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. • ? ".. 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

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