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Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-02-20
THE COMING CENSUS.

The enumeration of eighty millions
of people is not a light task, and the
permanent census bureau, consisting OF
about 500 clerks, needs a great amount
of assistance. The pending bill r
v1des for the appointment of 1000
temporary clerks, and 80, 900 men for
service in the feld-enumerators and
supervisors.
These temporary appointees have
heretofore been appointed by the heads
OF departments. The President and
the civil service reform association
OF over 100 years by requiring all these
temporary appOintees to take a civil
service examination. The task of
selecting 1000 men by that method
woul stagger the 1t
could not be done by the present civil
service machinery Or by any speedy
amplifcation of it.
Nor would $4,000 men seek temper
airy places by that route. The task of
getting ready for a civil service ex-
animation is not a light one, and the
results would be the government would
not have a sufficient number of census
or even of clerks. The proposed
plan would prove a failure, and Con-
gress would not prehaps be at hand to
present a remedy.
The C~rumpacker bill provides that
he fitness of the temporary census
appolntees shall be ascertained by the
government officials, and there is no
reason IN the world for changing the
plan. All possible safeguards should
% devised, but a civil service exam
nation would be a safeguard that
would defeat b entire plan. It would
prove obstructive and cumbersome to
he point of failure.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-02-20
FLOODS IN INDIANA.
Rivers Still Rising and Pe0-
pie Fleeing to the Hills.
The Situation is Critical and the End
Is Not Yet. PittSbuFg, Too, is
Threatened.
(Raleigh News and Obseryer.)

Indianapolis, Feb. l5.-Southern
Indiana is facing the greatest flood
situation in many years as the result
OF a continued rise of the Ohio. Wabash
and White rivers.
Many people have removed to the
hills and many are feared to he lost,
Several cloudbursts in the last "a
hours have increased the loss in prop
erty thousands OF dollars.
Plttsburg, Pa, Feb. 15.-Fhe flood
stage is expected in rivers here before
night, owing to continued rains.
The maxim height cannot be esti-
mated, but it is thought thai it will
equal the flood of last year, when
many hotels and business ouses were
under water.
Much damage is being done.
Springfield, Ohio, Feb. 15.-Eightv
houses are under water in lowland dis
tricts as h result of Buck creek over
flowing its banks last night. The
flood is the worst in many years.
Police and citizens are at work taking
out people from their homes and de-
food to them. No street cars
are running and no trains are being
operated on the Detroit, Toledo and
Ironton rail Dad because Of washouts.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-02-20
COTTON MEN To
HOLD CONVENTION,
Every State OF the South is
Arranging to Send a Large
Delegation.
The Convention of the Southern Cot
ton Association In Dallas
Next Week will be a Re.
COfd-BfedkeF as Re-
CARDS Attend
1ncG.
anCe.
(By Special Wire to the ARaUs.)

Dallas, Texas, Feb. 13-The Dalla.
Commercial Club is in daily receipt O
adv1ces indicating that the convention
of the Southern Cotton Association in
this city next week will be a record.
breaking as regards attendance. Every
State of the South is arranging to send
a large delegation and included among
those in attendance will be many men
OF prominence.
The convention will deal exhaustive
~ with every question relating to the
industry. Problems relating to ware
housing, financing and marketing the
cotton crop will be fully discussed and
steps taken to improve the existing
conditions and methods. President
Harvie Jordan will preside and among
the noted speakers will be Governor
Campbell Of Texas, n. d. North, di-
rector Of the United States census
bureau; W. r. Dodson, director OF the
State experiment station;
John D. walker. of Sparta, Ca, and
r. 7. Miner, commissioner of agricul-
ture of Texas.
The Dallas Commercial Club la in
of the arrangements for the re-
and entertainment Of the visi-
tors and nothing is to be left undone
% make the convention a success. An
attendance of about 3 900 delegates and
visitors is counted upon.
The session will beoin wodnocdov
and continue two days.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-02-20
SENATOR B. F. AYCOCK.

