THE SANFORD
8T1 CLAIR | ^
D. L. ST. CLAIR f Potusotm
FRIDAY, . - . October 24
The patriotic service rendered
by the banks of Lee county in
•Id of ttie government during the
war, though offered and peform
ed in an utterly unselfish spirit,
has not been with&ut p rati cal
reward. In purchasing bonds
and thrift stamps the masses
of this section became acquaint
ed with the banks. From De
cembec 81, 1916, to December
81, 1918, there was an increase
of 80.28 per cent of savings de
posits in our banks. There has
been a very marked increase
since then of individual and sav'
ings deposits, but we have not
the figures at hand showing the
iflorease. One of the banks it
Sanford has approximately om
million -dollars on deposit anc
every bank in the county is in
prosperous condition. The threi
principal factors, perhaps, whicl
have contributed to these in
creaees are the high prices paii
for tobacco and other farm pro
ducts, the larger wages paii
workers, and the saving habi
which, notwithstanding extrava
gance on the part of many, seemi
to have become far more genera
than ever before among the peo
pie. The people have learnet
through exercise of the spiri
fostered by their government i
new and profitable habit—tha
of saving money. They havi
learned to accumulate money ii
excess of immediate require
ments, and they are putting it
where they put their liberty
bond investments—in the banks
The Sooth now consumes abool
half the cotton it produces. U
the time should ever come when
we can weave and spin a crop
the size of the present one the
world at large, it is said, would
need a crop of 30,000,000 bales
The present value of the cotton
crop, raw material and mans
factored product, runs into the
billions. It is easy to lose one’s
judgment in this mounting mass
of values, but one thing seems
clear. Raw cotton will sell at a
good price for some years to
come; and the opportunity to
develop the potentialities of cot
ton, in field and mill, train
handle the labor involved in Its
development, So evolve4b» finan
cial genius to move and market
this world staple malraa the
South a field for industrial tal
ent and industrial leadership un
surpassed in the world.
Prices of farming lands in
some sectiens have risen with
such rapidity that serious conse
quences may be expected with
the return of normal conditions.
This is a warning to farmers is
sued by the United States De
partment of Agriculture. Much
of the present speculative activ
ity has been due to the fact that
speculators have been able to
catch some farmers unawares,
buying their farms, at a' much
lower figure , than was justified
in relation to prices. Farmers
in this section are growing rath
er jnbous about selling to spec
ulators who buy to sell again.
They say say that if it is worth
more to the speculator it is worth
more to them. Some speculators
have doubled the price on land
bought in this section within
the past few months. *
According to the Youth’s Com
panion, the boy who stays in
school until he is eighteen years
old has earned by the time he is
twenty five years old $2000 more
than the boy who left school at
fourteen; and also he is getting
$000 a year more pay. In other
words, the additional four years
at school are equivalent to an
Investment of $18,000 at five per
cent Interest. Moreover, the
earnings of the boy who stayed
In school until he was eighteen
will oontinue to increase rapid
ly, whereas the salary of the
boy who left school at fourteen
.will never be much larger.
The Roosevelt Memorial Asso
ciation is conducting a nation
wide compaign this week foi
lands to ereet a national memo
rial In his honor. The campaign
Will close Monday, October 27,
the Colonel’s birthday. Whal
the national memorial to Theo
dors Roosevelt shall be has no:
been decided. It will probablj
be located at the national capito
and it will rtxjalre some lngen
nlty to, devise a- suitable memo
rial so this many sided Ameri
What will the fntnre of such i
fortunate region as Lee count]
bef Imagine the possibilities!
Don’t forget the Red Crass lx
its third annual jroll oall.
Judge W. J. Adams is consid
ered <me of the shiest end san
est jurists on the Superior Court
bench. In his charge to ths
Iredell county grand jury at
Statesville last week he called
attention to certain manifesta
tions of lawlessness that exist
and that should strike home to
every citizen of the State, From
Judge 'Adams’ somewhat Ions
but Interesting discourse, as pub
lished in the Statesville Land
mark, we quote these para
graphs: ,,
We are now living literally in
a new era in the world’s history.
