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MB ILV'4$ JL'A 1 U 1 1 . I; fi WW I R 5 I I I ' " 1 : ' I, m .i 4 ' i " i 1 . , 1 " ' 111 11 ' i , . i VOLUME XL ; FRANKLIN; N. C, FRIDAY, MAY 29, W2S NUMBER TWENTY-TWO ' . . ' ' ' ,(,," . ' ,,. ' , , ', , ' ' ,,!, ,,;', , ' ' " i i i ' -r 'm i i '. I , ,., , . ' , ,nni inn' 'n ' i-,.-' ,n F V ' '-. .u.. 1 i ' '"i ' i i n i i ' i i I .11 1 1 ' . I FRANKLIN HIGH ibbb . ilpinatlag 1025 mLCOHESIN AT 706 FEET Local School Closes Most Successful Year In Its His tory Dr. Ashley Chappell Preached the Sermon. Last week the Commencement ex ercises of the local high school were observed, thus bringing to a close th most successful year in the history of the intitution. Tuesday evening at the Methodist church Dr. Ashley Chappelle of Ashe ville preached the Commencement sermon to a large and appreciative audience. Th church was filled to . ovvr-flowing and the audience sa.. spell-bound whilt listening to one of the greatest sermons ever delivered in Franklin. Dr. Chappell took his ', text from the seventh . chapter of Ivomans as follows: "Who shall de liver me from this death." Thursday evening at the schoo1 auditorium the Senior class presea eel a play entitled ; "All For Charity.'' i..-' .The cast of characters . included Arthur Mashburn, Eva Baird, Alton Corpening, Glee Garner, Beulah Jol lay, Charles Conley, Mims Crawford, Katp Moore, 'Ned Teague, Edwina DalrympleV Joe Mcore and Bessie Cunningham. Under the excellent training of . Miss Mahaffey, these young people acquitted themselves in a very credit able manner. Those who were .for tunate enough to see this perfor mance claim that the superb acting of those taking part closely ap proached professional standards. (m Friday evening the graduating exercises took place, a class ot z5 receiving diplomas. ' kcv. j. Q. Wallace pronounced the invocation. , The Glee Club then sang a selec-r tion after which, the oratorical con test hetween the two literary societies was held. The Glee Club then rend ered another selection. .Dr. N. W. Walker of the University of North Carolina made the bac calaureate address which , was much appreciated by. the large audience present. ' After the address diplomas were awarded to the following named ' students: Misses Leona Rkkrrian, ; Grace Dowdle. Bessie Cunningham, Kate 'Moore. Ruth Allfather. Tose- phene Snyder, Beulah Jollay, Cor delia Smith, Eva Baird, Dora Lee Garner, Esther Wallace, Willie Mae Ledford. Myrtle McGuic, Glee Garn s er, Edwina 'Dalrymple, Mary Louise Porter, Joyce Jacobs, Gay Bennett, Annie Mae Blaine and Messrs. Ned 1 TeagueK Alton Corpening, Arthur Mashburn, Joe Moore, Mims Craw ford, Weyman Crawford. " Teachers certificates were awarded the following students who had suc ' cessfully, completed the teacher train ing course: Misses Lillip Calloway Joyce Jacobs, Eunice Cunningham Gay Bennett, Hattie Brendle. Ruth Stillwell, Mary Jackson, Harriett Srraine and - - The declamation medal was; won by Mr. Mims Crawford while Miss . Edwina Dalrymple received the med al for the best recitation. Miss Lois Ferguson received .the scholarship medal with a general average for the year of 96.28 per cent. . Smith Installs Iceless Fount Dr. Frank T. Smith in keeping with his policy of having the latest nd most modern equipment, has installed in his drug store n' iceless soda fount.' j-" - -- By a mecharrfcal process something similar to thai Used in cold storage plants, ice cf e im, water and soft drinks can be kept at any desired temperature wi hout the use of ice. . The' new fo mt " is known as the Mechari-I-Cqf a ' contractions for VMechanicallff c Cold." . . 'The use d? mechanical equipment instead of ict n the cooling process insures the V lost perfect sanitary conditions. D Smith is to be con- . gratulated on Installing such modern equipment. .Possibly no dther, town of the size oIranklin in the western part of the late has a drug store similarly eJ Bped.. The interiorTof the Mechan-r-Cold is, lined with iickel throughout and there are varilus compartments for ice cream, softdrinks, etc. , ' . Bingham Students Home . Messrs.: Thbmas:' Porter, 1 James (.'MnniiHfliitm.4 IB--)U .Cw B'yhain' and ' Mack Franks! returned last Friday from Binghanl Military Academy at Ashcville wheive they have been go ir, to school, ft I Safe-y. miW: wi i f TKey fougKt to give ui Peace, and lo ! praves Hordes Not IT IS one of .tlie Ironies' of a Bol ter's fate that he may be lion ized in a moment of need, only to be utterly forgotten after the moke of battle has cleared. Through out the world the tragedy of the sol dier ignored and1 neglected after he has given the bMt of his youth and vitality to his country Is a spectacle which distresses the eye of even the most casual observer, ex-Major Namm of the Fifth division, A. E. F., writes, in the New York Herald-Tribune. And If it be so with the living, what must1 It be with the dead? . ! But the corollary does not neces sarily follow. So far as America: Is concerned, the dead