ATTEND THE SHOW
Tell Your ' Friends 'About -The Lee
Livestock, Food and Poultry
Show, October 9th and 10th;
Get Your Exhibits Ready.
VOLUME 48, Number 7.
$2.00 Per Year.
SANFORD
Central North Carolina’s Coming To
bacco Market—Every Facility
For An Ordei-ly Marketing
Of Your Tobacco.
FIVE CENTS
f ■ ■■
TOBACCO BOARD OF TRADE ORGANIZED
SLIGHT ADVANCE
IN PRICE NOTED
ON LOCAL MARKET
Tobacco Sold On Sanfprd Ware
house Floors Nears Half
Million Mark.
BISECT HARPER SECRETARY
The Sanford tobacco market
entered the second week of the
season with slight advances on
the better grades of leaf. Re
ceipts for the common grades
showed no improvement over the
opening week, Sales continued
light.
Sales on the local market, through
and including. Tuseday’s sale, amount
ed to 442,768 pounds, for which the
farmers received $43,360.59. The
season average stands at $9.80 per
hundred. * ■
Total sales for last week were 338,
7$8 pounds which brought $31,943.04.
Last ‘week’s average was $9.43.
Slight advances in price, together
with a slight improvement in the
’ quality' of leaf brought to market
brought the average for Monday and
Tuesday to $10.97 per hundred pounds,
•an advance of $1.17 per hundred above
the average of the first week’s sales.
A total of 104,030' pounds of leaf
passed over the scales here on Mon
day and Tuesday.
- The average price paid for tobacco
on the local market, while small as
.mnnsrpH with that naid in previous
years, neverthless compares most fa
vorably with the prices paid on other
markets in the State, in fact, being
much higher than the prevailing pri
ces heretofore reported on many of
tho larger markets.
Sales have continued small on ac
count of the fact that very little to
bacco is yet graded and the farmers
are very busy harvesting other crops,
including cotton, com and sorghum.
When these crops are harvested, and
with the appearance of most favor
able weather for handling tobacco,
sales on the ideal market are expect
ed to mbke an appreciable climb.
-Sifice the opening of the market
hundreds, of farmers from this and
adjoining counties have made sales of
ed to be well pleased. A large num
ber of sales from. Moore, Harnett,
Cumberland* Chatham and Hoke coutn
, ties.; have been reported on this mar
-meetibif-iSlltt IgseWeek eriaj!
.1. F. Harper, ofyfimmonsville, S. C.,
bookkeeper of the 3-W Warehouse,
was elected secretary of the Sanford
Tobacco Board of Trade, succeeding
Lee Comer, who held this position
last year. The Tobacco Board*. of
Trade expects to be very active this
year in boosting the market and is
laying plans toward instituting an
extensive advertising campaign in be
half of the market. Mr. Harper, the
new secretary, is an experienced to
bacco man and has been identified
with this market for several years. He
believes Sanford is destined to be
come one of the State’s great tobacco
markets in the next fyw years and
predicts a pronounced increase of pa
tronage on the local market as com
pared with last year.
SWANN STATION
CITIZEN DIES
Neighbors were shocked upon learn
ing of the sudden death of Arnold
Morris, which occurred at his home
near Swann Station, in Harnett coun
ty, last Monday morning at 8 o’clock
of heart trouble. He was apparently
in good health, but death came with
out warning.
The funeral services were held
Tuesday morning at 11 o’clock from
the Cameron Grove Presbyterian
church and in the absence of Rev. I.
T. Poole, who is seriously ill at the
Lee County Hospital, was in charge of
a former pastor, Rev. D. E. Stan
field, of Durham. Interment was
made in the church cemetery.
Mr. Morris was about 50 years of
age, was a successful farmer and a
good citizen, held in high esteem by a
large circle of friends. He was a
member of Morris Chapel Methodist
church. Mr. Morris was never mar
ried and made his home with a sister,
Miss Nannie Morris, who survives
him. “
1
NEW TAX RATE IS BIG
AID TO TAX PAYERS
The lowering of the tax ,
» rate in the county from
* $1.(17 .to 77 cents will do
much to relieve -- the heavy
"tax burden on the people
• of the county. To give you
some idea of the amount
that will be saved by lower
ing the rate we would state
that the citizens of West
“Sanford township paid $16
on every $1,000 worth of
property, including the
school tax, in'1930. In 1931
; they will pay $12.30 on
every $1,000 Worth of pro
perty, including the local
school tax. To the above for
property in Sanford will be
paid an additional $11.10
town tax. In 1930 it was I
$26.10, a difference of $15.
