Home and
ciub News
By Eleanor Pratt Covington
Mrs. W. G. Stancill. from Washing- j
ton. has been in the county giving deni j
onstration- on preparing and cooking ,
a meal on the steam pressure cooker I
the pa?t four days in connection with
the foods work under the direction
of the home agent.
Miss Helen Estabrook, state house
furnishing specialist, attended the club
meeting at Albemarle last Wednesday.
Miss Estabrook made a talk to the
club members on “home management.’
The clubs of the county will study
home management next year as their
major subject. The minor subjects
will be yard improvement, with a free
trip to the state short course for the
winner; gardening and canning, with a
free trip to the short course for the
winner. The program of work is
looked forward to with interest.
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Mrs. Manning entertained the We
nona Club last Thursday and the
crowd overflowed into two rooms. 1 he
Wenona club voted not to serve at
their meetings, and the attendance has
not fallen off—it has increased, if any
thing.
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Mrs. W. H. Harrison, president of
the federation, has been asked to at
tend the district meeting of farm and
home agents which convenes in F.den
ton on the 8th of December.
Miss Estabrook looked over a set
of questions in the home agent's of
fice last week, which covered the
work on house furnishings studied
this year. She said, “If the women
can answer those questions correctly,
they will be entitled to college di
plomas in that one particular line.”
Well, the home agent can say to any
one, just come out and see for your
self—the members that have attended
regularly can answer them easily.
Several people have I been to the
home agent’s office to inquire if a
demonstration club could be organized
in their community. The only way
one can be organized is to give up
one that is already organized. This
will not be done unless we happen to
discover a “delad” club among our
number. A club is considered dead
unless the members are active and
interested in helping put the work a
cross and maintaining an average at
tendance of 50 per cent of club mem
bers enrolled.
38 Children in Schools
Being Furnished Milk
Thirty-eight children in the Plym
outh schools are being furnished milk
daily, according to an announcement
made today by E. H. Hicks, superin
tendent. These children are selected
as undernourished and underweight,
and this method is being used to bring
them to physical normality. Expense
of the milk is being borne by organi
zations and private subscriptions.
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Mrs. Irene Jervis, of Philadelphia,
Pa., has been compelled by law to give
up her miniature zoo, which consist
ed of 100 white mice, 15 turtles, 10
dogs, 5 cats, 6 parrots, and 2 monkeys
because one of the latter animals had
beaten a neighbor’s head with the ban
jo it had stolen.
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The world’s record for continuous
Sunday school attendance—96 years, is
claimed by 101-year-old W. 13. Bow
die, of Lima, Ohio.
BLACK WALNUTS
TO BE GROWN BY
CLUB MEMBERS
More than 400 club members of (
North Carolina will plant black wal
nut seedlings this fall, in addition to
a large number of adults, who have
requested the trees so far this fall.
“Our 4-H club members are step
ping to the front as planters of black
walnut trees this fall," says R. W.
Graeber, extension forester at State
College. "So tar we have orders from
400 club members who will plant 25
trees each and applications from sev
eral hundred more are expected be
fore the season closes. The trees have
been grown by the State Forest nurs
ery near Clayton, in Johnston County
and are being distributed by the coun
ty home and farm agents. Hertford
County has the distinction of organiz
ing the first black walnut club among
the girls, and Davidson is leading
with orders from boys. County Agent
P. M. Hendricks, of Davidson, has
already placed orders for 2,750 trees
'to be planted by 110 club boys.
Mr. Graeber says that County Agent
D. H. Sutton is also continuing the
'black walnut planting begun in Cald
well County last year by Mr. Hcn
Idricks. The Lenoir Chamber of Com
merce is financing the boys. Catawba
'and McDowell Counties are also taking
much interest in the new project. To
'date 19 counties have sent in orders
to: Mr. Graeber for their club mem
bers.
One adult who owns a farm in
Chatham County has purchased 2,000
trees and began his planting on No
' vember 16.
i The club members are keeping care
| ful records on their trees for five
years and will report the results of
thei work to the extension service for
'credit on their club projects.
