Newspapers / Rockingham Post-Dispatch (Rockingham, N.C.) / Aug. 20, 1903, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of Rockingham Post-Dispatch (Rockingham, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
VOLUME V, NUMBER 13. w rocxiMCHAU 'rocxrr. Fwmdt4IUX PRICE ONE DOLLAR A YE W. ftCKINQHAM, N. C THURSDAY! AUQUST 20 , 1903. Union Meeting The Union Meetin of the Pee Dee Acoat,0 W'M meet with the Rockingharfi Bapiitt Church August the 2Sth, 29th end 30th. The folio wing is the program : FRIDAY MORNINO. 10 a. in. Ynjtt and praise service . 10: ya a. ro. Organisation and reports Iron the chut ches. C3 11 :o-v a. m. "Should our Churches maintain within themselves an Organ ised Ladies' Missionary Work? Rav. K. B. Caudle and F. E. ThomaJ. FRIDAY AFTERNOON.. a 130 p. in . Prajer aaMfpraisw service. a :4s p. tn. Tbc advantage 0 preach ing the doctrine of baptism aa held by the Baptist Church." Rev. D. C. Brltt, T. L Caud!e. 3 :jo p. m. The advantages of preacb lay; the doctrine of the Lord's Sapper as held by the Baptist Church Rev. C. D. CraTea.and II. II. McLeodoo. SATURDAY MORNING. 10:00 a. m. P rarer and praiae ser vice. 10:15 a.m. Why is not every mem of a Baritt Church a worklnr force for I that church? T. S. Wrigbu 1 1 1.00 a. Ei. wTne Fee Dee Institute whose icbool is it, and what la It for?" Prof. W. J. Ferrell and A. S. Dock- ery. saturdaV AFTERNOON. j :jo p. in. Prajer and praiae ser vice. . . j :oo p. sn. "Is the fact that a Baptist Church member di inks at a bar or rotes for the sale of intoxicating liquors Ii barrooms a sufficient ground for disci pline r J. M. KUke and Dr. E. A. Cov logtoa. SUNDAY MORNING. sunda school ma I 10:00 a. m. meeting. 11:00 a.m. Sermon. On each evening, at 8 o'clock, there will be either a sermon or an address. Cemetery AiiocUtfan The second meeting of the Woman' Cetneterj Association was held la th Graded School Building Mood, Auj. 10. Arranrmeois were made for the commeecement of the work. Another ueetiof Will be held id .Sept. Jat gir en Uter. Ererj wornae In the town and surrounding counuj, who . feels an interest In this work Is urf ed to attend and have her name enrolled. Letter to KAChmona UOUnrr UruglOeiieT. Cowpjay, Rockingham, N. C Dear Sir: Messrs Leacbman k Edelio, Grafton, W Va, bad been selliaf a paint, which the thought well of; and this had occurred. The had sold a costomer tS gallons ol it to paint his house. A few jears later. they sold the same man Deroe lead -and ainc the same number of gallons to paiut I toe same noue. lie had 7 gallons leit. The point of the tale is : 1 1 gallons De voe paints an iS-gallou house. , Do jou want to sell it? Of course that Isn't all. Whj does 11 gallons Ivoe go as lar a iS gallons .f other paint? Because It Is all paint, all true, no sham, and full meas ure. Do you want to sell it ? But that Isn't alL Deroe huts longer. No, no; you haven't got to wait ten j ear to find that out. Ten thousand people r know It. We've got their names. Our agents know them, they think a heap oi lum a uwuuiKUiij iDiagwiu your lownspeople what to expect of De- j voe. $io will paint a S15 bouse; and the paint'il last twice as long. Do you want to sell It? Yours truly - K W Davos & Co New York NOTICE TO MERCHANTS. Merchants wbo del in fireworks art hereby notified that the town commis sioners are contemplatlug the passage 01 an ordinance forbidding the sale of fire crackers of three Inches or over (o length T2ZSr? far Real Two bouses and lots on Randoldh St. for Information tee Z. Z. Had ley. Arg I Sib '03. ELIZABETH TURN BOW We want the heir ot Eliaabeth Turn bow, a wid ow who came to Texas from North Car olina In 1S34 ar Address J. W. Lawrence & Son, land agents, Austin, Texas, - FORSALB A good farm cm Mountain Creek in Upper Richmond. Abo two tracts of uncleared land. Will rent for next year if not sold. Apply to A. C COVINGTON, Roberde!, N. C. I IX McPHAJL, Af. IX Physician and Surgeon. Ofkc orer Farmers Bank. ir ml Wr Mrm.' Dw JW ZOCKINCHAL!. . . N. JC. eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeoaoeeeeeeeeeetMtee NEWS BRIEFLY; TOLD V: Items of Interest GoLtKered ond Groupclt For The Anijlo Mr. T. M. Rose, of Hamlet. was in town Tuesday. Mr. A. K. Atkinson, of Hamlet, was in town Wed- nesday. mm Representative- Chas. T. Luther, of Troy, is quite sick. " A party of hunters from Gastonia are hunting at Ellerbe. Miss Minnie btansm is . -m. a SSt . ' visiting Miss Nell Nelson at Halifax. i Miss Aueusta McRae. of Raeford, is visiting relatives in town. Mr. E. A. Hendley ha gone on the road rePresent"Uount. inf 11 Riphmnnd house.