The Lenoir Topic from Lenoir, North Carolina • Page 3

Are Yon Interested. Read and Remember. HEW SPRING GOODS. TH? LISKOIB. TOPIC WEDNESDAY, jJULY 19, LR93.

fall term of Hibriten Academy will pen on Monday, August 7. The efficient work done the preyious session suggests a large attendance, and Prof. Phillips requests all pupils to enter on the first 1 Mr. E. Coffey was- off on a mountain trip last week.

Mrs. Rowe, of Texas, is visiting LOCAL NEWS. day, as the classes wjll then be ar Read C. M. Sigmon'a new ad ranged.

"Aad Tksy Twain Still bs Oaa Huh." To the Editor of 'Ihe Lenoir" Topic: On Wednesday, the 12th, at 11:30 o'clock, at the residence of the bride's father, Mr. Rob't V. Griffin, son of D. A. Griffin, of Caldwell county, was married to Miss Sallie Puett.

daughter of Mr. J. P. Puett, of Caldwell, Rev. J.

P. England officiating. The attendants were: M. Coffey and Miss Effie Miller; Jno. McCall and Miss Ella Griffin; Geo.

P. Blair and Miss Lula Bush; R. B. Bush and Miss Alice Puett. After the marriage ceremony the minister and his wife, attendants.

All persons who havo subscrib was the G. relatives in Lenoir and Caldwell. "i Miss Mary Buxton left on Saturday on visit to friends in Ashe ville; Mrs W. L. Sherrill, of Rutherford College, is visiting Mrs.

H. H. Jordan. j- Mrs. McLean of Asheville, is visiting her daughter, Mrs.

8. M. -f ed to the fund-for the purchase of a vertisement. Last Saturday R. 's pay day.

The threshing oat last week. The Smallest Profits and machines Btarted site for the plant of the Caldwell Northern Railroad are requested to the Lowest Prices. I37I am now receiving new meet in the court house Wednesday Rev; H. 0. Marley has moved to Dr.

Newland's farm in the east In some of the best makes of goods known to trade for the least possible money night next, July 19, at 8:30 o'clock. It is hoped that all subscribers will end. be present. Mr. Ii P.

Henkel has just har Mr. H. C. -Martin, of i Blowing Rock, spent a day or two in Lenoir last week. i Mesara.

John and Drew Patterson. rs. j. kj. mcuowan suffered a stroke of paralysis last week, from rested 50 acres of oata, which are fine.

Rev. Li W. Thorn as is conduct- Spring and which she died on Thursday night, BUT AND TRY aged about 71 years. She was bur ilw genua vix uiccuuo an iiui iu Summer Ooods. Doufirlass 3and led at the burying ground at the Under this motto we are offering large and well selected stock of General Merchandise suitable for Catawba.

Katydid 8 gave the signal for Home for the Aged and Infirm, Rev. G. D. Sherrill conducting the the Spring and Summer trade. funeral services.

BUY AND TBY There is an apple true Mr in Ladies and Gents EAGLE Shoes. of Salem, are visiting at Palmyra, on the Yadkin. Mr. Cannon Lowdermilk, of Patterson, has been visiting in Lenoir for some time. Mrs.

Hutchison and son, of Mecklenburg, are yisiting at Mr. S. W. Hamilton's. Mr.

G. H. PhilUiw, of Beaver Creek, Ashe county, was visiting in Lenoir last week. Miss Myrtie Webb, of Mulberry, was on a visit to her aunt, Mrs. J.

N. Bairdf last week. ooues roweu orcmara tnat was and the bride and groom adjourned to the dinner table, which was well loaded with a yariety of delicacies sufficient to please the fancy as well as tickle the palate ef the moat fastidious appetite. After the entire of about had dined, they repaired to the parlor, where two or three hours were spent in pleasant converse. The bride and groom were accompanied to the home of the groom's lather, where a party of about forty gave them a very hearty reception.

