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WHITEVILLE, N. C., THURSDAY MARCH 6, 1924
NUMBER FORTY-NINE
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Dying the Last Thing
He Expected to Do
Correspondent Talks of Daniels. As
Candidate; Visited Neighboring
County Good Roads
By J. D. Frink
:tndon, March 4. All the
reported sick last week are
.;-!:. Uncle Billie Soles was
HIay (Tuesday) and when we
-. (I our pleasure at his im-
ih'nt. he replied that "dying
:h last thins he ' ever expected
" Uncle Billie is eighty-five
young, and spry as a twenty-
1,. (!
I'M':
- t-ar-oiu.
Ah-si' Mattie Justice, Louise Jes
, m aomi Peterson, Mrs. J. D
v .k. W. G. Frink, and your hum
servant, motored over to Lura
Ijoi'ton, in the "State of Robeson"
a.i Saturday afternoon, on a shop
innu and pleasure expedition. The
rnaus in upper Columbus and Robe
s,,i: counties are sjmply fine, and it
j- a rare treat for a fellow that has
to drive every day over stumps and
i and through mud-holes and
iiiirt. to have- the opportunity of
ilnviim over a good highway oc-ta-hnally.
We hope that our re
mote posterity may have the advan
tage of good roads in this neck o'
the woods, but there seems no light
on the horizon of a good-roads day
here about at this time. About all
the consolation we receive Js that
tin iv is no more than a year's road
construction planned in other sec
tions of the county.
Hon. Josephus Daniels, North
Carolina's candidate for president,
siys that if he had anything to do
w .t!n writing the National Demo
unt ic platform, he would incorpo
rate two planks in the same to read:
-Thou shalt not steal," and "Thou
shalt not kill." This reminds us of
a -uuu'estion we maue a piosuecuvc
c.ndidate for the state legislature
a lit
few weeks ago. He said he had
ai-out made up his mind to enter the
t
race 1'or representative, but he said the government is supposed to have
hv would hardly, know what to do if 'secret service agents in the govern
hr was elected. Our suggestion ment departments, "not one of them
was that he repeal all the present turned his hand to save the naval oil
laws, and ratify the Ten Command- j reserves."
ments. There are so many laws that "What the Republican National
i: -.A ,.A n,l rmf cn f r rn l A i rnnnmitfpu chmild ho rlnino- ic t na
tive UlICl;rtlUCU tl 1 1 W 1 1 V ' L
that we see no reason why they ,
-houl.l remain on statute books.
ACME-DELCO NEWS
The Girls club held its usual meet
ing today. March '4th. But unfortu
l ately the writer is a boy and can
rut give any notes especially con
cerning the program that was giv
en. Workers of the Seventy Five
Million dollar campaign met at the
Delco Baptist church Friday night,
Feb. 29th. for the purpose of elect
ing a co-operative committee. Mr.
A. H. Lennon was elected fromLev
mgnon Chapel; Mr PorterTlutham,
o! Delco Baptist church; Mr. Irie
Butler, of Goshen; Mr. Adron Mol-
hus, of Cheerful Hope.
The play, entitled 'What God
Would Have You Do," will be giv
en by members of Delco B. Y. P. U.
at Goshen Sunday, March 9th. at 11
o'clock. The purpose of the play
is to reveal to those that shall see
it, the need of navinc: your pledges
on the Severity Five Millions. The
play was once given at Delco, and it
proved very touching. Don't miss it
Xo charges will be made. Only give
all you are inspired to give.
Friends of Prof. G. W. Lassiter
will regret to learn that he isn't en- ,
joying the best of health at the pre
sent. He is now confined at his
home, but the school hopes thz he
will soon be able to take
UD HIS
school work again.
.
-Motion pictures were given at the
school last Friday night, and were
enjoyed very much
Reports of the Ladies' Aid society
"ii piuuciuiy ue given in who pan51
next week. Look for it.
