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Rlchwood, V. Va. "Before the um
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THE ROANOKE N l: W S
rHUKSDAY., Al'K'U. .'is 1921
Published I:vtry I hursday.
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A weekly lietnocr&tic journal devoted
to the material, educational, political
and agricultural intereHtn of Halifax and
surrounding count ies.
Advertising rale reasonable and fur
nished on applicatioa.
THE EDUCATIONAL DRIV E.
The Christian Education Move
ment of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, will, between May
29 and June 5, offer an opportu
nity to every Methodist in this
seciion to give freely to the cause
of education. The grand financial
objective of the Southern Metho
dist Church, is $33,000,000.
Another important objective is
securing recruits for Christian ser
vice It is said that of the 17,000
charges in the Southern Methodist
Church, at least 2,000 of ihe local
churches are without regular
preachers.
According to Dr. R. H. Bennett,
secretary of life service, "one of
(he tasks of the Christian Educa
tion movement is to secure at least
5,000 young people to enter the
ministry and oiher lines of Chris
tian service. It proposes to raise
a large fund for their education
and training. It will equip Church
schools to receive them, a thing
which cannot be done now on ac
count of crowded conditions. Then
(hese little churches which are now
closed will become dynamos of
spiritual life and centers of commu
nity service."
Director General J. H.Reynolds,
of the Christian Education move
ment is responsible for the state
ment that there are 27,000,000
Protestant children and young peo
ple in America who receive no re
ligious training of any kind. "Three
out of five Proiestant children re
ceive no instruction whatever,"
says Dr. Reynolds. "In our aiti
lude of indifference to the religious
instruciion of the young, we are
souing the seeds of national de
cay." "The Christian Educa
tion movement," continues
Dr. Reynolds, "will remedy this
by putting a strong depanment of
Bible and religious education in all
of our colleges, so that these insti
tutions may send back to the local
churches a constantly growing
stream of young men and women
trained in the principles and meth
ods of religious education and of
applied Christianity."
The Methodist Episcopal Church
maintains 91 schools and colleges
which will benefit by the big educa
tional fund to be raised by that denomination.
A desperate effort has beerfmade
during the last three weeks to ad
vance the price of cotton. It is a
trick of those who want cheap cot
ion, to advance the price about
planting time. The trick has been
used so often that it can now de
ceive no one. Efforts to advance
the price of cotton while deter
mined have failed, and this fact of
itself should be a sufficient warning
to farmers not to be misled. When
those who want cheap cotton snd
who ordinarily control the price of
cotton cannot advance the price for
a purpose, it is not likely that the
farmer will be able to advance it.
Unless cotton can be produced
profitably it would be worse than
folly to attempt to produce it at all.
"Cold In The Head"
ii an acute attack of Nasal Catarrh.
Those subject to frequent "colds in
the head" will rind that the use of
HALL'S CATAltKH MEDICINE will
build up the System, cleanse Ihe Blood
and u nder them less liable to colds.
Repeated attacks of Acute Catarrh may
lead to Chronic Catarrh.
Hall's Catarrh Medicine is taken inter
nally acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system, thus re
ducing the inflammation and restoring
normal conditions.
All drugiristi. Circulars free.
f. J. CHENEY A CO.,
Toledo, Ohio
jews now christians. DELIGHTFUL OUTING
10.000 Converts in Hungary A!one
in hirst Half of 1420
The following is from ihe Jew
ish Telegraph Agency .n Vienna:
Reports received here from Buda
pest establish ihe fact thai during
the first six months of U20 no
less than 10,000 Jews in ihe do
main of Hungary adopted ihe
Christian faith.
During the same period there
were also 528 mixed marriages
between Jews and Gentiles.
HOT METAL. I
The following dispatch was sent
uui from Macon, Ga., on April ,
25th : ;
"A meteor, or a series of meteors, I
passed over middle vind Southern
Georgia about V o'clock this morn-
ing, exploding and showering hot
metal as heavy as iron, according :
to reports received here tonight. ;
It was seen at Macon. It explo-!
deu at Cordele, I'nis, some dis- j
lance east of Cordele, and Albany, j
south west oi here. j
At Puts, in X ilco.x county, more i
than a dozen heavy explosions j
were heard, followed by a report
crackling in the air for several min
utes. Red hot metal, some pieces
weighing six pounds each, tell to
the eanh trailing black smoke.
The sky was cloudless.
