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^‘And Eight The Day Must Win^ To Doubt WouW be Disloyalty, To Falter Would be Sin/ Vol5 MEBANE, N.C., THURSDAY. MARCH 12 1914 No 4 School News Mr. Ralph Vincent of the firm ] of \ incent and \\ aireiv dealers j ^J. clarence Poe, Editor of the Prq- in hi^h grade horses and mules, gsessive Farmer^ will make the liter- lefi: this week for the West lO ■ ary address at the Ck)unty commence- hiiv an other ca: load. In order. Saturday April 25. Mr. Poe , i-u the author of several Dooks and is 3ni\cil iiG »\iil 1 j*i. *.• I also an entertaminif and instructive express these. i speaker. Mr. Poe's special field of The Nelson Drv Goods Co. ! study is Rural questions. We are sure phanc-es their advertisement in I ^^ing to us a practical this issue directing attention to, anumber of new and seasonable! The Saxaphaw Bchool jtave an en- . , . , rp. • Itertainment a few nights ago that articles just received. ThiS' ® * compaiiy have a clean nice, uf- to date stock, don’t fail to see them. Bridge Cluh Mrs W. W. Corbett was charms injr hostess to the Bridge Club | Tuesda^' afterncon at the homei Oi’Mrs. Ella Vincent cn Main St. I Mrs. J. M. Thompson and Miss | tertainment cleared for the school $15- The Junior ordfer of that place presented the school with two water fountains. These are gifts of real worth and are grace fully received. Shallowford and New Hope schools are planning to buy supplencentary JibreirieB. Watered to Death (Memphis News-Scimilar.) Jenn e Lasley made the highest! ^^o^k Island railway securities have 1 not collasped on account of any famine , o ^ ^ HT i traffic. The Frisco railroad didn’t Mrs. Artiuu k_COtt and Mrs. plunge into a receivership as the se- Jos6ph Vincent were guests. quel to hard times. The New York, Members present. Mesdames, j Haven and Hartford Railroad did 1 M. Tiionipsoii and W.S. Harrisdividends because tran- • T\r I T • sportation had died in New England. Mis.es Fannie Mebane. Lassie^ What happened in each of these Wiitkirs ^lary and Katherine three cases which now clcud the finan- White and Jennie Lasley. , dal horizon was this: They loaded their Delicious refre.-'hments were : properties with more capital than the served in throe courses consis-1 '“"y- no transpor- ’ -i. 11 •i.L i tation reason, and out of no traveling ting ct Lrape- ruit, salad with | multiplied COttee a?~'d ambrosia. ; capital obligations too rapidly. Yes VV hv It ’ unfortunate for the many . . * , . , ! railroads that have not done any kite- •■Headed why i,. it, ar art.cle which , appear.' in this weeks Leader siprned I superviMon when issuing stocks and A Reader. This writer wnnts to know ^ bonds, but congress, having the three why a man all ways grins when its a ! very glaring examples cited immedia- , , . , ' tely before it, may be in a humor to bov, ar.d answeis the question bv, ^ ... , - , . ■ ' enact restrictive legislation. saying because it tickles his vanity We did not know that sucn w’as all I way? the case, but r.dmitting there are j enough of them to have provoked • Hillsboro News Go To Wcrk. Haw Creek, N. C. Probably Last Liquor Stamps Issued in State. Mr. Fditor:- Mr. Ham and (Too lat« for last wo«k.) Yes Tuesday was a busy day in Hills boro. The miperable condition of the roads ard the fierce gale which blew t fr/Arv «v,:o all day weie not sufficient to prevent a j Highway Commissioners of Orange office. They are for the large crowd of visitors frohi coming to , County has said to the writer that they remainder of the N Glenn Willian s the “County Capitol.’' I could probably get the public road , wiUiat. ^Ldkin Cou^lJI Ll The Democratic executive committee | leading from Oaks to Mebane, graded the liquor which was' stored in ware- met at the call of Clerk Strayhorn from Oaka to the Alamance line near houses in the State has been “tax I Collector A.. D. Watts of Statesville Mr. F. Mclver issued what may be the Ipst liquor Orange ' ^ver issued from Busine2»s Reasun (FroT the Pittsburgh ChronicU-Tele graph ) An old colored mai stealing chickens, was Jennings and Gore The Hon, AI Jennings, ex-bandit, re fused to become offended when Senator charged with j Gore’s lawyer called him a liar and a arraigned i I toward. He says it was only “politics. ” court, and was incriminating himself ‘ Having entered politics himself, Hon. when the judge said: “You ought to ; Al is disposed to give wide htitude to Bingham School News The Bingham school st Mebane . claims the state championship among Reader question, you could not all ways , high schools in tennis and will be tell whether he is grinning for pleasure pleased to have notice from any school or pain, he must try do something that claims the championship, so that smart. But without going intj further j games may be arranged to decide the , ^ . , , . , J »> 1 1 matter if the school notifying Bingham detail m reference to ‘Reader only . , . ^ ^ taking it in a general summary we are! quite sure she is off. When Goa created this world he made man and woman, and since that creation woman has been foui.d just as important in thv* economy of nature as man, and as lung a.