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THE GLEANER IBBDED EVERY THURSDAY. J. D. KERNODLE, Editor. $1.00 A YEAR, IN ADVANCE. Entered et tne Postoffloe at Qraham. N. 0., ma aeooud olaaa matter. GRAHAM, N. C., AUG. 4, 1927. LEAVE OF ABSENCE AND $400. Greensboro councllmeu, that is a majority of them, set a pace a few days ago when an employee was granted a four months' leave of absence with pay reduced to $400 per month. Holy Moses! How much was the fellow getting to cause him to work himself down to a state of exhaustion, making it necessary for him to quit for a while or call in the undertaker. And now it is wondered what the votors who skimp and sweat to pay their taxes will think of the prodigality of their trusted councilmen. We wager that $400 is more Jjlian a majority of the voters, who elected these men to office, have left over at the end of a whole year after living frugally and paying their taxes. Then to "hand out" $400 per month of this tax mooey without any ser vice or return for the same looks like a flagrant betrayal of a trust. It has been around 40 years ago that the great Grover Cleveland said "public office is a public trust and not a private snap." That is an axiom that lots of officeholders never heard in of this day and time and to the real J . p v. ; _v i? . . ?_ meaning 01 wnicu iney aitacu no importance. It is easy enough to spend the money that the othdr fellow delved for in heat and cold. But they that have the spending of it Bhould do it with the same care, and even more, than they do with the money that they have earned by honest effort and pay out of their own pockets. This thing that the Qreensboro councilmen have done is not an isolated exception. The prodigal use of the other fellow's money is rife and is done in numerous ways. Favors are bestowed and somebody else pays the bills; "jobs," pure and simple, with little else to do than, draw the salary and spend it; taking care of friends or henchmen at the people's expense, and such like. Men who can do things and have things done command good pay, and it is money well spent, but giving away the people^s hard earned money to pacify this or that one, or to curry favor, is wholly inexcusable and unjustifi able. It's pure bunk. THE THIN GRAY LINE. The annual reunion of the North Carolina division of the Confederate Veterans couvenod in Raleigh Tuesday and will ad journ today. Of the 125,000 brave boys who offered themselves as a supreme sacrifice for their State in the 60's, there are about 3,000 survivors, and of the survivors only about 500 are physically able to meet with their comrades. Some of these will not attend another re union and a large percent of the survivors will answer the last roll call ere the end of another twelve months. The "thin gray line" is fast fading from among men, but the memory of their valorons deeds will ever be treasured by their state and descend as a price less heritage to their posterity. The Qreensboro Patriot chang ed management beginning with this week. Thos. J. Murphy has been editor and manager for the past four years. He has disposed of his interest to Wm. M. Gant, Jr., who becomes editor and man ager. Mr. Gant is a young man, but has had considerable news paper experience. The Patriot has passed the century mile-post and is, perhaps, the oldest paper in the State. It is a household word in Gnilford county. COOLIDGE NOT TO RUN. At noou Tuesday at the Hum mer White Tlouse in the Black Hills of South Dakota President Coolidge handed the newspaper folks a slip of paper upon which was typewritten a curt sentence: "I do not choose to run fo> President in 1928." The diplomatic note was deliv ered without comment. A waive of the hand signified to the re porters that he was through aud they could go. Of course, the tenor of the note is taken to mean that Mr. Cool idge does not purpose to be a candidate, but if; would permit him to accept the nomination if tendered. It is adroitly put. This double-enteudre, uncate gorical allusion of Mr. Goolidge's anent his candidacy for President in 1928 has set the political Solons and Republican officialdom by the ears, judging from reading the news columns of yesterday's pa pers. That's the Republican pot that's in a stew. The Democrats have enough to do to find a mau that will fit the job; that can pull the discordant elements together and distance anybody the Q. 0. P. may put up in the running. Maj. Chas. M. Stedinan, the only Confederate veteran in the Congress of the United Stales, is 86, but still alert. He is attend ing the State reunion of the Con federate veterans which met in Raleigh Tuesday for a three-day session. Maj. Stedman will de liver an address - on Stonewall