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Why John Wouldn't "
H?.ve His Life Insured
One hi then there inshorancc
iigcnts ,was over here in Goose Hol
ler the tother day, and about ,;hc
Tfirst one he wnt to see was John
Tight-Wad. He interduccd himself
.and said he v. as representing a life
. anshoraiice company, and' asked John
if. he had ever had his life inshorcd.
"Gosh, no," said John, "and not giving
you no short iriswer, but I don't be
lieve you can -:nhore it nuthqr. See
liere, stranger, arc - you trying to
Muff me, or do you mean that you
:-an shorc-nuf nstibre a man's life?"
Why, certainly, John, that's my
-Lusincss, and every man ought to
liave his life 'insured. It's a duty he
owes to his family, and I've come to
you the first one, because I hcarf you
ire the leading citizen in this com
munity, . and they say if you'll have
your life insured it'll be, no trouble to
get the .balance of them, for they'll
. foilow" you just like. a pack of skeep
after the belled wether." "Well,
'stranger," said John. "I guess you're
about rightjout this inshorance
tusiness,. Me and the old woman has
: rais'ed a good sized family, and have
had to work mighty hard to feed and
clothe them, and to keep soul' and
, tody' together, and now our children
has all gone to homes of their own
and we are left alone, and we. ain't
;as stout as vvc used to be, and you
see old age is telling on- us, and the
Prepress Is Mads in
Crop Investigations
.Raleigh, N.V.; Feb. U.-Good prog
ress was made diirfog the past year
in the fertility and crop studinf of
the North Carolina Kxperiment Sta:
tion, reports C. B. Williams, Chief of
the Diyision of ' Agronomy. ' The Div
ision reports the completion of soil
survey work in Sampson, Currituck,
Camden and P6lk counties and the
beginning of work in Rutherford,
Greene, Wilson and Northampton
counties, The soil' survey is the
basis of experimental studies made in
the State. . Most of the studies made
by this Division have to do with find-
thought upon some of the outstand
ing methods of building up the fer- ingroblems of highway transporta-
tility of the soil and at the same time t6n in a very interesting way. worn
. 1 .:i..U. ...U:i--4 . . I J .L. 1-.
old woman has saved up a little tor
a ainy day, froqi her chicken and
eggmtmey.-and as luck will have it,
'sold a yoke of steer the tother day,
' and so if you'll inshore me and the
eld woman both to live to be. a 100
years old. and then both to die about
. the same tir.e. so one won't be left
to weep and mourn for the tother
, one, we'll give you $10.00 apiece, spot
cash, and pay the money down with
out grumbling." , "Excuse hie, Mr.
Tight-Wad," said the agent, "but you
lont understand the propositon. I
"wouldn't insure you to-live till sun
down, for $1,000. What Imean to do
is to have a doctor give you a health
. examination, and if you pass the ex
amination all right, then for only a
. .few dollars I'll insure your wife to
. et a $1,000 at your death." "Nothing
kiiig," says John. "You can't pull
4 he wool over, my eyes that-a-way.
JWr vou know that if a woman
of securing good crop yields while"
the soil, is not depleted ot its plant
food. ,
The' division conducted a number of
tests on all of the Branch Station
Farms and the central farm at the
College, studying the fertilizer re
quirements of ctor3 and the plant
food deficiencies of "the soil. In near
ly every case it was found that or
ganic matter would greatly improve
the soil and was one of the principal
reeds. Lime was needed in growing
crops for turning under, especially 111
the case of legumes. The tobacco
tests showed that muriate of potash
gave good yields of quality weed but
thi't the tobacco would not burn as
well as where Sulphate of potash was
used. The use of magnesium in the
different carriers like' dolomitic lime
stone helped to control the disease
known as "sanddrown.
In addition to the fertility tests,
the division conducted many experi
mcnts looking to the improvement of
the general crops grown in the State
Breeding work with cotton, corn,
small grains and soybeans was con
tinued and the division finds that
considerable improvement can be
made in crop yields and quality of
crops by this work. Practical re
sults are secured from (the experi
mental breeding ... by placimi the im
proved strains of crops aniong lead
ing farmers for demonstration work.
