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I OUR M ILLJNERYWgTI il We cordially invite you to our display of Pattern Hats Wednesday H II ? Thursday, April Ist and 2nd. We have a large number of H. gg beautiiul and stylish hats and feel convinced that we can suit you. Will SI (give you good values in Dress Goods, Embroideries, Laces, &c, Ladies, IS Gentlemen and Children Shoes. We will appreciate your patronage and H try to give satisfaction to all. Respectfully - . ... . . • . H | SMITH ®. BARER, ROCK I™' NC - I 0 A SOUVENIRS GIVEN OPENING DAYS Local News. Secure your seats early for the Lyman Twins Saturday night. Superior court will convene for Edge combe county in Tarboro Monday morn ing for the trial of civil cases only. Some gorgeous specialties will be seen here with the Lyman Twins in "The Yankee Drummers" Saturday night. v Dr. F. M. Moye, of Wilson, lecturer in the higher branches of Masonry, has been in the city for a week or ten days lecturing in the local lodges. The pastor of the Methodist Protes tant church will preach a temperance sermon next Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. The public cordially invited. Rev D H. Tuttle will begin a series of meetings in the "First Methodist ! church the first Sunday in April, to be p continued until Easter Sunday, at least. Nash superior court for the trial of civil cases only is in session at Nash ville this week and a number of the members of the local bar are in at tendance. Register of Deeds H. S. Bunn issued - a marriage license Saturday to Miss Lena Moore of near Rocky Mount, and Louis C. Pittman, of Nash county. — Tarboro Southerner. A Baraca class has been organized in the Presbyterian Sunday school with Mr. L. F. Tillery as president. Twenty young men were enrolied as members at the first meeting. Spring began, officially, at 23 minutes after seven oclock Friday evening, and just to show the absolute independence ®f this climate it was snowing to beat the band, just at that minute. , Some big surprises in the way of picture dances, gorgeous mechanical and electrical transformations are to be seen with the Lyman Twins in "The Yankee Drummers" when they appear here Saturday night. The Baraca class of the First Meth odist Sunday morning elected Mr. E. W. Smith as delegate to the State Sun day school convention at Burlington, April 7-9. Mr. C. W. Forlaw was elected class reporter. Local fans are organizing a home talent baseball team to have some sport this season. There is a lot of good material in Rocky Mount and these will be gotten together and practiced, to give Eastern Carolina League Clubs some games before the regular season. Mr. J. H. Cuthrell, who is taking a police census or' the city of Rocky Mount, has about completed the Nash side, and a small part of the Edgecombe side. Up to Tuesday night he had found 5,600 souls living within the corporate limits in that part of the city he had gone over. Major James Pender, this morning fined Amanda Shields, colored, $2 for beating her husband, Irwin Shields. The woman took her belongings from the house, locked the door and started away with the key. Shields wanted the key, and this caused the tronble.—Tar boro Southerner. Millinery openings will take place at the various establishments in the city next week, and an unusually pretty line of the latest designs and creations will be displayed. The firms of Smith & Baker, X. T. Keel & Co. and E. P. Hicks & Co., will have ltheir openings Wed. and Thurs., April Ist and 2nd. It was announced through the papers some time ago that a movement was on foot to open a free reading room in Rocky Mount for the benefit of the young men of the town. Owing to the money panic and the near approach to the summer weather, when the need for such a room will not be so impera tive, it has been decided to defer the matter to another time. Jno. D. Rockefellow, the richest man in the world, was a passenger on No 88, the A. C. L. vestibule train from Florida to New York, Tuesday morning and passed through this city in the wee sma' hours of that day. He was re turning to his northern home from Au gusta, Ga., where he has been spending some time at a winter resort. Dr. Morton began a protracted meet ing in the presbyterian church Sunday night which is expected to continue at leat two weeks. State Evangelist Belk, of the Presbyterian church, arrived Monday to assist Dr. Morton and ser vices are conducted twice daily at 4 p. m., and at Bp. m. The public are cor dially invited to attend the services at all times. Sale of seats for The "Lyman Twins" in their big musical production "The Yankee Drummers" will go on at May & Gorhams this morning at 9:00 