L-UblUME BALL AT WACCAMAW
The first costume ball staged, in
Columbus in several years was a
howling success at the Waggaman
hotel lat TiViHr nio-hf Thp ffirls
were dressed becomingly and beau-
tnully. while the men were arrayed, lor tanKS ana ureuging.
appropriately. The West Orchestral "I see that Sinclair has just re
fiom Wilmington rendered music turned from Europe, where he is rp
Vvhich nut rhythm infn hnsp who had ' nortpd to have arranged to furnish
neve r shaken a foot before. At 12 i
o'clock rViib-on cqIqH coltinpi! sand-
he iruosts hv Mtq HilWt. F,neh of
nu i 1 V I , V-.X M.m., II VI V W"-
he twenty-eight guests was dressed
" as to represent such as the '
levil a tit: ri, fVio
jphiek, a butterfly, oriental dancer, j
PLC.
Those in attendance were: Miss '
Hdtzlaw with Mr T.nmsden : Mrs.
Faylor with Mr. Richard Lewis; Miss'zen will still prefer to have at least
rormy Duval with Dr.- Fittman;
iviiss Cleveland with Mr. A. F. Pow-
ill. Jr . TlCC! Viamlianni wlh MV
Tm. Powell: Mis Widenhouse with
ir. t,rady; Miss Sears with Mr Tay-
)r; Miss Rytl-o T,-fu -mv QVioTkiavd
. -wjvo Willi 1TX 1. uiii,v,
Wilmington: Mis Rav of Rae-llied
ITvl i,!4-1- HIT i a "Ll .!
witn lvir. hicks, ot wiiminexon:
iss uaidwm with Mr. J. D. Lewis;
iss Krahnke with Mr. kreinbalim;
gss Benton with Mr. Schulkcnj Mrs.
ultsby with Mr. Maultsbvr iOiisslbut notihalf-as cocky as he was
with Mr. Baldwih- Misl &?me2iiirn.6?r '.to .,the demand', for
an with Mr.Thompson. "
Three Small Stills
Captured Yesterday
Rural Pol icemen Get Two Crotans
and Three Finely Made Stills
In Ransom Township
Rural Policemen Brice Thompson
and A. S. Sasser made a raid in
Ransom township yestetrday after
noon and brought in three small
copper stills, about five gallons of i
excellent corn whiskey, two tubs
luii of bran mash ana a number of
jugs and fruit jars.
in0 tne least evidence of the suc
cess of the raid was found in the
fact that the officers were accom
panied to town by Aaron Spaulding
and John Jacobs, Crotan Indians who
will lace Recorder Maultsby next
Tuesday to answer to the charge of
manufacturing and having intoxicat
ing liquor in their possessio.
Only one of the stills were in ope
ration. One of the others bore evi
dence of having incurred the ire df
some one. It was suffering from
a gunshot wound in its side. Anoth
er was evidently a reserve machine.
All were of about ten gallon capacity
and were not of the home made af
fairs. They were evidently turned
out in a regular still factory.
DANIELS WANTS LEASE VOIDED
Philadelphia. Feb. 20 'T am
much keener for having the illegal
lease of naval oil reserves cancelled
than I am of sending Mr. Falls to
the penitentiary," Josephus Daniels,
former secretary of the navy, de
clared today in an address at a lun
cheon of Democratic women.
"But I am also strong for both,"
he continued, added, with emphasis.
