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o The Skyscraper Kit hi i s 5 ii 52 2 " E stood one Sun day mornta? in a group watch ing for her to speed around the Xarraws. Many locomo tives as I bare seen and rid den, a new one is always a wonder to uio chokes iud up. even, it means so much. I bear men rave over horses and marvel at it when I think of the iron horse. I bear them chatter of distance, and my mind turns to the annlhilator. I hear them brag of ships, and I think of the ship that plows the mountains and rivers and plains. And when they talk of speed what can I think of but her? As the new engine rolled luto the yards my heart beat quicker. Her lines were too imposing to call strong. They were massive, yet 83 simple you could draw them, like the needle snout of collie, to a very point. Every bearing looked precise, every Joint looked supple, as she swept mag nificently up aud checked herself, pant ing, iu from of ns. Foley was in the cab. lie had been cast on a lay-off and so happeued to bring in the n?w monster, wild, from the river shops. She was bnilt in Pennsylvania, but the fellows on the Missouri end of our line thought nothing couid ever safely be put Into our hands until they had stopped It en route aud loo'.;ed it over. How does she run, Foley?" asked Neighbor, gloating silently over the toy. "Cool as an icebox," said Foley, swinging down. "She's a regular sum mer resort. Little stiff on the bills yet." "We'll take that out of her," mused Neighbor, climbing into the cab to look her over. "Boys, this Is up iu a bal loon." he added, pushing his big head through the cah window and peering down at the ninety Inch drivers nnder him. "I grew dizzy once or twice looking for the ponies," declared Foley, biting off a piece of tobacco as he bitched at his overalls. "She looms like a sky scraper. Say. Neighbor, I'm to got her myself, ain't I?" asked Foley, with hi usual nerve. "When McNeal gets through with her, yes." returned Neighbor gruffly, giving her a thimble of steam aud try ing the air. "Whatr' cried Foley, affecting sur prise, "you going to give her to the kidr "I am." returned the master nieqliaa 1c unfeelingly, aud be kept his word. Georgle McNeal, just reporting for work after the session In his cab with the loose end of n connecting rod. was Invited to take out the skyscraper 4S8, Class II as she was listed, and Dad Hamilton of course took the scoop to fire her. They get every thing good that's go ing," grumbled Foley. "They are good people," retorted Neighbor. He also assigned a helper to the old fireman. It was a new thing with as then, a fellow with a slice bar to tickle the grate, and Dad, of course, kicked. He always kicked. Neighbor wasted no words. He simply sent the helper back to wiping until the old fire man should cry enough. Very likely you know that a new engine must be regularly broken, ns a horse Is broken, before It Is ready for steady hard work. And as Georgie Mc Neal was not very strong yet, he was appointed to do the breaking. For two months It was a picnic light runs and easy lay overs. After the smash at the Narrows Haniiltoa had sort of taken the kid engineer un der his wing, and it was pretty gen erally understood that any one who el bowed Georgle McNeal must reckon with his doughty old fireman. So the two used to march up and down street together, as much like chums as a very young engineer .and a very old fireman possibly could be. They talked togeth er, walked together and ate together. Foley was as jealous as a cat of Ham ilton, because he had brought Georgle out west and felt a sort of guardian In terest In that quarter himself. Ileally anybody would lore Georgie McNeal; old Dad Hamilton was proof enough of that. One evening. Just after pay day, 1 saw the pair In the postofflee lobby getting their checks cashed. Tresently the two stepped over to the money order window. A moment later each came away with a money order. "Is that where , yon leave your wealth, Georgie?' I asked as he came up to speak to me. .. "Part of It goes there every month. Mr. Reed," be smiled. "Checks are running light too, now h, DndT' "A young fellow like you ought to be putting money away In the bank," said I. "Well, yon see I have a bank back in Pennsylvania, a bank that Is now sixty years old and getting gray headed. I haven't sent ber much since I've been