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MEBANE, N. Cm THURSDAY. JANUARY 2 1913
PERSONAL AND LOCAL BR EFS
PEOPLE W BO COME AND GO
terns of interest Gathered by
Dur ReDO^'ter
Mr. J. W. Hudson is quHe ill at his
home i/i Me bane.
Mr. Earl Shaw spent one day last
week in DurhRir.
Miss Virpfinia Clark spent Saturday
night in Greensboro.
Mr. L G. Fjreoks spent several days
in Danville last week.
Mr. Wilber McFarland spent several
days in Tinisuoro lai.*t weei.
Miss Zora McCauley spent a few days
with her parents here last week
Mr. Jim Minis of Burlington spent
S inday witn Mr. Henry Smith.
Mr ar.d Mrs. J. W. Albright spent a'
few days last week in Greensboro. j
I
Mrs W. L. Buhman is visiting her
sister Mrs Elliott Pigford at Clint jr.
Mr, John Dean of Guilford College is j
visiting Mr and Mrs. Mose Wilkerson.
Mr. Walter Permile of Greensboio
)s visiting Mr. and Mrs. Mose Wilker
son.
Mr. U. b. Ray spent a few days last
week with his parents near Orange
Grove,
Mr. Jesse Tingen visited at Mr.
John VV. Basons near Haw R.ver
Friday.
Mose Wilkerson visited
and Guilford College |
Miss Alice McFarland who teaches
school at Ramseur, spent the Christ
mas holidays with her people here.
She returned io her «»chool Saturday.
Buster Brown has made some
excelent resolutious in Holmes Warren
and Co., ad. read them and see for
your self. Bus*'er tells you where to
trade.
The men working on the water tower
and tank of the Mebane Bedding Co
seem to understand their work. The
w.>rk is more or less perilous, yet they
go about it with seaming ease and
safety.
Don’t fail to read J. D. and L. B.
Whitted change of ad in this issue.
They are offering some remarkable
prices in neat seasonable goods. See
them at Burlington, N. C. ^
If you have had visitors at your home
Christmas times, and their names do
not appear among our personals, blame
only yourself. The Leader has a phone
and the trouble of communicating the
fact with us would have been small.
Mebane got through Christmas with
out any serious accident. If any one
got too much egg-no^ it does not ap-
p>ear on the recorder All seemed to
have had a pleasant time, but that
was the limit.
Mr. and Mrs.
at Greensboro
last week.
A^rs. L. T. Johnson v;sited her
fdther who is very ill near Swepson-
vihe Si.ni::ay.
Miss Rosa Warreii o*' Durham spent
a lew Gays last week with Miss Vir
ginia Clark.
M iss Julia Walker
spent Sta^urday with
A Reunion.
Mr. A. V. Craie and family have
been holding quite an interesting
reunion with Mrs. Craig during the
holidays. Miss Cappie who is a
stenographer returned to her work at
Asheville the 26, Miss Bessie went
baf^k to her teaching at Whitters the
28, Miss Emma who holds a responsible
position with Pearcal and Co., returned
to Wilmington the 30. John went back
to Durham the 31. Mr. Craig and
Herbert will return to Bingham
Asheville Jan. 6. Herbert is making
a fine record in school, daring the
year he has attamed a high grade in
his studies has attended every roll call
and won his sweater on the football
team
of Burlington
Mrs. E. W.
Wilker.'On.
Misscs Ora and Eula Holt spent
Thursday of last week with frienua in
Burling Lon.
Mr. Toni Sikes of Mebane and Mins
Fitch of Burlington was married one
day last week.
Messrs. Glenn Scott, Frank Warren
and Earl Shaw spent last Tuesday in
Burlington.
Mrs. Will Clayton and children spent
Christmas with her mother near
Yancey ville.
Miss Lilian Wilkerson came down
from Greensboro Monday to visit Mr,
L. G. Wilkerson.
Mr. P. H. Dinmidie of Durham will
succeed Mr. Buhman as manager of
the Mecca Drug Co.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bason of Haw
River spent last Thursday with Mr.
and Mrs. J. T. Shaw.
