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.-t 'r ' KM tmtan pIy, VOLUME 1. THOMASVILLE, N. C, FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 1910. J ; NUMBER 10 City Fathers Stand Pat Quite A Stroll, This. B. F. Pierce Walks from Atlanta to New Yorh How-Long Do They Hold Office.? STATE NEWS. '$ -i-i Dog Uw Rrsvldod. But Hit Wrath to At their regular meeting: last Mon day night the Town Council got through a mass, of work that ap peared truly appalling at a first glance. The first matter that claim ed their attention after the reading of the minutes waa the presentation of several amall bills by Sec. Rag an. These all having received the official O. K. the matter of the re . cent election of four school com mitteemen was brought up. It will be remembered that a rumor spread over tow, and was printed in The Davidbonian to the effect that there were only two vacancies to be filled, leaving two of the newly-elected gentlemen out in the cold. As the Commissioners rather resent the imputation that they didn't know what they were about, it is only fait to state that The Davidsonian got its information from the Secretary of the Board and it was substan tially his statement that was pub lished. According to Mayor Myers the case stands as follows: Prof. Hauss, principal of the school, is responsible for the statement that the school's charter provides for a board composed as follows: There shall be one member elected for six years, two for four and two for six. Mr. Myers has not seen the charter but it was upon this information that the Board acted. In 1901 Mr. F. S. Lambeth, was elected for the 6-year term, Messrs. A. Johnson and W. C. Harris for four years each, and Messrs. Peter Cates and D. C. Moffit for two years each. In 1906 the Commisioners, presumably ignorant of the terms of the charter, reelected Messrs. Johnson and Har ris for six years each, which was over-stepping their authority in the opinion of the present board. In their recent action this board under- - took to witty the miBtake jnade in 1906 or some of them 'did, 'for it ' is evident they didn't all know what they were about, since, when the uproar arose, at least one of them was as badly befogged as the gen eral public. The matter of providing a clear, concise ordinance for the abate ment of the dog nuisance then came up. The present laws are so com plicated, contradictory, and messed ap generally that mortal men can not enforce them. Two members ' of the board . were appointed special committee to write a proper dog-ordinance, and report Friday night, but at the earnest solicits' tion of the gentlemen themselves their names are , withheld. , This waa the regular time for le- , vying taxes. On account of the ex tra expenses occasioned by the out break of smallpox last spring the town is somewhat to the bad finan cially and an increase in the tax rate was considered. After going carefully over all the arguments, however, the board decided that it would be possible to make ends meet at the present rate 80 cents so that amount was levied. Several minor matters were dis posed of and a motion had been made to adjourn when Capt W. O. Burgin, who had just come in, re quested its withdrawal a.s he wish ed to address the board on a matter ' of importance. . Permission was given him to speak and he proceed ed to expatiate oil the : injustice of taxing ruinously the poor man's amusements. He made V an elo quent plea for the young men who have nowhere to go o' nights but the drug-stores and the curb-atones; nothing to do but rfc moke cigarette and yawn; and he closed up by explaining; th6 7 occasio n of his visit which" wa that he and his companion, Mr. Ed Pepper, contemplated starting" a bowling, or ten-pin alley, not for the, gathering of filthy lucre, but solely from : philanthropic, motives, but the excessively high tax of $90 de terred them, and he moat respect fully requested the board- to lower aid tax. He very nerously offer ed the i board until . Friday 'night to think it over, so that ThomasvUle's dogs and her young men 'raifeht be attended to together; . The!. board promised to take the matter under consideration. But informed the en thusiast that tetax.on,,bjiwjlBgal; leys is not fifty sbut twenty, dollars by which information his eloquence was suddenly squfticnea f - There beingfno further bueim the board adjourned. t Oi Mud Boars' Matter. Cpt Burfta kWMMd. Phone Matter Postponed Again. Thai Tims it the Request of the Bel People. Mr. Spear desires further kistructtont- At a special meeting of the board of Aldermen Saturday night the question of granting a franchise to to the Southern Bell Telephone Co., was taken up. Alderman Connelle offered an ordinance allowing the Bell to set up and operate ten booths in the town of Thomasville, and Alderman Green moved that it be passed, but at the request