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M0UJY1 AIRY, JV0RTI1 CAROLINA, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 11, 1911
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Next Wednesday at 1 P. M.
Pleasing' Contest
.OSES !
THE BAPTISTS IN THE STATE ' A MOST BRUTAL ASSAULT.
Penn s
$100.00 TO BE AWAliDED-BALLOT BOX AT
PEOPLE'S DRUG STORE.
Next Wednesday, Dec. 20th. at 1 P. M. marks the ending of Penns Pleasing Contest for Popu
lar Ladies of lit. Airy and vicinity. Much interest has been manifested in the Contets since its
commencement and the publication of the number of Votes deposited during the Contest in the
next issue of this paper will conclusively prove that the affair has been a decided success in
very way Penns Pleasing Contest is the means of a decided happier Christmas to some- as
well as proving an excellent advertising medium for The F. R. Penn Tobacco Company, who
have placed Penns No. 1, Sun Light Sun Cured, Red J Chewing and Queen Quality Smoking
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Tobacco in all tne Detter stores ox ju. Auy ana vicinity. . 3
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AWARDS. i's
Th Judaea in Penna Pleasdn-r Contest will complete the Count of Ballots aa won after ihet close
of the Contest as possible, when the Lady who has polled the largest! number of votes during the
Contest will receive $50.00, the Lady standing second in number of votes polled will receive $23.00.
ifhe Lady standing third in number of votes polled will receive 10.00. The Ladies standing
ourth, fifth and sixth in number
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ggregatingUlOO.OO. f$ L
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of votes polled will each receive
There is only one
Drug Co., lit. Airy.
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$5.00 six awards in all
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ifo Box for the reception of votes Thw Ballot Box is located at People
Don't waste any votes by getting them in wrong L Ghe Ballot Box is
plainly marked "Penns Pleasing Contest."
Don't delay depositing your votes to the last minute. Get them in the box as early as pos
sible. Those who live in the Country should not let weather conditions or anything interfere
with their bringing in and depositing votes. Six ladies part ie: pate in the distribution. No one
knows until after the votes are countetl who the six fortunate Ladies will be.
REMEMBER
Growth cf the Denomination and Strong Suspicion Rests Upcn
Contributions
Causes.
to Various
Hiss Bays' Report in (JreeiiKloro
News.
The Baptist State Convention,
which is in M-ssion at Winston
Salem this week, embrace's the
whole State. There ar 61 Asso
eiatknB 1,904 churches and a
total membership of 22 1,518 from
1,872 churehes reporting 152
churches not rejorting. There
was a gain in membership dur
ing the last year of 7,210. Othr
guina reported to the Convention
during the year were as follows:
Churches 5, Sunday schools 128,
Sunday! school enrollment 13,172,
officers uiwl1 teachers 94:J women's
societies 97, contributing chureh
es 12, gain in contributions to
State missions $3,195.80 gain in
contributions to home missions
$2,110.50, to foreign missions $1,
325.85, to the orphanage, $3,817,
96, to ministerial education $1,
335,37, to miniiiterial relief $1,
009.87, making a total gain to
all objects of the Convention,
$13,364.78.
The amount of money contri
buted to the various claims of
the State Convention oa last
year, according to the report cf
statistic published, was as fol
lows: To State missions $39,268.
70 ,to home missions $23,143.72,
to foreign, missions $38,597.52, to
Sunday school missions' $2,001.87,
to the orphanage $36,406.30, to
ministerial education $5,999.63, to
aged ministers $4,849,11, making
a total to all causes $150,250.11.
Ther are three colleges and 13
academies which an conducted
under the direction of the State
Convention. During last year
405 students were enrolled' in
VVaka Forest College. 403 stu-
Monrce Man's Assailants.
Monroe, Dec. 10. It develops
today that Mr. J. W. Smith, who
was brutally assaulted by three
white, men about a mile from
Monro', on the road to Wingate,
late ytwterday evening, and was
held by two while the third
slashed him with a knife, was
the victim of mistaken identity.
This was believed by some to be
the case hist fright, but not un
til today, when Mr . Smith was
better able to discuss the affair,
was thia belief confirmed.
