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VOLUME XI. LENOIR, N.C., OCTOBER 1, 1909. XO. 95
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Dr. Pratt's Great Project for Good
, Roads.
Charlotte Chronicle.
It U the plan of Dr. Joseph Hyde
1 1 Pratt, 8tate Otologist, to eventaal-
ly secure the building of a system
of continuous good roads running
h rough seventy live counties in
I North Carolina, South Carolina,
i Ten nessee and Virginia, practically
covering the 8oathern Appalach
ian country. Meetings have been
held in most of these counties and
i interest worked op in the scheme.
All this is preparatory to the Good
Roads Convention which is to be
held at A&heville next week . It is
expected that at this convention
working plans for the construction
of these roads will be completed.
It is an ambitious project, but one
that is entirely practicable. It
will only remain for each eonnty to
build ita line of road, connecting
up the whole system. The Ashe
ville convention is to be held on
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs
day and there is every promise that
good results are to follow. As or
g&nized it will be composed of the
East Tennessee Good Roads Associ
ation; tbe South Carolina Good
Roads Association; the North Car
olina Good Roads Association; the
Virginia Highway Co i mission;
the Georgia Geological Society;
the North Carolina Geological and
Ecouomic Survey; the Asheville
and Buncombe County Good Roads
Association and the Roauoke and
Yadkin Good Roads Association.
The chairmen of the boards of
commissioners of all the seventy
five counties have been invited with
Jther members of the boards to at
end as delegates and also to ap
point five others from their coun
ties. The North Carolina counties
interested are: Wilkes, Ashe, All
egheny, Yadkin, Surry, Alexander,
Clay, Cherokee, Graham, Swain
.Macon, Jackson, Haywood, Madi
Jbon, Yancey, Mitchell, Watauga,
Caldwell McDowell, Henderson,
Polk, Rutherford, Cleveland, Lin
coln, Burke, Catawba, Transylva
nia, Iredell, Gaston, Mecklenburg,
Forsyth, Stoks, Rowan, Davidson,
Davie, Guilford, Rockiughatn.
Further than this, the mayors of
all cities and towns in these coun
ties have been invited to attend as
delegates, and also requested to
appoint five other delegates. lie
sides these cities the other cities in
Virginia, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee as
far north as Richmond, as far east
as Raleigh, south as far as Colum
bia and Atlanta and west as far as
Knoxville, have also been invited
to send delegates. The chambers
of commerce, boards of tirade and
clubs will be represented by dele
gates. The Governore of each of
the five Statse have appointed fif
teen delegates at large.
Out of all these it is hardly to be
doubted that a working body will
be secured. Dr. Pratt means bus
iness and we believe he is going to
succeed with his project
This North Pole business is get
tine stale. We are tired. We
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were for Cook before he reached
New York, but now we have de
cided not to vote. Don't care a fig
who is elected if the fuss can be
stopped. Fact is, we have doubts
as to whether either has been there.
We wish Teddy would come back
home and start something new and
more eptertaining. Greensboro
News.
DeWitt's Little Early Risers, the
safe, sure, easy, gentle, little liver
Dill. The original Carbolited Witch
Hatel Salve is DeWitt's. The name
Is plainly stamped on every box. It
is good for euta burn, bruises, sores,
boils and sunburn but It is especial
ly good for Piles. Sold by J. E. Shell,
Lenoir Drug Co. and Granite Falls
Drug Co.
Kiof's Mountain Monument.
Landmark.
A monument to the Americans
who participated io the battle of
King's Mountain will be unveiled
on the battlefield October 7th, the
anniversary of the battle, which
was fought October 7, 1780. The
following facts are from the Ral
eigh News and Observers:
The monument is the result of an
apdropriation by Congress and is
said to be the handsomest in the
Sooth. It is on South Carolina
soil, nearly half a mile from the
North Carolina State boundary. It
is interesting to know that the bill
was introduced by Congressman
Webb, of Shelby, that town bear
ing tbe name of one of the coloaels
engaged in the battle of King's
Mountain. A similar bill, it is
said, was introduced by Congress
man Finley, of South Carolina. It
has also been stated that Governor
Kitchin, while he was in Congress,
seeing the opportunity, was author
of the bill that passed, haviug thus
assisted the successful passage of
the measure, although it was intro
duoed by another.
