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a, ANDREW J. CONNER. PUBLISHER ’’CAROLINA, CAROLINA, HEAVEN’S BLESSINGS ATTEND HER" SUBSCRIPTION PER ANNUM $1.00 GLUME XXXV RICH SQUARE, NORTHAMPTON COUNTY, N. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1926 NUMBER 52 EXPLOSION HILLS John L. Hopkins of Middlesex Loses Life Larly Tuesday Morning by Explosion at Tank Car Early Tuesday morning, Dec. 28, the people of Rich Square were saddened when the report of an explosion at the railroad depot resulting in the death of a young white man, John L. Hop kins, of Middle3ex,Na8h County, r.n employee of the State High way Commission, spread over the town. The explosion occurred at 5:30 Tuesday morning, severely burn ing Mr. Hopkins and fracturing skull by the fail o? by hitting something. No one was present at the time except W. L. U. Pickett, of Rich Square, another employee of the Commission, They had been employed in put ting oil or asphalt on the State roads in the vicinity and went to the siding at the depot before daybreak to start fire in the boil er used in heating the asphalt in the railroad tank car.as they had be n foing for some time In cold weather it takes several hours to get it to the right temperature to put on the roads. At five thirty Mr. Hopkins took a lantern and went up on the running board of the tank car and opened the manhole on top to examine it. The lantern caused an immediate explosion of the gases formed by heating the oil. His hat and Ian tern were blown over the tank car and landed several yards over on the East side of the railroad while his body went in the other direction, falling several yards away. The explosion was heard by most of the citizens of the town and vicinity, but as the boys had been making the nights hideous for several nights with fireworks, but few went out to investigate. The oil or asphalt had spread oyer Mr. Hopkins clothes from the waist up and his clothing was burning when found. Mr. Pickett gave the alarm, yelling fire, fire,and rush ed up town on his car for a doc tor. James T, Futrell and sons, Ashley and Wilbur, and Mills H, Conner were the first to re spond, The latter was already up with his clothes on when the ex plosion occurred, and Mr. Futrell lives just across the railroad from the explosion, about 30 yards distant. When they reached trie scene it was some little time be fore they could find the injured man, it being cloudy and dark. With a flashlight they found him, his clothes still burning,and ren dered first aid. He was uncon scious, lying in a pool of water and oil. He was carried into the store of M. H. Conner & Co. and in a few minutes Dr. J, C Vaughan came, but said there was no hope for him The frac tured skull or burns either would have caused death in a short time. He expired about 9 o’clock without regaining consciousness. The tank car was not injured. At^Jackson Next Monday It is our purpose to have a representative of the pa'er at Jackson next Monday, it being the first Monday in January, to receive subscriptions. The one dollar we charge for the paper barely pays for the white paper the paper is printed on and for the postage, the other expenses have to be met by charges for obituaries, cards of thanks, re solutions of respect and adver- tisemenls. so we cannot afford Co send the paper after subscrip tions have expired. POTECASI LOCALS Miss Jessie Marie Parker is spending the holidays with her parents, Mr, and Mrs. S. N, Parker. Mr. and Mrs. N. B. Boone and children spent Christmas with his parents in Boykins. Va, Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Jenkins spent Saturday and Sunday in Belvidere. Quite a number of young peo pie called on Mr. Clyde Brown Monday evening. Miss Helen Britt of Mapleton was the guest of Miss Gladys Lassiter Monday. Mrs, E. B. Lassiter spent Christmas with her home folks in Coierain. Mrs. Gladys Lassiter is spend ing the holidays with her sister, Mrs. Doffermyre. Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Beale left Monday for Reiuut to visit her grandfather for some time. Miss Jessie Marie Parker and Mr. Ronald Chappell went to Hobbsville Monday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Draper, of Edenton, spent several days with their parents. Mrs. J. E. Boone spent the week with her mother, Mrs. Maggie Beale. Mr. Johnnie Riddick of Hobbs ville, was the guest of Miss Annie Rae Beale Sunday after noon. Messrs Charlie Brown and Bernice Griffin are spendittg Christmas with their respective parents. Miss Lillian Joyner spent the week with her uncle, Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Joyner. Mrs. Goldie Edwards, Hender son. is spending the week with Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Joyner. