KUMANlE Or HOT
BISCUIT ONE OF
MUCH INTEREST
Dates Beck To Early Days Of
The Humsa
Re co
CHALDEANS BAKED
IN STONE UTENSILS
Modern Basking First Step To
ws^ Preeent Day Hot Bis
euite And Self-Raiamg Flour
Final Step Toward Excel
lence — An Economical
Mora.
Baaahinc acme* tKc breakfast ta
ble far a hot biscuit does not at drat
•earn romantic.
There la romance. howeeer, area
lx x mundane hot biacult. Its exist
oaee is pomibla oxly after hundred.,
yea, thousands of years of experimen
“i"*-**»^i«e 1* all atony the back
ward from the modern mill, to the
days of tin quern, the saddle atone.
rouniUd (rinding stone
•f the Stone Age.
Those ancient forefathers, or rath
er Tersmothsrs of mankind. /Int
ground their (mint and nuts by using
a round piece uf sandstone as a
grader, and another stone, the rar
*aeu ef a rock, as a base.
Than came the saddle (tons, a con
ears base on which grain was spread
end rubbed into a coeree meal. The
dough was laid on heated flat or eon
wiki am B»u«a aim
Somewhat* around 200 B. C.
the quani cam* lato a**. One atone
rrrohred Bad crushed th* grain
•gainst another. Hage atones
dtiveo by water power are credited
to tha Homans; steam power to th*
men of the 18th century. Romance
}• thus found aran ta a pen of hot
biecuita
rhsUsse« Baked
Sake orena ef a hind, have been
discovered in th* rained courtyards
af tbs aacient Chaldeans. Apparently
•n*11 householder possessed on* where
math Und of cakes or biscuits were
' baked.
. Modem grinding of wheat might
be called me 8ret step toward the
•eWerumsnt of praaent day hot bia
* lmowledg* ef th* uses of
pnaat aad baking powder the second;
and tb* manufacture of setf-ralslag
Boor which begain in Charleston, B.
C., and enabled houaewives to pro
gam bet bread and bieeulta more ea*
- Oear lo.eoo.ooo barrels of self.
raking flour are now being sold an
nually ie tb* Southeast Jon*. Bis
cuits are as common there at soda
crackers end ginger ’crackers are ra
tb* North.
Solf Raising Flesr
Self-raising flour k nothing more
nor iee* than * high grade 0f plain
flour, plus raflnad aefd phosphate,
ordinary baking soda, and dry table
emit—eubstantlal.y the same chemical
properties as appear in the usual bak
ing powder formula. The acid phos
phate end sode, under th* influence
•f raoktor* end heat, rc-aet and lib
•***•, Isaeoning gas, whieh bubbles
yp. gteing to the dougb the light, eol
* ~yr «mctur. required for perfect
Calcined phosphate, used in thie
SSr’-&SaTWS,tt«js«:
euwl by the U. S. Depertm-itjf Aj£
r.ctHure states Lut!
"rhorphste •• d 'chap th* m -t
valuable of all th* mineral food
af plants It la certain that phoe
In tba vital organl**, arid* from It*
gjnfulnaaa in the build inf of bone,
vwoephot* ia quite aa IndUpenrlble aa
J*Ur #r air to vagatabl* or anhnn)
Ufa.*
Ball Inf powder ia made in toverel
bat the undariylii* principle
*■ to "*» an acid with an alkali ao
that *o* neutralise* tba other. A f!B
JT U _*,c?-UrT aa a praaarvativ*.
£Srl*t^ ** on* of the beat known
Nwisr FIJI*4
The waJ foisuuio far bakine pow
■tor and HeU tor the Mlf-raUta* In
ffradianta of aoK-rniatn* flour la *
bout tba aano, except that bakine
powder contain* a con.idarebto quan
tity ad corn atareh or apm* other
Slier used aa a praacrvativ*. Tka
manufacturer or aalf-rtaata* flour
ho* tatelll*cntly added faat the right
Ojootlty <rf ingredient* to a barral
of flour to enable the houaowif* to
Prapar* kar food properly. No orer
*>“ ?,r »*M**tdoea ia podible.
