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"J ' , I J ..fe-'-A n.,) ..;-,.;:!;. U.'i : ; . '' ' ' .......... !TH14r WHICH IS MORALLY WRONG CANNOT EE POLITICALLY RIGHT. THOMASVILLE, N. C. FRILUV, DECEMBER 2,1910. VOLUME 1. NUMBER 27 Mr. Partiam and the New County. We take tbe following from our esteemed contemporary, (he' Lex ington Dispatch: "A pleasing: feature of that High Point mass-meeting was. the failure of our representative-elect, Benja min Franklin Parham, to "take stock" in the enterprise' He re cognizes the fact that his town has nothing; to gain by annexation with High Point and recognizes the fact also that the people of Davidson county who elect him do not want to lose Thomasville end Abbotts Creek. During the campaign we pat up the best fight ' fdr Parham that was in us and we denied stren nouslv the Republican claims that Parham was a "foreigner," and as such, lacking in patriotism and county pride. It will be remember ed that the Republicans made this charge repeatedly. It is. a matter of gratification to us and at the same time a pleasing vindication of our faith in him, to note that in the matter of disrupting the great coun ty that honored him, he stands foursquare to every wind that blows. We have known Ben. Parham for many years and we have found him to be the soul of honor. Me never deserted a friend and. he never be trayed a confidence. He will not do it this time. He knows how his pro pie feel about the matter. He knows that if the people of Davidson coun ty had even imagined that he would cast his vote or use his influence in the legislature to cripple the county of Davidson, he would have been snowed under by a majority of fif teen hundred votes. Elected by tbe people to look after their interests in the legislature of North Caro lina, he will do it, and with Parham standing by his people, we are not afraid of the High Point seceders, Let ' em secede if they want to. They re leaving a county that has made M wonderful record of. progress, one of the greatest cownties in the state, But it is "Their unecar and we don't care, so long as they let our good county alone.- We don't want to see our people "butchered to make a Roman holiday." We are not ready to see them offered up as a sacrifice on the altar of High Point's over-weening pride and sel fishness.'' Bless your life, neighbor, find out who your representative-elect is be fore you advance your views con cerning his duties. We voted for, and elected, as our representative, Benjamin W. Parham and not Ben jamin franklin Parham." Weknow Ben Parham and know too that "he never deserted ' a ' friend and be ever betrayed a ' confidence. He will not do it this time." But we cannot see how he could be called r traitor to his county, if he should see fit to favor a thing, his people demand. We do not mean by this that our people : favor the idea of linking on o a new 'county. We do not know how Thomas ville Town ship feels on this proposition. But, suppose our people should favor it, would it not be a question for Thomasville Township' to decide? And would it not be Mr. Parham 's duty to listen to the voice of his people. In other words, neighbor, don't you think Township Rights are akiu to "State's Rights?" Neira Editor. To Mast New Pastor ami Wife. Mrs. Frank S. Lambeth will en tertain the members of the Ladies' Aid Society, The Foreign Mission ary Society, The Young People's Missionary Society ufnd the "Phila tbea Class of the Methodist Church at an informal Reception at Arlam, Saturday afternoon 'Dec. 3rd from half-past three to half-past five o'clock to meet the nev pastor and wife, Rev. and Mrs: R. M. Courtney This notice is the invitation to each one. Mo other invitations will be sent uut. All expected. ' Oddfellow Beet Officers. At the regularmeeting of Thomas ville Lodge, ; No. 125, L O. O. F. held Monday evening: the following officers were elected for the ensuing term: C. C. Hooks, Noble Grand, W. H. Tudor, Vide- Grand, id Long, Secy' and .'