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Carrol County Supervisor Mount Airy to Htvc Htrdnffficc Outlet Through Carroll County to Wythcvtik SPEEDY DECISION REACHED _____ « . the Fancy Gap road up the mountain to Hillsville. This action wai taken following the goad roads meeting at Wytheville two wib ago when the Lahee to Florida Highway Associa tion wan urinaisad. At tjMt time it «w pointed out that the Fancy Gap road from Mount Airy to HitleriHe was an important link in this tourist root* and sine* than the Carroll offi cials and food road enthusiasts of that county haw boon determined to K«t their part of the link under way The Carroll Supervisors in sanctida ing the building of a hartourface road «V the Fancy Gap are merely lead ing the State Highway Commission of Virginia the money for a period of four years at which time it will he repaid the county, it being out only the interest for the fear years. Four yearn ago the Supervisors loaned the State $300,000 under tWa plan with whtah to baUri the Gala*-Hillsville mat This money s—sa hack to the coaaty from the state soase time this Viator aad it is thia money that the Cagvall officials will ton over to the Highway Commission to he used to bstt the Fancy Gap road. The actual work on this road h hardly expected to commrari before early spring, aad in the meantime the surveyors aad engineers will ha gath n — together their data aad making their plans to carry forward the work when the winter breaks. The kind of hardsurface road to he built has not been determined bat it will either he of concrete or a macadam road with asphaalt wearing surface. comity to do thia work now makea it compulsory for oar own etete official* to connect the road on from the state line to Mount Airy with a hardsurface road. It has Ions bean understood be twaan the two state road commiaaiona that they would join with like roada at the state line. North Carolina hav ing already promised to connect at any time. The Surry County High way Commission is already planning to put this new road program before the State official* and will insist that North Carolina's end of the project be put under way as soon aa engineers can prepare the necessary papers and the contract let. When these links on the Fancy Gap road are completed it will mean that Mount Airy is connected with Wythe eille and the Lee Highway going east and west with a hardsurface ,road the entire distance. Within a f*<w nth* the road from Hillsrilli to Jackson's Parry will be finished and then the attention of oar people will be directed to getting the ling between Pilot Mountain and Winston -Salem Par several months there haa much di ecu sal on in Carroll county i the good roada auhlect and the people arc thoroughly awake along thia line. ay at Hfflaeffla suhjeet, and delegation* were there there frovi vtrioui sections of tiM county Hi the Interest of good roads neighborhoods. •tea section of the county by a strong delega an appropriation at the county fond with aArich to put the Greenbriar road In fwd condition. TWa rood runs from the Pkqrd pOm and an la direction of Uml Pork. Ta aa oney cltlaen* of the Syhra put op an * jal the eowrty and the day ia not far dia twit whan Carroll ean point srtth pride JWfi Grady Smf Ht b tan. teat night delivered enlighten ing iddrtM to numbs rs and friends of the Ko Khu kiaa, about M men rathering at the hail aad listening with eloee attention for two Koora aa 'he Judge spoke on "Tin Principle# of the Order." f Judge Crady, who now ia enjoying a brief Taxation from court duties, traced til* history of the order and ipoka of the valuable work it haa ac. -otnplished. He refei i ad to hia con nection! with other fraternal orders, and pointed ant the good ha haa de -ived front his asaociation with the klans. T. H Hagan of Kaleigh, grand kli graph of the Ku Klu* klan, was ah* present and made a brief addrsaa. Steps wets taken by the nihsf of funds whSTwfll bTuaedTas ilaitlMU to two tkmttbn m the city iHf financial assistance. MG WHEAT YIELDS III DAVIDSON COUNTY Kc«wt Acr* YmU BihHiI U Uiiiiftan, Auf I.