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THE GASTON I A GAZETTE PUBLISHED TWICE A WEEK TUESDAYS AMD FRIDAYS. SINGLE COPY 8 CENTS. GASTONIA IS A BUSY TOWN. 91.S0 A YEAR DC ADYAJTOCV VOL. XXXIV. GASTOXIA, N. C. TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 3, 1013. NO. 44. SHORT LOCAL ITEMS COURT HAS ADJOURNED ! THE CO. COMMISSIONERS 1 IN SOCIAL CIRCLES TAR HEELS TO FRONT NEWS OF THE COUIITY THE MOVEMENTS OF GASTON PEOPLE Personal Items About Gaston Folk Wd their Friends Short Item About People and Thing That An of Interest to Gazette Reader Condensed for The Convenience Attend the Sweet Pea Show at Kennedy's Friday. Mr. G. C. Andrews spent Sun day in Greenville, S. C. Where is the guy who was go ing to put gas in Gastonia? Attorney P. W. Garland went to Rutherfordton yesterday on pro fessional business. Mr. C. C. Clark, of Mountain Island, was a business visitqf in the city yesterday. Masters Billy Glenn and Ewart Knight have returned from a visit 1o relatives in the Bethel section. Mrs. H. F. Glenn is visiting at the Lome of Dr. T. X. Dulin in Beth el. Rev. R. S. Burwell, of New Hope,- was a visitor in town yester day. Mr. W. K. Reid has returned home from the University where he has been a student. Mr. and Mrs. E. Lee t Hanks spent Sunday- in Charlotte as the xuests of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Wooley. Mrs. J. I,eake Carraway, of Charlotte, arrived this morning Tor a visit to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Glenn. Mr. E. R. Rankin, one of Gas tonla's boys, was a speaker at the l)l Society banquet at Chapel Hill yesterday. Mr. Thomas S. Royster. carrier on route one. Bessemer City, was In Castonla on business Saturday af ternoon. Gastonia Chapter. R. A. M. Xo. f.O, will hold regular communica tion tonight and work in the P. M. and M. E. degrees will be done. Attorney A. G. Mangum left Monday for Chapel Hill to attend the commencement exercises of the University of North Carolina. Misses Marguerite Brittain. of Salisbury, and Essie Green, of Mon roe, are expected soon to be tne guests of Miss Violet Rankin. Mr. J. I,. MeCllntock and Mr. John 3. Blake, of Blake Car-step Works, Charlotte, are business visi tors to the city today. Mr. and Mrs. P. P. Rockett and little son spent Saturday and Sun day at Hickory with Mr. Rockett's mother, who has been quite ill but Is now some better. Gastonia Lodge No. :i69 A. F. & A. M.. will hold regular communi cation Friday night of this week. Work will bo done in the third de cree. Misses Ruth McGill and Eunice riaxlco, of Bethany, and Mr. Grady Adams, of Crowders Creek, left yes terday to attend commencement at Due-West. 3. C. Misses Olna Moss and Etta Saunders left yesterday morning for Rock Hill. S. C. to attend the com mencement exercises at Winthrop onege. Messrs. Willis Wilson. Leonard Wilson. .1. W. Falls. II. S. I ongh ridge. .1. S. Winget and C. L. Wilson attended the "Old Maids' Conven tion at Union school house last Fri day night. Eunice, the one-year-old child of Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Turner, died at their home at the Ozark Mill Sunday morning. The body was taken yesterday to Bethl church in York county. South Carolina, for burial. Mr. and Mrs. S. P. White, of rchdale, who have been spending some time here with their daughter, Mrs. W. L. Thompson, left today for Salisbury, where they will visit an other daughter. Mrs. G. C. Eagle, before returning home. Mrs. R. D. Lewis and little son and brother, Master Johnie Fos-kett. of Republic, Ala., arrived in tne city Sunday night on Xo. 30. They were accompanied home by their mother, Mrs. Hattie Lee. and also Mrs. C. B. Lewis and children, who were en route to Charlotte. The morning hour at Matn Street Methodist Church next Sun-. day morning will be given over to the Sunday school for the annual Children's Day exercises. Sunday night the presiding elder will preach, this being the time for the third quarterly meeting of the charge. Mr. W. A. Falls. Jr.. list taker for the State and county in Gastonia township outside the city limits, gives notice in today's Gazette that he will be at the court house all day Saturday, June 7th, which will be his last day for listing. He urges everybody who has not yet listed to do so at oncev and calls their atten tion to the fact that they can thus cave themselves being double-taxed. Mrs. D. E. McConnell and Mrs. J. P. Thomson spent yesterday af ternoon In Charlotte attending tne lectures on