Ilwf ! ANY DAY ; The Bu«y World AsSoenby The Poorest Paid Editor In the United States. Getting Used To It • „ • - % The State magazine at Raleigh says that the' preliminary storm in con nection-with the enforcement of the tales tax in North Carolina has ap parently subsided. Things are mov ing along smoothly and quietly and complaints have been reduced from , ; leud and frequent yells to , subdued and infrequent murmurs. ; This statement seems to be quite s.'; correct, and . is due to several causes. /, One is the matter of a counter irri . i tant. Most of us have to have some thing to agonize over and we follow ■one agony until another comes along. The sales tax held favor till other and Wewer conditions and ideas arose and this goes far to make the tax a thing . Of accustomed routine. When people get used to routine they are satisfied i^loss, indeed, there is a real hard ship involved!. , No Great Hardship . 1 ; Now it is perfectly apparent that there is no great hardship in paying * few pennies to the support of the ■ Ifovernment though at the beginning everybody—following a very unwhol some agitation before the legislature —Visioned a horrendous thing when the tax went into affect. We could hope for and pray for a rise of fifty per cent in the price of everything but' to contemplate paying a three cents rise for the needs , of the people in their organized capacity, ^as made to appear a terrible thing. The people are finding that as a matter of fact there is no great hardship and this has gone far to stop complaint. * * * Says We Are Ashamed ' Mr. Goerch’s article goes on to say that people are beginning to be just a little ashamed of themselves in con nection with the expenditure of a few pennies a day. It has been called to their attention that these pennies are being used to maintain North Caro lina’s credit, to prevent defaulting, to educate the children, and to lessen the burden on property. Also to make the fellow who has never paid any taxes to come across with his little share. Mr. Goerch also says that the mer chants who at first did all the howling have found that it was not so popular because the natural reaction of the customer was: "What the hell are you howling aboutr-rve got to pay the tax.” Hostility in Cuba ' In Cuba the agitators. seem to be determined to arouse all possible hos* *tiUfcyv to the United -Stated?2 Arte* Tlutidreda', of^ years ;qf unsuccessful struggle against" the oppression of Spain, Cuba was glad to have the United States come in and set her free. Not only did we run the Span iards out, but we established a clean . and healthful Cuba, wiped out disease, .and did everything to start Cuba off on a successful national mission. We did something else, quite contrary to the practice of the world at that time. We refused to take Cuba over and vol untarily bound ourselves to forever maintain her independence and to re frain from encroaching upon it our selves. And now, when they are un able to maintain a government of their own, we are dirty Yankees and shylocks who must be hated and revil ed. The Cuban crowd doesn’t seem to have sense enough to know that with out the United States Cuban would be nothing but prey as she had always ’been.. v-:-n . Too Much Snap Judgment .. . We are prone to take too much snap judgments. The public will make up its mind too quickly on inadequate information. Scary newspaper head* lines are responsible for more snap judgments than anything else. . Take, as an example, the criticism of Gov. Ehringhous for changing the management of the Caswell Training School, the State's institution for the feeble minded at Kinston. Politics, ev erybody said, and before any of the facts in the case came out the papers and the public were- assuming that the charge was made merely for the sake of turning somebody out and putting some one in. And a further, and equally hurtful assumption in such matters, is always made. .That is that the old management or the old officers were highly efficient and that the new ones would not be. > ,r Now it comes out that the State < Board of Welfare has been for several months finding objections to the old mariagement and has made reports Specifically pointing out where it was mrelect. And the new superintendent, Dr. Register, could not possibly have been put in for political reasons, for he is not a politician, but a long engaged in publie health work in the ' fjtate. A Difficult Job v ' ■>' . The Caswell institution is a difficult Job at best. From the nature of the patients, their great number, and the Jack of abundant funds, the place has always had difficulties. Dr. Hardy, the founder, was turned out as superin tendent. Dr. McNairy, than whom the State never had * more devoted or unselfish servant, was turned out, and now the management which succeeded kith is turned out. Most of the difficul ty arises from the nature of the work the institution must do and the in ability to spend enough money to do Itwell. Meanwhile, governors come ■t Along and try to make improvements by changing management. This, we are satisfied, have all along been, and ...are their motives. And, whttajye are unable tot do anything moreT than that, we shall continue to have ' changes. t The sugar in sweet corn will turn to starch much less rapidly if the ‘ corn is kept in a cool place while it is Stored before cookin'. ,6>In the Arctic regions conversation -iMW been carried on over water b; persons separated by a distance .