THE ALAMANCE GLEANER VOL. XLVII iTeachers' Assembly Meeting in Raleigh -- 1 1,1 Kxtrr Session Not Expected to Last r Assembly—s pelKng Contest . •■feature.; y f ICE CREAM FOR ORPHANS. Cream Will be Furnished the 23 Orpbanafes by Manufacturers— Minimum Sign-up for Cooperative Tobacco Marketing. ' (By Maxwell Gorman.) i' Raleigh, Nov. 23.—The superin tendent of public buildings and grounds is-pntting the second floor of the old and historic state capitol building in condition to receive the legislators when they arrive for the "Extry" (with apologies to the newsboys) session two weeks hence. The prospects are now stronger than ever that the session will hardly go the twenty-days limit (with pay) and the members will be back home in time to spend the Christmas holidays with their families. There is no legislation to speak of demanding immediate atten tion beyond the two measures for which the special session is called. After the public school and mu nicipal finance bills are discussed and enacted it will suit the great majority to "git for home" again, and they will close down the legis lative hopper and quit till the regular session, which is only thirteen months off. There is nothing whatever to the "report" sent out by some newspaper writers that Grant of Davie (who is a Republican in the Houso)-i#ill'. propose a.'recess" of "Extry," after organizing, and come back after the holidays and stay as long as they please. Grant says be; aerer entertained snch a purpose seriously and, as he has been here he knows the average lawmaker will not serve longer than a day or two after his pay ceases. ' Besides, there is nothing for them to come back for. There are too many laws on the statute books now, never en forced or halfway enforced. What North Carolina needs most along this line at present is a better ad ministration of, the laws now largely dead letters —not only not enforced, bnt openly violated! ' Proseetittr Perjurer*. One of these crimes most com mon and most flagrantly commit ed is that made on the witness stand. People having cases in courts know of these crimes, com mitted especially by parties to suits in court. But- who ever heard of prosecution for purjury? It is high time the judges who try cases, the solicitors and graud juries got behind a movement to punish liars on the witness stand, by whose "testimony" honest and truthtul people are defrauded of their rights and property. State Teachers In Session. Beginning today the North Carolina State Teachers' Assembl y! convenes in Raleigh for the an nual meeting, which will be the j largest in the history of the assein bly, officer.* of the organization state. Speakers of prominence in and out of the state are on the program of general and group meetings or the assembly, which will continue through Friday. O u t-o f-s» at e speakers include Dr. Bp*-igh' Dowel I. president Alabama Poly technic Institute, Anbnrn, Alh.; Dr. Harry Clark,Nashville,Tenn.; Dr. John W. Carr, director of hy giene, State of Kentucky; Mi*. Frances E. Clarke, Philadelphia: Dr. Ai E. Winship, editor Journal ol Education, Boston, Mass.; Minn Sarah Louise Arnold, dean emeri tus Simmons College; Dr. C. Al phonso Smith, U. S. Naval Acad emy. 'The teachers of the state, Fri day, November 25th, will have an opportunity to see l!he . Roanoke Island historical picture. The picture will be shown, in compli ment to the teachers, by 'the Di vision of School Extension, \V. C. Crosby, director. Another feature will b« the statewide spelling contest, Wed nesday, November 23rd, in Raleigh High School, when two seventh grade each county in the state will, enter. It will be a written content. On Thursday night Governor Cameron Morrison will entertain the teachers at the Governor's Mansion, beginning at 10 o'clock. Thanksgiving Cream For Orpliaus. Every orphanage institution in the state will be supplied with ice creafti Thanksgiving Day through the courtesy of the North Caro lina Ice Cream Manufacturers' Association. Last November the ice cream manufacturers of the state, who compose the membership of the association undertook the-task of supplying each orphanage within the state sufficient* 'ice;cream on