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I'1 V ' l. 1 J. .J A J CeaaoUaated with 'lk Carthage Blade Jaa. 1, IV 12 ruft irtt urauiLDING ANu OEVELvi'MENT ur MOuiu. COoNTV I mm ' aoiiMi 1875 Tha (ews Feb., 1905 J ii. mm VOL XVIII. No, 24. SEAWELL MY BE" 4 nnnnvTrm mnri? ii i UlillLii JUDUEi Local Attorney is Considered a Likely Successor to Connor. Connor Indorses Him. ; f 1 1 "" 1 generally developed for the bug to harm much. But out over the country the situa tion is serious. A bulletin last week from the Department of Agriculture at Washington tells that the weevil has probably destroyed two bales of cotton for every three that wilf be made. . The estimate for last year is that the weevil destroyed over six million bales, and that if the crop that started Jhad been . harvested " it would have reached - fourteen million, bales instead of not quite eight mil lion bales. n all the states except North Carolina the reported damage by the weevil is as great as last year, and one authority asserts that this crop would, be 'the biggest, ever hsr- vesica Ma not me weevil cat out about seven million bales, leaving in the neighborhood of eleven millions. (Continued on pageT wo.) CANNERY TALK AT SOUTHERN PINES Hon. H. F. Seawall. re- Should Judge Connor retire as Fed eral Judge for the Eastern District of North Carolina jwid accept the chair as lecturer in thcLaw Department of the University, as he will do In ' all probability, his successor may be H. F. Seawell of Carthage.' Judge Con nor has passed the age of seventy and he now has the privilege of retiring with full pay, and it is generally thought that he will do this and ac . cept the chair tendered him by the University Law School. This will ne cessitate an appointment by the pres ident to fill the1 vacancy and friends of Mr. Seawell in both parties over the state are making every effort to ' bring his appointment about. 1 aicoiuoo vsv visv viia ss, oo ports and the many endorsements Mr, Seawell is receiving, the most signi ficant fact is that Judge Connor will lavor him mm his successor and it is thought that judge Connor's opinion In the matter will weieh heavily with the president in the appointment." . An editorial in the Raleigh Even in Times endorses him 'as follows: ' pjkinry G. Connoiyupon Wsl 'mtreneat.aa presioUag Jsffieer, of the. United States'Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, will, it is stated, Indorse Herbert F. Seawell, of Carthage, for appointment as his sue cessor. ' What effect this will have" on the appointment remains to be seen, but it would be difficult for Washington to find as disinterested an indorsement for Mr.' Seawell or anybody else. ; ; T ' ,' C 1'' .' ; "And with no thought of disparag ing the candidacy, of any other Re publican, Mr. Seawell, .it may.' be stated with certainty, is not a candi date, in any active sense and will not "fight for the ermine the administra tion-would find it hard to pick a more capable and deserving man. It would also give the' representatives "of North1"" Carolina Democracy at the National Capitol an opportunity to make grace Till iManriifA. tlttar ' waiiim Ja.. m 'clean, ,'able member of the minority . party in mis state. ' - TARTHAGE. NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1922. !taU Library ; " - $2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE was a Meeting Held Friday to Discuss Proposition that has Been Outlined at Manley. On Friday night of last week . a meeting of the people of Southern Pines was held in the theatre- build ing to talk over the canning factory project at Manley. . A fair attendance was on hand, and the matter was ap proached from all possible sides. Tom Kelly made plain the plans of the men at the head of the proposition, and in substance made known that the ground has been cleared for the buildings, and that brick has been ordered for the work to commence. The sitajs just North of the -school house at Manley fronting on the rail road, conyenient for a side track for shipping material. . Mr. Kelly said that the intent of the company is to care for the fruits that are available in this section, the vegetables, and for such develop ment as is right certain to occur. He spoke of the amount of fruit raised in the Sandhills, which is exceedingly small as compared with California, and small as compared with the amount that. California puts in cans and dries. v For r every car of fruit that went out of the- ;: Sandhills this season Calif Ornia cans 6r dries about thMy-cary amd hcCaliMTiiSrXrnit, is "not of the same high Quality as the Sandhills fruit' California fruit, Mr. Kelly, told