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VOL- XXVII. OA8TONIA, N. C„ TUESDAY, JANUARY 23,1203.
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To all our cuotonero and friends t
GREETINGS
The year which ia|aat drawing to a ctoae baa been
a most successful one with this bank, for which we
have to tlutnh our customers and irienda who have
made this possible.
We hope yon have enjoyed a prosperous year, and
that we have been of satisfactory service to you in
bringing this about.
The Officers sad Directors individually asd collec
tively extend to you the Compliments of the Season,
hoping that your Christmas may be a Merry oue. and
that the coming year may bring you increased pros
parity and happiness.
Citizens National Bank
of Qaatonla
ATTEWBAHCE F0U1TH MONTH.
Ihn Ball •( These Who At*
lutit Britit School Every
Bay ia Foarlk Maalh.
Below is the list of the graded
school pupils who have won a
place on the attendance honor
roll for the fourth month:
Miss Stuart’s room—Richard
Pavwoux, Caldwell Ragan,
HarTy Walker, Ersie Ratchlord,
Lois Todd, George Keller,
Leonard Smith, Mary Lineber
ger, Ruth Robinson,
Miss Pursley’s room—Lacy
Adams, Walter Craig, Lemuel
Nolen, Theran Ormand, Ethel
Craig, Madge Craig, Katherine
McLean, Maggie 1 Parham,
Made Parham, Aline Reid,
Ruth Morris.
Miss Sparrow’s room—Bessie
Beam, Eugene Caldwell, Felix
Carson, Willie Davis, Nannie
Dickson, Emma Fanlkuer, Rich
ard Gattis, Myrtle Gray, Wilma
Long, Panline McFadden, Lillie
Morrow, Mamie Pearson. Zeb
Pearson, Chester Rankin, Edna
Rhyne, Hany Suggs, Fred
Thompson. Made Whitesides,
George McLaughcn, Robert
Millen.
Miss Sandifer's room—Jack
Fayssoux. Brett Holland, Plate
Pearson. Malcolm Rhyne, Bryan
Walters, Robert Craig, Everett
McArver, Alex McLean, Le
land Morris, Hcnrv Rankin,
Sam White, Beaaie Parham,
Shelton Wilson. Lois (Smith.
Marguerite Spencer.
Miss Stokes’s room—Dana
Caldwell, Charlie Craig, Mand
Gray, Julias Lineberger, Carl
Loughridge, Elms Rankin,
Roscoe Spencer, Fred Wilaon,
Mary McLean.
YOU AND YOU VI Lit.
What’s Doing Among nor Neigh
bors Joel Across tho Lino.
Ywkrilk Rookrirn.
Mr. Paul Neely Moore has re*
rigned his place with the Loan
and Savings bank to accept a
position with the Hinton Lum
ber company at Lnmberton,
Miss.
James A. Jackson, who ordi
narily makes his home with bis
aon, Mr. W. L. Jackson o(
Yorkville. is critically ill at the
home of his son, Mr. K. C.
Jackson, of Titsah. with par
alysis.
The infant son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. B. Fee mater, who live
near Jene’s mill, about two and
a half miles south of Yorkville,
was found dead in bed yester
day morning. The parents
suppose that the child, which
was in bed with them, was sc*
cidentally smothered.
Lancaster special of January
18 to Colombia State: Dr. B.
S. Me Dow, who has been in jail
since the shooting of Mr. Hazal
Witherspoon on the 6th instant,
was granted ball this afternoon
in the sum of $500 bv Magistrate
Caskey, physicians having ccr
tified tost Mr. Witherspoon is
oot of danger.
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xvuuiuayu, luiuicu,
seriously, if not mortally
shot by Wallace Jackson, also
colored, last Wednesday night
between 8 and 9 o’clock. The
shooting occurred at Jackson’s
home in the southwestern part
of town and from sncb informa
tion as has been obtainable, it
appears it was because of a
woman.
