SCIENCE CLASS ENTERTAINS.
Mesdames Pike and Marley at the
Home of the Former Wednes
day Afternoon.
Quite the most delightful social
affair of the season in Siler City was
given members of the domestic science
class, with its teacher, Mrs. O. I. Hin
son as honor guest, by Mesdames
Henry Pike and J. B. Marley at the
lovely home of the former last Wed
nesday afternoon from 3:30. to 5:30
o’clock. .. ,
The home was made unusually at
tractive by the use of artistically ar
ranged jonquils and hyacinths.
The entertainemnt. of the guests
was brilliantly original from the call
ing of the roll by Mrs. Hinson, each
member being required to answer
with a rhyme relative to the art of
cooking, on through serving of the
delicious refreshments.
The class having recently had a les
son on meats and a study of the dif
ferent cuts of beef, the members were
asked to write a complete story using
the name of every cut to tell of the
adventures of the hero.
In the test Mesdames C. E. Davis
and Gurney Pugh won the prize, an
aluminum sauce pan, which the pres
ented to the honor guest.
While cup towels were being hem
med merrv conversation kept pace
with busy fingers, interruption only
being made when the hostesses call
ed upon those whose birthdays occur
red in various months to perform
some “stunt.” This was indeed the
cause of much fun.
The completed towels were present
ed to Mrs. Hinson, w T ho most gracious
ly expressed her appreciation of the
gifts and the honor being conferred
on her. t
A surprise of the afternoon was the
presentation of a beautiful birthday
cake from the class to Mrs. Marley
and Mrs. Pike, whose birthdays oc
cur within the next few days. Each of
the hostesses expressed their thanks
for the thoughtful remembrance, a
response to which was made by Mrs_
P. H. Elkins, who also gave voice to
an appreciation of each member of
the class for the lovely party in pro
gress.
The guests were invited to the
kitchen and serve themselves cafeter
ia style. There was found a most de
licious salad course, to which was add
ed hot chocolate and whipped cream.
Members of the class include Mes
dames W. J. Richardson, J. Q. Sea
well, J. S. Wrenn, J. S. Dorsett, C. E.
Davis, J. N. Johnson, W. S. Edwards,
Earle Wrenn, Junius Wrenn, N. B.
Bray, W. H. Hadley, T. D. Bynum,
Rosa Stout, R. O. Welch, E. D. Woody,
R. F. Paschal, J. B. Marley, Gurney
Pugh, M. M. Fox, Henry Pike, Dalton
Cooper, J. Clyde Thomas and P. H.
Elkins; Misses Evelyn Fox, Martha
Buie, Helen Siler, Margaret Wrenn,
Myrtle Williams, Mary Alice Fergu
son, Vera Campbell and Ellie Ford
Hinson.
Seaboard Plans Purchase of New
Equipment.
March 22.—T0 finance
repairs and extensive purchases of
new equipment, the Seaboard Air Line
today asked the Interstate Commerce
Commission for authority to issue $6,-
600,00 b in six per cent equipment cer
tificates. The road proposes to buy 2,-
000 freight cars, 20 locomotives and
four steel passenger train coaches.
A girl cannot fool a movie camera.
Which seems to prove that a camera
has more sense than a man. —Life.
11. Cleanly & stint Dp! I
I Hear This, Ye People-Think: Jail 1
a Come on, let’s put things in order. Our whole l
city can and should be made as clean and Orderly as its cleanest jj
home. Then we will have a safer, healthier city. 1
U Ambition in its highest conception is to dream, I
big dreams and make them true. The splendid ambition
to have a city clean and. is soon to become a reality by 1
the co-operation of. a j t thc pe o pl c . |
1J by virtue of the authority vested in |
me as ’ lV f ayor> an d with the hearty approval of many far-seeing
gi zealous citizens, we hereby proclaim the week of jj
|| | ' APRIL 2TO 7, 1923. i J j
H • as the Opening Week of a Continuous 1
j,| CLEAN UP AND PAINT UP CAMPAIGN 1
Away with the rubbish piles! Banish the plague spots!. Clean up street*
i B and alleys! Cut the weeds, mow the lawns and trim the hedges! Repair and
paint every building that needs ii.
We need this thorough cleaning and renovation.
| It is the sensible thing to do—for the health* safety,
fcv thrift, pride and happiness of all our people.
1 IHm It is everybody's job. Every man, woman and
Jp child will be expected to help. Let there be np
L, BELL |
FARM CENSUS UNSURPASSED.
North Carolina’s farm census sys
tem, said to be better than that of any
other State in the South and “unsur
passed by any State in the country,”
1 is a result of co-operation given by
1 county commissioners, officers and tax
! listers, Frank Parker, agricultural
• statistician, North Carolina and Unit
-1 ed States departments of agriculture,
1 says.
“When, in 1918, several counties
1 were visited by the Federal agricul
. tural statistician, for North Carolina,
■ in the interest of crop information,
■ and when he suggested an annual
farm census be made by the tax list
-5 ers, no one thought it feasible, ex
’ cepting a traveling salesman,” said
i Mr. Parker. “His ‘selling’ idea put it
[ | across.
■ j “So far as known, no other State
' ever got such information by volun-
I tary county aid. The ‘selling’ idea was
■ I so successful that 82 counties co-op
• j erated the first year, 1918. The law
• j* years objected, but when it was shown
«| that the county commissioners unani
‘ mously approved, and had been doing
it voluntarily for three years; that
» many other progressive agricultural
L States were securing it through State
■ statutes; that the farmers realized it
did not affect their taxes and that
they could see good in it, why of
! course our lawmakers had to accept
the inevitable.
