And Right The Day Must Win, To Doubt Wbuld be Disloyalty To Falter Would be Sin.’ .
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Vol 5
MEBANE, N.C., TH|JRSDAY. NOVEMBER 26 1914
No 37
Not Made Out of The
^tuff His Pa Is.
Mr. Archie B. Roosevelt, a student
Ilf Harvard College^ and a son of
I heodore Roosevelt, was unable to take
in the Athletic game a few days
While Arch’e was shaving, his
ni7.or slipped and cut an ugly gash in
his arm, making it necessary to bring
live stitches. lie hasn’t got the stuff
111 him Teddy has, for his distinguised
,!;uUlv v.’ould have taken part in the
o;ani ‘ if half ot his head had been shot
uir.
Ke^ister of Deeds for
Orange County Dead
John Law'S, 94 years old, register of
lit eds for Orange county for the past
I'-l years, and who is believed to hold
the record in the United States for
continuous service in an elective office,
(lied of pneumonia at his home at Hills
boro, N. C , at D o’clock Monday
morning. He was the only man who
ever held th5 office of recorder of deeds
in Orange county.
Mr. Laws was twice married, the sec
ond time when he was 86 years old. He
if. survived by his second wife and three
chililit^n by his second marriage
Entertainment
“The Birds’ Christnr;as Carol” by
Kate Douglas Wiggins, in the Graded
School Auditorium Saturday evening
Nov. 28 1914.
CHARACTERS:
Earl Shaw
Annie York Crawford
Frances Singleton
CAST OF
Papa Bird
Mamma Bird
Carol
Uncle Jack
Mrs. Rugglfs
Sarah Maud
Peter
Clement Magrille
Susan Ruggle
Cornelius ‘ ‘
F’loria ‘ ‘
Kitty “
Elie “
Baby Larry “
(^HOIR
Proclamation By Governor
Locke Craig
Ueath of An Infant
Last Saturday night the death angel
visited the home of Mr. and Mrs. E.
Farrell and took therefrom one of
tlieir little twins which was only about
;i month old. We sincerely sympathize
with Mr, and Mrs. Farre'J in their
ins.s.
Sam Thompson
Lily Fowler
Mary Rimmer
Sam Long
William Anthony
Sallie Satterfield
Alfred Mebane
Fannie Iseiey
Virginia Jeffreys
Jeter Burton
Jannie Stuart
BOYS
Nancy Singleton,
Edgar Farrell
Ralph Stuart
Corinna Job
Carrie Job
Mattie Smith
The play is a dramitization of Kate
Douglass Wiggin’s beautiful story,
“The Bird’s Christmas Carol,” and
cannot fail to strike a tender cord in
the heart of every one who sees it.
While there is plenty of mnocent fun,
1 still through it all is that beautiful
Christmas spirit shining out in the
character of Carol, the li^tle crippled
i f
j. Bishop John C. Kilgo doesn’t fail for |
jthe fluttering fads that fill the school!
i houses and the city halls. He isn’t j
I in favor of anything that proposes to |
pntrotluce science in the pulpit. He |
and I
PRESIDENT BEGINS
WOilK ON MESSAGE
i-thinks you can’t harness geology
it
Thursday, November, 26th.
PROCLAMATION ||Genesi3 and drive them to the same j
‘Above all the nations we have been Norfolk recently he is |
blessed. Throughout the wide domain
of our country peace presides—in har
vest fields and in teeming cities. In
dustry protected and encouraged by
law is triumphant, and plenty has i
been dscreed as the reward of labor,
“The destiny of the Republic is un
folding in grander revelation, 'and bet- j
ter opportunities are opening to all her
cities in this day of altruistic awaken
ing. For us God has ordained order
and will ordain righteousnesf, that
from VTiaterial progress there shall
come moral progress and a higher social
development.
“America is more than ever the re
fuge for the oppressed. She offers to
the worthy, stricken people of Europe,
•^quoted as saying that Eugenics was i
|somethi!ig out of place and its advo j
•fcates “the vulgarest crowd I know of"
He is fuither quoted as saying:
If any of the ministers wanted to
put on aprons and become chefs in ec-
! *!tesiastic&l soup houses, they might
j d5 so, but that his commission was
! from heaven.
I ’*'You are engaged too much with
temporal things,” he declared. “You
Wilson Starts Preparation
of His Annual Communi
cation to Congress.