on the relief, so I'm trying to make up a little sow for my old mammy." "Where does yours go, Dad V I asked. "Me," answered, the old man eva sively. "I've got a boy back east: jft-'t-tlng to be a big one too. lie's In school. When areyon going to give us a passengerrun with the sky scraper. Neighbor?" asked Hamilton, turning to the master mechanic: "Soon as we get this wheat, up on the high line, out of the way," replied . Neighbor. "We haven't half engine enough to move It, and I get a wire about every six hours to move It faster, Every sldimf a blocked, clear to Bel grade. How" many of those 00.000 . pound ear ran yon take over Bev erly bill With your skyscraper - He was asking both men.. The en gineer looked at bis chum, -f reckon maybe thlrty-il ve or forty. tali UcNeaL "Eh, Dadr Maybe,, son," growled Hamilton, "and 1-reek my back doing Itr ' i r-ve you a helper once, and yon 2 FRINK H? SPEAMAN CopjTttbt. ISM, ay freak ft. Spttnnaa vnt S3 K kicked him off the tender. retorted Neighbor. "Don't want anybody raking ashes for me not while I'm drawing full time," Dad frowned. But the upshot of It was that we pot the skyscraper at hauliug wheat and within a week she was doing the work of a double header. It was May, aud a thousand miles east of us, iu Chicago, there was trou ble In the wheat pit on the board of trade. You would hardly suspect what queer things that wheat scramble gave rls to. nffectlu? Georgle McNeal and old man Hamilton aud a lot of other j . . , a ,t . reiiows away oui on a ruurvuu ui vlsion on the western plain, but this was the way of It: A man sitting in a little office on Lasalle street wrote a few words on n very ordinary looking sheet of paper aud touched a button. That brought a colored boy, nud he took the paler out to a young man who sat at the eastern end of a private wire. The next thing we kuew orders be gau to come In hot from the presl dent's office the presldeut of the road, if you please to get that wheat on the high line luto Chicago, and to get It there quickly. . Trainmen, elevator men, superin tendents of motive power, were spur red with special orders and special bulletins. Farmers, startled by the great prices offering, hauled night and day. Every old tub we had In tlie shops ami o:i the scrap was overhauled and hustled into the service. The di vision danced with excitement Every bushel of wheat on It must be" In Chi cago by the morning of May 31. For two weeks we worked every thing to the limit. The skyscraper led any two ensluea on the line. Even Dad Hamilton was glad to cry enough and take a helper. We doubled them every day, and the way the wheat flew over the line toward the lower end of Lake Michigan was appalling to speculators. It was a battle between two commercial giants, and a battle to the death. It shook not alone the country; It shook the world. But that was nothing to us; our orders were simply to move the wheat. And the wheat moved. The last week found us pretty well cleaned up. but the high price brought grain out of cellars and well, the buy ers said at least, it broueht all the The cab for a passing imtant roe in the air. hoarded wheat nud much of the seed wheat, and th- 28th day of the mouth found fifty can- of wheat still In the Znnesvllle yard:;. 1 was at Harvard working on a time card when the word came, and behind It a special from the general manager stating there waa $1,000 premium in It for the company, besides tariff, if we got that wheat Into Chicago by Saturday morning. The train md of It didn't bother me any. It was the motive power that kept us studying. However, we figured that by running McNeal with the sky scraper back wild wo could put all the wheat behind her In one train. As it happened. Neighbor was at Harvard too. "Can they ever get over Beverly with 60, Nelgbborr I asked doubtfully. We'll never know till we try It" growled Neighbor. "There's a thou sand for the company If they do; thafs all. How'll you run them? Give then plenty of sa room. They'll have to gallop to make It" Cool and reckless planning, taking the daring chances, straining the flesh and blood, driving the steel loaded to the snapping point that waa what It meant But the company wanted re sults, wanted the prestige and the pre mium too. To gain them we were ex pert n1 to stretch our little resources to the uttermost 1 studied a minute, then turned