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Lassiter and little daughter spent Sunday in Ridgeway. Mr. Edward Parker of Nor folk is spending some time with his parents, Mr, and Mrs. E. W. Parker. Mr. and Mrs. J, T. Capel spent Monday with Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Beale. Mrs. Bettie Holoman of Lask er spent Tuesday with Mrs. W. C. Beale. Misses Willia and Audrey Parker are spending the holidays with their parents. Mr. Simon Parker, of Mars Hill College, is at home for the holidays. Windsor The Mecca There was a time when the humble peanut like the modest violet were little known and lit tle regarded. But that time be longs to another era. No flower is so appreciated as the little violet and the prose poem of Erwin Avery raised it to new heights in North Carolina. The humble peanut, without any parade or show of circum stances, has forced its way to a high place as one of the leading agricultural products of a score of counties in North Carolina and as many in Virginia. No legis- j lative body, no public gathering, ‘ no bail game, no circus, no out- ! door event is complete unless it I is adorned with the presence of I Sir Peanut. I This is Peanut Week in North : Carolina and the Peanut Exposi tioi) opened Monday in V^indsor. I the capital cf Bertie county, and continues ail this week, with such [attraction as will bring great crowds to Windsor. It is the North Carolina Mecca for the ‘week. —News and Observer, LEADERS TH BE REWARDED DEFRAUDING THE FARMERS Greatest Contributors to improvement to Agriculture and Community Life to be Selected Raleigh, N. C., Dec. 24 —The master farmers, those who hive made fine contributions to the agriculture and communitv life of their home sections, will be sought out by the c .ninty men and women agents of the Egri cultural extension seryic-? at State Col'e,ge and wiii be reward ed by public recognition and a gold medal iirder a plan prop,)3ed by Dr. Clarence Poe, edit-or of tlie Progressive Fanner, Briefly, Dr. Poe’s plan calls for the county home and farm agents to work with a local committee in searching out and deciding on the best farmer in the county. This man or woman shall not ne cessarily be the one who has made the most money but rather the one who has done most for his community, either by exam pie of good farming or by contri butions to the community life. Those who are selected will then come on up through the five dif ferent districts and finally from those deemed worthy of the honor, about 10 or 15 will be se lected for the award of the gold medal. The expenses of the plan will be borne by the Progressive Far mer and the medals will be awarded by this magazine. Dr. Poe plans to award the medals at a large public gathering held at the time of the county agent conference next winter. Some of the influential public leaders of the State and Nation will be invited to the event. There will be a banquet and the entire pro ceedings will be broadcasted over the country by radio. The agents have worked out a score card in cooperation with the Progressive Farmer editors and this card will be used as a basis for selecting the farmers to be rewarded. By this means, it is hoped to give to deserving men and wom en some public recognition of their efforts in making rural North Carolina more attractive and a better placs in which to live. Three Persons Kitted Near Tarboro As Train Hits Stalled Automobile Tarboro, Dec. 26tb. — It was learned here today that Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Baker, of Farmvilie, and Mrs. Katherine Watson, of Old Sparta, were killed Christ mas Day when their car stalled in front of an Atlantic Coast Line train at Moore’s Siding. The crossing was a slignt grade and it is supposed that Baker, who was driving, realizing sud denly that the oncoming train was so near, stalled his car on the crossing. Mrs, Baker and Mrs. Watson were killed in stantly. Baker died a few hours later. The bodies were brought to Tarboro on the train imme diately after the accident.