North Carolina Newspapers

y>L. XLVII GOV MORRISON REFUSES TO INTERFERE WITH THE . COURT SENTENCE IN I HARRIS CASE Number of North Carolina People Following Gainful Occu pations. (By Maxwell Gorman.) Raleigh, Sept. 27.—The e»rly advent of October reminds thous ands of Raleigh people and many other thousands that the annual Great State Fair is just around the curve in the track, beginning October 17th for one week. The reunion of North Caro linians each year at the State Fair is one of the most enjoyable and pleasing of annual events in our State. Men and women "from Currituck to Cherokee" meet each other and renew old friendships only at the State Fair. Thousands of them see each other at no other time or occasion, and many of us do not know whether we will ever meet again, even there. Col onel Pogue and Captain Denson, s the active executives of the State say this year's exhibits and attractions will surpass that of any previous time and are expect ing fully 100,000 visitors during the week. The grounds have been enlarged and the parking space for automobiles greatly aug mented. \ , U. I).. C. Meeting Postponed,, The annual convention of North Carolina United Daughters of the Confederacy which was to have convened October 18th at Win , ston, has necessarily been post poned one week, and will assem ble October 25th. Governor Morrison and the Harris Petition. Governor Morrison, at the final hearing last Saturday in the ex executive offices, of argument of counsel petitioning for a commu tation of the death sentence of T, J. Harris of Buncombe, convicted of the murder of Monish, stated that the impeachment of the character of witness Mays, which Judge Carter attacked through wholesale affidavits, could not govern his decision in the matter, because of the fact that if there had been ntTwituess Mays in the trial the jury should have con victed Harris of first degree mur der on the evidence of the other witnesses. If the Governor, who had familiarized himself witlyJie case, had believed that conviction was due to the testi mony of the alleged hypocrite and immoral scoundrel, masked in the livery of the church aud the Y. M. C. A. to serve the devil, there is no doubt that Ex-Governor Craig, former Senator Jones and former Judge Frank Carter, coun sel who argued for the petitioner, would have secured a commuta tion to imprisonment for life. That was the, best they hoped for. But the ca6e having been ap pealed and passed on by the Su preme Court and neither Superior Court judge, solicitor or jury that tried Harris having joined in the petition for commutation, his Excellency could not see his way conscientiously clear to interfere with the "orderly procedure of the courts, ' however stroqg the appeal for clemency might be from any other aspect. There are some who regret that this was so, but DO one can properly eriticize the chief magistrate of the State for firmly adhering to his con scientious conclusion of what the oath of bis office demanded of him. Probably no convict in many years in North Carolina has been represented on an occasion like that of last Saturday in the office of the Governor by legal counsel of greater learning and eloquence and compelling influence, nor by counsel who bad more thoroughly exhausted every avenue to achieve their purppee, honorably of course. Listening to Ex-Governor Craig, for instance, who made a plea of rare eloquence and persuasion, (be Governor was visibly touched, THE ALAMANCE GLEANER. even if he could not officially re spond to the prayer for mercy. Hecreta of Unney COB tarnation. Senators Simmons and Overman are concerned about • newspaper report to the effect that District- Attorney Linnev had said they were instrumental in keeping secret' the testimony before the Judiciary Committee on the Lin uey confirmation. Messrs. Sim» mons and Overman did all they could to make the records in that case public. They wanted the people of the State to know just what was said about the famous letter proposing to bar the negro from the ballot. There is no foundation for the assertion that they in any way interfered. "Such a story is absurd," said Mr.Overman. "The" only good that could have come out of that controversy was the exact trnth — the testimony as given before our committee. Co-Operative Marketing Again. In an indirect way Governor Harding, of the Federal Reserve Board, gives endorsement of the co-operation movement now mak ing such fast progress it) North Carolina. He insists that the future prosperity of the country depends largely on more intelli gent system of marketing the agricultural products. In the matter of selling the present and future cotton crops of the State, the farmers have made notable progress in organized marketing. It begins to appear a possibility that the marketing of cotton in North Carolina will be placed upon the