VOL. XLVII
Public Service Corpora
tions Want More Money
Road Building Program Getting in Shape ;
Actual Buildincp May Depend
on Selling Bonds and
Getting the Money.
GAS. ELECTRICITY AND TELEPHONE FOLKS
.WANT RATES ADVANCED.
Butler Makes "Statement" About Federal Offices
and the "Hog Combine" that Broke up
His "Harmony Program."
(By Maxwell Gorman.)
Raleigh, March 28.—Telephone
rate • revision in North Carolina,
which every town in the State
with a telephone service is inter
ested, is on the board of the State
Corporation Commission this
week. The hearings will consume
all of this week, as the gas rate
hearings did last week, and in the
latter case it is expected the de
cision may be reached to become
effective early in April,
The date fixed for the oral argu
ment of the Southern Power Com-
Sany and the group of electrically
riven cotton mills is April 20th,
after which other public service
corporations will claim additional
attention of the Corporation Com
mission.
Ask Increased Telephone Rates.
Representatives of several of
the larger cities of the State are
here to oppose the excessive ad
ditional charge for telephone
service by the Bell Telephone
Company and other companies,
and these include many lawyers
as-usual.
Increase iu exchange rates is
asked for both business houses
and private residences and all
other like phone rates and i$ much
larger than any previous rate
gaanted the whole. Raleigh, for
instance, is paying a 25 per cent
increase ordered last year by the
Corporation Commission, but the
telephone people want more yet.
The existing long distance rates
will not be changed, it is an
nounced.
To Start Big Road Building Job.
There have been few Governors
of this or any other State wljo
have had at the outset of their
administration as much heavy
work to perform, differences to
adjust, tribulations to bear, of one
kind and another,' as Governor
Morrison has experienced during
his three months on the job, so
far. He is just returned from a
short vacation visit to Charlotte,
and finds the usual greetings from
some newspaper correspondents
and reporters in Raleigb, who
think they know all about every
thing and proceed to criticize the
chief executive's business from
that viewpoint.
Now ihey are magnifying the
8 (-called "unrest" of the recently
appointed members of the' State
Highway Commission, the initial
meeting of which was originally
set for Tuesday of this week, but
which they assert will be delayed.
The sale of bonds, or borrowing
of money in part on short-term
notes, by the State, and some
other important preliminaries as
yet undetermined, leads the Gov
ernor to desire a conference with
the full Highway Commission be
fore the first regular meeting is
held. This conference, it is, ex
pected, will, be held in a few
days.
Many Detail* Mow Heady.
The preliminary sbrvey of the
entire State system of roads, 5,500
miles long, has been made under
the 'direction of Mr. Page, and the
commission is ready to proceed
with the formalities of taking
them over. The drafting depart
ment of the commission has pre-
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pared maps of the system by coun
ties, in accordance with the law,
and will be ready to forward them
to the County Commissioners for
posting within a day after the
commission order it done.
Not only prospective road build
ing, but the organization of the
authorized maintenance depart
ment and putting it into opera
tion, is marking time until the
entiro commission is called to
gether aud the entire nine mem
bers take of the work of
supervision aud direction of the
reat euterprise upon which the
General Assembly determined.
Commissioner P»ge has been un
willing to do other than geueral
preliminary work until the full
commission has reviewed the
situation.
Chief interest ita the meeting
will center about the first issue et'
the authorized road building
bonds, and the plan of mainte
nance provided for in the bill.
Governor Morrison is understood
to be uhwilling to borrow money
on short term uotes in anticipa
tion of the sale of the bonds. The
commission, under the law, has
no part in that phase of the prob
lem, it beinjf named merely to
spend the money after it is pro
vided by the Governor and Coun
cil of State.
Doubts are entertained as to
whether the State will be able to
sell the bonds in the present
market at the authorized interest
rate of 5 per cent. Apparently it
is a question of borrowing the
money or letting the road build
ing stand idle for the time being.
To f'lglit New Freight Kates.
At a conference between the
North Carolina Corporation Com
mission and traffic men of the
State over recent promulgated
tariffs from North Carolina to
Mississippi Valley points the con
ference agreed on a program of
opposition. The North Carolina
interests will be represented in a
hearing to be held in Memphis,
Tenn., by tho Interstate Com
merce Commission, beginning
April sth.
Filling of Federal Office* in N. C.
The forecast carried las'; week
anent the personnel of the men se
lected by the Republican bosses,
panned oat correct at the State
committee meeting. Just bow dis
appointed Butler is over his kick
out may be judged by his "state
ment," which contains the fol
lowing:
Butlers Loud Wail.
