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WARRENTON, N. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28TH, 1917
(FRIDAY)
Number 109
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A SEMI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF WARRENTON AND WARREN COUNTY
A n r t t
DR. TAYLOR'S OLD
TIMES IN WARREN
Original and Selected Matter Es
pecially Secured for Those
Who Read the Record.
FARMERS DONATE
TO RED CROSS.
FRANCE ASKING U.
S. FOR SUGAR.
HAPPENINGS WITH
CHEESE HAS VERY
GOOD FOOD VALUE.
A COTTON PICKER
PROVES SUCCESS.
BOYS IN KAKHI
I will not be able to furnish origi
nal copy for this department of the
Wavren Record, until after the close
of the Tar River , Association, which
meets with Gardners Church October
10th and 11th.
In the meantime let us give our
undivided attention to present duties.
This perhaps can best be done by
actively co-operating with the Red
Cross movement. The call for such
service is imperative and the need
is great.
Let no one think that the activities
of others justifies his neglect; for the
work is so great that the diligence of
all is a necessity. Those who are at
work at home as truly help the great
cause in which our country is engaged
as do the soldiers on the field.
T. J. TAYLOR,
Chm. Publicity Committee.
Sidney Lanier
My soul was a quest for to find Lanier,
And the little gray leaves said 'once
he was here.'
Then the meadow land broad and the
forests dim
Declared that they still remember him.
I questioned a mockingbird: first he
was mute,
Then he trilled me some notes from a
Bohemish flute;
And the riddle made plain: it was
mock-bird lore
Snatched from a gleeman gone before.
The hills of Habersham heard my cry,
And the Chattahoochee came racing by
In a torrent of grief: and corn and
clover
In the valleys of Hall, told me over
and over "
'He is gone! He is gone!'
And out from the marshes, the mar
shes of Glynn
Came the pitiful wail of a wild marsh
hen
League-broad, and waist high, 'twist
the land and the main,
The marsh grass quiveied with infin
ite pain.
Then a glad gold beam shot down
from the sky,
And my eager soul with upfiashed eye
Beheld for the seer his wish had won,
Lanier afloat by his friend, the Sun.
Wightman Fletcher Melton.
Peace, Perfect : Peace.
When we think of peace wo strike
a deeper note than when we think of
joy. The latter may be described as
the sparkle on the wave or the flower
on the stem. The former is rather of
the spirit and the inner life than of
the outward expression. We have
been told that far down beneath the,
ocean, no matter how great the agita
tion of the billows in wind and storm,
there is a strange quietness. This
tranquility may exist in the heart
underneath surface agitation and dis
tressing experience. One may be in
great sorrow and even in agony of
soul, and yet have the peace that pass
eth all understanding, serene and un
abated; the sorrow not disturbing the
Peace, and the peace not lessened by
the sorrow. Which of us who have
undergone a period of suspense, anxi
ety and dread because the death angel
was hovering over a home, or because
there seemed hanging over us a trad
edy of which perhaps we could not
sPeak, has not felt the calming touch
f the Savior's peace. "-My peace I
give unto you," he said, "not as the
world giveth give I unto you." There
re those who walk among us wearing
m their countenances the look of the
victor. They have gone through storm
and have known tribulation, but peace
has come to them and its serenity is
m their faces.
In certain moods we lose sight or
he fact that peace is not of our own
making or our own earning; it is the
gift of Christ, yet if we want it it is
wrth asking for. . Ask and ye shall
receive; seek and ye hall find."
read the other day of a Scottish
1Vlne Wno was never contented to stop
paying until he was sure he had his
!!ewith God. He did not sim-
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At the Warehouses Here During
Last Week, and Those Solic
iting for the Red Cross.
Last week's sales on the tobacco
market here were the largest of the
season. Prices were good, the far
mers pleased, the warehousemen sat
isfied. The Red Cross had a good
week and secured $210.00 from the
sale of tobacco donated by the far
mers last week.
The following ladies worked at the
warehouse last week: Mrs. V. L. Pen
dleton, Mrs. H. A. Boyd, Mrs. J. E.
Rooker, Mrs. A. C. Blalock, Miss Alice
Rooker, Miss Laura Burwell,Miss Jen
nie Jackson, Miss Mamie Williams,
Miss Sue Burroughs, Miss Edith Bur
well, Mrs. T. D. Peck, Mrs. C. E. Jack
son, and Mrs. W. N. Boyd
A list of thefarmers who donated
is given below:
Nathan Clanton, W. H. 'Phillips, J.
