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1ft 'ts IS i 5 : Gifts Of a Featarl - Of the Belvidere Home Henry Van. Dyke writes the foKj lowing salute to trees: v, ' Many a tree is found in the wood, I, And every tree" for its use is good; Some for the strength of the gnarled , . .' root, Some for the sweetness of flavor of - - fruit; Some for shelter against the storm, And some to keep the .hearthstone tp. -V .warm,, . . ,et'.. 1 Some for the roof and some for the t i beam, -And some for a boat to breast the -(, stream -.;' In the wealth of the woods since the t j.'1 world began, ,'The trees have offered their gifts to man.'.' An agricultural leader says, "Trees are the arms of Mother Earth lifted. up in worship of their maker." Where trees are beauty dwells where trees are not the land is ugly. Do we ever stop to consider what a , barren," unfinished appearance our world would have if there were no ' trees anywhere to give variety, soft ' ness and expression to the landscape? ' Only a few months ago as we looked about us we could see signs of life in leaf and bud which was the trees' way to herald springtime. Now the trees are clothing autumn in kingly raiment and soon .they will be! bared to the winter's cold and will! become the harp of the winds. Our trees have inspired many of the noblest and most beautiful themes of our best writers. - In the Bible a good man is often compared to a tree growing tall, straight and beautiful. The psalmist again and again uses this figure. A good man, we are told, is "like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season, his leaf also shall not wither and whatsoever he doeth shall pros per. -Again, "The righteous shalL flourish like a palm tree: he shall! grow like a cedar in Lebanon." How beautiful and suggestive are these word pictures! Trees are the shelter of man, beast and bird; they furnish the roof above us, the shade about us and the 1 V' nesting places of love and song. 1 J) They are the masts that fly the flags ( - of all nations and the sails of all i ; ' seas; they are the timbers that bridge j forbidding streams; that bear the ' f wires of the world's intelligence and 7' hold the rails tJiat carry the traffic , of the continents. Trees ere nature's prime source of food, their fruits and nuts gave sus tenance to the first tribes of men and are the sweetest and most nourishing of the earth's products. We pity the members of a farm home who cannot feast their eyes on fruit trees gorgeous with blossoms in spring and later with fruit in sum mer and autumn and see the nut trees majestic in height and magni tude. These nuts and fruits are the by-products of beauty. When "the Lord God planted a gar den," according to Genesis, He not only planted trees good for food, but also . those pleasant to the sight Some examples of those pleasant to the sight are redbud, dogwood, mi mosa, crepe myrtle and the ever- - greens. Isn't it pleasing to the eye to see a pine, cedar or magnolia to "', add a touch of life and color in win- ter when other trees are bare? r '" Trees are the largest and oldest of '"Vjiving things and next to the earth , ' Itself trees are man's most useful ' servants. They contribute the basic - - materials for our greatest industries, namely: manufacturing, mining, agri-. - y culture and commerce. Our. manufacturing industries are largely dependent upon wood for lumber, pulp for paper,' dyes, fiber for cloth" and furniture. Trees are used hi making vehicles of transpor- tation--our dogwood is the best wood -for faking- spokes for automobile , wheels and also spindles for our tax- tile .Industry." TheJ' forest"; supplies ...'our needs from pencils to homes, from matches to railroad ties, from toothpicks, to. giant factories , and .snips. .t$- Vf From the mine In the depth of the i earth comes the demand for timber- - we could have no coal but for the use .' of wood. i Besides all these. uses the ? forest; saves and enriches the soil and r regulates the j, .water supply. It re , duces the temperature both in aum :! met and winter. ; It provides a homg . or mras ana wua jue. The leaves vf 4 of trees are said to absorb all noxious qualities of the"air and "to breathe forth -a "purer atmosphere. . So we see m. all these uses tend to make a more v beautiful and healthful country. ' We accept- trees' and most 6f their