SHORT COURSE FOR CLUB
MEMBERS.
There is to be held at A. & M. Col
lege, August 17-20th, a "Short Course
and Club weeK" lor tne xsonn uaro
lina members of the Boys' Agricul
tural Clubs. This is to be held dur
ing the first week of the annual Short
Course for the County Demonstration
Agents, to be held at the College. The
boys and agents will be given Monday
to get to Raleigh and get located.
Work in earnest will begin Tuesday
morning, August 17th. The regular
lectures ior the boys will be separate
from the men's meetings. The morn
ings will be devoted to real practical
instructions for the boys, in thirty
minute lectures by members of the
College faculty and Station force. The
afternoons will be left open for the
boys to visit the College and Station
farms, observation trips through the
College buildings, practical demon
strations, and a trip down town to the
various places of interest in the Cap
itol City.
Each evening we hope to have pop
ular and illustrated lectures for the
men and boys. We want all the mem
bers of the clubs who can to come.
The College will furnish rooms free
and meals at twenty-five cents each.
Each boy will be expected to bring
towels and sheets. We hope the par
ents, will encourage the boys to take
this little outing, and at the same time
begin their education in agriculture.
We don't know how the boys can spend
a week more profitably than in at
tending this Short Course.
This is an opportunity no farm boy
can afford to miss.
Don't forget the date, August
17-20th. v
CHARLOTTE CELEBRATION
Appearing on another page of this
issue is an advertisement telling of the
gteat Twentieth of May Celebration
and Trade Carnival which is to be
staged in Charlotte on May 18,19,20
and 21. The large majority of our
readers are quite familiar with the
style in which Charlotte is accustom
ed to pull its historic anniversary and
all reports coming from the Mecklen
burg metropolis indicate that the fes
tivity now in process of incubation
will be worthy of the best that have
gone before.
There will be much speaking of a
high class, free shows and some that
-will charge a nominal fee for admis
sion, parades, decorated floats, bands
6f music, baceball, balloon ascensions,
fireworks, and last mentioned, but not
least crowds. On each succeeding
May 20th, people in all these parts are
accustomed to turn their steps toward
Tristoric "Independence Square," and
this year the attractions offered in
reure the attendance of a record-breaking
crowd.
In addition to the patriotic features
incident to every Twentieth Celebra
tion, the merchants of Charlotte are
preparing to hold a trade carnival in
which very special bargains will be
put on.
We feel no hesitation in recom
mending to our readers consideration
of the plan of visiting Charlotte at
-the' time set with all preparations
made for the reaping of fun and profit.
HENLEY-WOOD
A very quiet but interesting mar
riage took place April 29th, near New
Salem and Providence, in the home of
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Wood, when their
daughter, Miss Nora, became the bride
of Mr. M. C. Henley, from near Ashe
"boro. The bride and groom are both of
Randolph and are popular and widely
known as most excellent young peo
ple. The bride is a member of New
Salem church, and also a very effi
cient teacher in the public schools, as
her success in this work has proven.
The groom is one of Randolph's most
progressive farmers, and is a member
of Browers Chapel on Richland circuit.
They both being intelligent Cristian
young people, we predict that some
preacher who may be their pastor
will find on visiting them that they
have an ideal home.
. The writer, Mrs. O'Briant, a young
Mr. Pugh, and Miss Pugh were the
only persons present at the marriage
besides home folks. Mr. and Mrs.
Wood had prepared a nice dinner in
honor of the occasion, and after the
marriage we were invited to the din
ing hall,, where we enjoyed a very
good dinner.
In due time the groom with his
bride accompanied by Mr. and Miss
Pugh, friends of the groom, were on
their way to Mb home near Asheboro,
which will be their future home. Their
many friends extend congratulations
and best wishes.
The writer officiated at the mar
riage. J. B. O'BRIANT.
There are said to be thirty thousand
cases of typhus fever in Serbia.
Two horses driven by Mr. George
Green, of Biscoe, ran away one day re
cently, causing him to suffer a brok
en arm and leg and dislocation of the
hip. He was taken to a hospital for
treatment.
