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IS H i NEW BERN MI-WEEKLY JOURNAL NEW BERN, NORTH CAROLINA JULY 1915 HARD LUCK TALES OF HARVEST HANDS ITTAND SPANKED Whitecrest Firm a Most Interesting Place r 3 r T J 9 1 I IN FRONT OF ID WOMAN SAYS HEARD IN KANSAS SE f fe- I . ? .r- ' ' 5- While they have a great many cus tomers, and do considerable adver tising. Vomparitirely few New Ber ians know and realise that there lie near our city, the Whiteertet Parol This (arm t owned and operated by Mr. Adolph Nunn. and the writer had ilf pleasure of visiting the farm yesterday. The farm in located on the Oriental Branch of the Norfolk Southern R. R.. between New Bern and Olympia, and is complete in every respect. Acres of Corn. In Ruing over the rich black swamp fields, acres of corn could be seen in a healthy growing condition. Cow peas and soja beans are also planted in this field, and a good yield will be made. Whitecrest farm eater to Market Gardening Trade. "From Farm to Table" is their slogan. They raise all the delicious vegetables in season, gather them in the field and deliver them fresh and crisp. No vegetables are gathered Until ordered, and then neatly wrapped and sealed or placed in hampers and sent to the city. Besides vegetables, many chi ckens, ducks, geese, turkeys and gui neas are sold to the city trade. All fowls are dressed before leaving the farm, but none are killed till ordered. Their eggs are gathered daily and packed in attractive cartons of one dozen each, and a guarantee goes with each egg sold, to be absolutely fresh. lork fro ducts. In gojng' over the farnvpho is show the- swine lot or pasture! Here you find many little pigs, darting and grunting and growing, having little thought that in the Fall and Winter season, they will be slaughtered and made itttt) delicious Country Sausage and Pork Products. Whitecrest Sau sage last season became renowned. Many Orders frbm over the entire State were filled. This season the farm will be in a position to supply more customers along this line, also with country made lard. The farm smoke house is literally filled whi delicious country smoked hams, whioit they are offering the trade. Chufas, .peanuts, and corn arc grown, to -faUoa the' hogs in the fal Apiary Important Factor . A largo quantity of honey is gather ed from the Apiary every year: White crest Honey comes in attractive one pound packages and is clear and white. It is interesting to hear Mr. Nunn, who is well read on Bee Culture ex plain the nature and working of the hees.J They require little attention, and about the first of every June, the honey is taken and marketed. This season being an unusually dry season, the honey is bright and a groat quan tity of it. Fruits and Melons. Too orchard at Whitecrest Farm is young and small, but they grow de licious oanteloupes, melons, grapes and cultivated raspberries. The lat ter being a hobby with Mr. Nunn. He is growing thousands of these plants, and supplying the trade not only with the fruit, but in the Fall orders for the cans are filled. Last year a great many cans were sold. They are of the ever-bearing red variety, and the berries grow in great clusters and continue to bear till frost. A most beautiful sight is to see the dozens of bunch grape vines laden with large bunches of delicious fruit. The vines drooping with their bur den. They will soon be ripening, and Mr. Nunn stated that they would be put up in attractive "Breakfast Has kets." He has the white, red and purple varieties. A Lever of Flower and Birds. Mr. Nunn quoted in our conversa tion: "A Kiss of tho sun for pardon, The song of the birds for mirth One is nearer God's heart in the garden, Than anywhere else on earth. Around the attractive bungalow, thousands of flowers are growing Mr. Nunn makes a specialty of Dah lias', Gladiolius and Pennies. You will find those in great quantities at Whitecrest Farm. He stated he found the Dahlia more salable, and while he has the distinction of being a Charter Member of tho American Dahlia Society of New York, he is a little partial to Gladiolius and pan sies, the latter of whioh he sella many hundred plant every year. The season this year is exceedingly dry and hot, and tho plants and flower of the dahlia an parching, but at they. are a plant that blooms in the FaU ha think they will some out and be beautiful. Around the Cottage and Orchard, numberous rustic Bird Hous e be seen. The Martins in grant number, Mocking Birds, Humming Birks, Blue Birds and Ked Bird with shier beautiful top notch, and the Cat Bird literally keep the air mel low with music. Altogether, the writer