North Carolina Newspapers

‘And Right The Day Must Win, To Doubt Would Be Disloyalty, To Falter Would Be Sin.” VOLUMN 7 MEBANE, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14 1915 NUMBER 34 Mr. Tom Jeffries went up to (Greensboro Saturday and bvoLiRht his little daughter home vvho has been at the hospital in Jreensboro for some time. Mr. C. E. Edwards of Burling-- ton has accepted a position with J)(jc High, and will move his family here shortly. Mr. J. N. Warren spent Sat urday night and Sunday in Greensboro. Miss Daisy Miles of Corbett is visiting Mrs. Mike Miles. Miss McAdams of Corbett is visiting her sister Mrs. Wesi: Bowland. M»*s. Jack Scott of Graham and mother, Mrs. M, J. Brady of West Va,, visited Mrs. Scott^s daugh:er, Mrs. I, M. Thompson this week. Mrs. Sheep who has been visi ting her daughter, Mrs. F. M. Hawley left Tuesday for Helena Ark. Mr. Frank Warren who is a student at the State University spent Tuesday in town with his i father. | Mrs. A. B. Fitch and sist?r! spent Tuesday in Burlington. j Mrs. Bob Howard visited re-1 latives in Durham this week. | Mr. A. B. i^itch left Tuesday ' morning on a business trip through the southern part of the State. ^ Mrs. T. R. Hooks of Fremont | stopped over in Mebane Monday | with her son Lee enroute home j from Winsion. Mr. Fred Teri’ell of Greensboro I was in Mebane for a few hours j Tuesday. ! Mr. Lex Smith of Danville! is visiting his brothers, Messers Charles and Sam Smith. Mrs. W. Y. Malone and daugh ter returned home last week from the country where theyl spent the summer. Mrs. Brice Warren of Corbett is visiting her daughter, Mrs. W. Y. Malone, | Mr. W. E. White after an ab-1 sence of a week or ten days in | the interest of the White Furni ture Co., Norih returned home Monday evening of ’this week. Mr. White took in the great Nat ional base ball game at Boston, Massachusetts while away. A P Long have received many new things in the way of ladies dress goods, and wraps, and pro posed to change ad, but over looked to send copy. Don't you want a diamond that never depreciates in value always growing more valuable, well then see Snider-Wilcox and Fletcher, Co,, leading Jewelers of Durham, They carry a full line of watches, lings, silver ware, cut glass, etc. The place to get your bridal presents, Mr. H H Ward sold a lot of to bacco on the Mebane market Tuesday consisting of 684 lbs at 28cts per pound. This was a splendid sale, and shows what good prices tobacco is bringing on the Mebane market. Rev J M Armette will preach at the Baptist church next Sun day morning and night October 17th. Mr Armette has been re cently called to this church and has acceptedIhe work. He will not move his family here at pre sent, he will still live in Durham with prospects of moving here in the near future. The Mebane Supply Co., are offering some very pretty and nicely trimmed hats in this weeks Leader, they are offering- then at unusudl low prices Revival Services, | I wSpecial revival services will be- j gin at Methodist Protestant! church Sunday October 17 at 7 P. M. After Sunday evening Jl'^v, J. D. Williams ot Hender son will do the preaching,Every body is eordusrtly invited to be pr»*sent at every service. The choirs of the churches of the town ave requested to be there and help in the singing. Como hoar Mr. Williams once and you will want to hear him igain. Receipts I In the big base ball games i played in Boston, more than eighty two thousand dollars was taken ill as gate receipts. More than forty four thousand dollars was ^iven tl\e players. The Smile That Wont Wear Off C'ol. Sam Sharp says the boys bothered him too much about his smile, and he had about made up his mind to take it off, and lay it aside, but he said for the last ten days tobacco had been rush ing on them at the warehouse to that extent, that he just could not do it, so he was going to fasten that smile on good and keep it on till Christmas. It is a fact that the warehouca sales ait a «^i^’'pnse to the most hope ful. It is -tobacco and then it is some more tobacco. The farm ers have learned that Mebane is the place to biing their tobacco if they A^ant the best prices. Tne Junior PhiJathea and Baracca Class The Jiinior Phihithea and Baraca class of the M. P church spent a de- lighiful ever'n;? with Miss EfVio Tor- rell at her home south of Mebane hist Saturday Each one c .K'ed a iiinch and after a number of jjames the lunch was spread rid enjoyed by all pre sent, The se pre-sent were Misses Pattie, Loula, Mary, ZelUi {‘'id CJorrina Joho 6annie Sykes, Ora Allen, Della and Felcie Kinj^, Paulino and Boss Nicn- olson, Messers Pai' and Fletcher Smith, Lewis Nicholson. Eut^ene and Clarence 7’errell, Claude Kii*s:, Mnrvin Allen and Claude Kernoftdle. A ana M College News Several of the Local associations observed Cpllesre Day Oct. 4tn. and banquet meetinfjs. In Raleigh the Vy'aUe County asaocia^^ion had about 50 men at its meetinjf held in the College dininj^ hail. Supper was served and many enthusiastic talks were made. Mr. W. 1). Kaij^ffs Sec. and Treas. of Caraleiii^h Cotton Mill?, was elected president for t’le coming year. Meet ings were held at Gastonia, at Arling ton, at Norfolk, at New York Citv, and many other places. Dr. T. P. Harrison clean of fhe col lege, went to Gastonia on the 2nd to address th3 a^umn’ association in that progressive city. He reports a veiy interesting ? id helpful occasion. Two hundred Corn Club Boys have entered ahea ly the corn show at the State Fair. This number will be dou bled by next week. Many entries have been made for the pijr and poultry club shows. Pi of. Browne says, “we are endeavoring to emphasize the educa tional side by showing the different methods, cost of production, and per centage .made. Interesting experiment:' are now being carried on at the Iredell Jest Farms in regard to wheat raising for the Piedmont sections. You champion wheat growers should compare notes with them. Check np with them and see if you think they ?re right. World you judge of the lawfulness of the u.ilawiulness of pleasure, take this rile; Wh.'itever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your concie ice, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish of spiritual things; whatever increases the author ity of your body ever your mind—that thing, to you, is sin.