ASSOCIATED PRESS AND CENTRAL PRESS Two-Thirds Os City Tax Mow Paid In $50,986.96 Received of $77,218.28 Levy For I h e Current Tax Year Approximately two-thirds of t lie 1931 tax levy for the City of Hender son has been collecteq .-»o far, City Clerk S. B. Byrxvell stated today. The total levy was $77,218.28, and of that amount $50,980.66 has been paid by property owners and others, leaving outstanding the sum of .$26,231.32 as ye uncollected. A penalty of one-half of one per cent is being charged this month lot all accounts settled at this time. Ac counts were payable at. face during iv eember and January, and otr De cember 1 and prior thereto discounts wore allowed. The penalty will grow each month the account is not settled, until the limit is reached. CIRCULATION 5.425 FOR TWO LIBRARIES 53 New Volumes Added In January; Perry Member ship Is 3,821 A circulation of 1.709 for the Perry library and 716 for the Dunbar branch for the colored, or a total of 5.125 was shown for January in the month ly report made public today by Miss Mary Louise McDearman. librarian. The average per day for the Perry library was 181. of which 28»S percent was non-fiction. The libraries were open 26 days during the month. A total of tt new volumes wore ad ept! :it the Perty library, including 2' t C fiction and 19 of non-fiction, anti 29 adult and 15 juvenile books. Tin Dun' 'ir brunch had an addition of nine volumes, all non-fiction, and all juvenile but one. Active membership of the Pcr»y li brary was 3.821 at the end of January which included 2 588 adults and 1.233 juveniles. During the month 72 new names were added and 59 dropped, making a net gain of 13. The Dun bar branch had an enrollment of 89t. including 2.? b adults and 661 juveniles. Flight nexv names were added and four dropped, foi a net gain of four 'The Townsville bland) of the Perry library had 89 readers at the end ol January and ye ireiilalion of 17 vol umes during the month. The South Henderson branch had a circulation of 188 in January ami 107 registered members at the end of the month. Both branches are included it) the figures foi the Perry lirary proper. EDUCATION BOARD HOLDS NO SESSION No session of the County Board of Education was held today, as there was no business to come up for con sideration, it. was stated at the office of Superintendent E. M. Rollins, sec retary to the board. CAN YOU ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS? See Pnyt> Four 1. What is the name for #;i curve which during its gradual regression from a point winds repeatedly mound it? 2. Where did Mine. Marie Tussand have here famous waxworks exhibit? 3. F’or whom is the 1 city of Biloxi named? I. What oventd ocs the ballad “Mulching Through Georgia" com ntenioi ate? 5. Name the Biblical character, son of Zcruiah and nephew of King David and commander of David’s army. 6. Who was President of the U. S. at the time of the “Missouri Com promise’? 7. What word describes those wht> think that communications are oc casionally established between the living and the dead who survive in some other mode of existence? 8. How many brothers had Chris topher Columbus? 9. What is bimetallism? 10. Name the capital of Poland. A Three Days’ Cough Is Your Danger Signal Don’t let them get a strangle hold. Fight them quickly. Creomulsion combines 7 helps in one. Powerful but harmless Pleasant to take. No narcotics. Your own druggist is au thorlzed to refund your money on the spot if your cough or cold is not. re lieved by Creomulsion. • px*l ** • • $53,602,340 * Dividends for Policyholders 460,822 'The total amount of new life insur ance sold in 1934 was $46,666,600. Special Reserve LOOO.OOO a 28% increase over 1933 sales. A fund to take care of depredation on real estate and investment fluctuations. * * * Insurance in force $314,834,797. Capital • •:» 1„000,000 * * * Surplus Unassigned .-..j.,.—1„825,0G0 Our territory is admittedly the fa Total Surplus Funds for Additional have every reason Vexpe^' greato Protection of Policyholder. 4,285,822 and more profitable accomplish- .><•• * ments in 1935. »* Total $57,888,162 FRANK M BARNHART | | B. FRANK HARRIS SPECIAL AGENT SPECIAL AGENT 224 Charles Street 231 Turner Avenue Phone 30-.-J Henderson, N. C. Phone 309-W Henderson, N. C. JEFFERSON STANDARD g£3S| git LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY TWENTY-EIGHT YEARS OF FAITHFUL nalli TfWCO RAISE Notices Sent Each Grower Stating Amount He Can Increase Crop Tobacco growers in Vance county have been officially advised of the amount of extra acreage i*nd tonnage they will he allowed to raise in 1935 under the 15 percent increase allowed by the Agricultural Adjustment Ad ministration, J. W. Sanders, county agent, and director of the crop con trol work in the county, announced today. Notices have been mailed to all growers apprising them of their increases. The county agent said new con tracts arc being taken from the few growers who did not sign agreements last year, if they wish to get in on the crop control program this season. There are not many of them in Vance county, but those few who have not hitherto cooperated in the campaigns have the opportunity now of doing so in 1935. and contracts ma/ be obtain ed and signed at the county agent’s office. It is expected that cooperation will he virtually one hundred percent in Vance county this year. At. first there was some opposition in this county to the increase, but ef forts have been made to explain to all growers the advantages to be ob tained by growing slightly more to bacco this year than last year. It is hoped that it will result in the re- MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1935 Farmers Prepare Tobacco Seedbeds For Year’s Crops Throughout Vance county and this section of the flue-cured tobacco belt, tobacco growers are busy at work preparing seedbeds for sowing in this month byway of getting a start on their 1935 crop. The ground is being dug and softened and fertilizer will shortly be put in for the sowing of SCO (I Giowcrs are expected to pay parti cular attention this year to the qual ity of seed they will plant, to the end that the plants may be of the best possible type and thus give the most promise of good yields of the leaf when the growing season begins. Not only are the seedbeds being prepared, but in many instances al ready have been sown. The sunny weather, with milder temperatures, that have prevailed during the past few days have afforded growers the chance they had sought for getting along with this initial work looking toward the start of their 1935 tobacco crop. 1842 George Braudes, Danish writ er. born. Died Feb. 19, 1!(27. capture of a portion of the foreign tobacco trade that has fallen off since crops have been reduced. With good seasons, flue-cured grow ers are looking for another good year, both as to quality of Iheir crop and the price it will bring when it goes on sale on the floors of leaf ware houses next fall. WANTsSuSMID Eighth District Conference Held Here Saturday Night Asks Payment The eighth district of the Ami ne ~ Legion went on record here Salimh-' night in a meeting presided over i. H. E. White, commander as in f m ,'. of the immediate cash p:\vnient of th! adjusted service certificate, better known as the soldier’s bonus. T''' district is made up of Henderson Warrenton, Oxford. Durham Chapel Hill posts and representatives were present from all of those po-d.-T State Commander Hubert Olive m <| State Auxiliary President Mrs. H M Shumway, both of Lexington were present and made talks to the -r. mt , of Legion activities and what tlio J> gion is doing in North Carolina. Mg Adams, secretary and treasurer es State Auxiliary, of Raleigh, was afl present at the meeting. Mayor Irvine B. Watkins introduced the speaker of the evening and .Mr-' John Lee Wester presented Mrs. Sum way. The group voted to ask the eon gressman from this district and the senators of North Carolina to sup port legislation in Congress relative 1,, the paying of the bonus. Ttje conference was preceded bv “dutch supper” at 6:30 o'clock, ai d was largely attended.