ADVERTISERS WILL FIND OUR
A LATCH-KEY TO .
IMN MARTIN COUNTY IIOMES.
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\ 1)1.1 ML 23—NUMBER 87.
W iiiiamston Streets
Ai'e Capable of Much
Better Appearance
FENCES AND SHEDS ARE A REL
IC OF THE VILLAGE DAYS
SAYS A LOCAL MAN
(By JAVELYN)
number of leading citizens of Wil
lian.sion have taken a forward step
in. elding to the civic pride of the
tow,i by removing from the front of
«
then rea'dences those obstructions in
herited xrom our village du/s, ana
siw 4 .eu r of familiarly as front yard
fences. Where such changes have been
mftu*, the improvement is so va»i
tun. j noticeable that it is small won
dei more ol our leading citizens do
now iollow the illustrious sxampte as
sot iorth by the lew.
iuose things which we observe eaci.
aiid eveiy uay soon become more oi
leta oniiotice&bie, and it takes some
output peispecUve, to awaken as to
our own e.xi»Uug couuiUoitß. A lew
housr visit to uti) liuinbei ol utTfflP'
boring towns, wiucii are rated as pru
gieooive, witn Uie, purpose ol uotic
uig uie icsiueuu*! MCUwit' and u 4 e
/ business section* particularly, ai.u"
tiien back to V» iiiiamston is aii one
neeuo to liiiU out just iiow ttiiuquateu
we are in this ol leuces ana
sheds. -j
licvure yoiiiseif, just how Matn
street ana anuuiwitk street ana
liau b ..bali oUeet sua an V»tne» tftiects
wouiu look witiiout an> irout, lonccs,
ana evtuy xfotiu yaid, ino.e ot ics*.
a Uimg ol beauty. Vvny, >ou coulu
haruiy betieve it was W iniamsi/on.
The pride in your town would imiue
diaieiy" scale up a hundred per ceiu
ana beiore you were aware a it you
Wouiu Una youi'soli blagging. on wiim.
pretty streets we have Apioviued >ou
coUiu overtook tne lact uiat bona-,
were .once sold lor pavement..s am.
we should be walking on ueceut siue
wants at the pi&eiit tune insteau
.ol gropuig oui' way through tnuu
aim siush.
iius is the day'inwhich looks coun.
a g.eat deal, and u we ai;e to ceop
eruie with the Cliambei oil Commerce
an'ui'liitiact. lavorable notice to oui
to>. ii, tnen the majority- ol us can
begin right at Ivome —not a big -out
lay ol tini\-no extra taxes to pay,
but just a little exercise, and a larg
er wood piift Vor the coltl winter du>b
to cu vwvl taju tiie results ol eradi
cating 1 elicit Vint sheds.
One of the btat tilings towards re
taru.ng the progress ol our town is
that lavowte expansion used by so
ina.tj amateur orat\is hereabouts, and
thai is " Wiliianiaton is the best town
in ue. world." This must sound t.ei
■libii auiuhing to any visitors "wno
niigi.t happen m the audience, wilt,
have previously looked tiie lowu over,
an u also collided witn tiie depresseu
'buaiiiCsn comlitions and tne unsay or >
criwi.«.iii one liears along the
dan>. inat "best tdwn in world,
ik a ueughtful lulp-'.y to those wno
ait willing to lt/Aiud enough alone;
MAd become soothed to our man/, ma
ny snoilcoiiilngs. it is posbibie Uia.
oui/or&tors nave in mind tiie iact thai
Wiiuamstoii "can be the
best." There is no doubt We hae
a number of the very best peeopie
in the world as citizens, and htat 'we
have a great and wonderful location
lor a Urnvin ginetropous. Some reai
action, winch calls lor the expenditure
of energy, less loaiing and bet
ter ideas along civic lines will go a
long way towards making the com
munity wrncii we all love so well
■ better place to live, and a more at
tractive place lor new. iwaideuts.
A ceitein amount of new blood is
,continuously needed to keep any com'
m unity healthy. 1 oat tract outsiders
here as permanent citizens, with new
uleas and new capital, we must olfei
the proper,civic conditions.
With the poMibiiUee oi W iiiiamston
with its gieat back country and lU
great water facilities, and its great
network of good roads being built,
there is no reason why any person
cannot And within its borders Uie ter
restial Arcadia without roaming in
'fo-fign lands.
