BUY CHRISTMAS SEALS
The Ship of Health Is Santa's Flagship
How to Grow More and Better Cotton
PREPARE FINE, FIRM SEED-BED USE WELL-BRED, ADAPTED VARIETIES
FERTILIZE ACCORDING TO LOCAL NEEDS AND TEST FOR GERMINATION
a. _ PLANT WHEN GROUND IS WARM,
HARROW BEFORE COTTON IS UP, AND DUST WITH CALCIUM
CULTIVATE FREQUENTLY TO NEARL Y ARSENATE WHEN 10PER
PICKING TIME CENT OF SQUARES ARE^^^^4
Cotton farming experts agree that more and better eotton on fewer acres
is one of the best ways to increase the profit in growing this crop, says the
Sears-Roebuck Agricultural Foundation. Yield and production costs are like
a teeter-board. As the yield goes up, the cost comes down.
' fine, firm seed bed is a first essential for a large yield per acre. Us
ing land in sweet clover, or second or third year alfalfa, or some other legume,
plowing early and deep, and thorough working to pulverize and settle the
ground complete the initial step.
Fertilizer must be applied according to local needs. Many successful
growers use 600 to 800 pounds per acre of a complete fertilizer and later a
side dressing of 100 to 300 pounds of nitrate of soda to speed growth and
put the plant in the lead in the race with the weevil. Free application of barn
yard manure to land intended for cotton will help.
Using well-bred, adapted seed that has been tested for germination, and
planting an ample amount as soon as the ground has become warm are neces
sary requirements for a full stand and a large yield. A bushel or more of
seed per acre should be used to give the young plants enough push to break
through the ground and to leave a full number of strong, vigorous plants
after the weak ones have perished. The seed should be planted deep enough
so it will come up without rain, but not be sealed in the ground by a beating
shower. "Skips" make no cotton themselves and do not help adjoining plants
to make more.
Harrowing the ground before the crop is up, frequent cultivation until
it is nearly ready to pick, and removal of all weeds will enable the plant to
make the most of its opportunity during the growing season. Every small weed
will take away enough plant food to make a boll.
Dusting for weevil with calcium arsenate should be started as soon as
30 per cent of the squares have been punctured. Owing to the cost, it will
not pay to start sooner. Repeat the dusting twice at intervals of four days to
bring the weevils under control, and dust again when they seem to be getting
numerous once more.
No royal road to the production of a high yield of cotton per acre has
yet been mapped, the Foundation adds. While extra effort is required at every
stage, it is sure to bring a proportionate reward. Farmers who have succeeded
in growing from one to three bales of cotton per acre have reduced their
production costs to 5 to 10 cents a pound compared with an average cost at
15 to 20 cents a pound for the entirp belt.
FREE MAYTAG WASHING MACHINE
The Asheville Maytag Company will give away a
Maytag Washing Machine, free, on Christmas Eve at
6 o'clock. This offer open to all. If interested, call on
the local agent for detailed information.
A. L. McKINNEY
Ellenboro, N. C. Phone 49-F.
EAGLE No. 174
iaie at your Dealer Made L. nv® gradw
ASK FOR THE YELLOW PENCIL WITH RED BAND
EAGLE MIKADO
EAGLE PENCIL COMPANY, NEW YORK
TRY OUR CLASSSFEB COLUMN FOR RESULTS
THE FOREST CITY COURIER, THURSDAY, DECEMBER
WIRE COMPANIES
MOVE TO USE 1
BELL FACILITIES |
Western (JoioD and Postal Enter j
Into Important Contracts
With A. T. & T. Co.
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The simultaneous transmission of
telephone and telegraph message®
over the same wires, on a nation
wide scale, will be the result of
far-reaching arrangements recent
ly consummated between the Amer
ican Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany and two telegraph companies:
the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany and the Postal Telegraph and
Cable Corporation. A series of
non-exclusive contracts entered into
with each of these telegraph com
panies will insure the development
of electrical communications along
lines made possible by the latest
devices and methods developed by
the Bell System research experts.
By these arrangements the users of i
electrical communications will re- |
ceive the benefit of many advan
tages but the telephone and tele
graph companies will maintain
complete independence of- each
other.
One of the new contracts makes
the long distance telephone lines
available for the transmission of
telegraph messages handled by'
these two telegraph companies.
Further economies in the utiliza
tion of telegraph lines will be made
possible under another of the con
tracts which provides that the tele
graph companies may lease appara
tus developed in the Bell Tele
phone Laboratories, by which a sin
gle pair of telegraph wires may be
made, under certain conditions, to
serve as several telegraph chan
nels.
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Still another of this series of con
tracts permits the two telegraph
companies the use of the telephone
company's telephoto system for the
transmission of facsimile messages
between cities in which stations for
the transmission of pictures by
wire are maintained.
