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VOLUME XXIV
(Tuesday)
jVAKRENTON, N. C, TUESDAY JUNE 3, .1919
(Friday)
50 A YEAR
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A SEMI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF WARRENTON AND WAR REN COUNTY
Number 43
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An Interview
With Gilliland
Noted Chautauqua Humorisis
Talks Before Leaving On
Big Lecture Tour of South
Political Ranks
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RESIGNS AS COUNTY SUPT,
APPOINTED CHM. BOARD
To Act With Powers of Superin
dent; Skinner, Kimball and
Davis Retire In Favor, of Har
dy, Reams and Chm. Jones.
The following resignations in their
order explain themselves:
"I hereby tender my resignation to
take effect this day as a member of the
County Board of Education. I thank
'you ft-i your uniform courtesy and
kindness to me wlyle associated with
you as members of this Board.
(Signed) JOHN L. SKINNER."
Ut)on motion of Mr. Weldon T. Davis
Mr. Howard F. Jones, having previous
ly resigned as . Superintendent, was
elected to fill the unexpired term of
Mr. Skinner, as member of the Board
and as chairman. Mr. Jones qualified
and took his seat as member of the
Board.
The Board finding itself with a va
cancy in the office of . Superintendent
of Schools upon motion of Mr. Weldon
T. Davis, Mr. Howard F. Jones was
directed to act as Superintendent of
Schools until a Superintendent could
be elected. Mr. Davis and Mr. Kim
ball voting "aye", Mr. Jones not vot
ing. Mr. Jones stated that he would
rot accept any per diem as member
cf the Board while serving as Super
intendent, "I hereby tender my resignation to
take effect today as member of this
Boarch I do this with highest esteem
for the members of the Board and for
the Superintendent of Schools and
only for pressing business reasons.
(Signed) J. A. KIMBALL."
Upon motion of Mr. Davis Mr. Hugh
P. Reams was elected to fill the vacan
cy caused by the resignation j)f Mr.
Kimball Mr. Jones and Mr.. Davis
voting iayeV,'Irr Re'aV
and took his seat as member of the
Lkai'd.
"I hereby resign as member of the
board cf Education to take-effect this
day. My association with Superinten
dent Jones and as member of the
Uoaid has' been entirely satisfactory.
(Signed) W. T. DAVIS."
Mr. Jesse Gardner, a citizen of Six
Paint! township ami selected by the
citizens of the county at the Primary
of 1918 for membership on the Board
to take office on the first Monday of
A ril. 1919, but not so appointed by
the Legislature, was tendered the
place made vacant by the resignation
of Mr. Davis. Mr. Gardner was pres
et when the tender Was made and
declined the honor "under the circum
stances." Thereupon the Board nom
inated and elected Mr. C. N. Hardy, of
Judkins township, a gentleman held in
kigh esteem by the citizens of the
county generally.
If the law passed by the Legisla
ture of 1919 means what it says1 Mr.
Hardy will hold office to July, 1921
'in all counties where by provisions of
existing law the term, for which the
member or members of the Board
(not boards) of Education of said
counties have been elected or appoint
ed, expires before the first Monday of
July, 1921, - the member or members
s elected or appointed shall hold over
(not may but shall) until the,first
Monday of July, 1921." And Section
4 of the Act says that "all laws in
conflict with this Act, be and the same
are hereby repealed."
This section three is in entire har
mny with section one of the act
fhich gives the Legislature power to
"all vacancies now existing', or
'"at mav arif lw pvnirat.inn nf !
terms of members of the County
"ard of Education the several coun
ts of the State before the convening
the next General Assembly, an'l
Jme the additional members required
fJy the Provisions of this Act, to serve,
j such period of time as it may de
gnate." They "name(d) the additional mem
rs for Warren, directed that the
esent membership hold over in sec
vriti. 6j rePealed all law in conflict
kptn that direction; failed 'to fill a
in"CiTn-Vacancy on the first Mondav
wit' -Pril; directed the Board to fill it
u&' thirty days fixed their aPin
tw!? n'ither could fill it, by saying
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Monl n0t 3ualify before the firs
aay m July, and then did not .in
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Strickland Gillilan, the well-known
humorist and writer, who will appear
in our town on the Community Chau
tauqua program this season, gave out
a speem' interview just before start
ing ori Ivs tour over the Chautauqua
circuit in which he answered in his
quaint iind .whimsical manner some of
the many questions put to him.
