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X 4. 4- 4- 4- 4-4. 4- 4- 4 4 4- 4- 4. 4 A 4 4- 4- A 4. i Try a Gazelle i Vant A cJ i ?.. They Drln2 Results 4.4.44.H.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.A.4..i.L4.l.t FT1 Il n AH'"7' The Paper I Read by Gaston People That All -44.4.4.4.4-4.xlkXXti ii UUiLy I PUBLISHED TWICB A WELi: TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS., i, E. D. ATKINS, Editor. Devoted to the Protection of Hor end the Interests of the County. 3t.S0 a Year In' Advance. Single Copy 5c. VOL- XXVIII, GAOTONIA, N. C, TUESDAY, JULY 23, 1007. no. no A a' PROFESSIONAL CARDS GARLAND & JONES Attorneys and Counselors Over Torrence-Morrls Company, -'' Gastonia, N. C. ; ; NEWSKOTES State 4 General S. B.T SPARROW ' J '. ATTOItNEYAT-LAW;. . - . DALLAS, N. C. Office- upstairs over Bank ot Dallas J0HN 0. CARPENTER , ' ATTORNEY-AT-LAW DALLAS. N;C - Office over Bank of Dallas. DR. P. A Tressly ; - - . DENTIST ' ' ' CLOVER, - - - SVC. DR. D. E. McCONNELL, - DENTIST -. " GASTONIA, k C. ' Offlce'Flrat Floor T. M. C. A. BW'I - , Phone 69. . . DR. T. A. WILKINS - DENTIST . GASTONIA ,N. 0. . ' Office in Adams Building " I y Phone 86.. "k MRS. JOHN HALL . TEACnEB OF PIANO . AND ORGAN. DR. P. R. FALLS .DENTIST . -Gastonia, N. C Office Upstairs Boyce-Falls Building, - For Reference seetuj ing list of Steinwax PROF. J. M.MASSEY. - Piano tuning " and Repairing a : specialty; satisfaction guaranteed "'ISSm';. Gastonia, N. C ; CALL I $- . ' AND . ; J EXAMINE J I OUR : J r :. r I Sheet Music John Jones, of Anson county, waa acquitted at Monroe Friday of the charge of participating: in the lynch ing of John V. Johnson.! Albert Tubert. the proprietor of the St. Charles Hotel. Janesville. Wisconsin, was ' sentenced to ten days in jail for slapping; his wife. - An express package- .containing $10,000 in money has been lost at the Florence, S. C, office of the South' ern Express Company. . The Greensboro Building & Loan Association, a new organization, will commence business August 1st with an authorized capital stock of $1,000, uuu. A bronze statue will soon be un veiled jn Peoria, 111., to perpetuate toe memory oi v:oi. KODert u. m- frersojl, the famous agnostic orator, awyer and politician, y . ; 7 , , . the ' fifteenth annual meeting of the United States . League . of local Building and Loan' Associations will be held itrXhicago beginning to morrow and continuing two days. ' . The Virginia-Carolina - Chemical Company will build a branch establishment - in Salisbury which will employ about 56 men and will cost upwards of $30,000. r. t . ,. s J.WYHenline, of the Spartan Mill Village of Spartanburg, was drowned yesterday at Lawson's Fork.: His body was discovered floating face downward. He is supposed to have committed suicide. - v Heurv "Scutcheon.- a:. Michigan larmer X years of age, became sud denly insane and murdered his invalid son, bis wite and her foster" i father. . He was shot to death by neignoor wnom ne attacaea next. uovernor tiienn was elected a i honorary member of the State Press Association at its recent meeting at'i MoreueadCitv. lne governor was also elected a delegate to the Nation al Press Convention which is to meet at Saint. Paul. i::.-r Twelve young men from Charlotte and vicinity enlisted this week in the United States navyi , All were transferred to the receiving ship Franklin at the Norfolk navy yards, and will later be assigned to various ships. - V 'i-t : ,; ; - Fire lives were lost "and half a million dollars' damage ; done as a result' of cloudMtrsxa and heavy rains in West Virginia last ' week. Three -milea of . the ; Baltimore : and Ohio railway track was washed away near Kingwood. r ' . ' Miss Anna Normyle, 20 years old. either fell or jumped from a fifteenth REALISTIC ROMANCE That Began Back East Ends iq Gastonia. ' ' In a remote hamlet back east livd a demure maiden and a bashful man who had for aome vears been living withbut one and the same, object beyl lore them, n Bey were nopeiessvic tims of "love microbes" that were do ing most effectual work under the direction of Cupid himself, : Harry