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THE MEBAINE LEADER.
And Right The Day Must Win, To Doubt Would be Disloyalty To Falter Would be Sin.*
Vol 5
MEBANE, N. C., THURSDAY. JULY 2 1914
No 20
i^laintain 1 heir Reputa-
tion.
loht' Bros. a.id King’s Kestaurants
will ])ref)are and serve the dinner for
IK’old Soldiers. So the Old Veterans
iiia\ look forward to a good dinner and
'-’ity -well cooked and served, as
,,iti .lobe Bros and King’s restaurants
hav-^ a reputation for good meals and
thrv will maintain their reputation on
thi-’' iit'cnsion
An Obituary Notice
Mis Ardelia M. Crutchfield, wife
,it Will .lone.s Crutchfield, of Haw
liiver, has pa.ssed to her reward. She
u;i- paralyzed May llth and ren-ained
unconscious most of the time until her
li Mtth .lu.ie 17, Funeral at Hawfields
.liuie IMth coiulucted by liev’s O. B.
WHliams, Gt^orge L Curray, R. C.
Stuhbins and .1. W. Goodman. She
jt^aves a husband, two sons, father,
mother, sister and brother. She was
tlio daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J V.
,|t)iie3 of Chestnut Ridge and in her
young days taught school in Orange
and Alamance counties. She was mar
ried May 27, 1896 to Mr. Crutchfield.
I'ruiv a good woman has fallen.
'fo Whom It 'Way Con
cern.
me and get my prices before
having your wireing done, also prices
^ oil electric Irons, Cookers, Fixtures
and all kinds of Electrical Supplies.
I have wired a good many houses
and ,ores in Mebane and have given
satisfaction. It has been reported by
Mr. Dennis that he had to do some of
my work over and if he will show me
the work and prove that I contracted
the job or did the w'ork I will gladly
pay him for working it over or else he
will please attend to his own affairs
anil not mine.
Yours to serve
G. E. Wyatte
Mehane, N. C.
Hillsboro News
The Durhham District Conference of
the Methodist church is on here now.
Quite a good number of ministers and
lay representatives are in attendance.
Presiding elder Harry M. North
made the openiiig address Wednesday
night. Dr. Wm P. Few, of Trinity
College and Dr. S. B. Turrentine, of
Greensboro, addressed the conference
last night. Every hospitality that the
town affords has been extended to the
delegates free of charge. The confer
ence has been a most successful one
from every point of view.
The final sessions of the Conference
was held Friday afternoon.
Among the lay representatives over
Heavy Thunder Storm
The first real storm of the season
visited Mebane Saturday afternoon
about 5:30 p. m. Considerable hail fell
but no damage was done from it. The
lightening struck Mr. John Isley’s
barn and burn#"d it to the ground.
Stock and feed were fortunately saved.
Part of the roof was blown off the
Mebane Iron Bed Co. Other minor
damages were reported, but none of
serious consequence.
Notice: Lebanon
- , All the young people of the Lebanon
or Thursday were Gen. J. S. Carr and j congregation are invited to be present
Chas Scarlett of Durham and R. L.
Strowd of Chapel Hill.
Alexander H. Graham, the youngest
8on of Maj. John W. Graham of this
place, has just returned from Harvard
University where he has been persuing
the study of Law. Mr. Graham was
admitted to the Bar of this state last
August, but chose another year of
Btudy before beginning practice. He
will be associated with his father in
practice.
Hillsboro this week mourns the loss
of one of her oldest and best loved
citizens, Mrs. Wm S. Strudwick, wid
ow of the late Dr. Strudwick. Mrs.
Strudwick was in her 80th year. The
cause of her s?eath, which occured
Thursday morning at 4 a. m. was a
general brakedown. She leaves sur
viving her two sons, Mr. Edmud
Strudwick, of Richmond, Va , and Mr,
Shepherd Strudwick, of Hillsboro, and
three daughters, Miss Annie and Miss
Margaret Strudwick and Mrs. T. M.
