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THE COtJRIBB VmUSBED EVERY THURSDAY Wn. C. Hammer, Editor TKoradky, March 3, 1927 ■Mnwl aa second class mail matter IrAt postoffice at Asheboro, N. C. TOT MAKE THE BEATEN PATH Wamm one has truly said: "If the paB^ty knew what you knew about jar merchandise, your prices and year policies, window-shopping would tmi to more buying over the coun tot" A merchant can’t display all of "Mr goods in his show windows. There tooe, toe window-shopper, the passer ^ kas a reasonable fear about the the merchandise which the merchant displays and also about that wttdb fe not displayed. The window ilnjij - is ignorant of the facts about 4a merchandise in the store, facts me so well known to the mer dunt that he can scarcely imagine others not knowing them. To bring the window-shopper in aide is the problem. To do it the ' ammust resort to advertising. j Vtarc shopping is being done from ad- i fertisements in this day and time •than ever before in the history of , mejchandising. Competition is keen. The day was when each town had its hardware store, its dry goods store, 3ts grocery store, and other stores. Talks knew these stores, but now each town, that is a live town, has a ■multiplicity of various stores. The merchant can’t expect shoppers to mb a beaten path to his door when , there are a half dozen other stores in the satire block or an adjoining block which carry the same kind of mer chandise there is in his store. j*nd here’ is a tip to the merchant who wants the “beaten path” to lead fir hiis sforer Write down on a piece , «f paper the news about your busi- J, ness* what articles you carry, the new I seasonable styles now in stock, the i rid reliable quality back of your line, ; toe range and fairness of your prices, and how far you are willing to go in serving your customers. j' Then take this to your home town newspaper and have it make up an advertisement this week and every , atber week' of the year. GROWING TREES SfooFe county people are taking in terest in the growing of pine forests, jgmys BTon H. Butler in a special ar ticlethe daily press of the State. Hfc dxy was in the Sandhills, says »that forests were cut down tor limber and to make room for with no regard to the fu ture supply. Now, the Sandhills peo ple are awaking to the fact that the anginal pine forests are going and goniig fast. So they have turned their attentfon to conserving what is left andt to re-seeding the devastated areas. What the Sandhills have awakened to, the entire State must sooner or inter. Time was and still is with some people that a residence must be sit uated. an a let entirely devoid of nat nraT growth of trees. Many men who have built houses in North Carolina towns have cut down every tree on the lot. For what purpose, nobody to know. But more and more tuGders are coming to realize that a tree is a precious thing and even the locations of residences are being made n many instances to conform to the arrangement of the trees already on die lot rather than cut down the trees and start a new growth to conform to ufce residence. Iffcart can be more beautiful than a aatoratf growth of virgin oaks or pines m x building lot, it is hard to see. And ft is still harder to fathom the xsnai of a man who wants to clear his tot #£ this virgin growth and leave it tore. TROY' BOYS MAKE GOOD The agricultural club of the Troy V|b school, at Troy, under the di leetfixr of R. F. Brackin, who used to flHndb 'Motional agriculture in Farm «rr high school, Randolph county, are wftlfai. a pace in money-making from agricultural projects which their ftAcn and every farmer might well Mb Bate. These boys are specializ m livestock and the results of iftefr year's work indicates that they ritose wfsefy. A summary of their 1926 projects .iBaag that the agricultural boys made a net profit of $3,187.84 from IJieir poultry project. This profit by far the largest made from gay «r the projects in which the boys were engaged. In 32 hog projects, beys cleared $1,633.54. Four cattle projects netted a profit 12.36, while 26 cattle projects a net of $719.47. Twelve jecta showed a profit of rden and truck de a profit, of This The Biggest Snow In 70 Years ■ The snow which fell Tuesday night and Wednesday morning is the largest in 70 years in North Carolina, ac cording to a subscriber of The Cou rier, who has at his command more facts about happenings in Randolph county during the past half century or more than perhaps any other living ; resident of the county. This is the ! article which he has prepared for the readers of this newspaper and it cov ers every large snow that has fallen in Randolph county in the past three I quarters of a century: Since the largest snow for 70 years has fallen I feel like writing to you on the subject of large snows. Several of them I personally remember and the other snows that I speak of have been handed to me by older members of my family and from older citizens, on what I consider reliable sources. I was told when I was a child that the house I was born in was raised, or the wall was raised in November or December 1796. That between the raising