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II* a pity Scotland Neck voted lor bar wwi— The —ferity wU only M), which means that the saloons are doomed to early defeat. The next elaoHon on y» —< tefli probably see W?< ■■■ 1 *' u I boy* to look op is doing a great i r'-x-J&fM episode at revives interest agitation. 8 i p, that a new lobe subjected to ■ —listed criticism —. The subsequent opposed ro ll or n bufltat the | ^ Jggt. dte a—r a—ft bo—s pretty neatly nnanl—na^Wkh the ui ciarity wffl be a nutter of interest to the People county until an The rrimlaal docket ni com ■ ttutmvfcts! wift* judgurenf if^df ere five® ec folio am: Charlie Heater. Carrying con cealed weapon*. $10 and cost*. Julius Holland. AsoauTl with rtaadly Weapon. $S and costs. Bid Boyd. Assault and bat tery- Judgment sur^eudeti ,.n pay meat of nrsts . H- S. Sellars. Retailing. In fast case $23 and costs. I« second case, defendant is M<nfrtil to pay coats at once. Prayer forjaagwsut Is con tinned. Defendant amst give bond in the sum of. $500 to appear at court from term to tens for the naact twelve months and show that there is no further com* plaint against him. The clerk “directed to keep this case on the docket far that time. In other cases judgment is suspended on payment pi cost*. witHSeuft^Su ' Continued under $150 bond. ■Tbomaa Dunn, R. W. Dunn, C. C. Johnson. Assault. Judg ment suspended on payment of coats. Dave Hitchers. Assault and battery. Judgment suspended on payment of coats. J. M. Carpenter and Christie HrfEnm. Assault and battery. $10 and half coats each. Bph. Holland. Drunk and disorderly. Costs. Judgment continued. A a m « * _ __ HO&eand^te ™oun* •Wffl Brown. ^Gambling. 12 John Imn t»rc«ny, 12 months on the rood. BobMeCke: Gambling. HO and coats. Ben Mitefaem. Carryiag con cealed weapons. Six months on reads. Sam Milk. Carrying con cealed weapons. Judgment ana pended on payment of costs. Robert B. Hoyle. Forcible trespass and assault with deadly faapon. $2S and coats. $20 to *° *£?• A. P. Carpenter. Pnth Whitesides. Larcenv Six mootha. , J. X. Naatz. Aaaanlt. Judg ment suspended on payment of costs. Monroe Goble. Larceny. Judgment suspended on payment of costs. The ease between F. W. Thompson end J. X. Nantx in volving tearing doom a gate and the location of a road was com mitted to arbitration. Susan Poctenbnrg. Fornica tion and adultery. Judgment suspended. Bogun* Raffan. Carrying concealed weapons. 30 days on the roads. Will Phillips. False pretense. 12 months oa the roads. Karsh Morrow. Affray. 25 ■mi coats. Jeff Coni well. Affray. Judg ment suspended on payment of costs. Will Moore. Currying con cealed weapons. Six months on Win Robinson. Assault and battery. Judgment continued. Casta “ boad renewed. —k- .--rr- Inkntlclde. Not gouty of felony as charged bntguflty of concealing birth of child. Judgment not yet pro menaced. Will probably be im pnsonmeot until next court. A number of petitions have asked feaieacy with a view to getting defendant into a borne or rc CTVtl, DOCK XT. Isaac Rhodes, of Bessemer, ya. Southern Railway no*-suited. J. Loftin Leepar v*. Andy ttt rights of citlsMsfcto were restored to John W. Baldwin. Walter Kay Xsever, of Lin coln county, wua duly sworn In msconri tna laniitca w pric* ties as SB attorney and counsel or at law. •fawav 8A5TON HAS A JU1Y 800”. The Office Occupied By th* Sa HrhMtatil Pahlk Iaetrsc* th«PW» Available let see el the retit Jary. It wee Wednesday morning in the courtroom at Dallas. It was reining out of doom, raining In a long trot, had been reining ia tbe night and resumed business at the same old stand early ia the morning. Two juries were present. Judge Neal (tnraiog to left): Gentlemen, where did you retire to when considering the cases tried before you? O. P. Rhodes (from jury on left) :On the square and in a back lot. Judge Neal (taming to the right): Gentlemen, where did yon go to consider your cases? Lawson Stowe: Out on the •quart. Judge Neal: Where would yon go on s morning like this? Lawson Stowe: Don’t know. Tbe Judge: Jnst wanted to find out. Short pause. Good order all over the court room. The Judge: Mr. Sheriff, ia there any vacant room in the court house that a jjry conld uae? The Sheriff: The county Su perintendent baa a room, which I endeavored to get. But he bad left the key with Mr. Carpenter, the Register of Deeds, who told