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QASTOinA GAZETTE. Every Twasday e4 Friday Gasctta Publishing Company. 8. , ATKINS. Editor, 1. W.ATKINS. Business Manager. C.A.BU". Local Editor. Admitted Into tha malls at tbs (Mat OfOca at Qastonla, N. C at ths pound rata f Postage, April M. IML SUBSCRIPTION PRICK: Cms yr 4. .. .. S-W Btx snontbs Four months S Oaa month - M FRIDAY. AUGUST SO, 1907. INTERESTING REPORT. h The twentieth annual report of !t the Barean of Labor and Printing of the State of North Carolina, which has jast been sent out by Commissioner H. B. Varner, is document of 350 pages filled with information, both statisti cal and general, of treat interest and importance. Turning to the table of cotton mill statistics we note the fol lowing totals for Gaston county: Total number of spindles in county, 330.278; Total number of looms. 5,263; Total capital stock, $6,293,700. These figures do not include, of course, a number of mills that have been organized or have commenced operations since January 1st. They are figures for 1906. For the whole State the figures are: Spindles, 2,558,114 looms, 52,747; capital stock $41,278,160. That part of the report deal mg witn tne Mate's newspapers shows that there are published in the State 303 publications the aggregate circulation of 285 of them being 887.777. Of these 28 are daily, 19 semi weekly and 178 weekly. The total circulation of the semi weekly papers of the State has increased in five years four hun dred and nine per cent. L&J CROUP AND Pneumonia Salvo Th Family Safe-Guard. Nak Abort 25c, 60c, $L00. at aaaia. Relieves Croup COURT CALEN0A1. The following is the calendar of civil cases set for trial during the September term of Gaston "Superior Court, which convenes at Dallas Monday, fceptemoer 9th: THURSDAY. SEPT. 12TH, 1907. No. SO. W. S. Cannon et al vs. R Lee Cannon, et al. No. 43 and 58. Davis A son vs. Shannon & Co. No. 43. Cornwell vs. Atlantic Coast Line K. R. No. 54. Carpenter 1 in company vs. Armstrong. FRIDAY, sirr. 13th. No. 106. Payne vs. Black, et al. No. 111. Swift vs. Adams. No. 74. Robbins vs. Southern Railway Co. No. 73. O r m a n d vs. Southern Railway Co. No. 21. faysonr vs. raysour. No. 126. Cleveland & Jones vs. Southern Railway Co. SATURDAY. SEPT. 14TH. No. 90. Altman vs. Western Un ion Telegraph Co. ro. a. rams vs. The action of the city council in going ahead with the work of paving Main street without wait ing for the bonds to be sold is heartily commended, we are sore, by all who are interested in the progress of the town. The completion of the work by December first, as called for in the contract, will give us a good street throughout the winter in stead of the usual depths of mud. This prompt action shows that our present board is fully alive to the best interests of the town. New Mill for Belmont. The Gazette learns from a reli able source that the town of Bel mont is to have a new spinning mill. A site has been secured on which to erect the buildings and work, it is understood, will begin early in the spring. Mr. S. P. Stowe, one of the principal stockholders, is away from home at this time and the reporter could not obtain definite informa tion as to the size of the mill. Belmont is one of the coming mill towns of Gaston. At present an addition is being built to the Chronicle Mills. The Imperal has been completed and, in operation only a few months. This latest enterprise, when carried out, will give Belmont three cotton factories. The Little Housemaid talks for the Williams Furniture Company in our columns every week. Read what she says. Rev. R. A. Miller will preach next Sunday morning: at 11 o'clock at the Presbyterian church in Bel mont, and Sunday night ai 8 o'clock at Lowell. Next Monday is Labor Da v. Parmnn nf t"i nirnl mntpe