- I Aberdeen, spent last Sunday 1 A. " Wlin relatives in lOWU. Messrs. L. S. Covington antj s. s. Steele spent Sun- day at Jackson Springs. A -D t t The pastor, Rev. P. R. byterian church next Sunday. Mrs. W. F. Bristow and children, of Dillon, S, C, are visiting Mrs. E. D. Whit- lock. Misses Npra and Margaret Thompson, of Baltimore, are visiting.Miss Mary Led- I a Messrs. H. S. Ledbetter and W.N. Everett and son spent Sunday at Wright - sville Beach. ; Dr. N.. C. Hunter and Messrs. John Ingle fpcr .Tnlin Tnfrl onil T P. Palmnr have riirnpd from Blowing Rock. I " a Miss Hannah Cole leaves Mondav for Greensboro where she will visit Miss Lizzie Leigh Dick. Mr. J. W. LeGrand and T. I. Rogers, one of Bennett- it i i SV1I16 S leading lawyers, Have formed a partnership. Rev. J. W. Leak has re turned from Harnett county wheie he conducted success ful meetings at Godwin and Buie's CreekL Messrs. W. C Leak, M. D. Williams, J. L. Everett, I J. C. Dockery, Mrs. Jennie fegues and others from this.ior opening the store of section havH bought res dencolou at Jackson Springs t I Messrs. J. C. Davis, S. T. Cooper, J.; G. Terry, P. W. West,8 T. B. Hunter and B. F. Palmer went deer hunting on Drowning Creek Saturday. From Troy Facts and Figures: 'fSinging Biilie Gibson" is teaching a class in vocal music at Marcus. He has a good class and they are making nice progress. Starling McDonald was up before Justice J. W. Butler at Hoflman Monday for as saulting C. W. Hyams. He was bound over to Superior Court and placed under a peace bond. - Sojcon Readers. I I Dr. J . T. Hiatt was irt town Thursday. Miss Susie McDonald has returned to lroy. Mrs. J. D. Shaw and Miss Shaw are at Blowing Hock. Messrs. Jesse, James and Wilson Page were in town It. AUOTUiv- Rev. D. C: Britt and 1 family v have returned to Rockingham. Maj. C. 11. Smith (Rill Arp) is lying at death's door at his home in Contersville, Ga. I Y ! Misses Mary McRae and Rachel Covington are j visit ing Miss Galiger, at Rocky 1 t i j Iissuc iiooper, coioreu, was mnoverbvan engine and killed at namlet Wednesday I - i mnrninfr iionnAr was Hrnnlr m m m mm m mm m m v m ww hiu' m mm-mmm and lying on the track The meeting conducted by Rev. H.W. Hawkins,. which continued several weeks, hi s , , , t Messrs. ; Robert Steele, George Shannonhouse and Charles Dockery left Tues day evening for BellBuckle, Tenn, jvvhero they will attend' School. Y . : r RevJn. all and Rev. w R. Connedee will ex- nhftntrA rmlnitja not. Snnrlov - m 4u m, v ms vs m va J Mr "all will will preach at Jacksof Springs and Mr. r - 0PPeuSe m ocKingnam. Superior Court Monday the ) J September, j Come uiuuiiu uunug vyuuit,- mwk aml W 0Ur - subscription If 'ou are not. a sulscriber iget on our dooks quiCK. . a Rev. N H. D. Wilson and wife, spent several days with T r " .1 7 unu iwit liiis iuumiDg ior Chapel Hill. Mr. Wilson has almost entirely recovered frnni ji covArA nttnnlr nf fVAi. Rev. Phillips Verner preached two very interest-1 ing sermons at the Methodist church last Sunday. His lecture 'Monday evening at the Presbyterian church was very muchjenjoyed. j J. P. Curran was indicted before Justice Ixng Saturday 1-.Patrick and Comnanv and - x J stealing some $40,00 in bills After hearing the evidence the case was dismissed and the costs were paid by. the prosecution. " Col. O. H. Dockery! who, with his family, is spending, the summer, at Jackson Springs stepped off a high porch last week and suffered several severe bruises: He was confined to his room for 1 J 1. i I avwiui uays im is now aoie I to be out again. . s i 1'4 Irof. Fayssoux, the bW 1,, i , 11 t until im, inivu imip QTnirti. i tion of Mind Jieading- and Hypnotism in our town this I week. Every and each' per- formance was first class and be must certainly have fal- 1 fuIfUlecl'the statement on his three-sheets of "Better : than Lee, Bctterthan BooV,r Bet- ier than nart." ' His last per- formance .will ; be gfven in the court house Jo-night (Saturday) and will be worth seeing. 