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A RANDOLPH COUNTY PAPER JFOR RANDOLPH COUNTY PEOPLE.
VOL. 5, "NO.
30- ASHEBORO, N. C.J JANUARY 20, 1910. ONE DOLLAR A YEAR.
Public School Librs
New Libraries Being EstaMisft&L
Lisi of Present Libraries.
The County Superintendent of
Schools has just made requisi
tion upon the State Departmet
of Education for the State's part
in the establishment of rural
libraries, for the following dis
trict:. Districts No. 6 of Cole
ridge, known as Parks Cross
Roads, and No. 5 of New Market,
known as Level Cross, for origi
nal libraries of $30.00 each; Dis
tricts No. 4 of New Hope and
No. 1 of New Market for sup
plementary libraries of $15.00
each. For original libraries the
local district must raise $10.00
and the county and State dupli
cate this amount. For supple
mentary libraries the district
raises $5.00 and this amount is
duplicated by the county and
State.
Randolph now has" 36 rural
libraries as follows: Ramseur,
Franklinville, Cedar Falls, Ran
dleman, New Salem, Hopewell,
Providence, Why Not, Glenola,
Flint Hill, Liberty, Asheboro,
Brower's Chapel, Bombay, Mt.
Olivet, Central Falls, Worthville,
Staley, Melanchton, Marlboro,
Caraway, Farmer, Piainfield-,
Millboro, Julian, Shiloli, Cole
ridge, Union, Piney Grove
Pleasant Hill, Cedar Square,
Trinity, Archctale, Park's Cross
Roads, Level Cross, Asheboro,
Col. These libraries have been
supplemented since their estab
lishment as follows: Randleman,
$15.00; Franklinville $15.00;
Ramseur $15:00; Providence
$15.00; Why Not 530.00; Glenola
$30.00; Staley $15.00; Marlboro
$15.00; Caraway $15.00; Farmer
$15.00; Julian $15.00; Bombay
$15.00; Trinity $15.00; Asheboro,
Col. $15.00.
Several applications for librar
ies will soon be reported. The
children of the county are look
ing for better things to read.
This is an indication of a healthy
sentiment among the people'.
AFTER PIE-CRUMBS.
In speaking of the census in
Wake County, the News and
Observer says:
"There is some Federal
pie to be divided around in
Wake County, which with
other counties in the State, (
is to undergo the throes of
getting into the census re
port. But the pie is of such
a small size, and there are so
many to claim a part of it,
that it will be crumbs of pie
crust that will be the portion of
winners in the contest to be cen
sus enumerators."
-Yes there are a good many
candidates for the positions, but
the News and Observer probably
didn't know that half of the
candidates are Democrats. Think
of it! Democrats begging for
Republican pie crumbs! And
some of them have become so
gentle that they are actually
willing to come up and eat the
crumbs from the hand. Cau
casian. The Farm The Best Place.
An exchange says:
"Young man, if you want to be
contented and happy, stay on the
farm, but of course make the
farm better each year by improv
ing it. Improved machipery
and agricultural education will
help to make everything pleasant
and profitable on the farm, and
if you cannot succeed as a farm
er, you will be apt to be a failure
at any other calling you may take
upv"
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BOYS CORK MB.
To the Editor:
As has already been announced,
the Board of Agriculture at it 5
December meeting appropriated
$500 for premiums, to Boys' Corn
Club contestants The contest
ants are to be between the ages
of 12 and 17 years. Any boy be
coming 12 years old by June first
will be eligible, and any boy who
is now 17 but will be 18 not later
than August first will be eligible
to enter the contest. The rules
governing the contest will be
about as they were last year, ex-
cept that any boy
will
be per-
mitted to get any person to break
his land for him. I do this be
cause the younger boys are not
heavy enough to handle a large
two-horse plow in heavy land,
but after the land s broken each
boy must do the remainder of
the work himself. If it is known
that any boy permits another
person to do the work or to help
in the work after the land is
broken until all cultivation is
finished, he will be ruled out of
the contest. Only $10 worth of
commercial fertilizers may be
used on each acre. The plat of
land must be a full acre. Less
than an acre will not be consider
ed.. The plat of land must not
be less than a half acre in width.
Square plats are preferred. Only
boys living on the farm can corn
pete for these prizes. The plat
bf land .must be a part of &ome
Regular field in the farm, and not
a garden spot, a town lot, or a
J.) la1
belonging to some city or
corporation. The contest
ant may use all the home raised
njanure lie can get. -Cotton
seed, cotton-seed meal, city
garbage, fish or fish scrap will
be considered
fertilizers.
