COTTON CROP RE PORT The following ia an extract from the cotton crop report iasaed by J. W. Jay A Co., Cotton Commiaaion Mer chants of New York. ' We hand you herewith the result of our investigation covering the con dition of the growing cotton crop, and the acreage planted to cotton, with such information as may be pertinent thereto. This report is made up to and including June 17th. The indicated percentage condition for the United States is 71.0. The indicated INCREASE in acre age for the season 1922-1923 is 9 per cent. SUMMARY BY STATES Virginia?Ten days late. Cultiva tion fair. Stands fair ty good. Weather favorable. Plant normal. Plenty of labof. No instect com plaints. Prospects good. North Carolina?Normal to ten days late. Cultivation poor to fair. Stands fair to good* Too much rain first part of month. More favorable since June 11th. Plant noraml to undersize. No scarcity of labor. Some complaints of root lice. Weevil active in South and Southwestern counties. Prospects poor to fair. South Carolina?From ten to six teen days late. Cultivation fair to poor. Stands fair to good. Weather unfavorable up to June 12th. Too much rain and nights too cool. Plant normal to undersize. Plenty of labor. Weevils doing considerable damage, in many cases puncturing Bquares. Prospects poor. Georgia?Ten days to three weeks late. Cultivation poor to bad. Stands poor to fair. Entirely too much rain and nights too cool. Warm dry weather with occasional showers need ed. Plant undersize. Plenty of labor. Weevil doing much damage and are more active than usual at this time of the year. Farmers discouraged as to the prospects, which {ft this time are poor. ? Florida?Normal to one week late. Cultivation and stands fair to good. Too much rain until June 12th. Warm dry weather needed. Plant normal to slightly undersize. Weevil appearing and damage reported. Prospects faii^ to good. Alabama?About two weeks late. Cultivation fair to good, except in some scattered localities where it is reported poor. Stands fair to good. Too much moisture until June 10th, since then clear and warmer. Plant normal to slightly undermize. No shortage of labor. While weevil not active now, damage is expected later, as they are present in large numbers. Prospects poor to fair. Mississippi?Normal to twelve days late. Cultivation and stands fair to good. Weather more favorable now, although earlier in the month was wet and nights too cool. Plant normal to slightly undersise. Plenty of labor. Weevil numerous and correspondents expect heavy damage later on unless have hot, dry weather. Prospects fair. Lonisana?Fully two weeks late. Cultivation poor to fair. Stands poor to good. Entirely too much rain and cool nights until June 7th. Since then weather more favorable. Plant nor mal to undersize. Labor plentiful. Weevil more numerous than usual at this time of the year. Only warm, dry weather will restricts the activity of this insect Prospects poor to fair. Texas?Ten to eighteen days late. Cultivation poor in some sections, but ' on average fair. Stands poor to fair. Weather of a mixed character, was too wet early in month. Recently favorable, causing improvement and allowing planters to clean the fields quickly. Plant irregular in some counties, normal to undersize in others. No shortage of labor. Weevil active and much damage feared unless have dry, hot weather. Prospects poor to fair. Arkansas?Normal to about eight days late. Cultivation and stands fair to good. Weather conditions favor able. Rain needed in some scattered localities. Plant normal to slightly undersize. Weevil reported in west ern and southern counties, elsewhere not so active at present. No shortage of labor. Prospects fair to good. Tennessee?Ten days early to ten days late. Cultivation and stands good. Weather favorable. Plant nor mal. While weevil have appeared no damage as yet. Labor plentiful. Prospects good. Missouri?Ten days late. Cultiva tion and stands fair to good. .Favor able weather conditions. In some scattered localities showers would be beneficial. Plant normal to undersize. Plenty of labor. Correspondents to' Eastern and Southern counties report weevil activity. Prospects fair to good. California?Fully fourteen days late. Cultivation and stands good. Weather ideal. Plant normal. Plenty of labor. No insect complaints. Prospects good. Arizona?Season about six days tote. Cultivation and stands fair to good. Favorable weather conditions. Plant normal. No complaints of in sect activity. No shortage of labor, prospects good. RESUME Since our May 17tb survey, our correspondents report improved con ditions in some parts of the belt, and unfavorable in others. The average indicates a substantial improvement for the month. in the East, low night temperatures and cold, wet weather and heavy weevil infestations, caused a decline in crop propspects. In the Centra] part of the belt, where the conditions were quite simi lar early in the month, the weather (except in widely "scattered territory) was favorable after June 7th, and gave fanners an opportunity to clean the