"TAKE ADVANTAGE: OR THE: ,FR?E ONLY ?l-40 PEB YEAB nr ADVANCE The Fran F. JOHNSON, Editor and Manager <VOLU*N XLYH EVENTION FOR TVPHOID FEVER Lin Times AN ADVEKTI8UTG MEDIUM TH^T BBENGS BKSULTS THE COUNTY, THIS STjATE, THE UNION L0DI8BUB6, K. C, riM, JILT 30, 1020. SCBSCBIPTION $1.40 Per Year NUMBER 2S REJECT COUNTY MAINTENANCE DISCUSSES SETTLEMENT WITH P. B. (?BIFFIN, EX-TBEASUBER. At Meeting Commissioners Monday ? Mr. Bra^Before Board In Interest Bunds. According to announcement the $oard of County Commissioners met in an adjourned session on Monday, with all members present. After the usual preliminaries business was ta ken up as follows: Mr. C. C. Hudson, acting in the ca pacity of a private citizen, was before the Board in regard to the settlement with ex-Treasurer P. B. Griffin, which the Commissioners had agreed on be fore. He registered his disapproval the Board in not requiring Mr. Grif in a forceful manner, of the action of fin to pay interest on the amount he admitted from the time his term ex* pired which would haV6~been practi cally four years or approximately, 91.445.00. ? Mr. Bray was before the Board in the interest of the 160,000.00 bonds the County is to Issue. After discus sing %the matter he was granted until the first Monday in August to submit a proposition. Immediately after the dinner hour the Board held a meeting with the Township Road Trustees of each to wnship in the County that had a road system, with the qbject in view to es tablishing a County Unit of Road Ma intenance, in order to get netter ser \ . :o in maintaining the roads and ; . ve money to spend on them throu i t xpert Superintendency and the y.t . ?atlon iof_the excess machinery, mu.. etc. After1 discussing the mat ter 10 a considerable extent and after Mr. W. H. Ruff in, who was advising the meeting in the absence of the County Attorney, had expressed him self to the extent that such action <'0111(1 noi be legally taken, the ques tion for a vote on the proposition was suspended and the meeting dismissed without a record of the opinion. ? Su uihei UuhIiihsu tieitig Dufure iliu Board adjournment was taken to its -next regular meeting. : ? ? Eirerton-Bradley. 7^ AttYorfi, 'JtiIt 24 .^-A * beautiful wed ding of state-wide interest was- sol it t, 6 o'clock p. au in ? the ? Mothodiot Episcopal church, uniting in marria ge Miss Mary Augusta Bradley, dau ghter of Rev. and Mrs. Rufus Bradley, to Mr. Courtney D. Egerton, formerly of Louisburg. but now residing in El izabeth City. Just before the strains of the time honored march from Lohengrin heral tied the bride, twelve young lady cho risters dressed in white organdy go wns marched up tfoe aisle and to the alter where they sang "'Tls Thy Wed ding Morn," from "Rose Maiden," ac companied by Mrs. H.. L. Thompson at the organ. Misses Naomi Halliday Mary Bonner, Wilmer Cahoon, Lois Hudpell, Redditt, Nina Paul, Fannie Price, Dawnle Godley, Maybelle Bea cham, Hattie Daniels, Charity Swin dell, and Annie Whitehurst composed tliis bridal choir. The ushers, Mr. Graham Egerton of Louisburg, and Mr. Raleigh Brad ley, of Washington, preceded the bridesmaids, Miss Florence Egerton. of Louisburg, and Miss Minne Lee Hart, of New Bern. The dame of honor, Mrs. E. H. Chesson, Jr., of El izabeth City, followed the bridesmaids The lUtle^ flower girls, Esmond Brad ley, sister of the bride, and Dorothy Mayo, petite and dainty In white or gandy with pink ribbons, scattering rose petals from flower .baskets in' the path of the advancing bride, who en tered with her maid of honor, Miss Una Lee Bradley, of Elizabeth City. The Jovely bride was ^ever hand somer than on her brjdal day gowned in beaded white georgette her Only or nament being a seed pearL necklace She carried a magnificent shower bou quet of bride's roses and ferns. They were met at the altar by the groom with his best man. Mr. Law rence Egerton, of Louisburg, where the bride and groom stood before her father, the Rev. Rufus Bradley, and took the nuptial vows sealed with a jing. To the strains of Mendelssohn's Jubilant wedding march bridal party left the church and were driv en to the home of the bride where an elegant supper was served, after whi- , ch the happy couple motored to New Bern where they took the midnight train for a honeymoon in Ashevllle and other polntB In , Western North iimiH mm' iijuu iii ftiii ubeth City where the groom Is engag ?til 'n MM ??"