Tbc following army order just
issued from Washington will be
of interest to the friends of the
officer referred to, a former
Yotkville man, "First Lieut
James B. Allison, 7th infantry,
will report to the examining
board at Fort Harrison, Mon
tana, for examination for promo
tion, and upon completion there
of will return to his proper
station or the place of receipt
by him of this order." As un
derstood here, this means that
Lieutenant Allison will probably
soon be a captain.
The town council has decided
to put in a special phona system1
for fire alarm purposes. It will
include only four phones, con
necting the water works, the
fire alarm, the chief of the fire
department and the council
chamber. It baa been sug
gested that this may develop
later on into a complete muni
cipal system.
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Canon, Luther Kidd, Steve
MorrU, Grier White, James
Campbell. Deity Hoyle, Nellie
Rote Sloan, Itara Wilson, Loir
McArver, Mary Jenlcini.
Miss Bgerton’a room—Max
Abernethy, Poster Clinton,
Jiles Curry, Kenneth Lewis,
Miles Lineberger, Tollie Little,
Maud Rankin, Violet Rankin,
Snaie Rawlins, Robert Terrell,
Fred Pearson, Stafford Whit
field, Eva Penny, Price Capps,
Loretta Culp, Mary Harry, Con
nie Beard, Lavtnia Hunter,
Margaret Morris,
Miss Bradley’s room—Mildred
Rankin, Lathie Smith, Mamie
Spencer, Sadie Wilson, Charlie
Adams. John Hunter, Willie
Lewis, Oris Lineberger, Walter
McArrer, Otho Robinson, Chas.
Robinson, Leroy Suggs, Sloan
Dickson. Mott Dickson.
Miss Martin's room—Mamie
Beard, Lena Bell, Della Hoff,
man, Lola Jenkins, Daisy Kidd,
Blanche McArver, Jeneie Pe
gram, Clara Smith, Otto Baber,
George Kidd, Johenie Rankin,
Gray Spencer, William Jan kins.
Miss Hussey’s room—Mary
Query, Hsiel Robinson, Ken
»«b Babington. Fred Wetieil,
Jonhsie Adams, Gertrude Fogle,
Mary Lineberger, Laura Spen
cer, Rolend Clinton, Gregg
Cherry, Charlie Gray, Avriett
McLean Ralph Rankin, Hart
sell Shelton, Harry Sboford.
Jog 8. Waxy. Sopt.
The birthday of Gen. Robert
R. Lee waa observed in the
Graded school this morning with
appropriate exercises, the lead
ing feature of the same being
an address by Rev. Dr. J. L.
Stokes on the life and character
of that great Christian soldier.
Quite a somber of patrons of
the school attended the exer
cise*, and everybody enjoyed
them, particularly the talk o!
Dr. 8tokcs. which waa de
Hvered at tha special request of
the Winnie Dayis chapter of
tha U* D, C.
There waa a good sited andi
amca at tha opera house leal
ohkht to hear Mias Lanra Jose
phine Bridgman, the reader, and
it waa well entertained, Miss
Bridgman is an artist of ex
ceptional talent, and her pro
gramme is of a high order,
Doet piano music by lira. W.
H. Fowler and Mi** Pansy Tra
wick was also an important
feature of tha entertainment.
The Gaffney Ledger aooouncci
that Mr. A. W. Griffith, who has
been connected with it for a
number of years, has severed his
connection with that paper tc
enter newspaper work at Green*
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BtsWp John C. Keener Dead.
New Orlaani, Jan. 19.—Biabop
John C. Keener, 87 year* old,
d»ed bare to-day naexpectedly
of heart failare. He waa at
tacked by wbat seemed to be in
digestion and had no premoni
tion of the end. He waa born
In Baltimore Pcb 7. 1819. and
mjceeeded kb father here aa
W dr?«*«t- b«t felt the
call to the mieletry. He eerved
M raperiatendent of ekapletae
of the Confederatet army »aat of
the Hkeiaelppi. Ha waa elected
biabop of the Southern Metbo
di*t Chnrch la 1870. and re
tired from active work in 18M.