Jackson. Great Farm Gathering Closes at Raleigh Adopting by resolutions move ments to begin a state-wide pro gram for agricultural advance ment, a state-wide organization of farmers, to reduce unfair freight rates, to study tax mat ters, to prohibit the use of con victs in farming and the develop ment of waste lands with govern}-, mental money, the 25th anntial session of the State Farmers' Con vention closed Thursday, July 28, after three strenuous days of farm stytdy at State College. In the opinion of old timers, it was the greatest convention yet held. Charles F. Cates of Mebane and|Mrs. J. S. Turner of Reids ville, presidents of the two groups of farm folks kept the program on the move and there was hardly time for an idle hour between events. A total of 1,425 men and women were registered for rooms and meals at the College while hundreds of others drove in for one day. In addition to the prepared pro gram there were-many contests. Dean I. O. Schaub and Dr. R. Y. Winters, representing the college defeated M. L. Adderholt of Dav idson and Charles F. Cates of Mebane in a horse shoe pitching contest. Charles S. Ballentine of Wake county won the crop iden tification contest and was awarded a handsome silver trophy cup worth about $50. W. A. Connell, Jr., of Warren county won first prize of 925 in the bog calling contest; J. H. Sprinkle of Forsyth county won second prize of $15 and R. P. Braxton of Alamance county won third prize of 910. Forsyth county won the cup for highest attendance at tne conven tion. Officers for the coming year were elected Thursday morning. D. W. Bagley of Moyock, Curri tuck county, was elected presi dent of the Farmers' Convention and Mrs. R. A. McCulleu of Clin ton, Sampson county, was elected president of the Federation of Home Demonstration clubs. Southern Buys Rails Enough to Lay 542 Miles Track. Purchase of 38,325 tons of new stoel rails, enough to lay 255 miles of track, for delivery during the remainder of 1927, is announced by the Southern Railway. Of the total purchased, 33,350 tons will be of the 100-pound weight, now the standard for the Southern's main lines, and 4,976 tons of the 85-ponnd weight. All will be rolled at the Ensley plant of the Tennessee Company, near Birmingham, Ala., with the ex ception of 650 tons bought from the Illinois Steel-Company for use on the 8t. Louis-Louisville lines. Thia brings the Southern's pur chase of rail for 1927 laying to 85,160 tons, suilcient to lay 642 | in ilea of track. NORTH CAROLINA'S < TOBACCO INDUSTRY. * Leads All States in Value of Produc tion, Acreage and Manufacture? , Pays Government Almost Half of j All Revenue From the Manufacture s of Tobacco. * From the News Letter published 1 at the University the following { summary is taken, which shows L this state's pfimacy in the tobacco { industry: 1 There.are at least two economic pursuits in which.North Carolina * stands first among the states:. (1) the crop production of tobacco, * and (2) the manufacture of tobac- ) co products. We lead the states 1 in the number of acres.devoted to * tobacco production, and in the annual value of the tobacco crop. J Kentucky generally ranks first in " crop volume but we rank first in crop'value as our bright leaf to- J bacco brings more in the market. The value of the North Carolina ' tobacco crop last year was $103,- * 803,000 while the value of the crop of the entire United States was 1 $245,175,000. There is no close rival to North Carolina as a tobacco manufac- s turing state. Complete and satis- t factory statistics about this in- ? dnstry have never been assem- ( bled, nor are data available from f which satisfactory tabulations for | all items be made. i The capital stock of tobacco factories located in North Carol i-'f, na is not available, dnor is the * value of the plants available. The,employees in 1925-nuinber- ' ed 20,^65, of whom 10,846 were ' men, 9,519 were women, and 100 were children. Finished tobacco is mainly a product of complicated machinerv. The report of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue shows that North Carolina pays 46.G' percent of all tobacco taxes paid in the United States. The tobacco tax for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, amounted to $172,503,187, and this tax will amount to more than one hundred and eighty million dollars for the year ending June 30, 1927. North Carolina manufactures sixty percent of all cigarettes manufactured in the United States. We will manufacture this year around forty-eight billion cigarettes, or more than four Jiuudred cigarettes per inhabitant, In the United States. Norm uaronna prouuces one- 1 third of all the manufactured to- 1 bacco such as pipe smoking to bacco