r J TI1K i'UKK i'UKSS- - FOR EST ( ITV. N. (' -DF.CEMiJKR 1. 191:! FOR Cut out and tak( REINHARDTS DrugStore; Buy a 25c Bottle of SMITH'S MOUNTAIN BALSAM COUGH SYRUP ' and get a 25c Bottle FREE Only a Limited Number of Bottles Will be Given Away SMITH'S MOUNTAIN BALSAM contains the PURE MOUNTAIN BALLAM from the health-giving, at mosphere of the Western North Carolina mountains, besides other valuable ingredients, and is guaranteed to giv satis faction as a remedy for COUGHS, COLDS and Hoarseness. -m-ni MANUFACTURED ONLY BY wn Dr. T. C. Smith $ggE FIFTY YEARS IN THE DRUG BUSINESS. .TWO CLUBS FORMED Boys and girls of Dobbins School to Contest in Growing Corn anil. To matoes Other News of Interest Special to the Free Press. nilenboro.-R. 2, Dee. 'J7.--The .Dob bins school closed the 22nd for this Christmas holidays. On this clay the patrons of the district met pur suant to u call by the teacher for the purpose cf organizing a boy's corn club and a girl's tomati club. Mr. S. Dobbins was elected president of the meeting and Miss Virginia Big gerstaff secretary. The following were enrolled in the corn club: Clark il. Tadgett, Hall Padgett, "Walter Green, Clarence Biggevstaff, Hoyt Dobbins, J. A. Green, W. F. Dodson, O. T. Dodson; and the following over 18 years of age S. Dobbins, A. A. Biggerstaff, Ken Biggerstaff, R. P. Biggcrstaff, J. Q. Padgett, II. W. Dodson, R. L. James, Roy Harrill. The members of the tomato club are: Lilly Padgett, Bertha Green, Emely Hollifield, Carrie M. Whitaker. There is much enthusiasm over the pros pects for success i in the two clubs. Several valuable premiums are to be offered, among them J. Q. Padgett & Sons offer one Duroc-Jersey pig,pure bred, value $15, to: the winner in the boys' contest, and one trie of Buff Orpington chickens to the winner in the girls' club. The school at this place reopens Monday for the spring term. Everything seems to be moving smoothly, with very little excitement during the holidays. The weather has been very bad and mud is plenti- ful. Mr. M. M. Farris, a successful saw mill man of Kings Mountain, aernm paincd by his family, visited rela tives in this section Christmas. Mr. Anderson Rome is erecting one of the handsomest cottages in this section in a beautiful grove just south of his father's home. You can guess the rest. I must close, but hold: I forgot to tell you that at the close of the school for Christmas the people pre sented the teacher, Miss Virginia Biggerstaff with one of the prettiest lamps ye scribe ever saw. We wish the editor of The Free Press and the paper's many readers a joyful New Year; may their paths be strewn with flowers and their, lives ' crowned with success. J. Q. PADGETT. Try our Job Work 1 03HS HENRIETTA, Is the place to take your CHICKENS and Eggs. We pay tne highest mar et price for all kinds of produce. Bring us your chickens and eggs and get their worth. We also buy beef tallow. GOOD 25 CENTS i this to KING & Good Roads Notes Work is progresing nicely, on that portion of the Chimney Kock road between Mountain Creek and Cove Creek. This work is being done by the chain gang force and if the weath or permits this part of the road will be finished by early -spring. Only about one mile of the old road be tween them two points is being used, the rest being an entirely new road. A fine location has been secured, making a much better and cheaper route than was possible io get by fol lowing the f id road. Wa:i few ex ceptions this route seems to vs giv ing general .satisfaction, i As soon as right-of-vv ip can be ob tained work will be begun on the Rutherfordton-Marion road via. Gil Ley. Thi.