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COMMISSION HAS COMPLETED OR BEGUN WORK ON 3.389 MILES OF ROAD. DURING FOUR-YEAR PERIOD Approximately Twenty-Five Million of the Bond Issue Remains Un touched. Raleigh. Sixty-six miles of paving added to the work completed or under con struction since Frank Page became head of the road building forces in the State brings the total mileage to 3.3S9.58 miles of roads of all types, and the total obligation of funds from all sources to $61,670.099.SI of which approximately forty millions is charged to the state bond account. Ninety-four bidders submitted pro posals for twelve of the thirteen pro jects offered for bidding, with the ag gregate of low bids totaling $2,427, 105.34. No bids were received on the thirteenth project, that be:ng the short stretch of paving out of Wil mington on Route 20 toward Char lotte. No contracts have yet been awarded. The projects offered brought anoth er new-comer into the construction field in the state in the firm of Zeig ler-Dalto'n Construction Company, which bid in three o# the major pro jects offered. James O. Heyworth, who already has three of the largest road projects ever let to contract bid in the biggest job offered during the letting at $455,299, a stretch of road between Monroe and Polkton— l With the letting of these contracts and cold weather impending, it is un likely that the commission will offe* any major letting in the near future, but concentrate its major energies on maintenance and the prosecution of about thirty million dollars’ worth of work now under way in the state. Paving is now going forward at con siderably better than 100 miles of finished work per month. In four years more than three fifths of the state system of roads has been built, leaving now less than 2,500 miles of the 6,070 miles in the system to be paved or graveled. More titan 2,000 miles of the unfinished section was in good condition when ^ taken over by the counties and the . maintenance forces have made pres ent reconstruction not necessary. Of th'j $65,000,000 authorized for construction by the General Assem bly. more than $25,000,000 remains unobligated for future contracts. The 61 million total is swelled by Federal aid funds, and six million dollars" brought in during the two years when the automobile license funds were de voted to construction purposes. Ten Counties Milk Safe. The milk supply of 10 counties in North Carolina is now fully protect ed against the spreading of the great ■white plague, tuberculos's, the cows of these counties all having been tested, released and passed by off' cials of the state department of agri culture, according to a report made public hv Dr. A. J. DeFosset, inspec tor in charge of this work. Inspec tions have been completed in three other counties, he said, and these will he recommended for release soon. Fifteen other counties have made appropriations for carrying on this work in conjunction with the agricultural department and North Carolina State college and inspections are now going on in nearly all( of them, he added. records show/* Doctor De Fosset continued, “that less than two per cent of the cattle in North Caro lina have tuhercnlosis at this time. iThis is in contrast to some of the . ^states In the north, where from 21 to 40 per cent tuberculous is com mon. I could go out in Vermont, where I was stationed previous to coming to North Carolina, and find more cattle infected With tubercu losis in one afternoon than we have found here in a month's time. “North Carolina is wise to begin in time to erradicate this dreaded disease. The people have shown wisdom by wanting the work carried on. They will profit by the exper ience of the northern states. Where we find tuberculosis cattle in North Carolina we can generally trace it to importations from some of the worst infected fenters. For that reason , those who buy cattle from other , states should make sure that they are getting them from accredited j herds. This will safeguard their pur- j « chases and also the cattle. Signal Honors For Dr. Kaupp. Dr. 'b. F. Kaupp. poultry investi gator 'and pathologist at the North ’ Carolina State rmieee. has been sig- j nally honored by the American As sociation of Instructors and Investi gators in Poultry Husbandry during j thefr recent meeting in Montreal I ■when he was elected first vice presi- i dent of this Association and delegate i- from the South to represent the (poultry interests of the United States at the Second World’s Poultry Con ference to he held in Barcelona, j? Spain, next May. Heads Bureau in Labor Division. Miss Mary Anderson has sailed ter Norway to study labor and emigration conditions in Scandinavian ports, and was born on a farm near Ludkop ing. Sweden. From the simple life of this remote little Swedish farm, she came to face the complicated living problems of a young girl worker in a great American shoe factory. Eighteen years of' progressive work and advancement in this shoe factory have brought her first hand knowledge of the needs of women in industrial work for better standards of employment and of the possibili ties of