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J ' PACE TWO THE MONROE JOIgML. TTFSPAT. JAXTART 24. EIGHT PACES I i t J ( - j W A r 'J 1 i . i i i i Henry Ford Will Purchase the Seaboard, According to Report Rumor Says Automobile Wizard Will Acquire Railroad if lie Secures Muscle Shoals; Would Give Him Direct Communication With Big Sea Torts I Ford ia Northern Ataoams was I printed in year, is raying ior naeii. Henry rord will repeal nis tactics The report that Henry Ford, the automobile manufacturer, planned to purchase the Seaboard Air Line Kail ay could not be verified by the Monroe officials of the road. They have heard nothing of the proposed sale of the road other than newspaper dispatches. Most of the em ployees, it ia believed, mould wel come Ford control as it is highly probably that he will establish a minimum wape of $ per day if he does buy the property. Raleigh. Jan. 21!. Purchase of the Seaboard Air Line Railway through which he w.ll be able to find an outlet from the gigantic development con templated at Muscle Shoals, Ala bama, will be undertaken by Henry Ford in the event that his negotia tions for the purchase of the nitrate plant and hydro-electric plant in Northern Alabama are brought to a successful consummation, declares the Raleigh News & Observer. That is the substance of an able bodied rumor that got into circula tion in Raleigh Saturday, and in the second day of its life Friday gained strength. It came into North Caro lina through the medium of private wires maintained by bond brokers, connecting with the New York Stock Exchange. In New York Saturday Seaboard bonds advanced two points, after months of stagnation and de cline. Road 3.12:1 Miles Long Through the Seaboard, the Muscle Shoals development will have direct connection with every por: in the Southeast from Tampa, on the west coast of Florida, to Norfolk, with easy connection wiih the ports of Baltimore. Philadelphia, and New York. The road owns and ope-ates 3,123 miles of raod, extending from Washington to Birmingham, and as far fouth as Tampa. li vet !ims run to Jacksonville, Savannah, Wil mington and Norfolk. Backers and railroad men in Ral eigh who have heard the report are d'stviscd to give it serious considera tion, and go further with speculation as to the probable purchase by the Detroit Wizard of the Carolina. Clinch field and Ohio, which would connect with Mr. Ford's other rail road property at Cin.-innati. With all three systems of roads, he would assume a commanding position in the transportation business, an 1 es tablish a direct connection with the Detroit interests, and those that he contemplates for the South. The Seaboard Air Line Ka hvay is valjcd on a cost basis of .! 7,21 1 which includes the cost of building the 3,1-1 miles of road, and pur chase of equipment. The road cost, Si ('2. 2!. '.2 It!, ard the equipment cos $2o.2u2.Util. The Seaboard Air Lino Railway is capitalized iv, ?' Vmiu.oo'1, and has a funded debt o;' .-'l :tl , N'.Mto. S. l'avies Wiirlicld, of 11;;'; iu re, is chnirman of the board of directors. Throughout the peri id of depres sion, the Seaboard, never an outstand ing fi nan-Sit I success, has In n !;u v:i and rumors of recvei-ship have been current at time?. It is the opinion of many that if Mr. l'.od. who is said to have one hundred an 1 eighty five million dollars in ea.ii in his bank, desires to buy the road he ca t obtain it on almost any tent's that he desir.'s to make. Seaboard stock soid on the New York mark 't Satur day for i , an advance of l't point.! from Thursday's closing. An outline of the gigantic scheme of development planne 1 by Henry rectly on this traffic but little. At Cincinnati he finis numerous com petive roads. He gives them his au tomobile traffic, ard in turn requires traffic of them. He is hauling all thej freight his road can handle, and his broken down rialroad, within two :n the J-outn, many ante Dusiness men believe. In Birmingham and Atlanta, in Norfolk. Wilmington and other ports, he can bring the same sort of business methods into play. The Seaboard, which has paid few I dividends in reetnt years, may comej in the hands of the Wizard ofi Detroit, to be one of the payintr : railroads of the country. It is saidj the News and Observer ; during the past week. He would de ' velop there a power plant with a j capacity of 850.000 horse power. 1 V.... n li ll.it-.unia iijtl an. I 1 .l.l iff W V tutr -..... vwa I . . . - . . , liron fields, and at hand the plant mai. win eieciniy 11 uora .nusc.e , 'for reducing nitreven from the air Shoals, and from other plants to be. I for explosives and fertilizer. He ! acquired along the route. . ! would build a town 75 miles long.l Kumor is me luunumwn 01 im-. and make it the model city of all story. It comes from sources that! 