OF THE
CITIZENS NATIONAL BANK OF GASTONIA, N. C.
No. 7536.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
OHJca ol Comptroller el Ike Cerreacy.
WA8U1KGT0X, D. C., Decembkr 30, 1904.
Wheteas, by satisfactory evidence presented to the under
sinucd, it bas been made to appear that The Cilisccus National
Bank of Gostoms, located in the town ot Gastonia, in the county
of Gaston and Slate of North Carolina, has complied with all the 1
provisions of the Statutes of the United Stales, required to be com
plied with before au association shall l>e authorized to commence
the business Pf Daubing;
Now therefore I, Thomas 1*. Kane, Deputy aud Acting
Comptroller of the Currency, do hereby certify that the Citizens
National Bank of Gastonia, located in the town of Gastonia, iu the
county of Gaston and State of North Carolina, is authorized to
commence the business of Banking as provided in Section fifty-one
hundred and aixty-nineof the Revised Statutes of the United States.
In testimony whereof witness my band aud Seal of office thia
Thirtieth day of December, 1904.
“,’*kAC T. P. KANIv,
D«P"*V #nd A«U«* Comptroller of the
tzkaivzv MtAiiKurT, Currency.
. A GREAT NAVY YARD.
S*rn Ttuuul Nan Emplayad
at Nawpart Naw»—Something
Abaart tba Ship* Naw Balog
Bolit Tbara far Uocla Sam.
To to* noilor ot UUMU:
U. S. S. Iowa, Newport News.
Va., Dec. 28tb We are now in
dry dock at the Newport News
ship yard prepartory to joining
the fleet next week in Hampton
Roads. The docks iu New
York are the only Government
docks on the Atlantic Coast
large enough to hold a battleship
and as there was no chance of
docking all the battleship iu
New York navy yard the uavy
department was forced to send
the Missouri and Iowa here to
dock in order to have them
ready for the winter rnanoeli
vers.
The shipyard here is probably
the leading ooe iu the world,
especially when it comes to
meu-of-war. The ships building
here for Uncle Sam alone aggre
gate more than one-hnnared
thousand tons.
Among tne imps bmldiog
here are the fourteen-thousand
ton armored cruisers, Maryland
and West Virginia, both of
which are ready to go in com
mission. The fifteen-thousand
ton battleship Virginia nod the
ten-thousand-ton cruiser
Chsrlcston are about completed
while the two sixteen-tbouaand
ton battleships Louisiana and
Minnesota are more than half
finished. More than a doxen
submarine torpedo boats of
the lake type are being built here
and will probably be sent to
either Russia or Japan. An
Austrian steamer is now leading
two of them. There are also a
number of ferryboats of the
latest design being built for
New York harbor. Nearly all
the ships building here are from
2% to 20%' nearer completion
than thdr sister ships which are
building at other ship yards.
Every ship built here has ex
ceeded in speed the sister
sbip.built at Cramp's and the
Uoion Iron Works and the
Company expects to do the
same thing with the ships now
building. There are seven
thousand men employed in the
yard, four thousand of whom are
colored.
Special preparations are now
being made for laying the keels
of the armored cruisers North
Carolina and Montana. They
are to be aiater ships of 14,500
tons. Their length will l»c 502
feet and they will have 73ft
beam. The Newport News
Company is to build the thins for
something leaa than $4,000,000
each, but this docs not include
armor and armament. By the
time the ships arc commissioned
the North Carolina will have
cost the government more then
seven million dollars. The
contract calls for a speed of
twenty-two knotts an hour. Her
battery will consist of four 10
inch B. L. R. guns mounted in
pairs in eupt'cml countre
balanced turrets, two forward
and two aft; sixteen 6-In, B. I,.
R. guns; twenty-two 3-m rapid
fire guns; twelve 3-p dr. rapid
fire guns and several smaller
automatic guns, with two field
ku ns.
The battery of the North
Carolina alone will cost as much
as the Union Iron Work re*
eeived for the Oregon, while
her complement will be double
that of the famous battleship.
