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GRAHAM, N. C., May 4, 1916.
Democratic State Convention.
The Democratic State Conven
tion held in Raleigh laat Thurs
day is reported to have been one
of the biggest ever held in the
State. Harmony and enthusiain
were ruling features of the occa
sion.
Owing to the nominations
through the primarys ystem, there
waa no nominating of candidates
for office.
Senator Simmons waa there and
made the keynote speech of the
occasion. It was a great speach.
The convention in its platform
Indorsed the National and Stat®
Democratic administrations and a
continuation of the splendid civic
movements Inaugurated by the
Democracy.
Delegates to the National Con
vention were elected. For the
State at large—Senators Simmons
and Overman and Gen. J. S. Carr.
Mr. E. S. Parker, Jr., of Graham
was elected a delegate to the Na
tional Convention for the sth Con
gressional District, and Mr. J. H.
Vernon of Barlington was put on
the State Executive Committee.
The Twice-a-Woek Dispatch,
the Republican organ of this
county, it seems, did not And out
that the Republicans held a con
vention here last Saturday. It
made not the faintest allusion to
it, though it was one that the
party should not be ashamed of.
It waa expected that the Dispatch
would feature it in big black-faced
type—but not a word.
Save Clover Seed.
'lf there is a quicker and cheaper
way to improve land, and at the same
time produce a profitable crop each
year, than by turning under crimson
clover, the farmer* of the Stale have
not been able to find it. Of course,
■table manure is the best of all
things but we need not consider that
for more than a few acres.
I List year the amount of crimson
clover sown was perhsps double that
of any former year, but it was not
half what it should have been nor
half what it would have been bht
for the high price ofaeed. The
indications are that the seed will be
high again this year. This largo
expenditure of money each fall, when
money is scarce, should not be con
tinued from year to year since such
simple and economic means of sav
ing seed have been devised.
Every farmer who is growing
crimson clover should arrange to
save seed enough for planting a
large acreage for himself this fall,
ana shAuld also save some to sell to
his neighbors. We now have a
clover SMd stripper that takes the
wed off and leaves the stalks stand
ing in the field. Any farmer can
make the machine at email cost.
I All that is needed is two wagon, or
old baggy wheel on an axle, a pair
shafts, and a box with sawed wood
en teeth. The box is hung under
the axle and ia adjuatable to height
of the clover.
We are mailing the Farmers
Bulletin, No. 046, which gives the
details of the machine. It givea al
so much other valuable information
concerning the value and growing
of clover. Any other farmer who
desires a copy of this bulletin can
obtain it by applying to hia County
Farm Demonstration Agent, or by
writing for it to Mr. Bradford
Knapp, U. 8. Department of Agri
culture, Waahington, D. C.
Last year the Demonsaration
Agents induced the making of 130
of these machines. The machines
worked very satisfactorily. In a
number of inetancea two or more
tanners clubbed together in mak
ing a machine, thereby reducing
each one's cost. During the cola
rainy daya of winter is a good time
!to maks theee machine* so that they
will be ready for use at clover seed
harvest time. Farmers that have
good home-grown seed this fall will
be mora likely to plant than if they
had to purchase seed. In several
respects these seed with the chaff
attached are preferable to clean seed
purchased on the market
E. C. TI KSKH,
Go. Farm Demonstration Agent.
Mnr 1, 1916.
Mr. Bryan encounters Armaged
don right there at his home in
Nabrsska.
In his role of corpus delicti Villa
has proved an alibi and nothing
more.
Poor Carranza! He feels that
ho is more in danger from his own
people than from Americans.
Man is made of dust—and is
always ont for more.
It is now though that the Colonel
is to old to enlist t But not to
bluff.
It's a close shave for the poor
man whoso wife has a razor edged
tongue.
Jams for May Term.
The following have been drawn to
serve u jurors for the May Term of
Alamance Superior Court, which
convenes on May 29th and will con
tinue for two weeks for the trial of
civil cases only, viz :
Patterson Township—
-Ist week—O. R. Fogleman.
2nd week —T. Zf Fogleman, H. C.
Wellfl, M. A. Albright.
Coble Township—
-Ist week—J. A. Cobb.
2nd week—E. C. Edwards, N. M.
Albright.
Boon Station Township—
-Ist week-W. T. Blackwell, Jas.
A. May, B. F. Clapp.
2nd week —J. B. Gerringer, J. N.
Walker, W. R. White.
Morton Township—
-Ist week—J. W. Sutton.
2nd week—P. E. Troxler, W. T.
Bowles.
Faucette Township—
-Ist week—John A. Graham, G. T.
Hurdle, G. L. Fonville, J. W. Gil
liam, L. E. Walker, J. B. Boswell.
Und week—Joe Perry, J. G. Mad
den, J. D. Blanchard.
