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ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM THE LIVE TOWN OF SELMA. Annual Meeting of Selma Associated Charities; Miss Allen Enter, tains in Honor of Guest Selma, Feb. 2.—Last week Selma was visited by a severe snow storm much to the delight of the kiddies. Owing to the inclemency of the weather the schools were closed on Thursday and Friday. The heavy ice caused a number of telephone poles to fall, leaving Selma to re turn to ancient history and candles. However our lights arc on again, the snow is about gone and we’ll soon be having good old North Carolina Spring time once more. * * * Miss Mary Belle Hayes of Elm City was the week-end guest of Miss Ida Mae Allen. * * ♦ Mr. Craven Page, of Greensboro, spent several days in town last week. * * * Miss Ruth Clark, of Rocky Mount is the guest of Miss Bertha Riley. * * * Miss Elizabeth Allen spent last week-end with Miss Naomi Ruth Churchwell in Kinston. * * * A great deal of interest is felt in the community over the announcement of the engagement of Mr. Frank Oli ver Ray, solicitor of the county to Miss Elinor Edmundson, of Goldsboro. The wedding will take place in April. * * * The annual meeting of the Selma Associated Charities was held several nights ago in the Baptist church for the re-election of officers and mem bership campaign. Mr. W. H. Call was elected president and Mrs. Robt. Etheridge secretary. About $52 was turned in for work in the community. Miss Ida Mae Allen entertained a few friends at Bridge Saturday even in g in honor of Miss Grace Lucas of Lucama. At the close of the evening a delightful salad course was served. Those enjoying Miss Allen’s charming hospitality were: Misses Grace Lucas of Lucama; Annie Belle Warren, Viv ian McNeil, Louie Della Pittman, Katherine Redwine, Gertrude Cook, Bertha Riley, Messrs R. C. Raymond, C. P. Harper, John Jeffries, George Lattimore, of Selma; and Messrs R. P. Holding, St. Julien C. Springs, and Paul Whitehead, of Smithfield. To the Men of America You talk of your breed of cattle, And plan for a higher strain; You double the food of the pasture, And heap up the measure of grain; You draw on the wits of the nation, To better the bam and the pen, But what are you doing, my brother, To better the breed of men? You boast of your Morgans and Herefords, Of the worth of a calf or colt, And scoff at the scrub and the mon grel, As worthy a fool or a dolt; You mention the points of your road ster, With many a ‘“wherefore” and “when,” But ah! are you counting, my brother, The worth of the children of men ? And what of your boy? Have you measured His needs for a growing year? Does your mark as his sire, in his features, Mean as much as your brand on a steer ? Thoroughbred—that is your watch word For stable and pasture and pen, But what is your word for the home stead? Answer, ye breeders of men! —Rose Trumball, Scottsdale, Arizona. Gasoline-Silk Folly A woman and her home were burn ed up the other day in Springfield, Mass., through ignorance of the quite commonly known little old pair of facts that gasoline left open will quickly fill a closed room with a gas sometimes more dangerous than gun powder and that rubbing silk may produce a spark. The woman left a silk waist soaking in gasoline in a bowl in a bathroom to clean ft. After a time she went back and began rub bing the silk between her hands, pro ducing a spark which ignited the gasoline fumes and blew up the place. Had she only known—Conservatism. Wilson to Call Session President Wilson is expected to issue soon a call for a special sess ion of the new senate for March 4, to act on Mr. Harding's nominations of cabinet and other important offi cers. President-elect Harding asked the president to call the session. It will probably be of short duration. After the inauguration, a session of the full Congress for early spring will be called. Landlords and Tenants We are receiving letters from renters who have entered into leases to pay cash rent this year, and in some cases next year as well, on the basis of the high prices for grains and live stock which prevailed last summer. Looking ahead, they can see that if prices for grain and