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CONSIDER THE
SOIL FERTILITY
Now that North Carolina is close
ly approaching the production oi
needed food and feed crops, little ex
pansion in this direction may be made
by farmers looking for substitute crops
for cotton and tobacco. The next
step therefore is to fill the land with
humus and organic matter so that it
might be put into a high state of fer
tility looking to better days in farm
ing.
“We do not think that cotton grow
ers may turn successfully to the pro
duction of tobacco next season,” says
I. O. Schaub, director of the agricul
tural extension service at State Col
lege, “We do think, however, there
is a great need to build up the fer
tility of the soil so that it may pro
duce more profitable acre yields in
the future. There is little cash to be
obtained in producing cotton and to
bacco anyway and the man who has
grown all of his food and feedstufTs
is in a good position to plant legumes
so as to add to the fertility of his
soil. The beginning should be made
this fall.”
Dean Schaub believes the day when
North Carolina can be counted as a
leader in cotton production is gone,
j The state should continue to produce
this staple but devoting its energies
j to growing only the highest quality
which measures about an inch or an
inch and a sixteenth, leaving to other
areas the production of low grade lint.
Cotton growers should not increase
the acreage to tobacco next season.
This means that the thing to do is
to plant soil improving crops in rota
! tions that will continue to improve the
I soil and will provide plenty of food
and feed. With pastures added,
j Repairs to the dikes of Holland cost
$1,000,000 annually.
STATE THEATRE
PLYMOUTH, NORTH CAROLINA
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Monday and Tuesday
November 23-24
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Wednesday November 24
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Saturday
November 28
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MATINEE—Saturday, 3 P. M. NIGHT—7 and 9 P. M.
SPECIAL SERVICES ) '
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A preaching mission is being
conducted here this week at the
Grace Episcopal church by the
Rev. Mr. Jackson. The services
have been in progress for a week
and will end this Sunday evening.
Parishoners here will remember
that Mr. Jackson was here about
three years ago serving as rec
tor during time away from the
seminary.
NEGROES GIVE
AID TO STATE’S
FARM PROGRAM
Negro farmers in North Carolina
adopted the live-at-home program i
this year and gave whole-hearted sup- j
port to the agricultural extension serv- j
ice in all of its plans.
'“Not only did the Negro citizens of
this State grow food and feed crops
to the limit of their resources this
year, hut they have been industrious !
in conserving .these crops for use
this winter,” reports John W. Mitchell,
district agent in charge of farm dem- j
onstration work with Negroes. “In
visiting with the 16 Jocal Negro farm
agents throughout the State this year.
I have been impressed with the ef
forts made by our colored farmers to
follow the extension recommendations
and to grow the food and feed sup
plies needed. We have secured a num
ber of excellent records which tend to
show the progress made. With so
many of our people occupying the po- j
sition of tenant farmers, they have
not been able to do the tilings they
wanted to do in every case: but, there
has been a noticeable increase in
gardens, in hay production and in the
canning and drying of fruits and vege
tables.”
Soybean growing for hay increased
very perceptibly this season, he says,
and some growers report hay yields
of two tons an acre and above. Many
colored farmers report having from
80 to 100 chickens in flocks prepared
for the winter. Fall and winter gardens
have been planted and it is no un
common thing to find families which j
have canned from 250 to 300 quarts
of material, says Mitchell. The grind
ing and cooking of sorghum for syrup
has been noted on many farms this
I fall, and there is a commendable ac
tivity in planting small grain and le
gumes for winter.
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TENANTS HAVE SUPPLY
OF SYRUP AND FLOUR
Wilson Brothers, of Craven Coun
ty have an average of two barrels of
sorghum syrup for each tenant fam
ily and enough home-grown wheat to
supkfly each family wi^h flour this
winter.
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DODDER INJURES
LESPEDEZA CROP
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Control of Dodder or Love
Vine Determines Value
of Lespedeza Seed
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The successful control of dodder or
| love vine determines to a large ex
tent the building of a successful les
pedeza seed industry,
j “Dodder was no doubt introduced
into this State through the importa
tion of red clover seed and before a
great lespedeza seed industry can be
Imilded, growers must learn to con
jtrol the pest,” declares W. H. Darst,
head of the crop improvement work
at State College. “The weed has been
observed in piedmont North Caro
Slina for many years, but had never
i Igiven great concern until fanners be
!gan the attempt of growing certified
seed for the market. In past years,
where dodder was present,, the grow
ers used the lespedeza or clover for
hay, pasture or soil improvement hut
rELLS OF RECENT
VISIT TO RUSSIA
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jrogram and employs numbers of per
;ons under the supervision of the So
net' government.
