. Knowles and dau
Miss Martha Jane
have returned from a
friends in Greenville,
ippi.
Dr. and Mrs'. L.
5 Portsmouth, Va.,
'guests of Mr. and Mrs
Jones.
Mr. and Mrs.
spending this
ead.
Mrs. H. L. Oswald and chil
dred have returned from a visit
to relatives in Lexington, S. C.
Mrs. J. W. Sykes, Jr., and
daughter, Mary Prescilla, and
Mrs. J. H. Sheffield and daugh
ters, Ann anti Betty, are at Caro
lina Beach for the week.
Misses Minnie and Lura Boone
spent last week-end with rela
tives in Clinton.
Mrs. J. D. Carr and Miss Mary
Emily Carr left today to spend
some time at Lake Junaluska.
' Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Rollins,
of Warsaw, were guests Sunday
of Mr. and Mrs. Graham Wells.
They were accompanied home by
Mrs. Rollins’ sister, Miss Mary
Elizabeth Wells, who was their
guest for several days.
Mrs. Stokes Williams has as
her guest this week Mr. and Mrs.
A. L. Smith and two daughters,
Misses Marjorie and Bannie
Smith, of Arcadia, Fla.
Mrs. Woodrow Smith and dau
ghter, Shirley, of Wilmington,
spent several days this week
• with Mrs. Smith’s parents, Mr.
1 and Mrs. Joe Johnson.
Sfo. Master Gabriel Boney, Jr., is
I a patient at the Baby Hospital
c. on Wrightsville Sound.
Mrs. D. E. Rivenbark will
I leave Sunday to visit relatives
In St. Petersburg, Fla.
Mrs. W. F. Murphy and Miss
Katherine Murphy have return
ed home after spending several
weeks in Asheville and Wash
ington, D. C. While visiting her
son, Charles Murphy, in Wash
| ington, Mrs. Murphy was a vi
sitor in the Senate when the
late Senator Robinson made his
| last appearance.
Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Westmore
land and daughters are visiting
relatives in Johnston, S. C.
Miss Martha Jane Hanchey is
spending this week at Carolina
ach. , •*,
Mrs. W. B. Jones and daugh
ters, Margaret Hall and Frances,
spent Wednesday and Thursday
in Aberdeen. They were accom
panied home by Mrs. T. Q. Hall
who has been visiting the Rev
erend and Mrs. Leon Hall.
Miss Mary Margaret Benton,
Misses Alice Rae and Grace
Britt spent Sunday in Warsaw.
Mrs. N. H. Carter has return
ed from Washington, D. C.,
where she spent several weeks.
Miss Polly Skinner visited her
ents, Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Skin
ier, in St. Stephens, S. C., this
week.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Harrell,
Miss Annie Laurie Harrell and
Mr. and Mrs. Graham Pope and
Children are spending the week
at White Lake. Mr. and Mrs.
Harrell have as their guests, Mr.
and Mrs. Herbert Knapp, of Nor
folk, Va., Mrs. A. L. Harrell and
v Mrs. Thomas of Dewryville, Va.
Mrs. W. B. Knowles, Mrs. O.
C. Blanchard and Mrs. F. B.
[Hardee are chaperoning a group
of young people on a,house party
at Carolina Beach this week.
| Friends of Thomas A. Carson,
who taught in the Wallace
schools for the past few years,
.11 be interested in knowing
[{that he has a position in the
Batesburg-Leesville, S. C., school
;for this year. Miss Hina Lou
iung, a former teacher, will be
.lit Smithfleld this year.
J. C. Herring, Jr., was given
a surprise party Wednesday
night by his friends in celebra
,on .of his fifteenth birthday,
games were played and
essive conversation enjoy
Late in the evening Mrs.
H|
Herring served cream and cake
to the twenty-five guests pres
ent.
Society
BIRTHDAY PARTY
Mrs. Charlie Rich delightfully
entertained Saturday afternoon
from five ’til seven at her home
near Wallace in honor of her
little daughter, Elizabeth’s, sev
enth birthday. The table was
centered with a big birthday
cake holding seven candles. Af
ter the children played games
they were served cake, lemon
ade and candy.
