The Dispatch from Lexington, North Carolina • Page 1

THE SPA GEL MftO PEOPLE READ DISPATCH WHY SOT IOCI IP IT HAPPENS IT'S I THE DISPATCH OXLT OXE DOLLAR A IE ALL THE PAPER Cl THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE AND WITH THE PEOPLE ESTABLISHED LEXINGTON, N. WEDNESDAY, FEBUA11Y 17, 1909. VOL. XXVII NO. 4 SATURDAY C0CKTIJT6 DAY.

MINOR EYENTS OF THE WEElu THE ALDERMEN MEET. WEEK IN THE LEGISLATURE. Reception at March HoteL Friday night a brilliant reception Negr Shoots Policeman. Saturday night Policeman W. A.

BUUDDTG SITE SELECTED. Yletory Perches on the Banners ef the DowB-Towsers Whs "Palled lor AddertoB Lot The question now la, "When will It be buHtr For the public building site has been selected. A telegram Friday from Congressman R. Page confirmed the earlier reports that the secretary of the treasury had decided on the Adderton lot, the down town location, the site the Walsers pulled lor. After one of the most memorable lights ever made over anything In Lexington, not excepting political battles, a fight all the more strenuous because much of It was hidden, the lot first recommended by Inspector Ellsworth was selected over all other sites, In and over the Watson block site, with part of the public square thrown in, in particular, which site the McCrary faction of the republican party worked for with mtgLt and main.

Immediately after Mr. made his recommendation, the uptown people, lead by the Messrs. McCrary, laid siege to- Washington. Sturdy fighters, every man of the up-towners, they put np a game battle for their part of town. Although', It is said, the Inspector's report la usually final, so Intense was the pressure that the officials reopened the matter, and heard all sides.

Delegation after delegation went from Lexington to Washington. The two factions watched each other like hawks, lest strategy slip in and win advantage. Over and over again the subject was threshed out 'before Mr. Winthrop, assistant secretary of the Brief Mention of Various of the Past Few Days la State and Nation. Mrs.

Alice Roosevelt Longwor'7 was 25 years old same day Line 1 would have been 100 had he Uvea last Friday. She was born February 12, 1884. Mrs. F. D.

Anderson, sister ot Mrs. R. B. Glenn, died at Umatilla, Thursday, and Mrs. Glenn left Friday night for that place.

Ths bu. i was at Jonesboro. John J. Ensor, a school mate of Ze- bulon B. Vance, died at Bristol Friday.

He went to school with Vance 20 years before the war, at Washington College, Tenn. Charles Fodrell. the negro who killed his wife in cold blood on the 6th, was sentenced to die at Winston last Friday just a week having elapsed since his crime. He Is to be hanged on the -30th of ApriL Efforts are being- made by the wo men of Salisbury to have Thomas Brown pardoned that is, the W. C.

T. U. ask for it Brown has served three of ten years for breaking the home of W. M. Davis, and ia in very bad health.

7 4 George Murphy, charged with an attempt on the Wachovia bank at Spencer, was convicted last week In Rowan court, but the judge suspended judgment as to this, giving him 12 months in the pen at hard labor for a cutting scrape. Revenue officers haven't, gone out of business yet In Wilkes last week they hauled In three stills, one being found, near Holmana Ford; another near Clingman which proved to be a complete copper outfit, with 1,200 gallons of beer ready; and a third near New Castle. No prisoners were made. The Merchants 'Journal, a trade publication known to the North Car olina business men, has been sold by Norman H. Johnson to the Root Newspaper Association, of New York, tor the tidy sum of $150,000.

The paper is published at Charlotte and will remain there, with Mr. Johnson as editor of it Misses Mabel Hoffman and Pearl Holloway, teachers in the public school at Drexel, Burke county, were locked out of their schoolhouse last week by the students, who demanded a "treat it being the final week of the term. The teachers wired the sheriff at Morganton to come and open the doors. The larger boys will probably be Indicted for It Near Brim, Surry- county; Thurs day there was a shooting match between William P. Johnson and Thomas Nestor, in" which Johnson was fa tally wounded.

