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\ VQL- XXVII._YADKINVILLE, YADKIN C0„ N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 21,1921 NO. 28
DIM REFUGES
I MARSH AREAS
%d by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
ington.—Although legislative
measures for the protection of wild
fowl have multiplied, and have added
to the restrictions on hunters, these
regulations have not been sufficient to
maintain these game birds in their
former abundance. Regions that once
were the summer homes of myriads
of wild;. ducks have been drained and
placed finder cultivation, and extensive
areas where the birds at oDe time
bred are now populous farming com
munities.
These changed, say biologists of the
United States Department of Agricul
ture. have crowded out the former
feathered residents and have served
in a corresponding degree to reduce
their numbers.
Realization of these facts has led
recently to the adoption of other
measures to encourage waterfowl. A
number of extensive marsh areas have
been made permanent refuges under
the guardianship of the Department of'
Agriculture, and many private pre
serves, some formed by artificial
means, have been established where
the birds are protected while nesting.
In addition, in a number of cases,
* rigid local restrictions have been
placed upon hunters.
Investigating the Ducks.
As a means of co-operating in such
efforts to maintain and increase the
number of waterfowl, the biological
survey of the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture has undertaken
Investigations of tlie general conditions
under which wild ducks live and
thrive, coupled with counts of the
birds found in areas varying in char
acter. During three summers, field
studies were made dealing with wild
ducks in the Dear river marshes in
Utah, a report of which has just been
published by the department in De
partment'Bulletin 93G, Wild Ducks and
Duck Foods of the Bear River Marshes,
Utah.
D uring the three seasons devoted to I
this work 12 species of ducks and the
Canada goose were found breeding in
the region included in the Bear river
marshes, which cover an extensive
area at the northern end of Great
Sait Lake. In an enumeration made
during May and June, 1916, of the 11
species of breeding ducks 3,560 pairs
were counted, and it is believed that
this number represents between 60 and
200 per cent of the total number of
breeding ducks occurring here that
season.
Vast Number in One Rejyion.
y Allowing live young reared to ma
turity as the average for each pair,
and considering 1916 as an average
season, the bullet** states that, at a
■conservative estimate, between 25,000
and 30,000 wild ducks, native to the
marsh, are to lje found there at the
close of the breeding season.
It was found that, in addition to
the large number of birds reared on
the Bear river area, many other ducks
came in after the nesting season to re
main there until fall. That birds from
the Bear river section range widely
after leaving these marshes has been
shown by records of. ducks that have
been handed and released there and
sut?e-’W'tly were shot elsewhere. Rec
ords urns obtained show that ulrdc. i>.
leased near the mouth of Bear river
1n migration cover the region from
'Oklahoma to Texas and west to Cal
ifornia. The department urges th% es
tablishment of a greater number of
preserves where wild fowl ma$ breed
ami rest unmolested and find an auv\
pie supply of food.
G!F1 guardian of family
Or.iy nineteen Yea.s Old, but Will
Lock After Five Persons by
Order of Court.
Kan Francisco.—Unwittingly proving
thai -he is capable, independent and
Lfjaiyies a good balance wheel of judg
for her young brothers
y Carmicia, a slim,
hppyP* Inst two years, since the
pRnl rr the family has not only been
!ii o 'he little children by doing
th, ••ting and other household worB*
bu;-W; s'r r/i in the stead of a father
sir, A. his death eight 'years ago.
; 'rjtfm,•> the death of the mother an
l«en acting as guardian for
ii? * •;mily, but lately they have be
en-..- restive and anxious to manage
their >wn business.
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Bumped Into Auto; Fined. "S,
\. ■'kep.p n, 111.—H. C. Itelmer was
fine' .>7.40 because he started to cross
the .ireet and bumped into an auto
His Jnjured head was band
■Bg- at r hospital. Then he was
'frfri. -A A-itli ‘‘humping into an auto
:mob; it*.*' Magistrate Walter Taylor
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IT MADE PARIS GASP
Extravagant Costume Worn by
Mrs. Wilkinson of England.
“Temperance Queen,” Who Never
Wears Same Gown Twice, Gives
the French a Sensation,
Paris.—No longer afraid of being
called profiteers, the owners of “war
millions” are now bringing them out
f®r the “grand season.”
The result is that "Paris it witness
ing a carnival of flamboyant extrava
gance unequaled, according to many
"critics, since the days of Nero.
