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AND W A Y N E S V I L L E COURIER
Volume XIX
Number 10
Volume III. No 51
Waynesvllle, N. C, Thursday, November 8th, 1 91 7
$1 .50 a Year
NOTES TO FARMERS
, Growing the "stuff" Is the problem
of the farmer today," The market is
all that could be asked. Starvation
prices are no more. This should be
a mighty-incentive to, farmers, who
toil over their land year after year,
to make that land return the highest
possible yields this year when prices
are so good. Wheat sowing is no
more than half over in the county
and the effort of the farmer to in
crease the acreage of this crop' in.
spite of the late maturing corn: crop
is commendable. ' However special
fforfc ... should be made . to get the
ground in good shape for the seed.
The main thing is to have firm
- aeed bed and to get this no effort
should be spared , to "drag, roll and
: pack in every way pratical the late
broken land. Then put on a good
application of phosphate,'-it pays.
- Governor Bickett has proclaimed
November ? as "Thrift Month" in
North Carolina and called on the"
people to do - certain things, as fol
- lows: a.
1. "Tenants to buy a farm." We
have 38 per cent of the rural popu
lation of Haywood county ' as ten
ants. , So long as that is so our
rural wealth and rural progress will
not 4e great. ' -
2. "Pay off all debts and Btart oh
a cash basis."
. 8. Start a savings account in
some bank or credit union." :
4. "Increase the number of liMe
stock kent on the farm." .
- JS. "Install wafer works and lights."
6. fPlant an orchard."
In connection with the last of these
will say that the state has made ar
rangements with certain nurseries to
furnish trees at very low figures for
the putting out of home orchards.
Many farms, in the county need the
old trees destroyed . and new . ones
" set - Any one wishing to take ad
vantage of this offer on tha $art of
tatt can see toe county agent.
The State Bureau of Markets has m
call for turkeys.-! Any persons inHhe
'"county wishing felrrkeycouI4
'probably better tie local market by
cqnf string with the State department
This agent Will give any aid possible.
Club members : from ' this' county,
came in foe f their shjre of the prises
at the . State Fair.. . Judson Osborne
of Clyde R. 1 was the winner of first
'prize for the best ten ears, of corn
for the western districa. Glenn Camp.
bell of Plott won third as an exhib
itor of potatoes. v
t . W Win. IU FERGUSON,
" ' ' .:v . '- J ;. -. County Agent
HAYWOOD INSTITUTE HAPPEN
... ings .v'-i;i-v-':h:
; The fc-Hownjfc. program was render
ed m the Adelphian Literary Society
last Friday, Nov. 2,,117: . ;
1. "Courtship of Miles SUndish
' R.-Joyce.- - - - ' -:r'
! 2. Synopsi of "JEvangeline' M.
.Ross.
8. "A Psalm of Life" Mrs. HoweU.
- a. Bright Things of all Times That
People Have Laughed Over C Walk
er. - '.: """ - . r" -
5. "The Rainy Day,", recited by V.
Medford.-
- 6"The Song of Hiawatha. Part 1
Miss Willis. .
7. "The Song of Hiawatha," Part II
.-Una Latimer... L. " r
. The program was unusually good.
Our (programs are inspiring. We
ar trying to stir -ourselves up and
.realise our" abilities." Everyone .. was
'interested in Longfellow .and ' his
works. The synopsis of .Evangeline
wa very welj given by Miss- Ross.-t-"
Neat-week we are .going to study
"The Real "American,- "Abraham
Lincoln. These programs prove very
profitable and instructive to us
- We have organized our basket ball
team aaa ly twica a week. We are
makrngjiead, in athleUca.- In 0Ur-
- gymnasium - class and basket ban
playing yn' aro' training our .bodies
'wfcile In oar. boLS we are trsinlng
" oar mental capacities.. ': -
. .v , . - PUNCH, .