basis through which the California fruit-growers have been enabled to come into control of the fruit industry, and that being done we will, hear the last of the farmers being forced to sacrifice their cotton at unfair prices. Grape Wine Must Have No Kick. When the announcement was made some time ago from Wash ington that each family would be allowod, make 200 gallons of wine for home consumption, the matter of grape-growing at on-e assumed an importance hitherto unknown. Now Comes the other and further information that it is non-intoxi cating fruit juice only—ordiuary grape juiee- i that may be manu factured in any amount up to 200 gallons for each family. Any sort of home brew that has a kick in it may nqt be made without in viting the pains aud penalties provided by Mr. Volstead. Plans to grow more grapes aud build wine presses will be abandoned. Gainful Occupations in X. C. An interesting statistical state ment showing general occupations in which the people of North Carolina are engaged has just been issued. About July Ist the tabulation of the occupational data w ill be completed. Accord ing to the figures just announced 35 per cent of the total population of the State are engmed in indus trial pursuits, as follows: There was 895,021 persons 10 years of age and over in North Carolina engaged in ga : nful oc cupations in 1920, constituting 35.0 per cent of the total popula tion of the State (2,559,123), and 48.6 per cent.of the population 10 years of agq and over. In 1910, the 947,839 gainful workers were 43.0 per cent of the total popula ion of the State and 500 percent of the population of age and over. Of the' gainful workers of North Carolina in 1920, 692,917, or 77.4 per cent, were males and 202,704, or 22 0 per cent were "fe males. The inale gainful workers constituted 75.5 pe# cent of all males, 10 years of hub and over in 1920, while the female gainful workers constituted 21.Q per cent of all femaleb 10 years of age and over in 1920, as. against 344.2' per cent in 1910. Of the gainful w rkers of North Carolina in IWZO, 177,543, or 53.5 per cent, were engaged i:i agricul ture, forestry and animal hus bandry, 2,002, or 0 2 per cent, in extracting of minerals; 211,019, or 4 1 per ci-nt, iu manufacturing and mechanical industries; 3ft,- 331, or 4.1 per cent, iu transpor tation; 52,031, or 5.9 per cent in trade; 9,003, or 1.0 per cent, in public servjcf, 29,749, or 3.3 per cent in professional service, and 20,509 or 2 3 per cent, in clerical operations. GRAHAM, N. C.. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 29. 1921 Elon College Music Lovers' Club Have Arranged for Concert and Course. The people of Alamance and adjacent counties in easy reach will be pleased to know that the Music Lovers' Club of Elon Col lege is arranging for a group of leading artists for theif concerl and lecture course to be given at the college this year. It is un usual for such a fine array of tal ent to come to our county, and those who appreciate lectures and music of a high character, and we are glad to say that the number included in such a list in our county constantly grows, will ap preciate thoroughly ihe oppor tunity this concert and lecture course will give them. Each of the numbers is to be given ou some evening and they are distributed, the five of them, through the college year. The season ticket for the five numbers is 82.50, an absurdly low rate. But it must be remembered that the college does not expect to make any money on this series of entertainments. Every student of the college and resident of Elon, if the past is any indication, will purchase a season ticket. A canvass of the people at Elon, Burlington, Graham JHaw River, Gibsonville, and the communities of the county whose interests would naturally incline them to lend patronage and support to a cause such as this will be made.' Every-citizen of tne county, who believes in the best tflhings in life, is urged to purchase a season ticket. The Maroon and Gold of Sep tember 23rd, which is the College weekly paper, speaks of this i»eries in highest terms and from their paper we are making the follow ing quotation, describing in detail the announqement o£ the coursd: The Music Lover's Club of Eton announces that it has made ar rantfements for a concert and lec ture course to be given at the col lege this year. Professor Betts and Alexander visited New York this summer and personally arranged for this course. Some of the world's best talent, will appear before the col lege aud community during the year. The coarse consist* of live num bers. Three music numbers, one reader and one lecturer. All numbers will be of the highest order—each individual being a real artist in his or her special line. Ther first number will be given October 13th by Walter Greene, American Baritone, assisted by Francis Moore, Pianist. Both come