he
8URE YOU ARE RIGHT ; THEN GO AHEAD.-D Crockett
VOL. 88. NO. 12
TARBORO, N. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1910.
Advice tO the Aged. Qeneral Development in
BY HBNBY 8TATON.
Age brings infirmities.
eish bowels, weak kJas
der and TORPID LIVER.
.:
Tutt'sPills
have a specific effect on ttoiaaiia
st imulatin ft the bowels, c
to perform their natural
in voutn and
IMPARTING
PREY'S
v'ERMIFUGE
is the same Sood, old-fashioned
medicw t it has saved the
lives of little children for the
ptover, It is medicine
n auc to cure. It has never
been rao , faU. If your
child w :ct -et a bottl- of
FREY'S Vi: iMIFU-jE
FINE TQNiG FOR CHILDREN
Iaj not take a substitute. If
your drue -1st do not keep
It. send tenty-ve cents la
rtamp to
JU. dks S. FTg-cry
Baltimore, Id,
and a botUe will be mailed you.
NOTICE.
B. virtue of the power contained
ia a certain mortgage, executed to
thj undersigned, and recorded in
th? office of the Register of Deeds
for Edgecombe County, N. C. la
L! 112, page 490, I shall sell for
cash a: the Court House door in
Tar oro, N. C., on Thursday, the
3 is: day of March,, 1910, a certain
I iet or parcel of land, lying and
be: ig ia 6aid County and State, and
ia farboro, adjoining the lands
of N'ed Hudson and others, describ
ei its follows: being a part of
thai numbered 8 in the division of
car: am lands, a report of which is
recorded in said office in Book 63
page 4, and beginning at the West
em corner of said lot at the inter-section
of Panola and Baker
stTrets, thence running in a south
erly direction along said Panola
8 reet fifty feet to Ned Hudson's
corner; thence in an easterly di
aai perpendicular to said Panola
street one hundred and fifty feet
cornering rfaeace in northerly direc
tion in a line parallel with
Panola street, fifty feet to
Bakfr street, thence in a westerly
dlrec ion along said Baker street one
hundred and fifty feet to the begin
ning Reference is hereby made to
sa d mortgage for a particular de-
scrip ion of said land.
HENRY JOHNSTON,
'ar h 1, 1910.
NOTICE.
By virtue of the power of sal con
t -ined In a cr ain deed of trust re
corded in Book 146, Page 331, Edge
c :: Coan y Registry and executed
oathe;j3h day of April,- 1909,
by Fr .nk Ba tie and wife to the
i.e sgned, I shall sell at public
a u n for cash to the highest biu
at the court house door in Tar
i, Xoru Carolina, on Tuesday
day of April, 1910 at one o'clock
ths following piece, parcel o
of 1 md lyine and being in the
Cjua y of Edgecombe, in the state
of Xortb Carolina, and described &s
iwnen Mr. S talon was here
recently, after discussing with the
editor of this paper the wonderful
development going on and to soon
come in the South, we urged him,
a native of this county, who could
see the Southern trend of the coun-
vya growth, to not only teU the
Southerner readers, very many of
whom lifelong friends of Uls
development, Us causes and the
duty of the citizens in respect there
to. It Is with pleasure that we chron
icle his compliance and give con
tribution No. 4.);
tV. Edgecombe's Natural Working
Capital.
The Southerner is not a magazine.
It cannot be expected therefore that
its columns can permit the length
required for all the details of the
subject of this article. But. all
the details and everything an edge
combe man wants to know about his
soil will be told him if he will write
for informaton to the State's Depart
ment of Agriculture. ft is the De
partment's duty to give It and it wii
surprise you in its generosity.
Edgecombe County contains 329,
920 acres of land. The general sur
face features consist of level, un
dulating and rolling areas with a
few scrips of swamp near Its streams.
The general slope of the County is
to the Southeast, except along the
eastern side, where it is toward the
Southwest toward the river. Its ele
vation above the sea level is about
50 feet at Tarooro, at Legge-t 63 feti
at Pine to pa 100 feet and at Rock)
Mount 115 feet.
It is drained by Tar River and
Fishing, Swift, Town, Otter, Cone
toe and Deep Creeks. The river la
navigable a part of tne year as fai
up as Shiloh Mills. There is no real
water power except at Rocky Mount.
The majority of its white inhabi
tan's represents some of the oldest
families in the Sta.e, for Edge
combe was one of the first section
settled and became a separate coun
try in 1733. Its population is cfaieio
of English descent, admittedly tilt
nost intelligent nationality of th.
