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THE POLK 6tiITI HEWS. CHARLIE H. WILLIAMS Publish. Entered at the Post flfiqe in Colimbus N- C. as second class matter. SUBSCRI PTION RATES : - One Year Six Month -5 Three Months 2 5 , Always in Advance. THURSDAY. MAR. 11 1909. BEAUTIFUL MEMORIALS. The Legislature has passtd a bill appropriating $2500 to sup plement the fund raised by the Daughters of the Confederacy to erect a monument in Capitel Square in Raleigh to Henry L. Wyatt of the famous Bethel regi ment, the first soldier of the Confedracy to give his life for Seuthern Independence. Monu ments have been erected to not ed generals and distinguished statesmen but seldom has the world seen a monument te a beardless private soldier. The monument to Watt will silently speak to the youth of narrow opportunities of the glory of dy ing fer one's country, and will be a commemoration ef of the countless unknown boys who freely gave up their young lives at the call of their State. Two years ago a statute of Worth Bagley, the "first fallen" in the war with Spain was un veiled in Capitol Square--a beau tiful memorial of a gallent young navaA officer, son of a Confeder ate soldier who died fighting un der the American flag. Next year in June, on the anniversary of his noble death, in the same Capitol Square, thousands of North Carolinians will come to Raleigh to the' unveiling of a statue of Henry L. Wyatt, who lost his life by a display of hero ism that wil) never be forgotten. The statue, of these two young men will teach a lesson to the youth of future generation that encourage lofty ideals and noble ambitions. News and Absrver 1 Stow at Lynn. The show at Lynn, Monday night, "A Trip to India,' seems to have met with the hearty ap proval of the theatre going people of Lynn, Columbus and Tryon. The show, a melodrama, had good music and plenty of wit and humor. "Shorty" looking for the stars carried the house by storm. The News cannot but see, that it would be a paying proposition. if shows would come to Lyfcn oftener. It is an every day occurrence to get notice at this office to addresses of our paper change from onepostoffice te another, which is easily done when the patrons jrive their old addresses, which we hope they will do here after when as king to change. Legal blanks lor sale at The News office. Church Directory. COLUMBUS, N. C. Baptist Rev. T. H. Posey pastor, Preaching 2nd. and 4th. Sundays at n a. 111 and o.; Sa turds y before 2nd. at 3 p. m SabUth School every .Sunday 10 a. in N. T. Mills, Sept. Presbyterian T. C. Croker, pastor. Preaching 3rd Sundays at 3 P-m Sunday School Every Sunday 10 a. ni. C C. Hampton, Supt. SECRET ORDER. Knights of Pythias J E. Shipman, C. C J. P. Arledge, K. of R. and S. Meets every Tues. night in Hall over P. O. BUSINESS. Livery Stable J. W Newman, Prop. Columbus, N. C. Lawyers J. E. Shipman and E. B. 1 Cloud. Polk County Telephone Co. J . G. Hughes Manager and Miss Katie Camp bell Ex. Operator Columbus, N. C Hotel -J. P. Arledge Prop. Columbus, N. C Railroad Station Try on, N. C. Private Boarding Mrs. C. C. Hampton T. E. Walker. Lumber Monufacturera Cloud & West Columbus N. C . 7 BLOCKADE STILL CAPTURED. Deputy Sberitl Walker Makes Raid Mon day Horning. Monday morning before day light deputy sheriff T. E. Walker captured a still near Columbus, on the waters of Horse Creek Sheriff Walker was unaided in making the capture. He had susp'c'oned the still in operation for a long time, but had not lo cated it. When Mr. Walker ar rived he found no one at the place, but the furnace was hot, a run having evidently been made shortly before he appeared on tr e scene. The still wa3 brought to Columbus and is to be cut up by the lawful officer. The last legislature passed c law giving to the captor