PAGE SIX
Social & Personal
linker-Ebener.
Charlotte Observer.
Miss Bertha A. Ebener and Mr.
Charlelt E. Linker were married at, St.
Mark's Lutheran ehureh Saturday after
noon. the pastor. Rev. Dr. John I* •
Crigler. officiating.
The chancel was grouped with palmfi
and ferns, intermingled with white cut
flowers. On the altar were vases of
bride roses and ferns.
Mrs. Crigler rendered the wedding
inutde.
The ceremony was beautiful and im
pressive.
Willie Parish was the bride s
only attendant. She wore ft fauve-eolor
ed georgette frock with pink silk founda
tion skirt, and carried an arm-spray of
pink Killarney roses and lilies of the
valley. .
The bride was given in marriage by
her brother-in-law. Mr. W. M. Robert-
Mr. Linker was accompanied by Mr.
Charles Mclntyre, who served as best
man. , ,
The bride was lovely in a handsome
ensemble suit of ashes-of-rosee and ac
cessories to match. She wore a corsage
bouquet of orchids and lilies of the
valley. . .
Mr. and Mrs. Linker left for a two
weeks’, visit to Washington .and points
in Pennsylvania. After July 1 they will
occupy their new bungalow on (.reen
wav. Rosemont. . , .
Sirs Linker lias resided in Charlotte
for the past four years, coming here
from Pennsylvania to enter the Presby
terian hospital training school, from
which institution she was graduated
last spring She is ft bright and at
tractive voting woman and during het
*tay here has made many friends.
Mr Linker is traffic manager of the
Glasgow-Allison Hardware ™mpany
and to a young man of splendid ability
and is widely popular here and in Con
cord. his former home.
Miller-Sides.
The following is a clipping from Hie
Portsmouth Daily News. April 21, lt>-> •
A quiet but pretty marrutge occurred
this morning at 10 rlWclockm the \
W. C. A. parlors when Miss Lilian
daughter of Mr. and Mr>. • •.’ '
of Concord. X. C.. became the bride of
Arnold Miller. U. S. X. son of Mr and
Mrs. J. W. B. Miller., of Concord, X.
C The ceremony was performed by the
Rev. M. S. Colonna. pastor of the Cen
tral Methodist Church.
The Y. W. C. A. parlors were attract
ively decorated in dogwood blossoms and
vellow jassmine. . ,
Miss Sides, who arrived in Portsmouth
yesterday was the guest of the Y. M . C.
A. during her brief stay in the city. Mr.
Miller is attached to the V. S. S. New
The announcement made above will
come as a pleasant surprise to the num
erous friends of Mr. and Mrs. Miller,
Concord having been the home of both
Mr. and Mrs. Miller since childhood.
Mrs. Miller is the attractive daughter
of Mr! and Mrs. U. W. Sides, of Vance
street. Since her graduation from Con
cord High School with the class of ’23.
Mrs. Miller has been a student nurse at
the Sarah Leigh Hospital, Xorfolk. ya.
Mr. Miller is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
J. W. B. Miller, of Spring street. Mr.
Miller was in active'service overseas dur
ing the world war. For the past few
years he has been a member of the band
on the U. S. S.’Xew York.
Mrs. Miller is expected to arrive in
Concord within the next few days to be
the guest of her parents, and to await the
arrival of Mr. Miller who will be dis
charged from the navy at an early date.
District U. D. .C. Meeting.
The annual meeting of the Fifth Dis
trict of the Daughters of the Confeder
acy will be held in Concord Saturday.
May 2nd in the Sunday school annex of
Central Methodist Church.
The meeting will be presided over by
Mrs. Jno. T. Lowe, of Lexington, Director
of thri district, and will begin at 10:30
a. m.
Two State- officers, Mrs. Dolph Long,
president, nnd.Mrs; Emma Wallace, regis
trar. will be in attendance. Also Mr.
L. B. Xewell, state chairman of the edu
cational committee.
• An interesting program has been ar
ifinged and the public is cordially invit
ed to attend.
Daughter Born.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Honey
cutt, of Raleigh, April 27th, a daughter.
Parents of Daughter.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. John L. Smith,
of South Spring street, April 25th, a
daughter. , -* •
Bridge Party.
One of the most delightful affairs of
the week was the bridge party given
Wednesday afternoon by Mrs. Archie
Pounds. The living room where the ta
bles were placed was -made attractive
with,a profusion of spring flowers.