Government Versus Free People
Most of tiie people in Russia have
ong since been subdued by the gov
ernment. They work for the govern
nent, and in turn the government tur
lishes them the necessities of life. All
the profit made from the crops and
niter business enterprises is used by
die government to dump into machin
ery. Wheat and barley, the chief crops
tre traded by the government for ma
rhinery, and the building program,!
ivith the aid of the government, con
rinues unabated despite the sacrifices
forced on the people.
There is a class of former merchants
ind a few wealthy people who have
not submitted to the government’s 5
vear plan idea. These people have ■
[heir business and trade in the free !
market. The government worker ;
takes his ticket to the government j
store for provisions, while the free |
market person can buy at any of the j
independent stores. Usually these in
dependent store prices are higher, but
in the government store a customer
must take what he can get and has
little power of choice.
Fish on the free market sold for
$3 to $4 for 2 1-2 pounds, with the
same number of pounds of butter
priced at $5. Baloney sausage was
priced at 2 1-2 pounds for $3. Now,
in the government stores the prices
for these commodities are about the
same as here in America, but the cus
tomers of these stores could not al
ways get fish and seldom could he buy
beef. So when a government worker
wanted beef, he must enter the free
market usually. These free market
persons are gradually decreasing.
Taxes Very Low
The government advises the people
to use their property in a community
combine so that together these farm
ers could secure machinery. It would
be utterly impossible for the peasant
to purchase machinery on his small
f'Sirm. Even the larger plantations,
operated under the government, sel
dom have more than a single tractor
at their disposal, while the horses still
bear the brunt of the burden. Taxes
are lower, as the government gets
everything, and there is little expense
to operating the Soviet.
In the village of Egoreoak, where
Mr. Pyshny’s uncle lives, the people
and the lands are divided into two
large plantation systems with each one
having only a single tractor, with
brick buildings, silos, land beautiful
stalls for the keeping of the machinery
and teams. There are only six in
dividuals in this town who are able
to maintain themselves separate from
the Soviet system. Most of the peo
ple are dressed in old clothes and have
now when they want to realize on
their seed, they have found dodder a
serious and costly pest."
Dodder is an annual plant that
spreads by seed. The seed germinate
in the soil in early summer and if
the plant does not find a host, it dies.
If it does find a host, it twines about
it, developing tiny wart-like suckers
at the points of contact and lives on
the food assimilated by the host
plant. Dodder has no leaves because
it does not need to manufacture food.
It grows rapidly, branches freely and
| constantly reaches out to entwine
| other food plants. A broken bit of
! the dodder stalk will twine about a
lespedeza plant and keep on growing.
It exists from year to year by means
j of seed only and these are spread in
manure, in hay and other ways,
j The only safe plan is to cut out the
I dodder-infested area where certified
seed are being grown, or plow under
j the crop before seed are formed,
I recommends Prof. Darst. If cut for
I hay, the clover or lespedeza must be
; cut before the dodder produces seed.
NOTICE OF SALE OF LAND FOR DRAINAGE
ASSESSMENTS
The sale of the following property for the special assessment of the Pungo
River Drainage District will take place at the Washington County Court
hour door at 12 o'clock noon, Monday, December 14, 1931.
(Signed) J. K. REID,
Sheriff of Washington County.
80c Will Be Added to Each Person’s Assessment to Pay Cost of Advertising
J. 1'. Allen, part tract No. 108, 32 acres
| R. W. Allen, part tract No. 108, 32 acres .
Maggie B. Allen, part tract No. 108, 21 acres .
j S. E. Harris, part tract No. 108, 24 acres .
C. A. Faucett, part tract No. 110-114, 80 acres
C. A. Faucett, part tract No. 110-114, 80 acres .
F. R. Allen, part tract No. 110-114, 20 acres .
\V. P. Dunbar, trustee, part tract No. 110 114, 33 acres
Staton Harris, part tract No. 110-114, 80 acres .