of 8 still twenty-five dollars. SWAHMAYIS. Popular Couple Wed atLyni The writer was called to Lynn. N. C, on Wednesday of last week to officiate in the marriage of Oscar Stanley Swann to Mis Bonnie Laura Davis, both o Lynn. A jolly company of younj people gathered at the home o' the bride's parents where every thing in the way of joyousnesr was in evidence. Music, decora tions and a table filled with good things to eat were some of the pleasure making agents. At about half past three o'clock the nuptial knot was tied and two young livs were blended in to one. Both bride and groom are popular among: the people of the village and give promise of future success and happiness. The happy couple will ,mak their home for present with ; sister of the grocm, Mrs. W. C. Rhodes, widow of the late W. C Jihxlea of Lynn. Success t them in their new and sacrec relations. - T. C. Cm, Tbe Implement Co., RICHMOND, VA. It is very important both for. effective and economical work to procure tIbe best of rARM IN BESTS Our No -criptive Catalog just issued ail about tbe best time and Iabc .-saving machinery. It is one of the best and most in teresting Implement Catalogs is sued. 1 -ilea free on request. We are also headquarters for Farm V'agons, Buggies, Barb Wire. Fencing, V -Crimp and other Roof ing, Gasoline Engine;, Saw and Planing Mills. Write for prices and catalogs. The Implement Co., 1902 Main St., - Richmond, Va. LIST OF JURORS DRAWN. The following 'names ; wre drawn Monday as jurors for the Spring Term of the Superior Court, which begins April; 19ih. fi EIRST WEEK. J. B McCraw, J EL Peardh. Jas. A Pace, J B Bradley, JlPQ'al gambler. Kalakaua. was Kin? iiern, J A Blackwell, J. H keipf - ler, II L McDowell, J E Walker. i G A BransCOn, B E Hinesdafc, Z B Nance, C L Burnes, G f Denton, J H Davidson, N jC Davis, W R Prince, A J Cu breth, D D Pace, J M Hender son, J u Carpenter, C C Con stant, R L Bryant, J M Bryant. Jonathan Pack- R 0 CovingtorL W T Brown, J T Waldrop, Ed gar McCrain, Jno. McMurray, R E Liles, W E Strong, J M Mil ler, M C Johnson, Taylor Whit. sides, J B Page. SECOND WEeK. M A Pace, M W Bradley, f ; PCantrell, J B Jackson, J 1 Jackson, V W Green, M N Bar nett, D D Kerr, Marcus Black - 1 wood, J B ILivingston, Beltonl Jackson, C K Kimbell, Cesoij Martin, G H Bradley, L G Fea-I gans, J P Dimesdale, W B Fea-i gans, J H Johnson. Dwellisi Earned in Tryen Monday. Last Saturday aiternoon about 5:30 a dwelling house owned by Mr. Broadus Ballenger near the cemetery in Tryon was destroy ed by fire. . A defective stove flue was the cause of tho fire. The house burned very quickly and almost all of the house ho id goods of Mr. Barnard who was living in the house were lost. The was some insurance on the house but the amount wild no tbe ascertained by the News. An Odorless Disinfectant If one objects te tbe odor of carbolic acid, he may use for the plumbing a 'a odorless disinfectant prepared as; lows: Dissolve half a pound of per manganate of potash In four gallons of water and pour this carefully down the pipes. This solution. If allowed to stand In bowls or basins, will stain them purple. The stains may be re moved with a weak solution of oxalic acid. The acid must be rinsed off im mediately after It has been used. A Hindrance. Suburbanite You are half an hour late this morning. Letter Carrier Yes. ma'am. The sections of stovepipe I have to wear Inside my trousers legs on account of the dogs you keep along this street hamper my movements, ma'am." Chicago Tribune. Why She Held on to It. Mrs. Willful My husband told me If I didn't like the brooch you'd exchange it for me. Jeweler Certainly, madam. I'll be only too glad, as four different ladles of your set, wai:t it ! Rare Indeed. How rarely do these three things meet a man who wants