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THE GLEANER ISSUED EVESY THUB8DAT. J. D. KERNODLE, Editor.? $1.00 A YEAR, IN ADVANCE. Entered at tne Foetoffloe at Grabam. N. 0.. aa eeoond-elaaa matter. GRAHAM. N. 0., DEC. 27, 1928. f PRECAUTION AGAINST FLU. Health authorities are urging the people to exercise caution to prevent the spread of influenza. A statement has been made that the epidemic will reach the peak sometime in January, hence it is as important that caution be observed now as when it first* broke out and began to spread. The health authorities urge peo pie suffering with colds or flu to avoid contact with other people as much as possible. Guard against using unsterilized drink ing and eating utensils. Take precaution to wash hands before eating and to practice ordinary rules of cleanliness. Such prac , ti:es will help in the prevention of other communicable disease and should be generally observed. Dr. David Bancroft Johnson, one of the Nation's educational leaders and the only president Winthrop College, Rock Hill, 8. C., ever had, died Wednesday morning. He would have been 73 years on the 10th of January. He founded the college and later it was taken over by the State and has become to Sou.h Carolina what the N. C. C. W. is to North Carolina. About the same time that Dr. Jnhhson was laboring for an institution for the better education of women in South Carolina, likewise Dr. Melver was laboring along the same line in North Carolina. The institu tions have grown apace and there is no big difference in the attend ance on these great schools. Mr. Hoover is homeward bound from his "geod will" junket to the Latin-American o ountriee. He nor the United States can make any complaint at the royal recep tion accorded. He has talked to and with the peoples visited and has been discreet in what he had to say to them. It is the hope of this country that the common ties have been strengthened and that the visit will not have been in vain. Do the "drys" in Congress want prohibition? A ranking prohibition enforcement officer estimated that it would require $300,000,000 to carry it on effect ively. A bill for $270,000,000 was introduced. It was cut down to $30,000,000, a sum deemed suf ficient te keep the ''noble exper iment" in operation. The Kellogg treaty and Farm Belief will come early after the holidays for consideration. Such progress may be made that Mr. Hoover's promised extra session may not be necessary. Such an event would spoil a grand stand display. King George V of Great Britain is reported as improving, and it seems that his ultimate recovery is now only a question of time. News and Views. There is a prospect of the Slate University getting the ma jor part of $1,006,704.87. It is cotton tax collected by the Fed eral government between 1866 and 1868 illegally from North Carolina The State's attorneys in Raleigh are to appear in Washington before the proper Congressional Committee to pre sent the claim. A lull has been introduced in Congress to allow the payment of the sum, and, if reported favorably, the State will formally sue for the amount. If will mean much to the University to get a big portion cf the sum it fentroversy. Hotchpotch. A 1,500 gallon daily capacity distillery was seized in Washing ton City a few days ago. It was within a stone's throw of the Natioual Prohibition headquar ters, it is said. A nose, eye and ear specialist ought to be em ployed by the prohibition en forcement bureau. "Friday is as lucky day as any," so it reads in Webster's old "blueback"spelling book, but Claiborne Massev! has reason to think otherwise. On Friday two weeks ago he was divorced, eloped with a 19-year-old girl and they were speeding toward Rich mond to spend their honeymoon. | At Wise R. F. King, filling sta tion owner, was hit. They did not stop. King died a few min utes later. Massey and his bride were halted at South Htll and Massey was placed in Warren county jail for the night. \ An itemized statement of ex penditures, also receipts and in debtedness, of the county is re quired to be published by the County Commissioners. This publication covers the period from Dec. 1st to Dec. 1st. This publication, as we are in formed, was not made last year. But the taxpayers have the right, and the law recognizes it, to know for what their tax has been spent, hence provision is made for pub lication of such statement. When the people, who chose the agents to carry on their coun ty affairs, are looking in on what is being done, the agents will move with greater caution aud try to act so as to avoid complaint and criticism, The Boulder dam business is now out of the way of Congress, President Coolidge signed the bill last Friday. It