me he was instructed not to let anybody have it. Hon. O. P. Mason: This room is occupied by ^typewriter who ia re-indexing the county records. . The Judge: Well, this work might stop for a week rather than send these gentlemen out in the rain to arrive at their ver dicts. Why couldn’t it be said to the jury: "Here, have this room for a week.” The Sheriff: There was an other room I tried to get, but Mr. C aroeuter informed tne that it contained some documents. Mr. Maaon: The Register has the tax abstracts in this room; not room in the vault for them. The Judge: How often does the Superintendent use his office? Answer: Once u week. The Judge: The law doesn't provide that the county Superin tendent shall have an office fit ted np for him in the court bouse. And yet he hangs up the key and goes off, and deliberately aaya: "Here, you men go out there on the ground and stand in the rain like neasts to make up your ver dicts." Mr. Mason: The Superinten dent has his important papers in this office. TbeJndge: And ID venture to say a ten-year-old boy could take them all out in a half-bush el basket. If these valuable pa pers mustn’t be disturbed ID have a box made and lock them up. I can’t have him saying to my juries, "I have some papers in there and you mustn’t go nigh them.” TbeJndge, continuing; The county commissioners have foil charge of the court house prop erty. I "don’t want to give these gentlemen any trouble, but they should provide a jury room for use in weather like tnis. I am not going to have my juries meeting in a cow stall. Mr. Sheriff, who is your couoty Treasurer? The Sheriff; Mr. Lewis. The Judge: Where does he live? The Sheriff: On the corner yond-.r, near the court square. Office in bis store The Judge: Well, you see him, Mr. Sheriff. The law pro vides an office for the Treasurer la the court bouse. You request him for me to take charge of this Superintendent’s office in bis own right and turn ft over to the use of the jury. 1 Later ia the day tte grand jury came in to be discharged. The Judge: Gentlemen, I note fa your report a recommen dation that the county commis sioners provide a suitable room for the path Jury. I will ask the county commissioner, to do me the courtesy to meet hen to monrow and take Up this matter. I desire before discharging you to use what they wOl do. Yon return again to-morrow. made available—tbe office which belongs by law to the Treasurer. I aude a polite teoueat of the Treasurer through tbe Sheriff for riie use of this room for tbe petit jury. I received a very polite answer, * No." Now will you gentlemen please go down and consult together and ace what cau be dooe toward providing much needed quarters for these jurors. Capt. J. Q. Holland: We have held a meeting, your Honor, and reached what we believe to he a satisfactory solution of the mat ter, of which our chairman will inform you., Mr. J. R. Connell: If your I Honor please, we have sgieed to set aside the room iu question for the use of the honornMc court. The Judge: Go down imme diately with the Sheriff, gentle men, and takecnarge of it aud repou to me. 1 want to be con servative in this matter. If other officers desire this room between courts, let them have it, but dur ing court it must be available for use as a jury room. The Sheriff, commissioner*, and grand jury retired. In a few moments the sheriff had posses*ion of the room, under instructions by the commission* ers to have a lock put on the door and provided with three keys—one for himself, one for the Register, and one for the Superintendent. The Treasurer and Superintendent will be al lowed to use the room between conrts provided they have a locked desk for their papers. This done, the sheriff reported to the court. The grand-iury then appeared in a body and Judge Neal discharged them with his thanks until the No vember term of court. And thna closed an interesting incident. SchMl Girl Elopements. Richmond Km-Lcadrr. Nothing is more shocking than the stories that appear in the newspapers every day of the runaway marriages of girls of fifteen and sixteen yean. Ex cept in a very few cases of un usually early maturity, the mar nage of a girl of that age is little better than murder phy sically and almost invariably it means misery and moral ruin. Of course, there is very little use talking to boys and girls who are in love, or believe