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"THE UNION COUNTY PAPER EVERYBODY READS IT" -THE UNION COUNTY PAPER EVERYBODY NEEDS IT" ONROE JKNMa PUBLISHED TWICE EACH WEEK - TUESDAY AND FRIDAY VOL.23. No. 61. MONROE, N. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1919. $1.50 PER YEAR SH. THE M LATEST HAPPENINGS News Events of (he Day in the State and Nation. The Prince of Wales on a visit to Canada is now in the city of Montreal. A Souihern train at Burlington hit an automobile and seriously injured four people. Mrs. D. W. Hilton, a bride of two months, died suddenly at her home in Gastonia Monday morning. A cotton crop of 11.230.000 bales la predicted by the Department of Ag riculture. Thieves entered the grocery store of Evans Brothers In Lexington last Friday and made a get-away with more than $200 worth of goods. Of all the different armies partic ipating In the war the Italian soldier was the lowest paid and the Austral ian the highest. Motorcycle police will soon be placed on the Greensboro-High Point road to stop speeding. This 15-mile stretch of road is considered the best in the South. An expenditure of $1,173,000 for the completion of Camp Bragg at Fayetteville, to be used as field artil lery school, has been recommended by Secretary Baker. Five million pounds of frozen meals, in cold storage in New York and Chl'ago, have been offered for sale bv the war department, the offer remaining open until Sept. 25. Margaret McCarter, a 14-year-old colored citl of Concord, was electro cuted Fiiday when she came in con tact v ith a highly charged electric wire. Eli Cooper, an aged negro of Lau rens, da., was burned to death in an incendiary fire Wednesday which de stroyed a negro church. Two other negro churches! In that section wire burned at the same time. Because au American airplane was Hying h low rs to frighten th-1 horses.' a band of Mexican cavalry fired on the aviator, slightly injuring Mm. They stated they only meant to Make him fly higher. During the absence of her husband, Mrs. C. U. Slaughter shot to death her 16-months-old baby boy, nine-year-girl, fatally wounded her third child and killed herself. No reason could be assigned for the strange action. Neppie Maryland, a respectable col- cred woman of Wilson county, died August 21. having attained the ripe age or 106. She was born in 1813. had 17 children. 61 grand-children. 85 greatgrandchildren, nnd 7 great great-grandchildren . There are 1,750 members in the Spartanburg Cotton Association and $2,426 I'l dues have been paid. The object is to build a chain of ware houses through the county. There are 27 mills paying a yearly fee of $100 yet to Join. President Wilton left Washington Wednesday night on a special train for a country-wide speaking tour. In point of distance covered :he trip w ill almost eipial that to France and re turn. He will make a personal np penl frr the ratification of the peace treaty. He will be away for twenty five days and will live on his special train. HOOK LIST FOIl HHiMOSO. List of Hooks to lie Used In Monroe School lor the Term Beginning; Xet Monday. The following Is the list of books that will be used In the Monroe schools for the term beciuulng Sep tember 8: First Grade, First Half Child's World Primer. Child's World First Reader; New World Speller, Part 1; Wide Tablet; Large Pencil; Crayolas, Drawing Paper. Second Half First Reader, Free and Treadwell; First Reader; Progressive Road to Reading New World Speller, Part 1; Wide Tablet; Large Peucil; Drawing Pa per; Crayolas. Second Grade, First Half Child's World Reader. Book 2'; Big People and Little People of Other Lands; New World Speller, Part 1; Writing Book No. 1; Crayolas; Drawing Book No. 1; Second Half Free & Treadwell Second Reader; Fifty Fa mous Stories; New World Speller, Part 1; Crayolas: Tablet; Pencil. Third Grade, First Half Child's -World Reader No. 3: Free ft Tread ' well Third Reader; Milnes Arithmetic, Book 1; Practical English. Part 1; New World Speller. Part 1; Practical Drawing, Book : Frye's Home Ge ography; rainier Writing Book 1. Second Half Lippincott's Third Rea der; Progressive Road to Reading Third Reader: Frye's Home Geoera phy; New World Speller, Part 1; Practical English. Book 1; Milne's Arithmetic, Book 1; Primer of Hy. giene; Palmer Writing Book No. 1; Practical Drawing. Book 2. Fourth Grade. First