THE FRANKLIN TIMES
A. F. JOHMSON, Editer aad luijir
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Eight Month. 1.00
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(Foreign Advertletnu Representative 1
THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION '
Entered at the Post Office at Louls
fcurg, N. C., as second class matter.
? "the House passed a bill Wednesday
x appropriating fifteen tnriion dollars
(or road construction .
The second payment on Tobacco
brought smiles to the races of a large
dumber of Franklin County citizens
Monday. ?
The fellow who said the first ad
vance was all the members of the to
bacco and cotton associations would
ever get will now have to find another
means of misrepresentation.
In the- death of Capt. Arch Perry,
who served so long as a member of
the Board of Education. Pranktla
County "has lost a most valuable citt
. sen and the school children of the
County a loyal friend. J
The lower houBe of the United
States Congress has passed a resolu
tion to amend the Constitution so as
to do away *rith the issuing of tax
free securities. This is ? lust aid
lair action and it is to be hoped will
be passed by the Senate and then rati
fied by all the States.
The bill introduced In the Legisla
ture to require all Judges of the Su
perior Court to remain In the county
seat the tail length of each term, and
to hear clvU cases after the criminal
cases had been disposed of and other
wise to be at Chambers tor any sub
ject to be brought before him. Is one
of the best pieces of legislation we
have Been suggested. L<ets hope It
-will pass.
The hearty commendation of Judge
E. H. Cranmer by the Woman's Club
of Loulsburg Is a Just recognition of
an honest desire to render our Courts
of benefit to our community In lessen
ing crime. Some think Be was .^en
tirely to hard on the criminal, but
there Is no question about the fact
that there has been entirely to little
fear of punishment at the hands of
our Judges to have much tnfluencce on
our""eriminal class.
Lets hope that now the House has
passed the 115,000,000 appropriation
to enable the enlargement and possi
ble completion of the State Highway
road system that Commissioner John
Sprunt Hilli will Immediately take
over the road from Loulsburg to Hal
ifax and make that a part or the State
System, whlqh will opdn up one of the
main thoroughfares to our Capital;
City and with connection to Durham
give us a nearer western connection.
If this can be done It wtfi no douftt
prove to be onfe of the most popular
highways in the State. We hope that
Mr. Hill will look Into the advisabili
ty of taking this over at once.
Now that other towns in North Car-"
ollna are coming forward With assur
ances that members of the two mar.
ketlng associations can get credit ac
commodations from their merchants
another year and deliver their cotton
and tobacco to their respective Asso
ciations, Loulsburg should get In line.
Our banks and merchants were espec
ially liberal with their accomodations
to members of the Associations the
past fall. And they should hasten to
make public their position for the fu
ture that the farmers may know what
they can depend upon. Lets make
t Loulsburg unanimous. Call a meet
ing Wthe Chamber of Commerce and
take action,
Evidently the recent grand Jury wss
not fully Informed as to the costs In.
L . volved wham it recommended to the
Board of Gouty Commissioners to
Mil the County Home Fsrm and move
tt- clo??r t? Loulsburg where modern
??kMIMIbiiih can be ^scared. The
truth about (he matter Is the modem
?MMkM they had la mind -light.,
irj+n aad steam hsat on be sup
|M U the present born* a great deal
II l f to town. Even though
tM grand Jary requested that thai
BOKd Ml at oaw or be required to
tfcagr hare aot done so, the
the wishes of the majority of the t&x
payers, or least they huTe not been
given an opportunity to approve or
disapprove same, and the Board Is not
legally bound to abide by the sugges
tions of a grand Jury In a matter of
this kind. Mr. Commissioners don't
act to hastily.
MB. 8T0NK WRITES
To The Franklin Times,
Mr. Editor: ? I will write you a few
lines to let you hear from the old
Rock one more time. Good many of
cur farmers have Bowed their plant
beds and ure going right ahead with
their farm work. Such as getting
wood and hauling out manure, and
some are clearing new grounds which
they will put either In corn, tobacco,
or cotton. I heard one man say the
olher day. that he was going to try to
make two 500 pound bales or cotton on
cne acre of land, this year. Well that
is all right. It he will try as hard
to make a plenty corn and meat itlso.
