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MEBANE, N. C., THURSDAY. MAT 7 1914
No 12
Tobacco Warehouses
The Tobacco Warehouses have been
rented for the fall season. Mr. J. N.
Warren and Mr. Murray Ferguson will
have charge of the Piedmont and Mr.
.j r. Carter and Mr. M W. Bowland
• he Planters. These gentlemen are
ui'il known in this community and are
. ipable and successful business men
rnoroiighly fitted for conducting the
tobacco warehouses in every respfect.
j rom all indications Mebane will do
a big tobacco business this fall.
Death of Mrs. Artitia
Ellen Johe.
Mrs. Artitia Ellen Jobe 62 years of
atie, died April 24th after a linger
ing illness from stomache trouble. She
WJH a good true mother and a devout
('hristian being a member of the M.
i’. church at Hebron. The remains
were tenderly laid to rest in Hebron
Cemetery Sunday April 2Gth Dr, W.
K. Swain conducted the services. Mrs.
.lobe had been a resident of Mebane
lor tne past ten ye^rs and had en
deared herself to all who knew her.
She is survived by three children, Mrs.
lla 'I'hompson of Nashvilie, Tenn. and
Messrs. Tarlton and Herbert Jobe, of
.\lebane.
Bridge Club
The Bridge Club was delightfully
entertained on Tuesday afternoon by
Misses Mary and Katherine White at
their home in East Mebane.
The reception rooms were especially
attractive \nth their decorations of cut
flowers and ferns. Auction Bridge
was indulged in Mrs. J. M. Thompson
and Miss Jennie Lasley making the
highest score.
Mrs. E. W. Meyers of Greensboro,
Miss Myrtle Mebane of South fiofton,
Va. and Miss Ruth Thompson of
Orlando, Fla., were invited guests,
f'lub members present were, Mrs.
Arthur Scott, Mrs. J. M. Thompson,
Miss Jennie Lasley and.Fannie Mebane.
A dfelieiouR luncheon was served in
two courses.
Sustained Injury.
Mr. Lacy Cook while riding on the
rear of an engine at Selma Tuesday
had the misfortune to strike his foot
against the switch stand with so much
force as to smash the lamp and badly
cut and bruise hia foot. He was brought
to Mebane Tuesday night and carried
to the home of his sister Mrs, Ekl.
King.
Dr. Thompson is the physician in
) attendance and reports the result will
' probably not prove sersous.
Jas Franklin Jobe
Mr. Jas. Franklin Jobe died at his
homo near Mebane last Friday from
Paralysis at the age of 76 years. In
terment took place Saturday at He
bron cemetery, Dr. W. E. Swain con
ducted ths services. The deceased is
survived by seven children, Mr- John
Jobe, fMrs. Mary Wilson, Mr. Jim
Jobe. Mr. West Jobe. Mrs. Janie Mc
Adams, Mr. Bob Jobe, Miss Daisy
lobe, and Mr. Henry Jobe.
Death of Mr. Gill.
Mr. George Gill who lived
miles South of Mebane died
the ap^e of 65 years.
about two
Sunday at
I wo to go to the Electric
Chair.
On Monday mornings train enroute
for Raleigh, was three men handcuifed
and tied, each had figured in a tragedy
each had been tried, convicted, and
I’ound guilty of a felony. Two of them
are to be electrocuted, and one is sen
tenced to serve a term of 13 years in
the penitentiary. Paul Conwell goes
up for electrocution, he is charged
with the murder of J. H. Taylor. Jim
McClure is to be electrocuted for the
murder of Deputy Sheriff Bain. There
is a stay on his execution under appeal.
George Tinnin is sentenced to 13 years
in the penitentiary charged with as
saulting a 13 year old white girl. All
of them were negroes
These were all convicted at a recent
term of the Greensboro superior court.
TO WEAR RED ROSES.
When Suffragettes Flaunt
Their Banners They Will
Be Met With Crimson
Roses' -“Antis^’ Are
Active.
If you are opposed to suffrage, wear
a red rose.
When the suifragietB flaunt their yel
low banners from the White House to
the Capitol next Saturday in the par
ade that is beinfif staged to impress
Congress, their color scheme will clash
with the crimson hue of roses worn by
many thousand fair opponents. All
protestants against votes for women
have been given the word to display
the red rose as an outward and visible
sign of their disapproval.
