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re Heading, and Comment by c. C. G. Smith, Asheboro, N. C. □ Gulden Text:—“I am the way, and the troth, and the life: no man Com eth onto the Father, bat by me."— John 14:6; Lesson 14:1-31; Printed Text John 14:1-17. JESUS COMFORTS HIS DISCIPLES Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him. Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayeth thou then, Shew us the Father? Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. Believe me that I am in the Fath er, and the Father in me: or else be lieve me for the very works’ sake. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; be cause I go unto my Father. And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it. If ye love me, keep my command ments. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he way abide with you for ever; Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. Sir Walter Scott, near the close of his life, took a great deal of satisfac tion in the comfort of his home at Abbotsford. There were the lawns and the gardens which he had laid out with such care. There were his grandchildren and his dogs. As they wheeled him about in a convalescent’s chair, he used to caress the hair of the children and talk to the dogs and pause to admire his favorite roses. “I have seen much in my time,” he said, “but nothing like my ain house, —give me one turn more!” One morning they took him into the library upon whose shelves were arranged his hundreds of beloved books. From its central window, he could look down upon the lovely val ley of the river Tweed. “Read to me!” he said to Lockhart. “From what book shall I read ?” Need you ask? There is but one book.” So John Lockhart took down the Bible, opened it at the chapter from which this Sunday School lesson is taken and read our Lord’s matchless farewell address to his distressed dis ciples. “Let not your heart be troubled. Ye believe in God, believe also in me . . . . .” And so on to the end of this chapter which has lightened so many melancholy hearts. “This is a great comfort—a great comfort,” he said slowly. Many other men die without home and without friends. William T El lis, years old, was a reporter, Re cently he told of his trip to interview a corpse. A stranger had drifted in to the almshouse and died leaving no clue to his identity. Mr. Ellis found the body wretchedly cared for. There was a jibbering old pauper in charge, who kept repeating as if he had a grievance, “He wanted somebody to hold his hand as he was dying, I wouldn’t do it,—I wouldn’t do it." How many anguished souls cry out in vain for the touch of a friendly hand! How often we find luckless souls in sickness and in grief, suffer ing alone. Jesus promised to his dis ciples, a Comforter,—in the literal Greek, “one called alongside to help.” Sooner or later your time of test ing will come. The sympathy of hu man friends goes only so far and then breaks down. There is only one perfect friend in extremity, the Lord’s “Spirit of truth, whom the world can not receive, because it seeth him not neither knoweth him.” In one form or another, adversity and failure and grief will come to your door.' Will you know Him, then? Does He abide with you now? SOPHIA ROUTE ONE NEWS Mr. James Scott returned home Wednesday afternoon after spending several days with relatives in Wil son. Mrs. Joe Spencer was the guest of Mrs. Eliza Williams recently. Miss Abbie Spencer has returned home after spending several days with Mrs. Eliza Edwards. There were very few present at Marlboro Sunday on account of in DECREASE IN EMPLOYMENT OF N. CAROLINA CHILDREN Child Welfare Commission Report Declares Only Small Percentage Children Working. Only 35 out of every 1,000 North Carolina boys and girls arriving at the age of 14 are employed, according to the report of E. F. Carter, exe cutive secretary of the North Caroli na Child Welfare Commission, in his report submitted to Governor McLean Monday. The report declares that the number of children employed in the manufacturing plants of the State is steadily decreasing, but that the number employed in the smaller in dustries is increasing. The number of children employed I in the cotton mills of the State has decreased 25 per cent from last year. On June 30th, 1924, there were 1,514 fewer children employed in the State’s cotton mills than for the year ending June 30th, 1923. The number of children working in hosiery mills has decreased by 443, and in offices 200. There were during the year 85 vio lations of the Child Labor laws. Out of this number there were 25 prose cutions. Sixty of these violations were promptly corrected by the em ployers upon complaint of the com mission. The following increases in the em ployment of children for th£ past year are noted: Workshops and laundries, 23; hotels and restaurants, 17; all manufacturing places, 145; and places of amusement, 7. Card of Thanks We, the children of Mary M. Ridge, who died on January 8th, de sired to extend our appreciation and sincere thanks