Thursday, October 31, 1907.
THE RALEIGH ENTERPRISE.
STATE NEWS.
Funds are being raised to erect a
Confederate monument at Jefferson,
Ashe County.
The copper mines at Gold Hill,
Rowan County, have closed down on
account of a drop in the price of
copper.
The Charlotte Obe3rver says that
many Mecklenburg cotton ginners
are going out of business because
there is nothing to be made ginning
cotton. -
State Senator J. C. Buxton, of
Winston, has formally announced his
candidacy for the Democratic con
gressional nomination in the Fifth
district.
The Asheville Citizen is informed
and believes that President Roose
velt is coming to the Toxaway Coun
ty soon to hunt b'ar. Maybe he will
some time.
Dr. J. L. Beam, a physician of
Crouse, Lincoln County, died Friday
after an illness of several weeks of
typhoid-pneumonia. He was thirty
nine years old.
Edward Rountree was hunting
with a party of friends in Perquim
ans County a few days ago when he
was mistaken for a bear by one of
the party and killed.
Walter Gray was cleaning a well
in Warren County when a bucket of
water fell on him from the top of
the well and he was knocked into
the water and drowned. '
Christian Reid, whose real name
is Frances Fisher Tierman, of Salis
bury, and who comes from the
South,' has written a new story,
which will be published under the
title of "Princess Nadine."
Haywood Paylor, colored, was suf
focated by foul air while cleaning a
well at the home of Wm. Daniel, in
Orange County, a few days ago. His
body was not recovered from the
well for two hours and he was then
dead.
S. W. Clark, now employed by the
Atlantic Coast Line railway at Wel
don, has invented a device for rail
road switches which he claims will
lessen the wrecks due to open
switches and decrease the loss of
life attributed to this cause.
N. L. Gaston woke up at his
home in Salisbury Saturday morning
at 3 o'clock and found the furnish
ings of the room on fire and his
feet severely burned. The house and
f urniure were considerably damaged
before the flames could be extin
guished. '
J. F. Ordwell, one of the Smith
town fellows arrested for illicit dis
tilling, was acquitted of the charge
in the Federal Court at Greensboro,
but in his zeal he swore a lie, and
last week he was convicted of per
jury and sentenced to two years in
the penitentiary.
The damage suit insituted at Dur
ham by R. D. Horner against T.
Edgar Cheek has been settled by
nnmnrnmleo and thn tprms havfl not.
been made public. An automobile
driven by Cheek ran over and killed
a child of Horner and the latter
brought suit for damages.
Within a few days the Southern
Railway Company will open a mam
moth transfer shed, the largest in
the world, at Spencer, with five
miles of trackage and other facilities
for handling 500 cars of freight per
day. The sheds are being removed
from Salisbury to Spencer as a mat
ter of economy to the Southern.
One Moore, white, a desperado
and illicit liquor dealer, died a few
days ago while serving a term on the
Wilson County chaingang, for illicit
distilling. He had been feeble for
some time. Moore was charged with
killing his son and was to have been
A. special cattle train of thirteen
cars was derailed near Canton, Hay
wood County, Monday morning.
Two hundred . Haywood beef cattle
had been loaded for transportation
to the markets, and a mile from the
station the cars were derailed, some
of the cattle were killed and many
injured. .
Ed. Whitsett, colored, attempted
to criminally assault Miss Edna
Johnston, eighteen years old, in the
yard of her home, at Reidsville
early Monday morning. He was
frightened away by the young wo
man's screams. Whitsett was ar
rested and taken to Greensboro jail
as a matter of precaution.
Four negro men have been arrest
ed and jailed at Whiteville, Colum
bus County, charged with burning
the residence of Mr. John H. Land,
agent of the Coast Line Railroad at
Chadbourn. The family had a nar
row escape from burning to death,
as the window panes were cracking
out from the heat when the fire was
discovered.
At Graham the other day a bull
dog went into the yard of Mr. Love
and attacked a small dog. Miss
Viola attempted to beat the bull off
with a club and when this means
proved ineffectual the young lady
got a shotgun, put the muzzle
against the dog's head and pulled
the trigger, and that was the last
of the bull dog. Glory to Miss Viola!
It is stated that the town marshal
at Hildebrand, a small town west of
Hickory, has been active in sup
pressing illicit traffic in whiskey. A
few days ago-while the marshal and
his wife were away from home a
piece of dynamite was exploded under
the house, knocking off some of the
weatherboar ding and shocking two
small children who were at home
alone.
"Meet trials with smiles and they
. vanish:
Face cares with a song and they
flee."
Doing Business Again.
"When my friends thought I was
about to take leave of this world, on
account of indigestion, nervousness
and general debility," writes A. A.
Chisholm, Treadwell, N. Y., "and
when it looked as if there was no
hope left, I was persuaded to try
Electric Bitters, and I rejoice to say
that they are curing me. I am now
doing business again as of old, and
am still gaining daily." Best tonic
medicine on earth. Guaranteed by
all druggists. 50c.
Mortgage Sales.
By authority given to me under
and by virtue of a deed of mortgage
executed by P. C. Moring and M. F.
Moring and wife Etta Moring of
Wake County, and W. A. Moring and
wife Ida Moring, of Durham County,
North Carolina, and duly registered
in Book 689, Register of Deeds office
for Wake County, North Carolina, I
will on Monday, the 2nd day of De
cember 1907, at 12 o'clock, noon, at
the Court House door in the city of
Raleigh, N. C, sell at public auction,
to the highest bidder for cash, the
following described piece or tract of
land lying and being in the county
of Wake, State of North Carolina,
and in Cedar Fork township, and
described, and defined in said mort
gage as follows: Adjoining the lands
of P. C. Moring on the north, John
Moring on the East, the Misses Fan
nie Lowe, Sis Lowe, Emily Lowe on
the west, and containing; 104 acres
more or less.
This sale is of an undivided one
half interest in the said 104-acre
tract of land owned by the mort
gagors as tenants in common, and
Raleigh Gleaning House
Near Corner of Wilmington and
Hargrett SUM Second Floor.
Clothes pressed and cleaned in best of
style. Prices reasonable. "If work is
satisfactory tell others, if not tell us."
WESLEY GORHAM, Prop.
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Write for Special Price List
I and Descriptive Booklet.
CHAS. M. STIEFF,
66 GRANBY STREET,
NORFOLK, VA.
GEO. S. NUSSEAR, Mgr.
The Fall Stock is Complete
BEST SHOE STOCK IN THE CITY.
Toadies' Shoes . . -....... .
Gentlemen's Dress Shoes.
Workingmen's Shoes
Children's Shoes from....
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50 cents to $2.00
Ladies' Long Coats, $3.75 to $8.50
Ladies' Skirts from $2.00 to $6.00
They are Spendldlj Made and Fit Well.
Handsome Dress Goods in all the Leading Colors, 25c, 50c, 75c, $1.50
Varied lines of Ready-to-Wear and Trimmed Hats, from $1.00 to $7.00
Any and every kind of Dry Goods and
everything1 is new.
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Exposition Visitors
Can get good accomodations in rooms at 50c. and $1.00
per night. Meals at Restaurants, 25c. to 50c. at New
port News, one-third nearer Exposition than Norfolk.
S. Otho Wilson, 327 34th Street, Newport News, can
accommodate 40 to 60 people. Write him stating time
you will go and secure your rooms.
conveyed to me by said mortgage.
This 25th day of October, 1907.
S. ,P MORING,
Mortgagee.
tried for that when his term ex
pired.