Nobody’s
Business
GEE McGEE—
An 18 And 92 Fox Hunt.
Uncle Joe claims to be one ol the
most famous hunters of game that
ever picked up a trail. Various and
sundry have been his experiences
with all kinds of wild beasts, var
mints ansoforth. He recently told
me of the following catastrophe
To use Uncle Joe's own words—
“Yes sir ree, me and old Ttwvs.r
and 2 other niggers w ent fox hunt
in one Monday mornin’ just before
day. Old Towser had the reputa
tion of smelling a fox the furtheresi
and holding on to his scent the
longest of any dog in captivity, and
I never carried no other dog v-Uh
me. Old Towser was cayenne for
any fox that ever dived into a hole,'.’
"Well, folks, old Towser set up .
wail about sun-up that I knew
meant bizness. It was a red fox, his
barking proved that. He had a Af
ferent bark for every kind ot 4
. legged, animal. It was coarse for a
red fox. sorter medium for a grey
fox, real keen for a bear, very un
regular for a rabbit, and growly
like for a coon or wildcat "
“That old fox bnd .« regular 2-t
mile circuit that lie would . run
around. I followed the chase around
that circle so many times, I wor :
out 3 horses and 2 mules. Old Tow- ;
ser stayed within -7 feet and 4 inches
of that fox for 3 days and 3 ni tilts.
I would ride till me and the horse
both give out and then we'd p'o
home and get some feed, and take
out riding again.’’
| > . --
? "long about 2 o'clock on the
fourth afternoon, old Towscr gain
ed 2 feet and 9 inches on old Mr.
Fox. Me and that dog and them
horses and mules I rode, had done
wore a regular highway around
that circle. That dog ancTthat fox
was running so fast, they overtook
ine and passed ine 84 different
times by the sixth day. The niggers
give out the third day and -vert
back to pulling fodder.”
“By the seventh day. folks had
done built grand-stand seats ah
around that circle and was selling
same at 2 dollar.; per seat, plus war
!' tax. which is the football rate at
' present. We could tell that thp -ese i
was nearing its end. Oki Tdwsr - j
f had done stretched out till he was j
17 feet and 3 and one-half inrhc
long lrom tip to tip and he wasn't |
no bigger around than a good-sized
well rope.”
“Gosh, that was an exciting rac*.
Several folks starved to dea*n
watching us. The red fox showed
some weakness and was stretching
out too. He looked to be about 9
feet long. I finely had to give up
using horses and mules and got a
Ford. I wore it plumb out and aboU* j
the time I thought we'd better cal’
off the terrible ordeal, old . Tows ir |
ketched (hat fox and before t could
get to him, he swallowed him whole,
and both of them together weighrd/j
only 3 pounds. My. my. boys. That \
was some fox hunt.” (He put in a ;
chew of Browns Mule and went o.i
up the road. Uncle Joe never lin
gered after a recital of his wond -
iul experienced. He dreaded oues
tionsi.
Mike Writes On Farming.
flat rook. s. C.. ockt 22, 192!).
deer mr. editor:
i have been asked by a c od
manny of my admiring friends to
rite tip my farming experients and r
' will do so as followers:
1 was raised on a farm in georgy
till i was grown and then i taken
up farming for myself. the first
year, i had a heap of trouble, the
drouth ketched me betwixt July and
ocktober and i got married in jure
and the liberty stable taken my
mule back in may. so i plowed a
yearling the ballance of the time
and i didn't get married early enuff
for my wife to be of no help and i
made 1 bale of cotton and 2 bu of
corn and some fodder ansoforth
and had to pay 2 bales rent.
betwixt 1890 and 1900, 1 was fa'r
ly successful onner count of chil'un
to do most of the work and we
meaning i, owned 2 mules and a
waggin on which i had paid 15 dol
lars and give a crop mortgage from
year to year till old beck dide ai d
then i cut down my crop to l mn'e
and got along verry well by moving
from farm to farm where i could be
hope the most by the land lord,
but 1 did not accumulate mutch ex
cept. the same mule and a "i.>d
manny of my wife's kinfolks who
followed us from georgy.