Powder, however, •*»•*
!£"*£ g—"*» oi co7,r1n;
the pries of eons, cots atareh and
too traaaoudeua coot of dletributlon,
WftaSfJttsraa}-.
{“• of 40 cento worth of fleer which
*•» to be taken oat to mek« room
■ (“ Ingredient* fives a total
of «• cent*. TWa la a savin* of |S.M
• barrel On the 10,000,000 her ret*
omA la the Southeast annually u
**}"* *to*oet acratiny and exam
£•*•"UfeJS^y ®tot* and National
who hev* never quae
J**^.** and wholaaomeaam.
No .•* variation has ever been
to preha.lt He sale, all M
tbo^tojv'•'•tnlnln* the savin* to
sy'H? •<
Newta" town,hip, lost kt*
home by ire ftnnday morels*. It waa
a no that •iy°PU of tb< (longer of a
bod f>»». yhlrh, accord In* to the In
y.g§Stfi~S
EVELYN NESB1T TAKES
OVERDOSE OF MORPHINE
New York, Oct. 28.—Evelyn Nee
hit won retting comfortably tonight,
after taking aa over dote of reorphlm
when a city marshal began movii*
furniture from ker apartment.
it waa a vivid day In the life ol
Him Ncab it, once the wife of Harry
K. Thaw, later the wife of a dancer
Jack Clifford, and now Evelyn Nctbli
again, no longer a dancer herself, but
owner of a tea room In the theatre
district.
.H*r *»«neial distress, which can*
today caaa to
"c 1 * month ago when a city mar
shal appeared at her lea room srlth
an eviction warrant. Mis* Naabit ar
to pay over due rent on the
1800 a month tea room and har $160
« month apartment op stain. The mar
shal went away,
Today another cam* on a similar
miaalon and began taking furniture
0“t to the street srhile Mtai Neabit
eobbed, wrung her hands, and frsuj
tlcally called her lawyer on the tele
phone. The lawyer obtained a truce
a few hours srlth the landlord,
and Mia* Nedbit began calling friend*
Uria^ihc*/*?!edl ,',,inC *°”e *"
telegraphed to her mother In
Philadelphia and a few minutes aftar
wards leaned out of the sriadow and
tereamed: •M’ve taken enough nor
phlnc to kin 20 persona," the yelled
to the marshal, falling hack srlth the
cry that she was going te dl*. An am
bulance surgeon cam* quickly and
used a stomach pump.
Cam Up This Month
Am the time approaches for tbc
tncJ of the Luckncnr Square eaec at
Lillinrton on uv MowaswA-e u c
Godwin and William*, attorney* for
tho town, are more confident than
ever that they will win title to thie
valuable property for the town of
Dunn.
The Atlantic Ooeat Line Railway
Company brought the unit and will
codcavor to establish title to tbe two
half block* in the heart of town
which are o**d a* a cotton yard.
Godwin and Williera* have gotten do
position* from many eld el&ena who
declare that the property we* dedi
cated to public a** when the railway
company sold the flret building Iota
in Daan.
It wai upon thl* aeamuptton that
the town comm lad on are ordered the
property turned ever laet near to
the Woman’s Club fer beautification
and conversion late e public path.
When this order erne leaned the rail
way company applied for a restrain
ing order from the court*. The
order was iaaued and ia still in force
and will be dimslased or made me
manent^wW tb. IHMM A l
The case was to bare been settled
in tbe last tens of civil court, bat
the illness of one of the railway
lawyer* necessitated postponement
until now.
DUPONTS TAKE OVER
HOPEWELL WATER PLANT
Wilmington, Del., Oot. 28.—An
nouncement was made today that the
water work* at Hopewell, Va., which
during the war supplied tha great
run cotton plant and adjoining vih
lages, has bean sold by tha Dupont
Chemical Company to the Industrial
Service Corporation of Virginia. T%(
new corporation will tab* over the
operation of the plant November 1 J.
