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RECORDING
HOKE COUNTY'S
PRESENT.
WITH
JUSTICE
Journal
THE HOKE COUNTY NEWS
VOLUME 5^XVII—Number 19
RAEFORD, N. C. IHIDAY, AUGUST 14th, 1931
THE HOKE COUNTY_^WRN^
$1,50 YEAR IN ADVANCE
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Government Estimate Places 1931
Cotton Production at High Figure
North Carolina Crop For Year
Estimated To Be 713,000
Bales; Condition For This
State Is Best For Country;
Highest August 1 Condition
In 16 Years, Board Reports.
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MIEIIL CHOSEN
HUNTING SEASON TO Local Citken Onlliiies Phn Hiat Wod4
SANK PHESIBENT OPEN ON SEPT. FIRST
E. B. McNeill, Prominent Busi
ness Man, Chosen President
Of Banh of Raeford; Suc
ceeds Late J.W. McLauchlin'^
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Wasliington,—With Carl WilliaiBS,
cotton member of the farm board,
insisting there is no reason at aR
for a panicky sensation in the cot
ton trade, since there is a prospect
of greater consumption this year, the
market nevertheless broke baSly
Saturday in Chicago, one of the larg
est markets remaining open, when
a bearish report was Issued by the
government, the New York and New
Orleans markets being closed early.
Many 'growers followed the advice
of the officials here to reduce acre
age; hht stm they may suffer, for
■a very large yield Is in prospect.
A cotton crop of 15,5S4,00T) taies
is indicated by conditions as of
August 1, an increase of approximat
ely 1,650,0X1(0 bales over la^ year.
North Carolina’s crop is placed at
only 713,060 hales, a redncfion of
62,000 hales, hy the crop reporting
hoard of the United State,? depart
ment of agriculture, in the first of Its
seasonal estimates.
The condition of the North Caro
lina crop on August 1 was 78 per
cent of normal, 4 per cent bStier
than on the same date last year,
and 6 per cent better than the aver
age for the 10 years CTded with
1929, while the indicated yield per
acre is 255 pounds, an increase of
30 pounds over last year and eight
pounds better than the 10 year av
erage, Indicating that the state’s
T^i'aced crop will he due entirely to
reduction of acreage.
The condition of the North Caro
lina crop is considerahly above that
of the country as a whole, which
was 74.9 per cent, and which, the
hoard commented, is the highest
August 1 condition isiince 1916. The
present high condition, it wae stated,
seems 'to indicate that the distribu-
Ttlcm of rainfall has been such as to
make possible the maximum utili-
-zation of plant food by the cotton
plant.
“In Interpreting -conditions as ^an
indication of probaMle yield,* 31 Twas
.explained, “the board has made an
;allowance for crop Joss ■due to the
'b.dll weevil, on the baaiB of Teporte
received qoncei^iing- weevfl pijes-!
ence und activities.' These ngiorts
indicate that if usuafl weather pre
vails during the remainder at the
iseason weevil damage will be seme
’What higher than last year for the
iCQuntry »s a whole, hut stiD eon-
:Blderably less than the average loss
(during. the last 10 .y«»ra. the,
aoutbsastern states weevil dam-i
age is indicated to he about egual;
lo laut year, and for the
etates it is indicated to be some-i
what greater than last year." •
Comes As Surprise
The high estimate of the crop re-i
porting board came as a surprise toj
aU eottop interests, altMongh It has
been known for sojie time that
the condition of the crop was ex-
' oellent, and gave promise of reach
ing high proportions. Neither mem
bers of the federal farm board nor
the cotton trade expected* such a
figure, however,, it was indicated by
Mr. Williams, cotton member of the
board.
“When the trade is laced with a
1*500,000 bale increase, as is indicat
ed by the report, it Is natural lor i*
to become panicky, but it will recov
er,” Mr. ' Williams declared. "The
ti^rd can see no sound reason why
cotton prices should go lower.
“While it is true the crop, on the
basis of this report, is larger than ex
pected it Is also true that consump-
J^n is going to be much larger than
generally looked for. My opinion is
that consumption of American cotton
throughout the world, during the
curren crop season, will be at least
2,009,000 bales higher than last year,
and possibly as much as 3,000,000
bales higher.”
October Under 7 Cents
Chicago reports reaching here put
October cotton at a fraction under
seven cents, and there was some re
cession in other commodity prices.
