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i'v'ii. y'S'ir? Srri TO CHERAW ! SANFORD Wants The Biggest Dele gation At Chergw of Any Town On Federal Highway No. 1. i. Plan For ©« ' THE 1931 FAIR Let’s Get Busy Now And Have Hie Biggest Agricultural Fair Ever—Plan Now For bits. IS PLANNED MERE TEACHERS PLEDGI -FOR SUCCESS SANFORD SCHOOLS OPEN YEARS WORK WEDNESDAY MORN Over Twelve Hundred - Pupils Present For Opening Of Term. MUST RUN ON LESS MONEY Another mile-post in the long and successful history of the Sanford public school system • was begun Wednesday morn ing when over* twelve hundred , pupils and thirty-five teachers took up their work where it was left off last spring. General re trenchment, reductions in tea chers salaries and curtailment of operating expenses, an af termath -of the recent economic depression—all to the contrary— everyone connected with local school administration, official and teachers, face the education al year with courage and radiate optimism over the tasks that are to be done. They feel, even with the shadow that temporar ily dampens educational ardor in the State, that much work can , and wiil be accomplished this year. In a resolution, passed at a meet ing of the teachers, Tuesday rnorn • mg, the spirit of the faculty is inter preted. It reads: "Realizing the depressed economic conditions, the necessity for reduc tion in the tital budget, due to the small allotment from the state funds; We, the teachers of .Sanford Graded Schools, pledge ourselves to give the . utmost of Our time, energy, arid abil ity,-that the boys aiu| girls of the Sanford Graded Schools may not suf •fer in their school lives.” ”1 Though no public exercises were - >held at the school opening, chapel school supervisor. ibiks uy £***»«» ' prominent Sanford people will feature the occasion. _ _ , The total enrollment Wednesday morning according to an announce ment by George R. Wheeler, the su perintendent, was 1,232. This num ber is expected to be considerably in creased by belated entrances of pu pils during the next few days. The enrollment for the opening day this year was fifty more than the corres ponding date last year. While the local schools are no doubt operating under a great handicap this year, due to the reduction of the school budget, under which the schools are to be operated at a cost of be tween nine and ten thousand dollars less than last year, school officials feel that this is within the realm of accomplishment, although it will be necessary to count every penny of ex penditures twice and again, ihrougn the ten per cent reduction in the sal aries of the teachers, around $3,500 of this decrease in the budget can al ready be accounted. The remainder of the decrease must be made up through a curtailment of the cost of expenses of operation. This amount, states Mr. Wheeler, must be saved mainly through economies in school supplies. Contrary to reports which have been in circulation, which leave the impression that there is to be a reduction in the, number of courses taught, Mr. Wheeler, declares on be half of the teacher that any such policy has not for a moment been thought of. The teachers, he said, expect to carry on as they have done in the past. iYiemutjrH ui ~ — follows: Miss Addie St, Clair, Sanford; Miss Sut H. Watkins, Manson; Miss Helen Johnspn, eBdford, Va.; Miss Mary Wilkins, Sanford; Mrs. J. U. Gunter, Sanford; -Mrs. Mary Gilmore, San ford; Mrs. Carl Stout, Sanford; Mrs. Mattie Riggsbee, Sanford; Miss Lois Monroe, .Sanford; Miss Cornelia Cheek, Sanford; Miss Kate McKemon, Sanford; Miss Josephine St. Clair, Sanford; Miss Carrie Howard, San ford; Miss Pearl Temple, Sanford; Miss Beth -.Colley, Bloomsburg, Pa.; Mrs. Charles Hatch, .Sanford; Miss Catherine Carter, Raleigh; Miss Eli zabeth Crews, Greensboro; Mrs. Clara P. Cheek, Sanford; Miss Sophie Howie Pineville ■ Miss Isabelle Knight, Car thage; Miss Inez Leath, Greenville; Miss Stephanie Moore, Davidson; Miss Helen Derrick, Lancaster, S. C-; Miss Freda Dimmick, Sanford; Miss Pauline Edwards, Henderson; Miss Nell Robertson, Rowland; Mr. L. E. Warrick, Sanford; Mr. W. C. Lane, Sanford; Miss Louise Futrell, Scot land Neck, Elementary Principal; Mr. J. S. Truitt, "Sanford, High School Principal; Miss Alberta Lamm, Lu cama; Miss Athlene Tumage, Ayden; Miss Flora Cavenaugh, aWllace; Miss