The military at the unveiling
will be a feature of the event.
there will be an entire South Car
olina regiment aud several North
Carolina companies.
This monument is of special inter
est to North Carolinians, as of the
1,400 Americans engaged in the
grtat battle, 1,100 were from this
State, commanded by Col. Will
iams, of South Caroliua. The Vir
giniaus iu the engagement, 300,
were commanded by Col. Camp
bell. Col. John Sevier was com
mander of the old mountain men,
from the Tennessee district, which.
was in North Carolina at that
time. Colonel Shelby and McDow
ell, North Carolina officers were in
the fight.
There was already a monument
erected on the grounds, the North
Carolina Legislature having appro
priated about $3,000 to it and citi
zens of this State a large amouut.
The State of South Carolina did
not give oflk'ial recognition to it,
although private citizens of that
State subscribed to the fund.
The King's Mountain Battle
ground Association was organized
30 years ago and owns 50 acres of
land. It is probable that this or-
gaization and the Daughters of the
Revolution in the South will insti
tute a movement to appeal to all
the patriotic people of the couutry
to have the United States govern
msnt establish a national park
there. Fftv or more additional
acres would be required.
King's Mountain was oue of the
most important battles fought dm
ing the Revolution. It broke the
backbone of British aggression in
North Carolina and deterred many
thousands of tories from joining
them. It was there that the Brit
ish commauder, Patrick Ferguson,
was killed, and is is hoped that the
British government will erect on
the spot where he lies buried a
monument commemorating the val
or of this heroic Briton.
Killed A Negro in Church.
Wilson, Sept. 27. Last Satur
day night iu Keuly, Johnston
county, John Adkins entered a
church while the congregation was
singing. He requested the preach
er to stop the singing for a moment
as he wished to say something to
Gurley Davis, a negro, who was
sitting in the congregation. When
everything became quiet, Adkins
asked Divis: "Why did you in
suit my wife today, "and then be
gan to shoot. Four shots were
fired, three taking effect. Davis
died the next day. Adkius is now
in jail.
The Davis Statue.
Raleigh Tliuee.
The State of Mississippi will pre
sent to the national government for
a place in the Statuary Hall, a
statue of Jefferson Davis, and it is
another evidence of a reunited
country that the northern papers
are viewing the suggestion with en
tire complacency. So far as we
have observed there have been no
outbreaks, while on tbe other hand
some of the papers have been very
kind in their remarks. The New
Haven Register says that the "mist
which has for half a century dis
turbed the north's view of the son
of the south should be cleared
away," that they should "cease to
ook upon him as a coward and a
traitor and esteem him for what he
was, a brave, true, southern gen
tie man."
Contiuuing, the Register pays
the following eloquent tribute to
Mr. Davis:
"But the south will never cease
to admire and honor the man of
irou nerve, of dauntless courage,
of ceaseless loyalty, of unsullied
honor, of tireless energy, of peer
ess chivalry, who suffered and
dared and al most died for the cause
he loved and lost. Of that host of
true men who gave their best and
their all for the Confederacy be
cause in their deepest hearts they
believed they were doing right,
none were more sincere than he.
Of that multitude who lined up
for the struggle against their broth
ers of the north none was braver
and none was nobler. His sacri
fice was as extreme as it was sin
cere, and his treatment by the vie
tors aftor the crash came was sore
medicine for a heart that was break
"It is a oeutury and a year since
Jefferson Davis was born. It is
near to half a century since his
cause was lost. It is twenty years
since his death. What better time
could there be to signify, by the
placing of bis statue in the nation's
capitol, that the wounds of that
war are healed, that in the blood
of brothers shed the union is forev
er cemented on a foundation that
standeth sure. There let his pre
sentinent stand, erect, noble, com
manding, impressive as he stood
in the days when he was master of
the destinies of half a "ation. Let
it there remind the south that it
was mistaken and the north that
it misunderstood. Let it picture a
martyr to a cause that though lost,
was not wholly in vain, since it
taught brothers to appreciate a re
lationship they were in danger of
forgetting."