She is to be fitted as a flagship
sod her tonnage will be greater
than the flagships of Sampson
and Schley at Santiago com
bined.
Other ships of the same class
being built for the government
are the Tennessee and Wash*
ington. They are the only
Cruisers ever designed to carry
10-in. guns.
U. S. S. Iowa, North Atlantic
Fleet. Hampton Roads, Va.,
Jan. 7th—Nearly all the ships of
the fleet have assembled and we
are now anxiously awaiting the
Inspection Monday in order that
we may get out of this miserably
cold weather.
The battleships are at anchor
in a liue about 200 yards apart,
while the Cam'bean and Coast
Squadrons are at anchor parallel
to .the battleship on one side
while the second torpedo
flottilla maintains the same
position on the other side.
The battleships consist of the
Kesraargc (flag), Kentucky,
Illiuois, Alabama, Missouri,
Iowa, and Massachusetts. The
Maine, which was at the Boston
navy yard, has not arrived yet.
The Coast Squadron consists of
the battleship Texas (flag),
Arkansas, Nevada and the
Florida. The Carribcan
Squadron consists ol the New
ark (flog), Denver, the Tacoma.
The other ships of the Car
ribcau Squadron are on dutv at
Santo Domingo and Colon. “The
torpedo flotilla consists oi the
Destroyers Whipple, Mac*
donuagh, Steward and Worden.
The Destroyers Lawrence.
Truxtoa, Hull and Hopkins
haven't arrived yet.
On Monday the Secretary of
the navy, Admiral of the navy,
and staff will he down from
Washington ou the Dolphin to
review the fleet, after which the
fleet will proceed to sea. Noth
ing is yet known as to what
course we will take or bow long
we will remain st sea. but it is
quite understood that our desti
nation is Culebra, bat the time
of onr arrival may be anywhere
between the 14th and 30th of
Janaary, and then too we ex
pect to have a few days of rough
weather, which seems to be the
only kind available just now
from the appearance of things
here in the roads.
However it will only be a
matter of a few days when our
heavy winter clothe* will he
shoved away, and w* will
have onr summer somewhat
earlier than most oeople.
C. A. Kukv.
Let the Interest Bata Alena.
Rtunvltlr Laadaiuk.
It is given out that Mr. J. D.
Murphy, member of the Honse
from Buncombe county, will in
troduce a bill m tbe General As
sembly increasing the legal rate
of interest from 6 to 8 per cent
He says that such a law wonld
have beneficial results in west
eru North Carolina; that the
present law is evaded and that
it does not protect the small bor
row er. We hardly think the bilt
will pass and as we see it it
ought not to pass. About 15
years ago, when the legal rate
of interest was changed from A
to 6 per cent., there were pre
dictions of all aorta of disasters
in consequence and there was
much talk that money should
bring whatever anybody eras
willing to pay for it, etc. etc.
But as a matter of fact the great
est era of development in the
history of the State has resulted
since the change in the law.
We do not claim that tbe law
was solely responsible for these
conditions, bnt the fact remains
that the disasters predicted oot
only did not occcur but there
was improvement instead.
The Senate on Tuesday con
firmed tbe nominations of
Postmaster Kbioebart at New
ton and Dr. Houston at David
son.
Editor P. M. Williams of the
Newton Enterprise lost bis
home Monday by fire. Tbe
loas was $3,000, with $1,000 in
sorsner.
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CHEMICAL COMPANY
CAMUS NOTES.
Extensions Aggregating Vast
Sants al Massy Will ba Mods
ia iba Santb by tbs Virginia
Coral ins Chemical Csmgany
—The Caiian Situation later,
estlagiy Btacnaaad.
The Virgioia-Csrolina Chemi
cal Company ha* in sited to its
agrucic* iu every |xut ot Uic
South a letter which will lavor
uhly cflcct business conditions
throughout the length and
breadth of the cotton states.
They propose to extend tcrtili/.cr
notes for all who owe them and
want to hold their cotton.
