THE FRANKLIN TIMES
4. r JOHNSON. Editor mod S;.T??|?r
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?TAB DROPS?
?The gins are beginning to run.
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?Cotton sold tor 23 1-8 cents
pound in Loulsburg yesterday.
?Fairly good crowds have been
Hi attendance upon Court this week.
?The weather the past week has
been exceedingly hot for September.
?The new lumber company at Har
ris crossing begun their planing op
erations the past week.
?A sign on a store window reads
' take a brick home." To read It caus
es the ladles to smile and the men to
shrug.
?The lire alarm on Tuesday night
was caused by a burning stump in Mr.
A. W. Person's yard. The Are depart
ment responded promptly and was
soon on the scene.
? ? '
?The Board of Education met Mon
day. All members were present. On
ly routine business was brought be
fore the Board. No matters of public
Importance was transacted.
?Her many friends will learn with
much sorrow that Mrs. Dr. C. H.
Banks, of near Banks, was bgdly
scalded Friday while operating, a
steam pressure cooker.
?As a result of a large car driven
by colored people on South Main
street Monday night a Ford was run
off the pavement which ran Into the
daughter of Eutrlc Hazelwood, color
ed and broke her leg near the ankle.
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?Thomas Davis, colored, on Route
6, Loulsburg, reports having a stalk
of cotton containing 216 boles and
squares. This Is,a most extraordi
narily large stalk and if Thomas had
a field like it he would evidently pro
duce four or five bales of cotton per
acre.
CEDAR ROCK BAPTIST CHURCH
SERVICES 18TH
Sunday School 10 o'clock.
Subject: "Searching the scriptures".
Reading, Acts 12:1-13.
"Watch this number 153 on roll.
Come, make It grow."
Preaching 11 o'clock by Invited min
ister.
B. Y. P. U. 7:30. Subject: True
l ine. A heavenly story with an earth
ly meaning, told by the greatest ot all
story tellers. Everybody loves to lis
ten to a good story. Bring some one.
Pres. Miss Sanora Morgan.
Sec. Miss Christine Sledge.
Quiz Mr. Arthur Morgan.
Group 3, Miss Cornelia Boone.
Union of Vine and Branches, Miss
Jones. _
Vine and Branches Mutually Depen
dent, Phil Inscoe.
The Work of the Viuedresses, Way
land Sledge.
Branches That Bear Fruit, Myrtice
C Upton.
Special Music, Miss Jones, Christine
Sledge.
Withered Branches, Beatrice Jen
kins.
Broken Branches, Edna Viverette.
Why Christ Taught These Things,
Miss Lewis.
It Is'not so much where you live
As how, and why and when you live.
Or maybe in the negative.
The question are you fit to live?
It is not much where you live.
And whether while you live you live.
And to the world your highest give.
And so make answer positive
That you are truly flt to live.
SIDI>E> DEATH AT BUNN
On Wednesday morning. Aug. 26th,
the black monster ot death suddenly
descended upon the home of Mr, C. T.
Moody and bore away the soul ot his
mother, Mrs. J. T. Moody. She was in
unusual good health apparently and
her death was quite a shock to loved
ones and friends.
Mrs. Moody lay down for a short nap
before the noon day meal and when
she was summoned to dinner, her
heart had failed and her spirit had ta
ken its flight
The deceased was married several
years ago to J. T. Moody who preceded
her to the grave 4 years ago. Before
her marriage she was Miss Mollis
Terry. She was 64 years old and six
children survive her. Tliej are Mes
srs. Edward, from Pine Ridge, Rlch
tuan, Elmo and Clyde from Bunn, and
Miss Nettle and Mrs. Pattle May who
reside at Bunn also. Eighteen grand
children are left to mourn their loes
of a beloved mother.
Funeral services were conducted by
her pastor, W. T. Brown, at the Bunn
Baptist church on Thursday P. M. at
2:00 o'clock in the presence of a host
of friends and loved ones. The body
was carried to its final resting place,
the Bunn cemetery and there the ser
vices were concluded.
Active pallbearers were J. N. Perry,
Bob Pace, J. W. Mathis, C. C. Mont
gomery, O. F. Alford and J. R. Ballen
tine. The flower girls were Bleeker
Mullen, Bruce Dodd, Annie White,
Mildred Cone, Doris Beddlngfleld and
Ruby Mae Joyner.
The floral designs were many and
beautiful representing the esteem in
which the deceased was held by the
entire community and churoh.
We never buy shoes that don't fit,
but human misfits continue to do ousl
nees at the same old stand.
