Co-op Directors Stand Back
P of Two Accused Officials
, Vft* Jan. I
at i
I •/ dtrtctara of the To
Co-operative Amrl»
by Olhrar J.
of the board mm
Hw nanlltM that the mm(Mh
!■ In better financial condition than
at any tine* la its Hlittnc*, the aoit
ef "Willy Person, of Franklin county,
*. C., to dtaeetve the Tobaeeo Co
I* regarded by aeeeeieMap of-!
publicity by a Man who
•teed notoriety to
ft*
growing confidence of
and particularly the
Credit Bank, |n the ft
condition and nonAfvntnt
■of tke association aa evidenced tkh
years by loans 'which have enabled
the member* to reoeiv* the highest
cash advances ever paid the by
their organisation on tobacco make*
the attempt of an association member
da dissolve its affair* appear all the
More untimely and extravagant, ac
«srdmg to the statement of Its oA
Attorneys for the ftMoctattoci to-'
4my expreened their belief that noth
ing will be (mined in, the rait by
thin Making to injur* it. Ttx To
bacco Grower* Co-operative Associa
tion will mtki reply to the moat re
port of the federal trade ronuniuion
regarding Ha redrying activitiea hi
the February iaaoe of the Tri-State
Tobacco Grower* official organ of the
*7,000 member* of the Tri-Stat* Aa
aoeiation, which will appear early
neat month, according to the state
ment of the aaaociattona following an
all day *e**ion of the board here
Tueiday at which every detail of the
aaaociation'* re-drying activitie* were
thoroughly diaru**ed and reviewed.
The fact that the fall report of the
federal trade commiaeioti ha* Juat
been made available to the director*
of the Tobacco Grower* Co-operative
Aaaociation prevented immediate de
tailed reply on their part and result
ed in the decision of the directors to
prevent a *tatement of facta to the
memherohlp in the next ia*oe of their
official organ.
Following an entire day given to
careful consideration of the associa
tion activities in »e-drying tobacco,
the bo»rd of the association gave out
the following statement at the clow
of the neaaion late Tuesday night.
"The hoard of director* of the To
bacco Grower* Co-operative Aaaocia
tion ha* *pent a day hearing detailed
Statement* on the re-drying aituation,
with particular reference to the actlv
Mm of General Manager Patterson
and Warehouse Manager Watkina aa
partner* In the Edmundsor Tobacco
Company, said atatement* covering
Item* brought out jn the report of
MMBber* of the federal trade cotnmin
•ka; and it baa been made clear that
the member* of thi* hoard have, in
genoral, approved of the prior poli
ciaa of thi* board in permitting and
—aauraging our director* or ofllcers
or managers to engage In re-drying
activitiea in preference to placing
anch buainea* with the enemie* of co
operative marketing; and it has been
made evident that the members of the
beard of director*, with a few excep
tions were not aware prior to Jane,
IMS, that Manager Patteraon and
Watkin* had an interest in the Ed
monson re-dryjng activities for the
IMS crop; and that most of the direc
tor* did have general knowledge of
anch activities for the IMS and 1M4
•crop*: and thi* board here expreaaes
k Ha approval of such activitiea and re
■ karate* the resolution adopted Aoguot
Y 18, IPSE, and here statea that it would
bave approved t'«e said activitiea of
IMS had it wnown of them, aa being
In accord with the. general policies at
that time, and that other employe*
and director* such aa Mr. William*
aai other* were re-drying tobacco for
Mm aaanriation under standard con
tracts with the Imowfedfe and appro
val of the board generally. Including
all of the actual facts ahoat the pol
icy of not selling green tobacco to
dealer* and expreaaly including all
Mm actual facta and evidence to show
that the executive committee bad
0ao4 reason* to balirre that there
<W la Mm spring of IMS a real at
tempt to ratae the coat of re-drying
brswfedf* of aH tkeae facto the hoard
appsms of all sack activities; atoto*
that the contract price aad profit*
hare baca la Mac with similar ana
•otrtr for any claim of any kind
againat the persona involved In tkaaa
DISRUPTION OF
COOTS SOUGHT
ctetiM SUM N«t I* DU
i.K.d HnHm Ob
Fthnurr hk
Kooky Mount, N. C., Jan. 1».~-The
Tri-State Tobacco Grawtn' Co-oper
ative Aaaociatiun, Inc., compoeeg of
growera in Vlrr^nla, North and Booth
Carolina must appear befor4 Judge
T. H. Calvert in Waha county superior
court at Ealeigh, Pebruary I, to show
rs use why the corporation should not
hf diuoM m4 « receiver appointed
to handia ita affair*, according to an
order issued thia afternoon hara by
Judge M. V. Barn hi il in Edgecombe
count) superior court.