of the Bell's representative, Mr. Speer, action on the matter was deferred. The meeting was enlivened by several more or less sharp tilts be tween Mr. Speer and Hon. W. C. HammVr who presented the case of the local company. Tke reason of the unexpected withdrawal of (he Bell is alleged to be a doubt as to the validity of a franchise granted six years ago and later repealed. Mr. Speer claimed that as the Hell accepted the franchise in good faith the repeal was null and void. Mew era Hammer and B. W. Parhani, counsel for the local company, in. sisted that as no work had been done under the old franchise and the conditions of a restricted fran chise granted later had been ful filled it amounted to a tacit acquies cence in the repeal of the old fran chise and acceptance of the new one.. Mr. Speer stated that this is a legal question and as he is ,not a lawyer, declined to pass upon it and asked for time to receive further in structions from his company. Mr, Hammer then addressed the board upon the subject of a new franchise. He claimed that it is useless, and therefore foolish, to have two tele. phone systems in a town of this B'ze. He pointed out that if the lo cal company is not giving satis factory service they can be com pelled to do so by the Corporation Commission. He called attention to the fact that the railroad law does not apply to telephone companies! and therefore they can if they wish grant special rates and favors. He argued that it is dangerous to turn loose a corporation the size of the Bell Telephone Co., when there is no law to prevent their cutting the throat of the local corporation. "I am going to say something that may hurt Mr. S peer's feelings" he exclaimed "I have heard you say so many things," interposed Mr. Speer, "that I am getting used to it" but they come here to ruin Mr. Hayden, to kill the local company, and gain control. of the telephone business in the town." Mr. Connelle then offered the or dinance mentioned above, but at the request of Mr. Speer action was deferred until the next regular meeting of the board. The last tilt of the evening came after this matter had been settled. I want to make a speech, Mr. Mayor and gentlemen," began Mr. Speer, ("Go ahead sir," said Mayor Myers) "on Mr. Hammer e intimate knowledge of the Southern Bell Tele phone Co. He has told us so much "I haven't told you -anything yet, to what I will tell you," broke in Mr. Hammer. Mr. Speer waited a moment until the laughter raised by this sally had ceased and then finished his sentence "but I'll put it off. Good night gentlemen." Then it was discovered that the Board had never met at all so no motion was necessary for adjourn. ment, and the much-anticipated telephone fight had ended in a fas- sle. : The situation in Texas and Okla homa is fast becoming serious. Tern, peratures were; very high at most times, which makes the lack of mois ture more acute. - A good rain im mediately would help the crop won derfully. 1 The fields east of the Mis sissippi fiver are now nearly clean and the cotton will be "laid by" in fairly good state " of cultivation. The plant is generally small and la now beginning-to bloom freely and make bolls. It will be cultivat ed much later than usual and if the frost date is long delayed and the f August ard September moisture supply w atrfneient to enable the setting of bolls there is yet hope for a good crbp.'' Without a late au tumn reports indicate a very., mod erate out run in the valley and At- latte $tates.tf; jrs raw? :. jVrCarrrwffl del.ver'the address fct the, unveiling of the Con. fedeWamOnameu4 in MorraDton. thei event to taker place the Jatter part of this month. .JV.vR -' I Mr. B. F. Pierce, a long distance walker who recently walked from Atlanta to New York on the Nation al Highway was in town over Sun day on his way back to his starting point. He left Atlanta May 18th last and arrived in New York July 5th. After a two days' rest he left New York on the return trip July 7th and is due in Atlanta Sept 1st On this trip he followed the High. wav as far as Philadelphia, then walked the Baltimore Pike to Wash ington, and there took to the rail road track which he has followed since. To prove his record he gets a post-mark at every town. Mr. Pierce, who has a wife and several children, is not doing this for his health; he gets $000 if he reaches Atlanta by September let. He is twelve days ahead of his schedule now so he is not troubled by the time limit. He is a young man twenty-seven years old and weighs only 1 pounds. His best record for one day is thirty-eight miles, his worst twenty-five, which is walk ing some! A Men's Gathering. On last Friday evening, July 29th, in the lecture room of Heidelberg Reformed church, the young men composing the. usher's association, entertained about sixty men, who are mends ana memDers ot tne congregation. There