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PAGE TWO ■ays north CAROLINA ideal-for dairying I Wiry Specialist Says Piedmont Caro if Una Has Everything Needed Fa I Good Dairies. | Tribune Bureau * n Sir Walter Hotel Bptaleigh, r July 15. —That Nortl llarolina is 'ideally favored, both b; Blimutc and * soil, for the productioi Slf milk anfl'dairy products, and tha It has beefl'the experience of count ■Ug farmeus in many states that pros Bierity foll<fvVs the dairy cow, was tin ifcclarationfdf Dr. Clarence E. Smith Bffgpciate nji)k specialist of the I nit Ija States finblic health service, wh( Ifas just arrived in Raleigh from his |feadquartefs( in Montgomery, Ala., t( ||pend a period of three months ir Rfe state the. milk sanita Bon divisiSii of 'the State board oi Health in peaking a survey of driirj Herds, bar*H. and creameries in Nortt Karolina. " 1 I The sacs was mentioned by Dr Bmith thaljfcorth Carolina had a very ■mall per enpita consumption of milk, Rout bfilf%‘pint per person a year— End that tje normal consumption, nc ■ording t<a )good health standards, Should be,*not less than a quart per ■erson a jfrepr. But to increase the ■onsnmptißn of milk, it is first nee mssary to* improve the quality and Erade of fflle milk. When this is ■one, the* demand automatically in creases, a# >does the consumption. I “Our addition then must be first ■irected A, the source of the milk upply, tfe. barns and dairy herds. Yhen tlutoe meet the the uniform milk law. then the de nand for 4110 re milk will at once be in. But, s until people can be as* tired of letting only.,the best milk hey will pot drink milk at aH£” Dr. Imith said. “The nniform milk law n North Carolina which requires the trading of fill milk has already been sf great hpnefit to the state, in that t assures«every user of milk of get ing a standard, unvariable grade of nilk at ap ‘ times. This same milk aw is noy .in effect in eleven states, nd is accomplishing much good both or the nfflk producer and the milk isers. * * “When this law was first proposed, fc was vigorously fought by most of :he farmefs: who at that time could ot see th£t it was to their advantage, ’heir cot An and tobacco is sold ac lortling td grades, as is their grain md bay, price varying according so grade. • Why then should not milk tlso be soffT according to grade? But ►ecause it> had never been done be bre, and because ai farmer could get ust as mhch for milk full of trash ud filth, for that which was clean aid sanitary, he opposed this law. lut now it *fe different. The farmers lave found "rhat by keeping their arns and Jierds clean and their uten ils sanitary that they can command higher ifrice for their product than le careless, * dirty dairyman with the tsult tha| 4 the latter class is fast isappeariag. * “The reison why so few people in forth Carolina have used milk ex ensively a food and beverage is hat heretofore milk has been milk Pod. bad and indifferent, and most of t bad. if is true that nothing is lore unappetizing than poor, dirty *ilk especially if it is not cold. But ts a result of grading the milk, the [uality .increased. as now people tre getting to demand only the high sat grade *irfk. which is always uni form botii hi cream or butter fat eon ent and ip flavor.’ People are also liseoveringfc that there is no more lelicious ftoxl or beverage than good sold, rich fhHk.*’ [When why so little milk was Produced ip, North Carolina and why nilk and Putter was shipped into the Itate in quantities, Dr. Smith replied,: t “Cotton *and tobacco. These two iEops have done more to ruin the larmer injNorth Carolina than any thing dlse^, But as long as he can icatter a Jfew cotton seed in the (round aral set out a few tobacco plants amulet them grow, he will not bother witj.a dairy herd, for a dairy herd meats work and lots of it. Yet, it hag 'beeen found in numerous Sases that£ & herd with its constant income, months in the year, will pay Hie running expenses of a larm and ahow a good profit besides. f“ln where the boll BMvil has* >viped out cotton growing, pairing Iwt come into its own and the are now making twice as much ijujney with their milk and cream as pqth cotton, and they real ize that ha • weevil has been a , bless ing in disgjifse. I know of on e-mail Communit.r ‘in Mississippi that' is shipping 7tf)oo gallons of milk a day into New Orleans in tank cars, add Hiere are *ihany such communities. jare now the source of profit, where once the cotton ghi Btood. Dinners are also fimfiugtbat they have, reduced therf fertilizer bills more# than half, in tftft their lairy