North Carolina Newspapers

E ;.0f iliillil A : s77 f P" TT 17 -TP r READ Oun I AZ:ET l.-E.&$gE& t READOUR X' GovInfuDo i nen aci ; PUBLISHED TWICE A WEEKr-TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS 1a A.A.A it it A it A.A i M t A Devoted to the Protection of Home and the Interests: ot the County, JAS. W. ATKINS, Editor and Manager. $1.50 a Year In Advance. 5 Ingle; Copy pc. VOL. XXVIII. GA8TONIA, N.C., FRIDAY, APRIk 3. IQOT. NO. 28 THE CITIZENS NATIONAL BANK USES every possible meant to protect its de-- : positors, carrying burglary insurance, bonds on .. its officers and clerks. We goffer a very safe - place for yourmoney!-' ? ,'' .'. ;, ' If yon haven't an account with us we invite you ', to begin one.. ,-... .V;; .V, " ,: ; .'. - O F FI C E R 8 R. P. Rankin. Pres. C. N, Evans, Vice-Pres. " A. G. . Myers,- Cashier. . , 4 per cent paid on savings deposits. :M?Mpr. O, fat i A Special Message to Young Married Men " u o 8 Do you own a home? If not, it will pay you to see us How easy it Is to become independent by laying'up a few dollars each week or month and investing in a home. In later years you will then be prepared for any emergency. We have some nice, new,' medium priced cottages, ' but if you want to get one of them, better come today and see us. You know how difficult it is to rent a house id Gastonia. therefor." why not let us sell you one and you will feel much better than if in a rented bouse. ,. .'. .'. .". We have a plan that we feel will interest you if you will come to see or drop us a card so that we can see you. .. Gastonh Insurance fi Realty Co. G. A.. GRAY. Pre. J. ROBINSON. V-Prea. S. S. MORRIS. Sec. a Treaa ' v Gaston Metal & Roofing Company INCORPORATED DEALERS AND CONTRACTORS FOR EVERYTHING IN ROOFING . Don't Fall to See Us Before -. ,"r MAKING YOUR -CONTRACT Phone 217 Davis Bock The Little-Long Company's ; . Spring- Opening . AND ; A Free Trip to Charlotte Whether you know the season or not, a walk through Our three big- steles draped jn the fresh bright new fabrics in both ready-to-wear garments and dress materials would convince you at once the happy spring time is here. The new silks and ' wool ens have a beauty and brightness that can not be described. To say that our coatsuits, skirts and sfiirt wa'its are prettier i than ever shown here before is a mild expression. .. , We can't say too much about our millinery, for it's a recognized fact all over the Carol in as and into other states that we are the Fifth 'Avenue milliners of this section. , ' , The men's and hoys clothing, furnishings, shoe department, jewelry, china,' carpets and other departments are as fully equipped. v. ,V. , . , ' .. .-. Railroad fare paid both ways on purchases of $40.00 or more,; ' within a radius of fifty miles. V. -.-. i The Little-Long Go. .Wholesale & Retail. . Charlotte, - "- - - - N. C, Apr.26c6w White Brothers Pardoned. . A dispatch from' I Raleigh, . dated Wednesday, to The Char . lotte Observer says: ! Af 11 o'clock to day the brothers, Thomas and Chalmers White, "were teleased' from the Eenitentiary, ' Governor Gienn aving telephoned Superintend' ,ent Mann to release them -and .that they were pardoned. The official' statement in the case was given out at a quarter lo 12 o'clock."" . ' " - .. '. t - The White brothers were un der sentence of six years at hard labor in the penitentiary for the murder of Russell Sherrill. They have served ; nearly; two years of that sentence: Govern or Glenn was one of the prose cutors in this case and for- this reason declined to settle the natter tin&elf.- He referred the pet.tloa for rardon to the coun- cil of State, saying that its 1 decision would be his. . An excellent ruling has recently been made by the postal authorities at Washington for which they are entuiea to tne unitea uanksot tne mail Carriers. It has been ruled I that where a man keeps a vicious dog about his premises that makes it dangerous for a carrier to deliver maiJ. such deliver? mav be omitted. Unless the carrier is willing to risk danger of the dog., the owner of the vicious brute wilihave to deoend no on himself in getting his mail at the posiomce.