•,69® feet. 3 VOLUME 60. NO. 35. CARTHAGE, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1933. 12.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE BENEFITS OF PLAN RELATED HERE BY CHAS. A. SHEFFIELD Secretary Wallace Has Given Assurance That Signers Win Get Aid PRODUCTION MUST BE CUT A whirlwind campaign is un der way in an effort to secure a 100 per cent sign-up of Moore county growers to the agree ment to make an acreage reduc tion, not to exceed 30 per cent, for the 1934-35 crops in return for government benefits that will give them a “parity” aver age of 15 to 17 cents for this year’s tobacco crop. The drive is under the direction of E. H. Garrison, the county agent. He is being assisted by the following committee: Jackson Springs — Dan Patterson and Chas. Dilling; Roseland —Dwight Troutman and W. A. Ros ey; Vass—W. B. Graham and T. Frank Cameron; Eureka—T. L. Blue and W. W. Dairymple; Carthage—L. L. Marion and George D. Carter; and Cameron—J. M. Guthrie and L. B. MeKeithen. The, plan of the government for raising the price of tobacco was ex plained here Monday by Chas. Shef field, an official of the state extension department, who is a native of Moore county, before an audience of around 500 growers who packed the court house. Plan Summarized Briefly, the plan,-as summarized by Mr. Sheffield, is: . The; government will estab taking the averages obtained for tobacco in the period between Aug. 1, 1919, and July 39, 1929. This average will figure about 15 3-lOths per pound, but in view of the increase in the prices of other commodities, the "parity” price may be increased to 17 cents .» or more. A signer of the acreage reduc tion agreement will market his tobacco as customary. He will be required to preserve his ware house receipts, and if the average for his entire crop falls below the “parity” price, he will be reim bursed by the government for the difference. Details of the acreage reduction plan will be worked out later and Mr. Sheffield was frank to state that there were some phases of the agree ment that he could not explain. “However,” he asserted,'"the Secre tary of Agriculture has given his per sonal assurance that the signer of the acreage agreement will receive bene fits that will be denied the non-sign I To Impose Processing Tax [ If it is necessary to pay benefits to jthe growers, Mr. Sheffield stated that a processing tax of around four cents will be imposed on the manufactured tobacco to Secure the required funds. I The belief in some circles is strong that the tobacco companies, faced with an acreage reduction for 1934-35, will voluntarily pay the “parity” price. Regardless of the cash benefits the growers may obtain, said Mr. Shef field, an acreage reduction is neces sary if tobacco prices are ever in creased. There has been a constant increase in production since 1930 in the face of lowered consumption and including this year's crop, estimated at 520,000,000 pounds, there is more than a billion pounds of tobacco stocks on hand, Mr. Sheffield pointed out, which is sufficient to last the trade two years if not another pound is produced in that period. “But I think the future is bright for you growers of flue-cured tobaco,” asserted Mr. Sheffield, “if you control production. Nowhere else can flue cured tobacco be produced, that will compete with yours, and with women turning daily to cigarettes, into which the bulkof your crop goes, there is going to be a gradual increase in con sumption.” i The export situation, which has more bearing on the price of the flue cured tobacco than the domestic con sumption, was described by Mr. Shef field as. being very discouraging. Ex ports have dropped from 430,000,000 to 231,000,000 pounds since 1930. World business recovery, he added, should bring about a marked increase in exports In the future. But, he re iterated, there can be no hope for the grower until the immense carry over is reduced. The meeting was pronounced to be the most widely attended of its kind ever held in Moore county. Those in the audience had grim, determined faces, and scores signed the acreage reduction agreement right on the 3POt, v ... Card of Thanks The family wishes to thank their many friends for the kindness and sympathy shown them during the illness and death of their brother, Murd C. Stutts. The crocodile lives to be'about 100 rohra Aid' * - ’ v . f ‘ ’ 20 Companies iq be Represented on Floors