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OAFFNEY, E. C* FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1907.
SHORT NEWS ITEMS
OF LOGAl INTEREST,
m . EVENTS IN GAFFNEY AND CHER
OKEE.
Recent Happenings In and Around
th« City and Other Events Gather
ed by the Local New* Editor.
A party of young people from Gaff
ney s|pent yesterday in a pleasant
outing at Gaston Shoals.
Henry Wjilkerson has resigned his
position with Shu/ord & LeMastfu-
to accept one in Florence.
A party of young men leave today
for the mountains of North Carolina
where they will spend two weeks.
Roland Little is being touted the
champion Nimrod since his success
ful booking of a fourteen pound carp
in Broad river a few days ago.
J. W. Brawley, of Greensboro. N.
C.. an experienced insurance man, is
in the city for a short while with
the Gaffney Trust Company.
Ralph Gastou, of Blacksburg, has
accepted a position with the local
freight office in this city. He en
tered upon his duties Tuesday.
Two games of baseball were play
ed at Limestone Park between the
Gaffney and Reidville negroes Tues
day and Wednesday. The Reidville
team won both games.
The three-year-old daughter of
Mrs. AJbernathy, who was severely
burned some time ago. died of Its
injuries Monday night. The funeral
services were held Tuesday.
A. C. Moore & Company are now
occupying their new stables on
Robertson street. This building Is
modern in every particular and
thoroughly meets the needs of a
livery stable.
Street Overseer Coyle is doing
some good work on the sidewalks
of Limestone street. This work was
badly needed, and the town council
has the thanks of the people of the
town for havine it done.
The Antioch Baptist Sunday school
will have their Children’s Day Tues
day, August 13th. Dinner and re
freshments will be served on the
grounds. Everybody is invited at
tend and enjoy himself on that day.
An engine was overturned at
Thickety Wednesday requiring the
services of a wrecking crew to get
it on the track again. The track was
soon cleared and trains were little
^ delaved as a consequence of the mis-
hap.
There will be a concert at the
Irene Park Saturday evening, August
10th. by the Bessemer City brass
band. Refreshments will be sold to
pay expenses. Music begins at 7:30
o’clock. The public is cordially in
vited.
Mr. R A Jones has contracted
with Contractor J. H. Curry for the
erection of a brick warehouse, the
dimensions of which will be 331-3
in width and 125 feet in length. Mr.
Jones will use the building for
storing heavy j^-oceries, grain and
hay.
Mr. S. L. Hopper, of this city, who
has had charge of the White Dia
mond Lithia Springs since the open
ing the first of June, has given up
the management and returned to
Gaffney. Mr. Hopper says there is
quite a large crowd at the springs
now.
An important K. of P. meeting
will be held in the hall on Monday
night at 8:30. Important work in
the second degree, etc., will be done
and all members are urged to be
present. Several visiting members
are expected to be present and after
the meeting a supper will be served
in the hall.
At a meeting of the trustees of
the Gaffney public schools on Wed
nesday night the contract for the
brick work on the addition and re
pairs to Centra] school and the buildr
ing of the-new school building to be
erected was awarded to Spurgeon &
Curry. The wood worb will be
done by Scruggs Lumber Company.
IB L. Jones, a colored shoemaker,
was arrainged before Mayor Little
• Monday on a charge of selling whis
key. The accused demanded a jury
and the case was continued until
yesterday. The case was again call
ed yesterday but again a continu
ance wa * the result it will be called
again today.
Magistrate B. F. Camp tried a case
last week in which watermoloml
were the chief feature. Four negroes
and a white man were charged with
‘heft of watermelons and all were
found guilty. The white man and a
A negro contributed good coin to the
^ officials while the other three negroes
will contribute manual labor.
A* a result of the framers meeting
w'bich was held here a few’ days ago
a committee is looking around for a
suitable place to erect a cotton ware
house where the farmers can store
their cotton Instead of being forced
to sell H when the price 1* low.
This it on the Hue advocated by
Messrs. Jordan, Smith and Hyatt
of the Southern Cotton Grow era As
sociation.
A large congregation met the pap-
tor of Buford Street M. E. church
last Sunday morning, it being the
regular monthly communion day,
and the sermon was able and suited
to the occasion. The music, in the
absence of most of the members of
the regular choir, was furnished very
acceptably by the young ladies of
the Sunday school, the only exception
being a solo, “Come, Weary Soul,’’
rendered with sweetness and feeling
In- Miss Annie Johnson,
,Mr. and Mrs. G. O. Doggett and
two daughters, Misses Lucie and
Mary, had a narrow escape from
a very serious accident while driving
from Shelby, N. C., to Cleveland
Springs. While crossing the rail
road tracb a train was seen approach
ing and before the horses could be
restrained one fell across the track
and was killed. The carriage and
occupants had a narrow escape.