-: is a very impji'iaxt jdeee of road, and it is hoped that there will be no trouble encountered by the road commissioners in securi-ig ri.;'ut-of-wr.y. The ' Forest City - Caroleen road was completed last week, with the exception of a short space just out side of the limits of Forest city, and the building of three small bridges at Caroleen. ' .Marriage at Henrietta Mr. Charles B. Mahaf'ee and Miss Ethel Hutchins of Henri ;tta were un ited in marriage Friday night at the home of Mr. Moses Hyder, the cere mony being performed by Rev. J. Frank Armstrong. Thesij are among Henrietta's moat popular young peo ple and many friends are extending congratulations. Professor Adams a Visitor Mr. Joseph Q. Adams, assistant professor in English of Cornell. University, arrived last week to spend several days here hunting. He is the guest of Mr. G. F. Foote of Ithica, N. Y., who is spending the winter in Forest City. Professor Adams is a son of Rev. J. Q. Adams, pastor of the Forest City Baptist church. He is no stranger to Forest City and his friends are glad to see him again. He returns to Cornell about the 5th of January. 1 CASTOR I A for Infants and Children. ThiKifid YoaKavi Always Bought Boars the Signature of a N.C cattle, hides and rM JVL if mtmV" Ah- J Iiostic i Unit u large crowd TA A Special to The Free Press. Bostie, Dec. 22. Mr. and Mrs. Seth J. Bridges, who have Ijcen in Virginia for a few day 5, have re turned hone. Several of our young people at tended the box supper at Kl'.enboio S iturday night. Miss Virginia liar rill of this place was voted the pret tiest gnl present, and Mr. George Guffoy received the honor of being the egliest man. There was n ''clean-up day" at ! Walls School today. Much has been done toward beautifying the grounds. Messrs;. Claude Webb and Onier SpraUe ire home from the Farm St huiil for the holidays. Quite . large number of our f : -mers attended the annus' melting of the State Farmers' Union at Shelby. A party composed of Misses Veita Jones, Fannie Tate and Mary Z. Early and Messrs. Joe Jones and Chiv B. Early were Chri.it.mas shop pers in Shelhy one day last week. Mr. J. W. Webb is on the s list. Mr. and Mrs. I. H. '.'-.urn-irk all .smiles its a boy. Best wishes io The Free Press. "Bill .Tunings." Handsome Calendars -Forest City Loan & Insur Company, T. R. Blanton and & Ileinhaid Company have is beautil'ul calendars and are Th, ance King sued distributing thuru among their pa- iroas. They are unusually pretty i'nd will ornament any wall. Box Supper at Dobbins The young people of the Dobbins section, gave a successful box sup per and voting contest last Thurs day night, Miss Ethel Burnett w.n voted the prettiest girl and Engi neer Dan Flowe the ugliest man. The receipts, amounting to $10.15, will be used for school improve ments. Nearly "Halved Itself" Hollifield and Company weighed and ginned for me 1.4H5 pound.; of seed cotton, from which I got C00 pounds of lint. w if any farmer or ginnery can lupUcace this I would be pleased to near 't'orn him.' The cotton was grown fro:i I'ierce Williamsons high grade guano. J. K. Reinhardt, Forest CVy, N. C. P. S. This is my fifth bale of this variety. Very (met Christ mas Forest City People should be proud of the good order which has prevailed here during the holidays. The season has not been marred by crime or accidents and few arrests have been made. The citizuns took a day off and observed it in a dig nified manner. The churches of the city gave the little folks a treat and these in turn punctured the stillness of he nights with a few explosions of fire-crackers, but their amuse ment was harmless and the older people did not complain. Local Agents in Class Messrs. W. W. Hicks and M. II. Moody of the Forest City Loan and Insurance Company attended the banquet given by the Southern Life & Trust Company at Greensboro last night in honor of the "$100,000 Club." . A - luncheon, smoker, auto ride and banquet were features of the occasion. There are only -eight members of this club and it speaks well for the local "agentu to be num bered among them. This is their first year in the field and they pass ed the $100,000 mark inside of the first ten months. II. Craig Richardson Attorney and Counsellor ATXAW f ' Practice in all state & Federal Courts Forest City, N. C. Office over Post Office. Phone 49 We strive to please. SOUTHERN RAILWAY I'remieur Carrier of the South Offers Greatly Reduced Fares For the Christmas and New Year Holi days For the Christmas and New Year Holidays the Southern Railway will sell round trip tickets at