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VOL. XXIX
ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA, Wednesday Evening, September 25, 1912.
No. 39
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TOBACCO IS
SELLING HIGH
and everybody is well
pleased when they buy
Groceries from Hugh
Woods, the , Grocery
man. Everything to
eat, for man and beast.
Try me on flour, meal,
meat, ship stuff, etc!
Clover and grass seed.
Honestly, I will save
you money on
Shoes
If you have never
seen my line or heard
my prices you'll be sur
prised. Let me show
you.
The Groceryman.
Phone No. 79.
A full line of Dr. Hess
Stock Powders and
Poultry Powders. Try
a package of the Poul
try Powders for your
chickens.
Fresh Garden Seed
Just received a fresh
supply of garden seeds.
Gall on us when you
want anything in this
line.
We also carry a full
line of Staple and Fancy
Groceries. Flour, meal,
hay, oats and ship stuff
a specialty.
J. M. O'Briant &
Bro.
LOOK US UP.
We are here to
ave you money
and want, you to
call on us for Dry,
Goods Shoes," No
tions, Groceries,
&c. Our prices
are as low as any
and we know our
goods are as gooqj
-. any. We are
-.-'ents for the N
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Your friends,
Woods,
We Have
Stanfieid.
TAKE YOUR TICKET
STRAIGHT.
Suppose four Democratic Com
mittee did go too far, in the opin
ion of some, in constructing a
Democratic elector for the Sena
torial primary as one who had
not scratched a single name,
whether township officer or Presi
dential elecrorv it is better to have
gorre to that extent, than to have
placed a weak spot in the armor.
It is difficult to understand how
such a ruling, even though con
sidered drastic, will injure the
Democratic party. The privilege
of splitting tickets is vested in the
election, and what man would
get so mad with the Democratic
party, simply because he could
not participate in a primary ac
cording to his ideas, and vote for
the enemy in the election? What
gratification? would that affort
his heart, what logic would it
place in his mind? If a man
would be blindly maddened and
"cut off his nose to spite his
face," voting with the other side
, ... , v !
cannot do like he pleases i" a I
party primary why he is a very
uncertain kind and by reason
, . . i,,
or such is dangerous. The pri-
mary does not deprive a man oh
his usual Senatorial election ;
rights. The legislators elect the j
Senator, and he can vote for leg-1
istators who won't elect a Demo- j
crat, if he wants to, but to be
given the privilege of voting for
such legislators and then jumping;
over to the primary and helping a
Democratic minority sp.ttlft imnn
a nominee, bound to be elected, is j
out of all reason. Nor would it
be right to allow a voter to cast a I
ballot for the Republican or Bull
Moose Presidential electors and
then, paradoxically, to participate
in the Democratic Senatorial pri
mary. No man need take part in
a primary unless he wants to,
and he is not deprived, of one
right by not 10 participating,
His rights as a voter are vested
and fullly protected in the elec
tion. Evening Dispatch.
Better Paint.
Better paint this year if your
propertyneeds it. Mistaken J
men have been waiting lor paint
to come-down. The cost of their
job has gone-up not down; it al
ways goes up by waiting; neyer
comes-down.
Better paint than Devoe?
There isn't any.
Suppose one had waited 20 or
30 years ago for a better paint
than Devoe; how long would he
have waited? How long would
heyStill have to wait?
The price a gallon makes some'
difference; yes, but not much; it's
the paint that counts; the quality
counts,
It's the go far that counts.
Protection of property counts
more yet,
Beiter paint.
DEVOE.
Long, Bradsher & Co., sell it-
Roosevelt To Enter the State Oct. 1
New York,' Sept. 21 .-North
Carolina and Virginia will be in
eluded in Colonel Roosevelt's
,tinerarv aurm Ine nexiaen aays
it was aiiiiuuiJCfciu iieic luiiinu
On Tuesday, October 1, on his
way East he will make short
j stops at Asheville. Salisbury,
! Greensboro. Burlington and Dur-
ham and will speak in a large
i new hall in Raleigh, on the even- j
:ng of October 1.
Two office rooms for rent, C&n-j
rrallv located. AddIv to
Peoples Bank.
MUST
Candidates Take Notice.
