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DAY WEDNESDAY Special Edition AND ANSONIAN ^y E^^ o/ 7. C. Boy^n Ev^ry r^Mr^^y $1.50 a ./MvHHf*. JSTABLTSHED 1881 WADESBORO, N. C., MONDAY, NOV. 17, 1924. VOL. XL1V. NO. 47 CIVIL COURT. Number of Cases Disposed of Last Week—W. R. Little Case Against Bank of Wadesboro Ends—Anson viHe Consolidated School Election Was Valid. A number of cWil cases were de-' cided in superior court last week af ter The M. & 1. went to press. In the case of Frank B. Wheless and others against A. H. Kendall and oth ers, as reported last Thursday, it was decided that the land in contro versy belonged to the plaintiffs. In addition judgment was given against the defendants in favor of various plaintiffs as follows: To pay heirs of Emma Wheless $275.97. and the heirs of Amanda Wright and of Albert Tyson each the same amount. This was for timber cut from some of the land. The case T. J. McCoy, administra tor of Aaron McCoy, against the At lantic Coast Line was dismissed. A. D. White & Bro. vs. Atlantic * Coast Line; dismissed. R. L. Huntley vs. W. V.* Hales and the Atlantic Coast Line; non-suit. , Saf chick & Co. vs. Wadesboro Dry Goods Co.; judgment for plaintiff. J. P. Phillips vs. J. H. Miller; judgment for plaintiff, i S. W. Birmingham vs. W. A. Phil lips; judgment for plaintiff. n,am ivenaan ana r. ivenuan vs George Pittman Kendall and others; judgment for plaintiffs. Nellie Moore and R. B. Moore vs. Eula Kendal] and others; judgment for plaintiffs. Bank of Wadesboro vs. J. S. Liles, receive: of Polkton Lumber Co.; judgment for plaintiff. Some time ago M. W. Mowery, of Morven township, was ordered to pay ! Mrs. Helen Mowery $50.00 per month for the support of their children. He had fallen behind in the alimony, and , Judge Lane found that he was due to ^pay $810.00 for the arrears, and or dered him to pay this and also to pay . the $50 per month hereafter in ad vance. It was also ordered that the children visit Mr. Mowery on the second and fourth Saturdays in each month If Mr. Mowery does not pay the money promptly the case will again get into court. The case of Mrs. Flossie M. Little, administratrix of the estate of W. R. Little," vs. the Bank of Wadeshoro, guardian, and others, was removed from the docket, the plaintiff having failed to perfect her appeal to the supreme court. This case was tried twice, taking more than a week each time. At the first trial, before Mr. Little died, the plaintiff got a judge ment of nearly $40,000, but the su . preme court ordered a new trial, ami when it was held the defendants won. The plaintiff gave notice of appeal after the second trial, but did not perfect it. On November 5th, several citizens of the Ansonville consolidated special tax district got o^t a temporary re straining order preventing Sheriff i Braswell collecting special school ' taxes in this district, it being claim ed that the recent special tax elec^* tion was invalid for various reasons. * Last week the court dissolved the temporary order, finding that the election was good and valid in every respect, and the consolidated special tax district will stand. The plaintiffs appealed to the supreme court. They are T. J. Harrington, B. F. Edwards, . J. R. Sikes, M. W Randle, J. K. High, F. P. Polk, J. L. Porter, K. Edwards. The suit was brought against the county commissioners, the board of education and Sheriff Braswell. A large brick school building is now being erected at Ansonville. DUCKS IN DRY AREA DROWN IN OIL TANKS. Shreveport, La., Nov. 14.—The ' drouth in Louisiana is resulting in the death of thousands of wild ducks, in a manner unusua!. North Louis iana is dotted with giant earthen tanks, in which is stored crude oil from the Arkansas and Louisiana fields. With most of the small lakes and marshes dry, and minor streams little more than brooks ducks, arriv ' ing from the north, are mistaking the oil tanks for water and alighting in them. They never rise again for the thick oil premeates their feathers making it impossible for them to fly. Thousands are succumbing in the tanks while others after struggling to the edges flop over- to the ground and die ii DOUBLE WEDDING. A double wedding was performed in the ofHce of Register of Deeds Crowder last Friday. The contract ing couples were Sebron Martin Tm)Uirs, son of Mr. J. B. Thomas, and Miss Arsie Nance, daughter of Mr. J. D. Nance; and Charlie Lee ^Thomas, son of Mr. W. C. Thomas, and Miss Cassie Thomas, daughter of Mr.? G. F. Thomas. All are popular ^young people. Rev. J. J. Douglass performed the ceremony. UNION SERVICE AT METHODIST CHURCH. Congregations of Town Join in Wel coming New Preacher. AH the congregations of the town joined in a union service at the Meth odist church last night for the pur pose of welcoming the new pastor of the Methodists, Rev. J. H. Armbrust. The auditorium and Sunday school room were packed. Rev. J. J. Douglass, president of the ministerial union, presided, and short talks were wade by him and by Revs. C. L. Jackson, J. F. Hamaker