Chamber of Commerce Mem
ben to Be Solicited March 25
On That Date Hl—t.n of Cmmwmmmt Will Waft to Put
Over Drive far Mumhmt—CHi«—r lapactod to Re
spond Heartily.
A try ha* taken a
h other leadlr
North Carolina, and la
U half Mid
tka town. Wa hm* in Mont Airy
<>ur CMe Clubs, aw
of
18, • croup'
of cKlaena interested tn the
ing of Mount Alrjr, and taitaraatad In
aaeing Mount Airy grow, win launch
tha Chamber of Commerce and It la
tha duty of every cttiian approached
by thi» membership rommtttaa to Join
tha Chsmher and in that way da their
Mt towards making Mount Airy a
bigger and better town.
There ia quite a bit of work that
an orsrsnlzation like tha Chamber of
Commerce can do In Mount Airy, Chat
no -other organization or individual
citizen can do, such a* getting play
ground* for the children, building a
new hotel which ia badly needed in
Mount Airy, helping to bring new fa»
duatriea to oar city, advertising our
•action in a way that wiU make our
town well known to every individual
citizen In North Carolina, and other
thing* too numeroaa to mention.
Someone will call on you March 28,
soliciting your membership for the
Chamber of Commerce. Be loyal te
your town and do youraalf Justice by
gladly Joining the Chamber and give
the aollcltor the names of some of
your friends that you believe win be
glad to Join.
Remember Thursday, Munch 28, ia
the day for tha drive and it lea drive
that means much te Mount Aity and
this section of North Carolina. If
Mount Airy Is succeaaful in securing
enough members and sustaining mem
bers to raise at least ten thouspid dol
lars, which ia the goal sought by
the organization, we will all see
Mount Airy grow and take ita place
nmong other leading towns in North
Carolina.
Health Dept. Hm Launched
Clean Up Program
The Health Department of Mount
Airy ia doing • great work, but thera
ia a great deal that remain* unfinish
ed. Thia nest week the health de
partment will call on all people that
have >tahle« and other unaanitary
house* around or near their premiaea.
to tear them down or pot them in a
aanitary condition, in compliance
with the town Ordinance* which pro
vide that all stable* and the like shall
be equipped with hard surfaced floors
and be cleaned out daily, and the con
tent* be placed in fly proof receptacles
which will meet with the sanitary
law* of the state.
We hope the citizen* will co-operate
with the Health Department in thia
work and not make it necesaary for
than to prepare bill* of indictment to
enforce the health ordinance* of the
town. If you have a stable, hen hooae,
out house or any other unaanitary
houte near your reaidence, begin now
to clean them up and aave the Health
Department the unpleaaantneaa «otf
calling on you and requesting you to
do these thins*.
The Health Department alao re
questa that all back yard! he kept
clean aiVd aanitary, all rubbish, brush
and other unsanitary matter muat be
picked up and the premises put in an
arderly condition, free from fly
breeding places and places where moe
qaitoV will breed. The Health De
partment ia counting on the citlsena
to ee-eperate with them, which we are
sure the most of them will do.
Child Takes OvwdoN of Sia
tar1! Madiciwa
Salisbury. March 17.—Fallowing
an nrtr fcw of medicine pmftflwd
far a youngar siater, and to be taken
kjr drop* in • rwrj small quantity,
little Emma Lae Hackney, the thraa
yaar oM daughter of Mr. and Mr*.
D. A. Hacknev. residing at MM Caro
lina avenue, died early today. 10
fcoora after it swalkraad the medicine
" It is said the child took the bottle
from a table aad drank parka pa a
■paoaful Monday afternoon. Later
Mm child took its aaaal nap aad
will violently 11 aad continued la
SIMPLE SERVICE
AT FUNERAL OF
COL. COOUDCE
With hnr ImM Ivmry
wbmrm fwiUnt aad • fmw
Frlee* Oetker et Orwve
Plymouth, VL, March Col.
John C. Coalldn, MKh of the Presi
dent, vm W at root today. la the
littlo community temetery horo, on a
bleak hillside deep ia snow they bur
ied him among thoee of hla kin who
had passed before him. Tho Presi
dent and Mrs. Coolidge, thoir son,
John, representative* of nation and
state, and a fiatdathm and life
long friendi atood in tho mow at tho
traraaida.