Half Liter ature Reader No. 4: Practical Eng lish. Book 1: Progressive Road to Reading, Book 4; Milnes Arithmetic, Book 1; Tarr & McMurry's Geogra phy, Book 1; New World Sneller. Part 2; Primer of HvfTiene; Practi cal Drawing. No. 3; Palmer Writing Book No. 2. Second Half Young ft Field's Reader, No. 4: Practical English. Book 1; Tarr ft McMurry's Geography. Book 1: Milne's Arithme tic, Book 1; Halleburton's Reader No. 4: Trimer of Hygiene; Practical Drawing No. 3; rainier Writing Book No. 2. Fifth C,rad First Half Free and Treadwell' Fifth Reader; Milne's Arithmetic No. 2; Primer of Sanita tion; Practical English, Book 1; Tarr ft McMurry's Geography. Book 1; New World Speller. Part 2; Estille's History for Beginners; Practical Drawing Book 4; Palmer Writ Int. Book 2. Second Half Milne's Arith metic. Book 2: Filth Reader. Baker ft Carpenter; Tarr ft McMurry's Ge ography; New World Speller. Book 2: Primer of Sanitation; Estille's His tory for Beginners; Practical Draw ing Book 4; Palmer Writing Book 2; English Book 2. Sixth Grade. First Half Oral and Written English. Book 2. Milne's Arithmetic. Bonk 2; Hill's N. C. His tory; Tarr ft McMurry's Geography; Sixth Reader, Baker ft Carpenter; Lippincott's Physiology. Book 2; Drawing Book 5; New World Speller Book 2: Palmer Writing Book 2. Second Half Sixth Reader. Baker ft Carpen'er; Milne's Arithmetic. Book 2: Tarr ft McMurry's Geography. No. 2: Hill's North Carolina History: Lip pincott's Physiology, Book 2: Practi cal Drawing, Book 5; Palmer Writ ing Boog 2; Oral and Written Eng lish. Seventh GraO. First Half Reed ft Kellog's Higher Lessons in Eng lish; Our Republic History; Milne's Arithmetic. Book 3: Tarr ft McMur tv'b Geography; Lippincott's Physi ology, 2; Literature (selected); Peele Civil Government; Graded City Spell er. Second Half Reed ft Kel log's Higher Lessons in Eng lish; Our Republic History: Mil ne's Arithmetic. Book ": Tarr ft Mc Murry's Geography. Book 2; Lippin cott's Physiology, Book 2: Peele Civ il Government; Collar ft Daniels first book Latin: Literature to be selected. Eighth Grade Reed ft Kellog's Higher Lessons In English: Collar k Daniel's First Latin Book: Milne's El ements of Algebra; Clark s General Science; Montgomery's English His tory; Ivanhoe; Spelling Book; Grad ed City Speller. Ninth Grade Brook's Composition P.i.ok 1: Milne's High School Alge bra; H'Miuett's Latin Grammar; Ben nett's Caesar; Tart's Phvslcal Geog raphy; Mvers' Ancient History; Lit erature to be selected. Tenth Grade Bennett s Latin Grammar: Bennett's Cicero; Brooks Composition nnd Rhetoric, Book 2; Well's Essentials of Geometry; Lit erature to be selected; Frazlers and Squares' French Grammar; Business Arithmetic, Moore and Minor; Towes. Smith and Tuston Phvsics. Eleventh Grade Well's Essentials of Geometry; Bennett's Virgil; Ben nett's Latin Grammar; Long s Amer ican Literature; Muzzv's American History; Book-keeping; French Read er. Editor Ke.inli Writes About Journal. (By Scapegoat.) Waxhaw. Sept. 3. The war, or ra ther the period that has elapsed since its closing, has witnessed the dev-'-opment of a lot of "pep" In almost every line of business. In nothing H th is more apparent than In t!i newt paper business, nnd the improvements in journalism are simply won rful. Monroe and I'nlon county has a good illustration ol this in The Journal. An exile from home for sev. at ears. I haw naturally followed Th" jourur.l very r'oscly in all that titn . All during th period of the war i wc.s a sonrc" or plensnre to me to note that the good old home paper was hnl'ii.ig its own and maintaining its standards as a No. 1 paper, although its edi'o- was absent In France. His mantle. temporarily discarded, fell on rnnald" boulders r.nd during th" hardest times of th" war the good oiu on'ier continued it cheering visits, insulting and keeping owake the spir lis cf tho'f left at home, as well as earning messages of cheer to nun dreds in the camps and abroad. With the return from service of tne editor I supposed that some slight changes would occur. The paper nas been above r' roach: still, labor Is al ivavs a vital problem In all walks and works and the addition of an extra man can at times perform won drs. I was not disappointed In The Journal. Ds whole general tone zan to take on an upward trend, tne advertising patronnge began to tap Idly increase, and