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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1010. Tee Gastonia Gazette i 1sm4 every Tuesday and Friday pi Ta Qesstts Pnbllaaing Company BABES IN THE WOODS. Mailt WL D. ATKIXS . W. ATKIXS Editors and Mgrs. UBSCRIPTION PRICK: year HBf U MlUl 76 Pnr moaUii 60 ae Beats 16 GASTONIA Gouty Beat of Gaston County Af ter January 1, 1011. Km. 8S0 Main Avenue. PHONE NO. 60. FIUIAY, W3CKM11KR 2, 1010. A NEE1E1 ORGANIZATION. Mecklenburg is going to organic a County Good Roads Association this month. Gaston county ought also to have such an organization. These two counties were among the very first in the State to build good roads and both are proud of their highways. But there is yet a vast amount of work in this line to be done, not only in the matter of con structing new roads but and this is more important still in the keeping up and preservation of those already built. Such an asso ciation would, we believe, be of great value in assisting the county authorities in this great work. At the present time there is dan ger of one of the most important roads in the county, the Linwood road, going unimproved simply be cause the citizens living on that road are not sufficiently Interested to get out the necessary rock. If we had a live working Good Roads Association in the county sentiment In that particular section of the county would have long ago been stirred up to the point where the property owners would be not only willing but aniious to lend the county all the aid possible in build ing this road. What is true in this particular in stance is true of the entire county. Let us have a Good. Roads Asso ciation by all meanB. Ravanga and Punishment af m Scoundrel In U7S. In 1679 James Adams of York became affronted with one of his neighbors, Henry Simpson, and de termined to avenge himself upon two of Simpson children, whose ages were six and nine years. In a solitary jJaoe four or five miles from the dwelling houses of the in habitants he built of logs beside a ledge oi perpendicular rocks a pen or pound several feet high, with walls inclined inward from bottom to top. After he had built this he decoyed the children into the woods under a pretense of searching for birds nosts und caused them to en ter within the pound, where he left them confined to perish. The place has since been called the Devil s Invention. The children wen? soon missed, and the alarmed inhabitants 6earch- THE PARROT HELPED. ed for them more than fortv-eight hours The bovs, when aware of their wretched situation, made va rious attempts to get out, and at length, by digging away with their hands the surface of the earth un derneath one of the bottom logs, effected their escape. They wander ed in the woods three days, being at last attracted to the seashore by the noise of the surf, where thev were found. The depraved criminal was con demned to have thirty stripes well laid on, to pay the father of the children 5, the treasurer flO, be sides fees and charges of the prison, and remain a close prisoner during the court s pleasure or till further order. The same month he recog nized before two of the judges, "conditioned to send him, within twenty-one days, out of the juris diction. Who says the cost of living is not coming down? They're about to get the rate lowered on Pullman up per berths. Let the poor man take notice. Returns are beginning to come In from the sections where men go bunting. The list of killed and wounded will probably be as large this year as usual. For a while any- 0 way automobile casualties will lose a little of their prominence. Gaston Is a good county. It's a mighty good county. Fact is, it's about the best county we know of. If you're a Gaston cot utian, push. Help shove her along. Let'B begin now to plan for 1911 to make it the biggest and best year In all our history. CONDITION OF TREASURY. November Was a Favorable Month Financially and Produced a Sur plus on All Accounts of Nearly $1,000,000 as Against a Big Il licit for October. Washington, Dec. 1. November was a highly favorable month for the finances of the United States Treasury. It produced a surplus on all accounts of nearly $1,000,000, where October had produced a dene it of more than $5,000,000. mi i . . . . - . . me worKjng condition or tne na tion's cash drawer shows a corres ponding improvement for the month uecemoer opened today with a working balance of $34,000,000 on hand and $86,600,000 in the general fund, an improvement of a round $2,000,000 in the cash available for Immediate operations. This condi tion would seem to Justify Secretary McVeagh's confidence in the Treas ury's ability to maintain Itself for the present without financing. As compared with this date last year receipts are $14,000,000 high er and expenditures are $5,000,000 lower. The result of all this is that the total deficit for this fiscal year to date is $20,000,000 as against $14,000,000 this time last year. The . general condition of the Treasury' finances seems to -gur against any issue of securities in the immediate futrire. Pigtail In British