NEW ORDINANCE
Fire works are prohibited from be
ing shot on Main street between' Watte
street and Haughton street, from Main
to the railroad on Grab All and from
Mam to the railroad on Haughton
street. This ordinance will be strictly
enforced fo rthe protection of the
Christmas shoppers, and any one no
. lating same will be promptly arrest
ed. Z
C. F. PAGE,
Chief of Police.
Mr*. B. A- Critcher and children,
Alta and Burras r Jr., and Miss Mar
garet Everett will leave in tiie morn
ing far Baltimore, where they will vis
it Mies Alta Proctor and then go to
Cardiff, Md., to visit Mrs Catcher's •
*««*• . »
THE ENTERPRISE
BEAR GRAS CITIZEN DEAD
Dies Front An Attack of Heart Dts
. ease From Which He Has Suf
fered for lime
Mr. Albert Rogersoh of Bear Grass
.bed at his home Saturday morning
at three o'clock. He had been suf
fering with heart disease for aboil
a ycfti', but he was-able to be up anu
about n.i.st of the time until Fridaj
wli*: he Mas taken with an uttao.
frui.i tgl.ich he never recovered.
M> .Itiigerson was the son of Jame
A. j:n,'erson "and wife. He leaves t>
mourn his going: three brothers, Mi.
aai i liogersou and Mi. Harry Itugtr
sou of Beear Grass and Mr. Wife..
Kcgerson of Robersonville, also one
sister, Mrs. Louisa Leary, besides his
wife, who was Miss Elizabeth, Rawl>*
of Beaut ort county and si xchildren.
ihe interment took place at the
Mi re lie burying place Sunday after
no it with Elder J no. N. Rogerson. of*
lici.itin gUie funeral.
Mr Rogerson was a good citizen
•i> u will be grodtij nussed by ever,*
hi*., mmmNky.',
Christmas Shootings
btarung Early Here
LAW BREAKERS HAVE ALREADY
MADE SEV EKAL EbCAPADI'-S
IN OUR MIDST
Sunday night when the 6:30 train
Was entering the switch at the edge
0i town aome one t>hot through the
siuoivei - winUow and came near hit
ling a man. The pistol habit coupled
with whiskey is subject to make peo
ple do many things. It is hardly
probable that the party who hied the
shot knew a person on the train and
had no desire to hurt an yone on it,
>ei had so little care that he careless
ly tired and came near doing serious
damage it no killing a man.
Another instance of pistol toting
occurred in town last week when a
young man was going home and sud
denly walked up on a negro, who
flashed out tWo pistols and stuck them
in his face. The negro was trans
porting liquor against the pro
tecting his illicit act by darkness and
two pistols.
No penalty short of the road should
lie given pistol totert-
All lioys Should Set
Up and Take Notice
Boys of Beaver Dam and Wild Cat
Swamps Make An Exceptional
Good Yield of Corn
Mr. Jolin S. Meeks reports to u*
that his grandson, Ira J. Meeks and
his wife's son, Robert Keel, boys oi
thirteen, and fourteen years, respec
tively, cultivated on his Red Hill farm
between Wild Cat and Beaver Dam
swamps six acres of corn which pro
duced produced fifty barrels, with an
average of eight and one third lmi-_
rels per acre, and one acre of pro
lific cotton which produced 2,314 lb.-
of se&l and two bales of cotton weigh
ing 460 and 446 pounds.
Certainly, these boys ha dtlie ad-'
vice and Assistance of Mr. Meeks, but
it means that Martin county has two
young farmer boys who are ambi
tious and believe in doing things. Two
things were necessary ia producing
these results, knowledge and power.
Every boy Bhouid be taught the im
portance of the combination. If we
succeed, we must know ,and we must
dc.
VV ashington Hard
Koad Completed to
Martin Uiunty Line
R itd Expected To Be OpM for the
Traffic Not Later Than
January First
The last yurd of hard surfaced road
from W.iMimgtoo to the Martin coun
ty line was f-rished last Friday Ihorn •
ng. .'i is eleven nies in length ii 'i
wi,l l e ope ied to the public l Ufli
by Jatiuury flse fnta with favo. i >'e
weather.
