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PAGE EIGHT RICHMOND COUNTY HAS BUMPER CROP TOMATOES Florida Man Contracts for Entire Output of Several Farmers in This Section; Esti mates 400 Cars Will Be Shipped Richmond and Scotland counties are branching out into a new industry this year—tomato growing. H. W- Tucker, a Florida concern, has contracted to buy the entire output a number of farmers of several counties in this section. They have packing houses at Rockingham, Laurinburg, Gib son/John’s, McColl, S. C., and Pageland, S. C., with H. W. McLaurin, of Laurinburg, in charge of these packing houses and O. B. Crews of Florida, foreman of the Rockingham plant! A few carloads of tomatoes went < *' eut for the northern markets last week. Now a carload a day is being: shipped from this county with an equal number from Laurinburg. be sides the other four houses. The peak of the season will be reached between July 15th and 20th with •two to three cars going out daily from Rockingham. The tomatoes • are shipped in dry refrigeration. A car holds a great many to matoes. Just to give you some idea of the number, each car holds 600 crates and each crate 8 4-quart baskets. It has been estimated that four hundred cars will be shipped from all the packing houses in this section. The season will last until about the first of August. The majority of the tomatoes are being packed 120-144 to a crate. However, some are packed 88 to a crate. The smaller tomatoes are bringing a better price because of their popularity with case and hotel dining room men. They go farther. Two small slices look a great deal better on a customer’s plate than sne slice of an extra large to mato, they argue, even if the two slices are really • less tomato than the big slice. Around fifteen are emplove4 a t jthe Rockingham pack house with a very likely increase up to thirty before the peak is over. The tomatoes are inspected at each pack house t by a government inspector who determines the dif ferent classifications for the to matoes and is the final word be tween the contractor and the grow .er in case of a difference of opin ion. This aids in the marketing of the t.omatoes as each crate is there by sold ,under the United States standards. Prices and quality are very satisfactory, it is stated. * * The tomato industry on a com mercial scale is now in this county —this being the first year—and en "tfausiasui is very high. It is be lieved that next year still more acres will be planted in this crop. Not Our J. C. Weeks Last week a report of the arrest of one J. C. Weeks on a forgery charge set some folk to thinking it was Mr. J. C. Weeks recently of Pittsboro, but the Editor of the Record was confident it was an ser man. However, in order to be absolutely sure, we wrote to Quit man;, Georgia, Mr. Weeks’ new home, and had a note from Sheriff €!antom and also one from Mr. Weeks himself. They were both confident that our J. C. Weeks had not been in jail. Mr. Weeks, on. the contrary, said that he had just taken out of the barn as pretty a lot of tobacco as he ever laid eyes on. His brother David is with him down there. Mr. J. C. Weeks, who has had con siderable experience in bookkeep ing for tobacco warehouses will per form that service- for the Bain hridge, Ga., warehouse at a salary of SSO a week, and then: with the close of the Georgia season will come to North Carolina to do the name kind of work. ■ Lola—Then you won’t have a garden wedding? Lulu—No. I’ll take no chances of , having my wedding called on account of raim—The Pathfinder. " ■ ' - ' * New Ford Truck With Closed Cab 4 MEW Ford Model AA trucks and Model A light delivery cars were announced this week by tie* i?»rd Motor Company and are on dteplay \v> the show rooms of Ford dealers, > Changes in the trucks are prin cipally in the front end, which has £een completely redesigned, and in the cab. The radiator is higher with more cooling surface, fenders are wide and Sowing, and a black cowl strip adds a note of distinction. The new Model AA trucks with the four-speed transmission introduced wveral months ago may be had with *ac!osed or open cab. The enclosed yab r shown above, is all steel, it is low 5» appearance yet with ample head <spom. The open cab is of black rubber <s> [S. S. Convention Coal Glen Aug. 13 G> 1 Announcement is made of the L Chatham County Sunday School, 1 Convention for Sunday School workers of all denominations, which 5 is to be held in the Coal Glen Union Church, near Cumnock, N. C. ■ all day Wednesday, August 13. 