o'clock. This company are , great favorites in Rocky Mount and this sea son they come with the strongest organ ization that they have ever presented. A packed house awaits them Saturday night so secure your seats early today. Following several days of ideal sprinc weather, in which the temperature ranged as high as 85. it began snowing in this section Friday mornirg and con tinued until the heaviest fall of the season was recorded. The drop in the temperature within 24 hours was over 50 degrees. From the majority of re ports received, however, it is gathered that the damage to fruit will not be serious, as the budding had hardly ad vanced far enough. It is to be sincerely hoped that this will prove true. A tenant, an old colored man, on Mr. J. B. Ramsey's place just across the river, came with fear and trembling last week to Mr. Ramsey, and told him that foul murder had been committed over the river, for he had discovered the new made grave where the victim was buried. Policemen Taylor and Sumner were sent to investigate and found the grave, sure enough, and around it sprinkled a s-tring of sulphur. Digging down they soon struck a rock, which showed nothing was buried there. It is believed some one has done it to prey upon the superstitious minds of the negroes, and make them believe it is a "cunjure." Lyman Twins Saturday Niqht. The Yankee Drummers, the new musical production which the Lyman Twins are v.laying this season has made a most decided hit everywhere HS it is declared a distinct novelty in the musi cal comedy line of attraction which has become so popular. It depicts a very clever and amusing story of a young drummer who loses his position through a mistake in order ing two cars of Uneeda Biscuits instead of two cases. He is known only as the Yankee Drummer, however, it in volves the firm in a law su ; t and they put a Dutch detective on his trail. In the meantime the drummer is passing off as son of Judge Goodall, a wealthy New Yorker, his real son hav ing run away, the judge meets the drummer and thinking it's his son re turning insists on h.m going home. The drummer is dumbfounded at this turn of things his protestations being of no avail. Then the real son appears on the scene followed by the detective looking for his prey and the screaming situations follow one another in rapid succession throughout the entire three acts. The piece is handsomely staged and a select chorus of pretty girls add much, together with the numerous jingling musical numbers given through the show go to make it one of the hits of the season. A suit for $15,000 damages against the Southern Railway, bought by Mrs. W. R. Kingsbury, for injuries she and her IWO daughters sustained in a wreck near Asheville, last summer, was com promised Saturday, in the court at Wil mington by the company paying plain tiffs $4,500. The Rocky Mount Record, Thursday, March 26, 1908. ROCKY MOUNT NOT IN LEAGUE Local Fans Would Not Stand tor National Association Protection Witbdrew-New Bern Takes Oar Place. At the meeting of the Eastern Car olina Baseball League at Goldsboro last week the league refused to rescind its action declaring for National Associa tion protection and Rocky Mount, not wishing to play under national protec tion, withdrew and New Bern took her place. The position taken by Rocky Mount in regard to National Association pro tection is an eminently proper one, and though fans and patrons of the national game, in this city, are exceedingly anxious to be in the Eastern Carolina League this year they had rather forego the pleasure than be compelled to maintain a strictly professional ball team, which would bar those very clever and gentlemanly college young fellows who by their personality add so much to the interest of the game. While it is not always the case in the majority of in stances the professionals who can be se cured by the small cities in minor leagues are pretty tough propositions. There are very many other reasons why, strictly professional ball is not to be desired. Anent Rocky Mounts withdrawal The ! Tar oro Southerner says "Rocky Mount has withdrawn from the Eastern League rather than join the National Protective Association. There are some level headed baseball enthusiasts in that town." And again, The Kinston Free Press, in an editorial comment on the action of the league has the following: "We regret that the East Carolina League is going into the protective as sociation. As we understand it this is an absolute bar to the playing of college men and any others who do not want to register themselves as profes sionals. For if college men register as professionals they will be shut out from all inter-collegiate games. "This