Domestic Science being given by JUIss Dolia Jones under the auspices of Jhe Evening Chronicle. They were greatly pleased with the lecture given yesterday on the first principle of cookery. and the inter esting announcement is made that a similar course of" lectures will be arranged for to be given in Gastonia this fall under-the auspices of the Woman's Betterment Association. JUDGE WEBB 60ESJ0 LAURINBURG May Term Gaston County Superior Court Adjourned Saturday Morn inir Judge Webb Goes to Laurin burg. Theme to Clurlotte Groves vs. Southern Railway He suited in Mistrial Stewart & Jones' Cases Appealed. The May term of Gaston County Superior Court adjourned last Sat urday morning after a long and te dious grind on civil issues for two weeks. It is the consensus of opin ion that there are not many visible results of the work of the court, the calendar, it is said, not being more than half completed. A great deal of the time was consumed in minor issues. Stewart & Jones, the con tractors for the P. & X. Railroad here for the past two years, were the defendants in quite a number of suits brought by merchants of Low ell, McAdenvllle and Gastonia. In most of these entries were made for an appeal to the Supreme Court In the case of Eliza Groves vs. Hip Southern Railway the jury af.er i e- ing O'lt 2'1 hours reported that they were unable to come to an atii-e-moot and recommended a mis-trial. The plaintiff alleges that on Janua ry 9, 1911, she was injure:! alight ing from defendant's tra:n In Low ell and asked lor damans : the amount of $3, (too. Tlio case o: Nantz vs. Smith also attracted quite a good bit of attention. Tho following taken from tne minute docket shows the disposition of the cases: G. C. Xantz vs. John L. Smith, plaintiff Is entitled to recover com pensatory damages to amount of IC5.00. D. M. Rudislll and wife vs. Town of Bessemer City; case was compro mised. I). W. Mitchem vs. C. .1. Pasour, First National Bank and S. M. Ron inson. It is ordered and adjudged that the plaintiff recover of the de fendant S. M. Robinson and that the said defendant recover of the plaint iff his reasonable costs in this case expended. Kmma Oates vs'. Gidney Oates et al. It is ordered that the plaintiff take nothing by this action and that the defendant pay the costs. I). W. Mitchem vs. Stewart & Jones. Judgment in favor of de fendant. Plaintiff appeals to Su preme Court, and bond fixed at $2V J. W. Groves vs. .-tewart & Jones. Judgment in favor of plaint iff. Defendant appeals to Supreme Court and bond fixed at $2.". Catawba Grocery Store vs. Stew art & Jones. Judgment in favor of defendant. Plaintiff appeals to Su preme Court, bond fixed at $2.") and ('0 days allowed plaintiff to make up case of appeal and 30 days there after allowed defendant to file coun ter case. Craig & Wilson vs. Stewart & Janes. Judgment in favor of plaint iff. Defendant appeals to Supreme Court. Goulds Manufacturing Co. vs. S. B. Sparrow. Plaintiff entitled to recover $300 with interest from June 22.-J907. Gaston County and Board of Com missioners vs. Stewart & Jones and Cornelius and Duke. Plaintiffs re cover of defendants $2."(l and costs of action. D. W. Mitchem vs. Stewart & Jones. Plaintiffs recover from de fendant $37. Craig & Wilson vs. Stewart & Jones. Plaintiffs recover from de fendants the sum of $61. .10. J. W. Groves vs. Stewart & Jones. Plaintiff recovers $32.80 from de fendant. Mrs. Ida Linebereer vs. Clara Manufacturing Co. Plaintiff is non suited. I. C. Lowe. vs. W. B. Smith. Plaintiff recovers $249.7.1 and in terest on $274.7.1 from March 10, 1911, and the costs of the action to be taxed by the clerk. FOR COTTONSEED FEED. Prof. W. A. Withers, of A. and M. College, Discovers Antidote. Raleigh, May 31. One of the most valuable discoveries for South ern farmers that has been made in a great while is that of Prof. W. A. Withers, of the Xorth Carolina Col lege of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts in the way of a satisfactory an tidote for cottonseed feed poisoning In the feeding of cattle and hogs. It Is said that by mixing a small part of the very Inexpensive antidote Just discovered with the feed It can be fed as freely, as constantly and in as large quantities as the stock need. Agricultural chemists and Investigators have been searching for some such antidote for several years, and the news that Mr. Witn ers has found It and proven its ef ficacy In a thoroughly satisfactory manner is of great interest to the scientific world. It Is now to be tested on a large scale. District Conference, The District Conference for the Shelby District, M. E. Church, South, will be held this year at Bel mont, beginning Thursday. July 3rd, and "continuing through Sunday, July 6th. The meetings of the Con ference will be held in the new Methodist church, of which Rev. J. Archie Bowles, Is pastor. Get one of The Gazette's dinner seta free. It's easy. . ' DISPOSE OF ROUTINE BUSINESS Regular Monthly Meeting Board of Commissioners Held at Court Hou.se Yesterday Routine Busi ness Di.