live stock remain as low as they are now or advance but little, they are not going to be able to raise enough stuff this year to pay the rent, and they are trying to decide what to do. As one of them puts it in a recent letter: “Since prices have taken such a drop, I find it very hard to make ends meet. What I would like to know is whether it would be proper for me to go to my landlord and try to get a reduction in rent, or whether I should stick to it and go ahead as if prices were still high. I don’t want to be classed as a howler, but it is pretty hard to pay hig hrent and raise a family at these prices. Wallaces’ Farmer does not advocate for a moment any reckless breaking of agreements or contracts entered into; but we can see no possible ob jection to tenants who have committ ed themselves to a high rent going to their landlords and asking for a re it is pretty hard to pay big rent rental. There is every reason why the land owner should bear his fair share of this drop in prices of farm products. Many tenants who have been thrifty and have saved money can probably carry out any contracts into which they may have entered by drawing on their savings to make good the losses on the rent. In such cases the landlord will be able to exact his full pound of flesh. But it is not to the advantage of the landlord to do any thing of this kind; nor is it to the advantage of the community. There is such a thing as driving too sharp a bargain, even tho it can be made to stick. We had this illustrated dur ing the war, and the readjustment of existing contracts was quite gen eral. We can give a personal illustra tion: We had a contract to buy print paper at a certain price. When the year was about half over, the repre sentatives of the paper mill came to us and said that the cost of manu facturing paper had increased so much that the mill simply would not be able to furnish paper to us at the price at which it had contracted to furnish it. The result, was that we volun tarily increased the price, not because we were under any legal obligation to do so, but because the mill had to have a larger price in order to keep going. This sort of thing was done not only by large numbers of pub lishers, but by large numbers of men in all kinds of business. In the case of land leases on a cash basis which call for a rent al together out lof linje with present prices of farm products, the landlord and tenant should get together and re adjust these leases, preferably on a share basis. The officers of the Farm Bureaus in the various counties might render a good semvive by appoint ing a committee of level-headed farm ers to look into the situation in their respective counties and try to bring about fair adjustments between land lords and tenants.—Wallaces’ Farmer. Around Pauline Church Four Oaks, Route 1, Jan. 2.—Our school is progressing fine under the leadership of Misses Dema Bowers and Grace Bryan, who came to us from the mountains. We have organized a Sunday school at Pauline church and we have as many in the Sunday school as there are in church on Sunday. We recently had a box party at our school. The scarcity of money caused the boxes not to sell as high as formerly, but we did very well. irooa Koaas Meeting Raleigh, Feb. 1.—Governor Morri son will make the address of welcome Governor Brough, of Arkansas will preside, and nine legislatures now in session will be invited to attend the United States Good Roads association meeting in Greensboro, April 18-23. Governor Morrison today accepted the invitation to welcome the good roads enthusiasts. He will invite per sonally the governors of the other eight states which now have legisla tures on their hands, and North Caro lina will be urged to send the legisla tors to the meeting.—Greensboro News. President Attends Theatre For the first time since his illness a year and a half ago, President Wil son appeared in public at a Washing ton theatre Tuesday night. The presi dent accompanied by Mrs. Wilson and her brother, John Randolph Bol ling attended a performance of John Drinkwater’s “Abraham Lincoln.