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The News Printery 111 equipped to do your next order I Job Printing promptly. Don't lend your work oat of town we -will do it to lait you. LET US COXVXNCE YOtN The Lenoir News. U the very beet AdYertising Medium, becaaM it i read by the Largest dumber of the people of Caldwell County. : ONLY tl.OO THE YEAR H. c. MARTiiSr, Editor and Prop. published Tuesdays Aia Fridays. price 81 .00 the year. VOLUME XI. LENOIR, IN". C., MAY 4, 1909. STO. 52 1 i Falls From Thirty-fifth Floor. New York, April 26 At work on the thirty-fourth floor of the Metropolitan. Life building at Madison Avenue and 24th street to- Rural Mail. April 15, 1909. The Postmaster: In order to expedite the delivery, collection, and dispatch of rural mail, enable rural carriers to cover day, where he was aiding in place their routes with celerity, and give ing a big clock in position, Thomas the earliest possible service to Mortimer lost his balance, fell to patrons residing on the far ends of the street below and was instantly routes, the Department will insist killed. The body struck the pave that all rural mail boxes be so ment, in front of the old Fifth located as to be served with the Avenue Presbyterian church, just greatest expedition . as a half dozen women and girls You are, therelore, directed to turned the corner. Several of them require each rural carrier at your fainted, and the others, hysterical, office to submit to you without de. ran up and and down the street. lay, for transmission to the Depart- As Mortimer fell his subordiua ment, the names of all patrons tes turned just in time to see him whose boxes can not be served disannear from the scaffold and without leaving the road, dismount- with the speed of a comet the body iug, driving in deep ditches or on sped throngh the air turning steep iucliues, or on or across rail- somersault after somersault way tracks involving danger, or At 'the tenth floor the body the anuroaches to whose boxes are struck a rjroiectiuz balcony and are obstructed. It is not required bounding out, fell with a thud, that boxes shall Ins erected beside head first on the paveme.it in the wheel tracks, uor on auv parti- frout of the church. Scores of cnlar corner of the crossroads: but persons were in the vicinity at they must be erected within the the time cou lines of the road, and accessible, on any comer. It it not desirable that boxes be attached to telegraph, telephone, or electric light poles, or to fences had leen broken. or buildings, but boxes should be securely fasteneA to neat and strong Duty of County Officers An ambulance surgeon, summo ned from the New York hospital, said death had been instantaneous. Every lone in the man's Innly in En- posts firmly set at the side of the roads, at a sufficient height to be served by carriers without nsiug from their seats or reaching through wheel spokes. After boxes have been pioperly relocated, and it is practicable to curtail carriers' schedules, post masters are directed to make re port thereof to the Department, and to the proper local road otl'i cials and cooperate with them and patrons to the fullest extent, con sistcnt with position and duty, to secure the improvement of the roads. The manifestation of inter est and properly directed efforts by postmasters in the good roads question will in many instances be productive of excellent results. Respectfully, P. V. DkGkaw. Fourth Assistant Postmaster Gen eral. From 4297 forcing Liquor Laws. The recent Legislature passed a law expressed in very plain Eng- lish giving the duties of the county officials in regard to enforcement the laws against liquor. We give below the clear synopsis of the law as given in the legislative edition of the Raleigh News and Observer, and we recommend it to the care ful attention of the officers and trust they will act accordingly; 'The law to authorize and direct sheriffs to seize and destroy illicit distilleries makes it theduty of the sheriff and his deputies and of any police officer within his jurisdic tion to search for and seize any distillery or apparatus or material used, or be used for the manufac ture of spiritous liquors in viola tions of the laws of the State, and it shall be the