Prize for high score was won by Mrs.
George Fisher. : -
Mrs. Pounds’ guests were Mesdames
James Yates, George Fisher, Joe Hendrix,
A. B. Pounds, Frank Pounds. E. B.
Grady, Frank’ Mund, Gilbert Hendrix,
Clyde Pounds, R. C. Litaker, Clyde
Propst, Rupley Pounds, Tom Sprott and
little Miss Susie Kate Pounds.
To Sweet Briar For May Day
Miss Roberta Walker, Miss Lucy
Holmes Carson, Eddie Martin arid Thos.
Haiykins and Mrs. T. T. Gilmer, of
Charlotte, stopped in Concord a
while this morning on ronte to Sweet
Briar College, Virginia, where they ex
pect to attend the May day evercises.
Miss Adelaide Harris, daughter of Mr.
and. Mrs. C. J. Harris, of this city, is
taking a prominent part in the festival
this year. She is scepter bearer for the
queen.
Miss Harry Entertains at Bridge.
iliss Julia Harry entertained Tuesday
morning at the lovely home of her moth
er, Mrs. W. D. Harry, at the old More
head Place in Xo. 2 Township honoring
her sister. Miss Addie Sue Harry and
Miss Annie Lawrie Bonney, of Philadel
phia. Bridge was played at five tables.
Miss Addie Sue Harry and Miss Bon
ney are both to be married on May Bth,
the wedding to be a double one at the
Harry home. At the conclusion of the
game, delicious refreshments were served.
Guests enjoying Miss Harry’s hopital
ity were: Miss Bertie Louise WiUeford,
Miss Laura Gillon, Miss Lilian Cole, Mrs.
J. A. Cannon, Mrs. Ed. Sauvain, Mrs. T.
X. Spencer. Mrs. B. E. Harris, Jr., Mrs.
J. Lee Crowell. Jr., Mrs. R. B. Rankin,
Mrs. R. O. Caldwell, Mrs. R. V. Caldwell,
Jr., Mrs. W. G. Caswell, Mrs. John W.
Morris. From Charlotte were Mrs. 1.. O.
Stephens, Mrs. A. I). Mrs. F. A.
Atchison, Mrs. Alex Stephens and Mrs.
Hal DeArmond.
Mrs. Cline Honors Guest.
Mrs. A. C, Cline entertained at four
tables of bridge Wednesday afternoon
honoring her house guest, Mrs. Wiley
Rogers. Jr., of Raleigh, who has been
spending the past week at Her home on
South I’ll ion street.
High score prize was won by Miss Mi
riam Morris and the consolation went to
Miss Ruby Cline. A lovely guest prize
was given Mrs. Rogers. At the conclus
ion of the game a delicious ice course was
served.
Mrs. Cline's guests were: Mrs. Wiley
Rogers, of Raleigh, Mrs. F. Marion Redd,
of Charlotte. Mrs. T. I). Maness, Mrs.
Charles .Porter, Mrs. Aubrey Folks, Mrs.
T. X. {Spencer. Miss Laura Gillon, Miss
Ruby Cline, Mrs. J. A. Kennett, Mrs.
Ernest Porter, Miss Sue Caldwell, Mrs.
G. B. Lewis, Miss Miriam Morris. Miss
Jesse Burkhead. Mrs. R. B. Rankin, and
Mrs. J. E. Davis.
PERSONALS
Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Smith have re
turned from their wedding trip to Wash
ington and other cities, and at present are
living at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joe
Green, on East Corbin Street.
• • •
Mrs. H. J. Alexander, of Gastonia, is
spending the week in the city as the
guest of Mr. W. L. Black welder.
• • •
Joe F. Goodman, who has been spend
ing several days in Cleveland Springs,
will return to the city this afternoon.
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Miss Sadie Farrington, of Charlotte,
spent last evening in the city with friends.
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James A. Furr is moving h. : s family
back to Shadyvtlle farm, near Kannapolis,
this week. Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland Har
wood will occupy the Furr home on Xortli
Church street.
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Mrs. R. S. Young, regent of the D. A.
R. chapter of Concord, is in Salisbury
today attending a reception being given
in honor of Mrs. E. C. Gregory.
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PERSONALS.
Misses Blanche Fink and Jessie laen
hour, students of Mont Amoena Seminary,
spent Tuesday eeuing and night here with
Miss Catherine leenhour.
