ESTABLISHED SEPTEMBER 19,1878
PROHIBITION WILL
EE A BIG ISSUE IN
COMING CAMPAIGN
A!\s Supporters Idolize Him
And Increase Daily—Odds
At Present Reckoned At
2 to 1 Against His Election
republicans ARE BUSY
Washington, July 11.—The still
waters of politics are running deep
i:: these, the dogdays. Soon thev
will be cascading down the calendar
toward election day, but for the mo
ment the surface is strangely placid.
7r.e best brains of both parties are
at work, plotting the course, map
ping out the campaign, planning at
tacks and erecting defenses. So,
ward as this is written. His speech
though the fat is in the fire, it has
not yet begun to crackle; nor have
the orators as yet trained their ar
tillery on the Great American voter.
By virtue of the fact that the
Republicans held their little party
a: Kansas City two full weeks ahead
( f their opponents, they are for
trie moment somewhat more advanc
e 1 in their plans than the Demo
crats. Hoover is about to turn west
\-r acceptance practically completed
: ;!.d in his Gladstone bag. Hubert
V* ork, Doctor of Medicine turned
statesman —c«r politician, as vou
please—is out i.f the Cap.net and
into the chairmanship of the Re-!
publican National Committee, re
placing Butler of New England.
Jim Good of Illinois, for a long
me Representative in Congress is
getting ready to open the Chicago
< ranch of the Republican Commit-
The Eastern manager, func- j
tinning at New York, has not been!
named, but the needle of the popular '
compass points to George Moses, 1
Senator from New Hampshire. A
new treasurer has been selected, |
and Washington is to he the veal i
headquarters of the Republican or
ganization. Here Hoover will re- !
turn again in the torrid season to
sit in the second story office of his
handsome home in Washington’s ex
clusive section and direct the forces
seeking to elect him.
All this has been accomplished by
the Republicans.’ : -It is but the
beginning. Another important policy
has been determined on too, and it
relates to finance. There will be
r.o slush fund raised to elect this
son -of a Quaker blacksmith to the
residency if Herbert Hoover can •
prevent it. No mammoth contribu
tions. No hidden donations. Most
of all, no money from the oil inter
ests. Daily public inspection of all
the money that comes in and all
that goes out. No gumshoe busi
ness. No $160,000 Liberty bond
deals. It is all going to be lovely
and nice and open and everything.
The Republicans appear to have
no worries. In reality, they have
many. One of their secret sorrows
is the agricultural situation, but
Curtis of Kansas is counted on heav
ily to help there. Here in Washing
ton. the Middle West and the corn
ar.d wheat belts are represented as
swinging toward the Democratic
promises. It is too early yet to
judge the importance of this move
ment. It may amount to nothing;
it may develop into a landslide to
ward A1 Smith in the backbone of
the G. O. P.s agrarian strength.
Now for the Democrats. A1
Smith’s warm supporters all but ido
lize him now, and in that growing
circle are new faces daily. Smith
probably is today the most magnet
ic man in high office in the world.
He has the happy faculty of selling
himself to men who have never seen
or heard him. Millions call him ‘Al’
—affectionately and familiarly—
and feel they know him. They warm
to him as a child warms to a fairy \
tale, and surely no fairy tale ever
written holds higher romance than
ti c rise of this child of the Ghetto’s
teeming tenements to eminence and
power.
Smith will make less than a score
of Liu speeches. At present, he
plans no such observation-car cam
paign as that of Hughes, or Cox.
or Jonn W. Davis. He probably will
go to the Middle West for several
of h;s talks. He probably will make
one or mor° in the South. He
probably will journey to the Paci
fic (Vast. But the magic of radio
is ringing down the curtain on trans
continental tom-tomming and Smith
is one of the first to realize it.
