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VOL. 43 NO. 140.
ASSOCIATED ?RESS
TARBORO, N. C,
SCHOOL TAXES TO
BE PAID BY EACH
OF 14 TOWNSHIP
Mr. John A. Weddell has furnished
The Southerner with eome interest
ing reading matter for the taxpayers
of the county as regards schools. In
many districts the taxes have bee
i lowered, but in those districts where
the districts are hot out of debt the
tax rate remains the same.
It will be noted that for general
schools the tax rate for 1922 is 55
1-2 cents on the $100, as compared
with the rate of 43 cents for 1921
For teachers' salaries, 40 cents.
For building and improvement, 9
1-2 cents.
For deficit, six cents.
These, added together, make the
55 1-2 cents.
The first named figures are for the
present year, while the last are for
1921: im
No. 1, Tarboro, 40c and 35c.
No. 2, Conetoe, 20c and 30c.
No. 3, Mayo, 15c and 30c.
Nos. 3 and 4, Speed, 20c and 20c
No. 4, Busy Workers, 20c and 30c
No. 4, Oakland, 20c and 30c.
No. 5, Leggetts, 25c and 30c.
No. 6, Pittman, 20c and 30c.
No. 6, Speights, 30c and 30c.
No. 6, Whitakers, school 30-30c.
No. 6, Whitakers, bonds, 60-60c.
No. 7, Dunbar, 25c and 30c.
No. 7, Battleboro, school 30-30e.
No. 7, Battleboro, bonds, 15-15c.
No. 8, Nettles, 30c and 30c.
Nos. 8 and 9, Crisp, 20c and 30c.
No. 9, Macclesfield, school 25-30c.
No. 9, Macclesfield, bonds, 25-20c.
No. 10, St. Lewisy 15c and 15c,
No. 10, Pinetops, school 30c-30c.
No. 10, Pinetops, bonds, 20c-20c.
No. 11, Nobles Mill, 25c and 30c.
No. 12, Dixie, 30c and 30c.
No. 12, Oakdale, 20c and 30c.
No. 12, Juvenile, 30c and 30c,
No. 12, Powells, 15c and 30c.
Nos. 13 and 14, Pleasant Hill, 25
and 30c.
No. 14, Progress, 30c and 30c.
No. 14, Oak Grove, 30c and 30c
No. 14, Sharpsburg, 30c and 30c
. No. 13, Lancaster (new district)
30 cents for 1922.
GERMAN MINISTER
SASY PLEDGING Of
MINE IMPOSSIBLE
BERLIN, Aug. 22. Minister
of Finance Hermei was reported
today to have left no doubt in
yesterday's deliberations with
the members of the reparations
commission that the pledging of
the state forests on the Rhine
and the state mines in the Ruhr
as guarantees for payment of
German reparations was impossible.
TIE-UP on SOUTHERN
STOPS MANY TRAINS
TUESDAY, AUC. 22, l'J22
ALL THE LOCAL NEWS
CITY FATHERS HOLD
ADJOURNED MEET
A SPIRIT OF FELLOWSHIP
ITeire is the way the Rocky Mount
fire company thought about the re
cent gathering in their town of the
fire companies of the towns of Rocky
Mount, Wilson and Tarboro:
,"A most noticeable spirit of coope
ration end goodfellowship was mani
fested at the gathering. It was
brought out that the fire companies
of the three cities, located bo close
together, might be formed into one
big unit in case of a blaze that one
company could not handle in any of
the three cities. This plan met with
approval and is expected to take
more definite shape at the next tri
ple meeting. The Tarboro delegation
present indicated that the company
of that city would be host to the oth
er two companies early in September.
REPORT SAYS GERMAN
PAPERS FACE EXTERMINATION
WASHINGTON. Aug. 22. Ger
man papers are facing extermination,
according to a report to the com
merce department today from Com
mercial Attache Herring at Berlin.
Enormously increased cost of opera
tion, he saidtogether with the im
possibility of increasing subscription
and advertising rates proportionate
ly have brought about a crisis in the
German newspaper world and in
newspapers already have closed down
their plants permanently.