At five o'clock another table groaning under the weight of dainties, was prepared. As we stood by the table arranged in gxd style -by Mrs. Jake Bush and everything passing of so quietly we resem bled somnambulists. After supper Miss Lula Bush and Miss Ella Griffin furnished music. As I am an inexperienced writer.

and have some special inducements bearing apples before the Revolu Dry Goods. to offer tionary war. The tree is still healthy and bearing fruit. This tree must he 125 years old. This is ahead of In this line our stock is complete.

BuyandTry the tree which Was spoken of by the In menr piece goods we have Cash buyers and pay- Our Ladies fine Ohio made Shoes. ilkesboro 'Chronicle a week or so down customers. ago, which was 100 years oldr As usual, Caldwell takes the cake. -i-Our subscription books are still open for new subscribers. Don't Env anrl T-rtr frost on October 12th, on the night of July 12th.

We understand that the furniture factory will not resume work before the middle of August. Granite Falls Academy will begin its fall session August 7, with Mr. G. Crisp aS principal. To say that it Was warm last week does not "kivver the case," to borrow from Abernethy.

It was just hot. A rain fell oyer at Patterson Sunday evening. There was no rain here, but at Mr. G. Clarke's there was a nice shower.

Mr. J. B. Clarke has been appointed postmaster at Blowing Hock. Let tiiis good work go on, and on, nntil it strikes Lenoir.

From the Watauga Democrat we learn that work on the Boone and Blowing Rock Turnpike will begin sometime inAngust. There were services in the Presbyterian and Episcopal churches fiundav morning. There were no be bashful, come right along and i nt And would request those who wish Our Gents Nobby "Tour- Cassimeres, Jeans and Cot-tonades In Ladies Dress Goods we have Cashmeres, Wnite Goods, Sateens, Ohambray, per cals, Prints, Mrs. J. Deal, of Cedar Valley, is on a visit to the home of her father in Iredell county.

Rev. and Mrs. H. H. Jordan and Miss Flora Sellars spent a few days at Blowing Rock last week.

Messrs J. S. Deal and Lawrence Greer are assisting Register Palmer in making out the tax books. give us a ooiiar ior ihe iopic one I will leave the reader to his imagination. And in dosing we give the contracted parties our best wishes for the blessings of a happy and prosperous life.

R. B. year. It will make the editor happy, as it will also the subscriber. Help us to build up a paper that will be a credit to the county.

We are using Bargains and Mrs. R. T. Clavwell. of Moi ARtfnarkibls Woman.

our beat efforts to get np a good oave Money Buy and Try paper, but without the assistance of ton, is in Lenoir, having been called here by the sickness of her i father, Dr J. C. Newland. Our Gents Nobby Crush and the people we can not accomplish Bleached and brown domestics and drills, canton flannels, Hickory to call nd raa uvruy naus. tw wwav aaasssaaai tHis.

Dr. R. L. Abernethy, of Ruth snirtings, ticking, their purchases. To the Editor of the Lenoir Topic Last summer whilew yisiting in Ashe county, I spent a night with Elihu Pbillips, with whom Mrs.

Nancy Phillips, his mother, lives, and she gave something in the way of genealogy. Mrs. Phillips' maiden name was Shown. She was born in Johnson countv. Tenn erford College, delivered his lecture on the human soul and mind in the court house last Friday night to a Buy and Try churches at the! Our Gents fine Cincinnati Notions.

crowded house It is impossible for services in any oi night. us to give an outline of his lecture, We are Dained to learn of the as it must be heard to be appreciat- ihe many friends of Mr. G. L. Bernhardt are glad to see him at his old home again.

He will remain in Lenoir several days. The Gaetonia Gazette says: "Messrs. John Moore and Flem Johnson will leave Saturday to visit friends and relatives in Globe, N. Mr. Uriah Cloyd, who has charge of the brick work on the I Deaf, Dumb and Blind Asylum at Mor-ganton, spent a few days at home last week.

The Misses Wheeler, of Hickory, Jan. 4th. 1811. Mrs. Phillips was married to Caleb R.

Phillips, of Ashe county, at the age of 20. Her serious illness of our countyman, In this line we can please yon. ed. The Doctor handles the subject See oar handsome line, of well. He left Lenoir for Blowing Returning thanks to my many nuaband was killed during the war, while Bitting on his Diaiza.

bv hnah. Saturday morning, where he will friends and patrons for their liberal whackers. Col. Hartzocr was killed Neckwear, also of Hamburg- lecture. Jbrom there he goes to at the same time For many years Edgings and Dress Trimming.