spent a most pleasant day, and it appear to him, he Whitocrest Farm is something thai has long been needed in our Iocality. DO WE NEED THE STOCK LAW? Do we need the stock law? If o we ne d it in the tection of Cravrn county situated on the South side of Neu' river, from Pitt to Carteret con n it ? This is a strip of Lnd about seventy or seventy-five miles in length s.nd on an average of at out five miles wide. In my opinion we do not net- it for (hire will be to g e t an ex pens, in building this seventy miles ( f fense. and then it will necessitate the far' mere fc using their pastures. Such a law will not be for the good of the public The butchers state that only about one or two percent of the meat hand led by them is raised in a stock law territory, and the remaining ninety eight percent oomes from the free range territory. They also say that a stock law would increase the price of meat one half. 1 was talking with a f aimer a few days ago whe lives in a stock law ter ritory, and he said that there are fifty white families who live within one, mile Of him, but of this number only one raises enough meat to supply his home needs, and only four or five raise any at all, and as to cattle he said, that it was useless to try to have cat tle. This man owns a farm of about one or two hundred acres, and is an advocate of stock law. His reason for wanting the free range done away with, he said is to keep the tenants from having oattle to bother with. On the other hand, in the free range territory there are to be seen herds of Cattle ranging in number from five to one hundred, feeding on the green grass. They are ih an excellent con dition, The Creator did not intent that cattle shotiid bo penned fenced in or tied about in the hot sunshine. As to swine, they can be seen in large herds. They are not in such good condition, but they are out in the field, and not confined in pens near the house where flies and typhoid germs may breed. While they are not in a good condition now we in vite the people of anyy section of the county to come down and look them over in the fall after they have been fattened, and prepared for the market . I have mentioned the small farmer in the stock law district, and now lets turn OUT attention, to the small far mer ih tho free range territory. My" nearest neighbor has a twenty-five acre farm. The land is poor, and his family, which consists of a wife and four children, but he raises meat for his family, all the milk and butter that he can use, and last year he sold between four hundred and fifty, and five hundred dollars worth of pork and beef on the New Bern market. The stock law in a territory where more land is in cultivation, would not work as much hardship on the people as it would here, for there is not more than one acre in cultivation to every twenty or thirty in timber land in this section, and it would work a hard ship on us. Town people and poor country people, if you do not want to swallow the same piece of meat twice do not vote the stock law on us. JAMES L. TAYLOR, Bachelor, N. C. TOPEKA WILL TRY CITY SKUNK FARM, EXPECTS PROFITS Commissioner Porter Gives Figures and Says Animals Can Be Deodorized Topeka, Kan., July 3. The City of Topeka is to have a municipal skunk farm. W. L. Porter, eity com missioner of parks, so announced. " Thire's nrrty n it,' i plained Porter enthusiastically. "Of the var ious kinds of anin als v hi eh the city is keeping at the Gage Park coo, none is profitable. I have just purchased eight skunks, and from these I expect the city to reap a good profit. The skunks will help pay for maintaining tho other animals. "The skunks I have bought are very fine animals. Their hides will Im worth $4 each when they are a year old, but the value of the fur depends somewhat upon the kind of feed the animals are given. If the right kind of feed is given, the hides will be worth even more than $4 each. Audi each pah of skunks should raise oiaht - lgoung ones each yar. So multiply eight by four, and the city should have thirty-two skunk a year from now I . time thirty-two i ITS, the number at the end of the aecond year, and four times 128 is M2. If these 612 hide are worth 14 each, the city should receive $2,040 in three years - looks like a good Investment fot the eity. "But what will it eot to feed these skunks?" he was asked. "Oh, skunk don't eat much. Why, the whole horde of them wouldn't eat las much a that Florida "roote" 0. 