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MR. MERCHANT: X: The LEDbER is Taa y over 6000 p eople each week in Bertie County. ; STREET FAIRTOB WINDSOR j AD DEATH OF ; PAUL SKIITH WANTS W. & EXTENDED A 757 fl- " - KYfrl'-' '- Ws- :-" - Y THE LEDGER - Ym ' nu r1 . r'k -: y VH T r'ii-' ;' " ' m rvr-C'-- -Do ' Job 'prints IvvJJ' J i r, if J -Mi' : : Lvri " r K'. J r r' 1 of: eVery description, v V; ACi ,u v-MKx Ky : i'icW i I KXy. Prices ' and Qualit? " ' :-- - - fcyl k - s IS. " - . . ... " " ' ' r ' " " Jl -'v ' ' J' r . ' ' " .,. volume 26. " . i : : . ;:-7 ' - X Windsor, n. d, Thursday, june 26, 1913. . . " v : wa n OCT" A Suggestion that Windsor Have One. Would Prove Beneficial d and Create an Incentive . to Good Crops ;r Not Much Money: T rv v The Ledger makes the sugges tion that the Mayor aL.d Town Commissioners take up the mat- ter of having a Street Fair in Windsor this fall; , It takes no race tracks or grounds for this purpose. It takes no great a mount of money. t will bring an enormous crowd to Windsor. t All the money- that is needed will go for prizes. This appears to be feasible. Let the author ities appoint a committee j to have charge of the matter. Let that committee decide on the number anoT amount of prizes it will offer. Then let them proceed to solicit contributions from the business men. The town treasury could make up any deficiency. r They could offer a prize for best all round farm exhibit; for the best bushel of corn; the best hundred poiuids of cotton; the best bushel of peanuts, the best bushel of sweet potatoes, and of Irish potatbesrand so on with otherrmrjruc there should be prizes for fancy work, ladies' sewing, pickles and preserves, cakes, bread and butter and such .things. Then there should be prizes for fruits and vegetables. - It would nof be a bad idea-to offer a prize t6 the school pres enting the 'best exhibit. , And to have a lively contest we might offer a prize to the township making . the best exhibit.: " A dozen oher ideas might be en larged. The various, exhibits could be placed m - the 1 court house and graded school, the armory, the opera house and the club room. We believeV such a day would bring five thousand people to Windsor And 'too the exhibits could be sold at v auction if the owners wished it done. In that way they could be amply rewarded for their time jand trouble. The live stock of - course would be on the streets. v No cnarre should be made tor - en-1 trance for or to see the -various exhibits. It should be Windsor's treat to the balance of the county Such a day would cause several thousand dollars to be spent 1 in the town. We respectfully re fer this matter to the Mayor and our Board df 1 Commissioners. We believe: that the ; County Commissioners would make ; a donation. The law expressly authorizes them to do so. We invite discussion. What is Confederate Veteran Lost Cause, in Times Dispatch, . Rich-, mond, Va.) ' '" The definition of Confederate veteran has been very concisely "and beau tiful y given by Judge Robert L, Rodgers, the gifted historian of the" C. V.' A. ' Fulton County, : Ga., tv'ehty-three years ago as follows:, : nN In talcing an account of ourselves a3 Confederate eterans,'' we need , not 8Pecalate abonf the facts before,; the Var- A Confederate .veteran was 'hot a fact before the war. We frequent ly hear of things which-existed before the war. i-.- ' , s - , . Some people were rich ' before the y Soaie i were slaves bsfore, the Required Strickenea with'Typhoid Fever the vFrorn Powellsville or Cremo'to Old ' . 1 ' ' ': 1,1. 'it - - - .