DIRECTORS PLAN FOR
NEXT COUNTY FAIR
Fireworks and Free Auto
Features; Recommend
Increase Capital Stock
At a special meeting of the Board
of Directors of the Johnston County
Agricultural Society held in the of
fice of the secretary, Mr. Robert A.
Wellons, Saturday morning plans
were laid which promise one of the
best fairs yet held in the county. The
crops are looking fine, and indications
are for splendid exhibits. Some folks
are already selecting things to send
to the fair, and as the time draws
nearer, more interest will be shown
along this line.
Aside from the agricultural and
home making side of the fair, plenty
of fun will be provided. “The World
at Home Shows” have been signed
up and the secretary states that no
better shows which visit small towns
are on the road. No gambling or
other objectionable features are al
lowed in these shows.
Two new features are being in
troduced which are calculated to in
crease the interest in the Fair. There
will be a program of fireworks every
night lasting about forty-five min
utes, and on Friday afternoon of Fair
week a Ford automobile will be given
away. Whoever holds the lucky tick
et will be the winner of the automo
bile. Each admission ticket will have
a number and the duplicate will be
placed in a box and one ticket drawn
out on the last day of the Fair. The
person lucky must be in the Fair
grounds on Friday when the drawing
takes place.
After outlining plans already be
ing carried out, the directors turned
their attention to planning for the
* more distant future. The lease for
the present fairgrounds is out and
some provision must be made for
holding the Fair. Some favor a big
ger site, and a committee is at work
on this proposition. In order to make
some move for a permanent location
of the fair grounds, the Board of
Directors recommended that the
charter be ammended so that the au
thorized capital stock may be increas
ed from $10,000 to $50,000. A meet
ing of the stockholders will be called
for August 6th to pass upon this and
other matters which will come up.
A campaign for additional stock
will be put on as soon as details can
be worked out, which was left to
the Executive Committee.
JOHN EARLY, LEPER, LEAVES
HIS EASTERN BRANCH HUT
Washington, July 22.—John Early,
the leper, has again said goodbye to
the little hut on the banks of the
Eastern branch, where he made his
home during his various confinements
in Washington, and left for the feder
al leprosarium at Carville, La. Accom
panying him are a public health ser
vice physician and an attendant.
Early made a strong protest
against his transfer when notified
to prepare for the trip to Louisiana,
but later agreed to go voluntarily.
A policeman had been detailed to as
sist the public health service men in
taking him from the quarantine to
th eunion station, but his services
were unnecessary.
The government hopes to keep
Early in the federal leprosarium
without opportunity to again escape
and come to Washington. Early show
ed up in Washington about a week
ago, walked into the district building
and asked for Health Officer William
C. Fowler. He told Dr. Fowler that
he recently spent several days at
Asheville and had visited Tryon, his
former home.
DR. G. A. MCLEMORE
* TO LOCATE HERE
Dr. G. A. McLemore, who has been
practicing medicine in the Polenta
section for the past several years, has
decided to locate in this city and will
move his family here about Septem
ber 1st. He has purchased the bunga
low belonging to Mr. W. S. Ragsdale
in Brooklyn, at which place he will
reside. His office will be located in
the Hood building. Mrs. McLemore,
who was Miss Nell Johnson, is well
known here having attended school
at Turlington Institute. Dr. and Mrs.
McLemore will receive a warm wel
come to our city.
RUHR WORKERS ARE NOT
PRODUCING ANY REAL COAL
Workers Are Busy Making Improve
ments and are Not Mining Coal
For the French to Tax
Washington, July 22.—“Unproduc
tive employment of the working pop
ulation in the Ruhr, now occupied by
the French, is threatening grave con
sequences,” two American observers
C. L. Jones and C. E. Herring, re
spectively commercial attaches at
Paris and Berlin, have reported to the
commerce department. Though im
mense numbers of workers have been
kept busy and paid wages during the
six months of occupation, the report
said their efforts have deliberately
been guided to see that little of pres
ent day value is created.
By joint action of the German gov
ernment, unions, industrial employers
municipalities, and railfoads, the
working population, according to the
reports, had been kept at extending
galleries of coal mines without min
ing coal, repairing and rebuilding
highways, and railroad bridges, ex
tension of municipal improvements,
and various other types of non-pro
ductive enterprise, the aim being to
prevent as far as possible production
of commodities which the French
might be able to tax or seize.
