H
li
7^
“And Right The Day Must Win, To Doubt Would be Disloyalty, To Falter Would te Sin.”
Vol 4.
MEBANE, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 1913
No 87
Estate ot The Late Jnrrett '
L. Cook Sold. '
/\ Cry of Distress
Mol'.'
thoy 1
inaw' ■
ivi'.'i •
first i
I ri'Vt
for ' i'
As
incry
will b
dri.ll f
ucbane B'cfdin^ Co.
. is TU hi:uT ‘f :t is not pro
l^.iv iiulustry is pushing.
.1! luM'i’.ir to it? cap:fciLy. The
: ; ii)(. ti'. I* i;u‘rease is in the
j.iiivlinj: Comyany. Rocenlly
I' I'li'Ot ;1 just across the street
\ ,r I hc'.t a lar^-e two story
. ;,unu-. This buildintr is con-
thi' >-* (’OIK? story with ti^e
, [.y a suspension bvidie
^ wav. 'I ht' now brick building
! is U’ foot by 114 feet
... ]s’ >io\v cquiped with
.mu niac-lnnes, the most
I. .kc, an;i lias other machinery
i the cotton.
, .IS thoy get their new mach
; I'asy woiking condition, thtv
rroparod lo turn out t‘vo hun-
;!‘ mattresses per day, and
oqiial luniber of spir?l bed springe.
Tl'.o
about
latest ^
It in
the pro
Co., arc
the b:'>'
V, adililion to the plant cost
' . 0. and is equiped with the
,1 nu.n't improved machinery.
[:u t recognized where ever
of the Mebane Bedding
;.;a that their goods ranks
v.ii the market.
j On Satur'I ^v Si-ptember the 6th, tl e
I estate of the late Jarrett L. Cook was
j sold at public auction, [n the morning
Mr Will Thompson of Hebron crying
. the sale, the furniture and other house-
! hold artici»’G pertaining to the estate
, were sold. After this Mr. Ed King put
. up for sale some horses and a number
. of town lots situated near Mr. George.
Mebane’a lesid.Mice
j In the afternoon at one o’clock Mr,
j J. S. Cook of Graham, commissioner,
I auctioned the sale of the valuable
property opposite the grounds of the
Graded School, and lying in the same
block with, and South of the residence
1'he I'-’ts belonging to Hon. T. M. Cheek,
two Mr. W. Y.
Malone. There were just one and one
half acres of land to be sold and this
was firsc divided into four lots. But
lots number 1 and 2, constituting the
Western half of the land sold for more
together than apart, and were knocked
down aa one lot to Mr. A. N. Scott for
five hundred and thirty dollars.
The house and lot facing Third Street
and now occupied by Mr. Ed King was
sold as lot nunnber 5 to Mr. Sam Smith
for fourteen hundred and twenty-five
dollars. Lot number 6 facing Third
Street reaching back to the South
West corner of Mr. T. M. Cheek’s lot,
and lying between lot number 5, and
the property of Mr. Cheek, was declared
sold to Mr. A. N. Scott for three
hundred and thirty dollars.
im-
an
as
[M Ot Letters Advertised
For : wiH'k ending Sept. 6 1913.
1 I.oritr r-.r Mrs. Annie Sharpe
1 •* “ Mrs. Margaret Martindale
1 “Mr. Tawlee Staford
“ Mr. Bedford Walker
I “ Miss Alma Lester
Mr. L. p]. Rickardon
letters will be sent to the
tic rOtl’ice Sept. 20 4913. If not
In calling please give date
1
1 -iar
1
Thes
Dead I
ailed ! >1
of li.'i.
J. T. Dick, P. M.
Work The Road.
' K'ant Grove, N C. Sept
5-13
Editor 1,1
1 ? • N it the road force is at work
ffradi," ' the road from BaWc Creek to
St I f i •• ■ ■k on the road from Meb-
and ai: 1 I'leasant Grove. Now why
can’t \v= :iil help, and sand or gravel
this riiH'i. There l3 not a farmer who
haiil> nv r Lhis road but could afford
tOLnVr v,oeks’ with hands and teams
and k that the Tobacco people and
merchu. ^ (.f Meban,e will' do their
part V : us all talk thrS up, and go
towoik and see what we can do.
I su; t that the follbwing go to
work -oe how much they can get
{)ledri ', i rank Harrelson, Tony, N. C.
Gay ' ■ ray, Vincent, Ed Daily, Pleas
ant (li.c, J. VV. Stainback, Stamback
S- E. latn, Stainback, Er. W. N.
"Tato, J hii Holmes, W'alter Malone,
Mebane, N. C.
