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VOL. XXXVI
ASHEBORO, N. C, JUNE 15, 1911
No. 24:
STOP BREEDING
THE HOUSE FLY
70 at the Root of the
Trouble
lOW TO POISON THE PESTS
jlouse Flies Do Not Usually Fly
Over a Few Hundred Yards from
Their Breeding Places, and It is
Therefore Not Impossible to Do
Away with Them
There are several species of
flies which are commonly found
iirt Vinnaoa Hnfc nvpr ninpfv-fivo
Der cent are the true house flies,
wnicn are not capaDie oi Dicing.
Another fly which is hard to dis
Hnm-noVi from fhft Hinnsp flv flnrl
Wten found in houses is capable
sot biting -like tne norse flies.
This one is known by the name,
stable fly. There are also sever
al greenish or bluish flies occa
sionally found in houses, and it is
with all of these that we have to
deal in attempting to mitigate
the flv nuisance.
The life history of the common
house-fly which does not differ
materially from that of other
Liflies is essentially as follows:
ft The eggs are laid on both
H horse and cow manure, from
which fully ninety-five per cent
U of all flies have been proved to
originate. Eggs are also placed
on all kinds of refuse such as
orarbacre piles, decaying food,
seats or any men. line eggs
hatch in from one to twenty-four
hours into smalL active white
maggots.
I The maggot stage lasts only
five days in warm weather. When
'grown the maggots are about one
third inch long, pointed at the
head and auite blunt at the other
2nd. The maggot changes to a
dish brown pupa stage from
wnicn tne aauit ny eventually
emerges.
The pupa stage lasts nve days
in hot weather. Thus, it is seen
that the complete life cycle from
!egg to adult may be completed in
vcu w eievcu uajro.
The generations during the
summer may number fifteen or
more.
Each house-fly lays about one
hundred and twenty eggs and the
progeny from one individual at
the end of the fifth generation
would, therefore, number over
ten million, counting only one
hundred eggs as an average.
There is only one real good
method of lessening the number
of house-flies, and that is to do
away with the breeding places or
prevent flies from breeding as
hey would without hindrance
tf any things have been tried to
till -house-fly maggots in ma
ture. Chloride of lime is fairly
successful when used in large
Quantities, but it is impracticable
to follow this method under or-
ainary conditions. The Dest
hing, therefore, is to have the
stable manure hauled out and
pread in the field at least xmce a
eek- In this way the maggots
e killed and practically none
ave time to mature and those
hat mature in the 'field do not
often return to the houses.
House-flies do not usually fly
over a few hundred yards from
their breeding places, so that.it
feeems practicable, by united ef-
ort on the part ot those inter
isted, to do away with most of
he house-flies in any commun-
There are several successful
ly poisons that can be bought in
kny 'community '.and we have
loarnofl simta ropontlff that. fnrm.
ildehyde is one of .the best and
:heapest poisons that can be us
;L This costs about fifty cents
i pint and one tablespoonf ul m
It cup ful, one half milk and one
naif water is tall that is necces
jary, ;and should be exposed in
mallow plates. It is well to put
l piece of bread, in the plate,
rhis poison is most successful if
ised in places where flies are
ery, numerous, such as milk
rooms, back porches where re-
"-e is placed, or around the
hens.
1 hen attempting to poison
x is best to use the poisons
of the building as well as
Flies can often be poi-,
y the hundred on porches'
StiORT ITEMS OF NEWS
Caroline Alston, a negro woman
said to be 105 years of age, died in
uaieigh one day last week.
' Durham county is preparing to
buna a new courthouse at a cost of
about $250,000.
The first bale of cotton this
season sold on the Houston,
Texas, market last Monday for
$1,015.
About ten thousand gallons of
booze were seized in a store room
on Main Street, Hendersonville,
last Monday.
H. W. Mortague, who killed J.
B. Kobertson in Wake county last
week, has been held under a $2,000
bond on a charge of manslaughter.
According to the June crop report
of the United States Department of
Agriculture, this year s wheat crop
will be the greatest ever produced.
At the coming session of the
Georgia Legislature, the city of At
lanta will ask -for a new charter and
the creation of a form of commission
government.
Severe electrical storms in New
York last Saturday and Sunday
nights caused five deaths and loss of
property worth a million dollars.
All weather records since July
1A02, were smashed in Raleigh last
Sunday, when the thermometer
registered 100 degrees.