As men look at it, they look in
the future, some in doubt, some
with hope, some with optimistic
faith. This country has entered
upon a period of reconstruction
in business affairs, in Industrie
enterprise, in thought and ii
life. Everywhere there is a feel
1 ing of uncertainly and a spirt
of unrest. There is a tendency
. to disorganize industry, to skim;
i work and curtail industry; t<
live extravagantly with a reck
1ms disregard of the future
’ With some there is a lurking
desire for keen rebellion agains
the government and for work
ing social revolution. Rabid anc
incendiary literature sent out bj
depraved and irresponsible peo
pie incite race riots and blood
shed. A large proportion of th<
, population seems to be a seeth
ing mass of unrest and discon
tent. There are those who liv<
in brazen defiance of the law
They act as a traitor acts whc
shoots at the flag under whict
he seeks protection.
No wonder it is said that oui
system of self-government is oc
trial and that the time is coming
when the maintenance of law
shall be put to the final test. 1
have infinite faith in the integ
rity, the second sober thought
of the great majority of the
American people. They are
patient, even long-suffering, but
sooner or later they will wake
to the realities and call the law
less elelnent to a rigid account
ing. They are becoming rapid
ly educated in the fundamental
verities of government, and will
find an effective way to protect
themselves against internal
enemies. The lawless element
must be squarely met and firmly
dealt with. They must be taught
that law in this country is su
preme and that obedience to law
is the first lesson in American
ism.
The climate and soilladvant
ages combine to make Lee a
county of peculiar blessings.
We are grateful that Lee is a
county in which welfare and op
portunity have each high per
A decrease of approximately
fifteen per cent in the number
of deaths caused by tuberculosis
in North Carolina during the
past four years is shown in fig
ures tabulated at the State sana
torium for the treatment of this
SQSjP. The report says:
The total number of deaths
from this cause in the State for
the year 1915 was 3,710. In 1918
the total number had been re
duced to 3,100, a difference of
550. This reduction, consider
ing the steady increase in popu
lation during the past four years,
means an even greater propor
tionate decrease in the death
rate of tuberculosis.
Careful observations and ex
periments have demonstrated
that the ratio of active open
cases of tuberculosis to deaths
are as eight to one. This means
that while more than three
thousand died in the State dur
ing the past year there were at
the same time in excess of
twenty five thousand suffering
with the disease, and menacing
the health of those with whom
they came in contact.
Tuberculosis is preventable
and curable. To save the un
affected from danger of infection
and to more adequately care for
those stricken, North Carolina
is joining with the National
Tuberculosis Association and
one thousand other State and
local organisations throughout
the country in an extensive and
intensive educational campaign
culminating in the special cam
paign for the sale of Bed Cross
Christmas Seals during Decem
ber 110, $6,500,000 of which are
being offered for sale this year.
Important liulee For Proteetion
Against Influenza.
The State Board of Health gives
the following ten rales to gorera
one in protection againsUnfinenza:
1. Avoid people who are cough
ing or sneezing.
2. Do not attend crowds or largi
gatherings indoors or outdoors.
3. Keep three feet from person
talking.
4. When yon cough or sneeze,
cover your nose or mouth with a
hankerchief, or turn your fact
downward.
6. Don't use cup or other eating
utensil used by others.. without
thoroughly washing and boiling it,
6. Don't put into your mouth
fingers, pencils or other things that
do not belong there.
7. Wash your hands before eating,
8. Bat plenty of simple, nourish
ing food.
. At Sleep and work in rooms Oil
ad with fresh air, but keep thi
body warm.
10. If you get influenza, go im
mediately to bed to ward off pneu
monin, and stay in bed several dayi
after fever subsides to avoid subae
quant weakness, jf
QVtt TOV UKC MEN.
Farmer* Hut Cooperate In th
Sale of the Cotton Crop U It I
to Brin* a Higher Piioe.
