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- . . , . . -. ; '. . . . . . .1 . ' -' eat of Moore County. ::- . . : ; ; v I . ; , The flews Established Feb. KSS. , t 2 BLADE JANUARY 1,1912. - ;. ' ' ' ' ' ' V v.'.V -. Tb Blade Established l7i. For the Upbuilding and Devt : CONSOLIDATED WITH THE CART BLADE JANUARY 1, 1912. v VOL. XVL NO. 42.- CARTHAGE, N. O, THUR: .Y, DECEMBER 23, 1920. .$2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE. JOHNSON'S LETTER if OUR CHRISTMAS WISH1 7TT REQUIRES not the occasion of II Christmas with its joys, cheer and freva-J-L tent good will, to arouse in us a sense of In our hearts and minds are gratitude and good thoughts for you during every day of the year;, but Christmas hallows our sentiments and makesfheir, expression fitting and timely; Such as we have accomplished and such good as may betraceable to our efforts would not have been possible without your sustaining power and cooperation. If in any sense we have upheld a beacon, you have supplied oil for the lamp. If ours has been ah chariot, yours has been the motive element which has Rept it on us, way, meed o f abblauseCor1 ' they, cannot exist With those engaged in publishing a newspaper, the applause comes in the interest which readers manifest in its columns and in an occasional word of approval. ' The practical help of sub' j scribers and advertisers has enabled us to maintain a publication standard; their encour agement has furnished the degree of pleasure necessary as an incentive to our daily tasks." May the spirit of Christmas work for you the full degree of its bountifulness. May you be enabled to get the same amount of pleasure and benefit from these columns thai we hav(e derived from making them. ' The Publishers LetteI'; Number Two. 5 "All visitors ashore! All visitors hpref AH visitors ashore!" . f This sonorous call was being made by me half dozen Rtewarda -sonn after 'f on aboard the steamship Adriatic on Laly Srd. ; But .before this warning '.vs given, "we were directed by the towards of the ship to invite our vis .'.ngjtaends to lunch and were assured hatwe had plenty of time. ';bon. after our friends had crossed he gang plank;, our ; attention was jila)med by the chug, chug, chug cf jiesfiral tug boats straining at their ;: Mffle which were attached tolhesolii ',' iufy$f.purship,:, Fcr tima it' sgsm--d-iHat the tug beats could have as hW$ pulled New -Y,6r into the river t$ they could the steamship Adriatic fcup after a great deal c-f chrgging, a cilht crack began to appear between ahilriiird "jUtel wharf v -, The; crack slowly Wyeried to a 'distinct breach, theto a chasm, and the motion of the ship became perceptible. The chug, cUftg'-of the ug boats was changed to sijeftaufi xihaur, as if they were exult ing over their successful fe'at, like the tiifliput'.ans exulting over the capture of .Gulliver.' iNor was their exultation pramature, for 'now the great ship was in distinct motion, and the space be tween it and the wharf was widening t I ; the movement fast gam.ng mo he last familiar object to bid us well was the, be-sp6ctacled little Vbf Cy. just a head hieher than the rd 'yail of the wharf , while press-' kfiinsth im in the rear was a sea hurtian Deities, all presumably bid rewell to' some deat friends on tug boats were loosed from us, a ran away like little nee dogs, jor t! .Adriatic "now moved under her ov ' steam.; Then there was frantic wi ng ;of handkerchiefs as 'the 4is tai $ became too great for the. yoiee been swauowea up in a 1 stance. ' we could see' the' fluttering of his, hand kerchief until iKbecame a mere" white speck; we are embarked. There were upwards Of three thou sand passengers aboard in all three classes. Nearly two-thirds of ' v. number, were in second cabin with us. One of our girls, I have forgotten which, said she knew all the time our great popularity' would induce the greater ' bulk " of the passengers to - I JOHN L TOLL A MAN OF ACTION The News prints this week a picture of John L, Tull, who will be recognised by ;a big number of the people ,pf the ujper end of the county, for he was a men of action and influence in mak ing that section of North Carolina the iivi prteneroQ;and tprogitessive rco-iiv! all of the older settlers, ' They opened a cpuntry that contained . vast . re-' sources and ; pavedthe. way .fpr jhej present Norfplk-SoBthern which, ia .one of the main outlets of Moore county", and which'will continue to be a devel. county with John' Lending When iLeft- ning was starting the rairoad that was td lead from tbe Seaboard Air Lin" to the West and he was largely responsi ble for the work that was done. He was a