BmtFmmmmm m " .r-- - -- -e assess "' J " i..'" -.- Noell Bros., Proprietors. Home First: Abroad Next. $1.00 Per Year in Advance VOL. XXIX R0XB0R0, NORTH CAROLINA rWednesday Evening; May 22, 1912. No.21 i " V - . - - T - t 1 , '-r . WASHINGTON NEWS. By C. H. Tavenner. Washington, May 22, When thieves fall out, just men get their dues, and when Republi can presidents and former presi-j dents fall out the people learn how they have been misgovern ed. Since President Taft and for mer president Roosevelt entered upon their wild scramble to ob tain delegates to the next Repub lican convention, the people have ome into the possession of the following information, which :hev never knew before; except n it v -dine to tnem tnrougn un- . , )ivn charges or unverified I if s: That Mr. Taft by his own ad-"-ission, has been "a man of aw That Mr. Taft, in his advocacy oi Canadian reciprocity, was not thinking, primarily, of any. bene fits that vould come to the American farmer and wage earn er, but that he believed recipro city would make Canada an ' ad junct'' to the United States, which ' would transfer her ira pon.ir.t business to Ne York and Chicago." By his own con v '!i the president was think C: tho big business interest v; iio was advocating recipro- T;.:ii George W. Perkins, or-' . :;. () the harvester trust, r. -'.embera of the board of t : ,t j. s of the steel trust, was "hiih!v leased" with the pros .'.u i'uiMjinistration's methods of pi'usi.rMting the trusts. That there is a close political! nn e between Mr. rerkinsi and Theodore Roosevelt, as evi-j denced by the face that Perkins, ! in u .i lui U .1 LU UC LU C 1 1 I IV IIJVj JKs cretary of State of New York, admits he spent $15,000 to help Roosevelt in the primary election in New York city this spring, thus revealed that the big inter ests would be perfectly satisfied to have either Taft or Roosevelt president. - That Mr. Taft, in the present campaign, and Mr, Roosevelt, in his campaign of 1908, made free and unrestricted use of federal office holders to obtain the nomi nation. That Mr. Roosevelt, while constantly writing messages and giving out interviews, while he was president, all professing the deepest hatred of trusts and ille--ai corporations, secretlv and c-landestinely suppressed a report s-mvmi: that the harvester trust v : an illegal combination in re v" lint of trade, and later order 'nit a contemplated suit that trust be dropped in Q cirArn of of rtmQI it trt tho Q. I r la save the word to start : eh word he never gave. i: Mr, Roosevelt's trip to 1 "as paid for by Andrew ie. the greatest benefici ,!' ft Republican .high tariff er lived. : t Mr. Roosevelt was so -ned by the possibility of puliation during his more 'Ven years of office that in messages and official -pa-!1'3 never made any mention except to say, once, that ould discuss it in a future sae; which statement he v. ? in- pthdrew from, the message be t0l't it reached Congress. If the present scramble for letyntpo nti - u:i Au ?re, that both Mr. Taft and ! Mr. .evei at the present rate, i M 0mAmefnf A tUr4- RICHESON WAS ELECTROCUTED ATV2;TA. Hf YESTERDAY. U Boston, Mass., May 21. Riche son as electrocuted at 12-17 this Tuesday morning. Richeson spent? much 6f his time Monday in prayer and in reading his Bible. Rev, Herbeit W. Stebbins, the prison chaplain, the Warden, Dr. Bridges, and , assistants, made up the rest b$ those granted ad mission to the deUth chamber. Richeson had no supper, saying that he desired none. After eat ing a little, fruit, he lighted a cigar, and he was sitting oil the edge of his cot, apparently en- iovin.a his smnb -jjh onufu ' . Warden Allen entered his- cell wiin me DiacK suit ot ciotnes to be worn during the execution, Richeson nodded calmly to the deputy, but said nothing. He expressed a desire last af ternoon to see his brother Doug las Richeson, of Chicago, who is in the city, The former clergy man told his spiritual adviser, Rev. Dr. H. S. Johnson, that he ! could meet his brother withou fear of collapsing. He ha4 recon ciled himself to his fate, he ad ded and felt that he was at peace with God and the world. Douglas Richeson decided this afternoon that he would not go to his bro ther. The condemned man slept soundly for four hours this morn ing after being awake nearly all night. He was calm and even cherful at times during the night occasionally singing a hymn or repeating his favorite 1 Scriptural passages, Returns Indicate Roosevelt Has Car- ned Ohio over Taft and Wilscn Wins over Harmon, rkMo n o n the face of the early