F. Mublig la the general manager and
operating heed of tbe new corpora
tion
SUPERIOR COURT CLERK
PRINTS ENTIRE DOCKET
CUrb McDonald of the Superior
Court has bad printed the entire civil
issue docket for the November term
wMeh convenes November
'•xV1 Judf* E. H. Cranmer pre
<*oe'£*t contains about 1 r
200 cases, only about 100 of which
found place on the calender fixed by
uie dv.
Both the calendar and entire dock
et have been printed and are being
diitribUtrd from the clerk*! oflea
Court trill hold aeaaion for two weeke
for the- trial of civil Matt an excfci
alvaly.—Harnett County Now*.
AUTRYVILLR m£wS
(By D. W. HALL-)
Autryville, Root# Ono. Oct, It.—
A ante wna hold at the home of
Mr*. Ella Barefoot, widow of H. M.
Barefoot ia *hla ectlar. Saturday Oc
tober 22—acl) Ing a mule an I farm
ing ute nelta.
A. B. Pago, of the Coipor vicinity
tree the auctioneer and like ho Jo at
everything nlae maker a good one.
,v.L°na Branch ringing chair from
*• - ?»gt aMonded tho *1 aging eon
Clinton Inat Sunday Bapttat
the 'eenS*** ifro" ***• “PP*r P“* •*
--!o!- .,/l,e participated In tho
*nd again won tho Oliver
that d claea hat to
win »e cup three timei |n euecemtoa
£.*2S“«2.“- *»»«'
»yaaitA,r
A picnic will ateo be hold at Leag
Branch church o* the fourth Sub
day In
We aadenuad that Baptitt Chapel
clem and the Megnelm elae* fSm
Cumberland have been Invited.
Ueed To Bee Them
A girl, a great lover of nature went
to the ■eaahore for a heBday and ap
proachlag a typical ftaharmaa, midi
"Ah, rir, how wall yea »o*t knew
the fact of natero, and know H in
all it* mood* l Aw# you ever aeon
the ton linking |n (nek a glare of
glory that It awallowa up the herhon
with BlhJ Have yon not aeon tho mW
gilding down the hill top ilka a apec
tre? Hava yoa aavar,** aha went on
hapaaalonately, "aeon tht moon ftmr
s?,45ft*,5Ma-*'**"r
H-. liil" laM iU ■*.,
■u, "I need to aee them thing* bu<
net aiace prohMUea.**
NEW YORK EXTENDS
Rousmq WELCOME
TO MARSHAL FOCH
Haro of Hereee of World War
Captured Metropolis With
out Striking Blow
PERSHING FIRST MAN
TO WELCOME WARRIOR
Millions Turn Out To Giro
Foch Oao of Greatest Dem
onetise bone In History Of
New York; Gets Another
Reception at Washington;
On Way To Kansas City.
New York. Oct. 28 — Marshal Koch
captured New York today and then
apad away to conqutr the rent of the
country. New York surrendered with
out rtrlking a blew. For a loop, long
lime the city had been waiting to nay
off jurt a little of Its ddbt of greti
tude to the email man in heriaon blue
wboaa skill and daring at marten)
c'j,a reduced the proud armies
of Germany, and this afternoon it
Mined its opportunity.
Not since Dewey returned from
Manila, not since Armistice Day, did
the city’* millions turn out wxh such
SDonteaiety and In such numbers.
F™ .th* llttU ranchman, who
kd ten million soldkrs to victory,
ridden up Broadway in a war chariot,
dragging captives behind him like the
received a greater welcome than was
accorded him aa he rode op the his
toric thoroughfare in a twentieth cen
tury motor ear, enveloped in a delug
ing shower of paper harled fiem sky
scraper windows.
