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VOLUME XI. LENOIR, 3ST. C, MAY 7, 1909. ISTO. 53
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State I. 0. 0. F. Meeting
One of the several conventions
scheduled for Charlotte this sam
mer is to meet next week, that of
the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows,
one of the largest, most represena
tive and indnential fraternal orders
of the State. Tuesday, Wedues,
day and Thursday, May 11, 12 aud
13, are the dates aunounced, the
convention lasting three full days.
While nothing definite cau be given
out as to' those coming it is enough
to say that the attendance will be
equally as large as at Henderson
ville last year, which was perhaps
the largest ever held.
At least eight hundred delegates
aud visitors from out of town are
expected. Important matters are
slated for settlement at this meet
ing, such as among others, the prop
osition to organize a Rebekah State
Assembly, a branch of the order
which hss beeu growing very rap
idly of late.
The program as adopted by the
committee on arrangement is as
follows:
Tuesday. May 11, 2:30 p. in.
Grand Lodge will convene in the
Masonic Temple.
Tuesday, May 11 8:30 p. m.
Address of welcome in the Audito
rium by Past Grand James A.
Bell and the response. A concert
will follow by a class of 20 children
from the Odd Fellow's home in
Goldsboro. An exhibition drill
by Asheville Canton, No. 3, Pa
triarchs Militant, and the confer
ring of the decoration of chivalry
upon Grand Secretary B. H. Wood
ell, of Raleigh, for meritorious ser
vice to the;order will lollow. These
exercises will be open to the public
at night.
Wednesday, May 12, 2:30 p. m
Magdalene, Rebekah Lodge, No
84, High Poiut, will coufer the
Rebekah degree upon the members
of the Graud Lodge in the hall of
Charlotte Lodge, No. 88.
Wednesday, May 12, 8:30 p. m.
Blue Ridge Lodge, of Asheville,
will exemplify the degree of friend
ship before the Grand Lodge, ac
cording to the new ritual, which
has made a decided change in the
work. This ceremony will also
take place in the Auditorium but
will be open to none but Odd Fel
lows.
Thursday night, May 13, 8 p
m. Catawba River Encampment,
No. 21, will confer the three-encampment
degrees upon the mem
bersofthe Grand Lodge.
There will be numerous enter
tainment features mixed up with
these business sessions. A delight
ful time is assured all those who
attend.
The Grand Lodge of North Car
olina, Independent Ordor Odd Fel
lows, now numbers about 400 offi
cers and representatives. Severa
hundred visitors are always pres
ent at the sessions, swelling the at
tendance auvwhere from 800 to
900.
(We expect Caldwell county
from her numerous lodges to be
well repsesented.)
Nejro Shoots Another for "Con
wng" His Wife.
Gaffney, S. C, Mayl. A negro
named Jim Crawford, who lives on
the plantation of Mr. L. R. Ross,
a mile from Gaffney, shot another
ueero named Melvin Edwards a
few days ago with a shotgun, in
Hiding several painful, though not
dangerous wounds. Crawford says
that Edwards has been trying to
"conjure" his wife and that he had
warned him more than ouce to stay
away from his premises aud that
if he did not do so ho would have
to take the consequences, and that
when he came home and lound nim
in the honsc he seized his guti and
run after Edwards who fled and
shot him. Edwards is able to
walk around and savs he will not
prosecute Crawford for shooting
him.
Touway Trains to be Extended.
Aiheville Gazette.
District Passeuger Agent J. H.
Wood of the Southern railway
here received pleasing information
from the Washington office this
morning to the effect that in addi
tion to the splendid train service
for Asheville and Western North
Carolina, arranged for the summer
season at a recent meeting of the
transportation and passenger de
partments officials and representa
tives held in Washington, the offi
cials of the road have authorized
the extension of the Ashevill and
Lake Toxaway summer trains, Nos.
7 and 8, and then when the sum
mer schedules are inaugurated
these trains will be operated
through from Lake Toxaway to
Wayuesville. This was the sche
dule that the Southern maintained
during the season of 1907 but
which, on account of decreased
business, it did not put on last
year. The inside figures for the
trains extension have not been re
ceived as vet. The Wayuesville
figures, however, will probably
call for the traiu leaving there
about 6:15 a. m., the train passing
through Ashevill about 8 o'clock
and going on to Lake Toxaway.
