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VOLUME XXVIL
STATE GIVES GEN.
PERSHING OVATION
Grim War Leader of World
Fame Proves To Be Just
Folks On Visit Here.
RAIN DOESN'T KILL ARDOR
Greeted by thirty thousand cheer
ing Tar Heels, John J. Persing, Gen
eral of the Armies and leader of a
hundred million Americans when they
were drawn into the caldron of war,
rode through the streets of the city
yesterday, acclaimed as few in a gen
eration have been acclaimed in the
capital of the State to the fair grounds!
where he spoke at the opening of the
61st State Fair.
From the foot of Fayetteville Street
to the Fair grounds a mile and a half
away the General passed between the
massed walls of cheering humanity,
greeting for the first time the man in
whom four years ago the hopes of the
nation were centered. At the Fair
Grounds he spoke to five thousand
people about the improvised speakers'
stand in the center of a great field.
From the moment he stepped from
his private car at the Union Station
at 9 o'clock to go to the Execntive
Mansion for breakfast with Governor
Morrison until he boarded it again
nine hours later to leave for New
Orleans, he was the center of a31 of
Raleigh's thinking and all of Raleigh's
formal action. Wherever he went he
was acclaimed. Raleigh was looking
for the first time upon his face, and
Raleigh liked him.
It was a full day, and the coming
of the General, made the opening of
the Fair seem sort of incidental.
Pershing was the center, and the
thoughts of the most were upon the
fair only as the fair was a part of
the General's program.
Onlv mud turtles would have chos
en yesterday as a fitting day to be
gin the State's annual festival of the
fair, but even with the mud, there
were throngs there all day. Inclem
ent weather cut sharply into the pro
gram of events outside the visit of the
General, necessitating the abandon
ment of the racing program, the free
acts and slowing up the movefcnent of
events generally.
Reviews Troops In Downpdjur.
But rain had not a thing to do with
the reception that Raleigh ami the
State accorded the General. Rain
greeted him as he emerged from the
station, and he stood in a downpour
to review North Carolin's State and
R. 0. T. C. troops asthey passed be
fore him on Hillsboro Street. The
clouds lifted a little before his brief
address was reached, and the rest of
the day was somewhat-less wet overh
ead. Underfoot was a different mat
ter. Under the generalship of 'Adjutant
General J. Van B. Meets, the day
moved according to schedule. The
parade moved off on time, it reached
the reviewing stand on 'St. Mary's
campus on time; and it reached the
fair grounds on time, and but for the
panic-stricken abandonment of a run
sway team by a negro driyer and re
sutant catastrophe to the gun crew
firing the General's salui; the last
detail of it would have gome by the
map.
The General himself is. punctual.
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me o'clock found im raady for
whate
Josephus Daniels, general' chairman
of the reception committee, boarded
he private car to. greet him on be
hal of North Carolina. He carve off,
greeting a hundred or more of the
y's leading citizens, handshaking
lem all. He was very cordial1 in his
greetings. And was "one of the folks"
uring his busy stay in the State.
News and Observer.
SuPt. Allen and Mr. Williams Speakv
supt. J. Edward Allen spoke to the
PuPils of the Warrenton, Graded and
of n, Sch01 n Mondav in the chapel
i he school. Mr. Allfcn urged the
couPfrtanCe f making hool work
developing thi importance of
ti mpt attendance and strict atten-
speak B' B' WilKams was the
m er at rhapel on Tuesday morn-
PtL thG stho1 hear his appro
Ure 6 remarks with profit and pleas
' 0ne present said yesterday.
Mix v t t
erine p erleton and Mrs. Kath
titer Arrin8frn returned yesterday
1 a two-day visit to Raleigh.
Supt. Allen Gives List
of Teachers In Schools
of Warren County
Class A Schools.
WARRENTON SPECIAL CHARTER.
Mr. R. B. Spencer, Principal; Misses
Marriam Boyd, Gladys Gordy, Delia
Wicker, Beulah Dempster, Mary
and Maude Simonds.
NORLINA Grover B. Harris, Prin
cipal; J. F. Marshburn, Mrs. J. . Bell,
Miss Rebecca Long, Mrs. Ruth Boet
tcher, Head Teachers Training Dept.