products .almost like the air we breathe, but unlike our atmosphere th i rply f trees is not inexhaustf. "j, for when the Indians' roamed this .ntry there were some 822 million -3 of forested land today there ,e only some 138 million acres of i ntouched forests, We are using oflf ' tour (times as fast as they are ieptaushed. ' Trees grow very .We would be alarmed if we w i i there would be no wheat j t! i : for bread is "the KizZ i .' . t tree txs r ' f si ., The Demonstration Club staff of industry. We, the people of our country, must realize -what is happening to our forests and . help create public sentiment for the preservation of our forests and the reforestation of our idle lands. If we are to remain, a nation of wood users we must be come a nation of wood growers. While thinking upon Just a few of the uses of trees .we must conclude that the services that trees render us are multitudinous. Emerson, dream ing under the pines of his Concord home, even declared that a walk through the woods was one of the secrets for dodging old age. Lucy Larcom, in her poem, "Plant A Tree," says in part that "He who plants a tree plants hope, joy, peace, youth and love. Heaven and earth help him who plants a tree and his work its own reward shall be." May we be brought to a new reali zation of the fact that each flower that blooms is to us a smile of a lov-' ing Father and each budding tree in spring is the promise of Life Eter nal and that what our Father hast given in love is ours to cultivate with faith. CENTER HILL Mrs. J. S. Turner, Mrs. J. N. Boyce, Mrs. Elmer Rogerson, Miss Nellie Davis and Willie Monds attended the district meeting of the P. T. A. in j Elizabeth City Wednesday. The P. T. . a. of Center Hill won the silver cup this year for having 100 per cent membership, Mrs. Oscar Parker, of Norfolk, Va., spent a few days last week with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Elbert Bunch. Mr. Parker came Sunday and she accompanied him home. Dr. E. S. White and his sisters, the Misses White, of Belvidere, visited Mr. and Mrs. E. B. White Sunday af ternoon. Mrs. Rowe, of Elizabeth City, spent last week here with her daughter, Miss Bonnie Rowe, a member of the school faculty. Mrs. Silas Goodwin was taken se riously ill Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Ellis, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Ellis and Miss Thelma Ellis, all of Norfolk, Va., Mr. and Mrs. George Ellis end son, Edmund, of Hilton Village, Va., Mr. and Mrs. Otis Ellis, Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Chap pell and daughter, Joyce, were dinner fuests of Mrs. Ida Ellis on Sunday. Mrs. J. N. Boyce, Mrs. T. E. Jerni gan and daughter, Janet Faye, Mrs. Eugene Jernigan and daughter, Syl via, Mrs. T. H. Byrum and daughter, Miss Myrtle, visited Mrs. J. S. Turner Friday afternoon. Mrs. Ray Carter and son, Olan, of Richmond, Va., are visiting her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. R. 0. Furry. Mr. and Mrs. Elton Jordan and son, Jimmie, spent the week-end in Boykin, Va., with Mrs. Jordan's par ents, Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Williams. iney were accompanied home by Mrs.j Gray, who will be their guest for a few days. Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Chappell and daughter, Joyce, visited Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Turner Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Willie Byrum and daughter, Shirley, were guests of Mr. Byrum's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Byrum, Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. T. E. .Jernigan and 1 children visited Mr. and Mrs. Nearest have been reported by the L. S. Bu Jordan Sunday afternoon. reau of Agricultural Economics. In-' Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Jordan and.dustrial activity has expanded and own, vuvci, or., uir. ana mrs. jveuy Jordan spent Sunday as guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ervin Jordan, in Nor folk, Va. Mr. and Mrs. Elbert Goodwin and son, of Rocky Hock, visited Mr. Good win's mother, Mrs. Silas Goodwin, Sunday. Mrs. T. H. Byrum is spending a few days with her brother and sister-in-Jaw, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Leary, on Virginia Road. Mjv and Mrs. -Jack, Jeannette and daugjsjer, Mary Claire,.: of Elizabeth City, -visited: Mrs. Jeannettfe's father, Ha. u ferry, Saturday evening. Misses Estella Ward and Freda Hobbs visited Miss Kitty Perry Mon day afternoon. " ft W .!. T, . A MissGarnet ;. Jernigan - scent the weekend In1 'N(oIl;V'wl;.Rat. uvea, ,; -r - Mr. and Mrs. Herman Lane tailed on- Mr. and Mrs. Theodore . Boyce Monday evening. - - h Willie Monds, T. H.. 3yrum and ;Kos6er Bunch, made business trip to worroiir, va.," Monday., , - Mrs. Nehemiah Bunch, Mrs. Scott Boyce Snd u daughter, Ruth, spent Wednesday in Norfolk, Va. Miss Muriel Monds was the guest of Miss Irene Furry Monday after noon. s " - . . . Mrs. R. 0. Furry spent Friday and Saturday in Rocky Hock with her sis ter.JMrs. R.-N. Privott . . ' ; ,l new plastk; '. ' - Four'U1.. S. Department of Agricul ture research workers have developed a method for. converting sawdust, straw, wood waste and waste sugar cane stalks Into synthetic plastics. die new material has a high resist ance jio water arid moisture, and may be used for electrical Insulators, door -, r-'s rr-irx wifds, radio Oldest Market in the World If V "ft Marketplace tUSINBSS men from man; coun " trlea.tiav ..been crowding this market place regularly .or more than 700 years. Par back In the mid die ages the tiade caravaaa, with their guards of halberded soldiers, met at thif point and exchanged their goods, .'he business executives at that distant day slept undei their covered wagons. From this crude be ginning has grown the Leipzig Trade Fair, the oldest and largest In the world The next Fair, held from August 28th to September 1st. will be the 1980th stisioo. HUGE BUSINESS Agricultural cooperative marketing and purchasing associations are doing a gross business of $2,750,000,000 an nually, according to Dr. G. W. Forster of State College. Membership and business of the purchasing coopera tives have more than doubled in the past 10 years. STERILITY CUHti The synthesis of alpha tocopherol, a substance equivalent to Vitamin E that has been successful in curing sterility in rats and which is declared to have tremendous practical import ance in curing sterility in farm ani mals or even humans, has been ac complished by a group of University of Minnesota chemists. COTTON GRADES The U. S. Bureau of Agricultural Economics estimates that of the up land cotton ginned in the United States prior to October 18, 26 per cent was white strict middling or above in grade; 34 per cent was white middling; and 18 per cent was i white strict low middling or below. I The colored grades accounted for 22 j per cent of the ginnings. IMPROVED CONDITIONS Improved conditions affecting the domestic demand for farm nroducts consumer incomes have increased in recent months. SALVAGE TIMBER Steps to protect from fire the 4, 000,000,000 feet of timber felled by the recent hurricane in the North eastern states have been announced by the U. S. Department of Agricul ture. There is enough of the fallen timber to keep saw mills in those states busy for nearly five years. The Poor Again -Blessed are the poor. They, can tell their creditors they ere broke without lying about it The Little Rock, Arkansas, Democrat. 7 PEANUT REPORT" Virginia -North Carolina Section: During the last week-end the weather in Virginia was rainy, delaying the curing of peanuts, but was more fav orable in North Carolina peanut areas and it is expected that picking of peanuts will be rather general this week, at least in North Carolina, if weather permits. Preliminary re ports indicate a disappointing quality and that the yields are below normal. While occasional fields are yielding well many- are reported extremely low in output -due perhaps . to too' much rain early In the season and too much dry weather later. Early reports al so indicate that many bagsjare com ing to cleaning plants exceptionally light in weight. Many others are too wet and are being rejected. Farmers should realize that - to an increasing extent shellers .and cleaners - are: in sisting upon peanuts - that ere suflt-' dently dry to be worked n at once. A few sales : of new stock farmers'. 