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'tr re E (C O MIO M W R IT ,T.m 7::; f .1: VOL. XIV. NUMBER 94. FOUR O'CLOCK EDITION - - r- mmmmw -r avr -am w ' r . r - - r - - i .r - m w m m r r mm mm SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, -TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1922 -i. ' 4 TELEGRAPHIC SERVICE 5c PER C0P1' Si overnor Calls On People To Prepare For Boll Weevil Situation In State A oted Sciien Star Admits Love For Dead Film Director An Appeal by the Governor of North Carolina To The People Of The i State to Increase The Raising of Food in The State and Thereby j Avert The Disaster Threatened by The Boll Weevil; and The Annual Hazard of Growing Money Crops on Food and Elsewhere. SCENTED NOTES OF LOVE WHICH SHE HAD WRITTEN HIM FOUND. "' ... . Los Angeles, Cal.j Feb. 7v A -scent- Supplies Purchased ;ed note dropped from one of TalylorTs WARN Mi! i I books while detectives were examin I - : .- r . ' - - (ins .his effects bearing the monogram Xorth Carolina has been pushed to a account of our loin snmmvr sensnns 'of Mary Miles Minter. The - nni- high, comparative position among the as easily and cheaply as it can be j read, ' 'Dearest. I love you,, I .'love you, States of the Union in the production done anywhere in the Union. We -I love you." Numbers of Xs follow ,n our farms of money crops for trie must increase our meat supply througn ;ed. the last one two inches high, market; but our whoie agricultural lifo hogs and poultry. We can raise vege- jMiss Minter admitted the authorship, is weakened by the fact that we have tables of almost every known variety; j saying that she loved Taylor deeply, neglected the production of sufficient and keep and maintain milch cows Taylor directed her first film efforts, food on the farms cf the State to probably more cheaply than it can be j Los Angeles, Cal., Feb. 7. A' ""tele make on r agricultural life independent, i done elsewhere in the Union. If we graphic warrant charging -Edward F. :iiid give it strength to stand the per- would but realize the importance of Sands, former butler to William D'ess riulic vicissitudes of misfortune to this matter, we could make hog meat, niond Taylor, with murdering the film ;he mouev crops, du-? to slump in chicken, turkey and other fowl meat, director, was sent to Carlin, Nevada: prices, or other causes sure to occur, eggs, butter and milk so 'plentiful in where a man resembling Sands is-iro-Mueli improvment has been made iu the State, particularly ort the farm, "ler serveillance. - - ' Hie lust few years in this well under- , that our food bill would be tritiing i Los Angeles, Cal., Feb. 7. It 3 stood weakness of the State, but compared to 'the enormous outlay, witli reported that Film Director Taylor Is there is yet much to be done. It is the business hazards accompanying it, j also survived by a son, Reuben Dav hard to "get out of a rut." i which we now annually pay. j Taylor, Texarkanna, Texas, the raow- A highlv competent authority de- Independently of the Boll Weevil jer being a woman not before mentlon v hi rod rccentlv: "There is not a sin- threat, because of the periodic slump-- ! e as his wife. "lo county in the State in which there in the prices of cotton and tobacco, is raised enough food in value or quan- now raised at such enormous hazard tity for the human and animal lifo upon purchased supplies, the State ::' the count v." ought to tremendously increase hog WEATHER BURE SOFSEVERE STORM COMING Motel .r , exlugtoim Destroyed By Flames ' i - . i - - i I SEVERAL KNOWN DEAD AND MAKY OTHERS INJURED FLAMES SPREAD TO ADJOINING PROPERTY ENTAILING HEAVYJ I ittwrxian JLfAaiAMti vriVXJJ AT $150QQ0 (By associated Press.) Washington.