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- v - - VOL. XV. The Chronic le, y Caught-II6re ana There.. ; Mr. James Henley, of Sam merfield, was here last week.: Miss Sarah Howard, rep resenting Orphan's Friend was here last week-. ' . . ! ; The "court 1 house ; rats it have a nice rendevous at- the "Biff. Ed." Miller, Watau ga, was . here last week, was a' pleasant caller v at and this i office. ' Sheriff Johnson and: dep ties are taking the rounds ! the townships to give the peo pie another. opportunity to pay their taxes. Mr. Anson Howell, of Va , was here last week. He for roerly lived at Lenoir and is brother of Esq . J. O. ; Ho we of Poor's Knob. It wasn't an in injunction or mandamus either; it was the photographer Hester with; nis camera taki ngv pictures of ' the old court house ere it ' passed CT A T TT Esq. F; H. Alexander Walnut;. Grove, returned 'last week from a several weeKs' visit to Clay, Cherokee and northern Ga. His sister Mrs. Mattie Thompson accompanied him home. Owing, to mis'unstandings as to the time, etc., Miss Miller did not give her: entertainment here Friday night. She how ever recited a few selectio is for the number of friends pres ent and she rendered the selec tions well. . ; - ; - ' , The sociable at-rthe hotel and the entertainment;; to : e given by Miss.. Miller 1 at ;. t le Methodist 'church Friday night came in such "violent contact ' that both were knocked, out, in the first round, and neither had, an audience- ;-- Lv W. Cooper and son D Cooper arrived last Thursday and took charere of the : court house work. ; MrvT. P. Cooper will move. here ia a few days and Remain during the com, pletion of the court house. is father will be here part of t le time.- , ' ) ' The work preparing tee foundation for the new Baptist church at this place is in pro - cress, ine contract ior mo brick work has been, given jto -I,. W; Cooper. & Co the firm that has the court house cdn ; tract. The church willbecom-i pleted during the summer. The old court house is rap - idly being torn a way;" It r will soon be a thing of the past. The new will take the place of the old buildirijg and it will be an honor to the coimty: and ;Jtp the ones responsible: for its buiidingour .representatives in the Legislature and oouhty firtmmissfnriers and those 'who aided them.,- - : li r - : ; ; The large boiler, fou .the D. Chalkley Tanning j Co, B at Stanton, this county, was tak en from the depot i Saturday. It required a teani of sixteen muleto pull in. The compa ny is putting inT a lot ; of. other new, machinery.-V": : Later. They did not get but a short distance until the wagon -; wheels were mashed into tho earth up to tho axlo. It is said that a set of. wheels with extraordinary broad tires will have to be constructed lefdre the boiler reaches its destination -r-Mr. James L. Fawf of Mil lers Creek, is expected to die at any time wit h consumption: '. Mr. Dishley has sold, his property near "Millers - Creek and has- gone back to. New Fork. Mrs.; Mollle Duncan, of Illinois, has returned to her father's, Ji;M; Bevis at Mora vian Falls. ; Federal i court t t States ville and Superior court at Jef ferson this week and Wilkes has representatives-at each. Mr. Webb Moore, of Hunt ing Creek, died Sunday night of diabetes. He was about 35 years old and leaves a family. -W. C. Meadows and son at Poors Knob have pjirchased - a roller mill and will have it run ning by harvest. It is one of .besti - The' Winston-Journal says that E. H. Glass and wife and E, P. Glass, of Wilkes, passed through Saturday for West Va. to locate. Miss - Nellie Cowles who has been in Winston for some,, returned home Monday on. ac count of the sickness of her father, Col. Calvin J. Cowles. The Jefferson Recorder is -the name of the new paper published at Jefferson by "Mr. T. W. Adams. We give it a welcome to our exchange list, and wish it well. Wiley Faw and wife of West Va., who have been vis iting, hid old' home near Millers Creek, - returned home this. week. ' His youngest brother Clarence went with him to make his home. -The wife of Rev., H. L Blair died suddenly at Greens boro last week7. Mr. Blair, the husband of the deceased, . was formerly Presiding ; Elder, of this district, and is now editor of the Greensboro Christian Advocate. w-The remains of George Parsons, colored, arrived from West Virginia, Saturday, and were taken up above Boomer for burial. He accidentally shot himself out at Freemans where he and two. brothers were working in the mines. Letter- From VUh. ; - Althoogh it has been thirteen years since I was in C, apd -1 have lost sight of many of my old friends and relatives," I ish to speak : to the re maining ones through your paper ' . . We have a very fertile 'soil In the J?rovo Valley, where farming,isa very prosperous business, principally