Among other things, he said:
"If it were not for other folks jn
this world I think I should get mighty
tired of it! While I am right good
company myself, I fear that if I were
net diluted with a great many other
people I should become a stronger
dose than Iv could stand!. ,
"The most beautiful thing in the
world, except a baby's wrist, is an au
dience that is listening. The uglest
thing in the world is a naturally home
ly woman chewing gum. I love au
diences, but whenever I look at a
woman . chewing gum I wish I were
blind or she had the lock jaw. No
body was ever a good listener Wiw
masticated spearmint at the time. I
never got a laugh out of a gum chew
er or chewess.
"I used to think that an audience's
intelligence was good only if it liked
me. Now I believe that my intelli
gence is good vonly if I like my au
dience.
"No, I did not go to war. I was too
old, and if anybody should ask you
about it, you' may tell them the trutn
that it was the only time in my life
since ,1 waf thirty, that I didn't wish
I was younger. WJien I offered my
self they regretted that they couldn't
take me. They looked at my paren
thesis like lower extremities and
said nobody but a sharpshooter could
hit me in the legs. I .should have gone
if I had been young enough, but to
be perfectly honest about it I'm glad
I didn't ' have to go. T would much
rather hear people say 'There he goes'
than 'Here he lies.'
I expect to be heard with rapt at
tention in your community. If any
one's attention should come un
wrapped while I am talking, I wi!l
stop while he re-wraps it.
"I am a very modest person, and
brag about it a great deal.
"There is one class of persons who
never goes to a Chautauqua. He is
of the sort that resembles the man I
used to know who died of thirst with
in a week after a water-meter was in
stalled in his residence.
"I grew up on a farm, and nobody
who sees me is surprised when I tell
them so. I have an extemporaneous
walk that I .acquired while straddling
corn-rows and yanking plow handles
around. While I have improved quite
a good deal since I left the farm, tha
farm has itself, benefited even more
by the separation. My going away
was just the making of that farm.
-"No, XI did not write 'Beautifu?
Snow,' 'Mary's Little Lamb,' 'Pil
grim's Progress,' 'Swiss Family Rob
inson,' 'Robinson Crusoe,' 'Old Sleuth,'
'After the Ball,' 'Hamlet' or any of
Harold Bell Wright's or Irving Bach -eller's
books. Persons who believe -did
so are laboring under a gross mis
take. All the above things were writ
ten by others, who very thoughtfully
lifted the task from my shoulders.
No doubt if those tiad been still un
written when I began writing, I
should have done them just to have
them off my hands. But as they were
already, written and out of the way
when I started in, I had a great deal
of timeon my hands to write my own
stuff, which has kept me very, very
busy. One of the deepest regrets is
that 'Huckleberry Finn' was written
before I got a chance to write $t, bnt
I'll admit that Mark did it fairly well,
at; that." ' '
When asked about himself, Strick
land Gillilan tried hard to blush and
said: ,
"I am no Lillian Russell, and no
body ever mistook me for her or Mary
Garden or either of the Talmade girls.
I am not a Douglas Fairbanks, for I
never could learn to run up the walls
holding onto the flowers-in the wall
paper. I am not any of those nice
folks, I am, only me, and while-1 re
gret it in many ways, I am not sorry
exactly. While those others may be
more beautiful and more agile than i.
the" fact remains that there was no
body but 1 me -tp-be -except me, and I
would have an awfully hard time
THE DEL MAR LADIES' QUARTET OPENS THE COMMUNITY
'CHAUTAUQUA.
Dainty and entertaining is the Del Mar Ladies' vQuartetwhieh appears
on the first day of this year's Community Chautauqua program with a splendid
program given with setting and costumes that are strikingly beautiful in their
richness and color. The program includes all the popular melodies that ever.,
one likes to hear, with just enough of the modern music to give a, contrasting
lighter touch. . Y
learning to be somebody I'm not. ' I
think you can see the difficulty.
"Neither am I a Charley Chaplin,
although my feet do not track, and
I have a fearful time keeping my
bloomers from bagging at the knees.
"Yet in spite of the fact that I had
no chance except to be nobody but me,
folks have been terrifically 'nice to me
far often than I have been terrifical
ly nice to them. Some ten or twelve
magazines let me write for them, and
actually pay me. for it. Several, hun
dred thousand people have flocked tc
listen patently to me for the last fif
teen years, and many more thousand
pay out perfectly good hard-earned
money for the several books I have
written. How lenient people are!
"I hope to see huge clusters of your
people and have speech with them
face to face and prove to them at
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least to all whose eyesight is good
that the first part of this statement
is true, at any rate."
News From
County Agents
Miss Annie Lee Rankins, county
Home Demonstration Agent, left yes
terday to meet with Mrs. Jane S.