of this house and Christmas, there fell a snow nearly two feet deep, and that this snow lay on the | ground for several weeks, and that ' the house was not finished until the ! spring of 1797. I A year or two after this a real old man visited my father’s, when we were living in the house that was fin : ished in the spring of 1797, and stated : that he was in a fox chase in 1805 and that night came on and they stopped at this house. Next morning they put their dogs on trail again and caught the fox the next day about 2 o’clock. Within a very short time, probably less than an hour, it com menced snowing and they were snow bound for several days about six miles ! west of my father’s house. They then j ' went home. I was told by another very reliable 1 citizen that in the winter of 1816 and 1817, there was another large snow over a foot deep through this section of the State, and it was several weeks before this snow was gone. I was told by my father that on the last Saturday in December, which was the 28th, in 1833, if I mistake not, there a large snow fell. He marked this by I some old citizens moving into the neighborhood on that day. Again in January, 1817, there was another large snow. There was sev- 1 | eral snows between 1833 and 1837,; ■ but none of them of great importance. There was a large snow in time of the Civil War that I have heard my parents speak of. In 1873, on the night of the 3rd of March there fell a large snow and a very drifting snow. This was the night before Gen. Grant was inaugur ated President for his second term. At a great many places snow was several feet deep. Other places there was no snow. It was estimated that the average would have been thirteen inches for this snow. This happened on Monday night, if I remember right. In 1874 there fell a snow on the SOUTH’S GREATEST NEED “The greatest need of the South today in an agricultural way is richer soils, and livestock production is a means to that end,” says the Progressive Farmer. Soils, of course, can be enriched without livestock, but it is more difficult and more costly process than to use livestock as a means of accomplishing the end sought. The reason soils may be more easily enriched when livestock is kept on the farm is that livestock offer the most economical way to consume the legumes grown on the farm. The farmer then has the ad vantage of having his soil enriched by the nitrogen from the legumes and the manure, and can turn his livestock into cash quickly. The j cash so gotten can be used for a mul- ■ titude of purposes and part of it used j for the purchase of commercial fer- j tilizer. This trinity, livestock, legumes and ! commercial fertilizer, says the Pro gressive Farmer, form the best means of building soil fertility, and rich lands are the best guarantee of suc cessful agriculture. BALANCED AGRICULTURE J. Z. Green, editor of the Farmers Federation News of Asheville, wrote an article recently for the Marsh ville Home in which he gave his opinion as how to best balance agri culture in Union county. After point ing out the crops which could be sub stituted for cotton, Mr. Green summed the whole thing up in one short para graph which will apply as well to Randolph as to Union. Said Mr. Green: When we shall have balanced our agriculture under a system of diver sified farming, including live-stock and poultry, making our farms self feeding and self supporting. And to a large degree freeing ouraelves from the commercial fertilizers tax by the use of soil building legume crops, then we will begin to See the break ing of a new day for agriculture and the dawning of an era of economic freedom in Union county. ' 3rd of March, which was, if I remem ber right, on Tuesday night This snow was something like twelve to fourteen inches deep and lay on the ground a few days. This Was not a drifting snow like the year before. The next large snow commenced falling on Friday evening, the 9th of March, 1876, and fell till 10 or 11 o’clock Saturday. The sun shone out very warm Saturday evening and the weather remained warm Saturday night This snow was ten inches deep and was gone by Sunday noon. The streams on Sunday evening and night were very high being swollen by the snow water. The next large snow was in the winter of 1876 and 1877. The snow commenced falling on Saturday even ing, the 23rd day of December, be fore Christmas the following Monday. It kept snowing till four o’clock Sun day evening. When it stopped falling Sunday evening I measured the snow myself and the depth of it ranged from 14 to 19 inches. I think a reas onable esti fcata wWBM hftVr"becn fif teen to sixteen inches. In a few days there fell another snow; in a few days another snow and in a few days still another snow. The accumula tion of the four snows would have made approximately two feet of snow. This snow lay on the ground for sever al weeks. It was very cold weather. The streams and ponds were all frozen i over. I recall crossing a stream with i a loaded wagon and crossed over on the ice, the load not being heavy enough to break the ice. I recall on several occasions during this spell of weather seeing frost fall in