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, im >AY, u - » :,ID,mmmif)U^^xm b£c»>kdino aOiCE ■ COUNTY’S' PRESENT ift V WITH . JOSTICK Journal LOOKING TO HOKE COCNTTS - FUTURE WITH , CONFIDENCB THE HOKE COUNTY NEWS THE HOKE COUNTY JOURNAL VOUEME 'XXVH-^NuiRbfer]a RAEFORD, N. C.. FRIDAY, MAY 29th, 1931 $1.50 YEAR. IN ADVANCE ♦ •» * MCEACHERN BOOM * « **♦'*•♦• ♦ * * E'l'knds In circles.’* * have inauguaretd a boom which ’* * has as its object the placing of * ■ ,■»■—i' ■ * Hoke County's representative, ♦ Diplomsis And Prizes Given * Laurie McEachem, In the Agri. • ^ . :% * cultural ' CommlssipineKs, chair- ^ At Fwal Exercises; Rond- • wr. McEaWiern has' gained ’ ' thaler Tells Graduates Of * '"any P’'®**"* ! ■' * session , of the legislature who * True Education. . > f^el tbst he would make a most * , >■ ■ * able cSr^issioner. The present * twentmine ^ Jncumblw Is Mr. W, A. Gra-♦ tweniy-nme ^ Mg^ghern decides • * to run for the position he will * terminated * submit his fate to the hands of * $ ’Exercises in whicli seniors received diplomas, completed, thp, .1931 commencement exercises of Raeford High School and terminated ^ another year’s successful work. The .PS®P|® , . u * final exercises were held In the Frieds feel tiiat ■ e s ou n school auditorium Thursday night, * nace. iili i /ThB crowd TTOB tJH© 'ol. the largest ■lever tto stteud samflar exercises in Kaeford, It being estimated that ful ly half again as many as' were able to find seats, packed ^nto the school j ’ rooms at the side of the auditorium | A and at the doors and windows. The exercises were begun with the 'Saiutatbry uddreBs zy Fulford Mc Millan. McMntaai fBBCOnd Haanor jk rstu'deitt Tft the 'Senior Class and wel comed the audience to the exercises. Jt^^Tbis 'W8S HdSoen^ by the awarding of the seventh grade certifioites of promotion to t^e. ^ibigh sdhndl, by C^itliy ’SnseriaUBnbbnt ’W. P. Haw. field. A list of iffliose receiving Ihes'' ce^fftedtes zpiwar s^tsewbere ’in ;this issue. , . McNair SaUCb then introdneed the speaker of Gie •sverilng, Dr. Howard E, Rondthalec, wnesident of Salem C/Ollege, vfkB '^■riBe an a'd'dnoss Md tthe . ' graduating class. Dr. Rondthaier’s .'iCddEeas vns 3Ed!Q:,^iff wit 'and Unimor and at the same time showed the —wisdom which has wade him a great educator. He im>nBentrated his thought on rttie valae of education asd by anecdote and Tllnstration showed his hearers .t(hat the m/zmorlz^ g of : facts and' figures can never be edu cation but iimiere uiedantry. Tl» rneal educati(m. Dr. Utondthaler shanved. is found in the awakening of the mind to the interests and posalbili. tiles odf tite ^ ittbdllectiiai woarU^ A stude^. will soon forget the dates of ihattles. Just :ff' he lite cedbeated :he \«riU •it retain an interest in the political and milltaiT events that shape the career of nations and always be table .to .re&ssb hfc mind finun .au thentic sources. Education, ,he showed, Is not in .the pairotJUhe retention of facts hut in the broad- .ening nnd .inspiratiam jof .the jinind. (Continued on hack page) «,gi « * # # * * * * ^ ^lUnttHClIiALD Conforenee ^S^pomoiwd liy F&7> etteville Preabsriery Begta* ^ On June., Ninth; Many Prominent Speakers. FKEMAUISID A FARMERS Plans are now complete for the 'Foiikh Amnull Toung ’Pbo^Iob Uon- .ference which is held by Fayetteville Presbyteryr each June at Flora Ma.c- donalri College in Red Springs. This •tCobterenee wbUh hriogs ttogether the young people between the ages of twelve and twenty-four for re. creation and GhrintiBn study, is rap idly developing into a strong factor in Christian training in this section of the state. It was proginated four ■years j«o abdi the response fbun’d among the people of the counties which comprise Fayetteville presby. tery has caused its growth' to bo almost record breaking. The develop ment of the comlerence "ahd'Oie em- rtbosiasm 'WiOi ■'vMftSi -it has been received has /justified the officials in .putting in 8t;%dard 'training courses in rell^otis' Work, similar to those coarseB given in‘the iarger and older cmaferencM and •bearing certificates- signlficawt of thte done. This yeaFs conference will begin on 'Tuesday, June ninfli and continue through the fnOlowii® Tuesday, .Tune sixteenth. The activities ol the :con- ference consist ol Blnle ^study, re creational and social aictivities and ppportunitles to hear Inspiratfamdl addresses by religious leaders known all over the south and the nation.: Tbe ‘ rrecTBathnBCl • and educational; features are so balantsd as to •pro- Vide lor all phases of development and to make the weeh at the con. I ference a splendid and helpful * ARGOSY OF THE AIR • * Those interested in the pro- ♦ * gress of Aviation in America • * will find reward for their inter. *1 * est if they go to Fort Bragg on *■ * Sunday ■ or Monday. On those * * two days over one hundred and ■* ’* fifty planes ffrom all over the * * South will be at Pope Field. • * These planes are returning to ^ * their home fields after taking ■* * part in the gigantic air carnival * at New York last Saturday when * *'over six hundred planes took part - * in the celebration at the opening * * of the new landing field on * TV OBSERIIC8TIWI WEEK IN RAEFORD Style Show Friday Night Will Present New Uses For Cot ton; Valuable Prizes Are Offered By Merchants. '* \\ \'.y vi^i ■Arthur OBariew cf tthe Department- of Vocational Agriculture, Tabor High -School, Cohunbus County, North Carolina, under the direction ot^ his teacher, M. X,. Tatum, grew 38S.75 bushels on three -acres. Aivtbur is seen in the center of the picture holding the winners trophy donated! T)y the Chilean Nitrate of Soda Edu cational Bureau and presented by Roy H. Thomas, State Supervisor of Ag. riciultural Education, representing the Southern Contest csommittee. -Mr. Thomas is standing on Arthur’s right. The gentttemiaa on the left is Mr. TaMxm. COLUMBUS COUfiTY BOY IS SOUTHERN CHAMPfiaM IN CULTIVATION OF CORN Arthur Rhtrlowe, Seventeen Year Old Agricultural Student Ai Tabor lli^ Btdiool, Cdlumlnu Gounly, Wins South- 'em Award liy Orowihg Nearly Four Hundred 'Bushels xX Com on Three Acrep In 1930 By growing '389 3-4 bushels ‘if corn on three acres, seventeen year old Arthur Marlow, of Tabor Hi]^h School, CJolumbus County, has been declarefl the corn growing cham pion of ’-.the ^outh among 511,000 stndVBtB 'df vocational agriculture aceanaiwg to information received by Bury H. Thomas, State Super, visor Bff Agricultural Education, Jrom the Sorntirem Contest Committee. The ■proSecl was carried out nnder -the directixm of . X. Tatum, teacher of agrictftture at Tabor. To Arthur not only goes the honor of being rthe South’s leading student com grower hut he Is also the recipient of the heautifnl loving cup offered by the Chilean Nitrate of Soda Educational Bureau anCd f^esented by Mr. Thom as for iftie Southern Contest Commit tee. Arthur fertilized his com with 500 pounds of 8.3-3 fertilizer per -acre In the drill and top dressed with 100 penmas of nitrate of soda when sented To North -Carolina Farmers Who Most Success' fully “Lived-at-Home”. By scoring a percentage of 80 or •above on their live-at-home opera, ttons last year, «6 North Carolina farmers will be awarded cei'tlficates of merit by the Noitth Carolina State Collegei cooperating with the agri- P -cultural committee of the State Bankers’ Association. To be awafdod sufih a certificate Is considered a high honor by col- 4 ege officials and bankers in that he person receiving one has done certain valuable and fundamental things Sn good Ifarmlng Each certi ficate will be signed by the presL fdent of Jhe College, the d^an of ag- y. riculture, and the chairman of the ' * bankers’ agricultnnel committee. Facts on which the certificates were awarded were, secured by local hankers. ’Tae papers were tarefuUy pi graded by the faculty of thd School of Agriculture at Staie College and , announcements made > as to those \hcS had made a percentage of 80 above. L. O. Moseley, master fann er of Lenoir Cbunty was - the only person grading 100 percent though many other made 90 or above. Mr. Moseley is considered one of the best farmers in eastern North Carolina. ^ A summary of the facts of his mrmlng operations shows him to haye 10 mules and horses; 36 head » catt^s; 47 hogs and pigs and a flock ^ 125 hens on his 200 acre ^ fari9.' ^e grows enough grain and T forag^to feed this livestock and sells to his tenants. He prd- duces^ough pork and lard fof home • use an^ enough beef and veal with some lo sell. His garden