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Will Strive Now For
A Quick Peace.
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PARIS, FEB. 15.—WITH THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS TEM-;
PORARILY DISPOSED OF, THE PEACE DELEGATES WILL !
TORy
JEFEEM Mt
BE DIRECTING THEIR EFFORTS TOWARD EFFECTING A ! Editor Southe ~
THE SBOTHEiEO'S
“--.. SEMI
DEFINITE PRELIMINARY PEACE WITH GERMANY ’WHICH
WILL ENABLE A GENERAL DEMOBILIZATION AND RE
SUMPTION OF NORMAL INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. PRACTICALLY ALL CON-
FERES AGREED ON THIS MOST VITAL PROBLEM NOW
BEFORE THEM. THE WORLD IS IN A STATE OF STAGNA
TION EVERYWHERE, AND INDUSTRIES ARE AWAITING
THE ACTUAL SIGNING OF PEACE. THE GROWING UN-
Before a railroad was constructed
between Wilmington and Halifax
(later known as the Wilmington and
Weldon), .Tarboro had the opportun
ity to be on what people call today
the Main Line. Two routes were sur
veyed, the eastern and the western.
Although Walter Gwynn, Civil Engi
neer, reported the western route more
desirable, yet he felt that the addi
tional cost of constructing a road,
In regard to the election of
I school board by the people
on
the
the
first Monday in May, The Southerner,
for the information of the people,
here quotes the views of Thomas Jeff-
At the cotton meeting held in’
Raleigh the following -resolutions!
were adopted by that body, and ac-1
five steps will be taken to carry them -
out: !
REST AND UNCERTAINTY IN MANY COUNTRIES CAN BE ' vhich W0uId hav “ on “ through Tar-
TRACED DIRECTLY TO ECONOMIC CONDITIONS. THE
SEMI OFFICIAL REPORTS FROM GERMANY INDICATE be Edgecombe’s newspaper of that
erson who was the founder of Ameri
can Democracy, and who was not
afraid to trust the people:
Jefferson said:
“A government is Republican in
proportion as every member compos
ing it HAS EQUAL VOICE in the
DIRECTION of its concerns by rep
resentatives chosen by himself and
RESPONSIBLE to him at SHORT
PERIODS. I am for RESPONSIBIL-
‘The South is confronted with a
disaster unless the crop of 1919 be
reduced and the balance of the crop
(By Rev. B. E. Brown)
-And the Lord added to the Church
daily such as should he saved.
Acts: 2:47
This text will serve very well f or
a sermon on good and bad church
members.
THAT THAT COUNTRY HAS ENOUGH FOOD TO LAST UN- ' th j ows ° n ^ 6 amo ™t Of itieS at SHORT PERIODS, seeing
TIL MARCH. THE NEW CROPS WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE : to secure^^ County mad(; “ PU^T mc^
UNTIL JUNE. j . Du ™8 the fourth decade of the independent of the nation for life,
of 1918 be protected and held until I Everybody ought to ha , >
market conditions justify its sale. To ' church membe- - S °°‘
enable al! people in the South inter- 1 he shouty 15 “ “ 0ne
ested in cotton and nearly all are to : 7 3 8’ la ce grow into a
adopt a direct and intelligent meth- 1 ° n °’ and if he is not one at all
od of meeting the situation, this con- . certe mly ought to become one and
vention earnestly recommends that, 800d 0ne '
the following plan be adopted:
“1) That the crop of 1919 be re-,
dueed at least 33 1-3 per cent in
TROOPS CONTROL SITUATION
Belfast, Feb. 15.—Troops occupied the electric power station
and gas works early today. The Lord Mayor issued a proclama
tion declaring with military support, the new volunteers will be
received and carry on the municipal service. Business is practi-
I nineteenth century, there was pub-
[ lished at Petersburg, Virginia, the
Farmers’ Register. . This monthly
publication devoted itself to the im
provement of the practice and . sup-
port of the interests of Agriculture.
Edmund Ruffin, its editor and pro
prietor, deserves special mention on
even for LONG terms of years.
or
No
government can continue good but
under the CONTROL of the people.
acreage and that the fertilizer on the
two-third area be not increased; but
this does not apply to any farm
less than five acres to the horse.
®l church members are Seneral.
X° r m ° re ° f th ® classes—
■ those who never attend their
church’s services.
-| The true office of our Legislators is to
declare and enforce our natural |
rights and duties and to TAKE NONE
account of the valuable material in
a ^ a standstill since the strike which was in sympathy with j the volumes, accessible to users of the
the striking ship yard workers. | Virginia State Library.
1 An article, entitled “On the
of them from us.”
