—gc»Nw.» ■ ——tf? »^———W———————————, - | __. j|jf VOL. XXVII._ YADKINVILLE, YADKIN CO., N. C.r T H UR S1) A Y,M AR C11 31~ Y92l NO. W WIDESPREAD WAR ON NATIVE FARM WEEDS Survsy Set on Foot by Depart ment of Agriculture. Sslew Varieties Constantly Arriving 5n Foreign Seed and Through Other Sources—Entire Farms Aban doned to Pests. -{Prepared by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture.) The United States Department of -Agriculture has set on foot what is intended to be the most comprehen sive weed survey ever undertaken. Up ;to date comparatively little is known of American farm weeds. They are klassified in botanies and herbariums, I tout there are no definite data in re gard to their spread; the prevalence jof any particular weed in any local ity ; the amount of annual damage; new weeds, increase of old species; •or local methods of eradication. To supply the need for such data 'the section of weed investigations has sent a questionnaire to all the more Ithan 2,000 county agents of the de partment. This questionnaire asks the ‘names of five worst weeds in each !county, in order of their importance; 'the methods, if any, used by farmers i to combat these weeds; and what {■weed problems are especially serious jin any particular county. i Comparatively few native American 'weeds have given farmers serious Trouble, but new varieties are con stantly arriving in foreign seed and ithrough other sources. Some of these* have become such pests that entire farms have been abandoned to them, j A canvass of 200 representative east- j •orn farmers showed that an average j of 28-days a year is spent at the busi- ! est season in trying to get rid of j weeds. Investigations by the bureau j of plant industry over a number of j Tears are taken to indicate that cul- j tivation after the seedbed- is prepared has no other use than to destroy weeds. If this theory proves correct, it will add more heavily still to the annual, expense chargeable to weeds. It is the purpose of the department to use the projected survey as a basis of operation in directing a widespread war on the weeds now here, or the im portation of any new one&, and to seek any local eradication ruethotfc wlneh may be worth general dissem ination. iSTRETCHER IS QUITE HANDY ' ‘[Particularly Convenient in Repairing Wire Fences and Is Easy to Put Together. , i ■ , For a common wire stretcher which jls especially handy in repairing fence! jtake a piece of hardwood cut as (shown in the drawing. Then drive (Small nails into the edge at the large k__ Stretcher for Repairs. I t » - ;ei:d, and cut off the heads, filing them to a point. This keeps the stretcher from slipping on the post while in use. Then make a hook from a heavy piece of strap iron as shown in the drawing and bolt to the stick with Ismail bolts. {PRODUCTION OF GOATS’ MILK ! Result of Experiments Conducted at ; Government Experimental Farm at Beltsvilte. | Milk-goat experiments Upgrading up |from native and grade Toggenburg and (Saanen does with purebred Swiss fbucks, begun in 1911, were continued Ilas^oi^ery the United States Uopart j Agriculture, at the govera me| (: .,.nn at Beltsville, Ud. The> | emprises 26 does and 5 kids ; oi vivae-half, three-fourths, soven j eighths, and fifteen-sixteenths blood. iThe average daily milk yield per doe jin 1919 was 3.92 pounds, an ;«cre;ise jOf 2.42 pounds over the yield of the jtdn selected native does which formed ‘the foundation stock of the herd. The highest milk yield for an individual j ;doe in one day is 8.6 pounds. For! 11919 the flock showed an average of ■‘8.7 per cent butterfat. WORMS OF DIFFERENT KINDS Fowls Affected Are Likely to Be Ex tremely Thin in Cases of Long Standing. Some chickens have worms of vari ous kinds. The intestines should be •lit to find tills out. Chickens having worms are likely to be Unduly thin, and this lass of weight is extreme in 7 ■ • Pka.. - mmmm , Miss Marya Wilczkowa of Poznan (Posen), who was one of the eight women recently elected members of the Polish diet at Warsaw. Miss Wilczkowa is representative of an edu cational group. She is a peasaift wom an and was sent to the diet to work for better schools in' th^part of Po land that was formerly dierman. Note the beads, dress and hairdress, all of which are typical of the peasant com munities. HARNESS CHILE’S WATERFALL Company of Capitalists Get Franchise From Government to Develop Power Resources. Santiago < bile.