More than four hundred delegates
are attending the Southern con
ference of the Y, W. G. A. in Ashe
ville this week.
The dispute between the Southern
Railway Company and its firemen,
which has been in mediation for
about two weeks, was satisfactonily
adjusted last Saturday. .
On last Monday morning, fire al
most wiped out the i business section
of the town of Apex, causing a loss
of about $40,000, with only about
pi, 090 insurance,
. On last Monday night, the Sen
ate by a vote of -64 to 24 passed the
resolution amending the oonstitu
tion to provide for election of sena-
tors vy direct popular vote.
A severe wind, rain, hail and
electrical storm swent over eastern
Virginia around " Hampton Roads
last Monday killing fifteen persons
and damaging property to the amount
of about 1100,000.
On last Saturday evening while
two brothers named Inscore were
driving home from Mt Airy, they
were hred on from ambush and
one of them killed. Suspicion
points to a man named Lynch
While trying to board a fast
freight train to- go to the fire at
Apex, his borne town, last Monday,
Graham Herring, an operator at
New Hill, was caught under the
train and dangerously injured.
The trustees of the proposed
North Carolina school for the feeble
minded will meet in KiDston June
22, and definitely settle the location
of thi institution. Many cities and
towns in all parts of the State are
striving to secure the institution.
Mr. Shelly O. Cameron, son of
Mr. and Mrs. D. 11. Uameron, died
in Richmond, Va., on Sunday, June
4th. He was a most excellent young
man. His remains were brought to
Liberty Tuesday of last week for in
terment. He lived at St. Paul, N.
CJwbere he was engaged in railroad
ing, rar several years ne naa oeen
a train dispatcher and railroad agent.
Exiles in New Orleans from the
different Central American republics
ate said to be preparing for the most
stupendous upheaval in the history
of these turbulent little countries.
Unless Uncle Sam steps in and spoils
the game, the entire strip of land
from Mexico to Panama, with the
possible exception of Costa Rica, will
probably be the scene of violent
revolution within the next six
months. '
where they are waiting to enter
whenever the door is opened.
We will never succeed in great
ly lessening the house-fly nui
sance by simply poisoning or
trapping the flies, but whenever
people become interested enough
to prevent flies breeding they
will find that a little additional
work toward killing off the flies
bv the use of rwisons. sticky, fly
papers, traps, etc., will be well
worth theltrouble.
R. I. SMITH, Entomologist,
N. C. Experiment Station, West
Raleigh, in Neir: t Observer.
Advantages of the South to Be
Shown.
In accordance with their policy of
attracting the attention of the outside
world to the manifold advantages of
the South, the Southern Railway
and allied lines have arranged to
make a comprehensive exhibit at the
American Land and Irrigation Ex
position to be held in Madison
Square Garden, New York City, No
vember 3 to 12.
The material used in making this
exhibit will be drawn from all parts
of the South.
This Exposition will be visited by
tnousanas of just the class of peo.
pie it is desirable should become cit,
Wins of the South. The exhibit
will be a splendid advertisement for
the section.
Invitation is extended to farmers
throughout the South to make indi
vidual exhibits and compete for the
attractive prizes to be offered, which
include a $1,000 cup for the beB
short staple cotton, $500 in gold
tor the best twenty-five boxes of ap
pies, $1,000 cup for the best thirty
ears of corn, and $1,000 prizes for
alfalfa, potatoes, wheat and oats.
Any farmer interested who wi!
addressM. V. Richards, Land and
Industrial Agent. Washington, D
O., will be afforded all possible aid
ana information.
If He Buys Real Estate, It Will Be
in The South.
Ralph A. Parleir, formerly of
ljenoir, . u., writes from .Everett,
Wash, as follows
"Taxes are extremely high here,
and if 1 get in shape to buy a farm,
it will be in the South. I think
Mr. Bacon, of Seattle, is exactly
right about people making a mistake
coming here from the South. As
be save, the 'land sharks' first sell
you land at from $100 to $500 an
acre and then it costs from $150 to
$300 an acre to put it in shape
only a few things, such as potatoes,
turnips, berries and garden truck.
Wheat raised here is not used for
flOtnc,. bat for. stock feed. The
potatoes we have here' are! not as
good as those raised in the South.
