THE MEBANE
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BECAUSE RIGHT IS RIGHT wife DARE DO IT.
MEBANE. N. Cm THUBSDAT. MAT
1911
Mebanes^ Municepal
Hurdle Mill Rfd.
Election.
NO. 12
personal and local briefs
people WHO COME AND GO
Items of interest Pathered by
Our RepOkte**.
^Ir. Ttlenn Micheal, a former resident
of Mebane spent Sunday here.
q Bettie and Lucy Burch, visited
'uni3ay.
,f I'homasville spent
•r visiting hi parents and
Likes Much of Being Set
tled.
Monday it was rumered that Dias
would resign, and peace in Mexico was
assured, Tuesday fightinor is resumed
and several Americans across the bor
der are killed. Wednesday may be an
other change, biit it is quite certain
that the Mexican question likes much
of being settled.
V'anderventer, wife i
cniia tett last week for Washington,
D C. AJr- Vanderventer, will locate
at HiatesVille, near Washington.
When we get free wool, and permit
a high tariff on manufactured cloth,
and exagerated prices, we will be much
better off, wont we? but how?
Mr. A. M. Cook of Mebane and Mr.
W. A Boland of Corbett, left Tuesday
morning for Winston, to attend an
annual session of the Grand Lodge of
Odd Fellows.
The Leader wants news, and those
interested in giving to Mebane a bright
newsy paper will remember to tell us
what happens that they know of.
Mr. C. C. Carter, of Whitsett,
purchased of Mr. W. A. Murrv and
Mr S. G. Morgan, a valuable farm
Soutl- of Mebane a few days past. We
are glad to welcome Mr. Carter to our
midst.
Dr Murray, was called home to
Graham, therefore Rev. F M. Hawley
will not go to Graham to hold services
as previouly announced, but will preach
at his home church in Mebane Sunday.
That the trial of the men charced
with complicity in the destruction with
dynamite of the Los Angels Times will
cost approximately^ $2,000,000 is the
statement made by attaches at the
; .’fstrict attomy’s office at Los Angeles,
orw««cr I '^"ch side, it is pointed out,
j T ; ready to spend unlimited sums
‘ in tse ,>r«>secution and defense of the
o 'oNamaras and McManigal. The
court tosts will run up in the thou
sands of dollars expended in bringing
witnesses and evidence and in other
nicessary expenses.
or
The Death* of Mr. James
A Cheek.
Died in Greensboro,last Tuesday even
ing May 2 Mr. James V. Cheek, in the
69 year of his age. Mr. Cheek had been
in bad health for some time. He went
to Greensboro two weeks ago to enter
St, Leo’s hospital for treatment, but
before he could be carried there he
“The Dcacon’
Last Friday night in the ^r«ded
School Hall, a very interesting a|i4
tertaining drama, “The Deacon” wa*
played to a large and appreciative iu-
dience. This play consisted of twlve
character thoroughly and profideiiily
trained by Mrs. E. A. C?»wb*d.'
These amatures wetie qqite skillful
elfect.
All those who were fortunate en^h
to be numJaered among the ape^tor8
were glad of the opportunity of wit
nessing this play and many were tlie
expressions of delight and enjoyO^iA.
Two May Yet Escape
Death In State’s Elect
ric Chair
Charles Murphey, the Yancey county
man who is sentenced to be electrocuted
J une 30, will hardly die on that date.
His attorneys,took an appeal to the
Supreme court and this appeal is not
to be argued at this term of court,
hence it will not come up for another
six months. Murphey is now in the
penitentiary, where he will remain
until his case is disposed of.
The case of state against Holley, the
Wilmington man who was convicted of
murder and arson, is to be argued at
this term of the Supreme court, coming
up at the conclusion ot the cases from
the 16th district. Holley was convicted
of poisoning a child and setting tire to
a hotel to conceal his crime. He was
sentenced to be electrocuted.
became too sick to be removed IPortraying the feelings and en^ons
from his son’s rooms. The direct cause necessary in representing the different
of his death was pleurisy.