and cigarette "makings ' produced in the United States. : We are not an important manu- 1 facturer of cigars of any class, and ( no snuff is produced in the state. { The cigarette tax is three dol- j lars per thousand cigarettes, and the tax on manufactured tobacco is eighteen cents per pound. If . we assume that the tax paid to the 1 federal Government is equivalent 1 to forty percent of the value of - the manufactured products, then 1 the value of output of our tobacco ] factories last y6ar was ^pproxi- f inately $430,000,000. This ex ceeds the value of output of our ] textile industries. It exceeds the , value of all farm products pro duced by our two hundred and eighty-five thousand farms. ' Expansion in tobacco consump- ' tiou has been greatest along cig- ? aretie and pipe-smoking lines. 1 These are North Carolina's spe- 1 cialties. We have no close coin- ? petitiou as a cigarette-producing , state, and we produce more than ( twice as much pipe tobacco and ^ cigarette makings as our nearest * competitor. North Carolina is the Nation's chief producer of bright leaf tobacco which goes in- 1 to cigarettes and manufactured 1 tobacco. It seems, therefore, that our farms and factories are I beautifully coordinated to meet the popular trend. ] DEATH FROM MOTOR CARS. Half as Many in 30 Years as in Six J Major Wars in the Past 150 Years. News and Observer, Automobiles have killed since 1895 more than half as raapy per sons as have been killed in the six raxjor wars in which the United States has engaged in its history. This was thestartling statement of Otto Y. Schnering, safety ex pert of national reputation, in an addresfe here. Total deaths from automobiles in'32 years have been 170,612, ac cording to Mr. Schnering. whose " figures are based on National ) Safety Council records. Total number of men killed in the six great wars of the United States were 323,702. 1 Mr. 8chneriug gave a tabulation of deaths in wars in this way: f American Revolution 2,000 War of 1812 1,877 I Mexican War 119,315 livil War 243,891 Spanish War 6,619 iVorld War: 50,000 Total 323,702 "No records exist of those killed n the Revolution and 2,000 is >erhaps a fair estimate, as 288,200 loldiers were engaged in the itruggle for independence. The igure for the Mexican War in iludes the killed and those who lied from disease and accident. Statistics for the Civil War com )rise deaths in both Northern and Southern armies. ' Deaths from automobiles are. i matter of estimate from 1895|to 1910. After 1910 the record is ixact. Four automobiles were n public use in 1895 and 22,001, 193 in 1926. No deaths were saused by automobiles in 1895 or 1896, and only five in 1897. The ?ecord of tragedies iu 1926 was 10,000." * Mr. Schnering recently launch id a national safety movement, for he special purpose of preserving he lives of children. Five thou land children, he declared, are tilled by motor cars annually in he United States. Forty cars of snap beans were ihipped this spring by farmers in he St. Paul and Fairmont truck irs associations. County Asent ). Dukes states that these same oiks are growing 69 acres of to natoes to sell to southern markets n late summer. Tom Tarheel says the reason le enjoys a vacation trip so well s that it makes him appreciate lis own home more. Trustee's Sale of Real Property. By virtue of the power con ferred upon the undersigned Trustee in that certain deed of ;rust executed on the 9th day if September, 1922, by W. S. Mired and wife, Rosie Allred, or the purpose of securing the tayment of ten certain bonds lescribed therein, which said leed of trust is duly recorded n the office of the Register of Deeds for Alamance county, in Deed of Trust Book 91, page L39; and whereas, default has neen made in the payment of laid, bonds and the interest .hereon, as provided in said Donds and in the said deed of ;rust, the undersigned Trustee .villon SATTTPniV fiUPT Q 1007 V J.WXXJL UUi JL ? Uj ll/A I ) it 12 o'clock noon, at the court louse door in Graham, N. C., )ffer for sale at public auction, ;o the last and highest bidder For cash, the following described -eal property: A certain tract or parcel of and in Burlington Township, Alamance county, State of Sorth Carolina, adjoining the ands of Second Street, M. S. Paris and others, hounded as Follows: Beginning at corner on the Slorthside of Second St., corner with lot No. 88; running thence with line of lot No. 88 N. 55 leg. E. 150 ft. to corner with VI. S. Paris; thence with line of laid Paris N. 35 deg. W. 100 Ft. to corner with lot No. 91; ihence with line of lot No. 91 3. ?5 deg. W. 150 ft. to corner in Second St; thence with line if Second St. S. 35 deg E 100 't. to the beginning, being lots tfos. 89 and 