President Wilson Wednesday last,
began work on his annual message to
congress, he will deliver in prson at
the opening of the regular session in
December.
Every Public School Must
Observe Friday, Decern-
ber 4th.
We now come back to the plans for
the big day —Friday, December '4,
“School and Neighborhood Improve
ment Day,” for which we are printing
the official program on this page. This
program can hardly fail to be helpful
and inspiring, no matter how poorly
the community has prepared for the
observance, but results will be far
better if the rural census has been
made so that the people may know
homes protected from the ravages of , .
war, where life, liberty, and the pur- i sociology as the real thi/ig. I
are trying to make the gospel a m’eans
pf temporal comforts. You talk about
i Christian civilization as if it were a
I sort of hyperdermic to be administered
i for earthly pleasure,
I “it is impertinent to stand up in the
I face of God and talk about modem
suspect
suit of happiness are guaranteed to all ' theology of having delirium trem-1
“In the countries across the At-i
lantic, the destruction and suffering,
and sorrow of war .-»re supreme. In
Europe, Asia, and Africa, fire and
sword constitute the rule, and death
ai:d dtsolation reign in th^ seats of
fairest civilizatiOd As of oid, in Ra-
children.
girl. Her life, as it will be seen in
the pla^,will make a lasting impression man Rachel weeps for her
for good upon the lives of all, especi- j and cannot be comforted,
ally the children. Beautiful music will i “Now, therefore. I, Locke Craig,
be rendered between the acts.
So it will be seen that the Bishop
isn't tying any fads to his chariot. H«
is preaching the pure stuph as it was
writ of old and he seems to be able
to defend his position.— Everything.
While the message has not taken {they stand in each matter
definite shape, Mr. Wilson is expected progress. The census report will
to discuss 'Philippine independence, furnish unbounded material for dis-
conservation, the Mexican question, ^i^ssion and proper agitation,
government ownership of merchant j Speeches on any of the ten topics
i ships and the offect of the Kuropean | mentionea should be short, informing
j war on the United States. | the point. Every speaker
Since the adjournment of congress | should have some definite plan in mind
i the president has not discussed with | school or neighborhood progress,
! the leaders the programme for the \ (preferably putting his plan into the
+ next csession, but will see them within? of a written resolution), and then
I the next two weeks. ! exactly why he thinks his plan is
; needed and how it can bo put into
I ^ , -“T- ^
Moreovei, don’t forget the social
side. There should be a picnic dinner
if possible, and games, song and other
social features.
War’s Blight On Religion
(*^rom Leslie’s.)
The great European strug»'-le ha.»-not
and i OFFICIAL PROGRAM FOR“SCHOOL
has i AND NEIGHBORHOOD IMPROVE
MENT DAY,” FRIDVY, DEC.'4
in-
Orange Grcve Items
Mr. and Mrs. Bunyan Lloyd of Dur
ham, are visiting relatives and friends
hi*re.
Miss Aln»a Lloyd left Mondf»3* for
1 Uirham, where she has accepted a
[uisition.
The Orange Grove school opened
hist Monday, with a good enrollment,
i he teachejs. Misses Thornton and
i.loyd, are trying to make the school
more successful than it has been be-
lore, and we think the patrons should
co-operate with them.
There will be preaching here Thanks-
jriving.
On Saturday evening, from 7:30 to
10;.S0, Nov. 28th theie will be a box
party at the school house. The boxes
are to be sold at auction. The pro
ceeds will go towards improving the
inside of the school house. Everybody
is invited to come and bring boxes and
money.
Come and have an evening of whol-
some, uplifting enjoyment, and help
in the good work that the Junior Lea
gue means to do for the town and the
school.
The play will begin promptly at 7:30.
General admission 25c
Reserved s^ats 35c.
Children 15c.
Tickets on sale at the Drug store.
Proceeds from the play will be used
for the benefit of the Graded School.
jured at Hillsboro. |
At the railroad crossing, near the ■
Eno Cotton Mills at Hillsboro, was the ;
spene of a horrible accident last Thurs- \
Governor of State of North Carolina i
in obedience to the custom established |
by our fathers, and in accordance with j
the proclamation of the President of|
j the United States, do proclaim Thurs-
I day. the twenty-sixth day of Novem-
' ber, a dav of thanksgiving and dedica-!^^«y. when Miss Velena McCauley a
tion.