the advertisements were handled better, as was th ivhol of the body matter that went to, p.ake up the paper. Down in Columbus I was Beginning to do pretty well with Improvement!! on the Nows-Reporter. tifu ft'iuou four extra Pages to tak car-? of ad vertising, and I thought that was do ing more than the othr weekly pa pers in the state and began to .think that I was doing well. Pretty, soon tr.v peaceful ruminating bgnn lo re ceive jolts ooh time The Journal reached me. It began to dawn on me that I was running a hnr and turtle race with :t and that I was the hare. I had started on1 well enoiigh at the start but stopped toi soon t res-t by the wayside. The JournM ha hem brageinr a good deal lately aVnt the News-Reporter being one of th? best weekly papers In the stat. We can more lhan return the compliment now by Hiving that The Journal Is th- vry best ireml-weekly In North Carolina, that it Is a credit and rfor than that o Monroe, to keeping with the prog ress that Monroe is rov pikine. we exnect to see The Journal have to come out into a tri-weekly before many years have rolled around. Corporal Roy W. Younger writes from Charlotte that four inec nlisted In the army from this county ns a I rect result of an item pertaining to the service jiublished in Tho Journal August 29. The names of tin four men follow: Joseph E. Gordon. Mon roe Route 5: Levy L. Kezlah. Monroe Route 1; William Rape, Waxhaw; James L. McCorkle, Monroe Route 5. MEMBER OF CROWD STARTED CHARLOTTE MOT TROUBLE Ami Xot Chief Oit as Was nl Hist Tboiibt John Wilson Hound Over to Couil I oiler $:MHH) Bond on Charge of Having Incited 1 1 lot At the trial of John Wilson, charg ed with starting the Charlotte riot, a score of policemen testified that Chief Orr did not fire the first shot as was at first thought. The follow ing U taken from the Charlotte News. The first shot fired in the fatal riot ing at the car barns on the night of August came not from the gun of Chief of Police Walter Orr, but from a weapon in the hands of one in a crowd that accompanied John Wilson to the barn entrance: That Chief Orr was not struck hy the bullet is ac counted for by the fact that the crowd was in a jostling commotion aud the shot went wild; that the automatic gun ca: rttd by the chief was accident ally discharged as he raised his hand to protect his face from the shot of his would-be assailant and that John Wilson was at the point of a fan shaped crowd that surged in upon the police forces guarding the car barn were facts developed at the morning hearing of John Wilson In the court of the recorder. He was charged with inciting the fatal riot In which five men were killed and a score injured. Practically the entire police force constituted witness in the case against Wilson. The story told by ev ery member of the force did not differ in any salient feature; the only points of divergence in the mass of testi mony being r.s the eart character of the remarks which were directed at the chief and which immediately pro ceeded the wholesale rioting. The interesting fact was also de duced that the policemen guarding the car bain did not do all f the shooting, that many shots came from the crowd and several of them shat tered car windows, one grazing the face of Policeman Beckley and burn ig his cheek. He was sitting in one of the idle cars. Finger Prints on Cooik-c's Cur. Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 3. (By The Associated Press.) With the disrov of a plainly visible blood-stained fin ger print found on the automobile In which Robin J. Cooper, young Nash ville attorney, was murdered last Thursday night near Belle Meade Park, police late tonight stated they were nearer a solution of the mystery thai) they have been since the body was found in Richland Creek Satur day morning. The finger print evidence found on the rear right door of the machine and can be plainly seen with the eye at n distance of several feet. An ex amination of the automobile showed other finger prints but the one most distinct is a blood-stained print on the side of the door which authorities believe was made by the murderer In removing the slain man from the car. Expert Bertillion operators have be n sent for to make an examination of the finger prints and to photograph the stained car. It Is expected that the Bertillion sleuths will arrive ! Thursday afternoon or Friday. Of ficers working on the case refuse to s-jy from what city the expert opera tors wou'd come. N'ashvU'e papers, dated July fiili. 