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N. C., as second elaaa matter.
GRAHAM, N. C., April 27, 1916.
DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.
The County Democratic Conven
tion met here last Saturday for the
purpose of naming delegates to the
State, Congressional and Senatorial
Conventions.
Resolutions were nna%mouslv
adopted endorsing the national aa
ministration and particularly the
course of President Wilson, whrse
wisdom has kept our country from
the horrors of war.
The course of Maj. Chas. M. Sted
man, our Congressman, was endors
ed as was also the Democratic State
administration.
The following delegates and alter
nates were elected to the State Con
vention which convenes ou 28th
inst., to-wit, one delegate and one
alternate from each township—the
first the delegate and the second the
alternate :
Patterson—John Coble, W. H.
Fogleman.
Coble —J. E. Stroud, L. E.Sharpe.
Boon Station—W. P. Ijtwrence,
J. B. Gerringer.
Morton—J. Q. Oant, W. A. Pas
chal.
Faucette —R. L. Dolt, W. J. Gra
ham.
Graham—E. 8. Parker, Jr, J. S.
Cook.
Albrignt—G. M. Holt, Ed. Bos
well-
Newlin—M. C. Mcßane, E. J
Braxton.
Thompson—Geo. T. Williamson,
W. C. Kirkpatrick.
Melville —W. W. Corbett, W. O.
Warren. 1
l'loasant Grove —S. E. Tate, E.
L. Dailey.
Burlibgton—South, R. A. Free
man, I. C. Moser; North, T._ S.
Faucette, \V. E. Sharpe.
Ilaw River—J. \V. Johnston, H.
11. Simpson.
At I>argo—J. 11. Vernon, W. II
Carroll.
The list of delegates to the Con
gressional and Senatorial Conven
tions is omitted this week, but will
appear in next woek's issue. ♦
HICKORY CHIPS.
Col. Roosevelt never did have
the approbation of the circumlo
cution crowd.
Wars may come and ware inay
go, but interest In baseball goo*
on forever.
Holland is more than over de
termined that it shall never be
captured except by the Dutch.
Why do they wear swallow-tail
costs at banquets in prohibition
States ?
Britain tells her ambitious
young men that there is an open
ing "hi the trenches at the front."
Mayor Mitcholl says Now York
needs a press agent. The gunmen
and the "surething" operators
have done pretty well, however.
New York is to devote a week,
beginning May 1, to making war
on the mosquito. And thrinos
qulto will probably devote several
weeks in the year to makiug war
on New York.
The chief objection U> a poli
tician's gall is that it isn't divided
into three parts.
With Victor Murdock strong
for the Colonel, the next conspicu
ous portion of the golden West is
rounded up In one man.
No one can doubt those Hoi-
lander's intrepidity after estimat-
ing the odds in favor of his get
ting hit somewhere in the trousers.
After reading one Q. Washing
ton's ideas on preparedness, one
can understand why he took no
chances of raising a boy to be a
pacifist.
Col. Roosevelt would make a
poor leader of an expedition or
ganized to beat about the bush.
What seems to be needed is an
alarm clock w>th a gentler dispo
sition and a voice leas harsh.
Yuan Shi-kai flopped from em
peror back to President of China
and still his country seceded from
blui.
Baseball is A splendid game or
it would be smothered by the im
mense amount of capital tied up
in it, opines an editorial friend.
It ia the greatest gamo the world
hKtf ever enjoyed.
, More careful thought devoted
to the preliminary elections would
malt in leas regrets after the
finals.
In after years Chic&goans may
show where the embattled farmers
stood and "fired the milk pail"
that waa heard around the world.
Somebody says that if Shake
speare Vere living now he would
be writing moving picture scene
ries. What a pity for the movies
he is not!
Borne across the landscape on
the winds of eventide comes the
Taint forlorn moo of the moose,
stlU standing hitched at Armaged
don.
Indications are that there will
lie plenty of standing room at
Armageddon this year.
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SURGERY IN THE WAR.
How Science Gives to Wounded Men
NeW Noses, Ears, Etc.
Saturday Globe.
The advance of plastic surgery,
as the replacing of misaing or dis
flured portions of the body is
called, has enabled soldiers to be
"made over" in this war ait in no
other struggle. While the process
enables mutilated men to mingle
again with society without excit
ing cruel but natural aversion,
the operations by which they re
gain their human semblance are
tedious and excruciatingly pain
ful. This phase of the war, in
deed, resembles closely the pic
ture drawn by 11. O. Wells, the
English writer, in his Island of
Dr. Moreau, where a skillful vivi
seetionist carved animals into the
likeness of men.
While new noses, ears, lips and
jaws are being given to soldiers
in place of those shot away, me
chanical inventions replace with
ingenious mechanisms missing
arms and hands and legs and feet.