IN AOONY SIXTEEN YEAIS.
OuHMKu Was Cheered by
Cleveland sad Oepsw.
PfcfUSrlpbir North Aruku.
In the death on Monday night
of Charles H. Conrad in the
Episcopal Hospital a degree of
Spartan courage was revealed
in bia life story that is almost
without parallel in local medical
circles. He was the "king of
shut-ins,” unable to move a
muscle save that of his lower
jaw.
Following an attack of In
flammatory rheumatism sixteen
yean ago, be was seised with
rheumatoid arthritis, or the os
sification of the joints of the
bodv. Exceedingly rare, the
terrible disease is incurable, and
for nearly a score of yean Con
rad has lain in the hospital fac
ing a death which came not un
til Monday to relieve him of bia
satfrriDv.
Conrad, u a member of tbe
German Turn Verein, was giv
ing sn athletic exhibition one
night, snd at the close of it be
lingered in a draught to speak
with some friends. Prom the
cold contracted in those few
minutes bis slow death developed
He was then twenty-one years
old and lived with bis mother at
1218 Cabot street. In 1904 Ms
case came to the attention of
Brwing L. Miller, treasurer of
tbe Protestant Kpiscooal Diocese
of Pennsylvania, and through
tbe letter's influence Conrad
was removed to the incurable
ward of the Episcopal Hospital.
On an ingeniously constructed
bed, which gave him rest, .even
though every touch upon his
body brought excrncistiog pain,
he had reclined since then, the
pity of every inmate, nurse, and
physician of tbe big institution.
In spite of all he was cheerful,
even optimistic. Eg-President
Cleveland, Lieut. Hobson, and
Channcey M. Depew. hearing of
his plight, wrote to him at in
tervals and in their letters the
invalid appeared to And the
keenest enjoyment.
Conrad's body was a baro
meter. foretelling every coining
change of temperature and at
mospheric conditions. His food
»M chiefly liquid or finely
chopped solids. Conrad's fu
neral services will be held to
morrow noon in the Episcopal
Hospital chapel. Tbe body
will be creams ted.
The Lancaster News says:
The friends of Mr. Hasel With
erspoon, whose name is legion,
will be greatly relieved and grat
ified to learn that he is rapidly
recovering from the effects of
the wonndt inflicted by Dr. Mc
Dow’a bullets In last Statniday’s
difficulty. Fortunately no un
favorable symptoms have devel
oped and Mr. Witherspoon's ul
timate recovery is now almost
assured. j,
The Boone Democrat aaya the
two- year-old child of Mr. and
Mrs. Dixon Morets, of Meat
Camp. Watauga county, was
scalded to death a few days ago.
It waa left alone in the room,
there was a pot of boiling water
on the hearth and in some way
the water waa overturned on the
child with fatal results. Death
relieved its Buffering in a few
boors.
Cheater's popular lady photog
rapher, Mias 8allie Kennedy,
died at her home last Saturday
of pneumonia. The Lantern
•avs: Aa a photographer she
wis known throughout this sec
tion, bar work being first class
ia every particular. Aa a bust
ms womaa she enjoyed the con
fidence of all. her perfect relia
bility as well as her sbilities as
an artist winning for her the
popular confidence.
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C0IF9K 07 DAMAN
FOUND IN OKAVEJ
All Saspfciun Vn Dispelled Re
garding Doth mi Boris! ef
0- 1. Dargan Whe Inhidad
Damn NmOi Agn at Bartlagtaa.
CkarloOt N*w«.
Darlington, 8. C., Jan. 19.—
To-day the committee appointed
to open the grave of R. K. Dar
gaa, to find if Us body was
there, or if the story of his sui
cide end burial waa a fake, ent
through the cement and coffin
and found the body then.
Every suspicion waa dis
pelled lor the investigation
proved satis factory to both the
committee of investigation and
the representatives of the in
surance companies in which the
dead man bad buaa insured. '
Mr. P. W. Calkin, 'representa
tive of die Fidelity Insurance
Company was present at the
opening of the grave and waa
thoroughly convinced that the
body found Waa that of UK.