Orahara Township—
-Ist week—W. B. Quakenbush, Ben
M. Roger*, John F. Parka.
2nd week—Chas. A. Scott, Don E.
Scott.
Albright Township—
-Ist week—J. L. Nee»e.
2nd week—J. D. Payne.
Newlin Township—
-Ist week—J. E. Mann, T. H. Horn
aday.
2nd week—R. O. Holliday, Chas.
Newlin.
Thompson Township—
2nd week—L. H. James, Geo. W,
lilev.
Melville Township—
-Ist week—Jas. Covington, R. E,
Dixon.
2nd week—A. C. Allen.
Pleas. Grove Township—
Ist—we«k—J. H. Turner.
Burlington Township—
lit week—C. A. Walker, J. D,
Pitch, J. P. Askew, M. B. Lindsay,
O. D. Smith, J. O. Pritchett.
2nd week—Erwin Holt, W. L. Eu
bank*, Tho*. E. Hodge, J, O. Holt.
Haw River Township—
2nd week—A. L. Anderson, O. C.
Preeland, John B. Sharpe. >
Graham Township S. S. Convention,
The Sunday School Convention
lnit Saturday wna the best Graham
townahip ha* ever hteld. It was in
teresting from beginning to end.
In the morning the addresses were
>y Rev. R. P. Ellington of Mt. Ol
ive and Dr. W. A. Harper, Prest. of
Elon College, and the session was
held in the Baptist church.
In the afternoon the session was
held ill the Christian church and
was devoted principally to busi
ness routine. .
At night the session was held in
the Presbyterian church, where
there were two addresses: Mr. J.
Norman Wills of Grcensnoro and
Mr. W. E. Sharpe of Burlington.
The addresses were excellent anil
highlv pleasing unu hn\e had mi ny
complimentary reftrences.
Officers lor thu ensuing year
were ele :ted a* ( illow* Prest,
Prof C VV Bnnkiji, vlr;-Pre»t., Al
len 11. TaU*; fcec'y, Phil 8 Dixon,
Executive Committee—A P. Wil
liam*, chairman, Walter R Harden,
J I)Jph Long.
It was decided to have a union
meeting of the Sunday Schools on
each fifth Sunday, which will
f really aid in the promotion of
unday School interest; and the
Convention will take up the Ora-'
ham Relief Work under the con
duct of the officers of this organi
sation.
The music for tho day was fur
nished by the Graham Choral
ITnioti which wa* one of the most
pleasant feature* of the session and
thoroughly enjoyed by everyone.
And what on Earth has become
of the old-fashioned slater who
used to aew for the Ilelglans?
The Mexican bone of contention,
aa we understand It, is located in
old Whisteranza's head.
Luke McLuke tells us that the
openwork waist is back. We will
have to look into this matter.
That is all.
Certainly does seem queer, that
Mexico can be a live isaue and a
grave isaue at the same time.
Every time the Germans gel a
setback anywhere else, they Just
sail in and lick Rheirns Cathedral
all over again.
What good old Uncle Ham seems
lo irquire, in this emergency 1#
a mobile army aa big aa his auto
mobile artny.
We suppose old Yuan ia pretty
thoroughly convinced now that in
trying to play the king, he played
the duce.
The queation we have put to
Germany, we take it, ia whether
to rnn her war on the European
or the American plan.
Old Hennessey says that, hav
ing conaidered the lillea of the
field that toil not nor apin, he haa
given up hope of learning their
graft.
Ugh! Calomel Makes
You Deathly Sick
Stop Using Dangerous Drug
Before it Salivates you !
It's Horrible!
You're bilious, aldggiah, consti
pated, and believe you need vile,
dangerous calomel to start your
liver and clean your bowels.
Here's my guarantee! Ask your
druggist for a W-cent bottle of
DoJson's Liver Tone and take a
spoonful to-night If It doesn't
start your liver and straighten you
right up better than calomel and
without griping or making you
sick, I want you to go back to
the drug store and get ypur
money. / ..
Take calomel to-day and to-mor
row you will feel weak, stek snd
•auseated. Dont lose s days
work. Take a spoonful of harm
less, vegetable Doason s Liver Tone
tonight and wake up feeling great
It's perfectly harmless. Olve It to
your children any time. It cant
salivate, so let them est snything
they want afterwards.
Educational Column Conducted
by Supt. J. B. Robertson.
Floats at County Commencement.
Led by marshals, of whom Mr. E.
P. McClure waa chief, mounted on
spirited steeds, the grand parade on
County Commencement Day, April
22nd, moved .forward. The steps of
footmtn and horsemen were quick
ened aa the Oneida Band of Graham
filled the air with sweet and cheer
ful music.