This is a great saving to I
the large property owners.
MUSICAL PROGAM
ENJOYED BY CLUB
Suggested That Summer Meet
ings With Farmers Begin
Early Next Spring.
The Kiwanis Club held its regular
weekly meeting at the Carolina Ho
tel last Friday night. At the conclu
sion of luncheon President J. A.
Overton turned the meeting over to
S. J. Husketh, a member of the pro
gram committee, who in turn called
on J. C. Pitman to take charge of the
program. After a few selections by
the club with Miss Louise Futrell at
the piano, Miss Katherine Carter, di
rector of public school music at the
Sanford High school, and Miss Travis
Cunningham, a pupil of the school,
put on a program of music that was
greatly enjoyed by all present. Both
Miss Carter and Miss Cunningham
charmingly rendered solos which ex
cited much applause. A feature of
the program was .the piano solo by,
Miss Futrell. It was suggested that
the summer meetings NvLBi the farm
ers should Aiegin,early Tiext spring.
The; auestiom of committing the club
to some candidate for offic# at the
annual meeting: of the Carolines His*
rnin'rk rrf the‘club'Tiut
it was decided to send the delegates
to the meeting uninstructed. W. R.
Makepeace, who is to have pens built
for the boys pig club which swill be
exhibited at the County Fair in Octo
ber, called for volunteers to nail the
pens together. The pigs are to be
placed on display October 10th.
President Overton made a strong
appeal to the members of the club to
make this the last quarter in the year
the most successful period by attend
ing regularly and taking an interest'
jn the weekly programs.
AGED MINISTER
IN AUTO WRECK
Rev. G. R. Underwood And Miss
Cooper Injured When
Autos Collide.
Rev. G. R. Underwood, a retired
minister of the Christian church, who
makes his home in Sanford, and Miss
Ethel Cooper, of Colon, were injured
in a car wreck at Goldston late Wed
nesday evepidP' and are now in the
Lee County Hospital for treatment.
Miss Cooper 'was traveling in a car
on Boone Trail with her mother, Mrs.
W. M. Cooper, and a sister when Mr.
and Mrs. Underwood came out of a
by-road and not seeing the other car
Mrs. Underwood, who was at the
wrheel, drove into the main highway
striking the other car , in which the
Coopers were traveling. Mr. Uhder^
wood was cut about the head and face
while Miss Cooper sustained a broken
arm. They are getting along as *well
as could be expected and their friends
and neighbors hope to see them out
soon, 'fire other occupants of the
cars were slightly bruised but did not
go to the hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Underwood have mov
’ed to' Goldston where they will make
their home.
SUPREME COURT AFFIRMS SENTENCE
OF GEORGE GOSS; MUST DIE OCT. 16
In a decision in which the
lower court was upheld the
State Supreme Court yester
day affirmed the death sen
tence of George Goss, Lee
County negro, who was con
victed at the August .term of
Superior Court? of the murder
of his wife, Sallie Goss. Goss’
sentence which was to have
gone into effect on September
16th was automatically stayed
when ''his attorney, H. M.
Jackson, appealed to the Su
preme Court on the ground
that the evidence offered in
the case was insufficient to
show premeditation and that
the jury, therefore, was not
justified in returning a first
degree murder verdict. The
Supreme Court helft that the
evidence was sufficient and
that the Lee county negro
must pay the supreme penalty.
Since, under the law, the
date of the electrocution of a
condemned man is set the
third Friday after the higher
court hands down its decision,
the execution of Goss will fall
on Friday, October 16th.
Goss was sentenced to death
by Judge E. H. Cranmer, who
presided over the August
term of Lee Superior Court.
He accepted the death sentence
with a demeanor of outward
calm and stoicism. He was
not without hope following the
sentence, believing that a com
mutation would be given him.
The murder for which Goss
was convicted occurred early
one Thursday morning last
July and obtained much pub
licity. on account of its wanton
brutality.
BROADWAY LADY
WINS LAVALIER
IN OUR CONTEST
Miss Vera McLeod’s Letter Is
■ Winner Of First Prize
In Contest.