Dargan. Mr. Dor ran bad $25,
000 insurance in this company,
$10,000 for his estate and $15,
000 for his family.
Mr. Chambers, local represen
tative of other companies, in
which Mr. Dargan had been
Insured, was also present at the
investigation and waa convinced
without a doubt that the body
found in the grave waa that of
Keith Dargan.
The investigation has put at
an tod the suspicion which has
existed, regarding tbe authenti
city of the story of the bn rial of
R. K. Dargan. It waa on ac
count of this suspicion that the
family agreed to an investiga
tion which wap to-d«y made.
"Ini S#rt ef liiftiw.**
WllniiaM Manair. LM.
Under the above beading yes
terday the News and Observer
published the following editorial
on a question which ia worrying
housewives all oyer the country
—bow to get their housework
done:
The lad among PUtabnrg wo
men in favor of athletics may be
turned to tome practical good,
for as enthusiast among the wo
men itbletes advocating wear
ing gymnasium salts doing the
boose-work. If. instead of
going to clubs to don gymnasium
suits, the women will don these
suits to do boose-work the
servant girl problem may be
solved, and the women may
beat the biscuit and make the
beds as physical culture instead
of expending their strength up
on playing golf and rolling ten
pins. What is more graceful
and strengthening than a young
woman, with her sleeves rolled
np to,her elbows making beaten I
biscuit? It ia a poem incarnate, I
end it ia exercise of the health
mat sort. And there is more
fine exercise in making beds
and sweeping the floor than in
chasing all over the golf-links.
®**^*i. think of the money,
saved from hiring cooks and
maids, that would buy dresses
*°4 give pleasure
trips. Cell it physical culture,
pot on gymnasium suits, and
the problem of help will be
easily solved.
Thorn bouse wive, who are
forced to do their own work be
c*®fc cannot aecnre ser
mantswia hardly agree with that
Pittsburg enthusiast that this
drudgery they wow have to per
form can be tamed into pleasant
recreation simply tor donning
gymnasium salts. That would
SrasrsrW’.-ss
and for the thing make a pre
tense at door their own cook
iag tad home work. It eotmde
■mthty well, hot when it cornea
down to the real thing—the sore
enough hard work of cooklag
tor a family.sad cleaning up the
home the woman who hat them
duties forced upon her does not
«o at work in tbe spirit of fun
and for the purpose of recreation.
She does not substitute there
duties, through preference, for
golf aad lawn tennis. She per
forms them through pare neces
sity and she would coo.tder
absurd tin Idea of donning a
fancy gymnasium suit for the
purpose. She puts a cloth over
her head to heap the dust oat of
her hair, does an old shirt waist,
fastens on s long apron and
goes to work in earnest. It Is
not say play-work srith her sad
there to no aae in trying to con
vince her that she can make it
•• by tbe gymnasium suit
device.
WA Uonfataa *aya:
Mr. R. P. L*xton, of tbia conn
ip^tsJ^slLS&
for • bone, bridle and saddle
taken from bin b» the (arriaoe
at MoTjanton while ba waa on
kl» way homo from the Con.
federate army, feat after the
surrender of Oonera] Lee,
•e# a.
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Atluu CoaMhvUot,
And the •jtat“ dispute was
Klled o« yesterday at Colas
*. One report says Hoke
Smith swallowed Clark Howell
without pinning his oar* hack
or greasing'him. Anothrr re
port says Clark literally sot
Hoke op, aad the people ca
Pates but when I think of the
good old country Baptist preach
er la Hsmsou county yean ago.
He challenged R^ RnaSl
Reno for a "Joint* debate oa
beptlss. The Baptist preach
er was a good, honest, ignorant
preacher who had beard the
word "baptize" cans from the
Greek word "beptidso." which
meant to dip, to souse under,
etc., rad really that is about all
he did know. Russell Beno
was a cultured, fine contro
versialist. He accepted the
challenge, rad the day was act
for the meeting. The two an
tagon 1st* were on the ground:
not only the church waa full of
P«ople. but they were there oa
the outside, from the regions
round about. Russell Reno led
ol the dispate, taking up the
word heptidso, showing its
dennitiou aad advancing rad
answering clearly all thetmmer
sion theories, and he sat down.