Eskimos have musical Instruments
called the klout. Wonder If it Is any
thing like our precious saxophone T
No one has ever discovered perpet
ual motion or a way to get to the top
without beginning at the bottom.
tobacco grower* is better
LIGHT
Promised prosperity in ssetern
North Carolina this year has a" ?ut
big totM"""' f"?elr*ts during the-BfiflL
"week and the much leared slump In
cotton has put the great agricultural
empire on the brink of a financial pan
ic. The reports of low prices for to
bacco have been understated and the
bumper crop of cotton has been over
Bt^rhe agricultural complacency of a
month ago has given away to a gloom
that, while less shocking, Is hardly less
deep than the tragedy of 1920. Then
tobacco slumped 60 per cent. At that
It sold above the prices which are be
ing paid this year. The crop put on
the market last Tuesday morning Is
belling about 20 per cent below the
price paid in W24.
Officials in the state department ot
agriculture .estimate that the prices
the weed is bringing now amount, in
a total, to an average of one to three
cents below the actual cost of produc
tion. With such a condition obtain
ing, the department is pointing out:
WHAT THEY FIND. The crop in
stead of being a poor crop, is one of
the best in quality and quantity which
eastern North Carolina ever produced.
Other observers here, less profes
sional, are finding: |
That the cost of farm operation nas.
steadily increased. Taxes have ad-1
vanced in some instances more than,
200 per cent more than they were five
years ggo.
The consumption of cigarettes has
increased by percentages that are not
I approached in any other comparison
The big tobacco companies anu tne
officials of the big tobacco companies
are paying the greatest'income tax to (
the federal government. It is a sate
assumption that they are paying equal
ly high taxes on income to the state
g?Then?wiil be an official investiga-j
tion, but it can do nothing beyond find-,
ing what has happened. It can not.
help the farmer to cash in on his ex-1
pectation of profits this year. It is re
ported by business men who have sur-,
veyed the situation on a number of the
large tobacco markets that very few
growers will be able to pay their o d
bills. Some of them will be able to (
pay for this year's fertilizer. Those
who make a profit on the year s work
will be as scarce as hen teeth.
PRICES HELPED SOME. It is gen
erally conceded, by newspapers which
have been hostile to cooperative mar
keting, that the price this year would
have been even lower than it is but for.
the activity of the association Coop
erative farmers are not satisfied but
they are in much better shape than
those who have sold on the auction
Poors. The dumping system has dem
onstrated its most vicious form this
year-and even newspapers like the
Wilson Times have quoted" the buyers
as saying: "Were tired; please go
away and let us rest."
The cooperative association has all
the financial backing necessary to
handle every pound of tobacco con
tracted for this year. It very proba
cy could make arrangements to fi
nance additional deliveries, but it is
doubtful if the membership would per
mit it. In eastern North Carolina the
association has survivecLto buM
i-ess-in spite of the fact that it has re
ciived less than six per cent of the to
bPARE DISCOURAGED. Banker, and
business men in the east who had look
ed for a bonanza year are grief strick
en The east has never recovered |
irom 1920. Two years ago it staged a
spirited comeback but last year was
another failure. This year the low
Ubucco prices have all butparalyzed
the farmers and the merch-nts- It i (
idle to warn against the invasion of
stock salesmen now.
Young men who go Into business to I
learn It from the top down never stay,
at the top long.
Fastest auto race seems to be to se;
who can get the biggest one in the
neighborhood. *
Women will never be men's equal
until you can slap oqf on the back and
bc-rrow a Are spot.
A shark is a big fish. So are men
who think they are sharks.
Who wants to laugh and grow fat
in summertime, anyhow?
THE ARMY OF THE
UNEMPLOYED
By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK
Dm* of Man, Olinnity of
Illinois.
CLIFIXIKJ.) was wanting to 1mt? col
lege, though be was doing well
and was only In the middle of hla
junior year. Hla mother was a widow,
be explained to me, and she was work
ing hard. It was not that her work
was unpleasant, or that the task she
was performing was an ondoe tax
upon her strength. Clifford did not
like the Idea of her working. It was
a humiliation to him, and be felt that
be should himself go to work at once
and so be able te support the two of
them.
"How old la your mother?" I asked.
"Forty-eight."
"Is she well?"
"She la quite well and strong, and
the doesn't mind working, only I don't
like her having to do It Td rather
she had nothing to do."
He had the Idea that a person with
nothing to do would be more respect
able and happier than one who has a
regular dally task to perform. Unem
ployment brings leisure, he argued,
and leisure begets contentment.