Mrs. Smith Wilkinson, English “tem
perance queen,” who for three
weeks has made Paris sit back and
gasp, appeared at the Pre Catalan
restaurant one Saturday night with
her third husband, who is twenty-four
years old, wearing on her head a genu
ine crown composed of more than a
thousand pearls and rhinestones. The
crown formerly was worn by the Grand
Duchess Xenia of Russia. Mrs. Wil
kinson bought the trifle for $800,000.
Suspended beneath her chin was the
cluster of famous Shrewsbury pearls,
more than 30C years old. They were
bought by Mrs. Wilkinson from the
English museum so she could wear
them in Paris. Her dress was inter
woven With more than 300 genuine
diamonds, other gcius being set in her
stockings and shoes. y
Altogether, Mrs. Wilkinson esti
mated her costume to be worth in the ;
neighborhood of $3,500,000. She said:
“French women have been the style j
setters long enough. I made up my
mind 1 would show them what real
sensations meant. I have a different
gown for every day in the year. 1 never
wear one twice.’
WON FORTUNE FOR A TRIFLE
Capt. Alban/Jones, ft. IS., resigned,
won £G9.0t)0 /($269,100) on a $2.75
ticket of the^Caicutta Sweepstakes on
this year’s /English Derby. Captain
Jones, wh^ia assistant marine super
intendent, oi the Union Castle line,
had never before placed a penny on
any hf>rse. He declares he will not
five up his present post in spite of
j winning the large fortune.
ASKS new furniture style
Frenchman Blames Architects for
Louis XV and Louis XVI
Designs, , ,
Paris.—A new style in furniture
was demanded by representatives of
the French furniture industry at the
furniture congress recently held here.
Architects are blamed by the presi
dent of the Furniture Makers’ associ
ation for the continued production of
false Louis XV, Louis XVI and other
styles of antiques. They design in
teriors to go with such furniture and
naturally the manufacturers have to
meet the demand, he says.
He proposed that the teachers in
the fine arts school should begin the
camp, ign for a modem original style
by ir ,piring original ideas under the
general direction of a committee com
posed of artists, architects and furni
ture makeys.
Baby Cab a Rum Cache.
Fort Huron, Mich.—John Hammond
of Sarnia was arrested bj customs offi
cials while wheeling a baby cab from
a ferry boat. In the cab on which
the baby rested was a quilt contain
ing 12 pockets ia each of which re
posed a bottle of liqqhj'. With Ham
mond was' his wife an two children.
He stated he jvas buyfig a house on
the contract plan, andltook up booze
smuggling to raise money. He Is em
ployed by the Grand Trunk: in Sarnia.
Hammond was placed In la|L
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General News
President Harding has issued
a call for a world conference on
disarmament. The date will be
annouced later.
T wenty thousand enlisted men
in the army applied for dis
charges in the first ten days of
July, and 13,000 have been re
leased from service.
General Bowley, commander
of Camp Bragg, together with
the county and city officials of
Fayetteville, have started a cru
sade against bad women and
bootleggers around the camp.
There is said to be a new put
bread of pellagra in the southern
states. The cause is attributed
to the farmers having been
forced back to a diet of salt
pork and corn bread, since the
low price of cotton.
Mrs. Buelah Johnson was tak
en from a hotel at Shreveport,
La., Saturday night by masked
men, driven to the country,strip
ped, and tarred and, feathered
and returned to the hotel. We
have not learned the cause of
the treatment.
Mrs. Katherine Kaber was
convicted of the murder of her
husband at Cleveland, Ohio, last
Saturday and sentenced to < life
imprison in Ohio Reformatory
at Marysville. Mrs. Kaber plot
ted the murder of her husband
last spring when lie was stabbed
by unknown parties.
Rev. Phillip S. Irwin, arch
deacon of the English Episcopal
church at Miami, Fla., w as way
laid and tarred and feathered bj
a mob of men near that city
Saturday night. It is alleged he
had advocated the intermarriage
of whites and blacks in the
south.
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TAUGHT TO HE REDS
Communism Is Taught in the
Schools in Russia.
‘Revolutionary Conscience” First
Thing to Be Developed in Child,
Says Former Prisoner of War.
Riga, Latvia.—Most of tlie younger
generation of Russians are Bolshevist,
says Capt. Marion C. Cooper of Jack
sonville, Fla., the American flyer who
was captured by Russians while serv
ing in the Polish army and recently
escaped from a Moscow- prison. He
attributes this to the Bolshevist edu
cational system, nub • which commun
ism is taught in the schools.
“The schools are all red,” he stated,
“and the educational program pre
scribes that the first thing to be de
veloped in the mind of the child is
the ‘revolutionary conscience.’
