Ml. E. L. PEGRAM. SI., DEAD.
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Wain—day — Paaaral Thla
Morals*.
The town of Stanley waa
shocked at the announcement
yesterday afternoon about 3
o’clock of the sudden death of
Mr. E. L. Pegram, Sr., one of
its oldest and most prominent
citizens. Mr. Pegram became
ill Wednesday afternoon with an
attack of dysentery bnt his con
dition was not such as to war
rant any apprehension as to bis
safety.
Not knowing of his illness,
Mrs. John O. Rankin of Gasto
nia, a daughter of Mr. Pegram,
in company with Miss Lillian
Clinton, left for Stanley yester
day morning on a visit, little
thinking of tne sad ordeal that
was to come ere the close of the
day.
The deceased was s native of
Gaston county and was about
77 years of age. At the out
break of the civil war he enlisted
in Company R, 28th North Car
lina Volunteers, and served gal
lantly till the close of the war.
He was for several years a mem
ber of the board of county com
missioners in which capacity
be rendered the county good
service. He was oae of the
county's staunchest citisens and
his death will be mourned by
many.
The funeral will take place in
the Presbyterian church at Stan
ley this morning at 10 o’clock,
the services being conducted by
the pastor.
;Mr. Pegram is survived by a
widow and the following chil
dren: Mrs. John O. Rankin of
Gastonia; Mrs. Alice Mason of
Stanley; Mrs. Jonas Barkley of
Street, lfd., and Mr. E. L. Pe
gnm, Jr., of Stanley with whom
he resided.
DALLAS DOTS.
ComoaodMM* of a* Oura*.
Dallas, N. C., June 3rd.—
Mia* Virginia Robinson of
Lowell has been visiting friends
ia town during the put week.
Messrs. O. P. Muon and A.
L. Bnlwinkle attended the meet
ing of the Bar Association' in
Charlotte on Tuesday.
Mrs. L. J. Hollsod sad little
daughter, Nannie Cramp, will
leave tomorrow to sDend the
anmmer at Mrs. Holland’s for
mer home in West Virginia.
Prof. S. A. Wolf with Misses
Carrie #nett aod Violet Holland
left this morning for s trip to St.
Ltnis to take in the exposition,
the meeting of the National
Mosicial Association, and the
meeting of the National Educa
tional Association. This party
will be joined in Ash ville by
Prof. Sachs and Misses Mabel
Little and Ora Huffman of Hick
ory. They will be away ten
days.
UUYLE CREEK ITEMS.
(Motived too 1«U lor tat taat.l
We had a nice rain laat week.
It was badly needed and will
make everything grow nicely.
Mr. ana Mrs. B. Cloninger
visited Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Fri
day at this place Sunday.
Mias Alice Friday is at home
from Gaston College. We are
glad to have her in onr midst
again.
Missea Flora and Mamie
Thompson of Stanley Creek vis
ited Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Shelton.
Saturday night.
Mrs. J. C. Friday bad cucum
bars the 11th of June from ber
garden. She baa plenty more
which will be ready to eat soon.
Mrs. A. B. Shelton. Mrs. F.
W. Thompaon and Mrs. Lucy
Shelton visited Mrs. J. C. Fri
day and family oa Wednesday:
Wheat has nearly all been
harvested. The crop this year
is eery good.
Mr. and Mrs. Vsnce Snmntey
span! last Sunday with Mr. and
Mtn. J. W. Priday.
Messrs. Oliver and Robert
FrMay _and Misses Alice and
Blliott Friday attended the chil
dnm’ajtoy aaerolsea at River
View Church Snnday. They all
report a nice time.
Missea Eclalia sad Addis Luts
spent Saturday night with Miss
Alice Priday.
Everybody here Is getting
ready for the Second of July
Celebration at Gaatoaia.
Mr. C. B. Aberuethy and fam
ily apeut Sunday with J. C. Fri
day and family.
..Thera was a larga crowd at
High Shoals Priday aod every
body bad iaice time.
Up to yesterday IM dead
bodka of victims of the Hell
Oats disaster fa New York had
bm rocorood.
EAST GASTON 80S Sir.
ProL 0.1. Jano Elected Princi
pal nl Cary Ufk Scboal—Tha
Soccaaa of an East Gaston
■oy—Othnr Itaas *1 later#at.
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Bast Gaston, Jnoe 22.—Mr. C.
