m'.
CEK !NS hue'a CQMNISSin
Walter
dressed Voters Here Tuesday Night
—BJamed Republican Administra
tion for Plight of Business Today.
The opening gun in the campaign
for the election netxt Tuesday, was
fired , here Tuesday, night when As
sistant Attorney General Waltter D,
Siler, of Pittsboro, addressed au
audience in the court house here.
He was l>rec^ed .on ,the program
by Edgar Hall, chairman of* the
Hoke County Democratic Executive
Committee who presided at the meet
ly. and spoke a few word%' or appre
ciation to those who had come out.
He recognized MacNalr Smith, lo
cal attorney, who exhibited a sam
ple of the ballots to be voted next
'. Tuesday , and explained how they
should be marked. The kind of bal
lot 'used this year is entirely differ
ent from the oneb neretofore used.
He was followed by Murdoch M.
Johnson, of Aberdeen, Democratic
^ nominee for State Senator from this
district who made a short talk and
Introduced his ruiming mate, J. R.
Baggett, of ■ Harnett County, who
made tu speech of'about ten minutes.
^ Mr. Baggett has represented this
^ district in the State senate before
and was serving when Hoke County
was formed, being a colleague of
:^^Major J. W. McLauchlln, who rep
resented Cumberland County in the
senate at that time. Mr. Baggett
stated that he was^ glad he helped
i| get Hoke County and expected to
render every service of which .he
waAteapable to this county in the
next General Assembly.- He espe
cially stressed the subject of taxes
on real estate and promised to do
.«all in his power to get the burden
of taxation shifted from the land
owner to other shoulders mqip able
to bear it. Mr. Baggett clos^ hla
speech by introducing Mr. Silfer,
^ who spoke'for forty-fire minutes to
Btoall *buif attehtire- audience on,
“the ihsues befoi^ the. people.
was largely a review of
Democratic and Republican r^e in
^orth Carolina and the nation. He
vwaded into the Republic^ National
administration for the plight of bus
iness today and insisted that the
preient ^te_of affairs is due to
Hepubllcan legislation and . btoken
promises in the way of relief -to the
farmer. His speech wah studded,
with pithy remarks and wittlclspgs
that frequently - brought laughtei-
and applause. /
Hoke County people hare a paqu;
Itar iiklngjfor Mr. Siler on account
of the-fact that he was senator ^om
Chatham County when Hoke
ty was created in 1911 and he led
the fight for the creation of the
^A unique feature of the rally was
mention made by Sheriff Hall when
he stated tbat one of the oldest and
most loyal Democrats of the county
was hi the ^use—^a ^an who had
battled for the ticket when it wps
dark and bne who had served Hoke
I County . on different occasions most
acceptably. He referred to Mr. S.
J. Cameron who arose amid loud ap
plause and made his best bow.
First
Memtors of. Hoke Commissioners
“Retires Voluntarily After Use
ful Career of Service.
The last regular meeting of the
old board of County commissioners
will be h®ld in the court house next
Monday. One Intere^ing featoe
of this meeting is the fact that It
wld see the retirement of Mr. S. J.
Cameron from-a long and active
part in thb handiing of the business
of the County. Mr. Cameron was a
member of the first board of com
missioners Hoke County ever had
and retired voluntarily ufter a ser
vice of four years. A few years ago
his friends trotted him * out again,
to see how he would run and he lit
erally shook the duet in the faces
of any oppqsition, if ther.g was any,'
and now rdtires of his own volition
after a long and useful career of
Service to his county. Though some
what advanced in years, Mr. Camer
on is as active as a cat and can
walk many young men down in the
woods after the hounds.
A host of friends will witness his
retirement from public office with
genuine regret and wish him many
years of good health and happiness.
BE SURE TO VOTE.
-.Next Tuesday Is eleotiorT'day, and every Democrat in M/vu. /*
./ .H.UWpp„, '„p ip,., 2:piirpr.h,.
rrri'Tr y"" nomlPM., To May aray ypp
teated. . Go, every one of you and make the vote as large
possibly can.
as you
,p,
Sve not treated us as we think the^ should have would be aetino
ch.ldlsh'and spiteful.; Spite work has^ never paid
aaalL? '* PARtv. and the little spite work,
against me makes me a stronger • Democrat. It is my home
canngt drive me out of ,it, because I know the hnn. ^
-u,„,y P..P „„„ .POP.,, '«.!:T,r,:,aTpa«;''r’.::
D. \r“"-
Hoke has a lot to do toward electing Democratic Congressmen Much
depends- upon you. Some time you may depend upon Tel ‘friend^
riirny®" wait them to stand true
will ne^^r prove a disappointment to my friends nor* party, and the
w. ^'7 .r'T''• •» ■"to.«'
''*®'‘** mistake we make by not voting Let
Hoke cast a vote of 2,0t)0 this time.
