I STATE NEWS
IN DIGEST
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Hon. William Jennings Bryan
speaks at Tarboro tonight, Thursday,
under the auspices of the Kiwanis
Club. Funds derived from the lec
ture will be used for the club's edu
cational fund.
Automobile drivers are warned to
cut down their speed when riding the
highways in and around Wilson. No
less than forty or fifty offenders were
brought to trial within the past week,
and in practically, every instance
every one got the maximum fine.
Former President Wood row Wilson
has addressed a letter to Senator F.
M. Simmons, ranking Democrat in
the U. S. Senate, deploring the illness
that has recently forced him out of
the race for leadership in the Senate.
W. O. Brandon, former police offi
cer of Greensboro, was sentenced "to
attend Sunday School, quit drinking
and stay away from people who do",
by Municipal Court Judge "b. H. Col
lins, Monday of this week.'
Bids totaling $102,000 were enter
ed Monday when the Carolina and
Yadkin River. railroad, a short rail
line between High Point and High
Rock was offered for sale at public
auction. It was sold under court
order and has not yet been confirmed.
The program for the convention of
Fifth District dentists was announ
ced Monday. The convention began
today at Goldsboro. Approximately
fifty dentists from the eastern coun
ties are attending.
Spring building activities will be
the greatest in the history of the city,
say builders and contractors in Ashe
ville. Already several large struct
ures are being built.
Walter J. Matherley, associate pro
fessor of business administration at
the State University, has issued a
statement in which he warns 'North
Carolinians against the worthless
wild cat oil securities that are now
flooding the State.
The new gas plant for Washington,
which was started last summer, has
been completed and was turned on
this week.
General Manager of the Norfolk
Southern railroad has denied recent
rumors that that railroad would be
come a part of the Pennsylvania Sys
tem of railroads.
Holders of North Carolina ft.95
per cent notes need not hold these
notes expecting to collect interest on
them, according to a notice issued by
Treasurer Lacy. These notes became
due in 1923, but a clause In the con
tract provides that they might be
called in last October by notice given
by the Treasurer. Due notice was
given but some holders failed to turn
them in, and thereby will lose inter
est for the time intervening.
State tax officials lately visited
Durham pool rooms and exacted taxes
from them. Several have been evad
ing taxation on the club plan, but the
officials say they are nothing more
than regular pool rooms and must pay
the tax.
A destructive fire visited Biltmore
last Friday and totaly destroyed a
large planing mill, a dry kiln, and
fourteen carloads of lumber. The
loss is estimated at $90,000.
E. C. Branson, head of the social
economics department at the State
University, will sail for Europe on
March 31, to spend twelve months in
European countries, studying their
rural marketing system. He will
spend much time in Denmark, where
the co-operative marketing idea first
originated.
The semi-annual convention of the
fourth district of the Typothetae fed
eration was hold in Winston-Salem
' last week. It was attended by em
ploying printers from all of Hie
states in the district
By action of the Tobacco Board of
Trade the Henderson tobacco market
will close for the season on February
28th.
A special car of Richmond physi
cians Arrived in High Point Wednes
day night to attend the annual con
vention of the tri-state medical asso
ciation, which meets there Thursday
and Friday.
March 8th has been set as the date
for Raleigh's annual Fashion Shew,
This event attracted a treat deal of
favorable attention last year, and the
promoters say this year's show will
eclipse its predecessor in brilliancy.
A heavy crop of tobacco for 1983
is predicted for Pitt Bounty, accord
ing to advices coming from Green
sville. The prophecy ia made upon the
large number of tobacco beds already
sowed, and. the preparations far ad
ditional beds.
Pamlico county has set another
record. With a school tax election
just completed the county has taken
its place aa the first in North Caro
lina's hundred to vote a county-wide
special school tax, according to T. B.
Attmore, county superintendent of
whooli,
According to figures just given out
New Bern, Raleigh was the largest
contributor to the relief of lire suf
ferers in New Bern. Raleigh gave
$6,066.64.
State Treasurer B. R. Lacy on last
Friday borrowed $600,000 from the
First National Bank of New York
City, in anticipation of receiving
lunds from a sale of highway bonds
which await delivery.