urill tniu '-tiie regular daily visit of the carriers, f , who will have a holiday and will 't. take advantage of it to hold their No. Sellars. Harrell vs. Harrell. Wilkerson vs. Wilkerson. Whitworth vs. Whitworth. Huff vs. Huff. Wilson ys. Wilson. Bo&an vs. Bogan. MONDAY, SEPT. 16th. 10. Long Shoals Cotton Mills vs. High bnoais wo. No. 61. Anders, Admr., vs. South ern Railway Co. TUESDAY, SEPT. 17th. No. 23. Suggs vs. Lewis. No. 128. Moore vs. Seaboard Air line Railway Co. No. 86. George vs. Bessemer City Cotton Mills. , WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 18th. No. 49. Gastonia vs. Mrs. Mary Craig et al. No. 72. Harrelson vs. Mauney, Admr. No. 79. Griffin vsr CTTFTf.-W. Railway. No. 93. Mullis vs. West. No 99. Spencer vs. C. & N.-W. Railway. THURSDAY, SEPT. 19th. No. 67. Adams vs. Southern Rail- WflV No. 104. Carpenter vs. Southern Railway Co. No. 108. 109. 110. Gastonia Furni ture Co. vs. S. Ry. Co. No. 112. Summy vs. Southern Railway Co. No. 113. Black & Son vs. bourn- em Railway Co. No. 77. Vandyke vs. George fit Coley. By agreement the foregoing consti tutes the calendar of jury cases for September term. 1907, and parties ana witnesses need not attena court prior to the date hereon fixed for the trial of the respective cases, and wit nesses will not be permited to prove if they attend prior to the time at which the cases are set on the calendar. The case of Long Shoals Cotton Mills vs. High Shoals Company will, by consent, have priority over all cases on the Calendar for the preced ing week; which cases go to the foot of the calendar if not reached the first week. York World's expenses increas ed 40 per cent, and its earning power decreased fully as much. Such facts as these are stagger ing. Unless conditions change they point to very important changes in the character , of . the newspaper press. The liberty of the press is one of the safe guards of our civilization. It is essential under such a form of government as we possess that the independence of the press should be preserved. , Independ ence is best maintained by the operation'; of newspapers t o r profit. Any other method of operation simply means t sub sidised press, . v; . : ' - 'Joseph Pulitzer, when ' he learned the Cost of rutting down the price of his paper from two cents to one cent, declared "we prefer power ro profit." Either a newspaper is to be conducted for profit or else it becomes -de pendent upon some neb man like Mr. Pulitzer, who is willing to conduct it for the power it gives him, or else upon some rich man like Mr, Hearst for the politic!, opportunity which it afiords, or else the newspaper must be subsidized by the great corporations .like the Standard Oil Company, and become , not the independent organ of public opinion, but the subsidized organ of corporation interest. This is the greater menace. ; Mr. H. G. Nelson, who has con ducted the Star Theater in Gastonia for the past several months, has opened up the local office of the Western Union Telegraph Company. Crated ky tEs effects of a two- weeks' spree, Cart Fressley, of Webster City, Iowa, burned $2500 in bills in the street, threw his diamond shirt studs into a sewer and then fatally shot himself in the presence of a large crowd in the city park. ' Jtoyle will begin a anoais and In Marion Jail. Policeman J. L. Hicks left this morning tor Marion to bring back one John Jones, colored, who is in jail there. Jones was in the employ of John P. Davis & Son, to whom be was indebt ed in tne sum 01 wu or more, Mr. Davis having paid this amount to keep Jones off the chaingang. Mr. Davis is look mg for two other negroes who treated him in a similar manner. He has them located and ex pects to land them in Gastonia within a few days. Mr. Davis returned last night from a trip to Mooresville