W. F. HA1SHAIL, Editor u4 fr—rtmUr._DEVOTED TO
VOL XXVL GASTONIA, N.
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Whal'a Mu With Oar N»!|b.
horn Jant Across ill Lisa
Vorkvill* Rwialnt.
The case of Robert Williaioa
vs the Southern Railway compa
ny waa concluded Friday after
noon tbc jnry finding for the de
fendant.
The expenac of working the
cotton crop fust planted will be
greater than baa attached to any
previous crop for years, and that
ii not all of the trouble that the
farmers have ahead of them.
Labor is scarcer, probably, than
it baa ever been before, and it is
donbtful as to wbetber there will
be available as raucb as will be
necessary to control the situa
tion.
Commencing tomorrow morn
inS[, the northbound C. St N.-W.
freight train, which leaves York
ville at about 6 o'clock, will
carry a sealed mail poach for
Clover and Clover R. F. D's.
Nos. 1 and 2, restoring the old
mail arrangement that existed
previous to the establishment of
the schedule that his jnst been
supplanted.
Work on the big hotel at Pied
mont Springs is being pushed as
rapidjy as possible, and the
building will probably be ready
for tbe public by tbc first of
July. The contractor says be
will be ready by the first of Jnne;
but people of the neighborhood
think he is a little too sanguine.
The hotel is to have forty rooms,
and there is reason to believe
that it will be filled within a
very short time after tbe doors
are thrown open.
The next case was that of J.
J. Sister vs. James If. Starr.
The plaintiff one night last fall
fell into a cellar of defendant
through an open trap door, ex
tending partly a cross the side
walk in front of the defendant’s
store, and claimed that a» the
result of the fall he had sustained
permanent injuries. He wanted
damages in the sum of $1,200.
After a patient bearing during
which the plaintiff was repre
sented by Messrs. Wilson 8l Wil
son aud the defendant by Mr.
Thomas P. McDow, the jury
found fur the defeudaut.
Mist Mary Jackson, eldest
daughter of Mr. W. Thompson
Jackson of Yorkville, died at the
home of her grand-father, Mr.
John Knox, of Clover, last Sun
day night at about 10 o’clock.
Miss Jackson was attacked by
typhoid fever at the same time
that her father and three other
member* of tbe family were
down with the disease, and she
was removed to Clover in the
hope that she would be benefit
ted by tbe change. She was
abont seventeen years of age.
The funeral took place at Clover
yesterday morning at 11 o'clock.
“Cnyiaf Extensively."
Cltiwr L«4cti.
Brother Si ms, of the Orange
burg Times and Democrat, aud
Sister Young, of tbe Fairfax En
terprise, have been coyiog with
each other quite extensively
here lately; Better watch out,
brother. The moat trouble we
ever got into since wc entered
the wedded state was by telling
another woman how sweet and
*,, *!>le *be was. Yoor taste is
all tight, bnt yon are showing
very poor judgment.
VAS NAN FATTEISON 0U1LTY?
Jwrie* Barit, who Triad Bar
Twice, Bays aba It a Liar, bat
Ml a Murderess.
Cbvlr»tog M*wt uul Cmikr.
New York, May 15.—Some
what to the astonishment of those
present at the monthly dinner
to-uight of the Phi Delta Phi
Club, an organisation of lawyers,
Justice Vernon M. Davis, of the
Supreme Court of the State of
New York, who was the guest
of honor, gave his opinion as to
the guilt of Nan Patterson,
while making an argument in
defence of Assistant District
Attorney Hand, who had prose
cuted the young woman at her
three trials for the mnrder of
Caesar young. Justice Davis,
who presided at the first taro
trials of the former chorus girl,
said:
"In the second trial before me
the defendant went on the stand,
and it was quite obvious that she
was telling falsehoods from be
ginning to end. The very air
seemed charged with the fact
that she was lying. Yet she
was a woman. She was young.
It was natural that the public
should sympathise with her.
People seemed to kuow that she
was not telling the truth, and
the great public of New York
said, Why sboldn’t she lie? Let
her lie. Let her get the benefit
of her lies.
"But to-day in the light of the
last disagreement I feel sore
tbit moat people are convinced—
that a majority of the people be
lieve—that the pistol that killed
Caesar Young was held by Nan
Patteraon; was discharged by
her, was bought by J. Morgan
Smith in an attempt to get
money from Caesar Young for
(be support of the combined
family. I do not mean tv say
that she took the pistol (rots the
reticule and shot him in tbe side,
but I do believe that she had the
pistol and showed it to Caesar
Young. An argument followed
and be took hold of the weapon,
iu tbe conversation and conse
quent struggle- the pistol went
off and the man was killed.
" 1 believe, moreover, that bad
she told the story on the wituesa
stand as it really happened, in
other words had she told the
truth, tbe second jnry would
have acquitted her."
The Presides! (a Visit North
Carolina.
A Washington special dated
May 15tb says: President Roose
velt will visit Raleigh and Char
lotte in Octobef, and in all prob
ability ha will make brief stops
at Greensboro and other North
Carolina towns along the route
of bis tonr, which will carry him
to tbe States of Georgia, Ala
bama, Florida, Louisians and
Arkansas.
