North Carolina Newspapers

LilntiA mUit. ftU prUME XXV WARRENTON, WARREN ONTYQiritnMlirgri?ElP ASEMI-WEEWETTTEWgl jtl.ji.lL l.ku.... ,.r mTrft T 1 vrC ESTS OF WAHHENTON; AKD WABktN COUNTS hi At to f if 11 V' hi K JUST FOR FUN Curosity is looking over other peo ple's affairs and overlooking your own. Wayland. A scolding wife would doubtless succeed as a railroad engineer she is always on the rail. Exchange. Just the Contrary "I suppose you're one of those idiots that touch wet paint to see if it's dry." "No, I'm not. I touch it to see if it's wet." London Punch. Swift Teacher Children, nature is sup erior to man in everything. For in stance, there is nothing that travels so fast as the unseen wind. Willie Huh! You ought to hear what my pa says about a sight draft! Puck. His Part "Who is the responsible person in this firm?" asked the brusque caller of the office boy. "Can't tell you, sir," replied the pert lad, "but I'm the one who gets all the blame." Selected. A Bit Peevish He had fallen through the coal hole, says the Weekly Telegraph, and sprained his ankle. It was a quiet street, and he called for help in vain. Meanwhile, the paii increased until he almost fainted. He opened his eyes to find an old gentlemen regard ing him. "Dear me!" said the Icind-hearted pedestrian. "Have you fallen thru the coal hole?" "Not at all," replied the man, try ing to smile. As you seem to be in terested in the matter, I will tell you what happened. I chanced to be in here when they built the pavement around me!" The Decoy '"I notice," said the man to the par son, "that, although I am in the front pew, there is always a five dol lar bill on the collection plate when it comes to me. Is that the contri bution of the man who takes up the collection?" "Not at all," replied the parson who believed in business methods." "That's our decoy." Detroit Free Press. . September Term Superior Court out convened Monday morning with 3Ey.dge Lyon and Solicitor Mid yett present. The following Grand Jury was drawn and Mr. M. P. Bur well was named Foreman. Mr. R. L. Bell was sworn in as officer of the Grand Jury, to wit, Paul D. Pegram, D. T. Reavis, Oscar Perkinson, J. J. Dickerson, J. R. Riggan, Jr., E. C. Overby, W. G. Overby, J. D. Stewart, Arch Gilliland, C. N. Hardy, V. Dortch, A. R. Delbridge, J. L. Overby, K. D. King, H. C. Herring, F. E. Roo rtson, S. E. Stevenson 'and M. P. Burwell. Mr. Charles Rufus Daniel, son of Hon. W. E. Daniel, of Weldon; Mr. John Brame Palmer, and Mr. Wiley Branch Harvey were in Court and ach produced a license from the Su Jrem Cort authorizing him to prac ialaw in the Courts of the Statt. ;At the request of Judge Lyon' Solici tor Midyett administered the requir ed oath. , - Tuesday at Noon the following cases had been disposed of: State vs. Jennie Carpenter, Cruelty to Ank als, verdict guilty; Issue of Sanity J Wiley Harris was passed upon v a jury and the ollowing issue an swered: "Is the Defendant now in- and by reason thereof unable to w w a WMWJk VVA i Piead to the Indictment and conduct ' hie - , aeifinsp?" tv,. t Ky w " jliic ouiy auawcicu, A special venire of twenty-five men as ordered in the Will Dixon murder case. The Charlie Parks case (seduction) settled by his pleading guilty and Sf118 ?100-0 to the Prosecutrix and lhe costs. WeaHn Burton assault with Deadly Pon in End carryinS concealed wea be ; guilty and Judgment will pronounced Wednesday. e ird case is on trial, now as go to press. f il it II H I! II n 1.31 If Vk ' - - : i : i 1 1 I i i i it . it"-i r v . irn 1 II fl If II 11 II II 11 II II II . I I ' i if vv vv- ii mi ii ii ii . i sir?rcr- tifiHiiiatiBH f r ii ir-i it im i jsa i mix 54 lUiliddEd Wit UW ABSENTEE VOTER LAW REMAINS IN FORCE sxews Letter From Raleigh Gives- Political Trend. Re publicans Are Active. Women HT ... snould Register, (Special Correspondence) Raleigh, N. C, Sept. 20. Well, we hsid our old acquaintance, Marion But ler, of Sampson and Washington, with us m Kaleigh again the last few days. aca u current report is correct we will have some more of him here dur ing the next legislature. It was at first mooted that the fusionist of ne gro domination days had called to hold a A . - j 1 m a cumerence witn nis newspaper friends here, the editor of the Raleigh Times and the Raleigh correspondent of the Greensboro News. No "of- ncal announcement of the nature of this joint talkfest has been formally made but there may be some outcrop- pmgs of it in the editorial columns of tho Raleigh afternoon paper and the Raleigh correspondence of the Greens boro News in the near future. Mr. Butler was here also to attend the hearing of the Republican appli- cation for a restraining order against thci State Board of Elections, wherein Candidate Jenkins (the jparty to the .rtrrti;4- 1,4- 4. ii.