When the men climbed into
his buggy, Mr. Smith says, one
of them exclaimed, "(J d
d n you, we've got you now,"
indicating! that they had been
awaitinf an opportunity to wreak
revenge on some person against
whom they had a grievance, ami
without giving their victim time
to explain that he was not the
man wanted, the dastardly work
was begun. The men had been
drinking heavily, and this, cou
pled with the fact that tlie dark
ness made it hard to recognize
anyone, explains why they faiK
ed to realize they had the wrong
man. Right or wrong man, how
ever, they were evidently bent
upon doing murder, and Mr,
Smith now considers it a miracle
that he managed to escape be
fore fatal wounds were inflicted.
CHANCES FOR RECOVERY
Unless unforseen; complications
set in, the attending physicians
believe he will eventually) recover,
though it will take some time for
him to regain his strength. He
was cut in six different places,
on the head, nose, back of the
neck, twice in the small of the
back, in the stomach and the
palmifW'ight hand Jakl open
,-Tahi--ir-JiWCCV)Ua firnroat severingne'Shumb "anff
',t r "tionr me ioss ox Dioou Detore he was
rolled in the 13 secondary schools, found by searching parties five
The growth of the Baptist de- I hours later was great It was
nomination in North Carolina! not believed at first that) he
was espeehUJy rapid during the eould withstand the shock and
decade W 1900 to 1910. There ; Ioks of blo.nl, and the phvsicians
were 166,098 white Baptists in thought that possibly the two
this State in 1900, while ten wounds in the back had penetrat
years later there were 219,465. ed into the cavitv, but todav
Ten year ago th.-re were 138 this fear has been dispelled lv
children cared for in the Baptist ! a closer examination, and it is
orphanage at ThomasvUle aiul stated that he has more than
&17.J88 wjis contributed to the an even chance
support of the institution. Last 1 With tl. if'.r,..t; 1.... ... .
me cniiureu num nereil .s.; men
- uiiu uwn urinit-
cniiiruuiUHi lo.ing ana were drivin? a mule in-
"cij-:an
PKNNS PLEASIN'li COTF.ST has s.-rved to bring to every one's attention the
TOBACCOS" Penns No. 1 The High (irade Staiulard Chewing Tobacco our leader for over a
quarter; f a century made from the ln-st grown in the Piedmont Belt Kipe and sweet 10c
jvr plug 5c per cut Sua Light Sun Cured The S.:n Cured Tobaivo with the "Please You"
taste each leaf carefully brushed free from grit deiiciously flavored 5c per break.
?.(! -T tllti TtAtlllluM A si- ..f,... t.. - I! III.. 11 it m . k r
v. yvuw - vr. jm ujj iur a uuue. nieiKieii correctly a penect cnew a oc cuts lor a
ue. Queen Quality, Granulated Smoking Tobacco, for pipe or Cigarette the satisfying smoke
e Big Blue Bag for a nk-kle.
EACH 50 PURCHASE OF PENNS TOBACCOS CARRIES ONE VOTE.
i THE WEST - HILL COMPANY, Distributors.
HIE F. R. PENN TOBACCO CO., IUidsville, N. C.
The! wards Jlon
roe, Deputy Sheriff
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and the amount
their support was $52,21)8.
value of the orphanage, includ-1 Julian Griffin 'and a larsre posse ! a,ul latt
mg mvestcl funds is $240.(KH). I of citizens took the trail immedi- drt-
'Juuuh; ! uic , aieiy IOllOWinir the il wixivpftr .t
two barns. I Mr. Smith last night and remain-
sewerage , eu out until after 11 0VU.1,
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wHiinut Success. o
his wife's uncle, Mr. Raymond
Outen, i"n East Monr where he
and his wife have lived since
their marriage, and left ten min
utes later for the home of his
i father-i rid aw, Mr. J. W. Outen,
at Wingate, 6 miles from Monroe.
Thirty five minutes after he left
his wife the horse which he had
hired was seen coming back to
wards the stable, but without a
driver. A hasty investigation re
vealed blood in large quantities
on the cushions, dashboard, foot
of buggy and on the right front
wheel and one of the shafts was
broken. There were also some
small particles scattered over the
buggy which were thought to be
brains. The! news spread rapidly,
and at 7 o'clock pogses in auto
mobiles, in buggies, on horse
back and afoot started on a
search. Wingate and Marsh v ill
authorities were1 notified by telephone-
ami searching parties also
started from there, coming to
wards: Monroe.