Those enjoying Elizabeth’s
birthday party were the little
Misses Martha Teachey, Patsy
Williams, Partrica Carter, Faye
Cavenaugh, Fannie Mae White,
Melrose, Pearl, Juanita and Mar
guerite Dale of Watha, Master
Franklin Williams, Marion
White, Jimmy Merritt and Theo
dore Dale, Mrs. Joe Williams,
Mrs. Henry Carter, Mrs. Mar
garet Teachey, Mrs. A. J. Dale,
Mrs. William Cavenaugh, Mrs.
Joe Merritt. /
Mrs. Rich was assisted in serv
ing by Mrs. Merritt.
The honoree received many
lovely gifts.
Co-op Essay Finals
To Be Held Friday
Sampson County Boy to Rep
resents Southern District
at Raleigh Tomorrow
Raleigh, July 28.—Four rural
high school boys and a lone high
school girl, selected from thous
ands of participants in school,
county and district elimination
contests in all sections of the
State, will compete here Friday,
July 30, for the State champion
ship and first prize of a one
year college tuition scholarship
in the finals of the 10th annual
cooperative essay contest.
The contestants are as fol
lows:
Helen Pierce Whitlock, 17
year-old student of the Eudy
High School in Stanley County,
representing the Western Dis
trict.
Jim Davis, 18-year-old student
of the Clyde School in Haywood
County, representing the Moun
tain District.
Hartwell Dawson, 15-year-old
student of the Plainview High
School in Sampson County, re
presenting the Southern District.
Russell Knowles, 17-year-old
student of the Windsor High
School in Bertie County, repre
senting the Eastern District.
Randolph Denton, 16-year-old
student of the Gold Sand High
School in Franklin County, rep
resenting the Central District.
All of the contestants will
speak on “A -Well-Rounded Co
operative Program for North
Carolina,” and officials from
North Carolina State College
will serve as judges.
“The essay contest this year
brings to more than 40,000 the
number of rural boys and girls
in North Carolian who have
participated during the past 10
years,” commented M. G. Mann,
general manager of the North
Carolina Cotton Growers Coop
erative Association and the Far
mers Cooperative Exchange,
sponsors of the contest.
He praised and thanked the
newspapers of the State, educa
tional authorities, school officials
and particularly the teachers of
Vocational Agriculture and home
economics for their part in mak
ing the contest a success. ‘Al
ready,” Mr. Man added, “we are
turning our thought to the sub
ject and making plans for next
year’s contest.”
NEARLY 500 GO
TO CCC CAMPS
State Furnished 486 Recruits
for the Quarter Begin
ning July First
Raleigh, July 28.—Almost 500
Civilian Conservation Corps en
listments during the quarter be
ginning July 1 were reported for
North Carolina Saturday by Mrs.
W. T. Bost, Commissioner of
the'State Board of Charities and
Public Welfare, through T. L.
Grier, Supervisor of CCC Selec
tion for that department.
The total was 486, of which
338 were white and 148 colored
recruits. This number complet
ed the quota assigned to the
state for the quarter.
Every county in the state was
European Demand For American
Flne-Cnred Tobacco Increasing
Consumption of Flue-Cured
Leaf Is Increasing in All
But a Few of the Euro
pean Countries.
——
European markets will have
to import at least 50,000,000 more
pounds of American flue-cured
tobacco in 1937-38 than they did
in 1936-37 if stocks are to be
brought up to their normal rela
tionship with consumption, ac
cording to a report to the Bur
eau of Agricultural Economics
from its London Office.
Consumption of flue-cured leaf
is increasing in all but a few
European countries. Prospects
for increased sales are most en
couraging in the United King
dom, Ireland, the Scandinavian
countries, the Netherlands, Es
tonia and Lithuania.
The European consumption of
American flue-cured leaf in 1936
37 (July-June) amounted to
about 215 million pounds. Be
cause of generally expanding in
dustrial activity and consequent
improvement in purchasing pow
er, consumption during 1937-38
will probably show an increase
of 5 per cent.
While consumption of Ameri
can flue-cured leaf is increasing,
stocks are substantially below
their normal ratio to consump
tion, it was pointed out in the
report. Total European stocks
of American flue-cured leaf on
July 1 this year amounted to
about 361 million pounds, or
slightly less than a year ago
when consumption was at a
lower level.
Stocks are especially low in
the United Kingdom where the
straight Virginia (flue-cured)
type of cigarette is very popu
lar and where normally about
85 per cent of our flue-cured
exports to Europe is sold. In
Ireland, the Scandinavian coun
tries and the Netherlands, stocks
are reported as normal but low
relative to the rapid increase
taking place in the consumption
of blended American type cigar
ettes. The same holds true for
Latvia and Estonia.
