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JUNE -— "And what is so rare as a day m June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then heav'n tries earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her .warm ear !ays; Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten. \ Now is the high-tide of the year, And whatever of life hath ebbed away Come flooding back with a ripply cheer Into every bare inlet, and creek and bay Now the heart is so full that a drop over-fills it; We are happy now because God wills it. POLITICAL ADVERTISE MENT We wish to announce that after the first Democratic primary, to be held on June 5th. we will carry all political advertisements on the inside, pages of the paper. We understand that it is customary with newspapers to carry political advertisements on the inside pages. "HE IS PUBLIC SPIRITED' The expression "community spirit" is much used. We say of an individual that he or she has a community spirit. By which we mean that the individua! works for and contributes to the in terests and welfare of the com munity When there arc a num ber of such individual in any community that community wit! thrive and wi!! be a desirable p!ace in which to live. Our thriving churches, public schools, good state and county roads and all other co-operative public enterprises are brought about by the public or community spirit which actuates a suf ficient number of people to bring about these things by concerted effort. And this marks the degree of what we term civilization to which we have attained. Rank individualism, which hoards its wealth in a stocking hid in the chimney or under the house will never build..up a socially minded civilization that contributes to the enrichment and development of all the individuals and to society as a whole. Neighbors must learn to poo! their holdings and their interests in some w ay or another. The rural and urban sections must learn to work together, each for the other—for they are interde pendent The r&ct-si must learn co operation, because their interests are mutual. For. "the strength of the wolf is the pack: and the strength of the pack is the wolf." DANVILLE'S WAY Each town and city has a way a!! its own Each corporate body -is made up of individuals. And ^the sou! of any town is the com posite Expression of the disposi tion of each individua! in that town or city. Some times a town has a sur!y spirit because the people of that town haven't acquired what we call good manners. The citizens of such a town treat visitors or outsiders as intruders. They are cordial to strangers^ If an outsider attemots to do business are either indif or else are just their manner near generous disposition. It simply means that those people have not been trained in the conventions of good society, and have not {earn ed good manners. On the other hand there are towns whose business men ex press individually and composite ly the sou! of courtesy and good breeding. And this writer has never had dealings in any town or city that surpasses Danville, Virginia, in this particular. In his attempts to bring about a closer relation and a mutually proRtable co-ordination between rural Cas well. county and urban Danville he has yet to meet with a surly or discourteous individual. If a merchant has declined to co operate he has declined with thanks, and has shown that he has an open mind and a willing dis position. It is a pleasure to do business in Danville, and we hope our people will show their apprecia tion of the cordial relations which our advertisers have exhibited to ward the county and toward the paper. HOW TO SAVE SEVEN HUN DRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ' ——^— When a farmer has as many as eight cows it is said that he should buy a cream separator and set! the cream. The separated milk should be fed to hogs and chick ens. The milk has lime for the making of egg shells, and is fine for laying hens. The farmer who keeps Cows, and raise- h-.g- and chickens wdl be able to build up his land with the manure. In this way, by keeping cows, hogs and chickens, and raising the feed for them on his farm he will be improving his land all the while and at the same time putting money in the hank. It is said that Caswell county alone has been spending about seven hundred thousand dollars a year for food and feedatuffa, which her farmers could have raised. Our people should not rest contented tilt we raise all the food crops for the family that is possible for us to raise, and all the feedstuff necessary for the stock. If we can keep the money qow being paid out for these things at home Caswell wit) soon be a rich and p<< 'spemutLcp""' Y THE EDITOR ATTENDS A BANQUET To start a newspaper and keep it going is no child's play. Un less the paper can secure sub scribers and advertisers it can not last long. The Messenger in its effort to maintain its existence was put to it to impress upon the merchants in the towns where the Caswell people trade the value of adver tising in The Messenger, and the necessity which is upon the pub lishers of the paper to secure more advertising. So we requested the business