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Vol 4
MEBANE, BT.C.. THUBSDAT. MARCH 13 1913
NO 61
PERSONUS AND LOCH
«RIEFS
PEOPLE WHO COME
AND GO.
itei^is of interest gath-
kkedby our reporter
Mayor J. T. Shaw spent Tuesday in
Grtv nsbtTO.
Mit's Mary White visited friends in
Greensboro last week.
Mr. Ihomas Whitfield spent Satunday
in Mebane.
.Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Warren spent
Suiuiay at Carr.
Mr. Laey Cook spent Sunday with
Mrs. E. W. King.
Ml?. John Holmes is visiting her
Mother at Lexington.
Mr. '>nd Mrs. Joe Vincent went to
Durham Sunday.
Miss Carrie Bell yisited her parents
at University Station Sunday.
Mrs. John Cook went to Salisbury
Monday to visit relatives
Mr. H. C. McCauley went to Hills
boro Tuesday.
Mrs. Carson Durham and children of
Burlington spent Sunday with Mrs. E.
Y. Ferrell.
Mr. Felix Graves has returned from
Weldon, also Mrs. Graves and little
son.
Messrs. J. E. Latham and Fred Gard-
rer, of Greensboro spent a few days
at “Lake Latham” last week.
Get a few samples of septeel at the
style demonstration Sat. Mar. 15 at
Marrow Bason Millinery parlors.
Miss i^ynette Swain of the State
Normal of Greensboro spent Saturday
and Sunday with her parents, Rev. and
Mrs. W. E. Swain.
Mr. J. E. Maddock representing the
Armour Fertilizer Company of Greens-
boru, spent Sunday in Mebane with
Mr. Will Murrf.
Mr. J. R. Holmes is visiting bis
daughter Mrs. B. F. Warren and
attending court in the day at Hillflboro.
Mrs. H. B. Slack and children re
turned to their home in Mebane Tuea-
day evening, after spending several
days in Cha. lotte with relatives.
Some arrangements are all ready
being made to arrange wires for
electric lights in some of the stores,
cjrrent will be used from the Mebane
Drug Companys dinamo until the
Piedmont Company get their wires
installed.
Miss Miiinie Bright returned home
last week alter spending some time in
Richmond, Baltimore and Washington
where she went to purchase her spring
stock of millinery.
Keep your money at home, patronize
home institutions. When you send
money away to pay tor what you
might get at home, it means never
come back any more. Send your work
to your home job office. It is your
home paper that is helping to build up
your town, and not the fellow away»
You wiU find at J. C. and H. W.
Webbs Store iti Hillsboro, a nice line
of ladies spring style dress material,
in fact everything that a lady could
wish to make her appear well The
farmer will find what he wishes in
implements, and tcols. It? a good place
to trade, they are clever people who
will treat you right.
The Misses Morrow and Bason have
an important announcement m this
week* Leader in reference to hair
dressing. This ought to interest ladies
who wish to be informed of the latest
styles for doing up hair. The ^ demon
stration will be at the Milliner parlors
of the Misses Morrow and Bason on
Saturday March 15. Their millinery
opening wiU be on Friday and Sat
urday March 14, and 15
The Spring exhibit heads an in-1
teresting advertisment from B. A.
Sellars and son in which they call special
attention to a large line of ladies dress
j goods, in the latest and most correct
styles. They are showing a big line of
new silks, new waists and some of the
fancy fads in hosiery. Don’t fail to
see them.
The Kazing case.
The hazing case in which William
Rand lost his life at the State Univer
sity on last September will be heard in
Hillsboro this week. The defendants
are A. C. Hatch of Mt« Olive, Ralph
W, Oldham of Raleigh, A. H. Styron
and W. L. Merrimon of Wilmington.
Judge J. S. Manning and Senator
Victor S. Bryant will appear for the
defense. Judge R. B. Peebles will
preside in hearing the case. We believe
it was Judge Peebles who tried Ernest
Haywood for the killing of Skinner at
Raleige.
