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V )LUME XXXII NUMBER 45
COMMUNITY SERVICE
WEEK TO BE OBSERVED
December 3, 4 and 5 Are the Days Set Apart for This Work
Throughout the State Scotland Will Observe These
Days and Committees are Now at Work Formu
lating Plans and Getting Ready.
Community service week in
North Carolina will be observed
throughout the State on Thurs
day, Friday and Saturday, De
cember 3, 4 and 5.
Scotland county, which stands
at the head of a great many
things in North Carolina and the
South, will join in the observance
of these days.
Governor Craig has set apart
these days and calls upon every
man, woman and child in the
State to lend heart, hand and
brain to the service and develop
ment of North Carolina and of its
every community and county, as
days wherein the people shall
meet, confer and work together
f or advancement along the three
fold lines of investigation, united
labor for the immediate improve
ment of the community and wise
planning for its future.
Thursday will be "Public
Roads, Grounds and Building
Day,"
Friday will be "School and
Neighborhood Improvement
Day." .
Saturday will be "County Pro
gross Day."
All of the details of a program
have not been perfected, but Mr.
E. H. Gibson, chairman of the
county committee, and Superin
tendent Peele, who is secretary
to the committee, are working
on this, and more announcements
will be made later. ' 1
SCOTLAND'S SCHOOLS.
What Superintendent Russell Did f
Scotland's Schools.
The following article about
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LAURINBURG, N. CTJ THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5,- 1914.
$1.50 PER YEAR, IN ADVANCE
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Dots and Jots From Sneads Grove.
Sneads Grove, Nov. 2, 1914.
Messrs. W. P. Snead, A. K.
Jackson and C. R. Covington
took in the fair at Fayetteville
Wednesday of last week. They
made the trip in Wm. Ford.
Mr. Stancel, of Allenton, N.
C, has been stationed at Sneads
Grove by the State Board of
Health to look into the sanitary
condition of the community.
Misses Irene and Janie Jackson
entertained Tuesday evening of
last week in honor of their cous
ins, Misses Bessie and Ethel Nor
ton, of Raeford.
Mr. C. D. Norton visited rela
tives in Bladen county last Satur
day and Sunday., Charles, we
learn, is expecting to farm in
Bladen next year. .We regret
very much to learn of his intend
departure from our community.
Miss Mary Snead gave a hal
loween party laft Friday even
ing. Rev. D. B. Parker, our pastor,
has only one more appointment,
which is the third Sunday morn
ing of this month, before he will
go to conference. We hope,
however, to have him back with
us next year.
Jf you dqn't believe William
Snead can drive his car up a tele
graph pole, "ax Charlie Coving
ton. Mr. John Dawkins and sister.
Miss Lizzie, of Hoffman, visited
their cousin, Miss Frances Snead,
Saturday and Sunday of last
week.
Mr. J. P. Gibson, of St. John
community, was a Snead's Grove
visitor Sunday.
The farmers of this section are
doing rapid business in gathering
their cotton crop these early au
tumn days, in spite of the blues
the European war has brought
us.
I will ring off, hoping to "jot"
a few more "dots" next week
and to remain,
Yours truly,
HORRIBLE CONDITION IN PJJTSBUR6.
Eight Thousand . Children Found to be Drug
Fiends. Some Only Ten Years Old.
Eight thousand boys and girls
in the city of Pittsburg are vic
tims of the heroin habit, accord
ing to a recent report rendered
by Arthur G. Burgoyne, superin
tendent of the Bureau of Public
Morals. It is alleged the bane
ful drug is sold openly to youth
ful consumers whose ages range
from 10 to 20 years, the majority
of whom are children in Pitts
burg schools. The city council
has taken preliminary steps to
ward a vigorous campaign against
those who are said to be reaping
a harvest from the sale of the
drug. v
Until two years ago heroin was
the resource of hardened offend
ers to give them nerve for bur
glary and other crimes. To-day
it is said to reach not only to the
lower grades of Pittsburg schools
but even to the cradles in homes
where nurse girls are employed.
"For God's sake, get me two
heroin pills or I'll die!" begged
Martin McTighe, 19 years old,
following his arrest in Pittsburg,
when seen acting queerly on the
street. To save the boy fronr
complete collapse a physician
gave him some of the drug.
After crushing the tablets and i
sniffing them eagerly, the boy'
underwent a startling change
and talked volubly of his plight
and that of others. He told how
easy it was to get the drug and
said he sniffed 200 of the pills in j
a day. A bottle containing 200
of the pills, which are a morphia
concoction, usually costs 75 cents,
and there is 50 cents profit in its
sale. A few drug stores here
are said to sell 200 bottles in a
day, at a profit of $100.