—Excerpt from a letter to John Wesley by his mother. Mount Zion Baptist End Annual Session The Mount Zion Baptist Association closed its forty sixth annual session Oct. 8th. This body, which is compos ed of 51 Baptist churches embracing the territory of Durham. Orange and Alamance counties convened last week with Cross Roads Baptist church three i miies from Hillsboro. Although it j rained nearly all the time and the out- | look was not at all favorable. A large i delegation was present and a splendid session was reported. The largest number of baptisms in any one year in the history . of t’ne association Was reported. Dr C. P. Norris who has served as moderator tor a number of years de clined to serve again and the election of olTicers resulted in the following men being chosen; moderator Dr. W. R. L, Smith Chapel Hill, vice moder ator, Rev. J. F. Dutfie Hillsboro, clerk S. ,). Husketh, Durham; treasure J. N. Check Durham. Washington News Letter The United States now faces an acu^-^ diplomatic controversy with Turkey, in addition to its difficulties Witlf Great Britain, Germany and Mexico. Aroused by the accounts of Turkish atrocities against the Ameri cans, the State Department has in- sti acted Ambassador Morgenthau* at Constantinople, by cable, to inform the Turkish minister of foreign af fairs that public sentiment in the United States was so stirred by the reports of the Armeniah atrocities that unless the massacres ceased friendly relations between the Ameri can people and the people of Turkey would be threatened. Comes to Town. Col. John S. Cunningham of Durham was a visitor to Mebane on Saturday, and called on the Editor. Col. ningnam is widely known in North Car olina. He is an old' Binghamite and attended the Bingham School at Meb ane when he was a boy. He has many friends in this section. Col. Cunning ham has always taKen a deep interest | in farming and the farmers. He has j been President of the North | Carolina Agriculture Society of our j State Fair of Raleigh, President of the State Tobacco and Cotton Growers Association, as well as other positions. He speaks in the highest terms of Mebane, and of her business men and tobacco market. It is wonderful he said, the rapid growth of Mebane, and her Tobacco market, w'hich is a high compliment to her splendid citizenshipji enc'rgy anS honest business methods her j)eople. Our farmers, said Col. Cunningham, should grow their sup plies on the farm, and raise and cotton «s mon«?y crops, •^I’trkey already has let it be known that she will not permit interference by any foreign power with her so- called “Armenian policy” As Ameri can life or property has not been af fected, the United States government, without submitting an official pro test, merely informs Turkey of the effect continued Armenian atrocities would have upon the American pejple. Robert P. Skinner, the United States consul general in London, has been summoned to V/ashington for consultation on the trade situation ex- Cun- isting between the United States and Great Britain. In London the consul general has gathered much informa tion concerning British exports and re-exports, and it is this phase of the situation on' which State Department officials are particularly anxious to obtain first-hand information from him. this will make them happy and independent. “Watch Russia. She has been hur led out of Prussia like a storra; she will come back with an earthquake^ crash and Germany will deserve her fate. Germany has degraded war to the level of wanton murder; she has cruci fied chivalry, crippled human progress, dishonored humanity and throned in- taniy on high; she has loosed the for- ce-^ of lawnessness and lust and made the sanctity of home of no accoun*^; o:i her brazen brow she bears the brand of the beast; her hanils arf* red with murder; her bayonets are blunted on the breasts of unarmed peasants. Poland is trailing her hair in the dust like a widowed woman; Belgium is bleeding from every vein—her people | shambled or driven, like sheep without shepherd, into a homeless exile; her fields devastated her commerce blasted the flower of her manhood mouldering in heroic graves. But the wolf is in the toils; the trap is closing; the sian snow shall be the winding of the Kaiser’s hosts.” It is the intention of the administra tion to stand firm for all that has been demanded of Germany. There is a belief on the part of tome officials here that the German g»vernment would be quite satisfied to let the matter rest, now that it has been re moved from the acute s»tige, but it is declared that the United States will be a party to such a plan. Victorian Huerta, former dictator of Mexico, who was made a prisoner by the United States