Stats Isnds^Seld far a Oasd
Bids for the $250,000 4 per
ceot bonds for the settlement of
the South Dakota judgment and
the Shaffer Brothers' holdings
of old North Carolina bonds, of
the same claaa aa the South Da
kota judgment, were opeoed in
tbe office of the State Treasurer
to-day at noon. The bonds were
awarded to Townsend, Scott &
Company, of Baltimore, and C.
A. Webb & Company, of Ashe
ville, tbeir bid being 106,176 flat,
or a premium of $15,440, so that
the bonds bring in to tbe State
$265,440 for the $250,000 issue.
Ahem the Ml Napa.
tm hm aauor or ta« oummn
Aa tbe raaalt of Th« OutTTt
noting in iU Pisgsb correspon
dence of April 22nd in regard to
the toil maps of counties. I
have received letters and re
quests from persons all over
Gaston requesting county asps.
The soil naps are free and I
will taka pleasure in sending
maps to say one in Gaston on
receipt of name and poat office
address. Only seven North
Carolina county soil maps are
available:
1. Buncombe, including part
of Madison aad Haywood/
2. Alexander, including part
of Iredell, Caldwell and Burke.
LiicSnl^ BnrkCi“d,“r *** *
.Lincoln am Bnrke,
4. Mitchell, including part of
Buncombe, Madison and Yancy.
5. Alamance.
0. Iredell, including part of
Mecklenburg, Lincoln* Catawba
end Rowan.
7. Craven, including part of
WtL Beaufort, Lenoir
and Green counties.
Mecklenburg county soil map
will sot be ready until 1906.
The bureau of soils. United
States Department of Agri
culture are now at work sur
veying tbe county, sod re-draw
topographic base map.
York county. South Carolina,
■oil map will not be ready until
the fall of 1907. The bureau of
soils. United States Department
of Agriculture, baa a unity of
surveyors at work re-aarveying
and re-mapping tbe county this
spring.
The fall set of county soil
maps carrying the survey work
from New York to California—
the latest edition rnasiats of 78
Of ApicSto*’
d. c.
The reporte tad oupi cu be
praamd from the writer by
•eodln, the $8.50.
Tbe writer will eaad a com
Meta *et of N. C. county mH
«P» by aeodior name ail ad*
draw.
To Umoc who have net in re
queeu for nupa. I with to aay
that the partita wfll receive the
arnpaby June U. Tbia iacladca
' etvee North Carolina
R. D. MABmt.
wt» drowned. OuTjrjwo'L^
they were uaabte to
miataace. Mr
who paaeei
dent waa
what bad
waded ia — —r— rnirT
fellow at tbe bottom of thccrcek,
lead.
The StateeviOe Landmark
ray»: Mlaa Ethel Keatteriiho
ha* decided to eutit in <"**!««■
misfiou work.^f mtod MtC
tent inane of The Landmark, will
he *ent to the foreign field a* a
:hurch of Momoe. aadmMeS
u tutrd™ Nuthei^tbe pl^of
her labara nor tbe time of coin*
has been deftahely decide ITbot
•he will probably to to Korea.
Subscribe to Tmc Gactoml*
Saxkttk.
I GIGA IMTIf*. r
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FOR ONE WEEK beginning Monday morning, May 22, at 9
the entire week to Saturday night.
THE GUNS OF ALL OUR BARGAIN BATTERIES OPENED IN THIS MAGNIFICENT MAY --r
IDicacniag,
_ quality Bleaching, 36 inchea wide, toft finish
worth 8 to 10 c per yard. Going this g» *r
weak at, per yard-__Q find /C
Sheeting.
3000 yards Avon sheeting worth 7e to go m _
daring this sale at__OC
3000 yds Gastonia Mill sheeting to go at_4C
Cannon Cloth.
Z cases Cannon cloth, pot on sale this week,
any qnanlty yon want at per yard_... .OC
Ginghams.
Domino ginghams, apron'check same count jt I _
as Lancaster for this week_;_4jC
Calico.
2000 yd* good calico, light and dark colon, ai^,
a special at per yard_,OjC
Lawns and Dimities.
We have just scooped )n thousands of yards of
Uawns and Dimities, 28 inches wide that woiild be
cheap at 10 cents per yard, but to make things *f _
interesting for this sale are say per yard_OC
Batiste.
2000 yds pretty Batiste, very shaeT and soft; they
always sold for 10 to 15c per yard, but we are O _
going to let them go at_OC
Lace.
. ,.20P° Vd* Torchon lace % to 2 inches wide ■ _
while it lasts, per yard_IC
Embroidery.
Small job in Embroidery at a price that will
move it quick.
Pearl Buttons.
Pearl Buttons any rise, per dosea,_ _1c
Spool Cotton.
Good spool cotton 200 yards to spool for g _
this sale, per spool,-1C
Toilet Soap.
MOO Cskes Upp’s fine toilet sosp, worth g^
Sc anywhere, to go at per cake,_1C
White Qollta.
SO white quihs, large rise good sellers at 75|IAa
cenU to go at this sale each_OVC
CLOTHING! I
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A Discount of 25 per cent on all Clothing, Tuesday and Wednesday, 23d and 24th, Only, |
We are going to make every day during the week Interesting. Many, many bargains will be offered that we do I
not mention In this ad. So It will pay you to visit our big store, for this Is going to be d trading feast for all, Sale I
begins at 9 o’clock Monday morning. May 22, and continues through the entire week. It Is to everybodys Interest I
to attends
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S Dry Goods Phone 247. I
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