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WITH INCREASED BUSINESS
2, 1917
HUH IS
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FORYOUNB
State Board of Health Recom
mends Five Health Rules for
North Carolina Boys and Girls
Good health is mo& attra&ive.
It is beauty for the young girl
and strength for the young man.
fXever yet." said a noted woman,
recently, "have I seen a hopeless
ly ugly man or woman who was
in perfect health. It is the pale
wan cheek, the sunken eyes, the
yellow decayed teeth, the hump
ed shoulders or the nervous
grouchy disposition that is al
ways ugly and unattractive.
"The glow of health on the
cheek, the sparkle in the eye,
two rows of clean, and sound
teeth and a body carried firmly
and four square to the winds,
with health in the body and
laughter in the_goul ? that is
beauty and ?rength that endures
and it is worth working for."
The health rules of the Crusa
ders, a band of boys and girls in
terested not only in their own
health but also in the health of
others, are here given and are re
commended by the State Board
thern^TvesattractiVCS^Sr men 1
and women. They are: ]
"1. Always breathe fresh air.
Never sleep, &udy, work nor
play in a room without a win
dow open. Take ten- deep
breaths every day.
"2. Eat nourishing food and
chew it thoroughly. Drink plenty
of pure water and use your own
cup. Avoid food that is hard to
digest, like heavy pie - and cake
and much candy. Never eat nor
drink anything that weakens the
body, like alcoholic drinks.
"3. Make sure that everything
you put in your mouth is clean.
Wash your hands always before
eating and bathe your whole
body often, Clean your teeth
every day. Have a regular time
every day for attending to each
need of your body.
"4. Exercise every day in the
, open air. Keep your shoulders
straight. Do not smoke before
you are grown up.
"5. Get a long night's sleep.
Get up smiling. Keep your mind
clean and cheerful."
December was another great
month lor the hoboes; The rail- ,
road companies ordered 22,695
new freight cars!
A London munition factory
recently blew up, killing over
fifty persons. This is one place
more dangerous than an editorial
sanctum. 1
SPEAK QUICK TO NORTH
CAROLINA LEGISLATORS
(Progressive Farmer)
To all, our North Carolina
friends and subscribers we would
say, now is the time to speak to
your member of the Legislature.
Possibly never before have our
farmers had such an opportunity
for evoking good results that
may endure for all time to come.
The new Governor has presented
a non-partisan program of rural
progress, and legislators are ju?
waiting to see how vigorously
the farmers themselves will speak
out for reforms. The ancient crop
lien and time prices iniquity may
be crushed and crippled for all
time to come if farmers will only
speak promptly.
The State Farmers' Union
Council and Governor Bickett
have agreed on a measure pro
viding that wherever a merchant
has crop lien security he shall
not charge for time prices more
than his cash prich price plus 10
per cent, nor shall any person,
firm or corporation advancing
either cash or supplies on crop
lien security add more than 10
per cent in lieu of all commis
sions and intere& charges. If
you, good readers, are in favor
of such a law to stop crop lien
usury and extortion, don't fail to
write your Legislators in behalf
of such of these as possible get
up a petition in your neighbor
hood. Every Local Uuion in the
&ate should also rush resolutions
fraud is also on the rim, and let
ters, petitions and resolutions
should 5e rushed regarding it.
The patent medicine manufac
turers have millions with which
to defeat the will of people.
Look up the measure advocated
on page 19 of our last Reference
Special and write your Legis
lators in behalf of such of these
as you favor, and all other legis
lation you want. The wealthy
corporations send lobbyists to the
Legislature; the great plain peo
ple must send letters.
NORTH CAROLINA WILL GET
$228,763 FOR HER ROADS
Washington? The Department
of Agriculture today announced
the following appointment of
good roads funds for Virginia,
North Carolina, and South Caro
lina.
Virginia, $199,321. '
North Carolina, $228,763,
South Carolina, $143,615.
West Virginia, $10,650.