when he approa- clted«iUiie boitl«r-some months ago, pre sumably to organize an expeditionary force for operations south of the bor der, will not be released as was re tobacco i cently suggested by Cardinal Gibbons. ' Department of Justice officials assert that they have informrtion concerning Huerta’s interest in Mexican affairs that justify his detention until a pro visional government has been establish ed in Mexico. The understanding is that Huerta will not be released until the United States and the seven other American powers that comprise the Pan- Ameiican conference have cognized a goveriunent south of Rio-Grande. re- the t sprouts. This is done in either August September, October, November or De cember, The following May the whole mas-^ is set on fire. The fire kills all grass and weed see^s that there may be in the ground for a depth of several inches. The roots and stumps start a rapid decay after the fire kills them, and at the end of the first year we find everything from four inches and under rotted out. In a short time after this burning or as soon as the ground cools holes are stuck in the ground and corn planted ir the holes. This is known as “Stuck corn,” and is never cultivated. In some cases the butter weeds have to be cut down but these never occur where there is suf ficient growth on the land to kill the seeds during the burning. The second year all logs poles etc. which were left unburned during the first year are gathered up in large piles and burned^ Corn is again plan ted in the same way as in the first year.' Butter weeds aKso occurs to some extent the second year, but ^hese should be cut down. The third year the land is practically cleaned. A few stumps may be still left, but these should remain until the fourth jear. This land is now in a condition so it can be plowed and cul tivation begins. 'i'he fourth vear all remaining stumps should be removed, if possible, and by fifth year no stumps should be left on the land. This ends the period of clearing. Thus we see how these forrests are transformed into agricultural lands that are as good as are to be found any where in the country. It m be said that the returns from the corn crop the first year will cover the cost of clearing the land up until that time. Each following year the yield increas es a large percent until the process of clearing has been completed. Scienti fic agriculture now remains to be prac f ticed on these lands, and when this is dojie crops will be produced that will in no doubt excell.those of the western States. R. W. Howell, RE6UMATI0N OF SWAMP UNDOF BEAU FORT GQUNTr N. G. The reclamation i lands of Beaufort Germany did not arrive at a of concession without a series of flings and evasions. It was only when the firmness of American ot certain swamp County, N. C. is entirely a phase in the industrial de velopment of that section of the state. As a result we find hundrads of acres of land today in a high state of culti vation, which were formerly wooded lands beinv partly submerged in water. For the past fifteen years these swamp lands have been the main source of sheet i supply of logs for the various lumber i mills of the County, and now that most I of the merchantable timbers has ^been I removed they are rapidly beinT con verted into agricultural lands. The first step toward the reclama tion is to effect a complete drainagp of these swamp lands. This is accom- Rus- point I shuf- I insistence i piished with larje stream do^dges. was made manifest that the real causes of contention were yielded, showing that had Washington diplomacy been guided by the counsels of Mr. Bryan the Court of Berlin would have con tinued to deny full satisfaction and thus have forced on the United States With, these dbedges large canels are cut, usually having outlet to tide water, Laterel ditches are cut about five hundred^ feet apart, and -extend into the main outlet canals. This system of canals and ditches carry of all svrpius water after all remaining merchantable timber is removed the The Best Date To bow Wheat. As an average of two years results in sowing wheat at different dates at the Iredell Test Farm near Statesville it has been found that seedings made during the latter part of October yield ed 25 per cent, greater yield of grain than did seedings made during the first part of Diecember when other conditions were made the same as nearly as possible. This percentage in yield was equivalent to an avrage in crease of the two years tests of 8. 7 bushels per acre. Thse reults certainly emphasize the importance of seeding the wheat in the Piedmont Section during the latter part of October or as soon as possible after a light frost has occured. Starts to Attack Serbia The long threatened Austr-German offensive in the Balkans with the ad ded menace of Bulgaria, has begun in earnest. Almost simultaneously with the rupture of diplomatic relations between Sofia and the entente powers, an Austro-German army estimated at 400,000 men, with an enormons weight of heavy artillery, started to attack Serbia from the north and west and, according to the Berlin official report, crossed the Drina, Danube and Save rivers at many points and firmly es tablished itself on the Serbain side. Chapel Hill News The University celebrated her 122nd birthday on Tuesday, Oct. 12. Dr, J.H. Kirkland, Dean of Vanderbilt Univer sity’ delivered the annual addrefs;his subject being ”Patriotisni—A New Interpretation.” Following is an ex tract from Dr. Kirkland’s speech: Undouotedly there