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- r Noell Bros. , Proprietors. Home Firsts Abroad Next. f 1. 00 Per Year in Advance VOL. XXIX ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA, Wednesday Evening, February 14, 1912. No.. 7 1 i, .... . v v 1 ROXBORO LED3 ALL OF HER NEIGHBORS. In January Roxboro Market Sold Flore Tobacco Thae any Adjoining Market. We have been telling you all along to keep your eye on the Roxboro tobacco market. During the month of January she takes the fourth place for sales made ;n the State. Of course Winston-Salem leads, with Mt. Airy second, Rocky Mount third and Roxboro fourth, while Henderson, Reidsville, Wilson, Durham, Oxford and Greenville followed in the order named. Some of these days all of our people are going to wake up to the faet that we have one of the leading markets in the State, not only in pounds sold but in the prices paid, and our market will then pass the ten million pound mark. We raise the tobacco and have at our doors neighboring counties which we are most easily accessib e, and should easily sell this amount. And we will when we all pull together for the market as we should. Just keep your eye on Roxboro, and in the meantime sell your next load in Roxboro. the BIG market. BUCK DUKE GOES TO LONDON. I New Yourk, Feb. 7. James B, Duke very shortly will resign from the presidency of the Ameri can Tobacco Company to be come chairman of the British American Tobacco Company. Limited, with its chief office in London, it was announced late today at the American Tobacco Company oi'ce. He will be snrvpdprl "nrpsirlpnf nf the , ; n k mn,ntT Ktt American Tobacco company by j Precival S. Hill, long a vicepresi- dent' Mr. Duke's object in making the change, it was explained, was to devote himself to the extension of the business of the British! American Tobacco - Company, ! Limited, which now lies princi pally in China, India, Australia, Canada, South Africa, and con tinental Europe. . Mr. Duke said that he felt that a large field of activity and use fulness awaited him in the British-American Tobacco Com pany. He added that all the com panies formed out of the Ameri can Tobacco Company and the other companies which were disi ntegrated under the decree of the circuit court, were now fally or ganized and embarked oa their separate careers. In explanation of the commis sion by the American Tobacco Company today to declared . a dividend on its common stock, Mr. Duke said he had advised that, in view of the large pay ments in cash which the com pany had recently been compell ed to make in retirement of its bonds and for other purpoes re quired by the court's decree, it would be wisMD pay no dividend on its common stock at present, and that the directors had con curred in this opinion, Child Burned at Spencer. Spencer, Feb. 10. Special. Margaret, the 2-year old daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs Rufus Dor sett, was seriously burned at their hornet in Spencer today. While playing around an open five her clothes ignited and her hands, chest and neck were frightfully charred. The parents were absent at the time, condition it critical. Ite TOM WATSON DENOUNCES RYAN. Taking as. his text Col. HenryJ Watson's statement that Thomas F. Ryan was a "Democrat and Virginian, with no axe to grind," Thomas E. Watson, in a state ment given to the public recent ly, denounces Ryan as a high financer, plunderer, and declares that Ryan has always played politics for his own vicious ends. Mr. Watson says in part: "Is this the same Ryan that made Jake Sharp drop the New York railway franchise which Jake had brought from the bood ling aldermen? "Is this Mr. Ryan the same man who sold a mythical railroad to his own Metropolitan in New York; and who kept his share of the plunder some $110,000 until he was sued for the money, and who escaped out of the scrape by returning the loot? "Can this be the same Ryan who scooped the Seaboard rail way, robbing his friend, John Skelton Williams and then wrecking the road? Can this be the man who scooped the Equitable ana put a Republican law-breaker, Paul Morton, in charge? "Can this be the man who or ganized the Tobacco Trust, sent leaf tobacco down to five cents a pound and drove the desperate producers to night-riding