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frWM> ■fi’ ’^'0 ,; ■ /v'Xi i/'i • • / ' ^ . RBCORDIjjf^ HOICE COUNTY’S PRESENT WitH JUSTICE LOOKING TO HOKE cor:'mn#' PUTUKB WITH CONFIDENCE .4-' THE HOKE COUNtY NEWS THE HOKE COUNTY JOURNAL VOLUME xxvn—Number 12 RAEFORD, • N. C., Fr1‘ Ay, JUNE IStK, 1931 *1.50 YEAR. IN ADVANCE ■J'; s -A- k‘ 1 mm HeiTBOU. imilHEJIilAIIDS n LOUL RiFI£ TLW h the Umelight T,^y j NEW SdlQl UfS TO WEET CONCm Large Acreage Planted In Hoke ^Cqunty; Must Watch Mid Season, .Duease; Use' Remedy Given Herein. Poisoning Going Forward This ^ Week; Witt Savd Later L*- | pense And ^ Insure Much | Larger Yield Per Acre, Watermelons promise to be a With most 6f the fann'ots eitbsr ■% At '■ ^Ai prominent crop in Hoke conaity 'this y&ar according to estimates made upofficially in the county this week. An inorease in watermelon acre age is indicated in the estimates which place watermelon acreage at between fifteen hundred and two Uiousand acres, far 'above that of last year. Hoke county melons' are in good shape at fihis time. ."Soime. anxiety was occasioned several weeks ago by the activities of, the striped cu_ cumber beetle which made inroads nnroh .the icrpp i^rtrem. '.ft Jirst came nip. This danger, howeyer, has been reduced by dusting with arsenate of lead. , , Two main diseases threaten the melons in the period between now and shipping time, hiight and an- thracnose. For both' of these dis eases a spray of 4-4-50 solution, of jbordeaux mixture ijs the accepted remedy. Four pounds of copper sul phate, four ponds of lime aind fifty gallons of water sprayed upon the vines will lessen the danger from these diseases. Of the melons planted in Hoke county the majority are. Tom Wat sons, the best melon to ship to Northern markets. Howe.vej’ there are a good many acres of Stone Mountains, Irish Greys aud Thur man Greys, planted mostly for the trucking trade. A busy summer sea son on the farms is piedic;'.‘(l in view of the large acreage. preparing to fight the weevil this jj week: dr actually r^rrylng on the ^ poisoning '^oampa.lgn in the field, 'p there is a'a gr^t deal of activity ^ among Hi>ke tjounty farmers. The ^ necessity; of ,saving the cotton crop, y now that it has been planted and ./eli ^ p started is .obvious. To those not ex- ® actlY sure of the methods and formu- p las in. piolasses poisoning we present ; g the following concise advice from the .p Coupty Agent; Ip “I' have spent considerable time p In the first two weeks' of June in- p specting cotton .farm, ujf Hoke Conn- ^ ty for boll weevih infestatioii. With » out 'a single. exception I Imve^ been ^ able to locate; weevils in every cot- || ton field that I have examined. In p some field8''lt is a rather slight'in-; *■ i Picnic And Study Class In cludes County Educational Heads; Apply New Law To Local Schools. The County Board of Commlss. loners, the Board of Education, the Match At Rifle Range Will Bring Expert Shooters To gether; SpectatcMTS Are vited. , A rffle team composed of picked men from Battery F and Battalion County School boards and friends i Headquarters and Combat Train-, met at the Club House on Tuesday! two local military units, will m^et afternoon, June sixteenth, for a a rifle; team representing a Con- M-- SISTER OF^SMITH McKEITHAN DIES combination social and business oc casion. The particular purpose of the meeting was to get the mem bers of the boards which have par- PI ticulkr jurisdiction over Hoke conn, ty educational affairs together and study the new school law with ref erence to what it will mean to the • ^ local educational system. An ample T ODAY is the big day for Hoke County’s youngest p su;pper was served, fried chicken, pit.i7.fins. Dr- Alexander Shaw, of Fayetteville, and * ^.barbecue, sla^, coffee and corn- bread strengthening those present for the deliberation^ of the evening. County Superintendent W. P. Hav.'ficld, took the lead In present ing the problems of the new school law, making an effort to present it clearly to the board members, em phasizing some points which -are of particular interest to Hoke county. Mention was made of the new pro. visions for transportation of pupils ^ citizens. 