THE NEWS-RECORD, MARSHALL, N. C.
Champion
A dishwashing contest was held
filadys Rahn, age twelve' (left), bested 27 juvenile opponents by doing
flat. Miss Gladys stated, however,
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Hot Controversy at St. Josep!:,
Mo, Settled by Girl Who
Finds Sailor First
St. Joseph, Mo. St. Joseph Is excit
ed. Groups gather on street corners,
1b pool halls and near-beer shops to
, talk about the situation. And the
cause of It all Is a controversy over
the Identity of the first rider to leave
' St Joseph In the now famous Pony
, Express ride. f
-The Pony Express Is experiencing a
revival, and the historic ride of hardy
'hoi semen .la to be relived this fall,
when riders will set out again from
fit. Joseph and San Francisco over the
old route. Towns and cities along the
way are preparing for the event which
will -be celebrated In all the states
through which the first riders passed.
When tjte proposal to revive the" ride
was made, no one thought It would re-
- suit In such a furore. The movement
, started In the West, and since then
committees have been at loggerheads
over the first rider. There seems to be
no doubt about the man who (eft San
Francisco with the first bag of mall,
but In St. Joseph opinions differ.
While np homes have been divided
In the strife, some very heated tilts I
have occurred. ; Of course, none of
the first riders are now living, arfhe
date of the Initial trip was April 3,
1800. Those "first" riders who are
backed for honors are Johnnie Fry,
John Burnett and one sailor, named
William ' Richardson. ' At the present
writing Richardson seems to have the
contest tucker away, but at any mo
ment an antique letter or document
may be sprung on the committee and
swing the contest In another dlrectloa.
Wrangle Over Horse's Color.
The argument does not stop with the
name of the first rider. The color of
the horse he rode, the hour of the day
and the part of the city from which
, the rider set off ore all In question.
. . Strangely, the Interest In such an old
'affair is not confined to the old folk.
' Usually In a case like this the younger
and, of course, smarter set are content
to sit back, casting supercilious sneers
at the petty arguments ofnhelr grand
parents. But not this time.1 1
In fact the strongest backer of Rich-
, ardson, and the one who placed htm at
the head of the race. Is a young worn-'
an. And If she had not discovered him,
, Johnnie Fry would now, in all prob
ability, be riding at the head of all
. "flrsr. riders. .
But while some were willing to agree
to let the shade of Mr. Fry absorb all
of the glory, this young woman went
' quietly about the libraries, gathering
' up idata on the ride. She dug up musty
newspapers and faded letters on which
the writing was hardly discernible. She
compared dates and more dates, and
: then one day she startled the home
folks- by appearing before the ride
committee and ' demanding that ' Mr.
Fry be hauled out of the saddle and
his place be given to Sailor Richard
son. who left .the bounding main to
. ride away over the rolling, prairies.
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GUNBOATS. CRIJISERS. SUBS
? V NAVY'S WANTS FOR 1924
Outline Building, Program to Be
v. Presented to Congress.
.Washington, 0 a Eight crulsera,
four river gunboats, and three cruiser
- submarines will comprise the building
, program which tho Navy department
xOl present to the budget bureau and
' congress the coming session. j
Since the four power naval treaty
limits cruiser tonnage to 10,000 tons,
the geperal board haa been Instructed
to consider, plans which will give the,
' navy, the most efficient vessel of the
cruiser type ' within this limitation,
Secretary Unby said. It was expect-
ed, however, the eight new ship's would
follow closely the design of the Detroit
cla.s, now In progress of delivery.
- . The four gunboats will e for, the
, Chinese river patrot Kcent inspec
tion of the vessels now engaged In
Dish - Washer Doesn't
i mhii mimis uniiiii iwi iimi 1 1 urn S" ,, ...
Just outside of Chicago by sections
that she never does dishes at home It
press
Che proved to the committee's satis
faction that Fry was the second rider,
and that he left St. Joseph seven days
after the first rider departed.