14 k 1 There'was a drunt i corps wganized in ; Rockingham lat "Wednesday, afternoon. Tto following ofilcers were elete(J : J. L. Everett and T. L Lucas 1st and 2nd drum majos. H.- L. ; puthrie, manajer. T. L, Codington, Sec. ind Treas. ;Ujti War- I : .1-. , i: . burtoi, instructor, the next meetitg will be held next Wednesday; j lucklenve Arnica SUve. ' Has irorld-wlde- fame wr marrell - - - . - ous curs. It surpasses anj other Ire lotion, dutment or balm for Cuts, Corns, Burns, lolls, Sores, Felonsicers, Tet ter, SaW Rheum, Ferer Sore, Chapjed Hands, Skin Eruptions; Infallible for Piles. Cure guaranteed Qqlsc at Al Druggits. z : ' nfiihL- ' Notid - - my: Oving to the dela ; in re turning our rollerj ; from Atlaita we leave outj a great part of the stuff intended for publication in thS; issue. Next week we hopeV things will come around " all right. Correspondents willj kindly get get their communications in by Tuesday. Negro High waysnma Joe Alston, a ruegro-of f bad repu te, is indicted ' fo high way robbery alleged to b&ye 'been w - - r3iitted in the wn of Hamlet. i i s Lit tjrillespie was to; victim. He was peacably bing: to church Sunday nfegrf when 8uddemj 8et upon byf I Alston wboiied himup atte point of a pistol, made him deliver over $1.00, his only change, and a pocket knife. Alston, not coatent with nis siignt raise compelled Gillespie tpg take off -': 'li-:-,!- . his coat and surrender that also. It is said Alston also made effort to "hold unM WU1 Flov(.er8 but riowen) ap When arrested by policeman -r .. . ' , 1 C. . Moore, AUtonixuide aesperate eSott to get awa ft tw ShO otthe officers pistol Bio Negro Burglar. Haywood Smith,1 4r colored, broke into the store of W. R. Land and Company Wednes day night and. stole! 1 several watches and other article?. He came to Bockingham I right and ear, Thursday add made ?rffdrl an enori to sen uie watcnes. ' m . K- a m Policeman R. H. Moore, of Hamlet,' was in townji and on the lookout. Seeing mim come out of the store of J. p.;' Caudle Company, Mr. lloore started for him. The negro ran but soon turned and snapped his pistol at the officer, who, Irew his pistol and fired at the, escaping P0, 71,6 ne8ro caoght y AIr- Baiford Terry; f WW- t- 1 , WWOO IN tfWJC. j. - . p ' The Roberdel W. OjW. Ban.l, IcomDossed of Lii JSi bOUMtUibU euu mnsi- i i " ?aes7 . - - . ; - . 60030 ooa xxifVo rJ Paa w see yoiw uome to 10 wn often- mi THE CLOSING SCENE By HOWARD FIELDING CwrtjmU WQf. by Charie W. Book 1 DO not know how much testimony would be required to authenticate each a story aa this. Indeed I donbt whether any finite number or mere . oilman witnesses couia ever make me believe it Half a dozen of the most credible people whom I know are agreed as to the facts, and I myself was present when the affair came to Its close, yet I cannot make up my mind In regard to It. The Incidents as they are alleged to have taken place are exceedingly sim ple. Stanley Wlnthrop was a man who had been mnch given to athletic sports In his early life. When he was In col lege and I was a little, snub nosed, frec kled schoolboy I used to look up to him and envy his fame. He was the son of the richest man in our town. Shortly after the close of his, college life Wlnthrop inherited nearly all his father's property. He traveled for a few years and then settled 'down to a quiet and monotonous life in our town, which was nothing in the winter and not very much in tfcfe .summer, to be frank about It. When he was nearly forty years old he made a most unromantic match. He married a girl who had been born and bred in the town and was content to live there all her days with her hus band. By that time I had sought wider fields, andt my 'knowledge of Wlnthrop was. derived from home . letters and from brief renewals of acquaintance in summer vacations. . Mrs. Wlnthrop lived about two years in a placid state of beatitude, as I am Informed, and then she died of pneu monia. Some one wrote to me that Wlnthrop was taking his bereavement very hard; that his condition gave alarm to his sis ter and other near relatives who lived -with him in the big house in Maynard, which is the name of our town. He seemed to show no" power of recovery, no Interest" whatever lnllfe. t It: was necessary, indeed, to take some pains with him in order that he -might not neglect the proper nourishment of his body, -for such an.' engine aa. that re quires fuel. " v Some weeks after receiving this ac count I ' received a letter from my mother. I will quote a few lines of it here:' ' ' ;; - "Stanley Wlnthrop does not Improve In health, but he has made up his mind to travel for a few months, and they bone that that will benefit him. There is a strange story about this Intention of his, and I am going to tell It to you, although you are such a skeptic that you will think It mere nonsense. I bad it from his sister, and It has Impressed me very strongly. "It seems that Stanley has slept rery little and that that has been the, chief cause of their worrying about, . him. Last Tuesday morning when he came down to breakfast Marion, Winthrop's sister, remarked that he looked re markably well. He told her that he had "CUXZOVS JDMA," HX SJLLD, WAVTXO HIS HAXDw had a wonderful night's rest There seemed to be some peculiar meaning in what be said, and she questioned Mm. He tried to avoid a direct answer until he became convinced that his silence would worry Marlon more than the truth, and then be admitted having had a remarkable dream. "It was no more than that be seemed to be in a room Which was different from tor that be could remember. He declined to describe It to Marion, but said that the impression which it made upon him was extremely vivid, so that ha eonld not fail to recosmize the room in. case be should ever really seeit Jls I stood looking at It In my dream.' said he. I began to wonder why; I was there, and presently In the gentlest and best possible way that you : can imagine the 'explanation took posses sion of my mind. That la the room where I shall die. I received: no inti- ma tion as to when the event wilfoc- j cur. or how. or In what town or even In what land the room exists or will I tt-, fee aoxnewhere X shall end It 1 think: you know that I aball not be aorfy to fee It '- " " Tbese are liarion'a words, her beat recollection of bla, as nearly as I can set them down. Marion was much af fected When be told her later In the day that he had made op his mind to travel she did not wish him to go, al though she had previously urged that coursei upon him Terr atronriy. She knows well enough that be Is going In search! of the room which he saw la his dreami The circumstances are known to the family, but little la said about It I because Stanley naturally did 'fit wish I it; to pe puouciy xnown inat ne at tached any importance to a mere dreamy I were So I would not speak of It If you, but I wish you would write me what you think about the matter." . I wrote to my mother "very mildly that I ! did not see how any opinion could be expressed In this case during the lifi of Mr. Wlnthrop. It was Im portant in my way of thinking, that he should write down .an accurate de scription of the room, and he might seal this document in an envelope to be opened after his death, in case he felt unwilling to discuss the matter at present Before my mother "SHB kUST HOT COlik IS." received the letter containing this sug gestion! Stanley Wlnthrop-had set' out upon bis travels. - . He was absent about eighteen months, returning in late June; when the pretty town is at its best I was In formed that he had aged very much and that his wanderings had done him no good. If had been my intention to spend that summer in Maynard arid" I was glad to know that Wlnthrop was to be there, for I had come to like, him ex ceedingly during mi brief sight of him after his afQictlonU I arrived in