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VOL. 22. SMITHFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1903. NO. 29.
NOT BELOW TEN CENTS.
1 MR. ASHLEY HORNE'S AD
\ VICE ON COTTON SITUA
\ TION.
Don't Sell Too Quick but Hold Your
Cotton tor Consumption Has
Gone Beyond Production.
We reproduce the following let
ter from Sunday's News and
Observer for the benefit of ourj
readers:
I desire to answer some recent
correspondence from farmers and
others asking my views relative
to the cotton crop and its
probable ruling price for the
coming season.
This is a problem that only
time can solve, but by combining
many opinions may enable the
reader to be benefited. This is i
an unusual crop. What usually |
occurs in August is now being
realized in September, because
the crop is two to three weeks
late. It is not my experience
ever to get a full output from
any crop two to three weeks
late.
The last bureau report was, in
my opinion, too nigh. I predict
the next to be less and continue
to lessen to the end of the season,
and that the crop will continue
to a deterioration exclusive ot
the damage of frost even at an
average date, which will catch a
large part of the crop and a larger
part than ever before. General
deterioration in the crop now
seems to be going on from one
end of the cotton belt to the
other. It is the lint production
per acre rather than the extent
of acreage which makes the crop.
Now with an intimate knowl
of the cotton crop conditions at
this season of the .year, I venture
the prediction that with the
present unfavorable conditions
so far as rust and shedding, boll
weevils, dry weather, etc., the
cotton crop of the season of
1903 04 beginning on the 1st.
inst., may prove to be a very
moderate one, not exceeding
eleven million bales. What is the
world's consumption? Not less
than eleven and a half million
bales, and will be more for the
next twelve months than ever
before on account of our last
year's shortage and the world's
progress.
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x1 ur tut; lust tuu tj jtais uu
January, 1903, Liverpool seems
to have named the price of cotton
for the world. Since January,
1903, Wall Street and New
Orleans, being nearer the cotton
fields, learned the weight of the
crop and seem to have taken the
swing, now "here she goes,
tnere she goes." What is the
matter with cotton? Who ever
heard since the days of Recon
struction of thirteen and fourteen
cent cotton, sixty dollars per
bale? What does it mean? It
means simply that one more
time in the history the cotton
of the cotton planters of the
South consumption has gone
beyond their production. This
is confirmed for it seems like
thirteen and fourteen cents would
have brought out the last bale
in the woods. It seems to me,
so far as t he present crop of cot
ton is concerned, the farmers
hold the balance of power and
are in a position to take the place
of Wall Street and New Orleans
and name the price of cotton for
some time to come. You are up
to a good proposition, farmers,
provided you are capable ol
managing it.
I recommend selling your
crop slowly down to ten cents,
then wait till you can be better
informed as to the size of thf
crop. Would not hurry my crop
on the market after it gets undei
ten cents. As I see it now, yon
are in a position to control tht
profits of your own labor. Don'l
get frightened should Mr. Nei
and his associates come out wit!
a twelve million bale crop. The>
have interests to serve. WaL
Street speculators deal in mar
gins ana swing from one side U
the other. It matters but littli
with them whether cotton ii
high or low, provided they set
your crop is too big to corner.
I
The world wants your cotton
and will want it bad. They
know your crop will not exceed
last year's crop, and they know
your last year's crop stopped
their spindles nearly sixty days,
and cotton jumped from eight
to thirteen and a half cents.
This experience is too fresh and
unpleasant on their minds to
be caught the second time, there
fore the" will buy your crop
more rapidly than ever before.
1 admit this is early for any j
one to give out au opinion for j
the future upon a problem that
so agitates the world, and I may
be wrong but want to warn you
of the position 1 think you hold.
My interest cannot be a selfish
one as I am on both sides?far
mer and manufacturer?but
mostly a farmer. I share their
loss and gain. My predictions
may bo misleading, do your own
thinking.
Ashley Horne.
Clayton, N. C., Sept. 19,1908.
To Whom It May Concernl
1 am not going to tell you
about grape nuts, orextracts, or
baby food, or skedam s 'huapps,
or fire and hail insurance, x-rays
or radium, or railroad commis
sion, or Ayeock's educational
speeches, or fool you on the
"backer" market, but to let you
know that the 20th day of Octo
ber, 1003, is Johnston County
Day at the ensuing State Fair.
This is the first double-barrel
fair ever held in North Carolina.
The North Carolina Masons are
going to build a temple for their
annual convocations, and to give
all a chance to test the widows
mite, the Grand Lodge of North
! Carolina appointed a committee
of true and tried Masons to
adopt wavs and means to this
end. They have instituted a
Masonic Fair to be held during
the State Fair, and it will be lo
j cated in Nash Square, right at
the Union Depot, in the City of (
Raleigh, and will be tented, and J
lighted, and boothed, and sup
plied, and presided over by fairs
and faithful representatives of
the Masonic, Templars, Shriners,
and Eastern Star Orders. John
ston county has been given a
special day as above stated.
