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VOL.25. SMITHFIELD. N. C.. FRIDAY. MARCH 0. 1906. XO. 1.
PLANS FOR WENDELL.
Land Company Organized,
Work Begun.
Additional Track Laying on Raleigh
& Pamlico Sound Railroad at
This Advantageous Point
Now In Progress?Bright
Prospects.
The incorporators of the new
Weudell Laud Company, a char
ter for which was granted some
weeks ago, have completed their
organization, adopted by-laws,
and elected permanent ofiicers,
as follows: E. 15. liarbee, presi
dent; John C. Prewry, secretary
and treasurer; and Li. 15. liarbee,
A. Washington, ft. 15. Rich
Mrdson, J. M. Turner and S. 11
Horocker, board of directors.
Vigorous work will immediate
ly begin en the development of
the new addition to the town of
Wendell. Wendell is already a
thriving, thrifty town, and its
future success is assured. The
services of Captain McKinnon, a
prominent civil engineer, have
| been secured for surveying and
platting the town. The survey
and plat of the town has been
completed, and already a num
ber of lots have been disposed of
to people who are going to build
at once.
Mr. Kaeford Whitley has pur
chased laud from the company
ou which he is going to build a
dry kiln and planing mill, sash,
door, and blind factory.
Mr. Walter Wolcott.one of the
leading merchants of Raleigh,
has purchased a lot in the town
of Wendell and rented one of the
most spacious stores in the town
and opened up business there
several days ago. die is going
to conduct a large department
store, and with his energy and
push he is a valuable acquisition
to the new town. He is an enter
prising citizen, and with such
men as Mr Woollcott, uniting
their efforts in pushing Weudeli
forward, it is destined to be one
of the leading towns in this part
of the state.
The new addition to this al
ready prosperous town has been
laid off in accordance with the
most attractive and convenient
facilities for industrial and resi- t
deutlal developments.
The railroad is forging ahead,
the grading force being now near
Little River, while another force
is laying track between Hagle
liock and Wendell, and trains
will be running into Weudeli
within the next week or ten days.
The people of that section are
jubilant and busy. New business
enterprises and industrial plans j
are going up, and new men and
new money are going rapidly in
to that direction. Timber lauds,
farm lands, and/ town property,
all climbing tti& ladder of ad
vanced, but staple values. Sev
eral town lots purchased in the
new addition of Wendell some
weeks ago, have already been re-1
sold at largely advanced prices.
Mr. Ed V. Richardson, one of
the most "progressive business
men in Wendell, is a great believ
er in Wendell's future. ~_
A handsome bank building is
to be erected by the new land
company, and a new bank-estab
lished. It is also understood
that several large manufactur
ing plants are scheduled for the j
town. Wendell is not a new
town, but it has always been an
active, progressive town, and [
with new railroad facilities, it is
taking on new life and getting
ready to grow more rapidly.?
Kaleigh Times
Torture by Savages.
"Speaking of the torture to (
which some of the savage tribes ?
in the Philippines subject their (
captives, reminds me of the in
tense suffering I endured for
three months from inflammation
of the Kjidneys." says W. M.
Sherman of Cushing, Me., <
"Nothing helped me until I tried '
Electric 'Bitters, three bottles of <
which completely cured me." 1
Cures LiVerComicVuit, Dyspep 1
sia, Blood disorders and Malaria; i
and res'ores the wt/ak and ner- ^
vous to r .bust heaiith. Guaran- *
teed In Hood Bros., druggists. I
P I I
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STATE NEWS.
A company has been chartered ,
to build a $200,000 cotton mill
at Rockingham.
An extra train is soon to be i
put on between Rocky Mount |
and Spring Hope. 1
The post olfice and other build- !
iugs were destroyed by fire at I
Davidson early Tuesday morn 1
ing.
The town of Warsaw voted a
special tax for schools Tuesday.
A moderu school building to cost ,
?5,000 is to be erected soon.
It is announced that Solicitor j
C. C. Lyon will be a candidate i
for J udge in the Seventh J udicial '
district against Judge Thos. A. <
McNeill. '
The cold wave of the past week J
resulted in considerable damage
to tt-uck in the trucking sections
in eastern North Carolina and '
farther South. (
At a dance near Saluda, Polk '
county, Tuesday night of last i
week, a row resulted in which i
Geo. Prewitt was killed and Ed- i
w ard Church and Gaither Pan
ther are in jail charged with the 1
murder.