Under these contracts the tele
graph companies also have the use
of certain developments which
have been worked out by telephone
engineers that are of particular
practical value to the telegraph
business. In addition to the de
vices for increasing the message
capacity of telegraph lines and for
the simultaneous transmission of
telegraph messages over telephone
lines without interfering with the
use of the latter for telephone pur
poses, the Bell Telephone Labora
tories have worked out improve
ments which have been applied to
submarine telegraph cables, re
sulting in a large increase in the
capacity of the ocean cables.
NEW CIRCUITS FOR PORTLAND
Because of the increased number
of Long Distance telephone calls
out of Portland, Me., three addi
tional direct circuits to New York
hive been installed, making in all
a total of seven such direct cir
cuits. An average of about 2,000
toll calls a day is now made in'
Portland, of which about 35% go
to Boston.
The people of this country com-,
plete over 3,000,000 telephone toll 1 '
conversations daily.
A British chemist says that in the
future much of our food supply will
be obtained from wood. Some of it
tastes that way already.
"A man has a right to control his
wife," says a judge. But then, she
might have a good "right" herself.
§ "SANTA CLAUS HEADQUARTERS"
We advise that you do your Christmas Shopping early, and that you see us be
fore buying your Christmas needs. Headquarters for meats of all kinds. The list be
low will tell you some of the good things we have to eat:
Headquarters for Roasts Fruit Cake Material
Meats of All Kinds Mutton Apples, Oranges, Bananas
Fresh Baltimore Oysters All Kinds Steaks All Kinds Nuts
Fresh Pork Sausage Stuffed Olives Fruits and Candies
Nice Green Lettuce Red Juicy Cranberries Plain and Fancy Groceries
Fresh Celery Mince Meat White Lily Flour
Dressed Chickens Fruit Cake (all sizes) (Splendid for baking
All Kinds Hams, Beef Grape Fruit cakes)
D. F. BEACHBOARD
Phone 168 Forest N - C -
203 INDIVIDUALS I;
CONTRIBUTE TO
RED CROSS CALL!
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Total of $215.65 Donated in ]
County To Date For Red
Cross Work (
Rutherfordton, Doc. 12.—Two \
hundred and three people have con-jj
tributed to the annual Red Cross Roll j
Call a total of $215.65 to date, ac
cording to the treasurer, Miss Vir- '
ginia Grayson. This is, however, still
short of the county's quota. Those j
contributing are as follows:
Bostic: Miss Reba Price, Mrs. Mor- j
gan Cooper, Morgan Cooper, Seventh j
grade. Sixth grade, Terry Smart, E. \ ]
E. Smart. »
Caroleen and Henrietta: Dr. T. C.
Lovelace, Mrs. T. C. Lovelace, Rev.
F. H. Price, W. L. Smith, Harold
Haddle, Clark Harrill, S. B. Moore,
W. S. Moore, Fred Rollins, Frances
Reynolds, Goldie Lee Morrisette, F.
O. Hand, Cleo Sane, Margaret Kim-1
zay, Chas. Little, Mrs. Robert Neal,!
Mrs. S. J. Asbury, Virginia Poole, 1
Frank Edwards, Fourth Grade and!
Pearl Neal, W. L. Hicks, O. J.!
Mooneyham, B. H. Moss, Mrs. B. A.'
Hamrick.
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Cliff side: C. A. Denson, N. C. Beat-'
ty, B. E. Roach, Mrs. F. S. Hall, Dr. .
F. B. Scruggs, H. C. Rollins, Dr. G. j
D. Moss, W. H. Haynes, Mrs. J. C. j
Hames, Miss Pamelia Pruitt, D. C. I
Whitaker, Geo. R. Shepard, Miss j
Pearl Simmons, A. M. Haynes, H. F.
Blackwell, W. J. Laughridge, B. P.»
Caldwell, R. B. Watkins, J. Y. Padg-!
ett, W. B. Wilson, Ivey Shuford, T.
S. Tate, Miss Annabelle Logan, Miss
Ewer Bame, Miss Nevelyn Martin,
P. C. Hawkins, Dr. J. C. Hord, B. E.
Simmons, Miss Alice David, Miss Cor- i
ene Bookart, Miss Flora Morris, Miss i
Sara Workman, Miss Beth Caldwell, (
Mrs. B. F. Caldwell, Chas. H. Haynes, j
C. B. Edwards, C. D. Hughes, M. M. j
Hendricks.
Ellenboro: E. E. Harrill, Mrs. E. E.
Harrill, J. E. Beam, Mrs. J. E. Beam, j
A. B. Bushong, A. C. Wilson, J. B.
Beam, Mrs. John Martin, Mrs. E. A.
Martin, Miss Kate Harrill, Miss Car-1
rie Harrill, Fred Harrill, Rev. Z. D. J
Harrill, Mrs. Renzo Wilson.
Forest City: Mrs. O. B. Bigger- j
staff, Dr. and Mrs. C. H. Verner, j
Mrs. J. S. Rudisill, Miss Ruth Moss, I
Miss Martha Moores, Miss Lois ■
Moores, Rev. M. F. Moores, Mrs. D.
