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OUR SLOGAN: ‘Sell Johnston County Tobacco In Johnston” Johnston County’s Oldest and Best Newspaper - - Established 1882 Smithfield wants a hotel —But it also wants to es tablish a Livestock Sta tion Yard. 47TH YEAR THE HOME NEWSPAPER SMITHFIELD, N. C„ FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 30, 1929 EIGHT PAGES TODAY NUMBER 71 All In Readiness For Opening Day Smithfield Expects to Exceed This Season Last Years’ Sales; Leading Companies Represented on Market Everything is in readiness fur the opening cf the Smithfield to bacco market, and this season if. expected to be the greatest in a number of years. In 1898, thirty one years ago, the Smithlic’d market was established. Tobacco growing in this section was a new thing, but since that time to bacco has come to vie with c>t-; ton as a money crop for the Johnston county farmer. During the thirty-one years of its exist ence, the Smithfield market ns furnished a good market for the sale of the golden leaf. Last sea son, nearly five and a half mil lion pounds were sold here, a substantial increase over the sales i of 1927. i no omitaneid tocaeco market ; is Ideated in the heart of soam, j of the finest tobacco land to be ! found anywhere. It is easy of uc j cess, for good roads, some of j them hard-surfaced, lead to I Slmjthfield from all direction.;. I The leading tobacco companies oft the world will have represent:-.- j tives on this market. The buying: companies this year include: Im perial Tobacco Co., Export To- j bacco Co., Liggett & Myers, 11. J. Reynolds; American Tobacco! Co., P. Lorrilard Co., J. P. Tay- j lor Co., L. Strauss & Co., China- ; American Tobacco Co.. Wilson To bacco Co., Universal Tobacco Co., ! Ardoth Tobacco Co., Glars-Stapier- ] Tobacco Co., and the Smith field ; Tobacco Co. The warehouse space of the! market is ample to prevent block- I after the opening sale which is! usually very large, and the wave- i "housemen are all experienced te-1 bacco men who are ready to pvo- J tect the interests of the farmer. • The Banner Warehouse is th.*j oldest warehouse, having been the • first t,() be established here. Its! proprietors, H. L. Skinner and i L. G. Patterson, have been iden tified with the Smith-Held tobacco j •market since its establishment j thirty-one years ago. The sake j force of the Banner this year vvi’ ; include again Will H. Lassiter and Bob Pittman. Lawrence Moore; and Walter Batten will manage the floor. Howard Olive is in charge of the grading department, and R. E. Smith will again hand out the checks to the farmers. N. L. Perkins will do the auc tioneering, and he has done it so long and so well that he has earn ed the appellation, “Farmers;" Friend.” a ne i miners vvarcnouse win, be operated this year by Holt n I anid Dixon Wallace. These to-bae- i conists are Smith-field boys who i harve been raised up in the to-1 bacco business. After Ion# years1 (of experience on the biggest mar ket in the world, they have come (back home to give their farmer friends cf Johnston county and elsewhere the benefit cf their ex perience. The personnel of this warehouse is as follows: Dixon Wallace, manager; Hoi ion Wal lace, sales manager; W. T. Ad ams, bookkeeper; W. C. Pearson, clip man; C. E. Stephenson, auc tioneer. Howard Stephenson, man ager grading room; Paul A. John son, time keeper; Adam Whitley, floor manager; Frank Woodruff, floor manager; Ix?on . Norman, weigher; Frank Wallace and Jim Bridges, leaf men; J. R. Howe 1, floor man. « Tantalizer There are exactly enough let ters in the line below to spell ;he name of a person in Smith 3eld or Johnston County, and jo the one deciphering their mme and presenting a copy^ of :his paper to the Herald office, we will present a free ticket to ;he Victory Theatre. Tickets must he called for before the following issue. Memvin Sharpe Cannaday deciphered his name. TODAY’S TANTALIZER nanedlyciyorh Bride-Elect I .. M-i&s Constance Hafrelson, the daughter c<f Mr. and Mrs. Chas. I). Blackman, of Tample, Texas, j whose engagement to Mr. A. Greer Glenn, of Boone, was announced at a lovely tea given at the Lake Polk Country Club, Temple, Texas,. Wednesday afternoon, August 21. The wedding will take place on : September 11. - ——___ i Fanners invited To Demonstration i Agricultural Teacher in Ben- t son School Arranges “Far- ( mers* Field Day” Program ( at Farms Near Benson BENSON, Aug. 29.