Newspapers / Elm City Elevator (Elm … / April 11, 1902, edition 1 / Page 2
Part of Elm City Elevator (Elm City, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
iggiiaWBI EVEitT rhihAr AT i:i3t xirr, yoKTn CAJtOLiyA/ «r The Elevator Printing €omimny. O'. C. FEU’RELL, Editor and Matrager; Thte5: B. Winstead, Associate Editor. $1.00 per Vear^ 50 Cents Six Montlis* Wfe -vfisL a live cori-espondent and agent at every postoffice iii the vi«ia- y of E!m City. Onv colntnns Jtre always open io contribiitiotis by ^.fiy citiren on live ti qaestions. We are not tespsnsible foi- the victyi of 6'Ontribufors, id all articles mtist be sigtTed by ;bo ■f^rite^; Bates for adverflsmg space will be firrnished on applicatiori. Eitfered in the pbstbpce at Kim City, N. C., as second-class mat*^ A faiirdad conductor in the West [4aa received a $1000 icfjacy for his ^liteness. Let all ticliet-puncbers paste-this on their hat. Last TharSdiiy’s edition of The L^alei^h NewSand Observer, “J^orth Carolina’s Ten Years of Progress,” Is one of the i)est and most complete i industrial issus ever issued from a North t'a^blfna press. Several ■thousand copies will be distributed jit the Charleston Exposition this week. This is undoubtedly one of 4he c'leverest piecfe of arfvertisiftg our . jrrand old State his ever b'eetl h'oii- :%t>red with.- . The editor of the Houston (Iowa) ;Advo(*ate claims that his tov/n has . 'ihree of the srfingiest men on re*ord. shcm. ^he first will not drink as much wa ter as he wants unless it coines from k neighbor’s; well. The second for bids any of his family writing any V but a small hand, as it is a waste of ink to make large letters. The ihird stops the clock at night to save wear and tear of marchiriery. AH of ihem refuse to take a newspaper oh the ground that is is such a strain on ihe spectacles to 4*ead. AN EPOCH AlAKING EVENT. ’i'he Greensboro Educatiohril Con ference ending ti-iitm'phintly in gpontaneoirsiy raising eight thous and dollars for the betterment of the rural public schools of Guilford county is an epoch making evedt in the educational history of t!>e State. Improvement of school houses, consolidation of small districts, and local taxation were the kej'-notes of the conference from start to fiifish. In these lie the hope of the rural schools. The re.solutions. of the twenty county sumriutcndeuts in conference assembled endorsing the action of the generous people of Greensboro, in raising a large f«Hd for the pur poses was a forceiul endorsement ot BRASSES IN EASTERN NORTH. CAROLINA. Fifty years ago the late Edmund fiuffin wrote a book on Eastern North Carolina, in which he stated that it was destined to be the great- fest stock country on the Atlantic coast, becatise of the woiiderfiil pro fusion of native grasses. It was more profitable with slave labor to Taise cotton, and grass waS killed to raise cotton. Now farmers ara pro fitably turning their attention to stock raising; TOBACCO PAYS FAR BETTER IN NORTH CAROLINA THAN IN OHIO. (Prof, W. F. Massey.) A letter a short time ago firom a large tobacco grower in Ohio stated that he was getting for wrappers there 6 to -7 cents per pound, and that was the top of the market. His land is worth ten times what most of the tobacco land in North Carolina ia worth, and his labor cost twice as much. North Carolina to bacco has sold as high as 8(5 cent per pound this fall, and the areneriil ave age is far higher than that for wrap pers in Ohio. A few years I saw the crop of tWo aeries of land sold at public sale for $996.50, and I was told that the laud on which it jgrew did not cost $10 an acre. TRUCKING THAT PAYS $150 PER ACRE. Between Goldsboro and Wilming ton there are