Noar Memorable Spot
The service waa hold in tho tiny
parlor of the farm house, with fold
ing doora opening to a sitting room
as tiny. Tho dark gray casket, hank
ed with flowers, stood hut a few fret
from the spot whore Colonel Coolidge
stood one early Morning to adminis
ter to his son the oath of office as
President.
A bank of lilies from the President
lay on the casket. and baaida waa a
spray of pink rosea from Mrs. Cool
idge. Other pieces, tributes from
government officials and friends in
Washington, from the crew of the
presidential yacht, Mayflower, from
Vermont friends and organisations in
which the colonel waa active, banked
one side of the room. A spray of
calla lilies was the gift of Plyinoath
neighbors, and the community custom
decreed that all of them should be rep
resented in the tribute.
Groan AmM Cukrl /
THs little rooms, thrown into on*
»wf filled when Captain Adolphus
Andrews, commander of the May
flower, maided the presidential fam
ily and a few close friend* to seats
beside the casket. Governor and
Mra. Billings, of Vermont, former
Governor William W. Stirkney, on
whose staff Colonel Coolidge served,
Attorney General Sargent and Major
Jameo F. Coupe), White House phy
sician, were among thoae grouped
near the caaket. Relative* and neigh
bora packed the amall apace within
the houaa and overflowed to the
porch.
The President and Mra. Cooltdge
and their eon sat with bowed heads
aa the dbrgyman, wearing the vest
ments of his office, read the prescrib
ed Episcopal burial service, using the
latest revision. The short service
ended, the minister knelt for a mo
ment by the aide of the casket an^
then the presidential group pasdkd
into another room while six guards
men carried the casket to the wait
ing hearse and the procession to the
cemetery began.
A snowstorm which had raged from
early morning had passed aa the
mourners gathered about the grave
and a wintry wind swept down from
the mountains. The stots who look
ed on from the road beneath the hill
shivered in the chilly blast.
Immediately after the interment
the President returned with Mrs.
. Coolidge and their son to the family
homestead. After a brief stay they
left by sleigh for Woodstock whers
the presidential party soon h^an the
return trip to Washington.
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Notice to Fruit Growers
Theie will be an important meeting
of fruit grower* at Mount Airy, N. C.,
town hall, Saturday, March 27, S P.
M.
Many appk "worm." (or Codling
Moth) have lived thru the winter and
| a wormy crop will ha harvested unlaaa
«iuwia uae the right apray material*
' at the proper t ime.
Toe are urged to attend this meet
ing aa (pray material*, orchard paeta
and all apray problema wiD be folly
diactaaad. All indication* point to
' one at tto best frett season* la year*
nd §iamaii »wit afford to neglect
the crop. Bprajrtag or dusting la a
ln»»la III ftiiintwent and groweri
thoold acquaint themselves with let
eat recommendationa in or8»r to ceah
in on thia investment. . *
Jam ra—nt afford to miaa this mi at
fc*.
H. K. WHITE, County Agent
Talk* By the
County Agent
% 1, E. WMU.
It may b« of iateraat to taw Ita
rwMHMMMH Mfc kjr Mr. ■. B.
Gap road: '
1. "Ai tlM M«n mllkv, Mb,
Ml Application Ml —ck §pp)f (fn of
nitrate of aoda, Ita a Mount mil one
half tha dlamrtw of the troa. far
rxampia, If tha tree ta tight inchea
In diamater at tha grand uaa four
In an area bafMi| aeveral faat
from tha trunk (Standing to beyond
tha drip of tha branches.
1 Have all graaa and waoda due
from around aach traa, in ordar to
prevent poealhlt future injury from
field mica. Thair damage can bo re
duead by keeping tha tanneia broken
up and waada and graaa removed and
from growing around tha traea.
3. Clean cultivate the orchard a*
soon as the ground can be worked la
the spring, maintaining a dust mulch
to abbot the middle of June at which
time broadcast soybeans at the rate of
nnc bushel per acre. Thia to be turn
ed under la the fall or the following
spring. If tuA desirable to turn under
in the fall, broadcast rye on top of
the soybeans at the usual season for
so wine >7* In your county. The fol
lowing spring torn rye and soybeans.
You eta Increase the growth of both
rye and soybeans by using groand
limestone and acid phosphate at the
rate of two tons of the former and
280 lbs. of the latter per aero.
