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THAT WHICH IS MORALLY WRONG VANXOT BE POLITICALLY RIGHT. VOLUME 1. - THOMASVILLE, N. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1910. NUMBER 14 Amusement for the Winter Lyceum Course Assured. The Civic League has juet closed a'contract with the Alkahest Lyceum System, of Atlanta, Ga., that will give Thoitiaaville's people a series of very fine entertainments during the winter months. The attractions selected are the best that can be gotten, and all of them come to us highly recommended. The series consists of six shows, (two more than we had last season) one to be given each month during the winter, beginning with the month of October. The attractions engaged are as follows: Kdwin R. Weeks Company. Fisher Shipp Concert Company. Alkahest Ladies (Juartette. Robt. Parker Miles (Lecture). Wilburn Starr Cmartette. Songs and stories of the Red Man. The first in the series will be the Kdwin R. Weeks Company, which will appear the latter part of October, the date to be announced later. Tha Mm! Rhal Rhal Boy Laming for ColUsa. School days are upon us again and within the next few days the different schools and colleges through the country will claim sever of our boys, some of whom have al ready gone, and the others will fol low next week. Below we give a partial list of the young men leaving and where they go: Mr. Gerald W. Johnson, Wake Forest. Mr. Chas. M. Griffith, Jr, University of North Carolina. 'Mr. W. H. Kinney, A. & M. Mr. Paul Green, Rutherford College. Mr. Walter Lambeth, Trinity Park. Mr. Willie Julian, Bethel Academy. Mr. Everett Cates, Whitsett, Mr. Lionel Strayhorn, Rutherford College. Mr. Henry Yow, Catawba College. Mr. Walter Stone, liberty-Piedmont ,XnJOs-JStplaae. ..Stone..,, Liberty- Piedmont InBt. Capt-F. C. Robblna Eulogized. There is not a better citizen in Davidsou County or in N. C. than Capt F. C. Robbins, of Lexington. He lives on a plane so exalted that his very name is a terror to a politi cal trickster and demagogue. He has done more, perhaps than any other man in the county to exem plify in his own life nnd to promote witn all the energy of his nature the cause of civic righteousness in Davidson County. May his useful life be spared yet many years! Charity And Chiltiren. ' . -Thomit-fllW-i Two Jtew Cotton MJUs to . i. Start Soon. We are told by Mr. C. G. Hill, that he hopes to get the Amazon Cotton Mill running by October : 1st. Mr. T. J. Lillard informs us that the Jewel Mill will probably start up about November 1st. , When these -mills are started Thomasville will take on new life. They will give us diversified indus try just whaf we have needed for a long time and the very thing necessary to make Thomasville take her place along side of the best towns in the State. y -Watch Thomasville grow. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Arnffleltt Crotslnj the Continent Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Atiiifield left Wednesday for a long journey across the continent, having' for their destination Los Angeles, Cali fornia, where Mr. Armfield goes to attend the American Bankers Asso ciation. Their route calls for a change at Charlottesville, Va., and from there they will go to Cincinnati and . on through Chicago, Denver, Yellow Stone Park, Butte and Missoula. Before returning, they will , visit several points of interest including the Grand Canyon and some points in Mexico. Mr. and Mrs. Armfield will be away about six weeks. CapM vs. DevH, CueM Leading: By a Narrow Margin. In Davidson superior court, neia . in Kington last week, four t' divorces were granted. During the samp week marriage license were . issued to only six couples. i i ,.. ; And still the old mill continues to gTindtr,trilFvUpid shoots nts ar rows aa if nothing had happened. ' - Old Soldiers Going to Norfolk. Boys bf '61 to Renew Their Devotion. nomas vine will be well repre sented when the United Confederate Veterans of North Carolina meet in Norfolk, Va., September, 0. Among those going from here are Messrs. I'. L. Ledford, "Uncle Dock" Ferabee, "Uncle Billy" Marsh and P. C. Thomas. Admiration For Mr. Parham, Democratic Nomlnea For House. Mr. B. W. Parham, having been nominated by the Democrats forthe House from Davidson county, has severed his editorial connection with The Thomasville Davidsonjan, a8 he "wishes to devote his time and attention to the coming campaign and desires to leave both himself and the paper unfettered in expres sion on issues and men.' ' It would not have been at all indelicate for Mr. Parham to have continued as editor