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VOLUMN LIV * LOUISBURG, N. C., FRIDAY, NOV. 13TH, 1925 d? pages) NUMBER 39
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Teachers Hold Meeting in Raleigh on Friday
Largely Attended
MARTIN McGILL SAVED
FROM ELECTROCUTION
Week of Sot. l#th Set Apart as Amer
ican Education Week?State Travel
ers Protective Association to Test
toie of Pnllman Co, Making Sur.
charge?Boom For Evpanslon in
Higher Educational Opportunities.
Raleigh, Not. 9.?Possibility thai
the Interstate Commerce Commission
ruling restoring the Pullman sur
charge, which contravenes the State
law will be tested through all the
courts is a possibility of the near fu
ture. During :he past wee a In addi
tion to receiving this Interesting item
oi newt, the Capital City ente-tainod
tLe Central Association of the North
C-.: olina Educational Association^
ne..../ one thousand teachers being in
the i ?;? over the week-end. The un
usual r.loo happened when a traction
company .c i'Jced Its rates voluntarily.
Tie Sta.o Travelers Pro'ective As
social on Intends to test the Interstate
Commerce Commission ruling restor
ing th; Pullman surcharge In North
Caroliua. A law, pushed by the or
ganization, has been in eifect some
years which prevented the railroads
charging this additional amount but
the Commerce Commission has ruled I
that it must be paid in this state the
same as in others. This will be a
great additional burden on those who
use the trains and the Travelers Or
ganization Intends to carry the mattei
through to the highest courts. The
surcharge was Instituted as a war
measure but since the end of the con.
fllct had not been removed.
A number of interesting and In
structive addresses were heard by
about one thousand teachers who were
In the city over the week-end at the
North Carolina Educational Assocla.
tion conference. These meetings are
now held regularly each year and
never fall to aid the teachers In the
interchange of their views on teach
ing.
The Carolina Power and Light Com
pany ot R'eleigh has voluntarily re
duced Its rates 10 to 15 per cent tor
lighting electricity, the saving to con
sumers being approximately (200,000
a year. This reduction also applies
to the Yadkin Power Company, a sub
sidiary and 39 cities and towns which
are served are affected by the reduc
tlons. These are In Eastern Carolina
towns.
During the week, the North Carolina
Cotton Growers Association organized
a subsidiary company, the North Car
olina Cotton Sates Company which
will handle the sales of the co-ops di
rect to the mills. Dr. B. W. Kilgort
and General Mancgcr U. B. Blalock
were the organizers and It Is stated
the company will be solely for tho
benefit of the co-op members. It en
ables the co-ops to go direct Into the
market and compete wlthother cotton
merchants on a parity In selling cot
ton to mills. Dr. Kllgore and Mr.
Blalock feel that It Is a step forward
for the co-op organization.
Governor McLean visited Washing
ton the early part of tho week and re
turned and Issued a proclamation set
ting aside Armistice Day as a holiday
and calling on the people to observe It
Governor McLean wants the Inher
itance tax repealed as a Federal tax
and left as a source of revenue for the
State. Dr. Clarence Toe, editor of the
Progressive Farmer, opposes repeal
and says the Governors who are urg
ing this have been hoodwinked as to
the real purpose of repeal.
Governor McLean has hastened t>
assure the alumni of University ol
North Carolina that the expansion at
Duke will not hurt Carolina. He feels
there is plenty of room for expansion
In higher educational facilities.
Martin McGill was saved from
electrocution last Friday when the
Governor commuted his sentence to
life Imprisonment He was sentenced
from Union County for killing hia wife,
W. H. Plttman of the department of
education made an address to teach
prs at rail River, Ifass., during the
week. Mr. Plttman said he gleaned
the idea that the Massachusetts
people are apprehensive of the result
on their state ot the textile boom in
North Carolina. The textile school
ot State College won the blue ribbon
for its display at State College. The
display was an excellent one and
showed great skill in weaving.
John C. Dawson, State Democratic
Chairman, visited the city during the
week but reported all quiet in politc
al circles. He does not put much stock
in rumours that Formed Governot j
Morrison may run again.
