H. B. FOSTER
!ntal Surgeon •
Beasley Building, over the
|t"igg-ins Drug Store.
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Coming to this city twenty-two
years ago with but fifteen hundred
cotton bale receipts to his credit and
sitting back today in his office, which
is located in one of the finest build
ings in the Carolinas, with over ten
thousand bales of cotton to his credit,
having been purchased off the streets
on the local market this year, is a
part of the wonderful success of Mr.
W. H. Austin, of this city. The other
part of the life and success of this
man, who, in his early days, taught
gchool for a livelihood, is that he is
president of the North Carolina Cot
ton Growers’ Co-operative Associa
tion, which has recently been organ
ized in this State. That part of his
life, or better still, that part of his
work, remains to be seen. It will, of
course, prove a success, for he at
tained a reputation early in his ca
reer as a man who gets results. He
has never entered upon anything with
as much interest as he has this newly
organized association. He is like a
young athlete anxious to get into the
fray.
Few men have done vs^at W. H.
Austin has for the town in which they
live. He has built up the local cot
ton market until it has become one of
the best in the cotton belt. There is
something else about Willis Austin
which many men lack and that is that
he has more pep and enthusiasm than
any three men in the city. He hits
civic pride and is a tireless worker for
the building of the town and county.
This is what caused the bringing
forth of this article.
It is not an easy matter to gain
access to the office of W. H. Austin
unless it is to discuss farming or prob
lems of that nature. If you want to
talk cotton, corn or tobacco, then he
is ready to and waiting to talk to
any person, white or black. That
never makes any difference with this
man.
“There is a rumor that the cotton
growers’ association is paying you the
handsome "Salary of $60,000 per year
and there is also another rumor that
this salary is just $15,000, but what
ever it is the people of this county
want to know it,” we told him in open
ing our interview.
Sitting at his desk as though he
haad never heard a word, Mr. Austin
moved slowly and reached for an ad
vertisement which he had on his desk.
“My friend, I have been here this
afternoon studying over this paper,”
he said, turning backto us. “It was
clipped from one of the newspapers
in this State and has caused me to
give it much consideration and I am
glad of this opportunity to answer
the question you have just asked me.
“First, I do not draw one ^nny
from the North Carolina Cotton
Growers’ Association. I have already
spent over $1,000 of my own money
on trips for the association and what
is more I have just made arrange
ments with my banker to finance the
clerical forces on my own credit. That
is how much I think of the organiza
tion.
“I know that there has been a
great deal of j .st such propaganda
put out about me in regard to high
salary, but I know well who is spread
ing these reports and so do you. I
want the people to decide which of
us to believe in a matter of this kind.
I am working for the masses of the
farmers and these people who are put
ting out this propaganda are working
for themselves.”
It looks to the writer as if the ware
houseman is only a commission specu
lator with no higher power than his
comniission. If auction sales is the
best for the farmer then why doesn’t
someone start an auction house for
cotton, dewberries, peaches, corn,
sweet potatoes or anything else that
is raised on the farm.
It surely cannot be right to sell
tobacco in this way and wrong for
thing to be sold by auction.
Why is the warehouseirtan against
the co-operative plan? Is it because
the warehouseman charges 4 per cent
and the co-operative marketing plan
only charges 1 per cent; or is it be
cause the speculator will be cut out?
We would like to have the ware
houseman explain these facts and
prove himself before advising the
farmers who is the farmers’ friend,
the warehouseman or the co-operative
marketing association.
If the warehouseman has so much
power and can do so much for the
NOTICE OF SALE
By virtue of an order of the Su
perior Court, the undersigned Com
missioner will offer and sell at the
Court House door at Carthage, Moore
County, North Carolina, at the hour
of noon, on Monday, September 4,
1922, it being the first Monday in
September, the following described
lands, to-wit:—
A certain lot or parcel of land situ
ated between Pinehurst, in the County
of Moore, State of North Carolina,
designated as lot No. 1601 on a plan
entitled: “Map of the lands of Leonard
Tufts,” dated Nov. 6,1913, and amend
ed by another plan called “Sperry
Amendment,” dated April 8, 1916, and
filed, in the General Offices of Pine
hurst, and in the office of the Register
of Deeds for Moore County, North
Carolina; said lot being more par
ticularly described as follows, to-wit:
Bounded on the north by lot No. 1602,
on the east by a line parallel with
the spur track running from Carthage
railroad to the power house in said
Pinehurst, and 20 feet from its centre;
on the south by lot No. 1600 and on
the west by Palmetto Road, said lot
No. 1601 having its corners desig
nated by concrete monuments.
Terms of sale: 1-3 cash, balance in
six and-twelve months.
J. BRUCE CAMERON, Comm’sr.
By Johnson & Johnson, Attys.
