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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-30
How is We Con Sell Goods Q Almost HQf Price?

The reason is that We buy from ev-
cry factory or 'jobber what they have
left. The quantity is not considered;
the price is what cuts the ice."
1 am selling mems heavy nine ounce
Demons Overalls and Jumpers, worth
soc, cheap, now 39c.
Mems Summer Coats, we'll made at
% cents.
Mems fine Silk Bosom Shirts, worth
$1.00, now soc.
Boys Laundered soc Percale Shirts
at 29c.
Mems Drill Drawers at 15c.
Mems fine Balbriggan Shirts and
Pants at 25c.
Nice Serge Coats and Vests at So. so.
Mems we'll made, heavy weight Jeans
Pants, 39c; Pants, light weight, at 2Sc.
Ladies Parasols, "a inches, at 3Sc.
Ladies Steel Rod Umbrellas, Congo
Handle, at SOC. Silk lined top at LOG.
Ladies' Worsted Skirts. well made.
nicely lined, at 75c each, worth $1.25.
Heavy Checked Plaids at 4c.
Striped Seersuckers, worth 1Oc. now
Z cents.
Striped Chambry at sc.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-30

The rascally conspiracy to punish
some twenty citizens of Pitt county for
intimidation of voters was a complete
fiasco. The government attorney ad-
mitted the insufficiency of the testi-
mony. Republicans are something ad-
dicted to political prosecutions, but the
officials of Uncle Sam seem to have
acted with proper discretion and fair
ness, and to their credit.
General W. R. Cox made an address
on the late John H. Mills at the cele-
bration of st. Johns Day at Oxford
Orphan asylum on Saturday. Mr.. Mills
was a man of commanding parts, and
like so many of the most useful is more
praised and honored dead than when
a living factor in our state. He was
our personal friend and We are glad
now that we often praised him in life,
as he richly merited.
The New York Journal of Commerce
gives the following list Of new mills in
North Carolina:
"Aragon Mills, Gastonia; Cooleemee
Mills Hairston Falls; Cumberland
Mills, Cumberland; Daniel Manufac-
turing Company, Lincolnton; Delgado
Mills, Wilmington; James, A. L., Lau-
rinburg; Kinston Mills, Kinston; Lad
shaw & Ladshaw, Salisbury; Mt.
Pleasant Mills, Mt. Pleasant; Robbins
Manufacturing Company, Goldsboro;
Roxboro Mills, Roxboro; Tolar Hart &
Holt Mills, Fayetteville; Watkins, w.
H., Sanford; Weldon Cotton Manufac-
turing Company, Weldon; Yount, ]. P,
Newton.
The mills which are being enlarged
include those at Charlotte, Concord,
Raleigh, Hillsboro, Forest City, Gas
tonia, Waxhaw, Salisbury, Lowell and
Franklinton."
That is a capital showing for the
poorest of all the states" according to
the Baltimore Herald. 1t is second to
South Carolina which is rushing ahead
with great activity. Here are b fig
u~:s for the movement thus far in the
two Carolinas:
Spindles. Cost.
South Carolina. ..375,0 900 S5,20O,OOO
North Carolina. .236, 00U $4,000
"The Old North State f~orever!"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-06-30

Colored Chambry, fine quality, at Sc.
Big drive in White Pique Skirts from
$1.25 to $500 each
Mohair Skirts from $500 to 1925 each.
Linen Skirts at all prices.
Duck Skirts from soc to CSC.
Shirt Waists from 40c to $1.00.
Ladies Calico Wrappers from soc 10
SIPS.
Ladies' full size, nicely trimmed.
Gowns, SOC to s1.25 each.
White and Colored Undershirts, from
SOC to s1.50.
All grades OF Ladies' Vests from SC
to Csc.
Ladies' Children's and Mems Hose
at any price, from &c to 40c a pair. Our
10c and 15c lines are extra value.
Linen Skirt Patterns, worth 75c. now
35c each.
Ladies Shoes, worth $3.50, now s1.25.
We lead, the rest follow. Bring your
card n get 1t punched, and get a
valuable present free, at Wilmington's
Big Racket Store, near the Postofice on
Front Street.
The daily sentinel., 1899-04-28
JAMES. NJ. KENNEDY Is NOT DEAD.
He Is Alive and Well and Is Organizing
Military Company In Grand
Junction,

