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The Lenoir News. J ATAVlCViTEirrlMlLY J The News Printery J f2 Vnl' DUL DIUT T Til 1t IS NOW PREPARED TO DO EWSrArtS. THE K BtST ADVERTISING MEDI UM. READ BY KVERTBODY. ONLY 91.00 THEYEAR. YOUR JOB PRINTING. ALL LL A :1 THE LATEST TYPEFACES USED. GIVE USA CALL. A TRIAL IS ALL WE ASK. H.C. INIARXIK", EDITOR AND IPROP. PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AID FRIDAYS. PMCE 81.00 THE YEAR. VOLUME X. LENOIR, X. C, DECEMBER 10. 1907. ZSTO. 15. 'VI V III GIRL PUTS POISON IN COFFEL Admits Her Guilt and Says She Was Prompted by a Spirit of Revenue. Industral New. Asheviille, X.C, Dec. 4. Julia Freshour, a girl 10 years of age, is held by the police here awaiting preliminary hearing, charged with au attempt to murder Mrs. V. II. Westall, the wile of a well known and wealthy lumberman of this city. It alleged that the girl yes terday morning placed poison in Mrs Westall's cup of coffee out of a spiritof refenge. She was taken into custody latr and admitted that she had attempted to poison Mrs. Westall. She said that she had been mistreated by Mrs. West all and members of the family and that her act was prom ted by spirit of renvenge. The girl's hearing was set for this morning, but owing to the ab sence of Mrs. Westall, the prosec uting witness, the case was contin ued. Mrs. Westall says that the girl has given her considerable trouble. The child was Iwuiul to the West all's several years ago and for some time past has been discontented. Neighbors of the Westalls allege that the child had not been well treated and as a consequence much sympathy is felt for her. The attempt at poisning was committed yesterday when the family went to the breakfast table. The Freshour girl, who attended to duties connected with the table and kitcken, served the other memliers of the family with coffee and then went for Mrs. Westall's coffee. She was gone some time and w hen the cup w as placed on the table the girl retired. Mrs. Westall tasted the cofl'ee and it was bitter. She took a swallow and found it had a peculiar taste and left a burning sensation. In vestigation revealed the fact that a poison had been placed in the cup of coffee and that the girl was guilty. The poinson was a disinfectant that had been used about the house during a case of scarlet fever. Mrs. Westall suffered no ill effect from the poisining but was naturally MH'il. Asheville. X. C. Dec. .-.-,) ulia Kreshour, the sixteen year old girl who placi'd poison in the col fee of Mrs. V. II. Westall Tuesday morning, was found guilty of the charge and sentenced to six months in the county home by Judge Key nolds. Judgment, however was suspended pending the good be havior of the child. She will not return to Westalls. She has been taken in charge by another family and an effort will be niabe to send her to her sister's in Orange, X. J. Mrs. Westall in testifying against the prisoner, said that Julia had given her much trouble for two years. She said that she never kicked the girl, as alleaged, but she had punished her, using a rid ing whip, the same with which she punished her own children. The case excited considerable interest and comments here. Whenever you feel that your stom ach ha8 gone wrong, or when you feel that it is not in good order as is evi dence by mean headaehcR nervous ness, bad breath, and belching, take oofnething at timeB, and especially after your meals until relief is afford ed. There is nothing better offered the public to day for stomache troub les, dyspepsia, indigestion, etc., than KODOL. Tlds is a scientific prepra tlon of natural digostantH combined wlfch vegetable acids and it contains the some juices in every healthy stomach. KODOL is truaranteed to Klve relief. It Is pleasant to take; it will make you feel line by digesting what you eat. Bold by J. K. Snell, Dr. Kent and (i ran ite Falls Drug THE N. L CLARKE COLLEGE. Six Bids for The School Were Submitted. Newton, Miss. Ghes $35,000.00. Mii.-itippi Baptist. The Committee appointed by the General Association to locate the proposed Clarke Memorial College met at Hay Springs Tues day to receive bids for the school. The committee is composed of twelve men, ten of whom were preseut. Six bids were submitted to the committee. The six propo sitions were as follows: . Bay Springs offered $15,000 and 100 acres of land. Newton offered fctf.OOO, a 40 acre site, 50 scholarships, and free water for five years. Philadelphia made a verbal of fer of $20,000 and 'JO acres of land. Stringer proposed to give $0,000. a site and 500 acres of land. Summerland offered 1 1,000 and 700 acres of land. Taylorsville o lie ml ?14,150 and 077 acres of land. Newton secured the school by a vote of six to four. Great interest has lioeii mani fested in this movement from the start, and it Ijeeame more and more intense up to the decisive hour. Newton is to In? congratulated for her heroic effort and generous offer, and her people feel justly proud of their success. The school will be Newton's greatest pride. This is the greatest advance step taken by East