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i£- ■— -4 Val ntine, Bke butterflle*, *“" Fly north, fly west, Seeking each a true heart That love ha* blessed; Seeking each a fond heart* But fond or true. None can beat as my heart St II beats for you. Valentines, tike sailing birds* Fly south, fly east, Seeking each a love land Where love may feast; Seeking each its own kind The whole world through | JVe er finding more love Than I give you. Valentines, like fairy folk, Fly hi-h, tly low. Seeding choicest gift of earth That man may know; Seeking love you gave me When life was new; Lo e that lives forever. That 1 gave you. —Ohio Farmer. Nothing: Sedate About Valentines of Today Scs!:’.te stanzas whispering guarded ly of love eharaetoMzed the early American valentines, as shown in a •collection made by the Chicago His torieal society. Changing times pro duced more direct expression until in 1930. the collection reveals, the valen tine verse makers leave no doubt of the senders' amorous sentiments. The earliest valentine shown is dat ed ISOO, but all before ISSO were hand-, made affairs, generally a red heart with a pretty but proper inscription. Miss Esther Howland began making valentines commercially in 1851, the society points out, and it is from that time on that the lacy, heart-embossed creations date. Many of Miss How land's valentines were simply in scribed: “To one Move." Comic valentines appear to have en joyed a perpetual vogue throughout the years, the society showing many which it describes as “ridiculous, wit ty and severe." One of the valentines of the World war period has a picture by John T. McCutcheon, cartoonist, with verse by George Ade. The picture shows a mother who has apparently censored her daughter’s mall to a soldier abroad. Beueath is printed: Mr. Soldier Man: 1 cannot send what my daughter wrote. It might set Are to the darned old boat I HAVE CAUGHT Valentine Presents Not so very long ago, in some parts of England valentines were something more than we understand them today. Not only were messages and verse decoarted by hearts and darts, sent by post, but on the eve of St. Valentine day it was the custom to leave on the doorsill of friends presents of all kinds. Such bulky articles as a desk and an armchair were known to have been left there. The donor would then knock and disappear to watch from some vantage point until the door was opened and the valentine present takeu In. , - Sentimental Messages Sentiment expressed on early valen tines prove that the gentlemun then hieant the words he inscribed or that breach of promise suits weren’t as cus tomary as they are today. The wise young man of 1930 is satisfied with “To my sweetheart’’ Inscribed on a large, red heart filled with chocolates, but a message Inscribed in 1865 read os follows: “To my friend: The charm that best can sweeten life Is found to ha a faithful wife; the wife I seek — kind, and true —love whispers I shall find in you.” . j At.fcN liNET ll OAY il Iff i m i Up frum the south at the break of mom. Over the snow by the mouth wind borne, Steals like the dawn or a sweat perfume Prom ae of summer with bird and bloom. This is the month whan the banks of snow Gurgle <n streams to tba rivers below. This is the month of the mating moon. Brooding new Ufa that shall wake in June. Down on the shores of the southern stream Wild birris are chanting the deathless theme. Voices of black bird, of wren, and dove Warble the song of nest and love. Borne by the breath of the southern breeze. Soon they will brood in the northern trees. Each one will croon, from his tree or vine, Love-ladened lays to his Valentine. Come, lone’y heart, put your serrows away— This is the month of St. Valentine’s day, Why should you pine in ycur gloom apart— No o::e to love you and call you sweetheart? Catch in your besom the spirit of Spring; Come, jcin the chorus of lovers who sing. Maids in despair now in sadness repine. Waiting the call of St. Valentine. —The Woodmen News. Valentine Customs and Superstitions of Old There were certain superstitions (lur ing early times which now seem en tirely to have passed away. For in stance, if a young girl, on the eve of St. Valentine day, went alone aud waited until midnight on the porch of a church, then started for home, scat tering hempseed on the way, it was believed she would see her own true love in a winding sheet raking the hampseed behind her. Why he was supposed to be seen in a winding sheet has not been explained. Another superstilion was most In teresting. If a young girl got five bay leaves and pinned one on each of the four corners of her* pillow, the remain ing one to be placed in the center, and if that night her sweetheart appeared in her dreams they would be married before the end of the year. It is written of one young lady of those times that she confessed, in or der to make the charm more potent, to having boiled an egg perfectly hard, removed the yolk, filled the vacant place with salt and, upon going to bed, eaten the entire egg, salt, shell and all, without drinking or speaking to any one after she had finished the