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COME TO WADESBORO DURING THE TRADE EXTENSION SALE PAGES 1 TO 6.. AND ANSONIAN. Published by Estate of J. G. Boylin. Published Every Thursday. $1.50 d Year Due in Advance. ESTABLISHED 1881 WADESBORO, N. C, THURSDAY, NOV. 8, 1923 VOL. XLIII, NO. 4: FIRST SECTION rfc 7 "1 TRADE EXTENSION SALE BEGINS NEXT SATURDAY. Merchants of Wadesboro Co-Operat-I D. Ross, died last Sunday afternoon ing in Biggest Mercantile Event in about 6 o'clock at the Anson Sanator History of Pee Dee Section Every j ium, after a long illness, during the One Within Radius of 50 Miles In vited to Attend. Beginning next Saturday, Novem ber 10th, the merchants of Wadesboro (practically every business man of the town co-operating) will inaugu-'back rate the largest and mos comDrehen- sive mercandising campaign ever pulled off in this section of North Carolina. A page advertisement in another part of this paper, signed by all the participants in the event, an nounces the beginning next Saturday of the trade extension sale which will continue for 15 business days, closing on November 27th. There are also i large number of individual advertise ments in the 16 pages of this issue if The M. & I., making individual an nouncements of the event. For many years Wadesboro was the " largest trading center between Char lotte and Wilmington, catering to a very large territory. Within the last few years, ' comparatively speaking, rivals have, sprung; up which have ta ken away some of the trade which .was ..considered ours, but the progres sive merchants of the town have now gone out to bring these old custom ers, and many new ones, back. With the large stocks of goods and very fa vorable prices quoted, it can not be doubted that people in large numbers will be attracted. ' ' ALL TEACHERS ARE PRETTY. New Bern Sun-Journal. The institute for public service has started a movement to persuade car toonists to portray teachers as pret ty women, rather" than "perfect frights." It is much in earnest, be lieving that pictures showing our feminine instructors of youth to be "homely as a rail fence," without , J. Jbejojiy.fif .f ac -or "... gtaceofj?erson, tend to breed disrespect not only for the school , teachers but . for the educational system in general. The ungallant conduct ' of some car-1 toonists is explicable only to the the-ipj ory that they have retained that false sense of boyhood wrongs, or probably deserved punishment at the hands of early teachers and are now taking re- venge. Perhaps the best way to cure the , cartoonsits who have been guilty of ' the discourtesy would be to make them attend a teachers' institute and make them, sit on the platform under the merciless scrutiny of a thousand sparkjing eyes. They would be so overcome by the display of consum mate pulchritude effectually refuting the insinuations of their slanderous cartoons that they would take a vow never to offend again. INSULIN NOW 3 CENTS A UNIT Indianapoli Chemists Make Cure Available to the Poor. Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. 29. Insu lin, the specific for sugar diabetes, a recent discovery, is now in production to meet the world's "needs ' at a price intended to make it available to the 'p6cjrest sufferers, it was disclosed to day1. Vv'':-'i'--:-;-;vV: Inquiries for insulin are coming in from all quarters of the globe. Be tween" 25,000 and 30,000 diabetic pa tients now are under the insulin treatment, according to clinical re ports which, in reporting thousands of tests, have shown no failures. ; Insulin is made from the extracts of the pancreas glands of healthy slaughtered house animals and is a clear liquor in small bottles with a rubber stopper which can be punc tured with a needle. The injections are made by the hypodermic process administered by, physicians. 1 Dr. Frederick G. Banting, awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his part in the discovery of insulin, has refused all conpensation fo? insulin, and an Indianapolis firm of manufac turing chemists, which ha3 obtained exclusive rights to make the prepara tion, has set a price of 3 cents a unit. Not What He Meant "There are some ungodly young men over in that corner having fun I with the girls," announced the preach er solemnly as he paused in the mid dle of his sermon and pointed accus ingly in the direction of the graceless youths. ; . , "When they get done," he continue ed .ponderously ."perhaps they, will give me a chance." ' And he could not understand why the congregation smiled. MRS. R. D. ROSS. Mrs. Julia V. Ross, wife of Dr. R. latter part of which her condition was such that her death was not unex pected. Mrs. Ross underwent treat ment for a number of weeks in a Charlotte hospital, but was brought to Wadesboro several days be fore the end came. She was the daughter of the late John J. Dunlap and Mrs. C. V. Dun