With a net increase of over $21,
000,000, in the resources of st#te
banks during the period of December
31, 1021 and December 81, 1022, the
banking department of the State Cor
poration Commission estimates that
the total banking resources, State and
National, in North Carolina have in
creased more than $41,000, .000 dur
ing the same period. The total re
sources of State banks and trust
companies at the close of business
December 20, 1022, were $246,623,
024.26.
More than one hundred commer
cial secretaries of North and South
Carolina attended the annual conven
tion in Charlotte last week. Stacey
W. Wade, Insurance Commissioner,
made a speech before the secretaries
strongly advising against' fake stock
schemers in the State, and urging the
secretaries to direct the attention of
their commercial bodies to investment
in home enterprises.
The Goldsbops Board of Alderman
has voted to uk for an act enabling
the citisens to vote on issuance of
$40,000 bonds for the improvement
of the city railway property. It was
originally proposed to ask for $86,000
but a recent fire ha# made H neces
sary to spend more than that on the
system which has been idle for some
time.
Ninety students are registered in
the State University's School of Phar
macy, a 26% increase over the last
year's registration.
The Dunn Chamber of Commerce
has recently inaugurated a campaign
against rats. The women's clubs of
the town are also aiding in the work
of eradication.
Active preliminary work in the
collection of 1922 income taxes due
simultaneously with Federal income
taxes March 16 has begun under the
direction of Revenue Commissioner
R. A. Do ugh ton. Deputy commis
sioners have been despatched to every
district in the State to assist in mak
ing returns.
Contracts have been let for the
construction of three new schools in
Johnston County. Several are already
completed and others are under con
struction, the average cost of each be
ing $27,910.
Total sales of tobacco on the floors
of independent warehouses in Rocky
Moupt totaled about fifteen and a
half million pounds from the crop of
1922.
A. M. Martin, agent for the Caro
lina and Northwestern Railway Com
pany at Granite Falls, will this year
complete his fiftieth year in the ser
vice of the railroad, having begun
work with it in 1878 when the work
of grading the road bed was under
way.
The first strawberries of the year
in Columbus County were recently
exhibited in Whiteville by one of the
prosperous farmers of that section.
Perquimans County has recently
employed a full time county health
nurse, through the activity of the Per
quimans County Chamber of Com
merce which first started the agita
tion and worked on the project until
it was accomplished.
There are 1870 girts registered for
work at the State Normal College,
Greensboro. The freshman class
leads with <98.
The body of H. A. Grissom, Greens
boro druggist, was found floating in
a Florida creek, several hundred
yards away from the spot where his
automobile was found some time ago,
one day last week. Former efforts
to rescue his body had foiled and the
search had been given up.
^Wilson has again set the pace for
the world in the number of pounds of
tobacco sold on the floors of its auc
tion warehouses from the crop of
1888. The market closed February !
16, having sold 48,848,860 pounds at
an average of $88.94 per hundred.
A history of Davidson will soon be
published. Rev. J. C. Leonard, a
Baptist pastor of Lexington, has com
piled a largo part of it
"North Carolina is attracting more
attention throughout the nation than
any other southern state," according
to S. H. Hobbs, Jr., of the Editorial
board of the University of North
Carolina News Letter.
Grand Master Hubert M. Potest, in ?
a speech before Durham Masons last
week, said that Masonry was entirely
too cheap in this State. The dues
should*!* raised and the Grand Lodge
elevated to a higher plane.
The first American flag that ever
flew over a conquered European
fortress now hangs' in the banking
room of tthe Fayette ville First Nat
ional Bank. It is a possession of the
First Field Artillery of Camp Bragg,
which is located near Fayetevffle.
Continued from pane tight
"Tour wife ia very religious, isn't
?he?"
"Why, no; what makes you think
that?"
"Well.^every morning I go past
your house she ia singing 'Nearer My
God to Thee.' "
"Oh, that's juat the hymn she boils
the eggs by, two verses for soft boil
ed and Ave for hard."
POOR OLD BIBLE
"Father, who was Shylockf"
"Goodness, boy! You attend the
finest school in the district and don't
know who Shylock was?", cried the
father, with a look of surprise and
horror. "Go and read your Bible,
sir!"
