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the g PUBLISHED TWICE A WEEK—TUESDAYS AND FK1DAYS. " . _ Devoted to the Protection of Home and the Interests of t"he County. SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS. J_____ VOL XXIX. GA8T0W, N.C., TUESDAY. JULY 28 1908._ "~PEO?feSSIONAL CARDS - GARLAND, JONES 4 TIMBER LAKE. Attorneys and Counselors J Jr Over Torrence-MorrlH Company. Gastonia, N. C. T> --— S. B. SPARROW ATtORNE Y-AT-L AW DALLAS, N. C. office upstair* over Bank of Dali** JOHN G. CARPENTER ATTORNEY-AT-LAW DALLAS, N. C.. s Office over Bank of Dallas. Mrs. John Hall TEACHER OF • PIANO AND ORGAN. Pupil of Dr. Haas, Director of Music, Holland In stitute, Va. Leschetizky method t of technique taught. Ten years ex perience. Dally lessons to begin ners. During vacation is a good time to bogin. Jly 21 cl m. » ' , . _ ANNOUNCEMENTS. FOR SHERIFF. I hereby announce myself a c»jdl date for re-election to the office of Sheriff of Gaston county subject to the action of the Democratic primar ies and county convention. T. E. 8HUFORD. k -_ ^~FOB SHERIFF. - , I hereby announce myself as a can didate for the office of Sheriff of Gaston county, subject to the action of the Democratic primaries and convention. W. C. ABERNETHY. Kr--— «. FOR SHERIFF. ,' I hereby announce myself a can *■—didate for the office- of Sheriff of Gaston county subject to the action of the Democratic primaries and con vention. T. B. LEONHARDT. f- -' ■ FOR REGISTER OF DEEDS. ; - . I hereby announce myself a candi date for re-election to the office of Register of Deeds for Gaston county, subject to the action of the coming Democratic primaries and county con »ention. A. J. SMITH. FOR REGISTER OF DEEDS. 1 hereby announce that I am a can didate for re-election to the office of County Treasurer of Gaston county subject to the action of the Democrat .c primaries and county convention. J. M. 8 HU FORD. |||-;-; FOR COUNTY TREASURER ■ . . > . - I hereby announce myself a can didate for the office of Treasurer of Gaston county subject to the action of the Democratic primaries and convention. J. H. RUTLEDGE. ■?'H June 2nd, 190*. —• FOR REPRESENTATIVE. — - “ I hereby announce myself a candi date for Representative In the Leg islature from Gaston county subject - ;:to the action, of the Democratic prl • ■ marles and convention. N. B. KENDRICK. PRIMARIES AUGUST 8TH. Executive Committee Fixes Time for Holding Democratic Primaries O ver the county. The Democratic Executive Commit tee of Gaston county, met in the Court IJpuse at Dallas at 2:30 o’ clock p. m. as per call of the yhair man, a quorum being present the following business was transacted: On motion the precinct primaries were called for August 8th, 1908. from 2 o'clock to 7 o’clock p. m., said primaries to be conducted by the various precinct committees. On motion the county convention was ordered to be held August 12th, 1908, at 1 o’clock at the Court House in Dallas. C. B. ARMSTRONG, Chm., A. C, STROUP, Secretary. _ W&jiJJ -l. - CHERRYVILLE CHAT. Correspondence of The Gazette/ CHERRYVILLE, July 25.— ! Messrs. N. B. Kendrick and T. B. Leonhardt, candidates for Represent and and Sheriff respectively, are now on the alert shaking hands with their friends and forming new acquaint ances. To-day they are gone to Old Furnace picnic.—Cherry ville and vicinity was visited yesterday by a heavy rainfall.—Mr. R. E. Carpenter, manager of the Cleveland Drug Com pany, of Shelby, was a pleasant so journer here this week.—Mr. M. B. Aderholdt, of Crouse, is in town to day. Mr Aderholdt is a fine stock raiser.—Mr. Jeff D. Harrelson has returned from a business trip to Marion.—Mr. O. B. Carpenter, the affable manager of the Clierryville Drug Company, was* here Thursday. Mr. Carpenter devotes most of his time to interests in Stanley.—Mr. Sam Beam, of Bessemer City, was in town yesterday.—Messrs. J. B. Hous er and T. E Black returned yester day from a visit to Concord and Sal isbury.—Mr. Will J. Roberts, of Shelby, was among our business vis itors here this week.—Mrs. S. J. Wil liams, of Bessemer City, was in town shopping yesterday.—Mr. J. W. Del linger, of Stanley, came up this week to visit homefolits..—Mr. J. H. Rudlsill was a business visitor in L.aiumore one uay uiib ween..—mi. and Mrs. Marcus Sisk are visiting Mrs. Sisk’s parents in Lincolnton for a few days.—Miss Johnnie Baker, of Mecklenburg county, who has been spending the past several weeks with her sister, Mrs. M. L. Mauney, return ed home Thursday.—Mr. S. P. Mil ler, a prominent citizen of Waco, was a business caller here this week.— Deputy L. G. Harrelson, of Cleveland county, was in town on legal busi 'ness Wednesday.