People who buy land should buy in
the South where everything that
grows can be raised"
Oxford Singing Glass to be .at
Liberty
The Oxford Orphanage Singing
Class will give a concert in the
Graded School Auditorium on the
night of June 24 at 8:30 o'clock.
The cause of the orphanage
properly appeals to the people of the
state.
The program this year, it is un
derstood, is fully up to the high
standard of excellence of former
concerts by the class.'
Large Wheat Crop in Randolph
The wheat crop in Randolph is
the t best in years. he saying is.
a dry May for a good wheat crop. As
a rule a dry May causes a poor yield
of oats. Some three years ago, we
believe it-was, the month of May
was so dry the wheat crop was cut
short.
This year May has been rather
too dry, and in some instances on
poor land, wheat is too short, but
the head is well filled.
Randolph has for nearly twenty
years produced moie wheat than any
county in the State and will keep up
its reoord this year to a higher
standard than heretofore. The
Courier wants to get all threshers to
make reports of the wheat, oats and
barley threshed.
Influence of Advertising.
It was a newspaper advertisement
in sixty-one papers of the weBt that
changed congressional sentiment
over night and resulted in a defi
nite choice by the national legisla
tors of San Franc:s30 over New
Orleans as the place for the Panama
Exposition in 1915. !
"It is doubtful if there is on re
cord a more trenchant and power-
compelling advertisement than this."
writes is. (J. .Lambert, in ranters
Ink, "which, although sent by tele
graph at a late stage in the fight,
awoke the united fighting spirit of
the west, and created a tidal wave
of over 100,000 letters and telegrams
that surged in upon Washington,
swamped its telegraphic facilities
and reversed the action of the com
mittee on industrial arts and exposi
tion, which had reported favorably
to New Orleans, nine to Bit." .
Thousands Are Going Bade to The
Southern States.
8partanburg, S. C, June 8.
Newspapers all over the South are
printing letters from Sonthern peo
ple in the West and Northwest which
tell of thousands who are coming
back to the South. The secretary
of the "Back Home" Association,
W. D. Roberts, Johnson City, Tenn.,
had been for several months gather
ing the addresses of people who
have gone west. He says inquiries
for farm lands and for rates are
coming at the rate of fifty a day,
most of them from former Sonthern
people. Many of them, he say?, re
quest that information be given to
their friends in various sections of
the West.
Thousands of individuals and
ooarus ot trade in the South are
working in this "Back Home" move
ment. Hi very mail to the West car
ries nunareus or letters and pieces
ot literature which set forth the ad
vantages of this country and a di
rect personal appeal to its natives to
come back to their own home states
Even the women are at work; moth
ers are writing to their children and
sisters to their brothers, all telling
of the great development of the
ooutn.
On the first of July the "Bach
Home" Association will begin pub.
lishing an organ for circulation
Btnong the millions of Southerners
in other stas. It will be called
toe "Back Home" Magazine. An
announcement of it sent to the West
has brought a great many req lests
tor copies.
An eathquake shock in Mexico
City one day last week killed about
two hundred persons, buried seven'
ty soldiers in the ruins of their
quarters and did considerable dam-
ago to property.
One day last week, officers of the
law in Asheville seized 22 barrels of
intoxicants and with the aid of W.
0. T. U. workers broke all the bot
tles and consigned the contents to
the waters of top Frenoh Broad. -
The daughter of Mr. Dana Pat
terson, railroad yard master at
Greensboro, died recently and was
buried at Liborty, where the family
xormeriy uvea.
The long drought in the sand
hills was broken one night last week
by a heavy rain, which flcoded two
buildings at Hamlet causing a car
ioaa or lime to take fire and doing
oonsiueraoie uamage.
Hubert Morris, the 22 year old
son of Contractor I. 0. Morris, of
Greensboro, and a friend were drown
ed in the Neuse River near New
Bern while on an excursion trip
iass ounaay.
an unanown wnite man. appar
ently about 30 years of- age, well
aressea, bearing the marks of re.
nnement,! nis address given on a
card as Laurens, South Carolina, was
killed by a train near King's Moun
tain, last Sunday.
The Randleman Mills
The cotton mills known as the
Randleman mill, the Plaid mill and
Mary Antionette, belonging to the
itandleman manufacturing com
pny and the mill incomorated
under the name of the Naomi Man
ufacturing Company have all been
Bold in the bankruptcy proceeding
ana purchased by Messrs. J. u.