Annie Stroud Mann, Greensboro. Announcement of a meeting of the committee on bok rent of the local school board in the office of Cross & made this morning by, George R. Brinn Monday evening at ,7;30 was Wheeler, superintendent of schools. This meeting is being held to give an opportunity to those asking for an extension of the time in which they may pay book rent to take this mat ter up with the commitee. All par ents who are unable to pay now must meet 'with the committee oh the date set, ~ ^: ~r COOPERATION OF_SCHOOL TERM PRICE OF COTTON SEED LOWEST IN 22 YEARS. Agentleman win has been in the cotton oil mill business for past 22 years informs The Exprtss .. that the price of cotton sct'd is now lower than it has been at any timd during that period. For the past few weeks cotton seed have been selling in Georgia at ■ 12 l-2e per bushel. New seed have not been-put on the market in this State, but they will prob ably sell at the same price they are selling at in Georgia. For the past few years the farm' era have been paying for the gin ning of their cotton out of the receipts from the seed and had a margin left. At'the present price of seed they will- hardly be able to pay for the ginning with the money taken in from the sale of thp seed. The gins in this sec tion wjll not be put in opera tion till a sufficient amount of . cotton has been gathered to keep . them in operation. It is not' - knof yet what price the ginners will charge for ginning. It looks like it will hay)’ to be pretty low. should cotton sell »t 5c and. 6c Immediately following, the close of the World War cotton seed sold at $1.50 per bushel. This is/ quite a drop in the price and a!ot)'g with the low price of cotton is a pretty hiAvy blow to the farmers, from a 500 pound bale of cotton .the farmer gets front 25 to 30 bushels of seed, 25 busheUi of Seed at $1.50 per bush-. el brought $37.50. A 500 pound bale of cotton at $6.00 per hund red woukt^fcring $30, Thlt seed '10 to 12 years e*#:'Srought more ^thaiv the OfiWiSW amt seed combined will bring how. i the South the seed were about as <heap aa they are now, and about the only uds the farmers could makeof them waa to feed them to their cows or turn them into fertilizer for improving their land. LONG NAMED AS SWIFT MANAGER | P. L. Long has been named to suc 'ceed Ford F. Farabow, recently trans ferred to Charlotte, as manager of the local branch of Swift & Co. Mr. Long, who has been connected with Swift & Co. for the past ten years, comes here from Durham. He and Mrs. Long Iwill occupy quarters at 107 Endor Street. | Prior to coming here Mr. Long held a position as relief manager with Swift’s. He formerly served as manager of the Swift branch in Sa lisbury. i | Mr. Farabow, who made hundreds of friends during his five years of residence here, was very popular here being identified with a number1’of ci vic and fraternal organizations. He becomes a traveling representative of the Swift office in Charlotte, the headquarters for the mammoth Chi cago packing concern. ROAD COMMITTEE HOLD MEETING AT SOUTHERN PINES Plan To Put On Big Program For Cheraw Celebration on September 17 th. OPEN LAST LINK IN ROAD Promises To Be Biggest Thing Of Kind Ever Held In Country. y' ■ ■ -- Messrs. O. P. Makepeace and Ro bert Burns, members of the commit tee appointed to make plans for the celebration of the completion of the last link of Federal Highway No. 1 met with other members of the com mittee at Southern Pines Tuesday to discuss plans for jfmtting on this pro gram. It is said that this celebration will be the biggest thing of the kind ever held in the country. Mayor R. A. Rouse, of Cheraw, who attended the meeting, stated that people all along the line from Key West to towns in Vermont, had made reserva tions in the leading hotel at Cheraw for the purpose of attending and taking part in this mammoth celebra tion. To show the interest that is manifested in this meeting, in the North as well as in the South, the New York Times, one of the leading newspapers in the country, had a re- ( porter at the meeting. The committee will meet again in Raleigh tonight, to further discuss plans for carrying out the program on this occasion. A dis play of maps and other things con nected with this road, which is said to'bd the longest in the world, can be found on display in