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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-03
BIRTHDAY PARTY.
BLESSINGS on the Little Man is the
Wish for Him

Master Joseph John Williams Whit
ing gave a beautiful birthday party to
MS many little friends on the evening
of September 1St The decorations for
the occasion being in Japanese effects
Many colored lanterns shed their soft
nights and japanese parasols decorated
with natural roses made the seen,
novel ideas were carried out to amuse
the children, the good natured pump
Kin man being something entirely new
The pumpkin was suspended in mid
aid and whirled around, and with each
successive turn child was required
to kiss the Japs' face that was drawn
on the round surface and cunningly
brought out in color. Then the daint-
lily drawn little Japanese lady in bright
kimona with dark hair coiled high on
her head. The children amused
themselves by placing a bright butter
fly in her hair.
And the old. old fish pond that al
ways affords endless amusement was
heartily INDUCED in, each child de-
lighted as they pulled from the shin
ing waer some mysterious package
The children were then ushered in
to the dining room, which was most
beautifully decorated with many Jap
anese novelties. The table, blazing
with light, was loaded with ices, bon
bons, waters, cakes, ETC., and japanese
tea, fragrant with spices and fruits
Every, minutes was brimful of pleas
ure. The hour for good-byes coming
all too soon. The children voting the
evening one of the happest of their
lives.
There were over fifty guest present,
among them were: Misses Julia An
drews Marks, Eugenia Clark Jeanette
Glenn Katharine Baker, Alike Glenn,
Elizabeth Baskerville, Elizabeth Ba<-
er, Windham Ashe. Elizabeth Te/,ir,
Josephine White. Margaret Odonnell,
Patsy Allen, Lillian Smith, Eliza beh
Cross, Annie eLo Heart, Ella Wilkin-
son, Lillian Raspberry, Madge Ber-
nard, Ann Daily Burton. Eunice Sid
ney Blair. Eunice Winston Blair. Lottie
Lea Meares, Hattie Aston and Eliza
Leach; Masters Haywood White. Her
bert Jackson, Samuel S. Jackson
Worth Bagley Daniels, Charles Bask-
ervilel. Edward Glenn, Allen eLach,
Brainard Whitney, Thomas Aleln
Drewry Sales, Beverly Allen and
Samuel Raspberry.
The ladies who helped amuse the
little folks were Mrs. James NJ Leach,
Misses Margaret Cameron Ira pier and
Bessie Graham Trapier
" -. y
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-03
Boylan, Pearce 3 Co.

The business favorable
Enjoying city vicinity
occupying floor and carrying stocks than
other retail State, with renewed
capital adherng the principles of the old
firm Of selling only dependable merchandise and the lowest
prices consistent with quality only hope maintain the
New goods have begun arrive and will
positively show stock
able merchandise the city Bepeaking for share of
purchases.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-03

At eight p. m, Rev. Mr.. Wharton, who
has for the past year or two been 4
missionary to Cuba, addressed the
Union in the interest of his work in
that field.
After the regular work of the Union
Thursday a. m. Rev. S. l.. Morris, of
Atlanta Ga, interested a large audi
ence on the subject of Home Missions,
also Mrs. +. B. Price addressed the
ladies and told of her work in Japan.
At this meeting there were about sew
entv-live delegates.
The amount contributed to missions
during the year was $2,S76
All the officers were reelected as
follows: President, Mrs. r. w. Page,
Biscoe; First-vice President, Mrs j.
McNair, Gulf; Sec. Vice-President,
Mrs. Ed Buchanan, Laurinburg; Re-
cording Secretary, b. F. Mcmillan,
Red Springs; Corresponding, Secre-
tary, Mrs. A. II. McCallum. Red
Springs and manager of the children's
work, Mrs. w. s. Lacy. of Gulf and
Miss Christiana. of Raeford, was cleo
ted to conduct the young ladies work.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-03
GattiS-KilGo Case.

Judge A. w. Graham, of Granville,
was here yesterday to go to Fayette-
Vile Ito make UP the Gattis-Kilgo
case on appeal, but the date for this
was continued and he will go to
Whiteville next Wednesday to meet
with Judge Fred Moore and the at
torneys for Messrs kilgo and Duke
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-03
"OLD HOSS" SALE.
AT NOON
Saturday, Sept. 10th
OF Unclaimed and Over'
Freight on Hand Since
August, 1904,
a. e ~. G. r. r Co.