Let all attend and see the won
derful and elaborate preparations
made for us.
V..l,..?~.. ??,1 111....... o.i.l tVw,
auw iiuaiu, a;;u iuc
Widows Son, and the Entered Ap
prentices, and the Fellowcrafts
and the Overseers, and the work
men will all be there. So loose |
your log-line, .and your tape line,
and your fish line, and your plow
j lines, and take your setting maul,
and your trowel, and your plumb
and your level and your trestle
board and walk on the Masonic
pavement and view Boaz and
Jachin, with their lillywork and
their network and pomgranite,
and the columns of Tuscan and
Doric, and Ionic, and Corinthian,
and Composite and go through
the west gate and the south gate
up the winding stairs into the
Sanctum Sauctorium that the
Children of Israel nave been
toting around ever since Old
Pharoah scared them so bad and
took his last bath.
> Reduced rates on the railroads
and tree walking in the citv. No
excuse for not going to the feast.
i Let Johnston be well represented,
| as she doubtless will.
I Written by request of Fellow
11 ship Lodge No. 8-1, A. F. & A. M.
?! Respectfully,
11 0. S. Powell.
Sept. 23. 1903.
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STATE NEWS NOTES.
M
I
Some of the Week's Events h
Scissored and Condensed ]
from the Press.
The State convention of the (
Woman's Christian Temperance
Union will be held at Hickory (
October 14.
Henderson will vote on the
question of a dispensary and dis- 1
tilleries at an election to be held i
October 20. i
Miss Atlanta L. Bradfield, of 1
Oak Ridge, has been left $75,000 !
by the will of an aunt, who re- j
sided in Texas.
Twenty-two counties have been
loaned $18,025 for sixty-four j
school districts?this under the <
recent school house loan.
An election on the question oi
establishing a dispensary in Kin- .
stou will be held October 27th.
The town now has saloons.
A first class hotel for negroes, i
the finest of the kind in the South. ;
is to be opened in Asheville Oc
tober 1st. Noah Murrough will
be the proprietor.
The people of the Wolf Island
section of Rockingham county |
claim that wolves are operating ,
in that section and there is much
excitement in consequence. .
'Phn Iix*r???i7 etnKlo r?f I I T ifflo
i m; ii ? ui y otauin uiu . n ? uiuwic,
at Wadesboro, was burned with :
five horses and ten mules Friday )
night. The loss is estimated at '
$0,000 with $1,500 insurance.
The White Oaks cotton mill 1
being built by the Cones at
Greensboro will have a pay roll
of $750,000 a year. There will
be 1:20,000 spindles in the mills.
At least twenty-five cases of
appendicitis have occurred at
High Point this year. The doc
tors seem to think that there is
local cause, but are unable to tell
what it is.
The Governor will be asked to 1
commute to life imprisonment
the death sentence of John Flow
ers, the white man recently con
victed at Wilson of criminally
assaulting his 10 year old daugh
ter.
Mrs. Irene Orr, widow of En
gineer Orr, of Charlotte, who was
killed on the Southern Hail way
near Belmont, Gaston county,
last May, has entered suit against
the Southern for $10,000 dam
ages.
i tie steamer Aima ana tne
freight depot of the Norfolk and
Southern Railway at Elizabeth
City were burned Wednesday
night. The fire started on the
steamer. The estimated loss is
about $100,000.
Some months ago at Dudley,
Wayne county, M. B. Fields, a
merchant, and A. Spruil!, the
railroad agent at Dudley, en
gaged in an affray in which
Fields shot and seriously wound
ed Spruill. In Wayne Superior
Court last week Fields was sen
tenced to six months on the
chain gang and Spruill was fined
$1 and made to pay all the costs
of the case.
Again the matter of a union
depot at Durham, which threat
ened to become a State issue, has
been settled?if it will only stay
settled. Under the direction of
the corporation commission the
Southern, Seaboard, Norfolk and
Western railroads have agreed
to build at Durham a depot cost
ing $50,000. The contract has
also been let for a new union de
pot at Winston and Charlotte is
striving for one.
Safe crackers Saturday morn
ing made an attempt to blow
open two safes in the postoffice
at Clinton. Theexplosion awoke
several people, but the robbers
made good their escape. I)r. F.
H. Holmes was attending a pa
tient at the Murphy house, just
across the street from the nost
office, and as he started to leave
the explosion occurred. He im
mediately aroused several men
and hastened to the scene. It
was found that the larger safe
had been badly wrecked. Noth
ing of value was carried off by
i the robbers.