—KM* of the •tat la Dwidm county has bam tkraM and rsaiihi reported hear wt the prediction of MM farmer* at har vest time that the crop would prove the best in perhaps SO jrsar*. Both the yisld and the qaality of gvato have equalled or aseaedad the Mat sanguine expectations. Lloyd Koontz, of Tyro township, re ports psrhaps the largeat single acre yield so far heard from, 61 bushels. S. W. McCacheran. a|mt of the Southern railway at Lin wood, wade 411 bushels off a field Measuring 10 acres, an average of 4U, and made around 90 bushels par am for shout <0 acres. L. E. Phillips, of Yadkia College , township, threshed 105 bushels from ' three acrea, an average of SS hnshsls. Carl Nifong, of Midway township, made an average of near U bushels I per acre for a crop considerably above GOO bushels. C. M. Hunter, of Lexington town ship, made over S4 bushels per acre on seven acres. Forty-five turkeys stayed on the wheat until Christauu and a hundred hens used on it until harvest. ALoot a half acre counted in the boundary was not even cut over. The undamaged portion evi dently yielded over M bushels pet acre. The Welborn farm near Ltowood gave the champion yield for so targe an acreage, according to available re ports. On M acres,T.D. Pope and Dav id Young, who farm this place, thresh ed out OMbuahela.aa average for the entire ptaee of near Ml bush sis par acre. T^l»e acres to one tract aver aged M he sill la. another It acrss 17 bushels and a nine-acre field gave m average of 17 hash I la. Two of thaas fields bprdsrsd heavy oak timber which reduced the yield considerably The total yield to the county to ea tistated by seaaa ilia mi at over StOjtOO buahels worth over OM.M0 bnsl ■!« sach for sale and the hand tog price of wheat has greatly plena ed thsm. The leal warbst Mnsjaj was |IA »Vole To r Gap Road which Is lei h«uad It mile* from makaiik, reported today by chat titer* had been no change in the tea eondttioaa. Admiral Marrodrr than «a aaid to have MM to call off the flight unleaa there vera peratire reasons for conthmin?. CaaaMir R*-FMlh| at 8m If no harbor is found available aa a haven for the planea ia Gnmlairi, the Raleigh on the efen aaa wM ha considered. although the fliers regard thia a d»*perate aqaflmt. 1W navy aod amy offtoeta have another hefa. 1Mb b baaai on the the ShaeheMaa Antortic n>i<tlua era and may he engaged to break throogh tke tee of tone east Green land harbor and th aa afford the piaaeo a baae. Tke Qneat left Beykjavik sometime ago and her present poai tion ia not known. Radio messages requesting the services of tke ice breaker ware aent oat today. They have not yet bean answered, bat it la hayed they may hare been picked up by the Quest. Lieutenant Smith and Major Crum rine are unwilling to give up tke flight at this stage. They argue that the weather conditions in Greenland are best between August 18 and Sep tember 1 and favor remaining here until good reports are repaired. ft ia expected that several days will elapse before the Haleigh is able to explore the eaat Greenland coast and make a report on conditions there. MANY CONTRACTORS WENT BROKE Bidding Too tow om Rood Building In North Carolina State Boaofita By $7,000, 000 It ia Fifwrad Raleigh, Aug. S.—North Carolina has got 97,006,000 worth of roads shore what It has expanded, accord ing to aatimates based oa tke leas to contractors and bonding eompaniea aa the reauH of cloae bidding. la meeting sharp competition be twaaa contractors far read building Jobs close bids hare haaa the policy, with the result that a large number of contractors hid toe claaaly. Ones the Jab has bean let tke osBlrnttoi'. or •ibie for its rompiakton. 07,000,000 too clooely . Two saare con tractors hava haw lares d tote bank ruptcy by olaaa figuring. Soaao of tkaas hava aiaasgsd to work than out agiin, fortwittly. Chairman Frank Page, of the high potation at "giving a dollars worth of rood for ovary dollar expended". It ia uridant. haaaiat, that daaa bidding of the contractors has enabled him to give a dollar and a naartar*» worth many photographs for irrigation. The vary littl« if any m and the construction of the canals ia to coavey water from part rf tha planet to the other. It Mar be possible on Satorday. August 23rd for aatiuaoiaei s to make goad mm of tha strange and mysti fying stories that have been written about oar sister planet, Mara, for the view of Mars will ha more favorable owing to the fact that Mars