Information r6r;;tlii'f
BOW RURAL CIgBS I AM : -
a Talk Before the N. C Convention of
Farm Women, Aug. 26, by Mrs,-W. r
j. jonesr pfv Sampson County. :
The experience of , Sampson County
in organizing rural clubs shows that
any people who really want it can de
velop a most excellent social life; in
the country. The sand-clay roads and
tjje Ford automobiles have made the
county one big neighborhood, v .
Salemburg, Ingold and .Clement are
the three regular organized communi
ity leagues of the county. Each has a
president, secretary and six standing
committees. .These committees-; have
under their supervision every interest,
for the upbuilding of the comunity.
Besides these community leagues
there are 22 women's clubs scattered
from one end of the county to the
other, having for their motive the im
provement of the home, the better
ment of the school, the building up
of the country church, the, beautifying
of the highways, and a wholesome and
enjovable life for young android.
Salemburg has five clubs, as fol
lows: the Farmers' Union, two clubs
for women, a young ladies club and
i5nv Scouts. Four of these clubs meet
regularly each month and jointly meet
once a month in a general community
meeting. There are two women's club3,
0ne meeting around at the various
homes in the community and the oth
er in the spacious dining roorn of
Pineland School for Girls.
Two years ago 'several of the house
wives of the village took the' domestic
science course at Pineland , and since
that time some have been giving free
cooking lessons to the public school.
The social committee, composed of
a most tactful chairman and a num
ber of young married women and girls
have done excellent work- In planning
entertainment for young and old. The
old-time all-day picnic and the even
ing social gathering with no program
have been changed into occasions
where there is a specially prepared
program consisting of games, music
and delicious things to eat prepared
by the neighborhood domestic science
department. Young and old meet to
gether on these occasions and play
together. Mother and daughter, fath
er and son, join hands In playing sucn
games as "King William was King
George's Son," "Farmer, in the Dell."
etc. Grandmothers come out to these
country entertainments who have not
attended a social function since they
were married. 40 and 50
TO9r .
Heretofore, country
folks "have not
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Tinnc nr r 1 1 ry i'ihiim i nr. iiivii in i i. in l
,i ciuds ine joyous art oi i
playing may be known and practiced
t,. imif nnn-nt-rv fnTlra - . -.-
II1'. rue WUX V 14. w . .r A. - ms m - .
The sunflower is our village flower.
Rows of these luxuriant plants with
their golden heads fringe the princi
pal highways of our community. We
like this flower because it looks to"
ward the Hght v - v v
Last, but not least, we want tomen-
Wholesale and Retail
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Secure Votes Fast.
Why Not Buy Our
TRADE BOOKS
From your Favorite Contestant
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When one of your friends or rela
tives who is in the race for the Over
land asks you to buy Trade Books on
Byers you can buy them' with our
Iron Clad Guarantee that thej will
be accepted by ns same as cash on
any purchase you make here new or
at any time in the future.
These Trade Books "will also be
accepted on accounts on and after
Monday, September 20,, 1915.
Your favorite Contestant will re
ceive .5 votes for every lc you invest
in Trade Books while they only re
ceive 2 votes on every lc you spend
OnrTirices are Rock Bottom always
So you mav buy- Books and feel ab
solutely sa'e,
Larabee's Best Flour
Lowest Market Price
Boost for Byers
Own that Overlah
The End is Near
J.
armers
iion r ls ,
The various
creeds meet .here in sweet
tion and learn the lessons of divine
fellowship, which is the secret of our
community;;--' v-.VU:. -;
Jlme;will not permitMe to tell of
the boys clubs,' the girls clubs, and
the 'children's clubs, -which are all un .
der the supervision of -the women's
clubs. : -v
Lastly, it might be said that the
progress! we.now enjoy, originated in
our first 'organizationthe Farmers'
Union, which owes its Inspiration to
our great, organ, The : Progressive
Farmer., . . , "
. Our soil was once thought to be the
poorest. It Is said that not many
yearsago two farms In and adjoining
our community Were sold respectively
for a brass cow bell and a sewing ma
chine; i Now that land could not be
purchased for $50 an acre. Our far
mers have put their heads together in
the Union and found that all we lack
ed was the knowledge of tillage.
