VOL. xxvn.
YADKINVILLE, YADKIN CO., N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 16,
NO. 23
CENSUS REVEALS
Decrease cf From 22.9 to 16.1
Per Cent in Ten Years
Shown ip Aiabama. -
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BEME !N CfHER SIAIES
Marked Improvement Is Shown in the
Education of the Negro Reputa
tion in the Southern States—
Funds Are Limited.'
Washington.—That illiteracy is de
creasing in this country is indicated by
A survey of early reports from the cen
sus ofHce by Sara D. Doran for the
Bureau of Education of the United
States. The figures for Alabama, Ar
kansas, Delaware and the District of
^Columbia have been published and all
them show substantial improvement
yince 1910.
In Alabama the proportion of per
sons ten years old and more who can
not write in any language has dropped
from 22.9 per cent to 1-6.1 per cent;
in Arkansas from 12.6 per cent to 9.4
per cent, in Delaware from 8.1 per
{cent to 5.9 per cent, in the District of
Columbia from 4.9 per cent to 2.8 per
cent.
1 "The ctHidition is even more encour
aging than the figures that relate to
Hhe totai population seem to indicate,"
Continues the investigator, "for it is
tvident that the coming generation of
Dative Americans will be practically
3&ee from illiteracy in nearly every
jj^art of the country.
§ "Alabamans have been constantly
^mindful of the evils of illiteracy dur
- Ing the last 20 years. The census of
'MOO showed a marked increase in the
j Actual number of illiterates in the pr<e
yious decade. The figures were pub
Bshed wldeiy throughout the state and
the people awakened to the fact that
the public school system was not hold
ing its own. The result was shown in
census returns of 1910. The ten
dency "to increase in numbers which
i had appeared previously was entirely
overcome, the illiterates were reduced
by 91,880 and the proportion of il
literates in the total population was
tut from 34 per cent to 22.9 per cent.
Government Helps.
"These numbers were recognized as
Bauch too. high, and the agitation for
. Universal education continued. This
' culminated in a survey of educational
L Conditions throughout the state under
(!the direction of the United States
'Commissioner of education and a gen
era! revision of the iaws in consonance
with the recommendations oF the sur
vey commission. Alabama's Rrst cqm
^pulsory education law was passed in
1915, and an illiteracy commission was
established in the same year. It has
Aince been engaged in direct efforts
to educate illiterates.
"The money available for these pur
poses has been limited, however, for
the finances pf the state have not been
In an entirely saHsfactory condition,
And the efforts of education have been
hampered by that fact. No state money
has yet been appropriated for the il
literacy commission, although it was
established by legislative action: a*"'
ih the _' T ,..
Mas had came from private sources.
well known that the greater
^art of the illiteracy than exists in the
itbem states is among the negroes.
<eB 38PO, seven negroes in every ten in
'Alabama were unable to write. This
proportion has been reduced at every
Census since that time, and in 1920 it
hras three in every ten. Nearly 211,000
r Alabama negroes were reported illiter
ate in that year. A simiiar iack of
^education prevails to an undue extent
!)pnong the native white people of the
jptate; 67,287 of them cannot write,
yhat number is &4 per cent of the
jpative white population over ten years
M age.
, "With a much smaller proportion of
hegrocs in her population, Arkansas
may be expected to excel the showing
made by Alabama in the education of
jher cifzens. The number of taxpayers
among negroes is relatively small in
Ml the southern states and the amount
they pay in school taxes is not enough
.. maintain their own schools. The
Whites, therefore, must educate not
lenly their own children, but those of
the negroap as Well.
"Arkan within her borders
321,837 7^ 1* ten years old or ever
Who can vfead; 40,753 of ti^m are
jpative whites and 79,245 are negroes.
The percentages of the corresponding
total population are 4.6 per cent, and
31.8 per cent, fespectively. Clearly,
Arkansas is better ofE educationally
than Alabama.
"Like Alabama, and presumably
many other states, Arkansas has much
less of illiteracy in the cities than in
the rural portions of the state.
"Negroes constitute only 13.6 per
Htent of the population of Delaware,
MM the proportion is decreasing.
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T!NY PLOT; $3,500,000 RENT
Manhattan Was Bought for $24; Now
Thirty-One Feet Bring Huge
Renta!.
