he Monroe Journal
PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS
VOL.22. No. 7.
MONROE- N. O, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1916.
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR.
AFTFK SMITH'S MILLIONS
The FiiMtt Georgia Fanner Left Xo
Will and Three Srtu of Heirs Are
Striving for His Hut;' Ftate.
(ARCHIE L. LEE la Atlanta Sunday
American.
The vast estate of the late !onel
James M. Smith, the famous Georgia
plauter. who. having accumulated
some I3.000.U00, (lied a bachelor and
without leaving a will, is now claimed
by three separate and distinct fami
lies, including more than 150 people.
An application for the appointment
of permanent adminstrators and two
caveats to it. Mod with Ordinary L.
11. ltaucom. attribute to Colonel
Smith three sots of parents.
Georgia has official birth records,
but the tragedy of the doubt cast
upon the origin of this remarkable
Georgian Is pathetic. So many heirs
have appeared that, if their claims
are good, the groat property, to the
accumulation of which Colonel Smith
devoted his life must be divided back
Into the small parts like the ones
from which it was collected.
In each contesting family there are
some 50 claimants, and. if no more
than one family is successful in estab
lishing its legal right to the wonder
ful plantation, the division still will
be so long that no one of the heirs
will be conspicuously rich; and what
might have remained a great inonu
ment to Colonel Smith is to become
but a memory.
Hitter l ights rending.
The groundwork for a hard and
bitter legal fight over the estate has
already been laid. Leaders in the
family to file the last caveat are Cap
tain V. P. Heed and Sergeant Geo.
C. llullard of the Atlanta police force
A hearing on the case will be begun
before Ordinary Bacon a week from
Monday.
Down in Oglethorpe county the be
wildering complexity of it all is re
garded by many as a fitting climax to
the life of the strange man who lived
in the center of the great plantation,
which was a little world unto Itself.
The fairy-tale-like possibilities of at
talnlng wealth through shares In the
estate have excited the claimants
and the case Is being talked of
through this section us no subject
since the Civil War.
When the trial opens, the greatest
crowd In the history of this iiiot lit
tie county seat, with its charming old
while-columned, ante-bellum houses.
Its winding unpaved streets bounded
bv elms and other shade trees, and
Us clock In the courthouse steeple
that is set by the sun. will assemble.
Long before his death, which or
curred on December 11. 1915, real
dents of Oglethorpe alien speculated
on what would become of James SI
Smith's great wealth. The general
facts of his life story are loo well
known to Georgia newspaper readers
to be repeated here. His success-
how he came to Oglothropo county a
tin peddler during the miserable Re
construction days and built the great
est plantation in the State was the
one big fact of this section and one of
the most interesting things in the lat
ter-dav history of the State. Yet.
except for business associates and
passion for politics which occasion
ally brought him In contact with
many people, he lived almost alone
and to himself. Hut little was known
of his heirs nnd less was learned
from him.
Would Never Write a Will.
His great house, twelve miles from
Lexington, at Sniithonia. the name
his place was given when ho ran a
railroad through his plantation.
stands as a commentary on his life.
He started there with two rooms, ad
ded two, then more and more, until
today it in a huge and complex struc
ture surrounded by nuts, big Darns
warehouses and mills. From It one
gets a wonderful view of miles of
fertile fields nnd green nasi tire. It
Is an inspiration to stand there and
realize that a hand can build and own
it all in a lifetime. lint with his
demise It must go back to those of the
poor class from whom it was gained,
for nil who have laid claim to being
of blood kin are comparatively poor.
Why such a master of business
should have left his affairs in such a
tangled state is best explained by his
secretary. J. O. Mitchell, who lived
in his house for ten years. It gives
a pathetic cast to the declining years
of a lire that was regarded by many
as cold and hard.
"Colonel Smith never would talk
of death," he said. "Writing a will
meant thinking of dying, so he would
never mention it. He wanted life, to
live and to work on."