Mr. and Mrs. McAdams of Gra
ham, dressed as Columbia and Uncle
Sam, riding on beautiful, spotless
white horses, en me next followed by
the eighty-one graduates of the rural
schools of the county.
The thirteen original Colonies, led
by the McCray school, representing
Virginia Colony, followed. Their
float was a boat with Bails unfurled,
representing the first permanent set
tlement in America. It waa attract
ively made and well suggested a sail
boat as the faithful steed steadily
diew it down the street. The brave
Capt. John Smith and the Indian
maid, Pocahontas, were two famous
characters on this boat
The new truck of Glencoe Mills,
tastefully built to represent the
Mayflower, who brought the faithful
Pilsrim fathers to Massachunetts,
glided along back of the Virginia
Colony. Their color scheme was
gray and white. The sails were of
white with a border of gray. All the
girls wore the Pilgrim caps of gray,
which they wore all the day, while
the boys wore Pilgrim bats.
Nothing was more beautiful than
the King's school, as it were, rowing
down the street in a beautifully
decorated bateau. The float was
actually built so as to represent the
boat being rowed down the stream
by the friends—the boys of the
school —while Roger Williams and
Ann Hutchinson occupied a con
spicuous place in the artistically
made boat. Should you have looked
carefully the Indian chief, Tomichi
chi, would have been found in this
happy group.
The grave F rt Say brook, repre
sented by the Eureka school, came
next in good effect and was very sug
gestive of Connecticut.
Shallow Ford, in her complete
color scheme of yellow and white,
bore the float by name New Hamp
shire: John Mason and Ferdinand
Gorges, in costumes characteristic
of the times, occupied an important
place on the float.
Maine, famed for its lumbering,
was represented by the Bethany
school. school rode on a log
wagon beautifully decorated with
pine and on which had been placed
a long log.
Lord Baltimore, buy'ng land from
the Indians," was uniquely carried
out by the Woodlawn school. A
glance at their float would carry the
onlooker quickly back to the pioneer
days when the Indian wigwam was
almost the only home found in our
country. The teachers and the pu
pils wore uniform head dress char
acteristic of the colony. These they
proudly wore throughout the day.
Ilawfields stood for Carolina. Our
heart* were made to feel keenly the
throb of State patriotism as the
"Edenton Tea Partv", so beautifully
represented, passed along in line of
parade.
Along came Mahan with Gen.
Oglethorpe and his colony suggest -
ing the early settlement of Georgis.
Red and white was their color
scheme, and upon the whole it was
very pretty.
As the "Halfmoon" in her colors
of while and gold came gliding
along aa if she were sailing down
the Hudson, in the days of Henry
Hudson, one waa made to exclaim,
How beautiful ? Sidney school gets
credit for this.
Kldermont represented New Jersey
and had an attractive float and a
large attendance.
Ye Quakers and ye Quaker bon
nets and dresses so uniquely cariied
out by the Spring school was indeed
attractive. No less significant was
their float representing Pennsyl
vania, the Quaker Colony, and Wil
liam Penn's treaty with the Indians
under the great tree.
Along came Sylvan with the "Rais
ing of the First Meeting House"
Quakers drove the team, and aa one
of the pioneers kept watch over the
Indians with his gun, the others
were busy constructing the meeting
house. This was complete in its
plan and indicative in its appear
ance.
Nothing was more complete than
"Ye old Tyme Skule", represented
by the Cedar Cliff School. This float
was such that would bear careful
examination and then one would not
be able tell but that it had been built
fifty or more years ago. Ths stick
chimney made of mud and sticks
was even black with smoke that
came from it years and years ago,
and yet it had been built for only a
day.
Complete in arrangement and roost
plessing to the eye wsa th» North
Carolina Seal, aa carried out by the
Fair Ground School. Nothing was
more beautiful. 'The Goddess of
Wisdom" waa pleasingly represented
by the Highland School.
Glenhope had a float indicative of
the causes of the Civil War. Girls
representing the seceding States
were grouped in the center of the
float. Placed here and t .ere were
the slaves, while Abraham Lincoln
atood sentinel in front in all hia
wisdom and dignity.
Characteristic of the Land of Pe
rennial Youth, the Land of Sun and
Showers—Florida —was the float from
Altamahaw, with her wide reaching
palm and pretty little Indian maids
who stoqd sheltered beneath.
The Clermont, Robert Fulton's
first Steam boat, alowly plowed the
briny deep, as it were, as Glenwood
school came next with a mammoth
boat with a little steam engine driv
ing on each aide the propelling
wheels which substituted steam
power upon the waters for brawn
and muacie.
Immense and beautiful was the
float that bore the Goddess of Liberty
enthroned, with all her daughters at]
her feet—the forty-eight states of the
anion. Bed, white and blue were
the colors and very artistically were
they used. This excellent float was
from Swepsonville.
