North Carolina Newspapers

VOL. XLVIII Big Letting of Highways Aug. 3C More Than Twenty-Two Millions for Roads in a Single Year—Record Surpasses Any in America. Two Noted Postoftice Bobbers Caught— Revenue Office to Stay In Raleigh— Guards Arrested for Carrying Con cealed Weapons—State Legion to Meet Sept. H. (By Maxwell Gorman.) ltaleigh, Vug. 15. —AlthouiJ State highway construction bat been and is yet being Beriou.»i\ iuterferel with by the lack o: tiansporiation facilities, due u the railroad situation, the plan tor continuing the work aregoinj; :.jead. Twenty-nine projects scheduleo for letting August 30, with an ag gregato mileage of 180.04 miles, will bring the year's" letting 01 roads by the State Highway (Join mission to 1,114."45 miles, or inon than a hundred miles beyond "1,000 miles in K/22" program, and the total obligation for new construction for trie 3 ear tu more tlian #22,000,000. Three projects included on tin list remove the last unbuilt sec tions oi Ihe Central Highway from Siuithfield to Salisbury, distance of 170 miles continuous paving. The Thomasville-Lex ington link, the Ilillsboro-Mebam link, and the bridge over the Yad kin River between Lexington and Salisbury are the most important projects. With the award of contracts at the end of the month, the com mission will have achieved inor than a hundred miles beyond tin mark set in February for twelve mouths, and will have set up a record that i.s w. ■ parallel ih the records of road oaildiug it ■ y 1 America. Mine January 1, con tracts will have been kit forß6b.ill miles of i'-u'-Wurfaee road and o-lj.'.i 1 luiit a oi gr.: 1 el. Take Advantage ol Time. The August letting will be the final big letting for the year,, and thereafter the commission wil. focus attention on construction now temporarily held up on ac count oi strike conditions. Chair man Page has pushed the work ol getting roads under contract in anticipation of more widespread demand for contractors when other states get their road pro grams underway next spring. Altogether the road progran outlined in l'Jl'J i.s now approxi mately haif iloue. Slightly more than 2floo miles of new roads have been built, or are under con struction, or under contract. In addition to this mileage, the sys tem include: many hundreds ol miles 01 good rouas built by coun ties before the state took over the system. Somewhat of the tremendous undertaking the 2'J projects oll'er i.tl for August 30 presents may be ;, vthered troui the fact that the call for the clearing io3 acres of land, excavation to taling 1,341),450 cubic yards ol earth anU rock, and the bridges on the projects will require 2,- 028,1 iU pounds ol structural steel. .\otorious Kohbt-r* in ."ulcigh Jail After a lt'Kal battle lasting ovei two years, two of the live men charged with the largest postof lice robbery iu tho history of the United States, from lie stand point oi money nnreoovered, have been lodged iu Wake county jail to await trial at the regular No vember term of the United .States District Court in November. The robbery occurred at. Ox ford on Mwrch '■>, 19-0, when the l>oßtollice safe was blown open and about fc3i,oou extracted in cash and government securities, none of wnich have been recover ed. Never was a better illustration furnished of the "long arm" of the law than in the battle with THE ALAMANCE GLEANER: the yeggmen who were brought here, after having escaped , from jail in Brooklyn, N. Y., where they had successfully resisted re moval to New York for seventeen months, owing to a change in the national administration, the Unit ed States Attorneys in New York aud North Carolina and the marshals and their deputies in both states who originally hand led the case are now out of office and the judge in New York to whom the case was first referred ami the attorney for the prison ers are now dead. However, the same postoftice inspectors who originally trailed the men to New York have remained on the job iill the While. They effected their recapture in Memphis, Tenn., about three weeks ago, after the prisoners had been at large since October :51 of last year. The correct names of the two yegs! 11 brought here by Deputy Unil. .i States Marshals C. L. Me- Waters and J. H. Patton, of East ern District of Tennessee, an