VOL. XXVI.
VADK1NVILLE, YADKIN CO., N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 15,1920
No. 2s
1 $ $. M. Brown on
* Fiftieth Journey West
1
Rev. Sanford M. Brown of Kan
sas City, Mo., and a native of
Yadkin county, left here again
last week for his home after
spending several days in this
section visiting relatiues and
lading meetings.
Porty-six years ago Mr. Brown
lert Yadkin county, he being
then of tender age, and went to
. Kansas Gity, where he is known
os one of the best Baptist minis
ter as well a* bead of one of the
largest publishing houses in the
central west. Mr. Bown is a son
of the late Rev. Green Brown
ond has one|brother Mr. R. R.
Brown of Hamptonville and he
liannade it a rule to visit the old
liome once each year since be
ing away besides making a few
extra trips.
In all Mr. Brown has made
forty-nine rrips to his Missouri
home town and half of anothar.
When he arrives back in this
county once more he will have
completed fifty trips to the west
and back, making 2,400 miles
each round trip or a grand total
of 120,000 miles he has traveled,
coming back home. This num
ber of miles would take one
^around the world nearly five
times. Also one will realize to
figure more closely that it would
cost slightly iess than $4,000 for
mileage alone, to say nothing of
other expenses, time, etc. It
seems to uus tbai Mr. Brown has
convinced his former neighbors,
in Yadkin that he is a loyal son
still.
On his last trip Mr. Brown
brought with him his wife and;
daughter. Miss Edith Mayo!
Brown. This young lady and
her mother liked this fair south
land and enjoyed their stay im
mensely. The only son of Mr.
ond Mrs. Brown was killed in
France during the world war.
Mr. Brown always does a lot of
good preaching while on his
travels, holding meeting here
and there on his way back and
forth, in the large and small cit
ies alike and is greatly loved
wherever hie goes. A few years
ago he held a meeting in Yad
kinville and it is hoped he may
come again some tiifte with his
good work. Yadkin is proud of
such a man and as he does not
forget Yadktn this good couut^
, should not overlook him, tbo’he
may spend most of his time in a
foreign field.
Mr. Harding’s Home Folks
An engaging side of Mr.
Harding was shown in bis
speech to the home folks of Ma
rlon.' All the strength of middle
western Americanism showed in
his common sens3 words upon
pulling together-boosting, in the
excellent word of our home
brewed speech.
It is appealing and pesuasive
in Mr. Harding’s case because it
<-^k^erally true "f his own ca
His present success he
owes to his loyal community,
whose loyalty he earned by
working with it and for it year
after year. That is the sound
est American doctrine. Intense
local pride is second only to in
tense national feeling in our
country. If the local feeling ev
er weakens it will be a sad day
for the natioq, for only upon
home rule in state, county and
, town, vigorously. supported by
local enthusiasm, can our huge
area be democratically govern
ed.-New York Tribune.
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j Mr. Dave Shore Dead
Mr. Dave Shore, aged 73 years,
died at his home fa Winston Sat
urday morning after an illness of
several months with a complica
tion of diseases. Mr. Shore’s im
mediate family consists of his
second wife and one child and
five children by a former mar
riage. Two of these live in Yad
kin county, Mr. Lonnie Shore
of Yadkinvill and Mr. A. W.
Shore of Baltimore. The de
ceased was a native cf this coun
ty and a highly esteemed citi
zen and has many friends who
will be pained to learn of his
death.
He was buried at Enon Baptist
church Sunday at H o’clock,
and scores of friends and rein,
fives were present to pay their
last respects.
Adequate Coal Supply
Washington, July 8.—Assur
ance of an an adequate supply
of coal to meet all domestic re
quirements during the coming
months was given today by
George H. Cushing, managing
director of rhe American whole
sale Coal Association, who de
clared in a statement that re
ports of an impending coal
shortage were unfounded. The
public, he said, is panic stricken
without reason or excuse.
“There is no shortage of coal,”
Mr. Cushing stated. “There is
no danger of any such shortage.
Therefore there is a reason but
no excuse for the current high
prices qj the open market. The
reason ieihaCwe have jgo much
governmental agitation of the
danger of famine.
Mr. Cushing declared that for
the past eight months “there has :
not been a day or even an hour
when some governmental agen
cy was no! agitating about coal
and predicting a coal famine.
“Prices, he said, have reached
the highest peacetime level in
history because those who need
coal are frantically bidding each
other in every market.”
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NOTICE.