Dangerous Dash Across Plains.
The Pony Express was the first
means by which mall was carried over
land to the Pacific coast. In 1869 the
Eastern outpost of railroads .was St
Joseph. Mall destined to the Western
territories had to .be sent by sailing
vessels around Cape Horn.
However, the Pony Express com
pany was given assurance by the gov
eminent that It might have the con
tract for carrying the mall If It could
make faster time than the vessels took.
The company then prepared -for the
initial ride on which hung the fate of
the contract.
. The best riders of the West were
secured," and hundreds of fast horses
were purchased. On the appointed
day, April 8. 1860, a horseman set out
from San Francisco, carrying the mall
eastward. At the same time another
horseman was being ferried across the
Missouri river, bound for Seneca,
Kan- a distance of 20 miles.
The result of the ride is known. The
trip was completed in ten days, and
the company received the contract
Seneca was the first stop for a rider
from St Joseph. He was relieved
there, and waited for the rider from
the West, whom he In turn , relieved.
Six horses were used In riding the dis
tance, and the riders were supposed
to make the distance In eight hours.
It was a hazardous undertaking, as the
plains were at that time overrun by(
or First
PETROGRAD POPULATION
BACK AT MILLION MARK
City Suffered Since Removal of
Capital to Moscow. .
Petrograd. Petrograd has come back
to the million population class. A re
cent police census showed the city has
1,065,000 Inhabitants, as compared with
740.000 in 1920. V ,
Although still almost dead Industri
ally in comparison with Its war-time
status, Petrograd In general Is begin
ning to "comeback."
During the war days Petrograd had
more than 2,000,000 people.' After the
bolshevik revolution the capital was
moved to Moscow and thousands of
government employees and factory
workmen were evacuated.
The lean and hungry years of the
revolution brought about a further de
crease In the population, many of the
people going to the country districts
where food was. cheaper and more
plentiful y.' .". .' -j ', ,
Two" years ago Petrograd merited
the predictions of foreign observers
that, It would be a city as dead as
Pompeii. ' But the last year has
brought a tremendous change. Fac
tories are, being reopened, the port Is
that patrol, Secretary Denby said, In
dicated that they must be replaced.
"in view of the situation In China
and the vast amount of trade at stake,"
the secretary sald,i "he department
feels It Is most Imperative that small
modern, gunboats Immediately be au
thorized by congress." , ( ' ' ' ,
The three cruiser submarines to be
asked for are also In the hands of
the planning section of the general
board, and, no hint of the type which
might be recommended has been made
public. It Is considered certain, how
ever, that tney wm surpass in ton
nage any submersible boat now In use
by any power. (;, , f-
Some surprise- was evidenced in navy
circles because of fae relatively small
number of cruisers decided on by Sec
retary Denby In view of his known
opinion that the fleet is markedly de
ficient In this clasa , " ,
Second only to the deficiencies of. the
Wash Dishes
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of Cook county. Illinois) schools. Miss
the prescribed panful in two minutes
makes her hands look ugly.
Indians, and many a rider was found
on the trail, his body pierced with a
poisoned arrow.
But when the ride Is made this fall
the horsemen will find conditions dif
ferent, and If old William Richardson
should wander back to this earth he
would probably be surprised to see his
replica hurrying along over a hard-surfaced
highway, whUe unfamiliar ob
jects, which people call motorcors.
speed by the horseman at a terrific
rate.
OUTDOORS CHAMPION
Here is pretty Miss Gladys Jones
of Eagle River, Wis., who has become
the national "outdoor girl" champion,
being accorded this title by judges at
the National Travel and Outdoor Life
exposition in Chicago. She formerly
was the champion of her native state.
Speeders are municipal liabilities.
In operation, and thousands of persona
are returning to the city.
