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-- Montfomeriaa Publishing Company ; v JOB PRINTING ' ;-; ?' ' -: " 1 v - . IV t not th be$tbufs just as good rou.'iZJe profited by doing either VOLUME 1 7 NUMBER 45. TROYr N. C THURSDAY J 1912L ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. C3S3 LITTLE BOY DROWNEL Small Sea 0! Mr. Ma Varner Waa den From Borne and Fa&s Inti Creek Other Newt Items. Queen, June IT. The two and a' half year old son of Mr. John M. Varner, who lives near Barnes Creek in Ophir township, wandered away from home Monday morning, going down to the creek which runs within some three or four hun dred yards of his home, and it is thought attempted to cross on a footlog where the water is shal low, but swift, and fell in. ' Be low the foot log is a lake of some depth and it was at the lower end of this lake on a raft where the water is again swift that the body of the little fellow was found. His mother missed him, but thinking he was his father at his work felt no concern for him until she learn- -; Aaotaer KaHrud Ramor. r Albemarle, .'June 14. Humor in this place has it that within the next two weeks the final lo cation of the Raleigh Charlotte and Southern Railway will be decided upon. The surveyors have been at work about 5 menths and it is reported that they have finished ' their first task; and within a short while the question as to just what towns wiil get the line will have been settled. It is a significant fact that when the Raleigh, " Charlotte THE QUESTION ANSWERED. Tie Republican Partr's Difficaltiw.- Oripa of the Tariff and Ww " Profits By it. - ; (By C. H. Tavenner.), Washington, June 18. Why is the Republican party beset by its present difficulties? - This question can be: answered with one word tariff. The tariff was originally em ployed to meet the expense .of the Uml war. .To . raise money Railroad is built that beginning for this emergency the govern- at Troy it will . connect good towns at distances of about every 15 miles until it reaches Charlotte. The towns to be con. nected are Troy, Albemarle, Mount Pleasant, Concord and Charlotte. All of these towns are ment decided to tax every article of manufacture. The American manufacturers complained of this, and-justly. They said the taxes were so heavy as to be ruinous, because they could not compete with imported' articles 3! J A. 1 A. Al nrofrresirfve and all are industrial wmca " m nave ro mB I - I ... -0 1 J- J i xt. : I i. du a uiau was ubyibcu iaj the other four towns furnish at Negra Bey EaiWmp Like fat; ,1 Wilson, June 14, MrV Charles Benton has just returned from a business trip to Fayetteville, and tells of a strange creature he saw while : in that, city. ' He says: While in; Fayetteville I saw a negro boy between twelve and fifteen years of ge who approach ed me with arms extended and asked me for a-nickel. I noticed that midway between each wrist and elbow, on both members be gan to grow smaller until they reached to . where bis i a n d s should have been and that both members tapered off to ja'v point, orming one great big finger on each hand, at the. end c which there is claw-like naii ;From half way between the wi-ist and herds in the arms leading up to each shoulder are webs like the wings of a bat.". i ed he had gone astray. Search was immediately begun, result ing in the sad discovery. His body was buried at Love Joy on Tuesday. The bereaved parents have the sympathy of a number "of friends. Farmers are most through harvesting in this community. There has not been any Sun day School at the church for a while on account of measles. It has about died out now, how ever, and there will be Sunday School the fourth Sunday at 10 o'clock. Everybody come out. Harris Freeman of Seagrove was a visitor in this section Sat urday night. A. L. Hill and family spent Saturday night at J. A. Russel's near Troy. present a freight business of about $2,000,000 per yeor. The freight receipts are rapidly in creasing, those of Albemarle hftvinur inrrmt..f1 n.Vtnnt 100 nor ront.int.f.ant 8 nMrR Hud nf ing With yOUr the other towns in about the same proportion. All these towns also have splendid farm country surround' ing them with the coming of. the Raleigh, Charlotte and Southern protect the American manufac turers. We will place a tariff on all imported articles, " said the gov ernment, "which will put you on an even or better-than-even foot- foreign competi tors " Everyone understood this pro tective system was to be but temporary, to meet an unusual condition, and that the tariff on imports would be abolished when new developments . will t a k e " became no longer neccessary rtinc. tipw inrfnatriei will Bnrincr to require the American manu- nn rA tho tivna ninnor th new facturers to pay a tax on their line are destined to have a manufactures. growth unequaled by any otner Hut in tne meantime tne pnv in the- State. . These towns all ileged few