• • •
J. M. Simpson is attending the
Funeral Directors Association in High
Point today.
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Mrs. A- R. Blackwelder is visiting
relatives at Barium Springs this week.
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Rev. M. L. Kester and S. A. Wolff at
tended the meeting of tlie Southern Con
ference of the Lutheran Church Tuesday
in Gaston county. -
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Rev. L. A. Thomas and C. A. Cook are
attending the meeting of the. Lutheran
Southern Conference in Gaston County
and will return to Concord late this eve
ning.
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Misses Ernestine Melton, of Asheville,
and Verna Gragg, of Boone, who have
had charge of the public school at Pin
nacle, in Xo. 11 township, returned to
their homes last Saturday, after having
finished one of the most successful terms
of school art this place that the school
has ever enjoyed* These young ladies
have taught at Piunacle for the past
three years, and are held in high esteem
by both patrons and pupils. r
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Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Caldwell and Mr.
and Mrs. Kenneth E. Caldwell apd son
spent Sunday in Montgomery county with
Mrs. Richard Eames. !.
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Mrs. A. R. Howard, Mrs. J. W. Cannon,
Jr., and Mrs. Mattie Lee Camion left Mon
day night for Baltimore where they will
visit for several weeks. They motored to
Salisbury where they caught the Cresceht
Limited in its initial flight Xorth.
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Reports from the Charlotte Sanatorium
state that the condition of Joe Caddell,
who entered the hospital last week for
treatment, is jtfery much improved, and
he expects to return to his home here the
latter part of the week.
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"H. B. Wilkinson is attending the North
Carolina Funeral Directors Association
at High Point.
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Dr. S. E. Buchanan is at Pinehurst at
tending the convention of the Medical So
ciety of North Carolina.
m m m
L. W. Brander, of Atlanta, Ga., spent
the "week-end in 'the city with Mr. and
Mrs. W. H. Gibson, while en route to
New York.
Jinnies Wilkinson is attending the
/'forth Carolina Funeral Directors Asso
ciation at High Point. He will take the
State board of embalming examination
Thursday and Friday.
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Miss Lelia Simpson is confined to her
home on North Union street by illness.
The Tent Meeting on Young Street.
The tent meeting on Young street is
in great progress, considering the weather.
May 10th is Mother’s Day. We are
planning to have three services on May
10tb. Dinner on the ground at the tent.
Everybody is invited. Come and let’s
make this a great meeting. We are ex
jiecting three or four different choirs
with us. People are coming from miles
to be in this meeting. Come and bring
a box with you. 1 D. E. B.
Rats fed on hothouse-grown tomatoes
will develop scurvy while those fed on to
matoes grown outside in direct sunlight
do not.
The legal length of a beard in India
during the time of Mahomet was fixed
at 7 to 8 inches.
SUNDAY SCHOOL INSTITUTE
TO BEGIN ON MAY NINTH
Miss Daisy Magee, of the State Sunday
School Association, Secured to Speak.
Miss Eugenia Lore, county children’s
division superintendent, co-operating with
other officers of Cabarrus County Sun
day School Association, lias arranged for
an institute for children’s division work
ers of the country. The institute will
be held in the Central Methodist Church.
Concord. Saturday, May Oth. The ses
sion will begin at 3 o’clock Saturday
afternoon.
The program is planned to meet the
needs of workers in the cradle roll, be
ginners, primary aad junior departments
of the Sunday schools as well as any
others interested in the education of
children between the ages of birth and
thirteen. Miss Daisy Magee, children's
division superintendent of the Xorth
Carolina Sunday School Association, has
been secured to speak on the occasion.
Mss Janfe Kluttz. Miss Mary King, and
Mrs. John Reed will also take part on the
program.
This is probably the first meeting of
its kind ever held in Cabarrus county.
The County and Township Sunday School
associations usually plan meetings for
the whole Sunday School but this time
the full time is given to one division of
Sunday School work. This institute
is not intended to take the place or to
compete with any other Sunday School
work being done in the county, but is sup
plemental.
Cabarrus county and township officers
are heartily eo-operating to make the
meeting a success.
DISTRICT FARM AGENT
VISITOR IN COUNTY
Spent Yesterday Here With County
Agent Goodman and Was Pleased With
‘ Farm Conditions.
