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A bluo mark here means that tin; sub scriber to this copy of The News is behind on subscription, Pleaso make a payment as soou as convenient. 7i5v 1 ; .KiiM VOL. XXXI MOUNT AIRY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1010 NO. IS hirt 1p v LETTER FROM MR. R. U. NUNN. The Mount Airy News. Mount Airy, N. C. Mr. Editor: About a month ago there was cir culated a report in this county to the effect that the 1910 pool of to bacco wua off in Kentucky and that all the organization out there was bursted and of couse it had Us ef fect In thia Stite. aa the farnnr him had hia eye on the work going on In that State. Dut now cornea the report again that the pool was de clared off the first of November and that there would be no tobacco pool ed this year and that all the tobacco of Kentucky would be sold on the looae leaf market at public auction. Now I want to discuss this matter. Who is the starter of these report, are they authentic or are they talso? Lets see how the matter standi. Ev erybody knows that we have a strong Union membership in Virginia and North Carolina and that suh a re port would throw a damper over this tnoinhpt-Hhln and everyone knows hut wa r Ketiln ready to pool to bacco here and In Virginia (and they are pooling it in Virginia now.j And everyone knows too that there are many men and several large tobacco companies that would have all to gain and nothing to lose if the peo ple could be discouraged to the ex tent that they would abandon their plans in this State and Urgiuia ana disband. So consequently I for one can guess who was the starter of these reports. I don't say it was the American Tobacco Co., but I do say that they have every thing to gain and nothing to lose by circulat ing such reports. Are we going to be fooled by such reports and get discouraged by same? Never! We are going to investigate first and If we find it to be so we will believe It and not before. As we Bald above the newspapers are claiming the pool In Kentucky was officially declared off the first of October and then again In Novem ber and now In connection with same I will request you to reprint a letter which appeared In the Danbury Re porter of last week from Mr. R. S. Harnett, of Paduack, Ky.. to Mr. C. W. GUdewell, organizer of Stokes county. In regard to the Kentucky pool. Here la Mr. Barnetfa letter In full and It sheds considerable light on the subject: Mr. Barnetfs Letter. Paduack. Ky., Nov. 10, 1910. Mr. C. W. GUdewell. Mayodan. N. C. rwnr air and Brother: Your In quiry of the list ult received thia morning and 1 take great pleasure iu answering your questions. First, I beg to say with emphasis that any statement made by any paper or In dividual that the F. E. and C. U. of America has gone pieces In Kentuc ky la a malicious falsehood design ed to bring about dlssention among the people among your State, as the last hope of the speculators to con trol conditions. The facts are that the members of our Order, the Farm ers Union, have already pooled more tobacco than ever before, and are Handing firmer than ever before since we have had organization. It is a scheme of the speculators to dis satisfy our poople. The dally papers of I'aduack u lew days ago published the saioo thing about the burly pool up In middle Kentucky three hund red m.les from here1. It is the same old trick of the tobacco trust. Ad "'Vising is cheaper than to pay the pie for their tobacco. When we put on our first pool of cotton In 1905 the Georgia papers published that the Texas Cotton Pool was bursted and the Union cotton was being dumped on the market at a wholesale rate, and the Texas pa lers published that the Georgia Un ion I"ool was bursted and had gone to the bad and everybody was rush ing to get their cotton on the market first, when the whole thing was a lie published by the cotton specula tors to mislead our people. Hut the scheme failed and tell flat and the Union stood firm and got even more In many Instances than they asked. I warn you people to not be taken In by such rot. but know your position and stand firm. I am Informed that the loaders of the Burly Pool put some tobacco on public sale In o-d-er to force the grower to pool more solidly which I am Informed they are doing. Hoping this will eliminate any fur ther suspicion, I am. Very truly yours, R. S. BARNKTT How does that look to you brother Union man, doesn't it look like some one has been doing some tall llelng? This letter Is from the pen of the Sec. and Treas. and also Organizer of the Kentucky Union. You know that there are several organizations In Kentucky but the Farmers Union Is growing fast out in that State. There is the Society of Equity and the Durly Society besides the Farm ers Union. My friends, we have a hard fight before us and the people who are fighting us are going to tell every thing they can think of or do every thing they can to down us, therefore does it not behove us to stand solidly on every question and