There is plenty gravel and sand near
the rjii.i, and will be easy to sand or
gravel. (Jct busy, now is the tinne
while the road force is at work.
Farmer.
Mr. Trexler
Mr. C. O. P. Trexler who spent much
of the past summer in our town, left
here Sunday morning. He will stay
but a few days at home with his parents
after which he goes to his school. Mr,
Trexler’s people intend moving sonre-
time in the near future to Augusta,
Ga. He is very sorry of this, being a
good Tar Heel, and wishes that he
might cling to “the Old North ^tate
forever."
Mr. Trexler is a fine young man; he
is trying hard to secure his future
usefulness by seeking a good education.
He pays for his schooling with the
profits of work in the vacation season,
thus relieving his father of a great
burden. This last summer he canvassed
the Piedmont section of North Carolina
in the interests of a Northern book
firm, Mr. Trexler says he likes Meb
ane very much, and thinks there is
nowhere to be found a better and more
hospitable set of people than here.
May good luck precede Mr. Trexler
wherever he may go.
I The horror of war does not expend
itself exclusively upon the battlefield.
In the wake of the carnage comes the
long tedious agony that results from
I grinding poverty and destruction of
I the life and property of the bread
j winner. Silently and unpretentiously
this burden must be borne; and for
tunate indeed are the pitiable victims
if the voice of humanity can bring for
them assi.'itance from more favored
centers.
Such a situatioi: exists today in Eu
ropean Turkey. The Balkan war has
left thousands of theso defen;?lesb ones
to suffer death and a fate worse than
death. A htrge proportion of these,
according to the American Constan
tinople Relief committee, are little or
phaned girls, homeless, friendless,
famishing in “holes in the ground in
Turkey, lying sick in huts made of
boughs, and huddled in stabbJes too
scantily clad to come out in the light
of day;^’ and the appeal continues:
‘•What will become of thtse little
girls? How many of these little girls
—good girls, brought up in sheltered
homes in European Turkey-will go
»»s human freight in the caravans of
the Corcassion slave traders of North
Africa? How many will be carried in
Arab slaved hows along the coasts of
the Indian ocean? How many will be
sold as white slaves in the capitals of
European to replenish the population
of that underworld from which no
good girl ever returns? Can the kind
ly church going men and women of
the United States-^the standard of the
world’s civilization—let these good lit
tle girls starve to death or die of hun-
gry-sickness? Can they let these
little girls be sold as slaves by the
Arab slave traders of North Africa, or
by the white slave hunters of Europ
e’s*
The
As to Kissing.
The Chicago health commissioner has
decided that “kissing is not dangerous
if kept within due bonds.” Presum
ably he meant within “due season” with
reference to the well known fact that
kisses, like potatoes, should be planted
in the dark of the moon.^Greensboro
News. Now, brother, you may want
to plant your kisses “m the dark of
the moon,” but as for us and our house
we pfefer the ruby red lips of a fair
damsel. Old maids barred and widows
need not apply.—Carthage News.
Obstensable Blind
Tiger Slayer
Rev. R. L. Davis is making an effort
through his attorneys to secure a
pardon from the Governor, haying been
convicted in Wake County Court of an
assault We think the Governor might
let it stand as it is. If Davis will
make a fool of him self then he should
taka his medicine, Davis was found
guilty of striking a man oyer the head
with a whiskey bottle. Davis is a
licensed MinisU r of God‘s Gospel, and
he had set him self up as the great
mogul and blind tiger slayer. Not
hesitating at going over the State
misrepresenting his superiors, for the
purpose of self londation. We hop®,
the Governor will let Davisis matter
remain as it is.
The Baptist Association
Will Meet at Mebane
The 44 annual session of the Mt. Zion
Baptist Association will meet with the
Mebane Baptist Church '1 uesday after
the first Sunday Oct. 7 at J1 o’clock,
Dr. J. J. Hurt of the first Baptist
church of Durham will preach the in
troductory sermon. A very interesting
program has been prepared and some
of the ablest speakers of the denomina
tion will be present
This meeting will bring quite a
number of visitors to Mebane, this is
a very large Association it imbraces
Alamance, Orange, Durham and a
part of Chatham and Wake County’s
there is 48 churches in this Association
with a membership of 7898. It is
expected that not less than 150 dele
gates and visitors to attend the Associa
tion. The Baptist church here and
the other denominations wdl give visi
tors and delegates a hearty welcome.
The public is invited to attend the
meeting.
Orange Grove Items *
Fulling fodder is in order just now.
Mr. and Mr^. C'j is. M. Crawford ai d
little son of Greensboro spent several
days recently with relatives.