B. M. THolton, part tract No. 110-114, 20 acres
Glover B. Allen, part tract No. 110-114, 80 acres .
Clarence Boyd, part tract No. 110-114, 80 acres
W. E. Ma’terson, part tract No. 110-114, 32 acres .
John M. Buck, part tract No. 110-114, 80 acres .
John M. Buck, part tract No. 110-114, 80 acres .
N. B. Williams, part tract No. 110-114, 40 acres
Jacob H. Dunshee, part tract No. 110-114, 80 acres .
Samuel Sawyer, part tract No. 110-114, 80 acres.
Frank J. Hartung, part tract No. 110-114, 80 acres .
Frank J. Hartung, part tract No. 110-114, 80 acres
David and L. L. Radcliff, part tract No. 110-114, 9 acr
E. W. Matterson, part tract No. 110-114, 75 acres .
E. W. Matterson, part tract No. 110-114. 71 acres .
C. S. Poison, part tract No. 110-114, 80 arres .
Elizabeth E. O’Conner, part tract No. 110-114, 80 acres
John E. O’Conner, part tract No. 110-114, 81
John L. O’Conner, part tract No. 110-114, 34
John L. O’Conner, part tract No. 110-114, 80
John E. O’Conner, part tract No. 110-11-1, 80
J. E. O’Conner, part tract No. 110-114, 80 acres
George and Susie Jurick, part tract No. 110-114, 80 acres
W. A. and Amanda Curney, part tract No. 110-114, 80 acres
William N. Fenstermaker, part tract No. 110-114, 80 acres
II. T. Delton, part tract No. 110-114, 80 acres .
11. T. Delton, part tract No. 110-114, 80 acres .
H. T. Delton, part tract No. 110-114, 80 acres ..
G. T. Burrell, part tract No. 110-114, 80 acres .
I. ula Kirkman, part tract No. 127 (C), 11 acres
C. S. Poison, part tract No. 110-114, 80 acres .
H. T. Dillon, part tract No. 110-114, 80 acres.
H. T. Dillon, part tract No. 110-114, 80 acres .
H. T. Dillon, part tract No. 110-114, 80 acres .
H. T. Dillon, part tract No. 110-114, 80 acres .
...$
acres
acres
acres
acres
16.00
16.00
7.24
12.10
32.00
40.00
10.00
8.25
40.00
8.00
32.00
32.00
32.00
32.00
32.00
6.00
10.00
24.00
16.00
16.00
2.48
2.06
19.53
22.00
22.00
22.0(1
9.35
22.0(1
22.00
22.00
22.00
22.00
22.00
22.00
22.00
22.00
22.00
5.50
22.00
22.00
22.00
22.00
22.00
I
ust the ordinary food of the realm.
The peasant working for the gov
■rnment is like a young married man
n America who has nothing whe»
uarried, but together with his wife
hey work toward a better day when
[he government will have plenty of
nachinery and their land will be cul
:ivated with mechanical devices so
that they can live in the four-hour
work day promised them at the end of
the five years. Many of the people
are dissatisfied with having to suffer
now' for the benefit of the future gen
erations.
Everything is worked on schedule
by the Soviet system. Crops are
planted. A foreman and office force
is maintained in every division to see
that every person knows their place of
toil. The buildings are constructed by
contracts with American agencies with
the use ot Russian labor. But every
thing is outlined and all work is done
according to schedule.
The Machine Craze
So crazy are the government offic
ials to secure trained machinists that
three times in Moscow and Leningrad
every courtesy was shown Mr. Pysh
ny and offers ranging from $200 to
Barneit Bros.
CIRCUS
ONE DAY ONLY
Afternoon and Night
PLYMOUTH
Saturday 00
November
New Admission Prices
This Year
Children Adults
25c 35c
PARADE AT NOON
Show Grounds:
WATER AND ADAMS
$350 a month were made in an effort
to get him to stay home when they '
learned he was an egnineer. Ameri
can engineers are making money over
there, but there is no possible chance
for them to spend it, as inadequate
railroad and other transportation fa
cilities make things hard to get. Yet
the officials live in pretty homes.