of the paper, but his high sense of the proprieties is to be ad mired. Charlotte Chronicle. Mr. C. L. Buahnell Raalgns aa President of the Myers-Green Furnishing; Co. Mr. C. L. Buahnell, who several months ago 'succeeded Mr. J. C. Green as president of the Myers Green Furnishing Company, has resigned and will leave Thomas ville within the next few days. He is now m Keidsville, but will re turn to Thomasville in the next few days and wind up his affairs here before leaving for his new hoire. He has not decided definitely yet where he will locate. During Mr. Hushnell's short stay here he has made many friends and we regret to lose him. Mr. Parham Gone Home Recuperating: a Few Days Before Pitching Into the Campaign. Mr. B. W. Parham, Davidson's unrtirtntp ; for -the House of Repre sentatives, is at his home in Oxford this week, resting up and getting himself in trim for the coming cam paign. He is a little run-down now, having had very little vacation during the summer, but upon his return, he will be ready to throw himself into the campaign. And he is going to tight. He is going to fight hard, too, and he is going to win. Mr. E. F. Popper Leaves. Mr. E. F. Pepper, who has been bookkeeper for the Lambeth Furni ture Company the past five years, left last week to take up his duties as a "Knight of the grip" for the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. His territory embraces Western North Carolina and Eastern South Carolina. Mr. Pepper leaves behind him many warm friends and if he should ever grow tired of carrying the grip, and decide to cast his let with us again Thomasville will give him a warm welcome. Mr. P. R. Maaon Saver Connection With Cramer Furniture Co. Mr. P. R. Mason wno has been with the Cramer Furniture Com pany for several months has re signed to accept a position as travel ing freight agent for the Missouri Pacific Rail-way, with headquarters in Greensboro.- His many friends will be glad to learn that he will continue to make Thomasville his home. Mr. Mason will assume his new duties today. It goes without say ing that he will make good. He is not a new man on the road. Oala Day for ThomasvHle--Everybety's Day to Surpass All Former Events. Mayor Burgin is making ar rangements to give Thomasville and the surrounding country a big day October 1st He says the "Big Day''! this year is going to be still "bigger" than anything we have ever had. We are going to have three military companies, brass banas, rea lemonade and every thing you can conceive of in the way of prizes. We hope to be able to print a full program next week, in the mean time don't fororet the "Bio- Dav" Oct. 1st. , v fW ,.ooo.oo , ... The jury in the case of John Lane, suing the Southern . Railway for $15,000 damages for injuries receiv- a in yarns at. spencer, last week awarded plaintiff a verdict of $1,000. "LORD 60D OF HOSTS, BE WITH US YET, LEST WE FORGET-LEST WE FORGETI" Evidently there is a reform on in Davidson county. The Thom asville Daviiiwonian says: "We rejoice (o observe a growing senti ment against the buying and selling of votes in this county. In this campaign, on the Demo cratic side at least, (and we be. lieve the same thing can be said of the Republicans) not a dollar will be spent to debauch the suffrage." In past campaigns in Davidson county, it is general ly understood, votes were openly bought at so much per head, like so many cattle and such voters are not much better than cattle. This practice gave Davidson a notorious reputation, but the public will be glad to see that the county has determined to purify its morals. It is to be hoped that the good resolu tions of both the Democratic and Republican parties of that county will be lived up to. Charlotte Chronicle. Webster's Weekly Asks a Perti nent Question. Mr. P. C. Thomas, an aged Repub lican politician of Davidson county, ures it out in the columns of Sun day' s Charlotte Observer that a mill ion dollars goes out of the State an nually for whiskey as a result of State prohibition law. He asks the question how many miles of good roads would this build if kept at home. Perhaps Mr. Thomas will inform the readers of the Observer next Sunday how many miles of good ronda the license system built in his county and the other ctyin ties of the State during all the years that distilleries and barrooms held full sway. IVebaters Weekly. Liberty Association Programme. The following order of exercises will be offered to the Liberty A9so ciation for adoption at "Jhe session with the Orphanage church, Sep tember 6-8. TUESDAY. 11 A. M. Introductory sermon, Rev. S. D. Swaim. 