Soon after his death, application
for adminstrators was made by 43
persons, the descendants of George,
John L. and Robert Smith, said to
have been half-brothers of James M.
Smith. All of these peoplo live in
Georgia with the exception of mem
bers of a branch of Robert Smith's
family, who reside In Mississippi.
Their claim Is that they are nieces
and nephews and grandnleces and
grandnephews of James Smith.
Young Woman ('lainiM One-Sixth
The heir to the largest part of the
estate. If It should go to this family,
would be Miss Fannie Smith, a young
woman In her twenties, who lives in
Athens. She Is a grandniece, and
would get one-sixth of the property.
The contention of the applicants is
that James M. Smith was born to
Zadoc and Phoebe Vaughn Smith. In
Wilkes county. September 18. 1839.
His mother was a widow and his fath
er a widower, and the only living de
scendants of the family are the chil
dren and grandchildren of the sons
of Zadoc Smith and Ms first wife.
As proof of their relationship, it Is
said that Ceorge Smith lived on the
planation at Smithsonla for 25 years,
and died there, and that John L. liv
ed there for a number of year. Kobt.
Smith, the son of George, and John
L. Jr.. also lived there until their
death, and aided in the management
of the estate.
A further evidence that the de
scendants of this family are the right
ful heirs is that Mrs. Mary Jones, the
daughter of Mrs. Zadoc Smith by her
first marriage, and therefore a half-
sister of James M. Smith, according
to the petition, lived in the house
with him for 30 years, and died mere.
Greatest Farmer in State.
But there is a greater lessor! in his
life than that the earth will claim its
own. His accomplishments outweigh
the strings of gossip about his hard
methods and whatever stigma might
attach to gaining much of his wealth
through convict labor. His plantation
is a greater example of intelligent
farming methods than the agricul
tural departments of the State and
country will be able to produce in
years.
Much of his pasture land, even i:i
the dead of winter, has a turf like a
well kept golf couise. No sign marks
the beginning and the ending of his
plantation in Oglethrope county. It
is not needed. You can tell where it
begins nnd ends by the appearance of
the loam and lh size of the cotton
n.d coin "-talks.
'The til'.-! I iic of bud in the
plantation is a tract of 123 acres near
the house." said Mr. Mitchell. "Last
year we produced a bale and a half
to the acre of cotton on it."
No inventory of Colonel Smith's
property has ever been made. Most
of his wealth was In land. His plan
tation in Oglethrope county embraces
!.5"0 acres and he owned 3.500 acres
in South Georgia.
At his place is now stored 1.400
bales of cotton, last years crop. A
few years ago, before his health be
came imparled, he produced from
2.500 to 3,000 bales a year. His cot
ton seed crop, being perishable, was
sold the oher day by the temporary
adminstrators. It brought $20,000
He left thousands of dollars in
notes and valuable stocks. The value
placed upon his estate by those most
familiar with his business is from
$2,500,000 to $3,500,000.
The Latest War News.
Ant.ther of Germany's big Zeppe
lin airships has come to grief, and it
is probable that siime. if not nil. of
its crew perished, as it was engulted
in (lanes as it loll to earth, a victim
of an incendiary shell fired from a
French anti-aircraft gun.
Th" Paris official communication
reports that the airshp was south'
ward bound from tho region of St
Menehould when the French guns at
Revigny began shelling It. At least
one of the missels found its mark
and the huge aircraft took lire nnd
fell in the vicinity of Ilrabant-le-lioi.
The Germans near liholis, to the
south of the Semitic River, have in
with repulse Ht the hands of the
French in an intended attack extend
ing over about four and one-third
miles. The offensive movement was
preceded by a heavy bombardment
and clouds of asphyxiating gases.
When the German infantry endeav
ored to come out of their trenches
for I he attack, however, the barrier
tire and the lire of the French rifle
men stopped them everywhere, ac
cording to Paris.
The Germans in Artois were pre
vented from occupying the crater of
a mine by a t-.trong counter-offensive
of the French.