Mississippi Baptists lor some time, and it should be hailed with delight and met with hearty response. And it will. The Lord is in the movement, and success is certain, though it will take heroic efforts on the part of all. You know as well as any one when yon need something to regulate your system. If your bowejs are sluggish your food distress you, your kidneys pain, take Hollistcr's Rocky Moun tain Tea. It always relieves. :f" cents. Tea or Tablets. Dr. Kents Drug Store and (iranite Falls Drug Co. Mysterious Skin Disease. Philcdphia Pre. Hundreds of persons through mil this section of Xew Jersey arc scratching ugly skin eruptions that make their appearance on the face and hands, aid sonic times other portions of the bodies of their vic tims. Physicians diagnose the trouble as a sort of ringworm or parasite, which, to the great an noyancc, pain, and disfigurement of those attacked, burrows under the skin, producing a blistering sore. The ailment differs from the or dinary painful and more contag ious. Is is believed to have been introduced into this section by im migrants. Whole families, in some towns, are affected. At Princton it is said that a ma jority of the university students are suffering from the malady. Some physicians here and nearby cities are treating as many as thir ty cases. A tickling cough, froinanv cause, is quickly stopped by Dr. Bhoop's CotiKh Cure And it Is so thorough ly harmless and safe, that Dr. Snoop tells mothers everywhere to give it without hesitation even to very young babes. The wholesome green leaves and tender stems of a lung- healintr mountainous shrub, furnish the curative properties to Dr. Shoops Cough Cure. It calms the cough, and heals the sore and sensitive bron phial nienibrances. JNo opium, no oliloroform, nothing harsh used to iniure or suppress. Simply a rosin ons nlant extract, that helps to heal aching lungs. Tho Spaniards call this shrub which the Doctor uses, "The Sacred Herb." Demand Dr, Shoon's, Take no other. J. K. Shell's Druggist. CONCORD GETS REFORMATORY. Proposition From Cabarrus by . All Odds the Most At tractive One Concord gets the State's Refor matory to le known as the Stone wall Jackson Manuel Training and Industrial School. The acting auditing committee of the board of truestees met last night at the Benltow Hotel and ac cepted the proposition from Con cord. Citizen's from Cabarrus made an offer so attractive to the com mittee that it had no trouble, whatever, in deciding to accept it. The site comprise J'J7 acres, near the Southern Railway, three miles from Concord. The land is valued at S,000. In addition to giving the site the Cabarrus peo ple donoted 1,000 in cash. The projosition was accepted by a unanimous vote. The memliers of the committee present were J. P.Cook, Concord; Dr. H. A. Koyster. Raleigh; J. H. Tucker, Asheville; Caesar Cone, Greensboro. Mrs. A. L. Coble, of Statesville, the fifth memlier of the committe, could not Ik ji resent on account of sickness. When winds shriek hih in tiendiidi And enters winter with his kiss Protect yourself, from disetise be free; Take Hollistcr's Rocky Mountain Tea. Dr. Kents Drug Store and (irranite Falls Drug Co. Saw Family at Dinner Fell in Swoon to Ground. Asheville (iazette News. New York, Nov. .SO. Weak, emaciated, half starvesed, a ragged, tattered man crept up to the win dow of a residence on Long Island last night and after gazing for a moment into the window fell in a s woo in to the ground. An hour later a policeman found him and discovering that he was ill. sent him to a hospital. There he was found to be starving. He recover ed sulhciontlv to tell the surgeons that his name was Louis Fink and that he had not eaten for three days. He was a longshoreman he said, and left his job when a strike was declared six months ago. Since then he had not averaged lour meals a weak, and lor three davs had not eaten a morsel. When 1 looked in and sauhi fain ilv at dinner 1 must have iain'lod. The doctors say that Kink's case is sersous mil nc may recovei. Trial Catarrh treatments are being mailed out free, on request, by Dr. Slioop, Racine, Wis. These tests are proving to the people without a penny's cost the great value of this scientific prescription known to druggists everywhere as Dr. Slump's Catarrh Remedy. Sold by J. K. Shell's Drug Store. Soft Boiled Shirts. She was a dear old lady, but she lived at Hardscadble, and was a bit behind the times. She had lioon reading the advertisements in a city newspaper chance had brought her way. 