THE TEST.
If when done
You Wish none knew it;
Then don't do it.
Youth's Companion.
music. :
"He who hath not the Iotc
of music in his soul Iz
fit for murder, stratagem
and "spoils." '
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VOLUME XXVII-
WARRENTON, COUNTY OF WARREN, N. C, FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1922
NUMBER 10
STORM SWEEPS
SOUTHERN STA1
4 MORE THAN 80
ON BAPTIST ROLL.
WEED BRINGS 7C.
DOES HE SMILE WITH OR
AT FARM BLOC ?
PERFECT FIGHTING MAN
HAILS FROM 0HAHA
ORPHANS OPEN
OVER 1920-21 AVE.
mi ikk am MnnmA'
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Genoa Economic Conference
Will Open On April 10;
U. S. Not Represented.
A GENERAL NEWS DIGEST.
The heavy rain storm which visited
this section on Tuesday was felt with
much more ferocity in other sections
of this State and of South Carolina
and Georgia. In those areas it was
accompanied by terrific winds, which
in places took the form of cyclones,
sweeping away houses and trees, and
causing the death of not a few per
sons in its path.
One person killed, fifteen more or
less badly hurt, some of them serious
ly, and property damage estimated at
from $40,000 to $60,000, was the toll
taken by the cyclone which swept
through the Evansdale section of the
Norfolk Southern Railroad, six miles
east of Wilson, about nine o'clock
Tuesday morning.
The storm area in this section was
from 300 yards to one-half mile wide
and extended for a distance of three
miles. It tore houses, barns and oth
er buildings in shreds, and in the path
storm swept everything clean. Whole
families were blown out into the
fields and timbers were scattered to
splinters.
Doctors and automobiles from Wil
son brought the injured to local hos
pitals. In one neighbor's house six
persons were injured, in another five,
and in another four.
The person killed was a school
teacher named Azulo Faulke, wife of
a barbr in Wilson.
Four mill villages Langley, Stifle
ton, Graniteyille and Warrenville, in
the Horsdecre valley of South Caro
line were struck by a. ornado just
before daybreak the same morning,
and houses were swept away, trees
uprooted and telegraph poles felled,
leaving the section in darkness and
..m , - - -.t. .
tvitnoar wire eommunicauon wnn- -
outside worid
The brunt of the storm appears to
have been borne by Warreijvilje and
Stifieton, where six persons are
known to have been killed. Four of
the dead were children under ten
years of age.
April 10 has now been definitely
settled upon as the date for the open-
ing of the Genoa economic conference
Italy, irom wnom a request zoruewy
had been expected owing to the ex-
t . . n J 1
tended cabinet crisis last month, in
formed the foreign office today that
she would be ready on that date.
The French government will have
five representatives at the opening of
the conference, one of whom is quite
jikely o be, Premier Poincare him
self, bu for a few days only.
The Jtajian note announcing readi
ness to proceed pn April 10 caused
mild surprise at the French foreign
office, as it had been unofficially siifl
that Italy would not be willing to
enter the conference during holy
week, regardless of whether she was
ready, but the news is greeted with
satisfaction as it is realized that the
problems to be discussed are momen
tous and imperative. It was official
ly stated that should a request for
Aeluy me from any quarter, France
would acquiesce Q;r Great Britain
had agreed, but would not endorse
such request previous to its accept
ance by Great Britain.
It was announced at the White
House that the attitude which the
United States will officially take to
ward the coming conference to dis
( u-i he economic rehabilitation of
the worjld, has been decided upon and
will be announced shortly. The an
nouncement has been delayed this
long, it was stated, because of the ab
sence of the Secretary of State, who
w vesting in Bermuda.
j field secretary speaks at
MEETING HERE ON MARCH J9.
Prank P. Wilson, Field Secretary
All South Extension Committee of the
United Society of Christian Endeavor
for North Carolina and Virginia, will
here on Sunday, March 19.
Mr. Wilson will hold services in the
Presbyterian Church on Sunday morn
lrg at 11 o'clock and services at the
Methodist Church on Sunday night at
the usual hour.
The Secretary is a very enthusiastic
speaker, a splendid Sunday School
and Christian Endeavor worker.
