THE ROANOKE CHOWAN TIMES.THURSDAY. SEPT. 2. 1926
NOBFOLK FAIR A GREAT AGRICUL
TURAL AND INDUSTRIAL EXPOSITION
Visitors to the Norfolk Greater
Interstate Fair will find this year
the biKeest and greatest agri
cultural exhibition that has ever
been held in this section. F. L.
Portlock, the county farm agent
and director of the exhibit has
been busy the entire summer
working out what will be seen to
be the most varied agricultural
show the fair has ever exhibited.
The cattle and swine show will
be another big feature, while the
dairy products will excel in every
respect. Every farmer and
agriculturist will do well to pay
the fair a visit for every exhibi-
bion in the way of farm products
will be of the nature to promote
better and more consistent farm
ing. The industrial exhibits will
have the greatest number of
manufactured articles and will
show much that can be used by
the farmer to a helpful extent.
Farm impliments and accessories
of the kind that are necessary
to successful farming and work
ing models of practical machin
ery that will be helpful to the
farm and the household as well
will be exhibited. Lovers of
horses will find over one hundred
fine specimens on the grounds
and those that like good harness
racing will find some of the best
steppers on the track. The
amusement features have not
been overlooked and the biggest
kind of free attractions with a
whale of a midway show will be
' in attendafnce. Music by two
bands will enliven things, in fact
there will be something doing
every minute both day and night.
The fair will open on Labor Day
and will run both dajf and night,
the dates are September the
sixth to the eleventh inclusive.
’ Railroad excursion rates have
been arranged on all lines, so the
whole family may come at reas
onable fares.
First Experimental Farmers
Three of America’s greatest
statesmen associated with the
birth of our republic were farm
ers—Washington, Jefferson and
Franklin. Each made important
contributions to the science of
agriculture.
Washington, on his estate at
Mount Vernon, claims the credit
of being the first American to
attempt the raising of mules.
While president he advocated a
government department of agri
culture, but tbe proposal met
with little sympathy in Congress.
More than 60 years passed be
fore it was carried out.
Jefferson, squire of Monticello,
invented a standard design for
the mouldboard of the plough—
a contribution of immense value
in the development of the farm’s
chief implement.
Franklin was one of New Jer
sey’s first experimental farmers.
Retiring from business about
1745. he bought a 300-acre farm
near Burlington and there con
ducted experiments on forage
and grain crops until called to
the service of his country.
Agriculture, declared Franklin,
is “the most useful, the most in
dependent, and therefore the
noblest of employments.”
“Cultivators of the earth are
the most valuable citizens. They
are the most virtuous, and they
are tied to their country, and
wedded to its liberty and inter
ests, by the most lasting bonds.”
—Thomas Jefferson.
“The more I am acquainted
with agricultural affairs, the bet
ter I am pleased with them; in
asmuch that I can nowhere find
so great satisfaction as in those
innocent and useful pursuits.”—
George Washington.
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liOUNTY GOVEHNIIIENT
Watauga County financial af
fairs from June 1921 to June
1925, have fallen under auditor-
ship of the firm of Emmett
Smith and Co., and an elaborate
summary of findings is given in
The Watauga Democrat. The
revelation of the state of affairs
may be taken as typical of con
ditions existing in many North
Carolina counties under the anti
quated system of county govern
ment that has prevailed and for
modernization of which a move
ment was recently launched by
the publicity organization at
Chapel Hill, It was found that
the “final balances” due by two
sheriffs for the several years
from 1920 to 1924 footed up
$63,833.66. The auditors did not
charge the penalties required by
law, leaving that item to the
judgment of the commissioners.
There was indication of loose
ness in management of county
road money; all tax books were
found to be in “exceedingly bad
shape,” copies of the abstracts
of listed taxables rendered to
the State annually not agreeing
in any particular with the tax
books, these being full of errors
and ommissions,” There was no
record of partial or final settle
ment with one sheriff for the
year 1922. In commenting on
the status of the accounts of the
sheriffs, the auditors say: “It is
not known how much money it
has cost the county on account
of the careless and indifferent
manner in which the tax records
were compiled, in the lax and
unbusiness like handling of fin
ancial affairs with the different
sheriffs, but in our opinion the
loss certainly must have ruh into
thousands of dollars.”
The auditors found that the
only book of records kept of the
genefal county fund except those
of the treasurer, were the minute
docket and the ‘ Record of Claims
Issued,” both of which were in
accurate and incomplete. No
attempt was made to keep track
of revenue or expenses of the
general county fund, so that it
could be determined whether ex
penses were exceeding revenue,
deficit being created and the
county going into debt. We ex
perienced great difficulty,” says
tbe report, “in determining the
true status of the treasurer’s ac
counts; for instance, he paid,and
was apparently given credit for
interest paid, banka for carrying
cqunty warrants, though no war
rants were issued or record made
of such interest allowed. No
record made of note issued on
December 7, 1922 to take up
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warrants from Watauga County
Bank, nor was any record made,
even on the minute docket, of
the $20,000 note issued August
4, 1924, tbe proceeds of which
were turned over to the school
fund, and the present commis
sioners did not know of the ex
istence of such an obligation un
til notified of the maturity of the
semi-annual interest payment.
The recording of the tax releases
on the miqute docket seems to
have received careful attention,
but the recording of the creation
of bond issues, notes, etc,, seem
to have been ignored,”
It is a surprise to the auditors
that such lax and inefficient
methods of conducting the affairs
of the county "have not resulted
in even larger deficits than those
that exist.”
For all this, the circumstance
is to be borne in mind that there
was no misuse of public funds in
evidence. The county has simply
lost money because of the inde
pendent manner in which its
funds were administered as pri
vileged under the existing system
of government, and it is further
to be held in mind that the situa
tion in Watauga is a situation of
duplication in many counties.
and all because of tbe antiquated
system which the State has so
long countenanced in the ad
ministration of county affairs.
The Watauga revelations are sub
mitted as additional evidence of
the need for legislative attention
Ito the important matter of
modernizing the court house
situation.—Charlotte Observer,
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