Tha ordar waa iaauad following
complaint of inefficiency and graft in
tha conduct of tha company'* affair*,
which waa mada by W. M. Person,
Franklin county, and othar mambara
of tha association a* plaintiffs.
Soma Series rf Fifina.
Following a lore aeries of figures,
alleging wanton extravagance in tha
company's expenditure*, tha com
plaint adda that during tha second
fiscal year of ita Ufa, ending May 1st,
I #2^ tha organisations running ex
penses totaled nearly fS.000,000 or
more than it tahea to run tha state
of North Carolina. This exceeded by
$40,000 the first year's total of 12,
S34.969.22, or an average expense of
shout $7,000 per day.
Costa of furniture, flxturers and
nutomohilee were fWJWS.M during
the first year, according to the com
plaint, while in the year following
thia item amounted to over 106,000.
High Salariea.
An unprecedented increase in sal- j
aries paid to officers is charged, the |
majority of the directors placing j
themselves on the salary Hat. accord
ing to the complaint, at annual pay
of from *40,000 down to $4,000, three
and four timer what most of them
had ever received before.
"On account of the inefficiency of
the management and the reclcleas
waste and extraWfcance and failure
of thf directors to comply with the
law," reads the complaint, "the mem
bership growers have received so lit
tle from their crops delivered to the
defendant association, that they have
become bankrupt and are unable to
continue their farming operations un
leaa relieved from further delivery
and deatruotion of their crops by a
dissolution of said corporation for the
abuse of its powers to the injury of
it* membership stockholders.
Charge Waste.
Further itema In the complaint
recite charges of waata and misman
agement in the purchase, erection
and leaaing warehouse facilitiea, dis
bursement* for attorneys' feea and
newspaper advertising. The plain
tiffa finally charge that officers of the
association have not made accounting
of their management to the mem
bers, a* required by law, and that in
some care* the directors, in addition
to exorbitant salaries, charged ex
orbitant fees for rsdrying tobacco
delivered by members and mortgaged
such tobacco to irisurr payment of
their own claims.
Skeleton Found in Pasquotank
Swamp.
Camden, N. C.t Jan. 22.—The skel
eton of a human body «ai discovered
today in the Pasquotank river swamp
near Burnt Mill in this county by
Dewey Tiadate while out trapping.
Tjsdaie immediately notified Deputy
Sheriff Harare S. SeyttMr who
hastened to the spot which was about
a half mile bark from the read lead
ing from Camden courthouse to South
Wills.
la Deputy Sheriff Seymour'* opin
ion the skeleton is thaf of a white
man about five feet, nine Inches tall.
The skeleton was clothed In a sol
dier's uniform coat, wore a black cap
snd I number see— or eight work
oboe.
Appearances Indicated that the
body had lata where H was feond for
SHIPS BATTLING FUMOUS
STORM
f . . , ■
A/Wat, AImm*« Stoppad
Naw York. Jan. 'Taking toU of
lift mm! property. I powtrful fsk
Ni wn>l>i trana-Atlantk ahlpptog
lanaa tonight. Tha .taam.hlp Lavto
thaa, pwtiil atruttnaa hailt hy mm
U My the might of an angry h*.
m baraly akb to Mlw prngraai
ifilmt tit* Harm, toward bmL
Tka Arqultanla, ona af tha fiitto
trana-Atlantic Ham, vaa hattlad al
mo0t to a ■toiutatill and blMInf
•now and fog war* adding to t)M par
lla of tha fab.
Whlla aavaral Hww ll^apad
into Halifax, at laaat atoa ar* njurt
ad In tka grip of tka ragtag fata and
nil, including tka leviathan and tka
AcqoMania rr.rryins n—rlf I AM paa
aangara wilt ha two of Mora daya lata
in arriving at tkair port of daaftoa
tioa.
Now* of oaa diaaator. which H la
faarad may hava rraultod in tha lo«
of forty livaa, waa racalvod hy radio
from tha Hnar Prnldtnt Rmatvth.
TW ataamahip aaportod having .pick
ad op BOS algnala frap tka Britiah
fraightor Antlnoa, but aftor raarblng
har alda, Inat har In tha fog and anow.
Cryptically tha Maaaag* daacrihad
the plight of tha atricken v»«aal "num
har 8 hatch atova in, all ioata gone,
wator in tha fir* room, and radio out
of cnmmlaaion."