Friends OF James M Kennedy, son
OF Gen, John @. Kennedy Of this city
we're shocked at the report that he had
died suddenly at Grand Junction, Mon
day evening OF appendicitis.
The report has since been found to be
without basis, Mr.. Kennedy being in
excellent health and spirits and at pres
ent engaged in forming military com
pany at Grand Junction, which will be
mustered into the Notional Guard by
Adjt. Gen. Overmyer next Thursday
evening.
Mr.. Kennedy has for several years
been employed on the Grand Junction
Daily Sentinel in the capacity Of fore
man.--Denver Republican
Editors Note-Mr. Kennedy is very
much alive and workieg steadily every
day. He is considerably exercised to
know from where the report emanated.
The daily sentinel., 1899-04-28
CHILDRENS DAY.

Childrens Day, under the auspices OF
the Womens Club, will be celebrated to-
morrow afternoon at the homo OF Mrs.
Stanley with an elaborate program.
The Womens club have set apart sew
eral special occasions for celebration, be-
fore the close OF the season and the cele-
bration OF Childrens Day is one OF them.
The committee having the exercises in
charge consists Of Mrs. X p. Chester,
chairman; Mesdames s. N. Wheeler, l..
N Bunting and G. E. Haskell.
The committee having the exercises in
charge have had printed very handsome
programs. For the outside cover there
has been provided beautiful hand
painted sketches, which will be given
with the programs as souvenirs.
The following is
THE PROGRAMME.
DuetC, ............ ............
Pearl Shores and Alice Chester.
The Dead Kitten. Vivian White.
The Bird Song, .....................
Rowena Wheeler, Bessie Delong,
Hazel Cowles, Ruby Lawrence and
Helen Bunting.
Uncle Sam,. lex Arthur.
Fancy Dance. e........... Helen Bunting.
Grand Fathers Spectacles, ..........-.
Hazel Cowles.
Cradle Song, .............
Ethel Adams. Mary Haskell, Pris-
ella Price, Ruth Newton and Alice
Smith.
The Raggedy Man.. Ben'ly McMullin.
The daily sentinel., 1899-04-28
CITY TROOP.

Quite an enthusiastic meeting was
held at the Town company's Office last
evening, it being call meeting to organ
ize temporary organization Of a troop
of cavalry to be attached to the second
regiment, N. G, G.
After considerable discussion the roll
was opened and forty names was attach,
ed. The following are the temporary
officers of the troop.
Capt. j. M. Kennedy.
1st. Lieut.. John Dickerson.
End. Lieut.. John Mckinney.
1st Sergt w. G. Meserve
End. Sergt. r. p. Morgan.
3D.. Sergt. ]. M. Graham.
4th. Sergt. Will Longshore.
LIST. Corp. Chas Arnett.
End Corp. John Thomas.
3rd. Corp. Thos. Van Buren.
4th. Corp. Ollie Bannister.
Troop Trumpeter, Geo. Waldo.
Asst. Trumpeter, Ed Weleh.
Physician, E. F. Eldridge.
Asst. Physician, N. s johnson.
Recruiting officer, Edward WEIGH.
Asst. Recruiting officer, Thos. Van
Buren,.
The daily sentinel., 1899-04-28
PERSONAL.