Here Seaboard Declares War on *Boes; 22 Caught By Officers Ne^ Vass Tired of their' breaking into box cars, cutting the air brake lines and making general nui sances of themselves, the Sea board Air Line Railroad has de- I dared war on hoboes and is cen tering its offensive on the Knights of the Road in Moore county. Acting on request of officials of the railroad, Sheriff C. J. Mc Donald and his deputies hauled thirty-two hoboes off a freight at Vass. One old man, however, convinced the officers that he was really in search of work, and was released. The others, most of them colored, were given a hear ing before ’Sq. D. E. Bailey, of Southern Pines, and sentenced to serve terms of sixty days on the state highways. They were turn ed over to the custody of Capt. Herbert Jackson, in charge of COLUMN OF NEWS AND INTERVIEWS Local Colored Man Drinks Blood of Slaughtered Cow; Want Name Oldest Citizen Richard Tufts, one of the officials of Pinehurst, Inc., was made foreman of the federal grand jury for the term in session this week at Rocking* ham. He spent one day .exanrinlnfe witnesses, the jury ret Pinehurst.. The action 6 Conners, of Chicago, vs. Richard Howe Wilson, young Southern Pines nian, in which $100,000 is sought for al leged promise of marriage, was post poned until the March term. Judge Hayes, who is presiding, will go to New York state at the expiration of this term to conduct the trial of Sen ator James J. Davis for violation of the postal laws in connection with a lottery conducted by the Moose or ganisation, of which he. is one of the directing headf. ^ : Some Local Jottings G. A. Sheffield, a native of Shef field township, a state agricultural expert, continues to rise in his chos en field. He was recently named* sec retary to the executive committee of the organisation of state tobacco growers. Otis Baker knows a local colored man who occasionally drinks the warm blood of a slaughtered cow. Will some ^reader kindly inform this column who is the oldest white person in the county? T. L. Cagle thinks the distinction goes to Uncle Charlie McLean, who will be eighty eight on the 23rd day of October. DemuB Taylor, of Pinehurst, who is said to be over a hundred, is believed to be the oldest colored resident. Mrs. Worthy McLeod has one of the best gardens in the county. A subscriber gives a new recipe for making excellent sauerkraut. He says place the freshly chopped cab bage in a 1-2 gallon fruit jar, add a tablespoonful of salt, fill the jar with warm water, seal and put aside. It | should be ready for the table within la moiith. I William Shields says a pet King snake inhabited the composing room of the Asheboro Tribune for months. Others tell of a pet King that lived about the mill house at Thaggard’s pond. They drive off other varieties of the reptile. Dan McDonald, by the way, recently killed a large Copper head, reputedly one of the most pois onous of snakes that thrive in this sections ■ The hobby, of Rev. Dwight Ives, pastor of the Carthage and Aberdeen Baptist churches, is painting, at which he is very adept. The acottstics at the Carolina thea tre, Southern Pines, in the opinion of the writer, is better than that in the theatre Of th esame name at Pine hurst. Nor is it equaled by the the elaborate playhouses in Charlotte, Raleigh and Greensboro. Chris Cosmos, of Hellenic extrac tion, is a courteous, accommodating - MORE ON PAGE TWO — Colored Ex-Servicemen Slated to Receive '&&.$li Preference on State Highway Projects A request for six unskilled laborers to assist In clearing the.; right of way for the Aberdeen to, the Biduaond county .line per*; lag job has been received by the Moore county employment office. Paving company officials indicat ed a preference for colored ex* servicemen. Except for steam crane and roller operators, there will be' M demand for skilled labor on-: the camp located near Cferthage. A second hobo haul Tpid been previously made by • th», Moore county officers from a ^freight ■ halted at Southern Pine*, The Seaboard, along with other railroad's of the pountry, has been very lenient in os' treat ment of hoboes during ffche de pression. They rode ftp and down its line in group?. ' Sheriff McDonald says one traid passed through Southern Pinesi with a hundred and fifty hoboes perch ed on the cars. Another1 gentle man counted over a'hundred on one freight. >. 