show a brave front: I hear that there is some dissatisfaction among the brethren in Surry about the Un tng Warehouse being operated In slount Airy. Now for the life of me I can't see where the Inconsistency "I am pleased to recommend Cham berlaln'a Cough Remedy ss the best thing I know of and safest remedy for coughs, colds and brachial tro uble," writes Mrs. L. D. Arnold of Denver, Col. "We have use4 it re peatedly and It has never failed to (ire relief." For sale by alt dealers. of the thing comes in. We all know that we could not gt a dry prize i built In time to dry und pool much tobacco this year and that there aa no help for It but to lay It down on a warehouse floor at the mercy of auction sales. So our board of di rectors hit upon a plan whereby they could (If the membership gives them their support) have the Union sev eral hundred dollars to help defray the expense of building a dry prize next spring. I think the plan alright and under the circumstances the thing to do. You showed by your votes in that last stockholders meeting that you were willing to trust them, so lets not Jump on them with both feet un til they do something to be kicked for. Now In conclusion I wilt say that for further information I am going to write several men who know all about the affairs of Kentucky and as soon as I hear from them I will let the people know through the col umns of this paper. Now I will acknowledge that I did feel a little blue about the situation as reported by the papers in old Kentucky, but I never did believe half of It. Again returning to the dry prize subject I want to see the day when there will be one built in Mount Airy, also one in Pilot Mountain, as I think that is the only solution to the tobacco problem for we never will get justice as long as we lay our tobacco down on the warehouse floor at the mercy of auction sales. Hoping that this will open the eyes of the people to the true state of affairs, I beg to remain. Yours fraternally. R. L. NUNN. Westfleld. N. C, Nov. 14th, 1910. Editor King Soliloquizes on Election Held Tuesay. Durham Ileral. Mr. Roosevelt had nothing to say. ut what could he say? The local self-government pro position went down along with the rest. If anything else had been goinjf the Democrats would have cap tured that too. And yet Butler methods seem to have carried the other side safely througn, . - While Mr. Mono ai has had a hard time of it as chairman, ho no.v sees what -.ruuld have happened if he had made the race for congress. Having discovered just how much Mr. ltutler is worth to them, the Republicans will not be long in droqping him that is if they can. Mr. Roosevelt has less sense than he has been given credit for if he does not understand exact ly what it means. The Republicans promised the country tariff reform and failed to deliver the goods and it now turns out that the people's mem ories are longer than they used to be. Wants off Chain Gang to Com plete Honeymoon. Magnolia, Mass., Dispatch, 8th. Urging as a reason for his par don that "just a few weeks pre ceding his arrest he had married and his honeymoon was most rudely interrupted, ' friends of Allen R. Ravencroft, who is serv ing a sentence on the county chain gang, are circulating a pe tition praying for his release. Ra vencroft more than a year ago was sentenced to serve sixty days on the gang and pay a fine of $220 on the charge of retailing liquor. The fine is being worked out by the young man at the rate of 50 cents a day and he still has more thai, ninety days to serve. Women in the Legislature. Denver, Col., Nov. 10. Four women will sit in the eighteenth general assembly of Colorado as a' result of Tuesday's election. They are Alma Laferty, Louise U. Jones and Louise M.'Kerwin, all elected representatives from Denver districts on the Democrat ic ticket ana Agnes Riddle, Re publican representing Adams, Arapahoe and Elbert counties. For pains In the side or chest dampen a piece of flannel with Cha mberlain's Liniment and bind It on over the seat of the pain. There Is nothing better. For sale by all dealers. FARMER'S CO-OPERATIVE WORK. Topic for Discussion in Novem berDeep Fall Breaking of Land. (By C. It. Hudson.) Raleigh, N. C, Thursday, 10. For a considerable number of years Southern farmers have been trying to produce large profitable crops of corn on shal low soils. The records of corn growing show that they have failed. During this same period a few of the more progressive fanners have been breaking their lands from six to eight inches, and even to ten inches, deep, and have produced from thirty to sixty bushels per acre at a small cost. For forty years the aver age depth of breaking land in North Carolina has been about four inches with an avemge yield of less than fifteen ' bushels of corn per sere. Last year the men engaged in the farmers' Co operative Demonstration "Work broke three thousand acres from six to ten inches deep and har vested a little over forty bushels per acre. The cost was about twenty-five