D. SCOTT POOLE.
Belton Wright j"ried
In Mayor^s Court
The Big Five Football In' Mayor’s Court Monday, Belton
Teams At A Glance^-—"“°’
THE HOKE COUNTY JOURNAL
$1.50 YEAR, IN ADVANCE
iT BlUFF CHUICIl' IMS SEVEIUI CASES
Meeting of Fayetteville Presbytery
Held at Historical Church—Sev
eral from Here Attend.
Fayetteville, Oeft 29.—-Addressing
the Fayetteville Presbytery and a
home coming gathering celebrating
the 172nd anniversary of the oldest
Presbyterian church in North Car
olina. Frank Porter Graham, pres
ident of the University of North
Carolina, Wednesday urged his'hear
ers to allow no let-down in the cause
of education because of present in
dustrial conditions. President Gra
ham spoke in the Old Bluff church,
founded in 1758 byl the early Scot
tish settlers, hi's own forebears
among them,' and he sketched the
growth of _ education from that day,
through long periods when almost
unbelievable sacrifleces 'were made
to advahee■the cause of the school
Drunks, Carrying of Deadly Wea|>>
ons. Manufacturing and "nssrin
• ng of Liquor and Game Violators
were in the grind.
was given a preliminary hearing be-
A o* * J M I Honor R. L. Bethune on a
defense. charge of an assault with a deadly
Wake Forest: The Mills of the v,{apon with intent to kill and was
Deawns grind swiftly and the seem bound over to the November term
Superior Court ,under a five hun-
Carolina: The main line may be dred dollar bond,
weak hut the Branch line carriA$i I T’lsta .aama. x *■
Davidson:
it.
wbM„p, Tp„
Had .rodblp Brawerln* tor
QUEWHIFFLB township] ing in Superior Court before givimE
'PT.aa t* 7 version of the affray.
The News-JoumaL has, been re-.^ ^
queis^ted* to announce that the vo
ting ■ place in Quewhiffle Township
for .^the election next Tuesday will bd
a rpop in the Ashemont school buil
ding.
A change in votlqg place ^as made
neceMary by-the burning of Maoltd-
S,8TSt Bales Cotton
Ginned In Hoke
Wedt^ Lambeth And"
Hinton James Here;
L ast Setturday
Walter Lambeth
.and Hinton
by Store at Montrose. Election of-r candidate® for
flolals\state that the school build-1 long And short terms of Con-
togr ^9 th.e next best place avalla jP^®” respectively, spent several,
ble, wppclally on'accouht of lights Hoke County last Saturday newsprint paper made from
beat^. and the de^abillty of j,’ the voters and stimulating
ground fioor roonj. ' ' } l®t®rest in thp approaching. electim
tbelr constiuency. This wa& Mr.
There were 8,875 bales of cotton
ginned In Hoke County of the 1930
crop- prior to October 18th, as com
pared with 5,274 on' the same date
last year, according to information
just released by the Bureau of the
Census of the Department of Com
merce in Washington.
Local prophets are predicting a
crop of v; around thirteen thousand-
bales in ^the county this year as com
pared to. a little under ten thousand
last year.. It should be remembered
also, tha,!; the acreage of the coun
tv has been reduced c..Esi4erabIy
and more tobacco and feed aiid
Tgiaed this year.
' of ;;price of ■;^-
ton has been upward for the pabt
ten days and by a little squeeze,
middling cotton would , bring eleven
cents on the streets' of Raeford
Thursday morning.
White Newsprint Paper
From New Source
/ Atlanta, OcL 29.—A chemistry Al-
ladln laid before an Atlanta cham
ber of commerce luncheon today
B^IUM SPRINGS ‘ORPHANAGE first visit to H(^e Couii-
FOOTBALL TEAM TO PLAY made a most favorable
MAXTON JR. COLLEGE TEAM People that he
______ j met. He stated >that he expected to
Maxton, Oct. 27.—^Football fans I entire time between Nov-
will' have an ^opportunity to see March 4th going the
some real football here on Friday thirteen counties of
afternoon (October 31) when the district and meeting the people,
fast Barium Springs Orphanage team appeared confident of victory on
meets the Presbyterian Junior appeared to feel
have seen the orphanage team In r!?^* ^ “®tter of getting out
ftold here in Maxt«Si. Those who ^*^® ' ^®“®®ratic vote to make vic-
have tseen the Orphanage team ®®rtain.
