THE GASTONi. _
_Published Twice a Week—Tuesdays and
W. F. MA1SBALL. Editor mad rnprhtw. _
VOL. XJCIIL QA9TONIA, N. C.t FRIDAY, MAY |6,
SATURDAY
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..MONDAY..
THE SPECIAL OFFERINGS of Wednesday will be
1 repeated with a very few exceptions and to
take the place of the lots closed we have added
quite a number of new Items and values for Satur
day and Monday—knowing that on these two days
quite a number of our very best patrons do their
shopping for the entire week, so to-day the store Is
even more tempting than In days past. Every para
graph tells an Important story. You cannot afford
to miss a single Item. ,_
New Parasols.
Ladies' and Children's in all the
newest color combinations and plain
black, black and white, some hem
stitched, some with ruSes. some
plain, all at the little prices that
rmn all our offer- (9 7*
lags, 15c to_^»s»e # O
Jap Paper Fans.
Pall assortment. Newest designs in
folding inns. White, silver, end
beautiful new color combinations.
Yon can have one to match each of
your new summer gowns end never
miss the outlay. Price, O R _
5c to,,._ .. -._._mr ay
2000 Yards
of fine Dimity in n complete assort
ment of patterns and color combina
tions. The aorta that always bring
UH to 10c. Saturday and Monday you
can pick the lot at per yard __5c
1000 Yards
Colored Lawns, floral designs and
Polka Dots, stripes and neat figures,
Worth 6 but you can take Q I —
your choice Saturday at
100 Pices
Dimities, Organdies, tad Lawns,
newest ideas and patterns, | A
worth anywhere 15c, Sat. yard *
Dotted Curtain Swiss
♦4-inch Dotted Curtain SwIm in a
large variety, dot* and da- a m
sign*. Worth 15c yard at_■
Lace Curtains.
Great * bowing oi new ideas irom
•cross the Mg rirer from CIA
♦8c a pair to ... .hMU
Shoes snd Oxfords.
Biggest and best stock in this sec
tion. Xo trouble to fit or suit say
one. Can accommodate say purse.
Children's Oxford* to go
48c
Men's Uaioa ipdc Shoes st $1.25,
$1.5D, $2.00. snd up $3.50
Men’s Union made Ox- g 1 we
lords worth $2.25 at_¥■* • U
Men's Clothing
and Furnishings.
For your pocket book's sake exam
ine our new stocks. You'll say fare
well to your old suit and save $2 00
to $5.00 on your purchase.
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Hurry up now—don’t let your neighbor get ahead of you bat
be on hand Saturday at the big male. We have employed extra
help to wait on the crowds that will be at
KINDLEY-BELK BROTHERS CO.
CHBAPBST STORB ON BARTH.
Ttrk Cmi| llama.
Y at krill* Kseeinr.
The old Bell buildings, which
have long been landmarks or
eye-sores, on South Congress
street, were torn down and
moved away last week.
The graded school pupils are
practicing for an entertainment
to be given in connection with
the closing exercises, to be held
about the end of the present
month.
Messrs. J. F. Wallace. W. I.
Witherspoon, S. M. McNeel and
Dr. J. B. Allison expect to leave
this morning to attend a meet
ing of the stockholders of the
Cherokee Falls Manufacturing
Company.
Rev. B. H. Grier is in Yotk
ville, having come down from
Crowder’s Creek where he
preached Friday, Saturday and
Sunday for Rev. R. M. Stephen
son. He will remain until this
afternoon, when he will return
to Laurens.
Titus Glenn, the negro
Eeacher who was sent np from
ock Hill some time ago for
burglary, escaped from the
chain gang last Monday evening
about sundown. He had a half
hour’s start before he was
missed. The dogs were pat
after him and trailed him
beautifully for three miles when
they caught him, and accord
ing to Supervisor Gordon, "bit
him sufficiently,'' although that
was nothing like what he got
that night with a strap.
The county board of com
missioners nut Monday for the
pwP<»* “P°° the
bond of Mr. J. W. Snider as
dispenser. Mr. Snider gave
a personal bond in the torn of
$3,000, with two sureties. It was
approved. The bond matter
has been delayed somewhat be
cause there ere only * few
surety companies that are will
ing to stand for dispensers.
There ere only about 25 bales
of cotton in Moore’s warehouse
•* this trine compared with
•boot 300 bales at this date last
•t js cotton belonging to
he had them, and” making *
blanket estimate to cover the
balance, * local cotton man said
last Saturday that be does not
believe the farmers of York
-county now hold more than
1,000 bales of cotton.
