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VOLUME XXVI.
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WARRENTON, WARREN COUNTY, N.C7 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY47l92i
Number 5
A WEEKLY NEWSI A PER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF W A RRENTON AND WARREN COUNTY
News ia a Nutshell
f Hv W. BRODTR JONES
NEW YORK, Feby. 2 Ninety-three
cents of every dollar collected-by the
United States Government goes to
pay for past or future wars, according
to an official statistician who has been J
aroused to make investigation by The
New York World's crusade against
competitve armament. One battleship
costs more than $40,000,000. This
paper notes that America is to spend
700,000,000, as compared with naval
appropriations of about $400,000,000
in Great Britain and about $150,000
000 in Japan and this country is fac
ing a deficit for the current fiscal year
of approximately $2,000,000,000. The
Ybrld pleads for an era of reason, rath
er than an armament race by the gov
ernments of the world, .vith its bur
den upon the taxpayers.
Senator Borah, a bitter-ender in the
Versailles Treaty fight, champions the
cause in Washington. A confeience
between representatives of leading na
tions is expected to follow the inaug
uration of President-elect Harding.
The first snow of the winter fell
Sunday night. ' The flakes fell all day,
but snow was only an inch deep at
nightfall.- The snow melted Tuesday
without having called out the street
cleaning department.
Mrs. Warren G. Harding is spend
ing several days at the Ritz-Carlton.
The evening papers all carry stories of
the life of the coming First Lady of
the Land. She says she is a staunch
advocate of 100 per cont Americanism
and one who loves all women who
work.
Kismet Temple, Brooklyn, gave
$2080 to the Central Europe fund at
a ceremonial Monday night. The re
quest for funds came from Herbert
Hoover and the Nobles of the Mystic
Shrine threw their contributions from
the balconies to the man floor. More
than a bushel of bills were collected.
Financial authorities in the city
think that economic conditions are to
improve now that the Allies have fix
ed the German indemnity. This will,
they claim, bring exchange rates near
er normal and will be the steading in
fluence in trade conditions. A report
from the Federal Reserve Board says,
"Business developments during the
month of January hae shown a slight
but unmistakable turn toward a bet
ter state of affairs."
Instead of handclaps the visitors to
Ziegfield Midnight Fiolic applaud with
souvenir liammer? The top of the
table takes the place of the lower
palm. The din brings encores from
one of the most popular casts of the
theatrical world.
More than 900 persons vere killed
by automobiles in New York City last
year. 1921 started with an even
greater percentage ilxn January of
last year. Fifty-five persons in the
city this month
There are many idle here. Cloth
ing factories have laid-off numbers of
employes, and the railroads have been
compelled to cut the?r pay rolls. It is
an easy matter to procure help. The
"position wanted" of ail papers far
excel wioso ui liuip wwui?u.
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Victor Hugo in his masterpiece Les
Miserables expresses terseley "nev
er let us fear robbers or murders.
These are external and small dangers;
let us fear ourselves; prejudices are
the real robbers, vices the true Mur
ders. The great dangers are within
ourselves. Let us not trouble about
what threatens our head or purse, and
only think of what threatens our soul."
Mark Twain says "when angry
count four; when very angry swear."
DEATH CLAIMS "AUNT ANN"
SUTTON
On last Sunday night there passed
away one of God's . saints. Though
her skin was black, her heart was
white. "Aunt Ann" Sutton was a
genuine antebellum darky who came
to Warren county as a refugee during
te civil war and while her age was
not know she must have been more
than eighty years old. She had been
with the Hunter family for nearly
twenty years except for a few short
Periods. She had been there contin
uously for twelve years and had ever
teen a faithful servant and friend.
She loved them as her own and they
loved her. She did the best she knew.
A FRIEND.
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President John B. Davis Appeals to
Farmers to Learn the Selling End
of Farming that They May Reap the
Reward for Their Labor
To the Farmers of Warren Co.:
It is an accepted fact that the far
mers for the past generations have
devoted all of their thought and ener
gy to the matter of production; they
have toiled soon and late in the cold
of the winter as well as in the heat
of the summer. There are more hours
in the farmers day than in the day of
any other business or profession. Now
as production only represents one-half
of the farmers business, isn't it
strange that with all his work, long
hours, and hard times, that he has
never thought of the other half of his
business the selling half of it ?