Nominate Mr. Patton
Eklitor Leader:*
'I nominate Mr. Woods Patton for
town Commisioner he wouid make a
good one, and that part of town has
never had a Commisioner.
Voter.
$794,000,000 Paid to Rail
roads in Year 1912,
The railroads of the United States got
from the people, in freights and fares,
in 1912, more than $794,000,000,
according to figures collected by the
Vmerican Bureau of Railway Economics j
The operating income just referred to
averaged $3,609 a mile an increase of
$163 a mile over the 1911 operating
income, or 4.7 per cent, increase.
List of Letters Advertised
For the week ending March 8 1913.
1 Letter for Mrs. J. H. Lewis
1 “ Mips Berry Warten
1 “ “ Mr. Daul Mebane
1 “ “ Mr. Lester Carter
1 Card '* Mr. Sidney M. Kepley
1 “ “ Misa Lelo Hester
These letters will be sent fo the Dead
Letter Off ice March 22 1913 if not
called for. In calling please give date
of list.
Resptfully,
S. Arthur White, P. M.
Tony Items
Mr. Bennie Boswell and Miss Sallie
Florence visite I Miss Mollle Florence
Sunday.
Messrs. Bennie Norris, Lewis Corbett
and Misses Nuia and Carrie Warren
' visited Miss Dorsie Vaughn
Miss Bera Motley 'spent Thursday
night with Miss Daisy Miles.
Messrs. Sidney Stanfield and Jimmie
Florence and Misses Shelhe and Estelle
McAdams visited their sister Mrs. F.
T. Fitch Sunday.
Master Oscar Stanfield visited Claude
Herrelson recently.
Miss Pearl Warren who has been in
school in Va , for some time returned
h >me Saturday accompanied by her
little nephew Jnlian McAdao's who
will spend some time with his grandma.
Mr. I. T. Murray returned home
Sunday who has been off horse tradmg.
Misses Bera Motley and Daisy Miles
spent Tuesday night at Mrs. J. B.
Stanheld, Mr. Jimmie Florence Misses
Verna, Beulah and Beatrice Bowland
called and stayed until bedtime and
plajed flinch, all report a pleasant time.
Mrs. John Fuquay and daughter Miss
Irma and Mr. and Mrs. Roy Fuquay
and Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Miles spent
Sunday afU^rnoon at Mr. Cabel Sater-
fields.
Messrs. Willi* Florence and Macon
Baynes called down near Carr Sunday.
Mr. Harvey Walker called on Mias
Mammie Norris Sunday.
Brown EyeSv
The same gang lying on Simmons.
The statement is made that he tried to
undermine Martin of Virginia, Mr.
Simmons refuses to dignify the false
hood with a denial. There are old
liars, and there are young liars, but an
old gray headed liar that fearing a new
comer ‘ does not know all the lyies
takes it upon him to repeat, is an over
I ripe egg.
Answers iVlr. White
Shop Talk
Get a perfect match to your own hair
at the style demonstration. Mar, 15
only at Morrow-Bason Millinery parlors
Burlington.
Your orders for office supplies will
promply ard satisfactory met at
Green and Poteata Durham. Write to
them about type writer.
There will be a resale of the George
W. Tate land at Hillsboro on March 17.
See ad in this issue J. F, McAdamt
commission.
The Orange Trust Co., of Hillsboro
are ofFeritg an attractive farm for sale
Sfce their advertisment in this weeks
Leader.
i^on’t forget the Easter reduction
sale of C. C. Smith. A big line of
clothing mens and boys, in fact all
^inda of goods at a discount.
Wont Attend
As temporary chairman of a com
mittee (whose original purpose was to
organize a Civic League, in Mebane.) I
called B meeting Friday last, having
such material collected that would en
able us to proceed, but only one lady
responded to that call. This looks as
I though there is no real interest, and
as my time is valuable to me, I hesi
tate to proceed. I will have to be as
sured of something, more definite or
relieved of the chairmanship.
Mrs. C. J. Kee,
Chairman.
