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VOL. 6 AHOSKIE, N. C.. JULY 9. 1915. No 25
Tale Machinery & Supply Co.,
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office
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AHOSKIE, N. C.
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MURFREESBORO, N. C.
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Attorney and Counselor-At-Law
WINTON. N. C.
Practice in all courts. Loans negotiat
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AHOSKIE. N. C.;
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Attorney-at-Law
. WINTON. N. C.
J. R. EVANS
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FRANK G. TAYLOE
Notary Public
Anosnn, North Carolina.
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J. L. PARKER
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and Draftsman.
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Ahoskie, N. C.
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Attoewbt-at Law
Ahoskie, North Carolina
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Alabama Is A Dry State Today.
Montgomery, Ale., July 1.?
Alabama today is dry, being under
a statewide prohibition meeeure
end two prohibition regulation end
enforcement lews. 'Die etetewide
lewe went into effect at midnight
Wednesday, while the enforce
ment laws, the anti-liquor adver
tising lew and enti liquor shipping
law went into effect upon passage
several months ago. In Mont
gomery the Saloons with but few
exceptions closed Wednesday
afternoon, their stocks of liquor
being exhausted by the bargain
sale price offered.
Ia Mobile.
Mobile, Ala., July 1.?Mobile
for the second time in the two
hundred years of her existence is
dry, due to the passage of the re
cent prohibition laws by the
Alabama legislature. People as
early at 6 o'clock in the evening
began to occupy the tables at the
cafes and cabarets and streets were
crowded with people of every class
who inarched up and down carry
ing away tons of various kinds of
liquors that were dis|M>sed of at
auction by tlie various liquor
dealers throughout the city. At
the principal hotels the crowds re
mained until after midnight and
on the stroke of midnight nearly a
thousands men and women were
singing "It's a Long Way to
Pensacola," as a parody on "Tip
perm i y."
Pensacola ia the nearest city
where liquor now is sold.
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Center flroue Dews
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Overton of
Mara Hill attended services here
Saturday and Sunday.
Rev. C. L. Dowell filled his re
gular appointment here Sunday,
leaving with bis people many good
thoughts,_as be usually does.
Sorry Mr. Junious Holloman
was not able to attend services
Saturday and Sunday, we miss bis
face very uiuch.
We are sorry Mr.G. C. Harrell,
who is at his (laughers, Mrs. U. A.
Dilda.v, continues unable to get
out. We miss the old faces, and
hope they will soon be with us
again-in our Sunday school.
Mr. R. A. Dilday went to see
his son-in-law. Mr. Lessie Gungle
ton, who is sick at his home near
Union.
Mr. and Mrs. N. J. Godwin
Hinted the home of Mr. A. J.
Early Sunday.
Boys be careful with your dyna
mite. Mr. Bill Myers says it is very
dangerous.
The Sunday school here will
have a Childrena Day in August,
the date to be fixed later. We are
expecting some good speaking and
good music, everybody will be
invited, dinner will be on the
ground. Watch for the names of
the speakers and the date.
Revival services will begin here
the Fourth Sunday in July.
The Woman's Missionary Society
will meet next Sunday immediate
ly after Sunday school.
Mr. Everette Hall and wife. Mr.
Gongleton, Miss Blow and Joyner,
of St. John, were the guests of
Mrs. Agnes Leggette Sunday.
The much needed rain that fell
here Saturday and Sunday made
the farmers feel good/ 'The crops
are looking very good now; cotton
is a little small for the time of
year.
Don't forget Sunday schooUndxt
Sunday at 3 o'clock. We hope all
will try to come. The Supt. feels
good when you are tliere and your
teacher feels good when you answer
to your name.
When the doors of the church
was opened last Saturday Mr. and
Mrs. E. L. Jenkins came foward
with a letter of dismission from a
Baptist church in Norfolk. Mr.
Jenkins was formerly a member
of this church. We are glad to
i have them join with us.
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Hail Insurance on Graving Crops
Address Delivered by Mr. 0. K.
Laroque, of Marion, & G, Before
the North Carolina Bankers' As
sociation. in its Recent Session at
Wrifhtsville Beach.
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It is a recognized fact that in
any community where the farmers
are prosperous all classes of busi
ness are booming and tbe banks
carry a good line of deposits with
very small bills payable and re
discounts. It is therefore tbe duty
of the bankers and other business
men to render to their farmer
friends and customers every possi
ble assistance in their efforts to
become prosperous and continue so.
It is upon the farmer that the
prosperity and . progress of our
Southland depends. The man who
is securing the largest net return
from bis farming operations is the
man who, by the use of improved
machinery and scientific farming
methods, is harvesting two bales
of cotton or two bushels of grain
where one formerly grew.. He
doesn't object to 60 per cent, in
creased income.