This system is nearing a break
down, the observers declared. They ]
found that the German raliroads tak
en over by the French were being boy
cotted by the population, though the
roads left in German hands were be
ing crowded to the limit. Regulations
of the French occupational forces af
fecting automobiles and trucks were
said to have resulted in the almost
complete abandonment of motor use.
Coal and coke production in the ter
ritory was said to have ceased entire
ly, though shipments were being made
from stocks under French direction.
Chemical production was said to be
50 per cent of normal. French engi
neers in the region, it was declared,
insisted that the “passive resistance”'
under government leadership was the
only obstacle to resumption of normal
industrial output and that this would
cease if the Berlin authorities were
induced to change their attitude.
The same engineers were said to
be “not enthusiastic about the possi
bility of starting up the coke ovens
and coal mines under French direction.
On the other hand, the German au
thorities were presented as being
nearly worked out of devices which '
would serve to keep workers busy and
off the streets in the future.
ANOTHER OBJECTION TO
STOP LAW DISCOVERED
Another objection has risen to
the ‘‘stop, look and listen” law enact
ed by the past general assembly. Or
rather, the objection is to the observ
ance of the law by the railroads in
posting the stop signs on the main
highways where the signs are not in
tended for travelers on the highway,
but for travelers on lesser rural roads
crossing railroad lines running parall
el with main highways.
The “stop, look and listen” laws re
quires the railroads to post stop signs
5b feet away from the outer rail
where the railroads cross public roads.
Chief W. B. Orr, of the Charlotte
police department, who has returned
to the city from an automobile tour
in the eastern part of the state, re
ports that he found many instances
where the railroads have posted stop
signs on the main highways when
the railroads did not cross them, but
crossed small spur roads at points
where the railroads are parallel with
the highways and not 50 feet from
the crossings, but a railroad line and
main highway run parallel 25 feet
apart and at a given point a spur
road extends from the highway
across the railroad tracks. To put
a stop sign 50 feet away from the
railroad tracks it is necessary to
put it cn the main highway 25 feet
from the point where the spur road
originates or ends.
This the railroads in many in
stances have done the chief said,
thereby greatly inconvenciencing the
automobile driver traveling on the
main highway, who seeing the sign
stops, looks and listen, only to find
that he has wasted time moment by
topping when not necessary.
Mr. and Mrs. George Ross Pou, of
Raleigh, spent Monday in town with
their parents.
N. C. IS FIFTEENTH
IN MANUFACTURES
Over Half Billion Dollars in
Manufactured Goods for
The Year 1921
Washington, July 22.—North Caro
lina in rank in the value of articles
manufactured by establishments
whose products are valued at $6,000
and over was the fifteenth State in
the Union in 1921. This is according
to the official preliminary figures
made public today by the Department
of Commerce through the Bureau of
the Census, and it shows that there
are S3 states in the rear of the pro
cession in which North Carolina has
the fifteenth place.
New York with its great popula
tion stands first, and Pennsylvania
second, with Illinois third. The show
ing made by North Carolina, based
upon its population, is an extremely
fine one in this respect. Except for J
the great State of Texas North Caro
lina is the leader in all of the states i
to the South, and is in the lead of j
many of thj^ States of the North and
West in the value of the product of
its manufacturing establishments.
Over Half Billion
According to the figures given
there were in North Carolina in 1921
manufacturing establishments whose
products had a value of $5,000 and
more numbering 2,602, these estab
lishments employing wage earners
on an average of 185,835 people. The
value of the products for 1921 is
given as having been $665,117,738.
Compared with the figures of 1919
this is apparently a big decrease all
along the line, but the report ex
plains that the 1919 figures include
all establishments whose products
were valued at $500 or more, while in
1921 the minimum value had been
raised to $5000. The 1919 figures
show establishments numbering 5,
999, wage earners numbering 157,
669, and products valued at $943,
807,949. The figures upon the same
basis for the two periods are not
given, so it is not possible to make
comparisons.
