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) if if t! !l M 1 1 1 1 'SV 1 : if H V II i I! II !l II ,r wry v V - " V VOL. XIV. NORTH WILKESBORO, N. C, MARCH 11. 1910. NO. 33. ' 5 This Space Belongs to the i Deposit & Savings Bank. Look Out For It's New Ad. Next Issue. t t 1 Town Property. s Good six room house !? I located on lot 75 x 140 f ft D and Fourth streets, l I in front of Mayor Jen- 8 kins, rooms all nicely $ plastered, large front and i back porch, well in the S p house, price $1,700. i; One eight room house on brick foundation, lot ts .... i .. i . ?S 100 x 140 C and Fourth $ streets, price $2,100 Six room cottage, lot 125 x 140 B and Fourth streets, price $1,700 Five room cottage in I first-class condition, lot 65 x 110, brick founda- tion, price $1,000 Seven room house one and one-half story, lot 200 x 140, brick founda tion, newly built and in good condition, $,5oo Any of the holdings cf the Carolina Real Estate Company can be i bought on the usual terms of one-third cash up to one-half cash and remainder in from 2 to 3 years. Kindly call at our office, or write for further particulars. L B. BARKEY, Sec'y. Aforf Wllkttbon, N. C. JOHN TEMPLE (iRAVES WHITES. New Factor In Politic In Which He Say the Farmer!) Will Dominate the South. Slowly, slyly and silently has the great organization of the farmers, named the Farmers' Co-operative Union grown within recent years throughout the South and West. The business and political world was per haps ignorant that it has heen gradually becoming more important in its dictations and vastly extending its ramifications. It has as its presi dent .Mr. Charles S. Barrett, one of the most versatile writers on farm ing conditions in the country, a dynamic leaner, one born to council and command. President Barrett re cently made a visit to Washington in behalf of legislation in the interest of the great farming masses of the coun try, especially the South and since that occasion numerous reports have been sent out indicating that his re ception at Washington was significant that he was granted a ready hearing and received promises of an encour aging nature both from Senators and Congressmen looking to the regula tion of certain evils under which, it is claimed, the farmers are now suffering. The most significant report of the political bearing which the organiza tion is now exercising is from the fluent pen of John Temple Graves, who recently indited a somewhat lengthy story to The Atlanta ( !eor- ginn ot which he was formerly editor. He has sized up the Farmers Union as one of the most potent political factors of the day and b.ls 'WV.ViTig oii this 'subject is well worth reading. It is as follows: The newest and most potential forces in politics that this country knows, or has ever known, has grown up slowly, silently and persistently within the last four years. Strange to say, the newspapers of the East know little of it, and say little about it. Hut there isn't a Congressman who comes from the South or West who does not know it and bow to it whenever it passes an opinion across his political way. At this time it is practically omnip otent in legislation, and it is an increasing rather than a decreasing force. The farmers' Union is a little more than 40 years old. It is a secret organization that succeeds the old Farmers' Alliance and the National Grunge, which rose and fell some ten years ago. The National Grange was the first organization. It was the first experi ment in agricultural organization and co-operation. Its mistakes were many and its years were few. It did much good, but its wisdom was crude and it fell by its own inexperience. The Farmers' Alliance, which lowed, was stronger and better, cut a deep swath in its day, fol It and mowed down Congressmen like grain in its triumphant youth. It swept Georgia for instance, like a hurri cane, and left only two Congressmen to the regular Democrats out of the eleven in the State. The Farmers' Alliance fell by its dissensions and its ambitions. Its first successes fired its followers to political aspirations and it faded. Now comes the Farmers' Union, which has learned wisdom and dis cretion by the mistakes of its pre decessors. Its members do not seek office as members of the organization, but appear to avoid it. Only one United States Senator (Smith of South Carolina) has risen from its ranks to high official state. The Farmers' Union is a practical, hard-headed body that is after re- suits in legimawou ifiuii'i limn 01 fices for its members. It has been managed