1 The Convention Is being held 1 under the auspices of the Chatham ; County and North Carolina Sunday 1 School Associations. The officers ; of the local County Association > are as follows: County President, ‘ T. B. Beal; Vice Pi'esident, N. J. ■ Dark; Secretary, Miss Kara An ( drews; Children’s Division Superin ■ fendent, Mrs. Jake Johnson; Young ■ People’s Division Superintendent, Mrs. R. A. Brewer; Adult Division Superintendent, J. B. Whitley; Administrative Division Superinten dent, C. H. Lutterlough. Township Presidents are .as follows: Albright, M. James Pike; Bear Creek, William Hancock, Cape Fear, No President; Center, Herbert Ferrell; Gulf, No President; Hadley, E. J. Clark, Pittsboro, RFD 2; Haw River-Oak land, J. W. Johnson; Hickory Moun tain, N. J. Dark; R. C. Dorsett; New Hope, Robert Seymour; Wil liams, No President. One of the outside speakers for the convention will be Miss Flora Davis, Raleigh, General Superinten dent of the North Carolina Sunday School Association Other speakers will be announced later. A number of the County’s well known Sunday School workers' will also take part in the various sessions of the con vention. It is expected that this will be one of the largest and most repre sentative Sunday School meetings ever held in the county. ■— /gs Walden Succeeds Commissioner Johnson .. r x 0 * ■■ 1 E. E. Walden of Haywood was appointed Monday, by Clerk of Court Hatch, to succeed R. J. Johnson as commissioner. Mr. Wal den was recently nominated as a candidate for commissioner on the November ticket, leading all the candidates except Mr. Johnson himself. This appointment means that he can learn the business of the county before the beginning of the next term, which is very important as Mr. Johnson was the only old commissioner renominated, the others declined to be can didates. We had just written an item suggesting our hope that this op pointment would be made at once and that the executive committee would nominate Mr. R. W. Dark to fill the place on the November ticket made vacant by the death of Mr. Johnson when we learned that the appointment of Mr. Wal den had been made. Now if the executive committee will place Mr- Dark on the ticket, we shall be assured of a strong board of cam missioners next term. 9— It might be a good idea for Henry Ford to organize a campaign to get the tariff out of Congress by Christmas. top material and is easily removed. Both chbs are equipped with wind shields of Triplex shatterproof glass | and vacuum type windshield wipers. . Model AA trucks may be had with a 1 platform body, which can be equipped i with stakes or a panel body. The chassis has many improvements, in cluding the four-speed transmission, larger front brakes,- stronger springs, power take-off opening and optioual dual rear wheels. The Model A line of new commercial cars comprises a light delivery truck with pick-up body, a deluxe delivery truck, a small panel truck and a sta tion wagon. These cars have the smaller wheels and larger tires of the new Ford passenger curs. THE CHATHAM RECORD. PITTSBORO, N. C. 1 - ■■ - 1 * DID YOU EVER STOP TO THINK? O By EDSON R. WAITE ] Shawnee, Oklahoma \ ' x \ \ i; I have long entertained the opinion, that picture and crossr woi’d puzzle contests had immense vajue in developing the brain. After studying the results of the picture puzzle contest just completed by the Bond Electric Corporation of Jersey City, N. J., I am convinced more than ever of the value of these “brain teasers”. This contest dealt entirely with the flashlights, batteries and tubes, and other electrical products of the corporation. Each contestant had to study the picture and determine just what business slogan was con cealed there in. More than 350,00 people, attracted by the SIO,OOO in prizes offered by the electrical corporation, tried their ingenuity at solving the six puzzels. And the judges were hard pressed to determine the winners, so great was the analytical ability and deductive powers displayed by the thousands who sent in their i answers. Comparing these answers with the 250,00 sent in last year to the slogan contest conducted by the Bond Corporation, the answers this year displayed greater deduc tive ability. And this contest attracted people from all walks of life—doctors, lawyers, dentists, housewives, rail road workers, even high-school students. Proving that puzzle con tests are not limited in their at traction to any particular age or walk in life. I am sure there is not a more pleasant or educational way in which to spend spare time than in endeavoring to solve ouzzels of the type offered by the Bond Electrical Corporation. Their puz ! zels dealt with the products of the I corporation, with which everybody is 'familiar, such as flishlights, bat jteries, radio tubes and the like. Those who tried solving them were compelled to use portions of their brain that otherwise would have been taking a nap .thereby stim ulating the brain and giving a clearer outlook on life in general. This Corporation is to be con gratulated on its enterprise in offering the people of this country an opportunity to refresh their minds in such pleasant exercises, !at the same time offering them a chance to be well rewarded for the few short hours they spent in this plefasant pastime. Let’s hope this jfirm will continue their puzzle con | tests and that more business firms ( in this country will follow their example. • -> Tt is int.prpstino* tn nnfp thnf . 