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i The Lenoir News, i The News Printery J iKWSl'APKK. THE VKtti J BEST ADVERTJ8INO MMM- f UM. READ BY KVKKYBODY. f ONIATf 1.00 THKYBAR. i , YOUK JOB FKIJNTIJNU. AlA, , THE LATEST TYPE FACES" USED. GIVE US A CALL. ATRIAL IS ALL WE ASK. H. O, MARTIN, Editor and Prop. PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS. PRICE 81.00 THE YEAR. VOLUME X. LENOIR, 2ST. 0., MARCH 24, 1908. NO. 39. A V i : ORIENTAL LIMITED HELD UP. Overpowers MiU Clerks and Robs Mail Cars and Makes Good His Escape. . Spokane, Wash., March 15. A bandit boarded the mail car on the Oriental 'Limited, on the Great Northern .railroad, at Bonner's Ferry, before daylight this morn ing, bound the two mail, clerks, robbed the mail car and delived way station mail for 100 miles. Then helropped off the train and escaped. The robbery was not discovered until the, train 'reached Spokaue, five hours after the bandit board ed the train. The train carried the through mail and much of it'was registered. The amount stolen will not be knowri until the registered mail has been checked up. When the train arrived at Spokane at 9:30 o'clock today the mail car was closed. Employes at the station opened the car and found one of the mail clerks lying bound on the mail sacks. The other clerk was locked in a closet. They said that a bandit boarded the car at Bon ners Ferry a division point 100 m. east of Spokaue. The bandit en tered the car as the train left Bon ners Ferry, subdued the clerks with revolvers bound them and went through the registered mail. At regular stops the robber threw off the mail sack for each point and took the outgoing sack, but at smaller places, where the train does not stop he did not throw off the mail, lie jumped off the train at Oregon Railroad and Naviga tion i unction, two miles east Of Spokane. Postoffice Robbed. Charlotte pbserver. Asheville, March 18. The post office at Arden,. this county, was entered and robbed of several pieces ef mail last night. The railway station and express office were also robbed. The loss is not great. "Postmaster Hickman, of Arden, some time ago adopted the habit of taking home with him every night his stock of postage stamps and cash and thus the thief or thieves failed to make any rich haul. Mau'y of the letters in the o0ice were opened and the envelopes and contents left scattered about on the iloor." It is not thought that much, if any, money was se cured from these letters. William II. Kimpton, of Mont reat, went to the wall this after noon, failing for $3,000. He was a merchant of that place, coming to North Carolina, it is understood, from the North . The assets consist of 2,500 stock in trade and a H watch . News has been received here that Mrs. Florence Edwards, wife of the station master at Putnam, in Madison county, committed sui cide yesterday afternoon by shoot ing hnrnplf thronch the head. It 3 is said that no cause can be as signed for the rash act: that just prior' to the act of self-destruction Mrs. Edwards was with her hus band and children and apparently in the best of spirits. Mr. and Mrs. Edwards and two children went to Putnam from Blue Ridge, Ga., about a year ago. The Wilkes Patrot says: The damage suit of R. A. Deal against G. W. Samuel, et al, has been or dered to be removed to the Federal Court at Greensboro for trial. This suit grew out of a fight that occur red here about three years ago, the facts of which are more or less fami liar to our readers. Subscribe for The Lenoir News. Success with Melons and Tom atoes Editor Home and Farm. I noticed some oe in issue of 'ebruary 15 gave his plan for raising watermelons and tomatoes, aud I will give my experience in that line. I select a well- drained piece of and (sandy soil preferred) and break thoroughly and put in good conditiou by harrowing. Take a one-horse plow and mark the land ten feet each way, then with a two- horse turn plow go twice to each row throwing out a large open trench; next take a long scooter, or better stilly a regular subsoil plow and go twice in botton of the furrow which should break the subsoil to a depth of sixteen or eighteen inches. Next take a long broad shovel plow and open the furrow as deep as possible; then driving Between the rows put in a continuous line of stable manure about the size of a man's arm- which will require two good two horse loads per acre. Next take two-horse turn plow and go twice through each row making a good ridge on the manure. Then where the small furrow crosses make the hill by taking out all clods and trash and working it down to about the level of the land. Take eight to twelve seeds and scatter over the hill, and press each one into the soil with the forefinger to the second joint and brush a little tine dirt over them. By this plan I never fail to get a full staudjat first which is important. When the plants are putting on the third leaf work round the hill lightly with hoe and be sure the plants are dry, as working them when damp will cause them to scald. At first plowing subsoil the turn plow- furrows ou each side which will give about three feet of well brok en soil around the plants. Then work each week if possible, getting further from the row each plowing. I am careful to never move a melon vine after it begins to run as they are very tender When vines gettoo long to use the plow, use the hoe on all spaces that remain uncovered till melons begin to ripen. I only leave one vine to a hill ten feet each way and they will cover every inch of the land. Also remove all badly shaped forms leaving only those of uniform shape and only three to five melons to a vine. At second working 1 set two tomato plants between hills about three feet from the melon hill. Since follow ing this plan I have never failed to make tine melons and fine toma toes, wet or dry. One season I had hundreds weighing from 40 to GO pounds each and the dust was not wet in the field from the time the seed was planted till melons were all gathered. 