These appropriations will be
available for the building of State
highway. In addition to the
above &ates, the Department al
so ratified the distribution of
funds to a number of other Sates.
The appropriation is authorized
through the recently passed
Federal road law.
Representative Gardner, of
Yancey, Introduces Measure
For Anti-Saloon League
A bill to aid temperencje by
juther restriction of the receipt
of whiskey in North Carolina
was yesterday dropped into the
hopper of the House of Repre
sentatives by Representative
Gardner of Yancey county. The
bill is one drafted arad approved
in the offices, of Superintendent
R. Lee Davis of the North Caro
lina Anti-Saloon League and is a
little different from that circulat
ed by Mr. Davis several days be
fore the convening ot fhe present
General Assembly.
The bill was introduced by re
que& and was not unexpected.
It had been known for several
days that such a bill was in the
making, and those who are to
oppose it had been dreading its
approach. It went through its
initail reading, however, without
comment; mo& of the opposers
merely drawing a deep sight of
content over the fact that they
have finally to face the issue. >
The bill prohibits the receipt
quarts per year. It annuls the
law permitting*the sale of wines
and ciders by manufacturers ex
cept when such ciders or wines
contain no more than two per
cent of alcohol; prohibits the pos
session of any liquors by social
clubs; makes it a misdemeanor
to drink or be drunk in public
and gives the State power to con
fiscate all vehicles used in the
transportation of liquor in oppo
sition to the law.
Only Receipt Allowed.
kThe only clause in it permit
ting the receipt of liquor in any
shape or form is section 21,
which says:
"That any person not a minor,
may receive one shipment of
spirituous liquor, not more than
two quarts or one shipment of
malt liqudrs not more than three
gallons for medical use each cal
endar year under the following
conditions. The person may ap
ply to the clerk of the court of
the county in which he lives for
a permit to receive by transpor
tation by a common carrier spiri
tuous or malt liquors for mecftcal
use. At such time he must make
affidavit that he is a citizen of
the county, that he has not receiv
ed any spirituous or malt liquors
in twelve months, lhat he wants
this shipment for medical use
only, and that he wishes to re
ceive it at the express office
nearest to his home. Such per
^granted bylhe
if' v. v-"l- >i ? / *
jy. appointed de
if fx sfeal of
$nd said permit
nameof the ap
the shipment is
place from
t is to be made,
e shipped, the
the permit, and
Gee neareft the
Applicant to which
* mu& 7 be made,
qiit mu& be execut
The original
epjed to the appli
sent by 4iim' to the
| posted on the out
:e containing
. The permit soused
i the v public carrier to
and deliver the pack
duplicate must be fit
's office in the
anuer that the duplicate
tor shipment of alcohol
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lsrs bill will, of course,
xceedingly hard for any
E North Carolina to get
I'There is though, mighty
^tfbt that the bill will pass.
who are mo& bitterly
^ to it conccde that there
possibility of it being
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Bfe>. S?S. " ,'t l
gr t917 : is gone.:
t of the many
)u planned to do. Un
have gone one-twelfth
i are behind time,
heavy load, you are back of your
schedule. "
lYou will find that others have
the right way and while you
Sand on the sidetrack they will
push along the track of life and
make good where you failed.
Get up, get a move on yourself
and make up that lost time. The
greatest lesson that yon can teach
yourself is that time is money
and once spent it never returns.
You have to spend it but seldom
do you do it wisely. ?
Start February with a determ
ination to make up for the days
lo? in January. You mu& put
your shoulder to the wheel and
your body behind your brain.
Take care of yourself but work
to the limit. Hard work is the
way to be successful ? there is no
other way.
The Junior Missionary Society
? ' ? . Meets.
The Junior Missionary Society
of the Methodist church, held its
regular meeting on Jan. 19th, at
the home of Miss Ethel Brooks.
After the .business session was
over we were served with de
licious refreshments. We then
departed declaring Miss Brooks
a met!! charming hostess. Our
next meeting .will be held at the
home of Miss Georgia Newlon ?
