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^ibetfta's Sf ? Republic l vowg Woman Broad Merchant of Siberia. +'??=3 Viiu 4" \ ,r . - ' ?. ? ?? , "L-fT- V. fjasss. xvr* "? The passing of the Far Eastern re public of Siberia recalls that this pic turesque government. Which Moscow was willing to have exist as a buffer state toward the Japanese-occupied territory around Vladivostok, was sup posed to be built on the model of the United States, but with certain radi cal "attachments." It Is even probable that, though the country is federated with the Moscow government, Its Indi vidualistic tendencies may continue; for the pioneer conditions of Siberia and the struggle against them have developed an individualism in the Si berians not unlike that which grew In our Westerners. When the daylight Is fading and the long shadows are stretching across the plains, one realises the vastnees of Si beria?panorama of a gently undulat ing, silent sea, green and brown, or un ending white. The area of the Far Blast era repub lic Is 460,000 square miles, larger than Texas and California combined, yet It Is only the southeast corner of Siberia, one-twentieth of the former Russian empire. From Vladivostok, on the coast, to Verkhne-Udlnsk, on the re public's western boundary, la more than 1,700 miles by rail, and little more than one-third of Siberia has been crossed. Usually the train is the only sign of life. As far as the eye can see, the telegraph poles stand sentry along the winding railroad, fading away la the distance. ?verywhere now are the scars of war. It may'be a locomotive, rusty and half covered with sand, lying In the ditch where It plunged with Its hu man freight. It may be the skeleton of a train, deserted on a side track, burned except for the steel framework of cars and trucks. Twisted rails, wrecked bridges, or shattered frag menta, where an ammunition train has blown up, vary the picture. A peasant's wagon, with shaggy gal loping ponies and the Invariable dog trotting behind. Is a sign that a village la near. The.lamps on the station plat form are gone and semaphores of the oM days stand with broken arms,, for this is now a moonbeam railroad, run ning without signals or headlights. Railroad Mill Running. Tbe railroad is the most Important public utility of the republic. Poverty and dilapidation have overwhelmed It, Just as they have gripped the fallen genteel of the barakholka. It keeps running, which Is about all. With the obstacles which must be overcome, the marvel is that even that la accom The passenger coaches are unheated la winter, windows dirty and broken, electric light fixtures wrenched out bodily, lavatories filled with dirt, rough boards where once were mirrors, doors nailed shut or broken off. and the floors splintered from being used as -Shopping blocks. The proletariat seemi to relish a martyrdom to darkness and dW. The far Eastern republic has 2,020 miles of railroad, exclusive of the 1, 100 miles of the Chinese Eastern rail road, which also belongs to Russia. They are mora of a liability than an As a part of the Transaiberlan, the System of an empire stretching across two continents, these miles of road gtve access to the Pacific. They are more than the republic will need for many years to come. The 1,488 miles of the Amur road parallel the river through tracts of virgin forest, a coun try rich In gold and coal, hot undevel oped. Geologists say that there la not a 100-mlle strotch along this road whore coal cannot bo mined. It was constructed for military purposes, and when the war broke out much of It had not boon ballasted. When one travels In Siberia these days, at regular Intervals the train stops and the conductor plods along the side, shouting "Tovarlscht-ss dro vmmir It to tha call for the "cmn rades" to pUe out and carry sticks from th* neighboring woodpiles to the locomotive. It Is a crude etudy In com munism. Most of the passenger*, women and girts as well as men. make their way leisurely screw the fields. Some dlinb I itl the tender, and the fuel Is loaded as by a bucket brigade at aa old-time For thousands the railroad provides the only homo. An official may gat a passenger coach or privata car for himself and his family, hot the prole tariat?men, women and children?are herded by dozens In box-cars, anybody who can crowd In being free to pick out a corner for a home. Moving Slowly Toward Russia. In Chita and Verkhne-Udlnsk hun dreds are housed In box-car cities, cooking, eating and living In the open during the day and at night sleeping on rough shelves which have been built Into the cars. Some are on the move, getting near er soviet Russia whenever a locomo tive can be spared to pull their trains, while others have been waiting for months. Included In this west-bound tide a year ago were about a hundred American artisans each month, bound for soviet Russia?"a country where men are free," as they explained. The military band