furnishes vegetables throughout the year and '^permits the sale of about $125.00 (Continued on back page) knee high and 200 pounds more ‘ Torttfivates To Be Pre-1'vacation ftsr an young people/atten-1- when waist high. A careful cost re- aixty Ler^rvates l o oe ^ ^ ^ project was kept which " Currie, President of Austin Tl-;eblogical Seminary ol Auntin, Texa's, and moderator of the Sonthern General Assembly of the PresbyteT'ian church will he present at the conference as bible teacher. Dr. Currie is nationally kntrwn as a BIhiA leacher and -educational 'leader an^ It is hoped that not only the sttWents at the conference but also the people of the surrounding county 'Will take advantage of the opportun ity of hearing him. He will speak at 10 a. tA., and 7:30 p. m. each day chirlng the /conference. Among the other educational and religious leaders who will be on the faculty of the conference are Rev. Gibson, of WhiteviUe, Rev. Barber, of Aberdeen, Dr. Matthews of Lum. berton. Dr. (Wlaggett of St. Charles. S. C., Rev. Symonds of Fayetteville,; Rev. Pulton of Xiaurinburg. Dr. Var- dell of Red Sprhags, and Dr. Fairley of Raeford. Mr. R. L. Ransom of Chapel Rill will be recreational director. included labor, fertilizer and -seed cost as well as rent on land. The corn was grown at a cost of .387c per bushsi ;and a net profit off $19.60 per acra Following is Arthurs own story of his corn project: ';in the faU of 1929, I selected as one of my projects three acres of com. I selected for this project a piece of well-drained, deep, sandy loam soil on which a crop of Biloxi Soybeans was grown. We intended to cut these beans for hay, but we broke the mowing machine so in October I cut them up and plowed then under. The -first week in Nov. ember 1 sowed 100 pounds of dairy vdtc'h seed and disced them in. My vetch made rather slow growth due to the late planting, but by the first of April, when plowed under, it had made consIdeTahle growth. A few days later I ran off my ro'ws five fedt apart and bedded with -turning plow. “The last week in AprU I applied 500 pounds oH an 8-3-3 fertilizer to the acre and planted my com on the ridge made by the fertilizer distribu. tor, using the eight inch plate. “When about six inches high I gave it its first cnltiva'tion, using planet junior harrow:, I gave the corn three more cultivations during the following six weeks, making each succeeding cultivation more shallow than the last. “When the corn -was knee high I made a side application of 100 pounds of soda, and when about Great interest is being shown in the, town and county over the plans which are being made for the cele. bration of National Cotton Week, ■1 I^land^ Fifty of these will *jjune first through the sixth. This year has seen unprecedented acti vity throughout the nation in the campaign to put cotton before the people, not as an object of charity but as a fabric which for years has had possibilities of utility and beau ty which few people realize. Cotton expositions in North Caro lina have taken place with the leading expositions over the nation in the grandeur and large scale ef fort to awaken the -people to the possibilities of the fleecy staple Gastonia, Concord, Charlotte, and numberless smaller towns have add ed their efforts to those which have been exerted over the nation. National Cotton week comes as the All hail to Carl Goerch, the aar-, g^j^^s which castic scribbler who at last put an been Made during the year, end to the legislative non-stop flight, ^eing made to clinch There is a suspicion among the the lesson which authorities have been endeavoring to spread. Under the auspices of the Woman’s Club In Raeford, Cotton Week will be ob served with appropriate and inter esting activities. On Friday evening, June fifth, at eight o’clock there will be a cotton style show given in the school auditorium. Admission will be free as it is the hope of the club to fill the auditorium with people who still feel that) there is * be at Fort Bragg Sunday and a- ■* I bout a hundred more Monday. * LilSUTURE DOES THE IMPOSSIBLE Carl Goerch Swims .Two Miles And A Half To End Spec tacular Session; Assemblie*s List Of AccompKshments. readers of his witty articles regord. ing the foils and foibles of the past session