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-I SI Gov. w. w. iutemn will Speak-at. the Court Hour. .in. aoxboro on. tloncMV, -Not: .7th, -1910. i n m I : Noell Bros., Propnetors. rt; Honie First j r Abroa& NextC - 1. 00 Per Year, in Advance' Vol. XXVII V - r ; ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA, ; Wednesday; Evening, Oct. 12 1910. No. 41 . r TTT Ty I ' :- ' ' , " 5 ' " . ' - ' i1 kirSvKsa 1) s0..:. 1 m ......... -?. jev..- .... -. v .- : V-r - - J- , - " ' ' 1 z , , n . , . ZZZZ tiod tipoithe . advice of United) 'And this year's report of th'el i '."-SURLNEWS.'- '.' "."!.' TV I CUwliTJ'GZ- the treasury .is'.not & & a j -,now 'j -V ; . NEWSY WASHINGTON LETTER; ni u Tavpnnpr. Snecial Waih- Byuy i : to ' 'sham was nn.rt,ir.n1nTW rtWalifio ;nrfon Corresponaem oi im raper. j n , xf tovp the President . advice in Washington Oct. ,10. ISow , matters pertaining to theVgar comes the remarkable announce. . trustAt the time of his Appoint mentthat the President has men to office , of attorney pardoned Edward A. . Boyle, j geEerala position which' places John K. Coyle, Patnc J. -en him in ab solute charge of the nessey, and Thomas Kehoe, rprosecutions of trusts -he was a fourformer government :SUgt itVLstttovney.- ; ployes who were serving senten r Mr-- Wickersham and ' Henrv ces in New York for connection w Taf t brother of President withthe $2,000,000 sugar trust , were members or firm frauds. j 0f Strong & Cadwallader of New This action has raised in the : York; For srvia vMfovo tha minds of many tne iouowmg query; Did the fact ' that . these men hoped for early pardons deter them from fully exposing the men high up? By placing steel springs in ikoW exDOSed admitted the :VV1"B X crime by returning the plunder. The secretary and a few minor employes were sent to prison, and lour of them have now been pardoned. The multi-millionaire sugar trust Attorney, Henry W. Taft received $26,750, which he turned ; over to Strong & Cad wallader, and the last thing Mr; Wickersham did before starting in to rftnrfisftnt thft -nftonlft -masi .sevenweu w? J to draw down - and pocket . his trust robbed the government of share of the gu t t f f ; , more tnan $wu,uw, nuu aim , Nin6 resolutions Drovidine for i an investigation of ; the sugar trust were introduced in the last session of Congress: But the sugar trust" happens-, to be a friend and ally also a star cam Daiern fund ' contributor - of the sugar barons into whose pockets . p party and therefore the $2,000,000 would have gone it ig needless to record-that each had not the cheat been discover- j of the resolutions were smother ed, have so far gone scot free, j ed tQ death in committee. . Democrats and progressive republicans sought in the last congress to bring about a Con- gressional investigation of this fraud, believing it ridiculous for the administration ' to assume WASTEFULNESS OP PROTECTION The wastefulness of taxes col lected from the people under th(e tariff laws is not one of the least vicious features of protection. as bad as last . yearns, which showed that in one instance the government had paid 'two men $1;100 to collect Q0 cents. " ' - ' . , ' - - -r THE -PRESIDENT ' IS " SLIGHTLY IN , I ERROR. iHis speech at the Repub lican National League ; dinner in New York, President Taft said: Our dernocraticfriends are'sayi in g that if the -JDemocratic "party caime iiito power it would i reduce the expenses' of this government $300,000,000." ; r .i It would seem that Mri Tafts quarrel is rightly, not with:' the democrats,' "but with Nelson "W Aldrich; the Republican chair man of the Finance committee of the Republican - senate. It , was' Senator Aldrich i who, stated on the floor of the' senate, that any business man jcould run the gov ernment: $300,000,000 : cheaper than . it is now being run. v , RAILROADS ARE . GREED. . The railroads of. the. country, acting-together are contending before the interstate commerce commission that " they : should be allowed to , rais.e their freight rates so that they may collect an additional SSOOOOO.OOO1 from the Surl section with the road scraper wluch is appreciated, by the people in this section, ; " 4 ; . ' . ' " ;MrLem Day; the popular auc tioneer, of Roxboro ! and . Miss Evelyn Clayton, the, daughter of Mr. andj Mrs, Abner Clayton, were married, oh the 4th Sunday m ijep. ?r-;- ; ; Mr ; H. W. Rogers says " it is a pleasure to him to read Surl news. Clay BrosJ; say jhey . threshed over 6000 Bushels of wheat . this l.ly Friends of Person d Cas- . Well: i ' ' -v ' season public each year. , The mari Who runs the moving pictujfriovive ; the -people i an entertatnmenr in the school house hear Surl not long bince. -i4' A few families in the Surl sec tioti; had turnips for dinner: Sun- f Mr. Johnie Jones, had a contest corn ptetch of an acre, he saved 403 big bundles of fodder off of ;'. .Mn: S. S. Frazier now hplds a good trade.1 He is selling groceries and dry; goods ilso. , ; .;THik.corrlwhdent. heard a man say that Pettigrew Bros;, of Rox bord, heh it come, to blacksmith work Ihey certainly ; done stylish J Mr GG. Moore had a barn of tobacco .to burn' on ,ihe 10th of Sept. .