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TOE UNION COUNTY PAPER EVERYBODY READS IT" -THE UNION COUNTY PAPER EVERYBODY NEEDS IT Monroe Journal- PUBLISHED TWICE EACH WEEK TUESDAY AND FRIDAY Twenty-Ninth Year. No. 4. Monroe, N. C Friday, February 17, 1922. $2.00 Per Year Cash FARMERS HOLD THE POWER OF PRICES There Will Be Plenty of Demand for Cotton and Amount Now . in Farmers Hands HAVE THE WHIP IN HAND All the Bearish Argument! Cannot Cnrtail the Estimated Consump tion of 12,500,000 Balea . By MaJ. W. C. Heath Cotton is indeed a Mangei" fool. Since my little article of about two weeks ago advising the holding of cotton, the futures market has ad- vanced one and a half cents per pound and if this advance holds, the spot market will do likewise, has al ready stiffened considerably. Unless compelled to sell in order to liquidate indebtedness, I still advlss holding. The following letter from Rose and Son, cotton brokrs, of New York, speaks for itself and when properly analyzed it very bullish: The following figures seem wbrtny of serious consideration: Ginning to January 16 7,913,000 with virtually nothing more to come Into sight to date -7.970 000 therefore the crop has come into Spinners takings of Ameri- cans to date 8,118,000 The next question is how much cotton do mills still need and where is it to cpme from ? If consumption for the season be placed at the very conservation figure of 12,500,000 bales, spinners will need another 4,382,000 bales or an average spinners takings of 150,000 a week lor the remaining 29 weeks of the season. . . ... The present visible supply of Amer ican is 3.859,000 bales. Farmers hold the balance of the They will have to supply the 500,000 bales needed above tne present visioie surplyt and inasmuch as -a technical position without visible supply nv un fhinV.hia farmer, will have to sup ply another 3.000,000 bales so that the visible supply here and abroad shall be a normal of 3,000,000 bales end of the season. At what price will the farmer let .l. hmvm the.a a.ROO.000 bales of cotton, which he was able to hold from the lime it was w pomm, which he was able to hold after it ..a a-v,a tn i(V which he was able to hold all through 1921, one of the hardest nnanciai years n tm It is true that the dry goods mar kets are dull at tne moment, it is an uncerta'nty as to whether strikes will later gn cause some mills in the world to stay idle for a while, it is im possible to forecast the size of. the Rut all of these bearish arguments ennnot materially curtail Tne COHSUIuptlUN BU miiatuBinvij ;,ot,l .t MSOO.OOO hales, in view of the fact that nvlls have taken over 8,000,000 bales in loss than 0 months. Some of the trade have predicted ntnn famine for thin summer, but there will be no such thing this year, for the necessary number oi oaies are in existance. The question is: "Who has the whip in hand?" GRIFFITH'S CAR WAS ALSO IN DANVILLE, VIRGINIA Sheriff Fowler Tipped Him Off and He Found the Car All Right Will Bring Car Back Anotheer stolen car has been re covered from the bunch of Virginia crooks that have been operating In North Carolina for the past several months. . A few days ago Mr. R. E. Griffith of Pjigelnnd was Informed by Sheriff Fowler that he believed that Mr. ' Griffith's car that was stolen In De. eember was In Danville, Va., where Sheriff Fowler found McCorkle's Ford that was stolen on the night of the Foch celebration In Monroe. Mr. Griffith went to Danville and . found his car and. learned that It . had been carried there by a Inembet of the same band to which Frailer, who stole the McCorkle car, belong- 'An arrest was nude and Mr. Grlf. fin will bring his car back with him when the necessary arrangements have been made. "SHINE" TO BE LEFT OFF THE NAME OF WILL MOON Charged With Bringing "Moonshine" " from Georgia and Acquitted Under Trial by ?ury Will Moon, F. R. Springs and Wal ter Moseley, all colored citizens of Monroe, were before Recorder Lem mond on a charge of violating pro hibition laws. . , - It will be recalled that The Jour nal a few weeks ago carried a story telling how Moon, a colored train porter, was charged with bringing the boose -In on his run from Atlanta In Georgia syrup cans and delivering It to Springs, who conducts an un dertaking establishment here. Before Recorder Lemmond yester day Moon was tried by a Jury and ac quitted of the charge, and hla name therefore Is tc remain Just plain Moon with the "shine" left off. gprlngj was found guilty of recetV. Inn and keeping liquor for sale but judgment was withheld until a Inter date, while the case against Moseley was continued until another time. THE WEEK'S SOCIAL NEWS The following young ladies were