had been plain but palatable Menu of club sandwiches, pickles, cream, and cake prepared, which was served in a most tasteful manner by Messrs Lindsey Clark, Paul Hoover, and Sanford Long, assisted by Mesdames Will and Luther Long. After the men had partaken of the luncheon there was a programme rendered, of which, one of the most enjoyable features was three numbers by male quartette, composed of Messrs. GreenTThxnnaBS.and-H r Marpbyf and in response to the call of the toast master, "pastor Woods and Mr Luther Long responded to the toast, "what of the future" and Mr. Olaf Myers to the toast, "an usher's lation to the life of tne church." After which, Hon. C. C. Barnhart, of High Point, was introduced and in a masterful way spoke to the men, on the subject, "Man's natu ral inclination toward the good." The evening as a wnole was a success in every way, and is but a proof that our men, if given an op portunity, can and will find pleas ure in the "Sdcial Christian life." Jndgsment Suspended in Black's Case. Mr. Flavius Black was arraigned in the Mayor's court Monday night to answer to the charge of reckless driving and disorderly conduct in the streets Saturday night Tw i po licemen testified that Black passed them the night in question, at a gallop, yelling at the top of his voice; Mr. L. A. Martin, counsel for the defendant, introduced four witnesses who swore that Black passed them at about the same hour, going, at a reasonable pace and not raising any disturbance of any kind. In view of the contra dictory nature of the evidence, and for other reasons, Mayor Myers suspended judgement in the case and discharged the prisoner. Resolution of Sympathy. Whereas we learn that Our belov Brother Jno. W. Lambeth has bu ried his son Sumner," aged seven teen years; Resolved, That in' High Point Lodge No. 1155 Benevolent Protect ive Order of Elks being in regular service do hereby tender our broth, er our most sincere sympathy and ask him in this dark nouroi bereave ment to remember our love fur him, and the love of the Great Ruler of the universe for us all, and may this be a healing -balm to his wounded heart is the prayer of all the members of this lodge. ' -.', Little Ski AttacVsd By VuMog. Tune 2?. May. a small child of Mr. (X T, Badhatn, of Newborn, was attack ed by a saynge bulldog, the property orjnr.-ueorge iciaaie, a metnoer or the Second Regiment band of .Ral eigh, which has been playing in that city this week, and before the animal could be beaten off he had severely bitten the little girl on heri shoulders."' Mr. Bradham atj once had the dog killed and its head I shipped to the State laboratory of, hygeWl The little. lnflr well at a late nour tomrai.-" . CharJptte Obmrrtp-i,!-,? li-?' ay Man Who Wrote Tho School Char Couldn't Intarprat It Hbnsslf. Aa ie whole nuestinn Mnnrinv night,jof the legality of the recent eleetioj) of school committeemen turned upon the terms of th8c$ool Charter, and as nobody but Mayor Myers seemed to know anythiig about the charter, and he only bf hearsay, a representative of THETDavidsonian went to Prof. Hattse&'uesday morning and asked for-a jklimpse of the mysterious document This is what he found: V.iSe 8. The Board of Com najsju'oners of said town may . appoint a Graded School Com- J.mifjffe of Bre members, to sertifHS follows: one member Bh&ll serre for six years, two members shall serve for four year, and tiro members slmll serre for tiro years, and until their successors are atjiointed and tjiiuliSt d. Thisfprovides clearly and unmis takabli for the first election. The question if, was it intended to be followed in other elections? It would hardly seem so, for it says clearlyjthat lire members shall be elected) which-is manifestly impos sible because there will not be five vacancies until after twelve years. But there will be five then, and every jtwelve years a brand-new board must be elected. The most plausible explanation seems to us to be ttat the'framers of the charter wished to make the School Board a comparatively stable institution, and intended to so arrange it that two terins should expire every two years, flats providing against radi cal changes in the personnel of the board, i Their fatal mistake was their failure to expressly state that when a member was re-elected he should: serve six years. The Town Council of 1905 evidently interpret ed the" charter as indicated above for thfci tsaslected Messrs. Johnson and Harris, who were elected fori four years in 1901, for terms of 6 years, wnicn would put them out in 1911.