Arrowsmith. For a number of years
Mrs. Strudwick had made her home
with Mrs. Arrjwsmith and it was
there that she died. Th^ funeral ser
vices were held at the home yesterday
Afternoon.
at the church next Sunday evening,
July 5th at three o’clock; to organize
or make plans for organizing an Ep-
wortn League. “The object of the
League shbll be the development of
piety and loyalty to our church among
the young people, their education in
tlw Bible, Christian Literature, per
sonal evaigelism, and the missionary
work of the church, and tHeir encoura
gement in works of grace and charity."
Const, of Leage, see art. 2
Rev. F. B. Noblitt, Pastor in charge.
W. G. McFarland, Director of Young
People’s Societies in the J^orth Ala
mance Charge.
The suspicious grows that Greens-
h »ro was “burnt” on the chautauqua
Itroposition. High Point, Ashboro,
Ueidsville and other towns of like size
are rejoicing in the prospect of hear-
uiti such men as Ben B. LindseVj Frank
Dixon and Russell Conwell, with the
poflsibibility that the secretary of state
may also be on the platform. How
(loos it happen that such men passed
up the Greensboro Chautauqua to go to
smaller places? Before the contract
is signed for the next event of the
kind it is to be hoped that the local
managers will look into this curious
lievelopment.—Greensboro News.
No Cotton Monopoly
L; '*ivil war prophecy of India as a
- rival of the United States in cot-
[roduction is approaching realiza-
India’s last crop is ovei 6,000,000
■-s Our own production is about
>00,000 bales. We have now no
niopoly on the clothing of the tropics
' inononoly on the raw material for
he Manchester mills ^Brooklyn Eagle
Threatened Fire at The
Meison-Cooper Lumber Co.
A little blaze at Nelson-Cooper Lum-
Ur Co. early Monday morning looked
Muitp threatening, but by hard and
persistent work the flames were sub-
and further danger averted. It
Was gratifying to our people as well
5*3 the owners to be able to bring such
a result
Rpworth League Council*
The Council of the Senior Epworth
League of Mebane will meet with the
J^resident on Friday evening, July 3,
at eight o’clock. All officers of *^he
l-ea{/ue are requested to be present as
there is some very important business
he transacted and much planning
work of the New League year.
VV. G. McF., Pres.
Mrs. J. Walter Lynch, Sec’y
Big Robbery
Thursday night at some midnight
hour some person or parties broke into
the Mebane Supply Co’s store and
stole therefrom a large quantity of
shoos, hosiery, and ocher goods. It
was noticable that they selected the
better cla.ss of goods always, they
emptied sacks of feed stuff in order
to provide receptacles to carry away
their plunder. The whole robbery
showed unmistakable m^rks of some
one with full knowledge of the store
and stock. In their viciousness they
trampled goods upon the floor, and
tore the trimmings from the nice mil
linery. Diligent effort was at once
put forth to apprehend and capture
the thieves, suspicious characters were
known to have left here on the two
o’clock train going east, their desti
nation wa? also located, and it is more
than possible that v/.e shall have some
thing else to report in regard to this
matter.
Later—
It was learned from Ernest Thornton
that a couple of suspicious parties had
left here with bundles on the early
Thursday mornings train, the conduct
or on that train was wired to at Golds
boro to assertain where these parties
got off the ♦•rain, and replied at
West Durham, this information, was
hastily conveyed to the police of Dur
ham, and adeligent search asked for
them, it was n.-)t long before they
reported that they had caught one of
the parties, and got a portion of the
stolen plunder, and was on the track of
the other. The fellow captured was
rbought to Mebane Saturday and giv
ing a preliminary hearing, confessing
to everything he was taken to Gra
ham and placed in jail to await the
action of court. It is sincerely hoped
that the other fellow, and the remain
der of the stolen plunder may be cap
tured. j
It is said that both of the negroes i
implicated are professional thieves and j
have served terms. i
2,300 Volts Electricity
Passed Through Man
W. W. Peck, head lineman foi the
Western Union Telegraph Company of
Raleigh, is recovering from his terrible
experience in having twenty-three hun
dred volts of electricity pass through
his body while he was working on
some wires on Fayetteville street in
front of the remodeled postoflfice
building. His nerve system is com
pletely upset and bad burns across
his shoulders are the most serious in
juries thus far developed.
Peck was looking for wire troubles
and came in contact with a live wire.
He came down the pole unassisted
after the current was cut off.