A good and economical producer is
only a good buyer and that is all. Now
suppose a man is a good buyer and a
poor(seller could he ever hope to suc
ceed. The farmer is far worse than
a poor seller, he is no seller at all; he
is simply a dumper and nothing more.
Who is to blame for all of this?
Well, probably no one especially, but
if you are going to place the blame ou
any set of people we are compelled to
place it upon the farmers; upon the
agricultuial departments of the farm
ing states, and upon the leading farm
papers for they, too, have devoted all
of their time and brain, state appro
priations and experiments trying to
find how to produce the largest pos
sible yield at the lowest cost. Isn't it
an exceedingly strange thing that
these men educated in the most ad
vanced science that the United States
can offer, and equipped with the best
that money can buy I say, isn't it
strange that this type of men have
only developed to be good buyers or
p.roducejaiant. have v revrivezi , one
thought to selling the market crops
of the South. They will tell you all
about how to sell your corn and feed,
cotton seed meal and all of this kind
of stuff to steers, hogs and milch cows
and will tell you what type of a steer
to sell for the best price. They will
tell you best kind of hog that will pay
you the best for your orn and etc,
how to selct a cow and what to feed
her on for best results. Now all of
this is just fine and what we all enjoy
and should know: but I do wish that
they had mentioned selling cotton and
tobacco. They never thought of that;
our fathers always dumped their crops
on the market and so we just kept on
in their footsteps until now.
Lets see who this dumping effects,
or damages. My answer is that it is
detrimental to every legitimate busi
ness in the South and many in the
North. There is only one man that it
helps and that is the speculator. Bus
iness as a whole has never before rea
lized its dependence upon the planter
or farmer, as it does today.
The farmer has many friends and
many stand ready to help him. Our
bankers, ourwarehousemen, merchants
lawyers, doctors andlast but by no
means least, our editors are each e&
pecially interested in our prosperity,
for our prosperity means their pros
perity, and our failure means their
failure. Eveji the tramp prospers
when the farmer prospers.
What has the farmer to do with the
traveling salesmen.- Well, when you
see one ask him, he can tell you.
I believe we are all are agreed that
the farmer is a good producer; that
there is the greatest abundance of all
crops and a big surplus to carry ove
Yet the farmer is poorer than he has
even been before. What shall we do;
what can we do?
Well, we have learned that there is
! nothing in being a good producer
alone, so the only thing we can do now
is to study the other half of our busi
ness, viz, how to be a good seller. I
believe from now on the departments
of agriculture, the best farm papers,
and the farmers w"JL ail turn their at
tention from the producing side to the
selling side of this question. And of
course, this must be, if we art to effect
anything.
Co-operative Selling
Each commodity must be concentrat
ed and sold" from one office. This plan
has been successfully operated by the
California fruit growers, and surely a
plan that will handle perishable fruits
successfully can with more ease and
greater satisfaction handle cotton and
tobacco. You will be told by all it is
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1 -CHrA POT,N
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a good thing if you can do it. You
will be told by many that it can never
be done; but don't let this class dis
courage you, just make up your mind
that you are willing to do your part
and it will all be done quickly and
easily. These contracts are already
being signed by some of the states and
we hope soon to have them in North
Carolina and Warren county and when
we get them let each farmer be will
ing to do what he can to get .the con
tracts signed up as quickly as we can.
We have nothing to lose in changing
our system of selling our crops. I
don't believe that is a man or a body
of men in the United States with a
brain big enough to devise a plan of
handling our crop that is more unfair
and unjust than the dumping system
that we have, and if there is a man
that is smart enough to think out and
formulate some system of marketing
votf r"-"C roiJSHthat to"e rriolreurijus t and
unfair than the present T rish he
would please put it in prm.. so the
public may see it.
Another thing I would like to call
die farmers attention to and that is
the fertilizer question. You had bet
ter go slow in this matter. Cotton and
.obacco are bring about 1-3 what theyl
were last year this time, and I under
derstand that the price of guanos have
been reduced only about $3.00 per ton.
Under the present conditions if you
promise 1-2 as much per ton as you
promised last year I don't see hi w you
are to pay it. If the South had not
used a single bag of guano last year
,:he guano manufacturer, the merchant
that sold it, and the farmer would all
have been far better off. Think these
things over. Save all the manure you
can at home and then if the price gets
right just buy a little, for we are told
that there is a plenty of everything
and the less we produce the more we
will get.
J. B. DAVIS, President
Wairen Co. Tob'c. Gro. Assn.