cents ier bushel. Can we not learn a valuable lesson from the experience of these farmers? Let us study, briefly, some of the advantages of a deep soil. One of the most important problems connected with corn growing is a properly distributed supply of moisture. We cannot have this on shallow soils. The shallow soil is soon filled with water during rainfall. If the rains continue several days, the Soil suiy itdidled with vater. This keeps out the air. (Two things cannot occupy the same space at the same time.) Corn will not grow unless air gets down to its roots. There fore, the corn fails during wet spells of weather. The excess of rain fall usually does much wash ing under such conditions. When the rains cease, the small amount of water held in a shallow soil is soon exhausted by evaporation and by being used by the corn, so that the corn now suffers for lack of moisture. With a deep soil these conditions do not ex ist. When rain comes it sinks down into the lower parts of the deep soil, letting the air into the upper portions- so that the corn continues its growth. When dry weather prevails the deep soil, by having caught previous rains, is able to supply moisture enough to keep the corn green and growing. Iu this section we nearly al ways have a wet spell or a dry spell of weather during the per iod of corn growing. One usu ally follows the other. The ef fects of both extremes can be largely overcome by having a deep seed bed. Then, too, it stands to reason that there is more plant food in a deep soil than in a shallow one. Some exceptions to these statements should bb. noted. A soil that is filled with water dur ing a considerable portion of the year is not benefited by deep plowing. If such soils were well drained.then deep breaking would be good for them. Many marsh es and other wet soils would produce big crops if they were drained and deepened by plow ing; Loose, sandy lands, with open porous sub-soils, without any clay in them or under them are not much benefitted by deep breaking. If much humus is to be turned under ou them, then deep plowing gives much better results. The time of deepening the soil is important. Many farmers wait till spring to deepen their soils and often make poor crops be cause the subsoil was too wet to ' b plowed after the winter rains had fallen. The proper time to do deep breaking is during the fall, and early winter, provided the soil and subsoil are dry enough. This permits several weeks' weathering to take place before spring planting begins On land that has never had the. atmosphere down into it, is not a fit place to plant seed. This also allows the soil to be pul verized by the freezes. Both the air and the freezes are very valuable in making plant food available for the use of crops. In doing deep break ing at any time, it is not advis able to turn very much of the raw subsoil out on top Those who expect to make big crops next year should begin now to deepen the soil. If properly done under average conditions, no fur ther deep breaking will be neces sary iu the spring. Then is the time, to do a lot of dicing and harrowing in order to make a nice well pulverized seed bed. Bulletin : No. A-63, Farmers Cooperative Dr. S. A . Knapp, Washington, D. C. Farmers' Bulletins 87 and 245, address Secretary of Agri culture, Washington, D. C. Wanted A Wife. Copied from Danbury Reporter. Gernianton, N. C, Route No. 2, Nov. 2. My dear friends: I think this is a very sad thing that 1 have to advertise for a ife, but It ook like tilt "World has slighted me. I hafter speak to you all in some way or nother. My friends if you all was in the condison that I am in you all would want you all a man. My friends, this is a chance opeu for you all that will answer. I am living in hojes to here from some smart woman. My friends I his is from a man that will not j'ool you. I will treat you with respect all my days. I am try ing to live as near right as I know how for God. May Ood bless you all now and lorever more, is my prayer for you all.' Wei), I will close, please ans wer. Amos James. Dead Man Left $500 For a Din ner. New York Dispatch, 8th. Twelve friends of the late lUtje Seidenburg, a well-to-do business man who died here last October, are directed by the terms of his will to eat a dinner costing $500, or $41,662 :1 a plate, at the expense of the estate. The selection of the guests and the time and place of the dinner are left to his executor, with the sole proviso that the dinner must be eaten within three mouths' of the testator's death. The value of the estate is given formally at "more than $10,000." Mecklenburg Farmer's Fine Yield of Corn. Cornelius Corresponence Char lotte Observer. j Mr. Jake L. Smith reports a very fine corn yield from his fields. tTbe acre planted by his son James in the prize contest yielded 135 1-3 bushels as meas ured when the corn was shred ded. On 6 acres, including this particular one, Mr. Smith has a jield of 425 bushels. On It in cluding th is 6, he gets 775 bu shels, and he will make over and above this from the rest of his crop about 400 more bushels. Calendar Nov. Term, 1910 Surry Supcriort Court. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28th, 1910. 48. Quinn-Marshall Co. vs Draughn and Dockery. 55. ' W. E. Cockerham vs A. J. Wood. 56. B. C. Simpson vs W. C. Perkins. 63. Brown Rogers Co. vs N. D.Reece. 64. R. J. Bowen vs J. S. Marshall. 65. Doss Tobacco Co. vs So. Ry. Co. and II. Barker. 66. C. P. Cox vs R. R. Saunders. 70. A. II. Freeman vs W. II. Inscore. 71. Mrs. M. V. Ja mes vs J. M. Fulton. 81. Hattiesburg 8-Wheel Wagon Co. vs Mayo Lumber Co. 82. I. M. Swift vs W. C. Perkins and II. Schafer. TUESDAY, -NOVEMBER 29th. 83. R. K. Marshall vs C. V. S. Boyden, admr., et al. 93. J. E. Ayers vs So. Ry. Co. 101. R. E. Hollingsworth vs Matt Hardy, admr. 107. J. M. Harrell vs S. S. Lambert, et al. 109. ; W. H. Wall vs G. B. Marshall and Son. 110. In Re Last will and testament Sarah Hicks. 111. Early Ashburn vs J. I. Inman. 115. William Nelson vs N. C. Granite Corporation. 119. E. R. Childress vs Elkin Furniture Co. 121. I. C. McCarter vs E. V. Marsh. 122. J. P. Cook vs J. J. Wallace. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30th. 123. West-Hill Co. vs Jno. F. Woods et al. 130. In Re: Jno. W. Brown. 131. Peter Bennett vs C. IL McDaniel et al. 132. Julia Beamer vs WT. F. Gregory. 133. W. II. Wall vs George Baily. 134. S. M. Hale vs L. G. Waugh. 137. Jesse Lowe and wife vs Jos. Cockerham. 139. Mrs. M. V. James vs J. II. Fulton, Guardian. 142. National Furniture Co. vs J. M. Smith. 145. The Seneca Co. vs C. P. Crawford. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1st. Sarah Simpson vs S.M . Copeland. M. L. Dockery vs George Baily. Blue Ridge Overall Co. vs C. L. Venable and Co. Blue Ridge Overall Co. vs C. L. Venable and Co. 146. 147. 148. 149. 100. A. -tf v&rjrtrftr MHIar 151. M. C. Anthony vs II. F. 152. 154. 156. 157. M. C. Anthony vs Delphia V. C. Wallace et al vs W. D. A. Houston and wife vs Jaa. M. Parker, admr., vs FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2nd. 158. Isaac Holder, admr., vs Mt. Airy Mantel & Table Co. 161. Mt. Airy Furniture Co. vs S. F. Venable. 165. State vs Charles Key. 166. The Monoarch Paiut Co. vs J. Q. Adams. 167. S. J. Atkinson vs Noah Cox and G. V. Cooper. 168. .Thos. White vs T. J. White. 169. T. W. Bryant, admr., vs Jesse Campbell et al. 172. II. Simmons et al vs John Jones et al. 173. Brown Rogers Co. vs II. F. Comer et al. 174. Mrs. Mary A. Jones vs S. C. Jones. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3rd. All cases, not tried, in their order on docket and all motions and appeals. Forest Ranger Killed on Vander bilt Estate. Clayton Davis, a forest ranger' ('u,io- 1,1 Iwtch, "th. in the employ of the Biltmore vs-, Alexander Frazier, Democrat, tate, who was shot from ambush tl.v fented Sheriff Frederick List Wednesday morning while Nol,i for ll,'riff b.V a majority searching for poachers diedearlvof ,u'arl' lm- Alexander coun Thursday morning, and T. ;J ty is nominally Republican by 1, Keams, a mountaineer of Mills r,(H majority. Nollis placed n- River, Henderson count v, is now! in custody, charged with the shooting. The deceased was walking near the boundary line of thf" estate near State Rock creek, when a shot from ambush struck him in the alnlomen. The wounded man was found by forestry hands some hours later, after he had crawled and walked a distance of nearly three miles in the dir ection of his home, to which he was carried. Kearns, who is in jail at Hen dersonville, admits the shooting but says he fired at what he thought was a deer. . Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets do not sicken or gripe, and may be taken with perfect safety by the most delicate woman or the youngest child. The old and feeble will also find them a most suitable remedy for aiding and strengthening their weakened digestion and for regulating the bowels. For sale by all dealers. Jy r - - "-- Snow. Snow. V. Burch .Guardian. W. E. Adams. Bud Mitchell. Why the Lost Republican Sheriff at Carlo, IU. 8 deputies in the couuty jail when white citizens attacked it to lynch John Pratt, a negro, for an attack on a white woman Webster's Weekly. Solicitor Graves is indebted to the counties of Rockingham and Caswell for splendid votes. In Caswell, Mr. Graves received five votes more than any other iftan on the ticket, and here in Rockingham he ran practically a hundred ahead of the regular vote. It is a splendid testimon ial of his ability and personal popularity. Atfmlnlstrater'e NeUee. Having qualified as administrator on the estate of J. M. iJavis, deceased, notice is hereby given all parties owing the estate to come forward and make prompt payment, and save costs. And all persons holding claims sjrsinat the estate will present them within the time perscribed by law, or this notice will be plead in bar of their collection. This October 6, 1910. J. A. Jackson, Administrator.
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