Triumphal frswsilse
rrom the Battery, where he was
gromedby Governor Miller, to City
gall, where he was welcomed by
Mayor Hylaa, he moved In a greet
triumphal procession alter steaming
op the kaifeor te the boom oj gmas,
‘be eeaMleas h^t of whistles, the
road of airplane motors the showts
choon of coaotlui thotua4i
By his side rode General Pershing,
who in tha dark darn af the war led
across the Atlantic America's Bghtbsg
men who took their placm under the
banner of victory. It was General
Pershing who was M to welcome
bia old comrade to these shores.
tbe the city confer
red its freedom, and than he oautin
jod hi. triamphal mar“h Xp*^
Tfcli time it was along Fifth Avenue
proved as wild —“• -— —
wlfii its paper she warm.
At tha Pennsylvania Station there
wae another display of enthusiastic
welcome Cherts were still resound
ing when the special train taking tha
Marshal to Washington, on the first
leg ef his journey to City
for the American Legion convention
ont of the terminal.
“be Marshal's welcome began a
hundred mites out at sea. Thors the
>£•* ,Pmrl*’ bearing him to the New
World, waa joined by twelvo Ameri
can destroy are. Per a time tha war
craft had It all to themaeivoa, but
soon through the mitt broke a squad
ron of seaplanes. The Marshal raised
hie head at the familiar sound of
sputtering motors overhead.
Pershing Arrives First
General Ptr&hing in
At Quarantine came another wel
*• ‘b* Navy Cut
^yUut.lhc soldlOT of franc,
clasped hands with Ambassador Jus
serand, with Assistant SecreUry af
the Navy Booeevsh and wish many
other notables
But tha series of receptions had
hardly begun. The next came off Port
Jay when gone thundered a general’s
salats. Abu then the elimai
ImiMUnga row yards from Castle
Gardeo. whers hie famous country
men LaPayvtte had set foot oa Asm,
eric an toil, tha Marshal found await
ing him a reception that oven his
imagination could not have conceived.
The wide dtreteh af open ground
hud been converted into a groat sta
dium, the walls ef which were sky
scrapers stretching stories high. At
J WIIWWW, W" —— WWW** VHl
*n aiujr csroice* twsoty-Ave (tori**
hbore the (treet, were werehod men
and women waving the flare of Am
erica and France. On the atreete bo
low were mstssd a great army of
welcomcre—man, womaa and little
children. Indeed, it soemed ai if all
the little glrla In New York were
there with bouquets which they wish
ed to press into the Marshal's hand*.
Aa soon as the soldierly little Agate
la the light bluo uniform if France
stepped off the pier a mighty shunt
arode. A few minute* before General
Pershing bad apse*/-sl to he so sad
*1 re Ales and flourish**, and these
were repeated fer the French war
hero.
At Pennaylvaaia Station tonight
the genatnUnshno yarned Into another
sea of wefaoBieen. n sea which at
times thraatensd to engnlf him. 1h«n
he dUposd sn t* his special train and
with cheers resounding sat forth on
hit conquest ef America.
LAhw Habers Inactive
With nearly every *reatn In the
surrounding country dry and prohi
bition official* unusually active, the
moonshiner Is haviag rather a hard
tima plying hi* trad*, la ooaaoqpeaea
Jhe prfc* .f “pick handle,' white
'wbtnlng and other popular bever
y mounted in nitre until they
JWWSJBSSrasPCS
• <fug on the market at most
*?£ !!*«?.on* w. il IS now
si ■* V* «*»on
*" Myfsn ore not taking
** V/LBr* *}*•■*■ *nd are cutting ofl
■u^pltea to all save times known to bt
B.4L PROPOSED
FOR THECOUNTRY
(By Bion H.