—A “Far- < mers’ Field Day,*’ probably the i first of its kind ever held in Johnston county will be held joint- t ly at the farms of 3. P. Honev- t eutt and J. C. Holmes Thursday £ afternoon, September 5 at 3:20 t o’clock. According to J. Paul Shaw, i local agricultural teacher, and the j one who has arranged the pro-C gram, a very interesting program } lasting two hours has been ar- t ranged. A detailed examination of the < varieties of corn and cotton I planted in the variety tests will i be the first thing of interest ac-1 cording to Mr. Shaw. This part of * the program will be under the <ii- 1 lection of Mr. G. M. Garren, ce- i real agronomist of State College, r The idea is to give the farmers i a chance to see hew the differ- i ent varieties develop under iden- t tically the same conditions, which S will help them in selecting a va |t riefy for their own farms. U Five one-acre fertilizer demon- s stration plo-ts of cotton* eacli | i acre fertilized differently, will i furnish additional interest. Three] small plots of cotton fertilized the : same except the time of applying \ the nitrate of soda will also be | very interesting. u By this time a plentiful sup j ply of good cold, free, lemonade ; Mr. James. M. Gray, of Raleigh, < will explain the important things I to notice on a series of fertilizer ,! ■demonstrations conducted on Mr. j Holmes’ farm. These plots have < been conducted very carefully and , some very important things about >■ fertilizing corn and cotton can be noted there. Another special feature will be an estimating contest open free to any man, woman, boy or girl! •present. Five dollars will be given to the one who comes nearest es- ^ timating the correct yields of cot ton on each of the five test plots.1 A big crowd of farmers and j business men interested in bet-, ter farming methods is expected, j Revival At Antioch. A. series of revival meetings | will begin at Antioch Baptist church on Friday, August 30 at eleven o'clock a. nv.» anil continue through the following week;-The' services will begin with fasting ! ai'd prayer and all mem hers are j I urged to be present at this meet ing. The meetings will be con ducted by the pastor, Rev. A. R. j I'Cieech of Micro, assisted by Rev. Oscar Creech, of Ahoskie. There will be two services daily at 2:30 p. m.. and 8:00 p. m. W. 0. HINTON, Clerk. j -- I Playing your first game of • golf is equivalent to having your | salary garnisheed for the rest of ! your life. Regular Session Recorder’s Court Heavy Docket of Criminal Cases Disposed of Here This M eek The following criminal cases were tried in Recorder’s court here this week: Tom Smith was charged with assault and trespass. Guilty of simple trespass only. He was sen tenced to the roads for GO days and taxed with the cost. The sentence is to he suspended upon the payment of a $50 line and :h.e cost. He took an appeal. M. J. Clifton was charged wit . riving worthless check. The state :ock a ncl pros with leave. O. T. Boyett was sentenced to he roads for six months for poa e-ssion. The sentence is to he sus- . >ended upon the payment of $ 10«*. ice and the cost; $25 of the fine ' vas remitted. W. II. Wells entered a plea of .uilty to giving worthless check Tayer for judgment was contin- j ed upon the payment of the heck. Whitman Wells was in court on wo counts for giving: worthless hecks. Prayer for judgment wa; ontinued upon the payment of the ost. C. D. Walston plead guilty on luee'counts charging worthless hecks. Prayer for judgment ir. ach ease was continued upon the ayrr.ent of the cost. Lonn.ie Benson and Jesse Daugh - ry entered a plea of nolo con endere to tiespass. Judgment was us,pended upon the payment of he cost, the cost equally charged gainst the defendants. J. S. Talton and Talmadge Ed •ards were found guilty of tres aas. Each was discharged upon he payment of half the cost. A. G. Herring was found guilty !' possession and transportation.; rayer for judgment was con tin- j e;l upon the payment of the cost, j E. Ji. Hudson entered a plea ot uilty to giving worthless check. 