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I life A Colyum V6V& ttCv Of Thoughts From Here There, Yonder VOLUME XXV WARRENTON, W ARRENCCHTNTYrTT 2271920 Number 50 A SEMMVEEWLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED-TOT HE INTER ESTS OF VVntRENTON MO ; ... : i (By W. BRODIE JONES) There is urgent need for a live bus iness men's organization here. There re numbers of questions affecting the Public weal which need the organized f'ttention of the public spirited and forward looking men of the town. progress and trade are results of the accessibility of a community 'to the buying public and the regard in which that community is held. It is a duty of citizenship to establ ish and foster a spirit of co-operation between all sections of the country and town and to endorse and labor for rood roads and easy communication. With the virus of progress evident here, with the numbers of young men energetic and foresighted, with every natural advantage, it is nought but t'ollv to leep at the door of trade ex pansion representing opportunity. Warrenton needs a live-wire trade organization. Lets go! The AV'ful German Language Jud Tunkins says he has no objec- tIa.i r Herman music. What he frets 4 Lion over is the German words that go with the music Washington Star. Surprising Elderly Hostess "So you are the daughter of my old friend Margaret Blank. I was at you christening eighteen years ago But how you've changed'-Boston Transcript. The Thrifty Scot I'iix 4I wonder why a Scotchman always says 'hae' for 'have?' " - DixPossibly it's on account of his thrift. He saves a 'v' every time he does it. "-Boston Transcript. Preparedness -"Dear John, mother was so with all those nice things Wine pleased you said about her in your letter to mo. You see, she opened it by mis take." Hubby-"Yes, I thought she would Baltimore "American. Keckless Doctoring Doctor: "Madam, I shall have to paint your husband's throat with ni trate of silver." Profiteer's Wife: "Plase use nitrate of gold, doctor. The expense is quite immaterial."-London Opinion. Earning His Rest ''Some officeholders are not very in dustrious." "Well," explained Senator Sorghum, "after a man has been running for office he's liable to feel tired enough for a good,, long rest." Washington Star. The Usual Distinction "Don't you admire determination in a man's character?" "That depends. If it brings success J praise it as splendid perseverance, l- failure, I denounce it, as confounded obstinacy." Boston Transcript. Putting the "H" in Music "The 'orn of the 'unter is 'eard on the 'ill," sang the little boy at the Bagged School trat. But somehow h's verson of that line in "Kathleen Mevaureneen" jarred on the nerves of the teacher. u little man," she said kindly, s don't you put a few more Wches in your song?" Gam," advised the little man, po Jllelv. "Don't you know there ain't "u n in moosic? It only goes up lor G, San Francisco Argonaut. Gasoline and Culture At present North Carolina has 54 cents per inhabitants invested in uni versity properties-and 50 dollars per habitant invested in automobiles! - years we have built up a uni sity worth one and a third mil kn dollars. In ten years we have v'nh of motor ""'"uicu HillllUIl UUUalS cars! e are buying motors cars faster v any otnei' state in the -Union, he" ,Nat5onal Automobile Cham lars Commerce fifty million dol- fort Tth a year! A hundred and y thousand dollars worth a day,in- of th skyrocketing toward the top xnon a,Utmobne column; but in com mit, 001 and diversity invest- like n aioit'-iike Icarus of old, ' UI 1111 I l Green and His Flying CaroHnm, the ond the lift and level of ured bvM C1Vilization will be meas not i bl ain Pwer of her people But b-er rw gas engine power of i v 11 x xne UniVei.s-t fls--xtract from the fmented by the use of a top dresser in y Nevvs Letter. 