AH are invited to come to both ser
vices.
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This is the new U S. Senator
from Iowa, C A. Rawson. ap
"pointed by Governor Kendall to
succeed VV S Kenyon, recent leader
.of the Farm Bloc in Congress, who
resigned to accept a Federal judge
ship. .yViU Rawson line-up with
or against the blopr
WHITE INSTALLS
A" WIRELESS SET.
Pittsburg Washington And
Detroit Heard Through Air
Messages Wednesday.
RECEIVED AT HUNTER'S.
An outside world of news, musical
concerts and national characters are
brought to Warrenton by the instal
lation this week of a wireless receiv
ing set at the Hunter Drug Co. Mr.
W. R. White owns the set.
Mr. White first became interested
i
in wireless two years ago on a visit to
a staiiQn at V irginia eacti. or-
J.J J T--" f- TT
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ago and with the aid of W. K. bur
roughs of Norfolk on Wednesday and
Thursday tuned the instruments for
receiving,
Wireless stations at Pittsburg, De
troit and Washington were among
points from which messages were
picked up Wednesday. Each evening
concerts are broadcasted by celebrat
ed persons and when the instruments'
wave lengths are regulated the words
jor mugic may be distinctly heard.
, 4 sneaker." or horn, has 1
A loud speaker," or horn, has been
ordered. With thisamplification the
wireless messages may be heard at
any point within the store.
Keen interest has brought -many
persons to the store during the past
vo days and. nights.
The invention brings an atmosphere
filled with news -closer to Warrenton.
LaCROSSE DOCTOR
FAVORS NEW WAY.
Dr. W. W. Wilkerson of La Crosse
was in town Monday. Doctor Wil
kerson is much interested in the Vir
ginia State Highway from La Crosse
to Norlina.
The route proposed by the Doctor
and other citizens of Mecklenburg
County, Va., is from La Crosse to
Smith's Ferry where it is proposed
to have a bridge and from Smith's
Ferry to Norlina.
This route shortens the distance
from Warrenton to Richmond ten or
twelve miles and makes a better and
more direct route. The saving in mil
eage alone on the Virginia side will
more than pay for a bridge across
Smith's Ferry.
The County Board of Commission
ers unanimously endorsed this route
as preferable to any other route to
Virginia from Warrenton, the county
seat, as we,li t.$ fqv travel through
Warrenton from Rocky Mount, Wil
son and the East.
It is only eleven miles from La
Crosse to the Virginia line by the
proposed route, as against about nine
teen through South Hill and the Hen
derson bridge.
GLADYS 'HOLT RIVERS.
Gladys - Holt, the infant daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Clement Rivers, died
at the home of her parents, near
Wise, on Feb. 19, 1922.
''Suffer the little children to come
unto me and forbid them not, for of
such is the kingdom of Heaven."
Life is composed of work and leis
uremostly work. v
Dr. Taylor and Mrs. Pendleton
Offer Congratulations To
Other Octogenarians. .
PAY TRIBUTE IN VERSES
The Warrenton Baptist Church en
joys the distinction of having in its
membership four octogenarians and
if Mrs. Sallie Rodwell lives until the
thirtieth day of March she will join
the distinguished circle-
On Friday the third of March Miss
Eliza H. Egerton of Middleburg, a na
tive of Warrenton, and for more than
sixty years a member of Warrenton
Baptist Church celebrated her eighty
first birthday. She received many
tokens of love and friendship among
them an acrostic from Mrs. V. L.
Pendleton and a poem from Dr. Tay
lor, her Warrenton pastor, which im
mediately follow.
AN ACROSTIC.
Every life has both shadows and
sunshine
Look bravely up then, much joy shall
be thine. 1
I'm wishing for you the peace that
God giveth
Zealous followers who ever near the
cross liyeth;
And may your blessings always, be
great.
Have a brave heart to meet any fate,
Each day doing the best that you can;
Giving to others this is the great
plan
Each one must his loyalty prove,
Relying for help on the great God of
love.
To you may the strength and grace
be given
On him to rely 'till mortal fetters are
riven,
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Natal days be changed to the glory
of Heaven.