111- r J, - " I it $8 I'huto Leipixy fair 700 Years Old The beautiful 16th century tower of the. martiet place has looked down mi poo many changes. Wars have been fo .ght. the mat of Europe has been repeatedly redrawn, but the Trade Fair has been held with out Interruption. The Fair was 300 years old wh ,n Columbus sailed to discover tba new world. Just 150 years ago the first American mer chants crossed the Atlantic In sail ing vessels to take advantage of this great world exchange. Today thou sands of business men from all parts of the United States tlnd It proiitab to Joiirr.oy every year to LeiptifV 3 -3 5-8c delivered for best Jumbos, 3 -3 3-8c per lb. for best Bunch, and -3 3-8c delivered for good shelling stock, with light weight stock lower. Few mills have any old crop pea nuts remaining for sale and they have hardly started on new crop goods. The market for new crop peanuts in the shell is slightly strong er with shelled steady to slightly firmer. Some mills are taking or- Mir. ETairinmeir . . . . Let Our Facilities For Storage and Hauling Be of Some Service to You! We Have Several Large Warehouses Which Will Afford Us Ample Space For the Storage of Your Cotton and Peanuts. SPECIALIZING IN Storage of Peanuts and Cotton FEEDS, SEEDS, See Us For THK iQUARC V ders for shipment the latter prt of the present week or next week. Pre vailing prices, per lb., f. o. b. ship ping points, follow: New Crop: Clean ed Virginias, jumbos 6-6 3-8c; fancys 5-5c, few. 6c. Shelled Virginias, extra large 6 -7c; No. 1, 5-5 7-8c; No. 2, 5-5 l-8c, few 5yc. Spanish, No. 1, 5c; No. 2, 54c. CHAPPELL HILL Miss Edith Chappell, who teaches school in Norfolk, Va., spent the week-end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Chappell. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Chappell, of Newport News, Va., spent Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Chappell. Josie Copeland, of Greenville, and N. B. Dail, of Tyner, visited Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Chappell Friday night. Elsbury Chappell and Clinton Monds went to Elizabeth City Satur day afternoon. John S. Moore, from near Nor folk, Va., dined with Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Chappell Sunday. Mrs. C. R. Lane visited Mrs. C. C. Chappell Tuesday afternoon. Miss Geneva Chappell spent Thurs day night with her aunt, Mrs. Mary Outland. O. E. Chappell called to see Israel Lane Saturday morning. Mr. Lane is very ill. Mrs. C. C, Chappell, Miss Edith Chappell and Elsbury Chappell called on Mr. and Mrs. Paul Sinclair Sun day morning. O. E. Chappell was the guest of Miss Edith Chappell Saturday even ing. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Outland visited Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Chappell Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Green and chil SEE US FOR.... HAY PRESSES JOHN DEERE Power Driven or Horse Drawn Have one slightly used JUNIOR model (power driven self feeding) that we can sell you at a good saving. Terms if you like. IF TRACTOR-MINDED, SEE US BEFORE YOU BUY J. C. Bianchard & Co., Inc. HERTFORD, N. C. s&&&s&t&$m$ BUYERS OF 9 SELLERS OF SMITH-DOUGLASS FERTILIZER AND PEANUT BAGS 'ETff Your For-Hire Needs. Leary Bros. Storage Company dren, of Gates County, spent Sunday with Mrs. Green's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Chappell. Miss Viola Chappell visited Miss Edith Chappell Sunday morning. Mrs. E. F. Jordan, Mrs. Kelly By rum and children visited Mrs. C. C. Chappell Friday afternoon. HONORED AT SHOWER A number of friends met at the home of Mrs. Harriet Parks, at Ry land, Thursday afternoon and show ered Mrs. Carson Davis. The honoree opened and displayed quite a nice as sortment of dainty gifts, after which refreshments were served. Those present included Mrs. C. W. Ward, Mrs. Vance Moore, Mrs. Louisa Ward, Mrs. D. T. Ward, Mrs. N. E. Jordan, Mrs. Leroy Boyce, Mrs. Roy Parks, Mrs. Lloyd Chappell, Mrs. George Byrum, Mrs. J. T. Byrum, Mrs. R. S. Ward, Miss Gertrude Jackson, Miss Avis Ward, Miss Mon taze Byrum, Grady Vance Moore, Mrs. E. L. Hollowell and two chil dren, Aubrey and Anne, and Mrs. Julian Ward, of Edenton. Delicious ice cream and, dainty cookies were served. Weekly Market Report POULTRY AND EGGS Courtesy Division of Markets N. C. Dept. of Agriculture Eggs, per dozen Hennery whites, 30-34; hennery browns, 30-33;, cur rent collections, 28-33. Live Poultry, per lb. Rocks, 17; reds, 17; mixed, colors, 14-17; light breeds, 13-16; broilers, 18; fryers, 15-18; guineas, each, 40c. A SMALL AT HERE WILL BRING RESULTS Mftm Phone 152 NORTH CAROLINA
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