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The Gastonia
PUBLISHED TWICE A WEEK—TUESDAYS AND
JAS. W. ATKINS, Editor and Manager. Devoted to the Protection of Howe and the Interesta
VOL. XXVII.
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GASTONIA, N. C, TUESDAY
*. f. Κλμκιμ. ΑτίίΛ.Λ C. Κ. K*A*·. l-iu Prtt Α. α Bnu, CetbUr.
CAPITAL SeO.OOO
THE CITIZENS NATIONAL BANK
OABTONIA, N. C.
Accounts ο/ Merchants, Manufacturers, and
Farmers Invited.
Liberal Dealing along Conservative Lsnes.
SAVING»
We have added a Savings Department, in tthick we Pay
4 per centcompounded every three months. It you have
not already opened an account in this department tve invite
you ta do so.
DON'T FAIL TO HEAR
I S*res. SCettry 31. Snyder
•I Vtdml College, SiutMkirt S. C.
LCCTUKE ON
"Shakespeare Once 3lgairt"
AT fit
I OPERA HOUSE
I Friday Night, Nov. 16th
I ImnrW S«*U, SI Cnti 6u«r*l Μ·Ιπ<η 33 Crate.
§ FOR BENEFIT OF PUBLIC SCHOOL.
BRIMFUL STQMACB DOSJUO.
P|· N«m) (f It Whea Kyevtl |f
Um4 ' t» Cor· Calsrrlf
Physicians and scientists
agree that the 1cm medicine one
swallows, the better. It is in
keeping with this idea that Hy
otnei ia recommended by lead
ing phyaiciana throughout thia
and other catarrh·! section·.
When thia treatment U used
in catarrhal troubles, there ia no
atomach dosing. for the medi
cine is taken in with the -air
you bfeathe, and goes right to
the spot where the cstarrhal
germa aie present, healing the
inflamed and irritated mucoua
membrane, killing the disease
germs and entering the blood
with the oxvgen, driving al{ ca
tarrhal gefinf frpm i}iev system.
fio1 not try to ς pre catarrh oj
the bead bv putting medicine
into your stomach,—this ii
«either a »cte«tlflO aor rolnmon
mh treat meet. Breathe U»e kt»l
Isut halsams oi Hyomei and la a few
day»y°« «ill notice relief, and iti
coetlnr.cd uae will result in a com
plete and taiUn* eo*e.
J. H. Kennedy ft Co., aeen ae
many cores made by Hyomei
amoauft their cu(toner*, several
of them caaea Where all hop· of re
lief had been gtrea αρ. that they
rv^ffç/siswî. îis
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Riv Uwr Pire.
HarUoe, Taylor ft Co., la tk
name of a new livery firm at
Dalla·. The new concern bai
leased the «tables ο I Mr. Ε
Lee wilaon and will conduct ι
livery buaineaa at tbe old
itand. Mr. ' Jôbn Hartsoe, ο
(he firm, will àondopf a b|àck
imilhahop iq aopnecUm wjil
the atablf. Mr. Wilaon. Ih«
former liver* man, lia* duaed
oat hi· etock a ad will devou
hi· entire time to hi· lumber in
tareata.
Special Law liiaa.
Tb. C. * N..W. Râilwai
Company kaf Leaned the tollow
Soted partie· of Tweatyl*· h
fty people oe on ticket. «
rat ilar train*, between any t*<
patata, on tbeaa Haea.
Meet**· M and *km ApH
Ι^,ΙίΟβ.· β. P. R«tt>.
QmwiI huttf At—
HtrTASOrtlS BANQUET.
Nioiltrf Initiated
«I MaatlaJ Prtd#y HUM—R*n.
IlK Mi Hn*r ·! Mwrii'
Ctlr-AMriii by Mr. Jake W,
CrtfU, t! Ballimare,
At the regular meeting of the
Gaaton Conclave No. 391, ]m.
proved Order Heptaaopba, in
their hall Friday sight, it was
the pleasure of the local order
tp have two distinguished
membera of the supreme coo
clave present. The visiting
brethren were: Mr. John W.
Crnett, supreme organiser, of
Baltimore, and Mr. John B.
Sloan, district deputy organi
ser, of Rock Hill, §· C. Mr.
Ç. H. gubert, sdpretné fc*ed»ç*l
difeçtqr, wM to baye been
Keaent also, but was prevented
>tn coming to Qaatonl· on ac
count of the great rush of busi
neaa in hi» oflce. In addition
to tbc regular work Of the
lodge, aeven new members
were ioitiated and introduced to
the goat. After the initiation.