suddenly "woke up one day and de cided that procrastination was tue thief of time and bliss and imme diately set about to bring matters to a focus, very soon mere was a wed ding and it-wasn't much longer be fore Uncle Bill Taylor wrote euusive- y of what be termed "grit" and pro- osed that it tney would locate nere e would start them np in lite. Very soon they began to bid loved ones adieu ana were soon speeding in this direction.'';,: - ;' When the train pulled in generous Uncle Bill was at the depot to greet and Welcome the much elated couple. and after hearty congratulations, conducted them straightway to the Falls House, having previously ar ranged for a suite of rooms with Col. Fry, the affable host. It was in the inviting dining room ' at breakfast next morning, while partaking of a tempting menu that was being po litely served that Uncle Bill first un folded his plans to the appreciative newcomers, obligating Himself, nrst of all, to build and furnish for them an ideal home, "But, in the mean time," said ne, "you will nnd tnis a pleasant and well managed hostelry and a most agreeable place to live." 1 "Come," ' said the generous uncle, rising from the breakfast table, "the pleasure is now mina to. introduce you to our town, your future home. Then, too, I want to arrange to build the new house right away. ' And, of course, it is important that we select a pleasant : and healthful location, where we may have agreeable en vironments about us." Uncle Bill was soon .astir and the young couple were eager and beaming with . ex pectancy. " First, we will go in and confer with The Gastonia Insurance & Realty Co.. our well-informed and wide awake real estate -agents here, where is always listed the best res idence and business properties in town or in the county about. We want to get a lot in South Gastonia, in 'Rankin's new addition' on the water and . Sewer line which means much from a sanitary pointof view," -The trio were courteously received at the office and it wasn't Ions be fore the suave Vf T Pa,,v'1tl,8d al check for an attr on which Uncle 1 erected a handso .now, 4 am l royal m: CSASS. bulls' Mat ;tion I the luabl VejCet Late Senator nIHcent ; De: Yforlia'Most . able. Br John J.lnlla. : Next in - imrMance to the ivine profusion bf water, light and air. those three great pbvs ical facts which render exfbten tence possible, rr y be reckoned the universal -. Leneficence voi grass. Exaggerated by tropical neat and vapors t? the gigantic cane- congested with its sat- charine secretioa, or dwarfed by polar rigors o the fibrous hair of Northern solitudes era bracing between- these extremes the maize with its' resolnte pen nons, the rice plat of Southern swamps, toe wbeat, rye. oaney. oats and other cereals, no less tbio the humble verdure of hill side pasture and prairie in the temperate zone, jrass is the most widely distributed ot all vegetable beings, and at once a type of our life ani the emblem of our mortality, f Lying in the sunshine among tlie ! buttercups and the ' dandelions in May. scarcely higher in intelligence than the minute tenants of that mimic'; wilderness, "our earliest recollections are of grass; and when the fitful fever is ended, and the foolish wrangle f of i the market and . forum is :, closed, grass heals Over the scars which our descent into the bosom of the? earth has made, and thH carpet of the infant becomes the blanket of the d?ad. Grass, is the forgiveness ol Nature, bet constant f benedic tion. Fields trampled with bat. tie, saturated with blood, torn with the ruts of cannon, grow green again wun . grassy ana carnage - s forgotten, streets abandoned; bv. - ; tfamc ' become grass-grown like rural tanes and are obliterated . Forests decay, harvests perish; flowers vanish, j u ( . grass is Jinmoriau, cmc eagured by the sullen hosts of winter, it withdraws into toe im 5 Gastonia Book store Ratio Dividends Received to Premiams Paidr39.9 percent Record 'of - Policy No. 80,665 Issued in x375, at age 38, for $10,000. IS Payment Life Plan . - ANNUAL PREMIUM " ; t - $430.10 15 Full Premiums ...... $6,451.50 Dividenda . . , , . , , . . 