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0 J VOL. XXXII M0UJV1 AIRY, WORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY. DECEMBER JYO. 22 6 I) 1911 VOTE OFTEN On T.iidv will cret Lady will get 10. Three Ladies will get $5 each at the close of Pens Pleasing Con test which ends 1 P. M. Dec. 20. Just two more weeks in which to secure votes or to vote for your favorite in Penn's Pleasing Contest. Make each day count and deposit the votes in Ballot Box every opportunity. You know you want your Favorite to share in the Grand distributing of $100.00 at end of Contest. You know Pcnns satisfying VroJuctsare the host that your money can buy. You know all tho better dealers of Mt. Airy and Vicinity sell Pcnns Tobaccos. You know the best is none too good for you so why shouldn't you VOTE OFTEN. The following shows the order in which the Contestants stand relative to votes polled up to last Saturday night. Miss Ella Doss -Miss Allie Marshall Mrs. ft. M. Sparser Miss Lillian Urannock Mrs. W. A. Chappell Miss Alice Ayers ' Miss Sarah Banner Miss Viola Nichols Miss Alma Banner Misg Dinkey Mourer Miss Briggs Prather Miss Mary Fulton Miss Aline Gallaway Miss Myrtle Tilley Miss Minnie Stack Miss Mildred Richton Many of the Contestants are putting forth much effort at this time. Everyone who loves Real Money must get busy and poll votes the few remaining days of the Contest. One lady will get $50.00, one Lady will get $25.00, one Lady will get $10.00 and three ladies will get $5.00 each. There is no way of obtaining votes except from Penns No 1, Sun Light Sun Cured. Red J Chewing and Queen Quality Smoking tobacco. Each and every 5c piece carries one Vote. Your friends and relatives doubtless use one of these clean tobaccos. Get their votes and see that'" Your Favorite" gets one of the Grand Awards just mentioned. i m n I m 1 1 1 1 j OUR STATE FARM News and Observer. Raleigh, Nov. 30. North Oaro- lina certainly has every reason, in me .-uue. mey iiie u.cll to be proud of the management j employe I to some extent to oi' her State convicts. In fact other work at large, under con tv,u m.-maffiment has become an 1 tract, but their control has nev- obiut-leMoa , and some States er passed away from tiie prison ( tm.s an1 UIUlergixwth- Three have; .sent experts here to look ; authorities and this is the secret ; thousand acres of the farm are into it. There has Wen a most , of the absence of improper treat- jm cultivation ami now that the fortunate avoidance of cruelty ment of this class of prisoners, i proat (1;ke nas een put the to convicts, or even the suspicion The penitentiary in the old days, janj thus dmed will be add of it, and in only one ease has say from 1868 to about thirty Lj tt the parn, jt j3 interesting this charge ever been made and years ago, received all the eon-to kmw tjie gute js tne 'in that one it was shown to be victs, but at that date the sys-; .lri,vst fanner in all iU lxumd withont foundation. tem of county conviets came n-'rv There are 2,000 acres of ih'i wri-.r tv n yeats a.70, at the request of the then Oover-, Charles B. Avcoek. wrote the story of the penitentiary, frotu its inception iai 18i7 to that date. As a matter of fact, while the eeneral opinion has been thaO the penitentiary of North j Carolina, was originated by the Republicans, it was really duo to two men, one of tluni 1 North Carolinian. Governor Jonathan M. Worth, the other a New York-1 er. Gen. Daniel E. Sickles, U. S. 1 A., then in command of this military district. That was be fore the days of reconstruction, "but the penitentiary was in full sw;ng, this establishment follow- inir the recommendation of Gov ernor Worth, who was of tJie old regine, though iai new times. There was graft in the very earliest years of the penitentiary, that is for a year or two, but there was never cruelty to con-j victs. The first idea was to em-j ploy all the convicts on contrttct labor in the great prison at Ral-: e.igh, but happily this plan was at a very early day abandoned are employed on the State farm. discipline and all things which and the use of convicts in the This property, embracing 7,000 ; make for the betterment of pris eotwtniction of railways began acres, was purchased from the J on life. The writer has spoken in 1873. It is interesting ti note Futrell family. It was originally ! of the farm In-big a not.uhly fine the fact that, so far as the writ-! one of the farms helonsrirg to investment, and here are. s. me er can discover, this was the first use of State convicts for this purpose in the United States. The convicts graded the North Carolina part of the Asheville & rP'irTantnirg uaiiway ami prae- tienliy all of the Western NWh ! Imnds to cover this am unt. It which pulled hard upon the pub Carolina Railway between Old j may truly be said that tho State lk teat, but all this is now but Fort ami its terminus. They jitter made a better investment, a memory. Wheuthewritera.sk iave done a world of work on I for the farm is a remarkable , ed what the farm was worth at S50 One Lady VOTE OFTEN ii i 4 1 1 M i Mil I ' Jl the railway grading, covering a third of all the railway mileage . . , . mi t t v u.