Buncombe County Facing Work-Horse Famine; Farmers Federation Offers Stud Horse, 1932

“Raise Your Own Work Horse,” April, 1932, Farmers Federation News

The Farmers of Buncombe County are now facing a work-horse famine. In a very short time most of their surplus money will be going to other states for teams to do their work.

The Farmers Federation, realizing this fact, is offering the services of this beautiful draft stallion. He will be located at the Clyde Reed Sales Stable, Asheville, N.C., at the old Smith’s Bridge.

He is seven years old, weighs 1,715 pounds, and is solid black in color. The service fee will be $10.

State Offers Free Vaccinations Against Diphtheria to Counties That Request Them, 1921

From the April, 1921, issue of The Health Bulletin, published by the North Carolina State Board of Health.

Diphtheria killed 273 babies in North Carolina in 1920. Toxin-antitoxin treatment prevents the sickness itself. Your county can and should offer this free to your baby. Person, Davie, Rockingham, Randolph, Caldwell, Martin, and Greene counties are protecting their babies.

Are not the babies in your county as good as these?

                --J.S.M.

(Dr. J.S. Mitchener was state Chief of the North Carolina Bureau of Epidemiology.)

The Dixie Druggist, Published in North Carolina, 1913

"Around the Drug Stores," from the Dixie Druggist, April 1913, online at UNC Health Sciences Library (http://archives.hsl.unc.edu/ncch/ncch-62/ncch-62-000.pdf)

 

Mr. P.W. Vaughan of Durham, N.C., has retired from active business after a period of 32 years. Mr. Vaughan is succeeded by Mr. Benjamin Thomas. Mr. Vaughan was secretary of the North Carolina Pharmaceutical Association from 1899 until 1912, when he declined re-election. He was also at one time a member of the State Board of Pharmacy.

The firm of James Plummer, Salisbury, N.C., which was composed of Mr. James Plummer and Mrs. T.C. Linn, has been dissolved. Mr. James Plummer has purchased the entire stock in the old firm and will continue the business.

The McPherson Drug Company, adjoining the Empire Hotel, Main street, Salisbury, N.C., has been thoroughly renovated, and is now in good shape. Steel ceiling, newly frescoed walls, a new front, modern fixtures, etc., give it a fine appearance. The store is managed by Mr. A.D. Currie and his assistant, Mr. J.B. March.

The Shaffner-Landquist Drug Company, Winston-Salem, N.C., is now occupying new quarters at Main and Shallowford streets. This gives Winston-Salem a drug store that is attractive and up-to-date in every respect.

Mr. David C. Lisk of China Grove, N.C., has purchased controlling interest in the Belmont Pharmacy, Charlotte, N.C. Mr. Lisk was for some time connected with the C.R. Mayer drug store in Charlotte.

Circuit Judge Prince has named M.L. Copeland receiver for the Palmetto Drug Company, Laurens, S.C.

The Adams Drug Company, Birmingham, Ala., is advertised as "The Sleepless Store in the Heart of the Town's Heart."

Dr. McMillan, Cordele, Ga., has moved his drug store to a location in the Georgian Hotel.

Mr. Jake Landau has purchased an interest in the One-Half Drug Store in Palestine, Texas.

A new drug store will soon open in Scott, Ga., and will be owned by Dr. Carter.

Dr. C.M. Wright of Garwood, Texas, has purchased the Rock Island Drug Store, Rock Island, Texas, from Mr. B.D. Hayner.

The old firm of P.R. Jones' Sons, Danville, Va., has been sold to the Danville Drug Company Inc., of which Dr. Robert Blackwell is president, and Mrs. H.W. Thomas is secretary, treasurer and general manager. Mr. Thomas is a well-known pharmacist of Danville and will have charge of the Jones' store. Many improvements will be made, which include a new front, a new soda fountain and general remodeling of the store. The present store force will be added to.

Messrs. Chalmers and Bryant Ferguson have purchased the store known as the Model Pharmacy, Salem, Va., and the store will be under new management.