-5 she delicately, honestly, and inr.ooentlv upheld the home, stood for i ,. , ‘ J , 1 ^ • 1 ! which Bmgham has made in the Its highest and holiest aims and purposes i _ I has a proper claim to present Bingham has a fine baseball sched* a!e arranged for the spring season of 1914. Practice is now going on every day. Some of the g^mes are to be played in Virginia this season and as the boys heve a good team, they are hoping to to consider the resignation of Chair man Robertson. Mr. Robertson stated posi lively that his pressure of business would not permit him to serve another campaign in the capacity of churman and urged the committee to select his successor at once in order that he might get a line on things as early as possible. Dr C M. Hughes of Cedar Grove was chosen to succeed Mr. Robertson. Dr. Hughes has been one of the parties wheel horses for a number of years and his selection is considered a fortunate one. Mayor W. S. Robertson of Chapel Hill was before the County Commis sioners in regard to the new railroad which is to pass through Bingham and Chapel Hill townships. An election was ordered for these two townships to vote on the question of issuing bonds as an inducement to the railroad to put its line though those townships. It was learned Monday that an error had been made in fixing the amount that Orange County is to receive from the state equalizing school fund. The error, if uncorrected, will leave Orange County about $1,000.00 short. Supt. Lockhart was instructed to go to Raleigh and look after the matter in person. Dr. J. T. Morefield from Bow^den, N. C., has recently moved here to take the place made vacant by Dr. Mebane. Dr. Morefield took his training at U. N. C. and at the University of Mary- 1 ind. He has been in practice for four years and comes to us with a record for successful treatment and surgery. He is well equipped as far as training and experience go and the people of Hillsboro are glad to welcome him. Dr. Morefield is a man of .family and is a relative of Mr. A. S. Mitchell, our enterprising hardware merchant. Hebron Church, if Alaraance would grade from Hebron Church to the Mc- Adam road near the Stroud place 1| milos South of Mebane, but Mr. Mc- paidout, ” the Williams liquor bfing the l?st t> go, and for this reason there will be no mere occasion for issuing liquor stamps. When liquor was voted out of the Iver said Orange County don’t want to . Stath in 1908 there were a number of build thi» six miles of road unless Ala mance will agree to build ^leir part. Now I am going to suggest that the people who are interested in this road, get together and call a meeting at W. large distilLers who bsnded their liquor* and stored it in Government ware houses. This liquor has been gradually tax paid and withdrrwn from the ware houses. Several thousands of gallons of the Williams liquor, over which F. Jones Store and otganize and {there has been much litigation in the Federal courts, is now being withdraw n from the warehouse at williams. have a lawyer Where’s your law yer?” “Ah ain’t got no lawyer, jedge,” said the old man. “Very well, then,” said his honor, “I’ll assign a lawyer to defend you.” “Oh, no, suh; no, sah! Please don’t do dat!” the darky begged. “Why not?’' asked the judge. “It won’t cost you anything. Why don’t you want a lawyer?” “Well, jedge. Ah’11 tell you, suh,” said the old man, waving his tattered old hat confidently. “Hit’s jest dis way -Ah wan’ tuh enjoy dem chickens mahse’f!” the utterances of politicians. And, then he may have had othir reasons,— Kansas City Journal. petetion the commissioners of Alamar ce County to build this road from Hebron rhurch to the Me Adam road, provided Orange will build from Oaks to Hrbron Church. I suggest that Mr. Billy Cook, W. A. Woods, Tho. Jones, W. F Jones, Sidney Mebane and all of the Haw Creek people get busy. Vow is the time to act. This i& a very importa.it road and should be built, all of the Oaks people are interested, it is impor tant to them as well as to the Alamance f.eople. I suggest the Carriers of routes No. 2 and 4 see their patrons about this. . Go tc work. H^w Creek. Being A Neighbor. Cleanliness and Health, : add several victories to the fine record i years. Several Virginia boys, men went down on bended knees before i the school for several past cadets years past, her