men of Danville to grant us an opportunity to present the claims of The Messenger as an advertis ing medium upon their cousidera tion. And the president and the secretary of the Danville Retail Merchants Association very graciously invited us to take din ner with the Retail Merchants As sociation last week, and to present the cause of The Messenger. The occasion was an enjoyable one, and one to be cherished in memory. President Carter and his entire staff was unanimously re-elected, and there was not one discordant vote. Dr. Evans de livered a pleasing address, and the dinner served by the Burton hotel was perfectly splendid. * The heart of the message which we so inadequately presented to the merchants of Danville was that the rural and urban sections must work together if each is to attain to its best; that no county can come to its fullest develop ment without a county newspaper w hich voices the aspirations of its people, and informs its citizen ship; that the newspaper as a community builder, and a medium of advertising and communication is an agency of very great value ! to the trade centers which reap the beneRt of the business to be derived from a prosperous back country; and that a paper to be sustained in a rural county must have the friendly consideration and support of th$ merchants who cater to the rural trade. We fee! that we did not present the matter in an altogether plausible, ingratiating, and con vincing way. But we were heard with respect and courtesy, and we feel sure that the men present are able to give our appeal a farr and reasonable consideration. And one of the things we ap preciated in the highest degree was the presence of some of the Caswell men on that occasion to lend their endorsement and sup port to anything that would aid in the advancement of the in terests of the paper. HOSPITAL FUND FOR JOE TAYLOR Joe Taylor has improved so much at the General hospital in Danville under Dr. Pritchett's treatment that he is to return to his home in Milton on Wednes day, June 2nd. t he total hospital charges for this case for the three weeks and one day that he spent at the hos pital are $8t.05- A check for $39.00 was paid the hospital for the first week The balance due for the remainder of the time is $$3.05. There is $<7.00 in hand to pay <p) this, leaving a balance to be collected of $35 0$. It is certain that the restoration <,t Mr. Taylor to his family. and the benefit which he has received horn the medical 'and hospital treatment made possible to him by the benevolence of the Caswell people will dispose them to pay the balance of the hospital bill of $33.03 cheerfully. Joe is a tong way from welt and will not likely be ablet" work much this summer. So there will he household needs to be met for hint and his family, and any amount over the hospital bill that is sent in will be turned over to Mr, R. W. Isley, the welfare .of ficer to be expended for food and clothes for Mr. and Mrs. Taylor and the three tittle children. Mr. lay tor can sit around the house and look after the children while Mrs. Taylor works in the field. ^Ynd ieT it be said that the public never helped a family which ap preciates what is being done for them more than this family. ! t Amount previously re ported - $45-(X) Miss Mattie Mitchell t oo t otal paid in $4b.<io Amount paid hospital $JQ.oo Amount in hand $17.00 Total amount now due hospital .$3^.00! Balance to be raised $3503 OLD TIMER FAVORS WOMAN SUFFRAGE Mr. Kditur: lwastoYanceyvittetastSati day and heard them candidates tett what they stood fer. or what was their ttatform. I cant say Ij agree with ait of 'em. cpttse it struck me tttcy didn't at! know what they was tatkin about, t'm fer cheaper tivin. cheaper dower, cheaper meat amt cheaper meat, and if any them fettow s can go to the tegisiatur and give these things. I'm fer him. But this ainf what I wanted to rite about. Y ou know at this meetin, there was a hole tot of wimmen folks tistin to what them fettows was tatkin about, and I btieve they was takin as much intrust as the men fotks was And you know some these wimmen knows potiticks jest as good as the men. and I tett you whpn they git agin a candi date. he jest as wett come down, fer they go beat him. I cant never git uster seein the wimmen round the votin ptaces. cause I btieve the ptace fer the wimmen is in the home tookih after the kids and hxin dinner fer the men fotks, but taint what I think about these things. They done got the right to vote and I recon it is as much their ptaces as it is the men's now, so I'm goin to ast the -V' - - wimmen to go to the poles and vote and see that the men votes too. My old woman amt much on votin, she thinks it is too much .ike a man, but I told her she would have to go and vote, and what you recon she said, "I dont have to do nothin I dont want to do," and knowed rite strait she was goin to vote, cause she never did talk to me that way before she got the rite to vote. No sir, Mr. Editur, I aint much On wim men votin, but she is goin to vote now, and the more we men folks says about it, the more she is goin to vote. Beware of these votin women, cause from now on, we men folks have got to do what they says and the elections is goin the way the wimmen vote. Come out next Satiday and vote your sentiments Sisters, apd I'll be with you. OLD TIMER. OLD TIMER HAS A RIVAL My dear Old Timer: Youens is shame of your name, and don't even giv your nitial nor nothin, runnin fer shalf, too. 1 stands up strate like and looks de voters squar in de eye, and tels my name pint blank. 