*' As the president entered the audience recognized him and rose and cheered. Watch yoor label! Renew your sub scription before your time expires. EQUALIZATION IS THE OPINION. Revaluation Will Come Up Next Week —Ten Per cent. Limitation Ex ceeded by $900,000. Equalization and not repeal is what will happen to the Revaluation act, if the opinions voiced by the full joint Finance Committee yesterday afternoon indexes the sentiment of the General Assembly. “Not kill it, but doctor it,” as Senator McKinne expressed it, and with variations as to method of treatment, that was the sense of the entire session yes terday. Seventy-six of the ninety counties exceeded the ten per cent increase and twenty-ight of these counties ex ceeded it by more than ten thousand dollars. It is noticeable also that most complaint of excessive taxes is coming from tax payers in these counties where the increased taxes were' levied for county schools by the County Board of Commissioners and in violation of the limitation of tax rates fiexd in the revaluation act. The 28 counties exceeding the limi tations by more than ten thousand dollars each, and the amount of the excess tax levied for schools in each of such counties, above the ten per cent authoried by the revaluation act, is as follows: Anson, $27,233; Bertie, $12,526; Burke, $15,978; Cleveland, $13,351; Craven, $17,515; Cumberland, $25,358; Durham $60,509; Franklin, $19,315; Harnett, $14,260; Johnston, $41,819; Martin, 23,712; Nash, $12,568; New Hanover $15,100; Northampton, $21, 631; Pitt, $23,838; Robeson, $30,654; Rockingham, $59,989; Rowan, $17,864; Rutherford $10,864; Stanley, $16,565; Stokes, $11,768; Surry, $11,699; Un ion, $54,493; Vance, $20,395; Wash ington $12,466; Wayne, $13,650; Wil son, $67,591. borne machinery for equalization of assessments locally, and for bringing the county assessments throughout the State to a common value, is the aim of all members of the General Assembly who discussed the matter yesterday and during the two hours, very nearly every member of the com mittee had something to say about it. Some advocated the recall of the Board of Assessors and others advo cated the County Commissioners as the proper channel, but both with the State Tax Comission to supervise the whole to the end that all counties should be assessed alike.—News and Observer, Feb. 1. Trading Cotton Seed for Cottonseed Meal A reader says she can exchange a ton of cotton seed for 1,500 pounds of cottonseed meal, but to do so must haul the seed five miles and haul the meal back to the farm. She wishes to know whether she should use the seed on the land for fertilizer or make this exchange. If we assume that 1000 pounds of cottonseed meal is worth about the same in value of plant foods as one ton of cotton seed, then we have 500 pounds of cottonsed meal, on the basis of this proposed trade, to pay for hauling a ton of seed five miles and 1,500 pounds of meal back to the farm. At $32 a ton for cottonseed meal, 500 pounds of meal is worth $; therefore it looks as if it will pay to haul these seed and trade them for cottonseed meal on the bas is proposed. Below we are given the plant foods in an average ton of cotton seed and also the amounts of the different grades of cottonseed meal required to furnish approximately the same amounts of plant foods: One Ton Cotton Seed Nitrogen_64_ lbs. Phosphoric acid_26 lbs. Potash_24 lbs. 1,100 Lbs. Cottonseed Meal (7 per ct) Nitrogen_63 lbs. Phosphoric acid--27 lbs. Potash_22 lbs. 1,050 Lbs. Cottonseed Meal (7 Vi Per Cent.) Nitrogen_65 lbs. Phosphoric acid__26 lbs. Potash_21 lbs. 1000 Lbs. Cotonseed Meal (8 per ct.) Nitrogen_66 lbs. Phosphoric acid_25 lbs. Potash_20 lbs. From the above it is plain to see that since cottonseed meal is more satisfactory for use as fertilizer, whenever one can trade a ton of cot tonseed for enough more than 1,100 pounds of 7 per cent cottonseed meal, 1,050 pounds, of 7% per cent cotton seed meal, or 1,100 pounds of 8 per cent cottonseed meal to pay for the hauling or for making the exchange it will be advantageous to make the trade. There is another reason why the trade should be made when it is eco nomical to the farmer to do so. The oil in the cotton seed is of no value for fertilizer, but it is worth some thing to the oil mills and for food. The mills will almost always give more than enough meal for seed to pay the farmer to make the trade.