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HENDERSON DiILY DISPATCH
BwtabUahed Aagmt Is. 1914
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SL\LF-GIVING: We were gentle
among you, even as a nurse cherish
eth her children: so being affection
ately desirous of you, we were will
ing to have imparted unto you, not
the gospel of God only, but also our
own souls, because ye were dear unto
us.—l Thessalonians 2:7,8.
s TODAY
TODAY’S ANNIVERSARIES
1773 —William H. Harrison, son of
a signer of the Declaration of Inde
pendence, governor of Indiana Ter.,
soldier-hero, Ohio senator, 9th Presi
dent, born at Berkeley, Va. Died in
Washington, a month after inaugura
tion, April 4, 1841.
1819 — Lydia E. Pinkham, who start
ed the widely-advertised vegetable
compound in her kitchen in Lynn,
Mass., at the age of 55, born there.
Died May 17, 1883.
1820 — Moses G. Farmer, New Eng
land inventor of the first electric fire
alarm system, pioneer and navy elec
trician, born at Boscawen, N. H. Died
May 25, 1893.
1826 —Samuel Bowles, son of the
founder, who made the Springfield,
Mass., Republican one ot the coun
try’s great papers, born there. Died
Jan. 16, 1878. .
1874 —Amy Dowell, celebrated poet
and critic, born at Brookline, Mass.
Died there, May 12, 1925.
TODAY IN HISTORY
1690—French and their Indian al
lies from Montreal attacked Dutch set
tlement of Schenectady, N. Y., popu
lation 400, killed 62 and took 30 back
with them as prisoners.
1799 —U. S. Constellation under
Capt. Thomas Truxtun won fight with
French frigate Insurgents— United
States then at war with France on
high seas.
1870 —Congress enacted bill “for
taking meteorological observations at
the military stations” by the U. S.
Signal Service —birth of the Weather
Bureau.
1893—'Scandal ir. France over financ
ing of the Panama Canal France then
building. ; •
1926 —U. S. Senate voted to ask
President Coolidge to intervene in an
thracite strike —he refused to do so
but strike settled on 12th.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS
George Ade of Brook, Ind., famed
humorist, born at Kentland, Ind., 71
years ago.
Fred F. Shedd of Philadelphia, news
paper editor, born at New Boston, N.
H., 66 years ago.
Ex-U. S. Senator George H. Moses
of Concord, N, H., born at Lubec, Me.,
68 years ago.
Ronald Colman, actor, born in Eng
land, 46 years ago.
Peggy Wood, actress , vocalist, born
in New York, 43 years ago.
Mrs. Pat(rick) Campbell, famed Eng
lish actress, born 72 years ago.
TODAY’S HOROSCOPE
Today’s native possesses a patient,
plodding disposition, wise in a simple
way and moderately fortunate in life’s
work. Success will be obtained
through patient application, and a
long life is indicated, reaching even
to the very great age, when a deeply
philosophical nature will be develop
ed, content with simple life and en
joying the esteem of friends.
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NORRISTOWN, PA.
DEAR NOAH= BECAUSE MV
DAD IS A FIGHTER,
IS THAT ANY REASON
TO HIT MY BOY FRIENDS
FOR. money?
mail. vouß this papkrT
Today is the Day
•By CLARK KINNAIRD
Copyright, 1937, for this Newspaper
by Central Press Association
Shrove Tuesday, Feb. 9, Mardi Gras
in Louisiana, Florida and Alabama.
Calendar day of St. Apollonia, patron
ess of dentists. Morning stars: Mer
cury, Mars, Jupiter. Evening stars:
Venus, Saturn.
TODAY’S YESTERDAYS
Feb. 9, 1815—A newspaper adver
tisement in London caused the public
to become acquainted with the trag
edy of a young woman, normally and
attractively formed ,save in one re
spect. She was pigheaded. Literally!
She had the snout, the eyes, the
mouth of a swine. The ad was a “per
sonal,” an offer from a gentlewoman
who had heard of the monstrous per
son to live with the afflicted creature
and brighten her life —for a consider
ation.
The monster was herself a gentle
woman with means that prevented
her from ever having to want for any
thing, except paid companionship.
Feb. 9, 1933 —The Weather Bureau
found where the coldest spot in the
U. S. was —in Yellowstone Park.
Thermometers there registered 66 de
grees below zero at Riverside obser
vatory, which is barely within Mon
tana boundries.