Master Albright Burch of Raleigh
visited his aunt Mrs. J. T. Shaw
during the holidays.
M.»". Will Bason came down from
Thomasville Saturday to attend the
funeral of Mrs. Mebane.
Miss Jaunita Bosher of Greensboro
and Miss Dixon of Snow Camp are
visitirg Miss Grace Amick.
Mrs. Martha Nicks of Burlington}
visited her sister Mrs. Henry Smith
during the holidays.
Mrs. R. W- Bright and granddaughter
Alma Ferrington #»re visiting relatives
in Chatham county.
Mr. Evert Clark spent several days
in Richmond the past week, the guest
of his brother, Curtis Clark.
Miss Etta Compton, who teaches
school near Burlington spent Christ
mas with her people in Mebane.
Thursday evening Book Club will
meet with Miss J. H. Lasley on Jan.
9th instead of Jan. 2nd, at 3 o'clock,
Mrs. A. P. Long and son Sam
returned from Person County where
they had been to spend Christmas
with friends.
Masters. Albright Burch and Lacy
Shaw went up t'» Graham Friday after
noon to visit their uncle Mr. J. D.
Albright.
Mrs. Lando Terrell and little daughter
M iud spent the holidays at Prospect
Hill with her parents Mr. and Mrs.
C. heek.
Mr. J. S. Shaw was called to Durham
one dav last week on account of the
seriou.-; sickness of his uncle Mr.
La^hi y.
Miss Lanette Swain and MissDitmore
will 1 five Thursday afternoon for the
State Normal at Greensboro after
spending the holidays here.
Mr. James Swain will leave this
week for the University of Va., after
5-p-nding the holidays at home with
hi.s parents Rev. and Mis. Swain.
Married in Greensboro.
Miss Callie Clark of Mebane was
married If b: Thursday night in Greens
boro to Mr. Alfred Sykes of Spencer.
They will make their future home in
Spencer.
A New Drug Store'
Mr. W. L. Buhman who has had
charge of the Mecca Drug Store as
general manager since its opening here
last spring, and who has made many
friends here will open up a Drug busi
ness here in the store now occupied
bv Mr. C. C. Smith. This building
was originaly erected for a Drug Store.
Mr. Buhman is a licensed druggist,
and with all is a very clever man, and
seems to have promises of success for
which the Leader joins m good wishes.
FINAL FIGHT ON THE BOOK
“TRUST”
Injunction is Asked Car=
rylng of Agreements Be
tween Publishers and
Booksellers.
PISTOL “TOTEBS"
Judge Eure of Greensboro
Fills Promise ot Road
^^entence.
Married in Mebane.
Miss Dora Dollar daughter of Mr.
John Dollar was united in the bonds of
ho y wedlock to Mr. Earl Bradley on
Sunday Dec. 22.
Gained Their Contention
North Carolina furniture nranufact-
urers won a victory of far-reaching
effect .Monday when the interstate
commerce commission handed down an
opinion in favor of North Carolina
manufacturers in the case against the
Virginia territory in which it was
claimed that the rate on furniture to
the Pacific coast was a discrimination
against the North Carolina manufact
urers in favor of Virginia furniture
dealers.
The Mebane Drug Co., tells you
something of their delicious ice cream.
See change of ad in this isKue.
He Wont Do
“Senator Kem, paid by the public to
perform a public service, who ought to
be in Washington now, attending to his
duties, instead of being here, has dared
to appear in this court and in total dis
regard for the law has appealed to the
prejudice and passions of the jury in
behalf of the wives and children of
these defendants. Who appealed in
behalf of the women and children who
were relatives of the twenty-one per
sons who p»erished in the Los Angles
Times office. And this fellow Kern
was the man that W. J. Bryan thought
ranked next to Wilson in point of
fitness for the Presidency of the
United States, at Baltimore.
THE FUNERAL OF MRS.
FANNIE MEBANE
Widow of Late Dr. Web-
ane and Mother of B.
Frank and Dr. George A.
Mebane, Died Saturday.
A number of relatives and friends
were at Mebane Sunday to attend the
funeral services o/er the body of Mrs.
