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Weekly Bible Thought:
Repent ye; for the Kingdom of Heaven ii at hand. St. Matthew 3:2
The Minnesota' Plan
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' V i w tininri.ctiTO-niiiK ci trmiHM run hiimiicss
man 'in Macon county should avail himself of the
opportunity to hear the "Minnesota 1 'Jan" explained
at the farm meeting to be held in Asheville Monday
4iight of next week.
The' workings of this great agricultural movement
Will be outlined by the two men who are accredited
with having brought about its materialization, freeing
tke larmers ol Minnesota irom one-crop Donciage and
putting them on the road to prosperity through bal
anced farming. They are Frederick L .-'Murphy,
publisher of the Minneapolis Tribune, and Charles
F. Collison, agricultural editor of the same news
paper. Many of us have heard of the "Minnesota Plan"
and some, perhaps, even have a vague idea of what
it all means; but few really know what it is. Jt
brings to mind thoughts of crop rotation and di
versification, the Colquitt County, Georgia, project
and other similar agricultural movements. Ihil,
whatever, the "Minnesota 1 Man" is, it works. Facts,
prove that it has been successful. In four north
western states it. has increased farm incomes by ninety-five
million dollars. It has lifted mortgages and
put thousands of unstable farmers on a sound fi
nancial basis.
Some leaders of Western North Carolina agricul
ture who have studied the "Minnesota Plan" have
used it as the basis for. a program they propose, for1
this mountain region. Here are the principal points
of that program:
1. Grow sufficient for our needs.
c. Mociei scnectuies oi space allotment to crops
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The Ghost on the lev
By David McFall J
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published by The Franklin Press in its Guess-th
ATI'' in' flu- summer uf 18X7 I home-steaded one
I . acre, ni land in the far northwest. 1 had del
a'-claim as 'remote as possible from the swelling h
rapi!iy flowing westward, with no receding ebb
to which I was to have a clear title after five
once the scene of unsullied beauty and the, vcr
Most ol the land was covered with a heavy gr
and there were small 1x114s ami giuumy lama.;
The most beautiful natural fea-
tine vva- an ox bow lake, a mile
in wi'di'h. (im-.rin! of the crescent
, ' ! wa - in my holding ; on the
Nihei tip ' ( the horn,, five miles
away, lived; my nearest neighbor,
a trapper;. 'and twenty-six miles
beyiind him was the nearest ham
let " large enough to maintain a
post office.
. T ejdectpd as the site of m
habitation the crest of
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Bring Back tho Melodrama.
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1. Horace Oodl,tW favorite tonol the millionaire
ond owner ol the factory, paijAr through Hie plant
on pf work at U A,M- Hiwi
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0.. Tom, the othrjonoC Dodl, is indutovorbeeauitf
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nasty 6a. Tbm tptAdsevary jporffmlfwtein sCuJy,
his sympathy 3 with
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fworKmrf" man. his brDthr
Jrtonity to jtlv hlrw a
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Tomarrivesatthafactorvmared flanntflihirt
ct 5 A.M. He" ureetedbthamnvvith thrae
rw5irtf chewr-j. tWhn thayaddressbintas Mr.
Oodas he twos, and in his birf hartdway sayst
Npt Mr Oods I Jwt plain Tom' toyoo.boyx
"HorrahJ'cryttiivvprKlng'rnerj.
4. uurwa the cwrja o tn f
of donas are found rf
Circumstantial Evident
Oodles colli in th.
lam Innocent
"TothinJcthj
. moans thy
NOW
5. Muriel, a factor
the cell byjeJ
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and products on each farm,
and locatio