Following the confession of
McTighe, the authorities pressed
the inquiry and found that school
children have been caught sniff
ing the drug in class rooms and
that nurse girls, themselves ad
dicted to the use of the drug,
blow it into the nostrils of crying
children to quiet them.
More than half the victims of
the drug in Pittsburg are believed
to have acquired the habit within
the past two years!
noteworthy strides made by Sea
land from an educational stan
point in the last few years duriAtg
thr administration of Mr. G. M?
Russell as superintendent, was
prepared by Superintendent Peele
for the News and Observer arid
aoDeared in that paper on AfcA
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gust 8th :
Scotland county, one of tike
most advanced counties in agy
culture in the State, has ma
just as noteworthy strides in the
fields of education during the last
few years, though unheralded by
any public eclat.
Five years ago Superintendent
Russell said he would - bend his
energies toward securing (1) bet
ter school houses, (2) larger av
erage attendance, (3) more pro
ficient teachers, (4) and better
salaries. An inventory of the
succeding five years shows that
bonds have been issued for the
building of two large graded
school buildings one at Laurin
burg, costing $25,000, and one at
Gibson, about $10,000. Twenty
thousand dollars has been spent
during the time in building and
repairing lcral white school
houses, while $S,0C3 has beea
spent in building negro school
houses. Five yar3 ago the av
erage attendance of whites was
529; this year it was 1,444, while
the average of attendance of ne
groes has increased at a greater
rate. The number of teachers
who hold college diplomas has
been increased 300 per cent, while t Boys;"
the average salary of all the
teachei3 in the county has been
advanced 35 per cent.
Four years ago, after much ad
vertising, a very smaii audience
was secured to witness a county
spelling contest, in which a very
few. schools p3rdcipat
year one of thosprge
MISS STEWART ENTERTAINS.
Book Club Has Delightful Meeting Witn
Miss Julia Stewart.
An invitation to any entertain
ment with Miss Julia Stewart as
hostess is always eagerly wel
comed by those fortunate enough
to receive them, for always some
thing out of the general run is
sure to be on the program. Her
entertainment of the Thursday
vAfternoori Book Club was there
fore looked forward to wifh
pleasure, especially as a little
whisper had gone forth that she
szas to make her own program,
something unique would be the
result. And unique it was. The
weather added its charms co the
occasion and the guests 'thronged
her rooms. Minutes of the last
meeting were first read and then
the exchange of books. Mrs. W.
H. Neal then delighted the club
with a budget of strange and
funny happenings, the latter
bringing forth peals of laughter.
This was thoroughly enjoyed.
Next followed singing by the
"Pumpkins." Two little boys
dressed in sheets and with pump
kin heads entered, and as they
took their stand by the piano
with backs to the audience, the
heads, with their grotesque eyes,
nose and mouth, turned and
faced about, then the sweet boy
voices, soprano and tenor, ren
dered "I Love You Truly,"
Here's to the Good Old Frat
then an imitation of a
steamboat . bell and whistle.
These were Masters Halstead and i
Clayton Covington, the younger
singing tenor. This was very
DEMOCRATS LOSE
GROUND IN STATE
Tax Amendment Apparently Defeated, Others in Doubt -Demo
crats Stayed at Home Instead of Going to the Polls.
Gudger Defeated by Britt-Scotland's
Vote Light.
HORSES AND DOSS SOLD FOR FOOD.
pretty and greatlyen joyed. Next
followed "October," a gem from
76."
NEWS HAS FIRE.
Laurinburg News Suffers Loss From Early
Morning Fire Yesterday.
Oui neighbor, the Laurinburg
News, suffered a severe loss by
fire early yesterday morning.
About 6:30 o'clock, night offi
cer Medlin discovered that a fire
was raging in the office of the
News and hurried to the home of
editor Tillman, whom he notified.
He then rushed to the fire de
partment and soon the company
was on the scene, quickly extin
guishing the blaze.
The fire burned a quantity of
paper stock on hand and damaged
the newspaper press. Other
stock and supplies were more or
less damaged . by water and
smoke. The amount of damage,
which was partially "covered by
insurance, cannot be determined
until the insurance adjusters ar
rive and an inventory is made.
Editor Tillman , requests us to
say that just as soon as adjust
ments can be made, he will re
sume the publication of his pa
per. The popular bride will be the
one who insists that it be a cotton
shower.
ever assembled in the
at Snead's Grove and interested
ly witnessed various high class
contest and county commence
ment. Every school in the coun
ty was represented in some con
test, the one-teacher school stri
ving as optimistically as the ten.
