North Carolina Newspapers

ii t nit hi j j hafe dd GaOO ft &ftftBfi)& :Fapjfe.RifleDinig p Msi VOLUME XXVI. RRENTON, Number 4 A WEEKLY NEWS PAPERJDE VOTED TO THlTTNTER ESTS OF WARRENTON AND WARREN COUNTT A . - I ' : r CONDENSED NEWS FROM THE OLD NORTH STATE Z3ITC FCOTE3 OF INTEREST TO CAROLINIANS. Wadesboro. Major J. W. Wall, aged about S3, one of the most prom inent and popular citizens of this sec tion of the state, died at his home near Ansonville. Raleigh. J. Bailey Owen, ol Henderson, is the now Grand Master of the Grand Lode:e of North CAmiina. He was elected in the session of the Grand Lodge in the Masonic Temple. Henderson. A new s tobacco com pany has been organized in Hender son for the purpose of exporting tuid rrrK ihi!r cl 12,000,000. Oxford By a large majority Oxford Graded School district voted for a bond issue of $75,000 for additional 1 ijcn-ooi ouuaings. Tnis amount is in addition to $50,000 authorized some time ago. Raleigh. Startled TTrom peaceful nap to find the newspaper in his lap and the hat on his head afire, Frank Branch, negro janitor, dashed out oi the Tucker building lobby a few sec onds before the exit vas, out ,off by flames. Lenoir. Members of St. Andrews' Lutheran church on the campus .ol Lenoir college, 1ave voted to buy a $4,000 jpipe organ and the first sub scription list contains $3,390, one member offering to give a fifth of the J entire amount. s . High . Point. Breaking open the front door with a crowbar robrrrs entered the millinery establishnip-tt of Mrs. D. T. Andrews and escaped with ladies ready to wear garments valued at approximately $1,500. Kinstocu T&e Jentity of a rumor ed woman mayoralty aspirant is puz zling politicians here. She has noi announced but according to second hand information claiming to have the "right dope" is firmly determined to make the race in April. Concord. Rev. R. A. Goodman has tendered, his resignation to the board of directors, as president of . Mont Am.oena seminary and to the members of Holy Trinity Lutheran church at Mt. Pleasant as, their pastor. Salisbury. Mrs. J. Rufus Fisher died at her home at Crescent, Rowan county, at the age of 83 years. Lumberton. -Good business durin? the past year and a bright prospect for the future was reported at the air nual meeting of the stockholders oi Lmmberton's three banks. Asheville. A man later identified as Charles Cannon, of Kannapolis, N. ., met a horrible death upon the tracks of t&e C. C & O. railroad re cently near the water tank at Toecane. Fayetteville. George B. Under wood, general agent for the Norfolk Southern railroad, while in this "city anounced plans for the installati on . .ol a new train between Raleigh and Fay ettevitle by his road. Raleigh. The State Engineeers so ciety ia a final session here complet ed the draft of a bill to regulate the practice of engineering in the state and elected officers for the ensuing year. Hickory. Hickory hes emerged from one of tih-e wrst sieet and snow fctomw in several years, but the dam age done to interiors of buildings will not be repaired for several weeks. Bolmoat. -The splendid response of the Belmont people to the sale of the Christmas health seals has been Very gratifying to the committee having charge of the sale of seals and binds and the amount of $221.e5 have been sold. Salisbury. At the annual meeting cf the stockholders oftfce Vance cot ton mill reports were heard that show d a fine year and prospects for good business during the present year. Salisbury. Governor Bickett came to Salisbury to resume Oris practice of law after leaving the governor's man sion, his first case calling him here for conferences -with his flret client, Coivgreeeman . R. L. Dousrhton a his ccetgresisional contest. Charlotte -James A. Costner, cash-1 ier of the Mount Holly bank, is at the Presbyterian hospital in this city in j an unconscious and. serious condition j as the result of injuries sustained at, Mount Holly, when he was struck by WARREBTOM , Benjamin Edwards Cook's Appoint ment Is First Political Selection Made by Only Woman Member of Congress. The following article from the Mus kogee (Okla.) Daily Phonex is of much interest to Warren1 County people. Mr. CoDk is a Warrenton boy and has any friends through the county and i State Editor. Benjamin Edwards Cook of Mus kogee, an ex-soldier, will beprivate secretary to Miss Alice Robertson, only