greatly re duced fares. Dates of sale December 17th to 2.rth, December 31st, 1913 and January 1st, 1914, with final return limit January 6th, 1914. For further and detailed informa tion apply to iti y Southern Railway Ticket Agti t or, K. II. DeCutts, Division Passenger Agent Charlotte, N. C. lig Events oi 4 V' i" "t V iTi v. Wv. , 5 y-p- VvS&TO L . . , 'pt'l Photos by mrican Press Association. On th upper left is Willian- Sulzar of New York, who wai removed governor after l a h been inipraohod. Upper right i sliown the scene attending the iwearing in at president Afoodrow Wilson. In the center sre pic tured th steamer Volturno burning in midocean and Captain Inch, its commander. Th lower picture shows an ncampment of United States troops near the Mexican border. Happenings Attention War With Mexico Threatened. Sulzer Removed Volturno Burned at Sea Morgan and Gaynor Died By JOHN J. BREEN. WING .N.I like mi ;ien;il;me thruugli the atmosphere of time, miothoi year i.s ,;une. Kueli day hrorylit its iiiota or linppetiiius, home ureat and oiliers smull. Tin re were fast aud slii'iiu jit (loin.;?- in the world of politics, the grim reaper exacted its usual toll, playing no favorites: the menace of Dar lietween the L'uited States aud Mexico loomed lurye. and the Athletics again showed the tJiuiits how to play the invMt uatioiinl game. Presideut WIIhod from the date of his inauguration started out to nmke good ou bis promises of tariff and cur rency reform. After months of joi key ing by both branches of consniadjl after many smendmeot ..aJtieeD written Into the original draft ol thf document tha Uaderwood-Slmuiona Urlff bill beoanie a law. It Is too soon a yet to iy Just what effect it will have on the proiprity or tho uii try. It long beeo held by some statesmen flint a new tariff bill -ill be a panacea for all Ills, real or Imag inary. Ottjer have held that any tinkering with th's Important subject would result lu a national disaster. It is fax early a yet to ay who are the talse prophets. Ha ring ucceeded Io pastdog a new Urlff blil. fideot Wllaoa st ace set about tting a new curre icy measure. Toward the end of the year bis supporters declared that he wmld also win this Hunt. Just what kind of a bill would dually meet the favor of congress noue would sny. ?xc b.i-.x-ers maintained that any radical Inter ference with the monetary system of the country would work dtsasier. while bankers of the frouth and west Instated that money reform would (rreiitly help the crops and would luuUe for unprecedented prosperiti Sulxer Helps Mitchel. It is agreed that the removal of Gov ernor Sul.er ws a big factor In the New York city election. Many who thought Sober nui'.ty wanted to re buke the fir'-e that hought Ids im peachment. S'lier announced binnelf ns a caml'.dst.' for tlie assembly In n lower -si '!. dl-Mri.-t in Mntilmrtan fie nn en !. fi.-ure' ticket and ,ns .'-;hI 'li! .il- union of Him fi.fvr- ''lt"-t tin- 1 :i nincnv Hall j . , ,( ,..,, J i.-..,. :;r. I M-fi'll. xeai wwii Hip That Held In Year 1913 Middle West Devastated by Floods Which Caused Great Loss Jessie Wilson and Helen Gould Brides John I'urroy .Mitcln-I was elected mayor. ricsidi i.l Wil-on look a personal in terest in tin- ;:uleriiiitorial election iu New .lM.-y and was pleased when the returns showed t li : t James I'iiiruian l ielihtr iva elected. Fielder has been called a proLTesshe Democrat, and bis election w.-i.- i-'-irdcd us a personal tribute to i lie president. In the No vetiiber elections also David I. Walsh, Democrat, was elected goiernor of Massachusetts, and Henry C. Stuart. Democrat, was elected governor of Virginia. When President Wilson entered ot U'e ho wnr ronlrouted with the tan gleO Mexican situation. and toward the end of the year our relations with (hut country came near the breaking point Matters became so threatening that troops and marines were dis patched 4o the border line. A great Beet of American warships assembled in Mexican waters, and the border patrol was re-on forced by several di visions of regular troops. Following the mssasslnation of Fran