Thanksgiving Day to bountifully supply each child. Ab .their an nual meeting held in. Raleigh last December it was unanimously voted to make this a permanent custom, and on next Thursday each or the twenty-three orphan-; agpi in' the state will receive from the association members nearest them big freezers of cream. Tobacco Growers Sign Contract. North Carolina tobacco growers have signed up their, minimum number of pounds for the Tri- State Cooperative Marketing As sociation, according to an an nouncement Iroui Raleigh ■ head quarters. Assured of handling the crop of 1922 i hrougli their own association, the growers are going to beat the sign-up records Of Vir ginia and Kentucky, and are con fident )hat the final figures will show 75 per cent of the 1920 pro duction signed in the Old North State. - The Raleigh office of the Tobac co Growers' .Cooperative Associa tion received tho following tele gram from Aarou Sapiro at Lex ington, Ky : "Burley Tobacco Growers' As sociation just formally authorized with over forty-two thousand con tracts and over three-fourths crop. Believe you will do same for bright tobacco.'' With all the large tobacco grow ing states of tlie nouth in friendly competition for the hoaor of sign ing up the largest namber of growers for cooporative market ing under the same contracts, North Carolina growers are de termined to pass the best record made in any other state. - Telegrams anl letters are piling up at Raleigh headquarters ask ing for contracts and speakers, while interest among business and professional men increases as the campaign draws to a close. Bank ers and other business interests are greatly impressed by the way farmers...have shown their confi dence in the movement, and there is no longer any re son why busi ness men should hesitate to take au active part in th« wind-up campaign. Cooperation is Marching On in Alamance. Cofiuty Agent- Kerr Scott has the lolloping to say about the pro gress for cooperative marketing in Alamance: Seventy-nine more tobacco growers have signed the tobacco coutract in Alamance. The num ber of pounds signed up last week amouuted to 112,528, an increase over the ainonut of the week be fore of 15,528 pounds. Increased membership came from Giencoe, Shallow Ford and Hock Creek sections last week, with increased sign-up in Gillhm's Academy aud Isley sections of the previous we«ik. Bud Dixon is grav fied to know that hts community lined up prac tically solid for cooperative uiarkeiing when llu» canvass was made among his neighbors. Mr. Dixon was 1 among the first to call for such an organisation. * Shall we make It 75 percent by January Ist ? If you have signed, get another man,; if you have dot, joia now. GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY. NOVEMBEB 24, 1921 THANKSGIVING AT ELON COLLEGE. Junior-Senior Debate; A Service Thursday Morning; Football Be tween Guilford College and Eton; A Turkey Dinner; A Play and Other Forms of Entertainment- Cor. of The Gleaner. Elon College, Nov. 21—Thanks giving season will be duly cele brated on the Elon College cam pus by a Beries of varied enter tainments and programs, begin ning Wednesday night with the Junior-Senior Debate and ending Thanksgiving night with the Philologian Literary Society en tertainment. The annual inter-class debates are occasions of much spirit and friendly rivalry among the classes, and the coining debate promises fair to be a spirited discussion since the question is that of dis armament. For the Seniors Miss Mary Miller and Messrs R. S. Rainey and J. D. Messick will ar gue in favor of disarmament, while Miss Irene Goff and Messrs W. B. Wicker and L. J. Perry for the Juniorß will argue against this stand. A Thanksgiving offering service will be held at the college church Thursday morning, which will be in charge of Dr. N. G. Newman, college pastor.. The remainder of Thanksgiving day will be given over to the Philologian Literary Society, who, as in former years, will decorate the halls and dining rooms of the college buildings for the Thanks giving dinner. Many turkeys have been purchased by the col lege and .an elaborate Thanks giving banquet has been planned. The afternoon of Thanksgiving