Army. Pigtails survived in our army un til well into the nineteenth century, the Welsh fusiliers being the last to abandon them. Sir Algernon West relates how he heard an argu ment once as to whether the blues did or did not wear pigtails at Waterloo. One of the disputants, who had seen them on their way to .Dover, was convinced that they did. Ihe other, who had been a mid shipman on the transport which conveyed them to 06tend, was equally certain that their hair was short. The giver of the dinner at which the dispute arose referred the matter on the following day to a friend who had served in the blues at Waterloo. "Both your friends were right," he said. "We were re viewed at Windsor by the king on our departure with our pigtails on, and at Dover we had them cut off before our embarkation." London Chronicle. An Anxiout Waiter. General Frederick D. Grant said of camp cookery : "Soldiers in camp have a right to expect nourishing and palatable food. They mustn t expect, how ever, French 'plats.' They mustn't be overparticular, like the man at the quick lunch counter. Give me,' said the man, 'two new laid, brown 6helled eggs fried on one side and mounted on a grilled slice of Virginia peach fed ham be sure it is peach fed, mind you. The waiter roared down the speaking tube: " 'Two new laid, brown shelled eggs, fried on fried on' men no turned to the man again. " 'Excuse me, sir,' he said, but which side will you have them fried on, please?'" Philadelphia Bulle tin. A Leuen In VU Culture That Re suites In Liberal Tip. A young woman who left an up town hotel in New York the other day was much more liberal in her tips during this visit to the city than she had ever been in the course of her many visits to the hotel. After she had gone to the train one of the managers over heard scraps of conversation be tween two of the bellboys and made them tell him the facts in the case. The woman has a parrot which converses aa fluently as any parrot can in half a dozen tongues. Hav ing had occasion to test the bird's powers, a bellboy in the New York hotel conceived an idea. The next day at lunchtime, the owner of the bird having left her door open, two bellboys repaired to the room, and while one remained on guard the other approached the parrot. "Say 'Give the boy a dime,' " said the page to the parrot. The parrot paused and cocked his head on one 6ide. "Give the boy a dime," repeated the bellboy encouragingly, and he kept it up until he had said it a full fifty times. The parrot seemed in terested, but that was all. The bell- bov got scared. Then he went out, and the other lellboy went in and gave the bird a lesson in voice culture. These lessons went on for three days before the bird seemed to real ize that he was expected to do any thing, and then on the fourth day, when one of the bovs entered the room, he was greeted with "Give the boy a dime." The news spread among the conspirators, and before the end of the week they had the bird so that he would exclaim "Give the boy a dime"," at sight of a uni form. There came a day when the bird rose to the occasion as expected. A bellboy took an express package up to the rooms, knocked, opened the door and entered. As he handed the package to the woman a deep voice was heard to exclaim, "Give the boy a dime." The woman start ed, gasped and then as the bird re peated his injunction said, "Yes, of course," and she fished into her purse for a coin. The bird's owner up to the time of her departure had not been heard to brag about this new linguistic accomplishment of her pet. New York Sun. The Room Full. An Irishman went to England in 6earch of work, and when shown his room m the boarding house the landlady remarked: "There's your bed, Pat, and there are two more to sleep with you, but they won't be in till late, so don't be alarmed. "They're welcome," said Pat. Before retiring Pat locked his bedroom door and during the night was roused by a great knocking. "Who's there?" asked Pat. "We are the lodgers. Open." "No room for ye," replied Pat. "How many of you are in the room ?" they asked. "Enough," said Pat. "There's myself, Paddy Murphy, a man come j over from Ireland, a man looking for work, a man with a wife and bix children, an' a Tipperary man tool By this time they had fled. M Important K properties of n R the Grape are U transmitted M WMJL PROHTlBy the Mistakes of Others; INUronii the Banks. Greenwood Index. Instead of having your hard-earn ed money ginned along with your cotton or swallowed by a calf, why not put in a bank for safe-keeping? A Spartanburg man had his pocket book ginned to a fine finish the other day and a Laurens man had a roll swallowed and made Into a cud by a calf. Put your'money In a bank. It will be safe from loss, destruction. robbery and a lot of othnr mi ..for tunes that await a roll of money, to say nothing of the worst one of all, being spent foolishly. Absolutely furo to the food. The food is thereby made more tasty and digestible First National Bank GASTONIA, N. C. Gaston County's OLDEST and LARGEST Bank Our Capital, Surplus and Profit DOUBLES That of Any Other Bank in the county L L Jenkins, Prct, J. Lee Robinson, V-Pt, S. N. Boyce, Cashier. 