Fannie Lavenia Mebane, widow of the
late Dr. B. Frank Mebane and mother
nf Dr. George A. and B. Frank Meb
ane of Spray and J. K. Mebane of
Graham. The funeral service was
conducted from the Presbyterian church
at Mebane Sundav afternoon and a
large concourse of r*-latives and friends
from every section of the state gathered
in this last tribute to the memory of a
noble woman. The service was con
ducted by the Rev. F. M. Hawley,
pastor of the Mebane Presbyterian
church; Dr. E. C. Murray, a former
pastor of the deceased, and Dr. W. L.
Poteat, president of Wake Forest col
lege. Interment was in the church
cemetery, the mound being banked
with the many elaborate and lovely
floral designs which came from every
section of the state, in mute but sweet
testimonial of love and esteem.
Mrs. Mebane was a woman of many
noble and lovable qualities, and wher
ever she was known she was admired
and esteemed for her gentle manner
and true womanhood. Though.she had
suffered at intervals for some time,
the illness which terminated with death
was not a lingering one, and it was
not until last Tuesday that her con
dition was believed to be serious.
During the latter days of the week
there was a noticeable weakening,
death occurring Saturday morning.
Mrs. Mebane at her death was in her
seyenty-third year.
Aside from her many community
works, church work, charities and rare
penonal charm, Mrs. Mebane was
knovrn generally, with her late and
lamented husband, as the head of one
of the state’s most excellent and best
known families. Surviving members
of the immediate family are five
children, two daughters end three
sons, three grandchildren and a host
of relatives, who occupy prominent
stations in every uhase of the state’s
life. The children are Mrs. W. B.
Scott, of Mebane; Mrs. H. W. Bason,
of Thomasville, and Dr. George A.
Mebane, of Spray; B. Frank Mebane,
of Spray, and J. K. Mebane, of
Graham. The grandchildren are Miss
Margie Scott, of Mebane; Banks Holt
Mebane and George Allen Mebane, of
Spray.
Judge Eure of Greensboro in muni-
j cipal court has issued what might well
I be termed a “manifesto” regarding
The final fight against th^ so-colled | carrying of concealed weapons. The
“book trust” opened in the Supreme ! stated that he believed most of
court of the United States last Friday ; homicides were due to the carry-
when a printed argument was filed
asking for an injunction against the
carrying of agreements between
publishers and booksellers alleged to
control the supyly anc sale of books.
The injunction is sought by R. H.
Macy and company, a .New York depart
ment store firm. Th^r^e aoxight to be
enjoined are the American Publishers
association, a New York corporation
said to be composed of publishers of
about 75 per cent of the books of the
country many of its members and the
American Booksellers associations, an
uhcorporated association said to be
composed of a large majority of all
the booksellers throughout the United
States.
The question has been in the New
York courts for years. These courts
finally held that the injunction should
be issued as to uncopyri'ht:d books
but not to copyrighted ones. The
question now presented to the Supreme
court is whether.the alleged agreements
as to copyrighted books are in violation
of the Sherman anti-trust law.
ing of concealed weapons and that
hereafter unless there were peculiar or
strong mitigating circumstances, he
would impose road sentences on de
fendants convicted in his court instead
of fines. The matter came to a climax
when a negro named Jack Thompson
was convicted of “pistol toting,” and
was sentenced to the roads for six
months. The negro prayed that a
fine instead be imposed and showed
that he was wounded during a “negro
festival” by his own gun, but Judge
Eure didn’t consider
strong argument and
Sijntenced to stand.
this sufficiently
allowed the road
Four Car Loads ot Tur
keys Given Away.
One of the biggest Christmas gifts
the past year in the state ^ as the
one presented by Ceasar Cone to the
three mill villages north of Greensboro
a gift costing nearly $2,500. This was
in the nature of a turkey dinner, the
> privileges of which is not denied a
I single member of these prosperous
villages of White Oak, Revolution and
Proximity.
On last Thursday before Christmas
each family in the villages, the total
being approximately 1,500 a handsome
turkey was presented to be prepared
in such style as the individual familir s
might desire*for Christmis. Not a
turkey, by special instiuction, was al
lowed to weigh under 10 pounds, and
many of them went as high as 25
pounds- The price paid was 15 cents
per pound.
