North Carolina Newspapers

"WEDNESDAY, AUG. 2ti, 1925 LOCAL NEWS ITEMS I Dr. Cox, of Winston-Salem, killed.' a large rattle-snake Sunday after noon while driving from Piedmont to Moore's Springs. The snake was noticed crossing ihe road. It had eight rattles. An ice cream supper at the M. E. church here Friday night brought in a nice sum for the use of the church. The attendance was good. Frank King, of Stoneville, was a business visitor here yesterady. John I'riddy, of Lawsonville Route I 1, was here a short while today. Gid Raker, of Meadows Route 1, was in town today. Ed Smith and R. L. Hall, of Law- Fonville, were visitors here to lay. | J. A. Weisner, of Walnut Cove, j ww a business visitor here today. | Mr. and Mrs. Frank Moore, of j Shreveport La., and Mrs. James | Moore, of Canton, Miss., are visiting the family of Mr. Frank 1,. Moore, j at Smith. I Matt Simmons, the poplar carrier of the Lawsonville rural route, is erecting it nice residence at Lawson y::ie. H. A. Hall, who was here from j Peters Creek township today, recent ly lost a line mule. Mrs. Dr. I!. 11. Morelield has re- | ceiitly been seriously ill at her home j at Moore's Springs, but is improving at this time. Miss Josie Pepper returned yester day from a trip to Waynesville and Asheville in company with Mrs. J. H. Prather, of Mt. Airy. Mrs. X. A. Martin has returned , from a week's stay at Moore's ( Springs. Mrs. 11. H. Shelton and children, Myra. 11. 11. and Hetty and Miss Luna Taylor, of Piedmont Springs, Mrs. Jacob Fulton, of Walnut Cove :ii4 guest Mrs. W. I!. Jones, of Suf- | I 'lk. Va.; Mr. and Mrs. . . i. pep tic r and children composed a party visiting the historic old reek house Tuesday, r.'turning via Mt. Airy. Mrs. A. J. l'agg returned hunt' | Sunday from a \i.»it to relative;, a- West JolVerson. Miss Frank Mitchell, of High Point, is thi' guist of her aunt. Mrs. W. G. Petl-ee. The Literary Digest it::- an article I •) "Rases of Our Economic DolUtn ar.ve." If you ask us. we would say ail four bases are important, but the home base is the only one that really '.o'ints.— Kingston Standard. Mioses Frank Mitch.il ami Lciise - •••as were the lienor guests at a « iightful picnic upper at Moore's •• irings Monday eveiiimr. Among those enjoying this party were: Mr. and Mrs. W. (I. Pet roe and family, Mrs. A. J. Fagir Miss Edith Fagg, Mr. and Mrs. W". E. Joyce, Misses Janie and I.ucile Martin. Miss Nannie Pepper, of Xorf !k. Va., was the guest of her sister, Mrs. X. A. Martin, thtis week. Mr. John Taylor is in a Twin-City hospital for a tonsil operatic n. Little Miss Estelle Humphreys is n a Winston-Salem hospitai for a tonsil operation. Little Miss Miriam Hall had the. misfortune to fall at Piedmont Springs while playing and cut her knee to the extent of having to take one stitch in the cut to close it. ROAD CONTRACT LET THIS WEEK Only Project In This Section I Was That From Stokes Line To Madison. i Raleigh, August 25.—Sixteen high ly construction projects drew bids from 120 contractors today and to night the state highway commission announced that the total cost of the jobs would run to $2,868,375.07, con stituting one of the bigges* single awards of the highway program. The jobs will be let to contract to the bidders at a meeting of the full I membership of the commission to morrow. The lii projects on which bids were placed embrace 7S miles ] of hardsurfaeed highway construe- ! tion and !!7 miles of grading. Besides 1 there are two big bridge construction | jobs, one structure to span the Ca- j tawba river between Caldwell! and Catawba counties at a cost of $110,418.55 and the other to cross Piney Marsh in Tyrell county at a cost of $llO,OlO. The only road project in this sec tion that was included in the letting mentioned above was for grading and bridges only on the road from Mad ison to the Stokes line, leading to ward Walnut Cove. The low road bid was $20,500, and the bridges $27,585 on this project. Some of us wish they'd talk less at Washington about reducing next year's taxes, and give us back some of that we paid last year.