Vorld. Its present population - of
24,000 is composed of about 60 pei
cent, negroes.
Its chief towns are Tarboro, the
County. Seat, and Rocky Mount. Whit
akers, Conetoe, Battleboro, Sparta
P.netops Macclesfield and Speed are
towns of less importance, but will
soon feel the effects of development
for the Atlantic Coast Line and Ks
various subsidiary railroads now
reach every part of the County. Thee
roads afford excellent transportation
facilities, but there have always been
excessive freight rates. Concerted ac
tion by the county people Is the
only thing that will ever relieve
ths unjust drainage on the Coun
ty's resources. The small boat line
operated from Shiloh Mills to Wash
ington decreased for a time railroad
freight races, but the competition has
der
bos
Li
P.
lit
around Tarboro and
some strips along Town
lau track
manure mixed, ff a rofte-
made very MM
SOU be i iBntoai.
baBBt bbMC9bIbMbT7 .
little effect on Ks soils. I Battleboro and
The soils in the main In Eastern long Tar River
Edgecombe are fine sandy loam wKh Sparta, sad
bright yellow sandy clay sub-soli. In Creek. Also
the Central part the coarser material
in the soil increase, in the West
era section we find the soil a sandy Ks topography
loam with dark orange or reddish est adapt abHtty to
yellow sandy day bubaoU. In many ery. It to well salted to
Instances quarts gravel of good alxe I cotton, bright yellow
to found. nut grapes and potatoes,
There are two series of types of
soil, the Norfolk series and the Fertilisers used should be standard
Portsmouth series. brands or a mixture of cotton
A map would show Edgecombe meal, kainit and acid
County to be mad up of th follow- Pens should be
lag type of soil:
Norfolk fine sandy loam, 150,000 a I on of crops b
cres. comerclxl fertiliser
Norfolk sandy loam, 117,000 acres It should be plowed d
Swamp 23,000 acres. be prupssed with th
Norfolk sand, 16,000 acres. If the landowner finds a
Portsmouth fine sandy loam, 11,000 sod of fine sandy loam, gray r
acres. yellowish gray In color, 1Mb six to
Portsmou'h sandy loam, 6,000 a- thirty Inches deep; bets sen th gray
ore. I surfa e soli
Norfolk fine sand. 4,600 acres. clsy subsoil a
Portsmouth loam, 1,000 acres. I be has the Nortosk One
The Norfolk series are the lighter I type. Boss dark gray soil to
colored, better drained soils. The I In wooded sections.
Poitsmouth series are darker in col I West of Pis stops and In
or, contain more organic matter, and I level ares it Is more
chiefly Ue In the badly drained I and nearer s fine sandy- sOty
Sou fa eastern sections of the County. The subsoil to a depth Of S fee
The Norfolk fin sandy loam to to yelow sandy clay' I sacs place
the most easily farmed. Much of K this subsoil to s reddish yellow to)
e.ther "lies out'' or is not cultivat- red sandy clay, and in other a y-
ed, but would grow bright tobacco, I low clay loam streaked with rail or
peanuts, 1st truck crops and, wheu I purple.
ferulUed, makes good cotton. Large areas occur along the
The Norfolk sandy loam differs combe-Martin lis, to h
mainly in texture. It is coarser, a tral and Booth west part of
little be ter drained, and trucking county, sad it la
crops mature upon It earlier. This throughout, around Ooaklsy,
oil to good for cotton, tobacco ana Lawrence Bast of Qsfh us,
Peanut. rictta, Pinstops Macelaaftoid
The Norfolk sand and the Norfolk Lewis and Bsst of Crisp,
tine sand are loose, porous well- Short leaf pin. to4oUy sad
drained and warm. This type oi I oaks are the ooda on It and a
soil can be cultivated Immediately I great deal to 'ill undeveloped, ft Is
af-er a rain and In dry seasons crops suited to 1st truck, peanuts tobac
upon it suffer. It to easily tilled aac oo cotton alfalfa and n great variety
a very early soil, which will grow of crops.
