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j . tup THAT WHiCH IS MORALLY WRONG CANNOT BE POLITICALLY RIGHT. . VOLUME 2. THOMASVILLE. N. C, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1911. NUMBER 19 ' , .... Red Men Capture the City. Tribes of 6th District Gathered Here Saturday. Wok Spectacle Enacted Mora Two Thousand People-f aleface Captured and Burnad at tha Steke, Amid the Cracklsot Flamoa and a TimoU of War-Whoops and Shots. Thomasville joyously capitulated without a shot, Saturday, to the in vading hosts of the Improved Order of Red Men who came to the Sixth- District Meeting held with the local tribe, Uwbarrie No. 116. Although the first session was not called to order until afternoon the tribesmen began to appear early in the day, and by two-thirty, when the meeting was scheduled to begin, the streets were fairly swarming with the red regalia. The tribes from High Point and Greensboro, both of which play ed leading parts in the ceremonies, were over in full force, and repre sentatives were present from the tribe at Reidsville, Winston, Alta- mahaw, Burlington, Ore Hill, Spen cer and Statesville; altogether be tween 100 and 150 delegates attend ed the meetings. The crowd was as orderly and well-behaved as any that have hon ored the Chair Town with a visit in many a long day, but they were in high good humor, nevertheless. Every tribesman sported a broad red sash or a bit of red ribbon with an Indian head stamped on it, and brotherly greetings and good-humored jokes flew thick and fast when ever a knot ot them gathered. A photographer was on hand and made a picture of the gathering grouped on Mr. C. R. Thomas' lawn. The business sessions were, of course, held behind closed doors, but the public was offered an unusu al, and very interesting spectacle when the assembled tribes went - through the ceremony of. capturing a paleface and burning him at the stake. At seven in the evening the ropes that had been stretched around the baseball diamond behind the Grad ed Schoolhouse could scracely stand the pressure of the enormous crowd that completely surrounded the grounds. Children, in particular, were massed around all four sides. The grown folks for the most part stood behind them but even then several Zachaeuses had taken ad vantage of the neighboring trees. One of these, by the way, took ad vantage of the very middle of the proceedings to break down under its unusual load of fruit, and only some quick grabbing by the occupants of neighboring branches kept it from precipitating a cascade of small boys to the ground below. Out in the middle of the hollow square stood a block-house, made of laths and paper, which represent ee fort held by the pale-faces; near ' it burned a camp fire, and by that stood the suggestive stake. While the final preparations were being made Mr.W. A. Simpson, bf Greens boro, delivred a short address on the principles of the order. He said that these are the decendants of the men who threw the tea into the Bos ton harbor; that there the Red Men started; he explained that the order stood for truth, honesty and all that goes to make up good citizenship; and he closed by calling on his hearers to live up to the principles of their order. Soon four "scouts" came creep ing in, examined the premises and returned to make their report. In a few minutes two tribes burst in from the front, and a battle royal wason, both sides using blank cartridges with the upmost freedom and great effect; the Indians succeeded in fir ing the block-house, but they had decidedly got the worst of it as prac ticallyalloftheir;numberwere"dead; however, the pale-faces, driven into the open by the burning of their fort were taken in the rear by the third tribe, and one of their number captured, wriereupon all the dead men jumping up, gathered around the stake to which the captive waa instantly bound and roasted alive apparently, a straw effigy being sub stituted for the man at the last mo ment : A war-dance around the stake and victim concluded the pub lic part of the ceremonies. It waa a highly interesting and en joyable occasion, and now that she knowa them Thomaaville will give the Red Men a double welcome the next time they come. Going to See the Elephants. ThomawHa WW Bo Wall Roprosented In Greensboro, Oct IS. Tbomasville will be represented in Greensboro on circus day. In dications are that the town will turn out by the thousands, attracted by the wonderful uew circus which the Barnum aud Bailey people are putting from this season. The show has an entire new equipment, costing the management $3,200,000. One third of this was spent on the parade which is reported as the most elaborate street spectacle ever devised. It is three miles