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W. H. DELLINGER
Gastonia, N. C.
I tar chamber proceedings have
c«n instituted by the police Justice
;f Asheville to obtain information as
to illegal sales of whiskey. Tburs
Jay Dr. S. West ray Battle, a promin
ent physician, was summoned to ap
pear and give testimony. He re
used to testily and was fined $25,
rom which he appealed. The suit
was instituted by the good govern
ment league cf that city and Dr.
Ba'"e b-s said he will sue its offic
ers Icr $5,000 damages. It is stated
that much liquor is being sold in
Asheville as is evidenced by the
large number of drunks in the police
court.
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Adenville Tuesday night, Oct. 6th.
Everybody is cordially invited to be
present and hear the issues of the
day discussed. If you fail to at
tend this speaking you will miss the
important part of the campaign.
You wilt not have the opportunity of
meeting Mr. Webb any way soon a
gain, for we are going to send him
back to Washington in the near fu
ture to look after our well-fare. A
better man could not be selected than
Hon. E. Y. Webb.
There was another baptizing here
Sunday in South Fork river. Nine
were baptized, all from Lowell.
Mr. C. B. Mendenhall, of Char
lotte. is doing some concrete work
here on the water race. —Mr. J. H.
Crowley, of Charlotte, was a busi
ness visitor here Monday.
McAdenviile's school is growing
so rapidly that another teacher was
added to the school last week. Miss
HAH, of Belmont, is the teacher.
This makes three teachers for our
school.
Mr. John Bell, of Dallas, spent
some time here last week with his
brother, Mr. J. ,L. M. Bell.—Mr. R.
•R. Ray was a business visitor to
Gastonia Tuesday afternoon.—Mrs.
L. b. Glenn returned to her home in
Gastonia Tuesday after spending
some time here with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. R. R. Ray.—Mr. I. F. Ma
bry was a business visitor to iy.llas
Wednesday afternoon.—J. R. Ly
brand spent Wednesday in Gastonia.
—Mr. W. B. Craig has purchased
the E. S. Ivey pressing club. Mr.
Ivey has not fully decided yet as to
what he will do.—Mr. Owen John
son spent Wednesday In Charlotte
visiting friends.—Miss Lottie Ray
was fc Gastonia shopper Wednesday
afternoon.—Mr. and Mrs. J. 0. Brit
ton are spending some time in Lin
coln and Catawba counties visiting
friends and relatives.—Dr. G. W.
Taylor was a Charlotte visitor Wed
nesday.—Prof. J. L. Webb closed his
singing school at Belmont Wednes
day and 'will teach another 10-days
school beginning Monday, October
5th.—Mr. S. B. Brymer was a busi
ness visitor to Dallas Wednesday.—
Miss Sallie Adcock and little neph
ew; Charlie Adcock, returned home
Wednesday from Lilesvllle and Rock
Ingham where they have been visit
ing- relatives.—Mr. T. P. Skidmore
of Belmont, Bpent some time here
last V.prv- visitifcff friends.—Mr. K.
M. Wylie epeot Thursday in Char
lotte on business.—-Mrs. W. C. Bar
ber and sister, Miss Grace Albea,
spent Friday a ternoon very pleas
antiy in Gastonia visiting friends.—
Quite a number of the McAdenville
boys attended the minstrel at Gas
tonia Thursday night.
Mrs. James Moose, of Charlotte,
spent some time here last week vis
iting her mother, Mrs. Harriot Sim
mons, and other relatives.—Mr. A.
W. Emmerson was a Charlotte visit
or Friday.—Thomas Helms is spend
ing some time in* Concord visiting
friends and relatives.—Mr. and Mrs.
C. W. Nipper, of Lowell, spent Sun
day here, the guests of Mr. and Mrs.
J. N. Roberts.—MrB. W. J. Hickey,
who has been the guest of Mr. and
Mrs. G. W. llumfelt, for several
weeks, returned to her home at
Washington, D. C., Sunday. Mrs.
Hickey won many friends during her
visit here.—Mr. J. L. Webber spent
Sunday in Charlotte with home folks.
—Mr. J. A. Anderson and Dr. G. W.
Taylor attended the “Merry Widow”
at Charlotte Saturday night.—Misses
Annie and Lizzie Craig spent Sunday
at Mount Holly visiting friends.—
Mrs. Margonid Alexander, of Gasto
nia, spent some time here last week
visiting her siBter, Mrs. D. L.
j Soronce.
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Mr. Gardner to Speak.
Chairman R. S. Plonk, of the
Democratic Congressional Executive
Committee of the Ninth District, an
nounces that Hon. G. E. Gardner,
presidential elector fof this district,
will speak at Bessemer City Friday,
October 9th, at 3:30 p. m„ and at
Gastonia that night at g o'clock. All
voters are cordially invited to come
out and hear him.