The Mothers' Congress of Pueblo, Colo., have gone on record as opposing soda fountain beverages for children. They hold that these beverages are not healthful, and that visiting the soda fountain is an extravagant habit for children to acquire.

North Carolina Board of Pharmacy--E.V. Zoeller, President, Tarboro, 1912; J.P. Stowe, Charlotte, 1916; W.W. Horne, Fayetteville, 1915; I.W. Rose, Rocky Mount, 1913; F.W. Hancock, Secretary, Oxford, 1914.

 

300 North Carolinians Died in Fires, 1921

“Many Die by Fire” from the April, 1921, issue of The Health Bulletin, published by the North Carolina State Board of Health.

Nearly 300 people in North Carolina met their death last year by fire, the total being barely below the record for the previous year. In 1920 there were 18 lives lost in conflagrations, while 279 died from other burns. The total was 297. For 1919 there were 24 lives lost in conflagrations, and 276 from other burns. The total was 301, just four more than for the last year.

The majority of the deaths from burns were children, resulting from the accidental catching fire of their clothes, either from open fires or from playing with matches. In the list of those dying in conflagrations are also children who had been left alone in houses that caught on fire.

The death rate from disease is being steadily reduced in the State, but the accident hazard, as the figures quoted show, remains practically unchanged.

Mrs. Beason and Miss Latham Put Knowledge to Work to Make Money, 1938

April, 1938, Carolina Co-operator

Robeson County

Mrs. W.R. Beason, Pembroke, Robeson County, says that it pays to sew at home, for during the past year she made approximately 50 garments at a saving of $91.50. Some of these garments were made from leftover material or from old clothes at a savings of form one-third to one-half of the cost. Mrs. Beason found both the work and the fact that she was affecting a real saving, fascinating.

Washington County

Miss Edna Latham of Washington County realized $150 from her turkeys in 1937 and plans to use her cash in paper and paint for the interior of her house.

Frank Jeter's 'Personal Mention' for April 1955

“Personal Mention” by Frank Jeter as published in the April 1955 issue of Extension Farm-News

“The Colonel is gone,” they said on the State College campus early that Sunday morning March 13. Those words held a note of poignant sadness, because the Colonel had grown through the years, grown in strength, maturity and ability; grown in the love and esteem of those who had known him through the long years he had served State College and the State of North Carolina; grown in the hearts of his friends; and grown in the respect of those who had followed his career as educator and public servant over the years. Colonel John W. Harrelson was fatally stricken giving one last service to the college he loved so well as he took part in dedicating the new D.H. Hill Library on Saturday evening, March 12. No greater monument can be erected to his memory than the one he himself constructed in the hearts of those who knew him and had worked with him. The building he helped to dedicate is only one part of the tremendous physical expansion of a State College plant which bloomed to its highest fruition under his constant and intense cultivation.

Then, we have the high honor of another winner of the O. Max Gardner Award…Dr. Z.P. Metcalf, scientist, scholar, friend and educator, received the grant and citation at the dinner concluding the Third Conference on the State of The University and thus joins the ranks of those whom Governor Gardner sought to reward for their services to the state and to mankind. Dr. Metcalf joins an illustrious group, which includes another faculty member of this College, Dr. D.B. Anderson.

The most talked about event of the spring was the late and devastating freeze which wiped out North Carolina’s peach crop and heavily injured all early berries, vegetables, and flowers. The mountain apple crop was severely injured and it appears now that North Carolinians will eat imported fruit this season. The vegetables were replanted.

In Duplin County, the most talked about event of the spring was the dedication of its new $40,000 office addition to the County Agricultural Building in Kenansville. Credit Melvin Cording, sacrificial public-spirited dairyman, as one of the moving spirits in getting the new building and in laboring with the county commissioners, agricultural workers, tax payers and others, to have a farm building that matches in utility the new health center, also built through the same cooperative enterprise. No one happier than Vernon Reynolds, Mrs. Pauline Johnson, and their associates on the Duplin Extension staff. Credit also that solid citizen Ellis Vestal for much of the hard work done in getting the new addition. It is the result of a wonderful understanding and cooperation among the people of the county.

