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ANSWERS

/. In 1882 the assembly passed all
act requiring the people of Bladen
county to attend public meetings and
to take their guns and six rounds OF
ammunition with them. Those failing
TO do so were subject to fine of ten
shillings Danger from tories during
the latter part of the Revolutionary
War was the cause of this precau-
tionary measure.
2. Joint legislative endorsement was
given Mrs. Lille Morehead Mebane,
of Rockingham. President selected
Laurence A. Steinhardt, of New York
for this post.
g. Upon recommendation of the
United States Congress the North
Carolina general assembly in 1874
passed an act to join in the taking OF
q general census, which included the
number of white and black inhabit-
ants, and free citizens Of every age
sex and condition. including those
bound to servitude for term of years
and three-fifths of all other persons
not cOmprehended in the foregoing
descriptions" The census takers were
appointed by the county courts. The
results were published in 1890 as the
first United States census.
4. When the assembly Of 1890 was
in session at Fayetteville the Orange
county member introduced bill 'to
prevent horse-racing at such time and
place as the general assembly shall
hold their sessions.
5. In the bom5ardment of the fort
| just before it fell the garrison colors
| were shot down. Young Bland, of Pitt
county. answered the call for a volun-
teer to replace it. Amid the bursting
, shells and flying shot he climbed the
staff and replaced the flag. Later he
was wounded and lost a leg. After the
war he became a farmer i'm Edge
, combe county, later becoming a Bap-
fist minister. He died in Ayden in
1917.
6. In January 1865. after Whining,
ton had been occupied by the Union
forces. Rev. A. A. Watson. rector OF
st. James Episcopal Church. was in
structed by military forces to alter
the prayer prescribed by the Protest
ant Episcopal Church of the Confed-
crate States, and to pray for the Unit
ed States President instead of the
Confederate States President Upon
his refusal the church building was
seized and turned into a hospital, the
pews and other furnishings being
torn out.
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New York, Jan. 7-Rat-Tat-Tattlc
Comes the spicy rumor that Mae West
sent greetings to her girl friends as
follows Here's Wishing You Per-
feet Thirty-Six!" -. The Christmas
Tree in the Radio City plaza cost
$500 to dismantle and haul away -.
theatricoes during 1885: ALA Nazi-
nova in Ghosts" -. Nobody yet
can explain the sudden resurgence
to box-officc appeal of the dusty
problem drama" of the last genera
ton -.
Bill Farnsworth, the sporting writ
er, motored from New York to Miami
in % hours continuous driving ...
The scdate old Aston Hotel, refur-
bished and spruced up modern-isti-
cally, looks positively saucy nowadays
Ethel Barrymore will give no more
interviews to lady reporters, sharing
Peggy Joyces animadversion for fe-
male newshaWkS.
The Staten Island, N. Y, "Ad-
vance," running a contest to pick the
best-dressed man i'm town, wrote to
ask nv standards of masculine hab-
| s,dashery -. ] batted off search
| ing critique on finery for Adonishes
and then glanced down to find l was
wearing one black sock and one gaily
striped green-and-red! -. A pleasant
epistle from Francis Lederer, the
movie Romeo, who is still devoting all
| his spare time to a plan for alleviat-
ing the depression; he's little afraid
the pickup may come before he has
all details of his scheme worked out,
in which case he'll never know whe-
Their it would have succeeded or fail
! ed.
| Since they're all doing it, this re-
porter might as well name his ten
| fayorite movies in 1885 -. Remember,
though, he didn't sec them all and
may have missed tht thriller you
raved about -. Indeed, if / had seen
all the films of 1885, I'd be in some
padded ward attending the basket
weaving class instead of INDUCING
this gentler form of insanity -. AS
to the movies; here's my list, in the
order of their appearance:
"The Lives of Bengal Lancer,
"Ruggles of Red Gap, "G-Men,
China Seas" Diamond JIM "39
StepsF "Sequoia." Ozark Angel
"Mutiny on the Bounty" and "Show
Them No Mercy -.
There's a lot of chatter along Broad
Broadway nOwanights as to BABE
Ruths future. Americas heroes OF
the last decade have all found COM
Portable inches for themselves, but
the Babes plans are still inchoate'
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TODAY'S YESTERDAYS

