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VOI.UMN XI.
MOCKSVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 1910.
NUMBER 48
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A LITTLE NEWS
OF ALL KINDS
Qtaetn
All Over the Country as Gathered
Frcrn Our Exchanges Many Things
Tel J u a Few Words.
It is stated that Vice President
eberman will speak in North Caro
lina during the campaign this fall.
Chicago physicians are interest
ed in an entraordinary case the
birth of twins each one of which
two well developed teeth.
W H. Howell has been appoint
i TT i J -
(i postmaster at Lavm&ou vice
Dr. E. Q- Houston.
,Vork has begun on a new pas
senger station at Marion. It will
cost about $15,000.
The office of the Western Union
Telegraph Company in Asheville
was robbed Friday night of about
90 in fas b .
Wilkesboro Patriot: Reports
from various sections of this coun
ty all iDdicate that tne prospects
of a large wheat yield are good.
The board of aldermen of Spencer
have adopted a curfew law. Boys
nader 15 are forbidden on the
streets at night.
Miss Ruth Adams, 16 years old,
died in Columbia, S. C, last week
from blood poison, which resulted
from a slight scratch made on her
wrist by a belt buckle.
Twenty-five Italian miners, ac
cused of mtimidating the officials
ol the Outlook Mountain Coal and
Coke Company's mines at Durham,
GaM were arrested Thursday by
State troops and forcibly deported,
thout trial.
After IwagJvy .fjr a year Rock -11.,
has resumed business
til forty saloons, but these are
it "model" kind. No treating is
illowed and it is unlawful for the
saloonkeeper to have a chair or a
fee lunch counter in his place.
Marvelous Discoveries
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chines, telegrams without wires,
terrible war inventions to kill men,
jand that wonder of wonders Dr.
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Finds Fountain of Youth.
Senator Robert IV Tavlnr nf
Tennessep S!)Va Via lino -V .-. A -4-V. sv
lonntain of ttetnal youth. He
W that he has disco vdred. how
fc rnav i nn -
j x w -y ears.
1 am absolutely certain
that
"llu me aid and
consent of iuy;
pistituents in
Tennessee! I can
liv
l'e to be hundred vps.fr nlrl V sairt
the Senator. . '
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"just this wav. Ti-mP flies
-atuere in Wftshino-t-nn that.
le cer
tury mark is reached, or j
. 'cwueu, i snoum say,
withont a fpllnw l. si- t
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av'e been hprp th
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lUeS not con. ,
tm L11 tnree weeKs.
Campaigns for tp-IcphVi mino
The mSt ast0'uri?iDgrapidityi
.. j -ue term ota senator is
but I tt,ok itJsall .i
iuiuh iue cerm rase:
I HUNTLEYlffl
I nome and Umce furmshers
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Corner StfoVand
Winston-SaleniX
from about October until May and
then another campaign.
"If my constituents just keep on
sending me back to Washington 1
shall never die. A Seriatorship is
the fountain of eternal youth. Old
Ponce de Leon came along too soon
with his quest. He should have
been elected to the Senate and re
elected continuously as long as he
wanted to keep on coming to
Washington, and he would have
located the fountain of youth."
Washington Times.
Back to the Farm.
Editor Green, of the Carolina
Union Farmer, uever did take
kindly to the habit some people
have of giving advice to the far
mer. In this week's issue of his
paper, he says: '-When you see
the homes of farmers provided
with electric lights, water works,
automobiles, negro servants in the
home,, beautiful aud well-kept
lawns, splendid residences, lux
uriantly furnished, farmer's wives
and families going off to summer
resorts in summer time and to
winter resorts in winter time, it
will be a budding sign that the
sons of toil are beginning to get,
for the first time in history, a fair
reward for their labor, and then
you'll see some of the folks who
are trying to convince the other
fellow that he ought to move back
to the farm, going that way them
selves, but not until then, " Not
a bad point at all but if the farm
ers continue to "come along" the
way they have been doing the past
two years, the ideal ; conditions
which editor Green conjures up
will materialize and the "back, to
the fairn'A rush will take on the
nature, somewhat, of a stampede.
In fact, we have here in Mecklen
burg right now some of the very
sort of farmers' homes The Caro
lina Union Farmer is talking
about. Charlotte Chronicle.
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caller in the back yard, than to
sit and hear people try to brace
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ancestry. y '
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" North Carolina
WHY I LIKE THE
LIFE ON FARM
A Grain Belt Schoolma'am Who is
Progressive and Institutes a Contest
to See Which of Her Pupils Can
Write the Best Essay.
How to keep the boys and girls
on the farm! This is the problem
which cod fronts every section of
agricultral America. It is a seri
ous problem, but one which is not
impossible to solve.
In one of "the ninety-nine coun
ties of Iowa there, is a school
ma'am who is doing her full share
toward solving this problem. She
is making real country schools of
the rnrarchools, teaching country
things in a manner to make them
appeal to the country folks. This
school ma'am argues that every
school house should be sj conduct
ed that "an car of corn, a german
inaiiou test box. a good agricultral
paper a jd a country boj and girl
will feel quite at home." She be
lieves that when this comes to pass
"you will not have to urge your
boys to stay on the farm."
