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uttered at the Post Office at Louls
?urc, N. C. a* second claaa matter.
Clem Shaver, of West Virginia, has
been selected by John W. Davis, Dem
ocratic Nominee for President, to con
duct the coming campaign.
To son^jthe Impressions gained by
Dr. SmitlHo his trip to Europe, which
have been given publicity and which
we are publishing this week, may seem
uncalled for or sensational. But to
many it will be accepted as a warning,
wisely given. If actions and outward
appearances mean anything in the so
lution of any problem then it is evi
dent that Europe is preparing for
something. All this unrest with the
further you go the worse It gets can
only point <0 the ultimate explosion
that will bring very embarrassing re
sults. The (act that the world Is look
ing to America for the solution and
th epacifieation of their local diffi
t
culties should make Anjgrica more
alert. It should Invite the opportuni
ty to do such a great work, instead of
to stand by and look on to the detri
ment of humanity and Christian re
ligion. Dr. Smith's message is only a
hint as to what Is evidently in the
making unless something Is done to
check it. Lets hope that America
will intervene in time to save the cat
astrophe. if its true Europe is looking
to it In confidence.
Ms MonUU
.74
vM
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MR. VjLNVS BENEVOLENCE
The bighearted benevulence of Mr
Sam C. Vann reached its climax in
the beautiful and commodious new
school building now being completed
in our sister town of Franklinton. That
it is a structure of beauty and adapt
able convenience, in fact all that can
be desired in a modern and well plan
ned school is' understood when it is
known that it is the architects' ideal,
the most advanced in school structure.
Its comparisons are not to be confined
to North Carolina, but it towers above
any building of its kind in America.
The gift represents not dollars and
cents, but the hearts real desire to do
something of lasting benefit for hu
manity. It is a gift of love and devo
tion to the children of his home com
munity whom he loved. It is the cli
max of benevolence of a big hearted
man. because of its magnitude and
wonderful opportunity. Many has been
the contributions Mr. Vann haB given
to worthy causes. The gift to the
Methodist Orphanage and to Trinity
College for instance. Hut nothing re
veals the real man, the big love of
one for those of his community, as does
the giving of the Christmas gifts to
the children of his home town on
ChriRtmas eve. when all the little child
ren who come are made happy with
a nice new piece of money.
The people of Franklinton have a
just right to be proud of such a citizen.
Franklin County is proud of him; an l
the State should be fc'.ad he is with us.
Each Is mad', better by the reason of
his example.
The do/>atfdn of this magnificent
*lft Is a climax In benevolence, and
more. It is the portrayal of a beautiful
Christian life. To sacrifice that oftiers
might have a broader more useful and
more beautiful life.
May his years he many that he may
Ket the maximum enjoyment from see
Inn his deeds bear good fruits.
The child who "speaks a piece" the
beat Is not always the one who "makes
his mark" In the world.
I STATE >ALR HJLL SHOW THE
i . . STATE
| Kalefyh, July 21. ? The State Fair la
I living up to itB Blofan. "it Shows North
Carolina," according to General Man
4 ager B. V. Walborn, who states that
seventy throe counties participated In
[the premium offerings lust year, which
is six more counties thin in 1922.
When Mrs. Edith Vanderbilt took
over the reins four years ago she de
termined to make it a state fair indeed
aa well a a ittrMttMgaftd flhe ha* net
the goal this year for representation
by one hunJred counties. It is to be
one hundred per cent a State fair. "Mlth
every county taking part.
Twenty two thousand dollars is of
fered in premiums, which is divided so
as to bring out a wide varety of exhi
bits as well as the best exhibits. It is
divided, too. so that all section of the
Slate have a chance to participate in
the prize money if worth while ex
hibits are furnished.
Exhibitors from the seventy three
counties last year have been invited to
repeat; but the invitations will not
stop here. Provision is being made to
take caie of the others expected to
take part from the remaining twenty
seven counties.
While showing the State what it
can produce and manufacture, the
?tate Pair aims this year to give spe
cial emphasis to the many opportuni
ties for development that exist. Edu
cational exhibits will be one of the big
features this year.