fields and the plant has shown im provement. ? West of the Mississippi River the recovery has been unusual for such a short space of time (as it was entirely too wet and nights too cool until June 5th). The prospects wiuld be prom ising were it not for the heavy weevil infestation. The boll weevil is present and num erous in all of the large producing states, and unless the weather hence forth be ideal the outlook is rather discouraging.' The indicated acreage is for an av erage increase of 9 per cent compared with last season. A slight gain over last month. There is really not a great deal to say about the cotton crop this month, other than it is what may be called a Wet Weather Crop. Owing to the continued rains during May ahd the early part of June, the plant has dev eloped mainly latteral roots -and this situation, except in certain favored sections, requires warm, dry weather with rains at proper intervals to fur nish moisture at the right time. It will, therefore, be noted that through out the season, this year's cotton plant will be particularly susceptible to continued dry weather, whereas hot, dry weather is needed to curtail the activities of -the boll weevil. Using the Government's formula for estimating the probable yield, the acreage and percentage condition shown in this report indicates, with normal weather conditions henceforth, a yield of about 11,100,000 bales libters excluded. MENOLA NEWS Mr. J. M. Eley and daughter, Mrs. Cyril Pierce spent Monday in Winton visiting friends. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. W. Parker and little daughter Minnie Louise, motor ed to Ocean View Saturday morning. They will spend a few days at the beach before returning home. Miss Annie Brown left Saturday to spend a few days\with her friend. Miss Pearl White of Belvedere. Miss Omigna Horton of Norfolk, Va., is spending this week as the guest of her auat Mrs. -H. U. Grif fith. Mr. and Mrs. W. Harvey Vinson spent a few hours in Woodland Fri day afternoon. Miss Doris Chitty of Murfreesboro spent last Wednesday night as the guest of Miss Janie Parker. Misses Estelle Clarke and Anna Lee Carter and Messrs. John Bruce Joy ner and Clarence Dickerson were Sun day afternoon guests of Miss Thelma Brown. Mrs. Mary Brown and daughters, Misses Elizabeth and Thelma, spent Thursday and Friday with Mrs. W. B. Pollard of Winton. Mr. Alvin Eley spent last week as the guest of Jiis brother, Dr. Clayton Eley in Norfolk. Mr. Edward (Jutland: of Woodland, was a Sunday afternoon visitor in town. Dr. and Mrs. Raleigh Praker and baby of Woodland, spent Sunday af ternoon with their mother, Mrs. H. U. Griffith. Don't forget about the play "Bar Haven" to be given at the school building on the night of the 13th. Mr. I. F. Snipes was a business visitor in Ahoskie Saturday afternoon. Quite a number of our young people held a picnic at Colerain Beach last Wednesday afternoon. TALC AND SOAPSTONE PRODUCTION IN 1921 The production of talc and soap atone in 1921 showed a great decline as compared with that in 1920. The quantity sold wgs the smallest since *1908 and was about 40 per cent less than the average for the five preced ing years, according to Edward Samp son, of the United States Geological Survey, Departmenhof the Interior. The total quantity of talc and soap stone sold in 1921 was 126,000 tons, valued at $1,921,000, as compared with 211,000 tons, valued at $3,085, 0000, in 1920. This represents a de crease of 40 per cent in both quantity and value. Vermont, which since 1917 has been the largest producer, maintained its position by producing 38 per cent of the total quantity. New York produced 33 per cent of the quantity, but for the first time took second place in the value of its pro duct. Virginia, which produced 14 per cent of the total, ranked next to New York in quantity, fnT ?>?? first time led in the value of its out put, owing to the fact that soapstone industry in that Stale was not nearly so much effected as the ground talc industry, on which the other princi pal producing States depend. ' The production and values by Staes was as follows: Vermont, 48,648 tons, $438,534; New York, 41,937 tons, $530,154; Virginia, 17,721 tons, $601,878; California, 8,233 tons, $128,188; Pennsylvania and New Jer sey, 7,206 tons, $76,912; North Caro lina, 731 tons, $17,048; Georgia, Maryland, and Massachusetts, 1,959 tons, $28,737. The quantity of ground talc sold by producers in 1921 was 106,900 tons, valued at $1,181,000, as compared' with 178,500 tons, valued at $2,143, | 000, in 1920. A canvas of the pro ducers made to determine the quality of talc consumed in 1921 by different industries shows that the paper in dustry used 38 per cent of the total and that 4ke average value was about $10.60 a ton. Most of the supply was obtained from Vermont and New York. The paint industry, which re quires a high grade talc, used 23 per cent of the total. Nearly all the sup ply was obtained from New York, and the average value was about $14,10 a ton. The roofiing industry consum ed 18 per cent of the total and drew