his audience, is so largely dependent on the syrup in which it is canned that it is more especially syrup than peaches, while the- Sand hills f rait has its excellence in its own qualities Of flavor and ' .appear- CContinUed on page Two.) " M. B. Jenkins died at his home in . A telegram Wednesday saoraiag te Carthage Saturday morning, : after relativaa brought the sad atwi of the several weeks' illness , with Bright's death of Rev. M. MC Shields. High disease. He was seventy-one years bleed prendre a ad eemplieatioaa wu Of age. v ' - . . the caaaa. Rev. Mr. Shields Mr. Jenkins was one of the, most aatlve mt . Cartkata. where ke highly, respected citizens of his com. levad and highly eeteeaaed. Fersev munity and he was loved by everyone oral yeab ke had aade kia heate i who knew him. His character was so Deeaterj Georgia, where Ua death near faultless that his life was a ser- oceerreeV . - Hie raaaaiat will ke mon. to everyone with whom he came broaght te Cartkaga far barial Thars in contact. day. . Fall particulars "will 'fellow Fifty-hree years he was associat- ,wfc , s 7 ed with the Tyson , & Jones. Buggy jj' 1 1 1 ttJ '". 1 . Company, and his valued seevieoHo KM survived by his wife, that company is well explained in tares daughters, Mrs. Cecil Wills, of history of the organization, in which wew Mrs. Carey Lawhon, of the following paragraph is founds morula; ana Mrs. Zeb Senders of "On the withdrawal of their old ear.nage ; ;tftour sons, Claode, Will, men to form this hew company, Tyson and k, of Florida, and Bruce, of Jones selected M. B. Jenkins as i"0," Drotner, w. i . jenKins, and foreman of the smith shop. He took one sister. Mrs. a. J. Muse. active pharce of that work npmasinir I ' the output and decreased the manu facturing cost, turning out more than six hundred jobs in his first year as f D.jWUson died July 16th and foreman, and made such a successful WM buId at Union Church, July 17, record that he has .been continued in 1922. ReV; ;J. E. Ayscue preached that position ever since, and is today his, funeral, ? Mr. Wilson was a good (1921) one of the most valuable men manrana naa many inenas in the present business, after more ine outyt ; than.fortv-three vears as foreman." 1 K al ?ie, xwo married Children and Mr. Jenkins was a native of Car-L,, . r., . K , v ' i , . nwm wren ivooi - a.av aasaa wen r Mr rT7 i a U Chririaff since about fourteen years fhA Mot hnriiaf llViiti-nli orrt until ttlat -w .r . VUV '.WUWkW mm A. W mm Hvt N1IVM m I recent illness was an active and de voted member of both the church and Sunday School. . f The funeral services were held in the Methodist Church Sunday, after noon at 4 o'clock,-conducted by Rev. G. W. Perry. , The many floral over "Ard-"kJ:-:Jsabii. terminatton' of peirmai;iiamesi?' denoting., natural tendenci. ,.as ' , Goddard. "eood-tem- ings bespoke the highsteem in which PeV9Wsi: liberal"'; drunkard. ..... . . 1 MKnttlBhH a1n-(roF1 w mnA monv Others., he was held. Interment took place at Cross Hill Cemetery. " " ' ' ARMS SHOULD BE TERRACED E. L. Parrott Will be Continued As Agent for ' This Work -: Farmers Should Use Him. - nave oeen aoie 10 mauce tne oi-1 - , , .; t -l-. ltl , v ficials at Raleigh to continue Mr. '1 hav added MTewil Hew teachers mak ing' a M4flwriTeJ Wre looking MANY WANT TO SEE EXECUTION Sis Hundred,' Ninety-five' Ap plied for Tickets to see Mur phy and Thomas Executed As regards the . appointment of 17.J.-.I TJ.. V ...1J k. . rious indeed who attempted to speak i for the people of North Carolina as a whole. "' The Times thinks it can r speak for a majority of the people of this section who know. Mr. Seawell ' 1 k J IV.t .1 U vai .wiu aajr. iufc, uw; nvviu amm wv see him succeed Judge Connor. Folk hereabouts would be plessed to see : tfca'.'Nnrtli (Carolina Anainra. if Mr. 1 (Continued on pigp Two.) ,'; ' r;-v r -.;. BY BOLL WEEVIL ; as r . -?. c l irioore uuuiy rauo dnoui ' Pohlem in the Arrival of :i V' Dread Cotton Pest, " ; - Cotton farmers of the county know now what the boll .weevil is.' 