Mrs. Marvin Hardy, Misses Mollie
Whitted, Blanche Harris, Mary Bond,
Lessie V. Chandler, Norma Connell,
and Waverly K. Lawson.
MACON H. A. Nanney, Principal;
G. H: Singleton Head Agricultural
Dept. H. V. Scarborough, Mrs. S.
S. Reeks, Misses Ruth Freeman, Su
san Gooch, Fushia Edwards, Janie
iFatrell, and Minnie Rodwell.
WISE E. O. Smithdeal, Principal;
W. Edgar Boyette, Misses Emily
Milan, Jennie C. Alston, Gladys
Sledge, Margaret P. Alston, Carrie
Dunn, Martha Evelyn Morris, and Sue
B. Palmer.
LITTLETON SPECIAL CHAR
TERED SCHOOL L. H. Floyd,
Principal; Misses Annie Thorne, Car
rie Helen Moore, Lila Davey
Josephine Quarlas, Elizabeth Whitak
er, Carrie Myriek, Lila Belle White
hurst, Henrietta McMillan, and An
nie Tucker Moore.
Class B Schools.
NUTBUSH Rev. Herbert Scholz,
Principal; Mrs. L. O. Reavis, Misses
Judith Boyd, Helen L. Read, Etta F.
Fleming.
VAUGHAN J. R. Nixon, Principal;
Mrs. Annie M. Cheatham, Miss Ge
nevieve Fleming, Miss Cornelia Haw
thorne. AFTON-ELBERON B. U. Rose,
Principal; Mrs. V. M. Epps, Misses
Ruby M. Rawlings, Carrie V. Wat
kins, and Jimmie Clarke.
VICKBORO Miss Kate M. Gainey,
Principal; Misses Beaufort Powell,
Miss Myrtle Pirmell, Miss Lucy Reeks.
ARCOLA Mrs. B. D. Scull, Prin
cipal; Misses Eva Duke, Annie LT
Crawley, Florence Mustian.
Class C Schools.
WARREN PLAINS Miss Fannie
Lee, Principal; Misses Arnie C. Duke,
INEZ Misses Dora T. Alston
Mrs. C. .J. Weaver.
Miss Sue Palmer. ,
EP WORTH Mrs. Lena A. Larke,
Mrs. Verona Hoggard.
Supplementary or Primary.
CHURCHILL Mrs. ,H. V. Scar
borough. " METALIA Mrs. W. G. Coleman.
OAKVILLE Miss Tullia B. Reeks.
OINE Miss Kate Mayfield.
EMBRO Miss Mamie Riggan.
CREEK Miss Minnie Cawthorne.
ASPEN Mrs. Willis Neal.
JOHNSON Miss Hattie Warren.
POPE Mrs. R. L. Bell.
Wilson Mr. C. P. Pope.
COLORED RACE.
WISE TRAINING AND HIGH Rev.
G. E. Cheek, Mrs. E. J. Cheek, Mrs.
Maude Philpot, Beatrice V. Harris,
Mrs. L. M. Williamson, Elisabeth
Brown, J. L. Bolden Smith-Hughes
Agriculture Teacher.
Continued on Page 8
Building Loan Stockholders to Meet.
The Building and Loan stockhold
ers will meet on Monday night, Oct.
23, at the Court House. The purpose
of the meeting is to organize.
Miss Margaret Gill Marries.
Mr! and Mrs. George Everett Gill
announce the marriage
of their daughter
Annie Jeffress
to
Mr. Guv McBride Smith
on Saturday, October the fourteenth
nineteen hundred and twenty-two
Wake Forest, North Carolina.
At Home
922 West Lenoir Street
Raleigh, North Carolina.
-rt; n;n fnvmprlv visited in the
miss uni
Home of her aunt, the late Mrs. W. P.
Rodwell of Warrenton, aim -pleasantly
remembered by many
friends in Warren.
Mrs. Howard Alston Entertains.
Mrs! Howard Alston entertained at
cards on Wednesday evening from 8
to 11 o'clock, complimentary to her
cousin; Mrs. George G. McCann of
Franklin, Va.
Dr and William T. Twitty of Buf
falo New York are visiting their
sister Mrs. Jeff D. Palmer.
WARRENTON, COUNTY OF WARREN, N. C:, FRIDAY, OCTOBER
First Woman U.