had discovered that in have responded liberally with I the tariff lay a means by which concessions t o tne new roaa. tney couia ouua up enormous Rights of way and suitable signts fortunes. Tnese fortunes were for stations have been guaran- pointed to as an evidence that teed the railroad by Albemarle, the tariff was a good thing. The There will be a joint discussion Mount Pleasant and Concord. between Cross Roads and Love Joy debating societies on Satur day night, June 29. The ques tion is: "Resolved that women v. are more attractive to mankind "" ""than money. - Everybody' is cor dially invited. Messrs. Grady and Hobert Reynolds and sister attended preaching at Shiloh Sunday. Troy and Charlotte have also met the requirements of the road promoters. . The citizens along tne line re cognizing what this, east, and west line across the State will mean for the communities tra versed are co-operating with the railroad officials and surveyors in every way possible. Co-opera tive committes have been protectionists fooled the people by making them believe that these fortunes had come from "the foreigners," when the fac was that the fortunes had been wrung from the common people who had been forced to pay ar tificially high prices for the things necessary to life. The protectionists knew in their hearts of this deception, Ckarbtte ObserraSaed. New Element for Sosthera R. R. Greensboro, June 15. Attor- Washington, June 14. Presi neys for J. C. Hemphill and Am- dent Finley announced today broseE. Gonzales, secured Judge that the Southern Railway Com Boyd, in the Federal court today, pany is asking for bids, on ten a restraining '-order against - the Pacific type passenger locomo present owners of the Charlotte tives and thirty freight locomo Observer and the first National tives of the Mikado type, all of Bank of Charlotte, from the col- these locomotives to be fitted lection of notes held against with superheaters; twenty first- Gonzales for shares of stock of class steel-frame passenger the Observer Company, deposit- coaches; five steel-under framed ed as security for said note, combination baggageand express Judge Boyd named June 22nd cars; five steel-underframe com as the day for hearing why the J bination baggage and mail cars; injunction should not be perma-ltwo dining cars; 200 steel-under- nent, and the relief asked by the frame ventilated box cars; 150 plaintiffs should not be granted. steel-underframed automobile The complaint charges that by cars and 100 steel flat cars. This reason of a conspiraby between is in addition to five Pacific type D.-A. Tompkins,: George Step- passenger locomotives and four Children's Day at Star.: Star; June 17. The Congrega tional and Methodist Protestant Sunday schools gave a fine pro gram last Sunpay morning at eleven o'clock. The church was tastefully decorated with daisies and potted plants. .v The special features: The ad dress, by Dr. Edward F. Green, on the theme, Children in the Church." The ladies' quartette consisting of Mrs. E. R. f Wells, Isabelle Green, Mary Srboro and Mrs. E. P. Green. Also the quartette of little girls,! -Ruth Vuncannon, Mabel Davis patha rine Green and Leola Brown. After the reception of mem bers, Mrs. Wells sang beautiful ly, the solo, "I Think When I Read That Sweet Story of Old." - After the program was' given the Lord's Supper was observed; making a service beautiful and helpful to all the large union congregation present. hens and W. H. Wood, plantiffs were ousted oi tneir interest in the stock management and con trol of the Observer Company, contrary to a contract made be tween the five when the company was reorganized, and the plain tiffs became respectively, gen eral manager and editor-in-chief of the publication. The plantiffs, in addition to their prayer for an injunction, asked that a receiver be appointed to collect the assets of the company, when the order is heard next week, and provided for a distribution of its assets among the equitable owners, in clnding the plaintiffs, Gonzales and Hemphill. Many sensational charges o f efforts by the defendants to oust the plantiffs of their rights in the publication, with details as to how they were finally "run out oi any participation in pro fits or honor," are included in the complaint. Besides pecuniary loss the plaintiffs alleged that the action of the defendants was a liabei.on .their integrity and ability, for which no relief could be given in damage. Bond in the sum of $1,000 was given by the dining cars recently contracted for. Twenty-six thoueand two hun dred-tons of steel rails are being purchased for the Southern Railway and its affiliated com panies. This rail will be bought largely in the Birmingham Dis trict. On account of the continued increase in business in tne Birmingham District, the North Birmingham freight yard is to be further developed. Substantial progress is being made with the construction of