Priority of claim for space cannot
be honored after July 31st, it is an
nounced. and prospective exhibitors
are urged to send in their applications
at once.
METHODIST CHURCH
We shaH have only one preaching
service at the Methodist church Sun
day. and that service will be at the 11
o'clock hour.
We had a fine congregation last Sun*
day, and all our people seemed to enjoy
the music and the message. Come and
bring your friends.
jO. W. DOWD, Pastor.
OLD BELT CO-OPS
PAID THIS WEEK
Tobacco Association Pays ti&r&XMMW
At Cooperative Warehouses On
Saturday, Julj tit.
(S. D. Frissell)
Approximately 50.000 bright tobacco
farmers of Central and Western North
Carolina and Virginia who are mem
bers of the Tobacco Growers Coopera
tive Association will receive checks
aggregating $2,300,000. Saturday. July
26. at 60 coperative tobacco warehouses
when association maeks a second
payment on all deliveries of 1923 to
bacco to its old belt members.
Two features of this week's payment
by the tobaco cooperative are especi
ally gratifying to its members, namely,
that their association iB furnishing
them cash to an amount which equals
one-fourth of their totaV receipts to
date from all deliveries of the 1923
crop of old belt tobacco, and secondly,
that this week's payment will be fol
lowed in the near future by another
equal payment, according to the an
nounced policy of the directors of the
tobacco association.
The determination of the tobacco di
rectors to pay its members cash in
hand from sales of old belt tobacco
rather than to wait for a further ac
cumalation of money from sales, has
met with very general approval among
the tobacco farmers for whom cash
payments at this season of the year
are proving a real profit.
Ttye Tobacco Growers Cooperative
Association has made a payment every
month for the last three months to
its members in three states, and next
Saturday's distribution o i $2,300,000
will make a total of $5,500,000 distri
buted to the association farmers at a
season when cash on the tobacco farms
is most needed by producers of the
weed.
Over 15.000 farmers attended the J
great mats meetings and barbecues I
given by members of the tobacco asso- j
elation and citizens of Mullins and
Lake City, in South Carolina last week.
These meetings established a record
for attendance in the South Carolina
belt. They clearly showed the enthu
siasm of South Carolina farmers for
the cooperative marketing plan and
indicate th?t the tobacco association
will increase its membership and re
ceipts largely this year throughout the
southern area of its operations.
United States Senator E. D. Smith
declared to the thousands of tobacco
farmers who gathered to celebrate the
success of cooperative marketing
"That the man who wont Join and
fight with the cooperative association
to name the terms of his wife's and
children welfare and his own precious
manhood is not worthy of the name of
an American citizen."
Congressman Hallet 9. Ward of
North Carolina pointed out that the
man who opposes cooperative mark
eting today has no moral right to vote
because cooperative marketing has be
come so thoroughly recognized as the
outstanding need of the American
farmer that it Is now a strong plank
In the platforms of all three parties.
It taken a woman without a hug
band to tell how to run one.
War Dad&red!!!
Wood Department
LOCAL SEWS
Misses Virginia Cobb anil Maude
Shearin of Rocky Mount are spending
this week with the latters sisters,
Mesdames Stephen and Charlie Lew
Is.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Barnes and Mr.
Jones of Raleigh Bpent last week end
with Mrs. Barnes sister, Mrs. W. D.
Fuller of this place.
Mis*. Mary MaH left tor Weldon last
Sunda/. where she will Join 1 Mr. and
Mrs. Hardison for an automobile trip
to Morehead, Newbern * and other
places. They will be gone about two
weeka
Among the girls who have joined
Miss Wilson In the camping trip at
Cedar Rock from here are Misses
Odell Thompson, Leona Raynor. Hat
tie Bel|? Gupton, Elisabeth Fuller and
Mary- Sturges.
Mr. and Mrs. Marlon Parker visited
their Uncle, Mr John Best near Little
ton last Sunday.
Mrs. Nancy Qupton and soh, Eddie
and Russel, -jLeona and Wilbur Ray
nor and Miss Gladys Gupton spent
last week end with relatives near
Rocky Mount.