Mr. Cheek was one cf the leading
citizens of Orange county, which three
times during his life he represented in
the st^te legislature. He was a veteran
of the Civil war, and experienced
service in the First North Carolina
regiment.
He is survived by his widow, two
sons, A. S. Cheek, of Hillsboro, and
J. C. Cheek, of Greensboro, one daugh
ter Mrs. H. P. Hackney, of Oklahoma
City; and a brother Mr. T. M. Cheek,
of Mebare.
The remains were carried to Hillsboro
Wednesday morning, the funeral took
place that afternoon at 4 o’clock from
the Presbyterian church, conducted
by the Rev. H. S. Bradshaw.
Several of Mebanes citizens went
down to Hillsboro to attdnd the funeral
including a number of his relatives.
The following is the official vote of
thet(mn of Mebcne in last Tuesday
weeks election.
We the poll holders for the town of
Mebane do hereby certify that an
Section was held on the day and place
fixed by law within said town for
Mayor and a board of five alderman
and that the number of votes herin-
Quite a large crowd from around
here attended the exercises at Sartins.
Little Misses Heelon and Letty
McDade, spent last week with their
aunt Mrs. Scott.
Misses Vesta Bruze and Carrie Parte-
field, went to Rougemont, week before
last visiting relatives.
There will be no services at Little
Build A Better Road.
characters and producing the proper specified, oposit the name of each River Sunday.
Texas’ Great Cotton Crop
Last year Texas produced in nuxid
numbers 3,000,000 bales of cotton, one-
third of the entire output of the cottOA
belt of Che nation. This year the cotton
farmers are predicting a $,000,000-bale
crop in Texas. This prediction is based
upon three conditions: increased area
devoted to cotton, better farming as a
result of the work of the agricultural
schools in the state and of the constant
suggestions made by those who have
produced the greatest &cre results and
the most seasonable conditions for a
period of ten years.
was given for such persons as Mayor
and board of Alderman the town of
Mebane nomely for. Mayor J. T. Shaw,
41 votes.
For Alderman;
W. W. Corbett, 41
W. Y. Malooe, 41
A. M. Cook, 38
C. R. Grant, 38
E. W. Wilkinson, 30
D. A. White, 6
A. B. Pitch, 3
Sworn to before me
of May 1911,
H, A. Bason, Register.
W. O, Warren, Poll holders
B. I?’. Warren,
The five highest were elected as a
board of alderman for the next two
years.
21 TRUE BILLS
this the
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3 day
Master Sam Dunn, spent last week
with his aunt Mrs. Scott.
Quite a large crowd attended church
at W alnut Grove ^Sunday.
Little Miss Beatrice Bruze, is visiting
I her sister Mrs. Talar, near Schley.
Miss Velma Breeze, and brother were
the guest 6f Misses Maud and Annie
Breeze Sunday.
Miss Eva Scott, spent last week with
her cousin in Hillsboro Miss Bera Dunn
One R. L. Davis, of Wilson, some
time past issued a manifesto, asking
the people to elect temperance people
who would enforce the prohibition law.
Davis keeps on talking, but he never
tells any one anything new, its his
same old speil with a view of holding
on to his job.
Professor Collins of the Bijou has
always something attractive for those
who visit his popular place of enter
tainment. When you are in Greensboro
in the after-noon or night drop around,
you will be sure to get your moneys
worth and more. He never fails to please
There is an amendment of the con
stitution pending before congress
changing the date of the presidential
inauguration from March the 4th to
the last Thursday in April, and chang
ing the date of holding the national
election from the first Tuesday in
November to the first Tuesday in
April.
The Wise Merchant
The wise merchant who wants to
reap his portion of the trade from
North eastern, Alamance, Orange and
Caswell counties should stay with the
Leader in a well displayed advertis-
ment. Our subscription list has been
vastly increased, and we now cover
this section thoroughly.
The Thursday After-noon
Club
Had as joint hostess Miss Edna
Lineberry and Miss Lula Holmes, at
the residence of Mrs. S. G. Morgan.