SCENE OF ATTACK. 1
About a mile from town, di
rectly in front of the home of
Mr. M. K. Lee, president of the
Farmers' & Mechrants bank, a
large puddle of blood was found
in the middle of the road and it
was seen where the horse had
turned around and started on
the return trip to the stable. At
this point there are no woods
nor thicket of any kind in which
a man could be hidden, and the
searchers were at loss which way
to go. No one along the road,
had seen Mr. Smith pass ami no
one had seen the horse going
back to town. The noise of the
fray had not been heard by any
body. However, the possesl separated
and covered every foot of ground
within a radius of a mile of the
spot where the puddle of hlnoj0
iound "and tn attack Trv
dentlr occurred and when rein
forcements came, the search was
pushed farther. About midnight
a small posse, headed by Con-
stanle 1 httord rowler. entered a
dense woods near Mr. Vernon
Lockhart's home, over 2 miles
from Monroe, and in a few mo
ments came upon Mr. Smith in a
semi-conscious condition ami so
weak from the loss of blood that
it was thought he would expire
before he could be taken to town.
An autoriN J)i!e was pressed into
Ncrvice and a flying trip made to
Dr. II. L. Payne's office, where
restoratives were administered
r the man's wounds
built
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150,000,000 Ready For Handling
I Cotton.
I
ew lork Nov. 21 New York
bankers who have been confer
ring here for the last few davs
wiui representatives of the gov
, emirs' conference and the Suth
; em Cotton Congress, announced
this afternoiai tluatt they had rais
ed a fund of $50,000,000 to be
en from channels of trade, but
is placed at the best advantage.
The grower is given the right to
designate the day of sale rior
to January 1, VM, and will
participate in any advance, in
price to the extent of three-
fourths of the rise, of the
ket.
FAMINE IN RUSSIA, STARV
ING PEOPLE ARE EATINO
DOGS.
mar-
The Lives of Thousands of Peo
ple are Threatened by the Con
ditions. St. Petersburg, Friday, 8.
Famine, which threatens to claim
jmore lives than the one in 1891,
! U'lln jl. tallies v.. 1 Ltut
1 . 1 ,
Kruumi.s, including
Iherei are waterworks
and electric lights in the
ings aikl a laundrv.
Daring the bust year $158,748,
64 was paid on pastor's salaries
and $171,497.84 was raised for
church building. Ten years ago
there were only 75 ministers do
ing mksioauiry work in the State,
while last vear that nnmVr V.jkI
increased to 149. Durintr the de- I liv'
success. .No tnu-o ,f
the criminals could be found.
MEN UNDER SUSPICION.
Today the authorities have
some men under strong suspicion
and they will W kept under close
surveillance pending develop
ments. The men linden iwi.;.;.wi
mi-re nine ironi .Moil
Ciide. the Baptiht.s of North Car-v- ! n,ul w,,re in town Saturday.
Una have contriimUHl $.14,147.61 The.v left about 6 o'cltK-'k,
to thin cauwe. Ljust year the ' wn'd have given them
miswioniirh-tf working in the in-, "pl' time to reach the iwint
ucvxtn. o! ,r,aie missions reiKrtel ' ' arrack took n ace Mr
it IVM . . . 1 i 1.4... I ... v 1 '
auuitionH to the Church as "llt"1
tlie result of baptism, and 1,384
auukiioiiM bv letwr,
John D. Retires From Head of
Oil Company.
New York Dispatch, 4th.
John 1). Rockefeller terminat
ed hw career as head of the
Standard Oil Comnanv tixlav.
j With him there also re-tired nie'st
of the conspicuous figures; of
the "oil trust." Not a Rocki-
fell
avows that he would
recognize- his" assailants shonM .
'e mem again, and it is not be
lieved they can possibly escape.
In fact, it is .openly stated to
night; that arrests may be expect
ed before noon tomorrow.
