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VOLUME XXVI.
A WEEKLY NEWS PAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF WARREOTWATWAin
. WARRENTON, WARREN COUNTN. CT FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 307192i t.... . -
CUT THEIR WAY
OUT COUNTY JAIL
MAGIN AND JIM HUDSON
BROKE JAIL SUNDAY
While Jailer Is Attening Church
prisoners Cut Their Way Out
ef Prison. Magin Re-captured
Wednesday.
Yne c
heck flasher Eddie Magin,
niias Francis Gordon, and Jim Hudson
who were both sentenced to work the
public roads by Judge Calvert at the
September term of Superior court
broke jail last Sunday and escaped.
They were recognized by several
parties as they wended their way to
parts unknown.
Evidently they were aided by out
side confederates as Magin was pro
vided with a saw with which he sawed
his way to liberty; Hudson escaped
with him.
Sheriff Davis and Deputies Green
and Ellington were quickly on the
trail, and as they surmised found "the
birds" had called at the home of Mr.
George Allen (who know Magin and
testified against him in court). Magin
unburdened his mind and loosened his
tongue to Mr. Allen with the tale of
his escape, in a bragadoceo way, and
intimated that he expected to be in
Norfolk "by Wednesday night.
His story of the escape was as fol
lows: He was furnished with a saw; in
tact he had the saw strapped under
his clothing while being in the pres
ence of the Judge and receiving a mild
sentence, because of the fact that he
claimed to be a veteran of the Wor.
War.
Sunday night when Jailer John S.
Green was at church he cut his way
through the ceiling and entered under
the roof of the residence part of the
jail, sawing through the ceiling- and
entering- an upper room of the resi
dence part of the jail, walked down
stairs, busted open the front door and
thus escaped Hudson following.
Magin's offense was forging' checks
many on. the Red Cross, ssd 039 on
Mr. Geor-ge Allen of the Embro neigh
borhood. He was caught in Petersburg and
brought to Warrenton by Chief .Green
and lodged in jail; evidence then be
gan to accumulate of his wide-spread
actively as a check flasher and forg
erer. His especially hobby seemed to
be that of gaining the confidence of
Fed Cross officials with his pitiful tale
of wounds and misfortune resulting
from his service in the Canadian and
later the American armies.
He limped, had wounds upon his
person and wore Uncle Sam's uni
form. There was some doubt about
his story being straight, and many
believed he was a fake. The story of
the discharge papers showing his ser
vice in the army was the very thin
one of "I left them with my sister,
fearing I would lose them." All
questions asked him in court were
answered in a whisper, as he claimed
he was losing his voice from confine
ment, intimating that his lungs were
involved. He asked to be sent to the
public roads, rather than the- peni
teavtary, and Judge Calvert under the
circumstances gave him a road sen
tence of 15 month.
Jim Hudson offense was an affray
in which he inflicted a wound that
blinded the carty in one eye. He re
ceived a sentence of 12 months on thi
road.
Sheriff Davis immediately sen
cfncer W. C. Ellington to Portsmouth
with instructions to remain there and
v . atch all trains until Magin appeared.
He was rewarded Wednesday by a
telegram from Deputy Ellington stat
ing that he had captured Magin, and
would return with him at once. He
arrived here Wednesday night and
lodged his prisoner in jail. Magin
was carried yesterday to the Pur -t
in. county roads.
It is expect that Hudson will be
picked up at any time.
Community Meeting ,
Remember the community meeting
Friday evening at 8 o'clock. Camp
songs and games will furnish a jolly
time. Every one is invited.
Engineers , Arrive.
Engineer John E. Buck and his as
sistant Mr. A. H. Joyce are here get
ticn work. Messrs. John H. Kerr, Jr.,
Joe Macon and Ray Wesson aie as
t;ng the roads in shape for constructing.
PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY
Progressive Farmer. "
The cheapness of lumber in the old
days and 'the shortage of cash led
many good farmers into habits of
carelessness in .the handling of an
important part of their property, the
farm buildings. So long as lumber
was seemingly cheap and so long as
the good, durable, heart-pine timber
of a few years back was available,
there seemed to farmers to be little
reason for painting. The lumber
was so durable that the damage by
decay seemed inappreciable. And so
on many farms the available money
was needed so badly for other things
that the house, the barns, and other
buildings went unpainted.
