f^s] THE GASTONIA
—' .—L—r( _Published Twice a Week—Tuesdays
W. F. HAESHALi, Editor—d Prwtotor. DEMOTED TO THE _
VOL. XXIV. QA8TONIA, N. C.. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 90.
THANKSGIVING
THOMSON CO’S.
We thank our many custo
mers for the liberal support
they have given us which has
enabled us to /make our stores
second to none In this section.
Already the spirit of Thanks
giving Is stirring. Already
the distant glimpses of the '
Thanksgiving dinner with the
steaming turkey as a center
piece are seen. Already there
come to the mind pictures of
other Thanksgiving dinners
of the long ago, when the
faces of old friends and dear
ones are as fresh In our minds
as If we'd seen them but yes
terday In the Joyful group
around the festal board.
While this big store Is striv
ing in the strenuous arena of
commerce for mastery in Its
line — striving, It believes,
honorably and legitimately—
yet it hopes that It may al
ways have a truly human
heart—a truly American heart
that will thrill and throb-and
beat and feel for the Interest
of Its patrons.
Big preparations have been
made for this season. Our
buyers have left no stones
unturned In looking for high
grade dependable merchan
diser
Their purchases have been
very extensive, and great
saving opportunities await
shoppers, owing to shrewd
buying and accurate Judging
of the people’s needs.
Prudent buyers will take
time by the forelock and make
their purchases early, while
our mammoth stock Is un
broken and prices* are the
v lowest.
Thomst Co.
The People’s Store
POINTS AND PARAGRAPHS
ON TOPICS OF THE TIMES.
tThdar tbia haad will bapt iatad Iran ttaato tiaw atoatobi inmaarai
*■ !>■■" Of eanaat tntaraac. Thar arlU ba tabaa traa aabltc addnaaaa.
'*■».. aap^apita. ia (act wbcrarai arc ana dad than. Bona
tltoaa tbaac aaWatloa* will aaeard wkh oar aiawa aad tha aiaaa a< oar raad
•ra. aomatinaa tba oppoaita will ba troc. Bat by raaaaa of tha awbfact Batter
5*«tela. tha aaiborabtb. or tba alawa aaoraavd. eachwill knataaUmM
ef ttBatr lntarrat to Baba it a oonapiaaaaa uttoraaca.
TW Stead Swindler and the Hi Swindler.
kicbmood Nrwa-Laadar.
It ii e familiar sneer against our civilisation thet the amell
swindler goes to jeil while the lerge one tours Europe in an ento
mobile; but perheps on the whole the little swindler who serves
his time and is forgotten is rather more fortunate then the big one
who lives and flourishes, the canker at his heart and the spot on
bis name, and knows that he is the object of the execration of the
public and of the contempt of respectable people everywhere.
Sum Way la Oaataaia.
TkaaMrilla Charity aad CMldrm.
Oh no.—no liquor at High Point, if yon please, and for the
very good reason that it would seriously interfere with the busi
ness of the town. We dare sey the average High Pointer ia no
more religious than the common ran of mortals; in fact, some of
the preachers say it is a tough town. But there ia one thing a
High Point man knows, and that ia how to do buaineaa, and he
finds he can get along a great deal better without liquor than
with it.
Don't Take Pall era Tea Easy.
Lattan ei a Ball—d« Knckul M HU Son.
And because a fellow, has failed once or twice, or a doceu
times, yon don't want to set him down as a failure—unless he takes
failing too easy. No man's a failure till he's dead or loses his
courage, and that’s the same tiling. Sometibes n fellow
that’s been batted all over the ring for nineteen rounds lands on
the solar plexns of the proposition he's tackling ia thd twentieth.
Bat you can have a regiment of good business qualities, and atiU
fail without courage, because he's the colonel and he won’t stand
for any weakening at a critical time.
The Parmer's Advantages.
Sdluuial Car. Uabtnoo Araa
What a blessing is the R. F. D. service! Por something like
fifty years it was the habit of the editor’s father to drive on Satur
day evening to Clinton Tor bis mail—six miles of sandy road
twelve there aud back—the distance around the earth through deep
sand, in fifty veers, for mailt Now, this is being hurriedly written,
on the same farm, to be ready for the R. P. D. man when be comes
along on his daily rounds. Moreover, a telephone,- line ia being
erected just yonder. Oh, the difference, between the isolation of
our boyhood and the rural privileges of to-day—here in Sampson
and throughout the State. The farmer’s day is here in more re
spects than one.
Om4 By.
Uncc Dnio Litchfield.
We say it far an hoar or for years;
We say it smiling, say it choked with tears;
We say it coldly, say it with a kiss.
And yet we have no other word than this— t
"Good-by.-*
We have no dearer word for our heart’s friend.
For him who journey’s to the world’s far end
And scars our souls with going: thus wa say.
As unto him who steps bat o’er tbe wav—
"Good-by."
Alike to those we love and those we hate,
We say no more in parting. At life’s gate.
To him who passes out beyond earth’s sight,
i We cry, as to the wanderer for a night—
"Good-by."
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Richmond Knrt'Uadtf.
The Southern people of this country of all in the world have
least reason to opt>ose or criticise tbe Pan Amt "rebellion.” The
people of Panama have dona what we fought for years trying to
do. They have seceded from a republic Which disregarded their
interests, rights and feelings and threatened to destroy their prop
erty. They have found tbe partnership unsatisfactory and ganger
ons and have withdrawn. In the course of human events it has
become necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds
which united them to soother.
