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ADVANCED LW - OLS PROPOSED BY FARMERS' UNION Advanced legislation, for schools in North Carolina was recommended by the educational committee of the State Farmers' Union, in Raleigh a lev days ago. In brief, istraijutfor ward tem-s tine ccinmUue advocates State system of traveling libraries; a minimum of six months for public school tax; compulsory attendance of all children between the ages or eight and fifteen yars during tut minimum term; better qualification for both teachers aiitf' oouuty schoo. superintendents; alarm life school law, and a State school commission in place of the present "ex-officio" State board of education, The report of the committee Hi full is as follows: Your educational committee tle slrse to make the following report: No. 1. There comes to the Farm ers' Union, no greater opportunity o tocukatJ its pi in i pies, o p?r Jet- uate Its existence, to iictuox- m purposes, than that offered through the medium of the country public schools.) We, therefore, commend ".our State president and executive committee for the prominence they jhave given to the cause of public education as it affects the farmei, and recommend that this jvork be contiuued. No. 2. We recommend that the Union urge the Legislature at its ap proaching session to increase the ap propriation of the library commission to a saun sufficient . to establish and operate in North. Carolina a State S.vstvm of traveling libraries. No. 3. Realizing that the present rural school term in our State Is wholly inadequate to provide even au elementary education for our country boys and giris we favor the .enactment, by the ar-r reaching Legis lature, of a law that will provide a minimum term cl" six onths' public school in every district in thei State, and recommend that 5 cents .on. the one hundred dollars of the State tax levy be set aside for that purpose. No. 4. We flavor better salaries, increased efficiency, and uniform ex amination1 and certification of teach ers, both urban and. rural. c No. 5. We recommend the arueni mint of our present compulsory at tendance law in such a way as to tnf tVi ' fTnnn1snrv ntt.enrl- 1 I' iVAVJ 1UI 1. 1 1 ' ... . auc of all children between the ages of eight and fifteen years, during the minimum term of public schools; that this amendment also provide, tor truancy officers and tor tne aueuu anco of the incoriigibks in the Jackson Training Schxoi. No. 6. We commend also the amendment of our present school law,, relative to qualifications of county superintendents in such a way; as to provide that no one may pe a t,r mmni'lntDHirlfint rtt HfhnnlR who has not had at least three years' ac-1 tual experience in teaching In the countrv schools of this Or some ot,h- j er State while holding a L'irst grade certificate. No. 7. We recommend that a oom prehensve country life course, be re Aiiired in all our State teachers training schools, including instruction in co-operative marketing ana ui rect distribution of farm products. No, 8. We recommend the amend ment of our county farm life school law enacted for Guilford county, i No. 9. We- favor a State public school commission1 in place of pre sent "ex-officio" State board of edu cation. ! ! Red Cross Seals will not carry any kind of mail, but any kind of mail will carry them. II If you can't rind a laundry ihat can do your work lo suit you, cheer up, for we can. Infinite skill exer cised constantly on specific things, brings as a com pensation certainty. W have devoted ail our energy and thought to the problem of how to do absolute laundry work, and we are doing it. You certainly get the best laundry work that can be done. 'Phone fort up Wa on No 217 STaR LAUNDRY CO. j.-RrCLAHKrATcntrKstssviner Packages can b. left at Clark and Meador's Shos Store ' STAMPS SENT OUT FOR THE PARCELS POSH The postofflce authorities at Wash ington are sending out to all the pestef flees of the country the new parcels pest stamps. Under the Jaw, which becomes effective on the first o the-year, mail matter of the fourt class must bear distinctive postage stamps. These stamps are being issued in twelve dnominations, and stamps in five denominations. i-e regui- st-inps measure 1 by 1-2 inches, and the color selected la red for all ucnomlnations. In a curved panel across the. top, up ported by a perpendicular column at each end, appears the words, "U. S, i'arcel Post." The subjects or designs for the several denominations are: 1 cent Pcstoffice Clerk. 