J. >l - V- ' .--r-. X' /«: t' ' /v THE HOKE COUNTY NEWS THE HOKE COUNTY JOURNAL VOLUME XXVI—No. 47. RAEFORD. N, C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1931. S.1.50 YEAR. IN ADVANCE CAUL GOERCn KIDS KWANIS CLUB TO T1LBU11S HEP iM FAB :*■ Says They Have A Reading Clerk That Can't Read—Say the Law makers Give G'ovnor Gardner Lot to Worry About. Plans Experimlental Patch—^Would Have Products^For Sale Through*, out Year—Committee Works With County Agent on New Plan. ' •} Hoke County Would Lose If Co. Roads Were Taken Over By State (E.> CARL GOERCH) 'The legislature i- inflicted 'with a reading clerk who can’t read. The Kiwanis Cluh is endeavoring to get a project that may mean a great deal to the farmers of That’s nothing. The State is is-j Hoke County who are tired of ths llicted with a legislature that can’t I crop way of farming, legislate. ^ I The Agriculture committee of the Things are in an awful tangle npj cinh "has been negotiating with Mr. at the capitoi. Nobody seems to Marshall Thomas and have about iknow exactly v^hajl^^t is all about, [ coached an agreement on planting Did yon ever sep^OAn amateur cook trying to boil a pot of rice, fry u steak, toast some bread, scramble eggs and peel onions all at one and the same time? That’s exactly the status of things in the legislature just- now. And there’s no telling how they will turn out. Whenever the members of the house can’t think of a new bill to introduce, they turn their attention to Mr. Lunsford, the alleged read ing clerk. One 01 tliese fdaiys somt member is going to introduce a bill equivocating the differential of po tentialities relative to adjucatiou of spontaneous and incomprehensible salubrity” and Mr. Lunsford just naturally wni choke himself to death. It’s a wonder nobody ever thought of that idea. One of the most important bills passed thus far has been the six- months’ school bill. Haying partial ly adopted it, members of the legis lature are now looMng around lor ways and means to tear it to pieces By the time they get through with it, instead of being a bill to flnance the schools for six months by means of State aid, it is liable to be a hill for furthering the interests of deaf and dumb spinsters in Fata gonia. ^ The highway bill is the next im portant project to come up for con sideration. Many people throughout the State regai-d the legislature as being composed principally of a hunch of highwaymen, so it may he taken for granted that the high way bill won’t give them any ser- * louB difficulty. In the long rim, however, the county roads probably be paved with good intentions, y instead of concrete. A committee went down to Pine- hurst last . Friday to interview A1 Smith and get him to speak to the legislature, i^en A1 came'to jRal* elgh in 1928 and made a talk, the ^tate promptly turned around and went republican. If he should ac cept the present invitation and talk to the legislature, there’s no telling what migM happen. Something ac tually might happen^ Somel!hing of a beneficial nature. Two prl'soners out at the peniten tiary were electrocuted last week. 1 happened to go out there that day, but I didn’t have the nerve to witness the electrocution. Just about as terrible a sight is to look around and see several hundred men standing around in idleness, ^ -with absolutely nothing to occupy their time. And when you stop to think of the crime stories that are i. told, of the mingling of the harden ed criminals with mere novice’s, of the lessons in crime that are given mere boys, it sort of makes your flesh creep. Put a young fellow in the penitentiary for six months and there is little chance of ever mak ing a useful icitizen out of him again. I certainly am In favor of some of plan for segregating differ ent classes of prisoners and of pro dding something for them to do. It’K something that George Ross ■plu has been trying to accomplish foVi a long time. The prison business is really one (By J. A, MpGOOGAN). | For the most part, I agree with Governor Gardner in his] program for the reduction of taxes, but I am' unaWe to see where Hoke County will be benefitted, or taxes