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TX-ESDAY, MAY 16, 1916. THE GASTOXIA GAZETTE. PAu'B TURKS' CALOMEL IS MERCURY! IT SICKENS! ACTS ON LIVER LIKE DYllflKITE Brief Biographies of North Carolinians BY JAMES W. BAIN (Copyrighted 1916 by the Southern Syndicate Company. 8 ANDREW JACKSON I THst U N IVER SAL CAR Vou must not Judge the Ford car by its firs cost. That ( Is low, because the best manufacturing methods and the great volume of production reduce the cost of making and selling. Better materials, bought at lower prices, make the Ford a better car for less money. Order yours today! Runabout $390; Touring Car $440; Coupelet $590; Town Oar $640; Sedan $740. All prices f. o. b. Detrlot. On sale at I, J. A. BLACKWOOD & CO. I'I'I 1 Meet Your Friends at SweetlancTs Fountain of Quality! EACH AND EVERY DRINK A DELICACY. MADE OF THE PURE JUICES OF THE FRUITS. SERVED THE QUALITY WAY. BRING YOUR FRIENDS. ROOM FOR ALL. OUR ICE CREAMS ARE THE BEST AND PUREST TO BE HAD. THEY LITERALLY MELT IN YOUR MOUTH IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE. SWEETLAND ICE CREAM PARLOR CHRIS LEVENTIS, Manager J. H. COFFEY BUILDERS OF COMMERCIAL BODIES FOR AUTOMOBILES MANUFACTURERS OF SPRING WAGONS We handle second hand Automobiles at the right price. Special prices on rubber tires for buggies and car riages. It will pay you to see us before you have your tires put on. GASTONIA WAGON & AUTO CO. GASTONIA, N. C. Cocker Machine & Foundry Co. Builders of Textile Machinery Gastonia, N. C. Soft Clean Grey Iron Costings r " tt : 7 We Repair and Rebuild: . Madimery, Boilers,5 -1 71 C. W. FULLER GASTONIA WAGON & AUTO -COMPANY REBUILDING TOPS, PAINT. ING AUTOS AND RUBBER TIREING A SPECIALTY Primps, Engines, Etc The father and mother of Andrew Jackson came from Ireland and made a settlement on the famous Twelve Mile Creek, Lancaster county, 8, C, After the death of the father of the family the widow and two father less sons moved to the house of her brother-in-law, George McKimey. Here on March 15, 1767, Andrew Jackson was born. The McKimey house is still standing, or was a few years ago. Thishouse stands on the North Carolina side of the line near the old Waxhaw churchyard. ' That Andrew Jackson is a North Carolinian is affirmed by several care ful historians and one Mr. Parton, in particular, has made a careful inves tigation upon the subject and affirms that Jackson was born about a quar ter of a mile from the South Caroli na line, or in other words, in tne place mentioned above. The Jacksons were very poor ex tremely poor. The schooling of tne three boys was, therefore, not of the best, in fact, Andrew Jackson sav the beginning and ending of his schooling in the first few years of his life. His mother had entertain ed hopes of educating him for tne ministry but the Declaration of Inde pendence was written when Andrew Jackson was but nine years old and the Revolutionary War tame on to destroy all calculations. It is understood, then, that in view of the very limited education he had had the advantage of, it is not surprising that his biographers have had no end of trouble apologizing tor, and condoning his mistakes in orthography and grammar. One bi ographer remarks: "He sometimes spelled the same word three different ways in the same letter." But in ex tenuation of this it is later added that "in the last 40 years of his life his mistakes did not average more than five lo a page " It is hardly possible that Andrew saw service in the Revolutionary War, though some historians assert it as a fact. That he came into con tact with the British soldiery Is not to be doubted and one event in his life left with him an undying hatred of all things British. A detachment of British troops stopped at JacK son's home one day and after de stroying every thing in the house the commander of the troops ordered young Andrew to clean his boots. This the lad refused to do in no un certain terms. Angered, the officer struck him .on the head with a sabre leaving a scar Andrew Jackson car ried a lifetime. The elder brother being requested by the officer to per form the serviie and refusing like wise, was struck. The blow killed him. .lackson at the age of about twen ty years got a license to practice law, but how is the mystery of the ques tion as his preparation for this pro fession, from all accounts, seems to have been drinking, gambling, rat ing, thicken fighting and everything else but studying law. He then liv ed in Salisbury. Jackson later was caught by the tide of emigration sweeping west ward and we next find him