2 P. N. Organization" and reading letters. 3 p. n. Report on Sunday-schools. 4 p. M. Report on Orphanage. Adjournment. WEDNESDAY. 9:30 Devotional Exercises. Miscellaneous business. 10:15 Education. Liberty-Piedmont Institute. Ministerial Education. 11:30 State Missions. AFTERNOON. 2 P; m. Home Missions. 3 P. M. Biblical Recorder. 3:30 p. m. Temperance. 4 p. M. Obituaries. 8 p. Our Colleges. Adjournment. .; THURSDAY. 9;30 A. M.' Devotional Exercises. Miscellaneous business. 10:15 Woman's work. 11 Foreign Missions. 2 P. m. Ministerial Relief. Correction. In our State News column last week, we stated that,, "the entire Boardpf County Commissioners has been indicted for alleged viola tions of lav and failure and neglect to perforin their duties," We copied this item from the state papers and failed ferVtate that the board refer red to belongs to Granville county and by reason of our failure to do this we did our own board an injur tice, and to them we hereby tender our apologies. It was an oversight. Mr. Alfred Cox Lsavea lor the Far Wast nr. , Aitrea j. uox, son of our townsman, Mr. D. C. Cox, left last week for the state of Kansas, going there to associate himself in busi ness with his Uncle- Mr. Cox is one of Thomasville' s most promising young men and he ill succeed wherever he goes His ability, his strength of character together with his untiring energy will surely bring him success. - THE davidsonian extends its best wiBhes to this bright young man and predicts for him a bright fu ture. If he ever forgets Horace Greelys command and decides to turn hie face to the East again, we trust he will come back to-"the land of the long leaf pine." A Beautiful Incident General Carr Pays Tribute to a Wilkes Veteran j Who Embraces the General. In Hie course of his addresses here ,.ist week before the old Con federate veterans, Gen. Julian S. Carrof Durham, paid a slowing tribute to our countryman, Mr. Hen ry,.Hays, f Gilreath. Ik-said that Mv flays was the bravest and most fearliss soldier in the Confederate Artd?; always alert to duty he was theiftrst to respond to any emergen cy call and fartherest in battle; when couniules were cut down beside him, Mrf ?iays never faltered, but push ed fojtlie forefront and leaped in the thickfest of battle. After the address, Mr.Mjays was ushered up the aisle and introduced to Gen. Carr, who, withiears in his eyes, proudly em braced him. To have seen these two gallant sons of 'til who for four yeari struggled for a lost cause, meei ana exenange greetings was was'nily pathetic to the onlooker. WUkcN Patriot. Notice. Dr, W. H. Wakefield, of Charlotte, will fie in Thomasville at Thomas ville' Hotel on Thursday, Sept. 15th oite Jay only. His practice is lim ited to diseases of the Eye, Kar, Nosjj and Throat and Fitting Glasses. ' "Am I Getting Old?" Jtienry ward rieecner, crossing the treet in Brooklyn one day, re ceived a distinct shock. It was, however, mental rather than phy sical "Get out of the way, old man!" was what a rude driver call ed to the great preacher in the crowded street. Mr. Keecher says it w-s the first intimation to him thati lie was getting old, or that anybody thought of him a's an old matt He was conscious of a dis tincj shock, and a stranger calling himl 'okl man" gave him cause to paut injmore senses than one. w nut, men, are we signs or uger and when ought a man to consider himself no longer young? The dividing line between Pover ty and Wealth has happily been de scribed and fixed for all time by one of those strokes of genius for which Charles Dickens is famous: "If your income is twenty dollars and fifty cents, and your expenses twen ty dollars, then you are a rich man. But if your income is twenty dol lars and fifty cents, and 3-our ex penses twenty one dollars, then yon are a poor man," is for substance the Dickens formula. And it is fi nal: there can be no mistake about that. The equatorial line between Poverty and Wealth is infallibly fixed by the formula, and the rule is so simple and so easily applied that any man can apply it for him self and tell on which side of the line he happens at the time to be. Can we discover, with like clear, ness, the equatorial line of age? When is a man justified in consid ering himself old, or getting old? An incident will help us to find the line. After Horace Greely had finished his stump-speaking in the West, -when himself a practical can didate, some one asked him if life was -.worth living. "When more want to stay in than go out," was his strange answer. Asked to tell what he meant, the rugged old man explained, that if in