In Champagne, the Forest of the
Argonne and in the entire region of
Verdun, there has been much nrtil
lery activity, In which Paris claims
that considerable execution was ac
omi.plbiied by the French gunners.
The Germans report additional re
pulses of British grenade attacks
against captured positions along the
Yser Canal and also the putting down
of an Entente Allied offensive along
the Lens-Arras road.
Numerous lights in the air between
German and French aviators have
taken place. Paris reports that sev
eral of the German machines were
brought down by the fire of the
French airmen. Aeroplanes have been
carried on by the French and Brit
ish aeroplanes squadrons notably on
the German aviation field at Hab-
sheim at Miilhauscu and on a mu
nitions factory at Pngny-siir-Mosell
British aircraft bombarded the town
of Don. southwest of Lille.
There has been little lighting on
the eastern and ustro-Itallan fronts.
The Albanians lighting for the Teu
tons, are reported to have reached
the Adriatic Sea west of Kavaya.
This would indicate that the Austro-
Hungarians and their allies have
completely surrounded Durazzo.
In Asia-Minor, tho Russians are
persistently following the Turks who
lied from Krzerum. and also are
pushing their way northward from
the captured fortress to the Black
Sea. with the purpose of establishing
a base there for their warships nnd
transports. Bitlis on Lake aim has
been csptured by the Russians.
A Turkish power station on the
Ottoman front CHst of the Suez Canal
has been blown up by a British avia
tor. Again Constantinople has been
thrown Into a state of consternation
over the presence of an Kntente Al
lied submarine In the Bosphorus, ac
cording to an unofficial report. The
underwater boat Is said to have tor
pedoed six transports leoaded with
munitions and one tug.
Four German aeroplanes Sunday
made a raid over the east nnd south
east coasts of Kngland. The total
casualties are given as two men and
one boy killed and one marine wound
ed. Considerable material damage
was done.
The easiest road to wealth is to
have a rich relative leave you a fortune.
THF. HOUKOKS OF WAIL
J. H. Morgan, an Englishman Who
Investigated the Alleged Cruelties
of German Soldier in France and
Belgium, accounts Many Horrors.
Among other things Mr. Morgan
says in an advertisement published in
American newspapers:
It is almost needless to say that the
woman went mad. There is very
strong reason to suspect that young
girls were carried off in the trenches
by licentious German soldiery, and
there abused by hordes of savage and
licentious men. People in hiding In
the cellars or houses have heard the
voices of women in the hands of Ger
man soldiers crying all night Ion
until death or stupor ended their
agonies.
One of our officers, a subaltern in
the sappers, heard a woman's shrieks
in the night coming from behind the
German trenches near Richebourg
I'Avoue; when we advanced in the
morning and drove the Germans out
a girl was found lying naked on the
ground "pegged out" in the form ot
a crucifix. I need not go on with
this chapter of horrors. To the end
of time it will be remembered, and
from one generation to another, in
the plain:; of Flanders, in the valleys
of the Vosges. and on the rolling
fields of the Mai ne, the oral tradition
of men will perpetuate this story of
infamy and wrong.
Insolence Which Knows Xo Pity,
Although I have some claims to
write as a jurist 1 have here made p
attempt to pray in aid the Hague
Regulations in order to frame the
counts of an indictment. The Ger
mans have broken all laws, human
and divine, and not even the ancient
freemasonry of arms, whose honor
able traditions are almost ns old as
war Itself, has restrained them ir
their brutal and "ontious fury. It is
useless to attempt to discriminate be
tween the people and their rulers; n
abundance of diaries of soldiers in the
ranks shows that all are Infected with
a common stiirit. That spirit is pride
not the pride of high and pure en-
devour, but that pride for which the
Greeks found a name in the word
YBI'IS the insolence which knows no
pity and which feels no love. Long
ago Rcr.an warned Strauss of this
canker which was eating into the Ger
man character. Pedants inductile
ed it, generals instilled it, and em
peror preached It. The whole people
were taught that war was a normal
state of civilization, that the lust of
conquest and the arrogance of race
were the most precious of the virtues.
