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"f " Mount Airy Newt •It Airy, N. C.t M, S3, 1M1 J. I. JOHNSON A SON. FUMli BvnacurrioH rat«: ' «M year Mm mewths J paatoffles at Mi—t A try, R. 0 •ads* the act of Congrtas at Masai j,UWL THE COUNTY AUDIT The report of the rN*nt auditor who were employed to audit the eoun tj records and Make a report to th county commiaaioMera was publish* la tha Ran fro Racord of last week Tha published report is of grsa length and would moan nothing ti Moat people, for It la a complicate) assembling of flguree, and only thoai who are somewhat familiar with ac couatlng would got much oat at i perusal of the report This much mai to bo very dee to any one, and that Is that soma a, the county records have bos* kept la i very inefficient way for many year* Tha work of making ^ut the tax booki of the county seams to have heei 4mm by thoae who wars evidently to eotapetent to transcribe from one bool to another, and errors war* made thai aMant a loss to th» county of man] hundreds of dollars. Hm rseords of the clerk's office a< tha preaant time are found to be it satisfactory form, bat the reoordi show that the people of tha count] have boon kept out of the uae of fundi for many years by tha former clerl at Mm court. Tha recordb show thai ha collected and yet retains wttnesi faea that should have bow paid to th< wttDeaaea, fines that should havs beet torned over to the school fund, and costs that should havs gone into th« trsaiury of tha county, all to Um amount of more than 11,400, and thli money has been to his hands for now more than eeven years. To say the least any system of keep, tag books that permits such poor bus toaaa as this Is faulty to that degret that It should bs replaced by a mon efficient system at once. The facts developed by the audi! show beyond question that tha onlj safe course to pursue is to have the records of the county gone over an nually and check up any errors thai may be made, and not allow them U stand for many years before an effon is made to correct them. A CHAMPION OF THE POOR Down at Raleigh live* J. W. Bailey reputed to be one of the unartest mer of the atate. Mr. Bailey la gettini himaelf before the people by th< articles he la writing to the preaa am by the speeches ho ii making in whicl he bet-omen the champion advocate ol the tanant farmer. Mr. Bailey con tenda that he sees a way to great!] uplift the 700,000 cltisans wbo are ii this claaa. Now there are thoae who ace in al of Mr. Bailey'a public utterancei nothing mora than hi* deaire to be come the next Governor af the state All of which may be true, but ever] man who gets to be Governor uanall] goA into office aa the champion o: tome groat need of the people. There ia certainly much that can b< done to aid the tenant claaa of th< Htate. A very large number of th< young men who atari life atari witl no money and but little experience If a young man chooaaa, aay the mar cantiie buaineaa for hia vocation, hi can go to the bank and borrow monej to finance hia effort*. He can get credit from the Jobbing houses anc the manufacturer* if he ia bo neat an< can get good endorsement* aa to char acter. But all this ia different wit) the young man who (tart* life a* ■ fanner. Bank* want note* made foi 90 day*, and the doors arc almoit closed to the man who wanta money to buy a farm and wanta some aasur ance that he ia not to be closed out ol bouse and home before he can reason ably count on making the money wit) which to pay the debt • There ha* been something done tai the way of securta* money for youni farmer* through the federal farm loan ay*tern, bat tbia hat not yet amounted to much. What tht* atate most needi ia some change in the banking *y* tan, or aome atate fund that yoanj farmer* can depend upon to ftnanct their efforta to get ahead aa farmers There ia much that can be aceeom pllahed along this I me. A very large number of the land owner* of the atate itarted life at tenant farmer* and struggled aton* through many year* before they be came owner* of their own homee And the same will be traa in the yean to come. Not many young men fa the Mm* «■ haw i tea or tt» money to bay one whoa they begfi Ufa. The only way they eaa Start t to rsat land, aa the mrtims mt tfc »atry arc now. But financier* am aured that he woiM not be enlted 01 ""» «j,1 m t M* W* ♦***{»*#*> ft p'** %* merchant wanted . Mf ■ TlMit hu bM MMtkhf dm t , th. way of idweattsg the yotuv (■man u to the bot awthods o men at the head the cp—try wi no of Um opinion that thla Is worth whilt I which clearly ilHwi that thia rfoi I to Ktimto tli# fuMlnf cUmmi ibouJd b . a ititi