"My harmony program received
no reception whatever from the
majority of the committee. They
spurned and spat upon every sug
gestion for a harmony program
under which men of the highest
qualifications, representing all
elements of the party, should be
selected to represent the govern
ment in the important positions
of honor and trust. They did not
want harmony neither were they
interested in the success of the
party. All they wanted was to
take all of the offices for them
selves, and that in exactly what
J they conspired to do A majority
: of the committee, under the leader-
I ship of • emall ringmaster, who
GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY. MARCH 31, 1921
showed at Chicago that he was
ready to seat negro delegates over'
the white, regardless of the evi- j
dedc*, in order to get command of
the patronage pie trough, formed
a hog combine to divide all of the
offices among themselves. Of
coarse, the smaller such a man is
in a combine the more he asserts
his right to the highest office, to
the exclusion of more competent:
men on the committee, to say
nothing of the large number of
vastly more competent, and deserv
ing men all over the State
"It is now known that it was
the purpose of this small hog com
bine to keep the time aud place of
this committee meeting a secret.
By agreement among themselves,
no notice of this meeting was
given to the press. When it leak
ed out through somebody up in
the mountains that there was lo
be such a meeting, then the com
bine tried to mislead everybody
possible by circulating a report
that patrouage matters woujjl not
be taken up, but that the only
business would bo to accept Mr.
Linney's resignation and elect a
new chairman. Indeed, the com
bine, it is now known, had also
agreed on, for their new chair
man, the little boss-man Friday,
who helped him with the negro
delegate business at Chicago; but
when the combine learned that
the dark delegate business at Chi
cago was known, they decided to
hold Mr. Linnej on the job for
the present, because they were
evidently afraid to risk the elec-'i
tion of either the Hon. J. J. Parker
or the Hon. A. A. Whitener. Be-1
sides, the east was demanding the
chairmanship if there was to be a
change, and this combine was de
termined thatf the east
have nothing, outside of the com-1
bine membership. It is known j
that many prominent men in the I
party, in various sections of the j
State, who Wanted to be present j
when matters of public office were j
considered, were prevented from
attending /by the fal*e and mis
leading report about the purpose
of the meeting."
Cleaning Up.
Raleigh is observing clean.up
»week in greatshape, following the
spectacular parade pulled off Mon
day. This is the fag-end of the
term of the present city adminis
tration. and the fact that a pri
mary is to be held in three weeks
has spruced up the sanitary j
"white wings." But the plaiu;
people are doing most of the;
work.
HXate op Ohio Citv or Toi.kixi I
I.uc* a Ckv'TY. - I
Frank J. Cheney makes ottti Uiathe in
senior partner ef the ttfm 01 F. J. ■ limey ic
io„ doing buKlneaa in the city of Toledo,
county and State aloresald, and that «ald tirm
will pay the gum of One Hundred Dollars for
each and every cane of Catarrh that cannot
be cuied by the use of Hall's t.atarrh Cure,
KKANK J.. CHENEY.
Sworn to, before be aud subscribed In my 1
presence, this Bth day of December, A. I).,
r»ft> A. W. O LEA ON.
[Seal] Notary Public,
Hall'a Catarrh Medicine la taken Internally
and act through the blood on the mucous
surfaces of the system. Send lor UstUno
nlais free.
F. J. CHENEY & I'O., Toledo, O. |
Sold by all Drurulsts, 75c.
Hall's Family PlTls for constipation
The Vassar girls who havej
abaudoned modern styles say it's
not BO much for propaganda as
propriety.
TAKE IT IN TIME
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Just as Score* of Graham People Have.
Waiting doesn't pay.
If you neglect kidney backache.
Urinary troubles often follow.
Doan's Kidney Pills are for kid
ney backache, and for other kid
ney ills.
Graham citizens endorse them- j
Mrs. Bettle L. Piekard, VV. Eim j
St., says, "About two year#
I was troubled with a dull nlj|-
ging pain in the Bmall of my baci
1 was very nevous and dizzy and
black specks olurred my sigh*.. The
kidney secretions passed irregu
larly, too. When Doan s kidney
Kidney Pills w§re recommended to
me, I got a box fro.n Graham
Drug Co., and they cure the back
aches and rid me of the dizziness.
I can't praise Doan's highly
enough. • "
Price 60c, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy—
getDoan s Kidney Pills—the sim
that Mrs. Piekard had. Poster-M.l
burn Co., Mfgra.," Buffalo, N. Y.
