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VOLUME X. LEXOER, 1ST. C, SEPTEMBER 11 , 1908. XO. 88.
TAR HEEL TOPICS
Kew Item From All Over
The 8Ut Briefly Noted.
" Wake Forest College opened
Monday with an enrollment of 300.
Labor day was observed general
ly throughout the State last Mon
day. The dedication of the new Catho
lic church at Rocky Mount took
place Mouday.
The new Masonic Temple of
the North Carolina Grand Lodge,
in Raleigh, has been completed.
The colleges throughout the
State have opeued with iucreased
atteudance over the past session.
Mrs. Marshal Mott, of Wiuston
Salem died last Saturday in the
Twin City Hospital at that place.
W. A. Melton, a car inspector
for the Seaboard Air Line was run
over and instantly killed at Ham
let Tuesday night,
The tobacco sales on the Kins
ton market for August amounted
to 1,948,098 pounds at an average
of over 7 cents the pound.
Plans have been perfected for a
big automobile meet at Ellerbe
Springs, Richmoud couuty, Sept.
23rd and 24th.
Rev. T. N. Ivey, editor of the
Raleigh Christian Advocate has
returned from a trip of a mouth to
the Northwest.
W. O.Wilson of Asheville had
his pocket picked at the circus
there Monday and it set him back
to the amount 1117.00.
Dr. Frank O. Rogers of Con
oordhad a narrow escape from
drowning Mouday while attempt
iug UTford Cold Water creek.
A charter has been granted to
the Elliott Building Co., of Hick
ory to do a general contracting
business. The capital is $50,000
A pretty church wedding was
solemnized in Hendersonvill when
at Front Wilwin was nnited in
marriage to Miss Verda WaJdrop.
The North Carolina School for
the Deaf and Dumb at Morgauton
opened with 175 children present
and 60 cut off in the flood districts
Charters were granted recently
to the Marcom Safety Trace txick
Co., at Roxboro and the Standard
Mutual Life Insurance Co., of Dur
ham.
The heroes of the Lost Cause had
a red letter day at their reunion in
Raeford on Sept. 5th. People from
all parts of Cumberland and Kobe-
son county were present.
Trinity College, Durham opened
Sept. 9th. The prospects are that
the attendance this year will be
unusually large. G. Kubeta, Cita,
Japan, is one of the new students-
The Governor has commuted to
life imprisonment the sentence of
Sam Grover, who was to have been
hanged on Aug. 17th for the mur
der of Ed. Jones in New Hanover
Co.
Rev. Wm. G. Wrhitaker, who
was convicted in the Federal Court
at Asheville recently, for fraudu
lent use of the mails, was taken to
Atlanta thia week to begin serving
his term of eighteen months in the
Federal prison.
Wake Forest will not get the elec
trie plant in the near future as an-
ticiDated. The town is not incor
porated and cannot issue bonds
The matter will have to wait unti
the meeting of the next session of
the Legislature, when the town
will be incorporated and proceed
to issue the bonds.
lThe Governor has issued a proc
lamtion calling upon the people of
tjietejojud. th.w, flood, sufferers
in Pender and Lenoir counties and
the Cape Fear valley, where the
destruction is greatest..
The action of the Durham coun
ty grand jury will probably haTe
the effect of encouraging grand
juries in other counties to get after
delinquents and the officials, which
juries have been slow to do here
tofore. It has also had a good ef
feet on delinquents elsewhere.
The Morganton Insurance and
Realty Co., has been granted a
charter to do a general real estate,
oan and insurance busiuess. The
authorized capital Is $25,000 with
15,000 paid in. The incorporators
are E. P. Tate, J. A. Dickson and
8. R.Gollett.
PURELY POLITICAL
The grand jury in Durham
has been '"going some." Reside
rounding up five hundred delin
quent tax listers it went for the
city administration for the bad con
dition of the city jail and police
station and got after the Southern
Railway for maintaining a danger-
us grade crossing.
Knox in Auto Accident.
Geneva, Sept. 7 Ex Attorney
General Philander C. Knox, of
ittsburg, his wife and his son,
ware slightly injured in an auto-
tomobile accident, a tire bursting
near here this morning. The car
was thrown into a ditch and the
occupants hurled through the air.
Adams Gets Judgeship.
Asheville Sept. 9th W i t h
Transylvania yet to hold a conven
tion the nomination of Joseph S
Adams as Judge of the Superior
Court bench to succeed the late
Judge Fred Moore, over Judge J
). Murphy, the Governor's ap
pointee, has been settled. Bun
coinbe county Democrats gave
Adams 33 3-6 votes in the Judici
ai Convention and Murphy 32 2-5.