.... E. Sigman : Treas. ... V j:-----!" All 'members are earnestly re- ' quested to be present atounextre-i gular meeting. ( pifday .evening Dec. 5th. New Buildings Being Erected. Soma of the Budding That Am Being Built There is quite a lot' of ' building being done here this fall. Messrs. Burgin and Finch are having a two story business block erected on North Salem street It is said it will be tbe finest business building in town. The building will be com. pleted about the first of the year and the. corner room will, be occu pied by Burgin Company. The Thomasville Chair Company have recently enlarged their factory building on Wes Main street. The Presbyterians are having new church erected on South Salem street The building is brick and when completed will be a handsome structure. Mr. C. G. Hill's new home is about completed. It is an up-to- date residence having all modern conveniences. Mr. Hill Murphy is having a nine room dwelling erected on North Salem street All the outside work has been completed. It is in keep ing with the progress of our town. Mr. O. O. Stone is having a dwell ir.g erected on West Main street, opposite the Orphanage, it is a nine room house and numbers among the good Domes that are being built. Mr. Stone expects to occupy it the first of the year. Mr. Vernon Hepler is preparing to build opposite the Thomasville Chair Company. Work has be gun. Mr. Will Morton is building in the North Eastern part of town. The building is about completed and is said to be a fine home. Mr. Chas. Finch is having a two story brick building erected on North Salem street next to The Na tional Bank. Dr. Pencock'is preparing to build a cottage in the near future. A company composed of Mr. W. H. Peace and others are putting in machinery on South Salem street near the Roller Mill, to manufac ture all kinds of dressed lumber. We invite all home-seekers to come to our town and investigate this place. The Presidents. First we had Washington, honored of all: Second, John Adams accepted the call. Third, Thomas Jefferson, writer and sage, Whose wisdom was far advanced of his age. Fourth was James Madison; fifth James Monroe, Whose "Doctrine" still fills foreigu nations with woe. John Qtiincy Adams was' sixth in succession: Then Brave Andrew Jackson, who throttled - secession. Eighth, Martin Van Buren: then Harrison who Won the great battle of Tippecanoe. Then John Tyier came, because Harrison died. Next Polk, and then Taylor, known far and wide As a wonderful soldier, and then after him came Another Vice-President, Fillmore by name. Then came Franklin Pierce and Buchanan came next, And then tbe great Lincoln pur sued and perplexed. By the troubles brought on him by our great civil war, - Which cost him his life. Then John son came,, for. He was Vice-President, And his right to be President was not denied. Then came Gen. Grant: and then R. B. Hayes: i nen uartieia, wno aian't survive many days. Then came Gen. Arthur because Garfield died: And next Grover Cleveland, a man who was tried By many hard problems. Then Harrison who Was a grandson of famous old "Tippecanoe." After Harrison, Cleveland again the prize won: And next came McKinley, Ohio's first son, ... Who was cruelly m urdered. Then . in ihn chair Sat ThCrodore ' Roosevelt, who de clined to stay there. ., ,. , Now William Taft completes the : whole", V ik: . ? t Who will-be next cannot' be' totd,- SeecfeA ' ... Big Deal Closed. Southern Power Company Takat Over Property of Charlotta Electric Railway Company. Charlotte N. ' C; . Industrial history was made Sat urday in the consummation of the most important deal which this city has known in recent years -nothing less than the purchase by the South ern Power Compauy of the entire system of the Charlotte Electric Railway Company and the business of the Charlotte Gas & Electric Co. More exactly stated, Mr. W. S. Lee, as vice president of the South ern Power Company, and Mr. E. D. Latta as president of the Charlotte Electric Railway Company, at .5 o'clock affixed their signatures toan agreement effective January 1st by which the Southern Power Company takes over all the stock of the street railway company. Since the latter corporation owns the stock of the Charlotte Gas & Electric Company ihe gas and electric lighting busi ness is, of course included. The parties to the deal are silent as to the consideration, though it is a mat ter of common knowledge that the value of the properties included is immense. But by the terms of the compact the price is a sealed book. By the terms of this agreement the Southern Power Company comes in to possession of the franchises of the railway and gas andelectric com panies and all the physical proper ties of each the street car lines, cars, tracks, termini, gas plant elec tric plants, rights of wayand every thing incidental to tbe operation of these. Until December 31, when the formal transfer will be made; the management of these compan ies will remain unchanged. No def inite plans as to the extent of con templated changes can be made as yet Owned by the street railway company and hence included in the sale is 18 acres of land in North Charlotte known as the Electric park, deeded by the North Charlotte Reality Company for park purposes exclusively. A small piece of land at Latta parkisalsoincluded. Lake- wood park is owned ' by the Char- lotte Consolidated Construction Company and is under lease for five years to the Cincinnati Amusement Company. This, therefore, is not affected by yesterday's transaction NEWS OF THE WEEK. Mississippi's corn crop for this year amounts to $15,000,000. 