Our highway leading from Wllliim
ston is built aboht five and a half
miles out and would have been con
siderably further had there not been
delay io getting the material here.
SAME OLD STORY ?
Mary Kiddick, a negro woman liv
ing neaer the power house, pourec
kerosino in a stove Saturday night
and struck a match to it; her face
and cheat were painfully burned. Ma
ny houses and people are burned ev
ery year by handling oil and Aw. '
Mr. Frank Carstarphen will arrive
Friday from Christ school, at Arden
tc eperd Lie Cli. >• mas holidays with
Ua mother, Mr*. Fannie Carstarphen.
yiLLLAMSTON, MAR. IN COUNTY. NORTH CAROLINA, 'iUKSDAY. DECEMBER \% 1»-
LOCAL MAN GIVES
VIEWS ON FUTURE
MARTIN COUNT\
SHOWS WHERE MARTIN COUNTY
IS BELOW THE BEST BUT
HAS OPPORFTUNITIES
I notice in each issue of the North
Carolina News letter for the pasi
few weeks that South. Carolina, Geoer
gia -and Virginia are seeing the goo >
qualities of L' .J Old North State. Some
of the things wnich they /are say
ing are sufficient to atten
tion of all Carolinians. First, South
Caioiina says that our interest in ou'
system of public schools are surpassed
by none in the Union, and that many
ol' die used to be greatest'states are
pal.onizing after our system. Virgin
ia notes that our agricultural suc
cess in tiie last few years has bet.,
a siuiining one. Geoergia notes that
cur *60,000,000 road bond issue ia to
be the greatest boom for the state
of any since the war between the
states.
but listen friends, flrst, all of these
uie good, but the lasting influence
f men of the calibie of the great
and much lamented Chas. B. Aycock,
iho educational governor of Noi'.h
caro uia are those who started tin
n' • t i hding story of success »>• o.i
ititt A.r any other if j) i ,>"»■. It
is tyue that North Carolina rank;
Hi at' in ,pei acre value of crops with,
even her shortage in live stock, which
■riuy be purtly accounted for by hei
ji.u'i u0 and a fraction acres per
t'anr., which is being largely over
come by many of out western counties
like Buncombe, which has won first
•iiemiuin twice and second premium
onte in our state fair for counties
during the past three years. "South
Carolina hits the key note." Bun
combe is. a mountainous hill and dale
county and as 1 remember, a count,
of an average of 3b acre farms com
posed of fock ojay and gravel. The
apple from wfiffn are noted not O'.t'y
in tiie si ate but nationally famed, un'J
nl.-o t ne of the greatest potato coun
ties in tRe state and famed for its
diiiryii.g uidustry. She does not grow
either cotton or 'tobacco. Note thi I,
tho.-e who know Buncombe say that
diverification with all the crops adap
ted to her soils and cooperation with
national an dstate departments of ag
licuiture is wherein her great rirhc.
lie. tome are wont to say, Weil, we
can't grow fruit, but we can giow
co'.ton, tobacco, peanuts, etc., aiel we
are glowing these. This is true aiiil
vary much like a nian who gave u
description* of his neighbor farmer
Si... ng lie wus just as good a farm
•r ab he was twenty years ago. This
is disturbingly true of we '"urmeif
d'iwn Martin county. We u e
just about as rich from growing crops
of the money producing kind to the
exclusion of diversification with crops
of the soil improvement type as we
were twenty years ago, no richer, no
poorer. Struck the happy medium,
haven't we? Not all dl the fanners
are doing this and we are proud of
this fact. As to fruit growing, 1 re
j. ember when we grew horse app es,
ri. 1 und white Junes, Winesaps, Shock
ley s iiid others as large us • "i
fist ami din it by punting out .tin
wishiug tiieein well.
So do i iemember when we jr»-,w
Irish potatoes in most the same way.
i, .i hmW Or potato bee e, ' e | iu>.u
blight and scab have to be reckoned
with and we still grow them by ap-
P') i u g poison borde.'U fo> the beet't
and leaf blight and formalin for the
b( So we can I'l iu * d !'•
only like ettort, lime sulphur for scale,
poison bordeau for apple worm and
bitter rat poison sulphur wash for
peach worms and brown rot, and the
peach borers in the fall and spring
by using al Ithe advised metuods.
