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Volume XIIL Eight Pages Ahoskie, North Carolina, Friday, August 11, 1922 One Section No. 14
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Chamber of Commerce
| to be Organized Here
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Energetic Efforts To Be Made*
To Organize A Live Civic
Organization ? Meeting of
Citizens Called For Friday
Night, August 11th
The citizens of Ahoskie are called
to meet in the director's room of the
Farmers-AtlafttuTBank Building, Fri
day night st 8:00 o'elock, sharp, for
the purpose of organising a real live
Chamber of Commerce for Ahoskie.
All business men are urged te be
. present as well ss all public spirited
citizens generally.
There is every reason that we
should be organized and pull together
to accomplish what we should have in
our town. So it to the interest of
every citizen of Ahoskie to attend this
meeting, and offer any suggestions
that he feels might be of benefit to
the people and town.
It is a shame the way in which things
are drifting along at the present
time; and the remedy for this state of
affairs is for us to get together and
have some unity of purpose and in
telligent action. Let's all get together
and do something. This Chamber of
Commerce should not be organized
and then permitted to die in a few
weeks or months, but it should be or
ganized on a solid foundation.
'Don't let a dollar keep you away
from this meeting. Come prepared
to pay a dollar if necessary, and to
give your whole hearted support to
an organization that deserves the sup
port of all good citizens.
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SAY PRICES HIGHEST
IN HISTORY OF S. C.
(Prom Newi and Obaerver)
Wilson, N. C. Aug. 8.?W. T. Clark,
well-known Wilson tobacconist, and
?W. J. King, president of the 'local
chamber of Commerce, have returned
from South Carolina, where they have
witnessed salsa of leaf tobacco at
"auction" on'several markets during
the first week of the 1922 season.
Their impressions are set forth in the
following statement:
"The markets in South Carolina
opened on August 1 with large sales
at all points. Over five million pounds
were sold on the loose leaf floors by
auction at an average exceeding 20
cents per lb., which was the highest
average ever known in South Carolina
in the opening week. All the markets
are crowded and towns like Lake City
and Mullins are running double sales
and then unable to get through
during the day. In such towns as
Lamar, Manning, Johnaonville, they
have built warehouses overnight, us
ing garages, livery stables and cotton
platforms to sell tobacco at auction.
Many of the markets where they aris
selling the better grades are averag
ing over 25 cents per pound. All the
tobacco now being sold in South Caro
-lina is now being graded and tied as
it is in North Carolina, this proves to
the farmer that it is the proper way
for him to handle his crop.
"It is reported also that the Co
operating Marketing Association will
begin receiving tobacco on Monday.
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BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION
Mr*. R. S. Baker was honored Fri
day at a surprise party {riven by her
children in celebration of her seventy
third birthday anniversary at her
home on Church street. The home
Was prettily decorated in a color
scheme of pink and white and in the
dining room a large cake with seven
ty-three pink candles formed the tab?*
' center-piece. .
* Those present were Mr. and Mrs.
L. T. Sumner, Dr. and Mrs. Paul Mit
chell, Mrs. J. N. Downs, Mrs. A. S.
Landergraff of Ooean View, Miss Nel
lie Baker, Mrs. W. A. Hayes of Nor
folk, Miss Mary Sumner, Miss Emily
Sbmner, Mis* Louise Mitchell and
Master Robert Sumner.
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NOT A PROPOSAL
Doctor?You are slightly morbid,
my dear lady: You should look about
you and marry again.
Widow?Oh, doctor, is?is this a
proposal?
Doctor?Allow me to remind you,
madam, that a doctor prescribes med-'
ielns?but he doesn't take it.
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HOME DEMONSTRATION
BY MISS MYBTLE SWINDELL
County Home Demonstrator
Schedule for the month of August.
August 7th 1 Winton
August 8th Holly Springs
August 9th Harrellsville
August 10th? Murfreesboro
August 11th St. Johns
August 15th Earleys
August 16th Christian Horbor
August 17th ..Colerain
August 18th Holly Springs
August 21st Winton
August 22nd.. Woodrow
August 28rd ....Christian Horbor
August 25th Como
August 28th Horton's School
August 80th Mapleton
August 81st Woodrow
FOE DOUGHNUTS
1 cake Fleishmann's yeast
1 1-4 cups milk, scalded and cooled
1 tablespoonful sugar.