A proclamation Issued by Governor
McLean designates the week begin
ning November 16th as "American
Education Week" which His Excel
lency asks all North Carolinians to
observe with special programs in
the schools of the State and civic or?
ganizatlons of cities and towns, the
purposes being to impress upon tho
"rising generation" the value and
privileges of citixenshlp and the im
portance of preparing themselves fori
lives of useful service.
The Department of Revenue ai
nounces the State is to save two cents
on each automobile license tag pur
chased next year. The Western Dis
play and Advertising Company again
secures the contract and it is esti
mated that 400,000 tags will be need-1
ed, the cost of each being 6.462 cents. |
or around $9,500 lees than last year.
The State and Federal departments!
of agriculture are appealing to sports
men for cooperation .In preventing
forest fires. It is pointed out that
hunters are frequently careless with]
matches, smoking tobacco and camp
fires and they are respectfully re
quested to "have a care" in the woods
henceforth.
The Automobile (Liqense Depart
ment reports the sale of title cer
tificates for 1.231 passenger cars and
150 trucks during the month of Octob
er. Of the passenger cars 773 were I
Fords, 136 Chevrolets, 60 Buicks, 401
Essex and the remainder of various j
other "makes." 112 Ford trucks and |
11 Chevrolets ."changed hands."
Governor McLean and Superinten
dent Pou have given approval to tbe
use of convicts in highway construc
tion, 150 of tbcm -to be employed on
projects in Franklin and Macon
counties. The arrangement Was
perfected in 'a conference bet we .in
the Governor and officials of the
State Highway Commission.
It is stated \rj officials in charge o(
tax collections that the State is more
than a million and a half dollars a
head of the receipts for last year.
Total to date, $2,886,078.08 for the
first four months of the present fiscal
year, as against $1,019,806.42 tor tbe
first four months of tho present fiscal
year. This reported increase in the
"gathering in" of the shecklts prompts
the Suggestion in administration
quarters that the threatened slash of
appropriations on January 1st, 1926.
will not occur.
Leaders ot education, religion, in
dustry and public welfare, both white
and colored, are Invited to the annual
North Carolina Conference on Negro
Education to bo held at Shaw Univer
sity here on Monday, November 16.
Prof. A. T. Allen, State Superinten
dent of Public Instruction, and Prof.
N. C. Newbold, Director of the Divi
sion ot the Negro Education, are hop
lng for a large attendance, especially
of negroes engaged in educational
work. ,
George W. Coggln, of the State De
partment ot Education, attended a
regional conference of supervisors
and teacher trainers In trade and in
dustrial- education recently held in
New Orleans; Miss Rebecca Cushing.
of the vocational bureau, "looked
over" teacher training at , Slater
Normal, Wlnston-8alem, while Miss
Margaret Edwards, of the same
bureau, made an official visit to a
number of places In the east to lnpsect
classes* in home economics; Miss
Emeth Tuttle, director ot mother's
aid of the State Board ot Charities
and Public Welfare spoke before the
Mother's Aid Olub of Forsyth county
in Winston-Salem daring the week. |
Governor McLean has named tha
following as members of the board
of trustees of the North Carolina
College for Negroes; W. J. Brogden,
Durham; R. L. Flowers, Durham;
J. B. Mason, Durham; J. H. Donlan
Rocky Mount, These are additional
to the present membership.
The Federal Department of Com
merce figures that 3,973 persons have
been killed by motor vehicles in fifty
nine cities since the first of January
this year. While this Is apparently
a large number of fatalities, the re
port shows fc decrease from that ot
last year for a similar period, which
showed 4,345.
Sixty five persons were present at
the meeting of the State College
branch of the American Institute of
Electrical Engineers recently held at
the 81r Walter Hotel. A delightful
luncheon was served.
LIT SOKE SUN SINE IK.
Raleigh, Nuv. 9.?Sunshine is the
best disinfectant-,on the farm. It i*
a great destroyer sf germs.