something, is fitted for it and any great number of persons who think he ought to have it! Exchange. Crushed, Rtonebroke Do you think your fa ther would object to my marrying you? Heirpss I don't know. If he's anything like me be would. Parents and turkeys are always treated weU before Christmas. Atchi son Globe. Attorney.at-Law, Columbus, - - A, C. E- B. CLOUD Attorney At Li COI.UM8U3, K. c. HOLLISTPR et Haimt&n Tti (Surra! I t a Huith and Renewed Vigor. ?r,ff iQr ' ormUvMon. Tnd1rtloR. Liver -r breebMS. M .;.!. iStscs. impure VtciTs. v.Kfvinh Tio-. Heue'Vi. rM. tece is. G rin mtjc ' ' rBW COMPACT. MAilM,. W 1 ' It V'as Tkn-lfic Test of Enduranee. and th Sturdy Hawaiian Native Won Easily, Though Two of the Competing Horses Dropped Dead. "Did any of you etfer bear of a thirty five mile steeplechase for man -iiml boast?" inquired a California man In 1 a party orhirf followers when mm moor hats !M1 IlKlff shotS Were tTO ing around. "Well, there was an affair of that liind down in the Hawaiian bunch l the fall of 1KS3. whyjr that j phone8 joining the islands then, and 8tate an( were tied by the Interisland steamers nn? I delivered by Kanaka runners. .The runners cooia ganop an u.v, imr. American Indians In retreat or on the trail, and they didn't know what get ting wluded or tired meant. "Kalaktiua thought a good deal of these runners of his. He maintained that they could go faster and farthei tiian horses over the Hawaiian conn, try. In this he was disputed by a nam ber of the white attaches of his eonrt Kalakaua wagered $5,000 in gobs of $1,000 with five of them that he would pick out a runner from among the Ka nakas who'd get from Hilo to the tot) of the burning lake Of Kilauea. a dis tance of thlrty-flve miles, quicker than any horse and any rider could do the trip. They snapped the king up at even money. It looked as If they had the good end of It The king and a bijr party from Honolulu sailed ro one ot the Interisland steamers to Hilo. on the main Island of Hawaii, to see thf finish. "The king picked up a huge, lithe, sinewy Kanaka, a man about thirty years old, who had been employed ah a runner on the Island of Maui for a number of years, to try the trick for. him. Eight Kanakas made the start a-horaeback, on native ponies, bred away back from western cayuses -strong, sure footed, nippy tempered little demons, thoroughly used to th bad roads and the climbing. jhe kinp and his party had gone up to The Vol cano House, at the top of Kilauea. in coaches the day before to be on band to greet the winner. "Now. I understand that that road from Hilo up to the burning lake ot Kilauea has been improved since th time I'm speaking of, but it surely was a bad trail then- It was only wide enough for one wagon, and it was a forty-five degree affair in the climb all the way up. The palms that lined the road used to get blown across the trail by the score In big windstorms, and the coach drivers counted It a part tt their business to jump from their ents every time they came to these t obstructions and shoulder them out of iNie way This work bad all been at en ted to carefully, however, in ad 's wince of the race bv order of Kala- jt-tnnn. and it looked like a pipe for the ayuses. all of which had made the "un up many a time. I "Kalakaua didn't ask for any handi cap allowance for his man The nm jher toed the scratch with the horses. iud they jrot off together at the crack, hf tMe gun The horses distanced the frnnner from the jump, and he let them Instance him. He was dressed In a J string, and he jnst took up a steady sope and let the cay uses get out of his light For ten miles tin cayuses were in far alH)ve him on the trail that be Wouldn't even see them, but this Kana ka knew how to wait I "The horses lgan to come back to he runner