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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-07-06

Rome celebrated it's centennial all
right. There We're no formal exercises
with history and Grafton. but there
was n get-together and good time and
more noise than its seven hills ever
knew before.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-07-06

The clock on WestbroOk church
took a three days rest, last week., AMI
then surprised the city by starting up
again at almost exactly the hour when
it stopped.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-07-06

For Sheriff
FRANK J. HAM, of Belgrade.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-26
ORPHANS CONCERT.
Entertainment to be Held This Even
lining at Metropolitan Hall by
Singing Class From Oxford.

This (Tuesday) evening at S:30
o clock the Singing. Class OF the Ma
sonic Orphanage at Oxford Will give
one of it's entertainments before the
people of Raleigh at metropolitan
Hall. Every one who knows anything
of the Oxford Orphanage knows that
it is one of the noblest institutions IN
the State, and every one who has at
tended these concerts in the past
knows that the enjoyment derived
therefrom by the audience far exceeds
the value of the small sum OF twenty
i've cents admission which is
charged by the management. III you
are busy tonight, lay aside your bust
hess and come to hear the little chill
dren sing. Then you will be refresh
ed and benefited. When the famous
lecturer, Polk Miller, was in Raleigh
a few days ago. he took occasion to
announce from the platform where he
spoke that this entertainment would
soon be given here, and recommended
it to the people of this city, saying that
ne had himself heard the children OIL
oxford and enjoyed their music. Like
fayora BILE comments are drawn from
every one who has heard one OF these
concerts The price of admission Tor
children is fifteen cents.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-26
THE FARMERS INSTITUTES.
Attendance This Summer the Largest
Since Plan Was Inaugurated.
-Four Fine Johnston Farms.

Mr.. Cherry of the Department of
Agriculture, has been receiving some
gratifying reports of the Farmers In
stitutes which are now being held i'll
various parts of the State. Both the
attendance and the interest manifest
ed are greater than ever before in
the history of the work.
At two institutes held recently AT
Shelby and at Concord, the court
houses at both places were filed to
OVERLOOKING with interested farmers
and the demand for the literature
sent out by the department was Sc
great that a new supply had to be
forwarded to the representatives in
the field. The Institutes are conduct
ed or practical and progressive lines
and have done great good since they
were inaugurated by the department
a, very few years ago.
In speaking of the farmers. Mr..
Cherry said that the reports from
crops all over the State indicated a
more generally favorable condition
than he has ever known. He had
just returned, he said, from Johnston
county, where he had visited the
large farmes of Mr.. j. W. Wyatt, Mr..
]. W. Young, Capt j. O. Ellington and
Mr.. G.. B. Smith. The crops on these
farms Mr.. Cherry stated to be the
'liiSoI TX Iidu cNel oeelii PAL licuIdIly
the corn crop, which would easily
average over ten barrels to the acre.
On Captain Ellington's farm there is
one place where a man can stand in
his tracks in the growing corn and
touch 100 ears with his finger.
The excellent condition of all of
these four farms is due, in Mr.
Cherrys opinion, to the systematic
and intelligent way in which their
crops have been diversified from year
tn wear
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-26

from the start When the hu"rah over
Judge Parker occurred Mr.. Tayloe got
right in it with the North Carolina
standard. He feels confident that
Judge Parker will be elected.
Mr.. Tayloe is a worker for the in
terests of Washington, and as a men,
Der of it's Board of Aldermen has done
valiant service in the improving and
upbuildinG of that city. In accepting
the position of chief marshal he does
so with a determination to make his
department of the State Fair a big
success.
In an appreciative letter accepting
the appointment Mr.. Tayloe wrote
yesterday to the State Fair officials,
saying that he would give his most
earnest efforts to the duties of the po-
sition. He says that he expects to
have at the State Fair marshals from
the mountains to the scaShore, repre-
senting every part of the State.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-26
FAIR FOLKS
Don't Blame Naure But Investigate