May nard on the 1st day of July, and In the afternoon I called on Wlnthrop. It was a rery hot day, and he was In his room. which, because of its location, Is excep tionally cool in summer. The' window seat had been extended and cushioned since the date of my last view of the apartment, and It made a sort of couch. very comfortable and inviting. When Wlnthrop arose and came forward to greet me I perceived that he was quite feeble. I It seemed Impossible that a man whose figure still declared, the great strength which he had once pos sessed should walk with the slow cau tion of an invalid while yet free of any grave disease. However, one may al most call grief a disease if one looks only at the symptoms,' and certainly the continuous brooding upon an, ir remediable loss may be a matter for the anxious consideration of a doctor. I lied 'cheerfully to Wlnthrop, saying that he I was looking rery well. "You're mighty comfortable here I added. "They've changed the room all about since I had the pleasure of see ing it last Tnafs a great nook; 70a have there by the window. Standing by my side, he surveyed tt with a smile. 'Curious Idea," he said, waring his hand toward the farther end of the window: seat where something like the rolling arm of an old fashioned ma hogany j sofa - had been placed to sup port the cushions. "Did you ever see anything like Itr "Never," I replied. "Marion did all this while I was away." said he. "I think she believed that this room had exercised a bad in fluence upon me. I had left it Just as as lit used to be when you under stand. I " - "it's much more cheerful now," I hastened to say. "Marion Is a great sister. You ought to be very good to her.! ' ' "I am going to be so good to her, he replied, "that I shall never tell ber what she has done. I shall offer my thanks to ber In secret, but I am going to tell you because you're a notorious skeptic and, furthermore, because yoo are a man who may be trusted to keep bis own counsel. This thing may in terest you." :;"'':' He went to a desk In the corner and unlocked a drawer, from which be took a seated envelope. "Upon It were written in his hand this line, "To be opened after my death, and a date. "Just before I went away," be said. putting his finger upon the date, "X carried this envelope with me and brought It back. The last words were sdded with a peculiar expression.. At that Instant If knew wnat was in tne envelope, idi 1 same Idea that I had expressed to toj J saoxzaer foaa com co winvuvy. m t-s and I openly I P .lb I w vl5tl-v- V request I broke the seal and took from the envelope a sheet of paper upon which was a rode diagram with tome lines of description. Beyond a douLt the furnishings and what may be call ed the "arrangement" of that room were set down upon that paper. "Too did not recognise It as your owor I asked. That seems strange. JLh! Bo you know alabout my dream Y aald be. "It may Mdeed seem strange that I did not know this place, jet I did not To be sure, the outMncs are regular; there was really nothing except the furniture by which tVmlgbt be recognlxed. It has been mAIrcd, the rugs and thahanglnga are differ enr . I ; - -I should have thought that the rlew from tho windows I began. But perhapsj 76a did not look out" There la one of the peculiar facts about this dream,' said be. There was no view from the windows; it was night Tha room seemed to be .dark, and yet I perceived all that was in it and had an Impression of the thing Just aa If I had seen them. His manner far more than his words produced upon me an effect ef awe absurd, of course, for what la death or the Tie w ot death to shake a man's heart?. . X don't understand why yon should conceal this from your sister, said X. Tour revelation was dumb as to time. That you expect to die in your own chamber some day cannot alarm your friend. , How can they hope for any thing betterl , ! This Is surely the rational rlew, and It was .extraordinary that It bad not sprung Up before Winthrop's mind im mediately. It had not, and In response to my suggestion he said repeatedly: "it will alarm her. The thought that