Many of them have come from Mos
cow, which is so overcrowded with Tts
2,o00,000 people la a city built for
1,000,000, that it is almost Impossible
to find a place to sleep. In Moscow
one cannot get a spacious apartment
for love or money; in Petrograd there
are many of them. And so hundreds
of Moscow business men, whose work
keeps them In the capital, have sent
their families to Petrograd where they
can live comfortably. .'
- While it does not seem probable
that we're Is any Immediate chance
of the bolshevik government moving
the capital back to Petrograd, never
theless some institutions which help
to overcrowd Moscow are to be moved
to Petrograd this summer: This will
fbrther Increase the population. Busi
ness conditions In Petrograd, however,
do not seem as bright as they were
last summer. ' ;. . .. ' .
Scores of shops closed during the
winter because of high taxation, and
the broad Nevsky Prospect presents
a panorama 'of closed and shuttered
stores. It Is expected that port oper
ations in the summer will bring about
an Improvement In business.
Panama canal defenses, the report
upon this year's 1 war game stressed
the lack of fast scouts for (he navy.
Mr. Denby's technical advisers were
understood to have agreed that 17 10,-000-ton
cruisers would be necessary to
maintain a 6-9 rath), with Japan, and
19 would be needed If a 6-3 ratio was
to be sought
Hay Hurled on Wire
by Wind Starts Fire
Livermore, CaL Mowed , hay
lying In a field was caught In a
whirlwind and lifted onto a pow
er line, where It caught fire and
rolled down hill, starting the
first range Are In this district
for the 1923 aeason.
The blase - started in almost
the same place at which - the
largest fire in 1923 occurred, and
was Just as freakish In origin.
-' About ten acres were burned
before the blase waa controlled.'
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GOVERHORS TO
VISIT HAMLET
WILL BE GUEST OF 8AND HILL
PEACH SHOW LAST OF
MONTH.
TO BE BEST PEACH SHOW YET
Will Be
' Large
Displayed to the Publlo Ir
Tobacco Warehouse N ear
ing Completion.
Hamlet Extensive plans are under
way here, it was announced, for the
b,est peach show this section has yet
put on, the opening date having been
set for July 28. Governor Thomas G.
McLeod of South Carolina and Gover
nor Cameron Morrison of North Caro-
Una will open the show here on that
date, it has been announced by La
Coste Evans, director, who has been
engaged primarily for the purpose of
making this third annual display ot
the products of this section better than
elthrtr of its predecessors.
The presence of Governor McLeod
of ti(ie South state will add interest to
the show for- South Carolinians for
In recent years the eastern section ot
that state has been following in the
footsteps of the Sandhill section of
North Carolina. Hundreds of acres
are under cultivation in South Caro
lina's upper sandhill section and the
peach industry there has developed tre
mendously in 'the past three or four
years. .
This season's crop will be displayed
to the public in a large tobacco ware
house now nearlng completion. Ten
thousand feet of floor space will be de
voted to the sandhill product The
last two shows have been staged la
tents. The warehouse will allow of a
better arrangement of.the exhibits and
a consequently larger exhibition than
heretofore.
In order to relieve the peach grow
ers of the burden of conveying their
exhibits to the show at the season
when because of the ripening crop
they are exceedingly busy, it has been
arranged by the management of the
show for trucks to call for the various
exhibits and convey them to Hamlet
In this manner it is hoped to obtain a
larger number of exhibits than in past
years. '
The-first peach show held here two
years ago advertised extensively to
those from other states one of North
Carolina's newest industries. This
season's show' is expected to spread
even further the fame ot the peach
grown in the sandhill section of the
Tar Heel State.
Adopts Prison Plans of Governor.
Rocky Mount. Governor Morrison's
recommendations for prison reform
have been adopted by the Nash county
board of commissioners in session at
Nashville with the exoeptlon 'of dis
continuing use of the whip in prison
camps of the county.