with consummate common sense and self-abnegation by its young and able president, Charles S. Bar uett, and an able board of governors. It is a compact, secret organization in every county, State and section west of the Alleghanies and south of the Potomac, with an advancing growth in the Eastern States. It knows what it wants in politics and its going to get it. And It has three million actual and devoted members who are whole hearted behind its wants and its methods! Within the year this magnificent body of farmers has established a (Continued on second page.) A REAL WARTIME LETTER. Written by a Young- Lady a Few Hays After Sherman's Army Hail I'assert. Clint ham ltecorit . - Our younger readers havt no idea of the sufferings endured and the dan gers encountered by even the women and children during the War Between the States; nor have they any idea of the brutal and yihnnmn treatment of the women and children bv Sherman's bummers, many of whom are now drawing big pensions as heroes who had saved the Union! The following letter will give some idea of the dan gers and sufferings endured by our women and children, who were so un fortunate as to be in the section visit ed by Sherman's army. This letter was written by a young lady (who is now a gray-haired grandmother) a few days after Snerman's army had devastated the country around Fay etteville, where she was then residing. Her father (referred to in the letter) was too old to be in the Confederate army and that is the reason he was at home. This letter of course was not intended for publication and the writer will be surprised to see it published, but having by chance secured a copy of it we could not resist the tempta tion to give our readers the benefit of this vivid account of a young lady's experience with Sherman's bummers. The letter is as follows: "March 21, ISO,". ".My Dear Cousin: "Well, I have seen the Yankees at last and 1 earnestly pray Heaven that I may never see them again. "The 9th of March will ever be re membered by me. The vagabonds ap peared here'earry J?,t morning. We had no idea that they were within fifty miles of here. It seemed that day that Heaven had forever turned from us. There were 150 men in the first squad that came here and such a yell as they gave when they rode in the gate mortal never heard! "I was not frightened one bit; it seemed as though my very soul had turned to stone and I never felt nor cared for anything. Papa ran to the swamp as soon as he saw them com ing, and they were almost frantic with rage when ' they found he had left, and they started in the woods to find him and swore by all the saints in Heaven that they would kill him if they found him. "You can imagine our anguish and how we suffered on his and Willie's account, who was with him. The rascals all camo in and in less than ten minutes the house was stripped of almost everything. Pa had fortunate ly the night before concealed his two watches and other Jewelry in a very nice place somewhere about the house, 1 did not know where, and the Yan kees of course concluded as there was so much in the house there must be watches also. One of them came to me to know where they were, and I of course refused to tell. He then immediately presented a pistol to my head and swore he would take my life if I did not tell him, but I was as firm as a rock and though I was completely in his power I defied him to touch me. Finding at last that it was utterly useless to try to get any thing out of me he went off swearing that I was the d st rebel he had ever seen, which I considered was very much of a compliment! "There was no officer with the first men that came and our drooping spirits were revived about one o'clock by the sight of a Yankee officer. He came to the house and introduced himself as Lieutenant Bracht. Mama and I immediately appealed to him for protection and he soon had order re stored in the house ana gave us a guard, I think he was very much of a gentleman. Ho Wtta Very kifiu to me, which was something I did not ex pect. I did not think there was a gen tleman in the whole Yankee army, but now I know there is one, if no more. He came too late to save any of our property that the Yankees wanted. They carried off everything we had to eat, did not leave us a grain of corn or coffee or anything that would sustain life. They found all our sil ver and took every knife, fork and spoon that we had. Twenty-five thousand men passed here and I assure you that I could not see across the road for three whole days for the men. They set