A WELL PLANNED BLOW.
Raleigh. March 6. ? "It Is now gen
erally known that the present "Bear
raid" was plotted and hatched at Palm
Beach a tew weeks ago with a well
defined and avowed purpose of crush- 1
lng the cooperatives." This Is the
statement made by General Manager
U. B. Blalock of the North Carolina
Cotton Orowers Cooperative Associa
tion In an Interview concerning the
present condition of the cotton mar
ket Continuing his statement Mr.
Blalock said, "one of the biggest spec
ulators In the .business frankly ad
mitted that the cooperative* were be
coming too strong and that their ac
tivities must be curbed."
"Recently a statement was sent out
by the North Carolina Cotton Cooper
ative to the effect that 1923 pools
would be closed March 1. .This state
ment was distorted by New York bears
to read that North Carolina Coopera
tives would sell all of their cotton by
March 1 ? that their banks were call
ing for sales to be made or margins
to be put up all of which was abso
lutely false. At a recent meeting of
the general managers, one of them
"called his home office to get a report
on market conditions and he was told
that the news were being flashed over
the wires that the Carollnas were of
fering cotton freely. As a fact both
North Carolina and South Carolina
had sold up well ahead of their month
ly sales and were not offering any
cotton.
"The cooperatives are now hand
ling a million bales of cotton, the big
gest single controlling factor in the
market. Their volume of business in
creased over 40 per cent this year, but
in order to stabilize the market the
associations must grow bigger and
faster. The most of the 34,000 mem
bers of the North Carolina Associa
tion are a very loyal hunch and are
hacking their association to the limit
and securing new members every
week. There are those, however, on
the outside who have benefitted by
cooperative marketing methods but
have never joined the association and
while they are on the outalde they are
helping the Bear In this "nine to one"
fight. They should join in the move
ment to help stabilize the South's
greatest money crop and not let it
< ntinue to be the foot ball of specu
lators.
' Y'):at will be the outcome of this
Bp-" -Hid? It cannot break up the
cottc.; nssoclations and I do not be
lieve it can break the spirit of the
membership. The people of the South
who make cotton today are made of
the same stuff .that those were made
of who made cotton in 1861 and they
will not surrender the advantages
they have sained without a fight.
"During the nine years ending with
1914 was an annual average cotton
crop of 13,077,666 bales. The next
nine years gave an average annual
crop of 10.887,777 bales. The average
decrease Id cotton In the last nine year
period was almost twenty million bal
eo over the previous nine year period.
"With almost a cotton (amine star.
Ins the world In the (ace there was a
constant advanqln^jnarket until May
cotton reached New York Exchange.
Apparently this was a (air price fur
t<sottoo, both export and domestic de
mand warranted this opinion. Then
came the tremendous slump ? a rapid
decline o( almost ten cents per pound.
No new crop had come Into sight ? not
even planted yet ? and why this sud
den slump? There may be good and
sufficient reasons, but cotton growers
are skeptical. The speculators live off
of fluctuatlons-r-tbey are his bread
and meat, one hundred points gained
on a declining market Is o( equal val>
ue to him as ona hundred points gain
ed on an advancing market. Produc
ers and manu(acturers prefer stable
markets. Their interests are mutual
along this line. Cooperative market,
lng is the one great stabilizing influ
ence that aid both producers and
manu(acturers.
"The Board o( Directors o( the
North Carolina Association has in
structed the management, said Mr.
Blalock," to extent the time o( closing
the pools o( the 1923 crop until March
29. This will enable every member
o( the association to deliver all o( the
1923 crop and will also assist the co
operative marketing associations In
stabilizing the prices o( the staple.
HOME DEMONSTRATION DEPT.
Items of Interest to Those Inter
ested In Better Homes and Better
Lljlng In Franklin County, s :
By Miss Cathleen Wilson, Arant
Prog-ram for Week March 17-28:
Monday ? Office.
Tuesday ? Cedar Rock.
Wednesday ? Red Bud.
Thursday ? Roberts.
Friday? Seven Paths.
Saturday ? Office.
Health Habits (or the Growing Girl
and Boy
1. A full bath more often than once
a~w?ek. " - ""
2. Brushing the teeth every morn
ing and night.
3. Sleeping long hours (10 or more)
with windows open.
4. Drinking one quart of milk
every day, but no coffee or tea.
5. Eating every day at least two
vegetables other than potatoes and
dried beans, including one leafy vege
table if possible. .
6. Eating fruit at least once a day
preferably twice a day.
7. Chewing food thoroughly.
8. Drinking at least from four to
six glasses of w$ter a day.
9. Eating candy only as dessert at
meals.
Weigh and measure at beginning of
these health habits you form and note
the improvements you make.