His family lives in Mt Airy- It appears that the two were friends, working at a sawmill, but after a night ot drinking and ca rousal, they had a. row, and Nestor shot He is in jail, and, is a native of Virginia, Mt Airy and part of Surry cour' are pestered' by a blind tiger kno-. as the "Peach Orchard," which Is 1 cated in Patrick county, across the North Carolina line, exists In open defiance of the Vir ia laws, but it seems that the glnla officers don't care to stop Revenue officers raided the place fently, but federal license was up to their eyeballs, and they quit ly left 7 M. M. Hensley," a young man Madison county attempted for ery in Asheville, was presented 18 months on the roads last we He put up a unique spiel, sayi when he arrived in Asheville he a headache, a stranger gave some headache medicine, after v.

-he recollected nothing until he v-behlnd the bars. Ha said he 'f religion five months ago, and tut reiigipue, Sallle Porter, colored woman Asheville who shot Bob Miller, ed, three times and killed him main street in that city, gets years in Uie pen. sentence 1 passed she laughed and em fi the officer and a few friends was delighted with the prosi ei living in the state prison five The Asheville negroes are lnd' the light sentence and said she be hanged bv the peck, E. E. Barringer, 1 man for V.

Wallace the loss of a horse belon firm and damage to samp, ing to $5000. He had bee 1 cbunty and Was returnh leaving the driver to brin ble team and samples. thage and Glendon one of 1 was drowned In a stream samples thrown In the they remained all night, 1 In a magistrate's court the other ay, the in a civil Uit re magistrate to have ceedlnfel opened with' presiding 6mcf Said it but if there wftl an id. i i make for rlehtwinanc. object, and accordingly uone, a preacher being 1 arare case.x Unless treated, the litigant i such- a feeling might suit before he got to co lit Riddle family at OfODerlv rfltnprl TLr-, killed by his son, Jan ior remonstrating clgafette, smoking cooling his hoi OtAer day thn MonYoe, a brother ot the late Sheriff James M.

Monroe, was shot and perhaps fatally wounded at Salisbury by a negro named John A. Jackson. The officer was living yesterday at last reports and maintained he would get well, but the doctors have little hope for him. The ball entered the abdomen and passed out at the back. An operation lasting tour hours was performed.

A train crew yesterday said the negro was seen at Spencer Monday night but at last accounts be was still at large. Officer Monroe was with Officer J. A. Slceloff, having been called to the negro settlement because Jackson was beating his wife. Jackson Is from Yorkville, and is a big, tall black man, with mustache.

There is a reward of $125 for him. If the negro 1b caught It is said he will be lynched so quick it will make his head swim. ThrVe Big Charlotte Concerns. One of the biggest department store firms in the state, the Eflrd Department Store, of Charlotte, has half-page ad in this Issue which talks directly to the smaller mer chants. The wholesale department of this concern is a paradise for small dealers, and the merchants who read The Dispatch are asked to try the Eflrd store on prices.

Another half-page ad is from the Parker-Gardner one of the largest home supply houses in the south, where you get anything you need in the home from a piano down. The firm Is well known all over the state. Dispatch readers should test this house on prices. The Mecklenburg Iron Works, a third Charlotte concern, advertises In this Issue, and invites Dispatch delegates to visit the plant Machinery and machine supplies can be had. Sawmill men especially will do well to correspond with this firm.

Yadklnltes Go West Another party, five in number, left Yadkin county last week for the west, going to New Mexico. This is the second party of Yadkin young men to leave since Christmas, and a third 1b being organized to leave 'the first of March for the same place. They are making a mistake, but who can blame these young ambitious to do something? Yadkin is cut off from the world, has no railroads, is out of the beaten track 'of com merce and progress. One. of the finest sections In the state, peopled by sturdy citizens noted tor their hospitality and Intelligence, it yet has little, to offer to Its young men to' induce them to stay at home and aid in development A railroad into Yadkin would be a priceless boon to the countyl if 1 v' Southern Rons Farmers' Train.