Howard of Catawba county,
who has been going to school to
Prof. E. W. Scott of Mount
Holly, has gone to bia home to
apend a few weeks.
Rev. O. J. Jones preached
last Sunday evening to a large
congregation at the Bent church
in Bast Gaston. Ur. Jones has
for the last few years been in
school at Trinity College and is
considered a very bright young
man, and we predict will make
his mark tome day. He was re
cently elected assistant principal
of Cary high school at Cary
N. C., seven miles west of Ral
eigh. Mr. Jones was reared up
in Bast Gaston and has always
been known as s very modest
boy. and no one has aught
against him that are ever beard
of. He is a son of Mr. William
Jones, who is one of the beat
farmers in the county, which
means that he lives at home and
boards at the tame place. A
more reliable, upright, straight
forward man would be hard to
God. He is faithful to his church
and his country, and attends
strictly to his own business
which is more than we can sav
for some others of our good citi
xens.
wnue we were at crunch last
Sunday listening to the preacher
explain the scriptures, w e
noticed one man utilizing the
time by whittling away on an
old corn atalk, not thinking what
a mess he was making for the
girls to havetosweep out. While
another one was making him a
cob pipe and another whittling
away on his walking stick that
he bad cut from the aide of the
road on his way to church.
Those are people that have lived
to a ripe old age, and have
reared up fine families of boys
and girls.
> To-day is the day Yates Webb
will be renominated for Con
gress, and for our part we are
for him. But we can’t vote for
him.
The boVi of marmgeble age
are all about gone from Bast
Gaston. We believe, too, that
Coat Rumfelt is yet single, also
George Csnsler, who is a most
handsome looking yonng man,
and is as good a worker as can
be found. George is a good boy
and is worthy of the best our
country affords; girls, do you
see the poiot? This is leap year,
and before it is gone yon should
leap. He has got a'good buggy
and horse.
This Is a good time for visit
ing among onr farmers’ wives,
for they nave fruit aod frying
size chickens to beat the band!
East Gaston.
A Sad Beath.
At her home on the Bradley
farm west of town Wednesday
afternoon rfbont 3 o’clock Mis.
J. Prank Rhyne died rather
suddenly of convulsions doe im
mediately to bright’s disease,
superinduced by the bearing of
triplets, none of which lived.
Tbe body was taken yesterday
to Hickory Grove Baptist
church, twelve miles from Gas
tonia, where the funeral and bur
ial took place in the afternoon.
The deceased was about forty
years of age and was a daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. W, P. Kirksey,
who lived with her. She is also
survived by two brothers, Mr. I.
Kirksey and Mr. Oliver Kirksey
of Gastonia; and three sisters,
Mrs. J. M. Jenkins ot Gastonia,
Mrs. K. Ross of Bessemer
City, Mrs. W. P. Hart of Forest
City. Mrs. Rhyne was a con
sistant member rff the Baptist
church. Her death is greatly
mourned by many friends.
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THE MTSTE1T Of STANLEY.
! Nat Burl ad la WaatmlasUr Ah*
Bar Bacaoaa ha Wsald Nat
■evnal kla Origin.
Hraii <u Mam (a New York Woild.
A curious reason has been
put forward by the authorities of
Westminster Abbey for denying
to the body of the late Sir Henry
M. Stanley that entombment in
Westminster Abbey for which
be had craved, wishing to be
buried near to Dr, Livingston,
whose name and fame were to
aneb a degree identified with bis
own. It seems that the real
reason was that no one knew ex
actly what the true name of
Stanley was, and the famous ex
plorer never took any trouble to
clear np the mystery or to vouch
safe any explanation, not even
when Thomas George, a boy
hood companion an<f playmate
of Stanley, published nis book
in 1885, through the Roxburgne
Press, entitled "The Birth, Boy
hood and Younger days of Hen
ry M. Stanley," wherein there
was a clear statement, supported
by a wealth of detail and anec
dote, showing that Stanley was
not, as generally believed, a
foundling of the name of John
Rowlands, brought up in the
work house of St. Aspab, in
Wales, and the adopted son of a
merchant at New Orleans, 'who
had been his benefactor, and
who had given him his name,
but was in reality Howell Jones,
son of Joshua Jones, a Carmar
thenshire bookbinder, and that
he ran away to sea. writing to
his parents from Prance, from
Pent and from America. He re
turned home daring the civil war
in this country, spent a fortnight
with his parent*, in which time
he saw the author of the book,
Thomas George, and then re
turned to America.