4 1-2 cups sifted flour
1-2 cup sugar
3 tablespoonfula butter
1-4 teaspoonful mace
1 egg
1-4 teaspoonful salt
Dissolve yeast and one -tablespoon
ful sugar in lukewarm liquid, add one
and one-half cups of flour and beat
well. Cover and set aside to rise in
warm place for about one hour or
until bubbles burst on top.
Add to the butter and sugar
creamed, mace, egg well beaten, the
remainder of the flour to make a mod
erately soft dough, and the salt.
Knead lightly. Place in well-greased
bpwl. Cover and allow to rise again
in warm place for about one and one
half-hours. When light, turn on flour
ed board, roll to about one-third inch
in thickness. Cut with small dough
nut cutter, cover and let rise again,
in wajrm place until light?about
forty-five minutes.
Drop into deep, hot fat with side
uppermost which has been next to
board. When a film of smoke begins
to rise from fat, it will be found a
good temperature to fry the dough
nuts ; or when the fat is hot enough to
brown a one-inch square of bread in
40 seconds the temperature is correct.
Fry to a golden brown, drain and roll
at once in powdered sugar.
FOR SALLY LUNN
One cake Fleishmann's yeast .
2 caps milk, scalded and cooled
1 tabletpoonful sugar
4 tablespoon fuls butter, melted
4 cups sifted flour
2 eggs
1 teas poonful salt
Sally Lunn is one of the most popu
lar of the fancy breads, makes a de
licious acoomiianiment to tea. ' It
should be broken apart with a fork;
never cut with a knife. Serve hot.
Dissolve yeast and sugar in luke
warm milk. Add butter, then flour,
eggs well beaten, and the salt. Beat
until perfectly smooth. Pour into
prell-greased pans.
Cover and let rise in a warm place,
free from draught, until double in
bulk?about one and one-half hours.
Sprinkle one tableepoonful granu
lated sugar over top and bake twenty
minutes in hot oven. This recipe will
All two medium cake pana.
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ROAD MEETING
An enthusiastic road meeting; was
was held in Aulander, Saturday, Aug
held in Aulander Saturday, August
5th. A large audience was addressed
by Judge F. D. Winston of Windsor,
and Mr. W. A. Hart of the State High
way Commission. The completion of
the bridge over the Roanoke river at
Willlam'ston gave stimulus to the
meeting. Two branches of the Bank
head National Highway and the high
way from the Williamston bridge and
the one from Edward's Ferry bridge
join each other in the center of the
town.
CONGER NAMED LOCAL
FUEL DISTRIBUTOR
Mr. E. C. Conger of the Crystal Ice
A Coal Co. of Elisabeth City and the
Ahoekie Coal and Ice Co.. has been
named fuel distributor for Pasquo
tank, Perquimans. Camden, Currituck,
Gates, Hertford, Bertie, Dare, Tyrrell,
Washington and Chowan counties.
CHILDREN'S HOME
SOCIETY OF N. C? INC.
Report for the month ending July
31st, 1922.
To Our Friends: We present to
you our report of the activities of this
Society for the month of July, 1922.
You will note by careful analysis of
these statistics that we have handled
an increased number of children dur
ing the current month, over June, and
also that we have, after careful in
1 vestigation, cancelled a large number
of homes offered us for children.
^ur official personal supervisor
has been out the entire month and
visited 53 foster homes.
On July 30th there was held a
apecial meeting of the Building Com
mittee and the Executive Committee
and it was unanimously agreed that
we take immediate steps to draw
plans and start building operations on
the Sunshine Memorial Cottage. This
is the baby unit that we have looked
forward to for so long a time and
which has been greatly needed to
I properly protect our work. Our
matron, Miss Holt, has endured great
inconvenience in meeting the demands
I on her for the caring of babies and it
I is certainly due her that we push to
an early completion this valuable ad
dition to our equipment. Reports
show that we have in hand for the
I purpose of financing this project
115,000.00 in cash, and building brick
I representing $5,000.00. The struc
ture will cost complete about $30,000.
I This means that our friends must rally
I to the project to the extent of $20,
000 for the building to be made avail
able this year. We hope every mem
ber of the Board will consider that he
or she is a personal representative of
I the 8ociety in securing financial gifts
to this Sunshine Building Fund. W e
I hope subscriptions will begin to como
I in at once as it is the desire of the
Building Committee to proceed at oar
lliest possible date with the erection
1 of this building.