For SALE-Team, wagon and harness,
$4,000 cash. Apply. one mile nothwest
of city to A.. H. Hensel. 4273
Paul D. Roberts arrived on Colorado
Midland today from trip over the ter
ritory formerly supplied by the Grand
junction Milling and Elevator company.
Ackermans have had the front Of their
big grocery emporium handsomely
painted.
Weather Observer Stewart received a
telegram late this Afternoon stating that
there would possibly be frost on Satur-
day morning
Fred. Rockwell, Burlington live stock
agent is in the city.
Katie Emmett. whose reputation is a
guarantee OF the best performances Of
the season is at the Park Opera house
tonight. Go and hear a first class act
ress and good performance.
George A. Currie left last night for
Denver.
Do you know what the brides say?
ATTEND the ball on the first of May"
A. F. Reeves left for his home at
Montrose. this morning.
&C. Compton, treveling freight agent
of the Rio Grande is visitor to the city
today.
LOST Between 9Th street Grand juno
ton ard Whitley's ranch, brown fur
boa. Leave at this office and resieve re-
ward.
Prosperity's wave is here to stay;
1t has washed the old hard times away.
But in the rush you must not lose sight,
OF the May Day ball-next Monday
night.
Rev. B. +. Powelson left this morning
over the narrow guage for Delta to be
present at the session of the Gunnison
Presbytery.
Hon George Smith left last night for
Denver, and in few days will leave that
city for New York. From there he will
leave on May 5th for England. Mr..
Smith expects to be absent from this
country until the last OF July. He has
many friends in England also relatives
who will be glad to welcome him back
to his old home.
The daily sentinel., 1899-04-28
RETURN OF A TROOPER.

M Eugene Phillips, formerly an en-
ploye OF the Sentinel, who enlisted last
June in tn Seventh United States regu-
lar cavalry. and who has been in Cuba
for the past six months was an arrival in
this city this morning.
Phillips has been with Troop L. Of the
Seventh cavalry and saw all the stirring
times in the Cuban capital, after the
surrender of the Spanish. He was one
OF the guard of honor that escorted Cen
eral Maxine Gomez into the Cuban cap
ital and was witness to the rites and
ceremonies of the occupancy of Havana
by the Cubans.
Private Phillips looks little bronzed
by exposure to the southern sun, but
otherwise he is the very picture OF health
He is not quite 80 stout as he was when
he left here, but this is due partly to the
fact of the exercise he obtained every
day as one OF cavalry troop with lots o
patrol work to do.
He has been hororably discharged
from the service, being fortunate enough
to secure his discharge through the ef-
forts of Senator Henry NJ. Teller.
The daily sentinel., 1899-04-28
E
MITCHELL
CY- Our night clerk will answer calls
at all hours.
RUSINESS LOCALS.

j, G. Glassford sells window awnings.
II you want to furnish house see
Blackmer the second hand man. Cheap
cheaper cheapest
A fine line of hammocks, croquet sets
at the Anderson Bargain House.
Household goods wanted First
second hand store west Mesa county
bank. Highest price in cash paid
M. A. Blackmer.
Toilet sets and lamps in great quanti-
ty and variety SO cheap you'd think we
had found them. The Rio Grande
Another man, who does as he adver-
tises pays big price for household
goods and sells at small profits. Goods
as represented.
M. A. Blackmer.
II you miss it you'll regret it
May Day ball, SO don't forget it.
New goods in all lines at Roberts. the
jewelers.. IA n
A dollar goes long way buying
Queensware, Glassware and house furn-
ishing goods at the Rio Grande.
Choice line of berry sets etc. at prices
that will surprise you at the Andersons
Bargain House. tt
Bicycles at right prices at Roberts.
41427
Cameras and camera supplies, Dekos.
Finest black and white paper or earth
at Bedwells'. tt
leo cream soda on tap at Grand juno
ton Book and Stationery company. tt
Handsomest and cheapest line OF
queenware in the city don't buy without
seeing our goods and getting our prices.
Andersons Bargain House. tt
We keep full supplies for amateur
photographers. Anything you want,
dark room in connection for the accom-
odation OF our patrons. Grand juno
tion Book & Stationery Co. tt
Complete line of Cannon's famous
perfumes and toilet articles at Grand
junction Book and Stationery company
Sole agents for Encyclopedia Britain
ica. Three styles, sold on monthly pay
ments. Grand Junction Book Il Sta
tionery company. u
Go to the Boston Candy Kitchen for
your Ice Cream. IL IL
The best Ice Cream soda in the city
is served at the Boston Candy Kitchen.
41712
Our Ice Cream will he kept up to the
usual standard Boston Candy Kitchen.
IA IL
Come and see what little money will
buy at our five and ten cent counters.
tt Anderson's Bargain House.
Buy ticket for the May Day ball
We are selling 65 piece set of the
beautiful Clifton Royal semi porcelain
ware, you can see it in our window, for
az The Rio Grande
The daily sentinel., 1899-04-28