For the stimulus of interest in
our mother tongue, public-spirited
citizens have put up prizes to
be given annually for best decla
mation in high schcol grades for
best essay in grammar grades
and best essay in high school de
partment. There is local inter3st and a
healthy school rivalry incident in
every district. This is gradually
manifesting itself by the incur
sion of local school tax and an oc
casional enlarged schcol district.
Already one-third of the schcol
districts in the county have local
tax and run eight months in the
year.
With good building all over
the county, an efficient corps of
teachers, and good, live school
sentiment, I predict that next
year will be one of the best years
in the school history of our
county.
These Scotchmen ' 'say nothing
but saw wood " ; 'they are build
ing up school communities and
leave it for the world to find this
out. It is self-development they
seek, and not advertisement, so
one has to come among them to
appieciate their real worth as
school-builders.
Gibson, N. C.
ed. Thikjahn Chrn FlNeill, read by
.t audreivitfj iThen in
county met ffftrn two eftostl figures nlaved
mi m. me
Celebrated Ninetieth Birthday.
At the family home in West
Laurinburg, on October 24th,
Mr. Daniel McCormick celebrated
the 90th anniversary of his birth
day. With this wonderful old man
was a number of his children
and grandchildren, and the ab
sence of Mr. Austin McCormick,
of Wilmington, only prevented
there being four generations
present.
A special dinner was served,
to which a few of Mr. McCor
mick's intimate friends were in
vited. Among those from out of town
were Mrs. C. H.May and daugh
ter, Miss Ruby, of Morven, and
Mr. Luther McCormick, of Max
ton. (
Mrs. May and daughter re
turned to their home Tuesday.
very pretty instrumental solos
aid left the guests to puzzle over
their identity. These were Misses
Marie Covington and Irene Prince.
Current Topics were read and
then followed a most unique num
ber, "Sowing of the Seed," by
"Madam Grundy." . Mrs. T. T.
Covington, in grej wig and flow
ing dress, apron and sewing,
represented the mischief -working
old dame. Mrs. Bettie Shaw,
Mrs. A. L. James, Mrs. H. O.
Covington, Mrs. W. D. B. Mc
Eachin and Miss Julia Stewart
were the recipient and bearers of
the seed. This was very amus
ing and represented and repre
sented a very common and to be
deplored frailty of the humans.
To hear the little innocent . re
marks to the old dame and then
the twists she gave them in rep
etition and the renewed twist
given by each one in turn was
true to life. At the close "Mad
am Grundy" dropped her char
acter of mischief-maker and gave
some good advice in some origi
nal lines of rhyme. The ladies
proved good actresses and, as
the saying is, "brought down the
house."
The guests were enthusiastic
in their praise of the program.
Miss Stewart served most beau
tiful as well as delightful re
freshmen ts,tice cream and cake,
coffee, cheese crackers and sea
foam candy.
Mrs. A. M. Fairley,
Secretary Book Club.
Some Taters.
Mr. W. D. K. McEachin, who
is one of Scotland's most ex
pensive planters, has on exhibition
in a window at the State Bank
building some very fine sweet po
tatoes which he has just gather
ed. In the lot is one weighing
2 pounds and two that will tip
the scale at 5 pounds each.
Attached to the bale of cotton
in the window, which the bank
recently bought at 10 cents per
pound, is a section of potato vine
about eight inches long, From
this vine hangs 18 potatoes.
Mr. McEachin told the Ex
change man that he gathered
255 bushels from 1 acres.
The potatoes are of the Nancy
Hali variety.
an ni
Don't worry. There's always
enough trouble to go around.
Kentucky Butchers Admit They Have Been
Selling Horse and Dog Meat. j
The biggest and most influen
tial butchers in Louisville, Ky.,
are under indictments charging
them with trafficking in the flesh
of wornout horses,
sold in the form of "hamburger"
steak, and the carcasses of dogs,
which they disposed of as opos
sum, coon or pork, depending on
the size of the dogs. Al C. Koch
and Joseph Oppenheimer, two
convicted butchers, have made
confessions in which they name
the men with whom and through
whom they dealt. Their state
ments are being used as the ba
sis for further investigation on
the part of the city health office.
It is alleged that during the
past two years thousands of
pounds of horseflesh have been
sold in Louisville and vicinity and
that dog meat has been passed
on scores of unsuspecting cus
tomers as shoat meat. The health
office is aiming to break up this
practice.
The recent Kentucky state fair
marks the beginning of the form
al investigation into the meat
scandal in Louisville. It is al
leged that thousands of, visitors
to Ite-siair were fed on "ham-
'" steak which in realitv
ied oiiy horseflesh. Back-
cohtention, Joseph Op-
tpenheimer has declared that he
sold 2,500 pounds of horseflesh
each week throughout the spring
of 1914 and up to the opening of
the state fair.