the trade union movement in solving such of these problems as the eight hour day. living wages and equal pay for equal work. Her executive ability and gift of ortary. her enthusiasm and practical knowledge, have won for her the Gov ernment representativ of th^ S.500,OOP women wage earners in the United States. Miss Anderson, who has made a special study of the plans for select ive immigration, will visit the Scan dinanvian ports in an effort to solve sortie of the problems which con front our immigration officials. The result of her investigation and reeom mendiations wil lbe incorporated in a report to Secretary Davis, who is him self sailing on the Leviathan to wTork on the same problem in other Euro pean countries. opposition to to the Coast Air Line, and that the Gov Set Hearing on C. C. and O. Sept. 1?. Bulletins issued FYiday by the State Corporation Commission set 10 o’clock Monday morning, September 17th as the day and the hour for the hearing to be held bn the lese of the Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio Railroad to the Atlantic Coast Line and the Louisville an^l Nashville Railways, giving one week for the prepartion of the report to be submitted to the In terstate Commerce Commission. In announcing the day for the hear ing the Commission avoids taking is sue with the intimation from Governor Morrison that he will review its find ings before they are submitted to the I. C. C., but the announcement con tains “the Commission having under consideration what representations it should make to the Interstate Com merce Commission.” Possibility of bitter the lease of the road Line hv the Seaboard the futrehr possibility ernor may undertake to set aside the report of the Corporation Commission have clothed the hearing with more than passing interest. Delegations oi considerable size from several cities of the State are expected to be here, j What attitudif Governor Morrison will take on the matter has not bee a disclosed. The Charlotte Observer, 1 which is generally accepted as the mouth piece, of the administration, has come out definitely against the lease to the Coast Line and proposes to give the road to the Seaboard. The Governor has indicated to the Commission that their word is not to be considered as final. Request by the I. C. C. for an ex pression of the State’s opinion of the lease was formally made tv the Gov ernor. and he is disposed to speak for the State. He transmitted the re- J quest to the Commission, but made and later withdrew the suggestion, that the hearing be held in his office I He then dispatched the request to the Commission for a hearing. New State Charters. Secretary of State W. N. Everett hal granted charters to the following cor porations : Paul T. Oxford, incorporated, with authorized capital of $5,000, all of which has been subscribed by Paul : T. Oxford, 1 James S. Howell and George S. Reynolds, of Asheville, and Elliott T. Williams, of Nashville, Tenn. Plywood Glue company, Goldsboro, with authorized capital of $100,000, of which $2,000 has been subscribed by A. H. Edgerton, J. L. Borden, H. Well, of Goldsboro, and N. M. Lawrence, o* Smithfield. The Ford, Ballentine corporation, Durham, with authorized capital of $50,000, of which $300 has been sub scribed by W. S. Ford, C. M. Ballen tine and A. P. Dollar, of Durham. Plymouth Wholesale company, Ply mouth. with authorized capital or $100,000, of which $5,000 has been subscribed by Clyde MoCallum, Eliza Winslow, of Hertford, and C. E. Ayres, W. R. Hampton, A. L. Alex ander, W. B. Cox and A. L. Owens, Sr., of Plymouth. Concrete Sales Company, incorpar ated, Asheville, with authorized capi tal stock of $100,000. of which $2,500 has been subscribed by J. E. Thayer, C. C. Hauk and R. F. Moody, of Ashe ville. Jordan Publishing company, Bur lington, with authorized capital of $50,000, which has ben subscribed Lydia E. Jordan, Irene Pearl Jordan, William H. Jordan, of Burlington, and the Durham Herald compamy, of Dur ham. Commission Lets Printing Awards. Edwards and Broughton Printing Company, storm center of a legisla tive investigation last winter when they alleged discrimination in the allocation of State printing, became the arbiter of new contracts to be as signed when they underbid every com petitor and were tentatively awarded 60 per cent of the State’s work for the ensuing two years. No definite awards of contracts have as yet been made, and nothing was given out by the Printing Com* mission FAR SOUTH GETS MISSISSIPPI SOLDIER GETS HIGH EST HONORS AT FORT BRAGG. VISITORS DAY CELEBRATED Seneral Bowley Pinned No Less Than Six Medals on T.‘ W. Noble, of Learned, Miss. Fayetteville.