Small crops where they are well ma
nured and cultivated is the only way
to clear any money because you can
do your own work and at tlxe end will
have more money than the one that
cultivates a large crop and half works
It. By all means mate a plenty of
corn and hay for your own (arm.
Keep plenty of hSgs and cows to eat
up all of the extra feed. I /
Well, Mr. Editor, I Was 'Hi Louis
burg all of last weeiT attending Court
and I was well pleased wltn our new
Judge. If every Judge was like him
I think they would soon break up so
much pistol toting and some of the
whiskey making and automobile
driving when drunk, for whiskey
ami pistols have causea two deaths
and three others to be snot, in leas
than one and a half miles ot my home
in less than six months. My observa
tion is fines are no good, but when you
send them to the road for twelve
months or two years you will see that
it will lessen the crimes to a great ex
tent.
Well I see from the- newspapers
that some of the Representatives In
the Legislature are clamoring for
more road bonds. Well, Mr. Editor.
I don't see any use of any more bonds
unless they use the money to a better
advantage than they are using it. Now
I don't want to criticise any one but
working the roads 1* a plum farce ad
tar aa the work on keeping up the
State Highway in this township is
concerned. It is every day talk that
it cost about twelve dollar* a day for'
hands, truck and gas and as I see it
there Is very Uttle done. So I think
it is time to put a stop to wasting pub
lic money, not only In mads but in
everything else, until tne tax payers
can get on their feet better than they
are now. I went to HocKy Mount the
other day and I found tne road from
BelfoTd church to Nashville had been
scrCped over as I went on and when
I tame back they scraped It gvar
again, wltlch mis twice In one day.
And I found out ths* man was OK Ills
iob at sunup and until dark. You
know as well as I do that you aan't
do a days work to start at nine o'clock
and stop at four. It Is nothing but a
waste of the public money. Some of
the places where we have to turn out
to detour are so bad you could not
get through them unless you had help.
The waste of the tax payers money Is
what makes it so hard on them. If
the money was properly spent it
would not take so much to do the
work. But Mr. Editor as I see It
every one Is trying to get all the pie
he can and do as"llttle as they can to
get by with it.
How much longer will this extrav
agance last, no one kn< rws. But not
much longer I hope. For when they
tax them to death and they can't make
enough to live on and pay the tax
then the wasting of the money that
.we pay fo^ taxes will have to stop.
There are some people who are al
ways ready to vote more tax for every
thing that comes along. I hardly
know how to blame them for they are
most sure to have their part of the tit
and get their share of the milk. I
hope our Representatives will keep a
Keen eye on Increasing, for we are
laying to much taxes now. I think
they had better go slow. And I think
they will. For I have the uttermost
confidence in Harris and Mr. Cooper
both for I have known them all of my
life and went to school with them In
our young days and I know them both
to be good honest men.
They tell me we will get the second
payment on our Tobacco soon and I
hope we will as we all need It very
bad to meet our obligations. I like
the cotton pooling better than I do
the tobacco. If It hadn't been for
the pooling of tobacco and cotton we
wouldn't have gotten more than h?lf
of what we will get.
Yours with best wishes,
' W. O. STONE.
TOBACCO GROWERS
CELEBRATE AGAI*
Orfranlxfd Fanner* Take Hone Seven
Million Dollar* Thl* Week.
The Tobacco Grower* Cooperative'
Aesoclatlon established another record
I ant Monday whan U made the biggest
payment ever dlntrlbuted In a Mingle
day to tobacco farmer* In Virginia and
North Carolina.
Member* of the aasoclatlon doubled
their money at M town* of the old
belt and carried home the beat part of
?even million dollars in cold cash.
Thl* week's sudden tidal wave of
prosperity has caused wide spread
satisfaction amove the organised grow
or* and the merchants, bankers and
fertilizer men who hare reaped a rich
harvest from the second cash payment
of the association In Virginia and
Western Carolina.