Everybody krunrrftht old woman
who hat •* many tAtUtiom to talk
obout that aha beoolat mart or lam
of o nuiiance
continually in I
not* in whatev
And ‘ J
i
i
Who* jMonaunwu muhifyi'iv
hit tonwwt andlnStrtnr hit nnur
ninyT Certainly noKu &min da,
™ joat at auraiy An an born to
a luyubriotu ton*. Tf
From what can ft gathered the
farm waa to hardJjaoh laat yaar
in the aaatera rnrlMr of tho that*
than in otbor Tram timllar
ovarem of laf_. , thla
fall It Hading a
tobacco and cotton
ton carried aeer i I
more or loot of i
in avidence. Prota
North Carolina it ,
wane earner af
ana mu do tan nsip Mutr
one, H shows that tSCtrollni fhta
did not hit the botBs of Unsocial
depremlon. A« a (tlR leaks as if
<be farmer U pulllnAat ef the law
place he landed In (ptur age, aad
that hit prospects a*W>t «ood if
be w etc he* the eoA aad al*ft
watches bit dollars.
"Tbs lack of thrijUs oa* of thr
troubles SB Ik* faj^^ aaid a nan
who it so familiar dB fans life at
Ool. J. K. Yoang, fiZdf insurance
commissioner aad B dt the head
of one of the IlnuicS institutions of
Kalolgh aad a facto?® asm Her for
tbo farm a share in Bmasny Oat is
to be placed at the Haasl ef North
Carolina by the gosSHp*9* Influen
ces. Col. Young fi iiBt"> atach of
hit energy to KelplnBw farmer to
obtain credit for iBWwary op
eration, and in doin^Kp he aces nil
pbesoe of tho proh^Ka»4 bo has
•»«"< „‘de*j of bow fttd of fans
capital!ratio □ may hXphmca*- One
teboma that ha has (A>**d, is vary
•nthasiasUc over is,®0 that would
ersuto in the county ®tifeta a modi
fied building aad iB> association.
Thirls already wortmBst on a mod
erate scale in Maflhit the State
yd is ratting geflQresoha- Col
abdd titira *qf
the Cnjud I TSOUlted I
in putting thousands dt families la
homes of their own mid forttfyiaf
those families by moan* of a syttam
of saving and accumulation which en
abled them to become homo owners
when nothing else could accomplish
that end. He shows how the same
principle can bo applied to rural sec
tions. and by It* application the John
Smiths can buy Mall farms, build
houses, improve pieces they already
have, ana besoms proprietors, or
more thrifty owner* If they arc al
ready the propria ton
Col. Young’s plan it that tbs peo
ple of any rural community shall as
sociate together, much u the people
in the towns do, sod take shares la
an organisation that will imn* stock
that may b* paM for at the rate of
say a dollar a month. A* the farmer
gets hi* income in the three or four
fall month* the plan is that the
year's payments should bo nude in
th* closing month* of the rear, three
or fear dollars a tionth for a short
period, and no payment* during the
dull months of fern income. At ho
ha* watched the working of the plan
ho says it would ho uo trouble to
have a thousand shares subscribed
for in almost any community, and In
many places two or throe thousand
shares could bo pUcod. But anoas
*L —A _ tk___ A .La*..__**_1
around among the farmer*, the young
folks, the storekeeper, and even the
folk* in town, for the lawyer, »h*
merchant, the banker, the harbor
and everybody will be willing to take
tome stock in a profitable enterprise
With a thousand shares paying a
dollar a month (It,000 would be
available in the course of a year t*
load to the farmer who waste to im
prove his land or to boy land or to
improve his bou as or baild new ones.
The borrower ia a member of tho or
ganisation, and he pays off bla loan la
the tame manner Uut monthly does
ara paid, to that hla loan* runs over
a period of years, and la gradually
bving wiped out, and with ao sudden
call* for monoy, and ao danger sf
foreclosure if any reasonable effort
l* mad* t* taka car* of K.
Clel. Young says where this plan
has been established it ia having two
results. On* ia tho use of local capi
tal for the community needs, which
<a a big thing for It has a decided
stimulus toward putting the commu
nity on Ita own resources and when
a community begins to tad that it eaa
finance itself, to even a modest ssP
tent, it has become independent of
Usee* sources of money that arc lia
ble to croata poaic by eallina for
the money when to pay la diflauH.
