VOL. XXXIII YADKINVILLE, YADKIN COUNTY, N. C„ THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1926 VOL. No. 12 . . - - MACKIE & HINSHAW DID NOT BUY BLAKELY OUT However Local Undertakers Will Establish Branch at East Bend The local Arm of Mackie & Hin shaw, undertakers, have not bought out the Arm of Blakely at East Bend as was announced through error in this paper last week. This announcement is made in justice to both Arms in volved. It is a fact, however, that the Arm of Mackie & Hinshaiv are establishing a branch ofAce in East Bend. This branch oAice will be located over Mr. Henry Davis' store with Mr. Burchett in charge. The East Bend branch will be equipped with every mod em convenience, including high grade caskets, vaults, robes and motor hearse, together with the services of an experienced em balmer. SUPT A. T. ALLEN WILL DELIVER ADDRESS; COUNTY COMMENCEMENT APR. 16 The Rnal contest of the Yadkin county speHing union will take piace at Yadkinviiie on next Sat urday, Aprii 3rd. The Yadkin county speHing union is support ed by aH elementary schools of the county. Already two elimi nation contests have been held and it is the winners from these hrst two contests that will com pete at Yadkinville on April 3rd. The contests for each grade are held according to rules and re gulations worked out by the coun ty teachers association. There has been much interest in the first two contests and it is ex pected that the contest at Yad kinville will be hotly contested for the grade honors. The final contest will begin at 10 a. m., when the contest for the third grade will be called. The other grade contests will be taken in numerical order and the contest finished as early as possible. AH contestants for the final contest are expected to be in the audi torium of the school building at 10 a. m., in order that the con tests may be started on time. The group center commence ments will be held at the follow ing places: Boonville April 5th; Hamptonville April 6th; Yadkin ville April 7th; and East Bend April 8th. The teachers of the county have been doing considerable work in anticipation of these commence ments and it is expected that a good showing will be made. The program for these commence- j ments is based on actual school ! work done during the school { year. There is a contest for each of the elementary grades. The program is as follows: First grade: Story telling con test. Second grade: Story telling con test. , Third grade, fourth grade, Rfth grade, and sixth grade: a read ing contest, (a standard test wiH be given). Seventh grade: For boys, Decla mation contest. For girls, re citation contest. There will be a singing contest in which any schoo! may enter and are allowed to make their own selection. Oniy one selection to be given by a school. There will also be athletic contests for boys and girls. The county commencement will be held at Yadkinville on April 16. State superintendent A. T. Allen will deliver the address. The winners from the group cent ers will contest in tne Anal con tests at the county commence ment. Most of the short term schools will close April 2. The school work for the year just closing has as a whole been very good. There has been some hinderance on ac count of sickness, but the atten dance has been good nevertheless. CARD OF THANKS We desire to thank our many friends for their kindness and sympathy, and the beautiful floral tributes, extended in our recent bereavement when our dear little girl, Nellie Ruth, was called to the Great Beyond.—Mr. and Mrs.! 2*. S. Collins. ; THE FORBUSH SCHOOL WILL GIVE PLAY Forbush (Baptist) school closes with exercise, April 2, and 3, 1926. Exercises by primary grades Friday night, April 2, 1926 at 7:30 p. m. A play entitled "A Family Af fair will be given Saturday night, ; April 3, 1926 at 7:30 p. m., by the 9th grade. Cast of Characters Dan Gillespie, a good fellow, whose imaginations runs away with him Isaac Brown. Jorkins Jobson, his gardner; a high authority on potato bugs . Roy Sales. Deacon Smith, who finds it dif ficult to be good under adverse circumstances Jasper S. Long. Sally, Dan's good-hearfed little cook, who, unlike most women^ can really keep a secret. Cleo Shermer. Miss Camson, his housekeeper, in the matrimonial market, and means business Haze! Shermer Louisiana, a dark brunette, on the warpath . Alma Hobson Synopsis Act 1.—Place: Dan's country home, near New York. Time: A midsummer morning. Dan arriv I es. The bicycle race. Hail Col ! umbia! The telegram. Dan in trouble. Wives, wives, wives! i Act. II.—Place: The same. Time: Midday. Babies in de mand. The "married bachelor/' An oversupply of "kids." Dan's dilemma. "A brand-new coon in , town." } Act. III.