- Feb. ,7: Warning of a storm of marked intensity central uear Cape Hatteras is sent out by the weather bureau? It will extend rapld- I , Richmond, Va., Feb. 7. Three pe- port, Pa. Of the sixty-seven guesU j sons are known to be dead, twenty-fiv? in the' hotel when the fire starte injured, several critically, in the Lev. twenty-seven were missing at eiglX ington Hotel fire. thirty this morning. The hotel wall collapsed and it is Richmond, Va.. Feb 7. Firemen j believed imprisoned several. Tho are searching the smoking ruins to J. pronertv daman is pfimotori o n-n . , . . lv northwestward attended bv gales , " 1A nny I'er8n 18 ounea u" hundred 911(1 fift.r thousand. . neath the debris. If will nrobablv ha Several guests were injured in leap- several days before definite casualties . ing from the windows, including DavH are known. 11. Pitts, of Albenvirle, a member of ;'jip the House of Delegates. WORK ATIEHPS WILL CEASE WHEN THE Clerk Frev said that he s.w The flames spread to the Savings sin :.: .'fand fire roaring up-the elevator ANDREW FULLER HANCOCK TREATY IS RATIFIED (By Associated Pi ?. Independently of the approach DIED LAST NIGHT and poultiy raising, home gardening, J and the supplv of milk, butter eggs j 3-he Boll Weevil, this phase of our ag- . ... . x in the fctate, not for the purpose of : icultural life should be strengthened , . ,1 ? making them our money crops, bus in : Andrew Fuller Hancock, one' of ta . , order to have abundant, wholesome oldest citizens of Scotland Neck mo 1 pruacli ot the lioll Weevil threatens a serious blight to a large area of tho Slate, particularly the great areas fie voted largely to the growth of cot-'. and cheap food, whatever vicissitudes !about two 0ei0(. iast night after a j 1 .may overtake the money erops; nut . lino-erinf illness: . , (Bank of Richmond, the Pearl Lanu- 8 ?ml that the U aIarm was C dry, and the Co-Operative Exchange, - , ordered telephone. jThe Anderson-Wilson Paper Compan Many guests jumped from windows? f ' $f jand Clyde W. Saunders Print? .receiving serious injuries. The prov Wasliington, Fel).v 7. Presulent LomV:y, which were pra.cticallv ably fatally injured are: K. N. ITan- Harding will order suspension on ail troyetL - Boydton, E. P. Howell, Nortolk, work on naval vessels scheduled for ! -i?hmo1' Va' Feb- 7. Fourar (feorge Cutter, Buck roe Beach, B. C. scrapping under the naval treaty onlyikn0wn dead and a number injured i.. Wright, Newport News, Elmer Difren- when the treaty is actually ratified, i a fire wnich destroyed the Lexington baugh, Newport NcwsB. If. lric; the White House saifl. - jHotel and five, adjotnlug buildings a! Lexington, all of Virginia. The less j twelfth and Main Streets. seriously injured are W. W. Bourne, WEATHER REPORT j Tlie lea(1 are Sheriff c- M- Thomar, Spartansburg, S. C, Charles Benton, , jof Albemarle County, Hiram F. Aiw- Wilson, N. C, and .1. E. Ford, Kooky For North Carolina: Fair ' tonight itin? Pin4iastle Va- M- J Cox, 'William- Mount, N. C. " . - '' ! ' ! and the approach of the Boll Weevil makes j IIe was born Julv 8tlf 1858 an3 WednosdavJ Colder tonignt. i rr::r 0,1 the coast' - THE ARMY HAS' ITS j N CRASHES Km. If the Boll Weevil should Hav.: it absoluteh' folly not to do So-. therefore. sivtv-tliTPfi vpflrs rf ' ncrs. And further, our illiterate and unm- ;He is survived by his wife, one son. 4-1. -v ATrnsToTitirr --F4?r4'' nnftn lm f'Vfrsi . formed people ought to be maae more w s Hancock, .of Roanoke Haunts, litis vear hi the cotton sections or th? . generaliy aware of the supremo impor-.find f0Ur daughters: Mrs. C. C. Law- State that it has had in some of tli-J !, . , ... . . t , . T ' ' V ' I tance to health of the balanced ration, renc0j of Mufresboro. Mrs. R. H. Mar- j States to the south of us. and if rn ! , , , . -, . -, . , i AMERICAN ATLANTIC FLEET! I FREIGHT Tl MISSION IN PEACE"! INTO SHIFTING ENGINE .oople in the cotton sections of State do not raise more food supplies for themselves and their animals tftan thov have heretofore raised, it will ! "land of an enlightened world's know!