2.571.70 - Net Cost . , . ,$3,879.80 The Cash Surrendf t Value of tbe Policy 1 at the end of the Slat year la $6,694.20; t the result being that the insured would , receive $1.72 or each $1.00 paid, bc- .,; aides having: had 31 years' insurance for . $10,000. . . .' Mutaal Benefit Life laiarancs'. Cs. Soothern Securities 6 Trust Co. AGENTS : " Caitonia. N. C NOTICE. Havinjr qualified as administrator of the estate of Mary Margaret Mauney, deceased, tins is to notify all persons having; claims rainst said estate to present the same to the undersigned, duly authenticated, on or before the - 281k day ! June. 1908, ; or this notice will be plead In bar of any re covery. All persons Indebted to said estate - are requested to make payment to me with, ont delay. - . A2c6w ; c vThis June 27th, 1907. - F. H. Robinson. Administrator. W A NT ED $80,CCO$ Flat pieces "to. launder this week. Pricesright'wotk the best. '- " . SnowIIake Steam Phoaa laundry 13 RUBBER Stamps, made while you wait at the Gazette Publishing Go's. .One-line- stamp, 20 cents; 2-line 25 cents r S-line, 30 cents, tf . WEDDING 'V furnish invitations We can them... either printed on nice stock : or engraved, at reasonable prices and promptly t.ive ns vour order, oazette lishing Company, Gastonia, N.X. tf ! 'ft Subscribe Gazetts for the Gastonia story window of the Masonic Temple in Chicago last Wednesday and was instantly killed. She fell in the midst of a crowd but fortunately struck no one. Her bodv was mu tilated as to have little resemblance to a human form. . - ". Twenty-one painters in the South ern -Railway- shops at Spencer have gone on a strike as a result of the company's refusal to grant them a raise of 3 cents an hour. They were receiving 25 cents an hour, and de manded 28. ; Mrs. Charles W. Fairbanks wife of the Vice-President, and a party including her two sons and the wife of one of them, were roughly shaken up and more or less badly bruised in an auiomoouc acciuent ; ai v on Plains, N. Y. They had started on a tour from Indianapolis to Boston , but finished their trip by rail. An unknown white man. aonaT: ently about 20 years of age, was found dead by the Southern's track near China Grove Friday morning. Tbe supposition is that he was struck and killed by a passing train during the night. The - body - bears no means of being identified, .: The Grand Lodge of the order of Elks in session at Philadelphia last week passed resolutions calling upon the members of the order to cease wearing the elk's teeth as an emblem, for the reason that the demand for them has ' caused a v wholesale slaughter of the elks which threatens to entirely exterminate the. species in this country. . - !A negro prisoner leaped through a closed car window on a rapidly mov ing train near Durham. Friday and escaped, leaving his coat in the hands of the officer who attempted to hold him : back. The officer stopped the train and set out in pursuit but lost track of the fugitive and returned on the next train to Durham. - ; , - . . ... - - . . In' the Recorder's: conrt at Win- ston-Salem Friday Thomas Giddines. aged 67, was arraigned on a charge ml attempting to criminally -assault his lb-year-oid daugbten : wbo is a cripple, and Thomas Milraney, aged 55, was arraigned on a charge -of as saulting his wife's JO-year-old sister. ixin men were commiiiea to jail 104 await trial in the Superior Court. 1 ueorge i-reaencx aanon.tne Dogus Loid Barrington-, will end a long and remarkable criminal career on the gallows at St. Louis next-. Thursday if the governor of Missouri, does not interfere. He was sentenced to be hanged for the murder of his former friend and patron, James P. McCann, - Ex-Mayor B.F." Lively, of Spencer, was badly injured in an .automobile accident in Birmingham, Ala., last Tuesday. - The machine was over turned, throwing the occupants out with considerable force. Mr. Lively was able to return to his borne, how ever, onlast Friday, One of the most harrowing railway disasters of the year occurred in lfk-hign Saturday, when an excur sion train of eleven crowded coaches collided with a