Truck For Hire.
Let us do -your hauling of "every
kind, moving, etc. Have a new
truck. Term* reasonable.
Bramiuw fc Fuller,
Phone 650. Graham, N. C. I
"Clean-Up" Week.
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The Insurance Commissioner has
set aside the first week in April as
"Clean up" week, and it is earnestly
hoped that everybody will co-operate
in this movement. It 'vill be I lie
duty of the Fire luspector to inspect
buildings and report any delects
promp lyto the town authorities. It
is also earnestly hoped that the dif
ferent clubs of 'he women and the
school children, utxler the leader
ship of their teuchi rs, will mobilize
their forces*for riiat week aud help,
j clean up the town. It is also hoped
thnt the business men will examine
I their premises and remove all trash
and rubbish and inspect all heating
j appliances. The Chief of the Fire
Department should extnvhe his fire
! apparatus as a special duty and make
| the week' an occasion for inspection
|of all buildings and conditions in
I the fire district. Each woman should
| inspect her home, particularly have
i repaired unsafe chimneys, flues,
| pipes, closets, attics, back-yards and
! basements. The town will supply
! without stint the necessary trans
j portation for the removal of all lire
! and disease-breeding mate.ial, and
it is earnestly hoped thit every man,
'woman and child, will co-operate in
I this work
ROBT. L HOLMES,
Mayor.
| . Cotto/i Profiteering.
LTniv 1 . N. CwJN'ews Letter.
V Our farmers are getting around
I' 2 ceuts for cotton Or
ho the/prices are quoted in the
market reports, but as a matter
of fact they are getting a good
deal less than that in remote
country places. VVe happen to
know of one shipment of low
grade cotton at thirty-six dollars
a bale.
And why ? Because nobody
wants it at any price, the buyers
say; thd carry-over is excessive,
the mills on this side are over
stocked, and the demand over
seas lias ceased. Such are the
current reasons handed out to oUr
cotton fanners since the slump in
cot tun prices late last August.
Now the fact is, export demands
for raw were hardly less
in 1920 than in 1919. The ship
ments abroad for the year ending
with last, December were barely
450 thousand bales less than the
year before. .See the Jan. 27 re
port of the Federal Departaient
of Commerce.
There is economic chaos abroad,
but it is dead certain that our ex
porters are shipping no raw cot
tou except for gold or on gilt-edge
security.
And while they were shippiug a
little less they were getting a good
deal more for it—upon au average
of 36 ceuts a pound in 1920 against
33 cents in 1919!
There you are Exporters get
ting 'M> cents a pound from for
eign consumers and paying domes
tic produces 12 cents ur less!
If cotton aud tobacco farmers
cannot or will not bunch up in
business-like ways to protect the
prices they fairly ought to have,
they are wooden-headed beyond
words.
But will they ?
The farmers of one Carolina
county have recently surrendered
more than a half millioD dollar?
to blue-sky artists selling worth
less od stock, fertilizer factory
stock and the like; or so a local
banker reported last week.
If they only would invest a half
million dollars in public educa
tion, co-operative enterprise, and
common sense, the couuty wduld
lead the State in a jiffy in progress
and prosperity.
Geometrical Mind.
"Charley, dear," mild young Mr*.
Torklns, "I see Hint they are talking
about a whisky ring." •
"What, of Itr
"I was Just wondering—"
"Go on. Let'* heaf .the worst."
"I wa« wondering whether they one
the word 'ring* because of the way
liquor sometimes makes a man walk
In circles."
Costume.
"DischargedT" Inquired one of the
atatuesques In the spectacular show.
"Yes." replied the other. "The stage
manager says 1 overdressed. I wore
« Simple and a mole same time."
Rough and Ready.
"Sly husband can't see you. He's
writing rpstatrs under Inspiration."
."Dm. Aik him U Wi Insured
MN|t to pay W MIL"
How to Know Poetry.
We literates have been taught to
read poetry, and taught also that It
Is highly commendable to enjoy It. In
order to know what kind of poetry
ought to be especially enjoyed, We read
other books, written by crltles. In or
der to understand what the poetry
that ought to be admired means, w®
read other books by professional
grammarians. By the time we have
finished this preparatory reading, we
are somewhat confused. We are In
doubt as to what poetry actually is,
and how It differs from prose. In this
predicament we fall back on the print
er. If every line begins with a cap
ital letter, we assume that It is .po
etry.—Samuel McChord Crothers In
the Atlantic Monthly.