V. L. Pendleton;
Soliloquy of Miss Eliza . H. Eger
ton her entity-first , rthday
' 'oplopjrized0- '
T. J. TAYLOR
I used to think that joy supreme
Bloomed in the flowers qf sweet six-
And later on, I tell you true,
I found life sweet at twenty-two.
As the fleet years swept swift along,
Each natal day was glad with song;
But mid the blaze of setting lun
I find life's best at eighty-one.
On Monday March 6, Mr, W. D.
Weldon followed the example of Miss
Eliza stepped over the line and cele
brated his eighty-first birthday.
Among the many tokens sent him by
his friends and neighbors was a
quartraine by Mrs. V. L. Pendleton
and an acrostic by Dr. T. J. Taylor.
We give them below.
You are an example to others,
Industrious, kind and true,
And many returns of your natal day
I'm earnestly wishing for you.
Vovir f nend,
V, L. PENDLETON,
BILLI& WELDON.
Bygone years have much to give,
In mind arid heart stll they live;
Live and bring the passing-years,
Life's full meed of smiles and tears;
In old age, from early times,
Echoes come like sweetest rhymes.
Worthy paths your feet have trod,
Ever leading up to God; -
Love and labor for your kind
Daily fill your heart and mind;
On you smiles God's gracious Son,
Nigh to bless at eighty-one.
Your pastor,
T. J. TAYLOR.
JONES TO TALK
ON CONFERENCE.
W. Brodie Jones will speak on the
results of the recent Arms Confer
ence at the community meeting in the
Court House Friday night at 8:30;
o'clock.
The special musical progran calls
for several quartet numbers. Games
and songs will provide amusement for
the younger persons,.
A wqman neyer likes to - be given
away in anything -except marriage.
The only knocker we know of that
is of any value ia Opportunity.
Count that day lost
Whose low descending sun;
Finds no candidate ready
And anxious to run-
Tobacco Here From Many of
i lhe Adjoining Countses
J; During Past -Season.
AVERAGE ABOVE OTHERS.
Tobacco prices on the Warrenton
market in 1921-2 averaged practically
7 cents above the figures of 1920-21,
according to figures released yester,
day by the Tobacco Board of Trade.
Th3 market avraged $23.21 this year
as against $16.42 for the season of a
year ago.
Warrenton sold 3,652,034 pounds
during the season closing March 3.
This brought 847,781.57. Last year's
crop, of 0,230,670 pounds was sold for
$1,013,070.01,
t Prices averaged more- in October
than during any other month of the
season, according to President Mas-
senburg of the Board of Trade. Early
in January the market showed ah up
ward trend but this did not equal the
steady prevailing price for October.
Farmers complained freauentlv
during the season that common tobac
co sold low. There was genera J agree
ment that prices on good tobacco were
as well as "could be expected,. Tlie ad
vance oyer last year's, figures, made
this year's small Qrop bring almost as
mtich' money as the six million crop
of. a year ago,
The market this year, with the im
provement of the road to the Sandy
Creek township and the Franklin line,
received-much tobacco from that sec
tion. All of the counties adjoining
frequently had farmers selling on the
Warrenton floors.
"Our price average compares fav
orably," Mr. Massenburg said, "with
that" made by any market in this sec
tion of the tobacco belt."
DAUGHTERS CONFEDERACY
MEET WITH MRS. ALLEN.
4 !DU?ClJAUgnuy,xtt7 wi&zxAH:
ftleay met with Mrs. Eugne Allen
las" Friday af ternqon.
The Daughters were highly enter
tained by remarks of Mrs. Pendleton
on the life and character qf General
Robert E- Lee. Mrs. Adele E. Jones
interestingly read a much enjoyed
poem, .
The regular business of the month
was transacted and the meeting ad
journed. PRICE FINED $200
FOR CUTTING MAN.
Whiskey, profanity and a game of
crap proceeded the knife action in the
Gardner-Price battle of two weeks
ago, according to the testimony given
before Recorder T. O. Rodwell Mon
day. Judge Rodwell imposed a fpie of
$50 and cost upon Wiljie Price, young
white, rian formerly employed by the
Peck Manufacturing Co., for his part
in the affray,
Gardner was still in bandages from
the knife wounds, inflicted by Price
following a quarrel near the mill hill,
Saturday, Feb. 25. .
