VOL. XLVII
Governor Changes Mind
About Calling Extra
Session of Legislature
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The Extra Session Will Not Confine Itself
to Consideration oi Municipal Finance
Act Alone-Woman Member, Mar
ried Since Regular Session, Pre
sents New Phase—Gov. and
Highway Com'rs Inspect
Toll Roads in West.
CONFEDERATE VETERANS REUNION IN
DURHAM AUG. 23-25.
Gen. Carr Largely Responsible for Meeting in Dur
ham—-National Guard Encampment in July
—lnstruction by U. S. Army Officer at
Encampment—Repeal of Examina
tion of Children School Law
Will be Opposed by State
Board of Health.
(By Maxwell Gorman.)
Raleigh, Jane 21.—Before re
turning to Raleigh this week Gov
ernor Morrison spent two days in
company with the highway com
mitte and bthers on a tour of in
spection of mountain highways.
Leaving Charlotte Monday morn
inff Governor Morrison and W. A.
Hart of Tarboro, State Highway
Commissioner for the first dis
trict, Eeriot Clarkson, one of the
most enthusiastic and hardest
workers of the hard-surface high
way advocates, Wade Harris of
the Charlotte Observer, Francis
O. Clarkson of Charlotte, and
some others, went to Lenoir,
where the party * was joined by
Chairman Page of the Highway
Commission, and commissioners
for the fifth, sixthy seventh and
eighth highway disticts, Messrs.
Wilkinson, Cox, Doughton and
Mcßee.
The party then inspected the
Blowing Rock Turnpike from Le
noir to Blowing Rock, thence to
Spruce Pine, Yonalessee highway
being followed. Along the route
the committee of inspection was
met by delegations of citizens.
This committee of commissioners
have been appointed by the State
commission to inspect western
toll roads with the view of mak
ing appraisal of values, in order
that the State Highway Commis
sioner may be guided thereby in
taking over the roads in making
them public thoroughfares and
parts of the great State hard
surfaced highways system.
Special Seaaioa Legislature.
The chances are that the Gov
ernor will call an extra session of
the Legislature. It may be an
nounced within the next few
days.
Convening the lawmakers in
extra sessiop, especially at this
time of the year, will be much
against the wishes of the Gover
nor personally, as well as against
the aesite of the legislators. But
the representatives of the State
Association of Municipalities have
presented such a strong case on
the part of a number of cities to
function their financial manage
ment in no other way, that the
Governor is understood to have
come around to their way of
thinking.
Of «oone the chief purpose of
THE ALAMANCE GLEANER.
the session will be to validate tbe
municipal act, which has been de
clared invalid, by the Supreme
Court, because of the failure of
the Senate journal clerk to prop
erly record its passage on the Sen
ate Journal, but once assembled
the Legislatnre will not confine
itself to that duty.
The chauces are that, like the
'•Extry" of last August, it will go
the limit of twenty days session
before it adjourns. The date for
assembling the legislators in ex
tra session is expected to be some
time during July or August.
The Governor would defer it
till fall if some of the cities were
not crying out that they can not
wait till then.
What About the Woman Member!
Since the legislature adjourned
last March the one woman mem
ber, Miss Clements, of Buncombe,
has married and changed her
name. The question arises as to
how this fact will affect the repre
sentative from Buncombe county.
Legally, there is no such person
as Miss Clements, and what we
wanD to know is what Alex Lassi
ter, principal clerk of the House,
is going to do about it when he
makes up the roll. He can't real
ly expect an aye response if he
calls "Miss Clements," and by
what authority is he to become
able to call her Mrs. Nawname
(which escapes us for the moment)
and be sure of the validity of tbe
"act?" .
But Clerk Lassiter is a gentle
man of resources and has been
serving in one capacity and
another in the House since Hor
ace Greeley ran for president.
If the female representative from
Buncombe attends the extra ses
sion, Colonel Lassiter can proba
bly be depended on to Ket her
legal cognomen adjusted so as to
appear on the House roll of mem
bers, but de facto de jur&
More Agitation Threatened
There are rumors aud reports
galore of the many subjects that
they may again be taken up by
the Legislature in extra session—
most of them unwelcome ones.
Raleigh club women, more lately
called politicians of tbe new au
thority, are authority for the
statement that the censorship (of
motion pictures) will again be
presented to the lawmakers for
passage, and that just as big a
lobby will be on haud to fight for
it as fought in January and Feb
ruary. Producers aud film men
will be equally strong against it,
and at least one Of the powerful
lobbbies of the regular session
GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY
will be at work in the special
meeting.
