THE FRANKLIN TIMES! A. F. JOHNSON, Editor and Mu?|er ?TAR DROPS ? ? Mrs. O. T Hclden and little daugh ter, Prances, and Miss Evie Lee Pearce of Pranklinton. ure visiting their sis trr, Mrs. Henry Upchurch. this week. Purina Poultry and Dairy Feed at L. P. HICKS. 7-27-lt Electric Light Bulbs, Flash Lights and Bulbs at L. P, HICKS. 7-27-lt" BIG DEVELOPMENT IN ELECT KU' INDUSTRY The relation of public utllltiee to tho increase of population 18 brought out In_ statistics recently published by the bureau of census :n Washing ton. In 1880 the population ot the United States was 50.000,000; in 1920, four decade later, It was 105,000,000, an increase of 110 per cent. In 1880, the entire capital Invested in the electric light and power Industry was less than one million dollars; it is now approximately $5,000,000,000 an in crease of 500,000 per cent. Tho an nual gross return upon the invest ment is about $1,000,000,000, and 1, 750,000 persons own the securities of the industry. It is estimated that 8,500,000 homes in this country, out of a total of 22, 500,000, are wired for electrical ser vice, and this service is at present available to 5, 000,000 additional homes In 1922, approximately 1,000,000 new homes were wired and equipped for the use of electrical energy, and it is expected that 4,000,000 additional homes will be wired within the next live years. There are at present in the United States 288 cities of 25,006 or more each, with a combined population of S8, 000,000,' forty years ago It was 8, 500,000. This unparalleled growth was pos sible only because ot the ability of the utilities to keep ahead of the growing demands upon them, says a bulletin of the New York state com mittee on public utility information reporting Ihe figures. To house this increasing population towns and cities had', to exp&nti, and bulldl suburb#. Suburbs cannot exist without ade quate transportation and telephone service. Houses ye not habitable with out electric wljgs and gas pipee; thus the electrlfc railway, the elec tric light and power indusu-y and the gas industry served the growing com inunttles by anticipating and prepar ing themselves tor demands for ser vice In advance of the need of it. This demand upon public utility Ber vice to keep ahead of the development nt tha rnmmnnliy It yonroa with the increasing $<>r cafiita ,i?Je of gas, electric ifrht and power, tele phone and othei^,. utilities, has neces sitated a constant Inflow- of capital tor new plants ihid equipment. * ' !^q I _ \ THE ADVANTAGES OF AX&BICA One of the greatest industrial or ganizations in 'he world, typifying the achievement of private enterprise, initiative and inventive genius, is the American Telephone & Telegraph Company. No other business gives a uniform service over such a large area of land as the United States. This one- of the greatest companies that has believed in publicity and has used not only the national maga zines and metropolitan daily news papers, but has told its story in the country daily and weekly newdpapers throughout the land. It has placed before the American people as no othfer company has attempted to do through advertising, almost every phase of the operation- of its busd- 1 ness. While telephone communication in European countries hag been stag nating under political management which killed incentive for invention and development along this line, the American telephone system has pro gressed to a point where this nation has many times the number of tele phones to be found m all of the other countries of the world combined, at much lower rates to customers. The American system is typical of real public ownership in that the money for Its development is furnish ed by hundreds of thousands of stock holders, Including customers and em ployes, In every state In the union. - For the convenience ot customers and to assure good and uniform ser vice, the telephone Industry Is a natural monoply. The advantage of a uniform system as fn the United States is well Illustrated when com pared with the patchwork telephone systems operated or controlled by a dozen different governments In a do zen different countries of Europe. Those who are prone to criticise America's business organizations ought sometimes consider for Just a few minutes the advantages this na tion really enjoys. 