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THE GAS' GAZETTE. rONIA PUBLISHED TWICE A WEEK TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS. SINGLE COPY 8 CENTS. Devoted to the Protection of Home and the Interests of the County. 91.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCBL VOL. XXXL GASTONIA, N. C. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1010. NO. 77. CUPID GETS BUSY. The Little God Invades High Shoals Presbyterians to Organize Sun day School Personal Mention Correspondence of The Gazette. HIGH SHOALS. Sept. 26. Cupid has been very busy in our town the last week and has succeeded in get ting three of our young men to break the command, "thou shalt not steal." Last Sunday Merl Hartsoe went over to Mr. I. A. Jarret's, near here, and slipped hie charming daughter and hied away with her to South Carolina where he could get the ceremony performed that would make his lover his own loving bride. Two other of our young men, Messrs. John Queen and James Cowles, hearing or Merle's success, decided they would try their luck. Saturday in the afternoon Misses Iren Keever and Suda Long told their parents they were going down to Worth to do some shopping, but on the way were overtaken by their lovers. Mr. Queen took Miss Keev er into his buggy and Mr. Cowles took Miss Long; and instead of go ing out to Worth they turned and fled in all haste to Bowling Green. They too came back rejoicing, say lng in the language of the poet: "Oh my love's like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June, Oh my love's like a melodie, That's sweetly played in tune." We wish those merry couples a long, happy life. The Presbyterians will organize a Sunday school at their church next Sunday at 3 o'clock. This will make four Sunday schools in our place Our people take a great interest in Sunday school work; all the schools are well attended and run all the year. Rev. H. B. Cronlster, of Maiden Mr. G. W. Abernethy and family, of Stanley, and Mr. and Mrs. John Skid more, of Mount Holly, were here yesterday to see 'Mrs. Cronlster who Is very sick. Quite a number of our people were on the sick list last week. Pearl, the little daughter of Mr. R. J. Dellinger, who has been very sick wun pneumonia, we are glad to learn is getting along nicely 'Mr. W. G. Wiggins went to Gas tonia Saturday on business. Mr. G. M. Haynes spent several days last week in Dallas. Misses . Gertrude Bennett and Delia Kendrick spent Saturday night with Miss Lillian Carpenter. Miss Carrie Beam, of Cherryville, is visiting Mrs-. Emma Robinson. Miss Lula Fox, of Lin colnton, is spending a few days with Mr. Clarence Fox. DOTS FROM DALLAS R. F. D. 1. Correspondence of The Gazette. DALLAS, R. F. D. 1, Sept 26. Alt. and Mrs. Rupert Clemmer spent Sunday at the home of Mrs. S. S. White. Mrs. G. E. C. Pasour has been on the sick list for the past week, but we are glad to note she Is Improving. Mr. J. H. White, of Gaston la, was In this section Sunday. ' 'Miss Florence Pasour returned home Wednesday from a most pleas ant visit to relatives in Catawba county. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Best kwere the guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Pasour. Misses Belle and May Clemmer spent Sunday with Miss Edna Clemmer. Miss Callie Holland gave a singing to a number of her young friends Saturday night. Mr. and 'Mrs. G. L. Beet and chil dren were guests 'Sunday at the home of Mr. Lester Cloninger. Mr. 3. L. Clemmer and daughter, Miss Llla, visited at Mr. George Pasour's Sunday afternoon. Mr. J. J. O. Pa sour and "Master Ernest visited, rela tives In Lincoln county Sunday night. The school at Mountain View clos ed Friday. The teacher. Miss Beu lah Carpenter, returned to her boms near Long Shoals. Charlotte has furnished another Tlctim to pellagra, which Is claiming many persons. Willie Etheridge. ag ed 17, died at his home there yester day of this disease. A French aviator named Pofllot was killed Sunday at Charlas while making a-flight with a passenger. The passenger -was only slightly In jured. BUSINESS AT BELMONT. It is Good Say the Merchants Some Reflections on the Near-Deer Busi ness and the Court Records Oth er Items. Correspondence of The Gazette. BELMONT, Sept 26. It is very dry and dusty around here now, but I guess it suits the farmer who has cotton to pick. Messrs. Lewis & Leeper are ginning right along now. They have already ginned between two and three hundred bales. Cot ton seed Is selling at 5t cents per bushel, the seed in a bale of cotton Belling for almost what a bale of cotton sold for not so very long ago and yet some people are crying bard times. All