9,200, 000 bushels more were raised this year than any year previous. James J. Gallagher, who shot Mayor Gaynor last August was in dicted Tuesday by a grand jury in Hudson county, New Jersey, on four charges. The third annual conference of Governors is in session at Frank fort, Ky., this week. Gov. Kitchin is attending. W. H. Rounsevill, the Wake county merchant who was under $1,000 bond to appear for trial in the Federal Court in Raleigh for writ ing anonymous letters and stirring up strife in his neighborhood, failed to answer when his name was called. In Granville Superior Court last week Lawrence Davis was convicted of manslaughter for the killing of Braxton Bragg. The jury recom mended mercy and the judge im posed a sentence of two years. Ap peal taken and prisoner released on bond of $2,000. Davis admits the but claims self-defense. Jeter McKinley Pritchard, a young eon of Judge Pritchard, of Asheville was declared the winner of the inter-scholastic declamation contest, which took place at Trinity College Friday night Young Pritchard,s declamation attracted much atten tion and he was declared the win: ner over nine other contestants.' Last Tuesday Lee county, Va., voted a bond issue of $300,000 for good roads by a majority of 1,000 votes. Mr. Sydney E. Marshall died last Saturday at his home in Washing ton, D. C. , He was the last man that talked with John Wilks Booth before he assassinated Lincoln. .The Southern . Power Company will extend its line from Greensboro ' to Durham, mere is a large force of hands at wbrk on every mile of .the line between these two points. 1 An expedition under the command of Captain Robert F. Scott, sailed fMm Jnn. C Heal mat t lt a AvifaaB". tic Tuesday. . Thev hone to reactr the South Pdle in December otL.' 1 : Protest Entered. Canny Commlssionara Opposed to Thomasville . latvfag Oivld ton-Other News, of Interest Lexington, N. C, Dec. 1: Ai 8 special meeting of the county Commissioners held here Monday, a resolution was passed protesting against Thomasville leaving David son cinnty. Their "Resolution of Protest" is as follows: .The Board of Commissioners of Davidson county . leepectfully pro test akainet cutting off any part of Davidson county to help in the for mation of a new county. We want more! territory instead of less. We art) trying-to build up Davidson and makev it the greatest county in the epitre. oiHie. iur resources are ai mostjboundless and the enterprise and, Intelligence of our people are knowh from the mountains to the sea. IVVe appeal to the good people who (are asking for a chance to re consfter the matter and remember that pur fathers and mothers were horn here, labored here and are buriep beneath our sod. The new county may be alright but the old one told Davidson is rich in precious memories. The new county can be no better but in taxes and otherwise may be worse. 1 M. R. HARRIS, Chmn., '; J. L. DOBY, A. E. MEYERS. Thi wind special meeting was held to up certain matters before turning the business over to the new officers. Monday all the newly elected officers will take the oath of office and their bonds will be fixed. Messrs. A. T. Delap, Sheriff, G. W. Miller, Register. C. E. Godwin, Clerk), J. W Peacock, Coroner and M, , R. Harris, Commissioner, all old officers, will again take the oath and (he following new ones will be sworn in: E. A. Rothrock, Treas., J. w. May, Surveyor, and J. H. Lindsay and W. S. Anderson, Com. misieners. Th.. folio wing claims were ordered paid: " J. M. Crotta, part payment on the county home, $1,250; for same pur pose, $093; for same purpose, $702. 