highly recommended, hav ing given concerts in New York City and over the entire country. Mr. Greene is a genuine Bari toue with a voice of gorgeous beauty and remarkable range His musicianship is sound arjd dependable, his aiTseciire and he has the rarest of all abilities— the art of projecting each song with such vital aud individual authority that he wins his au dience on the instant aud holds their attention with out falter. The New York times paid the following fine tribute to his per sonality, when commenting on his New York recital: "Such rich vocal material and virile presence should go far. Mr. Greene is a stalwart young Bar ito ne—a u admirable poreador," Francis Moore, the assisting artist is a well known composer and accompanist; In the capaci ty of occorapftnht he has played for the greatest—Kreisler, Pow ell, Sembrich, Alda, and others. Mr. Moore is heard several times each week in the concert halls of New York as accompan ist. He will nrnke his profession al bow, as pianist to a New York audience on October 11th—two days before coming to Elon. The s&cond number wilj be a lecture by Mr. Shaw Desmond, the noted English Author and lec turer, on November 15. Mr. Desmond, whose remark able novels of contemporary life have made a profound impression throughout the English-speaking world is today arouslug an un usual degree of interest on both sides of the Atlantic by reason of his amazing versatility, his keen powers of observation and his striking originality su» a fiction writer. By the leading Euglish Hud American literary critics he has been awarded a foremost place in the ranks of modern novelists. On January Gt.h Miss Frances Nash, American Pianist, will ap pear in piano recital. Miss Nash will be in this country only dur ing January and February, 1922. The remainder of the season will be spent in England, France and Switzerland. Miss Nash has her own special Chickering Grand Piauo which she will have sent to Elon for her concert hero. . The New Haven Evening Reg , liter says: "Frances Nash proved to us that she is one of the finest of the youn.er family of real talented pianists. The Symphony patrons agreed that the praise this young lady has re ceived in this country and outside was not unwarranted in the least. "Miss Nash is a musician gift ed by the gods to impart that which the composer toiled day and night for. Her technic flaw less, her tone beautiful." The fourth number of the series will b« a joint recital given by Mr. Roderick White, Violinist, and Miss Caryl Ben-el, Soprano, Mr. White is a violinist of rare attainments. He was selected fn.m among many to go 011 tour with Madame Desliner, the noted Prima Donna. Miss Bensel has a beautiful s >- prano voice which she uses with great skill and charm. She was selected as soloist at Chautauqua Institution, New York, the past summer—a distinction which does not come to many singers. They will appear here February Ist. The concluding number of the series will b-* two Shakespeare readings, one in the afternoon and one in the evening of Febru ary Bth by Mr. C. K. W. Griffith, patron of the Chicago Shake speare Club. Mr. Griffith's artistic renditions are based upon careful and origi nal literary interpretation, lie is ihn only reader iu the world wlio reads every si-a on all of Shakespeare's plays in public. Cotton Ginners Not Having License Subject to Fine The Stale Commissioner of Ag riculture,' Hon. W. A. Graham, says: There are a number of cotton ginners in the State who have riot yet applied for license to operate a cotton gin during this season. Their attention is called to the fpet that the last session of the Legislature passed a law requir ing that all ginners make appli cation for license to the Commis sioner of Agriculture and that such ginners collect for the next two years a tax of tw»»nty-five cents per bale on all cotton gin ned, remitting this tax monthly to the Department of Revenue. The law implied a fine of five dollars per day on all ginners who operate without securing State license. Therefore, it is directed that ginners who have not yet se cured their license to operate write the Commissioner or Agri culture requesting a form of ap plication for license, which should be tilled out and forwarded im mediately. As a matter of information I de sire to state that the tax referred to constitutes a fund which guar antees the integrity of the ware house receipts issued tinder the State Warehouse System, and that nine-tenths of this fund will be loaned for the construction of warehouses, the individual loan not to exceed fifty per cent of the total warehouse cost. The atten tion of your readers is called to the benelits which they may ob tain by availing themselves of the provisions of this law either in re gard to the operation under it of existing warehouses or in borrow ing money for the