- ; . ; -. , The per capita of monev in circulation in America at .the present time is $32.33. - - Col. Calvin J. Cowles, te oldest and one of the best known citizens of Wilkesboro, died Sunday. He was for 16 years in charge of the U. S. Assay office in Charlotte. ... TOWN AND COUNTY. We want to know when von have friends in to eat "chicken dinner" or ! to visit vou. ' It is such items of news that makes the local page of your paper interesting. ; ; - '-"Olivette" was oresented bv the Beirrar Prince Ooera Comoanv at the I opera bouse Wednesday night.. There was a tainy gooa-sizea nouse 10 wit ness . the, penormance, , wnica was good . :'rc-'-: 1 lMr. L. A. Patrick, formerly a member of the firm of Patrick &Co.. of Rockingham, has accepted a posi tion with the Gastonia Furniture Coronanv. He arrived Tuesday and took up his duties as bookkeeper. The Gazette is in receipt of the January and February numbers of the Bulletin of tne JNortn caronna ue oartment of Agriculture.. This pub lication contains much information of value to agriculturists and is sent free to residents of tne state on ap plication. ",t s ;.:;: y;vr:- '' There are many tonics In the land," As by the papers you can see; But none of them can equal Hollister's Rocky. Mountain Tea. Williams Drug Co We heard a man the othei day kicking for a chmce to work That man was a false alarm. No man who wants work these days need to be without employment ten hours There is all kinds of work in this district, and gooa wages can be se cured by good men. There should be no factions in our little city. There should be a mutual interest jn the prosperity of our peo pie. When we see indifference to tie well-being of its citizens, we see a town all wise men shun: Success and' failure are each a part of life and often those who have made the hard est fight are vanquished in the race A dispatch from Lincolnton to The Charlotte News of Friday says that Mr. John Cornwell, an account of whose death appeared in The Gazette of that day, committed suicide bv cutting his throat with a knife. Mr. Cornwell lived at Crouse, this county. Despondency . over financial troubles is assigned as the reason for Jiis rash deed. -As the baseball season approach I es there are more signs of a number of new teams in the Gaston County League. Kings Mountain. Bessemer City, Belmont, Mt. Holly are agita tmg the question and it is very probable tbat iav olnton and inew ton will be admitted to membership ! Should all these teams enter the ring there will be a lively scramble for the pennant. ARGO ARHO ARGO ARGO ARGO ARGO ARGO ARGO ARGO ARGO. t , John Hoge, colored, and John Bohck and Will . Matthews, white. were before Magistrate W. I. Stowe Monday morning on two cbarges. All three were taxed $7.75 for being drunk and disorderly on the public highway and both Hoge and Bolick were bound over to court under a bond of $50 eacn tor carrying con cealed weapons. The offense was committed on tne road between the Grav Mill and Mr. . Sam Bradlev'.i Saturday afternoon. ' A - vi Mr. W. B. Knight, who succeeds Mr. Walter R. Jones as manager of the insurance . department of t h e Gastonia Insurance & Realty Co., arrived Monday from Lancaster. S. C, and has entered upon his duties. Mr. Knight is an experienced insur ance man. Mr. Jones will leave Monday for South Carolina points preliminary to going to Greensboro where he will be connected with the head office of the Southern Life & Trust Company. The Salisbury Post of Tuesday. speaking of the late Mr. W. D. Bar nnger, says: "Mr. Barringer visited Salisbury about three weeks before his sickness and seemed in the best of health. 'Bill' Barringer, as he was familiarly known by his friends here, was a son of Mr. John Barrin ger who died at his home on Chest nut Hill last vean- He was raised on the farm near Salisbury. When 'grown, he; went West for short while. Returning he was engaged in various occupations finally going into the music business, and locat ing at Gastonia. He was successful in his business and died in comfort able circumstances. Mrs. D. M. Phillips, one of his sisters, left this morning for Gastonia to attend the funeral." ' - SkatlflKElnk " , JA Gastonia is to have a skating rink, It will occupy the Ragan ; building on the corner of Main and Marietta streets now oc-1 cuDied bv the Southern Express Company? Mr. Ernest Duff, of Gaff ney, S. C . will be in charge. It is expected bv the . managers that everything will be in shape to open the rink to the public this evening. Mr. Duff has ar rived to take charge. Argo Red Salmon is good enough for the tables of the rich, and cheap enough for the tables of the poor. Was Taxed With Casts. Willie M. Miller, who fives near the Modena Mill, swore out a peace warrant ' .Wednesday against Laban A, Smith, w b lives in the same neighborhood A hearine was had before Mag istrate Thomas H. White, who dismissed the complaint against Smith and taxed Miller with the costs. It developed at the hear ing that Miller had been paying attentions to Smith's daughter. who is an operative at