The most beautiful flower in Ameri
ca has been chosen as the badge of the
anti-suffragists throughout the United
States, and Is to be worn this w^k.
and on all future important occasions, i
This cdict from the National Associa- j
tion Opposed to Woman Suffrage was
Efland Items
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Price of Burling*
is visiting Mrs. Prices parents Mr.'
«nd' Mrs. J. Smith. Mrs. Price who
his been very ill since she came dowr\
is recovering and we hope she will soon
be entirely well.
Mrs. S. Carl Forrest and children
little Misses Louise and Nell i.nd Carl
Jr._ visited Mr. and Mrs. George Lav\s
in Hillsboro Sunday.
Mrs. J. J. Brown and baby boy
GiVdon, spent part of last week with
her aunts Mrs. C. L. S:ni h and Mrs.
D. Johnson near Haioburo.
JMisses Medie Ray and Lettie Thomp
son spent last Sunday with Miss Rays
rilpther Mrs. Mary Thompson in the
X Roads neighborhood.
Miss Bessie Baity Fpent Saturday
afternoon with Misses Pearl and
Maggie Tapp.
Misses Minnie Murray and Lilly
TItompson was Hillsboro visitors last
Tuesday afternoon.
Mias Bessie Hooks who has been
visiting friends in Efland returned to
made known to to the public in a noti-1 her home in Goldsboro last week. Guess
fication given out by Washington*a certain young man is feeling “Blue"
headquarters of the organizations that! near Efland.
is directing the fight against the equal
suffrage.
Store Breaking.
For some time there has been a series
of store breaking in Mebane, and it
seemed impossible to catch up with
the parties responsable for the trouble,
despite some very yigilent watching,
but some parties slipped up Sunday
night It seems that Jd^e’s restau
rant was singled out for the special
consideration of these store breakers.
It has been entered a number of times
since Christmas and much eatables
taken out. Sunday night Mr, Hurbert
Jobe and his brother T, B. Jobe se
creted them selves in the restaurant,
after waiting a while some one came
to the rear window and b^an remov
ing the nails that secured it down. It
was then that one of the Jobe boys
called a halt, and put his pistol in
action, the other cocked his double
barrel gun and let her go at that. In
a little while John Latta and Brag
Foust were arrested, one had a pistol
wound in his elbow tbe other had cir
cumstances connected with him of a
very suspicious character. liikely
both will be sent up for the grand jury
to consider their case. There may be
a temporary lull in this breakhig in
business but a presumption of viseable
means of support, is not considered in
Mebane with that pantileousness,
that the law insist shall be exercised
as a protection to honest citizens.
Health Notes For Mebane.
When your head aches take a long
walk.
Excess in eating, drinking, snioktng,
working, over excessive anger over
loads nature and is sinful.
The Grocery men should be yery
particular at this time of the 5 ear to
keep thehr Stores ciean, scrub the floors
to keep down the dust wnen sweeping. ;
Have covers to all boxes and barrels |
with food in them. Screen the doors |
and windows to keep out (Flies) and
dirt. Then clean up the back yard and
scatter lime over it. Sweep and wash
off the sidewalk, wash with golddust
and plenty of water.
Throw the trash in the barrel^ ng^t
on the sidewalk and streifts.
Friends help us cleanup Mebane, and
then keep it clean.
A Member of the Civic League.
Misses Maud Fauc.ette and Jean
( Blue who have been teaching school
j near Hillsboro is at home for vacation.
Mrs. Lonnie \ulbert and baby, also
her sister Miss Emma Au bert of Meb
ane, visited relatives near Efland Sun
day.
Miss Annie Jordan spent last Thurs
day in Hillsboro shopping.
Mr. Gene Stanford of Mebane came
down Saturday evening and spent the
c&iy Sunday with friends.
Miss Sallie Efland teacher near
Chapel Hill spent Saturday and Sunday
at home with her parents Mr. and Mrs.
M. L. Efland.
SUITE FIXES KERO
SENE PRICE.
Oklahoma Takes Unique
step in Business
Regulation.
(From an Oklahoma Dispatch.)
After a preliminary hearing attended
by many oil producers and refiners the
Oklahoma State Corporation Com-
misdon has issued an order fixing the
retail price of kerosene at eight cents
a gallon in certain territory in West
ern Oklahoma.