—Vast natural water power resi-T-'vos in the central prov inces of <')■.;* are to be put to use to general i-iectricity for Santiago, Valparai-o '<1 neighboring cities and towns. A company. capitalized at $3,250,000, has been formed for the purpose and work already lias been started on a hydro-electric plant on the Colorado river, near Santiago, where it is ex pected 18.000 horsepower can be de veloped. The project is backed large ly by Chilean capital. Basis for the promotion of the com pany was ihe'need of more power by both the Valparaiso and Santiago street railways and by mining and in dustrial enterprises. Until recently no waterpower concessions in Chile were granted for more than 35 years, but the latest concessions are said to he perpetual. GERMANS TAKE YANKS’ TRADE Steel Too! Manufacturers Drive Amer ican Make Out of Holland, Says Consul General. Rotterdam.—German manufacturers of steel tools have practically driven American tools out of the market in Holland, according to statistics com piled by the American consul general. Previous t« the recent industrial re naissance in Germany, nearly 00 per cent of this trade was in the hands of Americans. The c harge is largely due, at‘cording to Consul General Anderson, to the favorable money exchange conditions prevailing so long as the mark is low and the dollar high.'' * GIRL OF, 15 KILLS FATHER Wields Knifg- Fatally Defending Moth- I During F-'amiiy Fight Philadelphia. Philadelphia, I’h.—Elizabeth Mabel Lance, 15 years old, stabbed her father to death defending her mother, police say, during a quarrel between her parents. The father, Edgar M. Lance, 37, died almost instantly. A formal charge of murder has been lodged against the girl, and the mother is held, as a wit ness. . According to the girl, her father was choking her mother. She tried to get him to stop, but he told her to “go away.” “Molher was screaming, and I was frightened and I ran downstairs, ^ot a knife and c>. me back to the room,” the girl said, according to the police. **I threatened father with the knife to save my mother, and be let her go and run at mei and I held the Irnife up and stabbed; him.” -.-' 1 - DEMIES MERCY TO WOMEN Washington Judge Calls Penitentiary Only Cure for Rr.ror Wielding. Washington.—Justice Ashley M. Gould of the District of Columbia su preme court, a student of tue psychol ogy of crime and criminals, in refus ing to place on probation two women razor wielders recently, remarked: “This kind of an offense—committed with a razor, gun or a blaqkjack. is what has made Washington the most notorious city in, the world for mur der. There are too many acts of this sort which culminate in murder and penitentiary sentence Is the only cure I know* for such a Condition.” The ! women received a sentence of 18 months each. -- ' \ ■ — •» ■=• ■: - -4— STATE NEWS Forsyth Superior court is in session this week. A The Winston tobacco mat^t closes today. The North Carolina Master Printers Association will meet in Asheville July 18-19. One hundred and fifty cases of smallpox since January 1st, is reported in Winston-Salem.^ Gus Dimakos, aged 50 years, died at Rocky Mount last week. Drank wood alcohol in whiskey Walter Petree has been ap pointed temporary postmaster at Danbury to ^succeed R. R. King:, resigned. Four candidates, Mayor Wil son, Capt. W. E. Yount, J. Frank Flowers and James O. Walker, are in the race for mayor of Charlotte. The Woman’s Missionary Union Convention met for its 31st annual session in the First Baptist church at Rocky Mount Tuesday. Rev. John Douglass, pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Wadesboro, will deliver the literary address at the Mitchell College, Statesville, commence ment May 16th. Talmadge Billings was sent enced to the electric chair at Wilkes court last week for the murder of William Chatham in that county. An appeal was taken. • One woman was 1 instantly killed and three others'seriously injured near Asheville the past week when a logging car broke loose and ran down the moun tain, crashing into their home .Contract has been let for the erection of the Southgate Me morial building at Trinity Col lege. The building, which will be fireproof throughout and cost $200,000, is to be completed by September 1st. Three sto'res and three resi dences were desfroyed by fire at Ston.