1 Dr. K. B. Geddie, of High Poilit, will have charge | of the Woman’s Club Baby Clinic whijeh will be held i at the School Lunch Room, today from 9 o’clock until g -^3. All white babies from the age of three months to p two years are eligible for the clinic. Blue ribbons | be aaeurfed that a large number of | will be gi^ven for every perfect baby- I weevils have su.vived the winter]^ , ^ jind will he ready lo puncture thei i..rst squares that .gfiliear on the^ ^ cotton. In fact I have alreauy ; f f | ^ ■ O * J C* Ir amined ^uares that had as J^OK© ^^OUHlV A ITStlSOCl T OIT itS at two punctures. . I' “The lateness of the season gives us a very unusual opportunity to kill practically all of the old weev ils 'Letore they L.*ve i>^eu able to ^ do any serious damage. The cotton Best Story Of Fight Against Part in Fight Against Pellagra cord battery in a rtfle'.niatch lo her held at the local rifle rhngc on Fri day, June 19th. The ma.tcfe will be gin about 7 a. m., and will prob ably continue through the ^ay. It will be held at the rifle range maintained by the local units at the edge of the Fort Bragg reservatiott at the old Neil Black place, approx imately four miles north of Raeford. Raeford will present a team of twelve men, four of whom have- participated in the National Matches- at Camp Perry, Ohio. Members of the team are as follows: CapL Wl L. Poole, Capt. J. W. Walker, Capt- J. H. Blue, Ueut H. A. Currie- Xiieut Herbert McKeithan, Sgt- 1 Alfred Cole, Sgt. Benjamine Braden- Sgt. H. R. McLean, Sgt. Hector Bryde, Corporal Alphus Pittman- Private Eawood Cox and Private to school. Under the new law, the Currie. Six men will occupy' State Board of Ekiualization will submit as a basis in the transpor tation budget eight dollars for each the firing line at the same tine,.; three members of the two te .is alternating in position. Each tc iin pupil regularly hauled to school. Iid ^ {jj.g jgjj rounds pro.ie, vestigation will be made in each kneeling, five sitting. tin crop in Hoke County is about weeks later tfiau is usually for this section, the cotton is small and a large portion ot the weevils in all probability will be out of win ter quarters before many squares This Disease' Comes From Hoke County, Says The News & Observer. Recognition which amounts to a are lormed. The calcium arsenate- compliment has come to molesses mixi/.e pi pounds of cai- in the recent article cium aise..ate, 1 gallon molasses Mrs. T. J- Smith Was Known And Loved Throughout The Sandhill Section. ^ and 1 gallon water) when applieu at th- lai-e oi auuat four quarts per acre .,'iiexi;tne iirsi, , few squares | in this county in the fight against Degiiiiiiiig to lorui, will kill ail , peiiggj.a One_of the greatest prob- “' weev.is bn the couoii, proviaed which has faced any comnlun- w.atuer stays cieai for about three .,y Carolina in tlie.se She called together civic and so cial organisation members and sub mitted a plan for a survey of the county. Cooperation was immediately forthcoming. The various women’s clubs, scattered all over the county and adjuncts of the Raeford Women Clulb sprang into action. The survey was completed and every pellagra case was quickly listed. A m^ss meeting of landlords and merchants and bankers was then called and county to see whether particular circumstances will bring the neces sary expenditure per pupil above standing, ten rapid fire prone aid ten rapid fire sitting, making t.ie possible score for each man two or below eight dollars. This calcu-1 ^ lation is for the six months terni. | hundred and twenty-four give^ which was featured ^n the Raleigh News and Observer in rega’-d to the excellent work which has been done each man was asked to turn in the names of pellagra patients or po- Mr. Hawfield then went over the provisions made for the regulation; of the number of teachers in the schools. The regulations submitted give careful direction as to the number of teachers which may he hired on the basis of pupils in at tendance. The Board of. Equaliza- rating’ of Expei't, two hundred i :id (Continued on back page) THELMA LINDSAY DIES AT McCOLL Vass, June 16.