4. On the part across the road
where the orchard la terraced, I sag
rest an acre or two being tried with
■weet clover. In order to got a good
stand of swset clover the ground
should he limed at the rate of two
tons per acre. Sweet Clover seed
should he totnoculated and sown at the
rate of 16 pound* per acre, either In
the spring or late manner, scarafied
seed being used."
I hope orchard owners will give the
above recommendations serious con
sideration.
In reference to a letter from Mr.
Niswonger 20 he says in part—"with
reference to the dry mix material
which is being used as a substitute
for the self boiled lime sulphur in the
control of brown rot on peaches, Page
ft Buchaa, Aberdeen. N. C„ are quot
ing me a price of 94-06 per 100 lbs.
This material is mixed at the rate of
12 pounds to SO gallons of water. This
r price la f. o. h. Aberdeen, N. C. I
I would suggest that yon have someone
I in either Mount Airy or Elkin handle
this material for the fruit growers in
I raas they do not care to use the self
hulled mixture."
Mr>R. W. Graeber, Extension For
ester will bo in this eonnty March 25
and 26 to put on some more demon
strations. He was in the county in
December and gave two demonstra
I tions. Here la his schedule for the
1 two day*:
Thursday morning, March 25—Al
, Hert L. Bunker, 10.00 A. M.
Thursday, March 26—-H. T. Moore,
Union, 1.00 P. M.
Thursday, March 25—John Rich
1 ards. Dob son, '4.00 P. M.
Friday morning, Maach 26, Klon
| dike Farm, Elkin, 10.00 A. M.
All who are interested in tarreaa
• ing the profits from farm forestry
' ire Invited to be present and take
part in the discussion. These demon
strations are very practicable and are
well worth attending fbr the eare of
Lfarm forestry is new In this county
I nnd a lot of our farmers are inter
| ested.
On March 29 and 90 Mr. E. L.
Blair, Extension Agronomist win ho
| in the couaty to take up any problems
i of field crops, permanent pastures,
growing of clovers. If you are In
terested 5n thia get in connection with
us so we cca take care of yon. We
| need I big increase In the sowing of
permanent grasses so we ran have
grating and be In a good way to
make profits out of dairying.
Agreed mm Three, Hit*
Triplet*
San rtrro, Calif., Marrh 11—
Whan Vr. and Mr*. Grant BuaM mae
Had tb»y agreed that thm tkiMm,
two boy* and • ftrl, would b* tha
rifht nm for their family. Par ill*—
rear* ttor* wa* mm, bat >iilildg
; trip tot* miIhiI two bar* **< • ffci
Tb* —tbar and cbUiraa ara M«
I wall.
Judge Lenient
to Well Digger
days, only dm mm for the Recorder1!
rsbbit ud om cat all M; he W
to enter the mD to cleMi oat Um bot
tom and white there they spilled a
sufficient quantity of water on him
to make him wry wet, and am beta*
drawn o«t of the WeO hla friends ad
vised Mm to drink about ene half pint
of whiskey and after sitting by a food
fire far about SO mifiutea ha got
warm. Ilia Honor dismissed the mm
and taxed the plaintiff with the eoet.
Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Gilmer, «rf Wal
nut Core, spent Saturday night with
hia sister Mrs. R. T. Joyce and a very
interesting evsnt took placs; Mrs. Mf
Payne heard of Mrs. GUmer being
here and called on her, Mrs. GUmer
was Miss Maude Annfield and Mrs.
Payne was Mia* Doris Lowe, and 46
years ago they went to school togeth
er in Mount Airy to Miss Mary Toy
and hgl not met shue iMving school.
They remembered many pleasant lit
tle incident* and had quite an enjoy
able meeting. Both are fine looking
and what you would call rather port
ly, and both the huabenda are rather
thin.
Mr. and Mrs. Roland Christian, of
Winston-Salam, spent Sunday with
Mr*. Shelton.
The chicken business is still flour
ishing, ons of oar farmers cut sup
ply the demand ha has for ana at
AO cants and all the 2 lb. chickens are
ready eash at flJt each.
What* is looking wall for the time af
ear, the interest hi the (AM crop
i* not so bright.
Good progress is being made on the
road from Asbury to the Virginia
line, they expect to finish It in M
days. Whrn completed it will ha a
very important road as a southern
■ntlet for that mountain section.
