SUPPLY YOUR WANTS! Whatever your wants and needs may be, it will be our pleasure to supply them. We can supply them in practically anything for your family , your home , your stock or your farm . We have a large complete stock of Dry Goods. No ions. Heavy and Dress Shoes. Men and Boys Clothing. Over (oats Ladies. Mens and Childrens Rain Coats. Cotton and Wool Sweaters, WojI Shirt?. Underwear, Dress and Work Shirts. Rugs. Crockery. Enameled and Aluminum Ware. Molasses and Dairy Feeds, Cotton Seed and Soy Bean Meal, seed Rye. Seed and Feed Oats. Hay and cotton Seed Hulls, all of which we buy in car lots and are therefore in position to give you bot tom prices. Get our prices on Red Dog Ship stuff and other feeds before you buy. Anything in Groceries you will find in our store, all fresh and palatable We also handle WEBER RUSSELS one and two horse Wagons. Old Hickory and Hughes Buggies. Buggy Robes. Wagon and Buggy Harness. Coles Hot Blast Ranges and Heating Stoves, the fuel savers. We invite your inspection of these stoves. We make a specialty of up-to-date improved farm machinery, Disc and Smoothing Harrows , Stalk Cut ters, Grain Drills , Wheat Threshers , Hay Presses, Mowers and Rakes , Riding Cultivators, Wheat and Crist Mills, Wood Saws, Gasoline and Kerosene Engines. In fact anything in the line of improved machinery built by the International Harvester Co. and Walter A. Wood, both of which we are agents. See our txhibitat the County Fair and form your own opinion of v. hat we have in the machinery and Implement line. We will have a large assortment of our mach nery in operation at the Fair Grounds Look us up and ccme to see us when in Seima. -?r " ROBERTS-ATKINSON COMPANY, Inc. % COTTON BUYERS . FERTILIZER DEALERS SELMA, - - - NORTH CAROLINA B K.N SON IMM'(i(ilST TAKKS IIKIDF J. Warren and .Miss Whitaker .Mar ried In Crcedmoor sit Home of tlir Bride. Thief Inters Store. Benson, Nov. 2. ? iMr. J. ('. W irren accompanied by Russell Bryunt ar.d Miss Alta Boone, went to Orei'dniui r yesterday where he was married to Miss Kclcie Maie Whitaker, of thj.t place. The wedding \v:\s a quiet affair, only a few friends and relatives beiiiK present. The ceremony was perform ed by R v. Mr. Bryant, pastor of the Baptist thurch at Creed moor, at the home of the bride. Mr. Warren is a B< lison druggist. Miss Whitaker is t h> beautiful and accomplished daughter of J. Y. Whitaker, one of the m<>si prominent farmers of (V'edmoor. Mr and Mrs. Warren returned last nvrht to Benson where they will make th a home. f .. .a .'...Li ... .. I 1 ? 1 . '. i.asi m^ni some one nroKe inio in ? store of A. B. Hudson and then into his safe, almost completely demolish in^r the inner compartments of 'n safe. The idea of the theft was to g?.t the money as nothing else was both ered. Fortunately Mr. Hudson had carried all of yesterday's money to the bank late lust night find the thief was unrewarded. This is the third in stance of petty store breaking in Ben son in three weeks. The cold "snap" ha% found most peo ple in town without fuel of any k;nd. So far no coal has bfren receive ! here and farmers have been so busy gnih ering crops until no wood has been net on the market. wil.sovs MILLS NE>vs. (Crowded out Friday.) Wilson's Mills, Oct. 27. ? Many of our "hit" people attended the Circus in Raleigh, Saturday, but many more of the colored population went to town for lemonade delight and hot weinies and other Circus joys. Preparatory to their departure a large crowd was assembled at the sta tion when the morning train drew near. Wrapt in thought of balloons, Squee Dunks, confetti and the like the colored folks surged toward the train chattering convincingly of their antic ipated delight. Evidently a dusky pas senger, unknown as to name, was dreaming of Circus Heaven too, if it was in a different way. For there edg ed through the Circus Goers a Weary Willie of the purse lifting variety. Not that he expected any heavy purses or Liberty Loan Bonds but that he "too. had the Circus Craze; and his sinister and dextrnl hands sought each n .pock- | et of a dark neighbor's coat. Unsatis fied with each effort he waded along. At length his hands were arrested by two other black convincing and sati: fying hands. The train was delayed. For a minute amid the dust it looked as if every dusky brother and sister at thrt train was engaged in the melee. And when it was all over coatless, hatless, and otherwise less beyond description the much cuffed about criminal along wnh his prosecutors boarded the departing train. Another of our young ladies, Miss Mazie Kllis, suffering from appendi citis, was carried to Raleigh, Thurs day, for an operation. We are glad to report the convalescence of Miss Her- . nice Tomlinson who also suffered an ! operation for appendicitis recently. Week-end visitors to the homes of I Messrs. C. M. and J. A. Wilson respec tively were Misses