and bloodshed? ."Can this friend of Watierson be the same man' thafc-carriedJ the Virginia delegation, in his private car, to the Democratic National Convention the year Parker received the Ryan-Belmont nomination?" COLDS VANISH. The Sensible Overnight Remedy For s 3 Sensible PeopI After you have upset your stomach with pills, powders and vile nostrums and still retain pos session of that terrible cold do what thousands of sensible peo pie are doing. Do this: Into a bowl three quarters full of boiling water pour a scant tea spoonful of HYOMEI (pronounce it High-o-me) cover head and bowl with a towel and breathe for five minutes the soothing, healing vapor that arises. Then go to bed and awake with a clear head in the morning. HYOMEI does not contain opi um, cocaine or any harmful drug. A bottle of HYOMEI Inhalant costs 50 cents at Hambrick & Austin and druggist everywhere. Guaranteed for catarrh, asthma, croup and catarrhal deafness. Carless About Appendicitis In Rox boro, Many Roxboro people have stomach or bowel trouble which is likely to turn into appendi citis. If have constipation, sour stomach, or gas on the stomach, try simp buckhorn bark, gly cerine, etc, as compounded in Adier l-ka, the new oerman ap pendicitis remedy. Hambrick & Austin slates that A Single Dose of this simple remedy will relieve bowel or stomach trouble almost instantly. Miners Rescued. Danville, 111.. Feb. 10. Fifty miners imprisoned in a, shaft of the Fairmont Coal company's mine near this city yesterday were released today by men who chopped the ice from the : shaft. The miners were in good condi tion though they suffered much from exposure. The breaking of ; a wheel which controlled the cage imprisoned the men. . . ! WASHINGTON NEWS Dinner $700 a Plate -40 0 Lilies af $2.00 Each. By C. H. Tavenoer . Washington, Feb. , 12. -While 30,000 men, women and children mill workers at Lawrence, Mass., were out of work because of a strike to preyent a cut in their $6, $7 and $8 a week wages, Mrs, Evelyn Walsh McLean, mother of the baby that i$ heir to $1000, 000,000. gave a $35,000 dinner to 50 guests at Washington, the nation's capitol. The hostess at this banquet wore diamonds that actually cost more than half a million dollars. In her hair was displayed the "famou?" Hope diamond, which cost $180,000, and at her throat another widely celebrated gem, "Star of the East," which 'was even larger than the Hope dia mond. The cost per plate at -the Mc Lean dinner was $700. One item in the expense was 4,000 yellow lilies imported from abroad at a cost of $2 each. One of the highest paid mill workers at Lawrence would have to work 84 years to receive the cost of that banquet. The earn ings of a dozen Lawrence work ers for half a century would not1 have purchased the gems worn by Mrs, McLean. A ' Lawrence worker would have to labor 20 years to pay for the yellow lilies Jone, vJhe strike of the men, women and children at Lawrence, and the $700 a plate dinner in Was ington, is a striking example of conditions existing under a sys tem of excessive, protection in the year of our Lord 1912. Neither I tha Lawrence strike nor the $35,- j 000 McLean dinner are excep-; tions. They are but samples of many similar illustrations which could be cited if space permitted. Only recently, Wrn. M. Wood, the head of the woolen trust, whose employes are now on strike at. Lawrence, was arrested for knocking down and running over a pedestrain with his automobile. When arraigned in court he was asked how many automobiles he owned, and he replied he didn't know. Imagine a man so rich he doesn't know how many autos he has on hand. Fortunes which make it pos sible for one woman to wear a half a million dollars' worth of diamonds at one tinie, and which enable a man to possess so meny automobiles he cannot keep track of them, necessarily come through the power to price on the the things which the common people must have in order to live. It is significant, in this connec tion, that the tariff, the cost of living, $700 a plate dinners everything but the workingman's wages have increased hand in hand, revealing the intimate rela tionshipof one to the other. Garden Seed Furnished by Uncle Sam. The following letter explains itself: 'T wish you would kindly let it be? know