- ton 0f Kinston, Misses 'Lilla ai$tfc" cdg-the- nwes?4ty of nulritios gnr57a6he ' "l)V'otherr'"M i " REACHES vBy U. S Press) Washington, Feb. 7. When NEAR WELDON the ; jKi)ickoti)oCk(?f Theatre disaster occur- Earlv this morning a shifting led-the titst. agency-for organized re- g;ne of the Atlantic Coast Line station- pi- varied foods. j. E. Hancock. i In furtherance of the foregoing j The fulierai win' be held tomorrow purpose, and in co-operation with the :,.;, from the-house at 10:30. Dr.! .oriauny ie.au m vu.n,xcau Colege of Agriculture and u- Chas. Amlorson officiating ing and destitution. This threatened fBv Associated Press.) -. . ... - uuanianamo, Cuba, Feb. 6. The '. jginering, the Board of Agriculture,; The .1(.tive pallbearers will Te langer and distress can be largery i Department of Health; an(I the )Mess (Atlantic Fleet steamed into Guantau- i , i lone seemed to ktu amo Bay Saturday and anchored off srs. S. ,lief to get onto as ground was tne tHi at Weldon started out for cars at ifire department. The police wer- the Weldon Lumber Company's i-Tant there in large . numbers. Naturally. iust (Soith of Wobloii and wn. str,i,-v I there was endless confusion, and no ))V a., incoming through freirht. In i should be done. Then the solders ,,Uf,i nr, n ti.o wr,.-- frn;i,f A. Dunn, L. L. Cherry, v. the naval base that for- more 'fli.-ir. n t ' , . ' s verted, if it comes, as there is reason- ' , . . p.f1lu,at5n t to1., . T .!.. . , , .. '. . . -arrive 8 xoiv.x- cgim, t.,ow from the track x"-"- "l-l v. .nuirougns, iiu?;ii oouiisuii, xj. .u. iwuru ui vears nas toon tne-- winter ,-. ,.1J. n it inv and nt. tho I - - . . r . ' ' ' , tion ot ctticieiicy the like . ot - ; tho people ot the folate -to nave com- Pittnian an(1 B. F. Tillery. playground ami traininc, canm for , tne . . . 1 . nas never nen wiinesseu unaer eircuni munity meeLmgs, auu - give f" : The honorary pallbearers will T)e: lankee .sailormen. Here the. 11CA tion to this important matter; and to;M G. ,W. Brvau. Dr. II. G. Tliig- 'and their officers will renin in will fit i s-i i mi " ii' i i lit- w uuir: il.u . . . ! r . fe to quickly organize tor the purpose ol e H c BelI Thomas Johnson, .1. D. April working a bit and having the , . 1 Owing to the wreck mail and pas- ,. rt nTilx- in the cotton i1 - - 1)0 proud of their Arniv, said Presi- " L .umwtiixg . "K.a-.uv : K-av, . . folia w- ana Jtion. v-auuc pjav mat Keeps Jack a brioht and t T 1 . C . Dtalt. n 1. n Irvn n l-.rtn-.-v- ' rune time, a policy adopted in agricultural life of the State which overturned and the fireman on freight engine injured. No one an.1 the was .stances of such peculiar stress. "Th-j UiUed. until f i-i, ttu,i cj ..r. ....t. I " .-actions, dux in me enure oiaw. j r,nmr miona Tmr.-.-v- i . . .' JUU1L' CllllA Uriltl llVLLLKj gUlUUI, tl. . ! v. n . j iVlTChlll. We must so order our agriculture increase of the poultry and eggs and j of money rendered necessary largely to 0f m0re hog meat in the State, buy the food upon which The people urge tie people of the State to live who grow money crops in the a careful study of how to make this late for the market. The small increase in food in the State eepnomi- f.inuers and tenants cannot stand the f-ally, and that they adhere to it, not periodic slumps which occur from var- only during the threat of the Boll ious causes, and the wealthier men veevil disaster, but until North Caro- ' ir -o t i i v 4.1 r i singer service here has been more or , den-t Cuno H. Rudolph, or the Boar 1 , snajipy boy. 