- But the present board inter pret the charter literally and claim that the election of 1905 was illegal as the two gentlemen named were four-year men, and therefore could not be elected for longer than that time; therefore their terms must have run out in 1909, so they went ahead with the election. Altogether it is a pretty complicated affair, de pending entirely upon the interpre tation of the terms of the charter. The Board of 1905 interpreted it one way, the Board of 1910 another. You can pay your money and take your choice. Republican County Convention. By a resolution of the Republi can County Executive Committee a Convention of the Republicans of Davidson County will be held in the Courthouse at Lexington on Saturday, Aug 6th, 1910 at 11 oclock A. M. for the purpose of nominat ing candidates for the County and Legislative Offices. Also for the purpose of electing delegates to the State,. Congressional, Judicial, and Senatorial Conventions to be held later. - The Republican voters of the various precincts will meet at the . accustomed . places unless otherwise directed by the Precinct Executive Committee, on Saturday July 30th; 1910 at one oclock P. M Each .'Township shall select one delegate for every twenty-five Re publican Votes or fractional part thereof cast in the Precinct at the previous election for the Republi can Candidate for Governor. At the same time they will elect their Precinct Executive Committee of three; and report the same to the County Convention. Dated This July 14th, 1910. ' J. R. McCkary, Chairman, -1, Republican County Ex. Com, J. H. AtKXANDKR, Secretary. jl23 3f The. executive committee of the North Corolina College of Agricul ture end Mechanic Arts in Joiv t Raleigh, elected M. K. Sherwin assistant professor of soil, a new department of - which' Professor Sherwin will be the active head: for the'next year or two anyway aa no professor for1 this chair is to be chosen -at present. He is a gradu- ate of the ' University of Missouri d t7 , .f , cnllfornlnland i wwmv.,, v. each, in' these' institutions, u Uajyertl In the Firemen's Tournament at Newbern last week two world's rec ords were broken; Spencer lowered the grab reel record to 17 seconds and Salisbury Southside, the hand reel 150 yard dash to 23 1:2 seconds. Rattlesnakes are becoming num erous and "sassy" in the moun tains since The Remedy has become so "scace." The Asheville Citizen tell of the killing" of four rattlers in Buncombe county last week. .Mrs. Marion B. Jenmngfc com mitted suicide at her home in Spar tanburg, S. C. Thursday morning, by shooting herself. Ill health and desponency the cause. She belong. ed to a family of prominence. Her husband and children survive, W. W. Lee, a cotton mill employee at Monroe, was killed by a Sea board train Thursday eveneng. He had gone across the trwck from his home to feed his hogs and was re turning when the train struck him. He was 4ti years old and leaves a wife and three children. The Winston Republican reports that L. T- Reid, of Forsyth county threshed 181 bushels of oats from four acres, an average oi 45 1-4 bushels per acre; and that M. M. Angell, of Booneville, Yadkin coun ty, gathered 175 bushels of potatoes from three eighths of an acre. Tne Postmaster General has granted leave of absence, not ex ceeding five days, to all post masters in North Carolina of the third and fourth classes, to enable them to attend the meeting of the North Carolina State League of Postmasters to be held at Winston Salem September 23 and 24. Tommy Hughes, a 14- year- old white boy sank in a lake at Kanna-pc'- Friday, while swimming With a number of companions. Twenty minutes later his body was dragged out but he could not be resusticated. The doctors are in doubt as to whe ther he drowned or was seized with a sudden attack ei heart failure- At its annual meeting each year the North Carolina Society of the Sons of the Revolution has the cus torn of presenting to tne state an oil portrait of some prominent cit izen of the Revolution period. At the meeting this year November 13, the society will present a por trait of Gov. William R. Davie. John Holmes, a clerk in the Sea board rail way freight station at Wil mington, has sued Dr. L. H. Love, a physician ot Monterey, CaL, tor $20,000, alleging that Dr. Love set his right shoulder improperly ten years ago, and so incapacitated him for the performance of his duties as a freight conductor. Sam Jones, a farmer of HendersdK county, was struck by lightening last Tuesday and instantly killed He was ploughing with his mule on his farm in Blue Ridge townsnip, when a severe eletrical storm came up. Taking refuge beneath a tree from the storm, he and .the mule were struck and both killed. De ceased was about 33 years old and unmarried. Frank Elliott, the young son of Mr. H. F. Elliott, of Hickory, lost the sight of his left eye while at tending, a moonlight picnic of the Methodist church Baraca class last Tuesday night Some of the boys lured him off " snipe hunting" and in the dark he tumbled into a ditch, striking his face against a piece of barb-wire fencing. A piece of the wire pierced his eye. The same paper (Saturday's) car ried