supposed to be William Dates ami John Murray. Each is known under a dozen or more aliases, the most picturesque of which are "Caii! iia Bill" and "Michi gan Shorty." Murray is 57 years old and Dates 52, and each has served time before and both are 'well acquainted with John Mart |in, "Portland Ned," and other i famous safe-blowers. Revenue Office Slays in Raleighy There does not appear to be any intention on the part of the authorities to revive the idea of moving the office of Collector of Internal Revenue to Wiuston-Sa letn, says Gilliam Grissom, collec tor of internal revenue for the district of North Carolina, so the collector stated recently. "We are collecting the taxes here aud collecting them without friction," stated the collector. "I thought talk of the removal of the office had died down, and I am very sorry to see it revived," added. The collectory has never expressed his personal pre ference in the matter, however. Since David 11. Blair, a resident of Winston-Salem, was appointed Commissioner of Internal Reve nue at the beginning of the Hard ing administration, there has been talk of removal of the office, but that talk has not been heard for the last few months, even by visitors to Wiustou-Salem. The presence of Mr. Blair in th" state, siuct. the commissioner came to Blowing Rock a few clays ago to visit his family, has caused revival of the talk, but those who have talked to the commis sioner recently are confident that he will not come to Raleigh on this trip, and that ne has no pres ent intention of removing the office. foreign Railroad "Guards" Arretted Following accusations by the strikers that Seaboard guards were carrying concealed weapons off the premises of the railroad, the police made a number of ar rests on this charge. Four men arrested in one day were M. C. Dean, J. E. Stephenson, It. L. Stephenson aud W. W. Vincent. Many other guards and strike breakers wero searched by the police alter being accused by the strikers of carrying concealed weapons. Only when weapons were found were the guards ar rest e Deau aud Stephenson were Ar rested near the Johnson Street yards when they stepped off the Seaboard property, (strikers call ed attention of Officer Arnold to the fact. Arnold did his duty anci arrested tl> • men, who were later released uuder SSO bonds. It niade the second arrest for these two men on the same charge in the past week. One of the guards, It. L. Ste phenson, was arrested twice the same day on concealed weapon charges, one of the arrests being compounded with a charge of in toxication. He was observed near the Tucker Building Phar macy talking londly to himself aud a crowd of interested onlook ers. "That man has got a pistol," one of the audience whispered to Officer Seagroves. "I defy anybody to lay their hauch> ou me," the stewed guard told the wofld. "You've defied the right par ty/' responded Officer Seagrovea. "Come on and tell that story to GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY. AUOUSr 17. 1922 Sergeant Champion." The guard went and.at the station urn num ber two was taken fiohi him. The fourth arrest took place ( that night, when W. W. Vincent, | who claims be is a student at the! University Of Virginia but talks with a Vermont brogue, was ar-| rested in the Yarborougli Hotel,! when he laid a pistol beside him j while he was writing a letter. 1 Vincent seeded a very well edu cated young fellow, very wellj dressed for a guard, and did not! seem to be more than eighteen oi ! nineteen years'old. State Legion Meeting. State Adjutant Burges« announce!-1 that the big program, for ti.e Juurtl. i annual convention oi' the '.ill. Carolina Department, Aiutiii.u, Legion, which opens t u Greoii»bott ' on .September 8, has practically oeen ; completed by the committee having I it in charge. The convention v, '!• be called to order at 'J:.iO o'clock f\ ! the Department Commander, Tuir , Bird, and Mil be followed by an in vocation by Chaplain Viewers, oi J llentieison. An addressof welconu J is scheduled by Mayor Claude Kiser ( of Greensboro, with a response b) j Charles A. Sloane, oi Otee i. '1 In I morning session will then t>e takce up with the report of the credentials committee, and reports of depart ment officers and the appointment of convention committees. An- ad-- dres-t by Governor Morrison is the last item on the mosning program, j The afternoon session will be de voted to general business of the con j vention until about IS o'clock, wliei ! the visitors will be taken for a ♦ ri, j over Greensboro anu to High Point,: where they will be guests ol the High Point post for dinner. Return t Greensboro for evening festivitie.