freight train in a cut near Salem, Mich., while running at a high speed down grade. Thirty one dead and more than seventy injured, many of them fatally, is the record so far. The freight crew for got their orders and encroached on the excursion train's running time. Tb Casetta for frt-c!a printing. Bill. "It beats ainiow"tlieybuiiI bouses nowadays, considering the way they built them forty years ago. Why, the modern houses of to-day nave conveniences and comforts that one of mv time never . dreamed of But I know who can help us out of this dilemma," said he, suddenly re membenng Charles L. Ungg as be ing abreast of the times in modern architecture and building, and also as being actively , associated with building interests, s- v Very soon the plans were ready for a pretentious $6,000 residence for the - It is a renaissance of colonial ef fects, symmetrical in appearance and commodious in its interior arrange ment. Uncle Bui then and there al so tendered Charles L. Grigg the contract to build it, remarking that nobody ever questioned bis integrity in building a house to the letter and on time. too. .."it is tbe task ot the painter and decorator that count most in ob taining artistic and harmonious re suits,". chipped in the bride. "For," said she, "it is the painting and decorating, when executed by capable artisans; tnat augments tbe attractiveness of both the exterior and interior of the home, rendering it pleasing and inviting.' i "Then," interrupted Uncle Bill, "1 11 take no chances on botch ery, . but 111 see J. - Dorie Smith, employing artists with the brush, competent men who wield the brush with dexterity, and if we give the painting, paperhanging and decorating to J. Done smita we can rest assured of gettiug wall paper and moulding exquisite in taste; good workmanship and a well finished and presentable house, painted and decorated in ship shape." '.-v -:.' '"'.--.' "In my earlier" days." remarked Uncle BilL "the nse of electricity was unknown; it aid not enter into the construction of buildings at all. To-day it isX first consideration in modern building. The conveniences it affords are manifold. Now about the electrical equipment for our new house. I am going to see The Gas tonia Water & Light Co., who' will wire the house, install tbe fixtures, put on the : door bells and give us chandeliers exquisite in -taste -and appropriateness, and do - every thing right. . I expect Hettie will y want electrical curling irons and flat-irons, too. The Gastonia Water & Light Co., does everything elec trical, and is equipped for subserv ing the best interest of the public. They will also supply the light .at reasonable rates,", concluded Uncle Bill." V , .,,. , -. . Well, it is up to me now to furnish your new residence," remarked Uncle Bill, "and it shall be furnished from bottom to top in just as good taste and as completely as your good judg ment and tact will permit or dictate." "How grand It she exclaimed, beam ing with joy and expectancy. Uncle Bill then bad the young couple to come with him to Williams Furniture Company, our live - exponentsof furniture and well informed house furnishers, where is handled every thing that is smart, useful and dainty, needed to fit out the cottage or mansion on whatever scale desired. The trio was politely receiv ed at the store, -v here after confer ring with the conversant and as siduous management. Hettle soon selected her living room and bed room suits, as well as every item needed for the dining room, her purchase also including carpets, rugs, mattings and sundry inci (Coalinuedoa 2d cage.) lienrii?l)irdsrDrouatiica"Tjiriu subtle horticulture of the eie ments which are its ministers and servants, it softens the rude outlines of the world, its tena cious fibers hold the earth 10 its place, arid preventv its soluble components from washing into the wasting sea. Jt invades the solitude of deserts climbs the inaccessible slopes and forbid din? pinnacles of. mountains modifies climates and determines the history, characters and des tiny of nations. Unobstructive and patient, it has immortal vip- or and . aggression.;" Banished from the thoroughfare and the field, it bides its time to return and when vigilance is relaxed or the dynasty has -perished it si lently resumes the throne from which it has been expelled, bnt which it never I abdicates. It bears no blazonry of bloom to charm the senses; with fragrance or splendor, but its homely hue is more enchanting than the lily or the rose. It yields no fruit in earth or air, and yet, should its harvest fail for a single year famine " would depopulate; the world . ".