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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
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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.
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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
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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
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