7th and l'h of this year, and found in the blood -covered automobile, are also being e- atnind for finger prints. The papers are also being held for an rddltlonal clue, which authorities saw prove to be or advantage, t liter Detective Robert Moore, who Is in possession of the papers, said he felt certain that new developments would b brought out Thursday In connec Ion with the papers, but refused to reveal his secret. TYPHOID MAX WAS RUSHED Vance 'Township Folks Must Have a LlkliiR for the "Shots." Correspondence of The Journal. Indian Trail, Sept. 4. Misses Katherine and Sadie Boyd entered high school at Matthews Monday. The streets here are being worked. Cotton Is opening repaidly. The school closes Friday, Sept 5. Mr. Arthur Helms, who was principal of our school last year, paid a visit Frl dav to his old pupils. Mr. and Mrs. Raymon Tlfomas of Charlotte were the guests of Mr and Mrs. J. F. Thompson Sunday night. Miss Mary Boyd, who has a position in Charlotte. spent the week-end with home folks. Mrs. Will Campbell and two som of Bethel, S. C, and Miss Hazel Thompson of Mecklenburg county, visited Mrs. J. P. Boyd and other rela tives last week. Mrs. Irene Feweb of Florida spent the past week with Mrs. J. R. Deliluger and other rela tives. Mr. Robert Shaw of Rocking ham spent the latter part of the week with friends In this neighborhood. Mr. Bruce Thompson, who was oper ated on August 19 in a Charlotte hos pital, returned home Tuesday. The mu nips are still raging. A large crcwd was at Indian Trail Saturday to take the typhoid treat ment. People came from all direc tions In cars, wagons, on foot, and on bicycles. They crowded and rushed to get the treatment, and it became necessary for Mr. Conder to guard the door so they could enter only one at a time. Howard Simpson guarded the other door, and the doctors who administered the treatment made good tfme. Massey Smith, a colored man of 50, shot and killed his son near his home in Morven. when the latter -skf-d for the keys to the barn. The Lil'.-.sr wis drunk at the time. ('HAMULI: OK COMMERCE IMS. ClvsES HolMVG PROBLEM Sitii.ttio.-i KoiuiiI to Im? Acute it ml Commit lors Were ApHiimed To I 'Ian for a Housing (ois.ralion uml a Strong Building and l-oan A-xm-latioii. Action toward the fon.i.-irnn of a Housing Corporation to secure the erection of homes in Monroe, and the consolidation of the two building and loan associations into a strong coui- lu io ant in the matter, were taken at a meeting of the Chamber of Com merce in the rooms of the organiza tion Tuesday night. Also resolutions were passed stating that "it is the sense of the Chamber of Commerce that the merchants of the city, ex cepting possible drug stores, close at 9 o clock on Saturday nights." Messrs. R. B. Redwine. F. F. Hen derson. T. L. Riddle, M. K. Lee and fc.. C. Ingram were appointed as a committee to formulate plans for the organization of a housing corporation ana Messrs. E. C. Carpenter. S. O. Blair and R. A. Morrow were appoint ed as a committee to see what can be done toward securing a consolidation of the two building and loan associa tions at present doing business here. The object in the last named purposo is to provide a strong association tha' can cooperate with the Housing Cor poration 'n the matter of erecting homes. The committees will report the results of their work at a meeting 10 be held tonight. Mr. F. G. Henderson, president of Ihe Chamber of Commerce, presided at the meeting Tuesday night and stated Its object. He declared that when the government was consider ing the erection of Ihe radio station here that a man was sent here and a survey taken of all houses and rooms that could be secured, and it was re ported that the town was well able to take care of the workers who would be engaged at the station. "If this man should come here todav. he could not say this," said Mr. Hen derson. He told how recently he had visited Charlotte and Raleigh and found new homes springing up over the cities. It was pointed out that this was not the case in Monroe, that Instead of building dwelling houses or residences the men of Monroe were erecting business houses, The declaration was made that the hous ing situation in the city