and J. H. Armbrust. Dr. Jackson referred to the ministers as the broom brigade, quoting a recent conversation which took place in town to the effect that a new broom sweeps clean, but the old broom knows where the dust lies thickest. For several years the churches of Wadesboro, under the leadership of their pastors, have been displaying a spirit of co-operation and help one another in all matters pertaining to the spiritual welfare of the commu nity ,and they approach their prob lems almost as a unit. It is a spirit which should continue to grow. YOUR OWN NAME. Write your name on a piece of paper, and iook at it for five minutes. It is the most pfecious thing you have. It is connected with ali you are and hope to be. Your name car ries the life history of thousands of men md women. Your father gave it to you. He had" in his youth many temptations to soii his name, but he wore it over, like a white piume over his heart. One day your father went and of fered his name to a beautiful young woman. She blushed and hesitated. Then her father and mother inquired if the name he offered wps a good name. Finally your mother accepted your name, aqd she did not wear her en gagement ring with half the pleasure that she did your name. Then, they two gave that name to you. Your name was sung into your baby ears on the music of your moth er's cradle songs. It was taken to the throne of God on the white pray ers and hopes of your sweet mother. It is forever sacred. Your father looked into your pudgy little face and breathed a sigh of pride as he thought. "Now I have given my name to a human soul." More than all earthly possessions is an untarnished name. Yet how easily is a good name lost. It is lost. It is harder to regain a lost good name than it is to find again the lost gold in sunken ships. How do you treat your name ? Is the local merchant glad when he sees your name on his account book? How does the banker feel when you induce him to loan you some mopey? Will he have to discount your paper, because your name is not worth 100 per cent? If the pastor of your little church ever wrote a line after the names on the church roll, what would he put after yours? The Bible says, "A good name is rather to be chosen than great rich es." ° If you and I in our poorest mo ments were given the choice of rich es to anything else, we might take the riches. But every man who has , gotten riches at the sacrifice of his j good name has lived to regret his} bargain. You are not done with your name, j It will be given to another. It may j be to your own child, or perchance j some man and woman will honor i your life and name their child after j vou. The Scriptures say that we shall j have names in heaven, and talks; about the Lamb's Bock of Life. Treat your name as you do your i soul and your inner honor, for what [ soils one will blast the other. It is a great and pleasant thing to live and breath a name that will be a blessing in our communities when we are gone. I love to look over a book of great names—names that men have hand ed down, without a smear of deviltry on them. Mav you and I have enough sense and grace to do likewise.—Dr. J. W. Holland. A combined clockwork and hand played carillon of fifteen bells in London plays mechanically five hymn tunes and one hundred and [ thirty changes on ten bells. The largest bell, th^ tenor, weighs more than two and a half tons. Yes Indeed. "What makes you think Mary will accept your proposal?" "Well, she insists on us occupying only cne chair and— "That's enough, boy—she's on the last lap. Wadesboro Merchants Will Have Big Dollar Day on Wednesday. Many Business Houses Participating in Event—Bargains Advertised in Tnis Speciai Edition. Thu merchants of Wadesboro on Wednesday, the 19th, will, in con nection with the trade extension sale which is now going on and which wiH close Wednesday, Nov. 26, put on big dollar day special sales. Thpy have given much effort toward offering special values and attractions for the day, and this special edition of The M. & 1. is being issued to carry their messages to the people of the county. Real the advertisements carefully. There is something of interest to ev ery one. The following merchants are ad vertising in this issue, and no doubt others will participate in the offering of dollar day specials: Rose-Gathings Company. The Liles Company. Wadesboro Dry Goods Co. Blalock Motor Sales Co. Marsh-Jones Hardware Co. Independent 5, 10 & 25c Store. The Fashion Store. John C. Jones. Fox & Lyon. The Gray Company. Parsons Drug Co. W. M. Thompson. F. M. Hightower. R. L. Bowman. Dockery & Moore. Margum's Jewelry Store. H. B. Allen & Company. Ansor. Real Estate & Ins. Co. Austin & Clontz. McRae & Mills. Ashcraft Bros. C. W.^McInnis. WANTS PARDON ATTORNEY. Mr. McLean Wishes to Take From Governor Burden of Pardon De cisions. Raleigh, Nov. 13.