'addition to the regular applications District Farm Agent McLean Gives Results of Test Trials of Limestone SECOND APPLICATION OF FERTILIZER A WISE STEP Especially Under Corn At Time of Ear Formation; Article Ed ited By County Agent Treva- than tor Warren Farmers. Most farmers recognize the value of Nitrate of soda as a top dresser on cotton and corn, but many ae unde cided as to the poper time to apply the soda for best results. Mr.T. D McLean, District Demonstration Agent, Aberdeen, N. C. has recently written a circular letter to the Coun ty Agents of his distict, recommend ing the use of Nitrate of soda as a top dresser for cotton to be applied between June 20th and July 1st. His recommendations are borne out by the experiments conducted t Auburn Alabama. The results of experiments conducted at the Alabama Experi ment Station are summarized as fol lows : "When 140 pounds of nitrate of soda per acre was applied to cotton at different stages of growth, name ly at planting time, first cultivation after thinning, when first squares ap pear and first blooms are visible, the largest average increase (80 pounds seed cotton per acre) came from the application made at the first cultiva- tion after thinning, that is about 40 days afte planting. These results were secured at Auburn before the boll wevil did serious damage. Under the conditions prevailing during the years when 14 experiments with nitrate of soda for cotton were conducted in various counties of Ala bama, the average of these fourteen lests indicate: (1) That nitrate of soda at the rate of 100 pounds per acre gave best results when applied by or before the time first squares ap peared; (2) That 200 pounds of ni trate of soda per acre when used in two applications, (100 pounds when "dirted" and 100 pounds about three weeks after xne first blooms appear ed), was more effective and slightly more profitable than was only 100 pounds of nitrate of soda; (3) That 100 pounds of nitrate of soda per acre applied when the plants were frst "dirted" was more effective than was 200 pounds of cotton seed meal applied at the same date, each being followed with a Idter application of 100 pounds of nitrate of soda. "The tests at Auburn and in other parts of the State seem to indicate that the best time to apply nitrate of soda to cotton is either before or. by the time the first square appear." Treatment for Corn , Nitrate 'of soda is also valuable as a top dresser for coin. The most im pctant period in the life of a corn plant is the reproduction or ear form ing period. Corn should be so feti lized that a maximum of plant food is available to the plant at the time the ear is being made. For this reas on it not usuall advisable to apply all the fertilizer under corn at planting time. Heavy applications of ferti lizers under corn at the time of plant ing tend to develop suckers and pro duce a maximum of stalk. However, the fertilizer is usually exhausted by the time the ear making stage has been reached, with , the result that the corn fires up and makes only a small amount of grain. This is especially true when the ordinary ready mixer fertilizers are used. Tobacco fertili zer is uften used under corn at plant ing time with disastrous results, un less followed by a later application of some fertilizer that will be available when the ear is growing. Tobacco is a short season plant and requires a fertilizer that is quickly available. Fertilizer manufacturers keep this in mind when putting up the tobacco fertilizer. On the other hand, corn is a long season plant and equires a fer tilizer that is more slowly available or else as many as two applications of a quickly available form, the sec ond appication to be made late enough to last through the remander of the corn growing season. About the best time to make the second application of fertilizer to corn when it is about knp.p hich. or when the dirst is first thrown to the corn. The yield of corn is greatly aufe of fertilizers. Either Nitrate or soda or sulphate of ammonia is valuable for this purpose. The proper time to apply the top dresser is about two weeks before tasseling. Corn roots feed near the surface of the ground. It is important for that reason that it be cultivatad shallow rather than deep. The first cultiva tion should be moderately deep be tween the rows but the later cultiva tions should be shallow in order that the roots may not be torr up. Corn also demands a large amount of water for making a good crop. Theru fo re, the water should be conserved by rapid cultivation and by cultivation as soon as possible after each rain. Cultivation loosens the surface of th'e soil and thereby retains moisture thas is in the soil below, enables a larger portion of the water that falls upon the ground to seep in rather than run off, enables air to more readily enter the soil and stimulate the action of favorable bacteria. Another import ant purpose of cultivation is to con trol grass and weeds. J. E. TREVATHAN. County Agem IN THE REALM OF AMATEUR SPORTS Warrenton Wins From Warren Plains Warrentch crossed bats last Friday afternoon at Warren Plains with the local team strengthened by support from Macon and Merry Mount. The game after a slow start developed in terest. The contest' was won in the first inning by Warrenton who annex ed four tallies, scoring in the other innings being prevented until the eight, when four v more runs were mde. Warren Plains scored four runs in one inning due to poor fielding and a timely clout. 