DANBURY REPORTM
Volume 58.
CROPS DRYING
UP IN PATRICK
Our Sister County To the North
Is Suffering Severely From
Drought Low Water
Causes Power Plant To Fail
—Road Work.
No rain to speak of has fallen
f i ..trick county for month*,
vi - i's are drying, the early
. corn crop is a failure except in
low bottom lands, where it is
very good. The late crop will
also fail unless rain soon falls.
Many of the small courses have
dried up atogether, and the
larg. streams are lower than
>een here in over 50 years. The
1 cai power plant is compelled
to r ,i only part of the time
due \ he low water. Pasture
land.-. are so dry that many
I -op, ■ are feeding their stock.
Considering the situation
;'i ... every angle it is very
«T:tvt t i say the least.
Ti".'- power situation so
gru\> here that the entire town
i 1. ir.g aroused. The water i>
i-.w that the dam is soon
drain- d. making it impossible
to generate power with the big
plant for more than 0 or 8
ia-ui at the time. The rest
* ; the time all motors and
electrical equipment stand idle.
Naturally this effects all per
sons using power for any pur
pose. The meat market is
afraid to keep meats, and all
people having electric refriger
ation lose much of their food.
Work is progressing nicely
on R. 12 and 2'l State High
ways, passing through Patrick
county, also along Route 200,
leading to The Hollow.
The top dressing of fine stone
is being spread on the highway
from the N. C. line to Stuart,
which makes a smooth firm
surface.
Work on the cement bridge
over Mayo on Route 12 and 2:}
1 mile north of Stuart is being
done rapidly and grading on
this stretch of road to Cruise's
Store is going right ahead.
Grading and construction
work on the J. E. B. Stuart
Highway towards Ilillsville by
the convict camp force.
Tobacco Starts
At The Bottom
Tobacco is selling around ten
and twelve cents on the Georgia
markets, which opened .this
week.
The low price is very dis
couraging, but certainly not
unexpected. Farmers haw?
been warned and repeatedly
warnul that they cannot expeel
anything but disaster from the:
tobacco situation, but this fact
has not deterred them from
going strong on it again, and it
will not deter them from going
strong next year, ami the year
afterwards, and so on.
England is becoming some
what worried over India's salt
propo-Gandhi.
Established 1872.
KING HAS
A ROBBERY
_ |
Thieves Took S3OO To S4OO
Worth of Dry Goods From
Store of J. H. Helsabeek &
Co. Monday Night.
Thieves entered the store of
J. 11. Helsabeek & Co. at King
sometime Monday night and
curried away from s.">oo to S4OO
worth of dry goods, principally
ladies' ready-to-wear goods,
silk hose, etc.
Sheriff John Taylor was call
ed to King Tuesday to investi
gate several clues, some of
which led into Forsyth county
and Winston-Salem, but none
of the goods were found and
no arrests have been made so
far.
The Helsabeek company only
recently opened a new store at
King, carrying a general line
of merchandise.
PEACH GROWERS
SHIP MANY CARS
An Average of 70 Cars Daily
Being Shipped From Aber
deen This Week Season
Nearing Close.
Aberdeen. July 20.—1n spit ■
of the sweltering heat and siz
zling atmosphere, while the
thermometer stood at 07 in the
shade, the warehouses being
used as temporary packhouses
are doing a rushing business
in peaches this week, working
hundreds of men in bringing
peaches from the orchards,
grading, crating and loading
them into iced refrigerator
cars, while negro boys cool off
the tin roofs and the floors of
the warehouses with use of the
water hose at intervals.
An average of 70 cars for
each day this week has been
estimated for the Sandhill sec
tion, as shipped out from Aber
deen.
The fruit is the best that has
been gro.wn in years, both as to
quality and flavor, and brings
a price of from $2.50 to $4.50
per crate.
The Sandhill section has tak
en on a spirit of optimism and
general rejoicing prevails as to
prospective business outlook,
and it looks now as if the high
peak of depression is a thing
of the past. There will be
about two more days of a rush
ing business, but after thi*
week, there will be few peaches
shipped.
Protest Danish Rule
London, July 30,—Copenhag
en dispatches say that wild
demonstrations in favor of im
mediately ending Danish rule
in Ireland were made Tuesday
at the opening of the Iceland L
parliament in Reykjavik.
Mrs. McGormick, of Illinois,
is said to be "keen, alert and
intelligent," which fact casts
some doubts on her qualifica
tions for the Senate.
Danbury, N. C., Wednesday, July 30- 1930
! LOW PRICES ON
GEORGIA TOBACCO
Average Price Below Cost of
Production, State Official
States Seven Warehouses
1 Report.
Atlanta. Ga., July 20.—Re
ports to the state department
of agriculture from seven ware
houses in the bright leaf tobac
co area today showed a price
range of from 10 to 15 cents
I per pound, with the average
around 12 cents, a figure which
Eugene Talmadge, state com
missioner of agriculture, said
was below the cost of produc
tion.