through the colums of your paper that as long as my, quota last I will be glad to have sent to any of your readers desir ing them a liberal assortment of fresh vegetable seed upon appli cation. Only a postal card is neces sary to secure the seed. Yours very truly, Lee S, Overman, Turkey is aflame with the wax. spirit. It wants to lick somebody. Presumably some smaller coun try. It must be mighty; sorry, that Russia saw Persiff first SENATE REJECTS PENSION GRAB Sherwood Bill Turned Down and Substitute Adapted. Washington, Feb. ' 12 -The Sherwood so-called uDollar-a-Day" pension bill was rejected today by the Senate Committee on Pensions, and another measure, which would involve an annual expenditure of $24,000,000 pro posed as a substitute by ' Senator Smoot, of Utah, was adopted. Senators Brown, of Nebraska, and Curtis, of Kansas, gave nonce that in Jthe Senate they would press the Sherwood bill as a sub stitute for the Smoot bill. Senator Smoot's estimate of $24. 000,000 as the cost of his plan is based upon the Pension Bureau 's computation of age and length of service of the veterans. The Sher wood bill, according to the Pen sion Bureau would have cost about $75,000,000 Jayear, The Smoot bill was adopted by a vote Of 12 to 2, after the Sher wood bill had been voted dovn, 10 to 4, embodies provision civil war veterans 62 years old, who served ninety days or more and any Mexiean war 'veterans, who served sixty days or more. The Mexican war veterans would receive thirty dollars a momh- The Civil War veterans would be put on a graduated scale from $13 a month for ninety days veter ans, 62 years old, to $30 a month forvetejiis 75 years old who served three years or more. Chinese Starving By The Millions. New York, Feb. 12. -"Three million persons in-Central China are on iht: verge of starvation" reads a statement, today ' received bv the Chinese Famine Relief Committee of which Bishop David A. Greer is chairman. "Last sum mer the worst floods" in forty years destroyed the crops in an area of 50,000 square miles. Many already have died of hun ger and unless pTompt relief is ?iven multitudes of men, women and children must perish. No harvest can be expected until May. Until then the famine will grow daily more acute. Claims For Taft. .Washington, Feb. . 10. Friends of President Taft declar ed today that he is sure of 80 delegates on the first ballot at the Ohicao convention. In spite of the split m Florida it is claimed that Taft has the whole body of southern delegates and all other states Except Kansas, North and South Dakota, Oregon, Washing ton, Minnesota and Wisconsin, They also assert he will get about two thirds of the delegates pom Pennsylvania. Roosevelt Club Formed By Buncombe, Republicans. Asheville Peb. 10. Special Between sixty and seventy-five Republicans of various parts of Buncombe county met at the courthouse this afternoon and effected an organization of a Buncombe County Republican Roosevelt Club in the interest of j the nomination and election of Theodore Roosevelt as President and in opposition to President Taft. A number of speeches were made voicing these senti ments, which were enthusiastic ally rived Mayor Gaynor of New York savs that the cold is what is fore ing prices up. Well, if it isn't ; the cold it's the heat, anri the- ulti mate consumer gets if at both audi of tiro thermometer. OF at 11 o'clock sharp we will sell at public auction to the highest bidder ' Two Car Loads of lorses ani Flules- Among this 16tyou will find Saddle Horses, Harness Horses, Work Horses etc. This sale will go on regardless of the weather. Carver-Teagud Roxboro; a fresh mans flC!..., i J mni.remm iiiiii -u nuniii im. i in mi AND Whitmans Instantaneous Chocolate for making a cup of hot chocolate instantly, 40 cents per can. Also a nice assortment of Pearl Handle Poeket Knives. ra tutted s Roxboro, N. C. H Hams Dry Goods, Clothing And Furniture. High grade merchandise at rea- sonable prices. Best stoek and 301 2)1 Holes. Live Stoek Co. N. C. lot of I Store, IOE u best attention. IOE Candy Drug Burns A. - 7 t ' I' ( - " -V f , ... A i f u n r f OH , 7 t ft- - 1 ii i f X fi I.' i f f 'A 4 V I 'it)- t 'M i ; If . ; r- . - I i 11 if " i ! sly -j u 5 rj 4- r 5 -
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