- j. - . A Mr, George " Avery had one to burn some, time ago 1 1 ' is said , that Wiley Cytes. ol,- alsohad one to i't'J get "burned. They have the syn I;Wisti to inform all of my, old friends . of Person - Caswell and adjoining Counties that I will be with the Banner Warehouse, Danville, Va.. for the. season of J 910,. 1911; where they will find modations unsurpassed for accom both man and beast, and I will be" glad to serve them to the best of my ability. , , -. When . you . are ready to sell give me a trial and 1 will guaran- ; tee you satisfaction. , - Z . ; Your friend, . , r i . Joe Featherston. Augl 9,3. ms. ; I ; . : A m nn'nnn onofnmo' fln.IQC VlQWD l nA JLi o HAA I necessitated u gigantic t ar for someone else and' lay - them: r; A ?. - , - res liable to 'penitentiary sen- fVA "" i,o ,uOOT, enormously : to the ..expenses of nnnno unlace ."hQ1T flQ.fi iVlAPnfi bribed bv the'; men or agents of , the-government. the men who .would secure the proceeds of the fraud. President Taft himself pre vented the Congressional in vestigation by recommending The country is divided into 160 districts and ports f on the collection of duties. Of these? the expenses in forty, are greater than the receips,- the cost of col- against it in his annual message txeouou rauiug, to Congress. He took the view a cpnectea, irom i.oo iopw.x. In the Aiexanaria, ,va,, cust- rict. the' government "spent $1,-1 24 to collect , r , , llnithe Annapolis,- Md. district it cost $956 to collect $3.09. In the St Mary's, Ga dis- forthe big thieves, an investi-j trict, it cost $693 to ; collect, $151 gation would only bring out -25. ; ' ; " . v: their identity. . ' .In. the Coos . Bay, .pre., dis developed that the President ; nPl recommended against investiga- 81. ; - . probe might give Immunity to the men ' 'higher up. ' ' - -Rep. Henry T. Rainey of Il linois led the fight for the probe of the swindle, contending that The railroads ayer ths advanc ed rates are necessary because ot increased wages being paid trainmen and other "iucreases in operatihg costs. This contention army of is borne out, however, in the jreport on railroads earnings just issued rby the4terstate.; com merce commission, which shows: t rst : That the; profits . of " tjie railroads for the last fiscal year were $110,306,006 more than in the previous fiscal year. -. ;.: SecondJ That the rate of increase in railroad profits was 13 1-3, per cent, while increased - operating costs, with the much-boasted , in- crease in wages included amount ed to only 2:38 per cent. Dixie ROXBORO, N. C s :;;'2, v; DEMOCRATIC TEXT BOOK j 4e Just ed Gar load of Barb wire and Fiend Fencing: Next spring you will be, busy so do your fencing this Fall. ; Can save ; " you money;6n your wire; .Re member the Oliver Chilled and Vulcan Steel Beam plows. We handle the Buck - Eye Wheat Drill. ; v : , i . ' -b ' ' " ' y ' '- iong,,SraMi n r Jiidningrbthe number rotre-y quests that Have reached Demo cratic headquarters for the pern I ocratic textbook" for 1910, this publication has ; found 'great fa vor with Deiriocratic vworkers. Authorities have pronounced te book to be the best vworkf on the tirlff..nowiiiprintV.M-rhose who desire a copy -of the textbook should 'write immediatelyi before the supply is exhausttd to Mr; 3BljF Garett. - treasurer National Denjbcratic Congressional Com mittee, Washington-, D, C J - c ' Notice to Tax Payers. ' I will attend " at the following places on the days mentioned for thurpose ofcollecting the taxes for 1910. Viz: ; ;. Cuningham, October, 18th 1910 Ceffo v -'i ; 19 Winstead.: V - 20 Bushy Fork- . ' : .21 Ai, 11 22 Gates," r- -2 Mt. Tirzah, - ; ; i 25 AUensvilfe. , 26 Holloways, " 27 Woodsdale, " 28 Ghub Lake,' V . '29 RoxbdrO. " :: : : . s "31 s .The County Candidates; and probably other -'orators" will be at these respective places on the days above menuoned. Do not miss the opportunity: Go prepared to-setde your taxes and enjoy the - discus sion of your candidates! . , , j Your obedient servant, . : v . T. D WINSTEAD, . , - v Sheriff of Person Co. .t . i V, , ? ' ,t t. years , ago, ; Mr Grant Smith, Erie, Pa; : painted three frame houses; and the -woodwork t)f a brick house. ; - :.." i The painter estiihated $1 16,60 for the paint, lead-and-dil. f , He bought Devoe $07.40 and returned, $1 1 . 