Stocks of American flue-cured
leaf have been seriously reduc
ed in Germany because of the
inability of merchants there to
replace depleted supplies with
new purchases. Replacement of
stocks in Germany will depend
entirely upon a relaxation in the
existing exchange and import
restrictions.
Stocks also are low in Poland
and France but the immediate
outlook for increased sales in
those countries is not so prom
ising. Poland is expanding her
local production of flue-cured
leaf and imports are confined
mainly to countries willing to
trade on a barter basis. In
France currency devaluation and
consequent higher living costs
are adversely affecting the con
sumption of the higher priced
blended type cigarettes.
represented in the enrollments.
Raleigh with 111 recruits from
23 counties, led the list, follow
ed by Asheville with 108 from
20 counties; Washington 87 from
21 counties; Greensboro 73 from
13 counties; Charlotte 72 from
15 counties, and Wilmington 45
from 8 counties.
Then ew recruits were accept
ed as replacements to fill vacan
cies in 25 of the -62 CCC camps
now operating in North Caro
lina. j
“North Carolina’s normal CCC
quota is much larger than that
allotted for the quarter begin
ning July 1,” Mr. Grier said.
“The reduction was due to re
organization of the Civilian Con
servation Corps under recently
enacted legislation which reduc
ed the national CCC strength
from 350,000 to 300,000 men. It
is anticipated that the enroll
ment for the October quarter
will be considerably larger in
this state, as all men having a
maximum of two years of ser
vice, and who are beyond the
age of 23 years, will be dis
charged.”
Pneumonta Continues
Chief Cause of Death
Raleigh, July 20.—There was
a sharp decrease in deaths from
pneumonia in North Carolina
the first half of 1937, but a jump
in airplane fatalities, with a
slight decrease in automobile
accident deaths, as compared
with the first six months oi
1936, the provisional report fdr
that period, issued by the Vital
Statistics Division of the State
Board of Health, of which Dr.
R. T. Stimpson is directpr, shows.
Pneumonia deaths were 588 few
er for the first half of 1937,
while other decreases included:
Drowning, 11; influenza, 178, and
pellagra, 10.
There have been 25 more sui
cides and 5 more homicides this
year the report shows. Other
increases recorded for the first
half of 1937 were as follows:
Railroad accidents apart from
those in which automobiles were
involved, 9; diarrhea and ente
ritis in children under 2 years
old, 117; infant deaths under 1
year old, 41; pulmonary tuber
culosis, 2; air transportation ac
cidents, 6; syphilis, 27, cancer, 9,
and malaria, 6.
There were no deaths from
smallpox during the entire year
of 1936 and there have been
none reported so far this year.
Following is a comparison of
deaths from outstanding causes
the first half of 1937 and 1936:
1937 1036
Pneumonia .1866 2454
Pulmonary tuberculosis 980 978
Pellagra . 184 978
Cancer . 911 902
Malaria . 35 29
Influenza . 737 915
Diarrhea and enteritis... 285 196
Suicide . 163 138
Homicide . 168 163
Air accidents . 7 1
Automobile accidents.... 414 421
Syphilis . 223 196
Railroad accidents. 51 42
Drowning . 70 81
Infants under 1 year....2485 2544
AAA Leader Tdk
Of Far* Program
Those Attending Farm and
Home Week Get First
Hand Information
The federal agricultural pro
gram for 1938 will be discussed
by J. B. Hutson, assistant AAA
administrator, Wednesday morn
ing of Farm and Home Week to
be held at State College, Aug
ust 2 to 6.
Starting at 8 o’clock, Hutson
will explain tentative plans for
the agricultural conservation
program to be offered North
Carolina farmers next year.
He will also give the growers
opportunity to express their op
inion of the program, as conduct
,ed this year, and the proposed
program for 1938, said E. Y.
Floyd, of State College.
In addition, Hutson will out
line the bills now before Con
gress regarding control legisla
tion for cotton, tobacco, corn,
wheat, and rice, and which may
be expanded to include peanuts
and truck crops.
“This will be your chance to
get some first hand information
on the program for next year,”
Floyd stated in urging all grow
ers who can to hear Hutson
speak.