“Strangely .enough, coincident with
this break in prices came reports
from Berlin to the effect that Ger
many would renew the offer to buy
American cotton, and would suggest
a somewhat better price. But prices
i decreased after the first tentative of-
h fer from. Berlin, and now there is a
prospect that the same thing will
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Annual Reunion Is Held At
Riverton, Oti Lundber River,
Last Hbursday; Over One
Hundred Fifty Attend!
County Game Warden, H. R.
McLean, Gives Summary of
Game Law, Open Seasons
And Bag Limits.
Dispose of Cotton Surplus and Weevil:
The M'cThaul Clan, a Scotlish
family that has been prominently
identified with this section for many
generations, held its annual reunion
on the historio . banks of the
Lumber River at Riverton last
Thursday, July sixth, with a-large
attendance of members and gnests,
estimates placing the number at
about one hundred and fifty. Under
the leadershiki of the president of
the Clan. F. F. McPhaul, Chair
man of the Hoke County Board of
Commissioners, the usual perfect
dinner was *. arranged »hd about
everything that the iimer man
could desire, Was there. A feature
of the dinner was a barbecue, which
is also the custom when the clan
assembles.
Speeches were made by Solicitor;
Tom McNeill, of Lumherton, prom
inently mentioned as 'a lanididate for
governor. Rev. G. W. Hanna, J. M.
Wiliiams, J. A. McGoogan, W. P.
Hawfield and H. F. Cnrrie. ‘
The younger portion of those
present . enjoyed a swimming party
in the river in the afternoon and
those of more mature years renew
ed old friendships and made new
ones during the ufternooii. ^
Officers for another year were
elected as follows: F. F. McPhaul,
President^ W. D. 'MdLeod^ yice-
president, and Miss Kathrine Me-,
Phaul, Secretary.
The Board of Directors of the
Bank of Raeford. at their regular
monthly meeting on August 6th,
elected Mr. E. B. McNeill, of this
city, president of the bank, to fill
the vacancy caused by the death
on June 24th, of Mr. J. W. Mc-
Lauchlln, who was the bank’s presi
dent for many years.
Mr. /McNeill has been closely asso
ciated with the Bank of Raeford
since its early days and has been
one of its directors since 1910. He
is one of the leading business men
of Raeford, and Hoke county, and
In addition to being president . of
the bank, he is vice-president of
Raeford Power and Manufacturing
Company, vice-president of Up
church Milling and Storage Com
pany, vice-president of Hoke Oil
and Fertilizer Company, and gen
eral manager, of McLauchlin Com
pany, all Raeford institutions.
Present officers of the Bank of
Raeford are: E. B. McNeill, presi
dent; T. B. Upchurch, vice-presi
dent; H. L. Gatlin, vice-president;
R. B. Lewis, cashier, and G. D. Mc
Queen, assistant c^hier. Members,
of the Board of Directors are: E.
B. McNeill, T. B. Upchurch, H. L.
Gatlin, F. B. Sexton, C. W. Seate,
J. B Thomas, R B. Lewis, and J.
L. McNeill. The Bank of Raeford
was organized in 1903, and is Holce
County’s oldest bank. Its statement
published on June 30th, 1931, show
ed deposits of $317,988.41 and n
sources of $395,184.95. SurplAis and
Undivided Profits were' $52,136.54.
Its Capital is $25,©00.00.
SQIIIH ASREB TO
DEBEBOY COnON
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MOT mil
'Shoes, Underwear, Steed Auto
Parts And Macliinery Are
Included In Letting; State
Saves "Money.
The North Carolina Game Law.
passed by the 1927 Legislature, and
amended hy the 1929 and 1931 Leg
islatures makes it unlawful to hunt
or trap without the proper license;
to take or kill game birds and ani
mals out of season; to take in one
day, or In one iseason, more than the
bag limits; to kill a female deer;
to buy or sell any game except rab
bits and squirrels; to take game
by trap or poison, to hunt by auto
or boat, or to bait for upland game.
Fur-bearing animals may be trapped
in accordance with laws and regu
latlons. ,
Open seasons and Bag Limits are
as follows:
Squirrel, from September 1st, to
December Jlst; Bag limit, ten in
one day.
Rabbit, from November 20th, to
February 15th; no bag limit.
Deer (Buct), September 15th, to
January Ist; limit two in one day,
four in one season.
Deer (Doe), season closed until
September Ist 1933.
Fur-Bearers: Coon, ’Possum, Mink,
Skun'k, Otter and Muskrat, may be
hunted, with dog and gun, from Oct
ober Ist, to February 15th. Trap
ping from November 15th, to Feb
ruary 15tli.
