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The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1908-07-31
NORTH CAROLINA ! In the Superior
Durham County Court.
August Term.
Minnie W. Buchanan, ! Motto. -.
W. S,,,,,,,,,,,s
Jesse G.. Buchanan,

To Jesse G. Buchanan: You Will take
notice that action entitled as above was
begun against you in the Superior Court
Of Durham county July 2sth, 1905. by
issuing. summons. which summons was
returned by the Sheriff Of Durham county
endorsed. "After due diligence the
defendent Is not to. be found In Durham
county, said to be in the Philippines, and
therefore an brder was duly made by
said Court directing that said summons
be served by publication, once a week for
four weeks in the Durham Recorder. a
newspapers published seni-wcekly in
the city Of Durham, requiring YOU to APP
pear in the Superior court Of Durham
county 10 be held OH the hrst Monday
before the first Monday of September
next TO wit: Aug. Sist, 1908, and answer
or demur to the complaint Of Plaintiff or
the relief prayed for will be granted.
The object Of this action is to obtain a
divorce from you. Hereof take due
notice and fail not.
This 75th day of July, 1905.
{. b. GREEN,
Clerk Superior Cour'
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1908-07-31
SHORT LOCAL ITEMS.

Mrs. A. Nichols, of New York,
arrived in the city Wednesday,
and is on a visit to her sister,
Mrs. Charles Robbins.
dLook up the ad. of the Parrish
Furniture Company on the fourth
page of this paper. They have
something that will interest you.
Prof. and Mrs. G. w. Bryant,
who attended the White-Barnes
marriage at Clayton on Wednes-
day afternoon, have returned
home.
Mr.C. L. Haywood, wife and
children left Wednesday for
Waynesville, where they will
spend a week or ten days on a
visit to friends and relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. S. DeVlam-
ming, of Roxboro, were in the
city a short while on Wednesday,
being on their way to Waynes-
vile, where they will spend some
time visiting.
C. B. Hocutt, Of Lynchburg,
who has been here on a visit for
several days to the family of B.
C. Woodall, has gone to Colum.
bia, S. c., where he goes on q
business trip.
J. C. Kilgo, president of Trim
Iity college left Thursday after
noon for a trip North. He goes
on business connected with the
college, and will be absent &
week or more. IT.
Rev. K. C. Formy-Duval, a re
cent graduate of the Trinity Parl
school, has just closed a very
successful meeting at Pearl Mill
adding seven to his church, anc
causing nineteen professions o.
Remember the big excursion
that Mr.. L. S. Christian is goinl
to run to Wilmington on the six
tn of August, and if you wish II
have a good time, you had bette
take advantage of this opportun
4 ity.
Mr.. T. G. Dixon has returned
from Benson. where he went h
the bedside of his mother VIII
was critically i'll. She is nov
rapidly improving, and the doc
tors think she will be all right il
a few days.
The scarlet fever that has beef
raging in the neighborhood o
the Pearl Mill section, has beef
entirely blotted out, and DR.
Mann, the city health officer
assures US that there is no long
er any danger of it there.
On Wednesday there was al
interesting game of ball between
the colored teams played at tn
George Lyon park. The place
represented were Durham an,
Raleigh, and the game resulte'
in victory for the Durhamites b.
the close score of z to 6.
The remains of Miss Martin
Teasley were brought here Mon
day from Reidsville. and the in
terment took place in the Maple
wood cemetery. The young lad
died Tuesday night, and beside
her parents, she leaves tw
brothers and three sisters.
Miss Blanche Barnes, who 70
several years has been with tn
Conservatory of Music, was mar
ried on Wednesday afternoon at
o'clock in Clayton to Mr.. S. A
White. The ceremony was pei
formed i'm the Baptist church q
that place, after which the coupl
left for a bridal trip north.
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The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1908-07-31
Sens In Verse.
IN CAMP.

I'D YOU ever watch the campfire
When the wood has fallen low
And the ashes gin to whiten
L. Round the embers. crimson
glow. ..'
With the night sounds all about you
Making silence doubly sweet.
And full moon high above you
That the spell may be completes
Did you ever SIT there thinking
Mid your pipes gray. pungent breath,
While the fires last feeble flicker
Met magic. glowworm death?
Tell me. were you ever nearer
To the land OF hearts desire
Than when you sat there smoking
With your feet up to the fire?
#>* ~~ Hector Donald.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1908-07-31
4 REMINDER.

