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life The News Printery 111 equipped to do your next order of Job Printing promptly. Don't aend your work oat of town we will do it to suit you. LET US CONVINCE YOU. The Lenoir News. 1 1s the very bett Advertising Medium, because it ii read by tbe Largest Number of the people of Caldwell County. : ONLY fcl.OO THE YEAR Jfrioav H. C. MARTIN, EDITOR AND PROP. PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS. PRICE SI .00 THE YEAR. VOLUME XI. LENOIR, N. C, DECEMBER 8, 1908. NO. 11. Fairbanks is Metropolitan. Fairbanks, Alaska, Daily News, It has always been a source of wonder to the people of Alaska that so much profound ignorance exists on the outside regarding this country and the way its inhabi tants live. After an active cam paign of ten years, during which Alaska has received more free ad vertising than any other country on this green footstool, the average States' citizen knows as much about this splendid country, its comforts conveniences, possibilities and in dustrial progress as he does about the present trouble in the Balkans. According to the popular concep tion of this country as held in the States, Alaska is one huge frosted iceberg with a merry ring of polar bears and grey wolves doing the May dance around the North Pole. Some of them do believe that an occasional prospector dares to stick his head iu the frozen atmosphere. Those are the exceptiou and rarely express their views. To tell them that we have rail roads, telephones, land and wire less telegraplh, electric light and power companies, to say nothing of daily papers that would do credit to any city uorth or south, takes a large amount of nerve and puts the narrator on the suspicion list at once. Its hard for them to understand that Alaska has seasons just the same as other countries, and that all is not one eternal winter. It is hard for them to believe that Fair banks is the terminus of an exten sive and prosperous railroad sys tern, that maintains a regular daily service and transports a heavy ton nage over a district of 0 miles. Having become accustomed to our own conveniences we do not stop ourselves to realize what splendid telephone servio we have with its hundred and lifteen mile.' of line in operation and its live hundred customers. This com pa ny has been in operation nearly four years and each year has regis tered a steady growth and improvt ment in the excellence of its ser vice. It is not I'cnciallv known that there arc 4 telegraph stations in Alaska and that in the busy season as hiirh as sono messages a month a.ie sent and received in Fairbanks alone. Hut not content with a laud service we are now shooting rod hot words through the atmos phere all over the interior, and will probably at no distant day be talking with the states direct. Fairbanks citizens have every reason to be proud of their city aud the many good institutions it con tains. There urc two large hospit als that have lieen a blessing to the city every since they were built. One fine, large school house that was erected at a cost of i?;50,000, for the city itself and a smaller structure for the suburbs. Among other conveniences we have a city government that is above reproach, something that is a very scarce article on the outside. Our streets get proper attention, our side walks are laid as soon as conditions warrant, and sewers can sometimes be had for the asking. For its size Fairbanks has less ar rests than any place on the map, and the municipal court, is the deadest place in town. Five churches minister to the spiritual needs ol a law abiding people, and find their labors easy for every one is pretty good al ready . Fven if a woman has naturaily curly hair she can always lind 'something else to worry about. When a man asserts thai luck was against him well, let him have that consolation. Of Interest to Railroad Men. To be able to signal the cab of a moving locomotive has long been considered by railroad men as the most desirable achievment in the effort to prevent wrecks, and this, it Is beliavad has been accomplish ed by the Union Pacific as a result of a series of experiments extend ing over two years. By means of wireless telegraphy a station agent is enabled to signal a train between stations and notify the engineer of danger. A neat con trivance is placed in the cab of the ocomotive, consisting of a signal device similar to that used in the block signals. A bell and a red light are used to attract the en gineer's attention. The wireless signal may be operated in connec tion with the block signal device, and it is so arranged that a train may be stopped after it has passed a station at which it should have been stopped, and thus avert im pending danger Near Ooldsboro, N. C, a few weeks ago there was a gathering of the colored people at their church to see a winkling. When every thing was in readiness, the minister just ready to say the words that would make them man and wife, a large white bear walked in and ev erybody left the church in quick or der, some by the door and some by the windows. Just about that time the owner appeared and took charge of the bear. The people returned to the church and the wedding proceeded. At the Prohibition election in Lynchburg, Va.. last Saturday, the prohibition ticket was by a good majority. Important Report On Crops. Special to 'I'll. Chronicle. Raleigh, Nov. .'SO. That cotton is produced on tS counties of North Carolina at an average cost of ?: 4 15 per bale; wheat in seventy two counties at 7: icents per bushel; corn in all the ('(unities at an av crage of .V.l cents per bushel; oats in eighty si counties at 5 cents per bushel and tobat." in tit'iy counties at 7.'