—News and Observer. Buy Brooders Now Buy brooders at once if you expect to raise cockerels. I can buy you a good brooder, 44 inch canopy, at 35 per cent discount, making it cost you $13 33. I am now making up an order for carpet grass seed. The price will not exceed 252 per pound. This is about half what we paid last year. E P. Gulledge, County Agent. Swindlers Operate in North Carolina tor Short Time, Offering Baby Chicks and Oranges Few weeks ago several papers in the State carried an advertise ment of a fake concern under the heading, “Baby Chicks for Sale,’’ and doubtless many farm ers lest by sending money for baby chicks and pullets which were advertised at little more more than half what reputable dealers charge. The same peo ple, we are informed, advertised Florida oranges for sale in the same way but under another name. Both these adyerlisements were sent to the Times but were not accepted for the reason that we suspected them frauds. A mere glance at the advertisement was enough to convince one that there was something wrong. The post- office. which, on the one we re ceived, was given as Clayton, N, C., a town in Johnson County, was written with pen and ink at the bottom of a mimeographed copy of the advertisement. This indicated that the advertisers were using other postoffices for the same advertisement, which proved true, as it has been learn ed they covered several states with their advertising campaign and used, or tried to use, about eight hundred newspapers. Another ground for suspicion was they instructed the adver tisement to be run for twelve weeks without first getting rates, No general, reputable advertiser does this These things, coupled with the low price they offered to sell chicks for caused us to reject the advertising as being fradulent. But when we saw the same advertisement in such high class papers as the North Carolina Christian Advocate and Charity and Children we wond ered if we had rejected perfectly good business. The plan of these swindlers was to go over the entire South and select one or two postoffices in each state to have orders sent, and make arrangements with the postmasters to forward all mail to Atlanta, Ga., where they had headquarters. They were oper ating from two offices in this State. They operated only a few weeks before the Postoffice Department issued an order that no mail be delivered to them, but in the meantime no doubt a large sum was collected from people all over the South. They oper ated from Clayton finder the name of “The Fulghum Hatch ery.’’ Several years ago a similar scheme was operated in Wash ington, D. C,, under the name of Hill & Co. and at that time several North Carolina papers carried their advertising and thousands of dollars worth of poultry and eggs were shipped to Washington in the course of a week. It was just before Christ mas and they advertised to pay much more than the market price for poultry and eggs. They had rented a shed where the shipments were received and sold quickly before the Postoffi2e De partment was informed what was going on. When the investiga tion started the swindlers es caped without paying anybody for the produce shipped them. Newspapers owe it to their readers to exercise great care in publishing advertisements. ROXOBEL NEWS GIVEN T. B. ERADIEATtON MtSStON Mr. and Mrs. H, R. Paschal left Saturday for Goldston, N C , to visit Mr. Paschal’s parents Misses Lois and LeClaire Ja cobs are at home from Meredith College to spend the Christmas holidays with their parents. Dr. and Mrs. J, M. Jacobs. Mr. Warner Coggin of Suffolk was a visitor here Christmas day. Mr. James Livermon of Scot land Neck spent last week in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Jii- cott. Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Tyie? left Thursday for North Wilksboro to visit Mrs Tiler’s parents. Mr. Wiley Bullock of Tarboro was the guest of Mrs. J.G. Baker last week. Mr. Wayiand Barnes of Cole- rain spent Saturday and Sunday with his brother, Mr. W. E, Barnes Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Acree of Bethel are spending the holidays with relatives here. Miss Elizi Mason Capehart ar rived Sunday from Winston- Salem, where she is teaching, to spend her vacation with her mother, Mrs; Mary J. Capehart. Mr. and Mrs. Lioyd Peele of Rock Hill, S. C., are spending Christmas holidays with relatives here. Miss Malinda Wilkins, who is teaching near Avdeo, is spend ing her vacation with her par ents. Mr. and Mrs. Lathan Wil kins. Mr. and Mrs. Ela Spruill of Creswell, N. C., are visiting rel atives here. Miss Ruth Tyler, who is teach ing at Newport, is at home with her mother, Mrs. Sallie