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VOLUME XXXIV DISTRICT FARM AGENTS ARE HOLDING MEETING HERE Number of Distinguished Men In the Gathering The Session Will Come to a Close Saturday. The county agents for this district including some eighteen or twenty- counties, met here Wednesday for j their annual convention. A number j of leading agricultural experts, of! National and State Agricultural De partments are here and join in the discussion. The convention was called to or der Wednesday night by District Agent T. D. McLean. A most cor dial greeting was extended by Dr. E. T. White, after which the convention got right down to work. You would seldom find a more in telligent set of men anywhere. It is a delight to hear them discuss the ) many problems confronting the far mer and the welfare of the State and Nation. Some very able addresses have been delivered, and the one by Mr. W. T. Yancey, which appears in this paper, was loudly applauded. The round-table discussions are a most pleasant feature of the convention. The county agents will leave forjtime for tne ceremony of signing the their homes on the first train out from Oxford Saturday morning. Institutions Represented. The institutions represented in the convention are: U. S. Department of Agriculture; N. C. Department of Agriculture; N. C. Agricultural Ex tension Service; N. C. Agricultural Station and the State College of A. and E. Distingished Visitors. Mr. W. B. Mercier, Supervisor of Field Agent; Dr. I. W. Hill, supervi sor of Club Work; Mr. L. E. Yocum, plant Disease Survey Work; Direc tor B. W. Kilgore, N. C. Extension service; Mr. H. H. B. Mask, assist. State Agent; Mr. A. G. Oliver, poul try agent; Mr. W. W. Story, swine; Mr. N. E. Winters, soil; Mr. A. C. Kinrey, dairy; Dr. F. A. Wolf, plant diseases; Prof. Z. P. Metcalf, insects; Mr. Chas. S. Jones, marketing agent; Mr. Jones, V. P. I., Virginia; Mr. S. C. Lehman, potato storage, State College; O. F. McCrary, district a gent, Washington; N. B. Stevens, district agent, Wilson; E. S. Mill saps, district agent, Statesville; County Agents. H. H. Lowry, Washington; Mr. ! Fletcher, Trenton; J. E. Dodson, Greenville; B. T. Ferguson, Wilson; J. L. Holliday, Williamston; G. D. Burroughs, Nashville; A. K. Robert son, Goldsboro; Capt. R. V. Hood, Kinston; O. W. Collins, Kenansville; s A. M. Johnson, Smithfield; M. W. j Wall, Jackson; Mr. Nelson, New: Bern; F. G. Tarbox, Enfield; J. W. j Cameron, Wadesboro; J..W. Brown,,1 Monroe; C. S. MeLeod, Troy; D. S.J Coltrane, Asheboro; J. P. Kerr, Haw Paver; R. L. Edwards, Ore Hill; J. j C. Anthony, Lillington; R. R. Mclv-. " C 1 TT O T 1 . Di ftT1iref I Damuru; xi. . ruui, imcuui0i,. President Wilson, xvir. vanuer H. T. Prosser, Durham; W. H. Cham- . velde representing Belgium, is using blee, Jr., Wakefield; C. H. Stanton,. officiai seal the Belgian coat of Louisburg; J. A. Goodwin, Hender son; J. W. Boson, Warrenton; J. L. Dove, Oxford; Mr. James, Roxboro; J. W. Williamson, Yanceyville. Living High. The delegation is stopping at the Exchange Hotel, and Mr. Lonnie Smith, the srenial hotel man, is kill ing the fatted calf every day. delegation visited the Oxford phanage Thursday where they joyed a barbecue dinner. Tne j Or en- PEACE TO BE CELE BRATED JULY 4TH Washington Makes Preparations for Big Thanksgiving Pageant. (Washington Special.) The nations capitol will celebrate peace July 4. General Foch com mander in chief of the allied armies has been invited to be present. Wera it possible for him to come he would would be presented with a sword of Georgeown University. His broth er is on the faculty of the institution. Promoters of the celebration say it will be "the nations thanks giv iug day for the return of peace." DEPUTY STELL WOUNDED Deputy Collector J. A. Htitchens, of Oxford, Comes To His Rescue The Raleigh Times says that De puty Marshal Bud Stell received a wound Wednesday when an eighteen year-old negro girl administered a two-inch gash on his head with a sharp-edged plank while the mother was fighting to prevent an entrance into the house in Crabtree Creek township. While the struggle was in pro gress a negro boy attempted to shoot the officer with buck shot, but was prevented hv Demitv Collector J- A. Hutchens, of. Oxford, who struck him over the head with his revolver. V mr 1 I J PUBLISHED SEMIWEE7T,VTnnr THE AVAR COST MORE THAN SEVEN MILLION SOLDIER'S LIVES Washington, June 26. The war cost 7,582,300 soldiers liv es; between $185,000,000,000 and $195,000,000,000 in mon ey; the loss of 23,005,383 tons of merchant shipping, and 1, 882,125 tons of war vessels. These figures today were pre sented to league of nations op ponents by Senator McCumber, Dakota, a league .advocate, as the most , telling reason why the league should be ratified and fu ture wars prevented. The figures were gathered for McCumber by the war depart ment. itjo-t? OF SIGNING OF TH ETJREATY ARRANGED Saturday Afternoon Unofficially Set As the -Time Advices From Wei mar Are to Effect That German Plenipotentiaries Will