Maj. Win. A. Graham, com
■stationer of agriculture, give
out the following statement jn
the North Carolina Cotton Asm
ciation and warehouses.
"This is an age of oo opera
tlon; the business that attempt
to go it alone is at the merer o
divergent interests who combine
The farmer is almost alone ii
being to a large extent in an in
dividual contest- The effort t<
effect the organisation of oottoi
farmers in the association am
warehouse organisation is an en
deavor to get the farmers to cc
operate especially in the'sale o
the crop.
“In the earlier days of th
Farmers' alliance it was sail
that the farmer would neve
have any money until he raisei
something to sell. The farme
1 acknowledged the truth of th
assertion and largely increase
1 his crops, in many instance
1 doubling the number of bale*
' The cotton buyers’ reply was
‘You have made too much,’ am
' although the farmer has thee
1 large amounts of produce hi
' could not use it as security fa
obtain money to settle his debt
incurred in making the crop.
“The thinking farmer thei
concluded that deliverance woul<
only come when he made th<
surplus needed for operatioi
himself and not endeavor to rais<
cotton to purchase them- Th<
financial measures provided bj
Mr. McAdoo enable the farmei
to use his crop as security tc
obtain cash. Raising his owr
supplies has enabled him to hold
his cotton for the past two yean
and he can hold it if desired,
another year, as food crops for
man and beast are being gather
ed for another year. He is more
independent than he has been
since the Confederate war. The
amount of cotton in sight for
supply of goods to the world is
not adequate for the purpose.
If the farmer will keep a stiff
upper lip and hold his cotton,
no one disputes that he can get
a higher price than it is bring
ing in the market at this time.
The financial measures of Mr.
McAdoo or anyone else can
benefit no one who goes to the
market with the question, ‘What
will you give me for my cotton?’
and not with a bold face saying,
‘I will take 361-2 cents for my
cotton,' and then hold until he
gets it.
suffering and self denial on
your wile; snpply her with con
veniences and help her in her
work. Show that yon are worthj
of the sores ol 1861-85, and a
brighter day will dawn and de
velop into prosperity to Old Hay
seed and his family. When the
fanner prospers the whole conn
try flourishes, as he is in four
fifths of it, and when he has
adversity, the land mon'rns.”
Want Spinners to Go Direct U
Cotton Fields.
Cotton growers, in New Orleans.
Wednesday, urged British cottor
spinners to send representatives U
the fields of the Sooth, boy cotter
from the farmer direct, bale thi
staple ae they see fit, eliminating
the middleman and reducing thi
cost of the raw material to the spin
ner, at the same time increasing
the price paid to the prodncer.
This proposal, along the lines o
the systems need by British tobac
co mannfaetaring interests in Ken
tacky, was made at a meeting of i
special committee of world eottoi
conference delegatee, composed o
10 foreign spinners, 10 Americai
spinners and 20 American eottoi
growers.
Speakers agreed that no arbitrar
price conld be fixed for any give!
peri d for cotton owing mainly t
the tremendous fluctuations in th
amounts of cotton picked in rela
tion to the amount planted in dii
Cerent yean. Condition of weaibe
and of insect depredations made i
impossible, it was stated, to set a
advance price on the staple, as th
growing costs cannot be estimate
until the crop has been gathers
and ginned.
It was agreed by speakers, hos
aver, that profits were being mad
by middlemen who had no diret
interest in the growing, spinnin
or mannfaetaring branches of th
industry, the consumer bavin
higher prices to pay for the finisl
ed article than woold be oeoesaw
under striet regulation of the ii
dnetry.
Closer affiliation of grower ns
Sinner was offered at s solution I
a problem of the cotton plant,
and the spinner by Governor Biel
stt, of North Carolina, in prival
Ufa a cotton planter. The plants
be said, it operatingou a vary nn
row margin of profit, even at ti
very high priest.
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Wells Drilled
~ It you urismiot
water apply to
HOLLER & SNIPES,
- Sanford, N. O.
FoU SALE—A milk cow. Apply i
e Ho. 1.