promoter in a way, an engineer and builder, and he was able to read the future mucfiT better than the ma jority of people. So he tied up with the movement that was to open the Deep river valley and during build- in? and oneration of the road across to crowd into our quarters. We had quite the juncti0n with the Page system at a lot of fun 'censuring ourselves Tori Star he was the actfVe resident mem- Ks4 try ilrtrarjfsThir three" Wen -ere " (Cnpnh1920) BUY THE GREATEST CHRISTMAS GIFT UN THE WORLD THE LIFE OF A LITTLE CHILD FOR YOUR LOVED ONES AND FRIENDS '( ,' :f Millions of helpless, innocent children in Europe will ... perish unless the people of America come to their rescue immediately. . , ..''' 1 vv $10 Saves the Life of One Child until next Harvest. : . $100 Saves the Lives of 10 Children until next Harvest. , Do your part to save them. Mail the certificate below, with your check NOW, and you will be sent a Christmas , carttearteg-thrfoltowlng lngcriptlonrr-?-"T:'-A f ' : I "I am eending in yoor name food to a child.in Eurepe. This is iriy jChristmas:'iiift fayaa.;.'"t.H iV:!K,v 'l"l 'X MR, HENRY A. PAGE, North Carolina Chairman v;' 4 European Relief Council, Aberdeen, N. C. ' I we), i i Jw ' . - : of ;:..-liii-iiillli-l-i-Wc:; haye the privilege of saving the life (lives) of child (children) until next harvest, tnd checW f of $i-Li-is enclosed for this purpose. This donation is a Chrtstmas gift to J...t..;i-j-;i-. .i . i:: VI 'I (Space donated by.the News.) " SAVie THE PECENTAGE ' ' Only a few days more until January 1st,1 when taxes not paid wCll have a penalty of one per feht S'TinohtKrMa'ny persons have overloolced their taxes so far. 'To do so after next Veek means a cost" that is worth saving Better see the sheriff now and save the per centage. ;. v '. ' i' '. : ) ' ' HARPING MAY COME TO ( ' , MOORE AFTER HOLIDAYS Southern Pines is in hopes Senator Harding may come to Moqre county af ter the holidays. The News had re cehtly written him a letter on the sub ject, and his secretary wrote last week in answer that the matter is under consideatfon. Friday telegram from Southern Pines offered him the Southworth house there free of rent and " also, informed . him, that his friends could And accommodations at the Highland Pines Inn close by.? The people of the Sandhills think. they have a fair chance to care for the next president for a part bf the winter. ' , SERMON TO JUNIOR ORDER 1 Rev. G. W. Perry will preach to the Junior Order of Cathage on the fourth Sunday morning at 11 o'clocjc, at the w Lv - JIi -l. . u t ' the Juniors are1 asked to assemble at their hall at 10 o'clock, ao as to march to the church in a body, not keeping more secret the manner of our travel, so as to escape the crush; but we decided to make the best of our want of foresight, and cheerfully make friends with our neighbors, which we proceeded to do without very great violence to our sense of caste." As we passed the Statue of Liberty there was more shoutingand waving", but here was the first line of cleavage between, the native American and the European; and our "fraughtage" was .more European than American. In deed, as we became acquainted with the personnel of the passengers, we were astonished at the very few native Americans aboard. Most of our pas sengers were naturalized citizens, amd largely 'Britons, going to their native homes for the first time since the out break of the world war," but I am an. ticipating. - V : v ' ; " .' scarcely were we' outside Sandy Hook when it began to be norated that The International Steamship Company, since its great disaster in the loss of the Titanic, was chary of icebergs, and that we would . probably taxe ine Southern route. Whoever started this line of talk was well advised; for scarcely had we passed beyond the sight of land, when our ship began to veer to the South, and we dropped down almost to the latitude of PhilaT delphia, on a course mariners t'call South, Southeast; then, like a swallow we sailed due East J The, first day, the passengers preserved a rather cold re serve and seemed to desire to keep their favors for the friends they were expecting to meet on the other side; but then, as the sea became rough, and sea sickness began to claim its .vic tims, human kindness asserted itself and there we're no longer any Strang ers among us. Un the tnira aay oui one poor .fellow was buried at sea at sunrise. He had recently had an opera tion for appendicitis, and the violent vomiting from sea sickness ruptured his wound, and he .died from hemor rhage. But it is there, like it is at Southern Pines: the death of a sick man is kept as secret as if it were a crime.' -. ,. " ' .