- au-.l nee tin 11 t.u p m- tentiary has been, so to s-ik, very much legislated against, be cause the convicts in about sev- enty-five counties are sentenced to work on the publie roads, ana thus over 1,800 are employed. Naturally the counties take the pick of the flock ami so there are sent to the penitentiary very many of the sick, the afflicted j and the aged, and only those ' who cannot be used on the roads; of course excepting the long term conviets, who must be sent to the penitentiary. Thus it comes about that of the peniten tiary population about one-fourth arc decrepit, yet with this very remarkable? drawback the remain ing three fourths are so usefully and so profitable employed that they give the State a net profit of $100,000 annually, How do they do this? is the question the reader naturally asks. There are about seven hundred of them, and while a good many are emplovel on railways, about four hundred ; the richest man m North Caro- br.a, or for that matter the en- tire south. James C. Johnson of Edenton. who by his will left it to Mr. Futrell. The State paid l$67,(KK) for the farm, issuing will get $25 One I dm tod rWv Fr. Aho past three years it has been under the j pliod alt the yea.r round, amrlfO, direcrion of the superintendent of ' COO pounds of pork. The herd the penitentiary, Capt. J. J.jof hogs now numbers 500 nnd Laughiiighouse, and it is no flat-j tery to speak in highest terms of his management, and to say he has been assisted by most zeal ous and capable men in direct charge of the farm. Ten years ago, in a great freshet, many miles of the dyke, which was reared mainly befere the civil war, was swept away and 2,500 acres of land reuden-d useless. This land has grown up in young t: jamj n timber, most of it of the finest type, ami a saw-mill, well equipped, furnishes frcin it all the needed lumlef of every kind. It is interesting to go to this great farm and see what a mo di! it is. Just as the central prison at Raleigh is the admir ation of every visitor for its cleanness, good order, the fine behavior of the convicts, their appreciation of what is done for them, and tho good treatment given them, just so does this peni tentiary1 farm impress itself in every way upon all who seei it. iTo show how great a farm it is it may be stated that there were this year 1,500 acres in cotton, 1,000 in corn, 400 in Spanish pea nuts, 150 in oats, 60 in clover, 15 in sweet potatoes, 15 in veget ables, etc. There are three cot tdn gina on the farm and these turn out from twenty-five to thirty bales daily. Everything is as neat as a pin, not only show ing skill, in cultivation but the results of a study of hygiene, things which show what this divi- dend-payer means to the State. As already said, it brinfrs into the State treasun $100 1'CO un , nually. It used to be a fart that the penitentiary! was a thimr this date, the reply was made that it practically reprvsvnrteed a million elollara to North Carolina s a dividend-producer. Thr has ben expended upon it in the rebuilding of the dyke, in their seven and a half miles of length, $:'0.000, convicts doing the w"rh, an now the dykes along the five mile frontage of the farm on the Roanoke river are twen ty f.-ef in height, the other two and a half miles being branehj dyke-, and of these two miles are to be raised eighteen, inches higher. Today the dykes have a greater heieht than ever before. Then, too .there has been expend ed diring the last three years 450,000 for permanert wnnrovc mentn, in the way of buildings, etc., and there has been a splen did installation of the very b'-st type of machinery. Yet the rcrwb'r should bear in mind tliat of the 100 conviets on the farm, at least one-third are weaklings, for tho reason stated at the be ginning of this article, namely, that three-fourths of the coun ties send to the penitentiary the "rejects" because they are un able to do any hard work. It should be borne in mind that the peniteMtiary msnwigemert has put ort th farm the very best hors s and mules to be had, and the number of these is run 175, t be increased by next spring to 200. as 2,500 acres of reclaimed land will be in cultivation and added to the wide streteh of the farm. It is no wonder that Gov ernor Kitehln is very proud of the record ef thei penitentiary in general and that of this farm. Just think of the crops grown there, gentle reader, and took at these figures. This year there will be at the very lowest esti mate 5,000 barrels of corn, 1.U00 baK-3 of cotton, 20,000 bushels of Spanish peanuts, quantities of ISVafta. ami .aI .