—To the far South .vent the chief honors in the awards jf prizes to members of the Citizens Military Training Corps at the cele bration of Visitors Day at Fort Bragg. > Of the half-dozen young soldiers tvho won two or more medals, four were from Mississippi, one from Louisiana, and one from Florida. For dl-round honors perhaps the first place should go to C. B. Cameron, of Meridian, Miss., a member of Battery “A” of the provisional regiment,. C. M. T. C., who won the White medal, :he second highest award for effi jiencv in the training work and three other medals for victories in the track meet. Cameron won first place in the 100-yard dash the 220 and the 440-yard dash. However, General Bowley pinnedj no less than six medals on L. W. Noble, of Learned. Miss. One of them designated him as high-point man in the track and field meet ana the five others were for the events he won in the meet. Noble is also a member of Battery "A”. C. E. Cox, of Cresco Springs, Miss.. 1 another member of aBttery “A”, was awarded two medals for victories in the track meet, while T. B. Garth, also from Battery “A”, whose home is near Hazelhurst, Miss., received a like distinction. B. E. Roberts, Bat tery “B", from Bogalusa, La., was. awarded two medals, as was A. T. Rice, of Company “K", who is from Vero. Fla. N. B. Forrest, of 25 Avery Drive, Atlanta, Ga„ who is a member of Company “K”. was the winner of the rifle competition. Currituck Boys Make Tour. Elizabeth City.—A fifteen hundred mile tour of two states that took them from the sea to the mountains and back again at a total cost, in cluding meals and lodging for the two weeks consumed in making the trip of less than a cent a mile was the experience of a party of Curritijck county high school boys. T. B. Elliott, teacher of agricul ture at Moyock high school, was in charge of the party which consisted of the members of his class in agri culture at Moyock school. They left home on Monday, July 30, and got back on Saturday, August 11, ana when Mr. Elliott had figured up the total expenses of the trip the cost to each boy in the party was $12. The equipment consisted of two Ford trucks, two tents, two big buckets and 10 frying pans, and for each boy on the trip two suits of overalls, two khaki shirts, four suits of underwear, a tin cup, a knife and fork and spoon, a toothbrush and a blanket. The trucks were school trucks owned by the county board of education and used in the trans portation of pupils to and from schorl. The trucks were provided for the trip by the County Board of Education without charge. Patrons Putting Up School. Monroe.—In addition to the new school building at Unionville, several other districts in the county are get ting busy. At Marvin, in Sandy Ridge township, patrons of the school are hauling brick t\nd other materials at their own expense and are digging the foundation and doing other work for the erection of a six-room brick building. Gulledge, a colored district, in Lane’s Creek, is to have a $5,000.00 building; the patrons having raised their part of the necessary funds, securing $1,100 from the Rosenwald fund. The erection of this building will virtually mean the consolidation of the colored schools in Lane’s Creek township. The Marshville school opened with an attendance of 365, of whom 150 are high school students. More Applicants Than Room. Greensboro.—Applications of 1.S64 students or would-be students have reached North Carolina College for Women, with 1,361 registered. It was necessary to turn down a great many of the applications because of lack of room. Big Timber Deal in Madison County. Asheville.—Construction of a band mill and a logging railroad nine miles long, at the head of Laurel Creek, Madison County, to cut 6,000 acres of virgin hardwood timber purchased from E. W. Grove, work to start with in 30 days, was announced by offi cials of the Gennett Lumber Co. The deal is the largest made in Western North Carolina lumber cir cles for several months and will in volve an expenditure of around $300, 000, including the purchase price o! the timber lands SPEAKS TO COTTON CO-OPS W. M.. Sanders, Smithfleld Business Man and Farmer Makes Strong Talk. -- Fayetteville.—“Farmers today need to remember that in order to be suc cessful the head must be used as well as the muscle,” said W. M. Sanders of Smithfleld ,in an address before a mass meeting of Cumberland county farmers held In the court, house at Fayetteville. Mr. Sanders is one of Smithfleld's leading men. a merchant, large stock holder in various enterprises and a live farmer who gives personal at tention to his farm and makes it a success. Mr. Sanders is the president of the North Carolina Cotton Grow ers’ Co-Operative Association and is a believer in co-operative marketing as the means of bringing prosperity to the farmer. He made an effective addres susing a blackboard to illustrate his speech, and it did with much interest to the large gathering of farmers who heard him. He told the Cumberland folk that when they toiled hard through the summer heart to make a crop it was folly to give no serious thought to the marketing end of it. The co operative marketing idea, said Mr. Sanders, was evidence of the pro gressiveness of the cotton growers and if they would follow it, they would soon find that they would re ceive a price for their product much nearer to the proper share of the final selling price of the staple. The mass meeting was a gathering of the believers in co-operative mar keting in Cumberland county one ot the cotton counties of the State where the “co-ops” have a strong influential, following. Honor H. B. Mask, director of the Field Service of the Cotton Growers’ Association, made a telling speech, one which was informative and in spiritional. One of the Cumberland county farmers has delivered his first hale1 of cotton to the Co-operative warehouse, the first bale of the new crop that has been reported as deliv ered. Reports 1,681 School Children. Thomasville.