1 got along verry well up to 19
and 5 when the Republicans set in
t o ruin the south which they sue.
ceeded id doing in 19 and 7 and'
then i went to work on halyers bu*
me and mr. brown couldn't get
■) along, so i turned the cron over to,
him and took up pu.blick work, but '
could noi find no job, iyid returned,
to a farm in another township ,h«t I
some other feller had left for onb- ■
^ick work and 1 made it o. k. till
januwary when the measles set In i
had a relapse and my folks ^o:ie
the work for the next 2 yr. while i
was limping around with a walkin''.?
stick ansoforth.
i was tsHl holding my on up to!
19 and 14, except i was gaining with j
chillun. but as fast as 1 would got!
old enuff to work, 1 would marry
on the other en dof the line, but
some of my wife kinfolk’s had pick
ed up and left; they picked up 1 of
my suits once and borried 2 dollars
from me to run off on and he still |
owes me same. br. jones sold me a I
farm in 19 and 19 at 150$ per aker !
with nothing down except a federal I
landbank mortgage, and about that I
time, farm relief set in and i mired j
again, and then i made up my mind I
to get in polliticks which i did with
much success, and am now Kurri-1
ner of my home county and have j
hell 36 inquests in 34 weeks to the
satisfaction of all concerned except !
a crowd i have put in jail, i sup
pose i am thru with the farm now
as ‘i intend to stand in witn the
voters ansoforth. rile or foam if vo.
want to print this, and i will let
you do so.
yores truhe,
mike Clark, rfd
If Smith Had Won,
Senator Tells What
He Would Have Done
Washington—.Senator Norris,
Republican, Nebraska, who sup
ported Alfred E. Smith, toid
the senate recently some of the
things he thought Smith would
have done had he been elected.
Smith, he ,aid, would have
saved the power resources of the
country for the people, instead
of permitting them to be turn
ed over to private corporations.
He would have favored legisla
tion for Muscle Shoals, and
from Boulder Dam," Norris said.
The Nebraaka,senator deliver
ed his “ffs" iii*lr speech opposing **
an increase of duty on carbide
in which he attacked the Union
Carbide company as part of the
‘Tower Trust.”
Norris, who was expected to
retire after his present term ex
pires in 1931. is planning to run
again, according to his friends.
His opponent for the nomination
will be Samuel R. McKelvie, for
mer governor of Nebraska, whose
appointment to the federal farm
board was to “groom” him for
the rare, according to Norris,
supporters. .
City Not Responsible
For Six Inch Main
(Continued from page one.)
the Cleveland Springs fire alarm
and had they put the fire out wo’tlS
have, of course, been complimented
but, on the other hand, had a fire
alarm sounded in Shelby at the
same hour it would have taken the
firemen at least 30 to 40 minutes to
have responded for which the fire
men and city officials would have
been severely criticized and a pos
sible law suit fod damages resulted
“If you live in town. you have
certain fire and police protection
for which you have to pay for, but,
if you live in the country you don’t
have that protection and cannot ex
pect it.
“Shelby has two large water mains
coming into town from two sides,
a 12-ineh and an 18-inch main. The
main streets have 10 and 12-inch
mains that pretty well cover the
city. The smaller streets have six
and eight-inch mains and when
smaller lines are put in, they are
not for fire fighting, but for -ani
tory reasons only. A person might
go to the suburbs and build a house
several thousand feet from the
main water line and then expect t ie
city to spend several thousand dol
lars in running a six or eight-inch
water line to protect them, which
they can’t do.
“The loss of Cleveland Springs
hotel was a great and exceedingly
heavy one to Shelby, financially and
otherwise, but Shelby and the
Shelby fire department is in no
way responsible and deserve no eviti
cism whatever. We have a good fire
fighting equipment, we have sever
al regular paid fireman as well as
a good volunteer crowd, and I'll
venture to say that they have just
as good a record for extinguishing
fires as any in the state.’’
In Boston, Mass., a eat named
Sarah, mother of 72. tell ill. Afiar
three days agony she leaped to a
store counter. wound a sain t
around her paws and a decayed
tooth, yanked out the tooth and
ielf belter.
Blalock Points Oat Benefits
Cotton Farmers Might Obtain
From Federal Farm Board Work
Machinery May Be Set Up T« In
sure Against Loss From A
Derline In Prire.
(Special to The Star.'