New York.—Manhattan island, once
sold by an Indian for $24 and a few
drinks of firewater, has become so
valuable that a tiny plot stretching
only 31 feet along Broadway recently
was leased for an annual rental of
about $133 a square foot. Real estate
men said this was the highest figure
for which land was ever rented here.
The site is at Broadway and Thirty
fourth street and extends about fifty
feet along the latter. Several years
ago a department store wished to buy
the corner plot, having procured the
land on both sides as the site of a sky
scraper. But the owner would not sell,
even for $1,000,009, and the big store
had to erect its home around the small
building.
A four-story structure, housing on
the ground door a busy cigar store, re
mains on the valuable corner lot. On
all sides lofty buildings rear their
hulks of steel and stone. The new les
see, who will pay $3,500,000 for rent,
taxes and other expenses over a 21
year period, pin ns to erect a narrow
skyscraper on the triangular plot. A
candy-making corporation will occupy
the building.
Notice of $*ale Under Deed
of Trust.
By virtue of the^ power con
tained in a certain Peed of
Trust executed to the under
signed as Trustee by Daniel
Huff on the 11th day of March,
1920, which Deed of TrusCis re
corded in Book No. 21jr page
270, Record of Mortgages foi
Yadkin county, I will offer for
sale on the premises at public
auction, on the 16th day of July
1921, the following tract or par
cel of land in Deep Creek town
ship, Yadkin county, and bound -
ed as follows, to-wit:
* Beginning at a stone Will
Swaim's and J. J. Caudle's corn
er, and runs south 84 degrees
east 6 chains and 85 links to a
pine; thence south 2 degrees
west 2 chains to a stone; thence
south 16 degrees east 2 chains
and 51 links to.a stone; thence
east 2 degrees south H chains
and 50 links to a stone on bank
of the branch; thence southward
with the branch 4 chains and 85
links on east bank of branch;
thence east 2 degrees south 13
chains and 62 links to stone in
old dowery line, now John
Swaim's line; thence north 19
degrees west with old dowery
line 18 chains and 97 links to a
walnut ou bank of ditch; thence
southward with ditch 4 chains
and ^5 links to three walnuts;
jorth 47 degrees west 2
chains and 15 links to the bank
of creek; thence with the creek
2 chains to a stone; thence north
4 chains to a pine; thence west
12 chains to a sourwood; thence
south 76 degrees west 7 chains to
a persimmon; thence north 1
chain and 40 links to a stone;
thence west 10 chains and 95
links to a stone; thence north 14
degrees west 7 chains; thence
west 4 chains and 25 links to a
bank on branch, J. O. Johnson's
corner; rhence south 24 degrees
west 9 chains to a stone; thence
south 64 degrees east 6 chains to
a stone, J. J. Caudle's corner;
thence south 30 degrees east 5
chains to a stone, Caudle's corn
er; thence south 3 chains to th&
beginning, containing 65 gacres
more or less.
Also I will sell at the same
time the following personal pro
perty: One bay mare mule, 9
years old; one black horse mule,
5 years old, and knpwn as the
Henkel Live Stock Co. team.
Sale made to satisfy note se
cured by said deed of trust, after
default having been made in the
payment of same.
.This June 15,1921. .
A. W. GEORGE, Ttustee
H. H. Barker, Attorney.
Meeting of !
Bank Directors
\
A meeting of the directors of
the Bank of ^ adkin was held in
the bank budding Thursday.
Mr. W. J.-ByeHy, an expert
banker, president of the Bank of
! Mount Airy, and also president
director of the Bank of Yadkin,
was present, and he, together
with several others of the direct
ors, gave the bank a thorough
examination and checking up. ,
Their report shows the bank
in the vety best condition, lqans
all regarded first class, and ^
found the reserve to be about
four times more than the law
requires to be kept on hand.
The Bank of Yadkin is one of
t he most conservative banks of
the country and deserves the
patronage of the people of the
suriounding epuntry.
Boonviiie News Items
Boonville, June 14.—Misses
Spicer and Luther a* d 'Messrs.
White and Holbrook, of the
Twin-City, visited here last
week.
Mr. T. L. Hayes and son, Errol
spent last week in Winston-Sa
lem.
Mr. Foard W. Dav, one of our
most progressive citizens, has re
cently installed a water system
m his residence.
M;s. Brent Siceloff, of High
Point, visited Miss Ruth Flem
ing last week.
Mrs. W. R. Frye and daugh
ters visited in Elkin last week.