Madison county gave Adams 21
2 votes and Murphy 1-2 vote,
making a total of 55 or five more
than necessary to nominate.
Not His Wife.
Raleigh, Sept. 7. D avid
Kornejay, whose real name is
thought to lie Will Holmes is in
jail here on a charge of slipping
away from his boarding house
with a woman he claimed was his
wife, to avoid paying a board bill,
ate a large lxx of mercural salve
last night declaring his intention
to commit suicide. He seems all
right today. It develops that he
has a wife and child at Mouut
Olive whom he has abandoned.
he real name of the woman with
him is Mattie Strickland. She
was arrested here this morning and
found to have a bottle of lauda
num concealed under her hat in
her hair.
Meeting Ends in Riot.
New York, 8ept. 7 An attempt
was made today to turn a meet
ing of unemployed workingmen
into an anarchist demonstration
and for half an hear the big .meet
ing hall in Cooper Union, where
the meeting took place, was the
scene of wild excitement, during
which red flags were raised, the
police denounced, and incendiary
speeches made. Alexander Berk
man, the anarchist who some years
ago shot Henry C. Frick, a stee
company official, during the Home
stead strike in Pennsylvania, was
dragged from the hall by the po
lice and locked up. A young wo
man who gave her name as "Mary
Smith," and who stood by Berk
man, also was arrested, and Em
ma Goldman, 1-ecognied leader of
the "Reds" In this country, was
made to leave the hall,
The Prohibitionists have decided
not to put out a State ticket in
North Carolina.
Both the Democratic and Repub-
ican National Campaign text
books have been issued.
The Democrats of Burlington
have organized a club with a mem
bership of 250 to start ou.
The State of Georgia has nine
teen million peach trees iu her or
chard. How's that for a peach orchard.
A Taft-Cox club of seventy mem
bers has been formed in Pitt coun
ty and the Republican club of
Iillsboro is growing steadily-
Hon. W. W. Kitchin addressed
the Democrats of Watauga county
at Boone last Saturday and the oc
casion was an auspicious one tor
the Democrats of the West.
A. L Brooks and J. T. More
head, Democratic and Republican
nominees, resjiectively, for Con
gress on the 5th district, will prob
ably hold some joint debates.
The Warren couuty Democratic
campaign opened Saturday with a
barbecue at Epworth church, and
a speech by Congressman Claud
Kitchin.
The Macon Democracy at Frank-
in Monday named a ticket as fol
ows: For Representative, J.
Frank Ray, Register, D. W.
Blaine; Sheriff, Alex Moore.
The Democrats of Stokes county
have nominated the following tick
et: House, J. Y. Stone; Sheriff,
J. F. Christian; Register, WTilson
Mitchell; Treasurer, J. F. Stone
The Republicans of Cherokee
county met at Murphy Monday
and nominated for the House, T
C. McDonald; for Sheriff, A. B
Dickey; fer Register, A. L. John
son.
Pasquotank county has nomi
nated a strong Democratic ticket
as follows: House, S. N. Morgan;
Sheriff, Charles Reid; Treasurer,
J. P. Thompsom : Register, J as
Spencer.
The Caswell county Republicans
have nominated a strong ticket as
follows: House, C. J. Yarborough;
Sheriff, W. W. Murray; Register,
John Simpson; Treasurer, J. K.
Enoch .
W. H. Taft left Middle Bass,
()., Monday to commence his cam
paign. lie will prooaoiy maxe
speeches in Missouri, Nebraska,
Kansas, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana
and New York.
The Democrats of Randolph
county met last Saturday and nomi
nated the following ticket: Senate,
J. A. Spence; House, J. R. Smith
and I. J. Redding; Sheriff, S. L.
Hay worth.
In the Guilford Democratic pri
raaries of last Saturday, the follow-
ing ticket was nominated: Sen
ate, Col. John Barringer; House,
Dr. J. R. Gordon and Ex mayor
Murphy ol Greensboro.
The Republicans of Forsyth
county have nominated the follow
ing ticket: Sheriff David A.
Jones; register Henry W. Watson;
Senate, Henry R. Starbuck; Legis
lature S. E. Hall and P. H. Stim
son.
The Democrats of the 15th Sena
torial district composed of Harnett,
Johnstou and Sampson counties
met Saturday at Dunn and nomi
nated for the Senate J. P. Elling
ton of Johnson, and Geo. L. Peter
son of Sampson.