The people here- should study these
fundamental principles of Democracy
and see to it that their representta-
tives live up to them.
STATE OF SIEGE AT BUCHAREST
Copenhagen, Feb. 15.—A state siege was proclaimed at Buch
arest where the Rumanian anti-monarchial revolution is center
ed according to dispatches received here. A new plot against
King Ferdinand and Crown Prince Carol, it is said, has been dis
covered. The royal family is reported to have fled. Previous re-
J schemes for railroads in North Car
CARD OF THANKS
I ohna dated March 12th, 1836, makes | We wish to express to our many
j strange reading today. It seems that friends, many thanks and deep appre-
a correspondent of the Farmers’ Reg- ciation for the many kindnesses
j ister, who signed himself ‘G. L. C.
had ideas about railroads which did ;
not sit well upon the mind of one res- ,
ident of North Carolina.
This
tlemen, therefore, writes from
eigh quite a lengthy criticism
gen-1
Ral- J
ports stated that the King was slightly wounded when the Roy-
al Palace was bombarded and that the royal family was pre- ' alr i°wV? her thmss aays i.
• vented by revolutionaries from leaving the city. ! of hu 6
a J Weldon, that it should be consti-
■ / ‘ ■ ^ted the toll-gate of North Carolina?
PRESIDENT ON WAY HOME 1 —and nothing permitted to pass the
Brest, Feb 15.—President Wilson sailed for the United States elsewhere? Capitalists,
meichants, fanners, the people, have
aboard the George Washington, at 11.15 a. m. today. ; decided against ‘G. L. C.’ Nearly six
i hundred thousand dollars have al-
MAY REDUCE REGULAR’S PAY
Washington, Feb. 15.—Enlisted men’s pay after July first,
shown us during our recent illness.
MIL AND MRU SAMUEL MAYO.
A FALSE REPORT
There is a report in circulation
and that the bill for the election of the
school board means to give the wo
men the right to vote.
There is absolutely no foundation
for such a import. for the North Car-
I ready been obtained for the Raleigh
j and Gaston Rail Road and the small
remainder of the capital stock will
may go back to fifteen dollars a month, instead of thirty dollars soon be made up - This is P^f that
The provision of the Army Appropriation Bill to continue the^"^
present thirty dollar rate was stricken out on a point of ’ ler, 1 The Raleigh and Gaston Railroad will
as it was new business. Unless the House takes some independ
ent action this matter of army pay may go back to pre-war ba-is
CLEAN CORNFIELDS TO KILL BORERS
Washington, D. C., Feb. 15.—-Corn growers in the Southeast
ern States should destroy all cornstalks and stubble remaining
in the fields from the previous crop before spring planting time
comes, in order to kill the larger cornstalk borer which may be
wintering there. This is the recommendation made by entomol
ogists of the United States Department of Agriculture in Farm
ers’ Bulletin 1025, soon to be published by the department.
Cleaning up the cornfields and thus destroying the breeding
places of the insect is probably the best remedy known for con
trolling this pest, the entomologists say, but to be most effect
ive the work should be undertaken simultaneously by all the
farmers.
Th0 e e Wh ° attend b «t Show no
3 their way of W ”C-
. Who do not believe their
church’s teaching.
“^te no money to
their church’s support.
5. Who take no lively and vital
interest m their church’s success, hon-
oi prosperity or spirituality.
6 ' u Wh0 love their churc h more
There y church >
1 here are such church members
for t , heir church apart and
aside fiom any love for Christ makes
e b and envious towards oth-
chuiches, unscrupulous in their
efforts to further their own church’s
interest, narrow, vain and hateful un-
the influence of godless sectarian
out and on the balance of the farm," Pnde ' That 18 one of the ingenious
ample supplies of food, feed, and oth- “gmes of the Devil, that he makes
er crops be planted. That under the 1 the love f “ r God’s church a snare
present conditions the wisest plan for catcb mon’s souls.
the South is to produce all of the food , 7 ' Who a11 the time find fault
needed for its people and the feed for, Wrth the Preacher, choir, officers
its live stock. , members of their own church. ' Yon’
We believe that the
Provided, that in carrying
this recommendation the
schedule of reduction shall
ed:
“Any man planting five
less to the horse to make
tion; 6-7 acres reduce one
of
out
following
be observ-
acres or
no reduc-
acre
the horse; 8-9 acres reduce two acr
to
es
to the horse; 10.11-12-13 acres reduce
three acres; 14 reduce four acres;
15-16 reduce 5 acres; 17-18 reduce
6 acres.
“Under no circumstance will any
farmer plant more than 12 acres to
the horse.