McKimmon and her corps of workers
who will hold a school and conference j
for county home demnstration agents'
and their assistants at the State Col
lege of Agriculture at West Raleigh,
which will last until June 13. Dur
ing this time approximately 100
women will be present, and will study
impuriani matters 111 cuuueciiuxi wilu
the Home Demonstration work in
North Carolina.
. A number of fine courses have been
arranged, with each agent selecting
those which will suit best for the-work
in her county. Several specialists of
note from the Federal Department of
Agriculture and from other colleges
and stations will take part in the
lectures. Household . engineering,
home beautification, interior decora
tion, instruction in clothing, nutrition,
millinery, laundering and public
health service will be among the
many things studied.
A part of each day will be devoted jity hank, the shares being of such
to a round-table discussion or con- j small denomination that . every -one
ference between the agents where can become a member. The Cremc
problems and plans will be discussed Union is conducted on similar lines as
from the standpoint, of the individual jr city banlc. having its boar;d of direc
experience of the women. A series tors and other 4 officials similar to the
of lectures also will be given " each j officials of a city - bank. The Credit
eevnmg along lmporram lines ox
work. , "
In order that every women shall
have the best possible chance to bring
her demonstrations up, to the highest
standard, those agents which are now
proficient in the art of demonstration
will be asked to give model demon
strations along all lines of work with
which the women are concerned.
According to Mrs. McKimmon, this
conferece will be one of the most im-
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portant and far reaching : that the
womeh of her division have ever en
gaged in, and she believes that it will,
result ' in a strengthening of Exten
siori work in all counties where thev
are 'employed. -
MOVE TO ORGANIZE CREDIT .
UNIONS IN WARREN COUNTY
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Realizing that many of the thirtgs
neefcledifor. satisfactory - life in the
j country' depend "orf Having the money
to pay for them, the Agricultural an?
Home Agents of Warren County, have
been casting about for some means
for helping with these problems.
Production is not the only question
with which, country people are con
fronted, but that the question of mar
keting, of buying and of selling,- is of
equal importance.
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With these things in mind it is con
cluded that a Credit Union would be
of service to some communities in
Warren County.
The law providing for Credit, Unions
in North Carolina was passed by the
legislature in 1915. There are nov
twenty Credit . Unions in the State,
vith a number more in process of or
ganization. The aggregate business
of these Unions for April was over
$44,000., more than , dovjble what ; it
was the corresponding month last
year.
Benefits of Credit Unions.
The experience "of the communities
wnere vreuit unions nave uecume c-
tablished shows that; a Credit Union
does these things for its community:
1. It encourages sayingVespecraliy
on the part of the young people. : ,'' t
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2J It furnishes an easy means of
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at a reasonaoie rare oi interest.
3. It helps the people to buy to bet
ter advantage. .
4. ,It helps to sell to better advan
tage. 5. It has proved a good -business
investment through dif idends on the
stock. ,
The Carmel Credit Union, near
Charlotte, has saved its members on
an average nearly forty dollars v a
year. Lowe's Grove, Credit Union,
near Durham, has done almost as well.
Organization cf a Credit Union.
A Credit Union is really a commun
Union tias no highly paid omciais pr
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exnensive piace oi Dusiness. nence-
ita. expenses are very small. ;
One of the chief objects of the
Credit Union is to assist' a -community
'to get on a cashN basis. They have
been very helpful in this . regard in
the communities where they have be
come established.; '
On fi'rst thought, it might seem that
a Credit Union .would be against the
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Jones Resignation Causes .Sur
prise and Politicians Out For '?
His Scalp Are;Quessing
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To the Board of Education,
Warren County, N. C.
Gentlemen': r -
w J hereby tender my resignation
as- Superintendent of Public Instruc
tibri .for Warren county. T do this
through no distrust pf your loyalty,
friendship or support. I . appreciate
your . assurances of continued support
and the endorsement of the citizens
of this county, and the approval of the
State Board of Education.- I think
it will be generally admitted that
Warren county has kept pace in edu -cational
matters with the1 other coun
t;es of the State and tht the school
funds have been economically expend
ed. I .appreciate the co-operation of
teachers and committeemen and at
the proper time will appeal from Cea
sar to the Citizen. Respectfully, - -Y
HOWARD F. JONES.