Cultivated Ross is' English.
In many countries some flower la
taken as the national emblem. The
French claim the fleur de lis, the
Scotch the fhlstle, and the wattle be
longs entirely to Australia; tlie maple
leaf Is the national emblem of Canada,
as the fern leaf Is of New Zealand.
But the most familiar of all Is per
haps the red rose of England. Every
one has henrd of the Wars of the
Roses. There Is no more typically
English flower than the rose; and yet
most English roses have come from
China or from the East. The culti
vated rose, however, in Its hundreds
of varieties—bush roses, climbing,
scrambling, rambling roses, ' dwnVf
roses—ls typically English.
Salt Monopoly In Ecuador.
The production and sule of salt In
Ecuador Is monopolized by tie govern
ment, which enjoys a good profit there
from. Salt Is obtained from the sa
llnus In the provinces of Guayas, Ma- ]
nab! and El Oro. The works consist
of blocks of land whose surface has
been lowered a few feet. Into which
seu water Is permitted to seep. The
watej- Is slowly evaporated by the
sun, precipitating crystals and thus
forming a considerable layer of salt,
tfhlch Is broken Into pieces for dis
tribution. It is estimated that the
average quantity of salt consumed by
each individual In Ecuador Is thirteen
pounds tier annum.
Movie Theaters In Rio.
It Is at the cinema theaters that
the Carlocas (citizens of ,Rlo de Ja
neiro) know real comfort; for, un
like our moving-picture houses,
those In Itlo have spacious waiting
rooms, where you sit, listening to ex
cellent music, until the hour for the
first reel comes round. The pioneer
house of the kind inaugurated this
custom, and now the people refuse to
stand outside waiting for the even
hour to arrive or to enter after the
Aim has started. With so much profit
able space tirken from the audltorlam,
the movies in Rio Janeiro are not as
great money-makers as with us. The
American favorites are popular, quite
outclassing Italian and Brazilian film
stars. —Harriet Chalmers Adams in Na
tional Geographic Magazine.
Inspect Moths by Machine.
"An elaborate machine called the
choselkl Is used by the Japanese in
the Inspection of silkworms for dl»
ease. The machine In the Inspection
house of Nagano prefecture requires
2,000 microscopes and a large corps of
workers.
Moths are made to lay their eggs
each on one square of sheets of car&
board bearing 118 numbered squares.
They then are killed, their bodies pul
verized and examined. If the bacilli
are found, the square containing the
eggs laid by the diseased moths Is cat
out and burned. —Japan Advertiser.
Summons by Publication
NORTH CAROLINA
ALAMANCK COUNTY
In the Muperlor Court,
L. D. Ayero, Plaintiff,
VH.
Phoeba Avers, Defendant.
The defendant above nained-will
take notice thatan action entitled
a« above ha« been commenced in
the Superior Court of Alamance
county to obtain abaolute divorce;
and the fiaid defendant will fur
ther take notice that she is re
quired to appear before the Clerk
of the Superior Court for the coun
ty of Alainance at h'm office at the
courl hoQHu in Gmhain, North
Carolina, on the 30th day of April,
1921, and answer or demur to the
complaint of the plaintiff, whkili
will be deposited in the office of
the said clerk of the Superior
Couat of uaid county on or before
the return day of the BntnmouH,
or the plaintiff will apply to the
court for the relief demanded in
said complaint.
This 31at day of March, 1921.
I). J. WALKER, C. S. C.
Wm, I, Ward, Att'y. 31mcb4t
Notice o! Sale.
Pursuant to the power of sale
contained in a certain deed of
trust executed by Dr. J. J. Bare
foot and wife, Octavia W.
Barefoot, to the undersigned
trustee, dated December 7,1920,
and recorded in the office of thej
Register of Deeds for Alamance l
county in Deed of Trust Book
No. 85, at page 00, given to se
cure the payment of a certain
bond of even date therewith in
the sum of $0,000.00, and inter
est thereon, payable to Graham
Home Building Company) the
said undersigned trustee will
sell at public auction to the
highest bidder, for cash, at the
court house doOrin Graham, on
SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 1921,
at 12:00 o'clock, hoon, the fol
lowing described real property,
to-wit:
A lot or parcel of land in the
Town of Graham, Alamance
county, North .Carolina, adjoin
ing the lands of R. L. Holmes,
O. J. Paris, N. Main Street of
the said town, and others, and
bounded as follows: . • '
Beginning at an iron bolt,
corner with said Holmes' lot
bought of O. J. Paris, on north
east edge of said street, at north
east side of concrete walk, run
ning thenoe S 32 deg 15' E 91
ft to an iron bolt at northeast
edge of said walk; thence N 56
deg E 214 ft 8 inches to an iron
bolt in said Paris' line; thence N
20 deg 30' 9 i ft to an iron bolt
in said Paris' Hue, 2 ft 0 in S of
said Paris and Young's corner;
thence S 56 deg W (B. S.) 224
ft 10 in. to the beginning, con
taining .45 of an acre, more or
less.