Those armies of patched-up men
form another of the unforseen
tragedies of the war.
Mauy of those who have parts
of their faces restored by plastic
surgery are condemned to periods
of lifelong torment. The fifth
nerve is the nerve that controls
the head and face. We know how
this nerve can make us suffer by
our earaches, our toothaches, our
neuralgias of the head and face.
In the majority of facial injuries
in war the fifth nerve is injured
i>adly, and iff is apparent that the
utmost skill of the surgeon must
be exerted in treating or patch
ing it.
In many hundreds of cases the
surgeons have been called on to
provide practically a new face for
a soldier. It is well known that
the numbet- of injuries to the face
and hoad have been unusually
great in tills war. 1
It is astonishing how many men
have survived the almost total
destruction of the face. There
are many amazing instances of
this kind in the special hospitals
established for wounds of the face
in France.
One soldier was received at the
hospital at Talence, near Bor
deaux, who had lost his lower jaw,
the greater part of his upper jaw,
including all the teeth, and his
nose. He was also in imminent
danger of losing his eyesight
through the destruction of the
lower lids.
This poor fellow was quite un
able to spoak and bore no rosein
blance to a human being. lie had
been kept alive for a month at the
base hospital by liquid food. *
By a series of operations lasting
several months he was restored to
human appearance, and he will
be able to earn a comfortable liv
ing in future. He can now speak
and eat soft solid foods.
Whenever possible a natural
restoration was effected with frag
ments of tissue that remained. A
piece of sheep's bone was used to
replace the missing bone of the
nose.
A dispatch from Wilmington
says the saw mill of John Herring
ou Black river was destroyed in a
forest fire that swept that section
Sunday. Another forest lire burn
ed over a distance of 15 miles in
Pender county. Much timber
was destroyed and a few out
houses.
Thomaa Harris, 61 years of age,
a farmer living near Barnardsv ille,
Buncombe county, was shot and
instantly killed early Friday by
his son-in-law, Uunyan Davis, the
shooting occurring in an argument
overs wire line fence which Harris
and his wife wero erecting on A
public road.
Mr. John C. Fisher, an aged
and respected citizen of I'lneville,
Mecklenburg county, was found
dead in a well on his place early
Saturday morning. It was a case
of suicide. He had been mentally
unbalanced. Wife and nine
children survive.
Mr. A. J. McKinnon of Maxton
has tiled notice of his candidacy,
in the Democratic primaries, for
comm ssioner of Agriculture.
Mr. McKinnon is a prominent
farmer and has been frequently
mentioned for Governor and other
offices of prominence.
Having dug himself in behind
his impenetrable screen of whisk
ers, Justice Hughes does not deem
it necessary to say anything to
anybody until be is good and
ready.
Ever Salivated by
Calomel I Horrible I
Calomel is Quicksilver and
Acts like Dynamite on
Your Kidneys.
Calomel loses you a day I You
know what calomel is. it's mer
cury; quicksilver. Calomel is dan
gerous. It crashes into your bile
dynamite, cramping and sickening
you. Calomel attacka the bones
and ahould never be put ln*o your
system.
When you (eel bilious, sluggish,
constipated and all knocked out,
and feel that you need a dose of
dangerous calomel, Just remember
that your druggist sells (or 50c a
large bottle ol Dodton's Liver
Tone, which is entirely vegetable
snd pleasant to take and is a per
fect substitute (or calomeL. It Is
guaranteed to start your liver
without stirring you up Inside, and
cannot salivate.
Don't take Calomel I It makes
you sick next day; it loses you a
day's work. Dodson's Liver Tone
straightens you right up and you
(eel great. Qlv* it to the children
because it Is perfectly harmless ana
doesnt gripe.
« adv.
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Greatest County
Commencement.
Artistic Floats—Thousands of School Children
March—More Thousands of Citizens —The Speak
ing—An Educational Triumph.
A throng of at least 10,000 —
school children, their parents,
kinspeople, friends, and pations
of education—lined thestrietsof
Graham Saturday. A mile-long
parade of gaily bedecked floats,
marshals mounted and afoot and
a host of bright, innocent chil
dren formed the procession. Then
an immense audience greeted Mr.
Thos. R. Robertson of Washing
ton City at the speaking place in
front of the Baptist church to
hear his eloquent address.
The display, surpassing a coun
ty faU, in the Oneida building, of
drawings, all sorta of craft-work,
cooking, shown from schools all
over the county, was a vertitable
wonderland of exquisite arrange
ment and drew a large crowd all
day long.
Rut we are infringing upon the
domain of the editor of our edu
cational column, so let us see
what ne lias to say:
The deacriptive powers of the
artist could but fail in trying to de
scribe what greeted the eye of every
spectator at the County Commence
ment on last Saturday in Graham.