—Daven port Democrat. CATCHING CARP IN DAN RIVER ; Thousands Heing Taken From Stream By Fishermen Who Learn Secret Of Trapping Them. Madison. Aujr. IS.—lf the reports if fishermen are to be credited, ami there is a belief in some quarters that at least a few fishermen are I partly truthful, thousands of pounds j>f ear1 1 have been taken from Dan I river, in that part of the stream I which flows through Rockingham, j county, within the past three or four weeks, and the end is not yet. For the fi«h continue to he captured in ! large numbers and of large size. | The manner of their capture, I ; moreover, is almost as interesting as j the lish that are caught. In fact, it! j appears that somebody has di.-covor ;od a secret that the carp didn't | mean to let get out and the lish are i I I at the mercy of those who seek their i destruction. Who it was that discov- ( en d this secret is not known but ! certain it is that it has led to the undoing of many carp. What some shrewd fisherman J learned is that when frightened a .carp doesn't tlart up or down stream •at lightning-like speed but sticks l his nose in the mini instead, believ ing, like the ostrich, that when his head is hidden all is hidden. Nor is this his only pecularity. So long as the carp keeps his nose in the mud he may lie rubbed on the back, 1 firmly grasped and lifted from the j water without becoming alarmed, it is said. Learning all this, man has taken advantage of the lish. A number of ordinary seines are tied together, or poultry wire is made to serve in-j (stead and set about holes in the river that are likely to barber carp. Then men and boys get inside the pen thus made and feel aioun.l OR the bottom until the fi.-li ai" dis covered an I capture,l. When one hole is fished clean til • fishermen move on to another. A carp, it is declared, ha- only one ticklish spot, hi> tail. If touched ■:i his rear extremity he ; do -. nis m.s,' out of the mud at'd travels. After the net has been -t for hint however, he does not travel far un tii lie runs into it and is brought to ■i halt anil again does a nos • dive in the mini. t'arp ranging in size front one to IT pounds have been taken in the manner thus described and some • t'. tuondous fish jfrics have been • held on the banks of the Pan re • cor.tly. LETTER FROM W. L. NELSON Writes About Tobacco Prices On Fairmont Market —In- crease In Pounds Of 70 Per i Cent. ' Fairmont, X. C, Aug. 2.". t {-Alitor Danbury Reporter: " 1 am taking the li.bi.rty of writing ' you about the tobacco market at this place. As I have lots of friends in your county who are readers of your paper, and I feel they would like to know the real facts about how tobac . co is selling in this section. I came here about the first of 1 August, and the market opened on . the Ith. This is a good farming sec tion, and crops are good here, just the right season for this section, too much rain is worse than a drought in our section, the land is level and the farmers have to cut lot',? ditches and connect up one farm with anoth -1 er and these ditches drain the land for miles and mi'.es. Lasr year was too wet, and the crops eery pool. The crop of tobacco this year will yield at least 7(1 per -.nt more than ' j last year, and the estimate for this county is around 1,000 pounds to tne acre. The corn crop is lino, cotton ' also is good, the boll weevil has not j been so bad this season, and the j farmers in this section will be in '! good shape after selling their tobac 11co and cotton. | I will give you the average on to -1! bacco each week since we started. The first week our average was $18.70, the second week, $10.20, the ' third week, $'21.11. And we have only had two sale days this week. Monday we sold 1 11,000 pounds . which averaged $2.