1 ranslated Into food, at the prices the farmer gets, It take* sixty-three and one-half dozen, or 762, eggs to pay a plasterer for one day of eight hours work In New York City. It take* seventeen and one-half bushels of corn, or a year'# receipts from half an acre, to pay a bricklayer one day. It takes twenty-three chicken* weigh ing three pounds each to pay a paint er for one day's work In New York. It requires forty-two pounds of but ter, or the output from fourteen cow*, fed and milked for twenty-four hours, to pay a plumber fourteen dollars a day. To pay a carpenter for one day's work. It takes a hog weighing 1TB pounds, representing eight months feeding and care. k 6 About 250,000 chickens burned on an Illinois farm. Smelted like a new oook getting dinner. 0 FOR FIRST CLAM JOB PRINTING PHOira m ? 50-Foot Dive Walter I.trmc. 15, executes a swan dire tram a 60-iodt ledgo at Torquay, England, in preparation for the Olymplo water event* next year. RADIO PRIVACY NOW POSSIBLE Conversation over the radio tele phone has now reached the stage of "privacy". By means of a scrambling process in transmission and an unscrambling process in reception, the spoken word over the electro magnetic wave is kept free from outside Ustners-ln. Success has crowned the efforts of engineers of the Bell telephone sys tem in perfecting such apparatus, giving to radio phone science a full degree of commercial aatirity. The use of radio for phone messages has lcng been considered unfeasible, due to the lack of privacy. The new system connects Catallna islands off south ern California not only with the main land at Los Angeles, but the wire Urs voice can also be switched into the elaborate main trunk llnee of the Bell system and convoyed over land to any point in the United States. David Sarnoff, General Manager of the Radio Corporation of America says: "All world progress rests upon ln of intelligence. WHlh the groMrth'and spread of radio, even into isolated communities, humanitarian educational and social possibilities come Into view hitherto envisioned through 'no other agency." Mellon has received a new honor ary degree, but he hasn't as many as the thermometer. O Chloroform used by New York burglars made ten people sick. It should be against the law. O Subscribe to The Frauklln Times FOR SALE 35 acres of splendid farming land just outside of Pranklinton, known as the I. H. Kearney home, has $5,000.00 worth of building on it, and is one of the best small farms in Franklin County. See or write E. H. MALONE, Louisburg, N. C. 7-27-tf l-'OR .SALE? TEN SHOATS, TEN weoks old, $5 each. HAMILTON HOBGOOD, MapleViile, N. C. 7-27-lt. FOR RENT The old Nicholson home place, neat Mltchlner's Cross Roads . for 1924, about four horse farm suitable for cotton, tobacco, corn, etc. good resi dence, plenty outhouses, In ftno com munity, good school and church aj vantages. Apply to C. T. NICHOL SON, Frankiinton, N. C? or O. C. MITCHINER, at Mltchlner's Cross Roads. 