Mogre eounty, which was thought,
to be a worthless sand bed is now one
of the finest peach producing counties
|n the United States, Georgia and
Jeisey not excepted. When this wa.
learned, other crops were wisely
planned and diversification practiced
until More promises still new fields of
venture. Another demonstration that
"knowledge is power."
Men and women have moved from
North Carolina looking for new fields
of wealth, and little did they know
that the ywere leaving the best be
hind them.
What we are, ia what our ances
tors and associates have been, and
that which we have drawn from the
school of experience, many of ua to
day are stumbling over obsta teles that
have long since been removed. Uwe
would look over the record* on our
problems, many of ua would advance
ear business to the place that it would
probably take fifty years to attain, in
' the school of experience.
I - Mr. Henry Font has, in twenty
years become a multi-millianaire man
ufacturer. How does he aay he did
| it? "By combining all the good of ]
other manufacturers with Ms own '
LEAVES AND WOODS MOLD
TAKE THE PLACE OK OLD
ItKLIABLE STABLE MANURE
Is Recommended for Use In Garden*
Where Manure Shortage Is
Experienced
Raleigh, Dec. 18.—"A fertile soil
is the basis of a good garden," says
Fn-nk K. McCull, garden specialist,
of ne North Carolina Extension ser
vice. One of the best ways to build
up this fertility is by adding humus
or organic mutter to the soil. \
Mr. McCall finds that the lack of
farm animals in the* state causes a
decided shortage of barnyard manure
iwid for that reason I wives or woods
mold should be used. A good idea
for the prospective garJener' would
be to gather the fallen leaves, place
them in piles and permit them to de
cay. A better coniposit is formed
when the leaves aro mixed with the
barnyard jnanure and soil.
A combination thnt Mr. McCall has
found quite effective can be made up
•of five parts of leaves, one part of
manure and one soil. The
gardner should allow this mixture to
stun ua i cat on and then work it into
the soil. Not only will this compost
add the necessary humu» but it will
also add some other fertilizing ele
ment as wel., When this organic
matter has been added to the soil,
larger amounts of fertilizer can be
used with profit.
Alioskie liuys Some
Large Koad Signs
is Kinht On the lieels of the Larg
«r Cities ol the Slute In
" v Advertising Way
J Our sister Ahoskie has bought
Hfty large signs reading "It pays to
buy'and sell in Ahoskie—Chamber of.
Commence," with' the names of the
of the town who took the
j signs painted underneath the heading:
The signs "are going to be used
on the leadin groads to Ahoskie for
twenty miles, thereby covering an area
of about 100 miles, ihe larger towns
of the state such us Raleigh,-Rock}
Mount snd Goldsboro are using these
same signs und it shows that Ahos
kie is just as progressive und just
as-interested in her welfare us the
larger places,
These signs would be very good ad
vertisin gfor Williamston, as oui' ad
vertising sign» do riot go very far out
of town.
lAKI-; tAUU OF
Hit Arri.L TREES
They Will l'ay Well lor
the Time and Mon
. ey Spent
Raleigh, Uec. IK.— Now while the
trees are in the dormant stage is the
time to spray the orcharu, says U. P.
Pnyne, pAtenSKU. horticulturist fur the
.No.tli Carolina intension service. Mr.
Payne stales that pruning can be
done now without injury and that
working over the old neglected frees
will pay well for tne time uiid mon
ey spent. It is also wise not to neg
lect the new oichurd just set, because
it is a lact that only about lb per
cent of the trees sold by nurseries
ever come into bearing. Tnis is large
ly due to the fact that "the trees are
neglected and not handled properly.
the division of horticulture believes
that North Carolina can be made the
second California for horticulture if
fruit growing and gardening receive
more . and better attention. Fruit
growing is just coming into its Own
in this slate and this is especially
true of the apple region of western
Carolina. Growers in this section
should take care of their trees now,
urges Mr. Payne. f-
He says, "the ultimate object of all
pruning is fruit production. There
are a number ot things to bear in.
mind regarding this. The heaviest
pruhing should be done during - the
first four years after the tree is set.
Then the tree is The next
five to eight years, the tree should
be pruned .only to keep it in good
shape. This is the period of change
from growth to 'heavy fruit produc
tion and is the most critical in the
history of the tree."
