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Hji&NFORD CASE SET
glfOR TRIAL AT ALBEMARLE
HpjlSged With Murder of Prisoners
■ in Stanly County.
March 2:!. —The term
|bf Star superior court, which con
■Hi here next Monday morning.
Had tree which cither .fudge M
■Stack o?' Judge Michael Schenck
■jrUl preside. is expected to bo one of
Hb* mbs^ interesting terms of crim
■aal ipourt ever held in this county.
Bp, that (during the term the case
Kigninst former C’onvict Boss Cran
■ord will' be tried on a charge of
■having murdered two convicts.
K- Cmnfprd. it will be remembered,
Bwas given a preliminary hearing be
(fore Judge McElroy several months
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ago, and that judge, having found
that there was probable cause, sent
a -bill before the grand jury, which
found two bills against the convict
superintendent, one charging mur
der and one assault on a prisoner.
He was released under bond to
answer before a jury at the March
criminal terra.
The preliminary hearing attracted
state-wide attentiion anti the final
trial next week will be watched by i
the general public with more thau
ordinary interest.
Bananas for Athletes.
Bananas have become popular as a
training food for athletes in England.
Professional trainers favov bananas
because of the readiness with which
they are digested and because they ’
contain a higher percentage of calo
ries than most fruits. The trainers
maintain that before a game, between
halves, ets., when the players are
pressed for time, when they are more
ore less exhausted, the banana also
carries the most suitable food. The I
banana also carries the guarantee
that until its natural germproof wrap-1
per is peeled away it is free from'
l contamination.
A small boy recently digging in a
garden in Oshkosh. Wisconsin, found
a hollow stone containing the note,
"Fort Howard. February 1830, In
dians attacking. Ammunition running
low. (Signed) J. D., commander.”
THE COl
MILLIONS WASTED IN COAL,
LUMBER, OIL AND WATER
By S. W. STRAUS,
PraaldSnt American Society for
Thrift
I
SUCH rapid Btrldes are being
made In the realms of sdentlfle
•esearch and invention that we
teem to be living in an age of
niracles. In childhood we thrilled
it the tales of the “Arabian Nights’
Entertainments.” But even those
tuahge stories revealed no more
eonderful accomplishments than
u-e the feats performed by the ,
nodern man of science.
a. W. STRAUS I
Amid this progress, however, we
are lagging behind In point of
waste elimination, for In the field
of production and distribution
there is a prodigious loss. It la
estimated that one-half of all the
gas produced in the United States
never gets into the pipes that
should take It to the consumers.
In coal, it has been estimated that
half the output is wasted In the
mine, and what with the careless
methods of distribution, of firing
methods in furnaces and the like,
one authority maintains that one
twentieth of our available coal sup
ply Is used and nineteen-twentieths
wasted.
Mr. Stuart Chase In his book,
“The Tragedy of Waste,” summar
izes some of the outstanding
wastes:—coal, 750 million tons per
year; water power, 50 million
horse-power per year; oil, 1 billion
barrels per year; natural gas 600
billion cubic feet per year; lumber,
6 billion cubic feet per year.
There must be a greater
national thrift conscientiousness.
We must learn to be concerned with
losses even though their personal
effect may seem remote. We must
learn to appraise thrift not only as
a personal virtue which shall aid
In our Individual success, but we
must learn to think of It In term*
of general economic betterment,
I yes, Indeed (and this seems like an
echo of the war) In terms o(
patriotism.
WATKINS MURDER CASE
TO BE TRIED NEXT WEEK
Gray Brothers and Carl Sweet Al
leged to Have Killed Aged Mao
For Ro bery.
Albemarle, March 23. — A case of
interest to be tried at the March |
term of the Stanly county superior
court, which will start Monday, will !
be that against John Gray, Theodore j
Gray and Carl Sweat, charged with |
the murder of ‘Dad’ Watkins on the
night of October 30. Watkins’ body !
was found in n burning barn just
north of Albemarle on the night fol
lowing the murder. John Gray and
Carl Sweat later confessed that they .
killed Watkins for his money, and
in their confession they implicated
Theodore Gray, a brother of John
Gray, claiming that he burned Wat
kin's h ad and nrino in the furnace
at the Wiscasset school, where he
was janitor. The evidence, however,
against Theodore Gray is not very
strong, and he is now out on bail.
Best Not Good Enough.