Celebration* and mass meetings at
several point* marked the aecond dis
tribution. Oliver J. Sanaa, executive
manager of the association, addressed
a mass mef(lng of growers at Booth
Beaton wUra the farmers of Halifax
county received 1*00,000 aa the aao
ond advance and member* of the asso
1 rtatloty-.- declared their average e<
| Aftar Eery M*al
WRKSIEYS
Chew yonr food
well, then use
WRIG LEY'S to
aid digestion.
It also keeps
the teeth clean,
breath sweet,
appetite keen.
Thm Grmat Aimttcoji
Swmmtmmaf
$18.80 per hundred received, to date
was as much as they got (or last year's
crop.
"Cooperative marketing last July
was a prospect and a hope," said Man
ager Sands, "today it is an actual (act
and will progress and improve with
time. The statements or its oppon
ents have been repeatedly dls proven .
They will now have to find new points
to attack."
Similar enthusiasm among associa
tion members marked the great gath
ering ot members who came to the
cooperative floors early last Monday
to receive* their checks at Danville,
Winston-Salem and other large mar
kets. The assurance given the grad
ers last Monday ot more payment* to
follow their second caatx disburse
ment Increased the satisfaction Tand
confidence of the members of theXblg
cooperative. Backing up the policy
of the association to call upon all
land owning members to deliver all
tobacco grown upon their land to the
association In 1923, thousands of grow
ers have taken contracts to their
homes with the- determination to_sii
the membership campaign and Ihcrjisse
the sign-up In America's largest co
operative marketing association jo
100.000 growers. . .
Hundreds of merchant* and bank
ers are rallying to the support ot co
operative marketing for the coming
year. Stating that tnetr ? dealings
with the members of the cooperative
associations were entirely satisfactory
In 1922 from SO to 40 merchants . at
Eastern North Carolina nave adv ertJsr
ed their desire to extend aid 'to %U.
worthy members of the association
since Its markets reopened this mq^Oi.
Influential merchants of Hayr
Mount, Kinston, Fremont, LaOrdU
Deep Run, ?now Hill, emlthfleld ?M
other points of Eastern Carolina -UM
advertised thdir support of the to
bacco and cotton associations during
the past ten days.
Scarcely a town remains In the to
bacco and cotton area or tne Carolines
and Virginia where the members of
the marketing associations will fall
to Jlnd the support of friendly bank
ers and merchcants In marketing their
next year's crop<
The third cash payments of the as
sociation will begin next month with
Its members in 8onth Carolina.
BRITAIN SEES WAR
STARTING AS RESULT
OF RCHR INVASION
Fear Is Expressed That England Will
Be Forced Into Some Form of Inter
vention; Many Humor*
London, Jan. 2&. ? The critical situ
ation in the Ruhr Is a subject of much
anxious comment by the morning
newspapers, which regard the out
look as so dangerous that It Is lmper.
stive that some way be found for re
lieving the deadlock.
Fear is expressed In Bome quarters
lest Great Britain be force* Into some
form of active Intervention against
her will. Rome circles are also fear
ful that if France pursues the present
lines of her policy she will be obliged
to Increase her forces greatly in the
occupied district with the result that
Germany may follow with military ac
tion which would mean war.
There already has been a report that
Germany was arranging tor relnstl
tute conscription* but official confirma
tion of this was forthcoming this morn
lng. Another report, this rrom Paris,
said that General Ludendorf had been
recently at Muenster, wnere he wit
nessed maneuvers, this however, was
also unconfirmed . .
Some Commentators entertain the
belief that France Is con-rtnced she
has miscalculated the German temper
and finding the results of the occupa
tion not what she exported, seeks a
means of withdrawing. If possible with
out loss of her prestige.
To this end, It ls stated here, Prance
Is reexamining the Britain and Italian
proposals which she rejected at the
Paris conference.
Meanwhile, today's developments la
the Ruhr are awaited In Oreat Britain
with much anxiety.