--".,.. J Young Man Dies ' iry a Short Time.. Was:a4 Premising . Youth : " . Stuau ifA,'1 The distressing nev of the death c f this young man at the home of his llkrents, near Merr; Hill,' came to his friends "on Wednesday of last week. or. .some days he had been ill with a alignant typhoid fever. His illness as rapid and severe. Bertie County as lost one of. her noblest young men. Paul Dunstan Smith was the son of Mr. and Mrs., W. R, Smith. His father's father, was James W. Smith. JJ knew him. as a highly useful j and an influential man; a wise - and discrimi nating magistrate. His mother's ;f a ther was Colonel Jonathan Rhodes: a well informed and an intellectual man; competent and busy surveyor.. Our records are full of his plans. His maternal graudmother was Delia Capehart. From such ancestry, of necessity, he inherited much of his high character and many of the noble purposes that bounded his young T life. He was-just arrived at manhood. He vpis in his 20th year. He was an in tplligent youth and was in attendance upon the State's great college of Ag riculture and Mechanic Art at ithe (apitoL In the dass room he ranked prime as a diligent ;student, In the cam pus he stood high . as a m an of spotless character. -He A carried j daily in his association with iellow students t rajning of . Gcdlyparente,tiand3ihe. t e of membership in White OakMeth odist church. In that quiet country cnurch,. pine and oak shaded, he; held his faithful membership; There 'ni3 parents and grand-parents had I wor s flipped in their; day. Beautiful as s Dciation lit is difficult to write ' of niy young j friend truthfully, -without seeming extravagance. I risk nothing' iii saying that his was a pure 'and s potless life. He loved his parents and was obedient and devoted to them. His aims were high and his purposes noble. He was clean and sure. footed in his walk to the final end. - Pure religion and conscious acceptance j with the Master sustained him at the i close of his day. Nothing else cojild, have done so , "l am - resigned to go. I fear nothihg," he said , with steady voice, and unfaltering step, to ch rush ed parents and weeping friends, at the moment when death lighted his black torches above his bed. The .glories of Heayen were then clouding the things on earth. His was a glorious death; because it was the end ' of a noble life. On Thursday last loving and mournful friends placed this I gen tle soul in the family burying ground. e left him to rest witn tnose gone Gentle, vweeping, women wrap- ed his mounde in bud and flower. ev. M. ,,W. Dargan, pastor of . hu church, read the service. He testified tlohis high character and Godly walk.. ' Asleep in Jesus" vwas. sung. - ; No other hymn; could so well typify his life and his death. I heard a score of good men and good women say Paul was. the best boy I ever knew. " Not a; beins: Who knew him has any doubt of his glorified life, his jsacred rest, his joy- OUS lramoriai iieicxtcx. To his heart broken parents, brothers and sisters, the sympathy I extend,- I feel will conOla,tion. stronger than y words of. loving sympathy, will be their knowledge ana . memory oi nis ris tain life and certain hope. These will be tneir; sirong ... i- - .. . staffs in. sorrow. rind " will crive them sure peace. I never look upon the face of the dead Without calling to mind, my dear bones i the spirit land. ; If I had stood by Paul Smiths' death bed, I should have felt like sending by him a message to those Hove in the great beyond. I would" have felt sure of my messenger. FRANCIS D. WINSTON. LWar. v; DOme JUlVU w.ac uuiu before the war whe '- are livings yet. There ' were Governors, ; benators. Judges and 'militia majors,' T)ut never was there a Confederate .veteran be fore the war. x , ,- '"''-. y 'I "A Confederate veteran is today a tfniquefigure in life, and. will ever be uniqus in history. y . mi Colleger Branning on Jo ' Merry Mill. ' Will Include a good Sec tion ,of the;!County. .-. OignVof-ivay Is' Asked For I have " been appointed qs a committee; by the citizens of thi5 section "of. the. .county- ta make investigations and 'find out who will give a railroad bed to the Wellington PdwellsvilJe K R: Co. " I hayQ been, informed that i the people would do so, r the Company would; put a road lead ing, from Powelfsville or Cremo to old Brarihing:rand on to Merry Hill. I take .'this method fcy writing tiirougH; the columns; of our countyvpaper ;to ask you all to drop rrie;a"Hne at once, stat ing that yrou .will do so, also that you will patronize the road. . . If w.e.willjdo this we cah get a railroad thxpugh : this section of the county -J want the citi zens ot Windsor . Aulander, Powellsville and Colerain to aid in this work .It will mean more prosperity- to tHem and ; oiir whole. county abdf will keep our money at home, It wilf mean a great say I rigi ti labor )l nhaul ing qurlproducej . . v :.'