I taém almMiaa* - — « 1 J " Λ
the member· of the order on tbe
benefits to be derived (roo tbe
KjlOTO
tq QMt°oU ίρ three ye·?· and.
ip Si* opening reoitru, he Mid
that the town had grown to eucb
en entent that he was only able
to (COOfttiae the plaee by the
hotel at which he atowped.
After the meeting To the halt
the Heptasopbs wast to Morris'
cafe where Mr. Morris bad
«ade special arrangement· tor
their entettainteent. While the
member· feasted on orators and
C'uett sad othara. Mr. Ctuett
msde a great hit ia a response
to a toast with ρ revised version
of tha old Mother Goose rhyme,
"Jack aad OUI."
Tbe evening was a very
pleasant one for all tha members
■ad will eaase many to ^ake
(treeter latere* \a the Wrfings
of the locslWsre. The Qfston
conclave now Km »ore than MO
αχ ipbcfs ao4 «a effort will he
made to leertaae the member·
•hip to *00 ia another year.
> The report from tbe board of
ι eoonty eanvasaera for Aibe,
» which met at JeKeraon Mov.lOtb,
I showathat tfee Democrats haW
se cared a majority la that ooaa*
, ty for the first tiaaa la tO years.
Jt/l Over the State \
; I Oar SU*i Xapptmlmtê A/ Jet»
; Jiltjr Arffnyii hr Snf
I cXmAn-A* Xnn ·/ « Amî
! f>«aw»wM £·«AwA ι / /
Pire destroyed « liven stable
at Draper Friday, entailing a
Iom of $3,000.
The Caroon Brick Company,
Charlotte, is chartered, with a
capital o( $100,000.
Pire at Wilson Thursday night
destroyed the Banner warehouse
and a large amount of tobacco,
the total loaa being $25,000. -
The Pigeon River Railway Co.
with headquarters at Can
ton, Haywood county, la char
tered with a capital of 1200,000.
Varions township· in Iredell
and Yadkin coontiea Tuesday
voted bonds aggregating $190,·
000 for the StatesvTlle Air Line
Railway.
Herbert L. Matthews, aged 13,
suicided at Raleigh Priday by
drinkiag a glass of coca cola
containing ?0 grains of strych·
nine. He died in half an hour.
George Wilson, a Greensboro
negro, was ahot and seriously
injured bv Policeman β keen s
PriHav wtiil*» tilfitintlnor ta #»».
cape. He h*<l been arretted for
insolence to two ladies.
In response to an advertise
ment of the Beaufont Ginger Ale
Company, tweaiy-tbrae red·
headed girls applied at The Ob
server office in Charlotte Friday·
for a box of Hnyler'» candy—
and all in one boar.
J«df« Henry Pearee aoored a
jury at Dotban, Ala., for
acquitting William Crockett, a
white man, of the charge of
killing a negro. Had hi·
victim been a white man, aaid
Judge Pearee, the Jury would
have banged Crockett.
Ai a result of family troubles
Dr. B. S. McDow, of Lancaster,
was shot and seriously Injured
Thoraday at Heath Springs by
bis brotber-io-law, John A.
Bridges. His left arm an^
right band may bay? |o be
amputated,'
Tbomasville chair manufac
turers are exceedingly mad with
the Southern Railway because
Friday the road transferred to
Danville, Ya . all the empty cars
standing at Tbomssvill· ready
to be loaded with chairs.
At Burlington Friday Mr, Wilt
Holt knocked dqwn a negro wbo
insulted bim and Uttr, when the
negro attempted to cut bim,
shot. This negro and three
others were warned to leave
town and did so at once.
The oldest inmate of tbe Sold
iers Home at Raleiqh is dead, at
the age of 97. His name waa
Bonn. He and three of his sons
were in the Forty-seventh North
Carolina Regiment and served
throughout the v»ar. Two of
vue NUI flqw MVPf ·
The Monro* Insurance and In
vestmeut Company, recently in·
corporaled, perfected Its organ
isation Seturdsy. The company
ia capitalised at $30,000 but is
authorised to begin butines» on
SlO.OOO. it will deal especially
ία real estate and loans.
Miss Flossie Settle, a North
Carolina girl wb«. M M»rton
Draufhn, has sttfincd soma
^rttkdioeflce on the sUp and
*rbp reeeafly lost a salt which
shs brought against "The Ctsns
wan," has according ta a I<oa^ei
dispatch, brought «ait «gainai
Heinrich Tbyssen, son of ι
German multUmllllonalre, (or ι
large sum (or breach q( promise.