. Hon. Tasker Polk appeared for
Price. The State and Gardner -were
represented by Messrs. EL BJ. W!am
and Mayor Frak if. ifes in the ab
sence of Solicitor S; G. Daniel, who is
spending some time in Florida.
The Court heard a wealth of evi
dence from both sides and it was late
in the morning before Judgex Rodwell
imposed the fine and cost upon Price.
PRICE'S MISTAKEN IDENTITY.
Willie Price who cut Gardner after
a crap game Feb. 28 is not Mr. Will
Price, an employe of the Warrenton
Railroad Co. here.
The impression prevailed upon
some minds, after the story of the
row printed in the edition of March
3, that Willie frice was Will Price
and that he had been, confined to, jail
because of failure to give a $200 bond.
There yas no intention upon the
part cdr the paper tq implicate Mr.
Will price, and we fail , to. see how
the erroneous, conclusion could have
logically followed a close reading of
the original news story. It did, how
ever, and we make amends. -
Mr. Price, who is conductor upon
the Warrenton Railroad, has ' never
been known to toss the "galloping
dominoes," nor indulge in excessive
profanity. His friends would see
that a $2QO bond didn't keep him in
jail.r-rditor.
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.iMaaj.
In the recent national search by
American Legion posts to find the
Physically perfect and typical Yank
lighting tnan,: Sergeant Wm. Alett
jen, Joth Infantry, who lives in
Omaha, Neb., was selected. His
measurements:. 5 feet; 101 inches; :
weight. 160. pounds; U hair, light
irown eves, blue.
You have- to be introduced "to a
woman twice this day . and ' ' time
When first you. meet her she's a
blonde and; then, net a brunette.
CI W HIGH WILL -
DEBATE MARCH 24.
Littleton and Roanoke Rapids
complete Triangle In Race
For Aycock Cup.
TEAMS CHOSEN AT W. H. S.
Two debating teams from Warren
ton State High School will meet op
ponents March 24 in the first elimi
nation match of lhe, State race for the
Aycock Memorial Cup. Warrenton
will be represented by John Burwejl
and Miss Margraet Mullen, afftrma-
ve, and by Misses Leja Clark and
Rowena Wood of the, negative.
Thefquerj selected by the Bureau
of Extension of the University-- of
State contests ar held ach 'yearj Tip
"Resolved, That the United States
Should Iave Entered the League of
Nations.'
The affirmative debates the Little
ton High School here. The negative
travels, to Roanoke Rapids to uphold
the oratorical powers of Warrenton
High. The school, whose affirmative
and negative teams both win,; goes to
the University to meet other compet
itors. The high school debaters were chos
en after an interesting debate in the
school building, here the past Friday.
William Royster and Thomas, Wil
liams of the negative ljos to, Miss
Mullen and Mr. Bjuxe& Misses Lela
Clark and Rqviex Wood were given
a decision, over Miss; Roberta Williams
and Walter f&oyd Maasesnburg.
Supt. 74f Schools J. Edward Allen,
Mayor Frank H. Gibbs and Mr. John
B. Palmer were the judges.
REV. C. A. ASHBY PREACHES
AT EPISCOPAL CHURCH HSRR.
Rev. C. A. Ashby the Good
Shepherd Chhii Raleigh, preached
at the EpsQPja.l Church Wednesday
evening upon the subject "Salvation."
Mr. Aahbys remarks were pertinent
with sound reasoning and presented
in a manner which pteased his
hearers. .
. The -4 appointment next Wednesday
evening will be filled by Rev. Morri
son Bethea, Archdeacon of the Dio
cese. B;. A- Christian is a preacher in a
South Georgia city.
MEET SALESMEN
- TO EQUIP HOTEL.
Furniture and hotel equipment
dealers have been in consultation with
members of the Hotel Committee here
this, week. The committee has nego
tiated for some of the furniture but
has not completed buying. The trip
to High Point has been .. abandoned
following the jcbnsultation with furn
iture representatives here.