The following freight having hand the
r.
by law
M. Auditor
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-03
BragaW-A ddertOn.

y. c., announces the engagement of
her daughter Winifred Lee to Mr..
Richard Bragaw, of Washington, n.
C. The wedding to take place in the
fall.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-03
- - -
WOMAN and
SOCIETY.

They's tunin' up the fiddles,
For fall times on the way,
You hear the winds a-whistlin,
An you know just all they say:
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-03

1.-THE happy times a-comin',
The brisk time o the fall;
So, keep the music goin.
An swing your sweethearts all!
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-03

A man may be able to prove to his
own satisfaction that he isn't a fool
but he can seldom prove it to the sat
isfaction of his neighbors.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1905-04-27

Did you ever stop to investi-
gate ana find way to supply
your wants when you hadn't
time to call or lived too far
from our store? We do an ex-
tensive mail-order business to
the great convenience and salts
faction of our customers.
Convenient, because we fill
mail orders Immediately on re-
ceipt of them.
Satisfactory, because we use
the utmost care in sSecting
what we feel sure willy Nbest
please our customers, and re-
quest the return of anything
not entirely satisfactory. +,
Send US your order tor
spring clothes, hats and fur
nishings for man or boy.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1905-04-27

To: Mary Lou Matthews and Ethel
Wallace McElveen, infant defendants
above named, over the age of fourteen
year, Take Notice: That unless you
procure the appointment of a guardian
ad litem to appear and defend the
above entitled action on your behalf,
within twenty days from the service
of the summons and complaint herein
upon you, an application will be made
by the plaintiff to B G Whitehead,
ESQ.,, Clerk of the Court of Common
Pleas of Williamsburg County, on the
2lst day from the date of the said ser
vice, at IL o'clock, A NJ for an order
appointing some suitable aud compe-
tent person guardian ad litem for yon
and authorizing and directing him to
appear and defend the above entitled
action on your behalf, and for such
other and further relief as may be just.
Dated-March 2lst, 1905.
LEE & ASKINS.
Plaintiffs Attorneys.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1905-04-27

HIGH HILL, April 24:-An Eas-
ter egg hunt was given lat the High
Hill Graded school last Friday after
noon by the efficient and popular
teacher, Miss Amanda Cook. The
chief features of the occasion were
dialogues and recitations by the
school. After these exercises were
concluded came the hiding of about
$50 eggs by the pare nts and visitors.
Then the delightful time those
children had hunting and inding
the eggs. Refreshments were served
BY the ladies present, Of whom there
was quite number.
The evening was delightfully."-
passed, closing with q learned and
impressive address by Mr. J IL Cook,
his subj ect being, "The Relation be-
tween Teacher and Pupils.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1905-04-27

TO the Defendants. Mary Lou
Matthews and Ethel Wallace McEl-
veen. Take Notice: That the com
plaint in this action was filed in the
Office of the Clerk of Court of
Common Pleas in Kingstree, County
of Williamsburg. State Of South Caro-
limo. on the 2lst day of March, A d
1905.
LEE & ASKINS,
Plaintiffs Attorney.
3-23-6t.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1905-04-27
i. LEGAL
NOTICES.
Registration Notice.

The Office of the Supervisor; Of Reg
iStration will he opened on the first
Monday in every month for the pur.
pose of the registering OF any person
who IS qualified as follows:
Who shall have been resident O5
the State for TWO years. and OF the
county Ole year. and of the polling PEE
cincL in which the elector offers to
vote -four months before the day of
election. id shall have paid, six
months LriOre, any poll tax then due
and payable, and who can both read
and write any section of the const-tL.
ton Of 1885 submitted to him by the
Supervisors of Registration. or who
can show that he owns. and has paid
all taxes collectable on during the
present year, prol erty in this State
assessed at three hundred dollars OF
more. J.J. EADDY,
Clerk Of Board
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1905-04-27
Summons for Relief.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
COUNTY OF WILLIAMSBURG.
Court Of Cnmmnn PlaaS