There are tboee who aay that
eons seed will "run out" after
nwMle, bat that depends as
much on the man as on
the seed. Mr. T. H. Harper,
of Balloon, was in Yoricville
yesterday, and he had evidence
of this fact inf the shape oi three
remarkably large ears of upland
corn from the crop he harvested
last fall. The :history he gave
of this corn was quite interesting.
In the year 18i5, as all of the
old people remember, there was
one of the most complete
failures of the corn crop that
has ever been recorded in this
country. People hauled corn
from the mountains of North
Carolina and Tennessee, and
brought it here from the mouth
of tne Mississippi by way of
Charleston. Daring that year
Mr. Harper’s father, the late
James Harper secured a quantity
of corn in Colombia, and bad a
little of it left the next spring for
planting. Mr. James E. Harper
died in 11852; bnt Mr. T. E.
Harper has been planting the
same corn ever since, and judg
ing from the specimens he left
here Tuesday, nobody in all this
country can boast of a finer
variety.
Mr. J. Prank Ashe, of Mc
Connellsville, was hi Yoricville
yesterday on business, and when
asked about chops, said people
generally were through planting
and had good stands of cotton in
moist places and indifferent
stands in dry places. "As for
wheat sud oats,” he said, "they
are gone.”
Gambling Lawful.
Yorkvilta Xnqaliw.
The United States circuit court
of appeals hat reversed the
recent decision in which Judge
Si monton knocked out the cot
ton future debt of W. A. Moore,
of Speitanbnrg, on the ground
JJ**1 the transection by which
1 i rW“ contracted was un
Uwful. In rendering his decision
Judgs Si monton followed the
statutes of South Carolina Tb«
court of appeals, which is now
in session in Charleston, orders
that the cue be heard on its
merits without regard to the
South Caroline statutes. The
plaintiff la the caw is J. H. Par
ker, cotton future broker in New
York. _
The Southern railway is ar
ranging for a double track be
tween Charlotte and Lynchburg.
Jt expected that the work wfl)
he commenced this summer.
OCCONEECtlEE FAIN.
How Ccloncl Akcrasthy Brought
It to the Fnat-fla Still Pinoc
lor (ha flood Times aa4 0—4
Fooplo of Old Osotss Bow
Hlllpkoro Troootiry la Kept
Fall It Overflowing.
To IS# natter of UM OtMtto:
We recall with much pride
the many pleasant days we nave
•pent with our numerous Rood
friends and in our nice home in
the good old county of Gaston.
You cannot imagine how we
miss meeting three good friends
now, as they seein almost as
dear to us as if they were our
kinsmen. It was certainly trying
on ns to leave such good people
behind, and especially when they
had honored its so much and
made our life so pleasant and
profitable while among them.
They were so kind to ns, made
onr baidness so prosperous and
our living among them so pleas
ant, that it makes as feel proud
that we are from Gaston county
and have a good home in it and
we wish to assure those good
friends that we have deserted it
only temporarily. While we are
not there in person yet our heart
goes back there in sympathy and
love for all so fortunate aa to be
among you. My wish is that old
Gaston and her people may still
grow and conbnne to be the
most noble of our state. Tell
them to rest assured that I am
coming back so me time,
will be on the right side of every
public issue, and will battle for
the best interest of .our people
and county.
When I get back 1 want them
to come and see ns as here-to
fore, but they must not expect
as big times as I have given
them until we get fixed np
again. But I am atill the tame,
whole-souled fellow, aa anxious
for their good and pleasure aa I
have always been. It was a
pretty heavy loss to break up
and come here, but we are all
right and doing fine, with our
children in as good a school as
any one could ever wish to send
to.
we uave w or sea unceasingly
here with one idea in view, to
make this farm what it has never
yet been, self-sustaining. We
like it splendidly and, along'
with it, the people of this sec
tion. We came here to manage
Occonecbee Farm to the best of
onr ability and to look to the
interest of onr employer and his
property, regardless of what any
one else might think. We have
never worked harder in onr lives,
noc have we ever before been so
closely confined. It is work,
work, work, all the time, almost
night and day. But we do not
care for that, as work is a kind
of dessert for (us, never having
known anything save to work
and hnstle for all we are worth.
Onr work and management
has shown up very well here and
we are not ashamed of the
record behind ns, nor have we
any apology to make for the
success we nad in raising such a
tremendous crop here last year.
We have thrown pleasure to the
wiuds and have applied our
selves strilcty to business, never
having yet had time to enter a
neighbor’s house.
Where briar thickets and ditch
banks were all grown np they
are now trimmed down and look
clean; where fields were rough
and in bad shape they are now
like a fine Gaston county garden
spot. The stock that was then
tender-footed, foolish, 'long
haired, and poor, are now ml
right—gentle, sleek, and butter
bowl fat. Bams aad cribs that
were then empty are now full.