The scene was so large,' bo beautiful,
that it pleased the most aesthetic
taste, and baffled the v wildest imagi
nation. One found himself amazed
with bewilderment amidst things of
beauty.
The sky was clear and the air just
a little cool and breezy aS the morn
ing broke upon Alamance's Capital,
and the people began to gather thick
and fast from every direction. The
day was set and things were ready,
so were the people. All the people
gathered in one great phalanx for
one common purpose—to rally
arouund the flag of public educa
tion.
At Un o'clock and before people
began to gather on the Graded
School Grounds to form the parade
They came from the street cars, in
vehicles, on floats till hundreds and
thousands were lined for the parade.
The floats and the schools were lined
in systematic order. Most of the
floats in chronological order of the
historical events that they represent
ed. The large fleets in beautiful
brilliant colors with banners broad
and buoyant in appearance as they
took their places in line upon the
street took the appearance of „a
mighty fleet of painted ships upon a
painted ocean ready to take action.
And as the marshals and the band
led the way to cheering music and
all began to move together in one
great parade, steed took spirit, bril
liancy was added to color and music
of the soul moved upon every heart
that loves home and country and lit
tle children, as the great procession
went by
More than thirty floats, every one
of which would carry keen interest
to the reader for a time were they
described, were in the parade. Some
three thousand or more sweet chil
dren were in line. I'ermit us just
here to mention one pupil among
the rest —"Aunt Sue' —Aunt Sue
button of the Altamahaw school,
night school, rode on the front seat
of that school's float. Aunt Sue is
05 years old and reported to be the
oldest pupil of the moonlight schools
in the State. Her age and devotion
showed in fine effect as her counte
nance beamed with delight, but her
furrowed brow showed distinct marks
of ago when contrasted with little
Billy Darker two years old, that had
gone so often with his mother to the
school building, whom Aunt Sue
held by her side.
The goal of the parade was the
liaptUt church, whore the address
was made. The address was a strong
plea for making the school and the
school house a center for sending
educational light along all lines of
activity represented in the com
munity.
Eighty-one graduates received cor
ti fiestas of graduation from 'he pub
lic schools. Forty-three applicants
for graduation who took the test
failed to pass.
Prises were awarded as follows:
For Improvement—lst prize, Syl
van, $25.00, given by County Offi
cers—having given $88660. 2nd
prize, Friendship, $15.00, given by
County—having given $367.08. 3rd
prize, Stony Creek, Teacher's Desk,
given by Southern Desk Co., Hick
ory, N. C.—having given $257.
Jih prize. Green, Teacher's Desk,
given by County—having raised
1215 72.
For Largeat Attendance— Ist prize,
Silver Loving Cup, given by Citi
zen* Bank of Graham—won so far
by the Concord school, whose aver
age for the year is 87.86 per cent,
iml prize, School Clock, given by Z
T. Had ley—won so far by the Pleas
ant Hill school, whose average for
the year ia 83.95 per cent., with
honorable mention of Glencoe, whose
average ia 83.03.
For Community Meetings—lat
prize. SIO.OO, given by National
I lank of Graham—won by the Cross
Roads school, which made a record
of 24 Community Meetings for the
year. 2nd prize, $5.00, given by
iha Graham Drug Co.—won by Syl
van, whose record waa '3 meetings
for the year. Honorable mention
waa made of Friendahip, Altamahaw,
Green and Spring.
For Heat Spelling—lat prize,
$6.00, given by Grab am Hardware
Co.—won by Eber Cude of the
Mountain school. 2nd prize, $4.00,
given by the Graham Hardware Co.
—won by Ollie Campbell of the Gra
ham Graded Schoo',
For Highest Grade in English
Grammar—lst prize, Gold Pin, given
bv Row Peterson Co.—won by Mabel
Cheek of- the Saxapahaw school.
2nd prize, Silver Pin, given by Row
Peterson Co. —won by, Dora Mc
pherson of the Sylvan school.
For School Exhibit —Ist prize,
15.00, given by Oreen & McCluie —
won by Hawfielda school. 2nd prize,
Banner—won by Friendship school.
Special mention of the Manual Train
ing and the School Garden Exhibit
by the Woodlawn school.
Industrial Exhibit—Cooking, flO,
given by the Graham Commercial
Club—won by the Altamahaw school.
Sewing, 110.00, given by the Bur
lington Chamber of Commerce—won
by the Woodlawn school.
Floats—lst prize, SIO.O0 —won by
the Woodlawn school. 2nd prize,
s7.6o—won by the Hawfielda school.
3rd prize, 15 00—won by the Sylvan
school.