Happily the party escaped with a
severe shaking up and no serious in
jury.
Mr. James Henry Rice, who now
represents the Audubon Society in
South Carolina, has bee n in Gaffney
for the last few days, and wishes
it understood that he will prosecute
to the fullest extent of the law any
persons violating he law in regard
to the sale of dynamite. Mr. Rice
says that it is frequently the case
that persons use dynamite for the
purpose of killing fish in the streams,
and that he intends to use every
means in his power to stop this per
nicious practice.
The stockholders of the Merrimac
Mills at the last meeting appointed
a committee to select a suitable site
upon which to locate the structure,
and that committee in company with
two engineers Tuesday sheeted a
tract of land belonging to the Gaff
ney Land & Improvement company
just north of the city, and adjoin
ing the grounds of the Globe Mills.
Work will commence on the build
ings just as soon as the material can
be gotten on the ground. It Is the
purpose of the management to have
the mills in operation by the first
of next January.
THIOUEHOUT THE
PALMETTO STATE.
ITEMS OF INTER8T OF PASSING
EVfNTS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
TRAGEDY IN ASHEVILLE.
White Ma n Shoots Woman and
Commits Suicide.
Asehvllle, N. C., Aug. 7.—A terrible
tragedy was enacted here this morn
ing shortly after 10 o’clock, when
Robert Murdoch, a white man, 45
years of age, with a wife and several
children, shot to death Mrs. Laura
Ray, proprietress of the "Success
Inn.” a large boarding house of this
city, and then turned the weapon on
himself and sent three bullets into
his heart. The only motive that can
be assigned for the murderer’s fear
ful act was a debt due him by Mrs.
Ray and temporarv insanity from
the effects of drink.
The double tragedy was commit
ted in Mrs. Ray’s room in the Suc
cess Inn. Murdock fired eight Shots
in all, taking time after sending four
bullets into Mrs. Ray to break the
pistol, reload and fire four addition
al shots, three of which went into
the madman’s own body. The wounds
made by the three shots that Mur
dock fired at himself could almost be
covered by a postage stamp. Mrs.
Ray was shot twice through the arm
and three times through the body.
Intense excitement wag the result
of the shooting and shortly after the
tragedy a great mob of people
gathered at the scene and were only
restrained from forcing their way in
to the death chamber by the pre
sence of several blue-coated officers
and deputy sheriffs. At the inquest
the testimony of three material wit
nesses was taken. Patrolman Lomi-
nac, who was passing the house on
a street car at the time, alighted
and rushed into the building and was
directed by a boarder to room No.
4, where the tragedy occurred. He
pushed the door open and viewed a
scene of horror. Mrs. Ray lay on
her side, gasping for breath and
struggling, while MurdOck lay on
his back also struggling and with
his clothing on fire. The blaze was
extinguished and a couple of minutes
later Murdock died. M^' „Qav lin
gered for five minutes, when death
ensued.
E. P. Hudson, a boarder at the
house, said he was sitting on the
porch reading a magazine when a
negor servant came screaming out
of the hall saying that "Mlirdock is
killing Mrs. Ray.” Hudson heard
two pistol shots and rushed to the
scene. He opened the door half way
and saw the man ind woman, be
came scared, he said, and beat a
hasty return. The firing of the pis
tol continued. Hudson said that
Murdock told him yesterday that
Mrs. Ray owed him $300 on account
and that he was gning to square ac
counts with her. The attending phy
sicians stated this afternoon that
Mrs. Murdock, widow of the mur
derer and suicide, was in a very seri
ous condition as a result of the
shock, incident to the horrible affair.
Endorsed by the Country,
“The moat popular remedy In
Otsego county, and the best friend of
my family," writes Wm. M. Dietz,
editor and publisher of the Otsego
Journal, Gilbertsvllle, N. Y., “Is Dr.
King’s New Discovery. It has proved
to be an Infallible cure for coughs
and colda, making short work of the
worst of them. We always keep a
bottle In th^. house. I believe it to
be the most valuable prescription
known for Lung and Throat dis
eases.” Guaranteed to never disap
point the taker, by Cherokee Drug
Co, Price 60c and $1.00. Trial bot
tle free.