Sav* the Richmond Times
Leader: "Treasnrer Travers
cannot estimate, except in gen
eral way, bow many hnndreds
of thousand* of dollars, if not
millions, will be involved in the
extension* thst will be asked for
and made, but, whatever the
amount, the company is pre
pared to take care of it. and of
fictals express the greatest con
fidencc in the transactions,
which, as the letter slates, will
benefit the company through ilia
profit and satisfaction of it* cus
tomers. "
Toe letter in fall speak* for
itself and ia as follows:
Richmond, Va„ Jan.5.1905.
Mr. L. A. Carr, Maoager V. C.
C. Co., Durham. X. C.
Dear Sir:
The treasurer of this company
is having so many requests to
extend the notes of some of our
customers sad patrons who have
not finished paying their bills,
and who desire to bold their
cotton, stating that they believe
they will get more for this cot
ton later on, that this company
has concluded to issue a general
letter oa the subject as follows:
"Any fanner or mere bant who
may be owing yonr 'division
money, who baa cotton which
he desires to hold, yon are at
liberty to extend bu note for
him for six months from Janu
ary 1st, with interest at the
rate of six per cent, per annum,
provided he will deposit suf
ficient cotton to pay the note in
any reliable warehouse, and will
turn over to you warehouse re
ceipt for same. Yon are author
ized to pay the insurance on said
wwiun buu iniKc no cnar£c
against customer for this item.
We do not pretend to offer ad
vice to our customers to hold
their cotton, but we do intend to
offer them every facility and ac
commodation in our power to
bold their cotton, if in their
good judgment it is beat. What
ever inures to the benefit of Ag
ricultural classes in the South is
to our benefit; our interest is
identical with theirs. We are
more closely and intimately con.
uected with the cotton growers
of the South than any doscn
other concerns combined. They
arc onr customers in the pur
chase of fertilisers and wc are
their customers in the purchase
of cotton seed. Wc both sell
aud buy of them aud deal in
every cotton growing county
from Texas to Virginia. There
fore, anything that will improve
the agricultural conditions or
help the farmer must necessarily
benefit ns, and if bolding their
cotton will be • benefit to them,
it ia oor desire to aid them in
this aa far aa we can.
Other farm products aside
from cotton, appear to aa to be
selling at very full values, and
we believe it would be wise in
tbe formers to sell any of their
snrplna farm products which1
would materially aid them in
holding their cotton.
We are also of the opinion
that the acreage last year de
voted to cotton was too large,
and that it never could have
becu cultivated in a normal sea
son Tbe good weather during
the Spring enabled the farmers
to cultivate every acre they
planted; consequently tbe tre
mendous big crop of this year.
As ordinsrilly. it would be im
possible to cultivate such au
enormous dcreage. If it were
decreased ten per cent, it would
mean a reduction of more than
a million bales next year, even
if tbe crop yielded aa ranch per
acre as It does this year.
It strikes us that what the far
met wants is to make bis cotton
at the lowest possible cost. The
profit derived from growing cot
ton ia not so much the price of
cotton as the coot at which the
crop has been grown. Mules
aud horse* arc high, ranch high
er (ban a few years ago; tbe
pnee of farm labor is high and
scarce Therefore, every acre
cultivated means a large expen
diture. It coats more to culti
vate an acre of land growing a
quarter of a bale of cotton than
one growing a bale; in the lat
ter instance the plaut soon grows
up and shades the land, and con
sequently the grass does nut
grow so rapidly or lnxnriautlv.
The cheapest iteui that can be
used in tbe production of cotton
U commercial fertilisers, used
liberally. With a liberal appli
cation of fertilizers, the fanners
can grow a bale of cottou where
they have heretofore grown half
a bale, and do it with tbe same
cost of males and labor, and the
additional quantity of seed will
more than pay for the extra
amount of fertilizers used.