The State has
to ten districts,
commercial
seen divided in
as per below,
and prizes aggregating $50 will
be given to the winners in each
district. First prize, $25; second
prize, $15: third prize, $10. I
shall ask the County Superin
tendents of Public instruction to
co-operate with me in this work,
so as to get the most boys possi
ble to ' enter the contest. The
average yield made by the boys
in this State last year was 57
bushels per acre. With a record
like that every enterprising
citizen should encourage the
movement. The boy who suc
ceeds in growing a large crop of
corn stands a good show of de
veloping into a man who will
also grow large crops. We want
a hundred or more boys in each
county to enter the contest. Ap
plication blanks and other litera
ture will be ready in a few weeks,
hut the bovs can begin work
now and send in their applica
tions later. Blanks, etc. , will be
sent to the Superintendent of
Public Instruction in each coun
ty, or direct to boys applying
for them. Mr. I. O. Schaub, of
the A. and M. College, is co
operating with me in the Boys'
Corn Clubs, and between us we
hope to visit Boys' Corn Club
meetings in quite a number of
counties in the "State. Letters
of enquiry or for application
blanks should be addressed to
the undersigned.
T. B. PARKER, Demonstrator,
Raleigh, N. C.
The long indoor life of winter
makes the blood weak, the
system easily catches cold and
disease. Hollister's Rocky Moun
tain Tea is the greatest winter
remedy; prevents colds and di
sease; keeps you well all winter.
35 cents, Tea or Tablets.
Simspon's Drug Store.
WssbiDQton Letter.
(From oar regular correspondent)
Washington, D. C. January
IV, 1910.
President Taft has mapped out
a programme for Congress that
is well calculated to keep our
Solons busv the rest of the
session.
t a -t m r .
rresiaent rait nr
oposed to
amend the laws for (regulating
corporations and for k new law
to establish postal savings banks
for the benefit of tp people,
which he promised ip his cam
paign, and also alawtyb authorize
the establishment of post parcel
deliveries which will enable the
Post-office to underbid the ex
orbitant charges mde by the
various express complies. The
way the Congressmen . and Sena
tors are hearing frqfn their con
stituents on these reforms indi
cates that the public is alive to
the necessity for sifch measures
and that these laws vill be pass
ed, as recommended py President
Taft, in his recent messages.
INCOME TAX.
Congress has -amended the
Constitution of the pnited States,
so as to provide for an income
tax, and it is now up to the
States to ratify tat amendment,
which becomes a part of our
Constitution as jNoon as it shall
have been ratified by three
fourths of the Stes. The cor
porations and capitalists of the
country are doing'- their utmost
to influence the, legislatures of
the various States"' against this
amendment.
However, it is Relieved that
the amendment wift-be'Tatinetrftne
by practically all of the States.
BE GOOD TO YOUR CARRIER AND -
Don't detain your carrier by
asking him to wait until you ad
dress or write a card or letter.
Don't blame the carrier if
there are changes made in route.
Don't ask your carrier to carry
notes to your neighbors to avoid
paying postage.
Don't ask your carrier, to let
you ride with him.
Don't put up any old box on
your mail route.
Do all ou can to help your
carrier along on his route
Do write your letters and cards
before your carrier is due; you
have 24 hours before he comes
again.
Do buy a supply of stamps
and other supply; they will keep;
cost no more; in fact, stamped
envelopes come cheaper.
Do stamp everything that is
mailable that you place in mail
boxes, as at the postoffice.
Do get a good box; put it up in
good shape in a convenient place
for the carrier to drive up to.
Eben Cagte Sentenced.
Eben Cagle , who for a long
time has been charged with
violating the Internal Revenue
laws and about whom so much
has been said has at last through
his attorneys, W. M. Kelly and
J. Ruse Blair in the Federal
court at Raleigh this week, plead
ed guilty to all the charges
against him and received a term
in the U. S. prison of one year
at Atlanta, Ga.
Arrangements were also effect
ed by which his brother Pearl
.Cagle will leave all of his troubles
behind him.
The boys say that they are
glad to get their matters so that
they can reform, and a3 soon as
they have their troubles behind
them they intend to make good
citizens. Rockingham Post.
E. L. Auman was a -business
visitor in the city Tuesday.
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Teachers' Meeting at Trinity Last
Saturday.
What proved to be one of the
best district meetings of the
series of teachers' meetings now
being held in various parts of
the councy was held at Trinity
last Saturday, Jan. 15, for the
teachers in the northwestern
district. The attendance was
good, and unusual interest was
shown by all present. The teach
ers of Trinity and New Market
townships are alive to the best
things in the school work, and
they are using every means
available to do better than be
fore. Investigation revealed the
fact that practically eery school
in those two townships is grad
ed, the teacher is in the Reading
Circle, and all teachers, with
barely cue exception use the
system of individual reports
recommended by the County
Board of Education.
Two features of the. meeting
at Trinity, were noticeable.'
The first was the discussion of
thevxecitation, led by Dr. Ste
phen B. Weeks. In addition to
this discussion Dr. Weeks con
ducted a model recitation in
North Carolina History. The
second feature of the occassion
was the luncheon served by the
ladies of the Worn an s Better
ment Association to the teach
ers. The women of this Asso
ciation are to be commended for
their interest in the work, and
their fine spirit of co-operation.
Such efforts as this are of great
value to the teachers and also
help to keep the work .before
e. One of
the"
4t
chief
features of the various meetings
this year has been the social
feature, but it reached the cli
max in the entertainment last
Saturday.
