MOST OF THE NEWS ALL THE TIME ACCURATE, TERSE, AND TIMELY 4 .lu -- .1 v VOLUME XXVII. CO-OP. DRIVE IN CITY OF WILSON 10,000 Contracts Signed In Wide Canvass of North and South Carolina Farmers. SANDS AND OTHERS TALK , The world's largest Co-operative Marketing Association entered the world's largest tobacco market at Wilson, N. C., on Saturday, July 8th, marking the climax of the whirlwind campaigns in the Crolinas which have resulted in a ten thousand in crease in membership for the Tobac co Growers' Co-operative Associa tion within the past ten weeks. Oliver J. Sands, Executive , Mana ger of the Association of 75,000 to bacco growers addressed the mam moth mass meeting of tobacco grow ers, merchants and bankers from Eastern Carolina. More than a thousand contracts a week have been pouring steadily into Raleigh headquarters and mark the successful campaigning which con tinues in South Carolina, Virginia and Eastern North Carolina. The recent statement of C. C. Car rington, President of the United States Tobacco Association, that the Tobacco Growers' Co-operative As sociation is now grown into a ivz midable rival to the independent dealers and warehousemen, has been followed by some of the most hoatilo advertising which has yet appeared in opposition to the organized growers. This opposition is stirring thai growers to redouble tueir ertorts, aim 1 It i 1 SW ill more than 600 contracts from Virgin ia have come in since the recent meet ings at South Boston, Chatham, Gretna, Burkeville, Amelia and Drak es Branch and Bedford, where Sena tor Borah, Oliver J. Sands, J. Y. Joy ner, Joseph M. Hurt and other lead ers of the big Co-operativ address ed thousands of growers With 58 per cent of the tobacco crop of South Carolina on signed con tracts listed by growers, by pounds and acres at Raleigh headquarters of the Tobacco Growers' Co-operative Association, officials of the" organized tobacco growers here yseterday dis counted the report of independent warehousemen that only 26 per cent, of the South Carolina crop was sign ed with the Association. Hundreds of new contracts arriv ing daily from South Carolina are pushing the large majority member ship of the big: producing counties to higher percentage each week. Wil4 hamsburg County now passes a 90 Per cent sign-up, Florence County is steadily climbing from 80 to 90 per cent., and Darlington County which signed over a hundred growers in the last few days is close to the three quarter mark. Robeson County sent, in 72 con tacts in a single day last week and 18 now close to a" 90 per cent, raera- hership. LIFE. n an oak tree near my window still, One little., leaf, s weathered many storms and winds but now, it's all but gone, seems that I can hear almost, it's farewell wail of grief 0r a11 it's mates have f allen and it I han&'s up there alone, watched this little leaf awhile for Ho sure I knew SQ wel, ow very soon it too WQuld faU Hke those gone on ahead, nw the little stem gave way and tremblingly it fell iU rest. v, ...... bro viever with it's mates Ml wn, withered and dead. X A Wave c j j,. 1 sadness o'er me stole, and I thoUghfeKd th6re aWMle' laSt all 1 this life of mine and Since st " rs that're past artmg on life's journey three So ma? tenet xay more have passed away, wish I might forget Uf When 1 beix' this jour 1 nev P the hiU evLdreamed that troubles would den,v t0 me tin T emed lT f SrrW m Jt Wre-L. WeiSht' I thought, would my very soul. - Continued On Page 8 END GETS SIX MONTHS FOR MAKING RUM "Six months" on the road and cost," Judge T. O. Rodwell said to Tom Shearin, colored; convicted of man ufacturing whiskey. The whiskey was ordered destroyed Chiefs E. L. Green and T. H. Robertson caught Shearin. The case of Mark Richard son, put under bond in Shocco Town ship on July 4 after a raidjby Green 4 and Robertson, was continued to July 17. In State vS' Tom Caldwell, sent up by Justice Jack Nicholson the de fendant requested a jury trial. The cast was continued until Monday. State againsjt Ben Nicholson, as sault with deadly weapon, was con tinued under bond as was the case against Willie Nicholson. PHILATHEA CLASS GIVES MRS. C.P.ALLEN SURPRISE