“In prison I saw, several times, chib
dren .visit their anti-Bolslievist par
ents. The children were reds and ac
cepted their parents’ imprisonment
philosophically, wondering how they
could go against the tenets they
had been taught to absorb in the
classroom.”
Vying with this system of educating
the children, said Captain Cooper,
was the wonderful propaganda system
by which the Bolsheviki attempt to
convert adults.
“Their communist lecturers work
even in the prisons, trying to convert
the prisoners,” he continued. “They
even tried it on me. There were lec
tures or classes held frequently. If a
man said he was converted and could
convince the prison committee of that
fact, he generally was released.
“Further in the Tine of skilled prop
aganda was the exce]Jejli treatment
of the Polish wv.’r prisoners just be
fore la-ey Were returned to Poland,
uneur the repatriation agreement of
the Polish-tlussian peace treaty. Be
fore each bunch was repatriated, all
of the soldiers in it were given new’
clothes and new shoes ar.d wise well
fed for several weeks, so that when
they arrived in Poland they looked
well fed, well dressed and, in short,
were walking advertisements for the
soviet government.”
Generally, Captain Cooper said, con
ditions in the prisons werg very bad
from the standpoint of didt, Hut that
| he received no personal ill:treatment.
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Extra Session of
Legislature Dec. 2
Governor Morrison has called
an extra session of the general
assembly to convene in Raleigh
on December 2nd, for the pur
pose of creating legislation in
regard to city financing, which
legislation was intended to have
passed the legislature at the reg
ular session last winter.
Serious Cutting Affray at
Elkin
Herbert Wolfe was seriously
stabbed by Raymond Burcham
at Elkin Monday afternoon
when the two men quarreled
and fought over some lumber.
Wolf was stabbed in the left side
and is said to be in a serious
condition.
After stabbing Wolfe Burch
am escaped toward Jonesville
and at last reports had not been
apprehended,
Wolf is about thirty years old,
and Burcham about twenty-two.
State News Items
Governor Morrison and mem
bers of his family have gone to
Asheville where they will spend
the remainder of the summer.
The campmeeting at Ball
Creek, the famous old camp
ground in Catawba county, will
begin August 2lst.
Richard Menzie, aged 63, mil
ler at a mill at Glen Alpine, was
caught in a Belt ai the mill and
sustained injuries from which
he died,
Lonnie Lewderwilk, an elec
trician, was kilted near Morgan
ton last week when he came in
contact with a live wire while
working on the line.
A dispatch from Raleigh says
that more than 100,000 automo
bile license tags have been sold
leaving more than 40,000 cars
without license tags.
Rev. Baxter McLendon began
his evangelistic campaign at
North Wilkesboro Sunday, It
is estimated that more than 10,
000 people attended the two ser
mons Sunday.
Some unknown party stole a
gallon of whiskey Sheriff Ham
son’s office in Raleigh the other
night. All efforts to locate the
guilty party or the gallon have
been fctule.
Abner Brinkley and Fred
Brinkley, brothers, were con
victed c. the murder of Homer
Barringc r in Catawba , county
court iviii. week and sentenced to
5 inti 2 \ v urs in the state prison.
The mure nr occured last March.
Geer & Wilson, contractors,
doing woe on the Asheville
CiiarlotteA /ilmington highway
near Ruthc fordton, lost three
lice mule$. last week. The
mules fell ii > an oid abandon
ed wei), co\ c.ed with vines and
weeds.
Rev. Baxic • McTepdon, better
; kno wn as “C. -done ^Uek,” the
i.*o.V-Ci c . wiiPy >1, a as PaO
seated a ky i;. v? ea$w|pilie, a lit
1 tie town in thy
Ashe vh it, and • r i 4' rtM ?
dem e v ; war. .-name
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Mr. j. C. Steele,*- cx-nAy or of
Statesville and head of tfL firm
of J. C. Steele & Sons,’ bwjgjk ma
chine manufacturers^ di< a sud
denly at bis home in iliacity
last Thursday morning. tt&gvas
82 years oick^.. ^2 I
Kohloss Appointed
Prohibition Director
R, A, Kohloss, of Salisbury,
was appointed prohibition di
rector for North Carolina last
Wednesday by Secretary Mel
lon.
The appointment was strong
ly opposed by the Anti-Saloon
League but was upheld by Mr
Blair.
Mr. Kohloss will enter upon
his duties at once. The first as
sistant to the prohibition direct
or will be A. B. Coltrane, of
Trinity, whom Kohloss has des
ignated for the position.