I HOKE COUNTY'S FIRST RE-
PUBLICAN CANDIDATE
^ " "
, For the first time bince Hoke
{County was established the Repub-
iroA party has a candidate for a
ty ottice. This candidate is Mr.
L T. Parnell, of tjilewhiflle Town-
ibi, ‘ir'ho Is running for County
Asloner. He filed in the pri-
last spring when the elec-
Ion‘law was.construed "to bar Re-
Bblicans from participating in a
smocratlc primary, Mr. ParnelDs
ion being in the. nature of a
pc;Qte8t ai^^t the ruling.
Prior, to tl^ year, -Republicans
' desired to do so, pjs^iclpated
Qm Democratic primary for coun-.
oitlees juid few, if any,'objected
>ihelr doing Ao aa long as they
no county ticket of their own.
f'hls year, hofrever, the Republl-
: had candidates In the legalized
iry for the first time and it
held by the Attorney General
they could not vote in one
of the primary as Republicans
l,d then paraclpate In any of the
locratlc contwts. The rul^g
feewllM barred Democrats, from vo-
paTfc of'
action .^ay they have a perfect ma
chine and will give any team of
equal weight a hard struggle fpr
the “pig skin.” The P. J. C. bunch
Is making splendid progress under
MIGHT G^ TO WAGRAM.
(Laurinhurg Exchange
The newspapers say that sent!-
the training of coach Doc Hender- “®“* growing in North Carolina
“Doo*’ got his football know
both .prtmary contests.
BIRTHS
Join to Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Burk-
on October 8th, a fine son,
(i
son.
ledge from Coaches Younger and
TUson of Davidson;- Collie, and
those who witness the game here
Friday afternoon will see the Influ
ence cof these experts. It Is a bafe
bet that It will be. hard fought
battle and will furnish the ihiniB
plenty of •’thrills."
Friday is-also the date for the
Lumbee Harvest Festival, n cojn
munlty fAlr held annually here lUi
Maxton. Those In charge of the
fair say the exhibits will be of a
high order and the program of. fnn~
which is always a grrtiit success—
will excell the recordb of i>ast years
The fair program begins at ten o’
clock Ibiday mofhing'^md will ""cbm
tinue through' the day^rad to a late
hour that night. The football game
will be a part of this program and
will be played, according to those
in charge, around 3,-o’clock.' Those
In charge, of the program are spar
ing no effort to give - Maxton and her
guests a profit and fun. they
are extending through the courtesy
of the press, and especially through
this paper, a warm and cordial Invi
tation to all former Maxtonians and
friends everywhere to Join them in
this ' ^y of fun An^ reqrentloi.,'\a»
‘.ring t, (m that a firsvclnss High-
.Hiid wo’c(. me awaits them.
for the consolidation of counties to
the e^ that , there may not be more
than ^0 or 76 counties instead of
the mQ hundred separate political
subdlrtslons we now have and call
counties. • Some of the smart fel
lows at Raleigh have figured out a
tentative plan of consolidation ol'
combination of counties, and in
their llneAp they would make oner-‘' Furthermore, Dr. Hei^* sakT^to-
a new source—slash pine.
He said It opens the prospect of a
new and wholly American supply of
newsprint and high grade book pa
per n)ade from southern pine trees
probably of all sorts..
The Alladin was Dr. Charles' H.
Herty, of New York, former presi
dent of the American Chemical .so
ciety. He made his discovery *lKlb-
llc without reservations, and pro
posed that southern business , men
make use of the knowledge to en
rich the South.
Southern pine long has been uSed
to make paper of a yellow variety.
Dr. Herty - said, but not to compete
with the high grade sulfite process
newsprint and white 1)ook paper
made from spruce.
His new paper was made of the
on© Variety of southern pine sup
posed to be the-least capable of pro
ducing regular newsprint. It was
held to contain too much rosin. Last
bpring Dr. Herty announced at a
Aetting here the .discovery that
tosln In yot^ slash pines Is mostly
myth, and toduy h© quoted the In
ternational Paper Company’s re
search laboratory In conflrmAUoiL
and the church.