1aaaaK I fc 1 SCENES ON A CRAVEN COUNTY FARM a i h HflHBI I I IB tB H Ba r The above are scenes from ged by Adolph Nunn. At the Next, to the left is a sweet potato field. On the right is seen the method in which hogs are dressed and in the lower picture is seen a view of the corn field. This farm is one of the most modern to be found in the State and its products are eagerly sought for. Walker gave the city. And hake od Park is ah ideal place for a unk farm. The natural advantages there are ideal. It is the natural habi tat of the skunk. I know, because skunks are living there now. How do I know? Went out there a few months ago heard a rustling in a brush heap and gave the brush a kick. I was almost mobbed going home on a st reel car, and I couldn't go to lodge for three weeks. Lakewood will be a fine place for the skunk farm. "What about the scent? Oh, that can be remedied. Skunks can be permanently deodorized. I hay ready talked with Dr. Leslie Ho city milk inspector, and I think I can get him to fix them Bnflgf.iVnnnot I have the telephone' nBr of a man who can, and who is re$flpsnAlo-tlie job. Deodorized skunk are not only profitable, but they make nice pets. They get real cute." Porter also has an idea which beats the famous combination of orossin the honey bee with the lightning bug and getting an insect whioh will work both day and night. He is consider ing "Burbanking" the Florida 'rooster with the big badger in the park. SANITARY OFFICERS HAVING TROUBLE The Sanitary Officers seem to be having more trouble getting the ruw.nl tn f-ftmnlv with the uanit&rv law, during the past few day thanJn,er ,or )Bn they did during the tret few weeks after they were employed. There have been several persons arraigned in Police Court during the past week, including two yesterday who were charged with allowing their premises to remain in a filthy condition The defendant in these aaasa were Annie Bryan and Oeorganaa Canady, col ored. Judgment was impended upon eost. Harvey the payment of the Pellum, colored, wan taxed with the cost for being disorderly. FOR 8ALK-M0 aeres good farming or stock raising lands near Rich lands, Onslow county. Will sD In 10 or 100 aero tracts, or she whole. Good term on above. L 11. Noble, Wilmington. N. C, D. 1 ; H. W. 2H Pd Whitecrest Farhl, near New top is seen the cottage in 'PROMINENT WOMAN IS SHOT TO DEATH BY NEGRO BUTLER Body Dragged to Porch of Home by Slayer, Who Hangs Himself Philadelphia, Pa., July 3. Miss llattie M. Watson, sister-in-law of Frederick E. Hastings of Devon, a subuib, was shot and killed by the negro butler at the Hastings home today. The servant fled to a barn ajkn, eommitted suicide. An investigation by the Delaware County authoritoes failed to reveal a motive for the crime, and a coroner's jury rendered a verdict that the but ler, Jerry Thomas, had killed the wo man and ended his own life while in sane. The negro shot Miss Watson dur ing a struggle. Thomas' wife, who is also enployed in the Hastings home, came upon the pair as they were strug gling in the hallway on the first floor Before the butlerp wife could inter fere he shot Mia Watson, dragged the body to the porch and then ran from the place. Later, Thomas' body was found hanging in a near by barn with a bullet Tn the head. Miss Watson, who was formerly of Northampton, Mass., was about 60 year old, and had been making her home with her brother-in-law and SUNDAY'S DAY OFF." For Prisoners la Kansas City Jail Colony. Kansas City, Mo., June 3. IYu oners who hav e families and who are confined at tho Municipal Farm at Leeds are to be allowed to go home to spend Sunday with their families, provided they can be trusted. The Hunday parole will be granted by J O. Stutsman, superintendent at the farm. The men who will he pa roled will go MM after finishing their work on Saturday and will re turn in time to begin on Monday morning. The paroles wHJ depend entirely on a merit system. If the plan work Mffaswnily it may he extended tn trustworthy met who are not married. Bern and owned and mana which the caretaker resides. CAPTURE STOWAWAY Japanese Lad Missing Four Years Is Found. Port Townsend, July 3. Oenjiro Suzuki, a Japanese stowaway, who arrived at Smith Cove ofi the Sado Maru four years ago and escaped from that vessel by jumping overboard and swimming ashore, was taken into custody a few days ago by United States Immigration Inspector H. A. Myers, and will be deported. After escaping, Suzuki worked in logging camps and shingle mills. Last August he-signed as cook in the Ameri can barkentine Kobo Head at Port Angelee. Upon the arrival of the Ko ko Head here and while checking tho crew ho was recognized by In spector Myers. NEGRO SAYS HE'S 124. He Also Claims to Have Forty-four Children. Rome, Oa., July 3. Jerry Neal, colored, of Cave