"The hotel equipment will be as
fine as that in hotels of towns mueh
large than Warrenton," a member of
the 'building committee said yester
day. "We expect to buy iron beds,
the best mattresses ahd dressers
which 'are in keeping with modern
ideas Of utility and beauty."
Messrs. V. F. Ward, Eugene Allen,
H. A- Moseley and W. N. Body are
in charge of equipping the hotel.
New Cast of Characters Coma
lo Upera House For
Annual Concert.
NORLINA LATER IN WEEK.
The opening program of the 1922
Oxford Orphanage Singing Class will
be given at the Warrenton - Onera
House on Monday evenine at 8
o'clock, according to the Masonic Or
phanage Committee of Johnston-Cas
well Lodge No. 10."
Children are daily sellimr ticketa
in a race for the cash prizes of S2
and $1 and responses indicate that
the attendance of this year will eual
that of former occasions upon which
the, public has wholeheartedly crreetecf
the class. The committee in anticipa-
won oi banner' attendance accextd
chairs from Mr. Raymond Modlia to
increase the seating capacity of the
Opera House.
Ten girls and four boys will reach
Warrenton Monday, afternoon from.
Oxford. They will be accompanied
by-Miss Myrtle Muse and Manager L.
W. Alderman. The class goes to
Wake Forest on the Shofly Tuesday
morning for an entertainment in that
town.
The following Masonic families
will entertain the visitors here. Sunt.
and Mrs. J.. Edward Allen, H. 'F.
Jones, Dr. W. D. Rodgers Jr., Mrs. R.
J. Jones, John S. Bell, G. B. Gregory
and Mrs, H. T. Macon.
The Oxford Institution never sends
sends the same class over the State
more than once. The public in War
ren is not only promised an entire
change of program of the usual high
educational order but is assured a new
ca.s to present the entertainment, a
member of the committee said yester
day. The Singing Class tours the State
each year. It has cleared frequently
more than ten thousand dollars for
thfi Orphanage. The proifram of T-t
say. :- ' ' . ' ' -.v-"- "
Norlina will entertain the elxca
next week end. The class will giro o
concert in the high school auditorium
Saturday night and will also appear
Sunday morning in one of tha
churches of the town.
Chairman J. Edward Allen erul
Messrs. S. E. Burroughs, II. Ales,
Macon, J. S. Nowell of Macon and T7.
S. Terrell of Warren Plains are
members Q.t the Orhpanage Asylum
committee of Johnston-Caswell Lodge
un.dejr whose auspices the class ap
pears Monday evening.
CLUB DISCUSSES
ROMANTIC DRAMA
Recent Romantic Drama held the
attention of th literary department of
the club which met on Tuesday witli
Mrs. Walter Fleming and Miss Gladys
Gordy, This recent drama strove for
a vision of the greater meaning of
life and all that makes it significant.
Mrs. Hannah Arrington diseussed
in an interesting way Materlinck as a
representative of this school. She,
dwelled especally on the "Blue Bird
and "Marie Madeleine." The "Blca
Bird," a charming symbolic fairy tale,
was discussed by Miss Julia Dameron.
Mrs. Walter Fleming followed with
a clear, forceful paper on Rostand,
the French romantic dramatist. She
said, " 'Chanticleer his masterpiece
is a play in which Rostand has used
the ancient device of speaking and
reasoning animals. The golden
pheasant does not cease to be a pheas
ant because she is an uncommonly
womanly woman. Chanticleer, above
all," is mDst excellently cock-like, al
though he is a poet, a philosopher and
a lover,"
The next meeting will be at tho
home of Mrs. R. B. Boyd on March 21.
TAX PAYERS BESIEGE BOARD
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
Taxpayers, presenting their claims
for reduction in valuation, besieged
the County Board of Commissioners
in session here Monday.
The Commissioners patiently heard
the claims, and reduced several. E&eh
reduction meant a corresponding re
duction in the amount of taxes col
llected. The Commissioners only levjv
around eleven cents for General pur
poses for the County, as against nise
under the higher valuation. The ad
ditional four cents is for the purpose
of reimbursing the general fund for
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