We are also perfecting arrange
ments to employ a competent teacher
this fall and this will greatly add to
the efficiency of our services rendered
the children as they pass through the
Receiving home.
We thank every friend of this
I enterprise for the splendid manner
in vjhich they have supported the
management and wish to state that
I we are giving 100 per cent of
I our time to our work and are
greatly encouraged over the prospects
for the balance of this year. From
present indications we will relive the
I distress of not less than 250 children
duriiig the year 1922. This will be a
great achievement and we thank our
I friends for making it possible. . The
steady progress of this work is mere
I ly a matter of ample operating funds.
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STATISTICS FOR THE MONTH
New cases reported.. 34
Adjustments made by superin
tendents of Public Welfare? 4
Applications withdrawn 4
New homes offered for children. 33
Homes accepted 33
Homes cancelled 20
Homes under investigation 302
Homes withdrawn by applicant.. 160
Children received 2
Children placed 13
Homes supervised by Supertend
eiits of Public Welfare 22
Reports received from foster par- 71
ents R. ? 71
Homes supervised by personal rep
resentatives of the Society 53
Legal adoptions executed ? 15
Children in Boarding homes 4
Children in hospital 1
Children in Receiving Home July
31st, 1922 24
Children in Boarding School 1
JOHN J. PHOENIX, State Supt.
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REVIVAL SERVICES
Commencing Sunday evening, Aug
ust 18th, at 8 o'clock there will be
held a aeries of evangelistic services
at Ahoskie M. E. Church, South. Ser
vices will begin each afternoon
promptly at 4 o'clock and each even
ing promptly at 8 o'clock. Every
Christian of every name are urged
to remember these services in prayer,
and also to lend their very best sup
port and presence to all services. We
all are agreed that Church needs re-,
viving and when this is done it will
be an easy matter to reach and bring
the world to ChriA/' Every person
in the cbmmunity is cordially invited
to attend these services and take part.
"Come thou with us and we will do
thee good."
M. F. HODGES, Pastor.
A BOLL WEEVIL
REMEDY THAT WORKS
By the Division of Agronomy N. C.
Extension Service, State College Sta.
Cotton growers who now have boll
weevil can use it to advantage and
the grower who has no boll weevil this
year will get even greater profit from
it.
Cotton growers and agricultural ex
perts to the South of us know what
it means to see one-fourth to three
fourths of the cotton bolls of a field
desroyed by weevil. They tell us that
daring seasons favorable to the weevil
very little cotton is set after the first
part of August After this time thel
weevil have multiplied in such large
numbers that practically no squares
are left. Under such conditions the
amount of cotton we pick in the fall
depends upon the number of bolls set
now. Examine your fields and you
will find stalks that have ten to twelve
bolls set and others that have less
than three. Seeds from the plants
that have ten or more bolls set will
reproduce plants of their kind. The
plants that have the largest number of
bolls now are not only safer from boll
weevil attack but will produce the
greatest amount of lint this fall.
Seed from these plants will pass this
quality on to the crop next and for
years to come. Then, if these plants
are our heaviest yielders and repro
duce heavy yielders, saving seed from
them will pay whether we have boll
weevil or not. The results from this
work last year gave an average in
crease of 91 lbs. of lint acre over un
selected seed. When the cotton was
sqld the increase due to saving seed
from the best plants amounted to
$18.68 per acre.
One man can make enough good
plants in a day to supply six bushels
of seed. This will plant five to six
acres. Figure your profit. Do you
know any work on the farm that will
pay better than this?
Begin right houi by marking the
plaftti that have the largest number
of bolls set. Mark them with a tag
or;colored strips of cloth so the cot
tort may be picked from them in the
fall. Just before the general crop is
picked send a careful picker in the
field to save the seed plants. Store
it in a dry place and when the rush
of picking and ginning is over, clean
out the gin thoroughly and gin the
seed free from mixtures. Remember
it will pay - whether you have boll
weevil or not. If you have the boll
weevil you cannot afford to overtook
this remedy. If you haven't the
weevil now is the best time to make
preparation for them.