The majority of the pieces tell in
open fields and so far as known
tonight no one was injured.
DREAM CAME true.
One of Our Citizens Visits War
renton, Clarksvilie and Other
Places of Interest. !
Virginia Mountain Farmer Hinds
Nearly $15,000 in Gold and Sil
ver. The following is from Salem,
Va.
Albert Daineron, 25, descendant
of pioneer Virginia settlers, who
works on his uncle's mountainside
farm near here from sun-up to sun
down at $10 a month, ofien
dreamed, he said, of finding a
treasure and buying a farm of his
own.
While plowing near ihe foot of
Brush's Mountain ihe afternoon of
April 9, his plow unearthed a small
metal pot wrapped in buckskin
coniaining gold and silver coins
valued at $1 1,903. About $13,
000 was in gold, $600 in silver
and the balance in paper money so
badly disintegrated that ihe denom
inations could not be distinguished.
The latest date on any of Ihe coins
was 1 823.
Young Dameron, tearful lhal his
treasure might be taken from him,
kept his good fortune a secret until
today, when he told his mother.
"Albert dreamed for a week that
he going to find a treasure," said
Mrs. Dameron, a hardy mountain
woman, "and now he's gone and
done it."
1921 CROP PROSPECTS.
The farmer's problem of 1921
crop plantings was inquired into by
the Cooperative Crop Reporting
Service and whereas cotton show
ed 65 per cent, and tobacco 66
per cent, as compared with last
year. The change in fertilizer
prices and general trends will per
haps result in less decrease in ihe
cotton and tobacco acreages. The
hay acreage showed four per cent,
increase. Sweet potatoes showed
5 per cent, increase; cow peas
three per cent.; soy beans eight
per cent.; peanuts two per cent,
peaches five per cent due, largely
to the Sandhills' influence, and
truck indicates a two per cent, in
crease. Those showing decreases besides
cotton and tobacco and Irish pota
toes 96, and apples 98 as com
pared with last year.
The available farm labor supply
was indicated to be twelve per cent,
more plentiful at thirty per cent.
less wages than a year ago; while
the land values have fallen to 73
per cent, of the high estimates
early in 1920.
It is a comforting thought to
every man that he can always find
some fellow who is worse off than
he is.
Because short dresses no longer
indicate youth, the teachers in the
Lion county school in Kansas have
been requested to wear dresses
that will distinguish them from
their pupils.
The prospective carry-over of
cotton at July 3 1 si, 1921, is now
not for 1 1,000,000 bales. That
amount is fully 2,000,000 bales
larger than was threatened before
the Christmas holidays, when the
acreage committee predicted that
that the carry over would not be
less than 9,000,000 bales. Thus
it is that our fears have not been
confirmed but the situation is even
worse than we seemed warranted
in predicting a few months ago.
Cotton can now be bought
cheaper than it can be produced.
Ii is better, therefore, to buy cot
ion or to hold what you now own
than to grow more. Every bale
purchased tends to advance prices;
every acre planted tends to make
prices go down.
Leaving Weldon at 12:15 P. M.
March 30, 1921. in a very com
modious a ii to resembling a well
packed tourist car, we rounded
curves, and split straights of as
fine roads as one could wish to
pull a throttle over.
VC'e first landed in the quaint and
ancient town of Warrenton, N. C,
at 2 P. M. (a place the writer had
i not visited in sixty years.) Here
: our pany of seven made a halt of
one and a half hours in the fine
old home of Mr. Petiway Burwell,
' and much enjoyed looking around
the old place, that might be sup
posed from iis antiquny to present
i something of a dilapidated appear
ance, but to our surprise w e found
ihe town occupied by live people
abreast with the limes modern
conveniences a veritable little in
land city, where paint and paved
streets held sway over ihe princi
pal thoroughfare of quue a mile in
length, through which it was our
pleasure to travel. Setting out at
3:30 P. M. for W alnut Hill, Va.,
ihe hospitable home of Mr. X'. M.
Taylor, in Mecklenburg county,
reached our destination at 5 P. M.
Distant from Weldon 65 miles
tins distance (with the interval of
rest above mentioned) was cover
ered with scarcely perceptible fa
tigue. This proves the auio ihe
greatest known motive power in
annihilating distance (save the lo
comotive) making remote localities
accessible, and enhancing values
in isolated districts.
If romance be sought, or a desire
to experience the thrill of love's
young dream" exists, a youthful
couple visiting this beautiful old
home with iis romantic and elabo
rate environment, will find it al
most impossible to resist a tingle
of tenderest emotion, unknown to
the coldest heart.