Story Telling—let prize, $5.00
won by Nannie Graham of McCray
school. 2nd prize, $2 50—won by
Annie Patton of Woodlawn school.
Recitation-Declamation Prizes—
Mora Euliss of Friendship, set of
books; Flossie Tljprapson of Sylvan,
set of books.
Possibly there was no better test
made during the day of the work
done during the year than that of
the exhibition. Some splendid
specimens from every department
ot school work were on exhibition.
Cooking, sewing, manual arts,
drawing and composition work
were very much in evidence. The
canning dipslay was beautiful. The
exhibition of corn and sample cover
crops made by the Farm Demon
strators lent their parts in making
the exhibition interesting and in
structive.
All these things and many others
too numerous to mention, made the
Fifth Annual County Commence
ment a great success and a great
day in educational uplift. Such a
day was made possible only By co
operation of the people. Never was
the spirit of co-operation and what
co-operation can do more plainly
demonstrated. The Commence
ment was the product of a mighty
force united in a common cause.
The artist gave of his talent; the
laborer of his strength; the teach
erl of her counsel; and the mother
her child.
"And a little child shall lead them.
All be praised.
NOTE—A description of the nu
merous artistic, handsome and sug
gestive floats, the names of gradu
ates, and other matters of inter
est in connection with and form
ing interesting and important parts
of the County Commencement,
would have made this article-.,un
duly lengthy, hence these have
been reserved for our next issue
that they may have better atten
tion and treatment which they
richly deserve.
Boom in Copper
Saturday Globe.
The copper' market is in the
thioes of one of the greatest buy
iug movements the country has
ever seen. Over 200,000,000
pounds of copper was bought last
week.
The French gofernment has
placed orders for the metal esti
mated to total fully 100,000,000
pounds, at 27 cents a pound, de
liverable in the third quarter of
the year. This means the expendi
ture of $27,000,000, about the
same as Great Britain paid for the
120,000,0(i0 pounds bought in the
last previous big purchasing cam
paign, which occurred last De
cember.
The refiners are fairly over
whelmed with inquiries for cop
per to be delivered within the next
few weeks, but the answer return
ed to would-be buyers of large
caliber is rather uniformly the
same. It is that capacity has In-en
engaged for from five weeks to
three months ahead, which neces
sitates the consideration of orders
for delivery late in the second
half of the year.
Foreign buyers have by uo
means a monopoly on the current
business. Brass foundries are
working night and day In the Con
necticut valley and the munition
factories of the east are calling for
more and more copper. The mines
are speeding up and some which
have not paid in many years be
cause of high costs of production
are being opened up to reap a
harvest from extraordinary prices
and an abnormal demand.
There are rumors that in some
places the saloonkeepers are unit
ing to fight lhe movies. Certain
ly the movies ought to be more
careful about this "no children
admtted" stuff.
Life is just one darned election
after another! And what's the
use? Look what we elect to
Congress.
Mexicans cannot well under
stand those bard riding, straight
shooting Americans who never
pause for a siesta!
Advertise
There's No
Better or Cheaper
Way to Keep
Folks Posted
Two Cipfedcrete Veteran Answer
Last Roil Call.
Mr. Lemuel M. Johnston, after
months of declining health, passed
peacefully away about 3 o'clock Sun
day afternoon at .hia home near
Long's Chapel in Pleasant Grove
township. He WHS born July 20tb,
1842, and was 73 years, 0 months
and 3 days of age. The funeral
services were held at Long's Chapel,
of which he bad been a faithful
member since the organization of the
church, snd were conducted by his
pastor. Rev. J. W. Holt, and former
pastor, Dr. P. H. Fleming of Greena
boro A large congregation of his
neighbors and friends were present
to pay a last tribute of respect to
their decessed friend, of whom all
were pleased to say' he was a juat
and upright man, a good and help
ful neighbor and a successful farmer.
About seven years before his com
panion passed away and his body
was laid to rest by her side.
They are aurvived by their six
children—five sons and tne daugh
ter, all living in the county, namely,
J. Will Johnston, merchant at Haw
River; Mrs. J. M. E. Wyatt, near
McCray; Chas. D. Johnston, Regis
ter of Deeds of Alamance County:
B. W. Johnston, four miles south of
Qraham; and J. Walter and Andrew
M. Johnston, at the old home.
Mr. Johnston was a Confederate
Veteran and served through the
Civil War. He was a member of Co.
K, 67th Reg., Hoke's Brig., Long
street's Corps and Early's Div. The
following veterans and -comrades at
tended the funeral and were honor
ary pallbeares: Edward Pace, C. G
Maynard, A.-K. Roney, H. C.-King,
John W. Bason, Johu Ray, J. 11.