Mrs. tharles J. Barnes, 01 s;
Winston-Salem, attempted to
commit suicide Thursday by cut
ting her throat. Her husband
stopped her before she could in- '
tiict a fatal wound. The woman 1
is insane.
Some time age Kail Bumgar <
ner, a young man employed in ,
the spoke and handle works at .
Thomasville, got both hands
cut off in the machinery. Suit
has been brought against the
company for $40,000 damages.
Capt. Tiiomas H. Taylor, aged
40, one of the best known steam
boat men in Wilmington, com
mitted suicide at his home Sat
day night by drinking a two
ounce bottle of laudanum from
which the label had been scratch
ed off. 1
A negro was killed near Wades
boro Monday night by his broth
er. They quarrelled over four
gallons of whiskey. This is re
ported to be the tenth murder
that has occurred in that section
since the re-opening of bar-rooms
at Wadesboro. j
The graded school building at
Kernersville burned Tuesday
night. Being a frame structure
the flames spread rapidly and j
half an hour after the fire was I
discovert*! the building, which
cost $1.200, was in ashes. The)
loss will necessitate closing the
graded school, as there is not
another suitable building in the
town.
A serious fire destroyed the
barn and stables of Dr. C. H
Sexton and also those of Mrs. ?
W. F. Pearson at Dunn. Several
residences narrowly escaped. 1
Five fine horses belonging to Dr. s
Sothr?n \rr?r?? Hnrnprl to Haoth ;
" vn uuu V V(VU U U J
Several vehicles, a large quantity |
of feed and several bales of cot- t
ton were lost in the fire. Two of j 1
the horses lost by Dr. Sexton
were pet horses of great intelli
gence, and could not have been
bought at any reasonable figure.
c
Skating Rink Accidents. t
Wilson, N. C., March 7.?The c
Wilson skating rink has met with f'
a chapter of accidents this week. ?'
Monday night Willard Smith, I
bookkeeper of the Farmers Oil 1
Co., fell and broke his right arm. t
Last night Miss .Jennie Ellis, of c
Raleigh, a teacher in the Wilson ; i
graded school, and Tom Wilson t
had similar accidents. All fell
at the same spot and all broke a
ther right arm. The injured are t
doing well?Raleigh Times. a
n
I
A Scientific Wonder,
The cures that stand to its
credit make Bucklen's Arnica
Salve a scientific wonder. It v
mred E. R. Mulford, lecturer C
'or the Patrons of Husbandry, p
Waynesboro, Pa , of a distress ti
ng case of Piles, It heals the a
vorst Burns, Sores, Boils, Ul- L
?era. Cuts, Wounds, Chilblains u
inc! Salt Rheum. Only 25c. at o
flood Bros, drug store. - , L
hasty Gets a Life Sentence.
Gaffney, S. C., March G.?After
being out all night, the jury in
the case of George Hasty, indict
ed for the muider of Milan Ben
nett and Abbot Davison, mem
bers of the "Nothing But Money"
theatrical company, today
brought in a verdict of murder 1
in the second degree, accompany
ing it with a recommendation to J
mercy. He was immediately sen
tenced to imprisonment for life.
He received the verdict and sen
tence without a tremor, but
shortly afterwards, and for the
first time since the trial began, j
broke down and wept upon be
ing approached by a minister)
who offered him consolation j
Counsel for Hasty guve notice
of an appeal. Hasty was tried
Eor the murder of but one of the
men. The killing of Bennett and
Davison occurred on the morning
of December 15 last in the Pied
mont Hotel at Gaffney, of which
George Hasty was proprietor.
The theatrical company appear
ed in the opera house at Gaffney
on the night of December 14 and
after returning to the hotel Miss
May Bishop and Miss Verne
Sheridan, two actresses, com
plained to Davison about the
attempt of Hasty to enter their
rooms. The following morning I
Davison went, to thp nronriptor
to demand an apology. A fight
ensued in which both actors were
ekot and killed. Hasty's plea
was 6elf-defenee. At the tria1
Elasty answered to the jrint in
dictment aud pleaded not guilty,
rhe jury took the case last night
it 7 o'clock.