This meeting was quite an interesting
enjoyable one. The meeting was
called to order by the President Miss
Mebane and after necessary business
was transacted and an hour Hnpnh in
embroidering, two very exciting
contests were introduced. Then a dainty
ice course was served.
The Club enjoyed having as • guests
Mrs. S. G. Morgan and Mr?. E. A.
Crawford, The members present were.
Mrs. Arthur White, Miss Mary Ed
Scott, Mrs. Walter Malone, Miss
Jennie Lasley, Mrs. F. M Hawley,
Miss Della Fowler, Mrs. L. S.
Straughn, Miss Lenorah Harris, Miss
Alice Fowler, Miss Fanny Mebane and
Miss Lillie Fowler.
The Club will have its next meeting
with Miss Leonorah Harris, May 12,1911
The matter of building a better road
trom that point where the macadam
roads ends north of Mebane near
Cross Roads church is in our estima
tion a vital matter, and one that it
seems is not given tne attention it de
serves. Mebane has one tobacco
warehouse and so far has met with en-
couragment in the support of her to
bacco market, in fact our people are
contemplating building an other one.
If we want the tobacco farmers to haul
their tobacco to Mebane we must do
what we can to give them roads that
are reasoni»,bly good to travel on. The
roads a short distance this side of
Cross Roads church, and a short dis
tance beyond the church are in a des
perate condition during damp winter
weather, almost imposable in some
places. These roads should be put
in better condition and kept in better
condition. Wo v/ant these farmers to
come to our tobacco market, and we
want them to trade with our mer
chants, and we must do what we can
to make it convenient to reach us. It
IS a oig uuamcao
from that section, it bringing in tob
acco , buying goods, and hauling out
fertilizer.
The friends of that section of the
country will get a hustle on them to
help.
BINGHAM SCHOOL NEAR
MEBANE, N. C.
Commencement Exercises
New
A Good Report.
Elswhere in this issue will be found
an official report of the receipts and
disbursements of the town of Mebane.
This seems to be quite a creditable re
port. The present city officials went into
■ ^ 1 office with $12.00 in the town treasury.
Will be Glad lo Hear fromj Their terms ended with more than
eight hundred dollars in the treasury,
with twelve hundred dollars in taxes
yet to be collected
In adition to the $15,000 to be ex
pended on street and sidewalk improve
ments, there will be about " "
You
The Leader will be glad to publish
brief communications, relating to any
matter of public concern from any of
our readers. You ^n express your
opinion, or ask for information. In all
cases besure to sign your name, we will
not publish your name unless requested
to do 80, we only ask that you avoid
personalities, as we cannot give space
for any such indulgence.
Orleans Celebration
In 1913.
A national celebration in 1913 tc
commemorate the opening of the
Panama canal will be styled “United
Americas 1913 and celebrated at New
Orleans. The Southern Commercial
Congress, has dfcided this. The event
will be styled, “United Americas 1913
celebration,” and will include pageants,
conventions, snd excursions to the
Panama 'canal.
This is as it should be. If a high
price lobby paid for by the combined
trans-continental railroad interest could
defeat a nations wishes in regard to
this celebration then let New Orleans
throtigh the aid of the Southern States
have a celebration of her own and
invite the world. It will ba supported.
Athletic Contest, Prize Debate, etc
Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, May
14,16, 17, 1911.
Debate on election of United States
Senators.
PROGRAM.
Sunday, May 14th, 8 p. m. Baccalaure
ate Sermon at Methodist Episcopal
Church. Rev. Daniel Albzigfat lAHig.
D. D.
Tuesday May 16th, 8 a. m. Guard Mount
10 a m. Setting up Exercises and
Butt's Manual
Music by Bingham Military Band.
4 p. ro. Competitive Military DrilL
8 p. m. Graduating Exercises. Award
ing of Diplomas, Scholarships, Prizes
and Medals.
Music by Bingham Orchestra and Band.
Wednesday, May 17th> 9 a. n. Gu«rd
10 a. m. Morning Parade
3:30 p. m. Field Day. Contest for
Athletic Prizes.