returns in Ohio's first presidential prefe rence primary today, Col,' Theo-1 dore Roosevelt led the Republi can ticket by 3 to 2 over Presi dent Taft and Governor Wood row Wilson, of New Jersey, led Governor Judson Harmon, of Ohio, on the Democratic ticket by about the same percentage. These returns, however, were given on a basis of complete figures from little more than 2500 precincts out of a total ot 5,192 precincts in the state. President Taft appeared to have carried Cincinatti by a large margin, aad also Toledo and Day ton, among the larger cities,- This was more than offset by the votes given Colonel Roosevelt in Cleve land, Columbus, and other cities. The Roosevelt lead in' the north end of the state, it seemed, would give the former President an ad vantage which Mr. Taft could not overcome by his vote in the south end of the state including Cin cinnati, his home, and the rural districts. Senator LaFollett received a larger vote than state ...politicians had predicted for him, getting a considerable fraction :.bf the votes cast in the northern end of the state including Cleveland. County Politics. n The Democratic Primaries were held in every Township on last Satutday and delegates elect ed to the County Convention which will be held on next Satur day at 1 o'clock. Delegates will be elected to the State, Congressional and Judicial conventions, and the transaction of such other matters as, may come up. The convention to nominate County officers has not been caK led and the convention Saturday: will have nothing whatever to do with this matter. - 'V We have the1 thing tokiIl tobacco I i, - iiit m - ff ji it i I nun II II . ; ! . - .... . . ; Contest Closes Sattirday Nigh at 9 P. M. Intense Interest Prevails Candiates Now .on Home Stretch Everything Indicates .an Exciting Finish. 300,000 Extra-Votes For Every $20.00 Turned in on Subscriptions Until the End of the Contest. Hustle Hard and You Will Win. "Only Three Days Left. Judges in The Courier Contest. The following well-known RoxWo men have kindly consent ed to act as Judges in the final canvass of the votes in The Courier contest, closing Saturday, May 25th, at 9 P. M. Rev. D. F. Putnam, pastor Baptist Church, Messrs. B. G. Clayton, Assistant Cashier of The Bank of Roxboro and R. L. Harris. THE PRIZES' Ford Touring Car, A High Grade Piano, ''Four Gold Watches. By Harold A. Dickinson.) The beginning of the end. ing flowers. They simply burst A gloriious finish to the great- into blporrv. est newspaper contest ever begun i If you should not hear some and carried to completion on a very surprising thing this week weekly paper. The big field of that would be more surprising candidates is working this week ,than anything you can possibly with doubled efforts and will con-ihear, Saturday you will be laugh tinue to do so until 9 o'clock Sat- !ing 'at the reports which the result unday night. nas Proven untrue. Don't vou want a prize? They This is the last w6rd. The con- wn nrnn Vfr. p.if nmp ; test closes at 9 o'clock sharp Sat- sanfl on the track and go in to win, You can. The ballot box has been closed and will not be opened until the judges open it at 9 o clock Satur day night. A canidate may know what she has herself, but it is very certain that nobody else can know. THE VOTES WILL BE HEAVY, Everybody is holding back votes. They are waiting for the last day. It is almost here. All week the Contest Department has been very busv issuing votes on subscriptions which contestants have taken home to add to their reserve fund; While the vote in the standing todav seem larsre to some of the j - i candidates there are others who have something up their sleeves for the last moment, ijsiho realize that several hundred, thousand votes will be neccessarv to secure the prizes, Watch ' The Courier foi the resultand be prepared for a surprise inthe size of the vote required to win. all of the votes .published. AH of the votes turned in by candidates up to Tuesday, night have been polled and published. Many of the candidates however, are holding back a number of votes and those way down on the list may take a leap towards the top of the list at the last moment. All complaints as to the number of votes published must be filed by noon Saturday in order to re ceive attention. - ; .THI WEEK OF RUMORS, In every contest there are a great number of groundless ru mors rise, arid experience teach es 'ohe pretty, much ; to disregard them. But for tfie ' benefit 'of the' IT" urday. PLEASE COME EARLY. All canidates are urged not to wajt until the luit