that one reason the legis lature lasted so long was that the legislators were always waiting for the next issue of their home town paper to see just what Goerch was 'going to say about the work of the week, or the weakness of the work. Two weeks ago, the Washing ton word master ceased his rant. ing and went home to cool himself, intelligence in the liquid jaters of Pamlico | presenting the value of cotton sound. Just at the time when Goerch was taking his longest swim, tw;> and a half miles, so the papers say, the legislature was making its last fight and adjournment came the next day. The variety and ingenuity of things which Goerch would do lo make the legislature stop knew no bounds. A two mile swim was a rather energetic step to take, but it f t]ppq impressed upon the legislature that they almost lost their most valu-1 able interpreter to the public and j evidently they were stricken with I remorse, we don't see ^hy they , didn’t think of that earlier, and ad. | joumed immediately. j At any rate the general assembly is adjourned after setting several ■ world’s records and providing -the state with dashing bits of news for , one hundred and forty-one days. [ Looking back on the session we are I cotton to the nation. The merchants ! in Raeford will cooperate in the ■ style show and there will be prizes I given for the prettiest cotton dress ! niade and worn by a local woman, ' In addition to this a speaker wha !ls an authority on all phases of the industry is promised and there will be musical and other tea- Ladies attending the style show are asked to wear cotton dr ss. es. All the citizens of the co'unty should 'be interested in the exerciS’ es of, the week. / SEVENTY-NINE PASS COm-WIDE TESTS % waist high I made a second applica- inclined to believ-e that its greatest, County Schools Promote Large Number From Grammar School To High School As Year’s Work Clones. tion of 200 pounds of nitrate of soda per acre. The last week in June I laid the corn by, leaving it on a low ridge. “In October, I harvested my corn and measured it with the aid of my vocational teacher and found that I had made 389 3-4 bushels of corn on the three acres of land. “I attribute my yield to the selec tion of good land, the two previous soil improvement crops, good seed, liberal fertilization, and careful cul tivation.” MAKE INVENTDRV OF OARIER APPOINTS V AGRICULTURE BOARD SANDY GROVE Sacrament of the Lord’s Sup- /-wUl he cele^ated at Bandy ^ .prssDjrtetdMi Charoh Sunday ^ePfloqk. / TOM THUMB REAPPEARS Devotees of miniature golf are watching irtih Interest the opening: of the local links this week. Interest has been high for some time due to the fact that an opening was ex. pected earlier, but that fact has serv ed only to make the anticipation greater. The golf course was a great source of entertainment to the peo. pie of the town last year, the crowds attending being consistently large. It Is conceded that the patronage this year will be correspondingly large. ' ■ ■ . f CARD.OF THANKS Wo wlfih to thank our neighbors and friends for the timely assist ance given us Saturday when our smoke hodie iFas tiurned. The assist, ance given us sSved our dwelling. jre wtah to pipinially tha^ iueford Fire ’^hslr aid. Mr. aad Mn. W. A. Campbell. F. B. Hall Of State Highway DepArtment Checks County Road Equipment; State To Take Over Roads July 1st. In anticipation of the wholesale turnover which will ta^ie place on Jul'y first, when the newly formed Highway Commission will take over the control and maintenance of the' roads which have formerly been nn. der the supervision of the indivi dual counties, State officials are vis iting the various county seats In an effort to determine the amount and condition of the road machinery and equipment owned by the county gov. emments. Mr. F. B.t Hall, for several years superintendent of the State Highway garage in Raleigh, and recognised expert along the line of road equip ment, payed a business visit to Rae ford last Friday for the purpose of taking Inventory of the machinery on hand at Raefo^ and in the county. A tohr of inspnotion was made in which the equipmeht was checked and gemeral Inspection was made. Another of the- state, highway.; offi. cials is expected here soon to mika (Conthmad nn Mdt BBSd) Along with the sradi ating exer. Commission Reduced from Ten To Five; Senate Confirms Governor’s AppcM.