Local attorneys interested say
"the Power bill" will again be be
fore the Legislature. The cotton
rinill folks, having waited six
months on the Corporation Coin
mission, are getting anxious for
action.
Most political weather vanes
think the power lobby will be just
as powerful and precipitate just
as big a battle in July and August
as it did six months before, but a
respectable minority of folks
think the fight for a State constab
ulary will be the outstanding
drive on the special session.
Word having come up from the
East that Senator Summer Bur
gwyn will vote for the confirma
tion of Col. A. D. Watts as com
missioner of revenue, that gentle
man entertains no fears.
The taxation sharks are won
dering if the Legislature" won't
make a desperate effort to
"old man ad valorem" back to
life. Governor Rufe Doughton,
is coming back to pilot the Ship
of State in the Lower House. He.
will resign from the Highway
Commission, he told newspaper
men, in order to he here and serve
as chairman of the Finance Com
mittee.
His return will leave the regu
lar session shy only three mem
bers. Highway Commissioner
John Mcßee of Mitchell will not
resign.
Rural Public School Health Work.
Dr. D. R. Perry, a native of
Wake county, has been appointed
assistant to Dr. K. £. Miller, who
Is in charge of the rural public
health work of the State Board of
Health. Dt. Perry has been as
signed to work with Dr. E. F.
Long, Wake county health officer,
and will be in Wake county tor
the next ten days before begin
ning duties in other counties of
the State.
Dr. PerrV is from the Rolesville
section. Heattended Wake Forest
College, where he earned degrees
of-B.S. and B.A. He completed
his course in medicine at the Jef
ferson Medical College at Phila
delphia in 1919 and served two
years as interne in the Jefferson
Hospital. He has devoted much
study to public health work and
is regarded as beiug well equip
ped for his dutis with the State
Board of Health.
Dr. Miller has charge of rural
pub'ic health work of the State
Board in twenty-two counties
which have whole-time health offi
cers. The object of this division
is to cooperate with the county
health officers in rural sanitation
and other phases of rural health
work.
Examination of School Children Law.
The State Board of Health will
oppose the effort to repeal the
present law requiring examina
tion of children as a prerequisite
to their enrollment in the public
schools. Agitatiou to wipe this
law off the books was started
afresh just as BOOJI as it becme
apparent that the Governor would
call a special session of the Gen
eral Assembly. Cooperation of
Dr. W. 8. Rankin, secretary of
the State Board, was sought in
the movement, and he respectfully
declined to interfere.
The law is one optional with
county boards of health but is ef
fective in a majority of the coun
ties. Tbe State Board of Ilalth
holds that it appi es to local self
government and should not be
disturbed.
National liuard Encampment
Field training for the North
Carolina National Guard will be
gin July 10th, wheu the First In
fantry and Divisional and Signal
Company go into encampment at
Camp Glenn, nearMorehead City,
for fifteen days. A four-day
school for a maximum of two
officers and eight enlisted men of
each unit will be held immediate
ly prior to tbe fifteen-day camp
at Camp Glenn, July 6th-9th.
The unit at camp in July, ac
cording to announcement of the
Adjutant-General, will have an
aggregate strength of 1,100 offi
cers and men, and will constitute
one of the largest regimental
camps that has been held by the
North Carolina National Guard
during peace times.
' These eleven hundred officers
and men represent a vast number
of veterans of the World War,
men with distinguished service to
their credit. Six com bat division*
A i
are represented iu the outfit, and
in addition to the record of the
officers the enlisled men partici
pated at the Ilindenburg line, St.
Mitchel, Meuse-Argonne, Chateau
Thierry, Ypres-Lys, Cantigny,
Maine, Somme, Canal Sector,
Toule and Woeuvre sectors.
A systematic scheme of instruc
tion to be followed during camp
has been prepared by Maj. B. F.
Ristine. U. S. A., ou duty with
the Slate, under the supervision
of the commanding general,
Fourth Corps Area, calculated to
give the officeis aud men pro
gressive military instruction.
Major Ristine will be the senior
iutructor at Camp Gleuu and.
will be assisted by a corps of of
ficers aud non-commissioned of
ficers of the regular ariny.
The Y. M. C. A. will bave rep
resentatives present in camp to
provide moviug pictures and to
assist in recreational matters.