SHOWER. The Philathea Class of the Bap tist Church surprised Mrs. Cv Pryor Allen with a miscellaneous shower at the Eugene Allen home on Wed nesday evening. Gifts and guests beseiged the home amid welcomes. Tokens of esteem came with the wish that they might be of use. Those who made up the happy surprises of the evening were Mrs V. L. Pendleton, Mrs. J. M. Gardner Mrs. Walter White, Mrs. B. P. Ter rell, Mrs. Tom Gardner, Mrs. E. L Knight, Mrs. Karel Faas, Mrs. W. W Kidd, Mrs. A. S. Reid, Mrs. A. P Reid, Mrs. H. A. Moseley, Mrs. S. J Burrow, Mrs. W. D. Weldon, Mrs. C F. Humphlett, Mrs. A. C. Blalock Mrs. J. S. Bell, Mrs. M. C. Winston; Misses Ida Allen, Mamie Gardner Alize Rboker. Elizabeth Rooker. Mil- dred An Mary Harris, Sallie Ah ' len, Lottie Bell, Mabel Robertson, and Cate Monroe Gardner. SLIGHT INCREASE IN RETAIL FOOD PRICES WASHINGTON, July 11. A slight increase in the retail cost prices of food products in 18 out of 22 repre sentatives cities of the country oc curred from May 15 to June 15, ac cording to a statement issued today by the department of labor. Newark, N.w York and Pittsburgh noted an increase of three per cent; Bridgeport, Chicago, Cincinnati, Kan sas City, Milwuakee and Rochester, two per cent; Baltimore, Dallas, Fall River; New Haven, Philadelphia, Richmond and Scranton, one per cent; Portland, Maine, Washington D. C, Manchester, N. H., Norfolk, and . Providence, less than five tenths of one per cent. For the year period, June 15, 1921, to June 15, 1922, nineteen of the twenty-two cities showed , a decrease. "Yes," he said fervently, my fortune at your feet." I lay "Your fortune!" she exclaimed, "didn't know you had one." "WelLit isn't much of one," he ad mitted; "but it will look large be sidethose tiny feet." Ladies Home Journal PICK SALES AGENT FOR THREE STATES C. B. Howard of Atlanta, formerly of Inman and Howard, cotton brokers, has been elected sales manager for the North Carolina, Alabama and Georgia Cotton Growers' Cooperative Marketing associations, according to an annuncement by the North Car olina association at Raleigh on Mon day. , Selection of Mr.. Howard for the job of selling, with the approval of the board of directors, ot over ou, members representing cnn nnn hnlps of cotton, was made" at a meeting of the directors of r t 1 1 j i iiiaii uw.vw the three associations at Atlanta the past week, which was attended by W. H. Austin, President, and Dr. B. W. Kilgore, Director, of the North Carolina association. ' ' ; Mr. Howard, who was highly in dorsed for the position by J. E. Lath am, well known cotton broker of Greensboro, has been in the cotton business for more than 20 years and is recognized as an outstanding cot ton merchant in the southeast. Dur ing the past few years the firm, of which he had been an active member, has handled as high as 300,000 bales of cotton in a single year. WARRENTON, COUNTY OF WARREN, Ewope Greets . ii mil 4S t . IJfrt&UtV r Former Presidents Taft made no flamboyant announcement of his trip to Europe-this summer, still he is being received with enthusiasm and. interest at every center visited. In London he was honored at state affairs and dinners in a way befitting his ability. The fact that he is now chief Justice of the United States impresses Europe. The tour is developing into triumphal trip not unlike that tendered other presi dents on visits there. Picture shows Mr. and Mrs. Taft arriving in France. It also shows how the former president has lost in weight. 1 COMMENDS WORK OF MISS POWELL When one .our owu young wo men overcomes di$teu$ies in thepre paration of herself for the iie worth while, it is proper to express some appreciation of her commendable achievements, though ske is still in active service. Too many flowers are placed upon graves. RQfereneg is made in these lines to Miss Mary Bbbitt Powell,' one of Warren County's most deservingj young women, who has been suc cessfully engaged in High Befeool work in Halifax County for the last six years, and that immediately fol lowing her graduation from North Carolina College for Women. Four of these years, at the least, Miss Powell has rendered highly accept able service as