Arrive In Versailles Saturday Morning. Paris, June 25. Unofficially Satur day afternoon has been set as the peace treaty of the allied and asso ciated powers on behalf of Germany. While the German plenipotentiar ies have not yet been announced, ad vices received from Weimar are to the effect that they will arrive in Versailles Saturday morning. No Speech From Germans. M. Clemenceau will open the cere monies with a brief introduction. No speech is expected from the Ger mans. William Martin, of the French foreign office, as master of ceremonies will then carry the treaty to President Wilson and the prem iers, who will sign at their seats. After the treaty is brought back to the signature table, the names of the other delegates will be called, arid they will advance and sign. It is expected that the signing will require two hours. The seals of all the delegates will be affixed in ad vance. Many of them are already in the hands of the French foreign of fice. ... .. .... - 4 ' . ' . ,- The Seals. President Wilson is using the President's seal, which is an eagle, with the words "Seal of the Presi dent of the United States." Some of the seals supplied by the delegates are merely monograms un adorned, in striking contrast .to' the elaborate coats of arms supplied by Premier Paderewski, of Poland, and other European officials. The French treaty experts regard the Chinese and Japanese seals as the most artistic. These are chiefly the names of the delegates in orien tal letters, and are adorned with flowers and quaint figures. The expectation was that strictly personai seals would be used, but, -mm T-T 1 arms encircled by the words "Minis ter of Justice." Order of Signatures. The German delegates will sign af ter the allies. The order in which the allied dele gates will sign after the signatures nf the President and premiers are attached will be according to the al phabetical order of the names of the countries they represent. When the signatures are completed, the en- ftente party will emerge on the ter race at the side of the palace, wnere all the great fountains will be play ing in the gardens. The Germans will leave on the side where they en tered. THE GRANVILLE COUNTY FAIR iv Exhibited Will Be a , Leading Feature. In conversation with Messrs. F. W. Hancock, Jr., and B. K. Lassiter, who are bent on making the Gran ville County Fair a success this fall we. learn that there will be much wholesome rivalry this year among the various communities of the coun ty who contemplate capturing first prize All community exhibits will be awraded a prize, but the leading community exhibit will get the cap ital Prize. It is hoped that at least a dozen communities of the county will have exhibits. . The Granville County Fair will be held a few days in advance of the State fair. The community captur ing the grand prize at the Granville County Fair will stand a good chance of winning a handsome prize at the state fair. Hotel Burned The big Seashore Hotel at Wrights- f:n -RAanh. was burned to tne T iilv ' clock last night. giUUUU More than 300 guests escaped un- hurt, w . . , .v;.:-A. OXFORD, NORTH CAROLINA, HOW THE BANKER CAN HELP THE FARMER AND THE COUNTY DEMONSTRATOR Mr. W. T. Yancey's Address To the County Agents of the District, De livered At the Court House Inj Oxford Wediiesdnv I have been asked to discuss in brief the subjopt "How the Banker can help the Farnier." I do not ex pect of course to be able to tell you any novel or untried ways in which these two important industries may link up their operations in such a way as to mutually help each ether. The best I can hope to do is to gath er together a few thoughts ' and methods that have come out of the experience of many leaders who are thinking along this line, and per haps with, a slightly varied setting add a renewed interest, or at least by a kind of repetition give empha sis to what is already known. It is an unquestioned fact that the banker and farmer are partners in the great task of feeding and cloth ing the world. .The greatest finan cier in this country today recently said: "There are three fundamental factors in our commercial life, production, transportation, and fi nancing." It is indeed a fine feeling to be connected with so important a part of human advancement. Bank ing is something more than counting money and farming is something more than following a plow. In this day of specialized activities each business or occupation or profession has its own function to perform or else the welfare of the whole is en dangered. I may not know how many feet apart to set out tobacco. plants, but at the same time I like toian early date. feel that I, and the institution which r Tne contracting parties, it is said, I represent, are an integral part of have agreed upon the terms of the the agricultural life of our county, "traveling covenant of the progres The banker and the farmer are, and sive marriage," which, it is said, always have been linked together in Tvputs love to its severest test. The d uiieci ui more or less