The entire bunch of turkeys would
fill four box cars, and most of them
came from Guilford and surrounding
counties. One car load came from
Wilkes county
Hillsboro News
Mr. Wilber McFarland of Mebane
attended a wedding at Mr. and Mrs.
Jack Roach, Wednesday.
Mies Hester Burton of Durham visi
ted friends here last week.
Of Small Value
If the opinion of the press, taken as
a whole, may be regarded as reflect
ing the truth of the situation, that re
cent conference of governors at Rich
mond has not left any mark of value
behind it. If any very material con
structive measures were considered by
the conference they were almost or
entirely obscured by the sensational
out-burits of the blatherekite governor
of South Carolina. It has been said,
in defense if the conference itself,that
the Blease performance was unexpect-
I ed and beyond the control of the sane
I participants in the meeting. But the
j fact remains that, beyond a perfunc-
The Reason Why
The reason lexington has no better
police force than it has is that the
aldermen do not want any better force
They have had opportunity to secure
good men and they have turned them
them down.—Lexington Dispatch.
And we suppose that to be the rea
son some towns have no lights.
I tory disavowal of the sentiments of
Mr. Archie Strayhorn of Mebane j the South Carolina demagog, nothing
spent a day and night with his sister | was accomplished which is worthy of
M?ss Mable Strayhorn here last week • historical record. That being so the
Mttl*
with
and
Etiand Items
Miss Mabel Strain of Durham came
up Friday to visit Miss Alene Perry,
and accompanied her home to Orange
Grove to spend the holidays.
Mr. and Mr«^. Jack Price of Burling
ton spent the holidays with relatives
near Efland.
Miss Margarette Tapp is visiting her
Grandmother Mrs. A. Thompson In
Chatham.
Miss Mattie Stanford of Durham
spent the holidays with her parents Mr
and Mrs. A. M. Stanford near Efland.
Mr. W. E. Thompson was a visitor
in Durham during the holidays.
Mr. Willie Shary has returned from
an extended visit to his sister, Mrs.
H. E. Murphy in Lytttleton, N. C
Mr. Charles Merritt of Mebane was
a visitor in Efland during the holidays.
Mr. John L. Efland and bride
returned from their bridal trip Friday.
Miss May Forrest and Mr. A. Y.
Kelley was married at the home of
her brother Mr. Coll Forrest Dec. 23th
and left on the evening train on their
bridal tour, many good wishes follow
them.
Mr. Harry Fitzpatrick of the D. W.
Railway spent part of the holidays at
home with his parents Mr. and Mrs.
T. R. Fitzpatrick, and returned to his
work at Oak Hill, Va., Monday.
Mr. Jesse Baity has returned from
Winston-Salem where he spent several
days with his brother Mr. O. L. Baity
Mr. C. L. Boggs of Chapel Hill
spent the holidays here with his
mother Mr^. Talitha Boggs.
Mr. Lem Wilkerson came down from
Mebane to visit his friend Mr. Eugene
Stanforfl during the holidays and with
his Phonograph played all of his one
hundred recoils to a certain girl before
stopping to give the machine a rest.
Get some new records and come 'again
“Lem.”
Miss Mattie Pickard of Burlington fs
visiting Miss Bess Baity.
We are glad to note Mrs. Joe
Murray accompanied by her husband
returned from the Rex Hospital in
Raleigh last Sunday where she had
been undergoing treatment for the
past several weeks. Mrs. Murrays
many friends will be glad to learn she
is much improved in health.
We noticed where this “noble” set
ot Jurors at Greensboro turned loose
the “murderer” Blair. Is it not
wonderful what % few thousand dollars
will do? Guess “Santa Claus” visited
their home well loaded with presents
this Xmas, wonder if the spirit o- pcai*
murdered George Thompson did no^
hover near Blair in his dreams and
even more nearer those twelve men
who deliberately turned loose the man
who so cowardly took his life.
“New Year.”
Mrs. N. W. Brown spent last week
ir» Greensboro with her parents.
Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Dunn and
son, Willard spent Christmas
Mrs. Dunns parents at Mebane.
