THE ALAMANCE GLEANER.
1 ■ -- - . .. , v ; :
VOL. XLYI
OELVE !N EARTH FOR SALT
Work of Mining .Most indispensable
Material Has Resulted In Creation
of Remarkable Caves.
What is the greatest mineral treas
ure of the earth? Coal? Iron?
Gold? No, just common salt For
gold, iron &nd»cool substitutes may
be found, but without salt life would
be impossible. In some countries
it is formed from the sea, notably
at Alvarado, near San Francisco.
There tracts of low-lying land are
flooded with sea water, which rap
idly evaporates in the intense heat,
14vitfg the frrine behind in pans, to
be harvested and carried to the re
fineries. Open-air salt fanning i*
hopelessly\jnpracti cable in Britain,
for the simple reason that Gld Sol
cannot be dependld upon. Conse
quently, the salt in the beds at
Droitwich and Northwich has to be
recovered by mining and pumping'
Beneath the latter town there is a
massive chamber, 17 acres in area
by 17 feet in height, which haa been
produced by excavating salt The
ground upon whibh the town is built
is steadily caving in, the skin of
soil and rock, 124 feet thick, upon
which the buildings are resting,
proving too weak to support them.
Of course, as most people know, the
most amazing salt mine in the-yorld
is at Wieliczka, Poland, wiih its
magnificent cathedral, crucifix,
altar, pulpit and statues of saints,
t magnificent ballroom, -bewildering
lay-out of broad streets, restaurant,
railway station, and other features
incidental to every surface colony,
but all-in salt. '
HARD TO KEEP UP WITH
gSMSE
"Why are you unwilling to pay.,
your son's running expenses at col
lege?"
"Sure, and he's too much of a
sprinter."
i 1
USE OP CARBORUNDUM. ~~
Carborundum, the artificial sub
stitute for emery, which is said to
rival the diamond in hardness, is'
used; because of its extraordinary
resistence to heat, as a coating for
the interior of furnaces. Finely
powdered and made into a paste, it
is applied with a brush, like paint
to the brick lining.
It is said that a layer only two
millimeters thiek will protect the
bricks from the effects of the high
est temperature that is ever pro
duced in ordinary furnace combus
tion.
Carborundum is itself a product
of .the electric furnace, being com
posed of silica and carbon fused in
the presence of salt and sawdusC
BIRDS MUST BE PROTECTED
Without the Native Songsters Suceesa
ful Fight Could Not Be Waged
, Against Insect*.
One of the most valuable assets
our nation has is Its native birds.
Too much cannot be said or written
in their favor. Destroy them and
in a few years the injurious insects
will have multiplied to such an ex
tent that trees will be denuded of
their foliage, plants and crops can
not be produced.
There are more than 1,200 species
of our native birds, and millions of
individuals* As a result of the ex
amination of more than 50,000
stomachs of birds, they established
beyond s reasonable doubt that buds
m at economic rslo*, first in eat
(Rt Ml igsgt* tMr ftp «pl
larvae. Second, in eating the seed*
of noxious weeds. Third, in devour
ing field mice and other small ro
dents that injure the crops, and
fourth, in acting aa scavengers.
While the economic valde of birds
should be .kept in mind the esthetic
value should also be considered. Man
doee not live by bread alone. We
should protect them for their grace
ful forms, their charming beauty,
their delightful melody and their
joyous activity.—Thrift Magaiine.
- TO INVESTIGATE MEDICINES.
The British minister of health has
i appointed a committee to advise on
legislative and administrative
ures to ascertain the quality and au
thenticity of therapeutic substances
or patent medicines offered for sale
to the public, which cannot be test
ed adequately by direct chemical
means, j Some of the most distin
guished professional people of Great
Britain have been' named on the
committee, which will consider in
the first instanoe the report of a se
lect committee of the house of com
mons on patent medicines.
V '
SERVE DOUBLE PURPOSE.
/
One' of the by-products of the
great incubation establishments of
this country is the great pile ft egg
shells which accumulate. These are
sold and again enter into the chick
'en business by being made up into
food for the birds. The lime in the
Shells is a bone builder.
NEAR TitK SHELF.
Her Mother-—I do hope the cere
mony will go off wtfhout a hitch to.
morrow.
Her Father—-JSgad, I don't. It's
Eleanor's last Boston
Transcript.
WHERE HE WAS OOINO.
Private Jackson had long been 4
thorn in the side of the mess ser
geant, but at hut they had got to
gether in an amicable what-are-you
going-to-do argument
"Where are yon going after the
war, Jack?" inquired the saiga.