day wilf witness the football gauio here between Elon and Guilford College. It will be remembered that these teams have met before —Armistice Day on the Greens boro field, which game resulted in a scoreless tie, and are anxious to get at each other again to play off the-i&ie,.. A. hard fought game is expected. « The climax of the Thinksgiv ing celebration will owur Thurs day niirht, when the Philologian Literary Society presents their aunuat entertainment, which this year is to be a play entitled ' The Night Before." After 801 l Weevil Comes Prosperity The Monroe Enquirer. "lam no begger." said a man who had no hands or feet, when he came to Monroe a few days ago. "I am going to demonstrate how a man, handicapped as I am, can care for his bodily needs. Then if yoa'care to buy my little book for two bits, well and good." With that statement A. J. Murphy, for that is his name, proceeded to show a crowd of men and boys how he could take off his clothing, write a letter, eat his dinner with grace and ease, all with hooks or knife and folk on his artificial arms. Then be could walk with ease on his artificial feet. Mur phy said he lost his limbs when a boy living in Manitoba by being caught in a blizzard. Seventeen years ago be went to Florida and there he has a wife and fuut child ren and where he will always live. "Do you like Florida?" he was ask ed. "Yes, but North aiul South Carolina and Georgia are l'ie be.-i States in the Union." lie was told that boil weevil would rniu this section. "801 l weevil. Bad! The boll weevil has made Georgia. Don't I know? I havo traveled hat State for 10 years, and the sections where the weevil ik are , most progressive and prosperous Why, thatold State is going ahead by leaps and bounds, it s peaches, watermelons, corn, hogs, cattle there is no comparison with 10 years ago when the cotton pest was unknown. It will be the same way here." Murphy is an optimist, if be is badly handi capped. No one begrudges the "two bits" for his little auto biography after hearing him balk. People wha have been helped by Taniac are always anxious and willing to tell others about it. Sold by Farrcll Drug Co., Gra ham, N. 11. C. A. Hughes for Postmaster of Eton and Jos. C. McAdams for Deputy Revenue . Collector. Cor. of The Gleaner. Elou College, Nov. 23 —Word ' has just reached the Hilt that Mr, C. A. Hughes has been recom meuded by »the Repubbcau Ex ecutive Committee of A'amauce county as permaueub postmaster here. Mr,- Hughes has bsen acting poßtoiast(T for thn past several months and formerly wa* post master here under Presidents Roosevelt and Taft. He is a popular public official and a ca pable officer. The announcement has occasioned goueral satisfac tion in the community. Mr. Hughes will be assisted in the office by Mr. Alfred Apple, Jr., who is also a popular oitizen. Mr. Joseph 0. aicAdams, it is understood, has also been recom mended by the Republican Ex ecutive Committee of the county as deputy internal revenue tax collector This announcement, too, pleases the friends of Mr. McAdams. He has been a caudi- Idate tor the state legislature, both for the lower house and the senate ou the Republican ticket, and has the confidence of the party to which he bolouge. He will make an efficient officer. Alamance Boys at N. C. State College. of The Gleaner. West Raleigh, N. C., Nov. 22. —The Alamauce County club held i« first meeting of the year on Nov. 2nd, at which time offi cers were elected for the coming year. Those elected were: A. P. Cates, president; 11. 13. Dixou, vice-president; J. F. Mcßane, sec and treasurer. Alamauce has fifteen boys here who take an ac tive part in all campus activities and are represented iu all four classes. One of our members, 8. L. liomevvood of Burlington, has made Varsity football, basket ball and track four years. A. P. Caies, S. L. Hoinewood, J. F. McUane and R. H. Scott played important parts iii the Agricul tural Fair last week. The rest of the . members of tho club are ac tive members of various student organ i nations on t-he campus. Our club ranks among the-first of the oouuty clubs at State College. Our motto is, "Alamance First." We are for Alamance and we