eariy trues, peacaes, grapes ana I of the
any light farming product. Ullser the 2 2
Tne Portsmouth sandy loam. Port I uxi ao some brands of J, I, 1
mourn iiue sanay loam ana ronj i g-TaxWa Cotton
mouth loam are fairly easily til leu phat and ksioit are
and very productive, but are gener-1 with a tittle Hue. Bit to PS
ally low and flat and difficult to I of fertiliser to the acre for
drain. They are the typical corn b tho amount usually used. Pnansto
soli They ax not only th best AO(1 imM
corn soil in Edgecombe County but TVs soil win b Improved greatly
the best corn soil in Eastern North or rmW( bbbbbBsj plowing under
Carolina. peavlae atabhle. vetch or clover and
The Department of Agriculture re- applying Urns. Systematic lutntluii of
quests that tne landowner first I cropa sad deep plowing and heavy
classify nis sou. They can men give
him an analysis of It, for they have valuable as anybody's soil anywhere
mapped nis county ana snow airesay i jf tM9 landowner find bis
the composition of ths various types dark-gray sandy BBS or black to s
of soU In X Portsmouth sandy loam. Th dark-grs
If th landowner finds a light u usually under cultivation. u
gray, yellowish or light brown coarse depth of 6 to 16 Inches, be has th
to medium and loam, average depth heavy black In th thickly wooded
of six to eight inches, porous, loose MJid poorly drained sections. Boss
Incoherent with a considerable quan- contains gravel long th river
ti'y of small round gravel in areas The subsoil to a light to dark gray
uiong the river, ne snows uus is sandy clsy mottled with brows. In
the Nortoix sand type, in some spots i some sorttrrns thto abseil Is dark
it may be darner rrom saving oeeo coarse sandy loam and la other
heavily manured or never stripped a I & dark brown muck sand or sandy
its wooded growth. Its subsoil Is loam.
also s- OLD MIXrCO CLArMg IL PA SO
nt oeen suiuciejixiy strung "' generally 36 inches or more deep I xtoe lariaf areas are atone the
check the railroads to a very great yellow, loose, coarse sand. I fmttrosul ! Mildred and t on.
m. im aaf x. a. . I . I
extent, buhicuw. ironage ThU la a tvD found alons Tar 1 .i tv-ti- ruk a
cheaper rates would soon esannsn River, Conetoe and Dogtown. Some to I sad Cokey Swamp and
uau I found also on Fishing Creek and I Tnr River.
BSTABUSMtiD 1922
the -to
Tex-, th
wUl
rl
of th War
b, r
ivy.
iU.
vtlnltty to
. tovtpsstosp
a boat line that would cut in
Town Creek. It occupies rolling areas
ridge and knolls.
Us forest growth to chiefly old
field pine and scrub oak. It is not
adapted to general farming , but
should be devoted to early
po aloes and fruit.
Artificial drainage
large
es being
Lobftoll
of the
abound, bat
to black
trt l poplar, cypress and thick
This soil to adapted to
limed to
the existing freight rates charged
by the railroads.
Its chief products are cotton.
P9anus corn and tobacco, but it
c n prbiuce anything produced in
any temperate zone.
i s Win era are comparatively mild;
i s summers itug ana bih. wxxuimi, tt can be woaaenuiiy usprovea oy i when drained
Janua y and February temperature COarse manures and by plowing under sjaj oats,
averages 42 degrees F. Its snows arc cow peas, alfalfa or vetch and add Tbje fertiliser
li h. ani of short duration. July and lnj a uctle lime. pounds of rock 1
Augue- , tne noi3t montns average i u the landowner finds a fins sand. I w in, land owner finds a eoU of
s a eg re 36 sr. tne average aa e gray, pale-yellow or light brown in flae saady joam to 16 Inches
ox tne last swung irutw in vUC i color, to a depth of from five to I ln color and In
Sprng from 1871 to 1903 was April I eight inches, loose, when dry and sections black and vry heavy
teSta - - 1 SS. ea TT i 111- . .....a m
i-n ana at uus irowi. ui uic f0"lloaniy when wet whitish in spots, 1 m sres with
October 24th. I and c- moused of fine rounded sand
Its average growing season for I 9ftrtieles and a small percentage of
the most sansrive crops Is 194 days. I ciay he hb the Norfolk floe sand
type.
Some is found In the South Cen
tral and Eastern parts of the County.
It lies chieflv along Town Creek
C"tton is the staple money crop.
