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VOL. XXII
(TUESDAY)
WARRENTON, N. C, TUESDAY, MARCH 6TH, 1917
(FRIDAY)
No. 51
$1.50 A YEAR
A SEMI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF WARRENTON AND WARREN COUNTY
3c A COPY
MR. F. B. NEWELL ON
ROAD CONDITIONS.
Mr. Editor:
Please publish the fol
lowing: In writing for the County News
papers, I think if the writer reflects
on one individual he is guilty of one
of the following reasons: Low-birth,
or paid to write by some one who is
not willing to own what he harbors
in his own heart, or wants an office
that he is not suitable to fill. So the
reader will see at a glance that I am
looking for the future uplift of the
County without any reflection on my
part.
On March the 2nd, I left Warren
ton at about 8 o'clock for Areola over
one of the most important roads in
the County. I found one continuous
Mp. 14 miles lone: in some
muu-Hwi - - j -
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have rs rood horse as any one ever Mr. G. Clevland Williams, of Bask
owned I expect, that is fat, and strong ! erville, Va., was here on professional
md willing, but it required 5 1-2 hours ; business one day last week.
ani!I T visited the school 1 Mr. Edd Park, of Keats, Va., was
at Areola in the interest of Agricul
ture fo that section of our county.
Aftei organizing a poultry club,
Corn Club, Pig Club, and planning for
a fruit tree demonstration and for a
t 1 ri trvc r -
L. V
i frui" tree aemonsiratiun auu xuj. i . . , , - , ,
a nuiw ncc ,ant V m the home of her brother, Mr.
future meeting to further our orgam-. Mogg
zation, for which we look for results wereglad to have iMss Gracia
from these good people of our county ,r,3hall of near NewmanSf N. C,
I asked the principal of the school u & f hourg q j Monday
she e::ptctea to uiteuu mc wtuB
meeting at Warrenton the next day.
At once she said, "I can't get there."
Mr. W. T. Hardy said the people
could not get oil and matches from
the stores easy now. He said if a
man were to give him a barrel of
flour in Warrenton he could not come
after it on account of the mud. He
said he ordered a barrel of sugar that
11 llf VI
came over the lumber road to Areola, I
and he had been going down getting ; day.
out a tew pounds rather than to try to J Miss Helen Read, teacher of Nut
haul it home. ,bush School No. 1, spent the week-end
On my way I met Henry T. Egertoti very pleasantly with relatives and
who was kind enough to say, "Come .
by tomorrow and take dinner. 1 ex
pect yo i miss your dinner if you
try to rjme." Peter Powell said
the roa.c as in the worst fix he had
W seu. them. Now is there some
way out cf this trouble or not. Just
think the first of March, the time
when all of the farmers want to come
to Warjenton to buy guano or farm
machinery or visit our Banks, or Mer
chants, or Supply Men, they can't
come on account of the "bad roads."
Now I believe that piling up red clay
on the road without any soil on it, is
the worst thing ever done to a road.
Tax payers, put your best thought on
this matter and lets see if we can
spend some time and money to im
prove this road.
Respt.
F. B. NEWELL,
Agi. Agt.
HOW ABOUT YOUR COUNTY?
If we were called upon to diagnose
the condition of a county to find out
whether or not it really had a genuine
case of progressiveness, the first
eight questions we would ask would
probably be as follows:
1. Are three-teacher schools tak
ing the place of the old one-teacher
schools ?
2. Is the county building good
roads and making plans for maintain
ing them after they are built?
3. Has the county a live demon
stration agent?
4. A whole-time county superin
tendent of schools?
5. A whole-time county health of
ficer? 6. A home demonstration and can
ning club agent?
7. Ar3 the farmers growing le
gumes, using improved farm machin
ery, and getting interested' in 'pure
bred livestock?
8. Have the people discovered the
power of organization so that each
community has a farmers' club, a
farm women's club, a boys' corn club,
and girls' canning club? The Pro
gressive Farmer.
Pig Iron!
First Scoat: How wa Iron Ore first
discovered ?
Second Scout: They smelt it of course.
