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SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 1922.
TELEGRAPHIC SERVICE
GASES TRIED AT
THIS TER ft1
OF COURT
5 CENTS PER COP?
Military
Comm.
itteeiT
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Tii.'
Liquor,
W., Judj;-
.Rowing eases have beer
Irit,j so far at tins term oi court
Jasper Thompson,
.i"iufnr suspended.
' ,; U. Mitchell. C. C,
,i. , , 1 j 1 .Jit
t twii-Iie Purvis
month; "ii County Roads
Herbert Purvis, A. & B
:, ?i r j,Ti County Roads.
. - - -
jjii.iiths n
akes Its Report
On Muscle Shoals flHJ pna
HEFkENCHDEBT
riniuimiiii
W V 111 111 I w W I W 1 1
BAPTIST CHURCH
RECOMMENDS ACCEPTANCE
OF FORD OFFER WITH
GORGAS STEAM PLANT
ELIMINATED.
A. & B.
3!
Jilk-r
li.M
11
Noggins. Liauor.
Lountv noaus.
Burgess. Liquor. 3
on County Roads.
Peyton, A. ; B., Judji
upended.
p;.t J ..sues, orgery, 3 years on
C"piir."y Rads.
dwell Parker. C. C. W ., Judg-
-uspellded.
ivlcuul Maytin. L. & 11.. Judg-
int'iit suspended.
Ct rl rude Milby. Prostitution,
,hukinent suspended.
Pat Watson. Liquor. 3- months
. . .... r . ., .1 -
in i otini nutu.
Billie Rowe. Liquor,
ihfitt suspended.
Siilnt'V Hieks. A.
Mn.'Mt suspended.
Willie Macon, House breaking.
u years State's Prison.
Philip Spears, Liquor, b4
ri i' i n 1 : -s on Roads.
ii- . Ahe. Liquor, 3
nil Roads.
Komi Taylor. Liquor, 9
in -lail.
PRES. URGED TO UNITED STATES
REVIVAL AT THE TELEGRAPHERS'
WAGES PROBABLY
NOT BE REDUCED
NEXT KEEK
Judg-
& B.. Judg-
in en
W. It.
in .Tail.
lenient
Lowe,
tended.
" --pes.
months
months
Liquor, Judg-
c'By Associated Press
Washington, June 9. Three
searate reports setting forth the
recommendations for action by
Congress on proposals for Mus
cle Shoals projects were made to
the Jlouse today by members ot
the Military Committee.
Acting Chairman McKensie,
who drafted the ma i or it v report.
declared that the Ford proposal
was rr.e only one found worthy
of consideration " and asks ac
ceptance by the House provided;
that the Gorgas plant is not in
cluded. Concurrence in the
majority report except for refer
ence to the Gorgas plant, was
voiced in of the minority opin
ions by Representative "Wright,
cf Georgia, supported by one
Republican and the remainder of
the Democratic members.
In the third report the opinion
was adverse to the acceptance
of the Ford offer unless it was
modified in other sections than
in the Gorgas" one.
REAPPOINT If.
HARDING TO HEAD
FED, RESERVE
Beginning
mg
(By Associated Presal
Paris, June 9. The French
financial Mission going to the!
I mted btates for consultation
with the .War Debt Funding Com
mission there, expects to", sail
fhme -4th, it was announced this
afternoon. .
I By Associated Press j
Chicago, 111.,, June 9. Presi- j
dent Harding, in a message from'
the administration committee of'
the Illinois Chamber of Com-,1
merce today, was urged to reap
point W. P. G. Harding as Gov
ernor of the Federal Reserve
Board.
The Market
Clammoring
For Wool
MM
BARON
.i
si:
W jiKins,
spended.
Liquor.
$50
stearin.' Affray,
d Costs.
Mabry. Affray. Judg-ispended.
C. W., 30 days
C.
!l!0
inent sits
Frank Penn.
Roads.
Clurlie Purvis,
no nt lis on roads.
Ed. Harrell. A,
C. C. W., 3
& B. $50 Fine
L
KATO OFFERED
PREMIERSHIP
Music The
Consolation
of Russia
OF JAPAN TODAY
Soviet Ruble
At Lowest
Value
;mo
It VP,,
: s
,. ' . . . ... n r 1 ri i
,-,. w . .june 3. ine ooviet
nihil.' t.fis now reached such a low
vjJi.i.' that cabmen, shopkeepers
! "lii'T persons refer general
t in ill ions as ''leemons," or
iN. ine minimum favp fnr
siiort r;ib ride is generally
. V
oi. or one lemon.