The First Infantry Hand, Raleigh,
will be in camp prepared to render
music. Tausportatiou, subsist
ence, pay, and incidental expenses
for the school aud camp will all
he provided by the United States
Government. For the conven
ience of the officers and'men a
shuttle train will be operated be
tween Beaufort, Morehead City,
and Camp Glenn.
Govetrior Morrison will visit the
camp and other State officials will
be invited to pay the camp a visit
and see what the boys are doing.
Confederate Meunloii.
The Confederate Veterans or
North Carolina have accepted the
invitation of Durham to hold fchtf
reunion this year in that city
August 23rd-25th, and plans are
starting this we»k to make it the
most enjoyable occasion of the
kind ever held'in the State. Ad
vices from Durham state that
preparations are under way
already to jnake the stay of the
old soldiers during the hot days
of August the pleasantest pos
sible. Trinity College authorities
have kindly consented to turn
over t heir entire equipment to the
committee which will take care of
the veterans during their stay in
this city, while requests are being
made to the railroads to grant
special rates to veterans on the
days of the State reunion.
It if largely through the efforts
and influence of Geueral Julian
8. Carr in behalf of the Bull City s
invitation to the veterans that
briugs the big State reunion to
Durham.
It is estimated that 600 veter
ans will visit Durham during the
reunion, tffha dates would possi
bly have been fixed for a more
convenient time if it were not for
the continuance of the Trinity
College summer School into the
first wee£ in August.
Secretary Burke Ilobgood, of
the Chamber of Commerce, an
nounced in connection with the
fixing of the dates for the reunion,
that all committees appointed by
the Chamber of Commerce, Mer
chants Association, Kiwanis Club,
Rotary Club, United Daughters of
the Confederacy, Daughters of
the American Revolution, King's
Daughters, or any other similar
organization, who are to co-oper
ate in auy manner in the enter
tainment of the visiting veterans
during August should meet at the
Durham county court house Tues
day night.
It m.ty not lie an enduring
peace, but it has endure I a great
deal.
Getting married is like vaccina
tion. Sometimes it takes.
"Harding blue" may have an
other meaning in 1921.
Till Jane 25th Given to
list Property and
PoU.
Whereas, There are s > many peo
f»le over the county who have failed to
int their property and polls, and
whereas, a number neglected to list
last year, it has hpcome necessary
for the Board to take some action ;
therefore be it
Resolved, That the books be
checked and that all who fail to list
ou or before June 25tb, be reported
to the Solicitor for further action.
This is a warning to all.
By tbe Board o' County Commis
sioners, Jane 10, 1921.
B. M. ROGERS,
Ex-Officio Sec'y of Board.
. JUNE 23, 1921
ANCE§TRAL HOME OF
WASHINGTONS REDEDICATED.
It is S ulgrave Manor, England—Cere
monies Took Place Tuesday.
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A dispatch from Sulgrave,
Northamptonshire, England, dated
June 21st, says:
Sulgrave Manor, ancestral home
of the NVashingtons, was re-dedi-;
cated here today with elaborate l
ceremouies after its restoration,
at a cost of fifty thousand pounds
to the state iu which it existed 1
three centuries auo. ,
In addition to dignitaries from
London, the Lord Mayors of Birm- j
ingha-n, Northampton and Ban- 1
bury and othdif towns were pres-1
ent, attired in their gorgeous J
robes of office, wearing their offi
cial chains and preceded by the j
bearers of the maces, symbols of!
civic authority.
The Marquis of Cambridge, j
brother of Queen Mary, aud i
George Harvey, United States am- j
bassador, gave the principal ad
dresses, asserting the fundamental|
solidarity of the peoples of the j
empire and the republic aud de-1
daring t*he d»y's eveut a good
augUry for the future.
The Prince of Wales planned'
to be present, but was detained.
Today's exercises were arrang-'
ed by the Sulgrave Institute, or
ganized iu 1912 to foster friend
ship between Great Britain aud
the United States. It was the in
stitution also which began the!
movement for the restoration of J
Sulgrave Manor and had the work)
in charge from the first.
The exercises began with short,
services in the Sulgrave Parish;
Church, where lie buried Lau-'
rence Washington, forbear of;
George Washington; Mrs. Wash
ington and their eleven children.
The ceremonies proper were held I
ou the lawn of the manor house.