Ri Kellehan, Plaintiff,
: against
r E McElveen, S 3 McElveen. Mari
Lou Matthews and Ethel Walla<e
McElveen, Defendants.
To the Defendants: r E McElveen,
S B McElveen, Mary Lou Matthews
and Ethel Wallace McElveen, you are
hereby summoned and required to
answer the complaint in this action, OF
which a copy is herewith served upon
you. and to serve copy of your ans.
wer to the said complaint on the sub
scribers at their Office in Kingstree
South Carolina. within twenty days
after the service hereof; exclusive OF
the day of such service; and if you
fail to answer the complaint aforesaid
the plaintiff in this action will apply
to the Copry for the relief demanded
in the coz plaint.
Dated-March 2lst. A ID. 1905.
LEE & ASKINS
Plaintiffs Attorneys
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1905-04-27

Morris BRIDGE, S G, April 21:-
After an illness of several months
Miss Lucille Brockinton quietly
passed away. All that medical
skill or kind hands and attention
could do wss done 20 stay tina hand
of death, but to no avail. About
1880 O'Clock on Sunday, April 16,
the death angel took her gentle
spirit from this world Of woe to its
home in the celestial city above to
<be with the God who gave it. Lu-
cile was indeed y lovely gir.-kind,
+ loving, obedient and loved by all
who knew her. We shall not only
miss her gentle voice and LOVING
smiles in our homes and around our
fire-sides, but in our church and
Sundsy-school there will be a vacant
place; for though young she was a
Christian, true and devoted to her
church and Sunday-school. She
was q daughter of Mr. and Mrs B F
Brockinton, formerly of Williams
b burg county. She leaves a father
anu mother, seven sisters and u host
of relatives and friends to mourn
her departure. At four o'clock
pm Monday after her dea:h, in the
presence of large crowd of SORROW
ing relatives and friends, her re
mains we're laid quietly to rest in
Bethel cemetery. The funeral SER
vices were conducted by her pastor,
Rev B K Truluck. We know she
is now shining star in glory.
on, 0 Star of beauty,
From thy fair home above,
Rejecting in thy brightness
Our Fathers look of love.
Shine on, Shine on,
Thou bright and beautiful. Star.
Shine on. Shine on,
Thou bright and beautiful star.
Shine, o Star, In Glory
We lift Our eyes tn thee.
Beyond the clouds that gather,
Thy radiant light we see.
Shine on, o Star, unchamging.
And guide our pilgrim way,
Where dawns the golden morrow
OF joys eternal day.
And at the crystal rivers brink,
Some sweet day, by and by,
We shall find each brsken link,
Some sweet day, by and by.
!. Then the Star, that fading here,
Left our hearts and home 20 drear,
We shall see more bright and clear,
Some sweet day. by and by. Fl.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1905-04-27
Paint Your Buggy for 75e.

to $1.00 with Devoe's Gloss Carriage
Paint. 1t weighs 3 to 8 ozsmore.
to the pint than others, wears longer
and gives gloss equal to new work.
Sold by DIR D e Scott.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-03

of the day that Sunday in $50 when l was
told to take to my uncle Alexander Everett at
his house Summer-st. the q Extra" which de-
scribed the three days of July in the Partisan
Revolution of that year. We boys all regarded
it a sort of new Declaration of Independence.
The memories of Lafayette fresh and
instantly hung out trcolored banners.
The dependence of America on Europe and
European opinion such it is impossible to
make any American understand. You may
buy newspaper to-day in the Valley of the Missis-
sippi and perhaps it will not contain word about
England France Germany. If it does, it
will be perhaps word on their relations with
Japan Manchuria. But in the early half of the
nineteenth century news meant largely European
news. Bankruptcy success might turn
arrival from Europe. l recolect the ira
ditons in office of the arrival of the of
Napoleons landing from E1ba and the news after
ward of the Battle of Waterloo, and | could tell
a dozen instances of ruin to prosperous merchants
which hinged on the announcement of victory
defeat published in number of one newspaper.
The invention of the telegraph applicable to
the uses to which we put it to-day was as late as
Morse's voyage across the Atlantic in 1882, when
Charles Jackson told him of the experiments in
that line which had already been made in Europe
The first real transmission of American by
telegraph as late as 1914, SO long had 1t taken
Morse to perfect his invention and to persuade
Congress to vote him money enough for trial.
1t is curious to that private capitalist dared
assist Morse IN TINS adventure. Oap1tal, as always,
tirnid and the Congress in advance Of
Wall Street.
Up till that time what we call te1egraphs
akin to the flag telegraphic signal which
passes from yacht to another; while
the Napoleonic campaigns had introduced the
semaphore, which figures in some of Dumas's early
novels and did sometimes convey news to the
French Capital of matters at a distance. We had a
semaphoric station in the outer harbor in Boston,
SO that the newspapers knew of the arrival of
vessels in the offing perhaps some hours before
the vessel arrived at the pier in Boston. But
with that exception an unimportant one news came
by the mail or by private hands.
Anybody connected with the press will see how
the whole machinery of the newspaper varied
from that of to-day. To take a single instance,
the arrival of any newspaper, near or distant.
in the office meant possibility of news. In my
early days in newspaper life New-Orleans was ten
twelve days from in Boston, yet to the leaders
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-03