POULTRY RAISING IN SOUTH
The South should be the greatest
poultry producing section in Amrrica
for nowhere else can such favorable
conditions be found. Climate, soil,
and grain products combine to make
ideal for poultry work. Poultry can
be fed cheaper, housed at less ex-
penss, and raised with less work than
anywhere else. Our winters are mild
enough for the fowls to run out all
the time. We have irra3s tr
green feed of some kind the year
round. Green feed ij necessary to
tne successful handling of fowls; bo
des, where the nocks run at laree.
as they do on our farms, much of the
feed is picked up.
Expensive houses are not necessary .
where the fowls are confined for
several months in winter, and when
every bit of the feed must be supplied
them.
grains for feeding, are grown here
Wheat, corn, and oats, the best
and can be produced fullv ns cheaD
as anywhere else. Mrs. Frank Lang-
ford, in Southern Woman's Magazine.
GORED TO DEATH BY MAD BULL
Jesse Earnhardt, a well-to-do farm
er of Cabarrus county, was gored to
to death by a Jersey bull one night
last week.
Mr. Eaimhardt was at home alone,
the rest of his family having gone to
an entertainment at a nearby school
house, when the bull escaped from the
lot of a nephew who lived near, and
came over to the home of the unfor
tunate man. He went out to try to
drive the animal into a lot, but was
attacked and fatally gored before help
reached him. A colored man was the
first to reach Mr. Earnhardt, after
hearing his cries, but was too late to
do any good. Other people soon came
and the enraged animal was driven to
an enclosure.
The deceased was seventy or more
years of age. He was a highly re
spected citizen and a local preacher in
the Methodist church. He is survived
by his wife and three sons.
BEFORE THE WAR
As a rule our pantries and barns,
corn cribs and smokehouses were well
filled before the war with home-raised
food and feed supplies. Usually our
forefathers produced sufficient meat
and bread for man and beast, and had
surpluses for sale. The farmer who
had to buy meat or bread was in dis
grace. But in 1910, the South drew breath
at home and rations from the middle
West to the amount of 936 million dol
lars. Our entire cotton crop barely
paid our bill for imported supplies of
bread and meat, grain, hay, and for
age in the census year. Last year we
fell far behind in the Cotton Belt. In
North Carolina our deficit in home
raised supplies in 1910 amounted to
some 119 million dollars. University
News Letter.
A VOICE FROM THE CROWD
Peonle want a preacher "to be an
intelligent man and a man with gump
tion enough to administer congrega
tional affairs." but the increasing
rrv is for a sniritually minded man
along with these other things. This
thought is one of the "submarines
launched bv George Wharton Pepper,
L. D.. a lawyer of nation-wide rep
utation, in a series of lectures on
preaching delivered at Yale last month
entitled, "A Voice from the Crowd."
The exclusive serial rights to pubiisn
fv, hpnrt of this series of lectures
has been granted to The Sunday
School Times, an every-week religious
publication. A post card request ad
dressed to The Sunday School Times,
Philadelphia, will bring a three weeks
fwo trinl of that tjaoer containing a
detailed announcement of this series
of articles.
CLEAN UP DAY
Now let us give the war a rest,
The rout, the siege, the sally,
And eaily shed our ccat and vest
And go and clean the alley.
Let's irather un the dogs and cats
Which have this life departed,
And let tin cans and bncks and bats
Off to the dump be carted.
Then every able-bodied man
Should whoop the clean up slogan,
And chase the old tomato can,
The cast-off hat and brogan.
The rubbish left by careless men
And lazy human cheeses
Will bring a host of germs again
And they'll bring punk diseases.
And forty billion will come,
As many microbes bearing,
And 'round our weary heads they'll
hum
And keep us busy swearing.
On every block let all the workers
rally;
No man should stand around and talk
Until he's cleaned his alley!
Exchange.
LATE WAR NEWS
The coast of England was subjected
to another raid by airships early last
Friday morning, but without any
casualties.
A German fleet was said to be off
the Belgian coast on Friday, and the
shelling of Dunkirk resulted in the
loss of 20 lives.