4c $ $ With Nanney pitching superb ball and ar.u his team mates hitting well War renton lost yesterday afternoon to Macon 2 to 5 in an hour and fifteen minutes contest. Warrenton could not connect with the speed of the Mac -twirler and only two hits were made of his offerings. The ability of the Macon team to hit Holland coupled with slow work in the outfield netted three of the five tallies. Numbers of people were present and the game provided much inter est. Featuring for Warrenton was confined to the infield which played errorless ball. The entire contest was sport-manlike and much enjoyed by all. Norlina and Warrenton To Play The local team will journey to Nor lina Friday afternoon for a battle royal over the horsehide honors with the Norlina aggregation. The outlook is for a good game and much interst is already apparent in the outcome. The game will be call ed at four thirty. Warrenton's line up will probbly be: Moore, catch; Booth, pitch; Falkener, 1st base; Gay, 2nd Base; W. Boyd, 3b; Jones, ss; Burwell, If; Macon, cf; G. Boyd, if; Bennett, Poindexter and Green,, utili ty men. Second Primary To Be Held On July 3rd The following from the State Board of Elections explains itself: Raleigh , N. C. June 17th, 1920 H. GIBBS, Chm. Warren Co. Board of Elections Warrenton, N. C. The State Board of Elections hav ing canvassed the returns of the Pri mary Election held on June 5, 1920; and whereas certain Candidates tor certain offices having failed for nom ination; now, therefore, in accordance with Section 6045 of North Carolina lection Law, 1919, you are hereby required to-order-a Primary Election in your county to be held ; on Satur day, the 3rd day of July, 1920, to be conducted in a manner the same as he First Primary Election. THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM OF 1920 (A Correspondent in the Philadelphia Record). ' I can't seem to make anything out of the G. O. P. platform but the en closed. It's all there why waste words? . Gosh ding Woodrow Wilson. We oppose any autocracy unless it I.,, t?,,ui; n. 'iS maillLctincu. uy a. ivcpuum.011 vjuh- ' (Continued On Fourth Page)- Lodge Activity and Republican Platform At Variance With Past Record WILSON DOES NOT TAKE CREDIT FOR LEAGUE IDEA Interesting Sidelights of Seibold Interview Show President In Good Mental Condition And Steady In Purpose. President Wilson is a historian as well as a statesman, jand he kept the record of history straight in the Sei bold interview for The World when he declared that the spokesmen of the Republican Party 'accord me too much credit for the conception of the League of Nations project." "While I am glad," the President continued, ''to assume the responsibility for the part I have played in promoting it, the honor of discovering its merits and appreciating its values cannot justly be given to me." The Prsident called attention to the fact that William McKinley "advocat ed a League of Nations more than fifteen years before I became im pressed with its tremendous import ance and seized upon it as providing the greatest insurance ever devised against war." He menticne I other Republicans who had arder.r.iy cham ioned it. Senator Lodge in his com mencement-day address at Union Col lege in June, 1915, had defi'ned exact ly the kind of League that the Peace Conference produced: The great nations must be unit ed', as to be able to say to any sin gle country, 'You must not go to war,' and they can only say that effectively when the country de siring war knows that the force which the united nations place be hind peace is irresistible." Wk&trthe 'Republicans' talked "about a League of Nations they talked of it in the terms of a League that was capable of enforcing peace. Mr. Taft became President of an association to advocate that kind of League, and a majority of its 'most distinguished members were Republicans. No Republicans