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MOCKSVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1910.
NUMBER 2
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LITTLE HAPPENINGS
FR0M EVERYWHERE
g0 BITS WORTH READING
of the Week From
Genera w
11 Over the country as uaucrra
from Our Exchange Many Things
XoldinaFew Word..
Congressman Brownlow, of Bristol,
jjtdinff Republican of Tennessee, is
i n Freeman, a white man of
jjayville. La., was lynched by a mob
killing a policeman.
general Diaz, aged eu years, nas
Mexico. -t ' m
Cbas. Davis, a jon-ison ixmnty
farmer, ageu i. woa mucu jj oh n..
L. train. He was asleep on the
track. . . . . , .
Fire in the Union btock yards m
Chicago, does $100,000 damage, and
men fatally injured.
Three persons go mad and ten die
ofheatinNew york City on July
,0th. ' : -;
Ten deaths and many prostrations
from heat occured in Philadelphia
the 10th. The thermometer resist
ed MB degrees.. ' ,
William Klutlz. of North Carolina,
was drowned in a lake at East Had-
dam. Conn., last Sunday,
J.M. Bishop, a white man, was
lied by a negro at Ballinger, Tex.
Tha white man was trying to force
his way into the negro's house.
A serious street fight took place in
Newton, N. C, the 10th. Two. men
were seriously wounded. Trouble
over the hire of a team.
Three men were killed in a wreck
the New Yyork , Central railroad
street.
wo
The Dog And The Sheep.
or twenty years or more, the
Sheep industry iu North Carolina
has appealed in vain to the Legis
lature for a dog law, much less pass
one. Consequently, sheep raising
in N orth Carolina is a dead industry,
whereas, it could be made one of
the most profitable of all industries
in tbe state. It appears that
Georgia has a law taxing dogs $1,
but the Legislature yielding to pop
ular clamor is about to repeal this
law. Noting this fact, The Rich
mond Times Dispatch says: "We
are not surprised; we are not sur
prised at anything a Georgia Legis
lature will do. Last year there
were 245,000 sheep in the state of
Georgm,or a fraction more than
four sheep to every square mile .of
territory in that Commonwealth.
We have not the statistics at hand
but we venture to say that there
are a hundred dogs to every square
mile, with the result that sheep
growing is almost one of the forgot
ton industries in that State, as it is
in so many of the Southern States.
But the rights of tha People must
and shall be preserved, and in
Georgia, we have no doubt that
the yellow dog will prevail." The
dog is one ot the greatest forces
known in Southern politics. Why
this is so, we do not attempt to say,
but it is certainly a fact.
Some Political News.
The Democratic Congressional
Convention for the first North Car
olina district renominated Hon. J.
H. Small, who has been eating pie
for 12 years.
At the Democratic Congression
al convention of the second district
totrainmen were kUlc. JiallJor Claude Kilehiu aa unaui
THE RICHEST MAN
IN THE STATE.
HE UVED THE SIMPLE LIFE.
lisAon the S. A. L. railroad last
i persons were injured in a
pkon the Alabama Great South-
fa railway, near Birmingham, Moli-
i
ay. . - '
Me bathing in a lake at Scran ton,
K last week, three persons were
Bad storms visited many sections
f the country iast week, doing much
ge to crops and buildings.
More than 1,400,000. ice cream
ones have been seized in New York
er the pure food law. The cones
contain boracicic acid and are injur
ious.
A Whopper.
Greensboro Record.
A gentleman named Coble pur
ged a farm near Burlington 20
from Greensboro, some years
ag. paying $10,000 for 104 acresr
ftis year he had 65 acres in wheat.
WHS fi no Qn si t9 a Vi a
aded into it with his reaper and
t it: then
the machine beiner left in the
fiell until the shockincr was com
pleted. He seemed not to appre
hend any trouble, but after, the
beat was all shocked- he saw, he
not get the reaper but 'of the
field until the wheat was firftl h ani
ent, and he had to let tlve ma-
8pd, although he needed it else-
here. It is estimated that he will
"aFe 2,500 bnshpls of whpt. from
lhe 65 acres. - 'Vv
n9 .ni8,18 the nearest to the story of
carter's of v.
j vu ucol . vai lei uavt
nats thai- ahan thair mora
u ae could not find-enough room
m. . uic ueia to snocK mem.