Box 60, Saoford, N. 0., Route ]
A half century ago it was the
sleek, black shoulders of the negro
who bore Virginia’s tobacco to fac
tory and market.
Today Virginia's best still comes on sleek, black
shonlders—bat those shoulders are the powerful
muscular treads of Good rick De Luxe Truck Tires.
The Liggett-Myers Tobacco Company use D£
Luxe Truck Tires beeause they have a greater
limit of compression—thus allow Liggett-Myers
fleets to carry more tonnage. And with the tread
built out to give more cushion, safeguard the me
chaanism better ^djute possible greater mileage.
W« Sell and Apply Ike Luxe Truck Tires
Freeman’s Garage
TRUC (TIRES
M. L. MATTHEWS, ML D.
Preotloa, limited to the eye, ear, no
Oflloe In poatoffloa bulldtnf, Senior
O" Phone 117; Residence i74,
Hour* from 8 a. m. to la m., end 1.
-BjJwj._Mn.Wd 1» appointment.
DB. F. W. MoORAOKEN
Dentist,
Sanford, N. 0. .
Offleee In the Commercial Bnlldln
Offloe phone 61,' Residence 68.
»B, JT. I.'SEAL
VETERINARIAN \
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PhOM 1*0.
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J. s. manning, w. w. kitohii
fUlelgh, N. O. Raleigh, N. C,
EDWIN L. GAVIN
Sanford, N. a
Manning, Kitchin & Gavin,
Attorneys et Lew,
Sanford, N. 0,
A. A. F. SEAWELL,
Attorney atjLaw,
Sanford, N. C.
WILLIAMS & WILLIAMS
- Lawyers,
Sanford, N. C.
UUJ.JUD 01 JHIY I.K.
Lawyers,
Sanford, N. C.
f®P*°re3 their offices to eeooni
floor Peoplet' Bank Building.
D. E. McIVER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Sanford, N. C.
dr a. d, barber,
Dentist,
Office to Ballej-Lutterloh Building li
rear Banking, Loan & Trust Co.
Phone 187.
DR E, W. HUNTER,
DENTIST.
0£Bce in Bailey-Lutterloh Build
>187.
dr J. c. MANN,
BYE SPECIALIST.
At Cbeara’ Jewelry Store, Sanford,
!J. C„ every Wednesday from 10 a. m.
io 3 p, m. GlaSBee fitted that are eaey
tnd restful to the eyes. Headache re
layed when caused by eye strain. Cross
>yea straightened without the knife.
Weak eyee of children and young peo
Uy. Saltation free and ln
EYESIGHT SPECIALIST.
Sanford, N. C.
Over Lee Hardware Company’s store.
Endorsed by U. S. army officers.
Sanford Council
NUMBER 111
Junior Order United
American Mechanics
Meets every Friday night.
Every member requested to be
present.---LJ_
A. R. MOFFITT & CO.,
CONTRACTORS FOR
Gas, Electrical, Oil and Gasoline
Equipment
A. R. MOFJHTT, Manager,
_Fayetteville, N. C.
Bub-lIy-TIsm Is a great pain killer
It rellevee pain and Soreness caneed by
Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Sprains, etc.
Adv.
State of Ohio. City of Toledo,
Lucas County, as.
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he
la senior partner of the firm of F. J.
Cheney A Co., doing business in the City
°f Toledo, County and State aforesaid,
and that said firm will pay the sum of
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each
and every case of Catarrh that cannot be
cyred byjhe use of HALL'S CATARRH
MEDICINE. FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in
.Presence, this «th day of December,
AyJ> J888’ A. W GLEASON,
Notary Public.
. Hall a Catarrh Medicine is taken in
ternally and acts through the Blood on
the Mucous Surfaces of the System. Send
for testimonials, free.
F. J. CHENEY A CO., Toledo. O.
gpM by aU druggists, 75c."
Half* Family Pills for constipation.
666 quickly relieves Constipation,
Biliousness, Loss of Appetite and Head
tobes, due to Torpid Liver.—Adv.