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES
Enrollment this week 194.
The debating triangle is Hendeison,
Roanoke Rapids and Warrenton. The
arrangement of the schedule has not
been worked out as yet.
We are going in to win those debates.
We expect the whole town to stand
behind us. Don't say, "Oh, you can't
win against those large schools, ; the
odds is too erreat against you." We
have heard the story of David and
Goliath. What are you going to do to
keep up the right spirit?
The following pupils have neither
bean absent or tardy during the month
ending. January 28, and have made a
satisfactory record in all studies.
Second Grade Helen Reid.
Third Grade Jolin Hudgins, Myrtle
Prescott, Edward Knight.
Fifth Grade Thurmutis Loyd.
Sixth Grade Mary F. Rodwell,
Helen Rodgers, Margie Green.
Seventh Grade Walier B. Massen
burg, Raym nd Loyd, Gladys Modlin.
Eight Grade Lucy Boyd, Mildred
Allen, Cora Green, Elizabeth Rooker,
John Burwell.
Don't forget the meeting
Armory this afternoon.
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ed in 1890-1898 and is a very hand
Say I saw it in the Warren Record, some building. Above it waves lofty
After Regular Program Their Teacher
Relates in Interesting Manner iier
Visit to Slrafiford-on-Avon, Homeh
of Shakespeare.
This ndtice should have appeared in
last week's paper but was unavoidably
omitted Editor.
The Philethea Class of the Baptist
church held its literary meeting last
Tuesday evening. It was. a prelimi
nary meeting to ' the study of Shake
speare, v The ladies had concluded to
first take up the interesting drama:
"As You Like It," and Mrs.-T. V. Al
len gave the story in a most interest
ing manner. Miss Sallie Allen read a
delightful sketch of xhe life of the
immortal bard. .Mrs. Pendleton then
told of her visit to Stratford-on-Avon.
:
A tourist first visits Kenilworth
Castle, a magnmcent ruin of great
architectural beauty associated with
memories of Queen Elizabeth, Earl of
Leicester, and the unfortunate Amy
Robsart. Then to Warwick Castle, the
home of ; Richard Neville, Earl of
Warwick, known in history as The
King-maker. It is still in a good
state of preservation, and on the walls
of the great reception room are bat
tie-axes, spears, and suits of armor
worn in feudal times. The Gothic
structure is shaded by tall cedars of
Lebanon grown from seed brought
from the Holy Land in the time of the
Crusaders; by one of the brave knights
who fought the Saracens in Palestine.
But far more interesting then old
feudal castles is Stratford-on-Avon
the home of Shakespeare the greatest
of the world's dramatists, and 35000
tourists visit it annually. The first
thing that, caught our attention was
the handsome - fountain presented to
the ' towra?y George , W. Child's of
Philadelp jv. Sir Henry Irving, the
grea'?taftsttrtr.Its' SeoTicatiori
delivered an address and read a poem
written for the occasion by Oliver
Wendell Holmes. In the Gothic
tower is a clock to proclaim the pass
ing hours to the inhabitants of Shake-
spear's old home.
We passed Guildhall, the Grammar
school that the poet attended, then oi
to the house in which he was born
It is a wooden building a story and a
half with dormer windows.
We go through a large empty room
and mount the steps leading to the
apartment where he first saw the
light. It Is low, unfurnished and un
attractive save on the walls, ceiling
and window panes are written names
of distinguished visitors: Dickens,
Thackery, Edmond Kean, Edwin Booth
Washing Irving, Bryon and hundreds
of others wrote their names upon the
wall, and Sir Walter Scott scratched
his on the" window. The Biipthplace
was purchased for the nation in 1847.
When Shakspeare returned from
London to live again in Stratford he
bought "Newplace" the finest mansion
in the town. In 1759 Rev. Thomas
Gastrell owned the place and was so
annoyed by visitors thronging to see
the house and to sit under the mul
berry tree under the shade of which
Shakespeare had written his sonnets
and later dramas, that he had the
house destroyed and the tree hewn
down. A sion of the tree sprung up
and now a grandson of the original
tree still exists and I procured some
of the leaves from the care-taker.
The next place of interest is the
Shakesperean Memorial. It is a com-
1 bination of theatre, library and muse
am. Here Shakesperean dramas are
presented by gifted artists, and it is
of interest to'us to know that our own
Mary Anderson acted here, and for
the first time assumed the character
of Rosalind in "As You Like It.'