as Solici tor for the Western District. It was a difficult job, frontier country as that district then was, but Jackson was successful in his management of it. While in the Western District Jackson boarded at a Mrs. Donelson's in Nashville and while here he met her daughter, Mrs. Lewis Robards, who was divorced from her former husband. Jackson married her and their married life was ideal. She lived to see her uhsband triumph at the polls in his fight for the Presi dency but died before his installation into office. After Tennessee had become a Territory, Jackson was appointed District Attorney, shortly afterwards he became a member of the Lower House of Congress and finally Unit ed States Senator. This position he resigned without ever having made a speech in the Senate or casting a vote. After his Senatorial services were thus abruptly ended he was elected a Judge of the Supreme Court of Tennessee. His business affairs became very much involved, howev er, and he retired to his country home "The Hermitage." He would doubtless have lived there contentedly, since his tastes, strange as it my seem in this fiery headed man of action, were domestic. The orders in council and Embargo Acts of the British, however, brought war and Andrew Jackson, who was a Major-General of Militia, proceeded with the men of his division to Natchez. These men he shortly dis missed since their services were then not required. Shortly afterwards he was called upon again to suppress an uprising of the Creek Indians. This was a brilliant victory and made htm a national figure, lie was mads a Major-General of regular troops and ordered to Mobile. After several en counters with the British he pro ceeded to New Orleans, which town was then being threatened by a large British force. On December 23, 1814, Jackson attacked them and MRS. KERNS' ADVICE lo Weak, nervous, Eon-Down Women So. Cumberland, Mi-" For a long time I suffered from a nervous break down. I could not eat or sleep and was so weak, I could hardly walk. My hus band beard about Vinol and got me to try it. Now I have a food appetite, sleep soundly and am well and strong. Every nervous, weak, run-down woman should try VinoL Mrs. D. W. Kerns. Vinol is a delicious cod liver and iron tonic,, without ofl, which we guarantee to create a healthy appetite, aid diges tion and make pure healthy blood. 2, H. KEXNEDY A OO. Gastonia, W. C. drove them back. Skirmishing con tinued until January 8, 1815, when the great engagement took place which has gone down in American history as the Battle of New Or leans. The British were decisively defeated. It was a great victory for Jackson. His force was not to be compared to that of the British in equipment, number or fighting con dition. Add to this that the town of New Orleans, largely foreign in pop ulation, was then under martial law by Jackson's orders to prevent an up rising. Retiring again to "The Hermit age" after the war, he was again called out to fight the Seminole War in Florida. Afterwards, Spain ced ing Florida to the United States, Jackson was made governor of tne new province. In 1 824 he was a candidate for President. In this campaign the election was thrown into the House and John Quincy Adams was chosen. Jackson, however, defeated him in 1 82 8 and held the office of President two terms. That they were history making epochs is well known. Jack son's fight against the Bank of the I'nited States is the only interesting chapter in the History of American Finance. His fight against nullifica tion is also one of the signal events of his administration. The I'. S. Hank was a gigantic institution, with headquarters in Philadelphia, a cap ital of $3.-.. 000. 000 and branches all over the country. Jackson said it' was a monopoly and therefore 6hould not be allowed to exist. And he saw to it that it did not in this matter. The bank was chartered in 186. Congress passed an act to recharter, which Jackson promptly vetoed. The Senate passed a resolution of censure upon him. Meanwhile Jackson had withdrawn the I'nited States depos its from the bank and distributed them among several State banks, and this doomed the U. S. Bank for good. Jackson's paper on Nullification is one of the most able papers of his administration. In fact, it is tne power that kept South Carolina good until 1860. In 1837 Jackson retired from tne presidency and went back to the rest and quiet of "The Hermitage.'" Jackson was one of the most in teresting characters that ever enter ed the White House. That he was. notwithstanding, an able, fearless, consistent