the M deea, and had been warned by Smith to cease his attentions. the whole touble growing out of tnis mailer. Lhlmr l ty ye. Acquires More Property, The Gastonia Insurance & Realtv Company, which a few davs ago purchased from Mr. W N Davis a tract of land on York, Chester and Fourth streets. closed a deal Wednesday bv the terms of which thev added to this a valuable strip of land be tween Fourth and Fifth street and facing 500 feet on South street. It is 200 feet deep This will later be divided into lot- The property was purchased from Mr R A. Love. This companv is now engagea in opening nn Fourth street from South to York; Fifth street from York to Chester, and Chester street from Fourth to Fifth Sewarage lines will be laid giv ing all this propertv connect! n with the city sewerage mains It is probable that a number of new residences will go up in this section within the next year. 'Mi Gastonia as a Cattle Market It is a fact perhaps not known to many people that Gaston county ships every year several carloads of beef cattle to Ashe- ville. As this is not a cattle- raising country one would be in clined to think that it would, on the other hand, be a diffi cult matter to secure enough beef cattle for home consump tion. These are not Gaston raised cattle, however. They are shipped in, mostly from east Tennessee, fattened here on cotton seed meal and hulls and then shipped back to Asheville for. consumption there and in nearby towns. Just recently Craig & Wilson have shipped three carloads and Mr. W. N. Davis "will- ship another the 15th, all to Asheville. It is cheaper, the cattlemen say, ' to ship the cattle here, fatten them and reship than it would be to ship a sufficient quantity of cotton seed meal and hulls to Asheville to fatten the cattle there. Qi clone ...Clarh , By FRANK II. SKARMAN , Oryiifhc I9C0, br Tmak H. Spcx HEIii: goes a fol low that walks like SU-lone Claik." ex claimed Duck M I 1 (1 1 e t o n Duck was sit tinglnthe train master's office with a group of cuglnocrs. Ho was one of the black listed strikers and runs an engine uow down on the Bnuta Fe. But at long intervals Duck gRtslack'to revisit the swncs of bis early triumphs. The men who surrounded hlui were once at deadly odds with Duck and his chums, though now the ancient enmities seem forgotten, and Duck, the once ferocious Duck, sits occasionally among the new men and gossips about early dnvs on the West End. "Do you remember Slclone, Reed?" asked Duck, calling to me in the prl vate office. "Remember him!" 1 echoed. "Did anybody who ever knew Slclone forget fired passenger for Sic-loue twon years ago," resumed Duck. "lie walked Just like that fellow, only he was quicker. I reckon you fellows don't know what a snap you have here now, ho continued, addressing the men around blin. ''Track fenced, nine ty pound rails, steel bridges, stone cul verts, slag ballast, skyscrapers no wonder you get chances to haul such nobs as Lilluokalanl and Schley and Dewey and cut ninety miles on hour on tangents. "When I was tiring for Slclone the roadbed was Just off the scrapers, the dumps were soft, pile bridges, paper culverts, fifty-six pound rails, not fence west of Buffalo gap and the plains black with Texas steers. We never closed our cylinder cocks. The hiss of the steam frightened the cattle worse than the whistle, and we never knew when we were going to find bunch of critters on the track. "The first winter I came out was great for snow, and I was a tenderfoot, The cuts made good windbreaks, and whenever there was a norther they were chuck full of cattle. Every time train plowed through the snow It made a path on the track. Whenever the steers wanted to move they would take the middle of the track single file and string out mile after mile. Talk about fast schedules nnd ninety miles au hour. You had to poke along witn your cylinders spitting and just whistle and yell sort of blow them off Into the snowdrifts. "One day Slclone and I were going west on 59, and we were late. For that matter, we were always late. Simpson, coining against us on GO, bad caught bunch of cattle in the rock cut Just west of the Sappie and killed a couple. When we got there,, there must have been a thousand head of steers mous ing around the dead ones. Slclone he used to be a cowboy, you know Si- clone said they were holding a wake. At any rate, they were still coming from every direction and as far as you could see. Hold on, Slclone, and I'll cbase them out,' I said. That's the stuff, Duck,' says he. 