Watson, J. N. H. Clendenin, W. C.
Moore and J. H. Black raon.
Mr. Zimri Wicker, a Veteran of
the Civil War, died at Swepson-
Aille last Monday morning. He had
been is declining health for several
years. He wan born Dec. 10, 1828,
and at the time of bis death was 87
years, 4 mos. and 14 days old. His
wife passed away a number of years
ago. The interment was in New
Providence cemetery at noon Tues
day. He is survived by seven child
ren—2 sons and 5 daughters, namely,
J. E. Wicker of Franklinton, W.
L. Wicker of Danville, Va., Mrs. J.
B. Farrell and Mrs. Dora Council
man of Graham, Mrs Henry Fau
cette of Reidsville, Mrs. T. A. W llis
of Bessemer City, and Mrs. Sarah
Lineberry near McCray.
Harvey Brewer of Durham, 28 j
years old, was killed by-a, freight
train in Salisbury Sunday" morn
ing. Brewer and a companion,
J. 0. Kemp, had been riding on
top of the train and were both
drinking, according to Kemp, who
says he was unable to wake Brew
er when he left the train. Brew
er had been to Kannapolis and
was on his way to Durham. His
body was cut in two by the wheels
of the train under which he fell.
Representative Brit of the tenth
district has prepared an amend
ment to the agricultural appro
priation bill, now before the House
of CongresH, Beekiutf an appro
priation of ' $2,000,000 for the
continuation of national forest
reserve purchases under the
Weeks law. He has planned to
make the strongest fight possible
for its adoption and has promise
of strong support.
The shooting of Louis Alyers,
colored, Saturday afternoon by
Deputy Sheriff George Skipper,
when the former resisted arrest
on a disorderly conduct charge,
resulted in an uprising of the
negro population of Navassa, five
miles from ' Wilmington. Rice
Carroll, the magistrate who issued
the warrant against Myers, left
the village, fearing violence at
the haqfls of negroes, and for a
time there were fears of a race
riot.
To prove his assertion that he
would die for her, Joseph Benton,
who lived near Kinßton, placed a
revolver to his head, fired and
dropped dead while Miss Lorena
Elmore, who had rejected him,
looked on. That's the story that
cornea from Kinston. It is said
that Benton first threatened to
kill the girl but finally compromis
ed by killing himself.
Few signs of backward civiliza
tion are more convincing than
pork barrels in congress and par
tisan politics in the running of a
great city.
If Justice Hughes has a boom it
is a polite, well bred, noiseless
boom.
Gold-mining companies in South
Africa are experimenting with
blasting by electricity with a view
to minimizing the fine dust, which
is regarded as the chief cause of
miner's phthisis.
Ling Eases Pain
Rubbing sends the liniment
'ir.gling through the flesh and
;uickly flops pain. Remand a
liniment that you can rub with.
Hie beSt rubbing liniment is
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LABOR ON PREPAREDNESS
More Danger in Pauper Invasion
Than in Armies.
What Js Labor's view of pre
paredness? It has been formulat
ed and indorsed by the Chicago
Federation of Labor and sent over
the country for the approval of
Labor everywhere. It states:
"Preparedness is needed in the
States, but it must be a
preparedness which is based on
physical fitness. Patriotism is
needed also, but it must be pa
triotism which Is based upon love
of 'country, and only a country
which guarantees Hberty and op
portunity will beloved."
The report declares that a great
army and navy, unless democrat
ized and placed within the control
of tile people, with leaders re
sponsible the people as a whole,
would be a powerful instrument
for the conversion of the country
into a commercial oligarchy.
As a first Step toward prepared
ness, the report urges public
ownership of arms and amunition
factories, as well as the mines,
forests and other natural resources
supplying raw material, and the
railroads and means of transpor
tation. *
Progressive North Carolina.
"Sometimes by going away from
home w» can learn better what is
being done by our own communis
ty," says The Winston-Salem
Journal. "Often great things are
transpiring all around us, but our
familiarity with them canees a
tendency on our part to take
them as a matter of course and
we seldom stop to think about
them as anything more than com
monplace -occurrences. Wonder
how many North Carolinians have
paused to think of the wonderful i
progress that is being made in
their own State? The March is
sue of Progress, the organ of the
Southern Sociological Congress
and a national journal of educa
tion, industry and social service,
has the following editorial on
what North Carolina is doing:
"Of all the States of the South,
North Carolina shows the most
intelligent progress. Thereseems
to be a spirit of constructive ac
tivity in that State that is actually
doing things, a feeling of pride in
community service that promisee
well for the future. A Stale-wide
campaign of 'know-your-home
commuuity' is in progress, and,
with the University as the center,
there are radiating into the utter
most recesses of the State great
influences that work for good.