the day time. This snow remained on the ground until Monday, the 5th of Feb ruary. It turned very warm in the evening and though a considerable snow was on the ground it all melted away that night. On Tuesday, the 6th, we practically had spring weather and did not have much more cold weather that winter. The next snow: of importance fell on the night of 21st of December, 1880. This snow remained on the ground until about the 5th of Jan uary, 1881. This was a real cold spell. All the streams and ponds were frozen over. I recall people who had ice houses, getting ice at this time. The next Friday, the 1st of April, 1881, there was a snow about 6 inches deep. Saturday following was a real cold day. Sunday the weather got warmer and by Monday the snow was gone. The next snow of any importance fell either in December, 1882, or Jan uary, 1883. This snow was about ten inches deep. It remained on the ground only a few days. The next snow of any importance in this section of North Carolina fell in ; January, 1896. We had had a nice < fall up till the first of January and i had had no snow. However, on the 1 first of January there fell a snow that was probably ten1 or twelve inches deep, but it only lasted a few days. The next snow of importance fell , February 18, 1898. It commenced j Supreme Court Says Lease Was Obtained By Fraud The Supreme Court of thd United States has handed down an opinion in which it holds that the Elk Hills oil lease made by former Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall to Edward L. Doheny was obtained by “fraud and corruption.” This means Doheny will have to return t# the government the naval oil reserves which were bar tered to him by high government of ficials during the administration of Warren G. Harding. The Supreme Court decision is quite in contrast with the result of the trial of Doheny and Fall for defrauding the govern ment. They were acquitted, but the highest court in the land holds that the consummation of their conspiracy was fraudulent and in violation of the ^ law. } NOTICE OF SALE OF VALUABLE FARM PROPERTY Under and by virtue of the authori ty conferred in a certain Mortgage Deed executed by H. G. Lambert and his wife, Viola Lambert, to J. M. Dea ton said Mortgage Deed bearing date of January 27, 1925, and being re corded in the office of the Register of Deeds of Randolph County in Book 214 at page 254; said Mortgage Deed having been given to secure a Note or Bond of even date therewiA in the sum of. Twenty Five Hundred and Fifty Dollars and default haying been made in the payments due on said notes and the interest thereof, there fore, according to the terms and con ditions set out in said Mortgage Deed the undersigned Mortgagee will, at 12 o’clock Noon on Saturday, the 29th day of March, 1927, at the Court House Door in Asheboro, North Caro lina, sell at pbblic auction to the high est bidder for cash all of that certain piece, parcel or tract of. land situate, lying and being in Brower township, Randolph county, and being more ful ly described as follows, to wit: Beginning at a stone on the East side of Public Road, running E. 6 de grees S. 29.58 chs. to a stone in John Culler’s line to Wrenn’s corner; thence West with Wrenn’s line 29.28 chs. to a stone-on the Public ~ with Public road 80 chs. to the be falling in the evening, fell through the night and stopped next moming.i This snow was something like ten inches deep. ' The next snow commenced falling on the night of February 18th or morning of the 19th, 1899. This was a larger snow than the snow of 1898. This snow was approximately a foot deep. Then there was a large snow dur ing the winter of 1902. My recollec tion is that there was a snow on the 4th of April, 1905. This snow was several inches'deep and a portion of this snow lay on the ground for sev eral days. In the winter 1917-1918 there was a large snow. This was a very hard winter. There was a lot of blizzards and rainy weather. There was lots of cold rain and sleet. And your writer is of the opinion that the present snow, that is now on the ground, is the largest snow that has ever fallen in this section of the State. Randolph Blanketed With A 24-inch Snow TtTontinued from page 1) Sidewalks in the business district of the town were generally cleared of the snow today, while out in the resi dential sections, pedestrians are us ing the middle of the streets. No factories operated Wednesday or Thursday, except in two or three plants a half dozen or more persons ; were working to catch up the odds ' and ends. Some of the plants will open tomorrow, but all will not be in operation before Monday. It was al most impossible for the employes to get to the factories Wednesday and the condition was not much better this morning. Those who live in the country and work at the plants . in town could not get out and all will j not be able to get to town before Mon day. Stores were generally opened Wed nesday morning, but the business which was done consisted chiefly in selling overshoes, boots and other snowy-weather toggery. Drug stores were doing business as usual in, smokes and drinks, and the cafes en-1 joyed a good