The figures for the entire country
show a slump of 30 per cent in the
value of the products in comparing
1921 with 1919. Though the 1921
figures do not include the value of
the products of establishments doing
a business between $600 and $5,000,
for this smaller business class though
constituting about 21 per cent of
the total number of establishments,
employed only six-tenths of one per
cent of the total number of wage
earners, the output being only three
tenths of one per cent of the total
value of products. So the slump of
1921 was a real slump. In 1919 the
value of the products of all establish
ments, including those whose pro
ducts ranged in value from $500 to
$5,000 amounted to the big sum of
$62,014,795,000, while in 1921 the to
tal was 30 per cent less, or an ag
gregate of $43,653,283,000. The 1921
products compared in value with the
1914 products show an increase of
80 per cent, this declared to be due
largely to the rise in prices between
the two periods, and not an increase
in the products, themselves. A better
index of comparative conditions will
be found in the figures relating to
persons engaged in manufacturing.
In 1921 the average number of wage
earners employed was 6,946,564, or
23 per cent less than the 9,000,059
employed in 1919 while there is very
little difference betwee the number
of 1914 wage earners, these having
been 6,896,190 as against 6,946,561
in 1921.—R. E. Britton in News and
Observer.
SIX CATS DEVELOP
RABIES AT ONE TIME
Monroe, July 22.—Six cats all de
veloping rabies at the same time a
few days ago has taught their owner,
Rev. K. W. Hogan, of Bedford town
ship, that one cat is a plenty for
any family.
Some weeks ago Rev. Mr. Hogan’s
family mtilk cow developed, Jrabies
and the entire family of seven has
taken the pasteur treatment. The
cat experience on top of the other
trouble is more than the minister
cares to endure again, and he will in
the future get along with fewer cat*.
Mr. Willie Glass is spending this j
week in Morehead City.
BIRTHRATE IN THIS
COUNTY IS HIGH
Statistics for 6 Months Show
Nearly Three Births to
One Death
Is the population of Johnston coun
ty decreasing ? It will be interest
ing to know that the registration of
vital statistics of the county for
the first six months of 1923 show a
large increase in the population, al
most three births to one death dur
ing this time. For some time John
ston, whjkh, with a population of
nearly 50,000, is one of the largest,
has been recognized as one of the
richest counties in the state, but how
can wealth in dollars and cents com
pare with the wealth of good health ?
What better proof than the follow
ing report by townships could be
used to support the argument that
Johnston is one of the best and most
healthful counties in North Carolina?
Townships Births Deaths
Wilson's Mills_20 4
Clayton _ 63 27
Cleveland -24" 11
Pleasant Grove_34 15
Elevation---37 17
Banner____...—45 9
Meadow —--43 11
Bentonville _ -26 4
Ingrams_....-.53 17
Boon Hill_64 21
Micro--- 22 8
Beulah --- —54 18
O’Neals _52 16
Wilder a _15
Selma _62 23
Pine Level_..._17 7
Smithfield __—51 20
Total __672 228
ENRAGED BULL TOSSES
NEGRO BOY INTO TREE
Shelby, July 21.—Bird Wray, ne
gro boy who works at Coleman Blan
icn’s dairy farm,near Shelby, nar
rowly missed death one afternoon
this week when a Jersey bull rushed
him lifted the boy on his horns and
tossed him about like a leaf.
The boy was lading the animal,
which has always beeW'easy to man
Ajuappns 4; uaiptt aanqsnd « oq ‘a3u
rushed and picked the lad up on its
horns and carried him several f *et.
^he boy was tossed about eight feet
into the air. struck the limb of a
tree ai.d fell to the ground. As ho
lay on the ground the bull shoved
at him lifted the boy on his horns and
boy caused an older negro, Rowland
Wells, to come to his assistance.
Wells grabbed the chain and jerked
the animal around and it made for
Wells. The older negro, by wrap
ping the chain around a nearby tree,
“snubbed” the animal and got him
stopped.