about 1,100 acre^ in Btrawbemes. Other small fruit and yegetkbles are growh extensively. Two, and often three, *crops a year are grown on the same land. Pota toes yield 75 ban-els to the acre, and I are ready for shipment early in June I the prices realized this year were $5, ^ $B, and $7 a barrel. Beets grown » through the winter arb always sure ^ and profitable crop. Cabbage also ■ Ifi-ows through the winter and pays f well, as mnch as 326 barrels to the \ acre has been grown here. Aspara- 5 feUS is always profitable. A good r average yield is 1,000 bushels to the acre, and $4: per dozen bunches is an average price. This gives a gross i^turn of abont $240 an ocre. The feost of cultivating, gathering and j. Shipping appropriates $90 an acre, I which inoltides $50 for fertilizers, j The net profit per acre is therefore hbout $150; If A sentimental bditor asksi “Are there any sweeter words in the Eng lish laneruage than ‘I love you?’ To , which Editor Knowles rejoins; ‘Well I ihey ai'e sweet enough; {jobdiiess I knows, still tile words;’Here is that : two dollars i owe von 5 GreenSbCro' has set an example that her sister cities will not be glow to follow. If this rural school prob lem is successfully worked out in Guilford county, as ' we doubt not', it will be the practical object lesson in the successful solution of the State’s gravest problemj and if will do more to induce other counties to tindertake tiie solution of their rural school problem by similar means than endless theorizing and spcech- maljing. In its representativeness the Gieensboio meeting was unique and cpoch-uiaking. County Superin tendents, teachers representing every branch of business and industry in . , the State; lawyers, preachers, physi- Wilcox; bat for justice, law Saving h»d, ri detail/ the c^dings ot the triaf of Wiicot:, f am prompted fo write this’ article,- with d few observations respecting the same. In reading the acddant of the trial in the Norfolk (Va.J Laiidm*ark, of Saturday, 1 find the following start ling scafeinent froni the representa- five of that enterorising jonrrial: “There was a secret itfovement put on foot late to-rifght by deter mined parties to g6 to the jury room arid demand a verdict at once. If the jury refused^ the mob would fake the law in ^heir own hands. There were cool heads that got the wind of the plot and saved untold trotible and bloodshed.” Whither are we driftirigT Toward anarchy *nd destruction? Such- sigr.a!, indeed, have portentious nieafting. Has it come to pass that in coriseryative old North Carolina we iiave rfached the point when reason and jiflstice no longer control men’s actions? Are our juries to be intimidated is such manner sis de scribed above, and is siich outra geous conduct tO' escape the general condemnation which it deserves? If was published very generally in the proSs that on Thursday wli6n I«Ir. Adylett, of couusel for Wilcox, rose to address t!ie jury, as many. as three hundred people, as a manifes* tation of their dis'approval, left the court room. If this was not done to influence or irttiraidate the jury, then what prompted uiiseenly conduct? North Carolina ha.s reached the saddest day in her history if the mob spirit is permitted to grow; and it be hooves the ci;nserv:>tive, senous- minded, law-aliding element to take a firm stand and cry aloud: “Hold, enough!’ Can we expect or hope to build up our (S'tate along industrj|l linos if foreign capitEtlists have a fear that lav/ and order are a mockery? Will they come among us if such a situa tion prevails? The Landmark correspondent stated also that feeling and excite ment were so. high that there were rumors if the jury acquitted Wiicoi that it would have been very “un pleasant for them hereabouts.” Conld evidence of intimidation be stronger? The writer is not plead CJans and other professionacl men were all heartil/ co-operating in this meeting with marvelous unan imity of purposej and vieing with each other in enthiisiasrii and gener osity for the upbuilding of their rural schools. All classes of our people are coming to a realization of the needs and value of these schools. Business men are comin« to see that an investment in schools is a wise business investment for present and future prosperity. Another encouraging feature of the Greensboro meeting is that pointed out in Superintendent Joy- ne/s interview yesterday, namely, that the meeting was planned and conducted and carried to a .success ful issue by teachers, indicating that the teachers, who must necessarily be looked to for leadership in mat ters about which they ought to be best informed and to which their lives are devoted, are beginning to recognize the need of organization, leadership and concert of action, and in the future are going to apply to educational work more of the methods that have proved^ successful in great religious and political movements. Another epoch-m aking feature of this conference waS the spirit in which the offer of the General Edu cation Board to duplicate the amount raised by the city for rural schools, and the spTi*it in which this offer was received. The local authorities were trusted absolutely for the use of the fund as they saw best, the only condition at tached being that the district aided should vote a local tax for the sup port of its schools. Such confidence is beautiful and proper. Verily ours is a common country, with a com munity of interest, a mutuality of obligation,, and a common tie of brotherhood jtud trust. ’ and order, and the preservation of the good name of the State. Within recent moijths r^I was dis cussing the rapid development of the South along industrial lines with a wealthy Northern friend, and I ex pressed surprise that more Northern capital did not come south for invest ment, in view of the fact that manu facturing enterprises here pay better dsvidends than in other sections. His reply to me was “Lynching!” Disguise it or apologize for it or condone it as we may, the fact re minds that litatistics prove that only 25 per cent of the lynchings occur for the nameless crime. These are fjicts, but the people sboiiM know them:they r.lone have the pow er to administer the corrective. Something must be done to check the present lawless tendency. “If ‘tis dpne, when Hwere done, then ‘twere well it were done quickly,”— LEX. you,’ are hot lack^ ng ui sweetiieSs and euphony.” i The Nb^^paper todiayj s?yft aii ek- k ^hanggi is the greatest factor m ciV- t tlizatiofi. Take aitay ihiB greatest r teacher} RBsistant to jus «4^det9.>rdrdt erintinals; patriot; Ati«feSnjaa> than it hai» been possiblj SOLD HIS SEAT. JesSe Speight is telling a good one that occurred while he was in New York a few days ago. He was a visitor on the stock exchange. Stocks had been moving along quite dull fora few minutes, when one man thinking to have a little fun and create some life, arose and cried, 111 take $8 for my s^at.” ‘I’ll take it,” cried another, by the tirhe the offer was made. I mean the seat of my pants,’’ continued the seller. “That’s all right,followed the buyer) ‘ I claim my purchase.” The seller wabted to declare the joke off, but the crowd world not lei hirh. Thfey rbiShea around him; and butting off the Seat of his pants Mnded the piette to the purchaser who in turn handed over his $8.