The Southern railway the 23rd, 24th and 25th will operate a train. which will be in the nature of an agricul tural special, between points en the Winston-Salem division, on account of farmers' meetings to be held at Ru ral Hall, Pinnacle, Pilot Mountain Mt Airy, Donnaha, Siloam, Rockford, Elkln, Roaring River, North Wilkes-boro, Winston, Kernersville Mmd Greensboro. The railway people have arranged these special meetings In conjunction with the state de partment of agriculture, and Commissioner W. A. Graham, of that department; W.

N. Hutt, horticulturist; Franklin Sherman, entomologist; T. B. Parker, demonstrator; W. A- Petree, tobacco expert, and others, Including representatives of the land and Industrial department of the Southern, will deliver addresses on various farm topics.

Vegetable and fruit raising, tobacco and general crops will be talked. Farmers are asked tto turn out and hear these men and ask all the questions they wish The whole Is planned to further the agricultural interests that secypn, MARRIED. During the week license to marrj' was Issued to W. L. Wyatt "and Miss Marie Anderson; J.

E. Rickard and Miss Amy E. Styers, of Cooleemee; Z. B. Johnson and Miss Hattie B.

Reid; W. J. Davis and Miss Eunlus P. Snider; Jacob Byerly and Miss Julia Luya. A young man named L.

W. Cllnard, aged 19, applied for license and had a permit from his parents," but had none for Miss Allle h. Hudson, his Intended bride, who is but 15 years of age. After filling the license, the register held It up, and nothlpg more has been heard of couple. Dr.

Leonard officiated at the wedding of Mr. Raymond Everhart and Mrs. B. Fry, ot Lexington, last At Clemons on the 9th Miss Florence Cowles was married to Mr. W.

G. Culbreth, both being from States ville. The bride is a daughter of the late Col. Cowles, of Wllkesboro. grand-Calvin DIED.

The little child of MY. M. K. Bradley, ot. the Nokomis section, died last Dr.

Leonard held the funeral Saturday at the residence. The body burled at the Second Reformed church cemetery. Capt J. F. Spaugh, one cf the oldest and best known conductors on the Southern, and a Davidson coun- ty man, died In Asheville Monday, alter months or poor health.

He was a brother of Messrs. Peter and Robert Spaugh, and had many relatives around Iinwood, and is well known In Lexington. Until a few moths ago he had a run on the Murphy division, which he had to give up on account of 111 health. Captain Spauph. It will be was In the train wrpekri at brlil-n, rear The Dispatch's Greatest Popularity Contest Will Close With the Present Week.

Saturday Is the last day. From now until then the hottest work of the contest will be done. Saturday morning there will be thousands of votes cast; always Is a rush the last few hours, and 400 votes always look bigger than at any other time. The way to be comfort able the last tew minutes is to get those 400 votes now. The winners will be announced Saturday, after a committee, has counted the ballots, and In next week's paper their names with a full program of the trip will be published.

The voting stops at noon, precisely. Arrangements hays not been en tirely perfected as yet The farmers will go to Charlotte the 26th, on a special train, which will leave Thom as ville at 7 clock, will stop at Lake, will arrive- at Lexington about 7:25, and Lin wood about 7:30. No further stops will be made and the train will make an early arrival at Char lotte, where Automobiles will meet the party and whisk them out into the country, where all will view ev idences of the progress and prosperity which obtain In the -best county In North Carolina. There will be a bar becue for dinner, and in the. afternoon the city will be toured rae end to end." Supper will be had at the famous Seiywn Hotel, tne nnest In the state.

The return will be made at 9 o'clock on the night of the 26th. Everything possible will be done for the comfort and pleasure of the farmers. There may be some changes made in the above details, but If so, all will be -announced next week, i The voting this -week has been lighter than usual, always is the last week, for contestants hold up their loads ot votes to cast the final day, and during the closing days. The6th is going to be a red letter The Union cornet band will accompany the contestants and "make music all the day." Every sight of interest in Mecklenburg and Charlotte will be viewed. Charlotte and the Mecklenburg farmers are much' In terested in the event and will extend a cordial welcome.