A beautiful, elegantly planned
float was the large white float drawn
by spotlessly while horsfs and filled
with pretty girls, all dressed, in
white, rery significant, indicative of
the name the float bore —Peace—and
more significant by the name of the
school —Friendship.
Saxapahaw represnted Cotton
Manufacturing in Alamance. This
float was constructed chiefly of cot
ton material and bore intersting in
fo* mation regarding manufacturing
in the county. AU the children and
the lady teachers wore garments
made of material manufactured at
Saxapahaw, the girls wearing check
ed aprons and the boys wearing
overalls and straw hats. This im
mense float looked like a great big,
beautiful baeket filled with sweet
children.
The Canning Club float wae
unique in arrangement. The girls
in their uniform were giving a
demonstration in canning as they
moved (lowly down the street
Several other floats were in the
parade which were not scheduled to
represent any historical event, but
these floats were handsome and
well represented their schools.
They were Green, Center, and Union
Ridge.
The Burlington Graded School
had three handsome floats. One for
each department of her school. We
would especially mention ' The Bat
tle of Alamance," which was a com
plete immitation of the monument
thai now stands on the Alamance
Battle Ground. The soldiers with
their guns and in their uniforms
marched along with quickened step
on each side of the monument —
their float.
The above is a very brief descrip
tion of the thirty large floats in their
grandeur and beauty that made up
the parade at County Commence
ment. Only an eye witness could
get a clear conception of the magni
tude and real beauty of these many
floats and the parade that they com
posed.
A very interesting game of base
ball was played the afternoon of the
22nd Spring and Hawfields,
the Bcore being 2 to 1, respectively.
DEATHS.
Mr, Aaron McPhereon died Tues
day morning, 2nd inst., at his home
in Newlin township. He was in his
87th year, a good citizen and one of
the oldest men in his community.
He was born Dec. 31, 1829.
Mr. Henry Sykes died suddenly at
his home here about 9 o'clock last
nisht of acute indigestion. He was
only sick between 2 and 3 hours.
Just before night he 'was down town
making some purchases. He was
about 70 years of age and is survived
by several children. 0 N
Mr. Sam'l M. Cooper died at his
home in Albright township Satur
day, April 28. Just a week before
he (ell through his barn loft floor by
Sitting upon a looae-ended plank,
e fell upon a small tub and frac
tured several ribs, and sustained
other injuries. lie suffered for a
week and passed away. Mr. Cooper
was about GO years of age. He was
well esteemed by hia neighbor! and
acquaintances. Hia wife and aeveral
children survive him.
Mr. Alexander Fat ton, known by
hia neighbors as "Sandy" Patton,
died last Thursday, April 27th, at
bis home in the Hawfields com
munity, aged 68 years. He had
been in failing health for quite a
while. Besides two brothers, S.
Woods Patton of Mebane and James
R. Patton of Durham, he is survived
by his widow, two sons and three
daughters. He was one of the coun
ty's best citizens. The interment
was at Hawfields of which church he
had been a member aince his young
manhood days The funeral was
conducted by his paator, Rev. J. W.
O jodman.
When President Wilson deliver
ed his famous message to Congress
recently stating that he had no
tified Germany that her illegal
and inhuman warfare against
merchant vessels must cease or
relations be severed, he was over
whelmed with telegrams of ap
proval and endorsement from
every state, and every important
city in tho country. Then the
hyphenated ones got basy and
sent a half ton of telegrams to
Congressmen and Senators pro
testing against war. Bat these
German telegrams were nearly all
alike, showfog that the Copper
head society had written the tel
egrams and passed them along to
the hyphenated ones to send to
Congressmen.
You Can Care That Backache.
Pain along the back, dlaalnaaa. headache
and tannaral languor. Uet a package ai
Mother Uray'a Aualralialioaf, tha pleasant
root and herb oura for Kidney, Bladder
and I'rtnarr trouble*. Wbeo you feel all
rundown, tired, weak aixl without eDergy
nee fhle remarkable combination of naturae
harbaand ruota. Aa • regulator It haa no
equal. Mother Oray'a Australian-Leaf la
Hold by DruiglaU or aent by mall tor Wcu
sample aent free, address, Tha Mother
Urmy Co., La Boy. N. T.
Carranza is about due to learn
that standing pat is a technical
phrase, not definitely confined to
poker.
Ik always looks to the average
man as though th« expression of
"daring aviator" was a sheer
waste of a good adjective.
Every evening some men try to
think up something to boast
about to the neighora.
Illinois must shoulder responsi
bility for both Mann and Sher
man. It is a crushing load for
one State. ' .
A whole lot of men get the idea
that they are breezy when they
are merely windy.
TWO-SIDED DIFFICULTY
Chapel Hill News Letter.