minute before turning in their business Satur day night. Promptly at 9 o'clock Saturday night the Contest, De partment will be closed, . Votes and subscriptions will be received in the Department until 9 o'clock p, m., May 25lh. but it must be borne in mind that there will be many crowding in, all with the same idea, that they can be waited upon immediately. If you put off until evening to bring in your subscriptions you will have to do a lot of waiting, and the announcement of the de cision of the committee4 will be materially delayed. ; ONLY CERTIFIED CHECK. During the remainder of the j contest only cash money-orders or certified, checks will be accept ed in payment for subscriptions. A SPECIAL OFFER 'THE LAST THREE DAYS. A special ballot good for 300, 000 extra votes will be given for every twenty dollars turned in on subscriptions. T his offer closes Saturday night at 9 o'clock. You may secure as many of these special ballots as. you desire. If vou turn in $20 you will get one ballot good for .300.000, if you turn in $100.00' you will get five ballots each good for 300,000, These ballots will be given in addition to the regular scale of votes. . This offer gives those wtio are behind a chance to capture' the lead. If you want mat auto or piano you cannot afford to Jet this offer go by without , securing at; least one of these ballots. There: ate' only three ; deys before . t the A PJeaunt Li cninj;. That ras a most agreeable as smblyxwhicaatbeB Cthe homebf ittan& Mrs. 17. ,,V; Gwynn on last Monday night' Mr and Mrs. Gwynn, are 'Sum mering on "the Mouhtain," just a mile East of town, and Monday evening at 70 they sent in for a few friends and carried them out jn an auto to spend the evening to meet Iheir visitors, Mrs. James A BickfordVMr. W. P. Packer and wife, Mrs. Faye Sloan and Miss Annie Bickford. of Rockhaven, Penn., relatives of Mrs. Gwynn. The invited guests were: Mr, n.ntl Mrs A X HpV kmintr Mr and Mrs. J, W. Noell Misses Sue Long and Elma .Featherston, Dr. E. '.L Tucker and Messrs. Charlie Long, W. R. Woody and V. C. Bullock. Bridgewas the game for the evening, and after playing a round Of four hands it was found that Miss Elma Featherston had made Che highest score, and to her was presented the prize. After the garde refreshments were served, when the gay party left for town, reaching home just before the hour cf midnight. There are few more beautiful homes than the country home of Mr. and Mrs. Gwynn and noi more cha'rming hostess than Mrs Gwynn. I I Ml We carry nothing but the best. Fountain Syringes Bulb Syringes Hot Water Bottles . . Ear Syringes And Every thing in rubber goods carried in a first class up to date drug store. Weed's Roxboro, N. C. oroli - We are showing a great line 0f these justly popular chairs. Thfey are-comfortable, sightly and durable. Wehave them in both low and high backs, The prices range from $2.00 to $3.50- Furnish your porch with -these com fortable chairs and get what is owingto you this summer in cooling breezes , and fresh air. . , . fresh air. . - - , IL AC , . '. -,.-... ... .'. , . . , ' . - n tdoQenceae&t oi Koxbcro ocnocu. T . . x The coiencemefitl&ercisesV of tl RoxiK wiU be Alield on ? the evenings of: ThnrlamrMail 30th ' and 31st,finst., be?inn1np at 8.15 1 eacn evening. Ort Thursday evening, the 30th, the exercises will consist otV drills, songs, and plays by the pupils of the schools. A small admission to these exercises wilf be charged, to meet the expenses incident to the commencement; These charges will be as Jollows: Reserved seats, fifteen cents for children and twentj-five cents for adults; general admission, ten cents for children and twenty cents for adults. On Friday evening, the 31st, Hon. W. J. Brogden, of Durham, will deliver, the literary address. At this, time diplomas will be given to those who have complet ed the course in the high school. Announcement of winners of of medals and prizes will also be awarded. A. B. Stalvey. Wanted. 250 cords of dog wood tim ber. Dimensions, not less than 5 inches at little end. From 2to 8feetlonq. Will pay $8 a cord delivered at Roxboro and Picks. Clear ofKnots. J. A. Rosemond. Drug Store 3CTC Or - J 1 V . J. 'J- . .V. . , - : - 1. - ' 'i J f f 1 n - a 1 1 .' y . 1 -r s " r i 1 V eeer of them is fit to-be presi- worms,; Come, and see itv inexperienced we :iriay ;say 1 that clos;e of the r contest,;; CO; i Make HUUW W1W UUU 4 ,';'.' . ' ' ' J - . ' " . , " ' - . l- .; . . ' ; r " ,r . : . , t ,., .:, . , .......... . . v

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