RURAL SECTION SHOULD
HAVE PHONE SYSTEM
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Handicap to People of Sorry
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'darting Ms boataaaa iMilaiki towt
mi naturally tola (feat K Is a Iwt
who ii?f just out or town, no tninxi
' bady AmnrM in mttIn for tin
raaaAn that aa faw ynpl» aaa ba
n«M by ykm. T« ataka tha town
ayatoai mnpht* linaa most will oil
into tha wU) Wit la and provida
• itfpmWih ratal wwkti Wa m
not l uatoadla^ that it to tha duty of
tha local aaaqtaay to MM thaaa linaa,
hot ontfl thto to don* thair local aarr
lea will ba limited «a a moch amatlar
territory than It ahoaM ba.
To apaah frankly about tha matter,
wo bava haard It aaid that tha naatij
ritlaaaa ara nat willing ta pay tha
prica tor kaapinf ay a good phona aya
tam into thair aactlona. Wa ara not
iurpri»ad that thay ara not willing
to pay for tha Mad of aarvica that
thay hara had ap to thto tima. It
appaara to ba a waato of manay to
pay fa* aaeh aarrtoa. Bat if ear
rural aactlona eoald ba raarhad by
phona linaa that ara aa constructed
and kapt ap aa to ba of raal aarrtoa
than wa baltora tha eitlaana oat la
tha eoantry will raadlly pay a taaaan
abla prtoa far tha aantna.
Tha Maa of a town at thto aiaa and
tha adjolatag country dtotrtote to a
reflect loa on tha goad baainaaa jadg
mant of tha whale people. Tha phaaa
to a madarn nacaaalty. It ran hardly
ba dtopaaaad with. It to aa badly
naadad aa tha good road sad tha alaa
trto linaa. H to tha vary Ufa at baai
F Thto to a stibjeot of aseagfc Impor
tance to gat tha attaattoa af any af
oar public apiritad eitlaana or of oar
rorornniwiL Thara cartainly ahoaM
ba aoate way ta reUera tha altaattaa
hara. far tha aaada ara aaeh aa to da
rn and it.
MEXICAN REVOLUTION
VIRTUALLY OVER.
C nnn—«l Troop* Hot.
Quollod ik* Iwhttmn
, Forooe ud (My Scattered
Budt of Guerillas Loft.
Mexiee City, Feb. tl.—The t*to
lotion la Mexico has virtually, bam
stars pad eat, according to statement!
made at tW war department today.
It was aiaartsd that the federals, now
baring no important ntaj force* to
light, will he engagod hereafter ia th«
work of extern inatipg the guerillaa
who art marauding in eeveral statee
With the occupatioa of Moralia,
Patscuro and Urue pan, H was added,
the state of Michaocan has been prac
tically pacified. The rebels there ar«
withdrawinr into Goerrero and Jal
iaco. The rebel general, Manual
Diegues, ia said to hare completely
vanished with all his forces, and th«
federal General Escobar is chasing
General Salvador Alvarado and Col
onel Christlano Ansaldo and their
rebel forces hare evacuated Ciudad
Guzman, withdrawing to cliaa, and.
according to oftcial source!, the oc
cupation of Ctadad Gasman ia ex
pected shortly. The rebel* are said tc
' 7iff a' MgWfcial ^TulT AgSh
t
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URGE DANIELS TO GET IN
RACE.
Raleigh. Feb. 22.—With almoat a
(•Mtil uwiptpw mAnnwrt,
friends of JoMfkM Duitb an vrg
in* that ha declare himself for th»
Democratic presidential nomination
and altow than to concentrate their
activities toward tendering hint the
j vote of the State. •
No word has cone from Mr. Dan
iels, who is aow in Philadelphia, but
ha has been quoted in press dis
patches aa having no information in
regard to any boom that might have
started for him in New York or else
where.
At least one widely known and in
fluential citiian of the state has de
clared his Intention of summoning
friends of Mr. Daniels in a movement
in his behalf. This was postponed
this week It la understood, until the
day of the meeting of the Democratic
state executive committee, February
I*
Few in Two C*ro
Greanvilla, 8. C., Feb. 22.—In pro
portion of practicing physieiaaa to
population North and South Carolina,
with North Dakota, rank at the foot
of the liat ef states, said Dr. H. W.
Chaaa, prssidwrt of ths University ef
North Carolina in aa addrsaa hare be
fore a meeting of the Tri-gtate Medi
cal society, at which
ysiciana fro North „
Carolina and Virginia.
jraa for North Carolina,"
aaid Dr Chaaa, ara «• phyeietaa to
Utt
Dm te the lack of hoapHal faefli
M par ce* of the medical eta
* from Worth Carolina, Mk
nd Virginia have to g« to
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Wm ~r i ftiiriiB
; stock, was b«h>« investigated by
the
•4 wi!ltnrn*M to
fie provisions
mittM of
of Ms
World News Briefly Told
PINNED UNDER AUTO BABT
DROWNS—Mt*. Fred F. Shane! of
Salisbury with her ninr-montha-old
baby wen pinned beneath their auto
just outside Salisbury Saturday night
whu tha ear plunged tbm a bfMgi
and turned over in tha creak. The
mother waa able to hold her own head
above water hot hdt infant waa pin
ned under her own body and waa
drowned when her other children ten
their way thru tha tap of tha ma
chine and brought iene man to lib
erate their mother.
FRANCE ACTS LIKE NAUGHTY
CHILD—Ever since the war Prance
haa acted like the spoiled child of the
family of nations. The news die
pa tehee are now saying Oat Franca
will block the reparations settlement
•u*jrrnted by General Dawes' commis
sion. Tha French papers are boldly
sayinr that France will never get off
the neck of the German Rhineland
until the United States cancels
France's war debt to this eoantry.