At the seventh anneal meet
ing o( the State Literary «né
Historical Association, to bt
held ia Raaey Half, Raleigh,
Nov. IÇb, M will t$ decided tc
m«ers«a wemorisl
cup wiU b· awarded. .The enj
goes lo the North Carollnlat
who haa produced the beet lit
erary work daring the paat year,
It is now held by Mr. Johi
Charles McNeill, of The Char
lotte Observer.
flukhm Will Ceatest.
•eye;
ÎConaressman Κ, 8 pence
ilsckbnrn, who was defeats
y over 1,100 majority by Mr
R. N. Hachett in the eifhtl
congressional district, was ben
to-night ea route (ram WUkes
boto to Washlagtoa. la aa la
terview the defeated candid·*
stated that he pmiosed I
poatett the eleotlon oHlacket
oa the ground that a«n thai
1,000 neea voted against hi a
who had Ml paid their poll tas
Spindles ud Looms
~t-x-~ir-utttttuiuiu;:i:u:· irtttrtmnaxs
Matter· .« latorw* *W«t M Ida
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TTw ΠμΜΜμ Tiigi m rf Mm
OM Nw«fc ΙΜ*·« OfMtK
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Fred A Com nook resiroed
aa anperintendent of the Covti
neat·] Μίκ. Co. of Charlotte oo
the 1st inat.
The Creacent Manufacturing
Co. of SperUaburr, 8. C.. has
■taited s eight κ boot for the
benefit of it· employea.
C. Gunby Jordan, president
of Eagte mod Pboenii Cotton
Mills, of Colombo», Ga., says
they arc annually loaiec S3,000
oa accoaat of not beiné able to
get sufficient help.
. G. R. Matthews, ovtrseer of
weaving at the Gibtpn MOI,
Concord, N. C., entertained bis
second hands at supper at tbe
St. Cloud-Normandy Hotel
recently.
Β. M. Walton, fonnefly of the
Loaise Cotton Mills. Charlotte,
ha· gone to Kisff's Mountain,
Ν C., to aceept another oosi
"τbe Bradford Knitting Mill»
Co.. at Stateaville, N. C., men
tioocd tool time «go as bavin*
been incorporated with a capita]
of $?5.Q0Q, baa «Urted work oo
ita mill. Tbe pnrpoce ia to
bave the mill completed tome
time in January
Tbe warehouse at tbp &s*on
Mill», Spartanburg, S.'C., waa
badly dacqaged and t«e*ty
aeven bale· of cwttQa were
deatroyed by fire Tuesday nigbt
of last week, The origin of the
fire la not known.
It ia now definitely ateured
that a new cottW mill la being
organised at Roanoke Rapida,
N. C , and H ia expected that
actual construction wiQ be be
gun on the plant as aoon aa the
Roanoke Rapids Power Co., la
in a position to furnish the
neceaaary additional power.
The capital stock of tbe com·
pany ia said to be about $500,
000.
The Dudley Sboal· Cotton
M ilia Co., of Granite Palls, N.
C., baa been granted a charter.
Tbe object of the corporation ia
to manufacture cotton yarns,
cotton fabrics, etc. Tbe total
authorzed capital stock ia $100,·
000, but tbe Compaq y iqay
organize and commence busi
ness when 923,000 baa been paid
in. Tbe incorporators are D.
H. Warlick, D. A. Whianant,
D. W. Rnaaell and G. Mooft, of
Granite Palls.
far Qeed a! Schaola.
A branch of the State
Women's Betterment Associa
tion waa organised Priday after
noon at tee Central graded
school with about 35 members,
including teachers and patrooa
of the school. Tbe meeting was
held at 2 o'clock, school having
bean dismissed for tbe afternoon
for tbe purpose. Mi«* |<eah D,
Jones, tjead of the practice
school at the State Normal and
one of the State's beat equipped
and most progressive primary
teachers, was present and nude
an addresa, setting loeth clearly
the objects of the organlaation
and the beaefita to be derived
therefrom., Officers were elected
as follows: President. Mr*.
P. Raid; vice president, Mrs.
W. J. Clifford? recording «we·
sr;
Eh u ford. The organigatfon will
be computed at an adjourned
meeting to be fcétd at the Central
achoof Priday afternoon at 2
o'Olock. The object of the as
sociation ia tbe beautifying of
aohool rooms and baildinga and
the creating of interest amtnsg
the oitrooa to this en·!. It
doubt leas accomplish »«eh
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WILL MAKE
UDIESMURMENTS.
TIE YEAUt-McLEAH MF®. CO.
flutoth'i \MMt Eaterpriae le ·
Factory tor TminOti I»
41m* SaMa aa< Shirt»—Will ha
luiy 1er Iwndw Eirlr la
J—wr-vgi fn* Str»
<T*fH» U4ki I· AO Mi Will
Mr. J. P. Twin ami Mr. A. A.