and Statesville HEAVY NEWSPAPER EXPENSES n! .' , sssbbbbbssss. . v ,. Danfer that tha Independence bl the Press will be Affected by Declining Prolils. Proa the Walt Street Journal There are over 23,000 news papers in the United States, and yet there is no other branch of business in regard to which such dense ignorance prevails as to cost and profit of produc tion. This is a matter which is fast becoming of public concern, for the character of the Ameri can press and its future influence as the protector of American liberty depends upon it. Some extremely impottant facts bearing upon the cost of publishing newspapers in the city of New York have recently been given in a brief submitted by John Norm on be bait of the publishers. Mr Norris is an ac knowledged expert upon the subject of which he writes, hav- ing long been connected wild the business departments of leading New York and Philadel phia newspapers. He has made an exhaustive investigation and his brief is a document of extra ordinary significance. Mr. Norris does not hesitate to say that there is now impend ing over the daily newspaper press of New York the most serious menace that ever con fronted it. This is strong lan guage, and yet his statement of facts seems to warrant it. An additional burden of $3,000,000 a year in the expense account of 16 daily newspapers constitutes the menace of which Mr. Norris i. i - 1 menace than that back of these . figures, of which account will be given later on. This $3,000,000 a year of added expense includes $2,160,000 for white paper, $600, 000 additional for compositors, $200,000 addition for stereotvpers and $100,000 for other labor. Mr. Norris declares that no more than four papers out of the 16 which he represents could make both ends meet upon such terms. He adds that these 16 papers pay $1,500,000 a year tribute to organized labor, that is to say, that is the additional cost of a closed shop over an open. one. He is not antagonizing the closed shop, the principle of which he accepts, but he asks how long the newspapers will be able to meet these charges upon them. "We are," he says, "approach ing tnat limit wnere our neces sities may force us to stop." Here are some additional facts picked at random from Mr, Norris' brief: Ninety per cent of all newspaper circulation in New York city is on the one cent basis. The sale of adver tising space is also on a declin ing rat Qinn 1KQC t li o aorn. ing power per column of most of W II I P P K 1 II the New York Tjaners has Wn " V L i Lv U 11 V O reduced. A powerful combina- vpposice rost-ornce The Southern f Soldier Boy A ThousancTSbots for the ' Confederacy. James- Casson Elliott, t: (ORDER BLANK) .190. GAZETTE PUBLISHING CO. , . . Gastonia, N. C GENTLEMEN:. - . Enclosed, find $.... for Gazette's Gaston County Industrial Edition, order on your books and deliver the copies paper is published. : j1. Signed copies'' The Please jpIftrTriy, torrtewuen the If a regular subscriber put X mark here Colupan N. C.'T.. 56lh Kegiment C. 8." A. 1851-65 ShelbyvN.C. ' 77 pages of Interesting and In structive Confederate History. Now on sale at GAZETTE OFFICE ate m Mvl van aw Jtlm rtituM Price 25 cents, post paid. Rev. J. A. protracted meetme at Hijrh Baptist church Suturdav nieht. wilt be assisted in the preaching by Rev. C. M. Robbins. of Hickory. The meeting will continue through next week. The protracted meeting bi me ioray uupusi caurcn win oe- gin Sunday moraine, September 8th. Subscribe for The Gazette. MRS. JOHN HALL REPORT OF . the Condition of The Gaston loan & Trust Co. AT GASTONIA ; in the State of North Carolina, at the close of business Aug. 22,, 1907. V RESOURCES Loam and discounti .,.....$51,095.46 Uverdrafta unsecured . 22 J 7 Banking bouae $3,000: Furniture and fixtures 8800-. .r. 3.800.00 Demand loana..