'cf Commissioners, of the District oC j less tied up. The north bound train Would Aid The Miners TBy U. S. Press). Washington, Feb. 7. Representa- .None of the sailors had put.foo on Co!;umbin. In an official statement from Killstotl we,lt on thr0USn to tfie land since January 3 when their ships , u(? r)S .,,1,1. .wreck ami transferred passengers and ;went to sea for the annual crui?e in i Evory citizen in the District "of mai1' tlJe southbound train being un : southern waters, until launches came !Columbia owes a (1ebt of gratitude to !able to t('t through. chugging to shore today. Admiral the Armv for the prompt) workman. Wrecking crews have been at worrt jllilary P. Jones, commander of ths- and unselfish manner in which " to clear the. track for j fleet, was waiting aboard his flagsmp it responded to thc for help dur. traffic but . at time of going to press Columbia in the harbor when the fight- . ine the Knickerbocker Theater disas- tiaffic as still delayed. 1 .1 J4- 4-1. T) ! and large land owners cannot witn- ylVii becomes a great food raising jtive Foster of Ohio and Thomas of the Guaneanayab-o. Gulf, 180 miles re The Army furnished hundreds stand the Boll Weevil blight, if it state, independent of the threat ot ..Kentucky appeared before the House ! westward, where'' since Tanuarv 10 t1,,,. , n XiLln pvprvnnp hnst nppn misv xvith mitinm' . 7 ;tool I '' ines, and feed their tenants fa rm laborers through it. Buying make profit oh the ..money crops. ailfl TiPrirf1ie disaster thrOUSrh failure to Alineo nrl Atinincr Cnmmit.tpp L, w ..-.v- -t, - vi:ivunv ims ucen uuav viiu liuuuciy:., , ..-4.1, .i.:i. -l.l jweek and urged the immediate pas- exercises, engineering trials and tor-' -41 n , , ll 5 ' o ft u-iip with n lmssihle snpen . the scores 'nr food elsewhere ami raising money i j0 not think it will be wise for ;saj?e Gf $500,000 appropriation for re- v0(o fir'me ' - I , . ! , xii i xxixi. . cj. de.jd and fiymg; victims trapped in ions requires too much captal, aii'T our people generally to undertake at ,y10f ()f COal miners in the bituminous. Every rob is a man am on"- men and'., n t 1 . h a 1 ' .the mass of snow-covered wreckage . is too hazardous xor our peopie io t-n- farst to raise rooa sxuirs xor uie mm- .fields of West Virginia, Uhio, Ken- llien oniv from now until April. The gage in on an extensive.. scale. ket, they will not be successful at 1 tucky and other states. The Con- station embraces DO square miles in T have made every effort to excite first in making money, and will be- TeSsmen pictured dire distress The interest and active efforts of th? come discouraged and stop. In course 'prevailing in these particular t.'ite College of Agriculture and Engi- 0f time, through study and experienco m jnjng regions, ueering, the Agricultural Department, Ave ,,re quite sure these foods can be '; ., EXPANDING MARKETS FOR MACHINERY CBv U. S. Washii!gto.n, Feb. Tress) 5. Ini porta tit- tn the Department of Education, and the rr,i30d by our people for the market Jlealth Department of. the State Gov- profitably; but present efforts Had oinment to lead the people to organi.? ie3t be confined to supplying tne :md prepare without delay to increase famiiy, and feeding the labor raising the production of food raised in tri3 the money crops. r-ate for homo consumption, not ; e ought also to raise every pounl j onlv in the threatened areas, but in 0f fOG(i necessary for our 'auimars. j tiie whole State. These great depart- The annual bill of Tsorth Carolina ror j ;. . It has been reported to me that i ithe first ar-etvlene torch and the 1 -5jthe Guartanamo valley along the. Sou-;. , f.. aml ' re?ent coai;thern coastline of Cuba not far from ! snoveis were rushed to the scene or11" foren dema,ld fr Amerin Ithe eastern tip of the island. Liberty jguffeTintP in Quartormaster Corps ehiner aordiuR to 2 I does not mean a trip "to town" the . ' 7 . completed by the Industrial Machin- ; TrucKS oy vuarrermasier men. xl i-i DAUGHERTY PREPARING : i? ,i ii. i. . rx . a r- , p-ax auu iiiMtnvum abundant proof that our Army has its sport and plav at outdoor games fee-i . . oc, . 