delightfully entertained at a Valen tine party Tuesday afternoon at the home of Miss Frances Shule: Frances Suck, liary Myers Faulkner, Mar garet Henderson, Chattie Stack, Mar garet Wager, Margaret Iceman, Elis abeth Caldwell, Laura Stewart, Lydia Stewart, Kewpie Davis, nad Margaret Lee. Hearts dice was played for a time, then each guest was given pa per and pencil and told to make as many words as possible from "St Valentine." Elizabeth Caldwell Was the winner and received a box of handkerchiefs. The hostess served a salad course of home-made candies, small heart-shaped cakes ked with white and conU'nlng the initials of each guest in red. The youhe men of Mr. Dougherty's class of the Baptist Sunday School entertained the members of Mrs. E. M. Griffin's class Tuesday evening at the home of Mrs. J. Frauk Williams. The home was most attractively dec orated, the color scheme of red and white being carried out. Mrs. Wil liams and Mrs. Fred Helms served punch and this was later followed by cream, cako and mints. Miss Car. olli:e Cason, as the winner of a unique contest, was awarded a box of correspondence cards. Mrs. R. L. Payne entertained at a delightful series of parties last Thursday and Friday. Thursday morning Miss Hose Coleman of Un iontown, Ala., the gue&t of the Misses Crow, was the honoree; Thursday af icrnoon Mrs. Clement Jons, who has recently come to Monroe to make her home, was honored. On each of these occasions five tables were ar. ranged for bridge. Friday morning Mrs. Tayne was hostess to her rook club. A salad course with accesso ries was served each time. i The U. D. C.'s held a most pleas ant meeting with Mrs. Randolph Red fearn as hostess yesterday afternoon. Much business was attended to and plans were made for Memorial Day. Mrs. Redfearn served hot chocolate, sandwiches and wafers. Airs. Sam Lee was hostess to her bridge club Tuesday afternoon. The following members were present: Mrs. R. L. Payne, Mrs. Geo. Prultt, Mrs. Horace Neal, Mrs. Will Red niond, Mrs. J. C. M. Vann, Mrs. Ben- nett Caddy, and 'Mrs. O. G. Thacker A salad course with oysters, hot rolls and tea were served. Thursday af ternoon Mrs. Lee again entertained a number of friends at bridge. Her guests Included Miss Annie Lee, Miss Jean Ashcraft, MUs Adeline Crow, Miss Rose Coleman, Miss Mary Crow, Miss Elizabeth Houston, Mrs. Frank Rose and Mrs. John English. A de licious salad course was served. One of the most attractlvo social affairs of the Valentine season was the party nlvn Tuesday afternoon by Mrs. J. A. Stewart in honor of Mrs. S. C. Lawton of Charleston, the guest of Mrs. Oscar Blair. Bridge and rook were played at seven tables, The honor guest was presented ' candy corsage. The Valentine note was carried out lnthe decorations, I tallies, and In the refreshments, which onsistea or creamed cnicxen, hot rolls, perfection salad, olives, sandwiches and coffee. 1 Little Francis Greene, daughter of Dr. Mid Mrs. E. S- Greene, was op erated cn Monday at the Ellen Fltz. gerald hospital for appendicitis. She is getting along nicely now. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Richardson, Mr. and Mrs. P. V. Richardson, and Miss Verla Richardson, attended the ball game between Trinity and Dav idson In the Charlotte auditorium Monday night. Mr. Oscar Richard son, the captain of the Trinity team, U the son of Mr. P. V. Richardson Mrs. J. C. Burroughs of Rocking ham will arrive Sunday to , spend several days with her sister, Mrs. v C. Davis. . Mrs. Wrlston Lee, with her daugh ter Katherlne, la visiting her daugh. ter, Miss Lucy Lee, at Converse Col lege. .' Miss Daisy Belk dellgth fully enter. talned at her handsome home Thurs day afternoon from 3:30 to 6:00, at bridge, honoring Mlsa Rose Coleman, attractive house guest of Miss Ade line Crow. At the conclusion of the games the hostess served a delicious salad course, stuffed dates and can. dies. Thirty-two guests were pres. ent The home was beautifullly dec orated, Parma violets being used la the parlor and pink carnations In the library. Dr. J. M. Belk has as guests his daughter. Mrs. Frank Stevens, and her children, Johnnie and Sarah, of Winston-Salem, Mr. W. J. Holloway went to Ashe, vllle yesterday where Mrs. Holloway has been for the peat several days at the bedside of her mother, who Is very 111. Miss Mary Hazel Long" is visiting her brother, Dr. Roy Long, woo is a physician in the State Hospital at Morganton. Mr. Hargrove Bowles is not bear ing the fine egg jnarket as an ad in the business locals of the last issue : of the paper would indicate. He is ; selling his Anconas at two dollars per setting instead of one dollar as the paper made him say. Chas. Iceman, Jr., Was Killed