will be at sach a position or angle on its or bit that it will he facing the sun aad the ilhuninatioa will ho trating an U mm » inn—i aeunanon on Man it muat be quiet different from that <mi earth. SoaM artiata have drawn pfctaiee of tkt Martaim. apd they show them to to tall, with vary frail hidi«i with vary hft heads and their aoaaa in the shape af long *noats. Almost mty artist haa drawn a different picture of the Mar tain man. There haa never been aay real rea son discovered up to the preaint time to really ahow that Mai* ia inhabited with either aian or »agatatiaa. Pro faaaor E. C. Free, Pr. D„ Fellow of American Aaaociation for the Ad vancement of Science—aaya he doaa not believe that then ia any animal life on Mara, bat it nay ha inhabited by many "thinking vegetable*." each aa the peaaot. pumpkin, mushroom, etc. Mars ia the fourth planet from the tun and Ha year ia af 687 terres trial daya, its day is 24 houra, 37 min utes Ion* and Mara ia the poaaeeaor of two moon* The two mooi* of Mara may indi cate plenty of light during the night, but arhen you think of our old friend Jupiter with five moons, then you can imagine how much light you would have if you had five mooni instead of one. It ha* been said by astronomers that baaeball could be played on Jup iter at midnight aa well aa it could be played here on earth at midday. Jupiter had only four moon* back in ino. They wet* discovered by an old astronomer named Galileo, but it still remained for the modern astron omer and the modern telescope to ■earth oat and pick up many thing* that was impoaaMe far the oM aatron omer to get, aa la IM Prof eaaor I. E. Barnard, of the Lick ubaar»alary, dis covered the fifth moon af Jupiter. There are many planets better off than the earth when It comae to ■toea light. Satan haa eight *atol litea or moona and Vera la In itself oaa af the ntoet brilliant bodiea la the i7 1|gW 1 I 7 SunrttM Need Savt Dafk vUl^ * Ml*¥ «r w MF . Public Confidence Shalen to Its Very Foun dations by Republican Party, He Aaaerts "Complacency in tha faoe of corruption and with ill-will the efforts of kimri mm to mpo— it "Grow favoritinn to tha privileged and utter diinftrd of the unprivi ligd. "Indifference to world peace and • timidity in the conduct of foreii* af faira. | the tariff; governmental assistance in extending the co-operative market ing principle and by other mean* , Reduction in taxation and revision of the tariff. Economy ia government, hot not of the kind that deprives government I employes of pay equal to that they 1 would receive from private em ploy en for shailar work. Approval of the world court. Co-operation officially with all legi ' league of nations or from any other | source, to lessen the prospect of war; | to aid fa) repairing the ravages of past | wars; to proatite disarmament and to I advance the well being of mankird. Protffti— aad Ceaaervatie*. national defease "until reason is per mitted to take the place of f-Tea." "insorgannation, mviaion and in coherence. " Declaring that on the record he would ask the voters of the country to pass judgment of condemnati<Ai,. "as a warning to all men who aspire to public office, that dishonesty, eith er in thought, word or deed, will not be tolerated to offer in exchange a "program baaed on democratic prin ciples aad guaranteed by a record of democratic performance " He ehargad that in tha of the praaant tariff law than mi "mm return to the rrfl toi a# contribution* with laciatative Alao ha (harpd inability of tha ad ministration to function dna to Mm triwnant batwaan tha Preaktant and tha republican majority in Concvaaa to afraa on public questions upon to fill. For the aid of the ftrwr, Mr. D*«fe nld the democrat* propoead IomC* it that the diaeiiminatiooe which tha tariff make* against hta ahall ba re moved; that this gnwraawat by de ing it* share toward a European tat No Baal Foreign Patter Declaring that it waa not m da meat ic matter* alone that "tha symp toms of thi* creeping paralysis" have appeared Mr. Davia said that aet only have executive recommendations for adherence to tha world court haaa "flouted and ignored, but ao evidence i# in sight that the re pub I ma party M now constituted can frame aad
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