Wake Forest, Sept. 27. Mr.
Luther Hinson, an operative in
the Royal Cotton Mill, was killed
by a railroad train some time after.
12 o'clock Saturday night about a
half mile north of the station. No
one was with him and it is not
known exactly at v hat time nor
how the accident occurred. A
broken whiskey bottle was among
the contents found iu his pocket. It
is supposed that he was intoxicat
ed and was sitting on the end of a
crosstie when one of the fast mail
trains struck him, crushing . his
skull and scattering his brains
along the track.
Mr. Hinson was about 35 years
of age and leaves a wife and three
children, who reside in Henderson
A Hurry Up Call.
Quick! Mr. Drusririst Uulckt-A
box of Buoklen'B Arnica Salve Here's
a qurrter For the love of Moaee,
burrvl Baby's burned himself, terri
bly Johnule cot his foot with the
axe, Mamie's scalded, Pa Can't walk
from piles, Blllle has boils and my
ooms aohe. She got it and soon
eared all the family. It's the great
healer on earth Sold by J. E. Shell
Farm Vs. Town Life.
The Greensboro Record puts the
state of high prices for good pro
ducts in its true light. Trusts and
Aldrichism are important factors,
but hardly the chief. To quote:
The country can talk and kick
about high prices of living, but as
long as every fellow, when he gets
old enough to work, jump the farm
and hikes to town to live, the situ
ation will grow worse. Action of
this kind simply causes the demaud
to be greater than the supply, in
which case prices are always high.
There is more money in farming
than there ever was before and the
lite of the farmer and his fa mily is
being made more comfortable every
day. Life on the farm is not now
near so isolated or burdeusome as
it was io former times, even up to
a very few years ago, and day by
day conveniences are being added
to it to make it pleasanter. With
the good roads, the rural telephone,
the rural tree delivery of mail, the
advance iu the public school sys
tem, country life is now given
many of the advantages of town
residents it did not enjoy just a few
years ago. It is strange, with all
these things, coupled w ith the in
dependence and free mode of living
the farmer enjoys, that there should
not be a rush from the town to
the country, the latter life seeming
so much preferable to that in the
towns. There are more induce
ments today than ever before to
people to remain on tbe farms, yet
there is probably more abandon
ment of farm life than ever before
a condition which, we agree, is
hard to understand. With the
man who loves indepdence, freedom
from the conventionalities of artifi
cial life and who can luxuriate in
the thought that he lives at home
there can be nothing better or more
ideal than life on a well managed
farm. The man who lives on a
farm has to work of course he
does if be expects to make any
thing, out of his farm. But that
is no more than the town man has
to do. The farmer who moves to
town with the expectation of living
a life of ease will be greatly disap
pointed. Iet him ask the iner
chant, the (winker or the profession
al man of the town as to the town
life and the answer will be, work,
hard work every day in the year.
With the town man there is no sea
son of rest after the laying by of
crops, no days with nothing to do
after the year's crops have leen
gathered, no season of forced idle
ness Inscause of weather unsuitable
to work iu the fields; but it is one
season of work unceasing work
from the first day of January until
the last day of December of each
and every year. The farm life has
advantages that many do not yet
realize.
Douglas, Ga., Sept. 26. L. L.
Hall, a near beer saloon-keeper, at
an early hour today at his saloon
shot and killed J. "G. Gordon. They
had a previous difficulty, Hall
ejecting Gordon from the place.
Gordon returned to a restaurant
attached, when Hall opened fire,
emptying five chambers of a pistol
in Gordon's bod p killing him in
stantly. Hall is in jail.
Night On Bald Mountain.