hay, wheat, potatoes anil many varieties, of vegetation are raised in great abund ance. .'The sugar beet industry Js efy extensive.. There is large sugar, faci fory at Lehiti this stated , and branch plants at Provo, Bingham, Springfield, and the juice from these are conveyed to Lehi through pipes.;' 'Also there are sugar factories Ogden and Logan; This is also a fine stock country, fine pasture lands, thousands of cattle and almost millions of sheep. Ther is also a vast amount f mining going on : in the Eureka district a few miles westof Provo. Gold and lead are taken out in abundance and other metals are : found in smaller quantities, and. all in all it is a very large mining section. ' We. have splendid schools here, espe cially it) 4 the cities, of which Provo ranks third in the state. vVe" have four well supported churches outside the dominent church, Mormon.. . , " -W J Tbe-wttter supply Is abundant.: Here is the great Salt Lake, which- has ; no outlet, yet the streams for many- miles empty into it.' Salt is manufactured in abundance from its waters. . Then jwe have the-XJtah lake, a great body 'of fresh water Where in great quantities' abound.- ..r- - . ; , -...-'-' Then we have snow- in the mountains in some places 40 and SO feet deep and some times great , slides come down, killing people and destroying property, and: In. the the spring time the swollen. streams are very destrustive. J. M. JonxsoM. Provo, Utah. Pquol Josajtibh. W1LKESBORO . N.; G., WEDNESDAY. APJRIL 23 ! 902. ; The "nanaonUIn'PUn. . Mr. ... . Editor: There have been many, plans suggested, by which to prevent Reddies River fromcutting a new channel beyond the norths approach of the bridge between the : towns. None meets with general favor because everybody, has i plan of his own. Here," v however, is a plan upon which all' ought to harmonize. It is to drive :a tunnel under the river, similar to that under the the Thames, in London, from a point at or near George Iseley.'s.to a point at or near Isaac Smitbey's res taurant, and, let the bridge go with the. floods. No ; argument is necessary to demonstrate the feasibility of this plan. -.'It will not cost more than a million and a half dollars, and then however tempestuously the storms may rage- or however wildly the rivers may rummage the honest denizens, of these towns may hold -sweet . com munion among themselves, passing, and repassing dry shod and with an eternal roof over their heads. 1 'Sque Dunk. Dots From f Straw. The farmers- are planting corn; Mr. and Mrs. Jake Icenhour, 1 of Salisbury, will visit their parents and- friends" here this week. -: Mrs. Eb Anderson, who went crazy last week is -very low. A little girl baby arrived at Wm. Mastin's last week but it lived only a few hours.. "Pharaoh!' will be the most popular song, of the day in this section, as it is Locust year, lhey ccme toee us only. i once iqTl7 years, but we are always hglad ta see them leave. ne uear avtniog. jJU" vanes and hardtimes. What has be come of all that "prosperity" we heard so much of? Subscriber., An Inquiry, y Will some one."Tegardless of politics, fairly explain, in the the colu mns of T he Chronicle why it is necessary to aid by a protective tarin inausiries whose products sell abroad from 10 to 30 per cent cheaper than they sell to the citizens of the United States?, Quid Nunc. Rev. C." W. Robinson who attended the ; Orange Presby tery at Reidsvijle last week reports a.delightf ul time. The next session is "to,he- held at Milton m September .' In reply to & request to re cind the order for special term of court here, , Governor Ay cock: states that he has no au tbority to dp so since the jury has been' drawn and summoned the Judge commissioned; etc. So the special term will be held beginning May 19th ' Now i Mr. Bradshaw. will give us"a similarly good" article on' (1) - poeple, tattling - about their neighbors, by wUioh a. confidential secret," insinua tion often irreparably ruins": an innocent character and (2) . the cigarette business which is the feeder of the whiskey business The cigarette. . manufacturers start the . fellow - create the appet I te and the wh,iskey hay e lo help fill-: it., Yet' the cigar! ette- fellows tup praised - and worshipped hy phurcb, state and charitaba institutions be causo forcorthof liberal dooa tioca. w-I:cn; Ilr. . Brad ehaw dc,p3 this and the- people heed, h.t3 edvica and warning wo vriii have the most perfect I parzdico ever contemplated pircct and Indirect. Every body is ; talking; the Sam Jones meeting. V, . "r It favors spring, these nice warm days., . . Mr. and; Mrs. Wallace are visiting relatives in Iredell. , Col. R. Z. Linney spent Sunday, here on: his way to Ashe court., ",' ; -Scarcity of food and bril liants spring, hata are the?prev alent .diseases at present. : v - r i Larkin: , Griffith, 'of