are new duties for the citizen of to-day. Obedience to authority and respect for law and or der do not sum up the demands made on us now. We should not stand aloof looking at government as an outside agency of external controle. We should rather regard it as the expres sion of our highest activities. The citizen of to-day must make positive contributions to the work of govern^ ment. Modern democracy means the application of comprehensive plans and efforts on a large scale, at public ex pense, under public supervision, for the promotion of human welfare. The interest of the state is the interest of society. For the settlement of all these prob lems patriotic citizens must exert themselves. One favorite method of working- to day is establishing societies for furnishing information on some special subject, for agitating in favor of some special reform. But while the most efficient service is nsually rendered by large societies, one indi vidual may sometimes start a move ment of national significance. Again and again there is one leader—man or woman—who starts a work of national importance and oecomes in a small community the radiant point of some special form of civic service. A poem may be written or an article for the daily paper, and from this may date a new era. Our nation was bom in a spirit of devotion. Our crovernment was wrought out with care and consecra tion. Our liberties have been main tained at a sacrifice of treasures and blood, and who knows how often still these expenditures may be called for to preserve our freedom? A Canadi an boy employed in the civic service lay dying in Rhodesia. With a smile on his face he said to his friends, “It is glorious to die for the expansion of the empire.” If it iu glorious to die for territorial expansion, why not also for the expansion of life, for the uplift t)f humanity, for freedom of the spirit, for the perfection of civic char acter. The Alumni Committee struck a new note this year. Hitherto it has conten ted itself with a mere invitation to all Carolina Alumni to come down to Chapel Hill for the exercises held there every October 12. Th's year the Alumni letter has been changed. The old invitation to come dowxi to Chapel Hill, of course, still holds good; the following extract from this year’s alumni letter shows the difference.”,.. ..We trust that wherever, throughout the State and country, as many as two or three alumni can come together that they will meet formally or informally, prefereably Monday night, Oct. 11th., and, in addition to the ususl pleasures of such gatherings, that they will have some direct and uneloquent dis cussion of University problems, and develop isome definite, practical plans for cc-operation with the University in its work- -We want the Alumni Asso. in every country in the state to be a sub-station for radiating the public service activities of the University into every home in the country.” ARRESTED IN GRAHAM the seeking of redress by some method deairing pro- cess. ! This, method of clearing swamp theNewpoit News Times-Herald ask ! land practiced in th?3 section of the “,What would have been the predica-' state is by tne. “Buining ard rotting of coercion or reprisal. Incidentally process’* This method is only practiced in the sections of Eastert N C. and can be traced bock for seventy five years. This process can only be car ried out successfully in deep soil black land. On either« sandy or clay land I the fire wi!l not kill the stumps, and V ; air will not penetrate the soil and rot j the roots, as a result of this brush will The greatest truths are the simplest: come up instead of weeds. The first year is spent in cutting down all remaining trees and small ment of this country today had Wilson taken Bryan’s advice, and what would Germany have thought of us? And what would selt-respecting Americans have thoujjht of themselves’—Va. Pilot. and so and A. are the greatest W. Hare.' men. — J. C i Idlers In the country store we find the id lers of a rural community. In the towns they are on the street corners. In the cities they are i n the clubs, amusement halls and public squares. Idlers among church members are on week-end excursions, at the motion picture shows and absorbed with pleas ures that lure them with secondary fascinations away from the church and its services. Country stores, street corners, parks, excursions, clubs, pleasures and good places of etertain- rnent are all very well, but if they make men idlers they are danger spots in hfe. Play that makes us effective for work is a boon, but carried beyond this limit and make an end in itself it becomes a bane to humanity. Boys Advertising for Ralff Made to Stop and Pick Up Circulars. This paper doesn’t know what kind of a law they have in Graham that for bids a Burlington’firm from advertis ing its business in that town, but last week Mr. Davis, manager of the Raiff Department store here, sent a couple of boys down there with circulars ad vertising his opening, and the, officer pinched them and made them go with him and pick up all the bills they had distributed in the town,—Burlington News. ^ A Chicago University professor, ad vancing the theory that “injuries, when death does not follow, result in regen eration of the tissues affected,” illus trates by saying: “A cracked pate that heals is good for the brain.” If this theory be well founded, a general cracking of pates among the faculty of Chicago University might result in coverting that institution into less of an asylum of freaks.