The above item from Mrs. C. J. Kee
would seem to indicate absolutely no
i interest in what concerns the Civic
beauty of Mebane. We regret to learn
that such a condition does exist, but
as it does, we beg that Mrs. Kee
not become discouraged, or give up
heart in the matter, but ask that she
try again, announce a meeting of the
Bridge Club, and after the crowd as
sembles, jp*t before they begin that
facinating game spring the civic league
business upon them, it might be re
garded as extremely cruel, but busi
ness is business.
Mebane, N. C. March 7, 19131
Mr. W. E. White
Mebane, N. C.
Dear Sir:-
Your statement in letter addressed
to Hon. J. Elmer Long and published
in Mebane Leader that I ‘‘informed”
you, which was in reply to your
direct inquiry as to amount at com
missions turned over to the county by
the different offifers on salary, that
the Sheriff di 1 not turn over commis-
sibns on taxes for 1912, would have
been correct, but your statement that
“I informed you that the bill was
drawn with the provision that it would
not affect his> commissions on the taxes
during this term” is not correct.
You know or should know, if you
claim responsibility, as you intimate,
for this bill, that the bill provides that
the county gets all commissions on
taxes except for 1912. When in the
future you find it necessary to quote
me, please be accurate.
Sincerely yours,
Chas F. Cates.
Hillsboro Items
Mr. J. H. liner and Miss Maude
Rogers both of Cedar Grove were
married at the Methodist parsonage on
Monday morning March at 10 o’clock
by Rev. 'j. M. Crmon4[, their many
friends wish them muph success in life.
The Senior Epworth League met in
the Methodist church iast Friday night!
with a large number of members present
Mr. Allen. Whitaker lead the meeting |
which was very interesting. Papers
were read on the subject and Mr. J.
M. Ormond sang a solo.
Miss Mable Straynorn and Miss
Bessie Lloyd spent the day in Durham
Saturday uhopping.
Mr. D. R. Williams returned to his
home in High Point last'iVednes'day.
Mr. T. A. Williams returned to his
home in Thomabville Saturday morning.
Death ol Mrs. Mary Craw
ford.'
In the solemn hush of the early
morning on March the 4 1913 at 11:15
o’clock God in his infinite wisdom called
to a higher service Mrs. Mary Craw
ford. she 'was 36 years of age, and is
survived by her husband three children
and mother Mrs. Thomas Williams,
two sisters and five brotbers Mrs. M.
E. Lloyd, Mr. A. G. Williams, Rev.
D. R. Williams of High Point, Rev. T.
A. Williams of Thomasville, Mrs. S. E.
Thompson, Mr. f. W. Williams and
Mr. R. M. Williams of Hillsboro were
at her bedside when death came, the
best efforts of medical skill and the
tireless ministrations of a devoted
family, were alike unavailing to restore
her to health, her call had come and it
was a call from labor to rest.
Mrs. Crawford had been in bad health
for several years but had been confined
to h»r bed only ten days, she will be
missed as a wife and mother. We extend
sympathy to the bereaved family and
commend them to the God of all
comfort.
The funeral services ware held from
St. Matthews church of which she was
a member Tuesday mornir^g at 10
o’clock and was ‘conducted by Rev.
Alfred Laurance, the interment was in
the family plot in the church yard.
The following named gentlemen acted
as pall bearers; Rev. Mr. Green, Messrs
Charlie Rosemond, Brown Gordon,
John Sharp, Jule Carr and Harry
Wadkins.
3'he strong ca'm face that looked so
peaceful in death, sleeps under the
flower covered mound, we will see her
again, her going was—
‘‘Only a hand clasp a sad good night”
A step in the darkness, then dreams
and light!
A fading away of earth’? bright
skies.
Then the light of heaven on the
dreaming eyes.
Rest for the weary over the tide.
n the shore that shines on the other
side.
One who loved her.