Cqughs become
dangerous
if allowed to run on. Check than
at once with Dr. Bell's Pine-Tar
Honey. Dr. Bell's contains just
the medicines the best doctors
prescribe combined with the old
time remedy ? pine-tar honey.
Or. Bell's loosens hard-packed
phlegm, stops coughing and
soothes raw tissues in throat and
chest. Keep it on hand for all the
family. It's a favorite with young
and old. '
All druggists. Be sure to get
the genuine.
DR. BELL'S Pine-Tar Honey
PROFESSIONAL COLUMN
DB. B. F. 1 ARBOBOUGH
BHW ?n J Surgeon
Loaisbnrg, If. C.
Office In Blckett and Yarborough
Ball ding.
Office Phone 296 Residence Phone 28
8. AT WOOD IIWUI.
AtUra?7>At-Llw.
Loulsburg, N. C. Phone No. 116
Office In First National Bank Building
General Practice
DB. W. B. MORTON
Eye Specialist
Office In Hotel Building
Loulsburg, North Carolina
I wish to adrise my patients and
the publio generally that alter the 1st
pf September my business will be on
a Cash basis when work ts completed.
DR. ARTHUR HYNES FLEMING
8. P. BUBT, JL. D.
Loulsburg, N. C.
Offices oyer Sooggtn's Drag Star*
Hours 11 a m. to 1 p. m? and J^to
6 p. m.
DB. W. R. BASS.
Veterinarian
Loulsburg, N. C.
Offices and Hospital EaBt Nash St.
Phone Office 335-L Residence 336-J
Special Attention to Small Animals.
* DR. D. *. 8M1THW1CJL
Deatist.
Uililirg, B. C.
Office In the First National Bank
Building on Main and Nash Sts.
W. M. FKRSOfl.
ATTORNEY- AT -LAW
Loulsburg, North Carolina
fra? tie* in all courts. Office on liala
Street.
e. M. BEAM
Altomej-nt-Law
Off! oyer Post Office
Pr?';, .^.j in ail courts.
DB. J. B. DAVIS /
Physician and Surgeon
Office at Residence, NorthMain St.
Telephone: 1 Hours:
Night 64 8:30 to 10:30 a. m.
Day 64 12 to 2 p. m.
6 to 8 p. m.
?. B. White E. H. JUIob*
WHITE * ? ALONE
LAWTBR8
Loulsbnrg, North Carolina
?eneral practice, settlement of e?
-alee funfls Inveetod. On* member ol
r? firm always in the office.
DR. H. O. PEBBY
Pbjslelan and Surgeon
I.oulsburg, North Carolina
Offices Adjoining Ayeock Drug Co.
Telephones: Day 287: Night 287
DK. J. E. liLOKI.
Lonlaburg, North Carolina
4h la Ayoock Drag Store, Market
Street, Office Practice Uargery
and eonaultatloa.
DB. H. H. JOHNSON
Physician and Sargeoa
Loulsbarg, North Carollaa
Office oyer Ayoock Drug Co.
Telephones: Day and Night both No. 10
I. 0. NEWELl* U. D.
Lealsbarg, N. ??
Office In First National Bank Building
Day Phone 149 ? Night Phone KM
Va H Ruffln. inos. W Rutin
WM. H. * THOU. W. BDFFIN
Attoraeja-at-Law
I ?riit?g, I North Carollaa
Ouusral practice, both etrfl and crim
inal, In Franklin and adjoining cona
Jea, Bapreme and Federal Courts.
Offiee* la First Natloaal Bank
Building.
NOTICH
We are (lad to announce to our cus
tomers and friends that we have first
elass line ot barbers and are In better
?hap* to ??rr? oar onst< mere than V*
have ever been. A trial la all we aik.
Thanking your tor your patronagit.
We are yours to aerrs,
8TKX3ALI. B OS.
FOR FIRST CLASS JOB PRINTING
PHONK 283
OK I q*l
Peggy : "How did yon get alone
with the RBtlUhmanr
Polly: "Fine! Told him aome fun.
ny ttorlea and ha took them aerlouely."
Cooperatlre associations have pass .
Um bUUoa dollar nark la bosiaess.
D. PENDER GROCERY CO.
Louisburg, N. C.