To Stop a Cough Quick '
A1JNO HONEY. ?
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HAYES*
SANpY CHEEK ITM8
The many trWads of Mrs. Asberry
Dennis regret to learn of tier suiter.
Inn from pa stuck of appendicitis .
Muter Lonnle Bunrette and Miss
Nona Burnett*, who hare been suffer
ing from pneumonia are Improving.
We hope they will soon back In
school .
Mrs. O. C. OuptonH visiting her
daughter Mrs. 8. N. Nelms.
Miss Annie Mae Qupiou. of Hender
son, spent the week end with her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Gupton.
Mr. and Mrs. C. Q. West and Mr.
and Mrs. Auburn Allen and Mies Alice
Allen visited Mi^ and Mrs. Caleb Al
len. of Wake Forest, Sunday.
Mrs. Caleb Allen, Jr., ts sick at her
home with influenza.
A number of our young people at
tended the play Unacquainted^ with
Work, at Cedar Rock last Thursday
night. They reported a very enjoy
able time.
We are very sorry that Mr. Clinton
Nelms went to Cedar Rock to the play
last Thursday night and had his mo
tor meter stolen off his Ford.
Miss Bet tie Burnette and Miss QUI
and Mr. John Woodlief, ot? Kittrell,
were pleasant visitors in our commua
lty recently.
Mr. Percy Winston from Rocky
Mount was a pleasant visitor in the
community Sunday.
Miss Annie Mae Gupton visited her
sister, Mrs. Bnnis Lancaster Sunday
afternoon .
Jan. 9, Mr. S. N. Velms passed a
way at his home following a few days
suffering with pneumonia. Mr. Nelms
w6s a faithful member or sandy Creek
church. He leaves to mourn their
1088 a widow, who was Miss Lela Gup
ton, before marriage, und one sister,
Mrs. Collins, of Henderson, and three
brothers, Messrs. G. W. Nelms, D. N.
Nelms and Cm G. Nelms. G.
TO Jf Elf BEES OF COTTON A8S0CIA.
TIOJI
All members of the North Carolina
Cotton Growers Association in Frank
It!r?ounty who have not received their
second advance will take their dupli
cate certificates of delivery and call
on Mr. J. S. Howell, who will get
the matter straightened out at once.
Mr. Howell has assumed this respon
sibility and we are sure he can give
you quick and efficient service.
The tabulation of the card teporta
i shows that there were 14,063 .bales of
cotton,- counting round as half bales,
ginned In Franklin county, from the
crop- of 1922 prior to January 1, 1923,
as compared with 11.248 bales ginned
to January 1, 1922. ? .? ?
. COW FOR BALE
One flue. 'cow for sale/apply to
v " MRS. J. H. SLEDGE.
1-26.31; V Mapleville, N. C.
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AANTAL STATEMENT
Showing the Receipts and Disbursements of the General Fond of Franklin
County, From December 1st, HOI <u December 4th, 1922
1921
Dec 1 to cmt overdraft brought forward from Nov. % 7,103.14
Dec 3 by amt deposited by Sheriff (1921 taxes) t 2,500.00
Doc 6 to amt pd J J Barrow-, Judge Juvenile court 25.00
Dec 5 to amt pd H W Perry, salary auditor 125.00
Dec 5 to amt pd Dr J E Malone, hoalth officer 150.00
Dec 6 tc-amt pd Dr J E Malone quarantine officer 35.00
Dec 5 to amt pd Pauline Smith, Home Dem Agt 75.00
Dec 5 to amt pd J C Jones welfare officer 75.00
Doc 5 to amt pd J C Tucker Jail keeper 25.00
Dec 5 to amt pd Henry Portls Janitor : 35.00
Dec 5 to amt pd A J Joyner 4th qr Com and mileage? 39.35
Dec 5 to amt pd >P Timberlake 4th qr Com & mileage 26. 00
To amt Cr by error to Q P fund, due Sal fund (Dec 1920 330,00
Dec 5 to amt pd C C Hudson 4th qur Com 25.00
Dec 5 to amt pd W D Fuller 4th qr Com and mileage ? 43.00
Dec 5 to amt pd W C Wilder 4th qr Com and mileage.. 30.60
Dec 5 to amt pd S,C Holden stamps ex and telgrams 9.65
Dec 5 to amt pd_ Franklin Hotel dinner for Jurors 10.50
Dec 6 to amt pd Henry Wiggins 1 load wood Nov eourt _ 4.00
Dec 5 to amt pd McKinne Bros Co stove pipe and lock " .2.46
Dec 6 to amt pd Mrs H W Perry 11 days Court 8 ten 110.00 ?