-k J - - a I- 1 - n A C.K . tT there are 150 cattle, part ef thes being in a dairy, new and up-to-date, with the best machinery, etc. To show what good fann ing, thoughtful farming, head work in every way means, it may be stated that while 120 conviets used to operate 120 sin gle plows, now CO cultivators, each drawn by two mules, do far more than the work of 1. 0 plows, and the sixty men operating them do the work of 150 ordi narily. Thus in this ma't rj alone a saving of $100 a day is brought about. The farm is a sort of a world in itst-lf, with its complete equip ment, and the new buildings im press au observer immediatel', including- model stables, barns, re pair shops, machinery, sheds, dairy-, etc., and it is seen that not only has the $50,000 been well invested but that an objtct lesson of high class has been s t lefore the fanners of the Stat". In fact it can be tnily said that thi farm has a definite value in this one particular, along with the State test farms. Last win ter the Legislature sent a eun mittee to investigate the faim. It is interesting to know that this committee reported that the true value of building improve ments had been considerably un derestimated by tho raanagemei t and it said the only things'need ed to make the farm absolutely complete were an electric light plant, a water supply plant and a railway to Tillery station, on the Atlantic Coast Line Railway. The penitentiary management is on the point of making arrange ments for the eonstniction of this railway, the grading to be done of the four mil of lim by the convicts; the road to be equipped and operated by the Atlantic Coast Line. As a mat ter of fact, there is a great amount of freight from the farm as may well be imagined. The penitentiary! management is al'-o considering; the elcvtne light and water supply plant qucstior-s. On the fami are forty miles of roads and these are very attractive. Gasoline engines are usi-d in many ways, and these, prove to be a great labor-saver. A c.re ful study is made of every means of utilizing machinery anel of making every convict, by means of such machinery, do the work of from two to three men, easier ami better than they could do. Now then, tho practical side of life and m mage-men t on this farm has been looked at quite closely and the gentle reader attention is directed to the very great care of the health of the convicts employed there. Physi cians who practice im that section, largely among the negnx-s (so a true basis of comparison might he hael) were asked to raak re ports as to the mortality among citizens of the farm. These re-' ports made this year, cover 430 persons, and show that among thew there were seventeen! deathc. Within the farm loundary, out of 400 convicts and sixty em ployees, there were only two deaths in lf00, the same num ber in 1910 and thrve in 1911, of these three in 1911 two being men over 75 years of age. It should be borue in mind that the convicts have, all been inspect ed for hookworm, all infected treated, this disease eliminated, and as Superintendent Laughing house puts it in his earnest way w( riderful results have been brought about. It was found that twenty per cent of the con victs on the farm had hookworm. It is easy to see why the con victs have such small percentage been given to the water supply, the only drinking water being from driven wells ami it is fre quently testeel for purity ; the prisonerst are inspected every day and those sick are immediately given treatment and exactly the proper diet. For example one of the farm sights is a pigeon-house, in which there are 2,000 of theise birds, the squabs being useel in the hospitals, of which there are two. Outside of the prison grounds if a negro is taken sick. - . . .. . ,. A L. nni puciuutuui, aiKi u. Hie phypician says he must not be given any solid fooel, his family will, nine times out of ten, iy they have nothing but ordinary meat and, bread (hevg meat and corn bread) to give him. From what has been stated with absolute frankness about this greatest of all farms in North Carolina, it is easy to see that it stands not only for" the best there is in fanning, but for the Vst there is in tho treat ment of convicts. The plan of handling convicts in so many countries and in so many States in this Union is to, keep thim IcK-ked up in a prison sometimes under the silent system, by which they are never allowed to sjwak, while in North Carolina the convicts get fresh air and txitdoor life, for in the penitenti ary at Raleigh there are only a handful and