in length. ' The great menagerie of this cir cus is creating nothing short of a sensation in towns it visits. It con tains the most remarkable collection of rare beasts of any zoological die play in the world, and many speci mens which are not duplicated in anyotbersoo, in America or Kurope. The chief attraction here is a year old giraffe, the only one ever born in this country. In fact it is the on ly giraffe, not full grown, ever seen outside the depths of the African jungle. Matured giraffes are scarce enough but this youngster is worth its weight in gold. The performance in the main tent is presented 400 of the world's great est artists, gathered from no less than thirty-two nations. The acts they are offering are novel and not at all like the acts that have been in America in the past. Fifty clowns furnish the comedy and in this re spect the show is the laughing suc cess of the age. And there are thrills without number from the start to the finish. Theperformanceof Chas. the First, a chimpanzee bicycle rid er and roller skater, is a most sen sational surprise. The specialties of John Ducader's bell-ringing horses, Winston's riding seals, a brass band of elephants, the Kon yot family of German riders, the Fonelli family of Italian acrobats, the Lea Deko family of French equilibrists and theSiegrist -Silbon family of aerialists are of the first European rank. Barnum and Baily carry 1,286 peo ple, 700 horses, 40 elephants, 30 cam els, 1,000 other wild animals, dyna mo plants, ' barber shops, tailoring establishments, bath parlors, laun dries, blacksmith shops, harness shops. carpenter shops, dentists, doctors, a lawyer and a private po lice force. The many tents cover fourteen acres of ground. Necessity of Organic Matter In the Soil or Green Manuring. We have now attempted to ex plain the phenomenon called "sour ing of the soil' ' and to point out a practicable remedy, namely: roll the green manuring crop; disc it a number of times in the opposite di rections to the rolliag while yet green and succulent in order to cut it into small bits; plow it under disc it once or twice after plowing, depending on the amount of mater ial on the land; with the disc set at a Blight angle in order to pulverize and mix the cut-up vegetable mat ter with the hold soil stratum; and allow the land to settle a few weeks and receive one or more good rains. We .shall now take up in success ion and discuss the value of a num ber of humus forming materials, other than animal manures, and then point out methods of hand ling them in connection with differ ent crops. In a previous chapter we gave the average chemical analysis of a large number of samples of green rye in wtiich we found this materi al to contain 10 lbs. of nitrogen, 5 lbs. of phosphate, and 14 lbs. of potash per ton. All of these con stituents are taken from the soil by the roots, built into the tissues of the plant and given out again to a succeeding crop when the rye de cays. A crop of green rye weighing 8 tons to the acre is easily grown on the average farm in N. C. This amout of green rye incorporated with the first ten inchea of a ten acre field would furnish to the soil of thia field, in a readily available form, 80 lbs. of nitrogen, 400 lbs. of phosphate and 1120 lbs. of pot ash. This is as much nitrogenaa would be furnished by 20 tons, Of an 8-2-2 fertilizer or 100 loads of fresh cow manure. The phosphate in this amount of green stuff ia equal to that contained in 2 1-2 ton of an 8-2-2 fertilizer or in 200 tons, or loads, It Is Now Judge Mar tin. Recorder's Court Established Monday Night. Mr. L A. Martin WM Hold Down the Job. Mr. T. E. Jennings Made Clerk Other Matters of Routine Business Transacted by Town Board. After October 16th 1911 evildoers in this fair city will receive short shrift, according to the decision reached last Monday night by the Board of Aldermen at their regular Monthly meeting. They took ad vantage of the bill passed by the last Legislature authorizing the es tablishment of a Recorder's Court for Tbomasville, and formally set up such a court, naming Mr. L. A. Martin as Recorder, and Mr. T. E. Jennings as Clerk. The new court will begin operations October 16th, thus giving the new recorder time to prepare his blanks and to fa miliarize himself more fully with the duties of his new position. The advantages of such a sys tem are manifold. . In the first place it will act on habitual crimi nals as a strong deterrent, for when a misdemeanor is committed, it will not be a matter of from two to four months before punishment is meted out the malefactor will begin to break rocks the next day. Moreover it will save endless ex pense and worry to quiet citizens who have the misfortune to be