~>.2S and the gen- I ■ eral average to date is over 20 cents. The farmers generaly are pleased . with prices, and this market will I sell over 8 million pounds this season. I will be back home in time for the opening of the Winston-Salem mar ket, which opens on October Ist. I : hope all my friends and the farmers . of Stokes and adjoining counties i may make a good crop. Yours very truly, WALTER L. NELSON. TIIE DANBURY REPORTER TO RELIEVE I POWER SHORTAGE Senator Dial 'rgt.; Turning On] of Muscle Shoals Current As j Soon As Possible To Relieve! Industries Crippled 15 yj Drought. Laurens, S. Aug. 2!. Former j Senator X. I!. Dial, who is a member' of the Muscle Shoals commission, I today sent the following telegram j to thi' secretary of war: "I strongly urge that you have current turned on at Mll-cle Shoals i as soon as possible. Streams are' unusually low. Power badly needed to keep machinery going and labor I employed in sev ral (tates. Many | plants are shut down." Reeatise of the a -lite situation in I many states. Mr. Did fc !• that with; th" power turned on at Muscle Shoals j many of the power companies ad jacent to the lines of thi' Alabama ['ow: l !' company could connect up i with the main lines and by relays j carry current to all the states affect-1 od by the low water situation, on the | east, even as far as the Yadkin river j power company, for instance. It is understood that the work of j installing the machinery at Muscle Shoals is making good progress and that the current is now about ready to lie turned on, not the maximum, but enough to get things going and i of sufficient volume perhaps to give relief in many quarters. When completed and in operation the Muscle Shoals plant will produce :?nO,OOO horsepower, but, of course, the plant will not be ready to run at its full capacity for some time. Mr. Dial realizes the unusual sit uation with rivers exceptionally low and the cotton ginning season a' hand make it imperative that if relief] can b" had from any ipnrter it] should h" available as soon as prac ' icable. j As a member of the commission Mr. Dial only m-ts in an •idvism-j ■:v, hut he appro iat -s keenly th"' ; advantages that would lie afforded j by connecting UP the Muscle Shoal- ' lines with relay lin ■ ■■■ through the! .•ountry affected by this drought, News Items Of Walnut Cove Walnut Cove, Aug. 2~>. Mr. Ed j Ruder spent the week end with I'ela- | ti\os at Xewton, visiting Plowing j 1 uo'-k and Iloone while there. Miss Willie Mae fates spent til" wei'k end at home. Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Wall, • t" Pi.io Hall spent Sunday in t"wn. Messrs. T. C. Hart man and Gilmer Martin spent the week eml in Salis bury. Mr. and Mrs. Everett Matthews, of South Carolina, are visiting their parents here. Miss Xina Morelield has returned from a visit to Misses Mildred More lield and Xannie Lasley, of Wins ton-Saleni. Mrs. J. W. Morelield is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Ciwyn, in Char lotte. Misses Reba and Mabel Hurton if Winston-Salem, are visiting Miss Alice Joyce. Dr. C. J. Helsabeck has returned from the hospital in Winston-Salem. His friends are glad to have him home again. Messrs. P. W. Davis and S. C. Austin spent Tuesday in Greensboro. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Dodson spent Tuesday in Greensboro. Mrs. C. E. Davis returned Sunday from St. Luke's Hospital, Richmond, where she has been for treatment. Mr. E. S. Zimmerman spent several days in Hamlet last week on busi -1 liess. j Dr. R. G. Tuttle, of Winston-Sa ] lem, was in town Wednesday on pro j fessional business. | Mr. J. G. Fulton, who lias been ; in business in Winston-Salem for the ! past two years, has removed his family into their new home out there. (Their many friends here regret their i leaving and miss them greatly, j The Haptist Sunday School will go on their annual picnic to Guilford 1 Hattlo ground Thursday afternoon ! Mr. Cates' house caught oil lire j Tuesday P. M. from the kitchen flue but aid came quickly and soon was . extinguished. Capt. Currier of Winston-Sal; m, was in town Tuesday. The hard surfaced road to Wins- It on is now completed and the com ! pany has begun work on the s'.rc. i extension. The Piedmont Springs hotel gave a dance Wednesday night to the ladies of Walnut Cove. LUMBER FOR SALE—I-inch ; oak boards, 35,000 feet, on State highway between King and Moore's Springs. Price S2O per thousand. J. E. PYRTLE. Westfield, N. C. tf News Items From Germanton Route 1 tii-rnianton Route 1, Aug. Jl.— The condition of Mr. A. 11. Ilr!'i|fv. who is now a patient in a Wit-ton- ; Salem hospital, shows some improve ment. his many friends will be in- j terestcd to learn. The young people's clu- s of the' Friendship Sunday School enjoyed a delightful chicken stew at the home i f Mr. it. A. Maker on Sat urday nigiit. Mr. and Mrs. Co" IMIV lei and daughters spent Si-nlay with rela tives here. Mrs. .1. R. Hill and daughter An nie, and son, Paul, of nea»* I'i-rh Point, visit I lvlativis hen* Sunday, j Mr. and Mrs. Jennings Tuttle visi ted relatives here Sunday. Messrs. Lloyd Wall and Jack Wrnon, of Madison Route IS, visited friends near Friendship Sunday af ternoon. Among those who visited Misses Maude and Murriel Poles Sunday | afternoon were Misses Clarice and ] Sara Holland, Trcva Johnson, Annie 11 ill, Fmie Kiser, Maie and Cleone Poles. Macic Slate, Mayola Tuttle, Sallie Fowler and Messrs. Charii" Rutledge, Lloyd Wall Jack Vernon, Kverett Wagoner, Calvin Holland, Klliert Tuttle, L. M. MeKenzie Paul and Krnest Hill, Brodus Riu ledge, I'osie Slate and Curtis Ki.-ef. Mr. and Mrs. Carl White and daughter and Mr. and Mrs. Colonel White spent Sunday afternoon with. Mr. and Mrs. Ollie White. Mr. and Mrs. Luther Fowler and. little Mill, and Mr. and Mrs. Paul ' Tuttle and childreen wen* among the i visitors at Mrs. Jennie Ru'ledge's j Sunday. Among those w'po visited Mrs.! Kli/.a Ruth ilge's Friday were Mr. j and Mrs. Ri hard Johnson, of ni*;;f Madison, Mr. and Mrs. Roy While and children. Mr. 'ind rs. Cicero Hoyles, Mi and *•! -. W.\P*liob and Mrs. i.\ A. lie'.. -. Mr. a: I Mrs. Roy White and children visited M . A. I'. Fr.vSi's Sunday. Mb • Maude P.obv -'at .'day night with Mh ne !. i'.i t'. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Fowl- r wer - ailii tlg the . ! - .it Mr. P. I . A. Raker's Sur. ! :;y. I.es Ar.gi -s ivltnv to. k hi- son v.: of school becau.-e he wa.-i; : 'a iglit subdivision.- ' alifoit.ia Graphic. QUICK LOANS AVAILABLE The Federal Land Bank inakes announcement that all applications for loans will be given prompt attention if submitted before Septem ber 7th, 1925. Farmers who are in debt, and who now know your needs, it would be a wise idea to place your application for the loan. Your crop now is advanced far enough to know approximately your income this year. Your application should be submitted early enough to take care of your needs when your notes fall due this fall. It is the desire of the Federal Land Bank to assist you in carrying your indebtedness at a low rate of interest and on a long time term. You may borrow money for the following purposes: 1. To purchase land. 2. To buy implements, such as farm machinery, wagons, tools, etc. 3. To purchase fertilizer. 4. To purchase live stock. 5. To provide and repair buildings. 6. To provide improvements, such as fencing, draining, etc. 7. TO PAY EXISTING INDEBTEDNESS. Carry your deed on which you intend borrowing money and talk the matter over with H. R. McPHERSON, Secy-Treas. Stokes County National Farm Loan Association Walnut Cove, N. C. 19auf?2t ! DAXVILLE MARKET ' WILL OPEN OCT. 1 Warehousemen Looking For The Best Year in History ol'l This Virginia Market. I>anvill*. V'a., AUK. 21.