muirect re- 1 lation. It is only within the more recent years, however, that the vital interrelation of these two factors has been clearly seen and the proper estimate put upon their cooperation. I want to tell you of a little per sonal experience that first set me. thinking seriously along the line of the great value of better methods of farming and how these better meth ods put into widespread application would benefit the whole country. I am going to relate this little incident because it is largely through such personal experiences and observa tions that we get ideas coming with such force as to goad us into action, i. Several years ago I bought a cow for the use. of my family. She was an excellent animal , and I become much interested in the fine results we got from her both in the quality 7 and quantity of the milk and but ter. About this time I went on snort visit. 10 a menu, who iiveti 011 a farm in Person county. Being in terested in my own cow I naturally observed more carefully the cattle on this farm, and asked many ques tions about the amount of milk and butter produced. To my great as tonishment I learned that from five cows about the same results were ob tained as I was getting from one. Each of these cows had to be fed, milked, sheltered, and otherwise cared- for and yet altogether they gave in return for this labor and ex pense just what could have been gotten from one good one The question naturally came to my mind why should all this extra work and expense be undertaken without any profit resulting from it. I talked the matter over with my friend and suggested that he sell the five cows and buy one good one. I thought I was making a good point especially in view of the fact that he had just been complaining of the scarcity of labor on the farm soon found out that I had run up a gainst a mass, of conservatism and j naDit mat wouiu taxe more mau U1AC suggestion to surmount His 1 cowa were as good as any tnat naa ever been raised on the farm and he did not see that what had been good e- nougn m tne past was not goou nough at present. I am glad to say, however, that he lived long enough to change his view and after a while profited by my suggestion. ' When I came home I began to let the thought brought out by the com parison of the cows extend out over the wide field of our business terri tory. I got out my pencil and did a little bit of multiplying. If one farm is losing time, capital, and la bor, by feeding and milking cows that return so little profit, what a tremendous loss it must be if we mul tiply this one unit by a hundred, a. thousand, ten thousand? My friend's loss was relatively small. The loss in the aggregate covering just the territory of our business would be large. The loss to the country as a whole would run up into the hun dreds of thousands from this one source alone. With this 'thought to start with If could easily extend the application to many other operations on the farm. If it doesn't pay to milk and care for poor cows, why does.it pay to feed poor hogs? Why should good time be taken up with a poor grade of poultry? Why should a man use poor seed for his crops to try to cultivate them with time-wasting tools and inade quate power? With these thoughts as propellers I induced our bank to take an inter- ( Continued On Pace Two) I FRIDAY. .TTTXTO 27 1010 IT COST NEARLY $800,000 AN HOUR TO WHIP GERMANY It too nearly cost $800,000 r an hour, 21 hours a day, from April 6, 1917, to June 1, 1919, V for the United States army to " put up the fight necessary to , beat Germany, Secretary Baker ; informed the special house com mittee investigating war depart - ment expenditures. The figure ' breaks all records of government , departments in the history of ' the country. The daily expenditure was ' about $19,000,000, which made a total cost in slightly more , than two years more than $14,- 000,000,000. To that must be " added the expenditures of the navy department shipping board and all the special bureaus be sides the increased expense to the regular s departments to ob v tain the total war bill of the country. THE CONTRACTING PARTB3S : LIVE IN GRANVDLLE The Latest Fad Under the Sun Is , The "Progressive Marriage." Marriage and given in marriage is the order of the day. The "progres sive marriage," which was introduc ed into this country since the advent of the world war, and which is very popular in the Western States, is' to be solemnized in Granville county at marriage ceremony will take place at the home of the bride in the coun try. Immediately after the vows 'have been taken, the bride and groom will motor to Oxford shake hands and say good-bye to each oth er for the time-being. The groom will hand his bride a ticket over the Seaboard road to Raleigh via Henderson. At almost the same hour of her departure from Oxford, the groom will be speeding to Ra leigh over the Southern railway via Durham. - The bride and groom are to meet in the Union Station at Ra leigh, shake hands and continue the journey back to Oxford, the bride