'j /f Instead of appreciating the forbearance of therailroad au thorities, the hoboes began mak ing themselves so 'troublesome that the aid of the Moore county . officers was sought in curbing the practice of stealing tides. : ; ■ • ■ • *' Here By Dr. Taylor; Elec tion Judges Ngined , ——' A petition is being circulated re questing the county board of elec tions to place the name w S. H. Mill er^ prominent hardwaretmerchant of Carriage, on the fh the cqnsti titton* of Bruce Lewis, well-known Sdqtk-I ern Pines attorney, for "wet* elector. B oth Messrs. -Miller ftnd Lew is are personal drys. Both are Democrats. Mr. Miller is a Presbyterian and Mr. Lewis is a Baptist. The following registrars • ana judges for the November election have been named by the county board consisting of N. J. Muse, chairman, B. C. Wallace and Shields Cameron: East Carthage—M. G. Dalrymple, registrar; J. A. Lang and James A. Davis, judges. C f West Carthage—John A. Fry, > reg istrar; L. L. Marion and A. F. Boyte, judges. i Bensalem—E. L. Kelley,, registrar; Alton Richardson and S. B. F. Cope land, judges. Spies—W. J. Baldwin, registrar; Turner Brown and Allen Monroe, judges. * ,Spencerville—£>. A. Dunlap, regis trar; A. L. Kennedy and< Charlie C. Dunlap, judges, v Hemp—E. R. Brown, registrar; John L. Currie and Henry Clay Stutts, judges. Ritters—Boyden Ritter, registrar; Alex Maness and N. G. Purvis, judges. , Highfalls—N. I. Finnison, regis trar; W. H. Brady and Charlie Up church, judges. Deep River—George Wilcox, regis trar; W. M. Fields and Ed Willcox, judges. ' ■' Cameron—John W. Cameron, regis trar; Pharoah Bullock' and M. C. Thomas, judges. v | Vass—Ben Wood, registrar; T. K. Gunter and A. M. Cameron, judges. Eureka—Mrs. J. D. Blue, regis trar; T. L. Blue and Walter McCas kill, judges. ■ - Southern Pines—D. A1 Blue, regis trar; A. S. -Ruggles and S. S. Rich-: ardson, judges. ■ • Aberdeen — Miss Leta McBryde, registrar; Charlie Bridges: and Claude Williams, judges. Pinebluff—J. W. Pickier, registrar; J. B. O’Quinn and M. W. Miller, judges. * Pinehurst—Raymond Johnson, reg istrar; J. V. Healey and. M* B. Ha good, judges. ? , ' West End—Lonnie Graham, regis trar; E. P. Hinson and Clarence Gor don,'judges. v . DR. TAYLOR OPENS DRY v CAMPAIGN IN MOORE By J. A. LANG, JR. Last Sunday night in the Carthage Baptist church. Dr. Cart G. Taylor of Raleigh delivered a most eloquent - MORE ON PAGE FOUR - this job, James A. Davis, fat charge of the office. w«s in formed. The contractors have their own foremen, all of whoa ■ are-former war veteraaa and who cannot be pulled off the Job when a county line is reaiehed. This stipulation. Mr. Davis gathered, explains the preference of the contractors for ex-servicemen. Colored labor, contractors have also found, is better for road iofoa. ■ BANK FACILITIES WILL BEHAD FOR MARKET OPENING Pinehurst Institution to Open Depository Here in Old Page Co. Quarters SOME' HOPE YET FOR PAGE Banking facilities will be available for Carthage by the opening of the tobacco market on Tuesday, Sept. 19. The Bank of Pinehurst has leased the quarters now occupied by the Page Trust Company and will operate a depository here. It is to take pos session by the 15th of this month. The Page Trust Company, which has agreed through S. J. Hinsdale, the liquidating agent, to lease its fixtures to the Bank of Pinehurst, will main tain desk space in the same quarters. However, F. W. VonCannon, presi dent of the Bank of Pinehurst, has emphasized to local business men that the depository will be in the nature of an experiment. His lease of the building is for three months. Fur ther operation of the depository de pends upon the degree of patronage accorded the institution by the local people. The Bank of Pinehurst, which is the county depository, is in a very liquid condition. Stockholders, before the bank was permitted to open after the. holiday, were required to pay in additional capital and surplus, and its cash position is good. It is not known who will be in charge of the depos itory. , ■■J-'"" ' ' ■ ' V - .. .. inehurst •ofbanking facilities here has tended to retard business recovery, and now with a depository and the furniture factory and knitting mill running, to gether with the prospect of better to-' bacco prices, there is an increased confidence in the future of the com munity. PAGE TRUST COMPANY MAY ENTER SECURITY NATIONAL While the announcement that the Bank of Pinehurst would open a de pository here has served to relieve the tension over the local banking situation, it is learned that there is still a strong probability of the Page Trust Company, closed since the banking holiday, becoming a part of the Security National Bank, formed around the units of the closed North Carolina' Bank & Trust Company. All preventing the merger is the approv al of the Comptroller of the Curren cy, which is expected momentarily, and the surmounting of some legal difficulties, it is stated. If the merger is effected, Moore county will likely get a unit of the Security National Bank, with Car thage being the preferred point, The Moore County News has been inform ed. If the Bank of Pinehurtt finds the operation of its depository here profitable, however, and this commu nity is assured of permanent banking facilities, it is supposed that Aber deen would be the preferred point for this Sandhill section. The original plan to merge the Page Trust Company and the North Carolina Bank and Trust Company into the Security National was halted when Judge A. M. Stack, of Monroe, issued an order restraining the for mer organization from entering the new get-up until the directors were given thirty days in which to file pro tests. If Page finally enters the original set-up, the number of new branches will be limited by the increase in cap ital of the Security National. It is not thought that there would possi bly be more than two or three new branches, one of which, according to tentative plans, would be located in Moore county. The Reconstruction Finance Cor poration has already agreed to the new set-up, according to a statement of Commissioner Gurney Hood. All lacking, as stated, is the approval of the Comptroller of the Currency and the surmounting of the legal difficul ties. 