,John A. Stewart of New York,i
chairman of the American branch |
of theSulgravelnstitute, present
ed bronze bust of Washington to j
the manor ou behalf of American
donors. Letters from Calviu j
Coolidge, vice-Presideut of the|
United States; Uuited States Sen- j
ator Henry Cabot Lodge; Samuel
Gouipeta, president of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor; Charles
W. Eliot, president emeritus of
Harvard University, and other,,
Americans, were read. \
Immediately after the exercises
on the lawn there occurred the,
ceremony in didication of the
Washington arms on the rLhtl
spandrel of the main doorway.!
These consist of three stars aud
two bars from which originated
the American flag.
Native Talent Turns Trick.
Charlotte Observer.
The North Carolina textile
plants have demonstrated the fact
that they can turn out the finest
fabric that can be made in the
United States and there has been
a marked tendency to the finer
lines of manufactures in recent
years. By the same token, the
furniture factories have come to
the conclusion that there is no!
need for our people to send to
other markets for the finest things
in tue furniture line. They are
setting in to make it for the home
folks. Two of the Lenoir factories
decided that they would turn to
what is known as "the period" de
signs. It is the same sort of fur
niture with which the new home
of Mr. Gray, in Gastonia, was
provided by a New York firm. It
is fiuished iu white with ivory
floral figures. When it came to
securing the "transfer"—designs
ready to place on—they found
that they would have to wait for
several months.
But there was Miss Margaret
Harper. She had recently return
ed to her Lenoir hoine from an
institution where she was given
an education which included the
making of trangfrrs such as the
J>enoir manufacturers were need
ed. She was called upou and
proceeded to execute the desired
designs for each piece of furni
ture, and this makes the Lenoir
"period" furniture that much
more and all-home product. Evi
dence multiples almost daily that
there is no use for North Caroli
na to go outside her own borders
for anything under the sun it
wight waut. '
A New Plant Wizard
From The Augusta Chronicle.
Burbauk has a rival in the per
son of Elwiu D. Seaton, Cali-j
i fornia's new wizard." !
His latest f ajitKmo»t remarkable
production hundred and
eighty-eight stalks of wheat fromj
a single grain. While these giant'
! stalks cover considerably more*
, territory than the former one stalk
of wheat grown from a single
j grain he is nevertheless produc
ing from seven to eight times as
| much wheat per acre as has everi
| been produced before, and this
Jon land where little wheat hadi
' ever growu.
, Seaton has made a life-time
study of the soil, subjecting it to '
microscopic examinations to at
tain increased aud better food!
Iproductions, and for the past'
j seventeeu years he lias been con- j
| ducting experiments on his ranch, j
'which, by the way, is not so very!
j far from that other wizard Luther j
Burbauk.
He has not confined his experi
| ments to wheat alone, but has had
! remarkable success with barley,
oats and other grans, aud with!
j prunes and apples.
Seaton'B theory is that all plant
j growth aud development is tie-1
I pendent primarily ou the pres-j
j ence of soil bacteria. The secret
of success he says is to maintain
the "life substance"of the soil by
feeding and cultivating the bac
.teria it contains, and put the soil
' in proper coudition to receive the
seed before planting. He does
Uhis by using cover-cropsof clover,
alfalfa aud the like.
Do you remember the old fash
ioned drug store that sold drugs
'instead of safety razors, ham
i mocks, golf balls, tops and quick-
I lunch? , t
Sale of Real Estate
Under Deed ol Trust.
Under and by virtue of a ce?
j tain deed of trust executed by
C. H. Kiskpatrick and wife,
i Eulala«Kirkpatrick,to Alamance
; Insurance & Real Estate Com
pany on the 21st day of Janu-:
ary, 14*20, securing the payment 1
of certain bonds described there
in, which deed of trust is duly
\ probated and recorded in the
i office of the Register of Deeds
for Alamance county, in Book
j of Mortgages aud Deeds of Trust
;No. 84, at page 200, default
having been made in the pay
' ment of said bonds and interest
thereon, the undersigned Trus
tee will, on
MONDAY, JULY IS, 1921,
at 12 o'clock, noon, offer for sale
;at public auction to the highest
I bidder, for cash, at the court
i house door of Alamance county,
'in Graham, North Carolina, the
i following dercribed real estate,
jto.wk:
A certain tract or parcel of
land in Coble township, Ala
mance county and State of North
Carolina, adjoining the lands of
I Cyrus Coble, Stephen Holt,
Hinton Kirpatrick and others,
I bounded as follows:
Beginning at a rock, corner!
with said Coble and Holt, run-!