"We have cautioned " the guards
against use of the whip," one of the
members of the board stated, "but we
did not abolish this form of punish
ment altogether. We believe that it
should be held over the prisoners as
they might be prone to lay down and
refuse to work if they knew absolutely
that there was no whipping coming to
them. We believe that the whip
should be held over them as a threat
just as a father holds the switch over
his children to make them behave."
) Religious Department Grows.
Durham. With a prospective en
rollment of 650 students in the depart
ment of religious education at Trinity
College for the year 1923-24, indica
tions are that North Carolina's leading
denominational college will again ex
perience a successful year's work in
the training of young men and women
for Christian citizenship and in defi
nite lines of life-service work.
Each year has witnessed a steady
growth in the religious education and
Bible departments ot the Methodist
institution. During the college year
Just closed there was an enrollment
of 625 students taking up the study ot
the Bible or other specific v religious
training courses.
Stockholders Demanding Probe.
Goldsboro. Approximately 2,000
stockholders are said to be demanding
a sweeping investigation into the af
fairs of the defunct Seminole Phos
phate Company, a $2,000,000 fertilizer
concern, with plants at Goldsboro and
Dunn, and phosphate mines in Florida
which failed recently with liabilities
ao far in excess of assets, that a divi
dend to creditors of as little as 10 per
cent is considered doubtfuL
. Ancient Piano Fund.
Statesvllle. An ancient piano, pos
sibly the oldest in America, was inci
dentally discovered In Statesvllle re
cently. The discovery , was made in
the basement of . a negro's house by a
local relic hunter who was looking tor
an antiquated specimen of a familiar
brand of pianos. . 4 '
The instrument In ' question ' was
identified by Charles W. Hyan as be
ing the piano which his great grand
father, Solomon Hrams, brought . to
this country from Pru-. ' a In the year
17(1 .
WARNER WILL HEAD MOVIES
Representative of Will Hays Speaks
at State Convention in Wil
mington, .
Wilmington. Though Will , Hayes,
the czar of movledom, was unable to
come and address the motion picture
owners of North Carolina at the tenth
annual convention la session
Wrlghtsvllle Beach, he sent an able
assistant and personal representative
from the national organization, Lloyd
Willis. Mr. Willis spoke at length on
the excellent work of C. C. Petttjohn,
of the general counsel, for motion
picture legislation. He said that no
law against the Industry had been
passed except the one In South Caro
lina, which Is unconstiutinoal and
will not stand.
"What we need Is stabilisation and
the abandonment ot piratical prac-
tlcea. It has been proctlc.illy murder
all along,' said Willis. "It is a great
industry, full ot romance, money and
everything. The Industry has such
wide scope that it requires the best
brains In the country."
"At all conventions mention regard-
lng legislation is made as to killing
the bill. Mr. Pettljohn stands for tac
tics used in Massachusetts and is in
charge ot northern legislation. In
South Carolina the exhibitors are lln
lng up the newspapers, chambers of
commerce and the labor organiza
tions and co-operation has created
political network throughout the state
which he thinks will be successful in
lifting the tax."
H. B. Varner, of Lexington, gave
the report ot the executive commit
tee that the State organization no
longer affiliate with the National or
ganization. He also gave a talk on
the "music box." He said that this
must be fought through the federal
courts.
Hj B. Varner was eelcted presi
dent for the ensuing year. The other
officers elcted were: A. F. Moses.
first vice-president, of Winston-Sa
lem; -P. L. McCabe, second vice- pres
ident, of Tarboro; J. A. Estride, sec
rotary and treasurer, ot Gastonia.
Tobacco In Vance Late.
Henderson. Tobacco is late 'and
Irregular with plants vtry Interior;
cotton Is clean, with good stands and
good quality; there is small acreage
of which Is fairly clean, but late; feed
and forage crops are larger. In these
words is summed up by J. C. Anthony,
county farm agent, the conditions ot
the principal crops in Vance county.