Most of the great men in the
world have been small men some
where in their past, and it has
long been a question as to whether
a king, either of a country, or of
tin, cattle or cotton, could dis
tinguish himself in any email com
munity. We know that once an ex- j
president of the United States was!
defeated for some s{pnll local office, i
But more striking proof is presented
in a recent experience of the world
famous Polish pinniet, Paderewski.
Traveling in Switzerland he stop
ped in a hotel in Lucerne and J
registered as a pianist. While in the j
case that night the proprietor, an |
ignorant man. came and informed
him that his pianist had failed to!
show up «uid offered him 50 francs j
to take his place for the evening.
Paderewski decided to do it tor a
lark. But after he had played for
about a quarter of an hour the boss
came and told him he would have to
quit. The customers complained ot
his music!
The churlish conduct of skippers
of steamers was responsible for a ca
lamity which overtook the Cambridge
crew in the annual boat race with
Oxford in 1851). The race was rowed
on a stormy day. and just after a
heavy fall of snow. When going to
the start Cambridge shipped a large
quantity of water, and when their
boat was half-full a steamer went in
front of them. They pulled on, how
ever, until the boat was on tfiie point
of sinking, when the wash from four
steamers swamped it.
Philadelphia baseball fans would
not be surprised if Connie Mack
would retire from the active manage
ment of the Athletics at the close of
the 1920 season. Mack is now in
his 63rd year and has had a long
and strenuous career in the national
game.
''Senaroita de Alvares, the Spanish
woman tennis champion, ia in her
20th year and has engaged in tourna
ment play aince aha was IS.
I
D DAILY TRIBUNE
WHAT THE FARM
' WOMEN ARE DOING
As Reported by thr Home Agents
in Various Parts of the State.
Shelby. March 23.—OP)—Many fine
old pieces of silver that have been
stored away for years in boxes and
drawers in Cleveland county homes
have been brought out and made as
gcod as new by the salt, soda and
aluminum bath process, reports Miss
Irma Wallace. Mrs. A. D. Warlick.
of Belwood. brought in an old castor
that had been stored away for years
and it came out so bright and clean
that it is now being used ns a demon
stration of what can be accomplished.
Gastonia. March 23,—CP)—Prizes
were awarded to Mrs. Spnrgo Carpen
ter. Mrs. Ben Barbee and Mrs. L. A.
Barbee, of the Landers community in
Gaston county, for making the great
est improvements in their kitchen and
dining rooms, reports Miss Nell Pick
ens, home agent.
In the Robinson community. Mrs.
Robinson and Mrs. I.inoborger were
tied for first place, and the prizes
were divided. Mrs. Robinson values
her improvements at S2OO. and re
| marked that she would not go back to
I her old kitchen for more than that
! amount, if she could not make any
j changes in it.
I Roanoke Rapids, X. C.. March 23.
j —CP)—Twenty-five Halifax county
farm women have entered the garden
contest and will endeavor to serve
vegetables from their gardens every
day this year, according to Miss
Hazel Erwin, home agent in this
cofcnty. April 15th is the final en
try date for this contest, and it is
expected that many more club women
will enroll before that date. A new
woman’s club has been organized at
Rosemary and the members have
started work with kitchen and home
improvement.
Durham. March 2fl—CP)—The girls
clubs organized at Watha and Wil
lard in Pender county are each plan
ning to send a representative to the
annual club short course at State Col
lege this summer, reports Miss Geor
gia Piland, home agent.
Tile girls representing these clubs
will take different courses and Will
then exchange work in their clubs.
At a recent joint meeting of these
two clubs, methods of baking a
pound cake three different ways were
demonstrated. The tireless cooker,
oil stove and wood stove were used in
baking, but all the girls favored the
wood stove as being more practical
for farm use.
Rockingham. March 23.—(P)—Fif
ty settings of eggs will be bought and
furnished to poultry dub member- of
Richmond county by the Kiwanis
Club of Hamlet, reports Mrs. Anna
L. Harris, home agent.
Club members securing these eggs
will bo limited to three breeds, Rhode
Island Reds, Barred Rock and White
Leghorns. The Peachpland Poultry
Club has requested the entire fifty
settings, but other clubs in the county
ate working out plans for financing
from other civic bodies.
j Sipithfield, March 23.—CP)—Poul
; try club members in Johnston county
are studying culling, feeding, care of
baby chicks and broilers, and how to
preserve eggs in water glass, states
(Miss Minnie Lee Garrison, the home
agent.
i Many of the members are planning
to visit the poultry department at
| State College for further information
jon these subjects.