lap, being a member of one of the best known families of the county. She is survived by her husband, three daughters, Misses Louise and Vir ginia Ross, Of Wadesboro, and Miss Jennings Ross, who is a student at Salem College, and one son, George. She is also survived by two brothers, John J. and Fred Dunlap, and the fol lowing sisters: Mesdames L. D. Rob- inson. L. G Atkinson, Fred 'J. Coxe, J. Al Covington, Miss Johnsie Dunlap. An account of Mrs. Ross's life, by her pastor, Rev., W. R. Shelton, will ap pear next week. , TELLS OF EXPERIENCES WITH BIG SNAKES IN GA. Monroe Enquirer. ' Mr. Sam P. Little, who lives in Bu ford township, was in the years 1894 1895 living in Appling county, Geor gia, the home of big rattle-snakes. He, therefore, was much interested in the big rattlerl which was recently killed on the Stack road, near Rich ardson creek, and he was of the opin ion no such reptiles were to be found in Union county. Mr. Little then re lated several experiences he had with big snakes while he was living in Ga. "Once," said he, "while in charge of a turpentine camp in Appling county, early one morning we heard heartrending screams from one of the employes who was gathering rosin from trees in the forest! Grabbing mv nhnt-irun. I made all haste to his aid. - He proved to be' a-colore'doiithJ belonging to the camp. As the boy was at work an enormous rattlesnake had struck him on the hip. But the boy's overalls were covered with the ne ,. was gathering and the 1 8nake's fangs had become fastened in the cloth and had not scratched the flesh. The ' boy was literally crazed with fear and he had run all of a hundred yards before the snake had become loosed from him. Running Up and realizing the situation I shot the rattler, which measured eight feet in length and was big as a man's leg. It weighed nearly 50 pounds. ' Mr. Little said the hands at the turpentine camp were so unnerved by the experience of one of their num ber that no more work wad done that day. "A rattlesnake," further stated Mr. Little, "is a queer animal.. Some times they are difficult to arouse and at other times they are mean and will strike, and' fight anything in sight. People should remember that a snake can strike a distance equal to its length, and poisonous species are more active than they are generally believed to be." ; t "I was, out; hunting one morning,'' said Mr. : Little," "accompanied by a colored man. Our dog was ahead of us some hundred yards when he cried out -in a peculiar manner," and we knew a snake had bitten him. The animal ran to us and there were fang marks more than an inch apart just back of his left shoulder. The dog be came unconscious and he was dead in less than ten minutes." "Did you find the snake that bit the dog"? some one asked. "No," said Mr. Little, "We were in a swamp and it would have been al most suicidal to have done so. We went home with no heart to hunt more that day." MANY; EXHIBITS AT FAH. , The community fair at Morven was1 held yesterday, and there was a large attendance, many exhibits and much interest. Mr. T. J. W. Broome, of Monroe, judged the farm products, and Miss Flax Andrews, of Lumber ton, the women's department. MR. A. P. BOBBITT Mr. A. P. Bobbitt died suddenly early last night at his home at Nash ville, N. . C. He. was the father of Mr. N. T. Bobbitt, formerly of Wades boro, and of Mrs. W. H. Carter. Mrs. Carter left this morning to attend the funeral. 4 The Difference. Not all these so-called brokers are alike. Some make you oroKe. some i make you broker. Judge. WADESBORO DRY GOODS CO. DESTROYED BY FIRE. Blaze of Unknown Origin Guts Big Department Store Last Night Little of Stock Saved Will Re build as Soon as Possible Loss of Nearly $100,000 Partially Cov ered by Insurance. A fire which was discovered about 9:30 o'clock last night completely gutted the big department store of the Wadesboro Dry Goods Co., the loss being estimated at close to $100, 000. A large part of the interior cf the store was ablaze when the flames were discovered, and by the time the firg truck arrived and streams qf wa ter could "be started the blaze was breaking through the roof. All the walls are standing, and it is believed they are still good, but the interior of the store is almost completely gone. The stock is a complete loss, with the exception of a good many shoes which were in the ell opening on Wade St. and a few dry goods near the front of the store on Green street. All these are damaged somewhat either by smoke or water. Mr. K. W. Ashcraft states that there was stock to the value of be tween $80,000 and $85,000 in the building. Considering the small sal vage and the complete burning out of the interior and roof of the main store the loss can not be much if any less than $100,000. The company had either $52,500 or $53,250 insurance on stock and building combined. It was probably the