ve=tal alter, burning the mojt I are members of the team, and are fragrant incence of love and fidelity to j showing up in good form her. If there h&s been a change in i The infield, Wheeler and Burnett sentimei.t, if man does not seem as he first, Zielminski short, Compton sec- ilid ir thi long ago, it is because of the MsCutchen and Hooks third, are 1 u 1. expected to show up in fine style. Fankhurst, the Dr. Mary Walker, tne Proctor, Jones, Thompson and Harris Dr. Shaws and hundreds of other v.omen who have unsexed therii selves, ar.d in dress and manners, did what a man of high ideals could not approve of. bupt. of Road Report. Hillsboro News will probably hold down the outfield. Cobb and Blanchard are depended upon to do the receiving, while Boshamer and Gerow have been showing good f jrm on the pitching staff. Miss Estelle Hall of Durham spent Saturday and Sunday in Hillsboro visi ting relatives. Miss Mary C. Jones of Vtlarta, Ga. is visiting Mrs. James W'ebb Wny Is It j Why is it that a man always grins j when “it’s a boy.” Because it tickles j his vanity; his valuation of a human I being is the size of a dollar arid the ■ right to vote. But women have sensed ^lrs. M. L Taylor and Mis. Floyd P. ‘ the “human standard” and are pro L3onard went to Richmond last week | gressing rapidly. A man’s place for a to buy agstock of spring and Summer i woman is out of his way with her eyes. n.:iiinery. | ears and mouth stopped up, minus Mr. and Mrs. ],v,ivitte Bowles went!appreciation for her to Durham Saturdav. I contribution to the world, amounts to veiy little. A woman is sneered at by Mr. George Thompson of Efland was a man when she enters the world and Graham, N. C. March 2 1914. To the Commissioners of Alamance County: 1, G. A. Fogleman, Supt. of the Public Roads of Alamance’County, beg leave to make the following report as to the work done on the roads of Ala- msnce Co. by convict force and hired for month ending Feb. 28 1914. Repairing mcadam road through L. B. Holts farm 7 teams and 20 men, one week Repniring mcadam road through L. H. Holts farm and between Graham and Burlington 7 teams and 20 n'.en one i week. Grubbing IJ days on Bellmort road, 15 men i day and ^0 men 1 day. In Graham and Burlington TpS. Hauling Rock on Altamahaw road 5 teams one day . In Boonstation Tp. Very respctfully submitted, G. A. Fogleman, Supt. of Roads. It is winter now”. We are passing active * the coldest weather of sever al years but it is march and spring flowers are ju3t ahead. Likew'ise the typhoid fly and the maleria-hesring mosquito are just a few weeks off. Why not do a little planning right now for effective work against these pests? Our people do not nef>d to be told that the fly is a dangerous nuisance. Death follows in the wake of ^ the fly. He breeds in filth, revels ip Jilth and from unmehtiona Jle filth flies t^ your table and poisons your food. The mosquito nreeds in stagnant water and makes the night hideous with his song. If song and sting were his only annoying features, he might be borne, but it has been demonstra ted, beyond possibility of doubt, that the mosquito carries the germ that produces malarial feytr. The fly can be abolished by a strict observance of the laws of health. The city has ordinances for the cleaning up of stables and other breeding plac es of flies. There should be enforced strictly.—Lexington Dispatch A Million A Year Bv malcing the Pa''ama Canal free to American coastwise vessels. Con gress undertook to hand over to a monopoly about $1,000,000 a year. As Mr. Taft has very frankly admitted, it is as truly a subsidy as though the money were to be paid out of the Treasurj\ Many Republicans have consistently favored ship subsidies as a part of their system of protection and privilege. A generation ago tho party w^as nearly wrecked by the exposure of the out rageous briberies of the suhsidy- huntirg Pacific Mail lobby. Sixteen years ago M. A. Hanna signalized his first appearance in a purchased Sena- toiship by introducing a general sub sidy bill. The Senate passed it, but it was defeated in a House, elected by means of Hanna’s money, which did not haye the hardihood to accept so gigantic a scheme of plunder. In those days few Democrats could be found in the subsidy camp. Those who maitained Euch relations were under suspicion, and most of them soon disappeared from public life. To-day a good many Democrats are openly in favor of subsidies. Some profess a desire to build up our merchant marine, although this subsidy to what is already a monopoly confers no benefits upon our deep-sea shipping. Some who are chronic Anglophobists adhere to the exemption at Panama because it is in violation of a treaty with Great Britain. —New York Worln. (Jackson