summoned as witnesses, etc. In stead of having to go first before a magistrate and later down to Lex ington, thereby losing from one to three days, they can simply go down to the Recorder's Court, tell Judge Martin what they know about it and their part of it is all over. The Judge and the Clerk will be paid on a fee system, their fees be ing included in the bill of costs, just as a magistrate's are today, so the new system will Involve no ex tra expense to the town whatever. Most Recorders' Courts have an other officer a solicitor, paid by the city; but this office has been left out at Thomaaville. Of course, if a murder case, for instance, came up the District Solicitor might ap pear before the Recorder just a a he would before any other magistrate. But decidedly the best feature of our court is the provision whereby all fines and forfeitures collected by it come back into the treasury of the Thomaaville Graded School, in stead of going into the general county fund where the money col lected by all other magistrates' courts goes. While the amount collected annually may not be large every little bit helps, and with our school growing at the rate it is we need every cent we can lay our hands on. We feel that in establishing this court the Town Board has takes a wise step one that the citiaens generally will commend them for. of fresh horse manure. Sufficient rye to seed the ten acres will cost around $10, wheras, it wouM .cost $73 totiaul and spread the 150 tons of stable manure. In tue above we have mentioned merely the plant food constituents rendered available by the rye and have not taken into account the vast amount of humus for holding moisture and improving the tex ture of the soil. Be sure to sow quanities of rye this fall for plow ing under before planting. Next week we expect to discuss the use of wheat straw and green corn as manure. J. L. Bukukhs N. C. Department of Agriculture. "The Broken Bondage" Com mended. The following letter, received thia week by. the local agent for the novel will be read with interest by the many friends hereof Mrs. Brown. Dr. C. R. Thomas, Thomaaville, N. C. Dear Sir: I wish to thank you for calling to my attention "The Broken Bondage" it proved to be interest ing from cover to cover, in fact the most interestinar bit of literature it has been my good fortune to read in many a day. It ia an advent in literature in my estimation and I hope to be able to read the next book from the pen of this authoress. Yours very truly, W. S. Simpson. The Passing Show. 'Street Car Employee" writing in the Charlotte Observer recently per petrated a most virulent and vicious attack i upon poor defenseless old "Greejtsborough." The Observer, evidently ashamed of the yellow streakjdisplayed by its bard in se lecting such a weak point of attack, more boldly than prudently intro duced its near-poet with a prodig ious ffrn fare, and challenged the entire jetate to produce his equal. So far a single champion has ap peared, but he is enough; he wore the colors of Winston-Salem and Thomsville, and laying his knight ly pen,in rest, he hurled the teiner ariouSiMecklenburger from his seat with these immortal lines: Charlotte claims to be on top; We admit she leads in the cotton clop. Of the staple raised in a city's bounds We allt to her a million pounds If half he claims were only true I'd moVe there, so would you. We admire her spunk, let her blow, That'sjwhat made Atlanta grow. But if you chance to look around You'll find there is another town In ourjbeloved Old North State Where jthey rise at dawn and sit up lite. We refer in this little ditty To the far-famed hustling, fair Twin-City. She can boast ot no Mecklenburg Declaration But she cuts some ice throughout the nation. Manufacturing plants she has ga lore Tho' ' ber tender age is just two score When the lives a century or so You will hear no more "Watch Charlotte Grow." The Queen City may, perhaps, Still be printed on the maps; By comparison she'll be so small You'll scarcely know she's there at ajl Ihjr And hire's to the town of Thomas- vine Where we've always made chairs And are making them still. You caa hunt the country o'er You'll ..find Thomaaville doing more Than aiv other town of her size. Come aHorSee,' we'll put you wise How to make money hand over net. It's a dead-sure shot you take no risk. Just invest in Thomaaville real estate; Better get in now, soon be too late; For she's growing by leaps and bounds: It's the talk and envy of other towns. Besides chair factories we have cot ton mills, We're a jam-up town without any frills. We have no supply of air that's hot What we claim we prove we've got. "A word to the wise" is a saying you know; Now be an owl and help us