Many claim. they are nervous by
nature" when it is really only because
they are slaves to the cofIee or tea
habit, and this is easily proved by
cutting out the coffee or tea for IL
days and using we'll boiled Postum
Food Coffee instead-then comes the
change.
II seemed endowed by nature with
a nervous constitution says a lady
of Knoxville, Tenn, land although l
felt tea and coffee were bad for me
the force of habit was so strong l
just couldn't give them up.
Some one suggested that try
cereal coffee, but / remembeE what
insipid drinks we used under that
name during the Civil War and SO
without ever looking into the subJect
or realizing what progress science mas
made in this direction l just Wouldn |
give Postum a trial until finally the
w. G. L. u. in our city started an eX-
change where there were so many
calls for Postum it was served regu-
larly and many were thus induced to
Try 1t, myself among the number. How
delighted l was to find it so agreeable,
delicious and satisfying. As | had
suffered from nervous prostration
change from tea and coffee was i'm
perative, but all these troubles dis.
appeared after / had used the Postum
faithfully for few weeks.
sister and son-in-law were
converted to Postum at the same time
and now we all enjoy it as we'll as we
ever did coffee but instead of making
us nervous like coffee we enjoy seady
nerves, sleep sound and are in every
way better for the change" Name
Elven by Postum Co., Battle Creek,
Mich
This lady found what she thought
was natural nervousness was only due
10 an acquired taste for coffee that
is TO some people a sure destroyer of
nerves and health. Like her, any one
who cuts off coffee altogether and
uses well boiled Postum in its place
VIII be greatly benefited after few
DAYS and the return to health is d
joyful Journey
There's a reason.
Look in each package for the ia
NOUS little book, 1.-THE Road to Well
ville."
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-26
THE BANK OF WAKE
Chartered Yesterday to
Do Commercial Bust
ness at Wake Forest

The Bank of Wake, a financial in
stitution which has strong backing
and bright prospects, was chartered
yesterday by the Secretary of state
TO do a general commercial banking
business at Wake Forest, the site OF
Wake Forest College, in this county
The new bank, which has an au-
thorized capital of $25,000.00, and
starts business with $4,000 paid IN,
will fill the needs and do the business
for a thriving and progressive town
and section. The men who are named
as -corDerators- are among the best
citizens of the town, Mr.. Powell, OF
Florida, excepted, and he is bust
ness man of large means who has Tor
wears been familiar with Wake Forest
College and the section which the
bank will serve.
The corDorators, who are named III
the certificate and the number of
shares. of 500 each, they have respec-
lively subscribed for are as follows:
r. E. Royal, ]. Il. Powers, T. E. Hold
ing, of Wake Forest, and w. c. Pow
ell. of Jacksonville, twelve shares
each: w. w. Holding, Wake Forest,
five shares: j. B. Carlyle, Wake For
est five shares, and K. ). Dodd, OF
Wake Forest, two shares.
The Magnolia High School. of Mag
nolia, n. c.. was also granted char
ter ito conduct and establish schools
and Libraries, protect and foster edu-
cation. buy sell and deal in books and
periodicals, conduct teachers exchange
or employment bureaus, act as trus-
tee or guardian for minors, orphans
or their estates and to deal in all
kinds of school supplies.
The incorporatOrs are: j. &. Horne,
H w. Swinson, II. e. Newbury, G. p.
Gaylor, j. II. Graves j. A. Macarthur,
[. w. Martin, A. +. Smith, w. l..
Frederick
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-26
SH|FTY Mr.. SHORT
How, if One has His Nerve
1t Pays to Confess One
Self a FeIon.