Lots of flu and pneumonia in this
neighborhodS, but the situation is
improving.
Mr. John Lowe's well has gone dry
Tor the first time since it was made
: forty years ago.
Our ritisens will he triad to welcome
1 Mrs. Roy Pell snd little daughter
having been about three weeks at the
Mount Airy hoapital.
Mr. and Mrs. John Marshsll expect
to move to their farm this week,
making extensive arrangements for
the chicken business; Urge quantities
of hens were shipped from here last
week, the price waa SO cents one day.
Meadames 8. P. Christian and R
T. Joyce went to Danbury Sunday to
see Mrs. Christian's brother who has
been sick for some time but is improv
ing.
There is same prospect of a phone
line to Mount Airy, hope it will de
velop, don't suppose there Is a place
in North Carolina more In need of
such communication.
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Smith. Mr. Bo
rate Paddison and mot Her Mrs. J. R
Paddison visited Mr. and Mrs. R. T.
Jnyoe Sunday evening.
I* Guilty of Beating Little Boy
To Dmath
Baltimore, March 16.—Ralph T.
Country, 32 yaar old trolley ear eon
doctor, today wax found guilty at
eeeond degree m^der in Baltimore
county circuit court at Towson for
beating to death hia five-year-old
foatcr son, Eldridge. He waa sen
tenced to 18 yean in Maryland pen
itentiary, the maximum under the
Maryland law.
The verdict waa returned aad een
tence pronounced by a bench of three
judges, who took the caae without
argument fete thia hfternoon and de
11V ± . _l 1...4 L —' - *% —
BDrrSiM Out DrivXiy.
Cnumey apent the afternoon in Mm
wttneaa hea vehemently denying Ma
wtfe'a accusation that he flogged her
child to death ea February •. Mr*
Una May Wright Cntrwy, bereelf
cotn-icted last week of manslaughter
aad now awaiting sentence, testifWd
against her huahand yesterday. She
has moved for new trial.
As the prt*<>ner waa led from the
courtroom, he mahitaiaed the mm
pMun that kai marked his through
net the trial since hie arreet the day
Has Blundered?"
Discussed By Prof. Coon
Sdkptl Situation in Junction Neighborhood of Monot
Airy CUts Attention of Noted State Edncator—DWcns
ston StiU Loot- Non*«r of CMdwn Ot of ScW.
bifwrHHrflH Ms—t A by
News of March «, ItM. fM
North Carolina ara ta the situation of
tha U Junction sett leanest children
who ara within »na Mf aUla of tha
Mount Airy North Main Street arhoal.
within one and owe half mOm of tha
Taah school, hot who ara rsqalrid to
attend tha Salein school tkm mllaa
aw*jr. You alao laava tha hBpeea
•Ion hi that editorial that tha •itna
tion in which thoaa Junction children
ara plarad ia due to tha attempt to
ran the arhoola by way of Raleigh,
•ayinc that your local school authori
ties "Hume it all on tha folks down
at Ratrlch-"
Dnrl; beloved, 1 trust you will not
take it amis* or mistake my motlm
if 1 submit Jut • few nrmarki on your
editorial aa a text.
1. That equation in which thoae
Junction children find themselves ia
due to nobody "down at Baleigh."
The constitution aays each county
•haU be divided into a can Ten tent
number of school diatricts and the
duty of making thoae achool district*
has Keen wholly imposed by law on
the cowrty hoard* of education sine*
list and barter* that ttrae on the coun
ty eommisaioMra from 18M-1M1. The
praaant achool law in arttela three,
section 28, aaya that "H la the duty
-f the county board of education to
provide an adoqnate achool system for
the benefit of all the children of the
county, aa directed by law. The
board of education shall so district
the county and locate the achoo's that
elementary and high school instruc
tion may he available for all the chil
dren of the county."
And the law does not atop there,
hut goes on to make it the duty of all
county boards of education to call in
the school committeemen and acting
with thoae achool officials to work out
a county plan of achool diatricta for
the development of the achool system
to the end that money may not be
wasted in building uaelea* achool
houtea or neglecting to provide ade
quate achool faeiiitiee for all the chil
dren of the county.
Therefore, f cannot imagine how
any local achool official in Surry
county can keep a straight face while
he "paaaea the bock" on the ahould
ers of the State Supt. of Public In
struction for the plight of those Junc
tion children.