On the Dead. Sea fruit the German
people have been fed for a generation
until they are rotten to the core.
The officers and soldiers usually
hunted In couples, either entering the
houses under the pretence of seeking
billets, or forcing the doors by open
violence. Frequently the victims
were beaten and kicked, and Invaria
bly threatened with a loaded revolver
If the resisted. The husband or fa
ther of the women and girls whb usu
ally absent on military service; if one
were present he was first ordered
away under some pretext; and diso
bedience of civilians to German or
ders, however improper, Is always
punished with Instant death. In sev
eral! cases little children heard th
cries nnd struggles of their mother in
the adjoining room to which she had
been carried by a brutal exercise of
fone. No attempt was made to keep
discipline, and the officers, when ap
pealed to for protection, simply
shrugged their shoulders.
Russians Pushing the Turks.
The Russian army which captured
Erzeruni in Armenia is endeavoring
to cut off the retreat of the Turks,
who are retiring with ns much speed
as possible. Dispatches from Petro
grad report the capture of the town.'
of Mush and Achlat, to the south,
heavy fighting preceding their taking
by Btorm. Tho next objective of the
southern wine of the Russian army Is
Dlarhekr, which lies within striking
distance of the Bagdad railway. This
line would open the mad into Syria.
Along the Black Sea coast, Russian
waisliips arc pounding at the Turkish
batteries and harrassing the retreat
ing troops. The northern wing of
the Russian army has enptured the
town of Id jo and Is driving the
Turks back in the direction of Guni-
slsh Khaneh, which Is on the road to
Trehizond, while large uussian force;-
are moving westward from Krzerum
with the object of cutting off those
Turkish troops before they can reach
a new line of defense.
Miss Rachel is Champion Pin Kaiser.
The honor of champion pig raiser
for North Carolina for the year 1 H 1 r
goes to Miss Rachel Speas of Forsyth
county, who lives on route No. 5 go
ing out from Winston-Salem. Miss
Speas took the sweepstakes prize at
the Stale Fair last fall, but the honor
was not awarded until the cost of pro
duction could be ascertained nnd nil
points both of Judging nnd cost of
raising considered. The hog which
copped the honors was raised at a
cost or $26. !)2. The animal cost $10
when taken rrom the litter. For reed
$10.85 was spent, labor $4.64, past
urage 43 cents. The assessors have
placed on the animal now a value of
$50. As a prize the winner receives
a cream separator or standard make,
which is worth $50.
Old Folks Interested.
Correspondence or The Journal.
An entertainment was given at the
Allan bcIiooI Saturday night which
consisted or two plays and several
recitations. It was greatly enjoyed
by all present. These entertainments
are fine, and they are a good way to
get "ns old rolks" interested In our
school and community.. We are hav
ing a good school taught here this
year. A VISITOR.
HOX. CYCLOVF. DAVIS WKXT
OX THE WAIt PATH LIGHT
Famous Texas Congressman Mad
the Welkin King Willi Kidicule in
Answering War Alarms.
The following is part ot the speech
or Congressman Cy lone Davis of
Texas in the House Saturday:
"The country is told in glaring
headlines that it i ' rank idiocy to ap
propriate money to build a bridge,
support a poMoff.cc. clean out a
stream, or do any honest, honorable
work tor the i-ubPc: they call that
'pork barrel' legislation. These po
litical pelf-dealers, these millionaire,
high-toned highwayi.ien insist they be
allowed to scuttle tie whole Treasury
and take a mortgage on the unborn
with a big bond issue, as they clamor
for more loot. Go where you will
and it is war tax the people, issue
bonds, get billions, get it quick and
give it to the sleel trusts, powder
trusts, Morgan and the gang, so they
can prepire us to whip the world, in
cluding the new country and race that
Roosevelt discovered in South Ameri
ca. "And, sirs, if it were not for the
high-class pood men Drat have caught
this contagion. I wool 1 consider the
matter of tin immediate invasion as so
vapid and void of reason that it could
not be considered as decent nonsense.