—Prof. J. B. Warren arrived last
week to assume his duties as princi
pal of the Central graded school.
Prof. Warren was educated at Trin
ity College and is well equipped for
his work. Prof. Warren, in addition
to being a teacher, has had consider
able experience as a newspaper
worker in Durham. He is a welcome
addition to Gastonia's educational
and social circles.*
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RNOR AYCOCK SPEAKS
n<l Timely Address on l’o
'/Issues al Oi>eriv House Sat
’ Nlglit.
Worn lias a Gastonia audience
yed the privilege of hearing so
uent and forceful an address up
rreut political topics as that de
red in the operaa house last Sat
night by Ex-Governor Charles
Ayeock.
Alttou:! the appointment for Mr.
Aycocl. to S; eak in Gastonia wa3 nn
ly n't 'e late Fridi y afternoon, the
speaT'*-l£a3 greeted by an audience
which (omfortaW?—QUedthe opera
house, a number of ladles~belns.^a-^
niong those who had come out to
hear one of the State’s most gifted
orators.
Mr. Aycoclc was appropriately in
troduced to the audience by Mr. A.
G. Mangum and for two hours held
his hearers completely under the
sway of his matchless eloquence and
unanswerable logic.
Taking up the State Republican
platform as adopted at the Charlotte
convention and published in the
Charlotte papers at the time, the
speaker mercilessly riddled this doc
ument with unanswerable argument
and biting sarcasm. Having criti
cised the increased expenditures of
the Democratic administration for
certain worthy purposes four years
ago in a vain hope of catching votes
thereby, the Republican party in
North Carolina this year has made a
complete “about-face” and promises
to do even more for education, for
the insane and for the old soldiers
than the present administration. The
Republican platform only promises
what the Democratic party has al
ready performed, and its reputation
for keeping Its promises is distinct
ly "shady."
Passing to national issues the
speaker gave his hearers the most
fr.rce:ul and convincing exposition of
the relation of the tariff to the trusts
that has been heard here during this
campaign. The only hope of deliv
erance from a complete domination
of our political life by the great in
dustrial and commercial combines,
he declared to lie 4n the victory of
the Democratic party in this cam
paign and the consequent abolition
of the iniquitous protective tariff.
While expressing his utmost con
fidence in a substantial Democratic
majority in the county and the State,
the distinguished speaker neverthe
less warned his Democratic hearers
f the danger o all' wing the Ite
ou'dicans to capture tte legislature,
and urged them not to let petty local
1i ffe:ence3 work to the harm of the
Democratic cause in the State and
latlcn.
LOWELL LOt'AlS.
e of Ti e Garotte.
lOWELt* C;i t. 2. —1/ well has I
eeen very f i <c*M.li in getting two
it Gastonia's i.it'ftw:erh to help in
meetings hetc. Rev. W. It. Ware
has been assisting Eev. W. V. Hon
eycutt at the Methodist church and
Rev. W. H. Reddish has been assist
ing Rev. Mr. Vipperman at the Bap
tist church. There was much inter
est in both meetings.
Mr. A. R. Leonhardt, whose store
was recently burned, has opened a
store In his father's old" stand.—Mrs.
D. A. Groves is visiting friends in
Charlotte this week.—Mrs. Fite, of
Charlotte, and her son,- Mr. Gus
Fite, spent Friday here with Mrs. B.
F. Leonhardt, -who continues quite
ill.—Mr. J. P. Lamp'ey, a telegraph
operator for the Southern, has been
visiting Mr. G. C. Leonhardt.—Mr.
P. W. Hand «was a Charlotte visitor
Monday.—Messrs. S. M. Robinson,
J. c. icansin ana or. rraun ^lourn
son were Charlotte shoppers Satur
day.—Mr. Yoyus Benjamin, of Per
sia, preached Sun4ay for Rev. R. A.
Miller. He was heard with interest
by a good congregation.—Mr. Lip
pencott, who has been working as an
electrician for the General Electric
Company, of Pittsburg, leaves soon
for his home in Philadelphia;
One night last week Dr. Lucius
Glenn, while driving his automobile,
ran into a . buggy driven by a Mr.
Butler, of this place. The buggy
wa3 pretty badly torn up, the horse
was painfully injured and Mr. But
ler is nursing a sprained ankle.