nay personal memories of American journal
W. ism back to my fathers printing office,
when he publisher and editor of
The Boston Daily Advertiser" This the
first daily journal published in Boston, and from
a very early period he owned the establishment.
This the fashion of those days. The pub
Usher the editor the editor the printer
and publisher, in the stronger newspaper enter
prises of the country My father had not been
trained a printer, but had been professor of
mathematics at Exeter, had studied law and had
been admitted to the Boston bar. But all the
same he owned his printing equipment, as well
for the newspaper for office that printed
books. He introduced type-founding and stereo-
type work in New-England, and what then
called power printing, meaning printing by water
or steam power. Treadwell's power printing
press marked epoch in printing in America.
Daniel Treadwell the inventor was my fathers
intimate friend and he glad to use Mr.. Tread
wells inventions from the first.
Ny father a hearty believer in the old system
of apprenticeship, and brought up several fine
Young fellows who always grateful him
when in their time and place they became leaders.
When | was a boy at school, | suppose in 1920,
there appeared in The London New Monthly
Magazine" bright poem on steam. One of the
verses said
The newspapers our breakfast bless,
No dinner talk unless 'em.
Ten thousand" says The Times "our press
Strikes off in three short hours by steam.
This was regarded as miraculous work in those
times. Ny mother then took of my school
oratory and taught me to speak the piece on
Saturday at school, with alteration which said
that The Daily Advertiser" press worked off
two thousand copies by steam" This was con-
sdered large circulation.
| wonder if the boys of to-day have such pieces
to speak as we had then? Another of my adj
dresses on speaking day was Wendell Holiness
spirited lyric which saved the Constitution frigate:
Nail to the mast her tattered flag,
Set threadbare sail.
This belongs, | suppose, to 1890 1t is mentioned
-iere only because Holmes used to describe the
eagerness with which he wrote the and
carried them up to my father in THE Advertiser
office. And they saved the frigate, which the
reader may to-day That what circua-
ton of two thousand copies could do then.
The first newspaper in America had been The
Boston News Letter" which from 1904 continued
in one form other till the Revolution. Its early
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-03