The community that ha* become eelf
dmen dent financially la a bard oa* to
affect by any financial story. But an
other effect ia the habit of thrift that
thee* associations teach. The colonel
says tho vast bulk of the people pay
too little attoatien to Uta small man
ay. A dollar or a quarter or a dime
haa no apparent value because H will
not buy much. But he argue* that If
we eaa inaugurate a scheme that will
gather the d«Ban together la a large
unit and put them to work develop
ing the rural neighborhood w* will
have entered ea a fine work of mak
ing rural North Carolina a prosper
osa and thrifty aad delightful earner
of thl* big round earth and that thlrf
ty habits aad economy ana* estab
lished, country life wiB ha far easier
and agreeable than it ia sow.
ft
MANY DROWNED BY
FLOOD SWEEPDH
DOWN ON VILLAG
**Hway Fill* Give* Way Tar
lag Roaring Torraat lata
Meuataia Craak
WARNING CAME TOO
LATE FOR VILLAGEE
Water Falk Two Thoaaaa
Foot la Thraa MU# Jon
aay Down Mountain Bafo*
It Smadwi Through Conti
SI Cauaia
Daath And Destruction.
Vancouver, B. C., Oct 36—Tb
toll of live* lost in tha flood wfaic
plunged down the mountainside Tr
i«y evening virtually wiping oat th
town of BritUnim Beach on How
3ound and partially inundating Fn
ilcr Valley, Just east of here, reach*
thirty-six tonight. Tha proporty loi
f estimated at several million do:
■•ID.
Folly half of the 116 neat, fxcahl
paintnd cottages were carried aws
ua the crest of the flood. Others war
smashed to pieces by the force ef th
on-rushing waters and nsoet of th
iwaainder were still partially sut
merged tonight.
P’finr rhlld ran a s. — ■
olh«r« are reported to be musiai
Tee of the dead and all of llio injur
ed ware brought to Vancouver las
rvrning on the steamer Capitaae. A1
the injured ate expected to recover
An energetic search for the tain
inr was made today hut the work wa
necessarily slow becaaso of the diS
cutties In clearing away the wreck
ago in the sea of mud and water. It i
considered doubtful if the bodies o
»eme of the missing will aver bo To
covered as they am believed to havt
boon washed into the aiuddy water
00 Howe Sound.
Manager 3. Donahue, of the Brit
annia mines, tonight described tb
efforts made ky these aa duty at thi
fuses property, three miles back froa
«he beach to warn the residents a
ihv, danger. When tbs railway 81
which caused Ur* accumulation a:
water la the hills gave way and re
lcas«4f a roaring torrent into ths
creek, a warning of the *«■■<— t<
come was sent over the private tele
phene Una of the mines. This maa
mgs was received by Mias Clan Pat
larma. telephone operator an dot;
it the rompressor plant in the vU
lag*. She promptly rang everybodj
connected by telephone, relaying thi
miners' maseago:
Ptaaaee Thewagh VBtegw
Before the warning could be on
due too d and circulated about thi
town the waters crashed down thi
mountain side sweeping away Iran*
mission lines sad plunging the vil
tage into darkness.
The waters had fallen 8.040 fee
>n their three mile journey down thi
mountain and smashed stralgh
through the canter of tbo settlement
Britton ia crook now runs through thi
village itself which is under severs
feat of water strewn with timber, tel
•graph poles, furnitura and othei
wreckage.