Principal ef the Roanoke Rapids High School, being situated the past year in one the most imposing and thoroughly furnished school buildings in North Carolina. Throughout the -community, where her labors hav hfgn so abundant and proficient, her name is used affection ately and appreciatively in almost every household. She shared her la bors with the Church and, Sunday School, and their salutary' influence will abide. It may be added that re gret, general and sincere, was "felt and spoken when it became known that she had decided to accept a po sition with Raleigh High Schools for the next year. It needs scarely be said that Miss Powell fully believes Pope's fami liar line. "AJittJg tearing is a dan gerous thing." Her Summer Course at Harvard and her work with vQur North Carolina University and Trin ity College Summer School strongly and wisely indicates her ambition to attain to greater copentency for more excellent and efficient service. Hers is a sober,, sensible view of life and the responsibility to employ one's greatest acquirements for the moral betterment of community con ditions. So, she was free from ajl tendency to participate in those so cial evils which far too many of our teachers patronize; and, in this re-. lation, it is peculiarly befitting to say of her. "There she stood straight as sl lily on its stem." It is really difficult to contemplate such a superb character without call ing to mind the suggestive words of the Book of books: "Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies." Or, "That our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace." A FRIEND. MR. WILLIAM M. DAY TO BE AT HOME IN BALTIMORE AUG. 1. .Mr. William McDowell Day and Miss Elizabeth Susan Rowland were married in Washington, D. C, on Wednesday, June 28, according to announcements received recently. They will be at home in Baltimore, 2335 North Calvert Street, after the first of August. Mr. Day is pleasantly remembered by many here. He was for a number of years with The Press Publishing Co. and left to enter the service in he Summer of 1917. He has been working in Baltimore for more than a year. It's the oil in the soil that makes j the turmoil. Debs' Magzaine. N. C FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1922 Former 1Pfs TTufe PARTY MAROONED NOW IN JULY FORT YELLOWSTONE, Wyo.,, Being marooned 10,000 feet above sea level in an intense snowstorm in July is altogether enjoyable, Mrs Perey A- Rockefeller and other m.ern- bers of her party told Horaee N. Ah bright, Superintendent " of Yellow stone National Park, on Sunday be fore leaving for Bozeman, Mont. Mrs. Rockefeller referred to her experience of Saturday when she, her son Avery, her daughters Winifred and Faith; Mrs. H. M. Bryam, wife of- th President of the Chicago, Mil waukee and St- Paul Raijrogd; Vil liers of London, England; Griffith Mark of Lake Forest, 111., and J.R. Vietch of Seattle were caught near the top of Mount Washburn by a sudden blizzard. Mr. Albright said "the party was at no time in bodily danger. The, mer cury registered twenty-five degrees above zero and wood fire made by the party on a stone lookout station used by forest rangers kept the tour ists from being chilled. "The party was not really lost, but simply marooned," Mr. Albright said. "Tere were two rangers with them and an automobile road runs to the top of the peak. The station where the party took refuge is above , the timber line and consequently wood is scarce, When the sudden blizzard came up, all got busy and gathered what wood could be found. The Rockfeller party, guided by Mrs. Byram, is touring the West by automobile. They left here here for Bozeman today. Mrs. Rockefeller is a daughter-in-law of William Rockefeller, who died recently, and a niece pf Joh.ii D. Rockefeller. The editor of The Warren Record, with three fellow students of the, Co lumbia School of Journalism, New York, recalls in this connection that he was on Mount Washburn on July 20 last year and that snow clung to many crevices and ravines at that time. The "four in a Ford'? sent, last Summer in a coast to coast tour, and the climb over Mount Washburn was one of its features. Virginia