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iV. P. tli J L 4 1 . f; iS , THE TIME if J 5 .9 9 J We have just finished taking J stock and find that we have j fully three times as much I V tCIothlng as we ought to have j J at this season of the year; : If you are a candidate for a ! New Suit, extra Pants or an P Overcoat now is the time above all other times to se cure all or either of these at JBargain Prices. li TT C 1IILCI1U CHOI. CYCI llltlll, youth and boy who pat- )J p ronizes our Clothing depart- tf j( ment shall be a walking ad- J P vertisement, not only as to y the style, fit, quality and d J) but also as to the LOW PRICES we are now selling at." ' ' S 9 9 :5 '9 9 MORRIS BROS. I Department Store V 9 9 9 FIFTH SERIES Opened Jan. 1st, 1907 GASTONIA MUTUAL building' LOAN ASSOCIATION after Have you thought of that rainy day that's surely coming: while. You'll need a home then you shouldjbejnn to get it bow. The Gastonia Mutual Building And Loan AssociATiONjtmakes it possible for any Gastonian to own his home. The plan is simple and easy. The money you are pay in? out for rent will soon pur chase a house for you. Why continue to pay rent.' Let us talk to you about it. Our Fifth Series opened Jan. 1st, 1907. Now is the time to take stock. In the past two years we have loaned Forty Thousand Dollars To Home Builders. Let Us Talk with You About it Now. Gastonia Mutual Building & Loan Association S. N. Boyce, C.B.Armstrong, President Secretary and Treas. Office in Armstrong Building North Carolina Well Eaawa In . Gistocls Expires ZcllttAj 13 ' SI, Louis: CteW;i:Crca. mer. Evangelist end J'lae Pro mqter-A EeraarkaMa Career. special from St. Loms, Mo., , to yesterday's Charlotte Observer says; ;..:',".'" ? VV. P. Fife, capitalist. died suddenly at 11 o'clock to-day at St. James Hotel. Mr. rue was in the hotel lobby chatting with friends when he suddenly became ill, and soon lost consciousness. Dr. William Beherns was hastily summoned from the Southern Hotel, across the street, but could do nothing: for Mr, Fife, who died shortly after the: doc tor's arrival,; Dr. Beherns says the death was probably due to a heart attact, but is not positive Coroner Baron has been notified of the death and will bold an in quest Monday morning. ; Mr, Fife's son who is how in Denver, Colorado, has beed notified' of bis fathers death. The body has been sent to the morgue an will remain there until the son has been heard from." i rv To this dispatch The Observ er adds the folowing biographi cal sketch : ?. - - "William P. Fife was born about fifty years ago in New bern. His father was a trader. The elder Fife refugeed to Thomasville-towards the close of the civil war and resided in the latter town until his death W. P. Fife married, about i 30 years ago, Miss Whitford, ; a daughter of Col. John D. Wbit ford, of Newbern, and is surviv ed by two children. Miss Elmer Fife and W. P. Fife, Jr For years Mr. Fife was a suc cessful tobacco salesman, travel ing for several North . Carolina lactones. He was a man of the world and was given to . dissipa tion. Twenty years ago this month, while Rev. R. G. Pear son was conducting revival services in Charlote, he was con verted. A little later he took a prominent part in a big Y. M.C. A. meeting at Wilmington. He then gave up bis position on the road fend threw himself earnestly nto the cause of religion, hold ing large and successful revival meetings throughout this and other States, earning the sobri quet of "Drummer Evangelist," He was an attractive speaker, possessed a pleasing voice l ot great carying power and preach ed to good crowds wherever he went. . ;";; "After some years of this evangelical work his throat tail ed him., and be was forced to give up preacning., lie bad ac cumulated some money, and th he invested in oil wells in the Beaumont region of Texas, which had then just sprung into fame, and later invested in Western mining stocks, becom ing associated with : the Great Western Oil Refining and Pipe Line Company and the Great Western Gold Minning Company having offices in the Missouij Trust buiding, in St Louis. "His friends in this State, and be b id many, believed that in ali his dealings he was honest and trustworthy. He had fre quently declared that the money he hoped to make out of- his mining and oil speculations he expected to apply to the promo tion of missionary work ' on the Dark Continent. What