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" ? '? ~ '' ''''' ''' ' La Follette To Be A 3rd Party Candidate Sends His Formal Acceptance of Nomination to Conference. LA FOLLETTS INDEPENDENT TICKET BIDS FOR VOTES FROM BOTH REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATIC RANKS. GETS INTO RACE FOR PRESIDENT. New York, July 4th.?While New York has spent itself cheer ing for Smith and the throats of the McAdoo forces have worn themselves out boosting for r their candidate, leaders of both the Democratic and Republican party have remained silent and thoughtful, for admist the ex citement and histeria they have seen only one thing?the grow ing spectre of the man from Wisconsin, La Follette. Two weeks ago political wise acres thought the greatest dan ger in the La Follette movement was the possibility of the Sena tor throwing the election into the house. Today these same leaders privately admit even the possibility of a La Follette vic tory at the polls. When the Underwood forces threw the Ktt Klttx hat into the Democratic ring the entire aspect of. affaire changed with the rapidity of a flash of lightning. Now it is admitted to be impossible to down the issue. The cleavgge is too wide, the bitterness too marked for compromise. . u ?. J ged it on to the eonventionftoorLa Follette's candidacy was a menace only to the Republicans," he said. "Now it is a danger to both parties. The South might not have gone so far as to support a Republican ticket, to lay the spectre of Roman spectre they fear so much, but they will ran to an independent if necessary, beyond doubt On the other hand the oppo sition to the Kian will march to La Follette unless some spectacular shift in the cards persuades them that the Democracy is safe from the influence of the hooded order. "The burning fire of this religious issue will take years to burn itself out The Klansmen grit their teeth and row they wilt fight to the death ?gainst "making America a seat of government from Rome." They in sist they- wiU not tolerate religious domination in politics. "That is exactly what we are try ing to do," retort the anti-Dan fac tionalism "W e want absolute freedom of religion will all beariers removed." "As I see it, Alabama has lighted a camp fire that is likely to lead the La Follette forces straight down the path far victory. Certainly the old political alignments have been shaken to their foundation." ?;?m?rv. I CiUJI ? - cal Rotarians eyes grew large wiiti I ? - agarstion seemed impossible and eon sequent!? they just "lot go." Leftovers." . ki dttATPov sftSHBS TO rioftt 4t t p' is nBRir li*r v "Jten ? ILL "Into the Fight" ? !? ?.y\ -*jf :' Senator "Bob* LaFollette, of lbwbb SCENE op ' '*? ?? beactiful party Mr. Thomas Raymond Lewis w#e host to a number of his friends en Thursday evening last when he en tertained at a beautiful party at his home near here. The spacious home was aglow with lights and made more attractive with quantities of summer flowers. De licious fruit punch was served the guests by Miss Ellen Lewis as they arrived. Chief among the amusing games was progressive conversation. Delightful refreshments consisting of ice cream and cake were served at the end of the evening. "Flashes olAc iw? Wffl Be p Shown Here Motion Pictures Taken Under Fire in World tfvlObtjined by Local Legion Post . ??? r "Jptashes of Action," be official moving picture of the World War, willbe exhibited for the first time in Fsrmville at the Trio Theatre, Wed nesday night, July 9, under the an> American Legion.>. .. . & ** ^The scenes )in "Flashes of Action" were taken under fire by phutograhp en of the United States signal corps, who we?,with the troops from the . training camps to the trendies. The fUm is in length and in^ tiarity of &Is film convinces me thai I flfli- wKttt inuilflUL wrfrfaw {? ? I ? Th* Dwnoenitic National Csatvention in action n iSin iiii f i I v-v * ? of the iMMHt_Convetitjon lights since the days at l)ahSe^wti? Woodrow Wiison' w^T | - ? - ); | ' ?? Federal Wire ' . ? Tax Removed ?v ; ?::sP v v '; A Telephone and Tdepraph Users Relieved of War Tax . ? . WT , . .'Krv ???? ? J?,/. ViTItT ? t' vii 1 ' ? 1 Telephone users will appreciate the ] announcement that the taking of tele phone and telegraph toll messages came to an end at midnight last j night. While roost of the provisions of the new federal tax act became a law with {he signature of President | Coolidge on June 2, and went into ef- J feet immediately or were retroactive, as in the case of federal income taxes, the section doing away with] S ?