the show windows of the New York World-Telegram, also the pictures of many attractions a long this great highway. A- picture of this display js to be made and pub lished in the leading newspapers of the country. Large placards are car ried on many cars advertising this celebration. i It is expected that a great motor cade of citizens <»f Sanford krill go down to Cheraw and attend this ceje bration. It is planned to have Mayor wT R. Williams head this delegation. Any one wishing to join this delega tion should. communicate , with him. .Many prominent speakers from dif fgftmt^partt^of the country are on the B. & L. CAMPAIGN | MAKES HEADWAY Over 400 Shares Of New Series Have Been Sold Since September 1. Although the local unemployment situation and general business condi tions have shown their effect mightily in recent months, the nelw building and loan series, which opened Sept. 1, is meeting with a favorable res ponse on the part of local people, stated J. E. Brinn, secretary and trea surer of the Sanford Building and Loan Association this morning. While no doubt the condition men tioned by Mr. Brinn has been reflect ed in the campaign, it has served to effect the number of shares purchas ed by the individual rather than the number of people who are buying them, he advised. Explaining this, he said more people have taken advan tage of the present new series by buy ing shares than ever before, although they are buying in very small allott ments. Many - people, he said are buying shares in five, ten and fifteen lots. Four hundred shares have been dis posed of since the beginning of the .series. The quota set for the pre sent campaign is 1,000 shares. ' A crowded docket in which viola tions of the prohibition law predom 1 inated engaged court officials Tues day as they set about their task of i meeting justice in Lee- Recorder’s 1 Court. Judge Thomas J. McPherson presided and Solicitor K. R. Hoyle : prosecuted the docket, f Convicted on two counts, Leander Crowell, colored, of Swann’s Station, was given a total of 22 months on the roads. Crowell drew 18 months for assault and 4 months for carry ing a concealed weapon. Charges against Crowell grew out of a recent encounter with Raymond Monroe, also colored, at Swann’s Station; the for mer, witnesses stated, hit Monroe in the eye with a tobacco stick and then flashed a pistol. Bystanders, becom ing indignant, loaded a shotgun and started after Crowell. He beat a hasty retreat. I ' The drinking of canned heat, which he said was given him by other boys, and under the influence of which he operated a car about Sanford’s streets, resulted in a ninety-day sentence for Arthur Cotton^ Cotton, it was brought out in court, has been living under several assumed names. I Charged on three counts of violat ing the prohibition law, possession, sale and transporting, the first, to | which he pleaded guilty, Lacy Sloan was convicted on'the possession and ■ transporting charges / and given two 'years on each count Jfe Was levied I with a fine of $10 and 'costs in each) I of the t»wo cases. Thomas, to whom | Sloan is alleged to have sold a pint ,of whiskey: placing the contraband in i the formers oar last Saturday after noon in Jonesboro, denied having pur chased any whiskey from Sloan but was convicted and allowed to pay $10 an costs. Harvey Mitchell, Jonesboro police chief, testified to seeing Sloan as he placed a .pint of whiskey in Thomas’ car and also to seeing the exchange of money. Sloan, in expla nation of this, stated he put the whiskey in Thomas’ car, not for the purpose of sale, but only to rid him self of it before an officer could reach him. Sloan's road sentences, totalling four years, Were suspended on pay ment of fine and costs and upon his pledge to obey all laws both spiritual and temporal for the term of his sen tence and to report to court of his good behavior the first Tuesday of 2very month. Facing a veritable volley of charges, including assault, forcible trespass, making home brew, drunkness, curs ,ng, shooting and terrorizing the Com munity, Wiley Gray Buie, well known foung man, of Lemon Springs, was fiven suspended sentences totalling six years, Buie was ordered to give a bond of $500 backed by two good 'Uretu's, With his freedom being con litioned upon his future good be riavior. It was ordered, too, that