-Hf.el of Range anil Roll ing Chair Bought for County Home Adjourned Meeting Next Monday to Draw Jury List. The regular monthly meeting of the Gaston county board of commis sioners was held yesterday in the court house with all members pres ent. Routine business only was dis posed of. An adjourned meeting is to be held next Monday for the pur pose of drawing the list of jurors for the next term of court. The fol lowing business was disposed of: It was ordered that T. L. Ware b instructed to inspect tho proposed road as petitioned for by A. Killian and others and report on advisabili ty of changing same. It was also ordered that the re port of T. L. Ware in regard to the location and establishment of a pub lic road leading from Bessemer City to the macadam road leading from Kings Mountain to the Anna Cotton Mills, as per the petition of J. A. Smith and others, be adopted and the same ordered to be opened up as a public road, upon condition that there be costs for damage to land and that said petitioners pay one-fourth of all expenses of build ing said road. The old public road was ordered discontinued when the above road is completed. Ed Webb was exempted from pay ing poll tax on account of physical infirmities; also Pete Howell. Bertha Crockett was declared a pauper and allowed to draw $9 per quarter with J. H. Wilkins as agent. J. F. McArver was appointed a committee to buy a range for the county home and that Dr. L. X. Glenn be appointed a committee to buy two invalid or rolling chairs. The reports of the finance and au diting committee, treasurer and sheriff were accepted; affirmed and recorded in the record of official re ports. The report of I. A. White and oth ers, registrars and judges of elec tion for Long Creek Drainage Com mission was accepted and approved. The following bills were ordered paid: C. C. Craig, salary and expenses county home for May, $200.67. Ford Undertaking Co., eoriiiis for three paupers, $ 1 1. R. C. Warren, grate for mauhore. $1.21. T. L. Ware, stone for road, $7S. 4 0. T. L. Ware, salary for May and postage. $101.10. Gastonia Livery Co., surry for grand jury, $6. T. L. Ware. N. G. Todd's trading force. $679.39. Mangum & Woltz, expenses court stenographer, $37. A. G. Mangum, services in case of County vs. Jones, $2.1. T. L. Ware, chain gang expenses, camps No. 1, $684.77; No. 2, $60. 69. Torrence & Rhyne, board for jury $2". SO. J. D. B. McLean, sheriff, salary for May. SI 66.66. Carl Finger, treasurer, salary for Mav. $100. T. L. Ware, work on Cherryville roads, $330.09. T. L. Ware, work on Gastonia roads, J4S.R6; River Bend. $183. 30: South Point, $72.92. T. L. Ware, work on bridges, $96.71. W. M. Nolen. salary and rooms for jury, $78.40. L. E. Rankin, salary for May. $100. W. M. Nolen. supplies for court house, $6.3.1. City of Gastonia, costs in case In recorder's court and county's cost in maintenance. $61.80. C. C. Cornwell, exnense of burial of A. M. Anthony, $20. A. J. Smith, salary and clerk hire. $216.66. C. C. Cornwell. county liabilities less $120, solicitor's fees In case vs. Thomas Peeler, $322.72. R. 3. Lewis, services as commis sioner. $20.40. L. X. Glenn, salary for May, $4 i. ee. R. K. Davenport, services as com missioner. $21. J. W. Kendrick, services, $23. J". P. McArver. services. $21. O. G. Falls, services. $29 7". J. F. I-eeper, services. 