"I don't know exactly," replied
the long sufferer. "But one thing I
know, I*m going somewhere where
they don't call prunes fruit"—
American Legion Weekly.
POTASH PROW VANCOUVER.
There is a reputed discovery of
potash on Vancouver island. Previ
ous to the war Germany
7,800,000 tons of potassium salts,
which occur in that country in a
form so easily mined that other
countries, whose deposits were con
tained in rock-foundations, were un
able to compete with German trade.
Germany, therefore, held the world
monopoly, deriving an """»l in
come of 6,000,000 pounds from the
prpduct The quantity taken by
Canada in 1913 was 5,200 tons. It
is known that there" are vast de
posits containing as much as 16 per
cent of potassium occurring in east
ern Canada and the Bocky moun
tains.
THE PAPER AOK.
Where yoq were content to read
three pounds of newspaper in 1880,
if you were a reader then, you are
now using up 35 pounds of newspa
per a year. In other words the con*'
sumption of newsprint has increased
from three pounds per capita to 35
pounds in these 40 years. It is this
enormous increase in demand that'
has caused the paper shortage fcnd is
fast denuding the country of tim
ber suitable for pulp makings-
Grand Bapids Press.
FROM HISTORIC GROUND.
Four 400-pound .blocks of grsalts
hewn near the landing place of the
Pilgrims at Plymouth, Mass., were
in the cargo of the Canard liner ■
Inkula, which sailed for England
from Boston recently. The atones
will be corner markers of a new Bafc>, i
vation Army citadel in Plymouth, I
England, the port from which the
Mayflower aailed 300 yean as>. i
Thinr m tks gift at tfcf JTsr Eng.
ISM form at tW flotation army.
GRAiMM, N. C., THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 9,1920
- WERE GIANTS IN THOSE DAYS
~ I Remarkable Undertaking* ftucctM
folly Carried Through by N*vl
gator* of Early Miatory. >
——
Before the Trojar war common
enterprises without plan were at
tempted by the restless boldness of
psrticujar Grecian chieftains, but
they were not national undertak
ing. Boldness caused Jason to per
forin the Argonautie voyage in quest
of the gold of Colchis, which was a
wonderful undertaking if the fact is
considered that navigation was then
in an infant state, and boldnesa :
caused the chief'vof the Pelopon-*
nesus to become in the
family feud Of Thebes. Jason went
because of his desire for booty. The
Peloponneaian chiefs were moved by
the relationship of a chief of Argon
to une of the Theban princes. The
Peninsula of Peloponnesus, tlie in
habitants of which had little to fear
from external daqgers, were emi
nently adapted for auch. exploits.
Pelops and Perseus gained and im
parted to their city of Argos such a
preponderating influence that the
peninsula acquired a sort of me
tropolis. Athens interfered less in.
snch restless moventents, Attica was
accordingly better civilized. Its
sgh court beqgme a venerable ex
ample. ,
NOTHING LEFT
"Has that stingy Doctor Bluff
borrowed every scrip of your medi
cal books?"
"He haa; even taken my vermi
form appendix."
SUCH 18 FAMC.
The secretary of a.periodical pub
lished not far from New York city
and £>»tcd for the library flavor ol
its editorial pages once received a
letter from a subscriber asking for
the address of George Meredith, the
novelist, The secretary had a care
ful examination made of the long
pay roll of the company, but the
search was in vain. A reply was,
therefore, sent to the subscriber
couched in this language:
"We are sorry that we arc-unable
to give you the address of George
Meredith, of our St. Louis Office.
Perhaps you can ascertain it from
him."
CAST OUT BY HIS FELLOWS
Cewklnl Haa Net a Wngle Friend
Among the Reet of the Feathered
Creatures.
Because his heart seems as black
as his coat, the cowbird is an out
cast in bird society aid his guttural,
bubbling call sounds the one dis
cordant note in the springtime
chorus which now swells in' the
woods and fields.
His chief occupation appears to
consist of following the cattle about,
which accounts for the origin of his
name. It wonld seem that his one
redeeming feature comes from this
mania, for one of his chief pastimes
is the annoying of crows, lie crow,
himself a freebooter, is often set
upon by a band of these smaller out
laws who peck and torment him to
his .complete bewilderment.
The * cowbird is the. only species
df the bird world which shirks the
responsibilities of building a home
of its own. The female cowbird
sneaks through the bashes and when
she finds a suitable nest, deposits an
in it and thus shirks sU the re- I
sponsibilities. The small cowbird
bw * art H»
•tv- - , ■ ... • ~ ~ ;I .Ys f „
NEW SCOTTISH INDUSTRY.