had better be careful for it might get worse Let us be satis fled. Mr. Sprat Hanks, who Is clerking for Stowe Bros., is reported to have the fever but we hope this is not so as Mr. Hanks is one of our best citizens. Miss Flossie Lee is right sick and it is feared she has fever. All the sick are improving very nicely, which is good news. Mr. Brown Lee Hall is reported to be doing all right since he went to the hospital in Charlotte some time ago. The schools all started here last Monday with a good attendance. Belmont has a good school building and of course, like everything else, here, Belmont has a good school. Some time a little later on I will give you a full account of our good school, Its principal, teachers and enrollment, If through the kindness of some one in charge I can get them. Grannie Harris, who took sick while on a visit to Cooleemee, is bet ter and back at Belmont. While sick I thought If she did not get well who could take mother's place for moth er's place is hard to All in a home. Mrs. Dora Harris, who has been right sick, is better. She has been sick about five weeks. Mr. R. A. Freeze and little son, who have been sick for several weeks, are reported as being better, which will be good news to his many friends. Mr. Jno. C. Rankin, of Spencer 'Mountain, was a welcome visitor in Belmont last Sunday, coming over in his auto. A man asked me the other day if I had a letter in The Gazette this week, and I told him no. Give me the news, gentlemen, and I will do the rest. Your stand on the near-beer bus! nese is all right, for if we are going to have prohibition in North Caro Una let's have it right. Prohibition and near-beer will not work together any more than oil and water will mix. I think near-beer in club houses and whiskey in drug stores are poor signs of prohibition if know what that word means and I think I do. Our good merchants all report trade good but where there are good men in business like here at Belmont business is obliged to be good. Do you see the point? There were more cases In court at Dallas which is Just ended than I ev er saw before. More went to the roads I believe, too. Now what's the trouble or where is the trouble? There is something wrong some where. Some times we pick up a paper and about the first thing we see is something like this, "The world Is getting better all around, people are getting better, getting more religion, better morals" and it seems after reading awhile that the time had come for the Hon and 'the lamb to lie down together, but this court business seems to show us that somebody is wrong. Some one is not doing their duty. Everybody getting better and more cases in court and more people sent to the roads. It don't -sound right. Something Is bad wrong and It may be we had better look into the matter and see If we can't find the wrong and also a remedy.-. The good book , says we must obey the law or suffer as a re sult of this disobedience. Six persons were killed Saturday in a head-on collision between a freight car and a passenger car on an Intenirban electric line near Tip ton, Indiana. A UNIQUE CITY. Some Interesting Facts About Our State Capital Street and Parks Owned by the State Wonderful Progress Being Made. By Col. F. A. Olds. A very attractive leaflet is Issued by the Raleigh Chamber of Com merce and Industry concerning the Capital City of North Carolina, con taining much information of interest to the entire State. Raleigh, like Washington, is publicly owned u that is the streets and parks are the property of the State. This is be cause the State, through a commis sion, selected the site and bought the land, laid out the streets ana parks and sold building lots; In two or three cases the same family hav ing held the property since the orig inal sale, 118 years ago. Raleigh in this respect is' the most unique of all the State Capitals. The value of State buildings and their contents is $2,500,000, exclusive of land, which is worth more than a half million. The leaflet shows the capital Is growing rapidly, the value of build ing and street improvements in pro gress totaling $1,115,000. The val ue of city property has in three years increased 25 per cent, and now amounts to $12,000,000. The $125,000 municipal building and au ditorium, the latter to seat 4,500 persons, will be done January 1. The street railway and power company is expending $250,000 in doubling the capacity of its plant. The Country Club, with hundreds of acres of land and very attractive buildings, is a notable new feature. Raleigh is the educational centre of the State, having 28 schools, and a larger school population in propor tion