was becom ing acute and that if Monroe would continue to progress that something of necessity would have to be done to relieve the situation. Mr. Henderson recotu mended format ion of a housing corporation to reach this end. He fa vored the creation and development of a suburb with modern streets, elec tric lights and sewer system by the Corporation. It was pointed out that he business men well able to finance such a company and while it could not be expected to pay high dividends would be a safe investment. Secretary Riddle related how al most dally he was asked by people wishing to come to Monroe to help in the location of a home. "Only this ifternoon," said Mr. Riddle, "the man who will serve as t'rotessor or Mathematics in the High School came to me and asked that I help him se cure a home or boarding place in the city. After two hours of calling and visiting regardig Ihe matter we were forced to give It up as a bad Job. Now tlu' professor will be forced to pur chase an oil stove, rent a room on the second or third floor of a business bouse somewhere and live in this manner until he can secure a house." Mr. Riddle told how there were two families desiring to move to Monroe from Charleston. S. C, but could not get homes, how Mr. C. A. Good win was forced to leave our city aM move to Savannah. Ga. when Can'. S. H. Green returned here to live. "It more homes are not erected and tha soon." said the secrtary "I had as well cease to attempt to Interest peo ple In coming to Monroe and try get- ring them to move to the country where there Is more room. The ida of a housing corporation received ap proval from him. Mayor Sikes favored the Idea of a Housing Corporation but did not ap prove of attempting to develop a suburb. He said that there wer? numerous vacant lots In the city tha could be secured by such a company. Speaking of building proper h blam ed the. contractors to a certain extent for no more building in Monroe than is being done. Buildings started, he explained, lagged along like a turtle with a bad rase of rheumatism. With regards to the corporation proper he favored securing the services of a re liable man who could and would look afcr (lie Interests of the com pany, and who knew the business of contracting. Messrs. E. C. Ingram and Herbert Ingram were recom mended. Replvlng to Mr. Sikes' complaint about the slowness In completing buildings once started Mr. E. C. In gram declared that it was the fault of the railroad to a great extent. It is utterly impossible to secure mate rial In a prompt manner. He gave accounts of ordering a car of sand from Gibson and receiving it thirty days after it was started: of placing an order for marble eight weeks ago and reclvlng It only a few davs ago. Mr. R. A. Morrow lauded the irtea of a Housing Corporation nrd was confident that it could be materially a'ded in Its efforts to upbuild the city by a strong building and Inn" as sociation. He was of the nrinion that the tT nfpe-ii nvs could be ,., . ir,0 a ptj-ong company, which i i t o of reat service. Dr. H. D. Stewart, recently return ed from overseas service, was called upon for his opinion on the subject ' 1 i. : i .. , ... . mi iir-aiiuy eiccior.-.'ii h. Me ueriareil that the business men should not subscribe to stork in such a corpora tion with the sole object of getting a return in money; that one of the greatest returns would be in the up building of the community. The motion to secure the appoint ment of a committee to take up the matter of working out the prelimina ry details of a Housing Corporation was made by Mr. R. H. Redwine and carried unanimously. Mr. M. K. Lee in seconding it declared that all the talk might be in vain if action did not come of it. The resolutions regarding the clos ing of the business houses of the city on Saturday nights, offered by Rev. S. L. Rotter, as first introduced car ried the words "at the usual hour for closing during week davs." There was considerable opposition to this and It was amended to read "at 9 o'clock" instead. TiOcal and Personal A lad. playing on the streets, ran into Mr. R. H. Wolfe Tuesday, caus ing him to sustain injuries to' his hio when he fell to the ground. Though painfully, Mr. Wolfe is not seriously, hurt. Messrs. J. E. Stack ft Co. have about completed their .