1 'raycr for judgment was contin-: c-d upon the payment of the cost' ml check. James Perry was convicted of arcless and reckless driving and f assault with car. He was con icted on both counts and sen - enced to the county roads for i)U ays. The road sentence is to bj uspended upon the payment of (>5 to Graven E. Lee and the cost f the action. B. A. Barbour was fined $10 nd taxed with the cost for smi le assault. Sarah Conbett # was fined $10 nd taxed with the cost for sim ;e assault. On a count charging lander, not probable cause was ound and the defendant was hurged. For simple assault Lonnie Cor »ett was fined $10 and cost. Ezra Adams entered a pica of ;uilty to trespass and prayer for udgment was continued upon the layment of the cost. i). B. Worrell was found guilty f allowing stock to run at large. Jraypr for judgment was con tin red upon the payment of the cost. Isaac Johnson, Will Johnson and lames Bryant were convicted of respass and prayer for judgment .vas continued upon the payment >f cne-third the cost each. \\. J. EZZfiU,'PASSES AWAY TIES I) AY MOUNT Mi The death of Mr. W. J. Ezzell pccurred here Tuesday morn inf? following a stroke of paralysis. Mr. Ezzebl for the past fifteen years had been living in Raleigh, hut about three weeks ago ho moved his family here beyond .he old cotton mill. In April, he suffered a stroke of paralysis and was in Rex Hos pital, at Raleigh, for a long time. The deceased, who was -M: years of age, leaves a wife and two children, a ten year old daughter, Addie, and a son, W. H Ezzetll, of Raleigh. The funeral was conducted yes terday morning at ten o’clock a' the home by Rev. 1). H. Tuttle The body was taken to Temple church near Raleigh for inter mient. Modern Gin Is Made To Order W. M. Sanders New Gin At Sinittiiield Was Especially Designed For Him at the Faciory Five farmers—the first to carry cotton to W. M. Sanders’ new gin in Smithfield—will get a bale of cotton ginned free, including bag- , ging and ties. Mr. Sanders made; this announcement Wednesday as > he told a representative of the _ Herald that his new gin was now completed artj that a touch of the j electric button w;i 11 now set inj motion the new and thoroughly | modern machinery of what is j really a unique cotton gin. Everything about the gin is new except the location. The gin stands on the same spot where for twen ty years Sanders’ gin has stood but in place of the. old wooden i tiucture. a brick building has j Turn to page li ve Kiwanians Hear ; Boll Weevil Talk Speaker From State College ; Stresses Importance of Ex- ■ terminating This Cotton i Pest ' Mr. Branham of State College 1 was the speaker at the Kiwanis r luncheon yesterday and he brought j a message concerning boll weevil, .1 which was very timely. Mr. Bhanham stated that about , * thirty days ago, he was in John- . s'.on county and went into a mini- j i.>er of cotton fields. lie found that Doll weevils had damaged the fields he examined about fifty perl* •ent. With weather conditions!*' favorable to the weevil since that;1 Lime, he ventured the prediction 1 iba.t the damage had increased. Jlo! f wss not prepared, however, to [1 <ny that boll weevil infestation | x\\ over the county was as groat v a? that he had found personally. |c Mr. Branham stressed the in.- ^ port a nee of dusting with calcium i f arsenate, and outlined the ;J methed of dusting and when to I dust. He lamented the fact that * cotton growers are not paying * the attention to extermination of * pests that other group of agricul-1 turists are paying. He cited as1 an example, apple growers. They j ^ spray their trees five or six j' times3 during the year and ac-|c copt it as. sim-ply a part of apple 1 growing. The cotton farmer con- P aiders it a nuisance to have to I pcisen for boll weevil. Following Mr. Branham’s talk.,4 a number of KLwanians askclj1 questions, and the round table di-s" i cussion was quite profitable. |( The Kiwanis meeting next week] will be a special meeting. The ' hor.cr guest, on this occasion will ■ be T. W. Crews, of Spartanburg.1 S. C., district governor of the j Carolinas district. Also guests! on this occasion ill include the j tobacco buyers and bookkeepers i on this market. Applicant: ‘T want to apply for the job of bouncer.” Restaurant Owner: “What rr.a-Kes you imnn you can uuuute i Applinat: “I was a rubber in a Turkish bath.”—The Log. j A Belgian studentt was relating his experience in studying the English language. “When I d<s cove'.ed that if I was quick I was fast,” he said, “and that if I was tied I was fast; if I spent tec : freely I was fast, and that not to ■ eat was fast, I was discour aged. But when I came across the sentence, ‘The first one won or.e-dolilar prize,’ I gave up trying to learn English! ”—Associated Magazine. Miss Ida Wooten, of Hampton. Va., Miss T.urline Crowder, of South Hill, Va., Messrs. Bill Gold smith and Jimmie Smith, of Ere erieks.burg, Va., were the guests !of Misses Rose and Nell Gran tham Monday. I Mrs. Julius Ivey Dies Suddenly ■Mill Creek S. S. Class Enjoys IMcnic at Holt Lake; Other News in Eentonville BKXTOXVILLE, Aug. 29.—The Schih community was saddened last Thursday r.