Pursuant to an order of tbe Su
perior Court of Yadkin County,
made on the 8th day of July,
1920, in an action entitled T. S,
Ashley et al, EX PARTE, we will
sell to the highest bidder at pub
lic auction on the premises in
Knobs Township, Yadkin County
on
MONDAY, AUGUST 9th 1920,
at. et near the hour of 2 o’clock
}>. m. the following described real'
estate: Adjoining the lauds of
Moses Chapel and others, begin
ning on a black oak in William
Barber line, north 26 chs, to red
oak in Groce line, West 3 chs. 25
links to a stake Gross corner,
North 7 chs. to a stake, West 25
j chs. 34 links to a red or black oak,
South 22 degrees West 10 chs. 50
links to a post oak, East. 15 chs,
35 links to oak, North 4 chs. 50
links to hickory, East 7 chs. 25
links to the beginning, containing
containing 110 1 4 acres more <or
less. Terms of sale: one third
cash, balance on a credit of six
months with bo'nd and approved
security for deferred payment.
This land will be sub-divided
and sold in small tracts and then
as a whole.
This July 8th, 1920.
8. W. YESlAX,
J. W. FHAZIER,
Commissioners.
For Sale.—Bvveet Potato Plants
$1.50 per 1000, express collect.
$1.75 per 1090, postpaid. All va
rieties, prompt shipment,
DOiUU&KENSEY PLANT CO.
Valdosta, Ga.
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Haustonville Rt. i News
; Farmers are very busy laying
by their corn in this section.
There will be an ice cream
supper at P. W. Windsor’s store
next Saturday. Eveiybody cor
dially invited.
The revival meeting will be
gin at Wesley Chapel on the 4th
Sunday night, July 25th.
There will be a Children’s
Day at St. Paul church the 25th
of July.
Mrs. Bettie Mullis was the
guest of her sister, Mrs. Annie
Wilkins, last Sunday. L.
Courtney News
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mackie
and A$f. and Mrs. Paul Shernser
aiwf children were visitors at Mr.
Grover Sherraer’s Sunday.
*Mr. A’onzc Bagby and Darwin
Essie from Winston were visitors
in our burg Sunday.
Mrs. N. C. Craniill returned
Friday from Hamlet wbere she
wept to atted the funeral of her
sister, Mrs, N. W. Fowler, who
died of Bright’s disease,
There will be a play “Broken
Links.” given at Hamptonvills
July 17th by the young people
of Courtney. Everybody invit
ted. There will be music fur
nished also. Proceeds * for
church. •
Mr. Carter of Winston is vis
iting her son, Mr. Luther Carter
of this place.
Mrs. D. L Reavis of Concord
spent Friday vv.iih home folks'
here, returning to Vlocksville. i
Community Singing
A larg** crow f c-mda onf to tH*1 ■
court house ij,ui>ua\ night to
join in singing the songs of long |
ago and the new ones made popu-!
lar by “our boys’" in the war. This
meeting of the people of Yadkin
ville was cslled by the instructors
of the summer school.
The young people of tiie town
made the evening more enjoyable
by giving several attractive selec- j
tious. The program was as fol- i
lows:
Solo, “My Little Bfrch Canoe”!
—Miss Elizabeth Hnchins.
Heading, Miss Minerva andj
William/ireen Hill—Miss Mary
Crater.
Duet, Bubbles—Martha Crater
Margatet Eaton.
Several selections given by the
community orchestra deligted the
vast audience. The members of
the orchestra are: Messrs Lloyd
Craver, S. H. Dinkins, Art finch
ins, Herman Kauser. The chor
us of young people of town and the
summer schosl teachers rendered
seveeal popular selections. They
were aecompanied by our able pi
anist, Miss Kate Robinson.
‘idministratoi’s Notice
xiaving qualified as administra
tor of the estate of G. W. Reavis
dec’d tills is to notify* ail persons
bolding claims against said estate
to present them to tlm undersigned
•vvitbin one year from date of this
notice or same will oe pleaded in
bar of their recovery, and all per
sons owing said estate are reques*
ed do settle at once. This June. 9,
1920,
W. T. Reavis, Admr
of G. W. Reavis deceased
Notice To All Dog Owners
In checking up the list I find
about one third* who haven’t
paid their dog tax. The law
says they must be paid during
November and all persons fad
ing to do this have violated the
law and are subject to indict
ment. You who haven't paid
please arrange to do so AT
ONCE/ ,
C. E. MOX LEY, Sheriff.
CAN A STATE AFFORD NOT
TO LET WOMEN VOTE?