to the kind friends who rendered every possible assistance. The thoughtfulness on the part of our friends and neighbors will ever be perpetual in our memories. THE CHILDREN. Asheboro Girls Suffer Defeat The girl’s basketball team of the Asheboro graded school lost to the High Point girl’s team last Friday in a game played in the Y. M. C. A., High Point, by a score of 26 to 13. The High Point girls kept the lead from the start. Dempsey To Quit Ring Jack Dempsey, heavy-weight box ing champion of the world, announces that he will relinquish the title next June when he marries Miss Estelle Taylor, a movie actress. Dempsey favors Tommy Gibbons as his suc cessor. Gibbons is the only man who has ever stayed in the ring with Dempsey through the limit. Baker To Write History of War President Ray Stannard Baker, of Amherst, Mass., a close friend of the late Pres ident Wilson, has been selected by Mrs. Woodrow Wilson to write the authorized biography of America’s great War President. Mr. Wilson will place at the disposal of Mr. Baker all the personal and official letters and documents of the late President, some 30,000 in all, and all the data that can be obtained about the life, acts, and accomplishments of Mr. Wilson. The Biggest Saow That Ever Fell In North Carolina The biggest snow ever to fall in,the State of North Carolina fell in Feb ruary of 1804, one hundred and twen ty years ago, according to an old newspaper story of that date now in the possession of Mrs. Grandison A. Baker, of Gaston county. The story related that on the 14th day of February, 1804, it began snowing at 2 o’clock, and snowed without interruption for three nights, and four days and that at the end of that time, the snow was six feet deep on the level, and level with the eaves of one-story houses where it drifted. • The story acquires added interest from the fact, that is is not a tradi tion, handed down by word of mouth from generation to generation, but is taken from a written document— a diary—kept by a Mrs. Rogers, who lived-in Union county, not far from the present town of Monroe. WOMEN SMOKERS PROVIDED FOR ON TRAINS The problem of what to do with the woman smoker on board the trains of the country has been solved on some of the transcontinental limiteds by the addition to the service of the ob servation car. Within the sacred pre cincts of this lounge are all of the appliances and appurtenances of the smoker, with the maid to furnish matches or to de the manicuring , to choose the rouge pot ok the powder puff, and to do the hundred and one other things the ladies may desire. Since they have come into their own as smokers, the women of the country have been severely handicapped aboard trains. About the only place open for them for tbp indulgence in the seductive weed nave been wash rooms and these generally are found both crowded and unattractive. Man has had it pretty much his own way in the traveling line with his smoking compartments. Yet the number of women traveling as well as Die man The numbered definition# are of words which when correctly thought out fill the white spaces in diagram. Each number represents the begin ning of a word, reading either across or down to a black square. A black square, to the left of a number indi cates a horizontal word; above a num ber a vertical word. Both vertical and horizontal numbers ipay begin a word, though inspection of the puzzle will show this is not always the case. The correct words will have one white space for each letter and will inter lock accurately and satisfy the defini iSklhS .. HORIZONTAL 1. One of the Apostles. 5. A large country of Asia. 9. A sort of cabbage. 10. One of the lake states. 11. To dispatch. 13. To shock with terror. 15. Large city of number 10. 17. To annex. 18. To have existence. 20. A cutting instrument. 21. Used to fasten shoes. 23. To be borne on something. 25. A sage of the east. 27. A boy’s name. 28. To point. 30. A name given to Germans dur ing war. 31. Negative. 32. In this or that manner. 33. Domiuus Noster (abbr.) 34. In mythology the daughter of Inachus and Ismene. 36. A cardinal point of compass (abbr.). 37. Joined together. 38. Loaded. 39. A word expressing equality. 40. Initials of a late president. 41. One who edits (abbre.). 43. In music, 2nd syllable of scale. 44. Printers' measurment. 46. Past of lead. 48. Large city of Asia-Minor. 51. Present tense of verb to be. 52. A date on Roman calendar. 54. Epoches. 55. Table land. 56. One of monkey family. 58. Initials of inventor of cotton gin. 59. To spoil polish on furniture. 60. To sign up for service. 63. Of “lions’ den" fame. 65. A fleet animal. 66. One of the Hawaiian Islands. 67. Auction. 68. Upright. 69. To reside. VERTICAL 1. A native of Japan. 2. Of the camel tribe. 3. A general of the Civil War. 4. What the sun is sometimes called. 