North Carolina Newspapers

1 1 . r I ii 2V0L. XXI. Prica 40 CeU a month. CONCORD, N. C," THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1910. Sl&sl Copy 5 Cents. Ne 12S FROPOS5D NEW BAILEOAD. Sumy ob Road froav Saliihary to - liearoe via Concord and Uk Pleas ant lo be Started in a few Days. Salisbury Post. . v. . The announcement of the eoripI tioa of the Salisbury Railroad Com pany w a to build railroad from Salisbury to Monroe by way of Faith and Mt Pleasant, has oeen the ob ject of much comment. It was gener ally known that some plans were on loot toward the ouilding of snca road, bat few people knew that the plans dad been matured to such a points ' - . - . It i stated positively that the road will t built and a glance at the per sonnel of the board of directors will show that the leaders of the enter prise are not dreamers, cut practical men who do things." Mr. C. M. Mil ler hag been engaged as engineer for the company, and he will begin the survey within the next few days when the details of the route will be an nounced. As booh as the survey is made work will be commenced at once and the road will b pushed to com pletion. ' , v I - - It is planned by the company to v build the road from ; Salisbury to Monroe, connecting with the Seaboard at that point, and then afterwards to - extend the line further east so as to 'connect with the Coast Line, and north ' to Winston-Salem to connect with the Norfolk and Western, at a later date. 'Any one -who is at all acquainted .with the sitntion knows the immense possibilities for-development in the section through which the new road is to be built. In the first place, the line will extend into the very heart . of the large granite belt and tap an unlimited ana almost . inexnausuDie supply of the finest granite in , the work).: 'Hundreds of cars of this granite are now being Shipped to all 1 parts of the world in spite of the very unsatisfactory and. limited railroad facilities and with the increased use ' , .of granite. for road building as well , as architectural purposes this indus try alone would supply the road with - an abundance of business. - The road will also make accessible a Urge supply of timber of the very best quality, to say nothing of the sg ' ricultural possibilities of the section traversed, which have been undevel " ' oped Tor lack of proper transportation facinies., 3'owns nll spring up along ' Pleasant, which' has been Tying dor mant for years for lack of railroad - facilities, will become a large city be the new line as : if by magic. Mt. , it has and the undeveloped resources causa of the many advantages which : in the midst of which it is situated. Sample-Farrow. :. ' The following invitations have been -issued: - ' ; , Mrs. S. H. Farrow - invites you to be present at the marriage of her daughter Johnsie to ' Mr. William Franklin Sample on the evening of Wednesday, twenty-first of December at half after seven o'clock .263 North UniofrtStreet . Concord, North Carolina. No cards have been issued in ;'city, - the the - Climax Barber Shop Goes Back to 10 -Cento for Shaving. As will be seen by advertisement in i, our Penny Column, the Climax Barber . shop, which a few weeks ago along with the other barber shops of the city raised the price of shaves to 15 cents, announces that from this date the price will again be 10 cents. The St. - CfcJud and the Star still charge the in- creased price. : The new barber shop operated by parties from Charlotte started up last Monday, . charging ' only 10 cents, and it developed an in- ' , terest.ng situation at once. -. Letters to Santa Clans "Ott Friday The Tribune will begin the publication' of letters from the ' children to Santa Claus, and these will also be published in Th Times. - We want the little boys and girls to write to the good old man and tell him ex - actly what they want. , Make your '- letters brief and to the point, for we 'will have . many of them to .print. Write your name- in plain letters, so that Santa Claus wi$ make no mis take. r'" J- t , TO ADVERTISERS. To insure change of advertisement, ' the copy must be in by 10 a. m. each day. Our rate are based on weekly changes. Additional changes will be s "charged for extrar :-?J'r:K-;i: tffSSiis FaGSIiS'EflDLY C we wfl OOCKOUT BLOW TO VHLEAG2 SXQUCLEXBTr. Supreme Court Says Railroads are Guilty of BrsacA oT Faita la Asking Exchange Jot Tickets. Raleigh" Special Charlotte Observe The HortlTCarolina Supreme Court in Harvey vsTRailroad, from Wilson eountv. craetieallv deals a 'knock out" blow -to the railroad mileage book regulations requiring holders to procure mileage tickets in exchange before boarding a train in its ruling just made. Harvey is a traveling man and attempted e Wilson three or four tunes to procure a ticket in ex change for mileage, being stood aside each time by the agent in order that he might wait on cash purchasers of tickets. , Finally the train came with out Harvey having gotten his ticket. He boarded the train with mileage which the conductor