The Hotel Richmond building, |
including the Rank of Fedee, a j
iurnitu re store and clothing store. j (
it Rockingham, was destroyed!
bv fire early Friday morning,
rhe fire is supposed to haveorig
inated in the (lining room of the
hotel. The loss exceeds $20,
[>00.
r
Mr. M. M. Smith, of Raleigh, j1
engaged Robert Young, colored, j
as porter on short acquaintance, i
Two days later Mr. Smith wanted
ho go on a journey and he gave j
the negro $30 in silver with in-;
?itructions to carry it to the bank
and exchange it for bills. The
negro took the money and Smith
is still waiting for him to come |
back with the bills.
The postoffice at Troy, Mont
gomery county, was robbed Fri
day night. The robbers secured
tools from a blacksmith shop,
with which they drilled a hole in
the safe door. Then they used
their explosives, which easily
opened the door. Between three
and five hundred dollars in
stamps and money were taken
and some valuable papers.
Talk about a profitable busi
ness! If the newspaper business
isn't "it" we are badly mistaken. 1
In the last two months we have 1
been ottered shares in two gold
and copper mines, nursery stock, ,
tickets to a county fair, stock in '
a wireless telegraph system and ;
a chance to purchase cotton in a j
Southern cotton market (sure to i
get in on the ground floor), that .
is "dead sure" to advance within ,
thirty days, and several other ,
good things, too numerous to |
mention; all in exchange for ,
advertising space in the Sun at ,
an advance over regular rates.
If you ever want to start a col- j
lection of things you can't pos- ,
sibly use, get into the newspaper j
business.?Durham Sun.
i
About Rural Delivery.
i
On October 1st, next Thurs- i
day, six new rural delivery routes ?,
will go into operation in this
county. For the benefit of those
living on these new routes, we i
publish the following clipping: |
"These routes are of great con
venience to the people who live
on them if they avail themselvse
with a lawful box, in which to de
posit and receive their mail. The
law requires that each family
shall erect a box. The carriers
make their trip once every day
except Sunday. The boxes can
be pui chased from $1.15 to $2
and will last a long hme. This
is all you will ever have to do to
get your mail brought to you,
and any business that you wish
to do can be done through these
boxes. If you want to purchase1
a money order all that you have
to do is to make out an applica
tion and place it in your box and
the carrier will receipt you for
1 A
same aim ihkk jruur iciwi anu
money to the postoffice and pur
chase a money order and place it
in your letter and mail it or re
turn it in your box as you may
wish. Money orders are much
cheaper for small amounts than
registered letters, and are also
much safer. Money orders cost
from .1 cents to 30 cents, accord
ing to the amount of the order,
small amounts being cheaper
than registered letters. Can get
stamps or stamped paper
through these boxes. They are
the same as a postofficeplaced at
every man's door and cost a very
little and belong to the purchaser
while people who live in towns
have to pay $2 yearly for rent
on a box.".
Fearful Odds Against Him.
Bedridden, alone and destitute,
Such, in brief was the condition
of an old soldier by name of J. ,J.
Havens, Versailles, O. For years
he was troubled with Kidney dis
ease and neit her doctors nor med
icines irave him relief. At length
he tried Klectric Bitters. It put
him on his feet in short order
and now he testifies. "I'm on
the road to complete recovery."
Beet on earth for Liver and Kid
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Stomach and Bowel Complaints.
Only 50c. Guaranteed by Hood
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WEEKLY CROP REPORT,
Cotton Picking Progressing Well?
Crops Marketed as Rapidly as
Ginned. Land Washed
Much.
For the week ending Monday,
September 21, the weekly crop
?eport for the North Carolina
section of the United States cli-i
nate and crop service says:
"The first part of the week I
continued fair and warm, but!
luring the passage northward of
he sub-tropical storm over wet
:ern North Carolina on the ltith
md 17th considerable rain fell
iver most of the state, with the
argest amounts in the western
section. At some [daces in the
vest heavy rains washed lands
ronsiderably, and high winds
olew down some corn and bruis
?d a little tobacco. The amount
if damage was small, and gener
illy the rain-fall was beneficial
to all late crops, and placet 1 the
soil in excellent condition for
plowing. Following the rain
accurred a decided fall in tem
perature, and the remainder of
the week was quite cool, with
temperatures below the normal.
VTery light frosts were reported
the mornings of the 18th and
l!)th in several western counties,
?nuwui cxujy uauiu^c LU uiupc.
The minimum temperature was
2(5 degrees at Aeheville the morn
ing of the lDth. During the lat
ter portion of the week, which
was fair, and favorable for farm
work, owing to the excellent con
dition of the soil, fall plowing
began to make more rapid prog
ress, and a considerable amount
of fall oats and rye were sown.