Assassination of the Arch
duke of Austria
The Assassination of the Archduke
Francis Ferdinand and his wife of Aus
tria last Monday was a horriable affair.
The assassin approched them from
the front ef their autoncobile and
poured a volley of led in their necks,
breast and stomach, inflicting wounds
from which both died in a few mom
ents. The Duke was a successor co
the Austrian Crown, and from the
looks of things would have soon be
come Emperor.
Efland Items.
Misses Annie Jordan, Maud Brown
and Ci^ra Cecil all went down to Hills
boro Saturday afternoon on a shopping
expedition.
Mrs. Claud Bivin"* and children Lucile
and Harwed of Hillsboro is visiting
Mrs. Bivins parents Mr. and Mrs. H.
D. Brown.
Miss Maud Faucette cne of our
charming and accomplished young ladies
"is visiting friends in Hillsboro.
Mrs. 0. L. Baity and children who
have been visiting her husbands parents
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Baity left Monday
for her home in Winston-Salem.
We saw in a recent iissue of the
Leader that John Miller was going to
buy an automobile. Well he will have
to get one that he can say “come up”
too, and one that will have a mouth so
he can feed it, for he could not bear
the idea of riding anything that would
not eat.
Mr. Jesse Baity of Norlina is visiting
his parents Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Baity.
Mr. Baity is one of our most clever
young men and is more than apt to
make a success in life.
Mr. C. L Boggs, Good Roads Fore
man spent Sunday at home with his
I mother Mrs. Talitha Boggs.
Mrs. Bivins attended Mr. Burroughs
Rays funeral at Chestnut Ridge Satur
day. Mr. Ray leaves a wife and two
daughters to mourn his death.
Mr. Hubert Bivins of Greensboro is
spending a few days at home with his
mother near Efland.
Mr. Hampton Allred and little
daughter Ruth of Winston-Salem came
Saturday afternoon to visit his parents
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Allred two miles
east of Efland.
Mn Harry B'itzpatrick operator who
has l^een relieving Mr. Jim Matthews
at Efland for the past few weeks left
here Monday morning for Salisbury to
take charge of the office there.
Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Smith and little
girl'^Iabel of Greensboro came down
Sunday to visit relatives. Mrs. Smith
and little Mabel will spend a few days
before they return.
We had a very severe hail storm
Saturday night near 10 o’clock, it was
accompanied by a heavy ^ind storm.
The Situation
There has been much said about the
political situation one way and another
in the Imperial Fifth Congressional
District. That there is political unrest
and dissention in the ranks of the
Democratic party is beyond question,
and it is not a local matter either it
exten Is the entire length and breadth
of the district, and anyone familiar
with the situation can read the hand
writing on the wall. The wishes of the
people have not been consulted in the
matter of selecting Congressman, and
it seems under the present order of
things that the^ boss of the Fifth
District political machine did not deem
it necessary to do so. He defeated a
mighty good Democrat a few years
ago, and by his present tactics is in a
fair way to defeat i^nother one In the
only County Convention where the
people had the manhood to speak out
in meeting a resolution endorsing the
present Congressman was voted down
in a jiffy. And in other Counties,
resolutions were introduced by parties
who had been given a job, or their
friends had been bit In stomach with a
pone, and adopted by a few weak and
scattering “aye’s” over the assembly.
The spirit of vim and action were
conspicuoua by their absence. As nas
been said in these columns before, the
peop’e will not submit to boss rule
always and when they do awake to a
realization of their condition and their
duty, they are going to take the bit
between their teeth and run away with
the whole machine.—Creedmoor Times,
E
Cost of Killing
The cost of killing in modern war
fare is rather high about $15,000 to
kill a man.
In the Boer war it cost $40,000 to
kill a man, and in the Balkan war
$10,000 to kill a man.
In the canal zone. Colonel Gorgas
spent $2 43 to save a life.
Sanitation in the canal zone cost only
five per cent of the expense of build
ing the canal.
It is cheaper to save life than to de
stroy it. Colonel Gorgas saved 6,130
lives by spending the average cost of
killing one man in war—$15,000.
The average cost of killing 6,130 men
in war is $30,650,000. And after they
are killed there are no assets to show
for the money spent.—Winston Sen
tinel.