Music by Bingham Military Band.
8. p. m. Final Society Contest for Ora
tor’s, Declaimer’s and Debater’B
Medals.
Music by the Bingham Military Band
and Orchestra.
Grand Jury Acts Against
Alleged Dynamiters.
Twenty-one new indictments, accor
ding to good authority, were voted
late Thursday 4th by the grand jury
against the accused dynamite conspira
tors, James B. and John J. McNamara
and Ortie E. McManigal, at Los
Angeles, Cal.
Ninetc^en of the indictments, it is
said, are against the McNamaras alone
and charge them with murder in
connection with the blowing up of the
Los Angeles Times newspaper plant on
October 1. and the consequent deaths
of 21 men. The other two are said to
be against McManigal as principal and
the McNamara brothers as accomplices
in the Llewellyn Iron works explosion
on Christmas day, in which no one was
killed.
The inquisitors completed their work
at dusk and the true bills ordered will
not be filed in court until Friday. The
prisoners will be arrainged Friday
will hp BPt
Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Wnght, visited
at Mr. A. F. Breezes Sunday.
I think all who haven’t had the
measels and whooping cough, have it
now.
Miss Lessie Webster, was the guest
of Misses May and Hortense Parker
Sunday bet she had a nice time
especially that after-noon.
Misses Lottie and Jollie Pope, spent
Saturday night and Sunday with Miss
Hatty Lee McDade.
I will ring off for this time, best
v/ishes for the Leader.
“Jay Bird”
Mebane Rfd Wo 1
Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Graves, were
pleasant callers Sunday evening at H.
M. Mosers.
The Sale of Legislatures.
There are probably some Legislatures
chat are not for sale. We are sure
there have been many in the past that
have not been for sale, for it is a
comparatively new thing for the law
making bodies of the States to be
bought and sold like merchandise, but
there are recent Legislatures that have
been put on the market.
The developments in bribery scandals
in several States are such stunning
sensations that people wonder what
evil influences haye contrived to bring
about such a state of affairs.
Three States are now in the limelight
because of their legislative scandals-
namely, Illinois, Ohio and Florida.
A bribery investigation is now going
on in the Florida L^islature, and
everybody suspected of beii^ at the
capital in the interest of any measure
IS to be summoned to testify before
the investigating committee, and
whatever may be the findings of the
committee, it is believed the Legis
lature will enact an anti-lobbying law
of a drastic character.
The Illinois Legislature, by its bribery
scandals, has become notorious. Ohio
liqa become a rival of Illinois in the
open traffic of legislators.
The developments in Ohio have shown
an alarming State of affairs, the inves
tigation having progressed to the point
where members of the Legislature are
being indicted by the grand jury for
solicting bribes. Three Senators and
two Representatives and the Sergeant-
at-Arms of the Senate, as a go between
have been indicted.—Nashville Ten
nessean.
We do not know what would be the
result in North Carolina if there was
sharper drawn lines in politics. There
is 'One thing quite sure the recent
legislature did not want to handy cap
the lobbist.
Misses Bettie and Annie Cole, spent
Sunday with their father John Cole.
FIRE OESTROYS BIG
WAREHOUSE
Loss $25,000
two thous
and dollars in taxes collected toad to
the fund for expenditure.
The Reason Why
Lawyers [stand up in court houses
before jurors, in the presence of large
audiences, and denounce men
as liar.**.
The present board of Alderman will gpoundrels, thieves and perjured vil
“The fellow that cusses a newspaper
most is generally the same fellow that
gets behind with his sjbscription,
says the Mt Airy Leader. Which
causes the Salisbury Post to remark.
“And it is the truth. The subscriber
that always pays the cash in advance
for his paper is the one from whom the
paper always gets the most praise.”
being
have greater responsabilities than any
previous board that ever served the
town. It i^» the disbursement of $15,-
000 for street, and sidewalk improve
ment.