woman member of the new con gress. His appointment was announced yes- y when, ker retur!n to Connecticut New York i and Washington, she found awaiting ner Mr- Cook's letter of acceptance of the appointment tendered to him sev- eral weeks ago. The appointment' of Miss Robert son's private secretary is the first po litical selection officially made by any of the republican officials-elect in this section of the state since the general election in November. Miss Alice's announcement of her selection df Mr. Cook will also set at ies.t many rumors in political circles r.nd will at the same time djsappont nearly 100 applicants for the appoint ment. Many Applicants. "I have had applications from men raid women from all over the United States' saidf Miss Robertson. "Be cause I am the only woman member of the new congress, it seems they all rant to be v my private secretary. "I was determined to i-.ave an Ok lahoma n. I wanted a man and a Muskogee man at that if I could find cne willing to accept the place who xas satisfactory tomev.r r ; "I tendered the appointment to Mr. Cook or to his brother, Marshall E. Cook, assistant r postmaster, several weeks ago, but because of the financial sacrifice acceptance of the appoint ment entails, Marshall was unable to accept it and his brother, Ben wanted to think it over. "For seven years Marshall was with me in the posteffice and I am well ac quainted with Ben and with his family. There is no finer young iran anywhere rnd I am delighted that he cculd see his way to accept tho appointment," Miss Alice said. Not a Politician. Mr. Cook, though a republican and the son of a North Carolina republi can, has never been active in polities. For this reason his 'appointment will be a jolt to some f tie republican leaders of the state who have been seeking indirectly to make the position1 a political plum. Many persons, man and women, have been mentioned ih! political cir cles as the probable appointee as Miss Alice's private secretary. Among them ws R. V. Anderson, who has also been mentioned as ''a probable candidate for the postmaster's job here. The latest reports among the poli ticians were to the effect that the "organization" would urge Miss Alice to appoint Mrs. John Flenner, wife of a Tulsa newspaper man. By making her appointment when she did and so quietly, however, Miss Alice stoU a arch on her political ad visers and since the ap; ointment has already been made, she will probably escape the friction that might have been caused by her appointment of Mr. Cook in the face of efforts on the part of oolitical leaders to have some -V other selection made. Rejected Several Times 4 Rejected several times early in the war when he tried to enlist in the marine corps, the navy and the army Mr. Cook was at last accepted into the medical corps. He was stationed at Fort Sill, a member of the medical corps detachment attached to the Fourteenth artillery. He is a member of the American Legion, in whose be half Miss Robertson has always been an untiring worker and a generous patron. Mr: Cook is 30 years old, a. member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity and the Masonic lodge. He attended the University of North Carolina, of which his father Judge Charles A. Cook, who died here four vevrs ago, was at one time a trustee, jje js a present connected witrt the ((Continued On Page Six) g News in a Nutshell & By W. BRODIRJONKS t NEW YORK, Jan. 25 Sir Auckland Geddes, British Ambassador to the United States, sailed last week for London to confer with tho British Givernment relative to matters of pol cy .under the Harding Administration. The Ambassador will return to Amer ica ater conferring with David Lloyd George and Earl Curzon.. v John D. Rockfeller, Jr., gave $1, 000,000 to tho relief work of Central Europe at a Young Men's Bible Class Banquet at the Hotel McAlpin Friday night. The donation ollowed am ad dress by Herbert Hoover, in charge of the campaign for $33,000,000 fr the relief of destitute women and starving children overseas. In mak ing his gift Mr. Rockerfcllor said in speaking of his father " I dc envy him the necessity he had to make his way in the world, what that was." I have never known Six hundred thousands persons come to New York each day according to The Subway Sun, a trade periodical placarded within all, under-surface trains. It says thatthese