McLm· Mm ft—»In Flirt
•nti KM to flihUBt Keith
GutMliu have become ao
need lo bcitiiK of new factories
and Other eoterpriaea act oa loot
a 1 moat every day that the mere
aaaoaoceaeat that the town ia
to haw a aew factory, especially
[f it be foe the aianaiactare of
cottoa yam· or cloth, attracta
do great amount of atteotioa, aa
area the caae a few year· hack.
The town'a lateat eeterwW.
however, la doa| M altogether
new lise and the mere mooter·
ment of iu loasgnration win at*
tract attention oat only In Ges
tosis bqt tfarra|toat the State
and even io other Statea. It la
β factory for the aianufaetore of
ladles' garments, consisting of
fall aaita and skirta.
Thia new enterprise la to be
operated fay the Yeager-McLean
Manufacturing Company, the
members of the ire» being ltr.
/. P. Yeager and Mr. A. A. lie·
Lean. Mr. Yeager baa for the
put aeveral years conducted a
millinery and ladle·' furnishings
More with marked anccesa, aad
has for the peat twelve aaoatbs
operated a acaall manufacturing
plant foe custom work, hia bus
iness having crown from the
my start. Thia baaineaa will
be condoned. Mr. McLean baa
long been prominently identified
with the baaineaa interest* of
the town and m « traveling
talesman baa met with great
ι access. The firm will begin
business Jan.- lit -TtfTwfU 66·'
copy the tbird too* of tbe Ad·
a ma building, where tbe machin
ery for tbe msaufactnring of
■kirta will be installed.
In the en atom department,
which now occupies tbe second
|oor of thia baildine and which
will be enlarged and in tbe fac
tory department there will be
employed at least seventy-five
ladles, M toon aa tbe factory is
pqt in operation ; 50 will be em
ployed in the skirt department
and 25 will be employed in the
custom department. Tbe ma
chinery. especially made for this
purpose, has already been or
dered and- will be installed and
ready for work by Jan. 15th,
The motive power will be elec
tricity, which will be obtained
from tbe Spence* Mountain
Power . Cootpanv, through the
town of Gaston (a. An electric
elevator will be installed to carry
freight aad passengers from the
first to the third floor.
It is the intentioo of the com
pany to pet salesmen on the
road nod tbe goods manufac
tured will be placed with firms
in the lsrrer towns and cities
of thia ana many other States.
Only η very blfb grade of goods
Will UC OBI MOU VB1T I
hi(b Qlaw of trade will be
«itered lo. It U dlOcult to at
tempt to estimate with any de
gree o! accuracy I be valut of
tbift new eoterprlae to Gactoaia.
It will aerye to advertise it over
a lam territory u the only
town La North Carolina where
ladies' garment· are mannfaC'
tu red. The com p«ny bu a
large capital and, being backed
by bh wb« know the bnsinesi
and who have attained success,
the re la not the leaat doubt that
tbe nroduct of tbe new factory
erll), in a very abort time, win «
reputation which will increase
the demand for Gaaloula-made
garments to aoch an extent that
the eoaptajr will bava to en
large ita factory and increase Its
ont put. Th*" Gaxkttr extendi
tbe glad band to tbe Yeager·
McLean Manufacturing Com
pany and rxpeeaaea tM hop»
that it wU> more tban reallae all
Ita bopea of aucceee.
Te Dm Electric fewer.
All the cotton mill· at Maidat
and the Maiden Milling Co»
pany on laat Friday signed ι
contract whb tbe Çatawbi
Power Company,· headquarter
Hock fllll, tf c.. to wpph
electric power to these mills
beginning next June, Tin
Catawba Power Company la nos
stretching wire· to Oaatoela aa<
aa aoon m the mill· at that plan
are equipped, the line will b
cheaper for ta· mill· tban ateam
produced from either wood ο
ooal m tea).
Will find io ot»r «tore the choicest line of Dress Good·,
Millinery aod Ladies' Furnishings they csrf to took
at. W· bar with * view to satisfying the noat exact·
iof aod our iatawsN baatooa pretaa that we km
succeeded ία plesiiaf hundreds. Why not yo«? ;
Plaid &IIk aqd
Flannel Walttlngs
The *trγ newest things la plaids and flannels in aO
the aew designs end coloriées. Our lie· of PlaW
SOks b the prettiest I· tow. Sitka an very tcarce
•ear and hard to e*t, hot we succeeded in leading ·
splendid Nee. Λ Λ;:
New Dress Goods
A sufficient variety to plea* all. Tble line lactadee
the Blsee, Greys, Reda, Greens and «II the ether new
colorings. : :::::::
Coats and Jackets
A fall line of the latest styles. Yon moat see them to
appreciate : s
Ladles',Children's and
Misses* Underwear
Uaderwrat dan «t kin «ad ■£ km talus
anuinal pains to proridt oer «tore with a full a«d
coankte lloc in this depvtmcat. Thk h m of oar »
specialties. AQ style* vd price* from 25c to $1 JO.