refused to accept, putting uim off at the first station, He recovered $2,500 damages. Now the supreme Court, Associate Justice Hoke writing the opinion, ap proves the judgment holding that Harvey had the right, under the cir cumstances to nde on the mileage. Chief Justice Walter Clark, an an opinion concurring with Justices Hoke and Manning in the controlling opin ion of the court, holds further that the requirement that a holder of mileage book shall obtain a ticket in exchange is a breach of faith on the part of the railroads at whose in stance the -special session of the Gen eral Assembly of 1908 was held to raise the passenger rate to 2 1-2 cents noon the proposition of the railroad companies that they would issue mile age, books at 2 cents, meaning, ttaei Justice Clark declares, the mileage to which the public had always - been -accustomed, whereby the mileage had been pulled on the tram by the con ductor. The Chief Justice also 'holds that the requirement to get : a ticket for mileage ia unreasonable and void and becoming heretofore unknown in tms cjtate ana stui unknown ex cept in this State and a few adjacent States where the principal North Carolina roads extend. $350,000 Cotton MiU for Lexington. Lexington Dispatch. ; i - i At a meeting of the Lexington Board of Trade held last njght it was annnTiel that the much talked oi new cotton mill is4T eertafnfy.Tocal capitalists were asked - to subscribe $100,000 and the-entire amount is in sight. The other capital is being put up by Mr. O. A. Bobbins, of Charlotte, who subscribes $50,000 and Fall River, Mass., mill men who put up $200,000. The mill will be one of the largest in this part of the country and will be a valuable addition to the industrial life In securing thig great mill Lexing ton has gone up against the fiercest of Lexington. competition and the -thanks of the community are due tne loyal Board oi Trade, which has brought it to pass. Details as to location of the mill, when work will begin on it, etc., have not yet been announced. Eonte Began Ite Session Before The 1 Chaplain Arrived. For the first time in a long while the House Tuesday began business without asking divine guidance. The heavy enow storm that Has swathed the capital in white so crip pled the street car systems that Chap lain Condon did not reach the Capitol before noon, as is bis custom. Speak er Cannon at the stroke of 12 brought his gavel down sharply. He looked around in perplexity. : : - ."The chaplain not having arrived," he announced finally, "the clerk will proceed with the reading of the jour nal." " ' ' " . .. The clerk proceeded, but his dron ing soon was interrupted by the ap pearance of Dr. Couden, who delivered the prayer. ' Public School Notes. Another teacher hag been added to the school at Kannapolis on account of the large attendance of the first grade, there being 90 enrolled, and a number of others will be. in next week, ' The patrons of the school at St, John will have a meeting this after noon for the purpose of devising methods Ifor the improvement of the school facilities at this school. . A special school tax for this district will also be discussed. This matter has been considered by the patrons of the school at in. John for sometime but as yet no definite action has . been taken. T ' Thompson Orphanage Left Large Sum. Charlotte Observer. The friends here of the Thompson Orphanage end they ar many are rejoicing over the very handsome be quest of Mr. J, C. Stedman, who re cently died in Fayettevllle and left in his will. $5,000 for the local institu tion. Mr. Stedman left aa estate of about $20,000, of which one-half was bequeathed to the fatherless ones. The Ladies' " Bible Class of St, James' Lutheran Sunday School, will entertain tonight complimentary to FERSOKAL HCTTIOir. Some of the People Ears and Else where Who Come and Go. Mrs L. A. Brown is spending the day in Charlotte. . Miss Shirley Montgomery will re- turn from Goldsboro tonight. Mr. 8. J.Durham, of Bessemer City, is a visitor in the city today. Mr. W. C Stone, of Durham, spent last night in the city. Mrs. D. W Tucker is seriously ill at her home on South Spring street. Hiss Elm a Suther is confined ?o her home today on account of illness. Mr. L. W. Brander has returned from a business trip to New York, iMr. A. N. Stronach, of Raleigh, was a business visitor in the oily yester day afternoon. Mrs. Frank Brown Las returned from Spencer, where she has been visiting her sister, Mrs. Sam Harris. Misse9 Lucv. Addie and Enzenia Lore attended the Torrence-Levi wed ding in Charlotte last night. Mies Hazel Elliott, who has been visiting Miss Grace Brown, returned this morning to her home in Hickory, Miss Grace Brown left this morning for Salisbury, where she will visit Miss Rosalie Bernhardt. Miss Pat tie Wallace, of East field and Miss King, of Statesville, are the guests of Mrs. W. T. Wall. ITrs. W. J. TVeddington returned tpre morning lb itighToint, after vis-' iting relatives in the city for several