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4 I t s -.1 i i 3 4 1 1 -.1 V, 5 . ; . I i f ! i . . . - .- . Mi ? .. J i : $ "' " . ' : t' 'i , 1 1 t . - - - THE MOROE JOCKS A I. Ti t IIY. M IV IT. IWI. EUiHT PAOEM PAGE TWO ...... . ... .XAAA-VAAAVVVVNAMWW . .. Charlottes May Merchandising Festival 1 Another Big Trade Event for Charlotte, May 1 9, 20,21 To demonstrate again Charlotte as a Trade Center, Style Center and a Value-Giving Center. For this hig three-day event the Merchants have gath ered together an assemblage of new seasonable mer chandise which they will offer at prices that will attract thousands of people here to shop from all over the Car olinas. Charlotte Merchants Association, Inc. A ,, , i A. A, M , A. ., ax Yf, ... Tornado Kills Three Persons , In Sampson and Hurts Others Clinton, May 14. The storm of Friday afternoon zigzagging diago nally acro.-s the county from Kose boro to the Wayne line, dipped down a number of times, sweeping clear a 200-yard zone of timber and houses in Newton drove township. Just be fore it left the county it Hindered the home of Officer McCullen. buried him and his wife 35 yards away, leaving the husband dead' with his rain ooz Jcg out and the wife fatally wound ed, she living less than two hours. Numerous barns were wrecked in this community and several people slight )y hurt. A cow tied , to a stake was missing and had not be n found hours afterwards. i In mid-course through the county,' it struck several homes in Honey cutt township, destroyed the store of J. A. Reynolds and scattering goods broadcast. It destroyed a church and Od Fellow's ladge, one or two homes Utterly, but Injured none. At Uoseboro one of the Injured ne groes died last night. The damage in the county is approximately fifty thousand dollars, the greater part be ing at Uoseboro, where the Howard Turlington Ginnery sustained a fif teen or twenty thousand dollar loss and the Williatns-McKeathan Lumber Company a considerable one. There was no tornado insurance. Wilson County. Wilson, May 14. Seven negroes were injured, one of them seriously, when a house on the Hiram Walston farm on Contetitnea creek, near h re. was blown down during a terrific wind and rain storm which visited Wilson county late yesterday. Out houses and fenceg were blown down and trees unrooted in different sec tions of the county. It is beleived the damage to crops will be only sliLht because of the absence of hail. AT FARMING GEORGE HART HAS MADE GREAT SUCCESS In Seven Veins H-.ts lncreael Yield of obi, Broken Down place Sev i era I Hundred Per Cent. V.II.I KS 1'I.ACK NOW AT $l,00 Hostility In the casual camp at St. Aitnan one outfit of colored Yanks were used exclusively in the pick and shovel brigade. Hence the following conver sation at mess. "Man, what yo' all doin' eatin' bean soup wul a fawk?' "Hig boy, Ah haies mad shovel so bad Ah done thtowed away in.ih spoon." In a ( new size jjj ftVpackage mem 10 cigarettes for 10 cts Handy and convenient; try them. Dealers now carry both sizes: 10 for 10 cts; 20 for 20 cts. It's Toasted .Mr. George L. Hart, young Monroe cotton buyer, by increasing the yiel several hundred fold of an obi, run down farm in the Corinth commun ity, has forever nailed the old story, "farming doesn't pay.-' And today, through his demonstrated ability, he can lay claim to being one of the best tanners in the county, although he was born and reared in Monroe. It was some time during the year 1 J 1 5 that he bought the old Harris place, considered then about the poor est land in that section. For over a hundred years it had been sot tied, and most of that time It had been subjected to the soil exhausting one crop system, and when he took charge of it he found nothing much but a mass of gullies. The creeks and branches had been permitted to grow up. There were patches here and there, which the tenants bad al lowed to "lay out," that were grown up in persimmons and weeds. The lull III I II lltiu i'llt; lu mi a; , nuu dv poor was the land that it would not hardly sprout grass. Kven with the j iiiost intense cultivation, it ieldedj but about five