he appear in court' monthly and report his progress on the straight arid nar row path, Buie- took ,the pledge and told the Judge he was through with liquor.forever and eternally,;/. , j v Macy -Medlin, while girl, failed to? appear to answer a charge of forcible trespass. Her bond was ordered for feited. YOH'^HOULI ; THE Next Mon da; gular monthly^ commissionei "tax rate for expected thal ber of citizen ty will be 1W court house budget and questions as think proper Every taxpa; and examine know for wf taxes is spenl sioners will w< all questions budget as thi help the ci * county may der in filing Go to the Monday. [ATTEND ING ;at their re leeting the ill fix the and it is large num •f the coun ®t at the ^examine the I ask such ithey may lining it. should see budget and purpose his ?he commis le any and icerning the want any ins of this able to ren Ihe tax rate jflouse next aldermemwere FORCEDJX) CUT DOWNlXPENSES Tax Decrease Valuatic . Pro to Lowered in City ty STAND PAT TAX RATE Penalty For No lege Tax ' , Octobe Payment I'rivi erred To 1.1st. A program nomy which iriv< tion of the am< appropriated for < ments as outluf budget for.. 1931 elimination of cel tions in one or t' the slashing of least one employ! ed upon by thfei Tuesday night found that the' enforced eco |jed tlie reduc pt of money plain improve in the city , the total ' in appropna | instances and salary of at was embark lty officials ?hen it * was short by $1,80(1. CtO’ the amount required to carry On the city government as called for in the budget, recently adopted. The latest assessment of city pro perty places a total valuation of $5, 521,878 upon same. This valuation at the city tax rate, unchanged from last year, will net a revenue of $60,740.65, whereas the amount called for in the budget is about $62,600.00. CUT APPROPRIATIONS Faced by this unexpected turn in affairs, the board of aldermen Tues day night met the-situation with de cisive action ; by authorizing the fol lowing cuts in appropriations: Volunteer firemen, answering false alarms, reduced from amount called for in original budget, by $250.00. Police department (clothing), $100 less than amount in budget. Reduction in yearly pay roll street department, $600.00. — Water department (labor), reduc tion, $100.00. National Guard appropriation, less by $50.00. Sanford library, less by $50.00. Street repairs for 1931-32, $150.00 (eduction effected. Sidewalk repairs, $150.00, Repairing white way standards, postponed, eliminating appropriation Salary of A. C. Thomas (Fire De partment) reduced from $600.00 tc {480.00 per year. Total decrease in appropriatiot made by amending budget,’$1,720.00. PARKING ORDINANCE me ooaru ou vrumance pro hibiting parking on either side oi Steele, Carthage, Wicker and Mooi-t streets for over one hour between the hours of 11 a. m. and 6 p. m. This ordinance which previously applied tc Saturdays only is now effective ever a, day. . . Tax penalties applying to privilege licenses will not be effective till Oct ober 1, the time limit having beer extended through action of the board Concrete work for grass plots be tween First and Chatham streets was ordered. An ordinance authorizing a license ^f $25 on milk trucks making deli veries into Sanford was passed. Appearing before the board, W. W Chaffin, engineer-in-char^e of the surfacing work on the city streets, announced the work on this project would be completed within the next week or ten days. All the work, stat ed Mr. Chaffin, is complete except the work cf dressing which, awaits the hardening of the surface already laid. SQUIRREL SEASON OPENED SEPTEMBER 1ST. The squirrel season opened Tues day, September 1st. The open season for other game arei Quail, November 20th to February 15th; turkeys and rabbits, Novem ber 20th to February 15th: doves, No vember 20th to January 3lst; Squir rels, September 1st to December 1st; and deer, September 15th- to Janu ary 1st. __ _ PREACHING SERVICES, There will be preaching services at the First Baptist Church Sunday morning and Sunday night by the nastor, Rev. Fra nk C. Hawkins., Mr, Hawkins announces that hia congre gation is very happy again to have Miss Ailene McMillan; 'back as or ganist. - * FIItE DEPARTMENT BRINGS IN $225 IN PRIZE MONEY Captures First Prize In Water And Second In Chemical Contest. WIN OVER ALBEMARLE