“J call tiie people to the realization
of their obligation as a State and as a
nation, ‘To purify our {principles, en-
■ noble our national am))itions, to make
I this people great and strong, not for
only demoralized the industrial
commercial life of the world, it
laid its deadening hand upon all
ternational I'eligious agencies. The i |"i'o be observed in every North Car-
j World Young Men’s Christian Asso-| oiina Public School.)
, ciation, with headquaiters at iei;e\a, | Have schoolhouse suitably decorated
Young Lady Seriously In-[has been utterly demoralized by n if schooli.ouse is too
' war. Secretaries who had been worR- | outdoor meeting
mg, side by side, as leaders m Chi j building. If
tian activity among young men, have ‘
had to leave their desks to fight each
other under the flags of tlieir various
countries. The Y. M. ('. A will have
an op|)ortunity to render service
fifteen year old operative in the Eno i among troops at the front ancl in
Cotton Mills, was struck by a freight, camps, but the regular work of the
knocked down and both Jovver! been sadly bioken up
in many places. In England the Sal
vation Army h^s turned over its .‘^helt-
It seems that a freight train was; government, many of its
engaged in switching near the Eno' workers enlisted in the British serv-
car,
limbs virtually crushed off
Life On The Farm
When the rural districts have at- tions'to juster laws, to
tained to that high standard of per-, politics, to siiicerer
fection, we will then cease to
that old article o^ “back to the farm.”
Country life is not what it should be,
, aggression and conquest, but for tiie
peace of the world, giving to us tne brake chain snapped, and ice, and many of its^women have gone
glorious prerogative of leading all cat-backed with force. It was just | t‘>_the fgont as nurses.
more
write ' rational constituted civil liberty, and
j to universal Christian brotherhood,”
I to exemplify the strength 'ind benefi-
i ficience of a government based upon
all cni**%/acked with force.
humane ,
friendsliip, to |'‘t I*’’’*
street and met
McCauley
attem|>ted to cross tne
with the above accident.
l.Miss McCauley has since died.)
if it were the influx of the youth to ; mortal power rather than military
Doctors Discover New
Compound For Stopping
Blood Flow
A preparation which it is claimed
'Vill stop almost instantly the flow of
blood from a wound has been invented
by Prof. Theodor Kocher of Berne,
>> vitzerland, winner of the Nobel price
for surgery in 1912, and his assistant,
Dr. A. Fonce. The new preparation,
called Coagulen, is a powder, and is
disolved in water before being applied
t*u a wound.
The discoverers have mada a gift
of their invention to the armies in
the field and have sent large quanti
ties of the powder to French anj Ger
man surgical headquarters. Medical
men declare the lives of thousands of
aoldiers probably will be saved by it
It can be applied by untrained hands,
It is said, or by the wounded man him
self.
the large cities would be a thing of I
the past. From the very fact that |
our young men, and in too many in
stances, our young women, floating
into the towns and cities is •‘primal
facia evidence that country life is not |
sufficiently attractice, or they
not be so anxious to.leave its enviro
ments, notwithstanding the fact that
the country is the best place in the
world for everybody to live and es
pecially the youth.
Now the question is what shall we
do to keep these great hoards from
floating into the towns and cities. The
solution is obvious. First we must
have better schools—schools that they
will so love and admire, and schools
that will properly teach them the folly
of going to the city, and the dire re
sults that too intrequently ensue from
such a course. Every farmer should
Warren County Man Shot
Dead in Field.
force, and to send this message of God
to the uttermost parts of the earth for
the redemption of men. 1 Wednesday about 12 o’clock,
“On this day let us ren.ember om i
poor and our unfortunate, for it is: . ^ - ..nr
,, , ^ ; prominent farmers of Warren county
more blessed to give them to receive. ^
“And, I do further call upon all i was working in his field, an unknown
would ' ministers and all good people that on | party shot him from ambush. Blood
_ j Sunday, the twenty*ninth, it being ^he j immediately procured,
’ I Sunday after Thanksgiving Day, they |
[ contribute to the relief of the millions •
I of innocent and industrious people in
i other lands, who are suffering and dy-
i ing, not for any . wrong done by them,
but because their homes and fields
! have been destroyed armies =>n1
i their defenders slam. This is the ob-
, ligation and the exalted privilege Of j Russell’s coat pocket.