From Ilazelhurst came a re
port of 400.000 pounds on the
floor at market opening time,
with a price ranging from 10
to 11 cents. Hlaekshear re
ported 250,n0i/ pounds at i:.' 1 2
cents; Stateslvirt 200,000 li'.-..
with in; price quotation; Way
cross 1 "0.000 pounds at 1 5
cents; Camilla 15,000 pounds
at 12 cents; Na-hville :>50,u00
pounds in 12 1-2 cents an.!
Thoniasville. 125,000 pounds at
12 cents.
Mr. Talmadge said reports
from the remaining markets
might bring the average prices
higher, but that he did not ex
pect it to reach tin 10 1-2 cent
average of the first week last
year. Regardless of any minor
increase, he said, "the price is
below the cost of production
and there is too much disparity
between the prices paid the
farmer and paid by the purch
aser of the finished tobacco pro
duct."
Wind, Rain and Hail
| Storm in King Section
King, July :>o.—This section
j was visited by a severe wind,
rain and hail storm Monday
afternocn. Trees were blown
down and tobacco barns un
roofed. The brick wall of the
old Samet building on North
Depot Street, which had been
standing unprotected since th.-
building was gutted by fire in
1925, were blown down. Fall
ing brick did some damage to
the adjoining store building
which is occupied by H. ().
Helsabeek and Company,
i An area about a mile square,
just north of town, was hit
hardest by hail and wind. The
crops in that section were
literally destroyed. Some of th •
I farmers are cutting off their
tobacco at the ground and will
j depend on new suckers for a
. crop.
i Record At Tarboro
Tarboro, July 29.—For tin
past week the weather here has
, been swelteringly hot and yes
| terday it broke all records for
this summer when the ther
mometer reached 100 degrees
I in the shade, according to the
. official government record kept
j here by Dr. E. V. Zodler.
I
DROUGHT WORST
IN HISTORY
States Between Rocky Moun-
I
tains and Appalachians Still
Hot and Dry—Or eat Loss In
Crops.
I
Washington, July "o.—Th •
searing drought which for
weeks and months has baked
large areas between the Rocky
Mountains and the Appalach
ians was listed today as the
worst the country has exper
ienced since state-wide weath
er records began.
J. B. Kincer. meteorologist o;'
the Department of Agriculture,
described it as unparalleled in
the records which reach back
forty or fifty years.
Farmers who have watched
their crops wither under almost
unprecedented temperature r* i
ords accompanying moist i; t-.
deficiencies. particulai'y mn .
pastures :n:.l i'.di truck crop-,
received no one uragement.
The foreca i division of th -
Weather Bureau aid no relief
wa- in sight 1 ■; several days
more at leu.-t.
"Every additional day with
out rain." Kincer sai l, "not
withstanding coder weather,
necessarily will further reduce
prospects."
Winter wheat harvest, how
ever, is Hearing completion
without appreciable damage.
Considerable deterioration to
the late spring wheat was re
ported, but harvesting of the
early crop is well advanced.
Extensive Area.
The drought has existed iti
some states since last Decem
ber, others since March and in
others the dry weather
began in the growing months
of June and July.
In addition to the scanty rain
fall in July, increasing drought
conditions already prevalent
over large areas, three ex
tremely hot waves followed to
intensify them.
To Fly the Pacific
Next fall it is planned to
span by airplane the world's
greatest expanse of water from
east to west, the Pacific ocean.
At City Island, X. Y., a giant
seaplane designed to make the
trans-atlantic trip is being con
structed.
According to the announce
ment, the new plane will have
a wing spread of 150 feet, will
be propelled by 10 motors, and
carry a pay load of eight tons.
In the light of the rapid ad
vances in airplane engineering
which have taken place recent
ly there is no reason to douh;
that the plan may be success
fully carried out.
"Believe it or nof' Ripley
could hardly get away with this
yarn: The New Hampshire
legislature forgot to appropri
ate money for the members'
pay before adjourning.
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W. F. MARSHALL, JR.,
HOST TO FRIENDS;
Fulton Motor Co. Employees
i
Enjoy Banquet—Other News!
and Personal Items.
Walnut Cove, July :>0. — Mr.
Frank Marshall, Jr., was h»»~t i
at his hi.nie here in lay
evening t a number of out of,
town friends at a wry enjoy :
able bridge party.
The living rooms wev • ma le!
more attractive with lovely \
summer flowers, and here four!
tables were arranged for
bridge. After a number >f
lively progressions Mrs. Olin
Ward received a beautiful chif
fon handkerchief as high «coiv
prize. Fred Vanee held high
est among the men and wa
givcti an ash tray. Fur coiiso
laiion Marshall Matthew* was
presenti d a i!• -t* 1 of bridge
card.-. During tin game ie-
Ireslnn/ ietd puneh was >e:-y."l
and at the eonclu ion i; ihe
game- a deliirhtl'u! i.e cm;rst
was served by Mis.se,MargMV.