*:rrrr~ when the news spread that Mrs. Julius Ivey had passed away during the night. She was in her usual health when 1 she retired. When Mr. Ivey awoke, : In* found her dead in bed. Mr®.; Ivey was fifty-three years of, age. She leaves behind a heart- j broken husband, four children, one. sister and four brothers, besides a host cf other • relatives and friends. The funeral was conduct ed at the church by Rev. J. A. f Taylor assisted by Rev. V. II. Grantham, She was laid to rest in the church cemetery. The beau tiful floral offerings and the large crowd in attendance showed the high esteem in which she was held. Surely a good woman has gone to her reward. She was le* i fore her marriage Misr, Dona) Rose, daughter of the late Mr. ami! Mrs. George Rose of Newton The senior class of Mill Greek !m inlay school enjoyed a picnic t Holt Lake Friday afternoon, 'he picnic was given by the teach rs, Mrs. Claude Beasley and Mis* Mfie Williams. The afternoon was pent in swimming and boatriding, i about six o’clock a picnic supper! •as spread which consisted ofj tied chicken, cake, lemonade and j >ts of other good things. They i eturned home saying they had! most enjoyable trip and each one hanking Mrs. Beasley and Miss Williams for their kind hospital Miss Ila Williams assisted by liss Annie Dunn entertained her unday school class at a party atueday afternoon from three ntil six o’clock. After enjoying 1 timerous games and stunts for while the children were invited ito the dining room, which was cautifu’.ly decorated in pink and ■bite and served ice cream and nke by Misses Eflie Williams and ! •is Langston. Those present were ma Louise, Evelyn and Sadie ■ee, Doris and Dorothy Langston, arrie Lee and Hugh Beasley, -vii and Herbert Ijangston, Anna el Adams, E. F. Weaver, Iler l hell Lee, Thurman Adams, Ira .angston, Albert and Deliah hinn, Alrnon Bass, Marvin and >orothy Massengill and little leorge Horn Langston. The chil ren departed late in the after oon declaring they had spent a cry pleasant afternoon. Misses Kathleen and Pauline leas ley have returned houu* fter spending ten days near Ma ines and Hooker ton. Mrs. C. F. Thompson and a lighters, Mamie .and Flora, and lis. Brodie Smith spent Thin ay aflAnoon at the home of Mr. L W. Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Allen, of ''our Oaks, spent several days ast week at the heme of Mr. A. 1. Bass. Mrs. David Stephenson and hildren, Mildred and Donald, and diss Aid on Buff aloe, of McCul ers, spent the week end at the it me of Mr. C. C. Beasley. Miss Isable Barfield has re turned to her home in Goldsboro it ter spending some time witn Mrs. Olivia Massengill. Mr. anj Mrs. II. M. Beasley ind children, of Smith field, vis tod Mr. and Mrs. C.• C. Beasley Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Barfield, Mr. and Mrs. Lawson Grantham and Misses Emma and May Gran tham went to Goldsboro Sunday to hear Rev. J. A. Taylor preach at the Christian church. Mr. and Mrs. Brodie Smith, Miss Merlene and Mr. Millard Smith spent Sunday at White Lake. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Williams and son, of Raleigh, visited rela tives here Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. MarsWburr and children, Mr. and Mrs. J. V Marshibuyi and children and Mr T. G. Marshburn of the Meadow section visited relatives here or Sunday. GEORGIA TOBACCO AT j AVERAGE OF 18.38 CENTS | ATLANTA, Aug. 29.—The state department of agriculture today | reported that Georgia farmers had ! received $ 10,002,622 through the* ; fifth week of the bright totbacc# market for 90,054,245 pounds of the weed, the greatest crop on rec ord for the state in both tonnage and value. The average price thi far for the season was reported at 18.38 cents. Figures for the past week were shotwn at 3,721,789 pounds sell ing for $369,549.73, an average' price of 9.93 cents. The totals for the season to * date exceed those of the corre sponding period of 1928 more; than 5,000,00ft pounds and nearly $6,000,000 *jn value. The average | price for the first five weeks of 1928 was 12.81 cents. All markets were closed with Saturday's business, except Met tcr, where three warehouses will rnrain open until Wednesday. 110,000 Pupils In N.C. High Schools The Number Has Nearly Doubled In Five Years; Johnston County Ranks Third With 1,599 Last! Year (RALEIGH, Aug. 29.