Happnings AH Over the State Taken
from Our Exchanges and Tersely
..Told to Ledger Readers.
In the court of sessions in Union
1 Wednesday morning the cas© against
James Gallman charged with the
killing of S. M. Gilmore in Jonesville
on the 15th of last May w’as begun.
Both parties were white, have wide
connections and acquaintance and
the interest in the trial is intense
anq wide spread.
The first cotton boll of the sea
son was picked at Bamberg Monday
in a cotton field near town. Mr. Fred
Free found the boll in a field belong
ing to a. negro named Breeland. The
boll wag well formed and opened
I wide. Reports from the lower part
jof the county state that bolls are
bursting rapidly, and that a bale of
cotton will be marketed In a week
or two.
Mr. W. B. Franklin, who during
the Civil war was a member of Com
pany B, First South Carolina regi
ment, and a brave and faithful sold
ier, dropped dead at his home in
Newberry county Tuesday afternoon
Mr. Franklin has attended every gene
ral reunion of Confederate veterans
for the past 10 of 12 years. He was
about 70 years of age.
The body of Jas. Hasting was ex
humed at Greenwood Tuesday for the
purpose of Investigating the cause of
his death. It will be remembered that
Hastings was killed several months
ago by a wagon running over him.
There has been a good deal of doubt
as to the real cause of his death, some
were of the opinion that he wap shot,
however the whole mystery was
cleared by an examination. No trace
of bullet boles could be foynd.
Suveyors are now at work on the
route of the proposed electric rail
way from Greenville to Williams ton.
The work was begun Wednesday
from the Greenville end of the line
and the corps of engineers is in
charge of Civil Engineer Shippey.
President H. H. Price, of the Green"
ville Interurban Company, said that
he thought the surveyors would com
plete their work within the next ten
days or two weeks.
Tuesday the jury in the Arthur
i Davis case in Union brought in a
' verdict of manslaughter and Judge
Price immediately sentenced him
to 15 years in the penitentiary at
hard labor. There was a good sized
crowd in the court room when sen
tence was imposed but there was no
demonstration, though before the
'trial the opinion prevailed that
Davis would hang. One of Davis’
attorneys said there would be no
motion for a new trial and that Davis
would serve the sentence.
There has been for several weeks
talk of establishing a hospital for the
city of Newberry and plans are on
: foot which will in all probability re
sult in Its establishment In the very
near future. There was a meeting
in the chamber of commerce in that
city Tuesday evening between the
| physicians of the city and a commit
tee from the chamber of commerce
for the purpose of conferring to
gether and to devise plans for car
rying out the rbject.
•
Charged with larceny of live stock,
i William Thompson, a young white
man who lives near Glendale, was
committed to Spartanburg jail Wed
nesday by Magistrate Coan, it being
alleged that he stole a cow from a
Mr. Murray at Glendale. Thompson
took the cow to Spartanburg and
tried to sell it and failing to find a
purchaser drove the cow out to Sax
on Mills, where he sold it for $19.
Thompson then left Saxon and went
I to Inman, where he was arrested
and brought hack to the city and
lodged in jail to await preliminary
; hearing. Fourteen dollars of the
purchase money was recovered.
Monday night about 9:30 o'clock
fire broke out in Richardson’s wood-
yard in Aiken and before it was ex
tinguished probably 100 cords of
> wood were burned, and several build-
j ings and a lot of machinery were
1 destroyed, a loss of something like
$4,000. When the fire was discover
ed H was In some straw, and burned
: rapidly, gaining such headway that
the fire team could do but little other,
than keep the flames confined to A
i small area. Owing to the yard bo-
|i“K isolated there was no danger of
the fire spreading. At 12 o’clock
! the fire was still burning and to stop
' it dynamite was resorted to with
some success, and the fire was practi
cally extinguished soon after. There
; was about $5,000 insurance on the
I outfit.
A NEWSY LETTER
EDOM WILKINSVIILE.
MOVEMENTS OF “"HE PEOPLE OF
LOWER CHEROKEE.
"Regular as the tun"
is an expression as old as the race.
No doubt the rising and setting ot
the sun is the most regular perform
ance In the universe, unless it lathe
action of the liver and Dowels when
regulated with Dr. King's New Life
Pills. Guaranteed by Cherokee
Drug Oo. 26c.
—Go to the "Seed Store” for your
Turnip seed.