It is reported that Belgian artillery
destroyed the Straake bridge, at
Havre, last Friday, and almost anni
hilated a body of four thousand Ger
man troops, who were crossing the
bridge.
B. T. Peak, second engineer of the
Falaba, who was rescued by a trawler,
when his ship was sunk off the Irish
coast on March 28, by a German sub
marine, declares that the German crew
laughed at the drowning men and
were indifferent to their appeals for
help.
After serious fighting, the Allies
are reported to have established them
selves on the Gallipoli peninsula at
the Dardanelles.
At the session of the International
Congress of Women at the Hague,
last Friday, the Belgian delegation
was invited to the platform and wel
comed by Miss Jane Addams, of Chi
cago, but coolness was shown by the
German delegates and there was no
handshaking between the two delega-l
tions.
MURDER IN FIRST DEGREE
Quick Verdict for two Negroes Charg
ed With Murder of Mr. Swaim.
Ed. Walker and Jeff. Dorsett, the
two negroes charged with the murder
of Mr. John Swaim, near Pleasant
Garden, last January, were found
guilty of murder in the first degree
in Superior court at Greensboro, last
Friday. The jury deliberated for only
one half hour before bringing in the
verdict. The evidence was practically
all circumstantial, but of such a na
ture as to be convincing to the jurors.
Jim Jackson, a fellow-prisoner of
the accused negroes gave evidence to
the effect that Dorsett confessed to
the murdsr, but this evidence was par
tially rebutted by other prisoners who
claimed that Jackson had daclared
he was going to get "as many cases"
as he could against the other prison
ers. O.i Saturday morning, Judge C. C.
Lyon sentenced the two negroes to be
electrocuted June 11. Attorneys for
the defendants gave notice of appeal
to the Supreme Court, and the case
will be heard at the fall term. Accord
ingly, the two men will probably not
be executed before late in this year or
early next year, even if the judgment
is affirmed.
DEPUTY SHERIFF SLAIN,
On last Thursday night, a posse,
headed by Sheriff Baldwin, of Rich
mond county, and Deputy Sheriffs
S. L. Baucum and S. M. J. Brown,
were searching for the persons who
had stolen an automobile at Wagram,
and located the three men at Tower,
a railroad station twelve miles from
Hamlet. The officers were waiting for
the arrival of a train, when the part
ies who were in hiding, came out, and
some one in the posse fired on them,
but instead of striking the criminals
struck Deputy Sheriff Baucum, kill
ing him instantly. In the excitement
that followed the hunted men escaped.
Mr. Baucum had been a deputy sher
iff and jailor for four years, and jvas
a popular officer.
REPORT ON CARTER -A BER
. . NETHY CASE
That such parts of the record of
Craven county court as reflect upon
the official conduct or private charac
ter of Solicitor Charles L. Abernethy
be cxpugned, if such can be done by
the exercise of constitutional authori
ty, and that no further action be tak
en in reference to House resolution
under which the committee worked,
wera recommendations of the Carter
Abernethy investigating committee
filed in the office of Governor Craig,
last Friday. The charges of immor
ality against Judge Frank Carter
were not sustained.
DR. LAWRENCE RETURNS HOME
Dr. W. P. Lawrence, of Elon Col
lege, who has been critically ill in St.
Leo's Hospital, Greensboro, for the
past two months, has recovered euf
ficiently to be able to return to his
home, but will not resume his duties
either as dean of the men's depart
ment or head of the English depart
ment before next fall. Dr. Lawrence
has been a member of the faculty at
Elon for 21 years and is considered
invaluable at the college.
John Rice, a white man who lived
alone in Catawba county, was found
dead in his home one day last week,
and the evidence points to the fact
he was robbed and murdered the night
before. The deceased was 50 years
of age, and was known to carry his
money around with him.. He is sup
posed to have had four or five thou
sand dollars on his person when at
tacked by his assailant. An empty
pocket book was found near the dead
body.
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS
ITEMS OF LIVE NEWS GATITF.R
ED FROM OUR EXCHANGES
AINU CUiNDENSED IN BRIEF
OKM tUK BUSY READERS.