NOTICE OF MORTGAGE SALE
WHICH IS THE BETTER PLAN?
Will some good warehouseman
please tell us how he can help the
farmer by selling his tobacco on the
warehouse floor by auction sales, and
what influence the warehouseman has
had or can have in inducing the buy
ers to pay more?
If the warehouseman can help the
farmer, then why hasn’t he done
something for the farmer in the past ?
Isn’t it a fact that the warehouse-
J^an is the middle man who stands
between the farmer and the buyers in
order to get the warehouse charges
out of the farmer?
. It seems that the buyers would pay
just as much for tobacco without the
warehouseman, as the average ware
houseman has no orders to buy to
bacco and cannot pay more than the
market price. " ‘
By virtue of the power of sale con
tained in a certain mortgage deed to
the undersigned by JOHN N. CAGLE,
dated January 29, 1921, and recordea
in the office of the Register of Deeds
of Moore County in Book 32, at page
466, on February 8, 1921, default hav
ing been made in the payment of the
indebtedness thereby secured, I will
offer and sell at public auction, to
the highest bidder for cash, at the
Court House door in Carthage, Moore
County, on Monday the 14th day of
August, 1922, at the hour of noon,
the following described real estate,
to-wit:—
In Carthage Township. Beginning
at a stake with pine pointers on the
west side of the Carthage and Pine
hurst sand-clay road, running thence
N. 15 E. 2 chains to said road; thence
with said road N. 38 W. 9.50 chains
to a stake in the centre of said road,
with hickory pointers; thence E. 25
chains to a stump pine, with pine
pointers; thence S. 17 chains to a
stake in old Carthage and Curries-
ville railroad bed; thence as said road
S. 68 W. 9 chains thence S. 45 W. 4
chains; thence S. 18 W. 7 chains to
the Carthage and Pinehurst railroad;
thence as that road S. 27 1-2 W. about
6 chains to W. H. McNeill’s corner at
the centre of said road; thence as
McNeill’s line running N. 3 W. 28
chains and 50 links to the first station
containing 48% acres, more or less,
excepting one acre conveyed by John
N. Cagle to C. P. Schumaker, by deed
recorded in Book 71, page 157, in the
Register’s Office of Moore County.
Time of Sale: Monday August 14,
1922, hour of noon.
Place of Sale: Court House Door,
Carthage, N. C.
Terms of Sale: Cash.
H. A. PAGE, Jr.
Mortgagee.
By Johnson & Johnson,
Attorneys. - , ,
Dated the 11th day of July, 1922."
farmer, then wrhy didn’t he do some
thing for him in 1920 and prove him
self worthy of the cause. '
ABOUT FLYING
Col. J. G. Vincent, the man who
designed the Liberty motor, believes
that families touring by airplane soon
may be a common sight. Touring
planes, he predicts, will be unlike the
ones developed by the war. They will
b built primarily for comfort atid
safety rather than for tefriffic speed
and heavy weight. All of which is
interesting to contemplate. Touring
in the air will eliminate road troubles,
and for this reason taxpayers around
Vass wouldn’t care if the family air
plane came into common use tomor
row. They would also do away with
punctures and blowouts, and lots of
money could be saved in that way.
But however successful they may be
come, there will always be a certain
number ready to argue that flying is
all right for those who like it, but
one advantage in favor of sticking to
the road is the bottom never falls out
of a road and lets you drop a mile or
so.
Electrical Supplies
FOR THE SANDHILLS
The Sandhill Power Company, recognizing the difficulty that
has attended the purchase of electrical supplies, has opened a
store in Southern Pines, and agencies are appointed in other
towns in the territory served by the company.
While the stock is not yet comt)lete it is the intention to keep
on hand all of those many articles that are becoming essential
for the home, the office, the factory, in the Sandhills communi
ties, and to have the quality and the price right. /
These stores will not be designed to make a fortune for the
company but are provided so that the people who are using
electric current from the company may be able to get the
equipment they require in order to get satisfactory results from
the current.
The Southern Pines store now has in stock, and the others
will have, lamps, fans, irons, washing machines, wringers, and
the various similiar things that the householder will be looking
for. To these will be added others as fast as the supply com
panies fill the orders that are already in.
The Southern Pines location is in the Eddy Building, oppo
site the postoffice, and is under the direction of Ralph Chandler.
From now on this will be the headquarters for electrical
supplies in the territory of the Sandhills Power Company, and
anything you want will be procured for you if not in stock, and
at a price that will be right.
SANDHILL POWER COMPANY
Southern Pines, North Carolina
AGENTS:
VASS: Wiggins. Drug Company. CAMERON: Cameron Hardware Co.
CARTHAGE: Cole Drug Company.
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