Jan. z, 161O-Galileo Galilei, profess
sor of mathematics in the University
of Padua, studied stars through a
telescope he had made with his own
hands, and for the fiuet time man look
ed closely at the heavens.
Calico had heard that a Dutch spec
tacles-maker, one Lippcrshey, by put
ting two glasses, one ahead OF the
other in a tube made things appear
nearer, and he had made the first real
telescope. 1t was crude but effective,
for with it, he made the discoveries
that almost caused him to be burned
as a hereto.
Jan. 7, 1782-With 100000 capital.
the Bank of North America, first
modern commercial bank i'll the coun-
try, opened for business in Philadel-
phia, with Robert Norris, the richest
American of the time, and Haym
Solomon as principal hackers. 1t
took over the business of the Bank
of Pennsylvania which 100 subscrlb-
ers has organized two years carrier
to supply the continental army with
rations, and it was the prime factor
1, restoring order to government IL
nances after the Revolution with ltS
loans and issuances Of notes. Earlier
banking institutions in the Colonies
had failed because of lack of stablll-
zed currency.
Norris. Americas first big banker
died in debtors prison. and Haym
Solomon died a bankrupt.
Jan. 7. 17S5-The first sustained
flight over water, the first flight
from nation to nation, the first flight
with a "pay load was made by
Pierre Blanchard. French aeronaut
an crossing the English channel IN
balloon with DR.. John Jeffries, Anne
rican physician. as paying passenger
The large crowd on the French sac
which had assembled to see them
land got a shock as we'll as tnriil.
Because of too rapid cooling OF the
hot air filling the bag, they had 70
throw everything overheard to keep
aloft, including their clothing ana
thew arrived without stitch.
Ian 7. 1862-Robert Cameron hog
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dollars of getting as much as the
President of one tobacco company in
our State gets as a yearly salary.
The little boy who sat under the
tree last June while his parents
planted tobacco left them some time
ago Not long did he remain to help
them to enjoy the few simple neces-
stiles that were purchased by the pro-
ceeds Of the crop. The little fellow
left without ever knowing that
large share of the crop money was
spent to make him comfortable in
his last hours and fit him out for his
last journey. Thanks be to God he
will never know for resting in the
loving arms of Jesus, Who said: "Suf-
fer little children to come unto me"
his happiness will be complete.
Kind friends, there are many mil
lions of people in our country in just
as bad a condition as these I have
tried to depict to you. The Congress
of these United States can remedy
it. Whoever says that is cannot is
very foolish or get their living on and
~ the labor of others, and are worth
listening to. All Congressmenmen
from North Carolina have a ring in
their nose to which a chain is attach
cd. by which the servants of the rich
lead them around and make them
do just what the rich want done. Our
state is not the only one SO cursed,
but F<hope our State next June will
get rid of all Congressman with
rings in their nose.
The Frazier-Lemke bill is still pend
ing in Congress waiting for just ten
more names on a petition to get it
before the House. 1t has to have 218
Congressman sign the petition be-
fore it can be brought out the COM
mittee and be discussed on the floor
of the House. 208 have signed it so
only ten more are needed. Please write
your Congressman at once to sign
that petition. If that bill is made the
law we will have no more such sad
stories as the one related above For
then the farmer can borrow money
from his Gvernment and will not have
to pay but thirty dollars for both in
terest and principle for each thous-
and. While that is twenty-nine dol
lars and seventy cents more than the
tanker has to pay to get a thousand
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What Do You
Know About
North Carolina!
By FRED H. MAY

1 When were citizens of a county
reouired to take their guns to churcn
and other public meets with them:
Q. What North Carolina woman was
endorsed in 1888 for appointment as
minister to Sweden?
3. When did North Carolina provide
for coonerating in the first national
census?
4 What sports did William Court
ney. Orange representative. wish TO
deprive the members of the leglsla-
ture of?
5. What feat of heroism was per-
formed at Fort Fisher by Kit Bland?
6. What happened when a Whining
ton minister in 1865 refused to alter
the prayer so as to include the United
States President?
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dollards, yet it is a long ways better
than the high interest we now have
to pay the privately owned Federal
Reserve Bank. Another thing the
Frazier-I4emkc bill will do when it
becomes law, is to give the farmer
a far better apraisment on his prop
crty than the stingy bankers have
been allowing him.
SO please write your Congressman
and ask him to sign that petition and
dc all he can to get this most OK
cellent legislation passed real soon.
Tell him you sympathize with him,
with a ring in his nose this cold
weather. but bear it until next June
and we will cut it out or give him
time, long time, to get rid of it. if
it is not comfortable.
JAS. H. WRIGHT.
Henderson, Jan. 6, 1886
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-01-07

