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VOL. XLVII Gov. Will Appoint Tax Commissioner-Walts and Maxwell Candidates % v * 1 , » . #, Some Supreme and Superior Court Judges May Retire on Two-thirds Pay Provided for by the Last Legislature. REPUBLICAN SLATE FOR FEDERAL OFFICES Extortionate Gas Rates Charged Some Cities to be Heard by Corporation Commission. (By Maxwell Gorman.) Raleigh, March 22. —Governor Morrison, who went to Charlotte the latter part of • last week, will return to the executive office in a few days and, according to reports current here, he will find the mem bers of the Legislature his princi pal correspondents during his few days leave of absence. It appears that both A. J. Max well and A. D. Watts, who are candidates for tax commisioner, have appealed to the Senators and members of the House to line up and write the Governor which aspirant they favor. A consider able number of legislators will probably decline to do so for two reasons. First, because it is the Governor's business to select the appointee; and, second, because many would be content with either Watts or Maxwell, "were 'toiher dear charmer away." Another reason that could be advauced is that the Governor cannot fail to get the right man. if he appoints either of these two. Not a few would prefer to have Maxwell's services on the Corporattpn Com mission continued —he is needed there and should jie relinquish v that post it would be a misfortune for the State. Reports revive to the effect that there may be several judges of the Superior Court who may retire on two-thirds pay, as provided for those who have seen long service on the bench, but there is noth ing definite in that—except one or two vacancies may occur, on the State Supreme Court bench in the course of time. In that case, al though "report" has not yet said so, most people would expect the Governor to name Hon. Heriot Clarkson of Charlotte, one of the ablest lawyers in the State, ex solicitor, and one of the finest-and most lovable of men, to one of the vacancies on the higher court —if Mr. Clarkson would accept it, which to be doubtful. ■Jt-- New Federal Officeholder*. A number of down-eastern Rep resentatives yesterday passed through Raleigh en route to Greensboro, where this evening a special meeting of the Republican State Committee will meet, chiefly for the purpose of fixing a party slate for the various Federal offi ces from which the present Demo cratic incumbents will soon- be retired. - * | Prospects of a fight, however, does not diminish the chances of the original slate fixed up at a conference between National Com _ mitteeman Morehead and Frank A. Linney, State chairman. That slate is: , Collector of Internal Revenue— Gilliam Grissom of Greensboro, Secretary of the Republican State Executive Committee. United States Attornery, West ern District —Frank A. Linney of Boone, Chairman of the State Ex ecutive Committee. United States Attorney, Eastern District —Irvin B. Tucker of Whiteville, late candidate for Lieutenant-Governor on the Re publican ticket. United States Marshal. Western THE ALAMANCE GLEANER District—Brownlow Jackson of Hendersonville, former member of the General Assembly. United States Marshal, Eastern District —R. W. Ward of Raleigh, otherwise prominently mentioued as the prospective postmaster iu Raleigh under the Harding ad ministration. Jenkins of John ston, whb was a candidate for marshal, will get the eastern col lectorship. This ticket is not going through without some fun. Butler and Meekins, though the twain be far from one, are already in Greens boro for the fight. Meekins wants young William Duncan of Ral eigh, who has not been a factor in politics here, except as the son of E. C. Duncan, made collector of internal revenue and Butler wants, among other things, to have his own brother, Major George Butler, appointed United States Attorney, rather than Irvin B. Tucker. The changes are expected to come earljjin July, I State-wide Fight Over Gas Kates. The much discussed gas extor tion practiced by a dozen and more cities in North Carolina, where the gas corporations make the people of North Carolina cities and towns pay two dollars and thirty cents per thousand feet, which is fifty per cent more than was paid when the cost of coal and other constituent properties enter ing into the manufacture of gas was double the present prices,will begin to get a hearing on Wednes day of this week, after eight months of robbery practiced by the corporation monopoly pend ing a long eight months delay iu giving the consumers