Miss Ruth Gupton and Mr. Essie
Gupton went to Chapel Hill last Sun
day to see Miss Pearle 'Gupton.
Quite a number from here enjoyed
the services at Cedar Rock last week.
Mr. A. N. Corpenlng Is expected to
preach here Friday and Saturday
night of this week. Everybody come.
Announcements will be made later
about the services Sunday wliich Is
bis last appointment with us. He will
as usual leave a message with us
worth while.
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| THE LION'S I> THE WAY
Once upon a time, three friends set
out to go to the palace of the King
which was known astheHouse Beau
tiful. The kihg himself had invited
them there and that they might have
r.o trouble in finding the way, had sent I
them a scroll on which the path was I
marked so plainly that it would have '
been a hard matter to have mbsed
the way. And to make assurance dou
bly surg-hc wrote upon the scrc^li
with his own hand, bidding them to
keep to the path, "Turi r. either to
ti'.fc right nor to the left." his mes
sage said. "But follow the path, and
it v.ill kad you safelv to the Hon?
Bf-autiful where I have prepared a
pls.ee for you." All tleir lives
three friends had beaid of the wi:n
OerB of th.- king's lio-ise. some peopio
tflid It was made of r-f iris, others
said that it was b'ji't cf gold. brUit
as the sun itself. Its windows were
said to overlook the world and Its
towers could reach hlghc than t?.e
sky and everyone agreed that there
wis naught within the gatei:. bu.1 pear#
and Joy.
So eager were the friendB to see it
that they could not Journey fast
enough to satisfy themselves, and from
morning till night theluuurited each
other on.
The path by which they wer* to go
was a narrow path, with a rough place
now and then, and now and then a
briar or sharp stone upon It. But for
th.e most part it was pleasant all the
way. The travellers hastened Joyfully
along and all went well with them
until one day they met a man whose
face was turned toward the land from
which they had Just came.
"Oood neighbor, why travel you so
fast. Is a house on fire,, or a friend
sick or does a feast await 'till you come
Tell me, I pry you, that I may sor
row with you.' or rejoice. aB the need
may be."
"Rejoice, rejoice." crtefl the three,
"for we Journey to- the King's House
Beautiful, where n iter. Is pr Clared
for us."
But when the man heai-d this he
shook hie head sorrowfully, as if what
they had told him was grievous news.
"I tou. had thought of going there,'"
he said, "but that was before I knew
of the lions in the way." Lions in the
way." cried the travellers, looking at
each other with startled eyes. "Yes,
Hons, the fiercest and largest that man
ever saw. Their very roaring shakes
the ground, and many r. traveller has
been devoured by them, so people say.
As for myself, 1 have not seen them,
to'hear them is enough for me." "The
King's house may be beautiful as the
morning, and as full of wonders as
the sky is full of stars, but what good
will -Jt do me if I am eaten by the
lions?"^ So his friends were forced to
Jeurijey without him. As they went
they talked on the way about the lions.
"Think you it is true?" said one,
"or but an idle tale?" "True, or not
we Blall pass in safety. Have we not
the kings word far it?" said ihe other,
and he led the way with such grtv.t
strides that his friend could sccarcely
keep up.
Op^yid on they travelled without
atopTjr hindrance, 'til all at onco the
air was filled with a great noise that
shook' the earth beneath their feet and
set tfielr knees to trembling. There
was 06 mistaking what it *as. Even
thov^s& they had never heard the sound
beforer they knew it was the roaring
0[t tUa lions, and the sccond traveller
bcgajpi. to grow afraid. "Let us go
aroubY) by another way," he cried.
"Surely there are more paths than one
to the kings house." And the other
spi'tt&d, out before buy the scroll on
'which .the path was marked and read
OBC? more the kings mesaage. "Turn
oeitiuia'to the left nor to the right, but
follow -the p^Jh and It will lead you
BafeKy'to the ofcuse Beautiful, where a
place >8 prepared for you." He could
pay no heed to it hut turned away into
a by-path and followed it out of sight.