C. Swartz & Co.
Barham, N. C.
Dealers in
HIDES,vFURS, METALS, ,
SCRAP IRON, BONES,
BEESWAX, TALLW,
WOOL, RAGS, BAGS.
If you want the top market price for
any kind of Junk and hides, atit at for
quotation#. We par the Ter; hipest
price possible.
Any shipment sent us will be given
prompt and careful attention.
For reference we refer you to the
First National Bank and Home Savings
Bank, Durham, N. C.
O. SWARTZ & CO.,
Phone 966 L. Durham, N. C.
We are proud of the confidence doc
JBMJMfUI. and the public have In
(M Chill and Fever Tonic.—Adv.
WANTED—Men, women and" gL
"uuwu HU i
ter our knitting and furnishing dap
ments.Good clems work, ood wages.
"u«, uu u wages.
Umlse Knitting Hills Company, Jones,
boro, Ns u.
Williams-Bdk Co.
I TTIIIK1IIIO-L#^U%
_.Announce the Opening This Week of Their
house Furnishings Department
I
In this department will be carried rugs,
art squares of wool and fibre, congoleum
art squares, congoleum by the yard, lino
leum, window shades, window poles of
all kinds, read; made window curtains,
comforters, etc.
We Want You
To visit Ihis department, where reasona
ble prices will prevail as in our other de
partments, Our policy of quick turnover
with small profit, together with our pur
chasing power will save you money on
the above namvd lines.
Many New Arrivals
This week in coat suits and serge dresses.
See our serge dress special at $22.50.
25 STORES LOWERS THE PRICE TO YOU
WILLIAMS-BELK CO.
Tim Story of a Tumi Captai* —
__,___Uotha
bptain. EBa BU today b (105.70 per
A mans life—among men!
Reel them off—“Rio”,Gibraltar;
Ceylon, Yokohama—an the great
porta of the world—are they cdy
placet on the map to you—or are
they porta where you've gone sail
ing to from the Ugh aeaa with
every eye along the ahore turned
admiringly an your big «Up—
year thip! Every ocean baa ■
United f ship yflfag for
tome port worth teeing.
If you’ve any call in you lor a
ton life—join, and oolor aU yoar
hanatiUe fund of tea talea and
adaenturea picked up aahore and
afloat that will make you a wel
come man in any company.
Work?—sure, and a mem's work
it is; among men. 1
Play?—well, rather, with a bunch
of mm who know how to play.
These comrades of yours carry
is their ears the sounds of great
world cities, of booming guns, of
swashing seas —sounds you will
dune with them and that will
new die away.
And when you come home, youH
fisce life ashore with level eyes—
for Uncle Sam trams in a«2/
rwlletxica as welt as self-respect.
The Navy builds straight man
no mollycoddles.
L&M SEMI-PASTE PAINTS
■' BEST THAT CAN BE MADE ( t
Coat to yon $3.23 a Gallon when made ready tO*naa
RECOMMENDED BY SATISFIED USERS FOR OVER 40YEARS
Obtain COLOR CARD from oar Agents or
LONOMA* A MARTINEZ Manufacturers Raw York
WHAT BISCUITS
Light as a feather, gold-brown and oh, so
good. Make them with Occo-nee-chee Self
Rising Flour and save the cost of baking
ppwder, salt and soda. This flour contains
these ingredients in exact proportions for
perfect baking results. .
Just measure out enough flour fpr the
morning’s biscuits, mix with water or milk,
place in the oven and your work is over
It is more economical to buy baking-powder,
soda or salt already mixed with the flour, and
many times more accurate. For biscuits, hot
cakes, waffles, use Occo-nee-chee Self-Rising
Flour.
OCCO-NEE-CHEE
wni JvlM/I^ JT AfJUr
Tike* the Guess out of Baltin?
and Saves you Monoy
Look for tho Indian Hoad on onek
y*T troemr t. Buy toddy.
bug,. At
Arfiy “°v’ "* *• '■*“•
Aiutin-Heaton Co., Durham, N. C.