a hearing to present evidence and argument (said to be in abundance) why the rehearing should bring about a material reduction now and a re bate for at least the last three mohths, because of tAe excessive charge which exist in no city of any State except a dozen and more in North Carolina. The case of Wilmington will be heard first, and Raleigh is to come next. The housewives and other consumers of gas for both eook inz and illuminating purposes are up in arms and have been for some time over the maimer iu which the cheat is contiuued to be practiced on them because the State Corporation Commission would not allow the city authori ties the rehearing during th» las't eight months, which wasn part of the decision on the temporary in crease in rate. The Uoioo Herald has been the only Raleigh paper that seemed to have the patriot ism or nerve to tackle the local octopus and criticize the Sta'e Corporation oommissiou. Vheedi tor of that paper has put iu some bard licks and has kept at it. The Union Herald of Raleigh was last week joined by The News and Observer in the fight qgainst the extortion, because of the re turn of Mr. Daniels, who was made acquainted with the situation and he waded in at once. " " ■■■' -v tUBBCUBB FOB TUB GLBANBB, GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY. MaRCH 24, 1921 A 55-FOOT WHALE UNEARTHED AT TARBORO Dr. Prouty'is Having it Transported t6 Chapel Hill for the Geology Museum. Cor. of The Gleaner. Chap«l Hill, N. C. ( March 22. — Deeply buried in the soft black sand of Edgecombe county where, thousands of years before man ap peared on earth, the waves of a prehistoric ocean beat upon au almost forgotten shore, the bones of an ancient whale, recently dis covered byxsitizens of Tarboro 15 feet underground where they have been lying quietly for probably. 1,000,000 years, have been dug up under the direction of Dr. William F. Prouty, of the geology depart ment of the University of North Carolina, and are being transport ed to Chapel Hill for safe keeping in the gaology museum. A fair-siztd whale it is, too, a whale of a whale in fact, measur ing over all something like 50 to 55 feet, with jawbones stretching 13| feet from tip to tip, and with ribs »nd backbone in relative pro portion. Dr. Prouty will reconstruct the whale as well as he can and will keep it on exhibition alongside of other treasured specimens of other days. He thinks he can transport the jawbones, part of the front legs or flappers, several ribs, and segments of- the backbone. But all of the bones are soft and chalky and it was necessary to put plaster of Paris around some of them before thay could be lifted up. A broken fexhaust pipe connect ed with the steam turbine engine at the Ilart Cotton Mills in Tar boro was the immediate cause of discovering the whale. The water plunging through the soft sand tore open a gully 15 fe«t deep and revealed tiie giant jawbones in al most the same position they were in 1,000,000 years ngo E. P. Meredith and E. Z. Zoeller, citizens of Tar boro, seut for Dr. Prouty to look at the treasure they had uncover ed, and Dr. Prouty and Sam B. Lge, of the geology department, spent a week working with a force of laborers uncovering the bones. "Shp' is a whale but whar is Mr. Jonah?" exclaimed one of the negroes as he dug into the soft sand. "Other whales have been found at various places along the At lantic coast," said Dr. Prouty, in telling of his discovery, 'and one or two in North Caroliua, but 1 don't know of any recently. This specimen was probably fairly simi lar to the modern whale. It is impossible to estimate his age ex actly, but I think it was at least 1,000,000 years since he WHS alive. "At that time the ocean extend ed over a pari of «astt'pu Carolina and the shore-line was in the neighborhood of Tarboro. I think it almost ceitain that the spot where the bones were found was the shore-line of the ancient ocean." Dr. Prouty said I hat the soil in which the bones were, found was a dark marine Baud and he thinks it probable that the whale died in quiet water, possibly in a L.gooii near the shore. "There was lit tle indication of oxidization, which would have occurred if the water had been agitated, as by waves," be said. "Possibly the whale was swept by the waves into a quiet lagoon and was caught there; or possibly he died outside and was brought in by the waves." UIATK or Onio CITY or TOLBDO I . , Luoaa ClioTr. I "■ Frank J. Cheney make* oath that be I* *enlor partner ef Ibe flf iu ol Y. J. Cheney & Co., doIDK bualneae In the city of Toledo, county aud SUle alorenald, and that Mid nrm will pay the turn of Ow Hundred Dollar* for eacb awl every caae or Catarrb that cannot be cuibd by the ue of Hall'* catarrh Cure, FRAN K J. C'U KN KY. Sworn to before bq and subscribed In my presence, thl« #tli day of December, A. !»