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NOELL BROS., Proprietors. HOME FIRST: ABROAD NEXT. S I iOO Per Year in Advance. Vol. XVIIII. KOXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA, -Wednesday Evening, JanuaryC'8, .1902. No. 2. WAX ON FERTILIZER COMPANY Suit Beffiinin South Carolina Charg. ing that it is a Monopoly. , A Columbia, S. C, special of Sunday to the Philadelphia North American says; The State of South Carolina - through " hep Attorney General G. Duncan Bellinger, has begun suit against the Virginia. Carolina Chemical Company, charg ing it with being a "'trust" and monopoly. Under the same act that this suit es brought six of the the large South Carolina phosphate companies that have been purchas ed by the company are used in the same action. The Attorney" General in his eomplaint sets fourth that the Vir ginia-Carolina Chemical 'Company has purchased . or obtained abso lute control of phosphate factories and . cottonseed oil . mills, in - every county in the State, ar.d as it owns all except three or four minor coun cerns, already has a complete mon opoly of the fertilizer trade in South Carolina, The law provides that it is illegal for a monopoly to exist and that the acquiring of completing con cerns for the purpose of getting ? monopoly is illegal null and void. y- States to Fight the Railroad. Helena, Mont. , Dec. 31 , A de finite plan of action to defeat the proposed consolidation of the Northern Pacific, Northern and Burlington railway systems, was unanimously agreed upon to-day by the Governors and attorney gen erals of seven Northwestern States it wai these roads hav i mileage gal action will be immediately instituted in Minnesota courts with I this object in view, and to quote. Attorney General Douglas of Min nesota, ''the thing will be fought to a finish." Palma Elected President. , Havana, Jan. 1. The indications are 'that the entire Palma ticket will bV elected, and that Thomas Estrade Palma, the Nationalist can didate for the Presidency of Cuba will receive the unanimous vote of electorial college. The adherents of ' General Bar tolome Maso (the Democratic can didate, - who recently withdrew .from" the campaign) not only, with drew their candidates, but-refused to go to the polls. Sampson a Case Hopeless. Washington,.. Jan. z'J Admiral Sampson s malady progresses slow ly, but very steadily toward the end. Medical science cannot check it. Symptoms of arterial degener ation have appeared, such as are in cident to his malady, injecting great uncertainty into : the easel More . over, the patient is becoming less j ractablend; responsive, to treat ment. . ' '' ' ; 1 r '. ' . ' r ' J ': -' President to Accept ' Appeal From Admiral. , , Washington, D. C. Jan. 7.-rOb- ject of ..Admiral Schley's visit to the President 'was request the latter to 4 ;ehtertain and consider an appeal for , a reversal of the action of Secretary Long and the disapproval of the majority ,; judgement, of the Naval Board of Inquiry, : iyti$esiAeat granted1 the re I Prof. E. D. Broadhust, the new! superintendent of; the Greensboro Graded Schools, has arriyed and en tered upon his duties.. ; The body of Henry Penland the young man who tried to cross the French Broad river during the bi$ flood, has not vet been found. - Durham, C, Jan. l.A thief stole $160 from the home of Mr. D. C. Christian. -The robber raised the window and pulled out Mr. Christ ianas pants with a long stick. S. P. Baiiey. aged 14, was shot and killed by a young negro man at Leaks ville yesterday afternoon. The shooting was the result of a dog fight. - The negro escaped. The A. & M. College has pur chased a fine dairy herd of cattle from Gen. J. S; Carr. Tht? herd come3 from Gen. Carr's famous farm Occoneechee, where j they were the blue ribbon winners. " Alleghany Democracy will present the name of Hon. W. C. Fields, fox judgp, before the next Democratic Judicial convention. A more fitting compliment could not be paid to any man in the district than Senator Fields. Ashboro, N. C, Jan. 1. Mr, Stephen W. Cox, a young married manxif -thicounty, ba been carried to the Morganton Hospital. His in sanity is said "to be due to the effect produced upon him by sanctification prea3hing. Tarboro, N. C, Jan 1. For rid ing his mule through a log heap