Couple Get License Here. Julian J. Smith -and Hazel Guthroe of Virgina were issued a license on July 11 by the Register of Deeds. This was the only license of the week. Father (to curious son): "Don't you know curiosity once killed a cat." Son (innocently): Gee, I wonder what the cat wanted to know." Attend Banquet In Littleton. Messrs. Roy Daniel, G. B. Gregory, B. P. Terrell, William R. Boyce, J. Edward Allen, W. Brodie Jones and Mr. Wilson attepded the masonic banquet of Royal Hart Lodge in Lit tleton on Monday evening. Officers of Vaughan, Littleton and Warren- toh lodges were , installed for the en suing year by J. Edward Allen, as sisted by W. R. Vaughan. Mr. Allen and W. Brodie Jones responded with short talks upon call of Toastmastef Vaughan. Royal Hart Lodge made the best record in the county-wide 0 masonic study course and the ban quet was in celebration of that event. Worshipful Master T. N. Harrison of Littleton had charge of its prepara- jtion. A PENDER STORE OPENS HERE TODAY With the advertised purpose of bringing the cost of living down, ano ther Pender link is .forged today in a chain of cash groceries operated by this Norfolk business " man. The ninetieth store opens this morning in the Tarwater building on Main Street, next to the Boyce Drug Co. . Mrs J. N. Hart of Greenville will remain in charge of the store for a month or six weeks until a local man is secured. J. W. Wood, out of town manager of the Pender's Stores, has been here for two days helping get the store properly stock-J ed and attending to other details in cident to opening. Mr. Pender formerly attended school in Warren County. A recent issue of The American Magazine gave his life story, which mapy will re call. Other stores of the chain are in Weldon, Greenville, Ahoskle, with general headquarters in Norfolk.- MANY ATTEND SHOWER IN HONOR OF MRS. PRYOR ALLEN. A trunk filled with gifts from a host of friends- was placed at the feet of Mrs. Pryor Allen on Tuesday afternoon at the home of Miss. Mamie Williams, entertaining in honor of the town's latest bride As William Taylor, son of Dr. W. W. Taylor, delivered his cargo as expiessman, the group drew closer to Mrs. Allen. As she unwrapped each gift, the guests, in antimated conversation, enlivened the recent bride's spirits with added good wishes. 1 Delicious refreshments were serv ed upon the lawn. , The Bride Book was filled with expressions of good -sstill from Mrs. J. E. Allen, Miss Louise Allen, Miss Alice Rooker, Mrs. C. A... Tucker, Mrs. John G. Ellis, Mrs. R. R. Weston, Mrs. R. B. Boyd Jr., Mr. W, D. Rodgeis Jr., Miss Lucy Burwell, Miss Edith Burwell, Mrs. W. A. Burwell, Mrs. H. F. Jones, Mrs. W. J. Davis, Mrs. Van K. Davis, Mrs. Roy Davis, MrL, V. L. Pendleton, Mrs. S. F. Twitty, Mrs. J. B. Boyce Jr., Mrs. C. H. Peete, Mrs. M. C. McGuire, Mrs. Frank H. Gibbs, Mrs. Walter White, Mrs. Herman Rodwell, Mrs. R. T. Watson, Mrs. A. V. Fleming, Mrs?W. B. Boyd, Mrs. John Dameron, Misses Mary Harris, Janet, Emma and Josie Hall, Kate White Williams, Janice Fleming, Ethel Allen, Louise Dowtin, Mamie Gardner, Rowe Jones, 'Belle Dameron. Alice Vaiden Williams, Mary R. Burroughs, Sue Burroughs, Rowena Jeffress, Irene Rodwell, Will Jones, Byrd Jones, Virginia Gibbs, Sue H Palmer, Sue R. Palmer, Sarah Moore, Laura Alston, Rie Alston, Mrs. Mary Eleanor Price-Grant, Misses Kath- erine and Lenora Taylor, Mrs. R. B Boyd Sr., Mrs. Ella A. Thorne, Mrs. A. ,D. Williams, Miss Lucy and Miss Mamie Williarfis. Teacher: "Does only Abie Glutz know what a stoic is? Well Abie tell your classmates what is a stoic." "Please, teacher," said Abie, "a stoic is a boid what brings the ba bies." WORLD COURT STAR RETAINS HER TITLE Mile. Suzanne Lenglen of France on Saturday successfully defended her title as world's woman tennis champion by defeating Mrs. Molla Bjudstedt Mallory, American cham pion, in the final round of the inter national grass court tennis tourna ment. The score was 6-2 and 6-0. Mile. Lenglen's victory came after a brief, tense struggle marked by the coolness with which the French champion played her game and the brilliancy of her all-around perfor mance. Suzanne was a victor