in Aulo Wreck This Morning Three Other Young Men Instantly Chapel Hill From Raleigh Engine Mrs. Iceman Charles Iceman, Jr., of Monroe, was; killed in an automobile wreck at fouri o'clock this morning in East Durham.! Three-other young men were killed j uisianuy out juunjf ncmau um uu v.. - 1 j:j die till one ten today. The terrible news came early this morning and as soon as possible, Mrs. Iceman, the mother of the young man being desperately wounded and mobile. The information then was that Charles was in a dangerous con dition at the Watts Hospital in Dur ham, with h.8 skua crushed above the right eye and his leg broken, but that there was hope or saving his lie. With this information his mother started and possibly knew nothing more till she arrived in uurnanu At one twentv today the superin tendent of the Watts Hospital phoned Dr. H. D. Stweart that Mr. Iceman had died at one ten. That was the tirrible news which would meet the distressed mother at the end of her long and .hard drive over muddy roads from Monroe to Durham. Five younir students of the Uni versity, including Mr. Iceman, had been to Raleigh to attend a dance last night. They were taken by one oi the Chapel Hill service cars, driven by F. H. Bryant, who was instantly killed when the wreck occurred, along with two of the young men, Mr. Ice man being desperately wounded and unconscious. The latter was taken to the Watts Hospital with two oth ers of, the boys, not so severely ed. The car was overrun by a switch enarine in the suburbs of the city. The road from Chapel Hill to Raleigh. leads directly through the main part of Durham with tracks to cross on both sides of the ci4". None of the other men were from this section of the state. The dead besides Mr. Iceman 4re: George Had- ley of Mr. Airy; Georee Peoples of Vance County; and F. H. Bryant, the driver. The wounded are T. Boney of Ccldsboro and J. C. Spach of Winston Salem. Durham to about thirty-eight miles from Raleigh. Twelve milesof theroad is hard surface but the remainder is mostly old road in bad condition not having been kept nip because hard surface is contemplated, it would therefore appear that the drive would have been about two hours and the bovs must have left Raleigh immedi ately after the dance. It is supposed Henderson Roller Mill WentUp in Smoke Wednesday Night Fire of Unknown Origin at Midnight Entails Loss of Fifty Thou- sand Dollars Partly Covered by Insurance But Will Not Retard Building of New Mill A little before twelve o'clock Wed nesday night the Henderson Roller Mill, in the eastern part of town, was burned to the ground, nothing whatever being saved. The origin of the fire is unknown. It probably came from an electric wire. The world was wrapped in snow and rain at the time and so nobody saw the fire till it had been far advanced, and once the large frame building got engulfed with the flames it burned rapidly. The fire company was on the scene immediately the call was turn ed in but nothing could stop it. The fire was first discovered from the rail road roundhouse. The original building was put up in 1901 and had been .added to from time to time. There was considerable flour on hand, the bad weather having cut off trade for several days. Bad weather also figured in saving a car of wheat (hat was on the siding, some two thousand dollars worth of grain. This car would have been unloaded Wednesday except- for the rain, and hence it was saved. A car load of lumber belong to Mr. G. M. Tucker which was on. the siding also, was saved. The loss is estimated around fifty thousand dollars. On the building there was $4,000 insurance; on the L Pleasant Social Event at Wtngate Wlngate, Feb. II. Miss Annie Jones delightfully entertained a num. ber of young people Tuesday .night from 7:30 to 10:00 o'clock at a Val. enllne party. The hall and parlor were artistically- decorated with hearts and cuptds. On entering the parlor each guest was given a half of a heart with a Valentine quota, tlon written on It. They were to find the one who held the other half of the heart, the holder to be his partner tn the game of progressive hearts, which was played at three tables. Miss Selma Chaney, making the highest score, won the prize "two cuptds" In keeping with the oc casion. This was followed by a con. test, "Musical Memory," Miss Annie Brackett winning the prise, a dainty Valentine. Other amusements were enjoyed by the guests throughout the evening. Delicious fruit ra'id. sandwiches, wafers, and cocoa v rr served. Attractive Valentino cupj filled with heart-shaped minis, were given as favors. Those enjoying Miss S . Killed When Car Returning to Collided With a Switch on Way to Durham that the young