Sun.) Very few of us recognize the real privilege of be.ing a neighbor. There are too many who engage in petty quarrels and take up snr.all griev-1 building and loan for Kural Credits. There are two building and loan as sociations in Charlotte which have over one-half million dollars assets each. One of them has nearly two million. These assets are in the form of mortga- I ges on real estate j mostly on h'^m^s. i Tt is evident that any bank could loan 1 either association 25 per cent of the j va’ue of its mortgages with perfect j safety. This wojild be plenty to facili- ! tate all the credits that the building and loan wants. The same might be true of rural credits. Tho regional bank might operate through the building and loan association by loading; the building and loan 25 per cent of the value of its mortgages when it needed money. Each township might have a rural rredits.— For Sale. ^nces that originate in the fusses of | Charlotte Chronicle. their respective children. - -p- c \ There are too many who carry chips j Moral i lague opOt-=A on their shoulders. I New Cemetery for suicides A little dispute among children living j Following thp recent glut of crime in the same vicinity very frequently j the vicinity, the advisability oC ends in a neighborhood row that results i dosing down Monte Cailo ns a gam’-- in bad feeling for years to come. ■ ijngr resort, at least, for curling its ' ramifications, is being energetically ; discussed. France is the country chief ly concerned. J* J. J 1 ’ policy of tha Mairco aulhoil- ininiedlEte [delivery ties in dumping all undesirables over one bran new 5 horse power ‘ the frontier comes in for fieive ciifl- ) cism. It is felt that as Monte Carl > has long been reorgnized as Europe’s school for crime, the people of the principality should be compelled to try otfenders in the ordinary .v/ay and be prevented from hushing up cvei/ scandal and crime lest the visitoi-s should be scared away. For in Hillsboro Saturday. We are glad to learn that Mips Annie Wilson who has been on the sick li^t is able to resume her studies. Mr. Low Thompson of Efland was a Hillsboro visitor Saturday. Miss Bessie AltLane. Lloyd left Sunday for imposed upon by him to the fullest extent of her endurance until she reaches the grave. A woman's place for a woman, especially those not suppressed by a man’s vanity, is the place where her intelligence and real value demands, but she is out of place at present. A Reader. Mr. Bertie Lloyd accompanied by his mother and his little son Thelbert left I Tuesday for Baltimore w^here little 1 Tnelbert is to have medical attention. : Stay Where You Are. (Bristol Herald-Courier.) Recently we had some-.hing to say about western and northwestern rail Miss Josephine J^orrest returned last ^ week from a trip Norlh where she has ! >•>•>“ teen to purchase a stock of spring and | and other parts of the south in search summer millinery Mr H. W. Hinshaw returned last from a visit to his home at Raldemon. Mr. J. Clyde Ray of the University C. is at home on the sick list. Mr. Williams Woods is quite sick. Accident Logan Bason an old colored man fibout 70 years old who lives at the n^me of Emma Maynard, (colored) was found in the woods Friday night almost fr'^'Zen to death. As he was crossing ® small branch his legs gave way and ^'6 fell into the water. He managed to Wawl to the side of branch and laid there unconscious from early in the day Until eight oi nine o’cIock that night. His clothes bad to be cut off his body with difficulty Dr. Thompson revived him. He is in a critical coudition. A Fair Offer. Mebane, Rfd. No. 1. Mr L. J. Allison made a trip to Hillsboro Saturday returning j Sunday. Glad to report Mr. H. C. Weavers child improving from pneumonia. Miss Ruth Lee Holt of Burlington is visiting Miss Tessa Maynard. Mr. W. E. Stainback came home last week' after spending a week vi&iting and brought his wife. Mrs. J. H. Anderson of Burlington R. 5 is visiting her son Henry Ander son one Route 1. Capt. C. M. Terr spent Saturday in Mebane. Saturday P. We learn that some people are not satisfied with the way we run The Scout Now we have this to say: “II any man in Alexander thinks he can make a better paper than The Scout all he h»»s to do is pay for the mat(rial we have in the office and give us a gootl bond to keep The Scout running lejularly for five years and we will let . him have our lease on the office and business j eight hours a day for him if he I wants us and will do as we do, pay our wages every Saturday evening. Now this is the chance for you smart people who know how to run a paper to try your hand. The Scout mast run and we will stand ready to take it up as soon as you run it in the ground and forfeit your bond.. Now we