to the entire population than any other place in this country. It has two hospitals and a third one, for the negroes, is being built, Here Is the largest school for negro blind and deaf-mutes in the world, and the largest Baptist and Episcopalian schools for negroes. The Raleigh postofflce pays the 1283 R. F. D. carriers In the State $1,111,000, which is $487,000 more than four jvars ago. The money order divis ion handled $1,360,000 this year. A Sermon on Honesty. "Provide Things Honest in the Sight of All Men" was the subject from which Rev. G. D. Herman preached a powerful and telling ser mon at Main Street Methodist church Sunday morning to a good congrega tion. Instead of reading a lesson from the Scriptures as usual Mr Herman read a paper in which he stated clearly his position on a num ber of matters of local interest, such as worldly amusements, near-beer etc., and in which he took a severe rap at those persons who have seen fit to criticise him for his course of action. It was perhaps the most straightforward and unequivocal document ever read from a Gastonia pulpit and the sermon which follow ed, which dealt mainly with "debt paying" was perhaps the plainest in point of statement of great but cut ting truths ever delivered by a Gas tonia pastor. His discourse was log ical throughout and was listened to with almost breathless interest by the congregation. It is impossible to give a synopsis of the sermon in a brief paragraph and we shall not attempt It here but hope to be able to present a pretty full synopsis In Friday's Issue. Mr. Herman Is fear less in his denunciation of evils and the series of sermons which he is now preaching promises to result in great good to our town. His sermon on "debt-paying" was most timely. If there is one criticism heard of Gas tonia oftener than any other it Is that thiB town has more than ita quota of dead beats, men who make no effort to pay their honest debts. It is high time somebody was making war on this worst form of dlslTdnesty and it is up to the good people of the town, the honest citizens, to support1 the man, whoever he be, who has the courage to fight this evil. Mr. Her man will continue this aeries of ser mons for some time yet. His Last Year. Mr. Augustus A. McLean returned last week to Richmond, Va., to re sume his studies at the Union Theo logical Seminary. This Is his senior year at that institution and' he will be graduated next June. Mr. Mc Lean has spent a considerable part of the summer here to the delight of a host of friends. ROOSEVELT DEFEATED. Vice President Slierman Wins Out ARnhifO. Ex-President In New York lte Colonel, However, Declares That Everything la Coming His Way Convention T-Day. An Associated Press dispatch in this morning's papers from Sarato ga, N. Y., says: Theodore Roosevelt suffered defeat again tonight at the hands of the old guard of the Republican party In this State. In the first skirmish on the eve of the State convention which opens tomorrow the State committee at a special meeting by a vote of 2 i is re-affirmed its action of August 16 last in selecting Vice President Sherman over Colonel Roosevelt as temporary chairman of the conven tion. The vote at the August meet- ing was 15 to 20. This action, a victory for the old guard, was taken after Vice Presi dent Sherman had created a sensa tion with a letter asking that the committee investigate the charge that his selection as temporary chairman was brought about through trickery, and stating that if the charges were substantiated he would not serve. After a heated argument in which the leaders of both the old guard and the progressives gave such a repre sentative expression of their convic tions, the committee by a vote of 22 to 15 resolved "that Mr. Sherman be informed that his selection was made without misrepresentation," as an answer to his letter. At times the arguments waxed so bitter and acrimonious that to save what appeared to threaten an unfor tunate situation Representative J. S. Fassett moved that the whole matter be laid on the table. But this was voted down, the old guard leaders declaring it to be an attempt to gag them and prevent those members who voted for Vice President Sher man from explaining their votes. The committee had scarce gone in to session when Chairman Woodruff announced that he hed a letter from Mr. Sherman, which he read. Miss Johnsie Adams Entertains. Miss Johnsie Adams entertained a large number of her young friends most delightfully Friday night from 8:30 to 11 with a porch party. The guests were greeted at the front door by Mrs. J. Lean Adams, and Misses Annie McLean and Mamie Ray presided gracefully