grow. We welcome vou here any old day: Come look around, "Haveachair," and stay. . We feel for "Street Car Employ ee." we feel for him deeply, it ever saddened us to see young hopes thus blighted in the bud. But lest he should be overcome by his mor tification we would explain to him that we understand his downfall is due, not so much to his own rash ness, as to the undue teal of his herald. Mad the Observer been content to confine its challenge to "Gteeneborough," Raleigh, Dur ham, Wilmington and such small fry all might have been well. But to challenge Thomaarille'.' Why, 'twas to pit this untried youngster again st the very Camelot of bards; what wonder that he went down beiore the Lancelot who issued from its gates? However we hope that Charlotte will not be discouraged by the cy clone provoked by her too-ambitious attempt. We do not deny that there is merit in "Street Car Em ploye" aud, had he chosen any oth er spot than the summit of the near- Parnassue whereon to sing, his strains might have been heard with rapture. Let him choose for his next adversary some other than the near-Apollo himself and the contest may result more favorably. Then will Thomaaville be the first to ac claim the victor.and to lay the laurel crown upon the brow of one, who, if he once fought disastrously, yet fell in a great endeavor. We rejoice at being able to an nounce that the orchestra at the Piedmont Theatre has got a new tune "Every Little Movement" has gone into the discard. A moat interesting and beautiful entertainment waa given at Main Street Methodist Church last Sun day night bv The Leight Bearers (a mission band) under the splendid management of Miss Lillian Yow. The church was packed. Fighting the White Plague. Famous Specialist Hero Studying the Tubercu losis Problem, But Ho will Not Talk. "Dr. Karl von Ruck, the Tuber culosis specialist, proprietor of the Winyah Sanitorium at Asheville, is here on the invitation of Dr. C. A. Julian, where they have established a temporary laboratory for the study of Tuberculosis." The above meagre statement is all the representative of the David soniax could extract from the busy physicians now established at the Orphanage Infirmary. Even that much was obtained rather over Dr. von Ruck's protest. "Too many statements," he said, "have al ready been given to the press too many predictions have been made that hnve never materialized. Be sides if we should make any pro gress we must report it to the pro fession first. Just say we are studying the tuberculosis prob lem." Dr. von Ruck is one of the fore most authorities on tuberculosis in America today. As his name would indicate he is a native of Germany, and he has devoted the greater part of his !ife to the study of tuberculosis, going into the pro blem with characteristic Teutonic thoroughness. He has contributed largely to the literature of the dis ease, and has discovered a specific serum which he hopes will eventually prove an effective wea pon against the dreaded scourge. But like all true scientists, be is ex tremely reluctant to talk until he Anon . It was through Dr. Jul ian's connection with the anti tuberculosis propaganda in this state that the two physicians were first drawn together; and it is for the furtherance of this propaganda that they, with Dr. von Tobel, Dr. von Ruck's assistant, are now in Thomasville. Three rooms in the east end of the big Infirmary at the Thomas ville Baptist Orphanage have been fitted up as temporary laboratories, and when the reporter visited them Thursday morning the work was in full swing. Dr. von Tobel was busy in the operating room deftly manipulating the fragile glass ap paratus with which the room was littered. Across the hall in one of the sun parlors sat the great specialist with a little girl, her arm bared to the shoulder, at his knee. Dr. von Ruck is a stout, gray haired man with the indescribable "antiseptic" appearance common ly associated with surgeons and trained nurses. He has a quiet confident face and a pair ot sur prisingly keen eyes ambushed be hind rimlets nose-glasses. He was courteous, but firm in his refusal to give out any statement other than the one printed above, and his ex amination of the child at his side never stopped. "We" he said, speaking with a strong German ac cent, "are doing nothing but ex amining the children for .tubercu losis. Just separating the sheep from the Iambs. You run along now" he continued patting the child on the arm with a smile; she smiled brightly in return and dis appeared' while another took her place. For two weeks the work will go on, the orphan children getting the benefit of the doctor's lifelong la bor without money and without price. And perhaps he may hit at last on the