In our rambles over the broad
acres of this farm and woodland,
objects of more than ordinary in
terest presented themselves, and
we frequently found ourselves en
tranced at nature's loveliness, and
feeling that we so often fail in ap
preciating as we should the handi
work and goodness of our Heav
enly Father.
At one place we came to a rock
(on ihe banks of a little pebbled
boitom, crystal stream,) 60x30
feei, descending into the earth at
an angle of forty-five degrees, and
of unknown dimentions. In an
other place we saw six or eight
massive boulders piled one on the
top of ihe oiher, and three that
formed a natural bridge one of
them being as large as an ordinary
house.
We also visited Clarksvilie, Va.,
a very old town, but now putting
on "city airs" since quite a fire
sometime back caused a reiuvena-
: tion of the place which has laken
I on new life, and particularly since
I the Southern Railroad has made it
I an important point of traffic on its
j-Jine from Keysville to Durham.
; Before the advent of railroads, pro
duce of this section and below,
down the Roanoke river found an
outlet to Petersburg via North Gas
ton. In reaching Clarksvilie by auto
sixteen miles distani from our place
of sojourn, we traveled over a
pornon of road opened up by
Cornwallis during the Revolution
ary war, in his retreat before the
American forces when endeavor
ing to reach the seaboard, thereby
hoping to make his escape.
Reverting to the farm visited,
we wandered through a lovely
wooded glen to a noble beech tree.
and inscribed ihereon, were nu
merous initials and emblems, placed
there perhaps a hundred years ago.
Could this old tree have responded
to our questioning thoughts, manv
a sweet siory of affection might
have been whispered into the lis
tening ear by ihe unknown of a
long and almost forgotten past. X'e
noted on the tree in one place, first
the initials, then the "cuoid's
heart" pierced by an arrow, then
the date, 1849 just 72 years ago.
We also visited the town of Ox
ford, (Afier an absence of 37
years) and noted its advance alone
all lines, and is perhaps amongst
the prettiest towns of the Old North
State.
Henderson is also "toeing the
mark" in up to dale growth and
appearance.
!i e found, however, the most
beautiful ponion of ihe entire trip,
was the cordiality and esteem so
lavishly bestowed by loving rela
tives and friends. J. B. T
Weldon, N. C, April 20, 1921.
For A Severe Cold.
"Chamberlain's Cough Hemedy cured
my daughter Anna of a severe cold and
cough a few years ago and ever since
ttien I have never missed an opportu-
aity to recommend this medicine to
any one sutfering from thniat or lung
troubles. I cannot speak too highly in
praise of it," writes Mrs. D, J. Shelley,
Earlville, N. Y. Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy eontalaa no narcotic and may
be given to children with perfect confi
dence. It ia a pleasant syrup so they
dp not object to taking it.
5 minutes
may save
15dollars!
Get that cmminationNOW
if LSfflfenl
tseaJiawss,WM
WHERE'S the economy where's the
sense in running your battery into a
nervous breakdown when a brief but thorough
examination will save you the consequences?
The Prest-O-Lite Service Station is ready
and anxious to give your battery the once
over, no matter what the make, and tell you
what it needs, IF it needs anything.
Drive around today and find out. You
won't hear "new battery" even mentioned if
your present battery is not actually past re
covery. When you do need a new battery,
you'll be glad to know that Prest-O-Lite is
back to pre-war prices and that an allowance
will be made on your old battery.
Now's the time for battery-inspection,
Prest-O-Lite's the place,
FRANK S. MOORE,
Weldon, N. O.
Pull up where
you see this sign
mJymiOte
btcnage fialtexy.
Uses less than one four-hundredth
of its power-reserve for a single
startand the generator quickly
replaces that.
Select Your
Victrola Now : : :
tiiii
rill! ii
1 'if if "'i IM'i
1 1 : s
If you are one of those who are thinking of buying just a "Talking
Machine," don't decide on an inferier make a Victrola costs no more.
Let us demonstrate the many points of superiority. The Victrola
brings you all instruments ii brings all the leading artists in tone
and reproduction it stands today in a class by itself.
A small initial payment will place your Victrola in your home. We
carry in stock all ihe latest records. Call at our store and let us dem
onstrate. . Weldon Furniture Company,
WELDON, N. 0.
ICE PRICES
Effective April 1, 1921.