Mr. and Mrs. Atlos Williams
little son Alton spent Christmas in the
country with relatives and friend‘d.
Miss Mary O. Thompson and Miss
Mamie Brown hav6 reTurncd h me for
their (Christmas vacation from Greens
ville, S. C., where they have been
taking a teachers training course.
Mr. J. Clyde Ray spent Chrittmas
here with his parents.
Mrs. Jack Turner of Rocksboro spent
Christmas here with relatives.
conference was of very small value-
no onre at all.— Greensboro News.
THE DEATH TOLL
Of Railroads 10,538, In
jured 169,538.
Every time the big railroads of the
countiy took in $3,556 from the
operation of their freight and passenger
I trains, during the fiscal year ending
! June 30 last, a human being was killec.
I or injured. The casualties amounted
I to 180,123. Of that number, 10,585
1 were killed and 169,538 were injured,
I according to the Interstate Commerce
Miss Mary Rebecca I.Ioyd and Mr. [ Commission report sent to Congress.
Fedrick Young Noel were united in ' y®”"" ‘he railroads having
marriage on Doc. 23 at 4 o’clcck at the '
home of the bride. The home \v.»s | average a
beautifully decorated with holly, trail-' ’ ®
ing cedar and ferns. The
was performed in the West room o
Simplicity to Mark Inau
guration.
Jeffersonian simplicity is to mark
the coming inauguration of President
elect Wilson, There will probably be
a greater outpouting of people than
has ever marked the inauguration of a
President, but, according to Chairman
William C. Eustis of the committee,
there will be no ostentation. He. con
tends that true Democracy demands
that there be no display and he is up
held by Thomas Nelson Page, who is
quoted as saying;
“President Jefferson’s act of riding
up Pennsylvania avenue on horseback
has been derided but the people who
have studied history have realized that
he did it in a dignified marner pnd that
his inauguration had at least as much
real dignity and true simplicity as
that of any Preaident.”
$1,000,000 or more earned
few cents more than
of road operated.
ceremony i preceding year they earned j cades, the amount expended for pen-
] a few cents more ♦han $3,465. sions this year, owing to the General-
Billions For Pensions .
Since June 30, 1912, when there were
999,446 pensioners, the largess number
ever on the Government rolls, there
has been a steady decline. At the end
of the last fiscal yeaf, according to
Secretary Fisher’s annual report, there
were 860,294, the smallest number in
twenty-one years.
But while the pension figures haye
reached the lowest mark in two de-
There was a decrease in earnings per
mile of road operated and an increase
in the number of persons killed and in
jured, the decrease in earnings being
i $103.16 per mile. The increase in
' casualties was 189 in killec and 19,379
the house. First came the groom wiih
his best man Mr. Claud Sharp, then
came the bride leaniiig on the arm of
her uncle. Rev. Tommie Williams who
gave her away. The biide was be
comingly gowned in a traveling suit of j . .
brown with hat to match at.d white I injure . ...
gloves. The ornamenls which the bride! ^ak-ng the big carriers th^e ^ose
J. J J . I operatinor incomes were $10,000,000 or
wore were a diamond ring and the ^
^ r I more, with a mileage of 176,287, a
wedding ring and a few more pieces , ’ , . , . . . ’
..,v , .1 human being was killed or injured on
of jeweler that had been given her by , . ^ ,
U fru 4.1U each ninetenths of a mile of road,
her friends. They were met by Rev. ' , . ,, ,, ,
, J 1 u I Taking all the roads with operating
Lawrence under a large green bower I. ^ j f
. . .. , , , i incomes of $1,000,0C0 and upward,
who in his calm and gracious way spoke ^
the words that united this happy couple ' of.substantially 220,000,
Service bill passed last spring, will be
the largest in the histoiy of this coun
try. Last year the Government paid
out about $156,000,000; for this year
the appropriation is $164,E00,000, and
Secretary Fisher asks $20,500,000 more
for 1914.