E. Harris, Fred Williams, Washing
ton Davis, Sol Williams, A. R. Rosser,
William H. Davis, James Algood, J.
A. Daniel, Moses Davis, James Drake,
Major D. Dortch, M. C. Alexander,
W. H. Wilson, R. A. Williams, A. L.
Thompson, O. J. Salmon, Chas. Tally,
Jeff Nicholson, N. T. Bolton, Bob
Davis, A. W. Hall, J. W. Adcock, L.
A. Burnett, Foster Robertson, G. W.
Smithwick, J. C. Coleman, W. J. Wat
son, J. B. Overby, W. C. Brown, J. W.
Jones, Joseph Shearin, C. J. Fleming,
C. D. Curtis, Robt. Dunn, Raymond
Burchett, John Williams, Mc K.
Wright, Willie Perry, Hugh Reams,
A. G. Perkinson, Jack Pope, T. R. Per
kinson and Shearin, C. W. Perkinson,
Joe Stallings, Robinson and Hawkins,
Felts and Davis, S. R. Duke, Nat Wil
liams, Walter Alston, H. R. Russell,
Allen 'Martin, Burwell and Massen
burg, Howard Riggan, Charlie Myrick,
J. D, White, M. C. Gill, C. P. Paschall,.
Sidney Jiggett, J.-Jw-Harris, M, C.;,
Perry, Peter Allen, W. J. Paschall, O.
J. Salmon, King Kelly, Toni Warrick,
Tom Allen, V. J. Shearin, J. H. Duke,
King & Townes, J. F. King, Joe Stal-.
lings, J. M. Adcock, Peter Meadow,
A. H. Porter, J. H. Hopkins, John
Collins, J. R. Thompson, Nick Hunt,
i Charlie Jones, Frank E. Shearin, W.
C. Brown, G. W. Harper, R. P. Per
kinson, James Drake, L. C. Perkinson,
John Boyd, Mrs. M. Collins, Alfred
Alston, V. B. Smith, Moses Burton,
Charlie Thrower, Will Young, R. ,B.
Cyrus & Harper, J. BT Collins, Davis
& Williams, W. C. Alston, Robert
Rivers, Bob Alston, Eugene Overby,
Peoples & Aycock, Wil Ball, King &
Pearson Walter Felts, Carroll & Fal
con, Kinchen Williams, Jacob Brown,
Ben Davis, C. Davis, H. Munn, John
Davis, Jim Mayfield, R. B. Warrick,
IG. B. Fitts, T. W. Browne, M. T. Prid-
gen, W. H. Holloway, W. H. Kussell,
Thompson & Stegail, Thomas Thorpe,
Armstead Johnson, Howard Dent,
Friday Burton, Robert Mayo, Mr. J.
Haskins, G. R. Russell, Phoenix Davis
Alfred Carroll, Gus Williams, C. W.
Perkinson, Ernest Newell, and Robert
Brown.
Interesting News
From Afton Section.
People You Know Gathered
Local and Personal Mention of
By Afton Correspondent.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Martin and chil
dren visited Mrs. Martin's parents Mr.
and Mrs. Capps near Manson Sunday.
Mr. H. B. Hunter and Mrs. Jerman
Hunter and little son, Jerman, Jr.,
spent Sunday with Mr. J. B. Davis
and family of Shocco ,
Mr. and Mrs. Blount Hunter, Mr.
Robert Hunter, of Norfolk and Miss,
Helen . Henges, of New York, spent
the week end with Mr. H. B. Hunter.
Mr. Bryan Williams went to War
renton Monday.
Mrs. J. William Limer is visiting
relatives in New York City.
Mr. Claude Tunstal, of Axtelle, was
in Afton on business Friday.
Mr. H. P. Reams went to Warren
ton on business Saturday.
Mr. J. W. Falkner went to Warren
ton Monday.
Mrs. J. A. Ridout and son Frank,
of, Axtelle, visited relatives here on
Thursday - v; !
French Asking Permission to Im
port 100,000 Tons of Sugar
From the United States.
Raleigh, September 26th, 1917 The
urgency of prompt action upon the
part of the hiuseholds,hotels and cafes
of the country in falling in line with
the programme of the Food Adminis
tration is strikingly suggested in a
telegram received by State Food Ad
ministrator Henry A. Page today from
MrHerbert Hoover, U.S. Food Ad
ministrator. The telegram, which
must receive a response from all true
Americans, is as follows:'
"We have received a request from
the French Government that we allow
them to export from the United States
100,000 tons of sugar during thenext
month and probably more at a later
period.