90 of the survey of he H. R. May property, on which is situate a modern six ?oom cottage. This sale subject to advance lids, as provided by law. This the 1st day of August L927. The Alamance Insurance and Real Estate Co., T. DOLPH LONG, Attorney. JHadleys Jke deWelers GRAHAM, N. C. IMZI J. ELLINGTON, M. D. Specialist Sye, Ear, Nose and Throat lyes Examined Classes Fitted Muilafftoa. N. C NOTICE OF SALE ~ Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain mortgage deed executed to the undersigned mortgagee on the 20th day of August, 1924, by Robona Martin and Luther Martin to secure the payment of borrowed money! which deed is duly recorded in the Register of Deed's ofi&ce, Boole 81, at page 403, Ala mance County; and default having been made in the pay ment of said indebtedness, the said Mortgagee will offer ^for sale to the highest bidderfo? cash, in Graham, North Caro lina, on SATURDAY, AUGUST 20? 1927, AT 12:00 O'CLOCK NOON, the following, described real property: A certain tract or parcel of land in Alamance county, North Carolina: First Tiact: Beginning at a rock, corner with F. P. Rogers; running thence S. 87 deg. E. 28j61 chs. to a rock; thence N. 4 deg. E. 4 chs. to a rock on the center of a road, thence fol lowing the meanders of said road 38.12 chs to a rock, corner with J. C. Wellons; thence S. 7 (leg. W. 28.56 chs. to the begin ning, containing fifty-one (51) acres, more or less, being lot No. 1 in plot and subdivision of the W. Knight lands. Seeond Tract: One eighth (i) undivided interest bought of Cornelius V. Dixon and his wife, Ruth Evangeline Dixon, on the fourth day of November 1918, and one-eighth (?) undi vided interest heired from the late Alvin Dixon in three cer tain tracts of land in Pleasant Grove Township, Alamance County, North Carolina, ad joining the lands of the persons hereinafter set iorth,and'known as the lands of which the late Alvin Dixon died seized of at the time of his death, described as follows:? (A) Known as the home place of Alvin Dixon, adjoining lands of Jahu Martin, Rufus Dixon, the Whitmore tract, containing fifty (56)' acres, more or less. (B) Known as the Whitmore tract, adjoining the lands of A. J. Jeffreys, the above Home tiact and others, and contains sixty-two "(62) acres, more or less. This tract of land was purchased by Alvin Dixon from R. W. Vincent. (C) Known as the Jeffreys and Corn tract, adjoining the E. C. Murray lands, Jim Wil son and others, containing eighty-one (81) acres, more or less. This tract was conveyed to Alvin Dixon by R. W. Vin cent. This sale subject to advance bids as provded by law. This the 21st day of Jnly, 1927. Alamance Insurance & Real Estate Co., Mortgagee. Meador and Henderson, Attorneys. NOTICE. Trustee's Sale of Real Estate. Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain first mortgage deed of trust, executed to the under signed Central Loan and Trust Company, on the 13th day of 'May, 1924, securing the pay ment of certain bonds described therein, which bonds are all now past due and unpaid, which deed of trust was duly probated and is recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds for Ala mance county, in Book of Deeds of Trust No. 98. at page 221, default having been made in the payment of the said bonds and interest thereon, at matur ity, the undersigned Trustee will, on MONDAY, AUG. 15, 1927, at 12 o'clock, noon, at the court house door of Alamance cbunty, in Graham, N. C., offer for sale at public auction to the highest bidder, for cash, the following described property, to-wit: A certain tract or parcel of land in Burlington Township, Alamance county, State of North Carolina, adjoining the lands of W. Park Ave., lots Noe. 9,11, 13 and 14, Parkview Drive, and described as follows: Beginning at an iron bolt on W. Park Ave., and corner with lot No. 9; running thence with line of lot No. 9, S. 56 deg. 23 min. W. 200 ft. to an iron bolt, corner with lot No. ll; unning thence with line of lot No. 11 N. 39 deg. 22 min. W 100 ft. to an iron bolt, corner with Parkview Drive and lot No. 13; running thence with lines of lots.Nos. 13 and 14 N. 56 deg. 23 rain. E. 250 ft. to an iron bolt, corner with W. Park Ave; running thence with line of W. Park Ave., in a southerly direc tion 110 ft. to the beginning, and being lot No. 10 in Block 'G' Of the new subdivision of Central Heights, a blue print of which is recorded in the office of Register of Deeds for Alamance county, in Book No. 2, page No. 47.' This sale is made subject to confirmation of court &nd will be held open for ten days after sale for the receipt of increased bids as provided by law. This 9th day of July, 1927. Central Loan and Trust Co., Trustee. Trustee's Sale of Real