began to "' worry about the League of Nations as a super-state, or to worry about a . surer-state, or to worry about a surren der of sovereignty, or to to' talk about reservations which would leave the United States without obligations and responsibilities, until the war sud denly ended and the Republican Sen ators under the leadership of . Sena tor Lodge, realized that the, credit for a real League of Nations would nat urally go to President Wilson. Then a partisan conspiracy was organized to defeat or mutilate any kind treaty that the President brought back from Paris. Had it been Elihu Root instead of Woodrow Wilson who was responsible for the adoption of the League of Nations at Versailles, Lodge and the other Senate Republi cans would have been its most vo ciferous advocates. The President is right when he says that the Republican Party is repudiat ing something that has,, been cham pioned by its most important sup porters. It is doing so only under the pressure of reactionary politicians who are entrenched in the Senate and in the control of the party organiza tion. The movement to keep the United States out of the League of Nations did not originate with the Republican voters but with the Re publican politicians who were de termined to discredit the President of the United States and rebuke the European Governments for associat ing with him in the making of peace. In order to. arouse any popular senti ment at all against the League it has been necessary for these politicians to go into partnership with the Sinn Fein, the pro-Germans, the Bolshevist sympathizers, and with every group of radicals who are trying to reor ganize the world on a fantastic theory of their own. It is not President Wilson but the Republican leaders who have made a partisan, issue of the League, and in doing so they have soiled and stained some of the fairest pages in the Re publican statesmanship of the last twenty years New York World. Courtesy means kindness, sympa- UV. - IT n desire to serve na wuiuigB ... " -1 M1.'-nni to help. Stephen Bell. ; CONFEDERATES EN JOY GREAT DAY Boyd's warehouse at twelve-thirty today was a scene of lovely hospital ity and genial comminglement upon the occasion of the Daughters of the Confederacy's annual banquet to the old veterans of Warren. With Dr. T. J. Taylor as toastmas ter the exercises ware opened with an appropriate and cordial welcome to the city by Mayor Frank H. Gibbs. Following a delicious. prepared menu of ham, lamb, fried chicken, cream potatoes, breads, assorted pickles, lev. cream and cake, dinner speeches were made by Dr. T. J. Gibbs, Hon. Tssker. Polk, and Mr. John Graham. The sincerity and grace of Dr. Gibbs, the eloquence of Mr. Polk, and the earn estness and feeling of Mr. Graham provided a period of intense enjoy ment. This aftternoon the veterans were guests of the chapter at the moving picture show. "Hearts of Humanity. The delicious banquet was prepar ed under the supervision of Mrs. Henry Boyd and Mrs. S. D. Twitty, president of the local chapter, assist ed by Mesdames Frank Allen, Jeff Palmer, N. M. Palmer,. T. V. Alleni J. E. Rooker, John Tarwater and J.- A. Dowtin The program was appro priately arranged thru by Mrs. V. L. Pendleton and Mr. E. S. Allen. The following wearers of the gray were honor guests: T. J. Taylor, L. C. Perkinson, R. H. Harris, J. W. Shear in, H. D. Weldon, R. J. Robertson, John Graham, J. J. Nicholson, A. C. Harris, B. P. Lambert, T. C. Reavis, S. W. Hamlet, I. C. Weldon, M. T. Duke, R. P. Frazier, J. H. White, H. W. Shearin, A. S. Webb, Austin Al len, William G. Powell, J. B. Lancas ter, Capt. P. G. Alston, James Mus tian, and J. W. H. Paschall. FARMER BOYS AND GIRLS CAN MARRY Very few classes of people can in dulge in the luxury of getting mar- riea tnese aays wun as utile nesica- tion as can the farmer lass and lad. The high cost of living has scared the city man. As one woman said, "The high cost of living for one makes the high cost of loving for two out of the question." To show how splendidly these mar riage troubles pass over the heads of the farmer boy wanting to take unto himself a wife, consider those articles the. cost of which have increased the most: Clothing 100 per cent, food 90 per cent, fuel, light and heat 51 per cent and shelter 28 per cent. We do not have to be dressed up aL the time as does the clerk or teacher in town, so a few store clothes