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NToell Proprietors. Home First: Abroad vNext. $1.00 Per Year in Advane volTxxviii ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA, i Wednesday Evening, November 22, 1911. No.46 1 A BetUfrment Asociation Organized Thanksgiving Services. WHAT CONGRESS WILL DO; Charles Eurton, colored, one of 'V tne oest colored atirpn np Lounty, is also a very successful WASHINGTON NEWS.

What The People Pay Tobacco Tfust Stile a Trust. By Taverner. Vishington, Nov. 20. Why is luuacwriajser.

ne naa a load at the, Winstead vesterdav w.vk shovs his ability as a tnh'rn farmer. He sold $381.87, making an average of $23.15 for the load. And this W' -l services will be held at the Methodist Church on Thanksgiving day at 7 p. m. The services will consist of short talks by some' of- the layment, Messrs.

S. Garland Winstead, L. M. Carlton and J. W.

Noelt havl ing been asked to take part. Col. R. I. Featherstone will preside, and has promised that there will music for the occasion, all of the airrerent choirs of the town taking part.

The usual offering for the. or phans will be taken and it is hoD- ed that a good attendance will be on hand. Envelopes will be pro- nn viaea ana your offering wilt go to the orphanage of your choice. not all, for he has 13 barns at wuicu win Dnng more man lUCCSC OWU UlU. 1 Mr.

c. Boatdman, of York, was rhp oiiAct lacf rartu Washington, Nov. 18The wheels are in motion for the beginning, Decembers next, of a session lot Congress sure to involve many months of bitter strife over great political and economic issues, President Taft is preparing his annual message, leaders are conferring upon the program and investigating committees are preparing to report. In a legislative sense, the session may rank as of the highest imp ortance. Politically, the lines will be drawn and the ammuni- tion manufactured for a national campaign more hotly and closely main; the decree of the court not in practical effect dissolve it.

Competition is not restored. The stock ownership is not divided. The actual acti-vites of manufacture and distribution are not even placed under different superrisions. The circuit court politely declines the responsibilty of making an order which shall make the business of the tobocco trust fulfill the Supreme court's interpietation of the Sherman law. Discussing the possibility of ordering a a receivership and the sale of the tobacco trust property, the lower court says it could not prevent the present owners from bidding in the property if they were so inclined.

In other words the tobacco trust is not "busted!" Indeed, it is scarcely scratched. Mr. J. C. Wrenn, and was so welt -oleased with his visit here and Mr.

Wrenn 's hospitality, that he contemplates 'returning and spending a year in this, section. and desperately waged than any0rk in Ncrth Carolina, about CHOCOLATES Wickersham suit against tne 1 trust one in equity instead criminal prosecution? The Sherman anti-trust law -irries a provision by which trust magnates maybe "tnl to jail. If it is possible to olre the Steel trust under hp herman law and President Taft and Attorney General Wickersham boasts that it is eaSy to dissolve every illegal combine in the land under this statute why are not the men who organized and direct these illegal monopolies equally liable io successful prosecution What The Peopjg Pay. The People of the United States pay-a subsidy in artifical-'--high prices to the wool industry of at last $104,000,000 a year, according to calculations of Hon. Oscar W.

Underwood of Alabama, chairman of the Ways and means committee of the House of Representatives. "The Payne-Aldrich tariff tax of 61 cents peryard, to say-nothing of any increase in tax as it passes to the jobber, makes not less than $104,000,000 paid each year to subsidise the wool industry ot America," says Lr. Underwood. "Now the entire duties actually paid ihe United States on all imports of woolens and worsteds in 1910 amounted to less than $15,600,000, which means that of the $104,000,000 exported from the purchasers of woolens nearly $90,000,000 went to the woolen industry. "It is fair or just or right to maintain these enormous taxes unduly to foster the business of less than one-fourth of, one per cent of the people and to acquire ninety-nine and three-fourths to stagger under this enormous burden? I for one do not believe the American people will justify the President in his veto of the wool schedule." -Tobacco Trust Still a Trust.

In the oninion of many students of the trust question the tobacco trust has won. That is the real meaning they give the approval by the United States circuit court in New York ef the tobacco trust reorganization plan. The tobacco trust is to re- dunk tkev are uneaualeJ. tm rniM t.w IroaJest guarantee. If you get will exchange or refuncL to our 'J- 1- 1 5 i 1 i.

1 4r. 4 Gourt Doing. The following matters were dis posed of at the last Term of Court. State vs Sonnie Bullock, Otis Chism and others, gambling. Guilty, 1 5 each and costs.

State vs Tom Watson, carrying concealed weapons. Guilty, $15 and costs. State vs Heywood Bass, larceny Guilty, 12 months on the roads. State vs Amos Word, larceny. Guilty, bound out.

State vs Robert Ashley, distilling. Guilty, judgment suspended. State vs Will Jones, concealing stolen goods. Guilty, 4 months in jail, Commissioners power to farm out. State vsW.

J. Jones, affray. Guilty, $15 and costs. State vs Chuck Day, larcency. Guilty, 6 months on the roads.

M. M. Tapp, who was convicted of distilling at the April Term, with judgment suspended and bond given to appear at each Term of Courc for 2 years and show that he had not again engaged in the business, was called and sentenced to the read for 6 months. The case of Miss Eugenia Brad-sher vs Town of Roxboro was the only case of note reached on the civil docket. Miss Bradsher was awarded $90 damages.

Semora News. Miss Maggie Jones and Mr. Marvin Jones, Miss Maggie Thomas and Mr. Geo. Lansdall spent last Friday in Danville.

There will be services held at Red House Presbyterian Church Thanksgiving day at eleven o'clock. There will also be a tournament in Milton at two o'clock and ball that night. String band from Danville. C. Su scribe for The Courier.