-—Mr. A. F Craft, of Lincoln county, is in town to-day. —Mr. W. H. Dixon, j hustling farm er who iB always studying the best Interests of his business, put on mar ket here this week eight bales of cotton. CONTRAST IN HOLLAND Our Body-Maiming Fourth and Quiet Celebrations in Other Lands. Chicago Post. Our thrashing machines—prize fighters, battleships and harvesters are. the wonder of the world, at once marvelous and awe-inspiring and so assuredly is our national holiday, the Fourth. Nothing like it can be found in any other country in the world,, it is ours uniquely and solely ours, and no international copyright is necessary to protect our sole pro prietorship. The Japanese are creditted with an imitative ability which enables them to reproduce by the hundred any foreign invention they covet, from a locomotive to a camp kit, and to reproduce with an exactness that preserves the very factory num ber Of the original. But even the Japanese never have imitated our na tional holiday; they simple-minded people, go to war when the/ wish to slay and maim. tv uuui iuc neon iuu utoi. * tin^n ^]|r j^rrth have been listed and within the week also European nations have observed national hol idays in a way that, were we not al ways in such a hurry, would cause us to stop and ponder the contrast af forded by the spectacle of Norway and Austria-Hungary celebrating their great days. In Norway a few days ago was celebrated the anni versary of the country’s emancipa tion from the Swedish apron strings. The event was made a “children’s day," and was observed with a sani ty, a tranquility and a freedom from mortuary lists such as no Fourth of July has ever known. In Vienna on Friday another great holiday was observed, the 60th anniversary of the emperor’s acces sion to the throne. The celebration took the form of a great historical pageant in which 25.000 persons par ticipated and which is declared to have been the most magnificent pa rade of modern times. And no one was killed, no one was maimed, no property was destroyed. We can hardly imagine such a day. Interurban Electric Line. Work was begun yesterday on the grading for ^n electric railroad which is to connect Asheville with Weaverville, a distance of ten miles. There will be 21 trestles on the road *’ e longest being 300 feet in length. After the grading is done the road will be rapidly completed. Found Dead In Bed. Mr. James Watson, of Salisbury, was found dead in bed Saturday morning at a hotel In Waynesville, where he had been for about a week. He bad been ill and had been attend ed by a physician but was not thought to be in a serious condition. The body was sent to Salisbury for burial. ELECTRICITY ON THE OCtAtk, It Serves Every Purpose in the Oper ation of Ships. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Much has been written about the two leviathan Cunard steamers, Lus itania and Mauretania, yet compara tively few can grasp the significant part which electricity plays through out these ships. A few facts relat ing to the electrical equipment of the Mauretania may be of interest. Apart from the 70,000 horse pow er of the turbines which propel the ship through the water, the electri cal power, which is supplied by four generators, represents an additional 2,14 4 horsepower. Electricity is used not only for illuminating the ship at night, but for a multitude of other purposes, such as operating the elevators, of which there are two for passengers' use, eight for baggage and mails and two smaller ones in pantries. Elec tricity driven cranes and winches are also provided. . There are 6,300 electric lamps in stalled throughout the ship, giving the enormous total of over 100,000 candle power. For heating the first class quarters 60 electric radiators have been fitted, to say nothing of some forty-three heaters in bath rooms for use during the cold weath Numerous electric fans are used for ventilating the various rooms and are so arranged that they can supply either warm or cool air, according to the weather, while the air in the cabins can be totally changed six or eight times in an hour Ventilating fans, 16 larger ones of 50 horse-power each, are fitted for supplying forced draft to the 25 boilers. In the extensive kitchens of the Mauretania electricity is called upon to play an important role, and it may interest some housewives to learn that one range alone has a frontage of about sixty feet and includes a roaster with four vertical spits rota ted by an electric motor, these spits being capable of dealing with half a ton of meat at a time. This is in addition to a smaller roaster with three spits driven' Ih the same way. In tlie bakery elec tricity is employed to operate a large dough mixing machine capable of making bread for at least three thou sand persons. Among the miscellaneous appar atus driven by this wonderful un seen power are three-circular knives for slicing ham and bacon, four po tato peelers, a whisking machine, several egg boilers, numerous hot plates for keeping the food warm, five plate washing machines and two 12-quart freezers for making ice cream for the passengers, a cold stor age plant and an electrical printing