John W. Goodman, of State
College, who has arranged the
Farm and Home Week program,
has announced that farm ten
ancy will be the subject of much
discussion Tuesday morning.
Two landlords will discuss the
matter from their viewpoint, and
three tenants will explain the
problems confronting those who
work land owned by others.
Tenant security will be the
subject of a talk by C. B. Faris,
of the Resettlement Administra
tion, and Congressman Harold
D. Cooley will tell about new
tenant security legislation.
Every day of the week will
bring something worth while for
North Carolina farmers as well
as farm women, Goodman add
ed, “and we hope to have a
large number who will come to
spend the entire week.”
ISSUES EGG AND
POULTRY BOOK
Government Releasing Com
plete Data on Poultry
and Egg Industry
A “Handbook of Poultry and
Egg Statistics” has just been re
leased by the Bureau of Agri
cultural Economics to "make
readily available for quick and
practical use the essential sta
tistical and other information
relating to the poultry and egg
industry.”
The 128-page booklet may be
obtained from the Superinten
dent of Documents, Washington,
D. C., at 15 cents a copy.
The handbook contains statis
tics on the number of chickens
on farms; number of chickens,
ducks and geese raised; value
of chickens raised; chicks hat
ched and purchased; mortality of
chicks and in laying flocks; num
ber and value of chickens sold;
number of chickens consumed
onf arms; number and value of
eggs produced; number of eggs
sold and consumed on farms,
and rate of egg production.
-Other subjects reported statis
tically include poultry inspected
for canning; market receipts of
live and dressed poultry, and
of eggs; cold storage holdings
df poultry, turkeys, and eggs;
prices of chickens, turkeys, and
eggs received by producers, by
wholesalers, and by retailers;
feed consumption; growth and
weight in dressing; size of ship
ping coops; feed-egg ratios; col
or of shells by breeds; foreign
trafle in and tariff rates on poul
try and eggs, and poultry and
eggs in foreign countries.
Wilt Disease Takes
States Weed Crop
Growers Should Take Steps
to Check Spread of
the Disease
Granville wilt, rapidly spread
ing into new areas, will pro
bably cost North Carolina to
bacco growers $1,000,000 this
season, estimates Dr. Luther
Shaw, extension plant patholo
gist at State College.
Although no practical, effec
tive cure for the disease is
known at present, he said, grow
ers can take action to check its
spread and to protect future
crops from wilt.
The first step, he continued,
is to identify the disease as soon
as it appears in a field. Wilt
causes leaves to droop or wilt,
then wrinkle, turn yellow, and
die. Finally the entire plant is
killed.
The disease is usually found
in scattered patches over a field,
but a high percentage of the
plants in each patch is affected.
If a diseased stalk is cut in two
and pressed with the fingers, a
dirty, yellow ooze will drip out.
The disease organisms can be
spread into uneffected areas by
water running from one field
to another, on the feet of men
or animals, or on wheels or other
parts of farm implements.
To check the spread of the
disease this season, Dr. Shaw
pointed out, growers should ex
ercise every precaution to keep
the organisms from being car
ried into new territory.
To protect future crops, it is
advisable to start a four-year ro
tation with wilt-resistant crops
such as corn, wheat, rye, soy
bean, cotton, sweet potatoes and
melons.
These crops will give the wilt
organisms a chance to die out
before tobacco is planted again.
On the other hand, plants like
Irish potatoes, peppers, toma
toes, peanuts, ragweed, and
horse nettle help keep the wilt
organisms alive.
GARDEN NOTES
The Fall Garden
August is the month in which
to plan for the fall garden. Your
success in maturing vegetables
when planted at this season of
the year will depend, no doubt,
on weather conditions in your
particular section of the State.
However, garden soil well sup
plied with stable manure or
other organic matter and the
soil prepared in a fine physical
condition are factors in your
favor.
Try out the following list ol
vegetables which may be plant
ed the first of August: Salad
Crops—Broccoli, Mustard, Swiss
chard. Endive, Lettuce, Seven
Top turnip, and Chinese cab
bage. Root Crops—Turnips, Car
rots, Beets. Other Crops—Cel
ery, Collards, Cabbage (Early
Jersey Wakefield), Snap beans,
Lima beans, Sugar corn, and
Tomatoes.