Gotten in Roxboro. Pursuant to the call published in the Courier last week, a goodly number of our people met in the auditorium of the graded school building Monday evening to hear Miss Royster tell about the work of the betterment associations in North Carolina. Miss Royster's talk was interesting and inspiring, and every one present felt highly repaid for going out. At the conclusion of her an association was organized with eighteen mem bers5and temporary officers were elected. It was then decided to hold another meeting at 3 :30 p.

fn. next Friday, Nov. 24. This meeting will be held at the school building, and everybodyMs. cordial Jy invited to be present.

From th. beffinnin of this ten years ago, it has appealed especially to the good women of the State. It affords themlan opportunity for unselfish service in behalf of the children of their community and State. This opportuni ty foi service where it shall count most for time and eternity is the reason, I think, why the work ap peals so to the women. And yet men have not held aloof from the work, but many have given their moral support, while others haye been active in the movement.

I bespeak for this association, the sympathy and support of all lovers of childhood and humanity. A. B. Stalvey. We see no reason why the tobacco growers of the State should not join in the protest against the-activities of the tobacco trust since President Alexander of the North Carolina Farmers' Union, which has an influential clientele among the growers, contends that they have suffered along with the independent manufac- Ifoxthxs The Parmer 's Union still going after the trust and proposes to place evidence in the hands of District Attorney A.

E. Holton for criminal against the officers of the American Tobacco Company. This will change the scene of the spectacular conflict from New York to i North Carolina and North Carolina is big enough to sta it. Mr. Wickersham should not discourage the tobacco growers if they have the proper sort of evidence to show that the Sherman law has been violated; The issue should be equitably settled for the interests all involved.

Charlotte Observer. Washington, November 15. President Pinley of the Southern Railway Company announced today that the Company has contracted for 1,700 all-steel fifty-ton double drop bottom gondola coal cars. 500 steel unframe thirty ton ventilated box cars, and 250 all-steel fifty-ton flat cars. These additions to the freight equipment of the Company are all in addition to the purchase just, consummated of 7 Mikado engines, 600 all-steel coal cars, and 65 steel under-frame box cars for the Virginia Southern Railway Company.

Special Notice. We have been carrying, many of our customers for a long time, and those accounts are now due. so we earnestly ask all who are owing us to come in and pay up. If you want us to accommodate you in the future it is necessary for you to give this matter your attention, and do it at once, for we need the money in our busi ness. Don't put off but attend to it now while you have the money Youry truly, Garrett Standfield.

Wft have lime. cement and brick. Plenty otssltranaieuano 4 CONFECTIONS a package diat isn't perfect yrC Store. improved facilities ber Go. 10L Drug for rawing we are pleased to announce that we have reduced our price for sawing from 35 cents to 25 cents per dred.

This is a decrease of about thirty per cent and means jdst that much saving to you. Prompt and efficient service guaranteed. Remember also we-have all kinds and grades of rough and dressed lumber, shingles and lathes. contest since that of 1896. In the order of their relative importance these subjects will be considered: The tariff, with special application to the wool, cotton and metals schedules.

The trusts, with a view both to amending the Sherman law and to creating a system of national incorporation of concerns doing an interstate business. Economy, wherof the Demo cratic House hopes to reduce tha government's expenses below the billion-dollar mark set by the Republicans. Currency reform, as to which the Aldrich, or national monetary commission, plan for a central bank of issue will be the central feature. Direct election of United States Senators, which was left in dead lock between the two houses when the extra session was adlonmed last August. House cleaning, as proposed by the numerons special investi- gating committees of the House.

Scores of other questions, of great consequence also, are put into the background by comparison. A Democratic plan of encouraging an American merchant maine, in lien of the Republican ship subsidy bill, will be' proposed. Likewise a measure providing a limited parcels post will originate in the Democratic House committee on postoffices and postroads. A scheme of Panama canal tolls; which will have a big influence upon the cost of transcontinental traffic, will be debated. Such are a few of the "minor" questions.

The curtain will rise on things political when the Repubican national committee meets early in December coincident with the reassembling of Congress. President Taft's friends control the committee. It is certain no measures will be approved which will operate against the renominate of Mr. Taft. But the insurgents wiil be exceedingly active.

In hehalf of Senator Lafollette. demand will.be made that the committee pass a resolution favoring the nomination of the President by primary. IhiJ will be snowed un der by Taft votes and immediately the insurgents will argue that Taft is afraid to go to the people for his endorsement. Mr. M.

Pass says that Mr. Thaxton is not in it when it comes to raising corn, as he raised' this year 62 barrels of corn and 10 barns of tobacco with one old mule. Thaxton Burch, at the Winstead Warehouse, arr still in Ihe lead. Monday's sale averaged avefetf 18.61$ perhundred for the fehtire sale. We lean sell Roxboro Lu 30E SAUL We Have ust Our entire stock of carpets have been' put on sale at cost.

We have a fairly good line consisting of Brussels, Ingrains and Jute ranging in price from 25c to $1.00 a yard. The reduded prices range from 20c to 75. Thery will be cut in any desired lengths so that you can get rug lengths if you wish. These are all perfect goods and worth the original prices. Our only reason for making this big reduction is that the demand for druggets has so completely cut off carpets that we wish to clean out this line.

This is a.good opportunity to get an extra cheap floor covering or rugs. A car of Galvanized Roofing and a car of Barb Wire. This material is as good as made, it is the best. And our handeling it in car loads enables us to sell this high grade Roofing as cheap as the Kentucky sheers can be bought locally. We have got the stuff and will appre-ciate your orders, 111 to 3L yours too.

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