Raleigh. Oct 17.—"'Whao is the
Federal Farm Board doing lor the j
Cotton Association or what can It j
do for cooperative marketing"' us
the question which I am bein':
called upon to answer more fre
quently than any other these davs."
says U. Benton Blalock,?- gjn°ra’
manager of the North Carolina Cot- !
ton Growers Cooperative Associa
tion. Summing up very briefly the
benefits which we may expect from
the Agricultural Marketing Act, Mr :
Blalock said that there are four
distinct types of service which 'he
Federal Farm Board is authorized
under the Marketing Act to admin
ister. They are educational work,
loans to cooperatives, stabilise lion 1
corporations and price insurance, j
Edueational Work.
“The Federal Farm Board is au
thorized and directed to promote
education in the principles and
practices of cooperative marketing j
of agricultural commodities and ■
food products ,thereof. The Federal
Farm Board can be of very mate”- •
ial help in reducing the operating :
costs of the cooperative associations j
along this line, inasmuch rj, ail
field service or education! work has
been an expense that had to he
borne by the membership of each
organization.” President Hoover has
transferred the United States Di
vision of Cooperative Marketin'* to
the Federal Farm Board and it is
reasonable to expect that this de
partment will become a still great
er agency for the promotion and de
velopment of cooperative associa
tions.
Loans To Cooperatives.
“The board is authorized to make
loans to cooperatives from the re
volving fund to assist in the ef
fective merchandising of agricul
tural commodities and food pro
ducts. this money to be loaned to
the cooperatives at a rate not to
exceed four per cent per annum
The present rate as fixed bv the
board is 3 5-8 per cent. Loans made
direct to cooperatives on this basis
in this day of high money rates will
be a distinct advantage to aJJ co
operatives in financing their ^com
modities in storage.
Loans can also be obtained Iron
thR- FWUeral Farm Board at tills low
rate of interest for the purchase or
construction of processing or stor
age plants, such as cooperative gins,
cotton, tobacco, potato warehouses
or other storage houses, redrying
plants, etc.
Stabilization Corporations.
"The bill provides that stabiliza
tions corporations can be set upN^
times of overproduction of any com
modity. We are assured that we
will never again have a repetition
of the overproduction cotton ca
lamity of 1926. The Federal Farm
Board has the power and the au
thority to authorize the cooperativ
es to set up stabilization co-pora
tions, go into the market and buy
up the surplus cotton, the money,
of course, to be furnished bv the
Federal Farm Board
“This stabilization provilon
should be of special interest to a'.i
bankers and supply merchants who
furnish production credit, and to all
merchants who sell goods on time
expecting to make their collection;
from the sales of agricultural com
modities at fair prices.
“The price insurance feature in
corporated in this bill should also
be of great interest to bankers and
merchants selling goods on time. It
is provided in the bill that the
board may, upon application of co
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'Wait* for Verdict
Eunice Pringle, Los Angeles dancer,
waiting in the fourtroom with her
mother, Mrs. Lou Pringle, previous
to her appearance on the stand in
the trial of Alexander Pantages,
millionaire theatrical manager,
who. she alleges, attacked her.
Cotton Market
Cotton was quoted at noon today
on New York exchange:
Dec. 18.15. Y'fefterdays close:
18.23.
—Fight m. weather all nlear
forecast eastern telt part cloudy to
Increasing cloudiness, rest fair. Pri
vate ginning estimates range from
8,757,000 to 9,200.000.
Ginning report at opening, Da’las
News says cold ends liopes of more
cotton in Texas. Three of mills in
Greenville, S. C. puts 5 day week
into effect at once.
Gain In cottons for more formal
wear predicted for 1930. Advise
buying for pull.
CLEVENBURG.
operative associations, set up ma
chinery to insure the members of
cooperatives against a loss through
price decline in the agricultural
commodity handled by the associa
tions and produced by the members
thereof. The establishing of this in
surance feature simply means that
a member of a cooperative associa
tion on payment of a small insur
ance fee could insure himself or his
creditors against a decline in the
price of his commodity when deliv
ered to the association.
Marketing Act May Be Real Service
“It is my opinion that the Agri
cultural Act can be made of real
service to the producers of agricul
tural commodities if they will or
ganize themselves into groups and
make the proper applications to the
Federal Farm Board for thj aid
which they can render.”
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