I can hardly trust myself in the bed.
lest some unknown, unseen, unthink
able, unavoidable army turn loose on
us, demolish our country, obliterate
our race, nnd sow our lands down in
salt, as the Romans did to Jerusalem,
and have it all down before I awake.
And since these blood-curling, soul,
ravishing speeches of Mr. Gardner,
Mr. Mann, Mr. Quin and others, I
want to thank these men for not un
capping the fountains of their elo
quence all the same day. If they had,
the members of the House would
have been weeping like widows at a
husband's grave; the marble images
of the patriots in statuary hall would
have wept like a spanked baby over
the impending obliteration and total
extermination of this Republic, which
is soon to take place by a ruthless in
vasion from God knows where.
That Sooocli of Otiin's
"Since the Hon. Percy (Juiu Hopped
and' made that hair-raising, flesh
crawling, agonizing speech on last
Saturday, In which he raved and rant
ed, pulled and panted, moaned and
groaned, had nightmares and jiinjanis
over the impending massacres and
murders, conflagrations nnd calami
ties that were to bo immediately in-tl.jun-our.-iuu.try
by an .invad
ing army from some unknown coun
try, and confessed with great gusto
and gesticulation that since he had
read tho President's speeches on the
horrors that confronted us he had
changed his mind ai:d (topped, he con
vinced mo that he had run his soul
up into sanctified corners of his con
science, baptized his brain liber In
fountains of truth and bathed in co
pious reservoirs of righteousness, and
boon soul sleeping In sweet commun
ion with the meta-inorpliosed, trans
migrated spirits of Caesar, Hannibal,
Napoleon and Roosevelt and had
changed from a stern opponent of
preparedness to a rich, righteousness
and resolute advocate of all sorts of
preparedness.
In Woeful Distress
"I. too, n m in woeful distress over
the dread of impending invasion,
knowing 4 hat England with the big
gest army and navy on earth has been
15 months trying to move Germany
back 15 ladies and that millions of
her men and billions of her money
have been blown In and she Is power
less to whip Germany, much less us.
too, yet she has millions of cats In her
dominion and she might do like Per
sla'of tlil. Invade us with an army of
13 generations of tomcats to squall
and caterwaul our people into Insan
ity, and w? would never be able to
pay Morgan and (he bunch the inter
est on what they have robbed us of
through their invisible government.
And notwithstanding Germany wont'
have to whip half the world to get
out of her trenches nnd start toward
us she might put her army up in
Zeppelin airships and Maud while the
world turned over under them and
then drop down en tu some night.
ind America would awake the next
morning In a eonii'.nioratii'n of bloi"'
ind bones and nun and women made
into mincemeat and lnaveonini, while
I lie German army s'ood triumphantly
over a ruined republic.
"And notwithstanding Italy, with
all her might and mam, has boon
nine months tryiu:: to invade Austria,
her nearest neighbor, nnd has ex
hausted millions of In r money and
thousands of her r.ien, she might scad
a countless nun-bor of her boys am?
maidens over here w ith Italian harps
ind 'hand organs' and ring us, (duel;
us, nnd grind us into such phantas-
mngorical ecstasies over the music
that we would swoon into a catalepsy
ind they would capture us and take
as away from Morgan and the other
war traf tickers" and therby win the
country.
In Mounting Despair
"Sir, in contemplating In mournful
despair all these direful, dreadful
horrors that might befall us, my
heart sinks to the bottom of my stom
ach and my body quakes with fright
ful fear, because in the terrible fren
zy of all our alarm. 'Not knowing
what day may bring forth," the War
and Navy depart mens have forgotten
to put on an extra fdiift of labor to
hurry up the 64 fine ships we have
under construction in our navy yarur
and the many we have already appro
priated for.