Tyler, Mrs. Eunice Marsh, of Marsh- ville. is visiting her sister. Miss Eva Watson. Misses Louise Jilcott and Eliz abeth Pritchard, of E. C. T. C., Greenville, are at home with their parents. Mrs Margaret Pearsall, of New Bern, is visiting in the home of her brother. Dr. A. Capehart. Mrs, W. E, Barnes and daugh ter are visiting relatives in Ports mouth. Mr. Jule Barnes of Berkville, Va,, was a visitor here Sunday. Mrs. Doris Chandler of Ports mouth is spending Christmas with hsF aunt, Mrs. Frances Spence. Miss Mary Helen Burden, of Aulander, spent Sunday with Miss Frances J. Peele. Mammoth Incubator Installed Mr. Eugene W. Brown has completed the installation of his mammoth incubator in rooms in E. L. Smith’s store at the railroad station in Rich Square and began placing eggs in it first of this week. It has a capacity of twelve thousand and ninety-six eggs at a time but it is his purpose to begin the first week with one third that num ber, one third the second week and one third the next, so that hatching will be every week. He is receiving many orders for both custom hatching and for baby chicks. Mr. Brown's pen of teii white leghorns won the silver cup in the Southeastern egg laying con test in 1926, winning over ex hibitors from eleven States, in cluding New York. The mana gers of the laying contest valued his pen of ten hens at five hun dred dollars. In returning them one was killed by careless hand ling by the express people, hav ing its head crushed. Mr. Brown has sent another pen to enter the 1927 contest. Former Rich h’quare Citizen Goes With U. S. Bureau of Animat industry January 1st The Washington special cor respondent of the News and Observer under date of Dec. 21, tells of the appointment of Dr. N. B. Tyler to an important place with the Bureau of Animal In dustry, U. S. Department of Agriculture. Dr. Tyler is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Pulaski Tyler, who live in Rich Square School District. Dr. Tyler graduated from our High School and from the State College at Raleigh. Following is the Weshington dis patch: Dr. Napoleon B. Tyler, of Roxohei, has been detailed by the United States-Department of Agriculture to tuberculosis eradi cation work in animal industry at the request of Commissioner of Agriculture W. A. Graham, Senator F, M. .Simmons announ ced today. Dr. Tyler has been connected with the State department of agriculture as a veterinary in spector, but he recently passed a civil service examination and was offered .similar work with the Department of Agriculture in Virginia. At the request of Mr, Graham, Senator Simmons took the mat ter up with Dr. J. R. Mosler. chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry, United States Depart ment of Agriculture, and Dr. Mosler today advised Senator Simmons that he is offering Dr, Tyler an assignment with the tuberculosis eradication forces in North Carolina effective January 1. Surprise Shower For Pastor One of the most delightful so cial features of the season was a surprise Christmas shower given on Christmas night in honor of Mr. J. Gurney Wright, pastor of Rich Square Friends Church. A previous invitation to supper had been given him by Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Elliott in order that his cottage might be decorated and arranged for the occasion. At the hour of seven the guests began to assemble, being receiv ed at the door by Misses Marion Ward and Helen Elliott. On Mr, Wright’s arrival he found the anxious party waiting to greet him. Miss Lottie Elljott had charge of an interesting Christmas program which was rendered as follows; Devotional Exercises—Mrs. E. F. Outland. Recitation—Mary Elizabeth El liott. Solo—Bernice Elliott. Chorus—Silent Night. Solo—Miss Marion Ward, The party was silenced by a knock on the door when little Thomas Elias Elliott and Ernest Outland entered drawing a wag on beautifully decorated in Christ mas colors and laden with many useful gifts. Before their pre sentation a poem composed by Miss Esther Ward was read by Mrs. E F. Outland which de scribed the good work and ac complishments of the guest of honor. Then Mr. Wright in his beautiful appreciative manner opened the packages, expressing to each individual donor a word of thanks. Several games were enjoyed, after which refreshments were served, consisting of candies and. salted peanuts. Those present, numbering forty- four, expressed a very pleasant evening,
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