The man who misses the trip because of inactivity, when he could win. by a little effort, will regret it Then there are the splendid prizes, a ltst of which Is given on another page in this issue, together with the places where the va- rous prises, may be seen. And re member that to win out, you must have at least 4,000. No contestant who. has less than 4,000 will be count ed a winner.

All having over that will be In the race for the trip. Here is; the vote this ABBOTTS CREEK TOWKSHLPl J. J. Idol 7 26,575 J. W.

Yokeley 15,755 Alotazo Green 7 6,880 J. J. McCuiston 6,770 N. R. Teague 6,105 Luther Green C.

E. Osborne 1,020 A J. Hedgecock 405 ALLEGHANY TOWNSHIP. R. B.

Owen .4 13,285 A. L. Newsome 7,335 W. M. C.

Surratt 4,150 Wiley Steed 2.640 J. H. Stokes 1,050 ARCADIA TOWNSHIP. D. C.

Mock 11,700 Geo. A. Ferryman 11,470 L. E. Ripple 8,230 J.

L. Zimmerman 430 BOONE TOWNSHIP. R. K. Williams 9,095 James Green 485 W.

L. Snider 400 D. W. Barnes JO' M. A.

Lumax lai Olin Davis .7 100 CONRAD HILL, TQWl(ftHIP, C. A. Swing 18,970 AS. Miller 15,765 jno. w.

Msjf t.m D. I Bik Yt 8.740 G. Regan 6.03Q T. 0. Kinsley V.

2,405 Peter Johnson 490 COTTOir GB0YE. TOWNSHIP R. J. Lookabiir L. A Smith J.

D. Palmer T. M. Sheets Geo. W.

Smith S. C. Bailey W. F. Miller i.

E. H. Worfford M. S. Ai Michael EXMOXS TOWNSHIP.

10,530 8,36,0, 7..440 1,925. 1,605 850 600 810 Allison Snider 16,770 Hosea M. Skeen 14,315 Oscar Hughes 9,765 Carl Wright 1,740 A. J. Beck 640 W.

T. Byerly 400 HAMPTON TOWNSHIP. T. Nelson 15,720 W. I Davis 600 Sink 440 HEALING SPRINGS TOWNSHIP.

Walter S. Anderson 3,910 J. Walter Daniel. 3,270 Lewis Rogers 490 JACKSON HILL TOWNSHIP. Alex Lofltn 14,840 C.

W. Stokes 11,265 Irvln Surratt 1,050 LEXINGTON TOWNSHIP. J. A. Walton 19.600 I Weaver 19,580 16,425 13,915 David Sink I.

Y. Clodfelter Sam T. Berrler S. L. Yokeley W.

F. Benson 12,275 11,070 10.235 10,165 4,240 1,040 730 '400 480 Henry Tyslnger G. Sink .7 Jeff. Berrler C. L.

Conrad C. C. Pickett .7 Robert Conrad MIDWAY TOWNSHIP. Hugh Lindsay 10,925 ti. cnoar 10,040 'pnh D.

8,465 V. f'colott 400 .1 7 xmerman 123 Clodfelter Salt Dlscassed and the Pay of Firemen fixed at 170 Poll Tax. The board of aldermen held their usual monthly session Monday night All were present except Mr. Coley. Little was done save attending to routine The pay of the fire men was fixed at $7,50 and poll tax.

per year, payable Quarterly, Company No. 1 to hate; 18 men on this basis, though It can lave 25, and is to handle-the hookvand ladder wag on; and Company No 2 Is to have the same pay on a basis of 15 men, without being held responsible for handling the lC will amount to $135 a year and tax for No. 1 and $112.50 tor No. 2, and tax. Any fire man not required to pay poll tax on account of age will get that much, $3.40, In cash.

This decision was ar rived at after the fir committee made 11s report ana some aiscussion peia. The Clodfelter damage suit Same In for discussion, but nothing Was done. Dr. C. M.