?'? arid Insurance. Th? bride has a ho?t ot frlendiTTIieifa. as "weTI as m many ullwi1 luwus In mM ern North Carolina where her father haa aeryed In the Methodist confer ence; and also In Virginia, her moth er's native atate, where atlll live the grand parents of the bride whom she frequently visits, , There Is one good thing about the participation ot women In pol'tlca They won't be pulling- off crooked deals because they couldn't keep a ?wral I . BIG BAKBECUE DINNER. <JIven By The Citizens of Loalsbnrg In Honor of Mrs. Irej Allen. The quiet that settles over the cam pus when the girls go home was dis pelled on Tuesday afternoon by th? crowd that assembled to do honor to Mrs. Ivey Allen. The occasion was a unique one, combining the stately speeches of a formal banquet with the ease and good cheer of a Southern barbecue. Thirty-one years ago, when the Col lege was reopened, after a long per iod of Inactivity, by Prof. 8. D. Bag ley, Mr#. Allen, then Miss Mary Dav is, became a member of the faculty. She has been connected with the Col lege in varying capacities from that time, with the exception of one week, until her departure for Oxford on Wed nosday. She resigned at Christmas 1895, when the management had be come hopelessly insolvent but was in duced to return for the spring term by a self-appointed committee of the 1 citizen? of the town. So gradually has the College grown in Influence and stability under hei guiding hand that only the older peo ple of the community have realized* what she And her esteemed father have meant to Franklin County. f ^In recognition of that service the people of Louisburg ami the county at large Mnited to express their appreciation on the eve of her departure. They killed the fatted calf (pig) ? six of them ? andi Berved barbecue a la Franklin. The amphitheatre about the pictur esque college well, afforded an ideal setting for the occasion. From the elevation in the foreground, ?hort uiid timely speeches were made us follows The Significance of the Occasion, Mr E.'H. Malone, Master of ceremonies; Mrs* Allen's In!ii*enee in this To#u Mr. W. H. Ruffin; Her Executive Abil ity and the part sbe played in the" erection of the new building, Ur. i*\ B. McKinne; The Far Reaching In fluence of Mrs. Allen and her Esteem ed Father in Franklin County. Mr. Si. W. BallarU The Affection of the Teo - pi a ot Lotinurg tor M-a*? AllQit. Hcv V F. Smi w. . . Rev. N. H. D. Wilson In behalf uf *Mrs. Allen expressed' appreciation for tended to her during the years of her College, ~and~culmIriatecTTn an ovation _ yury- .('.nmpllmfinury. At. the rinse nf his repj*rM aAuld Lang Syne" was sung and formality gave way before tbe onslaught oX heaping trays of gol L anralrown roast pig, which proceeded from the rear. The absence trf Rev. F. S. Luve, wlio - is attending tho Epworth League As sembly at Lake Junaluska, left the program a bit incomplete as he had ! been asked to say good-bye In behalf I of her friends, but the participants in I that 'cue found compensation when 1 Major Boddie and Mr. Ricks found time for a second, a third, and maybe in some cases, a fourth serving. Louislmrp Defeats Henderson. In a lively game of baseball on the local diamond here Wednesday Lou isburg defeated Henderson in a score of 8 and 4. The playing of the local boys was extra good when consider^ tion for the fact that they were not in training is given. The visitors were at the mercy of their opponents all the while Init did Bome good play ing under th<\circumstances. Quit* a good crowd w\s present to witness the game. , ? ? - Planning farm work well In ad vance is one wav of saving labor. Europe is working overtime, with everybody telling everybody else what to do. MICKIE SAYS NtAil tM TUSM P?kU. \-VVCC Mary Davis Allen. Few womerv have made better use of their talents