37.71. G. R. Rhyne, salary and Jail fees, $97.93. MASONS AT WILMINGTON. High Degree Masons Assemble at "City by Sea" for Convention. Wilmington. May 31. Promin ent and high degree Masons from all parts of the State will begin gather ing here Monday for the annual convention of the Grand Chapter Royal Arch Masons, assembly of the Grand Council Royal and Select Masters and the conclave of the Grand Commandery Knights Tem plar of North Carolina, which will be In session here from June 3 to 5. The social features Include a trip down the Cape Fear river, touching at Fort Caswell, and a banquet on the roof garden of the Masonic Tem ple. Alfred Austin, poet laureate of Great Britain since 1896. died yes terday at the age of 77 years. LATEST EVENTS IN WOMAN'S WORLD TO ATTEND HOUSE PARTY. Misses Louisa and Aline Reid, Mauelyn Thomson and Margaret IjSl- Fnr left last Friday afternoon for Yorkville to attend a house party given by Miss Mary Fant Herndon. TWENTIETH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY. The following cards .will be re ceived with Interest throughout the city: 1893 "A-A" 1913 Rev. and Mrs. Joseph Edgar Aber nethy Invite you to be present at their Twentieth Wedding Anniversary Thursday evening, June the nine teenth from eight to ten o'clock Onehundred and twenty-seven East Main Avenue Gastonia, Xorth Carolina Susan Virginia Allen Joseph Edgar Abernethy KISKIMVILEY CARDS ISSUED. 1 Invitations reading as follows have been issued: Mrs. Susan Ellen Wiley requests the honor of your presence at the marriage of her daughter Kate Lois to Mr. Ernest Kiser cv Bysr Mr. Ernest Arthur Riser on the evening of Wednesday, June fourth, at half after eight o'clock First Methodist Church Bessemer City, North Carolina. Mr. Kiser is a well-known young business man of Gaffney, C, and both he and his prospective bride have many friends in Gaston who will be interested in the above an rouncement. FOR VISITING I A DIES. Miss Hallie Torrence entertained at an elegantly appointed eight course dinner Friday evening at 8 a iock In honor of her charming house-guests, Miss Mary Ratliff, of Birmingham. Ala., and Miss Ethel Harnrick, of Gaffney, S. C. The din ing room was decorated with sweet peas and ferns, the color scheme be ins pink and green. The table was beautiful with a cluny mat over pink. The center piece was a gilt Ihtket tied with pink tulle and fill ed with pink sweet peas and ferns. This was surrounded by smaller baskets filled with pink sweet peas and each was caught with pink rib bon suspended from the chandelier. The place cards were hand-painted baskets of pink sweet peas. The fa vors Were miniature baskets of mints and candy. Covers were laid for tn. The guests were Misses Ratliff, Harnrick, Blanche Gray, Ma rie and Hallie Torrence and Messrs. Charles Moore, George Gray, Stacy Boyce, Henry Boshamer and George Mason. Misses Ratliff and HamrlcK and Miss Hallie Torrence will leave tomorrow for Gaffney where Miss Ratliff and Miss Torrence will be tho house-guests of Miss Harnrick. SWEET PEA SHOW FRIDAY. The first Annual Sweet Pea Show to be given by the J. D. Moore Chap ter Children of the Confederacy will be held Friday of this week, June 6th, In Kennedy's drug store. Mrs. Thomas L. Craig is the leader of the chapter and has been busily en gaged for some time past making arrangements for the show and the details are now- complete. The show will last throughout Friday and the children and their enthusiastic leader, who have expended no little energy in preparing for the event, hope that Gastonlans will show their appreciation by attending In large numbers. There will be no admission fee. Mr. .1. H. Kennedy, proprietor of Kennedy's drug store, has very kindly agreed to give the chapter fifty per cent of the gross receints 'rom his soda fountain on that day. By patronizing Kennedy's Friday you will be helping to encourage the young folks in this most laudable undertaking. It Is their intention to make this an annual event. Anybody in the city can enter sweet peas in the show and the pro motors hope that a very large num ber will do so. Through the gener osity of local merchants a number of very handsome prizes will be given for the following: The best In each of the following pink, red. lavender, purple, white, primrose, white with lavender edee. white with pink edge, cream, pink and white; also for the three best collections, these to consist of not less than six varieties each. All persons who Intend to enter flowers are requested to have them at Ken nedy's not later than 8:30 a. m., Friday In order that there may be sufficient time to number and classi fy them. A feature of the show will be good music, which will be render ed throughout the day. Messrs E. G. McLurd and P. P. Murphy, of Lowell, are attending the convention of Royal Arch Masons in Wilmington. Mrs. J. L. Sain, of Greensboro, spent several days here last week as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Coon -and left Sunday for Kings Mountain to visit relatives. N. C. REPRESENTATIVES ARE HONORED Tar Heel