INN BEFUSES TO
GIVEGLEMENGY
TO ALLENS
March 28 Date of Execu
tion, Belns Fixed hy Vir
tue of Respite for Three
Weelcs Already Granted
Floyd Allen, leader of the outlaw
band in Carroll Countv, and his son,
Claude Swanson Allen, will be execut
ed in the State Penitentiary, March
28, for their part in the Hinsville court
house mu»-der xViarch 14th 1912. Gov
ernor Mann last Friday having refused
to commute the sentence to life im
prisonment. The'prisoners were to
have died last Friday although che
Governor granted a respite of three
weeks. The respite was accepted by
the Allens as an indication that the
Governor would extend mercy. The
The refection of the petition, however
means that the case is officially clos
ed, as there is no way by which it can
be again opejied
Mr. >\htte Explains
Orange OroveIten:s
Death of Mrs. Barnvs^ell
On Thursday morning March 6th at
10:30 o’clock the death angel visited
our home and took from it our dear
mother.
She had been in declining health for
a loiig time but bore her (suffering
calmly, she fell asleep so calmly we
hardly knew she was dying. Mother
was about 52 years of age. She leaves
two brothers Mr. T. F. Ward of
Danville, Va., Mr. W. A. Ward of
do Cross Roads and one sister Miss Jenni»
Ward, she also leaves five sons several
grand children and a host of friends to
mom their loss.
A loving mother from us has gone
A place is vacant in our itome no living
hand or time, or place
Can eyer fill dear mothers place.
Her devoted son.
Will.
Mrs. J. W. Cheek Sr. is still very
sick with no hope of her recovery.
Those who haye been sick with the i
grippe are all getting better.
A large number of the Orange Grove
people will attend court at Hillsboro
this week. Messrs Henry Kins and
A. G. Crawford are on the jury.
The new seats for the church have
been ordered and will be put in as
soon ab completed. The seats will be
a great improvement over the old, not
only in this arrangement, but will be
comfortable as well.
Mr. Ed Ruelsell of Southern Alamance
is spending a day or two with relatives
and combining business with pleasure
by taking order.s for fruit trees
Miss Estelle Lloyd had a box party
at her school Saturday night. Mr. Mar
shal Cates and Miss Alma Lloyd at
tended.
Orange Grove and Chinquepin Rough
crossed bats last Friday. Thf Orange
Groye boys bagged the game and are
happy. Our boys play Rock Hill next
Friday and here’s hoping that they
will win.
* The County says that the bfst they
can do is to furnish the paint for our
school building if the community will
put it on. The young people to raise
this money will give “Tompkin's
Hired Man” on Saturday night March
22. This is a splendid play, full of
life and action and the sacrafice that
these' young people are making of
time and energy for so worthy a cause
should insure a full house
To the Editor,
Dear Sir:-^
In my letter addressed to Hon. J. Elmer
Long, dated February ,21st in regard
-to tne salary of the sheriff of Alam
ance Ccunty (which appeared in last
week’s Leader) I stated “I am in
formed that the bill was drawn fixing
the salary of the County officers with
the provision that it would not affect
their commissions on the taxes during
this term.”
I want to correct this as I am in
error, and should have stated. ' ‘Drring
this year or for the taxes of 1912.’•
I ask you to please publish this letter
as I have through an error misquoted
Mr. Charjes F. Cates in tbis matter.
However, tms does not change my
contention that it was understood and
agreed with all the parties who were
responsible for this bill that the sheriff
was not to be paid any commissions
after his salary went into effect, and
I still contend that it is an injustice to
the tax payers of Alamance County.
I am informed that the fees turned
into the County Treasury for the month
of December from the sheriff’s office
amounted to only about $10.00, and the
County paid to the sheriff and his
deputy salary of $250.00 for December.
I still contend that the sheriff and
his deputy should not be paid the
commissions in addition to his salary.
Yours very truly,
W. E. White.
FIGHT BEGINS
Whole Sale Liquor Dealers
Seek Tenjporary Injunct
ion to Restrain Southern
Express Co. From Refus
ing Shipments.
Wholesale liquor'dealers in Richmond
and Petersburg applied to Judga Wad-
dill of the United States District Court
for a temporary injunction to retrain
the Southern Express Company from
refusing to accept liquor for shipment
to points in South Carolina. The pro
ceeding is the first attack upon the con
stitutionality of the Webb Kenyon bill,
which passed both branches of Con
gress over President Taft’s veto.