Preliminary to a campaign on meal
j planning and service, over 100 worn
• en attended a meeting of the county
council recently. Miss Mary Thomas,
nutrition specialist at State College,
gave a talk on meal planning and
made a demonstration on serving.
Tarboro. March 2,’f— OP) —A diet
menu has been prepared by the home
agent for the inmates of the Edge
combe county home. at the request of
the county commissioners, reports
Miss Virginia E. Watson, home agent.
The menu recommended will be a
little more expensive than the one
served in the past.
Miss Watson believes, however,
that the added expense can be kept
down by growing all vegetables on the
farm and by canning the surplus
fruits and vegetables in season. This
is in Une with the nutrition work be
ing done in the county, and is a re
sult of several well balanced meals
served to the commissioners by organ--
| ized home demonstration clubs, the
; home agent says.
Lexington. March 23.—(P)—As a
part of the tnilk-for-health campaign
started in Davidson county, all the
j children attending the Reeds school
have been weighed and measured,
j states Miss Elizabeth Cornelius, home
I agent. Miss Cornelius is being as
j sisted in this work by the county
! nurse and all the school children in
the county will be enrolled in the
campaign before it closes, she says,
Demonstrations on the preparation
and serving of hot lunches are being
given to local teachers and sugges
tions made for school lunches, so that
| the teachers can assist in this nutri
tion work.
Columbus, N. C„ March 23.—(P)—
Twenty undernourished children of
the Columbus consolidated school in
Polk county have been served hot
cocoa or soup five times a week for
the past month, as a part of the nu- 1
trition work in the county, reportß
Miss Lois Holderbaum, home agent.
These children were weighed and
measured at the beginning of the pe
riod and re-weighed at the end. The
greatest gain was sixpounds, in the
case of one child. The smallest im
provement was a gain of only one
half pound.
As a result of this demonstration,
many of the children are now bring
ing a bottle of milk to drink each
day, according to Miss Holderbaum.
Noah Webster, nutbor of the “Am
erican Dictionary of the English Lan
guage,” was responsible for the change
in America of the “oar” ending to
“or.” Thus labour, honour, behav
ioiur, became labor, honor and behav
ior In America.
Fresher Than The Fresh
IN THESE days when advertising
I siogans, trite and otherwise, stare
at us in the subway and trolley,
meet us at every turning of the road,
spring at us from the pages of our
daily papers—even distract our atten
tion, from an adjoining column, just
as the hard-boiled flapper is about to
become a blushing bride—new slogans
are apt to receive scant interest and
to be dismissed as far-fetched or as
mere advertising "bunk.”
We are fed up on them I They tell
us when to “re-tire," follow us “in
our sleep,” and, as we butter our
morning toast, remind us of the great
hereafter. They jeer at us on our
way to the dentist, with their bold
claims as to how we might have made
hat dreaded visit unnecessary. They
irge us to buy soap that will preserve
.he peaches-and-cream complexion of
our long-lost youth. They tell us how
to cure everything but housemaid's
knee. And, any morning, we expect
to see that lack supplied, in glaring
letters on some subway poster.
Now there is a new slogan—
" Fresher than the Fresh”—which
makes as much impression upon the
majority of us as do the license-num
,bers on the rapidly passing automo
biles. Nevertheless, to those who
Key West Starts Last Stage of 122 Mile Auto Road Over Sea;
Many Changes as Quaint Old City Feels Thrill of Progress
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ARTISTS CONCEPTION OP THE OVERSEAS \ ACOMEAHED SECTWSOE ROADWAY PASSING _
THE C AT* , L .T , ,'T T 'CO EAYO'N. I H .t', v.i.TH WILL
GREET THE FIRST MOTORISTS OVER THE HIGHWAY
The beautiful old city of Key
West which is nearer to a foreign ■
country than it is to the mainland
of America, being t>o milea from
Havana, Cuba, and 122 miles from
the mainland of Florida, is re
sponding to the energy of her citi
zens who are working together and
whole heartedly for progress.
_ Recently the county commis
sioners of Monroe County, Fla., in
which Key West is located, and
who control the construction of its
122 mile auto highway to the
mainland, granted a tentative
franchise to the Turner Co., en
gineers of Minneapolis, for the
construction of toll bridges over the
deep water gaps to be crossed by
! the road. This franchise will be
come permanent upon the perform
- j ance of certain obligations by the
contracting company. As if to em
phasise the profitableness of the
route, W. J. Conners of Buffalo,
In Key West recently said he would
j be glad to be one of twelve men
,' subscribing <1,000,000 to build the
bridges.
i One of the features of the new
highway which has already been
built across about twelve miles of
ocean and keys from Key West
toward the mainland, will be a
a twenty-four inch water main to
, conduct a supply of fresh water
from tbs mainland. The building
of the pipe line was favorably
• foted ea at a apodal session of ths
have given the food question some
thought, this catch-phrase carries more
than a modicum of truth.