- will be made that night. Special j guests to the convention, including n representatives of the United Con federate Veterans, lied Cross, Veter ans' Bureau, Veterans ol Foreign Wars, Spanish-American 'veterans and members of the Distiuguisiiee American Veterans will be intro duced during the afternoon session. Saturday morn i fig tire "con vefitiori will decide upon the time and plac» I for the next convention, arid will I hear the reports of otl.er cojivi ntio! ! committers. Then the big p irii.i* will be iormec.! —one the in.*' striking features of the big gather i' ing. A speech by Senator Thoma? j' fleflin will complete tUe-umorning j, program • Saturday afternoon ill I (if.'-.-;*.!;, to special messages • the ouve.t:U/li j, and to the election of the i if yes lot j the ensuing year. '. I $40,000,000 for the Wool Grow- i ] eis, sj.\oK),ooo lor Treasury, it Washington Correspondence. Here are some (inures concern ing the 33 cents :t p :M. d tariff tax on clean wool, worth knowing and remembering. They arc supplied by Senator David 1 | Walsh (l)em., Mass.), who ob tained them from the Federal Tariff Commission. According to the Tariff Commission the pub lic treasury will gain about $33,000,000 a year, while the do ! mestic wool-growers, headed l>\ Senator Gooding (Rep., i. .i ,! will gain about f: lo,oo'i,t 1 0a \ ca.\ J According to pie Carded V. od ; Growers Manufacturers' Aesoeta tion the 33 cent tariff tax will a mount to $1 a pound on the finished garment after passing! through the hand* of the middle-) men. This means a tax ua con-j sinners of $200,000,)00 i. year.: If no ether form of profited ing i injected iuto the transaction, this) will mean an increase of I on au oidinary suit of clothes; $3.50 on an overcoat and $5.501 on au uDter. Goldfish numbering 500,000 are; imported into Great Britain every | year, most of ijbotn coming from) Itaiy, where the breeding is a big I industry. In the royal household of Kng-j land a caudle once extinguished i may never again W lighted with-> in the precincts of\he palace. At the equator the average tem perature of tie sea :t' the depth j of a mile is but four degrees above the freezing point. "Few care to see the same show} twice," an actress, who may have beeu thinking aboii' i»i-. r:»j getting longer. With die Progressives on Their Eastern Trip. Reported by Edgar Long, j Last year it was ray good for tune to accompany a delegation lof "Progressive Fanners of Ala i maudr county" on a trip to the ! western part of North Carolina, ;und4(r tjie leadership of our wide lawnkv County Demonstrator, W. I Kerr Scott, This t rip was both ' pleasant and profitable to all i whose good fortune it was to go I ii iong. On (lie 24th of last July our jCounty Demonstrator loft Mebaue, N. (IT, with another delegation of "Pi igressivis" jo visit Eastern Vaiolina. We went through Dur ham and arrived at Oxford about 'la. 11. There we were joined iby other 44 Progressives.J' We, enjoyed ihi elegant dinner at the j test farm, prepared by Mr. E. G. Moss, Supt. of tost farm, and his j very kind wife. This farm is situated on the lands of the old I County Home, l'rof. Hobgoodahd I ji'u rs entertained us with local | hhuoiy and gave us a hearty wel pmuy. Here'we spent sometime looking over the (arm. The State is specializing on tobacco at this farm. The tobacco farmers in our delegation got in some good work. We visited places of in terest at Oxford, among them the Orphanuge, maintained by the Masons. We visited dilferent | buildings,. printing shop, dairy | barn, etc. Here we found a nice 1 herd (\f milk cows. KroinOxford we went to Raleigh : where we spent the night. Tuesday morning at 5 $0 a. in. under the guidance of that prince of real men, l'rof. C. B. Williams, laud his assistants we began an in spection of our experiment station. Hero wo inspected the dairy herd. Had tlio tests in feeding