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Published Twice a Week. $1.00 A Year Until May 3,1902 The cast W, F. MARSHALL, Edltw and froarialar. _DEVOTED TO THE PtOTECTlON OF HONE VOL. XXIII. PRICE, (1.00 | N presenting this vronder I Ini Shoe ne hove placed before yon a Shoe of excep tional value for the price, *3.00. -B«t of EwytMig... Workmanship and ms te ll*!—made in various styles, fit perfectly—retain their shape. Superior to'any shoe made at the price,- $3.00. ) HituotMiisnuTna Yes we are talking Regina Shoes and Oxfords — selling — ■ recommending and guaranteeing every pair we sell, pushing 1 them all we kuow how for this one reasou, we kuow l they arc the best on I earth for the price. ■ Yes, onr trade is 1 growing every day— ' sell n customer a pair, that customer tells a friend about them and sells on* other pair—kind of endless chain affuir, don’t you sec. Shoes $3.00. Oxfords $2.50. Let us show you a pair. Kindley Belk Bros. Comp’y. This Coupon good for one box Eureka! k Cream Shoe Polish If presented before 10 £ j o'clock Saturday night. THE STKAWBEUY MOVEMENT. Ah*at 34M Crataa Waal Forward Twtiriay—Em4ii of Pfckara to Fiat da. Wilra metro Stur. 2*th. The season of the luscious strawberry is upon us. All this section of Eastern Carolina is now feverish with excitement in cident to the rush and huny of one of the largest berry move ments on record. The exodus of pickers to the fields has begun and each train nowadays is crowded with hands going to the strawberry belt. Nearly a hun dred went oat yesterday morn ing, one party for Teachey’a alone having numbered 53. Sun day night 25 went to Rocky Point to one grower. The shipments by the South ern Express from points along the W. & W. road yesterday numbered 2,100 crates, while those by refrigerator cars num bered 100 crates. The shipments from the A. & Y. road yesterday amounted to 180 crates. No re port was received from the Chad bourn belt. The Southern Ex press handled 1,000 crates Sun day and will run its first special train to-day. The prices thus far have been most satisfactory and commission men say they are likely to remain so for tome considerable time. load Improvement. WIHnlaatan Mar. There is not s State, as far as we know, which has entered upon “**, work of road improvement which has not kept it up and spent money freely upon it, be experience proved that it paid. It pays opt only the farm ers and others who have occasion to nse the roads, but it pays the State by the enhanced value of the property for taxation, fre quently doubling and quadru pling the value m a few years. This is not simply a temporary, but a permanent increase. Bat In addition to this It stimulates increased new industries, and thos adds to the wealth of the people and of the State. Next to railroads good public high ways are the great industrial de velopers. Many distinguished persona, representing almost every mc don of the United States, will he gathered at Winston-Salata, N. C., from May 13d to 19th, whan the Centennial of the Salem Pe male Academy will be celebrated with appropriate and very in teresting exercises. it 1 BOY TURNED BUCK. Mmim Said Is ha the Rarest ia tba Medical Profession—Pus •led the Physicians. Charlotte Mm Tamaqua, Pa., April 29.— Prank Lentz, aged 10 years, of Paterson, a small village west of here, was found dead in bed last evening. For the past year the boy has been suffering from acute chloasma. When he was taken ill his skin was covered with black blotches, which gradually ran together, until he became as dark as a negro. The disease was marked by extreme lassitude, and the boy became little more than skin and bones. The disease is said to be a very rare one. Dr. Chreitxberg la Sidney. OaJlBta Lcderr. April 29. Rev. H. P. Chreitxberg, of Gastonia, N. C., arrived in the city yesterday and is at present the guest of Mr. and Mrs. A. R. N. Polger on Smith street. Mx. Chreitxberg is a native of this State and was for many years a member of the South Carolina Conference and was one of its ablest preachers. He was transferred to the Western North Carolina Conference in 1892, and has filled some of the first churches In the conference; four years in Asheville, four years in Charlotte, and now has charge of a chtirch in Gastonia. He has come to Gaffney to aasiat Rev. W. Hodges in a protracted meeting in the Hu ford Street Methodist church which began last