It is more than forty-seven years
since the close of the ciyil war. Pro
bably no soldier or sailor who seived
ninety days is now less than sixty-two
or is barred by reason of age from re
ceiving the minimum pension of $13 a
month. In those forty-seven years the
Gk>vernment has disbursed for pensions
in holy bonds of matrimony. After re- i
ceiving the congratulations of the
large crowd present to witne^ tha
marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Noel left
amid showers of rice for a trip to
Raleigh and from there to Mr. Noels
home, after which they will reside in
Hillsboro where the groom holds a re-1
sponsible position. The gifts were
numerous ond beautiful, consisting of
jewelery, cut glass and silver. Their
many friends wish them much hap
piness.
T • J D 1. J \ir ii- ! ^hd Weight of trains and the crowding
Miss Linder Roach and Mr. Williei ^ u
„ . - J 4. 4.U u r I of tracks and terminals caused by the
Graham were married at the home cf ‘
the bride on Dec, 25, at 5 o’clock the
home was decorated beautifully with
trailing cedar and ferns. First came
the casualties amount to one for every I ^^286,922,719,65, and of the 860,294
pensioners on the r^lls last June, near
ly 40 per cent, were widows and de
pendents, the b3st possible answer to
politicians who for campaign purposes
pretend that the Government has treat
ed the veterans in a niggardly manner
—New York World.
I one and a sixth miles of road.
The commission renews its recom
mendations that Congress give it
definite power to regulate telegraph
and telephone companies, to make a
valuHtion of the physical property of
^ j railroads, to require a uniiorm classi
fication applicable to the whole
country and control over the issuance
of railroad stocks and bonds.
SPEED ALSO RESPONSIBLE.
Reroaikable increase in the speed
the groom and his best man Mr. Bert
Graham, his brother, then came the
bride and Mihs Georgie Stutts, the
maid of honor, i he bride and gioom
met Under a large arch with nineteen
candles lighted on tha arch where the
ceremony was performed by Rev.
Green. The bride was gowned in a
beautiful white drerb, she carried white
carnations and ferns and the maid of i
honor was gowned in a pink dress ani
carried carnations and ferns. The bJce
and groom received many nice presents
movement of an enormously enlarged
volume of traffic have greatly increased
the duties and responsibilities of train
service employees and multiplied the
chances of error on their part.
Mr. J. W. Cone and Mr. J. E.
Latham of Greensboro have been
spending a lew days at their bungalow
two miles West of Mebane. They
have been hunting and having a general
good time. These gentlemen purchased
the farm of Mr. Will Murray and are
fixing the place up as a hunting
preserve. They are arranging for an
immense fish pond on the place. There
are seyeral hundred acres of woodland
on the place.
riease Pass the Prunes
The parcels post already is justified
It surely will put more prunes on board
ing house tables, were that luxury has
these many years been conspicuous by
its absence. It is revealed at Wash
ington that the postoffice department
r3cently “received from a San Diego
grower the gnnouncement that the i
lattor proposed to send by parcels post
two car loads of prunes to New York
It was a ‘freak’ shipment and was to
be sent in eight pound boxes. The
rate would have been 96 cents. The
express companies promytly cut their
rate to 35 cents.” GooJ. Now - for
soup and hash. — Asheville Gazette-
News.
Taft has now gone to abolishing of
fices around which he cannot build a
civil service sence. Tuaning his at
tention to the customs service, he has
found a number of custom houses that
can be dispensed with, now that they
might come into Democratic possession
Among them, of course, is the Albe
marle station on the coast of North
Carolina. At this custom house, trad
ition has it, the cost to the Govern
ment to collect $1 is 1534,92. It is
only fair to President Taft to say that
he announc'Hi early in his Administra
tion that these useless custom houses
must go. Whether he intended to wipe
them out at; the cloai^ of his first or
s^ond Administration is a question.—
Charlotte Observer.
Would Say Twan’t So.
The darnless hose
Wilkinson and Co., is
weeks Leader, See it.
is what H. . .
offering in this
its a daisy.
(From The Raleigh Times,)
What in the world is the matter
with the North Carolina hen? She
ought to blush when she sees that eggs
are 45 cents a dozen. Up in the high
mountain region last Summer it was a
joy to observe the familiar fligns:
“Eggs 5 cents. Butter 10 cents.