days. Messrs. A. F. Goodman, Q. E. Smith, J. B. Alexander, Lewis Hartsell and E. F Vhite heard Sousa in Charlotte yesterday. Miss Margaret Ellis, who has been visiting Miss Jenn Coltrane, will re turn tonight to her home in Hopkins yille, Ky. Mr. George R. Royall, of Goldsboro, president of the Concord Furniture Co., is a business visitor to the city today. " Mr. Arthur Norman, who has a po sition with the American Machine Co., is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. V. L. Norman. r"Mr. sndvMrs. M. L. Cannon returned this morning from Philadelphia. Mrs. J. ST Uafferty and Miss Ger trude Lafferty are spending the day m Charlotte. A Diseaseless World. At a lecture the other evening in Columbia University, New York Cityv a man In the audience asked Dr. Sim on Flexner, director of the Rockefellei nstitute for iMedical Research if there would ever come a time when the world would be completely free of disease. The distinguished bacteriologist un der whose supervision was discovered the sebum which has robbed spinal meningitis, once the deadly foe of chlwhood, of its terrors, replied: Yes, But you and I will never see itowever, much may be accomplish- VU 1U UIK fciuiv ivnau turn. viit. Some of the state papers have put Moore and Chatham counties down as having gone backward m population since the census of 1900. This is an error. The decrease was caused by a loss of territory in the formation oi Lee county. The combined population of Moore and Chatham in 1900 was 47.534; and the combined population of Moore. Chatham and Lee in 191U the latter county being composed of territory entirely Belonging 10 we two former in 1900 is 51.021. or an in crease of . 3,487. Greensboro News. General Georsfo D. Johnstone, aged 78, one of He last surviving generals of the war between the States, died at Tns Tiome In Tuscaloosa, Ala., Wed nesday, xie was: born in uuisboro, and went to Alabama with his parents! in 1834. At the outbreak.of the war he served as a lieutenant and rose rap idly to a brigadier general, serving in many battles, being wounded sev eral times. " For Sals A nice new cottage on Bnf falo street, opposite No. 2 graded school, at a bargain. Jn-v K. Pat tereon A Co. . . . No Matter the Bill Pay -and the This neoatutataB a Bank If not this Bank invitee BUYS GRAMME OF BAD Id! Price $76,000 Bate of 000,000 Per , Pound is Paid. The English Radium Institute lias concluded the purchase of a gramme of radium from the mines of the Aus trian Ministry of Public Works. i The price paid is $76,000. The money has been provided by Sir Er nest Cassell, who thus places an un usually large quantity of the metal at the disposal of the English institute for medical purposes. . ; Half the amount is to be delivered in January and the remainder, which is being accumulated, in three months' hune. A gramme is l-450tb of a pound avoirdupois. f At the price paid by Sir Ernest Cas seTI the value of radium is now about $34,000,000 a pound: I At the rate of production spoken of it would take 225 years to make a pound of radium. Most Interesting Talk from Chinese ; Missionary. ' All who last evening heard Dr. H. M. Woods, of the North China (Mission, at the First Presbyterian church were delighted with his vivid portrayal of the work in that section of the great Chinese Empire. Most vividly did he paint the great opportunity before the Christian church to mould opinion in China where the lethargy of ages ia being shniken off and the people are awakening to the advantages of West ern civilization and seeking through missionaries education. The great work" Dr. Woods was enabled to do during the famine of a few years ago was modestly referred to and the depth of spirituality of recent revival among the Christian churches was im pressively set forth. A cordial invi tation is given to all to hear this gift ed speaker tonight at 7 p. m. Boy Kills Father. V News has just reached Wilmington of" a coT3-bToo3e3 murderat Verona, near that city, of Thomas Hardison, Uegrd, by bis 15-year-old son. The boy -was caught the night after the patricide and is in jail at Jacksonville. The boy is said to have become en raged at his father for ordering him to remove his Sunday clothes before going to the-woods with him to gather holly i that the boy returned to the JiojiSe and in a few minutes overtook his father and emptied the contents of shotgun in his breast, inflicting a wound that caused the father to due almost instantly. The boy then fled to the woods and hid, but was soon caught by a posse. Mr. Schaub to Talk to the Boys on Corn Culture. Mr. I. O. Schaub, of the department of agriculture, Washington, has been invited to deliver an address to the boys of Cabarrus county on the sub ject of "Raising Corn." Mr. Schaub has written that he will accept the invitation but on account of other en gagements he is unable to tell exactly what date be will be present. The prizes in the boys' corn contest of this county will be awarded on the day he speaks here. Full details will toe pub lished latei The Chief