Of what avail, however, is the
improved machinery or scientific
methods if, when the crop, in the
production of which he and his
family have toiled from early
morn till the lute evening, follow
ing the plow or bending over the
hoe, for the purpose of paying
that mortgage, perhaps, and pro
viding for those children the
education to which they are entitl
ed; of what avail. I say, is all this
work and hardship, if, just before
tbe harvest, which gives promise
of results even beyond the expec
tations of the most optimistic, a
cloud cornea up in the evening
and. in a few moments the storm
breaks over the farm, and the
dreadful bail, driven by a strong
wind, sweeps away tbe results of
that labor and blasts the fanner's
hopes of (taying his obligations
and providing the necessary
education and support for his de
pendent ones.
The enormous havoc wrougm
by hail storms has only been
realized during the past few years.
Hail storms have been destroying
growing crops of tobacco, cotton,
corn, wheat, oats and other small
Krain for many years, but until
the day of (rood roads, rural free
delivery and telephones, the news
was not (>assed about generally.
The farmers of one community
would suffer from the destruction
of their neighbors in another com
munity would know nothing about
it. It is now fully recognized that
hail storms yearly wipe out mil
lions of dollars' worth of growing
crops all over the Southland, and
in order to distribute these losses
and save the unfortunate losers
from utter bankruptcy, hail insur
ance has been devised, and num
bers of the meat progressive farm
ers are now securing this protec
tion each year..
When a real estate loan is made,
tbe mortgage invariably requires a
a fire insurance policy as security
against loss in the event the
mortgaged building or buildings
are damaged or destroyed by fire.
This is a protection to both mort
gage and mortgagee and the pre
miums are among the best invest
ments tbe martgagor makes.
There are methods of preventing
or extinguishing fires, but no man
has yet devised a method of pre
venting a hail storm or stopping it
after it has started.
Is it not more important, there
?fore, as a plain business proposi
tion, that a farmer protect his
life's work and investment, as well
as his creditors, by providing him
self with a hail insurance poliov
when he requests a loan or when
his crop is planted)
Chief Inspector Sloan, of the
State Department of Agriculture,
South Carolina, in his report to
Commissioner E. J. Watson, has
the following to say in reference
to the destruction caused by a hail
storm in York county, S,C-, July,
1914:
"Crops of both corn and cotton
which had every promise of yield
ing large returns are left a scene
Mr. Bill Myers Tells Aboot a Fast Runner Over in Bertie County.
A cool oreeze had set in from
die southwest and the shade was
pleasant on the side of the Coloinel
Hotel, in Aboskie, N. C. Ab.
J Holloman and Lee Sumner, two
champion checker players, had
just finished their ten ntves with
honor about even. Mayor Frank
Taylos had just lit his corn cob
pipe aud was enjoying a delightful
smoke. Ex-Mayor W. W. Rogers,
who bad been hard at work in bis
law office, had come down and
taken bis seat for a few minutes
rest among the agreeable company
of Ahos'iie citizens who. had
honored him by electing him
Mayor until be had to uositiyly
refuse to allow the use of his name
in tlie town convention. Mr. Bill
Myers, who likes good company,
came along and was invited to
occupy a vacant chair in the shade
and enjoy the breeze. He dropped
down in the chair, thanking the
gentleman for their courtesy, strok
ed his white whiskers with bis
right hand and looked the very
picture of ease and comfort.
There was a lull in the con
versation, but it soon started up
again when the subject took a turn
about fast running. Billie Rogers
told about some foot races he haft
seen.
Mr. Myers reached up and re
moved his big black felt hat and
hung it on his cross-legged knee.
Then addressing Mr. Rogers, he
said:
"Why Billie. if that is all you
know about fast running, you
don't know much about getting
along in a hurry."
Well," said Mr. Rogers,
' where and when did you ever
know or see anyone who could
outrun those boys in Winton.
about whom I was jut talking?".
"Why," said Mr. Myers, "when
I was with my father over in
Bertie county, one day a man ettBe
up to the house from the big road
and introduced himself. He was
fine looking fellow, I can tell you.
He was dressed pretty well and
looked every inch a gentleman.
He told my daddy that he had just
finished college, but he was no
college bred fool, and did hot
mind work and would like to help
around on the farm, until he could
get semethirig better to do. as he
did not want to go home and put
up on his folks. My daddy liked
to hear that young man talk that
way, for he had been told that
when a boy went to college, be
would come back a startnatal fool
and was cnmuleiely ruined for
work the balance of his life, if he
lived to be a hundred, because
you just couldn't get that college
stuff out Af him."
"Well," said Mr. Rogers, "what
has all this gob to do with fast
running?"
"You wait now," said Mr.
Myers, "if you will just let me
alone, I'll tell you something.
"All right, then, go ahead,"
said Mr. Rogers,
"Well Sir," continued Mr.
of destitution which would remind
one of tlie pale winter scene dur
tlie month of January. Farmers
are disheartened and tenants are
leaving the farm. Farmers who
own their own land might be able
to borrow money to carry them
over, but if this is hard on a land
owner, what will become of the
tenant who owns' no land, and who
has already had merchants to ad
vance him money and provisions
over the prospects of a once
promising crop, which during the
hail storm was fully 90 per cent
destroyed. Merchants, themselves,
are hard struck and they could
not, no matter how much they
yrish to carry these farmers over
from this season to the next. I
think I am conservative when I
estimate tiiat the loss to this parti
cular section will come up above
the half million mark. (See report
Commissioner E. J. Watson, South
Carolina 1915, pages 80 and 81).