Printers' wages, the attache re
ported, have increased about 2,100
nereent over the pre-war levels, we
price of newsprint paper has advanc
ed more than 800 percent, tne cosi
of machinery, printers' ink and other
supplies has jumped about 40 times
over pre-war rates and the great in
crease in the postal, telegraph and
telephone service has severely af
fected the publishers. t
The board of tow ncommissioners
decided to allow fireworks to be sold
in town fr the Christmas hlidays.
Mr. J. L. Spragins appeared before
the board and asked them to refuse
to allow the extension of the railroad
track fifty feet north up Albemarle
avenue. This was deferred until the
next regular meeting.
Commissioner Page, chairman of
the committee appointed to take ac
tion in regards to the request of the
Edgecombe Bonded Warehouse, that
they be allowed to build a platform
over the sidewalk on Church street,
reports that they be allowed to build
the platform provided they remove
same at any time within thirty days
upon written request of the town.
This report was accepted. .
Mrs. G. E. Weeks asked the board
or a site to puna a cnnstian cnurcn
n the old cemetery block near the
old Catholic church. This was refer
red to the mayor for action.
Commissioner Rosenbaum suggest
ed to the board, that some action be
taken In regard , to the better lighting
of Main ' street or to a white way.
This was referred to the next regu
lar meeting.
The special report of Mr. J. D
Crisp on the milk plant was read and
accepted.
Relative to the improvement of
the milk plant and the installation
of new machinery, Commissioner
Page suggested that action be defer
red until the plant could be examin
ed by an expert.
The mayor was instructed to have
the city attorney complete the revis
ing of the town ordinances at once
so as to get them ready for printing.
This was an adjourned meeting.
The milk plant came in for most of
the discussion, but all action was de
ferred to the regular meeting in Sep-tember.
' CHICAGO.'Aug. 22. Walkouts
by trainmen on the Southern rail
way have resulted in tie-ups in
North Carolina, bombings and se
vere beatings.
Investigations of alleged wreck
plots marked the progress of the
railway shopmen's strike, while ef
forts of settlement hang suspended
pending the New York meeting to
morrow of railroad heads and offi
cials of the transportation unions,
which will act as mediators for the
shopmen.
Eight companies of state troops
are on duty at Spencer, N, C, at
which point seventeen hundred
men are out.
At Atlanta 35 extra deputy mar
shals are on duty in the Southern's
Inman yards.
RECODfl
PHILIPS
r ses
SALISBURY, N. C, Aug. 22.
Only one southbound passenger
train on the main line of the South
ern railway has passed here up to
9:30 o'clock this morning, since the
train service employes, switchmen,
and clerks, early today agreed as in
dividuals not to take out a train I
Yesterday was an all-day session
for Recorder Philips. The court
convened at the usual hour and held
until late in the afternoon. The fol
lowing cases were disposed of:
State vs. Tink Lyon, Jesse Wells,
Sandy Tillery, assault with a deadly
weapon, nol pros. Manuel Lope, as
sault with a deadly weapon, the de
fendant pleading guilty.
State vs. Manning Wimberly, dis
tilling; found guilty by the recorder
and sentenced to the roads for four
months; defendant appealed to the
superior court.
State vs. Olivia Crisp and Lula
Farmer, affray. This case came up
from the mayor's court. Lula Far
mer was found not guilty and Olivia
Crisp was put in jail for 60 days.
Defendant Crisp appealed.
State vs. Mose Knight, continued.
State vs. Tink Lyon, Jesse Wells
PLANE
SURVIVOR
s
BROUGHT ASHORE
lis FISHING SMACK
NEW YORK. Aug. 22. One
of the most elaborate searches
ever devised to locate a missing
plan? was called off today after
a fishing smack arrived at Long
Beach bringing; W. T. Miller, the
pilot, Harold Thompson, the me
chanician, and. a lone passenger
of the seaplane Ambassador II,
that dropped from sight Sunday
morning.