2 cents City Carrier. 3 cents Railway Postal clerk. 4 cents Rural carrier. 5 cents Mail train. 10 cents Steamship and mail ten der. . 15 cents Automobile service. 20 cents Aeroplane carrying mall. 25 cents Manufacturing. :,0 oeiiils Dairying. '75 cents Harvesting. . $1 Fruit gorwing, Tho , parcels post postage-due stamps are grecai ; for all denomina tkns, and of the same size as the postage stamps. ..They bear the same panel. In a similar panel at the bot tom appears "Postage Due." The public is wanned that after the first, of the year ordinary post age stamps will not be valid for payment of postage . on fourth class matter. The regular postage due stamps will not be valid as a de mand for payment upon ; short-paid matter of the fourth, class. On the other hand, first, second; and third class mail matter bearing parcels pest stamps will be treated as "Held for Postage." The same thing will happen where fourth-class matter la ejent with ordinary postage stamps. DECEMBER MEETING OF THE W. C. T. U The December meeting of the W. C. T. U. was- held last Filday after noon at the home of Mrs. D. R. Allen, and was a very pleasant and interesting one. The house had been beautifully decorated for the occasion in the colors of the W. C. T. U. In addition to this, Christ mas bells, artistically arranged, re minded every on.e of the approaching festivities. There was a large crowd 1m attend ance, including a number of visitors. The devotional exercises were led by the president, Mrs. P. W, Glide- well. A report was made of the visit by some of the ladles to the county heme abcoitThanksigiving.A nice ilinr er and fruits for each one in the home, was carried, and clothing for some, which every Inmate seemed to appreciate. . After ail the business of the meet ing had been transacted' a very in teresting program was given, which had been arranged by the superin tendent of social meetings, Mrs. W. B. Wray. Solos were sweetly ren dered by Mrs. Francis Wouiack, Mrs. W. B. Milkier and Miss Ruth Raw ley. An excellent paper on Temper ance was then read by Mrs. J. It. Webster. A reading by Miss Susie Stokes. "A Christmas Story," was very much enjoyed by all. During the social hour a delicious salad course wag served. The meet ing then adjourned to meet in Janu ary with Mrs. L. T. Smith. No letter without the Christmas seal. seal the I THE NEWS IN BRIEF. What Has Taken Place 6loc Our Last Iseu;. . Elkin, N. C, sustained a fifty thousand dollar fire Tuesday. The new 5-cent piece will not be ready for circulation before Febru ary. ' The North Carolina University goes on record for a radical change in athletics. President Taft left Washington ast night for Key West, Fla., whence he will sail Sunday for Panama. Senator Overman has gone to Trenton to present Editor Josephus Daniels' claimB for a Cabinet position.-. The Senate has passed a bill ap propriating five thousand, dollars for a statute f Poocahontas at James town, Va. President Taft has decided to to accept the proffer of the Kent professorship of law at Yale, re cently made to him. There was a net decrease of flv oftiicers and a net decrease of 4,455 enlisted men in the authorized strength of th regular array last year, Charlotte, Salisbury, Durham . nd Hickory andi a number of other towns are taking action to necure the commission'. -form of municipal government. , Govrenor Marshall, of Indiana, Vice-Prsident elect, has accepted an invitation to deliver the address at the North Carolina University com mencement next June. North Carolina leads every other Statela the manufacture of chew ins and smoking tobacco, according to the annual report of the Commis sioner of Internal (Revenue. The Turkish-Balkan peace confer ence was launched Tuesday only to be Interrupted by a complication re sulting from the policy of Greece In waging war and negotiating peace simultaneously. The British government has pro posed to the government of the Uni ted States that a BritLshh battleship should convey the body of the late American Ambassador Whitelaw Reld to his native land. Publishers of afternoon newspapers met Jin Durham and formed an or ganlzation for purposes affecting af ternoon papers exclusively, particu larly the matter of improving their telegraphic news service. A movement to reduce the price of eggs