TusT before you leave the table.
ID Just as well as you are able.
Fold your napkin up the middle
And the ends together bring.
II 10 far you've doneLi rightly
Roll II evenly and tia%ly.
And you'll be surprised how lightly
II viii snip Into lie ring.
ST. Nicholas.
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1908-07-31
THINGS ABOUT TOWN.
What a Reporter Sees. Com
nnents on People and
Their DOings. -

The Lakewood Casino Company
is continuing togive a free matinee
once every week. Or Wednes.
day afternoon at $50 O'Clock they
p'ayed "The Girl From The
Golden West" to a fair sized
audience. This is a show that
has been played quite successfully
on New York stages and was a
winning number when presented
at the park. The company will
give one of these free matinees
every week and they are for the
benefit of any of the patrons of
the park who wish to attend. 1t
is a most excellent scheme and is
attracting large crowds.
In another column of this
paper you will see mention of the
opening of the new theatre-The
Edisonia. This place of amuse-
ment has just been newly fitted
up and remodeled for the opening
of the moving picture show. The
front is painted a beautiful coat
of white and it has a very neat
and inviting appearance.
The Durham and Southern,
which runs from here to Apex and
intermediate places, has grown
wonderfully since its birth only a
few years ago. Mr.. B. n. Duke
Lis president of the road, J. E
Stagg, vice-president, while Mr.
S. H. Rsams is general manager
of the company. The raod is in
excellent shape and now they are
doing quite an extensive amount
: of business. Recently, number
OF excursions have been run BY
this road and all who have beer
on any of them received perfect
, satisfaction.
We are glad to learn that ont
of Durham's we'll known mer
chants, who sometime ago wa!
forced to the wall, has pulled
through land managed to com
promise things satisfactory TO. hi
creditors. We refer to Mr.. j
w. Hobgood, who will resum,
his business at the old stand in .
very short while.
Durham can boast OF having
] two very reliable and worthy
: undertaking establishments. r. T
Howertou and Son, r. T. Hover
ton Jr., run the Oldest business o
this kind in the city and possibl!
4 the oldest in the state. The!
a have headquarters, as is familia
e to Durham people, on Mangum
; street Just below the fire house
/, in which are show rooms NIGEL,
. fixed up with their display goods
The other firm to which W,
alude is very young IN comparison
a to the one mentioned above. |
: is run by Mr.. J. 5. Hall, who ha:
been in the undertaking business
for a years. His place ofbusines
is on West Main street. Mr.. Hal
= has been in the city only a few
years but during that time ha
made many friends aud acquaint
: ances among the people here.
: The firm of Taylor and Phipps
A dealers in hardware, is ole o
). Durham's oldest stores Of thi
:. kind. Sometime ago they move,
= into new quarters on Mangun
street. where they now run on
of the best and largest hardwar
stores in town. Everything it
l. the line OF hardware goods is t
!. he found at this place and yot
The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1908-07-31
The OPEN.

THE OPEN.
r SEEK no thronod beatitude
Il In drifting cioudland lost.
No Alp prismatic hued
With sun aud Fost.
NOR sock sSrIsx EAndes
~ The mssntasa os~~orow;
Fer me no brsstlIs~e shades.
with dream hanE bough
MINE be the Interyale.
n Vide. open. free.
the breeze and the beaten trail
And the wayside tree.
Edith NJ. Thomas.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1908-05-01
Always Ready Lemonade.

There is nothing more refreshing on hot summer day
than good drink of cool lemonade but however anxious
hostess may be this beverage it is sometimes
impossible do owing the lack of necessary ngre
dents In fact it is just this that the sirup that
greatest household convenences 1t delicious but what
still more important it enables to procure supply
of lemonade literally at moments notice, says the May
Delneator Extract the juice from dozen large lemons
CRATE the rhnd of six of the lemons and add it to the
juice Let the mixture stand for twelve hours
night In the morning make thick syrup of granuated
and water using about pounds OF the sugar and
just as little possible the sirup must be thick
and smooth When it has cooled, strain the lemon juice
it, bottle in glass, being certain that the tops
cure and artight In making lemonade with this sirup,
place little crushed ice in the bottom of tall glass; add
two teaspoonsfu of the sup according to TASTE
and fill with either carbonated or plain water.
This srup may also be used successfully in making cakes
pies puddings, custards, etc. being most economical
method of utilizing lemons it enables the cook TO OBJ
tain the full value of both sugar and fruit Surely this is
fact worthy of consideration by the economical house
wife
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1908-05-01