persons es cape tares in the city, and that &n in- creased fare should be levied Uq hit thATYi Thp hnllPtin lAirrva tW-rtm- sion of the lines and operative costs can not be met on the 5c. fare. The Legislature at Albany sits tight, and no relief is expected. . Herbert C. Hoover announced Sat urday that an offer of 15,000,000 bushels of corn by mid-West farmers had been accepted by the European Relief Council. The expense of col lecting, transportation and distribu tion are to be bourne by donations from residents of cities. The bulk of the grain goes to China where hunger stalks, Mr. Hoover said that probably not more than 2,000,000 bushesl would be required by the children of Europe. Police Commissioner E. E. Enright has. at last broken silence as to the crime wave in the city. Every paper has had the head of the Police Depart ment under fire and editorial condem nation. The New Yoik Times last week secured George Creel, form er Police Commissioner of Denver and head of the Government's Publicity program during the war, to interview the Commissioner. In part Enright said "Instead of shaming it, New Yorlf ought to be proud , of its police force, man for man they stand up against any body of men in the world for loyalty and devotion. -There wasv less crime in 1920 than in 1916 and 1917, yet there has not been an addition to the force since 1913 - - -New York contains 314 square miles, with 3,514 miles of streets, and when our men are divided into eight-hour shifts as required by law, it will be been that about 2,000 men must cover this' vast area. No other world me tropolis operates with so small a force. London, with police problems far less difficult, has 24,000 policemen We have 10,500. " - - - Resign ? Not a chance. There's no quitting blood in me. I did not ask for this job, but, having accepted it, I do not mean to be scar ed out of it." His article denied that there is a crime wave. It brought the charge that the press of the city is directing criticism against his department be cause he refused reporters admission to the poilce records. The statement has been favorably received. D. W. Griffith, producer of "The Birth of A Nation." is to build a two- million dollar theatre in Philadelphia$ut that he heeds them one and all Rudyard Kipling's poem, "If," , has been translated into 125 languages. This poem was included by the late Lord Kitchener in the manual of in struction used by , England's "first hundred thousand." This was ' the army which crossed the Channel in 1914, and lived to history's, bravest traditions of valor. "There is a destiny which makes us brothers, None walks his 'way alone; --... Whatever . we give into the lives of others Comes back into our own." The middle of last week saw the thermometer down to four, above zero. Saturday and. Sunday were balmy eo"gh f oiv a stroll without an over coat. ' Tonight the mercury is around thirty degrees : Success is hot in holding aVgood hand, but in playing a poor hand well. DAD How's Dad? Never mean never sad Ever happy ever glad, That's Dad! Call Dad! Want a nail or a brad Want it mighty awf u bad Ask Dad! Where's Dad? Want some things I never had Just because it is the fad Tell Dad! Pago Dad! Lost my key while out to gad Makes me mighty awful mail But not Dad. For Dad! To all your pleasures we would jadd Ter times those you've ever hadl Here's to Dad! Maud Moore in the Seattle Post Intelligencer. STILL A DEMOCRAT They carried California, tfei slaugh tered us in Maine, v , ec:s shout their vkiory from Halifax to Spam; They made a hole in Lcuisian', they dented Tennessee, They knocked 'em cold in cld.Mizzo; but they never routed me; They smashed our dreams to smither eens, our hopes to a cocked hat, But here is one they couldn't turn, I'm still a Democrat. Twas ten thousand votes for Harding, and two hundred votes for Cox, I bet 'em all my ready cash, likewise my shoes and socks, And as returns kept piling in, I knew I'se out o luck, But still I claimed HH ol' New York, and yelled for Did Xaiatuck, claimer's busted fiat, , But Cashless, shoeless, sockless, folks, I'm still a Democrat. White County went Republican, . and Joe and Otis fell. Looks, like the whole durn Country had completely gone to Well! I dunno where it's gone to, but here's something for you, mates, When my time comes to shuffle off and try the pearly gates, And old