w. E, HUHLUA, MU«r —4 Fyrlrtoc._DEVOTED TO THE
VOL, XXVI. GASTONIA, N. C.t TUESDAY. MARCH
THE
Citizens National
OP GASTONIA
Capital.$50,000.00
OFFICERS!
R. P. RANKIN,
PruMtat.
C. N. EVANS,
Vic* Pr*lM**t
. A. O. MYERS,
C**M*r.
DIRECTORS!
*• P. Ranfcln,
C. N. Evans,
C 4%mr Leva,
<1. A. 01—,
Dr. J. M.Maan,
■(. R. HarMS,
Wsfcart A. Lava.
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We wish to express our
grateful appreciation to our
Friends who have given us their
business since we opened.
We extend a cordial Invita
tion to the public to do busi
ness with us, and promise lib
eral treatment. Will make
loans at the legal rate of in
terest, and pay Interest on
time deposits.
We want your business and
will extend every courtesy and
accommodation consistent
with sound banking.
Call to see us or write (is.
A. G* MYERS, Cashier
CHARTER
OF THE
CITIZENS NATIONAL BANK OF GASTONIA, N. C.
It*. 7934.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
OBtc* *1 Comptroller *1 tfa* Carrsncy.
Washing-ton, D. C„ Dkcxmbex 30, 1904.
Where**, by satisfactory evidence presented to the under
signed, it hss been made to appear that The Citizens National
Badk of Gastonia, located in 'the town of Gastonia, in tbe county
of Gaston and State of North Carolina, has complied with all tbe
provisions of the Statutes of the United States, required to be com
plied with before an association shall be authorized to commence
the business of Banking;
Now therefore I, Thomas P. Kane, Deputy and Acting
Comptroller of tbe Currency, do hereby certify that the Citiscns
National Bank of Gastonia, located in the town of Gastonia, in tbe
county of Gaston and State of North Carolina, is authorised to
commence the business of Banking as provided In Section fifty-one
hundred and sixty-nine of the Revised Statutes of the United States.
In testimony whereof witness my hand and Seal of office this
■ Thirtieth day of December, 1904.
T. P. KANE,
Deputy and Acting Comptroller of the
j . Currency.
Prawnad la Pont Bala.
VmMDi rah. MV
R*v. R. a. Ronae haa a latter
from Bateabnrg giving the da*
taila of a dUtreaaiaa tragedy
which occarrtd there la at Satur
day. Little Annie, tha four*
year-old danghter of Mr. and
Mrs. H T. Wriabt. loat her Ufa
by falling beta foremoat in a
poet bola. It aaema that the
child waa playing about the
premiaea with other children,
and for aoma reaaon went apart
from them. A few momenta
later they diacovered her lifekaa
body where it had fallen into a
Kbole half filled with water.
body waa still warm when
foand j hot all efforta at reamaci*
ration wen without effect. It
la aonpaaed that when the child
fall into the bole it area lm*
mediately atraagitd, and from
tjm feet that iu body was ao
thrbl)y wedged on all aidea an*
dlbla outcry waa Impoaeibla.
McCUE'S LIFE IffSUEAHCE.
All I
r*T rellctes H«M
lsttssvtlle Has.
Charlotte Mowa.
Charlottesville, Vs., March 3.
—Il la mow believed that all the
insurance companies in which
the late J. Setnnel McCue held
polices will pay the claims with
o*t aay trouVls. The New York
Ufe la the first to havs settled.
The oaly question asked by that
company was proof of the death
ceiveo from tfce qualified execu*
tors of McCue; and the company
immediately Mat a cheek for the
W- L
Smitk, tbeit local aaent, to set
tle the claim. ]B making this set
Uamtnt the company was so ax*
act that it included in tbs check
til.35 unearned Interest of *3*1
borrowed la October last to pay
trim 1mm* UPPHtlhan ana. aUv -•
«*»«> PoHey.
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successful BUSINESS NAN.
C. N. (Haas, a Oartaalaa flaw
Making a Baoard la Ika City «f
—Chartatta—A large art Sue
—caaalal Boaiaess Cortatirt lqr
hla.
CtwhUi Cbmich.
One of the youngest of our bus
iness men is the subject of this
sketch and perhaps no man in
Charlotte is more thoroughly
conversant with the details of
his business - than he is. His
business being one which proba
bly has more details in it than
moat lines, indicates the measure
of his ability.
Charles M. Glenn was born
over In Gastou county in 1977
and iscousequently only 27 year*
old. He attended school at Gas
tonia until 1990. He learned tel
egraphy in which he became
very proficient. HU first move
was to secure a position as ope
rator in the office of Assistant
Superintendent of the B. O. L.