Clodeflter, in, a suit against the town and the West Construction Company, was awarded a verdict of $1,700 for injuries sustained when the streets1 were being Im proved. The West Company is bond ed to insure the town against harm. Both being jointly liable, each is lia ble to Dr. Clodfelter; but It will doubtless take another suit to get the money from the. West people or their bonding company; and it la held that a mandamus proceeding to make the town pay cannot be enforced, as the town has reached, its tax limit and only a special act of the legislature can make it possible to collect spec ial tax' to 'pay the' amount On the other hand the town is said to be unable to make the bonding -company pay until it has lost something, which, as yet, it has not and will not until it pays the' damage.

Then it could proceed against the bonding company. The matter was left over and the town attorney will be'consulted farther. The superintendent show ed a surplus of $65 tor He was Instructed to get the whistle donated by Mr. J. Wi Crowell, and place It on the power plant Instead ot the fake fire whistle that Has been used.

The Crowell whistle was the first one UBed as a fire whistle, and Is a good one, Just now they are using- a plain clear whistle from' the brass fac tory, which might be easily recognized in case of fire by the manner in which it is sounded. R. B. McRary made complaint to the board that during August Sep tember and October the light bill ot Mrs. C.

E. Ford averaged $7 a month for eight lights, only two or three of which were used and then lot much; whereas" duftng bill was only and lnvJamiary fo.70, Seeing something was. wrong, the board referred Same to the light committee. A. D.

Yarboro and D. E. Hep ler were relieved of double tax tor failure to list' The of Messrs Curry and Ever hart, for the plate glass broken during the holidays, was not allowed. An explosion shattered many dollars worth of window glass in these stores. One of the aldermen complained that the school grounds are muddy and there are no "walks, and when it was mentioned that $350 Interest is due the town from the school board this alderman said he would oppose remittance of the Interest as was last year, unless the board, noydad waiKS ior ine cnuaren.

Several amendments, will be asked ot the legislature straighten out the charter, one being- that one-third of the work down by the road foro shall be done inside of town, Horrible Aecldent to Yeans Lady. Miss Una Sykes, ot Elisabeth City was horribly and fatally burned at her home Friday. She was heating a pot of tar on the cooking stove and when she attempted to lift the pot, the bottom fell out Instantly the highly Inflammable stuff was ablaze and the room full of fire. Her cloth ing caught and by the time her fam ily reached her, her hair and clotfllng were burned off and her whole body cooked. She was 22 years old.

Isaiah Miller 7,060 Huffman 6,820 Walter Delap P. Frttts 405 Henry Mlze 400 SHYEB HILL TOWNSHIP, A. V. Miller Henry Palmer 7. 4,375 O.

R. Parks 4,000 J. F. Peters 7. 600 Zeno B.

Tussey 400 Chas. R. Hedrlck B. R. Cross 400 ,400 THOMASYILLE TOWNSHIP.

Y. F. Cecil -7. 30,290 A. M.

Hlatt 7. 24,275 J. R. Stone 7 22,680 Z. J.

Tomllnson 22,390 J. Black 20,900 'S. Payne nit 18,525 17,150 17,105 15.615 8,070 .5.260 A. M. Peace W.

H. Sink A. F. Rothrock Felix Everhart J. N.

Snider C. 2,945 E. Crlddlebough 850 800 600 435 400 400 400 400, 400 400 A. B. Black M.

R. Rothrock J. Adam Hedrlck W. E. Conrad J.

D. Newton Nathan Ward Erastus E. Mendenhall L. J. Shuler H.

J. Conrad .7 7. TYEO TOWNSHIP. W. B.

Hunt R. B. Myers 22,180 19,515 2,680 1,060 James A. Young J. M.

Farabee ...7.. YADKIN COLLEGE TOWNSHIP. A. J. Lanier 12,255 Chas.

M. Wilson 2.470 D. J. Itobbs 80 R. B.

405 was given at the March Hotel by Mrs. John A. Brown In honor ot Mr. and Mrs. W.

Gilliam Brown and Mr. and Mrs. Brantley H. Finch. About two hundred and fifty invitations were Issued and a number out-of-town people were present It was one of the most notable social events known to Lexington society.