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DAIRY COWS CUT FER
TILIZER BILL IN HALF
Fear of the relentless boll weevil
combined with the departure of the
cattle tick on the arsenic route in
duced E. B. McCutchen of Bishopville,
S. C., to establish a herd of Guernsey
cattle. What the result has been was
feelingly compressed into a single sen
tence by this new recruit to the ranks
of the dairymen. "I don't know what
would have become of me since 1920
if I had not had my herd of cows to
bring me in a regular income."
Mr. McCutchen now has a herd of
35 cows and sells his milk in Bishop
ville for 15 cents a quart or 50 cents
a gallon. He can not say too much
in praise of dairying, both from the
standpoint of direct returns and the
improvement of the soil. He now
spend less than half as much for ferti
lizers on his dairy farm as he did be
fore he established his herd. Manure,
he says, not only benefits the current
crop, but the effect of one application
can be noticed for several years. Big
crops of silage corn are now grown on
this farm with no commercial fertili
zer whatever, and in the fields of small
grain there is a conspicious line of de
marcation between the part that was
manured and the unmanured part.
He is now making more corn, oats,
and wheat per acre than ever before
and the growth of cotton is'" greater,
but the weevil cuts the yield of lint.
On this 300-acre farm some mixed
feed and bran are bought, but most of
the ration is home-grown. Depend
ence is placed in peavine hay, velvet
beans, com meal, and com silage.
Mr. McCutchen has two other farms,
one in the same county and one in
Lee county, and he intends to put
cows on all of them as the tick is gone
for good, The cow, he says, brings in
money daily, weekly, and monthly.
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HERTFORD COUNTY HERALD
Armed with a warrant, a pistol and
two bottles of brandy, Constable
Henry Johnson of Old Fields Town
ship, Wilson county, went in quest of
a fugitive Tuesday. After tanking up
to a high degree Constable Johnson
went to the home of one of the rela
tives of the fugitive where he flashed
a gun in the face of the occupants
without showing his warrant. Some
one in the house escaped from a back
door and as a result a warrant was
issued for the constable and he is now
under a bond of $500 for his appear
ance in court.
Funeral services for H. W. Hen
dricks, a local man of High Point were
held Sunday. Hendicks was driving
a .car on the Winston-Salem road Sat
urday and was instantly killed when
he failed to take a curve and the car
turned over. His wife and several
children were in the car when the
accident happened but escaped serious
injury.
A large gathering of colored people
went out to a picnic at Warren Grove
Church near Edenton Tuesday, and
where just laying out a bountiful feed
for all when two of the male members
got into a discussion which resulted in
a terrible cutting scrape. One of the
darkeys had his eye cut out and the
other had a lung exposed.
The railroad strike condition in
North Carolina remains about the
same. As a general rule the railroads
of the state are experiencing less
trouble handling their business than
roads in other states, particularly
those roads operating through the
north. As the time approaches for the
marketing of the tobacco and other
fall crops, much apprenhension is felt
by growers and marketmen for the
prompt handling of their product.
A sharp explosion felt near Kins
ton a few nights ago remained a mys
tery until Tuesday when it was learn
ed that Heber B. McGlohon had put
too much dynamite or some other ex
plosive substance in a patent boll
weevil bomb wliich he is working on.
According to the claims of the in
ventor, a bomb is held aloft on a
25-foot pole and fired with a fuse. It
is claimed that the bomb liberates
enough poison to eradicate the weevils
in an area of between one and two
acres.
William Dates, and John Murray
who are wanted for robbing the post
office at Oxford, N. C., 29 months
ago, realising $33,000 from their hfpl
were arrested in Memphis, Tenn. last
week. There is no doubt as to the
identity of the men. They were ar
rested once before but broke jail.
The men are being brought back to
North Carolina and will be put in the
State Prison at Raleigh for safe-keep
ing.
Twenty-five masked men thought
by the authorities to be striking Sea
board shopmei^ attacked five strike
breakers and a guard working on a
disabled engine on a siding two mile^
north of Southern Pines, Saturday
afternoon, bound and gagged them,
loaded them in automobiles, carried
them several miles from the scene and
beat them severely. Governor Mor
rison has offered a reward of $400
each,for the arrest and conviction of
each of the criminals.