business. Owners of mercantile establishments and their clerks generally were employed in clearing off the sidewalks in front of their places of business. No mail reached Asheboro from the outside world until the Greensboro mail came in late Wednesday after noon. There were no mail deliveries ' during the day and only limited deliv eries Thursday. Daily newspapers were largely in demand all day Wed nesday with none to be had. Mail came in from Greensboro about 10 o’clock in the morning and about noon the High Point mail reached town. These mails will probably come in again this afternoon late. The Greensboro mail continued to Ram seur and Franklinville this morning. These towns had no mail Wednesday. The rural mail carriard will not venture out on the couhtry highways before tomorrow and they will not be at all certain then that they will reach their destination. REMEMER THE OLD STORY OF THE FRQCS? —By A. B. chapin rtl/T THE OTWCR. KEPT CM AROUMP AMD AROUND > AWD VAVVLED AWAY >WJHE FACE OF ACC TMSCOti»CAff6MB NTS,UMTlC FINALLY, HC C*U*wei> HIMSELF A LITTLE PAT OF BUTTER. - UPON WHICH HE WAS Sitting-PRETTY— WHAT KIND OF ARE^OU? Railroad traffic was at a standstill Wednesday. The Southern sent an engine down yesterday afternoon to clear the track from High Point to Asheboro and today the trains are running, though behind schedule. There was no traffic over the Norfolk Southern into Asheboro Wednesday. A train was sent out down this road today from Asheboro and another started from Aberdeen here. Switch ing engines were at a standstill yes terday and today. Buses are not run ning over their regular routes, but this service will probably be started this afternoon or in the morning. The State highway commission maintenance department, confronted with the biggest job of road cleaning in its history, was manfully on the job Wednesday afternoon and is con tinuing its work today. The first milk delivery in Asheboi'o since Tuesday morning came in short tly before noon today. Earl Bulla was using a foun-mule team hitched to a wagon today to supply his cus tomers. Few mishaps have been reported on account of.the heavy snow. Many owners of buildings have had the snow cleaned from the roofs to guard agains any possible contingency. The roof over the finishing department of the P. and P. Chair Company collaps ed Wednesday doing little damage Call For “Moffo Maid” Plain or Self Rising Flour Sold In Ramseur By M. E. Hammer Craven A Cox D. H. York ‘ J. W. York Mariey ft Cavenesa Mrs. & F. Pell In Fnutklinvgk By T. M. Jennings J. M. inwBe,u,ettBy W. S. Gardner BL C. Routh ft EL BaMmin>-4w:- ■ save to the roof. The roof over the truck shed at the Home Building, Inc.,! gave way also, doing considerable damage to some trucks parked in the building. Despite rumors to the con-' trary, the roof of the school building | held up under its usually heavy load and the roof neither sank nor gave way. . . There was no school yesterday nor was there any today. School will be started as usual Friday morning. Schools in the rural communities j were suspended with the close of the Tuesday afternoon session and few, if j any, of them will resume work be- j fore Monday. Roads in the ruralj sections, except the State highways will not be cleared of snow much be fore Monday and traffice will be at a standstill the greater part of the re mainder of this week. The snow was general in North Carolina. It extended into Virginia, South Carolina, Alabama, Kentucky, Tennessee and Georgia. Roofs of six business buildings at Goldsboro and two at Salisbury collapsed, bat nobody was injured. Nowhere, however, was the snow reported as deep as in Pied mont and Western North Carolina. Thirty inches of snow was the largest reported, this being at Sanford, while Wilmington reported only three inch es. Twenty inches appears to have been the average throughout the State. • 1 Business in practically every part - of the State, except in the far east ern counties, was at a standstill Wed nesday and today. Trains were run ning behind schedule or not at all and bus lines largely were idle. The snow which fell Tuesday night and Wednesday is said by older resi dents to be the largest within their memory. In fact, some of them say that it is the biggest snow that has fallen in this section of North Caro llha in a hundred years. Dishes, cups and saucers, plates and bowls to mach from 75 cents to $2.00 a set may be found *t W. A. Gregory’s 5, 10 and 25c Store, Depot St. YELLOW FRONT STORE „ ”»'*. w , ., -V‘ ’ Stop, Look And Enter You’ll Find It at a Pender Store at a Lower Price—and Higher Quality Smoked Picnic Shoulders, lb..20c Prunes, 60-70 to lb..lb. 8 l-3c Peanut Butter, Loose, lb.._ 15c Colonial Corn, No. 2 can.. 13c Chipso Soap Flakes, pkg.....9c P. & G. White Naptha Soap, 10 cakes 38c 12-lb. bag Wonder or Palace FLOUR Guaranteed To Give Absolute Satisfaction 54c S? $1.05 £*■ $2.05 Navy Beans, lb. 7 l-2c Black Eye Peas, lb. 6 l-4c Whole Head Rice, lb. 6 l-4c Jersey Corn Flakes, pk ...8 1-Sc D. P. Oatmeal, pkg.-9c Corn Meal, 5 lbs..19c D. P. Macaroni or Spaghetti, pkg. ^ 8c
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