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__ _ • M THE GA A I’UBLIS TWICE A WEEK—TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS. ~~ Devoted to the election of Home and the Interests of the County. SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS. ._^ ■, ■ i GXSTONiA N. C.. TUESDAY. JUNE 30 1908. I' VOLDSXIX. _ • V - ■ 1 ■ ■■■■■■ --—- . .-■ L_^_v ;-5 PROFESSIONAL CARDS 8ARLAND, JONES 4 TIMBER LAKE. r Attorneys and Counselors Over Tortence-Morrl* Company." tV'' Gastonia, N. C. S. B. SPARROW ATTORNEY-AT-I AW DALLAS, N.C. Office upatilre over Bank of Dalis* -: JOHN 8. CARPENTER ATTORNEY-AT-LAW 1 DALLAS, N. C.. '! Office over Bank of Dallas --~ : ; Mrs. John HairTEXCBEHr OF PIANO AND ORGAN. Pupil of Dr Haas, Director of Music, Holland In ■titute, Va. Leachetlxky method —nf-tectarftiwa'Taught. Ten years ex perlence. Dally lessons to begin ners. During vacation Is a good k time to begin. Jly 21 cl m. FOB REGISTER OF DEEDS. I hereby announce myself a candi date for re-election to the office ol Register of Deeda for Gaston county subject to the action of the comlnj Democratic primaries and county con rentlon. A. J. SMITH. V 1 kji; FOR COUNTY TREASURER. nfl&Pv;; y r ** ■ i I h*<Cy inn'bHoca-lbfit'i Ri»_acan dJdCte for"re-election to’the office o: /Bounty Treasurer of Gaston counts * subject to the action of the Democrat • lc primaries'and county convention. J.'m, 8HUFORD. .___ j FOR COUNTY TREASURER I hereby announce myself a can dldato for the office of Treasurer o! Gaston oounty subject to the actloi * ot. the Democratic primaries anc cenvehtfon, vV-■! SlfcfV, J. H. RUTLEDGE. June 2Dd, 190S. FOB'SHERIFF. I hereby'announce myself a candl - date for re-election to the office ol Sheriff of Gaston county subject tc ,e action of the Democratic primar L and county convention. T. B. 8HUFORD. --—i-r»r— FOR SHERIFF. . I hereby announce myself as a can for the office of Sheriff o county, subject to the actjoi the Democratic prlmarlee anc on. W. C. ABERNETHY. A SPLKNDH^BSNCE. WE HAVEL^fe SAMPLE BAR fcamiT. Oja^fflE VERY BEST ELAS ■pBLACK PAINT THAT TH£ HKcOLN PAINT COMPANY, 0£ Ik^BVLAND, OHIO, WISHES TC HAVE THE PUBLIC TRY. WI I frtLf! MAKE A. SPECIAL PRICE 01 87 CENTS A GALLON ON THIS r-THE REGULAR PRICE BEINC if! 35, WE GUARANTEE IT' TC GIVE ABSOLUTE SATISFACTION OR YOUR MONEY BACK. PRE 8 RUST OR DECAY FR01 UND8 OF METAL OR WOOD • A SAMPLE OF IT—YOU WILI REGRET IT. IF Y01 „„ A CASTING OF ANY KINI MACHINE WORK, IT WILI YOU TO SEE U8. GASTON IRON WORKS, Gastonia, N. 0. L-; The Early Tears of Grover Cleveland His Birth In Caldwell, N. J., His School Days, His Legal Career, His Rise to the Governor ship of New York and His Defeat of James G. Blaine For the Presidency In 1884. -: WHEN the pastor of the Pres byterian chnrch in - the little town of Caldwell, N. J., in 1837 bestowed up on one of bis ba bies the name of the Rev. Stephen Grover, a prede cessor in the same pulpit, he proba bly entertained not the remotest dream that the boy would grow up to discard his O HOVER CLEVELAND’S BIRTHPLACE, CALD WELL, N. f. ns n careful, hard working, but not brilliant, lawyer. He had no pyro technic, ornamen tal side. He sim ply attended to business. Though the Republican state ticket car ried Buffalo by more than 1,600 votes, Cleveland was elected may or 'by a majority of 3,530. Early in his term he be came known as first name and become Known in world history as Grover Cleveland, twice president of the United States and for the remainder of hla life “the most dis tinguished private citizen in the world.” The Eev. Stephen F. Cleveland and his wife, who was Ann Neal, daughter of a Baltimore merchant, had a large family of children. Three years after Grover was born t}w family migrated, as preachers' families are wont to do. Parson Cleveland became pastor at Fayetteville. N. Y„ and later at Clin ton, :N. Y. The father died when G; over was In his sixteenth year. The family home was then and until the widow Cleveland died In 1882 at Hol • land Patent, N. Y. Grover Cleveland attended academics at Fayetteville and Clinton. He had an early ambition to go through Prince ton college, bnt lacked the funds. He ■ became clerk and later assistant teacb er In the New York Institution For the Blind. New York city. Fanny Crosby, the