Watkins, of Greensboro, and H. G.
Chatham, of Elkiu, and J. E. Gil
mer, ot Winston-balem, who have
incorporated the property so acquir
ed under the name of the Deep
Kiver Aims.
xne tature plana of the new
owners of the mills are not known,
but it has been definitely stated that
additions will be made to the ma
chinery in the mills will be iicreas-
ed and the output greatly increased.
V. Watkius has been made Presi
dent of the Deep River Manufactur
ing Company.
Rumor cf Confession.
Reports are that Pinkerton de
tectives have almost solved the mys
tery of the Jamestown tragedy; and
according to thesa reporis, Mrs.
Hill was undoubtedly a victim of
the murderer and not a suicide as
many have thought. Of course, the
detectives refuse to make any state
ment but rumor has it that a Ron
fession has been secured from a sus
pected negro, and that this confes
sion also implicates a white man. It
is exp3cted that the whole mystery
uiBoon oecieareaup. ,
ROSS-CROWSON
. A Pretty Morning Wedding
The Methodist Protestant church
was the scene this morning, of a
simple but lovely marriage when Miss
Lucy Clyde Orowson became the
bride of Mr. Levan Ferree Ross.
Long before the hour appointed
the church was filled with relatives
and friends eager to witness the
joining of these two young lives.
The church was beautiful with its
decorations of ferns, magnolias and
sweet peas.
Before the ceremony "0 Promise
Me" was charmingly rendered by
Mrs. T. M. Johnson accompanied
by Miss Marie Hunter, of Charlotte
JN. (J. .
The soft beautiful notes of Ihe
"Bridal Chorus" from Lohengrin
announced the approach of the brid
al party. The ushers, Mesers
W. 0. George, of Mt. Airy, Flaud
Morris, of Raleigh, John Lockhart,
of Chapel Hill, and Jesse Scarboro,
of Asheboro, came up the aisle and
stood at the chancel Bteps; follow
ing came the fair young bride lean,
ing upon the arm of her affianced
husband and together they stood be
fore Rev. T. M. Johnson, pastor of
tne m. f, Uhurch who pronounced
the words making them man and
wife. During the ceremony Iran
merei was Boftly played; after the
ceremony, the trinmphial notes of
Mendelsohn's wedding march was
sounded and the bridal oouple and
urners marched out to its inspir
ing strains.
The bride was dressed moBt te.
comingly in a going-away gown of
gray cloth with accessories to match,
and carried a boquet of lillies of the
valley, bride's rcses and maiden hair
ferns.
Immediately after the ceremony
amid showers of rice and congratu
lations Mr. and Mrs. Ross left for
the western part of the State, where
they trill spend their honeymoon.
The numerous and beautiful pres.
ents received attest- the -popularity
ana esteem in which this young cou
pe are neia oy xneir many inenas.
Protracted Services at Presbyterian
Uiurch. .
This evening at 8 o'clock evangel
istic services will be begun at the
Presbyterian church, continuing
through next week. Services will
be held each evening at 8 o clock,
and in the afternoon probably at. 3.
The hour of the afternoon service
has not yet been definitely fixed.
As before announoed the series of
services will be conducted by Rev.
u. U. Kolston, of Petersburg, Va.
Mr, Kolston is a young man of
remarkable ability. His oiatorical
gifts have been compared favorably
witn inose ci noiea speaKers ot tne
South. A proof of his poweis is
found in the fact that before he bad
been out of the seminary twelve
months he had been called to one of
the most important charges of his
denomination in the State of Vir.
ginia. lie has recently been sought
for heavy responsibilities in this and j
in another State,
Mr. liolston is a man of great
zeal and earnestness (f manner, eiv-
i g hiniBelf to great labors. Raised
on a farm iu the Valley of Virginia,
he gave up that life to work his way
through university and seminary.
His first labors in tbe ministry were
among the lumber camps of West
Virginia, thus meeting tquarely the
tests and the thrilling experiences
of the home missionary in his rough
est work. This mission wcrk he re
luctantly gave up to take his present
charge hi Petersburg.
Mr. liolston is a man of consecra
tion, zeal, enthusiasm, fire, power.