The men declined to discuss
their adventures until they re
covered from exhaustion.
FEDERAL CONTROL
OF COAL PRICES IN
THIS EMERGENCY
n " . i ...m..... ii
irom optneer or go on xne ranroau am, San(,y Till0rV( secret assauU.
property- unui tney met IO aeciae
whether their' action will be made
formal and permanentl on account of
guards placed around the Spencer
shops. ''-'
EGYPTIANS COMMIT 16TH
MURDEROUS ASSAULT
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, Aug. 22.
The recent attack in this city on
Lieut. Col. Arthur Frederick Hamil
ton Pigott was the 16th case in the
series of murderous assaults upon
British subjects in Egypt. It called
again to mind the threat of the na
tionalists that an Englishman would
be shot daily until the return of Said
Zagloul Pasha, the nationalist leader
who was deported by the British last
December, and it is the latest addi
tion to the extended chain of anti-
British political outrages. :
GREENSBORO, N. C, Aug. 22.
With railroad officials substituting
for striking engineers and firemen,
Who refused to work in and out of
Spencer while state troops are on
guard duty, the Southern railway to
day began clearing a virtual tie-up
of passenger transportation between
Washington and Atlanta. Freight
trains, howev,iy"are not being mov
ed over the line.
SPENCER, N. C.-Aug. 22. All
Southern railway passenger trains
have been cleared out of Spencer
terminal with crews made up of offi
cials and others, it was stated at the
office of the superintendent at ten
o'clock this morning.
STATE TROOPS TO CLEAN
OUT BAND OF COMMUNISTS
LANSING, Mich., Aug. 22. State
police have been ordered to Bridge-
man, Berrien county, today to assist
in rounding up a band of about 80
persons alleged to be Russian Com
munists and .who are said to have
crossed into Michigan from Chicago.
Efforts may be made to deport the
party.
This case was hotly contested and
took several hours for the trial. The
recorder found that Tink Lyon and
Sandy Tillery. were not guilty, but
Jesse Wells was convicted and sent
enced to the roads for 18 months,
the defendant noting an appeal. The
assault was committed a few days
ago on a nautomobile in which there
were several white persons. The shot
fired at the car hit the rear light in
the top of the car, and another shot
pierced the side of the car. It was a
miracle that no one in the car was
injured.
State vs. Jesse Wells, carrying a
concealed weapon, guilty and sent
enced to the roads for six months.
In this case the defendant also took
appeal to the superior court.
COUNTY JAIL 1
BE
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22. Legis
lation tn enable federal control of
colli prices (luring the emergency will
be drafted within a day or two, Sec
retary Ilonvcr mi id today.
CHICAGO, III., Auk. 22. Illinois
coal operators and mine leaders are
prepared today to settle the coal
strike Ml this state after 4-14 davs of
idleness. Sessions of both operators
and miners scale committees will b
new to report on three days nego
tiations of sub-committee's joint ses
sion for ratification of the agreement
was expected to be held later in the
day.
SAPIRO RECEIVES
GRAND
WELCOM
E
AT
TMMONSVIUE
IMPERIAL WEDDING
TO COST 5,000,000 YEN
At a recent session of the county
commissioners it was decided to make
the necessary improvements that
have been agreed upon for the coun
ty jail. The building will be enlarg
ed) and it is probable that new cells
will be installed.
The present arrangement has be
come insufficient for the comfort of
the prisoners and the heating of the
cells is anything but good. All these
are to be looked into and new plans
will be adopted for an up-to-date
prison house for the inmates.
PORTRAY BRAZILIAN
INDUSTRIAL METHODS
A LIGHTER SIDE TO
POLITICS OF CUBA
SCEPTRE WILL END
HER DAYS IN ENGLANU
LONDON, Aug. 22. Sceptre, the
famous race house whose -sale to the
Count Lundgrcn, an Argentine horse
breeder, was announced a short time
ago, is to remain in this country af
ter all.