Despite a downpour of rain the
university president was heard''by
an audience which filled the church
beyond its seating capacity. It in
cluded many of the “Dispersed
Abroad” from families, which had
some time in its long history- have
belonged to the Old Bluff, the moth
er church of Presbyterianism in
North Carolina, more than a few of
them distinguished in their spheres
of work. One of these was Presi
dent Graham’s own father, the be
loved Dr. Alexander Grahapi, of
Charlotte, himself a pioneer of pub
lic education in NCrth Carolina. Dr.
R'. Murphy Williams, moderator of
the North Carolina Synod of the
Presbyterian church, was alo.S pres
ent, having come from his 'home in
Greensboro to attend the closing
day>s session of the Presbytery. He
addressed the Presbyterial body at
the request of Moderator A... R.
McQueen.
At the.close of President Graham’s,
address t fin.e ^ dinna^N;^s ' served
Iff tlie^lhurch^tAIlding tiio hbs
pitable people 6r tile Wade nrt^-
borhood.
The Bluff church, whose 172nd
year of Christian service has beqn
completed, is beHeved to be the old
est Presbyterian congregation in
State., In its church yard stand
monuments to Rev. James Camp1»ell,
tb© first preacher 6t that faith to
locate in North Carolina, Colonel
Alexander McAllister, Revolutionary
patriot. Sir Parquard Campbell, and
other early builders of this Section.
Though the church is not used
rgularly now, the beautiful conlonlal
edifice. Is well preserved and has
recently been much improved thru
the generosity of W. W. Fulle^of
New York, a native of this section.
Court Tuesday, Hem^
ry "Walker, a young colored man,
entered a plea of guilty of carrying
a pistol on two different occasions
and was sentenced to four months
on the county .roads in each case.
He had just completed a 'sentence
on the roads for an assault with a
deadly weapon. Evidence showed
that in addition to carrying a pistol,
he had fired it at a colored church
at Bowmore and had caused trouble
there.
Jason
Among those from Hoke County
attending the annual meeting of Fay
etteville Presbytery at Bluff Church
above Fayetteville, this week were
H. F. Currie and Rev. G. W. Hanna,
of Antioch, W. B. McLauchlln and
Dr. W. M. Fairley, of Raeford, W.-
C. Guin and Rev. A. D. Carswell of
the PhllllpI Church. •
Laurinburg Team
Defeats Raeford
big county out of Scotland and Hoke,
with LaurtAbuig as the county, seat.
As A 'fiuttter of fact Laurlnbuig is
locAtsd In the Southern end of Scot-
IsAd And only ilx or ssven miles
^Ai tbe South Carolina border. It
Is 22 miles from'Laurinburg to Rae
ford, Hoke' capltol city. How 'many
Hoke folksjvould want to come all
the way to Latuinbiirg to traAsaeV
public buBlnesa, even If there are'
good roads and autotoobilefci to make
traveling- .fast _and . easy? Wagram
is more-centrally located with res'
pect to the two counties and If ever
such a fantastic dream should be
realized (a^ we doubt It) then Wa-
grMu might put In a bid for coun
ty seat honors.
ROUGH ON THE SON.
"Here, hei©*” said the golf fiend,
to his eon, who was ignoring the
8plna.cli on his plate. "Get back on
the green.’! •
day, thede is no more resin In any
o? the southern plnei H
■The resin forma In the heart wood
of the southern plneA fifter^gy are
about 26 yeara old,, ithen ^e said
they usually are too large- f& pulp-
#ood. 6 yi.v v
The new white paper s^ble iras
made at a paper mill In a mrtal bas
ket suspended inside a “dimster”
Which was otherwise filled) with
spruce undergoing th© reguli* sul
fite process. Not only did theV-up-
pohedly stubborn slash- pine dik'st
as easily as the spruce, sald^r.
Herty but it whitened with the BBrtf
amount of bleach.. Its fibers were
long and as strong as spruce.
“This is the first time so far as I
am aware;!’ he teld. “that slash pine
has been made Into this' grade of
whlte^ paper.
“Experiments now under way, but
not yet completed. Indicate thAt the
same thing can be done ■with long
leaf pine.”
In a peculiar game played at
Laurinburg last Friday, the local
high School lost 38-0. During the
first half both teams were unable
to gain Well, but Laurtotmrg was
able to carry through and made two
advanced end touchdowns. The
ended 12-0 in favor of Laurinboig.