THE WORLD WAR DAY-BY-DAY
20 Years Ago Today—Secretary of
State Lansing told American shipown
ers they could send their vessels
wherever they liked and “needed
steps may be taken to prevent or
resist attack.”
Spain, Brazil, Cuba, Peru, Chile and
Uruguay sent, notes to Germany pro
testing against its unrestricted sub
marine warfare and approving the
stand taken by the U. S. That day
the submarines sank 10 more vessels.
Great Britain and France addressed
assurances to Washington that they
would grant safe conduct to Ambassa
dor Von Bernstorff, and Germans
thereupon agreed to allow Ambassa
dor Gerard to depart. He delayed
leaving, however, to arrange for Ame
ricans to depart.
IT’S TRUE
An Australian schoolmaster walked
across the English channel. On water
skins.
Florenz Ziegfeld lost $400,000 in one
evening gambling at Monte Carlo.
ANSWERS TO
TEN QUESTIONS
See Back Page
1. Interior Department. -
2. Off the coast of Ireland.
3. Italian composer.
4. Astronomy.
5. A genealogical record of blooded
livestock.
6. Seventeen. •
7. Stiffening of the muscles of the
body after death.
8. Ten.
9 Gold that has been refined but not
coined or fabricated.
10. Milwaukee.
What Do You
Know About
North Carolina?
By FEED H. MAY
1. Before the office of lieutenant
governor was established who suc
ceeded the governor in event of a
vacancy?
2. When was the first bank estab
lished in Salisbury?
3. Who was the Pitt county man
that became one of Tennessee’s early
governors?
4. When did Rowan county have a
gold nrning town with a population
of over 3,090?
5. How much did prohibition law
violations increase in 1934 over 1933?
6. What did Governor Morrison tell
the New York Tribune in 1922 about
suppressing the Ku Klu Klan?
• ANSWERS
1. The Constitution of 1776 provided
for the “speaker of the Senate” to be
the next in line. This plan remained
in effect until the Constitution of
1868 was adopted.
2. In 1808 when the Bank of the
■Cape Fear opened- a branch. John
Steele was agent, or cashier. The cur
rency, notes and bonds were kept in
an iron chest which was kept in the
sleeping quarters of a Citizen of the
town. Another safety measure was to
chain the chest to the floor. The keys
to the chain locks were kept in an
agreed place, known to only two or
three persons, so that the chest might
be removed in event of fire.
3. Willie Blount, governor of Ten
nessee from 1809 to 1815. Governor
Blount died at Clarksville, Tenn. in
1835 at the age of 68 years.
4. In 1856 Gold Hill, Rowan county,
was a thriving mining town. Reports
show that 3,000 laborers alone were
employed in operational there. The
place was established in 1842. Besides
the mercantile and trade industries
the place supported four doctors, and
was the best market for produce in
Piedmont and Western Carolina. In
1930 Gold Hill had a population of
166.
5. The total number of cases tried,
in North Carolina in superior courts
and minor courts for the year end
ing July 1, 1933 were 9,976; for the
year ending July- 1, 1934, 13,366 cases
were tried. These figures do not in
clude cases tried in federal courts.
6. The Tribune wired Governor Mor
rison to know if he would cooperate
with the New York governor in sup
pressing the organization. The North
Carolina governor’s reply was that he
.had no intention of joining governors
of other states in such a campaign.
No trouble was expected in North
Carolina, and if any did arise the
State would be able to take care of it.
HENDERSON, (N. C.) DAILY DISPATCH, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1937
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In Budapest, which has more duels
than any other city in the world, po
licemen carry swords instead of pis
tols.
George H. Barnes, Philadelphia his
torial, sheds new light on the origin
of the major party symbols in refer
ring to a recent statement.
“It is difficult to perceive how the
Nast cartoon of Jan. 15, 1870, could
have been construed as intending that
the jackass was to depict the Demo
cratic party. The inscription on its
body was “Copperhead Press.” There
was a number of Democratic papers
that had upheld Lincoln, but, there
were other papers of that party, and
some independent papers, that had
demanded that the war should be
terminated, though it would result in
disunion. The cartoon bore the title
‘A Jackass kicking a dead lion,’ the
latter bearing the name Edward M.
Staunton, Secretary of War, who had
recently died.