might and put this miserable disease out of existence
cording to the teachings of sanitary science.
Scarlet fever prevailed extensively the state dur
ing the month; in many places epidemcs prevailed The
mdness prevented heavy mortality the number Of deaths
being ten.
CANCER CAUSES 10 DEATHS.
Cancer caused 10 deaths. This disease distancing
typhoid fever rather typhoid fever is growing less
account of practical application of hygiene by the people
1t is pity science does not know how to prevent
The Government could afford to pay millions for method
of prophyaxis AS yet Indiana only feeby supports dis
ease prevention.
Smallpox caused deaths. One of them occurred in
Marion county and in Madison County, The disease
prevailed quite extensively 2S4 being reported from
80 counties In the corresponding month last year there
were 221 cases in 20 counties with no deaths.
violence caused 154 deaths; in the corresponding
month last year. 166 Of the deaths caused by violence
by murder II suicides and the remaining were
accidental. OF the hundred and twentythree acc
dental deaths 26 females and 81 males. Steam
railroads killed 49, street and nerurban Z automo
biles l. horse and vehicles 4 machinery and mining r.
freezing electricity and the remainder by other ways
"Inhuenza reported the most prevalent disease
having probably existed in every township in the state
$50 deaths occurred The order of disease prevalence
as follows: Influenza bronchitis rheumatism measles
pneumonia. onsits, scarlet fever cmalpoX, typhoid fe
ver pleurits diarrhoea, diptheria and membraneous
Group chicken pox, whoopng cough eryspelas, nfama
ton of the bowels, intermittent and remitent fever
dysenery typhomaara fever cerebro spinal meningitis
cholera morbus, puerperal fever, cholera infantum
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1908-05-01
SENATOR BENZ IS
DEAD At HIS HOME
Well Known Democratic POIiti
clans Death Occurs After q
Short Illness.

State Senator John Benz, one
of the best known democratic
leaders in the third congressional
district. died at his home in
Leavenworth, April Il 1908 this
afternoon at l o'clock after an
illness of several days About
a week or ten DAYS ago Senator
Benz was taken to his bed with
a carbuncle on his neck and he
underwent two operations for
the same but they did not re-
live him to any great extent and
for the past day or two his death
been expected.
Senator Benz was about 70
years of age and had been active
in politics for many years. He
had served several terms in the
state senate and was immensely
popular with his constituents.
He had attended every democrat
ic state convention since the
early sixties and was always a
conspicuous character about the
Iobbies of the, hotels at the state
capital. The late senator con-
Quoted a general store at this
place and was noted far and
wide for his clever-business abil-
itv. He is survived by a widow,
one sol and ore daughter.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1908-05-01
Death Rate Lower.
A Marked Decrease In March.
Monthly Bulletin Issued by Board of Health Shows
Consumption Cost 416 Lives.

The monthly bulletin of the State Board of Health for
5arch shows that there were 3,201 deaths in Indiana
during the month"; against 35O2 in March, 1907. The de-
from last year such that the rate IN Ma en- this
gear was l3S against 1873 last March.
Consumption caused 4l6 deaths during the month"; 2O7
eng males and 2O9 being females. Of the and
s g were from Is to 40 We OF age and left sc
has all under u years Of age. OF the females 90
veen the ages OF Is and 40 and left lis orphans all
II years OF age The total number of orphans caused
b consumption in March 20l and the total number of
homes invaded 396. influenza the most preva
-trt Ciease.
Concerning Deaths and their CAUSES in March the buie
Tin Of the State Board of Health says:
Pneumonia existed in every county in the state but
10 special epidemic reported. The total number of
deaths 463 against 575 in the corresponding month
last year.
0ne hundred and sixtyfour of diptheria
ported in % counties with Is Deaths in the corresponding
month last year 143 33 counties with 80 deaths
There were no considerable epidemics reported.
Two hundred and forty-ive cases of typhoid fever
were reported in forty counties with fortyve Deaths in
the corresponding month last year. 3O in 33 counties
with 40 deaths Some day the people will rise up in their
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1908-05-01
THE LATEST NEWS"
Culed From the Jasper COURIER of
April %, 1S5S---Just Fifty
Years ago.
Years ago.