Broccoli ( C a 1 a b r e e Green
Sprouting Italian), culiflower,
and Chinese cabbage may be
planted in hills 15 inches apart.
Use several seeds to the hill and
then thin to one plant. The
seed may be sown in a plant bed
and then transplanted. Three
.to four weeks after the plants
have been transplanted, side*
dress them with nitrate of soda.
If you have never eaten real
sugar com (sweet com) why
not try Golden Cross Bantam
variety. This variety matures
uniformly, develops ears early
nels which are sweet and tend
er. Planted by the first of Aug
ust it should mature'before frost
Want Ads
BIRD DOGS FOR SALE—
Setter and Pc^nter Puppies,
also trained dogs. If interest
ed in a good dog see me at
once. W. V. Padgett, Wallace,
Rt. 4 (James’ Store). ltp
NOTICE OF SALE
By virtue ot aumority contain
ed in a certain deed of trust ex
ecuted by Sprunt Boney and
wife, Susan Boney, to W. M.
Carr, Trustee, dated the 23rd
day of May, 1929, and recorded
in Book 294, page 479, Registry
of Duplin County; default hav
ing been made in the payment
of the indebtedness thereby se
cured I will sell at public auc
tion at the court house in Ken
ansville, North Carolina, on the
23RD DAY OF AUGUST, 1937,
at 12 o’clock noon the following
lands:
Beginning at a stake on an
oak ridge, Early Boney’s cor
ner and -runs thence his line
North 82 West 41 poles to a
i stake, comer of Alex Tew lands;
thence as his line North 12 3-4
East 58 poleg tb a stake
Carr line; thence as
South 89 East 68 poles to
near two pines; thence
12 3-4 West 76 poles to a
unmarked In a bay on E.
line; thence as that line
86 West about 25 poles
stake, Will Parker 3 acre
thence that survey North
East 70 yards to beginning,
taining 27 acres more or
2nd Tract: Beginning
stake, Sprunt and Early
corner and running thenee
84 East 84 feet to a stake
heirs’ line; thence Dixon
South 6 3-4 East 630 feet
stake, Dixon’s comer;
North 83 1-4 East 128 feet to
stake, Boney’s comer; thence
line South 1 West 547 feet
a stake in J. M. Brown's
thence as Brown’s line
the public road South 83
West 450 feet to a stake,
Boney’s comer; thence
line North 5 East 743 feet to
stake; thence as his line Ni
13 East 484 feet to the
ning, containing 7 3-4 acres,
more or less.
Advertised this the 20th
of July, 1937.
W. M. CARR, Trustee. •
A. J. Blanton, Attorney.
July 29-Aug. 6-12-19 —8fi
GOING CAMPING?
If you are going camping come in and equip
yourself at our store. We have many camping de
vices which will add to the comfort of your outing.
We make the “inside” price on everything we selL
OUR ^HARDWARE’S BEST; IT STANDS THE TEST
A. G HALL HD W; GO.
WALLACE, N. C.
Program for Week of August 2nd
MONDAY AND TUESDAY, AUGUST 2-3
“SINGING MARINE”
-starring
DICK POWELL—DORIS WESTON
HUGH HERBERT—LEE DIXON
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4
$40 • Jack Pot Night • $40
“KNIGHT WITHOUT ARMOR”
-starring
MARLENE DIETRICH—ROBERT DONAT
THURSDAY, AUGUST 5
“EMPEROR’S CANDLESTICKS”
-starring
WILLIAM POWELL—LOUISE RAINER
• On the Stage •
ONE HOUR
VAUDEVILLE
String Music • Orchestra • Six
Pretty Girls • Black Face Comedian
EVERYTHING THAT MAKES A GOOD
VAUDEVILLE.
NO ADVANCE IN ADMISSION
FRIDAY, AUGUST 6
“HELL DIVERS”
-starring
CLARK GABLE—WALLACE BERRY
ROBERT MONTGOMERY
SATURDAY, AUGUST 7 |
Introducing a new western star. Hope you .
will like him.
TEX RITTER
-in
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“HITTING THE TRAIL”
SATURDAY NIGHT OWL SHOW
“THE DIVIL IS DRIVING”
l RICHARD DIX
Coming Next Week: “Kid Galahad”,
sive”, “Easy Living”, “Topper”, “Rootin,
Rhythm”, “They Wanted to Marry.” §
better pictures are made, the NEW
• • will play them.!