READ THESE TAX FIGURES.
The lowest city tax rate bat on«
(listed in the 1620 figures of the World
Almanac, pages 702-705) is In Musko
gee, Okla., a full suffrage state. It is
36 cents on the hundred.
The highest Ax rate in the United
States at the same time is in Milwau
kee, Wls., $20.17 per hundred. Wiscon
! sin nnil 1916 had no woman suffrage.
It now has presidential suffrage.
Of the twenty-one cities in the
United States quoted la the World
Almanac list as baring tax rates below
fl ten are in states which hare fuO,
presidential or primsry suffrage.
There are hut three nfttie suffrage
statss la witch any cities are Hated
with a tax fate below $1 on the him*
dred.
The suffrage cities with a tow tax
rate are: Mfe Bead, IntL, 74 cento?
Ogden, Utoh, ?> cento ; Niagara Fails,
NT *„ easts; Balarhnseo, Mich, 85
cei»$s? Mhdjtogee, Ofcto., as cents; Kan
sap~. CKy, Kaav® cento; Hutchinson,
Hap., 75 celts; Fort Wipe, IxmL, 94
eepftt; Ferf Smith, Ark., SO. cento)
CHrreiand, t&to, 70 cento.
j(n Washington, a fall suffrage
AfAto, went eat of debt
And Wyoming hi that year had ne
feed of t«*4* for state government.
“Taxes Ware not levied for the sup-,
aort of t£* state gevernment,’' said the
Anaconda Standard (1919). “The in
come of tends, leases, royalties and in
terest oh Arrestment last year was
$9084241.6$, .while the amount received
from direct taxation was $568,497.51.
There was a cash balance on hand at
the begiilnijhg of the year of $718,426.
80. The actual* expenses of Wyoming
were $1,305,588.21. After paying all
expenses and making some invest
ments in permanent funds, there is
carried over a cash balance of $789.
587.12. With this balance and the
income defived this year from oil and
mining development, royalties on state
lands, leases and fees, the state will
easily he able to get along a year at
least^without any direct taxation.”
Wyoming has full suffrage.
In January, 1916. equal suffrage Kan
sas paid off its last dollar of indebted
ness.
WHERE MEN ONLY VtfTE
DEBTS ARE GREATER,
In the city of Baltimore, Maryland,
where woman suffrage is rejected, the
total population in 1919 was 700,000.
The debt of the city is $66,127,174 or
more than $90 per capita, the budget
$22,020,099, or more than $30 per
capita. ^
In Richmond, Virginia, another state
where suffrage was rejected, the pop
ulation of 165,000, is burdened with a
debt of $12,513,097, or $75 per capita,
and with a budget of $5,604,013, or $44
each. (World Almanac, 1920.)
In February, 19!6, the Denver, Colo
rado, Chamber of Commerce said:
“Denver’s per capita indebtedness is
$3.62. Per capita indebtedness of other
cities follows:
“Louisville, $50.13; St. Paul, $43.19;
Worcester, Mass., $42.90; Columbus,
Ohio, $46.05; Toledo, $50.54; Atlanta,
Ga., $30.28.
“Two million and a quarter dollars
were spent in homes last year, costing
from $3,000 to $15,000 each.
“The state has made great progress
in agriculture. In 1914 it amounted to
$89,573,200 and in 1915, to $95,052,090.”
The indebtedness of Massachusetts,
a male suffrage state, was in 1913,
$22.78 per capita.
In California and Colorado, woman
suffrage .states, the same year, it was
$3.83 and $3.70 per capita. In Kansas
It was 14 qpnts and in Oregon 4 cents.
(Figures are from the Unite# States
Special Census report on “Wealth,
Debt and Taxation,” Table 10.)
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ELECTION EXPENSES.
What It Costs to Let Women Vote.
The state treasurer of every suffrage \
State has declared that woman suf
frage has not appreciably increased
election expenses. Denver, in 191G, re
corded the lowest per capita (of pop
; ulation) cost of voting (14 cents) of '
> the larger cities of the United States, i
| In Cheyenne, Wyoming, voting costs j
I 10 cents per capita (of population), a j
I Jess sum than in any city of its size.
It was computed in June, 191S, that |
New York City could vote all its wom
en for Just one-sixth of what it has
been costing to vote its men. It cost
$300,000 in 1917 to vote 6Q1.-809 men.
It was explained by the election of
ficials that an equal number of women
< could be voted for an additional sum
•f $50,000, making $350,000 in all. It
had cost the city .43 cents each te> vote
its men, but it would oniy need a per
capita Expenditure of 7 cents more to
care for as many more women at the
polls.