\:itnients Without Debate. In accordance with the recent re duction of the State Board of Agri. culture from ten members to five. Governor Gardner has made public the appointment of the new state Board of Agriculture. These men were appointed last week and an nouncement is now made to the peo ple of the state of the five men who will dictate the agricultural policies of the state. In the next political period. • The members appointed and their classifications are: D. Reeves No land, Ha'ywood county, “the general farmer”; J. G. Stanton, of 'Williams- ton, the tobacco farmer; Charles S. Young of Shelby, the cotton farm er; George Watts Hill, to represent the livestock Industry; D. H. Biidg. ers of Warsaw, the trek farmer. Shortly after the ' appointments Fere cmnounc^ by the Governor, ■they were, eoi^hmed by the senate .wfthont any. dttay. {Jpucefntag the new aieii^ien the ht Agtl' (CoBdwMii on haek poso) benefits were given to the news paper men. Others shared of course! but the lightning flashes of strange! doing and startling wrangles, have' kept the reporters on the go ffrom j tlie first. • j But we suppose it really is time to give the assembly the credit that .s c-ises in which the high school sen- due tliem for theid really signifi. received their diplomas and left cant, accomplishments. They adopted. ranks of high school students the McLean principle for state sup- there was another group in port of schools and provided for it, | the county, younger and less ad- not by entire relief but partial, re-j vanced. who nevertheless have pass. lief of land taxes. It provided for ed a climactic point in their school state supervision of some 45,000 efforts. These are the seventh grade miles of county roads and 4,000 students who this year passed the convicts for maintaining them. It general exams for entrance into created an eleventh Congressional high school work. .At the Raeford district, hut failed to redistrict for' school there were thirty of these the state Senate of reapportion for',boys and girls who passed the cri- the House. It consolidated North ■ tical mid-point in their school careers, Carolina State, North Carolina Col.! at Mildouson thirteen, at Antioch leg for Women and the University! eleven, at Blue Springs tfwo, at of North Carolina, into one state' Ashemont thirteen, at Rockfish ten. University. It created a central pur- These students will next year beein the four year course which will carry them to high school gradna. tion. The list by schools follows. Rockfish: Stanley Adcox, Pauline Bostic, Elizabeth Croley, Anna Mae Gillis, Eugene Gillis, Roy Grooms, Mary Ruth TVIcDoughold, Willie Mc- Keithan, Grace 'Wood, Howard Wood. Mildouson: Bonnie Block, William Block, Clara Chason, Ruth Chason, Clayton Hendrix, C. W. McArthur, Jr., Haves McArthur, Brown Me- Bryde, Evelyn McBryde, Sarah Mc- Bryde, Mary Elizabeth Norton, Mazie Norton, Catherine Stubbs. Antioch; Clyde Campbell, Fred Jordon, J. W. MoPhanl, Mac MePhau,! Elvelym Brock, Lucy Biggs, Margaret Dalton, Essie Mae Herring, Grace Hhggins, Ellen McBryde, Ruth Mc Bryde. Bine Springs; Sadie Graham, Hughes Maxwell. Ashemont: Frank Brown, Grady (Continued on page eight) chasing agency for the state. It as- (Cohtinued on back page) DEATH OF MISS CARRIE MCNEILL Miss Carrie M'CNeili, a r^pected and beloved woman of Blue Springs township, died on Monday df this week. She had been for many years a resident of the section in which she was living when she died and had en. deared herself to all who knew her, by her kindness apd Christian char acter. She was buried Tuesday at eleven o’clock with Rev. A. D. Cars, well, pastor of Bethel church, offi ciating. She was a member of Bethel Church. The Cleveland County . Poultry Association plans to store their sur plus eggs in cold storage tor later marketing. Through BL D. Kelly ot Mt Holly. Gaston county, has 40 cows in nUk. he has krown liiOro teedshitt fhli season than Mo knows irta^ to io NfHth. s«n Couty i«int U Bl JH> The dsodly hlae bkM disoase do. stNsrod abont ilQOO yaris of yoonc tohaooo plants IwIwnMf to J. IL HowsU of Cisrks In TMo M wss bniwMI snd plowed spi. -i.