thirty-six miles of double-track on the main line of the Southern Railway north of Atlanta, be tween (Jrosskeys, ua., and Gainesville, Ga., and about twenty-eight miles of this track will be placed in service on June 18th, in time for use in connect ion with the movement of this season's peach crop. un account oi tne increase in traffic over the Cincinatti, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Rail way, in connection with the Southern Railway and the Ala bama Great. Southern . Railroad, the line of that road- between Er- SHORT LOCALS Local News Gathered in and Around Town Social ' and Personal Items Told in Brief. Quite anumber of Troy's teach ing force are attending the sum mer School at Chapel Hill. Among them are Supt. and Mrs. R. E. Ranson, Misses Stella Benson, CaroandLutie Mclntyre. Miss Tecie Beaman is attend ing the summer school at Guil- brd College. Miss Mamie Mclntyre is at the State Normal at Greensboro taking a course in Domestic Science to better enable her to each this important branch now taught in some- of the better schools of the state. Mrs. H. L. Boring is spending several days with relatives at Gibsonville and Asheboro. Mrs. H E. Bowman of Biscoe spent Tuesday and Wednesday with Mrs. O. B. Deaton. Mr. Fred Mclntyre is at home for the summer from his medi cal studies at Washington-Lee University. Mr. Wallace Armstrong has returned from the State Univer sity where he completed his sec ond years' work in medicine. Prof. Hoy Taylor of Biscoe was in town yesterday. Mr. Skeen Lisk is visiting his parents, Esq. and Mrs. L. R. Lisk. ap- and then and there did humbug Tli Ctat Nnrmat TaTTm! pointed in the various towns and fraud become part and par- commenced this week and that We desire to call attention to hooking towards the mutual in- Cel of politics. But the people in a few weeks there would be at t A. -M IV. I - . . .,1 " I . . have learned at last that tariff work on this great plant at least for protection, that a" tariff for 3,000 men. The party who has anv other purpose than to raise had the property in cnarge was the advertisement of the State Normal and Industrial College which appears i n this issue. Every year shows a steady grow- terest of the towns and the rail road. The committee from Albe marle is eomposed of 6 of the Work to Resume at Whitney. Albemarle, June 6. Pot? sev- plaintiffs on demand of the court langer, Ky., and Willlamson.Ky., erai montns it nas oeen expected to justify tne restraining order twenty-nine and a nail miles, is that work would soon begin on in the suitln equity. Bynum and to be double-tracked, giving the the electric power plant at Whit- Strudwick, of Greensboro, and Company approximately thirty ney some time during this sum- Lyles & Lyles, of Charlotte, ap- seven miles of double-track mer. News has reached here to peared as attorneys for the southward from the Ohio River. the effect that active work will be plaintiff s. Summons issued are To facilitate the movement of returnable August 5th. trains into and out of Chattanoo tra. Temn t.hf f!inr.inatti. Nfvw iv; mf.ii I ' ' UJSS01UU0H nOUlX. hrln nr J TWao Ponifio lino I w To All to Whom These Presents from Boyce to Citico, is to be th in this Institution devoted to most prominent and progressive the higher - education of tne business men in the county, women of North Carolina. These are J. S. Efird, W. L. Including the Training" bcnool, Mann, g. h. Hearn, M. J. Harris, the College last year had a total A c Heath and A. l.- Patterson. enrollment qf 905 students. Ninety-one of the one hundred counties of the State had repre sentatives in the student body. Nine-tenths of all the graduates of this institution have taught or are now teaching in the schools of North Carolina. The dormitories are furnished As stated above it is expected that the location of the rgs&; will bemade within the next two or three weeks;' and it is runder- stood tnat wnen tne location is finally made that construction work will be pushed to comple tion as rapidly as possible. Albe marle people are looking forward sufficient revenue to meet the expense to the government, has no excuse in logic or economics. It needs no argument to convince the average man now that to re duce, taxation is to reduce prices, here Saturday and stated that there are at present large crowds coming on every train. He says that the work has been arranged and that the different sections of the canal and dam have been di May Come Greeting: Whereas, it appears to my satis faction, by dnly authenticated record of the proceedings for the voluntary dissolution thereof by the unanl mons consent of all the stockholders, deposited in my office.' that the Bis double-tracked, and to p rovide for increasing traffic and facili tate the exchange of cars with the Southern Railway at Harri- man Junction, Tenn., the Cinci natti. New Orleans and Texas Pacific freight yard at Oakdale, From the