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.,Mrs,Wi H- Felton, of Carters
nlle, Ga., appointed by Governor
Hardwick to the U. S. Senate, is
mighty proud of her honors. She is
now 87 years old and is the widow
Age Does Not Worry
Marble Shots A-taw-11
(THE FRANKLINTON NEWS.)
New York may have its world ser
ies, Youngsville its horseshoe courts,
but Franklinton has its marble links.
It is a frequent cause for speculation
if there is something in the air in this
neighborhood that retains the spirit of
a boy in the man. Well there may be,
for almost any day and time one can
see in the street fronting the Frank
linton News office middle age men,
and men above sixty years old, shoot
ing marbles.
Yes, it is the very same game that
you as a youth played. These older
men grown-up boys show the same
emotions that thrilled you then. The
ring is drawn, the marbles placed.
There is a moment of tenseness as a
man takes his place, perhaps fifteen
feet from the ring, takes careful aim
and thumps the taw toward the cen
terman, and the game is on.
Hands Jiave not lost their cunning,
though many years have passed since
youth, and some remarkable shots are
made. Neither have these elderly
ring sportsmen any compunction about
killing an opponent's taw should op
portunity present. There are not safe
even at twenty feet and. what is a
fifty yard punt or a hundred yard
drive when compared with a perfect
marble shot of twenty feet over un
even ground?
Although these games have been
played for many days it has not been
determined who is Frarklinton's lead
ing marble shot. One of the surest
is William A. Whitfield, manufacturer
of Whitfield's Remedy. While he is
a more practiced shot than his brother,
G. L. Whitfield, optometrist and jew
eler, he only leads him by a few
points. Others worthy of mention are
M. L. Harper of Fixum Quick Shoe
Shop, George Barrow, merchant, "!ecil
Kittle, Lawrence Moye, and other
stars.
There has been increasing interest
manifested in the game since Mr. G.
L. Whitfield returned from Washing
ton with several new taw?. No chal
lenges have yet been issued to neigh
boring towns, but" it is felt by fol
lowers of the taw, should occasion
arise, that Franklinton stars. wouM be
victorious and bring honors to their
home town.
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Co-ops Win Fight To Restrain Contract Breakers;
Judge Frank Daniels Grants Permanent Injunction
Plymouth, Oct. 18. Tobacco co
operatives" won today the first round
of their fight to have the contract of
the Tri-State Tobacco Growers' As
sociation in North Carolina declared
legally binding on members.
Judge Frank Daniels, who is pre
siding over Washington County court
here this week, this afternoon an
nounced he would continue the in
junction restraining Z. A. Harrell,
Edgecombe County tobacco farmer,
and W. T. Jones, Nash County to
bacco grower, from selling their to
bacco outside of the association. The
permanent injunction is in substan
tially the same terms as the tempo
rary restraining order issued by
Judge Lyon several weeks ago.
Judge Daniels required the tobacco
association to furnish a four thous
and dollar bond in each case to pro
tect the interest of the defendants,
which was considered a reasonable
amount by the co-operatives, as ap
proximately thirty thousand pounds
of tobacco is involved in each case.
The co-operatives instituted suit
& Senator is 87
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of Dr. W. H. Felton who was a
member of Congress for many
years. Mrs. Felton successfully
managed many of her husband
campaigns.
Miss Gibbs To Marry
In Church On Nov. 8
"V. G. to J. P. Nov. 8" announced
on Tuesday afternoon at the home of
Miss Byrd Jones the approaching
marriage of Miss Virginia Gibbs of
Warrenton to Mr. Jere Persall of
Dunn. Scorecards, decorated with
handpainted brides, were drawn as
favors from the hearts of yellow
roses and told of the coming event.
Mrs. W. Keppel Falkener made the
highest score of the afternoon. The
guest of honor prize, a bride's book,
filled with good wishes was under
written by those friends of the bride
who were present.
Miss Gibbs is the daughter of Dr.
and Mrs. J. T. Gibbs and has many
friends over the State as well as in
Warren. Mr. Pearsall is a successful
young business man of Dunn. The
marriage will be solemnized in the
Methodist Church.