pine woods on fire all around us. They set on fire all the rosin they could find and turned night into day. SHOT SENATOR, REPRESENTATIVE l4 AMI OFFICER. Brother of Wovenor and Senator Trav is Shot in Scot la nil Neck. A sensational dispatch from Scot-j Last Friday the papers told the land Neck Friday to the Charlotte I ory of how the president, who is Observer says: This afternoon about much dissatisfied, got in a raging 3 o'clock Mr. E. E. Powell, Sr., a well-j way an,i lim,, t)l0 rtll.t)l Th(l char known citizen of this town, near J. E. j lotte Observer gives the following Woodard's stables on .Main street, ; story: shot down in quick succession State ; "Shaw is a dammed traitor, an in Senator E. I.. Travis of Halifax, !gr:,te, and he shall not practice be State Representative A. V. Kitchin j for,, the executive department while and Deputy Sheriff I. W. Dunn ot Scotland Neck. According to the best information gathered Mr. Powell asked Senator j Travis something about not replying to nis letter, .ur. Mtciiin, tmmung (officer of the forestry bureau. , Mr. Powell a little out of humor' This declaration was made several placed his hand on his shoulder gent-! ly to remonstrate with him, when Powell instantly shot him down and in quick succession, shot down Sen- ator Travis and Mr. Dunn. The ball took effect in Mr. Kitch- j in's face, below the eye, glanced dtnvn ; towards the ear and was later taken out by physicians. Mr. Travis was i struck in the mouth, having two or three teeth knocked out, the ha! splitting, one part being extractei later and the other part not yet lo cated. The ball also made a cut in Mr. Travis' tongue. The ball which truck Deputy Sheriff Dunn entered a little below the shoulder-blade and ranged upward, but has rot yet been located. Mr. Kitchin's injuries are not thought to be serious and per haps Mr. Travis' may not be serious, but great fears are entertained cerning Mr. Dunn. cuii- j Jmmediatidyjif'ter the shooting Mr. j Powell walked to his store, sonic fifty yards away, secured a shotgun j and continued out to his home on Main street, which he entered and in which he remains armed against anyone who may attempt to arrest him. Mayor Liverman has stationed a guard about the house and Sheriff I, A. House, who lives 40 miles away, has heen telephoned for and is expect ed here tonight. Since the shooting Dunn has died. Governor Kitchin went to attend the funeral and to visit his brother. Powell has been taken to State's pris on, for safe keeping perhaps, and claims to not have knowledge of the affair about which he declares his mind is an absolute blank. "I hope that you may never go through the anguish 1 did in that one week. They carried off a great many of our clothes, have not left me a cloak or a shawl of any kind, tore the silk all to pieces and carried off my best dresses and two of mama's silks. We have not one blanket in the house, have only a half dozen quilts, Every one of our darkies went, and mama and I have had to do all the work. The Yankees burned our barn, and swore they would burn the house over our heads, but Providence saved it, I cannot tell you now how. "The 1 1th Yankee army corps, the one that was here has been cut to pieces, so I hear. I hope they will not spare one of them! The Yankees were about to find the watches when mama took them to Lieut. Bracht and ho took care of them for us so long as he staid with us. He was here all Thursday and that night and guarded the house for us. I sat up in the parlor and played on the piano and sang for the Yankees till 12 o'clock Thursday night. The first that came compelled me to play for them, but I vowed that I would play nothing but South ern songs, and I know you would have been surprised if you could have look ed in and seen how coolly I was sitting there, surrounded by my most deadly nunnnna "The Bonnie Uluo Flag' and 'Dixie' with all my might. 1 am confident that I never in all my life sang so well. I breathed all the fire of my soul into those two songs! "Well, I must close by telling you that the Yankees never caught papa and that we are not quite starved to death, though we came very near it. We went five days without a mouthful of bread, All we had to eat were the grains of corn which the Yankee horses had left on the ground where they were fed and which we parched. "You will please excuse this paper as it is all the Yankees left in the house and it is a wonder that they left this. Oh, how I do hate the very name of Yankee! They can never pros per May the chilling blight of Ilea- I'AFT It.WiKII LIKE A SAILOR. The President failed Shan, North Car olinian, a 0 d Traitor Hurts Himself. 