last week the story of the burning of the Carolina and North Western's railroad shops, at Chest er, S. C. ; and an announcement that Hickory, N. C. is takinkr steps to induce the railroad to repuild in that town. Fire was discovered in the shops about 4:(i A. M. Friday, and though the firemen were on the scene in a few minutes the con flagration had gained such head way that it was impossible to stop it, and the shops were totally de stroyed, entailing a lose of $79,000 about one fourth covered by insur ance. When the news reached Hickory, the tnnyor of that enter. prising town instantly sent a tele gram of sympathy to the general manager of the road, and called the board of directors of the Chamber of Commerce together. .The-,. Board appointed a committee,, wlio were directed to move heaven and ''earth io gei me new Biiups jutmcu u Hickory.1 NEWS OF THE WEEK. The cotton crop deteriorated dur ing the week in Texas and Oklahoma by reason of drought, but improved elsewhere on an absence of rain. A negro meeting in Clinton, South Carolina, Sunday, turned intoa ser ious cutting affray in which one negro was almost turned into mince meat President Taft has announced that on account of the pressure of public business, his public speeches hereafter "will be few and far between." A dispatch from Columbia, print ed in Tuesday's CharoJotte Observ er announces that the people of South Carolina are rapidly becom ing disgusted with the bitter campaign now being carried on in that State. A dispatch from Louisville unys rains have fallen in that Mection of Kentucky nearly every day lor live weeks and that damage to crops iind to railroad tracks is estimated to be in the millions. Fire broke out in Rock Hill, Sun day niyht, anions some tenant houses, and for a short time threat ened the destruction of a connider- ablelsection of the city but w;ih final ly gotten under control after three houses had been destroyed. John G. Carlisle, of Kentucky, for mer Secretary ot the Treasury un der President Cleveland died in New York Sunday night. Mr. Carlisle re cently obtained a bad eminence in North Carolina on account oi his connection with Marion Butler and his bond holders. By a viva voce vote the lower house of the Texas Legislatu re has passed a bill prohibiting the exhibi tion of moving pictures of the Jeffries-Johnson fight in that 'State. An amendment prohibiting pictures showing train robberies and those of similar nature was adopted. Henry Krintz and Mrs. Elizabeth -lEuchs, who live otklpja , J1L, were married a -few days ago, ,' the special interest in the marriage be ing that the bride is the mother of Krintz's former wife, whom he di vorced. The man is 75 and the wo man 60. Hawley H. Crippen, an American dentist who is accused of having murderedjhis wife in I-oodon was ar rested as bis steamer, op which be had fled from England, was entering the St Lawrence River. Hietynist, Miss Ethel Leneve, was- arrested with him and the pair will be taken back to England for trial. For some unknown cause a furi ous race war broke out in Ander son county, Texas, and raged Satur day and Sunday. Three while men and fifteen or twenty negroes were killed. The State Guaid was called out Sunday and the disorder was suppressed. Eight white men have been arrested charged with murder in the first degree. Fire of an unkown origin Thurs day morning at 3 o'clock destroyed the engine room, machine shop, car shop and store room of the Carolina and Northwestern railway ar-Clies-ter, S. C. A passenger coach and two locomotives were badly damag ed. The loss is estimated at $100,000, partially covered by insurance. Minnesota Democratic convention, in session at Minneapolis Thursday, nominated John Lind for Governor. All the delegates were for 1-ind, but as he said he would not accept the nomination some of them wanted to regard his wishes and there .was much contention over this point; al so s dispnte as to a local option plank in the platform. Independent delegates to the aum- ber of 170, representing 5J coemtfes in Pennsylvania, met in Philedelpka last week and nominated a State ticket headed by W. H. Berry for Governor. Berry was fol iueiiyXu te Treasurer, to which office he was elected by the combined Democratic, prohibition and independent Lvotes . in the political upheaval of1008. While in office he uncovered, the State capital scandal."" . Jack Johnson, the negro pugilist, owns an automobile which, he makes a habit of driving at a high rate of speed and he has . been .frequently arrested for violating the, . apeed laws. A few daya ago he ma'de ap plication to enter hie biarhyvower car in the , September,, races , at In dianapolis motor speedway. ' The -request was ? refused i and uthen he-asked. to be allowed to, give an ' exhibition drive. This requeHt was " also refnsed.'ia. 'a'A'' bawiA .?''' MWi:. ' ,4 A " V4