R. R., s branch of the Southern
Railway, at Toccoa, Ga., in 1992,
In that position he handled the
trains on the B. O. L. R. R. as
dispatcher when only fifteen
years of age. Taro years later
he was promoted to the main
line, the last four years of his
service in that line being at
Blacksburg, S. C., in tbc office
of ont present Charlotte agent,
T. L. Black. Not hav.ng in
tended remaining in the railroad
service, he resigned his position
in August, 1899, and entered
Guilford college, where he
taught telegraphy moat success
fully in the commercial depart
ment meanwhile carrying a foil
course there as a student. The
first year of bis tenn there be
carried off the medal over more
than forty contestants in a debat
ing contest. The following year
he was elected one of tbs five
speakers in the annual oratmieal
contest and was again able to
bear off first honors. He tqok
an active and leading partin col
lege athletics, both on the field
and# as manager of tbe associa
tion and football team.
In the fall of 1901 he came to
ta -__ 1„ aL. «
kersgc business. The style of
the firm is Glenn Bros., bis part
ner being his brother, J. A.
Glenn, of Gestonia. They have
their establishment, which bis
recently been fitted op in the
moat modern style, including
the op.to-date filing systems sod
office labor-saving fixtures, on
Sooth college street. He is also
equally interested with the other
members of the firm in the house
of Glenn & Carroll, wholesale
grocers, of Concord. He Is be
sides a member of the Company,
incorporated, of Gastonia. Glenn
Brothers have connections with
some of the large manufacturers
of the country and represent
them from here. -The firm baa
storage and shipping facilities at
Norfolk, Wilmington, Charles
ton, Savannah and Jacksonville,
I_-1
besides their home locations,
and the products they handle an
distributed from Mary lend to
Key West and the contiguous
country. The annual business
of these firms is over 9400,000
end it is constantly growing.
Mr. Glenn has ever been a
close Student of his business and
does not believe in proceeding
a Poo blind methods. Seys he,
"It'e easy enough to sell elt the
goods you want, but the secret
of successful business is to con
tract no uncoilectable accounts.
Our 1904 business closed with
not a cent lost. The total losses
in over three years will not ag
gregate over $30. This has been
dorse without any litigation."
Thu is a record which can hardi
ly be surpassed anywhere and is
• *£rooff t«*l»o»ial to the care
and skill of these young men in
...» vwmwwwi m wu.ll UUMHOBi
f Mr. Glean it vety progreitivc
in all his ideas of business. He
is a constant reader of the best
advertising joaroaJa and also of
the trade journals which discuss
his nod kindred fines. He is
among the best informed men in
the citv on the freight rates of
tbe railroads not only of North
Carolina and the South, but the
territory east of the Mississippi;
in bis ofice is foetid one of the
moat complete sets of tariffs in
anv business boose of the city
With the class of business han
dled from manufacturers and
producers and distributed from
base points over such a wide sec
tion of tbe South, it is impossi
ble tocoodnct tbe business with
out a live and elaborate tie of
freight rates. With storage at
various southeastern points for
prompt shipment in irks than
car lots 1 to intatior points, in
competition with competitors
from other distributing centers,
working direct, makes tbe mat
ter of familiarity with rate com
binations applying, an absolute
necessity. Tbe thoroughness of
his knowledge of all these par
ticulars is of great benefit to him
in tbe successful prosecution of
bis business. He is systematic
in keeping a close tab on every
item of bis trade sad is prepared
at all times to take advantage of
the moat trifling opportunities.
His business being done ou nar
row margins, it is only by close
attention to the smallest affairs
connected with it that the thor
ough success be has made was
possible. Tbe dividends last year
was larger than usual to busi
nesses of this character by rea
son of the fact that their capital
was rapidly and often tarnad
over, increasing the volnme.
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▼orfcrftlc Raoairer. M. Mm.
A pm report from Chatta
nooga. Tens., quotes Mr. John
K. St. John, a civil engineer of
Irwin. Tenn., as saying that the
Southern Railway’s proposed
line, for which a survey is being
made between Marion, N. C.,
and Johnson City, Te«n, mill
cross the Blue Ridge through
McKinney’s gap, more than
4000 feet above tide, aod then it
wul open a fine mineral and
timber region, the latter in
clndfhg hardwood and the
mineral comprising not only iron,
bat marble, mica nod other
■tone, sod perhaps coal. The
routes, it is said, will be from
Mariqn to Spruce Pine, from
which point to Johnson City the
suryev will parallel the Sooth *
Western railway. Some options
for right of way have been
secured between Marion and
Spruce Pina._
Capt. R. B. Peer am, a widely
known railway official died in
Memphis. Tenn.. Friday. He
was for a number of yean assist
ant general manager of the Sou
thern railway.
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CUcMH
There fa a mystery about the
poisoning of lira. Lcland Stan
ford that adds to tba horror of
the crime, aa bad aa fa the kill
ing of a defenceless woman. It
was repotted aboot two weeks
ago that aa attempt had been
made to pofaoo the widow of the
late Senator and following the
publication of tba story as au
thorized denial, ia rack explicit
forma aa to really excite aospi
cion aa to its trothfulacss, was
sent oat. Then tin. Stanford
act sail for Honolulu, whew her
death occurred Tuesday night.