hundred poundi of seed rottoa to the acre, and the. pre- j vious owner had rented the entire place of one hundred and sixty-eight acic.4 for fifteen hundred pounds of lint cotton. Today, after seven years of steady effort, the place has been built up into one of the best In the county. The bind easily yields a bale or cot ton lu the acre without heavy fort II ilition; the. place has been beatuiful ly terraced; It has one of the best, i if not the best pastures in the rom ; inunlty; the dwelling houses have ! been remodled and painted aad there are several good barns. It cost Mr. Hart $3.tif o. Today he would not j?eil it for less than $18,600. Mr. A. A. Secrest, chairman of the county board of commissioners, offered him $85 an acre for the farm last fall, acknowledging at the same time that It v.as worth much more, i The timber on the place- almost re j turned Mr. Hart the entire purchase j price. He cut over a half-million feet of lumber, which he sold for some ! thing like $2,000 net. Resides this he secured enough lumber to remodel j tils dwelling houses and barns, so It :C.in be safely stated, taking tbii into (consideration, that the timber brought him $3,000, the purchase price of the farm. This remarkable feat, an Insplra tlon to every young farmer, wag ac complished largely through Mr. Hart's personal effort. The first few years he lived on the farm, working ten to sixteen hours a day. He con sulted agricultural experts, he talk ed with practical farmers, end the ef forts of tbia unexperienced young farmer began to bear fruit. His first act was to turn the soil with a big two-horse plow. He fort il-, Izcd it heavily, then sowed it in cane.; The cane was "turned over," and all! of the tillable land was planted in cover crops, such as rye and clover.1 In his spate time, Mr. Hart erected; terraces. i Soon the old-broken-down place be gan to bloom like virgin soil. In four or five years Its productivity was In-' creased several hundred per cent-, and five hundred pounds of lint cotton to the acre became the rule rather than the exception. i Now Mr. Hart rents It out, but he gives it careful attention, ever in-1 sistent that his tenants guard against) his valuable acres degenreatlng Into the w orthless state that they were in i when he bought them. His pasture Is marvelous to the, eye. He has 35 acres, 15 of which' Is In n woods, fenced in. A small j creek splits it wide open, affording j both water and s-hade for the stork, j Such grasses as Red Top, Tall; Meadow oat, Meadowfescue, Japan, Sapling and Allsack grow luxurlent ly. There is also some Kentucky ltlue Grass. During the seven years the farm, with the exception of a few years, has returned its owner a good profit, not considering the enhanchment of the value, but the biggest profit to Mr. Hart is the joy he derives from the possession of a fine farm, the high fertility of which was developed by his own labors. As the cartoonist savs, "it's a grand and glorious feel- inK-" - The man or concern that is making a barrell of money out of some In vention or service is probably mak ing two barrels of money for those who buy and use the Invention or service. To Stop Falling Hair You can easily clean your head ot dandruff, prevent the hair falling ouv nd beautify it, if you use Parisian Sage. English Drug Co. sells it witK guarantee to return price if not satisfactory. W. W.dlARGETT, Dealer in PLUMBERS' SUPPLIES AND REPAIRS. Very Reasonable Prices Charged. All Work Guaranteed. Phone 372-R. Monroe, N. C. THE UNIVERSAL CAR $393 f. o. b. Detroit If your salesmen spend unproductive time going from pros pect to prospect, because of slow transportation, it is money lost. Slow transportation robs them of part of their time time that might just as well be turned into sales. f A Ford Runabout furnishes quick transportation at the low est possible cost By equipping your salesmen with Ford Cars, you will enable them to devote more energy to selling goods. Henderson Hotor Company MONROE, N. C. Ford Cars Ford Trucks Fordson Tractors Ford Service. Genuine Ford Parti 3
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