Mr. Frank Poindexter, of
Winston Salem, spent Sunday
with his parents here.
Mr. and Mrs. John baity, of
Courtney, visited Mrs. D, H.
Craver last week.
Miss Chelia Bates visited hei.
sister, Miss Ohna, in Winston
last week.
Mrs. M. V. Fleming visited rel
atives at Pfafftown last week.
Miss Myrl Norman, of East
Bend, visited Miss Cora Wood
ruff last week.
Mr, C- D. Mock has begun the
operation of a jitney line be
tween here and Winston by the
way of Yadkinvilie,
Mrg. T. W. Shore and son,
Stewart, are visiting in Wash
ington and New York.
Mr. M. M. Angel! spent Friday
in^adkinvilleo . ess.
The Yadkin ville Electric
Light Co.
Owing to the increased de
mand for electric service in the
homes of the village, the Yad
kinville Electric Light Company
at a regular meeting of its stock
holders on June 6, 1921, unani
mously agreed that the smaller
(5KW) outfit, as originally
agreed upon, was inadequate for
future demands, and the Allis
Chalmers (15 K W) T)lant has
been purchased instead, making
it possible to accomodiate a
greater numbei of patrons, and,
if so desired b) the citizens of
the village, to light the streets
andalsotofunhsh current for
industrial purposes.
Messrs. Horton & Clinard are
at present on the job of wiring
the residences ot the stockhold
ers, and others, and if there are
other citizens who may wish
.their wiring done at this time
Mr. Wallace will be glad to fur
nish an estimate of all costs and
any other inlot mation you may
desire.
Very Respectfully,
H. H. MACK1E, President
J. G. M ARLER, Sec-Tres.
Yadkinvillejune 15,1921.
Subscription Reduced
For 20 Days On!y
Beginning next Monday, June 20th, and ending Mon
day, July Jlth, The Ripple will receive new subscriptions
and renewals to this paper for $1.00 per year. After that
date The Ripple will be $1.50 per year as it is now.
Thi s is the first offer of its hind ever given by a news
paper in this country*and it is your Golden Opportunity
to secure your county paper at a greatly reduced price
for a few days only. ,
This is merely a sacrifice offer on our part to help dur
ing a reconstruction period and the paper will postively
be $1.50 a year after July 11th.
The Reastm
Quite naturally you want to know why a newspaper
in go od standing will make such a cut in price to its pat
rons when each one of them is expecting to pay' $1.50
per year for the paper, and the reason is simply this: For
the past several weeks there has been a cut m wsges,
and a reduction in the price of farm products, etc., and
m any of our faithful friends and subscribers have been
hit hard, and although it is a big sacrifice on our'part,
we ieei that if is our duty to help bear the burden of re
* adjustment, hence this unpaialelled offer, . '
We cannot discriminate in prices, however, and so
will put on new subscribers at the same price of $1.00 per
year during this three weeks from june 20th to July 11th.
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pired or will expire by July 11th will be mailed a state
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gether with a self-addressed nturn envelope and invited
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further without pay. Theie is a limit to all things.
Not Goitty
*Not guilty," was the verdict
of the jury in Davidson court
trying Dr. J. W. Peacock for the
murder of Policeman J. E. Tay
lor in Thomasville a few weeks
ago. Insanity was the plea of
Peacock's attorneys.
Peacock was taken back to
jail pending commitment pro
ceedings to be held june 28th.
Fifteen speeches were made
in the case, both sides being
represent--1., able legal *
Peacock stood firm during the
entire trial, never once express
ing any regrets of his terrible
crime. He received the verdict
of the jury!, which accepted the
testimony of insanity, without
any show of emotion.
David J. Lewis, a spectator at
the tnal dropped dead in his seat
at the court house Thursday.
Heart failure was ascribed as the
cause. He was about 45 years
old and a native of Thomasville j
Death of Little Girl
Died at Center on June 12th,
Mary Romaine Sheek, iniant
daughter of N. R. and Flora
Sheek, aged 2 years. She was an
interesting chiid. the light of the
home, and the entire community
extends to the bereaved mother
their warmest sympathy in her
bereavepient. She was buried at
Center on the 13th after an ap
propriate service Rev's, li L.
Speer and T. J. Ogburn.
Airs. Sheek disires to thank all
the neighbors friends f<*r their
kindness during the illness of her
child.