Biggest Mercantile Defi
ciency in History of Uni
ted States in New York.
The biggest mercantile failute in the
history of the United States was
precipitated Thursday when receivers
were appointed for the H. B. Claflin
Company, of New York. The company
it is estimated, owes more than $30-
000,000, which at the present time it
is unable to pay. Its assets are said
to be $44,000,000.
John Clafin. head of the company
and its chief individual stockholder,
is the owner of a chain of nearly 30
other dry goods enterprises through
out the country which are involved in
the failure. Receivers for several of
these were named and similar action,
it was announced, would be taken in
the case of the rest. Their business
will be continued under receiverd’
management until their financial affairs
j have been adjusted,
j From 3,000 to 5,000 banks in all
parts -of the United States compose
the bulk of the Claflin creditors. They
hold notes aggregating the major part
of the liabilities. These notes are
said to have been issued by the various
Claflin stores, endorsed by the H. B.
Claflin Company and the proceeds
used, when discounted, in financing
their needs.
Health JNotes For Mebane
Keep on at it, swat the flies, screen
the windows. Open the windows wide
and let in the fresh air, fresh air at
night is better than medicine
Did you know that 3,000 North
Carolina babies die each summer,
there’s a reason. Bottle feeding and
ignorance. Ignorance causes three
deaths of babies out of four, will it
kill your baby?
Air, fresh pure outdoor air day and
night protect the baby from cold
droughts direct sunlight and dust, but
never keep a baby confined in a closed
room. Give baby a bed of hie own.
Never rock the baby to sleep. Bathe
the baby in lukewarm water daily, a
quick bath before going to bed often
prevents a restless night.
Our Healthiest Months.
* Hot? Yes, but as favorable a sea
son for health and enjoyment of life
right at home as any in the year.
Published extracts from a bulletin of
the New York City Health Depart
ment, showing that the city’s death
rate for the week which ended June
20 was the lowest on record,' have
caught our eye. The next lowest rec
ord was made by the final week of
June last year And the record-mak
ing in each case was attended by the
full seasonal average of heat. This,
too, occurred in a great city exper
iencing all the pre-eminent hardships
of heat which our open-built Southern
cities never know; among other fea
tures, it had to discount incredibly
congested tenement districts swarm
ing with babies and the intense hu
midity which afflicts all our coast towns.
—Charlotte Observer,
When you can advertise a' thing for
nothing you are not especially inter
ested in contracting to pay for it.
When all the world it*young, lad,
And all the trees are green;
And every goose, lad.
And every lass a queen;
Then hey for boot and horse, lad,
And round the world away;
Young blood must have its course, lad.
And every dog his day.
—Kingsley.
No sinful word nor deed or wrong.
Nor thoughts that idly rove;
But simple truth be on our tongue
And in our hearts be love.
—St Ambrose.
The WhisKey Dispensai*-
ies.
We believe Anson and Union coun
ties maintain whiskey dispensaries on
the precription ot the doctors, and the
last published reports we remember,
showed a flourishing business. This
is the sort of traffic which was con-
demed by the State Medical society
at its recent meeting in Raleigh.
Signs points to the numbering of the
days of all liquor dispensaries in the
prohibition state of North Carolina,
and with the doctors back of the
movement the day is not going to be
long in coming.—Charlotte Observer.
“Suffrage Foolishness.'^
Sir A. Conan Doyle, the Enghsh nov
elist, is quoted in todays papers as say
ing that the British suffragettes are
not to be much longer tolerated in Great
Britain, but that there will be some
lynching bees in the United Kingdom.
We hardly think our cousins across the
sea will go so far, but still we do think
they have shown a patience with these
women folk akin to that of Job and we
could not blame them to take drasti,
measures to put an end to some of the
suffragist foolishness.—Carthage News
Outlook For Tobacco Crop
Not At All Encouraging
There is no denying the tact that the
outlook for the 1914 crop of tobacco in
this section is anything but encouraging.
In fact, the situation is so mighty close
to being serious, in so far as tobacco
is concerned. The outlook has never
been more gloomy in this section, and
even now, should the heavens open up
and give this parched up earth in the
tobacco section a thorough soaking,
the situation would not be bettered to
any marked degree.
