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Hr' fe'IS’- &■ 1' F,'.' ' PV' ■ I: p\ x* FROM VARIOUS branches - * 'n . by Robert . Covin^pr> FAIR AND MORE PROSPEROUS. K tHe ipeople of Xorth Carolina have bowed their heads to financial de pression there was no sign of it at the North Carolina State Fair in Raleigh last week. Governor Gar- dener and his Fair committee did a constructive piece of work in their management and promotion of the great Llve-at_Home extravaganza and the returning visitor from the Fair wonders at the energy and money expended by a State, popularly verg ing on poverty, as well as^ the en thusiastic numbers who. attended the Fair and spent their means on t^e midway. Decrease in the amount of money available seems to have no effect on the spending disposition of the people and this year’s midway showed an apparently thriving crowd w’ith no tendency to hang morosely around, gazing without .^pending. A l;h,aki booth, glorifying the lucky power of the dime, kept a. sizable crowd about it all hours and even the motordrome, showed no decrease In patronage when the bronze faced veteran of the motorcycle limbered up his machine and filled the air ■with staccato hackfiring. ■ FREE ENTERTAINMENT, which paradoxically deimanded a fee of twenty-five cents.fpr admittance, drew a crowd that must have gone over five thousand in the main .grandstand on Thursday night. The entertainment after all, wa^ free, we suppose, the privilege of sitting on a seat if you could find one being the only thing that was charged lor. This gives an interesting thought for the mext time you pay to see a movie—you are paying for the seat and the entertainment te free. A Dew feature of this year’s free en. .tertainment ' is a muslcto:^ review, which queerly enough dM not pur port to have come “straight from a six months run on Broadway.” The ■novelty of the thing however was charming. A hardwood floor on the race track, chorus girls, .koloists, tires and tap dancers ■ doing their acts under the sky with a portable stage set up on the grass a.^ a back ground for the production, ampli fiers carrying the voices’ of the per formers to the outmost bounds o^ a crowd that filled the grandstaild and! overflowed on the clay hllte' round about, some of whom were as much as a hundred yards from the stage, and all filled with a sense of wou- omy as ..they viewed the “free” en tertainment. All the ear-marks of the city review were on. hand, the tall and rhythmic chorub, the tuxo- doed trio with their minor chords mnd even the suave, brown clad mas ter of ceremonies who directed the applause of the audience with the .utmost tact and Impartiality. Ity of the exhibits was excellent in .•very way. The obiserver cannot help Int feel a surge of prit'» In a State which can produce such ex cellent products of every kind, .nor can he help wondering, if he is a farmer, whether he has dons his best in the product's of his own land. An interestiag feature of the exhibits Is the fact that more than ever before, they come fromi comunities, cooper ating in striving for agricultural progress. A few years ago most of the exhibits bore t^e name of this or that farm but this year the trade mark of communities, living and working together for the progress of all, graces some of the finest booths. This iS significant in that it shows the. advance of the, co-oper ative work among the farmers of the State. Co-operative study of farm ing conditions and methods, cooper ative improvement in methods of cultivation and co-operative market ing—in these lies the secret of agri cultural progress. Another Interesting sign fo the times in farming circles was the ma chinery shed, where the newest and mokt complex examples of -farming machinery were on display. Tractor farming is making a Strong bid for the sanction of both large .an!d sinall farmers. A steady increase has been shown in the purchase and use of tractors and many agricultural au thorities are giving their sanction to the idea that in this is found the key to cheaper farming ■of the future. There are still many farmers who look askance at the big wheels of the tractor and hold tenaciously that it can nevier replace the mule and plow. With many farmers it has already Replaced the mule however and wherever mechanical power has advanced so far it has generally proved an increase in power, mak-i Ing for a larger production at less cost. THE OLD FAIR GAME. ' As is ever the case the ipidway still holds the boisterous, pushing, laughing crowd of the fair. Thursday night’s crowd seemed to have jukt throng ed down out of some stadium. They were unusually' boisterous, unusual ly -well-dressed and enthu&lastic ex ponents of the “w.hat next” spirit. At a musical comedy under canvas on the midway, the mistress of cere monies^ finding herself faced with an eager group of college boys, appeal ed for their quiet attention, assuring them that they had often played be fere college audiences and that the boys had always enjoyed the show. whereupon her listeners cheered, thunderously. Nobody , seems to mind eating: publicly at a fair. Rich, -ly dressed gjlrls eaimter down the midway eating from cups streaming with