1 am President," is the way !Ur. Taft j lis said to have answered Senators : Overman and Simmons and Ueprescn- tativo Page when they called on him ' in behalf of A. ('. Shaw, former hue days ago, in the White House recep- tion room, in the presence of a mini-, ber of callers. The North Carolinians l,:lVe not referred to the matter ex- cent in private conversation, hut some-.. body else talked and The Washington in Jefferson Monday Feb. 2Sth in con- Herald of today carried a storv that:ference with 1Ion- K- A- lKiton as ; set thousands of tongues wagging, i wagging. The incident has conversation in been the topic of congressional ami j other official circles, j Press correspondents have tried to i get Senators Simmons and Overman j and Representative Page to make statements. To a Times man, Mr. Overman said: "Senator Simmons, Representative Page and myself went first to see Secretary Ilallinger, when Shaw made it plain to us he was be ing deprived of the right to make a living by his profession. The Secre- tarv gave no satisfaction, but replied that the President had taken the mal- ter up and that .the decision in the Tiireimses would be iriven lv"'lif!!.. "We then called on the President. We presented to him the situation as it appeared to us. We told him that neither the Secretary of the Interior nor the President himself had any right to disbar Shaw. He has a con stitutional right to practice his pro fession, having obtained his license from tlu district and United States Supreme Courts. No executive official has the authority to say to a man: "We don't like you, therefore you can not pursue your profession before an executive department.' A mini's li cense is his property, and this fact lias been established by the United States Supremo Court itself in the case of tlarktnd of Arkansas. It was held in that decission that no man could deprive a holder of a license of his right to practice under it unless charges were made against him and sustained. Yo presented these facts to the President, but he did not take our view of it. "We have not taken any further steps in the matter hoping that the executive department would reconsid er. , This does not mean, however, that we shall nut take some action. Senator Simmons and myself have not anticipated what course we shall take before the Senate. I understand, how ever that Mr. Page is determined to lay the question before the House unless Shaw is reinstated in his rights as Mr. Page sees them." Senator Simmons and Mr. Page would not discuss the matter for pub lication. They say they prefer to wait until Mr. Shaw gets a final an swer from the proper source. The Fanners Educational and Co-Operative Union of America. To whom it may concern, greeting: This is to certify that I have this day appointed T. M. Hawkins as an organizer for the Farmers Education al and Co-Operative Union of America, in Wilkes county, and he is therefor empowered with full authority to or ganize local and county Unions and give instructions in the secret work appertaining thereto. (liven under my hand and seal of the State Office, this the 2d day of March 1910. E, C. Farhis, State Secretary. Esrifs lor Sale. From thoroughbred white leghorns and Silver laced wyandottes. Won first prize at county fair. 15 for $1. Z. Paris. North Wilkesboro, N. C. 32-4ts. ven fall on their dark and doomed souls! May all the powers of earth and Heaven combine to destroy them. May their land be one of vast scene of ruin and desolation as ours is! This is the blessing of the innocent and injured one. I fornive them? May Heaven never!" DONE AT THE MKITIM, IN Aslll . The Railroad Proposition To lie Put ' lit lore the Company and People of Ashe. Among other things an article in the .Jefferson Recorder gives the fol lowing information about the railroad meeting over there last week. It says: Ashe County has been unfortunate in the matter of railroad pr "positions, in that in the first instance, the peo ple were willing while the people with whom thev were dealing were unable. ln the- second instance the railroad people were able but the people of ,mr colllty wore unwilling, hence we are still wiMiont a railroad. However, at a largely attend d mass meeting ot our peop.e in .'etierson some time ago, a committee Was appointed to have a proposition drawn up to 1' submitted to the railroad people with a view to having an election ordered ,,n that proposition if it is aceeptible