In 1905 its cotton yield was 35,670 j
bal s and in 1905, 28,680. Peanut are
an important money crop. The vines
make good hay and It Is an excellent I and Wea Tar River on th Tar-
crop for rotation with cotton. Al-1 ud Sparta road.
falfa can and will be grown event-1 Ita wood is generally short lesf
ually for the same purpose. I pine, old field pine, scrub oak; dog-
Bright tobacco is grown extensive-1 wood and aweet gum. It to too light
f I'.ows: Being situated in th
town of Wh takers, N. C, and ly
- . oi the South side of the roa.
I ading fror-i said town to the farm
forjai r y owned .y Wiley Eiradley, ce
s d, a id jeing the identical laL
'' vayed to stid Frank P. Battle by
H. j. vVheiess and con alaiag abou
on a re, the said deed of conveyanc
fr ra the said Wheless to sai
Ba Hi b ing uuly recorded ia Boo.
Uii, Fage 52, Edgecombe" County Reg
is ry, to whi.h deed reference is
hid:
T iis the 8th day of March. 1910.
E. B. GRANTHAM,
Trustee.
VALUABLE FARM FOR SALE.
By virtue of the powers and dlrec
tons contained in a judgment .ien
dered ia the civil action entitled W
(' Prnrtip ct aln nendine in the I i t tho OrtiitKArn and Western sec-1 """ f..mim, v... la aiilrw1
- x I - . ivr hJ-1 1 ""5i wifc -
Superior Court of Edgecombe Coun-1 1 0as of the County.. , I to early truck. Irish potaotes. scup-
1 w - -
we will on the 9 fa day of April, Trucking of all sorts thrives a-1 pemollgS mlsfa grapes and peanuts
JlO, at 2 p. m., in the city Oi round Conetoe, Tarboro and else-1 It can be jreatly Unprwed by
Mount. N. C. Sell at PUOUC wnrrt. I w.r.0 nunniw anH nlnwlnr under
tion that certain tract of land, I Peaches, grapes and pecans for I perhongs, mlah grapes and peanuts
k .own as the Llzzina Bulluck nome i me market, mulberries for hogs ana lime 8hould be put In
. , .si a
iace, bounded by me lanas j aTiy fruit or, vegeuaoie can do suww i landowner finds s gray to
'ohn Blshp on the South; by W. R-1 fully grown. vrflowiah rrsv medium to coarn
x s etpjin mill farm on the West; 1 Tho aniia r of infinite variety. I . . w
- .... - i sanay loam sax o ivouy cvur mc
dv the Minnis Diace. anu imui u rr-i. r i moHo nn of what i . n.
" lue vjuxttj u3 . a; aeen WJCIl a lumiuu i
Tar river, containing 420 acres . . , , .n,, ,na the Columbia forma-1 .iwint ix inchna below
or less. Ition. except In the Western Irt the surface he has the Norfolk sandy I tU1r.are "T
Jf rns of Sale One tnird caau i y,ara th miurabia forms the super-
Knln. n n,,iin1 no V TTI P Tl T 3 I . . m ASSi J I 4-4 rr I
.auue mi H"-i ficlal covering sno vne uouuwium f ,ja.e, in the Western
iu iwo years iium uoc ui D , gQj jg tue 0iuer or tiSiayei-te
iv. I .11 t Kmwii In polnr oon-
Th. Haforrw'- - . , I '
cut uer amiuiu. x v.v...- I hrniirht down from me neamu . . . i mA miHm in
" ... , . 1 -ttLL3 I . . kl..k
ti n and deposited when pjmgi Ifsqtoi and depth. In some section " " " .',7, T Z
County was at me wxtom ot MaM .nrfar anil ha been washed I- lmm wwu - " "
Um Thh sediment, of course has
been greatly sltered by rivers, creeks
and organic agencies
"aT.. JIlfew Crop Farm and Ciar-
aeneeu Just Arrived
to WPss fltoBML
r.vod of nm rsssfe, end ah us
SEE
in ssawy of
- g . . j i
COOK
THE DRtGGIHT
rtrri.'r."' before voo buv- IS. sclU
TniL'SsSi W that briits; revolts.
E Masonir Temule Kuildinir
Tarboro, - .C.
mmm ex nss juag as
dS . ens h ejss a Bs f
riss, p. e n test of
tanr.
an (ssnnd tn em gvg
-T Past dsss, pan sr. tosnwy KstoJ fUVB
f Sag eit . Thsfto Wtofsars ton-
1 OBJ W
Lenses to to ssv a bank ran by
fh only sss hs to toilsillis t
I wm mm mmmm mmm tear ii
Omr tin
VISIT
irl WILL BE
: APPRCCIATEC
M
SS
rHr-iflsai. I IB HU3 1(1 MI fllffl
I J V BsP A m lmmmm&
mVmmmmmm M f 1 IJgBlmmmmmmmmml
a brown mucky material 6 to I
es deep, be has th Portsmouth flae.
sandy loam.