—Progres sive Farmer. NORMA TALMADGE I' This young woman, who In private life is Mrs. Joseph Schenck, fairly ran away with the honors in a recent con test conducted by a Chicago newspa per to ascertain the most popular ac tress in moviedom. Miss Talmadge was bom at Niagara Fails, N. Y., in 1897 and educated in the Brooklyn schools. At the age of fourteen she entered motion pictures. She now heads her own company. She is 5 feet 2 inches tall, weighs 110 pounds and has dark hair and brown eyes. I^WO, tree mont ago one my frien wot’s a cop een da poleece sta-' tlon gotta increase for da family. Hees wife iiava greata beega fat little bam- ] bino boy een da hospeetal. Dat cop geeva da ceegar alia hees friens and teiia every body he gotta besta baby een Uniteda State. My frien ees sure stronga for dat keed alia right. And I tlnk before dat keed getta bee*ga man he geeva hees papa plenta training for he greata cop. You know all da cop gotta do ees keepa everybody out of trouble. He stoppa da noise and stoppa da fight and tnaka everybody feela good. And seence he gotta dat new bambino n^y frien works one shift as cop for da ceety and one shift for da keed. He tella me on da street he can keepa da peace and stoppa da noise weeth no moocha trouble. Jusa be tween you and me and no for spreads round, he tella me hees Job was preety softa one But he tella me now dat keed gotta hees goat. He say da leetle son-of-a gun maka more trouble one night as he finds on da street een seexa week. He say when he feenish walka da beat for da ceety he gotta walka da beat for dat keed, too. He say da leetle shaver yella so louda he can all night jusa for maka da noise. And my frien no can putta dat keed een da Jail for breaka da peace weethout hava da scrap weeth hees wife. Eef somebody ees raisenell on hees beat he getta preety sore and trow een da jail. But when dat leetle bam bino breaka loose he maka more trou ble as fiva, seexa men. And da cop he tlnk was greata stuff. He tella me he no trade dat keed for meellon bucks. Weeth da man my frien ees tough guy and gooda cop. Put weeth da keed he ees gooda man and a bum cop. But eef I gotta leetle bambino mebbe I am da sama ting, I dunno. Wot you tink? O A LINE O’ CHEER By John Kendrick Bangs. YOUR VALENTINE. Whoe’er you are, whate’er your line, If you shall need a Valentine, I’ll serve If It shall chance to be That you’ve the soul of sympathy, A heart that beats responsive to The sufferer In need of you. And always do the best you can To serve and cheer your fellow- ! man. (Copyright.) Haw lt|Stiirted THE “PLUS" SIGN. THE “plus,” or sign of addition, Is derived from the Latin word “et," meaning “and.” Originally the word "et" was written as a capital S with a flourish across the lower extremity. This in time, as haste dictated to con venience, degenerated into a simple cross. (Copy right.) WANTED: CROSS TIES AND GEESE Highest cash price paid for Cross Ties and Poul try of all kinds. Cross Ties—Oak 7x9 inches 8y2 feet long. Smaller as low as 6 inches at little end" ROBERTS, ATKINSON COMPANY SELMA, N. C. i; I Our Delivery Dept. This bad weather taxes our delivery department to the limit, but we are right on the job. WE DELIVER RAIN OR SHINE Turnage & Talton Smlthfield, N. C. GROCERIES FEED STUFF QUALITY A small word but large in its meaning. Webster’s gives it: “A distinguishing property or character; degree of excellence; high rank.” We carry a full line of groceries and they are characterized by that one word—QUALITY. E. A. Johnson &Co. SMITHFIELD, N. C. FOR SALE! My entire stock of Dry Goods, Notions, Hats, Caps and Shoes at 50 PER CENT DISCOUNT. So if you are looking for cheap goods, come and see me. Yours to serve, D. D. MEDLIN BENSON, N. C. R. No. 3 WE WANT TO CLEAN UP QUICK IS THE REASON For one final and last reduction this time it is half price on all Dry Goods and Notions. Shoes and Furniture at Great Reductions. See these goods and you will buy them. I also have a good line of Groceries at the right price. w. J. LEWIS FOUR AOKS, N. C. Good Quality Spell* What Lewis Sells
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