"Our own situation is that we have
just sufficient sugar to maintain bur
normal consumption until the first of
January when the new, West Indian
crop becomes available to all. Our
consumption is at the rate of 90 lbs.
per person each year, a little under
four ounces per day per person. The
French people are on a ration of sugar
equal to only 21 ounces per annum per
person or at the rate of less than one
single ounce per day per person, a
little more than the weight of a silver
dollar each day. The English and Ita
lian nations are not over one ounce
per day.
"The French people will be entirely
without sugar for over two months if
we refuse to part withenough from
our stocks to keep them supplied with
even this small allowance as it is not
available from any other quarter. Su
gar e en to a greater amount than the
French ration is a human necessity.
If our people will reduce by one-third
their purchases and consumption of
candy ?nd , of sugar for other uses
than pi'eserving fruit ; which "we" do
not wish to interfere with, we can
save the French situation.
"In the interest of the French peo
ple ard of the loyalty we owe them
to dhide our food in the maintenance
of our common cause, I ask the Am
erican people to do this.
"It is unthinkable that we refuse
their requests."
"HERBERT HOOVER."
News of Interest
From Wise Vicinity.
Live News From Wise As Gath
ered By the Warren Record's
Progressive Correspondent
Mrs. M. H. Hayes and Miss Helen
House v have been shopping in Rich
mond this week.
Mr. D. P. Hicks has returned from
a three weeks,, visit in Richmond.
Mr. L. N. Perkinson, of La Crosse,
visited relatives in Wise this week.
Mr. and Mrs. U. M. Rochelle and
child are visiting Mr. Rochelle's near
Wilmington, N. C.
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Fleming, of
near Henderson, were guest of Mr and
Mrs. W. H. S. White Sunday.
1 The new flag for the schoolhouse
has been ordered. When it arrives
it will be hoisted with approprate ex
ercises and it is hoped that a Red
Cross Auxiliary may be organized at
the same time. ' t
Next Sunday will be observed as
State-Wide Go-To-Sunday School Day
at Sharon Church. A special program
will be provided. Our Sunday School
is one of the largest in the county
the average regular attendance being
over one hundred. Pastor Johnson
will be present next Sunday.
! Mr. Thomas Perkinson, Mr. Mellie
Coleman and Mr. Frank Dunn have
been elected delegates to the Tar River
Association to be held at Gardner's
soon.
The regular meeting of the Better
ment Association will be held Friday
afternoon Oct. 5th at the School house
at 3:30 p. m. It is urgent that a full
attendance be present so that the of
ficers for another year may be elected.
Invitations of the marriage of Miss
Helen House to Mr. John Herbert Tay
lor to take place at Calvary Methodist
Church in Thelma on Wednesday even
ing, October tenth, has been received
here by the many . friends of Miss
House.
Pay Day and Its Attendant Bless
ings Has Arrived; Visitors;
News of the Camp.
Camp Sevier, S. C, Sept 23rd Mrs.
William K. Lifsey and Miss Ethel
Wiggins, of Norlina, arrived in Green
ville Friday morning to visit Mr. Lif
sey and other friends and relatives.
Mrs. Lifsey will remain in Greenville
for some time while Mr. Lifsey is
stationed at Camp Sevier. Miss Wig
gins after a pleasant visit to Green
ville and Camp Sevier leaves Monday
for her home in Norlina.
The great day for which so many
of the boys in khaki have been sadly
waiting came Friday!
Pandemonium hroke loose on the
drill field when the band came out and
began to play "Pay Day." .The shouts
that sped forth from those thousand
throats will raise Kaiser Bill's hair
on end when they reach France.
Mr. , Carey Price, of Atlanta, Ga.,
was at Camp Sevier today, the guest
of ; his brother Captain Edward C.
Price. Mr. Price is in charge of the
engineering work at Camp Gordon.
Sergeant Eric Norfieet left Saturday
afternoon on a five day furlough, be
ing called home on account of the ill
ness of his brother.
The merchants, shop keepers, and
jitney owners, of Greenville, are pro
fiting from the recent pay day.
Company H. is in the throes of an
epidemic of sore arms, the result of
the anti-typhoid and small pox vac
cinations. Corporal Rodwell Gardner, the Beau
Brummel of H. Company, reports a
big time at the Red Cross dance in
Greenville Friday t night. ......