E.J. Simpson says you ought to see his new bulletin rack. Bill Lewis and the folks in Wilson are shouting aloud in their glee over new Extension quarters, about a mile and a half out of town and accessible to all roads, with plenty of parking space, and an auditorium seating 250 persons comfortably.

In his time of joy, however, Bill and the other Extension personnel, were saddened by the passing of Carter Washington Foster, former Negro County Agent of Wilson County for 13 years and one of the great leaders of his race in North Carolina. C.W. Foster made a great contribution to the advancement of all rural people in the county.

No better district meeting of North Carolina home demonstration clubs than the one held in Pittsboro on April 6 by the clubs of the 14^th District. You never saw such a full auditorium of well-dressed ladies (the next Sunday was Easter, you know) and they had a real meeting. Mrs. C.W. Lutterloch, District Chairman, presided with that simple grace and dignity which seems to typical of the demonstration club women of this state.

Lady Astor carried back to England a jar or two of sorghum molasses grown by charley Gardner of Ashe and cooked by Wiley Severt of the Beaver Creek section. Word came that the noble lady of Virginia might perhaps swap a jar of the homemade molasses with good Queen Elizabeth, provided the Queen throws in plenty of “boot.” Charley gave the molasses to his sister-in-law Mrs. J.W. Dupree who is Governor Hodges’ secretary, and she in turn provided the syrup when the Governor needed to present Lady Astor with a real treat.

Word comes from Dr. J.O. Halverson, former animal nutritionist of the Experiment Station and now in Tucson, Arizona, telling of the passing there of James W. Johansen in late March. Mr. Johansen was an Extension economist at State College until 1948 and a valued staff member for a number of years when farm management and farm economics were developed in stature on the campus.

Edmund Aycock has been welcomed to Raleigh as a member of the farm group at Wachovia Bank, joining the staff of Wayne Corpening.

Lemuel Goode is receiving acclaim by sheep men for having developed a new type of polled Dorset sheep. The Dorset breed is becoming of greater importance in this state since sheep growing is on the increase and the livestock folks look for this new breed to fill a real need. The polled characteristics have been fixed by careful breeding.

A.C. Kimrey, retired dairy specialist, is honored by his three sons in the establishment of the $300 scholarship to State College. The scholarship is available to those 4-H Club boys interested in dairy husbandry, and was awarded to W.J. Lindley Jr. of Alamance County as the first winner. “Joe Billy” is a member of the Eli Whitney 4-H Club and one of the leading club members in his home county.

It’s easy to see why Charlie Jackson of Person remains in the heavyweight class. Recently he and Tom Hobgood, fellow assistant agent, stopped by the home of the Archie Denny’s at dinnertime and allowed themselves to be persuaded to stay for the meal. “We consumed a round of fresh vegetables, corn bread, meats and then topped it all off with strawberries and ice cream,” Charley says, and we likewise expect him to just happen to be at the same farm again about meal time in the very near future.

John Wrinn tells of a wonderful remuda owned by V.T. Watkins of Macon County and thereby sent this editorial staff on a mad rush to their Websters.

Here’s a bet you didn’t know either. On Washington’s birthday, Tom Brandon of Martin County had been a county agent for 37 years, 4 months, and 23 days and for that day he called a farm meeting. He sent cards to those supposed to be there. He announced the meeting four times on his radio program, and he had a piece in the Williamston Enterprise. Not a soul showed up but Tom.

Our manners to Florence Cox and Mary Harris as they assume their new duties as district agents in the eastern and western districts respectively. And at this writing, Mrs. Mary Lee McAllister, southeastern district agent, is seriously ill at Monroe.

A worthy tribute to W.H. Darst, veteran seedsman, first man to be presented with the bronze plaque of the North Carolina Crop Improvement Association for services in promoting the production and planting of certified crop seeds in North Carolina.