In a statement Mr. Anthony stated
that the tobacco crop is 65 per cent
the size of that of 1922; that cotton
is ISO, per cent the size of the 1922
crop; corn, 75 per cent, and feed and
forage crops 105 per cent of last
year's yields.
Survey to Start October 1.
Ashevllle. Survey of the French
Broad River basin with, the view of
deciding the reaslblllty of creating a
lake covering 26,000 acres, which
would necessitate the moving ot rail
roads and highways and the possible
razing of hundreds of homes, will be
started about October 1, It was an
nounced here. Development of hydro
electric power is said to be the ulti
mate object. . --
It is estimated that the survey
which will be made by the govern
ment under supervision of Major
Harold C. Flske, will cost between
$30,000 and $40,000. i
Depreseolon In Hard Cotton Yarns.
Gastonia. A serious depression ex
ists in the cotton yarn business ot
Gaston county, according to R. L.
Stowe, ot Belmont, president of the
Artcloth Mills, Inc., and a half dozen
otheif textile corporations, speaking
before the local Rotary Club. He fur
ther declared that in his opinion It
waa about time to stop building yafn
mills in the county, as there seemed
to be an over production cf yarn in
the county.
Certainly there is t some influence
at work to depress business in the
cotton yarn business just at present
There Is no demand for the product
of the mills and produceitoin is some
what at a standstill. Curtailment
and short running orders are the pro
cedure. :
The Artcloth Mills. Inc., is a $1,500,
000 plant to manufacture fine shirt
ings, .mercerized dress' goods, Madras,
etc. It Is the second mill of its sort
in Gaston county, the other being at
Stanley. . . . ... .. :
Co-operatives Standing Firmly.
Greensboro. Guilford county to
bacco co-operatives, meeting here,
adopted resolutions backing the board
ot directors of the North Carolina
Tobacco Growers Co-operative asso
ciation in its legal strugles 1 against
those members who would break
their five-year contracts and ' sell In
the auction markets. -
Automobile Racing at Go'dsboro.'
Goldsboro. -Wayne county fair of-
flclals have signed a contract with
the North Carolina and Virginia Auto
mobile Racing; Association tor an
automobile race to be staged at the
fair grounds on Thursday, July 18th.
The contract calls for a six-car
race, but the promoters are expect
ing at least a doien cars to be en
tered. It is expected that the race
will create much interest in this ;'Tt,
which Is In the nature of an Innova
tion here.
LlltS. LII1DQUIST
TELLS WOMEN OF
MIDDLE AGE
What Lydia E Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound
Did for Her
Kansas City, Mo. "I waa left In
very serious condition after childbirth
ana no one tnougnt i
could ever be any
better. Then came
the 'Chanee of Life'
and I was not pre-,
pared for what I bad
to suffer. I had to
go to bed at times to
Be perfectly quiet as
1 could not even
atoop down to pick
anything from the
floor. I did not suffer
any rain, but I waa
decidedly nervous and could not sleep.
For nearly two years I waa this way,
and the doctor waa frank enough to toll
tne that he could do no more for me.
Shortly after this I happened to see in
a newspaper an advertisement of Lydia
E. Pinkham'a Vegetable Compound. In
a few days the medicine waa in the
house and I had begun its use and I took
it regularly until f waa weU. I recoro
mendthe vegetable Compound to others
when I have the opportunity." Mra.
May Lindquist, 28M Independence
Ave., Kansas City, Mo. .
Safety First for Raymond.
When Raymond took his school re
port home to his father he was very
angry, and scolded his small son foi
being at the bottom of the class.
"But there's no need to worry,
daddy," Raymond said calmly. "1
think It's the best place, because
you're safe there. You can't get any
lower."
The Nineteenth Hole.
A merchant and a parson played
golf together, and the parson, nearly
always beaten, was growing gloomy.
"Never mind, father," comforted ths
merchant, "one of these days you'll be
preaching my funeral sermon and then
you can take your revenge."
"And ot that It will be your hole!"
came the retort morose. Waysldt
Tales.
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