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5 r. . S ... 4 I; .1 ' t - - 0 m Equal Taxation; pirect and Inclircot. I 5- ( NO. 7 4 i.- - .. c i i " ! ! . i I- . f ! I JLV - 1 .-"'-.-' .Sf ; '"' . r". "t - i r', - ,. ' t:i.-v.-' Jbde&t, matters FrQf. E. G. Suttlemyre was tiere af ew days last week, y 11ttDW.,Mint6n lost a ;;ne y o u n mil k co w last week. '''illBSate (anor has re- tairned from her visit ia Har pett county - : Mrs J. F. NorriSj of Hickory, -wili spend the sum mer here. A. fine little daughter was born unto Mr, and Mrs, Tom Oryel lst week. , :-x-rrA '-bright- sassy little girl arrived at Mr. Tom Miller' s . Wednesday. ' O. -r W. Craven has . Mr. emphiirs new house well un- ' tier way and soon wilt be .: com pleted - Mr. B. F . Ed wards, Assis tant Qrand.Lecturer, is iviug ; a series of lectures at the No. - . W Ukes bo ro Lodge. ,- Mr. Ed. Smith and Miss . Carrie Bean, of Patterson, vis ited Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Van npy last week. ; Mr. Alfred Carson's child, pa Brushy Mountain, died last 'week. The child was about 15 months old and had been weafc y all its life. Mix'.andMrs. R. A. Deal left Monday for Asheville and Hendersonville. Mrs. Deal will visit relatives and friends in Asheville, while Mr. Deal will attend the" State Press Associa tion at, Hendersonville. They will be absent about ten days. Dr. W. H. Wakefeild, of Charlotte, will be in North Wilke8boro at Bluemont on Friday, July 2nd one day only. His practice is limited to disea ses of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat and Fitting Glasses. ' Prof. W. J. Horny, " of Greensboro, has- been here for several days in the interest of an Insurance company." Prof. -Horny was formerly superin tendent of the graded school " here and has many, friends here. " -Wednesday evening about 9 o'clock, at the Methddist par sonage at this place, Mr. Ear nest Sloop and Miss Opa Pear son, of Moravian Falls, were married, Rev. B. F. Hargett oflBciating. The couple im " mediately returned to Mora vian Falls. County. Surveyor, L. B. . Myers was in town last week anci gi v es a igloo my account 'of crops in his section. He says people are having a hard time trying to save their wheat, and that he fears what has been cut will : sprout' in the shock. It T seems - to be about the same : way all o ver the co u n ty . feThe clouds prevented i the - people of this section f rom see ring the eclipse Tnursday atter- One little tot who was watch ing witti his folks for ; the ;".V eel i pse, when h o saw the clbud cd ver ;: the ;"".s u n, exclai med , KtfMamma, they've done put a it: - "-i. quuu over iuo uu. van ? ;see the Eclipse,!' and he. explain : ed it about' correctly. k . i ; The Wil kes 'oflScers don't seem' to be raising any kick because the- Iredell and Alex auder officers come acrossJthe. ; line occasionally and : capture ;a blockade outfit.; - We can. as . isure the Iretlell and " Alexander officers that our Wilkes officers haveno intention of retaliating) someQi JRev. Mr. Rook will preach at -iijdgwood next sunday at 5s3b"p. m. ;;; .V-v --Misses Kate Forester and Lura Smith are yisiting at Qoshen. rMrs. B. S. Call .is visiting h br father at Transou, Ashe county. A lively little boy arrived a the home of Mr.Eugene Hub bard Saturday morning Mesdames W, W; Barber and J. T. Finley are visiting relatives in Newton. Dr. J. Q. My?0g was elect ed Vice President of the N. CV M edical association at Ashville le st week." " Mr. and. Mrs.- Harvev Van n3yf of Ronda is visiting Mrs. Vannoy's brother Mr. J. M. Vellborn. Mr. R. E. Walters, of No. - . Vilkesboro, has gone to the Phillipine islands where he has a goverment appointmbnt, Mr. L. F. Smoak, of Or angeburg, S. is visiting his brothers here. Mr. and Mrs. Dimmett, of G reensboro, visited home folks 1 ere last week' W. E. Pharr of theHustler luft Monday for Hendersonville to attend the State Press Asso ciation. There is some sickness in toth towns, and quife a lot re ported from the country. Dr. Tui the rner has several patients in e country that nave Deen serious, but are better now. Ed firewood has the banner Sunday School of the county the enrollment is 175 the attend ance last Sunday was 137. Prc 6. C. Wright is Supt. Rev. M. McNeill is pastor. License were issued last week for the marriage of Mr. Loyd C. Blackburn of Keddies river and Miss Maggie A Wiles, of Mulbecry. ? Mr. Roby Deal, of North Wilkesboro, returned Sunday from Alexander where he had 3een to attend the burial of MiT. George Deal, his broth 3r-in law. . . . Rev. L P. Gwaltney filled regular appointment at the aptist church here Sunday orning. He preached a trong and helpful sermon. n account of sickness in his jhome he was compelled to re turn home