Boone. support in the pastj would respectfully request a liberal share of their Buy and Try A Suit of Our New Mrs. Callie Quarles, of Warsaw, tne bullet holes could be seen in the ceiling and in the broken window panes. Tbe enemy was concealed behind the bicrh bank of a patronage in the future. Alabama, whose serious illness was mentioned in The Topic of week SPRING CLOTHING.

running jubt in front of his houses i uo not tnms jot. rnuiiDa was an EOady Ilade Clothing. Thirit marked at prices to suit the hard times. ultra Southern man, but strongly Southern in his sentiments. He Very respectfully, R.

G. COURT2TEY May 10, 1893. are at xiiowing uocic. Their sister, Mrs. Ker, and their brother, Master Will Wheeler, are also there, going through Lenoir last week.

Rev, Joseph D. Miller, who was reeent)y ordained a minister of the Episcopal church, was the guest of Rev, Jarvia Buxton last week. He has gone to Watauga to take charge of work in that county. was a srooll citizen. Mrs.

PhifliDi has remained in widowhood since the death of husband, and all the while at the old homestead on Pine Mr. C. A. Little, at his near Gamewell. We trust that he will soon recover- I Dr.

Charles Ml Glenn, of Greensboro, at one time a student at Finley High died in Baltimore, where he had gone for treatment, on last Thuisdav. Judge Wakefield saya that if the road overseers in tienoir township Ail to make their report the first Saturday in August, according to law, they may look out. An ice cream supper will be given tomorrow night (Tuesday) by the Childrens Missionary Band oi the Methodist church, at the residence of Mrs. S. M.

Clarke. Rev. G. D. Sherrill, county was in Lenoir last Thursday examining applicants for teachers' certificates.

Quite a number of applicants were piesent. The weather for the last two weeks has been fearfully warm. Everything is dry and we need rain. SwamD Creek. She and her hna Buy and Try A Heavy Richmond made COOK STOVE.

before last, died on the 3rd inst with typhoid fever. Mrs. Quarles, who was Misa Callie Tuttle, daughter of our countyman, B. M. Tuttle, was about 24 years of age.

She leaves a husband and one little daughter, aged about one year. We extend our sympathy to the bereaved ones. The annual meeting of the county Alliance was held in the court house last Thursday, at which ware present about twenty or twenty five. Our "noble order" has Announcement I band both joined the Old Field Baptist church at the same time, and Wflrn hftntizari hv Knlnmnn Caldvill Coanty Unioi. litem per.

Mrs. Phillips is the mother of seven children, four sous and three daughters, all of whom Special attention is called to our stock of STRAW HAT8, which is Tery attractive and very cheap. Also a full line of Fur and Wool Hats. married and most oi wnom are liv ing, one baa 63 prandcbildren and Buy and try ZyteSni by looking over our books 35 great-grand-children, making a total of 98. A number of her relations live in Caldwell county, among whom is Mrs.

Horton. of Lenoir, a A ''Watt," "Dixie," or "Bob White" Plow. that we must either close up or stop crediting. So we have decided to grand-daughter, also Mr Widby, try the lieorge and Jonu Moore, rieaeant Moore, of Granite Falls, and Mrs. Nathan Gwvn.

of Yadkin Vallev. The fact that so man? of Mrs The next session of the Caldwell county Union will be held; with Dudley Shoals Baptist church on Friday before the fifth Sunday in Julyr Introductory sermon, Rev. J. Nelson. QUERIES.

1 The Executive Board -its workj. Speaker, J. B. Moore. 2.

New Testament Methods of Missions 4 F. P. Moore. 3. What has been the cause of the rapid progress of the Missionary Baptists in North Carolina, and how should the progress affect nsP J.

T. Howell. 4. Duties of church members to their church. W.

Reaoh. 5. The propriety of consolidating with the Catawba River Association. Rev. I.