1 1 " mission in peace as well as war, ana j neath a balmy sky. There is n eount on it in the f- cry Division of the Department nt Commerce. From 1915 to 1919 the in crease in exports to Japan was sense less rnn n in nnm nTnnr HlH KIU 1. 11(11 KtHIKH !"town" to ro to. Mazanillo is the . T tibnal, rising precipitously from Ull UIU UUn'L UIIMIL . " 1 , . ,.t 4. UrG ' 1 that a BIOOOWH) in 1915 to over $5 - ! nearest sizable place of habitation and;God that fhe Reulars were as ci0jJ3 ;tnat a Mo to over ?-s f; ;, tnn m v,c euiira tf. " . '000.000 i r 1919. and inerea'sinir at a (By TJ. 3. Press) Washington, Feb. 7. Plans of the! i visit while on liberty. at hnnrl when thev were so ursently alirrhtH- lnwpr nnmml mtn tn - )j , , 000,000 ;n 1920. Exports to Cuba anf? oilier xjaim needed, in the Nation's Capital.1 COTTON MARKTgT 1 American countries" began To increase at about the sam? T n,l 4-V-- "WTrnminrr -fin f r?T 1 r rx'T uMits of our State Government arc food purchased elsewhere for oiw am- j Government to cope with the situation! tattleshi forc the war vesseis j nplendidly organized and equipped to inals is enormous. WE MUST BAiSr. j win en migui arise m im. even, ui '''that arrived today were the battleships : l.Mp tho people in this all-important ,1T AliL. it. is pure speculation ?o si riKe or coai miners wnen xne P-' iDelawar.e North Dakota, Florida, IS J TODAY'S MARKET -time as those to Japan and progresse i matter, and they are now s moving buy fGOd for men and animals upon agreements expire at the end of March de9troyera eight submarines and their March . 16.T j upward at a slightly more obtuse an- with ,-ncigy through tner splenctra which to raise cotton and tobacco m-are being wqrkbd out by the depart-' ?tender8j the ghipg of the train, Olympia May . 16.31 to 1918, when the rising curve r-oiiizotiou of expert men to help. North Carolina. Let us organize anl .merit of Justice. "I am satisfied," Brazost Bridge, Contoeook, Ink a, Fro- July . 15.88 for Mother Latin American countries I .M,Poal to the people of the whole learn how to raise all the food we need kaid the Attorney General, "that 'metheus, Proteus, Relief, Bo-bin, Vlreo, October 15.35 lessened, but exports to Cuba increas- State for their active co operation in to ecd the animal life of our State, j there is all the law necessary to do all & gquadron of airpranes will December 15.35 ed mdre rapidly in 1919. In 1920 e- the movement. !as well as the people. For years vthat is needed and additional leglsla-icome fmn pen8aeoiaf. Florida. ' YESTERDAY'S MABKET ports to Cuba fairly siort upward, from WE MUST INCREASE OUR HOME have known this would make the state jtion would not be needed or helpful."! Near1y all 0'. ithe craft, were under-'Mareh 16.65 a little under $20,(M10,000 in 1919 to we 7ajaar6use""the peoplefto do what we manned. The remainder of the wa- May 16.41 over $40,000,000 in 1920. Exports ::i J6.01 "other Latin American countries Pl'LY OF MEAT. We cannot rieJl and independent, and 'io beef profitably in a large part have failed to do it. yet i have long Snown ought to be done, it rover squadrons, with 50 percent com- i July 't' the State, but we can raise hogs ! We suggest no new thing, but. j rwmltry of eyerv description on arc moving with great hope that we j Your Obedient Servant, plements, will- remain through CAMKRON MORRISON. lWinter at the Charleston base. thc consider- - . . . 1 A. 4- A October : ioAi) ..contrnu'M upwaro, dui ui Pr-emboT 15.40 ablv slower rate than" those to Cuba i
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