from the loutset, taking the first set with comparatively little trouble, 6-2, and walked away from her American rival in the second set without allcw ingher opponent a game. , Miss Margaret Russell of Virginia arrives this afternoon on a visit to her cousins, Dr. and Mrs. C. H. Peete. Superintendent's Office Closes. Supt. J. Edward Allen said yester day that his office would be closed all of next week, to open on Monday, July 24. NUMBER 27 ASKS PUBLIC AID TO PROTECT MAILS President In Proclamation Calls On Officers to Prevent Inter ference By R. R. Strikes. STATE COTTON FIGURES President Harding, in a proclama tion issued at the White House late Tuesday directed 'all persons to re frain from all interference with the lawful efforts to maintain interstate transpotation and the carrying of the United States mails." In the proclamation which was is sued after a day in which continued reports had reached the postoffice de partment of interference by railroad strikers with 'mail trains, the Presi dent invited the co-operation of all public authorities, state and muni cipal, and the "aid of all good citi zens to uphold the laws and to "faci litate' those operations in safety which are essential to life and liber ty, and the security of property and our common public welfare." The peaceful settlement of con troversies between shop craft em ployes and carriers, it was stated, "in accordance with law and due respect for the established agencies for such settlement are essential to the se curity andxwell being of our people." ine .President took the position that men willing to maintain the op eration of railroad trains in order to transport mail have the "same indis putable right to work that others have to decline to work." Discussing probable boll weevil damage, further decrease in yield on account of the weather, and general acreage conditions, the crop reporting bureau concludes that' cotton is at this writting a trifle shy for 1922 and says : 'The cotton crop is short of the probable needs despite, everybody saying 'I told you so' concerning the 10 per cent increase in acreage of the southern cotton crop. The condi tion of 71 per cent .of afull crop was, lower than they expected, for that is only! two per cent above last year'? condition for June 25th. North Caro lina , . is forcasted by the national crop reporting board to have a 13 per cent increase in aceage and three- fourths of a full crop prospect,, which is nine per cent better that at this date last year, but 12 per cent less than the final conditional average showed. "The; State's acreage is still less than in 1919. The condition of the cotton crop is expressed as late, grassy, small and in need of dryer conditions to permit' of cultivation and grass killing. "The national prbspect of 11,065,000 bales, while more than last year's crop it is claimed by some organi zations that the present prospect will not meet the trade's requirements. "In North Carolina, the boll weevil is gaining conspcuous headway along the southern border in Robeson. The crop will perhaps be damaged heav ily. No appreciable reduction has been made in any of the counties ex cepting Columbus 50 per cent, Bruns wick 65, and slight decreases in ( acreage of counties just northeast of these. f "The areas of increased acreage is just north of the effective area of the weevil. Lincoln to Polk shows considerable increase, also 'North ampton to Hyde and the adjoining portions of Harnett, Johnston, Wake and a strip along southern Nash through Edgecombe. "The fertilizer sold for the Spring shows an increase of almost 40 per cent in North Carolina but the heavy rainfall will reduce its effect con- siderably. A large reduction in the usage of cotton seed meal is no- ticable." A definition of happiness "Get ting what you want and seeing the rest of the world get what they de serve. Waiting to laugh last has made many a man a grouch. Exchange. Norlina Wins 1 to 0. Norlina won from Henderson by a score of 1 to 0 yesterday afternoon at Norlina. Rain ended the game in the fifth inning. Billy Polk of War renton played short for Nprlina.

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