Misses Helen Reynolds and Annabel
Crawford of Philadelphia returned to
their dut'es in the Wrmans Hospital
several days a'J'O alter spending a short
vacation with relatives
again
after
Cpmmissioners Report
Grham, N. C. Sept. 8th, 1913.
The Board of County Commissioners
of Alamance County mat in the Court
house on the above date as per adjourn
ment of Sept. 1st, at ten o’clock A. M.
with the following members present.
Geo. T. Williamson, Chairman
W. H Turrentine
Chess. H. Roney
Chas. F. Cates
W. H. Fogleman.
The following business was transacted
UpQn motion duly made and {Seconded:
Be it resolved by this Board that while
we are heartly in sympathy with the
movement of employing a Superinten
dent of health for his full time and
would be glad to vote for it; but
considering the financial condition of
the county and the urgent need of a
new Jail building which will cost the
county several thousand dollars, we
feel that it would not be wise to bring
this expense on the countv at this
lime ond therefore we cannot pay a
superintendent for his full time at the
present time.
The motion put and carried.
The jurors drawn for the October
term will appear in the next issue of
the Leader.
M ios Thelma Iveynolds has
entered school at Charlotte
spending the summer at home.
'J’he teachers for the Orange Grove
School have beei; -K ctedfor he coming
year, fcjiss Carrio J^ickard of Chapel
Hill will be principal a:;d Miss AnicG
Thornton of near Ha a fie ds assistant.
We wioh lor the «chooi a most success
ful and profitable year.
Rev. and Mrs. B. Vaughn Ferguson
have been visiting Mrs. Ferguson
parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Reynolds,
for several days. They left Monday
fjr Wake rorest to vi^it friends and
from there they go to Reidsville. They
will ag iin take up their work in the
Seminary at Louisville, Ky., the last
of the monih.
No Mcrj Qrandfathtr
Clause.
Movement Real Estate of
Mebane Land and
i jiprovement fJo.
The ^
Co., h;:
lots.
uie Land and Improvement
old recently the followirg
on Second Street to J. D.
on Third Street to P. A.
n Third Street to W. L.
2L,
Hunt.
1
Koystcr
1 1..!
Crawfuf, i_
^ Lot on Third Street to Central
^oan ai.,i Trust Co.
1 L(.i 01, Third Street to Miss Jennie
White.
rin Jackson Street to Henry
McCauly.
1 Uf ,n Fifth Street to Rev. J. D.
Hufhaii;.
2 cn Third Street to J. S. White.
.ot (’jay Street to Vincent and
*Varr(M'
2 ■ ol . on Holt Slreet to Ed Cheek.
Hev. •
visit H.
'veek ff,
*nd Mrs. R. F. Bumpass
*). Scarboros the last of
'T eight or ten days.
Callie S.
®Peiid few
^carhoro
Mount.
on
will
this
Clegg of Pittsboro will
weeks with Mr. H. D.
her return from Rocky
Legislature Meets on
tember 24.
Sep'
A Spartan cf Spartan
burg.
(Columbia State.)
“Gentlemen.” said the sheriff, “1
hate to do it, but, so help me God, I
am going to kill the first man that
enters that gate.’’--Special to the
State from Spartanburg,
There stood a man!
Nothing that could have happened
could have done more to rehabilitate
South Carolina in the respect of the
nation than the simple-minded faith in
the sanctity of his oath displayed by
this Spartanburg county sheriff.
His name is White. Without thought
of a pun, so is his soul. Pistol in hand,
sticks of dynamite exploding in the
jail yard, a raging, bloodthirsty mob
yammering at the gate. Sheriff White
threw his definance in their teeth.
“He means it, boys,” came a voice
from the crowd, and no man entered.
No man entered! And no man will
enter so long as there stands forbidding
the figure of a man strong enough to
show forth convincingly the fact that
the people have entrusted with the
power of keeping the peace a man
who is willing to back the fiction of
the law, if need be, with hia very
blood! A lynching bee ceases to be
an amusen ent the instant it encoun
ters a real man who understand the
meaning of the authority with which
he is invested.
The place where a dollar does its
whole duty. See advertisment of the
Mebane Supply Company.
It is just tw'o weeks from Wednes
day until the General Astembly meets
in extraordinary session in compliance
with th® call of Governor Craig to con
sider interstate freight rate adjust
ment and to perfect amendments to
the State Constitution for submission
to the people for ratification.