11 is interesting to note tnat Newspaper advertising played an important in attracting the 350,000 I contestants, “Newspaper advertising * is the backbone of American in dustry,” Bertram €. Plante, Pre * sklent of the Bond Electric Corpora ls tion, told me. “Without Newspaper * advertising it would be impossible ■ to attract, in so direct a manner, 1 the attention of the consumer.” e i .Tells The Value Os S * Religious Training - T • | , Sunday Schools Regarded As Only Effective Means of Abating Crime I $ In a letter to Dr. Geogre Williams ; Carter, General Secretary of the i New York Bible Society, Judge •' Lewis L. Fawcett, Justice of the i Supreme Court of the State of l New York, wrote in part as ■ follows: 1 “Permit me to state- that ray ex perience during 23 years on the ' bench, in which time over 4,000 boys under the age of twenty-one years were convicted of crime be fore me, of whom but three were members of a Sunday School, has satisfied me of the value of Sunday Schools to the community, in help ing safeguard it, to the extent to whcih ' Sunday Schools exist, from the growth of criminals. My experience also satisfies me of-their value to the individual. In 1,902 cases of suspended criminal sen tences in each of which a minister, priest or rabbi became interested at my request, only 62 of the boys were brought back for violation of the conditions of parole. I believe the reform in the cases (over 1,000) was prompt and per manent. In fact, I regard our Sunday Schools, including those of all faiths, as the only effective means to stem the rising tide of vice and crime among our youth. Society carries the heavy burden of criminality chiefly because of the lack of religious training of the you% If all the children could be kept under the influence of the Sunday School and the grown-ups were active in some church we could close our prisons and jails, instead of being compelled to en large and increase their number. The problem of youth is the pro j blem of humanity. There are over f 17,000,000 boys and girls in this 1 country growing up without moral | training from any source, Protes tna, Catholic, or Jewish. May your labor of love in teaching God to •the children be fraught with most glorious results through their salva tion and their work in His cause in the years to come.” <§> There arc party men in the United States who will “cuss out” their party until they drop, and then, at the* next electioji, lose their breath bel lowing for the same party. THE INDEPENDENCE THAT IS OURS —— (From The Hamlet News-Messenger) When the Declaration of Independence was formulated and signed a special Colonial need existed and a national purpose was in mind. But now that the need has bqen filled, the purpose is no longer necessary, except that the Declaration is an expression of the unity that has brought America to its present place among the nations. What has been the inde pendence w;hich has follow ed? We find ourselves today surrounded by the independ ence that has been translated into terms of opportunity. A freedom of conscience, „of speech, of the press, of peti tion and assembly, of travel, of worship and of occupation, unparalleled in world history, constantly presents itself to the individual. Barring physi cal or mental handicap, there is equality of opportunity in ways that are legion. When the Colonies declared their independence they in augurated a policy that was fruitful. But they spoke as groups of people against a power which to them seemed foreign and oppressive. An emergency of direful propor tions confronted them. They wanted freedom from “politi cal bonds.” The Declaration was defensive as well as ag gressive. Yet out of it has grown a nation of which the signers did not dream. The people of the Uhited States do not owe all of their debt of gratitude to the docu ment which v r as adopted July 4, 1776. For it was when the Constitution was adopted that the affirmative measures of government took effect. It may be said .that while the Declaration of Independence expressed the will of the Col onies with respect to the po litical allegiance to the Brit ish Crown, the , constitution helped to make possible the enjoyment of the independ ence gained. Under our form of govern-* i * * L ~ i ment opportunity rests with the individual citizen. Gov ernment can only guarantee rights and redress wrongs. It is the individual who must exercise the rights. The in dependence that is ours is the independence we make for ourselves, either through in dividual or group action. This is why individual thinking and group action are so important to community and national life. Were it not for these personal and • group activities to make useful ends out of our freedom, the Declaration of Independence and the other documents of liberty which fallowed would remain ab stract and unavailable for human advancement. Independence and freedom are thriving, living things only when we make use of them. We can not justly lose sight of the hardships,- the dangers and sacrifices with which this liberty was purchased. Family Os Sir Arthur Waits Word > , • [ Crowborough, Sussex, England, ; July B. (At*) —The family of Sir ' Arthur