On the ground that the South Caro
lina dispensary act of 1896, when taken
on conjunction with the Webb-Kenyon
act, threatens every employe with fine
and imprisonment should the carrier
undertake to forward liquor shipments
to any point in the State, the South
ern Express Company in Richmond has
since March 5 refused to accept fur
ther consignment.
>mans suits and cloaks is the
tading feature of Ellis-Stone and Co.,
r this week. They have a large
hni r,f spring
itivitir.
a
suits and are
your inspection.
Switches, Switches, and then more
wiiehcs at the style demonstration.
Mar. in Marrow-Basons Millinery
Parlor.s. Any price, any quality aild
Shade.
T he attention of our readers is dir-
tcti (J to the new advertisement of Miss
paret Clegg of Graham who an-
s her spring Millinery opening
ia to take
Cutting The University.
All over the State people are ask
ing from what motive the University
alone was made the victim of a cut.
It cannot be that the University’s
needs are less than they were; they
are certainly greater, and every pos
sible economy is unable to prevent
deficits now. It cannot be that the
University—whose history is’the his
tory of North Carolina—has become
less vital to the State, and especially
to the State’s system of public schools.
Yet this cut was dealt at the University
i and oyer the heads of the Appropria
tions Committee primarily responsible
for keeping totals within bounds. It
went side by side with enlarged
appropriations for nearly everything
else, most of them justified. It is
indeed hard to account for on any
supposition. We earnestly trut that it
will not pass both hou»«es and become
law.—Charlotte Observer.
Miss Recie Crawford is spending a
few weeks with her sister Mrs. Ernest
Reynolds of Charlotte.
The Farmers Union will give an
other oyster supper on Saturday night
March 15th We farmers certainly do
like ojfrters.
Several of our young people took
dinner with Miss Minnie King Sunday
and spent a pleasant afternoon. Miss
King is an admirable hostess besides
an adept in the culintry art.
Electric Lights Assured
At a r^rular meeting of the board
of Alderman of Mebane held last
Thursday night the 6inst., all members
and the Mayor being present, a fran
chise for 50 years was granted the
Piedmont Electric Light Company of
Burlington to furnish lights for the
town of Mebane, and at which time
a contract was entered into with said
electric company to have them furn
ished for the streets of Mebane 20
lighU of 100 wat power each, for the
sum of S24 per year, subject to a dis
count of 10 per cent
The Piedmont Electric Co,, will reach
Mebane prepared to furnish all
streets, and residence lights that may
be desired, as well as electric power at
a very reasonable cost.
The Mebane Leader has earnestly
and persistently plead for lights from
the first day of its publication here
four years ago. Tlie people wanted
lights, they saw the need of them, and
should the town have had them sooner,
they would have contributed much to
the prosperity of the place as a means
of advertising Mebanes, advantages,
and conveniences. We have had our
say on this subject, and those who have
been readers of the Leader know what
that has been.
The lights will be of immense ser
vice to Mebane, and it will be a
narrow individual indeed who will not
be able to see and appreciate it. Hur
rah for Mebane and her improvements.
The lights are t6 be installed about the
latter part of May.
Spices That Will Preserve
Food.
To preserve food so that it will be
fit for use at some distant day some
thing must be added to it to prevent
the growth of the minute organisms
which result in what we call “spoiU
ing.” For this purpose benzoate of
soda was widely used until Dr. Wiley
and other experts declared it harmful
to the human system.
Recent experiments in the bacteri-
^logical laboratories of the University
of Wisconsin show that th^re are sev
eral spices to be found in everj’ kit-
chen^ which will preserve food as ef
fectively as benzoate of soda and with
out any danger to health.
Both cinnamon and mustard possess
valuable antiseptic proi>erties on ac
count of the large [quantities of aro
matic oils which they contain. Cinna
mic aldehyde is the most active anti
septic constituent of cinnamon. One*
fiftieth ot a gram of this added to 100
grams of apple sauce was found to
prevent spoiling indefinitely.