Al C. Koch has made similar
affidavits naming the men to
whom he sold. In addition PeterJ
C. Lippert, a horse trader, and
George Reeves, another butcher,
have made sworn statements cor
roborating the convicted men.
On one of his visits to a butch
er shop with Koch, Reeves tells
that the butcher asked for "shoat
meat." Later he explained that
by "shoat meat" usually was
meant pork but that in this case
it meant dressed dog meat.
Reeves declared the butcher
laughed over the ifact that two
health office inspectors passed as
an unusually fine shoat a large
dog that had Jbeen dressed and
placed on the ice in his warer
room. Grit.
By staying at home instead of
going to the polls Tuesday, caused
the Democrats in North Carolina
to lose ground and the Republi
cans to gain.
The vote in Scotland, as in the
State, was very light. The
amendments carried in Stewarts
ville No. 1, which is in the Lau-
which they ! rinbun? nrecinct. bnt. thprp i
some doubt about them in the
whole count.
Stewartsville No. 1 recorded
eight Republican votes; Stewarts
ville No. 2, none; upper Wil
liamson, 12; Lower Williamson,
2; Lower Laurel Hill, 6; Upper
Laurel Hill, 3; Spring Hill, 3 a
total of 34 votes in the county.
Whitener received 32 votes, Mc
Crary 34. Complete returns have
not been made and the result as
to the proposed amendments is
in doubt.
In the Tenth Congressional
District, James J. Britt, Republican-Progressive
candidate, de
feated J. M. Gudger, Jr., Demo
crat, by over 500 votes.
What was true in North Caro
lina was .also true in the- nation,
the Republicans making decided
gains, but the Democrats will
control Congress by a small majority.
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A 6cod Record.
Last Sunday morning at the
Presbyterian Sunday School Mr.
Vaster Pailor was - r "-vented
with a pin llLJCjL ms
loyal and Continuous attendance
upon the Sunday School exer
cises. The pin was a six year
pin, and testified to the fact that
for six consecutive years he had
been a regular attendant. 'To be
a Sunday School scholar is a good
record for any young man, but
to have the distinction conferred
upon Mr. Pay lor for six years
without a miss is indeed a re
cord tc be proud of. Mr. Pay-
J lor's younger brother, Mr. John
Paylor, will in December receive
the same badge of honor.
Mrs. J. S. McNeil! III.
Mrs. John S. McNeill, of Lum
berton, daughter of Mrs. F. P.
Coble of this City, has been quite
ill for several days.
Mrs. McNeill visited her moth
er here two weeks ago and while
here was not as well as usual and
upon returning to her home in
Lumberton continued to grow
worse, and on Saturday last un
derwent a serious operation in
which the appendix was in
volved. Mrs. McNeill was very
Death of Mrs. Jeff Gibson.
Just as we go to press we learn
with much regret of the death of
Mrs. Jeff D. Gibson of William
son township. Mr3. Gibson was
stricken ill about a week ago
with pneumonia and died Tues
day afternoon at 5:30 o'clock.
The burial was made at the Mc
Neill graveyard yesterday after
noon. Mrs. Gibson was a relative of
our townsman, Mr. D. C. McNeill.
Some Pumpkins.
Mr. L. L. Parker, of Lanes
Creek, tells The Journal he has a
pumpkin vine which he believes
to be the champion. It is sixty
three feet long and has produced
f oui teen pumpkins. The last one
grew fifty-nine feet from the
root of the vine. He is solid for
pumpkin pie. Mr. John M. Deese,
of Vance, reports one vine that
has six, averaging twent-five
pounds each one hundred and
one vine.
511 frr Qpvprnl dnvs smH much
concern was Manifested by her" ?oands of pure PPin on
relatives and friends here and
elsewhere.
Her mother and sisters, Mrs.
Theresa Mclntyre, Mrs. Maude
Mcintosh and Miss Roberta Co
ble, were called to Lumberton
Saturday and Mrsi Coble and
Mrs. Mcintosh will remain at the
bedside until Mrs. McNeill re
covers. It will be glad tiding to the
Laurinburg friends of Mrs. Mc
Neill to know that her condition
is somewhat improved.
They are Passing.
The man who objects to e very
new project designed to help his
town on the ground that present
conditions "are good enough, let
wTell enough alone," would be
quite content to live with grass
grown streets, and with oil lamps
to light them. Fortunatley, as
the spirit of local patriotism
more and more asserts itself, so
the number of such fossils grad
ually lessens.