Quite of a sort with the problem
of job-less men and man-less jobs,
is the problem of landless men
and manless land.
We have in North Carolina
22,000,000 idle acres that need to
be developed by home-owuing
farmers. On the other hand, in
1910 oar tenants and renters with
their families in the town and
country regions made a landless,
home-less population of 1,158,000
souls.
llow can we get these people
settled down vpon land of their
own? How can these idle acres
get into cultivation by home
owning farmers? How can land
lords and landless people come in
to agreement?
These people need the land and
this land needs the people. What
are the difficulties in the way of
bringing together the two ends of
this problem?
Are Land Owner* To Blamet
As a matter of fact, are land
lords holding land oat of v use for
speculation rises in value? Are
they greedily aware of the fact
that farm land in North Carolina
increased in value $201,000,000
during the last census period? Or
that the increase in land values iu
the South Atlanta States last year
was 19 per cent? Do they hold
desirable farm land at prices be
yond the reach of industrious,
thrifty tenants ? In many in
stances, Yes. In many other in
stances, No.
For instance, we found a land
lord in Richmond county the
other day who really wants to sell
off 6,000 acres of good farm land
at a reasonable price, on comfort
able terms of payment. He is not
bothering himself to sell it, and
nobody is bothering him to buy
it. Such is the situation in a
county in which two-thirds of the
white farmer* are tenants!
Sometime ago, we bad a letter
from a landowner in Alabama
saying, "For six months or so I
have been advertising for good
white settles upon a 7,000 acre
tract, cut into farinß of any size
dersired, at 110 an acre, on almost
any reasonable terms of payment;
but so far only one white farmer
has responded. I conclude that
white farm tenants in this State
do not want to own farms. If I
offer this land to negro farmers it
will go like hot cakes. Would
you ao it, if you were in my
place?"
Hugh Mcßte and Company.
And Mr. Hugh Mcßae in Wil
mington, is offering in the lower
Cape Fear region in what the
Washington authorities have call
ed The Great Winter Garden,
good farms at reasonable rates,
upon easy, possible terms to de
sirable farmers. These farms are
cleared, ditched, drained, plough
ed, limed, harrowed and dragged.
They have on them comfortable,
newly built cottage homes and
barns. Everything is ready for
occupancy, and the purchasers
can pitch their crops without de
lay. In direct, practical, busi
ness ways he is trying to solve
the problem of landless men and
mauless land in North Carolina.
By the way, Gerald Stanley Lee
in Crowds puta Mr. McKay into
his chapter on Inspired Million
aires. Mr. Mcßae has set himself
to solve a problem that calls for
inspiration as well as millions.
r I am looking, he says, for a
plan under which no man can say
that he desires a piece of land on
which to make a living and can
not find it; and after he finds it I
want a scheme of cropping and
marketing worked out that will
make him self-supporting if he is
industrious and has average in
telligence.
Are Tenant* to Blame f
On the other hand, there are
63,000 landless white farmers in
North Carolina. They are a third
of all the white farmers in the
State. They outnumber the negro
tenants by nearly 20,000.
Do they really want farms of
their very own? Are they settled
into an incurable conviction that
renting is a better business propo
sition tban ownership? Do they
set above home ownership their
freodom to move about at sweet
will and pleasure? Have they lost
the fierce land-lust of their Anglo-
Saxon forbears? Are they sat
isfied to be strangers, pilgrims,
and sojourners in the land with
out abiding interest in community
welfare and well-beiDg, in church
es, schools, and similar concerns
of civilization? Do they realize
that land values are steadily ris
ing the world over, and that their
chance of home-ownership is day
by day a dwindling, disappearing
chance.
A Dlflcult Practical Problem.
Or are the industrious, thrifty,-
intelligent tenants simply una
ware of these chances at farm
ownership in other counties or in
distant sections of the State? If
so, the first problem is to reach
them and acquaint them with the
opportunities that beckon. They
are hard to reach; but at least a
third of our white tenants are fine
spirits, worthy people, hard
working, upright, thrifty and as
piring, and they are well worth
investing in. The next problem,
as Mr. clearly sees, con
cerns nearby market advantages
OLDER BUT STRONGER
To be healthy at seventy,
forty, U sound advice, became is the
rtrengthof middle life w« too often forget
that neglected colds, or careless treat
ment ox slight ache* and pains, simply
undermine strength and bring chronic
weakness for later years.*
To be stronger when olds, keep yonr
blood pore and rich and active with the
strength-building and blood-nourishing
propmiea of Scott'. Bmolaion which las
bod, a tonic sad a medicine to keep jroor
blood rich, alleviate rheumatism and
avoid sickness. Noalcohol in Scott'a.