Our roads in Hodoway town
ship have not been worked in
three years. The road to Chris
tie, our depot, became impassable
last Spring, so that we had to
drive in a field. Then the land
owner stretched a wire on the
side of the road and we would not
have been able to get to the raiU
road, if some Indians on their
own responsibility had not hauled
rocks and brush and filled the
holes in the road. Our bridge
across Mayo is 'unsafe, and we
could not get a horse to cross it
if Mr. Humphries had not stop
ped the holes iri the floor. Our
mail carrier told me yesterday
that recently his horse broke
through the bridge near G. D,
Neal's, and came very near being
seriously hurt. It is not right
for all our road money, for more
than three years, to be taken and
used on the automobile roads near
Roxboro. Unless our roads are
worked before the election there
will be a solid vote, m Holloway
fAwn of1 n a era in of r
officials who are responsible for
the present condition of our roads
and brjdges
t . . . , ,
Let a word to the wise besuf-
ficient.
"Citizen",
Bethel Hill High School.
'
We have not made an ann0lince
ment whicn gave us more
jDleasure than the announcement
as to the opening of Bethel Hill
High School. There has not been
an institution, and we say it ad-
visedly' in the CoUQty which has
done more for the general uplift
of the people than Bethel Hill
High School.
When Rev. J. A. Beam told us
that be was going to give up
this school and leave the County
we told him we thought he was
making a mistake, certainly a
mistake as to the good of the
County. While he might better
his own condition he would never
do a nobler, grander or more
lasting work than he was doing
at Bethel Hill. Of course, he
thought he had good and suffi
cient reasons for the move, and
probably he did, we will not say
to the contrary. However, it is a
fact that it was a bad days work
for Bethel Hill when he and his
most estimable wife gave up the
work in that community.
But kind fate has brought
them back and on the .7th of Oct.
Bethel Hill High School will again
j open its doors to the public, and
while Rev. J. A. Beam is not
down as the principal, his good
wife is, and that is a sufficient
guarantee that the same open-
rlnnr nnlirv will nrevail as hefnrp.
And every one knoV that never
did a worthy young man or young
woman apply for admission and
receive a negative answer. There
are hordes of men today filling
worthy positions which owe much
of their success to Bethel Hill j
bchool. !
We long to see the day when j
Bethel Hill High School will I
again number its students by the'
hundreds, and if there are not j
adequate buildings, then let
the
good people come together and
see that trie necessary equipment
is made ready.
for Rent. ,
The lands belonging to Johnie
Bolton and others, situate near
Cefib, will be rented to the high-
estbidder on Sept. 30th, 1912.
D. W. Bradsher,
Receiver,
; 9, 11, 3ts.
Rv all means rrv a nair nFReeral
fchnoc coticFantinn onaranfopd I
Berman & Lipshitz.
HOBGOOD PLEADS GUILTY; date. Artists, performers, pro
GlVEtf THIRTY YEARSr j ducers of novelties from every-
j where on the face of the globe,
Oxford,' Sept, 23. Prepared j forming the most, wonderful: di
for one of the greatest criminal I verbified, and pleasing, show the
prosecutions of Granville's life
as a county, the defense for Mil
ton Hobgood, slayer of County j
Commissioner Propu? Wilkinson,
his brother-in-law three weeks
ago today this afternoon tender
ed a plea of guilty to second de
gree murder, and Judge H. W.
Whedbee sentenced Hobgood to
ttiirty years in the penitentiary.
The homicide-alone exceeds in
sensation the turn of things to
day. Each side with half-a dozen
of the best attorneys in the State
came with experis on insanity,
numberless witnesses as to threat
ana pre-existing ieenng, ana'0nly.
Governor Kitchin had ordered a
special term of court. Though
there was no military guard as
there was in January of last year
when Nathan Montague, the
slayer of the Sanders family, was
tried, the crowd was greater and
the interest infinitely larger,
Features of Crima.
Milton Hobsood, brother of in- i
coming Sheriff Hobgood, a white
man of prominent connections,
was the prisoner on trial. He is
52 years of age. He stood indict
ed for the premeditated and de
liberate murder of W. P. vVilkin
son, county commissioner, a
brother-in-law of the 'defendant.