are being cared for. No one can visit the great ceme teries of the battle areas without re alizing the sanctity that is being pre served about the graves of the fallen, ,wlthout sensing the beauty of the trib ute that is being 'paid by tender hands dedicated to that sole purpose. Row Upon row they 'He there, like men In La profound sleep, content with' their martyrdom, yearning ror no awanen lng. - . ".. : ;' I Only one thought comes to disturb ,the peaceful picture. Unfortunately, not all of the dead are there. Some of the fallen have not had' the grace of a decent burial. Of the seTenty odd thousand American soldiers who died overseas more than two thousand never haye been- located, and still are being carried on the records of the jjVar department as 'reported miss jlng." Md qt all the nUrases that were flung Into circulation by the war none has been a more -poignant source of pain, of hope, of doubt than those 'two words which announced the' fate of a boy to be unknown. To. thousands of American mothers and fathers that phrase "reported missing" hns repeat jef Itself , almost, dally for the , last 'seven years, provoking nil manner ' of speculation, yet forbidding any defi nite conclusion. . " Tragedy of the "Missing." What, After all, had become of him? If dead, ' why Avas his body never foundj The1 vision of . him lying In some Shell hole, unseen, unguarded against the spoliation of earth and Belleau Wood, of Glorious Memory Larger numbers of soldier dead of the Second division are buried in Aisne- Marne than of any other organization, suffering tremendous losses, rTKey gained time, or cast up suddenly and sacri legiously by some laborer's spade that vision Is not one to allay parental, anguish. On the contrary, dead though, thai body bee so long ns it has not been laid to rest It-seems to have voice, a voice which cries out to loved ones at home', ; . And here It must be remembered that "reported missing" does not' nee-; essarily mean that the soldier has been killed. It yields room for hope, but hope mingled with grave concern. He may have survived, although badly hurt, and that conjecture suggests the possibility of his lying helpless In some hdspital or wandering around Europe bereft of strength and reason. Again, he may have been neither killed nor hurt, which opens up a new field for speculation and the fear of something worse than death desertion. What is being done to lift the veil of mystery' which enshrouds the misfsing? Are they to remain officially forgot ten? On the contrary, although It re quires time, skill and unremitting ef fort, the work of tracing, the names, of recovering the bodies, of replevin;;' in some cases members that had been scattered by shell bursts, of establish ing the Identity of the whole and of burying It finally alongside of the com rades with whom the "missing" one had fought and died all that Is being done quietly and diligently by the American Graves Registration service Tribute to Heroic Dead A If r : 9. .A r' k.: ' fv1 It" w, The last Ceremonies, at the graves of the overseas dead of the navy' and marine corps, when the heroic dead of the war time are laid to rest at Arling ton cemetery. Photo shows the colors dipped as the resounding notes of "Taps" ars played. " ., .because it was at Belleau woods that this. fWlk'L JL, division became immortal in driving out the Germans in July, 1918, although k T 1 C7l AWWV Y' 5 . : , l : . I a better Peace &an ours PHOEBE CARY In France. Each month brings the re covery of more bodies; each week brings a reduction, even though slight, In the number of missing, and with the continuance of this work under direc tion as intelligent and conscientious as It has had; In the past the time may yet come when most of the missing will nave been accounted for and the fears and doubts concerning them will have been stilled. Many "Unknown." The Important work of searching and accounting for the missing was begun by the fields units section of the Graves Registration service imme diately after the close of the war. The task proved to be extremely difficult. Records of burial made under battle conditions were (not complete, for bodies had been hastily Interred under fire and the terrain had been subject to many .transformations. The first search of the battle zone in the fall of 1918 and in the spring of 1919, there fore, met with but little success. ' It was not until November, 1923, that the Graves -Registration .service became free to resume an organized-! and systematic effort to search the records for the missing, to recover un seated bodies. At that time an officer who had seen four years of service in the field was detailed to the Paris of fice and placed In charge of the rec ords, Investigation and research de partment. He was especially equipped ,for the task In that he had served In the Infantry and was thoroughly fa miliar with battle terrain, and also be cause he bad a knowledge of anatomy which was exceedingly useful In the work of establishing Identity