Within the library are more than six
thousand books on Shokespeare writ
ten in various languages, and also
most of the editions .of his plays.
The classic Avon generally gently
I flows through mossy banks, but below
this Memorial Building' it goes leaping
over rocks, and billowy foam glistens
i in the sunshine.
Not far from here is the church of
the Holy Trinity where Shakespeare
sleeps his last sleep. It occupies the
site of a Saxon monastry in the fif
j teenth century, and probably the con
tract tower dates from the twelfth
century and this is surmounted by a
lofty sphire. The church was restor-
elms, and in the quant churchyard are
many weeping willows. The interior
of the church contains many things
of interest. As we entered, we were
shown by the verger the church record
and in it was recorded the baptism of
William Shakespeare. There were
magnificent mmeorial windows, but
none interested us as much as the one
representing the Seven Ages of Man
given by American tourists. To the
right of the chancel is a bust of
Shakespeare and beneah the floor of
the chancel rests his ashes. A plain
marble slab even with the floor marks
the spot, and near it are tombs of his
wife Anne Hatchaway, of his daugh
ter and her husband, and of Thomas
Nash the husband of his only grand
daughter, Elizabeth.
On the large flat stone which covers
the spot where the Bard, of Avon
sleeps is a strange epitaph written by
himself which perhaps has preserved
the sepulchre from desecration all
these years:
"Good Friend, for Jesus' sake forbear
To dig the dust enclosed here.
Blest be the man that spares these
stories,
And curst be he that moves my bones."
MRS. J. P. SCOGGIN ENTERTAINS
The elegant and hospitable home of
Mr. and Mrs. J. Palmer Scoggin on
"Fiftlj Avenue" was the scene of
much social enjoyment Wednesday af
ternoon from three-thirty to six o'clock
in honor of Miss Mary Russell Scog
gin, their sister, and Warrenton's
bride-to-be.
The guests were received by Mrs.
George Scoggin, and after informal
greetings, were conducted to the East
Parlor for "Harts," or to the west
parlor for "Bridge."
Mrs. V. F. Ward, making the high
est score in Bridge was presented the
guest's prize, a hand-painted dish, by
Miss Sarah Hawkins, who also in a
charming manner presented to Miss
Ethel Allen a pffcture,, the guest prize
for the highest score in Hearts.
A delicious salad cotirse was daintily
served by Misses Lucy Palmer , Scog
gin, Olivia Burwell and Dorothy Wal-
f After a unique and appropriate
"Toast" to the bride-to be by Miss Sue
Williams, a "shower" of numerous and
handsome gifts were presented and
opened amidst much merriment and
many good wishes for the fair recip
ient.
Those present were: Misses Mary
Russell Scosririn. Sue Broom. Estelle
Davis, Kate W. Williams, Janet Hall
Jennie Jeffress, Mamie Gardner, Belle
Dameron, Louise Allen, Ednav Allen
Ethel Allen, Susie G. Williams, Dor
othy Walters, Olivia Burwell, Lucy
Palmer Scoggin, Sarah Hawkins, Mary
R. Bourroughs, Mariam Boyd, Mary
Harris; Mesdames Gordon Poindextei',
C. C. Hunter, George Soggin, Van D.
Alston, E. W Baxter, W. G. Rogers,
Herman Rodwell, C. F. Moseley, H. N.
Walters, J. D. Palmer, T. J. Holt, W.
N. Boyd, J. B. Massenburg, James
Moore, Ray Weston, John Dameron,
Jr., Roy Davis, G. H. Macon Peter Ar
rington, A. A. Williams, J. G. Ellis,
J. H. Kerr, H. L. Falkener, V. F. Ward,
Milton McGuire, W. D. Rodgers, C. A.
Tucker,- Howard Alston, B. B. Wil
liams,. Arthur Petar, T. D. Peck, W. H.
Dameron, Edmund White and Mrs. S.
D. Twitty.
Literary Department Meets
The literary department of the
Woman's club met with Mrs. Hannah
"R. AiTintrton Tuesday afternoon. An.j
interesting paper, "The Theory of
Democracy: Ideals of the French Rev
olution" was read by Miss Julia Dam
eron. Mrs. Howard Alston read in-
terestingly selection from Paine as an
independent statement of the princi
ples of the Revolution.
Mrs. Hannah Arrington charmingly
entertained her guests by musical se
lections on the piano "America" "God
Save the King", and the Marseillaise.