Lord Glanely sold her to Counw
Lundgren recently for 500 pounds
It was the count's intention to send
her to his stud farm in Argentina.
But the announcement that the won
derful mare was to go so far from
the scene of her victories on the turf
provoked such an outburst of senti
mental regret that a movement was
started by influential supporters of
horse racing to keep her in England.
Lord Glanely and Cour Lundgren
talked the mafter over in a friendly
spirit with the result that it was mu
tually agreed to call the sale off.
'Sceptre is being presented to the
national stud with no other stipula
tion but that on her death Lady No
reen Bass, wife of Sir William Bass,
who gave 25,000 for Sceptre as a
four-year-old, and Mr. Sievier, who
gave 10,000 pounds for her as year
ling, shall each get one of her hoofs
when she dies, and Lord Glanely the
ether two. i
HAVANA, Aug. II. Credit is
given President Alfredo Zayas for
the only humorous sidelight that has
marked the recent reform upheaval
in the Cuban administration in which
the disposal of public funds has fig
ured to a considerable degree.
Asked by a personal friend how he
replied to certain pertinent questions
regarding Cuban affairs asked by the
special American representative, Ma
jor General E. H. Crowder, the pres
ident 'is quoted as saying: "Oh, I
have adopted the principle embodied
in the XYZ method of teaching lan
guages." Pressed for further expla
nation, he added : "For example, if
I am asked 'Have you your brother's
umbrella?' I reply, 'No, but I have
my grandmother's goloshes'."
THE COTTON CAMPAIGN
FOR SIGNERS IS STARTED
TOKIO, Aug. 22.. Simplicity will
be the tey note of the wedding cere
monies of the Prince Regent to the
Princess Nagako Kuni, the total ex
penditures being estimated at five
million yen. Two thirds of this will
be expended in preparation of the
marriage and the purchase of gifts,
while one-third will be required for
the ceremony itself, the erection of
special buildings, banquets and the
coaches for the procession.
The Prince Regent's betrothal gift
to the Princess will be a small sword
decorated with the Imperial crest of
gold chrysanthemums. It is now be
ing made by a famous swordsmith of
Osaka.
: The Princess' trousseau includes
both foreign dresses and kimono, a
crown titld necklaces whose value is
estimated at one million yen. Her
ceremonial robes are being manufac
tured in Kyoto at a cost of 20,000
yen and twenty chests of drawers of
paulownia wood valued at 1,000 yen
each will contain her kimono for all
the four seasons. .,..
Three thousand persons will be en
tertained at the imperial banquet by
the Emperor, the. first of 'a series of
celebrations in connection with an
event upon which the nation attaches
great importance.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22. Offic
ials of the American commission to
the Brazilian Centennial Exposition
to be-held at Rio do Janeiro begin
ning September 7, today announced
that Brazilian government authori
ties had decided to hold an elaborate
individual exposition in connection
with the commemoration of the first
centenary of the political independ
ence of Brazil. The exposition, it
was explained, will be designed tn
portray the principal industries of
Brazil and their methods.
The exposition will he held in the
building Of the old War Arsenal (Ar
senal de Guerra) and its dependen
cies. Foreign government or indi
vidual organizations which propose
to erect, on their own account, pavi
lions for the exposition of products
of their country, will have space re
served for them in ail area adjacent
to the national exposition area. Title
to these lots, it was said, will be.
ceded by special favor.
IMPROVEMENTS AT
THE COUNTY HOI
The committee appointed to sug
gest the needed improvements for
the County Home are working to
submit plans at the next session of
the county commissioners.
These improvements will include a
special building for tubercular pa
tients and also other additions for
the inmates of the home.
t -
s
I
WEEVIL
REMEDY vIIL
I. GET
THE BEST RESULT
-dim
ASKS INDIAN CITIZENSHIP
IN AUSTRALIAN COUNTRY
A few days ago Mr. Ammonds of
th,e cotton association started a cam
paign in the county for signers of
the cotton contracts.
Meetings up to date have been held
at Sparta, Crisp and Dixie school.