first, the manufac-1 vided among the various sub con- coe Bending & Chair Manufacturing j just north of Harriman Junction, by the State and board is provid- wjtn a gTe&t deal of pleasure to ed at actual cost. Two hundred appointments with free tuition, apportioned among the several counties according t o school population, will be awarded t o applicants about the middle of July. Students who wish to at tend this institution next year the time when they will have di rect railway connection with Charlotte, the largest city in the turers havenever been satisfied with;a reasonable amount of prot tectiobat they keep on de manding more and more. The result is that the American con sumers are today paying divi dends on a trust capitalization of thirty-three billion dollars, seventy per cent of which is water, while American working men and women, particularly those who labor for the most tractors. This sounds good to albemarle people; as this great plant is lo cated onlTsix miles from here and this place is now in direct connection with the plant by the Winston-Salem Southbound Rail way. Four years ago when the work stopped 2,000 laborers were turned loose; out of jobs, and the effect was felt very keenly by Al bemarle and Stanly county gen- State, and Raleigh capital the State highly protected trusts, are re- erally - . ceivine wages as low as $6. $7 : It M said that the work; can be and tA a week.- , finished in a year or 18 months. And thia U tho riMnn thv When the plant is completed ', it on the lltth y or June 131 me m J ackson Springs, J une 17 The the republican party bet by wfli be the -largest waterpower my office a duly executed and attest Jacboa Springs New. Company, a corporation of this State, whose principal office is situ ated in the town of Biscoe, County of Montgomery, State of North Ca rolina (W. B. Hicks being the agent therein and in charge thereof, upon whom process may be served), has complied with the requirements of Chapter 21, Revisal of 1905, entitled Corporations," preliminary to the issuing of this Certificate of Disso lution: ; x Now, - Therefore, I, J. Bryan Grimes. Secretary of State of the T - State of North Carolina, do hereby certify that the said corporation did, is to be enlarged so as to give it an additional capacity of 135 cars. President Finley announced further that, for account of the Georgia Southern and Florida Railway Company, bids are to be asked on the following equip ment: JSix consolidation freight engines; four switch engines; two steel-underframe mail cars; five steel-frame coaches; four steel under-frame express cars, and 240 freight-train cars. should make application as early people have finished planting the its lresent difficulties, as possible, as the capacity of the larger portion of their crops in . dormitories iff limited. this section. Some are almost . Borons greedy . x : - thinkingof laying, by, but with Preparations are being made yuitivate Kinaness o i near, otherg the crops are very young to add $15,000,000 to the nation's ininK weu w your leuow-men; et - ; coal bill this winter. Each one jook witn cnarity upon tne snort comings in their fives, Do a good plant in the South, and will sup- ; ply electricity for lights and ma- j chinery for : hundreds' of miles around. v" " v. " -., turn for them as opportunity of fers, and, finally,- don't forget the kind word at the right time. : Exchange.' ; "i ' u . ;-; In being kind to animals we E. W. Green of WadevUle was of us must contribute our prorata learnto be kind to people. We a caller in this section last FrM to the fortunes of the coal barons learn to be thoughtful ; alsa. - A day, spending the night over on I There, is no reason or justice for reuw . - . - s - the extent of th increase, ex- The little son oi Ira btuart cept that the millionaire coal was bitten by ; a spider one day j tings -want the money and " are last week. The bite waa on the :n - r.oRition to mak the trole ! right hand and the poison spread either-come across" or freeze. all over his body. The little I el- ; The coal operators, who have ! cruel nature Exchange. - ; is thoughtless. FCUTEEN FEET OF CATFRTI11AXS. The Massachusetts State Or- nlthologist-said La our presence j low. is some better now. recently that each young fledg- Undsay Thompson of Rober ling in a robin's nest consumed Idellis spending a few days with every day In bugs, worms and Ibis father on route 2.