On a lonely night, Alex Benton, of
Fort Edward, N. Y., climbed 'Bald
Mountain to the home of a neighbor
tortured by Asthma, bent on curing
him with Dr. King's New Discovery,
that had oured himself of asthma.
This wonderful medicine soon re
lieved and quickly eured his neigh
bor. Later it cured his son's wife of
a severe lung trouble. Millions be
lieve its the greatest Throat and
Lung cure on earth. Coughs, Colds,
Croup, Hemorrhages and Bore Lungs
are surely oured by It. Beet for Hay
Fever, Grip and Whooping Cough:
SOo and $1.00 Trial bottle free. Guar
anteed by J. E. Shell. -
"You Know How the
Sitting Room Is
Furnished-
send out a rocker that will harmonize with
the rest of the room."
.Many an order like that comes in over
the 'phone from old patrons who have full
faith in the integrity aud good judgement of
this store.
We'd rather have that feeling of confi
dence on the part of one thousand customers
than to have ten thousand customers enter
the store as they do most stores with the
uneasy feeling that they might get tricked
before they got out.
" What we say we do."
Good Oak
Harness Leather
measured by price never was and never can be
made cheap.
The cost of bark labor and time necessary to
properly tan and finish, forbids it.
Its value must be measured by the service ob
tained, and this is the poir-t at which all true
economy asserts itself.
"WHEN IN DOUBT, BUY OF PRICE!"
Items From the Wilkes Patriot.
The many friends of Mrs. Cathe
line Yauuoy gathered in one day
last week to celebrate with her
her Sl.r)th birthday. Many bask eta
full of choice and elegantly pre
pared food, and several useful re
meinbrances were brought in by
the neighbors and everone enjoyed
the day and the dinner to the full
est extent. Mrs. Yannoy is a very
active woman for her age. She en
joys splendid health, with all her
faculties practically unimpaired.
She can read her tine print Bible, a
constant companion of hers, with
out the aid of glasses. With those
friends who attended her birthday
party, we join in the wish that the
aged lady may live to enjoy many
other such pleasant occasions
The oldest house in this town, at
one time occupied by the late Col.
Calvin J. Cowles, has been torn
dow and moved away. It is Mrs.
Cowles intention to build a modern
home, next spring, upon the same
site, which is one of the most desir
able pieces of vacant property in
town.
Prof. Herman 8. Deal, who is in
charge of the school at Blowing
Rock, has secured the services of
Miss Ruth Reeves, of that place, as
assistant in the school.
Take care of your stomach. Let
Kodol digest all the food you eat, for
that is what Kodol does. Every table
spoonful of Kodol digests 2 pounds
of food. Try it today. It is guaran
teed to relieve you or your money
back. Sold by J. E. Shell, Lenoir
Drug Co. and Granite Falls Drug
Co.
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War Department Will Erect Monu
ment to Confederate Veterans.
Washington, Sept. 25 The war
department t day awarded to the
Van Am ridge Granite Company,
of Boston, a contract for the erec
tion of a monument at Finns Point
National Cemetery, Xew Jersey, to
the memory of the Confederate
prisoners of war who died at Fort
Delaware during the Civil War.
This action is taken following
the measure enacted by congress
several years ago, which authorized
the marking of the graves of Con
sederate prisoners who died ia
northern prisons. The shaft will
be of Pennsylvania marble, 82 feet
high, and will cost $8,500.
Mr. John P. Andrews was re
lieved of $160 in currency while
making a trip frcm Raleigh to Al
bemarle last week. He shared the
seat with another party, removed
his coat and took a nap. When he
awoke the man who occupied the
seat with him was gone and his
money also. This is a heavy loss
to Mr. Andrews who had saved op
the money to bear part of the ex
pense for a special course in phar
macy.
Why?
From a small beginning the sale
and use of Chamberlain's Cough Bern
edy has extended to all parts of the
United State aud to many foreign
countries. WhyT Beoanse it has
proved especially valuable for coughs
and colds. For sale by J. E. Shell,
Druggist, Dr. Kent, Druggist.