reduced by putting all tlje County Road.'i under the control of the State. Our allotment from the present gas tax for Coun ty roads for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1930 was?21, 601.12. Of this amount $13,- 066,43. v/as used for Road Debt Service and the balance 534.69 for reducing the a ten acre tract of land on Mr. Thomas’ home place on ,the high way leading to Wagram, as an ex periment in rinsing crops so as to; Goxinty Tax Levy for roads, have :somethmg to sell every month past two years we in the year. ’This committee, in co- levied no iax for Road operation with county agent. W. D. Service, and for the Burton have authority from the club, ^^930 enabled tO to go ahead and take such stfeps j j’ef(Jugg -the levy for roads to _ as are necessary to make this pr(>l on the $100 valuation. cost'to’the"taxpayers of the County’ ject possible and will advise wltlij jf additional tax of Ic! we should let our representatives should be placed on gas, undjjjuQ-^ jjqw we stand on the matter, the money distributed as at urge them to oppose the msd- present, we could maintain en, that this would maintain our roa46 and care for our road bond's without any levy on property. •We see a lot in the paper about the expense ' of convict labor, and I am frank to admit that when wc built 'our stockade, I thought that we could brl'.d roads nT/saper with hired labor than with convicts. How-' ever, I have changed my mind and I now regard the convict camp as a paying investment for the County. Yv'e are maintaining our convicts at a very reasonable cost, and are se curing good work cut of them. If any- cne doubts the value of the convict camp, he will only have to compare the road work done last year with that of former years' to be convinced. ! So far as Hoke County, is con cerned, 1 :see no advantage to be derived from the State taking over the roads, that will offset the added -Mr. Burton •all through the year as to crops, times of planting, market ing and the like. The idea is to find out ■what crops are profitable and suitable and in thts‘ way he an experiment station for the county, demonstrating, if posslhle, that this county is capable of growing crops at a profit so that the farmer who desires to can have a cash crop for the markets every month in the year. The outcome of this experiment v/ill be watched with interest by our roads and take care of our road bonds without any tax whatever on property, roads as proposed, we would have no tax for road mainte nance, but we would make a levy to care for our road bonds that would be greater* than we are now levying for road maintenance. In other Mildouson P, T. Ag, Banquet Great Success On 'Tuesday evening, February 17, the P. A. of Mildouson school held their annual banquet celebrat ing Founder’s Day and Live-At-Home Week. Practically everything ^er ved was produced in Hoke County and donated by patrons _of the school. One hundred and seventy-five rn- rents and frieds of the school pla ced their names in the guest bool;. Guests from outside the communi y were; 'Mr. W. P. Hawfield, County Superintendent of Public Instriic-] tion; W. D. B-arton, County Farm I Agent, and Mrs. Burton; hliss Julia Mclver, Home Demonstration Agent of Scotland County; ^Ir=i. H. A. Cant- cron, Preside'nt of County P. T. A. Council; Mrs. Julian S. Johnson: President of Raeford P. T. A.; and the Maxton Junior' College Quar tette. - ■ , The tables were decorated’ with patriotic colors'^'anr. long leaf ""pines. Flags were used as favors. Mr. Hawfield gave a very inter esting histtory of P. T. A. work. Miss Mclver and Mr. Burton dis cassed farm problems. Much work ANOTDER Gm MAN GONE WRONG Raeford Shoves Kinston Off the, Map As Good Citizen Goes Wrong. —Rivals Rat Story as Told by Mr. C. W. Seates Recently. words, we would have an ad- >everyone who has become fed up 1 ,... , . j. ^ _j . ditional tax on gas of Ic, and on the old way of farming and ■whether or not this project makes a profit this year, it may lead to Eom© good results on a paiit ict their program at least. Tenant House Of Mr, A, K, Stevens Burns a slight increase in the coun ty