., UHW A. w. OIBA-OX, [Heal] Notary Public, Mall'a Catarrh Medicine Is laken Internally and act through tiie blood on tbe mnooui lurlacea of tbe Send lor Uatlmo olala free. P. J. CH KM E Y *X'O„ Toledo, O. Sold by all Dru*«laU, 76c. Mall'a Family Pllla tor eonstlraUon ,'V Truck For Hire. 9 % Let as do your hauling of every kind, moving, etc. Have a new truck. Terms reasonable. BBADSUAW & FILLER, Phone 650. Graham, N. C. "Clean-Up" Week. The Insurance Commissioner has , j set aside the first week in April aa I "Clean-up" week, and it is earnestly hoped that everybody will co-operate in this movement. It will be tile duty of the Fire Inspector to inspect | buildings and report any dfefecu prompty to the town authorities. It IB also earnestly hoped thgt the dif ferent clubs of the women nnd the !school children, under ihe leader is tip of their teach> is, will mobilize i their forces for that week and Ijelp j clean up the town. It is also hoped thnt the business men will examine jtheir premises and remove all trash and rubbish and inspect all heating ! appliances. The Chief of the Fire '{Department should examine his lire apparatus as a special duty and make j the week an occasion for inspection of all buildings and conditions in j the fire district. Eatfh woman should j inspect her home, particularly have {repaired unsafe chimneys, flues, | pipes, closets, attics, back-yards and J basements. ° The town will supply without stint the necessary trans portation for the removal fire and disease-breeding material, and it is earnestly hoped that every man, woman and child, will co-operate in . this work ROUT. L HOLMES, v Mayor. How To Cook An Old Him—Vine ear, Sugar, and Cloves. Many farmers nnd farmers'wives ou farms where hogs are butch ered have their own idetas about how hams should be cooked to best please the appetite. Here is the way Hp cialists ol the United States Department of Agriculture doit. These directions are con tained in Farmers' Bulletin 1180. I Pork on tho Farm—Killing, Cur ing, and Canning," just publish ed l»y the department. Soak several hours, remove all {mold and 100 e pieces, and rinse well. Cover with cold water, add two J tablespoon fills of vinegar, oue | half cup brown sugar, four cloves, | and one bay leaf, and heat to boiliug. The amount of cloves aud bay leaf may be increased it desired, especially for larger ; hams. Reduce the heat to a constant j simmer aud allow to cook at this | temperature at J,he rate of 20 minutes for each pound weight. Remove from iire, but keep the ham iu the liquor in which it waa {cooked until cold; then remove ! from the container aud allow to drain Take off the skin, score the fat in inch blocks, and cover with a coating of brown sugar and. >crumbs. Stick with.cloves X iuch apart. I Bake in a alow oven until (live ly brown, basting at intervals with one-half cup of water and one tablespoonful of vinegar. Curious Evidence of a War Loss. The Quebec Chronicle. An insurance company, accord | ing to a nautical magazine, re fused to pay a policy on a British vessel, the Hydra, which disap peared in 1917, on the ground that there was no propf forthcom ing that the ship been lost by war risks. Unexpected proof of the vessel's fate has recently been furnished iu the shape of a photo graph takeu by one of the occu pants of a German submarine at the moment the vessel WHS sunk. This picture supplied the neces sary evidence, ami the insurance company, it is stated, has been required to pay the amount claimed. j. . ' ■ . Not for Him to Say. i n American Legion Weekly, "Au' where do I go when th» shelling start*?" asked the new ar rival on the frout, uervously. "Laddie," replied Sandy, calm ly, "that a' depend* on your ree leegious conviction^" ■ Ever Notice It? If your baishould blow off and roll Away from you, just spurn it; Stand where you are. Some kind ly soul Will chaae it aud return it. Break vour Cold or LaGrippcr witb a few dotes of 666 The Great Easter Monday Baseball Game at Harden Park. Oak Ridge is coming to this event with probably the finest aggregation of talent that 4he ever had, regard less of the fact that Oak Ridge is always expected to have, and always does have, a great baseball game. The personnel of the squad which will come to Burlington on March 28 will be as follows: Infield—Rich