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?a '" uuwever, comes irom a
-uiC win De given if any one
rota the Rtn - -
mously nominated to succeed him
self at the pie counter.
The third district Democratic
Congressional convention met at
Goldsboro last week and nomina
ted Dr. J. M. Faison to succeed the
incumbent, Hon. C. R. Thomas.
Hon. E. W. Pou, of "Johnson
county, received the unanimous
renominatiou for a third term in
the lower house of Congress in the
fourth congressional convention.
The Democratic convention of
the seventh congressional district
renominated Hon. R. N. Page to
succeed himself.
Of Interest to Davie People.
Another bridge is to span the
Yadkin river and join Rowan to a
sister countp. Davie and Rowan
iirA tn ioin in the construction of a
bridge across the Yadkin at South
River, a petition having been. pre
sented to the Rowan board at their
meeting July 4th, from the citizens
of Davie stating that they will co
operate in the joining of the two
counties by the .above means. This
will mean much to both Davie and
TinwAn ftonntiea. and we hope .the
bridge will be built at an early
date. v
Williams Sentence Deferred.
' Greensboro, July 7. N. Glehu
Williams and Thomas Craft, con-
viteri some three weeks ago of
conspitacy to defraud the govern
ment through the Williams, N. C.,
bo8toffic6, will not receive sen tence
until the tail ierm of federal court,
which convenes in September, The
cause of the suspension of sentence
until this time is the trial of a case
ami nat, the Old Nick Williams
Company, that trial being- post
poned until the fall term;.
PONIMeNTS : ANCi
I TOMBSTONES 1
ANY SIZE ANY SHAPE-ANY COLOR. v
Gall on us, Phone us, or Write us for Designs and Prices.
MILLER-REINS COMPANY,
NORTH WILKESBORO, N. C. :
Strange Story of a Strange Man. No
Luxuries, But a Happy Life With a
Hore Trough to Wash In.
One of the richest men in North
Carolina died not long ago. He
was a millionaie, but he didn't put
on any frills about it and lived in a
manner singularly unlike the ordi
nary man's conception of the mil
lionaire's mode of living. He lived
the simple life. It was so simple,
indeed, that it would have been
painful to almost anybody who be
lieved to any considerable extent
in the maxim, ''Live while you
live."
This wealthy man of North Caro
lina occupied a farmhouse of primi
tive design. The house furnishings
were severely plain. . There was
barely enough furniture for actual
needs. The floor was without car
pets and the windows were without
curtains. Most ot the window
panes had been broken out years
ago and none of them had been re
placed. The little special telegram
which chronicles these facts does
not go much deeper into details,
but all of us have seen farmhouses
of that sort. The front gate sags
on its rust-eaen hinges; the chim
ney is ragged and moss-grown and
the "roof lets in the sunshine and
the rain. " It is hard to ronceive
of a millionaire living and dying in
that sort of a house, but we occa
sionslly hear of a case of that char
acter. -
;i:tua i:xortn-:Aroiina-i!uroe&us
didn't have any motor boats or
automobiles. He had no bathtubs
iu his house. When he got up for
breakfast every morning he washed
his iace in the horse trough. Win
ter and summer and all the rest of
the year. He owned a rickety bug
gy and a faithful horse. , The bug
gy needed paint. The horse would
have looked better if he had had
fewer burrs iu his mane, and doubt
less would have felt better if for a
liberal application of the curry
comb, but his master didn't be
lieve in wasting money on articles
of horse toilet.
When the old man went to the
country town he drove thither in
his rickety buggy and he carried
his dinner with him in a tin pail,
not omitting to take along a few
ears of corn for the horse. Nobody
would have suspected from his ap
pearence that he was worth a mil
lion. He would have been the last
man on earth to be shot by an an
archist who cherished a blood
thirsty prudence against million
aires. Nevertheless, it was ascer
tained when he died tliat he owned
stls ahd'bonds in some -of the
biggest, corporations of the country
and as the possessor of real estate
in several States in the Union.
The returns are not all in yet, but
the executors figure that the estate
will: run pretty close to 32,000,000.