his poli tical meetings, more people staid in the hall when he was speaking than went out, when they were free to stay or go, he cone' tided that his speeches were worth hearing. He applied the same rule to hu man conduct in the choice of life or death. " "When more people want to stay, than go out of life, thenV'life must be worth living." Here, then is the formula of age. if you want to stay and keep up the fight, you are young; no matter what your Anno Domini may be. Otherwise, you are old,. This also is finaj; there car? be no mistake about it, -either. If with the dawn of a new day you spring to your work and are interested in it, old age is not yet before you, no matter what else may be upon you. But if you had "rather go than stay!' you are down and out.. The line, has been crossed. Christian Obeerrer. , i;v Hard to Convince. Little Tommv (eldest of the family. at dinner) Mamma, why don 't you help- me before .Ethel? -Mamma Ladies . must ' always come first. , ' , Tommv (triumphantly) Then why wa I born before Ethel? Tit-Bits, Notes of Travel. Going from the Kanuga Lake Club near Hendersonville to Switzerland inn near Mount Mitchell station on the Clinclifield road I took occasion to go by the State hospital to pav a little visit to Mr. Caldwell. We talked much nnd of many things and the visit was an exceedingly pleasant one for me certainly and for ns both I think. While Mr. Caldwell and I chatted my sister, who was with me, went off with Mrs. McCnmpbell and look ed over some of the domestic fea tures of the big institution. She lias told me since she left that the kitchen and all its appointments were ap parently perfect and certainly im maculate. The State hospital now has more than I, (HK) patients and the care of these must be a big under taking. It can only be clone by r system well worked out and well executed. e have looked over some kitchens in the suburbs of Boston and were delighted with the Yankee cleanliness nnd conveni encjes but none surpassed the cleanliness nnd arrangements at the hospital. In addition to the visit to Mr. Caldwell I was very glad to have the opportunity to ask Mr. John McCampbell show me something of the work at the institution. The first striking feature is the magni tude of the buildings and the grounds. About (ill to 7.i years ago, perhaps longer, 'Miss Dorothy Dix gave her time without stint and practically consecrated her life to the ameliora tion of the condition of the sick and unfortunate. She worked nt her own expense and addressed many Legislatures in the interest of those unfortunate sick who were inade quately cared for. Surely it would do Miss Dix's heart good if she could see the magnificent institu tion which the State, through rts appointed trustees and their offi cers lias built and is operating. There are those who think that Mr. CadwelV" chiefest pride is The Ob- server. As the product of his work and intellect his pride in the paper is just and modest. Hut for him self and his associate trustees and along with Dr. Murphy, former sup erintendent, and Dr. John McCamp bell, present superintendent, I am sure that tor himself and these others Mr. Cladwell's first affection and pride is for this great and bene ficent institution of the State, of whose board he is chairman. Then after that he loves The Observer and those who worked with him to make it. One of the features which partic ularly interested me was ithe- new colony at the hospital. A colony is a sortof country settlement, a farm as it were, ,,.Away frqm, .the, main buildings about a mile or more are three brick buildings for 1(10 selected patients who are able to do more or less farm work. They raise corn, vegetables, and othercrops suitable to the soil and climate. This helps to reduce the cost of the operations of the institution, because these colonies are largely self support ing. Another economic feature is the nurses' home. The moving of 00 nurses to this new home made room in the hospital proper for 100 pati ents. In the home the nurses have a reading room and welfare fac ilties. When the nurses areoffduty they can goto this home nnd really be off fluty. Dr. McCampbell spoke of futher improvements and economies he hoped "to accomplish. . He has in mind a psychopatic laboratory and through which all patients may be passed when they enter the institu tion. He would want the best appli ances and facilities for aiding in a proper diagnosis of each case. He would have in this special entrance hospital 'hydro-therapeutic baths and he would keep each new-enter ing patient in some cases one day, in other cases