There was a meeting last night at
Speeds. Capt. Paul Jones addressed
the farmers at these places and he
will speak during the next few days
at Battleboro, Conetoe and Sharps
burg.
Circulars announcing these speak
ings have been sent to the local com
mitteemen and all the farmers are
urged to be present at these places.
So far the crowd have been large
and great interest has been shown.
NO LICENSE REQUIRED
FOR OPERATION OF CIN
"Many inquiries from ginners over
the state are coming in regarding the
license to operate this year, and it is
high time," says J. M. Workman, the
warehouse engineer of the N. C. di
vision of markets, "that the ginners
should know that a license is not re
quired." I
"This law has 'been repealed," he
stated, "and at the same time) the
law requiring ginners to collect a
tax of 25 cents a bale on all cotton
ginned was repealed, and the farm
er as well as the ginner should now
know."
Twenty-five cents does not seem
much to the individual, but when the
crop is considered it means a saving
of approximately $200,000 to North
Carolina cotton fanners.
SYDNEY, N. S. W., Aug. . 22.
Nine out of every ten Indians "love
the British Commonwealth but a few
causes potent for mischief exist," the
Right Hon. Srinivasa Sastri, one of
the most noted personalities ili In
dia, who is touring Australia at the(
invitation of the Commonwealth gov
ernment, told an audienceat a civic
reception tendered him at Perth.
' "One of the drawbacks to the soli
darity of the empire relates to, India
and her people," he said. "India asks
Australia to strike down anything
standing in the way of India's com
plete equality with the Common
wealth." : ' .
He said that his countrymen spoke
of disabilities "because of the white
man's piejudice against colored na
tions," but he expressed the opinion
that he had onl yto state the ease
fairly to have things set right.
The Australians should give assur
ance that, if future generations of
India threw their lot in with the Brit
ish empire, they would not. bo imper
illing their self-respect, their right
to national existence or the national
recognition of the Indian population,
he said.
"I da not think it is too much to
ask that the Indians already in Aus
tralia be admitted to full citizenship"
he said. "My countrymen have no
intention of interfering with the eco
nomic integrity of Australia or plac
ing India's surplus population on the
waste space which Australia has been
keeping to herself." '
(Ry R. Y. Winters. Plant Br
Agronomist.)
There is a boll weevil remedy that
works. Cotton growers who now
have hull weevil can use it to ad
vantage and the grower who li:i n
lioll weevils this, year will get even
greater profit t rom it.
Cotton growers . and agricultural
exports to the smith of us know what
it means to see one-fourth to three-
fourths of (he cotton bolls of a field
destroyed by weevil. They tell U
th.it during seasons favorable to the
weevil very little cotton is set after
the first part of August. After thi
time tile weevil have multiplied in
such large numbers that practically
no squares are left, finder such con
ditions tl'o amount of cotton we pick
in the fall depends upon the number
of boils set now. Exaniine. your -field
and you will find stalks that have
ten to twelve bolls set and otlier.
tliat have less than three. Seed from
the plants that have less than three.
Seed from the plants that have ten
or mure bolls sclj will reproduce
plants of their kind. The plants that
have the largest number of boils now
are not only safer from boll weevils
but will produce the greatest annum',
of lint this fall. Seed from these
plants will pa's 'this quality on to ihe
crop next and for years to come.
Then, if these iilants are our heav
iest yielders and '-.reproduce' heavy
yielders, saving seed from them will
pay whether, we have holl weevil hp
not, The results from this work last I
year gave an average increase of 91
pounds of lint per acre over unse.
lected ?ced. When it -was sold the
increase due to saving seed from the
best plants amounted to $18..rR per
TIM M ONSVILLE, S. C, Aug. 21.
Aaron Sapiro of San Francisco,
attorney for the Tobacco growers
f'oollerat ive Assnri;itmn un1 unnnacil
for forty cooperative marketing or
ganizations with a membership of a
half million farmers, received routi
ng welcome from a great mass meet
ing of tobacco growers at Timmons
ville today, when the prophet of co
operation visited South Carolina a
year ago the farmers of this section
were selling their tobacco for fiva
and ten cents a pound. Mr. Sapiro
at that time prophesied that by form
ing the cooperative marketing asso
ciation they would stabilize their in
dustry and double their price within
a single year.