"Therefore, the gentlemen from
Mississippi, Mr. Quin. Hon. James R
Mann and Hon. Augustus Gardner
should be appointed a committee of
three, to be known as the 'council
of national safety,' to go on double-
quick time and carry with certainty,
celerity and security our message to
the navy department and urge with
unabating importunity that they put
on an extra force and double tin
shifts and finish those ships before
Mount Vesuvius bums the world up.
the archways of infinitude fall, the
domes of eternity topple over and this
world tumbles into ruins.
Consider the Egyptians
"Then. Mr. Speaker, one of t!i
most dreadful calamities that may
ever overtake us we a"e wholly sti
prcparcd to meet. I speak of the fact
that God Almighty once got tired of
a lot of rich, haughty, insolent mil
lionaires ruling and robbing all in
nocent people, and because of their
infamy he literally tilled their earth
with lice, frogs, locu.-ts and flies, aie'
killed the cattle with murrain, until
all the land stunk with crrrion. The
foot-and-moiili disease has already
come, and who knows but what bil
lions of lice, trillions of locusts and
quadrillions of frogs and flies may
come on the next assignment; for 1
say to you. sir, that there are a hun
dr ed Pharoahs in this country, eith
er one of whom could buy the whole
Egyptian Kmpire ns it existed in that
day, and where opressive. intolerant,
arrogant and unscrupulous treatment
of labor has in a hundred strikes and
conflicts between capital and labor
shown itself to be far more aggres
sive, murderous and rapacious than
the Pharoahs were over the Children
of Israel, and ror these flies we need
to be immediately prepared with
100,000,000 Bwntters.
And for Insecticide
"To exterminate the lice we could
have the steel trust make up l.ooo,
000 oil tank cars and till them with
lilgn-lile mercurial ointment, creo
sote and carbolic acid. Then have
them make up 20.000,000 squirt guns
and put out 20,000,000 men to squirt
the earth over with high-life oint
ment and acid and save our country
from utter ruin.
"Then, Mr. Speaker. I know of no
other sane and patriotic way to save
ourselves from the frogs and locust"
than to have the steel trust and the
armor trust make us l.ooo.onu big
boats, regular Noah's arks, and we
could get Into the boats and jnmhor:
on the oceans to get nwav from ihe
frogs. 1 had thought that while we
were in the boats we might go on
over and Join the allies and help w hin
Germany, as Mr. Rosevelt and a lot
of the toiies want; but Morgan and
the 'war traffickers' would object to
that, for then their war traffic would
stop. To them it would be an unwar
ranted Interference with Internal Inna'
law and n total riiregard for Ameri
can rights to stop war or stop pre
paring for war.
"Now, Mr. Speaker, this vision I
have recited Is senseless, void of fact,
and without form or reason. And
so it i-i with all this pipe dream and
political prattle and pifiie about an
enrly or anticipated Invasion of out
country. It has been 100 venrs since
any country on earth tried to under
take such hazard. Moderate, sane
and sensible preparation for Nalioii'i'
defense Is a cardinal principle of the
Democratic party from its incept ;on.
Then let us proceed in a normal man
ner. But now while the world lies
prostrate, bleeding, broken and bank
rupt in bloody war, how sad it is. how
un-Christlike, what a travesty on our
glorious history to challenge the
world to combat an to stupendous
armaments."
Can't Help Belgians.
London Dispatch, Feb. 2(Mh
The plan of aiding Belgium to feed
herself by rehabitating the industries
of the country under control of the
American commission for relief in
Belgium has failed, according to a
letter written by Sir Edward Grey,
the British foreign secretary to M.
Hvmans. the Belgian minister here,
because the Germans thus far have
failed to reply to the request for guar
antees that raw materials and manu
factured goods will not be seized by
the occupying armies.