Ho v would you like to be a mil
lionaire on that rigorously simple
plan. Would the game be worth
the candle Probaly the old man
enjoyed it in his crude way, for he
was a miser and a mossback and
he -wanted money . This is a strange
world, fellow-citizens, and there
Ere a lot of strange people in it.-
jLoaisville Courier-Journal.
l.-l Varonica Water Condemned.
vr The June number of the bulletin
of the N. C. Board of Health just
issued annbunoes that three analy
ses of the widely advertised varon
ica water on sale in many parts of
this state have shown it to be ire
pore to a degree that makes it,dan
gerous to public health . The an
nouncement is in compliance with
a state law requiring the examina
tion ot all mineral water offered
for sale in the state and, the pub
lication of those found to be im
pure. . .
The Dairy Industry of United States.
According to the last year bouk
of the Deyartment of Agriculture,
there are 21,720,000 milch cows iii
the United States, and these are
worth $702,945,000.00. The mag
nitnde of the industry can perhaps
be best understood when it is con-
considered that these cows produce
ygarly about 11,000,000,000. worth
of dairy products.
There is no other branch of di-
vertifiee agriculture so important
to the process of a community. The
fertility of the soil can best be
maintained by the liberal use of
barnyard manure and the dairy
herd not only makes this possible,
but dairying is also more remuner
ative than other branches of farm-
ing when properly carried on.
Dairying has made wonderful
progress since the advent of the
modern creamery and the consumer
of butter has not only been benefit
ted by? being furnished a mere
wholesome and palatable article of
food, but the wile in the farm
home has been relieved, of the
drudgery incident to making but
ter on the farm. Where formerly
the cream was ripened and;churned
into butter under conditions not
conductive to fine quality in the
finished product and in the major
ity of cases by unskilled hands,
now the most of the milk or cream
is delivered to a modern creamery
where conditions are suited to the
purpose of making butter and the
result has been a wonderful im
provement in the quality of our
dairy products. As the quality
has improved consumption has in-.
creased'and the progress of dairy-
ihgv,has? been-l remarkable, during
the past decade.
The perpetuity of the country's
greatness depends upon increasing
the production of farm products
from year to year, a result which
not only furnishes our people with
but maintains the prosperity of our
farmidg communities. Increase in
production can only come . through
improved meteods of agriculture
and soil improvement. When it, is
considered that the dairy cow is
the foundacion for soil improve
ment and farming prosperity, her
importance is best understood, and
interest in her should not be con
fined to her owner. She is an im
portant factor in the development
and prosperity of our country.
The Record and Progressive Farm
er both one year for one dollar.
PLACE THE BLAME
WHERE IT BELONGS.
WHAT CAN THE HOWLERS SAY.
A Meteoric Shower.
Mt. Airy Leader.
The presence of Halley's comet
seems to have a strange effect upon
the elements as well as upon the
people and there was an occurence,
last Sunday night, at White Plains,
this county, that demonstrates
what effect a small circumstance
can have upon the mind of a person.
A vounsr lady of that place, had
studied astronomy until the move
ment of the stars got into her
nerves.
She awoke, about miduight, and
saw, from her window, a splendid
metoric display for tiny stars were
shooting- everv where and the bril
liant spectacle moved her to rapid
ly dress and arouse the entire pop
ulation of . the sleeping village
Old and young alike, turned out,
to witness the sylendid display and
there it was in its gorgerous beauty
but it turned out, not to be a show-
pr of stars, bnt : the first annual
convention of lightning bugs which
had met in that vicinity. The
youug lady does not now mention
the comet and has ceased hep study
of astronomy. ( ,- - - V4 -
A Frightful Wreck
of train, automobile or buggy
may cause cuts, bruises, abrasions,
sprains or wounds, that demand
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Where is the Politician Who Will Advo
cate the Lowering of the Price of
the Farmers' Products.
It is a well known fact that the
principal cause of the curtailment
of the production by the cotton
mills of the country is the high
price of raw material, it is also well
known that tbe price of cotton bae
been high throughout the crop of
1909, then where is tbe man who
begrudges the farmer the era ot
prosperiny which he is to day en
joying throughout the length and
breadth of this fair southland.
Everybody knows that when cotton
is high, the farmer is prosperous,
r ow that he is coming in for his
share of prosyerity of the country,
where is the man or politician who
will advocate the lowering of the
prices of the products of the farm
in order that the-mill owners may
make more money.