effects seven great States. The enterprise will entail an estimated expendi ture of >165,000,000. Clean Farm Machinery And Oil Before Storing Away. If farm machinery ia to last, is expected to gve good service and ia to pay a return for its cost, it most be stored in some place oth er than along the ditch bank or under trees. "Thete is no known type of farmiug profitable enough to pay divideuds when machinery is al lowed to become rusty and worn, is repaired with hay wire or per mitted to stand in the weather during winter," says A. T. Hol mau, agricultural engineer at State College. "Some good farmers use one set of macbiues for a lifetime, often exceeding 26 to 30 years of servioe, while oth er men add to the junk pile each year. The difference is dhe to management and care. Some men never permit their expensive im plements to remain iu the open wkeu not in use ; others seldom house their equipment The es sential care is to keep the machinery clean, house it proper ly and make repairs wheu need ed." Mr. Bolman says thrt every farm needs an implement house, Such a house must have a good roof and a dry floor. It is beet to build it so that all suface water, including water from the roof will drain away from the build ing." It is also advisable, he says, to locate the house so that the heavier equipment may be pulled in or out with a team. Other desirable features include a smal repair shop at one end, large doors and a convenient ar rangement for storing the ma chinery. Before storing any machine, however, it should be given a thor ough cleaning and oiling. The mad and dirt should be removed to prevent deterioration, says Mr. Holman. If this is not done the agencies of rust and decay will continue even, though the machines are stored. Those 1 parts of the tools which are in the ground especially need oiliog as do the bearings and exposed threads. During idle time in winter re 1 pairs might be made so that the maehines are ready when the ? rush of spring work oomes. , Mr. Corbett is a highly capable acoonntant and a mueh esteemed eitisen, and their host of friends 1 here will regret to loss lfr. Corbet) aa<l his family. % ? , 8 * SHARP DUST PARTICLES 'HOOK' THEIR WAY INTO MEMBRANES AND DISEASE RESULTS Science Tells Why Some Trades, Dry Sweeping and Mo toring on Certain Highways Are Dangerous to Health in' Bringing on Respiratory Maladies. ? 1 Cross-Section of Human Head Showing MUcous Membrane of Nose and Throat. SCIENTIFIC research is gradual ly finding out why dust kills one out of every seven persons. The Harvard Medical School, the United States Public Health Service, various insurance companies and the great labor organizations of the coun try ure all interested in the problem. For example, according to Dr. L. R, Thompson, of the United States Pub lic Health Service, the sickness record of granite workers shows that the greater part of illness proceeds from respiratory conditions and that respir atory diseases are three times as prev alent among granite workers as among workers in general industry. "It Is clear," said Dr. Thompson, "that wherever there is a great amount of granite dust there is a dan gerous hazard, a mortality which seems Inevitable and which is rising all the time." Incidentally, according to Federal statistics, from 4,500,000 to 5,000,000 persons are employed in the dusty trade, but everyone, from the man who fears "dry sweeping" by house wives on their front steps to the mo torist who muBt find his way through clouds of dust on the highway, is af fected by the menace of fine particles in the air. Various theories hare been proposed to explain why dust should be such a danger to health. The usual explana tion seeks the cause In the tenderness of the mucous membrane lining of the throat and nose. Healthy throats and noses secrete a fluid, the mucus, which Is just suffl I cicnt to take care of ore - J dust in the air. If that amount should be ex ceeded, the dust becomes too great ! to be handled by the mucus and the , dust penetrates into the deeper parts of the body lining. - Dust is of various kinds, but wheth er it is organic or inorganic in origin makes no difference. What makes the dust particles dangerous is their shape. Particles that have sharp cor ners,' such as dust from marble, metal, wood or stone, cut into the membrane very much as an old-fashioned knitting needle' cuts into worsted and there the dust particles become fastened. The mucus fluid referred to passes over those particles, moving them to and fro, and causing the membrane to become tender and then inflamed. Should the pror ss become continu ous, as so often happerfB, serious sinus conditions result and in aggravated cases, tuberculosis may be their