Smith’s managers and plan of the
campaign have not been fully deter
mined on. Soon Clem Shaver will
step down from the Chairmanship
of the Democratic National Commit
tee and Mrs. Clem Shaver’s fiery
speeches on affairs political will go
over to the inside pages of the
papers.
One of the outstanding develop
of the infanit campaign is
the importance which is attached to
the prohibition question. It will
be at least the second big issue—
maybe the first. Smith’s telegram
to the Houston convention declaring
that he would work for modifica
tion of the prohibition laws was
hailed as a master stroke of genius
by enthusiasts of moist or moister
leanings. In it they foresee the
electoral votes of New York, Massa
chusetts, New Jersey and possibly
other states. But the telegram came
like a clap of thunder to terrify
some of the other Democratic lead
ers.
Os these, Josephus Daniels, the
aging first citizen of Raleigh, N. C.
is typical. He was quoted as saying
The Chatham Record
ALBRIGHT FAMILY REUNION
AT MT. HERMON JULY 17TH
The fifth annual reunion of the
Albright clan will convene at Mt.
Hermon church, Alamance county,
Tuesday, Juiy 17th, 1928. Mr. Hor
ace M. Albright, superintendent of
the Yellowstone National Park, Wy
oming, and Hon. Wm. C. Hammer,
member of Congress, have been in
vited to address the association.
Speeches and business session will
feature the morning hour. The af
ternoon program will be devoted to
social life, music and introduction of
strangers. Cordial invitation is ex
tended to those who are related by
blood and marriage. Those attend
ing should take well-filled baskets for
the picnic dinner to be served at the
noon hour.
Congressman Pou
Called Washington
Is Asked by Chairman Old
field To Assist In Organiz
ing For National Campaign
This Fall
(Smithfield Herald)
Congressman E. W. Pou was call
ed to Washington this week bv W.
A. Oldfield, chairman of the Dem
ocratic National Congressional Com
mittee, t« assist in the work of or
ganizing for the campaign this fall.
The next of Mr. Oldfield’s letter
to Mr. Pou is as follows:
“I am leaving for Arkansas on
next Monday and will be gone sev
eral weeks. My primary, as you
know, is on the 14th of August. In
the meantime, if it is possible for
you to come to Washington and
look after committee affairs until
I get back or as long as you can, I
shali greatly appreciate it. I firm
ly believe we are going to win in
November and we must leave noth
ing undone that we can do to win.
The Republican party has disgrac
ed the nation enough. It is too cor
rupt to remain in power a single
day after March 4, 1929. Drop
me a line and tell me whether or
not you can come here and be in
touch wtih the committee during
my absence.”
While Mr. Pou expects to be in
Washington for several weeks, he
will return home before the cam
paign opens in North Carolina, and
“be in the thick of the fight until
the election,” he stated.
“I wish the people of the dis
trict to know that as I have help
ed the Congressional committee in
former campaigns, that I shall be
gla<| to devote the period before
/the opening of our campagin in
North Carolina to the work of the
committee up here as requested by
Mr. Oldfield,” stated Mr. Pou in a
lettr to this paper Wednesday.
Mr. Pou was accompanied to
Washington by Mrs. Pou who will
remain there until (he returns to
Smithfield. Mrs. Thos. A. Wadden.
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Pou w r ho
was spending the summer with them
will remain in their home here
while they are away.
Probably the biggest thing a farm
woman gets out of the annual camp
is the three meals a day that she
does not have to plan or prepare.
that the telegram was “ill-advised
and unnecessary,” but that the party
should work to elect Smith and also
should see to it that an overwhelm
ingly dry congress was elected, a
congress that would stand like a
mountain against modification.
Southern drys who don’t like Al
are talking about organizing. One
of the Anti-Smith meetings was to
be held at Asheville, this week, un
der Anti-Saloon League auspices.
Southern women who threatened to
bolt if Smith were nominated are
sulking in their boudoirs. Maybe
they’ll bolt: maybe not. But this
seems true: The South today prob
ably would reject modification were
it presented as a lone issue.