There fore, encourage your cus
tomers to reduce their acreage
and increase the amount of com
mercial fertilizers to tbe acre,
believing as we do. that this is
the way and the only way to
raise cheap cottou.
i ne aoou must continue to
produce around eleven million
bales of cotton, or they will find
in a year or two the balance of
the world competing with them
in growing this tuple, and our
foreign market largely snpplied
from sources that now produce
a limited quantity.
Wishing yon a happy and pros
perous New Year, and also for
our customers and patrons, I
am*
Yours truly,
S. T. Moiigan.
President Virginia-C e r o 1 i n a
Chemical Co.
A book containing tbe best
efforts of tbe late Mr. 1. Brwin
Avery, city editor of the Char
lotte Observer, is to be publish
ed. The proceeds from the sale
of tbe book will be used for tbe
establishment of a scholarship
at Trinity college. Tbe board
of editors is composed of Mr.
J- P. Caldwell, Mr. J. W.
Bailey, Dr. C. AI ph on so Smith,
Dr. Bdwtn Mima, and Rev.
Plato Durham,
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SILK PIKE CAPS
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aeiiui ci—i«i»
Tbe committee made a favor
able report on tbe bill to repeal
the sstljug law (or all counties
except Cleveland, Gaaton and
two. others, for which it was
originu'ly designated. Than
will be a debt on this bill which
on Mr McN Jack's motion, was
made the special order for Jan
nary 20th._
KILLS «C»I(8 Of CATAIUL
My—at Om> to tkt Cast at the
M aaaa sag Pokes AstoeloMag
to*1
Catarrh cannot be cored by
the uae of pills, liquid medi
cines and so-called system tonics
Under such treatment the germs
of the disease will still live in
the air passages and increase nod
multiply.
Hvoweiii the only scientific
and thorough way to erne catar
rh. Killing the germs in the
air passages, it eaten tbe blood
with tbe oxygen, destroys tbe
microbes in the blood sod effec
tually drives from the system all
traces of catarrhal poison.
Ebonsands or testimonial*
have bees pivea as to the aston
ishing care* made by this rente
dy.
Mr*. Le Rendu. 76 Western
Avenue Cleveland, Ohio, writes: I*
believe Byomei saved ay Hu. 1 am
better now than I have been In thirty
yean. Many doctor*, both in Eng
land end France, treated me lor cat
arrh. but. I eras not cored no till vend
Probably the btroagest evidence
that can be offered M to the powers
H*
that J. n. Kenaeay « Co. wu> agree
to refend tbc money if yon say Hyo
un has not ctaed yon.
The complete Hyomei outfit cotta
bat 91 00, consisting ot an inhaler,
i i&K^sra.’ap&a
* curt in onUairr aami. bat far
chronic and C^ahTc^d
catarrh, longer nac any be neces
sary, and then extra bottles oi Myo
mei can be obulnod lor Me. Jtf-77
Tbe poultry interest* iu the
State are aaid to be worth mote
than 17,000,000 and ate increas
ing vapidly.
house in the near future We
welcome Mm to our town.
Rev. D. P. Putnam, who has
a/isiiujisv»U| wVsSMMWM WWm«v ■
S.C., and left last Friday to
beru hit labors there. Mr.
Putnam has anay friends here
new location. HU family will
be greatly missed, but our loss
U Smithneld’a gain, We haw
not learned who will be Us suc
cessor as pastor at dm Baptist
church.
The Rome rf
Urc^ . . _
thoDitnd of Grain)
bfiW left Port A*^hur^»y|^^
saws.—urnaaimmiwini if
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I Began Thursday, January 12th, with flying colors. Immense crowds thronged the big stores all
1 day yesterday and there Is no abatement In attendance. The public Is taking advantage of our unpar
{ alleled bargains In mill ends and remnants. This big sale lasts for ten days. Parties unable to come
f during the first days needn't stay away. You can get big values any day during the ten. New attrac
I tlons each day. Don't miss this big sale—the opportunity of a lifetime for bargains. Sweeping reduc*
/ tlons In all departments. CASH SALE. No goods charged at cut prices.