The retail price formerly ranged
from 15 to 20 cents a gallon. This is
said to be the first time in the history
of the oil business in the United States
that State officials have ever fixed the
price at which kerosene should be sold
to the public.
The penalty for the violation of the
commission’s orders is a fine of $500
and a jail sentence, both of which are
provided by statute.
The oil producers and refiners have
indicated that they probably will not
resist the enforcement of the order.
They said that the discrimination in
the price of kerosene in Oklahoma was
due to practices of jobbers and retailers,
to whom kerosene had been sold as low
as tv/o cents a gallon, but who had
retailed the oil at seven and eight
times that sum-
Real Estate Sale
The sale of property on Saturday by
the The Mebane Real Estate and Trust
Co., realized a satisfactory price. The
Dick property about one mile south of
Mebane brought approximately $7,100.-
Utl.
All except ten lots of the Holt pro
perty were sold and brought approxi
mately $1,500.00.
A number of silver articles were
Kiven away and a free lot which was
woii by Mr Lando Terrell. Real Es
tate in Mebane is getting to be quite
ati investment, and as the price of
property keeps soaring all the time it
a good thing to plant your money
ill.
The
Law Makes
Difference.
No
A Card of Thanks
We wish to extend our thanks to the
good people of Mebine for their kind
ness they have shown ua during the
sickness and death of our dear mother.
TaltOn and Herbert Jobe.
“Drink at fixed intervals," advises
the Philadelphia Public Ledger, and
there are people who fix the intervals
jUBt so as to allow themselves time to
a drink of something stronger in be
tween.
Mrs. Ed. Sykes is very ill of pneu
monia Dr. York of Mebane is treating
her. We wish for her a speedy rf*covery
Mrs. J. H. Murray accoinuanier^ .Mrs.
Lo\^Thompson io Raleigh last Fr day
morning wnere she underwent a vory
seri' us operation at the Rex HosD.tal
Saturday morning. Mrs, Thompson’s
husband Mr. Low Thompson wasc;illed
to Raleigh Friday night to be near his
wife during the operation. She was
reported doing nicely when.labe.a’d
fro.Ti, Mr. Thompson returned home
Saturday afternoon. |
Mr. Jack Smith is quite sick at his
home near Efland. A deep, cold and
old age is the cause.
Preparation Going On
Restrained but none the less steady
preparation for any military eventual
ities that may become necessary, and
the quiet but definite progress of the
meditation program being worked out
behind closed doors, these were tbe
two outstanding features of the Mexi
can situation.
Three mediation envoys of Argentine
Brazil and Chile continued their pri
vate sittings. Their first move for an
armistice was succeeded by the vir
tual suspension of hostilities,or a truce
between the forces ot the United
States and the Huerta regime, al
though there were still ominous sounds
of contlict between the Huerta and
Carranza forces.
Fighting Fee System
(Knoxville Sencinel.)
The City club of Memphis has takfn
the field against the fee system. It
has directed the preparation of a bill
which it intends to present to the leg
islature through tne Shelbv county re
presentatives and senators. This is
encouraging news, but it will not be
wise to leave the case wholly to thi&
legislature. The facts should be pre
sented to the people before the bgis-
lature is chosen. When the people
realize tbe price they are paying for
public service in some of the counties
they will pledge candidates for the
general assembly to do away with the
fee system. The surplusage, over rea
sonable conpensation, would be an ex
ceedingly welcome addition to school
fund:*. There should be a generf 1
campaign of education on this subject.
A fool with a pistol can be depended
on. Another negro has been killed in
Greensboro simply because a young
chan was toting a pistol. Pistols can
be bought if one has the money and
the chief delight of some is to “tote a
gun.'' There is a law against it, but
■his makes no difference. Sendiiig one
to the roads or a stiff fine is not a
deterrent. —Greensboro Record.
Democratic Convention
Pursuit to an order ot the Democratic
Executive Committee of Alamance
County and also an order of the State
Democratic Executive Committee, notice
is hereby given that a Democratic
Mass Ck)n\ention of Alamance County
will meet in Graham, N. C. Saturday
May 23, 1914 at 12 o’clock, noon, in
the Court House, for the purpose of
naming delegates to the Judicial, Sen
atorial, Congressional and State Con
ventions, and to transact any other
business that may come before the
Convention.