at once and did not preach in tne afternoon: Children day exercises Were held in the Baptist church here Sunday evening A very interesting- and he lpful pro gram was rendered by the chil dren aud young people. Dia- logues, recitations and songs were all direeted toward the development of the missionary idea. The large'cro wet present enjoyed the services fine. i We call attention to the advertisement of the State Nor mal and Industrial College which appears in ' this paper. This institution shows a steady grb wthe rery year in its great mission of giving a higher,and more useful education to the women of the State. JDuring the past year the-Mcver Memorial B ui 1 d in g was erected .Las t year the-total enrollment of the col lege-was 979 students; 88 of the 9,8 counties" had representatives in the student body'.Njnertenths of the graduates have , taught br, rare', now1;-teaching in thei schools of-N6rth Carolina; i No institution is- doing a f greater work-and v"girls - can attend ?no better-placed- - IMDUSTRIAL FAIR, BOUND OVEBTQ COURT. M jush Fleteber and Ed. Habbar d are l!el(Jfor Causing Lee, ITentley's -Death. Foote , Fletcher and Thenie Fletcher Beleased. The preliminary hearing of the case of the State against Marsh Fletcher, Thenie Fletch er,. Ed. Hubbard and Foote Fletcher came off last Thurs day and Friday at the court house, justices of the peace C F Morrison, R. M. Stale and L. M. Pharr sitting in the case. The defendants- were charged with causing the death of Lee Bentley. The hearing began at 1 p. m. Thursday and JcloRed about 1 p. m. Friday. There were about 60 witnesses sum moned in ' thecase, tbut only fifteen were , examined. All these were witnesses for the State. Finley So Hendren and Bar-'. ber appeared for the State and John A. Holbrook for the de j feodants, . i The evidence was necessarily.! circumstantial and tedious, and after giving the evidence and j arguments of the counsel care fui consideration, the justices ( held Marsh Fletcher and Ed Hubbard for court which Cpn vene&.ug. 9th, and acquitted Foote " Fletcher and Thenie jrietcher, there being no evi dence sufficient to bind them. It is not necessary or hardly proper to go into the details, of the testimony. The evidence of Esq. John Bentley. father of Lee Bentley, deceased, was a detail of the circumstances sur rounding Lee's death, as" here tofore given. Lee left home Saturday May I5th at 9 olock. He went by Wiley Watt's a neighbor,. and asked to go with him after liquor, in accordance with arrangements nade the day before. The arrangements were that they would goSatur day-night to Marsh Fletcher's for liquor. Watts would not go, but Bentley went on by himself in the direction of Flecther's. He did not return and Monday a searching party found Lee unconscious and al- most dead in the woods on Fletcher's mountain, about 300 or 400 yards from Ed. Hub bard's house and about half mile from ', Marsh Fletcher's house.. Bentley died in about 20 minutes after he was found. There was no sign that he nad, moved after lying do?Wn or be ing placed on the ground. He Was lying on his back, his legs straight and feet together, one hand on his breast, -the other by his, side just as if .'laid, out" for dead, His morocco pocket book contahing perhaps J $100 had been taken from, his inside vest pocket. About eight or ten of the witnesses testifying had gotten liquor fro m ;Marsh Fl etc her ' at his home on Sunday following. .the night Bentley went . after liquor in that direction. (This testimony r shows such x a fla grant violation o both j. State and Rational laws - by ? Marsh Fletcher in.the liquor business that should have longiago . call : ed the attention ot omcers ia that . direction,) i On Monday afternoon, awhile before Bent ley w as f ou nd , Marsh Fle tcher ,w as seen : coming eut - of the woods . w here Beiitley rwas found, It was shown thatEd. Hubbard; was v- actingl" with Fieteher inseveraHusfances" Tho de fendants offered no testimony claiminghe'CStatefvines, dipping snuff." A. sud-i had made out . no :;cast5. " The I justices deqide howeYer v hold: the two defendants - as above stated. ' . ' v ' '"; The theory is that 'Marsh Fletcher and Ed. Hubbard "doped ' ' the liquor .with poisen -for the purpose of getting Bent ley's money and tnen placed him in -the woods- where he died. . Look Jfter the Poor Better. The county commissioners have' a work before them which, if they will do, will win for them the thanks and plau dits of the people. War refer to the caring of the poor; It is certain that our aged and infirm-are cared for as well as present facilities will permit. Thatris not the question of con sideration. We need better facilities, a better county faim and . some modern, decent houses for the county houscf The 'present houses of the pat tern of a century ago are not sufficient fonrthis day of hu manity and deceney. r Most 4 every other progressive county has already . erected deceit county1 houses for the poor. Wilkes should ;not waii longer. Besides beinga movement In behalf of humanity, it would be an economical financial movement. 