construction of new warehouses. A humane society is offering a substantial cash prize fur a trap that will either kill an auitual in* stantly or hold it alive without iujury. Three hundred und sixty sepa rate dyes are iimnufactured in the United Slates. Indigo ranks first in quality and suiohur black second. • TOWN WATER SUPPLIES A Number of North Carolina Towns Own Their Watersheds Chapel Hill, N. C., September 27 The present drought has brought home to the responsible officials of the cities and towns, of North Carolina the pressing duty of providing adequate sup plies of pure water for the use of all residents and the requirements of all Industries. Few munici palities when installing water works look far enough alvead to provide for the natural increase of population or for an exception ally dry season. As a result th'f health and the busiuess of the towns suffer. Some of our middle North Car olina towns are within a few miles of some river large enough to cleanso itself of impurities. Such towns should take advant age of their opportunities to se cure really adequate supplies. Others, however, must be depend ent upon smaller streams. Such water supplies can kept pure and regulated so that the flow is almost constant by keeping a for est cover on the watershed. Many of our mountain towns have already found out the ad vantage of owning their own watershed so as to insure an abundant supply of pure water without the cost of filtering it or even of pumping it. At least ten of the most important Western North Carolina towns now count the land including this watershed, as their most val ued i»nd profitable possession. Asheville owus two adjacent watersheds comprising 18,000 acres, both of tbem thoroughly forested and adequately protect ed from fire. Sixteen miles of pipe connects the intake with tha city reservoir. Marion goes six miles to a pure mountain stream, it« pipe line crossing the Cataw ba River. It owns its watershed of 1,000 acres of forest land, around which it has constructed a fire line, following a recent fire in Marion, in which a large wholesale store was burned out, the mayor upon investigation found the water, overflowing the reservoir after every available hose had been playing on the fire for more than two hours. This shows one of 4he advantages of a good supply of water. Other towns which own their whole watershed, and which maintain a good forest cover are: Canton I,oooacres. Waynesville 960 acres, Tryon 700 acres, Andrews'44o acres, Bre vard 325 acres, Weaverville 300 acres, Murphy 208 acres, Saluda 139 acres. In all of these cases the intake is at a higher eleva tion than the town so that the water flows through the pipes by a gravity system. Wiustou-Saletn Greensboro both own considera ble areas of land in connection with there water works, though comprising not more than a small percentage of the total area of their watershed. -s Land is always a safe invest ment, and when a municipality cau secures perfect water supply, and at the same time grow a crop of timber, criticism would more justly be against the board of aldermen that held back rather than the one that moved forward. A geographic and industrial at las prepared in England for the use of the blind contains twenty maps in relief and 202 pages of embossed descriptive text. The transmission across the ocean by wireless of photographs and written document in facsi mile baa been accomplished. An ordinary passenger loeoino 'ive consumes a pound of coal for every 52 feet it t ravels. Nearly all accidents are common accideuta. • 100 Rewird, |IUO Til* reader* of thla paper will be p leaned to Iraru that I here la at leaat OM dreaded dla euae that acienca baa been able to cure In all lt» ata»e» anl that la catarrh. Catarrh be In* Kreally Influenced by constitutional condi tion* requlrea conatUullonal treatment. Hall'a Catarrh Medicine la taken Internally and act* ibrnufh tbe Wood on tbe Mucoua Muriate* of tbe Hyatem thereby d- atroylnK the iouudatlon of iba dlieaae, giving the p«- ilent atrenifth by building up tbo conatltu lion und aaaletlnat nature in,doing It* work. The proprietor* have to nu:b faith In tl-e curative power* of Hall'* Catarrh Medicine t- at they offer One Hundred Dollar* for any caaa ibat It fall* to cure Send for ll*t of tea- Umonlal*. I Add rose 9. J. Cheney * Co., 1M«do, Ohio. Mold brail VTNHTM, ne. mdv Mrs. Myrtle Clapp Died in S. C. but Buried at Elon—Dr. Summerbell Returns Home. Cor. of The Gleaner Elon College, Sept. 28. —Mrp. Mj rtle Clapp, wife of Mr. W. M. Clapp of Sumter, S C., was buried here today. Mrs. Clapp underwent a serious surgical op eration a week ago in her home city and died in the hospital Tues day morning of this week. Her father, Rev. P. T. Klapp, has long been a resident of Elon College, and Mrs. Clapp was reared in this community. # The funeral service was