MANY LETTERS RECEIVED
Awards To Be Made At United
Bank & Trust Company.
Saturday At 10 A. M.
Miss Vera McLeod, of Broadway,
was voted the winner of the first
prize in the contest “Why Trade
With These Business Firms/’Conduct
ed by The Express and which was
brought to a close on Wednesday,
Sept. 23. Miss McLeod, whose letter
was written on Oliver’s Store, will be
awarded a beautiful lavalier, which
was purchased from Joseph’s Jewelry
■Store.
Others seding in winning letters
were: Mrs. S. H. Rosser, Broadway,
second prize, a table model Singer
sewing machine from -j3inger Sewing
Machine Co.; E. H. Hopper, City,
third prize, a porch swinger from
Gentral Carolina Furniture Co.; L* M.
McDonald, Olivia, fourth prize, an
electric sewing lamp from Singer
Sewing Machine Co.; and Mrs. TVed
Ray, fifth prize, $5.00 in trade from
the .Sanford Meat Market. ; \
-Liie live paac-wmmiig- -ictiers, se
lected from the many letters that
flooded The Express following.the an
nouncement of the contest, were se
lected after much caye. There Were
So many inevitable letters contributed
by readers of The Express that it was
not without difficulty that the afwards
were made., * #
Winner^ of the awards will be^
given their prizes at the United BanK
& Trust Co. Saturday morning (at 10
o’clock where these articles hav^ been
on exhibit since the beginning of the
contest.
' Below we reproduce the. prize-win
ning letters: , ■
Contest Editor,
Thb Sanford Express* * *
Sanford, N. C. /
Dear Sir:
From time to time"* ever
Oliver’s Store
since
established iir San
ford, I have traded there.
I have found it pleasant toe
there because: ‘ % -
.The. mem
iustdffieir
2. The best of ready-to-wear can be
purchased at this store; also an up
to-date line of merchandise which is
of the very best quality
3. An excellent stock of millinery
is attractively arranged.
4. The prices are always reason
able.
5. The atmosphere of the place is
friendly. 9
Respectfully yours,
Miss Vera McLeod.
Content- Editor,
.Sanford Express,
Sanford, N. C. V
Dear Sir:
There are four reasons why I like
to trade *with Triangle Motor Co.
First, th6ir HONESTY. From the
manager to the most meager em
ployee, honesty is shown in all their
business transactions.
Second, COURTESY. Whether you
enter the front door or the back door
of the shop room you are greeted and
’waited upon with utmost courtesy
and respect.
Third, EFFICIENCY. It is almost
impossible to call for anything in the
line cf a Ford- that they c!o not have.
Fourth, their attractive place of
business. Everything around their
place bespeaks cleanliness and cheer
fulness.
Therefore, attractiveness, efficiency,
courtesy, and honesty combined make
Triangle Motor Co. a desirable place
to trade.
.Mrs. S. H. Rosser.
Dear Editor:
In these few brief words vo” will
find why I trade with Lee Hardware
Co., one of the many business firms
listed in your wide-awake paper.
.1 find them to be reliable in every
way. Their goods are of the best
grade and guaranteed to the purchas- !
er. They carry a' line of goods equal
to any hardware in the .State. !
Why should I order from any mail
order firm when I can buy from a
local dealer as the Lee Hardware ’
Company ?
This firm is owned and controlled |
by Sanford men, highly respectable, j
men who are willing and ready to fill
your needs with a smile.
Respectfully yours,
E. H. Hopper.
Contest Editor,
The Sanford Express,
Sapford, N. C.
Dear Sir:
My foremost reason for trading with
the grocery firm of J. H. Monger is
the Monger brothers themselves.
Theirs is a house by the side of the
road whose foundat’on is not the sole
desire of money-getting. More often
than not I cross their threshold,
moneyless and with no inteilt of pur- |
chase, yet the genuineness of the 1
friendly greeting from any man of (
the place never fluctuates; the atmos- i
phere of real welcome never varies. |
Carefully shown products of honest |
standard, and an attitude of ready ac- .
commodation that begins outside of j
business deals, make one want to go j
to Monger’s.
Sincerely, J
L. M. McDonald. |
D ar Editor:
We have many reasons for appre
ciating our Singer office. The .Singer
is without doubt, the best machine on
the market and you can get all ac
cessories and repair work promptly.