V Work is beginning this week on our
$12,000 brick building which will give
the best advantage to our 300 public
school children, while the Pineland
School for Girls brings a large pa
tronage from nine counties and three
states; to enliven our. community and
add additional, educational 'interests.
Progressive Farmer.
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ARE FARMERS MORE CAREFUL OF 4
STOCK THAN THEIR FAMILIES?
The current issue of Farm and
Fireside contains a department en
titled "The Experience Bazaar." This
is an open market for the exchange
of r experiences where- readers wgive
and gather the fruits of their expe
rience. The following Is a contribu
tion to this department on the sub
ject of better babies:
" I am very much interested In this
movement for better babies. I think
it is a good idea to go back and begin
with the . fathers and mothers. Talk
wfth our farmers and see how careful
they are in breeding their stock. Do
they take their choicest young heifer
or mare and turn her loose, or do
they separate her, leaving her quiet
and cared for ; until she shall bring
forth her -young? "
"In the home it Is different. The
wife is not cared for in the some
scientific way.. She is expected while
bearing children to continue her usuai
duties as wife. - Can we have healthy,
happy mothers and wholesome babies
under such conditions? I once heard
a nhvsician sav. Surely man nai
- mr - -w w -
rj " , . .
iauen lower man iuC uca0,
testimony Ol lliuusauua Ji-
women
shows this to be true. What is tne
result? Mothers worn-out and un
able to care for their children.
"Women have been taught they
must submit, and men that they have
a right ta demand. Is it not time
that such teaching should stop and
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Flour, Feed, Glover and Grass
Ai. ,-.r frcVht train
YllilUpL cici; ubigu.
Brothers these days. Storage
and almost empty the next.. , Yes, business is humming with us.
Bedbtdck prices and right treatment, .are the main magnets that
n-- hnno nf tipw whrifisale and retail customers our
way. And during the final three
Boosting Campaign we want scores of you people both merchants
nT,c,,TnorBthrniiphout this section to co me in and 'Try
Byers." We have' the goods and
customer out of you and that's
us that trial during the next three
"own that Overland car." Votes
ir! hv or before September
counts paid during contest that
longer. . ,
Buy Byers Trad e
Good in Trade any Time-on
after September 20th.
Feeds of all Kinds
Dally Varden
Prices Positively
Can't be Beat
BUY HERE
Established 1901
F. Byers
BYERS
Wholesale & Retail Flour and
that women should secure their tius
bands'5 protection? ; . "? .....
."If this thought were presented to
men1 .and Twomen-'iil "the . right :.way it
seems to - ine they; would be ready to
act on it." i . .
MORE TROUBLE
- Several new- outbreaks of foot-and-mouth
disease, in four States, have
recently come from contaminated hog
cholera" serum. -This is . unfortunate
because It is likely: to cause . unjust
suspicion of - aU serums, whereas only
one establishment has innocently- dis
tributed' the 5 contaminated article. It
is also likely to create a, demand for
government manufacture of - serums,
which experience has proved entirely
Inadequate to meet extraordinary" or
even ordinary , demands. We are
among those who believe that the
manufacture of all serums should be
left to private enterprise under strict
federal supervision. Only in this way
can the. country be assured of an
ample supply. Another danger point
so far as foot-and-mouth disease is
concerned lies, in our tanning Indus
try. Every tannery which uses im
ported hides should be watched, or
rather the community" In which' it Is
located should be frequently inspect
ed. Such vigilance is the: price of
continued Immunity" from disastrous
diseases. National Stockman and
Farmer.
A . REGULAR BUSINESS.
We. have some interesting . letters
from young men who have just gone
back to iheir farms after, a course in
an agricultural college. One of them
finds his farm unbalanced, with more
winter than summer feed available.