AIiree negive? cnar^cu wim ciimi*
nal assualt on a white woman, and
perhaps fatally shooting her husEind
aa he lay asleep just outside of South
ern Pines, narrowly escaped vengean
ance at the hands of an enraged mob
Friday morning. The sheriff of
Moore county arrived on the scene
just in time and after an exciting
race managed to place his prisoners
safely in the State prison at Raleigh.
Officials of the Southern Railway
System who have heretofore declined
to suspend the seniority rights of their
striking shppmen, made overtures to
their men Tuesday to return to work
under President Harding's offer pend
ing final settlement of their griev
ances. The offer of the railroad was
refused on the grounds that the shop
men would act only In accordance
with a national agreement effecting
all roads alike. The officials of the
Norfolk-Southern railroad had a like
experience with their late employees.
Dr. W. C. Horton, of Raleigh will
play the part of Governor Tryon of
fJorth Carolina in the battle pegeant
to be presented in Burlington on "Al
amance Day," Aug. 17th and to be
included later in the Aim "Romance
of Alamance" to be released by the
Carolina Films Corporation organized
by W. C. Crosby, former director of
the Bureau of School Extension of the
state, Dr. Horton and others.
Taxes will be somewhat lower in
Pasquotank county in 1922 than in
1921 due to th^ action of the county
commissioners Monday in Axing the
levy for the current year at 91 cents
on the hundred dollars, as compared
with the 98 cent levy made in July
1921.
Lightning struck a large barn locat
ed on Woodside Stock Farm, eight
miles south of Raleigh Tuesday. The
Are which resulted desroyed the barn
and another adjoining. It was only
by heroic work and a heavy down
pour of rain that saved other build
ings in the vicinity.
Bishop John C. Kilgo of the Metho
dist church, South, who has been
critically ill for the past six weeks,
continues very low at his home in
Charlotte.
The Department of Commerce of
the United States has issued a state
ment which shows that the leading
county in North Carolina in the pro
duction of tobacco is Pitt' county,
while on the basis of revenue collect
ed on tabacco products North Caro
lina leads all states in the Union. The
amount being 879,607 out of a total
of $364,036,000. New York stands
second on the list in the amount, this
being 844,199,000, a little over half
the amount collected in North Caro
lina.
Five batteries of field artillery, Vir
ginia National Guard, went into camp
for two weeks at Camp Bragg, N. C.
with other field artillery units on
Monday. The North Carolina National
Guard is represented by the 177th
Field Artillery containing about 300
men and officers.
A still made from a pine box lined
with sheet iron with two iron pipes for
a worm, was the outfit captured by
officers in a raid near Oxford Satur
day. The still had been in operation
the night before.
Two salesmen selling stock in the
New York-Miami Syndicate, a realty
development in Florida,- have been op
erating near Greensboro. Local offi
cers conducted an inquiry into their
business and as a result the salesmen
were bo find over under a $500 bond
for trial in the Superior Court of
Guilford county on the charge of sell
ing unlicensed stock and being them
selves unlicensed.
Two thorough-bred Jersey cows of
considerable money value belonging
to the stock farm of the artillery post
at Camp Bragg, were killed by light
ning in a heavy storm at that place
last week.
When a short circuit developed in
her automobile, Miss Minnia Harmon,
of.Durham, leaped from the moving
car and was painfully injured when
she received a badly cut face, and a
number of bruises about her neck
and shoulders. Miss Harmon thought
the car was on Are.
Thirty-six cases of typhoid fever
are reported in Wayne county so far
this year with several deaths. Only
one case has been reported where the
patient "has been vaccinated and this
case was mild. Frank Jordan, Jr., son
of the late County Commissioner
Frank Jordan, who recently died after
an attack of fever, recently obtained
60 doses of vaccine for his neighbors
and stated that he was going to see
that all of his neighbors were vacci
nated. His father was 57 years old
and was popularly supposed to be too
old to contract the fever.
Indications are that the boll weevil
will desroy from one-fourth to one
half of the entire cotton crop in ?
Robeson county this year. The princi
ple damage will be in the late cotton.
A man engaged in vulcanising a
tire in a garage in Raleigh Saturday
afternoon thought that a little blase
of gasoline which dropped to the floor
would soon burn itself out. Bijt the
Are found other oil and gasoline on
the floor, then some waste and in a
few minutes the entire place was ia
flames and only heroic efforts pre
vented a heavy loss to adjoining prop
erty. The damage dor.e w~s estimat
ed at about $3,000.