The other traveller was forced to
journey on the path alone, with the
roaring of the lions In his ears and
the shaking of the earth beneath his
feet. Nor, had he gone a furlong more
when, just ahead he spied the lions
themselves. One on each side of the
path they stood with flaming eyes and
yawning mouths, and at the very sight
the traveller's heart beat quick and
sharp.vand his feet faltered upon the
'waj(, |ut his faith in the kings word
waji skater than his <ear. "Falter not.
oh, feat, fear not, oh, heart, there is
safety in the path the king hlmBelf has
said it," he cried as he passed on. And
lo and behold, when he came to. the
lions he found that they were chained.
Roar as they might and strive as they
would, they could not touch those who
walked in the path that the king had
marked, and the traveller passed In
Bafety.
Beyond the lions stood the/ HouBe
Beautiful, with walls of gold, bright
as the sun itself, and gates of gleam
ing pearl. Its windows overlooked the
world, its towers reached the sky, and
of its wonders the half had never been
told him. The traveller's place was pre
pared for him, and the king was wait
ing to welcome him to his houBe, and
he lived there In Joy and peace.
BIRTHDAY PARTY AT WOOD
On the evening of the 10th of July,
a real pflrty of girls and boys gather
ed together at the home of Miss Eliza
beth Fuller to be entertained for a
1 couple of hours from Bix to eight o'-j
clock In a real birthday reception of
thtrteeS years. The gueRta were re
ceived by Mian Mary Susan Fuller of
whom was a visitor from Moulton and
Miss Elizabeth Fuller. After which
were 4II entertained throughout the
evening with games and a contest,
named auto contest. Miss Mary Suaan
and Edgar Fuller won first prize and
Mary 9turges and Freeland Oreene the
booby.
After the amusements and games,
the crowd all arranged In pairs were
Invited Into the dining hall where there
wan somethng worth while to enjoy.
The color scheme being light blue an
old gold, with all colors of candles In
sdcH pRtifrque style.
That Goes Into the
Bank Today
Each pay day sV aside a /ertain proportion of your
wages to go into yoW Swings Account. It is only by
following some definite ?Jan of this kind that you can
get ahead Take out thfl Savhjgs first ? and economize
on other items if nece/taary.
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The advantages of this plan will be evjdent to you
after you have tried it for a short time.
T. H. DICKENS, President H. M. STOVALL, Cashier
E. M. PARHAM, Asst. Cashier
DIBECTOES: T. H. Dickens, Chas. N. Sherrod, H. M.
StoVall, J. S. Howell, O. M. Beam
To The Gas Buyers
? OF ?
franklin County
And all oilier counties. If \ wasn't for the filling sta
tion on tlie south side of LiJtsburg gas would he 25c
.?no-wf. Give it your trade andfifyyill be cheap for some,
time. Come and get good qufck service and bring your
cars to get them washed. Epy gasVicl ride and have a
good 'ime. CASH TO ATX.
.>
R. L. PEOPLES
LOtJlSBURG, North Carolina
First course was canteloupe, second
sandwiches and Ice tea, third, lea
cream and cake.
The head of the table was first ar
ranged for the father of the young
lady, Mr. W .D. Fuller and the other
Mr. A. 8. J. Harnett.
There Is no need for an yof us to try
to express Just bow much U was en
Joyed by the many friends of Miss Eli
zabeth. for. It Is Inexpressible, we can
only say that we enjoyed It to the full
est extent, and hoping some day to be
entertained again In the same way with
I our best wishes for the future birth
(lays.
The guest that were Invited were
Misses Hattte Belle Ouptoil, Edna
Wicker, Mary Sturges, Mamie John
son. Wllmer Qupton. Leona Haynor,
Jodie Radford, Mary Susan Falser.
Messrs. Wilbur Raynor,' Tolbert Stur
ges, Irvln Wicker and q^eTB.
Lawn Mowers. Lawn- rtbae. L&wn
Sprinklers and^lloye Reels at
h. P. HJOKS. \ I ' 7-26-2t
Shn!,M?ry ^T",k<;fV,arnH. sides and
Shoulders at U pf flfcjKS. 7-26-2t
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