What influence will Smith’s re
ligion have on the campaign? There
stands a question unanswered, as
yet, though it bears profoundly on
the result. It is too early to fore
see clearly the attitude of the vot
ers. Millions will ungrudgingly ac
cord to him the full liberty of wor
shiping God as his conscience dic
tates. To those millions, Smith’s
Roman Catholicism will be a thing
apart from the political contest.
On the other hand there are
many who feel strongly on this phase
of the situation. What will they
do? The wall awaits the handwrit
ing that will tell.
The betting odds today are 2 to
1 and 2 1-2 to 1 that Hoover will
win. That, however, doesn’t mean
anything other than that the self
appointed wise ones of New York
City and elsewhere are backing up
their own judgment with their own
cash at those odds. The writer of
this dispatch recalls election night
in 1916 when he sat with Hughes
in the Hotel Astor in New York
City at the end of, the long cam
paign. The odds were 3 to 1 on
Hughes. A friend went out and
placed a good-sized bet. Later re
turns favored Wilson. The friend
went out and hedged. Still later
returns inicated a swing again to
Hughes. More going out and bet
ting.
And so it went. When it was all
over, the correspondent’s friend had
put down nine bets, hedging and
otherwise, and had fixed it so he
couldn’t lose, no matter which can
didate won. He won about $4,000.
And that shows what there is in
this business of fixing betting odds
on an election four months away.
PITTSBORO, N. C., CHATHAM COUNTY, THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1928.
CLERKS CALL FOR
FEE UNIFORMITY
Declare Present System Very
Confusing; Other Legisla
tion Is Asked For
Wrightsvilie Beach, July s.—The
North Carolina Association of Su
perior Court Clerks today at the
closing session of their eleventh an
nual convent k-n unanimously went
on reervd for the establishment of
a ur.if.nm fee system for ail county
of fleers in North' Carolina.
•ouch. legislation will be requested
at the next session of the General
Assembly, delegates declaring that
the present system is very confus
ing and it is almost impossible for
the clerk in one county to determine
the fee collected on the same paper
in another county. They said there
are now 35 difterent kinds of fee
bills relating to various counties.
The clerks adopted resolution rec
ommending to the judiciary com
mittee that report of sales under
foreclosure of mortgages should be
made to the clerk of the court with
in five days after the sale has been
consummated.
The clerks unanimously adopted a
resolution . calling upon the Legis
lature to pass an act requiring the
clerk of the court in each county in
the -State to attend the annual
clerks’ conventions at least three
days and at the expense of the
county. Also this recommendation
calls upon the Legislature to include
in the bill that no session of court
be held in any county during the
first week of July that it might be
possible for all clerks to attend the
conventions.
EDITORIALS
The blackberry crop is great and
is this wee., in its prime. In this
connection, it oehooves our good sis
ters and others who seem to think it
a sin to suggest a change oi the Vol
stead law, which they seem to think
identical with the constitutional am
endment and equally sacred, that they
beware lest they come under the ban
of that law. The woman who makes
a quart of blackbery wine has vio
lated the law just the same as has any
moonshiner who is serving a tetm
on the roads for making bootleg li
quor on some branch. The same is
true of the man who makes cider and
allows it to become the least bit
hard. Remember that it is a viola
tion of the law to make any liquor
having more than one-half per cent
of alcohol. It may be foolish to have
such a law, but that is it, and the
man who suggests that something
more reasonable might prevent thou
sands of violations, is held up as a
horror and one threatennig to de
stroy prohibition. But the trouble is
when one has made a little wine or
cider in violation of the law and no
thing happens, it is easier then to try
a little stronger booze. Law break
ing is progressive. Therefore, avoid
breaking the law by making a quart
of blackberry wine or quit howling
about those who,think the law unrea
sonable and needing such changes as
will not produce a constantly grow
ing number of criminals, among
whom you are on if you make that
wine.