“The cartoon of Nov. 7, 1874 de
picts a jackass wearing a lion’s skin
bearing the word ‘Caesarism,’ a col
lar worn by the jackass is inscribed
‘N. Y. Herald’ and the animal is
shown to be braying against the pro
posed nomination of Grant for a third
term. In the background is an enor
mous elephant inscribed ‘Republican
Vote’ that elected Grant in 1872 and
was intended by Nast to indicate the
futility of opposing Grant’s efforts to
secure the nomination. In that car
toon appeared, apparently, Nast’s first
reference to the Democratic party
and it was portrayed as a fox with a
collar inscribed “Dec. part,” the
face of the fox resembled Samuel J.
Tilden. ”
Queries, reproofs, etc., are welcom
ed by George H. Barnes.
State Home Agent
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Qo~rtl Current
College Station, Raleigh, Feb. 9
Miss Ruth Current has been named
State Home Demonstration agent at
State College to succeed Dr. Jane S.
McKimmon, whose resignation was
announced a few days ago.
The appointment was made by Dean
I O. Schaub, director of the State
College extension service, who said
she brings to her new position a
wealth of experience and ability that
well qualifies her to take charge of
the home demonstration work.
Miss Current is a native of the Mt.
Vernon Community near Cleveland in
Rowan County, and was reared on
a farm.
She attended high school at China
Grove, went to Meredith College for
a year, and graduated from Harrison
burg Teachers College, Harrisonburg,
Virginia. She also attended Peabody
College, Nashville, Tennessee.
In the spring of 1927 she became
home agent in Iredell county, where
she served until she was advanced to
the position of southwestern district
agent in 1930, with headquarters at
State college.
During the last five years of her
work as district agent she acted as
extension specialist in girls’ 4-H club
work and directed the farm women’s
short course of the Farm and Home
Weeks held at State College each
summer.
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Mayor and Mrs. Samuel E. Beecher -1
Indictments for malfeasance and maladministration have t en re
turned against Mayor Samuel E. Beecher of Terre Haute Ind Jd
his wife, who is city controller. Beecher is the maS who became
nationally known last autumn when he caused ttS arrest of Earl
Browder, Commimist candidate for president in 1936 when Browder
tried to address a rally in Terre Haute. Mayo? Beecher and S wife
ssttMasr -»~ --s™
■“• *> TWB ZUSsSstSSs!*
Has High Record
' MfireviN Foikss '
College Station, Raleigh, Feb. 9
The best all-round 4-H club record in
North Carolina —that’s the achieve
ment that won for Marvin Foyles, of
Lenoir County, a four-year scholar
ship at State College.
The scholarship was awarded by
the Chilean Nitrate of Soda educa
tional bureau to the North Carolina
4-H club member making the best
record over a period of three years
or more, said L. R. Harrill, 4-H club
leader of State College.
Foyles was selected on a basis of
his production record in club projects
his leadership activities in his club
and other organi! ations, and his re
cord as a high school student, Harrill
added.
At the age of 12, Foyles joined a 4-H
club in L,enoir County and has con
tinued in club work for the past eight
years. He has completed six corn
projects, three tobacco projects, and
one forestry .project.
His average corn yield per acre has
been 44.5 bushels raised at an average
co A of 32.5 cents a bushel. This yield
wa s - more than twice the average yield
for the county and the State. He has
made $569.03 from his tobacco pro
jects $322.41 of the amount being
made last ye^r.
As an act. e club member and a
leader, Foyles has been selected to
represent his club at county camps
ind State 4-H short courses at State
College. For three years he was a
member >f the Lenoir County seed
judging i *am that won third, second
and then first place respectively in
the annual seed-judging contests at
State Fair.
He has served as a club leader, vice
president, and president of the Wheat
Swamp 4-H club. He has also held
official positions with the Grange in
his community and has represented
it at two State Grange conventions.
In 1935 he was awarded a one-year
college scholarship in the State 4-H
corn-growing contest, and he won the
State leader’s' medal for the best in
dividual record submitted at the State
4-H short course in 1936. He was one
of four North Carolina club members
selected to ' attend the National 4-H
summer caisp in Washington last
June'. **’ • ’ ■ \
OTHERS VffiWS
REMEDIES FOR FLOODS.
To the Editor:
No one seems to know what to do
about the floods cevasialmg the land
for miles around the big rivers. Os
course there are ways to prevent all
this. I think I will go to Washington,
and tell Congress . ome of my plans
for preventing such wholesale destruc
tion of crops and property. I give you
an outline of my ideas.