Justice gave a solar plex us blow to the mileage book nuisance in a concurring opinion filed yester day. The railroads of North Carolina ought to stop this new f angled absurd regulation and return to the old plan pursued by nearly all the first- class railroads in the country. If they will not do so of their own accord, the Legislature should compel them to so back to the old rule. News and Observer. The Barbers' Union met the other day and unanimously passed a resor hition that it was the worst kind of luck to rive a razor as a present at Christmas or any other time, especi ally one of these safety instruments, Who ever,aw a barber that did not have good sense f Some men, if given a razor as a ; present, are foolish enough to use it and thus cheat the barber out of his shaves. Greensboro Record Gov-eTect. Simeon E. Baldwin, of Connecticut, has returned two letters from Colonel Roosevelt and will not attemTa banquet where Roosevelt is until he receives a pubnc apology irom the Colonel How Small May Be. by Check tor Safety yoa follow the rule of most Successful Corpo : rations ana Firms , who r.keep. a. record' 'of every transaction. Aooount have yoa one? ton to have one hem :: STATS VEW1. r- j The Asheville Gasette-Xews tells of a Buncombe county man who emi grated to the West and. prospered for a while, but is now extremely anxious to return to North Carolina. Dr. W. C. Chrism aa, state veterina rian, who was called tofkaTesville to investigate the deaths among bones and" cattle In fhat section supposed to be doe to a dangerous eontagwus dis ease, made investigations in a number of cases and gave it as hU opinion i Mai iuo wwue im qui epiaemic ana there is no cause for alarm. Sloan Bryan, an employee of the Southern Railway Company, at Spen cer, was severely injured at the shops in Spencer Tuesday by being burned with molten brass. While working with a pot of the liquid metal a helper threw a wet bar of iron into the pot which caused an explosion. Particles of the molten metal flew in all direc tions, portions of k sticking in the neck and face of Brvan whirh Badly hurt in one eye. E. E. Goldman, an electrician, who was assing by, was also slightly burned. Rowan Officers Installed. The newly elected officers for Rowan were sworn in at noon Monday. They are: Clerk of sunerior court. .1. Frank" McCuUoins; register of deeds, a. n. Miner; sheriff, J. H. McKenziej judge of county court, B. B. Miller; counTy solicitor, Kerr Graige; coron er, Dr. R. W. West ; surveyor, C. M. Miller; treasurer, J. R. Nicholas; j ....... . ..j . u , xndm. P. A. Hart-man, W. P. Barber, Fred McCanless, Arthnr L Deal,; Salisbury lowusmp tax collector, A. M. Kice The commissioners met in regular monthly session immediately and elected Mr. P. B. Beard chairman, and Hon. Theo. F. Ivlutts county at torney, and Messrs, J T. 'Robinson and J. A. Poole bridge inspectors. Lac riveesee,-afteruocnyt OIN WORTHY ACTIONS. Every man feeb instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh leu than a (ingle worthy action. LoweD. M We are today showing a Large Assortment of Xmas Novelties. Mexican Drawn Work Battenberg Work Pillow and Center Pieces Table Sets, Towels, Etc. THE PRICES RANGE 15;, h 758, SLOP BP -fl p. TKe Newest in Belts Patent Leather Celts, red and black. 15c All the new colors in Suede Belts, 25c and 50c Black Velvet Belts, put up in separate boxes. ...... Take your time and spend hours rambling through our store arid you will find lots of Xmas gifts,: TOMORROWS BURDEN. , k has beca wel said that m sua ever sank index the bardea of the day. k is whea toaaorrow burdea is added to the bwdea ef today that the weight is am aW a maa can bear. Never load your selves so, my hieack , M yoa tad yourselves so loaded, at least re mexnbef this it it yovowa doing, not Coda, He bets yoa to leave the funae to him aod Is aend the proeuL Ceorfe Macdoaald. North Carolina Day. North Carolina Dav is to be ob served in the public schools through out the slate on December 23rd. his has come to be an annual affair of the schools and is really an interest ing exercise. The programs have been received by the school officials in this city and will oe distributed at once m order that the children who are to recite, sing, etc., may learn their parts. The subject matter is as usual very in teresting. It is as follows: "The Old North State A Toast." Uy Mrs. Lenora M. Martin. "Theophilus Hunter Hill A Bio graphical Sketch." "Song of the Butterfly," bv Theop hilus H. Hill. "John Henry Boner A Biograph ical Sketch." "Ho! For Carolina," William B. Harrell. "Our Youngest Poet, John Charles McNeill A Biographical Sketch." "Holding Off the Calf," John Charles McNeill. "America," bv Samuel F. Smith. "Carolina." "The Old North State," by William Gaston. TOR SALE OB BENT. Modern 9-room two story house, ia good neighborhood; has beautiful lawn; fine garden; lot 70x200 feet. Will sell on easy terms. JNO. K PATTERSON ft OO. Use our Penny Column ft pays. FANCY WORK .50c tne ladies of tne church. - - -