Piano Selection, -. Rowena Wheeler.
Recitation Sidney Bull.
Getting Into Rut, -. Helen Newton.
Minuet, ................... ........-...
Helen Bunting. Fred Snyder, Ruby
Lawrence, Whipple Chester, Row
ena Wheeler, Leon Clough Max
Boyer and Bessie DeLong.
Piano Selection, .... Ida Wadsworth.
Sleep, Darling, Sleep, p,...... Mrs. Adams
The daily sentinel., 1899-04-28
JUST RECEIVED

1900 rolls wall paper, all 1899 designs
five cents per roll and up, also fine line
of brushes, all kinds, paints, oils, glass
etc. Get my prices before doing your
spring work. G. A. STEELE. 10 I'm
On Fourth street opposite Sentinel.
The daily sentinel., 1899-04-28

We are selling 65 piece set of the
beautiful Clifton Royal semi porcelain
ware, you can see it in our window, for
&C. The Rio Grande
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1899-10-19
THE ACME PLANT.
Fund is all Subscribed and Cash
is Called for.

The committee appointed to solicit
subscriptions for the purchase of the
power house and grounds have suo-
ceeded in raising the necessary a.
mount, and the removal of the Acme
manufacturing plant from Busy to
this city is now an assured fact.
The committee has issued the fol-
lowing notice to the subscribers.
0skaloosa, Iowa, Oct. II, 1899.
Dear Sir:-rhe committee appoint
ed dy the Board of Trade to solicit
subscriptions for fund to be used in
the purchase of the Power House
grounds and buildings for the Acme
Manufacturing Go. having met with
cheerful and ready response from the
Citizens, beg to inform you that the
amount desired has been subscribed,
and that your subscription is now
payable. The committee request that
you pay the same at the Mahaska
County State Bank as soon as con-
venient-not later than October goth
Having devoted their time for more
than week to this work, the COM
mittee feels sure that you will save
them the further trouble and time OF
calling on you again by promptly re-
spending to this request. The Ma
haska County State Bank is authoriz-
ed to receive your subscriptions for
John A. Kalbach, treasurer of the
Oskaloosa Board of Trade.
HI. w. LYMAN II. l.. SPENCER
JOHN r. BARNES FL. FL. SHERIFF
w. r. LACEY @. V. HOFFMAN,
JOHN A. KALBACH CHARLES HUBER
RALPH BURNSIDE SAM BALDAUF
j. b. MCCURDY w. I. NEAGLE
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1899-10-19
ELECT A CLERK.
Council Finally Get Together
and Elect a Clerk.