'Get after them and see what you can -Thousands of city people are now counting the hours when they can leave for some lake or river for an outing, where they can fight mos quitoes and bugs for a few days, and perhaps get drowned. It is . a great thing and many of our ancestors lived and died not knowing what a vacation or outing meant. .Delicious Hot Eiscusit: MADE WITH TT 'DAKING POWDER are the most appetizing, health- f ful 'and.nutritibus of foods ,&Iuc!i!cpc2&3 upon the DaldnaPowder fKTVAL tftVHM PTtoTX CO., WtW V0W. MlinWHMIifHI imin iM "lie ttood out thr Kith a ihovei and kept the whole buncfc-oJT tne'? ' do.' He looked kind of queer, but I never thought anything: I picked up a Jack bar and started up the track. . The first fellow I tackled looked !aiyr but ha started full quick when I hit him. Then be turned around to in spect me, and I noticed his horns were of tba broad gauge . variety. While I whacked another the .first one put his head down and began to snort and paw the ties. Then they all began to bellow at once.. It-looked smoky. . 1 dropped the jack bar and started for the engine, and about fifty of theru started for me. ' - . ?I never had an idea steers could rue so. Too could bare played checkers on my heels all the way back. If Slclone hadn't com out aod jollied them, Ti never got back tn the world." f Just Jumped the llot and went dear over IT SURPASSES 1 my we have ever had before; that's the only way we can describe our stock of millinery for the Spring and summer season. .We have prices and styles to suit all our customers; ill we ask is tbat you visit our store. You will then be con vinced of the truth of our statement. : ; : : We are just as safe in saying tbat our dress goods department is complete in every respect. We are showing a line of haul some pompadour mulls, chiffon batistes and plaid voices. : B dutiful is the word to describe our line of mercerized and silk hosiery in drop stitch and gauze. : : : : : Faucy parasols in plaids, solid colors with polka dots and Persian borders. ::::::;.:: See us before you buy. YEAGER-McLEAN MFG. CO. .t ,. ii 1 Do you want a roof that will last as long as the building itself, and never need repair? One that you can put bn yourself One that is fire-proof lightning-prcof storin-proof, that gives the build ing a nice appearance, and one' that is within your means to buy, come in and look at our large stock of Cortright Metal Shingles. LONG BROS. N. C. i ) f "J f f- $"4 4-f4' ts '1c ts J 4 L. L. JENKINS, Pres. S. N. BOYCE, Cashier I The First National Bank ! 4 GASTONIA, N. C. With sixteen years successful banking experiencey capital, surplus and profits of over one hundred audi twenty-five thousand dollars and deposits of Over Half a Million t - . "..V. .TV we are in a better position to serve our customers , r than ever before in our history. : : : We Invite vou to ooenan account with us. -.-A''.-- y i' -if i .'M4 -i- DIRECTORS L. It. Jenkins A. A. McLean J. Lee Robinson J. K. Dixon T. L. Craig h R. R. Rav Andrew B. Moore 4" H. M. McAden J O. White . , G. A. GraV - V 5 DR. J. M . H UNTER hAft?&rusT ROCK HILL, S. C. Consultation FREE Makes a Specialty of Cancers, Tumors, Chronic Ulcers, Scrofula and V , ; Rheumatism; Diseases of the Genito-Urinary Organs and Rectum. 1 Treats without the knife, loss of blood and ; little pain to patient. - RFMRENCESTO ijAlFEW-lLCASES iTOEATED r R. A. Clark. Cancer of nose. Rock Hill S C.; Mrs. J I. Williana. cancer of face. Tirtnti. S. : C: Mri. S. R. Nelaon, cancer of face.Ocden, S.C: W. A. Mullinax. cancer of face, kmt'a ' CreekS Cj W.W.Stroop. cancer of face, Lowell. N. C: Mrs. Barhor, McCraw. cancer of forebead, Gattner. S c: Sv B. Manna, cancer oi bcck. i.astonia. t. v. : U. r. Utwc cncr or note, Latttmore, N.C: Frank Lattimore. cancer of face.Clevlaod Mill. N.C;J.B. Howera . cancer of lip. Lowell. N. C: Mrs. M. B. Barrell. Cancer of face, Ellen oro, N. C; M re. l. H, Glasco, cancer oi forehead. Shelby N. C:D. H, Cobb, cancer of lip. Smyrna. S. C: X. Hambrieht. verocoae nicer of lea:. Blackibars S. C: k, C. Green.canceroi lace, Moore-Horo N. C: JiN. Cloota. cancer ef the tooone. Tirzan, S.C; Mm. N. S.Adam,, cancer oi lui,ifr Lowell. N. C: O. W. Green, cancer of neck, Mooreaboro. N. C.l aim Carre liiir, " scrofula, Gaffner.S.C; W.N. Tracy, cancer of neck, GaflaeT. S. C: J, B. Hanmck. chi.,c nicer of iee, MooresborcsN. C: Mra.H.T, McCraw. eancer of face. Cltff.t.le. h.CiJ. M. McMahon. thenma(isnrHeaxietta. N. C; L. A. Holland, cancer Beck HforietU. N. C: G. W. Bridges, rheamatim,Mooreboro,N.C.; , . - , ill You Waiot Ctsf-i Cc y Newt SctscrlSe far Tha r-"- 3.faffHi?-ery teaci-we ' -II Yea WiftJift, 1 CONTINUED ON 4TH PAGE. "