Cotton continues to open rap
idly on stiff laud, but rather
slowly on light lands; picking is
progressing well, and the crop is
being placed on the market as
rapidly as it is ginned. From
previous reports of rust and
shedding, and complaints of
small bolls, it is estimated that
cotton will not produce as large
a crop as was anticipated a
month ago. Late corn was
benefited by rains, and in the
extreme west the crop is still very
green for the time of year; cut
ting old corn continues, and
practically all ot the corn is ready
to gather in the eastern and
southern portions. Gathering
fodder is nearing completion.
Cane seems to be an excellent
crop, and making syrup is pro
gressing with a good yield. Cut
ting and curing tobacco continue
in Surry, Person, Stokes,Caswell,
Granville and Davidson, but this
work is now nearly finished,
though there is some tobacco
which can hardly be cut lor a
wet:iv ur nvu vet. 111c 1 qic
in curing well. Showers are very
beneficial to turnips which are
now doing nicely. Field peas ap
pear to be bearing well and are
being gathered, saving late hay
also continues. Sweet potatoes,
rice and peanuts are good crops.
The season for fruit is passed,
only some winter apples of poor
quality remain.
Rains reported: Raleigh, 1.28
inches; Uoldsboro, 0 78; Greens
boro, 2.86; Lumberton, 0.52;
Newbern, 0.76; Weldou, 0.68;
Wilmington, 0.80; Charlote, 3.20;
Hatteras, 3.50; Asheville, 0.40;
Liberty, 1.96; Saxon. 1.45;
Mocksville, 2.60; Morganton,
1.32; Settle, 3.77; Maron, 0.79;
Moncure, 0.98.
McLean-Atkinson.
The following card has beer
received by friends here:
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Atkin
son announce the marriage o
their daughter Robena to Mr
Charles Edgar McLean Wednes
day, October the fourteentl
nineteen hundred and threi
Washington, I). C.
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GLENN A CANDIDATE.
Me Desires to be Governor and
Places Himself in His Friend's
Hands.
Winston-Salem, N. C.,
September 22d. 1903.
To the People of the State:
Unable to answer all letters
received, I take this method of
announcing: to my friends
throughout the State, that I
will be a candidate before the?
next Democratic State Conven
tion for the office of Governor.
Having been actively canvass
ing the State for twenty-six
years, the people know me, so I
will open no headquarters and
enter into no scramble for the
nomination. I can campaign
for my party and beg votes for
my friends, but it is a new role'
to electioneer for myself, so I will
submit myself into the people's
hands, asking them to let my
candidacy be known, so that
those desiring to aid me Jean do
so, by seeinjr that I get in the
primaries, all the votes to which
1 may be entitled.
fIV? hp (Jnvornnr of \Tnrth
Carolina, is a high and laudable
ambition, and I most earnestly
desire to attain this high office,
as both a token of the people's
esteem, and a proof of their
confidence in me.
If nominated, I will canvass
the State, using every effort to
insure Democratic success, which
means, the State's safety and
prosperity. If elected, knowing
no man or ciass of men, in the
discharge of my duty, I will
strive to advance all the intersts
of the State, endeavoring to
procure "the greatest good to all,
without detriment or injury to
any." Having faith in the peo
ple I believe 1 will be nominated,
if, however, any of my worthy
competitors are selected by the
Convention, I will cheerfully abide
its decision, and continue in the
future, as in the past, doing all
L can to promote true Democracy,
as my party's success is to be
valued more than my personal
ambition. 1 regret that I can
not meet the people face to face
and discuss with them the great
issues before us, but this seeming
impracticable, I leave all to them
in Convention Assembled.
Respectfully,
R. B. Dlenn.
Raleigh Home Wedding.
At 3 o'clock Thursday after
noon at the home of the bride, on
South Person street, this city,
Rev. J. C. Massee joined in holy
wedlock Mrs. ida Lewellyn to
Mr. N. ft. Mitchiuer, of Johnston
county. The couple was attend
ed by Mr. C. 15. Edwards, of this
; city, and Mr. J. F. Edwards, of
Oxford, brothers of the bride.
Mr. und Mrs. Mitchiner left at
4:10 p. in. for their home, two
miles from Wilson's Mills, wherea
large reception was tendered
them.
Mrs. Lewellyn for several yea s
past has been in charge of the
folding department of the bind
ery of Edwards & Broughtonaud
is held in highest esteem. Mr.
Mitchiner is a well-to-do planter
of Johnston county.?News and
Observer.
Cherry-Smith.
The following card has been
| received here:
i Mrs. Celestia Smith requests
the honor of your presence at
- the marriage of her daughter,
f Lula Green, to Mr. Thomas Hen
. | ry Cherry, on Wednesday morn
- mg, October 7th, at 10 o'clock,
i 118 North Wilmington street,
? Raleigh, N C.
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In the last analysis nobody
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