The good old Baptist brother
aew be was like the bob-tail cell
ia fly time. Baft hi* tact came
to 01* relief, end when Mr.
Reno sat.dowa, the good old
brother me oa the scene sad
said, "Brethren, we have net
here to-day for a peaceable die
cosnoa. aad brother Reno has
Cpoc ead got aad. aad I want
aU of yoo who win pray for bln
to come tip here and give an
your hud." Mr. Reno lamped
to bU feet and aaid: "No,
brethren. I'm not and. 1 never
ana in a better honor." "Yu
can't fool an." replied- the
Baptist preacher. "I know
whe* anybody's and. Coat
oa, brethren, aad give me your
baada, von that fed like pray
ing for him," end they began to
file up and give the preach, r
their baada, aad Brother Reno
took to the woods. Thus ended
the "jiat dispute" oa beptisa.
I an not much of s daclist.
Thu way of walktag oat end
stepping off ten paces aad giv
log another fellow a pistol sad
saying to him, "Ybo shoot
at me while I shoot at
jwo;* there’s ao fan la
that to tbe fellows that are do
lag the shooting, and yet they
feel like they ought to die faj
their honor, when by tbe grace
of God I feel like I ought to live
for my honor.
There ore these contest* of
the baseball aad the football
crowds. Yankee Doodle aad
Dixie had a contest a few yean
ago aad the colored troops "fit”
nobly as well as tbe boys la
Mae and the boys in gray cov
ered themselves with martial
glory. But more aad more I am
like Pat when the fellow got af
ter Mm with a knife, and he
run. Afterwards they gnyed
Mm aad called him a coward.
"Yea", aaid he. "I had rather
be a coward five minutes than a
corpse forever." .
Who cm make the best speech
of the casdidntea aad what if
they can make the beat speech?
The qaattficntfeme of an official
ia to be so more determined hr
the speech he can make than it
is to be determined by the shoe
be wears A man may be a fine
orator aad nothing else, and a
man may be everything dee ead
aootatoc hi all. A candidate
can bs fudged alone, and _
judged, by his character
connect, end by the fact i
steads rightly related to
right thing and all cot of l
ony with the wrong thing. But
the people enjoy these joint de
bates. They love to see the for
fly, ead tbs fellows that Sara do
ing the slugging are the ones
that furnish the far that is •■fly
ing. These joint debates will
liven up the issue and make m
settle down where a choice it
made between them.
It is going to take a font mile
hone to ran to tbs and of thfi
race. Some of the candidates
an going to bs bellowsed and
an going to gat nuder the pofa
•fc iMt*. With spavin and rial
booe sad swlnney. etc. 1
wouk hats to ran so long, bn
aaybs their enjoy It, aad If to
I say: Go It, boots!
Neither of the candidate,
nans to be running my way
I am more against liquor than 1
am for anything else, aad fa
MptMagthst (a against Hqao.
more than I am for any caodl
data who wont talk oat is
meette’ on that subject. If]
mind is perfectly impartial be
twees the State and the sc
cuted. I have besrd no evi
deuce delivered seder oath, no
hava I formed an opinion MU
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the gaitt or the ieeocence of
the candidate* before tha bar.
I think Hoke and Clark ought
to have a any of tbeae ”jiat de
bate*." It won't do them aay
tana, and thecrowdm do enjoy
h to Bach. The gaoM ii oof aa
cruel aa foot ball or aa modem
puriHam. It it about Uha base
ball. The crowd doiar the
pitying have to ran and jaap
3£r2~£S
one or^tbeottaraMe. ^ ^
i teresting later along.
Gtt up your "Hat dUont#* *
boya. wUlenjo, tbe^Sd
i mala*, too.
Cb
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