Personal Paragraphs Concerning Pop
ular People and Short Itema of
that Section.
WilkiUiisvllle, August G.—There are
a number of opinions extent as to
when dog days begin and end.
Everybody is agreed that they are
forty in number, and many think
that if it rains on the first there will
be rain for forty consecutive days.
We don’t take much stock in this
theory simply because we don’t know
and that ought to excuse us of
course.
One gentleman following the tra
dition of his great grandfather and
other preceding generations says dog
days begin the 25th of July no mat
ter about the ri.dng of Sirius or what
the seven stars are doing. Rain or
no rain, dog days begin with him
the 25th of July and that settles it
so far as he is concerned. Well, he
can have It that way if he wants to,
its no matter of ours.
The Egyptians over 3,000 years
ago concluded that the rising of the
dog star, Sirus, in conjunction with
the sun so intensified its heat as to
make it unhealthy. The Romans
came to about the same conclusion.
Its all superstition regarding dog
days, but the same is current amongst
us today and there is no well authen
ticated definition to he found in any
of our books to prove or disprove
anytjhing. The Imperial Encyclope
dia says;
“Dog days is the name given to
the forty days of the year between
July 3rd and August 11th (old style).
The name is derived from the Latin
name of the dog—Star—Sirius. This
star rose heliacally about the begin
ning of July and the ancients as
cribed the great heat of the sum
mer to tl\e influence of this star.”
The Egyptians attributed the rising
of the Nile to the same influence.
The distance of this star Sirius
from us is calculated to be ISO.OOO
millions of miles, it is one of the
earliest named stars in the heavens,
and is supposed by some to be the
nearest to the earth. But no finite
mind can comprehend the magnitude
of, or set bounds to infinite space.
'The Psalmist came nearest to It
when he said:
When I look up Into the heavens
Which Thine own fingers framed;—
Unto the moon, and to the stars
Which were by Thee ordained.
Then say I, what Is man that he
Remembered Is by Thee;
Or what the Son of man that Thou
So kind to him shouldst be?
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Waters, of
Gaffney, called on their friend, Mr.
“Jay” Strain last Friday. They were
on their way to Hickory Grove to
visit relatives. It was the first op
portunity we have bad to meet Mrs.
Waters and form her acquaintance.
She is an intelligent and beautiful
woman—the very picture of health
and it isn’t reflecting on Mr. Waters
; to say he has out-married himself.
We are always glad to meet our
friends and form new acquaintences,
especially when they are pleasant
Mr. and Mrs. Waters are members
of some of Cherokee county’s best
families and to such we accord a
hearty welcome to our community
when they will visit ufe.
From the most reliable informa
tion we can gather, as well as the
signs of the times, we conclude that
the cause of temperance is gaining
headway and soon will be universal
ly recognized as one of the most
potent agents for uplifting manbind.
4mong all civilized and Chritstlanlzed
p<?<jple the saloon is doomed. The
insidious evil is lurking in the
“punch Twiwl” where the seed germs
of imbriety are germenating and will
some day bring a burden to the hands
that are manipulating it. The devil
hate 8 to surrender. He is now fight
ing as never before to maintain his
rule. Gog and Mogog have gathered
themselves to battle against t$ie
forces of King Immanuel and the
plains of Esdraleon are drinking the
blood of the slain.
Rev. C. M. Teal closed a weeks
meeting at Abingdon Creek church
last Saturday. He had no ministeral
help but the meeting was a success,
reviving the old members and re
consecrating them to their church
vows and work. It was generally
regretted that the meeting could go
no longer at this time, as the min
ister was called to another pan of
his field to begin bis work last Sab
bath. He, however, left an appoint
ment for a two or three day meet
ing one month hence when the *ac-
rament of Baptism will be admin
istered to the new converts. Rev.
Mr. Teal Is a splendid man and our
people like him both as a minister
and a mlan and we wish for him and
his work great success. At the con
clusion of the meeting on Saturday
three new deaens Messrs. Thomas
Millwood, Hamp Bratton and Glut
Reynolds, were ordanied. We fully
agree with Bro. Teal that the young
men of the church should be chosen
to make Its officers and be put to
work before the olders ones pass
away or become Inefficient by reason
of <M ••• aad infirmity u> tra..
the duties devolving on them.
Mr. and Mrs. Sam J. Strain and
child, Mias Rath, and Charley Foster,
went to Gaffney yesterday on busi
ness.
Mr. and Mra. “Jay” Strain and
children are visiting friends and rel
atives at Jonesville.