between dismembered parts, where a shell, as often happened, had played particular havoc with the victim. Good Work Going On. That officer organized a series of units Which are now serving in all the battle zones where Americans fought, and under his direction the work has progressed steadily and successfully. Unfortunately for the service, under the operation of the "Manchu law" which requires every officer to serve one year out of five with troops, the man who until recently was In charge of the task has been compelled to re turn to Amorlea. The work, however, will be carried on by his successor. , Froin January l' t July 1 of 1Q24 the units engaged In the search .recov ered and established thp Identity of 125 bodies, or at the rate of 5 a week. They also recovered 29 . bodies on which Identification, could not be es tablished owing to mutilation and cor rosion that had taken place with the passing of time. These results can only be regarded as remarkable and foster the belief that the time Is not Jar distant when the search for missing heroes of the World war will be crowned wIUj com plete success. Franklin Now Assured of an Excellent Supply of Pure Water Will Bore to 750 Feet. On Fr'day of last week the munici pal well being bortd near thP home ; of Mr. Tom Angel was tested and found to yield 100 gallons per minute at a bepth of 706 feet. At a meeting of thP town board on Saturday, it was decided to continue bpring until a depth of 750 feet is reached in order to furnish a settling basin for . any sand that might accumulate in the bottom of the' well. This well when used in connection with the one already in service is destined to yield an abundant watier supply for years to come. . Coming as it does from a depth of over 701) feet the water is bound to be free from germs of all kinds. The :iew well was bored , by the Virginia Machinery & Well company of Richmond. Mr. J. O.. Feeples, liclil superintendent of that company vas here when the vein of water was struck. At a meeting of thp. town board last Tuesday night contract for deep well pump and electric motor was awarded to the company represented by M. Peeples. CONTROLLING BEAN BEETLE Bean Beetle Cannot Be Con trolled In Same Manner as Potato Beetle Dusting . Instructions. The reason why many gardeners fail to control the Mexican bean beetle is - because they try to apply the same principle of control to the bean beetle that they do to the potato beetle. The rule' followed in con trolling the potato beetle is to apply poison when the grubs are conspicu ous. These grubs eat the entire leaf and are thus very easily pois oned. With the bean beetle, however, feeding takes place .almost altogether on the underside of the leaf so that joison applied in the ordinary man ner fails to kill them. Also th,, gard ener generally does not make a very good job of dusting and many of the larva escape. It is much easier to kill the adult beetle than to kill the larva. When the beetles appear, ap ply immediately a dusting mixture of sodium fluosilicate plus nine parts by volume of hydrated lime at the rate of fifteen to twenty-five pounds of the m;xture per acre. Sodium fluo silicate is a rather new insecticide and on bp obtained from most ot ti i'ctilizer companies at a cost of abyut eight or nine cents per pound. If this cannot be obtained a dust of cue part of calcium arsenate, one sulphate dust and four parts of hy drated lime may be used. Care should bp exercised to apply the materials to. the underside of the leaves. For small patches a hand bellows duster is good. For larger fields a rotary, dusst gun will do the work quicker. The first application of dus. should be madp as soon as thi beetles ap pear in the patch and before egg lay in?; is under way. Genetally the second application is g'ven in about a wttk. This application tan be de layed ten days if no rain:, occur. If tains wash the materials eff it is de sirable to dust again four or five days after the first application. - Where . beetle, are not hums.ous one or two applications . may jftce. ? Usually three or four will be accessary a week or e,i days apart u itil the crop is about made. If this method of con trol is used and the dusting job prop erly done, there, is abroUitiy '. no reason" 'why 'one should not raise a good crop ef beans, Dorothy. Louise Edwards Little Dorothy Louise Edwards, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Edwards of Franklin died at her home May 1 1th, 1925. Had she livjed the little girl would. have' been two years old on August 16th. The family returned from Castonia about two months ago where they had been living for some time. On moving back to franklin the little child became ill but was, thought to 1C on the road to recovery when she had a relapse that resulted in death. Hcf Sweet disposition and pleasant smile , made her a favorite with all who knew her. Th-.community ex tends to the bereaved family thu Mr.arct sympa'hy. . 7. 1
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