returning via Durhamand the groom via Henderson. It is agreed that the bride may wear flowers and flirt to her heart's content while on her bridal tour, but the groom is to act as if he was deaf and dumb and speak not a word to 'any one from the time he leaves Ox ford until he returns. He will be permitted to meet his bride in Ox ford and escort her home, but he must endure silence until he enters the door of his own cottage. The "progressive marriage," it is said, teaches the bride self-reliance and the groom endurance and wis dom. MILLION ALIENS PLANNING TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY Each One Will Take $3,000 With Him Negroes Will Fill Their Places. Ethelbert Stewart, director of the Investigation and Inspection Service of the 'Department of Labor, an nounced that a nation-wide inquiry into the prospective emigration of aliens to their own countries shows that 1 300 000 are preparing to heave "inasmuch as these aliens have . . . a,, not been able to send money home for four years," he adds, they are e-;ior me most part yi u v mcu wrm am ple funds, and it is estimated that the average amount each one will carry with him is about $3,000." Mr. Stewart said an effort would be made to fill the places of the outgoing aliens with negroes from the South. "And," he said, "prob ably despite ordinances against re cruiting labor, or any other effort that could be made to check it, this would be largely successfulfl Just 'now the Inspection and Investigation Service through the Division of Ne gro Economics, is able to deal intel ligently with this question of negro exodus from the South. "We have been able to reach negro workers thru advisory com mittees made up jointly of the mem hprs rf hnth races in some States of the South. Industrially, there fnrp. we are facing a drive of one 'section of the country to get lbaorers from another section of the country to fill the gap made." Cotton Takes a Jump. The news that the Germans were going to sign the treaty together with the crop reports sent cotton up several points. New Orleans mar ket was up 34 to 78 points. New York market made an advance' of 'around 40 points. v . I T 1 , OPPORTUNITIES ALL HOME PRINT. LAST DRAFTED MEN BACK FROM FRANCE . WITH UNIT OF 81ST Newport, News, Va., June 25. Nine officers and 470 men of the 306th Supply Train, 81st (Wild Cat) Division, arrived in port Wed nesday on the United States. Ship Montpelier from St. Nazaire, which brought a total of 2,400 men. Other troops aboard were veteri nary Hospital No. 7, XeMans Provis ional Battalion No. 145; headquar ters detachment 13th Battalion; 20th Engineers; several service compan ies of the Twentieth Engineers, and a part of the 43rd Service Battal ion. STEM NEWS NOTES. (W. R. MANGUM.) Close Call. Mr. C. G. Nelms, 'manager of Stem Garage, was the victim of a very painful accident Monday. He was adjusting a band on his gasoline en gine, when he accidentally came in contact with the large band wheel which tossed him several feet in the air and struck the floor with tremen dous force resulting in severe shock, and soreness but fortunately, no broken bones. Primitive Baptists . The lower county line, Primitive Baptist Association will be held with the church at Shiloh, in Person coun ty, eight miles north of Roxboro, on Saturday before the first Sunday in August, and continue three days. Those coming by rail by Durham will be met. at Woodsdale, N. C, on Sat urday morning at. 8 :30 o'clock. Those Trom the north by Sbuth Boston, Va., will .be met at same place at 9 o' clock and conveyed to the church, Two miles distant. Elder J. J. Hall Will preach the introductory ser mon. . ' Accepts Position. Mr. L. E. Jones, who for the past year has represented Augustus Wright Shoe Company, of Lynch burg, as traveling salesman, has ac cepted a position as clerk with Mr. J. H. Gooch. Mr. Jones has grown up in the mercantile business and is familiar with every detail ! of the. work. Wheat Crop Snorr. Wheat threshers are getting busy in this vicinity and we regret to note that a short crop of wheat is report-1 ed with small turn out. Popular Soldier. Perhaps no soldier who has re turned to this county has been given a more cordial and hearty reception than was extended to Private Lee Ed Whitaker upon his arrival at his home here Sunday evening. Practi cally the entire population gathered at his home by the time his car ar rived from, Henderson, where his father, mother and sister met him Sunday afternoon. It will be remem bered that he was severely -wounded on November 10, and for some time the doctors advised him that his leg must be amputated or he would have no chance of recovery, but he stub bornly refused to consent to opera tion and told them that he would ?take chances rather than lose a limb Gangrene and blood poisoning later set in and for 27 days and nights he lay flat of his back in the hospital unable to move. Private Whitaker is a walking encyclopedia of infor mation relative to the war and its horrors. Everybody rejoices with