Mrs. A. B. Julian has returned to
her home in Greenville, S. C., after
visiting her motlffer, who is quite ill'
here.—-Miss Della Nolen, of Gakto
nia, visited friends In town this
week.—Mr. I. C. Mayor of Charlotte,
was in town Tuesday on business.—
Miss Ennis Ford visited her brother,
Mr. Jim Ford, at Salisbury, last
week.—Mrs. T. P. Rankin, of Gas
tonia, was visiting friends in town
Tuesday.—Mr. D. W. Mitchem had a
fox chase at Spencer Mountain Wed
nesday night.—Mr. A. R. Leonhardt
was a Charlotte visitor Wednesday.
—Rev. R. A. Miller attended the
meeting of the trustees of the Pres
byterian College at Charlotte Thurs
day night.—Mr. George Wilson, of
Gastonia, was In town Thursday on
legal business.—The following Low
el li tea attended .the Coburn’s Min
strels at Gastonia Thursday night:
Messrs. C. H. Hand, Palmer and Paul
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Miss Mary Wentz Dead.
At the home of her nephew, Mr.
W. A. Wentz, in Potith Point town
ship, Mis3 Mary Wentz died Friday
evening at 7 o’clock, aged G6 years.
Funeral services were held Satur
day afternoon at 3 o'clock at South
Point Methodist church conducted by
the paster, Rev. W. V. Honeycutt.
Interment followed in the cemetery
at this church, of which deceased
was a member. The only immediate
relative surviving is Mrs. A. M. Hoff
man, a sister.
iafs-un emic ;fll>ha ose'gi- shrdlu att
Rev. Manley .T. Breaker, a native
Carolina, for the past e
leven years corresaogding secretary
of the Board rt GeneraT>heme^and
Foreign Missions of the Missouri
Baptist General Assembly, died at
£t. Louis Friday, aged 58.
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R. P. Rnnkin,
President
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PRICES T5, 1.00, 1.SO AND 2.00.
Titman, John Rhyne, Garnett Cox,
Qujjn Ford and F. D. Phillips.—
Mr. D. W. Mltehem and a number of
his friends ran a fox Thursday night
on Spencer Mountain. The dogs
Btruck a trail about .12 o’clock but
they did not succeed in catching him.
Mr. Abraham Titman gave a din
ner to bis children Saturday in com
memoration of his 87th birthday.
DEATH OF JETHRO R. WILSON.
Father of Mr. George W. Wilson Pass
e<l Away at His Home in Lenoir
Last Friday.
Mr. George W. Wilson, of this
city, received the sad news over the
phone late last Friday night that his
father, Mr. Jethro R. Wilson, died at
11 o’clock that night at his home in
Lenoir. Mr. WJlson had been in
very feeble health for some months,
having suffered a severe attack of
pneumonia last Spring while visit
ing his son at this place. On ac
count of his advanced age, being
nearly 74 years old, he had never re
covered his strength after this at
tack, and the news of his death was
not a surprise, though his passing is
a source of great regret to his large
circle of friends here, as well as to
his immediate family.
Mr. Wilson is survived by his wid
ow and five children, Messrs. George
W. Wilson, of Gastonia, R. N. Wil
son, of Gainesville, Ga.. Dr. Louis R.
Wilson, of Chapel Hill,. N. C., Prof.
E. N. Wilson, of Haverford, Penn'v
and Miss Alice WilBon, of Lenoir'.
There is one surviving brother, Mi\
William J. Wilson, of San Salve^
Texas, and one sister, Mrs. Kate Mot
Loud, of Nashville, Tenn.
Mr. WilBon was well known in
Gastonia, where he had often visited,
and throughout this entire section
of the State. The funeral was con
ducted Sunday afternoon at 4 o’clock
at the Methodist church in Lenoir,
of which the deceased was a member.
The Lenoir correspondent of The
Charlotte Observer gives the follow
ing facts in a sketch of Mr. Wilson:
In the passing of Mr. Wilson there
has gone out from among us a n an
whose remarkable career inspiied
and so fastened the affections o t e
people upon him that thl3 c ipmun- j
lty has sustained a loss indeed. .'lie
every influence was for t .1 and ,
that exerted on the boys of the town
deserves special mention. A good
part of his life was Spent in helping
his fellow-man. A self-made man
himself, rising by conquering all ob
stacles, he spared nothing to help
the poor and needy. According to
the Biblical definition, he posse ci
the true religion. Thoughtful* gen-,
erous and kind, he always knew Just
where aid was needed and evervre
sponded with a liberal hand.
Ills membership In the Methodist
Church dates back farther than that
of Any other member here and he had
held every office in the gift of his
Church; was an active prohibitionist,
having voted that ticket for years;
was clerk of the court for this coun
ty before and during the civil war;
was register of deeds and county su
perintendent of education for a num
ber of years. Mr. Wilson was for
a long time juie of the trustees of
Jm effportCollege and was one of
the first trustees of the .Lenoir gra
ded schools. He was a born teather