to both parties. This committee met attorney for the committee and after going over the whole ground thorough - ly a proposition was drawn up embody ing principally the features as follows: The county is to subscribe for $150, 000.00 stock in the railroad company to be paid for in $150,000.00 five per cent thirty year bonds of the county, provided the railroad is built and equipped from Konnurock, Ya., by way of Mouth of Buffalo and Jeffer son to the Wilkes county line in the directions of North Wilkesboro and a branch road is built from some point on the said road to the mouth of Hel ton creek on North Fork of New Riv er. The bonds are to be delivered in the follow'ig manner: tp.iw Jfr..... the road i com pleted and equipn'-a'' Mouth of i!uf falo. $25.0lH.l,il when it is ennfe and equipped to .letlersoii. .f.(,- 000.00 when the road is completed and equipped to the Wilkes county line in the direction of North Wilkes boro and $25,0110,00 when it is com pleted and equipped to the Mouth of Helton. The company is to have the road completed to Mouth of Hull'alo within two years, to Jefferson within three years, to the Wilkes county line with in four years and to flic Mouth of Helton within five years. They lire to start to work w ithin one vear or the rights under the election will be void, This proposition has to be ratified by both the people and the railroad company before it becomes of force. False Hair and Leprosy. siulesvlllo l.nmlmiii'k. Wearing false hair has been much in fashion among the gentler sex for a year or two and the supplying id' this hair has been quite an industry among the dealers who cater to femi nine foibles. Much of the hair has, come from abroad and from the heads of all classes and conditions of peo ple. Recently reports have come from St. Louis and Pittsburg that young women have contracted a skin disease, which has been pronounced leprosy, as the result of wearing false hair. Much of the imported hair conies from China and other Eastern countries, where leprosy exists; and while it may be washed and bleached there is yet an element of danger. Tub Landmark is men tioning this as a passing event, for it is fully aware that the average woman will follow the fashion even if she knew that in so doing she would become the victim of all the diseases to which the flesh is heir. Special Notice. To the Citizens and property owners of the town of North Wilkesboro: uU iii'e hereby notified to cleali Up your premises, and put them in a sanitary condition by April 1st, lit 10, for the health of the town largely depends upon the cleanliness of it. ineretore, 1 urge upon you the need of complying with this not ice. Yours very respectfully, T. II. Jkxkins Mayor. March 7th, 1910. Tract of Laud tor Sale. I have a22-ncre tract of land known as the Sizemore place, two and a half miles east of North Wilkesboro on the Salem road which 1 will sell reasona bly good house and other buildings. A. M. V ANNOY. Poors Knob, R. F. D., No. 1. 32-1 ts Singer machines sold on easy month ly payments at Singer store. (ttllMIVIS AMI I W S l.l K U.. Pieces t lipped I'roin Various Nen pels of Interest tu Keiv ImmIv. pa- "Those who dance must pay the dler," is an old raying suit of a dispute us t' of the liddlev at a I'roi Va., Saturday nigbl, dead and two men are dor. . As the ic in the re payment Roanoke, tiddler is I for mur- th. in Ainilll fifty thousand idle people was the result of the strike in Phil adelphia Mondav. Disorder in manv ; parts of the citv marked the first dav ! f Philadelphia's great svmpathehi'c ! walk-out of organized labor to back ; llp the tight of the trolley men against , the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Corn- ariV. Varlv even- section of the s c-ity had its; tale to teli of ears at- i tacked, of men assaulted by strikers,: ' or sympathisers, or of clashes with! 1H,ij.e when the latter tried to dis- ' xwm: tK. crowds. The scene of the : most general disturbances were in ; . tl. very center of the city. The' ; greatest trouble was experienced bv ; the police at Independence Square, where, despite the announcement by Mayor Reyburn that no demonstration : could be held on that historic ground, j a crowd, estimated at 25,000 persons, ! gathered to participate in or watch the demonstration of organized labor. Policemen, mounted and afoot, were there by the score, with strict orders to keep the croud moving. This was accomplished and it is due to the pa tient, carefulness and steadiness of the police that no serious outbreak occurred. A great