Relief of Famine District.
The State Department ytjster
lay cabled $5,000 to Hunting
ton Wilson, charge d'affaires at
rok.yo, for distribution among
ike famine sufferers in the north
ern part of Japan. The money
ivas sent to the department by
the Red Cross Association. In
all, the organization has sent
more than $30,000 to the famine
iistrict.
The intense and unprecedented
old weather in the aillicted
provinces has greatly increased
.he suffering of the famished
natives, according to reports re
ceived by the secretary of the
American Red Cross. Thousands
of persons have-starved to death,
and it is regarded as certain that
;he number will increase in the
aext two or three months.
Relief work is being carried on
as rapidly as possible. Millet is
jurchased with the contributed
unds, it being cheaper than rice,
ind portions are hapded out
laily by the relief committee.
The old and sick are among
ihose first served, then those
inable to work and children are
pven food.
Information has been received
lere that the governors of Mas
achusetts and Nebraska have
ssued special calls upon the ueo
>le of those States to subscribe
o the relief funiH?Washington
'ost.
blackburn-Lasslter.
Mr. Theran Blackburn, of this
ity, and Miss Katie Belle Lassi
er, of Benson, were united in i
narriage this afternoon at 2:30 j
t'clock at the home of the bride's j
ather in Benson. Miss Lassiter i
3 the beautiful daughter of Dr. i
^assiter, a leading physician of j
tenson, and the groom is one of <
he popular clerks of the It. Burns |
lothing store. Both have many i
riends who extend best wishes to 1
hem. 1
Mr. and Mrs. Blackburn will i
irrive here at 11:15 tonight on I
he ltichmond "shoo-fiy" train, i
,nd will be at home to their i
uany friends on Dick street.? j
'ayetteville Observer 7th. ]
A Lively lussle
nth that old enemy of the race, i
Constipation, often ends in Ap- I
endicitis. To avoid all serious (
rouble with Stomach, Diver 1
nd Bowels, take Dr. King's New 1
afe Pills. They perfectly reg- <
late these organs, without pain i
r discomfort. 23c. at Hood
tros., druggists. i
THE COTTON ASSOCIATION.
J. P. Canaday Writes of a Month
Among the Farmers
No w that the work planned by
the executive coininitteefor more
thoroughly organizing the
Southern Cotton Association in
the county is done I desire to re
view briefly through Tuk Heu
ald, the progress made and to
offer some suggestions.
In the tirst place, I wish to ex
press many tbauks for the help
rendered me by the officers of
our county organization. Mr.
W. M. Sanders, County 1're^i
dent, furnished me data, litera
ture, and abundant information
concerning the cotton situation.
We have au able president who
has taken upon himself to at
tend both State and National
Cotton Associations.
Without the thorough adver
tising of Mr. J. M. Beaty, our
County Secretary, very little
could have been accomplished in
the short time allotted. Mr.
Beaty knows the people of John
ston County, where they live,
and he knows how to advertise.
Furthermore, thanks are due
the many good citizens over the
county who so kindly received
me and aided in the work of or
<?nnimif inn Tn-ar.f-n P/mim C
^auj.iaiiuu. A nClJlJ-lUUl ui auiu
associations are now organized
with committees at each place
to work to get new names.
In a short time many of these
associations will become large.
It is a matter of great encourage
ment that our very best citizens
welcome the association and are
umoug those enrolled. There are
in each community many others
equally as good who were kept |
away from the meetings from
different causes, but who will
soon be enrolled.
In traveling over the county 1
became thoroughly convinced
that the distance between main
of the places is so great that the
inconvenience will keep many |
from joining.
In this connection 1 suggest
that without an organizer the
citizens in any community meet1
and organize themselves into an
association, each said associa
tion elect a President and Secre
tary-Treasurer and send a roll
of all members with nost office
add ress of each to M r. J. M. lieaty,
County Secretary; each associa
tion so formed to meet on the
first Saturday at .'COO P. M. in
each mouth, the regular time of
meeting over the county. The
truth is there ought to be
twice or three times as many
branch associations as at pres
ent; perhaps it would be better if
one could be formed in every
public school district inthecouu
ty. Then everybody would be in
read, cotton statistics could
easily be collected, and informa
tion be imparted to the masses.