.-;-; . - Tlierei3 a eVtilizer:plarif 'on foot at Windsor. One is' at Aulander but owing 1 to freight rates and no road leading from these points we cannot patron ize home industry. We are for ced to buy our fertilizer from Virginia. ',. Now let us be up and doing, and put our. own interest and time to work. Please let me know at once by a .postal card whether you will givp them your hearty co-operation and road bed or right-of-way if they shbuld- -happen to strike your land. - J. M; PERRY, , ' Committee. Colerain, :N.:. Uniaue? Yes. sir:- that is the him, single word which may define signifying incomparable, alone. ; Nothihg else and nobody .else on earth today isjike a Confederate vet eran. He is an evolution of a revelu tkn a relec of the 'Lost Caused l "in the sorrows 'and ruins of his defeat he stands like Napoleon, gf and : gloomy, and pecul iar, though the . vet eran is npt by any means a fossil. 'A Confederate veteran today is a living and active factor in public ev ents. Coming as a result or product of the -war, he is grand in His heroic courage, gloomy in defeat and ; wreck of foitune, atnd , peculiar . in 'being soli tary in his own; generation. Having no "predecessor of his kind, he likewise can have no successor. :" . , -1 A Confederate veteran is a i rank and position of distinction. . It is an honor which no power f on earth : can take away. ''Confederate veterans are one by one passing away, and as each gees out we gather at the bier to give a final fare well, to drop a .' tear A as we listen to the dull 7 thud i of the --f clods upon his coffin, and are remindedjof the fact thnt we are one less in ourrium bers. -. - v . " "Fewer 'and fewer they become as we Jeave them iril . their graves,- and we feel sad to contemplate that I soon the "last one must go .from earth- and then there can never, be another Con federate veteran.' ' . J 4 1 ''The last. one must be the last . of the kind. Holding firmly and Consci entiously as we do yet" to the ccrrect ness of the principles for which we fought in our great: defeat there inust ever be with us a shadow of that heavy sorrow, which, 'never - fitting, still Is sitting, still'is sitting. in bur house holds; but we may take such consola tion in cur Lc"t Cnnrs' C3 rre rzzj The worldpwes its greatest debts to dissatisfied people, ari thexoat-of-armsof the Goddess of Liberty should, be: . 4On a field bloody the kicking mule rampant r 1 - - - We owe our riationalf reedomto a number, of dn? aiisfied gent- lemen who' held a, nonconformist tea party; and bur. British friends owe theirs to a bunch of sure-footed hybrids who dd not approve of King John's plan of running a government by verbal mes-t sages. ,r i - ; i " ' X- - " ' ' - : A restless fellow discovered the New Worlds and ; a prudent person who had become tired of paying $3. 75 to send a letter from Philadelphia to New York started the postoffic$.'-Y The Dissenter, the Reoel and the Ipsurrgent have been foes of tyranny since "the-world began; and the hard; kicker who is ablo to pull a rieavy load meets death and calumny while he is alivo, and becomes saint and hero when the world has. becom e old enogh to understand him. . , . . w - ; y --v The mere complainer, is ainuisahce,"; and the 'pes imist who hasr nothing to-prqpose is not worth the cubic space he occupies;' : butf saviors of ' the World are its Luthers, its Crom wells, 5 its disons, its Froebels and its, Ik Follettes, who are .able to kick" and pull-at the .same time. - , find in praising the valor , and cherish ing the memories of those whe -died to make it otherwise, and realizing the consciousness in; those -who, yet live of havingdone,vtheir dutv)ar well .as ful lythercOTd; " : 1. ' ' . "t ? ''Giving honor-to; whom honor is due," too mucli