Dec 5 to amt pd Lbg L & W Co 1 and w C H and Jail? 14.50 1
Dei 6 to amt pd H A Kearney acct rendered -- 79.00
Dec 5 to amt pd Joe L, Seawell costs Williams ts ComB 13. OS
Doc 5 to amt ifd P J King capturing still ! 20.00
Doc 5 to amt pd Edwards and Broughton acct CSC ? " 7.21
Dec 5 to amt pd Edwards and Broughton for Fee book ;i' 32< 19 4
Dec 5 to amt pd J J Barrow CSC costs J M Allen v Com 10,00
Dec 5 to amt pd J A. Marshall capturing still 20.00
Dec Bo amt pd H A Kearney 1 J tor col 1921 taxes 675 . 00
Dec 6 by "nt dep by CSC Jury tAX and Sten fees _ 22.80
Dec 8. by amt depyhop rentitC Tayler ... ? 10. 00
To voucher pd O W Dobbin Wma v Com* yeft off Nov) 85.00
* 9.484.M ? -VHjaa.so
Pec 31 by amt overdraft carried forward to Jan ? $,96d.84
> % >,484.64 IM84.64
i?2 - v . ?.
Jan 1 to amt overdraft brght forward from Dec , 6,9S1j<84 ,,
Jan 2 to amt pd J J Barrow Judge Juvenile court , n , ,36.00 ,, ? :
Jan J to amt pd'H W Perry' salary auditor ' 126.00 ) >+ ? _
Jan 2 to arat pd Dr J'B Malone quar officer. _ 56 .{00 ,5. ?
Jan 2,to amt pd J C Tucker Jajl keeper , '?$*> ? ' '
N OTICE -
To Members of the Tobacco and Cotton Growers
i ?? ? * J
; Co-operative Associations
Our dealings with the members of the Co-operative Association has been satisfac
' >
tory for 1922 and to further show -our confidence in the Association we are willing to
furnish the members supplies tf-they merit credit, so far as we are able, for 1923.
We are taking this position NOW in order that the membership may know that
they can deal with us and still deliver their tobacco and cotton t^ their respective As
sociation.
Spring Hope Supply Co., Supplies.
Spivey and Matthews, Supplies,
Davis and Joyner, Supplies.
The Citizens Bank of Spring Hope.
? ' I
(The First National Bank of Spring Hope
J. M. Sykes, Cash Grocer.
Spring Hope Drug Co. .
Citizens -Drug Co.
Spring Hope Grocery Co . , "Wholesale .
O. B. Bainees, Hardware.
r .
Tant and Baines, Cash Grocers.
H. E. Edwards, Cash Grooer.
Bunn and Luper, Dry Goods.
R. S. Coppedge, Cash Grocer.
Bell's Cash Grocery .
Spring Hope Cafe . ?
L. E. Markham, Plumbing Contractor.
Geo. W. Bunn, Dry Goods and Notions.
E. CrBullock, Cash Grocer .
J. A. Tunuell, Cash Grocer.
J. C. Brantley, M . D . J'
F. G. Chamblee, D. D. S. .
South side Pharmacy, Druggists.
Pitts Motor Co., Ford Sales and Service.
M. L. St&llings, Barbecue Stand .
I. B. Gardner, Live Stock and Vehicle*.
H. Brantley, M. D. *
Tha % C. May Co.; Geueral Merchants .
Spring Hope, N. C.