay it with checks. So much so that Mr. J. A. Williams at the bank says that they are about to make him run an all night and all day bank. Miss Walaska Blythe, daughter of Mr and Mrs. W. M. Blythe of Wax haw entered the Carolina Tenehers' Training School last week at Green villfl. : ::...'
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