Boys' Life.
An Egg Plant
Jones: Well Brown, what are you
digging that hole for ?
Brown: Just to transplant a few
seeds.
Jones: Looks very much like my hen.
Brown: It if, but my seeds are inside
it. Boys Life.
YORK ITEMS.
March is a noisy, blusting fellow.
He can whistle loud, and whine and
bellow.
Tho he is rough and can sign,
The coming of fair gentle Spring.
MY CREED
I do not fear to tread the path that
those I love have long since trod.
I do not fear to pass the gates and
stand before the living God.
In this world's night I have done my
part; if God be God,
He knoweth it well,
He will not turn his back on me and
send me down to the blackest way.
Because I have not prayed aloud and
shouted in the market place,
"Tis what we do, not what we say that
makes us worthy of his grace.
Every-body seems to be progress-
. . , , - ...
ing nicely m our little village.
in our midst one day last week
Mr. J. A. Wilson made a business
trip to Henderson Tuesday.
Miss Mattie Mess, cf near Clarks-
v'Utf, Va., spent a few days very, pleas-
jv ith us.
Mr. F
Floyd Fleming spent a day
of last week in Henderson on busi
ness. Mr. Jim Watkins, of Gold-Leaf, Va.,
was on our streets Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Watkins, of
Middleburg, N. C, spent a day of last
week here looking after business.
Mr. Jim Moss, of Keats, Va., was
A. A. A. V 1111 A.1J VUm W-L ---- VkJJ 7 wr
a welcome visitor on our streets Tues
friends in Palmer Springs, Va.
Mr. J. W. Cole, of near Newmans,
was in our midst a few days ago.
Mr. Bobbott, of near Palmers
Springs, Va., was on our streets Fri
day. - " ' ' ' "
We were glad to see Mr. Fletcher
Read, of Palmers Springs, Va., on
our streets Friday last.
Mr. E. L. Moss, of Keats, Va., was
in our midst Monday.
Mr.'W. Wilson and family, of Gold
Leaf, Va., were pleasantly visitors in
the home of his mother and father,
Mr. and Mrs, W. E. Wilson, Sunday.
Mr. L. D. Paschall, of near New
mans, passed through York one day
last weak enroute to Drewery, N. C.
Mr. Groves, of Gold-Leaf, Va was
on our streets Sunday.
Mr. Jno. Moss, of Keats, Va., was
in our midst Monday.
Mr. R. A. Moss spent last Tuesday
in Clarksville on business.
Mr. Howard Alford, of Gold-Leaf,
Va., still makes his frequent visits to
Mr. Geo. Spains. It is easy to guess
"why." ,
We were glad to see Mr. Jack Wil
liams, of Newmans, in our miac
Thursday.
Mr. Buck Fleming, of near Manson,
was a welcome visitor on our streets
Thursday.
Mr. Jno. H. Brewer spent a day of
last week in Manson on business.
Mr. Bob Wilson, of Keats, Va., was
on our streets Saturday.
Mrs. W. W. Kimball and children
spent a day of last week in the home
of Mrs. S. T. Moss near Newmans.
Mrs. Bob Wilson, of Keats, Va., is
a pleasant visitor jn the home of her
son, Mr. J. A. Wilson, this week.
Mr. Sy Spain, made a business trip
to Manson one day of last week.
Best wishes to the Warren Record,
QUEEN OF GIRLS."
WHAT'S IN A NAME?
St. Louis .Mch. 4. Although
Shakespeare said "there is nothing in
a name," Will B. Ready of 6033 Cates
Avenue, this city, has proved an ex
ception to the rule by offering his
services as a fighter in the United
States Marines.
Ready, whose name sounds like a
slogan for national preparedness,
weighs 175 pounds and is over 6 feet
tall. He is pronounced a marvel of
strength by physical examiners, al
though a few months under the re
quired military age. He was request
ted to obtain the consent of his par
ents or defer his enlistment.
Will B. Ready says he will be ready
when his parents and the U. S. Ma
rines say the word.
The trouble with many a man is that
he makes too much and saves none of
it. Exchange.
THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER
By Francis Scott Key 4
O say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in the air
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
O, say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave ?
On the shore, dimly seen through mists of the deep, ,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
WTiat is that which the breeze o'er the towering steep, '
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, hlf discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflects now shines in the stream.
'Tis the Star Spangled Banner! O, long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore,
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash'd out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave.
And the Star Spangled Banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
O thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand !
Between their lov'd home and the war's desolation
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the power that has made and preserv'd us a nation!
Then conquer we must when our cause is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust!" i
And the Star Spangled Banner in triumph shall wave
O'er che land of the free and the home of the brave,
From Key's own manuscript.
WHY UNCLE SAM
President Wilson Before the Congress, February 26, 1917
I have spoken of our commerce and of the legitimate errands of
our people on the seas, but you willrnot be misled as to my main
thought, the thought that lies beneath these phrases and gives
them dignity and weight. It is not of material interest merely
that we are thinkingf It is, rather of fundamental human rights,
chief of all, the rights of life itself. I am thinking not only of the
rights of Americans to go and come about their business by way
of the sea, but also of something much deeper, much more funda
mental than that, I am thinking of ; those rights of humanity
without which there is no civilization. My theme is of those
great principles-of compassion and 6f protection whieh-mankind
has sought to throw, about human lives, the lives of non-combatants,
the lives of men who are peacefully at work keeping the
industrial processes of the world quick and vital, the lives of
women and children and those who supply the labor which minis
ters to their sustenance. We are speaking of no self ish material
rights but of rights which our hearts support and whose founda
tion is that righteous passion for justice upon which all laws, all
structutures alike of family, of state, and of mankind must rest,
as upon the ultimate base of our existence and of our librety. I
cannot imagine any man with American principles at his heart
hesitating to defend these rights.
READY-MADE
There was a gate in the hedge a
beautiful wrought-iron gate. The
girl shut it with a bang as she passed
through. She went straight across
the road to the small brown bungalow
that she had named Comfort Corner.
Her cheeks were hot and her eyes
full of smouldering anger.
"I'll never try to explain anything
to Aunt Helena again!" she ex
claimed. The gray-haired woman who was
the heart of Comfort Corner waited
silently. There are many kinds of
silence; this one held understanding
and a deep wisdom; great affection,
too, and a bit of humor that was whol
ly tender. The girl pulled off her
hat and leaned against a pillar of the
piazza; gradually the tenseness about
her mouth softened and her whole fig
ure relaxed.
' "How do you do it?" she asked with
a whimsical smile. "I feel cooled off
and smoothed down already, and you
haven't said a word."
"It doesn'nt need words," her friend
answered.
"Yes, it does on my side. The
smoothing-down process isn't perma
nent; it hasn't penetrated any dis
tance; the moment I pass through
your hedge I shall be all prickles
again."
"Suppose you tell me," Miss Per
cival suggested.
The girl paid no attention to tue
suggestion for several minutes; then
suddenly sire burst out:
"It's all very well to buy ready
made clothes, and furnish your house
according to ready-made designs, and
buy ready-made opinions on music
and literature and art in the most ex
clusive clubs, but no one no one -has
any right to ready-made opinions
about other persons. ' It's it's treat
ing you like a criminal, Miss Percival.
I knew, of course, Aunt Helena never
could fully understand about that
meeting I went to with Stanley Clark,
but she wouldn't let me explain one
thing about it. I have my opinion of
GETS HIS GUN.
young women who go to socialist
meetings,' she said the minute siie
saw me. And when I tried to explain
that it wasn't a socialist meeting, but
an open forum on the wage question,
she simply repeated, 'I don't care to
hear anything about it. I know all I
care to know.' And she didn't know
one single fact. She had just made
up her mind before hand, and when I
tried to point out that her ready-made
mind didn't fit me, she simply closed
her eyes. I have my opinion of peo
ple who do that way about things!''
"Ready-made?" Miss Pereival in
terrupted with a smile that Tobbed it
of any sting,
The girj turned a startled face to
her.