* . j M v'-j? vyl of tQ_i, nirrUf rnv. "By far the greatest number of our toll calls are to points that are rela tively nearby," said District Manager Cauthen, in commenting on the effect of the removal of the tax. "Tbejaw provided that there should be a 5 Cjnt tax on telephone messages for which the toll charge was more than 14 cents and not more than 50 cents, the tax was ten cents. On a message for whieh the toll rate is 15 cents, a tax of 5 cents applied, so that the telephone user paid a total of 20 cents. After midnight last night, the, charge for such message would be 15 cgptsr*' "During the period when it was necessary to use every means to meet the enormous expense of the war, the public was glad i> pay a tax on tele phone messages; but it now seems reasonable and proper that this tax should be removed, espe^ly since the transportation taxes wdN discon tinued a year ago."?News and Ob server, July 3. ? | fw%|S?r | Duncan McDonald, Illinois union mine official^ W<n. Bouch, Wash ington State Grange executive,, m the Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates nominated at the Farmer* Labor Convention in St. Paul last week. The nominations were provi sional, leaving a way open to joa the La Follette forcea ' V - ' . * . ' * - L ; S FIREMEN ENTERTAINED i AT BARBECUE DINNER & ?, ? ? < -y.-!*/*.. "f -i : < I ? ? . Mr. McD. Horton was host to local firemen at a barbecue dinner on Wed nesday of this week. Over 50 fire men, town officials and ex-officials enjoyed Mr. Horton's hospitality. Urges Burning Weevil Squares ^ . \ Franklin Sberman Says Now is Time to Force Offensive i ? ? ? ' \ "Begin now to pick up arid burn the weevil infested squares for pres ent botf weevil control," advises Prof. Frahklig Sherman, chief of entomolo gy for the State College Experiment Station and Extension Service. "Reports from our field workers Land" from students of State College \vhom we hsjgfjilaced in bool weevjl work and qf county agents and farm era^-al^ give evidence that the weevil population is teesf than it was at this time last year, and less than'when the plants^were st^e begin. to appear on young cotton aS early as'm?cr-Ma^, but they wer|- jvery few and. we have not adviBed thei use of poiSon in such cases. Had we Wild ly urged wholesale poisoning at that time, or from the time the cotton was chopped, those "who followed such ad vice might have wasted from $2 to J6 per acre by nowi As it is, the weevil population in most fields is still so slight that poisoning would presuma bly not pay, and those who have fol lowed our advice have hot applied an ounce of poison, except in those cases where .the weevil was estimated to be as numerous, us 20 to the acre or more. Very few fields have been re ported to us to have enough weevils to ppy for poisoning. "This.fortunate condition of a very light infestation at the;first of July, offers a chance to employ the pick ing. up and burning of infested squares to the best possible advan tage. In many cases it may turn the scale and greatly help the situation, ? .. ? I ; ";;yTjg f , m ? - ?. ? ? ? ^ __ 77 Ballots Without A Nomination Yet. i ' ' ? ?? ? i i i ii i ? . . Convention Adjourns Till Monday After Effort to Move Fails. ?, ' v.-vv -v - V ? ? - McADOO HAS GONE AS HIGH AS 530 VOTES, BUT DONT SEEM ABLE TO REACH GOAL. SMITH STH.L HOI I)S SECOND PLACE WITH J. W. DAVIS RUNNING THIRD. ?: : : 1 ? ' - ? ?'?'* ? .r| ^ : . , Star of Stats mk r-r \ I. M I ^ * Olga Streshun, 17, of Cincinnati, 0., is the greatest girl athlete in her state. She if champion in swimming, hockey, tennis,, shooting, basetkbn.ll and sprints. She also does fa my dancing and is edit or of her cciicgo pap or. ' ' Cheap labor may be used for this purr pose, it is doubtful whether full la bar prices-can. be profitably paid for it It is a task which can easily be performed by children. We recom- { mend. Oiat t3?', squares be fathered at least once a week unril the middle or end o^ July, or until the natural squares should jbe gathered ahead of cultivation and burned. "If the present wet season contin ues it is altogether probable that by1 the end of July the weevils will be numerous enough so. that the standard dust method will be profitable in many fields?then those who have wisely prepared for this method will have their inning?but as ? yet they may save their powder. The 'pre square' poisoning has not been needed in'the great majbrity of cases?now there Is the chance to employ the square gathering^ with good effect. We do not advocate any weevil traps nor machines, for gathering the squares, just cheap hand labor, that's Ull. *?