There was another called meeting
of the city council this morning for
the purpose of making another at
tempt at the choice of some one for
city clerk.
The gentlemen of the council were
given some pretty straight talk, and
after they had taken % ballots w. P.
Hawkins was named as city clerk for
the unexpired part of the term COM
menced by d. @. Waggoner.
The meeting opened by the selec-
ton of DIR. Cole as clerk pro tenn,
and he appointed Chas. Munroe to do
the work.
Then came the contest, and among
the candidates were the following:
c.. e. Munroe, H. P. Weaver, @. W.
Russell, Col. Redmon, j. A. Rice, ].
@. Williams, o. @. G. Phillips, A. O..
Woodward, j. A. Kalbach, William
Tifin, @. E. Lofiand, Mrs. Fannie
McFall, Sam Baldauf and w. P.
Hawkins.
Mr.. Hawkins had not been a candi-
date for the place and had no inten-
ton of being. He came to the
mayors office to attend to some bus
mess. He stepped in the door at the
end of the sixteenth ballot and the
council jumped onto him as the drown
ing man grasps the proverbial straw.
1t took but six ballots for the men to
get together on this name and he re-
ceived the six votes necessary for
his election. He was ordered to pro-
cure a bond, which will be presented
to the council tonight for approval.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1899-10-19
MUST BELIEVE IT
When Well Known OskalOosa
People Tell it so Plainly.

When public endorsement is make
by representative citizen of Oska-
loosa, the proof is positive. You
must believe it. Read this testimony.
Every backache sufferer, every man,
woman and child with any kidney
trouble will find profit in the reading.
Mr.. CIV Blake of SIS West @ Ave.
concrete layer, says: For two years
l was never free from kidney COM
plant, characterized by dizzy head
aches almost constant pain in the
back and side and discoloration of
the kidney secretions. After a hard
days work l have walked home
slightly lame in the back, sat down
and shortly suffered, no matter what
| did, with severe and annoying ach-
ing across the loins. One day in
speaking to friend about the mat
ter he advised me to procure Doan's
Kidney Pills at Blakeslee & Heinz
mans drug store. l did so-much to
my surprise, for l have not the
greatest faith in patent medicines, !
began to feel better. AS / continued
the treatment the headache disap-
peared. Let me add as a further
proof that Doan's Kidney Pills do as
represented. My daughter also used
them for lame back and obtained
results equally as satisfactory as II
For sale by all dealers. Price SO
cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the United
States. Remember the name-Doan's
and take no substitute.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1899-10-19
Good Roads.

Among other NEE tings held at Des
Moines, last week, was the meeting
called for the purpose of forming an
Iowa Good Roads Association, which
was completed on Saturday, with the
following officers: President, 7. Har-
per, of Burlington; vice-presidents at
large, Prof. Curtis of Ames and Sena-
tor Garst, of Coon Rapids; secretary
J. A. Brewer, of Des Moines; assistant
secretary, J. Fl. ia mes of Marshal Go
treasurer, P II. Cragan, of Colfax.
1t was also resolved that the legis
lature of this year be urged to make
the following changes in the present
road laws:
Section /, that the township shall be
the union road district section 2,that
the board of trustees may levy mill
tax for road purposes; section 3, that
there shall be levied by the boards of
supervisors upon all the property OF
the state subject to taxation, a tax of
mills to be expended under the di-
rection of the board of the supervisors
and, so far as practicable, for the ben
eft of the local taxpayers; section 4,
that all road taxes shall be paid in
cash.
1t was also resolved to ask the leg
islature to extend state aid in secur-
ing better roads.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1899-10-19
General Quarantine.

There was a meeting of the Board
of Health Monday morning and the
matter of the presence of diphtheria
in the city was pretty thoroughly dis.
cussed. Supt. Finley was in the meet
ing and expressed some views on the
subject.
1t was generally agreed that dogs
and cats were liable to carry the con
tagion to a greater extent than were
children or people in general, and the
council ordered that all the dogs and
cats of the city be kept in strict quar-
antine. You will therefore have to
keep your dog and cat in the shed or
the barn. ANY dogs found running
on the streets will be taken up wheth-
er registered or not, and the cats are
liable to violent death.
1t is also ordered that all children
be kept at home and off the streets
altogether. No children will be al
lowed to attend any kind of a public
meeting whatever and must stay at
their homes. This quarantine will be
enforced with the strictest impartial
ity and severity if necessary. The
authorities will make every possible
effort TO stop the prevalence of diph-
liberia in the city.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1899-10-19
MORTALITY STATISTICS.