1 will add that I never plant more than one vari ety in a patch and never plant the same land in melons two years in succession. E. C. Hunsuckek, Dal ton, Ga Heavy Rains in North West. Portland, Ore., March 16. Not in many years have so many points in the Pacific northwest, all at the same time, faced such serious dam age from flood. From last Friday until now heavy rains have fallen over the whole of the northwest and every rivorlet is a lake. , Bridges have been washed out or dynamited, railroad tracks Are un der water, and when traffic is not delayed by these, huge landslides block the way. Prospects are tha conditions will be worse. DeWitt'i Little Early Risers, small ear's tare little liver pills. Sold by J. B. Shell, Dr. Kent and OranlU Falls Drag Co. Smiles are the World's Riht. Woman's Magazine. What's the use of stifling all the aughs and smiles and good thoughts that are inside you! leaven knows there are in the worjd tears enough that can't be helped! Whenever you feel like aughing, go ahead and laugh, says the April New Idea, editorially. when you feel like singing, go ahead and sing out good and loud. t will break the clouds of the worry-disturbed atmosphere; it will shake away the miserable ittie troubles that come hanging around, bothering one and inter rupting and making fusses all the time. Don't let trouble down you. Put on your steel armor oi goou thoughts. Get out your broom stick of optimism and when Trouble comes along hit him one big, beauti ful swoop. Then rnn away so he he can't catch you. Don't laugh this isn't a joke, it's "for real.'' Some people have a fool idea that to keep young and happy is to be regardless of the serious mat tens of life. But the real serious matter in life is to be courageous. Force yourself to say the pleasant, bright things that come to your mind. Hard! Of course it is! But is it a good tight, this one against allow ing one s self to be submerged in personal griefs, and out of it you come a conqueror if you will. But there is always a remedy for a heavy heart. It may be in good, hard, all absorbing work it ofteness. It may be in helping others by sympathy or in whatever way help is most needed, in forgetting self entirely, and in remembering and relieving the needs of others as far as possible, or in thinking out what the future holds until your heart grows light and the world seems full of sunshine. Bedding Sweet Potatoes. A reader in North Carolina has asked for the best method of bed- dine sweet potatoes where no hotbed is used, and I think 1 can give him a successful one, or it has proved so at least. Select smooth, mediumsized potatoes and then as soon as danger of ground freezing is over prepare your bed. 1 do this by scraping away about two or three inches of the earth. Then take straw v. half-rotten manure and make a layer six inches thick, tramping it down firmly. Now pour over it a lot of lwiling water to make it cood and moist. Cover this over then with a good, rich soil to the depth of one inch. Then lay your potatoes upon that, press ing them firmly into the dirt, and not so close to each other that they will touch. Cover the potatoes with rich soil to the depth of about an inch and a half. If the weather is warm, it will not be but alKut a week until the slips wil begin to come forth. When the weather is warm, it is a good idea to water the plants every morning Soap suds are excellent to make the plants grow fast. This method is a tried and ture one. my father having used it for over twenty years. A. M. Latham. Buffalo Springs, Tex. Col. Connolly says "you can lead an ass to water, but you can't make him think." The Colone evidently has some of our bird- minded Doliticians in view. Memphis Commercial Appeal.' Why not give prohibition a free field in Alabama and Georgia for a couple Qf years and see how it gets ont If it succeeds, then other States might try it. Memphis Com mercial Appeal. A Wild West Hold-Up in Heart of New York. Raleigh Evening Times. New York, March 18. Six men, flourishing revolvers, burst in up on the saloon of Thomas Murray at Ninth avenue and Forty-fifth street early today aud, quiet as if they were in a Western mining camp, instead of the heart of New- York, ordered the bartender and ! customers to hold up their hands. 'shot up" the place, went through the customers, took 00 from the cash register, and then, helping themselves to bottles, of whiskey and boxes of cigars, backed out and escaped on a nothbound Ninth avenue car. While three men kept the bar tender and customers covered with their revolvers, the leader of the band "went through" everybody and then emptied the drawer of the cash register behind the bar. Then he selected such whiskey as was to his taste, passed several bottles to his companions, did the same with several Iwxes of cigars and then all backed out and were off on the first passing car. Patrolmen Goff and Love, of the west 47th street station had heard the two shots. They ex amined the bullets imbedded in the back of the mirror and the wall and evolved as a clue that the robbers had carried 32 calibre re volvers. Everybody in the saloon had been so dazed that they could only furnish contradictory de scriptions of the six men. Sorely Afficted Family. Special to The State. Aiken, March 11. One of the saddest deaths that has occurred in Aiken county was that of Melvin Bell, 20 years old, which occurred ou Monday of pneumonia. Mr. Bell had been ill only a few days. He was the son of Mr. J P. Bell, of Windsor, in this county. He was the fourth in that family that has died in the past four weeks. On March 12 Marney Bell, his brother, died of pneumonia; a few days later Mrs. J. P. Bell, his mother, died of the same disease; on Monday of last week Frank Bell, another brother, died of the same disease. This makes ( the third brother and the mothei' of same family to die of pneumonia within four weeks. None of them were sick for more than live days. A few months ago Frank Bell's wife died. 4 - mm 1I mm AND DRAPERIES! Curtains and Draperies j An absolute necessity for every house. The final touch to a well furnished home. Our special line of Nottingham lace curtains is the best in town and our line of draperies is unsur passed. Even if you have enough now it will pay you to buy for future use. BERNHARDT -SEAGLE j Hardware & Furniture Co. for Nothing, j j Watch Out For I Charlie. Every one I can have a Chance PRiGE CLINE HARNESS & TAB COMPANY. 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