Marshall and Dorothy Preston.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Fair
and three children, of Dallas.
Texas, were here the past week
visiting Mr. Fail's Yehtive-s
Mesdames W. F. Bowles, Dolly
Dodson, Minnie Fair and Mis.;
Betty Fair. They made tin
trip from Dallas by automobile.
Misses Sallie Matt and Mar
garet Marshall attended tin-
State Elementary School con
ference held at Chapel Hill last I
week.
Mr. and Mrs. William Jones I
announce the arrival of a sonj
Monday, July 28th, at a Mar-1
tinsville, Ya., hospital.
Mrs. J. G. Stokes and child- j
ren, Betty Jo and Frank Marsh j
[all, have returned to their home
\in Greenville, N. C.. after
J spending two weeks visiting
Mrs. Stokes' parents, Mr. and
j Mrs. A. F. Marshall They were
accompanied home by Miss
Margaret Marshall, who will be
, their guest a few weeks.
Mrs. Leake Lovin and son.
"Rusty", and Mrs. Annie Carter
left Tuesday for a visit with
friends at Red Springs.
M/esdames Roy Holland. Joe
Zimmerman and Miss Sallie
Matt Marshall spent Monday
in Win>ton-Salem shopping.
Mrs. 11. J. White, of Eliza
bethton, Tenn., is spending
awhile in town with her moth [
or. Mrs. J. B. Woodruff.
The employees of the Fulton;
Motor Co. enjoyed their semi- i
annual banquet at the Carolin
ian Coffee Shoppe in Winston-
Salem Tuesday evening with
Dorothy Rothrock and Mar-
Mr. Fulton as host,
garet Fulton are visiting Mrs.
Donnell Van Noppen at Mehane.
John V. Lewellyn, who has
been confined to his home with
illness several days is improv
ed and able to be out again.
Walter Neal, student at Tu
lane University, New Orleans,
has returned to his home here
No. i{ t b3i)
UNEMPLOYMENT IS
GREAT DISASTER
Worse Than Flood Or Fire In
■ the Opinion Of Mrs. W. T.
Host. State Commissioner oi
Public Welfare.
lialeigh, July 2!».—L'nemploy-
I
nifiit, willi its n.-ulting attend
ant —dependency— is the big 1
I problem lacing welfare work
j ers. .Mrs. W. T. Bost, State
j (' mmissiuiier of Public Wel
j fare, today told the twenty
j eighth annual session of the
farmers' and farm women's
convention at X. C. State Col
lege.
Depicting unemployment a
!»'ing "worse than a flood or
lire. Mrs. Bust declared there
should be a c ntiiuious pro
gram in order lo prevent recur
ring periods of depression.
"W iitli six million or more mer.
out of :i jib. it i- demoralising
tnoiii'ii to tlii ial and eco
nomic life of the country to be
regar I 'il as a disaster or w irse.
DECLARES FARMS
GOOD INVESTMENT
Now Is Time to Buy Them.
Says Secretary of Land
Bank.
Fayetteville, July ;So.—Now
is the time to buy farm.-. R. J.
Taylor, secretary of the Federal
Land Bank at Columbia. S.
told 130 representatives of
tarm loan associations of cen
i tral North Carolina meeting
here today. Mr. Taylor stat
; ed that in many sections farm
j lands are selling below the ac
! tual value, and represent an
! attractive investment. The Co
lumbia Land Bank has sold 181
| farms during the first half of
this year, as against 29 in the
same period last year, he said.
Every effort is made to find de
sirable buyers and not to dump
properties on thermarket, lie
added.
The Land Bank secretary
predicted a "turn for the bel
ter' in the fai rn'ng situation.
In some parts of this bank dis
trict farmers ar making crops
more cheaply thai, in ;>ny year
. since 1!> 14. he deviated. Farm
ers have more generally adopt
ed the live-at-hotne idea and
are not spending every surplus
dollar. This, and the spread of
j ...
diversification of farm crop;
| and the production of more
'cash crops indicate a turn for
the belter in the farming busi
ness. Farmers are improving
their own positions and are
abandoning the idea that the
government or any other agen
cy is going to solve their prob
lems, declared the speaker.
to spend the summer vacation
with his father, Dr. J. W. Neal.
I Dr. A. G. Jones and Miss Nan
nie Jones are visiting Mrs. Her
bert Smith at Liberty. Mrs.
A. G. Jones is in Greensboro
j with their daughter, Mrs. C. J.
, Lambe.
! Prof, and Mrs. L. H. Floyd
have returned from a trip to
I I South Carolina.