^ »re«nville Reflectors CAN GROW THREE TIMES AS . BIG A CROP AS NEW YORK. A state in which the grosvers can raise a crop of early potatoes that averages three times as large as that of the great state of New York, as is done in North Carolina, and can get a crop of peayiue hay from the same land, and then grow from 150 to 200 bushels of potatoes in the late fall on the same land, is in a position to complete on very favora ble terms with the states north of us, where it takes the whole season to grow the one crop of potatoes. The average crop of potatoes in New York is put down at about 90 bush els to the acre. The trucker in Eastern North Carolina who grew no more than that would think he had a dead failure. NORTH CAROLINA BEATS ILLI NOIS IN CORN. (Prof. W. F. Massey.) The value of the uplands of the State is well shown by the crops pro duced on the Agricultural and Me chanical College farm at Raleigh, 88 bushels per acre have been grown of corn on the hills. The prize crop of the great state of Illinois was something over 60 bushels per acre last year; There is not an old red hill in all the Piedmorit country of North Carolina which cannot, by in telligent cultarejbe made to produce from 5 to 100 bushels of corn to the acre, and pay a profit in its improve ment. -Benmais m {tovfi' cW- 61?na bas rffade fli® fJasf tetf yeitrs and p'retltct# gSSeete? itwiasJ trial expai*sio-n._ Nm-th Carolina- ipfttbaMy the best State in the^ign for horme- makihg and the ini^SwHkt of cffpi- tal. Thert «re other States in Which probably larger and qQic'kdr profits may be jade, bfat there is’s want of certainty ra other States which gives jJecurity to investment -here. Our people have realized the importance of bttsiness and harmony in the wo?k of upbuilding the State. Oor laws do not oppress anyone; otrr taxes are light as compared with other States and mntcal good will exists between us all. In agriculture,- ini maufacturift'g,* and in commerce there can be found opportunities to be found almost no where c^lss, and this is shown by the wonderful growth of our manufac turing , industries'. W© have just passed throttgh a period of bad crops and the fact that^o few failures haye occurred is an indication of the sta bility of our industries. I know of one town in this State in which a dollar a week for e»ch inhabitant is paid to laborers in manufacturing enterprisas and thii^ town is regarded as an agricultural and not a manufacturing town. What the real industrial towns in the State are doing is beyond calca- lation. Oor etftir® population has deter mined to make the greatest State in the Union out of North Carolina. We have the Neatest history of any Stale in the Union, the sanest peo- ole, with more eonrage, less extrava gance and fewer vices snd filled with hopefulness, not to say enthusi asm. What we can do, we will do, and what we will do can only be measutbd by the capScity of the best men and women in the world. There has been no period in the history of our State which there w^as so much gennino thinking^ and thought with us now is being tranKA lated into action. The man who can do things is in demand. Twenty yeai-s ago the growing of strawberries amounted to almost nothing. Today we are growing in one hundred miles along the A. C. L.‘ more than one million dollars of this delicious fruit without interfer ing with the production of ether crops. Ten years ago we were doing al- Dfiost nothing in the lumber bnsi- ness. Now our State is one of the foremost in the Union in the manu- j facture of lumber. Ten years ago a eotton factory was a thing of interest because of its rarity. To - day wo ftre manufacturing one hundred thous and more bales of cotton than we grew last year. Tea years ag^> all our farnitj»re or nearly allj was niartufactured abroad. Tod.'iy we are sailing furniture in nearly every State in the Union. Ten years ago a trip across the State from Elizabeth City to Ashe ville was an undertaking to be en tered into only by the strong.