Little Misses Dorothy Mendennail ana Frances Holt Monteastle received cards at the head of the stairs. In the parlor Mrs. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. W.

O. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. B. H.

Finch, and Miss Margaret Graves, of Carthage, received the guests. In the hallway Misses Anna Brown, Camllle Hunt and Bessie Henry served punch. Mrs. Monteastle, Mrs. W.

H. Mendennail and Mrs. O. E. Mendennail led the guests to the refreshment room where sherry bisque and assorted cakes were served by Misses Craw ford Smith, Pattle Walser and Louise Hill.

The rooms were a blaze of light and were tastefully decorated. The out-of-town guests were Misses Margaret and Allle Graves, ot Carthage; Mrs. E. C. Cllnard, Messrs.

Wm. Brown, Rainy Burton and Frank Bailey, ot Winston; Mr. Kemp Battle, of Pee Estelle Stewart, of Monroe; Mrs. John A. Noell, of Rox-boro; and Misses Bessie Henry and Anna Brown, of Winston.

5ew Garage In Charlotte. Mr. Osmond L. Barringer, the wide ly-known automobile dealer, of Char lotte, will erect a garage within a short time, to cost $10,000. It will be 50x180 feet, and will be equipped with electrically driven machinery for repairing machines.

The business ot this dealer in autos has largely increased. Mr. Barringer Is greatly Interested in the1 proposed long distance macadamized road be tween Washington and Atlanta, for which it Is expected that the federal government will appropriate some money. A road like this would be al most as good as a railroad in fact many people engaged in development hold that between the two, it is a better Investment to build good roads than for people to vote bonds for a railroad. Mr.

Moore Using Around Dar- Msoft. Mr. Charles Cotton Moore, of Charlotte. Is In this section looking after a mht of way for the lines ot of the Southern Power Company, the big electric company on the Catawba river at Great Falls. Mr.

Moore states that the line has been mapped out from Albemarle to Salisbury, has been put Into Salisbury, and is now being pushed on to Greensboro. A pleasant gentleman, his blends here delight to have him call on them. Davidson igave him liberal support In his race for the nomination for commissioner of agriculture, and Lad he won it, he have made the best commissioner the state has ever had. Diggers Ignorant of Crime. The frightful tragedy mentioned In The Dispatch last week, wherein J.

G. Hood was murdered on the streets of Charlotte by W. S. Blggers, has apparently dethroned the reason of the murderer, who is in Mecklenburg jail to all appearances ignorant 'of the crime he has committed. Following his arrest he collapsed and acted like a demon.

Later he became calm but showed little sanity. He is gradually improving. There Is little likelihood that he will ever be hanged, for whether sane or not he would hardly be convicted before a Jury after the week of apparent Insanity. IS." The other day congress went up against the ominous number 13 in a vay that made the superstitious shiver. On the 13th day ot the month 13 supply bills came up tor consideration and only 13 days were left o( ths session in which to consider thry, Spencer has organized a M.

Baraca class, for ths study of the Bi ble, and of the 57 men who Joined, 85 are Southern railway employes. Mr. A Saleeby, the well-known Syr-Ian merchant. Is president, and the teacher Is Col. John S.

Henderson. Messrs. C. L. Bunch and John J.

Eagle are secretaries. Mr. Saleeby is doing a lot ot commendable work in the Baraca line, and Col. Henderson Is one ot the best equipped Blbl teachers In North Carolina. get it But for all that it was a fight for prestige by the local republican leaders.

It Is well known that In the republican convention last summer the McCrary steam roller flattened out the Walserltes. McCrary men were nom inated and under McCrary leadership they were elected, It needed but this one thing more to make the Mc Crary clan supreme In the party In Davidson. More than that, this was the first gun in the battle that will rater1 rage over the postofflce. It is generally understood that Mr. R.

Lee McCrary will stand for the postmaster-ship and that Postmaster J. G. Walser will have extreme reluctance In turning the goodly Job loose. If It should come to pass that his chances become slim, there Is hardly room, for doubt that the Walser clan would put up another man for the place. In any event there la likely to be a gloriously warm fight over the postofflce, though it Is some distance off, as Mr.