"Every man in America," Mr. Dan
iels continued, "has upon his con
science to stand and demand that
this wrong be righted; and righted
will be. or America has lost its
soul "
Mr. Daniels stated that although
vu.....v, . , . . w . . v. ' v. w . . . ivw ,
cure a recipe to remove the stain of,
oil from a second-hand Cabinet,
i Mr. Daniels said, instead of try-I
j 1 1 i .i i
mg to araw a rca nerrmg across tne
. i . , i , 'Ceive D.,UUU annual lin-uuic ao ivjiii;
track in the hope of diverting con-' , .
demnation for the wanton waste oftas she remains unmarried.
o k4iu iWo ,nu ;i c,.J A remiest in the will calls upon
a uuiiun uuiiaio vvuim UL yj ii c"t-
"exclusive use of the navy' from the!
men who leased it to Doheny and
j Sinclair "
' nri j o i. i
x ne lox iiiei secretary, replying 10
the statement issued last night by
the Republican National committee
i .1,1 i -t
newrs bureau tnat ne wrote tne sec
tion of the act under which Secre-
tary of the Navy Denby signed the
oil lease, said "there is flo Demo
cratic responsibility for the
against naval preparedness
emergency."
crime
for an
Mr. Daniels's
statement further
said :
"If the Republican committee has
any information that I leased or
recommended leasing a single foot
of naval reserve oil land when the
oil could be retained Tn the ground,
that information is manufactured.
"From March, 1913, to March,
1921 in the courts and ifi the con
gress I fought every proposition to
permit the oil in thenaval reserves
to be taken out by anybody. Ihe
- . . . . .
legislation was asked exclusively to
conserve oil in tne ground. ine
wotd 'exchange" gave no authority
except to exchange crudeoil for oil
ouitauic iur iicivy uaca, lur tu ca-
cnanpre land to conserve jiavai on in
the ground
"The word 'lease' could have no
meanincr.' as the letter and context
show, except to lease flowing well,
or portions of land where the oil was
in danger of being drained by
owners of adjacent lands. By the
terms of the amendment I recom
mend, 'not to exceed $500,000' from
oil .taken "out could be used for any
purpose by the Secretary of the
Navy. ' Under the terms of the il-
legel lease signed by Fall and Den
by, $115,000,000 has been obligated
Stinnes oil. It looks like it was
pnntpmnlatpd to sell navv oil set
.wa -- w "
navv' to Germany. Conservation
and Americanism must' cry out
against such a possibility."
.
Loss of -the Dixmude and its crew
d scounts a eood many optimistic
statements as to the relative safety
' nf air navigation. The cautious citi
one loot on tne ground.
So many youncr radio amateurs are
on their way to become experts that
this world shfild see m the near fu-
Hnro an advance in electricity and al-
l . . -
sciences such as the near past
1 1 1 i t- - r r
couia not even isiic.
' Raisuli." the Moroccan bandit, is
renotted to be "as alive as: . ever,"
IPerdicarislive or Raisuli dead.
BIG LAND AND TIMBER DEAL PENDING
FOR BRUNSWICK AND COLUMBUS
Beaufort Lumber Company Acquires Option on
Enterprise-Whiteville Lumber Company and
tj. ivr:n tt
its Millions oi reel
Brunswick and Columbus Counties.
While no official statement has it has not already been actually con
been given out, it has been stated on sumated.
the most reliable authority that the , Partief connecte d with the Beau"
J tort mill are quoted as saying that
Beaufort Lumber Company has an Whiteville people need have no fear
option on the big plant of the Enter- of what the results of the sale will
prise-Whiteville Lumber
here and that the option
the privilege of purchase,
ure not stated .
Some weeks ago the
company
includes
CXl. 1 TIL;-
Beaufort
Lumber people purchased timber to 1 likely.
the value of a million dollars in ' , The Beaufort Lumber people own
r, . , . rp, , -ii large mills at Fayetteville, Dillon, S.