■ our great and prosperous nation. j Coroner’s inquest was held over
“And in this holiday season and i body of Mr. Hayes, and the jury decided
I approaching Christmas time, let us in , African was guilty and sent
humility make some sacrifice in answer |
General Booth is quoted as
j that if the war lasts six months, ihe
I Salvation Army in contine »tal Europe
j will be ruined. These are some of
j the by products of the war, and iiidi-
j cate the new burdens of financial sup-
i port W'hich will be jjlaced on all
branches, in neutral countries, of the
j great international religious organi-
j zations. Christian people throughout ■ ^rounds*^
! the world will be called upon to help j farm?
or
pos-
I sible make it an all-day picnic occasion
' with dinner for everybody, with recre-
I a tion iind social features added for
I late afternoon or at night, and songs
j as desired.
i Decide which of the following ten
j features should be discussed, which of
I them most need emphasizing, and then
1 name persons (men ior women, older
i boys or girls, farmers, preachers, doc-
i tors, or anybody) who will lead and
stimulate discussions by speaking
briefly and helpfully about them:
1. A Report on Rural Credits and
saymg | discussion of it.
i 2. Is our school term long enough?
! If not how can we lengthen it, and get
I more teachers if needed?
8. ir'hould we have more attention to
! agricultural, industrial |and domestic
j science subjects? Can we form a Corn
I or Canning Club?
4. Hovv can we improve schoolhousf
Do we need a school
sustain the
the war.
tremendous losses due to
they soon discovered
followed it to the home
Russell, a negro about 19
The house was searched and
wet overalls and shoes were
trail and'
of Robert j
years old. '
a pair of |
found, an j
found in !
the'
to the far-sound-ing cry for help in
obedience to a sympathy as wide ai
the world, as deep as humanity.”
Done in our city of ! Raleigh on this,
the twelfth day of November, in the
have the conveniences that are found 1 ^ord, one thousand nine |
in a small town, at least. And in this j hundred and fourteen, and in ihe one 1
modern age, with currents of electri- | hundredth and thirty-ninth year of our ■
city flashing over vale and dale; with | American Independence,
the great authors pouring their wisdom
No one knows of any trouble Mr. ,
Hayes and the negro had had. Robery !
was certainly not the motive for money j
the sum of fourteen dollars
Barrett Advocates Loan.
That five hundred million dollars
loaned to the countries of South ar.d
Central America within the next five
years would bring to this country more
than one and a half billion dollars in
trade was the declaration of John
Barrett, director general of the Pan-
American Union, at the opening session
of the first international trade con
ference of the Mississippi Valley and
Central West.
Mr. Barrett placed before the con
ference facts and figures calculated
to throw light on the problems con- people?
nected with the development of South
American trade. With European
1 in
Penro£,e, but Penn fell—Charleston
News and Courier.
It’s a long way from Penn to Pen
rose.-^Boston Transcript.
The foot and mouth disease played
havoc also with a number of states
men.—Indianapolis Star.
Fjatsv row to see why President Wil
son kept Congress working at his bills
Jiay and night.—Boston Herald.
President Wilson did realive what a
jtvophet he was when he said Demo
cratic legislation against big business |
had come to close.—Wall State Journal, j
11 is hard to believe those reports !
that the Bull Moose party is rapidly {
^!rinking. In his latest photographs he j
I' oks as large as ever. —NashyiHe *
Southern Lumberman.
There are now some Republicans
*>old enough to predict that the “single
•’residential term” plank of the Balti-
Mutre platform will be lived up to after
•'H —New York Herald.
ouc in high classed books; with the
great inventors, announcing almost
daily some great mystery, unthought
of in the mechanical world; with the
busy trains swiftly rushing from ocean
to ocean with traffic; with the motor
cars madly rushing from every hamlet,
carry daily and weekly newspapers.
We say and repeat there is no need of
the farm being a place of seclusion.
LOCKE CRAIG,
Governor.
By the Governor:
J. P. KERR,
Private Secretary.
capital, which has heretofore largely
i financed business in the*^outh Ame-
, sound on the dead man’s person. j rican countries, unavailable owing to
Mr. Hayes was doubtlessly shot from j the Euronean war, the opportunity
j close range for there were powder j American
! burns on the neck and some of the coat i
i lodged in the wound. I
I Just think of such a horrible occurence j
businessmen and manu
facturers to secure a larger trade re
lationship it great, he stated.—News
nad Observer.
a man—a white man too—and a e:ood ,
- j man at that, out in the field toiling to j
In prosperity let us most carefully j make a livelihood for thos3 dependent *
avoid pride, disdain and arrogance,- ! him-entertaining no suspision 1
Cicero.