Returning to see his prophesy ful
filled and to witness the orderly mar
keting of tobacco by the cooperative
association in South CaColina, the
wizard of conperatin received a very
heart-warming ovation from the or
ganized growers of the 100 percent
cooperative town of Timmonsville
and the surrounding country.
. "The movement has eome to stav,
and prosperity, better homes, better
schools and richer country life will
follow quickly in its trail," Sapiro
told the Florence county growers,
and prophesied a breaking down of
those financial barriers vhirh kept
the people of the country fifty years
behind the city folks in comforts and
advantages. He said that now every
man who touches the growers' to-'
bacco gets a profit out of it except
flic' farmer. '' .''" " ' ' '""'
"In only live years out of thirty
one, h.-ivi. the farmers made a profit
cut of their tobacco and then only
by -failing to count the labor of their
wives and the children. The coope
rative sistem is the only one that
r ives you the chance for the profit -
vhi Ii y earn," said Sapiro.
Ridj.-iiiing the 'affidavit of one
.Mil. (' Rhodes, alleged contract break
er, circulated widely among tobacco
growers by those opposed to the. as-JCK-ial.ion,
Sapiro said, a California
cooperative handled a suit against a
contract breaker named Hinge this
yar ami got a judgment against him
for - more than $20,000. He is the
Alike Rhodes of California."
President Ceorge Norwood, direc
tor blight Williamson and Thos. B.
Young and other high officials were
present at this morning's meeting.
-Mr. Sapiro will speak at Mullins
this afternoon.
JUDGE OVERCOME PASSING
HIS FIRST DEATH SENTENCE
One man can mark enough good
plants in a day to supply six bushels
of seed. This will plant five to six
acres. Figure your profit. Do you
know any work on the farm that
will pay better than this?
Begin right now by marking the
plants tha', ii.ive the largest number
of bolls set. Mark them with a tag
or colored strips of cloth so the cot
ton may be picked from them in the
fall. - Just before this general crop
is picked send a careful picker into
(the field to save the seed plants.
Store it in a dry place and when the
rush f picking and ginning' is over,
clean out the gin thoroughly and
gin the seed free from mixtures. Re
member, it will, pay whether you
have boll weevil or not. If you have
the boll weevil you cannot afford to
RICHMOND, Aug. 22. Frank S.
Woodson, 71, a veteran member of
the Richmond Times editorial staff, j overlook this remedy. If you have
died at his home here today follow
ing a brief illness.
BELFAST, Aug. 22. Lord Jus
tice Andrewsbrother of Thomas An
drew's, the designer of the ill-fated
liner Titanic, and also a victim when
the ship was wrecked, nearly swoon
ed when passing his first death sen
tence on a prisoner here.
When he was rearing the end of
the death sentence his words were
inaudible and he Was so overcome
that he rushed from the court as he
finished.
The prisoner whom the judge was
addressing and who had murdered a
little girl under brutal circumstances,
stood as if petrified until the warden
seized him and took him to the cells.
Imperial Wedding in Fall of 1923.
TOKIO, Aug! 22. The exchange
of imperial betrothal presents be
tween the Prince Regent and Prin
cess Nagako Kuni which was post-1
poned owing to the demise of the
late Prince Higashi Fushini,, will be
completed in the early part; of Sep
tember,' it is reported, and the wed
ding ceremony, will be held in the .
autumn of 1923. 1 . j
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. . COTTON REPORT
. Yesterday's -:Today's
Close. Open Close
Oct. -22.96 22.75
Dec. ' ...i-. 22.96 .22.72
Jan. - . 91 71 79 Kn
no weevils, now is the best time to jjari 2 80 '22 53
begin preparation for them. jjay 22.62 22.49
22.54
22.56
22.34
22.40
22.25