A Unl»er«lty of tbe People
"The University of North Caro
lina is perhaps at the present date
more nearly a university of the
people than any other Southern
institution; - The State feels com- j
mendable satisfaction in thdwork
this educational plant in doing.
To fulfill the ideal of what a uni
versity should be and to serve the
the State as it should
serve thein, the university has en
larged its campus to include the
entire state. With this increased
activity, has been fostered a spirit
of altruism that is remarkable.
From Chapel Hill there Koes ont
a feeling that no part of the State
is separated from any other part
and that all the State has the
name birth-right to progress that
any one individual has. There
is a growing responsibility in
citizenship that is certain to bring
rich rewards in the future. High
ideals and lofty inspirations are
the topics of the day; backing
these come a self-sacrificing,
fearless warfare against social
stagnation upon the part of every
North Carolinian who has the good
of the Old North State at heart."
If Villa is one hundred ruiles
ahead with one leg cut off, we'd
shudder to think where he'd be
I with both legs cut off.
More Gold.
"In the 20 years between 1906
and 1926, there will be as much
gold produced as was gathered
previous to 1966, in the whole
history of the World, including
the output of King Solomon's
mines, California, Cripple Creek
and everything else," is the pre
diction made by Prof. A. C. Ter
rill, professor of mining at the
University of Kansas. "One of
the great reasons for the rapid in
crease of the gold output in recent
years is the cyanide process, which
has revolutionized mining meth
ods.
"But we are entering another
stage in the develpment of mining
which is to show even greater re
sults. This is the filtration process
which is now being perfected.
It is already saving many millions
of dollars worth of metals each
year, which would otherwise be
lost. This process is in its in
fancy and no one can predict the
development which will be reached
in the next few years.
"In the zinc mining industry in
southeastern Kansas millions of
dollar a year can be saved by the
flotation process. Only 65 per
cent, of the zinc mined in this
district ever reaches tbe smelter,
and only 50 per cent, of the out
put ever finds its way into the
market as zinc. Even then it is
spelter and unfit for the best brass
work."
Vast sums of money are being
spent in building flotation plants
in the west and on low grade zinc
properties. It is a means of
separating the valuable minerals
by chemicals and oils of different
kinds.
Blooms Every 15 Years.
For a mere plant, the century
plant exhibits an unusual amount
of good sense. Nature decreed
that its blossoming process be
fast and furious. So the plant
spends a, lifetime storing up re
serve strength for the day when
it puts forth its flowers. Some
times it spends 15 years getting
ready for its flower season, some
times longer. That's why we've
named it the century plant. Be
fore it is ready to blossom the
century plant is a dense cluster of
rigid, thick leaves, with a thorn
on the tip of each leaf. It grows
in Mexico and on the western
desert. In Mexico it is extensive
ly cultivated and is put to several
uses.
An extract is made from the
leaves and used for soap. When
the plant is ready 10 blossom, the
sap is taken from the stem and
made into a drink, which the
Mexicans call pulqne. After the
flower withers the stem is cut into
slices to form razor strops. Fin
ally, the leaves produce fiber,
which is made into thread and
ropes. f
Sale of Real Estate Under
Mortgage.
Coder and by virtu* of tbo power of *al*
contained In I certain mortgage executed 00
Uie 4th day ol April, 1911. by Osorge H. Trai
ler to U. H. Aldrldge for the purpoee of se
curing the payment of a certain note of even
date therewith. due and payable on or before
the 4th day of April, Ills, default having
been made In the payment of Mid note, the
undersigned mortgagee will, on
MONDAY, MAY 29,1910,
at one-thirty o'clock p. m., at the court
bouse door of Alamanoe county, In Oraham,
North Oarollna. 'offer for Hie at public auo
tlon to the highest bidder, for oasb. a tract
or parcel of land In the eounty of Alamance,
Htate of North Carolina, In Burlington town
ship, adjoining the lands of Main and -prlng
Stieets and otbeis, and bounded as follows,
via:
Beginning at a stone on Sooth Me of Main
street and s corner of the Bank's land, run
ning thenoe South M! 4 mlo KastUHchs to an
Iron bolt on Weetslde of hpring street: thence
with Hpring street South MS mln West Ml
chs to an Iron bolt on said spring street;
tbenoe North ttH mln Weat Ui obs to an Iron
bolt on -ouiii tide ol Main street; thonce with
Main St. If My, mln W IJ> to the beginning,
containing six-tenths of an sere, mora or
Use, apon which Is situated the Burlington
Brick Warehouse. All belog In Burlington,
Alsmanoe county, North Oarollna; said mortr
I gage being duly probated and recorded In
I the odlot of the Register of Deeds of Ala
imsnoe county In Book of Mortgages and
Deeds of Trust No. U, at paxes 198-IM. etc.