can last a long time. The price of over- kails would not break anone surely. As to food, there is nothing we have to buy but sugar, coffe, tea , occasioni al fruit, flour or cereal and a few sun dries. Fuel means effort but not ex pense, while even a very poor youth can buy such kerosine as the young man starting out is likely to need. Sundries have increased 63 per cent, and sundries include furniture and lamps. These are high: Most girls in love are willing to get little ex pensive furniture for a few years if the bridegroom shows a disposition Lto povide comforts and such conven iences as he can contrive. The Pro gressive Farmer - mCK SAYS CLE MA -Tell THE WHS Tr J V GROUCH? IniUUfcoid Wu I OTiniKSVHI i rm Young Physician Painfully Shot Last Saturday Night By J. Wiley Harris ACCOMPANIED TO RALEIGH BY WIFE AND DR. PEETE Train Held At Ncrlina For Dr. Rodgers; Tom Overby, Slight ly Wounded, Is Also On Road To Recovery. The encouraging reports of the con dition of Dr. W. D. Rbdgers, Jr., in Rex hospital as a result of gunshot wounds caused by J. Wiley Harris last Saturday night, are received with pleasure by his many friends here. The peaceful atmosphere of the town, has been greatly disturbed by ihe 'regrettable affair of Saturday night and everywhere the occurence has been interestingly discussed as it has been earnestly lamented. The authentic ' story of the near murder follows: Last Saturday night at eight thirty Dr. Rodgers ws summoned to the bedside of Mrs. J. Wiley Harris by her brother Mr. Tom Overby. Upon arriving they opened the door of Dr. Rodgers coupe to alight when without warning a load of number six shot fired from a distance of twenty-five or thirty feet glazed Mr. Overby and struck Dr. Rodgers upon the face and shoulders. Overby fell and . Rodgers started toward the home of Mr. C. V. Hicks when another load of shot struck him in the knees anu changed his course. For four hundred yards he ran in desperation then faint from loss of blood he fell across a log in a bramble and honeysuckle thicket. With rare presence of mind be placed his head higher than the rest of his body and took small does of ammonia,,. from, a , small vestpockeu bottle. ' " ' Mrs. Evans, .a neighbor present in the Harris home, heard J. Wiley Harris declare his purpose of killing Rodgers and saw him seize the gun fom the rack she fled to her husband with the news. Mr. Evans quickly communicated with Mr. Hicks who passed word to E. L. Green, chief of police. Mr. Green, J. A. Pipkin, H. H. Williams, Dr. C. H. Peete and others in, the lead the posse went immediate ly to the Harris home, one mile from the center of the town, picked up the trail by the blood stains, followed its windings and located Dr. Rodgers at eleven thirty when he answered a hout from his brother John D. Rod gers, one of the searchers in the fore front cf the posse. After the wounded physician had been efficiently attended by Dr. Peete and carefully moved to the Pridgen mill, later taken on a night train to Rex hospital, Raleigh, Green, Pip kin, Williams and others went to the Harris home in search of the culprit. He was found in a feed barn on the place. Ordered to come out by Green he replied "I will if you don't hurt me." Green promised but Harris diu not come but continued to talk and express fear. "Chief" then threw the glow of ' a flashlight into the barn, seized the shotgun which was near Harris, and with others rushed, seiz ed and conducted him to the Warren county jail. The motive assigned the conduct is revenge upon Dr. Rodgers for having him confined in the asylum where he served two terms. He had previously threatened the physician as well as two other Warren men implicated in his confmement proceedings. Ax-Golf The old farmer was trying to im press upon his son, who wanted to play golf for exercise, that chopping wood would answer the purpose just as well. "Oh, no, father," said the boy, "it is the walking between strokes that makes golf such valuable exercise; that gives the legs a chance to exercise as well as the arms." "Oh, that's it, is' it?" said the old man. And then he went into the yard and placed sticks of woods at intervals all around it. After this he handed the boy an ax and said: "Now, play the full course." San Francisco Arga nant. ' Speking of noisy table manners, how about the fellow with a pipe that makes a noise like a. frying egg? Type Metal Bulletin.