to the dispatcher. "Tell Norman to send them out as second 4. That gives the right of way over every wheel against them. If they can't make It on that kind of schedule, Tt isn't In the track." It was extraordinary business, rath er, sending a train of wheat through n a passenger schedule, practically as the second section of our eastbound flier, but we took balr lifting chances on the plains. v I: '. It was noon when the orders were flashed. At 3 o'clock No. 4 was duet leave Zanesvltle. - For three hours I kept the wires busy warning all op erators and trainmen, even switch en gines and yardmasters, of the wheat special, second 4. The flier, the first section and regu lar passenger train, was checked out of Zanesvllle on time. Second 4, which meant Ueor-He'llcNeal. Dad, the suy scraper and fifty loada of wheat re ported ont St 8:10. ,.Whu we worked on onr time cord Neighbor In tbe dis patcher's office across the ball figured out that the wheat train would enrich the company Just 111.000, tolls and premium. "If It doesn't break In two on Beverly ; bill." growled Neighbor, with a qualm. On the dispatcher's sheet, which Is a sort of panorama. I watched tbe bit train whirl pat station after station drawing steadily nearer, to us. sod do ing it, the marvel, on full passenger time. It .was a great feat and Georgle McNeal, whose nerve and brain were guiding the tremendous load, v was breaking records 'with every milestone. They were dne In . Harvard at 9 o'clock. . Tbe first 4, our flier, pulled In and out. on time, meeting 65. the west bound overland freight at the second station east of Harvard Redbud, Neighbor and I sat with the dis patchers np In their office, smoking. The wheat train was now dne from tbe west and, looking at my watch, I stepped to the western window. Al most Immediately I beard the long, pe culiarly hollow blast of the skyscraper whistling for the upper ysrd. "She's coming." I exclaimed. Tbe boys crowded to tbe window, but Neighbor happened to glance to tbe east "What's that coming In from the Junction. Balleyr be exclaimed, turn ing to tbe local dispatcher. We looked and saw a headlight In the east That's 53." "Where do they meet?" "Fifty-five takes the long siding In from the junctlon"-which was two miles east "and she ought to be on It right now." added tbo dispatcher anx iously, looking over the master mechan ic's shoulder. Neighbor jumped as If a bullet bad struck blm. "She'41 never take a siding touigbt She's coming down the main track. What's her-or-ders?"' he demauded furiously. "Meeting orders for first 4 at Red bud, second 4 here, IS at Glencoe. Great Jupiter." cried tbe dispatcher, and his face went sick and scared, "they've forgotten secoud 4." "They'll think of ber a long time dead," roared the master mechanic sav agely, jumping to the west window. "Throw your red lights! There's the skyscraper now Her bead shot that Instant around the coal chutes less than a mile away, and 53 going dead against her. I stood like one palsied, my eyes glued on tbe burning eye of the big engine. As she whipped past a street arc light I caught a glimpse of Georgle McNeal's bead out of the cab window. Ho alwaya rode bareheaded if the night was warm, and I knew it was he; but suddenly, like a flash, his head went in. I knew why as well as If my eyes were his eyes and my thoughts his thoughts. He had seen red signals where be had every right to look for white. But red signals now to stop her to pull ber flat on ber haunches like a broncho? Shake a weather flag at a cyclone! I saw the fire stream from her driv ers. I knew they were churning in the sand. I knew he bad twenty air cars behind blm sliding. What of it? Two thousand tons were sweeping forward like an avalanche. What did brains or pluck count for now with 55 dancing along like a schoolgirl right Into the teeth of it? I don't know bow the other men felt As for me. my breath choked in my throat my knees shook, and a deadly' nausea seized me. Unable to avert tbe horrible blunder, I saw its hideous results. Darkness hid tbe worst of the sight; It was the sound that appalled. Chil dren asleep in sod shanties miles from Where the two engines reared in aw ful' shock jumped in their cribs at that crash. Fifty-five's little engine barely checked the Bkycraper. Sbe split it like a banana. She bucked like a fran tic horse and leaped