-.l....... 790.00 Doe from Bank and Banker 6.S23.87 Caah itema. 325.16 j Gold coin-...,-. 332.30 Silver coin, including all minor coin currency.-..... . 232.04 National Bank notea and other U. S. notea.... ... . 406.00 Other resources . 617.90 - L Total ... LIABILITIES Capital Stock . Surplus land ..$64,145.50 I ...$15,000.00 2.000.00 .tht van in TEACHER OF PIANO AND ORGAN. I wish to meet the members of my music class together with those who purpose joining it at my home Tuesday, September tenth, to arrange our work for the school year. Wc are now prepared to teat eyes and furnish a fine Hoc of glasses. . Also to do your watch work I promptly and guarantee satisfac tion with every Job. i&fiy fe ' in front oj tfaz juh4uluc Sobinzter ib foeaute we five food fyfonlktht job jSk,,tfood money you fw u&. l $unUube ftu&t tfo lame a& tfiebt ahe R. B. Babington Directors. Ml food kind off j faknitvke. a rii I x it . .t iTiouni noiiv DanK. noi mow wu me mmc mu .. ' I u u Undivided profits, less current ex penses and taxes paid 937.40 Bills payable.-..,- . 2.500.00 Time certificates of deposit 7,321.66 Deposits subject to check 35.829.68 Demand certificates of deposit 26.00 Treasurer's checks outstanding 99X0 i Other liabilities , 431.16 Total ..... ..$64,145JO State of North Carolina, County of Gaston, ss: I, E. G. McLurd, treasurer of the above-named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. E. G. McLtjrd, Treasurer Subscribed and sworn to before me this 27th day of Ausr. 1907. h, C, Peg ram, Notary Public Correct Attest; REPORT OF THE CONDITION OP THE - ' may a WE WILL Gray Mfg. Co. Cotton Mill st v-oiion Mill SIOCK, C.) rt hi i wno win nave 1" -r a.uuuai uiccuuu! Diinf Foundation. Work was commenced this week on the new hotel building which Mr. G. M. Gulhck is to erect at Belmont. Workmen are digging out the foundation. This structure will be of brick and will be two stories in height. The Bank of Belmont will occupy Handsome and convent ent quarters in one corner of this building when it is finished. The owner expects to have the work rushed to completion. This building will stand just north of the store building of J. r. btowe & Co. on Main street and will add much to the appearance of the business part 01 tne town. BUY o. cotton Mill stock. . C.) Arnnnon uoiion mill kook. in. li uzara cotton Mill stock. N. c.i Vance Cotton Mill stock. (N. C.) Modena Cotton Mill stock, f N P I Trenton Cotton Mill stock. (N. C.) Flint Mf(f. Co.. Cotton Mill stock. (N Imperial Cotton Mill stock. (N. CJ Aionarcn wotton Mill stock, in. cj Bnoree Mfg. Co. Cotton Mill stock. (S. C.) WE WILL SELL German American Prfd.. (N, C.) 85. Mfnfl wderi Henrietta Cotton Mill stock, (N. C.J N.C.I ucnuu American rria., rt. v:.; 03, Gibson Cotton Mill stock. Com,. (N. C.) Woadrnfl Cotton Mill stock. (S.C.) crowaers mm. v.onon Mill stock, 1: Mayes Mfe. Co.. Cotton MiU stock, Gafiner Cotton Mill stock. (S. C.) oat totus Mill, Z.7UO spindles Mr conauton. price S3Z.5O0. c irood teriTi.. Omwr, health has tailed. A bargain if you yon act quick, SOUTHERN SECURITIES 4 TRUST CO. cbinery in iood Halt casb, balance J. A. Ciena, Pres. Gastonia, - C. M. Ciena, Treaa. N. C. NOTICE. ado ffroiti IVhcaf Ail 17IIEAT FUME CELERY IB. mm m Is aa improved wheat food made from tha entire - wheat grain with celery to reader it mors palatabto. Tha foods that are the most natural are the most . healthful. If people would us tha foods intended by BatturaVI&othing would be lost in strength and vitality, if foa wish to bs ths possessor of good, ' sound health, include Dr. Price's Food la your bfJl of fare. y-rr-r - ------- - ralsfstils ffatrftf ttt-1" r DUsstteai smd Keaaly to Ea4 Catsasmf kaL Mkiaatamfartfteaaaslac w cast ktaaai asm. , SI .