Springs, celebrated his one hundred and twenty-fourth birthday anniversary a few days ago. Ho is, so far as is known, the oldest person in Georgia, if not in the United States. He has paper whioh estab lish his age beyond question, and the oldest inhabitants of Floyd County remember that Jerry was a grown-up man when they were in their kilties. Jerry, the father of forty-four chil dren, distinctly remembers tho war of 1812, and many of the Indians wars He fat now a widower, but has been married three times. He is well and hearty, but uses a cane when walking. '" ",' Rev. W. W. Lewis of Beaufort passed through the city yesterday morning enroute to Vanoeboro. TEXT OF NOTE TO U. S. IS COMPLETE Berlin, July 9. Chancellor Von Rethmann Holtwein left today for the Kaiser's headquarter in Oalicia, with the completed teit of the German re- pry to the ascond American note, is a freak of new order, having three If it I satisfactory to the omperMfoet perfectly developed. This oddity or It will probably be handad to Am .ii n I n 1 1 ttador Gerard Mondayv Sent Out Weeks Too Soon, Hundreds Are Broke and Hungry Topeka. Kan. July 3. Life other side i never more plaialy visible than among the harvest hands and hobos who pa through Topeka the early part of each summer for the wheat fields' in Western Kansas. Most of them are penniless. They do not, as a general fate, have the least idea where their next meal is to be secured. They do not eat regularly. They eat whenever they got the chance. To them, by the time they reach the harvest field,, work usually means sustenance. When they pass through Topeka some of them may have mon ey. But it is generally little more than is necessary to buy them meals and clothing until harvest begins. The problem facing the farmers of the wheat belt is to sift the bums from the real harvest hands. The advance guard of harvesters has been passing through Topeka for more than three weeks. From a general estimate one third of the vanguard do not want to work. They come to cause trouble. They interfere with the farmers, and study methods of securing money from the men who do work. Are in Hard lines. Every prospective harvest hand who passes through Topeka has his story. Whether he is a bum or a man who actually desires to secure work, he can tell you an interesting tale. Usually it concerns the story of a man whom fortune was pitted against. Luek, a majority of them always complain, is against them. If you care to gain an insight into the lives of these men who come to harvest Kansas' wheat, stroll along the tracks of any one of the railroads leading from Topeka. The prospec tive harvesters usually choose shade trees near the outskirts of the city, under which to sleep and wait for the freight trains. They generally travel during the day and stay over at places for the night. To see the real army of har vest hands it ts necessary to rise early before the freight trams leaver fn the evening, too, the workers can be seen thronging the vicinity of the tracks, preparing for a nighf s rest. Green Grass Their Beds. It is of little weight to the harves ters what constitutes their bed. Pro bably they would enjoy the luxury of a spring bed. But few of them can. The ground, carpeted with grass, is usually their bed, and trees the canopy for their outdoor abode. The harvest hands, provided they can get the food, are not averse to being cooks. In fact, they rather like the occupation. It is seldom many of them can indulge in a real square meal, and they are not slow to take one if they get the opportun ity. Men who went to Western Kansas two and three weeks ago, are now re turning in large numbers. They say harvest in most places will not start for two weeks. Thty have no money, they say. With so many impoverish ed men, food is hard to obtain. The dea of earning a living is chimerical, they state, until harvest begins. Jobs are snapped up before a man even has a chance to put in his applica tion. Read Misleading Statements Every returning harvest hand tells the same story of why he came to the harvest fields too early. The Eastern papers print misleading statements about the immediate demand for help and the employment bureaus, they say, give out misinformation of the same kind. Among the money-pinched class of those going to the wheat fields, are many young men, some boys. They oast their lot with the rest of the pros pective workers, and on account of their (lightness of stature, sometimes fare badly. One young infcn who was returning from a trip to Western Kansas sat on a pile of ties. He was worn and his face was smudged with dirt. Getting a meal out there now is like finding a gold. mine, he said 'If those Eastern newspapers and employment bureaus hadn t given me the wrong dope, I'd got out there alright. But I started too soon. I'm in such a shape I can t wait two weeks more for harvest. L. G. Daniels spent yesterday at Morehead City. Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Ruark and Mrs. 8. D. Delamar, of Southport, passed through the city yesterday morning enroute to Morehead City to attend the Fourth ot July oefc bration. ANOTHER FREAK ABOARD Lyerly, Oa., July 8. Mrs. W. H Napier of Harrisburg has a week-old whit Indian Runner duckling that I W4AJ WW - 'is lively and hearty, growing right along with Its two footed kin, I Wl 1 ng Mere Corrective ure to Quench Her Thirst, Man Replies New York, July 3. Spanked by her husband, Frank E. Olin, because he claimed, she smuggled whiskey n to her apartment at No. 790 River iid Drive, Mrs. Mariella Berry Olin f Birmingham, Ala., refuse longer to live with him. Thursday she brought suit in the Supreme Court for separation. . Olin admitted to Justice Green baum that he had spanked his wife, asserting it was a husbandly privilege and corrective measure, which could not be construed as cruelty. Mrs. Olin, however, considers it a high de gree of cruelty, because her negro maid witnessed the spanking. Mrs. Olin says that her husband used to sit in bed and read all niht.g ind that she would have to sleep else where. Says Wife Has Bid Thirst. "He refuses to give or furnish me with amusements, she says, and spends all of his time playing golf with his friends." Since the war started Olin, who is an importer, relying upon Germany for his supplies, declares his wife has developed an unquenchable thirst. When she ordered twenty-four quarts of whisky, and two botUes ot ver mouth, Olin thought it extravagant and objected. His ire was further aroused, he said when his wife later smuggled two pints of whisky into the house in her silk stockings. Then came the spanking. In September, 1912, he alleges, Mrs. Olin started on a Bones of wild auto parties. After tho automobile parties had bagun to pale on her, he avers his wife took to cabarets, often staying out until 6 o'clock in the morning. Mrs. Olin declared drink was not the first cause of their trouble. Mr ?. Olin wanted children, she told the court. Her husband didn t. innum erable quarrels ensued, followed by separations and reconciliations. NURSE DESCRIBES DEATHBED KISSES IN WJLLCONTEST Woman Who Supplanted Wife as Beneficiary Visit ed Dying Testator New York, July J. Mrs. Long of Jersey City, a trained nurse who attended Henry P. Dunham un til his death on October 4, 1912, went on the witness stand Thursday before Surrogate Fowler in the proceedings to contest Dunham's will, and de clared that Mrs. Henrietta V. Carll of Northport, L. L, who was no re lation, but the principal beneficiary of his $100,000 will, had visited him six or seven times and always kissed him affectionately, until she (the nurse) refused to let Mrs. Carll call any more. The Dunham will is being contest ed by the widow who is now Mrs. Al len 0. Meyers. She was cut off by the testator. Before Mrs. Long went on the stand CharleB W. Springer, a funeral direc tor of Englewood, N. J., where the Dunhams once lived, testified to cer tain conversations in which Dunham told him that he intended to leave his wife everything he had. Mrs. Long said that on several visits Mrs. Carll made to the Dun ham home she would walk right in unannounced, and lass Dunham. Then she would talk to him a while, and be fore going would get him to sign a check for $100 each time. Generally Mrs. Carll would tell Dunham it was for "new shoes for her automobile." Up to the present John Willett, Mrs. Myers' attorney, has failed in his efforts to compel tho attendance l court of Mrs. Carll, who is, her wyers explain, ill at her home. Mrs. Emma E. Vail, of Northport, neighbor of the Carlls, told in re sponse to wuietvs questions, now she had seen Dunham and Mrs. Carll m brace and kiss each other on sev eral occasions. She also testified that Mrs. Carll had confided her intention of divoroing her husband and marry ing Dunham. GERMAN CRUISER BADLY DAMAGED Petrograd, July 3. One German cruiser was badly damaged and forc ed ashore on the island of Gothland in Thursday night's naval engagement in tin Baltic, it 1 officially statsd. The statement said the Russian loses War insignificant. Russian oruhmrs encountered two German light erni sers and a number of torpedo boats in a heavy fog off the canst ot Onthr land.
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