fearfully ahead. There was a blinding explosion, a sud den awful burst of steam. The win dows crashed about our ears, and we were dashed to tbe wall and floor like lead pencils. A baggage truck, whip ped up from the platform below, came through tbe heavy sash and down on the dispatcher's table- like a brickbat and as we scrambled to our feet a shower of wheat suffocated us. The floor heaved. Freight cars slid into the depot like battering rams. In tbe height of the confusion an oil tank In the yard took fire and threw a yel low glare on the ghastly scene. I saw men get up and fall again to their knees. I was shivering and wet with sweat The stairway was crush ed Into kindling wood. I climbed out a back window, down on the roof of tbe freight platform and so to the ground. There was a running to and fro, useless and aimless; men were be side themselves. They plunged through wheat up to their knees at every step. All at once, above the frantic hissing of tbe buried skyscraper and the wild calling of the car tlnks, I. heard the stentorian tones of Neighbor, mounted on a twisted track, organising the men at hand into a wrecking gang. Soon people began running np the yard to where the skyscraper lay, like anotner Samson, prostrate in tbe midst of the destruction it bad wrought Foremost among the excited men, covered with dirt and blood," staggered Dad Hamil ton. "Where's McNeal V cried Neighbor. Hamilton pointed to the wreck. , "Why didn't be Jump?" yelled Neigh bor. Hamilton pointed at tbe twisted "sig nal tower; tbe red right still burned In It "You changed the signals on him," he cried savagely. "What does It mean? We had right against every thing. What does It mean?" he raved. In a frensy. . v; - Neighbor answered him never a word; he only put his hand on Dsd'r shoulder. - V "Find him first! .' Find tjtmr b seated,- with a strain In his role, never, heard till then, and tbe twe giants' hurried away together. ' When I reached tbe skyscraper, burled in the thick of the smash, roaring like a vol cano, tbe pn,r wre already Into tbe Jam like a brace .of ferrets,' bunting for tbe engine crews. It seeined an hour, though It was ttiwli less, before they founJ any one: Ibeu Ibey brought out 55's flwran. Nelgblor fonnd blm. But his b:w k wat broken. Buck again they Wormed through twisted trucks, under spllnte-pd beams in and around and over ltoke4 wit bi beat Minded by steam, shouting s they groped. (titanic t- for word or cry or gasp.' Soon we heard Dad's Tolce In a dit ferent cry. one that meant everything. And the wreckers, tcrnlug like beavers through a dozen blind troll, gathered all close to the big fireman! He was ondcr a great piece of the cab where none could follow, and he was crying for a bar. , .They.'psssed blrq bar; other men. careless of' life snd limb, tried to crawl under and In to him, but he warned them back, , Who but a mad baked twenty years In an engine cab could stand the steam that poured on him where h W lWf-'; Neighbor," Jst euttlde, flashing a light heard the' labored strain of his breathing, saw blm getting half up. bend to tbe bar. and saw the Iron give like lead In his hands as he pried J mightily, ''--y , ' 2 Neighbor beard and told mo long aft erward 'how the old man flung tho bar away with, an Imprecation and cried for one to help- him, , for a r.ilunte meant a life uow. The boy lylnj pinned under the shattered cub was roasting In a Jet of live steam. The master me chanic ciept la. " : ; By signs Dad told biro what to de and then, getting on, bis L'neei crawl ed straight Into the dash of the white Jet-crawled Into It, and got the rah on his shoulders. t . " Crouching an Instant the giant mus cles or bis back set In a tremendous effort. Tbe wreckage snapped and groaned, tbe knotted legs slowly nnd painfully straightened, the cab.fpr a passing Instant rose In tbo air, and In that instant Neighbor dragged Georgle McNeal from out tbe vlso of death and passed him. like a pluch bar, to the men waiting next behind. Then Neigh bor pulled Dad bock,' blind now and senseless. When they got the old flre men out he made a pitiful straggle to pull himself together. Ho tried to stand up, but tbo sweat broke over blm, and be sank In n heap at Neigh bor's feet That was the saving of Georgia Mc Neal, and out there they still tell yon about that lift of Dad Hamilton's. We put blm on the