cattle ex plained to us by au expert. Had •xplainod to us 'in tlief lield the dilVoront tests in grasses, peas, soy beans, and other crops. Here "The Progressives" decided to experi ment some, for .themselves and made a most test of grape pruning and tig priming. Linney llailey, Sherim'ii \ e£!al and others ■ei.iht*"! to think ifiore of the vine )i, .. Sheriff Kernodle, liert Dav is, this writer and some others 'were rather partial to the fig bustl e's. There seemed to bo no divis ion of opinion when we wore in vitedtoa melon cutting at our round up at the college. At our Capital City we visited the different institutions of in terest. Went thru the peniten tiay, took a peep at the electric Ichair. Wo made a visit to the homo of the insane. This plant is much i larger than wo had any idea. The buildings are larger and more of them than we thought. The farm consists of 1700 acres. Much to our regret we found 1170 inmates. I There is an addition being erected now. When completed 1700 un fortunates will be eared for here. Dr. Anderson showed us every courtesy while we were here. From Raleigh we went to Golds boro. Here we visited the Homa for the Colored insane, went !through the buildings and dairy 1 barn, saw one of the finest herds (of dairy cattle,, saw the herd of j Hampshire hogs and one of the finest farms seen on our trip. The crops on this larni good land in good shape. This farm '■-•ontains Uooaer*s —inmates here (1120. Or. Faison regretted that we could not. spend* more time Iwith him. It was getting late, however, and we had to hurry on ] to Dudley where we were to spend the night. Our bust at this point was .Mr. Burden. Mr. Bowdeo ! grows and ships cantaloupes. | His treatment of us was all that (could be desired, lie had a truck load of cantalo ipes waiting for us iayd he told us if that was not jenough, go up to the packing j house and help yourselves. Next ! morning we went to Mt, Olive for j breakfast —then on to Willard, Lhe t »t farm in Render county. Like our trip to the inouutaii.s : last summer, the farther we weut, the better it got, so some one of the party said. Our host here, 'Supt. Deering, his wife, and visit- Mug young ladies made it »o 'pleasant that our delegation seemed reluctant to leave. Here 1 found one of the l>est herds of Jersey cattle in the State. Th se lof our party interested in raising cotton found something of real interest to them. At this farm is carried on the most extensive tests of grape culture in N. C. This feature was both pleasant and attractive. I think they specialize in Billy Bryan's favor ite beverage here. Judging from the demeanor of the crowd while here, oue would naturally think so. » I do not care to appear egotistic, and have hesitated to refer to it, but I am fully aware of what a sore disappointment it would be to "Tne Progressives," therefore I cannot forbear, for it was here that this writer became the center of attraction for theentire balance of our trip. It was here that this writer WHS tried for not being "a progressive farmer." I«oe in the News and Gbserver that it was pulled off at Raleigh. That is a [mistake. It was to have been, but the man that planned- the frial—the man that formed the conspiracy (a member of State Board of Agriculture fryui fifth district) took cold feet and de serted the other couspii ators a' Oxford. 1 have been reliably in formed that lie worked the case up tor over a month. I would cougratubtte him on the case if he had not deserted his crowd. I had no idea of what was going on uutil I was lead to the slaughter. The only friend 1 had in the entire parly was Ed Blanchard. The truth of the whole business is, 1 think our geuial host was too liberal with Bryan's beverage. The case was a complete frame up. Everything cut and dried. The foreman of the jury even had the verdict written out and in his pocket before any evidenoe was heard; Ed Blanchard aud myßelf being the only sober ones of tfhe party. From Pender Test Farm we went to Wilmington. At Castle Hayne, twelve miles this side of Wilmington, we were met by County Agent Herring, and sev eral farmers. They acted as our escorts while in New Hanover. Cast le Ilayne is settled by a high class of farmers from Hollirtid and Germany.. They are intelligent, high