trinity College now
isu&c university. On the fourth
of the month in 1838 Davidson
College—a celebrated Preabyter
lan institution—was chartered.
Richard Caswell—revolutionary
patriot apd governor of the
colony—was bom August 8 in
1720 and six days later in the
year 1881 North Carolinians vo
ted down prohibition 164,133 to
48,061 in one of several state
wide ballots on Intoxicating spi
rits.
North Carolina began its cot1
ton production tnductry August
17 in 1730—more than 200 years
ago when the "first cotton fac
tory” was established.
•And almost . 200 years earlier
on August 16 In the year 1687
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ENTIRE WEEK STARTING
SUNDAY AUG. IS
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“DAWN AT
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In Technicolor with
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CAROLINA
SUN. - TUES. AUG. 15-17
“PARIS PLAYROYS”
Question: ' What causes some
of my chickens to suffer -with
enlarged craws?
Answer: This condition devel
ops in almost every flock while
on range, especially If the range
feed Is coarse. It is usually
brought on by the bird eating
too much fibrous material. The
swelling Is actually an inpae&ion
which occurs because of the In
ability of the muscular action
colonists’ friendly Indian Man
teo was baptised. That was only
five days before Virginia Dare
the first white child bom In the
colonies wee babtlsed. That date
August 20, 1687.
A heavy death toll was taken
In two separate Incidents during
August. On the 19th In 1919 what
was described as “the worst
storm ever” hit Beaufort and
Morehead City. The first Atlan
tic hotel was blown down com
pletely — so was the Ocean View
hotel, “Dozens”'of yachts were
destroyed, tracks of the state
owned railroad were tom up and
“several persons were killed.”
newspapers of that day said.
At Beaufort on August 22 1899
14 fishermen were drowned and
four persons reported missing
(evidently never found because
the'papers printed only the one
story of the event) in a hurri
cane, The same ill wind destroy
ed 38 homes and four churches
at Ocracoke.
Twenty-two persons were kill
ed in a train wreck at Bostian
bridge two miles from States
ville on August 27 in 1891 in
what was recorded as the worst
train wreck to that date in the
state.
Tarboro had been chartered
as “Tarborough” August 24 in
1772 and on the same date as
the train wreck Bowman Gray
succeeded the late George Brooks
as teller of the Wachovia Bank
in Winston. The Gray family la
tter became prominent and phil
anthropic and the Wachovia
bank one of the largest in the
South.
Probably the biggest public e
vent until that time oceured at
Asheboro August 29 in 1009 when
T. B. Bowman was hanged upon
conviction for poisoning his
wife. Ten thousand persons at
tended. file hanging—the papers
stated.
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of the craw walls to force the
material through the relatively
email opening- from the craw
to the preventriculus and from
there to the gizzard. Sometimes
the condition -can be relieved by
holding the bird upside down
an kneading the cfaw. But it’s
best to eat the bird-before its
condition gets too bad. The con
dition is not contagious.
Question: is pine straw a good
mulch for garden vegetables and
shrubs? If so, how good?
Answer: Pine straw Is on ex
cellent mulch, for any plant. It
1» better than most you are apt
find to stores and Is free for
tJto taking In many Instances.
|| permits water to pass freely,
wbpreoa Bawdust has a tenden
cy to pack down and repell rains
or water sprinkled with a garden
hpse. it Is not acid-forming as
thought to some quarters. A mul
ch not only preserves soil mois
ture, but helps keeps the soil
cool and keeps down weeds.
Question: Gan I buy most any
breed of chicken I want to North
Carolina? -v,. ...
Answer:Yes. That Is, you can
obtain any of 12 different breeds
being produced for . either meet
or-eggs, but rks* agr some'ltf)
breeds produced for show pur
poses. North Carolina has 178
commercial hatcheries.
Personal Paragraphs
(Continued from page 2)
water lines he needed to get his
“Little Old FHA Mortagages”
then Jesse Pugh, realizing that
the city would be tightly bound
for money pulled a Calvin Coo
lidge and decided “not to run”.
Then to add insult to injury
Pugh winds up his tail-chasing
“Letter to the Editor” by sug
gesting that the ideal city coun
cil would consist of a lawyer, an
engineer, an accountant, a fleet
operator (trucks we presume)
and a large business operator.
That sounds like Marx in rever
x. Marx cried “Arise, proletariat’.’
Wooten’s cry in the political
Wilderness is “Arise, plutocrats.”
That seems to me to be a rath
er crude effort toward class legis
lation, or something.
; Pfiaally, I said that X was a
little “let down” by Pugh’s let
ter. And I was. He and I had
the same English teacher, Miss
Leonora Watts, who was perhaps
the best Esglish teacher ever to
crack a grammar in the city lim
its of Kinston, it seems that at
least a part of her efforts were
wasted on Pugh, for if he had
absorbed all she put before him,
I don't believe he would have
written a letter In which he con
tradicted himself so obviously.
Pugh Is what the art world
calls a “dilettante” and Webster
describes that pretty little word
In this fashion: One who fol
lows an art or branch of know
ledge desultorily or superficially
or as a pastime. And' certainly
Pugh’s knowledge of and Interest
~ ■ '
In the art of government Is
superficial and desultory.
But, unless my political nose
Is out-of working order. It ap
pears to me that Pugh has his
eye cast upon a not-too-distant
time wjhen he’ll break out . Into
a full grown political rash and
be running for office all over
again. The next time, however,
he will be running on his record
rather than his ‘'principles” and
there Is a considerable differen
ce as he, I hope, will live to learn.
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Mr. Tobacco Farmer
Investigate Coker’s
New Tobacco Variety
No. 139
SEEDS AVAILABLE THIS YEAR.
CROPS MAY BE SEEN AT THE
FOLLOWING FARMS:
WILSON COUNTY:
No. 1—On farm of Pete Byrd about three miles
southwest of Bailey near Bulloch School.
No. 2—On farm of J. C. Eagles about three miles
north of Wilson on N. C. Highway 58.
No. 3—On farm of P. L. Woodard & Co. about
two miles north of Wilson on Tilghman Road.
This variety of tobacco resistant to both
wilt and black-shank, and produces
well. The seeds will be scarce, so place
your order if interested. Booked orders
will get priority.
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Heritage St. Dial 4211 Kinston, N. C.
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