E. S. Millsapps; district farm agent
with headquarters in Statesville, spent
yesterday here with R. D. Goodman,
county farm agent, and during the day
the agents visited several farms of the
county.
After the tour of inspection Agent
Millsapps stated that farm conditions in
Cabarrus seem very favorable, and he
added that he was especially impressed
with the barley and rye seen on the
farms visited.
- Mr. Millsapps and Mr. Goodman visit
ed the county home and the district
agent expressed much satisfaction with
the condition of the orchard there.
Pictures were taken at some of the
farms and at the county home by Mr.
Millsapps, the agent devoting several
pictures to barley fields which he de
clared were unusually fine.
SOVIETS DISPLEASED AT
HINDENBURG’S ELECTION
They Know His Hostility to Bolshevism.
and F«*r Restoration of Monarchy'.
Moscow. April 28 (By the Associated
Press). —News of the election of Field
Marshal Von Hindenburg as President of
Germany was received with astonishment
in Soviet Russia, ■where people had been
led to believe that the aged Military lead
er had little chance of success.. Isis tri
umph is especially unwelcome to the
Russian communists, who know his avow
ed hostility to bolshevism.
Some soviet leaders profess to see in
the nationalist victory danger of a restor
ation of the German monarchy, and re
vival of the Tenutonie military- menace.
The belief even is expressed by some that
after a few months in office Vou Hinden
burg may attempt to have former crown
price appointed regent, with the ultimate
object of completely restoring the Ger
man crown.
Crop Planting Needs Increase Demand
For Credit.
Richmond, Va., April 29.—“ Seasonal
needs for crop planting increased the de
mand for credit at the Federal Reserve
Bank of Richmond, between March 14
and April 15th this year,’’ said the
monthly review of the bank today, “and
the volume of member bank borrowing rose
from $32,082,000 to $40(652,200.
“At this season book credit rather
than currency is needed, however, and
therefore during the month under review
the circulation of Federal Reserve notes
dropped from $77,859,000 to $75,256,-
000 and member bank reserve deposits
rose from $62,770,000 to $66,266,000.
“The changes enumerate reduced the Fed
eral Reserve Bank of Richmond’s cash
reserves from $102,5*85.000 to $1)4,039,-
000 and the ratio of cash to combined
note and deposit liabilities declined from
73. per cent on March 14 to 64.90 per
cent, on April 15.
“On April 15, 1924, the volume of mem
ber bank paper held by the Federal Re
serve Bank of ltiohrtiond amounted to
$55,957,000/ compared with $40,652,600
so held on April 15, 1925. Federal Re
serve notes in circulation totalled $Bl,-
G 42,000 on the 1924 date and $75,356,-
000 this year.
‘‘Member bank reserve notes aggregat
ed $59,505,000 oh April 15. 1924, and
$66,266,000 on April 15. 1925.
“The pash reserves of the Federal Re
serve Brink of Richmond totaled $90,003,-
000 in April last year , and $94,039,000
this year.
"The ratio of cash' reserves to note and
deposit liabilities combined was 60.62
per cent. l on April 15th last year and
64.90. per cent, on the corresponding date
this year.’’
Entirely New Role Played by Lloyd In
His Latest Comedy.
4 His latest feature Pathe comedy,
“Girl Shy,” which will be seen at the
New Concord theatre Monday and Tues
day, Harold Lloyd once more demon
strates his remarkable versatility before
the camera. Lloyd’s role in this new’
fun-film ie said to be entirely different
from any he has ever attempted to por
tray, that he debated a long time before
tackling the part.
The local of “GirPShy” is for the most
part a small town, although towards the
end of the picture the action is staged
in the city.
Lloyd will introduce a real novelty to
the screen in this picture, and he has
carefully guarded his secret because it is
his own idea and to have it know’n be
fore the showing of the fun-film might
rob it of some of its appeal.
As is usual with the Lloyd Pathe
comedies, there is only a small cast in
Girl Shy. Jobyna Ralston is again
seen as Harold’s leading woman. Rich
ard Daniels, Carlton Griffin, Priscilla
King and Dorothy Dorr are also promi
nent in the support.'
Fred Newmeyer and Sam Taylor di
rected Girl Shy” from a story by Tay
lor, Tim Whelan, Ted Wilde and Tom-'
my Gray.
THE CONCORD TIMES
Afl “PINCH HITTER” STANLY
ARMSTRONG PROVES A STAR
Came to Aid of Daily Tribune and Con
! cord Times While Regular Operator
i Was on Honeymoon.