- x tio:iing of that law this year. Judge Dismisses Rule Against Board of Elections Judge Kerr after hearing the argu me:at dismissed the rule against the btate Board of Elections which he is sued ten days ago, and the operation of the absentee voters law is now effective as ever. Counsel for plaintiff appealed, it is true, but, as Judge Kerr dismissed the case 'because of the lack of cause of action in the complaint," it is a safe prediction to make that the higher court will sus- tain Judge Kerr's decision by adding the final knockout blow to this parti- san attempt by the Republican cam- registration books when Jthey are open paign management to kill a good lawj ed the last day of September. The The absentee voters law not only pro-: tects the ballot of bona fide citizens to participate in elections when they are unavoidably absent from their home precincts, but it protects the sick also. Following is the provision in the law that does this: , ! "It shall be the duty of the County Board of Elections to mail or send to any voter absent from the county, or who is physically unable to attend in person, on appplication for same by such voter or by any person for him," a to rm oi oaiiot. etc. Evidence of the purpose to figure the negro vote in the election in North Carolina this year is multiplying, for President received the large dele- gation of negroes, led by the negro Republicans national committeeman from Georgia, at his home in Ohio a short time ago, when he was prom- ised a large negro woman vote in the of the cotton and tobacco markets be South, as well as of negro men, there tween now and Nov. 2, election day, Vina Kaon flHvit.v in manv eastern counties of negro campaigners for both Harding and the Republican State ticket. One only has- to revert to Butler's tierfcrmances of 1894-96 to see how all this fits in with his purpose to come o5 the -legislature again from the Re- publican county of Sampson. Republican Slush Money in N. C. Another proof of the use of much of the big campaign slush fund by the national Republican managers in NorthCarolina is being furnished by the numerous little campaign news papers (so-called) that are starting up. l ney run no aavercismj- auu columns are filled with reprint KepuD- ican propaganda, almost exclusively. The bills are taken care of by the fi nance committee of the Republican aamabwv national committee." After election . . . mi day t'aese'' campaign sheets will yield up the ghost and disappear. - But the point is this: Democrats should at once come to an appreciation of the fact that the enemy is more active in North Carolina this year than in any election in many years, and take steps accordingly. North Caro lina i normally a Democratic State, and nciver more so than at the present time. But in order to perpetuate our General Activity must keen a sharp eye on his enemy ancestors of Mrs. Nicholson were not General Apathy, and muster the Dem- ed for their loyalty to the kingdom oi ocratic forces to their full strength; 1 Christ and to the civil government, vlJP AMERICAN in PEmsmm Health ? promotion ::-.aii.'i:::: Health is at the foundation of human happiness. Through Its Rural Serv ice, Public Health Nursing Service and Health Center Service, the American Red Cross aims greatly to strengthen this foundatloa-and to draw more closely than ever the neighborly ties that bind shown a Red Cross Public Health nurse; attending a young mother with a brand new baby, seeing that both' recej-Bdejatlfic; ca&jrrJ-;u-.r:.. yi Vomen Must Register. The difficult task just experienced in Raleigh of . getting most of the white women to-, register their names last Saturday, the last day for registra- tion, so they could vote on the subject of a school tax in this city, reveals -f;rt uf cV,i ow,fl women and Democratic men to tackle the obvious job before them. Women with a distaste for participating in elections so strong that they refuse or consent only after urgent appeals from others, when an election is at hand that affects the education of their chil- dren, need to be looked after more particularly than was supposed would be the case, if they are to figure to any considerable extent in the general election in November. It is up to the Democratic men to urge and bring their moral and family influence to I bear on the female members oftheirr families, by impressing upon them their DUTY to get their names on the ruling of the Attorney General that women must register inperson should not deter them for a moment, and the men of the family should be prompt v offervto accompany them to the regis- tration-place. Most of them perhaps will ero alone or with some other wom- en, once their minds are "made up," and the other kind should not be al- lowed to be left behind because of timidity. Go to it, gentlemen. Some of the apparently are going to need a lot of eloquent "persuasion" of one sort ana anotner. I would jog you with one reminder, however. Be craeful with your "cave stuff " in this day and generation of the Brighter Outlook for Cotton and; Tobacco. Despite the alleged purpose of Re publican "high finance" to create as much political capital as possible out tb cotton and tobacco growers are gomg to come out better tnan tne ma- nipulators of the 'market planned. The Lord helps tnose wno neip tnemseives, you bet, and the meetings of the grow- ers last week and this weekwill even tuate in the perfection of ways and means for adequate. relief. LLEWXAM. The