herds' are producing most of the fertiliser they need.” There ia .no reason why North Carolina fcfeutd not become one of gie premier dairying states of the Bouth. on*© its farmers realize the profits that, can be made from dairy ing. Dr. Sffiith said. He quoted 'a noted daisy expert, who after visit ing every atated in the United States feaid that 'the Piedmont section of North Carina offered the most ideal conditions . for dairying to be found in the entire United States. Here Cows can tor kept in Ithe barns and fed for nine of ten months a year. Then too, there , iB less bovine tuberculosis in North Carolina, because the cattle gin be k«Tt in the open in climate that reduces tubercular trouble to al most liotlung. The sgil is as good for pasturage and forage as can be found anyjvhere. , The only -thing that is lacking is the vision*to see what dairying will and the will and hire Work to pflt’ into effect. Only t\Z out 7f 6.500 workers employed *in the textile mills Knoxville, rrenn., are foreign born, Pr* the otters are native-born Ameri cans. p , Scroll of fret sawilig of fpney ar ticles origiuateej. iff Switzerland, where, to this day, "ft many hafnlets, 3t is their sole support. ,( TA^ ■ State Presents EtUence Agirfnst Cranford, Former Chain Gang “Boss.” Albemarle, July 14. — N, C. Cran ford, former Stanly county chain gang superintendent, charged with the mur der of two negro prisoners, James Terry and James Howell, ip August,. 1918, went on trial at 9:30 o clock "Wednesday morning. A clash between James H. of counsel for the defense and T. h. Candle, who is assisting in the pros ecution, over the admissibility of evi dence as to cruelty sliowm by Cran ford to other prisoners than those whose death occasioned the indict ment of the convict boss was another feature of the day's prpeeedings, the court ruling that the evidence should be admitted. *v When court /Convened and the case was called both the State and the defendant announced their readiness for trial. The solicitor announced that he would not ask for murder in the first degree, but that Itt* Would demand a verdict for murder in the second degree or manslaughter, as the evidence might warrant. By con sent, the two cases were consolidated and Cranford will answer both charg es at the same time. Both Terry and Howell died within a fetv minutes of each other and both apparently died from the same cause. Convict witnesses who testified at the prelim inary hearing stated that the two negro convicts were beaten to death by Cranford. The defense claimed and offered evidence to the effect that the two men died from becoming over heated. The same evidence covers both cases. thri*efore. hence the con solidation of tbe two. Appearing for the defendant when the case was called this morning were the following attorneys: R. L. Brown, O. J. §ikes, G. D. B. Reyonlds. R. L. Smith, J. R. Price, Hal C. Turner, all of the local bar; Janies H. Pou, of Raleigh, and McLendon and Cov ington, of the Wadesboro bar. The j solicitor is being assisted by I. R- Burleyson, of the Albemarle bar. and T. L. Caudle, of Wadesboro, the lat ter having been appointed by Gover nor McLean to assist the State in tbe prosecution of the case. Most of the morning session was taken up with the Selection of a jury. Although the court had sixty-four men from Anson county from which to select a jury, it was rather hard to .get m.en even out of, that number who had not formed and expressed an opinion for most of them it seems had either read newspajier reports printed at the time of the prelimi nary hearing, or had heard the case discussed. Many had formed an#- expressed the opinion that the fendant was guilty or riot guilty, sonje one way. some another. Two of the, jnrors called were old sweethearts ©f •Mrs. .Cranford, the defendant's wife,' One of these felt that he might be biased, by having at one time been in love with Cranford, and I asked that he ajEMCgised. His ex < u-<- w is' mljudHp li< 1 one. at least hfm go. An other Mdd sweetheart...of* <he wife ofl the defendant *was a Whdesboro bar ber, but he. did that that would effect his opinion in the least in jthe trial of tbe case.. The jury was completed at 12:30 Wednesday afterifoon atid after So licitor Phillips hqd read the bill of indictment court adjourned until 2 :30 o’clock. After the jury lnfd been completed and the men had been swbrn, .7ridge Finley took odmrsion to ;ex press hfmself as highly phased with the personnel of the body', stat ing that it was a credit to the county of Anson to be able to furnish such an intelligent lot of men