Nellie Neal of Ireland was advertising for husband
ohn g. Stein appointed guardian of John H. Tea
~ans heirs.
80 A Kitzinger as township clerk reports receipts of
trhrdge Tp for 1857 at Sl92520 Expenditures Sab
A.. balance on hand SOIL IL
solomon Crook just married, treated to 'hfautin
Vr Simpson appointed Jupge of Common Pleas Court
lace of Judge Debruer could not reach Jasper
account of high water and John > Martin Prosecuting
str'v pro TEN.
I6tice Of laying the 1st Atlantic Cable.
he citizens OF Martin county met at Dove Hill to or
-l re an agricultural society.
call Tor meeting of the Democratic Central Commit
A al the Court house IN June. Inc following wete the
nam ers of the committee PatOka Tp.: b. Spradley,
rsrrv Bremen and Martin t. Meyers. cambridge Ip.,
l,-ri Herman b. Edmonston and John Mehringer.
bison To-. Tnos P Hope, Andrew Able and Sam'l
l-e Columbia Ip, T. NJ DAVIS, Leroy cave ana cI Hal-
1T Nicholson Hal Tp Thomas Shoulders, Joseph STRIFE
VI and Jacob Allies Ferdinand Ip., }. Gohman, Fred
Sci eek and d. vi. Kemp.
Tie BLACK Republicans had carried New hampshire
The gallant Democrats of Connecticut elect their gov
ern0r Dy 3lOO. -
Chickens 10 to l2c eggs &c per dozcn lard 7c Potatoes
.jc: Brown sugar Zoe wheat SOC, etc.
The mails arrived at Jasper pOstofice from Pao We'd
reslay D. M. from Troy New Albany and Rockport on
Thursday from Petersburg Friday and from Leavenworh
Saturday, (The postmaster had snap)
Dr. Welman had a notice in wanting debtors to pay
ard Offering to take hogs cattle on account.
Conrad Nader at the corner OF Nam and Lawrence
teat advertises large stock of Boots and Shoes.
Wn Bretz at the southwest of public square ad
verties large stock of spring goods, French and
English merros, silks and satins delanes, prints calcos
muslins hats caps. boots and shoes, etc.
Rev p Bede OConner held services every Sunday at
S. Josephs at $50 m. and 2:3O p. m.
Rev f. Ravencroft, Methodist every other Thursday
night.
Rev. A. j. Strain, Presbyterian, on 4th Sunday each
month.
Chas Birkemier, Francis Brileage and Kasper jain
were township trustees of Banbridge township; Geo.
Kitznger clerk and Wendon Erny, treasurer.
Wm Monroe Co. Com'r. advertises or bidders to dig
different bitches in Swamp lands. Successful bidders tc
take pay in swamp lands
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1908-05-01
Milburn Looks For a Victory.
Says All Indications Point to Democratic Success
in the State and Nation.

leading democratic attorneys of that town who was can
ddat the nomination of torey general before the
recent state convention in the city Saturday on busi-
ness ''It was a splendid ticket that named at In
dianapols said Mr. Mburn and the party right now is
in better shape win than it has been in many years.
The organization in Dubois county in tip top shape and
we have good local ticket. believe this is democra-
tic year and that going to win in the nation state
and district"
Mr. Milbun said he pleased the way the first dis
rct stood by him in the last convention. He secured
practically the solid of the district and his friends
stood with him to the last Mr. Mlbum has bright iu
ure for him in politics and being young man, one de-
feat will not hurt hm.-Ev Courier Apr. 27
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1908-05-01
En asl!al c. Gems.

Many of you know just how pro-
voking it is to gather or buy a
mess Of greens and find insects all
over them, says a writer in The
Designer for May. Being so hard
to clean, I've often given up in
despair, and threw them away,
but at last have discovered that
to put a handful of salt in the
water and wash in usualway the
insects would all come off-The
Designer for May.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1908-05-01
Lavender Scent for Rooms.

Do YOU know that few drops OF oil of lavender in sill
yer bowl dish of some kind half filled with very hot
water and set in the dining room just before dinner is
served gives delightful and intangible freshness to the
atmosphere? Hostesses may this in the parors and
dressing when arranging the house foi entertain
inp The suggestion is especially advantageous those
occupying small apartments which sometimes stuy
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1908-05-01
RESTLESS WOMAN.

Dos a woman ever 90 tC bed? The last thu of the
house hears of her at night she IS p--ng the cat out Ii
he awakens in the night he finds she is ottng around
to see if the children are asleep and when he awakens in
the morning he finds her up before him. Does woman
ever 90 to bed or does stay bed after she
pets there2-A Atchinson Globe.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1908-05-01
My Lady's Lid.