Big Farm Convention to be
Held in August
The North Carolina farmers’
an4 farm women’s convention
will begin on Tuesday morning,
August 30th and extend through
Thursday, September 1st, at the
State College, Raleigh,
The program is not yet in fin
al form, but preliminary arrange
meats are made and the secre
tary is in correspondence with
some of the leading speakers in
North Carolina and the United
States. Among the speakers
who have been invited to ad
dress the convention are: Hen
ry Wallace, secretary of agricul
ture; Dr. E. V. McCollum, Johns
Hopkins university, and many
others.
Rooms will be furnished free
at State college, but visitors will
have to furnish them own toilet
articles and bed linen.
The convention .officials ex
pect record crowds this year, on
account of the changing agri
cultural conditions and the
strong program to be presented.
Co-operative Tobacco Mar
keting Campaign Starts
Mr. C. C. Zimmerman, teach
er of marketing, from the State
college of agriculture at Raleigh
arrived in Yadkin county Tues
day to assist Mr. D. H. Osborne,
county farm agent, and the local
committee of the tobacco grow
ers’ association to complete the
campaign for co-operative mar
keting of tobacco in the next
few weeks.
The Case of Alvin York
| Word is put out that Alvin
IY ork, of Pall Mall. Tenn., who
is the acknowl .ged greatest he
ro of the world war, is about to
lose his fine farm through mort
gage foreclosure. Neighbors and
friends of New York gave him
over $11,000 on his farm as
bridal present over a year
There is a $12,000 mortgag&^m
the farm and crop failurajgjpj
year made it impossible
York to make payments oxrcral
land debt. He refuses
mercialize his war rcic&jl&SMi
raise money hv going
iure platform. But ffae quesfwj
arises if M:\ York
was made on account
record, why should he.d^fuilHJk,
iako uiord nionn.v on account of
1 ihat record?-vBut many of us,
who cannot ioi'i^vy. Air. York’s
now probably would Yot ‘navej
followed his body when he
thrust it torwankou October 1&
1018, in the Argo an 2 Forest and!
killed twenty-five Germans^*1
lenced thirty five ffiaehineMaal
and marched 132 German Upk
twes into th^ American camjj^J
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Big Jitneys and
Little Jitneys
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Yadkinville and this section
seems to be well supplied with
jitney cars just now, there being
something like five lines plying
between here and Winston-Sa
lem. At this place one of them
branches off to Boonville and
the remainder goes on to
Brooks’ Cross Roads.
However, aside from the mail
line and Sbouse’s big jitney,
there is little travel except the
line coming from Boonville via
Yadkinville which goes down
in the morning and bac^ in the
afternoon and does not conflict
with any other line, and carries
some passengers.
The Shouse boys have been
On. this line a long time and
have a well established schedule
and make it regular and they
are carrying the bulk of the pas
sengers, in fact more than alt !
others combined, as people have
learned iheir schedule and like
their manner of operation, and
also their capacity for carrying
passengers. They can carry 15
to 2<> people comfortly at any
time.
The danger ol the thing is
overdoing the jitney business
and driving off the larger caFS
unless they are patronized, and
then, perhaps, have no jitney at
all, which we hope won’t be
done.
“Home-Coming” Day at
Macedonia
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The fourth Sunday in this L ■
month will be observed as
“Wome Coming” day at Mace
donia Methodist church, near
Last Bend. All who have evei
belonged to or attended this old
h.storic church, and the friends
and public are cordially ini%$4
to attend the exercises on this r .
day. The/e will be talks &$dt
addresp s by different ores, coP^
dudtedbv the pastor, Rev. L. P. ^
Bogle.
The exercises begin a& 10 a.
m. and cbntinue throughout the
day. Dianer will be staved on
the grcpffis. Everybod^isrask
ed toT&ina a basket.
Mr. F. Brown Cele:
brjfll!|fc?rd Birthday
Brown, ipns of
the county’sJjLt Ciii/..-us, cele
..mated his j^A)irthday Sunday
•S^gt^m^^pftBoonvilie. - W'
j Bet^e^-^lftiO Ad 500 relatives
a§d^iends dfeJEla Brown were
ce%^ tlle natal
(iaySl^th'him. § tariff Moxley*. , -v„
;who wm presenly sjfes he count
e&mtpany as fo| slight a uto
%tohj^s besides tlJS&ho came
mi buggies and on f|Km
|§!||grge table was«ftted on
|^MLwn and a.bounJBrdinner
and Rev. L). C. R(?e^^iade
talks, after^vhi^Pfeose
$>te8fes*-’helped themsel vejfti^e
f in tfe*
li^aeT w&%tng \Mr. BrojLi ^
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