While no official announcement, so
Tar as we are Informed, has been Civ
en- to the public, it is generally under
stood that our esteemed county-man
enator B. F. Aycock, of Fremont, will
be a candidate for Corporation Com
missioner before the Democratic State
convention to succeed Commissioner
E. G. BeddingfieId.
Aside from our interest in him as
a citizen of Wayne county, the Trib-
une can vouch for Senator Aycock as
a man possessing rare ability and a
mar Of unimpeachable character, and
we predict that his candidacy will re-
ceive the enthusiastic endorsement of
b people of the State-especiaIly
throughout Eastern Carolina, where he
is best known.
Senator Aycock has always taken a
lively interest i'll everything pertaining
to the welfare Of North Carolina. In
every position OF trust he has proven
himself worthy and capable. AS a
Democrat, no man in the State has
worked more earnestly for the promo
ton and perpetuity of the party. He
is, we think, peculiarly fitted to serve
the State in the capacity of Corpora
ton Commissioner.-Mount Olive TriH
bune.
THE ARGUS desires to endorse the
Q most cordially, and should SEN
ator Aycock become a candidate we
feel that he would have-as he de-
opposition in the State con-
vention-Ed. ARGUs.1
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-02-20
DEATH OF MRS. BAYLIsS.
From Fridays Daily.

After a critical illness OF many weeks,
and a slow decline Of several years. the
death angel came az q minister of
mercy with healing in his wings this
morning at 6 O'Clock and bore away to
God who gave it the soul of Mrs. Vir-
gtn1a g. Bayliss, the venerable mother
OF Mr.. Walter E. Bayliss, of the Yves
tern Union telegraph service at Char
lotte, and of Mr.. Forrest p. Bayliss,
head pressman of the ARGUS plant,
both OF whom have been devotedly
ministering at her bedside for weeks,
and who in their sad bereavement and
~1rreparable loss have the sincere SYM
pathy of all who know them.
Mrs. Bayliss had long been a res
ident ct Goldsboro and was a most
estlmable christian woman, a devoted
member Of st. Stephens Episcopal
church, and giving her every thought
to the care and training of her two
sons who survive her.
The funeral will be held tomorrow
morning at 1920 o'clock from st. Ste
phen's church, and the interment will
be made in Willow Dale Cemetery.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-02-20

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Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-02-20
LINING UP FOR CHICAGO

Indiana has spoken, and a soliG
delegation instructed for Fairbanks
has been chosen. State after state will
act and all must act between this
time and May II. The convention
meets on June 16. 1t will consist OF
$50 delegates and 491 will be needed
to nominate.
The states that have favorite sons
will cast 318 votes in the convention,
as follows: Illinois will cast 81 votes
for Cannon; Indiana 80 for Fairbanks:
Iowa, 26 for Shaw; New York, IS for
Hughes; Pennsylvania, 68 for Knox;
Wisconsin, 26 votes for LaFollette, and
Ohio, 46 votes for Taft.
Here are 282 votes that Taft cannot
get atEthe outset, and each one of the
favorite sons named will have addi-
t1onal votes. Hughes will poll nearly
all b New England delegates, and
probably the New Jersey delegates.
LaFollette will poll votes from the
states west of Wisconsin,. Fairbanks
hopes to get a share of the Missouri
delegates and also a proportion of the
southern delegates. All told, it is
scarcely reasonable to conclude that
Taft will be nominated on the first bal
lot, If he is nominated at all he will
have to tire out the ~favorite sons
Republican conventions do not rec.
ognize the two-thirds rule or the unit
rule. Each delegation will be left free
to divide the vote as it sees fit, and this,
too, operates to make the ask of the
leading aspirant still more difficult.
The leader in the first ballot does not
always maintain his place. He has
often been defeated in past conven-
tons, and just as things stand no one
is sure to get at Chicago 491 votes.
This fact naturally leads to bets or
at least guesses as to the effect that.
IN a long struggle, especially if COM
imperil the nomination of
Taft, the name of Theodore Roose- ,
7elt may be sprung on the convention. ;
the third-term issue put in that {
way squarely up to the Is, ZOO, 900 +,
American voters who as a rule love l
PRECEDENT. s
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-02-20