In some cases the. extension workers
have taken these';, results and used
them in community crop improve
ment cyganizatio,ris and have secured
definite return. in: a large way.
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v (Nwpaper Member No. 6297.) '
Street Specifications
For Suburban Roads
Increased Traffic Hat Taught People
To Demand Higher Types
of Highway!.
Friday, February 15, 1"'M
ii -
LYMAN CHURCH IS . .
DESTROYED BY FIRE
HE "Motor Roadeo Dinner," held
at the Hotel Plaza, New York,
in January, under the auspices of
the Ih'ghway Committee and the
Traffic Planning and Safety Commit
tee of the N. A. C. of C, focused
WHAT IS A BABY BEEF?
Raleigh. N. C, Feb. 9. A number of
beef cattle growers in the various
parts of the State have become in
terested in producing veal or baby
beef for the market. Some of .these
crrov. ers see nossibilities of a new in-
knowed shed git a 1.101) .when tne . (iUGtry in this phase of livestock
man died, she'd not do much to j farming. At least one county has
l eep. him well and strong, and if he j taken steps to form a Veal Producer;;'
took sick, she d not send tor no doc
tor, but jist as like as not, she'd think
ing the heavy speech and the too
technical discussionv certain topics
were presented for argument which
are extremely pertinent to modern
road problems, ' .
"Will they walk?" the story of the
"sanitation point" of good roads,
reached in many instances today and
rapidly Aeing reached on many other
highways, ran neck-and-neck , with
"Where shall I park my car?" in in
terest. "Lose a minute, save a life,"
w;is a safety discussion, but safety
from the sane, angle' and not that of
mere extra regulation and "more
f police," 'usually the only, answer of
the municipality to cries for safer
streets. "Who's your neighbor?"
brought out the fact that where yvc
used to speak in acres, we now talk
in miles, and that "neighbor" now
means the chap anywhere within ten
miles, when it used to mean the fel
low across the road. "Putting the
Bus in Business," "Green Lands and
Terminals," "Blazing Xew Trade
Rentes," "Who Pays for the Roads?"
are all suggestive topics which will
bear discussion in other places and
at other times than this.
The day of the good road is here!
Meetings of this kind but emphasize
the immediate need of more of them,
built to last, and built for tomorrow
and tomorrow's problems as well as
for today's.
. This is a big couritry and it takes
time for sentiment to permeate its
four corners, . but those legislators
who do not have a true visioiKof the
insistent demand of the votars for
adequate transportation via V their
highways are going to find them
sH'-es left out in the political cold in
the verv near future.
Better city streets, have taught ve
hicle users "to demand better subur
ban roads. The requirements for the
country road are not as drastic as for
the street' in the municipality, but
they are much closer than they were
ten or fifteen years ago.
For fast moving traffic city pave
ment must be. smooth, not only to
permit the rapid "and comfortable
movement of vehicles but to conserve
fuel and tiresl A slight saving is the
operating cost per vehicle reaches a
large aggregate when the vast num
ber of motor cars is considered which
justifies a considerable outlay to ob
tain smoothness.
This factor gets bigger every year,
in county road specifications.
Impact attracts the attention of en
gineers to an increasing degree.. A
wheel with a drop of 1 inch when in
motion delivers a blow equivalent to
six times the dead weight. City engi
neers, therefore, attach increasing'im
portance to the resiliency of pave
ments to take up the shock of impact.
County road engineers build more
flexibly every year.