\ Point last week. Loss about $l)U,000 with but itttle in surance This was the second disastrous fire the little town has suffered within two wee s. The annual convention of the United States Good Roads As sociation will be held in Greens boro April 18 to 23. a good roads show will be held durbm COL \ Cliii. L . u„ ... ocAptwi that an enormous crowd will attend. J Iredeil county officers recent ly destroyed two unique block ading outlits in the northern part of that county. Oue was a well equipped outfit operated ia a three-room cave, in the side of a hill with carefully concealed pipes to conyey water to and from the plant. The other had a dispensary attached, wnich consisted oi a barrel biased m the ground, with a pump and uose attachment, witii which to hill and empty u. Opei o>ouf both plant vere arrested i>> die officers. WILL BLAST GERMAN EAGLE Japanese to Blow Up Emblem Carved on* Hillside of Tsingtao Harbor. Tsinghio, China.—Japanese authori ties an^ouncQ that the hjige German eagle carved on the granite side of one of the hills, flanking the harbor ofl Tsingtao. aerbss which has been superimposed the iusigna of imperial Japan, will be wasted from the hill side and removed to Tokyo, where it will be placed in a museum. . When the Japanese seized Tsingtao n the first-.fear of the war with Ger many they inscribed, the date of their victory across the eagle—“November 7, I thi.’d year of Taislio" <1914) + ’ - A . ' .• . ' #. ' [John Robinson's Circus j y Ex’ ibiteS Here in 1858 might /merest our young readers, and perhaps some of the older ones. *o know that; Yadkin vole had been visited by j John Rc:]o :or;s Circus. Rut it I is a fact vi ' , Robinson’s Circus was here! and exhibited op a lor near! where flu -Baptist church now j stands* in \ugust, 1858. The! ‘writer is unable to secure the exact day of August the circus was here, but old records at the Shore Hotel show that II. W.j Ruggles, agent for Robinson's; Circus and Menagerie, was here j June 18, 1858, and the circus, at | that time traveling by wagons,] came the following August. That was'along time ago, 63 i years, three years before the] Civil war. The show has pass ed into hands of tne fourth John1 Robinson since that time. In connecdon with the above it might be of interest to our readers to state the fact that John Robinson, 3nd, was marri*, ed in Statesv ille, some thirty-odd years ago. He was married to an actress Tide his father’s cir cus was exi ibiting in that town. i • Sol* Sparks Arrested Sheriff Mex ley and Dop”ty Marshal Oghurn and Deputy! Collector Shu spirt arrested Sol Sparks at his home near the| Rilkes t I ine Sa turd ay night and ' e was placed in jail here. He is charged, with his broth er, of bei? g connected with a gang of auto thieves in handling stolen cars. Sheriff Moxle.v tiasj recently k>und and traced through., their hands about eleven cars. Sale of Land l*y virtue of the power contain ed in a Deed i t trust exe -uted by. James (I uit and wife, Lizzie Huff, to me as <; •;--tee, registered in tin1 office of the register of Deetl.s of Yadkin comity , in Look 21, page 2o8, ami .default having been made in payment of the note secured by said Deed of Trust, J will seli at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at \V. P. Jones’ store in Jonesville, on the 25rd day of April, 1921, at 19 ■’ \>ck a, in., the Towing de ounui-d lands. Beginning at a sloue in ,Will Sivairn and J. J. Caudle’s corner, running south 84 degrees east 5 chains 85 links to a pine; thence south 2 degrees west 2 chains to a stone; thence 2 degrees south 4 chains 50 links to a stone; thence south J6 degrees east 2 chains 51 links to a stone; thence east 2 de grees south 11 cluims 50 links to a stone on bank oi branch, thence south with bianch as it meanders 4 chains and hb links jto a stone on east side of blanch;/ thence east 2 degiees south -43 chains and 82 links to a stone in John Swaim’s Kne; thence south lU de grees east. 4 chains aud il.d;s .to a stone iii saill >!oliii Swanu’s corner; thence west 12 chains B; links !<■ stouo; tociict .south 4 ch ilus n0 links to a stone on east | side of branch; thence west 2 d**-! gre<\s nordi ‘Jti <.lu.i s aud £5 links to a stone in Will swa in's Conn r; 111 *ne. . o.iii with said1 Will NuaMM-’s I’nc 1“ Haiti's . to the l a few vvcrdsto the land owners of Yadkin county. Let's t,.: o a lit tle stroll along the streams that flow through our farms just as dten as we can and see how things are. To put down tins illegal liquor traffic here in this count}* every good citizen as well as our officers should know his duty . nd do it regardless ot what bad men may think, say or do. - /*fvi**&*/- ' ^ , - ...j