duty of such officers to destroy such distillery, appara- The Jury Box. Raleigh Evening Time. Mr. F. W. Thomas, of Asheville, writing the Charlotte Observer with reference to recent remarks in that paper on an Asheville mur der case, says; ''But it is also uecessary that we should have jurors of sufficient in telligence and independence to convict the criminals. To this end business men should not, as now they systematically do, shirk the duty of jury service- To this end, too, it seems to me that county officials should provide letter ac commodations for iurors than I believe is now the;rule. Those ac customed at home to good food, clean beds, a daily bath, etc.. should 1m? provided with similar comforts when on the jury. If moreattentiorl were paid by county commissioners to these matters, our influential citizens would per haps not be so terrified by the thought of serving on the jury in a serious criminal case. Public sentiment in favor of conviction and appropriate punishment will be as it is now in many cases, of little worth, unless the case is tried bv iurors representative of j j the lest element of the com munity."' Mr. Thomas' criticism of busi ness men who shirk jury duty is entirely proper. As to the accom modations for jurors, his remarks are hard v pertinent. Jurors are paid a per diem and furnish their own accommodations. Only when a jury is held together in an impor tant case, which is the exception rather than the rule, does the county provide quarters, and usual ly the jury in such case is sent to a hotel. The trouble is not so much that more intelligent citizens of thb etter class do not serve on juries, but that no effort is made to secure this class. Often in capital case or other important case, intelligence is not wanted in the jury box and attorneys for the defence try and under the law they can usually succeed to ex clude intelligent men who have the courage of their convictions. Mid-Spring AND Early Summer Goods tus or material, or if the same or The Empty Cartridge. L,,v part therof be valuable for Samuel, the ten year old son of Mr lawful use, to confiscate the same and Mrs. W. Y. Dysart, picked to the use of the county in which up what he thought was an empty the seizure was made, which shall cartridge, or dynamite cap, he be sold under the direction of the doesn't know which, last Friday county commissioners of the county and proceeded to strike a match on and the proceeds of the sale shall the end of it. The cartridge or be paid into the county treasury. fan v nlndwl. tpni iiH' off two fin- It is the dutv of these officers to gers and a good part of the thumb seize and destroy any and all nftholitfln fellow's left hand. He Honors which mav be found at was hrninrht to Dr. Kent's Drue such distillery and to arrest all Store, where Dr. Kent dressed it, persons found on the premises. and made it as comfortable as pos And it shall be uulawiul for any ihlp u was a bad wound, but such officer to take trie Jiuuor, or we hope it will soon heal up, and any part therof, for his own use or t f i- give the young man out nine nor tne use oi any one, vi w nnu trouble. the same to be taken by any other person, but such liquor shall be utterly destroyed. It is also the duty of these Now on Display, in Great Varie ties, at Extremely Low Prices, for Cash. Good yard wide Sheeting. . . ."c yd Heavy ' ' . (ijc yd Vndroscoggin, that all know lUc yd Linen Finish Suiting, nice quality 10c yd White Dress Linen, nice quality 2fic yd White Dress Linen, French Finish 50c yd White Dress Linen, 10-4, worth 1.25, for SI .00 yd 10-4 Bleach Sheeting, Stand ard quality 'Wc yd 39 in. French Voille T0c yd Holland Linnette. . . 