"Where one has the capital, winter
is a good time to add some windows
to the barns and cattle sheds: If new
ones are being built, be sure to make
provision for windows." advises Prof.
D. S. Weaver, farm engineer at 8tate
College. "These ? indows permit of
the free use of Nature's disinfectant.
Horses and cattle should have at least
three square feet of glass per animal
and hogs not less than three square
feet. These windows should be so
placed that the sunshine falls directly
on the floor as most of the germs in
barns and outhouses are found In the
litter on the floor."
PROTECT FAB* MACHINERY
FROM WINTER WEATHER.
Raleigh, Nor. 9?Farm ma-chinery
and Implements will be used rery
little In the field from now on until
next ipringi bo, put them away under
shelter and In good repair, thus sar
ins time and money next spring.
'Tut the machinery and Implements
in an Implement shed or in some out
bidding on the farm where they will
be protected'from the rains and snows
of winter," scye D. 8. Wearer, farm
engineer of the Department of Ag
ronomy at State College. Before
etorlngt howerer, clean off all dirt
and mud, especially from those parts
not painted. Clean off the bright
parts and corer them with a heavy
coating of grease. This will prercnl
rusting. Sometimes during the wtn
t?r"givo the painted parts another coot
and tag those parts which need re
placing."
This will moan longer life and moro
efficient results from the machines,
states Prof. Wearer.
PERKY-BULLOCK
Announcement as follows has been
made:
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Perry
announce tha marriage of ?
/ their daughter
LUIIdn v
/ to
Mr. Willie Bullock
On Saturday, the twonty-slxth
of September, 1925
Pine Ridge.
You can generally Judge a man by
the rmount of piety requlrol to make
him conceited about It.
Thqco who offer the most criticism
generally hare the loaat to recommend
them as models to follow. 7
HOME CHAUTAUQUA
CiMalla High School November 18th,
Itfth, and 20th. Under Hie A aspires
of P. T. A.
I wonu-jr now many >t lis fully
realize Just how much the Parent
Teacher Association wants to do for
our children anil community and what
It is planning to do in the near future.
One of the big things the Association
hopes to do right away, along with
many others, is to put on in the school
a Home Chautauqua.
Arrangements have been made for
the three evenings of good wholesome
entertainment which will make up
the Home Chautauqua.
Those whose duty it hr.s been to se
cure entertainers for each evening of
the Chautauqua have had in mind, not
only such entertainment as might
justify those who live in our immedi
ate community to attend, but the com
mittee has arranged for a variety in
the three entertainments, and has se
cured entertainers of wide reputation
Such that we believe many people
from near-by towns and the surround
ing country will be interested in
hearing.
Wednesday, November 18th. 7;30P. X,
This is a drama in four acts by
Harry an Denmark. Six male and
four female characters. The costumes
of military and civilian dress of the
Civil War period have been rented
from a costuming house in Baltimore.
In every act the audience is held in
suspence by the scheming between
Frank Fleming, who is a detective
in the service of the South and Jack
Fernbrookf a Union soldier, promoted
for bravery. Diana Burton, a true
Southern girl, is the heroine of the
play. She and her friend Addle Jenks,
a Northen girl, are assoclted with
Fernbrook and Fleming in a very
complicated love affair. Jack Fern
brook will npt desert his country for
the girl he loves. He left her when
duty called yet he loved her better
than anything in the world. The
speeches are all short vigorous and
effective, with especially nice climaxes
Ligo r.nd Aunt Chloc, his better hr.'t,
are both unusual black-face charact
ers. Your sides will part from laught
er when these two regroes are on the
stage. Their lines are rich and hu
morus with quick action.
The action of acts II, III and IV
occurs on the two days preceeding
and the day of the entrance of ths
Union Army into Richmond. If you
are not present on the evening of the
18th, you will miss a great deal. You
owe it to yourself to take this evening
off and enjoy the play.
miss such atreat.