But the quality of lumber available
in most parts nowadays is no longei
of tne heart-pine variety. WhiK
there still is some of this to be had,
the average farm user of lumber get3
a far diffeent grade. The sap-growth
lumber ordinarily available now is
so porous and so readily absorptive
of water that it offers the best of liv
ing conditions for the agents of decay.
And such lumber, if allowed to re
main unprotected, deteriorates so rap
idly that the sound plank of today
is soon a spongy crumbling mass.
With the ever growing scarcity of
lumber and with the present day
prices for - new lumber of inferior
gade, it is imperative that every man
take steps to save what he has. Paint
is the one ecourse. Instead of being
a luxury, paint is in reality a neces
sity. It is in the nature of an in
fnd its proper application pays a
vestment. Money expended for paint
handsome dividend in the prolonged
life of the building or the farm im
plement. Like other things, paint can be
misued. Painting when Jlumber is
moist may be worse than useless, in
asmuch as the paint will tend to 3eal
the moisture inside the wood, allow
ing it to escape much more more
slowly and thus prolonging the per
iod of activity of the decay organ
isms. Painting heart-pine or resin
ous lumber materials to disappear
lessons the yalue of the- paint. One
would hardly think of payiting with
out using a priming coat. Painting
the iron parts of implements without
first thoroughly cleaning them and
freeing them from rust Is poor pro
tection. Paint, properly applied, is one of
the best investments a farm owner
can make. Buildings or implements
unprotected will not last. It isn't 2
question of what is good enough for
you or good enough for the tenant.
It's a question of money in your pock
et to paint and thus prolong the per
iod of service of all buildings on the
place. . ,
IN MEMORIUM
Sergeant Herbert M. Miles
Co. H. 120 Inf., 30th Division
Killed in A,ction
Sept. 29th, 1918
God gave my son in trust to me:
Christ died for him,- and he should
be
A man for Christ. He was His son,
And God's and man's, not mine
alone.
He was not mine to give,
He gave himself that he
Might help to save
All that a christian should revere:
All that enlightened men hold dear.
IJIS MOTHER.
Several days ago Welfare Officei
Raymond Rodwell wrote to Supt. E
C. Brooks, State Superintendent of
Public Instruction asking for a ruling
on the matter of compulsory attend
ance and received the following reply
under date September 28:
"My dear Sir:
"I wish to say in reply to your let ter
that the rule referred to by you
is as follows:
"Wherever the transportation 13
provided for children beyond a two
and one-half mile limit the compul
sory law should be made to apply. In
other words, you cannot compel chil
dren to walk more than two and one
half miles to school. But if the coun
ty has provided transportation so thac
children will not be compelled to walk
more than two and one-half miles,
then the compulsory law does apply.
"Very sincerely yours,
"E. C. BROOKS,
"'State Supt. Public Instruction."
Nothing Much.
"Pa, what are ancestors?"
"Well,. my son, I'm one of ycurs.
Your grandpa is another."
"Oh! Then, why is it people brag
about ' them ? "Boston Transcript.
TO REDUCE FARM
FIRE LOSSES.
STATE ASKS ALL TO OB
SERVE FIRE-PREVENTION
Insurance Commission Gives
, Causes of Fire And Tells How
They May be Largely Pre
vented With a Little Care.
Farm tires cost about $20,000,000 a
year $18,166,710 in 1918. Of the
fires that year 33 per cent were from
causes classed as preventable, 37 per
cent from partly preventable causes,
and 30 per cent unknown but believed
to iiave been largely preventable.
With inadequate fire-fighting euip
ment on farms, fires are hard to con
trol. Prevention is the best way to
deal with them.
Defective chimneys and flues took
toll to the extent of $1,982,031; sparks
on roofs, $1,181,171; careless use 01
matches J?y smokers and others, $1,
071,987; petroleum and its products,
$732,067 ; and stoves, furnaces, boilers
and their pipes, $674,968.
The largest item listed as partly
preventable is lightning, $3,933,950.
Fire Prevention Week (Oct. 2-9)
should be made, a special time for
looking over the premises to see that
the buildings are in the best practica
ble shape to prevent and resist fire;
that inflamnable rubbish is cleared
away; and that habits of safety are
instilled in the handling of matches,
lamps, stoves, and kerosene and gas
oline. Gasoline has come to play such an
important part in farm life that spec
ial care should be taken to see that it
is not stored in inflammable buidings,
and is never opened in the presence of
uncovered flame.