St. Peter hears my knock and hollers, "Who is that?" '11 say, "old boy, throw wide the gates, here comes a Democrat." White County- Democrat. "BEAUTY SPOTS. (By Ruth Shaw.) 3 know a man, stranger to, fame, A man with rugged, homely face, His life he lives in manner plain, In rank he holds but lowly place, His hands show honest work and toil, Full well he knows the weight of woes. . I Yetbeauty spots of heart and soul Win for him friends where'er he goes. With love unselfish, staunch and true, To all he doth each day impart A courage fine, a steady faith From the depths of an understanding heart, The patience calm, the kindly trust. The helping hand he lends in strife, Nl itrong, Are the beauty spots of his daily life. He meets his brother's every need, He hear's his neighbor's every call, No cries go forth for help or cheer Tis beauty spots like these that win For him a firm and lastirg place Within the memories of men That death nor years can e'er erase. SERVICE MEDALS The State of North Carolina-has prepared medals for all -men who nerved in the world war and vere honorably, discharged, which medals are now ready for distribution. Any service man may receive the medal from the office of the County Super intent of Public Instruction if he will call for it and present his discharge papers. These medals are . decora tiqna that a man will be proud of and are momentoes of.jservice that every man should call for and should keep that future generations may view them as sources of pride. J. EDWARD ALLEN,; - County Supt. - SUPREME COUNCIL TO HEAR AUSTRIA MATTER OF REPARATIONS BY GERMANY -WAS PUT TEMPORARILY. ASIDE WREPOBTSFRCM EXPERTS - ' ' . Premiers Considering Whether It Advisable to Have Hun Repre sentatives Meet With Council. Paris. The supreme council, com posed of representatives of Great Britain, France, Italy, Belgium and Japan, Sieard the niilitayr experts and later conferred together regard ing the failure of Germany to disarm as provided tor by the treaty of Ver sailles. The experts were asked to make a detailed report on the sub- j , w e"ect, ana l am sure Xixz ject, with recommendations regard-! balance will falll in line. It is abs sl ing measures to insure execution of j utely essential, however, that every the disarmament clauses of the community act in good faith in this treaty- -cutting down the planting, and any . The council will, contrary to ex-; section hearing that some other has pectation, take up the situation of not done so will have a bad effect Austria, instead of reparations. r rv ;a v. u The British premier, Lloyd George, my mnid, the .tobacco situation, and the president of the French coutv QSPy that of the farmer, is in a cil, Aristlde Briand, it is understood, most condition, and the absence desire an opportunity to talk over j of demand from Europe for our law the different phases of the repara- j grade tobacco is possible on account tions question before the subject , of their using tobacco from Eastern comes up for discussion at the full ! Europe, and we may never be able to council's program, ! establish this demand to any great ex- In this connection the Premiers ( tent again, which makes it necessary are said to be considering whether ' nf fiQ foraw , . . , . t is feasible and advisable to have tlLt , i t7 the German representatives sit with ; erSle3 to making good tobacco which the council before the final decision j they are more aPt to do in raising a on reparations is taken. small crop and this half a crop is apt ! I to weigh a good deal more than if they Consumption of Whiskey Less. I Planted a full crop, and they will make Washington. Whiskey consumption i Jood tobacco for which their is a de in the United States decreased from I Jnand and eliminate the common jtob 8.9.641.9S5 gallons in 19l7 to 5,581,5r3 j acco which apparently has no frh-ds gallons in 1920, the first year of prohi' ! except at -very low -prices ' a 1" trust ite.?e .???1:ltu.n you -will get, especially" by the Anti-Saloon League of Ameii- i ca. Consumption of alcohol in th same years decreased from 71,081,121 gallons to 22,639,355 gallons, the fig ures showed, while beer consumption dropped from 60,817,379 barrels to 9, 231,280 barrels. Not to Disturb Home Brewers. Chicago. Home 'brewers will not be disturbed for the present, despite re cent government announcements that they . would be prosecuted