Break Tie With That City Win ning Race In Ten Seconds. One is tempted to believe that the Sanford Fire Department carried the left hind leg of a graveyard rabbit to the .State Firemen’s Convention at Statesville last week. The boys brought home $225.00 as prize .money, hav ing won first prize in the water and second in the chemical contest. They tied the Albemarle team in the water contest, both scoring in 10 seconds. Sanford made the same score in the run off while Albemarle fell short, their score being 10 3-5 seconds. Lin coln ton lowered her own Kvorld's rec ord in chemicals from 7 4-5 seconds to 7 2-5 seconds. Sanford came sec ond making the run in 9 seconds. The remarkable thing about San ford Fire Department is that it sel dom returns from the State Tourna ment without bringing prize money. Some suitable recognition should be given the boys by the citizens of the town in appreciation of this last great victory. It was team work that put the thing over. They work together systematically, each member of the team performing his part at the right time. The firemen taking part in the water race were: R. B. Lemmond, wrenchman; Jimmie Kelly, butman; J. O. Bridges, slack puller; Bryant Woodell, coupling breakman; John Underwood, nozzleman. In the chemi cal contest were Max McLeod, J. R. Kelly and J. H. Woodell. State Fire Warden Sherwood Brock well, in making a talk to the firemen after the contests were over, joking ly charged the .Sanford boys with be ing thieves and robbers. They were not willing to carry off a small purse, but wanted to wreck the whole trea sury. He told the girls that they were from the famous Sandhill coun try and to call them peaches. The Sanford Fire Department has the re of jdoing thmga at the tour hands to defeat them in the cont .WICKER BECOMES I MANAGER STORE i Announcement is made by the management of Wicker’s Shoe Store of the purchase by C. C. Cooper and I Harvey Wicker of the interest owned in the store by John D. Wicker, man ager of the store since it was estab lished five years ago. I Paul L. Wicker, one of the store’s otoriers and associated with John D. i Wicker in the management of the business for the past four years, is the new manager, having succeeded : the latter on .September 1. J. L. Ad !cock, until recently connected with |Efird’s has taken a position with the shoe store. ! Several changes are contemplated in the store, said Mr. Wicker, among j which is to be the addition of a men’s furnishing line, including shirts, over i alls and other articles of men’s ap jparel. Hitherto the business has been maintained exclusively as a shoe I store. KIWANIANS AND FARMERS BREAK BREAD AT DEEP RIVER SCHOOL j' The Kiwanis Club has held three | meetings with the farmers of the county this summer, the last one be ing held with the farmers'and their \ wives of the northern section of the county at the Deep River consoli dated school last Friday even-j jng, a large per cent of the members, being present. While the ladies were j preparing the table members of the club and some of the young men in : that section engaged in a spirited game of baseball. Some of these old stiff legged, stiff armed, ball headed 'fellows demonstrated the fact that they had played ball in the days of their youth, but it is doubtful .1 they ! could get, out of the bed the next morning. A ft.tv of those who could not bat the ball and make the rounds of bases, pitched horse shoes for past time. The exercise whetted their ap petites and soon they were rubber necking in the direction of the table to see when the feast would be ready, and a feast it was. No picnic crowd was ever invited to partake of a more sumptuous repast. The table , 'was loaded from end to end with viands fit for a king. There are many fine cooks in that section of the county, and they were at their best in serv-' ing this well prepared supper. Al-' though there were a large number of farmers present there was sufficient food on that table to have fed a crowd almost twice that size. There is a woman’s club in that section and Mrs. E. E. Lambeth is its president. In j giving the names of the ladies who ! prepared and served the supper we 'are including the names of the hus bands of those who are married: , Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Womble, Mr. and Mrs. E, M. Wicker, Mr. and Mrs. |D. T. Marks, Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Wicker, Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Wbmble, Mr. and Mrs. Hoyle Wicker, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Wicker, Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. 