Lena Wright,
Corresponding Secretary.
Recommend Electric Lights for
County Home, New Home for
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Superintendent.
To the Honorable W. P. Stacy,
Judge Superior Court of Pitt
County:
We, your Grand Jury for the
January Term, 1917, respe&fully
report as follows:
COUNTY HOME
We have examined the County
Home and find the same in an
extraordinary good condition, the
inmates well cared for, comfort
ably provided for, and we desire
to recommend that the lighting
facilities be improved, as many
of the inmates who have to havej
light all the time and being un
able to move around or handle
dangerous kerosene lights, we
recomnjend the addition of an
electric lighting plant, as we un
derhand that during this week
the county has in&alled a gaso
line engine, atid for the father
expenditure of the $125.00 a
twenty-five light plant can bej
io&alled, or by the expenditure
of $185.00 a fifty-light plant can
beinhalled.
perintendent, as the one now oc
cupied is to small and in bad re
pair.
CONVICT CAMP:
We examined the convid camp
and find the same in good con
dition and theconvidts well cared
for, with the exception of the
way the convidis are provided
for in a place to eat, we under
hand they have no tent for this
purpose, and when the weather
is bad and they have to eat out
on ^ long table they have to take
it in their hands and go to the
tent, this we recommend to be
remedied.
COUNTY TEAM:
The team we find in good con
dition and well cared for.
JAIL:
We have examined the jail and
find the conditions good, but we
recommend a side door to be
made for the carrying of prisoners
and admitting others who have
to go into the jail, without taking
them through the private rooms
of the Jailor or the Deputy
Sheriff, and we recommend that
this be done as early as possible.
COURTHOUSE:
We have examined the Court
house and find things in a fair
condition, with the eqception of
the County Commissioner's room
which is not clean, and which we
find in an unclean, improperly
kept condition and should be
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remedied.
We further recommend that a
driveway be builf ju& back of the
standpipe and back of the jail
with an entrance from Washing
ton l^eet coming up from the
back of the Courthouse for the
purpose of hauling coal and
ashes and other freight material.
We find that ihe County Board
of Commissioners has employed
public accountants to make an
audit of the books of the County
for the last two years for the pur
pose of making an annual state
ment, this, we think, is a good
and safe sot on the part of the
Commissioners and approved the
same.
PUBLIC ROADS:
At the lasft term of the Crimt
nal Court the Grand Jury recom
mended that the matter of the
condition of the public roads by
the negligence of the Ju&ice of
the Peace and Road Overseers
of the vorious townships, and
their failure to make their reports
as sucii officials, be brought to
the attention of the said officials
and the public generally, and we
find as a result of this recommen
dation that a good number of the
Justices of the Peace have made
their reports as trial officials, but
we find from a further investiga
tion that they have not made any
reports as Road Supervisors of
tfteir respective townships for a
number of years, the names
of these Justices of the Peace
have been presented for indict
ment, but before, bills are found
against them, we respectfully re
the adion of the Grand Jury un
der His Honor's order to the
Clerk, giving them an opportun
ity to comply with the law and to
make their report to this court
at the next sitting of the Grand
Jury and that upon their failure
to do this, these presentments be
returned as true bills by the next
Grand Jury, if they will follow
recommendation, and such Road
Supervisors as fail to hold a meet
ing and comply with the law,
shall be held before this court for
trial under such penalty as the
law does prescribe.
? We make this report because
of the gross negligence of our
roads and their impassable and
deplorable condition as the re
sult of the indifference of every
person whose duty \l is to see
that the law is enforced.
We further make this report
and this recomendation through
deference and the just act and
foresight on the . part of the
Grand Jury, which brought this
to the attention of the Court and
the public.
The lists of the Justices of the
peace is attached to these reports,
which is merely as a matter of
information, under our recom
t
mendation h?rein set forth.
This January 24th, 1917.
W. E. HOOKER,
Foreign.
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To Our Customers
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