This annoiincement threw a bomb
shell in the ranks of the so-called pol
iticians here yesterday. They couldn't
understand it. What did Jones resign
for? The people hadn't ordered him
out, but we thought we had fixed it so
we could, and now here he lias resign
ed,, and has accepted the Chairmanship
of the Board. We knew we didn't do
what the people directed us to do - We
knew that the Executive 'committee
had asked that none of the County
oici als be disturbed by the - Legisla
ture, and we didn't try to disturb any
body else in the Court House but
Jpnes, we'll fix him. We didn't do
what the people nor the Executive
committee asked to be done, but we
will do as we please and we will have
a new board- to qualify in July, even
if we did "kinder slip-un"
And a Solar plexus ' was delivered
and the "never-no-mores''' went home
with the mental query,' "Mr. Speaker,
where am I at ?' ." ! '
Second Glass? Of
fice After July 1st
Beginning July 1st the Warrenton
Postoffice will be a second class post
office according to information in the
hands of ' Mrs. -Nannie Mcl. Moore,
Postmistress.
This carries with it the obligation
to keep the window open until six p.
m., except during the hours in which
maiL is being placed in the' boxes.
The office receipts have been near
the pont of making it; a second class
office for some time but the receipts
of the last year'increased ' because of
the one cent additional postage and the
normal expansion of business, brought
the change. ' "
The lobby of the f postoffice will bt;
kept open until nine o'clock instead
of eight though np mail will be dis
patched later than eight, announces
Mrs. Moore, as a convenience to the
general public. . This rule, adopted by
the local authorities, went into force
last night. ,s. '
MICKIE SAYS V
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COULD StCK NOO ONTO THE
FELLERS MHO COME N,NHEN
NE.'RE 3ESt PKOVJ'f REftS
T GO 10 ,?RESS ,
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ELECTION 10TH NOT TO
ISSUE BONDS FOR SCHOOL
Only To Establish District and
Vest Control of Education In
Hands of Trustees and Present
Special Committee.
To the voters of Warrenton Special
School District .-
My. friends:
For fifty-four years I have done my
best to advance, the Educational inter
est of Warren County. Now in my
eld age, with the assistance of many
of your best citizens, I secured froru
the; legislature the passage 'of ah act
submitting to you the question of
maintaining in Warrenton a 'High
School that will equal in efficiency the
private schools at the Academy con
ducted under various principals for
the: past one hundred and thirty-four
years.
The management of this school, if
established, is" vested in tne Trustees
of .the Academy, twelve in number,
and the school committee of the Dis
trict, three in number. The school
m?.y be consolidated at the academy,
or the lower grades may be. kept at the
present Public, School building it will
be . one school. Instruction An the
lower grades fitting for the higher.
The school will receive all revenues
now received from the State and
county and any addition thereto on the
part of either. If necessary in the
opinion of the . majority of the Board
of , trustees,' an additional tax of fif
teen cents on the hundred dollars may
be levied .and forty-five cents on the
poll. No issue of bonds is involved in
the: election of- June 10th. The es
tablishment of the High . School, with
the; present Public school as a consti
tuent part of said High? SchooF is 'the
matter to be decided. "
If established this High school .will'
eventually become the Central High of
the county. No attempt was made to
establish a Township school as it
would interfere with the schools at
Norlina, Warren Plains and Macon.
The establishment of this school will
removet from -the arenas of politics.
Truly" yours, " t
. JOHN GRAHAM.
MusicaLAt Opera
House Thursday
Dr. F. H. T. Horsfield, of Oxford,
delivered a strong sermon here Sun
day morning to the graduating class
of the Warrenton High School and a
church crowded .with relatives and in
terested friends of this institution.
Dr. Horsfield emphasized the value
of keepinghe imagination alive and
showed clearly that a life could not
be measured by its score of years it
waSno problem ' in arithmetic. He
illustrated freely from Victor Hugo
thru his discourse and painted illus
trative word picture to drive home
the essentials in a discourse which
proved eminently worth while.
:. ; School work will end Friday. Com
mencement exerices will be held Thurs
day night in the Opera -House featur
ed by a musical program by the pu
pils of Miss Lily Belle Dameron. The
closing exerices will occur Friday
night nvith an address by Dr. Brewer
president of Meredith college, a de
bate and a presentation of diplomas,
v It is expected that large crowds will
attend the closing exercies both nights
this week.
Orphanage Singing Class At Vaughan
Will you kindly announce that the
rOxford Orphanage Singing Class will
give a concert in the Baptist Church,
Vaughan, N. C, at 8:30 o'clock p."m.
June 6th, 1919.
These concerts have heretofore
proved highly enjoyable, and well
worth the admission price. The cause
is one that lays close to our hearts
and we believe it appeals to all goorf
people.
We shall appreciate anything yoa
may do to help to make this enter
tainment a success and a blessing to
your community.
. A. L. POPE,
J. V. 'SHEARIN,
N. M. SHEARIN,
Committee.
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