2. Some )run ago tk* General
Assembly at the instigation of Mount
Airy citizens had a special act paseed
creating the Mount Airy Graded
School district, separate and indepen
dent of tbe county system of schools.
Aa no general law can now interfere
with the Mount Airy school district
/bus created, it follows that the coun
ty board of education of Surry coun
ty is stopped froai locating thoae
Junction children in the Mount Airy
School district. However, tbe general
school law provides amply and ade
quately for tbe enlargement of all
school districts, whether independent
like Mount Airy or whether they be
■peeial tax district*. Thoae Junction
people can vote themselves into the
Mount Airy district, if they are will
; ing to pay tbe Mount Airy special
school taxes and cm get tbe consent
of the school officials of tbe Mount
Airy school district. There ie no
1 question about tbe law being aa I
| have indicated. Hence, I am embold
ened to aay that any Mount Airy dti
un who is suffering in his mind about
tbe plight of tbeee Junction children
has already provided by law a wide
open and plain way to bring relief to
those Junction children who HMt now
walk three miles to school over muddy
8. I do not knew enough about the
structure of your Iocs) illtilidi to
' talk about the Salem district, the Teeh
| district and the Junction area with
assurance. At this distance, I iasa
ure not taitudsd la the Teeh district
is thet that district la a special
taxing district and that the
Jucothm area ie enteUe the Teeh tor
' Htory. However, the school law pro
vides for special teste* die
to 1
to school. That
to
the board of <
tr to
those Junction children la that
school. That course can not to nulli
fiad by wajr of laMfk. Thoaa "folks
down at Raleigh" can bs*e mo Tfto
power oe«r any of the rsmsdioa I am
suggesting tor tha relief of thoaa
Junction rhildm. And I am confi
dent, Mr. Editor, that there la Ml a
North Carolina child in the plight of
thoee Junction children who la not la
that plight on account of the aaifleh
mm of tht local ptopii or thoir Ha*
tred of paying achool taxes. I
yet to find a eaae each as you <
whith ia not doe to hatred of taxes or
to the fat hire on the part of the local
people to act aa good citiaena ought
to act. I have not found in all ay
long achool experience where any
hi Id haa been put in the plight of
'hoae Junction children by way of
Raleigh. The trouble ia not at Ral
eigh. It ia in Surry county. Tha
school law, as I have shown, provides
ample relief for that Junction area.
Finally, Mr. Editor. I hold aa brief
for Raleigh. But 1 do say that It IB
to say mean things
Raleigh, when all that is needed
their own General Assembly aaa pro
vided to eohre their own achool pro
blems. Charlee L. Coon.
Wilson, N. C.
FORBES ADMITTED TO
LEAVENWORTH
Former Director of VeUram'
Bureau Start* Serrkf His
Two-Yeer Term
Leavenworth. Kins., March 20.—
Charles R. Forbes, hero of the World
War and former head of the Veteran**
Bureau, today became a prisoner at
U e United State* penitentiary. The
man who was once entrusted with
$38,000,000 to spend in salvaging the
human wreckage of tip* World War
began serving a two-jrear sentence
for conspiring to defraud the govern
ment.
Although only 47 years old. Colonel
Forbes appeared to Warden Bihbie to
be a much older man. He limped a*
he walked slowly through the prim
gate. A stroke of paralysis a year
afo has stopped the lively step wtth
which Forbe* owe aiarched as a
d rammer boy in the Marines and later
led a signal battalion in Prance.
After physicians' report next week
about the state of the prisoner's
health, the warden wftl decide what
kind of work he will assign him. He
weighed only 150 pounds, while hi*
j normal weight was around 85.
Forbes had little to say except to
assure his keeper that he will "make
the test of H." He said his nearsat
' relative is his M year-old mother who
livea in Plymouth, Maaa.
The former chief at oee of tlm lar
i gwt bureaus of the Federal govern
ment was convicted laat year hi Chfca
; go. He and John W. Thorn peon, St.
I-otris and Chteaga contractor, wees
the government. Thornpeott. who is
j W year* eld, b ia a SL Loais hospital.
I too iO t* begin his two-y<sar aaa
' tenee. Biaa Mortimer. wto said he
j love. The trial of Parties and Thornp
sea broeght forth teatimony shoe*