them selves to be; although it is like ly that, in some cases at leas*, frank, affectionate and proper instruction in the facts would prevent suicidal folly. A practical consideration is whether groups of States, say Uke Virginia, West Virginia. North Carolina, Maryland, Ken tucky and Tennessee could not arrange for e system of uniform laws on the subject of the mar riage of minors from other States. The clergyman who performs the marriage ceremony on these occasions usually U a decent and conscientious man.. He is confronted with the ques tion whether itU better to perform the ceremony or to expose tbe girl in the case to even worse and more certain disaster than an ill-considered and premature marriage. If marriage in inch cases was made impossible, the wretchedness of many lives would be prevented. In nearly every town in the country there is a number of miserable women, tawdry, be draggled, baffgard outcasts, destined to sink to lower depths every year of their lives, and a large proportion of them arc victims of these runaway school girl marriages. These are wo men, old, hardened and hopeless with their Uvea, ruined and finished before they ads twenfy five,' who at that age have known all tbe dismal experiences of disill nsion, disappointment, abandonment, grief, despair, jealousy and hate. - U a group of 8tates should combine to make laws to pnnish with imprison merit and heavy fine any person performing tbe marriage -ceremony for a girl under eighteen for instance, with oat the written consent of her parents, most of the elope meat business would stop, be cause tW child marriage would be impossible. After a gfrl passes eighteen sad acquires a certain amount of common sense she Is not likely to elope in de fiance of sense sod obligations. To that tfmf she should be pro tected, not only within her own State, W beyond it. against tbe consequences of her own child ish rashness and folly; for oven If a girl is physically matured at that aft, her judgment la that of a child and she la mo more fit to undergo such a tremendous re sponsibility and risk as matri mony then she is at ten. Com paratively vary few girls wooVI leave home with a man without at leaat tbe pretense of a pur pose to be legally and regularly mauled. Sack an arrangement as suggested sboTS would st West pretest girls Iron deceiv ing fhsmstlrss and rushing blindfold upon eariy death or a 82*JSShXSL;^StbTw _^ ^ ip Scaaary Aloaf tha fiasis Fraacb tread Ihrar. fo tlM K4Kor of tfco Ouatta. Mountain streams as s rule are fascinating on account of their impetuosity. Then, too, they are the discoverers of the passes and in many cases point the wav to the engineers who follow with the steel highways of commerce and toarist travel. Such is the French Broad, one of the uiosi beautiful, active, and intrepid of Southland streams. It has its rise in the Bine Ridge Moun tains, flows across the Asheville plateau, receives as tributary the Swaunanoa. just above the city of Asheville, flows down across the Tennessee line and through the great Smoky Moun tains to join forces with the Holston River, (our miles above Knoxville, and later with the Tennenaee River, forming one of the principal affluents of that historic stream. The French Broad shares, with the highlands of Western North Carolina, the tourist’s in terests: it is the iewel of the Land of tbe Sky,” In a most magnificent mountain setting. We see tbe river escaping from its mountain barriers at Hot Spriuga, where it enters upon its more peaceful course. Beauti ful in its foliage, clothed banks, active in its impetuous rush, intrepid in its bold assault of its mountain barriers, the French Broad is a river long to be re membered as the beau-ideal of mountain streams. From a point just out of the city of Asheville the rails of the Southern Railway, on its route to the West, approach the French Broad River and for many miles follow the intricate and tortuous windings of that remarkable stream, crossing and tccrossiug horn bank to bank many times as tbe exigencies of the situation render necessary. For the entire distance to the Hot Springs, thirty-eight miles, the river view from one side or the other of the train is never absent. From Asheville, with its eleva tion of 2,210 feet, to Hot Springs, with its elevation of 1,345 feet, la a drop of 865 feet, or of twen ty-three feet to