The death or Mrs. John Scott, daugh-
ter Of the late Wiley Crumpler, and a
most estimable woman, occurred in
this city Wednesday afternoon. The
funeral was held Thurday afternoon and
the lnterment was made in the old
Scott burying ground on Tara Farm.
near Scotsville, where the Scott fore
fathers sleep for generations.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-02-20
NO FOREST RESERVE.
Speaker Cannon eppssse Ts The
Bill.
by special wire to THE ARaUs.) =

by special wire to The ARaUs.) p
Washington. Feb. 15.-All hope of
the passage Of the bill for the creation
OF a forest reserve in the Appalachian
and White mountains is dead. A del
egat1on of Southerners and New En-
d visited the Speaker todaya and
were told by him that the bill cannot
be passed.
cannon has been opposed to the bill
from the start.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-02-20

Baker Fifteen years experience in
bakery. l am first class on all kinds
OF bread, cakes and am open for DO
sitlon. Would perfer shop with mi
xer and other machinery. E G Cam
s, G.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-02-20

All men are lars married men merely
more so.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-02-20

"Trains Nos. 8 and 4 connect at
GoldsborO with A. G. l.. trains as
follows: No. Al, Southbound; No. AZ.
Northbound; and with Southern
Railway Trains Nos. Ill, Westbouud,
and No. liz, Eastbnund.n
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-02-20
NOTICE.

Having qualified before the Clerk of
the Superior Court of Wayne County,
North Carolina, as administratix of
Thomas e. Hodgin, deceased, all per-
sons having claims against the said
decedent are hereby notified to exhibit
Inc same to the undersigned on or be-
1ore the 9th day of January, 1909, or
this notice will be pleaded in bar of
their recovery. All persons indebted
to said estate are requested to make
immediate payment.
Talitha O. Hodgin.
Admx. OF Thomas e. Hodgin. deceased
This 9th day of January, 1908.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-11-18
HELD in AMfRICUS ON
CHARGE OF MURDER
Negroes Are Brought Here
For Keeping

Charged with completely in the
brutal murder Of Mr.. James Hall the
country merchant assassinated last
Friday night near Perry. two negroes
are locked in the Americus jail to
prevent possible lynching So intense
is the feeling in Houston county at
the murder Of Mr.. Hall that It was
not deemed safe TO carry The prison
ers there, and an officer brought them
to Americus instead until excitement
at the scene Of the murder subsidies
1t is said that one of the four negroes
arrested has confessed the killing
and implicated-the three others The
circumstances surrounding the muir
der OF Mr. Hall were most brutal.
Near his country home he ran
store, and late Friday night a party
of negroes called at his home and re-
quested him to go to the store and
sell them goods. Unsuspectingly he
accompanied them and when inside
the store he was shot to death and
the building robbed. A half hour
later his wife, desperately i'll, CROPPED
her way to the store and found the
-mutilated body 1t is not surprising
that lynching was threatened.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-11-18
SHERIFF Is CHASED BY
A BAND OF LYNCHERS
But Landed His Prisoner
Safely.

Sheriff Cooper, of Houston coun-
ty, who is well known in Americus
had a thrilling experience a night or
two ago in front OF mob of lynch
ers who were determined to take
from him the negro charged with
murder of James H. Hall
Mr. Hall, a country store-keeper
was brutally murdered last Friday
night near Perry and Sheriff Cooper
was carrying one Of the suspected
gang to jail
When near Perry Sheriff Cooper,
with his prisoner beside him in his
buggy, was told of the presence of
the NIB ahead, bent on lynching, The
sheriff left his team and with his
prisoner ran through the woods and
eventually reached Oglethorpe.
There the negro was landed in
jail and is still there.
Four of the alleged murderers of
Mr.. Hall were captured, three negro
men and one negro woman One of
the prisoners it is stated, has con
fessed and implicated the other three.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-11-18
MR. ARMSTRONG DEAD
AT HOME IN ALBANY
Offices In AmeriCuS Close
in Respect.