Y- SHORT HORN .CATTLE .
tvine Un-Jasarie. '' I-
'. Cj 's T. Li cf Clin yeturS-j-
flrJ y f-m lT?wood eounty,
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NO ATTORNEY. FEES ALLOWED
To all local Exemption Boards:
- You are directed not to sign any
paper' prepared by any attorney-at-
law, nor to consider any paper pre
pared by any attomey-at-law or any
other person in connection with any
registrant or selected man, unless the
person is receiving no charges what
ever for services performed in behalf
of said registrant or selected man.
The American Bar Association has
passed a resolution unanimously- that
it is the sense of-the association that
no attorney should make any charge
for services rendered a registrant or
selected, man, and has taken' steps to
have such services rendered in all
worthy cases by reputable attorneys
without money and without price. ' -.
The North Carolina State Council
of National Defense has taken similar
action and ia prepared to have all
needful . services rendered a regis
trant or selected man without cost to
the man .himself or to any members
of his family. An attorney is a sworn
officer of the law, and his first duty
is to the Government, and that duty
requirerhim to.advise a registrant or
selected man that- he is not entitled
to exemption if such, be the law, and
it is also his patriotic duty to prepare
any paper setting forth the. exact
facts in any particular case for a reg
istrant or selected man and submit
these facts, not ia the caparity of a
paid attorney, but as a patriotic cit
izen to exemption boards. In every
county in the State attorneys will be
called - upon by the American Bar
Association, and the State Council of
National Defense to render legal
services, and they will be glad to do
it s The attorneys of North Carolina
are intensely .patriotic and the ninety
and nine of them will cheerfully per
form these services and regard it as
a patriotic privilege to do so. .
f I have .notified the Adjutant Gen
eral of the State not to consider af
fidavits prepared -by attorneys or any
other person, unlets thesV affidavits
shacontein. a - "statement ihatT tha
attorney or other person preparing
the same hat done so without receiv
ing or expecting to receive any com
pensation, of any kind. .
You will please give this communi-
catgm the widest publicity possible
in your county.
T. W. BICKETT, Governor.
DOGS VERSUS SHEEP
Tryon News.,
A law to tax dogs high, enough to
put all worthless canines out of ex
istence rapidly growing In favor.
And why not? It is time that our
people wake up to the fact that if the
dog was . put out of business that
sheep growing would soon become
One of the ieadinar live stock indus
tries of North Carolfina. Today there
are thousand of people in our state
that cannot afford meat upon their
tables, but if sheep could be protect
ed from their worst enemy, the dog
it would not be long before there
would be enough sheep raised to low
er the price of meats. Which shall it
be, dogs and starvation for your chil
dreil or death to dogs and plenty of
healthful, wholesome mutton for the
whole family T "
PENALTY FOR TRUANCY
Tryon News. -.. " , '
Few realise the penalty ef tke
North Caroling truant law.. A five to
twenty-five dollar fine for each day's
absence la to be paid by the parents.
On. this account the Trustees of the
Tryon Graded School have been ref
ill eta nt to pre scute careless or In
different parents. But they have tak
en such advantage of .this leniency
that the trustees have been compelled
tft Mrfnrm fk Jaw.- On Satnrdav Le-
roy 'Williams and Tom Huntsingcr j Ry Loj, - Briggs, Maude . Harris,
appeared before Magistrate Millr in Isabel Ferguson, David Noland, Har
answar to warrants. Williams plead- Boone. " :
ej that he did not know of his boy's . Nintn Grade Bryan Warpole, Nora
absence, and aithg& Marshal Wil-
son passed by his store every day, kj-
did not serve the warrant issued Oc
tober - 3rd until mora, than threel
weeks after. Buntaingar pleaded O'U--r --- '- - -
the Clness of his wiTe tnade it nee-'
ry to ke his bey at bona. As both .
!t. rromW to oyjha Ur d. Smrtfay af-
herestar Justice L-ls brrpeeed L , ,J -. . , ,
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Thanksgiving arid Turkey
Jesse Daniel Boobe. - '
Thanksgiving Day is justjahead
And Christmas Day is coming,
The days when all are overfed
And all things will be humming.
We think of turkey, think of pie,
The kind that mother makes;
And then these visions make us sigh
And we are full of quakes.
For we are fighting Germans now
And Hoover says be saving; ,
To eat no' swine, not pi, nor cow,
But substitute a shaving.