success has attended these ventures ; is not a matter of common knowledge." Car Xftt Xapplg ? Sti&g fare graph. " tar'"' vr uui uy ut ruic vi , mice iu subcommittee of the 5 A. W. Sampson FARMERS ATTENTION For 10 days, commencing Monday, January 28, we will pay - - - 32 Cents a Bushel For Sound Dry Cotton Seed This will be vour last orjnortuntrv to. get the very highest market f H price for r your i seed - as we will . I v reduce price 'after February 6th. ' : GAOTONIA, ; ' ; . ? . N. C. Original Observations. Orange (Va.) Observer. '; Looking on the brieht side of life never injures the eyesight; The most uncommon currencv in circulation is common sense. An able bodied mortgage never loses interest in the old homestead. . It is the beetrothal that leads to the honeymoon, al though marriage may be a cell. The most successful spark arrester is a healthy bull dog. v A great many people knew something was going to happen alter it has Happened. r And now Mrs. Lanetry is called Lady de : Bathe, That name ceitainly ought to out her right in the swim. 5 An Illinois v judge has inst ruled that a jug of whiskey is a deadly weapon, but he did it in the case of a jug being thrown at a man and not emptied into him. . r-V. .:;-:- The Hon: Mr. Turtle is now the leader of the Republicans in the Massachusetts Legislature, which job is thought to be some thing of a snap. It is to be hoped that he will sever ' t in the soup. And Mrs. Lydia Commander. who scores race suicide in her last book, says that in America two children in a family . is the limits Yes, and there are sotfl families in this country who have 'only one-child, and the neighbors reeard that as the limit. V - " SltJtrCk SZtrn t Srmt . Commonvtaltk Codd. ':" i i Durham citizen will launch a campaien for a $35,000 Y. M. C, A. building. ; Two nundted bales of cotton were destroyed by . fire at Elon College Sunday, , , , ; The town of Dunn is asking the Legislature for a dispensary. Two years - ago : whiskey was voted out by a. vote of three to one. ; The Senate and the House committee on the State hospitals , for the insane inspected the State Hos pital and its surroundings! at Morganton Tuesday. ? compulsory education came tn for a large share in the ;. dis ensstons at the annual -meeting in Raleigh last' week of the North Carolina Association! of City School Superintendents,' Aman, treasurer! of county and . a laree merchant at Clinton, made an assignment Friday, his liabili ties being placed at $30,000, half of - the amount being due the county. s -',; ' ; ; i' ' . Shaberdly, one of the shov men with John Sparks' Shows, was Saturday found guilty at Troy of an assault on Conduc tor Slack Dec. 8th , and was sen tenced to 18 months on the roads,, The Statesville Flour Mills, recently burned, will receive in surance to the amount of $43, 350, this amount . having been agreed upon by the adjusters last week. The mills will sus tain a net loss of $20,000. Congressman Gilbert B. Pat terson and Mrs. Mattie McNair Evans were married in Laurin- bnrg Wednesday r evening. Mi. and Mrs. Patterson left immedi ately for Washington where they will be several months be fore their return home to Max tOD- " . W. S. Andrews, superintend ent of the Danville division of the Southern Railway.! with headquarters at Gteensboro, Sat urday resigned to accept a po sition with the Queen & Cres cent Railroad Feb. 1st. He may be 't succeeded by Supt, C. S. Lake, of the Washington divis- rs. btonewall Jackson has declined to accept tbi proffered pension of $100 per month which a bill introduced in the General Assembly gave ber. Her de clination is based on the fact that the law limits pensioners to those having less than $500 worth of personal property and hf does not come ander this classification J ph T. Cowan, : who xlc- frtuded many Iredell county people, heirs of Andrew Harts held, of money on the pretext that he bad good chances to se cure tor jnem an immense es tate left in New York by the de ceased, committed suicide a few days ago in the jail at Dallas Texas. He bad been arrested and was to be tried for using the mails for fraudulent purposes. Senator Simmons has address ed a letter to a number f State legislators protesting against the re-opening at this time of ; the liquor question by ; introducing into the Genera Assembly a bil the' purpose of which is to give the entire State prohibition. He does not think" the time pro pitious and believes that it-would do harm to toe temperance cause. The Highlands . apartment bouse, one of (be fashionable" places of Washington, has ob tained : judgment against Con gressman E. Spencer Blackburn for the sum of $182, balance due on i rent Blackburn failed to appear at the hearing ; and the case went against him bv de fault. However, Blackburn claims that he will reside in bis apartment the 3( days be is allowed under the law. George Collins.: a negro. Sat- nrdav soli to George W. Van ''erbilt his six-acre farm adjoin' ing the latter's famous Biltmore estate near Asheville.