a sickly: conoocttoii oT^veot milk and vaidlla, called frozen cus tard. In no’other setting In Ameri ca do you find the spirit of abandon and good 'will that you do here, strangers shove, hump and ridicule each other, to be shoved, bumped and ridiculed good naturedly In return. Boys talk loudly to girls they have never ''seen before and do not ofiend them. People dive into the tents advertising sen sations, find them a fake and emerge without the disgust .that would at tend being cheated anywhere else. But there Is always the ill-Uhtured pug, who flares up when his girl Is tickled on the neck by a feathery wand in the hands of some reveler. There are quick mutterings, dark threats, retreating verbal shots and then the ruffled surface of the mid way is quiet again. THIS WAR dovm in BrazU is to all appearances the most vigorously contested war in historys BoRr “sides, seem to be cutting down on fightr ing and concentrating on claimiE^ JElctorles. Each days paper com^ ' out with claims, equally vaUd aS far as American news- readers are concerned, that the Revolutionary or Federal troops, according to who is instituting the claim, have gained a tremendous and signifi cant victory. This makes it a great hardship on newspaper readers, as they try to get the ti uth. We suggest a fegular''time for the sending, in of claims by the publicity agents of each force and a claimO committee, composed of Elsie Robinson, Royal ,S. Copeland and Will Rogers, whq will sift the reports and report to the” American public every day. It is estimated that North Carolina will receive this year for hey cot ton crop, around forty million dol lars. To put under this year’s crop she bought 1,293,673 tons of fertil izer. at an aggregate cost of thirty- six •.million dollars... This ttemen- dous .hum is divided lalmost entirely between Chile for nitrates,' Germany for potash and Tennessee • and Flor ida for phosphates. Every, farmer will next year^be interested in cut ting down IdlL With many it will be an absolt^ he^SSlty. Rome jjnixlng - Will’ no doubt 'be ^resortei to in many cases and tho lucky far mers are those -who are growing crops that_ will restore the nitrate to tbe_ 80ll and thus lu some measure relieve the necessity of Irestoring them by means of ex pensive, commercial fertilizers. The Darlington section of South Carolina reports three farmers who were un able to get any fertilizer whatsoever and neverthelecss reaped a bumper crop this fall. This was; attributed to the perfect crop year but much credit is also due to the tact that crop rotation had huiH up the soil for a number of years. Hoke County stands fourth in the State in the percentage of increase in the farms from 1920 to 1930. This year ther;| are 1,886 farms in Hoke County. This is an. increase ’over 1920 2^1 >er' cMrt. Nash, Lincoln und .Clevrfand conn-W ties are above Hoke County in thla rehpect. The highest percentage 4^ increase was in Nash Coupty, ■per CMit. ANTKXSf CHRISTIAN EMDEAVi M OR TO HAVE SPECIAL PROGRAM!:#® The young people of Antioch OWpIb* tlan Endeavor will render a pro gram Sunday morning, October at eleven o’clock. In place qf the ular' preaching service. Topic; "Prohibition.” This topic will be‘^tbofonghly dlB-'f^J cussed by some very interesting speakers. ' . The pubBc is iii'vitbd tt» atten4;"’J this service . vfj ' TRUE SPORTSMEN,’ ALL. ■^j' i ■ - ■ ■- - 1 Dad. “Where have you been, .Fames?” . ^ f ■ ■ , James: “Fishing.’ Dad: “Come into the. woodshed and we’ll have . a whaling. expedJP. tion.” . 666 THE EXHIBIT HALLS this year seem to have justinec tne renewal of the Fair. Every available stall Seemed to be occupied ar„d. the quaL Relieves a Headache or Neuralgia in 30 minutes, checks a Ccid the first day, and checks Malaria In three days. 666 ALSO IN TABLETS WHY? Should you allow*" conditions to exist that place your home in constant danger of fire. Repair that defective flue and let us install new stove pipe and by doing this remove cne great danger cf fire. Fire Prevention Week is over but we should be ?»^Mhe more careful. Also, see cur line 'of strjves and heat- coal, w'^od, and oil. Vv e are anxious to sefve you. Give us a call. Raeioid Furniture Co. (#■ Beauhplil aff4.CHARMiNG! It’s an added special quality that makes the beauty of a pretty girl. But she’s a natural favorite to begin with. And for the same reason Camels are favorites with the modem crowd. Scientific principles govern their manufacture; but the mildness, the fragrance, the delicate flavor are natural qualities of the tobacco. There’s enjoyment in the smoking of a Camel. Camels go with - happy faces... a lift of spirits with the opening of every fresh, fragrant pack. For Camel’s delightful mildness holds all the natural goodness of choicest tobaccos. Don’t confuse it with the flatness or insipidness of *Wer-treated” cigarettes. !i!l 1' Raeford, N, C. g CSS C t ■ I . iniiHHManM s Phone Z17 Xt 1 ••'' ■-1-- —>!r 0:; I si • • ' “ . ■ ' ^ ' *BA8Y TO U818N)TO^»C)UtBL'KJ(illUKt’MOIIK WtSieriSey eviMiSle •• N. B. WJZ'iai Mipeieted sutieos. Conralt Tovr leael ndie IfaM teble. 4 :fi' r ■; .'i TtbMM Csh WlaitM-SalMi, N. C
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