The R. 1. Reynolds Tobacco
has cut the pay of their em
pioyees 20 per cent.
State News Items
A conference of North Caro
lina citizens has been called by
Governor Morrison to meet in
Raleigh June 28. The object of
the conference to promote a
more friendly feeling between
the races. ]
Elisha J. Daughtridge, former]
lieutentant governor of North
Carolina, died at his home in
Rocky Mount Sunday after a
lingering illness. He was 59
years old. He was elected on
he ticket with Governor Craig.
The city faihorc
nave refused to license any
more dance halls in that city for
the next twelve months.
The Hanes Roller Mill at
State Road was destroyed by
fire recently. Loss about $11,
009 with $6,000 insurance.
A big* community picnic will
be held on the Wilkes-Watauga
hne July 4th. It will mark the
opening of the Boone Trail
Highway.
Executor's Notice
Having qualified as executor
of the estate of John M. Jester,
deceased, late of Yadkin coun
ty; North Carolina, this is to
notify ail personshaving claims
against the estate of John M.
Jester, deceased, to file same
with the undersigned on or be
fore the 23rd day of May, 1922,
or this notice will be pleaded in
bar of their recovery. All per
sons indebted to said estate will
please make immediate pay
ment
This May 23rd, 1921.
E. J. VESTAL,
Executor.
Williams & Reavis, Atty's.
Read the new subscription
offer on this page.
Fort! Producing
4,000 Cars Day
Ford is budding cars at full
speed. And, according to an
official statement from the fac
tory at Detroit, the demand for
Ford cars and trucks still ex
ceeds the output, despite the fact
that a new high level of produc
tion has been reached,
By the first of May the figtrres
representing daily production
were in the neighborhood of 4,
000 a day, so the May schedule
was set at 101,125 cars and
trucks, not including the output
of the Ford Canadian plant or
any of the foreign assembling
plants. The output mounted
daily; May 12th brought forth 4,
091, the greatest number, that
th&y have produced in one day
so far this year. Since the month
1 has 25 woikiug days, present in
! dications point to a new high
!record.
A comparison of Ford produc
: tion figures, for 1920 and 1021
! d iscloses the fact that for April,
11921, the output was greater by
I 34,514, than for the correspond
! ing mbnth of a year ayo. The
{output fpr May, 1921, will prob
! ably overshadow May, 1920, by
between fifteen and twenty
thousand cars and trucks.
Approximately 43,000 men
are at work in the Detroit plant
of the Ford Motor Company.
The factory is operating on full
time, six days a week and three
shifts a day.
, "Wawerentever in a better
cond tion than we are" right
novv," said Henry Ford recently.
Everette Smith Dead
Everette Smith, oi Statesville,
was found dead under his auto
mobile on the Wilkesboro road
about 12 miles from Statesville
early Tuesday morning.
Mr. Smith, who ran a jitney,
had carried two passengers to
Wilkesboro the evening before
and is supposeu to have been re
turning to Statesville alone
when the accident happened, R
is supposed the car overturned
on him.
Mr. Smith was about 40 years
old and is survived by a wile ar d
one son.
Johnston-Reynolds
Mrs. Katherine Smith Rey
nolds, widow of the iate K J.
Reynolds, and J. Edward R ui
ston, of Davidson, were qr e dy
married Saturday at Reynold,
the Reynolds country estate ! -..r
H inston-Salem.
Mr. and Mrs. Johnston let: for
New York and will siii tiorn
there for Europe where t ey
will spend their honeymoon.
Mrs. Reynolds is the daugii er
of Mr. and Mrs. Z. T. Sum j, <d
Mount Airy. Mr. Johnston
son Mrs. Willis* Johnston, oi
Davidson college. He has oeen
conectedwith the R. J. R y
nolds Tobacco Company ter
some time.
Notice Oi bale
The following described pr [ -
erty, seized frotn E. C. Span.s,
under warr^pt of distraint tor tire
non payment of assessed taxts
due, will be sold as provided ^,
section 3190, Revised Statutes, at
public auction, on Satin day,
July 9, 1921, at 12 o'clock, at j.
B. Mathis' store, Swan, Creek,
N. €., Kuobs township, Yadkin
county. Adjoins the lands of
G- Sparks, L C. Sparks, W.
Swaim and others. Contaius 78
acres, more or less.
LW. BAILEY,
' Collector.
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