—Approxi- | natoly 110,000 boys and girls , .verc enrolled in the public high ( schools of the state during the j ;easo.n just closed, it was learned ' oday at the office of the State ( superintendent of Public Inst rue- j Lon from a summary of figures , aken from the reports of these t ligh schools. A total of 90,739 ,or 88 pv , •ent of the 109,975, were white ’ >-oys and girls. The remaining 13,- { !36 were negro pupils, 3,779 in j ural schools and 9,457 in city schools. More than 01,000 of the j vlvite children attended rural ^ ligh schools, and over 35,000 at- c ended city schools. j Five years ago, 1923-24, there vere only 32,415 rural boys and Y pirls and 20,309 city children, a s otal of 58,784 boys and girls, seeking a high school education, j rhe large increase of 89 per cent L n number of rural boys and girls L aking advantage of the oipportun ty of a high school education in-1 j licates. according to school au-jj horities, the holding power of he recently erected rural high ■achools. “Formerly,” they say, ^ ‘most rural boys and girls left ] she elementary school provided !(l •or them without seeking the ad- ^ Vantages of a high school edu- ^ station, whereas now these same | rural boys and girls in increasing 1 lumbers go on to the high schools t provided for them.” This past year, there were 35,- j 110 white children in the eighth . grade, 20,333 in the ninth grade, 19,859 in the tenth grade, and 15, 137 in the eleventh grade—a to- . tal of 90,739 or nearly 7,000 more than in 1927-28. Buncombe county leads the >' state in having the largest num ber of rural white boys and girls, 2,334, enrolled in public high . schools. More than one-fourth of ( the rural white high school en rollment is in the following elev en counties: Buncombe, 2,394; Mecklenburg, 1,035; Johnston, 1, 599; Union, 1,508; Guilford, 1. Ivll . IIV1 llliu 1,308; Harnett, 1,159; and Foi syt h, 1,131. FISH FRY FOR COTTON MILL OFFICIAL SELMA, Aug. 29.— Mr. Geo. F. Brietz entertained at a very en-1 joyable fish fry on the lawn at the mill chapel Wednesday at seven o’clock honoring Mr. S. G. Hagen, an official of the Mob ’e Cotton Mill company, from New York, who arrived in the city on Wednesday. Others enjoying the hospitality of Mr. and Mrs. Brietz were the Selma cotton mill over seers and their wives. Miss Emily B. Young went to White Lake Tuesday to assist with the Johnston County 4 H club girls camp. Miss Young is the home economics teacher of the Rurlington school. Yard And Garden Prizes Will Be Awarded At Woman’s Club Meeting Wednesday, Sept. 11 September 1 marks the close of | t ie Yard and Garden contest begun , last April and sponsored in this j city by the Woman’s club with other civic organizations co-oper ating, and Wednesday. Sept. 11 at the first club meeting of fall sea son the prize winners will be an nounced. This Is the first time a yard and garden contest has been con ducted here but about thirty en trants have sufficed to make the rcHtest worth while. As the con test draws t° o close, the enthu siasm is keen enough that the dub is already talking about plans ?or another next year with im provements over the first ven ture. The movement to beautify >mithfield homes has attracted he attention even of outsiders. Mrs. A. II. Rose, chairman of the irize committee, stated at the 1 (xecutive meeting of the club leld Wednesday afternoon, that he improvement in home grounds Contest it-!** raiiM'd xier 10 get me oner f one of the prizes to be given. •Ii-. John A. Park, editor of the laleigh Times, when in Smith ield on one occasion during the u miner, commented upon the im rovement in the looks of Smith ie!d yards and inquired about it. Vhen told of the contest, he at nee made an offer which was raciously accepted of a six non'ths’ subscription to the Times s one of the prizes. The prizes which will be award d a-t the meeting to he held on Wednesday, Sept. 11 at the club oom at 3:30 o'clock are as fol In Glass I (including entrants ist beginning to beautify their nine grounds): 1st prize, $10 in ash; 2nd prize, $5 in cash; 3rd riae, a set of garden tools do ated by Jordan -Edmundson Hard are company, and $2 worth of ?ed from Hood brothers. (’lass II (including entrants who ave made some beginning but lanting not over two years old): st prize, $10; 2nd prize, $5; 3rd rize, plants from Mrs. C. V. ohnson & company and from liss Ruth Jones. Class III (including entrants hose home grounds have been lanted more than two years), st prize, garden trellis donated y Guy I^ee Manufacturing com any; 2nd prize, two urns from lie Hillside Pottc-ry; 3rd prize, laleigh Evening Times (subscrin ion for six months). Organizi ions contributing to the cash uizes are the Woman’s club., i. &. P. W. club, Kiwanis club, ,nd town of Smithfield. The judging