It is now almost impossible to close
an important street to traffic for any
time. The engineer must, therefore,
select his type with ready repairs in
mind. Even when possible to detour
traffic the cost in extra fuel over a
comparatively short space of. time
adds enormously to. the cost of the
pavement ' . '
Quick repairabilitj is now much
con'idercd in county-road design.
v. ner rengious amy io . give imu
something or other that would cause
1 im to die easy, and git him out of
"Lis misery. No sir, if1 you're fishing
for suckers, .you'll have to go "some
-v.heres else or use a different bait. I
ain't a bitin' at no sicli. Why, if I's
to die and the old woman was to git
'a. $1,000, it wouldn't be morc'n six
month's till some scoundrel would
marry her "jist to git her money, and
: when he got it he'd run away and
'; leave her, and the last state of that
vouian would be worse than the first,
for fhe'd be", left a grass widder, with
no yisibil mens of support. When if
1 sic didn't inherit no money, some
.. .good honest man would marry her
jist because he knowed she'd make
liim.the best wife in the world, -jist
like she has me. But the case would
. he different with a man. It looks to
rac'like yo-.i might inshore me to git
a $1,000 when the old woman dies,
, rfor. sW.s mighty ' nigh shore to die
'tfrst anyhow. Why, she's been f ailin
so fast fur the last year, that you
can't "hardly tell her from her grand
.tmammy nowi Then thera'd be no
laiiger of nobody marrying, me for
vmy money, fur ) wouldn't let them.
';Sof if you'll inshore me to git a $1,000
.atthe old woman's death, and it
; won't cost me morc'n $10.00, jist draw
, sip the papers and I'll sign them, and
it's jist as they told you, stranger, if
-I go into it every man in Goose Hol
ler will take' stocks and you'll have to
git yon a' private Secretary to., help
jou draw' tip the documents." )'Will,
- Mr. Ti:. ;-Wad," said the agenL "I'll
tome ;:nn:id and see you again and
-explain the matter so's you'll under
stand it." So I don't know whether
( Vight-Wad ever got his papers fixed
for .a l,C0O or not,
JESS NONSENSE.
Association. This interest has Jed rr" .
Prof. R. S. Curtis of the Anmal In- ; --
Land Deed, Mortgage Deed nd
Chattel Mortgages tor tale at The
Lyman, Wash.,"Feb. 1. The Meth
odist church at Lyman was totally
destroyed by fire last Sunday night
about' ' 8 o'clock. The fire started
near the flue in the room in vVhich the
pastor and his wife had been living;
The Epworth League was holding
a meeting at the time,' and the fire
was first noticed near the door of the
entry,, fey Mr. "Frank Bassett who""
gave the alarm. Those who were in
the church barely had time to escape,
before the entrance was all in flames.
The rest of the building caught quick
ly and was beyond saving before the
men could get water to it.
The loss is estimated between, four
and five thousand dollars. The church
building was partially covered by in
surance, but Rev. and Mrs Bissell.
had no insurance on their household
goods and books. Rev.. Bissell says
the books alone were worth five hun
dred dollars. The people of the cofn
munity and neighboring towns are
helping them, by sending in clothes,
money, etc. Homer Rhodes has very
kindly offered Rev. and Mrs. Bissell
the use of his house .until some place
is provided for them to live' in. ;
' All in all, the most and best for the
.JSoney we have ever offered the lo
cif Lyceum Committee is proud of
this achievement, as you will be
when you see' the Freeman Ham
mond Company. .
Visit the candy booth at the Cherry
Festival, Court House Hall, Saturday.
February 23rd.
STOMACH
LIVER.K1DNEYS &BL00D
F. T. SMITH
FRANKLIN PHARMACY
FAMILY DRUGGISTS
We Guarantee Our Drugs tor Be Pure and Fresh.
V 'The Xew Reliable"
Established 1923.
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dustry Division at the State College ; uyg
to give suggestions for growing baby
beef. ' ' !
. "Baby beef is a class of cattle
weighing from 800 to 1200 pounds at
twelve to . eighteen months of age.,
Such cattle should never receive a:
etback from the day of birth but
chould be pushed and fed as vigo- i
rously as the system will permit," -j
say Mr. Curtis. "This mean's that
the calves should be given large
amounts 'of-concentrates and little:
roughage. The calves had best come i
in early spring so as to get a good
milk diet before the pastures develop.