66. A. H. Kepley, lumber for county home, $120. Dr. E. J. Buchanan, county physi cians, service for inmates of county home and jail, $57.50. Ordered paid to winners in the men's corn contest in eleven town ships, $165. Robert Fritts, farming for tbe county home, $50. J. T. Sexton, furnishing lumber for bridge in Jackson Hill town ship, $24. C. L. Helmstetler and George F. Morefield, for services as registrars in Lexington township, $50 each. Gray Concrete Company, for ma terial used in repairing road in Thomasville township, $20.70. Robert Fritts, lumber for the county home, $161.56. Expenses of coroner and his jury ;n the investigation as the death of Jacok Hedrick, $35.70. Mr. Ralph Moffitt, who has been seriously ill, is much better now than be was a few days ago. The Davidson county Teachers1 Association meet Saturday, Decern ber 3rd in the courthouse, at 11 o'clock. Every teacher is expected to attend. Mr. J. D. Walser has returned from Florida, where he has been for the last two week. He is delighted with the climate down there and in tends moving his family before Christmas to Lakeland, Fla., which place they will make their home for awhile. License to marry have been is sued to W. M. Parrish anl Miss Myrtle Coshott and John Reid and Miss Flossie Loflin. Dr. Cook Confesses. Does Not Know Whether He Reached The Polo w Not New, York Dr. Cook confesses that he does not know whether he reached the North Pole or not He says that he might be mistaken and that at the time he made the state ment that he had discovered the Pole, be was half mad. He says that during the two yeara.be spent in search of the .North Pole that be endured hunger that arould unbal ance any mind. .:,,;.;.' f ',";: v The explorer says that it would be impossible) for anyone to demon trt beyond question , that he had - 'been ttftheJNorth Pole,,. , . : j Football Makes False Standards. Ex.govarnor Montague Depricatoa Placing of Physical Above Side remarks by former Governor Andrew Jackson Montague on the subject of football created a great deal of interest at the annual public meeting yesterday morning of the Virginia Library Association. The Ex-Governor said he believes foot - ball establishes a false standard in education. His remarks were pretty liberally cheered. The attendance was targe, mere Deing very little going on at the time in other bodies, and most of the school people being gathered in the John Marshall Au ditorium. Ex-Governor Montague was presiding. - It came about in this wise: On inureaay night Dr. Mima in jocu lar mood opened his speech by sqme remark as being depressed over : the defeat of Carolina. So when Professor Black began his speech to the Library Association yesterday morning, he said that on the previous afternoon he had yell ed for five minutes after Todd made his phenomenal run, and found himself beating a stranger franti cally on the back. So his voice was not in the best trim. After Professor had concluded Govenor Montague arose to intro duce the next speaker. He said that whatever might be said against football, he would now add an in jury to Professor Black's voice. This much was jovial. But sudden ly he seems to have ' made up his mind to say something more, and he proceded to say it "Football," he said, "when exalt ed as it frequently is, tends to es tablish a false standard in educa tion. This is because it makes a hero of the player. Had Todd been an honor graduate of Harvard or Yale, or a senior wrangler of Oxford or Cambridge, you would hardly have seen his picture in the front page of The Times-Dispatch this morning. I don't object to football in itself, but I do object to the exal tation of physical powers over men tal achievement I never want to see a people who put the physical above the mental." Mrs. Vic Humphrey Entertains Pleasure Club One of the most delightful social events of the season was the enter tainment given the Pleasure Club Thanksgiving Day by Mrs. Vici Humphreys, at her home on Main street The Thanksgiving spirit was evident throughout the even ing, the score cards being hand-. painted, a picture of the pum. ana turkey, ine ciud ptjze was won by Mrs. Pax Hunt, an elegant hanging basket. Miss Janie Spen cer and Mrs. Burgaw cut for the visitor's prize, Miss Spencer win ning, a handpainted dish. A meat course was served, consisting of turkey, fried oysters, fruit salad, coffee and hot rolls. Those present were Mesdames W. H. Mendenhall, C. C. Hargrave, J. R. McCrary, Deaderick, Jarrett, Foy. Burgaw, of Asheville, W. E. Holt, Jr., J. N. Men denhall, Couch, S. W. Finch, Pax Hunt Varner, Sheets, Riley, Joe Walser, Zeb Walser, Misses Huck abee, Zula Hedrick, Janie Spencer, May me Springs. - Lexington Lead er. Announcement of Annual Bazarr. The ladies of the Woman's Mis sionary Society of the Hieldeberg Reform Church, will have their an nual bazar and luncheon today, Friday. Dinner and supper will be served from 10 a. m. to 10 p. m. in the room in the Wagner building formerly occupied by the Southern Express Company.. The public are invited to patronise the ladies and help a good cause. Depot Site Surveyed. Last Tuesday afternoon surveyors And yet every poor, wandering, out for the Southern Railroad were here 'cast, homeless man is one whom surveying and drawing plana for1 the depot here. The survey was made where the old depot now stands. Outside of the above facte nothing else could be learned. it t v,i Here' a hoping that the announce-1 ment, that the depot will be built,, will be forthcoming.' :.' ; Scandal is the one thing that never gets worn oat at the edgec by being passed around. Chicago-Record- Herald, i.y r .si r.', v ::".. .