Furney Todd is new specialist in plant diseases; W.L. Turner, new man in public affairs extension; Miss Josephine Cusick, new specialist in home and farm development approach; D.G. Harwood Jr., new specialist in farm management; and W.Glenn Tussey, new cotton marketing specialist…all well-trained and hard workers.

Seventy-one successful livestock schools held this past winter, says Jack Kelley.

Sam Dobson talked pastures and grazing crops at the dairy schools and believes he reached about as many dairymen with one television appearance over WUNC-TV as he did at all the schools.

Dean I.O. Schaub’s informal history of the Experiment Station is being well received over the state and nation…a good job, prepared with the Dean’s usual efficiency, and done with that personal touch which this master of agricultural education can give so efficiently.

Mrs. Hattie Smith credits us with 3,718 newspaper recoveries for March with the 4-H Clubs and Club Week heading the list with 1,304 clippings. Did you see Joe Powell’s latest photo adorning the pages of the Smith-Douglas house organ as the editors attempted to answer the question, “What is a county agent?” Certainly they could have found no better answer.

A great meeting of the North Carolina Negro Home Demonstration Council in Raleigh on March 30 when more than 3,000 leaders gathered in the city’s Memorial auditorium to plan their work for 1955 and to hear reports of progress from over the state. We tip our badly weathered hat to Northampton, Nash, Lee, Franklin and Watauga counties for their well-prepared books on the united farm or Challenge program in those five counties.

Orchids too go to Ralph Mills, temperamental photographer in our Visual Aids section, for being selected as its “Tarheel of the Week” by Raleigh’s morning paper, Bill Humphries’ News and Observer.

News comes from Alamance that C.F. “Chick” Parrish has instituted a new baby sitting service in the Poultry Extension Office. Chick himself is quite adept at the job, said one Alamance mother who attended the poultry school at Graham.

Walter Kulash authors a comprehensive review of work being done with insecticide-fertilizer mixtures in Farm Chemicals for March. The furrow matched this with an interesting summary of J.C. Brown’s news material on the successful North Carolina Nickels for Know-How campaign last fall.

So glad you enjoyed Easter…We did, too.

Local News from Watauga County, April 25, 1901

"Local News" from the Watauga Democrat, April 25, 1901

 

Rev. Jones filled his regular appointment in Boone on Sunday.

Mr. A.J. Moretz is offering for sale under mortgage a steam saw mill and fixtures.

The meeting of Camp No. 1273 United Confederate Veterans is postponed until May 11.

Miss Minnie Farthing of New River, who has been at Banner Elk for some time, returned to her home last week.

Mr. Rudacil Vannoy and Miss Ida M. Norris, daughter of Mr. Smith Norris, were married at the residents of the groom at Horton on Tuesday morning.

The stockholders annual meeting of the Caldwell and Watauga Turnpike Co. will be held at Blowing Rock on May 8.

It is feared by some that the fruit crop is seriously damaged by the protracted cold weather; but many others think that the crop is not hurt.

Reports from the county of Wilkes are to the effect that much of the land on the river, just planted in corn, was almost ruined by the high water last week.

Mr. John T. McNeil and wife of Condiff, Texas, arrived at the home of Mr. Holland Hodges, father of Mrs. McNeil, this week, and will, we are told, spend the summer in Watauga.

Mr. H.H. Farthing has applied for a library for Timbered Ridge District under the school law, he being the first in the county take advantage of its liberal provisions.

Rev. W.R. Bradshaw of Wilkesboro preaches the annual sermon at Watagua Academy at 11 a.m . Tomorrow. Mr. T.C. Bowie, who was expected to deliver the address, cannot be present owing to the extreme illness of his sister.

Our townsman Prof. W.M. Francum will teach at Silverstone this summer, beginning on Monday, May 13. There is no better teacher in the county than he and that community has acted wisely in procuring his services.

We are indeed sorry to hear of the unfortunate condition of friend J.S. Mast of Cove Creek. He is almost entirely helpless and we are told that his mind is almost dethroned. An attendant at his bed side is necessary at all times.