for a jury in so important a matter The following are the names of the men making up the jury: Marcus W. Caudel, Lacy Ballard, M. D. Ste gall, J. S. Biveus, E. F. Griffith, K. L. Tarlton, W. E. Pratt, J. A. Mor ton, H. D. Griffith, John F. Graves and John A. Liles. S. Thompson, a white man about 45 years old whose home is in Montgomery county, went 011 the wit ness stand in the N. C. Cranford trial this afternoon and told a story of shocking cruelty which be said he saw Cranford display. Thompson testified that he was convicted for violating the prohibition law in 1918 and senteneefl to-serve a term on the iSthnly county chain gang. He was allowed ta gobome-and dp some work before coming to. the gang, and when his time to stars Itis sentence came he brought his oWu commitment and paid life own way to Albemarle, com ing without gUiwd. where he present ed liis cbmiriitment to Superintendent Cranford on Artist 1, 1918. Five days later, he.said, lie saw Cranford unmercifully beat the two nf%roes, Jlmos Terry and James Howell, with whose death he is charged, so that t'iiey fell down on the ground in great agony and neither spoke again, dying the following night, one at 9 o’clock and the other at nine minutes after nine. He said both the negroes complained the day before of being ill; that Superintend ent Cranford forced them to take 10 grains of calomel each, and that this was followed with a pint of salts the next morning. He said Cranford forced both the negroes to swallow' a solid pint of the salts—a pint be fore the water Was applied. During the morning he whipped one of them, and in the afternoon after neither of the negroes hats-eaten 'a Wte of din ner, he administered such a beathing tiiat they both died. He said Cranford called the gang ogether the next morning after the men died, and confessed th&t he had made a mistake, and told them he would resign his job if they thought h * ° U / h i to - He said Cranford !d --mitted that he killed other convicts and buried them in the road fills of Stanly county, and that he had seen him on different occasions unmerci fuUy beat other men, black arid Shite, and without cause. Thompson made an excellent witness, and cross-exam in at r^ d to shake his testim -r i*4 * ~ ■■■ w A five-reel * motion picture h an proximately 5,000 feet long. IN AND ABOUT THE CITY WEBB TELLS OF CONVENTION * AT WEEKLY ROTARY MEETING Local delegate to International Oon ventkari at Dtnter Gives Brief Re sum© of Trip. The regular weekly meeting of th< Concord Rotary Club was held Wed nesday at noon in the ballroom o. Hotel Concord. After a delicious luncheon, during which tide members Hierfthib am their guests were delightfully enter tained % Miss Margaret Hartoell who played several well-ehosen selec tions on the piano, A. G. Odell. aftV’ naming the prograin-cbaimejji for tb» meetings during the summer months announced that the rest o£ the meet ing would be given over to A. S j Webb, president of the' club and dele gate to the recent International Rotarj Convention at Denver, Colo. In beginning his talk Mr. Web! said: “It is impossible forr any man to gc to a meeting of the kind that 1 recently attended without being, great ly benefitted. and without gettinfc t vision of what the Rotary Club real ly stands for. It gave 6ne ah impres sion and an inspiration that woul£ have been unobtainable anywhere else.” v j, “International reflations,” said Mr Webb, "was the keynote of the entire convention. Every address that wns made had as its basic thought the con servation of international peace. And it was belleveel by a majority of the speakers that international peace could be promoted through the Rotarj Club as perhaps through n© other or' ganizatibn. There were flags of Sf, nations around the walls of the con vention hafl. that being the mimbei of nations represented. Addresses showing a‘fine spirit, were made by many of these foreign delegates.” In speaking of his trip to Denver Mr. Webb Shfd ffifit the North Caro lina, Carolina, and Virginia delegations went out on the Dixie special and that the delegates were accorded wonderful treatment while on the train and at every stop made. The Salisbury Rotaria 11s gave the del egates on the train a send-off long t©< be remembered. Pretty little girls, sponsors of the club there, pinned a carnation on the coat of every dele gate and wished them a fine, happy trip. The train, was in charge of Ho tarinriA Conor Sfierritl and Ham .Tones of the Charlotte Club, who presented each fellow Rotarian on the train with a hickory walking stick. Arriving in Asheville, the first stop, the delegation was met at the station arid driven over‘the city by the Ro tarians .of the city in the “Land of the Sky.’ r Everything was done to make the travellers feel at home. Memphis. TriSri.. was the next Mop after Asheville. A band at tbe sta tion welcomed the Rote rin us and the keys of the city were turned over to them by the Memphis mayor. They were shown all of the city in long au tomobile drives and everything was done to make them enjoy thefr brief stay there. Dinner was served to them at the Peabody Hotel, one of the finest hostelries in the South. Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas, ■ were the next two stops arid the same courtesies were shown tbe delegates there that had been shown in the otW er towns pas«ed. In every town the people seeme.t to outdo themselves to rv:ke tbe visitors enjoy riieir stay. Sunday v.as on vhe train and there were enough mirinters to have devotional services i.u each car. The crrt?’ , ificent weat fields of Kansas were viewed en route tlirongh tlmt state and the train stopped beside the 101 Ranch where many buffalo were in sight of the touristy Mr. Webb was greatly impressed by the beauty of Wjchita. Kansas, last stop made before the party reached Denver. The hospitality as well as the beauty of the town was far above par, according to the lueal delegate. “Upon arriving in Denver if seem ed that the entire city was turned ov er to the International Convention,” continued Mr. Webb. “There were no eomplaints at all about hotel ac commodations and the most attractive programs imaginable had been ar ranged for the couvejut|oii.. The wel come was held in a large stadium of one of the universities and a massive spectacle to represent an entire range of mountains had been completed within £t. Gver 1,000 perfectly train ed people took part in the program at the stadium, a huge pageant, the theme of which was the "Spirit.of Rotary." According to Mr. -Webb, one of the most impressive tilings of the whole convention was tile letter read from Paul Harris, founder of Rofjiry. who was too feeble to attehd the conven tion. "Is it morning or is it evening,” he wrote, “are we going or are We coming?” His theme was that Ro tary wris ever going forward and nev er sagging in its mission to the world. On the last day of the convention Harry Rogers, 6 f Texas, was elected president for the coming year and Eu gene Newsome, of Durham, N. C., was selected as one of the board of inter national directors. Guests who enjoyed the luncheon and program of the Rotary Club were: B. L. Wilson, of Youngstown. Ohio; Beatte Taylor. Salisbury. N. C., rind Robert P. Bell. The meeting adjourned at 1:30 o’clock, The program for- the meet ing next week will be in charge of W. W. Flo we and F. C. Niblock. YVinecoff Wins Six in a Row.* The Winecoff baseball team made it six straight Saturday afternoon by defeating the Gilwood team 4 to 3, in a game not as well played ns the score would indicate. Goodnight, pitching for GHwood, was driven from the box in the sixth. Misenheimer, of Winecoff. more than held his own. After getting away to a poor start in the Southern League race the Atlanta . Craekrira. last year's champions, seem finally to have found themselves. \ USE PENNY COLUMN—IT PAY* fH fi 16 NCOftb TIMES IMPOUNDING DAM BEING USED BY THE CITY NOW cam water cteek Has Lost Some of Its Flow Atttf Reserve in Dam Being Utllfetd. Sooner thin was expected water im pounded in the new dam built by the. city at the intersection of Patterson ind t/hambers creeks has been utii •izede. - ' It became known yesterday that luring last week Cold Water Creek lost some of its usual flow and the reserve water caught in the dam was used to give the city its normal sup - The utilizing of part of the dam, about half of it in fact, brings to light the fact that Cold Writer Creek undoubtedly ovves its flow in the past to the two creeks which are now be ing impounded. These two creeks emptied into Cold Water and it was their generous supply more than any thing else that kept Cold Water run ning almost at normal tide when ev erything else around about was going dry. There is plenty of water in the dam, however, and city officials are in oosition now to care for any need •bat may arise. If the flow in Cold Water gets low all that needs to be done is to open the gates in the dam and let through the amount of water needed. Retween 3.000.000 and 4,- 000,000 gnftons of water already have been impounded and this supply can be utilized as the need arises. The rain of last night will help the floW of Colfl Writer it is expected, and at the saute time it will increase to some extent the supply of water in the dam. Jf,.