(Simple I't'sigin are the most beauti
ful., The best dressed woman is one
of whom people do not say "what a
beautiful gown," but rather "what a
beautiful woman."
genius, and keeping a strict watoh on
I*is business." The road to success
has been cleared of boulders and any
business man may attain it by a close
study of its history. It is obtainable
i only to those who are studious and
unselfish.
Joseph L. Holliday.
I i'AST WEEK WAS
j uOOI) ONE FOR ;
I . THE BOY SCOUTS
WORK DONE BY BOY SCOUTS OI
WILLIAMSTON AND WHAT
ORGANIZATION IS
L,
Scout Muster Simon Ljlley reports
| the list of the daily good turns that
have been done by the scouts dur-
I ing the pasi week. For the benefit
sJ ol those who do not know the work
ping- of U.e organization, we will ex
plain what the term "good tarn'
means. A member of the Boy Scouts
• is supposed to do something for some
one who is unable to- do for them
selves, some little act that will make
life easier fo rthe helpfess each day
of their lives. Some things that have
been taken from the list as handed
in by the members at the last meet
ings are as follows: '
Undoing a dog hung i insrfence.
Helping an old lady up the steps.
Took a paper to some one and then
ran an errand.
Packed a box'for a lady.
Kept store for a man to get out on
business fora few minutes.
I'icked up an old man's hat.
brought wood for an old man.
Found knife for a little boy.
I'icked some glass out of the road.
Showed an old man where a doctor
lived.
Iluilt u tire lo ran old man.
Helped the ladies prepare for a
church festival.
l'ut out cigarette stump.
• Found dog for a little girl.
Gave information to stranger.
Brought a bucket of water for a
lady.
Cleaned up a yard.
Carried Mowers to school for the
teacher..
'{'he number.of good turns that were
performed by the boys are as fol
lows:
George Harris, Jr., 7.
Thomas Crawford, 7.
Bill Harrison, 6.
Geeerge 11. Gigaiiun, 7.
Bruce Whitley, t>.
I.>n llassell, Jr., 7.
Way lord Harrison, b.
Herbert Ward, Jr., 4.
.1 e-:.t.i> Harrison,'b.
Jolu'. i'oi ker, 7. \
vV P. Hodges, 7.
. Bi >.u lii gerson, 7.
Cl.a- ies I eel, 0.
1' fil-ijrt Peel, Jr., 11.
I want the people of the town
viuit tin* wout meetings, espectali.v
tic i uro.its and those »iiiterested in
tiie wclfan. of the young boys of tin
town. Another thing that I want 'be
pcuple t the town to do is to -help
me .vi,.i Ihe boys; when you «ee a bn.i
dourjr somcthin gtlmt is not e\a-".\
the rig ii linng, do not encourage nm
m the at ', but quietly speak to hi n
I'he hoys will appreciate your inter
est for they are as line" boys as there
are, and l 1 ey know when any one ;s
doing something for their good Right
id tnis so uon of the year temptation .
beset them having to stay in duor-.
und not being able to work oil then
energjes by hiking, camping, etc., and
such tilings as little seemingly harm
less gambling devices take their at
tention. It will be of gieat value to
them in the future fo mold their
character according to the highest
principles and the help of the good
people of the town is needed.
SIMOND LILLEY,
Scout Master.
Miss Eva Peel, who is a member
o fthe faculty of the Robersonville
High school is ut home the
holidays with her parents, Mr .and
Mrs. R. J. Peel.
'! ho i arm u scrub bull does lives
alter him. lie brings down the vu
lue of cattle and decreases the milk
flow in North Carolina. He sh6uid be
replaced with pure bred sires, say
extension workers.
Mr. and Mrs. lien Aiken have ar
rive din the c.ty from Enid, Oklaho
ma to visit Mr. Aiken's sister, Mrs.
W. '!. W-ji.cws and Mr. Meadows, at
their home on upper Muin street,
Eve* thought of giving your son
a partnership in the farm business'.'
Present the matter to him this Christ
mas.
Messrs. Bruce Wynne and William
Carstarphen have arrived from Trin
ity college, Durham to spend the hol
idays with their parents, Mr. and Mrs.
L. B. Wynne.and Mr. and Mr». C. D.
Carstarphen.