effort rather than a eount I effort. Education and opport—Ky I , tha hop* at tha farming class, Jaat a , it la the hop* of erery athar claaa. If Mr. Bailey can (how to the peopl i that ha oaa tad a way to uplift th folk* who ara daw* and make eondi tiona auch that a mack larger numbe 1 of paopla can lire undar thair owt ' vine and Ag traa than thay will haataa > to auka htm CJorarnor or eonfar o) I him any othar oAca ha May aapira ti hold. J LIQUOR FORCES BUSY Tha paat aaaalon of Congrm ap peered to be largely given over to th hearing of thoaa who ara advocatee o tha lienor tntoraata of thla nation , Nothing that thay could do bntifh , them raUaf. Now thay ara proparini a now Mil that thay will preeent u tha aart Congress which provtdee tha light wines and beer ba allowed am that tha Mtin reveoue from the sal •hall go to creating a fund of a Mllioi dollar* all of which shall go to Um soldiers of tha world war. By addini thla last faatara thay hope, svidenUy to make tha bill popular with tha sol diers and secure its passage. Then seaoM to ba nothing that tha ilquo folks would not roaort to to again ge back In business. They ara Aghtini a hopeleas case. Never will this na tion again see liquor sold as it was bo fors the Mtton want dry. COMING TO SCHOOL From the day that the Unite* States refused to take the war indent nity awarded to her from China ai the result of the Boxer rebellion then has base a growing friendly feelini between the two nations, especially 01 the part of Olna. This friendly at titude of China is reflected in man] ways. Just now it shows up by Um landing in San Francisco of 169 Chi nese students who coins to this coun try to study in ths colleges. N< doubt they will carry back with them an even more friendly attitude an< bind stronger the tlea of fr!endshi| between the two great nations. Mount Airy School Now*. It will be good icwi to all thox people here who art interacted is oui school* to know that the School B6ar< has been able to tell the bonds to thi amount of $40,000 that were votw some months ajro. The bond marke' has been in such condition for quite ■ time that no satisfactory sale ooul< be made. The Board waivable to ael the bonds at par value, 100 cents li the dollar, tut out of this muit com< the expense of selling, which Include! the printing of bonds, lawyer fees an< all the red tape that goes along wit) a sale of bonds. This sale was just made last weel and it will be "* month or possibl; longer before the money will be ii hand, for the legal requirements of I I >nd sale causes much delay at tima If the Board had the mo-.ey on ham now, this early in the fall, tfcf worl of completing the North Main stree building and repairing the Rockfon street building would begin at once but it la not the Intention now to he gin the work until the money is ii hand. If there should be any grea delay about securing the funds thi work of completing the building wil not be commenced before next spring Workmen have fftted up foiir roomi on the first floor of the North Mail street building and pat them in con dition to be used this school year The permanent floors have been laU in theae rooms and the overhead coil ing pat ap. As soon as desks srAv< the congestion in other buildings wil be relieved by occupying these foai rooms. A fore* of 82 teachers is now on tlx Job and over 1200 children are enrolled in the schools. It lasmi to be th« prevailing idea that the years worl has started off well and that we an to have a good year of school work. ^Now Storo Oponod Up. ^ R. E. Forest, former barber of thii city, is opening ap a stock of goodi on franklin street near Fanned Warehouse. He will carry • genera! line of dry goods, shoes, notions, etc The place of boaineaa wil be knowt aa the Mount Airy Bargain Houae. • ' § • THOUSANDS SEC BIG SHOW * CtmI SUw CwMtkuHn Mtay [ ' WUd Aihtb, FIm Actor*, TniaW Ho«* Harm, I Sew by Tlwiewd* e# Swry. Par M«<ral years tto people of this wet ton of tlfc iUM tov. not had tto (bmri of • imI food show, for it will to recalled that tto world ww put a •bop to practically *11 tto •tows, for tto »««T food nnin that tto railroad* w*r* too huay to haul them, If for no ottor reaaon. Last Kriday om of tto largeet •tow* that rrn cam* to this town ss hthited tor*. It wit truly • mar velous display of *11 ttoa* thine* that on* usually som at tto big stows. Tto train that makes up tto ouUK consisted of as many as U ears and six of ttoa* wars Pullman slsepsrs. Somebody said there wsrs aa Many as , two people with tto stow. Ws have i not soon a finer collection of wild ' animals. There wsrs aa Many as half , a do sen big tigers that