Walser has less than two years to serve, his time being out In June 1916. 1 The public building Bite matter will doubtless have bearing on the appointment since It means prestige for the Walsers and a loss of It for the McCrarys. And so far as standing before Mr. Taft Is concerned r-guard to who Is who, all part ardent Taft men. But the site's settled.

thousands souls breathe a lief, even though some S' Bflls to Allow Alexander to Make Brandy and te Exempt New Han- ever Turned Down. The session of the legislature is more than half over. A mass of un interesting legislation has been handled, but few bills of state importance. The bills to allow Alexander county to make brandy and to exempt New Hanover from the prohibition law, were turned down by the committee, as was the Johnston county cider and brandy bllL Minor ity reports wlU be filed by the members from those counties, but of course nothing will be done. Thursday the contested election case from Dare county came up in the house, and the member from that county, Williams, was seated over' the contestant Strlngfleld.

Mose Harshaw, from Caldwell, voted for Williams, saying It was only a row between democrats and he was for the man who had the job. He said he didn't care which one was seated, being like the old woman whose hus band was fighting a bear. She said she "didn't care a darn which whup- ped." Most of the republicans-voted for Strlngfleld, who posed as an independent' Two years ago an independent was elected from Dare, but acted with the republicans all the time. The bill to allow the boards of ed ucation In the different counties to be elected by the people of those counties provoked a warm po litical discussion in the senate Thursday. The democrats) charged that the bill was tor political bun combe, only.

It was moved to table It without discussion but the dem ocrats allowed the minority to speak. The committee bad made an unfavorable report on the bill Republican senators made eloquent pleas tor local-self government but chased to cover when the democrats demanded of them why the republican party had not changed the established or der of appointing boards of education while It was In more, said they, why did the republican party appoint aldermen for various eastern clues when Russell was governor, naming negroes for. aldermen, instead ot letting those cities elect their aldermen. That floored the boys. One said It was a blunder and he wouldn't defend it The democrats pointed out that the state policy was to have a uniform system of ed ucation, and this could not be enjoy ed with ail its attendant blessings If instead of one central system there were 99 different systems, or as many as there are counties.

The bill, introduced purely for politics, Is dead. 1 Last week Governor Kltchln, sent a message urging the passage of an anti-trust bill. There- ha been a big fight over what Is known as "Subsection introduced two years ago and defeated, In a bill at trusts. Senator Manning, ot Durham, has introduced a substitute for Sub-section A. It "Is said to embody the thought of the democratic platform on the subject and yet at the sametlme there appears to be no panic on account ot It in the offices of the American Tobacco Company.

If It is as good as the famous subsection, why not pass the sub-sec- seatton? is a question people ask Asijiu, it it pot believed by some that ilr. from Durham, would a bill that would cripple the trust, which has Its biggest plants In Dutham. account of the fact that Mt Manning was cam paign and because Mr. Kltchln's camjxdgn was filled with bitter, attacks on the tobacco trust, the people of the state are watching Intently the outcome ot this legisla tion. Part of the tobacco growing country is for the bill and part against It There Is a quite general belief that the trust will not be pes tered.

If sub-section A passes, It would hit the Tobaccp. Co, hard. Senators Dpckery and Elliott have Introduced Joint bills to eall a constitutional convention In. 1911, 'and also meagijrea sailing for elections everv fcuv years and sessions of the legislature every four years. The Barripger blH for a new judicial dls-wt to be Composed of Guilford and Alamance county, passed by the senate, was killed on Its third reading In the house.

Speaker Graham has Introduced a bill to pension negroes who aided the Confederacy, they be ing placed in a 5th class of pension-era. He also has bill to require the state geologist to make a map of every county In the state. The bill to amend the divorce law of two years ago, which allowed dl vorcei after ten years separation, provided there were no children, and make it apply also when children were over 21, was reported unfavorably by the committee, as was the bill to make the wife equal with the husband before the law. The compromise challenge bill that will be reported Is to give the defendant 20 challenges and the staid fiiaht chal lenges, in criminal actions, With none at the foot of the panel. If the committee's action Is endorsed, criminals sentenced to death will be executed by electricity, as the committee Is favorable.

