Optimism Prevails As Opening Day
of Mount Airy Market Approaches
WAREHOUSES WILL OPEN OCT 5*
■It * lit.lt pmr ImM Uat ymr.
H* Mjm tkat la*f U Mttiac kick tkb
gmr ami ■! Mnufirturtn u« bwy
ing hfyn quantities of tobttco.
Cwtfy Fam Ageat Predicts Ml Airy
Market to be One'of Best in State
distant market. The Merchant* As
sociation of Mount Airy >* making
•vary effort to Maintain the suprem
aey In the tabaeea marlnto of (W
hmiiMiw and buyer* from the larger
special effort to eae that the hwim'
will g«t as much at home as in the
distant place*. Many farmer* have
found out from experience that the
local market often pays as much as'
the neighboring places. The Mar
chants Association experts to keep
one of their members on the floor
during the,sale* av if the seller ha*
any complaints to make he can Ale
them with the preventative* who
will help him to gat his grievaM*
straightened out
The folowing ia (aken from the
Aagaat IMS Sales Report iaaoed kg
the Crop Reporting >■ | It s at la
The tohaeeo markets hi the east
era counties (New Bright Be*) have
K9
age M par Ml
last year. *
fll
IMS MfMM U p
CMk*
rlo* in <D
(MMktef) Mld (t)
» 1.44MM
the total mIm U.<
not Ut the
of • mmU tobacco i
Ion hi
with the pnktklt good irim own •
heavy lacreasa in production next.
The law of Mppljr and <— and warka
rather peculiarly, a *m*ll crop aoan
high prim and a large crop low
price a. Vary frequently a on all crop
will put more profit In the pocket* of
the farmer* than the larger crop*. So
lata not gat too brer-enthusiastic about
the future and plant all of Barry
county ia tobacco. We shoald plant
enough wheat to supply the local
usee, and a large amount in tka feed
crop* Ilka oata, barley and rye. We
»bould always build up tka sail and
not daatroy k far a good aail la Ilka
so much money in tka bank, aa late
conserve our soil by Uta proper fann
mathada Wa should |iava aararal
hundred acres seeded to barley and
let awIm Aa ^ -S a - 11 M ^ J
in oruw w duiki our voil BwO
famUh a good supply of faad dor nfcet
year. If ana will plant baftay and
eateh. cpt-for hay in May and than
plant say t**na we wfll not hare ta
.ship in a«p«satoi hay from the i
and tka waat. Wa wtM have aa i
"Ewi Ymi*i IMtjr h
Vt
Superintendent Allen »ti mid tto
fart that th* ndn of tto state havs
full power to biltig about tto atflrt
month*' term hot that tt cannot to
> Ha pointed out that tto vary fact
that legislative enactment of tto
provision to altar tto coneUtatioo to
allow tto eight month*' term Mart
he "uhmtttMl to a referendum of tto
mtin voting population and tto*
taken bark to tto legislature in tto
cveat of favorable action for finan
cial legislation precludes tto poeai
Sility of eight month* achopla before
Itto term of ttM-M even if pami
i by tto coming general aweaibly and
approved by tto people.
"Da It Now."
He told hi* auditor* that to re
garded tto best way and tto quick
jest way ta aecare tto universal eight
montto' school hi the state waa by
tto ward hi article
j«. i t, af tto
I At A Glance
Florida H-rricane Takes Big
lew in LiTes lad Tropcftj
M1AMA AREA BOM BRUNT Of BEAST
THAT DEVASTATED FLOMDA COAST
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Happenings Twenty-one Years Ago
Interesting Item* (i Leanest Frtmi the Filex of' The
Mount Airy ,Vetr.i fJ Yearn Ago Thix M eek
The Mississippi n»*r is fast rising
and much property Is hi serious dang
«r. Goods from many at Um atoraa
in cities along the bank arc being
moved to higher ground.
New Orleans is battling with s yel
low fever epidemic and health
authorities profess le have the situ-;
ationUnder control. j
ft. D. DeVault has Just returned
from the northern soarkets where ho
pmihasad a big stock of drygoide aad
T. r. Batterfleld, new praprtotor of
the Central Hotel, has greatly im
proved Ito service.
Raia-tn-the-Face. Indian chief who
baaMto have personalty sMn Gen.
Oester. died hi Sab* Defeats at the
4. T.' Ksga^ hee'mU^s cigar far
torjr to W. ft. M* and 0. C Leift
the
IB
h.
IB
and near tht cftjr and ra»M
Idled while huddled together In •
tent neparated from their parent* in
a tnoriat ramp north of the city..
Dania. now part of HoHj au»d.
fared no better than the other».
Hnuaes were nept from their fowv
dationa, tree* uprooted, telephone and
telegraph pole* obetnMftad
highway and many were
haeaelH*. Northward hi
DeerfMd and Tants, the rlu*ter* *f
all bt which line the Dixie Highway,
Effort* to relWv*
by lack of
% *
Mat the fata ot to
a •
1«
iaally tajorod
The
; at faad Ik the city. The <
w*a .aid to he