at the punch bowl in the hall. The evening was most pleasantly spent playing trail at sixteen tables arranged on the spacious porches, which were bril liant with electric lights and taste fully decorated in golden rod, roses and potted plants. During the even ing Miss Marie Torrence sang to the delight of the guests, while Misses Annie Latimer and Bertha Long ren dered pleasing piano selections. Af ter the game a delicious ice course was served, the hostess being assist ed in serving by Misses Jennie Stead- man Culp, Hazeline Love and Ruth Knight About sixty-five guests en joyed 'Miss Adams' charming hospi tality. Crippen Guilty, Says Coroner's Jury. A London dispatch dated Monday says that the coroner's jury, after one hour's deliberation, returned a verdict that Mrs. Cora Crippen, known as Belle Elmore, the Amerl can actress, was wilfully murdered by her husband. Dr. Hawley Crip pen. The trial will take place at the next session of criminal court, Octo ber 11th. Crippen and his typist, &tnei Leneve, were captured at Quebec, Canada, some weeks ago af ter one of the longest and most sen sational chases In modern criminal history. The body of a person, sup posed to be that of his wife, was found in the cellar of his home in London. Ten Yean for Vestal. In Guilford Superior Court Satur day Dr. W. L. Vestal, charged with performing a criminal operation on Bessie Thomasson at High Point Ju ly 1st, which caused her death, plead guilty to a charge of manslaughter and Judge Lyon gave him the maxi mum punishment, ten years at hard labor In the penitentiary. Judge Lyon aaid it was the worst case he had ever known of. Mrs. Vestal, who was indicted Jointly with her hasband, was found not guilty. A capias was issued for Levi Maynard, the man In the case, who has so far STATE AUDITOR SUCCUMBS TO ATTACK Popular State Official Answers the Final Hummons in, Rex Honpital, Raleigh, Where He Had Been for Home Days Was Apparently Re covering Satisfactorily From Re cent Attack When Relapse Came Native of Cleveland County and Man of Varied Talents Served in Civil and Spanish-American Wars Was Soldier, Physician. Minis ter, Statesman Funeral and Bur ial at Raleigh To-Morrow. Hundreds of Gastonlans heard with profound sorrow and regret this morning of the sudden death of State Auditor B. F. Dixon which oc curred at 11:30 o'clock last night in Rex Hospital, Raleigh. The news came with snocking suddenness in view of the fact that for the past several days the most favorable re ports had come from his bedside and it was generally believed that he was being rapidly restored to health. Dr. Dixon was stricken suddenly ten days ago, on Saturday, the 17th, with angina pectoris while working in his office at the capitol building. He was Immediately taken to Rex Hospital and had Improved steadily up to last night when a second at tack of this disease came upon him. His daughter, Mrs. W. L. Balthis, and Mr. Balthis left Gastonia for Raleigh on No. 44 this morning, having received a message late last night bearing the sad intelligence of Dr. Dixon's death. Benjamin Franklin Dixon was born in the El Bethel section of Cleveland county, not far from the town of Kings Mountain, in the year 1845. He was the son of Thomas and 'Mary Ann Dixon. At the out break of the civil war he was six teen years old, too young to enlist in the army according to the rules for enlistment, but the spirit of the fighter was in him and he ran away to join the boys in grey. He went with the Cleveland Blues, of which company his brother, Edward Dixon, was captain. His enlistment was for one year and when that expired be returned home and taught school un til he was eighteen when he immedl ately re-enlisted in the Cleveland Tigers, of which Mr. C. H. Dixon, father of Mr. J. K. Dixon, of Gasto nia, was captain. He was made third lieutenant and, on the death of Capt. C. H. Dixon, who was kill ed in battle, the subject of this sketch was promoted to Captain of the Tigers, which office he held till the close of the war. Dr. Dixon's war record was that of a valiant sol dier and he worked bravely and un tiringly for the Southern cause. More than thirty years after the close of the civil war the spirit of the born fighter still remained with him and he went to the Spanish-American war as major in the Second Reg iment of North Carolina Volunteers. Dr. Dixon was a man of varied at tainments and was successful in ev ery line in which he made endeavor. As a physician he practiced with suc cess for several years. As a minis ter of the gospel in the Southern Methodist Church he held high rank and his sermons have delighted thou sands In many