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VOLUME X. LENOIR, IST. C, OCTOBER 25, 1907. XO. 12.
A Darin; Escape by Three Girls.
Charlotte Observer.
Asheville, Oct. 21. Three girls,
their ages ranging from 12 to 18
years, made a daring escape from
the county home or ''house of cor
rection," near Asheville, last night
by tearing their blankets in strips,
tying the strips together and then
casting the rope out the window
and over a small shed and going
hand over hand down the rope to
the ground Inflow, a distance of
probably 30 or 40 feet. The girls
were Mary Lee Rogers, Vance
Moody and Birdie Triplett, alias
Mag Lewis. The escape of the
girls was not made known to the
officers until this morning about
daylight. The local police went
on a search for the fugitives and
soon rounded uv the Rogers and
Moody girls in the Victoria sec
tion, a mile or more from the city.
In the meantime the sherifl of
Caldwell county had paid a visit
to police hcadquuiters, seeking in
formation relative to a girl about
IS years of age. for whom he had
a warrant charging her with being
implicated in a highway robbery
and murder in Caldwell county
some time ago. The description
of the girl, whose name the Cald
well county officer gave as Mag
Lewis, tit the description of the
girl "Birdie Triplett" in the house
of correction, and Patrolman
Young, after learning that the girl
had escaped, went on the search
for her. He found her in town
and placing her under arrest, es
corted Jier to the railway station,
where the Caldwell officer, pit par
ing to take his departure, identi
lied her as the person lie wanted.
The woman was turned over to the
Caldwell officer.
It is said that the woman was
implicated in a roblx'ry and mur
der in Caldwell, for which two
men tried some time ago at Lenoir
were convicted and given long sen
tences in the State prison. It is
alleged that the girl Mag Lewis
The American Horse
Harper's Weekly utters this so
liloquy on the horse in America:
Over three centuries ago, at the
time of the Spanish conquest, there
was not to be found in the new
world, so it has been practically
proved, a single animal that an
swered to the description of tie
horse. Horses, indeed, which the
Spaniards brought with them, were
objects at first of great terror to
the natives, who took them to Ik?
four-legged supernatural beings
come purposely to aid the con
querors. Yet recent research by
the Whitney Mission has estab
lished beyond doubt that long le
fore Columbus the Americas were
overrun by horses from the moun
tains of Alaska to the plains ot
Patagonia.
In 181't) the chance discovery in
New Jei-sey of an equine fossil uf
an unknown kind led to more met
thodical investigation of America,
with the result that prehistoric
horse bones have been found in
California and Oregon; between
the (iulf of Mexico an the Caro
linas; in Texas, Florida and the
valleys of Mexico; in the Western
slopes of the Hocky Mountains.
Horses, too, must have been num
erous in this country previous to
the appearance of man, researches
having brought to light their fos
silized remains mixed up with pot
tery and the stone arms ol cave
dwellers.
How is it, then, that the equine
race, represented in America by
kinds ot tossils considoranl v more
numerous than in Kurope, came
STATE MTWS ITEMS.
The Tar Heel, published semi
weekly at Greensboro, has suspend
ed publication and the plant will
be sold.
Bert Cousins, who was injured
by the explosion of a boiler at a
saw mill near Thomasville Monday
of last week, died Thursday.
The postothce at (ilass. ('alarms
county, and the store in which it
was located, were roblie 1 Friday
I night. Some money and stamps
i were taken from the post office and
ja lot of flour, meat. shoes, etc..
j from the store.
j At the carpenter shops of 1 1 i;f
; finaii & Mull at Drexel, near Mor
jgauton. Wednesday afternoon, D.
jC. Franklin, an employe. wu as
The Old Men of The South.
Harper's Weekl j.
Coonl Withers, of Virginia,
died the other day. He was an
old man, and one of the few re
maining officers of the Confederate
army. A long time ago he was
Lieutenant-Governor of his State,
aud afterwards he was United
States Senator from Virginia. Ills
death reealls a pleasant time when
the South was sending its best to
Washington. After the old par
tisan reconstruction policy was
practically overthrown by Mr.
Hayes' withdrawal of the Federal
troops from the State capitals. Col
onel Withers was one of the noble
group of Southerners who accepted
the results of the war in good
mauv sacrifices for their States. He
was in Washington with
and ade Hampton and Lamar,
and the others the headquarters of ; t-'-itig'1
(..!.: i . . - 1 1 1 t ... 1 ..:... .
some of whom were at the old Met I making, anoui ...... icumou
ropolitan Hotel. They were all
very loal. but they were all as
Democratic as they were poor.