-? -'We have been greatly pleased at the large- number, of farmers who have not, this year, been stampeded into feckless expenditure of moiwy and labor against the very few wee vils that hay9 thus far appeared. We have been advising early poisoning oply in case the weevils were fairly numerous at the time squares begin Ip form. This advice was for econo my, and many hundreds of farmers now realize that it was sensible. We tjank the farmers for their co-opera tion in thus keeping their money in their owh pockets, or banks. "But," says Mr. Sherman, "let me repeat, that a continuation of the wet weather will tend toward heavy dam age by the weevil in late July and August?and in that case the stan dard dust method is the only measure which we can then recommend as ef fective and profitable." : * II. . ........ . ^ BIRTHDAY DINNER Mrs. T. E. Keel was hostess at a delightful dinner party at her home in the Horton apartments Friday, Complimentary to her husband, Mr; T. E. Keel. It was the 76th birthday of the honoroe. In the dining room cut flowers and foliage' gave a very pleas ing effect!;;.An elegant three course dinner was served promptly at 1:80 o'clock. Covers were laid for Mr. and Mrs. Keel, Misses Beulah and Nell Keel, Mrs, J! Lqyd Horton, Jack and iGene florton and Dr. W. M. Willis. = ?"j fe,kiS.ME1'HODIST. CHURCH B. B. Slaughter, Factor H ^ Hi ^ v T ?,M 4-" ' X 1 X /i ^ * *x - ? ^?? ?,' ? ii liU-fV Tt-'&jajv$3*?j|f&?*? -^2 > " y'_ ? ' Three sessions of the Demo cratic convention on July Fourth failed to produce a nominee-for the Presidency and today, July 5, after a total of seventy-three ballots, - the party leaders began \ seriously "to consider the admin istration of heroic measures to break the'deadlock. We have delated the issuance of The Enterprise this week with the hope of giving the final result-of the convention, but as we go to press the nominating of a candidate seems no nearer than for the past several days. The last report was that the convention was considering the advisability of moving to some other city to continue the bal loting. ' The continuous balloting of a good many states for favorite sons prevents the two leading . candidates, McAdoo and Smith, from nomination. , _ , - SAYS CONVENTION IN A CLASS UNTO- ITSELF -New^o^, July i-^Pariey v ^ ent gathering tiist thrilter of his "The nearest thing to this wc ever had," he reminisced between ballots, "was at Chicago in 1802 when Bourke jCochran talked all night .against G ro ver Cleveland. We had a good fight at Baltimore, and we made history there, but J would put this meeting right here down for the classic exam ple of a deadlocked convention. Some of those fellows dont know yet what they are in for." His audience in chief was Rev. I. T. Johnson, of Bowdoinham, Maine, 75, and also a figure in most democratic gatheHngs since the tag end oi the nineteenth' century. Community I Vesper Services I I During the Months of July And August on the Farmviile (School Grounds at 6 O'clock Sharp I **'r' ^ _ Farmviile is to. have' Community I Vesper Services every Sunday during I the months of July and August The I services will be held in the open air on the public school grounds, and will commence at 6 o'clock. They will be I I in charge of tjie. local clergy who will I I nqt hold -regular evening services dur ing these two months.. A conVnittee has been hard at work obtaining lum I ber out of which will be built some I I two or three hohdred. seats to be erected on the school ground$. A feature of these meetings will be that I of whole-hearted community singing under the leadership of Mr. Walter Sheppard, attorney at law. It is pro posed to have a song service from G I to GjflO, when many of the okT gospel hymns will be sung. The hopeof the committee is that there will bb many people from the surrounding: country districts.7-'' 0;,-i' I The first Vesper Service will be I held next Sunday, July d, when the I local Masons will attend in a body. This service wiir be conducted |y two . I of the local clergy who are members . I of the order. This will be a most fil ing opening since the Masons, Odd I 1 . ? m ii j.r. ? ? | . - Ji.1 f 11 ' f,,Vr,'"^lr M, M.' , I 18t ?an scaicu ui' ino vi6Vuu*n 10 iiiru -.-?i
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