The long drought and hot days have
played havoc with what was intended
to be the biggest crop of tobacco ever
grown in this section. Instead of
there being a bigger crop than last
year, it is very doubtful it the crop
will reach even twenty-five million
pounds, and unless there is a rain soon,
the figures will be far below that.
There have been local rains here
and there, but these have not been
sufficient to better the situation very
much. According to all reports, there
will be very few plants available for
re-setting and a season now would be
beneficial only to those plants which
are still living in the field.
The Sentinel addressed a letter of
inquiry to a number of growers in
every section of the tobacco belt,
requesting each one’s opinion on the
following questions: Will there be
any increase in acreage this year in
your section over last year? What is
the condition of plants set out? Have
the seasons been favorable? What is
the condition of the plants not set out?
The replies received are all along the
same ^ne~no increase in acreage,
plants wiltin and dying, no plants for
re-setting, and the outlook gloomy.—
Winston Sentinel
Precocious Childhood
“Kow, my child,” said the kind old
judge, “which parent do you prefer to
So with?”
That depends,” an.-^wered the fash
ionable child, “la mother going to get
•‘‘I’Ke ailmony?”
“Yes.”
l arge enough to embarrass father
'nancially?” —Louieviiie Courier-Jour-
nal.
r
All clothing and all low cut
shoes will be sold at cost on the
Fourth of July at C. C. Smithes.
This issue of the Leader comes quite
near being a fourth of July edition.
Lots of space it has given for which no
charge is made.
List of Letters
Advertised for week ending June 27
1914.
1 Letter for Miss Alice Holt
1 Letter for Mra. Leaner Thompson
1 Letter for Mrs J. T. Lee
1 Letter for Mr. Charlie Small
1 Letter for Mr, Edgar Thomas
1 Letter for Mr. D. T. Bradshaw
1 Letter for Mr. Eddie Bozell
1 Letter for H, B. Brown
1 Letter for Mr, Will Terrell
These letters if not called for will be
sent to Dead Letter Office July 111914.
Respectfully,
J. T, Dick, P. M., MelTane, N. C.
SPECIAL ROUND TRIP
RATES VIA SOUTHERN
RAILWAY TO DURHAM,
N. 6.
Account North Carolina
Oooa Koads Association
July 9-10, 1914
The Southern Railway will sell round
trip tickets at greatly reduced rates
from all points in North Carolina to
Durham, N. C , account North Carolina
Good Roads Association. Tickets on
sale July 8, 9 and 10, final limit July
12, 1914.
For rates and further information,
call on any agent, or address,
O. F. York,
Traveling Passenger Agent
Raleigh, N. C.
The Reactionary
“Pierpont Morgan said that dissolv
ing a trust was like unscrambling an
egg. I’d say that it was more like the
young clubman in the taxicab.”
The speaker was Thomas W. Law
son. He went on:
“A young clubman, putting his hand
out of a taxicab window, said to the
chauffer:
“How much does she—hic--register?”
“Eight dollars and a quarter, sir,’
the chauffeur replied.
“Well, back up her up to a quarter,
please. That’s all I’ve—hic-got.”—
New York Tribune.
Maybe.
Maybe when the people of Central
America read our papers, and see where
“leaders clash;” where man after man
“died on second,” and still more men
were “killed at first;” where a “bitter
fight” is had in the senate or the house;
where a “desperate struggle” goes on
for woman suffrage; and where *‘fights
to the finish” are had all over the land
on diamond, gridiron, in congress on
the stump and in the court rooms; may
be they think that after all, they are
better off than we.r-Greenyille News,'
A Report
(From The Durham Sun )
It is reported that John Motley
Morehead has been led to the top of
the Republican political mountain and
shown a valley of power. The answer
to the tempter has not been learned.
Newport’s Belles Again
Wear Slits
Slit skirts, open at the sides and in
front, are the newest thing in women’s
wear for tennis, at the Casino or on
the lawns of the cottages at Newport.
And sometimes -only sometimes--the
slits permit just a glimpse of white or
blue or pink silk pantaloons that are
gripped at dainty knees by elastic bands.
The costume gives the wearers greater
freedom of action Defore the nets, and
has enabled some to add considerably
to their proficiency in the game. For
the blouses white pique is preferred as
being the most comfortable and
becoming.