celebrated blind hymn writer, was a teacher In the same school. She and Grover became warm friends. In her reminiscences Miss Croeby writes: He seemed a very gentle bnt Intensely ambitious boy. Among other very pleas ant characteristics which I noticed In him me veio nmjw. uwu; extravagant appropriation bills and saved his city at least $1,000,000. The state of New York soon heard much of this veto mayor. He had been In office less than a year when the Democrats nominated him for govern or. New York had uot elected a Dem ocratic governor since before the civil war. The Republicans nominated Charles J. Folger, secretary of the treasury In President Arthur’s cabinet. Mr. Folger was regarded as a partic ularly strong candidate, yet Cleveland was elected governor by a plurality of 192,854 over Folger and by a clear ma jority of 151,742 over all the candi dates. Just after he voted on election day he wrote to his brother, the Rev. William Cleveland: -if mother were alive, I should be writ ing to her. and I feel as if It were a time for me to write to some one who will be lieve what I write. • * • I will tell you first of all others the policy I Intend to adopt, and that Is to make tho matter a business engagement between the people and myself. In which the obligation on my side is to perform the duties assigned ms with an eye single to the interests of my employers. I shall have no Idea of re election or of any high: political prefer ment In my head, but be very thankful and happy If I serve one term ss the peo ple’s governor. Do you know that It mother were alive I should feel so much GROVEB CLEVELAND IN 1884 AND HIS BUFFALO LAW OFFICES, REACHED BY STAIRWAY. tu a disposition to help others whenever possible. Knowing that It waa a great 1 favor to me to have my poems copied neatly and legibly, be offered to perform that servloe for me, and I several times ' availed myself of hls aid. , One day the principal of the school upbraided the blind woman for using the cleric'* time In that way. Grover told MUs Crosby that she bad a perfect right to employ blm In that capacity. Inasmuch r.s her poems were used In the school and also helped to make the Institution better known. Be advised 1 her to give the principal some “plain > prose” the next, time he should re l proach her. When the official remon strated a- second time. Miss Crosby stood for her rights and won the battle. . When Cleveland was about eighteen years old, he paid a visit to an unde 1 living In Buffalo. The uncle In ’ duced the boy to remain and help him In compiling the "American Herd Book." Grover assisted In several edi tions of this work, studied law and was admitted to the bar at the age of tventy-two. Hls first official position was that of assistant district attorney, -which lje held for three yean, during the civil war. Two of hls brothers f were In the army. Grover waa helping to support hls mother and sisters. Hls ' salary was small. When be was draft t ed to military service, he hired a sub stitute and remained at work. Later he was a candidate for the district at * torneyshlp. but was defeated. Then he a settled down to law practice. In 1870 l lie war Induced to ran for sberlff and was elected, serving for three years. After another Interval of private citizenship, assiduously devoted to I hls profess.' on, this bachelor lawyer of forty-four ffeon was nominated for mayor of HtfUo on the Democratic - ticket In I8e^pe had become known -j * -V «afcr. I. have always thousht that her prayers had much to do with my suc cesses. I shall expect you to help me la that way. ( Governor Cleveland was precisely like Mayor Cleveland. He was a bast ness governor. It was said of Mm that he ran the state as he would have ruu a railroad, mastering the details of the business so that be could run It well. The same writer declare* that “he not only preached economy, but be made the state officials practice It He ve toed bills ubtll the legislators were wild with rage, and he forced through civil service reform." Grover Cleveland was cordially disliked by the politicians In Ms par ty. But his reputation among the peo ple as a plain, practicable, businesslike executive had grown so wide that In thd summer of 1884, before the expira tion of Ms gubernatorial term, there was