He wants to know whether he should
feed steers for the January or Febru
ary market, buying the grain and cot
tonseed meal" necessary to supple
ment an r ample supply of - silage.
Feeder cattle cost $7.507.75 in his
locality at present. It is a question
whether any man can buy grain, and
finish steers at a: profit at present
prices of corn and cattle, but the man
with plenty 6s silage "can do it if any"
body can. This young man and every
other who is about to embark in cat
tle feeding, should go into it to 3tay
or else keep out of it entirely.' The
regular feeder will hit a good thing
part of the t'me at least, the in-and-out
feeder may hit or miss. Farmers
who have fed Cattle every year, have
adapted their farm" operations to it,
have raised the hogs to follow the
steers, have exercised good judgment
in buying and selling, are not now
dependent on charity nor are the'r
farms impoverished. The occasional
feeder has had some hard bumps in
recent years, and no doubt will have
some more in years to come. Na
tional Stockman and Farmer.
Brush" down the cobwebs and put a
coating of whitewash all over your
cow stable once and see how much
better it. looks to you; then get the
habit of doing the same thing often.. .
Seeds.
AH binds Poultry Feed and Supplies
xf
Own
rins a carload or more for Byers
o- - ----
rooms full to over flowing one day
weeks of the big Overland Trade
the prices , to make a permanent
just what we're after. Come give
fore
to
weeks and help your friend to
given on all cash purchases, all
5th, and all
ac-
paid
have been standing ,three months or
will
cent.
Books
Books
ber
Accounts
or
See
Trade
Floor
Snow Wiute Gompound Lard I
PRICE RIGHT
Z. C. Byers
'MOTHERS
Feed.
Hendersonville, N.
- - FEED THE COLT. ; boys!! eitherare willing 'too? that.
; 'vvrrr-,. .T v; - .' Tke only-,way for white folks lojiyjoid
Some farmers . Relieve that Ja . colt : working in direct competition with
will make up as- a horse the. growth ' Negro labor " In,:the South4sto grad-.
that it does not make as a colt. : As a ' ually grow in
nmtterof factIa; Colt,i Or any .other J that offers apremium for applied: in
young aniinal that is not kept growing telligemcev and building q. up fetter
is very likely never to become asJarge t dairy ; herds puts you Inta a field jthat
and strong as it would have been had I thriftless and ignorant labor can not
it thrived : while young. V The colt
should receive the proper, kind of feed
ana De iea jiperany.. :ne reed should
be nutritious "and palatable. Among
the ' best: colt feeds Is "iresh pasture
grass. This should i be supplemented
with oilmeal, corn, : oats,; bran and al
falfa or clover, hay. .
ricc f is possible to do so the
celts should be kept in the stable away
from" flies- during- the day, given all
the alfalfa or clover hay they will eat, , ries ; its reward? . The. Southern far
and one pound of the following grain tmer is face to face with, a peculiar
mixture to eachone hundred pounds
of colts:- 6 -pounds of 'oats or corn, 3
pounds or bran, and 1 p pound of oil
meal. Ohio Bulletin. 1 , .
SEPTEMBER LECTURE HOUR -
- : 'hints.--' 'r :.' ::
Roll call. A mistake that I made
this summer. Quotations from the
old school readers by the older mem
bers; ": : -....
v For debate Resolved, That1 the so
cial condition of the rural districts
was . better, forty years ago than it is
now.' Resolved, That the schools of
today are less efficient than those of
thirty "years ago. -
For Discussion ; ;
1. At what stage of ripeness should
silage corn be cut?
2. The value of floats to the far-,
mer. ; ; r- ' .
3. Does it pay to cook ground -feed
for hogs? -.. - . 1 ;
. 4. Is life insurance as important
to -the farmer as fire Insurance? , .
5. How may we help in7 keeping
the children interested in school
work?' ' ''
6. . Advantages and disadvantages of
the country and the city school.
7. Picking and packing of fruit.
8. What should be ' found on the
farmers' reading table ? ; r
9. Which is better, warm stables
or . cool, , well-ventilated stables in
winter?
iu. with present prices wny is "
that -the farmers of the country are
not more prosperous?