Efforts are being jnade to estab
lish a farm in Boss-shire, Scotland,
: far the breeding of fur*bearing. ani
! mala. Ample financial support has
been secured, and it is hoped to ob
tain -50 acres of ground on tha up
land, near Invergorden, which,
when efficiently fenced, will be suit
able for rearing beaver, lynx, minx
and silver foxes. The promoter of
the scheme is a Canadianywho served
In the imperial forces during the
war, and he is convinced that the
novel "reserve" which he intends to
establish will provide, not only con
genial occupation, bnt also an ade
quate monetary return on the funds
invested.
FINANCIAL LOSS.
A sack of 1,000 silver dollars re
cently delivered at a San Franciaco
bank had been in the vault of ttifr
subtreasury since the day the coins
were minted, October 21,' 1891. The
tank figures that if the money had
been drawing interest from the dste
it was eoinad the sack would now bs
worth $3,000 instead of SI,OOO.
sfcmous.
"What's the matter with Algy
"On the Fourth of July he nsarfy
got concussion of the brain."
"How did that happen?"
"Some fallow struck him over the
head with a toy balloon."—Louis
ville Courier-Journal.
IMCRtAM IN FARM VALUBS.
In 1914 the average farm in the
province of Quebec was worth $47
sn acre; now it ia worth $72 an
asri
FORTIFICATIONS OF METZ.
An article by Coy. E. M. Blake.
C. A, in the Journal of the United
States Artillery, speaking of the
modern Metz fortifications, says that
the turrets containing the Krtfpp
guns can be manned and supplied
without ever expoelßg a man, as sU
batteries are connected with, other
works of tile Teste" by deep subter
ranean galleries. Miles of theae gal
leries have been cut, with a cross
section and .grade to allow mea to
circulate rapidly when needed, and
one finds complete kitchen, bakeries,
bathing and toilet rooms for the
garrison, large recreation rooms,
electric lighting and pqwer, arid a
complete system of forced draft ven
tilation.
FATIENCE AND FI^MyERANCK.
"It must take a'great deal of pa
tience and industry to keep a car
going."
"It dose,",replied Mr. Chi*gins,
"especially if you'ie waiting fee a
llnyf-H license."
..J _..JJ LJ« LI! UU 1 U I
By virtue of an order of the Su
perior Court of Alamance county
made in a special proceedings,
wheiltn all the heirs and devisees
of the late Isabella Vincent w ert>
constituted parties, for the pur
pose of selling the lands for di
vision, of which she died seised,
the undersigned Commissioner
will offer for sale, to the highest
bidder, at the court house door, in
Graham, on
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 15,1920,
at 12 o'clock M., the following
valuable real estate, to-wit:
A lot of land fronting Holt
Street in said town, 162 feet, front
ing Becon£ Street, and rnuoiug
back 152 feet and 100 feet from
said streets, respectively.
The corner of Holt and Second
Streets is a splendid business site
and this property will be divided
and offered in two lots, one as a
business site; the other a* a resi
dence lot, then it will be offered
as a whole.
There is a dwelling house on
the property.
Terms of Ssls: One-third cash;
one-third in six months, and one
third in twelve month*, deferred
payments to carry iuierest- from
day of sale.
Sale subject to confirmation by
tha oonrt.
TWs lltb day of Aeg., 1920,
j. 8, coor, Commissioner
Summons by Publication.
NORTH CAROLINA,
Alamance County.
' In the Superior Court.
Before the Clerk. S, P. No. »34.
B. S. Robertson, sole surviving
Trustee under the last Will
and Testament and Codicil
thereto of Charles T. Holt, de
ceased, plaintiff,
* vs.
I
Louise M. Holt, Wachovia Bank
and Trust Company, (a corpo
ration), guardian of the estate
of said Louise M. Holt; Cora
M. Laird, E. C. Laird, her
husband, J. Holt Laird, Mar
guerite G. Laird, his wife,
Louise Laird (an infant), Mary
Chambers Laird (an infant);
Louise M. Haywood, A. W.
Haywood the younger, Adele
Haywood, his wife, Adele
Haywood, Jr., (an infant), T.
Holt Haywood, Louise B.
Haywood, his wife, Mary
Louise Haywood (an infant),
T. Holt Haywood, Jr., (an in
fant; Ella M. Wright, And
Louise B. Wrigh% defendants.
The defendants Louise M.
Holt, Cora M. Laird, E. C.
Laird, her husband, Adele Hay
wood, Jr., (an infant), Mary
Louise Haywood, (nn infant),
and T. Holt Haywood, Jr., (an
infant), will take notioe that a
Special Proceeding entitled as
above has been commenced in
the Superior Court of Alamance
county, N. C., before the Clerk
thereof for the purpose of the
resignation of said plaintiff, B.