- - m tion of dry goods merchants has operated to reduce line charge. This dry goods combination stayed out of the World for 7 months, boycotted the Sun at the time of its labor trouble, and has been out of the Times for about four years. When the New York World reduced the price of its paper from two cents to one cent it gained 90,000 cir culation in three- weeks, but gave up $1,000 a day, $312,000 a year in revenue and added at least $500 a day to its expenses. That meant a loss of $450,000 a year in gross revenue. Mr. Norris went on to say that the i the New York Times is prosper ing. but that the fact was Dain- fully evident that its profit for a long period would not pay for the additional cost on its new building, which was put upon it by the many unions in fights to which the Times was not a party. These fights added $538,000 to the cost of construction. The Herald is a three-cent pa per and can afford many extrava gances and submit to many exactions, but there are extremes beyond which one-cent papers cannot go. Demands, he declar ed, are verging upon the point of putting up some newspaper shutters. The New York World pays out $2,500,000 a year for labor. This is at the rate of $50,000 a week and the remark able fact is stated that there "are 1,000 men now on its pay roll who receive over $1,500 a year. The news dealers make a profit of $1,500,000 every year from its sales. The smallest share of re turns eo to the newspaper capital. Mr. Norris goes on to add that the daily newspaper business is the most pecarions venture that can be devised. The most high ly prosperous in the city , spends more than 80 per cent of its reve nue in Us operating- expenses, while most of the papers show deficits. The newspaper per centage of profit is less than that of any other manufacturing enterprise. For eyerv $1,000 of increased business gained bv at least one paper more than $1.000 1 RUe' tberei" demanded will b irasted. AT MT, HOLLY, in the State of North Carolina, at the close of business, Aug. 22, 1907 IES0U1CES: Loans and discounts Overdrafts secured,.' r. Furniture and Fixtures, ... All other real estate owned... Due from Banks and Bankers Cash items .. Gold coin Silver com, including; all minor coin currency. .,. 158.22 National bank notes and other: U. S. notes. ..-.. 1.015.00 Total ..$60S2.18 LIABILITIES: Capital Stock . !..$ 10,500 00 ...$29,150.98 .. 1.085.97 500.00 1-28.817.01 125.00 jV youh home tfdb and wintf Williams Furniture Co. I CRAIG A WILSON BUILDING Jno. H. Williams. Manager. Undivided profits, less current ex penses ana taxes paid Time Certificates of Deposit .. Deposits subject to check. Cashier's Checks outstanding.. Total... ' .. 612.91 14.S11.89 35.216.98 . W.0 ..S60.8S2.18 R E A L ESTATE!! STATU OF NOKTR CAROLIKA. I OASTON COONTT ft I ' I. J. A. Costner. Cashier of the above- named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement ia true to the best of my knowledge and belief. . J. A. Costnsb. Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me. this ZStbdayof Aug. 1907. John M. Hoover. Notary Public. COBBECT-Attest: . Now is the time to invest in good Gastonia real estate before the rise in values which is sure to come when the town's improvements on account of bond issue are made. We have the most desirable vacant lots in the town FOR SALE. H. A. Rhynb, J. M Springs, Directors. Supe'ioT Court. Before the Clerk NOTICE J North Carolina. Gaston County. B. M. Berry, v vs. W. F. Berry. Nancy Cofer and her husband ' Cofer. Clementine Nolen and her hus band Nolen, Bettie L. McKensie and her buaband McKenxie, Robert Berry. Lulu Singer and her husband -Sincer, Elizabeth Hunt and ber husbannd Hunt. Mrs. N. A. O. Caldwell and her hnsband N. A G. Caldwell. W. C. Berry and B. P. Berry. - The defendants W. F. Berry. Nancy Cofer and her husband