Fire Prevention weeks ends on the
semi-centennial of the great Chicago
Fire. While occuring in a great city,
the traditional cause of this fire was
one which is liable to occur in the
country the upsetting of a lantern
in a stable. If lanterns must be used
in barns, they should be kept in good
condition, set or hung in a safe place,
and never filled or lighted in the barn.
Numerous disastrous fires are caus
ed by thrashing machines, both by
scattered sparks and embers and by
dust explosions in the separators. All
smokestaks should have spark arrest
ers, and the ground around the boiler
should be kept clear and wet down if
necessary. Grain dust explosions are
largely preventable. The United
States Department of Agriculture has
made exhaustive studies of the sub
ject and is prepared to recommend ad
equate safeguards.
Serious losses are caused by sparks
from locomotives, which ignite dry
wooden shingle roofs and start many
fires in straw, stubble, and gras3 dur
ing dry season. If a railroad nrcs
through the farm, it will pay to plow
1 few furrows along the right of way
as a fire break.
Kerosine lamps should be examin
ed to see that the burners are in good
condition, and should never be left
where they may be upset. Kerosene
and gasoline receptacles should be
kept apart - and should be so different
as to avoid possibility of a mistake.
Ordinary friction matches should be
kept in safe receptacles, away from
children, and never carried loose.
Smoking in barns and garages never
should be permitted. Fire marshals
of Western States report greater fire
losses in gain and straw the past
season from carelessly thrown match
es, engine sparks and automoble and
tractor backfire, than ever before.
Buildings may be made safer by
seeing that the chimneys are without
cracks and free of soot, which may
take fire and scatter sparks on dry
roofs. Flues which may become hot
should be covered wthasbestos and
any hear-by walls and ceilings pro
tected. There should be a sheet of
metal under every stove.
Out of all the losses by lightning,
not one was on a buiding protected
jby lightning rods. It is now definite-;
ly known that lightning rods afford
protection. If installed intelligently
they reduce the risk from lightning
amost to the vanishing point.
Public schools may well devote an
hour or afternoon to a special fixe
prevention program. Some prominent,
citizen could be called in for a talk.
Essays and, perhaps, a playlet by the
children would help impress the mat
ter on their minds. Some schools al
ready have a weekly 15 minute les-
son on lira prevention. The plan is.
MR. FORD'S RAIL
ROAD MAN AGMENT
MANUFACTURER MAKES
GOOD RAILROAD MAN
Correspondent States That Suc
cess of Henry Ford's Manage
ment Not Due to Freight of
Ford Motor Company.
(John B. Carr in Philadelphia Record.)
That center from which their inter
locking directorates are controlled,
railroad officials and a few specula
tively inclined individuals who still
hold transportation stock, must be
mightily relieved at the speed and
finality' with which the claim of
Henry Ford's superior railroad man
agement has been refuted. And 1
can imagine, too, how much eased is
the burden of those editorial defend
ers of the top-heavy, floundering rail
systems by the happy and spontan
eous projection of the idea that the
success of Ford's newly x acquired
Streak of Rust is altogether due to
the patronage of the Ford Automo
bile Company.
Something over or less than a year
ago the railroads of the country
were receiving more freight than
could be handled by their use of fa
cirfties, and their inability to care for
traffic was unque'stionably a heavy
contributor to the business reaction
of last fall through extensive cancel
lation of orders because of non-receipt
of delay shipments. Yet, de
spite the fact that roads were doing
capacity business, they claimed that
cost exceeded income by about five
per cent.
Is not this answer enough to ex
cuse, advanced with such obvious re
lief and gratification, that Ford has
made his road pay by using it to haul
his own freight to the exclusion of
competing lines? There has been no
charge that the D. T. & I. gives the
Ford Automobile Company a prefer
red rate and where no discrimina
tion is practiced the identity of ship-:
per is nd factor in determing cost of
hafylling business.' . - ;
The facts are that Ford is operatr
ing his road in a highly efficient man
ner, at a cost of 53 cents per dollar
of revenue, and with rates 20 per
cent less than those in vogue. As I
said in an earlier letter. I think it
is time we had a little honest discus
sion of the national transportation
mess.