The charge was that on Septem
ber 2y Hobgood shot down Wil
kinson; who had been sheltering
Mrs. Hobgood from the assaults
and maltreatment generally of
Hobgood, and that there was no
element of justification. On the
same morning that he killed Mr.
Wilkinson, he badly wounded his
daughter, Miss Minnie Hobgood
who is now in aRichmond hos
pital The infuriated man after
shooting his brother-in-law, con
tinued hiswild demonstration and
fired no less than thirty shots in
the road while driving back and
forth, before and behind his two
viciims. When he was arrested, a
small arsenal .was found on his
premises He had long been on a
debauch.
An Army of Clowai Will b Here.
The Downie & Wheeler's i
Wo rid '-s Best Shows Combined!
present along with their comedy!
department this year numerous
prominent jesters, commonly
called "Clowns". Frank Belmont1
and Al. F. Wheeler, Jr., are the'
principal jesters and associated
with them are 30 Kings of the
Clowning World Along with these
funny chaps, ojhers also assist
with comical antics. When inter
mingling w'th citizens on the
streets none of them would be
suspected of wearing the loose
robes of a fool, but when they are
in the ring with their make-up
on, they laugh and the crowd
laughs with tfiem. A jolly lot,
who will certainly help to unload,
at least temporarily, the. caresi
from the minds of thousands of
people.
-Clowning is an art of itself, the
best clowns are born, not made.
The fun department of the
Downie & wheeler's Combined
Shows is fully up to the standard
i of its other departmerfbs: in fact
jany people will testify to the
j statement that the clowns with
sn0w are worth the price of
d g . th . work is re.
' .
ciated, as the present strenuous
Tlifp of most people causes them to
relish a little pure nonsense now
and then. Everything in all de
partments of the Downie &
Wheeler Circus this year is post-
.tively new, refreshing and up-to. i
world has ever seen. The big
show will exhibit in Roxboro
Wednesday Oct. 2.
Will Be At Roxbor) Tuesday Oct.
1st.
Dr. N. Rosenstein of Durham
will make his regular call to
Roxboro Tuesday October the 1st.
stopping at the hotel for the
purpose of examining eyes and
fitting glasses. Dr. Rosenstein
takes a personal interest in each
pair of glasses he fits. His 10
years experience in the optical
worK raaoe mm a state reputa
tion - 'no nn r on rl itmII nl Po cq rlrn ' f
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f t next Tuesday tor one day
A beautiful line of ladies skirts
in blacks and tans from $3.00 to j
$3.50. They are regular $4.00 an ;
$5.00 value, j
1 Person Dry Goods Co.
Full of Snap
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Clothes that are breathing, pulsing,
vibrant expressions of to-da$; Glance
gripping fabrics that your eye delights to
dwell upon. Rich, twinkling colors as
glossy as a blackbird's wing. ' Youngish
styles that make the years perch lightly
on you.
See the ' 'stunning Twin-Tints." See
the wonderfully soft, blues and graysr
See the tones and semi-tones that rup up
and down th3 whole color scale!
And remember-whatever you buy here
is guaranteed, not as a matter of boast,
but as a matter of course.
Our stock of clothing is complete and
meets every taste except bad taste, and
includes every color except ' 'off colors".
"High Art" suits $15 to $22.50.
Other makes at lower-prices.
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Party to The Lake. "
On last Friday evening Mr R.
E. Cheek was host to a N moou-
light picnic to the teachers' the
Graded Scbodl. Supper was car
ried by the party and eat in regu
lar picnic fashion. The time "was
most pleasantly spent in boating.
Those enjoying the hospitality of
Mr Cheek were; Misses Clara -Willson,
Ollie Sherrill, Jatmita
Williams, Alma Owen, Marvel
Carter, Pearl Lewis, Bertha
Newton and Mary Trotter
and Messrs. Vance Henry and O.
C. Cuningham.
'Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Lewis
jChaperoned the party.
In Honor of Miss Staley.
Last Saturday evening, from 3
to 5, Mrs. Thomas F. Cheatham
entertained injionor of her sister.
Miss Annie Stalvey, of Franklin
ton, N. C. Miss Staley, a most
charming young lady, is making
her first visit to Roxborotfnd the
i ladies were out.in great numbers
to meet her, there5 being about"
forty guests. Rook, of course,
was the game, after which re-
fresh ments were served.
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