Conan Doyle today await ed word from him that he, whose ’ mind was the parent of Sherlock: ' Holmes, had solved the mystery I which always interested him most — ’ death. His son, Adrian Conan' Doyle, ’ declared: ' “My father fully believed that . when he passed over he would continue to keep in touch with us. All his family believed so, too. “I know perfectly well that my father wilT often speak to us just as he did before he passed over. We shall always know when he is speaking but we shall have to be careful, since there are practi cal pokesters on the other side, just as there are here. The son explained that Lady Doyle, in her years of intimacy with the departed nove’list and spiritualist, had learned some things of the inflection of his words, and his habits of speech would guard them against spirit fraud, or an ill-timed jest from eternity. @ SMALLER COTTON ACERAGE SHOWN ® Washington, July B. (AP) —Cot- ton in cultivation in the United States on July 1 was announced today by the Department of Agri- ! cultrue as aggregating 45,815,000 acres, compared with 47,067,000 acres, the revised area in cultiva tion a year ago, and 45,981,000 acres picked last year when a crop of 14,821,499 equivalent 500 •pound bales of lint was ginaied*. Unusual Heat Sets Tree On Fire Tuesday —@ — (From The Hamlet News-Messenger) Hamlet can lay claim to having unusual fire Tuesday aftejnoon when the local fire department was called out to save the life of a tree, located on Raleigh St. The fire was burning in the tree about six feet from the ground and was soon quenched. The cause of the fire is unknown, some at tributed it to the heat from which this section has suffered this week, but the -most applausible reason given is that the fire started from passerby throwing a lighted cigar ette into the hollow of the tree which had some decayed wood and it ignited. The tree did not seem any worse for its experience. > Chatham County July Farm Calender Things to do this Month on the Farm. ' Agronomy Continue thorough cultivation of cotton. Plow corn shallow. Side-dress late corn with Nitro gen. Agricultural Engineering Put dusting machinery in good condition for the boll weevil fight. Use two-horse cultivators right on through the season;, setting them for shallow cultivation. Plan to install a water system and other home conveniences. Animal Husbandry See that hogs have shade and water. Keep young cattle growing by feeding those over a year old about two pounds of grain per day while on pasture. Change sheep pasture every two or three weeks if possible. Plsin to sow a few acres of alfalfa this fall. Mow pastures to kill weeds and thicken grass stand. Destroy all fly breeding places. Treat sheep for stomach worms. Turn ram with flock at once. Dispose of all late lambs. Poultry Continue to cull non-pi'oducers. Repair the old poultry house or build a new one. Provide plenty of fresh water. Plant fall greens for chickens. Constant watch for parasites. Odd and Interesting amrtme : *«5; i whc**- “ .-«*■■■ >1 — Atlantic City, N. J.—Having rescued Olive Hamilton, former telephone operator, from the ocean, William B. Leeds, Jr., has been teaching her to drive a speed boat. She fell out of a rowboat near his yatch. Fully clothed, he dived in after her, —% Lake George, N. Y.—The Siamese Minister to the United States is to talk with his King tomorrow. It will be the longest telephone caTi ever, 12,000 miles. New York.—An insurance com pany’s analysis of claims for vaca tion injuries would indicate that basdball is the most dangerous recreation. Injuries noted were: Baseball, 807; Swimming, 562; scuffling, 287; bowling, 269; tennis, 211; fireworks, 194; hunting, 177; golf, 164; ping pK>ng, 3. Velley Stream. N. Y.—Beulah Un ruh of Betterton, Md., is a flying waitress. Having passed tests she has received a limited commercial air pilot’s license. For instruction she saved 13,000 tips averaging a dime. New York.—A vital institution is threatened, believes Mrs. Thomas A. Edison, unless the women of Amer ica make a decided effort to re turn to the business of home-mak ing; they should pay less heed to the allurements of professional and business Greers. She gave her views in a radio address. East Hampton, Conn.—Better not bite the cap off a bottle of pop. Joseph Garrus did so. The gas forced the cap d>own his throat and surgery was necessary. Carlisle, Penn.