The subset! to n gray fins
clsy. mottled with yellowish fa
In depressed areas It Is heavy
contain silt, but In
Wtth n large proportion ot sand in
th sou the subsoil to gray ST
brown sticky fins sand.
Mildred. Bast of Dogtown
of Plney drove wtth strips
the streams ln the Eastern part
of th County separating the Swamp
areas from the soils of th MoePPBi
series comprises ths locality of thto
7 Pe
at to adapted to corn
drained area to cotton
l. ft would mk
lng tor those products
and that require me
Much lime and some
Southeast of BhBoh Mill.
of Conetoe and Wast
Plney Grove areJLarge areas of
notes
first
The not! to 19 to 20 In ah to
Pa clients to be evidnced by
'' iirr:hrtser and secured by
U-n oa-the land.;
Thia March 8th, 1910.
T. T. THQRNE,
JACOB BATTJjE,
Commissioners
0.1,
0. E. WEEKS,
Dentists
Office near Telegraph Office.
Come! Come! Come, the last
Und9r many acres along Tar River
and other streams are beds of marl n
a depth of from six to fifty feet de
posited In the Eocene and Neocene
Ages and rich in carbonate of lime
and calcium phosphate.
I remember that my grandfather
loam, easy loam, or very One
loam, dark gray mottled with fa
a to found In low lying
sandy surface soil has been washed
off and the reddish yellow subsoil
is exposed. Its subsoil in the larger
n vallnw aanrlv rlav A-
" ' 5T.TT: genemly near n swamp and are fre
oag Tar River. In the Western P 1 t
of the County and elsewhere, the I .
subsoil varies from the typical yellow I H Is especially adapted to
nT riav to a brown sandy roam, I and when properly
and In spots to a red clay loam. R j grow onion, celery sod any.
is found calefly la the Western, Bast The department of Agriculture will
and West Central and Northwestern assist any landowner In determining
ki .Perhaps your last chance to obtanied all his lime from marl beds, parts of the County, on the Edge- th type of oUowned .y
goods at such prices. Sim- j There are SO few rock formation. cmbNaafa line ,,1 Ifs srVshl
mous. 6t ia Edgecombe that this element has and Kingefaoro and to the East ot owner will learn his type as a start- cy in in
"""" mim MBANSSC T1ST OW MAOMCSS. I TssT the" '
"stoTdlib Lsae ,t Was AppltoS ks III PllHal llSlfllCI 111 llllls tltPLf 8
j wsnd ui Zot iTsTnili ?b - rT tT iTu Trl 1 j i 1 I'll" mm L?!!??!?! ' fm S
from Ue jsrlgmsnt of th Urnwn to !. ewa an.wta V
aTRSSrSSSS --"..Jl u. . ourtib - - - cashier I
- UT- Hr AK1 KN K s
other areas and la thto esmnthtotton Dr. Mi-1 ' - swa
- 1 1 wMBBh.
cJlrJ iass'bJra. reluy HZ awsl Zm mm. 1 ClWSCll L wVllSOXl
d Th other doctor also gave evt I xS. MOTHEJI OKAY'S BSBt BBS pail. MM M
s good truck- dc abowt the lanncy of Us do nfJL SWEET POWDERS I '
no 1 cotoBtto.. tmSLLmW II PriuS' iwrnunuius
ti in 1 1 s Mai, " I Csnnsi 5Cc a doxn.
are Uver and bwweto ssssstisiss; sear mmmSemMm llllll I isipbaflt mtttf 5 Mlbd IOC CSCb.
gep to baik wtthont oaane. The jr ua esast f Or J. W. Sherssd. d I sPsNlfJB tO and 15c bunch.
I IsBhrssare 1111 or thai eaot.-a r v a v a, i pi bam i re. rniiiimoTft B
to, .S-U W m, tne; eeSWV. VII 7 L L UJ I" V
drained would las asset h can Isnrs tress Uto -1 1 : . . . . II . I fl IBS it I If I in IBIIBWvLl ,
partmeot U .eass asd . of .TT J UiniVH X LwUXUl .... imUUUWIU
tn2 be Ue richswt com, .TZZmZj. pp HaaHBB ML