Ordinary cloyes have equally power
ful antiseptic properties, but are un
desirable on account of the strong
burning taste they give the food.
Ginger, blacic pepper and cayenne
pepper have no value what ever as
food prcs^-rvatives. Nutmeg and all
spice retard the spoiling for a few
days, but not long enough to make
them of any practical value.
The only way to avoid criticism in
this world is to do nothing, say noth
ing, go into a hole and puU the hole in
aft^er vou.^Elbert Hubbard.
Tobacco Sales
February.
For
Sales of leaf tobacco on the various
markets of ! North Carolina showed a
big decrease for February, not quite
half the number of pounds sold a year
ago, according to the figures of the
department of agriculture. The dapart-
ment is still bothered by warehouse
men failing to send in reports properly.
The sales for last month amounted to
4,354,143, as against 9,468,481 a year
ago. Winston-Salem as usual, led in
the number of pounds. The sales
follow:
Winston-Salem 1,343,207
The Inciting: Cause.
The crusade against the “Arson
Trust” is reported to haye reduced the
number of fires in New York by 30
per cent, in January and February,
1913, as compared with the same
months last year. That the reform
will continue to progress at this rate
is too much to hope unless some ef
fective steps are taken to put an end
to the acceptance of ‘’rotten risks’'
by the insurance companies. The sur
est way to get rid of an effect is to re
move the inciting cause.— Norfolk
Pilot.
4
Think truly, and thy thoughts
Shall the world’s famine feed;
Speak truly, and each word of thine
Shall be a fruitful seed;
Live truly, and thy life shall be
A great and noble creed.
—Horatms Bonar.
Friday
Millinery
place on
Saturday March 14, 15.
^ A. S. Mitchell and Co., of HHIAb^ro
large, and well select^ stock of
^rdware, buggies, harness, stoves,
and all kind of farm implements,
You will make no mistake
‘ lint? on this firm for what you may
their line.
Oldest Living Tree
On the firing line of the Zapata
uprising in southern Mexico, in peril
from cannon fire and musketry, stands
the oldest living thing in the world
—the famous cypress in the church
yard of the village of Santa Maria del
Tule, in the intendency of Oaxaca,
two and one-half leagues east of that
city. Dr. Herman Von Schrenk, of
St. Louis, is to determine scientifically
the approximate age of this Nestor of
the whole vegetable kingdom.
Experts, judging by the gigantic
bole of the Santa Maria del Tule
cypress and by the slow growth of this
species, have estimated the age of
the patriarch of all trees to be between
5,000 and 6,000 years.
Smiles Will Do It.
R! C. Rhode Island Reds and S. C.
Black minorcar, fine layers, choice
settings for eg^gs $1.00 per setting of 15..
Mrs. J. W. Nicholson,
Mebane, N. C.
1 mo. Mar. 13.
The world wantsj^your smiling side.
Men, women and children are like
clouds for every one of them^ have a
silver lining. That is what the world
wants—not youe frowns but your smiiep.
Fot the blues of your mood but the
gold.
A man who id a great dictator of j
dramatic destinies in this country and |
in Europe said of a lad whom he had
just engaged as office boy: “He will
get on, he smiles. ” The man who him
self had risen in a few years from
the stafe when he joined street pa
rades to “advenrtise the show,” had
the smiling habit. He believed that he
had in part smiled his W4y to success
and no doubt he bad, for at least half
of success consists in the co-operation
of those who work for and i^ith us,
and his “people” address him by bis
initials, loving him as a father or an
elder brother. “He is so considerate
and cheerful and he smiles the rough
places smooth,” is their explanation of
their abiding loyalty.
What use will humanity make of its
I leisure? On its employment will de
pend the whole destiny of man.—Mae-
tarlinck.
Cigarette smoking by minors in Guil
ford county has come under the official
ban of the North Carolina legislature.
Still if parents refuse to do their duty
in the premises we doubt if the law will
have much effect.
Don't Skin The Editor
It ought to be understood that the
Leader subscription price is payable in
advance. You do not expect to pay
your grocery bill, or dry godds bill a
year after you make the purchase, and
you have no more right to an Ed
itor to wait a year for his one dollar
for a paper that he labors to give you.