Withers had been a good soldier.
and he was a good loser. He sel
dom complained of anything that
a Republican soldier had done, and
it was delightful the friendliness of
the old Con feds with that simple
minded gentleman and soldier den
eral Burnside, who served in the
Senate with them. But they had
their taste in politicians; they
never loved the men they ("allied
Jim Blaine, Bill Chandler, and
"that feller Conkliu'." Withers
was about when Matt Ransom put
his arm around Cleyeland after his
first inauguration and expressed
Cordon listing in lacing a belt who;
i t i
Lamar some unaccouniaiue way no
in the shafting, w hicli
( ne arm
.o'lv badiv
in
was
was
; per
w as
minute, and killed
torn on and the udv iad:v man
gled.
As a result of the Federal Court
at (ireensboro. which adjourned
last week, seven white men were
sentenced to the penitentiary
They are G.W. Yickers. Rankin
Brewer, Guildford county; .1. X.
Xance, Rockingham; (Jeorge Wash
ington Marshall, Plus Cheek, Yad
kinlcounty; J. Frank Ordwcll.
Stokes county; Willie Hodges,
Wilkes 'ounty. All these sen
tences were for one year except
Hodges, IS months, ami Ordwell.
two vcars.
The Lenoir Really and
Insurance Co.
Strong, Li'teral. Home and Northern
insurance ompanies. representing
Fir.
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Ad lini-s ui' buianc' placed
Fire,
Lire,
Accident,
Health,
Burjlnry,
Fidelity
Stenm Boiler,
Plate Glass
Employers' Liabilty
Live Stock.
i our po ic
-a me can fill
.arge or sma
uve
the
iltention. Let us write it forvou.
laiviiimiitu :inish from this his deep and abiding iov to see a
country to reappear thousands ot Democratic President once mon
centuries later with the Spanish These old boys might have remain
conquest? For but acentury after ed in power if they had ''figured'
( 'ortc. there were alreadv in e- a little better, but they are most of
ictuiuK lnril nf wild horses in the them L'one now. and the dtath of
regions of the Plata and the Withers only recalls their ghosts
prairies of the Far West.
By some this temporary ex
tinction of the American horse-has
been attributed to the increasing
ad mi ted that she was i cold and the encroachments of the
has since
mixed up in the affair and that s'.ie
got part of the money. She was
sent to the county home or house
of correction for HO days from the
city police court and her term
would have expired to day. The
other two girls were sent to the
home just last Saturday. One of
them is scarcely VI years of age.
She is Mary Lee Rogers and is a
very pretty and attractive girl,
wearing her hair in a plait down
her back. They were sent to the
home for disorderly conduct.
(Mag. Lewis is now in Caldwell
jail on a bench warrant, charged
with being implicated in the kill
ing of Lawrence Xelson. Hditor
News. )
"Pneumonia's Deadly Work
had so seriously effected my rigid
lung," writes Mrs. Fannie Connor,
of Rural Route 1 Georgetown, Tenn.,
"that 1 coughed continuously night
and day and the neighbors' predic
t ion consumption seemed inevit
able, until in y husband brought
home a bottleof Dr. King's Xew Dis
covery, which in my case proved to
be the only real cough cure and re
storer of week, sore lungs." When
all other remedies utterly fail, you
may still win in the battle against
lung and throat troubles with New
Discovery, the real cure. Guaranteed
by. I. K. Shell, druggist, 50c and 1.
Trial bottles free.
The grateful citizens should ex
perience no serious trouble in so
curing a Thanksgiving turkey, if
he is fortunate enough to own a
piano and a kitchen range and a
few suits of household furniture
on which he can give the accom
modating grocer a lien. Bristol
Herald-Courier.
L'lacial hemisphere. It is certain
that the elephant and camel dis
appeared at the same time. An
other explanation is that the
horses succumbed to a malady
uch as the "rinderpwt," in South
Africa. Again, what
about this exodus may possibly
hare been a species of the present-
day Columbian vampire bat, which
sucks the life-blood of its vietims,
and in the districts it infests
prevents the horse leing used as a
beast.
Stomach troubles. Heart and Kid
nev ailments, can oe quicm cor
rected with a prescription known to
druggists everywhere as Dr. Snoop's
Restorative. The prompt and sur
prising relief which this remedy im
mediately brings is entirely due to
its Restorative action upon the con
trolling nerves of the Stomach, etc.
J. K. Shell's Drug Store.
They Make You Feel Good.
The pleasant purgative effect ex
perienced by all who use Chamber
lain's Stouiaek and Liver Tablets,
and the healthy condition of the
body and mind Which thev create
makes one feel joyful. Price,
cents. Samples free at J. K. Shell's,
Dr. Kent's and Granite Falls Drug
Co.'s Drug Stores.
If you take DeWitt's Kidney and
Hlnd'der Pills you will get prompt
relief from backache, weak kidneys,
Inflammation of the bladder and nrin
ni-v tron hies. A week's treatment SS
,.,,- Hold bv J. K. Shell, Dr. Kent
and Granite Falls Drug Co.