5. A small bed. lauuiBJiaiiaijaiifliii iHimiiiHW Randolph Agricultural Department E. S. MELLSAPS, JR., County Agent Saturdays Office Days First Mondays iiuiuiufuiuiaauiiiiuiuiuBiiii lllIUlfTIfllTT On The Job Again I wish to say to the farmers of the county that I am again on the job, and will be glad to go into any matter that you may have in mind. I would like to say that our County Agents Conference was the best one that I have attended in the seven years that I have been in the work. I wish that it was possible for me to tell you about the meeting in de tail but that is not possible. How ever I would like to give you some of the high lights. All of the agents from the differ ent counties of the State were divided into sections, and given instruction on various lines by experts from State College and from the U. S. De partment at Washington. Some of the lines of instruction were as fol lows. Instruction in handling farm levels, and in draining farm land, showing methods, grades etc. Hand ling dairy cattle, hogs, sheep and poultry. By this I mean instruction in judging, feeding, housing and san itation. The grading and classifica tion of eggs into the U. S. Standard grades. Farmers in this county are getting less than half what they should for their eggs taking the year round average, and I believe that we can better this condition by group or ganization and grading our eggs. It will probably surprise you to know that Randolph produces more eggs than any other county in the state. This county produces above J>00,000 dozen eggs per year, so you can read ily see that the eggs are an impor tant factor in our farming system. I will have more to say about this la ter, The grading, judging and hand ling of farm crops, and especially hay was very interesting'to me. In this county we produce hay to sell and we •are having to compete with prices on western hays which are not up to grade. Hay sold in this Sta{e as No. 1 hay will as a rule grade No. 3. This is not the fault of the dealer howev er as he is not able to grade hay, having had any <*perience in line. This need tions. The horizontal and vertical words are different and through the definitions serve to check each other off with cross-clues, from which you can recognise other words. The best method of solving is, first, to fill in down and across all the words you are absolutely sfcre of. Then go over the imperfect words, referring to the def initions. The skeleton "of words will often suggest another word, and by degrees—plus persistence and ingenue ity—the entire series of words will cross correctly. All the words are found in standard dictionaries. 6. The religion of Mohammed. 7. One of “Polly’s pals.” 8. Used to connect words and sen tences. 9. A kind of clay. 12. A game. 14. A September holiday (abbre.). 16. A bone. 18. An inhabitant of the air. 19. Man’s first residence. 22. Awakened. 23. One of the smallest states (abbre.). 24. Initials of founder of Cornell University. 26. Men skilled in use of guns. 28. Openings. 29. A jewelled head-dress. 32. To rest. , 35. A song. 39. A winged footed animal. 41. A court of itinerant judges. 42. To pull. 45. A not very serious sickness. 47. A trader. 49. No one else. 50. A province of Canada (abbre.). 51. Of the air. 53. A part of churches. 55. Home of Ministers. 57. Initials of Lincoln’# Sec. of War. 59. Child’s name for mother. 61. A term used to indicate mar ried woman’s maiden name. 62. Child. 63. An unexploded shell. 64. A measurement.' * > jaiiaiiaiiaiiaiiaiiaitaiiai ever to protect the buyer as well as the consumer, and also to get better prices for the hay that our farmers counties into a state wide program, and also in order to receive the most benefit from the State specialists. Plans are being worked out in order to enable the specialists to visit the counties more and work with the agent in the county. Arrangements have been made to have Mr. E. G. Warden, poultry spec ialist, in the county the first week in February. Watch for further an nouncements concerning these meet ings. Would also be glad to hear from the different sections of the county within the next few days that would like td have Mr. Wardin visit your community and give a culling demonstration. These will necessari ly have to be well scattered and where the most people can see them. Diphtheria is no longer excusable, according to the highest authorities, and they are able to present statistics that would tend to prove their conten tion. For. instance, over 1,000,000 in jections of toxin-antitoxin have been given in New York City without one accident, according to Dr. Lee K. Franked, head of the welfare work, of the Metropolitan life Insurance Com pany, who urges every parent to have all the children—especially those un der school age el gives these statistics: have to sell. Conferences were held where the plan of work was discussed in order to co-relate the work in the different •The first experimental rural deliv ery in the country was established in Went Virginia in January 1896. Nine months later there were 82 routes in , operation emanating from 43 post- ; offices in 29 states. On June 30th, 1924, twenty-eight years later there were 44,260 routes in the country with a total mileage of 1,205,714. An annual