he would watch and treat caBes for six months before passing them into their proper places in the institution. Some cases would probably be cured in this diagnosis: laboratory hospital and all cases would be much better understood by such a full and scien tific and psychic examination. I have probably not nearly properly expressed here ' what Dr. McCamp bell expressed to me, but the sub ject interested me as showing some thing of the degree of advancement of the plans of the trustees and the i I superintendent! Charlotte Obser- rvr' rrr. "Courting half a truth, you usually wed a lie. STATE NEWS. Raleigh James H. Allison, the white man of Asheville who is un der sentence to be electrocuted for the murder of Floyd Mi-Ghee was placed in the Stale Prison at Ral eigh last Friday. Lexington. Mr. John K. Young at tempted suicide by shooting him self last Wednesday night. He was serving as a juror in the ease of I.ane B. Railroad and this case, it is thought, unbalanced his mind. And we don't wonder. Durham. General Julian S. t'arr, commander of the Tinted Confed erate Veterans of Xorth Carolina has chartered at his own expense a special train to carry the North Car olina Veterans to the reunion at .Norfolk, Va., in September. Winston-Salem S. Walter Jise, for 22 years manager of the Western Uni on Telegraph office at Winston-Salem shot and killedhiinself last Fri day afternoon in the back room of his office- The only reason assign ed for the rash act is over work and declining health. Raleigh. The North Carolina Su preme Court convened Monday for its fall term. A class of 77 was present to take the examination for license to practice law. Three of this number are negroes This is said to be one of the largest classes on record. Leaksvllle-Spray The Leaksville peo ple are planning for a big day and a good time on Sept. 5 (Labor Day). They are going to have some big men to address them, having en gaged Gov. Kitchiii, Maj. Charles M. Steadman and Hon. S. P. Graves. Major Steadman will formally open his campaign at that time. Greensboro. Kx-Judge W. P. Bynuni of Greensboro, and the law linn of Roberson A Barnhardt, of High Point, have been retained as coun sel for Dr. and Mrs. Vestal, who are in the Guilford county jail on the veidiv. I i c-iur.ei.jurjialj.fvs-.tf them with the murder of Bessie Thomasson, a white girl of States ville, this summer. The trial is said to come off at the September term of Guilford's superior court, which convenes on the lirth. The counsel employed is now at work on the plea that they will put np in behalf of the accused. Wilmington. -Virgil Hurley, a native of Wadesville, Montgomery county, was drowned last Friday while out bathing at Wrightsville Beach. While in the water about a thousand feet from the shore the young man's struggles were noticed and all ef forts possible were made to rescue . him but to no avail. Death was due to heart failure produced by exhaustion. He was Zi years of age and until three days prior to his drowning was a telegraph operator for the Atlantic Coast Line atSmith Creek Bridge. Dunn. A very odd sort of a delega tion was sent from Salemburg, Sampson county, to Dunn last Sat urday and the stir they raised was worse than a republican convention. It seems that one Mr. Ernest Pope, of Dunn, hns been giving his atten tion to a Sampson damsel, Miss Inez Cooper, nnd Mr. Burrows Un derwood was also interested. A few days ago, it seems that Mr. Under wood met the young lady at Falcon and they agreed to skip and get married, so'he took her to a friend's home and left her, to go for the preacher and sent a man for the li cense, and while gone, the father of the girl and Mr. Pope got wind of what was going on and went and found her; so they stole her from " the other lover and Mr. Pope brought her to Dunn, and Monday went to Smithfield and secured license and was married and they are now liv ing at Dunn. The other fellow, with -his friends, went up to Dunn Satur day and have been trying to get the girl, claiming that she was forced to marry. Up to this date, they have failed to get the girl. . "Unci Silly" Marsh Improve Town "Uncle Billy"' Marsh; is at work again, or perhaps we should say he is still at -work for he is usually doing something. ; This time, he is (riving his attention to sMe Walk alongside of the commons and the wnflr Iia fina linn ariria a imdf A a- 1 ..- " "VB. to the general appearance Of things on Main street. "Uncle Billy" in untiring in his efforts to beautify l ihbmasvuie. i ,.'. . , 3. I " " V 1 , ' 'V. ' " i
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