7-?7-4t FLOORING, CEILING, WEATHER I have a full supply of first class flooring, celling, and weatherboard ing, kiln or air dried, at reasonable prices delivered at Loulsburg. Also other grades at pro rata prices. Write or call MORTGAGEE'S SALE By virtue of the power conferred on the late R.I H. Griffin, by reason of mortgage executed by W. A. Will iams, and Annie Williams, his wife, which said mortgage Is recorded In Book 132, ?page 270, Franklin Regis try, we, the Administrators of said Griffin, at the request of W. H. Dam eron, assignee of the notes secured by said mortgage, default having been made In the payment of the same, will on the 20th DAY OF AUGU8T, 1923 at 12 M o'clock, at the court house door in Louisbburg, N. O., sell for cash, the following tract of land: Be glnlng at a bridge on Shocco Creek, on Warrenton road, thence up said Creek 17 C 64 L to mouth of Stew art's Branch: thence up run of said branch 6 C corner for Lot No. 8, thence South 37 C 82 L 8 10 14 ff 1 C #9 L, corner for Lot No. 4, thence 8 58 E 2 C 75 L. to poplar; thence 8 88 1-2 fi 8 O 77 L to poplar; thence 8 78 B 6 C, two poplars, thence N 89 E 6 C 48 L to rock West side of War renton road, corner for Lot No. 4; thence along Mid road 41 C 80 L to the beginning, containing 98 acres, more or less. Thl? July 18th, 1918. R. H. GRIFFIN, By a D. and N. BOARDS 7-27-5t W. M. PINNELL, R 2, Loulsburg, N. C. ECONOMY WEEK AT KLINE'S REGARDLESS OF TODAY'S COST KLINE IS OFFERING MERCHANDISE OF EVERY DES ORIPTION AT PRICES THAT~TALK FOR THE** SELVES AND ALL WE CAN TELL YOU IS IF YOU NEED FOR NOW OR LATER NOW IS THE TIME TO BUY THESF. VALUES WILL NOT LAST I.ONG / T THESE REMARKABLE PRICES. COMPARE WITH PRICES QUOTED ELSE WHEFF JTCSLIN ? 15c lard Th? best grade white mus lin 36 Inch wide soft quality no starch none better made. MEN'S SOg ? 8c per pair ^JJen's Sox, black, tan, grey ^Svy and white, regular 15c value. PONGEE SHIRTS? D P'MP? ?8e Oue lot Oxfords* and Pumps patent and kid leathers, all sires values up to $6.00. PLOW SHOES? ?1.95 Piaw shoes all sizes solid leather regular $2.50 value. MEN'S STRAW HATS ? 98c $1.50 value straw hats all sizes and shapes. IAD1ES VESTS? 10c H*golar 15c value ladles v?rt? good grade all sizes. i ABIES SILK HOSE? 48c Regular $1.00 value silk lace hose all si?es. OILCLOTH? 2Sc Tud Good grade all assortments, i eguJar 39c value. . . \ 4. PERCALE? l?e Ooofl quality 36 inch Percai6 light and dark patterns reg~ ulir 29c value. ;?*#0 BFJi SHEETS ? fyic Oood grade solt quality 72*50 bheete <1.60 value PALM BE;. CH SUITS (10.95 Sport and regular models $15.00 value all colors and sizes 34 to 46. REMNANTS 1 ?ble packed full of rem i mts marked do?vn so low you will Imagine you are get ting them free. L. Kline & Co. WHEN ADVERTISED OB SEEN ELSEWHERE ITS ALWATS CHEAPEST HERE LOUISBURO, NORTH CAROLINA FOR SALE The Brick In Wood Bank Vault will be sold to highest bidder, Saturday, July 28th, on th? premises, at about 2 p. m. M. S. CIJJTON. 7-27*tt typmvritebs FOB SAI.t? >'EW and rebuilt, cash or terms. A. H. HENLEY, Henderson, N*. C. 7-27 -6t Chase and Sanborng Coffoe and Tea at I* P. HICKS. 7-27-lt TOBACCO PLUES V * ' " ^ $6.00 Per Hundred Poands We have them made any size and can fit any barn. Can gpve you a set any day you send. Also plenty of iron to make flues witb. Let us hav? your order for new ones or re pairs. C. W. FINCH & SON Phone 414 Henderson, N. C. Three Good Warehouses in Louisburg THE PLANTERS THE UNION and THE CO-OPS Bring your tobacco to Louisburg and deposit the proceeds with The Farmers & Merchants Bank SPECIAL Sugar Cured Picnics, wrapped per lb 14c Choice Cuts Western Steak per lb 35c Choice Roasts,, per lb 25 - 30c Stew, 12M?c Soup Bone 5c Hamburger Steak, per lb, .30c Small Tender Fork Chops, per lb 30c Pork Roast. 25c Home-made All Pork Sausage fcer lb 25c Frankfurter Sausage .... 20c 'Fresh Sparenbs 22l/>c PYesh Pork Brains 25c Beef and Pork Liver .... 20c Country Style Slice Ham. ,40c F. F. V. Hams 35c Country Hams 30c Slice Bacon 35c Armour and Kingan in 1 lb. carton 45c Phone Orders Promptly De livered. Our Refrigerating Plant will keep fresh meats as good in summer as in winter. Quality guaranteed %t all timet. CASH GROCERY and Market Phone 270 Louisbnrg, N. C. ? '.v ' *, ? . r I '