Stanly Armstrong, youthful linotype
ioperator from the Jackson Training
School, played a new role during the past
ten days when he w’as pressed iujto service
,as “pinch hitter” for A. W. Smith, of
.The-Times and Tribune force, w’ho was
absent oh his honeymoon, and in the
most workmanlike fashion did he perform
I the various tasks assigned him.
| Stanly has been at the Training School
for a number of years and he has been
the linotype operator on The Uplift for
, some time. In addition to this work he
turns out all forms used at the school,
sets up various other jobs that are turn
ed out and in the meantime gives instruc
tions to other students at the school who
would make “linotyping” their profes
sion.
Young Armstrong is an excellent opera
tor now and when he has more experience
he will become even better, of course. He
takes a keen interest in his work, sets a
clean proof ordinarfly and is able to read
, intelligently most any kind of manuscript.
, He has been well trained not only in set
ting straight copy but in setting forms
, and other intricate stuff, and as an oper
, ator has a bright future before him. As
a “pinch hitter” he was a star.
Tlie Training School is turning out
well trained boys in fhnny lines of work,
i Armstrong had no training of any kind
. when lie entered the school, as is the case
with most of the boys there, but now’ he
can earn a good living. t The purpose of
the school is to train the youths there to
care for themselves and the case of Stan
ly Armstrong shows how successful the
school officials are in their work.
The Tribune and The T, : mes arC deep
ly grateful to young Armstrong and the
officials of the school for their courtesy
and co-operation during the past ten
days.
CAROLINA MAN’S HEIRS
START TREASURE HUNT
A. F. Bobbitt, Halifax County Farmer,
Believed to Have Hidden Fortune in
N. Y.
New York, April 28.—A $40,000 trea
sure hunt which started today, reveal
ed the story of a Xorth Carolina farmer
who speoulted in cotton futures 16 years
ago and made a profit of $24,000 on a
$16,000 investment in three weeks. Then
he hid the money in New York but
failed to reveal its biding place before
he died last fall.
The cotton planter was A.~F. Bobbitt,
of Halifax county, Xorth Carolina. Be
for he died he confided to J. M. John
ston, Littleton. X. C. and to his sister
that his estate in Xorth Carolina would
be more than $200,000 and that “he
had as much more in Xew York.”
I His heirs today engaged lawyers aud
I private investigators to find the money
f on a ten per cent -commission basis.
They believe only $40,000 is hidden here.
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REY\ Z. E- BARNHARDT
IN SERIOUS CONDITION
. Hiss Illness Necessitates Naming of As
sistant For Statesville Church.
i Statesville, April 28. —Rev. Z. E.
. Barnhardt, pastor of Broad Street
. Methodist churcfi,' is seriously ill at his
home suffering with tubercular pneu
monia. About thft first of March Mr.
Barnhardt suffered an attack of grippe
and never fully recovered. He lmd ar
, ranged for a two-weeks’ revival to be
gin in his church on the first Sunday in
April, but found that he was unable to
conduct it. The doctors put him on an
enforced rest of #t least three months
and he has grown w’orse steadily since,
that time.
The board of stewards have unani
mously agreed to continue his salary in
full during his illpess aud have arranged
for an assistant in addition.
Fink Community Club.
The Fink community club will hold its
next meeting at Fink school on next Fri
day uight, May l§t. The program will be
as follows:
Song—Audience.
Reports of committees and. business..’
Music.
Humorous Recitation—Miss Ethel ,Pe
trea. ’ • s '•
Play: “Dr. Umps”
Cast of characters:
John Mardin —Mr. M. C. Bost.
Marjorie—Mrs. M. G. Bost.
I)r. Umps—Miss Myrtle Furr.
Gregory .Small—Mr. Lewis Furr.
Mu,sic —“Gold Dust Twins.”
Recitation: “An Old Woman’s Com
plaints”—Mrs. P. M. Barringer.
Recitation: ‘“Ten Little Niggers”—
George Ross.
Music —Gold Dust Twins.
Play: “The Booster Club of Black
ville.”—Nine boys.
Song: Old Black Joe—Boys.
Programme Committee — Mrs. C. M.
Barringer aud Miss Josephine Barnhardt.
The President’s Cabinet.
Salisbury Post.