1 den sez, fie be morne obleege if yall see lit to vote fer so noted a pus son as f is. Now dat is Hat-footed pollyticks, de kind dat peals ter me. Now why can't youens come but lak a man, youens pears to be stippin round like, hidin yer dihity. The reason 1 is so well {M.sted bouts youens 1 seen yer nomenation in the noos paper, sayin that youens was out fer shah of the county. My hat ts in the wring fer dat ofTis too. i he genera! pinion is dat youens is running after de offis, but de ofTis aint runnin after youens. Now, as youens is my ponent, ! has a pufTic rite ter banter youens, fer a stump argument. He meet youens on any kinder stufhp. „!!e even meet youens in de cote house, whar weuns can have a re bate fer citizens who can jedge fer ther selves. AM I want youens ter do is to give yerself to de truf. ! dont see how folks kin vote fer one agin it, as youens is. { dont see how youens had de face to come out for shaff. no how. Now everbody nosed is a better edicated human being than youens is. t ourse 1 hate ter mak youens fee! bad_Member f is your worthy portent. Course tfe be lected, but at same time if you is acceidently lected^ lets still be friends. 1 come in nats nose er forgittin bout dat date fer our re bate at de cote house. ! antj guine ter act squat and let you! pint de day. Sides, you'd better prepar yer self, fer 1 is guine ter rub it in. Yours truly. A. B C . Corntassel, Jr. I wus ceedinly surprised frum what ! seed in the noose paper bout youens running fer governer. A flea wouldn't jump morne yourns does. 1 he fack is vourns seed 1 was guine to heat yer fer shat? and now you is hiding hind yer wife. Now 1 is got much rite to run fer dat gret offis as your is. Yourns seems feard of me. and fast as 1 runs fer one off is agin yourns, yourns jumps to another, now what will yer stitu ents think of sich? f don't blieve sich tackticks will work no how* tf the noose paper hadn't stood by yer. yer woulder bin bet! long ago. That's whar in 1 gin yer credit fer common sense. A. B C. W. C, JR DAN COOK. OF PELHAM. IS FATAttY INJURED Dies in Danville Hospital After Being Struck by Car Driven by D. J Holcombe. Jr. Danville. Va., May aS.—Dan Cook, 20. a farmer of Pelham. N. C.. died in the Genera! hospital at three o'clock this morning as re sult of injuries sustained yester day evening near Pelham when he was run down by an automo bile driven by D. J. Holcombe, Jr., of this city; Cook suffered a fractured skull and there was no chance for him, doctors said on viewing the extent of the frac ture. driving with two to Danville Cook, with one foot on the running board of a standing car was tak ing to the occupants. As Hoi combe drew near Cook finished his conversation and was in the act of drawing away when he was warned to look out for the car. He looked in the opposite direc tion to that in which the car was coming and was struck from be hind and thrown some distance. Holcombe picked him up, put him in his car and hastened to Dan ville. Arriving here Holcombe no tified the police, also called Sheriff Gunn, of Yanceyville, and held himself at the disposition of the authorities. Local police questioned, wit nesses who held that Holcombe was running at a reasonable rate of speed and that Cook unfor t**nate!y stepped directly in the path of the oncoming machine. No inquest was held here but Sheriff Gunn came and took charge of the case which will be judicially determined in North Carolina —Daily News. WOMAN S AUXILIARY CELEBRATES r4TH BIRTHDAY The Woman's Auxiliary of the Milton Presbyterian church cele brated the fourteenth anniversary of the Auxiliary on May 24th. The "Birthday Party" was held in the church parlor at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, 'l he old parlor was lovely to look upon, made sweet and attractive with roses—roses everywhere, filling the room with their color and perfume. 1 he presntent, Mrs. iv. n. vtay tor, catted the meeting to order by requesting att present ;to stand and sing the hymn, "Att Haii the Power of Jesus' Name." J. 1 Kitby then offered up a short, earnest prayer, appropriate to the occaston. This was fottowed by an inspiring tatk by Rev. H. R Gtaytor, Mr. Gtaytdr " taking for his theme: "Jacob, The Vision W AssurahceT-—Genesis 28th chapter. _„.. . *. ..... Miss Forsyth, of Greensboro, N. G.. who is now in the vicinity conducting Vacation Bibte Gtas ses. then gave a most interesting talk on her work. After this the "Birthday" offer ing w as taken up. which this year goes to the Oktahoma Preshyteri auGbffegefor—trfdtangrrfs. nt Durant, Okta. Then came the pageant. "The fndian Trad," presented by Gircie No. 2 of the Auxitiary. One end of the room had been fitted up as a thing room, with a Navajo rug or two ptaced