H. Sutton, Miss Margaret Young, I
Miss R. Gaines, Mrs. A. C. Duncan, |
J. W. Eakes, Mayse Flack, John Dal-j
ton, Howard Doggett, Mrs. Reid. :
Rutherfordton: Miss Mary Sue,
Hill, C. M. Butler, L. H. Stephenson, I
J. Cal William, Ed. McFarland, J. j
P. Hamil, I. Goodman, A. G. Harrel- j
son, B. H. Long, J. P. Stockton, M. j
O. Dickerson, Loyd Williamson, W. j
L. Little, Z. O. Keeter, P. C. Rol-'
jlins, B. D. Wilson, H. L. Carpenter, |
Paul Withrow, Maurice Littman, Mrs.
! Maurice Littman, J. H. Burwell, Les
| lie Taylor, D. M. Stahl, J. H. Carp-!
i enter, Miss Lila Lewis, Owen Stamey, j
!J. C. Mills, W. O. Watkins, W. C.
I Twitty, A. L. Morris, C. F. Geer, J.
| H. Keeter, S. P. Dunagan, Miss Ellen ■
I Erwin, N. C. Harris, Miss Sara Tay- j
j lor, Miss Winifred Hoyle, Mrs. N. C. ;
Harris, Jr., Mrs. B. D. Wilson, Mrs. |
1 C. F. Gold, John R. Norris, W. R. !
j Hill, Mrs. Ola Justice, R. E. Price,
Miss Virginia Grayson, Clyde Erwin, i
i Rev. W. L. Latham, Dr. Phillip Nor- I
j ris, J. P. Bean, G. D. Smawley, E. i
IC. White.
i Spindale: Miss Margaret Tate,
j Frances Bivens, Irene Harris, Capt.
j B. L. Smith, J. E. Berry, D. C. Cole,
J. H. Hill, W. A. Barber, R. L. Arial,
(C. J. Rourke, T. M. Plonk, R. R.
James, J. B. Bailey, Dr. McDonald,
Newton Neeley, S. E. Elmore, Mrs.
S. E. Elmore, the Elmore children,
N. A. Gregg, Mae Nanney, Ruby Mc-
Donald, R. W. Eaves, Jr., Ola Love
lace, Estelle McDonald, Olema Flack,
F. F. Alexander, Dewey Devinney,
E. L. Simmons, L. T. Goode, C. H.
Nanney, Tessie M. McMurry, Eula
Hester, Elsie Culbreth, Cora Nanney,
Hattie Wallock, Grace Hester, Herb
ert Crenshaw, J. C. Cowan, Jr.,
Ernest Moore, L. C. Finley, J. C.
Dorton, David Lindsey, M. R. Watts,
D. W. Andrews, Mrs. D. W. Andrews,
Earl Mace, H. W. Williams, Ellen
Hogan, Eliza Hughes, Nettie Walker,
J. H. Chatham, Methodist Sunday
School donation, $9.70.
Thieves stole a S4OO painting from
the University of California, leaving
a Rembrandt worth $20,000 un
touched. Which shows the impor
tance of education.
( Christmas Toys and
"seM GiHs at
Reasonable Prices
We have a complete assortment of trees for the
homes and other Christmas decorations.
Holly boxes, stickers, seals, wrapping paper and
post cards at lowest prices.
Our assortment of toys is the largest ever shown
in Rutherford county. Our large stock enables you to
buy here as cheap as you could buy in a big city.
Many useful gifts for adults are on display here.
Select yours now while our stock is complete.
Delicious fresh candies at lowest prices.
Stahls sc-10c«25c Stores
Forest City, N. C. Rutherfordton, N. C.
BUY EARLY ONLY NINE SHOPPING DAYS LEFT
WHEN YOU THINK OF USEFUL
GIFTS, REMEMBER HOSIERY
AND FOOTWEAR
i/f 7 Few 0f US have S0 many Hose or Slippers
jrl iJlll /| ' that another comfortable pair would not be
I / welcome—and you can be very sure that the
\ / recipient will wear them often, and thank you
I mentally each time they may put them on, if
/Y H your selection is their favorite style in
jl |l Wright-Scruggs shoes and hosiery.
Fast Mail Order Service
| '\)ke Shoe Store _ , *•
; W* J Spartanburg,SXj v
TRAIN SCHEDULES
Seaboard
No. 109, South. Art*. 10:30 a.m.
No. 21, South Arr. 12:18 p. m.
No. 22, North Arr. 4:81 p. m.
Southern
No. 113, South, Arr. 6:20 a. m.
No. 36, North, Arr. 10:09 a. m.
No. 35, South, Arr. 5:35 p, m.
so. 114, North, Arr. 8:56 p. m.
ClinchHeM
No. 37, North, Arr. 10:45 a. m.
No. 38, South, Arr. 4:48 p. m.
No. 110, North, Ar* 11 .-20 a. m-
Americans spend • $287.00,000 a
year for soap. There's no little boy
in this country v.ho couldn't think
of a better use for all that money.
If you want to sell your house and
lot or farm, or if you want to buy
property of any kind write or see me.
Chas. Z. Flack, Forest City, N.C. 1-tf