60. Saved $3 1.1 0 on the paint. ; .y ; - v; Don't j know the cost of the work. Byline rule, the saving ? of labor would be from $60 to S90. BEFORE - ordering MAGA- On au, From $90. to $120. -Z1NES jget ourbig clubbing' - This is the tale, as it comes from catalogue and special offers .and Messrs W F. Nick ti Son. iDsyos 1 save MONEY. - , agents there for 40 years. t : southern subscription agency, , Long & Bradsher. (A Postal will do.) Raleigh, N, C. 24 V . , pathy of their farmer friends.. - Mr. ,'Jbhn Oakley visited -Mr. Boss Nutt just awhile beifore cut ting1 tobacco time,, and he said there -was a One crop of tobacco down below Moriah. . , ; ; Mr. Ijehry ? Welsh 1 will have nice QCga to Jcill thi&winterL:i : MrPM;:.,N0ah1has?'a-squfrref and 2 rabbits which : afe tame; thev all seem lo be in: gobcl shape. Mr. and-Mr$. . Cameron' buncf n moved to Roxboro some time ago j and Mr. Sam ;- Frazier moved to the place which Cameron moved ' from. . - -A'.v V Mr, R, E. Hamhn says he fell in Jove with url news. : If Person county is . surrounded by Counties which give the Demo crats big majorities-- ;t- looks like Person might do that'll much; " -:The speaking at Helena joti the 24 im was nne;The Goverrtdr and JudgeSykes " of tDurhamv Mr.: Hv A. Foushee, Of Durham, and? C, B. Green, of Durham, .the Demo-r erats enjoyed their speeches. The barbecue was all .that could be ex pected, consisted of loaf bread and fresh -.meats of different kinds. J cakes and plenty - ; of lemonade: f The Democrats are going to git here this timd. :I have : already seen a sign that never fails, People in this section wound up curing tobaccoand pulling fodder about the last of Sept. GoQd many of them have" made v molasses and. some of them are $1 this kind of work now. : 4 jj The Hyco Warehouse the Pioneer;Warehousei the i Farmers Warehouse,--, and the :Winstead Warehouse are all run By good firms. Every : house has : a good auctioneer. The warehouse men and auctioneers of Roxboro have found out it does payitd advertise in The Courier. You can hear a good many , people , say- t The Courier is hard o beat how. In fact you will have to lgb 9 a long ways to. find r paper which fur nisher Aniore newsd1 than " The Courier .does, - , ; , - Thos. Fmier. Suri.pa' iorQ03 ( , c.y iB: leaders in Lo w Prices and erood Merchandise. We are here to save you money and intend that - farmers , of :Peioh, "Caswell and Orange counties shall have . the . opportunity to buy goods ascheap asany 1 1 ;j : ,Qur stock of : A Clothingi Dry-Goods, Shoes, Hats, and everything carried in a first class General Store, is new and up-to-date and. our . . ; ; PRICES Ijywm ; ;: ihan same qoods can Le boiight in this town ;Giver us a call and will prove this assertion to be true;. ; . ; '-"r. :;Alwavsvask to 'see oilr.i'L artdPiedmbnt $3,50 and $4UU ohoethe bestsnoe in;toj,.: ; , . r DIXIE ' CLOTrli JN (jf, ; STOKti; y . ;5 J. ? Goldbferg, : Manager., , - Wiatkins & Bidldck, l Flooring,- Ceiling? Siding, ; basn, rjjoors, ,;i3iinas, : Shindes. " Roofing, Laths, 1 Lime, Geihent, Piaster,. ?; -J v Mouldings Columns, Brackets, ; Mantels, Grates, v - -Tile EVERYTHING TO BUILD Phone 94. - ROXBORO, N. C WITH Ut. Scitli Saycd Over $1C3. Two ' r1 ii Mil i it ifii .ir wi mi - . C00LBS, WBATESS. Makes It Feel More ;Like -Winter. Clothes s Vlt is time now to get interested in your new outfit Youll U he npwiinn it hanlv one nf-.mftsft navs. lhis is where our great slock conies in to help you. Be you man, woman or child you can wialk into our store and find a complete outfit ol the most desirable , wearables to be found and at prices that are most reasonable. , ; L Ve are also showing an unusually strong line bl hirni ture;and;house;ffiaishings. You can t aHord to buy this class of goods until yoa have seen our stock. f ; ; We want your trade, are anxious for it and will do cur utmost to please, you.- Everyone is cordially invited and urged lo inspect our stocks and begged Jo remember that ; 'We SelliEvrythihg to Wear and '' ; . f) ' Furnish the home. 1 ... r - - N : . j V V
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