'' -tao.rant menus and other
!.'' h-ts xu final six ciphers
-"-iKM-ally cut off, for exam-'So-
price of an order of
k. really: 3.200,000 rub
' Xi.r.'ssed as 3.20 rubles.
"!" h" past few .weeks the
of exchancre has been
io neighborhood of 4,000,000
,s i'1 the dollar, making one
i ':! worth about 25 cents
rii-an.
!)ii.-es soar dailv to such
' '''it th, -it a housewife, with
nough to l)uy 10 pounds
:r'"-;' tod-.T may be able to
f -:y si- pounds tomorrow.
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in 1
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Jin.ie
(By Associated Pressl
Jokio, Japan, June 9. Ad
miral Baron Kato was today of
fered the Premiership of Japan.
Tie asked time to consider wheth
er he could undertake to form .a
cabinet to succeed that of Taka
happi. which resigned Tuesday.
Baron Kato headed the Japa
nese delegation to the Washing
ton Aims conference.
Mr. Joe Early, of Martin Co.,
is a visitor here today on busi
ness.
Odessa, June 5. Music,
the joy of the people of Russia,!
is now tneir consolation, lhey
hunger for bread, and they long
also for music to make their un
happy days more bearable.
In passing the unlighted
streets of the cities of the lower
.Volga,, the stransejL is often
zuided by piano music bursting
upon the darkness. Walking at
early morning through the
streets of Astrakhan, little boys
and girls, often refugees, may
be seen at the- open windows, at
practice, thrumming on dilapida
ted pianos. At the dreary sta
tions, during the long waits, peo
pie sing. This kindly, talented
people turn to music for comfort
as unconsciously 'as a distressed
child to its mother.
They have no post-war music'
noj azz and pep and buzz-saw
no jaz and pep and buzz-saw
old, old songs of love lost, of the
bitter-sweet of happiness gone,
With prices -of wool and lambs
omg up day by day, sheepmen ! f-nly
-i of North Carolina will be repaid heartily
for their efforts in the business
I and their willingness to continue
"I" 'a Ol
in spire or low prices.
':A large percentage of the
western clip has changed hands"
says the Breeders' Gazette of
May IS, ''and the eastern market
is clammoring for wool. The
i marketing of 85 per cent of the
w, - ! reeu eliP ran tlie prices from
ujiu au CUlJi IU O-J UC111S tlllU
oS, and in some . cases 40 cents.
In anticipation of further advan
cements, weavers are adding to
the price of their fabrics."
Quotations from Philadelphia
Way 22 show that y and 3-S
blood wool was worth 40 cents
and half blood 42 cents. As!
practieair all wool fromK6rlh
Carolina grades 1-4 to 3-8, our
farmers may expect 40 cents a
pound at the lowest, with a pos
sibility of 60 cents in the future
To find what your wool is worth,
ask your freight agent the
next Monday even
at the 8:00 o'clock hour.
, - .... . '
mere win be held a series of Re
ival bervices at the Baptist
tiurcn. bervices will be held
daily at 4:00 and 8:00 P. M
Dr. J. F. Black of Albemarle,1
the Evangelist, is a man of wide
experience and uusually- gifted
in evangelistic work. Dr. Black
has held -486 revival meetings
and in these meeting there have
been received into the churches
members, sufficient in nunVbers,
to constitute 300 strong churches.
. With Dr. Black, will be Prof.
A. A. Lyon, of Atlanta, Ga., as
Director of the Music. Dr. Lyon
expects to organize a large
chorus choir and with the talent
we have in Scotland Neck, under
the direction of so able a musi-
man tho miKin Trill hArtmo nf -
m.-.i u.. ut-a. i V. Will V Kf -U
features of the
(By Associated Press)
Chicago, 111., June 9. Rail
road telegraphers will probably
not be included in the third wage
reduction order of the Railroad
Labor Board, according to rum
ors today of contemplated slash
from railroad payrolls.
The telegraphers number ap
proximately eighty-one thousand
Although the Board members
made no direct statement on the
next cut rumors persisted in pre
dicting a smaller cut for clerks
of the forces than those affecting
the shopmen.
VOTEWILL
A 1
meetings. -.vT
We hope the public- Iv . not
li J A 1 VnM-
iieim inese
mm
a,- . fl ft I I PI Mm. mm mm.
m m in i
(Bt bM DAbStU
iJONE
TUC KTU
MIL u I II
met-, .'-rs but
cooperate in all of the
services that, the blessings of such
a meeting may go to the entire
community and not simply to the
Baptist church.