fire, which so badlv burned the ani mai that its hoofs came off before it . it- -gory, Mark 1 Jurrry, i w!:j works neur iiere, is in iail'.on a, charge, of cruelty to 'animals. A coliision-at sea early Thursday morning between the steaniship Walla Walla and an unknown sail- yessel, resulted in the sinking bf ' the steamship and the probable loss ' of at4east twenty lives. . ,-. There was a serions head-end col- lision.near Holtsburg between the southbound freight train and the material train. The firtman of V!1? freight, a white man was killed. It was his first trip asv fireman. JSo others were killed, bat several were seriously wounded. : . f The Dispensary in South Carolina has cornel to .be a paying business, during last year the total saifs amounted to $2,328,681,21 with a netprofi of $645,248,42 which goes to the schools of the Stated- News & Observer, ' ' , ' - . Richmond College, the Baptist College, of Virginia, received alNew Year's gift of one hundred thousand dollars as ah addition to its endow- mftnt. "A few months &ctL Mr.John D. RockefeUdw agreed ;to give $25r STATE NEWS-' 000 if the friends of Richmond Col- tQe complete official list of therCto lege would raise $75,000 by ; the 1st federate prisoVerspar day of January. Dr. W. E. Hatch surrender of Appomattox, -l'heie er,' president of ihe board of trustees, are 5,207 names of North Carolin and others took, the matter earnestly lans in the list; ; Jt was ttie desire in hand: ' On the 30fch day of Dec: to publish it in a fifth volume, of the there Vas in hand $71,000,f and on Regimental Histories, but this" ean the 31st of1 December the balance not be done untir the legislature au was in hand, so that the round sum thorizcs it. , - ; j of $100,000 comes to the college as a t ; ? Died. , i New Tear's gift Oni; the Cih ' InstV at her. home - - , - Z " , about 1 3 milta T7c:t. of Boiboro X Jteh on human cured In 3 minute Urs; Narcicsia Springfield, mdow of by Woolford's Snnitary Lotion This tne jt 3 Richard Sprin -field, cboat never fails.-Sold by 7. R Hambricli 6G ye'rcf cu. JAMES W: REID DFAD. A Former Congressman, One of the State's Most Eloquent and Bril- liaut Men. , Reidsville, N. C., Jan. 1. James W. Reid died at his home in Iewis ton, Idaho; this morning.1 He Was a former . Congressman , f rom vthis district, son of the late; Dr. Mira F; Reid and brother of the late Rev. Frank L. Reid; D. D., leader of the Methodist " ministry. in North Carolina. : He has been practicing law in Idaho for sixteen years. His wife resides at Wehtworth. Mr. Reid was one of the, most brilliant men this State has pro duced.in recent year 5. His public career was successful, He was a son of the late Rev. Mira F. Reid, D. D , one of the. most influential Methodist preachers the State has known. " After leaving Trinity Col lege Mr. Reid entered the practice of the law and was a leader among; the younget lawyers in his district, Upon the election of Governor Scales, he succeeded the Governor in the National House of Repre sentatives v Iyater he went to I Jaho, where his eloquence and ability gave him a large practice. He had personal charms and many elements of leadership. He . was a delegate to toe Democratic National- Con vention at, Chicago and Kansas ity,l and 4 leader of his , party In Idaho. " , fax Solid Tobacco Train. . TimTnoosville, which is the leading tobacco 'market in South" Carolina, broke all pre vious records Wednes day by shiopingout a solid train load of twenty two cars of tobacco: GenV IT. E (bHon. h? ;s the rble r n co Co ac this place, .notified the.' Cost Li ae officials of a .large, ship ment of tobacco that he wishes to make from this point, and they sent him a special train and crew." At seven o'clock they started tfte loadr ing from the big A. T. steam drying plant, and by working a large force of hands pushing, the work, .the train wa8 gotten in readiness to leave by Two o'clock. iOur .citizens who alwavg take a pridJin Timmonsville's growth as a market, had a number of Streamers printed, and - tacked on the different cars.. They contained the8e w0rds: 0 Solid Train of Tobac-' co from Timmonsville, S. C." To bacco from this; place how direct to all marlts of the world and when it gets , down to dollars and; cents no market in the United States payg any