-M; per hundred pounds is the showing made in a summary just compiled in the of fice of the State Commissioner oi Labor and Printing from reports from reputable fanners in every locality ol cvcrv county in the State. Another feature of the compila tion shows that the .cost of living for the farinersllias increased in ninety counties and the wages of farm laborers has decreased, the highest average this year lieing !?2l! til $2.4.2 less than the average monthly wage last year. The low est average is !?i:L4() a decrease of 1.90 from the previous year. The tabulation of the reports of increase in farm wages come from twenty counties and reports of decrease in wage from thirty nine counties. A summary of the reports bear ing on the status of farm lands and labor shows the value of lands in creased in seventy nine counties, decreased in six and no change in thirteen. Fertility was maintained in ninety tour counties A tendon cy to larger farms is shown in seven counties and to smaller farms in ninety one. Labor is reported as scaler iu sovontv live counties and plentiful in twenty three. Negro labor is reported as unreliable in ninety four counties, f )nc county reports no negro labor at all. A section of the reports expres sing the views of farmers on yari ous subjects shows reports from thirty eight counties favorable to immigration and unfavorable in si x t v one. Lady Dropped Dead! "A lady has just dropped dead at the bargain coun ter, " gasped the floorwalker of a department store. V What was the trouble!" asked the proprietor, f ;,She found hr exact size in something she wanted, I believe," answered the lloor walker. Unlike the Department Store we can fit your horse with a Collar or Harness, and you need not drop dead about it either. PIE-CLINE HARNESS & TANNING COMPANY. "Whea in. IDou'et fay cf IFri.ee.'- Lenoir Opera House I Tte! MR. A. F0URNIEA With HUNTER BROS. COMEDY CO, 3-IN I GUTS -3 ( 'ommencing Monday, DEC. 7TH. Hunter Brothers Comedy Co. PRESENTING CLEAN COMEDY and REFINED VAUDEVILLE. MORAL AND REFINED. Slay it yourselfl B Congo Roofing R Wn ou pa a rr. r . rhai has H B f r fre Sample and Cooklet. 1 BernhardtSeagle.j m I Reserve JSenti at on Sale LENOIR DRUG COMPANY. Prices, IKu., 2Kc. and ,15t. Si 8 EXT 20 dot 34444444444411444444444441 X Christmas Coming!! will make 20 Pictures for 25 Cents, twice the size of regular 8 PENNY PHOTOS 8 7 A vw Your Picture W (I 8 8 OUR GOODS ALREADY HERE! Out -hcis ; j t - loaded duun with the most beautiful .mil Ii itinUiiMic I i iirs u 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 Crockery, Glassware, Lamps, Etc. 4 4 X 4 X 4 4 4 4 TURKEYS, CRANBERRIES, CELERY! 'miii' in ami select a nice present suitable for any one. See onr e(iiisite line of Plain anil I ecoratel Lamps. Tlo-y are ZBeauitiesI Fresh, Lowney's Candy by express always on hand, in all size Ihjxcs. Don't forget your Christmas pur chase of Candy. We will have them in Haskets, Class Cases, Hankerchief 1'oxes and various other Styles that will be useful after the candy is gone. Come in or 'phone your order for them. We have bought 25 Nice Turkeys all sizes from S lbs. up. Tropical and. IDomoatic Fruits always on hand. Our grocery department is complete. Let us serve you. We have a largo and reliable de!i er force, and will be ;lad to deliver our order. It !. Newlan "Everything to Eat and Wear." I44444444444S44444444444 X 4 X T X 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 92 w:3 w i c 1 . v tf. i ji. rv. . on a Post CARD 6 50c. NOW IS THE TIME! This will be a chance to have your picture made at "panic prices" and the kind you can afford to give to all your friends. :: :: :: :: u Hi mm line collection of select MOI'NTAIN VIKWS on Postcards, (irand Father Mountain in the Clouds, Creat Stone Face of the (Grandfather, Fte. (6 8 8 g LENOIR, : : North Carolina, f) HUTCHISON S TENT Opposite the Court House To M v Fin i s ps 1 Cm dv, i i i Ow n i v . than i- V'Oll loi am now Iccated at C. Any correspondeu past lavois. 1 l'i'iii'ri'U', N. will he cheerfully answered. Long will your courtoies be remembered. ! internal ly vours, W. T. Sw so. hobo was bury Thursday way on the tr. 15. lie t'i"!i j spent the nigh : i left. He had a i amounting to arrested in Salis last tor beating his iin . He w as lined we:i' to a hotel, . paid his bill and i' ' oi' greenbacks ."iin or more. Kvcry firm mv U a head, but no linn can proli from blockheads or I soreheads.
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