JL.. MP- VOLUME XXIV (Tuesday) jVAKRENTON, N. C, TUESDAY JUNE 3, .1919 (Friday) 50 A YEAR ZTZ ' -' ' ..-J , -. M ,., , X A SEMI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF WARRENTON AND WAR REN COUNTY Number 43 .' - ' thp rnpv An Interview With Gilliland Noted Chautauqua Humorisis Talks Before Leaving On Big Lecture Tour of South Political Ranks x XX- E s . 1 y- j mm 11 1 i: cm 111111 ill S I 1 1111 1 " 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 -j 1 i Monl n0t 3ualify before the firs aay m July, and then did not .in continued On Third Page) ! 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 1 . j 11 1 t 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- J"- -' 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 , I 'r .x; .... , 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. - . 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 1 TT 1 T 2J It furnishes an easy means of i . , ,. ;&, ... 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 1 M 1 TT- I 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 (Continued on, Third Page) Jones Resignation Causes .Sur prise and Politicians Out For '? His Scalp Are;Quessing -. .. . i 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 jERrVS, SOMETIMES l A COULD StCK NOO ONTO THE FELLERS MHO COME N,NHEN NE.'RE 3ESt PKOVJ'f REftS T GO 10 ,?RESS , A VWHOLfe VMA.O O COPi ',fKKT AV(ES OS' LX'Ve JR.UNS. O S ALL RAGGEO V 4 , ii iLm - '11'' 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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