This, the 20 day of April 1914
John H. Vernon, Chm.
Democratic Executive Committed
Alamtnce County.
for
The Junior Civic Ijeague will hold its
I egular meeting next W ednesday after
noon May 13th at Graded j School 3
o’clock P. M. Members are respectfully
asked to be present. Mebane can look
out for another “clean-up-day” soon
which will be announced in next weeks
l^eader. Buttons for Junior League
are (m the way.
Notice.
Will be sold at the home place of
Talton and Herbert Jobe Saturday
evenincr at 3 o’clock^ May 9th 1914.
1 Cook stove, one pair bed stead,
two dinning tables, a large wash pot>
and some chairs and a lot of other
things. Don’t forget the time May
9th at 3 o’clock.
Talton and Herbert Jobe.
When the fifty special war corres
pondents that are expected to reach
Vera Cruz this week arrive at that
Mexican port, there will certainly be |
something doing—on paper, an paper
at least.
■ ■ ■■
So great is the effect of cleanliiM'ss
upon man that it extends even to his
moral character. Virtue never dwelt
long with filch; nor do I believe there
ever was a person scrupulously atten
tive to cleanliness who was a consum
mate vIllian.-^Rumford.
Villa Impossible.
The United States will have to
shoulder a lot of responsibility if it
stands for Villa. The people of the
United States have no more confidence
in one bandit and murderer than they
have in another, and if this country is
to father a faction or individual in
Mexico, it ought to support somebody
who has shown some regard for the
rights Of human beings. Neither
Huerta nor Villa is worthy of trust;
both are as bad as it is possoble for
men to be. Both would be hanged on
general principles if they lived in a
civiUzed country.
The Washington government was
right in not recognizing Huerta, the
instigator of the Madero murder, but
it will be wrong in recognizing Villa,
whose crimes have made Huerta seem
as a Good Samaritan. And yet .Villa is
the man we are asked to believe is sen
sible and patriotic. If the Washington
government can stand for Villa, then it
ought to be willing to stand for any
thing. r-Raleigh Times.
15 GARS OF BERHIES.
Movement Once Started
Makes up tor Lost Time.
With the berry crop delayed several
weeks on account of the general late
ness of the season, there has certainly
been a making up for the lost time
during the last several days, when
ideal weather conditions throughout
the berry district of eastern Carolina
has cauBfd a rapid ripening. With
the first car for the North passing
through Wilson during the last days
of the past week the shipment Tues
day totalled 15 cars, and the indications
are that the movement m:iy double that
today.
It is understood that the demand is
brisk and that good price^ are as u
general rule being realized.
Mourning Pa&sing
(C!olumbia (O.) State Journal.)
The notice of the death of an emi
nent man in London contained these
words: “His wife and family will re
spect his urgent desire that no out
ward sign of mourning should be worn’'
In referring to this notice the London
Times says: “This practice of wearing
mourning has long been sliding into
disease, and probably the next 20 years
will see it abandoned altogetuer, at
any rate, among the wealthier people”
According to the London paper, all
badges of woe are disappearing from
funerals. The black rosets on the
horses’ bridles and the crepe on the
hats and sleeves are seldom seen. St»
it is with black-edged writing paper
and black-edged cards. It is all going
because mourning is not needed, either
for memory or respect. Here are two
paragraphs from the Times article:
Those whose sympathy we value
will give to us without advertising
it; it will seem all but indecent to go
about the world demanding sympathy
from strangers.
And if we belieye that those who
have left us have still the power to
observe our doings, we must believe
that it is oui' hearts, not our clothes,
that they, will read.
All of which may seem a little un-
feelii^, and yet is only to give an idea
of the changes that are going on in
the world of mourning.
A Massachusetts paper suggests that
Harry Thaw be “shipped to the front,”
but the lawyers may be relied on to
resist so long as there is a red cent
left in the Thaw exchequer.
His Principal Worry
“Clarence,” said the American heir
ess hesitatingly. “I think that you
should be told at |once how my father
made his money. Our business men in
this country have methods which to
one of your pure soul, whose motto is
“Noblesse oblige,’ cannot but”—
“Cease, Mamie, cease,” said the
young lord, reassuringly; “tell me no
more. However he made his millions I
can f(»give, for ^our sake. But—er—
has he still got them all right?”—Phil
adelphia Ledger.