Brunswick county. They have a mill ; c Litt,e River s c. Salisbury,
at Fairmont in Robeson county and Md., Fairmont and other places. The
steps were at once taken to construct mill at Fairmont has a daily out
a narrow gauge lailroad through put of one hundred thousand feet of
this county and extending into the lumber. The Enterprise-Whiteville
timber holdings in Brunswick. Re- mill has an output of around thirty
cent plans call for a change from thousand feet daily. With a splen
narrow gauge to standard guage for did standard gauge railroad and good
this railroad and it is stated that track equipment already owned by
Shallotte, in Brunswick county, will the local company, the Beaufort
temporary mark the end of the road, people, in the event they purchase
For weeks another" deal has been the local plant, will already be right
on to acquire the local mill and its at the door of th million or more
holdings in this county. Rumor dollars worth of timber that they
has on several occasions announced purchased months ago from the
the sale of the property but these Hammer Lumber company and the
rumors always lacked authenticty Enterprise-Whiteville company in
for a 'background. During the past Brunswick county,
several days these rumors have ap-. The Beaufort folks are apparently
proached a head and the granting of greatly interested in Brunswick
the option leaves no room for doubt county and the possibilities for de
that a. sale is being contemplated, if velopment down that way.
WILSON'S WILL AWARDS '
ESTATE TO HIS WIDOW
Margaret Wlon Given An Annual
$2,500 Income Until She
Marries
Washington. March 1. The
of Woodrow Wilson, filed for
will
pro
bate today, leaves the estate to his
widow with the exception that his
dauehter Margaret Wilson, shall re-
. ... " Mvnft , nc. in.Wi.oi- nr kmp Hn tn sirkness
I Mrs
'
.Wi ;nTi f n disrrihute anions Mr.
Wilson's daughters, such articles of
clothing, jewelry, personal mementos , Mrs. J. P. Floyd delightfully en
and art works that may have be-' tfertained the B.Y.P.U. at her home
lonered to their mother, the first Friday night. A contest "An Auto
wife of the former president.
Under the will, Mrs. Wilson is to
retain the estate during her life, and
the unexpended portion at her death
IS to De dlStriDUteu among il. vv h
son's daughters.
The will was opened February 13,
according to a notation on the enyel-;ana
ope, in the presence of Mrs. Wilson,
Margaret Wilson, Eleanor Wilson
McAdoo. W. G. McAdoo and E. W
White, the attorney who filtd it.
Thewill reads:
"I will and devise all my proper
ty, real and personal, after the pay
ment of any iust debts that may con
stitute a claim upon it at the time of
my death, to my beloved wife, Edith,
for her
that she
lifetime with the request
distribute among my
daughters such articles of clothing,
jewelry, personal ornament or-art
i i i 4-u
maiena, a y
with the direction that' my daughter,
SI M IH I I 1-M011i lllld U 1 LiiCll 111U Ultl, UilVJ
Margaret shall receive out of the
income of my estate so long as she
aA fi,Q nf 9 .
500, annually unless the sum of $2,-: here.
500 should at any time exceed one-; . hallsboro was arroused Friday
third of the entire annual income of'.t by the fire whistle However,
my estate; m vvh.ch case sne shau
receive one-tniro oi tne income.
(TT i 1 1 J 1 J? 1 1 , J
upon tne aeatn oi my ue vu;
wite Uditn, it is my win ana qirec-
i -r--f.i Ml J
tion should she die without issue chi service at the home of
that the whole and personal, or soMrsyE y Young Sunday after
much of it as may remain unexpend- !noon
ed or undispersed. shall revert to my ; Mn Joe Thompson? who is teach
children share and share alike, and . -n thp Freeman school, spent the
that should she die leaving issue week.end at his home here,
her issue shall inherit . share and
! share alike with my daughters."
The document was dated May 31,
1917. It was witnessed by Helen
Woodrow Bones, a cousin of the tes-
i tator H. Hoover, chief usher at
I the White House and Ralph M. Rog-
I - '
i Wilson is named as executrix
The value of the estate is not giv- r
en and Attorney White declined to
place an estimate on it at this time.
On the envelope which contained
the will is written the words: "Last
will ancf testament Oi Woodrow
Wilson."
"Well, Art, I can tell you're a
i -ii . . : l i. t l l ;
I marriea man aii ngnu i.o noies in
your stockings any more.
JNo. Une oi tne. iirst tnings my
wife taught me was to darn 'em."