“(2)
That on all cotton land left
olina Constitution has never been J situation justifies
changed by the voters to give the! every bale of cotton
women of the State the right to vote. *
MILDRED NEWS ITEMS
Mrs. Bettie MacDuffie has returned
home from Rocky Hill, Conn.., where
she has been visiting her sister, Mrs.
Humphrey.
Mrs. Mollie Taylor is visiting Mrs.
D. E. Cobb.
I uamign and Gaston Railroad will , Mrs. Maud Taylor of Tarboro, has
i be supported by the west, and if the j been visiting Mrs. Evan Madry.
, citizens of Wilmington are mad | Mr. Richard Daniel and family have
.oad to Halifax, they | moved near Mildred.
J will find, when it is too late, that.] -
cut off from the west, and weakened : DATE SET FOR HEARING
BILL
enough to run a
! from the'east by the coast trace, the
, receipts of the road will not keep it
in repair.
Wilmington
could not do better chan to
their road to Raleigh.
railroad is an invention, so far
one was never tried before
people
make
Every
that
under
the same circumstances. We cannot
say of a railroad, as of a wheat ma
chine, that, because it has operated
well in one place, it will do equally
well in another. It is by no means
a fair deduction that because a rail-
road from Boston to Providence
succeeded, one from Wilmington
Halifax will succeed.”
has
to
As the citizens of Wilmington did
display signs of madness and failed
ACCEPTED POSITION HERE
Miss Mary Powell has accepted a position as Secretary in the' fered, the civil engineer’s report of
office of the Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Co., here. She 1 -^S^st 15, 1836, should receive a mo-
to follow the advice so feelingly of-
ON
Mr. J. B. Lloyd, Tarboro, N. C.
Dear Mr. Lloyd:
I have arranged with Dick Foun
tain and the Committee on Education
to have a hearing on the Tarboro bill
on Wednesday, Feb. 19th, at 3 p. m.
With kind regards, I am,
Yours very truly,
GEO. A. HOLDERNESS.
Raleigh, Feb. 14.
now in the hands
of our Southern people, and we urge
our. farmers not to sell the balance of
, - , choir, u
j members of their own church,
existing nd su j h church members who run
- > th “ ir ° Wn chu roh and praise
- other churches at its expense.
you never saw one of them doing
anything to improve his church.
8. Who never will work for their
the present crop for less than thirty
cents per pound basis middling. j church by word or deed, especially if
“(4) That to carry out this pur- such work involves them in any in-
pose we call upon the bankers and bus conv eriience, expense, self-denial or
iness men of the State for their hear- criti cism.
ty co-operation.
“(5) We recommend that every
owner of cotton immediately put his
cotton under shelter, or in a ware
house and will not permit it to leave
the warehouse until the owner shall
(6) We earnestly warn the farm
er that if he buys high-priced ferti
lizer and a large acreage of cotton
is made, he must pay' next' fall with
cheap cotton for the high-priced fer
tilizer and other supplies.
“(7) We recommend to the farm
er that he leave uncultivated in cot
ton every acre that he cannot reas
onably expect to make enough cot
ton to yield a profit at reasonable,
prices. We do not believe that an’
I I might mention many more kinds
but must let these eight suffice, and
go on to good church members. Some
of them are:
1. Those who are never absent
from any church service they can
attend, both because they love their
church, and God, and lave also to set
a good example to their fellowmen
2. Those who seriously and hon
estly try with the dear Lord’s help
to be guided by their church into lives
of honesty and kindness and holiness -
who let God through His church
mold them into likenesses of Jesus.
3. Those who do their honest part
n supporting their church financial
ly-
formerly held a position with an insurance company in Green
ville. Her friends here will be glad to welcome her return to
Tarboro.
The Jefferson Standard now has offices over the Farmers’
Banking & Trust Co.
ST. JAMES METHODIST CHURCH
Sunday School at 9.45 a. m., Capt. Paul Jones Superintend
ent.
Preaching at 11 a. m. by the pastor, Rev. D. E, Earnhardt.
Preaching at 7.30 by the Presiding Elder, Rev. N. H. D. Wil-
son.
ment’s attention. Therein, details
concerning the two routes surveyed,
occupy a number of pages in Volume
IV. of the Farmers’ Register. What
particularly interests readers of The
Southerner follows:
“The general aspect of the country
is extremely level and favorable to
ATTENDED MEETING
IN RALEIGH
Misses Emma Cobb, County School
Supervisor and Elizabeth McCargo,
Home Demonstration Agent, have re
turned from Raleigh.
Miss Cobb attended a social ser
vice meeting in tile Capitol City and
last night was a guest at a delightful
banquet when a Council of Women of
North Carolina was organized.