ardson, Mu-Oirt, Low, Sizemore, Smith, C.; outfield—Capt. Morris, Rouse, Thomas, and Smith, R.; pitchers—McLoughlin, Leonard, Phillipie, and M«j,Qirt; catchers — Hood and Hough Of these, Capt. Morris, Richard soli, McGirt, Sizemore, Rouse, and Hough were all members of last year's wonderful team. The other young gentlemen are the pick of the baseball talent from various High Schools all over the State. The ma terial looks wonderfully good.. Oak Ridge has played no games this year, but she opens the season on Friday ai)d Saturday of this week with Davidson College, and if the Bur lington fans will watch the papers thev can get a line on the Oak Ridge team from the' Friday and Saturday games. The A. «fc E. College is playing its first year under the one year rule, as adopted by % all the leading American Universities. This one year resi dence rule, and the faot that A. & E. College now has regularly organized freshman baseball organization, with entirely separate coaches, filled and organized from the Varsity Bquad, gives great strength for their fresh man organization. With frotn 31)0 to 325 voung men to choose from, the A. & K. College has wide opportunity to build a real sure enough baseball club, and this is'what she has done. / The line-up for the Easter Mon? day game at Harden Park : Catch—King. Pitch —Lassiter. Short-stop —Morris. First base —Pierce. Second base—Bangs. Third base —Pflson. Left field -Bedford. Center field—Curtis. Right field—Saunders. Substitutes —Allen, Morris and Lewis. The Peerless Sixty-one. William J. Bryan, former Secre tary of State and three times the Democratic nominee for President, born at Salem, 111., 61 years ago Sunday, tiUth inst. Mortgagee's Land Sale. By virtue of the power of sale contained in certain mortgage deed executed on 17th day of March, lU2O, by Craw ford Johnston and his wife for the purpose of securing pay ment of a l>ond of even date therewith aud the interest thereon, said mortgage deed being duly recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds for Alamance county in Book No. 82 of Mortgage Deeds and Deeds of Trust, r ftt page 131, and default having been made in the payment of said bond and interest,, the undersigned mortgagee will, on SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1921, at 12 o'clock, noon, at the court house door in Graham, Ala mance, county, N. C'.. offer for sale at public outcry to the higest bidder, for cash, the fol lowing defined and described tracts of land in Patterson Township, said county and State, to wit: First—Adjoining and bound ed on the north and cast by the lauds of Jackey Noah, on the south by J. Graven, on the west by Dan Alexander, aud supposed to contain about ten acres. Second—Ad joining and bound-1 ed on the north by the above described tract, on the east by said Alexander and Talton Holt, on the south by Talton Holt, on the west by Jackey Noah, and supposed to contain ten acres. . Thia March 23, 1021. D. H. THOMPSON, Mortgagee. Win. I. Ward, Att'y. 24mchtds . * .\ What About the School Truck ? * A Dumber of times lately I have been asked this question, "What about the school truck ?" by citizens living in almost every part of the county. Probably nothing will an swer it more clearly than to tell just what_the trucks have been able to do at Haw field a this vear. Most of the people of the county know the con dition of the roads between Wood lawn and Hawfields, and Eureka, Bethany, Swepsonyille and Haw fields, and also the condition of the streets of Mcbane during the past winter. I should say that nothing speaks mora favorably for the trucks than tbe fact that they have not missed a single day this winter on account of the roads. Both trucks ,liuve missed two days on account of snow, and the Oldsmobile truck has missed about ten days in allbn ac count of having to wait for repairs] But, counting all tho lost time, the percentage of attendance of those coming » n the trucks is fifteen per cent hfgher than it is for those liv ing in the Hawfields district. And, too, counting the expense of operat in (f the trucks, (which lias been, borne this year br the students), also | interest on the investment, and a liberal depreciation on the truck, and salaries of all High School teachers, j including one additional teacher, the! cost per student for High School in- 1 struction has been less this year than J it was last year. Tli£ trucks have brought to Ha«-' fields this year from five districts, j filty-lhree High School students liv ing within a radius of seven miles ! These studenia have