in every city in the country to 25 cents or less a dozen was started in New York Tuesday by the national executive committee of the Housewives League of America. In a fight Monday in the hills at Tomato Springs, Cal., between a young desperado and more than 100 county officers, guardsmen and citi zens, the outlaw, who had attacked a young girl the previous night,' was killed. President-elect Wilson's life has again been threatened by a letter writer. The letter was mailed In New York December 12, received by the Governor's secretary at Trenton the next day and turned over to the postal authorities. A nation-wide campaign is to be waged by the Junior Ordr of the Uni ted American Mechanics for free text books in the public schools, compulsory education laws and laws compelling the raising of the Hag over all school houses. Richard J. Hobbs, a son of Presi dent Hobbs, of Guilford College, NT. C, has ben chosen one of the six debaters of the Columbia University team which will contest forensic hon ors in the triangular debates with Columbia, Cornell and Pennsylvania University. A report comes from Alma, Mo., that the Presbytriaris, Methodists, Baptists and Christian churches of that town have decided, to unite In one congregation and support a non sectarian church. Separately hone of the four was strong enough to keep an institution. A. P. Crockett, secretary to Con gressman C. B. Slemp, has been in dicted by the Russell county (Va.) grand jury on a charge of distribu ting money to Influence voters in the November election, at which Mr. Slemp was returned to Congress from the Ninth Virginia district. The fight between the Democrat ic party for control of the Senate un der the next administration has ta ken definite . form within the last lev days, as the result of concerted action by a small body of Demo crats toward laying the basis for what they term "progressive con trol" in the next Congress. The Inter-State Commerce Com mission has ordered every Inter State express carrying company in T5e" couhiryi stTST February 1st a complete statement as. to their business on certain -ddg-natod days and to show causu before sweeping low rates recently sug jgested should not be ordered ef i fective. . David L. Burnett, one of the five I men TVtio founded the Knights of 1 Pythias, diQd suddenly in Washing ton Monday night of heart disease, aged 75 yeans. William J. Flynn, New York, has been appointed chief of the United States Secret Service, succeeding Jar, E. Wilkle, now chief supervising agent of the customs service. f Tyrenty-seven men and boys lost their Uvea by firearms in, the New England States and the MariUme Provinces during the fall itunting season, which closed this week. . Tae;.ccmptroller of the currency has,;giren out figures to show that 1913 'has been the most prosperous yeaf in the history of the country as reflected by the reports of. the banks. In; in effort to encourage Southern farmers 4a. growing sweet potatoes, the Southern Railway and a number of other railroad lines will, on and after today, serve sweet potatoes on all dining cars. Four times oversubscribed, the five hundred and fifty thousand dollar bond Issue of the State of North Carolina was readily taken Tuesday. Among the successful bid ders1 were Mrs. Ethel Burns Whar ton, Reidsville; E. D. Winstead, Mil ton;' Mrs. Sallie V. Williamson, Ruf fin. A revival of the days of the Ku Klux Klan. occuurred at Dalton, Ga., the other night, w hen a band of masked and robed men took John Watklna from his home to the center of tbq town, where he was given a severe whipping with hickory switch es. Watkins was then given three days to leave town. , W. F. Blair oa. the witness stand in Superior court at Greensboro re cited:, to the jury his version of the tragedy in his home oa October 22, whea he shot to death George G. Thompson after the latter had come to his home by invitation. Upon this version . Blair hopes to justify am ac quittal verdict on ' the grounds of self-defense. Woodrow Wilson let it ho known this.-week Iji two public utterances that, although he had been, elected to "Presidency pf ..the, United States, he would continue to fight at every turn the Smith-Nugent forc es in New Jersey and any other ele ments in the nation's Democracy which he considers reactionary or non-progressive. Woman suffrage was adopted In Oregon on the 5th of November. At the municipal election at Bend, Ore., the other day the first woman vo ter to appear at the polls was Mrs. &. 