'All through the summer they have, been noticing the small white grub thst in fests the, small forming boll, but of 'late the developed weevil : has been appearing in alarming "numbers, and it is no longer doubted that the. wee vil has arrived and in full supply. The cotton crop this fall will be reasons' kly f sir. It promises to be better in Moore county, by far, than ' it will ; average over the rest of the cotton belt, for while the weevil has' evi ' dently arrived in full force, it did, not . come soon enough to greatly damage 'this year's crop. ' The bolls have too (News & Observer, Aug.' 31.) Six hundred and ninety-five citi zens of the stats have use -the long distance telephone, telegraph, special delivery mail and have come in per son to ask for tickets to see the exe cution of . the two negroes sentenced to die for. criminal assault on Mrs. A. E, Ketchen and the shooting of her husband in Moore county a month ago. ; , ';-'- ':,-'-;. . - ; ;v Demand for admission to the death chamber on September '15th,1 when the two negroes are led in and exe cuted, is entirely without parallel in the annals of the electric chair. Time has been when witnesses had to bo rounded np to make the number suf ficient to . legalise the . execution, Twelve men must sign the death war rant after the execution,' beside the warden and prison attendants. Fifty is the limit that may be ad mltted to the execution chamber, That is more than the comfortable capacity of the little octagonal room where the lives of men . are ' taken from , them , for crimes against the. peace and dignity of the state. These fifty have been chosen from among the first , fifty who applied, and the 645 others will be disappointed. Less than 200 people" made appli- " .i . . 'Itf 7fO) tin, ;". - cation xo witness tne execution oi . T. Harris last October and the last double execution t the prison when the Cain brothers were killed a little more, than two years ago, was wit nessed by less than forty people. The prison authorities are unable to ac count for the tremendous demand for tickets to see these to unknown ne- groea'aie. ';,-. , , ', (Cqntinued on page Two.) , "' .' " " 4 i ' ' ' Fife ' : : DKATHXrM. B. JENKINS REV. M. McG. SHIELDS DIES IMPORTANT llEETING : A OFLTHE BEEKEEPERS -- OBITUARY Every personwho keeps' bees is cordially invited to meet Mr. C. L. ams, specialist in beekeeping, - in Carthage, 2 p. m, Monday, Sept. 11. Many important matters concerning bees and beekeeping will be discussed by Mr. Sams at this meeting, and it urgently requested that every mem ber the Sandhills Beekeepers Asso ciation be present. Mr.. Sams will tell you about European, foul brood and how to combat this dread bee disease. Vital matters of business of the as sociation will be gone over, and you are needed at this meeting. ,' 4 The meeting will be held in the of fice of the county agent, and Mr. M. Wall will preside over the meet ing, very truly yours, Luther A. Fink, Sec'y. , BOYS PIG CLUB JUDGINGCONTEST rizes Will be Offered at Sand hill Fair for Best Judging 4 Team and Individual. of age ' May God: comfort the bereaved. JACKSON SPRINGS SCtSOL OPENS 11 , tAst Year School Aberdeen, Aug. , 29, '22. I have been able," to induce the of - Within lAM Year School Hi Been Given Standard A Rat ing.Corps Teachers. JacksonSprings High School will open nitt'endiiyvfieptember' 11th. Parrott for county agent work for a few months after the return of Mr. WalL TWe felt that Mr. Wall was ;oTpliy.-wrenTSrerneii Tuesday, November 7th, will be observed as Pig Club Day at the Sandhill Fair at Pinehurst, I have re cently secured the co-operation of the Page Trust Company,' the Bank of Pinehurst and the Sandhill Fair in making this day a very important occasion or- club members in North ;'i ne rage Trust vompany wm offer $100.00 in prizes, the Bank of Pine hurst $25.00 and the Sandhill Fair 25.00 open for competition in : the state. We are asking the County Agents from North Carolina to bring teams composed of three members to compete in the judging contest. For the highest scoring team, $40.00 will be given,, second $30.00, third $20.00 and fourth $10.00, while the highest scoring individual will receive $25.00 and the county agent who brings the team who wins first prize will receive $25.00. Arrangements will be made to admit all contesting members free of charge into the fair grounds and, if necessary, . they will have . free camping privileges on Monday and Tuesday nights at Camp Tufts dur ing this time. ,. t. it.. I i Tl f6r work to go out actively into the j,. . . F, , . . field, especially during the hot sum- School became a sUnd mer months, and do the work that CUa A. We must aver- would be expected of him. "' I felt that if the state and U. S. age seventy or more in the High High School department to hold this high record. Let every patron of the A tw nw4 -OTTA.lrl a Inwtn Aj. vta.v i-ill , - x . m I . i. i 1 school try to help us hold this record- salary for an assistant for a short I 1 while, it might be a good thing for me to put him on. They have agreed to do this. V" ' . "v . 