The snow measured 10 inches on a level on Howard's Knob Tuesday morning and we are told that snow drifts to the depth of several feed are in some parts of the county. This is easily the heaviest snow-fall of the winter.

We are told that during the freshet last week, the barn of Mr. Quincy McGuire on New River was lifted from its foundation and nicely carried off on the surging waters. Fortunately, he succeeded in getting his stock removed before the vessel sailed.

The Portland Oregon papers give an account of the trial and conviction of Jas. Greene, late of Watauga, for the murder of one Benjamin, while under the influence of whiskey. The jury was only out for a short time and returned a verdict of murder in the first degree. The attorneys for the defense have asked for an appeal.

A farmer in this county owns a brood of eight pigs, four of which have no lower jaw. It is suggested by an anti-stock law man that the little "rooters" had no use for either mouth or jaw as many of the swinish tribe in Watauga are doomed to starve under the law he considers so oppressive, and possibly they are not very unfortunate at last.

Ella M. Green Reports on Life in Huntington, West Virginia, 1901

Letter from Ella M. Green, now living in Huntington, West Virginia, as published in the Watauga Democrat, April 25, 1901

 

Here I am again begging for a short space in the dear old Democrat. True I have kept silent for quite a while, but please to not charge my heart with forgetfulness. I have often contemplated writing, but procrastination has robbed me of my good intentions.

We have had only a winter in name here, with no frost, ice, and but little snow. Our spring has been like an Eastern spring. True we have had quite a bit of rain, but by no means constantly. The flowers are now appearing, and the hills will soon be covered with a mantle of glory. In summer rain is very scarce, is eagerly looked for an joyously welcomed. We have been having a very stiff breeze which did not hesitate to knock off our hats and fling dust into all exposed eyes, and dance around with untiring energy and persistency. Still no fairer summer could be wished for than that which reigns here, and with the sparkling champagne of the clear, dry air, we forget to sigh for a summer shower to lay the dust. All I could say in praise of this place would fail to do it justice. To know its charms, you must behold these peculiarly lovely mountains and feel this delightful air on your own brow.

Farmers are all very busy preparing for crops. Cross ties are so very low now, I think there will be more crops raised this year than last.

Quite an epidemic of fever now, and quite a small pox scare in the town. The town is now quarantined.

This is a very lovely place with about 13,000 inhabitants. The streets are constantly filled with a never ceasing stream of people.

30 Murders Every Day in US, 1901

From the Watauga Democrat, April 25, 1901

 

Someone has estimated that there are 30 murders committed in the United States every day. More than one every hour. This is certainly shocking to contemplate.

Rev. Munday Should Choose Between Alcohol and Preaching, 1901

"Rev. Joe Munday on a Drunk," originally printed in the Morganton Herald and reprinted in the Watauga Democrat, April 25, 1901

 

Our exchanges give an account of Joe Munday on a bender in Salisbury, and his arraignment before the mayor of Statesville on the charge of drunk and disorderly. Too bad, too bad. Evil minded people, always glad of a handle to hit the church and clergy, will use this as a text. It is nothing but the weakness of the poor fellow powerless to shake himself from the grip of the devil of habit.

Joe ought to make an election between the two and quit drinking or preaching. A preacher can do a lot of things and hold his job--drinking is not one of them. He can dodge his debts, swap horses, talk scandal, hound a brother preacher to ruin, worry his wife by flirting with pretty women, tell jokes that need a Turkish bath--but he mustn't drink.

Mill River News, April 6, 1911

"Mill River News" by "Grey Eyes," from the French Broad Hustler, Thursday, April 6, 1911

 

Mr. R.M. Reid is now installing gas lights in his new boarding house, which he expects to open by June 15.

The sound of the saw and hammer in this community makes a fellow feel like he was living in Hendersonville.

Mr. C.P. Barnette, contractor and builder, is now erecting a rock wall around J.T. Davenport's store.

Triger Brittain has returned from Orlando, Fla., and is now placing his feet under paps table three times a day.