-... More Light on the " Subject" One Dr. Dred Peacock, eid to be a citizen of High Point, 'an over rated village situated in the South eastern corner of the great county of Guilford, is said to have -made a speech to the handful of would-be seceders who gathered in that little towu Saturday for the purpose of" disrupting three good cofrrrties and forming one weakling.' ' At this meeting there was a general .airing of imaginary grievances . acainat the mother county of Guilford and many million cnbic yards of hot air were liberated. Of all the speeches reported, that ,f the afore said Peacock was most- amusing. Just where this sapient -specimen of the genus homo originated, we do not know. The records speak not It is certain, however, that he has never traveled in ' 'Davidson county or if he has traveled in Da vidson, he handles the truth with extreme carelessness, to say the least of it We prefer to' believe that he has not seen much of this good county and that he has been misinformed. He is credited with saying that "Thomasville is all there is to Davidson county", or words to that effect He went onto say that with Thomasville taken away, there would be no Davidson county to speak of. Editor Farriss of The Enterprise, and other good citizens of High Point bave our sympathy, for we recognize the fact that the man or cause hamper ed by an advocate of this class, is in a. bad row, of stumps. We are ready to admit that Thomasville is one of tbe best towns in the state of North Carolina. It is full of the best people on earth. It is pro gressive, up-to-date, and is making wonderful strides, industrially, in tellectually, morally. In fact, no one can praise 1 nomas ville too much to suit us. We glory in her strength and if she outstrips Lex ington in the march of progress as she bids fair to do, we wilt rejoice in her success and bid her a hearty "Godspeed.',. We would put nor thing in her way and" we would ut ter no word that would tend to hurt the good town in any way,1 but we are not ready to say with this Pea cock, that with Thomasville cut off there would be nothing left of Da vidson county. There would still be the towns of Lexington, Denton, Southmont, Linwood and fifteen townships thickly settled with God's own people, a section rich in soil and second to no part . in the State. We would miss Thomas ville. Thomasville is a part of us, a community of worthy people and we love them, but life would WtiTl be worth living, the seasons come and go and the earth bring forth its Holiness if Thomasville were re moved from us. Dispatch. "Not If It Was My Boy." Some years ago the late Horace Mann, the eminent educator, de livered an address at the opening of some reformatory institution for boys, during which lie remarked that if only one boy was saved from ruin, it would pay for all the cost, and care and labor of establishing such an institution as that. After the exercises Mr. Mann was asked. "Did you not color that a little, when you said that all that expense and labor would be repaid if it saved one boy?" "Not if it was my boy," was the solemn and convincing reply. Ahl there is a wonderful value about "My boy." Other boys may be rude and rough; other boys may be reckless and wild; other boys may seem to require more pains and labor than they ever will repay; other boys may be left to drift un cared for to the ruin which is so near at hand; but "My Boy," it were worth the toil of a lifetime and the lavish wealth of a world to save him from temporal and eternal ruin. We would go the world .around to save him from peril, and would bless every hand that was stretched nut to iriv him hln rr rl-nm. omefondmothercalled, "MyBoy." depth'. of eTn7 wa. .VmetHXiye daughter in her days of childish in- ; nocencer Today somebody's son is ! "W8ny outcast, pressed to the yry verge of crime and sin. To- rta ' mfh0lv..dal,0.htw-w helpless wanderer, driven by neceo- ,sity ln-tne patne tnat lead to death. snail we annua trora jaoor, anau we hesitate at cost when the work Not if lt la ,.M y.o not H mt h.ve the love of him who gave his life to eave the. lost, Common JrvolBi : I :t; I
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