—The school census of Thomasville has been completed by the principal of the high school, Paul C. Newton, and the total number of school age reaches 1.681. which shows an Increase of some hundreds over the previous census. The report indicates a lively growth in the population of the city, as well, which suggests great encouragement for those who are building the town ahd investiging their capital here. The report proves out w-ell for those who planned and put through the splendid school structure which is just completed and costing around a Quarter million dollars, as about all the space will be needed during the next session, to say nothing of the next and succeeding years. t Tobacco Co-Ops Moving Forward. Raleigh—A landslide to the Tohae- 1 co Growers’ Co-operative Association j is declared to have taken place in the Carolinas. In South Carolina it | was tobacco, more than five million . and a half pounds, delivered to the co- ! operative floors, according to report from C. O. Dixon, manager of the as sociation warehouses for the South Carolina belt, where over half of the total deliveries of that section for last vear have already reached the association floors. In North Carolina more than 15,000 people are reported to have attended , mass meetings at which nine direc- j tors of the association reached mem- 1 hers from every co-operative market , in the East, wno left, urgent harvest- j ing and curing of their bumper crop in response to the call for mobiliza tidn. From the “Victory’ rallj of seven thousand folks in Pitt county wh.> celebrated the association i* victory in the Greenville court to the hundred faithful co-ops of Wilson coun*.' "'ho i heard Judge . F. Austin, director from | Nash county and Walter . Lea, fleir service representati '■} for the South , Carolina belt, the •leterm'narion of the organized farmers to s'and by thc»r association and secure for it all the tobacco to which it is entitled, was expressed in a dozen resolutions of confidence and support, according to leports to the assoc! it', m headquart ers. Cotton Opens in ^-.otland Cou.dy. Maxton.—Cotton today is bringing 24 cents on the local market here. Cotton is opening rapidly dnd much . is in the fields ready for picking. La- j bor seems sufficient; only fair weather ' is now needed. Mr. H. H. Kimnery of the Sh’.p-| leigh Hardware Co. landed a five j pound Bass at the Lake last week, j He thinks he had a ten pounder on his line at another cast but hs was too slow in pulling him in. Three Henderson Stores Entered. Henderson. — Three stores were broken into here, entrance to each having been gained by the break.ng of plate glass fronts. George J. Row land’s drug store and the store of E. H. Falkner af. South Henderson were both entered as was also the grocery establishment of Otho Grissom, up town on Wyche street, to the rear of the Methodist Protestant church. A careful check of stocks of good3 revealed but little missing. The theory was advanced that the In truders were after money. p—--’— UVE STOCK NEWS .-------- # Breeder Is Anxious for Strong Litter of Pigs When the sows start furrowing la the fall the breeder Is anxious that there will be large Utters of strong and vigorous pigs. This can be ac complished If the feeding and care of the brood sows Is adequate. Usually the herd during the summer months are under more fuvorable conditions than In the winter. If they have plenty of succulent forage, shade and water, most of the problem of feeding is solved. The sows should gain enough to equal that which they will lose during the time of farrowing and the lactutlon period which follows. This gain for a mature sow should be In the neigh borhood of 75 or 80 pounds. The gain should be a little larger In the casa qf yearling sows. During the first part of the gesta tion period It should not be necessary to feed grain If the sows have access to a good pasture. Every attempt should be made to maintain them upon green forage, because the sows will then have plenty of exercise and the cost of feeding and care will be mate rially decreased. In addition this Is the Ideal condition for a brood sow and later they will have an easier time In pigging, the pigs will come In bet ter condition, and the milk flow will be ample. The sows should never be allowed to lose flesh. They should make the required gain In flesh Indicated above and this can be done during the last half of the summer. During this time end up until the time of farrowing the sows should receive some grain. If the pasture Is one of the legume crops the feeds necessary to supple ment this may be home-grown feeds or those which are usually easy to obtain. If the pasture Is Just an ordi nary one It may be necessary to pur chase such feeds as tankage, llnseed oll meal, shorts or middlings to supple ment the corn fed. The amount of grain to feed and the time to start feeding the grain will all depend upon the condition of the sows. The feed which a sow requires Is Important but the shade and water are also Important considerations. There should be plenty of shade and the water should be fresh, cool and In am ple amounts. In extremely hot weather there should be some place In which the hogs can wallow.