Miss McCargo attended a meeting
of Home Demonstration Agents, and
found the meeting both interesting
and profitable.
4. Who work all they can for God
acre, that produces less than two- i through their church.
'birds of a bale will yield a profit to ] 5. Who never forget that no un-
the grower and every such acrej loving thought or word, no partisan
should not be planted in cotton.
(8) For the purpose of secur-
action, no underhanded' backbiting-,
even if done for the advancement, of
in the sight
ng the united co-operation of all fin- their church, is justified
incial interests and to put this plan of the good Lord.
nto effect, the merchants, bankers,
6.
Who bear vR
barity and lov-
andlords, fertilizer dealers and other; rng kindness the sins-and weaknesses
msiness men are asked to extend [ and inconsistencies of their fellow
■redit and to finance farming on the; church members.
pi . 0grami inclndin g, 7. Who try to ]ealn u
basis of a safe
program, including
ull production of food and feed, j and to love every b
ather than the production of cotton! in their church.
and sister
the contemplated
ford to Edward’s
route crosses the
are no difficulties
worthy of notice,
the route ascends
work. From Rock-
Bridge, where the
Contentnea, there
or streams to cross
From Contentnea
gradually to a lev-
cl which is maintained for several
miles; when it descends to effect' a
favorable crossing of Town Creek,
thence several undulations are neces-
Mr. Mabrey Hart is out after an attack of the flu.
Mr. N. B. Dawson of Conetoe was a business visitor^ere Sat- sary in crossing small streams, un-
urday. , til the route reaches Tarborough.
Mrs. Jas. W. Wiggins has returned from Charlottesville Va ' Th ' nce a ‘ eve ' g r ade may be had en '
with her son, Frontis, who is somewhat improved * ’ ” ^ ely - sc v ? . Tar , A favorable
site for cessing which, is found a
A travelling man here says that 4 yards of white goods are to- mile and ® half n ° rth ° f Tai-borough,
day selling for 36 cents a pound less than the high »riee of last Thehce th ° route alternately as-
year. P ; cends descends to lessen the
[excavations and embankments in
passing Deep Creek, Connecanary
and the ridges between them, *
“OH BOY” GAVE MUCH JOY
The play entitled “Oh Boy” was
greeted by a packed house last night
and from the rise of the curtain to
the fall thereof, the audience was
highly entertained.
This was the best show that has
been here this winter, and one theatre
fan declared that it was the second
best play that he had ever seen in
Tarboro.
The acting was very creditable and
the singing- was very good indeed.
There were many mirth-provoking-
situations in the play, and the freq
uent and generous applause showed
that the play had made a big hitwith
the audience.
alone.
“(9) It
world need
is recognized that
for cotton when condi-
. Rev. Robt. Drane of Edenton, Messrs. F. D. Faxhall of Green
ville and Lindsay Foxhall, of Suffolk. Va. intended the’funlftpl
I'fiif ■;,■«(■»,.!. Fasha!’. ■ ” ; 1
Mrs. B. J. Thigpen is able to sit up
after a severe attack of the influenza.
ions become anything approaching
formal will, without doubt be exceed-
a gLv great and it is therefore impor
tant that those who can, hold their
cotton against that time, and that in
he meantime the siuaion be held in
hand by control of future production.
“(10) We recommend that the
present Congress of the United States
■pact the Smith Bill, covering the
character of cotton deliverable upon
cotton exchanges.
“We ask that the Governor of this
State communicate immediately with
our Senators and Representatives,
informing them of this action.
“(11) We recommend that the
Legislature pass an adequate ware
house bill for the State of North
Carolina.
■ 8. Tiicse to whom their church
thelis a dear spiritual mother, to be
trusted and obeyed, honored and
cared for, defended and reverenced,
listened to and believed, as a good
son looks upon and trats his own
mother after the flesh.
Which kind a church' member are
you? Just ask yourself—
“If all the members were just like me,
What kind of a church would my
church be”
Mr. B. Benjamin is in the North
making Spring purchases for W*
Benjamin & Sons.
Miss Sadie Fountain has returned
from Washington, D. C., where she
underwent an operation for mastoid
itis. She is recovering nicely now
from the operation.
z A num ber of people from Scotland
hu.enfe,^ ^ Neck, att^de^ the 7.O.h,..B.oy,-” ^ow
(CGntmued on Page 4) last night.
“(12) We recommend that
tax-basing day for individual
payers be made June 1st.
(Continued on page 3.)
the
tax-
Lieut. Lyman Williamson has gone
to New York, arid after remaining
there a short while will return to
Camp Henry Knoxc