crowd of strikers paraded through the square and were not molested by the police. A man who claimed to be Kerry Mills, the author of "Red Wings" other lloltll ar oiece reorient. struck 1 uvlorsviiieP"'' week and went from house to house organi'iV?; a music class. His proposition was to give e:u li pupi; :i(J lessons, requir ing six weeks, guaranteeing pupils to learn any piece of music in this length of time. The tuition was $18.50, $2.50 in advance, this to secure the music he would put in each home. The man claimed to be an organizer only, he to start the pupils in. l',y the time the class was organized he would have two well-trained teachers, a Mr, Williams ami a Mrs. Drewry, to take charge; also would have two Steinway pianos and about $.".00 worth of the latest music, lie rented the building opposite the llaptist church for the music room. Then the supposed Kerry Mills disappeared Saturday morning and the people were biter informed that he bad walk ed to Hiddenite and boarded the morning train to Statesville. At Statesville he hid between two box cars until :fl arrived, which he caught. And neither Kerry Mills nor the nice little sum of money that he got has been heard of since. Tay lorsville correspondence of Landmark. Thomas Pence, Washington cores pondent of the News and Observer says that Jeffrys Davis, who persists in calling himself Jeff', certainly got himself in a mess before the House committee on public lands, when he declared that be would get a fee if a bill that he is favoring is approved by Congress. Davis tried to denj that he made the statement, but the committee would not accept his ver sion of the affair, preferring to rely on the stenographer's notes and the memories of members of the commit tee. There is no difference in the sight of law in a Congressman or a Senator accepting a fee for getting a bill through ( ongress or in recei ing compensation tor work Delo'-eone oi ine iiepaiLmeiits. Representative Spencer Blackburn was tried for the latter offence and acquited by a ju;) ' Plackburn now resides in Oklahoma. So far no notice has been taken of the Jeffrys Davis incident by the Sen ate, and the Senator from Arkansas has not demanded an investigation for the purpose of clearing up the mat ter. At present there is a dispute as to the facts. It is not as yet ap parent that the department of justice will take cognizance of the incident. The law is very strict with respect to officers of the government sharing in the profits of any transaction in which the government is directly or indirectly interested, and two Sena tors have suffered for violations of the particular statute applicable to such cases. Bank Of North Wilkesboro V.. I'mley, Pres.. li. V. (iwvn. ( fishier K. (1. Kinley,As-i't Cashier Capital, Surplus mid fronts, Deposits Resources 13,158.14 -'80,240.94 Organized 1892. In business IS years. Oldest, Stronpyst. Our highest aim is to give every one the be; t possible ser vice and accomodations in keep ing with sound banking. We run no risks with the money intrusted to our keeping. We will appreciate any busi ness you give us. F INLET & HENDRBN, Attorneys-at-Law, WILKESBORO, N. C. Will practice in all the courts. (Jol lectiono a specialty. Real estate aoJd on commission, I.. S. liKMIOW H. o. Cavinkss BENBOW & CAV1NESS Attorneys and Councelors at Law Office maintained in the court house at Wilkesboro. l'rompt attention given to all matters placed in our hands. Phone number 124 A. Z. r- ABSHER, M. D. Phynwan & Surgeon North Wilkesboro, 3S C. Office over Call's Store" " Phones 71 and 186. Hoi brook & Hay en Attornoys-at-Law ; North Wilkesboro AV C. John R. Jones Attoiney-at-Law North Wilkesboro, N. '"C." All business, especially collodions, will liavn most p.ompt and sure at tention. Dr. L. Huser Dental Surgeon N. Wilkesboro, IN, C. Calls attended where the amount of work is sufficient to justify it. Frank D. IlacKett Attorney-Rt-Law North Wilkesboro, N. C. Practice in all the courts, State and Federal. Collections, commercial practice and bankruptcy proceedings a specialty. 4II business entrusted to me will have pronjnt and careful attention. Otlleeoveroib'zeuB Loan & Trust Co? Rooms No, 4 and 5. ' Dr. li. F; 5aity Peuta! Sptwiatliw. -4 ll Wilkesboro, N. C' W. A.'TAYLOR. Surgeon Dentist NO It ill WILKESBORO, N. C. Office over Absher, Hayed, Pluck -burn & Co. Crown and Brisi'. Work a specialty. Careful att. s. tion given to all work. . " Hackctt & Gilreath Attorneys-at-J.a-A' Wilkesboro,
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