on the door, and here, seated in an otd rocker, the sitver haired otd grandmother. beautiftiMy impersonated by young Mrs. Jay B. Foote. to!d her 3 grandchifdrcn of the fndians and pioneer days; Mrs. W. f.. Morton, taking the part of the. dippant young girt; Miss Mary Patmer, the mischievous hoy; the iittte girt. Miss Margaret Whit tock. This tittte ptay was quaint and humorous, and thoroughiy enjoyed by ati. The pro ram was Closed by att standing and repeating the Lord s Prayer. [ hen toHowed the soctai hoar. A screen in one corner of the room was poshed back disclosing a tahle on which stood a large bow) of fruit punch surrounded by pink^ roses. The "birthday cake'' was brought forward, with its fourteen lighted candles, and every one was served with Angel cake and fruit punch Needless to say this w as also enjoyed. There was a full attendance of the members of the Auxiliary. The Woman's Auxiliary of the Red House Church had been in vited and among those who at tended were: Mrs. George Tans dell. Mrs. Carr Thompson, and Miss Myrtle Winstead. Mrs. Charles Heuser of Wythville. Va and Mrs. Harry Word of Char leston, W. Vg.. were also among the invited guests George Neal, son of Hon. T. & Neal, broke his arm Wednesday of last week while cranking a Ford car. Dr. Malloy and Dr. Gwynn set the broken bones and George is said to be getting along all right. that she was going to waik to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Trent. Her host offered to take her to her destination in his automobiie. To this she objected, Saying that an automobile couidn't get within two miies of her sister's home. But the host wouldn't hear to see an o!d woman, who said she woutd be eighty years oid on her next birthday, waiking four miies with two heaithy sized suit cases. So he went down to the store and bought some meai, fatback, light bread, and coffee, ^nd started out wtth Ms guest to hod her people. No one at Milton knew where William Trent and his wife, Mary Ann Trent, lived Mrs. Strader said they lived somewhere be tween Milton and Blanche. So the driver went to Blanche and turned down to Mrs. Culver's, thinking the old couple might live on her place. But they weren't there. He then went to the post office at Blanche, but the post master had no knowledge of any Trents in that neighborhood. Mr. Mebane at the station knew of no such people. The merchants there din't know them. Neither did Robert Powell who carries the mail on route No. 2. But Robert has been about considerably, hav ! ing worked on a newspaper staff in Memphis. And he was quick to catch on to the fact that the old ! lady might be faking. So when ! she made the remark that she had I people in Danville, he immediate !v handed her thirty cents to buy ; a tseket to Danvdte. And as the train was just at that time coming into the station at Btanche, hound for Danvitte, the tittle otd !ady, dressed in her second mourning, with her )itt!e day pipe and homespun tobacco in her pocket, and the two suit cases in her hand, was put on the train in care of Mrs. F. D. Stew _ art of DanviMe, who said she wontd put Mrs. Strader in care of the Traveters' Aid Society. l ater it was teamed from one of the residents of Btanche that this same otd tady, who ctaims to he near!) eighty years otd, had been in the neighborhood once be fore, and had then said that she had heed in ahnnst every state in rde tr'ntotT. ba^drg traversed-th^ distance of twenty-five hundred tnites between Scattte and Cincin nati on foot, the time required to make that tong journey being two years. * This Ionian said she coutdn't read, her father being too poor to send her to schrvot. But she said he hart done one good thing for her he had taught her to work. She said she had hetped her hus hand to cut cord wood, cross-ties, and fence raits a many aday. She seemed to he sincere and honest. She was agreeabte and polite. And she appeared to be intettigent and wet! batanced. And the story that she totd of try ing to get to her sick sister was one to entist the sympathy and aid of any one. But when at) parts of her story are put together <t is founcLthat there is something tnconst stent about parts of !t. for instance, she said she had been to Mi)ton to see her sister before, having walked from Dan vi))e to Milton. But this time she allowed herself to he carried on by Danville to Reidsvi))e in her effort to get to Mihon. And then the fact that the Trents, her sup posed relatives, were not known by any one in that whole country lends color to the theory that Mrs. Strader has no kinfolks at all in or around Milton or Blanche. There is a strong suspicion in the minds of some that the little innocent looking old lady, dressed gray, and carrying two full grown suit cases, having her clay pipe in her pocket to give solace m the tedious hours, has duped her host and all who took part in the search for the unknown Mr. and Mrs Trent, the latter of whom was supposed to be sick and near death's door. And who would have thought of it? Mr. and Mrs W. C. Taylor have moved into their attractive new bungalow on the Milton road.
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