Is an Important factor In Chita's Ufa. It precedes every company of soldiers, sturdy young men In unmatched uniforms, that marches through the streets dur ing the day. In the evenings Its mem bers play at the two theaters and pub lic gardens Ohlta even has a circus. It Is most ly downs with racy aongs On pleas ant evenings the public gardens are filled, though ? cents admission la charged. Every aeat In the theaters is taken. No one attempts to explain how the strangely assorted crowd gets the twice of idmlssion. The cement floored, free, outdoor dance pavilion la crowded also during the warmer months 8ometlmes there la grand opera and other weeks there la a stock company or movies Among Russians the paralysis of the country and the suffering the people have experienced In recent years la blamed on Japan. Much of It, how ever, la a heritage from the revolution, the overthrow of a despotic monarchy and the launching of another, govern ment whose principals go to the oppo site extreme In radicalism. That Siberia could not recover as long as Japan maintained a hostile army within Its territory, and that a large proportion of the Japanese mil itary did not want it to recover uutll It was annexed, aa Korea was seemed equally evident. Why the Republic Wat Permed. Smnl motives contributed to the formation of the Far Eastern republic aa a constitutional democracy. Soviet Russia could have prevented, but as sisted instead. Moscow has been the only friend of Ohlta, aiding It with gold and soldiers, though extremely limited In both. However, the two republics ' were separate^ as any one aoon found out when passing the customs guards, immigration officers and soldiers on either side of the boundaries. In the first place, the Far Eastern republic satisfied the wish for a buffer state between Japan and soviet Rus sia. Next, the leaders of Moscow realised that their beautiful theories of communism had bean aa economic and social failure, ahd this corner of Siberia offered a good field to try out the democracy of America embellished with seme of the latest radical novel ties. The third reason, alone sufficient was that the Siberian peasant Is loath to accept a broader communism than the guild communism to which he la accustomed. The Siberian peasant averages 100 acres of land. He can have as much more as he wants to cultivate. It Is there for the taking. What he raises Is his own. He Is willing to put his crop In the community storehouse, but the idea of turning It over to a govern ment on the strrmgth of a promlae of clothes, tools, or a free ride on the railroad cannot be driven Into his head. ? Propaganda Is the gripping fores of the government. Rvsry employee or soldier gets s frse newspaper, and. a Russian newspapar Is always store en thusiastic for its country and some particular local party than It Is fet newt. In each city la a reading r?om. and the demand far hooka on Industry, electricity, mechanics, metallurgy, medicine, agriculture, and other uaefhl number of well-thumbed copies CALENDAR OF THE SUPERIOR COURT OF HERTFORD COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA BEGINNING FEBRUARY 26, 1923 FOR ONE WEEK HON. F. A. DANIELS, Judge Presiding D. R. McGLOHON, Clerk Superior Court WEDNBSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1928. 187. State vs. Ashley Craig 191. M. P. Hubbard Co., vs C. S. Brown et als 10. J. H. Watson vs. David Jones 22. Jordan ft Parker vs Jeff Lang ft L. M. Mitchell 54. J. P. Stricklen vs S. E. ft V. L. Vaughan 145. E. J. Gerock vs L. M. Mitchell 146. E. J. Gerock vg'L. M. Mitchell THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1928 111. H. M. Bramberry vs C. D. Nickens 115. Garrett ft Lawrence vb A. F. Kennedy 52. J. E. Newsome vs J. W. Godwin, Jr. ft Wife 80. Hammond ft Bell vs E. J. Gerock 140. Garrett ft Jernigan vs R. E. Cowan 141. Garrett ft Jernigan vs R. E. Cowan FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1928. 28. A. E. Garrett vs G. W. Baker & C. B. Godwin 25. J. R. Garrett vs James Butler, Jr. 26. J. R. Garrett vs Jim Butler 48. Z. V. Bellamy vs. J. W. Godwin 83. W. P. Britton vs J. A. Long 90. Raynor L. Holloman vs W. T. Holloman 168. J. W. Godwin vs General Williams 166. W. S. Perry vs J. A. Long MOTIONS 5. J. H. Mitchell vs J. R. Garrett 20. A. W. Holloman vs Geo. W. Baker 42. G. W. Raines vs H. R. Pender, Agent 43. Cling Newsome vs Town of Ahoskie 75. L. M. Morris vs Annie Morris 87. J. R. Rives vs J. D. Cullens 130. W. G. Phelps vs C. Green 169. R. J. Cowan vs-Geo. E. Myers ft Geo. P. Holloman 193. J. W. Godwin, Adr. vs Bank of Ahoskie MEETING OF BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS The Board of County Commissioners of Hertfrod County met on the 5th day of February, 1928. Present J. H. Mitchell, Chairman; members, E. W. Whitley, E. H. Enre, W. 3. Vaughan and 3. O. Askew, Jr. Proceedings of last meeting read and approved. The Committee appointed to provide a flat for