Take peas, for example. If we
could step into our kitchen-garden,
gather them from the vines and cook
them at once, nothing could be fresh
er; although this, of course, would
be possible only during one season of
the year. But here is what really
happens, since so few of us can have
a kitchen garden. First the farmer
handles them, while picking, loading
and conveying them to a place where
they are packed in car-load lots. Then
they are shipped to the city, probably
incurring numerous delays en route.
The jobber next handles them, and
from him they go to the green-grccer,
in whose store they may lie for some
time before we happen along and
purchase them. By now, there is
little left of their pristine freshness.
As a matter of fact, a great part of
the peas which are served to us in
the winter as fresh peas really come
from the Western part of Mexico,
along the gulf of lower California.
So it is easy to see that these foods,
when served on the American table,
are not fresh.
Canned peas are really fresher than
fresh peas. For. in the case of canned
Florida legislature called by Gov. i
John W. Martin.
From the mainland the road is '
also progressing toward Key .
West, having been built seven ;
miles South of Florida City, and
also throughout the length of Key
Largo. 30 miles long, the first
big island from the mainland.
The waters along the route are i
every color of the rainbow, and the
journey will be filled with a thou
sand surprises for motorists. The
different keys or islands on the
way are very fertile and will pro
duce all aorta of tropical products,
fruits and vegetables.
Since the building activity In
Florida began. Key West has been
*ery busy. Steamers from all
ports find deep water in Key West.
The city has a fine system of deep
water piers built by the late
Henry M. Flagler, and the largest
ships in the world dock comfort
ably. Approximately 51 million
feet of lumber has been coming
each month into Key West by
steamer, and shipped into Florida
over the Florida East Coast Rail
way, which passes over the sea to
the Florida mainland by huge
bridges and viaducts. Mr. Flagler
spent 60 million dollars in bridg
ing the sea with steel.
Key West has several handsome
new real estate subdivisions, and
new concreted streets, and many
fine new buildings. The popula
tion is about 20 thousand. The
city baa built a fine golf links and
Wednesday, Mar. 24, 1926
peas, the peas are gathered, vines and
all, at a time when the peas contaii
the greatest food value. They ari
immediately conveyed to the vinery,
where they are threshed out by machin
ery. After being washed, they art
graded. They then go into the cans,
where they are sufficiently cooked
to preserve them. All this is accom
plished within twelve hours; so that
the canned peas, when they come to
the table, are within twelve hours of
being absolutely fresh, while the so
called fresh peas undergo many days
of deterioration ar.d decay before
reaching the consumer.
Here, then is one advertising slogan
which tells the absolute truth. Canned
foods are fresher than the fresh. For
there has been nothing whatever to
detract from the freshness which was
theirs when they went into the can.
On the contrary, no deterioration is
possible while in the can, because of
the complete exclusion of aii air, and
because of the perfect sterilization
which has taken place.
The housewife, today, is finding that
a great industry has provided her
with a marvelous substitute for the
kitchen-garden, supplying her with
practically every fruit and vegetable in
anv part of the world.
country club on an illuminated
white way. A superb boulevard
will be built along the waters edge
around most of the city. _ There
are two fine hotels of which the
handsomest is the Casa Marina, a
huge hostelry of solid concrete
built in Moorish architecture.
On any street in Key West you
can look opt and see the ocean.
The dimensions of Key West
island are aboat three by seven
miles. But the area of its contribu
tory country is being extended by
hundreds of thousands of acreß, as
new islands are reached by the
auto road.
The climate is wonderfully fine
both in winter and summer. Frost
has not been known in Key West
in 48 years and probably has never
occured. Both passenger steamers
and car ferries which carry 26
loaded freight cars on a trip, run ’
daily between Key West and
Havana, and are maintained by the
Flagler interests.
The fishing industry and tobacco
industries are important. There
is a live chamber of commerce to
answer inquiries. The citizens of
Key West expect the city will have
100,000 population within the next
decade. It is expected it will take
2% years to bridge the deep water
gaps. When the highway is opened
there will be a grand motorcade
from all parts of the United States
to Key West for it will be one of
the greatest road building engin
eering feats is America. j