'Inside-frosted electric light bulbs are made by etching the inside of the bulb with acid. The Aberdeen-Richmond coun ty line paving Job, real work en; which is expected to start in a couple of weeks, is expected to take about ninety days. No man will be permitted to work more than thirty hours a week, the minimum pay for which will be thirty cents an hour for unskill ed labor. Preference will also be riven to men living in the imme diate vicinity of the work, Mr. Davis was further informed, ^ A WILLIAM ADAMS OPENS LAW OFFICE IN NASH ROCKY MOUNT, Sept. 11.—The city’s newest law firm, Adams and Spruill, opened offices on the third floor of the former North Carolina Bank and Trust company building on Monday morning. Members of the law firm are Frank P. Spruill, Jr., the son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank P. Spruill of this city, and W. J. Adams, Jr., son of Justice W. J. Adams of the North Carolina Supreme court, in Raleigh. Both of the young attorneys are graduates of the University of North Carolina, academic school and law school. Both took their A. B. degrees in the same class and later earned their LL.B. degrees from the university. They were li censed to practice law in North Carolina in the class of August, 1932, but returned to the univer sity to get their law degrees. GROWERS PARTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR BAD PEACH YEAR Poor Condition of Fruit and Carelsss Marketing Held as Main Factors FEW GROWERS LOST MONEY By . FRED P. ABBOTT .<WU*h was attended with' remits that-ww' more or less disappointing to many growers. It is probably safe to say that no grower realized any unusually large profit this year, whereas most growers either made expenses or lost a little money. Fortunately, the grow ers have effected the utmost econo mies in the production of their'crop, and it is probably safe to say that, for the grower who had a normal crop this was the cheapest crop thus for produced, and by virtue of this fact, even on the low markets experienced, the losses, if any, were small. While the grower has suffered re verses in the last three years of peach production on account of seasonal and market conditions, he is suffering still further disasters in the reduction of his peach trees due principally to death caused by disease. Many grow ers in the Carolinas and Georgia have lost numerous trees, the death of which was generally attributed to winter injurl, whereas in the majority of these cases, the real fundamental cause of death was root-rot, botani cftlly known as armillaria mellea, which is caused by a fungus that at tacks and destroys the cambium lay er, and when developed sufficiently completely, destroys many of the feed ing roots, setting up a toxic condition and impeding the tree’s supply of food. This condition makes the trees much more susceptible to crowngall, which is a bacterial disease, that pro duces enlargements on the roots and trunk, and eventually shuts off the food supply and also sets up a very toxic condition. In many cases, both of these diseases seem to be present, and because of the tree’s weakened condition and the natural instinct to reproduce themselves when threaten ed with death, the sap rises earlier than in normal conditions, and they cannot resist the adversities present ed by belated cold weather. Control of Root Rot So far, there has been very little experimental work performed looking! toward the control of root-rot, but from the data which is available at this time, it appears that one can nev er safely replant an orchard on land which was previously planted to peach trees that went out with this disease. Many of the new peach plant ings in Georgia—principally in South Georgia—were made on this type of land and the results, no doubt, will be very disappointing to the owners as, by the time the peach trees should be. about in their peak of production, there will probably be very few of the original plantings left. In recent years, a disease known as “bacterios I is” has caused the growers no small concern, and resulted in greatly re ducing the marketable crop. In years when the infestation is heavy, due to favorable weather experienced in the early spring, it causes