The first, half was marred by con
tinual disagreement on the part of
both teiuns over the decisions of
the refwee. Coach Raynor Injecteci
hib second team into the' game at
b^lnning of the Second half a^
Xaurlnburg ran olT four more touch*
downs to make th© final total thlr^
ty-elght points. Raeford’s team
showed Inability to wwk together
consistently, while ^e first team
was in the gam© and the scrub
team, though th©y fiercely,
was unable to hold the Laurinburg
offensive.
Armstrong and Thoniaa
Myers, both colored, were ii&cted
on two ,counts of violating the pro
hibition laws. On© for the posses
sion of a still and utensils for the
manufacture of whiskey and the oth-
er„ fpr possessing whiskey for the •
puriHj.'Se of sale and of manufaetur-
ing. Jason sought to take all of
the blame on himself and clear My
ers but both were ^ sentenced to S
months each on the-two counts. The
Still was found in Quewhiffle Town
ship by Sheriff Hodgin, Deputy Bar
rington and Murphy Howell of the
Raeford Police force. They found
the stni in operation and caught tiio
two men as they sought to run.
away. A small quantity of poor
whiskey was found and some beer.
Bernice Blue, young colored man
of Addor, was charged with car-
rj ing.. a concealed weapon and eC
an assault with a deadly weapon at
the home of Mattie Byrd, colored,
on the Buchan farm in Western
Hoke.^ He was found not guilty of
carrying a concealed weapon, bnt
guilty of assault and was given
months on th4 county roads. A war
rant. was issued for one Hezekiallt
McRae, who w^s said, to have Jmsb.
With Blue at the time, but the state
twk a liol pios 'wiih leave, as tnr
'him.
WEATHER IDEAL FOR SOWING
OP GRAIN CROPS.
After a long period of rather dry
WMther, rains began to -fldUTuesday
night and all day Wednesday and
a good soMon wab the rosult here^
Farmers have had fine harveset
weather and a good season to sof
ten the land and make so'wlng of
■winter grain crops possible was
welcome to nearly everyone. Thurs
day was fair and beantifol and It
looked arf If the season were made
to order. . .
John F. McRae, .a young colw«d
man of Raeford Township, eaterBS
a plea of guilty of operating si
Ar while under the influence
whiskey and was Sentenced to threa
months On the county roads.
Currie Clark, prominent wMte
man, was charged with killing squlr-"^
rels "withont a hunting license
was found not guilty. The County
game Warden, H. R. McLean „ cam*
upon him on the highway after a.
■wreck and found two squirrels
dressed and wrapped up in paper
and also a gun in the car, but th»
Court held that the eveidence Was
insufficient for a conviction. Hs
was also tried on a charge of driv
ing a car while intoxicated and &
verdict in the case was reserved
until the next session of Court.
Another case that created quite a
bit of interest ■was that charging T.
L. Hart and H. N. Hefanings, white
men of Little River Township, of
hunting without license. District
Warden McMillan, iqade a trip oa
the border of Hoke, Cumberland and
Harnett Counties oh the first day
of October, looking out frar folks v
hunting without license. He found ^
the car of Hart in the woods and.
stayed 'with it 'until nearly dark j
when Hart and Hennings came u]^
•with a gun each. He btated that h©
did not know whether they had
shells or not and that they bad no
hwtl^ coat. He called for their
licenses and they could not produe©
them, but stated that they had beem
huntl^for a whiskey stm in co»-
pany^w^ a deputy sheriff of Cum-
terland ^unty and had not besm
hunting tor game.- The deputy sh«P>
iff was put on the stand and testi
fied that he had met the mmi thetm
by appointment to look for « atOl
Md that they h«d apmit moat b£
to® day eearching and that the two
(|efendanta had not hunted lor
game that he knew ol. They wet*
found not guilty.
MoLei^ €ok»«d. who weM
Poder a suspended aentw^ as th»«
outcome of an automobUe wreck
some months ago, failed to comply
with the terms of- the suspension
and the state prayed judgment H*
was sent to the rouds for ais
Nathan Taylor, a highly respected
old colored man of Stonewall Town
ship who -was given a suspended
sentence some time ago for vlolA-
ting the prohibition- laws and who
failed to comply with the terms of
the sospenslim, was brought Inte
court under a capias and given on©
month on the roads.
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