Quite the contrary la true. I know
that many people look forward to the
time when they will bo through with
toil, when they can give up business
and retire to a life of ease and un
employment and happiness,, hut such
people, If they realize this ambition of
having nothing to do, seldom find In
complete leisure the joy and the con
tentment which they anticipated. 1
have known a few men who after a
, life of activity In business or In a pro
i fesslon gave up tholr work, retired
and settled down to do nothing. They
were In most cases unhappy and
| longed for the old activity to which
| they had been used. They had too
j much time to think, and thinking grew
; tiresome. Most of them, having no
; active Interest left In life, folded their
hands shortly and died?died with a
longing for something to do. The un
| employed are seldom happy, whether
' this condition la the result of circum
stances or of their own deliberate
choice.
I sat for a time not long ago In a
hotel filled with widows and maiden
ladles, and wives without household
obligations except to sew on a few
buttons or to crochet a strip of inser
tion for a guest towel or to knit s
sweater to be laid away in tissue
paper. They were to a woman gos
sipy end critical and like a bunch of
cats, ready to scratch over the first
bone thrown Into their midst. Not one
of them was really happy, though each
j might have been had she had some
deflnlte and regular thing to do. They
were all strong enough to work.; shm
of them felt, perhaps that tbey would
i have lost soda] prestige by d*tng so;
; some had no ambition. For none of
I them, unfortunntely, was there any
economic necessity, snd so they con
tinued In unemployed discontent.
I Clifford's mother kept her job and
was happy, and he finished his edu
] eatlon.
i
It is being said that we can't com
municate with other planets by radio.
That's probably good news to them.
I What has become of the old-fash
ioned man who used to object to
bobbed hair?
The early bird may catch the worm,
but he also gets bottled up when he
parks in a big crowd.
A Woman has bequeathed her >rain
to science. Now, it isn't ever/one
who could do that.
No one ever imagined that Belgian
debt funding would be accomplished
without one or two quarrels.
It's easy to "keep things coming
yr.ur way if you are going theirs.
Perhaps the movies are popular be
cause actions speak louder than words.
MONEY TO LOAN
On amortization plan five years to
thirty-time years time at 6 per
cent on improved farm lands.
Farm Lands For Sale
In Louisburg, Gold Mine, Cedar
Rock and Cypress Creek Townships,
on easy terms. Sizes of tracts,
ranging from 16 acres to 252 acres
each.
Wm. H. Ruff in
TOBACCO MARKET
-IS THE:
Most Advantageously Located
MARKET
Within a radius of fifty miles or more for the
Farmers to sell their tobacco.
A Cordial Invitation
IS EXTENDED YOU TO BRING YOUR TOBACCO TO LOUISBURG AND GET
THE HIGHEST MARKET PRICES AND BEST ACCOMMODATIONS. LOUIS
JrURG'S BUSINESS MEN AND THE TOBACCO MEN ARE WORKING TOGETH
ER TO MAKE LOUISBURG THE MOST POPULAR MARKET IN THE STATE.
VE WANT YOU TO JOIN US AND HELP TO PUT DOLLARS IN THE FARM
F.RS POCKETS. COME WHEN YOU HAVE TOBACCO AND THEN COME
AGAIN WHEN YOU HAVE NO TOBACCO.
Our New Goods
Arc Arriving
OUR ENTIRE STOCKS OF FALL AND WINTER GOODS ARE ARRIVING
DAIL ?! AND BEING PUT ON DISPLAY. WE HAVE THE LARGEST SELEC
TION AND BEST VARIETY OF LADIES AND CHILDRENS DRESSES, COATS,
SWEATERS, MILLINERY AND DRESS GOODS, MEN'S AND BOYS' CLOTH
ING AND FURNISHINGS TO BE FOUND IN ANY TOWN IN NORTH CARO
LINA. OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT AND OUR MERCHANDISE IS ALL NEW.
WE ARE IN POSITION TO SAVE YOU BIG MONEY ON YOUR PURCHASES
AND ONLY ASK YOU TO COME IN AND SEE US BEFORE YOU BUY AND LET
US SHOW YOU THAT WE WILL GIVE YOU MORE FOR YOUR MONEY.
DON'T FORGET TO VISIT OUR STORE WHEN IN TOWN. WE WANT TO
SEE YOU AND GIVE YOU .
A WELCOME TO OUR CITY
F. A. Roth Company
Where Quality Tells and Low Prioes Sells
LOUISBURG, North Carolina