Delicious refreshments were daintily
served.
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REGULAR MELTING
A Regular meeting of Johns,ton-Cas-well
Lodge rfo. 10 A. F. & A. M. will
be held in the Masonic Hall Werren-
ton, N. C, Monday evening, Feby 7th,
at 9 o'clock. Work m the Master
Mason's Degree. '
Members of sister lodges'
and all
transient brethren fraternally invited
to attend.
S. E. BURROUGHS, Master.
W. M. GARDNER, Secty.
Woman's Auxiliary
The Woman's Auxiliary of the Epis
copal church will meet with Mrs. How-
ard F. Jones Monday, February 7th,
at 3:30 p. m. , .
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Molasses Substituted for Cylinder Oil
proves too Much for Lizzie Ford;
Tho her Cylinder Head didn't swell
She Became. Stuck-up.
"There is nothing new . under the
Sun," is an old adage, and yet we have
contradiction of this in many un
expected ways. For insfance, one of
the substantial and pains-taking citi
zens of this county recently opeated
his automobile with molases in the
crank case as a lubricant. It was a
rase" in which ignorance was bliss;
but wisdom proved remunerative for
the garage man. The story runs
thusly:
A colored boy, a can of molasses, a
fvcan of lubricating oil and an automo
bile all in the same proximity; direc
tions to the boy to "put oil in the
crank case of my car." visions of
"U i j f ii
me l lauuit aim a uay oi laienusa
while the car was gone got in the cra
nium of the boy, and the can of molas
ses turned into a can of the be3t lubri
cant!
After much coaxing and repeated
effort to snin the motor bv the owner
of the car Svho knew not the wherefore
of its stuck-fast codition, it turned
with a slow wheeze and cough and
was off.
In wonder as to its past cussednesa,
and in admiration of its present per
formance, the owner came swiftly to
town, leaving a sweet scented trail of
evaporating molases to gladden the ol
factories of the fellow travelers whom
he swiftly passed.
Molasses to the right of them;
Molases to the left of them
Volleye4 and thunored;
And onward rodt, not the six hun
dred, but two county officials over the
daily trail to the Court House.
"Oil's well hat ends well;" but up
to the present there has been no evi
denced: in.troduce4 tending.- to . prov?
that the ending was "Well," we woiat
say.
When these tvo county officials
started to go home "all the king's
horses and all the king's men" could
n't get "Lizzie" started again. Tho
owner wasn't but the automobile was
stuck-up; immovably, abounding in
molases in every cam and crank pin;
in every cup and depression of the
crank case, and "Lizzie" was too sweet
to move.
A visit to the garage, a consultation
as to "cause," a diagnosis, an opera
tion, the insertion of a drainage tubt,
a flushing of the "interior" with kero
sene, a replacement, and "Lizzie" was
pronounced cured and discharged, ax
ter a treatment of "warming up" at
the end of a cable attached to a pro
pelling and compelling truck.
And the "Son of Ham" in blissful
ignorance hied him aveld in lazy
dreams of that blissful - time when
there would be no white man to tell
him to "Put oil in the crank case of
my car,
Bulletin Thursday: Sweet Lizzie i3
no better but has gone to manufactur
ing molases candy in her crank case.
Don't forget tha :aeet;r
Armory this afternoon. ,
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LOCAL AND PERSONAL
Mr. Howard Palmer was in town
Monday.
Mr. Walter Allen, of Axtel, was in
town Monday.
The metal conice of the hotel build
ing adds very much to its appearance.
Mr. Gallagher, Casher of the Bank
of Warren, of Norlina, was in town
this week. j
Miss Mona Sludge, of Raleigh, spent
the week-end with her parents, Prof.
! and Mrs. Mudge. y
Miss Rosebud Green spent the past
week end with her parents Mr. and
Mrs. E. L. Green.
The friends of Mr. Thos D. Peck are
deligted that he has returned from the
hospital much improved in health.
Mr. Elmer tireen, oi uurnam, is
spending several days in Warrentcn
: with his parents Mr. and Mrs. E. L.
Green
Mr. Frank Crutchfi'eld, of Richmond,
president of the Fish Guano Company
waa in town this week as guest of
Mr. F. B. Newell.
The finishing touches to the front of
the new stores of the Warrenton Gro-
eery Company are being given thi3
week, adding much to the appeaanco
of the building.
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