I.ottiv Wilson and ; Nell Moye, and Miss Mildred Wilson | and Mr. Phillips, all of Atlantic Chris- j I tion Colh ge. The community anil school arc deep- j ly sympathetic ami repret very much i to hear of the death of Florrie, the ' little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar | Youn^blood, which occurred on Sun- i day last. Two of the teachers, Misses Fannie j Moye and Clair Hodges, spent the week-end out of town with friends and 1 relatives. Two college hoys, Messrs. Ralph j Wilson, of the University, and Hattle Tomlinson, of Atlantic Christian Col lege, were about our streets this week ? shakinp hands and pleased at even a short visit home. Th<> community is taking an inter est in our Literary Society. The fol lowing were visitors Friday: Misses ' Ma^s'ie Parrish, Lottie Wilson, Mil dred Wilson, Mary Manpum and Mes- i dames Willie Wilson, Charlie Wilson, nnd R. A. Pope. We trust that they ' as well as others, will continue to find the programs worthy of their ntten tion. The school was *rlad to have Orrell Massey return, after an illness of a few days. The most picturesque and noisy a?r raid London and its environs have yet seen and heard resulted in a less of eight lives and injuries to twenty-one, according to a London announe inent made Thursday. The casualties cover th" whole district bomhed from the o:">t to Ix>ndon. MEAN'S WILL BE TRIED NOV. 26. Governor itickett ("alls Special Terir. ' of Court. Concord, Nov. 2. ? Gaston B. Me-wi.s was sent back to the Cabarrus County jail here tonight to await a special term of Superior Court November 1 V> when he will be tried for the murder of Mrs. Maude A. King, who was ajv.-t near here last August. Means was remanded to jail after request fi r a change for venue but , granted the State's plea for move , time to prepare for trial. At the court's request, Governor Bickett a* Raleigh late today authorized a spe cial term of court for November 26 and designated Judge Cline to pre side. Antiquity of Peach Growing. I The peachc tree is unknown in the wild state exccpt where circumstances firmly support the opinion that it has ( scaped from cultivation at some car- . lier tim Thus, in different parts of Asia and in Persia trees apparently wild have been observed. The latter country has been considered by some to be th- ? source from which this fruit originally came. More than three cen turies before the Christian era the peach was referred to as a Persian frujt. The Greeks and Romans re ceived it soon after the beginning of. that em, probably from Persia. But the antiquity of this fruit in China and its cultivation in that country for at least 2,000 years before the Christian era appears to be a matter of substan tial proof, and its spread from China to Indja, to Persia, and to other p; rts of the Old World admits of a much more ready explanation than can its dissemination from any other country. There appears to be no definite rec ord of the introduction of the peach into America. The Spaniards arc said to have planted peach pits at St. Au gustine, Fla., in 1565, or very soon thereafter. That the dissemination in the New World of peaches and oth er fruits with which the early colon ists wore familiar in their former homes was practically coincident, with j the establishment of homes in the ' new country there can be no doubt, j Durin-r the first 25 years of the seven teontb century the settlement at j Jamestown received 'from the Old World several importations of setds. cuttings. : nd secions cf the things they v. hed to grow. It serins alto- i gether probable that pench seeds or 'l scions wore included in these early im portations. There is also good rea son for assuming that peaches were introduced into New England in 1G29, or very soon thereafter. The records which touch on peach growing during colonial times are very fragmentary, hut enough can be learned from them to make it appar ent that from the middle of the seven teenth ccntury until the end of col onial days peach growing was gradu ally extended. Early in the nineteenth century some large orchards had been developed. One of them was in Ac comac County, Va., where it is stated that in 1814 there was a peach orchard of 63,000 trees, the product of which was used for making brandy. Prior to 1850 many thousands of acres were devoted to peaches in New Jersy and Delewar- . Further reference to the early growth of the peach culture can not be made in the present connection, but enough has already been indi cated io made it H"iir that its devel opment has followed more or less closely the development of the country itself. Bulletin 631. ( . J. rurnage Dead. C. J. Turnage died suddenly at his home in Duke last night and was buried this afternoon in Greenwood ecmetery. He had b in high er.tcem by all who knew him. He was a man of strong: chanc ?r and was interested in the wclfart . f the community in which he