men were asleep in the car when it was hit. The scene of the accident was at the eastern side of the city. Here the Oxford branch of the Southern crosses the mam line at right angles near the plant of the Virginia-Carolina Chemical plant. Engineer Cart er, who was operating the locomotive, says that he was not running over nine miles an hour and says that the automobile was running very fast and without lights. The machine be longed to Joe Durham, auto livery man of Chapel Hill, and the driver, Mr. Bryant, was from Alabama. The locomotive, says Engineer Car ter, who turned in the emergency call, stopped within its own length. The machine hit the locomotive and ran under the tank and became wedged. All the bodies were thrown clear of the track and were not mangled. Mrs. Charles Iceman, mother of the young man, left at eight o'clock this morning by automobile for Durham. She was accompanied by her daught er, Mrs. Carr Bowie, and Mrs. R. B Rcdwine, and was driven by Mr. Rob ert Lee. The drive is one from five to eight hours depending upon the condition of the roads, and possibly even longer than that. Mr. Charles Iceman, the father of the young man, is in a sanatorium at Battle Creek, Michigan, having re cently gone there for treatment for rheumatism, from which be is a fre quent sufferer. Early this morning Dr. E. A Abrrnethy of Chapel Hill, at whose house Charles Iceman, John and Worth Rcdwine, and Ogburn Yates roomed, phoned Mrs. J. W. Yates to reassure her about the other Monroe boys. It seems that none of them were in the party. Charles Iceman was a little over seventeen years of age. having been bom October 12, 1904. He graduated at the Monroe High School In the spring of 1920 and in September en tered the freshman class of the Uni versity of North Carolina. He was in the sophomore class this year, fh Monroe the young man was very popular1. He was bright and quick of mind and kindly in manner and had many friends. H a death is a terrible shock, not only to his parents and friends, but to the whole town. He is the only son of hj parents. While no information has yet been received on this point, the prcsump tion is that the body will arrive here in the monr.ng on train No. 5. machinery $0,300; on the Rtock of grain, flour and feeds, $21,000. This will probably cover the loss on the grain and flour, but the loss to the company on the building and machin cry is far from covered. The build ing consisted of three stories and a basement and two storage rooms. The company has under way a large brick structure near the railroad at the overhead bridge. It had been planned to have this new enlarged mill in operation by Jul" first, and this plan will probably not be inter rered with by the fire. Some ma chinery had already been bought for the new mill and it was planned to take the machinery over from the old mill. The old mill was a hundred barrel mill and the new one will be a two hundred and fifty barrel one. Mr. J. E. Henderson is president of the company, Mr. Fred Huntley is vice president, and Mr. Walter Hen derson is secretary and treasurer. The directors are J. E. Henderson, F. G, Hsnderson. W. A. Henderson. D. B, Snyder and Fred Huntley, and these gentlemen own all the stock. The mill has always been under the active management of Mr. J. K. Henderson who founded it. and has always been prosperous and of great benefit to the community. rJones's hospitablty were: Misses Mary Gaddy, Selma Chaney, Sallle Griffin, Annie Brackett; Mrs.Wlchell; Messrs. Norman Wentt, Leo Griffin William Redfern, Clyde Jones, Cliff Williams; Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Bums, and Mr. and Mrs. Zeb Jones. Mr. J. J. Perry is planning to erect a garage on the lot back of his store building. Mrs. B, D. Austin baa been suffer ing from the effect of a broken arm for the past week. Mrs. Flonnle Helms and . her dauKhetr, Blanche, have been con fined to their beds with sickness for the past week. Mrs. Y. M. Bogan has been con fined to her bedside several days with colds, but at this writing she is Im proving. Mr. Ben Outen rf Tast-land Is In the Ellen Pllzperald Hospital suftVr liis v'th en Infected hand. Dr. J. W. N".nl opened the Infected place yes- terday and Mr. Outea Is testing bet- iter today. SOME LOCAL- HAPPENINGS Rev. Caleb Hoyle will preach at South Monroe Sunday afternoon at three o'clock. Mrs. Virginia Davis and Mr. D. P. McLarty have returned from a trip to New York where they went to buy goods for Lee Lee Company. The weather bureau Instrument at Rock Rest showed that 4.S inches of rain fell during the first few days of this week. Beginning wltb next Sunday all evening church services In Monroe will be changed from 