largest stock the com pany had ever carried, and the loss is made heavier by the fact that it oc curs in the midst of a very active fall business. Mr. Ashcraft also states that the company will rebuild immediately, the new store to be a complete depart ment store, modern ai.d up-to-date in every particular. It is hoped to have the new building in readiness for the spring trade. It ' will be a building and a store which will be a credit to SSSP- ...It .nptknowr.vyhat Ihe. company will do in the'meantime, butTMothers. Mrs. Hugh Montgomery, they hope to secure a temporary loca tion at least by the first of thl year. The fire had good headway before it was discovered, and had spread ov er a large part of the store, but those who were on the scene early say that it apparently started in, the work room in the rear of the store on the second floor. It is not known how it originated, but there was an electric iron in the work room, used occasion illy in connection with the millinery department, and it is thought possi ble it started from this. Mr. Lee Ashcraft say& that usually he returns to the store after supper on some er rand or other, but last night he had no occasion to go back, and was in the Legion hall when the alarm was given.- There was some delay, in getting the hoses on the blaze after the fire engine, arrived,' but it was soon under control after three streams were turn ed on it, one from Green street, one from Wade, and one from the top of the building occupied by the Fashion Store. Considering the size of the blaze and tlaV headway it got, other property owners were extremely for tunate in the small amount of dam age ' done them. Some damage was done the roof of the Pardons Drug Co. building, which at one time had fire on two sides of it, and this morning in developed that there was a foot or two of water in the basement of this company, it having seeped in from the basement of the burned building. CONFINES HIS ADVICE TO PED ESTRIANS TO ONE SENTENCE. Letter in Goldsboro News. If things keep on as they are now going, our advice to a fellow would be for him to keep severely off the highways, unless he is with somebody or by himself, and then he had better take to the woods every time he hears or sees anything, unless he is spiritually prepared to join the choir up yonder, or does not mind shoveling coal down below, for if he don't keep both eyes "skunt" he will get his chunk put out so quickly he would lose all the fun there might be in it, and perhaps not have enough of him self left for a first-class funeral for the way folks are being killed is sim- ply appalling, but still, if sifted down to the real facts, there is only two things accountable for it, and they are simply dare-devil recklessness and inexcusable carelessness. . Where the Goats Come From, Too SAW A NEW TURKEY ' BORN AT ANGiORA. . I ! Headline in The New York Times. COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. Claim for Damage by Dogs Allowed School v Business Passed on and Routine Matters Cleared. At their regular monthly meeting last Monday the county commission ers allowed and passed on to the board j of education for payment a claim of Mr. C. W. Ledbetter for $25.00 on ac count of injury to sheep and goats by dogs. Dr. R. D. Ross, Joe M. Beeman and W. P. Ledbetter composed the jury whicr allowed the claim. x W. C. Moss was exempted from road duty. Mrs. Sallie White Williams, Hamp Williams (white), G. L. Carpenter, C. W, Thomas, R. E. Smith, J. C. Tyson, J. S. Edwards, J. T. Edwards and R. A. Keziah were refunded tax errone ously listed in varying amounts. It was ordered that the Red Hill special school tax be computed at 30 cents on the $100 and 90 cents on the poll, instead of 50 cents and $1.50, respectively. It appears that the smaller figures were correct, through some error in the office of the board of education the taxes were computed at the larger figures. Lucas John Teal was exempted from poll tax for 1923. Will Sullivan (white) was relieved of poll tax and road duty. Miss Mary Robinson was directed to investigate the case of Jinks Hough and report to the board the first Monday in December. The commissioners approved the application of the board of education for a loan from the state special building fund as follows: For Polkton consolidated school, $25,000; Anson ville school, $21,000; Morven school, $20,000. WILL OBSERVE ARMISTICE DAY Armistice Day will be observ ed by the people of Wadesboro next Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock with services in the Methodist church under the leadership . of the ' War of Charlotte, State War Mother and Gold Star mother, will be present and will make an address. Mrs. Montgom ery is a very interesting speaker, There will also be a short song ser vice. Forget-me-nots will be given to each one present, and there will be an offering for the