THE COW AND CO-OPERATION.
By Dairying and Stockraising Farmers
Can Get Out of Competitori With '
Ignorant Labor; Bigger Profits. ..
While in conversation with a dairy
farmer a cotton farmer made' th?3
rather cutting remark: "I don't want
my daughters to have to go to filthy
stables to milk cows." After a little
reflection- the dairy farmer replied:
"I'd, rather my daughters would go to farID; machinery which he" needs is by
the stables to milk cows than to have i appiying the principle of Co-operation
to go to the cotton field with a crowd ' in itspurchase. There are wonderful
of Negroes to pick cotton." . This opportunities for the genuinely co
dairy farmer, might, have also, added operative community in the South J.
that .when white girls, work in the j z G - in Progressive Farmer., : u
cotton neias oi tne csouin tney are
working "at Negro wages, and . not
Lmantf ambitious "white girls, or white
m J
That Overland v
NOTICE!
.v
RE
Aug. and Sept. Accounts
All August accounts paid by or hex
September the 5th, will entitle
one vote for every cent paid. All
accounts made in September and -
by or before September 17th,
entitle to one vote for - every -
Should you wish to buy Trade
and use in payment of Septem
or other accounts they will be
accepted on or after September 20,
after close of Contest.
particulars first page of "Grand
Booster Edition.?
BUY NOW !
Hamilton
"Own that
Overland"
Water
Ground Meal
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Here
.C.
Overland
enter. ; And this i s equally true of the
ibeef;typecattle .andsotiie"bettertlive-.
Stock" . on Southern farms."
, " 'Why should I spend all my time in
the 1 cotton;, patch when I can milk
three , good cows and hire ignorant
labor ..with! the net- proceeds of thesf
cows'to. produce the cotton -for me?"
When you borne to think'about It, isnt
lere where superior or intelligence car.
economic condition a conditions made
different from that of any other sec
t'oni by haying a farming ; population
made up largely of an ignorant and
inferior . race, with low living stand
ards, which peaces the white man and
his . family at a great disadvantage if
they ..enter, : into direct , competition
with that inferior race in the produc
tion and sale of a crop that can be
produced by the most ignorant labor.
Members' of the' Farmers Union
who are co-operating in the purchase
of pure-bred sires are laying , well 'the
foundation. The direct , income fOA
the cream or ? butter from one good
cow is six to eight: dollars per month.
And there, are three by-products from
the cow (1) : the skim milk for the
calf, the hogs or chickens, (2) the calf
that is raised yearly ; from Hhe-co w
and (3) the manure, ; which is better
for soil building than any fertilizer
you can buy. But the cow business
does not pay its best without co-operation
in the creamery route,5 or in the
sale of butter by parcel-post, in the
collective purchase of clover and
grass seeds .and . . ground v limestone,
and in the purchase and exchange of
pure-bred sires, etc. ..
In this field of co-operation organ
ized, white farmers of the South have
the greatest opportunity, and .leaders
in Local Unions should keep everlast
ingly hammering In this idea.
TIiata is another nh&se of this im-
portant economic problem that should
also be emphasized. . ; Farm machinery
fits ''well into a program, that makes
"more and better livestock" the prin
cipal feature, for in the production of
feed for livestock it is possible to suc
cessfully use labor saving machinery
drawn by horse power, where it is
not practical to uge it, in the produc
tion of crops like cotton and tobacco.
This is another economic advantage
that should not be lost sight of, but
the only . practical and economic .way
for the average farmer to have the
use of all the expensive labor-saving
NOTES ON MILK SANITATION- v
See to it that your bottled milk-does
not show a sediment; if so give the
hooded or covered paid a trial, togeth
er with the usual straining it will
bring results. '
,
Clean up your barns and cows and
keep them clean. Cut some windows
in the milking barn and let all the
sunlight in that you possibly can.
, - - '-
Do not advertise the fact that you
are lax with the disposal of .the manure-.by
letting the pile accumulate
near the barn.