When the bond issue was
agitated, the primary object
then understood it was first
a macadam road through the town, con
necting the two macadam roads. North
and South of Mebane, and then to con
struct and improve such sidewalks
would best serve the towns interest
lains,and when court adjourned the men
appear to harbor no ill will against
them. But let a newspaper faintly in
timate that a man’s character is blem
ished, and he has to confront a boss
pistol, stand a libel suit or suffer
There is a young man in Durham
who hangs around the Union depot at
train time that might be mistaken for
a reporter on the Bungtown Bugle,
but they say he is not. Some seems to
think he owns the Durham Sun, the
Durham Bull or may be Durham. His
hat band is apparently under great
stress.
The Closing of the
ed School
The closing exercises of the Mebane
Graded Sohool were well attended, and
the scholars taking part acquited them
selves with much credit.
The entertainment given with a view
of raising money was quite a success
more than $57 was realized which we
learn will be used to purchase a piano.
The Leader published in its last week
issue the programne for the exercises
Master Mason Mebane won the Step
hen A White medal, and Mias Bertha
Wilson won the Thomas M. Cheek me
dal. Miss Wilson is a daughter of Mr.
H, A. Wilson.
Nortolk-Southern Stock-
holders Hold JVleeting
The stockholders of the Norfolk-
Southern Railroad in annual meeting
last Monday in New York voted to
join with the Norfolk & Western and
Virginia Railways in guaranteeing not
! to exceed $2,000,000 in bonds of the
Grad“ { Norfolk terminal railway for the
erection of the proposed new union
depot there and elected the following
directors, for the ensuing year,
Frederick Bull, T. L. Chadboum, Jr ,
Geo. C. Clark, R. R- Colgate, E. C.
Duncan, C. E. Foy, Rathbone Gradner:
George J. Gould, John Y. Waterbury,
Oakleigh Thorn, S. L. Schoonmaker,
Frank A. Sayles, Marsden J.
S. M. Nelson, Fredrick Hoflf, E. T.
Lamb and Caldwell Hasty.
(It will be noted with interest that
among the above directors are two
prominent North Carolinans, Mr C.
Foy of New Bern and Mr. E. C.
Duncan of Raleigh. Editor.)-New
1 Bern Journal.
what
I the people thmk to be the greatest of
to build I mortifications-lose a subscriber.-
Reidsvilie Review.
This is largely because a man knows
that when a newspaper makes a state
ment, people usualy believe it, but
when a lawyer says something to a
witness they attach no importance to
it because they Krow it is said tor
I effect.
as
Our Correspondence Fam-
ily
The Leader has a little family of
correspondence that are quite Interest
ing. Now there is “Brown Eyes” a
dainty little Miss of so many summers,
a bright vivacious little beauty, charm
ing and piquant, and there is little Miss
“Touch me not” a cute little creature
full of Ufa and joy. She likes fun, but
does not wont the boys to get too close
to her, she says touch me not, and ste
means it, and then there is Billie,
Billie is a nice clever fellow, he is fond
of the girls, but he is always ready to
do what he can for his sister’s pleasure
and there is Miss Hobble Skirt, a re
gular society queen, and the boys know
it, and bow abjectly to her scepter,
and then there is Misa Blue Eye, a
dainty little demur maiden, who moves
around with the soft affect of a float
ing fleecy cloud. She has a gentle hand
for binding up the wounds of heart or
hand, and then there is “Red Eye” the
boy that chases the cats, and gallops
after the calves in the pasture, but al
ways ready to do a turn for his sister,
or motherr. and then there is . J*a-pa-
queze, a refined, gentle lady, of cul
ture, who has her eyes open to what
is happening in her town, and can tell
it in an intelligent way. The Leader
wants to ad to its family of correspond-
ets, and hopes soon to have a large
happy list'of them, and then the-e is
Jay Bird a saucy little Miss who every
one like#, and the boys loye, because
she is a sweet gentle little creature
Fire in the storage warehouse of the
Carolina Bagging and Tie Company at
Henderson, late Wednesday night
consumed moie than $25,000 worth of
goods before it was finally extinguished
by the heroic efforts of the fire company.