S. Robertson, as sole surviving
Trustee of the trust fund under
the Will and Codicil thereto of
Chprlee T. Holt, deceased, and
for the appointment of a sub
stituted or successor Trustee of
said trust fund under said Will
and Codicil as described in the
petition filed in said proceeding;
that summons in said proceed
ing was duly issued for all of
said defendants on the 14th day
of August, 1920. which sum- ,
raons was returnable on the 29th
day of September, 1920, and the'
said Louise M. Holt, Cora M.
Laird, E. C. Laird, heV husband,
Adele Haywood, Jr., Mary
Louise Haywood and T. Holt
Haywood, Jr., will further take
notice that they are required to
appear at the Alamance county,
N. C., court house in Graham,
N. C., on said 29th day of Sep
tember, 1920, anf answer or de
mur to the petition in said pro
ceeding, or the plaintiff will
apply to the Court for the relief
therein demanded.
This August 17, 1920.
D. J. WALKER,
Clerk Superior Court in and for
Alamance County, N. C. i
Ernest Haywood, Attorney for
Plaintiff. 19aug4t 1
| Lift off Corns! |
' Doesn't hurt s bit and Freesooa
costs only s few cants.
UJJJ j
Doesn't hart a bit I Drop a Httl I
Preecooe on an aching con, Instantly
that corn stops hurting, then you lift H
right out. Yes, magic I
A tiny bottle of Preezooe costs but a
few cents at aay drag store, but Is suffi
cient to remove every bard corn, soft
corn, or corn between the toee, and the
calluses, without soreness or irritation.
Freezone is the sensational discovery of
a Cincinnati genius. It is wonderful.
Bra* jqw Csid or UGrtppi vM
ttw4maat*i
u | Sale ol Valuable Real
.y../ v Estate.
Under and by virtue of the
. power of sale contained in a cer
tain mortgage deed fronf Chas.
| Banks to Alamnnce Insurance &
| Real Estate Company, regjsier
* ed in the office of the Register
of Deeds for Alamance county,
N. C., in Book of Mortgage
Deeds No. 61, page 525, default
having been made in thepay-
L mentof the indebtedness secured
thereby and the said mortgage
J deed and the note which it se
-1 cures and the property conveyed
f by it having bßen duly transfer
red, assigned and conveyed by
1 said Alamanoe Insurance & Real
[ Estate Company tp the under
' signed for value, and the said
transfer and assignment having
' been duly recorded in the office
' of the Register of Deeds for Ala
mance county, the undersigned
will, as assignee, on
MONDAY, SEPT. 20,1920,
at 12 o'clock, noon, at the court
[ house door in Graham, N. C.,
offer for sale at public auction
to the highfest bidder for cadi,
all that certain tract or parcel
of land in Burlington township,
Alamance county and State of
North Carolina, adjoining the
t lands of Esper Montgomery,
, Jerry Sellars and others, and
i bounded as follows:
Beginning «at an iron bolt,
! corner with said Montgomery on
North side of an alley; running
thence N 11 deg W 213$ feet to
a rock on Baid Montgomery's
line, thence S 70i deg W. 50 ft.
to an iron bolt; thence S 11 deg
E 218 i feet on North side of said
alley; thence N 70} deg E 50
feet to the beginning, contain
ing 24-100 ff an acre, more or
less, oh whjch is situated a cot
tage.
This 19th day of Aug., 1980.
R. F. WILLIAMS,
Assignee.
W. S. Coulter, Att'y.
Trustee's Sale nt Seal
Estate.
Under and by virtue of the
power.' of sale contained in a cer
tain deed of trust executed by
Baxter Vaughn and wife to the
undersigned trustee, November
15th, 1917, and recorded in Book
of Mortgages aud Deed* of Trust
No. 73, at page 218, default hav
ing been made- in the payment of
the bond secured by said deed of
trust, the Alamance I nan ranee A
Real Estate Company, trustee,
will, on
SATURDAY, SEPT. 18, 1920,
at 12 o'clock, noon, at the court
house door in Graham, North
Carolina, offer for sale at public
anction to the highest bidder for
cash, the following described real
estate, to-wit:
A certain tract or parcel of land
Jin Alamance county, State of
j North Carolina, adjoining the
lands of Mrs. Abel Home, Ariuacia
E. Fowler ai)d others, being a part,
of that tract of land owned by
Daniel Bus well and sub-divided
(•by Lewis 11. Holt, April 27th, 1917,
land bounded aa follows:
| Beginning at a corner with L
jE. Boswell on said Home's line,
! running thence 8 88 deg 35' E 10
chs 42 Iks to corner with said
1 Fowler; thence with Hue of said
Fowler N 8
Wm. MoBroom; thence N 78 deg ,
' W #.72 Iks to a poplar; thence N
,84 deg W 3.98 chs; thence 889 deg
W 3 chs; thenee 878 deg W 3 chs :
to corner with said Boswell; thence
8 8 chs to the beginning, and
known as the Florence Vuughn
| tract, containing fifteen (15) acres,
! more or lew.