12Jc to 15c yd 3f in. Wool Panama 50c yd 42 in. Poplins ?1.00 yd Linen (ialatea 12c to 15c yd 40 in. Persian Lawns 20c yd India Linons 10c to 20c yd Small lot Bleach at 5c yd Ginghams 5c to 10c yd And many other goods that we can't mention, that will lie sold at a bargain for cash. Pretty 16-Year-Old Girl Elopes. Miss Louise Barringer, of Gas tonia, a pretty lti-year-old girl ran away from her home Tuesday night with W. G. Woodall a moving picture man and went to Spartanburg, S. C. to be married. A telegram from the mother ar rived just in time to stop the pro ceeding, as the minister had ar rived where they were stopping and was preparing to perform the ceremony when the police arrived. The would-be-bride and groom were held at the police station un til the mother of the girl arrived. offi- Republican Daily Paper. Kalcieh, N. C, April 2t!. A charter was issued today for the cere, when informed that any per- Southern Republican Company, at son or persons are engaged in the Charlotte. Its purpose is to illicit distillation ot liquors, or in establish a Republican newspaper the illegal sale of the same, to seize at Charlotte, but is authorized to such distillery and to procure war nnblish anv kind of a newspaper rants and to arrest the offender or from a daily to a monthly and to offenders and to snbpoeua all per do job printing. The authorized sons who may nave miormauon capital is 95.000; 2,000 paid concerning the commission ol the in. W. S. Pearson. J.A. Smith and offence charged against the party others are the incorporators. arrested Mr. Smith is the defeated Repub For every illicit distillery seized licau candidate for Congress in the under this act the sheriff or other Charlotte district. Mr. Pearson is police oillcer shall receive the sum -r..i ,aa i K0nn of twentv-tivedollars ana necessary . . ,,. 1ti. expenses, wuiuu win wjiviimu; prominent in Republican Politlcs thJ commissioners of the the county iu this State. i which the seizure is made Anv sheriff or other police ofti - Tho -Norwood Inn at Norwood, cer violating the provisions oi this v n woa trtUllvdnstimedbv fire act shall be guilty of a misdemea- last week. The value of the hotel nor and upon conviction shall be and equipments was about $4,000, punished In the discretion of the with a small insurance. mimmuu mj iv Ciga ettes Responsible for this Youth's Stunt. Hendersonville Dispatch, 24th. Posey, the 18-year-old son of Mr. Eugene Thorne, this morning at 10 o'clock ascended the ladder of thestandpipe, 100 feet in height, with a rope around his neck. When discovered he was playing around its edge. Being coaxed by friends he descended without injury. It is said the cause of aberration of mind is the use of cigarettes. Beach Hargas, of Kenducky, has been found guilty of the killing of his father, Judge James Hargas, and sentenced to life imprisonment iu the penetentiary. It is said that Judge nargas has killed his man more than once, but this time he picked up a chip of the old block which proved too much for him. Subscribe for The News. KNICKERBOCKER SC ITS and PANTS for the Boys, cheap CLOTHING FOR MEN at rock bottom prices. BEST AND MOST STYLISH SUIT IN TOWN FOR $10.00 See our line "KING (JUAl ITY" SHOES and ON FORDS lor Men ; "WHITE IIOCSE" SHOES and OXFORDS for Women; "BUSTER BROWN." SHOES and ON FORDS for Boys and Girls; ALL GOING AT LOW PRICES. Greatest line of TRUNKS and SUIT CASES in town. SEE US when you need any thing in our line. Yours respectfully, W. A. WATSON S. Main St., Lenoir, N. C. HE'S WHERE DOLLARS 00 DOUBLE W Although we are offering some extraordinary things this week in cool and comfortable furnishings for the bedroom, our real "inducements" are by no means entirely confined to this line. It's a "wide open week" in all the departments. The lid is off. Not only the price, but the terms will appeal to you especially if you have a mahogany taste, with an imitation ak pocket-lwok. - VS. Did you ever stop to realize that the modern Harness-maker is also a tailor? Well, it's true. Not that the average harness maker is capable of making you a sack suit or a frock coat, but that he is competent to dress that stylish horse in as well fitting and genteel a suit as your tailor does for you. Try Price, the Horse Tailor. "WHEN IN DOUBT, BUY OF PRICE!" PRICE -CLINE HARNESS & TANNING CO. i FERTILIZER Wp are still handling the w v J " OLD RELIABLE BRANDS " T n if t - I farmers rriena, complete Planters' Bone and Potash Mixture Old Dominion Dissolved Bone and Potash Standard Grain Grower Standard Corn Grower Koysier s ackj rnuspnaie X Old Dominion Acid Phosphate T" Fresh cars are arriving daily and prices lower than ever. A. Yours truly, I Geo. E. MOORE T t&- Mr. Hoke will wait on you, convenient to load. f
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