0. W. Daw kins, Mr. and Mrs. A, A. Wicker, Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Womble, Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Lambeth, Mrs Daisy Lambeth, Mrs. Anna Johnson, Miss Mary Hurley, Mrs. Allie Holt, Miss Lucille Pattishall Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Cooper, Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Wicker, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Clegg, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Wicker, Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Mann. At the conclusion of supper all were invited to the auditorium of the school to hear a talk by O. H. Phil lips, County Demonstration Agent of Stanley County. While Mr. Phillips is not an orator, yet he is an effec tive speaker and made a very help ful talk to the farmers and business and professional men present. After calling the meeting to order Presi dent J. A. Overton turned the pro gram over to E. Frank Andrews, chairman of the Agriculture Commit tee. The speaker was introduced by E. O. McMahan, County Demonstra tion Agent. Mr. Phillips in his talk told of the advantages of a long time program—a program put on and car ried out by the farmers and business men of the community. He told of the advantages of putting on a well worked out program for today, also for generations to come. He was pleased to see the farmers of the county and the Kiwanis Club of San ford holding these joint social meet ings and expressed the opinion that much good would be accomplished by it—that the business men and profes sional men and farmers must work together for the solution of their confmon problems. In the working out of the various problems he said that there were two factors to deal with, the human ai)d soil factors. He saw the, hecessity of educating the children and ttye building up and pre servation of the soil. As a soil build er he recommended to the. farmers the cultivation of lespedeza. He call ed it the million dollar crop foi Stanley County. FAIR, HOWEVER, TO BE HELD IN CITY INSTEAD OF FAIR GROUNDS CHARLESTON EARTHQUAKE FORTY-FIVE YEARS AGO There was great excite ment in Sanford 4-5 years -- ago last Monday night. Many, if not all the people in this section, experienced their first earthquake. Not knowing what it was it was the kind of a thrill that they did not appreciate. It was in the true sense of the word a thriller and made an indelible impression on the minds of all who experi enced the shock or series of shocks. Many people in this section remained up the re mainder of the night and were frightened almost out of their wits. Great destruc tion was wrought in Char leston and that section of South Carolina. A dumber of people lost their lives, and there" was great des truction of property. The first issue of The Sanford Express contained an account of the Charleston earthquake. Sanford was a very small town at that time, having a population of not more than 300 or 400. Comparatively few people are living here now that were residents of the town at that time. One can al most count the families on one hand. Many of the citi zens of the town of that day I are taking their last long I sleep in Buffalo cemetery or in other cemeteries in this sction. Could they come back to earth and walk our - streets they would hardly find a person . . . that they one family during tha. en tire period. There ma be other papers published in the State by members of one family during an equal or longer period, but we don’t know of such a paper. HOWAKD^BOBBITT CO. ENLARGE WAREHOUSES Howard- Bobbitt Company are not only extending their business by add ing new links to their chain of stores from, time to time, but they are pre paring to about double their ware house capacity at this place. The con tract for enlarging their warehouse has been Awarded to W. L. Jewell, contractor. It is of brick. Their warehouse room is too small and in order to take care of their growing business they found it necessary to about double the capacity of their plant. They conduct a