I This Aug. 10th, 1920.
Alamance Ins. & Real Estate Co.,
Truatee.
B. 8. W. Dameron. Att'y. •
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE.
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NO. 31 1
BANISH GRAY HAIR |
Don't look old and gray—dont
fall befetnd In life'* procession
Bring back a natural, even ebtor
to your hair lx| ; a perfectly health-?,
fill, simple way. by using guaran
teed Q-ban Hair Restorer. - ,1m
You oaght to have beautiful hair;
dark, lustrous and silky. Q-ban to
all ready to use—money back If not j
satisfied. Bold by Hayes Drug
and all good drug stores, 50c per.' ,;
large bottle. TryQ-ban Hair Tonic, I
Liquid Champoo, Soap, also Q-ban I
depilatory.
PROFESSIONAL CABDS
! L^£ij r
GRAHAM HARDEN, M. D.
BvUngtos. N. C-
Office Hoarf: • to II a. m. I
. and by appointment 1
Offlee Over Acta* Drug Co.
Telephones: OSCT tiS-KtuiMeiw t*4
JOHN J. HENDERSON
Attonsey-at-Law
BaAaAM.it c.
r. s. cfoor,
... • »t>ifs»r-«t.U«, I
iKAHAM. .... H. J
Olllorf Patterson Building
Second Ftoor.
IfflL WILLS.LMti.JB.
. . . DENTIST : : :
)FFICiC in SIMMONS BUILDING
UOOB A. Lava. J. KLMKR LOM
LONG * LONG,
4tton»r»»iMi OnmiMlnisui I aw
GRAHAM, K. C.
KEEP SETTH6 HERS
FREE FROM LICE
*1 iraeM not try tibn PMby
without Dr. UGtaA Pooftry I—
•dta." says Ibfc L. V. Koae, of
Coero, Texaa. • -We haw never had
any of them'fafl to do im mora
than yon claim far them.".
qnfcMar rifo yomr floekof Bee sad
Through his
Dr. has helped lln—inli
of PonttryjHabers Wag Ms ft
LsGsw's adries just aa Mrs. BSM
•TarSS™. HjJwMTSSiif,
satisfied wife. result, return the
ynr hslu Ml ha
Louis,
Summons by Publication
NORTII CAROLINA—
ALAMANCE COUNTY,
la the Superior Court,
Lottie K. Southard
against '* - 'V r -'Jra
Waiter K. Brooks Houttiard. •
Tke dtleadut above named will take no
Uoe that an ac lon euUtledaaabove ha* bean
in the Superior Court of. Ala
mance couu v for the dlaMlntlou of tk>
bonds of matrimony hetwom the plaintiff
ai.d defendant: and t: • defendant will fur
titer take notice that be «• required to appea
before the Clerk o» the Superior Court at Ua
office In Graham la aald county on Monday,
the tM day of August, ISUU, and answetr
« which will be dep...i»»l In the
Of said Merle on or before aald Strd day
of august, IM-. And let the "rtendaiU
take ootlee. that If be faU to answer said
OTMPlalnt Within the time prescribed by law.
the plaintiff will apply to the oourt, for tb»
r «'l* r demanded In the complaint.
Tbla the and day of July. HBO.
_ D. J. WALK KB, f-B.C.
LONG A LONG, Attys. -KJulylw
EXECUTOR'S NOTICE.
■ » ■
Having qualified as Bxeeuto; ol the win
of Laant MMonfe. deceased, the undersigned
hereby notlUea all perrons' holding claims
asainst aald estate to present the same, duly
authentic ted. on ot before the »th day of
July, IWI, or th s notice win by pleads*
In bar of their recovery. All persons Indebt
ed to said estate are requested to make Ins
medlatr settlement.
This June Skh. im
J. a WHITTEO.
of Laura Mala*e. dstftf.
SJuljHt Burlington, N. (X
V the soldiering Greeks charge
the Turks liks the fruir-staad
Greeks charge the American*,
tjiay we imwUtfable,