That the opening days of the session
will be intensely strenuous is indicated
by the call that has just been issued by
President Tate of the State Just
Freight Rate Association for the busi
ness men and farmers to gather there
on the opening day of the Legislature
September 24, for a mass meeting at
which a complete bill of particulars as
to freight rate adjustment shall be
made out and laid before the Legisla
ture in such manner as will impel the
Legislature to use its utmost power
for the relief of the wrongs enumerat
ed.
Make Application.
Make your application for Electric
current now, \11 those who expect to
use electric power for lighting or other
wise are urged to make application for
current at once, blanks for which will
be found at the office of the Continental
Chair Company. It is necessary that
these blanks should be filled out and
signed by the parties wishing current
in this way the Piedmont Railway and
Electric Co., may know who wants
current, how much and for what
purpose and can install the necessary
transferers and other apparatus to care
for the business and as stated last week
those who first apply tor current will
be the first to be connected tx> the
s€srvice. A postal card addressed to
the Piedmont Railway and Electric Co.
Mebane will receive proper attention.
Geo. C. Woodworth, Local Manager
DAiGE GREftT
Destruction in Washing
ton, C. Estimated At
Million and Half*.
Between $1,000,000 and $1,EOO,000
damage to Washington, N. C., and
$2,000,000 to Beaufort county was
sustained last Wednesday morning due
to terrific wind and rain storm « The
wind reached a velocity of 90 to 100
miles per hour. The town of Washing
ton so far as business is concerned is
practically out of commission. Only a
few business houses escaped. Electric
wires are gone, the telephone exchange
is rumed, bridges are washed away and
practically aU boats in the harbor sunk
tell the story.
The business portion ol Washington
presents a pitiful sight. Goods of every
description are piled up all over the
streets, water is standing several feet
deep in cellars, trees are uprcotcd, con
crete pavements broken and the city in
total darkness The Norfolk Southern
bridge spanning the Pamlico river, a
distance of a mile or more, is swept
away. Two other bridges belonging co
the company crossing Jacks creeK and
Runyans creek aie a total loss. These
bridges were on the main line of the
Norfolk Southern between Washington
and Norfolk. The company also sus
tained heavy loss by freight sheds and
freight. Trains from Raleigh cannot
reach,there. The passenger train from
Raleigh has to step at Chocowinity and
the train from Norfolk cannot (get any
closer than Woolentown, a distance of
several miles.
Nice men and boys clothing and shoes,
an other things to make you look nice at
J. S. Clarks. See ad elsewhere.
Handed
Caught Red
“Farmers,” said the fair city visitor,
“are just as dishonest as the city milk
man.”
“How d’ye make that out?” ssked
the farmer’s wife.
“This morning,’' said the girl, ac
cusingly, “with my own eyes I saw your
hired man water the cows just before
he milked them.”—New York Globe.
The whole community was
on Wednesday evening Aug. 24th to
learn of the sudden death of Mrs.
James Hay which occured at the heme
of her daughter Mrs. C. K. Teer. Mrs.
Ray had been spending nearly all of
her time for the past several months
with her daughter who has been and is
yet seriously sick, and trying by
constant attendance and loving minis
trations that only a devoted mother
can show to nurse her daughter back
to health After washing tome at the
spring in tho morning and in the eve
ning when it looKed like it was going
to rain she hurriedly w#»nt after the
clothes^and just as she reached the steps
on her return she fell striking her head
against the steps and died immediately,
heart failure is attributed the cause.
She was tenderly laid to rest at Cane
Creek Church cemetary Thursday eve
ning, the funeral being preached by
Rev. J. B’. McDuffie. Mrs. Ray was
a consist ant member of the above
church; she was a kind and loving
neighbor; a devoted mothor and a
Christian woman of the purest and
noblest type. She was abont fifty years
of age and leaves a husband and six
children to mourn for her. The great
give]T of life has only taken unto him
self one of his own, and “we shall
meet beyond the riyer.”
Mr. Ernest Reynolds of Chailotte
spent Saturday night and Sunday with
his father and other relatives. Mr.
Reynolds is now lepresenting the
Stieff Piano Co. His family has recently
been increased by a bouncing baby boy
Mrs. D. F. Crawford, the grandmother
of this little boy, left last week via
Mebane and Greensboro where she
stopped with her sons, to see her new
grandson.
That was some rain and wind storm
last week, corn and cotton was damaged
and the fodder practically ruined.
Miss Minnie King and Mr. Vance
Cates took dinner with Miss Lula
Roberson Sunday, Mr. Elmo Thompson
called in the afternoon.
Mr. James Howard of Raleigh is
taking a vacation from his duties as
clerk in the post-office. Jim is making
good in the world and is a genial whole
souled fellow.
Misses'^Nellie and Beatrice Lloyd of
Durhsu' are visiting relatives at the
Grove.