Samuel Gompcrs, president of
the American Federation of Labor
opened his campaign against Jos
G. Cannon as a mcmlier of the Na
tional House of Representatives,
on Monday in Danville, Ind., the
home of Speaker Cannon.
Hon. W. W. Kitchin has been
enthusiastically received in Mitch
ell, Yancey, Madison and Ashe
counties the first of the week and
in Burke, Caldwell and Catawba
the latter part of the week. He
received an ovation where ever he
went.
Hon Chas. H. Cowles, Republi
can candidate for Congress iu the
8th district, opened his campaign
in Lenoir on Monday. He spoke
in the court house at the noon re
cess and made a clean, clear cut
Republican speech. A large crowd
was present. I
The Republicans of Rockingham
county met Monday and nomina
the following ticket: Senate, W.
B. Wrav; Elder Flincham and
John P. Rice. House. H. A.
Clark and J. T. Holland were
named lor Sheriff and Register re
spectively.
The Democratic convention of
the second senatorial distiict. held
at Washington Tuesday, nominated
T. P. Latham and Van Buren Mar
tin. This district is composed of
the countiss of Beaufort, Martin,
Hyde, Tyrell, Dare, Pamlico and
Washington.
E. I). Smith of Florence, S. C,
has been uominated by the second
primary in South Carolina to suc
ceed Senator Frank B. Gray, who
is filling out the term of the late
Senator Latimer. Mr. Smith is
field agent of the Southern Cotton
association .
Q.WJ. HAKFEE. Pre.
J.H. BE ILL. Cashier.
A- SilEU. A-fefcier
NOT ONE
Money Earner in Ten
Fully realizes the real and actual value of linking his money.
The forceful power of a BANK ACCOl NT. even a snail one,
exerts a strong influence in building uphis credit, and in
general business affairs places him on a !eel with merchants
and manufacturers, etc.
The Opening oi an Account
is about the easiest and simplest thing you can undertake to
do. At this bank there will always be found some one of the
office force READY and WILLING to fully and courteously
explain anything about it you do not understand. Call and
opeu an account. Interest paid on time deposits.
-Assets and Responsibility over $ 300.000.00.
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Why Not a Kitchen
CABINET TO-DAY?
The elopement of Jack Case and
Mrs. Jules Dean, from the vicinity
of Guilford College, has caused a
sensation in Guilford county. The
couple are in the neighborhood of
fiftv vears of ace. The former has
a wife and four grown children.
Henry Reynolds of Wrilkesboro,
Republican chairman of the eighth
district has written to Theo. F
Klutz to trhe effect that the latter
is mistaken in supposing that be
cause, he declined a thorough joint
canvass that it is a back do wm
and proposes to arrange with
Klutz for a number of joint dis
cussions.
Mr. John Moore Secretary of the
Democratic county executive com-
mitt 'e has received the Democratic
Handbook and a copy can lie had
for the asking. The book contains
the State platform and exhaustive
articles on the Educational Awak
ening in North Carolina; Railroad
Rate Legislation; The Prohibition
Question; The Panics of 1903 and
1907; Guarantee of Bank Deposits
and other questions treated from a
Democratic standpoint.
Stabbed to Death.
Stephen Gruber, a son of S. F.
Gruber, of Marion, N. C, was
stabbed to death at Blacksville, S.
C, Monday by L. W. Dewitt.
Gruber was there tuning pianos
and got into a difficulty with De-
Witt. Gruber reached for his
pistol, but DeWitt closed in on
him with a knife and cut him
about the head and neck, almost
severing the head from the body
Gruber died almost instantly.
Killed by Train.
Reidsville, N. C, Sept. 8. J
M. Swann, 80 years old, was killed
bv a freight train on the Southern
today while crossing the track just
north of the depot. Some one call
ed to him to get out of the way
and as he turned around he was
strnck by the train. An arm was
broken and severe injuries about
the temple resulted. He was car
ried to his homo where he died
about an hour after the accident.
You are tailoring under a delusion if you think
a kitchen cabinet a luxury. It's not. It is a
modern necessity and one that you should not de
lay longer in having in your home. ::
Fowler Cabinets are to Cabinets
what "Buck's" stoves and ranges are to stoves
and ranges the world's standard. And they cost
no more than the ordinary kind. See our excep
tional showing in this line to-day.
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Cluoice Meats.
I have just installed a large Refrigerator and
am better prepared than ever before to supply
my customers with
NICE, FRESH, COOL MEATS.
Call and see me or telephone your order if
you want fresh meats kept free from Flies
and Heat.
J. A. BUSH, JR.
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Properly Cleaned and Dressed.
ANDERSON'S PRESSING CLUB
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