Federal Farm Board Calls
Upon Farmers To Plow
Under Every Third Row;
Offers Hold Carry-Over,^
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Dr. A. C. Bethune Tells How -^^;
Division Of Cottem Belt
Would Cause Big Reductiois
In Production, Also Com
plete Eradication Of The
Dreaded Boll ^Vecvil.
AT THE CHURCHES
Washington, Aug. 12.—The Farm
Board todayj called upon Southern
planters to destroy one-third of their
cotton crop now under cultivation,
promising in return to hold stabili
zation surplus stocks from the mar
ket for one year. /
Telegrams were dispatched to the
governors of the 14 cotton growing
states urging them to enlist the
cooperation of every available agen
cy, including farmers and bankers,
in this dramatic step to increase the
low price of cotton.
Chairman Stone, of the Farm
Board, said if the Governors prom
ised *0 plow under every third row
of cotton no-w growing, the cotton
cooperative would be asked also to
withhold the 2,000,000 bales it
owns, from trade channels.
“This program,” he asserted, “if
fully carried out by Southern Farm-
The contract Tor 16,600 -pairs dt
s’hoes 'to be used 'in the State penal
and correctional institutions was
awarded Tuesday to. Efird’s Depart
ment Store, Huid^lin.' 'Blelk Gom-j.
pany and the Asheville Army Store,
at the letting oT the State TJivisloni
of Purchase and Uontract at -whiebj
a variety Of other contracts were|
awarded. # ,
Director R. A. Brower said that!
bids on the Shoes, all of -whiih had|
been rejected at -a previous ■lettlug,i
were very satisfactory yesterday.
Efird’s low 'bid was that of
the Asheville Army Shoe on a bet-(
ter -grade of shoes '$1.64, and that of
Hudson-R«Tk Tl-66 and t2.10. The
last -named prices were on 600 -pairs
of hoy's Shoes to be use! at the
Jachson TiaSn’ing School.
The contract for 276 tons of
“pickled” sheet -steel to he used in
the mairafilctnre of the 1932 auto
license tags -was awarded to the
American Hardware and Equrpmenti
Company, of Charlotte, at '$3.16 pen
htmdred pounds, the total contract
price was $16,880 less $92.64 dis
count. Samples of enamel to be'
used on the tags, on which bids were'
also received, are to he run through
the process at the Staten’s . Prison
and the award made at -the next
letting.
Contract for 20,000,000 fertilizer
tags was awarded to the Reyburn
Manufacturing Company at 18 cents
.per thousand. ,
Moore and Sons of Wadesboro se
cured the contract for 1,660 dozen
pairs of long underwear for pris
oners at $9,067.63. Repair kits for
use hy all State motor vehicles went
to the Firestone and the Goodyear
companies at nine cents and 65
cents for the large and small sizes.
The Texas Company secured the con
tract for a year’s supply of fuel oil
at ■ seven sents per gallon, while the
N. C. Equipment Company of Ral
eigh secured the contract for 25
road graders to be delivered as
needed at $502 each. Contracts for
pressure grease guns and fittings
went to the Corbitt Truck Company.
The Dixie Culvert and Metal Com
pany secured the contract for cor
rugated metal pipe at prices vary
ing with the size, and Gray and
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Rev. B. P. Robinson, of Hamlet,
will preach at the regular momjng
service at ^ the Methodist Church,
Sunday. His subject will be “Clothes
Make the Man.” Rev. Robinson is
a former pastor of the church. There
will be no preaching service in the
evening. Young People’s Service At;
7:30 p. m. Sunday School at 9:45
-a. m.
There will he no preaching ser-i
vice at the Presbyterian Church,|
due to the absence of the pastor,|
Dr. Fairley. Sunday School meeds,
at r9:'45 -a. m.
Rev. J. R Miller, pastor of the;
Baptist Church, preaches in Wagram,
Sunday, so there will he no preach
ing service at the local church.
Sunday School is at 9:45 a. m., and
B. Y. P. U. at 7:00 p. m.
In the absence of Rev. A. D.
Carswell, there will be no preach
ing service in the churches which
he rserves, Bunday.
Quail, from November 20th, to
February 15th; Bag limit, ten in
one day.
Wild Turkey, from November 20th
to February 15th; Bag limit, two in
one day, five in one season.
Dove, from November 20th, to
January 31st; Bag limit twenty-five
in one day.
Pheasants (all species) Season
closed until September 1st, 1933.
Fees for hunting liscenses are as
follows: County Resident, $1.25;
State Resident, $3.25; Non-Resident,
$15.26; , County Combination Hunt
ing. and Trapping Liscense, $3.00;
State Combination Hunting a.id
Trapping liscense, $5.25; State Hunt
ing and Fishing License, $4.60.