The Fellowship Forum, a wild
man’s paper published at Washington
in a cartoon opposing Smith, shows
a picture of Catholics burning heret
ics. In another column the editor
wishes he were a Calvin for the sake
of American Protestantism. But as
Calvin, good Presbyterian as he was,
burned his man, and another preacher
at that, and the indications are that
Brother Vance of the Fellowship Fo
rum could do the same thing with
equanimity, though such a spirit as
that of Mary of England and Calvin
of Geneva supposedly passed with the
mediaeval age, which was then ex
piring. Such publications as the Fo
rum are abominations.
The Democratic platform promises
an honest enforcement of all the con
stitution. We guarantee that A1
Smith will enforce the 18th amend
ment as well as any anti-Smith Dem
ocrat in North Carolina would en
force the 14th and 15th amendments
if given the opportunity. But would
n’t there be a howl if Smith should
be elected and undertake to enforce
those amendments, which are de
manded by a clause written into the
platform by Brethren Daniels and
Moody.
The loss of the Yarborough hotel
at Raleigh by fire last week re
moves a landmark dear to tens of
thousands of North Carolinians. The
writer has been visiting the Yar
borough for nigh on to forty years
and will be lost in Raleigh without
the Yarborough lobby to loaf in.
Editor Ashcraft of the Monroe
Journal gave the Greensboro News
information about Kudzu, as sug
gested by the Chatham Record, but
the News is rather inclined to sneer
at the supposed necessity of an
editor’s publishing a circular giving
farmers information, as did Mr. Ash-
O
Please turn to page eight
FARM PL ANK WINS
KILGORE’S PRAISE
of Intelligent and
Sympathetic Interest, Says
Dr. Kilgore
(News and Observer)
“The farm plank in the National
Democratic platform adopted at
Houston was fully satisfactory to
the representatives of farm organi
zations present and over the coun
try generally, and should nrov e so
to the farmers of the country,” Dr.
B. W. Kilgore,* president of the
American Cotton Growers Exchange
stated . last night on his return to
this city after attending the Hous
ton convention.
Dr. Kilgore, who is also president
of the North Carolina Cotton Grow
ers Co-operative Association, attend
ed the national Republican conven
tion in the interest of securing a
similar plank in its platform. He
called attention to the cold shoulder
Renublicans turned to such a plank.
Discussing the plank adopted by
the Democratic party, Dr. Kilgore
said:
“It contains all that was asked of
the National Republican Convention
at Kansas City, and refused—and
more.
“It shows an intelligent and sym
nathetic interest on the part of the
Democratic party toward the farm
ers of the nation in their desperate
plight. The Presidential nominee of
the convention—Governor Smith—is
declared to be not only sympathetic
with the farmer, but desirous of
helping him along the lines he has
asked help through the representa
tives of his farm organizations, and
there is evidence to support this
view.
“The Vice-Presidential nominee—
Senator Robinson, of Arkansas —has
made his favorable position unmis
takable by his advocacy and votes
in Congress for farm relief legisla
tion denied by the vetoes of Presi
dent Coolidge.
“This is a marked contrast with
the known unsympathetic attitude of
the Republican nominee, M’r. Hoover,
°s shown by his past acts toward the
f rmer and his views against the
k nd of farm relief legislation asked
by the farmer.”
MURCHISON CLAN HAS
ENJOYABLE REUNION
The eighth annual session of the
Murchison Clan was held last week
at* Mt. Vern\>n Springs, where the
hotel had been under lease to the
Murchisons for the occasion. Mem
bers of the family came from sev
eral states and the occasion was a
most enjoyable and successful one.
O n Saturday evening, June the
30th, the annual banquet was held
in the dining room of the hotel,
where covers were laid for more
than one hundred. The annual ad
dress was delivered by Dr. Charles
Murchison, head of the department
of sociology, Clark College, Worces
ter, Mass.