Messrs. Hiram Cheek and Chandler
Cates left Monday for Mars Hill where
they wiil enter school. We hate to see
’em leave, will someone kindly console
a certain young lady whom we have
reasons to believe is a little lonesome
now.
Miss Aline Perry is visiting relatives
in Durham for a few days.
Miss Grade Lloyd left Monday for
Durham where she will enter school.
When all these boys and girls have to
leave home thereby breaking family
ties and incurring added expense we
think the people should realiz:* what
they are loosing by not having a good
school in our midst.
Some people are too good to associ
ate with their neighbors; some young
men cannot find their social equals in
their communities; some young ladies
want to fly higher than their neighbor
hood associates; some mothers would
sacrifice her childs character for social
preeminence, and the story of weak
ness runs on.
Last - aturday the grandfather clause
of the Louisi; na Co.i^titution, enacted
in 189S and reopened this year, departed
its life. The Secretary of State has
given notice accordingly. No one can
claim the suffrage on hereditary
grounds W^e gather that the reopening
WPS not a success and is very unlikely
ever tu be attempted again.
Louisiana's later experience with
this constitutional provision bears in
structive aspects for North Carolina,
in view of the now quiescent but not
wholv dead advocacy of a reopening
here. It may be recalled that we
copied our grandfather clause from
Louisiana. She adopted this novel ex
pedient while our White Supremncy
campaign of 1898 was un'^er way; and
our Legislature of 1898 sent it to
triumphant adoption, with Aycock
nominated for Governor, in the 1900
Cixmpaign. Down there, as up here,
the avowed purposes of the measure
were disregarded on principle in mak
ing up the permanent roll of the
number whose ancestry was supposed
to be their sole salvation from loss
of the vote. Not only illiterates but
shocked | thojsands who could read and write,
including the Democratic leaders,
registered thus, to the end, largely,
that no stigma might attach. In both
States, too, the pledge against dis
franchising any native white man pre
vented care in the examination of ap
plicants, and practically every state
ment from white men regarding their
parentage or grandparentage w&s
good enough. Other Southern States
have since followed Louisiana and
North Carolina in the adoption and
similar use of this clause.
If the Will Were Shown.
(From The Winston-Salem Journal.)
A dispatch from The Journal’s cor-
sponderent at Washington yesterday
told of an agreement having been
reached between the Southern Furni
ture Association and the Southern
Railway Company^ whereby the rates
on shipments of furniture from North
Carolina were made satisfactory to
the manufacturers of furniture. We
are glad that the matter was settled
without the aid of the courts. It is
always better to settle controversies
without courts if possiblec But we
make the point that if the Southern
Railway can fix rates that will satisfy
the manufacturers of furniture in this
State, it can fix rates that will satisfy
all other shippers, and thus quickly
solve the whole perplexing problem
of freight rates, and that, too with
out the aid of a special session of
the General Assembly.
Give
Mrs. D. E. Wilkinson and daughter
Myrtle ot Ridgeville are visiting Mr,
H. E. Wilkinson.
Them the Sand-Clay
Roads.
The fact that the sand-clay road is
the thing for Wake has become at last
thoroughly fixed in the public mind.
There is no poorer road than worn
macadam, and the macadam ones laid
down some twenty years ago have
never been repaired, except in one
case and then for a very short distance.
The term “permanent roadway” has
fooled a lot of people. There is no
such thing. The finest roads in Europe,
that country of perfect highways,
have a man looking after each two
miles and repairs are made the moment
there is the least defect in the road
bed. There they never wait for holes
to come in the road. Here we wait,
and too often do nothing else but wait.
Wake should have nothing but sand-
clay roads, except perhaps for the first
mile or so out of Raleigh on the high
ways most traveled. For cheapness of
orgininal cost and of maintenance the
sand-clay road is in a class by itself.—
Raleigh Times.
Warehouse Opens
Thursday Sept. 11th the Warehouses
of Mebane open for the sale o1& leaf
tobacco and it promises to be a day of
unusual interest to those who sell,
and those who buy the weed. Mebane
has two large Warehouses, the Pied
mont and the Planters, they are both
in the hands of a competent ahd clever
set of men, men who know tobacco
from the time it leaves the plant bed
until it reaches the Warehouse floor.
Mebane has had a pheiiominal growth
in the Ic af tobacco trade. People who
have had their eye on Mebane as a
tobacco market predict that Mebane
w'ill easily handle three million pounds
of tobacco this fall and winter season.
Ml. J. N. Warren returned from
Pages Mills, S. C. Tuesday. He will be
with the boys at the Warehouse opening
Thurbday.
I