- the con sidcration . being $2,000. - Many stories, the majority of them doubtless greatly - exagerated, bad been told and printed re carding fabulous Sums which this negro bad refused for his little farm and cabin from the owner of Biltmore." .11 liL'U .-. IS NOV GO. i, J BALTIMORE Crowds are pouring in daily, the aisles art jammed with peor securing the greatest bargains ever .offered in Gastonia, we had to add to our extra force to wait on the crowds. , - : : t , : . : : ; : i : : : Come to this Great Moocy SovinfJ Sale Bring the Chndren to" Hear ttic Hluoic 10 Days of Inimitable Bargains Before the Public B ALT I MORE RAKEtlstbRE s IS THE PLACE daic uriinatorsaaf uarcain uivers 2C 2Z ion. Gen. Stephen 'D. Lee. com manding the United Confede rate veterans, has issued an oraer nammz June i. z and 3 as the date for the seventeenth annual reunion; which is to be held in Richmond. ' ::tr To Moch Governed. Beodenon Col4Xftt. . . . .: . .. We are so much governed by law now that afttr awhile it will be necessary for a man to have some sort of special permit to kiss his wife on his own prem ises. A bill has been introduced in the Legislature to allow own ers of stock to salt" same where ever found in Graham county. Subscribe forTna Gaxstts. ; ' . Gastonia TO BUILD PANAMA CANAL Contract Goes to 'd William J. : Oliver,' Tennessee Nan, Who Most Associate With Him Two Responsible Contractors. An Associated I Press dispatch from Washington, under date of Jan. ci to yesterdays papers conveyed the- following interest ing information : Following a conference at the White House to-night- it was officially - announced that the contract for the building of the Panama canal would be awarded to William J. Oliver, who. With Anson M. Bangs, was the lowest bidder in the recent competition. provided that within the next 10 days he associates himself with at least two independent con tractors whose skill and experi ence combined .with his own. shall cover the entire field of the work to be performed under the contract. ' When informed of the state ment issued by direction of the President, Mr. Oliver's repre sentative to-night said : "There is absolutely no doubt about Mr. Oliver being able to fulfill the requirements '. of the canal commission. , There are now at least 20 ot the : most re sponsible contractors in ' the United Stat es who iJ ha ve t ex pressed a willingness to join Mr. Oliver in the work of construct ing, the canal at " the figure mentioned ' in his ' original bid. These names will, be submitted to. President Roosevelt to-mor row with proof of their financial responsibility :? Before . entering into another . arrangement Mr Oliver wants to know positively that the contractor, he chooses will be acceptable to the govern ment " . Mr. Oliver is a resident of Knoxville; Tenn., and is one of the largest contractors in the United. States ? At"present be has under; way of construction several large projects, the largest perhaps being a tunnel through Lookout - Mountain at Chatta nooga, Tenn , , '. YORK AND Y0RKV1LLE. What's Doing Among: our Neigh bors Just Across the Line. YorkvtUe Boatsirer, Jan. 25U. ; S '-':. Labor is not so scarce as it has been at times : but : then there is verv little demand. " : Miss Maud Sandifer of York- ville, has takenthe ' position "i in the Graded school made vacant bv the resignation' of Miss Squier. . i The handsome residence - that Mr. O E Wilkins is erecting on West Madison street, in cement with brown stone effect is near ing completion. The roof is go ing on this week. The building will present a very, handsome appearance. -, The walls of the old Parish hotel, now being replaced by Mr. K, J; Herndon for a large store-room were originally built in 1853 Mr. Ar Frank Woods of Yorkvilte, worked ; on . the wood work as carpenter. The late