more. for the gold weed than tthis.Timmonavile 13 indeed fortui nate in having sach,a man as lien. Qorden on the market, for he is rec- osnized as one of the 1 best buyers in the service of the A. T. people. - t ' ; yXaxoleA at Appomatax. r' Jdge Walter, Clark has received Makes the food more deficious and wholesome ROYAL" BAKING POWDER Is Your "Name Written Here?; The following have been supplied witn receipts for The Courier during the past .week and have a chance . to draw that .Babcocks bug- j a M. Long, A. P. Kitchin, Jos., Pointer, . Miss; Eugenia. Bradsher, J. A. Long, Jr., John M O-Briant, C- E. Wiustead. R. E, Crutehfield, E. B Reade, Jas.'H, Harris, C. G. Mitchell,- Geo. F. Snipes, -W. A. Kins:, Miss. Virginia Robertson, S. S. Solomon, .WV T. Slaughter, L J. Meadows Col. Jno; S. Cuninghani R. D. Tillman, and A.MvDenny. ; Thev Flood at Ghattancoga-v-v Chattanooga; Tenn:, f Jan." 2. A hundred families livingln the flats and lowlands around Chattanooga camped on the knolls last night because of the high water. r -Suburban street car, -traffic is crippled and many houses are submerged. " ; Miss Stone Beleased. r'Tr. London. Jan. 2. A dispatch to the Central News ft om -, Vienna, says a ,report has been - received there via vSpfia to the effect , thaW Miss Ellen M. Stone, the captive American missionary has ' been re leased. The report lacks cohfima tion. ' " . ' . Notice. ' . Fortthe purpose of better prepar ing myself for the practice of my, profession., I will spend a few. months m the rnedcal Colleges and Hospitals oi L,uro,e, hopmg when I return to be more cable ; of serving you. Thanking you for the Hber-: al favors shown me, and : wishing you the compliments of the sea son . - - y . ' Yours trulyy . R. J. Teague, M. D.. . Nothing New. Men want newthings, and, as in the day when Paul was at Athens, are enqmreing what; is the. news. Stepping in to the office of a friend this week he read me an extract of a lerter written: more than 2,000 years ago wherein was expressed the con dition of farming in Home then. The farms would not pay, farms were mortagaged and tenants often would destroy more then : the land : owners received. .Kothing' new. under the sun was the wise man's dictum. Yet this 18-a good time to'ftirm if men would jJabor hard, save what Chey make ahdproduce S from their farms what; they nsed. $ Soppo'sea farmer now had fi ve hnnd red bush els of corn to sell or a few" hogs, would it not pay nim? Yet what kq ; Say- JlL. Without Fesir; of successfut contradiction that -we sell oods cheaper than any one else in Person Countv Why can vtc ,rl'do it ? , that is easily explained Cash does it. ... 7e pay' the 4 -'cash for all we buy,, thereby buying at the lowest possibls ;? pricesy :We getlhe eah for all we sell so havenoraccounto to lose, thereby enabling ns to sell at the very lowest possible rpriceaJ&PTOjple; Person County doesn't your, interest be hoove -you to buy where y6ur money lasts longest and not to V pay the 4 'old timer" the long profits he expects and the bad ; debts of others. r You will find what you. vrant Gt the en!; ; ctiictly each store in the county CO., NEW YORK. farmer has" done a week of good farm work for 1902. - , It seems, to be against their; mind to begin work for. the incoming year until after. ild Ch ristma8.--Pr D. Gold f in i Ison -Times. " , . - CvH.:HUNTEE Same Old Place. .best wishes for a most prosper- " - OI1S TfW VPflT - , - We do in d eed feel gratef u 1 for yonr patronage during 1901 - and . .hope , that during the . coming jcai. . wp - wiii - rcuwve. even a larger share of your appreciated 3 trade. - We will endeavor to do , our very best to deserve it. - f- :...i'.v-A - a r:.v .- : .t : . . ' T-; , .-- ..-sv . ' ;:;. ..'.(-..!--.:!:. " --e---"r ? ;,-.-," k - ; ?. : . , It is bur intention to greatly im- prove each of , our several lines. . With the, very, best of service, " . . me uesb ui goousy ana me lowest. 't possible prices, we shall expect . to sea more of 'you in bur store. .We will each week : send you a : message through The Coubiee, ; whichi.we trnst ' willprove of interest to you. , ; ; 1 ' v1 't . ; . Alwavs radj and anxious to accomodate you in every pocd- v Your friends. .R.FflD8HEE.'go;: r P r 1 2 am We
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