Guests of Miss Jones on Tuesday
were Misses Virginia Gibbs,. Evelyn
Anderson, Janice Fleming, Gayle Tar
water, Helen Pitkin, Edith Burwell,
Mamie Williams, Lulie Price, Annie
Burwell, Mary Harris, Gladys Gordy,
and Mesdames Frank H. Gibbs, W.
Keppel Falkener, J. N. Hart, Mrs.
Poole, and Mrs. William R. Boyce.
IN RECORDER'S COURT
Recorder Rodwell had two cases in
his Court on Monday morning.
C. P. Dickerson was charged with
abandonment. The judgment was
that he pay into Court the sum of
$5. on- Oct. 16, and $5 between the
first and tenth of each month follow
ing for the "support of his wife and
the cost.
John Cannon was charged with
transporting liquor. He was adjudg
ed guilty and fined S25.00 and cost
and the liquor confiscated and to be
destroyed by the Sheriff.
Miss Ward On Honor Roll.
Miss Sarah Howard Ward of the
seventh grade should have been placed
on the Warrenton Graded School honor
roll, published in the last edition, Miss
Delia Wicker, her teacher, said on
Wednesday.
Miss Irene Rodwell and Mr. W. P
Rodwell are spending the week at the
ii'air,
against each of the defendants for
alleged damages to the amount of
5 cents a pound for all tobacco sold
by them outside of the association
and for counsel fees amounting, ac
cording to the complaint to $350.
These cases will take their place on
the regular court calendar in Nash
County.
Goes to Supreme Court.
Meantime the injunctions continue
in force, and the defendants can
dispose of no tobacco outside of the
association. The granting of the
injunctions to prevent violations of
the contracts of members of tobacco
association is of far more importance,
however, than securing damages for
tobacco sold outside the association
as this will enforce delivery of
tobacco to the association by mem
bers, if Judge Daniels is upheldl
by the Supreme Court, and in any
event deliveries can be enforced un
til the higher court passes on the
question. Co-operatives are confid
ent that the lower court will be sus
tained.
20, 1922
Mr. L. B. Eaton Praises
Life of Mr. Waiter B.
Boyd In Open Letter
Mr.Howard F. Jones,
Editor Warren Record,
Warrenton, N. C.
Dear Sir:
Kindly permit me, through the
medium of the Warren Record, to
pay a: brief tribute to the memory
of my life-long friend, Mr. Walter
B. Boyd, whose untimely death so
recently occurred.
An acquaintance of more than forty
years wojald seem to give me warrant
to speak of him with authority, and
to make an estimate of his character
based on personal knowledge.
It is not my purpose to attempt to
write his epitaph. That service must
be rendered by one more competent.
When young men, aa co-partners,
we entered the tobacco business in
Henderson, N. C, and it was there that
I learned that he was a man of the
highest integrity, and practiced the
strictest ethics in all financial matters.
He had a natural genius for busi
ness. He treated it as a science and
studied it as a profession. He digni
fied it and was a faithful devotee at
its shirne.
There could be but one result of
thorough preparation and fidelity.
Success in the highest degree crowned
every enterprise he launched, and the
golden wand of Croesus was always
in his reach.
Like all great captains of industry,
he did not leave details to others, but
gave them his personal supervision
knowing that a structure could not
endure if the foundation was weak.
Therein lies the secret of his success
thoroughness. It was the key-note of
his life.
His knowledge of values and gen
eral business conditions in the com
munity and in the country at large
was perhaps more accurate than that
of any man in it, and I say this fully
conscious of the fact that some of tfie
ablest business men in North Carolina
reside in Warrenton.
By hundreds of farmers in Warren,
Franklin, Vance', and Granville Coun
ties he will be remembered better as a
warehouseman than as a banker. With
the single exception of Mr. D. Y.
Coop'er, the well known warehouseman
of Henderson who probably was
without a peer in that respect in the
State I have never seen Mr. Boyd's
equal when conducting the sale of a
big break of tobacco. On such an
occasion he appeared to be a com
bination of energy and enthusiasm
personified.
In fact, whatever he undertook he
put his whole heart and soul in be
cause he was intensely enthusiastic
and energetic. Every muscle in his
body was vibrant with energy.