SUNDAY SCHOOL WORKERS
IN JOHNSTON ORGAN IZ1
Smlthflcld, Oct. 29.—Many Ban
day School workers of John it oi
County were In attendance at th
County Sunday School eonvorrtloi
held In the Methodist church, Smith
field on Thursday and Friday of thi
week. Sunday schools from all sec
tious of the eouaty wore represent*!
ami mach interest was shown in thi
Senday School association was rep
resented in the mooting by D. W
Sima, general superintendent of tk
association, and Mrs. Flora Davie, i>
1 latent superintendent. Mr. Sims sail
that Johnston county was the 38 tl
county in the State to ho organisei
jiw m «vwi*y uwui ■1IOCU
tioo. and that ten other counties al
ready had dales arranged for eonven
lions when organisation* would hi
formed, which would bring the nans
her of organised coon tie* up to for
ty eight.
The officer* elected for Johnatoi
county Sunday School aiaoclatloi
were President, Sets J. Kirhy, Smith
field; rice president. P. B. Johnson
Benson; secretary-treasurer, Mrs. t
T. Royal. SmtthAeld. These ofieer
together with some of the other lend
era will hare a meriting at an sorb
date and appoint a president for east
Town Slip in the eennty.
Paster Is Carpenter
If you do not believe thnt Dr. I
T. Carter paeter af the Baptia
church, can make a living otherwis
than preaching, go around and ae
the parsonage building on DeVan
street and hear his hammer ring. Th
doctor eapscti to do a great part «
the inside work alone, he having ten
ed an apprenticeship, we anderstant
in wood marking while a youth i
England. The paTtonage Is abroad
looming up and Indicates tomewha
of the convealence and arehllcetun
beauty that may he expected of th
completed building—Sampson Demi
erst.
Forest Five Rage* U Weetero Swan
•eo County
forest fires in Western Sompss
knvt destroyed thousands of acres «
Umber daring the last two wed
and were still raging when the bens
reins came Saturday night and 8m
day morning. The lorn wID mount h
to many thoomnits af dollars and
largo part of the boat gum timbr
In the county has boon destroyed.
Farmers fought tha blase eaorge
ieally, but were unable to stop I
Around the Ashby rood force cam:
near Shady Grove, It wae stated thi
It was apparent that some one wi
going ahead of the fighters and r
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REGISTRATION RECEIPTS OP
MOTOR VEHICLES INCKEAi
• A total of 9,2*5,US yimwgapa
| tomobilw, truck* aad iihiwM a
kick*. 28,11* trail*ra, aad 117,1:
E mater cjrelai war* regtotcrod k tl
b «« Stain aad the District of Cola
bta during the Sot als month* of 4
► rauissi^s^aJErsv.
moot of dark attar a. A* h remit
thaw rwgtotratkna aad tha lice neb
?* *°* District o
lactod, daring that cniod, a tot
grow revenue of SUMlS.ISS. T
B Age ran show an Utroaao of aoar
$6,000,000 on* tha fall roar of 1M
■ **•«■••«* raronan totaled $101
Ik i>4C,21Z.
• “Of the 1920 registration re*
n V* ** baa"**- “WAT
_ T42, or • per cent, wn* available fi
E road werfc. Of the regiatratko im
nue* collected daring tee Bret ai
months of tho entrant year $101
a 793,416 to available for road wail
|| br tha State highway deyeh
manta or local rood officiato.” T3
percentage of tho groat daring tha
■ penad ia 94—on apparent decreai
• af 1 per cent, bat tea teeraase seta
: more apparent than real, became I
1 soma States tha fond* do not bosom
> available until tho and «g the yam.
- Tea elate kgtolaturaa have impel
ed a tax onmaoline during the eei
r rent year. They are Arkaaam, Ar
r aorta, Connecticut, Florida, Oeergir
• Montana. North Cnrollno, Penney!
: van!*, South Dkaoat, aad Waahteg
• ton. Prior to thto year Colorado, Kan
levied each a tax. The
lane haa
ib now constitution.
It was a'big time that visitor* t*
the Shady Grove School’s tack;
r*rty had Saturday night. The fail
school building. aU decorated wit!
-like pumpkin lanterns, wa
a ghostly thing, all crowded wtd
jnouag men and women bent ago*
making the moat of a really cajtjr
able occasion.