"Mother, did daddy's name used to
be Pullman?"
"No, dearie, why do you ask?"
"Well, I just wondered; I see that
name on the most of his towels.
Teacher: G?, name the three
G?. (Junior). "Present, active
and passive.
WliJ* Happinu It Fousd
In friendships.
In good thoughts.
In helping others.
In friendly letters.
In pleasant letters.
In little kindnesses.
In social intercourse.
In-work that we love.
In mutual confidence.
In healthful recreation.
In cultivating the mind.
In doing duty cheerfully.
In making others happy.
In facing life with a smile.
In achieving worthy ambitions.
In doing one's best regardless of
reward.
monthly honor roll
first grade
France* Boyettee Joseph Copeland I
Maude PoweU Bey Helen Carter
Mary Rivers Parker Jonathan Tayloe
Everette Vaughan Alice Newaomel
second grade i
Robert Copeland 1 Earl F?*os|
James Hobbs B McK#e
J. L Overton Bertha Coleson
Dolores Camp AUU Geroek
Marguerite Odom
THIRD GRADE
Mary Mitchell Frances T*S*?o
Virginia Barnes Susie Brett P*rlcer I
Bo?UK Vann Boseman Alfred E^dll
Milton Flythe Vi^'Ua Wom
J. C. Howard Ruth James Mitchell I
r un. W. Catling Frances Eley
Ernest Thomas Agnes Thomas
Mildred Overton
fourth grade
Margaret Melson Julian B. Tayloe
Johnnie Harrell Florins Newborn
Edgar Harris Robert Sumner
Margaret Newborn Linwood Britton j
Wendell Rogers ty0* odom
fifth grade
Lee Catling f Braxton Barnes
Cornibeth Isenhower Sadie McKeel
Iris Bellamy Ernestine Hayes
Billie Slaughter Velva Howard
Clarence Britton Rudolph Doughtle
Edgar Thomas
sixth grade
Margaret Lane Louise Mitchell
William McKeel LeonoreAppUbaum
SEVENTH grade |
Nellie Mae Baker Addle May Cooke.
Helen Doughtie Rebecs Feldman
r?.-a Emily Sumner
Myrtle Greene ? > u
Henry CUy Odom Theo Mitcnen
eighth grade
aw nnoward EsteUe Newsome
Jlf tSi Mildred King
j?k\jatling BaUey Vaughan
Ben Williams E C Hobbs
Ray^oggard
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ninth grade
livey Overton
Harry Copeland ^Ha Horton
Mary Hoggard Horace Johnson
I^BeHeSemoms Mae HoBomar
|i.W Claire Hoggard
ELEVENTH GRADE
Spurgeon Isenhower _L?H ^
Alton Hayes c. c. Semo
Arthur Greene Cedrlc Leary
Thomas Baker Emma woow
(na Mae Odom W1 M*"? I
Mary Sumner Elisabeth Dilday
Viola Odom
I MENIKOlfilUM 1
I I WlHHi BMJIIBP*"1'!1
By virtue of authority of the pow
er* contained in a certain mortgage
deed executed on the Slat day of
October, 1919, by C. H. Phaup, which
mortgage deed is duly of record in
Book 66, page 276, office of Register
of Deeds of Hertford County. Default
having been made in the payment of
the debts therein secured after de
mand and refusal thereof. The un
dersigned mortgagee will, on the 8rd
day of March, 1928, between the
hours of 12 m. and 1 p. m., offer for
sale to the highest bidder for cash at
the Post Office door in Ahoakie, N. C.,
the following described real estate:
Lots Nos. 8, 4, 6 and 6 on the map
platted by E. M. Bustler, C. E. of
the J. E. Newsome farm, recorded in
the Register of Deeds office of the
County of Hertford in Book 66, at
page 276 and hereby referred to for
better deeeription of above land.
Terms of sale?Cash, subject to
upset bid under the Statute.
This 14th day of February, 1923.
J. E. NEWSOME, Mortgagee.
By ROSWELL C. BRIDGER, Atty.
2-16-28-2t.
NOTICE
By virtue of a certain chattel
mortgage executed to me by 8. W.