RUM FLEET OF 1U SHIPS—Coast
truards estimate that there an at the
present time 1M ships engaged in tha
ram am offline trade along tha At
lantic coast line. Theee shipa anchor
Just outside the It mile mm and
transfer their wet cargo to sasalter
craft at night, which land It at iso
lated points along tha eoaat under
cover of Jsi hitaos. Moat of tha booae
smuggled In is said to ha Scotch
whiskey.
LEPER WALKS N. T. STREETS—A
tainad in BaHevne hoepital suffering
from a leprous foot a*4e his isnspi,
visited friends to Maw Jereey and
walked calmly ha* to tha heap Hal
and gave himself op. Ha will ha
Island.
WHITE ACTUM TO PLAT IM
NEGRO MAMA—Par waaha Eagens
O'Neill negro ptoyrlght af Maw Talk.
toeadMHlTtt,JSlree to^HThS
fntar-racial play talM. "A1 OaA
Chilian Pet Wings." One wMto star
•ft tTida'a^nhla!* AOaafhe
PATS WN FOB AN EGG—At the
auction in New York of the famooa
dinoearna w frwn the GoM deoert
the Colr«U Unhreraity paid $6000
for it The egg to that of • pnU>
torie bird-reptile ctIM • diaeearoa
i and to of ohm petrified. It to rap
poeed to bo ton or iWtm million year*
old. The m to ono of K found not
lone ago by Roy Andrew* in Mongolia.
Strictly freak dinoeaor egg* would
■ probably eon hiyher.
FORD LIBEL SUIT DISMISSED—
The warraat for attacbinant of tltL
000 belonging to Henry Ford aad in
the Corn Exchanye Bank waa dtoznisa
ed by a Near York court on the poind
that Heny'* allayed iibelioua ramarka
i about the Jew* in the Dearborn Inda
pendent could not bo definitely laid
at hi* doer. The action waa brought
by Herman Baruatoin, a Jrwith editor.
P. TAX MEASURE'
like an §kt tim# politieian'i hrtsth.
i biff stills, aiddk tM still*
litia «t ills; bright wpyw (tills and
; sloppy stills. Fact la if yea
ta saa an aiMUt at distilling
apparataa, the sheriff can show you
moat any thine in that line you are
looking Ik
W.iMagt.i 'a MrtMay Praeaa I
Jaaa Monday. Bod Simmons, laid
Snoddt and 8. f. ShelUm, all
of tM^harirUtka, Friday raided a
plant in fall operation hi Bryan town,
•hip asat of Mitchell's ri*er. ,
a «0-rnllon still an
beratada^f'^e^h^
been ferreted oat and prit eat of
miaaion. Moncaa fsn bond in the
of 9800 and ia at Kberty. while
i« In Jail awaiting Ma hoar
mar at the next tana of court.'
Saturday tha
rattan
on Slate mountain acme Ave or six
milea east of Maont Airy. It was
"ran" or two
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a 20
For florae weeks a tiny
Inf frosn naar th» «op of Fiahert
Peak, the tallest point an the BIm
Ride* east of Ashevllle. Iwi been
noted Ky the people la the vicinity of
the foot of the mountain. Rumor had
it that the smoke waa of voteaaie
origin. Sunday nirht, while all rood
people vara at divine worship. Joaa
Monday, Caney Beamer and R. U
Janaa climhad thoae dixxy heights on
a scientific expedition, lliey were de
termined to find out the aoorre of that
tiny column of nokl A blinding
■now heat in the faces of the Intrepid
mountain climbers, sulphur-like pow
dery flakes crunched beneath their
feet. No beacon light illuminated
their course and no pillar of amoke
revealed the objective point. Tke
white alienee of the northland en
shrouded them. Wafted en the even
ing air came to their Ualnad noetrOa
faint tho distinct odors remembered
In the days of long ago. Naar the toy
at the peak and on the sooth aide the
explorers came into a M-ga8on at 111,
yet warm In Ha furnace, 400 gallons
af boar and much daisy chop. The
mystery of the origin of the volcanic
■note waa aolved. The moonshiners
had done their day's work and depart
ed for a night's raat.
The outfit waa a good one hat the
quality of the asanufacturad pmdimt
t* the
of the
tilled In ardar to get the last drop j
ite klck-gMng Arid *l«f *. The
« located below a baU
I a mile and a half frant *e
The bill m
tax maximum at M par cent aa
en«M in exceea of 90S.OM aa a«ai
60 par
000. aa
It alas
to • greater axtant
tax exemption*, a feature not hi th»
Tfca
rata* to t par cent on
IK,000 to 4 pot cant aa taaawi k*>
tween 18.000 and M.000, and ta « par
*.ten
The preaant rata la 4 far cent m
Tw exemption*, under tha
be
fmm 11.000 to HMO for aingla par
aona and from 12.800 ta
af familiaa. The
tha rapport af
17 Kepabliefena. one farmer labar
ita and aaa hitapmifcat hi aiilUho
ta tOC Pan grata, the
record aa oppaaad to
tiaHy tha tame aa thaaa
ad bjr Mr. Mallon and
no opportunity ta brhf ta • rata a
compromise awn dm ant which propoa
ad e 28 par cent reduction tn both nor
der and just beyond the drip* of th*
tree.
B. F. Pijtm, extension lioitliaMui
iit for the State Collego »rtndwi
division, nwmdi that poaches m
a sandy soil low la fertility bo gl»—
a 7-4-8 mixture at the rata of four
to six pounds per tree for four or On
year old stock. Two pounds of ni
trate of soda might be added to the
above mixture and another pound In
ter about the first of May if a rood
crop of fyuit has bam sot An ad
ditional application of nitrate of aoda
made after the fruit has boon bamsst
ad has been found to pay to many to