-ecoud ware house for the storage of cotton near the freight depot. This, with their other large warehouse, affords Mon roe the best ro:tnn storage facilities of any other town in the stale. Buyers are predicting the cotton season to Mart in full swing within ten days or two weeks. The first bale, as noted in another part of i his pa per, has already been sold, and re ports slate that a number of farmers are preparing to start their pickers in Ihe fields. In some counties there is a movement on font lo get runners lo hold their cotton for higher prices, but no such action has been started in I'n ion county. Many growers. doubtbss, will hold t heir's over for a few months. Mr. C. L. Gulledge of Lanes Creek township has purchased the Benlon Cash Store's stork of goods, and will continue the business at the same stand in Ihe old postofflce build ing. Mr. J. H. Benton, who has been managing the business, will not leave Monroe,, but will devote a part of his time to his. and his sons', business in terests in Hamlet. Mr. Walter Ben ton will remain with the new owner. Mr. Gulledge plans to move his fam ily to Monroe in the late fall. He is a good business man, an excellent cit izen, and vill make quite an addition to the business life of the town. Capt. D. M. Tedder, father of Mr. E. S. Tedder, died Wednesday af ternoon at 1:30 at the home of his daughter, Mrs. R. E. L. Correll, in Laurlnburg. For the past 23 years Capl. Tedder has been a resident of Charlotte and for 30 years was In the employ of the Seaboard, although he was retired about fifteen years ago. He was a Confederate veteran, a loy al member of the- Baptist church, a Mason and a Knight of Pythias. The funeral was held Thursday afternoon and Interment was in Laurinburg. Mr. E. S. 'Tedder was notified of his father's illness last Tuesday morning and left immediately for Laurinburg. He returned home this morning. Enticing cotton pickers away from other farms Is getting to he a dangerous business. The Wadesboro Messenger & Intelligencer gives Ihe following account of the arrest ot two men for enticing labor away from a farmer In Richmond county: "John Kideuhour and Fletcher Grand, col ored men of Richmond county, were arrested here Monday charged with riitlclng laborers from Mr. J. A. Leak's plantation In Richmond. As i'.e offense happened in that county tthy were turned over to Richmond onicers. hen arrested, they had a car load of men with them, taking them to another planntion In that county to pick cotton. It Is said they have been engaged in this work for some time. This affair draws atten tion to the practice on sine big plant ation of keeping sufficient laborers h make a cotton crop, but not sufficient to gather it. When gathering time comes they try to get pickers from other plantations which keep a full supply of labor, and those who have maintained their laboring force dur ing the dull tin;" object lo this." Charlotte Strike Settled. The carmen's strike in Charlote has been settled v.i'h a contract simlliar to that which settle,! the trouble in Greenville. The Utilities Co. took back all strikers with except!. m of twelve who had i:iad threats to in jure officials. An agpw.cnt was reached yester day afternoon af l':G0 and tin- fat men who had he vi on strik" for three weeks return.?! to work today. No agreement has been rvurVd b'tv.f-cn the Utilities Co. and th5 fleet rical workers who stvi.rk shorily after the car men. No discrimination will b made against the strikers: ll.ev retain ihlr seniority rights; will be paid for 'hree hours extra work If called out for less than that; nine hours will consti tute a day's work; right to join or no join any organization is reserved by the employees. Presbyterian Church Motes. Services on Sunday ne?:t as follows: 10:3" r m., Sunday school; 11:30 a. in., worship and sermon; 6 p. tu. ev ening service. The deacons urgently request that all pledges he paid to date next Sunday morning. Let each subset iber make this a p?rsonal mat ter. Reporter. EVERYBODY OKKI(i IV THE I'ltOoPECT ( OMMl MTY Cotton Opening .iely and Oilier Crops in (kmhI Condition Kouds Being I'm in Kine sbae and Mr. IVsMiuist Takes a Back Seat Other Xews. Correspondence of The Journal. Waxhaw. Rt. 5, Sept. 3. Miss Madalene Charles has returned to her home at Coolemee after several weeks visit at Mr. T. D. Green's. Mr. and Mrs. F. V. Hinson spent the week end with relatives near Ker shaw, s. C. Messrs. Hoyle Stamps, Warren and Horace Lai ban have entered Ruther ford College. Miss Bessie Houston of Monroe ia spending part of her vacation with relatives here. Mr. Joe Hinson of Gastnnia in fulf ill? a short vacation at his father's. Mr. S. L. Hinson. Mr. Hinson is re covering from the effects of an attack of ptomai!'