Where they were then going to
the bank tor money to pay for
feed stuffs, we are now pitting
money back in the bank lor feed
staffs that have been sold. Where
we were then hunting for feed
stuffs, (having been told by
scores of people, including Gen.
Carr, that no one had ever raised
enough on the place to feed the
stock) we are now hunting peo
ple to take it out of our way for
the next crop. We have sold
upwards of 15 car-loads of hay
out of last year’s crop aad have
car-load after car-load yet to
spare. Hills that were rugged
and rough now look like a Gas
tonia lawn. Where hands wan
sluggish, lazy, and of no account,
they are now equal to the bast
we nave aver seen.
Hue now cutting onr Alfal
right along and I assure
is fine. It would do the
fanner* of Gaston county good
to aee what is done here, and if
you can induce any of them to
come, we will do the best we can
for them. All they have to do is
to say thay are from Gaston and
wa will do our best to make if
pleasant for tham. But tell them
not to expect me to hanl them
about much, as H is well known
in Gaston that I am a fast driver,
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and it is dangerous to go over
the roads here faster than a tired
steer would want to go; hence I
take walking in mine rather
than be punished by having to
go so slow.
General Carr has been here bnt
ouce since we planted our crop
last year, but we hope to see
him up soon. I want to aay this
for . him, that he leaves the
management of the farm aa
tirely in my hands. He has
made everything perfectly satis
factory with ns, and we never
want to be treated better by any
people than we have been by btt
good wife and other members
of his family.
It is a little dry here now, bnt
otherwise the prospects are bet
ter for a fine crop than they
were last year. We have 100
acres planted in corn, where
every foot of the land was plowed
twice with a two-horse plow and
harrowed from two to three
times and every row fertilized.
If aeasoos suit and we can get
the land well broken, we will
plant from 50 to 73 acres more in
coni.
Taking into consideration the
hard winter, we have never seen
wheat looking better. Our fall
sowing of oats all froze out bat
those sown ia the spring arc the
finest we ever saw and, if it
rains soon, we will make a large
crop of wheat, oats, and rye, and
a better stand of corn we have
never seen.
Taking everything into con
sideration this is a quiet old
country, and if a new lawver
strolls up the streets of Hills
boro and finds Sam Gattis and
Frank Nash doing nothing, with
John Graham's office closed, be
should proceed farther on in
order to find a place to hang out
his shingle, for this trio is, in
size ana ability, competent to
keep the peace in almost any
civilized or uncivilized commu
nity.
If you were to come and see
Drs. Strudwick, Jones, Parris,
Graham, and Spurgeon, sitting
about, dispensing mother wit as
they convey their pipes from
their mouths, you would think
this was a sickly and rotten
tooth country, if the doctors
were doing anything. If you
were to see the many drag stores
that are in town, yon would
think everybody in the country
was sickly, that is if the clerks
were doing anything bnt block
ading the streets.
And bow it is that the bar ten
ders can make their living I can
not see, unless they make their
own corn juice, for we seldom
ever ace any one enter their
places of business.
To take op the Orange County
Observer and read it will demon
strate the fact that the people
have not yet learned how to
patronise and support s wide-a
wake, lively newspaper in their
own home toarn.
If you arill go into the big
stores and see so many clerks
sitting around at seeming ease,
then go to the blacksmith ana
wood shops and sec the men so
busy there. It would make yoa
think, as I have suggested, that
the merchants open up shops in
order to work the boys more. To
go to the postoffice as much ss
we do ana find it closed on ac
count of public holidays, makes
us think that, sooner or later,
every day, or at least a portion
thereof, anil soon be holiday.
And to see the market men
running their horses from the
depot with fish in their wagons,
you would think they had so
many that it arould he' impossi
ble to find sale for them all. If
you are not there when the box
Is opened you bad as arell test
easy for swhile, as the people
here clamor for fish like geese
do for corn. You most get there
early or they arill all be gone.
But then everything erne is
cheap and a person can live here
a long time with a small amount
of money. The water is good,
so good, they tell us, that if you
ever alp out of the toarn well one
time yon arill forever thereafter
hanker after it. Bnt I suppose
we are safe, as we have never
dipped Into it yet.
As I have said. It is a good
country to live In and a cheaper
cannot be found. If there is any
toarn that 1 arould like to live la
it ought to be Hfltaboio, for the
Pco.p‘?,Uv* e**Y* *•<«* with sad
including the Honoraole Mayor
of the town, who boasts of his
Brook Hill farm. This farm, he
says, is near tbe town, hut, ao
far, we have found no one except
himself that 'knows anything
about Brook Hill farm. He has
asked me to coaie over to Brook
Hill and work as aa apprentice
for two years and that than I
would know, like him. how to
farm, thus fitting myself to bet
ter perform my duties at Occo
neechee.