Chickens 10 ceets.” *It kx^ed like the
millennum had come. Any man would
be considered a liar if he told the
paople there that eggs sold anywhere
in North Caaolina for 45 cents a
dozen.
NO 4S
PARDONS OVER 500 CONVICTS
Governor Blease Sets A
Record For Nullifying The
Law.
With the compliments of the Christ
mas season. Governor Cole L. Blease
Tuesday before Christmas day pardoned
pai-oled or commuted the sentences of
79 convicts, of whom 45 had been found
guilty cf various 'degrees of homicide,
and 25 were serving life terms in the
state penitntiary. Some were freed on
condition that they leave the state in
24 hours and neyer return. Three of
the pardons were given to convicts
who had been previously released for
the purpose of restoring citizenship.
Many of those aet free have been
working on chain gangs.
The governor made no general
statement of his reasons for his action.
He extended clemency to 33 convicts
on Thanksgiving Day and to 9 last
Christmas. In two years he has freed
509. He will account for his pardons
in a message to the legislature.
One of the most interesting cases in
the last lot is the full pardon of J.
Chestei Kennedy, a white man, con
victed of murder in 1909 and senten
ced to life imprisonment. Kennedy,
the jury found, hired two negroes to
kill Marvin N. Holland, pointing Hol
land out for assassination, but one of
tiie negi'oes mistook for him a man
named Ussery, who was standing near
by and killed him instead.
Both of the negroes are serving life
terms and Goveiror Blease says they
have made conflicting statements
which have led him to doubt Kennedy's
guilt.
The *‘Why” of Advertising
in The Newspapers.
The following on newspaper adver
tising is from an interview given by
Samuel Cohen, head of a big depart
ment store in Richmond f
“In my judgment the city merchant
would do well to discard all other
forms of advertising and spend his
money with the newspapers. The
newspaper visits the home of the peo
ple and is a weloome visitor. The cir
cular which is left on the doorstep or
thrown in the porch is an intruder.
The maid throws the circular into the
trash can or the stove; the newspaper
she takes into the house and lays on
the library table for the family to read.
For myself I have cut out circulars,
programs and spasn>odic publications
and put all my advertising in the news
papers. I have done it not on account
of the newspapers, but because it is
the newspaper advertising that pays.”
But the public-spirited individual
will give the newspaper the preference
because of the newspaper dS well as
because it is newspaper advertising
that pays. There is no worthy cause
in a community which does not go to
the newspaper for help. For any
undertaking to be a success publicitj'
is the first essential and the quickest,
easiest and best way to get publicity is
to go to the newspapers for it. They
never refuse to give it if they can be
shown that thereby the public interest
will be advanced
The fact then that the newspapers
do so much for the public for which
they never get any pay is certainly a
very strong reason why business men
who properly appreciate the value of
a public service should advertise in
the newspapers There is also the
reason mentioned by Mr. Cohen and
between the two considerations it
would seem that the newspaper? would
have such a hold on the community
that business would come in plenty
without any solicitation whatever.
The fact that it does not is because
business men do not inquire sufficiently
into the relative merits of the different
forms of advertising and do not know
to what a large extent the newspapers
are called on for service for which they
get no pay whatever.
Whenever an American citizen is
killed in Honduras, Mexico or else
where abroad, the people of the United
States be'’ome filled with righteous
:'ndignation; while deaths by violence
in this counfrty are numbered by the
score daily. Is human life Miithout
sacredness only at homs?
List of Letters
Remaining unclaimed at this office
in the week ending Dec. 28 1912
1 letter for Mr. G. Stroud
1 lelier for Alex White
1 letter for Mrs. L. E. Lashly
1 letter for Mrs. A. V. Smith
1 letter fw Miss Hattie Burnett
1 card for Mr. Samuel Miller
1 card for Mr. J. W. SuprH
1 card for Mr, Newman H. Sy?fl5
1 card for Mrs. Lucinda Mebana
1 card for Miss Ida Mayins.
These letters will be sent to the
Dead Letter Office . Jan. 14 1913, if
not called for before.
In calling for the above please say
‘Advertised” giving date of ad. list.
Respectfully,
S. Arthur White, P. MJ