It is pleasant to visit the Singer of
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OLD ST.
JCHUR
TO
MANY
First
ANDREWS
is HOST
esbytery
ef>' -Meets For
With Historic
hutch.
ATTENDANCE
D To Meet With
This ChTir ! In More T han
Years.
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Orange Prcsby n
ing .with St. tt *h
church near-’- j aft
Presbyterian fit p:h
were taken fro' ft
terrify m te
Orange Presby >•■
met on TuesTat#
Thursday a
churches of t..._...
represented, thi i b
a- that
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Rev. C. H.
iefator, of I
ntreductory „
W. N. Baker,
3d moderator J
SC/ Flemming,!
derk. Encourag
many of the
Presbytery,
if the meeting
line visiting
places, who p
“Oxford Gtou..
land. In Arne.
‘First' Century j
00 dele
it.
'[ring mo
. ached the
a an '[ u. day. Rev.
Mubaae. was eloct
this ear. Rev. N.
Mebane, acted as
ig reports came from
inty churches in the
.outstanding feature
ias the presence of
rhers from various
ited the plan of the
as they are in Eng
‘a the name is the
iristian Fellowship.”
i tie n lev e wren e,,
individual perse
gion, with Je
men. Three
phasized, sui
ance—surrendei
receive ip fulli
er; sharing,
personal faih
strength and
guidance, the
the Holy Spit
The addr
made a deep
heard them.,
, Plans were
istic campaign ,
every .church--'
George Tayler,
from Brazil, wl
fn that .conntryi
of hi$ work gfcp
of St, Andre;
organized in j
the pastor, Ri
had oyer ’700
at present
2iS,. v-' •
ut*\ snowed, stressed
'll testimony in reli
speaking through
Sjsare especially em
l6r? sharing and guid
ip Chirst in order to
S God's life and pow
ting known to other
dpi defeats, and of
(.'received in Christ;
61 of constant help by
“ daily life and work,
inspiring and
ssion on those who
for the evangel
ioon to be held in
the Synod. Rev.
returned missionary
has spent ten years
.gave an able picture
Its needs. A history
Church, which was
i. Was presented by
J. S. Cook. It has
(bets on its roll ahe
lenibei'ship number*
Lee Corner, Wh t .served as secretar
-of the Sanford “fiacco Board,
Trade last year, accepted a pos:
tion with -the Smith-Pinmx Tobacc
Warehouse in Reidsmlle this seasoi
Mr. Corner as yet Isjnot making hi
permanent residence.^ Rei Isville an
spends his week-ends here with hi
LATE BULLETIN
World Series Report:
The impertuable Philadel
phia Athletics, led by their
long, lank leader Connie
Mack, swept through the St.
Louis Cardinal defense at
SportmanV Park, St. Louis,
this afternoon for the first
victory of the World Series.
The score was 6 to 2 in favor
of the Athletics.
The Cards took the lead
by scoring two runs in the
first inning but this tempo
rary advantage was over
come by the Athletics in the
third inning when they scor
ed four runs. In the seventh
inning A1 Simmons, left
fielder of the Athletics, hit
a homer allowing “Mickey”
Cochrane, on second, to
score, bringing the total of
Athletic runs up to six. A
long drive by Gelbert, in the
eighth inning, that was la
belled for a home run, was
fraught when A1 Simmons
climbed upon an' oil sign
board and made one of the
most spectacular “catches”
In World Series history.
Derringer, pitching for
the Cards, was relieved by
Johnson at the beginning
of the eighth inning.
The score by innings follows:
Athletics 084 000 200 OHO
Cardinals 200 000 000 2 -12 0
Batteries: Athletics: Grove and
Cochrane; St. Louis: Derringer,
Johnson and Wilson. Strike Outs
Grove, 7; DeiTinger, 9; Johnson,
2. Losing pittner, Porringer.
COTTON FARMERS TO STAGE MEETING
RETRENCHMENT IN j
EDUCATION WRONG
ASERTS TEAGUE
Lawyer Scores Attempt Of Poli
ticians To Curb Education
al Program.
SOUNDS CLARION CALL
Rotary and Kiwanis Clubs Joint
ly Entertain Teachers At
Hotel Wilrik.