An appeal was made for help
and a relief committee raised
several thousand dollars with
which to purchase seed and sup
I Myers," as I wan going on U? say,
1 that young fellow was one of tlie
beat working bands on tbe place.
All that Latin and Dutch hadn't
dwelled his head a hit. He would
plow, work cotton, weed corn, cut
wood and do anything that come
to hand. He waa a powerful roan
and full of energy."
"Oh, cut that out," aaid Mr.
Rogers, "do you know what you
are trying to tell."
"Now if I hadn't known what I
waa trying to tell I wouldn't have
undertaken it.'' continued Mr.
Myera. "Now juat aa I waa going
on to say when Billie Rogers,
stopped me, one day late in the
evening, jam by night, my daddy
asked tbia college bred-man if he
could run! 'What! Can I run!
Well.' said he, 'I think I can, if I
haven't forgot how, for I won the
medal at college for being the
fastest runner there.' 'Well,'
aaid my daddy, 'you go down to
the woods and run my sheep up
and pen 'em.' Yea, Sir, off this
fellow went and he wasn't gone
long, before here he come back
and aays he to my daddy, 'I have
got them sheep all op, but the
lambs were powerful skittish, but
I got them up without much
trouble, by runuing some of tbem
in and eatcing the others and put
ting them in the sheep pen with
the other sheep.' My daddy says
to him like this,'What are you
talking about, I know there aintl
parry lamb in the flock. Butl
that college brad-fellow just stood
m.v daddy down that there were
lambs and if he didn't believe him
juat go duwo to the sheep pen and
see for himself. 80 my father
gets up and goes down to the I
sheep pen and looks in and there's
-all the sheep sure enough. And
.upon my word, there were five I
rabbits in the pen that college
^red-fellow bad mistook for lambs
and run down and put in the pen
with the sheep." ^
"What kind of rabbits were
tbeyf" asked Mr. Rogers.
"Why they were great bigl
Jack rabbits, just like you find in
Bertie," said Mr. Myers as he
struck hard on the ground with
his walking stick. "Billie Rogers,
you talk about running, you just
ought to have seen that man run.
He could just get up and burn the
wind. You talk about them boys
in Winton running! If I were
you^Xwouldn't tclLthatany more,
for they were just stragglers."
Mr. Rogers went back to his
law office to dictate more copy to
his stenographer; Mr. Raleigh J.
Baker ' went down to the
postoffice to get his evening
mail; Mayor Tayhie re-filled his
corncob pipe; Squire C. N. Pruden
walked off in the direction of his
office; while Mr. Cad. Jenkins got
up and went to the Manhattau
Hotel. Mr. Myers was then amus
ing him,elf by marking on the
ground with his walking stick.?
Contributed.
plies for disfri oution among the
unfortunate losers. This is only
one instance among many in the
Southern States last year.
ifo you think it would have been
necessary to issue this appeal for
assistance if these unfortunate
people had provided themselves
with protection against loss by
hail?
What about the banks and sup
ply merchants from whom many
of these farmers had secured loans
and supplies with which to make
this crop? Would any of them
have been embrassed by reason of
the losses resulting to their custo
mers from this hail storm!
Nay Gentlemen, the farmer
looks to you for advice and assist
ance. You are the moulders of
public opinion in the business
I world. Give this matter of hail
insurance your careful thought
and consideration, and if after a
thorough investigation of the sub
ject you are convinced that it is a
good business proposition, advise
your farmer friends and custo
mers accordingly, and vou will be
fulfilling your mission in the buei
world. that of public benefactors
and.pommupity builders.?Ex.
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PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT OF SUMMER SCHOOL I
Morlreesboro, North Carolina, Jnly 6-30UI., 1915 I
A. summer school for the teacher* of Bertie, Hertford and
Northampton counties, will be held in the CHOWAN COL
LEGE buildinits at Murfreesboro, beginning July 5th., and
continuing four weeks.
This summer school has been planned in lieu of a county
teachers' institute, for these three counties. Attendance at this
school or some similar summer school or institute, will be com
pulsory to the teachers of Bertie, Northampton and Hertford
counties.
There will be no tuition charges nor fees. The only ex
pense for the entire term of four weeks will be board, which
has been fixed at the- following low rates:
For the term, 4 weeks, (including room and lights) $15.00
For one week 2 5.00
> For two weeks 9.00
For three weeks - ..... 12.00
Teachers will Be expected to take sheets, pillow cases,
towels and table napkins with them.
Instruction will be given in the common school branches,
domestic science and methods of teaching. Four excellent in
structors will be employed for the term.
Fuller announcement of courses of study and other details
will be made within a few days.
For any information about this school, address your county
superintendent.
J. P. LONG,
H. W. EARLY, x
JOHN C. SCARBOROUGH.