the mile. This it sufficient to give a mighty impetus to tbe waters, which flow through an ever-deepening gorge, in their musical progress earning well the title bestowed by the Cherokee*, Tocheeostee, the "Racing River.” Following spring time rains, tbe surface of the river, in its course through ibe gorge, baa tbe appearance of a miniature Niagara as the crest ed wavelets chase one another down the stream. While this display is at its height suddenly the mountain walls siuk away aud the river, tired of strife, glides out into tranquil pools aud meanders laxity through the broad pastoral valley of the Hot Springj. T, N. Ki»td*icjc. Don't ask a* about "Fewer gallon*; wear* longer.” i ■■ i i —— STATEMENT. Con denied stale merit of report to the North Carolina Corporation Com* mission of the condition of tha Gaston Loan & Trust Co., at Uaatonia, at the close of business on tbe Mb day of Sept.. 1003. ■BMW1CCS: Loans and disposals_.W. 732.25 Fomltnre ufCitnn _ 35064 C'lh sod cash Ittiai_2.369 02 '.ecu tats.Ml .... 44 57 Total.. 511.43800 LIABILITIES: C splint stock paid is.._.50600.00 Undivided prodts. teas taxes and expenses paid.__.. S3.S3 Notes and billa rc-dJsoouated ... 1600 00 Bills parable___.__ 50060 Deposits sablect t»vrllhdravral— 3.134.17 Tot ir.. 511.40668 I. R. O llitxnl. Treasurer ol thcOastne Loan and Teas! Co., do solemnly swear that the above statement is trxe U> tbe best ol my kansrladae and bellel >. O. Me 137 an. Trestorer Coj« err-Attest: Sveta ta and sabeerlbed before met, this 17th day Of September. A. P, 1903. Ono. W. Wilson. Notary Pablle. C*mim1« ■toner’s Sato of Lni Vslaakii Lai la Outaal . Br virtae ol a decree of tbs Rsperlor Conrt ol Ooetno Coast? in the special pmseoltsp sura led Margaret A Autos and others spinal Owens Hsmlltso sod others, which w ass pressed toe «a anil land for ssnltfos. or dor Iasi a resale of lands lieorelbod herein. 1 will, an tatos**. •<*£« the 17*. ^ paras tafTsadTasH lot sitaeleJ lu Ike Iowa at Onstonla an the corner of AN l.toe end Uo dena Streets.knowsasIke Hamlhji lot. ad Intalag lha lands aI tbe Mode.... u ottos . Milts. 1. O. ASUS, sad ^ars ami mot s par ' tlpalsrlr Aseafibre as fonoers' tooaa ta Iht anal alp at -- (aasr s Pant Oak) and rant fggggggpmsi WITH A RUSI! i The Mill End Sale is On! The Mill End Sale at the Gastonia Bargain House is now on with a rush. We advertised it os the sensation of the tinea, and so it hat proven. Saturday the goods went with a rush; yesterday it wts the same way—all going to delighted customers. Continues this Week* Remember this sale goes on this week, and it is yonr privilege to buy Serges, Melroaea, Flannels, Cashmeres, etc., all regular o g_ 50c aud 75c goods, at per yard—......«Uv All-wool Whipcord, Serges, Brilliantincs, etc., regular 50c and $1.00 goods, at per yard......dov The crowda are coiuiug. They Gud this u good place and ^ good time to spend their mouey. So will you. Come. GASTONIA BARGAIN DOUSE. I Corner Jenkins Block. J. S. WHITFIELD, Mgr. \ The furnishing of your dining-room ia not complete without a sideboard. They add to the comfort and convenience as well as to the looks of the room. We have them ranging in price :: ;; ;; .. FROM SIO TO SSO in handsome quartered oak. The prettiest and best lot of sideboards ever seen in Gastonia. Come and see them—no trouble to show goods. :: ;; .. Williams Furniture Co. PHONE 211 A A A A A CRAIG A WILSON BUILDING HAVE JUST RECEIVED Onr Second Shipment of Fall and Winter Style, of Udiea' fine Shoe, *1 The two linen that are noted for Uie acme of shoe making: Ziegler Brother,, and Ut* A Doan. We have them In the following tenth* w: Corona Colt, Ideal, and Vld K 2 wPi,“n or toe- Welt-tnrn gasst-gass: ROBINSON BROS. * FtKRS* Fasfs„ a Art Photographs If you want a photograph that will represent you as you are, we know you’ll like what we make for you. There’* artistic merit in them, too. T) They are mounted in the latest styles and are just, the thing. $4 for a doxea good ones. aMHMauaaamsaHMMWaMiHBaflBgh JO n_N GREEN STUDIO IN DAVIS BLOCK. OPERA HOUSE One Night Only. Friday, Sept 18th. The Great Barlow Minstrels. 15—White Artists.—15 New Sengs, New Jokes, everything New. Ptse Bang, Superb Or* chest™. Watch for Of and Noonday Pi and Concert. 0,1 at Tor wwa'a Dra* Store Wadnaaday. SALE OP LAND.
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