then will make the teams of our league an aggregation of profep sional baseball players; and while there are good, clean men in such teams we all know that as a rule they are an ag gregation of toughs. Last year the eastern league played quite a number of first class college men, and the teams were appreciated in our various towns not oniy for then- playing ability but for the personal worth of many of the young men who played." Rocky Mount has no complaint to offer at the action of the league in adopting National Association protec tion, it was their right, but this city does not want it, and is satisfied. Rocky Mount High School Wins. The Rocky Mount High School team won a hard fought game from the Dunn High School club on the locals' dia mond Friday, by the close score of 5 to 4. The game was full of interest from utart to finish, to the several hundred who witnessed it, and appeared to be anybody's until the last half of the ninth inning when the home team scored the winning run. Pope, for the visitors, not only pitched a pretty game but connected with the sphere for three doubles during the game, scoring a run each time. Gunn, for the home team, pitched a strong game, also, and both were right heady. The game at times was brilliant, and showed a bunch of good material. SCORE BY INNINGS. Rocky Mount 200, 100 Oil— 5 Dunn 010, 100 020— 4 Batteries: Rocky Mount, Gunn and Jordan; Dunn, Pope and Howard. Um pire, Hugh Williford. Mrs. Lucy R. Halloway, of Durham, administratrix of the estate of Hal loway, who was kilied in an explosion of a tank of oil belonging to the Stand ard Oil Compauy, in 1906, has instituted suit for $60,000 damages in Durham county, against the company. Two Million Short. The cotton crop of 1907 is two and more bales less than for the years 1906 and 1904 when 13,290,677 and 13,- 697,310 bales respectively were made according ttf the ginners' report pub lished by the census bureau. Accord ing to the bureau thi re have been ginned and to be ginned including lin ters and iepacks 11,263,163 bales. The figures given above are the cen sus bureai figures given out in March of each jear, before the calculation was made, given the equivalent of the crops in *S)O pound baies. The bales have been averaging slightly o?er 500 pounds so that the figures for the present crop will be in creased HO, 000 to 250,000. The effect of this report on the spec ulative markets was slight. New York advanced Dnly about seven points and this was later lost. JNO. J. WELLS Civil Engineer and Surveyor Ofice in Planters Bank Building ROCKY MOUNT. N. C. -^.■■llll I tfc33———g————C3KJ———» T\R. >L. C. COVINGTON, AND SURGEON. Office W Railroad Street. Residence piione 214. Office phone 210. F. J- TIJORPE, MD. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, ROCKY MOUNT, N. C. Office in Thorpe Building, West Main Street. JACOB BATTLE R. A. P. COOLEY Rocky Mt, N. C. Naahville. N. C BATTLE & COOLEY, Counselors aiiu Attorneys-At- Law J)B. C. F. SMITHSON DENTIST ROCKY MOUNT, N. C. Dental Parlor over Kyser's Drug Store F. A. Woodard W. L. Thorp COUNSELORS AND ATTORNEYS AT-LAW. ROCKY MOUNT, N. C. Dr. R. S. tutchin, Dentist Whitahers, N. C. Dr. Louis R. Gorham Dentist Rocky Mount, N. C. Office in Brewer Building Corner Main Street and Western Ave. Franklin 4 I ; -• . University. i v I We have a faculty of Specialists, representing some of the highest col leges of the nation, We teach exclusively by mail and can educate you at home. Write for free catalogue. Address Julian R. Pennington, Pres., Wilson, N. c. # # If You Are Looking For Quality ||| | In Shoes | 8j There is no better way of discovering it than by asking your friends about their shoes wear- W? #ing. Begin today and we wager that before night you will have come to the conclusion that j|||) all of your friends must be salesmen for us, for ||» Jig. you will find that most of them wear our shoes |p and are always ready to say a word of praise #for them. We have a big line of new Spring Styles and ask for your inspection before buying Hf @ The Rocky Mount Shoe Co., jj |j| 131 North Main St. jp % .i, ! ■ fSiaisl LfOmSi. 'A g.^MMiMnaßUi ije*zTxi. zsjut -r:: zsntzi HCTOOR/tfHS I Complete Catalogue of Records | For Sale By G. F. HARRELL, I 207 South Main Street, I Rocky Mount, North Carolina. 115 he City Livery I Is in position to furnish you with New Rigs, Gentle Horse, Careful and polite Drivers. Special attention to livery in the city. Rubber or Steel Tire Rigs. Double or Single Teams Good Saddle Horses, Lady Broke. Thank ing you for your valued favors of the past, Yours to serve ' THE CITY LIVERY LYNN ADAMS, Mgr.
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