The Y. M. C. A.1 is organizing class
es in French phrases 'to teach .those
of the soldiers who desire such knowl
edge, how to find their way around in
Fra&e; Theyalsx. -.propose -tol give
free motion pictures two nights Irt
each week,
R. CROSS LOOKING
AFTER CHILDREN.
The Germans Turn . Loose Gas
on Toul, City in War Zone,
Children Rushed Away.
The Red Cross War Council has re
ceived the following report from Red
Cross Headquarters in France:
"As an example of activities in be
half of the civil population of France,
we have established a temporary chil
drens' shelter at Toul, a city in a sec
tion of the war zone recently bombard
ed by the enemy.
"The perfect of the Department tel
egraphed to a worker at Paris that
750 children had been suddenly thrust
upon his hands and that he needed im
mediate assistance.
"The next day eight workers left the
Red Cross headquarters, a doctor, an
experienced nurse, two auxiliary nurs
es, a bacteriologist, an administrative
director and two women to take charge
of the bedding, clothing, food, etc.
"They found that 21 of the children
were infants under one year and the
remainder were under eight years.
They were herded together in an old
barracks, dirty, practically unlurnisii
ed and with no sanitary appliances.
Sick children were crowded in with the
well and skin disease and vermin a
bounded. .
"Within two days the children had
been thoroughly cleaned and transfer
red to a new and clean barracks. Med
ical care had been given and nurses
secured for the babies, suitable food
provided and a classification of all the
refugees made to prevent the sepa
ration of members of the same' fam
ily. The organization of an institu
tion for the care of these children has
been worked out. .
"The French Government has pro
vided a new brick barracks of ten
buildings, situated on a hillside a mile
from Toul, and will furnish coal, water
light, rough labor, beds "and bedding,
rations and transportation of supplies.
"The Red Cross is to direct the work
of supplying doctors, nursts and ad
ministrative officers, and of installing
sanitary apparatus. Twelve shower
baths have already been set up.x Sup
plies are being provided for recrea
tion, education and the vocation train
ing of children.
The High Value of Buttermilk
Cheese as A Substitute yf or
Meat Shown in Article.
Among the many good substitutes
for meat, buttermilk cheese is given
high rank by those who have studied
the matter. It has about the same
food value, pound for pound, as lean
beef steak. It is also smooth in tex
ture and can bespread on bread like
butter, or used in sandwiches either
with or without butter. Some people
use it on the table just as it is made.
Others season it with salt and black
pepper,' mixed with cream, two to five
percent of Spanish pimento, peprika,
chopp d pickles, olives or nuts, or us
ed in salads.
The buttermilk cheese is made just
as easily as cottage cheese . and in
many respects is its superior, accord
ing to the information given ; by the
Dairy Office of the Animal Industry
Division. The general farm home ,is
familiar with cottage or clabber cheese
but. very few of them know butter
milk cheese.
In making this cheese it is neces
sary to use a good flavored butter
milk if the finished product is to have
a desirable flavor. The cheese is a
perishable product, and will become
rancid after two or three days if not
kept at a low temperature.
When only a few pounds of butter
milk cheese are to be made at a time
the fresh buttermilk, without further
treatment, should be heated from 130
to 140 degrees Fahrenheit for 10 or
15 minutes and removed from the
stove. After standing for one-half
an hour it should be poured into a
cheese-cloth bag and allowed to udry
from one to four hours. It may be
immediately squeezed dry if desired.
The cheese should then be salted to
taste, jWhich, on the average, is at the
ratepfL one jaunce ofsalt to each five
pounds "bf cheese. Precaution should
be observed that the milk is not cook
ed to a higher temperature than has
been given or even held too long at
the proper temperature, as it is then
likely to be very dry. Experience with
making the cheese will soon overcome
any difficulty experienced along this
line.
Brieflets From Creek
Section of County.
After a Long Absence Ruth Re
ports Again On Interesting
News From Her Section.
Mr. John Geoghegan who has been
sick with a cold is very much improv
ed. Mr. Howard Duke and family visit
ed Mrs. Duke's mother at Airlie this
week.
Miss Mattie Clarke has returned
from a visit to her sister near Cokes
bury. The many friends of Mr. J. Walter
Cook around Creek were pleased to
have him make, them a visit last week.
It is very interesting to hear him
relate his many and varied experiences
while visiting almost every part of
the world since he has been in the
U. S. Navy. - ,
Miss Susie Pridgen, who is at school
in Louisburg spent several days at
home last week, and returned to the
College last Monday.