—The I»an ! villi* tobacco market will open f«»r | 1P25 on Thursday, October 1-t, it is announced. Fanners and local to bacconists, basing their forecasts: upon the good prices that arc being | paid oil the South Carolina and | Georgia markets for the weed, are i , looking forward to the opening of the market here with the most san guine expectations. Farmers in the city last week' from every section of the country .were extremely optimistic as to the outlook for a good tobacco crop this year. .Many of them are of tin opin ion that they will haw the best crop |in years both as to ijtiailty and' i|iian:ity. Their happiness over the I I splendid prospects is even greater I than usual by reason of the act that : only a few weeks ago it looked as though the crop had been practically destroyed by the drought. The first ! j real rain for several weeks came on I II lii' night of the primary and since! that time the rainfall has been : "perfect." as a prominent farmer of the Chatham neighborhood describ ed it. litiriiifr the last two weeks certain ] portion of this section have been j visited by hail-storms but not of sutlicient magnitude to do any real j i damage. Oil some farms the dam- | I aire at tirst was reported to have j been rather heavy but the plant- an* 1 j now reported to have conic out | wonderfully, hardly showing »If ■-t | (if the hail. Warehousemen in the city are looking forward to one if the big .g. st reasons in the history > f the lo al market and in prcpara' ■■ ■. ar-- ec'aiviiijr their floor-spa >•. Addi tions • ' ,i number of wart i.mi-' - it. thi '•> are now under coii-;i iciinii .and ■ K; o»i C,d. \V. T. ll'iglvs* 'new v. art house on 1.0,va1l str et i. t being i :..*(! to • ompleti m. I'" it iro'.iur t'> take an ■ \;ra sc.-- |- : i n «• r « iiirft 11> jiwrt tlit* ma I -*ri kt • \v . «!i*t it for »v --♦ !>■'• dy •«.: » ••!)■■ i . :«• .ro ahai Jtlld :i:»Vf * xi«• 1 i*iMa» »!i It'll*- : • *rai>h. PAGE FIVE |WILSON'S MARKET I WILL HAVE 5 SALES Addition Of Another Sot Of Buyers Makes Possible Hand ling Of 1,500,000 P uiu!. Daily. Wil.-tin, Aujr. 'S.\. —At last, after much i-ffurt "ii the part .if tin l.ieal warehousemen and tobacconists. Wil s n ',a> sci mi! another set of buy tors for tli' Wilson market v. ; ,ich ! ripens Tue-day, September 1. Purine' the opening week only quadruple . sales, as heretofore, will he niain tainei! hut beginning .Monday, Sep- I temher 7, live -all's will begin ami he in Vogue llltil the mil of the I season. With the enlargement of •.. i y auction warehou-e in the city .-, . n in all Wilson will be abb to r.andle 1..".0 ii.i no pe'imls daily, agaii.st '],1100,0011 ptiun Is as heretofi.ii al | most eliminating the possibi'iy of blocks instiling the farmers . ,;ick I sab s fur their products. Wilson is fully equipped to handle the weed : H large quantities in m 'every angle in selling and redrying land with live sets of buyers makes Wilson nit olilj the biggest te!a co : market in the world, but the only tobacco market in the world when ' live sets of buyers are bidding at the same time in iive of the lain ware houses. TOBACCO MARKETS TO OPEN SEPT. 1 Sales in Eastern Carolina Will ! Ik'jrin With Bright Promise. (Ireenville, Aug. 2.".—The tol markets of eastern North •":«• ■ -i:rl.l are scheduled to open Oil Tilt S mhor 1. The date f In • •- :ng wii/ fixed some tin ige i tl.i iiiim rs of the- '"at, iii N iir• i.. lina Tobacco Warehou omen's ass, - a: , ii at their ami ... • ii l v. ' • was later ap| P . y tie o Associatii n * i!n' In. i Sal -on tlii ..... • ■ ■ ai .\- ;ed to he hi -k. Ii , it- ft, . i Various sectie|i» ef '. !l Nif h .'arolina indicate that tin K"-!~ , will be if unusually j>,,d . al'ty, j although in some sections the dr. .ight .ha- damaged the grnvth.