American Legion Weekly.
Some of the new silks shown in
New York have an oyster back
ground which is well enough as far
as it: goes, "but the great need for ;
men is a waistcoat with a speckled ! The Woman's flub will :leet to
baekirround calculated, to . neutralize ; morrow evening at three-thirty in
the effect of hurried eating.
r,i i m i I
01 standing nmoer -lniBetthea, jr.
mean, if it is consumated. This state-
ment is indicative of the intention
..
tnue operations of the Enterprise
Whiteville plant as it is now or on an
increased scale. The last is the most
MALLSBORO SOCIAL
. NEWS OF PAST WEEK
An Entertainment; False Fire Alarm
Electric Lights Installed
Church; Visitors
Hallsboro, March 4. Mr. Carl
Mabry and Misses Virginia Bloxton
and Lauretta Smith of the school
faculty motored to Greensboro Sun
day. Miss Bloxton is spending the
'
.
Miss Gladys Norm of the Blad-
enboro school faculty spent the
weeK-enu neie wiui iuiss .viauue
in ,f nT j
fierce.
mobile Romance" was held. Missl
Elizabeth Smith and Mr. Edison
Pierce won the prize, which was a
box of candy. The booby was won
by Miss George Hall and Mr. D. B.
Guyton. A delicious salad course
was served by Mesdames Floyd, Cook
guyton.
Messrs. James DeVane and Earl
Mabry were visitors here Sunday.
"
Miss Mittie Russ, who has been
attending a business college in Wil
mington for some time, has come
home to remain with us for awhile.
Mr. Lonnie M. Pierce left Wed
nesday for Tampa, Fla.
Misses Esther Council and George
Hall spent the week-end at their
homes-in Council.
, . Miss Ava Barefoot, who is attend-
; scnooi in wumingion, spent uie
' week-end at home.
Electric nnts nave Deen instaiieu
- .
a peat improvement over the old
j 11 -rV. - T ,
' biases Lillian and
' spent tne week-end
Alma Pierce
at their home
. n Z-X""Z Z Zed
V, cT , ZZZS:
to rsetnune, o. aii.ei spenunig
. ... fa-milv here
j0v A. J. Howell conducted
, v w
. A T TT 11 1-
AGED SMYRNA LADY
DIED LAST WEEK
Mrs. Hammond Was Eighty-Nine
Years of Age; Funeral at
Smyrna Last Friday
Funeral services for Mrs. Eveline
Hammond, 89 years of age who
died Wednesday of last week at the
home of her. son in the Smyrna com
munity, from natural causes, were
held at Smyrna Baptist church Fri -
dav and tne remains were iaia to
rest in the presence of a host of sor
rowing friends and relatives. Rev.
C. Stanley conducted the services.
One son, Mr. R. L. Hammond, and
several grand-children arii pggat
grand children survive. Mrs. nam
mond was one of the most highly
respected women of her community.
WOMAN'S CLUB MEETING
the 'Rest Room at the court house.
DUlon Banker Killed
in Automobile Wreck
Glaring- Headlights of. Another Car
Caused Fatal Accident On Road
Near Charlotte
nauotte.
N. C, March 4. J. C.
30-lear-old bank teller,
of Dillon, S. C, and a member of ;
a prominent tamiiy was killed early
Monday morning when the touring
car in which he was riding in com
pany with several others rolled off
t1 Belmont-Mount Holly highway
on a curve one mile this side of Bel
mont. Mr. Bethea's skull was
crushed.
With Mr. Bethea in the car at the
time were B. M. Hammer, well
known planter of the Dillon section,
who was driving, and three David
so college students, Flake (Red)
Laird, varsity, basketball player;
Jimmy Groover and Hamilton Ash
ley. None of the four was serious
ly hurt.
The party was returning to David
son from Gastonia, and met anoth
er car on the highway on a curve.
The lights of the other car blinded
Mr. Hamer, and he drew to one side
to avoid a collission, slowing down.