Picnic Shoulders, lb 14c
Bacon, Government Issue, 12 lb. can $1.35
Bacon, Strips average about 3 lbs., lb 12y2c
Corned Beef Hash, 1 lb. can .rx. 7^0
Roast Beef, 6 lb. can . ^rrrr. 49c
Corned Beef, 6 lb. can s 59c
Tomatoes, medium can i 10c
Tomatoes, large can 16c
Corn, Crushed, can 10c
Campbells Beans, can 10c
Van Camps Beans, can . . ... 5c
Campbells Soup, Assorted, can 10c
Swifts Premium Hams, lb 25c
Butter, Very Best Tub, Fresh Churned, lb 59c
Butter, Prairie Rose, quarter lb. cartons, lb 63c
Troco Nut Butter, 1 lb. carton 25c
Swifts Premium Oleo Margerine, Country Style
Roll, lb 31c
Milk, Van Camps Evaporated, large can 11c
Small can 5%c
FLOUR ? Palace Patent Wonder Self Rising
12 lb... 47c 24 lb... 90c 48 lb... $1.70 98 lb... $3.35
OAKZ8
Iced Spiced Jnmbles, lb 18c
Atlant'.cs, lb \. 20c
Fig Bars, lb 12%c
D. P. Cake, Plain, raisin or layer, lb 25c
Absolutely the flneet product that can be produced.
Why pay a higher prlceT
D.P. Goffee, the World's Best Drink, 1 lb. sealed
paokage . . * 37*i
Yellow Front Coffee, 1 lb. sealed pkg 33c
Golde-i Blend Coffee, 1 lb. sealed pkg 27o
W) guarantee our coffee to be (upertor and ot extra oup
quality, froant fca tin tcteet model eteel out ntlla.
We mm yen le n erery pound.
Opportunity Comes to
Everybody at Least Once
YOURS IS NOW
1 am offering you your chance. I am going to sell
the following Real Estate in Louisburg and Franklin
County. If you are interested come and make your
proposition, if you can't come then write and mail it.
*
Opportunity No. 1. Is my home place on Main Street in the Town of Louisburg,
and I think as desirable location as the Town offers. This place has a NICE house,
full large, in good condition, good enough I think for almost any one; it carries with
it between twenty and twenty -five acres of land that never makes less than a bale of
cotton per acre, peach and apple orchards, pecan trees, all kinds of berries and
grapes, and an outbuilding for almost any purpose you could suggest, smoke house,
garage, stable, potato house, implement shed, chicken houses sufficient to properly
shelter 2,000 hens and a splendid cattle barn, and many other things I can not name,
in fact it is equipped for a home, and has everything necessary.
No. 2. A 5-room bungalow on Academy Street right near the graded school, in a
splendid community, and not more than 200 or 300 feet from Main Street, this place
has 6 or 7 acres of fine land, peach trees grape vines and many other nice fruits.
No. 3. A one-half interest in the Corn Mill and water power_on Tar Eiver just
above the. bridge in the Town of Louisburg This is without question one of the finest
properties in the State. The other half can be bought if desired.
No. 4. This is a tract of land, The E. S. Green land, just back of the residence 91
Mr. S. C. Holden, is reached by a broad 30 foot streeft, has about 15 or 16 acres, is in a
high state of cultivation, has a splendid tenant house, and a good spring of water con
venient.
No. 5. This is a tract of land 18 acres, in the rear of the residence of Mr. C. A. Rag
land, reached by a good street belonging by Deed to the Town of Louisburg, is in a
high state of cultivation, has a two story tenant house and other outbuildings.
No. 6. A farm on the Halifax road, just outside the Corporate limits of the Town.
It is now occupied by Mr. F. P. Knott, and contains about 85 acres.. .This is a mag
nificent farm, adaptable to Tobacco, Cotton, Corn or any other field crop. It has a
nice dwelling, 5 rooms, 3 tobacco barns, pack barn, stables, smokehouse, and a tenant
house. You will look a long time before you find a nicer or better small farm than
No. 7. Is a farm of 100 acres adjoining No. 6 but is off the Main road. It has a
new 6-room bungalow just completed, two new tobacco barns and other necessary out
buildings. This land is known as the Pleasants farm and there is none better.
No. 8. The last but by no means the least, is my PET farm on the South side of
Louisburg, and contains something over 1,000 acres of land with 13 complete settle
ments, each of them provided with ample tobacco barns, packhouse, stables, and all
necessary outbuildings. This farm is in a high state of production, in fact I doubt if
there is one in the County more highly developed.
ALL THESE PROPERTIES ARE NOT ONLY FOR SALE, BUT I AM GOING
TO SELL THEM.
WHAT WILL BE YOUR ANSWER? DO YOU WANT TO MAKE MONEY BY
PURCHASING ALL OR SOME OF THIS PROPERT^OR WILL YOU LET TH*
OTHER FELLOW HAVE IT ALL.
YOU CAN BUY IT WITH OR WITHOUT THE MONEY, AND ANY PIECE
THAT IS OFFERED WILL BE CUT TO SUIT YOU IF IT IS MORE THAN YOU
WANT. LET'S TALK IT OVER YOU MIGHT BE ABLE TO MAKE A TRADE
THAT HAD NEVER OCCURRED TO YOU.
J. M. ALI^EM
Louisburg, N. C . K'j