than Mrs. Mary Davis Allen, Dean of Loulsburg College. The story of her life should be an inspira tion to all young women. She began her career as a teacher in the public schools, at the age of six teen. She had no degree for there was not a college in tfce State that gave degrees to women at that time. But Uj at she made good in her^rsl school is evinced by the fact that she held her Job for nine consecutive ^te rms. or until she declined re-election to become a*member of the faculty of Littleton College. A year later she came to Loulsburg College, where she has served i? varying capacities for more than a quarter of a century. When the third attempt after the Civil War to operate Lou(sb\irg Col lege came to naught in 1896, and gra ve fears felt lest the propeijty should be purchased for a colored school, the presidency was offered to Miss Mary" D^vis. at the suggestion of Mr. Wash-'! ington, who owned the property. (Three years later Miss Davis was married to Mr.'Ivey Allen.) No one realized the difficulties of that position more than she, for its recent reverses had cost her the loss of her salary. She was also keenly aware of her own handicap, ? she had neither capital nor degree. The in stitution over which she was asked to preside had neither credit nor endow ment. But she accepted the manage ment, not the presidency, and persu aded her father, the late Matthew S, Davis, a graduate of the University and well fitted for the duties of the of flee, to accept the presidency. The arrangement was an excellent one, an<T the credit and standing of the to! lege were soon restored. |* Just how she managed to finance it Is another story, for the building (vas | only partially furnished; the sum to tal ^mounted to a parlor suit, six bed 4-ooffi suits, some school furniture, and three pine dining room tables. But the building was soon furnished thr oughout. City water, electric lights and sewerage were added. The cam pus was improved, fruit trees aid vin yards, were planted and- harnaAbuilt. A ljirge patronage resulted. Students ford the schools of their choice* but ? there- were-aleo some, every venr, whfi could pay nothing at all. j ? The death of Mr. Davis in long ????<? a blow to tSs college' and to Mrs. Al len an well Shp hnrt Invented all-she had made in equipment, No one wsn ted her holdings, -No one desired the presidency of an institution* fattriaviy iyw nsd. "There seemed nothing for I her to do but to assume the duties ot that office. Tills she did, associating 'With ? hei ? the strongest faculty ? sire could secure. They had degrees from Trinity College, Columbia University etc. She had none, but the relation was not embarrassing. Each under ?stood the peculiar position of the oth jer, and Mrs. Allen's fine sense and sympathy soon won' their respect and ^affection. In 1910, at her solicitation I Mr. B. N. Duke, to whom the college had passed at the death of his father I gave the property to the TMorth Carp i lina Conference. This made the en largement of the plant possible, and i a campaign was started to raise funds j for the M. S. Davis Memorial Building That building was errected in 1913. The same year a steam heating plant was installed. The next step was to raise the stan dard of the college. This, Mrs. Aller. considered, was a man's job, and with characteristic good Judgment she resigned the presidency. With the election of Rev. F. S. Love, in 1917 she became dean, which office she now holds. Mrs. Allen has succeeded because she has accepted the duties of the hour. She has never sought honors nor shunned responsibilities. She is thoroughly honest, and her faith in the sincerity of others has given her a very optimistic outlook. She is a busy woman but she has not neglect id her children. The eldest Is in her senior year at Trinity. Like her mo ther she will graduate at an early age Mrs. Allen's home is a happy one. She seems to have inherited the hospitali ty characteristic ot the women of the Old South. ? Carter's Weekly. North Carolina Suffrage Workers Re pudiate Women 'Imported' From This Cltj. Raleigh, July 27. ? Letters signed by