2 j&sca tall New Shoes We have jut received a new lot of Ladies' Patent Colt Cloth Top Button, Vici Kid and Box Calf BIu cher Shoes $2.00 and $2.50 Robinson Shoe Company. Mother's Oats Just like her BREAD OIL A New Method. To those interested in the train ing of the memory by the associa tion of ideas the following will ap peal. A young lady of the south was teaching the alphabet to a little pickaninny who seemed unable ever to recognize the letter F. One morning, however, after hav ing successfully named the first five letters, he passed 6n to .F, which he called out at once without the usual preliminaries. "Well done, Caesar!" said hi teacher. "But how did yon manage " 'Twas mammy, Miss Ella," Cae sar explained. "She say tuh me, she say, 'Caesar, ef vou tries, vou kin remember.' " Youth's Com panion. The Point of View. A Mississippi judge relates this occurrence: Uncle George Snow, an old ante bellum negro, was introduced for the state. The. counsel asked Uncle George which side of Souchatouchee creek he lived on, to which he re plied : "Which side of the creek do I live on, boss ? "Yes." ui or a own me William Welch, a negro, was ar rested in Bluefield, W. Va., yester day on the charge of having shot and killed a street car conductor in Spencer, this State, five years ago. He will be brought back for trial. After a three-days session the Twain'e Gentle Reproach. third annual conference of Govern- In New York the novelist Miss ors adjourned yesterday at Louis- May Sinclair met Mark Twainat a vilie, Ky. More than twenty Gov dinner party. Naturally, their ernors were in attendance. Next iieiguuui uu lau.c .unuu year's Droeram it is stated, will rail for more business and fewer social functions. The establishment of permanent headquarters is one of the things which the conference ex pects to effect. The Best on Earth Fresh Shipments at up bos s ?" Case and Comment. creek, learn what the two famous person ages would find to talk about. It seemed that they were not going to find anything. Miss Sinclair waited diffidently for the great man, so much her senior, to begin the con versation. He, in turn, waited for her. Minutes passed in Bilence. At last he turned to her. "Child, child," said he in tones of gentle reproach, "do not be so boisterous. Youth s Companion. "That Foolish Passion Called Love." There have been illustrious dis sentients from the proposition that love is the only excuse for mar riage. The editor of "John Wes- ley's Last Love" recalls that White- field, after explaining to the parents of his intended wife that he want ed a mistress for his orphanage, added, "You need not be afraid to 6end me a refusal, for I bless God, if I know anything of my own heart, I am free from that foolish passion the world calls love." What 8he Ceuld Do. The guests were temporarily ab sent from the room when the hus band said to the wife: "I am be ginning to feel as if I would like our house to ourselves. I wish the guests would go home." "So do I, dear," said the wife. "But you can't . turn them out doors." "No," replied the husband, "but ou might play the piano." Most Folks who eat of Nunnal ly's Candies enjoy them so much they just don't want any other kind. It's not surprising. foroveraquartercen tury have been the standard in candy purity and goodness. We receive almost daily express ship- ments, assuring un equalled ' freshness. J. H. KENNEDY CO. Ideal Grocery Co. HUNTS Lightning Is the one unfailing scientific dressing which instantly re lieves and permanently cures all hurts, cute, burns, bruises, sprains and wounds of every kind. Pain leaves at once be cause the air is excluded, and the oil covering acts as artific ial skin. The quickest, fastest healing oil known HUNTS LIGHTNING OIL. 25 cents and 50 cents bottles. Abernethy-Shields Drug Company A. B. Richards Medictne Co., Sher man, Texas. W. H. Poole, Proprietor Phone 107 Brooches, Rings, Scarf Pins and Pendants Seventy-Five National Banks in North Carolina. Charlotte Observer. Washington, Dec. 1. In a state ment issued today by the Comptrol ler of the Currency It Is shown that North Carolina has seventy-five na tional banks; that they nave loans and discounts amounting to $34, 080,478, and that their individual deposits amount to 82 ,2 6 8. 6 6 2. BEFORE ordering MAGA ZINES get clubbing cata logue and special offers and save MONET. SOUTHERN SUBSCRIPTION A- GENCY, Raleigh, N. C (A Postal Card win do.) Set with diamonds, pearls, rubies, emeralds or other precious stones are always acceptable for a Christ mas gift. Christmas Is not far off. Why not come in today and make your selec tion?. It will pay you to do It now ' better selection than latter more time in which to do your shopping. Our price the lowest Our quali ty the highest. H. M. Van Sleen Jeweler 113 W. Main Ave. Mr. I E. Warren gathered 5C4 bushels of sweet potatoes the other day from a piece of ground about 125x175 feet which Is considered a good jield. Llncolnton News.
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