Friday, Jfoveinbeir Mfh, Srf)0 P. JL
The Kiwanis Club of Nashville has
kindly consented to favor us with one
of its famous entertainments to be
presented in the Castalia School Audi
torium on the evening of November
the 20th. Those who were present or
have heard of the Kiwanis Frolic, pre
sented last spring in the Auditorium
of Nashville's new School Building^
will remember that there was nothing
short of a good and Ijjgh class enter
tainment on that occassion. The j
Castalia entertainment is not to be
a reputation of the one given in Nash
ville. but It Is of the same class and
equally as good. The entertainment
will consist of the following selections:
The Kiwanis District School, Special
Songs and Dances Orchestra and
Male Quartette
Can any one in reach afford to miss
such an evening of entertainment?
The HOme Chautauqua is being
given under the auspices of the
P. T. A. of Castalia School. It is be
ing given as means ofentertalnment
for the town and community, and all
that is realized above expenses will
go for the benefit of the School. Sea
son tickets at just two-thirds the price
of single tickes to each performance
will be on sale November 7th to 18th.
If you are a patron of the Castalia
School and a citizen of the town or
community, make your plans now to
enjoy these three evenings of good
and wholesome entertainment, and by ,
so doing, you will be boosting your
own town and school. If you are of
some other school and community,
come and enjoy with us the good things
of a Home Chautauqua, and then give
us the opportunity of att ending some
thing for the benefit of your school.
Thursday, November Hth| 8:00 P. JI.
For the second evening of the Home
Chautauqua, the committee has been
very fortunate In securing Miss Eliza
beth Sheffield Allen of Louisburg
College. Miss Allen has had much
?>*nerience In Lyceum and Chautauqua
work. Those who avail themselves
of the opportunity of bearing this ac
complished lady will be highly .enter
tained by Humorous. Monologues,
Character, Sketches^ Funny Storie3,
and .Dramatic Scenes.
It is very seldom that tho people ol
Costal la and surrounding community
have the opportunity of attending an
entertanment of this nature right at
home. We feel that no one should
ENTERTAIN AT TEA.
Thursday afternon of last weak from
5 until 6, Mrs. K. K. Aller> entertain
ed at tea in honor of her niece. Miss
Lucy Terrell Allen, whoso marriage
to Mr. William Edgar White, Jr., trill
be one of the social eveats of the com
ing week.
The guests were received by Mrs.
C. W. Cobb and Mrs. W. N. Fuller
and were served punch by Miss
Balbiie Turner and Mrs. E. F Griffin
Mrs. G. M. Beam and Mrs. P. B. Griffin
ttKn introduced them to the receiving
line, Mrs. K. K. Allen, Miss Lucy Ter
rtll Allen, Mrs. W. H. Allen. Mrs. W. E.
White and Miss Lucy Allen.
The guests were then led by Miss
Ida Male Yow Into the dining ?son
where Mesdames J. M. and P. H.
Allen poured tea, and sandwiches,
tea, unts and paints were served by
Misses Anna Puller Parham. Elisa
beth Clifton, Pannle Neal. Louise
Griffin and Annie Willis Boddls.
In the library Miss Marguerite
Harris received and the gaesta ware
registered by Miss Kathryn Plea salts
and Mrs. F. R Rose.
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ANNOl'M'E.YENT
| The nest regular buslneaa |
of the P. T. A. will be la the
auditorium Friday evening Nov. 11
It yon are n member ot this
willing workers, or wish to
servloe to your school by yoar paw
nee, donl forget tM data or tail to
IP
Join!
Inherits Riches
< little IS. year old Doris Duke In.
now the world's richest heiress.'
The will of her father, multlmillion-,
VUS IflflMDM ?fUU^
the talk of
" *
Social King at
White House
J ? Pierrepont Moffat, retuft:' i
from tha Constantinople etnboss-v
to direct all social act!Titles at th'c
White House tikis winter, and?
generally expected to be the
jpnpreasrrs for many rears.
Ralston's Successor
f l/Vj^OCAf Tg^R 1
The public' end political dreles
greeted the announced appoint
ment of Arthur R. Robinson to AO
the unexpired term of U. S. Senat
or Ralston of Indiana, with no
little surprise.