eating of it. But the really, truly way to find out the name of your own true love was to write the name of all your admir ers upon bits of paper, roll them up in clay, put them In a vessel of water and the first one to rise to the sur face was surely the one. The practice of sending comic val entines is a much later one. These caricatures which poked fun at peo ple’s personal appenranee, their clothes and even the work in which they were engaged had their greatest popularity perhaps 40 or 50 years ago. Fortu nately, they now seem to have lost their vogue. There is no doubt that many friendships were severed and enemies made because of these fre quently offensive missives being sent with malice aforethought . Meanwhile, the pretty valentines— all hearts, paper lace and cupids— seem to grow finer each year. Beauti ful hand-painted cards and painted and beautifully decorated boxes for con fections are sold in great numbers. Not the least Interesting of the pres ent-day valentines are the various and numerous assortments of packages filled with all the paraphernalia ready to be assembled into lovely valentines which children love to prepare for their teachers, friends and family. As it has now become more a day for children than for grown-ups, these packages afford much pleasure to the sender and to the recipient. COMING EVENT Massa Cupid in Training for His Shooting Match. <, THE CHATHAM RECORD. PITTSBORO. NT. C. “She’s quite domesticated. I hear. Knows how to -cook and bake and everything.” “Nothing of the sort. Why. she couldn’t even cause a traffic jam.” HAD NEVER TOLD IT _l “Don’t think I’ve ever told you this funny story.” “Is it really humorous?” “Yes.” ‘Then you have never told it.” A LIGHT BLOW ' « fin J Judge—You say you struck youi husband only a light blow. Where did you hit him and with what? Accused Lady—On the head with a lamp, your honor. GONE WRONG “I see old man Bungs is taking up golf.” “Well. well, now isn’t that too bad and he used to he lust »••< honest and straight as any man could be.** JACK WAS STINGY “Do you think Jack’s cough Is due to smoking cigarettes?” “He never coughed lip one to me. HOW HE DID IT Thompson—“ Site’s going to inarr.x you, eh? How did you get her U overlook your past?” Williams —“Easj —with a good present, you know.” - - 1 | I farm News ! ' j I ° CROPS. N I Edited by N. C. SHIVER, County Agt. j PQ etc. j News of the Week on Chatham County Farms Mr. Cicero Johnson of tli-s Big Meadows community reports that he has cleaned 6000 pounds of les pedeza seed for farmers in his com munity this season. Mr. Johnson is one of the pioneer growers of lespedeza in this county. He recent ly turned 23 acres of lespedeza sod to be planted in corn this spring. Unless something unforseen hap pens, Mr. Johnson is not going to be worried about a corn shortage next fall. Chatham county farmers have saved approximately 12000 pounds of lespedeza seed this year. This, together with 10,000 pounds of seed ordered by the county agent, makes a total of 22,000 pounds of seed placed in the county this year. This year should see Chatham’s acreage in lespedeza well beyond the 4000 mark. j There is available for farmers in the county at the present time, some good seed corn, one year from the Statesville Test Farm. This corn is the Weekly’s Improved Variety and Mr. J. K. Crissman of Pittsboro and j Prof. P. H. Nance of Bonlee have! seed for sale. Mr. John Mills, prominent farmer in eastern Chatham, is growing Korean lespedeza and Tennessee No.: 76 lespedeza in a comparative test this year. Mr. Mills is seeding sev eral acres of each variety side by side, and farmers in his community will have an opportunity of judging the comparative * merits of each variety. As a result of the excellent show- !• mg made by the Tennessee No. 76 variety of lespedeza in the county j last year, a number of other farm- j ers are seeding it this spring. Some j of the farmers who have obtained seed of this variety are C. D. Wilkie, Moncure, J. A. Perry, R. G. Perry, E. H. Andrews, of Pittsboro, RFD 2, and others. Funerals for scrub sires means new life for dairy farming. i SUB CCSA I § By MIMI | 0 aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam ft Program for the Busy Girl THERE are (wo little lines of worry in the rather pretty forehead of one Amelia and they’re growing deep er, day by day. She’s a nice kid with a pretty good face on the whole and the two aforementioned lines aren’t doing anything for her chances of an external schoolgirl complexion. But she can’t help them, She is In a state of rush, of nervous activity which produces the little frown, and produces with it a certain shortness of temper, and acidity of disposition which are not endearing. She’s actually a busy girl. She works, she has a certain amount to do with taking care of her own clothes —she goes out in the evenings quite a lot, she dances, plays bridge, writes letters to an ever-increasing circle of friends—in short she fives the full busy life of a normal girl. But she has no pleasure In ft. The needless tasks which are part of every day life pile up in front of her into