Mlsa Oertrude Well, president of the North Carolina Equal Suffrage Asso ciation, and Mrs. T. Palmer Jerman, ehairman of the rat i fk'.tttl nn rnin^LL, tee of that organlz^Uftaa^HW? been Bent to aU^aaaHfBgys of the State leg ilTlUfCdenying any knowledge fa or participation in a reported plan of suffragists to raise a fund of $10,000 to be used in this State ill connection with the campaign fyr ratification of the Anthoify suffrage amendment at the special session of the general as. anmtjly next month. They also deny responsibility for "hordeinsr imported ?WBTKers" from Washington, who are said to be com ing to North Carolina to work for ratification of the Hurt rage amend ment. If speakers and workers are being sent here from outside of the State, the letter states, they probably are representatives of the woman's party. The legislators are appealed to In the letter to ratify the amend-, ment "in the name of the women of North Carolina." , ^ iwr. ana xvirs. L.. f. Johnson, and chil dren, uf Rut'Ky Mount: viBltefl his bro ther, Mr, A. F. Johnson at Oakhurst Sunday. ' Mrs. Emma D. Joyn'er, who has been visiting her son, Capt. II. "Lt Joyner, returned to her home at Garysburg this week. IONG THE VISITORS TOC KNOW AND SOME YOu| DO NOT KNOW. al Items About Folks And f Friends Wljo Travel Here There. tW. F. Beaaley and son, Paul,] Raleigh Monday, tJ. C. Jones Ipft Monday for | , Va., on a business visit. I J. S. Barrow, of Greensboro, is] her son, Mr. J. J. Barrow. [W. H. Allen, Jr., of Raleigh, I KBunday with his people here. IjK. B. Allsbrook, of Mebane, 'Sunday with his wife in Louis Im. H. Aycock returned th.p past Trom a visit to relatives in Ox Pattie Gee Hill, of Raleigh, is - friends^pd relatives in Lou- 1 Mr.fcnd Mrs. F. B. McKlnne left tday for Boone, to spend sev ^eks. tW. T. Person, who has been I friends in Newton, returned Saturday. i Louise Thomas and Eloise of* Raleigh were visitors to Org Monday. Mr. Harry Aycock, of Norfolk, Va., wa* tfyioitor to his father, Mr. G. L. Aycoclfie, this week. 'any friends were delighted to E. C. Barrow, of Greensboro, iburg Wednesday. Mary Wooten, of Goldsboro, ie Nuvak, * of Baltimore, are Miss Mildred Scoti. . H. Fleming and Mr. Ben T. Holtfen after "a weets vacation at Atlantic City. Mrs. Fred A. Riff returned a vacation to New York ~ * other Northern ble J. E. Thomas and Mr. W. Jker visited Halifax on business Mrs. W. J. Shearin and son William James, returned home the past week from a visit to relatives in Greensbo ro and Durham. Mrs. E. F. Thomas, who lias been visiting Mrs. C. G. Bedford in Lexing ton. returned hom^ Sunday. She was accompanied home by IV^rs. Bedford, who will visit hdr. Dr. H. H. Johnson left Monday ?for Brockton, Mass., to visit his people. He will be accompanied home by.-his wife and little child, who have been visiting there fo^ some weeks. I -Master Paul Godwin, of William aton, is visiting at the home of Mr. js. A. Newell. He returned home with Mr. and M^g. Newell the past week, after the^nad made a visit to friends at that^lace. ; fi "The Best Boat Won*" Declares Sir Thomas. Aboard Steam Yacht Victoria, July 27. ? By wireless to the Associated Press. ?"I am very sorry, but the Jbdst boat won," was Sir Thomas Lip I ton's remark toB Resolute crossed the line a victor today and defeated the Irish baronet's fourth attempt to cap ture the trophy. "We all did our best ? skipper, de signer and crew ? and we have been beaten fair and square," Sir Thomas said. "I have been treated throughout wi th the greatest fairness and sportman ship bv Americans and I am taking ? ? ? ? ?*I shall wait till next year to give some one else a chance to challenge and then I shall re-challenge myself. I "I have no excuses to offer; Reso lute is the better boat." added the Ir ish sportsman-. Siiys America I s_Heli4?iir Germans in ""^jKraal Way*. Berlin, July 26. ? Reviewing the po litical situation in a speech in the Reichstag this evening Dr. Walter SI mone, foreign secretary, said: "With America we are still in a state of war and the end will rtot comfc until March, 1921. Neverthe less, humanitarian efforts are being made in America for German child ren and young mothers. T>arge num bers of ntflk cows are to be brought to Germany.'