an Insistent call for him to ac cept that “high political preferment" which In the letter to his brother he had declared was not in his head. The great mass of this Democracy throughout the country believed that Cleveland was honest and that noth ing could turn him aside from a course which he believed to be right He was nominated for president at the Chica go convention of 1884, his Republican opponent being James G. Blaine. Mr. Cleveland received, a small plurality of the popular vote and an eleotoral ma jority of thirty-seven. For the first time since 1850 the Democratic party had carried the presidential election. A man who two years before was un known beyond his own city and coun ty, a painstaking, laborious lawyer, a ponderous, heavy set “old bachelor," hacPentered the lists and swept to do* feat “the plumed knight" of years’ national renown. ' jTOWN AND COUNTY. _Mr. VtL^Uoftin spent Sunday with Mrs. Xoftln, who has been vis iting the family of Mr. James Adams at Bowling Oreen, S. G. _If you have friends or relatives visiting you ofTTyou are going away to visit some of your friends or rel atives call up The Gazette and tell _us about it. _Mr. Kerry D. Shelton, .who re cently sold li is business next to the postoSl e. has opened again in the Davis b’ock. He carries an up-to date line of cigars, tobaccos, candies etc. . _Considerable interest is being manifested in the protracted meeting in progress at the past Baptist church. Rev. J. M. Haymore, of Norfolk, Va., is doing the preaching. The attendance Is good. _Mr. W. M. White spent yester day in Charlotte on business. He will probably go Saturday to Greens boro to attend the meeting of the State executive committee of the Pro hibition party, of which he is a mem ber, , ’ —Don’t fail to .read the half-page advertisement of W. H. Dellingers great money-saving sale In to-day’s paper. It begins the 2d of July and continues for ten days. Mr. Del linger occupies the Heath building on Main street. _^A four-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hamilton died Sun day at their home at the Modena Mill and was hurled at Shiloh ceme tery yesterday afternoon, following funeral services at the home at 4 o’clock conducted by Rev. R. C. An derson. _Mrs. G. C. Dedmont and little son ,'of Gastonia, fame down Wednes day-on a visit to relatives and re turned this morning. Her sister, Miss Viola Proctor, of Rlchburg, came over this • morning and went home with her.—Chester (S. C.) Lantern, 26th. —Mrs. O. W. Davis, Miss Hattie Hanna. Miss Maude Fayssoux and Mr. R. Love Davis attended preach ing Sunday at El Dethel Methodist church, Cleveland county. Dr. B. F. Dixon, of ftaleigh, and Rev. E. G. Kilgore, of Kings Mountain, con ducted the services. v —Many of the public school teach ers of the county went yesterday to Llnwood College, on route one from Gastonia, to Attend the Llnwood Summer School which opened for a two-weeks term last night at 8 o - clock. Elsewhere in this parer will be found the course of study and -'tber information regarding., the school. —On account of illness in his fam ily Mr. Thomas S. Royster; of Besse mer City, district organizer for the hinth congressional district for the rural letter carriers, will De unable to attend the sessions of the annual meeting of the State Rural Letter Carriers Association at Wilmington July 3 and 4. Mr. T. C. Smith, of Gastonia, delegate from this county, expects to attend. —-A partial eclipse of the sun. which did not lack a great deal of be ing total, was witnessed Sunday be tween the hours of 9:69 a'bd 12:26 o’clock. It reached Its height short ly after 11 o’clock when the greater portion of the'United States passsd into semi-obscurity. The eclipse was most nearly total over an area about two. hundred miles wide ex tending across a portion of Mexico, the gulf and Florida. —Prof. Edgar Long, of Gastonia, the youcgeBt member of the faculty of Erskine College, Due West, S. C„ and who has many friends In Meck lenburg county, spent yesterday- 1j the. city attending the convention. Professor Long graduated from Ers klhe In 1906, when he was 20 years of age and was given a place on the faculty last year. He will leave next week for New York to Bpenc! several weeks .at Columbia Universi ty, taking a special course. He is a brilliant young man and took first honors in his college.