The soft ground along the shoulder
of the road gave way and the car
plunged down a five foot embank
ment. Mi-. Bethea, who was4n the
back seat, was caught his head under
uie seat, ana nis skuii was crushed
His death was almost instantaneous-1
I - i 1 Ill " -.
rvir. namer was pinnea under a seat
but his companions managed to ex-1
tricate him
His shoulder was bruis-
ed.
Mr. Bethea was carried to the
Charlotte sanatorium by T. C. Too
mey and R. H. Ramsey, but he had
died from the injury to his skull be
fore he had been lifted from the
car.
The report f the coroner, who in
vestigated the accident, was that
there was no evidence of whiskey in
the party. The car had not skid
ded, the earth almost being re
sponsible for the accident. The oc
cupants of the car stated that "it was
not exceeding 20 miles an houjr when
the accident occurred.
J. C. Bethea is survived hv his
! IM.flm,. TT f TiT T 1.
mwi.in.-i , in. vj. ucuiea, ui dacis.-
sonville, Fla.; five sisters. Mrs. J. B.
Gibson, Mrs. W. H. Fuller. Mrs. E.
R. Edwards, and Misses Mary and
Hattie Bethea.
Mr. Bethea's remains were carried
to his home in Dillon, S. C, accom
panied by his three brother-in-laws,
Messrs. Gibson, Miller and Edwards,
who came to Charlotte yesterday.
The funeral was expected to be held
at Dillon this afternoon at 4 o'clock.
Mr. Bethea was an alumnus of
Wofford college, Spartanburg, S. C.
and attended the University of
North Carolina law school. He saw
rrn Jee in France, during the vor' l
wrr. He is declared to have Ik-en
popular in his community and a
young man of fine character.
MAN KILLING JOB
One of the twenty-nine men who
r
; have held the presidential of f ice,two
-Mr. Taft and Mr. Coolidge are
still living; three Lincoln, Gar
field and McKinley were shot
down by the hand of violence twenty-four
died from natural causes.
The average life of the dead presi
dents excluding Lincoln, Garfield
and McKinley is 70 years.
The shortest-lived of fall the dead
presidents was Garfield, who died in
his fiftieth year.
The shortest-lived of all presidents,
who died natural deaths was James
Polk, who lived to be 53.
The longest-lived of all the dead
presidents was John Adams, who
lived to be 90.
Three presidents besides John
Adams lived to be 80 or more.
These were Jefferson, who died at
83; James Madison, wjio died at 85.
and John Quincy Adams, who lived
to be 90.
Presidents who lived to be more
than 70 were Monroe, 73; Andrew
Jackson, 78; Martin Van Buren,
seventy-nine; John Tyler, 71; Millard
Filmore, 74; James Buchanan, 77;
Rutherford B. Hayes, 70; and Gro
ver Cleveland, 71.
Presidents who died between the
ages of 60 and 70 were: Washing-! Servants are pondering over the
ton, G7; William Henry Harrison,68;lage wnen golf becomes a peril. It is
Zachary -Taylcrf. 65; Ulysses S. fatai as soon as the bug gets into the
, Grant. 63; Franklin Pierce. 64; An -
I drew Jackson, 66; Benjamin Harri -
son, 67; Theodore Roosevelt, 60, and,
Woodrow Wilson, 67.
Washington and Wilson lived to be
almost exactly the same age-67.
Presidents who died between the
ages of 50 and 60 years were
tii,
53; Lincoln, 56; Garfield, 49; Ar
thur,
56; McKinley 58; and. Hard-
'
!;ne 57
In the first seventy years of the
office from Washington to Buch
anan the average age of its occu
pants at the time of their death was
75. .