big wholesale business in addition to the 18 stores that they own and operate. They have made a success by sticking to their business and planning wisely. COUNTY FAIR TO BE HELD OCT. 9-10 IS ANNOUNCEMENT Plans Embrace Strictly An Ag ricultural Fair Under Su pervision Farm Depts. MERCHANTS TO COOPERATE So Lee County is to Rave a fair after all. It was stated in The Express last week that no fair would be held in the county this year. It will not be held at the fair grounds, but in Sanford and will be a street fair, like the first fairs held in the county. Some of the best fairs ever held in the county were street fairs and people were admitted free of charge. It is planned to hold the fair in two buildings on Oct. 9th and 10th. It, will be strictly an agricultural fair. The pre mium list has been prepared and turned over to Bliss Myrtle Douglas, the secretary. ‘ It is planned to work up an interest among the fanners and their wives and get their co operation in putting on farm ex hibits of all kinds,, including displays of poultry, eggs, live stock, vegetables, fruits, canned products of all kinds, and pro ducts of a domestic nature. It will not be on as large scale as the fair last year, but quality w'ill make up for quantity. The Express has not been in formed as to what other attrac tions will be had in the way of - a. carnival or midw'a.v. Perhaps an experiment will be made by holding, .a fair without._ the^e, things. As the time is short let’ the people-of the county get .bnsw and make thik the best and ., mosfaitraetf^e fair orisr TfeW 'in' the county. Abundant crops of all kinds have been made and there is no reason why the ex hibits of all kinds should not be the very best. PREPARING FOR .COTTON MARKET Four Buyers Will Purchase Cot ton In Sanford This Season Cotton is beginning to open in this section and soon the laborers will be busy gathering the fleecy staple and the gins humming while wagons will be waiting in line to come up and un load. Although the farmers and gin ners will be handling 7 cent cotton, they will find it necessary to save and market the crop as money is scarce and cotton is one of the money crops. At this season of the year the plant- ^ ket and wish to kndw the number of" ers become concerned about the mar I buyers that will be on the market and who they are. Sanford is the leading market of this section and every fall cotton is sold here from Lee and ad joining counties. Lee is a good cot ton county and the average yield to the acre promises to be good this year. There will be four or more buyers on the local market this fall. They I are the Sanford Cotton Mill Company, ■ who will operate their gin and Tniy at the mill, Wilkins-Ricks Company and Palmer & Reeves will handle cotton and store it at the formers’ ware houses, Ray Barnes will be on the market and will handle cotton at the warehouse in rear of Wilkins-Ricks building which will soon be occupied by the Page Trust Company. Experi enced buyers are connected with all these concerns and the farmers in the surrounding country may expect to get the market price on the Sanford market during the cotton season. The acreage in cotton in this section is not as great as it 'was las year, but it is thought that the yield will be greater. The lin promises to be bet ter than i was las year, i There is alk of men buying cotton at the low prices and holding it for higher prices. This is a gamble as cotton seems to have gone crazy. The ’Co-operative Marketing people are planning to handle cotton at this and other markets in this section on a very large scale. As was stated in The Express last week agents for this Association have been appointed at every ^market in Lee, Harnett and Moore counties. The first cotton will be ginned in this county the last of this or the first of next week and it is safe to predict that it will be at Broadway, > BANKS TO BE CLOSED ON LABOR DAY Sanford’s two banks, the United Bank & Trust Co., and the Page Trust Co. will be closed next Monday for Labor Day. Patrons of the two in stitutions" are invited to visit the banks for service on Saturday preceding the holiday. f SEVEN MURDER CASES / Solicitor C. L. Williams informs The Express that there were seven murder cases on doeket when Superior Court opened at Goldsboro last week. Only three pf these esses were tried.