7:00 to 7:30 o'clock. Rev. R. J. Mcllwaine will preach at Unlonville next Sunday at eleven o'clock and at Bethlehem Presbyte rian church at three in the afternoon. Mr. M. C. Baker, who has been at school In Johnson City. Tenn., has returned home and will be here a while before going to school again. There will be preaching at Pleas ant View next Sunday nioruing at 11 o'clock, preceded by song service at 10 o'clock. Mr. S. F. Long of Marshville has accepted a position with an automo bile concern In Charlotte and will move his family to that city at an early date. A singing class U being taught at Icemorlee Baptist church by Mr. H. E. Walden. The class meets for in struction and practice every other evening. Mr. I. F. Piyler was acquitted a few days ago before Recorder Lem- mond on a charge of seauction brought by Mrs. Florence McGinnls of North Monroe. A Valentine party will be given at the Legion club rooms this, evening at 7:30 o'clock. Games, contests, music and refreshments will consti tute the program. Admission, 25c, which will bo used for the purchase of a reference library at the graded achool. Arrangements are being made to present the minstrel given at tne Strand last Friday by the American Legion at Wadesboro and Waxhaw at an early date. The Melvln Deese Post No. 27 Is behind the movemeui nd they made a great success of the minstrel in Monroe. Mr. Julian C. Brooks, prosecuting attorney for the Recorder's Court, Is at his home two miles west of the city, at the bedside of his daughter. Mildred, 14 years or age, wno is ai the point of death from pneumonia. Mildred has been sick for only two or three days, but has been in in health for sometime and the worst Is feared by her parents and physi cians. The Union Drug Co. Is Installing an up-to-date Liquid Carbonic foun tain. The new fountain has a oouDie service arrangement, with sterilizing shower bath for the glasses, it is made of Italian marble with opal onyx trimming. The fountain is lcc les's, the carbonized water receiving its temperature from the ice cream box. which Is packed with Ice. It Is one of, the most complete fountains on' the market and adds greatly to the appearance as well as the service of this store. The talk about the wveral circuits of which the Monroe church nnd this section generally has belonged to as the districts were cut up and made smaller and smaller each year, as shown by Major IIeath'3 history, re calls a remark once made by Mr. Jesse Parker, an old citlsen of this county well-known years ago. "This circuit making has gone far enough," he ald. "Why, my home has been In four circuits already and I expect them to keep on making the circuits smaller till my farm will be a whole circuit by Itself." A MOTHER BACKS UP REV. MR. HUGGINS ON TOBACCO Wants the Schools to emphasize Its Evils and the Officers to Look Out for Cigare te Sales To the Editor of The Journal: We wish to commend Bro. Haggins for his niece in Tuesday's paper about tobacco and smoking. Please say to him that we agree with every Wood he said and hone it will have some influence in checking the almost uni versal habit in boys and shall I say it! the growing tendency in women and girls. If our school taught less science in the abstract ana more about how to have healthy bodies, alert minds and strong, christian char acter; less physics and more spelling, reading and writing., we would have more fully educated people than at the present. Don't misunderstand me, I am not opposed to "higher educa tion." but do we not "neglect the weightier matters," the real founda tion, in our present school curriculumt It was the dean of Wellesley Col lege, I believe, who said she didn't csre anything about teaching her students the anatomy of a cat or how to dissect a white rabbit, but teach them the chemistry of foods, hygiene, how to be good housekeepers, and the worthy mothers of men. The harmful effect of n'cotine is taught or rather touched upon in one or two grades in our schools, but it is not driven home, stressed as it should 'be. I understand there is a campaign put on in China and Japan, by the big American tonacco trusts ti teach the boys and girls of those rum ries how to use the filthy weed. Ar.J this from christ:an America! We ' have some evidence that cigarettes are hemg so'u to minors in our town. Cannot cur officers ferret this out end tton it or prosooute without the wom;n having to taks a hnd in it? A MOTHFR. COLUMN OF NEWS AND INTERVIEWS Mr. Lemmond Tells How Import ant Discovery Was Made in the Good Old Times WHEN JODIE MOVED FAST Folk Are Wondering What Henry and McCormick Hare Been Doinj With Extra Tractor Money By L. E. Hiiggins Mr. R. W. Lemmond may not be as old