sections of the State. He was a preacher of power and ability. . As a soldier he did great ervice for his country. As an edu cator he took high rank, having for several years been president of Greensboro Female College. There was no more' popular speaker in North Carolina than Dr. Dixon and his services in this line were always In demand. As a State official he had made an enviable record. He was first elected State auditor in 1900 and was serving his third term, of which two years remains. Surviving Dr. Dixon are his wid ow who was, prior to her first mar riage, a Miss Tracy. She was the widow of Capt. Plato Durham, whose sons, Mr. Robert L. Durham, of Cen tenary College, Cleveland, Tenn.; Mr. Stonewall J. Durham, of Gasto nia, and Rev. Plato T. Durham, of Concord, are all well known here. Dr. Dixon is1 also survived by one daughter, Mrs. W. L. Balthis, of Gas tonia, and two sons, Messrs. Ben B. F. DIXON DEAD OF ANGINA PECTORIS. and Wright Dixon of Raleigh. He leaves a large connection .throughout this section, together with thousands of close friends who mourn his de parture from this life. A telegram to Mr. J. K. Dixon this afternoon states that the funeral will take place at 3 o'clock tomor row afternoon followed by interment in Raleigh. NEED OF FRESH AIR. Ben Franklin Understood the Sub ject as Well as Any Man. Benjamin Franklin's "Art of Se curing Pleasant Dreams," written In 1798. Another means of preserving health to be attended to Is the hav ing a constant supply of fresh air In. your bed chamber. It has been a great mistake, the sleeping in rooms exactly closed and the beds sur rounded by curtains. No outward air that may come to you is so un wholesome as the unchanged air, of ten breathed, of a close chamber. As boiling water does not grow hotter by long boiling if the particles that receive greater heat can escape, so living bodies do not putrefy. If the particles, so fast as they become put rid, can be thrown off. Nature ex pels them by the pores of the skin, and the lungs, and in a free open air they are carried off, but in a close room we receive them again and again, though they become more and more corrupt. A number of persona crowded into a small room thus spoil the air in a few minutes, and even render it mortal as the Black Hole at Calcutta. A single person is said to spoil on ly a gallon of air a minute, and. therefore, requires longer time to spoil a chamberfuf; but it is done, however, in proportion, and many putrid disorders hence have their or igin. It is recorded of 'Methuselah who, being the longest liver, may he supposed to have best preserved his health, that he always slept in the open air; for when he had lived 500 years, an angel said to him: "Arise, Methuselah, and build thee a house, for thou shalt live yet 500 years lon ger," and Methuselah answered and said: "If I am to live but 500 years longer, it is not worth while to buiht me an house; I will sleep in the air as I have been used to do." Physicians, after having for ages contended that the sick should be indulged with fresh air, have at length discovered that it may do them good. It is, therefore, to he hoped that they may in time discov er likewise, that is not hurtful to those that are In health, and that we may then be cured of the aerophobia that at present distresses weak minds and makes them choose to he stifled and poisoned, rather than leave open the window of a bed chamber or put down the glass of a coach. Confined air, when saturated with perspirable matter, will not re ceive more, and that matter must re main In our bodies and occasion dis eases. Ex-Governor Ay cock Sees Success foe the Democrats. Raleigh Cor. Charlotte Observer, 25. Ex-Governor Charles B. Aycock,.' just back from a campaigning trip that included Statesville, Mooresville- and Winston-Salem and Durham saya he finds conditions very good from a. Democratic viewpoint. He saya that .. for his speech at Winston-Salem there was the biggest and most en enthusiastic crowd, he has had there -in ten years and he believes Forsyth will be redeemed for Democracy this time by a substantial majority. He says that at Durham he found condi tions encouraging, although he found something of a scare among some Democrats with absolutely nothing that he could observe to warrant the fright. He believes Durham is se curely moored to the Democratic hip and will give an Increased ma jority. GASTONIA COTTOX MARKET. (Corrected semi-weekly by W. L. Balthis Co., Cotton Brokers.) Good middling ........It- Strict middling ....II T-t- Cotton seed ...... ,4Sa. R'jhBcribe for The Osteite.
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