Property. p Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain mortgage deed of trust executed to the undersigned Central Loan and Trust Com pany, on the 26th day of May, 1924, securing the payment of certain bonds described therein, which bonds are all now past due and unpaid, which deed of trust was duly probated and is recorded in the office" of the Register Of Deeds for Alamance County, in Book of Deeds of Trust No. 98, at page 228, default having been made in the payment of the said bonds and the interest thereon, at ma turity, the undersigned Trus tee, will, on MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 1927, AT 12 O'CLOCK, MOON, at the court house door of Ala amance County, in Graham, North Carolina, offer for sale a.t public auction to the highest bidder, for cash, the following described property, to-wit: A certain tract or parcel of land in Burlington Township, Alamance County, State of North Carolina, adjoining the lands of Franklin St., Addie V. Boone, W. W. Brown, lots Nos. 12, 13 and 14 and described as follows: Beginning at an iron bolt on Franklin St., and corner with Addie V.Boone; running thence with the line of Addie V. Boone S 39 deg. 22 min. E 147.5 ft. to an iron bolt, corner with W. W. Brown; running thence with line of W. W. Brown N 55 deg E 60 ft to an iron bolt, cor ner with lot No, 12; running thence with lines of lots Nos 12, 13 and 14 N 39 deg 22 min W 147.5 ft to an iron bolt, cor ner with Franklin St; running thence with line of Franklin St S 56 deg W 60 ft to the begin ning, and being lot No. 11 in block "H" of the new subdivi sion of Central Heights, a blue print of which is recorded it the office of Register of Deeds for Alamance County, in Book No. 2, page No. 47. This sale is made subject to confirmation of court, and will be held open for ten days after sale for the receipt of increased bids as provided by law. This 9th day of July, 1927. CENTRAL LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY. Trustee Faulty Elimination Should Be Corrected?Good Elimination It Emmlsl Id Good Health. Eyou would be well, see to your limination. Faulty kidney ac tion permits toxic material to re main in the blood and upset the whole system. Then; one is apt to have a tired, languid feeling and, sometimes, a toxic backache or head ache, and often some irregularity at settcUoua. such as scanty or burn ing passages. More and more people are arrisiming the value of Dosn's Pilli, a stimulant diuretic, in this condition. For more than forty years Down's have been winning favor the country over. Atk your nmighbort DOAN'S "Si3 Tfisialpat niai itfL tmthtKUmtym 1 Commissioner's Sale ot I I Real Estate. I IE TNDER and by virtue of a I IVJ Judgment of the Gereral I 1 County Court of Alamance I I County, made and entered in an 1 I action therein pending entitled I |R. P- Braxton vs. D. p, I I Teague, Martha Teague and I I W. I. Ward. Trustee, at the I I July term, 1927, whereby said I I judgment "was declared a prior I I lien on the real property here- I linafter described, as of Novem- 1 Iher 25, 1925, according to a I I mortgage deed recorded on said I I date in Book 99 of M. Ds. at 1 (page 208, and which mortgage I 1 deed had heen executed bj said 1 1D. F. Teague and wife, the un- I dersigned Commissioner, will I I sell, on 1 MONDAY, september 5th, 1927, i at the Court House door, ia I Graham, N. C., to the highest I bidder, for cash, the following I valuable real property, to-wit; I A certain lot or parcel of I land in Alamance County, in I Newlin Township, North Caro- I lina, defined and described ai I follows: I Bounded 011 the north by the I lands of the late T. M. Hadley, I (deceased); on the west by the I waters of Little Cane Creek; I on the south by the lands of D, 1 'F. Teague, on the east by the I lands of T. M. Hadley, (deceas- I ed). This being the lot that I contains the barn building and I contains one acre, more or less. I j Terms of Sale: Cash. I Sale at Court House door, 12 I ; o'clock, M., Sept. 5, 1927. I This August 3, lti^T. I J. S. COOK. I Commissioner. I raited on Eagle Brand Af I Condensed Milk isl^ I now almost seventy I years old. Since 1857 I ?the safest of all In- I fant foods. I *73<mU<r?i I eagle brand CONDENSED MILK I CASTOR IA i For Infants and Children In Use For Over 30 Years fut| MMU.Mtr.orr. DESTROYS Moths. Flies Bedbugs a Roadies M Oka lhmthtM I [1 GetawnofTUTtoday^ ~~666~ is a prescription for Malaria, Chills and Fever, Dengue or Bilious Fever. It kills the Kernin. Tgpfc For, pyorrhea Forprararitlon against gam infec ftSlia, use Zonite, tho new powerful g antiseptic. Also ? guards against ? colds, eongba and B mora serious dis- h eases of note and |j throat. I, ? _