Passing of a Good Woman A mother in Israel has gone to her reward. The world is richer for the nearly eighty-three years that she liv- ed in it, and many are sad because they will see her face and hear her cheerful voice on earth no more; but we look toward a blessed meeting by and by a meeting where no sad fare well are ever' said. Mrs. John H. Nicholson, nee, Bettie R. Shearin, was born in the Churchill neighborhood on the fourth day of March, 1838. She was a daughter of John R. Shearin and Charlotte W. Shearin, and a granddaughter of John Daniel, who conducted the first Sun day School with which the people of Warren county were ever blessed. The REDiCR(3SS.fl t; the American people together. Here is and " their descendants, wherever found, are: walking in then, footsteps; .--Mrs. Nicholson was educated in? the schools of the neighborhood and fin Warrenton Female Collegiate insti tute. In the latter -institution i she formed a number of friendships which alTT:! r - " uun Puc,"'a"Bu wme ena qi ner me. V 'While a student in the above named Institute, a meeting was held in War renton J Baptist ." church, during which niany were converted, and more than sixty joined the church-in which! the 1 mf et?ng; wa.s held, and many joined other churches. This occured in the fall of 1853, when Mrs. Nicholson was little more than fifteen years Old.lShe was one of the converts, and was bap tized by Dr. S. B. Solomon into the fellowship' of Warrenion Baptist church.'fy . (,: 1r When she returned home, she trans ferred her .Gardner's ! :nurcn' r eatnafxonnec j tlon untl1 the Baptist church in Macon was organized, wnen sne oecame a member of that body, and held i her membership there until her- death. She was a devout Christian, rand exemplified in her life the power and beauty of -the religion of Christ.: She was always bright, cheerful and sun shiny. So characteristic was . this of her that a lady who met her for the first time many years ago, said; "She ought to have been named Sunshine," and this lady always spoke of her and addressed her as "Sunshine." All who knew her recognized the appropriate ness of the name. On the 15th day of October 1857, sTie was united in marriage to John H. Nicholson of Six Pound, with whom she lived in happy wedded bliss, until the Master, who she served called her T happiness. Unto them were born eleven children, six girls and five boys. Three of the girls preceded their mother to the land of the blessed, and three, Misses Charlotte, Lizzie and Ellie survive to comfort their venera ble father, now in his eighty-ninth (Continued On Third Page) PEOPLE OF OUR TOWN If the Farmer ever Tucked his Pants in his Boots, said "Gosh all Hemlock!" and Worried about the Mortgage, that was when Hector was a Pup. Now he is a Live Business Man who drives to Town in his Sports Model Speedboy, amputates a few Liberty Bond coupons and Pays for thi s Paper Two Years In Advance. : ? ; Ii - H li M H il II n 1111 N il il r li i. th ! COMMITTEE CALLED ON PRESIDENT IWILSON Chief Executive Breask Another i; rreciaenis. antt; ss ames ; Octo- oer atn as -5-1 ire z Frevention VDay X)yer Nationu l li... Raleigh, Sept. 20.-President John . , ui i-uc j I an Marshal's Association of : rAmerica. actingunder.. direction, of the Execu, tive Committee of theAssociation, of press President s Wilson) with the im- portance .'of giving?National recognit- ion of Fire Prevention day. In conse- quence, the. President broke arpreci- dent again and-issued a proclamation requesting, all. governors, of States to wmcn k ire marsnai - J ames K. Young committee; of which Charles E. Wnd of North Carolina is a member made dell, of Ashville, is chairman, is r.c7 a successful trip to-Washington to im- draftinsr a daw to be nresentcd to uu u&ewise, ana made Uctober 9th a examination, and licensing of physi day of general action and study to cians, dentists and nurses; they pro prevent the prevalence of fires, acei- tect the public health while it looks ta dents and deaths therefroni. - 1 Many states have for several years ohserved. thia 4at Itliavin been set tled upon by agreement- among Fire Prevention organizations,;,; state and National.-As usuaV-North,. Carolina leads in this organized popular fire prevention work. As far back as l915, the General Assembly -enacted a law, declaring October 9th, fire prevention day directing the Governor "to issue a proclamation urging the? people to a proper observance of the Said day." The law also directs that the Insurance Oommissionershall bring heday'and its observance to the attention of - the officials of the municipalities of the state,- and especially? to the firemen. and where possible uarrarige suitable programs to be 'followed in its observ - ance.'" i ,: ' U The first fire prevention, proclanja - tion was iamed by Governor Craig, and when Governor Bickett's procla- mationr appears this;year,it"willt)e tiie fourth one he has promulgated. Tobacco Market Opens its Doors The Warrenton Tobacco market opened yesterday wth small sales and averaging about $5 less than opening sale last year. Warehousemen, state that it is about the same