He appeals to the intellectual with
hia logic aud eloquence ; he appeals
to rhe less learned with his direct
ness and simplicity ; he appeals to
the young men as a powerful young
man ; he appeals to the older oneH
witb his sympathy; he appeals to
the Christian with his earnestness
and consecration. Come and hear
him. s Come tbe first evening. If
the church is too small a larger audi
torium will be secured- Everyone
is urged to be there as often as he
can. Success depends on each indi
vidual.
During the recent closing exer
cises of Trir ity College, plans were
announced for an endowment of
$1,000,000. North Carolina is to f ur-
nish one fifth of this sum, each con
ference contributing $100,000. An.
nouncement was also made of gifts
to Trinity from MeBsrs. J. B. and
B. N. Duke amounting to $160,-
uuu.
AT'
Mrs. Ida Hill Found Dead-N
Que to the Mystery.
Mrs. Ida Hill, of Lexington, who.
was visiting her mother, Mrs. J. S
Ragedale at James tswn, was found
dead in her bedroom at the Ragsdale
home Jnne 8th.
When Miss Jennie Ragsdale went to
Mrs. Hill's room about 7:30 a m with
some fresh linen she found her lying
on the floor strapped by the neck to
the floor with one of the straps
from her suit case. Her hands
were securely bound with the
other strap behind her back. In
her mouth were one of her hose and
a burglar'e mask. The room was in
some confusion, the dreBser drawers
having been rilled. The members
of the family found the body still
warm and immediately summoned
the family physician, who said she
had beed dead only a few hours.
On the dining room table was a
napkin containing some silverware, .
but no other rooms were disturbed
except theBe two.
All sorts of theories have been
advanced e.s to who the burglar:
is and what motive he had in the
house breaking and murder. . There
were some faint foot prints on the
dining room window sill, but it is
not known whether they were there
before the night of the murder or -not.
The deceased was the eldest
daughter of the late J. S. Ragsdale, .
a well known cotton mill owner of
Jamestown. She was married sev
eral years ago to Dr. Joel Hill, of
Lexington, where they lived until the.
death of Dr. Hill, a few months ago. .
Mrs. Hill is survived by seven
children, the youngest being a little
girl of six years. One of her sons
is an architect of Richmond, Va. ;,
another an employe of the Reynolds
Tobacco Co., of Winston-Salem
while one of the daughters is a
teacher in Peace Institute, Raleigh. -Mrs.
Hill was one of the Lexington's
most highly respected women,
President Moffitt to Move to
.. Asheboro -
Dr. E. L. Moffitt. who has made
good as Pre.ident of ElonCollege for
six years, has retired and will return
to Asheboro to live where he will
engage in business, resuming his.
duties as secretary and treasurer of
one of our largest , wood working;
plants, which position be laid down
six years ago to become President of
Elon College at the call of the-
trnstees and his church.
He has done splendid work as;
president of the college. It has
steadily grown until it is mere .roe
perous than at any time in its his
tory, Elon has become one of r.be
State's leading colleges and Dr..
Mcffitt one of the foremost educa
tors, and his retirement is a loss to
the educational forces of the State.
It was with leluctance that the-
trustees of the college gave him up.
His accessor is Prof. W. sA. Har
per, who has been dean of the college
faculty for the pnet y rar and pro
fesiOr of Latin fur the lust s:x years..
Most Important Meeting
The most important meeting that
will be held in this istbta this year
will be the meeting t CbHrlotte
duricg the State Medical Society on
June 19-20 when the North Carolina
Public Health Association will be
organized.
In the organizition of this asso
ciation can be seen, the advantages
of organizition, the wibdom of coun
sel, the value of intercbangrs of ex
periences affecting the State's most
valuable asset, the public health.
There will be an instructive pro
gram. Cotton Growing in Randolph
The farmers "are beginning to
grow cotton in earnest in Randolph.
In every part' of the county more
and more cotton iz planted each
year. This year there is probably
twice as much cotton planted as last
year.
The enterprising business men of
Asheboro should see to it that there
is a cotton gin here this fall in time
to gin all the cotton brought here.
Up till the last few years Asheboro
was a large cotton market. Thirty
or forty years ago there were
two or three large cotton buyers
here. ' Finally the , farmers in this
section a uit erowine cotton.
Now
thrv have ronn hank tn
ton, and Asheboro shonld have some-
cotton buyers and a cotton gin.
HORRIBLE TRAGEDY
JAMESTOWN, N. C
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