This April Mtfc, ltl*
L. H. ALDRIDOB, Mortgage*.
Summons by Publication
North Carolina—Alamance County,
la the Buper lor Court,
May Term, IMS.
Georgia WllliamaoD Smith,
Plaintiff,
vs.
Eugene M. Smith, Defendant
• Notloe of Bervloe of Summon* by
Publication.
The defendant above named will take,
notloe that an action entitled at above baa
been eommeneed In the Superior Court of
Alamance oountr for the purpose of obtain
ing an abeoluta divoroe from aafaadant) and
the aald defendant will further lake notloe
that be I* required to aDpear at the term of
Superior Court of laid county to be held on
the twelfth Monday after tbe first Monday
of March, 1810, to-wtt: on Mar »th, i»l« at
the court houte of aald county In Ore ham.
North Carolina, and answer df demur to the
complaint In aald action or tbe plaintiff will -
apply to the oourt for the relief demanded
In HUd complaint.
This tbe IMb day of Apffl-lflt.
3. D. ICKBtTODLH,
ttaplU Clerk Superior OouiC
Land Sale!
By virtue of an order of the Superior Oourt
of Alamanoe county made In the Bpeoial
Proceeding entitled H. J. Btockard and A. O.
Porterfield as administrators of tha aetata of
Y. B. Wa-ircu, deceased, and other* again (t
Kutb Burch, Myrtle Burota and other*, de
fendante, the undersigned as Commissioner*
will offer for lale to the highest bidder tbe
following very valuable tracts of land, situat
ed in Alamance county, N. C„ In Fauoette's
township. The sale will take plaoe at the
home place of the late T, B. Warren at two
o'clock p. m., on
SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1916.
The first tract to be sold Is the one on whloh
J, A. Graham now resides, adjoining the
lands of J. Q. Qant, B. T. Kernodle,T. B.
Warren home lraet, and the tract known a*
tbe lIEAL tract and oontalna 106.6 adrea,
more or less.
Tbe Seoond Tract, known as tbe Beat tract,
adjoining the Dickey tract, tbe lands of B. T.
Kernodle, the Y. B. Warren home tract, L.
K. Walker, J. Q. Oant and other* and oon
talna 103.6 acres, more Or less. The above
named two tract* will be first offered *epa
ra tdy, and then as one tract, and the bid for
the greater sum will be reported.
The Third Tract and the fasirth oompose
tbe A. 8. Dickey tract wb'oh Is divided Into
two traou. The third tract adjoins the lands
of L. H Aldred, the heirs of thel te R. J.
Garrison, A. G. Porterfield and others aud
contains 108 acres, more or less.
Tbe Fourth Tract adjoins tbe third tract,
the lands of B. W, Graham, H T. Kernodle.
A. G. Porterfield and others and ooutalns J T
aores, more or less. These two traota will
also be offered separa ely and then as one
tract,>nd tbe greater bid will be reported.
These farms oompose all of tbe lauds of the
late Y. B. Warren exoept the home plaoe,
and on each of them are good Iniprovementa
and they are In a high state of cultivation.
Good for all kinds of grain crops and very
fine for tobaoco. The lands are sold for p r
tttlon amungat the belr*-at-law of the lata
Y. B. Warren. The term* of sale are one
third cash, one-third due in six months and
one-third due In twelve months from date of
■ale. The deferred payment* to bear Interest
from date of sale, bale subject to confirma
tion of the court aid twenty days from date
of report of sale open for advance bid* of ten
per cent.
Plata oan be seen by applying to the Com
missioners and will be pre c ent en day of sale.
April 71b, 1916
B. S. PABKBH, JR.,
J. BLMbK LONG,
Commissioners.
Land Sale.
Under and by virtue of an order of Hie
made by tbe Superior Court of Alamance
county In a Special Proceeding therein pend
ing entitled "Andrew J. JWTreys against
Fred Jonea and otbers," whereto all the ten
ants In common of tbo real estate hereinafter
described are duly constituted parties, the
undersigned commissioner will otter for aale
to the highest bidder, at publio auotlon, at
the court bouse door In Clraham, Alamanoe
county, North Carolina, on
SATURDAY, MAY 6,1916,
at twelve o'olock, noon, tbe following de
scribed real property, to-wlf
A lot of land situate In Pleasant Grove
Towaship, Alamance county, and State of
North Carolina, adjoining the lands of J. O.
Dailey, deceased, Bolomon Martin, deceased,
and others, and bounded as follows, to-wli:
Beginning at a rook at tbe corner of Gloero
Wbltmore's barn; thenoe N IX dec B 29 ohs
to pointers; thence a dividing line booth 8»X
deg K 88 chs 86 Iks to pointers In J. G. Dalley'a
line: thence 8 \y, deg W 29 cbs to a rook In G.