MR. GILBE1U T. STEPHENSON
MAKES TALK
Friday morning the auditorium of
the Methodist church was comfort
ably filled when Mr. Gilbert T. Steph
eiiaon of Raleigh addressed the adult
members of the Sunday school to
gether with other adult classes of the
town. Mr. Stephenson talked on the
Sunday school lesson, dwelling par
ticularly upon the friendship between
Jesus and John. He explained the
difference between friends and ac
quaintances, stating that even Jesus
had very few friends. Among his
disciples probably only Peter, James
and John could lay claim to the title
of friend. Mr. Stephenson spoke for
a few minutes on the test of friend
ship His exposition of the lesson
was well worth while and the Busi
ness Men’s Class is to be congratu
lated upon getting Mr. Stephenson
here. At Eleven o’clock, Mr. Steph
enson spoke in the Baptist church,
using as his subject, “Financing
God’s Enterprise.” It was a business
man’s discussion of a business enter
prise, the biggest in the world—that
of financing the spread of the Gospel.
Earthquake Tremor* Are Felt
Washington, July 22.—An earth
quake of severe intensity and of two
lours’ duration, estimated to have oc
curred 4,900 miles from Washington,
vas recorded today on the Georgetown
miversity seismograph. The disturb
ance continued from 9:29 a. m., with
-he greatest intensity between 10 o’
•lock and 10:10 a. m.
I
UNITED STATES TURNS OUT
OVER 43 BILLIONS PRODUCTS
Finished Goods in 1921 Represented
Value of $43,653,283,000—
Comparative Figures
- •
Washington, July 22.—Manufactur
ing in the United States during 1921
resulted in the production of finished
goods worth $43,653,283,000, compar
ed with an output of $62,041,795,000
in 1919, and $23,987,860,000 in 1914.
Price changes were largely respon
sible for the increase of value be
tween 1914 and 1921, the commerce
department commented in making
public the figures today, since the
number of workers employed was
similar in both years.
There was, however a marked
dropping off in both the number of
employes and establshments engaged
in manufacture between 1919 and
1921.
In 1914 there was a total of 177,109
manufacturing establishments employ
ing 8,117,895 persons. In 1919 the
totals had increased to 214,383 facto
ries and 10,688,849 employes, but in
1921 had dropped back to 196,267 fac
tories and 8,257,876 employes.
There was a steady decrease in the
number of persons registered as “pro
prietors and firm members” of facto
ries, who totalled 295,127 in 1914 as
compared with 250,571 in 1919 and
172,871 in 1921.
In 1914 factories paid $14,858,936,
000 for materials while in 1919 the
cost was $37,288,731,000 and in 1921
it was $25,338,000,000.
THE PERFECT AGE FOR
WOMEN—WHAT IS IT?
Suppose you could stay one age all
your life—what age would you be?
Would you like to go back to irre
sponsible sixteen, or would you pre
fer mature forty-five. The editor of
Good Housekeeping asked one woman
and she said thirty-five. He asked
another and she said twenty. He ask
ed Fannie Heaslip and in Good
Housekeeping she discusses the
“Golden Age.” She says: “Any wo
man can stay sixteen that wants to,
for all of me! I think it's a terrible
age. T th;n> it's the mdSt Mnhapf*
age there is. There’s nothing you
won’t believe, at sixteen. And think
of all the people waiting to lie to
you. Your happiness is in the hands
of almost any passer-by. You’re
looking for the Dream to come true
at any street-crossing. Any man who
looks at you twice may be The Man—
and so few men are.”
“Twenty-five has learned how to
take a licking, but not how to look
beyond it. Twenty-five has been
clouted on the head by Fate, but it
hasn’t yet got the blood out of its
eyes. It's been hurt enough to be
reckless, but it hasn't discovered that
no human hand can hurt you as you
can hurt yourself.”
The Good Housekeeping article
continues to discuss the various ages
and then concludes: ''Sixteen runs
alter happiness, and fifty runs back
to find it. If I could have my wish,
I’d be always thirty—looking life in
the eye, and that’s that!”
We wonder how many of our read
ers agree with Fannie Heaslip Lea.
—News and Observer.
AN ESCAPED MADMAN
SAILS BOAT 25 MILES
New York, July 22.—George Inger
soll, Yale graduate in the class of
1911 and a mentally disabled war
veteran, who escaped from the Kings
Park (L. I.) state hospital for the
insane last Tuesday afternoon, was
found lolling on the porch of a pri
vate residence at Shippan Point,
Conn., early yesterday after he had
crossed Long Island sound in a 30
foot open boat.