class citizens, with nice, well cultivated small farms, ranging from 20 to 80 acres. At Wilmington we visited the Custom House, Navy Yards aud other places of interest. I in spected one of the concrete ships in the harbor. After which we went down to the (Country Club on the sound, where the farmers and business men gave us a royal fish fry. Now, this was something fine. This writer made away with oue fish and thought he had a square meal. One of the oldest men in oar party ate three. He said they were simply fine. Fry over, we went to the beach. Now, talking about fine, it. was worth the expense of the entire trip to see that bunch of men in the surf, most of them for their first time. Friday morning we turned our faces westward. Coming thru Clinton, Fayettevllle, Raeford to Aberdeen. AtlUeford County Agt. Wall and T. D. McLean met us, showing us some fine fields of corn, cotton and tobacco between Rae ford and Aberdeen. Stopped at the Sanatorium at Montrose, took a binFs-eye-view of Camp Bragg. At Aberdeen w« were royally received again. On our arrival we had at our disposal a trunk load of the famous Sand Hill peaches, also a truck load of Monte Christo water melons—much to the delight of the entire ptrty. Our hosts, Mess. Me Lean and Wall, showed us the finest cotton aud tobacco we ever saw We saw one I cotton field of i}o acres—the finest I ever saw We saw a 40 acre tobacco patch, that Sheriff Ker nodle said was the finest he ever saw. Of course we saw some peach trees and peaches. Peach orchards by the hundreds of acres. The Friday we were in Aberdeen there was shipped that day IPX), 000.00 worth of peaches. At Aberdeen they have a Cooperative Fruit Growers, Association, thru which they sell all fruit. At Pineburet we inspected Pine burst Fariu. Looked over the finest herd of sure enough hogs at Tuft's farm. Saw MM) royal aristo cratic Berkshires. Saw a gi't that weighed 500 lbs. Here we saw | thd finest herd of Ayrshire cattle in the Soutb. They were simply 'grand—like the hogs. Of course | everything here is done in fine style. Wo looked on and appre ciated everything, anyway, es- pecially the nice cool milk from the champion cow. From the w»y the crowd drank that milk oue would think so any way. From Pinehurst farm we went ttfGolf Link Fair Grounds aud over some fine sandclay roads. On our way we saw orchard after orchard of peach trees, fine crops of corn, cotton and tobacco. Stopped at Sheriff Blue's farm and enjoyed a real royal watermelon feast—the largest Monte Christos at all—much to our delighc. Sheriff Blue told us to put what was not cut iuto our cars to bring home with us. The writer got one nearly three feet long. From the farm we went down to Tag* gart,'s Pond, where Sheriff lllue again extended us his genial hos- by entertaining us at din ner. You cannot beat the hospi tality of the Cape Fear Scotch anywhere. Dinner over, wo kind ly th ink d our hosts for their royal reception at the Sand Hills, era 111 led our cars and started on the last, lap of our journey, reach ing Graham Saturday, -1 p. in. Now, W'IJ have been from the mountains to the seashore. We have found out that God, m UN infinite wisdom, did not put all the advantages in one place. While we are proud of the Old North State as a wbole, we are still prouder of Old Alamance, for of the HKJ counties she is still the b«st place in which to live. The finest orn I have s--u this year is intone and one-haif miles of the covri house. A party that went on the western trip about a month ago says the same. On this trip we a number of very clever airahospit able people, as good and kind as \ cau bo found anywhere.