“Hi felutln rssWons" were servo*
and all manner of games Were play
•d. One of the moat enjeykls fsa
tnres was the side show, where!]
twelve aalaral wondam were skowi
—among them being 'sweat sixteen,
which naturally one would think, wai
a comely deawe], but which raaD]
| was a collection of sixteen piecos oi
candy. The other won dace were sha
iiarly^arvdised—if ana may use sod
The Dispatch man. with Julius Ed
’ win Cole, owner of Old Ihri Srvl
- cousin, visited the party. Mr sport
lag a cane, shined shoes, aa over
I coat, scarf pin, standing collar and
wore^asUyVwd Edwta
d«r*d beek ” into the sebeof
though they had a most enioyahh
' time, experieadug much plea ear*
from coming in contact with aa wan]
good old Bampaon’s Sna people.
MISS KATHBRINK SEXTON
DIED LAST THUUOA1
.
Miss Katherine Saxton died a
. Hontruee Sanatorium last Thureda]
: end was hurled In the family came
1 *ery aa the ffeian Plantstion fc
Neih, Creek ZZSup TriS,.S«
if? "r»rf««'=dmrtod by Eer. G. F
Kirkpatrick. Bad das relatival
friends in greet number* gathered a
the grave to bestow their deal Mb
. ute of respect to the mortal rsiaelm
of a Christian worn in whose god
- name is a rich heritage to the com
1 anunlty.
> Mim Katherine Sexton was i
1 daughter of Duncan end Ketherlw
’ Sexton. She leaves a sister, Mrs
1 Karr Williams of Georgia, aad i
; brother, Mr. Duncan M. Samoa el
1 LRUngten. Mea&en of the Sexto*
> family in this community are her re
’ la try**.
All hae U#m UL. L.J
1 a consistent member at Urn Praaby
j tariaa church. While nursing Col
1 Don Hugh McLonn In hi* illnsss ion
[ two nr Ons 7sen ago oho contract
1 ed pneumonia. Her unde. Dr. C. B
Sextan, at Dana, mat War to th
mountain* in the hap* that *
would regain bar health. Tailing t
' strength, she want te Moatrnee inn
ate Hunt where special cart was to
ken to restore bar, bet-the beet a
treatment failed to bring locosmr.
Sincere sympathy ef Ate . smell
1 community it entoaded the bereave*
’ relatives.—Harnett County Hewn.
Junior Class Minstrels Gand
1 Directed by Him Janie book. <
' member of the graded tehee] faculty
members of the Junior Class ef Us
High School department, did then
etlvee proud in their first alls amt a
minstrelsy last Friday night. Bad
and every member ot the east di
well, arousing the appreciative and
enee tn merriment with every aaa
her. Almost 1100 sens realised free
the production. This has been place
ia the elam fund and wfll be used t
finance the various activities ef th
organisation, among which wlQ h
the teniae Clam Just before grades
bon next spring.
Complaint against the perfciag e
ear* ad street crossings near the var
out ehnrehee at* Bandays has bee
made to The Dispatch. A eltiaen eon
plains that sriteu he starts from hi
neoae to hie eburefc he ia cam yetis
to take to the middle of th# Arm
'• when he • poems other chare ho
»i"ee other worshippers forget U
n rule of leering ten loot of unooewp
f ed spurs at each corner. This ms
» seem a small obstacle to them wt
T dlmbev the narking regulations, h*
i- rlnee It ia • hard matter to get fell
K •»* »• ebereh anyway A Arnold earn
a them to he more careful.
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Aa the Sunday school teacher a*
-* tend aha asm leaving In great hod
t- > little girl and km' smarter hretho
i z*dszn,siervai
* Kith Ana. we*re get te ge." wt
r- the dlsttsinl reply. "Jimmy there
lowed Mth eeOmAeu.”
* LIFE SENTENCE TO
5 STATE PRISON FOR
► wbuley woman
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