grade of tobacco that the market opened with last year. Though few farmers sold their tobacco yesterday large num bers of them crowded around the piles and evidenced much interest in prices paid. From reports at hand it .seems that the Warrenton market paid higher prices than surrounding markets. Today's sales were still small and prices were slightly "lower. The planters seem to have adopted a poll cy of waiting and watching. From all sources comes the advice to market the weed slowly. It is felt that prices will improve somewhat a little later on. - From Henderson comes the follow ing telegram addressed to County Farm Demonstration agents,, signed by the President and Secretary of Vance Tobacco Farmers Association: "Farmers of Vance county recpm-1 ten days to give time for State organ ization. We urge other markets co operation in same. Prices extremely unsatisfactory." Farmers and business men are urg- j ed to attend these meetings whenever J called and organize for their own pro tection. ' ' She Thought Right . Mrs. Young I want to get a di- vorce from my husband. Lawyer. Well, what are your I charges? Mrs. You ng My charges? Mercy! I though Pd have to pay you. Bos- ton Transcript. To be aware of God means that we must see him in nature and in his tory, .that we must perceive Him in the lives of our fellow men and we must find Him in the recesses of our souls. George' Wharton Pepper. A straight line is shortest in morals as well as In geometry Rahel. M Ml fl w.3 ii r .it i -i 4 i - i j' , i W i (Wat k.J ENGINEER'S BILL TO GO I'-legislatutj: Ask Samo ! Protection f or TI r selves iand.. tho Public -Given 'Other -Profccsicr:"! l.ltzi of the Stato I For the protection of the cublk i iue memoers ox ine irroiessiQn trsa North Carolina advocates ;he - licensing- of engineers and surveyors by the; state, and its Jaw to be Presented 1921 session of the Legislature nrcvid- ing for a board of examiner which shall issue licensed to those fcunu qualified. This measure is based on th'a ima principle as the Jaws requiring t!:3 the protection of the saf etv e.nd r. terial interests of the citizens. It in akin to the North Carolina laws Ikena- in architects and public accountants. The engineers' measure is intend ed to be. so liberal as not to excteds any z? plicant .who is .qualified . by practical experience though perhaps not by technical education, yet strcnj ezz?z1-i to reject the charlatan who scc!:3 la impose himself upon the people as an expert. -. It covers all forms of c?. i- neeriner. civiL mechanical. elcstricrJ, I mining, sanitary and structual, cn-J j also: architecture since the practice cf engineering arid architecture ovcr- flaps in many instances. There ia ii I be no conflict with the architects' J measure because while a joint Lcard 1 is provided only - its architect mtn- Ibers pass on theT oualificatina at 1 those V - seeking . license as architects the- engineer member only judge tha merits of enneerinarappliccjits. This iicensmg of enginners, survey ors and architects is no -experimciit Eleven states license engineers arid eighteen architects, and other will soon follow suit. In this fact, it is pointed out, is a strong reason why North Carolina should act promptly for the protection of both itself and its many hundreds of fine citizens who are engineers, surveyors or architects. Those who are unable to secure li cense in other states will flock to North Carolina. The structures they design or build may cause the loss of life, and certainly, their incompetency will waste the money of those who employ them. It will not be the big corporation which will be imposed on, but the "little fellow," the widow, tha inexperienced they are the ones who need protection. If North Carolina alone had no law licensing doctors would not the quacks from the rest of the country make for it? North Carolina plans to spend millions of dollars on public roads. Should there not be some insurance against incompetent engineers, by de ception or local influence, becoming the engineer directors of this public work? Experts from other states are not excluded, but unless North Caro lina has a licensing law providing for reciprocity with other licensing states its experts will be excluded from -them. TVT TTfl T or gest in Nation Raleigh, Sept. 20.- Mr. Frank Par ker Agricultural Statistician of the Bureau of' Crop Estimates for North Carolina, was in Washington on the Crop Reporting Board September 1st. North Carolina has the largest ofHce force in the field service, employed ex clusively on the work of crop esti mates of any state in the nation. Mr. Parker has six regular assistants in his office. Five of these are-provided hr the state. The State Board of Agriculture is spending in the neigh borhood of $10,000 per annum on the agricultural statististical work and ap pears to be well satisfied with the in vestment. "One girl's entire time is given to the maintenance of lists. This young lady is charged with the responsibility of securing and maintaining new re porters, sending out follow-up letters and memoranda to keep reporters on (Continued On Fourth Pae) lid