ask you kindly to take up or shut up and give the paper your support which some of you have never done since our name has been Scout —The Taylorsville Scout. peerless gasoline engnie. Has a speed regulator, and is a tip top machine. See. A. M.Cook. Mebane, N. C. Had Better Look Out. Paul Garrett, of Norfolk, who buys the scuppcrnongs and other grapes of eastern North Carolina at a good price, IS engineering a wine men’s corporation which would represent over $150,000,- 000 of capital throughout the county. Mr. Garrett thinks that “if we must be regulated it’s far better it should be by ourselves than by some fellows in Washington who don’t know anything about the trade and who are largely influenced by spite and malice.” But he’d better watch out for the anti-tmst law. —Charlott^:-Observer. of emigrants. These agents make their appearance twice a year-late in the winter and late in the summer—and usually succeed in persuading at least a few people to migrate to some one of the western or northwestern states. Sometimes men with families are persuaded to sell their farms and go west, to discover too late that they have made a mistake; but more often the emigrants are young men who should remain in the south and help in its development and have a share in its prosperity. Andrew Carnegie Agrees to Help Pay For Organ Rev. Shuford Peeler yesterday an nounced that Andrew Carnegie had a- gread to pay $800 on a $1,600 pipe or gan for tiie First Reformed church of this city.«-]rre3n»l;^ro News- Hon. E. 0. Ray spent M. at Haw River. Mr. J. W. Ray h.is been confined a few days, but is able to oe out again. Col. E. P. Cook says the weather man is all a humbug as he waits every morning for his mail and if it says rain he stops at home and loos’'s a whole day which is a great setback to his farm duties. Mr. C. L. Allison who has been in the merchantile business on Burlington Route 5 closed up and went to Selma to accept a position as stenographer but after seeing the sights decided to return back to Alamance and locate on Mebane No. are good. Thaw Lawyer’s Finish. REPORT OF THEOONDITICN OF THE Commercial & Farmers Bank, Mebane, N. G At the close of business M >rch 4th 1914. RESOURCES Loans and discounts $107,064.92 Overdrafts secured, $126,88 unsecured, $ .36 127.24 Banking House $3,855.21 I Furniture, Fixtures $1,674.12 f 5,529.33 Demand Loans 3,900.00 Due from Banks and Bankers 39,649.04 Cash items 4,237.42 Gold coin 2,532.50 Silver coin, including all minor coin currency 1,828.90 National Bank notes and other U. S. Notes $4,378.00 CliflforJ W. Hartridge, principal at- tornty for Hairy K. Thaw in the earlier tt iges of the latter’s career in court, has been disbarred. Hartridge j received $100,000 from Thaw’s moth er and later sued for $100,000 more. He offered to account for $39,000 spent in bribing women wi*h whom Thaw went to withhold testimony that he had wantonly beaten them and otherwise conducted himself as a criminal degene rate toward them—which testimony would have completely spoiled the frame-up featured by Evelyn’s perjured tale. “It is perfectly clear,” says the I unanimous opinion of the court, “that 1 where all the people | respondent has been guilty of un professional conduct and that he is utterly unfit to remain a member of an honorable professisn.” So much stands out plainly. And yet Hartridge may have been decent enough before he became connected with the Thaw case. Nothing more redolent of rottenness and corruption in every conceivable romification—causing the d2morali!ta- tioii of a whole State prison system a nong other evils—has ever been seen ajiywhere.'—Charlotte Observer. Might Explain It. After spading the summer in a mountain hamlet in Tennessee, the visitor hired a native to help pack up. As they were engaged in boxing a shelf of books the mountaineer re marked: “Somehow Ah nevah keered mnoh foh books; but,” he re> Btimed^fter a thoughtful pause, “Ab can’t read, aa’ mebbe that bad sumpin* to do witb It” Total $169,247.35 LIABILITIES Capital stock 8,000.00 Surplus fund 4,500.00 Undivided profits, less current expenses and taxes paid 2,027.84 Dividends unpaid 59.00 Time csrtificatss of Deposit 56,619.01 Deposits subject to check 70,927.50 Savings deposits 26,113.85 Cashier’s checks outstanding 223.12 Certified Checks 27.03 Accrued interest due depositors 750.00 Total $169,247.35 State of North Carolina, County of Alamance, ss: I, W. A Murray Pres, of the above-named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. W. A. Murray, Pres. Subscribed and sworn to before me, this the 10th, day of March 1914. S. G. Morgan, Notary Public Correct Attest: P. Nelson Jas. H. Lasley W. S. Harris Directors. 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