Monday evening at 6 :30, Dr. i
Black and Prof. Lyon will be the! . Cincinnati, O., June 9. The
euests ot tne uood eilowslnn tAt-lU11- L-oiuimuees ot rJio six
i "i
Club of the church, at a supper
to be given in their honor in the
dining room of the church.
CHAS. ANDERSON, Pastor.
i.mwciv snop crarts unions m
each of the country's three di
visions will convene in Chicago
June 24th preparatory to can
vassing, the shopmen's strike
vote which is returnable June
25th, it was announced her. to
day by B. M. Jewell, head of the
Federated Shops Unions.
Russia Needs
Vast Amount
oIVIacyncOT; Opera
Stars Turn to
i
Moscow, June 7. Russia
needs a vast amount of machin-
ery and otlier material tor The
rate unbuildino of her industries, hut
to Philadelphia and deduct from , instead of a flood, the incoming
streams of supplies are tiny and
hardly make any impression on
the actual needs of the country
Fad the Genoa conference
areeed upon an international
Ameri
the
i 1
quoted prices
Attention is also called to
Ipossibility of getting more
money for your wool and lambs
by cooperative shipments. Ask
your county agent about this,
and if you have no county agent,
write to the Division of Markets;
j N. C Department of Agriculture,
S Raleigh. N. C, and they will aid
GEN US
GEN
ffl COTTON IMSTRY
EXCEEDS PRE-WAR
RECORD
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HARDING EXTOLS
OF
WASHINGTON
Princeton, June 9. The bril
liancy of Washington in action
and the devotion of his follow
ers under great deprivation was
extolled by President Harding
today in an address at the dedi
cation of the Battle Monument
at Princeton.'
singers
cj re
The memorial was fitting to
the heroes and heroism of that
dav. he declared, adding "We
bring, lay at its foot,
wreaths, which gratitude,
of the prisoner in his cell, of the:
'shadow o'er the heart." !
Here in Odessa, by the Black j
Sea, there is and has ben opera,)
good opera for several dreadful j
years. The fields outside the j
city are bare, the cemeteries are
full, and new ones gape for more
todies each day. No home, no
city, no war, no battlefield
knows such sadness. The
. -i i i
i on tne stasre are nungry. so
the scene shifters; the musicians;
are hungry and so is tne
audience.
Yet each evening, through the
darkening streets, thousands take
their souls to the doors ot" tne!
j handsome opera house, thousands '
j whose bodies are ragged with old;
j clothes, whose stomachs are as;
i empty as the fields, but whose'
hearts yet respond to the magic j
n I
ot music.
The operas are sometimes
Inose of Italy "Tosca" and!
"La Traviata" but more often
Russian. Pushkin, the famous!
poet, graced
residence for
m
everv
possible way.
COTTON MARKET
TODAY'S MABKET
JULY 22.03
OCTOBER :" 22.02
DECEMBER 21.88
JANUARY 21.72
MARCH
. 21.60
loan to help Russia
in this regard might
conditions
be much
more favorable today, it is point
ed out, but as it is, Soviet offic
ials are saving: "A little water
is welcome in
: "A little
a desert." .
YESTERDAY 7S MARKET
JULY 21.54
OCTOBER. 21.54
DECEMBER 21.46
JANUARY 21.37
MARCH . 21.23
STRIKE ON INDIAN
L"p to the present time the
German-Russian agreement sign
ed at Genoa has not been follow
ed by any great economic co-operation
betweeen the two coun
tries, nevertheless German sales
men, German experts and Ger
man scouts for German capital
ists are arriving in Moscow in
constantly increasing numbers.
orings
MOSCOW, June 9. As Mos
cow's opera and dramatic seas
( u approaches its close, scores' of
Russia's best artists are turning
their eyes longinly toward Amer
ica. If the American .I'tuto De
partment consents. Madame
Nieshdanova, premier soprano of
Russia; M. Sobinoff, R sia's
nost noted tenor, ani several
o'hers of the Moscow Grand
Opera rnav appear in . !Tcv York
this fall. '
Madame Nieshdanova, a color
atura soprano who, with Chialia
pin an?. Sobinoff. formed an op
eratic trio which has av it high
praise in Russia, alreadv has per
mission of the Soviet government
to leave for abroad. She hs
i hng been favorably known in
R l.ssia, and although somewhat
Every train from Ri
dozens of them and they are I advanced in years, she still re
scatttermg to the tour corners rtains her voice. Madame Niesh-
frequently with
RAILWAY ENDED
of Russia to buy. or sell, or build,
or just look around. Some of
them return to Germany disgUst-
j ed with business chances. Others
i star and do business.