press, which enables the Cunard Dai ly Bulletin to be published on board. Some idea of the size of this ves sel may be obtained when it is men tioned that over 200 miles of wires and cables are fitted throughout the ship , ! The electric bell and telephone in stallation on the Mauretania sur pass anything hitherto attempted in ship work. Bell push buttons have been fitted in the various cabins, while telephones,' of which there are upwards of a hundred, are in num erous parts and in all the best rooms. Apart from the Marconi wireless telegraph outfit, which enables pas sengers to learn all that is going on in the world, just as if they were in a first class hotel in St. Louis or Lon don, instead of miles from land, means has been provided for coup ling the ship up with the city tele phone exchange when lying along side the landing stages at Liverpool or New York, thus enabling passen gers to" communicate with their friendB or to transact business the moment the vessel touches the quay, or to say goodbye to friends in dis tant parts of the city up to the time the }>oat leaves land. Electricity also plays an import ant part in the safety devices on board this wonderful ship, as for in stance, showing the officer in charge, which water tight doors are actually closed and'what navigating lamps are lit It is also employed to oper ate the fog horn from the wheel house, and for the system of fire a larms, in connection with which there are 38 alarm push buttons in promin ent parts of the vessel. Four electric searchlights are car ried on board, and, in addition to the usual complement of life buoys, which every ship carries, two special buoys have been provided for use at night. These upon being released by* pressing a button automatically light a flare upon striking the water, thus Indicating their position. Men tion must also be made of the sys tem of electric clocks, which are plac ed in the various saloons and impor tant situations throughout the ship. The electric instalation on this vessel represents about J 3 2 5,0 00 value, or some fifteen times the cost of the electric equipment on the av erage Atlantic liner. Subscribe for THE GAZETTE. THROUGH MOUNTAIN! ir Men Taking 250-Mile Jitun rough Western North Carolim oun tains. Stat»3eHtxJ-andmark, 24tb Mft B. F?DiJ(81I, "*i^ofKing! Mountain, and Mr. R. L. DurhamToi Charlotte, passed through States ville Wednesday en route to Tay lorsville. They were joined at Hid denite by Prof. Jerome Dowd and Rev. J. A. Baldwin, of Charlotte who had been at Davis Springs tw<; or three days, and the four left Tay lorsville late Wednesday afternoon for a tramp through the mountains. Beginning their journey at Taylors ville they will visit Wilkesboro, Jef ferson, Boone. Blowing Rock and other points and will take the train again at Black Mountain. The tramp will cover about 250 miles and the tourists expect to complete the walk in a little more than two weeks. They will cross and explore Grand father, Roan, Mitchell, the Craggy and other noted mountains of the Blue Ridge. The travelers are their own pack horses, cooks and all, and will eat and sleep in the open air. Each has a pack on his back weigh ing about 25 pounds but the packs are so well made up and strapped that they do not make a heavy load. The travelers are not out to hunt and they carry no firearms. Their outfits are complete and they can get along during rainy weather about as wen as in suusume. Messrs. Dowd and Durham took a tramp through the mountains two years ago and the^ trip will not be entirely new to them. They say it is the only Way to enjoy the beauty of the mountains and the only way to get the real benefit of the invig orating mountain air. They had a great time two yearh ago and are expecting a better trip this year be cause their crowd is larger and their route longer. CASE AFTER CASE. Plenty More Like This in Gastonia. Scores of Gastonia people can tell "you about Doan's Kidney Pills. Many a happy citizen makes a public state ment of his experience. Here is a case of it. What better proof of merit can be had than such endorse ment? ' • Mrs. G. W. Taylor, 221 Loray Mill House, Gastonia. N C.. says: "I received so much benefit from the use of Doan's Kidney Pills that I am pleased to testify in their behalf. My kidneys were in a disordered con dition and as a result, my back ached so severely at times that I could hardly get about to attend to my housework. There was also a lame ness through the kidney regions and often the pains radiated throughout my body. Hearing Doan's Kidney Pills spoken of highly, I purchased a supply at Williams Drug Co. and af ter using them a short time I was cured." ' , For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Mllbum Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name—Doan's— and take no other. CAMPAIGN OF REASON. Political Discussion Free From Ran cor. Baltimore Sun. On the whole, the