The most successful joint meeting
in tb history of the Rotary and Ki
wanis Clubs was.held in the assembly
room of the Wilrik Hotel Tuesday
night in honor of the trustees and
teachers of the? city school. The
gjests included 35 teachers, the board
of trustees and a few ethers. Covers
were laid for about 100 people. Al
though the banquet hall was pretty
well fill d with the banqueters the
dinner was served with dispatch, by
the corps of waiters and waitresses.
The meeting was called to order by
President Fred Strong of the Rotary
Club. In his few Nvords of welcome
he put all in a good humor by his wit
ticism. He introduced President J.
also amused the guests with a few
happy remarks while welcoming- them.
The response was by L. E. Warrick,
on behalf of the board of trustees and
teachers. He convinced all that he
was the man for the job. Superin
tendent George Wheeler introduced
the teachers and Dr. Gilmore the
school board. Dr. Gilmore, who is
always equal to the occasion, told af
the peculiar qualifications and char
acteristics of each member of the
board. He took occasion to speak of
Miss Addie St. ‘Clair as being the
nestor of the Sanford schools. JThis
brought the banqueters to their feet.
The members of the Kiwanis" and
Rotary Clubs introduced themselves.
While dinner Was being served de
lightful music was made bv Mrs. Jim
Holland, James Mclver and Joe Laz
arus.
BRINN IN CHARGE.
The program - of the evening was
turned over to J. E. Brinn, of the Ki
wanis Club. Several amusing stunts
were put on. by , the teachers and
others. A «olo was charmingly render
............
“two hundred yaftf rfasfi
ed by the following four new teach
J ers who were thus given their initia
f tion: Misses Alberta Lamm, Aileei
Turnage, Annie Stroud Mann ant
Flora Cavenaugh. Eeach was giver
3 a spool of thread and told to see win
i. Would be the first to unwind 10(
5 yards of thread from the spool. I
i required only a few minutes to re
‘ move the thread. The following fou:
S members of the Board of trustee:
were told to remove their coats, col
- lars and ties. The following fou^
y^ung la I.cs wc.e then toh. to gt
busy and see who could replace then
in the shortest time: Misses Katheriin
Carte:, Annie M.irn, Sophie Howie
and Inez Loath. Th? job was finishec
almost before these gallant gentle
men had time to smile upon them
This delightful occasion closed witl
two songs: “Let Me Call You Sweet
heart,” and “Good Night Ladies.”
D. B. Teague, local attorney, math
the closing talk of tire evening, am
it was one of the host we have eve
heard him make. He said that tiri:
kind of occasion whore the Owo lea 1
ing service clubs of the community
representing men in all walks of lift
had mot to entertiin and do honoi
to the teachers and educational load
ers of the community was a mos
significant thing and would deliglv
the hearts of Charles B. Aycock. Dr
Charles D. Mclver, Walter Hines
Page and those other great pioneer:
of education of the last generation
He also suit! it was a most uplifting
and heartening thing to all of the liv
ing to behold this sustain I .interest
in' education, which is nothing less
than a living faith that the nrosW;™
portant thing in the world is our chil
dren anti youth.
NO TIME TO RETRENCH
i r m__ _.1^ o WP
do not in this community or in this
state turn our backs on education. He
pointed out that there seems to have
arisen a widespread tendency to ques
t on the value of education and to put
' education on the defensive. He
thought the talk about the cost ot
education had been out of proportion
to the cost of our private budgets and
oth£r public expenditures. Ho agreed
that the cost of education ought to
be reduced to the lowest possible mira
' mum consistent with sound values,
that we ought to have economy in
every possible way. But he insisted
.'that'the quality of education, like
everything else, has a direct relation
to the amount paid for it, and he di
not think the education of the children
and their whole future in life ‘which
is dependent on it should be singled
out as the first and chief place to cut
down. You have not heard, he said
so much talk about the cost of oui
highways and the salaries of higt
public officials and new commissions
i and boards and onf of the candidate:
1 for Governor has pointed out that thi
last session of the Legislature cos
■ four times as much for its assistant
and incidentals as a session did 2<
years ago. He insisted that ^ v,
should cut out public and privat
luxuries before we cut the life out o
j the future education of the boys an.