praise cannot be c given to our braves who died'in the din of battle, yielding up dear life ;as a holy sacrifice to the principles of; freedom for which they contented, and in which they honestly and : conscientiously be lieved they, were right. ' ( "Aye, indeed they were right!: It was the fight they - dared to defend and mai n t an; and for which they r died willingly with an approving, conscience sealed with their 'blood, 'and r sanction ed in high heaven. , ; ' : r- "'Oh, if there be on this earthly sphere a i boon, ; : an ' offering heaven holds dear, ' w t- "'Tis the last libation liberty draws from the heart that bleeds and breaks in her cause." ' . List of Letters and Cards Remaining Uncalled for in this Office for .'the Week Ending June 14th. t "". LETTERS. Thomas Miller . , r W A Conner Martha Morris . i Annie -Walker Grover Ward Caroline Pearce C M J L Askew : J J Easley ' ,v Geniel Green . L L Green John Lee Col, ;; Bessie Nurelle , Thos P Hoggard W W Butler P HWaid - M V White . Fate Barnes : -. Johk C Faust , . , Alfred Rhodes . , r - V - Millie Gurkin.,-..- N D Mc, Daeiel ; Lillier Ferkins POSTAL CARDSs WD Cherry v - r Emily VTagans.r , Charlie Pierce , -X Nola"Whiter ' , . ; Lualla Slade . ! ,;:.Tuman H Payne '? Let tie Mae. Hardy ' I ; " Maggie Mizell Elizzer Berry v Ozie Porter : Walson Sessoms vbaptola White -J E Smallwood , ' John;Hoggardv ; - r. -; v. Hannah Horton .7 '.; These letters.will be Sent to the dead letter ofilee -June 30th, 1913, if not defivVred Before; I ' In ' calling for the above ; say. advertised"- giving date of list. T7; P," KING, P. II. The Mule is an Impotant Animal The Art Of Keeping' Cool. Keeping cool in hot v, we ather is no eyxjobutef ac.f e wpeople can hb!4 that job down .to their own sa tisfac? tion. But it is' a proposition thatC WQ shall; all be up against for the next three or fgur ihori th's, so we may - as ' welltry ,to make the best of it. Here' are some valuable suggestions- which have helped others. They may help yoi.j . : " v'-'. : ' -i . . "First of all, don't worry: about the hqt weather. It is going to come, and alb the worrying you can do wilP not make it . any cooler. Reconcile your . self to hot weather and. nearly .half the battle is won. ,f . , ; The' next thing to do is to dress fof hot weather. Wear ; light coloredi light weight porous clothingRemembsp thai tight clothing, and tight shoes, particularly? in summer, are f or a f ov? womenionly.' All men and rwise j wQ men will ; leave such things : strictly alone".;-;'; J' M- Plenty of water is really the . besV thing known for. hot weather. Drinls lots of it. Bath yourself in it inside v and out. ; Drink . until ; you ; persplro :" freely. ;It is aid -to - health and com , fort. Perspiration on your skin is nai tures own way of kepping you cool Regulate your diet to fit the seasons In hot weather leave off meats, fata gravies, butter and other heat produce ers, and eat fruits and -vegetables in abundance, : By drinking an abundanca of water you can keep your sewer 879 tern flushed "out. Remember YVO never will be cpmfortable particuarly in hot . weather", if you are constlpa ed. r: ; , . ' , '. - - 5,'..-,- : ; ADMINISTRATORS NOTICS - . ilaving'qualified as administrator of Alex Bunch, deceased, late of Bsrtfa County. N. C., this is to notify all p?r sons having claims against the said ceased to present the same to me , fpp payment on or before the first day pf July 1914, or this notice will be pzz$i ed in bar of their recovery. All Ipsrv sons indebted to said estate will pie: 3 make immedate payment to me, , This 5th of June 1913. . ; ; ; THOS. DCOWAND n . Adm'r. of Alex Bunch. Deceased, . - Winston and Mathews . ,'- ; - - - . ; Attorneys. : - . AUTOMOBILE ROR - v I will, for cash, or on rearcr,zb terms, sell my 5 passengee E,cnd V touring car, which has recently fccCTJ put in finer shape. ' I bought this nr, chine from C'.;J2 y Rhea, who will t"ll you all about it, I am selling it t cause I intend to buy a run-a-fcrut. Address G. T. BRETT, v.
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