—B. W. Fair banks, Associate Professor Animal Husbandry, Colorado Agricultural Col lege. Profitable Weight for Marketing Young Hogs When a pig In northern Ireland reaches a weight of from 170 to 195 pounds he had better be marketed, re ports Vice Consul Barringer, Belfast, because to fatten him up any more would require more feed than the ex tra pork'is worth. The smaller the pig the greater the gain in live weight from the consumption of a given quan tity of food. Farmers are being urged, therefore, to market their pigs when they weigh from 170 to 195 pounds and not to continue feeding them until they have reached heavier reights. Different Ailments Are Confused With Cholera With the gradually increasing con trol of hog cholera. It is important that swine growers give attention to the many other ailments which cause losses, some of which are frequently confused with cholera. Among the diseases with symptoms confused with those of cholera are anthrax, epilepsy, gastroenteritis, necrobaclllosis, pleur isy, pr.euraonia, poisoning, tubercu losis, swine plague and worms. Brood Sow Should Have Feeds Rich in Protein Brood sows should have feed that Is rich In protein, such as alfalfa hay, wheat shorts or tankage, when pasture is not available. The greatest devel opment of the unborn pigs takes place during the last 60 days of the gesta tion period, hence the importance of feeding brood sows from now until farrowing time. «X5Xgk^sX5l<©<e)«)<sXsX5>®®®®®®®®®<5)®<s)<5>® LIVE STOCK NOTES If given constant access to the proper feeds the hog cannot be over fed. • • • More trouble comes from not giving the sows care before farrowing than after farr&wing. • • • The man who pins his faith to good hogs and sticks by them through thick and thin, wins out in the long run. • * * The place in which the sow Is to farrow should be warm enough that large quantities of bedding will not be needed for warmth. * • • Give the pigs plenty of water and shade throughout the warm months. Both re essential to the best health and g-rowth of the animals. * * * It is the amount a steer eats over and above what he needs to maintain his weight that makes fat. The aim Is to keep him eating as much as pos sible, without going off feed. WOMAN’S PAINS LIKE TORTURE Kentucky Lady, in a Dangerous Condition After a Siege of Influenza, Found Cardui Very Helpful. Louisville, Ky.—Influenza left ^frs. Volney A. Handy, of 127 North Six teenth Street, this city, in a dangerous condition. “I suffered tortures with my sides,” she says, “and across my back. It seemed the pain would start at the back of my neck and down in my back and sides—a pain that felt like I was pulling in two. I couldn’t stand on my feet. My limbs just gave way. . . . “I had taken Cardui as a tonic. I knew it was good. I told my husband I would try it again. I had used other things without relief. . . After one-half bottle of Cardui, the pain got less hard, and I seemed to relax.r I could straighten up. After one and a half bottles, I was able to walk around and do my work. My back was stronger and the bearing-down pains left. I took altogether three bottles, and it strengthened me. “Why, before I took Cardui, I was so nervous and in such a fix I couldn’t eat or sleep. Afterwards my nerves were better. I gained my strength. I began to eat and sleep and was like another person.” Womanly pains cause great suffer ing, and a medicine thaft will relieve them is indeed worth knowing about. Thousands of women have written to tell that Cardui helped them, relieving such symptoms as those described above. If you suffer in this way— «Thke s CARDUI* J The Woman'sTonic S CHESEBROUGH MANUFACTURING Ca Vaseline RegU S Pat Off \fcllow orWhite PETROLEUM JELLY Copied Monarch in Wearing Wigs. It was in the Seventeenth c^utury that the wig found Its maximum de velopment in the peruke The Abbe La ltiviere, it appears, started it all by attending the court of Louis XIH i$ a wig. The king, who was prema turely bald, thought it an excellent idea, and, in adopting it for himself, made it obligatory among discreet courtiers. Why Glove Is Removed. Taking off the glove when shaking hands is a link with the time when this was done to show that no knife was concealed. Call for Affidavit. I had been on a visit to my father and was returning home with an ex pensive typewriter he had given me. He insisted I write my name and ad-’ dress on the bottom. I put it in the rack on the train, forgot about it, and got off. A few days later it came to me by express. I never knew who found it and was so kind to return it. —Chicago Journal. F 1 If coffee disagrees drinks Postum_
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