want Alamance to back us bjr giving us more men next year » Just a few words about N. C. State College: We have the largest student enrollment since 1918, having about 1,200 These men are about equally di vided between our different tech nical courses. N. C. State College is rapidly, coming to the front as one of the leading technical colleges of the country. Rub-My-Tisra, anticeptic and pain killer, for infected sores, tetter, sprains, neuralgia .rheu matism, —ad. Over on»»-fourth of the tobacco grown in the United States cbmes from Kentucky. Some pric *s are high up because some people are low down. Briar roots for the mauufactu re of pipes, weighing 6,(XX) tons are exported annually from Corsica. Australian bower birds build art>or-like bungalow, besides their nests. Bones caught in the throat can be removed by swallowing the juice of half a lemon. Marshal Foch is the only French man who has been appointed British field marshal. OkUrrhll Deifneu Cannot H* Cared by local afipltoatiobs. a* tbt-y cannot reach IMMnaWil (Mirtlon of Ihr e«r. Tberr I*only ob* way to cure catarrhal >l«*f»raa. atxl tbat la by a conatlluilonai «*imt>y. UaUrrbal f)c -inrm i« ctutr'i bjr an InlUmed condition of tba tauauoa linlmr |4 the tu.iaclilan Tube, Whan ihu tutwla mlUmad »m luraa rain bUac eoonrt or Imiwrlrct h-a lug. aui whtrn It ta entirely eioard. lJvafiitaa ta tba result. Unleaatba Inflarnati ■ n uiii Im mlucrt «nd Mil toi/« restored m It* normal coudlttoii, uearln * will ba d«eir»»>e«t lore* r. Many «*»«•» of deafnea* are ihum-o tiy catarrh, which laanluflais dconditionof the maooua turf ace*. Hail's at rrn Mi-lictm- >eu tbru Mm biood on tba rnucoua aurracas vf lb* 1/1- ■ tern I We will givaou* Hu ir d Oottara for any icaaeof Catarrtiai i> alani ihat cannot be aura* toy Hall'tunarm Mt-dk nut. otculars a * to.. Toledo. O. FOUND JN_ MAILS Many Things Are Forwarded Be sides Correspondence. Superintendent of Philadelphia Port. office Telia of Soma Amusing Ex parlances Ho Had Had. Every one who has watched the crowd collect In front of the parcel post window at holiday time knows tbat the mall hits a more or less hu morous side, remarks the Philadelphia .Record. How humorous It can be you do not realise till you begin to find out about It. Mr. Johnson, the superintendent of malls, at the central knows, lis has 27 years' experience. "Did the crying baby ever go through the malls T" the reporter questioned him. Mr. Johnson shook Vhls head. "No, the only live things allowed are live chicks and bulbs. Everything else un der the sun does go. Sometimes very humorous and pathetic Incidents occur. "An old Virginia mammy wanted to ship herself home parcel post Every Christmas she had received a nice fat package through the mall. It meant direct communication with her own people. She pictured Christmas down on the plantation In all the rosy glow of her fur-off childhood. Site craved to go back and she didn't know how to go. She had Just enough bruins to know tbat she wus too ig norant to take the long Journey by herself. So she cume to her mistress. " 'Couldn't I Just be labeled an' stamped an' weighed/ she demanded, 'and sent along back to Vlrglnny with the postman? I'd like to give my self as a Christmas present to my folks this year.' "Humorous, but pathetic as well Isn't itr Mr. Johnson talks like a Virginian and has a true gift of telling a story. "A negro said there were three kinds of pies, the clvered, the unclvered and the barred. We have to do with the barred variety. In a country dis trict tome one made the most beauU ful barred apple pie. They decided to send It through the malls to a friend In Philadelphia. Great was their trust. They put a string through one of the bars. Tied on a label with the name and address and the proper amount of postage. Put the pie In a pleplate and sent It oft on Its Journey. "That pie arrived In perfect condi tion. It had appealed to the humorous sense of the clerks and had been handed from one man to the next with the greatest care." Mr. Johnson also had amusing ex periences when he worked in the rail way malls. Bags collected at the rural stations often contain queer guests. "I have seen a clerk open a bag