she herself planned these changes will torture ber mind. i "You are mistaken, I Insisted. "If you do not tell her you can never go from home without raising In her mind the fear that you have gone straight to that closing scene of your life which has been so strangely revealed to you. The upshot of It was that Lo was overpersuaded and agreed to take Mar ten Into his confidence, the more espe cially because he had been confronted by the necessity of tearing home for a . few days upon a matter of business. The result of this disclosure, however, was precisely what Wlnthrop had fore seen. It was to Marlon as If she had built a gallows for her brother upon which he must die the sooner because of the work pf her bands. She concealed this feeling from Stan ley, hut to me she was explicit 1 1 was at this time that she and I began to re alise the nature of the tie that was binding os more closely to each other. We had misnamed It friendship for . more than a year. I ' This monstrous notion, that the room and ber own affectionate efforts to make It more comfortable ' for her brother had somehow accelerated the approach of his doom, would not leave her mind. Her brother dwtlt In the apartment with a certain placid impa tience, but Marion viewed his conm ned use of it with an ever present ter ror which seemed to mo utterly unrea sonable. .!!'.'!. The situation was the worse because I no one dared try to mend It To per I made Stanley to give op the room for ever or to consent to a change of Its furnishings was the same, as asking him to set a date for his own exit from the world, since he believed that be was to die in that scene as It then stood. Absurd as this belief must seem to a normal mind. It had surely taken possession of the brother and sister, and the effect was disastrous upon each, though in a different way. To Stanley It meant an Increasing conceo- tratlon of his thought upon a morbid theme, to Marion a constant, tortor-' lng apprehension, a dread of night and , morning. It speedily became necessary to take decisive action. I took advice of Stan ley's physician, a man more Intolerant of all morbid and mystic nonsense than any one else whom I ever knew, and X consulted certain members of the Wln throp household. The result was a de termination to overthrow this super stition by direct proof of its falsity. It seemed likely that in this attempt X might lose Stanley's frlendahlp, but I bad reached a pitch of desperattoal where I was willing to risk anything and, moreover, the doctor, who was a bluff old fellow,! agreed to asumo all responsibility cnd to make ail tha arrangements. j ! One evening at tha Win throws dznet boor Dr. Evans and X gained access to Stanley's room from tha Teranda. V.'e were accompanied by some of the serv ants, and we had the means of affect ing a very considerable change la tla appearance of that apartment It was an evening prematurely cart. The western sky almost to the sen!tj dead black, so that 'the earth seemed to be roHnjr into the mouth cf pit X was the; first to enter tha room, and I gsoped my way at once to a table upon which I knew that there was a lamp. A match crackled under my fingers and west out I was find ing another when I beard a low. boars cry. Immediately there was a noise st the door. Some one outside turned the knob and then knocked with a hurrieJ and unsteady hand. - . - ' "Stanley r called! Marlon from wtth-V oat "Stanley, unlock the doorr I ran to let her In, but a hand la tha. darkness clutched) my shoulder, asJ the doctor's voice whispered: "It I 1 locked. f X hare mj foot against JL She must not com la. 't "Why not 7" I demanded. -r t . He put his lips dose to my ear. ' "Because her brother Is dead here ca this coach by the window. That Is the whole! story as I know tt Stanley had died of heart failure. Cs Uf tber0 cpon the: cushions, with LU - r!it hand across his breast and a LJ ft-ir g his wife cUQed tjty t3 gM-gj f -- .- , , mf ' - I
Rockingham Post-Dispatch (Rockingham, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Aug. 20, 1903, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75