cot at the hos pital next to his engineer. Georgle. dreadfully braised nnd scalded, came on fast in spite of his hurts, bnt tbe doctor said Dad bad wrenched a ten don in that frightful effort, and he lay there a very sick and very old man long after the young engineer was np and around telling of his experience. "When we cleared the chutes I saw white signals, I thought." he said to me at Dad's bedside. "I knew we had the right of way over everything. It was a bustle anyway on tbat schedule, Mr. Reed, you know that an awful hustle with our load. I never choked her a notch to run the yards. Didn't mean to do It with the Junction grade to climb Just ahead of us. But I looked out again, and, by hokey, I thought I'd gone craty, got color blind red alg nsls! Of course I thought I must have been wrong tbe first time I looked. I choked her. I threw the air. I dump ed tbe gravel. Heavens! She never felt It! I couldn't figure how we were wrong, but there was the red light I yelled. 'Jump. Dadr and he yelled, 'Jump, sonT Didn't yon. Dad? "He jumped, but I wasn't ever going to jump, and my engine going full against a red lamp. Not much. "I kind of dodged down behind the head; when sbe struck It was biff, and she jumped about twenty feet up straight She didn't? Well, it seemed like It. Then It was biff, biff, biff, one after another. With that train behind her she'd have gone through Beverly hill. Did you ever buck snow with a rotary. Mr. Reed? Well, that was about It even to tbe rolling and heav ing. Dad, want to lie down? Le' me get-another pillow behind yon. Isn't that better! Poor Musgraver be add ed, speaking of the engineer of 55, who was instancy killed. "He and the fire man both. Hard lines, but I'd rather have It that way, I guess, If I was wrong. Eh, Dad?" Even after Georgle went to work Dad lay in the hospital. We knew he would never shovel coal again. It cost him his good back to lift Georgie loose, so the surgeon told us, and 1 could believe It, for when they got the Jacks under the cab next morning, and Neighbor told the wrecking gang that I Hamilton alone had lifted It six inches the night before on his back tbe wrecking boss fairly snorted at the statement but Hamilton did Just the same. "Son," muttered Dad one night to Georgle, sitting with him, "I want yov to write a letter for me." "Sure." v "I've been sending money to my boy back east" explained Dad feebly. "1 told you he's in school." "I know. Dad." v "I haven't been able to send any since I've been by. but I'm going to send some when I get my relief. Not so much ns I used to send. I want yon to kind of explain why." "What's bis first name, Dad, and where does he live?" "Ifs a lawyer that looks after him a man that tends to my business back there." ' ' i-" . ; v. "Well.what's his name?" "Scaylor Ephralm Scnylor." "ScaylorT echoed Georgle In amaze ment "Tea. Why, do you know him?" "Why, that's the man mother and I had so much trouble with." I wouldn't write to that man. He's a rascal. Dad."' : - - .:y-'-'-y.tr:.' "What did he ever do to yon and your mother?" . "I'll tell yon. Dad, though It's a mat ter I don't ' talk about much. . My fa ther bad trouble back there fifteen or sixteen years ago. He waa running an engine aud had a Wreck. ' There were some passengers killed. The dispatch er managed to throw the bladie on fa ther, and they Indicted him for man slaughter. He pretty , near went crasy, d all of a sudden he disappeared. ti never beard of him from that -his. But this man Scaylor, to It. knew something ther was, only be al- Trew fi f. Dad raised np on hi 'X your moth- ier'i name, me r ' Georgle looU.. tell you. Dad. .There's n. s ed of. l was - foolish -you once, to go ont on a . the. engineers .down there, only a kid, snd we were all bla. Bo I used my middle name, -My full name Is Ceofge. MdXeai eulr." - " v Te eld fireman made a painful fort to sit np, to speak, but be choked. Cls.taca. contracted, and Ccorglo roo frightened. ' With n herculean effort the old man raised ' himself tip" on J. gTased OeJrgle'a ha mis. .. "Son," bo gaspeJ to the astonished boy, "don't you know me?" ' "Of course I know you. Dad, What's tbe matter with you? Lie down." "Boy. To "your own father. 