My scat, I
Where did she get that hat?
Who ever did
Invent lady's lid :
Ike that?
Who had the nerve to roll it out
And stretch il more and more.
From centerpiece TO rim, until
1t .preads from shore.
And likewise lifts its summit up,
On birds and other wings.
Above the earth until it scrapeS
The clouds and other things?
Who added TO its wondrous width !
OF brim so that the srace
Could easily accommodate
An automobile race?
Say, who done that?
Who built her hat? )
Who made it something never seen
On earth or in the sky,
A fiat of wide extended plain,
A mountain towering hight!
But wider doors fO- her to get
Inside of any place. ,
And put the ceiling on the roof )
To give her nodding space. :
Push up the clouds to let her stand
Erect upon the ground.
And shove the wide horizon back
To let her turn around.
Oh. weirdly, witching. woozy hat j
That fiattens out and towers
Who ever saw a thing like that
a pancake filled with flowers?
A hat contagious speaking? Yes,
That names the Merry Wild:
And she who fails to catch it should 1
Slip out and change her lid,
Gee whiZ,
What a wonder woman isl
And my scat
Where DID she get that hat?
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1908-05-01
Experience Of an Editor.

"You are dying, said the doc
.or to the country editor as he lay
on his death bed after long years
of weary toll.
And do you think | am go
ing?" said the editor.
Yes, lam sure" said the doc
tor. The dying editor leaned his
head and looked at him who came
to make out the last will, and
said; And you think am dy-
ing?'
yea.
The dying editor then said to
the doctor, "How much do | owe
yon?"
About $780," said TIE doctor.
The editor then turned to the
lawyer, How much do | owe
you?" About $780," said the
lawyer who had spent about three
hours making the editor S will.
well. said the Editor, won't
you please kneel on each side of
me while breathe my last%'
why do you make such a re-
quest?" the lawyer and doctor
asked simultaneously.
Well" said the editor, 1T
will be a great satisfaction to die
as my Savior did, between
two thieves.
The doctor and lawyer tainted
and the editor got well. z.
Swipped
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1908-05-01

Is marriage a failure? The an
swer is in the wide-staring es of
the dimpled bundlein the cradle.
'arriage a failure? ASK the
young mother as she croons over
the first born. Ask the little
whitefaced woman AS she kisses
the cheeks of her stalwart son and
sends him out into the world to
conquer "All is lost but you,
Mary" chokes out the gray
haired victim of business COL
lapse. An arm steals about his
neck. a wrinkled hand strokes
his brow, and the sweetest lips
he ever knew whisper words of
soulful sympathy and courage in
his ear. Ask him about marriage.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1908-05-01
OPINION RESERVED.

'Do you think the country is in danger!
'How can tell" answered the egotlst until | see
whether my side wins in the eection? Washington Star.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1908-09-09

E. F. Hummert, ir., the well known
real estate man of St. Louis, who has
been in the city for the past few
days, left this morning for McAllen
with party of prospectors.
W. P. Stewart, observer U. S.
Weather Bureau of Galveston, arrived
last night on tour of inspection.
visiting the weather stations at
Brownsville and also at Llano Grande
Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Chaplin and son,
Luck, of Hidalgo came down last
night. Mrs. Chaplin and son leaving
this morning for San Antonio and
Judge Chaplin returning to Hidalgo
Mrs. Chaplin will place Master Luck
at school in San Antonio.
Messrs. E. F. Rorke and Abbott
are entertaining couple of their
former college chums, Messrs. A. C.
F. and R. Perry, of New York. who
will spend a short time with them.
They took their guests out to see the
big sugar enterprise fthe Ohio and
Texas plantation today
W. NJ. Radcliffe has returned from
Cuero, where he is clSaged in erect
in; the new power ri.,at. which he
ana se,cral other -a3:-al'sts recently
b.: shi He will be herr hort ,iiac
attending to business matters. Mrs.
Eato':ffe and son, M4ste' Moyse, are
at L, esert in Cuero.
Mrs. Jas. B. Wells, accompanied by
her daughter, Miss Wells, and little
son, Master Robert, returned last ev-
ming from Point Isabel, where they
spent the greater part of the summer
Miss Wells expects to leave Monday
for Baltimore, where she will take a
course in one of the we'll known art
schools of that city.
Sam Robertson arrived from Sam
Bonita" early this afternoon; having
come in by auto. Mr. Robertson is
about the busiest man in the entire
counties of Cameron and Hidalgo
combined, having several big engi-
neering enterprises on hand in both
counties, in addition to directing the
big Bay City levee work.
=" W. Stocking Of Harrington IS
a,rcng the Cameron comfy citizens
the present grand jury. Mr..
Stocking is always a welcome visitor
in Brownsville 1t is well remember
ed how he came in with his trusty
rifle to help in the defense of the city
after the negro soldier raid, and
took his turn on patrol duty night
after night until the soldiers wer TAX
en- away and the city restored to a
feeling of safety.