termi nation. That, in brief, is what happens. Scientists have tried with all the resources at their command to com bat dust in the air, but so far, with a few exceptions, the results have not been fruitful. As a means of preven tion, suggestions have been made in various quarters that the dust might be laid with some sort of physical or chemical means and in many sections of the United States municipalities have been laying the dust with cal cium chloride. That is a chemical capable of absorbing a high degree of moisture from the air, hygroscopic, it is called, which acts as a binder of dust on the highways. It also has great germicidal valne. j I ? ? Prizes for Best Cotton Stalks |1 ? A National Single Stuik Cotton Show which will award approximately $10,000 in prizes was the basis of an announcement recently made over WStf. the Atlanta Journal Iladio Station -by Louis E. Brackeen, Secretary ?f the Sears Koebuck Agricultural Foundation nt Atlunta. In the belief that successful cotton production is built around the pro ducing ability of the single stalk the Agricultural Foundation in co-opera tion with the Soil Improvement Committee of the National Fertilizer Asso ciation will award twenty-eight prizes in the Southeastern territory includ ing the states of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama. The Judges of the show, who will be outstanding cotton authori ties from the Southeast, will award to the grower of the best single stalk of cotton in the territory named a cash prize of $500. To the grower of the second best stalk $280, third best $200, fourth $150, and numerous other prizes for the runners up scaling down to $5.00 for the last prize. In the possible event of a tie, duplicate awards will bo made. The contest is open to every cotton grower, landlord or tenant, man, woman or child, in the ter ritory named. There is only one condition to the contest. The entry must be selected from a field containing not less than one acre. The cotton when matured will be sent to the Agricultural Fonndation at Atlanta and will -be judge*! during the Southeastern Fair where it will be on exhibition during the Judging period. Another feature or toe show will be toe awarding of expense paid edu cational trip* to the county agents and Smith Hughe* Vocational Agricul ture teacher* whose effort* In the county are outstanding. To the four county agent* in the territory named through whose efforts are sent In the largest and best number of entries there will be granted all-expense edu 1 rational trip* anywhere In the United States. Duplicate educational trips 1 will be awarded to the Smith Hughes teachers who give evidence of the best 1 work In community standardisation of varieties by encouraging the growth of one or two varieties best adapted to the soil, climate and market condi tions of their respective communities. 8lmllar shows, offering Identical prizes, will be held about the same time i In Dallas representing the Southwest and Memphis representing the Mid , South. The prise winning stalks in all three districts will be taken to Mem phis during the Trl State Fair at which time the best stalk In the entire Soeth will be awarded the capital prize of 11,000. This prize will be in , addition to the regional prize. x, "The Interest that has been displayed since the radio announcement," declared Mr. Brackeen, "la very encouraging. We are going to broadcast ' cotton authorities and suggestions for entrants all during the growing sea 1 son. From the number of letters from farmers who desire to enroll, the , show la wasting with no Utile ewthnalaaai in the geld." * How Farm Family Spends Its Money Farming la a family boslneaa and It* success In keeping Its workers satis* fled depends on how well It provides the family with the necessities, con veniences and comforts of life, says the Sears-Roebuck Agricultural Foun dation. From one-third to one-half of ths' value of the farm family's living represents food products, use of the house and fuel furnished from the farm, according to ? study of the ex penditures of 3,000 representative families by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture. This Is not free of cost to the farmer, of course. It represents labor as- well as an outlay of capital. The total value of the farm family living averaged $1,597.50 annually. The value of the food used, which was < the largest item In the total, averaged $658.80, or 412 per cent Of this apiount, however, the farm Itself furnished $440.70 worth, or about two thirds. The rest wasv cash spent mostly for cofTee, sugar, flour and other staples. Clothing expenses averaged $234.90 per family, or nearly 15 per cent of the total budget The largest cloth