night and will con tinue through the week. Ser vices will begin every morning at 10 o’clock and at 8:15 every evening. The public is requested to attend. What tha Factories Da. Wilafa*fc„, Wont las Star. The richest States in the Union •rj'Wdnnfocturing States; the citiea are manufacturing .The richest community I? *J*e °"e which produces the moat erode material suitable for manufacture, but the one which converts that material into some useful article or articles for which theta la a demand The South produces annually about 9,000,000 bales of cotton, worth in round number* about 1300,000,000. A bale of this cotton converted into ordinary cotton goods would be worth three times as much as the raw lmt. That would make the cotton cro® worth 9800,000,000 instead of fj00.000.000. nuw BILL A Hr HILLS HUtS. Otters the Cklldrea Fhre Cent* a Desaa far the Deed Onee. SUI Alp In Atlanta Coatftlnltoa I tun trying Colonel Redding* plan to exterminate the potato bug*. He say* begin early and watch lor the firat onea that come. Make on inspection every morning and kill the large striped ones before they’ lay their egg*. My crop is about six inches high. I have six long row* in the garden and the other morning I killed about thirty and then told the children—the grandchildren I mean—that I would pay them a nickel for every dozen bug* they found. That evening they killed sixty and next morning forty, and this morning fifteen, and this even ing ten. So the three little girls brought me in debt sixty cents and feel rich. The bargain is that they are to pay me hack for all 1 find and 1 have not found but five yet, though I don’t look very carefully. Children like to work for roonev iust like wrmm folks. I remember well the first half-dollar I ever esmed. My father was clearing land and told me I might have the saplings if 1 would trim tliein up and pile the brush and I might have the wagon and team to haul them to town and sell them. 1 hod the evenings after school and Satur days to work and soon had a load ready and sold it to our school teacher for a silver half dollar. I was rich, and as 1 drove home I felt of it in my pocket every little while to be sure it was there. 1 like to re ward these little chaps, for it docs them so much good and mokes them love me. The love of an innocent child is the purest on earth except the love of a mother. 1 have no greater com fort now than the glad smile of a little one that jumps into my arms whenever I come. It flat ters my vanity, for though I am old and ugly the little one will hug me .and pat my wrinkled cheeks and turn away from those who are young and handsome. The greatest inducement for a parent to be a Christian is to secure the salvation of their childrcu and meet them in heaven, for it is said in the scrip tures in three places " Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved—thou and thine house." It was said by Pant and Peter and the Spirit, "thou and thine house.” * * * * * Last year my potato crop was seriously damaged by these (mgs, and by the pans gTeen, too, for I used too much of it, and so 1 am taking Colonel Redding’s advice and killing off the big striped beetles before they lay their patches of yellow eggs on the under side of the leaves. I instructed the children to look for eggs and they fonnd only two leaves with eggs on them. With a little sharuened stick tuey dug around the base of every punt, sod there found most of the beetles, but I am already satisfied with the experi ment, and hope that I will not have to use parts green at all. I shall continue my bargain with the children, even if it is expen sive. 1 overheard them plotting this evening about going to the drug store tomorrow ana buying some ice cream, and they agreed to take two saucers apiece. These little girts are great inventions, and 1 love to watch them and then ruminate and ponder why . ft was that children, especially boy*, get more selfish and de ceitful as they grow older. The devil seems to let them alone until they get weaned from their mother. The good and the bod are strangely mixed in this world. New plagues and pesti lences keep on coming, both on animal and vegetable life, but a kind Providence has provided remedies and given us minds to find them. But I have found no way to keep the pigeons from preying npou my young peas as they peep out of the ground. They utterly destroyed my first planting and