In Chicago’s experience it was found
that the actual additional dost of the j
woman voter was about one-third.
' Women fiay cm r fu’t pro rata C are
4>f the fara— n for e^cMon expert-s'
and they lur.v ,%J Hi. d >•«'.*,#*'» Ust more \
than a century .vlille depmed by law1
from casting a' vote.
IMPORTANT NEWS
THE WORUT OVER
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IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THW
AND OTHER RATIO Hi FOR
SEVEN DAYS GIVEN
THE NEWS jF THE SOUTH
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Mif rTNprM*
Foreign—
Tie Otnua dbmuMar, Kemtwrttm
Febrenbacfc, kM conpleM tka for
mation of a ratal*. A Mknataeli
caMaat wtat«f&&te4 kt Jnao n, tat
tar formation vtaas tta Majortgr ft*
ctaliata raftatfl te amort ft.
The Greek army taa tagn an nf
fenatre again* the Samoa at Haste
taa Kamal Fata, tta Tarfcteh |te>
i tkmaUat tender, aceoadtfpf to an affi
I cial atatamant iaanai lift Grata hand- i
quartan.
I BJotooa scene* occurred at tta honae j
| of representative* whan tta sitting of
the Cuban house waa ftammarity ana
ponded because of disorder, said to
hare been caused by member* of the
Liberal party. The home has been
unable to convene tor several weeks,
because of what la alleged to have been
a “legislative strike" on the part of
lie Liberals, who are protesting against
the passage of the last session of the
Conservative measure amending the j
Crowder electoral law so that coalition J
of national political parties will be per- j
mitted.
Provisional President de la Hcerta j
of Mexico has invited forty newspa
pers of the United States to send rep- j
resentatives to study conditions in;
Mexico, it has been announced.
Hungary has begun an energetic
boycott against Austria. Food barges
on the way up the Danube from coun
tries to* the east were stopped in Hun
garian waters. In pursuance of the
miernational boycott, traffic in direc-'
tren of HurgetxJ3 totally suspended. I
A Reuter u.spateh published STLoie
don says the ?,bor delegates who wentj
to look over Soviet Russia report that;
Socialism will be triumphant in Gre£t
Britain long before Russia has enter- j
ed the socialistic domain.
“Hundreds of brides have been
doomed tc a l£e of useless celibacy j
through that ftimmous institution that
is known as mixed bathing.” This (
statement is die nulcelus of a protest I
by CouneiLor Donald Clark of Ton- j
bridge. Kent county, England, after a
^ebate as to whether or not mixe i
kbMhing would' be permitted. Clarx j
lost, and will not seek re-election, as I
the county is a strong woman center, i
Lloyds recently experienced “qui.e j
an exciting day” as the result of a
statement of a United States senator
j to the effect of the American merchant
’ marine act, which appears to move the
center of American marine insurance
from London to New York,
j Premier Lloyd George’s demand that
i Irish railwaymen handle munition
trains gives rise to an issue which
must be fought out. Many declare
the premier’s attitude is a “bluff”
anci that he is “too afraid of English
i labor to give it effect.”
With armed bands battling for the
! control of Londonderry, and the en
itre city "in the grip of lawless ele
ments, a state of civil war exists that
may be ended' only by the proclama
i tion of martial law—and perhaps not
| them. The British authorities are ap
| parently powerless, businesse is com
1 uletely paralyzed. Murder, looting and
j. incendiarism are alleged to stalk all
through the streets, while citizens hide
I within their homes or attempt to flee
; the county.
Washington—
A report on the railroad strike eitr
' uation was laid before President Wil
i son at the cabinet meeting by Secre
! tary, Payne, acting in his capacity as
j director general of the railroad ad
ministration, but action was delayed
after Secretary Wilson had declared
the situation was so improved that
steps by the govemmen. were unnec
, essary.
Management of the national Republi
can! campaign was entr; eted to an ex
ecutive cpmmittee of tver+y-ere mem
bers, headed by Cl tnrman -I ay* oZ the
party s national committee. Seven
women have places on .as executive
committee.
Rear Admiral Mctoh4rr in charge
[of the fourteenth n« <ml district oinco
J1918, has been ffa:~..~rrtd to Ido da
Janeiro and w 11 helm duty lane
! as senior command:..- . the ..alCiicaa
hmval rhisfioli v.i Bras.. . ,
* Investigation: of i-i i._ nnlmcc -V
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lished for the treatment of dreg ajir
diets was ordered by the bureau of ur
temal revenue to determine if they
are operated in accordance vtith the
terms of the Harison anti-narcotic act.