josn walker,, who Kept? a tavern in Yorkville at the time was the builder of the house, i ; Mr E. P Castles of Smyrna. has been appointed a member of the county board of education to fill out the unexpired term of Mr. T. E. McMakin; now super intendent. The unexpired term ends about May 1.. The county board of -education now consists of T, E. McMackin; ex-oflScio chairman, J. W. Thomson and E. P. Castles; 4 1 - The coroner's iurv inthe case of the dead infant referred to in the last issue of The Enquirer concluded its investigations on Wednesday with a verdict to the effect that the child probably came to its death at the at hands of its mother, Jennie Wiherspoon alias Jennie Byres. -' The wom an, who had gone to baitsonry. N. C, was brought back by De puty Sheriff Quinn on .Wednes day morning and committed to jail.. ; .v.; . . . : . : Gold Braid in Connecticut : Rmnford Time. . "I wonder what becomes of all the gold trimmed caps and fine uniforms of members of Qover- j nor Vstaffs?", said a man with a curious . mind Wednesday, t "I i used to think that an outgoing colonel sold his brilliant toe to the: incoming colonaf. but alter I seeing' the parade I was obliged to change my mind," for: there ' were the has-beens and the new colonel sitting side by side in )thfc carriages, and all in uniform, the has-been just as cav jn appear ance as the fellows who received their glad clothes from the uni form maker a week ago. So you see I have just. solved the pro- Diem." . ; ..-; Mrs. Ethel Blair, charged with the murder of her husband. ; C. W. Blair, at Columbia. S. C.was Saturday granted bail in . the sum of $2,000. Mr..: and Mrs. Blair at one time jresided-tn Sal isbury. . ts. ,ttr r- " ?. Insurance Vet a us . ..i : Sank. . ' Judge J; C. Pritchard, of the United States Circuit court, has ordered the : North Carolina Corundum Company to pay a certain promisorv note of $22, 000 with an item of interest of $330,' to the Columbia National Bank, of Buffalo, N. Y. The business of the company is now in the hands of a receiver. Professional Card LUe In 1875 The MutOal Benefit Life Insurance Co., of , Newark, N. J., issued Policy No. . 82.489; at age 33. for $10,000 on the 10- payment Life plan, with an an nuat premium for ten . years' of 5499.70. . The Annual Cash Dividends were aDDlied on Hie accelerative endowment, plan. with the . result the Policy matured: in 1 1900. as an endow ment - at end of twenty-fifth year fage 58). the insured receiving $10,332.47 from an investment of $4V997.00. When the policy matured, the Insured ' left $10,264 v with the Company and has since' re ceived;ri;.4i i.ve) a year if the scale ot-dividends in use in the years VJVl 19U4 be con tinned, be will receive $482.41 (4.7) a: year as long' as ;he leaves the ; principal sum ($J0, Zb4r with the Company. . . i o have deposited the same amount ($499.70 a year for: ten years) in a savings bank, with interest at 3 compounded . an nually, wonld hive been to lose the $10,000" insurance for the twenty-five years ' and, to h aye bad at end of that time but $9,192.55, or $1,139.92 less than he received from ; the Mutual Benefit. ' ' ' - i U at end of twenty-five years. he desired to withdraw , interest on his accumulations with the Bank, the annual income . would have been $275.78. : as .against $482.41 from the Mutual Bene: fit. ' - - ' ' t. The Company returned to the Insured every jdollar of pre mi urns paia wun more man j47 compound interest and in addi tion provided $10,000 insurance for twenty five years. " . 1 1 Southern Securities' & - Trust Co., Agents . Mutual ' Benefit Life Insurance , Co., Gastonia, N. C. " . v '' ' -- tn 9 S. B. Sf AE20Y - 1 ATTORNEY AT-LAW .. v t: DALLAS, N.. C. , Office up stairs over Bank of Dallas. " Xf. B. craio,, PRACTICAL ELECTRICIAN GASTONIA, N. C. Office in Davijt Block. ' Phone 217-A i, ' 'rf ' l i '"''" "'"'if DR. D. E. ricCOnrJELL,, - - DENTIST, : Office first floor Y. M, C.A. Bld'g , ; f GASTONIA, N. C. : V1 Phone 69 D2S.FALIS4 YIlKir;S, DENTISTS : : ; GASTONIA, N. C, Office in Adams Building, ; ' ' PhOLe86. , : MRS. JOHN HALL TEACHER OP PIANO AND 'V , 'ORGAN. Z:A ' :g. w. cappg ALL KINDS OF JNSU3ANCE NOTABY PUBLIC T . . 