tax rate. ' The total expenditures for roads for the three year period ending June 30th, 1930 was $76,601)(97 or an average yearly expenditure of $25,- 533.99. This included all :9pent for roads, machinery, tractors, trucks and all other equipment, except the On WetoeHaTy night -of last week. Purchase price of the County Gar- to carry out the State Slogan “Farm ing for a Living in 1931.” Fire Destroys Home of a tenant house belonging to Mr.. Ai., K. Stevens, near Bowmore, -was, destroyed hy fire of unknown ori gin. The family of colored people awoke to And the house about half consnmed hy the flames and had! time to save Trat little of their Sum' Iture. SECOND POULTRY CAR LOADED LAST TUESDAY The second poultry car to he load ed at Raeford this season carried away 14868 , ponnde of llviB ponltry oh iHie&day. The amomit for Diiei ponltry wa)9 8750.87. The car show* a decrease from the amount hslpped about a month ago and It Is surmise ed that Hoke' County people like chicken too well to sell all of them. HEAD OF VAN 'LINDLEY NUR SERIES TO SPEAK HERE Mr. Paul Llndley, head of the famous "Van Llndley Nurseries in Greensboro, ■will speak to the la dies of this community in the Rae ford school lunch room next Tues day afternoon at 3:30. This will be an open meeting and everybody who is Intereisted flowers, shrubs age and the actual cost of the stockade building. During this per iod we had exceptionally heavy rains and numerous washouts of roads and bridges, calling for more ex pense than would have been nec essary In normal times. My esti mate is that with a 2c tax on gas for County roads, that Hoke would he entitled to receive approximate ly $40,000.00 and .you can readily see from the fifeures alreadiy giv- sure to the limit. If other counties can save money by having the State take over their roads, let it apply only to those Counties; but where a County is satifled with the pres ent system, why disturb them by taking over their roads and forc ing them to raise their tax rates? This is written without veAectiag in any way upon the State Highway Commission or its employees. My relations with them have been pleas ant, and they have a great organ ization. They are glad to as.si8t the Counties in any way that they Ian, and if the Counties had called on them more frequently for assist ance, there would have been less demand for the State to .take over the roads. The purchasing depart- men of the Histaay conBiesio.,- nfiHard Baker And is glad to assist -counties in the purchase of equipment and supplies, hut I understand that very few counties have ever asked for this assistance, despite the fact that the State can make purchases much cheaper than the Counties. To my mind, what we need is a little closer co-operation on the part of the counties with the State Highway Commission, a 2c gaS tax distribut ed as at present to the counties to be spent on County Roads as pro vided under the present Road Law. H. L. Gatlin, Sr., aged somewhere between fiity and seventy years, who came to this pla.e when a yo’ui'.g man and 7/ho has worked dil igently for a q'aarter of a century to 'uuild a good name tor himself, has been reading cf too many hap- per.'ings aro'and Kinston and reports cne to tlie NEVv"3-JOL RN.AL that enuals or s'arpa.e-ses a story recent ly told by C. Vv'. Seate about his rats eating good checks bnt ah- herring bad ones. .According to Mr. Gatlin, his bird dog is in the habit of leaving his store (.Mr. Gatlin’s store- the Far mer’s Furniture Co.) some time be fore noon each day and he always sends his morning paper to the house by said dog. On the way home the dog passes the home of Mr. B. R. Gatlin but goes straight on to the next doer -where his master lives and- scratches on the door to let Mrs. Gatlin knew that is being planned in the community the dog and paper have arrived. A few days ago this dog wa's given the morning paper and start ed for home but stopped at the door of Mr. B. R. Gatlin. Mrs. H. L. Gatlin seeing him over there, fi- Mr, W, J, Crawley nally coaxed him to come on home I with the paper and upon examing the label thereon, she found that the paper