MRS. T. J. HOLT ENTERTAINS
Mrs. Thomas J. Holt entertained
Saturday morning complimentary to
Mrs. George Allen of New York at
two tables of bridge.
Those playing were: Mrs. George
Allen, Mrs. R. B. Boyd, Jr., Mrs. John
H. Kerr, Mrs. Alfred Williams, Mrs.
Biixton Williams, Mrs. John G. Ellis,
Mrs. Edmund White and Miss M'ariam
Boyd.
Delicious refreshments of cream and
cake were served.
Mesdame Norwood Boyd and Gor
don Poindexter received the guests at
the door.
MRS. W. A. BURWELL HOSTEbb
Mrs. William A. Burwell entertain
ed Tuesday afternoon from four to
six o'clock complimentary to Mrs.
William Boyce, Warrenton's charm
ing bride, at progressive bridge.
Those playing were: Mrs. William
Boyce, Mrs. Jim Boyce, Mrs. Milton
McGuire, Mrs. Mary Elinor Grant,
Misses Hilah Tarwater, Ella B. Jones,
Nell Davis, Virginia Gibbs, Annie
Burwell, Laura Boyd, Janice Fleming,
Lulie Price, Miss Gordy, Misses Lucy
Williams and Oliva Burwell.
A delicious salad, hot rolls and ice
tea were served.
admirable.
Meetings of farm organizations are
particularly proper occasions for fire
prevention programs. These oganiza
t'.oiis frequently have a fire insurance
feature, and every fire loss means
larger premiums for the mutual in-:
surance associations.
The lesson of fire prevention should
be taken to every rural home and
community. Precautionary measures
will do much to cut down a loss' that
takes millions of dollars out of the
possession of , rural Americans every
year and leaves nothing in its place.
Prevention is better than regret.
A GIRL'S LAMENT
I wisht I could be born'd agin,
An' be born'd a little boy;
Wouldn't have to wear no petticoats.
'Twould be such sho nuff joy.
It's hard to know which way you are,
When you's born'd a little girl,
No matter how or what you do,
You's wrong in dis here worl'.
I's tried my Grandma's primmy ways,
I's tried my sister's whirl;
There's not much use to try enny mo
I's jus' tired o' bein' a girl.
I dreads to be a great big girl,
You all knows de rer.son why,
Its "skirts too short and necks too
low," . x
An' too many hug's on de sly."
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Sometimes I wishes I didn't live,
I don't know where for to go,
Its such a. fas' age for little girls,
An' we has has to reap what we sow.
Some days I tries to be clean an'
sweet,
en dey .calls me a copy cat,
'Cause I loves my daddy's- clean cut
' ways, ,
An' the set of my mother's hat.
If you's good you's named a po' oP
maid,
An' dats ail dats comm.' to you.
If you's bad "you just aint fit to live,"
I hears dat all de day thru.
j
Sometimes I thinks if T is a girl,
An' I think a heaps o' ways;
For the world don't know 'bout every
thing,: ,
An' you can't b'lieve all it 'says.
Now I know I can't be born'd ag'in,
Brit you hears me what I say,
I'll live dis life de best I can,
An' try an ho'p save our day.
So if I has to be a girl., .
Wid a Mis 3 befo' my name,
I'll be a girl, the best hat exists,
For bein' a girl aint no shame.
: Ey Miss. Luey Foster,
Louisburg, N. C.
THEY ALSO SERVE
He wanted to paint a , picture' ,
And lie noped to nave sung a song,
To help many souls to heaven,
Or even save one from wrong;
But his ear was never quite perfect, .
And his colors were never true,
So his songs got no attention,
And his pictures didn't do.
f.
He aimed to bring truth and justice,
And he strove to put error down
But a canker he found at the heart
root. .
Of every reform he had won;
He lived long enough to discover
The beauty alive in the mire,
And to weep when beneath Truth'3
advancement
Showed the cloven hoof of the liar.
i
Came night at last, for the toiler,
"A failure!" he wearily said,
As ha closed his eyes; and next
morning,
The wor'd dully. noted "He's dead!"
Came his Master with angels, and
stooping
Above him "His Image!" they cried,
"T-s finished' He said, while He
touched him,
And His servant awoke, satisfied.
Lilla 'Vass Shepherd, in the Living
Church.
OPENS STORE
Messrs. Kaplon and Son are open
ing a general dry good store in the
Jackson building on corner opposite
court house.