—Governor-elect McLean's purpose to ask for a par don attorney, reported in a recent newspaper interview, jias drawn a hearty amen from those about the capital who have watched the work ings of the pardon machinery. Mr. McLean would have the attorney hear all pardon applications and report to him with recommendations as to ac tion. In this manner, the governor would be saved the time and trouble of receiving the several thousand applicants for pardons who call on the executive during the period of an administration. Exercise of the pardoning power has developed into the most de manding and trying task imposed on the governor. It is estimated that at least two-thirds of the time he spends in his office is taken up with hearing applications for pardons or paroles Most of the applications are placed by lawyers and the practice professionalized to that extent. Oc casionally, however, the wife and children of the prisoner, or his moth er make a personal call on the gov ernor, seeking clemency, and he must hear these and reject their applica tions in the face of pleas., and exhibi tion of varying degrees of hysteria. TEN COMMANDMENTS OF THE MAIL ORDER HOUSE. 1. You shall sell your farm for cash, where you can, but not to us, for we buy nothing of you. 2. You shall believe us, and buy all you can of us, for we serve you best because we do not know you person ally. 3. You shall send your money to us in advance, so we can buy the goods from the factory with your money; you may have to wait a few weeks, but that is our business method. 4. You shall get help from your near est city or village to build good roads, so you may easily haul goods from fhe depot, but do not ask help from us — we don't help to build roads. . 5. You shall buy church beHs and al tar utensils from us, and send the money in advance — that is our rule. 6. You shall get all the help you can for your church from the business men in your nearest village or city, for although we have more profits from you than they, it is against our rules to give to churches. 7. You shall convert your neighbors also to your faith in us, so that they will buy from us, for we have room for more money. 8. You shall look at the pretty pic tures in our catalog as often as you can, so as to strengthen your desire for things you do not need, but which you may order with other goods to save freight. Send us all of vour ready cash, so that you may not have any of it left to buy neces sities from your home dealer. 9. You shall believe in us rather than in your home business men, for we want your trade. W<Xget to be mil lionaires on your support. Don't be bluffed. 10 You shall c$ll on the business people of your vicinity for help and credit, if you meet with hard luck, trouble or sickness. It's your mon ey we want; we don't know you un less your orders are accompanied by cash. Family Hold Back "Dees your wife intend to vote for you?" v "I haven't asked her," answered Senator Sorghum. " I have enough opportunities for controversy on hand without giving this campaign the status of a family argument." — Washington Star. KING AND HARRELL TO DIE. Murderers of Army Officer Must Ex piate Their Crime in South Caroiina Death House. Columbia, S. C., Nov. 14.—One weektfrom today the mailed hand of death will fail on two young lives today hale and hearty but crime stained, and the death of an inno cent friend-to-man will have been requited In the death house of the state .penitentiary today are three white men, Edmund Bigham, the date of whose execution for the murder of his brother, sent to his death along with his mother and his sister and the sister's two children, is as yet unfixed, and Mortimer N. King and Frani& Harrell, two young veterans of the world war, textile workers, who next Friday pay the death pen alty for the murder of Major Sam uel H. McLeary, of the United States army, one of the worst crimes in South Carolina's criminal records. The two young men talk little. All efforts to have their doom averted have been set aside. Justice demands , their outgoing and the hand of the law is firm and unshaken. -< -tTho^governor of South Carolina Has reprieved the two men for twc weeks, in order to give more attention to their cases, but it is understood that this is merely a matter of form and that they stand little chance of i escaoing the death penalty.—The M. I&I-] ! THE MILEAGE OF EACH KIND OF ROAD IN STATE. Greensboro, Nov. 10.