IV ..
: Foreign money is coming nito
j Russia in driblets, and foreign
'industrialists, -articularly Ger
f man, are accepting concessions
I with a measure of control by the
government.
err
Calcutta, June 9. The general ;-d "affairs of
Shot tack,
the Ferman
char
mission
uanova sang
( arnso in Europe.
M. Rumianseff, administrative
director of the Moscow Art
Theater, is preparing to leave
witin a short time for New
York to arrange there for the
presentation, of several of the
Art Theater's most famous
dramas
the city with his! strike on the East Indian railway,? at Petrograd, has announced n
many years, ana so
made from his stories are
' Mazeppa, " among
ft -I - - L L I
nntvint spntin-. put aviII fl ways otliers. une lavorueis . xjuu
I I . V-- - V -.J-,-. m-v.-. -. - -
dpdir..ite to those who have borne, rovsky," the tragedy of
laurel j operas
and , liked,
the heat and burden of conflict. " i dit, libretto by Pushkin
WEATHER REPORT
WiU's:'Uv June 9. Official
t iS f n ! i v I .i a . t -i . v'
-VI i'Juci l lie
:!iMi v of Trarlp anl Cnm-
veal the fact that 'the
industry in Lodz during
tni-Oi' lllftTltc rif 1099
Pu.sua the nre-war outnut.
ijYrui,..
Minst.v 's
h'rinls.
I-odz
For Nortel Carolina: Partly
doudy tonight, and Saturday.
Local, thunde,rshowers.. Moder
ate variable winds.
hy Naprovniki.
3 a ime romance,
Chird ret, when lovers
nromise to be always
j.
ways the same
This
has
the
and
true, al
refrain
after dragging on for more than tne ISVgEbIA that a ivnsso-
tAvo months, had finally come to! German Chamber ot Commerce;
aii end. The strikers have ac- j is to be organized at Petrograd
eeptea the offer made recently "Germany. he said, will
help, x
Russia
a can- tv the Agent or the railway, and give Kussia technical
music 1 are resuming work at Draeticallv am of the opinion that
This opera
a duet in
smg
all points along the line
The conciliation between the
railway officials and the work
ers has been facilitated by the
efforts of F. C. Andrews, .who
re-establish
bv their own
w estern Europe, the
report shows, is on the!
sue largely to thp im-
f American raw . ma-
Mrs. Kitchin, of Suffolk, Va.,
who has been visiting her sister,
Mrs. J. IL Lewis, left yesterday.
ls the largest cotton
manufacturing
nental Europe,
to Manchester;"
tory facilities.
center in ConJti
and second only
land, in fac-
o
ly engaged m
He now weaps
especially touches the audience, j acted as a mediator. Mr. An-
One remarks it by a set stillness, j drews is an .Englishman, tormer
rather than by tears .
The opera over, the ' singers
and the men back stage slip
homewards: the people file out
like shadows through the gloom
of the streets, . the lights of the
building drop away, the mists
iol in from the sea, and dark
ness, and silence and the unbur
ied possess Odessa again.
and Germany can
their economic life
efforts."
This feeling of Herr Shotteck
is shared by many Soviet offi
cials with whom the correspon
EXPLORERS REACH THE
HIGHEST ALTITUDE EVER
ATTAINED BY MAN
(By Associated
London, June 9-
l .Cll Willi WillIll II1C 1 Ullll wji-, -i.i 1-1 i
dent, has talked. They never had reached the highest altitude
much hope, after they learned tamed by man--twentj -six th
i i
missionary worK much hope
Indian clothing that America would not partici-
and has made himself prominent pate in Genoa, that they could
in upholding the Indians in their! expect any immediate economic
efforts to obtain complete honie : jeIp from the allies,
inie. ! The Russian Foreign Trade
News of the ending of the. Department and the Supreme Eo
strike has come as agreat relief! onomic council discontinued
for its continuance was proving , many -negotiations with Indivi i
distressing to many ways. j uals seeking concessions or.cn-
Preas)
-The Times
announces that some members
of the Mount Everest party have
a th
ou
sand 'eight hundred teet. ihe
previous record wasvtwenty-four
thousand five hundred and eighty-three
feet.
deavoring to make sales, while
the Genoa conference was in ses
sion. These negotiations are
now to be renewed.