ASSOCIATED press and central press SSSt. ) 285,510 Farms in Cultiva tion in State in 1937, Survey Shows Raleigh. June 6—The number of farms in North Carolina was increas ed only two and one-half per cent, or from 273,680 farms in 1936 to 285,510 last year, the State Department of Agriculture’s farm census report re- Tar Heel farmers put 189,000 addi tional acres of land in production in 1937. S. M. Hines, farm census supervisor, reported increases or decreases in the state's major crops last year as fol lows; C0rn—2,296,140 acres in cultivation, thiee per cent less than 1936. Cotton—l,o77.ooo acres, seven per cent greater than in 1936. Tobacco —639.780 acres, 12 per cent greater than in 1936. Wheat —488.880 acres, 11 per cent less than 1936. Oats —280.690 acres, 7 per cent less than in 1936. Rye —90,880 acres, two per cent less than in 1936 Peanuts—234.33o acres, no change. Irish Potatoes—94,lso, 11 per cent My Thanks to the People of Vance County I am truly thankful to the people of Vance County for returning me to office as Recorder of Vance County. The vote I received in Saturday’s Primary was a most gratifying expression of confidence for which I offer my sincere thanks and appreciation. ' Sincerely yours, R.E. CLEMENTS You can obtain travelers cheques In convenient de nominations at this bank. Citizens Bank W GREEN WAY. Little Miss Lois Ann Greenway is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Greenway of North Granville. If Lois Ann would he shown in a Technicolor movie, her eyes would be as blue as the skies. She can grin, smile, and laugh—all at the same time. When she was a tiny tot, her mother brought her to town for a while in a silken lined basket but she has out-grown that for some time. And now let’s go back to the year of 1881, which year it was that Cousin He wet t Hicks’ Uncle Samuel pro phesied that horseless carriages would soon be running up and down the road. It seems that folks like to hear about “them good old days”, and T hope some others will write us more o ft hose old-time tales. Ben Matthews says it was in that same year, 1881, that the big hail storm came. He was going to school in a log cabin school house somewhere near Salem and Miss Florence Hunt was his teacher. Bud Dorsey and Bennie and Jimmie Roberson were among his school mates. I can’t remember that far back, but my mind does wander (and it wan deis about three-thirds of the time, and wonders the other third) back a v out twenty-five years r.go to the. Browning meeting which was held in a big tent near Tabbs Creek church. Several of the churches of the Oxford circuit had a union tent meeting in stead of their usual week of meetings. Raymond Browning did the preach ing, assisted by a Rev. Colman. A Mr. Kidder was pianist, and he could real ly play the piano. But I had to go into all that introduction to tell about Will Barnes. He was one of the ush ers who helped seat the large crowds and he also was one of the men who helped take up the collection, each of them having a tin pan. And when the money fell in, it surely rattled. But that, too, is not what I start ed out to tell. At, that time Will Barnes had a beautiful grey-checked suit which he wore on Sundays. It was that suit that, he wore to the meetings. And when Will got on the inside of that suit, he was dressed fit for Sunday. 1 asked him about the Defends Press ini. : ! r Ilf Speaking today at the Duke Univer sity commencement, Dr. Felix Mor ley, editor of the Washington Post, declared that the rule of the press is vital to the preservation of Ame rican democracy. This is to express my appreciation to the people of Vance County for their sup port in the Democratic Primary of June 4, 1938. SAM R. HARRIS, Jr. Voters, I Thank You To you, the voters of Vance County, I express my sincere thanks and appreciation for the splendid sup port you gave me at the polls Saturday, June 4, enabl ing me to be the Democratic Nominee for the two-year term County Commissioner in the General Election in November. It is most pleasing to me to know that I have so many friends. I promise you will have no cause to re gret your action. Respectfully, Henry W. Hight U. N. C. Speaker ! I : > 9 ||F JH 1 Judge John J. Parker Federal Judge John J. Parleer of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, who will deliver the bacca- 1 laureate address at the final exercis es of the University of North Caro lina Commencement on Tuesday even ing at 7 o’clock. His subject will be “Democracy and Constitutional Gov ernment.” suit some time ago, and he said he still had the coat. How on earth Will escaped getting married while he had that suit, I will never understand, for he must have been a restful sight for tirodi eyes among the ladies. And further back than that, but still not reaching as far back as 1881, I remember a Children’s Day exer cises I was in. It was nigh on to thirty years ago. The children came in with flags from different countries while the main one had a large United States flag. Sidney Walters, now a big business man of Winston-Salem, and myself, were both in the flag ex ercise. Sidney also had another poem which he recited. He was slightly sandy-haired at that time, and the poem went as follows, as I got him to recite it for me several weeks ago when he was home for the week-end; “I’m just a common dandelion With a fuzzy, yellow head; They gave me to a little boy W/hose hair they say was red.” Sidney said he had tried in vain to remember the second verse, but has never yet been able to do so. When he was just a grown young man, Irby Smith used to sing at Salem church, and his sister, who is now Mrs .Toe Hicks, also of Henderson, was: a guest singer. Mr. and Mrs. Hicks still like singing as I have since heard that they were out at Hester’s cburch Sunday to the big singing Ihere. I took Cousin Albert Crews a copy of Cousin Hewitt’s letter which told that he was one of those nine of his j randfather’s forty-eight grand-chil dren that still live. Cousin Albert is now eighty and has been sick for more than a year, but is able to get around in the house. He is a great great uncle of the young Mr. Rogers from Henderson who works here in the Union Bank, and an Uncle of C< usjn Lorena Bobbitt, of Henderson. /.nd as I wind up this last para graph, it •is Saturday morning, and when this gets into print, it will be Monday afternoon. By that time the big election will be over. Some will have won and will be happy. Other? will have lost, and that’s the way th nig game goes. But in away, every election day is election day. Every day is election day. Every day we either win or we lose. We either have a goo J day, and feel that we have accom plished something, or we feel that the day is a loss. But then every morn ing we can repeat those lines which cegin: “Every day is a new beginning, Every morn is a world made new.” T. MOSES JONES. THANKS To the people of Vance Coun ty for the vote given me for Coroner in Saturday’s Primary. I appreciate everything that was done in my behalf. P. M. PORTER MONDAY, JUNE 6, 1938 Thanks To Everyone €> ■ * I wish to express my deep and sincere appreciation for the splendid vote given me for the office of Sheriff in Saturday’s Primary. « J. Ed Hamlett To the Citizens of Vaiice County: I wish to express humbly and sincerely my appreciation for the splendid vote given me that re-elected me as Register of Deeds for the coming term. 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