ing expenditure was for ready-made garments. Shoes made a good-sized dent In the clothing account as did purchases of yard goods, trimmings and similar Items for the home dress maker. Ren\, which was furnished by ths farm, was estimated at an average value of $200. Operating costs, which Included the family use of the automobile, household labor, fuel, cleaning supplies, and so on, av eraged $213.10. Fuel cost was esti mated at $85.20, of which 60.7 per cent, or $43.20, was furnished by the farm. Money spent for "advancement" In cluding educqglon, vacations, amuse ment and books, averaged $104.08. For maintenance of health, the aver I age family spent $61.60. New house hold furnishings cost on the average $40.20 a year. Personal goods, which Included money spent for gifts, candy anfl tobacco, cost $41. Payments on life and health Insurance averaged $40.80. While much baking, canning, churn ing and sewing Is still dene on the farm, and probably always will be, the tendency Is for these household Industries to be slowly supplanted by factory-made goods. Cream Is deliv ered to the creamery and butter la purchased; live stock la sold to the packer and fresh or cured meat bought from the butcher; the ready made dress has replaced many a farm made one. These changes are gradu ally lightening the burdens of the farm housewife, the Foundation adds. tXEOUTOR'fT NOTICE Having qualified as the Executor of the last will and testament of Win. ?. Holt, tate of Alamance county, this is to notify all persons having claims against fbe estate to file them, dnly verified, with the undersigned, on or beforoJan. 1st. 1980, or this notloe will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate are requested to pleaseVnake prompt settlement. This the 17tn day of December, 1928. R. J. THOMPSON. Bxec'r Burlihgton, N. C. Summons by Publication NORTH CAROLINA? aLAMANCB COUNTY Iii the Superior Court, Blake Longest vs. Eetelle Lewis Longest. The defendant, Estelle Lewis Longest, will take notice that an action entitled as shown has been commenced in the Supe rior Court of Alamance County, North Carolina, in which the plaintiff demands an absolute divorce from the defendant : and the said defendant will further take notice that she is required to appear at the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court of said County in the courthouse in Oiabam, N. C, on the 7th day of January, 1929, and answer or demur to the complaint in said action, or the pi aintiff will apply to the Court" for relief demanded in said complaint. This the 1st day of Decem ber, 1928. E. H. MURRAY,/ Clerk Superior Court of Ala mance Co., N. C. J. Dolph Long, Att'y. Notice of Sale! Pursuant to an order and judgment of the Superior Court of Alamance County, duly en tered in the action therein pend ing, entitled "Atlantic Joint Stock Land Bank of Raleigh, a corporation, vs. J as. P. Kerr, Jno. T. Kerr, Cale K. Burgess, Trustee, and others", which said judgment was duly taken and docketed on October 22, 1928, the undersigned Commissioner appointed by the said Court and authorized, empowered and di rected to sell said real property hereinafter described, will offer or sale at pubic auction, at the courthouse door in Graham, Al amance County, North Carolina, on MONDAY, JAN. 21, 1929, at 12o'clock, noon, the follow ing described real property, to-wit: All that certain piece or par cel of land situate, lying and being in Haw River and Mel ville townships, Alamance coun ty, State of North Carolina, ad joining the lands of J. M. Baker, H. Goodman, Kerr Soott, R. W, Scott, Jno. Poust, Chas. Al bright, W. S. Dixon and others, and more particularly bounded and described as follows: Beginning at a rock, corner with W. T. Freshwater and the Jas. P. Kerr house tract, and running thence N 2 deg 15' E 9 chs to corner with said Fresh water; thence S 89$ deg E17 chs to a rock in bank of Back Creek; thence with the meanderings of said Creek as follows : N. 50 deg E 10 chs N 55 deg E 10 chs N 45 deg E 9 chs to a rock in the bank of said Creek, corner with said Goodman ; thence N 15 deg W 21 chs to a rock; corner with said Goodman and Kerr Scott; thence S 77 deg W 1 ch to a rock ; thence N 18 deg 30' E 1.50 chs to a rock, corner with said Kerr Scott; thence N 18$ deg E 27.85 chs to a rock, corner with said Goodman ; thence with the line oi said Goodman N 70 deg 25' W 33.20 chs to rock, corner with said Baker; thence S 73$ deg W 5.66 chs to rock on the East bank of Haw river; thence with said River S 15 deg W 23.10 chs to a branch on S 15 deg W 13.90 chs to a branch, on S 15 deg W 9.30 chs to a branch ; thence S 15 deg W 11.70 chs to rock at branch ; thence S 28 deg W 26.40 chs to a rock, corner with said