Returning thetrain will leave Lake
Toxaway in time to pass through
Asheville aud reach Waynesville
probably about 8:45 o'clock. The
Toxaway trains Nos. 7 and 8
means that Waynesville will have
this season another very fine train
service, three passenger trains into
and three out of the town daily.
In addition to the extension of
the Toxaway trains through to
Waynesville, the Waynesville or
Murphy trains Nos. 17 and 18 will
be extended and made the Blue
Mont trains. This will give Way
nesville a direct traiu service from
Blue Mont and the Montreal,
Bluck Mountain and Swannauoa
sections through Asheville every
day. Train No. 18 on the Murphy
division which arrives here at 6;30
from Waynesville will go on to
Blue Mont as the new Asheville
and Blue Mont train, and return
ing will leave Blue Mont in the
morning in time to reach Asheville
about 8 o'clock and leave here
about 8:30 for Waynesville and
Murphy on the present schedule.
Thousands Massacred.
By Cable to The Times.
Tarsus, Asiatic Turkey, May 4.
At least 10,000 persons have lost
their lives during the massacres in
this province, and some estimates
place the total casulty as high as
25,000.
The villages of Osmanieh, Baz
sclie, Hamadieh, Kara, Kristian,
Keoy, aud Kozelcok were wiped
out. Each had populations of
from 50 to GOO. Other towns with
a much larger population, in some
cases 4,000 or 5,000 people suffer
ed severely.
In one town of 4,000 people there
are less than 100, nearly all wo
men and children. Famine is fear
ed.
The yard of the American mis
sion house looks like a prison pen.
The men wander around all night
trying to keep warm. The women
and children sleep ut night on the
floors of the school rooms. Few
have beds.
Young Turks around Tarsus are
trading Amenian girls among each
other for horses and modern re
peating rifles! There have been
numerous instances of the murder
ine of women and children with
deliberation, and there are other
instances whore women wore
brought out one by one and shot
down, the bystanders clapping
their hands at each fresh execution.
It is not best always to stay at
home; an occasional change is good)
for everybody. Even the kitchen
fire goes oat occasionally.
Roosevelt Bars Another Lion.
Nairobi, British East Africa,
May 3. Theodore Roosevelt bag
ged oue more lion yesterday at
Wami, near Kaptiti. This gives
him a total of three lions and one
lioness on the present expedition.
Kermit Roosevelt succeeded in
bringing down a cheetah. The
hunting was exciting and both
marksmen did excellent work.
It is rumored iu native sources,
but the report lacks confirmation,
that the Roosevelt party will ar
rive at Matlrobi May 15 before pro
ceeding to Sotik.
The lion killed by Mr. Roose
velt yesterday was brought down
at close ranee. His uuick work
with the rifle saved the lives of
some of his mounted escorts, who
had narrow escapes from the in
furiated beast. The accuracy of
Mr. Roosevelt's markmanship is a
matter of astonishment.
Inspector Condemns Meat.
Special to The Observer.
Granville, S. C, May 1. Sev
enty thousand pounds of meat in
the local warehouse of Swift & Co.,
was condemned to-day by City
Meat and Food Inspector Smith.
The heavy rains of last night back
ed up tha water in a nearby stream
and the warehouse was flooded
with city sewerage. Nearly three
carloads of meat was submerged,
causing it to become soaked in the
filthy water.
While the meat has, been con
demned, it has not yet been de
termined as to what disposition
will be made of it, the opinion of
the city attorney being awaited in
the matter. It is learned, how
ever, that the meat may be shipped
away from the city, but it is ap
parent that it is unfit for food. It
will certainly not be sold here.
The loss to the packing concern, if
it is not allowed to take the meat
to another town for sale, will be
about $4,000.
Turtle and Frog Fall From
Clouds.
Special to News and Observer.
Wilson, N. C, May 3. This
section is blessed for in the recent
storm but slight damage was done
The middle bridge on the Tarboro
road leading out from Wilson was
washed away, but this will be re
placed and ready for travel bysun
dowu this afternoon. Other
bridges in different parts of the
county, it was thought, were car
ried away, but they stood the
storm of the deluge. At Wiggins'
mill, about four miles from this
city, the whole face of the earth
was covered with water, and on
Saturday at 12 o'clock it was ris
ing at the rate ot six inches an
hour.