Danger •# Rlrnt
The Antinoe nrrM wheat, a rmr
iro dreaded hjr ever* seaman. Mar
iner* pointed out that, wKh • hatch
stove in, the cargo would undoubted
ly ret wet. then probably swell and
butst open the »hip. Further mea
U|M from (he President Roosevelt
■aid that although a he waa cruising
about the area where the loet the An
tinoe, no trace .of the ahip could ha
found.
TALES EXAGGERATE IN
DIAN FIGHTS IN »4t
Surrey of Old Traila to Pacific
Cites Nature aa Chief Peril
to Gold Seekera
Colorado Springs, Jan. 24.—Histor
ical fiction of the Wild Weat appears
to have exaggerated the number of
nanguinary attack^ by Indiana upon
immi«rrant train* along the old Ore
gon trait. Nature, and not the
aboriginea, furnished moat of the
■iangera encountered by the pioneers.
Tbeae conclusions have been reach
ed by Prof. Archer H. Hulbert. direc
tor of the Cnauniasion on Weatern
History, who just haa completed map
ping six of the moat famous old trails
from the Missouri River to the Pacif
ic Coast.
In a apace cf forty miles along the
Car son River on the trail broken by
the Forty-niners, 4,000 dead cattle and
3,000 abandoned wagons were left to
reeerd the hiatory of the hardahipa
they suffered in the trek for gold.
Miners built houses of these wagoa
wrecks in the days of the Comatoek
Lode discovery in Nevada a decade
later.
Great rivers were not difficult to
croas when "flats" or rafts were se
cured, but the thousands of little "cut
bank" creeks not more than tan feet
wide were the daily terror of the
teamsteiv and delayed the caravans
more than did the few rivers of width.
Trappers and gold hunters suffer
ed from Indian attacks afore than did
the great immigrant trains in the
era of mass migration to Oregon. Be
tween 1*42 and ISM) the number of
trains that were seriously molested
by the Red Men were few, the inves
tigators found.
Teah School Honor Roll
Firat Grade—Rdy Taylor, Wile her
Short, Kyi* MrHone, Ugo Alfano,
George Gould, Eaimio Mivlori.
Second Grade—Dolly Oipalma. An
nie Moaer, Joe MrHone. Here hell
Vaughn.
Third Grade—Bertie Doaa, Manuel
Cohen. David Mldkiff, Olayhurn Tay
lor.
Fourth Grade—Imo Johtiaon, Roy
Johnaon.
Fifth Grade—Ruth Short, Blanch*
McHon*. Guldo Dtpahma.
Sixth Grade—Harvey Gwyn, Nellie
Griffith. Laura Mae Goo id
Seventh Grade—Zella Slate. Mary
Nell Short, Jeaale McKellar. Rlile
MrHone. Elma Harrell, Paul Griffith
Through aome oreriifkt Pauline
MrHone'• name waa omitted frran the
honor roll laat month.
Several children have been ahaont
on aerount of mump* and otter aiek
neaa, conaoquently the honor roll la
abort Ufa month.
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THE TOBACCO
ASHEN BY A F/
Wub TeWeee
' Om-TUH T. Cam** Nh|
Vmr
m Um W fw Im rott
ta write i frw Dm In rafiH to
tha ■ttaatkan, aa I hava aa Mat*
bat farming It la abort tha tlma of
jrafcr alao for a law Uaoa to a»a«r hi i
all tho daily and waahly pa par* «tet
inff that tehatm far aaaa raaaaa will
t thiak I bar.
ararjr jraar for tha laat ft. In fact Hi
h hainc runnd aaw that tohacea'
will nil wall anathar yaftr, froai tha
fact that tha crop waa aorry thu
Ut all of IM rut our prop ow third
and try to msk» mil «• mH of corn,
wheat. oata, rye, hay, rough feed, and
also everything we want to eat in tb*
way of vegetable*. If we will be cer
tain to do thie two third* of a crop
will bring aa much aa a full crop for
they dont want to pay for the full
crop we make bow. 1 am not going
to toll yaw what to switch off on wher.
you reduce your tobacco crop for I
dont know-. However on* thing I
think I know ia that every farmer
knowi hi* oam individual cirrum
■tancee better than anyone elaa. A
r.ian aaar ioM good town might pro.
fitably raise mm chickens, or1 da
mm dairying while eoom other man
might raise corn and faad it to hog*
profitably. Still another might raiae
•one milch cow* and *o on.