his people that he has arrived at home safely after such an hair-breadth es cape from death. THE FLU EPIDEMIC IS FEARED AGAIN NEXT WINTER Surgeon General Pressing Congress ToBegin Health Offensive. Washington, June 26. Fearing a revival next winter of the "Flu" epidemic, Surgeon General Blue is pressing congress to appropriate $200,000 to begin a health offensive Medical men favor starting a cam paign now to fight the epidemic which swept the country last winter Education of the public and preven tive hygiene can prepare the country to stand the shock of the epidemic if It appears again, they say. PRESIDENT WILSON WTLL SAUL FOR HOME SATURDAY Paris, June 26. President Wil son plans to leave for Brest imme diately after the signing of the treaty, sailing from that port to New York Saturday morning:. BAPTIST CONGREGATION WTLL GREET REV. STEWART OGLESBY There will be no services at the Oxford Baptist church next Sunday night. The congregation will wor ship at the Presbyterian church and greet Rev, Stewart Oglesby, who will "be ordained at the morning service. NUMBER 51 HOW ST. JOHN'S DAY WAS SPENT IN OXFORD Six Thousand Visitors and Two Thousand Automobiles Line the Streets Only .One Arrest For Drunkness and a Three-Cornei-ed Fight Da a Back Lot. With six thousands people added to the floating population of Oxford, and two thousand automobiles dart ing in and out and around the street corners, it is remarkable that there was not a single fatality here last Tuesday in celebrating St. John's Day. An Incident 17 -Years Ago. The day was indeed quiet unevent f ul as compared with the reign of Judge W. A. Devin seventeen years ago when he was mayor of Oxford. Early in the morning on St. John's Day of that '"period the ' policemen told Mayor Devin that the ''lock-up" was full of drunks and asked him what disposition should be made of later arrests. Mayor Devin was equal to the occasion and went out and closed the doors of the dispensary, and as fast as the men in the lock-up became sober he told them to leave town at once. Time Wroughts Change. With the exception of one drunk and a three-cornered light in a back lot the day passed off quietly. The man who was drunk, down and out told Chief Hobgood after he sobered up that he got his liquor on the train. He was from near Wendell, and when he was released from cus tody late in the evening he made a "bee-line for home, thanking the chief for the excellent care he took of him. Free-For-AU Fight. It is related how three men gath ered in a back lot and fought des perately with their fists for five minutes. In the melee a by-stand-er became frightened at the sledge hammer blows administered to the head of his neighbor, and hastened 'to find the wife of the man and in formed her that her husband was getting the worst of the fight. It is stated that the infuriated woman rushed into a grocery store and grab bed a-broom , and dispersed the. fight- , ers "before the police arrived on the scene. Dry Crowd. The town authorities provided a fountain in front of the Court House where the visitors could quench I their thirst. Five thousand paper drinking cups were placed at the disposal of the crowd, but it is strange to relate that only twenty three cups of the five thousand were removed from their sockets. False Report. It was reported that a child was killed by an automobile on the out skirts of Oxford -early in the day, but this report was without founda tion; however, a man's shoulder was broken in an auto collision on the National Highway one mile north of Oxford. He lived in Virginia and was on his way home when the acci dent occurred. DISMANTLING OF THE AMERICAN WAR MACHINE Signing of Peace Treaty Will See Increased Speed In Putting Nation On a Peace Ba,sis. Washington, June 26. Signing of the peace treaty by Germany will see a spurt in the dismantling of the American war machine. Aside from the increased speed in demobilization of the army that will result, many or tne war laws and big war bureaus will pass away automatically when President Wil son issues his proclamation of peace. This is some weeks off for the senate must ratify the treaty before the peacemaking process is com pleted. Among the important war-time laws which will expire when peace officially comes are: Trading with the enemy, which authorizes the mail, cable and tele graph censorship and the war trade 'boards. Espionage act; Draft act; food and fuel conser vation acts which created the food and fuel administrations; Act authorizations government possessions and control of telegraph, -cables and radios; act authorizes the United States to loan unlimited amounts to the allies. REV. G. T. TUNSTALL HAS PROBABLY EMBARKED Dr. J. D. Harte, pastor of the Ox ford Baptist church, received a let ter from Rev. G. T. Tunstall a few days ago, who is now in the Y. M. tJ. A. service abroad, stating that he hopes to reach America the first of "July. Mr. Tunstall is pastor of three br four churches in Granville coun ty." -
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