The loss is largely covered by insurance.
The origin of the fire is unknown.
The building is made of sheet iron,
and this precludes the possibility of
an incendiary or outside origin. The
building was stored with 21,000 rolls
of bagging, and the entire contents
are an almost total loss.
The Carolina Bagging and Tie com
pany is one of the largest manufac
tures of cotton bagging and ties in the
south. The plant was enlarged
recently and a quantity of new ma
chinery was installed. The fire Wed-
j nesday night was the second that the
company has suffered during the past
three years^^
Messrs. W. M. Mann and James
Johnston, attended the commencement
Tuesday at Mandale.
Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Tyson, daughter
and son spent Saturday night and Sun
day at J. S. Gibsons, Mr. Tyson
returned Sunday Mrs. Tyson will
remain over a few days.
Mrs, Pauline McAdams, died Monday
at 4 P. M. age 76. She leaves two
sifltprs f.wn rlanorm;oTa fnnf art-no i-n
Wonder who will argue that leaves
got their growth by the 10, of May
this year.
Would like to see the scraper on some
of our roads as now is the time, don’t
wait till fall.
Mr. J. A. Baynes, of Houston, Va.,
spent a few days the latter part of
last week with his sister Mrs. H. D.
Scarboro,
Mr. H. D, Scarboro, returned Mon
day from Pittsboro where he spent a
few days visiting relatives.
Miss Lizzie Clegg, of ikloncure, is
yisiting her aunt Mrs. H. D. Scarboro.
Erastus was a welcome visitor on No
4 Saturday night returned a while
before day Sunday A. M.
The Peril and Its Expla-
nation
The shooting down of a man and a
woman when they were engaged in
the work of earning their living in a
l^itimate manner in the city of Co
lumbia, the capital of South Carolina,
may not be the most monsteous crime
ever committed in South Carolina—
there have been numbers of other in
famous crimes committed in South
Carolina--but it may be worth giving
pause to the mtelligent and upright
who is trying to maintain his home
and support his family and meet his
obligations to God and fellow-men,
pause to reflect that he is living under
conditions that expose him to precisely
the same peril. Any man and any
woman in South Carolina may meet the
fate of these poor people who conducted
the restaurant in Taylor street to
morrow or the next day-and yet these
conditions may be corrected. In England
less than four persons in one million
murdered in each year, and in
Massachusetts the number, we believe,
is about a dozen to the million. In
South Carolina about one hundred to
the million, if the number is not greater
are murdered every year.—Columbia
State.
Five
Hundred Thousand
Dollars
REPORT
Financial Report of The
Town of Mebane Ending
May 3-1911.
RECEIPrS:
Balance from old Board . . . $12.99
Receiv*d Town Taxes & Licenses . .
$2,317.53
$2,330.52
“There is no longer any wool over
the people’s eyes as to schedule
thinks the Chattanooga Times. We
are not sure about that. Millions of
the people have been as sheep for so
long they rather seem to take the
“wooling” process as the decree cf
fate But there should be no wool over
the eyes of the people’s representatives
in Congress. They see. The only fear
is that the wool interests which can
not blind them will succeed in applying
gags.
Lost
Lost a pocket book containing fifty
three dollars, (one $20, bill and 3 $10,
bill a,) The finder will be liberally
rewarded by leaving the same at the
Leader Office.
to fir.d
It is a penitentiary crime —
and not try to ascertain who g^oufly studied and corrected.
Herman Rider, a great editor bef^
the newspaper Publishers Associaticn
in New York recently, said:
“The labor unions are destroying
incentive for efficient labor. They seem
to be arrayed against promotion or the
culling out of competents from incom
petents. They bring every member to
a dead level of pay but not of efficiency
and that level is uaually below that of
the most inferior workman in the shop.
They are against bonuses. Many
lalxsr unions deliberate* plan to curtail
output under the mistaken idea that
they are increasing employment. It
is notorious that many workmen tarn
out just as little as they can safely do.