its supply almost entirely from Ver mont. The requirements for talc used In this industry are not exacting, as is shown by the average value, which was only $8 a ton. The rubber indus try used a large quantity of talc for filler and in 1921 consumed 9 1-2 per cent of the total. Verniont furnished most of the supply, which had an aver age value of about $9.50 a ton. The textile industry used about 4 per cent as a filler for cotton cloth- The aver age value was about 9.40 a ton. Only 2 1-2 per cent of the domestic output was used for toilet powder, the de mand for talc for that use having been supplied largely by imported material. California supplied most of the demand for domestic talc for this purpose, and the average value was $18.60 a ton The latest figures available show that in 1920 the United States fur nished about 66 per cent of the world's supply and consumed about 68 fl NOTICE The Woman*' Missionary Union of the'West Chowan Association will meet with Ahoskie Baptist church, Ahoskie, N. C. on Wednesday, July 26th, 1922. All delegates and visitors coming by rail an<$ desiring entertainment over night will please notify the chair, man of the Hospitality Committee, not later than July 20th, the time of their arrival. MRS. J. A. WILLIAMS, Chairman Hospitality Committee, Ahoskie, N. C. All kinds of Commercial Printing neatly apd promptly done at the HERALD offlee. fast Living The big goal among aviator* is to fly around the world in 15 days of actual flying time. Ten years from now, such an achievement will be so commonplace that no one will pay much attention to it. Bert Acosta recently flew more than 21)0 miles an hour. At that rate, he could fly around the world at the equator in Ave day*. When Andrew Jackson went to Washington to become president, it took him SO days to make the trip from Tennessee. Compare Andy's speed with the modern airplane, and the thing that strikes you most is the teriffically fast speed at which we moderns live. The first men to sail around 'the world were in the Magellan expedi tion. The trip took, roughly, three years and ft month, and the goal was reached in 1522?exactly four cen turies ago. Jules Verne in 1873 wrote "Around the World in 80 Days With Notebook and Camera." Such speed seemed visionary, impossible, at the time. But 16 years later Nellie Bly cir cled the globe in 72 days, 6 hours, 11 minutes. In 1918 John Henry Mears made the trip in 85 days 21 hours, 35 min utes. Now the avaitors confidently set forth to fly around the earth in 1( days?which would be 75 times as fast as the Magellan trip. In every way, we constantly live faster. By conquering space and par tially eliminating the time element, we are able to cram more and more into our lives. That Is equivalent to prolonging life. Measuring life in terms of actual living, we?compared with our ancestors live 1000 years. TRULY MARVELS OF NATURE InwncnM Trees In Calaveras Oreve, California, Worth Trip Aoraaa Country to Coo. One of the moat Interesting sight - aeelng places In California for the nature lover Is Calaveras grove, fam ous for the grandeur and age of Its big trees. The grove Is privately owned and Is In a small valley near the head waters of the San Antonio, at an elevation of 4,702 feet. In the grove are ten trees, each 80 feat in diameter and more than seventy trees between IS and 80 feet in diameter. One of the trees, now down, "the father of the forest," must have been 460 feet high and 40 feet In diameter, according to a New York Times writer. In 1888 one of the largest trees, 92 feet In circumference and over 800 feet high, was cut down. Five men worktgl 25 days felling It, using large augers. The stump of this tree has been smoothed off and now accomo dates 32 dancers. In 1868 a newspaper, the Big Tree Bulletin, was printed there. Near the stump Is a section of the Wee 25 feet In diameter and 20 feet long; beyond lies the Immense trunk as It fall, measuring 802 feet from the base to th& extremity. Upon this was situated a Darroom and tenpln alley, stretching along its upper surface for a distance of 81 feet, affording ample space for two alley beds side by side, j TEXAS ONCE SISTER NATION Interesting to Rseall Time When the Qreat State Was an Inde pendent Republic. When Washington, capital of the United States, was little more than a j village of mud streets between 1886 " and 1846, says a bulletin of the Na tional Geographical society, Austin ! was a similar world capital, the seat of goveVnment of the Independent re public of Texas, which for ten years. Immediately after Independence had been won from Mexico, existed as the fellow-nation of the United States. Ministers and special envoys were ac credited to the republic by the United States, and half a dozen or more of the lending nations of Europe, and the forms and amenities of world diplo macy were carried out punctiliously In the little capital. Austin preserves a memory of the only republic to enter the United States In the name of Its principal street. Congress avenue. Along this thoroughfare were situated the con