—Place: The same. Time: Evening. The deacon wants to know. The photograph. An African cyclone. Jobson "bil es over." Dan is exposed. Sally's loyalty. "I'd a-died afore I'd toid.*' Sally owns up. A bache lor, after all. CAN'T RAISE CROPS WITH LAST YEAR'S FERTILIZER This is the word the Mocks ville Agricultural department re ceived from Raleigh and is pass ing it along. There is not enough plant food left in the soil from fertilizer applied last year to raise profit able crops this year. Another application must be made this season if good acre yields are to be secured. This'is the opinion of L. G. Wil lis, soil chemist at the North Carolina Experiment Station, who states that the Station has had a great number of requests from farmers as to the value of the fertilizer left in the ground last season. He states that while the dry season last year resulted in much of the fertilizers not being used by the crops during the summer season, much of this plant food has either leached out or has formed such chemical com binations with the soil particles that little of the material is avail able to get the crops off to a start or to mature a full yield. The ammonia or nitrogen might have stayed in the soils until the winter rains but these have wash ed out practically all that remain ed. Potash, he states, is not easily leached out but it is fixed by chemical action soon after be ing applied and these combina tions grow less soluble with age so there is little likelihood that the potash will be of value. With phosphate, the same is true, Phosphate dissolves readily in the soil moisture when first ap plied but is then almost immedi ately lixed by chemical action with the soil minerals and will not be readily available now. Experiments have shown, stat es Mr. Willis, that applications of phosphate to soils two weeks be fore planting produces less crop than applications made immedi ately before planting. If two weeks' contact with the soil mak es such a noticeable difference in the availability of phosphate, it cannot be expected that much benefit will be secured from phos phate applied a year ago. A car of hogs was shipped recently by Gibson Brothers, farmers of Roberson County for which they received 14 cents per pound. -+ Improved cotton produced 599 pounds of line cotton and ordin ary varieties produced 480 pounds of lint in a test made side by side on the same soil. This is a good return for better wed. MR. SID MACKIE DIED EARLY TUESDAY MORNING Mr. Sid Mackie, aged 20, died eariy Tuesday morning after an illness of two weeks. He had pneumonia following the flu and tuberculosis developed, and all that doctors and family could do, with the tender care of a trained nurse, he could not be cured. The funeral services were held at Harmony Grove Friends church yesterday afternoon at 1 o'clock and was conducted by Revs. Jim Millikan, R. E. Ward and G. W. Edgerton. Interment was in the cemetery at Deep Creek church. The deceased was a valued memb er of Harmony Grove church. Mr. Mackie was a son of the late Walter Mackie. His mother is Mrs. Lora CranhH, wife of Air. James M. CrantiH, and one of the best families of this county. Mr. Mackie was a good Christian boy and highly respected by all who knew him. He was a member of the graduating class of the graduating class of the Yadkin ville high school. The entire class composed the choir which conducted the singing at the fun eral services and the school was closed for the day. The funeral was largely attended. MR. LOGAN RETURNS FROM FORD PLANT "I certainly learned a lot dur ing the two days I was in De troit," J. C. Logan, local Ford dealer, said upon his return home from the Motor City, where he spent two days visiting the big plants of the Ford Motor Company along with a number of other Ford dealers from this territory. "It has been ,a great education to me," he continued. "1 never imagined anything so enormous. "We arrived early in the morn ing, our train being switched right into the yards of the High land Park Plant. Then began an interesting two days. First, we went through the Highland Park plant—that is part of it, the most interesting divisions. You know, they told us that the area of that plant is 278 acres with 105 acres of it under roof. "But that is nothing compared to the River Rouge plant where the big operations are carried on. There is where raw materials are transformed and come out in the form of parts for Ford cars. "And buildings! Say, you should see the new building for pressed steel operations. That's a real building, one story high, mostly glass and it covers eight ^cres of ground. Why if