BIG DAMAGE SUIT.
Sam Cathey Asks $75,000
for Loss of Eyes
The biggest suit for personal injur
ies ever filed in Buncombe County is
that wherein Sam Cathey, by nis next
friend Homer Cathey, seeks damages
in the sum of $75 000 from the Norfolk
artid Western Railway and others. It
is claimed in the complaint just filed
that the plaintiff, while in the perfor
mance of his duties in Ashe County,
suffered the loss of both eyes when a
dynamite charge prematuiely exploded.
The plantiff was working on railroad
construction work and it was while in
the performance of his duties, he
claims, that he received injuries which
makes him blind for life.
Death as a Joke.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
After the Iroquois disaster, in which
Eddy ^oy, the humoiist, faced death,
he is reported to have said that
“Death is the biggest joke of all, but
people can’t see it.”
The story in the Sunday Post-Dis
patch Magazine of a prominent Los
Angeles woman’s vision may throw
some light on Comedian Foy’s remark,
if we can accept it as evidence. Afier
lying apparently dead for 20 minutes,
this wuniau came to life and told her
experiences. She said that she first
saw her deceased husband. And then:
“Suddenly I felt mv spirit leaving
my body. It was done in an instant.
It seemed a leaping out, joyous, light
and exhilarating release of the very
8 -^ence of liie into space
“My form remained the same, but
its substance had utterly changed. Ji
was a translucent vapor capable, at
my will, of going immediately to any
place. 1 retained all my faculties—
memory, imagination and will. I was
among the clouds, knowing the joy of
flight Then I came down and hovered
over the city, saw the people along the
main street and wished with all my
strength to be able to reveal myself
to some of them in order to let them
know that life after death was beauti
ful.”
It is as if a bandit, after frighten
ing his victim with a big gun, shoukl
suddenly present him with a bag con
taining an unheard-of fortune.
Many persons, apparently dead, have
revived and given similar testimony
We can but hope that it
the facts.
Wasting the People’s
Money
The abuse of the franking privilege
has long since become so notorious
that to call attention to it now is al
most a wo^k of superogation. Its
cost to the taxpayers of the country
runs up into the millions of dollars a
year, officials of the Postoffice De
partment placing the sum as high as
twenty millions. But the direct bur
den so imposed, great as it is, is not
the only one which the taxing public is
made to shoulder as a result of the
abuse of this privilege. Because of
the extent to wMch this abu^ is car
ried large sums are annually spent up
on the printing of public documents
which, while distributed at putrfic ex
pense, serve no other purpose than to
cumber the mails
It is encouraging to :iOte that a bill
which seeks to curtail, to some degree
at least, such misuse and waste of the
people’s money, has been favorably
reported to the Senate. This proposed
measure prohibits persons entitled to
the use of the-fi-ank from furnishing it
to individuals or organizations for
their own use, and also seeks to bar
from the Congressional Record articles
from various publications and speeches
not delivered in one or the other cham
ber of Congress. In its report on the
bill, the Senate Committee has this,
among other things to say.—Virginia
Pilot.
Various Kinds.
It’s a rare situation in this world
which doesn’t have some measure of
compensation in some form or another.^
The situation in Mexico threatens to
cut off this country’s chewing gum
supply.
The John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who
teaches Sunday school and makes a
hobby of reclaiming fallen girls, re
fuses to stop by word or action the
wholesale murder of women and
children in Colorado. Weil, religion
hath various torms; some are curious
and some are spurious.—Asheville
Citizen.
Kansas dtj has commissioned three
hundred grocers as special police, so
that they may arrest ' check forgers,
represents money order raisers, short change men
and others who are caught in attempts
to victimize them. This would seem
to be all right so far as the grocers
are concerned, but how about the hon
est people who trade with? Who is to
protect them against short weights
and such like at the hands of the
grocers?—Va. Pilot,
The problem of what to Include in
a silver service for the battleship
Texas is said to be woirying the peo
ple of that State. Certainly they
should not overlook water bottles and
grapejuice decanters.
Wujd And Coal Yard.
Noticing your several articles about
a coal and wood yard, would say that
we have made arrangements to put in
a coal and wood yard and will carry a
full stock of coal for domestic use.
also wood and will be able to supply
the town.
Miles-Nicholson Lumber Co,
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