Shook Her Husband Speechless.
Sallisbury Post, Kith.
A little before 8 o'clock last
night a giant negress, who said her
name was Caroline Waugh and her
home in (ireensboro, lifted a de
mure little negro off his feet, shook
him until his teeth rattled and
marched him to the station. More
than this, she bought two tickets to
(ireensboro and landed him on the
inside of a seat when Xo. PJ got
here.
The woman explained that the
little rat of a fellow is her hus
band and that two weeks ago the
wiles of a less corpulent woman
turned his head and heart. She
learned only Monday that he was
in Salisbury and quitting the wash
tub came here for him. The man
was cowed and speechless.
When a horse stops suddenly in
the sti-eet it shows its bringing up.
Woman War on Merchants.
brought 8IH.cjai to Charlotte Observer.
Spartanburg, S. C, Oct. 16.
There promises to 1e a lively war
between some of the merchant of
the city and one hundred of the
most prominent ladies of the city
over the question of closing the
stores the year around at (5:30 p. m.,
except during the month of De
cember and on Saturday night.
Most of the merchants of the city
have agreed to close early and wil
linidv signed a petition to do so,
O J o
though several flatly refused, while
others signed under protest.
The indications are that the
ladies will win the fight and by the
end of the week they wil in
all probability have secured the
promise of all the merchants who
refused to close to fall into line with
the others. In the event the mer
chants who have refused thus far
to sign the petition for early clos
ing hold out, the ladies will re
sort to heroic measures and may
not trade at their stores. The hus
bands of many of the ladies are
aiding them in the movement.
Later advices show that the
ladies have won in the tight.
A weak Stomach, causing dyspep
sia, a week Heart with palpition or
intermittent pulse, always means
weak Stomach nerves or weak Heart
nerves. Strengthen these inside or
controlling nerves with Dr. Shoop's
Restorative and see howquielv these
ailments disappear. Dr. Shoop of
Kacine, Wis. will mail samples free.
Write for them. A test will tell.
Your health is certainly worth this
simple trial. Sold by J. K. Shell,
druggist.
Boone Items.
On last Sunday, in Middle Fork
of Xew River, four miles from
Boone, a three year old child of
Mr. Sanders Shore, was drowned
Mr. A. M. Dautrhertv was in
town Thursday, tie is opening a
silver and lead mine on Laurel
Fork five miles from Boone.
Mr. Cranford, of Colorado, who
has leen prospecting in this county
all summer, has found some fairly
good lead ore on Meat Camp, and
it is rumored that he will mine it
in the near future.
The summer hotels at Blowing
Rock have closed for this season
Three thousand people have vis
J. L. JARVIS, Manager.
Big
Doing Business Again.
"When my friends thought I was
about to take leave of this world, on
account of indigestion, nervousness
and mineral debility." writes A. A
Chisholm, Tread well. N. Y., "and
when it ooked as if there waft no
hone left, 1 was persuaded to try
Klectrie Hitters, and 1 rejoice to say
that thev are curing ine. I am now
doing business again as of old, and
am still gaining daily." Best tonic
medicine on earth. Hnrantecd by
J. K. Shell, druggist. !Wc.
ited there during the summer.
Mr. S. M. Hugger, of Banner
Klk, says he has almost decided to
write a history of Watauga county
Manv of the liest citizens have re
quested him to do the work.
A rural library has been estab
lished at Silver Stone. A. II
The pain in Ma's head has cone.
Sbe s as nappy as can oe,
Her health is right, her temper bright
Since taking Hollisters Koeky
Mountain Tea rd night. Dr.
Kent and (iranite Falls D. .
The notion prevails to large ex
tent, in labor circles, that when a
strike is won, labor has gained a
victory, and capital suffered de
feat. This is a mistaken notion,
for the success of any strike means
additional cost to production and
higher prices to the consuming
public. Janesville (ia.otte.
Guns,
Little Guns,
all kinds of guns at all kinds of prices and
to suit every need, occasion, and test. We
are ready for the hunting season with a
magnificent line of guns, ammunition, and
sportsman's supplies. This week wo are
making several special which you can't af
ford to miss if you're a ''true sport.''
1
SEABLE
Hardware & Furniture Co.
You never have any trouble to get
children to take Kennedy's Ijaxatfve
Cough Syrup. They like it because
it tastes nearly like nianle sugar.
Kennedy's Laxative Oougli Syrup is
a safe, sure and prompt remedy for
coughs and colds and Is good for ev
ery member of the family. Sold by
,F. K. Shell. Dr. Kent aud Hranite
Falls Drug Co.
Everybody
knows that "GARLAND''
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world's liest. They combine
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