liv ;d. Deceased was a member of the Methodist church at Duke an 1 wr.s active in the work of his church. was also a member of the Bjiie's Cr tk Masonic Lodge. He is survived by a widow and sevi n children. He is th 1 father >f Mayor Tiynage of I>unn. rnd another of his sons. I). Turnage. is a citizen ' [if our town. The burir.l took placc this afterr >or. at 3:30 o'clock in the presence of 1 many friends ar.d relatives Di 'in Dispatch, 31st. i A loan of $2^)0.000,000 was jjmnt,cJ ? to Italy last week by trie Unit 1 I States Government. MTEAL I I10.M THE GOVERNOR.' Calls on the People to Practice Self denial. Let Us Again Find Economy and Frugality Abiding With Us. Raleigh, Oct. 31. ? A ringing appeal has been addressed by Gov. T. W. Bickett to the women of North Car olina to enlist in Home S^rvicc for the winning of the war by signing the food ? pledge cards during this week and following the suggestions and advice given by the Food Admin istration tc the housewives of the country. " s Not (Inly does Governor Bickett, in t his striking manner, make an appeal for the co-operation of the women as war service, but he emphasizes con servation and thrift as a n.-cessary 1 and wise policy to be followed during and after the war. "1 register my r faith that every woman in North Car- j olina will cheerfully sign the Pledge < Cards" declares the Governor. I Governor Bickett's appeal- follows: i "Saturnalia of Extravagance." "Before the breaking out of the World War a saturnalia of extrava gance threatened to undermine the foundations of the character of our people. Economy was a lost art, and frugality a forgotten virtue. Indolence led to waste, and pride to prodigality. Men mortgaged their homes for auto mobiles, and women bought diamonds on the installment plnn. "A valuable by-product of the war is that we have been forced to return to habits of industry and self-denial, | without which no man and no nation can achieve enduring power. Thou sands of people are daily learning how vital are the processes of elimination to bodily comfort and efficiency, and that every ounce of surplus food tak en into the body means excess bag gage for blood and brain. Every con sideration of health and wealth urges a program of simplicity and frugali ty. But the argument tomes with the force of r command when we contem plate the results of our personal in dulgence upon our own armies and the armies of our allies in the field. The battle line halts until the bread line advances. Shall we jeopardize the whole world's birthright for a mess of pottage? "In order that self-denial on the ta ble may be universally practiced, and |i in ways that will accomplish the larg est good, the National Food Adminis trator is calling upon every woman who is at the head of a home or pub lic eatintr house to trivo this week her vritten pledge that ?he will observe certain rules and regulations for the conservation of food. Our State Food \dministrator joins in this appeal and ?ives to the regulations prescribed by he National Administrator his em phatic approval. I therefore earnest y request every woman in the State :o sign the Food Pledge Card, and hus dedicate herself and her family ;o this high service. Our women are patriotic to the core, and unselfish to he last degree. I register my faith hat every worn; n in North Carolina o whom the Food Card is presented vill cheerfully sign it, and in this way secure our ultimate triumph, and has en the end of the war." FROM \ SOLDIER HOY. J)ear Editor: During the past month or so, 1 have ?cad several pood articles in your >aper in regard to the display and 'xeitomont that is going on when a 'ew of the home boys are drafted nto the National Army and are sent o the different cantonments. It is no doubt sad for the parents >f these boys to bid farewell on their >arting and I am pleased to note that ?ommittees have been organized ? hat are going to look after their velfarc in camp during the cold nonths before them ? but having en isted voluntarily many months ago, t would appear that this committee hould also devote a little thought to ho men who are serving their own rree Will in the Marine Corps and he Navy. There rre men serving in the Ma ine Corps and the Navy from every ocality of the United States and it vould be with little trouble to lo ate their whereabouts and tender hem little gifts that will comfort md brighten their camp lifo, and I m sure that most anything will be ippreciatcd. Thanking you for this pace, I am voluntarily, "Doing my lit" G. G. BROWDER, "One of the Marines." Marine Trr.ir.ing Camp, Paris Is and, S. C., Oct. 31, 1917. Not There. "Judge-" said Mrs. Staven to the nagistrate who had recently come to oard with her, "I'm particularly anx ous to have you try this chicken oup." "I have tried it," replied the magis rate, "and my decision is that the hiokon has proved an alibi." ? From he New Puck.