A subscription to some good farm
journal makes a good Christmas pres
ent for the boy and girl on the farm.
Subscribe to The Enterprise and you
will get a Christmas present of a
good farm journal. We only have a
few hundred of these subscriptions,
and the first to come will be the first
served.
CriKI.VIMAS CHEER.FOR
I'OOR OF \VILLIAMSTON
-jL —
lowment lieing I'uslud tu Help the
I ulurtunuU'H of W illiums'on tu
fcaijoy Christmas
Any one wishing to make joy for
ijle poor ol W'illiamston ami the sur
lonuing community have an oppoi
tunity. Take your package of fruit
or presents that .sou want to give
10 the Hupii»t, parsonage aud Hew A.
V joyner with others, wil lsee that
the packages m e distributed.
, If there is any one who you know
.dicul who needs to be helped, report
lne:,i to Mrs. Asa loin Crawford and
she will see that they receive some
gift.
Kenrvmber that "It is more blessed
t'> give than to receive."
tobacco (jrowers To
* Get Their Christmas
Money Wednesday
CHECKS WIL BE-DELI Y FRED BV
WAKEHOI'SES WHERE TO
BACCO RECEIVED
All uiembei s of the Tobacco Urow
ers association will get their second
j payment on Wednesday, the iJOtli.
The farmers Will only have to go
1 to the warehouse where they made
j- their tobacco delivery and they will
; get their checks. This applies to the
f eastern Carolina belt.
Mr. Harry 1.. Meador says he wants
j the farmers to come promptly and
| he will convince those speculators who
so "wisely" warned the farmers that
they Would never ,gel anything but
the first payinenti-rfhat they will get
I something. The second payment will
I certainly be as large as the first, and
I w ill most likuljy be larger.
I Farmers, dont forget to get your
J checks Wednesday, December 20th, at
I any litme of the day. If you canuot
come Wednesday, your checks will be
'waitirtg for you Thursday.
STATE IS FOURTH
IN COTTON YIELD
I Intimated Production ol'
852,D00 Mil 1922;
Last Big Year
• V
North Carolina takes another for
j ward stride, m the agricultural fiebl,
I by advancing to fourth lank among
| the cotton states, Her crop is esti
mated to be bales this year.
I It should b£ recognized that this is
j not only due to her goon crop, which
"was made in spitu of our tirst serious
damage by the boll weevil, but also
fio tiit heavy weevil damage m ollie't
states. She is for the first iHue
I unit 4)robabl) last time making al
mosl nine per cent of the souths cot-
tun crop.
Ihe noli foi the belt was reduced
111,00 ii bale" since the Sepleinbei
forecast of 10,135,000 bales. while
i\uth Carolina's production wua in
creased by 512,000. >J(obesoi) county
was hooting tile id':a ol boll weevil
damage in July ami a month lulei
their persence in great numbers
caused widespiead appreliensio/i oi a
flop dilute, then along came tne
December guuier's report showiug
that Homebody had lied. She had a
big crop of -both weevils and cotton
lint. k , The question since tlyey struck
North Carolina IK: Have*-, these in
sects decided to cooperate with the
cotton plant*,'after realizing that one
has to cooperate in this state to be
in the swim? .
Tliik year's total national crop, if
madq into one bale of the usual
shape a»d laid flat down would cover
about 17 acres of land. The crop
in this state has gained first rank
among ull crops, thereby surpassing
the K'hlen leaf tobacco, without tak
ing into Consideration the valuation
of cotton seed.
The final condition of the crop
repotted October 3rd was 50 per cent
of a normal, or full crop prospect
Much better than that has been real
ized./ Immediately, the government
gets "cussed out," when we fail to
check up with the ginnfed figures, and
those criticizing, overlook the fact
that they and their neighbor are
usually the ones responsible «y re
porting the erroneous estimates. The
final 'condition la»t year wa/ 6 per
cent less than this year and/we have
12 per cent more acreage packed this
season. Then too, the price is about
50 per cent higher, as it was 16.4
cents in 1021, as compared with 24.4
cents' this year, each baaed on Dec
ember Ist prices paid to farmers.
"Did you ever hear the ttory about
the Scotchman who loaned a fellow
u fiver?" J.