benefit of disabled veterans., The Anson War Mothers are always active in keeping green the memory of the deeds of the sol diers in the world war, and in aiding all veterans who may be in need of their services. NOTICE TO TEACHERS. There will be a county-wide teach era' meeting at 10:30 Saturday morn ing, November 10th. Miss Catherine Albertson, secretary of the state Parent-Teachers Asso.will speak and reports from those attend ing the district meeting of the North Carolina Teachers' Association will be made. The first lesson on the course of study, the subject adopted for reading circle work, will be conducted. Citizens from every school district in the county are urged to be present to hear Miss Albertson's address. ORGAN AND VOICE CONCERT ARTISTS TO RETURN. Coming to a dramatic close at the middle of their concert program last evening in the Methodist church on account of the fire, Mr. and Mrs. Shearer found it necessary to postpone the concert. ; The program had been such a delight and of unusually out standing attraction, that upon the ur gent request of many present, they have been prevailed upon to give ano ther program at the same place to morrow (Friday) evening at 8 P. M. CLARK -WHITE. An event of interest to many Wadesboro people was the marriage a few days ago of Mr. Claude Lee Clark, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Clark, 'and Miss Lucy Foster White, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Os car White, of Richmond, Va. Messrs. H. W. Clark and,H. S. Clark, attended the wedding, the latter being his bro ther's best man. Mr. Clark has an ex cellent position with the Associated Press at Richmond, and he and his bride will live in that city after their return from a wedding trip. Nobody In. Opportunity knocked at the Busi ness Man's door. , . ' ' , '.Tou can't see him now," they said, he is in conference." Michigan 1 Hit X 1 T7? ? 1 Manufacturer and Financial Record. JUDGES AT FAIR. The following ladies will be with Mrs. Rosalind Redfearn during the community fairs to act as judges of the women's departments: Morven, Miss Flax Andrews, of Luniberton. Diamond Hill, Mrs. C M Burns, of Wadesboro. , Ansonville, Miss Gertrude Holme?, of Albemarle. Deep Creek anJ Peaehland, Mrs. Annie Lea Harris, of Rockingham. LAND TRANSFERS. The following real estate deeds have been registered since The M. & I.'s last report: J. W. Sullivan to L P. Snyder; lots near Wadesboro; $1,105. James K. Little to Lawyer Little; interest in 4 acres in Morven town ship; $600. C. R. Lawson, T. L. Caudle and wives to C. S. Phillips, Lula Gulledge, Chas. C. Uren, lots east of town; va rying considerations. L. D. Robinson, commissioner, to S. M. Gaddy; 330 1-4 acres adjoining M. W. Gaddy; $4,000. S. M. Gaddy and wife to S. S. Bur nett; 330 1-4 acres; $7,680. C. J.j Kirk and wife to J. D. Porter; 70 1-2 acres adjoining D. W. Carpen ter; $1,500. S. B. and Tell Lee and wives to S. H. Allen; 76 acres in Burnsville town ship; $1,140. P. P. Marsh, attorney, to Geo. W. Trexler; lot near town; $280. Elizabeth Tarleton to John E. Lit tle; lot near town; $460. W. M. Long and wife to Joseph Long; Lilesville lot; $50. Calvin Marsh and wife . to Jack Sturdivant; 2 1-3 acres on Brown creek; $100. Holden G. ' Gaddy to E. E. Brock; 100 acres in Morven township; $3,000. Geo. E. Burns and wife to J. D. Porter, Clay Waddell, Allie Mauldin, J. A.-Martin; Ansonville lots; vary ing considerations. STCOP-SHOLDERS HASTEN AGE. Pathfinder. It is rarely that a doctor would be expected to follow the advice of a lay man in the matter of his own health but that is what Dr. Peter MacDon ald, of London, aid, and he profited by it, as you will see. "I was feeling old and decrepit," Dr. MacDonald ex plains, "when I picked up a book, pub lished by a layman, from a bookstall. I was then a premature aged man. I saw the author and he told me that I was old simply because I stooped. Un der the treatment he laid down, I threw off the stoop, and in a few weeks I became a different man." In this physician's opinion, , "doc tors are too prejudiced against lay men 'who make a study of a certain subject, and often learn more than we do, despite all our knowledge of med icine and surgery." Dr. MacDonald is convinced that old age is brought on by stoop of the shoulders. "The resistance of the body," he says, "seems to be bound up with the per- ioa one can live, and tf every man would hold himself upright he would live many years longer." ,. . Carry yourself in a natural, normal but upright position. With the shoul ders stooped and the back bent the organs of the body do not have room to function properly. Keep the shoul ders thrown back, the chest high and the head erect. Consciously assume this position while walking, sitting or riding until you have made the cor rect carriage of your body a habit. But take care not to bend the body