* To day it is a matter of pleasure in volving otly one night and a day. Ten years ago we regarded the education of the masses as a thing to be done in the distant future. To-day our Constitution contains a provision prohioiting anyone to vote who becomes of ago after 1908 un less he can read and write. Ten years ago there was a state of controversy between the friends of education as to whether aid to State institutions by the public was an in- juiy to denominational or oiher schools. Today all the schools of every sort are filled to overflowing and the energies of our people and their money are sevei-ely taxed to provide means for the accommoda tion of fue pupils who are clamoring for admission. We are in the midst of an area ot hope when every man looks to the future with Cheerfulness. Our exhibit at Charleston, while admittedly very fine, is not adequate as an expression of what we are doing. In agriculture, in industry, in science, in art, in literature, the State is doing more than ever at any other period in her history. Without lessening or abating one jot or tittle of our life for individual liberty, which has ever character ized our people we have resolved in united efforts to put the State in the forefront of American Common- w^Ithg. .Charles BRANTLKy Atcock. Executive Mansion, Raleigh, N.C., April 6th, 1902. foOLD bfflNKg ! BBJiSGi fotl'B ifEST GIRL and COCA -^COLA. THE M C# S T POPULJta COLD f>-RlNK. J. E. ADAMS. «fUST LfKE THIS Exclusive Newness- Marks oar SPRING SHOES. The shapes are sntartest. Particular people will delight in the beauty atiid •ty*® ofoiir SPRING FOOT WEAK. Ask to be fltted,* si*es are alikA, A look at the new styles will repay you for the trouble Onr Spring Styles of MEN’S HATS are now ready for your inSfpectiou. All fbe i«eet creations. We, tfan please the most fastidious. Yon'ate TordialIy inyiled io ctfH and see them. 0. J, HARRISON, & CO., EXjiMi ciarS', - - 3^- o. COCA COLA 5 CTS. —at— 0. J. HARRISON k cot SODA FbUNTAlN. M Ik &. E. k (Condeiibed Sch^ule.) TRAILS GOiN'S SOUTH. D.-iled Dec. 22; 1901 A M , P i,* P M Lv'. WeTt^on ! 11 9 j if Eoc'k/ >11 1 00 10 32 Lv Tarboro j 12 22j | 7 LV Rocky Mt 1 05 11 02* 7 52; 12 52 Lv Wilson Lv SeLnft Lv F.-i y'viile Ar Florence Ar Goldsboro Lv •' ] Lv Magnolia Ar WiJ.fijir;! 1 5;) 11 lOj s 31 2 5511 591 4.1U: 120 7 3'.' 3 20 '20; 2 40 3 15 4 25 6 00 THAINS GO.So >?6rtU. - Jan. 15, 190-' d'5 . J i A M LvFlo -efrtce 10 F.Tyftte’lIe i2 Jo Lv S*- ilia Ar W ' -;on Lv Wilm’ton 3ia^iplia LvGbldsboro Lv Wilson Air Rocky Jit Ar Tarl)oro Lv Tarboro Lv Rocky lit Ar Weldon 2 10 2/J7 8 05 10 W) 1125 f A M i 1134 3 30; 9 00 12 10 ! 9 34! 2 31 3 50 4 53 P M 12 43 1 37 A M A M 9 30 11 05 12 20 P M 1 18 1 53 I to GONFEDEeffi TETEUKS UD We offer you the SH0RTK5T ROUTE 1-r ouirh t'l^ MEM PHIS GATEWAY traversing tae from wh. 'i iae chi'apt’St >.de trips c;»-n l>e made to Hot “Springs and po.uts in Okinaoma and I” ii;.n terri'orles. Side trip to Ok'jho'nrv City an return ----- $3.60 Side trip to Hot Sp; ln_:} “ - - - - $1.25 SPECIAL THALVS AND FREE CHAIR CAHS. STOP 0VE113 at ftll poiuH going and ; e'.u; ning, -Ti :l:ft3 on sale Apvll IStii t > 20th, incl-i-lve. Final return M.iy 15th. For farther in'orni.Mt-on a ldie s W. T. SAtNI/BRS/ Oeu. Agt. Pa^. FRISCO SYSTEM, ..... ATLA \ fA, GA. We carry a large of i>rij Goom, mioe^ Udis^ 2^otions Harflware^ Harness nitiire. Feed Stuffs^ Etc., and are pYti^pdred t9 sell as cheap asi8 tonsistent with sotind business policy^ We