'M. Whltted, 75 years old, who called a little after daylight and waited until the polls opened, being the first to cast a vote. Mrs. Whitted went to Oregon from Lenoir, N. C. In anticipation of an unusually heavy Christmas rush, calls for ex tra assistance, it is reported at the Potoffico Department, are being made by postoffices all over the country. The fact that the parcels post system will be inaugurated Jan uary 1 also confronts postmasters and many of the emergency employ es may become permanent fixtureg as the result of the increased work. SEARCHED THE WOODS, DISCOVERED LIQUOIR. Wednesday's Greensboro News had the following; Sheriff D. B. Stafford, Deputy Shre iffs Shaw, PhiiJ-s, Hobbs and Clark and Deputy United States Marshal Blaylock tjptnt a gxjd part of ;Io:i day niglu in tjie woo;Ijj near Dag gett's mill, four miles South of Brown Summit, in search of liquor and alleged concealeis. They re turned yesterday morning at three o'clock with two prisoners, R. A. Kirkkman and J. C. Comi, uho are to bo held for an investigation..... Laeving Greensboro ' in the early part of the night, the offlcis arrived at their destination, about 10 o'clock and for two or three hours mado a search b.;'.ire tiny located what they were looking for. At 1 o'clock, after scouring tho wooc. .ii uoublin;? thruugii numorous paths and roads made by log wagons, they discovered whiskey a.id tmpty IcohH. In one barrel wa foiir.d 5U gallons of whiskey, in a keg was u gallon of kiui;iy. Two empty kc-ga and a, sy phoon were discovered. Klrkman and Coon w ro arousod out of bt-d after the find and offer ed no reih lance. Coeu, R was claimed. Lad-been liviug with Mr. Kirkauiti fur a couplo of moialis. Famous Stage Beauties look with horror on f-kin eruptions, blotchfis, t;ores or iiuples.They don't hao t;ifi!i, nor . ill au oin,, wlm uses Ducl;l: n's Ai;,ica ilahc. It glor ifies the face. Eczema or salt rheum vanish before it. It cures sore lips, chapped hands, chilblains; hUs CHll!1! j for pis. Only 25c. at Tetzr & Tucker's and pany's. Gardner Drug Com- (Adv.) MR J. E. LAMBETH GONE TO CLAIM KENTUCKY BRIDE. Mr. J. E. Lambeth leaves Reids ville early today for Frankfort. Ky.. where on Christmas Eve he will be united in tnarrdage to Mrs. Harry B. Case, of that city, The ceremony will be performed by the pastor of the bride at the Methodist church in Frankfort. Immediiately after the ceremony Mr. and Mrs. Lambeth will go to Columbia. S. C, for a visit to !Mrs. J. E. Stewart and Mrs. E. T. Lambeth, sister and mother, respectively, of the groom. They wjll later come to Reidsville, where they will reside. The bnide Is a charming young wo man of the 'Blue Grass State. The romance began in. Kentucky last winter while the groom-elect was living there in a position as auctioneer in. one of the tobacco warehouses. REIDSVILLE MAKING A RECORD IN SALE OF RED CROSS SEALS It is certain that no city in North Carolina with ldke population san sell more stamps than have been sold here. The ladles of the As sociated Charities have placed ap proximately 20,000 in Reidsville alon.? and the ladies are still working, hoping to jgreateer increase theii sales. During the next several days they will have a booth at the post"' flee where demure and beautiful young women will be anxious to Bup ply the Red Cross Christmas Seals to all who will use them. Leaksvllle and Spray caught th fad this week, and 10,000 were sold there Im one afternoon. M rs. T N. Watt and Mrs. A. S Galloway gc ing over there to interest the busi ness people in the movement t' eradicate tuberculosis frcm the coun ty. The cotton mills bought ru average of a thousand each, but r were wot seen. AYCOCK MEMORIAL DAY OBSERVED AT SCHOOLS. Aycock Memorial Day was observ ed in the Graded Schools last Fri day, with interesting exercises by the different, grades. The school succeeded inf raisin $11.50 to go ,to: ward the monument to be erected at Raleigh. The colored Bchool con tributed eighty cents. , On the same occasion Rev. Mr. Wamble was present and announced the winner of the $$2.C0 gold ccin offered by Mrs. Pipkin some time ag for the best essay on the evils of clg arette smoking. The coin was won by Reuben Reid Baker, of the Ninth Grade. School will close for the holidays Friday, the 20th. Friday morning at 8:43 the