In the last seventy-three years of
the office from Lincoln to Hard
ing the average of its occupants,
including the" three victims of vio- 'pianation -in the wear an,d tear "of n
lence. was 61 years and 9 months. creasingly heavy duties; of the J of f iee.
nf T.inpolTTGar- that have struck Arthur down at 56:
field arid McKinley. who .died" vio-
! lent, .deaths; the average ; aged of
!dead
presidents
in this list seven-
Clarendon Planning to
Market Strawberries
Correspondent Gets Some Person!
Assurance From Headquarters
That Co-ops Will Settle.
By J. D. Frink
Clarendon, March 4. Since
our
to
article in regards to payments
growers by the Tobacco Growers'
Cooperative association appeared in
last week's issue ;1 the News Re
porter, we have received from head
quarters of the association at Ral
eigh, a letter dated February 27,
containing the following informa
tion which will be of interest to the
growers:
"The assoeiation will make the
second payment on the 1923. crop
to our members in the South Caro
lina belt before April 1, according
to the decision of our directors at
last week's meeting: of the board in
! Richmond. This Davment wTll rn-
resent one-half of the first advance
paid to our members of the South
Carolina belt upon delivery of their
tobacco and will bring their total re
ceipts on the 1923 crop up to seventy-five
percent of the' bankers'
valuation placed upon the South
Carolina belt deliveries. The -payment
will amount to more than a mil
lion and half dollars." '
This payment, if made this month
J win come m an opportune time for
the farmers, as the money can be
-ll
I used to good advantage in paying for
fertilizers and other supplies needed
on the farm.
However, if the pay-
ment nad been in the hands of the
growers before this time, no doubt
they could have mad arrangements
for supplies on a cash basies earlier
and saved themselves more money.
Hope in the future that payment
may be in their hands by the" first of
the new year.
A movement is on foot among the
nearby strawberry growers to build
up a strawberry market in Claren
don, by loading their fruit in cars
here and selling on the siding. This
will save the growers, considerable
expense in hauling t& other markets,
and at the same time the jberries
ought to sell for better prices as they
will be in much better condition than
when hauled several miles over rough
roads. For the past several years
the bulk of the. strawberries grown
in the section adjacent to his place
has been sold on other markets,which
resulted in an insufficient quantity
coming here to justify the buyers
to come. In the begininng of the
strawberry industry in this section,
Charendon shipped more strawber
ries than any station on the Cbnway
branch south of Chadbourn. At this
time the fruit was consigned by a
shipping agent through a local asso
ciation, and as many as thirteen car
loads of berries have been moved
from here -in one day.
Headlight Bill was a sporting gen
tleman of sporting proclivities, who
had got his name from a large dia
mond which he wore as a stud. He
had occasion to consult a doctor
about a "misery" in his chest.
The medical man eyed the stud
keenly. This made headlight uneasy.
After asking a number of ques
tions, the doctor produced a stetho
scope and placed it squarely over
the stud. Finishing his examination
the doctor looked solemn. So did the
patient.
"An't it genuwine, doctah?" asked
Headlight. Pittsburgh Sun.
A Mississippi planter claims to
have found an Argentine ant which
is sure death to the weevil. Before
registering loud cheers we shall have
to look into the bad habits of Ar
gentine ants.
While Conan Doyle complains that
his Sherlock Holmes stories obscure
his later and more serious writings,
the reading public seems to accept
the sad situation with great equan
imity.
The soviet government wants to
be recognized. There should be no
difficulty about that. The question
is is, after having recognized a bol
shevik, whether one wants to speak
to him.
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ty-three years from Lincoln to
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From this it will be seen that the
average of ? President s lifetime.
1 tnat was u in uie nisi- accnk.v
years of the presidential office, de-
cimes to an averagt via
1 the last seventy three years of the
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h presidents who have not died
natural deaths.
Representated in percentage, this
change shows a decline of exactlj
1.6 per cent.
Evidently, the average age of the'
presidents of the United States is
fallinsr. which may indicate , an ex-
Roosevelt at! 60r Hardinsat 5T. anT
Wilson al 61 Ipuisvi 17 Ccr
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