'Father," she asked her husb and, ''what is these here negligee shirts they talk aboutf Father, being a man was equal to the occashion. "Don't know what they bel'' he grinned. "Well, yon are a back number. Negligee shsrts ain't quite so still and choky as a b,iled shirt I mean n reg'lar hard b'iled shirt. A negligee shirt is some thing you might call a soft b'iled shirt." Woman's Home Comp anion. Subscribe to tho Lenoir News if 1.00 Dr. Hale's Christmas Message. "Christ mass is not done with at midnight on the twenty-fifth of Iecember, 1907,'' writes Edward Everett Hale, in his editoral page in the the Christmas Woman's Home Companion. "In the older language of the older Christianity, for people who spoke English, the Christ-mass lasted twelve days. Indeed. I think the legands about ! the birth of the Baby said that af I ter the Wise Men had seen in the ! L... u: .... i i-. i 1 i-a-sL nn Mai uie uuveieu mene nights, until on the twelfth night they came to the saintly stable and unloaded their camels. I like, as one year end and another year lie gins, to notify those around me that stupid Lalor, the lifting and toiling of daily life, is suspended for a while, and that lor the next year energetic Work, the triumph of the soul over mind and matter, is to begin. I like to have a spec ial reme'iibrace of the Christ-mass every day: The children's celeb ration on the Chriscmas morning; the service at church as the day goes on; some Christmas party of old folks in the evening; the orato ria of the Messiah at least on both the Sundays; the Christinas tree for the Sunday School and one for the Settlement House and one for the Union and one for the Associa tion and one for the Industrial Scholl, and so on until yon come to the Twelfth Night, with its ring or it.s"lean in the cake, and perhaps a good round dance or a Virginia reel before Twelfth Xight is over. Brutal Murder of a Colored Man In Surry County. Charlotte ( ibserver. Hob Snow, colored, was brutal ly murdered yesterday evening four miles north of this city by white man. It seems that Snow and another colored man were making molasses, and while thus engaged two white men, Motgom erv and Willis, came upon them. I loth being full of liquor, they kicked the molasses ov er. spilling it on the ground; and one of the men, pulling his pistol, tired at Snow, killing him almost instant ly. The white men, seeing what they had done, immediately left for parts unknown. Remarkable Rescue That truth is stranger than fiction, has once more been demonstrated in the town of Fedora, Teiin., the resi dence of C. V. Pepper. He writes: "1 was in lied, entirely disabled with hemorrhages of thu lungsaud throat. Doctors tailed to help me, and all hope had lied when I began taking Dr. King's New Discovenv. Then instant relief came. The coughing soon ceased: the bleeding disminish- id rapidly, and in three weeks 1 was able to go to work.'' Guaranteed for coughs and colds ."0c. and si. on, at .). K. Shell's drug store. Trial boottle free. To Reimburse State for Cotton Seized During- War. Industrial News. Washington. I . C. Dec. 4. Senator Overman introduced a bill today reimbursing the State of North Carolina in the sum of !?4.". 000 for cotton seized by Sherman's army after the surrender. He also introduced a bill providing for two terms of court at Salisbury, also bills appropriating moneys for the construction of public buildings at Castonia and Hickory. A dispatch from Naples says that Mount Vesuvius, after two months of inactivity, is emitting clouds of dense smoke, accom pained by considererable roaring from three fissures around the old crater. Some alarm is foil by the population in the surrounding towns in view of the recent earth quakes in Calabria, it lioing re called that the great eruption of Anril. litOO. followed the Cala- brian earthquake of 1005. Q.W.F. IURPEB. Pres. J.H. BE ALL raw When ou will need monev and need --- . - - - todav. This strong trunk will receive your money and hold it secure against loss by lire, thieves or accident. We pay 't interest on sav ings or time deposits. ASSETS AND RESPONSIBILITY OVER $300,000. FROM THE PLUCK! PIXIES. An Invitation to Visit "The : Hardware Mart." u-n. Open Ietter. Dear Friends; We have taken up our quarters at this store here our representatives the genial salesman will cheerfully show you the finest stock of Hardware and Stoves ever seen in Lenoir. We willingly recommend them to you for courtesy and lair treatment. It will pay you to come and simply look at this lieautiful stock which with the tempting prices and liU-ral terms, are 11 Tcsistablc. Your for good hardware. THF. PU CKY PIXILS. THE CITY'S ULESTS - THE PLUCKY PIXIES. They are amusing evcrylody. these fun loving little people. They will bo of an added interest to the children for we are going to offer three handsome prizes to the three boys, under six teen, who write the Iwst verse of four lines about them. Verses to be written on plain v, hito paper, write name in upper right hand corner. Contest Hoses December 'Mst. Seethe prizes in our window now. BERMHARDT-SEAG Hardware & Subscribe For The News. Panic AT PRICE'S t When in of Price." 4 f 4 i PR1CE-CLINE HARNESS Lenoir News $1.00 WA. SHELL, A-Casb!cr it badiv. It mav le to take ad Cashier. vantage of some opportunity to make a good investment. It may le liecuuv of Mckness or death in vour family. Such a time comes to every !ervjn. When it comes to you let it find vou prepared with a bank account. If vou haven't already started to save, legin I Furniture Co. Prices THIS WFFK Doubt Buy & TANNING COMPANY. 4 t 4 i, , V - t
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