—North Caro lina now has 1,370 miles of hard surfaced highways, according to an ' announcement given out by the Car olina Motor Club, C. W. Roberts, vice-president, and having come from H. K. Witherspoon, director of public ity of the State Highway Commis sion. Of this amount there are 736 miles asphalt, and 634 miles of con crete, with a program that provides for the hard-surfacing of approxi mately 3,500 miles, The system un der state direction and maintenance consists of 6,000 miles, it is under stood. "Tourists continue to pour into North Carolina," stated Mr. Roberts in the statement issued yesterday. "Invariably they request at out branches routes which will take them on their journey and keep them in North Carolina longest. This is an evidence of good roads—as direct as it is possible to get it. More than 300 tourists are obtaning informa tion at the various ofhces of the club and we have the opportunity of checking up on this. "Six thousand miles is a pile of roads, and anyone who will stop to consider it will agree with most tour ists that a 'whale of a job' has been done well in the maintenance and construction of'these miles. When the transient is told the story of the construction of the 1,370 miles of hard-surface; 274 miles of bitumi nous macadam, 511 miles of gravel, 2,464 miles of sand-clay and top soil; 950 miles of dirt and 71 miles of shale and brick, he wonders. It is proper for Carolinians to wonder, too, and with the gradual closing of links here and stretches there, the state highways are becoming sur prisingly real and definite." Trustful. Tommy, (at tobacconist's) — "Please, father wants to know if it's true there's a tobacco trust?" Proprietor — "Quite true." Tommy — "Well, father would like to be trusted for two ounces, please." —London Mail. Latest Automatic Churn. Farmers are said to be considering the delivery of milk by Fords. But ter ought to be cheap soon. — The Passing Show. TIMELY FARM NOTES. (By J. W. Cameron, County Agent). The four community fairs that heve been held up to date in this county have been very much better at each place than anybody expected, after taking into consideration the very adverse weather conditions we have had during the year. There have been some splendid exhibits at each place of farm crops, poultry, and in some cases, livestock Many valuable suggestions have been brought out by these exhibits and the interest mani fested at each place has been splen did. Mr. T. J. W. Broom, county agent of Union county, who assisted in judging farm crops and livestock, brought out some splendid points in regard to soil improvement and as to how we could increase crop yields. Setting Fruit Trees. Quite a number of farmers have al ready received fruit and nut trees previously ordered for this season. Just as soon as trees are received they should be set or "heeled" in, preferably set where they are ex I pected to stay. Roots of trees should ^ never be allowed to get dry. Apple, peach and other similar trees should be pruned as soon as set out. Nut trees should not be pruned. In setting the trees a hole of sufHcient size should be dug and good top soil packed tight around the roots after the roots have been trimmed. If it is very dry a bucket of water may be applied to each tree. Ordering Reach Trees. Another club order for peach trees will be sent off in the near future. Parties interested should consult their county agent. Sowing Oats. A number of farmers in the county say that they can grow oats much cheaper than they can corn and that they intend to increase their acreage sown in oats. There is no question but what oats is one of our most valuable crops and Anson county has been standing near the head of the list in this state in oat production. It is a crop of which we should grow a sufficient amount, as it is especially vaiuabie for feeding growing live stock, as well as work stock. In or der to get the largest yields ver acre, it is important that oats be sown in the right way, for it is often more profitable to sow one acre right than to sow two or three in a siipshod, haphazard way. Many tests have shown that it is not best to break land deep for oats just before seed ing, as they are much more apt to freeze out. Usuaiiy a good disking is sufficient when oats are to be drilled in by the open furrow method. It is always best to drill or sow by open furrow method. Work for One of the Prizes. The prizes offered by Mr. W. P. Parsons, of the Wadesboro Chamber of Commerce for the largest yield of oats grown on two acres of land are very valuable and are worth working for, and it is hoped that a number of farmers will compete for one of these prizes. Possibly the prize is one of the least things to be consider ed, for in working for the prizes many valuable points may be brought out relative to economical oat pro duction that may be worth not only a great deal to the contestant, but to other interested farmers in the future. Vetch. Vetch is a very hardy and valu able crop. It is one of our best win ter legume crops. Seed may be sown up until December or even later. In some cases the seed have been sown as late as February which make a splen did growth in the spring. In protein vetch is one of the richest crops we have. For soil building it is one of the best. Vetch will grow without lime much better than many of the legume crops. It will grow orb-poor land. Seed should be inoculated and sown with some other grain crop. Vetch seed are very cheap this sea son and it is a splendid time to try ! this crop. "WORLD'S LAST NEWSPAPER." A remarkable newspaper, of which thre are only 24 copies in existence was recently presented to the Leaden Press Ciub. A missionary in Shang hai, China, prophesied the end of the world at 12 o'clock on Sept. 