these are lookeel af ter with a care and thought ful ness which merits the hightst praise. No outsider in the state knows as much of the manage ment of North Carolina conviets as the writer, and very luitunilly se, for he has for thirty, years seen these people aiul has watch ed every stage of devedopme-nt and management. It can; certain ly be haid that convict labor un der contract in buildings ii wrong. In other States, where this methenl prevails, light is breaking and it is certainly very gratifying to know that North Carolina saw that light! so early and that it has done so we-11 by its convict population. If one goes to the penitentiary itself or the farm ami talks privately to the prisoners, as the writer fre quently does, it eloes not take any tune to make the fact plain thatl the convictsi appreciate what is being done for them, and it ought to make Superintendent Laughinghouse, Warden T. P. Sale and the officers in charge ef the fann very happy men to know the part they are taking in letting the world know and the prisoners know, toe that though a man is a convict he is yet a man. So the conditioiiH at prison and at farm alike tnd to develep manhood. It will pay !anv tanner to maKe a i.e,t to the penitentiary and see how admirably; everything is ordered ai:d how many good punts' he em., discover; points which will be of real value to him. FRED A. OLDS. LYNCH BOYS GET TEN YEARS. Ernest and Marshall Lynch Tried at Stuart and Sent up For Ten Yean For Killing1 John Ins core. The trial of Ernest anel Mar shall Lynch for the part they played in the killing of John In so ore last summer was held at Stuart last week and occupied the Court's time from Monday until Friday. A young man nam ed Sara Greenwood is yet to 1h trieel for his part in this un fortunate affair. The Lynch boys were eaedi sent to the stit prison for ten years. The Lynch boys are young men and up to the tim of the pres ent) trouble there hael never been aught agaiust them. One Satur day afternoon last summer tho young men who played a part in this sad tragedy came to this town and started for home. In- score was here with a lead of lumber and was on his way te his home just over the Lia.e in Virgimaa. The Lynch boys had had some) trouble with him alout a neighbor girl and we under stand that for some time both young men had been paying their respects to her and that this was the cause of tho trouble. Anyway there was bad feeding between them. The Lynch boys were batching it on a farm on the North Carolina side, anel had begun a tobacco crop. They left town on the Saturday afternoon in ejuestLoni before young Inseora left, and when he came along they were by the roadside on the Virginia side. Sam Green wood was with them. Inscore'g frieaids claimed that they had hfcul gone over the line and weirs waiting for him. Anvway when hft came alomr oa his varon th raised the- question of their trou ble and a fight followed bx which one of the Lynch boys ad vanced on Inscoro with a stick. Inscore in his wagon drew his pistol ami shot the yJung man through the arm. At this stags of the fight the other Lynch hov rlri'W his nistrvl and shnt Tn score through the heart, killing hhn instantly. The Lynch boys quit their crop and dodgeel tha officers for weeks. One night last summer they had a meeting planned at which they were to make arrangements for leiving the country. They were to meet at their old bachelor epiartera and lay plans for the future. They talkeel to some of their supposed friends anel their plans were given to the officers. Depu ty sheriff Oscar Meaitlay was on tlie spot before night a? when they came in aft-, r dark and were sitting in, their1 Lonely quar ters planning for the fut.ire he suddenly appeared on the seen and ujset all their plans for freedom. They were lodged ia jail and their trial resulted a above stated. Honor Roll For Rusk School. Require-ments of pupil to be on Honor Roll: Average daily grades 90 percent. Attendance 100 per cent. I)ejortmcnt 100 per cent. First graele: Charlie Dunigan, Vemie Phillips, Maud Draughn. Second grade: Maude Key, Ramon "White. Third grade: Bessie Phillips, Jessie Bass. Viririe Draughjin. Bertha Lane. Fourth grade: Lei a, Phillips. Fifth grade: May Drauehn,. Clyde and Grace Coekerham. Sixth grade: Lola. Bass, Stella McMicklc. Seventh grade : Paul Bunch, Etta Draughn. Nora Atkins and Maggie Cox, Teachers. County Unicn Mertiuf. The Surry County Union will mee't at the Cexirt House in Dob son, Friday night ami Saturday, December 22 and 23, 1911. It 'is earnestly requesteei that every local in the county send a full delegation, as there is much im portfljit business to come before thLi meeting. Officers for th coming year are to be elected. Fraternally, J. M. Brink ley, Sec. ,