press of the United States has started the discus sion in a spirit free from rancor and devoid of hysteria or vehemence. The leaders In both parties and the ora tors should co-operate with the press to make this a campaign of “light and leading,” and seek to influence voters by argument addressed to the conscience and convictions and minds of citizens. The thoughtful press has given party managers very strik ing suggestions in its comments as to the spirit in which the presiden tial contests of 1908 should be con ducted. No partisan who claims to be guided by sincere convictions and absolute honesty of purpose can rightly deny the same virtues to the partisan of an opposing party. No man of independent views will deny that the partisan is exercising an in herent right of American citizenship in voting as a partisan, just as the Independent voter exercises an un questionable and inalienable right in voting his convictions regardless ol party. The comments of the dis criminating press indicate that in this campaign there is a probability especially in the West, of both par ties recruiting from each other, w'itl the independent voter an importanl factor this year, as in the past. With a campaign of enlightenment and res son all along the line, the America! people will be enabled to solve theii problems with greater regard for the national welfare and the materiai prosperity of the country than in e campaign of bitter denunciation anc dangerous appeals to class prejudice —Mr. A. Q. Kale, of High Shoals passed through Gastonia Saturda] en route to Charlotte on business. i TRAINS MADE SAFE New Device Brings Flyer to Quid Standstill. Chicago Tribune. Complete success to-day attendee an experiment for the automatii stopping of trains which accidental ~ly or otherwise run past block signali and threaten disaster. A train ot the main line of the Burlington wai sent at a speed of 50 miles an houi into a section controlled by the neu automatic device. The throttle wai wide open, yet the train was broughl to a standstill within a distance ol 1,100 feet. The railroad experts gathered from all 'parts of the coun try for the trial, said that the au tomatic device was the best safe guard against accident that has been invented. As a result of the experiment it is believed the device will be intro duced on all railroads in America. The system can be installed at small cost on any track, and with it in op eration it will be impossible for trains to rush past block signals in to collision. It was said that the in vention Anally solves the problem of human fallibility. It was said by the president of the Burlington that the automatic system would meet ev ery possible emergency, stopping a train when, as occasionaly happens, an old and tried engineer seems to lose control of himself and his en gine and runs ahead in the face of signals set against him. Preparations had been going ,on for the experiment for two weeks. Two miles of Burlington tracks was equipped with the device. Fifty railroad men were in two cars be hind a regular passenger engine. The train was sent down the track for a1 mile and a.half, and first came on at a speed of 20 miles an hour. No sooner had the engine come into line with with the signal against it than the emergency brakes were set automatically. Only 100 feet was covered before the thain was brought to a stop. The railroad men expressed their satisfaction, but-withheld their full indorsement. The train was run down the track the second time, this time almost three miles. > A group of watchers stood in a field close to the track. The train came on at al most a mile a mlnut^ and the watch ers held their breath in suspense. The engineer was seen leaning far out of the cab window,, keeping his watch on the two coaches. He held hinyself in readiness to apply the brakes, but the new system worked perfectly. The momentum was so great the train was carried forward 1,100 feet, but the experts said that was a distance short enough to save the country many disastrous wrecks. Those who examined the device ex pressed surprise at its simplicity. It is operated in conjunction with the block signals, and the new device simply Is an arm that opens the air brakes on the train. Another successful y experiment was the transmission of complex rail road orders by telephone instead of by telegraph. These orders were sent 118 miles and repeated back without error. It was said the tele; phone was coming more and more into favor with railroad men for messages controlling the movement of trains and that the experiment to day will lead to its more general use. Vade-Mecum Hotel Burned. Fire which is thought to have or iginated in one of the bath sooms to tally destroyed the main building ol the Vade-Mecum Springs Hotel in Stokes county. A number of the guests, who were quickly aroused, barely escaped with their lives, many of them losing all their person al