* Hesolnte Wins In Final Yacht Race With Shamrock IV. Sandy Hook, K. J., July 27.? Defen der Resolute Rave the British challen ger, Shamrock IV, the worst drubbing of the 1920 regatta In the final race of the series today, winning boat for boat by thirteen minutes and 45 sec unds and* the America's famous ya clitlng cup_remaitta American proper ty. Overcoming a 40 second lead and the advantage of a winward, which Shamrock IV had taken at the start, the fleet defender held a lead of four minutes and 8 seconds at the half way stake of the 30 mile course, and crosssed the finish line thirteen minu tes and five seconds ahead. Includ ing her hadlcap of six minutes and 40 seconds, which she did not need, Re solute won by 19 minutes and 45 sec onds. Three Straight Victories. In capturing the series and retain 'fig possession of the America's tro phy. Resolute had taken two races and won out by registering three str aight and impressive victories. Sham rock IV won the initial race when the defender was forced out by an acci dent to her rigging and- captured the second in a ficlfle wind that left _Res olute won the third by her time al lowance of seven mimxtes and one second, running a dead head with the challenger. Her other two victories were won bo?t for boat. Sir Thomas Llpton, owner of the green challenger, voiced what Ap peared to be the unanimous verdict of yachtsman who had seen the five ra ces, when he declared tonight that r'the boat woi>." Shamrock Mile Behind. I men Resolute flashed across t>i? I golden finish line that the setting sun (had laid down on the rippling water. ; Shamrock was a mile or nirirp h? ;hind, her own great sails bellying j broadly, when the white signal ball of -the committee boat Barryion drop ped and the shrieking of whistles and [sirens fpom the little fleet of specta | tors craft proclaimed Resolute'g vlc The beaten Shamrock swent qnirk ly down the course, striving to shor ten the Intervening gap ancLsalve? as tmucii as she- emmranr WTECTiTSsS ? ol | her defeat. I - rifllllty In SAonllght. = I But as It to emphasize the greai Hif. TTeieuce In itfte between the two fin ishes, the flaming sun dropped like < "fa pal*-- Sod'HT'whfcn "l!e?n ^Bnt to? ly traced against the sky when Reso j lute finished, stood out with increas ing ? radiance ? wfaon Shamrock got ov |er the llue. j Resolute "by this time had described la great circle, and had come back to I the mark to see her riVal finish. As !the challenger crossed the mark her ? British crew let out three ringing : cheers Tor the victor, and the conquer ors responded with lusty cheers for ! Shamrock and her crew. _ Sir liionian Congratulate*. Sir Thomas Lipton, who built the challenger in lais fourth effort to lift I the bottomless old pewter mug thai jis the America's cup Mid take it back ito its original home in England, turn ed away Croni his humble sailing beau ity and sent his steam yacht Victoria full speed ahead to overtake and con gratulate Resolute's crew. He re turned just In time to see Shamrock cross the line. The aged sportman's gameness as he drew away from his own sloop to congratulate the winner elicited a salve of cheers from those on1 board the spectator craft and Sir Thomas responded as jauntily as If he had not seen his own fondest hope once more baffled. o All men see a few of their own faults. Their friends sec the rest. MICKIE SAYS U STOP -rMMM' >oou*ct\n? so6?cb\pt\ovi vxourr OC?T *.? SOON M THtS ?TMKf I OWIMO A\N6sN P&t>tA'>4 \VtVC. Putt w* NUTH\W V. THREE WARE HOUSES TO RUN WAREHOUSEMEN HAVE ORDERS FOR WEED. Pfenent Arrangement* Promises Lire ljr Market ? Indications Point To tiood Prices and (Jood ?Crop8 For Franklin. Loulsburg Tobacco Interests are preparing tor quite a lively tobacco market for 1920. From reports all three warehouses will be run this season and a good crop with high pri ces is expected. The general opinion of the tobacco men seems to be that the better grades, will be just as high or higher than