W. Thomas. 6. The propriety of adopting the Bostic-Herring method of Foreign Mission work. Ren I.

Oxford. A. E. Nelson, Sec. stTteopics.

Pay Down System. Our stock of Shoes is complete. Be sure to see our ladies' and gents' fine, thoea. and ladies and misses Slippers before buying elsewhere. We will make it to your interest to do so.

Buy and try Tellico" and "Sweetwater Valley" Flour. Phillips' relatives are readers of The Topic is my apology for writing this sketch. I am glad to add that Mrs. Phil lina was eniovinir reason. 1 0 ably good health, and may live to be 1 1 rtm 1J1 We hope by this new system to be able to offer to the public more iuu years oia, as sne is years oia.

Shu one of the bast women I ever goods for the least money than ever knew, and one of the best friends I ever had. I. W. Thomas. before.

Hibriten, N. 0., July 10. Soai CometioBS. We have now in stock a full line of July 14th 1893. For the Farmers.

Farmers Friend, Boy Diie, ii tingle and -double Rochet Plows, teele plows, plow castings, hoes, rakes, mattocks, shovels, spades, forks, axes, trace chains, table and pocket cutlery, and many other articles we cannot mention now. To the Editor of the Lenoir Topic Rv vour nermission I will correct The Bakersville News will saspend next week. The Winston Bank will be reorganized soon. some statements made bv vour in Come and see Our Ladies Trimmed and Un-trimmed Hats. formant last week concerning my Blasting Powder and Fuse which you will do well to oome and examine before buying talk at Rock Ureek on July 4th.

Tn the first nlace. he savs that I g- charged the present hard times to the Democratic party. The state ment is incorreot. Tn thn second nlace. he sava that the negro postal clerk-was appointed T.f 11 "1 1 1 Lower Creek bottoms are dry, and the farmers say that they need rain.

A considerable number of valuable logs, such as curly walnut, poplar and maple, are frequently shipped from Lenoir, a great many of them being brought from I We notice that hay is shipped to Lenoir. This ought to be stopped. Instead of buying, we should Bell, hay. Our people should not buy anything they could produce at home. The work of laying the track on the Caldwell Northern Railroad is going right ahead.

The track is completed up beyond the cool spring. It will be finished up to Setzer's this week. We have received from Associate Justice Avery a nice little pamphlet containing his address, on Memorial Day in Raleigh May 10th, on the "Life and Character of Lieutenant-General D. H. Hill." Elsewhere will be found an account of the Griffin-Puett wedding.

The Topic tenders its thanks for a box of the wedding cake and congratulates the young couple, and wishes for them a happy and prosperous life. On the fourth page of The Topic will be found some suggestions to public school teachers, written by an old 1 teacher and one of The Topic's friends, We expect to hear from this gentleman again on the same subject. Sheriff McCall received a telegram from Sheriff Watts, of Alexander, last week, in which he said the supposed murderer! of Julius Miller was on his way to Virginia, and wanted our sheriff to watch out for him. His name was James Those of our people who are oy JJiSflBM. Bam no sucn iniug.

But I did say that the negro's com mission was signed bv Bissell. the "swnnk greatly in numbers, notwithstanding it has been said that it was rallying and getting on its feet again. Its glory has departed from it, and it has become a thing of the past. Those present were mostly third partyites. An Indian soapstono pot 17 inches in length, 14 inches in width, 8 inches high and to 1 inch in thickness, was recently found by the sons of Mr.

Adolphus E. Nelson, in a deep ravine near bis residence. It has every appearance of having been used a long time, and the savory meats of the buffalo, bear, deer and turkey that have been cooked in it would be relished by the people of this generation, if we could get them. The growth of the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts has been very remarkable. Starting four years ago with one building and five professors present, and with little equipment, it now has six build ings, fifteen professors and teachers, and a complete equipment in many technical lines.

It graduated its first class in June, but at once many of these young men stepped into lucrative and responsible positions. Its announcement appears in this issue. Speaking of snakes the other dsy, our old friend, Mr. N. A.

