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The Mount Airy News from Mount Airy, North Carolina • Page 8

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Mount Airy, North Carolina
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mdtm Mora Ntwt from tha New England States. If any one hn any doubt, an to the virtue of Foley's kidney Cure, thev need only to refer to Mr. Alvin if. Stimpson, of Willimantic, who, after almost losing ope of recovery, on account of the failure of to many remedies, finally tried Foley' Kidney Cure, which ha aavs was "just the thing" for him, as four bottles cured him completely. He is now entirely well and free from all the suffering incident to acute kidney trouble.

Sold by II. Gwyn. Over Quarter of a Century Old THE MOUNT AIRY NEWS had swarmed with Santanta' scouts, bent on retaking the captive." That was the kind of an Indian ha was. "With only one eye open I made a quick run to the ditch and a flying leap, which landed us on the opposite edge. The bank cave and we slid scrambling to the bottom.

We stuck to our horse, Nancy and I. but when I'd found away out of the washout, a dozen pony riders were between us and the fort. "I told Nancy to cling tight; then I kicked our pony's ribs, and set him going; and with a Colt in each hand, I rode into the bunch, blazing at them right and left. I don't suppose in that darkness that my shots did any damage, but they served to clear a path, and we bolted through, with the crowd whooping on our heels. "They'd have got us, too, under the very walls of the pwt, but Bent was ready with his men when he heard the first shots.

I rode straightat his stockade gate, yelling for dear life. The gate swung wide, and Nancy and I went flying through. "In a month after her rescue Colonel Bent landed Nancy at Santa Word was sent to the mission, where there were two people glad enough to lay aside their mourning." Angla Found Cullty. Danville, April 20. -T.

M. Ar president of the Dry Fork Distilling Company, was found guilty in the Federal Court here to-day of having committed extensive revenue frauds on the government. The jury was out about an hour. Immediately after the verdict was returned Judge McDowell sentenced Angle to four years in the penitentiary and imposed a fine of $15,000. Attorneys for the defense noted an appeal and bail wa3 fixed at 20,000, which was furnished.

Angle is also under sentence in North Carolina for violation of the revenue laws in that State. The cases against the other officers of the Dry Fork Company and the government officials charged with collusion to defraud have all been continued. A Tale of the Frontier Cont'mied from rage 5. keen attacked, as she had never heard anything about it from the JKiowas. ''She shown good strategy for a nine-year-old in obeying: my instructions.

She had gone out to the dance with the squaw, who claimed now to be her mother, nad pretended to be sick, and wanted to go to the teepee and lie down. The squaw refused consent, and Nancy sprang away from her and ran to the looge, dodged in at the front and out at the back, then anions the teepees farther and farther from the dance ground. Then with the fierce squaw close at her heels, she had rounded the end of the village out of sight of the crowd. "After hearing her story I bade the child keep tjuiet, ana founa an easy perch for myself. I could still hear the boom-boom! of the drums, which kept up for houir, "Nancy slept, and at daylight the noises subsided.

We passed that day a wearisome one in the tree and with nothing to alarm lis greatly. Toward noon, peering out from my cover, I saw the Kiowns and Cheyenes. with packs and travees, moving down the jiver trail. The rendezvous had broken up, and the big villages passed within two or three hundred yards of us. "It was three houn after dark that night before I unloosed the little girl and put her feet again on the good soft earth.

We silently threaded the woods, coming out on the bluffs at an edge of timber opposite where we had been in hiding. We passed round on the prairie and approached Bent's Fort from above. "It was the best manoenver I could frame to fool any Indians who might be lurking round. "But the Indians were more shrewd than I had thought. With at my heels, I was making my way down a dryvashout which ran to the river some two hundred yards above the pos- The Oldest Weekly Newspaper in this Part of North Carolina DeWitt's Little Early Risers are small, safe, sure and gentle little pills.

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Only first class, thoroughly seasoned, kiln-dried lumber is used. They are put together with screws, dowels and the best quality of glue, are well finished with a superior grade of varnish, and are rubbed and hand-polled. Bellows" The bellows is made of three-ply veneer stock, manufactured especially for the purpose, combined with the quality of genuine rubber cloth and leather. It is of ample size and easy to pump. We use special extra pedal hinges.

makeslhFbest and most" prof itablejadver- ldecdy a aoupl of -JucKmia tising medium in Surry County. Action The key-board and reeds are of the highest grade; we use only We will gladly furnish specimen copies and quote advertising rates to any one interested. the best felts and leather for valves and mutes, and avoid all danger from sticking keys by using cherry tracker pin guides and hard maple pitmans thoroughly polished with graphite. Tone The tone of the Putnam Organ speaks for itself. Both members of the firm of W.

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With our large factory plant equipped with the finest machinery and appliances, we have the best facilities for the production of the very highest type of the moderd reed organ. This ''Speciad'' Style is manufactured for and sold exclusively by R. J. BOWEN BRO, Winston, N. C.

WRITE TO US. NOTICE TO PEOPLE WHO ARE Ml SUBSGPJBSBS TO THIS jumped at me from behind a bank and another pounced upon poor little Nancy. "I was pretty active and strong in those I struck out at the first and had the luck to hit him on the windpipe. I grabbed the other about the middle; we went down together, and I gave him a stout rap over the skull with one of my pistols. "I scam bled up and saw the other viliian running oft' with Nancy.

He was making for a clump of trees on the river-bank, where his horse was tied. "Then I did the hardest sprinting of my life. The Indian couldn't have had more than fifty yards the start; yet in a three-hundred-yard run, and burdened as he was, he was within five rods -of his pony when I came up with him. "He me at his He dropped Nancy, whirled and fired oointblank at me. His powder s'nged ray face and nearly put out my left eye, it's never been good since, and if I hadn't had a cocked Colt in hand, it would have been all over with me.

Rut I was ready, and a half-minute later I had Nancy in front of the Kiowa's saddle and was racing ir Bent's, four-hundred yards a ray. "Even as I mounted the horse, heard the clatter of ponies coming out from the bluffs on the other fice of the washout, and I knew that the woods and hills jt of Ointment for Catarrh at Coilains Mercury i men will svrcly destroy th smell and completely derange the whole system when entering it through the mucous surfaces. Such articles ne be used except on pre-rrptions from reputable physicians, as damage they will do ten foM to u' good you can possibly derive from HhD's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by Cheney Toledo, contains mercury, and is taken in-leinuliy, acting directly upon the blood mucous surfaces of the system. In buying Hall's Catarrh Cure be sure you i genuine. It i taken internally Unquestionablyjithe Largest Circulated Paper in Surry County THE MOUNT AIRY NEWS J.

E. JOHNSpN, Editor If you will cut out' the blankapplicationbelow and ail to us we wiil stir THE NEWS to you and you can pay us at your convenience, li'-any sutscriber I will induce his neighbor to sign the application and mail to us we will give him 25 cts. eredrit on his subscription. None but.reliable persons solicited on th's proposition. Application for a Years Subscription to The Mount Airy News; .190.

Date. Mr. E. Johnson, Sir: If you will send me The Mount Airy News for one year I will pay you $1.00 in cash or produce before the year expires. Nhuim of Dew sutriKr Fontnrnce of tif Witness: in Toledo, Ohio, by free.

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Years Available:
1896-1914