Congressmen Given Im portant Committee Assignments Godwin, Pou and Doughton Are Chairmen Six Are on Wluti Is Known as Big Ten. That the North Carolina Repre sentatives in the lower House can measure with their conferees, Sim mons and Overman In the Senate, is shown in the announcement of the assignments of the Democratic House caucus. The following from Washington to The Charlotte Ob server gives the facts: "In the list of committee assign ments announced at the House Democratic caucus this afternoon North Carolina Is shown to have added another chairmanship to the list, making three In all for the State. Besides the chairmanship, six of the other representatives from the State are on what are known as the 'Big Ten' committees. This is a remarkable showing and a just reward for the people of the State who have 'kept their Representa tives on the Job long enough for them to advance to Important posi tions. "The chairmen -of committees are Godwin, Committee on Reform In the Civil Service; Pou, Committee on Claims; Doughton, Committee on Expenditures In the Agricultur al Department. Mr. Doughton has been on this committee several years and has just risen to the chairman ship. Godwin and Pou have been chairmen some years. "Representative Webb is ranking member on the Judlclarv Commtt- tee; Gudger on Public Buildings and Grounds: Stedman on Foreign Af fairs; Page on Appropriations; Small on Rivers and Harbors; Kitehin on Ways and Means, and Falson on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. "By a rule passed by the present Congress, members of the 'Big Ten' committees are Ineligible for mem bership on any other committee, thereby confining Webb, Stedman, Page, Small and Pou to one commit tee. The other five have assign ments as follows: "Gudger, Public Buildings and Grounds, Indian Affairs. Expendi ture in the Postofflce Department; Godwin. Reform In the Civil Service, Alcoholic Liquor Traffic, Expendi tures in the War Department; Pou, Claims. Rules, Expenditure In the Department of Commerce; Dough ton, Expenditures In tho Depart ment of Agriculture, Roads, Educa tion; Falson, Merchant Marine and Fisheries, Census, Expenditures In the $avy Department. "North Carolina Is holding her position well on the House side. In keeping with tho lofty positions held by Senators Simmons and Over man on the Senate side of the Capi tol. STRONGEST IN SOUTH. Said of Winthrop College, Rock Hill, Y. W. C. A. Says a dispatch from Rock Hill, S. C, to The Charlotte Observer: Commencement er.erclses began at Winthrop College this morning with a sermon before the Young Women's Christian Association by Hev. K G. Finlay of Trinity Church, Columbia. President Johnson before Intro du'ing Mr. Finlay stated that the Young Women's Christian Absocin tion had been a great power for good Winthiop, that It had a member ship of ;.4 9 out of a possible 674 students in the dormitories that it was one of the strongest in the Pon'h. having grown so that it re quired ti e services of a trained gen eral f-ecretary all of her time and that for the past four years the as sociation had supported a mission-! ary in the foreign field. The enrol ment on the regular graded Bible study classes Is 390, this being a 3-year course ar .! certificates given whe;i the course is completed. There will be seven certificates given this year on the Bible study course and 9 given on the missionary course. MR. 11HYNE RACK. Rut Without His Prisoner, "Irish Jimmy." Deputy Sheriff G. R. Rhyne re turned Saturday from New York where he has been for two weeks or longer, endeavoring to lay hands upon, and bring back to Gaston for trial, the person of one "Irish Jimmy" wanted for the alleged safe-cracking at McAdenvllle. But It seems as If the prisoner Is not to come Just yet. He Is possessed of some friends who. It seems, are wealthy and influential and have some sort of pull with the police machinery of Greater New York. "Irish Jimmy" took an appeal to the Court of Appeals and he has been granted time in which his case might be taken up and heard. It is thought, however, that if he Is to be gotten at all, his capture will be effected within the next week or so. Mrs. W. L. Balthis Is expected home to-night from Raleigh after an absence of a month. She has been visiting her mother, Mrs. B. P. Dixon. Mr. E. D. Long while on a busi ness trip In the Hlfh Shoals section last week brought back some fine specimens of wheat plucked from the fields In that neighborhood. He says