Tobacco Brings 80 Cents
Enoch Solomon of Inez sold a small
pile of tobacco on. Boyd's Warehouse
floor this week for 80 cents a pound.
It Pays to Advertise.
A Western evangelist makes a
practise of painting religious lines on
rocks and fences along public high
ways. On2 ran; "What will you do
when you die?"
Came an advertising man and
painted under it:
"Use Delta Oil. Good for burns."
The American Legion Weekly.
Saving Money.
Mrs. Doughless "I saved the
money to buy this coat, darling."
Doughjers "How did you manage
4 Ly JJ.i,lVUtJ t
Mrs. D. "I bought it with the
1 .
mnnev vou erave me for a new hat .
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and had the hat charged to your ac-,
count." The American Legion Week j
PASSING OF f.-It.
J. M. BURROUGHS
DIES AFTER BRIEF
ILLNESS WEDNESDAY
Mr. Burrough Prominent In the
Life of This Community. Was
a Member of Board of County
Commissioners.
Mr. James M. Burroughs passed
away Wednesday morning after a few
hours illness in the sixth-ninth year
of his age.
To a large circle of friends and ad
mirers this announcement brings sor
row. If there is one citizen of this
community who stands out as a love
able character it is Mr. Burroughs.
Coming to Warrenton with his family
from his farm in Nutbush township
about ten years ago, he has been
identified with the town and its ac
tivities ever since.
His honest, integrity and christian
manhood soon became known to his
new acquaintances,, and he was pro
posed and elected a county commis
sioner, in which capacity he was serv
ing at the time of his death having
been re-elected several times.
Mr. Burroughs was a gentleman
who impressed every one as bein
without guile or hypocrasy: he was
true to his convictions and to his
friends an honest man; the noblest
work of God. His death was a shock
to ail of his friends and hia passing
from among us is deeply depIorecL
He was in his usual health when
taken ill Tuesday with acute indiges
tion, which, in conjunction with a
weak heart, brought his life to a close
in the early hours of Wednesday
morning. He remarked to his family:
"I believe I will get up," and upon
the suggestion that he had best re
main in bed, said he believed that he
was too weak to get up, and lying
back in bed passed to the Great
Beyond.
The funeral services were held at
the grave in Fairview cemetery yes
terday afternoon in the presence of
a large number of his. friends and the
b-mt7'W'iiicounty.' Many" ' and
beautiful floal offerings attested the
esteem in which he was held. Doc
tor T. J. Gibbs of the Methodist
church and Rev E. W. Baxter of the
Episcopal church officiated.
Mr. Burroughs was twice married.
His first wife being Miss Sarah
Wright. To them were born two
sons, Messrs. William H. and
Stephen Burroughs, and three daugh
ters, Mrs. Horace Reed, and Misses
Mary Russell and Sue Burroughs.
He was married the second time to
his wife's sister Miss Virginia Wrign..,
who with four children survive him.
A good citizen, a good father and
husband, a good, neighbor has gono
from among us. We EhalV miss him,
and the consolation of his friendship
and kindness is a sweet memory to
many.
IN HONOR OF TEACHERS
Miss Julia Dameron, member of the
Board of Trustees of the Warrenton
High school, and Miss Belle Dr,meron,
her sister who is a member of the
faculty, entertained the new ter.chers
at supper Tuesday evening. Afte
supper the remaining members of thts
Board of Trustees and their wives,
nnd the other members of the facul
ty who were not new teachers, gath
ered at the hospitable home of the
Misses Dameron and the evening was
delightfully spent in getting acquaint
ed. Mr. and Mrs. William H. Damer
on and Mr. and Mrs. John A. Damer
on were present and aided their sis
ters in receiving.
It is to be regretted that several of
the trustees were unavoidably pre
vented, from being present. Those
who were present think this commun
ity is fortunate in the personel of it 3
teachers, and jdedge their hearty co
operation. ,
TOBACCO MARKET
The tobacco market here is shov
ing decided improvement over the
opening prices nnd farmers f.re ex
pressing satisfaction at the prices, as
compared with last Fall. Good to
baccos are selling very well. The
warehousemen are telling you through
the columns of the Record the stcry
of sales made giving planter, price
and pound3. This is procf of the pud
ding, and speaks louder than any
other method.