Wash your hands and put or clear
.lhoa Wnra millrin r and see that
viuiuco - uwui v cd
v,ia HAoa nVmxrise YOU Will
take more pleasure in drinking the
.... . -'a. J 4.'
, miiK wnen you sn uuwu lu juui
table. " 1
Do not tolerate 4;he practice of mil V
ing with moist hands; it is a very un
clean practice at best.
Whitewashing is a cheap and effec
tual way- to secure a' change for the
better. It not only, brightens up the
place, but acts as . a disinfectant as
well. Office of Dairy Experimenta
tion, West Raleigh, N. C. , :
COUNTY TEACHERS MEET.
The Henderson bounty Teachers as
sociation met Saturday, ; August 28tb
Devotional f exercises :y?j&e conducted
by : Rev. K W Cawthbiu - After "tb
business of the meeting was disposed
of Mr. Cawthon - made an address on
"Adult Illiteracy in North, Carolina-
He discussed the difficulties which are
to be encountered in reducing adult
illiteracy. He also gave some suggea
tions in regard to how the problem
fmight be solved. First, Influence pub
lic opinion ; second, use the child as an
ally; third, night schools and private
classes.' 7 ' '
The meetingv.was opened for round
table discussion - and. , several every
day problems were . discussed.
Program for September 25th.
Address, Adult Illiteracy, member of
State department. -
Paper, Adult Illiteracy, Mrs. Lila
Ripley Barnwell.
Address by members of Board of Ed
ucation. By-the Secretary. .
THE HORSE STILL. HOLDS HIS
OWN AGAINST AUTOMOBILE.
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The following, showing that the
horse fs holdingrhis own against the
automobile, is taken from the current
issue of Farm and Fireside: '
"Reports from the " Union Stock
Yards of Chicago give the Interesting
fact that there are now employed In
Chicago 72,939 horses, or only. 287
less than a year ago. In Boston the
number of horses is only 50- less than
ten years . ago. ; Minneapolis has 158
more, and St: Louis 730 more,- than i
ten years ago. , Inasmuch as the city
driving and carriage horses has rap
idly disappeared, the figures show that
more ' draft-horses i are in use today
I more draft-horses . are in use today J
than "ever "before,, motor -vehicle not- J
ALLEGED GUSHED ARE OUT ON .
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. ton Justices Release of Defend-
loots Under 300 Bonds, v
Developments are ; piling " up in the -
uarter-Mills-Thompson shooting case.
danger... . He made : his appearance on
Lthe streets for. the first time Sunday "
following his . discharge from1 the hos- .
pltal. - , ;
' All the defendants.except Carter have '
been released under bonds aggregat-" .
ing $6,500. Carter hasn't offered bond. .
having been served with a " warrant
charging him with shooting "Albert
Thompson, since he was taken in cus
tody for, a Philadelphia officer. L ,
i :All the defendants are charged with
shooting with intent to kill. - Albert
Thompson was pleased under a $3,000
bond; that for S. G. Leonard was 1,500 .
and that for Criss Woidfin and Aiken
The defendants were held in jail un
til it was decided that Mills would re
cover from the pistol-shot wound in his
stomacn. '.
The shooting took nlace at A. A f!nr.
ter's home on South Main on. Wednes
day night about a month ago. , . V
The party is said to have called at
the house and one or more fired on
Mills just after calling for Carter, who
was upstairs, and, who is understood to
have fired on Thompson from a win
dow after the latter is. said to hav
shot Mills. Thompson and Leonard
acu iu. cuarge mat nignt, the
former being taken to the hospital and
Leonard to the- jail. Woodfin and
Mitchell were arrested, early the fol- '
lowing morning in Asheville and wer
Placed In jail. :
Charges were hot preferred against
S?? I"11 after he had been placed
m jau to answer tn charts n pmi. '
delphia. f :
elimijmry hearings have been
ZtYd the cass will Probably be
tried at the coming, term of Super lor
ThCh cnes in Octoberf "
l?111?5 array of legali talent
ZZ T recamea Judge H. G. Ewart
St;8" t Rector of Henderson--ville;
Judge P. C. Cocke, Judge 08 ,
Reynolds. Jadge Thomks" Jones' -Marcus
Erwin. McKInlAv
A. Hall Johnston of Ashevillej McD
Ray isunderstood to represent Car
ter. Solicitor Michael Schenck will
conduct tle prosecution.