they would clear out the machinery in that building there would be en ough room o nthe door to park more than 5,000 Ford cars. "We also visited the big engi neering laboratory at Dearborn, the Ford Airport and the Lincoln car plant. "Things that impressed me most aside from the buildings and ma chines, were the cleanliness about a!! the plants, the safety devices and methods to prevent accidents and the absence of any real hard human labor. Machinery is made to do all the hard work. "Another thing, was the pre cision of manufacture. Every part is made to exact measure ment and though manufacture proceeds rapidly there is no let up in inspection. Every part must be of correct dimensions other wise assembly of cars on the scale on which Ford production is car ried out would be impossible. I wish I could impart to all my friends the appreciation of Ford value that I have gained as a re sult of my visit to Detroit." BABY No. 20 ARRIVES, IT IS 12-POUND GIRL; ALL CHILDREN LIVING Fitchburg, Maas., March 30.— Mrs. Louise M. Cross, 36 today is the mother of twenty children. She gave birth to the twentieth child, a 12-pound girl, here last night. Mrs. Cross was married when she was 16, All of the children are living. For fifteen years, the plant breeding staff of the North Caro lina Experiment Station has been working to improve the variety of cotton grown in North Caro lina. COLORED SCHOOL CLOSES j The Yadkinville colored school closing will begin Saturday, April 3rd. There will be a ball game at 2 p. m. 7:30 Primary exercise, play, Tom Thumb Wedding. Sunday 2 p. m. Annual Sermon by D. Wm. Montgomery, Mocks ville, N. C. Easter Monday, April 5, at 9 o'clock county commencement will be held. Literary address 11:30, by F. W. tWilliams, Atty. Winston Saletja, N. C. Ball game 4 o'clock. 7:30 p. m., closing exercise for : the advanced grades. } Refreshments will be served. , Everybody is cordially invited. ADMINISTRATRIX NOTICE Having qualified as administra trix C. T. A., of the estate of Rachel D. Willard this is to noti fy *H persons having claims a gai#at said estate to present them to the undersigned within one year from date of this notice or same will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. AH persons in debted to said estate are request ed to settle at once. This Feb. 16, 1926. MRS. LULA SHORE MRS MINNIE MARTIN Admrx. C. T. A. of Rachel Wil lard, deed. Williams & Reavis, Attys. NOTICE OF SALE UNDER DEED OF TRUST By virtue of the power contain ed in a certain Deed of Trust exe cuted by W. N. Freeman and wife M. L. Freeman, on the 12th day of Dec. 1922, and defauit having been made in the payment of notes secured thereby. I will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash on the premises in the town of Jpnesville, N. C., on Saturday the lCfh day of April. 1926 at 1 o'clock p. m., the following real estate in Knobs township. Yadkin county and bounded as follows: Beginning on a stake, Fred Swaims corner on the south side of Wilkesboro road, south 7* west 2.62 chains to an iron pin in Johnsons northeast corner south 1.25 chains to iron pin in Bob Parks line, south 87* east 1.85 chains to iron pin in Wilson line, B. Mathis corner, north 16* east 3.70 chains to Iron pin east of pack house, east 50 links to a road north 1.80 chains to Wilkes boro road, to the beginning, con taining one and one quarter acres more or less. This March 10, 1926. E. F. THOMPSON, Trustee. NOTICE OF SUMMONS AND WARRANT OF ATTACHMENT In the Superior Court. STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, YADKIN COUNTY. George Steelman vs R. A. Neely and Mrs. Flora Neely. The defendant, R. A. Neely, in the above entitled action will take notice that on the 26th day of February, 1926, a summons in the said action was issued against the defendant by J. L. Crater, Clerk of the Superior Court for Yadkin county, North Carolina. Plaintiff claiming the sum of $5000.00 with interest on the same from Jan. 1, 1925, by rea son of a contract evidenced by bonds, or notes, which summons is returnable before the said clerk on March 18, 1926. The de fendant, R. A. Neely, will also take notice that a warrant of at tachment was issued by the said Clerk of the Superior Court on the 26th day of Feb. 1926, against the property of the said R. A. Neely, defendant, which warrant is returnable is before the said clerk on March 18, 1926 at his oiHce in the courthouse, Yadkin ville, N. C. The defendant, R. A. Neely, will further take notice that he is re quired to appear before the Clerk of the Superior Court, Yadkin County^ on or before the 17th day of April, 1926, and answerer de mpr to the complaint, or the re lief d$map