Grain feeding needs to begin before I
weaning and the grain gradually in
creased untu a full ration is being
fed. , As the calf grovys, the ration
may be changed."
Mr. Curtis states that a good ra
tion for North Cadfflina'conditions is
10 pounds of corirsilage, S pounds of
clover hay, and six parts of shelled
corn along with one part of cotton
seed meal or linseed meal fed on the
basis of two pounds for each one
hundred pounds of live weight. Such
a ration .will produce both growth
and fat. Spring dropped calves
should be ready for market by July'
or August ot the following 'year..
Mr. Curtis stresses the fact that it
is important to carrv the calves
through the ' winter in the best of
condition and they should never . be
allowed to go, "off feed."
Harmony Locals.
We have been having some cold
v.eather arid rain lately.
We ae sorry to hear of MrsJoe
!hirst berti on the sick list. Hope she
x ."ill oeri be oiit again. ' "P.
Mr. Parser Rabyr.was the guest of
Mr. Thedfsrd Hurst Saturday night.
We are i-lad to hear tkt Mrs. N'an
l ie Al'i,n :s inivovii1?, alter a lun
4 fpt'H ( '.'.ckncf-s, ' - - .. '
Vv't t-e ;orry' to hear rf Mr. 1. .
kc'b.v L'id ;;.ni;iy' i:iov:r.,j to 'Mar on,
t-i. C. Sorry to have them go.
Mrs. Jessie Dalton was the guest of
Mrs. George Shepherd Saturday. .
Come oi. everybody, and help Ma
con County f et the cotton mill.
"TIIE'TWU hlSTERS.t
lH6w;To Build. a Gty.
, Resources '.alone will not build a
city. Capital alone cannot build a
city, Labor alone cannot build a
city. Resources and capital and la
bor cannot build.. '"a city unless they
are properly related. Capital and la
bor can accomplish anything within
the power of man, if they occupy the
right attitude toward each other.
They can be aided in this work if the
third party, the, public itself, is
friendly and sympathetic with their
efforts. Gadsden (Ala.) Journal. '
NOTICE.
Everybody that is interested in an
18-day Xunrtal Singing School being
taught in Franklin beginning August
4. 1V24. by G.-j. W. Sebren, one of the
best singers and teachers. in America,
will meet me at the Court House i-n
Franklin, February 23rd, at 1 :30JP. M
and see it we can get the contract
signed. O. C. CORBIN,
Clerk of Macon County .Singing
Co;i ven Hon. '
estiva! !
' - . ' ;...:. ..
" ONE DAY AFTER WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY.
AT COURT HOUSE, SATURDAY, FEB. 23.
ALSO A CHICKEN DINNER will be served by George and Martha .
Washington, and members of the family ! Fifty cents a plate.
We "cannot tell a lie." You will get your money's worth ! Hot
, coffee or cocoa ! . .
A CANDY BOOTH ! " , "Pauline Confections;' "Daisy Taffy," "Ann
Fudge," "Katherine Kisses," etc. ;
ALSO AN APRON BAZAAR! General LaFayette and Marie
Antoinette will sell you the most attractive aprons you ever
saw! And very serviceable, for they are made of the popular
, unbleached domestic and trimmed with the best gingham and
Peter Pan cloth. "Mother Goose" aprons for the. little girl.
"TAtsctBeatrCatcher'aprpris for Big SisAnd work "aprons so
; pretty that you will not mind "work." Name of maker on each
""apron.- ; ' ' ' . " ':
AND NOTHING OVER SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS! 1
FESTIVAL OPEN FROM 10:30 A. M. TILL 10:30 P. M.
Music all the time and singing by the Boosters' Quartette in the
evening. We should 4earn their original song, "Land of Lovely
Mountains," and help boost our dam site! Also Hi School
String Orchestra! ' . .
WANNER HAVE A CHERRY TIME?
THEN COME TO THE "CHERRY FESTIVAL."
Court House Hali, Saturday, February 23. . Near East Relief
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