McKeel on the 80th day of Decem
ber, 1922, and duly of record in the
office of the Register of deeds of
Hertford County, book 09, at page
576; on
FRIDAY, MARCH 9th, 1923
I will offer for sale for cash at the
home of 8- W. McKeel, near the town
of Ahoskie at the Cullens* farm one
lot of chattel properlyMjonaisting of:
1 sorrel mare, 1 top buggy and har
ness, l brown horse mule, 1 black
mare mule, 1 dark brown mare mule,
1 Fordson tractor and disc, 1 Thorn
hill two-horse farm wagon, 1 Ford
touring car, and all farming imple
ments of every description to be
copy shows "STAKE"
1 disc harrow, 1 riding cultivator,
1 tobacco transplanter, l black and
white sow and nine pigs.
Time of sale?10:00 a. m.
Terms of Sale?Cash.
This the 16th day of Feb. 1928.
2-28 J. W. GODWIN, Mortgagee.
Advertisers in the HER
ALD are guaranteed a larger
circulation than any other pa
per in the county.
UNDER DEED OF TltUST
By virtue of the power contained
in a certain deed of Truat, executed
on the 8th day of January, 1919 by
W. A. Chavis and wife Mary H. Char
ts, to Jno. R. Jordan, Trustee, which
is duly recorded in the Register of
Deeds office-for Hertford County, in
book 64 on page 484. The lands de
scribed in the aforesaid deed of trust
were sold on the 5th day of February,
and within ten days as the law pro
vides, an up-set bid of 5% having
been deposited with the Clerk of the
Superior Court of this County, and
having been ordered by said Clerk to
re-eell said land. The undersigned
Trustee, will oh the
7th DAY OF MARCH, 1923 -
Offer for sale at the Court House
door of Hertford County, to the high
est bidder for cash, the following de
scribed real estate, to-wit:
1. Tract bounded on the East by
the lands of J. H. Knight, on the
North and West by the lands of the
late J. P. Freeman and on the South
by the Union and St Johns road,
containing 84 acres more or less.
2. Known as the Hayes tract
Bounded on the East by the old Bev
erley farm, on the North by the
Union and St John road, on the West
by the lands of J. W. Stion and on
the South by the old Wynns land and
t!. C. Hoggard, containing 200 acres
more or less.
8. Tract known as Knight Pocosin.
Bounded on the North by the lands
of C. C. Hoggard, on the East by the
lands of Mrs. J. H. Darden, on" the
South by the lands of P. E. Jenkins
and on the West by the old Wynns
land, containing 65 acres more or
less.
All the above described lands are
situate in St John township, Hert
ford County,i North Carolina.
This the 16th day of Feb., 1923.
2-2S-2t JNO. R. JORDAN. Trustee.
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on Church Street. Immediate pos
session. V. H. GARRETT.
GOOD FRESH MILCH COW FOR
SALE. H. G. SNIPES, Menola.'
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Miss Lois Tynan gave a party at
her home last Saturday evening.
won present.
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Aching Kidneys
| Eating too much moat may clog
the Kidneys, than the
Back hurts.
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Must iolks forget that the kidneys,
like the bowels, get sluggish and clogged
and need a flushing occasionally, else we
have backache ana dull misery in the
kidney region, severe headsehee, rheu
matic twinges, torpid liver, acid stom
ach, sleeplessness, and all sorts of
bladder disorders.
You simply must keep year kidneys
active and dean, and the moment you
feel an ache or pain in the kidney re
Sion get about four ounces of Jad
tits from any good drug store here,
take a tableepoonful in a glass of wa
ter before breakfast for a few days,
and your kidneys will then act fin*.
This famous salts is made from "the
sold of grapes and lemon juice, com
bined with lithia, and is harmless to
flash clogged kidneys and stimulate
them to normal activity. It also helps
neutralize the aeida in the urine eo it
no longer irritates, thus helping to re
lieveMadder disorders.
Jad Salts is harmless, inexpensive;
makes n delightful effervescent Uthia
water drink whieh everybody should
take now and then to hdp keep their
kidneys clean.
A well-known local druggist says he
?ells Iota of Jad Salts to folks who
believe fas trying to correct Hdney
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