TO OUR CUSTGMERS:
Ii is our desire to give to the public as much reduction in ihe price
of Ice this year as is possible, and in so doing we have effected a plan
whereby it will prove 10 your good tft well as ours.
Beginning April 1st, we will place on sale Ice Tickets at 60c. per
hundred, these tickets will be sold for cash only. By purchasing tickets
you will find it an advantage in several ways. It will have a' tendency
to make the drivers give you as near as possible the amount of Ice
asked for. You will also have the correct change at all times which
expedite the transaction and thereby allow the driver to get to the next
customer sooner, which" will be a great help to us as well help us keep
a correct check against our Ice al all times.
To our commercial trade we will sell to those who will purchase as
ten 110) block tickets and pny for ;ame on delivery i $1.60 per block,
or half block tickets al 90c. per half block.
We wish all to understand thai the purpose of this reduciion is lo
make an inducement for our patrons to purchase tickets which will be
sold for CASH ONLY, and those who do not supply themselves with
tickets the following prices will prevail:
lue. W) Pounds lee V
l-e Al " " Meg
ir.c 76 " " 5oc
It SO " " oue
.'.He- HU " ' (We
-'7c WO " " 750
Site lr " " HAe
34c 1.-.U " " or half block il.Uu
8UU " ' or 1 block $1.75
From the above prices you will see thai it is 10 your advantage to
purchase tickets, which we feel sure you will find to be very conveni
ent in making change and much more satisfactory in every respect.
It is our desire that our customers gel every pound of Ice paid for,
and thai ihey have as good service as the prevailing circumstances will
permit and if there is any complaint we would appreciate same if you
would call our office and report same, in order that we may correct it.
Respectfully,
Weldon Ice Company,
By C. E. CARTER, Sec.-Treas.
1
REMOVAL NOTICE!
We extend a hearty invitation to visit us in our new location
CITIZENS BANK BUILDING
ROSEMARY. N. C.
At this time, the beginning of our Ninth year of business, we
heartily thank our friends for the generous patronage given us and
respectfuily solicit a continuance of the confidence reposed In us.
We shall endeavor to deserve a large share of your orders by sup.
plying the latest Novelties and Styles at all times and rendering a
service unsurpassed.
MISS ANNIE MEDLIN,
HOSKMAKY. X. C.
A GOOD THING
7Y T T Are cordially invited to attend services at
j v mbinuuisi church next sunlmy, may ist and
the WELDON
heat-
good music, a thoughtful sermon, and partake of Holy Communion.
l'JUH.KAM FOlt TIIK DAY
Sunday School at 9:45. Worship and Bible Sludy for all ages.
Address by Hon. Garland Ii. Midyette, at 1 1 A. M. Communion follows.
Junior Boy Scouis meets at 2;30 liaraca Room.
Evening services at 8 o'clock. Sermon by the Pastor.
MID-WEEK SERVICES
5. Teacher-Training Class meets in ihe Pastor's Study at 7;30.
6. Prayer Meeting at 8 o'clock in the Sunday School Room.
MOTTO Watch Methodism Grow in Weldon; all roads lead thai way.
WELDON l METHODIST CHURCH,
L. D. HAYMAN, Pastor.
$
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Weldon Opera House &
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High Grade Pictures
Every Night of the
Week.
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Weldon Opera House
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THE UNIVERSAL CAR
The Kord Model TOne Ton Truck if is reality a oa
cessity to the wide awake retail fc-rocer, not only for the
rcoDomic solutioD of the delivery problem, but for the
brinKinif of goods from dorbi or rtations to (lis place
of business, and for traveling the country and brn(nfr
in produce. For years the Kord 'ne Ton Truck with its
splendid manganese brume worm driTr, powerful Ford
Model 1 Motor, atrnng Vanadium steel frame, has been
serving in every hoe of business activity, and wa havt
yet to hear tin But complaint as to rear tile trouble
or motor trouble. It hat the lowest purchase price on
the market, and the cost for opeialiugaud maintaining
is exceedingly small, lu lact, the Kord One Ton Truck
has become a business necessity. Leave your order
with us without delay. We will give you prompt atten
tion and assure you reasonably prompt delivery, and
give you an alter service that will insure your contin
uous operation ol the Truck.
Write, Wire or Telephone
Weldon Motor Company,
Telephone 328 WELDON. N C
OR
Scormio IIeck Poroq Coppuiy,
SCOTLAND NECK. N. C.