I've eaten grits and cbrnflake stuff
Until I'm weak aS witer,
And I have thus saved food enough "
To give the war a stirter.
So when Thanksgiving Day arrives
I'm going to eat a dihner k
That may not be exactly wise
For either saint or sinner.
For life is short and food is high,
And so is daily living;
But if I live I mean to try
To have a good Thanksgiving. -
Good pumpkin pie seems good to me,
And turkey's also tempting;
So Mr. Hoover's saving plea
For once I'll beexempting.
And when old Christinas rolls around
Once.more you'll flndme eating
A turkey bird all cooked and browned
While time fceeps up fleeting; .
HONOR ROLL FOR OCTOBER
First Grade Rayburn Joyner, Wal
ter Malonee, Paul Young, Hugh
Rogers Tipton, Margaret . Burgin,
Mary Duckett, Annilee Davis, Evelyn
Gaddis, Katherlne Hodson, Gladys
Justice, Nettie Wriffht, Leila Wright
Jennie Young. ;
First Advanced Grade Wilburn
Campbell, J. S. Jones, Jr, Virginia
Osborne, Helen Lampkin, Margaret
Duckett Lola Davis, Florence Bus.
sell, Willie Belle Rhinehart -
Second Grade Francea Bay,' Mary
Barber, Thelma Miller, William Mes
ser, Joyce Green, Grace Hipps, Myrtle
Elmore, - Frances Foster, - Richard
Covington, Erma Patterson.
Third Grade Helen Ray, Elisabeth
Martin, Louise Campbell, Arleva
Wright, Genevie 'Gaddis, Margaret
Joyner, Opal Underwood. ; '
Fourth Grade Theodora Carraway,
William Sloan, Virginia Welch, Ben
jamin Sloan, Edith , Rogers, Helen
Haynes, Ola Harris," Haael Creasman
Clyde Fisher, Frank Ferguson. .;
Fifth Grade Mjllard Revia, Viola
Miller, Gladstone McDowell, Edwin
Howell, Alma Duckett, Louise Green,
Eleanor BushnelV Samuel , Owen,
Samuel Welch, Dorothy Seaver, Kath.
erine Elmore. . . -i" '. "
Sixth - Grade Andrea . Creasman,
Elizabeth . Quintan, Margaret Black
well, Mary Allen, , ' ', . " ,
Seventh Grade Virginia . Rotha,
Lenoir Liner, Ruth Underwood, Ruby
Haynes, Ellen Phillips, Oyde Ray,
Annie D. . Kirkpatrick, Aknarie
Braralett, John Boyd, UoydCreas-
Eighth Grade iLucy Tate; Charles
Seavar, J alius Welch, Alice HarroM.
Teatii Grades-Flora Alien Julia
Allen, - 4 ' -
-.Eleventli Grade Joscelyn McDow-
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V-n. tdiiiri;, 1'r. Gorr tviu and
S?aie LJJttr, both ef Ftgeon
3. The brkl is tbe sttraedTe
r-ef r. r--i fra.- iv.lm
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HUGE BUILDING FOR OFFICE AT
WASHINGTON
WaJiington, D. C, Nov. 1,1917.
One of the manifold problems pre
sented by the war is that -of furnish'
ing adequate office accommodations
for the thousands of additional of
ficials, clerks, and other Federal ser
vants who are pouring into Wash
ing. .- The Government is exercising
its prerogative in this direction and
has 'Commandeered conveniently lo
cated office buildings and apartment
houses with a free hand. In addition,
it is erecting huge temporary struc
tures for use as offices, and in the
building of these contractors . are
breaking time records for construc
tion work. A building to house six
hundred officials and clerks of the
Council of Nantional Defense, c
taming more than 100,000 square
feet of floor space, was erected and
fully equipped in fifty-three days.
Similar buildings nearby are for the
use of the forces of tjie Food Admin
istration, ' Fuel lAidministration, and
Army Ordnance. Work is well un
der way on a mammoth structure
which will cover three city blocks to
house the overflow of the War and
Navy Departments, the contract for
which calls for completion in four
months. ..;''
By tiiese methods the Government
keeps in advance of its actual needs.