Some days ago a white man walked
into the station house here and sur
rendered himself to the police, stat
ing that his name was John Short,
that he was a deserter from the Uni
ted States army and that he was too
sick to travel further.
Whereupon the police put Mr..
Short in cold-storage, so to speak, at
Rex Hospital against the time when,
nursed back to health, Uncle Sam
might see fit to send after his own
and pay to the Vigilant captors the
reward that in such cases is made
and provided"
Not a word of this did the police
breathe to the public and it is only
now, through their dramatic sdiscon-
future in the matter of the reward,
that the story comes to light.
For John Short, dressed in his
travel stained clothes but with a full
outfit of clean hospital linen, is gona
and, with him, the reward! Gone, a
cleaner, and a fatter and d weller
man, doubtless to laugh with his
cronies over the way in which he out
witted the police and lived for a week
on the fat of the land.
For John Short is not the fool that
into the police station and acknowi-
edged himself felon.
When he was taken to the hospital
Short was suffering from malarial fe-
yer and was generally run down, but
under careful nursing and the as
siduous attentions of the physicians
he rapidly improved.
On Friday he was told by his ply
sicans that he might possibly get
that night he asked a nurse to get
him his clothes. Upon being told
that it was too late for him TIC dress
he asked casually where his clothes
were and, being told, turned over and
apparently went to sleep.
Some time later. when the shift Of
nurses was being made, Mr.. Short
raised his head, hoped briskly from
his couch, ran nimbly to the closet in
which his clothes reposed and, in an
Incredibly short time, was fully
dressed and out the door and away
before the startled patients of the
ward had time to more than guess at
his Intentions Patients at the hos
pital who saw Shorts exit. declare
that he dressed with the speed of a
baru-stormer catching a train. And
that far from appearing to be sick
man. he was the spryest individual
who has ever come within their ex-
perience.
Which suggests that, despite the
rise i'm fever, Mr.. Short may have
been but a malingerer after all. There
are ways and ways of feighning sick
ness. of raising fevers and of fool
ing ever the brightest medical minds
with imaginary diseases.
Was Mr. Short merely tired of life
ON the road? And did he desire mere
w to give the Raleigh police view
halloo'' of that deserter's reward while
he Toasted and was petted in a snowy
cot?
It is possible. but if Mr.. Short is a
reader, he will heed this warming;
beware the knife
Had the hospital authorities elect
cd to remove Mr.. Shorts appendix,
for example he would have been
lamentably disabled from his light
ming specially of changing clothes.
While the returns are large. Mr..
short there is danger ever in the
simplest graft.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-26

thing happening in his midst. Perhaps
the internal fires of Mr.. Sauls gener-
ated sufficient steam to send him
touring through the country like q
motor-car tho a corpse. Anyone
marking his approach will please lassc
and return.
And after all this, Cary, to whom
this paper telephoned a moment ago
disclaimed Mr.. Sauls or any of his
name, disclaims him-dead or alive
denies him priest or tolling bell.
Sauls is mystery-in all proba-
bility about ten years old, with
patched pants, a freckled face an6
just dipping into the delights, let Us
hope, of Treasure Island more
probably of Hit with a Delaying Pr
or Red Death Under Hatches."
But nothing can rob that cuicide OF
its charmi
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-26
FAIR VIEW DAIRY,
RALEIGH, n. c.,
FOR SALE.

My entire herd of Jerseys, Guern-
seys, Oyrshires, Holsteins and grades
from each. Also about 40 fine heifers.
Sharples Stear Turbine Separator;
Boilers, Churns, Butter Worker, Cans,
bottles, large refrigerator, Babcock
tester milk wagons, etc. These are
all fine cows of large milk and butter
capacity Out of SO head shown at
last Fair 35 took first premium. Have
always taken first premium over all
competitors in milk and butter test at
State Fair. All the above Will be sold
at private sale and at farmers prices.
Now is your chance for valuable
COW or heifer at a low price. Two ex-
ira fine Jersey bulls included in above
b. c.. COWPER.
Proprietor.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-26
MIR. JOSEPH II. TAYLOR
AS THE CHIEF MARSHALL.
An Admirable Selection That Insures
a Brilliant Social Season at the
Great State Fair.

The announcement made yesterday
that Mr.. Joseph Il. Taylor, OF Wash
ington, n. c., had consented to serve
as the chief marshall for the State
Fair of 1904, was heard with much
pleasure.
Mr.. Taylor is well known through
out the State as one of its most pro-
gressive and able young men. He has
a host OF friends in eastern North
Carolina, and with his WELL known
energy and ability it is certain that
the social events of the State Fair will
be admirably managed.
Mr. Taylor is not alone we'll known
in social life in the State, but political
ly also. He was one of the North
Carolina delegates to the National
Democratic convention from the First
district and was a Parker enthusiast
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-26
A BAD PRECEDENT.
That, the Gist Of Reason
for Governors Refusal
to Give Out Encamp-
ment Report.