vigorously. Frank D, Richardson, prohibition ill rector for the central states, said on his Return from Washington. Night Riders Lexington, Ky. Issue Warnings. Night riders visit- ed farmers in Bath and Fleming conn ties and warned them not to haul any more tobacco to market until prices were higher, according to reports re ceived here. Rev. Irvtfn Arrested. Belfast. The Rev. J. A. Irwin, a Presbyterian minister, who spoke in the United States with Eamonn do Valera during the latter's tour, hv.s foeen arrested, it was learned here. Guatemala Has Literacy Law. Guatemala City. Illiterates are for- (bidden to participate in political c m- tests under the terms of a bill appro v- ed by the congress of Guatemala. 1 '1 1 o I Mrs. Harding n Washington. Washington. -Mrs. Warren G. Uv.::V oo. ng, wire or tne rrpsiaer.wmci., t in spend seveiul days pr'or to join a? Mr. Harding at St. Auguatifle, Fla. Retail Prices Coming Dov. Chicago. Retail prices ce-norally aro not coming down but are "already at that stage, according t.o . member? of the Retailers' Commercial Union, which opened ft week's convention here. Woman Candidate for Legislature. Columbia, S. C. Miss Corine Bar field is one of six candidates for a ssat in the Hous? of Representatives of thP South Carolina Legislature ma'de vacant by the de tb of W. Sprott. T. P. Death of Confederate Colonel. Anderson, - C.loi. josepn ew- jthe raiddle western states, and those ton Brown, 89 ranking surviving or-, who say the same results fleer of .nf.7Snth ! obtained in North Carolina in time. Carolina, died at his home here- , movement for a brood sow on Fatal Gasoline Explosion. i every farm has the hearty support of Memphis, Tenn. At least 2" per- j the North Carolina Cotton andTobacco son, anost of them negroes, were kill j Associations, whose program of reduc ed, according to police estimates, anr : ed acreage of these two rops permits 50 or more injured by an ef&l ' ' j the planting of more grazing crops a tank car of gasoline near the filling station of the Colyar-Rees company j ' eet off presumably by a spanc ir.or- workman's dilael. ; Willi l td Mb !W-' If? MR President Tobacco Board of TraT Writes Local Chairman Asking that ; all Warehousemen and Farmers Co-operate !m,w(. a. ko, i : W arrenton, N. C January 22, 1021. ; No doubt you have received circular la 'Dear Sir: j from Mr. F. L. Carr, of Wilson, mem I ber of the Executive Committee of the North Carolina Farmers. Association, asking that the warehouses would bs all close on the 27th and 28th of Jan uary and devote those two days and Saturday to having meetings to get the 'farmers committed to planting a half crop, Most of the large. Eastern '.Markets have already passed resolu- mers . 'supply merchants, interested in this movement and give all the pub- ucity possmie tnrougn your, papers. Very truly yours, T. M. Carrington, President,. local THE TRAGEDY The story of the events of last Saturday night leading up to the rioting at 2:45 a. m. at Norlina; the retaliiation on Sunday nijjht at 19 o'clock, if given in detail with all rumors, true and untrne, . WOuld fill our columns with mat- I ter whkh we do not believe will be conducive to the welfare cf both races residing in Warren county. It is in this spirit that we refrain from carrying in our columns de- tails of the unfortunate occurence for the Public good. l STATE TO LEARN HOW BROOD SOW CAN HELP j j With "one brood sow on every farm DroDeriv rrPfj for Knrth nnrnliinn j be Qn the way tQward ft solution of her agricultural troubles, according to the swine office of the N. C. Agri- (cultural Extention Service, which is I going back to the brood sow to the lira- i it in a campaign of education conpern- ing the possibiities of producig pork at home. With the active support of live farmers, bankers, business men, the press, county farm agents, and prominent organizations, th atten tion of the state is to be riveted upon the problem of pork production in North Carolina. Through paid adver tising, circular letters, printed bul letins, and meetings, the discourgred cotton or tobacca farmer will learn how to take care of a brood sow, pro duce his own meat and have some left to seww. The brood sow is credited with buld ing schools and good roads, of lifting mortgages and educaion children in "Miss Lucy Burwell visited in Rich mond this week." automobile. , 4