* It all j th" other states of this republic i were ouly settled by as line a class of citizenship as old Carolina, would,, this not "lie a grand eouutry? The more I trav el, the prouder I am of Alamance county and her great people. If I were to ever move from this county uiy next choice would be Moore county. On the trip we saw uo large j cemeteries in the country HKO I Hawflelds, Frieden's, Union Ridge) and others. The country people I bury their dead ones in col ton! patches, coru fields and every- I where. As one of our party re marked, "on Judgment Day tie dead will be coming out of the cotton patches, corn jraldw aud everywhere, badly f believe Alamance has the hobor of being first to send out a dele-' gation of farmers like thin* to I study aud see what tb? other fel lows are doing. Now, as we have | covered both the western and I eastern parts of slate, 1 hope much lasting good will result frui.i j both trips. Oue feature of this trip I am abont to ovetlook. There were more young men (and some boys) j on this trip than on the Western trip. Nothing like having the, boys interested in the farm. 11 am glad to see it. I hope the real "Progressives'' i on this trip will continue to pre - j gress and keep Alamance ever in the forefront. Marble carvings in Athens, dat-l ing from 500 B ('., depict youug j men plaj ing a game like our modern hockey. HELPFUL WORDS l'r«)U| u (ifilllilßl ( I c your l'4;k lauie and painful? Does it ache especially after exer-j tion V irt thire i soreness in the kidney! region? The*e symptoms suggest weak kidneys. If so there m danger in delay. Weak kidneys get weaker fast. Give youi trouble prompt atten tion. Doan'e kidney P.lis arn lor weak kidney*. Your neighbors use and recom-; meud them. Ask your neighbor. Read this Graham testimony: Mrs. J. T. Roach, 8. Main St., «ra ham, say a. "'I can speak ver.v highly of Doan'a Kidney Pills as I certainly think they are a rem edy that can be relied on. Doan's have done me a whole lot of good and I am glad to recommend them jto anyone who is suffering from weak kidneys." I Price 60c, at all dealers. Don't ' simply auk for a kidney remedy— . get Doan's Kidney Pills—the same that Mrs. Roach had. Foster-llil bura Co., Mtgm, Buitalo, M. T. NO. 28 « % Leading Republican Paper Asks Mondell's Defeat and Kendrick's He election. Washington Correspondence. The forthcoming primaries in Wyoming, August 22, will have a geueral interest outside of thai state by reason of Mr. Mondeil, the Republican candidate for Senator, having been tho Repub lican majority leader of the ilouse of Representatives. As an evi dence of t,he widespread interest is the following extract from an editorial iu the Boston Transcript, one of the loading Republican new: oapers . the country, ask ing or Mondell's defeat aud the renoinination of Senator Ken drick: "The primaries in Wyoming are of interest only because Frank W. Mondell, niajor'y leader of the Ilouse ot Representatives in name if noi in tact, aspires to the seat of Senior Keudrick, the Democratic incumbent, aspirea, indeed, to replace Senator Lodge as the Republican leader. Mr. •Mon.K 11 mnyjiUt ■ u Ken drick—Wyoiiilugis a Republican citato —but ii« will u vor head in the pacly organization in the Senate. "It would be a groat. b 1 !p to l LLie Republican pany jlr. xUon dell were defeated iij November. His leadership of tlie House in the I butt four years lias been ihe most incompetent aud ignominious mat I the country has seen in twenty years. He has opposed, rathor | than President Ha d iiiK jtui many measures which have come before Congress since March ! 4, ,1921, despile the fact that they were in keeping with the platform pledges of his party. In the mel ancholy event of hib election the ! Republican leaders of the Senate should see to it d>atMr. Mondell's place in the Senate is as small as tney cau make it. If the people of Wyoming wish to be creditably represented in the Senate they will let well enough alone by re electing Seuator Keudrick. Mr. Moudell is the same politician that Roosevelt condemned for all* time in l/is 'Autobiography.' " lu Spam, Tuesday is consider ed au unlucky day for weddings. 000 is a peescription for Colds, Fever and LaGrippe. It's the inoHt speedy remedy wo kuow. 1 PROFESSIONAL CARDS ■ LOVICK H. KERNODLE, Attomey-at-Law, GRAHAM, N. C. Antedated with John J. Hendervou. Office over National Hank of Alamance THOMAS D. COOPE Attorney and Counsetlor-at-Law, BURLINGTON, N. C, Associated with W. S. Coulter, Nos. 7 And 8 First National Bank Bldg« J. ~ . S. C. SPOON, Jr., M. D. >rauani, N. C. 01. ice over Ferrell Drug Co. j Hours: 2to 3 aud 7 to'J p. tn., and by appoin' merit. 1 Phone 97 GRAHAM HARDEN, M.D* iiuriinutpn, .X. C. v OlHi:n Hour*: 0 to 11 a. m. hint by appointment *. >iHw; Over At.it>*: I'rug Co. I * Office I Mi - Kcilflciici* '4GI JOHN J. 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