It must be borne in mind that
many of our good farmers do
not reau mucn. 1 ney nave not
learned through the papers of
the great movement in the South
to maintain better prices forcot,
ton. They do not know that the
Southern Cotton Association has
saved us many millions of dol
lars already, but promises much ;
more for the future. 11 they can 1
be reached and made to see the 1
situation, they will fall in line 1
and help maintain the organiza
tion that alone can solve the
cotton problem and thus give us
continued properity.
While merchants, mauufactur- 1
srs, mechanics?all classes of our 1
people?are equally interested in
uur common prosperity, yet the '
farmers are the power behind the
throne. When they see clearly
that short cotton crops always
bring many millions of dollars
more than the large crops they
certainly will raise short crops '
because the short crop requires i
less land, less fertilizer, less labor, :
vet brings more money, and
?ives better opportunity to raise i
home supplies?more meat,corn,
potatoes, wheat, oats, hav. pi as,;
fruits, vegetables, mnrv poultry, j<
cattle and sbp?p Fuitbermore
the short cot. on crop gives bet-1:
ter opportunity f >r rotation of
crops? >ne of the chief means of
?ucoesr-ful farming.
Inc Delusion. 1-r me say to the |
readers of Thl. Hkhai.d who havej
not yet joined the Cotton Asso
ciation that it costs nothiue to
become a member. Just send in
your name at once, or go, to the
association nearest you You do
not subscribe to any obligation
to reduce acreage or to pay the
ten cents on each bale of cotton
raised last year to maintain the
organization. Remember this ten j
cents per bale is asked of all far
mers whether members or not
members. Many who are not
members are sending it in to Mr.
J. M. Peaty,Secretary-Treasurer
1 am not asking this for myself?
1 have been paid for my month's
work already. Hut Johnston
County raised near twenty-six
thousand bales of cotton last
year yet has never given any
thing to the North Carolina Cot
ton Association, or to the South
ern Cotton Association. This
shows up badly for our great
countv, especially since it is esti
mated that the Southern Cotton
Association has already benefit
ted our county more than $50,
000. Why not all take the sen
sibleview of one of Cleveland
Township's beet farmers, and by
the way, the 1'resident of the
Township Association, Mr.
Thomas Lie May, who says: "l'ay
to the Cotton Association what
belongs to it. Don't call it giv
ing." J. P. C.
Denson, N.C., Mar. 0th, 1000.
Governor Glenn's Work.
That was an bonorable and
magnanimous act of Governor
Glenn in giving a few days ago
the people of North Carolina his
report of the investigation of t he
hospitals. The governor had
been led to believe that both hos
pitals for theinsane, bycrowding
their space with patients who
were able to pay their way in
sanitariums, were crowding out
hundreds of the insane who are
now in jails andincounty homes.
The investigation proved that
he was mistaken that there was
really nothing in all the wild-fire
newspaper reports that favorit
ism in the hospitals was rank
and cried to high heaven. The
sensational criticisms of the
superintendent had placed the
management of the institutions
under a cloud. The investiga
tion fully vindicated the superin
tendents. Governor Glenn found
himself mistaken. Many a gov
ernor, rather than expose his
mistake, would have said noth
ing in the end, caring little for
the superintendents to whom in -
justice had beeu done. Such u
course is common to little na
tures. It takes a man of tine
fibre and courage to acknowl
edge that he has made a mistake.
Such a man is Governor Glenn.
He did only his duty in letting
the people know the true situa
tion and in vindicating the sup
erintendents, but in doiug so ne
did credit to himself and the
state.?Raleigh Christian Advo
Walked Twenty Miles But Over
took Train.
Salisbury, N. C., March 0.?
Henry \\ . Morris, a Ne^ London
farmer, yesterday made a trito
Salisbury under unusual circum
stances. Missing the mixed train
and being unable to hire a con
veyance, he put out afoot this
twenty-four miles.
After walking nineteen in five
hours and twenty minutes, he
overtook the train, riding the
other five.