1 Sly name Is -David Hamilton Sinclair. I had the trouble, Georgle," He choked no like a child, and Georgle. McNeal went white and scared; then be graspv) 0u tne gray unirvu luuu m uia ! - When I dropped ln. au hour later tbey wore talking hysterically. Dad was ex plaining bow he bad been sending money to Scaylor-every month, snd Georgle was contending that neither ho nor his mother had ever seen a cent of It But one great fact overshadowed all the villainy that nlght-father and son wer nn'tod and happy and a mes rago had already gone back to the old homo from Georglo to his mother, tell ing ber the good news." , "And that Indictment was Wiped out long ago against father." said Georgle to me. "but that rascal Scaylor' kept writing blm for money to fight It with and to pay for my school Ing-aud this s the kind of schooling I ' was get ting all the time. Wouldn't that ktll you?"- .' .'- y . -' v'':r' I couldn't s!eet till I bad hunted .up Neighbor aud told him about It and next morning we wired transportation back for Mrs. Sinclair to cotueouton; - Less than a week afterward a gentle little old woman stepped off the flier at ZancsvUlo and Into tho arms of Geor gle Sinclair. A smart rig was In wait- "Son," he fiwped to the astontshed boy, "don't you know met" hag, to which ber son hurried her, sna they were driven rapidly to the hos pital. When they entered the old fire man's room together tbe nurse softly closed the door behind them. But when tliey seut for Neighbor and me, 1 suppose we were the two biggest fools in the hospital, trying to look un conscious of all we saw in the faces of the group at Dad's bed. He never got bis oldjstrength back, yet Neighbor fixed him out for all that The skyscraper, once onr pride, wan so badly stove that we gve up hope of restoring her for a passenger run. So Neighbor built ber over into a sort of dub engine for short runs, stubs, and so on; and though Dad had vowed long ago when unjustly condemned, that he would never more touch n throttle, wo got him to take the sky scraper and the Acton run. Aud when Georgle, who takes the flier every other day, Is off duty be climbs Into Dad's' cab, shoves tbe old gentleman aside and shoots around tbe yard In the rejuvenated skyscraper al a hair raising rate of speed. &s After awhile tbe old engine got so full of alkali that Georgle gave her a new name Soda AVater Sal and It hangs to her yet. . We thought tbe best of her had gone In the Harvard wreck.1 but there came a time when Dad and Soda Water Sal showed us we were very much mistaken. 'VTi Two Doctor. r.V" Almost every one has made bis jest about the proneness of doctors to dis agree, the one prescribing exactly an opposite course from that ordered by another, but not every one has had an opportunity to conduct such an experi ment as was made by . the late Baron Lntz, formerly prime minister of Ba varia. Tbe baron was once severely wounded In battle In both legs. Tbe wound In one leg was much like that in the other. It struck him that there was n chance to study, the ways of the surgical profession and beguile tbe long hours of his convalescence. He accordingly called In. one doctor and gave blm charge of his right leg, but told him nothing about tbe wound in the other, and then called In another doctor for his left leg, keeping bun similarly in Ignorance about tbe wounded right leg. The doctors adopt ed a very different method of treat ment but both wounds healed at about tbe same time. When ths baron's legs were quite well be derived a great deal of amusement from, getting the doc tors together and mystifying them with questions about the way each had treated "hls'legV- iv---'' ' It Maes a Oiflferenea. . "Cood gracious!" exclaimed the vis itor. "Hear those boys fighting and yelling out there. Regular little hood lums) aren't they?" '. -' ' . I can't say, replied Mrs, Famley. Tm rather nearsighted, you know." , ' "But surely yoo can hear them.'' "Oh, 7es; bit I' can't . tell whether they're my children or the neighbors'." Kxcbange. " "-it-k . .'' ' Doing Up a Mr. This bill is too high." said the ens lamer. "Too high?" ejaculated the lanndryman. Thaf s what I said tow high." '"But man. do yoo know how long It takes to np a shlrtr "Why. v'vnt fonrw.i' '"-Tonkers Statee- e ration of Wo . as in session at ednesday;, Thurs ''";,, .,:. INCORPORATED f i u:,. . : . ? ' .:, '.. .; r s j. r, ' -' DEAL tfRS'AN D fcO NTWXcTO R V. FOR EVERYTHING IN ROOPING D o n't fa 1 1 1 o sec our n c w ;Vc also have a nice Phone 2I7 j T M E ' WONDERFUL v F I R E -f R E S I STI N G , P A I N TS . "" ' ''.'' 