Wildcats, English Sparrows, Great
Horned Owls, Coopers and Sharped
Shinned Hawks, Crows, Blackbirds.
Jays abd Buzzards, are unprotected.
Hunters and trappers will sav?
money by getting the Combination
Uicense.
Pur-bearers may be taken with
dog and gun, beginning October 1st,
but no trapping will be allowed
until November 15th. Trappers will
note this change in the law for
(he coming season.
(Warden McLean also advises that
Licenses are now on hand, and will
he placed with selling agents thru-
out the county before the season’s
opening date.
HA« BIRTHDAY PARTY
'Kenneth McNeill, young eon -of
Mr. and Mrs. John K. McNeill, en
tertained -a number of his little
friends last Saturday afternoon,
August 6th, in celebration of bis
sixth h'fathday.
Gaines -and refreshments were en
joyed hy all those -present.
PAY YOUR 1930 TAXES
ers as well as by ourselves, will
niean reduction of total supply by
at least 4,000,000 bales, and with
holding from this year’s market
3,000,000 bales more.”
The proposal to’ plow- under every
third row of cotton was advr.-.-.ced
yesterday by Governor Bilbo, of
Mississippi.
SIOTS HIS WIFE
FORABIlROEAR
Mrs. W. C. Hamer, Of Moore
County, In Pinehurst Hos
pital; Will Recover But
Loses Arm.
On page six of this issue of ’The
News-JouritAl, appears an ad hy D.
H. Hodgln, Sheriff of Hoke County,
In ufKlch all those who have not
paid' their 1930 taxes, are requested
to. do so immediately. Property on
which these taxes are unpaid by the
first Monday in September,^ will be
advertised.
POLITICS AND PERSONALITIES
There are few skeletons' left in
the nation’s secret closets after those
trotted out lu a bright red book
labeled “'Washington Merry-Go-
Round” recently published hy Live-
right and dedicated “To those ufho
still reach for the brass ring."
Every: one from the President
,^p and down is stripped. No au
thor’s name appears, however. Those
familiar with the writing manner
isms, of Capital news reporters guess
the anonymous work to be the
product of a group who did not
choose to remain Inactive and bored
when the Seventy-first Congress
passed on. -
There is a good deal of back
stairs gossip in the first two chap
ters headed “Boiled Bosoms” and
“Starched Futility”, but the hook
gets down to paragraphs on econo
mic conditions and so-me challeng
ing criticisms In the chapters on
the Senate and the House. The
latter is treated with real humor
under the title “The Monkey
House.” Qur relations with Europe
and South America are well aired
in pages on the State Department
and various ambassadoYrs and min
isters.
How Mellon’s rule has resulted
in more than three billion dollars
In rebates to corporations, huge es
tates and wealthy -taxpayers, and
has lopped about $1,600,000 off his
own Income tax; how the Secre
tary of the Treasury divorced his
wife by pulling wires for an enact
ment of a special law, which was
repealed “under cover” when he no
longer needed it; how one Senator
plays “footle” under table with his
dinner hoc^ss; how Llndy’s court
ship progfessed uncertainly; how
Dawes and Stimson behave in Lon
don; how the personalities of the
press react to and write ,up the
scene—all dished up In chapters
with such titles as “The Man Who
Stayed Too Long” (Mellon), “The
Court Jester” (Dawes, “Egg Char
ley” (Curtis), “Little Nemo, the
Wonder Worker” (Morrow), “Wrong
Horse ftarry” (Stimson).
If some details among so many
light and serious facts are muddled,
there is undoubtedly revealing truth
In the book. Coming at this time of
economic and disarmament confer
ences and of tuning up for the
circus that is a presidential cam
paign, it will serve as text-book In
spite of its well-splced flavor.
CJ0thage, Aug. —Mrs. W. C.
Hamer, of the Hemp section of
Moore county, is in the Pinehurst
hospital recovering from wounds in
flicted by her husband several days
ago when he mistook her for a burg
lar. It was necessary however to
amputate one of her arms where
the load of shot took effect.
Mr. and Mrs. Hamer had retired
and were later awakened hy a sus
picious noise, which they thought
originated in the vicinity of their
garage near the house. Mr. Hamer
arose from bed and procured his gun
befo:;^ going tout to Investigate.