At the present rate of increase the
usual 35,000 Federal employees in
Washington will be more than doub-
lej if the war' continues another year.
Workers f all kinds are being ap
pointed, stenographers and typewrit
ers and draftsmen for the service
generally, and what are known as
schedule clerks, index and catalogue
clerk, clerk qualified in. statistics orj
accounting, and clerks qualified in
Juisin?" eHminiRtratkm for the Ord
nance Department of the Army, being
in great demand. ' '
- Representativea of the Federal
civil service conrmiasioa at the post
office ia all" dtiea are the official
recruiting agenta for the great civil
ian army, an army af a half mfllios
behind, the men and behind the guns.
. While tha president is regulating
the rodaetries of the country w wish
be would take aver tbe mminsry ba-J
COUNTY OFFICERS.
University News Letter. "
Judge Gilbert T. Stephenson, of
Winston-Salem, spoke to the North
Carolina Club the other night on
County Officers Legal Duties and
Court House Customs. Little atten
tibn was given to the latter part of
the subject, because, said he, thera
are as many court house customs as
there are different men holding county
offices sayt 3,000 all told.
-The Constitution of North Caroli
na provides for the election of the
following officers in every : county:
clerk of the Superior court, sheriff,
coroner, treasurer, register of deeds,
surveyor, ' and 'five commissioners.
But it also allows the General As
sembly to modify, change," or abro
gate any or all of the provisions con
cerning county officers and to sub
stitute others in their place.
In addition to these constitutional
county officers, others have been ere
ated by public, or public local stat
utes. As a result county officers av
erage 30 to the county in North Car
olina. ; At least 10 counties have
county courts with a judge, a clerk
and usually a solicitor. At least six
counties have highway commissions.
Practically all have county physicians
and superintendents of schools and
county homes. ' Thirteen have whole
time health officers. Some have coun.
ty attorneys to advise all officers.
Ninety-five have a farm demonstra
tion agent. Forsyth alone has a Pub
lic Welfare Officer, under the new law
The county auditor is an officer rap
idly growing into favor. Already 11
counties have auditors, and every
county should have such an officer.
Abolish Treasurers.
The office of treasurer should be
bolihed in every county. with a rep
utable bank. Three counties have no
banks. The officer has alredy been
banks. The office hah already been
abolished in some 15 counties.
The duties of the clerk of the Su
,rt fihriff uul ,iter of
deeds are multifarious -Thw-iime.
is largely consumed in accomodating
the public without charge. To get
at their fees accurately is impossi
ble, because much of their work is
o-intiiiniin tn their" nartv unnortera. '
Some officers have been so generous
to their constituents as actually to
fall into debt in office.
Handling county affairs in most
counties is the product of antiquity
and is usually unbusinesslike in the
extreme. . The new officer usually
employs the former incumbent or his
assistant to pilot him along until he
learns the rones. County officers are
this is why I so strongly advocate a
county auditor in every county. He
pr otects the officials even more than
the public. It is rare that an officer
who comes out short in his account-
has wilfully misappropriated one cent
of the funds.
Have County Auditors
In conclusion Judge Stephenson
made the following suggestions:
1. The abolishment of the office of
county treasurer in every county with
a reputable bank.
2. Creation of the office of auditor
every county, with the annual
in
auditing of the books of every officer
and the publishing of these reports
in simple language. Groups of coun
ties could combine in employing an
auditor.
3 Placing county officers on a sal.
ary basis- solely; and, as naturally
follows, the annual accounting by the
officer to the county for all fees, com.
missions, and conpensations of every
fort received by him in virtue ef his
office. The suveyor and coroner
m-'ght be left on the fee basis.
WHAT IS THE WORD OF HONOR
OF GERMANOFFICER WORTH T
An officer's parole has alwsys been
the strongest bond that could hold!