Ingersoll who is 32 and was at one
time publicity adviser to Daniel
Froham and the Goldwyn Film Dis
tributing corporation, was committed
to the Kings Park institution ten
months ago after having spent most
oi, the time since the end of the %ar
in other hospitals.
After his escape, Ingersoll is be
lieved to have taken a boat at Smith
town, L. I., and set out on his sail
to Shippan Point, which is about 25
miles away as the crow flies.
Mrs. A. M. Noble who has been in
a Richmond hospital for several weeks
returned home Saturday. Her many
friends will be glad to learn that she
is getting along nicely.
E.F. CRUMP IS NAMED
AS MANAGER AGAIN
Stockholders of the Cotton
Warehouse Meet; Some
Officers Re-elected
A meeting of the stockholders of
the Farmers Cotton Warehouse, In
corporated, was held here yesterday
at the Court house, a majority of the
shares being represented. The presi
dent, Mr. J. W. Stephenson, called
the meeting to order, and the report
of the manager of the warehouse, Mr.
E. F. Crump, and the report of the
j secretary, Mr. R. P. Holding were
J heard. Those present were gratified
at the success of the warehouse which
is doing a good business. The man
ager reported 10,321 bales of cotton
handled during the year 1922-1923,
3,653 of this amount belonging to in
dependent cotton growers, and 6,668
bales to members of the Cooperative
Association. The amount of cotton
on hand at the close of business for
the fiscal year, on June 30, 1923 was
3,412 bales.
The following board of directors
was elected: Robt. A. Sanders, J. P.
Parker, W. H Austin, J. W. Jones,
F. K. Broadhurst, J. Rufus Creech,
J. D. Underwood, W. H. Flowers, W.
D. Avera, E. F. Boyett, R. C. Gillett,
I. V. Pittman, J. D. Parker, J. W.
Woodard, C. T. Hill, A. M. Johnson,
and G. B. Smith.
After the stock holders’ meeting
the directors met and elected officers
for another year as follows: presi
dent, Mr. J. W. Stephenson; secre
tary, Mr. R. P. Holding; manager of
warehouse, Mr. E. F. Crump.
Even though the reports of the of
ficers for the past year showed a
nice earning for the warehouse, the
directors decide to use it toward
paying off the loan due the state,
I an amount which was borrowed to
[ help put up the building. If plans on
foot materialize, a dividend will be
declared next year.
CANTALOUPES SCARCE
BUT QUALITY GOOD
Scotland county, of North Caro
lina, as the department bulletins put
it, cantaloupes are holding first place
in the big city markets of the North
and East this season, competing suc
cessfully with the California and
other crops. The Scotland county
cantaloupe this year is the real thing.
The quality is there and the market
and the nation are both hungry for
them. Unfortunately the crop is very
short and the amount of money that
the growers will make will be small
because of a small production.
Up to and including Wednesday
the Scotland Co-operative Exchange
had shipped .fjfty-^two refrigerator
cars. At the same date last year the
exchange had shipped 360 cars. The
difference is accounted for in a re
duction of the acreage and poor yield
due mostly to dry weather.
Many of the cantaloupes have been
marketed independently this season.
Express shipments have been extreme
ly heavy. The first shipments
brought prompt returns and reorders
which have helped to strengthen the
local market. Cantaloupes have sold
here this week as high as $1.76 the
crate off the wagons, and that meant
cash for the grower. The season is
not over but it will be in a few days,
a short crop means always a short
shipping season.—Laurenburg Ex
change.
MRS. HOLT AND
MRS. RAGSDALE HOSTESS
Thursday afternoon Mrs. W. N.
Holt and Mrs. T. S. Ragsdale joint
ly entertained a number of ladies at
the home of Mrs. Ragsdale. Nine
tables were placed for rook, the
feature of the afternoon. Zinnias were
used in profusion as decorations. At
the conclusion of the game, a delici
ous frozen salad course with iced
drink was served.
In the evening Mrs. Holt and Mrs.
Ragsdale delightfully entertained at
Bridge, the game being played at six
tables. Refreshments were served to
ward the close of the evenning.
To Visit Northern Cities
Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Austin, of
Clayton, will leave today for Middle
ton, Conn., to visit their son, Dr. H.
E. Austin. They will return by au
tomobile, making stops at New York,
Philadelphia, and Baltimore.