The name of Henry Morton
Stanley he took, not, as alleged,
from a New Orleans merchant,
but from an aunt for whom be
had a particular affection, and
who had been especially kind to
him. It may be added that no
amount of investigation, nor
even reward offered by some
curious persons, ever brought
any information as to the New
Orleans merchant from whom
the explorer was said to have
taken the name of "Stanley,"
directories ignored his existence
and no New Orleans resident
bod ever beard of him.
Old Joehua Jones, the book
binder, was still alive when
Stanley returned from finding
Livingstone in Africa, but warn
too infirm to travel to London.
Moreover, then ‘‘was some es
trangement between father and
son. Bnt the former had no
difficulty in recognizing bis boy
in the pictures of Stanley.
It may be stated further that
Thomas George, in his book,
proves by documents which are
incontrovertible that the aon of
the bookbinder, under the name
of H. M. Stanly, enlisted as an
"able seaman" in the Confederate
navy at the time of the civil war,
which implied previous seafaring
experience, and the fact that he
was a grown man, instead of
being a mere boy, and that this
same Henry Morton Stanley was
taken prisoner and confined at
Pittsburg, from where he made
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UI* auu «uni ui* imci
visit home, described above, re
turned to America and enlisted
in the Pedcrml army.
Now, an less there wen tiro
Henry Morton Stanleys who en
listed on thesame day
it N e » Orleans, were
taken prisoner together from
Pittsburg, sad snbseanently re
enlisted os the same day in the
Federal army. at New York, it
is evident that the bookbinder’s
ton, Howell Jones, and the fa
mous explorer who died as Sir
Henry Morton Stanley were one
and the same person.
What reason Stanley bad for
maintaining the mystery as to
bis origin, as to his estrange
ment with his father and 'as to
his early career It is Impossible
to say.* For be waa not in the
habit of taking even his beat
friends into his confidence about
such matters. But It is anity
evident that, in spite of all Stan
ley's well earned fame and celeb
rity, the dean and chapter of
England's national Walballs,
known as Westminster Abbey,
had some reason for hesitating
about according a tomb and
monument there to e men who,
for some m)Bterious reason, was
unwilling to shed any tight npon
hit origin, to enlighten the world
as to his parentage and data of
birth or eve a to admit where hi*
boyhood bad been spent
Mrs. A. O. Bren iter, wife of
Capt. A. 0. Breniaer, one of
Charlotte's moat prominent
dtitens, died suddenly Monday
afternoon. She eras 91 years of
THE SOUTH AT WIST PtDIT.
if the Six Star OrMiHw
this Year From tht Earth.
CtartoroOtemi. Had.
It is gratifying to tee that
wide attention is being given to
the fact that of the sixstar stu
dents graduated at West Point
Military Academy at this term—
C. R. Pettis, of North Carolina;
W. D. A. Anderson, of Virginia;
E. T. Ward, of Colorado; H. H.
Robert, of Mississippi; T. J.
Kingman, of Tennessee, and R.
P. Howell, Jr., of North Caro
line—five arc from the Sooth.
A further fact in thia connection
which we would like to rivet
upon the public mind is, that of
the five from the Booth two are
from North Carolina. There is
in these statements a suggestion
that something yet ia to T»e ex
pected from the section which,
con the birth of the republic
down to the civil war, gave
government to the country
during two-thirds of the period,
stamped its impress upon the
nation through Macon and Gas
ton and Iredell and Badger end
Mangnm aad Graham and Cling
man and their Klees. The sec
tion sad the State have not, ns
shown by these facts from West
Point, lost the power for the de
velopment of intellect: nor have
they lost "the breed of noble
blood."
—
WiD baaMing FortUtsar DmU*
the TUU ?
r« I tM Editor or IIm OIMUI
Some time ago we wrote two
exhaustive articles os this sub
ject. Aod some don't believe
that Mr. I. C. Simms grew 5
bales of cotton on one acre of
land. Mr. Simms used two tons
of lb-3-4, so we stated, and there
is no fake or deception about it.
Mr. Simms says; "I here
with send yon a brief and cor
rect account of how I made 25
bales of cotton on 5 acres of land.
"The soil is sandy and has
been cleared for 80 years, so yon
see it is poor.