—Mrs. T. J. Smith, well known and highly esteemed woman of Vass. passed away at her home at 11 o’clock Monday morning after an illness of about 14 months. Funeral services- were conducted from Cvpress Fhurch, of which the deceased had been a member since tion has the authority to require i Pm-meir Resident Of Raeford tential patients on his farm. The i additional number of ten pu- volunteer services of the doctor of the county were obtained and month- oays. iuree appliCi.aons of this mix-; stress has b^pn the prob-jly pellagra climes were outlined, iure .u sdveu uc.,, .ntervais will get! pellagra, a disease roofed' with a history sheet for each pat- most of the weeviis that come but ability on the part o.f ient. A diet list of foods, instruc- later ana i'osurtJ protection until' people to procure for themselves tions for the planting of gardens late la the season. In sorme cases necessary nourishment. It .has ^^d the necessity of consumption of plenty of green foods were main points, stressed by every person who was actively engaged in the PHOjert. Exaut data was kept on eadh patient. Each patient was put under strict supervision and the monthly clin ics showed that improvement was being made, shortly after the cam paign got underway. Of the 100 pellagra patients at the end of the. it may not be uectssary tu uusi Lue | jjj t.hise times to an extent -wLtOi. —c.r iL iiao becom,e too large unknown previously, to an .10 mop proviaed tne mopping ^as. ^jjich demanded cjncerted I effort on the part of county gov- to ueen xjropcri,, cuxi.ed out. , , ‘The laimers oi the County vfrill; emment and civic organization early girlhood, at 4 o clock this aft- secure calcium a*senate i plague. How Hoke ernoon iby the pastor Rev. Charles ,no.asses mu.h entaper uu^'conuty met this problem and the A. Lawrence, assisted hy a former .ggt and while cotton g^g^tive manner in which its pro- pa^^tor. Rev. M. D. Mc^^eul of Cam,^ also cheap, I am sure that tue eren. and the body was intered in | nidasses poison will be profitable. Cypress cemetery. - i -.yviun, 1 sme that none Couu. Mrs. Smith, before her marriage, sectious of the was Miss Lovedy Ann McKeithen. 1 -aouia euuauvor to decrease She was born in the Lobelia section cotton prouucaon, I am '.also' of Hoke county, which was at that timt snme we nave gone to the time a part of Cumberland county, of planting and the expense on May 27, 1864, the daughter of: ot-tertilizing our present acreage that J>aniel B. and Celia iMcKeithan. her ^e, should, ao all that we could to father being a prominent planter and i-roaUce hs much cotton per acre as large landowner of his day. -he at-!b possible could in order to produce tended the famous Union Home at tu© least cost ppr acre. School and later studied at Mt. Ver non School, where she displayed no ticeable talent in art. young PEOPLE RETURN from CONFEREiYCr. The Young People’s Conference eonu'ucted at Flora Macdonald ,Col lege under t»ie auspices of Fayette- . die - Presbytery closed Tuesuay. June 16,tn. in addition to the five local' hoys and girls who were in i-:tsndance, twenty-five or more Wont over 'Tuesday for the final day and the picnic. Dr. Watson ,Fairley taught Home .Missions during tne ou-ii'tereuice and Miss Josephine I-all was .a councilor. I'.d. rt In 1895, she was married to T. J. ; Smith of Ijer home community, and ^ after spending a year or two on a farm on Little River, they came to Vass, where they have resided ever since, the faml’v plaving an imnor- tant part in the life of the town. Mrs. Smith was industrious hnd gemer- ^ bus, a good neighlior who will be greatly missed. She is survived by her husband and the following sons and daugh ters: D, A. Smith, Mrs. N. N- .Mc Lean and. Miss Agnes Smith, all of Vass, and N. M. Smith of Jaqkson- Tville. One daughter, Harriet, died Accordlhg to ‘ ah.- announcement In Infancy. Two sisters, Mrs. J. A. made last Tuesday night at the * Keith and Mrs. Sarah Margaret Me.! Square Dance by Dan CampbeU. ^ ffetli of Vass, and a brother. Smith' master of ceremonies, there will be ^ McKelthan of Raeford, survive in . only two more dances in the pres. addition to many other relatives. .ent 'seriee giVen In Armpry HalL I The dances were inaugurated last ............ -nuA-rne ' wmter Under the auspices of the NOTICE TO TOMATOE GROWERS ^ most popular diversion for the people of the town and county. The dance last Tuesday, in spite of ,the gress, has been checked among our citizenship is a^^story of energy and courage and which every citizen of pils in each case where it is de sired to hire an additional teach er. In high schools the number ot teachers is rated as one teacher ■’ lere the number of high school pupils in average daily attendance. was tiventy-five, tivo w'here it was I thirty^eight, and so up to f-our teach-1 ers for eighty 'pupils in' a gracliiat -ed scale. The May budget is made. out on a basis of one additional teacher for each additional thirty one pupils. It wa.-i shown that the Board of Equalizaiioii will consider it unsat. Mourned By Many Friendi; Invalid Five Years. I?aeford friends were shocked last week to learn of the death of Miss Thelma Lindsay, a resident of j McColl, South Carolina, who, up I until a few' years ago lived in Rae ford. She died at McColl on Frid-ay I June the fifth and was mourned hy la greet number of friends to win oi I she had endeared herself throuTh her wonderful characteristics of pr ti- ence and cheerfulness in sufferirg. isfactory for any county board to • . For the last five years she had been. the county should read with pride! first year, 3S have been, dismissed the story follows: ] as cured, 26 cases have been re. One of the best stories | of pel- as arrested and the others lagra relief work done in North Carolina in recent years, a story which also carries a tale of what is now being. done to prevent a recur- r nce of the disease, comes out of Hoke County and carries-as its high light work of the women of that county and the name of one woman. are showing improvement under continued care. Bach of these pa. tients has a winter garden as a pecessary means of fighting the disease. But to go back to the beginnln.? of this wprk. In the outset, Mrs. Cameron organized the club women Mrs. H. A. Cameron, chairman of the into groups of volunteers in each. in bed, suffering from tuberculos i-^. Little hope was entertained for t .^r recovery and jet in the face of her trouble she exhibited the great st courage and optimism. Miss Lindsay was a member of the Raeford Presbyterian chu! cEb which she joined during her yeurs; In Raeford. One of the last acts satisfactory. It is further stipulat- Qf ^er life was to write to the Rue- I ed. that the reasons for maintain- ford church, asking that her men- bership be transfered to th® church at McColl. Her life was a testimr ijr to her Christian faith and her ior- titude in the face of over-powering ,, troubles was aji example for all who Mr. P. Seese, pnultijniaii of ^.gg twentv-qne brought results. The county of ndke State Extension service, spent lart ^,,3^ Manv'Rae. furnished' the cans, 1,500 of them Thursday in Raeford ' inspei-tiii-a a section where the number of pupils in average daily attendance, for the next preceediiig j'ear was fewer than twenty-one or for a h’'"-h school where the number of pupils was less than fifty, unless every plan for taking care of those pupils shall have been proven un- (Continued on back page) f- ' POULTRY EXPERT HERE commiLLity. These women went to V. ork on a canning program, which county board of welfare, who lives at Raeford. Back in the spring of 1930, Hoke comity iNas faced with a serious epi demic of pellagra. It was a problem ^ the first year, at a cost of only.r, uUry flocks which had preiiou.s. moiirn" her passing which was not at all easy of solu. I $20.50.The women' did the work of ly been given blood tests. Complete tlou, for the pellagra patients were | canning and put up a mixture of records are being kept of these TWO MORE SQUARE DANCES. largely members of tenant families 00 the farm- Mrs. Cameron was the first to take steps to fight the dis- ■ease and also to prevent any other patients from becoming inoculated