The American relief commission
some time ago proposed that certain
kinds of non-contraband raw mater
ials should be permitted to past
through the British blockade nut
Belgium goods manufactured from
them to be exported. It was propos
ed that the balance of trade thus cre
ated in favor of Belgium should be
invested in food, thua putti'ii; t'o
population as far as possible u; en a
self-supporting basis and at tin same
time checking the growing demorali
zation due to the unemployment.
Germans Whipped English on Sunday
On Ihe Yser canal, north of Ypres,
an English position 350 meters lei".;,
was stormed by the Germans. All
the English attempts to retake the
trenches by hand grenades railed.
The Germans look 20 prisoners.
South of Lois, in lively engage
ments, the enemy advanced to the
edge of one of the German mine
craters.
North of Hehutcrne. to the north
of Albert, the Germans obtained a
minor success fn a nk'ht engagement,
taking several Engl! i prisoners.
In an nir fight east of 1'eroiinc nr.
English biplane armed with two ma
chine guns was shot down. Its. oc
cupants were dead.
German airmen threw bombs on
numerous places behind the enemy's
northern front nt Lunevllle.
There Is no harm in a man's being
in advance of his age. providing he
has money enough to pay for his feed
until his age catches up with him.
But if a man turned over a new
leaf every time his wife wanted him
to he would have. but little time left
In which to earn the price of her
bonnets.
lots of Xous From Wingate Vicinity.
Correspondence of The Journal.
Wingate, Feb. 21.- A few days ago)
some thief or thieves broke out ou
of the glasses in the front door oC
McWhirter Bros it Teeter's store,
went in and helped them -elves. A
quantity of flour, some meat i'.nd oth
er articles were missing the next
morning. No clue, as lias been
discovered.
Mr. J. 11. Su!liaii of Kock Hill is
visiting his iuiiuly i:i W ingate thi.
week.
A very eomiucndabie ;. ,d mueli
needed action v. as th:.t t.:k -n Thurs
day alii moon by the u- , i s of th'
Wingaie coiiMiumi'y win i they met
in the auditorium of th- : i.ool build-
ling and org.iniy.cd tht'e .s into a.
I Heltei nie'it As-sui'duti-ii ... electing
'the following p. i i. officers:
! President. j,r-. Uufus . :!; Vico
President. Mrs ll'-sry J. Kingston:
Socroi.;rj. .M- Lee Chan Assistant
Secretary and Treasurer. ..ir.-. C C.
Lamb The organization ;;ir:s out
with "S c!ithusi;e:i- ;,r.i progessiVH
members. No doubt m;; 1- :,ood will
result I roin this moveni, It cer
tainly should receive the iej;e.rt and
encouragement of every oi:; on of the
community.
The Wingate and Marshville basket
ball teams met on the former's court
Thursday. Score; 13 to 12 in favor
or Wingate.
Miss Mary Jones, who is te.; oiling;
at Corinth, snent Sunday .villi her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. 1). F. J-uies.
Miss Bessie Caddy spent Sunday
with home-folks in Wingate.
Wingate and I'nionvillo ba. ket ball
teams played at I'nionvillo Siile.r lay.
Result; 8 to !l in favor of Wingate.
Mrs. H. A. Reufearn is at Cue bed
side of her mother, Mrs. Kmolinu
Barrett, at her home near Whitt
Store, in Anson county .
Messrs. Carl Raylield and L. K.
Watson spent Saturday evening and
Sunday with Mr. Rayfiehi's parents
near Ml. Crogan. S. C.
Mrs. C. C. Lamb and little son,
Chris, went to I'olktim Friday oil a
visit to Mrs. Lamb's parent:), Mr. and
Mrs. ,1. C. Goodman.