Supplementing information recently is
sued by the board of temperance, prohi
bitions and public morals of the Methodist
Episcopal church, the church affiliation of
the members of the president’s cabinet
nre given as follows:
Secretary of state, Frank B. Kellogg,
Episcopalian.
Secretary of treasury, Andrew W. Mel
lon. Presbyterian.
Secretary of war, John W. Weeks, Uni
tarion. ' -
Attorney general, John G. Sargent, Uni
versalist.
Postmaster general, Harry S. New,
Christian Disciple:
Secretary of navy, Curtis D. Wilbur,
Congregationalist.
Secretary of interior, Hubert Work,
Presbyterion. ,
Secretary of agriculture, Wm. M. Jar
dine. Congregationalist.
Secretary of commerce, Hubert Hoover,
Quaker.
Secretary of labor, James J. Davis,
Baptist.
In identifying themselves with the
Christian church thg members of the
President’s cabinet are supporting civi
lization as we know it in America. They
owe such identification as an example to i
the young people of this country. The j
Christian religion is the only religion un- i
der which woman is honored, under which 1
hospitals and schools flourish. For sel- ]
fish reasons, if for no other men and woa
men who want to be good citizens should i
support the church even when their lack i
of faith does not permit them to identify \
themselves personally with it. , j
PARKS-BELK C(J
Concord’s Leading Department Store I
We have made a special trip to New York to buy goj
for our early summer business and we were very fJ
nate in finding lots of wonderful values in Silks and Drl
Goods of all kinds at very low prices. New goods J
coming in every day and the people are just talk]
about the beautiful things we have and how cheap we J
selling them. Silks, Satin, Crepe Satin, Satin Cantonal
Crepe de Chine. ■, iJi£J:i._ . 1
Heavy Sport Stripe Crepe in Nice range of
colors. The rage of the $3.39
season v
Beautiful line of colors in Print- 1 Q O
ed Silk Calimut Special *
$2.50 value 40-inch Satin Canton 1 QO
full line of colors, special , *** *
$2.50 value all silk Canton $1.98
Crepe, special
$2.00 value Heavy Canton Crepe fcl CQ
in all the new colors, Special - *
Printed Silk and Cotton Thepes—
-69c 89c 98c
*
Colored Pongee in all the bright new shades
Fine for children’s *1 1 C and Ifc 1 9C
dresses. Special V* • H* •
We still have lots of big bargains
on our SI.OO yard Silk Counter.
$1.50 36-inch Black Satin $1.19
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Larger Acreage, Not Smaller Acreage,
the Way to Prosperity.
The Progressive Farmer.
Recently, in a farmers meeting we at
tended. one farmer raised tins question:
“Wouldn’t farmers be better off if they
handled smaller acreages better culti
vated, instead of spreading out their ef
forts over the larger areas they now
handle?”
Fortunately, aUother farmer was
quickly on his feet to present’ the cor
rect viewpoint. He emphasized • three
truths often mentioned in The Progres
sive Farmer— namely: 1. That in
Europe small acreages per man afe
cultivated and iri the tinted States large
acreages per flian; 2. The result being
that production per acre is much higher
in Europe, but production per man
(which is the really important thing) is
much higher in the United States; 'and
3. That on account of the small acreages
handled in Europe, the labor is largely
hand labor and the standard of living
low, whereas the American farmers
pfees machinft’y, cultivates larger acre
ages, get larger profits per farm work
er' and his standard of living is much
higher than that of the European
farmers. This man had the right idea.
The net result of any thoughtful, un
biased study of the first farmer’s ques
tion is likely to be common agreement
to this platform :
1. The average Southern farmer is
now cultivating too small an acreage be
cause he is growing too large a propor
tion of crops like cotton , and tobacco
that call for hand-cultivation, and not
enough acreage in grain crops that call
for machinery-cultivation, or in pas
ture crops that may be handled by live
stock themselves almost without cultiva
tion.
2- A larger use of horse power and
machinery w’ould enable us to cultivate
almost our present acreage in cotton
and at the same time double our acre
age in corn and other feed crops, there
by enabling the South to feed itself and
have its “money crop” as surplus crops.
3. It is, therefore, a mistake to eay
that the average farmer needs “smaller
acreage better cultivated.” He may need
a slightly smaller acreage in crops call- ,
ing largely for hand-cultivation, but he ,
, needs to greatly increase hi« acreage in
crops that may be cultivated with horse
power and machinery, and also his pas
• ture and hay crops.