." poisoning. There seei. to be a general epe demic among the chickens in this section. Hundreds have died in the last few days. One of my neighbors has only one hen left out of a large Rock. Protracted meeting is beina- held at Bethany. Rv. Mr. Clontz is doing some fine preaching which is "bear ing fruit i.l'eady." Cotton is ; -nir.g nicely almost ev- erywhete : lo:id 'V is being pulled, everybody is busy, f f our best farmers are their home places, a :'Uus most of us worrv. In fact, mo--: A number offering to fact which l r for we certalr iate to lose a good 7n nmt llio noprn neighbor, am tenants are about to overwhelm us, anyway, so we would much rather see land lay out than sorrv tenants occupy It. Well, the cnuntv is iiultinff (he roads In right good shape in this sec- lion, and at about half the former cost, A great many of our pessimists were telling us that our roads would not be worked for two or three years, and a lot of other "Bosh" so Mr. Pess you will have to come again. H. TIME TO SELECT SEED CORX County Demonstrator Also Says Plant (razing Crop For Hogs. "Now is the time to select seed corn for next sason's planting," says Mr. T. J. W. Broom," and there is no work that will pay larger dividends than will the time expended in the careful selection of seed corn in the field. This work should be done be-, fore Ihe fodder is pulled,, or Ihe corn' is cut. The fodder should not be pull ed from Ihe seed stalks, nor should the seed stalks be cut when the other corn Is cut. If the fodder is pulled from Ihe seed stalks the vitality of the grain is lowered and will result in a decreased yield in next crop. For the same reason the seed stalks should not be cut and shocked at the time of cutting corn. "When the seed corn is bin-vested it should be shucked immediately and ears tied together with twine and hung in an airy place under shelter to dry. When thoroughly cured the corn should be placed in barrel or box lo protect tioi.i rats or mice. Corn treated in t!:!s way will be strong in vitality and will increase the yield fifteen to twenty per cent. Try this method this year and note results. "Plant grazing crops for hogs. Rye, oats, rape and crimson clover planted now will save corn and produce cheaper pork. We cannot afford to neglect grazing crops for hogs. The chickens need these crops also if they are to produce eggs during the win ter. Plant for the chickens. The cows, the calves, the sheep and the farm work stork will be helped by having an ample supply of these crops growing on the farm. The land will also be in better condition for cropping next year because of having grown these grazing crops." People Do Xot Marry So Young Xow. (Exchange.) Consolation to young men and wo men who are despairing of the hope of a successful marriage and warning to those who are Inclined to rush Into matrimony at an early age are the following statistics furnished by the Statesville Landmark: Men and women in these modern times do not rush into matrimony at the early age that the young people of an early generation did. Twenty five vara ago gills hastened Into ma; : i: ";.- in the'r latter teens or at most in their earlv twenties, while young men ror.-ud'M'ed themselves hopeless ba' heiors if they were not married at 40 y.-ars. Statistics se cured from the cords of the local register rf deed! prove Ihe truth of the pneeed ng Accord i ty o the records of 2S years ago average of the young women win rvarrled was twenty-one years, the average age of the man w-as 27. The records of the present time the past few months, show the aver age age of the bride as 27, the aver age age of the bridegroom as 32. St. Paul's Episcfinl Church. Sunday Sept. 7. Service of the Holy Communion with sermon fit 11:30. Sunday school at 10:30. Men's Bible Class at 4:30. Evening Prayer and sermon at 8 o'clock. Every Wednesday night Litany and address at 8 o'clock. The bill conferring the permanent rank of general on General Pershing it now in President Wilson's hands. It passed the house without debate.