Mr. Pyshny went to visit Mr. Coop- ;
er. who built Muscle Shoals, but he
was out, and his assistant, a Mr. ;
Thompson, showed him around the ;
huge power plant that is being built
on the Dnieper River in the Southern
part of Russia. Here another fabu
lous offer was made for his services
as an engineer. Thirty American en
gineers were employed in this project.
He had read of this work in American
magazines and visited it solely from
curiosity.
Anti-Religionists
A church that was well attended
when Mr. Pyshny left his home town
at Kalodistoe, Kiev, Russia, when a
boy of 18 year, was locked. No serv
ices were being held in it. The gov
ernment ceased support the preachers
and priests and are teaching the peo
ple that religion is only a supersti
tion. Burdened with the support of
their clergy and wearied from teach
ing against Christian worship, the
people are gradually stopping church
attendance.
A huge cathedral in Moscow is be
ing used now as a museum. The
priests and preachers who were once
the wealthy class of a community are
now forced to take care of themselves
and thus furnish a new working caste.
But with easy divorce and a decrease
in the clergy, the morals there are as
good as in America. Public schools
are being well kept and education is
urged on every child.
An Immigrant
Mr. Pyshny first came to American
soil 18 years ago. His father gave him
enough money to come to America
with $25 over. Through an employ
ment agency he came to work at the
local plant and since has been taking
a correspondence course in electricity
and machine work.
107,
139, 140
108; 112;
'4, 73
NOTICE OF SALE OF LAND FOR DRAINAGE
ASSESSMENTS
NORTH CAROLINA—WASHINGTON COUNTY.
This land, lying and being in Washington County Drainage District No.
5 of the following-named persons and corporations will be sold for delinquent
drainage assessments on Monday, December 7, 1931, at 12 o’clock noon, at
the courthouse door of Washington County. The said tract numbers have
reference to the drainage map of said district and the said lot numbers have
reference to the subdivision map of the Norfolk Southern Land Company of
tract number one of said district:
George Gustoff, lot number 1 and 2, tract 1 ■ •_ $220.86
Norfolk Southern Land Company, lot 17, 39, 40, 41, 42, 51, 52, 57, 58,
59, 60, 61; 63; 80; 81: 82; 83; 84; 85; 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94.
95 96; 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, lOo ' " ..
113; 117; 119; 120; 121; 122; 123; 124, 125; "
H. F. Drobisch, lot number 18, 19, 20, 21
Alden' G. Saunders, lot Number 24, 25, 43
John K. Radford, lot number 26 _
C. C. Saunders, lot number 44, 45, 46 .
I). J. Saunders, lot number 47, 48
Wtn. D. Evans, lot number 49, 50, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73
H. T. Dillon, lot number 64, 65, 66, 67
Win. G. Olwin, lot number 79
Fred Fasso, lot number 109, 110, 111, 114. 115, 116
John L. Roper Lumber Company, lot number 126, 127, tract 23
H. J. I.oeffler, lot number 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 13c, 136
G. V. Lewis and others, tract number 2 .
J. D. Craft, tract number 5 .
J. F. Blount, tract number 6
Maggie E. Phelps, tract number 8 .
Mrs. Ida Blount, tract number 9 .
W. M. Sadler, tract number 10
Levi Woodley, tract number 11 and 18
George Boughden, tract number 12 .
C. Maxwell, tract number 13 .
George Davenport, tract number 13
W. M. Bateman and W. R. Swain, tract number 14 ......
Lois Gaylord, tract number 15 and 19 .
Charles Williams, tract number 16 .
Howard Roberts, tract number 17 .
L. L. Lewis, tract number 20 ..
L. J. Barco, tract number 21 .
T. E. Knowles, tract number 22 .
E. Harrington, heirs, tract 24 .
W. C. Thompson estate, tract number 30.
Norfolk Southern Railroad Company, special assessment
This the 5th dav of November, 1931. .a
J, K. REID. Sheriff
5,898.16
418.90
276.08
110.43
331.29
220.86
1,104.30
387.88
110.43
622.58
.. 265.97
1,159.46
129.49
28.44
8.65
5.36
18.50
19.36
35.10
.56
.14
.05
91.92
7.27
.20
.32
.14
.47
1.06
... 10.65
. 535.42
54.39
5c per
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