Secretary Pearsall yesterday after
noon mailed to the Wilmington Cham
Der of Commerce the reply of Gov
ernor Aycock to the resolutions pass
ed by that body in criticism OF the
Governor for not giving out the report
of the military committee appointed
by him to look into the advantages OF
various encampment sites and re-
uuesting him to furnish to the Cham
Der the information as to the contents
of the report
Governor Aycock has not disclosed
for publication the contents of his let
ter, considering that as it was called
forth by an official communication
from the Wilmington body, it should
be given to the press by the recipients.
The Governor did, however, con-
suit with several friends and State Of
ficerS to whom he communicated the
contents of of his reply and from
them it is learned that he does not
comply with the request of the cham
Der, stating that, while there is no
reason to suppose that any member
of the committee that visited the
sites would object to the report being
made public, he considers that it
would inaugurate bad precedent for
him to do so. and, of course, taking
the position that while the report is, in
sense, pubic properly III tndI IL is
filed with official papers, it is not of
that class of records of which any
citizen may demand IL copy.
The letter argues this point con-
vincingly and, passing by the discour-
teous tone of the resolutions, and
simply denying the charge that he
had made the selection of the en-
campment site to the disadvantage of
the military of the State, calmly re-
views the grounds which render his
compliance with the Chambers re-
quest impolitic and inadvisable, adj
verting in passing to the liberal man
ner in which Wrightsville has been
treated in the way of encampment oc-
casions during the time of his admin
istration.
Governor Aycock completed the let
ter Saturday and left Sunday night for
Dare county, where, as has been re-
ported, he goes to make several adj
dresses by appointment before re-
turning to open the campaign.
'Fhe letter will doubtless be given
to the press in full by the Chamber
OF Commerce, probably Wednesday
morning.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-26

Writing of the death of Mrs. Sarah
Andrews of Harnett county, the Fay
etteville Observer says: Mrs. An
drews was the Wealthiest woman in
this section of the State, and her es-
tate will easily amount to over hun
dred thousand dollars. She owns con-
siderable land, but most of her prop
erty consists of United States bonds
and stock in q number of Georgia cot
ton mills. Mrs. Andrews was Il sister
of the late Rorie MCNEIL, and was well
known all over this section
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-26
Rev. Edwards Returns.

Rev. j. P. Edwards has returned
from Rennert, V. c., where he con-
Quoted a very successful meeting.
Mr., Edwards now goes to Wake
Cross Roads to assist in a meeting,
which will be conducted by Rev. AL
mond Upchurch
Rev. Edwards has changed his resi-
dence from Wilmington street to Ala
west HarSett street, and his phone is
Bell 1928
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-26
ALLEGED ASSAULT.
Tom Hill Charged With
Attacking Blanche
Drake.

Tom Hill, colored, was yesterday
arrested by Deputy Sheriff Smell on a
warrant charging him with attempted
criminal assault on colored girl,
twelve years of age. by name Blanche
J Drake.
Hill gave bond and his hearing is
set for Tuesday next before justice
of the of the Peace M. B. Baree.
The circumstances of the case seem
mystery. Tom Hill and Mourning
Drake, the mother of the girl alleged
to have been assaulted, were both at
the home of Mr.. w. N. Jones, where
they are employed, shutting up the
house after the departure of the Jones
family for the springs. Tom Hill lett
before the woman had finished her
work and, at her request, went by her
house to leave some food. There he
found the two girls of Mourning.
Blanche and an elder girl named
Pearle the latter of whom left short
ly after his arrival.
1t was while they were alone in
the house that the younger girl claims
that Tom seized and attempted to
assault her.
Some time after he had lefr
the house Hill returned to the
house of Mr.. Jones, where he en-
countered the mother of the girl,
who charged him with the attempted
assault and attacked him with a stick
which she broke, and afterwards with
a plank. She then started off to swear
out a warrant and Tom made himself
scarce while he hunted his lawyers
The warrant for Hills arrest was
placed in the hands of Deputy Smell
tn
the grass near u. S. Commissioner
John Nichols office and made the
arrest.
Hill was at once bailed and the
preliminary hearing set for Tuesday,
as stated above. He absolutely denies
the truth of the charge brought against
him and processes to be in total
ignorance of why the girl should nave
told the tale she does. He is repre-
scented by Col. j. G. L. Harris ana
Mr.. c. NJ. Bernard.
The girls story is that when she
and Hill were left alone, the latter
seized her roughly and choked her so
that she could not call for help, but
that she succeeded in defending her
self. The girl is an invalid and is
nearly blind, two facts which mate
rally weaken her story. She is rep
resented by the two colored lawyers,
Dave and George Lane.
Tom Hill is well known character
and has heretofore been considered
perfectly harmless and reasonably
honest He is a smiling and ac-
commodating darkey of small statue
and is married. Some years ago he
attracted some suspicion as q finder
of things lost and advertised with re-
wards attached, his speciality being
lost dogs-but no direct charge has
ever been brought against him.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-26