“Last year, some remarkable results
were gained. It already is shown that
our State figures are more efficiently
gathered than were the U. S. census
data in 1920. Many subjects not in
the U. S. census are included. The an
nual results are put out in printed
form within a year of the listing. This
year, most of the results are expected
to be completed within six months.
“The basis of North Carolin’s rank
of fourth in the value of the 22 lead
ing crops of the United States, was
obtained from the 1922 farm census_
Other valuable economic information
was developed and utilized also.”
Set Kudzu Now.
Progressive Farmer.
If hay, loads and loads of it from a
small acreage, is what you want, try
kudzu. If almost inexhaustable pas
turage is what you want, choose kud
zu. Kudzu, once known only as the
tremendously rapid growing ornamen
tal vine for trellises and porch shad
ing, is now known to be equally as
vigorous as a producer of forage and
pasture when planted in the fields.
Furthermore, being a legume, like
peas or beans, it is rich in feeding
value. Thus we have in kudzu a
highly desirable combination of heavy
production and high feeding value.
Kudzu is started from plants, some
, times called roots. The vine growth
is cut off just above the crown which
is just below the top of the ground.
The fleshy root is cut off in the
ground about 12 inches below the
crown. Plant with the root part down
and the crown about one to two inches
deep. One good plant about ten feet
each way is sufficient. It is needless
; to say that it is advisable to have the
ground plowed and in good tilth be
-1 fore setting kudzu.
Don’t be afraid of kudzu taking the
place. It is comparatively easily kill
• ed by excessive pasturing on by plow
ing and cultivation. Os course, if you
plant it along the feuce rows it wdl
be hard to get out until you move the
. fence so you can plow it up. Any
body that wants, can get rid of kudzu
without any special trouble.
BRIEF V INTERESTING FACTS
Figures and Historical Mention
Os Interest.
From Dearborn Independent.
A baseball rookie from St. Louis,
on his first trip to Philadelphia, was
shown the Liberty Bell. Looking it ov
er, he said, “It’s too bad to let a rel
ic like that run down. We’ve got a
blacksmith down home who could fix
that crack up so you wouldn’t know
it ever had been there, and he’d do
the job for $5.
In Portsmouth, New Hampshire,
there is an old mansion which retains
the lightning rods put up by Benja
min Franklin in person. On the same
street is an old church, St. John’s,
from which rings out the pleasant
peals-of a bell of Paul Revere’s han
diwork.
More land is cultivated to grow the
world’s wheat than to grow any other
single crop. If all plant life in the
world except grasses, of which fam
ily wheat is a member, were destroy
ed, man and his animals could still
live.
Contrary to popular belief, the cen
tury plant (Agave Americana) blos
soms once in eight years in most cases
A central shoot nearly 20 feet high
often bears as many as 4,000 blos
soms. Those growing in greenhouses
or under artificial conditions do not
bloom so often as those growing nat
urally.
For jobs of large bulk as the un
loading or loading of great quantities
of brick and sand between car and
ship, car and storage? and so on, the
conveyor belt has proved to be cheap
er than the cheap labor of India.
Copra is the dried kernel of the
ripe cocoanut. About seven years is
required to bring a cocoanut tree to
bearing age. The trees need little at
tention and the price paid for copra
is about $l5O a ton “on the beach.”
A good tree will produce annually 300
cocoanuts. Fifteen hundred nuts make
a ton.
You rarely lose anything hi Japan,
according to American travelers. If
you leave your pocketbook or cam
era on the train on in the street car,
you will be sure to find them when
you go to the proper place for lost
articles.
The average cost of st'' T '’ n ' ir '< r a
freight train is 24 cents at five miles
an hour; 69 cents at 10 miles, and
$1.44 at 15 miles an hour.
During 50 years John Weslev
preached 40,000 sermons and rode
250,000 miles.
Because of the high freight rate in
this country, American sales of flour
in the Dutch East Indies have fallen
to near the vanishing point. Our
freight raffes are more than double the
Australian rate.
Gold is being in Germnnv far
the first time in 300 years. Deposits
of gold were reported in the Eder
river near Korbach not for from
Westphalia. It runs 44 grams of fine
gold to the ton of earth-
W. D. Bivens, of Monroe, has a
hound dog that “treed” a two-gallon
jug of liquor in the woods.
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TO ASSESS REAL ESTATE.
County Comimssioners Will Take Ac
tion Monday.
My Dear Editor. —Permit me to call
attention in your columns to the fact
that under the new revenue law the
county commissioners of each coun
ty on the first Monday in April,, 1923,
may determine by resolution duly en
tered upon the minutes that the real
estate of the county is at present as
sessed at its true value in money and
that reassessment thereof is not ne
cessary, and if they shall so deter-
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In BURLINGTON, N. C.
mine present values shall stand. On
the other hand, unless such resolution
shall be adopted real estate shall be
appraised this year by local assessors,
i. e., a resident free holder as county
supervisor with assistants in each
township.
I think that this represents the final
opportunity to readjust valuations of
real estate, especially farming pro
perty and to correct the over-valua
tions that were had under the Revalu
ation Act of 1919. I, therefore, urge
all land owners, especially farmers,
to see their respective county com
missioners on or before the first Mon
day in April and urge them to see to
it that nothing shall be done to pre
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vent a new appraisal of real estate
this year.
It may be argued that even if val
ues shall be reduced tax rates will
be increased. Even so, we have much
to gain byway of arresting the ten
dency in the direction of public mon
ey spending by putting land values
at their true values and letting the
rate go to so high a point that pub
lic authorities will dare not go fur
ther, and it may be that the high
rates will cause them to set up more
economic policies.
Respectfully,
J. W. BAILEY.
Raleigh, N. C., March 24, 1923.