Talks were made by other mem
bers of the clan. On Sunday morn
ing religious services were held in
the pavillion, in memory of Col.
Colin Murchison, who recently died.
The following officers were elect-
Murchison, Fayetteville, president;
G. C. Smith, vice-president, Doug
las, Ga., Mrs. G. L. Merrill, Gulf,
vice-president; D. M. Murchsion,
Rock Hill, S. C., secretary; Mrs. Jno.
Murchison, Orlando, Fla., Historian;
Cladius T. Murchison, Chapel Hill,
sergeant-at-arms.
JURY LIST
The following citizens have been
drawn as jurors for the term of court
to begin July 30th and extend two
weeks:
First week —A. R. Brooks, G. N.
Thomas, W. S. Bryant, A. J. Sea
groves, J. C. Jones, T. Oldham, C.
N. Bray, G. G. Dark, .Julian Mclver,,
Cicero Burke, R. L. Welch, B. F.
Thrailkill, W. B. Vaughn. B. A. Buc
kner, G. W. Smith, G. J. McLaurin,
G. G. Yates, Harris B. Phillips, E.
L. Mann, Wm. F. Norwood, John M.
Foust.
Second week —Joe T. Bland, J. O.
Clark, J. D. Willet, W. C. Henderson,
•J. O. Gunter, W. K. Mann, P. D. Far
rell, K. S. Carter, W. G. Stroud, C.
W. Yates, D. T. Stone, E. M. Gold
ston, Eva Hackney, Herbert Farrell,
W. B. Cooper, B. N. Welch, A. T.
Cotton, L. W. Talley, I. H. Jones, B.
C. Poole, Chas. C. Breyrer.
Judge F. A. Daniels will preside.
Only civil cases are to be tried.
SHANNONHOUSE-POE
At half past twelve Tuesday, in
St. Bartholomew’s church, Pittsboro,
the marriage of Miss Mary Sue Poe
and Mr. Royal Shannonhouse was
celebrated. The church was beauti
fully decorated for the occasion, and
numerous friends assembled from the
town and from other points for the
ceremony, which was performed by
the groom’s father, Rev. R. G. Shan
nonhouse.
The bride is the charming young
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Poe.
She is a graduate of the Pittsboro
high school, and was a student at
Meredith College, the past sesison.
The groom is a stalwart young man
also a graduate of the Pittsboro
school, and for some time a student
at the University.
After a brief wedding tour, the
happy young couple will be at home
at the residence of the bride’s par
ents in Pittsboro, where they will
have an apartment and do light house
keeping.
LEE COUNTY PLANNING
FOR THIS FALL’S FAIR
Jonesboro, July s.—The construc
tion of the fence around the Lee
county fair grounds is being pushed
and the 30-acre tract will soon be
enclosed. Bids are being received
for the buildings that will be con
structed on the grounds for the as
sociation.
A representative of the big carni
val or show that will exhibit here
during this week, came up while in
Raleigh making plans for the State
fair, to look the situation over and
plan for its coming to Sanford.
The association proposes to pull
off the biggest thing of the kind
ever attempted in this part of the
State. A special motor car will op
erate to and from the fair grounds
every 10 or 15 minutes while the
fair is being held for the accommo
dation of the Sanford people.
County Agent Will
Push Campaign
On Julv 24, 25, 26, and 27th, the
State College will* hold the annual
North Carolina Farmer’s Convention.
The county agent is especially anxi
ous to get a large delegation of
farmers from this county to attend
the convention on July 25. This
day will be dairy day, and an un
usually good program is expected,
which will be of interest and enjoy
ment to all farmers. On this day,
dairying will he discussed from a
to z feeding, breeding, care of milk
and cream and butte?, raising the
dairy calf, and a number of other
subjects on dairying will be discussed.