statesman can be truth fully said. That he was consistent is evident from the fact that replying to his wife's frequent imiwrtunities to join the church, he replied: "You know what a President must be. and what a Christian should be. No man can be both." After retiring from politics Jackson, true to his promise, professed religion. I mention only one other thing. It was Jackson who gave us that ex pression O. K. It was in this man ner: I'pon some bill which Congress submitted for his approval and sig nature, he wrote the words "Oil Kor rect." with his usual rules of spell ing, it will be perceived. He diet! in 184.". Some historians are of the opinion that the election of Jackson was a mistake, that ne wrought more evil than good. 1 can not see it. He was all American. Though he had scant respect for the usual forms and ceremonies of "life, he had a deep well of good common sense. He had an abiding faith in the American people and an under standing of the principles of Democ racy. He was honest and just and sincere. Though he was swayed at times by personal enmities towards men, and through tnat into opposi tion to certain doctrine, he never allowed it to carry hira into opposi tion which he believed unjust. There were grave faults in his character, weaknesses hardly to be excused. They can only be admitted but may it not be said in extenuation that his greatness of character could bear some weaknesses surely, as he was human, and that the good he did still lives? All in 12 Hours. Charlotte Observer. Only recently Gastonia was a little bit proud of the feat of building a tabernacle in 12 hours or less. It has now improved on that stunt by organizing a complete cotton mill In the same length of time. There are many towns that can build a house in 12 hours, but there art? not so many that can organize a cotton mill in a day. Have It; Iton't Wtnt It. Charlotte Observer. "The Republicans," says The Bur lington News, "howled for a primary law for this State until the law was passed and now they are busy de nouncing it." Of course. And If the primary had proved the popular in stitution that had been expected, these same Republicans would have been elbowing the Democrats out of the way in order to get to the front as primary shouters. Charles Mace, the Burke county wife murderer, was sentenced by Judge Henry Lane in Burke Superior Court Friday to 30 years in the peni tentiary. COLDS QUICKLY RKLIEVED Many people cough and cough from the beginning or Fall right through to Spring. OtberB get cold after cold. Take Dr. King's New Discovery and you will get almost immediate relief. It checks your cold, stops the racking, rasping, tissue-tearing cough, heals the inflam mation, soothes the raw tubes. Easy to take, Antiseptic and Healing. Get a 50c. bottle of Dr. King's New Dis covery and keep it In the house. "It Is" certainly a great medicine and I keep a bottle of It continually on hand," writes W. C. Jesseman, Fran conia. N. H. Money back if not sat isfied but it nearly always helps. Adv. 1 "Dodsoa'j Uw Tool" Starts Your Urn Better Thu Calomel tod Doesil StBvtti or Uikt Yoi Sick, Listen to me! Take no more slck ening, salivating calomel when bilious or constipated. Don't lose a day's work! Calomel is mercury or quicksilver whioh causes necrosis of the bones. Calomel, when it comes into contact with sour bile crashes into it. breaking it up. This U when you feel that awful nauea and cramping. If you are slug- fish and "all knocked out," if your iver is torpid and, bowels constipated or you have headache, dizziness, eoated tongue, if breath is bad or stomach sour juBt take a spoonful of harmless Dod son's Liver Tone on my guarantee. OF L THE YEAR HAS BEENA SPLENDID ONE Commencement Kxeirin Clone To day Number of raduate4 Some Interesting Fact Alxut the Faculty and School Will lie let ter i:ulxil for ltrge School Xext Year Prospect Brightest Ever I "resident Liiulsuy is Ably Assisted. Correspondence of The Gazette. MX WOOD COLLEGE. May 1.1. On Wednesday night, May 10th, be ginning at X ::: o'clock Miss Juliet Earle Pollard recited extracts from one of Louis Joseph Vance's novels, "The Fortune Hunter ". The selec tions read were "The Fortune Hun- i ter", He Meets the Heiress" and "How He Finds His Real Fortune". Miss Pollard put bo much expression in this extended reading that the au dience appeared to think that It was the most fascinating recital ever giv en at Mnwood. Miss Pollard has won the expression medal by this single reading. Friday night an oratorical contest was held, the program being as fol lows: Duet by Misses Rowan and Bowman; chairman's address by Prof. R. H. Holliday; "War and Peace" by J. I. Shannon; "Labor and Success" by Mr. C. G. Castles; "Life and Aspiration" by Mr. L. H. Falls; "How Success is Won" by W. E. Isler; "The Road to a Young Man's Future" by Mr. L. H. Xiell; duet, "My Ixn-e", hy Misses Hanks and Torrence; decision of committee with Rev. ('. K. Hell, of Kings Moun tain as chairman. The latter pre sented the gold medal, given by Dr. J. (1. fiord, of Kings Mountain, to Mr. L. R. Xiell. Honorable mention was given Mr. J. L. Shannon. Saturday night there was an excel lent recital by the music, voice and expression departments. At I 1 o'clock Sunday morning the baccalaureate sermon was preached by Dr. A. S. Rogers, of Rock Hill. S. ('.. wIki delivered and able and ad mirable discourse to the studeius. Sunday night, Rev. Dr. W. W. Orr, of Charlotte, delivered the address before the Y. W. C. A and Y. M. C. A. Class day exercises were held this afternoon at 4 o'clock. The entire program was good. At 8 p. m. a play entitled "Brook Farm" was act ed in grand style and the audience felt that it was worth all it cost to see It. The graduating exercises will be held tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock. Seven graduates will be awarded the A. B. degree. They are Annie Ger trude Hooks, Mary Virginia Knox, Gladys Azile Pressley, Sue White Mills, Georgia Burns Reid. Ixds Isa belle White and P. S. White. Certifi cates will be awarded to the follow ing: Margaret Monica Alexander, John White Blghatn, Lila Gertrude Boykin. Irene Brown. Charles Guy Castles, lxis Corinne Clement. L. Butler Falls. Grady C. Ferguson, W. Elam Isler. Anna Lota McLeod, Juliette Earle Pollard. Mollie Rea Schneider, Rebecca Martha Walker, Wilma Craig White and L. R. Xiell. Three of Miss Iaura Plonk's expres sion class will receive diplomas, namely, Mr. lonard Ross Xiell, Miss Juliette Earle Pollard and Mr. Jud son Lingle Shannon. Llnwood feels proud of the splen did record she has made for the past two years since she became a co-educational institution. The faculty is one of the best in this section. Head ed by Rev. A. T. Lindsay the college is making great progress. Prof. R. H. Holliday is one of the best teach ers in the two Carolina. lie is one of the hardest workers on the facul ty and has had several years experi ence teaching in various parts of South Carolina. Prof. J. Russell Minter, a young M. A. graduate or Davidson, is also a very brilliant teacher. Miss Laura Plonk, of Kings Mountain, and a graduate of Lenoir College and the Curry School of Ex pression, Boston, is another live wire. Miss Annie Rowen, of the mu sic department, has kept alive the musical talent at the college for the past three years. Miss Stella Be thune has greatly developed the vo cal talent. Mrs. Dendy, lady princi pal, has been here only one year but DANGERS OP DRAFT - Drafts feel best when we are hot and perspiring Just when they are mmi rianrornna and the result is Neuralgia. Stiff Neck, Sore Muscles or sometimes an attack of Rheu matism. In such cases apply Sloan's Liniment. It stimulates circulation to the sore and painful part. The blood flows freely and in a short time the siffness and pain leaves. Those suffering from. Neuralgia or Neuralgic Headache will find one or two applications of Sloan's Liniment will give grateful relief. The agon izing pain gives way to a tingling sensation of comfort and warmth and quiet rest and sleep is possible. Good for Neuritis too. Price 25c at yoor Druggist. Adv. 1 CLOSING IN ITere's my guarantee 3o to any drag store and get a 60 cent bottle of Dod- son's Liver Tone. Take a spoonful to night and if it doesn't straighten yon right up and make you feel fine and vigorous by morning 1 want you to go back to the store and get your money.. Dodson's Liver Tone is destroying ta sale of calomel because it ia real liver medicine; entirely vegetable, therefore t ean not salivate or make you sick. - I guarantee that one spoonful of Dod son's Liver Tone will put your sluggish liver to work and clean your bowels of that sour bile and constipated waste which it clogging your system and mak ing you feel miserable. I guarantee that a bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone will keep your entire family feeling line lot months. Give it to your children. It it harmless; doesn't gripe and they like Us pleasant taste. has won many friends. Miss Cald well has been at the head of the art department and has taught some his tory and logic besides. Miss Maggie Gamble, head of