Our sentiments, onr principles sod our precedents approve the
revolution and onr interest must be prompted by -it. The South
is interested especially in tbe speedy opening of a canal acroes tbe
Isthmus. Panama severed from tbe republic of Columbia and in
business on its own account definitely promises right of way for the
canal. Most of ns hereabouts favored Nicaragua, bet Nicaragua is
remote and uncertain and Panama is right under onr hand. * A
bird in hand is worth two in the bash and any canal is better than
I none.
Th* Evnlil Service. '•
kv,l.f. hnli to Um Ctonk iMMBla.
Perhaps the the evening service baa been demoralized daring'
the summer. The evening service is the one great service’ for
soul-saving. It was a vising when the Lord went out after the
tenants ia Bdea. It wa*.ev*niag whan Isaac went into the fields
to meditate, when Christ went into the mountains to pray, when
Nicodctnns went to the tempi* to inquire. All defiled persons
were nnctcaa until evening.1 Ia the evening tba paschal lamb eras
killed. It may be that the last words of your evening service will
bold a man to his God during the following weak.
Plan for that evening service. People may sleep la tba morn
ing bat by evening the idleness becomes s source of rsstfeaaneas.
They want something. They are looking for somewhere to go—
somewhere where men are, where they esa feel the touch and glow
of life. Happy is the church that draws them at that moment.
Bright lights, good music, hearty singjag, as earnest- prayer
touching the verities of to-morrow at th* office, shop, foundry, or
In th* home; a sermon, or atriee of sermons, that twill be short,
interesting, practical, always telling with artlesa simplicity the
sweat story of the croaa.
■1 ■ i,n
Sm«mI faia—lal at the Mn>
wiaa frffltmiM
waa um.
With the present week last
one bandied and fifty yean hove
elapsed since the first Moravian
•rttlemeat was made ia Wacho
via this State. November 17,170.
la commemoration of the sesqtti
centennial a three days* celebra
tion was began to-day at the old
town of Bethabara, near Salem,
whan the first settlement was
made. Memorial exercises were
held and the programme includ
ed the dedication of n number
of monuments marking sites of
famous incidents in the early
history of the colony. One of
the monuments consists of a
huge boulder on which ia chis
eled the names of the first colo
“w. while on another monu
ment in the ancient churchyard
ia recounted briefly the rxptri
eiieea of the colonists during the
stirring times of the French-and
Indian war.
VU1 Csttsa •» to 12-1*2 Canto?
n»w» mOtomr.
"I*** «o reason why, with
the shortness of the cotton crop
and the demand for cotton by
tbet mills, cotton shonld not mo
to 2tyi cents by or before the
■ptiim.
"We ere 608,000 bales short of
this time last year, counting re
wapts and all cotton in sight.
Bugliab spinners who have been
Idle for months, bsva now re
sumed operations. If ills in this
fountJZ,*re vefy •kort «■ «ot
ton. They bnve been' waiting
to buy, expecting Mg November
receipts to press down the price
ofjcotton. Instead of the price
gmng down on Mg receipts, it
begins to look like a scramble
for cotton.
"Better pncei axe warranted
by present conditions. 1.^
year tbe fanners got no benefit
from the rise in the price be*
h2£tj|2rI2te!«* oftbbiroroo
before tbe pnc« was pot op, af
ter the short ness of the world’s
■apply became known. This
year the farmers ought to get tbe
benefit. They should not break
the market by ru thing their cot
ton to the buyers. They should
sell it as tbe spinners need it.
Fsrtnew can get advances on
cotton from tbe banks and hold
»•, 1TJ,epe U bch* in
Rsleigh now by farmers who did
net take tbe 9 Ml cents offer a lew
weeks ago. They can now sell
at an advance or hold for far
ther advances. The farmers are
now in better condition than
ever to hold their cotton. They
made their supplies.
'For the fiibt time in its his
tory, the South is now spinning
more cot too then il) thp daIiscc
of tbe United States. In the
next decade, we will be spinning
fifty per cent mote cotton than
now. The manufacture of cot
ton is steadily coming South."
Thus spoke Captain J. J.
Thornes, president of the Com*
mercial and Farmers Bank, in
about cotton are entitled to more
consideration tlton those of Cap
tain Thomas. He has been In
the cotton business all his life,
and in Raleigh and Baltimore
baa made ■ great success. If
any man in North Carolina may
be called a cottoa expert, that
man is Captain Tbomaa.
Florida's Hi Orsaio Crap.
t«o. Ht.wooa.itt,
W. R. Poller, one of the best
potted men la Florida oaorsage
crops,states that this year's crop
wflf be about 1,900,000, boxes,
compared.to 730,000 boxes last
*o**on. This year's crop sms
first estimated at 2,000,000, bat
.<
i
njrao, wutn it was 8,000,000.
That year it was reduced to 73,
000 boxes.
JMEOUtiUUU
THOSE LACE COLLARS*
Jm* arrived el Yta»i*i, asetfccr
lot of those eiegaat sew style lace
collars, la cape aatf stole affaeU. •
50c, 00c, $1, 91.50, $2, sod 92.50.
Call and see the new styles.
JAMES F. YEAGER.
NOBODY CAN EIUOY HIS THANKS6MN6
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A FAT BANK ACCOUNT
GASTONIA SAVINGS BANK,
L. L. JENKINS, Pm. , L. L. HARDiN. Cmtkitr.
Gastonia Pinking Co.
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CAPITAL AND SURPLUS, STMMuM
Stete Beak iMMfMtM Mey IS, IMS
STATE AND COUNTY DEPOSITORY
OFFICER*
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