The attack upon Mr. Smith
w'as one of the most dastardly in
the criminals annals of North
Carolina. Unprovoked and with
out motive, robbery not being at
tempted, it was as mysterious as
it was brutal, and that it was a
case of mistaken identity is the
eu uuu i M:a...v in u.e cotton Hard on FamiJ
belts for the purpose of hand- ,
llIU th- tVkttolt rr.r, n.f 1011 ...! M lStnS t Bridt. I tolil
xtyy V4 l.'U Mill . C- " - AAil ' T
enabling growers to participate i 100 trt "ave m"ff'"-s for break-SlHHJ w ?nPP4r Kussia tcnlay. In
in any risi- in the market. ' f;Lst- l,iiv' vou no intellect f 'Samara people are eatinjr docs
The plan nroioses to julvni.! Brkiget: No, mum: then's and slirubli-p- nnA
mtw m l"e nouw- ins of starvation. The crop
i shortage estimate is f0.000.(M0
When you have a iid Kei a but-: 0,tfi- Officials are prohibited
no vi uauioeriaiD s
if nriniiiiiu ........... 41. . ,.r., L.
i... i i t e , , " " , ' 1'iau.sinie solution.
aol dim-tors of the Standard OU I Mr Smith ;a i
n . . ... .'IT. inilUI IS .an PIT1r-a mau-
v-ompany, txi .New .Jersey, fh f f ' 1 .
,vf t, i i , "ger on the Seaboard Air Line
wJ ,1 r Whu'h Byroad, running between mT
as he hodmg company up to m. Bnd At,JUl "J
he time of tlu- recent duss.lu- connoted in Monroe and Wi
turn ot the great c:omb,ne. . mhlKt(m h- '
me Kiocr -t-o per naie upon
his cottofi, basetl on the market
value at the time of the loan.
No interest will be paid upon
the loan, the onlv charge beim
$1 a bale, which is regarded as
I mini inniiv u. . ,. -
It will .oon n, m, . ..J ! "",u pnvaw reuet so-
wara orr any tendency toward
Will
rill ward Off mr tcn.lonev ! Cieln
r km iiu.ur iiiiiiiriiiim fmurcvo ta ; FvMiuomn. iuiwirmet v coma nit nn: nkimp
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pense oi gra.liner an! handluiL T "wbiwc ana mar m
v t r tj ( l w nn
AAttnM . A 111 1 i "
v-un.-ii ja ueiu nor taK-to
Th
an
conridenUy to a bab-
adult Soldbj all dealers.
as
fearing a political up
In many places the lo,-al
pre- w forbUlden- to raise fund
for tha sufferers.
AWti(t ft I I- It
una Kockefe er. W l mm xt..... -"-.
(J KtK.kefeller C l vLtt 11 t i ' sumrop io nv several
behind the scenes today. .John married only a year,
i). A.vh.old, one cf the ton1 1UE COMES BACK.
memlNTs ,f tin "old guard" toj Yesterday afternwn at
""""i ""'"I"" picMueni, oi ifi ; lie e.ime m frr.. h;- - - i
Staiulard Od ( ompany, of New . d a horse and buggy to go to
Jersey, and will control its des- i Win fat t,. i..; ;.. ' . "
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He drove by the 1
HIS OWN STORY.
Mr. Smith revived somewhat
and was finally able to eive a
fairly intelligent; account of his
terrible experience, which he
corroborated today. It was
thought that when the first ex
am umtionj disclosed the six ugly
wounds that they must necessar
ily prove fatal, but he soon show
ed signs of returning strength
and several hours later was re
moved to his room at Mr. Ray
mond Outen 's in Kast Monroe,
where he is now roaking a brave
fight for life.
1I story is to the effect that
he was drivijLg along the road at
a moderate gait, when he no
ticed another buggy, drawn by
a mule and occupied by three
men, coming from the opposite
direction. He turned out, in
front of Mr. Lees residence, to
let them pass and before he
could realize what was going on,
they had stopjwd the horse and
were advancing on his buggy.
With muttered oaths and threats,
they lay hold of him and one of
them made the remark above re
ferred to. Two of the men niu-
ionl his arms behind him ami
held him in his sit while the
third drew a long knife, opened
it slowly and deliberately be can
to slash him, first on the head
ami then, as he dodged ami at
tempted to protect himself with
his hands, on the b.-urk of the
neck, in the nose, in the stomach,
twice in the small of the back
and in the palm of hi right
haul. With death stariin? him
jin the face, be made a hist ef
fort and fell out of the hiiirt' v.
5:45 His blood-thirsty assailants gave
chase, but he managed to elude
them in the darkness of the '
weeds, where be roamed about
until found five biviirs liifp-
ione of