'Ire World BPI'rar IU lr I l-unuir. b lias aiiini ' 'Sheffield, a town that has twice j the test of the analysis of nun ofi before been a citv, is not far fr.m ; business, men who are m the rail the Muscle Shoals plant, and is n- i road business, and men w-ho are in eluded in the automobile make's ! the banking business Mr ord the South. I moves in his own fashion, and he . '....... . . ...... uiu,r i!nm nrobblv knows what he 111-, Y .- tiuur.er i'i wkui 1 -- - ivy Y ? Qseai Oe'6oefro0aoooofro6oap H . H . 1 1 I H . M . M I M . M . H . M .1 ( THE UNIVERSAL CAR Union Weevil Lore From County Farmers (From the Charlotte Observer.) field became a city of twenty thou- tenus sand people over night when the 1 Alabama coal and iron fields were j J5oll unearthed. Twelve blast furnaces 1 went to work almost be magic, and the town grew and itrew. r.lun a few weeks. Shefnebl was ; Thtf Uniim c , farmer who stri a ctty. with streets a humlre, J feet d corn gUlk w lwo in his 0ys; wide with a trolley car rtem., he lotlon waf Q.Jt of tht handsome resdence and big stores d f d sevora, faniilit.s of and oti.ee buildings, an 1 even a hand- M weevi, , tui.ked away in some club house made of sandstone he kg for .vinterg 8, ror a tew years it riolunshed and d contribution of entomological, then the boom was over A dozen, , bo weevil ,ore Na dnBbt ; smelting furnaces dwindled down to , (he B (f KntonH,;,)(:y at Wash-! 1" ..V 11 .:..' .:"' ington placed the discovery on 100 Ieei streets, unu wim woes i-nuio- ...i ed over the trolley poles. Sheffield died. Then came the Muscle Shoals de seovery on rec- s old along with other data in conr.ee- turn with the habits of the pest. If it , did not, it missed a detail of consider-) Then came ho Muscle Moals ae-i M imporUnce in development of de- $ ve.opment. and but a htt e was off fl.rive'llu,asuros h- the farmers. But grew up a stvond magic city of the Bureau is sen(iing out further in- X ,-,u ..u...,,, "-.".":"! formation about the weevil that will: lu"" ' U1. .ll".lu,J .v.,v "-!.,... f ..., A.siS(anee in th. fieht 1 un,i hn M.ii. ina h,i hoen . . . . ... .. ' repeated. duplicated again. Weeds were grow ing the streets last summer, and in the vast hotel of 300 rooms there was r.o a guest, save a lone Tar Heel whose business required him to go there in connection with the salvage of some of equipment of that mighty place of industry that began to rust i.f.o oblivion when the armistice was signed. Depend on Purchase Though the negotiations seem endless, the public generally believes that Henry Ford will in time own Muscle Sl'.oals, and business men who have followed his career cannot believe that he would bu it, and launch his gigantic dream of a great model city and industry, without tak ing care of the mo.it vital necessity if modern industry transportation. 1 Without it his hands would be tie and he would have to depend upon 1 r,,(.aii fh,. !d smrv of the blacksmith o her people. Nothimr in Henry ; who agreed to shoe a horse, charging ' Fo.-i's career just. lies the entertain-' ,P ,,t fr the first nail, two fori merit 01 mat tnougnt. Keijuiring a railroad, the only logi ci'l road that transportation men see to exterminate the weevil. The Wall j .-areei jouiiiui is tiiriyiin; a series ui articles in promotion 01 wp.riare: against the weevil and in one of thej contributions we are told that the j weevil spends the winter in or near j the cottonficld where it was working 1 1 when cold weather overtook it. Of j thoe that go into hibernation only a smnil percentage live through the winter, but everv one of them repre sents myriads of weevils later in the! season. Here the writer draws on the Bureau of Kntomology for the infor-i mation that female weevils have de- posited -150 eggs in a season. Also. 1 after one generation has matured, it ' begins to produce another. Thus, : seven generations have been produced j in a season. What one pair of over-1 wintered weevils mean can be quickly j worked out by geometrical progres sion. If you have forgotten how, then ! NEW PRICES (F. 0. B. DETROIT) CHASSIS $285 RUNABOUT $319 TOURING CAR $348 TRUCK CHASSIS $430 COUPE $580 SEDAN $645 These are the lowest prices of Ford Cars in the history of the Ford Motor Companj;. Orders are coming in fast, so place yours promptly to insure early delivery. THE HENDERSON MOTOR COMPANY. AUTHORIZED SALES AND SERVICE and FORDSON :::: :::: . , i . M ( . .1 .I F A, t FORD for him Air Line tn ncuiire is the Seaboard It goes within a short dis tance of his proposed citv and gives, ttccsj to the world. In owning it. h- wvr.ld have n d cen ports at his1 command. With the other specula--tke purchase, his two enterprises wt.f.l ! h ' i. '-inec ed directly. From; I ' t . ! to Muscle Shoals, he would 1 have c:i!'iiur,;cat vi. and tl. me to tl." .V.l.tn ic ocean and the world. M-st of ihe I It toil States latlgl'ed c.itri.rht whe'i Hetiry Ford purchased a b:nl:. ti down r;i il.' runninti from I I'olroit to fineinnati. The road was cesiir.g a ci.i'.'ar fur (Very 57 cents itj oi.rrcd. It was broken down. Mean-' ne.ime.l that he v.vjid ninke the road iiiv. and as a s'..i-t in that direction,; he r:.i e.l v. 