The schools of the northwestern
district will make good reports
as long as they run. It should
be remembered that practically
all this territory is under local
tax.
WILL INVESTIGATE.
Whatever else may be said in,,
praise of Secretary Wilson, of the
Department of Agriculture, there
can be no greater or truer
encomium of the veteran agri
culturist than that he is, first of
all, a friend of the farmer and
of the workingman..
Under his instructions his de
partment has taken up an in
vestigation, in all the states of
the LTnion, of the present exorbi
tantly high prices of foodstuffs.
The secretary announces that al
ready it has been discovered that
the unusual retail prices of meat
are not redounding to the finan
cial benefit of its producers, the
farmer and the ranchman. The
secretary says that he has no
doubt in the world that the same
conditions will be found to pre
vail in most of the other lines of
farm products. ,
He says also that into the pro
duction of all food necessities he
proposes to conduct inquires to
decide whether' there is any real
basis for the high prices demand
ed and to make public irrespec
tive of whom it hurts or whom
it benefits, the' results of these
in vestig ation s. He declares that
the public is compelled to pay a
great deal more for nearly every
thing it eats than it should, and
that he believes his investi
gations will bear this out. In
this determination Secretary
Wilson will win for himself the
full measure of approbation.
Philadelphia Press.
Agricultural Day In Asheboro, Sat
urday, January 29.
Seed Corn Day and Boys' and Girls' Clubs.
The farmers of Randolph Coun
ty are urged to spend Saturday,
January 29 in Asheboro where a
special meeting for their benefit
will be held in the Court House.
Representatives of the United
States Department of Agricul
ture and of the North Carolina
Agricultural Department will be
present and deliver addresses.
Mr.. C. R. Hudson, Farm De
monstrator for North Carolina,
will discuss the question of seed
corn and conduct a test for seed
corn. All farmers interested
should bring several ears of corn
in order to show the test
thoroughly.
Mr. I. O. Schaub, in charge of
the extension work of Agricul
tural and Mechanical College will
discuss Boys' and Girls' Clubs.
Randolph County should have 300
boys in the corn contest this year,
and now is the time to get the
work started. All thex boys and
girls in the county are invited
to be present.
Prizes will be given for the
best ears of seed corn. A prize
of $2.50 will be the first, and
there will be others. Let the
farmers and their wives and the
bbys and girls come and spend
the day in Asheboro. Every one
attending will learn things of
lasting value.
IN MEMORY OF MRS. H MMOND.
Miss Rebecca Hammond died
Sunday Jan j 9th, and was laid
to resfcjn.,iheKcsmtGr,5r.at Pisgah,
luesaay iitn nev.. mwood -uoxv
conducting the funeral services.
She was 79 yearss of age; she
professed religion and joined the
M. E. church when young and
lived in that faith until her
death. She had been in declin
ing health for many years but
bore her suffering with perfect
patience.
She was the widow of the late
Samuel Hammond.
She leaves three sisters, three
children and four grand children
and a host of friends to mourn
their loss but we know our
loss is her eternal gain.
She has gone to see her Savior,
To sing his praises in heaven's dome,
She has crossed the River Jordan,
She's gone to her heavenly home.
She is free from every, trial,
Her body sleeps in the old church
yard,
She is free from self denial, and has
gone to her reward.
We miss her oh so sadly,
Our hearts with grief are sore,
f But one day we hope to meet her,
On that bright happy shore.
Lord we pray to bless her children,
For their sorrow seems so great,
They will one day meet with mother
Waiting at the pearly gate.
Ye mourning friends in sad distress,
. Remember Jesus knows the best,
Some day we'll reach the happy shore,
Where parting hands are known no
more.
Cornelia freeman,
Ulah, N. C.
DEATH OF J AS. LOWE.
After a short illness of typhoid
pneumonia, James Lowe died at
his home near High Point, Jan.
12th, and was buried the follow
ing day in Springfield cemetery,
Rev En os Harvey conducting
the funeral services.
Mr. Lowe was nearing his 65th
year and until lour years ago s
was an Honored citizen oi Kan-
dolph county, residing on Lack
Creek in Cedar Grove township,
He is survived by his wiuovv one
son George Lowe and five daugh
ters, Mrs. J. C. Kearns, of Cara
way, Mrs. M. Smith of Burling
ton, Mrs. D. H. Parsons, of
High Point, and Misses Carrie
and Lena Lowe of High Point,
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Two Runaway Boys.
Irvin Graver, age 18 and Frank
Anderson age 11 years, got a
notion into their heads Monday
that they would like to see more
of this big, wide world and forth
with proceeded to 4 'walk it' ' in
the direction of Greensboro as a
starter. Reaching thre they
wTere so tired that it was decided
to spend- the night. But theie
journey was cut short because.;
the parents Of the tWo young-
ers got Dusy ana feiegraphed
! to ureensooro. in a? short, whiu
an officer had the boys in his
custody. Mr. Anderson went-
clown on No. 38 and broucht th
sleepy youngsters back on 29
a pair of tired, , disgusted boys
who were only too glad to set
back home. Perhaps after all it
was a fine lesson for thpm
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