• •attftSv*B*,atoea*«d.lf.j. • '
that will justify a well balanced
system of farming and reward it
with prosperity. Here is a problem
for city dwellers and city boards
of trade. T. -
Settling people safely into farm
homes is a practical, not a senti
mental, problem; but home and
farm ownership is a fundamental
condition of safe civilisation in
the Cape Fear region, in North
Carolina and the whole United
States, and the problem is well
worth solving.
There U more Catarrab in this Motion of
the country than all other disease* put to
gether, and until the last few rear* wa* sup
posed te be Incurable. For a great many
years doctor* pronounced It a local disease
and prrii:Hbe(l local remedies, and by con
stantly falling to cure with local treatment,
pronounced it incurable. Solenoe has proven
Catarrh to be a constitutional disease, and
therefore requires constitutional treatment.
Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by 1. J.
Cheney * Co., Toledo, Ohio, Is the uniy Con
stitutional cure on the market. It Is taken
Internally In doses from 10 drops to a let
spoonful. It acta directly on the blood and
muoous surfaces of the system. They ode
one hundred dollars for anv case it falls to
cur*. Send for circulars and testimonials.
Add ress: F. J. CHEN BY * CO., Toledo, Ohio.
Bold by Druggist*; 75c.
Take Hall's Family Pills for constipa
tion. adv
Atlantic Coast Inventor*.
The following patents were just
issued to Atlantic Coast clients
reported by D. Swift A Co.; Paten t
Lawyers, Washington, D. C., who
will furnish copies of any patent
for ten cento apiece to onr readers.
Virginia—J. B. Dillard, Claren
don, Counter-recoil fluid-brake;
W. F. Fletcher, Drill, Combina
tion invalid bed and chair; L. R.
Houchens, Fairfax, Preserving a
corpse; G. H. Leigh, Drewryville,
Glass bnrial-casket;
North Carolina—G. W. Gantt,
Mount Airy, Trap-setting device;
H. L. Hall, Asheville, Curtain
holder; C. Rochelle, Washington,
Feed-witter heater; R. G Rosser,
Broadway, Valve-cleaner;
South Carolina—W. P. Cornell,
Charleston, Take-up device for
telephone-cords; T. B. Jenkins,
Sumter, Vehicle-spring;
Line Back.
A lame back is usually due to
rheumatism of the muscles of the
back. Hard working people are
most likely to suffer from it. Re
lief may be had by massaging the
back with Chamberlain's Liniment
two or three times a day. Try it.
Obtainable everywhere.
Perhaps it would be well to
catch Carranza, who is less lively
than Villa and far more valuable.
Grand Duke Nicholas' method
of rolling up the Turkish empire,
cannot give any particular joy to
the Turk.
If the ocean is to reraafh the
world's highway now, is the time
for neutral nations to take the
proper steps.
Russia needs Constantinople
also in order to draw large per
manent dividends from the pos
session of Trebizond.
AUCTION
SALE
C. R.DAVIS
FARM
Four Miles South of
GRAHAM
SATURDAY
May i 3,1916
10 O'CLOCK A. M.
Will be sold in small tracts of from
two to nine acres, then
sold as a whole.
EASY TERMS
Free Prizes—Good Music
mu m i mii; co.
Sales Agents.
Southwest Alamance.
Cor. of The Gleaner.
A large crowd attended the sing
ing and speaking at Ut. Zion on
last Sunday.
' Mrs. R. Jesse Foster has been
carried to St. Leo's for treatment.
We hope that sometime some
Legislature will summon manhood
enough to tax the worthless dogs
out of existence. No wild beast
is such a menace to the lives aDd
peace of our people as the half
starved, mangy dogs that wander
about without home or name.
They kill sheep, suck eggs and go
mad and set whole neighborhoods
in a tumult. They are especially
dreaded in summer time. The
public is constantly exposed to the
vagrant dogs that do everybody
harm and nobody good, and yet
the Legislature is afraid to furn
ish the protection that belongs to
the people. If we could get enough
men in Raleigh at one time, who
would rather do right than be re
elected, a great many good laws
would be made that they are
afraid to tackle.
Annual Slaughter in the United States.
The modern world is a danger
ous place in which to live. The
figures showing the number of
deaths from violence in recent
years is appalling. Last year, in
the United States alone, 75,000
persons were killed in accidents
of one kind or another, while
nearly 2,0(i0,000 more were injur
ed. About 35,000 workmen were
killed while at their tasks. On
the railroads of the country about
10,000 persons are killed every
year, and 20 times that nnmber
are injured. On the streets and
roads, 5,000 deaths are caused by
vehicles, the automobile being re
sponsible for half this number of
victims.
Some Americans would have us
all scuttle off the sea as soon as
their friends in Europe begin
fighting.
Both sides are achieving vic
tories at Verdun and incidentally
filling all the hospitals and grave
yards.