' girls Ilf North Carolina.
| He made a strong appeal to ! thos
■ of this community to hear the eloqu
I ent voice of Dr. Charles D. Mclvei
1 whose boyhood home is only thre
miles away, and the appealing cry o
Walter Hines Page whose sacred ashe
rest in this very soil, calling on u
to remember the boys and girls an.
the “Forgotten Man’’ before we tur
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COTTON LOWEST IT HAS
BEEN IN FORTY YEARS
The Sanford cotton mar
ket has dropped under & j
cents during the last few
days. This is the lowest
price that Cotton has j
brought in Sanford in more i
than 40 years. Many of the
farmers in this section say
they are not going to sell at '
th^it price if holding will
advance the market. Hun
dreds of bales have been
trucked through Sanford
within the past few days
which snows that it is being
marketed in other places.
Some of the citizens of San
ford talk of buying cotton
and holding it for higher
prices.
COURT OFFICERS
ADJOURN TO FARM
TO GET EVIDENCE
Amos Palmer Case Is Resumed
By Lee Court; Corpus De
licti Proceedings.
LAWLESS HARVEST FODDER
Prohibition Violators Again Be
come Customers Of Lee
Court of Justice.
* The Amos Palmer case was resum
ed in Recorder’s Court Tuesday. This
case was started the latter part of
August but due to conflicting state
ments in the testimony of witnesses
regarding the locations from which
Palmer was alleged to have taken
crossties and saw stock, a viewing of
the corpus delicti was ordered by
the court. Palmer, a colored* man,
living on the outskirts of .Sanford, is
under indictment cn three charges of
trespassing on the property ot near
relatives. He is accused l ' his two
brothers and a brother-in-1 ' ot cut
ting several'crossties an<. a large
quantity of saw stock t.r their
Tuesday afternoon, Judge McPher
son, Solicitor Hoyle, attorneys and
witnesses in the case went to the
Palmer farm where theyi looked over
' farm.
I The defendant, in his a?'
fore the Court in August
his innocence of the char,
tended that the timber 1
him was from the dower
the estate and from a po.
property held for the heirs
anee be
tained
d con
d by
of the
the de
cease* 1 brother. At that h<aring a
daughter of the deceased brother ap
peared as a witness foT her uncle
Amos.
The case has been further continued
in order that the court may appraise
the different angles of the case as
contended by the opposing- princi
pals.
The larceny of a gallon of paint
from the Bobby Burns Service Sta
tion by George Gilmore, colored, re
sulted in a ninety-day sentence at the
0< unt*y Home Tuesday for the defend
ant. Gilmore was found walking
a!<*nu- the highway at an unusual hour
<*f night, with a gallon of paint, by
SheiiiT Rives He told conflicting
-torus about where ho got the paint
which a routed the Sheriff’s susp'cions,
hauling to the defendants’ arrest.
Because he was found with a pint of
whiskey in his possession* Willie Mar
tin, colored, was unable to pay the
costs set by Judge McPherson and
will help in the “fodder pulling” at
the county home for thirty days.
Although he went on the witness
stand in his own defense and contend
er I that an overall jumper, the theft
of which he was charged, was purch
ased in Greensboro, the evidence of
Bill Farmer, colored, wras too strong
and he was given ninety ^days on the
roads. He was charg 'd with stealing
the jumper from another colored man.
John Smith, colored, charged with
carrying a concealed weapon, paid the
cost and prayer for judgment was
continued.
A. J. .Schmule, young tourist from
Pennsylvania, was tried on a charge
of,looting gasoline from a car sta
tioned near the Wilrik Hotel Satur
day night. Schmule, against whom
the evidence was very pointed, was
found guilty. He was fined $25 and
given ninety days on the roads, the
sentence to be suspended on payment
of the costs.
James Reaves, colored, pleaded
guiltv to having one pint of whiskey
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WILL CONSIDER
CURTAILMENT OF
COTTON ACREAGE
Lee Cotton Fanners Favor Re
duction But Endorsement
By Law Improbable.
OPINION DIFFERS HERE
Whether to endorse steps
leading to a curtailment of cot
ton acreage by legislative pro
cess is a matter to which Lee
County cotton farmers are invit
ed to give attention in a mass
meeting to be held in the Town
Hall Saturday at 2:30 p. m.
List Thursday’s meeting, which was
to have been given over for the same
purpose, proved to be a decidedly luke
warm and tame affair, a mere hand
ful of farmers showing* up for- the
meet. This attitude, however, was
believed accountable to the short no
tice of the meeting.