Cofer. Clementine' Nolen and her husband Nolen. Bettie u. atcKeniie and her buaband Mc Kensie. Robert Bertxulu Singer and her husband Singer. Elisabeth Hunt and her husband Hunt, Mrs. N. A G. Cald well and her husband N. A. G Caldwell, W. C. Berry and B. F. Berry if living and if not then the heirs of the said B. F. Berry and all others who kave or claim asw interests in the j lands hereinafter mentioned wiU take notice that aa action entitled aa above baa been commenced ia the Superior Court of Gaston Co., North Carolina, for the purpose of sell ing for partition among the nlaintiff and tfic defendants, that certain tract of land ait- sated in South Point Township, Gaatos county. North Carolina, adjoining the lands of J. M. HufisteUer. J. W. Riddle. W. W. Wilsnn, J. If, Nolen and others, containing one hundred and ninety aix (196) acres more or less, formerly knows as the Edwin M. Berry tract and more recently knows aa the Nancy J. Beriy tract, and which ia more fully described is the Petition which is sow oa filets this office, and in which the said defendants have as interest, the defendants will further take notice that they are re quires i appear at tne omce ot u Clerk of the Superior Court of Gaston County .North , Carolina, on the 21st. day of September I 1H07. ana answer or demur to the verified petition which ia now on file Iberia or the Overdrafts secured . Furniture and Fixtures . REPORT OF THE CONDITION OFTHB Farmers and Merchants Bank, At Stanley in toe State ot North Carolina, at the close of business, Ang. 22, 1907. RESOURCES. Loans and discounts $16.44.13 386.44 - 417.68 587.50 600.00 I 1.893.5 120.00 101.92 371.00 S20.931.92 j . S 9.600.00 472.65 1.000.00 . 9.908.05 51-2 $20,931.92 , s . Lots Street.-. in the I. C. Pegram subdivision in the E. F. Wilson subdivision South side of Franklin .$250.00 to $700.00 each. on South Marietta ...J400.00 to $500.00. " That beautiful lot Northwest corner of 3rd and Narrow Gauge Street $700.00 Lot with beautiful shade on Narrow Gauge St. East front..........$750.00. : v Beautiful lot corner 3rd and Marietta -... $1000.00 3 lots in West Gastonia : $500.00 for all. All other real estate owned Demaad loans Dne from Banks and Bankers Cash t-m . Gold coin . Stiver coin, including all minor coin y , ., National bank notea and other U. 8. n i Total Capital Stock. LIABILITIES. And Others . ' SOME IMPROVED PROPERTY, - . Four room and pantry dwelling on Airline street.. $1000.00, Four room and pantry dwelling on Franklin Avenue ...$1200 00. New Five-room dwelling, painted and finishedthroughout, on West . Airline street ,....-.... . .. $1600.00. Five-rootn dwellirig and two Btore houses in West Gastonia, oc-, cupied and pay good rent. Inquire of this class. ALSO OTHERS1 Terms will be made easy on anything we sell, when desired. -' . Gaston Loan & Trust Co. sioc4t. - v . . ' Undivided profit, less current expenses and taxes paid Bills p"'" Time Certificates of Deposit Deposits subject to check Caahiefa Checks outstanding-. Total , Clerk Superior Court Gaston County. STATS OF KOITR CA BOLtNA. uanun cousti-m: Jt. K. I Pegram. Cashier of the above named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of tat knowledge and belief. - B. Xm PsoaAat. Cashier. Subscribed and awora to before me. this 28th day of Aug. 1907.' O. B. Carpenter, Notary Public. ; CoaascT-Atteat: .-- . B. F. CAirsirrsa, . . . M t Directors, TO BE C O M F 0 R 1A B L E one should be comfortably clad.' Why wear tight fiuine underwear when nainsook loose fitting- arments are cooler and more comfortable. We can fit yon, shirts athletic, loc? or short sleeve. Drawers either lono; or knee length. BMMn HMMMOTM ft period of 10 . years the New This 19th day August, 1907. T10c4 w.
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