Being somewhat interested, I
asked a group of men in town
the other day where Brook Hill
form was, and getting no affirm
ative answer, I offered any
man a dollar who could tell me
where the Honorable Mayor's
Brook Hill farm was, but so far
I hold the dollar.
To substantiate my assertion
that this is a cheap country and
town to live in, I will relate
ben aa incident that recently
took place. Seeing so many
people apparently doing noth
ing, I fell to wondering how the
city government was kept np, aa
I did not see how some of the
people made enough to pay their
town taxes. I sought the Honor
able Mayor to get the desired
information, which was about as
follows:
Question. How much ore the
people assessed to keep np the
city government?
Answer. (Stammering aa if
mortified.) What do you mesa?
Question. I mean what are
your people taxed to maintain
your city government.
Answer. (As if Beared) What
do yon mean by ?
Question. I mean what does
vour city government assess on
property and polk to maintain
your city government.
/luwcr. vas ii scarce.) Me
again stammered back »n« said,
We have money in the treasury.
Question. Welt then, how
much are your people taxed on
their property and polls to pot
the money in the treasury ?
Answer. Wc don't nave to
tax our people to pat money in
the treasury.
Question. How many hands
do you work on your streets ?
Answer. About twenty.
Question. How much time
during the year ?
Answer. All the time.
Question. Do you pay them
good wages?
Answer. Yea.
Question. How often do yon
pay them ?
Answer. Every Saturday.
Question. Who pays them?
Answer. The merchants.
Question. Who pays the mer
chants.
Answer. They are paid out of
the treasury.
Question. Do you grade your
streets?
Answer. As far as yon can
see we do.
Question. How mnch money
have you in the treasury ?
Answer. Plenty of it.
Question. Well, then, where
do you get the money that is in
treasury?
Answer. Get it? Why what
do yon mean? We have done
got it.
ration. How did yon get
Answer. Like we always do.
Question. How do you al
ways get it ?
Answer. By selling the hay
we make in our streets.
Says I, Good morning, Mr.
Mayor. Good bye, responded
Ms Honor.
ionn very truly,
Ron. L. Ammmiv.
A Pawl freak.
Mr. W. O. bay showed os
yesterday morning a double
chicken. There is a single neck
and bead, attached to a doable
body, having all tbe*legs, wing*
and tails of two chickens aa felly
developed aa any chicken when
hatched. The two bodies are
joined breast to breast without
any line of division, their aides
beisg continuous- If the chicken
hod been permitted to Uve and
walk, it would have been neces
sary to use a leg of each part of
the doable body, the idle pair
being turned upward.
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The Finest Cake
Is made with Royal Bald
ing Powder. Always light,
sweet, pure & wholesome.
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Complete line of Silks, Is sor
row and 36-Inch goods. Mock,
RIBBONS! RIBBONS!!
Ribbon season is here and we
•re ready for It. AH color* sad
widths from —stocrl fa IQQ.
We me stUI servlng the public
with the very newest things Is
Millinery.
J. F. YEAGER,
Ladles* Furnishings a Specialty,
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slate, tin
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BUGGIES,
HORSES,
CULTIVATORS.
Now is the time to come In end get yon a now
boggy. Wo hare styles to soft almost any one and
we are sore our terms and prices ate right.
Almost every day we got In brand new vehicles.
Wo have on hand a lot of cultivators that wBI
give you satisfaction la every reaped.
Wo still have a few good homos that we me
going to sell.
Craig & Wilson.
Jim Do f je
Dium Hou»K-KKRm*:—
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the hamiaock, roodothe renting. Whenrour mm **•
•tr«tch out at yonr eaaa la on* of onr coarfoetaiiin^C^Z^Tyfj
learn what defight H (a to feel "that tired fee Hug" ilipnfog away
from yon. It ooaes oat of yonr tired body, trickle* of theoade of
yoor fraxiled nerve*, fa bone dear away on the evening aenlma.
and leave* yon mated and mfrwhed.
It'* a hammock yen need and we wiah mb hid one. Don’t
SpS&t 'Z*ztni££
*°T?nd did yw ever think of H? If yoo bey now yon net tha nee
of the hammock the enmaaer throoeh. if yon wait antil half of dm
aninmer'a gone-bat yoa ace tha pent.
Yea, com* to aae aa right away. We can ptaaae yon.
Hammock* frogs M« «p to $i.
MARSHALL’S BOOK STORE,
On the Corner.