solution of the great problem and the most deadly scourge of ' the modern world be stayed by a discovery made at Thomasville. This is totally un authorized by the Doctor, but per hapswho knows? Richmond Boosters Pass. The special train chartered for the Richmond Boosters' Tour pass ed Thomasville at 11:30 Tuesday morning. There was a good crowd at the station to meet the Virginians and a hillarious thirty minutes en sued. All kinds of advertising and boosting literature, buttons, &c, were scattered right and left, and Messrs. Armfied and Burgin, for the local Chamber of Commerce managed to get in a few of the Thomasville leaflets. After having seen the crowd that the train carried our wonder at Richmond's amazing prosperity and progress is con siderably lessoned. Everybody's Day come but once a year. Make the moat of it while it is here. Social Realm Mr. and Mrs. C. u. Hill Entertain. Saturday evening Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Hill entertained a company of friends at a charming dinner party at their magnificent new home on Skiles Heights. This home, already so beautiful, was given added lustre by the artis tic arrangement of the color scheme which was yellow. Golden Rod and Dahlias lent their effectiveness from a number of vases, and when the curtains were drawn aside the dining room and table presented a moat beautiful scene with the many soft lights of candles shaded with yellow chrysanthemums aud lovely place cards of yellow chrysanthem ums also. Beautiful silver and china added still more to the set ting of this lovely scene, which was fully equalled by the palatable and delicious dinner itself which was faultlessly served in five courses. The party lingered long at the table listening eagerly at the wit and hu mor of the genial host and hostess, between courses. The evening flew by on golden wings and at a late hour the company adjourned for home most reluctantly. The fortunate guests were as fol lows: Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Cramer, Mr. and Mrs. Frank S. Lambeth, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Armfield, Miss es Mary Johnson and Ella Lambeth, Messrs Charles and James Lam beth. One of the most enjoyable meet ngs of the embroidery club was held on Sept. 29th. with Miss Ida May Yow at her home on North Main St. The guests were met on the porch by Miss Yow and her mother, and invited into the parlor, where for some time, nim ble fingers fashioned many pretty things. Music by Miss Ella Lam beth both vocal and instrumental added much to the pleasure to the hour. Quite a number of guests enjoyed Miss Yow's hospitality. "A lovely potted fern was presented to Miss May Sumner who is to be mar ried in Nov., and was guest of hon or at this meeting. Very delicious refreshments were served in two courses by the hostess assisted by her 'sisters Misses Lil lian and Elizabeth to the following club members and guests. Mes dames Myers, Dixon, Byrd, Court ney, Marchal Hoover, Hayden, Mor ris, Martin, Boggs and Kasley, Misses Fife, Lambeth, Dorset, Sum ner Harris and Cates. At a late hour the guests reluctantly took their departure feeling much in debted to the hostess and her mother and siiera for a most pleas ant afternoon. Mrs. W. H. Peace delightfully ed' tertained the Ladies Aid Society of Main Street M. K. Church Tuesday afternoon. Entering the Reception Hall delicious fruit punch was serv ed. After the business session the Annual Chrysanthemum Show and Bazaar was discussed which will be some date to be named later in Nov. After a most profitable reading by Miss Peace, Miss Ella Lambeth favor ed us with one ofjher choice songs. Little Ruth the bright daughter of this home played an instrumental solo, all of which was greatly enjoy ed. Splendid cake and ice cream were served. This closed a most pleas ant meeting all leaving with best wishes for the hostess. Invitations have been issued reading as follows; Mr. and Mrs. Archibald Johnson request the pleasure of your company at the wedding reception of their daughter Mary and Mr. Charles Franklin Lambeth on Wednesday evening the eighteenth of October , at seven o'clock, "Rosneth" Thomasville, North Carolina.' Cards to the ceremony have been issued to a limited number. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Marris Kntartabi Last Friday evening Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Morris were host and host. ess at a beautiful appointed six o'clock dinner served in five courses Thoae present were Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Martin, -Miss Mary Johnson, Miso Nell Reese Morris, Mr. Chas. Lambeth. - The occasion was-greatly enjoyed by all. II
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