Bpent ever) | night at home under the care of their purenls. The trucks have done this| more comfortably, at less expense! per student aud with greater regu-1 larity than was the case with our! High School before it made use ol j the trucks.. Now with the prospect of bett* r! rendu throughout the county, made! passible by Federal, Slate and Coun-j ty funds, and the progressive changes; in otir school legislation passed by | the recent Legislature, together with j the realization of the need of better ; schools in both rural and city dis- i tricts—by practically all the citizens of our county, and with the trucks j making possible a larger and more; regular attendance at less expense, there is a better day ahead in Ala-, mance county for its boys and girls I —its preatest asset. (Signed) W. L. COOPER, JR., Instructor Vocational Agr., Haw fields High School. iNINMNNIMMMIIINM* CHAWS 2 > t> > Cooperate and win—go it alone and loose. If you don't si»n a cooperative tobacco agreement now you'll wish you had before next fall. Sign up now and cooperate—or else get i\)»dy to giveaway anoth er crop or tobacco this year. After you've signed a coopera tive tobacco .rowers agreement go out and help get the necessity 40 per cent of all growers signed up. "Hetter start right than not at all"—the pivpetit plan of market ing tobacco cooperatively is the right plan—it's bafced on farmers' exper ence covering 25 years of success in California. NO REASON FOB IT When (.minim Citizen* Nhuw i Way. • There can be no reason why any reader of this who suffers the tortuies of an aching back, the annoyance of urinary disorders, the pains and dangers of kidney ills will fail to heed the words of a neighbor who has found relief. Read what a Gra hum citizen says: W. P. Poußt, So. Maple St.. Bays. "'My back was so sore and lame I had a hard time getting up in the morning. The pain got so bad da ring the day that I was in misery. My kidneys didn't act right atod gave me no end of trouble. Things have been different since I started taking Doan's Kidney Pillls. My back is better, my widneys no*w act regularly, and I am in fine health. It is a pleasure to recommend Doan's. Price 60c, at all dealers. Don't simply ask for a kidney get Doan's Kidney Pills—the sanxe that Mr. Poust has. Poster-Milburn Co„ Nigra, Buffalo. N. Y. NO. 7 PROFESSIONAL CARDS GRAHAM HARDEN, M. D. Burlington, N. C. Office Hours: 9 to 11 a. m. ' and by appointment [ Office Over Acme Drug Co. ! Telephones: Office 440— Residence 964 JOHN J. HENDERSON Attorney-at-Law GRAHAM, N. C. Ullce over National Baak ol AlaaaMt ,J. S.' CO© IC , Attorney-at-La«, TRAHAM. .... * N. C Office Patterson Building Second Floor. . , , . ML WILLS.LONG,JR. . . DENTIST . : ; •raham . - - - North Carallaa I )FFICEINHJMMONH BUILDING A COB A. LONG/ ' J. KI.MRR LOUS LONG & LONG, t ttornnya und CounMlor* at Law GRAHAM, N. 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By virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain mortgage •deed executed on Dec. 20th, 1 1!»!5, by Charlie Harvey and wife for the purpose.of securing payment of a bond of even date therewith and interest thereon, } said mortgage deed being duly recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds of Alamance county in Hook No. 60 of Mort gages and Deeds of Trust, at page 508, and default having been made in the payment of said bond and interest, the undersigned mortgagee will, on SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1921, at 12 o'clock, noon, at the court house door in Graham, Ala mance county, N. C., sell at pub lic outcry to the highest bidder, for cash, flie following described tract of land, to-wit: A tract of land lying and be ing in Alamance county, State of N. C.', in Newlin township, aSdjoiuing Luther Cheeks and others and known as part of the William Moser place and bound ed as follows:. Beginning at a stone on Jos. Harper's line, i thence X 1 deg E 2 chs and 00 Iks to a stone; thence W I.sochs to a stone: thence N 07.17 chs to i a stake; thence >? deg E 13.15 chs to a stake; thence S 63.72 chs to a blackoak; thence E 5.30 | chs to a tnaple; thence S 1 deg W 11 chs and 50 Iks to a stake; tnence N deg \V 1*5.80 chs to the beginning, containing 96 acres more or less, and being lot No. 1 in the division of the John (i. Moser lands. This March 23, 1921. D. H. THOMPSON, J Mortgagee. Win. I. Ward, Att'y. 24iucbtds TOWN TAXES.—The tax books , for 1920 are in my handß. Prompt payment requested. 8., R. TROUNQKR, j Tax Collector. v wfjl
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