con ducted by the college pastor, Dr. N. G. Newman, assisted by Dr. J. U Newinau of the College Faculty and Dr. J. W. Wellons. The in terment was in the Elon cemetery. Dr. Martyu * Suinmerbell of Lakemout, N. Y., who has since Sunday been delivering a cour-e of lectures to the student body of Elon College, completed the lec ture course yesterday and left for his home last night. Measurements Show Flies Travel Long Distances That the house fly not uncom monly makes a journey of 5 to 0 miles in the space of 24 hours, is shown by experiments conducted by the Bureau of Entomcflogy, United Stales Department of Agri cult urtv The ease with which flies travel many miles shows the importance of general sanitary measures to destroy breeding places. Fly flight tests were conducted in northern Texas, where approx imately 234,000 flie* of many dif ferent species were trapped, then dusted with finely powdened red chalk and liberated. Fly traps baited with food highly relished by the flies were placed at meas ured intervals in all directions from the points of release. By means of these secondary traps, it was possible to determine the direction and fligth of different species of flies. The lefts showed that the flies, after regaining their freedom, would travel distances up to 1,000 feet in a few minutes. The screw worm fly evidenced its power to cover a half mile in 3 hours, while the black blowfly traveled !iny whqre from half a mile t'> 11 miles dnring the first two days release. The housefly covered over (i miles in less than 24 hours. Observa tions at the Rebecca Light Shoal off the coast of Florida seemed to show that' flies come down the wind from Cuba (05 miles distant) and Marquesas Keys (24 miles distant), and even from Key West Fla., 40 miles away. The maxi mum distance traveled by the houne fly iu these experiments was 13.14 miles. The tests proved Hint the in jurious forms of fly life was not distributed on ;uiy large scale by artificial means, but rather that many of the tar-flying species showed marked migratory habits. Some men have no bad habits and nothing else. 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Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy— get Doan's Kidney Pills —the same that Mr. Hargrove had. poster- Milbnrn Co., Mfrs., Buffalo, N. V NO. 34 PROFESSIONAL CARDS I j THOMAS D. COOPER, Attorney and Counsellof-at-Law, GRAHAM, N.C, 1 OFFICE IN PARIS BUILDING. S. C. SPOON, Jr., M. D. Graham, N. C. Office over Ferrell Drug Co. Honrs: 2to 3 aud 7 to'J p. m., and by appoin'ment. i Phone 97 GRAHAM HARDEN, M. D. Burlington, N. C. Office Hours: 9 to 11 a. m. and by appointment Office Over Acme Drug Co. i Telephones: office I lO—Residence 26* JOHN J. HENDERSON Attorney-at-Law GRAHAM. N. C. mice over rational Bonk of Alamaaea T. S. COOK, Attorney -at. Lao, .... N. c Offloe Patterson Building Second Flsor. . , . UK, WILL S. JR. • ■ PENTI3T i * • i '.rr.nam .... North Carolina ! (KKIOKINSJMMONS BUILDING J. IjI.MKK U)DIH C. AIXION Durham. C. Graham, Ji. C. LONG & ALLEN, . fU>rti«jr» and Oounaelor* at 1,« w GRAHAM N. C Receiver's Sale Under Deed in Trust. Under and by virturc of the power of. ' sale contained in a certain deed of trust I executed the Uth day of February, 1919. | by KutTin Rogers to the Graham Loan & | Trust Co., Trusted, for tin.- purpose of j securing certain bonds of even date there with, and the interest thereon, which deed of trust is>du)y probated and recordeil in tRe office of Register of Deeds for Ala : mance county in liook of Mortgages and Deeds of Trust No. 84, at page 39, de j fun It having been made in the payment of j said bonds according to their tenor, and j under and by virtue of the authority vest -1 I'd in me as Receiver of the Graham Lean | & Trust Co., in an order duted the 28tli ' j day of January, 1921, made by J. Loyd Horton, Judge of Superior Court of North Carolina, holding the courts of the Tenth Judicial district, the undersigned Re ceiver will, on v MONDAY, OCT. 10, 1921, at 13 o'clock, noon, at the court Wise door of Alamance county, at Graham, N. sell to the highest bidder, for cosh, the lands defined and deserilx-d as follows, to-wit: A certain tract or parcel of land in Gra ham township, Alamance County, Btate of North Carolina, adjoining the lands of Thomas Kodgers, Parks Jt Jeffreys, Lay ton Walker and others, and bounded as follows: Beginning at an iron pipe cor ner with s tid Rogers and running thence N* 08 deg W (B H) S links to an iron pipe; thence N 20 deg E 5.U4 chs to an iron pipe; thence 8 OS J deg K V)'- Iks to an iron pipe, formerly a blaek gum corner witli Maid Parks A. .Jeffreys and Walker; thence 8 32 deg W 5.91 chs to the beginning, containing J of an acre more or less and on which there is a frame dwelling. This Sept. Otli, 1921. I WM. 1. 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