Dempsey has become a beaming res
taurateur and the kids drop around
to his haShery afternoons to get au-
tographed menus. Tunney has def
nitely and gracefully retired to fam
lily liz and country squiredom.
One of the more active and inquisi-
tive gadabouts tells me that &uth
has been approached by a half dozen
lcircus owners with salary offers
more alluring even than the top fig
ures he earned as the Sultan of Swat.
Every small boy in the land would tug
his unreluctant papa into the Big Top
If the BambinO was on hand in person
But there's problem. What will
Ruth do for his audiences? He can't
sing and his dancing isn't notable.
He's crack golfer and dead rifle
shot, but neither of these talents
could be fNamed suitably for an act.
One sawdust car has evolved a gro
tesque plan. He proposed to stand
Ruth up in a corner of a sideshow
tent and have him bunt back base
balls pitched by customers at so much
toss!
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ANSWERS TO
TEN QUESTIONS
See Buck Pdge

! Charles river
Wife of Zeus, queen of Heaven
3 Woodson.
Thomas Hood.
$ English mathematician and as
trologer.
louisiana
A congregation of men, compris-
ing priests, seminarists and lay aux
ilirieS.
Hamilton, N. Y.
They are appointed by the Presi-
dent with the approval of the United
States Senate
10 Eminent American journalist.
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STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
DEPARTMENT OF STATE

Certificate of Dissolution.
TO All to Whom These Presents Nav
Come-Greeting:
Whereas. 1t appears to my satisfac-
ion. by duly authenticated record of
The proceedings for the voluntary dis
solution thereof by the unanimous
consent of all the stockholders de-
posted in my office that the Hender-
son Dispatch Co., corporation of
this State, whose principal office is
situated at No. 100 Young Street, in
the city of Henderson, County of
Vance, State of North Carolina (M
T.. Finch being the agent therein and
i'll charge thereof, upon whom process
may be served). has complied with
the requirements of Chapter %. Con-
solidated Statutes, entitled Corpora
TONS preliminary to the issuing of
this Certificate of Dissolution:
Now Therefore, I, Stacey w Wade.
Secretary of the State of North Caro-
lima, do hereby certify that the said
corporation did, on the 31st day of
December, 1885, file in my office a
duly executed and attested consen, M
writing to the dissolution Of said cor
poration, executed by all the stock
holders thereof, which said consent
and the record of the proceedings
aforesaid are now on file in my said
office as provided by law.
In Testimony Whereof, 1 have here
to set my hand and affixed my Of
ficial seal at Raleigh, this 31st day of
December, A. D. 1885,
STACEY w. WADE,
Secretary of State.
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WOMAN STUDENTS TO
START EXAMINATIONS

Greensboro. Jan. Exam work.
that trying period in the lives of most
students. has been scheduled for Jan
uary IS to "a at the 'Woman's college
OF the University of North Carolina.
This year, for the first time, a read
ing period of one day has been set
aside for special study just before ex-
aminations. Friday. January II. has
been designated as reading day.
Registration for the second somes-
ter at the college will take place Mon
day and Tuesday, January 81 and %,
and the work of the second semester
will begin Wednesday morning, jan
uary 20, at 8:15 o'clock.
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. TODAY y
TodayiS Anniversaries

1900 Willard Fillmore, New York
farm bow. wool carder's apprentice,
Buffalo, N Y. lawyer, congressman
ViceApresident and 18Th President
when Taylor died in office, born in
Cayuga. county N. Y. Died in Buffalo,
March s, 1874.
1924 Julia Kavanaugh, English nov
elist born. Died October %, 1877.
1926 Julius E. Hilgard. self-educated
U. S. Coast Survey geodesist and sci
enlist, born in Germany. Died in
Washington, D. c. May 8, 1891.
1882 T. Dewitt Talmage, Presbyter-
ian preacher, born at Bound Brook,
N. J.. Died April II, 1902.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-01-07

Tuesday, Jan. Z; morning stars:
Venus, Neptune, Jupiter. Evening
stars: Saturn, Mars. Uranus, Mer-
curry. Full moon tomorrow. Zodiac
sign: Capricorn. Birthstone: Gar
net.
Ice is lighter than water, and snow,
of course, is lighter than either. A
cubic yard of snow weighs an aver
age of 1877 pounds, or about one
twelfth of an equal bulk of water.
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TOdaN'S HOrOScOne