3?be county now pays about $1200 yearly for the care of the aged and infirm besides what the little farm yields. Now suppose the coun ty would buy a good farm, one worth say $15,000 or $20,000, the farm would easily keep tl aged and infirm and pay the county $1,000 or $1,500 a year. Besides, it could be used as a nucleus for another "great im proveroent which our county greatly needs and that is road improvements. Teams could be kept on the products of the county farm both for working the crops and for working the roads, hauliug rocks, macada mizing, etc. With the small taxnow levied for road pur poses and teams supported by a county farm -a good lot of work could be done on our roads,- and if we would once get started properly on our roads our people would get aroused an$ would not be col tented till we get good roads. Let the commissioners and people earnestly think of this matter. Bags Dip Snuff. T wo gray haired gardeners, who Work tbeir gardens by proxy and street -arguments, were discussing the garden and the patch prospects the other day on the street corner. By listening at the converse tion, an outsider would not have been able to decide which had killed himself first in oyer exertion -in-labor in the gardferf. At last they drifted to bugs and microbes. 'Well, said one "after all the labor I have put on- my; melon patch I wont have a vine; the blamed bugs have-totally eaten up every plant.r " "They, served you :right,, said the other gardener by-proxy... 'If youjiad used a little sense and "sprinkled your vines with - snuff the . bugs would not-have bothered you." "Oh; the devil," said the first gardener-by proxy, tried that three week's ' ago and it 'made matters worse.- I put out the snuff one evening and went back next morning to seen the result and blame my hide if every bug for. two. miles around hadn't come in with tooth brushes and were - sitting about on the remaani ,01 - f:den;flash'bf .aightmng cut on: the"cd.nYersa,tion ;: SEPTEMBER 28, I am prepared to furnish. you Ice and fresh; meats every day at your .door. Gall at my; place or phone me, No, :82 what you want, George eves, BANK OF 82 B. A. Spainhoub, Pres., C. F. Moerison, Vvoe-Pres., C. M, Sheets, Caahier; The true r$ad to success rSavv your money rDon't spand all your earnings. The wise man saves ;hia money by starting a bank account. It is not necessary to have $100 to' start a Bank Account with Tlie BanJc of ifUlces, $1 will do and is welcomed by this 3apkt There p everything in making a tart and adding to it regularly. Put aside; some for possible -sickness or misfortune. Do not risk' tle los3 of your money, by fire or thieves. - ' If you want to do a checking business, we furnish you a nice check-book free, or. if you wish your money to draw Interest, we furnish you a neat little pass book and pay 4 per cent COM pound every 90 days. Your money i safe with us. - We have solid" stoel time-lock burglar-proof safes and vaults, and wo carry Burglar and Fire Insurance. wijjspspojip, X a CT'ln&nve that home ofrours in erther-The Hartford, Phoenix. . or Liverpool and London and Glpbe Fire Insurance Co. (X M. Sheets Agept. Remember e have the merchandise you want and at th prices that will please; you. , Com' our complete line ih every department, Tiadiea dress goods wash fabTic3 silks, prints, ginghams, hosiery, underwear, glovps, lapes, embroideries, trimmings, etc. . ' " Men's wear from head to foot, hats,' ho&s shirts, underwear; etc., the nobbiest line out, . Our shoe department is complete witji tlje ' t, ' latest and best en the market. Meift boys, women and children can find what t hoy want, A. I CHURCH & Ml CO! We For eep & R eeora One of the advantages of hav ing a bank account is the t fact that every transaction recordecf on the books of the bank in con- nectioh with yoyr account; is a record to which youT may have access if necessary. Such a record often proves 1 of; great value. This bank will be pleas ed to have you r ban k i n b u si- ness. - v N CAPITAL J E. FINLEY, President. - E. G. FINLEY Ooened for Business 1802: y --r )o( -t -. ; - . Yoiiare wanting at , at the! up-tornpw- store oi ,: - )o( - ;. ; . .:.-"-.;MiIIer;- 29, 30.- North Wilkesboro. u " : ' ' . - 50000.oo : .-.I W, OWYN, Cashier. v. Assistant Cashier. ,- 1 T OLDEST. STRONGEST, - i, i WILKES, J . -v. t ... 4-
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