'v l- " J Now, I am writing to ask the farm' Let all the patrons remember the compulsory attendance law. All pu pils- 7 to 14 come under this , law. Count it a priviledge as well as a duty and daughters, . , ... . . , . . make it easy for the pupils and teach- during the fall . months, . beginning r""" y y , , with September the 1st, in lsying oif J lu vu" , w w" . . . nr. v. . land level which he may use, and if his entire time for the next sixty days . W. C. McColl, Supt. The high school was organized at is given to this work; it . will '' be of Jackson Springs in 1917. Since then great value to the farmers of the the curriculum" has been raised and county.V This work! can , be .' done the number of teachers increased un- whether you are ready ,to build the til last year the sohool was given terrace or ndt. By using stakes, 'the standard high school class A rsting, mark for the terrace will be perma- With this rating graduates have an nent and it can be built at any con- advantage in entering college and In venient time afterwards. Lot me sug- securing teachers certificates. gest right here that you be sure to I ' Last year this school had enrolled build the terrace of sufficient height in the high school something over one and width to prevent breaking. I have hundred and sixty five' students and instructed Mr., Parrott to . advertise graduated nineteen. There are five through the county papers and other- full time teachers in the high school wise that he is ready to begin the and five grade teachers, the faculty work; so It is up to you farmers to If of the next term will be as follows receive this service free of cost. Ke'-JW. C. McColl, Supt., Miss Patty member that if you have work Ho do Marks, principal, George Neal, asst. you must apply to him to do it for principal, Miss Helen ' Street, Miss you. . . ; 1 Maude Poole, 6th. and 7th. grades, Mr. Wall, I think, will be able to Miss' Alma Herendon, 4th. and 5th. take care of the Pig Club work, Fair grades, Miss Lena Nelson Booker, 3rd work, and perhaps a few other things! grade, Miss Josephine O'Brient, 2nd, thst will not require too. much stren-l grade, Miss Onnie Bruton, 1st. grade, Miss Viola Stephenson music. NEGRO BEATS WIFE uous traVel. T. D. McLean, Dist Agt. RAISES FINE APPLES Melton Harrington, a negro living Mcl. Kennedy, of Eagle Springs ust above the ' Carthage cemetery, brought to the News office Monday! was arrested and lodged in jail Sun a peck of the finest home grown ap- day for severely beating ; his wife plea that have yet been exhibited here People living near by heard the torn since the promotion at the apple pro- motion' and phoned for Cheif ect They are the Starks Delicious Williams. When the chief and Mr, rarity and will average from six tolLeavitt arrived Harrington was still eight ounces in weight, all solid and beating the woman. They placed him firm without the slightest " blemish, under arrest and brought the woman Mr. Kennedy states thst he hss seen to s tiotftor. She was badly beaten.' It trees full ef fruit just like, apples he is reported that Harrington broke brought He sprsyed the trees once I fruit jar over her head, struck her this year at the same time he sprayed with a chair, kicked, and otherwise his peach trees. ' :' ' . ' . I punished her. At a preliminary hear- ' The apples Mr. Kennedy is grow ling Harrington was placed under ing aught to be sufficient curs for the $700. bond, and not' being able 'to pessimist who' thinks ,spple'' cant bo I furnish it was placed in Jail to await grown In Moore trial APPLE MEETING NEXT THURSDAY Definite Plans to be Made o That Day. Board of Trade to Serve Apple Dinner. '.At a meeting of ' the Carthage Board of Trade Monday night, the matter of serving an apple dinner to all those interested in the apple pro ject when they meet here next Thurs day, the 14th, was taken up. It was decided that sufficient funds be ap- : propriated to carry out this idea and to offer any other such inducements to get as many as possible to attend this meeting. - W. N. Hutt with M. W. Wall, E. L. Parrott and other such assistance as necessary will this week make a tour over the clay section of the county with the view of selecting one or -more sites for the apple orchard. A meeting of all those interested in the project will be called Thursday, Sep tember 14th in the Woman's ' Cluh room in Carthage, for the purpose of making a definite decision in regard to the sites selected by the committor and to make arrangements as to so liciting stock and other preliminaries. At this meeting the Carthage Board of Trade will serve an appVj dinner, to all those interested in tSa movw ment Apples will be cooked in all the various ways and theby-produC3 will b aif exWbit: Arrangements m being made" with the' farmers over.th" unty tfor many .bushels of ftuit for awr3twiU beJtIbore ,ntv anole dinner. ; S"' b.'