I want to toll you when I think the
farmers 'can organise themselves in
this part of the country. It will be
when the majority of the farm boys
who are growing up gat at least a
high school education and there are
some college graduate* among them.
When the boys get educated you
will sea some of them in the United
State* Senate, Congress and state
repreaentatives.
There are thousands of people try-1
ing to farm who should be working
hy the day. It takes a smart, ener
getic. and educated man under the
present circumstances to make a Itv
<ng farming. A lot of them ought to
do something else. I think from M
to 75 per cent of the fa+ms in Surry
County are mortgaged and If we
dont changb our system of farming
there will be more mortgaged farms.
We cant even pay off what we have
now.
So lets cut down, pne third anyway
snd more if you can. This will be a
co-operative move that we will all like
and be proud of.
We are asking all newspaper* to
print this or what part* that they
think expedient aa the main object of
thi* article 1* to get the farmer to cut
down hi* crop of tobacco.
VB8TAL TAYLOR.
White Plains. Jan. 28, 1#2«—
SPANISH WAR VETERAN
KEEPS RATION 28 YEARS
Hard-Tack Thought to Bo Still
Good. But Nobody C*n Bo
Fouad With Propor Appo
tHo.
Asheville, Jan. 23.—It's good to
rat. But it's 28 yaara old. Yet, it it
just aa appetising at it ever waa—if
it ever wat appetizing.
Soldiers who fought in tha Span
ish-American war probably didn't
think it quite ao appetising, at laaat.
not unless they ware facing starva
tion.
But Dr. Hanaall Koon, of A she villa,
a Spaniah-Amtrican war veteran and
a lieutenant in tha world war, white
going through some old collections,
yea tat day ki across the piece of
hard-tavk aa iaaued by the army SS
years ago.
The hard-tack stiH is in good state
of preservation. On* hardly could
ftietinguiah R from that issued in tha
world war, soma SI years later.
The Spanish-American iasus of
hard-tack aa iaauad by the army U
is on exhibition at Floyd Pennell's
cigar store on Pattern avenue.
"It's funny," said Doctor Kooa
regarding hie old keep-sake, "I've
kept the hard-tack for nan and
years but .nevar had any Aesire to
rat It."
Mary Todd, of Kanaas City, ie 75
years old and tip ytHfMl mamlin of
be lag M. There ars tT aa the cteaa
MONTAGUE OIKS FOB HIS
Pay* Fmrnkj for Hi*
Girt
#.
for a criminal attack oa • ytuag te(
n4 M i-trl hi Um atate achaoi far!
the dawf at Mm—U ia.
Juat Muw rim to Um dMk,
right thine hi taking Ma life tf ha
v.-aa guilty af tha aim*. Ha mM ha
waa guilty, thaugh ha had
of U. aa ha waa
at tha time. Ha
if I
"If I had stayod right with God I
wouldn't ha hara in thia chair," wit
naaaaa aa tha daath atrapa war* ha
prayed fervently, "Jeua, am tqr
Tha 3,200 volts wara tumad on hia
body for two minutea and SO aaconda
before ha waa pronounced daad.
Thar* wara two ahocks, tha first last
ing a mlnuta and fi*a aaconda.
Montague waa conricted at a ape
cial term of Burka county aupermr
court la at apriag. Ha appealed to
tha auprcma court, aaaking a naw trial
on th ground that tha governor had
no authority te call • apacial tarn
with a apacial judga for tha Burke
djatrict whan a ragular term praaidad
over by a ragular judga waa in pro
graaa at tha same time.
Tha court refused to accept tha
contention, however, and tha lower
court's* Judgment waa af fit mad.
Cniii.iiiB Merchants Fran
Big Markets Coming to
Nortk Carolina
Katsigh, Jan. 21.—Representatives
from two mors large poultry commis
sion bouses, om from Philadelphia
and one from New York, are in the
State this week, being attracted by
the reports of poultry that ia being
shipped from the State and of plans
that are being made to Increase the
State's poultry output. One of these
was Mr. Kassei of the Kasset Poultry
Company of New York, one of the
oldest produce houies in the city If
not the oldest in the country; the oth
er Is Mr. Rabinowitx of Kisser and Ra
binowiti, the largest produce dealers
in Philadelphia. Mr. T. W. HeiU. of
the Division of Markets, has spent a
good deal of time showing them
around the State and helping them
look for suitable quarters to estab
lish a buying brinch for their city
markets.
With two or three large firms tr
eated in the State, bringing about
competition for our surplus poultry,
the producers would be assured of
ample markets with good prices for
their products.