"I wonder! "she said. Youth Com
panion. Military Precision
A colonel in the French army who
had a great eye for neatness, but not
much of an ear for music, took occa
sion one day to compliment his band
master on the appearance of his men.
"Their uniforms are neat," said the
colonel, "and their instruments are
nicely polished and kept in order, but
there is one improvement that I must
insist upon.?
'What is it, colonel?"
"You must train your men when
they perform, to lift their fingers all
at exactly the same time and at reg
ular intervals on their instruments,
so one, two, one, two! Argonaut.
"Major Rasher, I saw a man today
who would like the pleasure of kick
ing you," said a friend.
"Kicking me!" exploded the Major.
"Kicking me! Give me his name at
once!"
"I hardly like to tell you", said
the other.
"I insist . upon knowing," said the
major.
"Ah, well, I'll tell you", said the
other. '"It's a soldier who's in the
hospilal with both legs off." Tit-Bits.
BOARD OF EDUCATION.
Monday, March 5th :
The Board met
it 10:45 A. M., all members present,
vnd was called to order and lead in
jrayer by Superintendent Jones. The
minutes of February meeting read
and approved.
Miss Lucy Webb was before the
Board asking for $300. to aid in Can
ning club work in the county. The
Board did not have the funds nor the
authority to make such donation.
Mr. W. T. Hardy was before the
board asking that the board consider
a request from colored patrons of
Fishing Creek township who desire
to move the "Buffalo" school to
"Thrift's Hill, and stating that they
were willing to donate labor and
money to that end. The Board want
ed more information as to the desira
bility of the proposed location, and
Mr. Davis volunteered to furnish the
needed information by the next meet
ing. Mr. Hardy also stated that
there was a quanity of timber on the
school house site and that the patrons
suggested the advisability of having
it cut into framing while a saw mill
was in operation near the site. This
matter was also deferred to next meet
ing. The Financial Agent of the county
furnished an itemized statement of
the Dog tax collected and paid to him
for each township.
The Superintendent was instructed
to pay to Bank of Warren $1,000. for
money borrowed a year ago for War
ren Plains District; said amount hav
ing been borrowed by the District
from the State and now in hand to re
pay said temporary loan by said bank.
Mr. Howard F. Jones, as a citizen
of Warrenton Special Tax School Dis
trict, and as a tax payer in said dis
trict requested the Board to approve
the following petition to the Board of
County Commissioners:
The Honorable,, ?
The Board of Commissioners
:-7 of- Warren County, Norths Carolina
Gentlemen: .
We, the undersigned
Board of Education of Warren county,
respectfully petition that you call an
election for the qualified electors of
Warrenton Special Tax school Dis
trict to determine the will of said elec
tors in the matter of an issuance of
bonds by said Special Tax School Dis
trict in the sum of Twenty-five thous
and dollars ($25,0001 for the purpose
of erecting and equipping a school
building for white race of said dis
trict. The bonds to run forty years
and to bear five per cent interest pay
able semi-annually on the first day of
July and of January of each year said
bonds shall run. We respectfully ask
that you levy a tax not to exceed Fif
teen cents (0.15) on each hundred
dollars worth of taxable property in
said district for the purpose of pay
ing interest on said bonds and to pro
vide a sinking fund for redemption of
said bonds. In -accordance with a
"STATE-WIDE BOND ACT FOR
SCHOOL BUILDINGS, ratified by
act of the General Assembly of North
Carolina on the 26th day of February,
1915.
Respectfully,
(to. be signed by Board)
This first Monday in March, 1917.
Mr. Jones addressed the Board, giv
ing his reasons for said request; stat
ing the needs of the district for an ad-
! equate building for its schools, and
for a State-aided High School. The
Board expressed themselves as en
dorsing better school facilities, but.it
would not endorse the above petition
for an election to provide better build
ings without further interest being
shown by the citizens of the commun
ity. Mr. J. C. Hardy, of Norlina, be
ing present addressed the Board ask
ing that the High School be establish
ed at Norlina, upon the ground that
they had taxed themselves for the
necessary building and were now
ready and anxious for the school, and
asking that a decision on the matter
of a High school for Warrenton be de
ferred to the afternoon session in or
der that a delegation from Norlina
might be heard. The Board agreed to
this.