Mr. Jeff Davis, who is in training at
Camp Sevier, spent a few hours at
the home of Mr. J. S. Davis Thursday.
' Miss Gertrude . Cree, of Kentucky,
who has been visiting in the neigh
borhood has gone to Littleton to spend
some time with her brother. RUTH.
: Tobacco and Warrenton
J. H. Lewis, a farmer of Halifax
county, . sold tobacco in Warrenton
I Thursday, and went home carrying
with him $1062.00 from his sale. This
was one of the largest individual sales
ever recorded here.
$238.00 For One Load.
Ollie Rose, of Norlina, sold one load
of Seed cotton here Thursday which
brought him $238.00. This is the high
est price a load of seed cotton - has
ever brought here.
If you are filling your field and
growing with it then, all is well,
but hike ye and keep on hiking, lest
another more fit crowd you out.
Device of Alabamian Is Given
Practical Demonstration and
Is Pronounced Perfect.
Griffin, Ga What may ultimately
come to take its place by the side or
Whitney's great invention and in the
process revolutionize the cotton in
dustry in the south, received a prac
tical demonstration at the Georgia ex
periment station here Friday when a
I machine that actually will pick cotton
j was given a thorough test. The inven
tion belongs to Carroll Stukenburg,
formerly of Selma, Ala., but whose
home now is in Chicago. The young
man has devoted fourteen years to
perfecting the machine to its present
(efficiency. Associated with him is his
"brother, Fred Stukenburg, who financ
' ed him through the long years of dis
appointments and discouragements. -.
The demonstration was in charge of
Cliff Clay and a party from Americus
and was witnessed by experiment sta
tion directors and many of the leading
farmers and business, men of Spalding
county.
The mechanical cotton picker is so
simple that it can be operated by a
child, and it will do the work of sev
eral men, far more easily and thor
oughly. After two weeks of demon
stration -under the most severe tests
and with all kinds of cotton on the
plantation of Mrs. Mary B. Clay, twenty-four
miles from Americus, the cot
ton picker was Wednesday afternoon
declared to be an unqualified success,
an N account of which was published-in
the Journal of that date.
The machine, under ordinary condi
tions, will pick forty pounds of cotton
an hour, and the darkies seeing the
wonderful feat performed by it looked
on in wonder, thinking of the days
wien they will no longer receive 75
cents a hundred for picking jcotton by
hand. x
It leaves the plant uninjured and at
the same time removes every bit of cot
ton even more thoroughly than do
hand pickers.
It delivers the cotton into a wire
basket, absolutely free of dirt, eacn
seed separated though with the line .
still attached and much of the mois
ture absorbed. "
Hand Power Used.
The machine had a width of twenty
nine inches, just getting in between
cotton rowsJ It stands on two wheels
and is pulled by hand. The picking
device is operated by a one-horse pow
er Mogul engine made by the Inter
national Harvester company. A half
gallon of gasoline will operate the ma
chine ten hours.
A hose six feet long extends from
the fan. At the mouth of the hose is
the picking device, which picks the
cotton by friction of revolving brush
es and convoys it to the fan and then
into the basket by suction. Once the ,
cotton enters the picker it never re
turns and there is no cloggin. It
goes straight through the hose to the
fan and then is blown out of a periscope-looking
arrangement into the
basket. The pocket is square and i
made of wire netting and holds about
j eighty pounds. As the cotton is blown '
into this basket it strikes the farthest
side and such dirt as may jhave been
attached to it is blown on through
the netting. The cotton, therefore,
falls into the basket perfectly clean.
When the picker has been through
a patch there is no cotton in sight, not
even on the ground. Storm cotton
that the hand pickers would leave is
thrust into the machine and it emer
ges as free from dirt as that which
comes direct from the boll.
The entire machine weighs about
250 pounds and is light enough for a
boy to pull aroundv
For two weeks the Stukenburgs, Mr.
Wegerly and N. A. Thiel, of Ham
mond, Ind., who will be general man
ager of the manufacturing plant, have
been on the Clay plantation in Sum
ter county secretly testing out the
picker. Cliff Clay, who will be one
of the stockholders of the company,
has been with them for several days.
Though thoroughly cognizant of the
fact that he has perfected an inven
tion which will revolutionize the cor
ton industry and protect the south
against a future scarcity of labor,
young Mr. Stukenborg is as modest
as a girl.
Mr. Clay was in Chicago recently
and by accident heard of the cotton
picking machine. When it was shown
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