- @
A Newspaper Office in the Days When Powe
Printing First Came Into Vogue. Treadwell'
Press Marked an Epoch in Printing in Am erio
rival was 1.-The Boston Gazette" which after
ward was continued in various forms, and as
1.-The Boston Commercial Gazette absorbed
in THE Columbian Centnel,'' which in time be-
came a part of the plant of 1.-The Boston Daily
Advertiser" Indeed my father eventually pur-
chased all the newspapers which had existed
Boston when his career as Journalist began; SO
that he published The Chronicle" The Patriot"
THE Gazette 1.-The Repertory," THE Weekly
Messenger" and | know not how many others
of the older journals | remember that when l
old enough hung up good picture of Ben
Franklin in the countlng-room and called him
our great apprentice.
All the Journalism of those days. whether in
Boston or in New-York, bore traces of the dis
tincty mercantile orr gin of the newspapers. The
very name of THE News Letter. the oldest
Journal points to this origin. The original " News
Letter was a sheet of foo1scap paper of which
two pages of printed first, the third
and fourth pages being left blank for manuscript
communications which merchant liked to make
to his correspondents. This custom descended to
times quite late-is preserved, indeed, in some
lines OF industry TO-DAY. once d week the pllCc
current" of every journal in a mercantile city
was printed a separate sheet in this way for
the use of mercantile correspondents. Then,
as now, the advertisements a great source
of revenue; and indeed in every way the wishes
of the mercantile class such dominant
in the preparation of the newspaper.
My father introduced into Boston journalism
the LEADER" written by some in the office,
expressing the views of the office. Before his time
such expression of opinion made by different
correspondents who would be known Cato"
" Publius,' Z" Junius," the rest. | have always
supposed that the Advertiser" all
American newspapers was borrowed from The
Public Advertiser" of London in which such
letters of unus' originally appeared.
The finances of a newspaper published under
such circumstances rested its subscription list.
Two thousand people, or less, for whom The
copies" in less than hour, a coterie
one might say, of Boston merchants who adver
tised in its columns, who relied upon its news, and
who took their opinions, though they did not
know it, from the editor They sort of
family in which the editor the chosen vessel
whose business it to keep them an fdlt on
the wider relations of the world If any important
news fell in way in the Office, which could not
wait as the editor thought till the next morning,
it put into type soon as possible and the
carriers were sent round with Extra" to our
friends in the neighborhood
think my first personal touch with the politics
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-01-16
INDUS FINALLY FLOATED
Britisi, Ship Pulled on Fire Island "'.5F~ Shore. ${$ 5

l
 New York, Jan. 15.-The steamer In- dus, aground on Fire Island bar, was fioated at 12:1O o'clock this afternoon. Tugs began pulling at the steamer with the rising of the tide this morning, and their efforts to release the vessel were finally successful.
 The Indus arrived at quarantine in tow at g o'clock tonight and came to anchor to await the inspection of the health officer. Captain Kydd, when in terviewed at quarantine, said that, in spite of reports to the contrary, the hull of the vessel was uninjured. He had caused as thorough an examination to be made as possible, but could find no damage. The vessel, he said, never leaked a drop during all the time she rested on the shoal. Of the cargo of 4,500 tons of sugar. 800 tons were taken off in lighters, while 1,500 more were jettisoned to tighten the ship so that she would float. There are 2,500 tons aboard now, all uninjured. The steam CT came off just in time, as strong westerly breeze sprang up, accompanied by a nasty sea.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-01-16
ANOTHER STRIKE TRAGEDH.
MeIanchoIia Among Working People of
 Fall River-Weayer Suicides.

Fall River. Jan. 15.-To-day, with which began the twenty-sixth week of its continuance, added it's quota to the tragedies associated with the cotton mill strike here.
 John Neville, weaver, who, with his crippled wife, is said to have suffered much, laid down the paper after read ing of the failure of the strike confer ence at Boston yesterday. and, crossing the room to a looking glass, drew a ra- For across his throat. Death followed immediately.
 Three striking loom fixers, James Lo- gan, Michael Washington and Peter Hudson, who since the mills closed have lodged together in one small room, were found unconscious from illuminat- ing gas to-day and removed to a hos pital. They will recover. Gas was es- caping from a jet in their room when the door was forced by other lodgers. The men were unable to explain the accident tonight.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-01-16
ODD FELLOW TRAGEDY.
A Member Short in Accounts Kills { e.:& Another and Himself.

Veedersburg, Ind, Jan. 15.-John Brant, owner of the Veederburg News, and Charles Egburg, barber, were found dead to-day in a barber shop where they had gone to balance the books of the Odd Fellows lodges, in which they held official positions. Both men were found lying in barber's chairs and both were shot in the head. A revolver was found near Egburg's body.
 On Egburg's body was found three letters, one addressed to the public and was dated July l.. hi it Egburg declared his intention or killing himself because of his financial troubles. He admitted that he was short in his ac- counts and that he could not adjust the shortage. The second letter was written to Harry Werts. friend. It it he said that he had determined to take his iee and that he would take Brant with him." This letter was dated to-day. The third letter was addressed to his wife. and was not made public.
 A coroner Jury louiiu tldt ESDuTS shot and killed Brandt and later killed himself. Egburg was finaneial secre- tary of the local Odd Fellows lodge for several years. About January 1 an auditing committee composed of Brant, John LaBaw. and Charles Pugh was | appointed to audit the books and in this Brant took the initiative. He has since been persistent in trying to discover the irregularities.