Underworking* or ‘soldiering’ i»
almost universal. It is more than a
national evil, because it extends to
other countries The conditions which
permit it are mtolerable and should b«
DISBURSEMENTS;
Saleries $25.00
Police Duty & Fire-arms . . $29.29
Commissions to Tax Collector . $115,99
Bond Election & Sale Expenses $280,82
Stationary Postage Printing-
— and Charity $36.30
I*aid Bills of old Board . . . $121.35
Labor and Material on Streets
and Side-walks . .
Ballance in Bank . . .
$888,70
$833,10
The most recent report is that the
heads of the different labor organizations
of this country are trying to raise a
half a million dollars, to release the
McNamarys from the clutches of the
law. Not for their defence, not to prove
their innocense, but guilty or innocent
to release them from the penalties
incurred by reason of the crimes they
have committed.
This case will prove a battle royal
between law, and order, between
organized society and a just r^ard
for others rights; and ana^hy, in
trigue, conspiracy,against a saturnalia
of fire, and blood, of riot and ruin, led
I by a lot of loud mouthed, lazy embroilers
I who fatten, and batten upon the hell
they can_raise among the laboring class.
No one who has ever taken the
pains to read what we have written
in defense of labor, against the cruel
impositions from which it has too often
suffered will doubt our sincere and
abiding friendship for the man of toil,
but we have a loathing contempt for
the fellow, that aids or encourages
lawlessnes as a remedy for his wrongs,
or seeks v^nction in the fatuity, that
labor leaders can not sin. away with
such a blundering paradox, andabsurdty
Uncollected Taxes
for year 1910 .
J. T- Shaw, J.
Mayor. ' Sec.
B. & L. Advantages
It there is one line of endeavor which
may be ^advertised in editorial space
without doing violence to newspaper
ethics—and any worthy line may, we
believe-it is the building and loan
association. The Greenville Reflector
pronounces the association in that town
one of its especial pets and gives it
unquaUfied approval, going so far as to
urge the attention of its readers to a
new series to be opened this week.
Charlotte itself is one of the best recom
mendations a conservatively conducted
association could desire. It would take
a great deal of space to begin the story
of what this particular development
has meant locally, and there is no
reason why a similar enterprise should
not do quite as much in proportion for
Greenville. One of the curses of the
day is the habit of financial improvi
dence which is so easily formed by
otherwise irreproachable young men
and which carries such large possibilties
of misery in its train. The association
which fosters a spirit of thrift among
the most energetic members of a
community is of value almost ines
timable to that community.-Charlotte
Observer.
$2,330,52
. $1,200,00
Edwin White,
and Treasury.
money
the owner is
The annual aeport of the Police De
partment of Raleigh through the police
commission, just made public, shows
that there were *577 arrest in Raleigh
for drunkenness during the past year,
580 during the previous year and 268
during 1908-9. There was expended
last year |19,3000 for maintenance of
the department. The total arrests for
the year w^re 1,807 and of these 1,5382
were convicted.—Raleigh Times.
If You Do, and If You
Don’t
Philadelphia Record.
Experiments with high explosives on
the monitor Puritan, made, presumbly,
with official sanction, have resulted*in
one courtmartial of the captain who
did the job and may result in another.
It is rather singular method of pro
ceeding with a naval officer to command
him to try to sink a ship by exploding
nitro-glycerine and dynamite com
pounds against her hull and then to
punish him for being too successful.
Burgrahaw Trolley Line to
Operate By 4th of July.
Burlington is rejoicing over the fact
that she is so soon to realize the
fulfillment of her fondest dreams in the
immediate completion of the Burgra
haw street car line.
The contracts have all been signed,
and work will begin at an early date.
It is expected that cars will be running
from Burlington to Haw River by July
4. The name for the car line was sug
gested by abbreviating the names of
Burlington. Graham and Haw River.
J. W. Murray has been the chief pro
moter of this enterprise, and by his
indomitable energy has succeeded m
interesting northern capitaliste m this
great work, and to him the town a^
whole surrounding county is deeply in
debted.