Here is Plan No. 1. Next year be
fore the rainy season, install millions
of sun glasses over all the rivers so
the sun will cause the water to boil
and then evaporate. It will go up and
come down perhaps in some places
where water is needed, New York for
instance. They need more water there,
and more eoap also.
No. here is plan No. 2. When all the
rivers begin to rise, drive all the cows
to the streams to drink up the water
and have the railroads bring millions
of tons of salt from the sea to feed
the cows. If they can’t keep pace with
the rivers’ rise, give them more salt.
This plan will help the railroad just
as the first plan will help the glass
makers. Now, if Congress, while they
STEWING IN HIS OWN JUICE! J
are appropriating, will not set aside
50 cents for this arrangement, I sug
gest Plan No. 3, as follows:
Send billions, not millions, of men,
but billions to all the rivers to sink
the river beds down I will say fifty
feet lower, that would employ every
body that is out of work, and instead
of people fishing with a 10-foot line,
they would have to have one a 100
feet long and that would help those
who sell fishing tackle, and if Con
gress doesn’t think this feasible, let
the river beds stay at their present
level and raise the balance of the
country. Now, if some of these things
don’t work, I don’t know what will.
WILLIAM R. CARROLL.
Henderson, Feb. 9, 1937.
Cities Demanding
Liquor Money, Too
(Continued from i*uge One.)
counties. Only by some sort of agree
ment with the counties can cities get
a penny, and it is too obvious for ar
gument that the counties hold the
! whip hand in any discussion of this
phase
Wherefore controllers who honestly
laugh at the frantic antics of Cale
K. Burgess and his drys are not sleep
ing any too well when they picture
the possibility of the cities (as per
! sonified by Pat Healey of the Muni
* cipal League) kicking over the traces.
State\ Liquor Board
Power Very Limited
(Continued from Page .One.!
| the location of any store at any par
ticular place.
It can remove officers employed or
elected by the counties, but cannot ap
j point officers and can remove them
| only “in case of violation of the terms
of spirit of the Act.”
About the only original jurisdiction
given the State board is its power to
require the use of a uniform account
ing system in the operation of all
county stores set up under the act.
Too, it can gr. nt, or refuse to grant,
permits to do business in selling li
quor to the county stores and it can
issue permits for the establishment
of warehouses for the storage of al
coholic beverages in the State.
All in all, it seems that the county
controllers conceded to the state con
trollers only such powers as would
also necessarily be implicit in any
state board. The county men feared
the creation of a gigantic state ma
chine built up on the power to pur
chase liquor. Past history has shown
that the power to purchase is the
lever by which political power is ex
erted and the buildup of a vast poli
tical machine almost invariably fol- !
lows on the heels of a grant of too i
great a power to purchaser j
The system now operating in seven
teen counties will be little affected
by the Act, because the setups now
existing will be automatically validat
ed and extended until 1939. One of
the chief fears of county men was
that existing liquor stores would be
closed up pending another election or
pending appointment of a new set of
officials. %
As to the method of electing coun
ty boards, too, the county controllers
are quite well pleased. In liquor
store counties the boards have been :
named by the county commissioners, 1
but there was just about no opposi- i
tion at all to the plan to have them
named at joint sessions of county com
missioners, boards of health and board
education. This provision, canny
politic ans point out, insures against 1
Republican control of liquor stores
even in Republican counties.
AG RICO
The FERTILIZER with the EXTRA PLANT FOODS
WANT ADS
Get Results
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I ABLE MAN TO DISTRIBUTE SAM
, pies, handle Coffee Route. Up to
$45 first week. Automobile given as
. (bonus. Write Albert Mills, 972 Mon
* mouth, Cincinnati, O. 9-lti
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; I’HONE 820. T BONE STEAK 25c
Round steak 20c. Peoples’ Meat and
Grocery. Open 6 a. m. to 9 p. m 332
Winder street. Free delivery. 13 26ti
JUST RECEIVED A BIG SHlP
ment 24 inch well pipe at “The;
Place of Values.” Alex S. Watkins,
“Where quality tells and prices sell.”