expenditure of $89,250,000 is required to keep the rural route sys tem functioning. By 1925, 26,080 fourth class .post offices had been discontinued as a result of the extension of the rural j mail routes. j Illinois leads the nation both in the | number* of rural routes and in mil- j eage, there being 2,637 routes cover- j ing a distance of 70,677 miles in that state. Ohio is, second with 2,542 routes and a mileage of 63,820; Mis souri third with 2,252 routes covering 66,074 miles; Iowa fourth with 2,229 routes covering 60,734 miles; Texas* fifth with 2,193 routes covering 59,- , 998 miles; Pennsylvania sixth with ] 2,036 and 58,385 respectively, Kansas seventh with 1,902 and 65,464 re spectively; and New York eighth with 1,863 and 47,130, respectively. North Carolina has 1402 free de- j livery mail routes with a total mil- . eage of 35,499. Georgia has 1635 routes with 47,008 miles. Tennessee has a few more rural routes than North Carolina. SIXTY-FOUR WAR VETERANS HAVE REFUSED 'THE BONUS Sixty-four veterans of the World War have thus far refused to accept the bonus due them under the ad justed compensation law passed by Congress last May. Nearly 2,000, 000 soldiers have applied for the bonus, and the applications are be ing received at the rate of about 15,000 a day. Preparations had been made to handle 25,000 a day. The number of persons who may apply for the bonus, although many of them may not be qualified for some reason or other, is estimated at 5,250,000. The number of men who performed actual military ser vice is 4,051,606. Consequently, less than half of those who perform ed service have applied for the bene fits of the bonus law at this (time. World War veterans have until January 1, 1928, to make applica tion for the bonus, and even those who have refused the compensation may change their minds add make application before that date. After 1928, however, no bonus applications will be honored. The War Department, which faces the huge task of administration of the bonus, is doing all in its power to help the World War veterans apply for the bonus. Fifteen million bonus applications have been printed, with full instructions for filing, and dis tributed. The Post' Office Depart ment, American Legion, and other organizations are helping in the work. f The payment of the bonus is a costly operation, and the department officials are far from pleased with the number of applications received to date. * Crop Condition In The State Is Discouraging The North Carolina' mid-month crop notes released by the department of agriculture shows that the rainy weather during this month has ham pered work on the farm. The soil has been too wet to work and many of the roads are in an almost im passable condition. There is little or no field work being done in the State. Most of the cotton crop has been picked. A good deal of the picking was done late in the season, however, and the amount of stained lint is large. grains are growing slowly due to continued cold weather, rain, and lack of sunshine. The root growth of these crops is good, but the plant itself is much smaller than usual at All kinds of food »hort hoy is bAng brought into tho State. Corn and oats are tho shortest in many years. ■ Prices generally, however, «•: and the farmers who have something to seU are realising: good P*®“ Farmers generally, according to tne report, are optimistic. Wheeler’s History To Bo Reprinted Arrangements for reprinting Wheelers History are being made by the Daughters of the American Revo lution, through Mrs. E. I* Shuford, organised agent. The last two copies of tho history recently sold for $25 and $50 each. Advance subscriptions for the re printed work are being solicited at $4.00 per volume. Subscriptions should be ,sent tc Mrs. E. L. Shuford, Hickory, N. C. Morrison Ex-Governor Cameron has resumed the practice of law in Charlotte. The School of Agriculture at Stab College has a three-fold purpose—to teach, to experiment and to spread timely facts about better farming to the people of the State. If the Col ; lege doesn’t reach you, call on it for \ one of these services. eyes examined DAV IS BAKING POWDER I SPECIAL PRICES CONTINUED | ■ ' I On account of continued rains, we. are 1 allowing our Special December Prices on | No. land 2 Building Material for a few | days longer. 1 Asheboro Wheelbarrow Company | Asheboro, N. C. LLHEMU®, DEALER Asheboro, N. C. When better automobiles are built, Buick will bnOd them "■ ■ V' NEW SERIES • The 12th Serieswrf the Randolph County, and Loan Association will be open January 4®^* r^ie Association has been a great blessing to its stockholders and has helped more than 125 people to secure homes. There are today more than 3700 shares of stock, and loans approximate $1( The 12th series should be the largest of any previous series. Subscriptions to this series should be filed as of January , ‘IBB Come in and Join us and let us help you to own r * i ^ v? * v i v v . i * ■ a home.- '" > V/’: IHp! i&l
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