'r Office la Lnf Bulldlntff - :- Notice ' of Execution Sale. MORTGAGE SALE. By virtue of mortsrace executed to me by Jacob Hoffman and wife on the lit day of Anmi 1889 I will offer for aale at public auctioa for caao. at the Court House door in Dallas. . C. at one o'clock p. m., oa . Moaday. the 25th ikj at Ftkntry, 1907, the land described and conveyed by eatd morta'aR registered in Book 11. P 290 etc . to satisfy the debt thereby secured to wit: The borne place of aaid Jacob Hoffman, containing 142 acre more or less on Dub arts Creek near Lowell. N. C . beginning at a Black Oak and runs N64K 80 poles to White Oak. thea NSW 6fl poles to a Post Oak. then N60B 40 poles to a White Oak. then N36B 57 ' poles- to . a hickory. then N57W 96 poles to a Stake, then S0SH 26 poles crossing the Creek to a walnut, then W 82 poles to bis own and Liaebersex's line, then to the beginffhi Also another tract between the above and the Reid land beginning at a Black Oak near the head or ai small branch and runs N40B 60 poles to a stake, then N60B 40 poles to a White Oak. beo S30B 2 poles to a maple Hear the branch,-then np the branch as it meanders to the beginning ex cepting front the above boundries aboat 53 acres conveyed, by said Jacob Hoflman, to Kpnrsim Honman. . . I will otter the portion across the creek nearest Lowell, about 15 acres separat ly, thea the rest of the land separately and then the whole tract. 142 acres together, and will accept aa the final bid the one most advan tageous to the heirs. I reserve th right to withdraw said Isnd from aale if in my Judgment the bidding is unreasonably low. I. M. liorFM alortgagee. This 18th day of January 1907. Nosth Cabomna. 1 rn fh; cItnjr.n. rT. vastoa county.. -. C. C. COBN WBLt ' ' '..,. - vs. -yr'x'''i'g-J. L. Nbal, W. A, Nkal. - -1 Mrs. U. J. Howb and her husband J.W.Howb. : ' ' , f , .. By virtue ot an execution directed to the undersigned from the Superior Court of Gaston County in the above entitled action. I will, on MMoay, tog 25(ft day ! rbrmary. 1907. at 12 o'clock a. m at the Court House door in Dallas, in aaid county, sell to the hirhest : bidder for cash to satisfy said execution, all the right, title and interest which the said . defendants. J. L. MeaLW; A. Neal. Mrs. M. J. Howe and ber buaband. J. W. Howe, .have in the following described real estate: Which said interest is each of the follow. ing named defendants: W. A. Neal. J. L, Neal and Mrs. M. J. Howe own one-twenty-fifth (1-251 undivided Interest in that tract of land lying in Crowders siountain. Town ship, known as the Sparrow Springs prop erty; and bounded as follows, vis; Begin ning at ft- stake on the line and runs N. 87 W. 14 chains to a stake, thence N 3 B. 21X chains to a stake, thence S. 67 li. 14 chains to a stake, thence & 3 W. 21 1-2 chains to the beginning, containing 30 acres more or least . - -T. B. Smcpobd, ' - Sheriff of Gaston County. A. L. BULWINgUt. . ',.;;-'.-., PlalnUffs' Attorney. .. Pllclmo. Notice o! Sale of Land lor Per- - - tition. NotTH CahOLIKA.1 In the Superior Court. ttaston- county, t-t JUeiore thetletk. Daw T. CtOHioitB, . H. W. Clomigbb . and others. BxPabtk. By virtue of an order in the above entitled action, I will, on - - . i-, Moaday. tht ISA day af February, 19S7. at 12. o'clock a. m., at the Court House door in Dallas, in said countr, ill to the highest bidder for cash, the following described tract of land, lvinir and being in Gaston County, Kiver Bend Town ship, adioiniL-g the lands of J. T. Cloniger. V. A. Liueberger, R. Handsell. S. V. Hand- sell and other, and bounded as follows, viz: Beginning at a Post Oak. S. & Hand sell's and A. L. Abemethy's corner, and runs with Abernethy's line S. 16 B. 5ti poles to a Pine stomp; thence S. 3J'4 B. 44, poles to a stake on South aideoi branch, near a Poplar and Chestnut stamp; thence N. 36 li. 4 poles to two Poplars oa North side of branch, thence N. 87 K. 11 poles to stone en the East side of a road; thence S. 3 K. IS poles to a stake oa K. Handsell' line, a 1 oa the east side of the branch; thence a Handsel Is line N. 87 B. 14v poles t stake. V. A. I.inebenrer's corner: th with bis line N. 1SH K. 30 poles to a m e in Stanley's Creek. J. T. Clonwer's ctr. r: thence up the creek as it mean., ti t i j to the mouth of anew channel; fee . . 20 W. 9)4 poles to a stone; thence N. i ". 49 poles to a stake oa Handseil s 1 ?. a i oa the North bank of a branch.-t'-f . w , said Handaell's line N. 46 VV. t . 4 i , t the beginning. Containing 5a li Acres i;m;s or Less. A, Lt. HULWI!BI.E, t.''v - CThlt the 17th day of January, 1 ;. ell.
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