a big black shadow from which she cannot escape. Her’s is not an easy-going tempera ment She does not meet each minute with a serene confidence. She wor ries in advance of a situation, worries all the way through it about some thing still further ahead —and won ders why she isn’t getting enough out of fife. There’s only one cure for the nerv ous fidgety type who have a certain amount of work to do every day which cannot be avoided—that is to form a program and to stick to it. The girl who calmly and efficiently does each day what must be done is never faced with gigantic problems all of a sudden. It’s the nervous hurried Amelia type which is constantly hav ing nervous breakdowns from over work. Amelia rushes through one task, only to pause for a good hard worry over what she’s going to do to the old black dress when she gets home. She sits puzzling over this problem and bewailing her lack of money un til some precious time has speeded past and she’s horrified to discover , that she has not even completed the work before her, let alone solved the problem yet waiting for her. That causes more worry and the work she thereupon proceeds to do is faulty and inaccurate because ber mind is too crowded with doubt and worry to permit its working clearly. You see what I mean. That kind of frail little thing must have a program of some sort if she’s to keep out of sanitariums the rest of her life. Otherwise she will spend her days In worrying over what she has to do j —and the time will slip past and she j will find at the end of the day she has twice as much to do. ?. (© by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) CHATHAM COUNTY FARM CALENDAR FOR FEBRUARY Things To Be Done This Month AGRONOMY Buy fertilizer on a basis of plant food per acre. The cotton plant does not know the meaning of “analysis,” “unit,” or “ratio.” Use cotton seed that will make one inch staple so you can see your cotton made into cloth in your local mill. China, India, and Russia can grow 7-8 inch cotton cheaper than you can. Sow a few pounds per acre of lespedeza, dallis grass, white Dutch and orchard grass for better pas tures. * * * AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING 1. Order parts and get machin ery ready for the crop year. 2. Plan to become a two-mule farmer rather than a one-mule farmer. 3. Use a tractor, if you own one for more profitable work in 1930. 4. Build broad terraces so you can operate machinery over them. 5. Sharpen stalk cutter knives to get best results. Most of them are double-edged and can be re versed. * * * ANIMAL HUSBANDRY Fed breed sows liberally a well balanced ration and allow them plenty of exercise. Remember the high market usual ly comes in March or April, so feed hogs well now on corn and fish meal and other well balanced rations. Give ewes extra care at lambing time, with exercise and abundance of legume bay, and if thin, some grain. Feed mules and horses to be in good flesh for plowing time. . * * * DAIRYING Watch the young calves and yearling heifers for lice, which at this season do the greatest damage to young stock. Plan the spring pasture improve ment work and remember that any seeding or plowing to be effective must be done in February and March. *************** * * * Moncure News * * * *************** Mr. B. M. Dickins, who has clerked for Lambeth & Bro. for about two years, has now gone in business with J. R. Ray, who is running the filling station on the highway near Pittsboro Railroad. They have added to the stock of groceries, put in a case and meat market. J. R. Gunter, colored, has charge of the meat market for them. Mr. and Mrs. Max Farrell of San ford were guests of Mrs. J. L. Wom ble Sunday. Mrs. J. E. Cathell of Sanford was in town Monday. Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Travis and fam ily of Chapel Hill were guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Womble yesterday. Rev. J. A. Dailey preached a splen did missionary sermon at the Metho dist church Sunday at 11 o’clock. His text was “Come Over Into Macedonia and Help Us.” Then again the eve ning at 7:30 o’clock Rev. J. A. Dailey preached another splendid sermon on “Awake to the Activities of the Church.” Good congregations were out to hear both sermons. Rev. J. A. Dailey was a guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Powers Sunday for dinner aad suunpr. At 6:30 o’clock p. m. the Junior League met and gave a splendid little program. They now have 20 mem bers and they are taking a great deal of interest in their league work. At 7 o’clock the senior league met. The president, Miss Camelia Sted man, called the meeting to order. After a short song service, the min utes of the last meeting was read by the secretary, Mr. Lewis Burns. Then the meeting was turned over to the leader, Mr. E. W. Avent, Jr., for the evening. The subjeet discussed was “Recreation.” The following leaguers took part in the program, Mr. E. W. Avent, Jr., Misses Camelia Stedman, Dorothy Lambeth, and Emma Lee Mann. The meeting closed with pray er by Mrs. Stedman. Mr. C. B. Crutchfield, one of the popular merchants of Moncure, is