Mark Hall, of Nicolls. Georiria. is
the
s rather of 29 children, eighteen of
whe
10m are living. He has been married
twice. . 4, .
All the 6treet cars of Wilmington
are to be painted cream white, the
shade an almost dunli-n.t of tram.
cars of the Hague, Holland.
Mrs. T. A. Kirkman, wife of Dr.
Kirkman, died at her home in Siler
City last week. Her husband and six
children survive.
Mrs. Olive B. Webster has been ap
pointed postmaster at Siler Citv to
fill out the unexpired term of her de
ceased husband, Duncan Webster.
According to recent reports, 800 na
tive Christians have been murdered by
Kurds at Urumiah, Persia, and 2,000
have perished by disease.
Archibald Sherrod, of High Point,
has gone to Spartanburg, S. C, to be
come secretary and treasurer of an
ice and coal company.
Since the first of April, when the
two-quart law went in effect, it is re
ported by the police authorities of
Greensboro that drunkness has almost
disappeared from that city.
An arbitration award, advancing
the pay of 64,000 locomotive engineers
firemen, and hostlers, on 98 western
railroads was signed at Chicago, last
Friday.
The French armored cruiser, Gam-
betta, was torpedoed and sunk in the
North Sea by an Austrian submarine,
one day last week. About six hundred
lives were lost.
Tom Brooks, the negro murderer
of two white men at Somerville, Tenn.,
was taken from the custody of officers
and hanged from the trestle of a rail
road bridge one day last week.
Siler City graded school will hold
their commencement May 26th and
27th. The address will be delivered
by Dr. J. I. Foust, of the State Nor
mal College, Greensboro.
Large crowds attended Ore Hill
commencement a few days ago. This
schcol was taught by Mr. B. G. Leon
ard, assisted by Misses Bonnie Cole
and Sankie Gilbert.
Hon. W. B. Wilson, Secretary of
Labor of the United States, will de
liver the commencement addr.ess at
A. and M. College, Raleigh, this
month. "
J. E. Norket, a white tenant farmer,
of near Charlotte, was arrested last
week, charged with counterfeiting, he
having in his possession a lot of spu
rious nickels and the apparatus for
making them.
The fifth company Coast Artillery
Corps, of Charlotte, have recently
registered the finest marksmanship
with eight-inch rifles of all the coast
artillery companies in the United
States.
Bennett graded school closed a few
days ago with an address by Prof.
Penland, of Bonlee, and other exer
cises. Mr. E. C. Bean, of Moffitt, was
the principal of this school with G. E.
Brewer, of High Falls, assistant.
According to the National Weather
Bureau, the longest early spring
drought for more than forty years
has existed over the eastern part of
the United States for the past few
weeks.
Phillip T. White, the $6,000 a year
manager of the Masury paint compa
ny in Brooklyn, has confessed to be-
ing an accomplice in the robbery of
his employer's bank messengers of
nearly 3,000 nearly a year ago, his
share of the spoils being $900.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Rankin Thomas, of
Morehead township. Guilford county,
recently sold to A. M. Scales a farm
of about 90 acres for more than thir
teen thousand dollars, at the rate of
more than a hundred and sixty-six
dollars an acre.
Secretary of the Navy Daniels, in
a recent interview with newspaper
men, said positively that he had no
thought of being a candidate for Gov
ernor of North Carolina, in 1916.
Mr. Daniels said that he had just two
ambitions, to perform his duties as
secretary of the navy to the best of
his ability whilein office; and after
that, to edit the News and uoserver
as long as he lives.
Congressional legislation that will
make clastic the agricultural resourc
es of the South, and under which a
financial system may be organized
that will enable the farmers to ob
tain such credit as they need and will
place them on the same footing with
other business men, was urged by
Lieutennnt Governor Daughtridge, of
this State, at the Southern Commer
cial Congress, in Muscogee, Alabama,
last week.