On any showdown this country
should be able to demonstrate that
it has learned a number of things
since the affair with Spain.
Neither Field Marshall von Hin
denburg nor Gen. Joffre receives
as much money for his services as
does Charlie Chaplin. But they
don't get knocked down as much
as Charlie.
Members x>f Congress and some
others would be very glad to dis
cover some system of national de
fense that would operate comfort
ably and by proxy.
When a man quarrels with his
wife he seldom gets a chance to
say anything these days.
Summons by Publication
North Carolina —Alamance Cennty,
Georgia Wniiameon Smith,
' YS. f . - - " ' 1
Eugene M. Smith, Defendant. f,
* Notice of Service of Summon* bjr
The defendant abqve named will take
notloe that an action entitled aa above baa
been oommenoed In the Superior Court of
Alamance oountv for the purpose of obtain
ing an absolute dlvoroe from defendant; and
the aald defendant will further take notloe
that he la required to appear at the tenn of
Superior Cburt of aald oountr to be held on
the twelfth Monday after the flrat Monday
of Maroh, 191#, to-wtt: on May 2»tb, »1«. at
tbo court house of aald county In una bam.
North Carolina, and anawer or demur to the
complaint tn aald action or the plaintiff will
apply to the oourt for the relief demanded
in said oomplalnt.
Th" 10th * ODLB,
lSapltt Clerk Superior Oouit.
Land Sale!
By virtue of an order of the Superior Court
of Alamance oounty made in the Special
Proceeding entitled H. J. Stockard and A. O.
Porterfleld aa administrator* of the eetate of
T. B. Wajren, deoeaaed, aud others against •
Kuth Burch, Myrtle Burota and othera,d»-
fendants, the undersigned aa Commissicmers
will offer for aale to the big beet bidder the
following very valuable tracts of land, situat
ed in Alamance county, N. 0„ In Fauoette's
township. The sale will take plaoe at the
home place of the lateT. B. Warren At two
o'clock p. m., on
SATURDAY, MAY 20,1916.
The first tract to be sold la the one on whloh
J, A. Graham now resides, adjoining the
lands ot J. Q. Oant, B. T. Kernodle, I. B.
Warren home tract,Jtnd the traot known as ,
tbe HEAL tract aid contains 10M acres,
more or less.
Tbe Beoond Traot, known as the Beat tract,
adjoining the Dickey tract, tbe lands Of B. T.
Kernodle, the Y. B. Warren home tract, L.
K. Walker, J. Q. Gant and othersandoon
talns 108.5 acres, more or less. The above
named two tracts will be first offered sepa
rately, and then aa one tract, and the bid for
the greater sum will be reported.
Tbe Third Traot and the fourth oompoee
tbe A. S. Dickey tract which Is divided Into
two tracts. The third traot adjoins the lands
of L. H Aldred, the heirs of the Lite B. J.
Garrison, A. G. Porterfleld and other* and
contains 106 acres, more or less.
Tbo Fourth Tract adjoins the third tract,
tbe lands of E. W. Graham, H T. Kernodle.
A. G. Porterfleld and others and contains 3 7
acres: more or less. These two tracts will
also be offored separately and tbon as one
tract, and tbe greater bid will be reported.
These farms compose all of the lands of the
late Y. H. Warren except the home plaoe,
and on each of them are good Improvement*
and they are In a high state of cultivation.
Good for all kinds of grain crops and very
fine for tobacco. The lands are sold for p «r
--tltlon amongst the helr*-at-law of the late
Y. B. Warren. The term* ot aaleare one
third cash, one-third dua in six months and
one-third due In twelve montbs from date of
aale. The deferred payments to bear interest
from date of sale. Bale subject to confirma
tion of the court and twenty days from date
of report of sale open for advance bids of ten
per cent.
Plats oan be seen by applying to the Com
missioners and will be pto.-ent on day of sale,
April .Tib, 181S
B. S. PAKKEH, JR.,
J. KLM t.K LONG,
■ Commissioners.
Land Sale. >
Under and by viitue of an order of sale
made by the Superior Court of Alamanoe
oounty In a Special Proceeding therein pend
ing entitled "Andrew J. JelTreya against
Fred Jones and others," whereto all the ten
ants in common of the real estate hereinafter
desorlbed are duly coustltuted parties, the
undersigned cotnmirsloner will offer for sale
Co the highest bidder, at publlo auction, at
the court bouse door In Graham, Alunanoe
county, North Carolina, on
SATURDAY, MAY 6, 1916,
at twelve o'clock, noon, the following de
scribed real property, to-wit:
A lot of land situate in Pleasant Grove
Towasbip, Alamance oounty, and State of
North Carolina, adjoining the lands of J. O.