Mr.. J. sJ. Armstrong, one of AL
bany's prominent and esteemed citi-
zens, passed away yesterday morn
ng at 5.90 o'clock at his home
here, the end resulting from an i'll
ness with typhoid fever. The an
nouncement Of Mr.. Armstrong; death
was made to the Americus office Of
The Georgia Cotton Co, of which he
was for seventeen years the efficient
secretary and treasurer The de-
ceased was thirty-fve years of age
and a brother of Mr.. o. A. Arm
strong of Americus, who was at his
bedside when the end came. MIR.
Armstrong was popular among a
wide circle of friends and his death
is generally deplored in the city
where the best years of his life had
been passed. The funeral services
occurred there yesterday afternoon
and We're very largely attended. The
Americus offices of the company
were closed during the day, Messrs.
W. A Slaton and w. T. Ware, of the
local office, attending the funeral. Mr..
Armstrong is survived by his wife
and two children
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-11-18
MANY TO CONTRIBUTE IN
AID OF Tie BALAR
Ladies Are Requested Thus
to Assist.

The good women of Sumter coun-
y in the city and country alike,
having at heart the permanent main
tenance and success of the Americus
Hospital are urged by the committee
IN charge of the bazaar to make any
contribution they can. Everyone, it
is thought, win contribute something,
either in food supplies for the dining
room or fancy goods that may be
sold in the booths. A hundred
many hundreds -of such articles are
needed and Will prove most accept
able A turkey, chickens. pork,
cakes, bread and such articles for the
dining room would be most accept
able, while any fancy article that
may be sold will be alike appreciat-
ed. It is desired mat such articles
be sent to the city hall next Tues
day morning, or if Mrs. P. c. CIegg,
president of the association, is noti-
fed BY phone or otherwise the ar
ticles viii be sent for at the homes
of the, donors
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-11-18
BREAK AT PLANT PUTS
CITY IN DARK NESS
Theatres Are Knocked Out
for lime.

The light that failed happened to
be the electric light, and for a half
dour last night Americus presented
the CHEEKY appearance of a back
woods cemetery where spooks hold
high carnival and "hants9 do the ga
Vote. Down at the electric plant
(the old one) pump had trouble
with its vermiform appendix, and the
lights went glimering. No one mis-
sed the lights on the streets partic-
ularly, as the moon was supposed to
be shining, whether it was or not. In
stores and offices where simple child
like faith is pinned to our electric
system, there was some little delay
until the candles and matches, kept
for any emergency, could be located
by the porter Both the picture
shows were filled with people when
the dark side of life" filled the the
.atres with intense gloom and the au-
diences hiked by the light of match.
Repairs were effected at the plant af-
Ter a time, and the routine of Dark
est Americus was resumed
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-11-18
DID GlPSES
CAUSE SUICIDE :!

Albany. Ga, Nov. 17.--Ernest
Cunningham, a prominent young man
of Arlington, committed suicide by
shooting himself through the head.
He had attended church with Miss
Pearl Bostwick, and had returned
home with her after the service, and
in company with young man, who
had accompanied another young lady
from the same home to church, was
preparing to leave, when he borrow
ed a pistol from his companion.
Before any one suspected his in
tention, he blew out his. brains, the
bullet going entirely through his
head and into the wall by his side.
Young Cunningham was in the
best of health and had been in good
spirits all day. It is stated that in
the afternoon he went to a gypsy
camp near his home and had his for
tune told. What the gypsies told
him seemed to prey on his mind.
This is the only cause so far adj
vanced that would have made him
think of suicide Cunningham was q
son of w. Fl. C. Cunningham, one
of the most prominent men in the
town.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-11-18
EFFECTIVE REMEDY
FOR INDIGESTION
Found in Using Davenport S
Liver Laxative.