1. -.... V?tDt A T TAB 'ianllfactnrd iv the Gibraltar Paint & Roofing Corporation. Norfolk, Va.. and now ; being tested by fire throughout North Carolina and endorsed by prtn .and fire d'pmtMstytrywhtn; tested at Gastonia March 30th. rfore hundreds ol people; are on sale by the Gastonia Hardware Company. Gastonm. N. C. Paint are for all purposes in all Colors for decorations inside and outside work: roonnK paints tor no ana uom . juiou.u r I. best on earth; is a creosote and asphaltum mixture; hhingles cannot rot or i r: l ".. it.. 1:1,. w. raiBa fir- the - vere thinaf for ? Wt-riEE " JSIT-TS-. fc larm uuuuixiksi ni.iutca color caras. n s GASTONIA HARDWARE COMPANY Gastonla, 6nlTay the 30th day of April, 1907, I will sell at the .door of the. city hall in the town of Gastonia at .2 oMotk. p. m tht follow ifr real estate, for the purpose of collecting taxes due the Town of Gastonia. : : : : : " : : To Wit: , . Albert Irwin (col) storehouse Happy Hiltamt, tax-,.. I. IN. Alexander, THE GAZETTE'S Jamestown Expo it on Contest 10 VOTES , For Miss- District No." z Wo. 1 Gastonia. No. 2. tesaalndn of f anion county, Kinrs Mis. nd Address Thlfc coupon, hn pre prr 'Ill-d ImiI cr wai edto Contest Dtpt of Tin Gazette, coi nt 10 Vol a, NolGoodAft r F-iv, v v v L 1 . ( ! RURAL FREE D ELlVfcRTi ' BGU : , F-TK r ! S 1 ; You use envelopes," of course.' To-insure prompt -return of i letters when the person to whom they ore addressed does fr3 not, for any reason, receive them, you should use envelopes with the return card in the corner. We have them for any ' i route in Gaston County printed with a blank left for your name and the number of your box. We can sell them tori you just' about as'cheap as youcanbny blank envelopes at a book store. The envelope is of good quality and the price " ...... ... .. KB are as follows: Package of 25, eight cents; by mail,, 10 cents ; ioo for 30 cents ; by mail, 38 cents. Samples sent on', s request. Mail orders will receive prompt attention.' . y M GAZETTE PUBL1S PINGXOMPANY GASTONIA Warranty Deed Blanks, Merttaf Blanks, t l l I ? Chicaeo; HI ? Apnf 24 -PreS-ident John Mitchell, of tne.Um ted Mine Workers of . America is seriously ill : hercv-He; is coo fined to bis bed at bis home. nd friends and wife have been sum moned; Roosevelt's letter re. gardine t b e Moyef-Haywood matter was read to him but Mitchell made no comment. -p' ; Canned' Goods Poison Family. ; Wadesboro. "April 24 From eatiog canned goods of various kinds," three members pf , the family of Mr. Hugh Jordan, of this place, have ; died aud t two others are in a dVine condition, from tbe effects of ptomaine poi son. The father and several children were stricken last Fri day and since then the rest of tbejaree family of children have been affected. i r.:'-.c:".'r While Mrs. R. N. Barltsdale; of Roanoke, Va.. the preitv youncr wife of an engineer, held a pistol over John B. Greenway; a well kuown young man, whom itis alleged had maderemarki reflecting on Mrs. Barksdale, he husband applied a cow-hide on Greenway. The affair took place on the Eagles home. Greenway swore put warrants for, the : Baiksdales, charging them with assault... ;' ; , i v f n 1 1 1 a t o r a t h e G c a I c n line of gratsVlnt I" Davis ' Bock - V Mra" eeaaonabl 'inauire for , , ,- Julylc3tno. ; 7.75 Tax Colltrctoi. srr-yr-, Clover.) NORTH CAROLINA Deed Blaaka. Chattel Morttage t l I , Salisburians'-" announce they 4 will ! organise a life fire insurance company.' :springdale;far( ; -Iberkshires- The kind that wins, nera neaaq hero of Gaston 88219. sired by I Lee II of Biltmore. . ; : , ; ; Spring pigs (both sexes) now r We also breed Southdown snee Collie dosrs. '";i Fancy poultry a specialty? egg sale at all seasons.; : Write for prices. t- ; : , I. F. Mabry& McAdenvIIIe. -- f ) Your Hole Skein of Liif. is as insecure as its rap " 1 running off is certatn. : The croductive value lyour life should be sect ed. A policy in . . Ths Mctcal teztllt Life Icscrstce Co. ' . of Ktwark, Kew terser. will provide the necessr . and highest security . Lower Rates than in of Trustworthy Conipar. Secthern SeczrUks 4 Ti:
Gastonia Daily Gazette (Gastonia, N.C.)
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April 26, 1907, edition 1
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