Mrs. Ethel Blackwell is training
the children for Children’s Day at
Salem next Thursday. The young
people of the congregation speak of
buying an organ for the church.
Through a party who went to
Charleston last week on an excursion
we learn that some of the boys who
boarded the train at Hicljory Grove
took part in smashing windows of
the cars and turning up Jack gen
erally. They defied the conductor
and police and made things lively in
their way. WV? are R low to believe
that the railroad authorities would
put up with such conduct and think
the matter is exaggerated. Though
these parties are none too good to
do so if they were properly liquored
up. Liquor brings out the ruffianism
in men,
Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Estes visited
Mrs. Estes' father. Mr. J. T. Bigham.
at Sharon last Saturday.
Some of our people were thrown
into a whirl-pool of excitement one
day last week when two dusky dam
sels ran together at the wash place
and opened a verbal fusilade on each
other about a knife one accused the
other of stealing. For a while, we
are told, it looked as if the women,
children and non-combatants would
have to move out while the wool
pulling went on. Fortunately “Uncle
Sill’’ came upon the scene and acted
a« umpire. Peliner was allowed to
hold the ground while Catherine had
“to move her washing. Mr. Leslie
Blackwell later found the causus
belli lying in the bottom of the
spring where it had fallen from th >
bosom of the owner while she was
dipping up water to wash with.
“All’s quiet along the Potomac to
night.” Peliner and Catherine have
heretofore been friends and this un
toward breach may be regretted by
those who care anything about it.
William Congreve, author of ‘‘The
MJorning Bride,” beautifully express
es the thought:
“Earth has rage like love to
hatred turned,
Nor hell a furv like a woman scorn
ed.”
J. L. S.
WEEKLY WEATHER BULLETIN
For the Week Ending 8 A. M. Au
gust 5f 1907.
The mean temperature, average
precipitation and sunshine were be
low the normal.
The week was not so warm as the
preceding one. The highest tempe
ratures occurred generally during
the lore part of the week when the
maximum was 90 degrees, or higher,
except in the extreme western por
tions. The last two nights were
unusually cool. # The temperature ex
tremes were 96*at Conway and Spar
tanburg on July 30th, and 61 at
on August 2nd.
The precipitation was unevenly
distributed. The rainfall was heavi
est In the eastern half of the State
where the average was slightly
above the normal. Ae few places in
the western part ha4 excessive pre
cipitation, but the average was much
below the normals Heavy rains
high winds and light hail accompa
nied thunderstorms In the eastern
counties on the 2nd.
There was considerable cloudiness
{in the central and eastern portions
(truing the tore part ot the week.
The percenflage of sunsfhine was
much greater during the latter part,
especially In the central and western
portions.
TO STUDY THE KU KLUX.
Scholar, will Visit Clansman Scenes
at Manager's Invitation,
New York, Aug. 5.—A historic tour
of the scenes made famous by “The
Clansman” will be a feature of that
play’s itinerary this year. Manager
Gerge H. Brenna n has invited as his
guests half a dozen students of the
reconstruction era in the South who
wish to verify the historical state
ments made in the play. They will
visit Columbia, S. C., and search the
archives of the negpo-carpet-bagger
legislature of 18G7-69 thence to the
northern part of the State and west
ern North Carolina, where the deeds
of the Ku Klux Klan will be studied,
and finally to Nashville, Tenn., where
is to be found most of the documen
tary andi oral evidence regarding
the origin of the Klan. Besides
verifying “The Clansman,” they ex
pect to unearth much new material
that will prove of great value to the
future historian. The students who
are invited came from the leading
colleges of the Blast, and some of
them will base their thesis for the
degree of doctor of philosophy upon
the facts obtained in this trip, which
wllj -comprise one month of careful
and painstaking research.
Gaffney Couple Wed.
A surprise was sprung upon the
people of Gaffney yesterday when It
was learned that on Wednesday eve
ning Mr. H. M. Robbins and Miss
Alma Lavender had been quietly
married at Blacksburg, Rev. C. C.
Derrick, pastor of the Methodist
church at Blacksburg performing the
ceremony. The marriage was unex
pected even to Miss Lavender and
Mr. Robbins who. while out driving,
decided to no longer postpone their
j wedding day. Miss Lavender is one
of Gaffney's most charming young
ladles while Mr. Robbins Is an ener
getic young business man, manager
of the local office of the Postal Tele
graph Company.