To the young business men of War
renton, those who would rise above
the level of mediocrity, I commend the
example of this progressive, ambiti
ous and public spirited citizen. The
county in my recollection has pro
duced no one more worthy of their
emulation.
His life was a lesson in civic virtue.
He wrought for the public weal. His
watch word was progress.
A devoted husband, a consistent
churchman, a warm friend, a jovial
companion, a gracious host has passed
to the "Great Unknown."
I shall miss his hearty greetings
and the cordial grasp of his hand;
but I will cherish them in my memory
as I, too, approcah the mystic shore.
L. B. EATON.
Washington, D. C, Oct. 14, 1922.
Europe Going
Back to Farm
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Dr. L. C. Gray, economist of the
U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, after ah
extended survey in Europe says big
estates are being cut into small
tracts; and the people are going
back to the land, producing more
I "or home than commercial Uses.
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NUMBER 41
CAPT. PRICE WILL
NOT BE CANDIDATE
County -Wide Political Rumor
Killed By Statement of
Deputy Register Deeds.
NAME IS NOT TO BE USED
Killing the persistent political rumor
with a positive statement here this
week, Capt. E. C. Price, Chairman of
the Board of Elections of Warren and
deputy Register of Deeds, refused to
become a candidate on an indepedent
ticket opposing Simon M. Gardner,
democratic nominee at the last pri
mary.
For a month or more the rumor
had spread that Capt. Price would be
a candidate. Persons from all sec
tions had been interpreting the polit
ical weathervanes and the breezes in
dicated that the deputy register of
deeds was to run for the real job, re
ports had it.
The clouds rolled away, the only
approach to a storm was the thunder
of rumor, and this clears away with
the statement of Capt. Price that he
would not oppose or allow his name
to be used in opposition to a nominee
of the primary.
World Series Baseball
Players Receive Checks
CHICAGO, Oct. 17. Checks rang
ing in sums from $50 to $4,545.71 were
mailed today from the office of Judge
K. M. Landis, Baseball Commissioner,
to seventy-four men who participated
in the 1922 World's Series games at
the Polo Grounds, New York. Thee
checks, each for $2,842.86 were handed
to players Jose Bush, Waite Hoyt and
Fred Hoffman, of the Yankees, while
they were leaving Chicago last Sun
day, en route to Japan.
Eighteen Giants, including Mana
ger John McGraw and Coach" Hugh
Jennings, each received a check for
$4,545.71. Five members of the
Giants were given individual checks
for $4,545,70, which is one cent less
than the amounts received by the
highest group. One of these was
"Cosey" Dolan, the veteran assistant
coach.
The veteran pitcher Jess Barnes,
received one cent more than his
brother, Virgil, who also is a pitcher.
The checks of twelve others, includ
ing players who were lately added
to the Giant roster, ground keepers,
trainers, mascots, etc., ranged from
$200 to $2,272.85.
Of the twenty-nine checks mailed
today to members of the Yankee
club members, 23 were for $2,842,80
each, and two for $2,842.85 each,
the latter being one cent less than the
amounts received by the highest
group. The remaining seven checks,
represented sums ranging from $50 to
$1,421.43.
TOBACCO COMMUTE FINDS
RUMOR UNWARRANTED
The Warren County Executive
Committee of the Tobacco Association,
having received complaint from some
of its members regarding the grading
or clasification of their tobacco, ap
pointed a committee of investigation
composed of Messrs. Jim Bolton, J.
K. Pinnell, and G. R. Frazier. After
a thorough investigation the findings
were to the effect that said rumor was
unwarranted, that the work was being
done as nearly perfect as it were
humanly possible. Mr Frazier stat
ing that it was beyond his expectation.
Mr. Yall Young the Association
supervisor of graders was called down
from Henderson and swears with un
covered head that to the best of his
ability each and every man shall have
a square deal.
It is the purpose of this committee
to thoroughly investigate this and all
other matters brought to their atten
tion, says Chairman W. A. Connell.
COME.
Missionary Groupe Meeting of the
Methodist Churches of Warren and
Vance Counties will convene at Wes
ley Memorial Church, Warrenton, next
Tuesday morning, Oct. 24, at 10:30.
The Pastor and a full delegation from
each church are invited.
Conference Officers a nd other
speakers are expected to present a
strong program.
Dinner will 'be served at the church.
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