It appear* that Mrs. Stanford
had takes with her from Haa
Francisco a bottle of bi carbon
ate of soda, and on taking a dose
she was made violently ill and
died before anything could be
done for her. The soda, which
had apparently never ‘
opened, contained a large
of strychaioe. which, K r
mast have been placed ia the
bottle before Mm, Stanford left
Stanford. Since the death of
her husband. Lel*nd SUnford.
she has had aatiia control of the
Lcland Stanford Jr., University,
which was endowed for nearly
twenty millions of dollars fo
memory of her only child. The
University was under the control
of trustees uaaud bv lira. Stan-1
ford aod she had charge of the
fiaaacca ai the foatftntfoa, and
•lace her death nearly the wbola
of the remainder of tbe.Stanford
fortune will go to the institution.
It is hard indeed to imagine that
any one interested in or con
nected with the University would
resort to mch a crime, and there
is no apparent reason why k
should be desirous to take the
woman's life, Mrs. Stanford was
doubt)cm cognizant of « good
deal more than has bees
public. She fled from San Fran
cisco iu order to escape her ene
mies, after an snssceessful at
tempt to kill her by strychnine
placed in mineral water, bat her
fate was not averted, for she car
ried along with her the deadly
agency of the murderer, audit
was not slow in getting in its
work. It it an interesting case,
and the solution will be watched
by the country at large.
Why a Varna la OMar thaa Bar
tots H«n»rU—h» is IMmmI ui»i
lofef.
So having bid laze well to girt,
hood's irresponsibility, the foie
arile assumes right cheerfully
the burden which henceforth
she shall wear.
Mercifully ignorant is she, as
yet, of the meaning of that
burden, which weighs hearter
aa tbe years advance; bat her'
endurance increases at the —m
time.
But soon time coetaieacct Us
shorthand etchings upon her
face, aad behold. It is not the
great sorrows, which age her,
hot the tittle worries and carta,
the tbooaend small anxieties,
that are responsible for the warn
face. ,
Por woman baa to contand al
ways with trivialities; tba little
worries, which com every day;
the Httle- trials, the Unit tasks,
tba thousand and one little (rets
—tlysse art responsible for the
fact that s woman looks old so
much sooner than a man.
Por at first these things seem
unendurable, tod the ioex
P«hseed wile, like a restless
horse, bets at the bit, goes st a
kMfflong pace ap each hill,
•mall or lams, gate mom
“mvons and into a state of
^Satas time roes by, ii she is
wile, sbe regains he* eqoanimi
ty, learns bow to take things
ttally. and mo nwMmlna mwih
throup everything; but the first
exprnrnces ham done their
work, and npoa bar (see sre
worry wrinkles, fretful crow's
!?&M3SMrJs
•nd chin.
It U the little things which
bam vanquished you, friend
worn so; and they are meponat
blefor the (set that yoo look
five or tea years oldar then your
hasbead.
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As to Mr. Joha D. Rockefeller,
1 believe that nothin* ia the
whole history of Ws career haa
g^efcaspareted^Ma^ enemies as
SSHasS
deadly, has had the power la
move. It is (pr this that they
wowld read him. They -Ttiainf
lux iTcofuiaozi, toa would ptw*
trate every a venae of Ms coa
scioaeaces lor ae other parpeee
than to revile him.
Bat there are those whom
feller, but love him far tboec
qualities that po to eialm a maa
a jtood buabead and father, a
■3®'""I***#* ««**»
fthm*?bo hoT*be!i“l£5
Irmb despair by bb itaerau
hud may never give bglnwii
coneereinghbhwarfarHenii nil
certsiaiy^Bot from^him will any
fethcnd. Ha began Ua caree!
with determination to sceom
ptiah a certaia ead. By the tan
sESJz^jsa.^
which Caw an la the history a
the world have bad tbs mental
poise to control, and this powei
he does not abase. This <n«*
who coaid "unmake powers
potentates and king*,* wallu
quietly aad conventionally
among bis fellow-men. the aaaol
democratic of America. cUiaena,
The energy, determination and
clear judgment of John D. Rock
Itllor would have vanquished
g&flffasssfca
Hove perished la its owa venom,
ho wiB be wtittea as cao of tht
moa of oui
diet’s prom
_ i uattnlly fiwkfji
wide interest in the other am
bera ofhla femUj-hia^wife. hit
Ifc.’jflhm Rockefellerf,Jr^thm
come Into public notice octtt
By an teacher of A Bible cSSTS
an uptown Hew York chateh, t
mvfce which bA evidently per
forms with tact, wisdom oaf
success. Mrs. Rockefeller aaf
^STurs.^r!:
onenuttoo of >ay kio4. >W
coring link for oockty io th
JHtb rwoo# of ibjauim^ Kn