Try and pick out some one elsa.to skin,
some one that can stand it better, but
don’t skin the Editor. To omit a very
few needless cigttrs, or somethii^ else
equally unnecessary will put money in
your pocket to pay a well earned hon
est debt for subscription.
Durham
Roxboro . .
Reidsville
Oxfoad . .
Henderson
Mebane . .
Rocky Mount
511,646
473,695
470,177
383,721
239,957
162,820
114,373
Apex ' . 112,172
Madison .
Greensboro
Warrenton
Stoneville
Youngs ville
Burlington
Leaksville
Louisbury
Wilson
Greenville
100,499
77,839
77,444
77,337
67,536
53,736
39,428
19,190
6,533
904
Cockes’ PrpHfic SeeJ Cum
Mebane M* E.^ Church
South.
Rev. F. B. Noblitt, Pastor.
Walter Lynch, Supt. S. S.
• N. H. Walker. Assist. Supt.
Preaching every 3rd Sunday at ll:Oo
A. M. and second Sunday night at 7:30
P. M.
Prayer meeting every Wednesday
evening at 7-.30 and a union prayer
meeting ever Sunday after noon at
3:00 o'dock conduct^ by the young
men of the town.
Sunday school every Sunday begin
ning at ^:45 a. m.
Everybody welcome to all these ser
vices.
Shameless Extortion.
The report of the Bureau of Labor
toucning last year,s advance in the
prices of coal only gives official con
firmation to what was generally known
at the time—that the anthracite min-
ii\g and transportion companies made
the pretense of meeting the increased
cost of production create by an in •
crea8*»d in the miners’ wages the op
portunity for robbing the coal con
sumers of the country. The govern
ment authorities estimate that at an-
increased tax of nearly $13,500,000 has
been exacted from the consuming pub
lic in order to meet an increased wage
bill of $4, OC0,000, the difference going
into the pockets of the companies. In
other words, for every dollar yielded
to the miners, the companies have ex
torted something over three dollars
from the consumera
In this there is really nothing new.
The same thing has happened every
time there has been a readjustment of
the miners’ wage scale in the past,
and will continue to happen so long as
the coal-mining and coal-transportation
companies maintain their present mon
opoly. The public, of course, expects
to have to pay the increase eyery time
wages are advanced; and if the ele
vation of prices stopped with the ac
tual amount of the increase in wages
there would be but little disposition to
kick on the part of the public. But
when such advances in wages are made
the excuse for doubling and trebling
the tax on the consumers, surely the
latter have good right to sequel. And
just as sure is it that the power ought
to reside somewhere to put an end to
what amounts to nothing less than
highway robbery and a shameless
“hold-up.” When the individual is
helpless to protect himself against out
rageous extortion of this character,
the duty of constituted authority ti»
step in and furnish relief is imperative.>^
—Norfolk Pilot
MEBANE METHODIST PRO
TESTANT CHURCH
The Fei Curs of the Legis
lature
Preaching each 2nd and 4th
at 11 a. m. and every Sunday
Sunday school 9:45. Prayer
Thursday night at 7:30.
At Occoneechee farm, General Julian
j S. Carr has perhaps the finest flock of
j Shropshire sheep to be found in the
Sunday j entire south. Most of them imported,
night On Friday night a stray cur dog broke
meeting
into the flock and killed or.e of the
finest ewes—one of which C^neral Carr
W. E. Swain, Pastor. ■ recently paid $50.00, and it was secured
Grown for seed, field selected, every
ear from stalks bearing two or more.
Hand picked. Have grown and sel-
ectedttia continuoUBlv for 1%. j,. Amick. Supt. of Sunday &hool. j at a bargain at that price. A 60-cent tax
years mcecilclaj^red wil. The public cordially invited to all'on n cur dog of that character seen*
amount for sale pnce$3.M per buaheL Bring a friend with like a shame and a fraud-^Durham
Chas. F. Cates, Sv^athmoor, Farm o. « r
Mebane, N. C.