have begun on the second. We have had a flock for many years, and never knew them to trouble the garden be fore. I say. Colonel Redding, What must I do about it? My wife says cover them with brush, and I will if I can find the brush. The English sparrows do leave us most of the crop, hut the pigeons don’t leave ns anything,1 Reckon 1 will have to turn tCe boys loose ou them. The beans, onlona, and early corn are al right yet, and the strawberries seem to have no enemies. They make a beautiful show and give us great comfort. In a week or two we will have npe fruit in abundance and shall •end some to the preachers, Bro. Yarboro says be doesn’t think it any harm to send good things to a preacher even on Sunday. CONTEST CLOSES MAY THIRD Raise a Club of Subscribers end Win a Prize Worth Trying For. Three Handsome Prizes to be Awarded for Three Largest Clubs of Subscribers Sent to The Gazette by Saturday* May 3rd—Particulars of the Contest thk uazettr ik one piper in Gaston county whose circulation is growing greater and not lets. It is now issued twice every week: it is iirinted throughout from new type, neat, cleaa, attrac tive; edited with care in every department, it endeavors to be re liable always, to print the new* and tell the truth', and is devoted to the protection of home and the interests of Gaston county. These things, together with the aid of its friends, are making the paper go at a rate which eclipses all its previous records. But wc feci that onr very kind friends are entitled to some re ward. Therefore, encouraged by the results of other similar offers made to our subscribers in the past, wc have, as previously an nounced, decided again to interest our friends who have helped us and are helping us now to make Thk Gazettk what it is to-day. There arc two important points to note: first, Tn Gazette is offered twice z week for a dollar to all who get the «*»»»«• in by Saturday, the third day of May; second, to the three persons who bring ns the three largest lists of new subscribers by that date, wc will give three handsome prizes. Now for the particulars concerning the contest and the prises: FIRST PRIZE To the person who brings in the l«rg»«» list of new paid subscriptions under this offer by the named, we will give a choice between two handsome twenty-dollar prizes. 1. Choice number one is a fine new improved Colombian Phonograph now on exhibit at Torrence’a Jewelry Store. It is not the small kind with a cylinder record. It is an improved loud in strument with a circular record like a dinner plate, and can be heard easily across the street. This fine ud six records (three large and three small) make up this outfit. 2. Choice number two is a most beautiful ladies’ Mahogany Desk, with chair to match, now on exhibit at The Book Store. The desk is Macey’s make inlaid with white holly and mother-of-pearl, a lovely piece of furniture, as every lady who sees it will testify. The chair to match goes with it. Bring the largest list of new subscribers and take your choice of the two superb prizes described above. SECOND PRIZE—For the second largest list of subscriptions under this offer, the prize will be a choice between a very targe and handsome new five-dollar hammock and a five-dollar Water man’s Fountain Pen—both at The Gastonia Book Store. THIRD PRIZE For the third largest list of r,*bocriptions brought in under this offer, the prize will be a fine th dollar silk umbrella Or a beautiful three-dollar rug at Thomson Cd ’s store. Anybody is a new subscriber who does not now take the paper, with this limitation: a mere transfer of the paper from one member of a family to another or from one neighbor to another for the of getting a name on the list is not securing a new subscriber. Of course no honest person would resort to a scheme like that. In this subscription contest the prizes are awarded not for the largest number of names bnt for the largest number of paid «»«mi subscriptions at one dollar each. Four 3-months or two 6-mouths subscriptions count as one annual subscription. The contest is to end Saturday night. May 3rd, so that we can make np-the awards Monday for the paper coming out on the fol lowing day. These are the conditions of the contest, and we hope onr friends will get to work and forward subscriptions as fast as they get them. Everybody who knows us knows that these prises will be awarded just as we say. If the