25 last, and a Shanghai newspaper prepared a special edition for the event. Nam ed the Fifth Horseman, it consisted entirely of news, maps, and diagrams of the end og. the world, and contain ^ ed an announcement that the next edition would be printed on asbestos! The weather report foretold "warmer conditions," and a famous tinned milk firm adevertised that it would be opening stores along the Milky Way. After printing 24 copies of tk special issue the machines stopped suddenly. Whether the Chines printers got alarmed and fled to th hills is not known, but this copy ol the Fifth Horseman is probably th. only'one which has found its way t Britain. CHO!R RESENTS EPITHET. Evangelist Gets in Bad in Washing ton When He Caiis Girls Bobbed Haired Sissies. Washington, Nov. 14.—-A much needed revival is being conducted in Washington this week. It is at the Mount Vernon place M. E. church, now in charge of the Rev. William A. Lambeth, a native of North Car oiina, and untii recently pastor at Gastonia, The Rev. Burk Culpepper, of Memphis, Tenn., is the evangelist at the bat. Sunday, in a flight of ora tory, he looked at the choir, and said: "You bobbed haired sissies." Now the short haired girls and some of the iong haired men of the choir are on a strike, refusing to participate in the revival services. Describing the situation there the Star of today said: "Barbed criticism of the bobbed haired women of the present day gen eration has bobbed the ranks cf the mixed choir of the Mount Vernon place M. B. church, south, and welded the bobbed haired members of the choir into a determined strike against a comparison of the virtues of bob bed hair versus unshorn iocks. '"Nettied at a remark made a few days ago by Burke Culpepper, an evangelist, when the evangelist re ferred to the bobbed haired girls of the present day as, "You bobbed haired sissies," many of the female members of the mixed choir have re fused to participate in the singing of the choir at the revival services. As many as haif the female members of the choir have refused to sing, ac cording to one source, while Dr. Wil liam A. Lambeth, pastor of the church, declared that but two or three have foregone their customary attendance." MUSIC HAS CHARMS. There conies a story from Arkan sas that a dairyman has been able to extract more milk from his cows by the simple device of serenading them with jazz music. Dances are heid in the barn and besides affording en joyment for the daryman's guests it fills his milk pails in the morning. That "music has charms" is a trite saying that has been proved from the time that Jubal became the fath er of those "that play on the harp and the organ." Music has been de fined by some as a "series of pleasant sounds," but the idea of what is real ly "pleasant" in, the way of sounds widely differs among the people of various nations, and there is no rea son to doubt that taste in music as widely differs among animals. The great thing seems to be to gauge their tastes in this respect. Horses will pick up their ears and prance when a brass band plays, but dogs .^1 i...vi he if in mortal agony at the same kind of music. *-* There was once a poultry farmer in Ontario who discovered that same fondness of animals for certain kinds of music. After considerable research he found that hens were particularly fond of bagpipe music, so having learned that instrument in his youth he thought he would try its effect in the chicken coop. The results were beyond his wildest expectations, and the egg basket was filled to over flowing every day. It was far better and cheaper than keeping the lights burning all nighf; as some of his neighbors had done with the notion of making the hens work overtime. The psychological effect of music in various directions is well worthy of scientific research, if only to as certain its value as an adjunct to farm production.—Dearborn Inde pendent. HURRYING NOWHERE. The Akron Times. The driver of an automobile figur ing in an accident in which a woman and a man companion were killed ex-, plained that he was hurrying to "get to a party." Getting to a party cost two lives — and none of the riders got there, after all. It would be as certained, in all likelihood, by a sur vey of the fatal traihc accidents which have filled the newspapers m recent years that in the vast majori ty of cases the source of tragedy was this idiotic hurry to get nowhere i-i I particular or to reach a given pemt at a certain time for no important purpose. Casual observation shows that most of the motor accident vic tims *tre bent on pleasure rather than business. Pleasure-seeking seems to carry with it a spirit of recklessness — and recklessness wi+h a 40 to 50-horsepower bit of ma chinery weighing a ton or two is equivalent to imbecility. Dip on acy. Sue — "I can't help it if I'm not perfect. There's only been one per- : feet little girl." Mother — "Oh, and who was that?" Sue — "You, Mummy, when you was little." — The Humorist.
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