Maneys Ferry reports that contract for building of flat has been let to Eddie Cross. The Committee ie still continued. Committee to repair Court House at Maneys Neck is still continued. The Board, upon motion and carried, orders the Clerk to make neces sary corrections in Winton School tax of Luvenia Walden. The Board votes that the County fiome Committee be authorized to purchase a roll of wire for County Home and do the necessary fencing. The Board, upon motion and carried, votes to rescind its action of last meeting asking that the County Representative pass law abolishing tax collectors and placing the collection of taxes in hands of the Sheriff. The Board, upon motion defers further action in reference to Record er's Court for Hertford County, until first Monday in March. Mr. C. Salmon appeared before the Board and requested that he be allowed to list for poll taxes for 1922, as he was not present at list time. The Board granted this request and ordered that he pay single taxes. The Board, upon motion add carried, ordered that the Tax Collector turn the poll taxes of Jule Brown, Winton township, in as insolvent, he being relieved of the amount C. C. Scott is also relieved by the Board of his poll taxes for 1922 on account of being physically disabled. The Board agrees to accept the offer of W. L. Curtis, Ahoskie, for book cose in the ofliee of Clerk of the Court. The matter of renting the warehouse belonging to the County at Har rellsville wharf was taken up, and the Board, upon motion and carried, leaves the renting of this property to J. O. Askew, Jr. The Board instructed Mr. J. O. Askew, Jr., to have the ferry house at Boone-Harrell ferry vacated, so as to turn same over to the keeper of the steel bridsre. The matter of-securing janitor and man to attend to the heating plant I is left in the hands of Mr. E. H. Eure to make best contract possible. Constable bond of C. W. Howard received again and approved by the , Board. The following bills against the county approved and ordered paid: Wilson A Co., part payment on heating plant $1,000.00 Wilson A Co., part payment on heating plant 600.00 Chowan and Roanoke Telephone Co., phone bill, December 3.80 B. Scull, summoning jurors - 10.80 B. Scull, telegrams -- 1.26 B. Scull, Sheriff, salary, December and January 260.00 Hertford County Herald, publishing reports, Dec. and Jan 20.00 Dink Jones, keeping Hills Ferry landing 40.00 M. M. Browne, paid for supplies, County Home 14.63 Thad Dukes, work County Home, January 20.00 W. A. Miller, ginning cotton ...? 13.60 W. Lf Matthews, part payment commissions 200.00 J. J. Chadwick, services at court house 26.76 R. R. Buck, board prisoners, etc. .... 61.14 Abram Newsome, services janitor, Jai.uary 6.00 Matthew Wilson, keeping Tar Landing ferry, January 36.00 H. P. Eure, keeping Parkers Ferry, January.? 46.00 Wintoii Auto Supply Co., supplies and labor.pump 12.16 J. A. Northcott, recording official bonds 1.. i 2.76 George S. Baker,expense and clothing Jennie Stevens, insane 38.69 W. T. Pace, one thermometer .66 C. W. Howard, bringing prisoner to jell ?.... -i 2.00 H. S. Storr Co., 1 dating stamp ...' . 3.66 H. S. Storr Co., book cases, Clerk Court .. . 114.00 Myrtle Swindell, home demonstration, January v - 26.00 Edwards A Broughton Co., supplies Clerk Court... ... 4.67 Edwards A Broughton Co., supplies Clerk Court 8.12 E. D. Hoggard, fixing aprons Parkers Ferry 4.00 Daniel A Shaw, paint and glass ..... ..... 7.00 E. L. Jenkins A Son, oils etc. 7.43 N. C. Joyner, freight and drayage ?... 12.06 Pine Lumber Co., lumber Moneys Neck Courthouse 10.00 W. C. Ferguson, lumber Moneys Neck Courthouse .... 41.00 Bamee-S^wyer Co., supplies County Home 31.63 dames-Sawyer Co., supplies County Home ... 17.19 (Sddie Cross, part payment Moneys ferry flat ^ 66.00 /udie White, support for Fdbruary Ji 3.00 No further business before the Board it adjourned to meet on first fonday in March, 1928. J. H. MITCHELL, Chairman. (OHN A. NORTHCOTT, Clerk. ; EGGS FOR HATCHING Extra Fancy Thompson's Ringlet Rocks, Park's Brad-to-lay Rocks, Fishel's White Rocks, Vibert's S. C. Rhode Island Reds, Shepherd's An conas, Ferris White Leghorns, Barrron's White Leghorns, Buckeyes, Buff Orpingtons, White Orpingtons, and Black Minorca*, $2.60 per 16; $10.00 per 100 delivered; Jersey Black Giants 16 for $6.00. PINNER * CO., lac., Suffolk, Va. NOTICE Having this day qualified as execu tor under the last will and testament of John Riddick, deceased, notice is hereby given to all persons to present to me at my office in Ahorfkie, their claims against said estate on or before the 6th day of January, 1924, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment. This Sth day of January, 1928. J. W. GODWIN, Executor. BOS WELL C. BRIDGER, Attorney. 1-12-28-fit ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE Having qualified as administrator of the estate of Wi J. 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