Kd'tor Asheraft el tl-e Monroo
Enquirer, delivered qiiit i .i interest
ing and inspiring mcs:-:v.o t the boy:'
at Meadow Bi.tni 'l S;i: d.,v school
Sunday iiiornio.v. M :. ishcraft's
lectures are always I'ulry appreciat
ed ll.V OUr peop'e llelW
Rev. L. T. Wnii. th- Presiding
Elder or the Ci:aiiol!e Di trict. oc
cupied the pit, ,i in I'm- Moiliodist
church at W m.Mc. Sun.' :y afternoon
and night, A spiounnl uudvnoc ap
preciated the mersage of Pro. Mann".
The church met in qui' r: ; : ly con
ference Monday Morning.
Another very wise and i i,ch need
ed slop was taken lure .-':i::i:: y after
noon when Pro!. !l. .1. La-: -ton pro
ceeded to ola'ii-e the bo.. :; from 10
to 15 e:'is old ,r,;o an oii'er under
the nam" of "Wide Awake Workers."
whose object is lor the moral und
social uplift among the juu-.-er mem
bers of society. A I hon.ii' to Urn.
Lacgston I'";- hi - vise ami leost need
ed IIIOVOI, le.lt. 71, i-. i.-' gelt'llg doWll
nearer ih ' too' i ihe it''m Take
cure of the U ..ml tills . ml society
will like e.ir. ol itself. This new
orgi'llialien .-l.irted with boys,
oiiieer.-ii . y..,. : liv. oieiii, Wil
liam Snider: S-:-vei.ny. Fn.i.k Oulen;
Assistant S-en i.ii v. Iliei- Stewart ;
Treason r. Lecraiid Bemiitt. Cer
tainly tli-: :tei will receive the sj in
pntlty and cooperation ol cc;y parent;
within our borders.
Mr. C;iiti .V:sh leii t!ii morning
to begin work on M Verm n Trull's
new dwelling, south of the Faulks
neighborhood.
We were l lighted to l.ave the
presence of Prof, and Mrs. H. .1.
Laag.-lon tor a id. oil v. l,il. Sunday
afternoon aroticd cur hearth-stone
Verily, verily, ife eomiiriiiu: v. ill:
such good t rieiu's.ile.t li goi d like a
medicine. Wish i1 were possible tn
have more of it
Well, if the v ;. i In r n,; n would
dose tha door back ihere i i the west
and Mint out this told wind we would
have some i I 1 sprii.g weather.
But. perhaps it i: v. ere n.ii wind there
would lie soihi-I hin;-' el.-o ;'i.t exactly
to our liking. So we mry as well
lake the v.eaiie; a' It i onies and
try to ft. ; miiiM.i with iiatu'v,
Mr. ami Mrs. (. p. T. wore de
ligi.lii to hav. lor their e.ur.ts for a
short v.nile Suoii.iv .iiltiuoioi Misses
Kale and Mary 1; i In Ihe ab
sence of children ;.ml grandchildren
in the home. v. e ..re nlwayn glad ti
have the yomg of our neighbors
around. The. spriad subline and
good cheer 'd we catch of t(n
juvenile spirit ourselves.
The subject;- fr discu son at the
next meeting of the Woman's Social
Betterment Association Thursday af
ternoon, tho ; 1th ins!, are: Thor
oughness in school work on to the
high school department. ;.iw to ob
tain it. 2. The relation of the play
grounds to school work. A full at
tendance is desired.
There will be a public debate at
Wingate Friday night. The question
is: Resolved. That Ihe liii'od States
should greatly iucre:ise its Navy. The
affirmative side will be represented
by John Medlni ami Will'" Russell.
Fred Staton and Lotinle Baker will
uphold the negative side.
The prospects for a bumper cotton
crop in these diggings is not very
nattering so far. The high price ot
fertilizer with the failure of the ex
pected rise in the price of cotton have
dampened the ardor and cooled the
enthusiasm of the average imnier.
Maybe the best thing tha'. I.ap
pen. We can make nil the cotton
there is In nny profit In. without the
use of fertilizer, is the opinion of
O. P. TIM 1ST.
Be sure of your facts before ti
tempting to pose as a Bar.