Terms of Sale: This sale will
remain open for ten daysfor ad
vance bids as provided by law
under mortgage sales, and the
bidder wiH lie required to pay
10 per cent of his bid on date of
sale, balance to be paid in cash
after thrf expiration of said ten
days, and upon executfcfti and
delivery of deed by the Trustee
conveying the said property to
the purchaser at said sale.
This HIM day of Mareh, 1921.
E. S. PARKER, Jh,,
Trustee.
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Mortgagee's Land Sale.
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By virtue of the power of
sale contained in a certain
mortgage deed executed on 17 th
day of March, 1920, by Craw
ford Johnston and his wife for
the purpose of securing pay
ment of a bond of ev6n date
therewith and the interest
thereon, said mortgage deed
being duly recorded in the office
of the Register of Deeds for
Alamance county in Book No.
82 of Mortgage Deeds aud
Deeds of Trust at page 13f,
and default having betoti made
in the payment of Arid bond
and interest, the undersigned
mortgagee will, on
SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1921,
at 12 o'clock, noon, at the court
house door in 'Graham, Ala
mance county, N. C.. offer for
sale at public outcry to the
higest bidder, for cash, the fol
lowing deKned aud described
tracts of land in Pattemok)
Township, said county and
State, to wit:
First—Adjoining and bound
ed on the north and east by the
lauds of Jackey Noah, on the
south by J. Graves, on the
west by Dan Alexander, add
supposed to contain about ten
acres.
Second—Adjoining and bound
ed on the north by the above ■
described tract, on the east by
said Alexander and Talton Holt,!
on the south by Talton Holt, on
the west by Jackey and j
supposed to contain ten acres.
This March 28, 1921.
D. H. THOMPSON,
Mortgagee.
Win. I. Ward, Att'y. 24mcbtd»
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NO. 8
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
GRAHAM HARDEN, M. D.
Burlington, fr. C.
Office- Hours: » to U ft. m.
and by appointment
Office Over Acme Drug Co.
Telephone*: Offlee »4«—Revidence 2*4
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JOHN J. HENDERSON
Atleraey-at'Law
GRAHAM, N. C.
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9RAHAM, • • • * N. C
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Drag Co.
Mortgagee's Sale of
Land.
By virtue of the power of sale
contained in a certain mortgage'
deed executed on Dec. 20th,
1915, by Charlie Harvey and
wife for the purpose of securing
payment of a bond of even 1 date
therewith and * interest thereon,
said mortgage deed being duly
recorded in the office (5 the
Register of Deeds of Alamance
cotinty in Book No. 60 of Mort
gages aud Deeds «of Trust, aT
page 508, and default having
been made in the payment of
said bond and interest, the
undersigned mortgagee will, on
SATURDAY, APRIL 23,* 1921,
at 12 o'clock, noon, at the court
house door in Graham, Ala
mance county, N. C., sell at pub
lic outcry to the highest bidder,
for cash, the following described
tract of land, to-wit:
A tract of land lying and be
ing in Alamance county, -gfcate
of N. C., in Newlin township,
adjoining Luther Cheeks and
others and known as part Of the
William Moser place and bound
ed as follows: Beginning at a
stone on Jos. Harper's line,
thence N 1 deg E 2 chs and 60
Iks to a stone; theuce W I.sochs
to a stone; thence N 07.17 chs to
a stake; thence 06 deg E 13.15
chs to a stake; thence 8 63.72
chs to a blackoak; thence E'5.30
chs to a maple; thence S 1 deg
W 11 cits and 50 Iks to a stake;
tnence N 84£ deg W
to the beginning, containing 96
acres more or less, and being lot
No. 1 in the division of the: John
G. Moser lands.
This March 23, 1921.
D. H. THOMPSON,
Mortgagee.
Wm. I. Ward, Att'y. 24mehIds
TOWN TAXES.—The tax books
for 1920 are in my hands. Prompt
payment requested. .
I . B. R F TBOUNOH,
| Tax Collector,
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