as he looks, but he certainly can tell some stories that would lead one to believe that he lived in a different age from the present one. One of Mr. Lemmond's latest "get offs" is to the effect that when he was a boy people always went to mill vis iiv'vuava iiuiuiiijj si p 1 1 uut about that, you say! But, listen! He a'so says that the corn or wheat was placed in one end of a sack and a big rock or block of wood in the other end to effect a balance when the outfit was thrown across a horse's back. When neither a rock nor a block of wood could be found easily, a jug of liquor was sometimes used for a balance on the opposite side of the grain. "But, ho!J on a minute,' a bystand er interrupted, "when did folks learn that the corn or wheat could be di vided and half the turn placed on each side of the horse's back!" "Oh, well," responded Mr. Lemmond, one day a fellow lost his rock and happened to le out of liquor and as necessity is always the mother of in vention he naturally had to figure out a way to get home and the new way was born then and there." The crowd Beemed satisfied with the explanation and Mr. Lemmond proceeded with another of his ancient stories. This time it was in regard to the old-time log huts that people used to live in. "Why," declared Mr. Lemmond, people used to think they must have a place in the front door for the cat to get in, and in nearly every one of those old cabins were two holes. The builder of the house originally planned to have only one hole, but after he had made a large one for the grown cats he discovered that the kittens must also have a place to get and he proceeded to cut a small hole for them." Nobody ques tioned Mr. Lemmond's philosophy and every one went away in a good humor. Look Like the River Jordon The heavy, continued rains this week caused high water marks in all streams in the county. Mr. M. O. Bowman, carrier on route 4 from Marshville, says the water courses have been the highest since he has been carrying the mail. On Tuesday night rail 6n Gourdvine creek bridge in New Salem township was washed away and a big tree wiashed down and lodged against the bridge. When Mr. T. S. Lee of Lanes Creek township was asked how the creek looked near his home, he replied: "It looks lke the river of Jordan." Cyclone Passed Under Jodie Mr. Moko Moore gets more out of a good story than almost anybody else. He delights to tell cf a joke that he played on Mr. J. E. Thomas years ago when the latter was conducting a mer cantile business in Marshville. Moke saw Thomas standing in front of his store door one evening about dark and decided to have some fun. He secured the services of a big yellow cat and tied a paper bag of peas to the cat's tail, headed nim toward Thomas and turned him loose. With the first jump the peas began to rattle and the rattle of the peas and the speed of the cat increased with each succeeding leap. He ran down the street and passed right between Thomas's legs before he knew where the rattle with its velocity was com ing from, and Moke says Thomas jumped about three feet straight into the air but) managed to land on his feet. By this time the cat was gone and Thomas never knew what had passed between his legs. Talking About Tractors Where have two hundred and thh ty dollars been going? That's the question Union county farmers who have recently bought Fordson and International tractors are asking. The fact that both Ford and McCormick have reduced their tractors $230 is interesting enough to farmers who expect to purchase tractors this spring but to those who have "forked out" the t'2ZQ ever and above what they are now rsked for the same tractor the situation is enb'rely different. If Mr. Ford and Mr. McCormick can now afford to sell them for $230 less than they formerly gjt for them, wfiy couldn't they have done it sooner T If they are losing money now, they cer tainly must have made a "clean-up" during the past few years or they wouldn't be in position to sell them at a loss now. But if the reduction hadn't been made farmers who were able would have gone ahead and bought them at the old prices and nobody would have been any wiser. Whether Mr. Ford and Mr. McCormk';: have been "salting down" too muc t on their tractors or whether they ara now losing money on them make, very little difference to the farme1 who needs a tractor. The reduction in prices is going to be a powerful factor in stimulating the use cf trac tors and incidentally to the success o ' agricultureal interssts, and everybody ought to be glad of it. ' There will be preaching at Now Hope Methodlft Protestant church n?:t rt'ar at 1 : r.i. ty ;-.5-.tcr. -
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