gressional halls of the nation. At the head of this avenue, on the crest of a commanding hill. Is the present state capltol. Its architecture, like that of many other state capitals. Is largely borrowed from the capltol at Wash ington, and It Is almost as extensive, being the largest of the forty-eight statehouses. I What Poetry la Not. Attitudes towards poetry are as various as Its kinds. And the reader mtost have thought over these at titudes when he considered the prob lem of creating an audience or becom ing part of one, says Jeannette Marks In the North American Review. Some excellent people, not Ill-educated either, look upon poetry as one of the ele gancies of life, withal a little super fluous. Others think poetry is sugar water. It Is, sometimes. So are some people, and there are no federal laws for patting them out of the way. Some men and" women regard poetry as sentimental nonsense. In that It might ?be said certain types of poatry are like any cross-section of human - nature to be found anywhere. The moat damaging of all attitudes Is that which holds that poetry Is Inimical to the facts of life and of science. Some poetry la The greatest poetry, speaking the common speech of com mon human experience and love for nature, never la Sulphur Rains. Strange stories are sometimes told of the Wonderful things that have fallen in .rainstorms. Occasionally It is froga again It la splashes of blood, or some mineral such as sulphur. Fre quently there is a foundation for these stories, and Investigation furnishes an explanation of the phenomena. At Bordeaux for many years, In April and May, so-called "rains of sulphur" have been noticed, when the earth becomes spotted with what seem to be patches of sulphur brought down by the rain. This phenomenon was not long ago the subject of a scientific Investigation, and it was shown that the supposed sulphur was really the yellow pollen of a species of ptyte, large forests of which exist south and south west of Bordeaux. The rains referred to occur at the time of the flowering of the pines, the pollen of which must be carried to a great height In ; the air. Odd Display* of Politeness. The form* of courtesy sad civility In , Far Eastern countries have always been of the most extravagant nature. Abraham bowed himself to the ground to show his respect to strangers. 80 much time was taken up with po lite salutation it Is no wonder that when Rltshs sent his servant la great haste on an errand he warned him. "If thou meet any man salute him not, and If any man salute thee answer him S not again," there being no time to S waate in ceremony. The Arab of today . ~ begin* to bow as soon as he pereelves . a friend In the distance. Inquires over \ and over again regarding the health V of the family, klseee his own hand, kisses hie friend's heard and give* I i thanks to Allah that they are sace ' More permitted to meet. It s Good For Your Children You should encourage your chil dren to not plenty of ice cream. It is just as healthful as moot or cgga?and is a wonderful relief on n hot sultry day. Eating between meals is not harmful if the food is ice cream. The kiddies need that "antra bite" to reinforce their ever necessary reserve of energy. Be care of sanitation. Send your your orders to Ahoskie Ice Cream Co. Manufacturers of "Thd Quality Kind" 124 Main Street Ahoskie, N. C. City Deliveries Made on Sunday from 10:00 a. m. to 1:00 p. m. WynnBros. THE ONE PRICE STORE MURFREESBORO, NORTH CAROLINA Our new up-to-date stock has arrived con sisting of full line Dry Goods, Dress Goods, Notions, Shoes, Mens and Boys Clothing, Ladies Ready-to Wear. Full stocks of strictly new seasonable mer chandise of most recent manufacture; positively no high priced inferior goods in 1919-1920 or 1921 to be palmed off, but all modern and up-to date merchandise. We have sold; our entire stock except Hardware, Crockery, and Farming Implements to Goldberg, Laison and Stein of Philadelphia. This enables us to give to our cus tomers an unusual opportunity as we re-invested the proceeds of this sale in a most wonderful array of merchandise. STRICTLY ONE PRICE TO ALL No two or three prices for an article. A mere child could be sent here to buy with as much feel ing of confidence and satisfaction as an adult. Visit our store. Wynn Bros. THE SHOPPING CENTER ? t , v r " ' ' " ;? > " ^ Money Tb Loan For the benefit of the farfner and patrons of this bank, we take pleasure in announcing that we are now in position to make loadi Of small amounts for thirty, sixty and ninety days. If you are a patron of tfiis institution and need money to help you with yout trap, don't fail to come in and let us explain how wh can help you. It is not only our duty to extend our courtesy to the people of this section, but it is our pleasure to do so. Realizing that this is a season when the farmers and the general public of this section are usually* somewhat pressed financially and realizing the neces sity of co-operation between the farmers and the banking institutions, we want them to know that we are willing ??>