THROUGHOUT THE
TARHEEL STATE
RECENT EVENTS OF NOTE IN
NORTH CAROLINA.
Item, of Interest Concerning Our
Neighbors In the Old North State
Clipped from Our Exchanges.
A charter was issued Tuesday to
tht Hitchcock Trotter Company, of
Winston; mercantile. The incor
porators. who are Reldsville men.
are B. M. Hitcbcocb, H. L. Trotter,
K. N. Hitchcock; the authorized capi
tal is $75,000.
The $300,000 bond'election, from
which the city of Charlotte will get
about $100,000 for street improve
ments, was Wednesday afternoon au
thorized by the board of county com
missioners and an order ma<I‘e for
j the holding of the said election.
At the request of counsel of tha
, Southern Railway Company Stand-
, ing Master Montgomery announdsa
a change of date for the beginning
of the taking of evidence in the
famous case of the Southern Railway
Company vs. the North Carolina cor
poration commission to test the con
stitutionality of the new passenger
rate act, the hearing to begin August
15th instead of August 10th.
In the event the $300,000 bond ie- -
sue in Salisbury carries at the elect
ion on October 1st, it has been pro
vided that O. D. Davis, cashier of the
Davis & Wiley bank; W. H. Wfclte/
cashier of the First National bank;
J. D. Norwood, cashier of the Peo
ple’s bank, and W. F. Snider, cashier
of the Wachovia Loan * Trust Co.,
of that city, should compose the ad*
visory board to disburse the funds.
'While tearing dbwn an old log
house on the lands recently purchas
ed by Mb. L. A. Cline, of the St, Paul
neighborhood, three miles from
Salisbury, workmen found $60 hid '
in a chlldfs shoe underneath the large
hearthstone. There were six ten-
dollar Mils. How long the money
had been there no one knows. The
house is known to have been built
more than 60 years ago.
Z. V. Taylor, agent of the South
ern Express Company, met with a
singular accident at Newbern Wed
nesday. He was seated o n his wag
on driving and when he hit his horse
with the rein the animal jumped and
kicked, striking Mr. Taylor on the
right leg midway between the knee
and ankle, making an ugly wound.
Examination showed that the bone
was shattered, some 20 pieces of
bone being extracted. The injury Is
very severe.
Ransom Godwin, a well-to-do white
farmer, 65 years old, at his home
five miles west of Kenly, a small
and remote place In Johnston coun
ty, Tuesday night about 9 o’clock
shot and killed his wife without any
real cause for the deed, so those who
! know the family say. She was his
third wife, he having married her
' about four years ago. From the
; union two children survive their
I mother. Mrs. Godwin wa?f 35- years
: of age. The murderer has escaped
so far. •
The Southern Railway has notified
its agents and other employes at
Winston in regard to the new pas
senger rate. According to the In
structions received the new rate is
to become operative at 10:01 a. m.
next Thursday and is to remain in
force until further notice Contrary
to the general expectation there,
however, the Southern announces
that it will not charge for children
under 5 years of age and will con
tinue to collect only half fare for
children between th© ages of 5 and
12 years.
Engineer W. Calaway Packer, of
Spencer, Instead of Charles Parker,
of Greensboro, was the man killed
in the wreck of No. 136 at Auburn,
near Raleigh, Tuesday night. His
fireman, Robert Young, also of Spen
cer, instead of Will King, as men
tioned in the morning papers, met
death in the same accident. Both
men were on a homeward run when
> the fatal collision occurred. It Is
said by old railroaders that Engin
eer Parker was the first engineer
killed on the old North Carolina rail
road for 16 years.
The Boston, Mass., police are
searching that city and surro mding
town for Mrs. Charlotte Hayes. 55
, years old, of Fayetteville, who start
ed for Boston last week to celebrate
old home week with her friend. Mrs.
Lina Smith, of Concord Place. Her
baggage has arrived, but there is no
trace of Mrs. Hayes. Mrs Smith Is
certain that Mrs. Hayes reached the
city on be Federal Express a week ago
Wednesday and was lost la the
crowd at the south terminal. Mrs.
Smih was there to meet her, but did
, not locate her and later that day
, Mrs. Hayes baggage reached Mrs.
Smith's home. Mrs. Hayes was In
poor health and had never been In
a large city before.
Trageidv in a Country Kitchtn.
Full many a gem which should have
raised serene
Bums to a crisp behind the oven
door.
And many a sack of flour Is born to
burst unseen
And waste its whiteness on the
pantry floor.
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