grades will assemble in the chapel for devotional exercises. The exercises will follow the Christ mas ildea, and parents and other friends - of the school are cordially invited to be present. Fit His Case Exactly. "When father was sick about six years ago he rid an advertisement of Chamberlain's Tablets 1n tho pa per that fit his case exactly,"writes MIbs Margaret Campbell, of Fort Smith Ark. "He purchased a box of them and he has not been sick since. My sister had stomach trouble and was also benefitted by them." Sold by Gardner Drug Co. (Adv.) Henry Stokes, a prosperous color ed farmer of the Oregon section, sold tobacco here Wednesday and was highly pleaded with prices. He call ed around to enroll for tills popu lar farmers' friend. THE RED CROSS SEAL I print tho good news for the un knowing and spread the gospel to the ignorant; I help the consumptives of this city; I aid the cause in all North Caro lina; I am the servant of the na tion anj give to him who needs in all tho world; I smile a benediction on him who buys me at Yule Tide, and I mako glad hid heart because ho glaj- : dens the. hearts of others; I am Kmall but I do a mighty work; I am humble but I save human life I am mute but I speak a iwa. -aw c-f Love. I'm the Red Cross Christ mas Seal. Buy me. Compliments Citizens Bank. CONTRIBUTIONS FOR THE EMPTY STOCKING FUND. The Empty Stocking Fund is grow ing, although the growth la slow. Today, tomorrow or Monday those who want to add cheer to the hearts of the little unfortunates of Reids ville should drop in at the Rock ingham Bank and leave a small cash contributions.The fund willbe turned over to iMrs. A. S. Galloway and a committee of the Associated Chari ties for providing a few nuts, a little candy and perhaps a toy for the children of Reidsville who would not be otherwise thus provided. The first subscribers to the fund are , as follows: Eugene Irvin .. .. .. .. .. $1.00 Scott Fillman .. .. 1 00 A. S Price " jq L. R. Ware .. . . .......... 1.00 Fred Degrotte .. .. .. .. .. .. .qo John T. Oliver .. .. .. .. 2! 00 C. T, Somers .. .'. !s0 J. E. Smith .. .. .. .. .. .. ,50 Total 8.0O There will be other acknowledg ments in the next issue af The Re view. Candy, nuts or fruits are just as acceptable as the cash and If you leave notice of your Intention to contribute these to the value of a half dollar, a dollar or two dollars, the ladies will call for them whea they start to make their purchases for Santa Clans. , There ouguht not to be a single child , in Reidsville Christmas morn ing who has not found something In his or her stocking left by Santa ClauB. Contributions will be used for this purpose, and In this way many little hearts will be gladdened which otherwise might be sad. Here Is a sample of many letters being mailed every day now at the post office, and theae letters, except a batch seat to the dead letter office a few, days ago, are turned over to Mrs. Galloway: Dear Santa Claus: Please bring me some candy and apples and a doll and some oranges. . P. S. Please bring me a white Dorgcream nuts. Dear santaclause: Pleas bring me a nice dollle. I have wanted one so long. Would lik to have some little patterns so I can learn to make its clothe?. -Good by dear santa and please come to see me. In an advertisement elsewhere tho Associated Charities committee la asking presents to donate for their use the last year'e Christmas pre sents which are now of no use to the present owners. The society also wants old clothing, shoes and bats, These appeals ought to be met with a hearty response, and If our people generally will co-operate with the Lookout Committee much distress and suffering will be allevi ated in our midst this winter. But let us not forget the spirit of Christmas the children's Christ mas. Provide a little candy and nuts and fruits by leaving a small dona tion with Mr, Fillman at the Rock ingham Bank today. Let'B run the Empty Stocking Fund up to $25 or $30 before the bank closes today. Do your part now-this hour. Foils a Foul Plot. Whem a shameful plot exists be tween livier and bowels to cause distress by refusing to act, take Dr. King's New Life Pills, and end such abune of your system. They gent ly compel right action of stomach, liver and bowels, and restore your health and all good feelings. 25c. at Fetzer & Tucker's and Gardner Drug Co's. (Adv.)
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