premature de foliation which, of course, affects the set of fruits bulbs for the following year. Considerable experimental work ’ has been done in an effort to control this disease but thus far the results V are not very satisfactory. Everyone realizes the purchasing power is at present at a very low ebb, but at the same time, the peach grow er has done much himself to bring about this extremely low price. Many growers believe that when a peach is produced, it should find its way to the market some way, despite the fact that it may be wormy, small, or spot tod with baeteriosis; and this single m urn sm— RECORD BREAKING SEASON PREDICTED BY GEORGE CARTER Charlie C. Bennett, of Candofj Returns to Farmers Ware- u house as Manager $ old Buyers will return Twenty tobacco companies will be represented on the Carthage market, which is scheduled to open on Tues day, Sept. 19, for what is expected to be a record-breaking season. These companies are: Imperial Tobacco Company, Export' Leaf Tobacco Company, American Suppliers, Inc., R. J. Reynolds Tobac co Company, Liggett-Myers Tobacco Company, J. P. Taylor Company, Piedmont Leaf Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem Leaf Tobacco Com pany, Lumberton Redrying Tobacco Company, Venable Tobacco Company, Axton-Fisher Tobacco Company, P. Lorillard Company, Brown-William liamson Tobacco Company, China* American Tobacco Company, Wi TL Clark, A. C. Monk <5o., Ipc., Wilson Tobacco Company, Southern Tobacco Company, Dibrell Brothers’ Company and Pemberton & Penn Tobacco Com - pany. • '< ~ This increased array of companies will afford unusually strong compe tition for the lower grades, which seem to be in better demand . this year than heretofore. T: 21 George D. Carter will operate Old?; McConnell Warehouse and Chas. •eft- of Candor, after an at M ■-War^uuseiiM expresses himself as well. pleased over the' outlook for this ' season*. “We are out to make ft record;” he asserted Tuesday, “and with the corp of experienced buyers and warehouse* men we have assembled, I am confi dent that Carthage’s reputation for being the best small market in the state will be increased." E. H. Morton, who buys for. the Export, and Cheslie Meredith, who buys for Liggett-Myers, both fixtures on the local market, will be here again this season. G. G. Swain, rep resenting a number of independent companies, is a new addition to the buying group. He will be a strong contender for the lower grades. Will Be a Gala Occasion * Banking facilities will be provided by the Bank of Pinehurst, which will, open a depository here to clear the checks of the two warehouses. . 5 Young Bill Carter, who has made., quite a reputation as an auctioneer bii' the local, Georgia and Tennessee mar-.» kets, will cry the sale. Clyde Shavf will write the checks. - • 4 The market opening, always a gala occasion, will find both warehouses fine state of repair with new baskets. They are uniform in weight. M. E. Fagg, associated with Mr. Carter in the operation of the market; made this statement: “Every com pany that buys tobacco in the bright' flue-cured belt has agreed to send ft representative to the Carthage mar ket. It is a fact that the sun will nev er set at one time on all the com panies, domestic and foreign, that will receive tobacco purchased on this market. Farmers living nearby will, find it convenient to sell at home. Those living far away will find that the trip to this market will pay them well. While the state average last year was about 911, the Carthage market average was $14.88 per hun f/w nil fnlwiiM anl^11 ■ { iSf ; \>j m ■ ’/ ■ dred for all tobacco sold.” The warehouse holiday, which wa> requested by Governor J. C. B. Eh ringhaus to permit federal authori ties to secure acreage reduction pledges for the next two years in re turn for government benefits to in crease the price of tobacco for this year, is expected to be lifted before the date for the opening of thfe Car thage market. * NO CASH ON RELIEF ORDER*' Some complaints have been heard to the effect that certain merchants have been giving: cash for a part or the amount called for by relief ordoifc distributed by the local office, whbp it is specifically stated that all, such orders be filled entirely with food dr clothing. Mr. William V. Carter, di rector, states that such ’ practice should be immediately discontinued by those merchants who have, been allowing any cash On relief orderi. Purchases made With relief orders are subject to no sales tax, mer chants being allowed to deduct this amount of .such sales from their gross revenue. - ■ WHITE BILL NEWS W. A. McLeod continues quite ill at hia home here. In fact, he has been suffering more than usual the pait week. • I,. ' a Mrs. John MeCaskill and children, Carolyn and John, Jr., fere visiting Miss Verla Fisher. Mr. and Mrs. Walter "Wick* and children spent Sc»dhy : ir. wjtjg CtlnllVOit

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