— PARRS-BELK Bip SALE STARTED TIMS MOANING Annual Birthday and Clearance Sale Got Off to Fine Start ThTs Morn ing. The lflth annual Birthday and Clearance Sale at the Parks-Belk Company got off to a fine start at 0 o'clock this morning. When the doors of the store were opened at 9 O'clock several scores of persons were waiting on the outside anxious to get first chance at the many excellent bargains offered. Officials of the store declare the sale promises to be one of the best nnd biggest in the history of the com pany. Unusually elaborate plans were made for the trade event and some of the biggest bargains in the history of the store are being offered. The store was closed all day yes terday while clerks and other em ployes made last minute arrange ments for the opening of the sale this morning! Finish brick work at two new high schools Interior Work Will Begin at Once art the Harriot)itrg and Bethel Schools. Brick masons have about completed their work on the new high school buildings at Harrisburg and Bethel < and interior work will be started without delay. While the brick layers are getting through at these schools others are just getting started good at the new Mt. Pleasant school, work on which was started about two weeks ago. Unless many unforseen things de velop the Harrisburg and Bethel schools wiTI be completed in plenty of t : me for the opening of the 1926-21 school term in the fall. Good prog-i ress has been made with the work at the schools and with plenty of mater ial on hnrid now, it is expected that the two structures will be finished in ample time for the* regular opening of the new scholastic yerir. It is also planned to rush the work on the Mt. Pleasant bulling with the hope that it can be utilized dur- ; :ng the coming year. White this con tract was only let several weeks ago, the contractor plans to keep a large, force of hands engaged throughout the summer, and this structifre too, may be ready when the Fall term be gins. Mrs. Maggie Littleton Passed Away Monday. Stanly News-Herald. Mrs. Maggie Ross Littleton, promi nent Albemarle woman died Monday at 11 6’cloek having suffered a Severe attack of paralysis last Wed nesday afternoon. She had lingered between life ahd death since the time she was stricken, having remained unconscious during the greater part of the time. Funeral service was held at 4 o’clock Tuesday afternoon at the Central Methodist Church. Rev. C. M. Pickens, pastor of the church, conducted the service. Seldom has a funeral been So large ly attended in Albemarle as that of Mrs. Littleton’s and the floral of ferings were many and very beauti ful. A large number of her friends acted as flower bearers. The deceased was a native Albe marle lady. She spent the greater part of her life here, At ah early age she joffleti Central Methodist Church and lived a very beautiful and con sistent Christian life, having been universally beloved. She was a mem ber of the Ross family, one of the oldest arid most distinguished of Al bemarle. Mrs. Littleton was the widow of the late Hr. T. J. Littleton, who dur ing his life was a prominent physi cian of Albemarle. Her two sons Tom and Ur. Henry Littleton, died a number of years ago, both having died in young manhood. She is sur vived by three sisters and two broth ers. The sisters are Mrs. T T Jerome, of Greensboro; Mr**. Lizzie iAttle and Mrs. R. E. Austin, both of Rp The fathers are John Roi o's Ch“aXl y ’ Ch “‘' ,ie t * the time of her death, Mrs werl ? n ' and * 6r * ister ’ Mrw - Austin, «e living together in one of the Laton apartments. a Public playground idea, which had its birth in Boston in 1885 has since spread to 748 cities and towns lu iorty-five states and Canada. WANTED 50 Sales People For Friday and Saturd -,f [ ■ 1 * 1 iI.J-i.Jt--*, .B— .. ir ’ Big Birthday Sale Started With Great Crowd; Thronging Our Doors at 9o clot This Morning Every Thing Reduced and Every Thing BARGAIN NEW SPECIALS EVERY DA These Prices Only Come Once A Yea SO COME EVERY DAY PARKS-BELK q LOOK How 5 years havl changed tire prices I fH 30 x 3>/2 Cl. i|||| Goodyear I All-Weather I • 1 • ,W *i'* In 1920 this tire cost .... $23.51 Today it is a better tire I and we sell it for . . . . . $10.41 In no other line do you get the values you get in Goodyear tires- I Other sizes in proportion. I NOW IS THE TIME TO Bit YORKE© WADSWORTH 1 The Old Reliable Hardware Store nyl Phone 30 Concord, N. C. Thursfoy, j I
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