Furs*
Λ complete assortment of «11 qualities. We can't fail
to plmi foa ia tkt mattar of Pan. - '»'· :
Fall Millinery
Our head wear business ha» grown to
portions. Oar triaatn are all m busy as bm.
There's a reason-we please oor customers—that's it.
iJas. F. Yeager
5LADIES* FURNISHINGS
1^· a
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Please Call This Week
s$ie
And laspect our complete line of
•w
Sideboards
■ . ,1·., . · '·.·-·/'À· t·· *' -v : · vi· ' *vV *C
Williams Furniture Co.
■EAST TO QrESATS.
Clara Mill lo »etfn OperaUan i
• Few Week» Electricity VU
b· M .(It. Power—A Mlto
PlaaL . '
The Clara Cottoa MitK on tb
Carolina & North-We.tern Rail
road, south of town, la ready }
begia operetioa m wooa u th
power cutt be (uroidMd. Tk
mill will obtain Ua motive pom
from tbe Speocar Mooatai
Power Company. The compas
expect» to reach the mill withi
a few day· a*d the work <
starting the machinery ' wi
befha mtn building la oa
leet, ·πα ι
equipped witb the very latei
labor-*avlnff machinery. Th
carda «ad epinninj hail, U
irether with some of the odu
machinery, are the latent pro*
ucU oi In Wbitinville Machin
Shop*, whilt the picker· ore «
the Kiuon type. There are S
000 npiudie». in «tWition to tl
twitter «pindle», which nu»b<
440Q. Tbere *ra atao ta
warpera, one Den η and 00· Bal
The mill will turn out Ana van
40'· to 60'· both ply mpà slagfc
Throughout the mill there ai
placed U aiotor·. 12 ol 20 hora
power and one of SO hone powt
Back aiotor will drive a certa
portion oi tha machinery, erhU
will taabU any part,to I
•topped witkoat ioterierrit
witn the «iber».
The will rit· lu elude· IS acr
of laud on which there baa b«
built · neat little village of tkl
ty boa···, conveniently arrant
for tbt comfort o( the operetta
Mr. C. M. Dunn le »up*rint«n
ent and Mr. Starnev Smith w
be overtter ol carding, Tl
other foremen have not yet ke
irAisoû niirnu'S nissim.
l l»fM U H ίι lull to hwcà
I «d F—If >·ι·| fWWIdw*
» ·! Thaï City.
Tbe Rev. AtamkUr Hemp
. hill. · colored divise at peculiar
I cet, bu *one te OuUwU, where
t he will paatare ahd preach fer
ι aeveral iao«tka. People who
t «tood about the Sootbern**- -
r StvPmoa He«phi)lT in alt*o{
ι Ma «lory. He waa nbt woat ia
I ttmtint character whhia a
1 block. On bit head ke wore ·
•ilk bal which waa banded down
e itooa aowe οέ hia Africa· aocea
l tore. Hi* coat, a greeniah tinted
t frock, licked the calve· of fit .....
It- - λ - —· m —
tape! to Uil with wdgMted cm*
paiirn buttoa·, hofeta aod pirn»
On OH aid· were MM«bled
the pictotca of the lataeoted Mo·
Kin ley, the atreaaoua Rooeevelt
»η<| β rooitef, while <tm "
the othè· WM arrjijred » 20tb of
May button, bearing the lace of
Ch»rlott·'· way or, tad a Mo·
Comtek adrntliha plate.
^«reo-a Heraphjfl, beiu® · ν
quiet man, «aid bat little dalteMU.V
hi· wait «I tbe ctation, hot tiS
ejrea were bmy. acaaaio* mrjf- »
thing that pieaented itaalf.
When a»ked where he WM co
in* tbe darkey »"4 M'iwnm
way to Q eat on/ to ι
iro»t»e1 to dc wicVed
dnnrhifr* of <!v. ritjr."
"What might he yea* aa*Mf*
aiked as Obaervrr Mas.
-I'ae da Rev. AV..
H»mphUl, preacher of da \
and all-rottâd partem.*
M4^i£LS22"vi?.*?S
color, by do»** or baa at Ta4 Oa
Liklr