cisco 1. Madero Feb. -2 and tbe as sumption of the presidency by General Huerta, President Wilson datly de clared that this country never would recognlKe tbe new order of things, which was characterised as a rule of blood and Iron. Tbl government fig ured that fluerta was near tbe end of bis financial resources. Tbe year bad its usual quota of dis asters and accidents. When the wire less on Oct told thnt the steam ship Volturno was burning Id raid ooe.m there cn:'e visions of Another Titanic horror. I'.ut the wireless brought quick aid to the doomed shi, and MO of its passengers were removed la safety to other vessels that answered the calls for help. One hundred and thirty-six of her passen gers and crew were lo-t There were pathetic scenes when ibe shlp boar li)K the survirs docked in New York city. Floods Sweep Middle West. The great floods of the middle west which occurred lu March aroused the sympathy of the country fur the suf ferers. For weeks great sections of this country were under water. Kntlre cities were t.iarooned. Secretary of 'Ar Garrison took personal charge of the relief movement. It whs Itnpox OMe for hi,s t" get nny int'heutle at home t news from the stricken territory, and exaggerated stories of loss of life were circulated. For days entire cominuni ties lived on the upper floors of tall buildings to escape the rising waters. Il was ii common sight to see entire families go drifting by on trees and small frame houses carried along by the rushing streams A conservative estimate of the damage to property is Slihi.iini.iiiiii Other disunities which caused morn than passing Interest were two wrecks on the New York. New, Haven and Hartford railroad: a cyclone which swept the central and southwestern states, entailing a loss of over lull lives and several million dollars In prop erty: thirty-four killed and tunny in jured by the coilap-c of u pier at Long ISencli, Oil.: t'.w hl.v killed and many Injured by the explosion of tniil dust in a IliilT.iio mill: lifly lives lost in u factory tire at Kiiigliaintou. N. V.; tweiitj killed in a mine accldeut at Tower City, I'm.; Hot Springs, Ark., was swept by lire, with a loss estimat ed at St!.Wiii.''"-' In a wre.-'x on the Mobile and Ohio railroad tit lluika tunna. Miss., forty-live soldiers of the coast artillery weie killed and 100 in jureil. Two of the cial event- of the year which attracted more than passing In terest were the weddings of Miss Jes sie Wilson, daughter of the president and Francis Howes Sayre and Helen Gould and i'lntey J. Shepard. Miss Wlieon and Air. Sayre were married at tbe White House Nov. "j and went on a honeymoon trip abroad. Mr. Sayre Is a lawyer and when his en gagement was announced was attach ed to the office of District Attorney Whitman in New York city. Miss Gould and Mr. Shepard were married on Jan. C. Mr. Shepard was a rail road man. and Miss Gould met him wailo bo was on a tour of Inspection of the Gould railroad properties In tho west " Among th noted men who died dur ing the ylsar were John PierpoaX Mor gan, tho financier, and Mayor William J. Gaynor of New York city. Mr. Mor gan died In home, whither be went in search of health. Mayor Gaynor died aboard tbe steamship Baltic at sea. He had Just been denied a nomination by Tammany Hall and bad accepted a l.oinluation tendered by a body of citi zens. His death had a big effect on tbe New York city campaign. Other deaths In the year were James R. Keene, financier and turfman; Dr. Thaddeus S. C. I-owe, founder of the I.owe observatory; Captain Or'n K. Smith, designer of the Confederate flag: James McCreu. former prealdt-nt of the Pennsylvania railroad: Con gressman ("Big Tim") Sullivan of New York: Benjamin Altman. dry goods mcrchmit and Charles G. Gnu's. Tbe erownlnj: event iu the sport world was the triumph of Connie Mack's Athletics over John McGraw's Gl.int-. Incidentally the series was a rebuke to the knockers who nre ever reudy to cry fake. The series was ended in five i;:iine. the Athletics v In tilng four nnd the clumpiontthlp.

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