was for Mr. B. R. Gatlin. So the dog must be abit to read. H. L. vows he can prove this by ■ hsi wife but no affidavits are avail able as the NEWS JOUR.NAL goes to preCs. NEXT! Last Friday afternoon, fire of un determined origin completely de.s- troyed the main dwelling on the farm of Mr. W. J. Crawley at Ara bia. Mrs. John Mc.Millan was liv ing in this house and lost nearly all of her household goods. HcSie County Farmer Shows Way To Other Farmers lii His Section Not William Baker J, D. Mason, on© of the -best far mer^ in Hoke County, who li'ves near Raeford, showed the way to other farmers In his section this past year hy shipping a total of 36 tons of hay to market, besides producing enough hay for his farm needs, according to W. D. Burton, county agent. Mr. Mason Is a real “Live-at-Home” far mer, according tl information obtain ed by State College Extension Ser vice. He produces all of his food and feed at home with the exception and gardens is Invited to be pres-\ coffee, .’sugar and other supplies, ent'and hear this expert talk. He has to buy necessary concen trates for livestock but that is all. He comes • to Raeford under the auspices of the Educational Depart ment of the Woman’s Club. publican prosperity, and by that time the minds of the various mem bers of the legislature would be in such a muddle that they’d vote for any bill that Max shoved at them* By the way, If he’d known that the senators and representatives were going to cause him all thte trouble. I’ll bet he never would have put out so many free feeds at the mam sion for them. If he had permitted them to stay hungry, they proba- o£ the most important problems con-) bly would have listened to reason, fronting the legislature. j you take a fellow when he’s had Come to think of it, tl^s plan. of I plenty to eat, however, and he does having A1 Smith make a talk to the legislature might not be "such a bad thing after all. Follo-w it up with a few hot remarks from ^ Tom Heflin, then urge Bishop >Cah- « pon .to deliver a lecture and ’'wind up With a talk from Hooter on Re- n’t much care whether school keeps or not. And just think of all the dishes that 'Mrs* Gardner has had to wasR alter th6tte ;,suppers! To say nothing of aweeplng' up- cigarette-stomps al! over the-hodse the next Instead of buying Hour he grinds it himself, thereby becoming as nearly as possibile completely self-sustain ing. Mr. Mason has over 300 avres in cultivation and employs four ten ants, with six mules and 10-20 trac tor. Last year he had built his pasture acreage up to 45 acres so fenced as to ,keep .Something green on It all the year. This year he hopes to increase this acreage to 70 acres of permanent pasturage. Last year, Mr. Mason had 25 acres planted to wheat, producing 500 bu shels which brought him a cash return of $950. He had 30 acres of rye and produced 350 bushels at a value of $525. His oat acreage was^ 25 acres and he obtained $900 Ifor the 900 bushels he produced thereon. Twenty acres in hatley pro- kinced 500 bushels or a money re-, tdrn at $760. ^ Spring 'hdy on 401 B^es produced 48*000 pounds, taln- ed mt 8640, whll* Ut bdin «ad pm Oounty. BztMsIon saepwta Mgr. hay was planted on 110 acres, fol lowing grain. This acreage pro duced 150,000 pounds talned at $1,875. Corn, planted on 76 aeres, pro duced 1,660 bushels, valued at $1,- 32Q. Lima beans, with an acreage of 13 1-4 acres, returned him 500 bushels, worth $750. Three acres of watermelons brought him $250. of watermelons brought him $250. One-quarter of an acre of onions produced $100 and thre^ acres of early corn, producing 600 dozen ears, sold for $90. His cotton crop, plant ed on 27 acres, gave him 19 bales, valued at $855. The total from these crops was $8,905. Livestock returns a/ere ak fol lows: 40 pigs, farrowed March 1st, 30 were sold in November at an average weight of 171 pounds, for $513; 10 pigs sold at eight weeks at $5 each brought him $50; of 56 pigs farrowed in October, 35 sold at 10 weeks of age for $210. This brought his final total to $9,678. Mr. Mason saved 20 pigs to feed for the spring market this year. He is now “growing out” 16 