Physicians and students of mortal
ity statistics will be interested in
learning of the work now being ac-
complished by the Chief Statiscian
of Vital Statistics of the United
States Census, by the authority of the
Director, Hon. William r. Merriam.
1t is a practical effort, necessarily of
limited scope, to secure the adoption
of a uniform certificate for the re-
turn of deaths and looking toward
the establishment of a common ma
tional system Of collection of vital
statistics for the purpose, primarily,
OF the Census tables and publications.
Correspondence has been had by
the Chief StatIstician, Mr.. William
A. King, with the officers in charge
of mortality registration in the States
employing such system, and in the
cities having population of 5000
and more at the last Census which
also collect and register deaths re-
turns. Complete and accurate in
formation of the different methods in
vogue has been obtained, and it was
found that there is much unneces-
sary and Objectionable variation, CON
sidered from the Census point of view
in the form of official returns.
Having no power to compel cooper
alive action, and hampered by want
of time in which to carry out the
whole project, nevertheless the Cen
sus Office undertook to recure the
modification or application of the
death certificates so as to have them
include the items necessary to obtain
Census data. A model return form
was prepared and submitted, with
explanatory correspondence to each
registration office or officer CONTROL
ing the preparation of the State or
local forms.
The result has been more import
ant and gratifying than even the
Census Office expected, as not only
have the items in the specimen form
been very generally adopted, but the
registration officers have abolished
many practically obsolete local var
iations in their certificates and the
latter have been made to conform TO
one standard more nearly than ever
before.
The promptness and willingness
displayed by the State and local Of
fcers in complying with the request
Of the Director has been surprising
as well as gratifying. The benefit
hat will result to the Census Office
and to science from this first step
.oward the goal of national uniformi-
y is incalculable, but it will be seen
'eadily that the study of the natural
aw of the growth of the population
$ made easier and more certain.
The Director of the Census confid- |
entity expects that physicians every
where will appreciate the desirabilityI
Il the new order of things, and that
hey win earnestly and actively CO.
perate in securing prompt and ac-
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1899-10-19
COMPULSORY EDUCATION.

At the recent meeting of the State
Federation of Woman's Clubs, held
at Burlington, a movement was
started looking toward compul-
sorry education in Iowa. The
federation, by resolution, pledged
itself to work for this end during the
ensuing two years. The Educational
Department is already actively en-
gagged in the work and are circulat-
ing the following petition throughout
the state, to which over 1000 sigma
lures have already been secured:
To the Senqte ami House of Repre
SentGtiUeS Of the 2Sth General Assembly
Of IOlCG:
Your petitioners respectfully show
that under the laws of the State,
wisely enacted to secure the diffusion
of knowledge among the masses
which is declared, by the Ordinance
of 1887, to be one of the things
necessary to good government and
the happiness of mankind" of the
people of the State pay more taxes
to maintain the Common School Sys-
tenn than all other taxes combined,
amounting in the aggregate to about
$4,000, 900 per annum; that such bur
den is cheerfully borne by the peU-
pie because it is recognized that edu-
cation is a public necessity to secure
good citizenship. But your petition
ers show that the best results are not
obtained because many parents and
guardians do not send their children
to the schools for a sufficient time to
obtain fair common school educa-
ton.
Your petitioners therefore respect
fully pray that a law be enacted re-
quiring all parents and guardians in
the state having children in their
care, between the ages of seven and
fourteen years, except when there
are kindergartens, then five years, to
send them to school, in the country
districts not less than SIXTEEN consec-
utive weeks, and cities and towns not
less than six consecutive months,
during each year, with such provis-
ions for its enforcement, and for the
exemption therefrom of such chill
dren as may be physically unable to
attend, as your wisdom shall deem
proper.
For which your petitioners will
humbly pray.