But this is not all. Farm life
must be made attractive to the
boys and girls so that they will be
eager (not simply passivly willing)
to remain. The Iowa school ma'am
Miss Jessie Field by name, hit on
the plan recently of asking her
pupils to tell in writing just wheth
er or not they liked farm life, and
if they liked it, why. She had
impressed on the children's par
ents long bofore that all work and
no play made Jack a dull boy and.
Jill a bad girl and had converted
t he parent ao that- t hey -T let" her
pupils have their own ' pets and
amusements and even their own
seperate tracts of land to cultivate
and reap the profits from. So it
is not to be wondered at that when
the children' of her school set to
work on the essay they realized
just how pleasant farm life is and
readily told why they liked it and
would be loath to exchange it for
city life. In order to stimulate
interest Miss Field offered of couple
of prizes, one for the girl writing
the best essay and one for the boy
writing the best one. The strange
coincidence is that a brother aud
find sister won the hist places.
They were both iu the eighth
grade and are good examples of
the sart of young folks reared in
progressive rural communities
which have up-to-date country
schools.
"This great movement to make
the boys and girls, appreciate the
possibilities in the country is one
of the most vital problems before
us today," declares Miss Field,
and none will dispute her work.
The- prize-winning essays prove
that she has opened the eyes of
the children of her section so that
they see the advantages, of farm
life over city life.
The prize winning essay of the
boys, written by Warren Fleming,
is as follows: :
"For many reasons I like to live
on the farm. Earm life is fidl of
exciting adventures. The robin
sings his" first song- on the farm.
The grass begins to get green, the
farmer is turning over the ground
and the first thing you know sum
mer is here, the pleasantest of alU
"Early in 'the -morning the farm
er boy la out whistling, ana singing
as loud as he can, not disturbing
auyone. He does his chores, oes
to the house and eats hia breakfast,"
and is olf, hard to tell wiiere. on
enjoying himself. How could ? he
hoin hut, he healthv. nothing
v I
good, pure water to drink, fresh
air and good food! ' '.- ;
"In the spring the little colts
are broken to lead, ed sugar; and
are petted until they are gentle.
In the winter they are taught to
ride and drive. We i have two
co't brought up in . this "manner
that will do a great 'Ideal of the
light work this year. And more
than that, I broke them myself,
not because we needed them it
was just a pleasure. They were
broken single to a home-made cart,
which could not have been made
any where except on n farm.
"Town life is all right, but I will
take the farm everytime. I can
can proye that farm life is pleas
ant because a small boy was Visit
ing one of pur neighbors last sum
mer and came to where we were
working. It happened we bad a
gentle horse with us we were not
fusing. 1 helped mm on. but he
was harder to get off than on. In
stead of goinn to the well near-by
to drink he rode about a half mile
just for a ride.
"Now I have been telling the
bright side of farm life, but it can
be improved yet. The country
has more money than the town.
Why can't they afiord the large
large house, autos and such fine
things? W'hen the sarmers get
intereited in good roads, and " drag
them the autos will come to the
country. Some people think count
ry schools are not as good as town
schools, but if they are not they
soon will be, if they keep improv:
ing as they have been. ..
"Country children can have
many more pets than town" chil
dren because it is cheaper to keep
them in the country. What is
there a child can have a better
time with than a Shetland pony,
which so many have! la the
winter the children go snating to a
near by pond, go hunting and en
joy themselves most all the time,
t "On j Sundays the ' farmer 'will
hitch to Ihe. carriage and take" his
family to church. They will go to
Chautauquas, theaters, fairs and
wherever they please, jet their
work goes on. The farraes has
fruit the whole year round where
the people in town have to buy it.
"Where do most of the great
men come from ? Is is not from
the farm? Yes, and they are not
ashamed of it, either. A girl
needs never be ashamed to meet
any of her friends if she is with a
country boy, lor the country peo
ple can afford to dress and do dress
as well as the town people. I like
to live on a farm because we have
all these advantages and it will
take a person who has a great : deal
of control over me to get me off a
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farm.
"My father gave me about four
acres to farm this year which I in
tend to tend, with the colts before
mentioned. I intend to tend this
mornings and evenings and Satur
days and go to school besides. I
have already tent for a seed cata
log. I intend to make a hundred
dollars or more off this toward a
fund to pay for a course at Ame8.
Then I will be more able to tell
you why I like to live on a farm."
The girls' prize was won by
Lizzie Fleming, who makes out a
n-ood cause for the country in this
o -
manner:
"I like the farm because we have
good fresh air to breathe. We
have pure food to eat and know it
is pure because we raise most of
what we eat on the farm. Another
ting 1 like about the farm is that
I cau get puc and sing and yell as
loucfcas I wish and disturb no one."
. "I milk three cows every morn
incr and it heems the louder I sing
the more milk they give. After !
I, get this done I can sit and eat
hearty breakfast of pancakes and
beefstake. I like farm life because j
I can get out add ride -borsejaand
feed calves and do. eucbfvjprki j
while girls my age in 4towtfv are!
ek&r in bed or?t udy ing. ''I like
holidays and a" great many times
girls in town caa't have these.