Now is the time of the year when
almost every one suffers from indi-
gestion in one form or another, and
If neglected it results in more Of the
ills that flesh is heir to than any
other one thing.
Worry, neglect, over-eating, bad
cooking, etc, produce it commonly,
and it can be known by the following
symptoms: dizziness, foul breath.
sluggishness, sour stomach weak
ness in back, irritability, constipa-
ton, dyspepsia, heart palpitation,
diarrhoea, sick headaches, heart
burn, flatulency cramps in stom-
ach, etc
When any of these symptoms ex-
ist, there is no better remedy for
correcting them than Davenport's
Liver Laxative! It is better than
ealomel, pleasant to take and It
does not make one sick Children
as well as adults take it, and thou-
sands of bottles in daily use here at.
test to its value.
If taken at bed time you are GER
tain to feel better next day. Have
none other, as none other acts like
it.
Made under government pure food
and drug requirement. No. 1882, only
by D. F. Davenport, Druggist. No. 40
Lamar street, Americus, Ga. Phone
No. 16 **%
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-11-18
TO PLAY HERE
UNDER CANVAS
In Arizona a Western
Play, on Friday Night.

Phillips Bros tented production ol
the western melodrama "In Arizona
is the next theatrical event for Am
ericus. This attraction, carrying sc
people, band and orchestra, special
scenery, will hold forth for one per-
formance only, in their own pavilion
theatre On the Windsor Park lot, real
Of Planters Bank The coming at
traction is an enAeayor on the part OF
the management to present an ideal
family amusement enterprise, and tc
this end the choice of recent western
successes has been procured, mount
ed with an abundance of special
scenery, interspersed with feature
vaudeville acts, and further augment
ed by superb orchestra and a "Chal-
lenge' Cowboy band, which will be
heard in two free concerts on the
main street at noon and at 1880 p
m. on the day of the performance.
The low admission fee of 50 cents
children half pfice, is the final in.
ducement for capacity audience tC
witness this excellent play seldom
seen outside of the cities. 1t is en-.
tirely suitable for the whole family
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-11-18
CARNEGIE EaLIBRARY
RISING RAPIDlY Y
Brick and Stone Work Done
BY December is

True to the promise Of the con.
tractors to push the work. the new
Carnegie library building is rapidly
taking on an imposing appearance
Each day passersby can see pro.
gress. Mr.. W. C. Phillips, of the
firm of Little & Phillips, is person.
ally directing the building.
Yesterday the ornamental pedi.
ments over the entrance door were
put in place, and by noon today the
brick and stone walls to the top OF
the first floor will be ready. Al
ready on the south side Of the sleep
ers for the second floor have been
laid and the storm floor is being put
down.
The stone masons are doing their
part of the task with dispatch. This
crew Of men is from Philadelphia and
they are experienced artisans. They
are keeping ahead of the brick
masons which prevents any delay
in the exterior work.
BY Thanksgiving it is expected that
the brick and stone work for the
second floor will be completed q
part of the way UP on the window
frames BY the middle OF Decemb-
er the whole exterior stone and
brick work will likely be done. The
roof and interior work will take
several weeks longer. The time limit
set for finishing the library building
is March 1, but from present indica-
tions there will be time to spare.
One feature of the building is the
wrought steel window frames. These
cost nearly a thousand dollars. The
window panes win be of fire proof
plate, lined with wire on the in
side, This win prevent breaking by
heat and also protect it from a
sudden blow.
AS has been said many times, the
new building will be one OF the most
ornamental in Americus, and viii add
greatly TO the assemblage of i'm,
posing structures which now adorn
the city.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-11-18
FIFTY ACRES IN LIMITS
OF CITY is SOLD
A Tract Near Magnolia
Dell Brings Price.

A tract of fifty acres lying near
Magnolia Dell and belonging to the
Harold estate was purchased yes
terday by Mrs. Lawson StapIeton as
an investment, the consideration be-
ing $4,000 While much of the land
is unimproyed, other portions of it
is suitable for farming or dairy
ing. Mrs Stapleton owned already
a considerable tract near the oil
company's plant and will = combine
her recent purchase with this hand
some estate. The tract lies along
Magnolia street and includes the
former circus grounds where in
happier days than these the glad
strains of the circus band awoke
the echoes. The tract is admirably
adapted for manufacturing purposes
a bold stream traversing it and Of
fording an abundance of water, and
the cotton mills of the future may be
located there along with other en-
terprises.