Some of the best authorities on
dairying in the United States will be
present at this day. The agent would
like to hear from all farmers who
would like to attend the convention
on any of the above dates. ’ In case
enough farmers attend, it is possible
that they may be able to attend in
a body.
On Thursday, the agent visited an
interesting lespedeza or Japan clover
demonstration at the farm of Cicero
Johnson, and Johnson in the
Big Meadow community Mr. Cicero
Johnson has 19 acres in Japan clover
this year, and seems to have an un
usually good stand. He also has a
field in corn following a crop of
lespedeza, which shows the effect of
a leguminous crop turned under, on
the succeeding crop. Another Japan
clover demonstration that is showing
nromise is on the farm of Mr. N. J.
Dawkins in the Antioch church com
munity. This is a three acre field,
and Mr. Dawkins intends to turn it
next year for corn.
The agent has visited about thirty
farmers this week, encouraging the
seeding of beardless barley this fall.
There will probably be a iarge acre
age in this grain crop this fall, as
farmers are showing much interest in
it. The agent’s work was distributed
as follows this week; Monday. in of
fice at Pittsboro, Tuesday, M’oncure
and Hanks Chapel, Thursday, Big
Meadows, Friday, Antioch church and
Saturday in the office.
N. C. SHIVER, Co. Agt.
WHAT’S YOUR DOLLAR WORTH?
Your dollar is one hundred cents
today just as it has always been, but
not in purchasing power is it as pow
erful as it once was. The Charlotte
News explains that as compared with
its value in 1914, it has failed to
move up to any startling degree to
ward normal value, although its 62
cents value today is better than it
was in July. 1920, when it touched
bottom at 48 cents.
The News says further concerning
the dollar and its value:
“The National Conference Board
gives us these facts in a statement
showing that the dollar is worth
more today as a buying weapon than
at any time within the last five years,
which may be measurably comfort
ing to some, but still does those but
little good who have but few of them
to cavort with among the markets
and places of supply.
“The purchasing power of the dol
lar has been enhanced by a net de
cline in the cost of living of 21.2
per cent since July, 1920, the peak
of the post-war inflation period.
This decline has been a fairly steady
one for the two years, 1926, 1927,
living costs today being the lowest
since June, 1923, when tney were
about at the present level.
“The chief factors in the declin
ing cost of living were the items of
food and rent. Retail food prices
Jhe most important item in the wage
earner’s cost of living budget, in
March of this ear were 31.1 per
cent lower than in July, 1920, and
about 5 1-2 per cent lower than in
March, 1926. Rents, which did not
and August, 1924, when they were
86 per cent higher than i n July,
1914, in March of this year for the
country as a whole averaged 11.3
lower than at their 1924 peak, and
6.8 per cent lower than March, 1926.
Coal prices, which have fluctuated
considerably, averaged last winter
about 20 ner cent less than their
peak in November, 1920. Gas and
electricity, combined, which item
reached its peak in 1921, since that
time decreased by about 21 per cent.
Clothing prices averaged a net de
cline of about 40 per cent from their
peak in April, 1920, but have held
fairly steady during the past two
years. All other items, combined in
the group “sundries” in the budget,
reach their post-war peak until July
in March of this year were 10.9 per
cent lower than at their peak in 1920
and about two per cent lower than
2 years ago.
“While the total cost of living in
VOLUME 50, NUMBER 46
DEEP RIVER MINES
GET LOWER RATES
The Corporation Commission
Moves to Develop Coal Min
ing In This Section.
(News and Observer)
Lower rates on intrastate ship
ments of coal from Cumnock, N. C.,
were ordered yesterday by the Cor
poration Commission. The new
rates, the order stated, were order
ed with a view to aiding in the dev
elopment of the coal industry as
against interstate origin points and
represents our best judgment, hav
ing in mind reasonable revenue on
the traffic for the carriers.”
Under the rate schedule, a ton of
coal (2,000 pounds) may be moved
in carload lots from Cumnock to
Raleigh for $1.01; to Henderson for
$1.41 cents; to Morganton or to
New Bern for $1.75, and to inter
mediate points in proportipn.