Mm h'.i to a Grmar a raro'e is not
even a "scrap of paper; it is Both-
ing but a breath.. The officers of the
German submarine interned in Cadis
gavatheir parole not to escape, and
were allowed the entire freedom of
the city. They have taken advantage
ef their liberty to break their parole
and take their submarine to sea. We
have had exparienee ef the sarna sort
The officers of interned German crui
sers gave their paroU, and several of
them soaped to Germany. The word
of honor is nothing where there, la so
honor, rhaadalphaa Sacord.
MAKING EVERY HOUR COUNT
By Mrs. Gertrude Smathers in South-,
ern "Rurslist. . .
A few years ago we bought twenty
five acres of not very good land. We
built a cheap bungalow and moved to
the farm. Some of our folks and
friends said we would starve. - We did
not pay any attention to them; we
went to work to build up the land. It
was late in -the summer when we
bought the place, so we sowed it all
in cowpeas and turned them under
late in the fall. In the spring we
bought manure and scattered It every,
where the land looked poor. We made
big hotbeds and sowed cabbage, let
tuce, tomatoes, beets, celery, cucum
bers, and a lot of flower seeds. Wo,
had more than we needed, so we sold :
a iot to town people who had gardens.
We made two crops of almost ev
erything; first early tomatoes and
cabbage, then late ones beween the
rows; by the time the latter ones
need room the early early ones can .
be pulled out; bunch beans the same
way. We planted late corn and beans
between the Irish potatoes. , Late
cucumbers sell well, so we planted a
lot in the sweet potato rows, where
they did well. We planted beans and
pumpkins of different varieties all
.over the corn field. .
We have a half acre in strawber
ries. We take fresh vegetables to
town three times a week. We can
and dry everything we cannot sell.
In the spring we buy two shoats,
which cost very little to keep through
the summer, as they always live oa
what would otherwise go to waste.
We fatten them through September
and October.
We are through with our crops by
the last of October, so we hire our one
horse out to a drayman or merchant,
kill our hogs, sell all the chicks ex
cept what we want to raise from
(these and the cow we take with us),
lock our doors and go to town, where
my husband works untQ March, Uien
' '
we win liinjLe mure vn uur uw jiiucb
than some of "our neighbors will on
their seventy-five or one hundred
acres. Judging the future by the
past, we will. Don't get out of heart
U you haven't a largis farm
Go at it and make every hour and
every foot of land pay. ' Wlhere there's
a will there's a way. Canton, N. C.
WILL PUT THE SCREW ON DEAL
ERS WHO GOUGE IN. FOOD .
PRICES
Statesville Landmark. . .
The most drastic steps yet under
taken by the Federal food adminis-.
tration to protect the consumers of
foodstuffs from gouging on the partof ,
retailers was put into operation No-
vember 1st After that day no re
tailer or other dealer who puts ex- "
cessive prices on necessary foods will -be
able to obtain supplies. . The new
regulation will provide that no manu- -'
facturer, wholesaler or other band? -ler
of food will be allowed to sell to
any retailer anywhere in the United ,.
States, who makes unreasonable prof,
its or buys large quantities of foods
for speculative purposes.
All dealers in foodstuff whose busi
ness is less than $100,000 per annum .
are not liable to the license system,
but they come - within the scope tf
certain provisions of the food control
law, which forbids them from hoard
ing monopolizing, conspiring to re
strict production or distribution of .
exacting excessive prices on ny ne
cessity; Inasmuch as most retailers
cannot be regulated In any other
way, it is proposed to control - their
business through the wholesalers ; , v
The Federal food administrator has .
sent out notices to each State food,
administrator, asking him to report to
Washington the names of retailers.
asking - excessive prices. ; Through -
county food administrators
a close .;
tab will be kept non tioe who per.
sist in violating the food law and
whose action will, result in putting
them out of business, as they will be
unable to purchase 'their sup pi
from the wnolaaler,-
. There is no intention on the part
f Ota food ndministratioa to disturb
ay legitimate operations of the re
tailer who abide by the law. But it
is proposed to go after those rape- -trio
tie and c.'blionast dealers la food-'
sr-fTs v. lio, taking advantage of war
tr-t: r. are a -'X te- as an r
ease to tt i eessHtl g fvViic'
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7H?. Our-. wife's bat bill came !r
be other day. Tryon New. w ...
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