with pellagra. vegetables for use as soup. Hot flocks and Mr. Seese’s visit was a 'nnehes in schools were made avail- regular feature of the check-up which able through tills canning program, j is maintained, with the soup used as the “piece : de resistance’’ for the meal. Gar- (Continued on back page) Some ^mage is being done in the tomans being grown in the _ . county by the corn ear worm. It is ^^ct that the ram came down in advisable to prune the vines closely, torrents at the hour of stating, taldng off those tomatoes which are “vely and well attend^. Large cracked at the bottom. These to-1-crowds are expected on the next matoes will never mai^'et, and prun Kwo Tueedajrs at the final dances. . . ing them will allow the other to- V matoes to develop. Spmy the vines with a 2.2-60 bordeaiux xnlxed with one pound of arsenate of lead. The Bordeaux will combat anthraenoee ^ald blight qnd the lead^^ill tjftke care of tbe cibm ear vorm. NOTICE TO JUNIORS R' All the members of the Junior Order are requested to meet every Weineeday night Inatead 'of Friday night Gome one and come alL PROGRESSIVE F/PMER HARVESTS GRAIN Wmi UlEFUL NEW MACHINE Mr. J. D. Mason Is Using Combine Reaper And Thrasher; First Machine Of Its Type In This Section; Will - Harvest Twenty Acres Per Day. DEATH OF INFANT On Monday. June 8th. the 'nfan* son of Mr. and Mrs. David Smith died here after an attack of colitis. It was eight' months old and a fine child. The funeral was conducted on Tuesday with Rev. A. D. Carswell officiating and interment was made in Raeford cemetery. Friends sym pathize deeply with the bereaved par- .ents in the loss of their only son. BRYANT WEBB DIES OF INJURIES Mr. J. D. Mason, progfesaive farm-, er df Hoke county, /has Introduced into the farming operations of the county another innovation In the form of a combine harvester, such as. Is used on a larger scale In the grain fields of the west. This ma chine cuts, thrashes and 'sacks 20 acres of grain per day- and -cui be run by two men. Mr. IMason, using tractor power, has harvested oats and barley and is now ^ harvesting wheat ' The machine consists of a reaper and thrasher comlbine.' The ..grain is cut hy jui e^ht. foot blades drawn up Into tbp t^raalwr, tbiMbed and then the grain is deposited in sacks on a platform on the side and the ‘straw Is distributed on the field. If the operator does not wish to leave the straw on the field there is a rake attachment which can bo used. Cutting, thrashing and sacking grain at one time increases the neces sity of having dead ripe grain beforei using the combine. In the west where the weather is dry more consistent ly it is not an uncommon sight to see from twenty to thirty comhinos in one field. The introduction ot a combine in Hoke county is an in tereeting and promisi^ forward ■tep. I TYPHOID VACCINATION The question has! bepn aeiked me a number of times as to wheth er free vaccination can be qecured from any doctor except the County Physician. The County’s agreement with the State Board of Health calls for free vaccination by any physician in the County, and they will b,e paid for same by making the proper report of their work. So call on any physician in the County tor tree vaccinati»i. J. A. McGoogan, Coimtp Accountant Bryant Webb, young Kings Moun tain man who was seriously injured when the car In which he was rid ing turned over at View Point ^r_ vice Station two miles east of Raeford last week died In Pittman’s hoRoital at Fbyetteville last Friday. Tniuries to :Webb’s spine proviNI fatal. His mother, brother and sis ter were with him when he died. The body iwas taken to Kings Mountain for bnriaL MR. MCLAUCHUN*S ILLNESS SERIOUS As the News-ji>urnal goes ‘to prmfe ’’’Horsdav afternoon, the condltfMt of Mr. J. W. McLanghlin Is reported as •’ OPse and grave concern is felt He has been ill with typhoid fever for over four we^ and had about re covered the first ot this week, his 'ever leaving htm, bnt had bad nights nm Tuesday and Wednesday and has rrown Twy much weaker. Many of ^ relativw are here and others ez- pseted, Hiesgh H is greatly hoped h* will grow BtiSMar.