ADMINISTRATION AND SOUTH
Harding Tells Some Benefits We Have
Received Situation in South Last
Fall Said to Have Ben Desperate,
W. P. G. Harding, member of the
Federal reserve board, in a letter to
J. L. Hughes, of the Southern club of
Chicago, tells at great length what
the Wilson Administration, through
Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo,
did for the South during the past
nine months, which he characterizes
as one of the most desperate situa
tions that he had ever seen in his
28 years' of banking experience,
Among the things done by Mr. Mc
Adoo, as enumerated by Mr. Harding,
was his recommendation of a bureau
of war risk insurance; worked for a
government owned merchant marine
and looked with favor upon the es
tablishment of a cash fund of $100,-
000,000 to be subscribed by the banks
throughout the non-cotton producing
states of which loans should be made
on cotton.
"Under the conditions that prevailed
last fall," said Mr. Harding, "the crea
tion of a fund of this magnitude to be
loaned upon a commodity which was
then regarded as unmarketable, was
a tremendous undertaking, but Secre
tary McAdoo devoted all of his ener
gy and ability to the task. In face
of enormous odds, he was successful
and as soon as it became evident that
he would succeed in raising the fund,
a demand for cotton, at prices slightly
above the loan value fixed, sprang up
and this demand has continued with
out intermission, so that the best
grades are now selling in the south
at around 10 cents per pop.nd, a price
which in the opinion of experts, is as
great as would have obtained had
there been no wav. While the benefit
of the cotton loan fund was, therefore,
confined to its moral effect, it was un
questionably a great factor in restor
ing confidence and in initiating a
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mDvoment of cotton which has devel-
oped beyond all expectations.
"Having lived in the South all my
life and having been engaged in the
banking business 28 years before com
ing to Washington last summer, I
feel warranted in saying that I have
never seen a situation in the South,
apparently so desperate as that which
existed last fall, that was worked out
as rapidly and as satisfactorily; and
I wish to say that never before with
in my recollection has a secretary of
the treasury devoted as much time
and energy to the solution of South
ern problems, nor shown such knowl
edge of and sympathetic interest in
the necessities of that section. The
relief afforded the South by Secretary
McAdoo was intelligent and effective
and his spirit of helpfulness was re
strained only by the limitations of
law and obligations of his oath of
office. The deeds and motives of the
administration will be more and more
appreciated in the South with the
passing of time."
PROSPERITY RUNNING OVER
Have you been keeping an eye on
what business has been doing lately?
If you have then you will have seen
that it is on its feet in fine shape and
that the prospect is as bright as can
be for an increasing prosperity for
this country. The pessimist tribe has
had to take to its hole.
Note, if you please, what the official
figures for March exports show. These
are that a new high record for that
month has been made, the figures be
ing $299,009,563 against $187,499,234
in March, 1914, and $187,426,711 in
March, 1913. For the first time dur
ing the current fiscal year the elapsed
period to date shows larger exports
than in the corresponding months of
the preceding years, with imports
smaller than in the same months in
the two preceding fiscal years. Ex
ports which receded from $1,908,658,
073 in the first nine months of the
fiscal year 1912-13 to $1,883,221,915
in 1913-14 have now reached the un
paralleled total of $1,933,475,580, in
dicating that the complete fiscal year
may show a total exportation of ap
proximately $2,750,000,000.
Do you grasp the importance of
these figures? The gain in exports
over those of March a year r.go is
$111,510,329. That means that wealth
is pouring into this country. Our
manufacturers are reaping a golden
harvest, and it may be regarded as
certain that this is to continue after
the war in 'Europe is over and peace
has been declared. It means that
American supremacy in trade is upon
us. This is the day of the optimist,
and the country 6hould sit up and
take notice. Business everywhere
shouW be on the alert. The period
of depression caused by the war is
over. News & Observer.
Mrs. Adelaide Cox died recently at
her home in Moore county at the age
of 74 years.
CASTOR I A
For Infants and Children.
Tfes Kind You Have Alwajt Bought
Bears the
fcftgnatureof
POINTS FOR THE SOUTHERN
GARDENER
The gardener in the south may well
remember certain important facts
which are summed up in the United
States Department of Agriculture's
new Faimer's Bulletin (No. 647) enti
tled "The Home Garden in the South."