W. Petigrew'a fine; thenoe N 89X deg W 88
cbsß6 Iks to th« llrsi station, ooalainlng one
bund red and eleven acres, more or leaa.
Terms of Sale—One-third of bid to be paid
in oaah on day of aale; one-third In six montha
and one-third In twelve montha tram day of
sale, deferred payments to be evidenced
yb tbe bonds of the purohaser bear
ing alx per oent. Interest from date of
sale until paid; title to be reserved until the
Kunhaae price Is fully paid. This aale will
s subject to advanoe bid ~nd also subject to
confirmation by'tbe Court.
This tbe 6th day of April. 1916.
B. 8. PAUKKB, J«„
(Jommlisloner.
NOTICE
Of Mortgagee's Sale of
Real Estate.
Under and by virtue or tbe power of sale
contained in a certain mortgage, executed by
Frank Maynard and his wl :e to the Alamanoe
Insurance and Real restate Company on Hei*
tember Ist, IBIS, for the purpoee of securing
the payment or a bond of even date there
with, due and payable September Ist, MIS, de
fault having been made In the payment of
said bond, the undersigned mortgagee wIU, on
' HONDAY, MAY 23, 1916,
at 1:80 o'clock p. m., at the oourt house door
of Alamanoe oounty, in Graham, North Oaro
llna, offer rnr sale at public auction to the
blghest bidder, for cash, the (allowing tract
or parcel of land In the county of Alamanc*
and State of North Carolina, In Burlington
Townsbin. adjoining the lands of Laclanßel
la r*. Brooks Street, Lee Street and others and
bounded as follows:
Beginning at ooraer of Brook* and Lee
streets: running thence with said Broiks
street East leet to corner of Lot No. 8 and
Luclao Sellers; thence with line or said eellars
North ZO feet to corner on W. H. Brannock
line; thence with said Brannock line Month
74 dec It mln W 288 feet to oorner on said Lee
street; thence with line of said Lee street
South 188 feet to the begipnlng, and being lot*
No. 1 and 2 In block Baf survey of Brooks
property; said mortgage being, duly probated
and recorded In the office of the Register at
Deeds for Alamanoe county] In Book ot Mort-
and Deeds of Trust No. 81, at page*
Th s April aoth, 1910.
ALAMANCE INS' A REAL ESTATE CO ,
*• Trustee.
Summons by Publication
North Carolina—Alamance Coaaly.
In the Superior Court,
A. C. Albright et at.
T. K. Albright et *l. *
NOTICE.
To W. F. Albright, Mrs. W. F. Albright, Decle
Wrenn Albright, Olenn Hatch Albright.
Helen Albright, 0. R. Albrlvht, "ar.h Rob
ertson, T. M. Robertson, D. #. Hcbertson,
Mrs D. W. Robertson, Pearl Robertson.
Lucy Robertson and Thos. D. Robertson.
Defendant*.
The defendant* above named will tak*
notice that an aotlou entitled a* above ha*
been oommenaed In the Munerior Oourt of
Alamanoe county. North Oarollna. to quiet
the tlUe of plain tiffs, A. C. Albright, W. H.
AlbriKbt, sod Maud D. Isley to the lands de
vised to them by their father, D, H. Albright,
and that the purpoee of said action is to ex
clude defendants from any Interact therein:
and the said defendants will further '"W
notice that they are required to appear at the
term of the Superior Court of said oounty to
be held on the 13* Monday after the Ant
Monday In March, lais, at the oourt house of
said county In jraham, N. C., and answer or
demur to the oomplalnt of plaintiff*, or tha
plaintiffs will apply to the oourt for the re
lief therein demanded.
This the 80th day of March, 1918.
•«. ... J. DTkIKNODL*.
«apHt Clerk Superior Court.
EXECUTORS' NOTICE.
Having qualified a* Executor of th* will of
W. Amlck Jobe, dcoeaaed. the undernamed
hereby notlfle* all person* holding claim*
against said estate to preaeut the sane duly
authenticated, on or before the 28th day at
Anrll, 1917, or this notice will be pleaded ID
bar of their reoovery. All person* Indebted
to aaid estate are requested to make lmmedi-
Thls April 8.191*.
_ ... CHAW p. THOMPSON,
>7*ptft *x'r W. Amlck Jobe, deed.
Augustus Heinz© died recently
in Stanly county. His age, said
to he dnly authenticated, was 105
years, six month and 23 days.
Rowland Mclntyre, also a citizen
of Stanly, is still alire and active
and in possession of all his facult
ies, at the age of 108. r