Twelve Hundred Men Dead
in Field of 500 iVleters.
Laughter and tears are meant to
turn the wheels of the same sensibility,
one is wind-power and the other water
power, that is all.—Holmes.
A well-prepared mind hopes in ad)
vevt,ity and fears in propericy—Hor
ace.
For Sale
One gasoline Lamp with tank and
wire in good condition 1000 cardie
power, one Lamp 500 candle p^wer
with tank and lamp combined. Will
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or write us
Jobe Bros.
A suppressed resolve will betray it
self in the eyes George Eliot,
‘Til Show'Em, Ourn'Em”
I’ve stopped the paper, yes I have,
I didn’t like to do it,
But the editor he got too smart,
And I allow he’ll rue it.
I am a man who pays his debts.
And will not be insulted.
So when the editor gets smart
j I want to be consulted.
11 took the paper ’leven years
I And help him all I could sir.
But when it come to dunni^’ me ^
I didn’t think he would, sir.
But th'it he did, and you can bet
It made me hot as thunder;
I says, “I’ll Slop that sheet, I will,
If the doggone thing goes under.”
I hunted up the editor
And fer his cunnin’ caper
I paid him ’LEVEN years and quit!
Yes, sir, I stopped the paper,
11*7*14
that any one was thirsty for his blood,
while a cowardly brute was concealed
in the brush to take his life without
a moments warning.
Not Uenerous Enough.
An official dispatch to the French
Ambassy referred to the great loss of
life inflicted on the enemy by the Allies
and spoke of the succes of French
scouting parties in securing informa
tion of German troop movements.
“Supplementary information receiv-
■ ed” said the dispatch reveals that the
this part o three days fighting has resulted
5. Are the roads in the neighboi -
hood what they should be? If not, how
can we better them?
6. How can we improve sanitary
and health conditions in our community?
7. How can we better encourage
more reading by yoang and old? Hew
can we get a better school library and
more books and papers for older people?
How can we heln any illiterate grown
people learn to read?
8. How can our farmers cooperate
to better advantage for raising homo
supplies, better marketing, getting
more livestock, better machinery, rurr»l
telephones, keeping out of ciebt, etc.?
9. How^ can we get-together and
pull-together spirit among all our
Do we need a better organ
ization of farmers and farmers’ wive?;,
picnics, singing schools, debatii ,•
societies, more recreation, etc.?
10. What do we neeo for the
improvement of our country? Better
roads? A county fair? A county farm
life school? A whole-time county school
superintendent? A demonstration agent?
A county school commencement? Othtr
plans?
Aaye games, sports, songs, plays,
and social features for afternoon and
evening. Name strong committees to
take up and press any plans for im
provement your people think wise.
Ask all who can do so to attend the
“County Progress Day” meetings at
your county seat, Saturday, December
5.—Progressive Farmer.
j A mighty good man in
. the country, who only a f^w inonths ^ disastrously for the
I ago made 8 profession of religion j (;ej.jnans. To the East of Ypres the
I joined the church, is in sornewhat of a j more than 1,200 dead in
j bad fix. An old unused still has been | ^ 3pace of ground of not more than
laying around his premises for years, j hundred meters.
he also has some rather good, old time
I liquor. Now that be has joined the
^ church he has discoved that some of
i his brethren expected him to destroy
'] his fine copper still and pour out all his
j good liquor, but he says he has always
i been taught never to destroy anything.
I Evidently the gentleman is not giving
: his neighbors a bottle now and then
I and naturally they are kicking.—
I Greensboro Record,
I would advise ail in general that
they would take into serious consider
ation the true and genuine ends of
knowledge; ihat they seek it not
either for pleasure, or contention, or
contempt for others, or for profit or
fame, or for honor and promotion, or
for .such like adulterate and inferior
ends, but for merit and emolunt of
life, that they may regulate and per
fect fhe same in charity.— Bacon,
“In the vicinity of f^t. Mihiel, after
having made successful advances, our
troops withstood the shock of rein
forcements from the enem'y, holding
all points previously taken. The Ger- ^
mans blew up the garrison of Chau-1
vencourt with a mine. We had par- j Can the Ethiopian change hia skin
tially captured this town and resuming | or the leopard his spots? Then may
the attack we were able to force the j y® also do good, that art accustomed
enemy’s lines back, i to do evil,—Jeremi^ih, xii:23.