.k In last weok'a News there appeared the names of a number of men who replied most favorably to the letters' sent out by Colin Spencer. Since then many more replies have been received and the prospects are that there will be no delay in putting the project ov er at this meeting. The Board of Trade is anxious that every person interested in the orchard, whether able to take stock or not, attend this meeting. t.- SCHEDULE SCHOOL EXTENSION Parks Hill School, Thursday, Sept.' 7th; Briscoe, not Biscoe, Friday, Sept,' 8th ; West Philadelphia, Saturday, Sept. 9th: Carthage. Monday, , Septa U. At least , f our v teams epresenting4 11th? Priest HiU, Tuesday Sept. 12th V tour counties will have Co compete in this contest and at the same time as many, teams as want to come from any county will be eligible, We hope to have at least one dozen teams from Moore county to com pete in this contest. ' . M. W. Wall, County Agent. HEMP BUSINESS AND BUILDING West llnd. Hireanesa Vacant,Thursday, Sept I4th; Put- 4 nam, Friday, Sept 16th; High Falls, - Saturday, Sept 16th. , , Paul H. Fields, Director PRACTICAL TRAINNG AT THE SANDHILL FARM LIFE SCHOOL Lumber Plant Changes Hands. Two Stores Being Remod eled. New Bank Cashier. A new whistle blew in Hemp Friday morning the significance of which was that the Home Building and Material Co. lumber plant there had changed hands. Two local men,.S. G, Garner and W. C. Brown, bought the big plant some weeks ago but they did not assume ownership until Sept 1st. The plant manufactures dressed lumber and has a capacity of about an half million feet a month. Both Mr, Garner and Mr. Brown are experien ced lumber men and the. concern expected to . prosper under : their ownership. It will be known as the Hemp 'Lumber Company. Madison Brown is building a 20x60 foot annex to his store in Hemp, This addition will give him three ad joining store rooms in which to do business. Mr. Brown has large stock of goods on hand and more coming in for the fall and winter trade which will necessitate' the extra space for display. ?: W. L. Kennedy will within the next few days build on to his general store. The back of the store will be torn away and a forty foot addition will be built, to both the store and the Hemp Cafe. This new arrangement will greatly improve the appearance on the inside besides making it more convenient and increasing the floor space,'. '.V'3;;''''' - v;.'; G.'N. Rows is the new cashier of the Bank of Hemp. Mr.. Rows has hsd considerable experience in the banking business and he ' comes to Hemp highly recommended.,, Mr. Garner) the former cashier, resigned soma time ago In order to five us en tire time to managing the Hemp Lum ber Co. of which he is an owner, The purpose of education is to de velop gool character, to fit pupils to live the fullest, most useful life pes- , sible in this environment, and io fit them to realize the fullest amount of happiness from their work -and from their leisure. - People in general agree on these aims. But people have not always agreed as to the best meth ods to accomplish these aims. It ia the purposee of this article to state briefly how the Sandhill Farm Life School has worked out its system of education to accomplish these aims through its courses of study and through its requirement of practical work.'.'': ': v..-' --":-:' We believe that there has been too much pressure exerted by the colleges upon the high school as to what should be taught , The high schools have .felt that they must ' teach the 1 subjects which the oolleges have re quired regardless as to whether such subjects were xf any value to the pu pil in his life work. ' ' We have, until (Continued on Page Three.) NEWS TO HAVE FARM SECTION County Agricultural. Board To Publish Supplement in the News Once Each Month. . At a meeting of the County Agri cultural Board Monday many masters ' were brought up. One of which will be of grgat interest to the farmers of ' this section is that of securing an ag " ricultural edition to the Moore Coun ty News once each month. ' In 'this edition will be published the agrlcul- tural happenings , of the county and the projects that will be put into op oration by the county board with the assistance of the county agent. ,. ; Ths first edition will be published probably the first of October and subjects that will he ef vital Impor tance will receive detailed publicity. .. (Continued oa past Tjr, jJ . i .'I .-3 ,! .I.'.,' ..v..' 1." .. - .-, ;-'.'. I .1. N
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