When the rain was coming down
in torrents Saturday afternoon
small turtle was seen descending
from the clouds. It struck the
granolithic side walk in front of
the court house, but was not in the
least hurt by the fall. At the
same time a frog fell in iront of
the Gem Cigar store, and is there
now on exhibition.
"The gentleman in Lenoir, who
a few weeks ago hooted at the idea
of frogs coming down with the rain,
or being "rained down," will have
to go "way back and sit down."
Snow in Virginia.
Roanoke, Va., May 1, This
was the coldest May day iu this
section in many years. Snow
falling to night in the mountains
and it is predicted that fruit and
vegetables will be killed unless
there is a charge in the tempera
ture before morning.
To know a good thing is only
the winning to know how to use
it is the other. Buck's Shot.
Victims of Fearful Storm.
Montgomery, Ala., May 3. A
special to The Advertiser from
Giles county, Tennessee, says:
Eighteen funerals as a result of j
the fearful storm of last week, oc
curred In one village of this j
county yesterday, six persous te- j
ing buried" in one grave and lour
iu another, Mrs. McGraw and rivei
children were buried together and
Mrs. Duffy aud two children
laid away in another grave.
One of the McGraw children.1
after the terrible storm of Friday, ,
in which so mauy people lat their
lives, helped her crippled father!
to find the family and get them to
gether, five of whom had been kill
ed. Then she walked a half mile
to the nearest neighbor where she
gave the alarm and asked for help,
saying that she would be dead in a
little while. Within a few minutes
after utteriug these words, she fell
to the grouud and expired.
Wireless Between New York and
Chicago.
New York, May 4 The wireless
people are jubilant today over the
success of the attempt made by the
New York American to transmit
news from this city to Chicago and
receive news from that city by
wirelesss. The American sent a
wireless expert and a reporter to
the roof of the Waldorf-Astoria
lotel to test the system of the
United Wireless Telegraph Com
pany. Far off in Chicago on the
roof of the Auditorium Annex sat
another expert and another repor
ter. A message was sent in a few
minutes this reply came:
'To the American, New York.
"Your Message, the first by
wireless ever sent between New
York and Chicago, was received
here at 10:58 o'clock p. m.
"Chicago Examine."
Guilty of Embezzlement.
Seattle, Wash., May 1. S. F.
'arkhurst, formerly assistant
cashier of the First National Bank,
was to day found guilty of embez
zlement of 50, 000 from that in
stitution, rlis speculations ex
tended through lo years anu were
covered up by manipulation of the
bank's balances iu San Francisco,
Chicago and New York. Sentence
was deferred.
Killed Girl Then Himself.
Northampton, Mass., April
26. Enraged and temporarily
insane, it is believed, because of
her refusal to marry him. Porter
Smith, who was graduated from
Dartmouth College last June, to
day shot and fatally wounded
Miss Helen Ayer Marden, of
Somerville, Mass., a member of
the senior class at Smith College,
and then, turning the revolver on
himself, committed suicide.
Miss Marden was taken to the
Dickinson Hospital, where she
died shortly before noon. She was
the daughter of Frank W. Marden
a Boston oil merchant, who lives
in Somerville.
smith, whose home was in
Chicago, had baen in Northamp
ton for several days. It is said
that he had persitently followed
Miss Marden and tried to force
his attentions on her. This fore
noon Miss Marden came out of
the students' building,, where she
roomed. She had gone only a short
distance when she met Smith Sud
denly, workmen not far distant,
heard a shot and a girl's scream
Turning they saw Smith standing
beside the girl with a smoking
revolver in his hands. Smith
raised the revolver and fired two
more shots at the girl.
Miss Marden sank to the
ground and Smith immediately
placed the muzzle of the weapon
on his own head and fired, tailing
dead beside the young woman.
HERE'S WHERE DOLLARS 1 DOUBLE DUTY
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 oak pocket-look.
Did you ever stop to realize that the modern
Harness-maker is also a tailort
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.
COFFEY
Who Cleans and Presses Clothes
IS STILL HERE
I also do REPAIRING and ALTERATIONS. A
chance is all I want. If the work you get is not first
class in every respect, your money will be refunded, just
as freely as I take it. You are to be the judge.
Respectfully,
G . T. COFFEY
TAILOR
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