back so far that its position is awk ward or cramped. EASTERN STAR MEETS HERE. On Tuesday Nov. 13th the chapters of the Order of the Eastern Star composing the 7th district of North Carolina will meet with Wadesboro Chapter No. 152 at the Masonic Hall. rtii . . - - mere wm De an aiternoon session be CMTimricr at 95fl on1 or AnAxm. .rf O . uuu Uli t T filing sion at 7:30. Mrs. Mary F. Cowan of Hamlet, District Deputy Grand Mat- ron will preside. The Grand Matron, Mrs. Elspeth C. Setzer' and the Grand 1 Patron, Mr. Wm. E. Cullingford of porling holdings at 6,400,000 bales, Charlotte will make addresses in the ' compared with 9,536,000 bales on Ju evening. Other grand ' officers have lly 31, 1922. Ginnings in the United been invited to be present. . It's Too Much. The convicts at Princetown have been shown a comic American convict film. . This confirms us in our inten- tion of keepinir eo'od. London Onin r ,1011. COTTON CROP BELOW TEN AND A QUARTER MILLION BALES IS NEW FORECAST Government Estimate Based on Crop. Condition of 47.8 Per Cent of Nor mal, as Existing October 25. Washington, Nov. 2. A decrease cf 767,000 bales in the prospective cotton crop a3 compared with a month ago was shown today in the depart ment of agriculture's forecast of 10,- 248,000 bales, based on conditions prevailing October 25. The report was the first of its kind ever issued in November and had been awaited) with interest by the cotton world in view of the scarcity of cotton and: the diversity of opinion as td the ex- act size of this year's crop. The forecast was based on the con-, condition of the crop on October 25 which was 47.8 per cent of a normal, compared with 49.5 on September 25 this year, 52.6 on October 25 last fyear and 43.2 on that date in 1921. indicating a yield of about 12S.t pounds per acre. The condition of the crop on Octo ber 25 and the forecast of production by states follow: Virginia, condition 88 and produc tion 53,000. North Carolina, 70 and" 1,010,000. South Carolina, 53 and 740,000, Georgia, 31 and 610,000. Florida, 22 and 12,000. Alabama, 39 and 615,000. Mississippi, 36 and 62u,ou0 ' Louisiana, 13 and 320,000. Texas, 57 and 4,300,000. Arkansas, 37 and 680,000. Tennessee, 35 and 330,000. Missouri, 43 and 151,000. Oklahoma, 43 and 735,000. California, 86 and 49,000. Arizona, 88 and 83,000. Production of all other states is 40,000 bales. About 86,000 bales in addition to California are being grown in lower California, Old Mexico. In commenting on the cotton report the-Crop Reportmg-"Board-Taitr-4'The forecast expresses the probable out turn internretpd from ttio nrMM status of the. crop on the basis of past relations, and from the reported per-, ccntage picked, percentage abandon-, cd, and probable yield per acrev 'The change in forecast since September 25 reflects the change due to weather and other factors since that date as ascertained by the board from all in formation at its command. "Generally unfavorable weather and heavy rains in the southwest, excS!- tional damage to grown bolls by tbft weevil, result of leaf worm ravages, coupled with the heaviest abandon--ment on record resulted in a forecast . of about 767,000 bales below last: month. This is the third short erop. in succession though somewhat above, the preceding years. ' ? . jj, 4( Crop Good in North Carolina. " "Virginia, North Carolina, and Texas report favorably, and show some increase. In the southeast pick ing is even further advanced than. 1 1. 1 i. XV- .... - mot jtar out in me west it nas been greatly delayed, particularly in Okla homa, Arkansas, Missouri and north west Texas." In arriving at the cotton forecast, the board considered the reported! condition of the crop as of October 23, the reported probable yielot per acre, of lint cotton, the reported percent age of acreage abandoned since June 25. the percentage of the crop report ed picked to October 25, the percent- a6c icjiuiicu guinea to UCtODer 18, and the quantity of cotton ginned ta October 18th, as enumerated by the census bureau. The board has, tor comparative purposes, the conditions reported for the same date from 1919 to 1922, the reported percentage pick ed for 1921 and 1922, and the censaa enumerations of cotton ginned, by p&. riods, for previous years. Cotton Famine Loomst. A month ago the condition of the crop was the lowest for that date in 57 years with the exception of 1921 several states reporting the lowest condition on record due largely to the . damage done by the boll weevil. ; World stocks of cotton at the close of the cotton year, June 31, were very low, the Department of Commerce r States from tdsis year's crop totalled 6,400,579 bales to October 18, accord ing to,, Census Bureau reports. ' It is no wonder politicians get hard-boilded. They are always i hot water. New Orleans Timet Picayune. t
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