It was a sore trial.?Greens
boro News.
Doctors Are Puzzled.
The remarkable recovery of
Kenneth Mclver, of Vanceboro,
Me., is the subject of much in
terest to the medical fraternity
and a wide circle of friends. He
says of his case: "Owing to se
vere ioftammati .11 of the Throat
and congestion of the Lungs,
three doctors gate ine up to die,
when, as a last resort, I was in
duced to try Dr. King's New
Discovery and I am happy to
say, it saved my life." Cures the
worst Coughs and Colds. Bron
chitis. Tonsilitis, Weak Lungs,
Hoarseness and LaGrippe. Guar
anteed at Hood Bros, drugstore.
50c. and *1.'0. Trial bottle free.
^ Captured F , Returned with
Ceremonies.
Judge J. W. Douglas, Chief
J ustice of the Rhode Island Su
preme Court, and a prominent
party from Providence, New
York and Norfolk, arrived this
morning in a special train, bring
ing to North Carolina the battle
flag captured from company H,
Tenth North Carolina Confeder
ate troops by Company E, Fifth
Rhode Island troops, at Fort
Macon, on April 2(5th, 18(12. A
large party alsocamefrbm lleau
forb, the home of the old com
puny.
A special entertainment com
mittee, headed by Lieut. Gov. :
F. D. Winston and Chief Justice
Walter Clark, of the North Caro
lina Supreme Court, met the visi
tors, who were driven about the
city to many points of interest.
The formal ceremony of return
ing the flag was in the Senate
s chamber, which was beautifully
decorated with the national flag
and colors, the battle flag of the
Confederacy, the North Carolina
State flag, and the State Hag of
Rhode Island. A large crowd
witnessed the exercises, which
were presided over by Gen. Ju
lian S. Carr, commander of the
State Veterans' Association. Ad
dresses were made by Lieut. Gov.
Winston, Justice Douglas, State
Auditor B. F. Dixon, Lieut.
I Sanders, of Beaufort, ranking
j surviving officer.of Company H
and a descendant of the woman
! whose hands made the flag, were
present. The visitors, justices of
the Supreme Court, and other
participating officials withinuuy
gu 'sts, were dined after the cere
mony.?Haleigh Dispatch, lid.
Kidnapped Hoy Gets Hack Home.
New York, March 7.?Autonio
Bozzuffi, the fourteen-year-old
boy who was kidnapped last
Sunday and held for $20,1)00
ransom, returned to his home
to-day. lie had escaped from his
captors, he said, by stealing out
of a room above a saloon in
50th street to-day while one of
his captors who had been left
alone to guard him, turned his
back for a moment. The boy
says that it took him but a sec
ond to spring beyond the man's
reach and get down stairs to the
street where no attempt was
made to pursue him.
lie told how he was terrorized
into writing a letter to his fath
er, John Bozzuffi, an eastside
broker, informing him that $20,
000 must be paid and that if the
police were informed his life
would be taken. lie was induced
to enter the saloon by two Ital
ians, who told him they wished
him to do some interpreting in
English, which they did not
sneak. Taken to the upstairs
room he says he v?as at first
bound and a handkerchief forced
into his mouth. Three men wear
ing black masks then entered the
room. One of theih, the boy
wiuu, presseu n revolver against
his head and commanded nim tor
write the letter to his father. .Vff
ter this episode, according to the
boy's story, he was treated kiud
ly.'
Tell It to the Newspaper Man.
Never growl because a news
paper fails to print every scrap
of news so long as you take no
pains to give the editor informa
tion. We have seen readers who
were awfully cut up at times be
cause we made no note of the
arrival and departure of t friend
visiting them: or of a lo -al affair,
or of the heaven -ent babies that
visited their homes over night.
The average newspaper iunn isn't
a medium nor a mind reader,
but g?'ts most of his news like the
milk man yets his milk?pump
ing?Oxfoid Public Ledger
And it does look likeevervb >dy
would want to tell thenewsp tper
man such things as he cannot
know without being told. Hut
many of them will not. do it. yet
they blame him afterwards be
cause certain things did not tret
in the paper.?Greenville KeH -c
tor.
The Frei ch Cabinet resigue 1
Wednesday.