invite your iu^efeilon ot Oiir ito^\ it you wish to buy anything to eit or west for yourself j yotir family^ youf horso; cicrtr or ftbfcli. If yoli wish to ftirnish yohr lioiise or kitchen; cr supply your gardeU »ud farm irith agriicultaral Injplemente joii it^ni fiind a large Stock ib our store to Sclect from^ Call to^see us whenever you need any of tlie hecessities of life* Jno. Im, i£ C6., ' ■ ELM CITY, K. C 1,000 BUSHELS OF SWEET POTA TOES TO THE ACRE. The annual pt’bduction of sweet potatoes in the South Atlantic and Gulf States is 60,000,000 bushels, the average yield per acre is 73bUsh- els. Iii North Carolina the averaee is 85 bushels. With high cultivation in North Carolina 350 bushels per Acre la not uncommon, while the ^aiimdm record is 1,000 busheli to the aci»i WitSttH to aiti*e: MORI LIVES ARB 6AVBD -by TTSINO-. Dr. King’s New Disconnf, tamDtioD,Co^ and Colds - By All Oaw? Thzottt And lAmg Bemedies Combined. This ^ndei?un^^^l^ha positively Hoiarsenes*, fti09 BOe. All. Trial Jottto Ttm. FOB SALE BY Jnoi U. Bailey Tra-’n on thp Sf'otland Neck firanch Ro«-l ionves We’don 3 15 p m Hali- fa ; 3^L'J p m Av -;v^= ScotlamlNeck -1 10 p m CrpeDv!'! 5 J7 p m Kington (> 45 Rt-tii -n-Tig uaves K'nu ton 7 30 :! m G.-eenv ' e 8 30 a m Arriving ITaiitax .-*1 U O' a m Weldon 11 20 daily ejrr-eit Sur).iy. T’ a'ijs on Wasbingtonbranch road leav« W;i^h n«rto!i 8 00 a raHnd 245 p m a riviug Pavmele 8 55 a m and 4pm K« tu'-ningleave Parmole 11 10 a m and 5 22 p m daily except Sun day. Ti-aih leaves Tarboro daiiv except Sun-1, y 4 ;;5 p m, Sunday 4*35 p m li vrives IMymonth 6 35 p liii 0 30 p n. Reiii>-n.M)g Je.*’v«J8 Plymouth daily ex cept Sunday 7 30 a m, Sunday 9 a arrives T;i»-bo’o 9 5f> a m, 11 a m. Tra u on Midland Branch leaves Golds’joro djily excft>t Sunday 5 00 a m. a’> ive SmiihtieM ti 10 a m Re- t|iv« VMves Su'M,;! field 7 am, ar rivH (ioldsboro 8 25 a m. Tra’n .n N.i-hville branch leaves Rocky Mr.It 9 .JO a m and 4 00 p m avriv.-s N;i hvii'e 10 20 a ra and 4 23 p m, Spriug Hope 11 00 a ui and 4 45 p m Return;,,- le..vo Spring Hope at ^0 a m tiid ,1 J5 p m, Nabhville 11 45 a m and 5 *15 p m, arrive Rocky Mt 12 10 a m and 6 20 p m. Daily ex cept Sunday. Train on C!*ntoa Br.'inch leaves War- saw for C’ Dton d.'i:!y eicept Sunday 11 40 a m a iid 4 ]5 n ni RetumiTKr , ..5pni Returning leave Chiiton 6 45a m and 2 50 p m Train 78 makes close connection Weldon for all points North daily. All a I v a Richinui d also at Rocky Mt wit II Norr’dlk and Carolina Road for ^ o -"o]k daily and all poiuta North via Norfolk. 11. M. Emerso^t, T .. _ G* n. Passenger Agt. J. R, KpxLT, Gen’l Manager. T> M. Emeb&ox. Traffid Manager. A kteARLY FATAL RUIJAWaY Started a horrible ulcer oh thfe leg of J. B. brneri Franklin droves ill., which dbded doctors *iid all i^me- dies for four years; Then Buckleus’ Arhicst Salve curfea himi Jiigt as ^ooa for Boils, BHrhs,Bruises, Cut., Corns, ^^ldl,,^Skiu Eraptitth* iind Pjlesi at Jno; In Bdlltoy ft Gbi EM CITY IS GROWING. ■PUSH IT ALONG Support its Industries, Patronize its Schools, Attend its chufches, and rparl Do You &IOW. ^The LAW reqttihrt » (mm, yoiil* n*me Md .ddres. on the upper left liadd «ofh.r ot ymt Mmapt, Wi tw» i. too trtnWesom., ,„d berid*., . goM rtMldt«'wUl yon 19 cento for everj p.ek.*, of 25, or 48 eent. pe» iMdrrt: WE ,iil firnid, ihe BBB* gsids xxx .n.m««d.ddre»o«to«efor40 «nu p* fc„dr^, ^ We Mil prini jIMr Uhi« .9d .ddr*» Hi 350 ll*t»Wdi aiW ifaail th«m to you for 75 eents: ALL KINDS OP PRmrmo Af i(ittr£siF mcMs. MimpiuiiiHs niiin,
Elm City Elevator (Elm City, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
April 11, 1902, edition 1
2
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75