putting on a sale. See Advertisement in another column. He always has many good bargains for his cus tomers. Miss Mary Olinger of Sans ord spent last week-end with her sister, Mrs. J. E. Moore. Mr. B. A. Cox of Moncure Rt. 2, died Sunday evening at 5 o’clock. Mr. Cox had been in ill health all winter, so his death was not unex pected. He was a faithful member of Gum Spring Baptist church. He: will be buried at Gum Springs to morrow evening at 2 o’clock. Hi j leaves a wife and five children vu: Mrs. Lelia Belle Riddle of Sanfod, and Messrs. Tennie Cox of Ajex, Thos. B. Cox and Walter Co> of New York City and Raymond C x at home. Moncure Girls’ Basket-Bal 1 team played Bonlee Girls’ Basket-B'il team last Friday night on Ronl(* court. The score was 19 and 57 jr favor of Moncure girls. Y/ Moncure boys lost by f e score of. Continue to repair fences, clean up the lots and grounds, and white wash out buildings and fences around the lots. * * * POULTRY Mate breeding pens at least two wpeks before saving hatching eggs. For best fall layers make sittings of heavy breeds the last half of February. Gather hatching eggs twice daily, hold at 45 to 50 degrees. Fahrenheit, turn once daily and set within 7 to 10 days. Check incubator and make surer everything is in working order. Have brooder stove regulated and in operation one or two days before placing chicks in the house. * * * CO-OPERATIVE SHIPMENT OF POULTRY A co-operative shipment of poul try will be made at Pittsboro, Thursday, February 20, provided bids received will justify this lead ing. Further announcement regard ing this shipment and prices will be given later. It is planned to run one of these cars once every three weeks in this county during the next few months. FARM PHILOSOPHY In the garden contests the best prizes are the health gained and the wealth saved by more vegetables in the family food supply. If you are tired of poor 'prices ! for farm products grow superior products this year. Farmers who use good seed and proper fertilizer this spring will be better able to enjoy a real Thanks giving on November 27. If a pound of butter or a dozen eggs can be produced as cheaply as a pound of cotton why so much cotton and so little butter and eggs. Comforting winter meditation: “Life abounds in earth’s grey shroud, Where summer’s head has long been bowed.”—Louise Crosland. THE DOUGH-GIRL Student—“ When I left my last boarding place, the landlady wept.’* Landlady—“ Well, I won’t I al ways eollect in advan.ee.” —Drexerd. 14 and 18. The next game to be played is scheduled with Biscoe high school next Saturday night. The following men: W. H. Leagan, W. M. Garmany, R. H. Kirby, W. R. Perry, A. S. Tennant, E. Cooper and W. Perdergraft, rep resenting the Southern Bell Tele phone and Telegraph Co., are in Moncure this week putting in a new' line from the highway to the Caro lina Power and Light. Co. j We are sorry to state that Mr. A. B. Womble was taken very sick last Saturday. The doctor was call ed so he was rushed to Central Car olina Hospital, Sanford. They think Mr. Womble will have to undergo an operation. "j Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Thomas, Miss Lucy Boone and Mrs. Daisy Lam beth attended an entertainment at Coal Glenn school Monday evening. Miss Catherine Thomas is one of the teachers at this school. Miss Boone was invited to sing at the enter tainment and Mrs. Lambeth played her accompaniments. i N ************ V* % * * * Bynuro.Riews ' * * * V* -*•♦**** Mr. Woodrow Riddle of Durham*’* . was visiting here Sunday. k Mr. Rufus Johnson of Campbell College was home for the week-end. ' Mr. Carl Neal spent the week-end in Durham with his wife, who has been very ill but. is now recovering. Mr. J. M. Durham of Bynum has • a new Ford. He was very glad to get rid of the stage couch. Miss Jessie Lee Johnson and Julia Farrell of Moncure were visiting Miss Lois Smith Saturday night. Mr. Carnie Abernathy of Melbane was a Bynum visitor Sunday. Mr. Frank Farrell and Mr. Henry Abernathy spent Sunday in Burling ton and Elon with relatives. We are sorry to hear that Mr. C. W. Neal is worse. Mr. Floyd Durham spent Sunday in the home of Mr. C. W. Neal. Mr. and Mrs. Henry King spent the week-end in Sanford with rela tives. Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Stearns of Durham were visitors in the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Riddle Sunday. Miss Clytie Fouchee spent the week-end in Durham with relatives. We are glad to know that Mr. Sam Dowd has returned home from Watt’s Hospital. Miss Ilia Copeland spent the week end in Raleigh with relatives. Miss Pauline Williams entertained | a number of her friends at a candy party Thursday night, February 6. i Every one enjoyed being with her. There wiil be an oyater supper at Mr. Ralph Burnett’s Saturday night, February 15, for the benefit of Mt. Gilead Baptist Church. Every one is invited and to bring a pocketful of money. <3— Only Staaie roundation To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws, and the people the magistrates.—Solon. PAGE THREE
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