Powell, tells us of aju incident which the late Rev. Isaac Sherrill related to him several years ago. Mr. Sherrill happened to be out An a storm and had taken refcge under a large tree. He noticed that the tree was hollow and presently he saw a large black snake crawl out of the tree, paying no attention to him, and crawl off.

Mr. Sherrill followed the snake a short distance and when he had gotten a few feet from the tree, a keen flash of lightning struck the tree, tearing it to pieces. What caused the snake to leave the tree just at that time? The Raleigh correspondent to the Charlotte Observer, under date of July 12, says "State Superintendent Scarboro has secured O. Noble and Alexander Graham to hold teachers' institutes, and is now preparing a schedule of appoint-in fo! them. On $500 this year arailable for institutes, thir all coming from the Peabody fund.

Come an i see Our New Embroideries, Postmaster-General under the present administration; which is a faot. Tn the third nlace. he savs that I PAINTS. Come and see our paints if you said the negro is a Democrat. This statement is incorrect, did noi are thinking of painting your house.

1 mention the negro politics at all. Thft nth innnrrect statements. i ri referred to bv vour informant. I We have a large line of paints, all colors, and you will do well to come and seethem. suppose, are like those above incor-; rAoHnna nf his own.

Eair nlav. cen- tlemeu. Tell the truth. This is Come and see all I ask. lours truly, E.

F. Wakefield. We keep the very best green and roasted coffees, hite and brown sugars, tea, rice, grits, canned tomatoes, peaches and corn, cheese, crackers, molasses and syrups, flour, bacon, lsfrd, corn, bran and corn meal always on band. If you want the very best flour try our Obelisk, Telioo and Sweetwater Valley Patent Brands. If you want a good chewing or smoking tobacco, cigar, cheroot or cigarette you can find it in our house.

For; good quality and low Prices out goods cannot ba surpassed in tbis market "Proof of the pie is in the eating" Associate Justice Walter Clark is sick at his home in Raleigh. Ex-Sheriff Lakey, of Yadkin coanty, is short $9,000 in his accounts. Prof. J. B.

Oarlyle, of Wake Forest College, is critically ill at Lead-ville, Tenn. Marshal Allison, who was robbed of $375 while in Chicago, recovered all his money. The article on the first page about a boy being whipped to death by his father is a "not so." i Geneva Whj taker, of the girl who charged the Oatholio priest of criminally assaulting her a year or two ago, was married in Raleigh a few days back. Gov. Carr has appointed the following directors for the North Car-; olina Railroad, on the part of the State: W.

P. Eernegay, Goldsboro; W. C. Maxwell, Charlotte; J. P.

Allison, Concord; O. W. Johnson, Chapel Hill; J. J. Yonng, Polenta; Rev.

F. L. Reid, Raleigh; Lee Overman, Salisbury; 0. E. Turner, Wake Lovick Mayes, of Iredell county, was arrested week on the charge of making counterfeit Mayes has heretofore borne a good name, has some property and was a respectable man.

It if thought that some other parties are into it besides Mayes. He was bound over to the next term of Federal court -in a bond of $2,000. He could not giro bond and was sent to jail To the overseers, of public roads in Lovelady township: Our large stock, all being sold at prices to meetjany anoTaTl competi tion. The board or supervisors wiu do in session at Granite Falls, N. Saturday, August 5th, 1893.

Overseers are required by law to malra a. written renort of the condi Grain Cradles, Mowing: Scythes and Reap Hooks, for All kinds of Plows and plow ctfst- ings on hand. Thanking you for your past favors and hoping for a continuance of the same the future, I remain, tion of their roads, number of idays worked, etc Get your roads in good order so as to make good re-, porta, A. M. Mabtin, o'hm.

Respectfully, call and see for yourself that not taking Thi Topic are missing T. J. xount, oec-y. i. Tinno? cnt alnaca coats with and now.

uur aiot of good reading Washington letters are without Tests, very oheap at very inter- M. M. Courtney. what wo say is true. i Respectfully, NELSON MOORE.

a aioorei. XTinA iaa ft old Soda Water at the ting and will be a great deal more when Congress meets Only one Yours truly, John Y7. XXirby. Drncr Store. Nothing better these year.

Now is the time to March 0 11893. hot ubscnbe..