—Nobody would re move an old sofa from the First Lutheran Church; it was unaccept able as a gift. Eventually a non'- mamber offered 50 cents. Higher of fers strayed along. The church council became wary. It held an auction. The sofa brought $1,006, the buyer being delivered with a Chippendale of the 1750 period. Home Brew Costly Charlie Whit and Tilman, both apparently good fellows, are find ing it rather expensive to make homebrew even for their own use. They were up Monday on separate cases but fared about alike. The payment of costs was the chief penalty, but that reaching to thirty dollars is a big price to pay for the privilege of drinking corn meal beer. HOME COMING AND RALLY DAY There will be a home coming and rally at New Elam Christian church Sunday, July 20. All members, ex members are invited to come also inivted to bring dinner. Mrs. R. L. Trotter. Mrs. Addie Webster. Miss Lola Jones. A. G. Maiui, Committee. •♦ THURSDAY, JULY Ift iqsa Proves Success County Farm County Tries Farm and Findj It Profitable; Mr. Kipii n » Stays Within Budget In February of this year R; c h mond county started an experiment in the nature of a county farm g” t 1 . under th e supervision of W. B. Kipling, superintendent o? the county roads, who also hai charge of the three chain g an * camps in the county. The rent on this 79 acre farm was to be the tax of SBS. Mr. Kipling paid the rent, so he referred to it, out of the first seven rows of Irish pota toes he harvested, and had 57.50 left to apply on the seed. They finished digging the Irish potatoes today but had not mea> ured them. The crop from time/ acres was estimated at 250 to nnn bushels. J He said he harvested 50 bushels of onions from one acre and then asked the newspaper man if that was a good crop. We ask you K it? ‘ ’ ' They have 35 acres of old corn which they are laying by now. T O . day they planted 18 more acres in corn. It has been estimated by ob servers that the corn will yield around 1,000 bushels. In the menu the sweet potatoes were not forgotten so almost three acres were planted. These are about ready to lay by. Thirty acres of oats have already been harvested and yielded a good crop. Mr. Kipling does not believe in idle land so 15 acres were plant ed in peas, the other 15 in corn, as well as the three acre used in growing the Irish potatoes. And he said not to forget the cabbage. For the last month he 'has supplied the county home and the three camps, and made eight barrels of sauerkraut. He has made enough hay and oats he believes, to feed the 25 mules in the three camps. And about a dozen and a half hogs are fed out the craps. So nothing is wasted there. The farm is worked almost en tirely with - trustee labor, only call ing in a few “gun men” to help harvest. He stated that to date he had spent around S6OO to S7OO for supplies, including the rent. Even with having to buy the supplies and the crop unharvested, Mr. Kipling stated he had managed to stay within the budget set for him last summer. -He also~tiad had more men than usual this past year. He said that out of the budget for jrnree camp 3 of SIB,OOO pti* y«*ir; Ihe expected to save around SISOO 1_ i_ 1 X 1. . 1.1 _ • - P 4.U -* r at least by -the installation of the * county farm, The superinteriddiit has a great ’ problem one which th# count/ commissioners seemed to overlook. , That is the problem of storage. ' Probably by next year, or the next crop, something will have been done to relieve that situation. i Dr. Kitchin Named | Head Wake Forest —o — Forest trustees, of which • J. B. Willis of Hamlet and Claude ■ Gore of Rockingham are on the board which Wednesday named Dr. Thurman D. Kitchin, dean of the medical school, president of the institute to succeed Dr. Francis Pendleton Gaines, who has taken the presidency of Washington and Lee University. There were several others named for the place, all of whom refused to be considered. Dr. Kitchin is 47 years old. In a brief talk to the board of .trustees after he was named presi dent, Dr. Kitchin declared that he pledged himself unreservedly dedi cated to the cause of Wake Forest. ‘T subscribe furlly to the concep tion of Wake Forest college as a Christian institution and as presi dent I shall ever be conscious of the high purpose* which the institution has in the field of education. “While f realize that many things have been said publicly and privately • that are greatly to be deplored. I shall cherish np resentment and en tertain' no' animosities. I look for ; ward to an era of harmonious prog ress and pledge myself to co-operate , wholeheartedly with trustees, fac ulty and alumni to that end/’ - <y Miss Ross- Paschal Acting President While honors are passed round, it is gratifying to note that a Chatham young lady is not omitted. Miss Rosa Paschal, who has been serving as dean of the Baptist College for Women in Greenville, S. C., by the resignation of Presi dent Ramsay, becomes acting-presi dent of that old and note-worthy institution. The Biblical Recorder suggests that the college wold make no mistake in making her presid ent. Miss Paschal is a sister of Mr. J. G. Paschal of Goldston and H. L. Paschal of Roxobel. ® COLORED WOMAN DEAD Aunt Eliza ' Stedman, born Au gust 15, 1855, died last Thursday at her home on the C. M. Eddins place. She was the mother of nine children, of whom only two are now living. She was a good woman and one of the few' who remained of the antebellum training. She was a devoted member of Fikes Chape! church. She was sick twenty days. Her husband, Jim Stedman, has been dead 12 years. ®— “I want a raise in my salary on two grounds!” “W'hat are they they?” • “Twins.”—Nebelspalter, Zurich.
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