"No." ./ . "
"Ypu never will." Fayettevilie
Observer. * /
rm; smtbhusi covers mar-
TIN COUNTY AND VICINITY
LIKE A MANTLE.
Jersey Calf Club Has
Been Organized In
Catawba County
First Jersey Calf Club to Be Organ
ized In the South 18 a '
North Carolinian
Italeigh, Dec. 18.—The Jersey
Calf club in the south to be organ
ized by the Jersey Cattle association
of America was organized during the
past jear by county agent j. w. nen
dricks of Catawba county, una Ciuo
is the first in the south 1 to teceive an
appropriation from the Cat
vie association and is one 01, ..about
six in tlie whole Cnited states to
liius tie organized. According to air.
i. A. Arey, dairy tarimu gsye«.i«»iist,
.lie requirements tor the recognized
cait club have Lieen mude so strict
until tew of the so-called nave
oeeli able to meet them.
this club in Catawba county was
organized on the "three year pian, and
wifich proposes to grow out toe carves
.o maturity and show tliein at, some
ol tiie tails each fall. This ciub has
iweuty members, w!u«h is the
iiiiuin allowe dunder the new require
ments. During the past year the mem
bers received sio in cash irom the
jersey CatUe ciub. lhe boys and
gnls taking part in it snowed their
calves at the county lair at Hickory
a^td'three weie shown iu Kaleigti at
the State fair.
According to Mr. Arey this, call
club work la doin gtremendous gooi
iu r ' advancing the., dairy ol
catawba county, and troni tne suc
cess which boys and girta are
iiaving there, it is felt that the idea
will spread overtlie other uairy coun
ties ol JSorth Carolina. Oastou and
Mecklenburg counties are also doing
club work with their dairy cattle but
have not yet orguiuzuu their ctubs
on the „ same plun as Lite Catawba
club.
Miss Sarah Hatred arrived last
nignt tiKjm St. Mary's school, Raleigh,
oi spend'the Christinas holidays with
tier mother, Mrs. W. 11. Harreil.
Foreign Dog; \ou must-be one of
those American flappers,' I see you, c
have your tail bobbed. •
It is lalse economy for a county
, to dispense with either the farm ag
ent m The home agent. In ivttru times
the fuuner and his >vife neeu uie»e
two advisers more than ever.
rood Prices Show
Ah upward i enuency
TWO FEW IMI Oh
MOltb Dt KING NOV EAini.it,
SA\S HEIIjUT
Washington, Dec. 18.—6oi|u retau
;.nd wholesale food prices in\reaMxi
two per cent or
embcr, according to figures maun puo
,,c today by tiie department! oi la-
TOI. Notwithstanding HUH lUC reuse
the departulent said there waa a ao-
Mrastt of live per cent fo -line year
en ling November 15, in rota.il logo
prices while wholesale food prices 111-
cieased about two and one null per
cent during the year.
The trend of wholesale prices of
:t;iiJmoditie? such aa farm products,
t.xti e.netais, building materia
(..eu.icahi and hi u»e '"uruialung jun,'
ca, ni'V.iiv, November iJ Ui#
e icni hi one an n life third per :e. , \
J-'ujii pitijuiu led for uits,,;ear
.villi an iiiciette i*i lb 1-4 pec >ci'l.
CUnuculn. alone weie cheaper in NJV
ember of this year as compared .-.ai
(.lie .ii..e inonliis il.'l year.
Alias Emma Kober«oa will arrive
lids week from Kinston to spend the
Christmas holidays with tier parents,
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Uoberson.
"1 understand that you said 1 hadn't
enough sense to come out of a show
er of rain," said Dobson. "1 did not,"
replies | oi. "What did you say,
then?" "1 merely remarked that if
there was a tax on brains the gov
ernment would owe you uioney."
Tit-Bits..
Miss Mary Gladys Watta will ar
rive tomorrow frujn Trinity collect
Durham, to spend the holidays with
her parents, Mr .and Mrs. J. W. Watta
ip the Grove. - . v.
Mr. Francis Barnes will arrive froji
Staunton Military academy this week
to apend the holidays with hi* pa
ixilt*y Mi. and F.. H. Barnes on
Church street. . • .
e ' ■
A study of the question ahows that
those counties which are winning out
in the flght on the boll weevil art
thoao with good home and farm ag
ents.