- . . other food,- the equivalent, of I ' Miss Lula Thompson is spend fourteen feet o f " caterpillars, j ing a while with her sister, Mr. J pay a sufficiently high Vprice for This means, for a man, about the H.W,' Green, at the Pioneer farm. coal to enable them to" stand this same thing as eating sixtyseven D. DrL; McGrew. hasrne. tolinCTease along with ah addition- feet of "bologna sausage every New v York, having, left about al extortion of $10,000,000, which twenty-four hours, One sees by three weeks ago. We learn he Is wilt be clear profit to vthe trust. this e 5methlng-of what it means taking treatment at a hospit&L t Thus for every dollar .In increas- been forced to grant the miners an -. incr ease " in ' wages, - which they say will mean an anditional cost of $5,000,000 ' in-Tabor, . are going to force the "consumer to to LIU a robin: Oar Da: .b Abimals. r,P. H. R. I r We can hear the kerosene bug- ?ics'runnicg if we csjit sea thtqi. ed prices, that the coal operators prcpcsa. to collect tUs winter for Natice U Jaaun. ' . Mr. O. B. Webb, national rep resentative of the Junior: Order will speak in the hall before the Trojan Council on Friday night, June 21. AIT Juniors in and out of town are earnestly ' i equested to be present. Mr. webo is a. forceful speaker and well inform- ed as to tne prtnciples.oi tne ori der; :.f 'trf -' the miners, they have decided to extort two dollars " for- them selves. ; All us helpless consum es have to do is to pay r the bill. Always, always, it's the consuni' er who pays! ,;Y- - ed consent in writing to the dissolu tion of said corporation, executed by all the stockholders thereof, which said consent and the record of the proceedings aforesaid are . now on file in my said office as- provided by law. In testimony whereof, I have here to set my hand and affixed my offi cial seal, at Raleigh, this 10th day of June, A. D., 1912. J. Bryan Grimes, - Secretary of State. Tne Methodist church, South, is ' Duiiamg , a nanasome ana roomy parsonage on ' East Main Street. It is being framed, and a good ' force of workmen- are rushing the work along. There will be eight large rooms in the main part of the building,, with largehalls np and, down togeth er with pantries,N closets, " cook room;, --bath and porches of . com modious proportions. T -The Colo- oial eflact Is distinctly . noticable - Tha bcildir-r will cost abou Tft Leading T. R. Sheriff McKenzie went to Pek in yesterday to be at the bedside of his aged mother who is very ill and whose condition grows steadily less hopeful, She is very weak, not able to help her self at all, and is more than eignty years ox age. Mrs. J.: R McKenzie is spend ing a few weeks with her parents and friends at Gelena, Md. Mrs. J. E. Parker of Biscoe come over Tuesday and is visit ing at the home of Mrs. Barna Allen. Mrs. J. C. Bruton of Fayette ville came in last week and is spending a few days with her daughter, Mrs. Barna Allen. Mr. T. K. Sutton, the efficient mail clerk on the D. & C. is tak ing his annual vacation. He and Mrs. Sutton are spending the week with Mrs. Sutton's par ents, Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Clark at the Candor orchards a de lightful place to be at this seas on of the year. Miss Minnie Ewing and her grandmother, Mrs. E. A. Ewing are visiting Mr. and Mrs.- TT A. Graham at Roseboro. Mr. Percy Nordan, motor car mechanician in the employ of Mr. Barna Allen spent several . mm days recently at iaurinourg s'tudying the details of the Ford automobile construction, prepar atory to doing repair work on the new Fords being sold by Mr. Allen who has an agency for hese Cars. Yesterday's news dispatches stat ed that the Taf t forces won the first fight in the " Republican: National Convtiili -a at Chicago, when Mr. Tatf s choice was upheld in the elect ion of Elihu Root, temporary chair man of the convention by a vote of 558 to 502. The balloting lor a presidential candidate may . not be reached until the. latter part of the week, if then. - owing to the hard fought contests yet to be gone oyer. It looks like Mr, Taf t will secure the nomination, but only by a small majority. Both factions are accusing each other 4tith all sorts ' of ? corruption and unfairness. ' - -'V'-t Roosevelt's friends ' claim that he will bolt the convention and run . as an independent if-he fails to secure the nomination. 1 , M r. Burna Allen. ? received . a car load of three new Ford autos last week, all five-passenger cars They are lighter in' weight' -and some lower In price ..than- the Overlands, but are said to - be rood cars and-excellent "hill- MissTommae Tomlinson re turned Saturday from Asheville where she spent ten days at ; a - house party given by a school friend of her's. Mr. David Alex McLeod of. Little River was in town yester-' day." ' ' - V . Rev. Mr. White of Chattanoo- : ga, Tenn., is : supplying in the" M. E. church pulpit for pastor WF Graham during a vacation; of some weeks - - - - Mr. and Mrs. L. P., Byrd. of. Mt. Gilead are spending several days in Washington. - - V v- The good " news - comes that Messrs. Eddie Beaman and J.W." Benson;, two Trojans now "at the State Sanitarium for recupera tion; are improving rapidly and gaining weight steadily."- Soon they will return-to" .their ? busi nesses fully restored, in health. Mr, R.T.: Poole , is : havirj a fresh coat of paint tll:ItDhi3
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