were as per : fact specimens of the tiger family ss ■ one could wish to ses. There were > Many lions, but they wen small and i had an old, unhealthy look with one I or two exceptions, but then a lien is i always a stow no matter what kind i of a lion it is. Ons female lion was i in tor cage with tor four little ones, : not More than a Month old, at Isast , thsy were not larger than a cat. She furnished great entertainment for tto > little folks carrying ons of tto Uttls ' lions in her mouth as she paced hack : and forth in tor cage. She would ; carry one in tor Mouth exactly like a cat carries her kitten, snd hack and . forth she would pace her cage for a few minutes and than put tto little one down and take up another one and repeat tto performance. Tto show carried its own electric lighting system and was aa coMplets s mschsnical outfit ss one could find. Much Might be learned from a study of tto ssarrelous system of organisa tion that was manifest in tto Manage ment of the show. To unload and more two Miles U car loads of ma terial. much of nhich is made up of large trucks weighing nfcny thou sand of pounde, and take all to Ita proper plaoe and unload and'erect and get ready for display, In tto short time of two or three hours, is a work that requires the highest degrsa of skill snd system. that it bad. "All thing* art pure to the pure." It ia m fact that a man | can generally see what he ia out look ing for. Some folks go to a Ifcoir MM aee only the bad, the cripple* who fdl-j low along, the lewd and the low. Oth er* are able to aee a marveloua display of the finest animals, the biggeat and pretlieat horses, the timbering big camel* and elephanu, the pretty little leopard* and mountain lion*, and a hundred other light* that are good to behold. A show may be bad to the folk* who are bad, but to thoae who are of a right mind there is much to see that imtructs, and cauae* food for thought that I* well worth while. Two Automobile Wreck*. On Monday afternoon J. J. Wallace, of Rusk, while driving hi* car on the street* of thi* city had the miafor tune to be in a colliaion with a truck His car wa* badly injured, but no per sonal damage wa* done. On Tuesday morning of thi* week, E. C. Slater, a *aw mill man of the Kappa Mill section of the county, was driving with hi* wife when they lo*t control of their car snd it rolled down a bank, turning over twice. Mr. 8later was badly cut and bruised about the face and wa* brought here to the hospital for medical attention. Airplane Coming. During the week of the fair an air plane will Ay to this city from Greens boro and show the visitor* at the fair grounds • few flying itunt*. This machine ia being brought here by the local chiroprscto-s, Dr*. Cox, and they will uae it to distribute literature con cerning their profession. * I N New Meet Market. The Mount Airy Mest Market is the name of the Arm composed of W. E. Dunnagan and T. J. Hatcher, well ^ known young men of this city> They hare their place of business on Oak street next door east of Planters warehouse snd have fitted up oae of the nicest markets thi* city ha* ever They are making popular prices on meat* and no doubt will do a nice busi Tanlac America's Greatest Tonic-Fresh supply just arrived W. S. Wolfe Drug Co. "TIm Nyal Quality Store" Ready Now With Our FtJl Stock * Now come* the season of the year when the family must have warn, bright, durtble. clothes. Make them glad of it Bring them to vWt our store which is overflowing with autumn suggestion*. Our conservative prices this r.ason are especially attractive. Ready-t>o-Wear For Women and Children I You will b« delighted with the variety, chinned with the fashion*, and pleaaed with the •kill that haa made poaalble our allowing of Coats, Coat Suita and Dreaaea. 0,ur pricea on all Ready-to Wear are worth your early in spection. Sport Clothes 9 Women of good taate know that aport clothea fit auch an unuaual aeaaon aa we art- now having, aa doea nothing elms. We have a very attractive dis play of akirta in plaids and stripea in all ahadee, with jer sey aport coata and awvatera to match. Dry Goods and Notions We have always emphasized this phase of our stock. This season we are at yoar service with carefully bought materials—selected from the viewpoint of beauty and quality. Shoes Why Does our sho« depart ment grow each year? Because we sell: Good shoes for Health Good shoes for Wear Good shoes for Style Good shoes for / ppear ance Good shoes for Money Save Monty by kayh| a pair from on wewwd shipment • f sample ihoss, which «• are offerta* at I v JACKSO
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