9-lti
WANTED YOU TO KNOW THAT
you can get rid of the itch and
other forms of skin trouble without
| advertising the fact by using Tol
son’s Scabeknox. It is odorless and
. ■ every jar guaranteed. Two sizes
75c and SI.OO. Sold only by Peoples
Drug Store, Henderson, N. C.,
manufacturing and dispensing drug
gists a’d chemists. * &t-ts
LOST SATURDAY AFTERNOON
on Main street, pair ladies glasses
in green leather case. Reward if re
| turned to 315 Charles stiee... 9-lt
WE WANT TO BUY CORN AND DO
. custom grinding. We can also crush
corn, cob and shock for feed. State
! Grocery Co.. Henderson, N. C. 2-26 t
NOTICE—I V iLL BE AT
ville, N. C., on Thursday and Fri
day, Feb. 11 and 12 with a load of
extra n'ce pigs and shoats, will also
, be in Henderson on Saturday, Feb.
I 13, near Watkins Hardware Co.
' Don’t miss this opportunity to get
your pigs—they are scarce this
year. W. W. Jordan. 8-2 ti
JUST RECEIVED A CARLOAD OF
j the Famous Barrett Roofing and
( Asphalt Shingles at “The Place of
I Values.” If you want a good roof
; use Barrett. Alex S. Watkins. 9-lti
TEN PIECE WALNUT DINING
room suites, slightly used, special
$49.50. Pianos in perfect condition.
$39.50 up. Home Furniture Ex
change, 101, North Garnett street,
phone 80. 16-ts
THE CLEANEST USED CARS
in town. Legg-Parham Com
pany Used Car Branch. Op
posite Wester’s Stables on
i Wyche Street.
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I
All keyed ads are strictly c »n
--fidential. Please do not cal)
the office for their identity.
18. H. Mixon
Contractor and Builder
' Builds Better Buildings”
All kinds of Building
Wall Papering Painting—
Roofing and Interior
a Decorating.
f PHONES:
FORECLOSURE SALE.
By virtue of authority, vested j
the undersigned as trustee, in tha:
certain deed of trust executed by Nor
wood R. White and wife Moss Rose
White, on the Bth day of February
1929, and recorded in Book 155, Paj.
281, Register of Deeds Of'ice of
Vance County, North Carolina, de
fault having been made in the pay
ment of the debt therein secured, at
- the x equest of the holder of the same
I will offer for sale at the courthouse
door in Henderson, N. C. at 12 o’clock
by public auction, on the 25th day o!
February, 1937, the following describ
j ed land:
Begin at a stake on Davis street la
Henderson, and run along Davis St,
N 78 deg. W, 92 feet to a stake in
'Mrs. Mary -- line, thence
along her line, N 12 deg. E. 188 feet to
i a strike in Mrs. Drapers line, thence
' along Mrs. Drapers line, S 78 deg. E,
j 92 feet to a stake J. T. Nelson corner,
thence along Nelson line S 12 deg. W,
188 feet to the place of fceginning,
§ee deed E. C. Kittrell to Norwood
R. White, book 54, page 134.
This 25th day of January, 1937.
A. A. BUNN, Trustee
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NOTICE OF SALE.
Under and by virtue of an order'!
the Clerk of the Superior Court ol
Vance County, North Carolina, made
in the Special .proceeding entitled
“Emma T. Parriati and Mary 0. Par
-1 r.'sh vs. George H. Parrish and wife
* Lucy Parrish, Elba L. Parrish and
[ wife, Cora Lilly Parrish, Fenner >.
' Parrish, minor, and Ollie Mae Par
rish, minor,” the c aid proceeding be
ing upon the Special Proceeding!
docket in the office of the Clerk ol
the Superior Court of Vance County,
the undersigned Commissioner will
on Thursday, - February 18, 1937 at
(twelve o’clock, Noon, at the Court
house door in Henderson. N. C., again
offer for sale to the highest bidder
for cash, that certain real estate ly
ing and being in Vance County, North
Carolina, more particularly described
as follows:
LOT NO. 2. Begin at East side of
Henderson - Warrenton Highway
Route 50, and run South 75 East uj
feet to the S. A. L. Railway right-of
way; thence along said right-of-way
;S 29 West 40 feet; thence N 75 We*
137 feet to said Highway: thence
North 32 East 40 feet to the begin
ning, as described in Book 93, P a £ e
542, Vance Registry.
Bidding to start at $412.50.
This the 2nd day of February, W
T. P. GHOLSON, Commissioner
28th Year of Service
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