They are as follows:
(1.) In nearly all sections of the
South there is a scarcity of fresh veg
etables during a large part of the
year.
(2.) A well kept garden will yield
a return eight to ten times as great as
that fr&m an equal area devoted to
cotton cr to other general crops.
(3.) The value of vegetables in
the diet is a great deal more than the
mere food or money value, as they
furnish a large part of the essential
salts which are necessary to the well
being of the human system.
(4.) The location selected for the
garden should be as near the house as
possible. Practically any type of soil
can be used for vegetables, but a
sandy loam is to be preferred.
(5.) Good drainage is of prime im
portance. If the land has not good
natural drainage, artificial drainage
should be employed.
(6.) Where cultivation is to be by
means of horse tool3 the garden
should be long and narrow, with the
row3 running the long way of the gar
den. (7.) The garden should be laid off
in straight rows for either horse or
hand cultivation.
(8.) An area of one-fourth to one-
half acre in garden crops should be
sufficient for a family of average size.
(9.) The garden should be occupied
as large a part of the year as possible.
As soon as one crop is removed, anoth
er should be planted, so as to have a
succession of crops coming on all the
time.
nfl 1 A o-nnrl evetom nf mlnfmn
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should be followed in the home gar-
den, in order to keep diseases and in
sects in check and to keep the soil in
good condition.
(11.) The soil for the garden should
be thoroughly prepared before plant
ing vegetables. A deep soil is desir
able, but the depth should be increas
ed gradually.
(12.) Barnyard or stable manure
is the best fertilizer for vegetable
growing, as it furnishes both plant
food and humus. Where manure is
not available, green crops, such as cow
peas, soy beans, vetch, or crimson
clover, should be turned under to sup
ply humus and part of the nitrogen.
Commercial fertilizers can be employ
ed to furnish most of the plant food,
but without humus in the soil the fer
tilizer will be of little value.
(13.) Before setting plants in the
open they should be hardened off, to
prevent a serious check to growth.
This can be accomplished by exposing
the plants to outside conditions dur
ing the day in mild weather and final
ly leaving them uncovered ft night
when there is no danger of frost.
(14.) Thoroughly soak the plant
bed before removing the plants, so as
to have as much soil adhere to the
roots as possible.
(15.) In setting the plants in the
garden, thoroughly pack the soil
around the roots. When the 6oil is
dry, it is advisable to apply a little
water around the roots. As soon as
the water has soaked in, the moist soil
should be covered with dry earth to
prevent baking.
(16.) Give frequent shallow culti
vation with small-tooth cultivators. A
sweep or tumplow should not be used
unless the land becomes so weedy that
cultivators will not do the work.
HIGH SCHOOL CONTEST
Spelling, Recitation, asd Declamation
and Track Meet Trinity Girl and
Farmer Boy Tie For Spelling Prize
The annual contests and track meet
of the Slate high schools of the east
central division was held in Greens
boro Friday night and Saturday, April
23rd and 24. On Saturday night, the
recitation contest was held at the
State Normal College, and the decla
mation contest at the Y. M. C. A.
Miss Bessie Woodruff, of the Wal
nut Grove high school, Guilford coun
ty, was awarded the medal in the rec
itation contest, in which there were 7
other contestants.
The medal for the best declama
tion went to Frank Upchurch, of the
Cary high school, he having defeated
nine other contestants.
The spelling contest resulted in an
unbreakable tie between Wade Hus
sey, of the Farmer high school, and
Miss Blanche Farlow, of the Trinity
high school.
Miss Vivian Hayworth, of James
town high school, was the winner in
the contest in composition.
The track meet was held at the base
ball park Saturday morning. Friend
ship high school, of Alamance county,
carried off first honors in all the
events, the total scores being: Friend
ship. 54 points; Siler City, 9; Pleas
ant Garden, 4.
Mr. Cicero Strider is opening up a
big truck farm east of Biscoe, says
the correspondent from that town t
khe Troy Montgomerian.
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