The native of today is lover of
the comforts of life and good eating
but balanced by a desire to carry out
plans which will be we'll matured be-
fore the undertaking and thus lead
to an independence in life and a COM
petence. Romantic, but inclining to-
ward the law, if the mind is turned
toward study
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.,.etsI fon Al--niA FOR CHRIST
Nitl65a,Isl6@9d
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CLEAN SPEECH: Let your CONVEX
sation be as it becometh the COS
pel of Christ: that we stand fast IN
one spirit, with one mind striving to-
gether for the faith of the gospel;
and in nothing Observation-Disclosures
l:27. %.
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WANT ADS
Get Results

DON'T WAIT If YCJ WANT AN
extra big value in cook stove or
range. Our special prices are send
ing them out inventory. Alex S.
Watkins 7-1ti
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The chief fruits ct material civiliza-
ton are health, security, peacefulness
the relief of the poor and education.
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Today is the Day
By CLARK KIfANAlRD
Copyright, 1886, for this Newspaper
by Central Press Association

ers was born in Buffalo, N. Y. He
wrote the words of 1.-THE Rosary" as
part of what he expected to be a
great American epic, but concealed
the fact from his friends because of
the low esteem in which poets were
held i'll his time, and the poem was
not identified with him when it was
published in an obscure magazine.
The mother of Ethelbert Nevin saw it,
and sent a clipping to her son, and
he Sketched out musical accom-
paniment in single evening. 1t roll
ed up one of the largest sales ever
enjoyed by a copyrighted piece OF
music-selling 2,673,0OO copies in its
first 80 years. Florence Barclay
wrote novel, 1.-The Rosary" with
the song as it's theme and inspira-
ton, and it became one of the best
sellers in history-ovcr 100000 cop
les. Yet Rogers received only a few
hundred dollars for the rights to
his poem.
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TOday'S BIRTHDAYS

u. S. Senator Marvel M Logan, of
Kentucky. born at Brownsville, Ky,
60 years ago.
Clarence E. Weaver of Savannah,
Ga, civil engineer, born at Newark
N. j., SO years ago
DR.. Lotus d. Coffman, p. esident of
the University of Minnesota, born at
Selma. Ind, 81 years ago.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-01-07
Today in History.

1886 400 years ago. Died-In Eng
land. aged so. Catharine of Aragon,
daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella
of Spain, first wife of Henry VIII, of
England. mother of Queen Mary Of
England. whose divorce caused the
break between Britain and the Cath
olic church.
1879 First election in cOuntry-little
popular voting legislatures of 10 states
designated electors. who, a month
later, cast their full 9 votes for
Washington and Adams.
Is 2 Spanish French and British
naval expedition lands in Mexico to
give protection to foreigners and ex-
act arrears due foreign bondholders.
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choice Western meats or Ballard
flour. Complete stock of staple and
fancy groceries. IN" System Store
Phone 177-J. 28lf.
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IT'S TRUE


The printing process was applied
to playing cards before books.
The Canadian Government owns rail
roads in the United States. (The Cen
trail Vermont, for instance, is con-
trolled by the Canadian NationaD.
Robert Loomis. Haddenfield. N. j.
received a Christmas card 70 years
after it was mailed in Philadelphia,
four miles away.
Nine States-Rhode Island, Florida,
North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyonl-
ing. Idaho. Arizona. Nevada anu
Montana-have never been represent
ed in the membership of a Presiden-
tial Cabinet.
One marriage leads to another, and
don't let anybody tell you that dI-
yorce sours folks on matrimOny'
Ninety per cent of persons who get
divorces remarry, census figures show.
One out of every two books pub
lished in this country earns it's au-
thor less than $500.
Queries. reproOfs. etc, are wei
coined by Clark Kinnaird.
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FIRST WORLD WAR DAY-BY-DAY