long before the Halfway flouse was reached, and the Kanaka ias just Hoping along at the begin ning of the third hour, with the same ttfg stride he had started in with, his tas up and shoothig otit in front of tBOl like soldiers on the double time dVlH There wasn't a pant fa him when he fetched up at the Halfway lions He stooped down there to a spring beside tbe road and took a eou p of mouthfuls of water. The ay ues were up ahead a bit. blowing their binds oft', for they had been going at a cip that they hal never been pushed tq before. i"The Kanaka headed the bunch a mjlie beyond the Halfway Honse. and tti was a big romp for nim the rest of tHje distance. lie took a positlou for thje remaining seventeen miles of the jofurney about a city block ahead of the writhing and panting horses, and he juk stuck to bis lope like a' man wound up He never let em get nearer than a plock to him for the remaining three hours of the trip, looking back :it them. wth a grin, once in awhile. When onlv three miles yet remained before the V'qtcattO House was to be reached, the Kanaka took-another drink out of a spring aud began to draw away. The Kanaka riders whipped ;nd spurred their horses, but it was no ood The Kanaka runner disappeared out of ttufir sight on the tortuous trail, and whjen six of the cayuses nulled up at tht hotel veranda aliont three-quarters of jan honr later the runner was sit- tinr on the steps, fanning himself aad dripkinjr saki Two of the horses had dropped dead In their Una I effort. fhe Kanaka made the tliirtv-flre . . ... . iniip trip over sticks ann stones on a miify roal ip hours and 40 minutes, und he looked lit to run for his lite wbn he got through." Washiugtou Posf T say "every one is talking about bimf" is a eulogy, but to say "every one J aalkiusr about her" is an elegy. nouymoiis. I 3 Mucin AM ramie te moror leas dra.nfic, and so the. march of rrRurlf is toward hf !hnater. Tbe times of morp enjoy nont of tone combinatiou are past -!err Xlktsch. ! 1 : Tt .. h-iorhm more frightful than Bank OapltAl Surplus and Undivided Frofit Oo OFFICEBS JOSEPH NORWOOD, Pres A. E. E. MISSILDINE, Vit-Preg. J. B. HESTER, Cashier. JOSEPH NORWOOD D. E. CONNER, T. G. HUGHES F. P BACON J. B. E. E. J. O. B. L. Your Business Ts Solicited, Cloud & West DEALERS IH ROUGH AND DRESSED LUMBERS, SHINGLES AND LATHS orders Pilled onshor INU I E. Glumbus. Carolina State Bank SALUDA, N. 0. l enereal Bank ing Busln Transactdd. D. C. BARROW, President. H. b. DANID C. S. D. STA ROW, H- Exchange bought and sold on the leading com mercial centers of the world. Accounts of iarmers, merchants, and individuals solicited upon favorable terms. We have ample funds to loan to our customers, and invite you to call upon us. 4- per cent Interest Paid on Time DEPOSITS. 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I have used a number of them and found them to be as recommended and to give better results than any other fertilizers that I have ever used." Every planter and farmer should have a copy of tbe new looo V irginia-Carolina Farmers' Ycar-Book. Get a free copy from your fertilizer dealer, or write our nearest sales office. v Virginia- Carolina Chemical Co. Sales Offices Richmond. Va. Norfolk, Va. Columbia, S. C. Atlanta, Ga. Savannah, Ga. Memphis, Tenn. 11 1 tin 51 iimiliiitii1 C S tblH3 8 SoS fo fog 3fc I I 1 in ijis ipil K ":bMs 51(3 of Tryar $IO.OOO T. T. BALLENGKR, Vi.h- 'XT XT' it: T HESTER, MJSSTLIHNE, VvJLSON, BALLENGER. T. T. BALI.ENGIR F. C WILCOX, W. C. ROBERTSON L ! North Carolina; Q. C. SONNER. VictfreWet. LANE, Cashier. DIRECiORS. o: C. SONNER W. C ROBERTSON B. LANE. Sales Ofices Durham, N. C'. Charleston, S. C. Baltimore, Md. Columbus. Ga. M on t wmery , Ala. Shreveport, La. sea
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