- . ' The first day or so of voyage is marked by a general aloofness among the passengers, followed on the third great outfit. Leiming was a man of tmeana and of money. Tull was a ' constructive man along with Lsnning, and Kennedy -was and is a business man of ability, and of the highest , character, as the Others were. It is a rare combination that lmes up with these. three and it is well enough for those of us of this day to give them credit for the work of pioneering they did. ' ; , ; Hemp, with its fine school, end its advancement, is one. of the memorials of Lenning and. Tull, for the school at Elise, which was the name originally . given, was a school that bore the name,' of Lenning's daughter. But as anoth-" ' er pstofficeOn the State had a name so similar another name had to be found, and Hemp was substituted. The school' has' never shaken oft its old name of Elise, and is known widely by that more familiar word. ' The Norfolk-Southern as it winds ber of the road management. Ultimately the Norfolk-Southern was formed,- and Tull dropped out. Lenning died, and the old associations were broken. But Tull retained his relations with the county.' In his day he had come into contact with John Kennedy who was looking after the in terests of the budding roads up at Hal lison, and Kennedy was gathered into what became a triumvirate after he; through Lee and Moore counties, is a entered with Lenning and Tull. To gether the three worked and developed upper Moore and its neighboring coun try and. when Lenning died and Ken nedy continued to opearte the Lenning properties that had not been disposed lasting and active monument to John Tull and John Lenning, and wul one day be the third man of the name of John Kennedy, for it was their knowl edge of this section and their energy and confidence in the future of the re ef by the Norfolk-Southern, and at his1 gion they had' discovered that put the death Tull and Kennedy were still as soclated in the Egypt plantation oper ation and development. , , . What these men did would be a long story, and it is well enough known to road through the Deep river valley. They were a remarkable trio, and a station on the road should be named for each one of them before it is too late. . , - . ' ;;. V-.- day by the opposite extreme, wlen the ' actually wrote verses about her! -whole personnel rush into whap may There was another English lady in best be called cosmopolitan jumble:! timately friendly with our group. At then by degrees, the passengers are separated into groups, the forming of friendly ties by natural selection when nxe is attracted to lute. y j Prominent in our group of friends was a. Roman catholic, gentleman, a professor of chemistry from a college in Ohio. ' He lived in Dayton, and talk ed a good deal about '"Jimmie" Cox, as he called him. He was intimately ac quainted with Governor Cox, and liked him very much, but did not intend to vote for hjm. From later events we are warranted in assuming that whole families were of . the same . way of thinking. 1 " ; A most delightful lady attached to our group was known as Miss Betty. She lives in Philadelphia, and is con- lnected with the University of Penn sylvania. Her native noma Is In Bath, her own request we called her Miss Pep. She was an expert designer for a wholesale millinery establishment in Atlanta, and was going to visit her mother in Norwick, .England. This lady's store of ancient folk lore of old ' England was astonishing; she knew the whys and wherefores of even the old nursery rhymes which we never thought of trying to decipher; I re member she quoted and explained the oldest child's story that I ever heard: . Ba, b Mac hnep, ."; :. :f. ' -Have you any wool? -V ' Yes, ma'm, I have three bags full; T)ne for the master, One for the main, 7 -; One for the anoosluma that live in ; ', the lane. ": T This means that in the old days of England, the first third of a man's England, and thither she was bound earnings (wool represents wealth) to visit her relatives for the first time since the disturbing element of war disarranged the shuttle flying back and forth across the Atlantic with its hu man bobbins. All our girls were cap tivated by Miss Betty, and a certain was retained by the man himself; the second third was the property of the State (the main), while, the third was given to the poor, here Represented by the anooslums. ' A cynic might think this not worth newspaper space; but gentleman of uncertain age, whose it Is, and the thoughtful will see the name is withheld for obvious reasons, ' (Continued on page Four.)
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