The condemned will be taken to Raleigh, unless there be appeal, immediately after their conviction; but If there is appeal, they remain in their counties until the supreme court acts. Bodies will be sent at public expense to the families when requested. Electrocutions will not be public. Friday the legislature adjourned In honor of Lincoln's 100th birthday. Before adjournment some business was transacted.

The Joint committee on counties will turn down the bill to divide Robeson. Thus one new county goes by.the board. A 8unday law neia tie attention awhile, but was defeated. It Is said that the northern tourists at 7 Plnehurst demoralize the country by playing golf on Sundays, and this bill would have got 'em. Ffinator IT.inklns has Introdncpl a 1 to '1 a r's i-rt treasury, until finally he wouldn't even see anybody who looted like he might be from Lexington.

He must have dreamed of Lexington in Lis slumbers. Politics leaped into the ring. Political wires were pulled. The Mc-Crarys won over to them the powers of the state republican organization. National Committeeman Duncan en tered their ranks and fought for them.

Every possible political advantage was with the up-towner. Those on the inside expected the McCrarys to. win. On the other hand the Walsers, also, are scrappers, and they dont know when to quit They too, had power ful allies, and they too gently tugged the little hidden wires here and there Finally a second inspector came down. In fact it was reported at one time that Mr.

Winthrop himself would come. But Mr. Fields was. sent and he looked over the ground. When he left, or within a few days, thereafter, It was rumored that his coming was to let the Walsers down as easy as.

possible; that his visit had no significance other than that the site "had been selected In accordance with the wishes of the McCrary clan. The down-towners were blue. They liad about given up hope. The matter dragged along. Dally It was expected that word would come from Washington.

It didn't come Hope revived down town. Beta were discussed. 7 Then an advance telegram came last week, Indicating that the Walsers lad won their battle. Finally every thing was confirmed and all doubters silenced. Official papers arrived.

One half the town was elated; the other ha! depressed and sore. The roosters at General Walser's place have "been terrifying all of State street In itht early hours by their loud and raucous crowing, the variety, volume, length and exultation of which Is said srarpass anything ever heard "before, wot excepting 'the last demo cratic state convention. Ob the other hand there are those "whs epenly express their disgust and isay they hope the old building never will be built, which of course, is -vain hope. The fight over the site, 'doubtless, will cause delay, but In due course of time the $60,000 structure will stand behind the trees on the Adderton lot We learn that the machinery for carrying into operation these public building matters Is automatic and that the laws govern Ing the appropriations are executed as rapidly as the number of appro priations will permit. Ot the appro-' prlatlon, 166,000," made last year by congress for Lexington, only $15,000 for a site was available; 'his jbtrtlon of congress will provide the remain ing $50,000 for a building.

The se lection of the architectural design is left with Architect Taylor, of the treasury department, and he will '-make plans for the best possible "building that can be tad for the money. Nobody need et out of patience now that the site Is se lected, for the town will unquestion ably have the building. After the plans are settled, the treasury de-. partment will advertise for bids, and the contract will be awarded to the bidder who offers the greatest inducement, to the government Work ought to begin within the year, and -the completion ot the structure will then depend upon the facilities and opeed of the successful bidder. The site is a beautiful one.

In fact Its beauty was about Its sole asset It li not In the center of the business i portion, though it Is claimed that- it Is about the cen ter of population. It Is below the last business house on Main street, on the corner of Main and Third avenue, between the Methodist and Presbyterian churches, the latter church being, however, across Third This distance from the business center was a strong objection to the lot, but Mr. Winthrop waved aside this and all other objections, and. selected It. The property belongs to Mrs.

Martha Adderton and the government pays her for It It Is worth the money and when the building Is completed, It is doubtful if any. town In the state will hays more beautiful public building grounds. As noted, the fight was largely between two factions of -the republican party, though of course democrats mixed In on both' sides, according to their location. Every man wanted the bn'Mlng as near him as he could sorely ,1.