effects. The loss on the building and contents was about $15,000, without insurance, the policies hav ing been allowed to lapse some time ago, W. H. DELUNGER SPECIAL. PRICE ON SHEETING FOR A FEW DAYS ONLY, 3 ANE ONE-HALF CENTS PER YARD COME BEFORE IT IS ALL GONE Bargains in Picture moulding and Frames 2000 feet best quality picture moulding must be sole quick to make room for large fall shipment, Now is y o u i chance for a handsome frame a small cost. J. I. Green Photographer Office Phone 147 Residence 309 ■» * WK ARK PREPARED TO EXTEND OUR OUSTOEOBM RVK RY ACCOMMODATION AND COURTESY THEIR BUSINESS WILL WARRANT. IF YOU HAVE NO ACCOUNT WITH US WE INVITE YOU TO OPEN ONE. SAVINGS DEPARTMENT I WE PAY INTEREST ON SAVING DEPOSITS AT THE RATB I OF 4 PER CENT AND COMPOUND THE INTEREST QUAB* I R. P. Rankin, President ■ — r. ---1 ■ - ■ .■"•msaaqag.'.t, •. j I WHaTsHALL I GIVE? |> A Frequent Question If yon will take time to visit onr store we will be glad to give j ! ! any opportunity of inspecting a large stock of high grade Jewelry, v II Silverware, Cut Class etc. All at reasonable prices. This will «•- A 11 sist you in answering the somewhat difficult question "WHAT Jj I I SHALL I GIVE"? We have a present for all your friend* at a 9 | | price for every pocket book ! ! Don't forget our Repair Department when yonr watch goes O ] | wrong or you break a piece of Jewelry. j| TORRENCE-MORRI S CO. | |j Expert Repairing Artistic Engraving * | Jewelers & Opticians | NEW YOBS RESERVOIR A SMALL INLAND SEA Twelve Mile* Long. 190 Feet Deep and Will Hold ISO,000,000 Gal lon*. American Industries. Away up on Esopus creek, in the rugged Catskills, back of the city of Kingston, and along a ninety-mile route leading down to a site -Just o ver the New York city line, a force of near five thousand engineers and contractors’ workmen are engaged to-day on the biggest task of its kind ever undertaken—the task of con structing the gigantic new water sup ply system which New York city is creating for itself at a cost of $162, 000,000; the system which in eight years, or" a little longer, will be de livering into the city 600,900,000 gallons of water_daily and which will avert. It is hoped permanently, the impending threat o( water famine from our greatest city. When finished the Catsklll aque duct will be able to carry not only the 250,000,000 gallons of water daily which the Ashokan reservoir will furnish, but also the additional quantity which it is proposed late> on to draw from other watersheds of the Catskills. By 1915. it is cal culated, New York will be using 719, 000,000 gallons of water every day and to meet the needs of a time when even Xshokan will not 'be able to supply the city’s great thirst plans have already been made to utilise further the resources of the hills wnen neeaea. The Ashokan reservoir itself will cover an area of 8,200 acres, or 12.8 square miles, divided by a dyke into two basins. It will be twelve miles long, nearly three miles wide at Its widest point, and will have a shore line of forty miles. Its storage ca pacity will be 130,000.000 gallons. The maximum depth of water will be 190 feet; the average depth fifty feet. From the little villa-e of West Hurley, eight miles west of ti e Hud son river, to its upper e. 1 ’.eyond WestShokan, this Immense s'orage basin will bury nnder Its waters an area of country having at tbs pres ent time a permanent population of about 1,900 and a summer popula tion of at least 2,900. Seven villages will be wiped from the map; thirty two cemeteries will be submerged, and 2,400 bodies buried in them will have to be removed to other resting places. Six'ty-four miles of public highways will be included within the reservoir or discontinued because of its building, and tweney-flve miles of new highways will have to be built. The Ulster and Delaware railroad, which runs through the Esopus valley, will be submerged for eleven miles, and to carry the road around the gap thus made four ; teen miles of new track will have to be located and built. The State of Virginia wIU place a statue of General Robert E. Lee In the national capltol at Washington. The statue is being cast in bronxe at Providence, R. I., by Edward V. Val entine. and will be ready for placing by the end of the year. f * * ' a — Si, • FREE! FREE! FREE! • • Beginning Saturday we will • • give to anybody who will eall • • at our store free samples -of * • FRONEBERGER’S DYSPEP- • • 9IA REMEDY. • • Now some may think that we • • should send them to your * • home, but we do this in order • • tb get a chance to talk with ' • you in regard to your case • • as we know that V . '/t • remedy that Is • weight in gold to • Dyspepsia. DON'T • TO CALL. AND GET iFgjgil • SAMPLER. ' * • FROST TORRES * • The leading _ SEE Wolfe Bros. FOR SPECTACLES AND KYK GLASSES. ALSO FINE WATCH REPAIRING. , WE HAVE A NEAT LINK OF
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