of the yards and gardens entered in the contest rill be done between now and 'opt. 11 by some out of town udge. The presentation of cne irizes will feature the meeting jf Sept. 11 and the de rision of the jiulgcs will not be ui rulged to any one until at thin Meeting. At this meeting, Mrs. II. L. Skinner, president of the club, v/ill announce in an attractive way the sn-tire program for the rest of the :lub year. A report of the building com mittee is also expected to be given at this meeting. The club meeting was postponed from Sept. 4 to Sept. 11 in order to secure judges from State Col lege. PASS STATE BAIt EXAM. Among the thirty U. N. C. stu dents who too-k the recent state bar examination and all of whom passed, was Charles Gilbert Grady, of Four Oaks. Also among the I group was Allen Kendrick Smith of Raleigh. Mr. Smith is a na tive of Smith-field, the son of the late A. K. Smith, former register of deeds of Johnston county. The examination was regarded as ona of the most difficult on record. Start reading “Ginger Filla” to day. You’ll like it. Items Of Interest During This Week Goldsboro Man Heads N. C. American Legion; Graf Zeppelin Making Records; Selecting Jury in Strike Trial Col. George K. Freeman, of Goldsboro, was elected commar.de? of the North Carolina department of the American Legion at the pro nual convention held in Raiei^h this week. Mrs. R. S. McGeachy. of Kinston, was chosen president of the Legion Auxiliary. Col. Freeman was opposed by II. A. Nowell, of Henderson. Mrs. Mc Cieachy had no opponent. Win ston-Salem was selected as the 1930 convention city. The Raleigh irum and bugle corps wa. an nounced as the winner of :h:< (>1,000 cash prize offered by the iitate Legion for the best drilled mrps, and thereby will go to the national legion convention ;-i Louisville, Ky., next month. Thu taleigh convention was consider 'd a success from every stand mint. The Graf Zeppelin which ended he third leg of its around the worm mgnt wnen it landed :n Los Angeles Monday morning con tinued on its way to Lakehurst, N. J., and when it shall havj reached the Naval Air Station there it will have gained for it self several records. It will hav3 circumnavigated the world in ie»5 time than was ever done before, it will be the first airship ever to fly around the world; and it will be the first aircraft of any kind to have made a non * top flight across the Pacific. Only three men had been se lected by yesterday on the jury to try the sixteen textile workers and strike leaders charged with murder as the result of the shoot ing of Chief of Police O. F. Ader holdt of Gastonia on June 7. A venire of 200 men had been sum moned from which to draw tin jury. Eighty-five veniremen had been called into court, out o? which only three were chosen. Thi case is being tried in Charlotte, Judge M. V. Barnhill haviug granted a removal from Gaslm* county in order that the defend ants might be assured of a fa'r trial. Unrest and disorder is spread ing through the Near East afte.* four days of fighting between tin Jews and Arabs in Palestine ‘ ! which more than a hundred Jews have been killed. The war in an 1 around Jerusalem seems to ha vs developed from a dispute abou; the ancient and historic wailing wall near the Moslem Mosqu^of Omar. This wall against which it has been the custom of the Jews to cry and pray is fifty yard* long and sixty feet high. It is thought to be the only remaining portion of King Solomon’s tern )ii. ine jows xuive tiiumcu u m vhile the Moslems insist that ths ower portion belong to them. The irrival of British troops and war* ships has somewhat relieved th» tension in the Holy Land ce*. :ers. SPECIAL SEEDLINGS FOR BLACK WALNUT CHUBS R. W. Grabber, exitension for* ?ster, writes .the home and farm agents in the interest of a B!ai < Walnut club. Tihe state fores: nursery is now dale to furnish seedlings to 4-H club boys and girls at one cent each. Order* must be sent through the county agent, and the club members are asked to plant either 25 hills of walnuts or 25 seedling trees. Last fail, the state forestry department secured a small quan tity of Black Walnuts from Mi. I Vernon, one of America’s histori cal shrines, and also a few nuts from Arlington, the home of Rob ert E. Lee. These were planted and 400 of the Mt. Vernon a ill about 50 of the Arlington seed* lings are ready for distribution during the fall planting season. Two of these seedling's will Ha given with each order for 25 •seedlings from North Carolina stock.
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