uncf a small snake cotne out," continued Mr. Johnson merrily; "whenever that happen* they look as If they had been struck by green lightning. "The bag had been put down some where and somehow the snake had managed to creep In. "At places too small for the ex press to stop, the mall bag Is hung out oa an Iron crane. The postal clerk grabs It and throws out another as the train goes by. I bad Just taken off a pouch and opened It when out stepped a chicken. Not a day-old chicken, but a good-slied bird. You could have knocked me over with a feather when I aaw that fowl." Suffers foe Heroiem. Sergt. Willie Sandlln of Devil's Jumo Branch, Leslie county, la suf fering a serious lung affection as the result of gas Inhsled while In the Ar. gonne forest, he waa told when he vis ited Richmond, Ky., for examination by government physicians. Sergeant Sandlln, advancing In command of a platoon at Bols de Forger, » -nnco, September 28, 1018, kept on wIK dlscoVery of a machine gun nest brought a command to halt In one day he destroyed three ma chine-gun nests, killed 24 Germans, captured six machine guns and a hos pital group, killing the German lieu tenant with his own gun. Sergeant Sandlln was awarded th« Congressional Medal of Honor, the Croix de Guerre with palm, the Medai MUltatre and citations from General Pershing and Marshal Foch. Natural Colored Silk. Experiments made In France, It li reported, show that the yellow green colors possessed by the sill spun by certain caterpillars are dm to coloring matter derived from thi food and passed through the blood v. the spinners. By Impregnating leaves with arti Octal colors, the experimenters csuse some species of caterpillar* to pro dure silk of bright orange-yellow ant tine rose hues. By the aid of the spectroscope th presence and nature of colored pig meats In the blood of the little crea tares were established.—Washlngtot Star. . _ CALLED MODERN ST. FRANCIS Charles Caleb Pierce Tramped and Preached Through California 42 Years—Welcomed Everywhere. Memories of a host of picturesque figures in the history of California are evoked by the centennial of the mis sionary society of the Episcopal church, which was celebrated No vember 0. The mind goes back to that morning In January, 1848, when Jim Marshall picked up some bits of yel low metal In the tall-race below Sut ter's mill up in the Sacramento valley; and the cry of "Gold I" like the shot fired at Lexington, was heard round the world. The rush of the *4Bers fol lowed, and in the vanguard was Rev. Flavel Scott Mines, who erected the first church building on the Pacific coast Trinity church, San Francisco, which was opened on October 28, 184 P. Probably no name has a more last ing place In California annals, how ever, than that of Charles Caleb Pierce, called by Bishop Moreland "a modem St. Francis," who, beginning his missionary career In 1801, devoted his life to the people of El Dorado coun ty. Without prlvute iix-ifhs and scorn ing to accept u salary, Pierce estab lished headquarters in a rude parish church at Placerville. Sunday always found him there. Regularly each Mon duy morning he packed his bag tfith religious literature and "hit the trail." Six days a week, week in and week out, he walked over the county, aver aging 00 miles each week, every house his home, a place ut the table of what ever house he visited or a spare bed always being certain wherever he hap pened to be. He always traveled on foot. His charity was unbounded, ar.d he was the friend and helper of all. For 42 years he tramped and preached about El Dorado county, and in all that time he never left the ty but twice, and on both occasions against his will. Then, March 15, 1903, the news flashed through the county, "Father Pierce Is dead I" Uni versal mourning followed. Hogs Plow Orchard. Hogs tnke the place of plows and harrow In the cultivation of one of the best producing small apple or chards In Ontario. Most orchardlsts plow and replow and harrow and ditch the land between thf rows of trees. J. W. Tuttle of Currle merely turns In a drove of hogs. "When T bought my farm, four years ago," said Mr. Tuttle, "the or chard had been allowed to grosr wild. I gathered only three hniJn of apples that fall. In the spring 1 sprayed and pruned the trees and turned 30 hogs Into the orchard. They rooted for their living all summer. "By fall every foot of soil had been turned up by their snouts. The land looked as If It had been plowed. And it had, for these four-legged plows had done a thorough Job and had gone as deep as a plowshare. I gathered 32 barrels of apples tliat season. That was the direct result of plowing and manuring my land with hogs. "Next year I got 85 barrels and the third year 205 barrels. This year I have more than 200 barrel®."