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WARRENTON, COUNTY OF WARREN, N. C, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1922
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More Than 3,000,000
Pounds Sold Here
On Auction Floors
More than three million pounds of
tobacco has been sold on the local
warehouse floors at an average of
around 25c. per pound, according "to
tobacconist here. This has placed
about three quarters of a million dol
lars in circulation.
"The fanners who have sold with
us," said representatives of two of
the warehouses interviewed this week,
"have hy . great .-riiajority expressed
satisfaction. We feel that 'we" have
had a most successful season:"
The market will open again on Jan
uary 2.
W. T. Polk To Speak
At The Court House
Mr. William T. Polk will speak, at
the invitation of the Woman's Club,
on the International Lecturers' Con
ference on World Peace in the Court
House next Thursday evening, Dec.
28, at 8 o'clock.
The club hopes, Miss Julia Damer
on, Pres., said yesterday, that Mrs,
Katharine Arrington can be persuad
ed to speak on the same evening.
The public is invited to be present
for the addresses and remain for the
social hour afterward.
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Music Will Feature
Christmas Programs
In Local Churches
Miss Dameron Is A
Member of Choir
That Sings For Radio
The choir of the First Presbyterian
Church of New York City of which
Miss L. Jchephine Dameron is a mem
ber, will sing at a radio station in
Newark, N. J., Sunday afternoon,
Dec. 24 at 3:30 o'clock. Dr. Harry
Emerson Fosdick will preach a
Christmas sermon. The entire ser
vice will last only forty five minutes.
Coop. Expects Million
Founds At JNorlma
Thf co-onerative receiving station
at Norlina has received around 600,-
000 pounds oi tobacco, according to
information gathered there yesterday.
An official of the receiving station said
that they expected a million pounds
before the season closed.
"Advances of late have been partic
ularly pleasing to producers',' he re
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WHY SANTA "GLAUS: WAS IATE
By TASKER POLK
Donder and Blitzen were both taken sick
Just as the sleigh was brought out for St. Nick:
-The drums and the horns and the soldiers of tin,
The dolls and the balls and thebats were all in,
And William's red top with its long leather string,
And Mary's piano with a doll that could sing,
And an air ship for James, and a long train of cars,
And an angel that came straight down from the stars;
In fact, everything you could think of was there,
Even down to a bicycle for dear little Fair!
When Santa found out his two coursers were sick,
He reared and he pitched and he talked mighty quick :
"Go bring me two more," he thundered aloud,
"The slickest and quickest you've got in the crowd !" -
And old Mrs. Santa she hurried around,
And she fussed and she fussed and she fumed and she frowned,
But at last she picked out the first two in the row
Which had lately been caught in a drift in the snow;
And one was named Cooka quiet young fellow,
And one was named Peary, who did nothing but bellow.
And when they were hitched up already to go,
They both began kicking and pawing the snow,
While Santa cried ouut "By the breath of my soul
"You are both arrant fakirs and have ne'er seen the pole, -"But
you'll feel one rightnow," and he puffed and he whacked,
While they leaped and they bucked and they balked and they
backed.
As last he unhitched them,, sprang into the sleigh,
And with only six reindeer he darted away.
In spite of the fact he was a little bit late
And had only six coursers instead of the eight,
He is coming, my darlings,1 right royally-on,
And soon, we will hear the blast of his horn.
Into bed! into bed! before he arrives,
For miles fly like feathers when Santa Claus drives:.
Warrenton churches wiWr observe
Sunday in a spirit of Christmas tide.
There will be a special musical pro
gram at hte Baptist Church in the
evening.
The Episcopal School will have a
children's feature at the morning
hour under the direction of Mrs. Boyd
Massenburg. The Rev. J. C. Crosby
will preach in the evening, and a reg
ular Christmas service will be held
in tha$ Church . on Monday morning- at
10" o'clock. ' '
The Sunday School hour at the
Miethodist thurch will be given to a
Christmas tree for the benefit of the
poor. All members of the school are
asked to bring presents and place
them on the tree. Mrs. John Burwell
and Mrs. W. A. Connell Jr. are arrang
ing the event.
The Rev. H. B. 'Porter, who has
been confined to the Parsonage here
on account of sickness, will preach at
the morning hour at which time there
will be a special musical program by
the choir. ,
Scott, Hero of Series,
Plunges With New Car
With nothing to warn of danger,
Jack Scott, hero of the 1922 World
Series, drove into a ditch in Enfield
this week and ripped the top from a
new car.
That town has been installing wat
er and Scott reports that no light was
at the edge of a ditch. The car fell on
its side and the top was ruined.
Neither Scott, nor his brother Spen
cer who was with him, were hurt.
Stricklands ,Get Big
Advance On Coop.
Tobacco Delivery
The above poem will appear in Sunday's News " Observer.
We acknowledge our thanks to The Observer and to Mr." Polk
for allowing us to give its first publication. THE EDITORS.
Four hundred, ten dollars and one
cent was the first advance on a single
load of tobacco delivered at the co
operative receiving station at Norlina
this week by T. H. Strickland & Son.
Mr. T. - H. Strickland, who was in
the city this week, expressed himself
throughly pleased with the advance
and the manner in which the crop is
being handled cooperatively.
Mr. Strickland also reported that
he and his son had raised 59 barrels
and 4 bushels of corn on fifteen acres.
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