heifers and five grade steers and will sell them when ready for marketing. Mr. Mason grows his own vegeta- Many folks are wondering who In the land’s .Sakes is ilYilliam Baker. ■William Baker, as a matter of facL aint. In an ad last week Butler /Motor Co. advertised that Mr. Mil lard Baker was with them, but the linotype operator nor Proof reader could read Paul Dickson’s hand writing and put the name William for Willard. (The operator and proof reader can read English, but—.) Mr. Baker has been In charge of the county machine shop for a num ber of years and refused many at tractive offers elsewhere rather than leave Raeford. He resigned his place with the county effective Feb ruary the flrat and has since been with Butler Motor Co^, local Ford dealers. Death of Levi Chavis Of Near Arabia Levi Chavis, aged 72, died at his home neat Arabia 'W'ednesday morn ing follo'wlng an illness of only a few days, it being said that he had never had a doctor to see him before he was :stricken last Sun day. He was a native of South Caroli na and came to this section about thirty years ago and was well known in the county. He is sur vived by his widow and an adopted son,. Funeral services were conducted on Thursday and interment made at Arabia, his pastor, R. W. Turner of ficiating. G eernshoro-F ayette^ ville Bus In Accident Oh Sunday a large bus belonging to the Greensboro-Fayetteville lines came near bavin.? what could have= been a disastrous accident Oh read just out of town toward Fayette- ■ville. Just as the top of the hill oh the East side of Pedler’s Branch was reached, the steering gear on the bus became locked and the dri ver had no control over it. The ^ bns turned to the lef', crossing the highway and ploughing into a sund bank on the side of the road. For tunately, no one was passing at the time and only a slight injury to the bus driver was the resnlt. There n-M.-e no passengers a'ooard and the driver was unhurt. JUNIOR ORDER OF AMERICAN MECHANICS REORGANIZED HERE COLORED MAN SHOT. On Thursd^ night of last week, Alex McQuain and Sing Miller, both colored, seem to have had some dif ference of opinion and the outcome was that Miller came down town next day, purchased some number four shot shells and went to the field of Mr. S. Ji Cameron, just hies and other prdducq^y'^eeded on North of town, and where McQuain his farml He requires his tenants * was at work, and let loose a load to cultivate a garden each and he of the aforementioned number and hte “folks” come as near to! fours at him, three "of whkh took “Diving-At-Home” as any farmer of 1 effect in the leg of thh opposing hlB. gectloh. Hii' example should bajijuty. McQusinD laslaries : are hok wriotts I followed hy every fanner in Hoke IBiriLr and HlUwr kan given 'Xieg ~ set--' ■ .- ■ The Hoke County Council, number 573, of the Junior Order of United: Mechanics was reorganized in Rae ford at a meeting held here Friday. The local council was first organiz ed in 1924, but was dissolved in 1928. An effort was launched re cently to reorganize and the meeting of last Friday was the result. The program was in charge of the crack degree team from Cape Fear Coun cil Number 15, who put on the first second, and third degrees in the finest Style. About seventy-five men were present, approximately forty of whom were from Hoke Counly and the rest from Cumberland and Moore. The Jt 0. U. A. M. is a fraternal organization of .American business men, maintaining the highest ideals of Americanism and offering great benefits to members. Membership is open to American working men between the ages of sixteen and fif ty-five. On Thursday night, seven- thirty o’clock at the Raeford school,- a picture shewing the activities of the order all over the nation will be shown, under the auspices of the Hoke County Council and th» supervision of Ex-State Councillor Snyder of Raeleigh. Dr. and Mrs. R. H. Ellington and; t'wo children, Elizabeth and Louis* and Mrs. J. T. Carstm, of SalishuiT* spent Sunday with BhwlR and Mnk Dt H. Hadgln.- SUtBgtdh |§ MrhL HodglB’a aaiit aadi Vnk .Qiilil Is har ——*

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