Clinics mnst be abandoned or the
methods changed where the “ambula
tory treatment” is in use by which
Irugs are issued to patients who are
permitted to administer the dosage
themjrjtv'os. Instances have been
mown of patients selling drugs so ob
tained Co other addicts.
Damages asked by owners of m»<
tor vehicles in eoifisioo With goveiw
oaent mall trucks cannot be paid be
sense of absence of SByrfuads for re
imbursement. fbe Couth assistant poet
■aster general. Only an appropriation
by w special act oC congress can meet
the situation.
The Herrera fwrtrwiaU fla Guate- '
■ala, which snceeeded that of Dr. Es
trada Cabrera, has been recognised
by the United 1tales, it ia announced*.
C renters railing « American wovk
ers »e ref rata from partleipaties fa.
Che coming presidential election and
Inetead Join a general strike, came into *
Che ^uids of the department of Just ice
reee ally. Investigation has been or
dered ;© determine the origin of ;h»
pe-^phteta which on signed by *Th»
a rrean Anarchist Tedsmtad Conn*
narme -iovirt*."'
C^orge Christhm. secretary to Sena
tor barren Gamaliel Harding, sayo
the better recently made poblfc. by
Fxar.V P Walsh, quoting the Repub
lican presidential nominee as favoring
Irish independence, is aadeutredly
aut 'vtfe*
T. frie is a Garden of Edea in Cbi
aa. i .cording to the descrlptivci given
-y a rorameTcisl ettache to Cu'na.
I ; - rsnien Is an economic er .i. and
a , -ovs 2s West China. Here you
\y fehr c*r ^ve fresh egg* for
! <-• '£ b-shel of 'yhect brings -IS
5 . and £ on cf zniVrrac <\*
- 1 ■' vocrib 50 cenc<u Wages ?ver
-f !'• to l'v octs a -ay.
* erc-rvnibie of Armlr'.on,-'
r- . 7. o'rced as Heitor of
<1 -?. ~ ? -1 ;: labor, Jxias,d B,
~y. r i-xar 7 rr!c has ieea ap*
. -i c £ to Sicec -eelm.
- riof' 77. Kielso® of Nearsik*
a soIfaftoT in fKe
ij.f't of - '7.T,?..
m I >
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Several Iowa Democrats on the cue.
cB-_ train en route to the nation?.! con
vsr.t on at San Francisco telegraphed
Lose for money. Th eves entered ora
of the cars in the train at some placa
between Grand Junction. Colo., and
Green River, Wyo., and stole about a *
thousand dollars.
In an airplane crash at Paris Island,
near Savannah, Ga., Lieut. Frederick
Malthen, Lieut. S. 3. St. George and
Capt. Gustave Karow of Savannah x
were killed.
The United States railroad labor
board will announce its decision on
the new wage scales to be granted
four million railroad workers on July
20. Officials of the railway brother
hoods, who waited anxiously for the
board’s announcement, said that this
action had probably averted a wide
spread strike of railroad workers,
which, they said, outlaid organizations
had been planning to start June 26 at
midnight.
The Northern Baptist convention
voted after a lengthy debate to termi
nate relations with the Interchurch
World Movement.
A volunter construction program
corps for the making and whittling of
planks in the Democratic party has
been busy at San Francisco for seve
ral days, and it is 'believed their‘ef
forts will relieve the tense situation
prevailing.
Several schools qf thought among
the anti-bone dry leaders at San Fran
cisco have developed, and it will be a
difficult matter to bring them to
gether, in the opinion of many.
Gov. A. R. Roberts of Tennessee an
nounces that he will call a special ses
sion of the Tennessee legislature for
action on the federal suffrage amend
ment in ample time for the women to
vote in the Noveftnber election. Thi*
announcement was made after the gov
ernor was shcfwn a copy of a telegram
from President Wilson urging such
action.
Nurses Wanted
Pupil nurse? wan.fed for Rate
Hospital at Morgan ton. $80 pgr
month for beginners, with iu
! create lor second and third rears
jup-to ' oar', roor' (8r,v*
! rue fr >ui Hospital Wpi'b.y , \,uh
1 ry a.id. iioifo au I'unii-’n-d. Dp- ,
[ piifirln»ii*iv for .course, i,» Ninons’
•’ran. *,v, He’iooJ for' i onnp; v.-.nn.
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