Jas P Kerr and W S Dixon ; thence with the line of said Jas P. Kerr N 84 deg E chs to a rock, corner with house tract; ; thence S 13} deg W 16.97 chs to rock' corn er with house tract and said Dixon ; thence with his line S 81 deg E 5 chs to rock, corn er with said house tract; thence S 15 deg W 4.14 chs to a rock; thence 8 7} deg W 14.68 chs to rock in the road to Haw River; thence S 14 degE 19.86 chs to a rock at the mouth -of branch at Back Creek; thence with the meanders of said Creek S 58 deg E 3.80 chs S 48 deg E 5 chs 8 63 deg E 432 chs N 20 deg E 432 chs N 20 deg E 5.60 chs to rock in said creek; corner with Chas Albright; thence with the line of said Albright N 8^ deg E 16.10 chs to rock ; thence N 88 deg E 10.20 chs to rock ; thence N 70 deg E 18.15 chs to rock in branch ; thence with said branch N 10 deg W 20 chs to rock corner with R W Scott ; thence N 7} deg W W 15.67 chs ; thence with his line 8 65 deg W 11.33 chs to rock; thence N 50 deg W 17 chs to rock in bank of branch, comer with R. W. Scott ; thence with said branch W 10 chs to Back Creek ; thence N with the meanders of Baid Back Creek 7 shs to a rock, comer with said R. W. Scott and W. T. Freshwater ; thence with Baid Freshwater. S 86 deg W 26.65 chs to rock, corner with said House Tract and the f beginning, and containing . 510.75 acres, more or less, and being known as the D. W. Kerr, Sr., and Freshwater lands as will more fully ap pear by deeds to the said J re. P. Kerr, wh ich are recorded in the Ala mance County Registry The purchaser at sai d sale will be required to depo sit 10 per ct. of his bid,and upo n con firmation by the Court of the' sale will be required to pay the balance of his bid in cash in full, and the title will be re tained until the purchase price, together with interest on the deferred payment is paid in full. This sale is being made un der orders of said Court to sat isfy judgment entered in said cause in favor of Atlantic Joint Stock Land Bank of Raleigh against defendant, Jas. P. Kerr. This, December 17, 1928. . CLARENCE ROSS, Commissionre. Commissioner's Sale Of Ufe Estate In Real Property. Under' and by virtue of an or der of W. A.JDevin, Judge of the Superior Court, made in a cer tain civil action entitled "June N. Smith vs. W. G. Murray and others," the undersigned will offer for sale for cash at the Courthouse deor in Gra ham, N. C., the life estate of W. G. Murray in the following described real property, on MONDAY, DEC. 31, 1928, at 12lnoon: A lot or parcel of land in Mebane, N. C., fronting on Second Street 75 ft., it being lot No. 13, block 1, in the sur vey and plan of the said Town, and especially of the Calvin Tate land, acquired by the said Mebane Land and Improvement Co., in said Town, (and devel oped) by W. B. Trogden, Jr. Reference is hereby made to said deed from Mebane Land and Improvement Co. to Ida May Murray, for a full and com. plete description of said real property. This tsale subject to confir mation of the Court. This the 28th day of Novem ber, 1928. CLARENCE ROSS, Commissioner. RESOLUTION FOR DISSOLUTION To the Stockholders of the Holt, Gant & Holt Cotton Mfg- Company, Inc.. Elon College, N. C.: Be it Resolved, That, in the judgment of the Board of Direc tors of the Holt, Gant & Holt Cotton Mfg. Company, it is deemed advisable and for the benefit of such Company that it be dissolved, and they recom mend such dissolution. That, looking to that end, this Board recommends that a meet ing of the stockholders of this Company be called and held on Wednesday, the ninth day of January, 1929, at three o'clock P. M. at the office of the Com pany in Alamance County, North Carolina, to consider and take action upon such res olution and recommendation of the Directors, and further con aider and act upon the advisa bility and method of con verting the assets of the Com pany into cash, to the end that all debts and liabilities of the Company can be paid and any surplus distributed among the stockholders. Be it Further Resolved, That the Secretary of this Company be instructed to mail a copy of this resolution to each stock holder of this Company, and that he be further instructed to cause a copy of this resolu tion 'to be published in the County of Alamance at least once a week for four successive weeks next preceding the time named above for the meeting of the stockholders provided for in said resolution. The above resolution unani mously adopted. This the eleventh day of De cember, 1928. _LYNN B. WILLIAMSON, Pres. & Treas. A. P. WILLIAMS; Sec'y. 4t 666 b i Prescription for Colds, Grippe, Flu, Dengue, Bilious Fever end Malaria. It b Boot ?petdy remedy known. ^adleys JKe deWelers
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