'igs i.ll round. Within a I yiar i he road wrs paying dividends,! Mid he had improved its road bed' an i is n;ui;)nu n'. i Critics declared that he did it by j sh;np:ng all of the product of his the second, four for the third, ami- so on up to the thirty-second. The-, oreiically, the increase from one pairi in a season would run into billions! In a few billions of weevils could be destroyed by a pinch of the thumb and forefinger, who would refuse to do it ? Yji-t it can be done. When they come out of winter quarters the weevils are so fecbU' and sluggish that they can be easily picked by hand. Tiie farmers r.re advised that be ginning with the first appearance of the squares, the fields should be gone over once a week and all infested ones picked up and burned. From ev ery infested square, unless the weather is very hot and dry or the soil moist, will come a weevil, which in turn will begin producing othirs of its kind until the end of the sea son. Leave the squares and the weevils will come; destroy theni and the early crop will be saved. The farmer must reconcile himself to the fact that the weevils will get the late crop. His fight nu st be to keep down the num- Tire Prices Smashed ' FURTHER REDUCTIONS ALL NON-SKID CASINGS. GUARANTEED 7,000 MILES great automobile factory over the'1(.rs 0f the earlier generations and roan, m.i now me roan ucoenus ai- AAtf one eleven cigarettes Ihree Friendly Gentlemen Made to SuitYourTaste W hv for yer catered to tb cl;rett smokers of America. With this experience, we created One Eleven "I ll"-"Me to Suit Your Tatte," of the worM'i three greateit cigarette tokaccot I TURKISH, for Aroma l-VCINIA,forMilinci - BURLtY. for MtUo wncti V We named them One Eleven the toMreu of oar home office. We ire proai of their success. i Have You Tried Them ? 1H 'JITH AVE. AAA HW VMM CITV give the first blooms a chance to set, Of course, tins added attention would call for more back-bending ex ercise and more expense on part of the farmer, but there is a sugt'jested compensation the cotton consumers would pay him for the time, trouble, and expense. The writer in The Jour nal maintains, and with fairness, that "in inert ased prices for cotton, the cunsuming world must hereafter pay for this extra work as well as for any reduction of yield through losa of top crop, for cotton is a funda mental of life. The werwl danger will open the eyes of the consumers to the necessity of paying the farm ers sufficient to encourage them to produce the cotton." Georgia Town Is Shot up By Bad Moonshiners niackshcnr, Ga., Jan. 23. A gang of men, believed to be members of a whiskey distilling ring, at an early hour this morning, visited the city and proceeded to shoop up the busi ness district. Many guests at a local hotel had narrow escapes from bul led when the building was subjected to a heavy f :re. Ten other buildings in the city were riddled with bulleds. There were no casualties. The postolTice windows were brok en by a bullet, as were the windows of the Blackshenr Drug Company, Strickland Bros. Co., S. E. Cohen and Dr. G. Henry. No one was injured and the men who did the firing: es caped. Former SherilT Robnson wail killed last August in raiding an illicit still near here and the attack on the town came within a few hoiys after the son who succeded to the ofTice had seized a large copper still during the raid. The hotel was owned and operated by Mrs. J.'W. Roberson, widow of the former sheriff and mother of sheriff Obn Roberson of this county. The firing started about 1:30 o'clock and lasted for twenty min utes, piftols, shotguns and rifles be ing Sued by the outlaws. The gang evidently waited outside the city limits until the local power house rut off its lighting: system for the night. With the town in total darkness the pang swooped down, firing at random. Residents on the outskirts of the city say a seeding automobile loaded with men left the town after the shooting;. DUNBAR FABRICS 30x3VL- $ 9.36 30x3 31x4 32x4 33x4 34x4 7.93 12.21 14.02 15.81 30x3 30x3io 32x3y2 1.95 34x3V;. 2.15 31x4 2.25 32x4 2.31 .. 16.36 .. 17.23 TUBES, MICHIGAN CORDS 80x31. 32x3i. 32x4 " 33x4 34x4 32x41. 33x41. 34x41' 35x4io 36x411 33x5 " 35x5 37x5 GUARANTEED 9.000 MILES $14.76 20.32 24.83 25.57 26.37 29.52 30.44 30.70 31.77 33.04 36.99 37.85 38.66 $1.65 33x4 1.75 34x4 GUARANTEED FOR ONE YEAR 2.41 2.51 2.65 2.75 35x4 32x41. 33x4V;. 2.76 34x4ii 2.80 35x41, 36x41. 33x5 " 35x5 37x5 2.93 2.98 3.40 3.65 3.75 ADJUSTMENTS MADE IN CHARLOTTE AND PROMPT ADJUST MENTS, TOO. 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