—Detroit News. Human Bona* of Vast Age. u> Rones sufficient in number to form several skeletons and estimated to be at least 50,000 yeurs old, have been discovered by a group of American re search workers, headed by Prof. tJeorge Orant McCurdy of Yale muse um, who have been investigating the cliffs not far from Angouleme, France, j for several months. During the winter these will be clas ■ified'and distributed among Yale and other American museutps, although valuable specimens will be kept at the La Qulna museum, established by Dr. Henri Martin, owner of the properties on which the excavations have been made. Hupdreds of bones of auiinals of the same |»erliKl blro have been uncovered, most of which bear the marks of flint spears and acraper*, which were found In abundance throughout the region, thus classifying the relics as belong-' ing to the Middle Stone age. Proper Criticism. Actions B;>cak louder than words; therefore criticize by creating new standards, not by finding fault with old ones. The Literary Farmer. Sign on a truck farm: "Truth crushed to earth will rise again, but vegetables will die. So be careful with your feet." 1A Question for Teetotaler*. A question that, has baffled scien i dsts: If tea leavesStyjajjolTee grounds I for divorce? —Science and Invention. Worth Knowing, i To prevent rags slipping on a . polished floor, sew strips of rubber on the under side at each end. One Could Do That. "It take* nine tailors to make a I Baa." To make him what —a pauper? 1 —Boston Transcript. NO-42 Foliage in cities where there is 3 much soot usually is free from ■;? insects pests. Mme. Makino has an income of •10,000 a month in the mannfact- A uro of brass in Yokahoma. Owls stretch their legs behind i them when they fly to balauce :j their heavy heads. Premiums for Aire insurance in \ this country amount to $850,000,- ! 000 annually. * • I Longest ocean waves are said I to be in the south Pacific, where | they are from 600 to 1,000 feet J long. STEADFAST COBFIDEIICE J The Following Statement Should Form 1 Conclusive Proof of Merit to Every Graham Reader. 1 Could stronger proof of the merit J of any product be desired than the : statements of grateful endorsers who Bay tfteiT confidence has been nndi miniehed by lapse of time? These I are the kind of statements that are appearing in your local papers for Doan'u Kidney Pills They are twice told and confirmed with new enthusi- '•'?% asm. Can any reader doubt the fol- 1 lowing? It'B from a resident of i Burlington: C. B. Ellis, music dealer, Davis S St., Burlington, N". C., says: "I have no hesitation in saying taht Doan's Kidney Pills are a good, 4 relibale kidney medicine. +1 suf- ,1 fered from a lijht attack ltf kid ney complaint and I got a sup- .? ply ot Doan's Kidney Pills from the Freeman Drug Co. After I took them the pain left me and I give them all the credit for relieving me." Over ten years later, Mr. Ellis : added: "Doan's Kidney Pills have given me a permanent cure and I can certainly praise them as being a wonderful kidney medicine." Price 60c; at all dealers. Dont m simply ask for a kidney remedy— 1 get Doan's Kidney Pillls—the w that Mr. Ellis had. Poster-Mil- 1 burn Co., Mfgra., Buffalo, N. Y. PROFESSIONAL CARDS j THOMAS D. COOPER, Attorney and Cotuucllor-ai-Law, | BURLINGTON, N. C, Associated with ▼.s. Coulter, - % No». 7 and 8 First National Bank Bldg. S. C. SPOON, Jr., M. D. Graham. N. C. Office over Ferrell Drug Co. Hours: 2 to 3 aud 7 to tf p. m., and by appointment. Phone 97 GRAHAM HARDEN, M. D. Birltsotoß, N. C. 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