- "I like to live1 on the farm in
winter because I an coast and
skate. I like to live on the farm
because we can keep horses, ponies,
cattle, sheep and hogs.- I like
meat and if you' live on the farm
you can have pleanty of it, while
GREENSBORO FOR
THE CONVENTION
The Republicans Have Decided on
Greensboro as the Place for the
Republican State Convenetion to
Be Held August 10th.
.The Republican State executive
committee met in Greensboro Fri
day and decided to bold their State
convention in Greensboro August
10tb On the grst ballot the vote
stood 4 for Asheville, 4 for Greens
boro and 3 for Charlotte. Ou the
second ballot the committee voted
unanimously for Greensboro.
The attendance upon the meet
ing was large, only two members
being absent. The convention will
elect a State chairman. Chairman
Adams announced a ear ago that
he would retire at the 'dose of his
present term. The cou test over
the 'State chairmanship promises
to iuterestiug. - It is geuerally
understood that National Commit
teeman Duncan wants it, but
Congressman Morehead is said to
be very much opposed to Duncan
and bis faction is expected to put
up 2k hard figbtagainst the natiouat
committeeman,, .
if you get it in town yon have to
buy it. -
vie is also pleasant fo live on the
farm because you can keep chickens
and they run around and aren't on
anyone else's ground and this way
yoii may always have fresh eggs.
"In the country the taxes are
much lower than they are in town,
which' is - a great benefit to the
lower.elas8 of people.' If tbe farm
isn't;' all right, why does Miss
Field say, 4 4 Keep the boys and
girls ou thearm ?"
Would it not be a good idea to
inaugurate similar contests in other
counties of the grain belt ? Farm
life is superior to city life and pos
sibly a contest among the rural
pchool pupils on thissubject would
awaken the an interest an lead to
an appreciation now conspicuous by
their absence.
The suggestion has already been
adopted in. several sections of the
grain belt and those who have fol
lowed Miss Field's example have
secured a number of articles and
esays which show the writers to
be enthusiastic over the advantages
of farm life. For instance, here is
an article written by a fifteen-year-old,
boy in an Illinois school. . He
He points out the superiority of
farm life" over the city life in a
manner that leaves no room fori
quibbling:
"' "Some cousins
from the city
visited our place during the holi-
days last summer and we certain-
ly had lots of fnn. They think it
is better to live on a farm than in
the ' city because you learn more
about stock and crops and 'have
far more' fun. I think a town boy
is greener than a country boy, be
cause you can make him believe
almost any tbiug. We told our
cousins that we were growing
oranges in the back field and off
then went to gef some. Now you
know we grow corn in our back
field, and if they didn't look and
look all day in that corn field, for
FOR THE BEST VALUES IN
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Mock - Bagby -
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; winston-salem;
oranges. My brother aud myself
simply hinlicd -all day, but we
nearly got afraid they would get
lost iu our back eighty. When
they came up at night they sa'cl
that the oranges weren't ripe and
we said we were sorry, we thought
they were.
"Once wc had a big fat calf in
the barn and we put a halter on
him and I gave the rope lo one rt
my consins and then we opened tho
door. lie went down the lane fo
fast that you conld hardly pee hi in,
and he wasali out of breath. We
ask him why be didn't let go, bnt
he said he was going bo fast flint
he couldn't let go. One of our big
thrce.year old colts was standing
right close to the feuce iu th
pasture. He pf-emtd quiet and
nice, so I told my coain to climb
up on the fence aud get on hi
back. This seemed to intciest tho
colt; he started off to beat time
with nothing to hob onto but tho
mane. When he vcnt twice around
the field he was. all tirr.d out and
my cousin's pants were all wet
with sweat, so he said he didn't
like to ride horses. So jou-gro
lots of tun on the farm romf front
having greenics iroin the city visit
you. We were awfull3T frightened,
one day last summer though, when
my cousin picked up a little pig
and started to the house with it.
The old mother pig came bounding
arojirid: the corner of the straw
stack add gave a bark that yon
could hear a mile. He dropped
the little pig right flat in the mud
and got through the gate jnst in
time. An old sow is smarter than
a city boy. . 1
. f I like making cider better than
anything elte on the farm. Wrc
have a ten-acre orchard and we
make about twenty barrels of cider
every year. it turns to vinegar
just a little too quick to suit me,
but I gues9 that can't be helped.
We get twenty-five cente a gallon
for our videgar when it gets good
and sour.
"We have Aberdeen Angus cat
tle on our place and they are good
ones. too. A big feeder bought
some Bteers from us last year and
showed them at the Chicago Inter"
national and won first prize. I
saw them when they were starting
to the show, and say, they were
fat ! One of them looked throuph
the fence and I think he knew mo
because he fairly smiled."
A few more contests such asMi
Fisld's and a fe v more articles .if
the three here set forth and .farm
bovs and girls would begin t
realize that they have the best of
the argument after all aud would
not envy their city cousins for a
moment.
City boys and girls are too anx-
lous lo exenange piacea wuu mrir
cousins in me country. warmer
and Stockman.
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