the primary and in termediate departments, has render ed valuable assistance ia teaching the younger students and day pupils and has endeared hersllf to manv. Xext fall Llnwood expects to hava the best college in this section wittt the exception of Davidson and Ere kine. Her standard will be higher, her equipment better and there will be several additions to the faculty. Llnwood expects to fill every dormi tory to its capacity and has already the prospect of having the largest at tendance in the history of the Institu tion. Cherryville Chat. Correspondence of The Gazette. CHERRY VI LLE, May 11. The commencement exercises of the local schools came to a close Monday night after a very successful school year In every particular. On last Thursday night the literary address was deliv ered by Hon. C. F. McKesson, of Mor ganton, who based his address on s .verse of the Scripture found In the Old Testament, "Thou shalt eat of the fruit of tby ways." The speak er translated the word "ways" to mean habits, and delivered a very thoughtful address. On Friday night was held the recitation and declama tion contest in which five girls and four boys entered. The recitation medal was won by Miss Blanche Del- linger, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Da vid P. Delllnger. and the declama tion medal was won by Mr. Doras. Rudisill, son of Mr. and Mrs.' J. H.' Rudisill. On Saturday night the commence ment play, "Farm Folks", was giv en in four acts by the high school which was greatly enjoyed by the crowd that filled the auditorium. Sunday night the commencement sermon was preached by Rev. Df. J. L. Caldwell, president of Queen's College, Charlotte. His theme was, "The School Boy That Made Good." . Basing these words on the life and' uiaiai ici v 'tx it i , l ii v u ujv v w sa presented in a three-fold way. First, we must be clean, second, we must be studious, and third, we must have a right relation with God and be giv en to prayer. The oratorical contest, in which four high school students participat ed for the Torrence-Morris medal, was held Monday morning and Mr. Ezra Moss won, his subject being. "The Land of the Sky." Monday night the graduating ex ercises were held, at which time 01 students received certificates of a ward for being present each school" day for the past year. In this con nection It is worthy of 'mention that Ralph McLurd, son of Mr. and Mrs. D. P. McLurd, has not missed a sin gle day from school In five years. The graduating class this year was the largest in the history of the school, numbering 28, 10 girls and 18 boyB, and perhaps the largest class of any high school in the State on a basis of enrollment. Following are the names of the graduates: Misses' Carrie Howell, Edna Roberts, Pearl Beam, Iela Kendrick. Connie Bal lard. Pauline Harrelson, Vinnie Ford, Margaret Harvey, Jennie Har vey and Hettie Homesley; Messrs. Paul Stroup, Cletus Carpenter, Brlce Gates. Lester Sipe. Victor Stroup, Thomas Stroup, Yates Beam, Vance Sellers, Henry Delllnger, Floyd Mau ney, Hunter Rudisill, Guy Sipe, Dew ey Delllnger, Graydon Harrelson, Lloyd Beam. Hunter Carroll, Charles Warlick and Ezra Moss. The newly elected town board was sworn in Tuesday night and is as fol lows: Mayor, E. L. Webb; alder men. Ward 1. D. P. McLurd; Ward 2, T. E. Summer; Ward 3, A. L. Hous er; Ward 4, X. B. Kendrick; city clerk, W. C. Hicks. Immediately af ter being inducted Into office a brief executive session was held and busi ness transacted as follows: U. Craig Xiell was elected chief of police In place of A. B. Sweatt, who was not a candidate for re-election; C. P. Whitehead was re-elected superin tendent of water and lights; L. C. McDowell was re-elected school com missioner from Ward 2; A. H. Huss school commissioner from Ward 3. in place of A. L. Houser who was elected alderman, and M. L. Mauney school commissioner at large in the place of 8. E. McXeely. -Miss Elsie Roberts, who has been teaching at Alexis for the past three years, left Tuesday for Altamont, where she win teach a summer school. Hurst and Howard Lindsay, aged 12 and 9. were drowned Friday in a pond In which they were swimming The Strong Withstand the Heat of Summer Better Than the Weak Old people who are feeble, and younger people who ate weak , will be stfengthened and enabled to go through the depress ing heat of summer by taking regularly Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic. It pariSee M . . . . . . . 3 sua enncaes uie otooa ana ouua up the whole system. 30c. U'.:r...-
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