ning thence S 42 degßo' E 24.79
chs to a rock, corner with said j
Coble iii Coble's line; thence N
50 deg I'] 1it.20 chs to a rock, I
corner with said Kirkpatrick in)
said Coble's line; thence N 41,
deg W 84.37 chs to a rock, cor
ner with said Kirkpatrick, in a
proposed road: thence with said
road S 2> deg W 2.58 chs to a'
solid rock, corner with said
Councilman and Holt; thence S
22 deg W r 3.33 chs to a bend;
thence S 29 deg \V 3.79 chs to a
bend; thence.S 13 deg \V 7.34
| chs to a rock, corner with said
Holt; thence S 39 deg W '*> Iks
to the Ix-ginning, containing
4i. 3 acres, more or less,
r This sale-will l»e made subject
to increase bids as provided by
law, and will be held open ten
days after sale to give oppor
tunity for such bids.
This May 28th, 1921.
Alamance Ins. & Real Estate Co., ,
i Trustee.
jE. S. W. Dameron, Att'y.
NO. 20
PROFESSIONAL OABDS
GRAHAM HARDEN, M.D.
Burlington, N. C.
Office Hours: 9 to 11a.m.
and by appointment
Office Over Acme Drug Co.
Telephones: Office 1 Hi—Residence 26*
JOHN J. HENDERSON
Attorney-at-Law
GRAHAM. N. C.
llllcc over National Bank of AliaMM
T. S. OOOE,
Attorney-at-La ar,
! ?R\HAM, -•. . . N. 0
Offloo Patterson Building
Second Floor. . . .
DR. WILL UOftG.JR.
... dentist ; : :
iraham. . - - - Narth Carolina
)FFICK IN B]MMONB BUILDING
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\doß A. I,ONG. J. KX.MKK LONS
LONG & LONG,
v t lorne ym and Coanaelors at Llw
GRAHAM, N. C.
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Sale of Real Estate
Under Deed of Trust.
Under and by virtue of a cer
tain deed of trust executed by
J. M. Browning and wifo, Stella
A. L. Davis and wife,
Mamie R. Davis, and C. A.
"Walker and wife, Eva A. Walk
er, to Alamance Insurance &
Real Estate Company on the
11th day of December, 1919, se
curing the payment of certain
bonds described therein, which
deed of trust is duly probated
and recorded in the office of the
Register of Deeds for Alamance
county, in Book of Mortgages
and Deeds of Trust No. 84, at
. page 141, default having been
made in the payment of said
bonds and interest thereon, the
undersigned Trustee will, on
MONDAY, JULY 18, 1921,
at 12 E'clock, noon, offer for sale
at public auction to the highest
bidder, for cash, at the court
house door of Alamance county,
in Graham, North Carolina,
the following described real es
tate, to- wit:
A certain tract or parcel of
land in Alamance county, State
of North Carolina and Burling
ton township, adjoining the
lands of Webb Avenue, Tucker
Street and others, described as
I follow*:
Beginning at a corner of Webb
Avenue and Tucker Street; run
ning thence with the line of
Tucker street southeast 110 ft
to a corner; thence southwest
parallel with Webb avenue 40 ft
to cornor in C. L. Boone's line;
thence with line of said Boone '
northeast parallel with Tucker
street 110 ft to corner on Webb
avenue; thence with line of
Webb avenue northwest 40 ft
to the beginning.
This sale will be made subject
to increased bids HS prvoided by
law,, and will be held open ten
days after sale to give oppor
tunity for such bids.
This June 9th, 1951.
7
Alamance Ins. & Real Estate Co.,
Tnistflp
:k. s w. damero.v, Atty.
I
Proud of Long Service.
Tiie 'i'liirii infantry, tlie oldest regl
[ ment of >ur nriuy, which dutes from
t 17&1, linn developed Its arms to show
; Its early service In Mexico. One In
| terestlng device used by this regiment
Is n huion crossed with an oldUme
j bayonet back of the shield. The ba
tou which figures prominently In the
regiment's history was made from the
flugfftalT of the capitol of the City of
Mexico and was taken when the city
was captured. It Is .still one of the
most highly prized possessions of the
regiment. -
Paint Also Helps.
Most people go to the expense of
t'J having cellar walls whitewashed ev
ery year or so, but few people feel
| that It Is necessary to have any paint
used in the cellar. However, It is a
good idea to have cellar stairs treated
• to a coat or so of good floor paint It
prolongs their life and makes them
easier to dean later.