The fact that climatic conditions
are such that early broilers can be
produced In this State around a month
to six weeks earlier than moot of the
large poultry producing states is the
main reason why the attention of
these laire buyers ia being attracted
to North Carolina. It'a the early
broilers that are always in deuand in
the citiee. The Kaaael Poultry Com
pany paid aa high aa 11.00 per pound
last year for broilers. Another fac
tor which ia making a reputation for
North Carolina poaltry is the healthy
condition of the chickens that hare
been shipped from this Stats. New
York buyers Vtstc that they have
fewer losses tn tranait from disease
from the North Carolina poultry.
North Carolina Tiri»y« Bri«| Pre
■iia oa Now York Mtrkt*
A car of turkey* • hipped from Arih
born juat before Thankajrivfng
brought a premium over all other
■hipmenta on the New York market.
It cawed ronakierabte comment
amnnf dealer* in New York becauae
of the fine, large hirda prodncod ao
early in the eeaaon.
With poultry production incraaaing
an rapidly, H ia only • aaattar of a
few year* a ban all of Hie large poul
try hnuaaa will have branch atationa
located ia North Caroline.
Commiuiaam to Opa« Bida
For Matter Clock
Wileon, Jan. M.—Bid* will be open
ed by the County Conimiaatoneri or.
Monday morning for the maatar clock
and aerie it of auxiliary clock* to ha
'nataBed In a new half-million dollar
court houaa Hie clack la npiito<
will cm* iin»h>ri to the a lighter
hoed of mm and the Mat will ha
aharad by the Uwn Bad caonty JaMty.
Talk. With the
County Agent
takhf the Jey oat
milking tkrM tlmia per daj
more milk than t«fw«4i)r
In fact, over a *tiort period the
ctmn In production h IS 1-t per east,
while ow t lone puM It ipptw
that tlila intra aea la tna (Mtar. It
waa noted that the eowa milked three
timaa a day hold up better near tke
end of the lactation, period than mm
milked twice a day. The annaiy a#
thrre-umea a day milking haa not
haen accarately eatimated, bat It «€1
depend upon aeveral factor*, chief at
which are qoantity of
coot of labor, aad value of l
The Market Newa ia now iaawad by
the Division of Marketa of tka Nortk
Carolina Department of
in a new form aad ia a weekly
cation. It containa mock
newa which ia timely and will be far
niabed to anyone by writing tka de
partment at Raleigh. It aiao coa
taina a tiet of prod acta which farm
era have for aale or to boy. If inter
rated it aril! pay you to get ia tooek
with the Department.
The School of Agriculture, N. C.
State College, again won honora in a
national coo teat. A team cnmeiet
ing of W. W. Kaever. C. P. Fiah
hurae, and J. B Slack, won aacood
place in the Intercollegiate Poultry
judging Con teat, held a abort time
ago at the Madieon Square Gardes,
New Y<yk City. Firet honora went
to a team from New York State Agri
cultural College, which won over tka
N. C. State Team by a margin of only
21 pointa.
W. W. Ketver, of the SUU College
team made the second highest mm
in individual judging and won a sil
-ver medal.
The competing tram were require#
to judge eight classes of bird* four
rlaaaea on atandard judging and four
on utility. The Varietie* of bMl
judged were Barred Plymouth Hooka,
Rhode I aland Reda, 8. C. White Ug
horna. and White Wyandottae.
The honor of winning tocond posi
tion in a nation-wide judging eonteat
of till* kind reflect* creditably on the
poultry atudenta at State Callage, ac
cording to Dr. B. F. Kaupp, head of
the poultry department, who accom
panied the team to New York. The
team had intenaive training for two
montha.
In addition to the benefit* receiv
ed by taking part in the contest the
membera of the team made a tour
while away, observing such impor
tant branches of the induatry aa a
Egg Breaking plant and the Egg Ex
change. They were also enabled to
viait a large commercial poultry plant
having 4,500 lay era.
The poultry meetings acheduled far
last week have been very well attend
ed in apite of had weather and roade.
There seawu to he a growing interest
in tnis phase .of agricultural sail
.Several people have spoken for
po'iltry culling demonstrations which
will be featured during the week of
March the 8th when one week will he
devoted to flock stmiy and improve
ment on the fanaa. Actual work wfH
be done in railing on certain farms
and any question* will he answered
pertaining to poultry. Meetings will
be h>U for five nights this Weak.
Everyone is invited to be prssant to .
take part in the diacusaton
H. E. White. Ommty Agent