last year but the com mon grades will not average quite as high as the past season. The open ing date has not been decided upon yet but is expected to be about Sep tember 8th or 9th ? about the same time as last year. What will no dou bt add interest to the sales in Louia burg this fall is that in addition to the regular buyers Messrs. Meadows & Harris, and Allen & ^Wtllfamson, proprietors of the Union and Planters Warehouses respectively have given out . the information that they have large orders for tobacco and have rented prizeries in order to handle these orders, and that they expect to go on the sales as buyers, .through which they propose to make all piles of tobacco bring jusft a little more at Louisburg than anywhere else. The Union Warehouse will be oper ated by Messrs. S. S.- Meadows and G. C. Harris, who are known to all to bacco growers of this nn _**? pert, experienced warehouse men. '.They will be assisted by Messrs. Karl Pearce, auctioneer, and Lewis Wag j staff, bookkeeper. Our information is that the Union will be fitted and | equipped equal to any house in the [State: J The Planters Warehouse will be j operated in 1920 by Messrs. W. H. | Allen and B. N. Williamson._two of EQg BW88 must pupulai fBBHWByl men, who will be assisted by Messrs. . Kf*-1 niMtlnnnrr, mill W ? Fuller, bookkeeper. The management JpinformB us thaLJUicy? cx-pecf lu inahn the sales at the Planters lively this 'season, that the house will be in tip _ ? u?wssi-lUHi: .Eaw* lent nelp will be found in all depart ments. ?j ? 2tr this writlfig'we were unable to get detailed information concerning jthe Riverside, although we are* "in formed that it. is certain that it will ' run. \ The present indications are to the [effect that Louisburg will regain its :Own in the tobacco sales trade this 1 year and it will be to tfhe interest* t?> 2 all growers to visit the market. ? o To American Legion Members. I Daniel W. Terry, Publicity Officer ? of the American Legion in North Car olina, is calling to the attention of members of the Legion in this State I the opportunity offered them for an inexpensive vacation trip of two 'weeks at Morehead City in August. - The Government has offered the Xor Jth Carolina Department of the Legion | the -use of Camp Glenn, near More head City, for a summer camp for members of the local posts and their lady relatives. The camp will open on August 15 for members of local posts who may wish to take advantage of the oppor tunity to spend two weeks at the sea shore and escape the high rates being charged by resort hotels. Barracks and cots will be furnished free, and the campers are asked to provide bed linen unless they wish to stay at the hotels. Barracks rooms, screened and provided with ample shower ba ths, will be free to all who wish to go. Board will be furnished on a cost ba sis, but it is expected that the board will not cost more than one to one and a half dollars per day. Requests have been made for reduced rates on the railroads, but the request has not yet been heard from. However, even if the reduced rates are not secured the outing will be an exceedingly cheap one. The encampment will begin Sunday August 15, and continue for two wee ks, but thoso going need not remain the full time unless they desire to do so. They will pay board only for the Hmj mmmin 111 UUlip. The Local Post Comrmrndem are ask ed to bring this matter to the atten .tionof their post immediately and as certain how many of their member** rettrttYTOTttitr 16 05 CffffiTJ.' All who expect to attend are asked to bring along mess kits and bod clo thes. They are also asked to forward to C. A. Gosney, Treasurer Encamp ment Committee, Raleigh, N. C., five dollars to b6 applied to the mess fu nd, for which credit will be given when the cost of the board is figured It would tye a simple matter to cre ate a spirit of harmony and co-opera tion In this town. All that is neces sary Is for each person, to be harmo nious and co-operative. Energy and thrift wfll accomplish many things, provided common sense hold the reins.

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