The Board took a recess to 2.00
o'clock p. m.
The Board convened at 2:45 o'clock
p. m.
Many citizens of Norlina, including
Messrs J. H. Fleming and J. L. Over
by, Committeemen of the District, and
Prof. W. H. Fleming, of the Norlina
Graded School, were present when the
Board convened and petitioned the
Board to endorse Norlina as the lo-
LET'S MAKE OUR FARMS
REAL HOMES.
"Yes, Jones is a good farmer, one
of the best around here, in fact," one
of his neighbors told us, "but you
know everything he makes he puts
right back into his place Last year
he painted his house and built a new
barn, this year he put in waterworks,
and next year he says it's going to be
an electric light plant. He may be a
fine farmer, all right, but I don't see
how he's ever going to get anything
ahead the way he doing things."
It was on the tip of our tongue to
give Jones' neighbor a piece of our
mind in regard to the real meaning of
"getting ahead." We felt like telling
him that Jones, in his efforts to make
his farm a pleasant, comfortable, hap
py home equiped with modern conven
iences that every home should have,
had, in our opinion, a very sound con
ception of the proper goal at which
his efforts should aim.
We firmly believe in hard work and
saving every cent possible, for indus
try and ecomomy are the sure step
ping stones to success; but at the
same time let's never forget that mak
ing and saving money for money's
sake is a mighty poor sort of business.
Money is useful only as it goes to
make our lives and the lives of those
about us happier and better; only as it
goes to make of the farm a place
where the highest type of manhood
and womanhood may be developed.
The Progressive Farmer.
REV. R. H. BROOM HOLD AP
POINTMENTS IN SPITE
OF COLD, RAIN,
AND MUD
Through cold rain and over muddy
roads the Pastor of the Warrenton
Circuit drove out last Saturday after
noon to meet his regular bi-monthly
appointments. Although the rain was
still falling, he preached Sunday
morning in Macon to thirty earnest
hearers and in the afternoon at He
bron to five faithful brethern. He re
turned home Monday forenoon, hav
ing visited six families including the
sick, the bereaved and the aged.
A Barberous Joke
The weather was warm, and Pat de
cided to shave on the back porch. Mrs.
Casey saw this and said, "Pat, are
you shaving on the outside?"
"Begqrra," he said, "did you think
I was fur-lined? Boys Life.
Po: Your room-mate says that he
is a practical socialist.
Dunk: He must be. He wears my
shirts, smokes my tobacco, and writes
to my girls. Pitt Panther.
"Do you sit up for your husband?"
"No; I am an early riser and am al
ways up in time to greet him." Bos
ton Transcript.
cation of a State-aided High school.
After much argument pro and con the
Board expressed itself by majority
opinion that Norlina was not the logi
cal place for the next . State-aided
High School from the fact that by
placing a High School at Norlina it
would give to Six Pound, Smith Creek
and Hawtree, adjoining townships, all
bordering on the Virginia line all of
the County High Schools and leave
the County Seat and the remainder
of the County without High School
facilities, and with very remote pos
sibilities of having a High School in
the near future. The request of Nor
lina for endorsement not receiving the
support of a majority of the Board,
Prof. Fleming ask to withdraw his pe
tition, which was granted.
Supt. Jones drew the attendtion of
the Board to the annual Rally of the
school folks of the county, and to a
resolution passed by the Teacher's As
sociation" that a rally be held: at a
time to be fixed by the Superintendent
of schools." Upon motion of Mr.
Rooker the Superintendent was in
structed to take the necessary steps
to , have the annual rally, at a cost
not to exceed $125.00.
The Superintendent was instructed
to notify the Committees of each
township (except Fork, as Mr. Davis
stated he had already given that in
formation to Fork) of the amount of
dog tax belonging to their respective
districts and tle number of days said
tax would increase the public school
term of each school.
On motion the Board adjourned.
HOWARD F. JONES,
Secretary.