"The guano I ased eras Kit
well’s Peruvian Phosphate, 4,000
pounds to the acre, high-grade
analysis 10-3-4. TBs amount is
what is usually applied to 20
acres —the average being 200
pounds to the acre.
"Twenty times the avenge
yieli, ISO lbs of lint, amounts to
3000 lbs of lint which is 6 balsa
to tha acre.
"I also applied 60-two hone
loads of pine leaves from the
woods; 60 btishcls of cotton seed
broad-east. 40-two horse loads of
stable manure, spread broad
cast. then turned in nnder six
inches deep.
"On the 13th of May 1 planted
my cotton seed by hand, drop
ping 6 seed to the place, about
9 to 12 inches apart, covering
with aide harrow,
"The variety was the Dickson.
The cotton was thinned out to
one stalk in the bill, June 10th,
then plowed with a 24-inch bow
. running shallow, one furrow to
the row, just scraping the soil
enough to scrape off the grass. I
did sot uss the hoe, because I
did not want to stda the stalks.
1 scraped once a week, one far
row to the row.
"I simply doubled, trebled
and quadrupled the yield by ju
dicious fertilisation.”
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Covington, Ga., May 17,1904.
What an object lesson. what
an eye opener, wbat a glorious
thing for the individual, the
county and the State if each
Gaxcttk reader who farm
could Tadiefonaly fertilise a half,
fourth, one-eighth, one six
teenth, of an acre. Practice on
the plat high fertilisation and
intensive cultivation; or give
one of the children a patch or a
row of planta to feed and water
sad tend, love and care for. »
Then give It a trial, children
of one of God’s fairest counties
—Gaston, the Qneen of .the
Piedmont plateau 1 8tart now,
start in ths direction of high
fertilisation and intensive culti
vation; fill yonr pocket book
swell yonr hank account and fill
your brain with valuable and
useful knowledge. None are
too poor to start.
Who will ba the first child of
school age, boy or gitl, who is a
subscriber to the Qaartte, or
whose parents are, who will
make a stalk of cotton hear 5 lbs
of seed cotton on it, or a stalk
of corn that will bear an car of
corn weighing two pounds, and
which will shall out a quart of
grata; a pumpkin which will
weigh 250 and a water melon
which will weigh the same?
Who will be the first to make
the start toward doing wbat they
have never dona before, never
teen dona by others, but which
has bean dune? Let's beer from
yoo—don't hang back.
K. D. Maxtix.
No'other treatment far Ca
tarrh el troubles is as pi—
end convenient to nee as Hyo
swart
twmoi with every ontfit. and
then breathe it for a fawmtantes
fan r times a day, and it win curt
the wont case of catarrh. In
this way, oaa takas into tbit air
passages of the bead, throat and
longs air that is filled with bah
sanric healing and antiseptic fra
grance. It goes to the most re
mote parts of the sir passages,
destroys all catarrhal germs, sad
enriches and purifies the Mood
with additional esooc.
The first day's use of Hyomai
will show s decided improve
meat, and in a short time there
will be no farther trouble with
7«rsiB«it.
Yot* tak« mo ri«k la bfriaf Hro*
i^igjtg
to use It entirety a rir risk, with
the safasUMH t mtoosh
win be returned A t ireesHaa or
Every war bring* to the front
new questions of an internation
al character to be passed open
by the different governments
and to add new chapters to in
ternational law. Already taro
such questions have been
brought ont by the war between
Enema and Japan. One of these
involves the treatment of the
wireless system of telegraphy,
the others the aae of floating
mines at sea. These are two of
the new problems which the
present war has brooght to the
front. There may be others.
In eav event, there with be
something for the international
lews of the foreign departments
to busy themselves about after
hostilities have been concluded,
if not before.
Painless Teefh Irtrnrtar.
Mrs.'Dr. Moore, the painless
tooth extractor, will arrive In
town Monday, Jane 27th. from
the office of Dcs. Newell & Mc
Laughlin of Charlotte. Mrs.
Moore comes highly _r*com-1
mended by prominent officials of
towns and cities abc has visited,
who state that her
method of extracting teeth-is
perfectly reliable and harmless.
Office opposite post office.
John W. Morriscy, n promi
nent dtisen of Winston-Salem
and a delegate to the Demo
cratic convention at Greensboro,
died suddenly in die Guilford
Hotel in Greensboro Tuesday
night as the result of an over*
dose of morphine. He was suf
fering from a crippled arm sad
took the drag to get rest and
sleep.
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