Named in the order we're: Aber
deen and Rockfish Railroad, Atlantic
and Y adkin, Atlantic Coast Line,
Durham and Southern, Norfolk and
southern railways. The reduction
was secured on petition of the Ca
rolina Coal Company, where opera
tions recently have been entered in
to* on a large scale after gradual
recovery from the disaster of 1925.
Recently 75 State’s convicts were
sent to the mine for an additional
shift.
Hearing in the case was held here
on June 15. The mine company com
plained that prevailing intrastate
rates were too high to permit free
marketing and out of line with rates
on coal in other sections.
The old rate scheduled was made
on October 5, 1925 and the carriers
contended that even, it was too low.
BRICK HAVEN NEWS
The annual picnic of th e Sunday
school, or rather our community pic
nic, is to be held at Lakewood Park,
Durham, on Thursday of this week.
A few piembers suggested Pullen
Park this time the vote was almost
unanimous for Lakewood. Every
one is quite enthusiastic and very
pleasant day is anticipated. While
the picnic is under the auspices of
the Sunday school every one in the
community is cordially invited to
join the crowd and all have a good
time together. Former officers and
members of the school who are now
living elsewhere are especially urg
ed to be with us.
Mrs. Henry Gorham, nee Miss Eu
nice Thompson, is spending the week
here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
C. H. Thompson.
Mr. R. A. Moore, of Winston-
Salem, was the Sunday guests of
friends here.
Mr. C. Cox and sister, Miss Pau
line, Franklinville, were among
the week-end visitors here.
Mr. C. S. Harrington and Mas
ter Chas. Harrington accompanied
by Mrs. Eudora Burt and Mrs. J.
W. Utley visited relatives at Holly
Springs during the week-end.
Mrs. A. R. Lawrence is spending
this week in Aberdeen with her
daughter, Mrs. J. Garland Farrell.
Mr. B. M. Utley after spending
Sunday here with his mother is lea
ing today for Star.
Mrs. O. C. Kennedy, Miss Ruth
Kennedy, Mrs. Henry Gorham, Mrs.
Clarie Harrington and Miss Mary
Lee Utlev were among the Raleigh
visitors from here this week.
Mr. Wm. Barnes, of the Cherokee
Brick Company, spent the week-end
with home folk at Carthage.
Mr. J. Milton Seawell spent Sun
day in Raleigh.
The Glorious Fourth passed off
very quietly here. A few of the
residents attended the celebration at
Sanford but the majority went on
with their usual chores. There has
been so much rain the farmers felt
it necessary to take advantage of
the sunshine and continued their
plowing.
Rev. C. L. Dowell and Miss Della
Dowell of Forestville spent a short
while here last week with Mrs.
Mary Dowell Kennedy.
Our Sunday school and the C. E.
seems to be gaining interest now
and we are very grateful for this,
but there are still quite a number of
children and adults who should be
in the Sunday school. We need,
them and we believe that they can
be a great help to the community.
There is to be an entertainment
given at the Corinth school houseon
next Saturday evening, the proceeds
from which will go towards the
purchase of a piano for the Buek
horne Sunday school. The public
is cordially invited to be present and
help in this needed cause.
Farm folks in New York average
only four and one-half sick days a
year as compared with seven days
for those folks living in small towns
or villages.
March of this year was 61.1 per
cent higher than in July, 1914, av
erage weekly earnings per worker in
the manufacutring industries in Feb
ruary, 1928, were 118 per cent high
er and average hourly earnings, re
flecting princioally wage rates, were
131 per cent higher. Thus the pur
chasing power of an industrial work
er’s weekly pay in February of this
year averaged 35 per cent higher
than it did at the outbreak of the
World War, and the purchasing now
er of his waere on basis of hourly
earnings was 43 per cent greater/*