A BOY'S TRIBUTE TO HIS FATHER
In the August American Magazine
a boy makes a splendid tribute to his
father, part of which follows:
"Because my mother knew that
from the day he first met her until he
died, or for all the days in fifty years,
she was ; the. woman he loved r
should like the Woman 1 tnoi-w x
- . a UMA1 V .1 I
knowthe same thing of me, all our
lives long. ' :
) "Because he was gentle. Because he
loved all flowers, in cool woods, and
m sunny fields and by dusty road
sides, and brought them home; gath- .
ered into clumsy: bouquets 'for
Mother.' If she could not go herself
to see themin the places where they
neia up their sky faces. Because he
loved all children and let them climb
over his shoulders and pull his hair.
"Because his eyes twinkled and his '
face was jolly. Because he smiled at
us children even in days when he was
hiding black despair ;in his heart.
""Because, although his work kept
him away from home for. so many
weeks at a time, he wrote jolly let
ters every day to Mother and us,
making jokes, out of Icy . winds and
beds covered with snow that had
drifted in .through farmhouse;' win-
fJWH. fln1 ' all' ni1nl.).
, Uv wa. o.in. uaiusiujB, ,
"Because he was deep-cheated and
r.T1 and "hanancm li
1 . . .
' wuris. mine neias insuch rtavu 9q ".
he could find no work in his own pro-.
il'SSlOn. KPMUBO Vt r tVintt i -
.-v. luuugm uy wurs-
i. u iittuus ueaeam mm 11 it. brought
5 food and a shelter.
Because he talked to farmers and
carpenters and to learned men ind to,
diggers of ditches and. to little girl?"
and boys and to Presidents alike, and Y
all loved him. . , ; J
t "Because he wore his n-o-viits
ten years and his shoes for two years"
and called his coat "as good as new
with a little fixing in the lining."
"Because he thought no sacrifice of
any. importance if bv
and beautiful and true In life.
"Because he used to put his arm
around Mother and t
her eyes twinkled and she said, 'Go
away.Boy!,,;ii dU'-v' ' -
"Because everybody missed hln
when he went away Somewhere Else
and will always remember him; " i
"That is. why I should like to be
bj,v;u a, man as ne was, v , ,,. i , ,
MRS. MAE LUCttE WALKER. ;
Mrs. Walker, formerly Miss Smith
of Hendersonville. was injured last
week on the railroad according to ilia 1
following dispatch: 7
Concord, Aug. 27. -Mrs. R. E. Walk
er, formerly Miss Mae Lucile Smith,
editor of Skyland Magazine, is at thp
Saint Cloud Hotel undergolng-4reat-ment
for an accident sustained yester-
viajr.- hub. wa.iH.cr was a passenger on .
train No. 36 and. was struck -by.. a suit
case, causing a painful Injury to her
right side. She cot off the train hern .
to receive medical attention- Mr.
Walker was telegraphed for and'arriv
ed today. Mrs. Walker's condition is
reported as not .improved today. Shtf"
continues to suffer considerable Dain .
' BUILD MODERN HIGHWAYS. ;
A certain Southern State "which Is
rapidly attracting settlers is doing so
by building good roads so as to make
tne : country accessible. A county;
v'th undeveloped . resources 'can at-
iriDute tneir undeveloped : state to in- ,
acessibility. ; Resources become, avail
able as soon as. they are 'accessible. -If
North Carolina wants to masnif ,
her resources and display !her advant-
8 ges, sne can take a near cut to, it by -c
network of modern highways. ; A
county might get along fairly fell
vlthout railroads, but it can't get
along without good public roads.
J withstanding
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v. Wilmington Star.