-. i6.i;'i ?i.A'kiU::':-v- One grass differs from another in glory. One is vulgar and an other patrician. . There are trades in its vegetable nobility. Some varieties are useful. Some are beautiful. Others combine utility and ornament; The sour. reedy herbage of i the swamp is baseborn. Timothy is a val uable servant- . Redtop and clover are a degree higher in the social scale. But tbe king of them" all, with - the genuine blood royal, is b)uegrass. Why is it called blue, save that Jt is most vividly and intensely green. is Inexplicable, but bad its un known - priest baptized it with all the hues of prism, he wonld not have changecLjts hereditary title to imperial superiority over all its bumble kin. " NOTHING COMPARES to Father William's Indian Herb Tablets for all diseases of the LIVER,, KIDNEYS. STOMACH and BOW ELS. Frost Torrence & Co. . . It causes a vigorous action of -the LIVER, digesting the food and caus ing a regular free movement of the BOWELS, cleanses the KIDNEYS, purifies the BLOOD, makes you well,- keeps you well. It only costs you 20 cents to try . it. ; Money-;cheerfully refunded if not satisfied." .- v 2 The Core an emperor has abdicated is throne and the Crown Prince will assume tbe royal - power. This change has caused great disorder among the people and only; the presence of Japanese soldiers - has prevented serious riots in the palace grounds. . ' '. . - . JOBDANS.TOUK. ; , President ot Southern .Cotton v Association and Delegates to bt fioyally Entertained In ; Atlanta Mr.. Jordan'a : Crop Views. : ;-.V:::t''-Correapondanc ot Tha Gazette. J i Atlanta, Ga.; July 20. Gov ernor Hoke Smith today told Harvie Jordan, president of the Southern Cotton Association, that he would give a reception at tbe governor's mansion on the night of October 7 to the delegates to tbe convention of foreign, tpinncrs,.. growers of cotton and representatives of various cotton interest, wbo will gather in this city at that time. Governor Smith's reception will be followed the following eve ning by a banquet : to the - dele gates given by tbe chamber of commerce ana other business bodies of Atlanta. It is probable that the city and state officals of the other cotton States. through which the delegates will be taken on a special train, will extend - similar entertainment. Tbe delegates, on their arrival from New York in Washington, will meet the President and other goverment officals. The Southern Cotton Associa tion, the Farmers' union, foreign. and domestic spinners and rep resenatives of the various cotton exchanges, will attend tbe ' con vention, and it promises to be tbe most important of its kind ever held in this country. President Jordan opened bis tour of tbe cotton belt -to-day at Garner, N. C, and be will speak at Raleigh on tbe 20th. Speak ing of crop conditions, he said: r Cotton has begun to grow; but its condition is not nearly so good as in former Julies. It got a late start that it hasn't ' been able to recover, and it is now 30 or 40 days late. The fact that it is growing is receptive, and to realize how bad conditions are. the crop must be compared with past July conditions.. "The stand is universally bad. and in many sections it is being ul. The boll weevil rts in the south-west A the belt have made it iu.Hvtble to make a full crop." In bis speeches Mr. Jordan is urging tbe farmers to make their arrangements for a slow move ment of the crop as slow a one as is consistent with the highest possible pricev Mr, Jordan will begin bis tour of Texas early in August. We are prepared to extend our customers every accommoda tion and courtesy