4. The foregoing statements are made
on the basis of existing soil fertilitv
conditions in the South. But, of course
Southern farmers should aim to so en
rich and fertilize their cotton lands as
to make normal sized cotton crops on
: half the present acreage. This, however
should not mean cultivating fewer acres
per farm worker, but should rather
enable us to put a still larger acreage in'
food and feed crops and thereby make
the South distinguished as part of
American’s “coro belt, hay belt, hog belt
and dairy belt,” as well as Cotton Belt.’
Ths must come if we are to prosper.
Sapiro Sues Ford.
Lumberton Robesonian.
Aaron Sapiro, who for years has been
prominently identified with farmer’s co
operative marketing associations, has
brought suit for $1,000,000 against
?ent ry M d and his Dearb orn Indepen
dent weekly newspaper which has been
lambasting Sapiro in particular and
. for Bome time - Sapiro
ynt 8 * 8 J that art,clee published in The
Independence have deprived him of cer
tain fees and have injured him greatly.
He quotes the paper as charging that
f P tr 7J? g * et control of cotton and
Jews P rlf UCt *\ F ° rd Beems to despise
and now he ™ll have
hiJSf f go<>d h i! S flssertioDS or separate
himself form what to him is a piece of
pocket change. Vast numbers of people
tr V vice e ° n and are of thp opinioiTThat
service in pointing out the way for
t 0 fix so ll1 ** price of their pro
nrirp Ford fixes the selling
price of his cars, thereby gettine ereat
hi, P I«£;- bUt - The J-fcpende,,! views .
an entir *ly different ,
Mr F^J yWay ui BaP,r ° i 8 no P ik " and
JJ r * y Wlll know he bas been
m a flght before he gets through. i
Fredrick W. Taylor,^lhT7ffi c iency ex- !
at r on? l H ay6 Bhielded hie from worrv, (
iL Z*l eve " goln ß «o far in the test
ofg her h!f W ®* d<Me l borse as to wear one
of her borrowed skirts and ride in a
Hide saddle that she would use
$1.25 36-irich Black Taffeta qJ
special w
$1.65 value 36-inch Heavy Xa\y tfji«
Satin Messaline. Special ▼*'*
85c value 36*inch Pure Linen, Fast 0
in Rose, Orange, Copen, Helio, ij»
Almond and Tan. Very special __ ™
65c value 40-inch Nomander Flock-B
Voile in beautiful range R
of colors ™
We have a wonderful line of colors
Solid Colord Vailes. Price
25c 29c 39c 48c
$2.50 value Sport Stripe $1
Broadcloth
$2.00 value Stripe Broadcloth in (M
fast colors. Special '
$1.50 value Spore Stripe Silk JJ
Broadcloth, Special, per yard .. v '
i PROHIBITION I'N IT 'V
, TO Bh RtPi
Assistant Secretary
, ganization Is l iwler A 1
■ Wa s lington. April - y y 1
, tion of the prohibition B! -,
■ pcct. Assistant Secret 3r) • '
i ca'tcd today, as a result
i he has given the bureau >•"
, office. j
i Secretary Andrews <h'
■ nature of the changes t"
' iterated that Commission^
1 remain .in charge of en Ui
: present. Tliere was e\*?
diet satisfactory compffaC-
Haynes and his office. 1 e
tary declared. , t
The new field marshal (
decries reports that l' 1 * *
boiled” in putting t! ir ?
ganization. What w ;l '■
plained, was to g' ve . rrll ''
couragement and siipp irl A
the crooks and others
tioning in interests of
to ‘•eliminate sentiment-
Does Not Expect Karl)
cnee.
London. April - s
Press).—Prime M imst-r ; - j
! replying to a question.^
Commons today
sumoning of anothery-y
euce, declared he did 111
of an early call of >ucti
any
Election Deplored
Vienna. Austria. A, 1 ..;
sail Von Hindenbiu-'-
Presidency is i-egar< ** ; 4 , -y
blow to the idea • t 'Xbf’
Germany and i
of all parties.
The Lexington I> L4 l' st '
ial edition early ih-'
the death of Mr. ' t hat l 0< *
prominent citizen “
occurred at 9 :-•> l fl a
‘too to
It takes from ■’ e ; a utj
water passing ul at;f r>
a single pound of dr.
Thursd aVApJ