There is no doubt of*the sentiment
of the people of I^ee County. The peo
ple are heartily in favor of a cut in
acreage. While cotton is by no means
the chief dependence of the farmers
of this section, those who planted it
this year, found that the proceeds
would not meet the cost of produc
tion. From opinions ascertained from
leading cotton farmers of the county,
it appears evident that there will be
a substantial decrease in cotton acre
age in Lee next spring whether or not
the curtailment is authorized by the
legislature.
As to what methods to follow in
the reduction of acreage, there is a
Wide divergence of opinion here;
many, however, believe as does Sena
tor Josiah Bailey, that such a step
by legislation would be dangerous
and undemocratic and would lead to
“Moscow and to Rcfne.”
Saturday's meeting, however, is ex
nected to bring out the sentiment of
Lee cotton growers and they may de
cide whether to follow Governor
Long's plan and make the curtail- .
ment by law or by some of the saner
methods as suggested by Governor
Sterling of Texas and Governor O.
Max Gardner of North Carolina.
A. K. Miller, secretary .of the locals
Merchants Association, will preside
Over the meeting.
EXPLAINS ORIGIN
^.QF McIVER FAMILY
Writer Tells Of Derivation Of
Name Born By Famous
Lee County Family.
(By D .It. Jlclvci.)
The i.Ielwr m-'a-'s <‘f
TnrnjrviT'vl Iv'vp*1. In Virginia
it was spoiled Ivor, Co instead of e) .10
L the name Flora Mclvor in Scott’s
“Wavorly” novel. •
The late James A. I .reach, of Itich
Picrc!. Va . < xpert genealogist, traced
ancestors of his, mine, Mrs. John L.
Currie, Hon. J. Alton Mclver and oth
ers back to 1712. in Scotland, to Ken
neth Mclver. His son, Evander, was
the father of John Bann Mclver, ^r.,
who married Nancy McDonald, a rela
tive of thp famous Scottish heroine,
Flora MacDonald, 'who lived about
1721 to 1791, part of the time in North
America. As was recently stated in,
The Express she saved the life of
“Bonnie Prince Charlie.”
Nancy MacDonald Mclver died in
1797, aged 49 years, and her husband,
John Bann Mclver, lived much long
er. About 1797 or 1800, their three
sens, “Hatter” Duncan , my grandfath
er, and his brother, John aBnn Mc
Jver, .Jr., son of Mrs. Hugh Leach,
grandfather of Mrs. Maggie Lashley,
and Evander Mclver, father of Dr.
John Mclver, Hon. J. Alton’s father,
Settled in Moore county, net far from
Jonesboro, 1 think. Later, Duncan
Mclver bought the Dickinson place on
Governor’s Creek, eastern part of
Carthage township. In selling a
wagon load of hats he manufactured,
he met M.ss Eflfv? McNair, in the Pee
Doe section of South Carolina. They
were married in 1804. The first
child born was Nancy, March, 1905.
She married “Blacksmith” Neill Mc
Leod, near their home, and their
daughter married John Underwood,
near Carbonton. Their son. Daniel,
was the father of Edgar M. Under
wood. The Dr. Charles Duncan Mc
lver family was related to this
branch. His mother was a Harring
ton.
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I Dan C. Boney, .State Commissioner
of Insurance, last week granted 62
persons licenses to sell insurance in
North Carolina. Hurley Johnson, of
Sanford, was among the number.
11 BARNS OF TOBACCO, PACKHOUSE
IS DESTROYED IN MORNING BLAZE
i
I
] Only the smouldering ruins
j were left today to tell the
; | story of an unconquerable
)1 blaze that totally wiped out a
.1 two story building' and its
;! contents of eleven barns of
j , prize bright leaf tobacco at
j Olivia. ,
.! The fire was discovered at
-1 eight o’clock this morning but
> not until it was1 too late to
ri save the building, which is
^! said to have been partially
s I covered by insurance, belong
1 ed to Roy Blackwell, promin
1 ent farmer of the Olivia sec
tion.
1
As the angry blaze hungrily
ate its way through the struc
ture a crowd gathered at the
scene but stood helpless before
the ungovernable fire.
Though the origin of the
fire is unknown a theory was
advanced that it may have
originated about the top of
the building.
The Express was not able
to learn the approximate
amount of the loss but it is
believed at the prevailing price
of tobacco the damage sus
tained in leaf must have
been at least $1,000.