wheat is fine up there. LATEST FROM OUR CORRESPONDENTS Newsy Letters from Gazette Oor pondenU Here and There Over Good Old Gaston What Out Neighbors Are Doing In the Var ious Sections of the County Per sonal Mention of People Yam Know and Some You Don't Know BELMONT BUDGET. Correspondence of The Gazette. BELMONT, May 30. The pastor of the Baptist church at Belmont has had to give up all his work oa account of his falling health. The church and the people at large in this community were very sorry to have to give up Mr. Hobbs at this time. He has done a good work nere and there were hopes that what he had done was only a beginning. The church has no pastor at present. Mr. Hobbs' letter of res ignation was read Sunday and sor rowfully accepted. There will be services at stated times by a supply pastor until a pastor can be secured. He was Instrumental In the building; of the new church, which Is to be dedicated at an early date. Mr. T. C. Holland, a ministerial sttt dent who graduated at Wake Forest a few days ago will preach here Sunday, June 1st. Work has begun on the ground for the new brick building which will be occupied by W. H. and D. P. Stowe as soon as completed. The early peach crop In this sec tion seems to be rather short. A few are beginning to ripen but they aro not ierfert. Mrs. George M. Armstrong has beans for sale on the local market May 30. Who beats that? Prof. Francis and wife, of Boil ing Springs High School, have been In town the past week, but left for Chattanooga, Tenn., and other points a few days ago. Mount. Holly Matters. Correspondence of The Gazette. MT. HOLLY. June 2. Rev. . and Mrs. X. R. Richardson and two little grand-children, of Charlotte, and Rev. E. X. Crowder and two daugh ters, of Stanley, spent one day last week at the MethodlBt parsonage. Miss Rozzelle Abernethy and lit tle sister, Inez, spent the week-end with their sister, Mrs. Annie Ray Stlmpson, at Anderson, S. C. Mr. C. J. SImson Is erecting a beautiful little cottage near the Southern Power Plant, and will re move his family there as soon as completed. Mr. J. L. Bynum, arter being con fined to his room for several days oa account of a severe attack of mumps. Is able to be out again. Mrs. J. W. Patterson Is at the bedside of her mother, Mrs. Cath cart. at Davidson. Mrs. Cathcart has reached the good old age of 88 years, and has been quite 111 for some time. Archie and Hargrove Bowles came over Sunday to see their moth er, Mrs. J. A. Bowles, who has been quite unwell for some time. Prof. J. B. Henson, a former citi zen of this place, but who was wltn the Huntersvllle High School the past year, has been elected superin tendent of the Dallas High School, one of the best equipped high schools In the State. Miss Mary Bowles has been elect ed teacher of the seventh grade in the Asheboro graded schools. Ash bo ro Is the county seat of Randolph, county. North Carolina. Mr. T. L. Ware has had his at tractive residence beautifully paint ed. The painters are at work on the Methodist parsonage this week. Mr. R. F. Rankin, who Is building a passenger depot at Concord, spent the Sabbath with his family here. Mrs. Susan Grlce, of Charlotte, spent the Sabbath In town on a visit to her daughter. Mrs. W. L. Tuck er. The Chlldrens' Day program at the Methodist church Sunday night was a delightful occasion, enjoyed by a packed house. There was not a balk or hitch any where, whlcn was no surprise since the program was prepared by the efficient and skillful hands of Miss Ida Rankin and Mrs. Mame Holland. The mu sic was most excellent and Inspiring. The solos of Misses Roxanna Can non and Esther Davenport were es pecially beautiful. Mountain Island News. Correspondence of The Gazette. MOUNTAIN ISLAND. June 2. Harold, the 1 3 year old son of Mr. A. B. Cobb, and Buck Hunter, a 15 year old son of Mr. George Hun ter, ran away from their homes here last . Wednesday and their parents have been unable so far to locate them. Mr. Cobb went to Greenville. S. C. Sunday night to see If he . could get on their trail. ( Miss Edna Clark, the young- ' daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Clark, who has been quite ill for a long time with fever. Is now very much improved, being able to tit up s part of the time. Sir. J. W. Van Pelt's little dangh-' ter, who has been quite ill, is im proving, though slowly. A protracted meeting will begin , on the fourth Sunday in Jane at I the Methodist church, of which Rer-' J. W. Brown it pastor. i