Uaiiey, deceased, Solomon Martin, deceased,
and others, and bounded as follows, to-wit:
Beginning at a rook at the corner of Cicero
Whltmore's barn; thenoe N deg E »ohs
to pointers; thence a dividing line Sooth BBK
deg K 38 chs 36 Iks to pointers In J. G. Dal ley's
line: thence 8 \% deg W 29 ohs to a rook in G.
Vf. Petlgrew's fine; thence N 8M deg WBB
cbs 35 Iks to the first station, containing one
hundred and eleven acres, more or less.
Terms of Sale—One-third of bid to be tfald
in cash on day of sale: one-third in six months
and one-thirdln twelve months rrom day of
sale, deferred payments to be evldenoed
yb the bonds of the purchaser bear
ing six per cent. Interest from date of
sale until paid ; title to be reserved until the
purchase price Is fully paid. This sale will
be subject to advanoe bid and also subject to
confirmation by the Court.
This the 6th day of April, 1816,
B. 8. PAKKER, J*„
Commissioner.
NOTICE
Of Mortgagee's Sale of
Real Estate.
Under and by virtue of the power of sale
contained In a certain mortgage, executed by
Frank Maynard and his wlieto the Alamance
Insurance and Real iCstate Company on Sep
tember Ist, 1916. for the purpose of securing
the payment of a bond of even date there
with, due and payable September Ist, 1916, de
fault having been made in the payment of
said bond, the undersigned mortgagee will, on
MONDAY, MAY 22, 1916,
at 1:80 o'clock p.m., at the oourt house door
of Alamance county, In Graham, North Caro
lina, otter for mile at public auction to the
hlgheit bidder, for cash, the following tract
or parcel of land In the county of Alamance
ana Btate of North Carolina, In Burlington
Township, adjoining the lands of Luclan Mel
laril, Brooks Htreet, Lee Street and othera and
bounded as follows:
Beginning at oorner of Brooks and Lee
streets: running thence with said Brooks
street East 278 leet to corner of Lot No. 8 and
Luclan Sellars; thence with Uaeof said Cellars
North feet to corner on W. H. Brannock
line; thence with said Brannock line Booth
74 deg 15 mln W 288 feet to corner on said Lee
I I.™?!' wl . th J lnc a* l * Lee street
South 183 feet to the beginning, and being lota
No. 1 and 2 in block Bef survey of Brooke
property; said mortgage being duly probated
and .recorded In the office of the Register of
Deeds for Alamanoe county! In Book ot Mort-
Deeds of Trust No. 81, at page*
Th's April 80th, 1918.
ALAMANCE INS- A BEAL ESTATE CO.,
• Trustee,
Summons by Publication
North Carolina—Alamance County.
In the Superior Court,
A. C. Albright et aL
T. F. Albright et al.
NOTICE.
To W. F. Albright. Mr*. W. F. Albright, Deole
Wrenn Albright, CHenn Hatch Albright.
Helen Albright. C. B, AlbrWht, Harjh £>£
erteon. T M. Robertson, I). w. Robertson,
Mrs. D. W. Robertson. Pearl Robertson
iwe r nuSu rt *° D " d
The defendants above named will take
notloe that an action entitled as above h "
been oommepsed in the Superior Court or
Alamance eounty. North Carolina, to quiet
V,? of plaintiffs, A. C, Albright. W. H.
Albright, and Maud O. Isle; to the lands de-
UfFlhS. ?if m by tbelr f » ther - D . H. Albright,
andtbat the purpose of said action la to ex
clude defendants from any Interest therein;
and the said defendants will further take
'•}»' "ey are required to appear at the
term of the Superior Court of saldoounty to
be held on the 12th Monday after the first
Monday lo March, 1916, at the oourt house of
said county In uraham, N. C., and answer or
demur to the complaint of plaintiffs, or the
plaintiffs will apply to the court for the re
lief therein demanded.
This the ?Uth day of March, 1918.
_ J. I>. KBHNODLK,
®ospHt Clerk Superior Court.
*
EXECUTORS' NOTICE.
Having qualified as liecutor of the will of
W. AmTcfc Jobe, deceased, the undersigned
hereby notifies sll persons holding claims
against said estate to preeent the same duly
on or before the 88th day of
April. 1917, or thU uotlasvill be pleaded In
bar of thelrseeovery. All persons Indebted
to said eetate be requested to make Immedi
ate settlement.
This April 8.1918.
CHAM P. THOMPSON,
«7spl«t Bx'r W. Amlck Jobe, dee'd.
Augustus Heinze died recently
in Stanly county. His age, said
to he duly authenticated, was 106
years, six month and 23 days.
Rowland Mclntyre, also a citizen
of Stanly, is still alive and active
and in possession of all his facult
ies, at the age IOB.