It is only a question of time until
the other industries of the country
will adjust themselves upon an
equal to that of the farmer, or near
ly. so, then the whole country will
move as never before along indus
trial lines. There never was a
time in the history of the country
When all business conditions were
exactly to our liking, while some
classes were enjoying an era of
prosperity, others were laboring
under depressions and stagnation
of business. Therefore it stands to
reason that we should await with
patience the coming of;the revival
of business to the textile industry,
which is sure to come just as Kon
as the price of the manufactured !
product can adjust itself io propor
tion to the cost of raw material.
The textile manufacturers
throughout the country have here-
tofore hnd an opportunity of buy
ing a large per cent of the raw cot-'
ton for their mills upon a low mar
ket, but this year it has been dif
ferent,, the. price of cotton has been
high for more than a year, and if
the mills' can run under existing
conditions; and break even, then
there must be a decieed advance in
the pric of the finished product be
fore matters along this line can be
properly adjusted.
We would like to see the calam
ity howler go before the voters of
the rural districts and advocate the
lowering of the prices of farm pro.
ducts as solution to the problem of
exhisting conditiens. State Dis
patch, When the eminent Mr. John L.
Sullivan was a prize ring champion a
match with a colored man was sue
gested to him, whereupon Sullivan
remarked .. that the only way he
would fighta"nagur" would be with
a baseball bat. Doubtless Col. Jef-
firies has wished a thousand times
since the incident of the 4th, that he
had followed the rule laid down by
Sullivan. Statesville Landmark,
Those Pies of Boyhood.
How delicious were the pies of boh
hood. No Dies now ever taste so
eood. What's, changed? the pies?
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A HOT CONVENTION.
State 3ville Landmark.
The Democrats in Robeson county
have been having some warm times,
and the county convention on the 2d
must have been something fierce.
The Robesonian says of it:
If there has ever been a more
shameful, more disgraceful conven
tion convention held in North Caro
lina than the Democratic county con
vention held in Lumberton Saturday
it was back in the days before the
disfranchisement of the negro, and
was a Radical convention at that.
We are sorry to say it, but it is just
the simple truth that it was a dis
grace to the county and to the Dem
ocratic party. Howling, hissing and
hooting was the order, and in this
county which boasts of its prohibit
ion sentiment, liquor was very much
in evidence. It was a sad spectacle
for those who believe that fairness,
decency and order should prevail at
such conventions.
Strong, but the way to improve a
condition of this sort is to speak out
about it.
Big Power Plant for Hickory.
Electrical World.
Col. M. E. Thornton, president
of the Thornton Light & Power Co.
and of the Hickory Waterpower
Electric Co., of Hickorj , N. C,
announces that he has sold $1,000,
000 of bonds of the project to New
York financiers and will proceed
with the construction work at once.
The plan is to build a hydro-electric
plant on the Catawba river
near Hickory, where it is estima
ted that 9,000 horsepower can be
developed. It was also stated some
mouths ago that a large cotton mill
concern had contracted to locate
its plant at Hickory, which would
furnish an immediate market for
the energy of the new power com--pany.
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Awful Crime of a Physician. .'
Dr. W. L. Vestal and his wife,
of High Point, are in the county
jail at Greensboro, the physician
being charged with performing an
illegal operation npon a girl, ' Bes
sie Thomason, of Statesville from
the effects o which she died July
2nd. Mrs. Vestal is held because
it is believed she aided her hus
band in the terrible practice. An
other girl, May Owen, of Lin wood,
is dangerously ill from the same
effects and there is every indica
tion that Dr. Vestal is guilty of
this crime also.
That was a rare incident at Pat
erson, N. J., last week when a mil
lionaire married a poor widow's
daughter He is to be congratu
lated for his good sense in choosing
a wife, We say a wife because we
believe he wanted a wife and doubt
less got one. There is a big differ
ence between a '-woman" and a
"wifei" Most millionaires marry
women who can never justly be
called wives and it is the departure
from this established rule that in
attracting attention. And another
thing that is admirable in the char
acter of this distinguished bride
groom is that he didn't stop to cor
sider what folks would say about
it. That poor widow and her
daughter are undoubtedly made
happy for life by this marriage and
the husband is certainly in a better
position to enjoy himself than if be
had tied up to some rich, ultra
fashionable ''sassiety" pullet. -hx.
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