Jobs Cabin, died Saturday night. He was about sixty years , old and leaves a wife. "Charlie Hix, who has been at Spencer some time came up this week to visit his ''parents at Moravian Falls. . Henkles will open up a car load of Surnes and Buggies at North Wilkesboro to day; you will do well to see them;: they isell on easy terms. R. Don Laws and Misses Ion a Crouch and Ada Wallace, of Moravian Falls, returned from a pleasure trip to Wash ington city Monday, The Sam Jones meeting comes in a propitious time it comes-right after court, and no doubt there 11 be several. old sinners on the penitent court bench when Sam gets here. Fine limbertwig apples at C H. Somers. Call early. . ; Expected this week, a new lot of 'The Leopard's Spots and "The Man from Glengarry", at Spainhoor's. If you want one, speak in time. , r " Yoa will find the. he&t hoes on th& market at the lowest prices yon eve? heard of at C F Morrisons. Call & Combs have an . at tractive- line of spring , and summer clothing, just reeeiyed; . Ladies mnslin. underwear at? Spain hour's. ) -. To get the best fertilizer for corn and tobacco go to C. F. Morrison. 1 -Best roasted coffee, each package containing a., nice spoon 15c a pack at Call's. D. W. May berry has a nice line of Mens, and boys up-to date shirts, collars, ties and bows. , New line of Spring and summer clothings at Call & Combs' children's stiits a specialty. All kinds of hardware at my place anvils, peli&ws, tongs, vises, dies, hoi lpw augers, drills and all kinds of shop tool s. J. P. Bousseau. - T jIdt lirlx ! bny naila in large aanttes sliaald m m mm I am prepar For plowsand repairs of all " kinds call at C. F Morrison's,. ; . Heavy underwear at Call & Comb's going belo w cos t $1.25 at 75c ---"t, . " vT When I say that .the SQhattanooga Plow is thdrbe8t plow, on the market, I mean what I say. - J P, Bousseau. - Yes we have a pretiy line of "straw hats dont you need one: Call & Co., . Do you reckon you r will need an.oyercoat next winter. D..W" May berry .has a few that he will almost, give" you, for just a' little song: v' r-Just a few more corn planters lef at C. Fa Morrison's.1'. - - V - - ' New. lot of window, shades at Sp$ln hour's., - - - . ' . , ; We are a little late, bat w'" a.te " in, the race all the same, and if . you want to see a pretty line of spsing gpodome and see us. - Call Co. A car load; of . Piano machinery coming in now. These machines stand at the head of alt haryestin&machinery for ligbt-ranningand perfect binding. J.PBoasseaa. :'r. ' Try the VMuleskni;, boys" boseT at Spainhours. Also nice line of children's misses' and iadiea' drop stitch hose. , lfw here itrnMeikiaxV" can't ? rrd:taiaisa, as lu a It last-, mm tm erery eautsmer whs bar 3 el paeU- So mi Irarr Starcb, We Will sirr. hint Mr packas" mlimmmtj frrmi tS mmrmm-m teed t, cvc satisfactisa " Call Cc'Cm.' ABOR ON, LArBORiOnl BUT Remember thfOtbvo:can all: IfIit en our burdens by solcatihcr;our loblo to labor with- ; Our hoes are the best for .tho money; our axes are warrantecd and aro stand ing, the test. Our plows arc Ooyond doubt.. Unexcelled. Don4t thihk of buying anything. . but a Chattoxioorja when you go to buy a plow. For all kinds of Hardware bo certain aud see me before you buy. . -r: . J. P. ROUSSEAU. North Wilkesboro, March 4th. . . . . . POME TO THE FRONT; If you never have before or come to the front this spring.v come to our stora and buy the latest and , most - up to dato . goods in quality, style and design., ITom csnm imasinie a direct , 4 , out of 'most any kind of cloth but you can't mako a ctylish and up to-date dress unless you have the best-material.-. have-nothing. but. the -BEST:''''WeJQsJt0 you to como and inspect our NEW, SPRING: GOODS. I,. JK. Spainlour Co. - - The'one-price-to-all store,, Are. ordiolly Invited e 00 000 00 e To come and examine our Spring Stoc; which has arrived and isriow opon for your inspection. We feel quite sure we cai please you as we have a pretty Iino5 D ALL P. S. Don't forget the bargains we have been talking to yo about. We have a few left: it will pay you to. looJr at them. ' LOTHIKI To feel good you must be well dressed. Wfcat in the rcaqc; we can't furnish you that suit? In a few days wo will havd,ijv our new stock and a prettier line nas q.erer been shown in thi old town. We invite all who like pa to well, dressed totc9m;. and examine our stock. . , - . . "' ' 'MoH6n i W yca53o v North WUl&sb$$.fy2(. C.p . Pure flrqc3 Geqcaf. ot Articles, Or.niUc:, Tobacco, etc. leaders in ScJiool Uoolzs anil Stat 102102 j, We have much experience in the drujj'busincrc r.:: be assured that you: aro cettincr tho; bect dru-a 2' prices. Call on us when you arc in to wry V. NO. 41. if you never intend to etfaii, The way -to. do this is to- Call CotxjpsS
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