Finding nothing amiss outside, he
returned to the bedroom. As he
walked into the door of the room,
he saw a figure outlined in the light
streaming in at the window. He at
first called his wife, but receiving
no answer, and thinking that the
figure -s’hich he saw outside the
window was that of an intruder, he
fired twice. With a fearful shriek his
wife fell to the floor and it was
then that he learned of his tragic
mistake.
To the Editor:
All my Ufe I have worshipped at
the shrine of Old King Cotton; like
wise have all my people for two or
three generations. We have beeti
told that the old gentleman wa*
sickly, and subject to spells, especi
ally sinking spells, often followed hr
some kind of fits, terminating in a
coma that would last for days and
months. The old gentleman, how
ever, has always been attended by-
sundry doctors, each of whom had
an infallible cure; but the old mam
has grown worse as time passed by-
Personally I have seen these sun
dry doctors go into a huddle, and
after much time and hard worfc
bring forth a prescription, in the
form of the Farmers’ Alliance—this,
of course, was to be a cure! I have
seen similar groups after much de
liberation bring forth the coopera
tive movement, covering both the
holding and selling of cotton, and
I have heard much about coopera
tive production, but so far I can
not say I have seen any good re
sults follow the use of these pre
scriptions.
It seems to me that our cotton-
growing South, while ^ontinuing to
worship the old King, continues to
wallow in its poverty, and that all
of our high-browed efforts, whether
political or in the name of. business,
have acted only like a dose of suits,
ending in a washout that has in
creased our miseries, and reduced
the strength of our King to a stf.ce -
of utter weakness.
Aboift as far back as I can re-
1 member, I have been told that tho ■
I cause of the old man’s trouble was
^that he had been fed cn over
production; or in other words, too
much cotton. It seems that cur
production has increased from year
to year faster than our consumption,
so that we have, held over our
heads 4very year, a great bogvcy in
the form of a carry-over, a thing:
that Col. Hester begins to tell us
about aroimd June 1st each year.
Thfe overproduction or carry-over,
back in the old days when America ■
used about 3,000,000 bales of cotton
a year, was about 1,000,0000 baleSv.
but now, with us using around 6.'-
000,000 bales and producing around
15,000,000 bales a year, this carry
over reaches the appalling figure
of some 9,000,000 bales, so no won-
’'ll
der the old King finds hitnself bed
ridden from having to ftod a way
! to rid himself of this vast amoanit
of cotton.
Now, it must be plain to anybody,
even to a country doctor like my
self, that there is something wroos
with the King, and this something
must be too much cotton—more than
the cotton consuming world wan*3
or can use. It doesn’t matter what
the world conditions may be. it is
a fact that if the world cannot
consume the cotton w^e produce, then
we just have too dad-blamed much
cotton, and should do something
about it.
That’s the question: do something
about it! But what is that some
thing? Through congressional enact-
, ments we have cut out most of the
It is believed that his wife was information that used to go out to
merely looking out the window while
he was investigating the noise at
the garage, and that she failed to
hear him re-enter the house and
call to her. The shooting occurred
about the middle of the night. The
Hamers live at the talc mine of
the Standard Mineral Company,
where he is employed as a book
keeper.
Night workers at the mine heard
ike two shots fired. When Mrs.
Hamer screamed, they rushed to the
hume to find her wounded twice at
the hands of her own husband. She
was rushed to the hospital at Pine
hurst. One load took effect in one
of her arms and the other In her
back.
attend convention
Sheriff D. H. Hodgln left Tues
day for Rutherfordton, where he
will attend the State Sheriffs Asso
ciation meeting Tuesday and Wed
nesday. ‘
Mr. J. A. McGoogan, County Ac
countant, left Tuesday morning to
attend the County Commissioners
and Auditors Convention, held this
week in Asheville.
the people from our agricultural
bureaus, and we have tried to put
our exchanges out of business with
investigations and congressional re
strictions, none of which has helped
the conditions of our very sich
King. Like other nostrums, these
have only made him worse day by
day and year by year, and now the
King seems to ^ growing weaker
and it may be the end is not far
off. I My he is better dead, than
always sick and threatening to die.
With these congressional inves
tigations, and with laws restrict
ing the New York and New Orleans
exchanges, with tariffs and boll
weevils, with cooperative marketing
and Federal Farm Boards and their
holding schemes and other helpful
aids, and especially our reduction
in acreage, the old King continues
on the down-grade. Now. I ask, what
are we going to do about it?
Texas says she is going to re
duce her acreage. This is one of
the same old useless remedies that
we have threatened to apply for
years, but never did. and never
will. Somebody wants Congrem to
pass laws controlling acreage* but
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