20 Years Ago Today-Ambassador
Won Bcrnstorff. laboring against odds
to maintain his governments pres
tigc in Washington, delivered a note
to the State Department in which he
undertook to guarantee that no MGR
chant ship would be torpedOed in the
Mediterranean until all aboard had
been safely transferred to lifeboatS:
He promised further that full salts
faction would be granted for the
death of Americans aboard the liner
Persia on Dec. 30, "if circumstances
required it,"
Within a week however, he had TO
carry new note to the State De-
partment denying German RESPONSE
blity for the sinking Of the Persia,
and the strained exchanges over SUBJ
marine warfare were right back where
they started. which was where the
war party" in Washington, includ-
ing Secretary of State Lansing, want
cd them.
1t is appropriate to point out here
that the story Of tho part played by
Messrs. Lansing, Page, ct al, in get
ting the u. S. into the Franco-Brit-
ish-Russo war on the Teutonic allies,
now being revealed in Washington.
has already been told i'll some de-
tail in this account of the war.
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LOST - ONE BUNCH OF KEYS
somewhere in Henderson. Finder
please return to T. A. Stone, p. O.
343, Henderson, N. G 7-2ti
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ing them out inventory Alex S.
Watkins. 7-1t
CALL US WHEN YOU WANT
choice Western meats or Ballard
flour. Complete stock Of staple and
fancy groceries. IN" System Store
Phone 177-J. 28tf
LOST - ONE BUNCH OF KEYS
somewhere in Henderson. Finder
please return to T. A. Stone, P. o.
343, Henderson, N. G 7-2ti
SHIRT SALE = ANOTHER
big shipment of Marlboro
shirts. Special, $1.OO. All
Jayson shirts on sale $1.55.
See our windows. Geo. A.
Rose and Sons. 6-2ti.
BABY CHICKENS FOR SALE-ALL
the standard breeds. Blood tested
stock. Safe delivery guaranteed. Get
my prices before you buy. A. J.
Cheek. 7-1ti
WE DON'T CARE HOW DIRTY
your old hat is, we guarantee to
make it look like new again for on
ly 39c. Call us, 142-J. Bakers. 6-tf
THE LARGEST AND MOST COM.
plete of window glass we've ever
carried Also new stock of doors
and windows at "Thc Place of
VaiucS. Alex >. Watkins. 7-1ti
USED TIRES, ALL SIZES INCLJID-
ing twenty and twenty one inch.
O'Lary's Garage, North Henderson.
30-tf
FOR RENT-THREE ROOM DOWN
stairs apartment with private bath.
fenced in front and back yards
Available about Jan. IS. Private en-
trance. Write apartment" care
Daily Dispatch. 7-1ti
NOW GET THE NEW PHILCO
battery radio for unwired homes
You. too. can have wonderful re-
ception. See IL at Lo,lghlin-iooJ
wynn. 25-tf
GOOD MULE FOR SALE. FOR IN
formation sec George A. Rose. ST..
or III. T. Fuller, route 2. Hendcr-
son. Tilt
tOk RENT: THREE ROOM EUR
hlshed apartment. first floor: four
rooms unfinished. private bath on
TWO floors. garages, front and rear
entrances. One block from Post OF
lice. Mrs r. G.. Bobbitt, 3O3 Will
nam street. G-2ti
PIGS FOR SALE-WANT MY Old
and new customers to see me before
Suying pigs. Prices right. Can be
seen back of IS. r. Rogers Store,
North Henderson. Walter Booty"
hayes 7-2ti
All Forms of m
INSURANCE
RENTALS REAL
ESTATE
Al. B. Wester
~ ph"n~ i2a-J
@v 9 C.s.s1
A-floTr Mechanical and
Wrecker Service.
Telephone 4.N-..
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BABY CHICKENS FOR SALE-ALL
the standard breeds Blood tested
stock. Safe delivery guaranteed. Get
my prices before you buy. A. J.
Cheek. 7-1ti
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SHIRT SALE = ANOTHER
big shipment of Marlboro
shirts. Special, $1.OO. All
Jayson shirts on sale $1.55.
See our windows. Geo. A.
Rose and Sons. 6-2ti
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1936-08-06
Water Again Flowing
From New City Pump

Water this week is again flowing
from the city's recently dug weA fol-
lowing a temporary shutdown caused
by a break in the pumping system.
Sediment and sand, it IS believed,
caused the breakage and resulted in
the loss of part Of the pumping equip
ment to the bottom of the well.
An effort was made Saturday to re-
move the broken pipe ard fittings from
the bottom of the 230-foot shaft. The
attempt was unsuccessful.
The new we'll continues to pump
unclean water. A chemical analysis re-
ported a "crystalire substance in the
water which could not be analysed"
A log of the we'll shows the water
is coming from a gumbo bed. Specula-
ton is evident as to whether the water
will clear up when coming from the
gumbo structure which the log re-
veals.
At intervals the we'll produces wat
err fairly clear, which is gagged prin-
cipally on the number Of gallons per
minute pumped.
When pumping is continued after a
short shutdown, the water again APP
pears unclear.
Various methods of alleviating the
situation are being considered by the
city council.
Water from the new we'll is not be-
irg pumped into the city mains.