tribute to a good cause but enjoy
g most delightful evening by attend
ing this entertainment. SO be sure to
go, and induce your friends to follow
your good example. General admis-
sion twenty-five cents; children admit
ted for fifteen cents. Let Raleigh turn
out and welcome the little singers.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-26
Notice to Members.

4 There will be no July meeting OF
the Society of Colonial Danes.
Next meeting will be on sthe fourth
Wednesday of August. Historical
readings on the Boston Tea Party
by Mrs Franklin McNeill; character
of Dutch Colonies" by Mrs. Il. l.. Ste
vens; Settlement of Philadelphia By
Mrs. Walter Clark.
Time and place of meeting Will be
announced later.
MRS. L. E. MOFFITT.
Chairman
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-26
Must Work to Live in Cary.

Chief of Police Jones, of Cary, came
into Raleigh on yesterdays morning
train bringing with him VIII Davis,
a colored youth, whom he delivered
to the Jail authorities.
Davis had been convicted by the
mayor of vagrancy and he goes to
the roads for 80 days.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-26
a Ripple of Words-Dear Words.

Nina Jones, who used many words
OF an emphatic nature Saturday, found
this morning that, taking 'em word for
word, talk was still cheap article
but estimated by the column, it
mounted UP to the stiff space rate of
$.25. This happened in the Mayors
court.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-26
Orphans Concert.

The long-expected concert of the
singing class of the Masonic Orphan
age at oxford will take place at Met
ropolitan Hall. in this city, next Tues
day, July 26th. You not only con-
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-26
Moonlight Picnic Tonight to Chaly-
bcatc Springs.

The retail clerks picnic which was
postponed from last week on account
of the rain will be run tonight. There
will be good music and good time
for all that go.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-26

Grand Secretary E. II. Woodell left
Yesterday for Hamlet, Monroe and
Charlotte in the interest or the Odd
Fellowship. He will be absent from
the city for several days.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-26
"SAM SAULS,
Gary, n. c."
III Committed cuicide.

The boys hunted hurriedly along
the banks of the branch, their eyes
popping wide with the sense of mys-
terry and excitement. but they found
no corpse. The branch is not deep
enough to cover body and the woods
are Tree from dense underground, so.
somewhat disappointed but still swell
ing with the pride OF their find, they
hurried to town and deposited the bot
tie and it's tragic message with Mayor
Powell, on whose desk it still lies open
to the gaze of all who would view
this last, sad token of the dead-that
is if there be Sam Sauls, or, being
such a man, if he is no longer with
us"
On both of these points there is
doubt-for, if Mr.. Sauls expired in
the penitentiary woods, something has
carried him off. Perhaps-Who
knows?-it was the Jabberwock!
One thing, however, is sure. Inc
bottle was one which contained the
little green, antiseptic disks Wh1ch
doctors dissolve in the water IN Whlcn
they wash their hands and knives be-
fore and after digging down after the
vermiform: if Mr.. Sauls ate the con-
tents, peradventure there was some
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-26

Coughs and colds down to the very
boorderland consumption, yield to
the soothing, healing influences OF DIR.
Woods Norway Pine Syrup.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-26

Only one remedy in the world that
will at once stop itchiness of the skin
in any part of the body; Doan s Oint-
ment. AT any drug store, so cents.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-26

1t is just as easy to praise a neigh
Dor as II is to find fault with him,
but people seem to derive less salts
faction from it.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-26
Change i'm Number of Fire Boxes.

The number of fire alarm box cor
ner Fayetteville and Hargett streets
now No. PIP, will be changed at nine
o o'clock this morning to No. %.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-26

Mr.. r. P. Horton and Mrs. G.. w.
Hendricks left Sunday for Norlina to
attend the funeral of Mrs J. F.. Hor-
ton, the wife Of their brother.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-26

Burdock Blood BitterS cures 1t.
promptly, permanently. regulates
and tones the stomach.