their business will warrant. If you have no account with us we invite you to open out, : " : ' ; SAVINGS DEPARTMENT We pay interest on savings deposits at the rate of i and compound the interest quarterly. : : : . R. P., Rankin, President ClTIZEtlS mm A. (i. Myers, Cashier. MILLINERY Now since it is mid summer and the season for selling hats is more than half spent, although there is plenty of time for wearing them, we want to make it easy for you to purchase your ex tra outing or dress hat for your moun tain or seashore trip, consequently we are not considering cost. We want to sell them and we want you to share in the bargains we are offering our customers. Now is your chance. YEAGER-McLEAN MFG. CO. sc f f. 4 A'jj $ M 4 if ir 'f'k aF.4' 'f 4 a . SURGEONS AT JAMESTOWN. Association of Surgeons I At- lanuc uoast una nanwav ne Kin Annual Session To-day. Correspondence ot Tbe Gazette. Jamestown . Exposition, - Va. July I20.r-The Association of Surgeons of the Atlantic Coast Line Railway will meet in con vention at tbe Jamestown Ex position on July 5, remaining in session three days. July 23 has been designated by the Ex position management as their day, and a special program is now being arranged for that date in honor of the Association. The association will have its headquarters at the Inside' Inn. The meetings will be held in hall number 4,"-The convention will be formally opened by prayer by Kev. Calvin S. Black well. Hon. Harry St. Tucker. president of the Jamestown Ex position, will deliver the address of welcome,- which "will be re sponded- to by some ' member of the Association not yet selected. This Association numbers among it? members many of the eading practicing physicians of the South. Its officers are Dr. D W Bullock, of Wilmington, N. C, president; "Dr. W. P. Adamson, of Tampa, Fla., Dr. P. J. Thomas, of Wilmington; N, C, and Dr. W. W. Bacon, of Albany, Ga., vice-presidents; Dr. M Monroe Moran, of Pin ners Point. Va., Secretary and Treasurer. Dr. Sonthgate Leigh, of Norfolk, Va., is a member of the Executive Com mittee. :v;:-.;..'." .;; Routine business will come before the body, after which a number of papers will ' be pre sented dealing with the subject of railroad . surgery and other matters of interest to the body. These papers will' be discussed by the members of the Associa tion and by their ; specially in vited gnestsr men prominent as railroad surgeons y throughout the country, s - Tn a statement issued Saturday William J. Bryan says that the peo ple are not yet reaay to act upon government ownership - of railway lines and hence it should not be an issue in 1908. He says that the issue now before the people is Federal and State regulation, and this will be the reaHssue. lie still believes, how ever, that-oublic ownership is the only ultimate solution of the problem. 4 4 4 4 the First National Bank GASTONIA, N. C. Capital Surplus $100,000.00 $20,000,001 DIRECTORS L. L. Jenkins A. A. McLean J. Lee Robinson J K. Dixon R. H. R. Ray M. McAden T. L. Craig Andrew E. Moore. J. O. White Geo. A. Gray Our seventeen years of successful banking experience demonstrates that we are a safe bank to place your funds 7 it lie I t We invite you to open an account with us. : i t L. L. JENKINS, Pres. S. N. BOYCE, Cashier I RANGE QUALITY; c; . "Of the making of many ranges there is no end.", There are all kinds of ranges good, bad and indif ferentand then there's the best. ; -. ;; ;-: ; ; J ? There's only one best and the way it's spelled is F-A-V-O-R-I-T-E. We have handled several makes of ranges bnt the one that gives all-round satisfaction is the FAVORITE. ' Our personal guarantee of satisfaction goes with every one of these . ranges we sell; -)A v -V- K , If you have not a range already, yon are includ ing in your plans for the future the purchase of one When you do buy you want the best, so come in and let us show you the Favorite "and point out to you the superiorities it has over the other kinds. We shall take pleasure in showing you even if you are not ready to buy right now. ' " " SLONG BROTHERS r : l . Steves, Ranges, Tlawar. Rtr.ij. J r t