biggest list contains no^pore than one sub scriber. the person who bring* it will get ond of the twenty-dollar prizes. Strawberry culture is spreading rapidly in our town asd some of the neighbors are trying it as a business for profit. Dr. Felton. Jr., has put out thirty thousand plants the last season. It was Isaac Walton, the great fisher man, who wrote in Ids book on angling, "Dr. Butler said that ‘doubtless God could have made a better berry than the straw berry, but doubtless God never did,’and so 1 say that God never made a more calm, quiet, inno cent recreation than angling." My good friends, Dr. Benham and Colonel Murphy heartily en dorse Walton on fishing and will sit in a boat half a day in a summer’s sun sad watch the corks and ruminate and not catch euougb Ash for supper. If I was as fond of it as they are I think I would go to Florida and stay there. I nave caught more fish there in one day than in ail tny life up hern, in north Geor gia. I did not go to Dallas the long spell of grip left me too dilapida ted to travel so far and give up my home habits and comforts, but I read all about the great reunion with keen satisfaction. There is life in the oM land yet and love for the "I-oet Cause” in the hearts of our people, the Confed ****** and tbeir children and children's children. May it never be extinguished. The total* hug, Ifilwfialil * * MmvVHMCua The potato bug, which proved to be ao destructive to the Irish potato crop last year, totally de stroying H in many places, bas already made its appearance and is ready lor the fray. They can be exterminated, however, by mixing one ounce of Pari* green ** pounds of door and sifting this on the potatoes. The Southern Cultivator re commends this and says there is no danger of poiconing the PoUtoesrThis should be done immediately after the first bug is seen, for they can toon ruin the entire patch. Whnra an BdR*rCaaf Oat atom. Itw. S.tUMrrin takUCaMft TrltaHW. At Memphis we cross the Miss issippi on an immense bridge, which cost throe million dollars. Every person who goes over this bridm pays fifty cants, whether an editor or president of a railroad. This is on* place where an edi tor can't get a pass. It belongs to a company which la not con trolled by any railroad. •l j . ?- .. . . Gloves and Fans. AU the newest designs la fabric gloves and lonft and* hort MMb. .Beautiful Selection***** of Put* from 5 carta to $U» each. AH Ac new atyles. Millinery! Millinery!;' Mllllnenftf§f war hock was never prettier or taller, and oar force never • busier. Cone to see as. Saturday, 3rd, is the last dtyoi the Special Embroidery Sale, If you haven't supplied yourself, it will pay you to come at once. _ J. F. YEAGER. -.‘.vV-TraS&&££ The time h» cote for oar ' customers to call and make set- < lement for Fertilize^ either by note or cash. May 1st we must make settlement with companies. Cralg&Wilson. ■ ———m—m—————m—- ■ — - PIANOSand PAY CASH AND GET WHOLESALE For 60 Days the Best Makes are Offered at Wholesale Prices for Cash. Stiefl Piano* arc the only weald renowned instrument sold direct from factory to purchaser. I am stiefl’* factory salmnan tad have something to tell you. listen! For 60 day* I will *ell o piano or eegpa to any ono nt a ....Straight Wholesale Price on • Cash Biola.... I handle throe other aaakea of good instrument* which I can sell yon lower than the Lowest. AUo have on hand a 1st of nice second-hand pianos •ad organs, received in exchange, which go from $15 to JM f east see everybody—too orach territory. Bat write am and lH call on you, and what’* more, wBl save yen “V. D. BARRINGER, Salesman Chan. If. Stkfl. OAftTOPflA, N. C* —i ■—him' i———nraa~ u—m——r Wish you would coma ia and see the They will surely "catch you good." The new weaves this season are unusually pretty, the colon and superb striping* predate In some instances chaining tapestry efloeta, wfcfls the materials and making are nil that could bo doohad. Prices Me np to $$.60. THB NEW BOOKS ALSO ora ham with their charming ewen, pictures, and massage* of in ■traction and entertainment. Our countan, too. am s-blaom wfeh the new April magariaao. Please drop ia and browse among tham to your hoari’s content. PASSB PARTOUT. Have yon leaned? We knee the crafts and ferae Inetncttoa MARSHALL’S BOOK STORE, 0a the Corner. vmjti
Gastonia Daily Gazette (Gastonia, N.C.)
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