—Charlotte Ob server, 26th. Fanner’s Union. President J. T. R. Dameron of the Gaston County Farmers Union re quests The Gazqtte to announce that the union will meet at Dallas on Sat urday, July 4th, at 10 o'clock In the court house. Dr. Alexander, the State President, will be present to make^ an address. The public Is cordially Invited to attend. Subscribe for The Gazette. DUE WEST FEMALE COLLEGE. With the best modern conven iences and equipment and high standards of teaching and living, this Is an Ideal place for preparation Tor the great responsibilities of wo manhdod. Terms reasonable. Foi attractive catalogue write REV. JAMES BOYCE, Due West, 8. O. 8 IB c. THE FOURTH AT THE LORAY. Day Will be Celebrated by Operatives of Big Mill—Two Gomes of Base ball, a Lecture and Various Kinds of Races and Contests Make up the Program—Mill Will be Closed for Day. Saturday will be a gala day at the Loray Mill where all the operatives together with many Gaston ians will celebrate Independence Day in grand Btyle. The big mill will be closed for the occasion and its hundreds of operatives will, instead o^-listenlng to the song of the spindle, turn their eaTs to rooters' seng in the baseball park and to the laughter of the child ren and young people who will en gage in all sorts of games and con tests. It will bo a day of recreation Tor the people o( the western section of town and the committee having the work in charge has taken special pains to make out a program that will contain ^something of interest for both old and young. In the afternoon there will be two games of baseball between the Loray team and the Mountain Island team, which will doubtless draw quite a crnr\A prnwH. Following Is the program: 7:00 a. m. Sunday Schools meet at respective churches. 7:30 a. m. Sunday Schools meet at Baptist church. 7:45 a. m. Parade. 8:45 a. m. Lecture on works of S. S. by Rev. W. H. Reddish. 9:30 a. m. Baseball. Fata vs. Leans. 10:00 a. m. Foot race, 12 boys un der 12 years of age. 10:16 a. m. Potato race.-6 boy« under 12 years of age. 10:30 a., m. Sack race, 6 Jxryi from 12 to 16 years of age. 10:45 a. m. Egg race, 12 ladles 11:00 a. m. Potato race, 6 little girls. 11:15 a. m. Foot race, open to all, 11:30 to 2 p. m. Open. 2:00 p. m. Climbing the gTeasy .pole. 2:15 p. m. Catching the greasy pU 2:30 p. m. Baseball. Loray vs. Mountain Island, 1st game. 4:30 p. m. 'Baseball. Loray vs. Mountain island, 2d game. BOOKS^ CREDIT Tbe FruWiR-Tinwr Co., Atiaita, 61. *125“ THE NORTH CAROLINA College o! Agrieoltue And Mechanic Arts Practical education In'Agriculture; in Civil, Electrical, and Mechanical Engineering; in Cotton Manufac turing, pyelng and Industrial Chem istry. Tuition $45 a year; Boari $10 a month. 130 Scholarships Examinations for admission at Coun ty seats on July 9: Address THK PRESIDENT, West Raleigh, N. C. EXECUTRIX1 NOTICE. North Carolina, Gaston County. Having qualified as executrix ol the Will of William D. Hanna, de ceased, late of Gaston county, Nortl Carolina, this Is to notify all persom having claims against the estate ol said deceased to exhibit them to th< undersigned on or before the 6th day of June, 1909, or this notice will be pleaded In bai of their recovery. All persons In debted to said estate will please inak< Immediate payment. , HARRIET HANNA, Executrix of Wll 11am D. Hanna, deceased. This June 6th, 1908. Jly 24 p. asisIPv I M p. I P* '' REAL ESTATE I DEVELOPMENT I ' After making an extensive development, we J are in position to offer about forty verv desirable g building lots on South, York and Fifth streets, ranging in price from $200 00 to $2000IX) V v All of these home sites are on water and* J sewer lines in a rapidly- growing, residential sec An opportunity to show yon this property 1 is all we ask, believing that we can satisfy any ■«' one anxious to secure a home site or investment. DON’T WAIT I until the choice lots are taken I Gastonia Insoraitce I 4 Realty fo. | : j j|g|- A Fre<j®ent Qu< ■’ ..; IS taistyoui ib answerinjr the somewhat diffica i SHALL 1 GIVE"? We have a present far i price for every pocket book 8 Don't fontet our Repair Departmen: dm ir ii ii_ii __K1 pat —((I'l'il
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