Floyd Osborne has organized a company to build a race path for home horse races for the summer attraction. He has a horse that can make one mile in four minutes on the public road.

The people were very much disappointed Sunday morning at Mills River Chapel, where a large crowd had gathered to hear Mr. Breeding of Hendersonville, but he failed to come. Mr. Jamison filled his place.

--Grey Eyes

Enfield, North Carolina, 1938

These photos from the Library of Congress were taken in Enfield, North Carolina, in April, 1938.

Mrs. A.M. Gover Expanding Her Hotel, The Kentucky House, 1911

"Mrs. A.M. Gover Expanding Her Hotel," from the French Broad Hustler, Thursday, April 6, 1911

 

This season the Kentucky House will be known as a 75-room hotel. Mrs. A.M. Gover, the proprietoress, has succeeded in leasing the two handsome cottages owned by Postmaster B. Jackson for the coming season and will conduct one of the most fashionable hotels of this city.

Since starting the boarding house business in Hendersonville many years ago Mrs. Gover has received a steady increase and enlarged her boarding house capacity until now she has one of the handsomest houses in the town and will conduct her business under three roofs this season.

The two cottages of Mr. Jackson are now undergoing some very extensive improvement and by June will be in a condition for occupancy. The spacious dining room of the house formerly known as the Marion will be converted into a ballroom where the many young people and guests of the hotel will enjoy dancing every night. During the past winter months the Kentucky Home has been taxed to its utmost to accommodate the business of winter tourists and with the rush of the summer season the proprietress has decided to increase the capacity.

The total capacity of the hotel will be in the neighborhood of from 250 to 300 guests, including some out-side roomers.

Hendersonville Restaurants Closed After Police Found Whiskey, 1911

"292 Bottles of Booze Found in the City Blind Tigers," from the French Broad Hustler, Thursday, April 6, 1911

 

The above was the result of a raid made last Monday afternoon by Chief Maxwell and Police Garren on the Dixie Café situated on Main Street and on the Central Café situated on 3rd Avenue. This is not the first time that the Dixie has been found guilty of doing the blind tiger act and the place has anything but a very savory reputation, according to reports that we have often heard of that took place in this café. So far as we know this is the first time that the Central has been pulled for selling whiskey, but the fact that whiskey was found in the place puts it on a par with the other joint. Such places are a stench and an abomination to all decent and law abiding citizens, and the people that conduct such places are anything but desirable citizens.

Willie Black, Chas Bryant and others of Asheville must show cause why their license for selling near-beer and conducting a restaurant in Hendersonville should not be revoked by the city council, at a meeting of the council next Monday morning at 10 o'clock.

This was the decision rendered at a special session of the aldermen Wednesday here in the city hall. This meeting was held for the purpose of hearing the complaint of Messrs Black and Bryant, but the defendants were absent and sent a petition asking that the town authorities retract their steps in closing the doors of the restaurants after a raid made several days awo when it was alleged that a large quantity of liquor was found on the premises. The petition stated that if the town council would not push the case that the said Black would conduct his place of business in this town in a clean manner allowing the police to make a daily inspection, etc.

The aldermen voted that Black must appear before them and show cause why his license should not be revoked. There was a large delegation of leading citizens of the town at the trial Wednesday and who expect to watch the proceedings closely.

 

Selma, Smithfield and Manchester, N.C., 1939

From North Carolina: A Guide to the Old North State, published by the North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development in 1939, and available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=dQDwh9Ep6jAC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q=137&f=false.

 

Selma, population 1,857, is an industrial town with two textile mills. The section north of the Southern Rail tracks is known as Old Mr. Adkinson's Deer Park. Here a spring attracted deer before the town was established. Near Mitchiner's Station, the early name of the village, a detachment of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's Confederates, retreating from Bentonville in March 1865, fought a rearguard action.

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Smithfield, population 2,543, seat of Johnston County, is a tobacco-market town on a bluff above the Neuse River. The town's most cherished tradition is that in 1789 it missed becoming the capital of North Carolina  by only one vote. The assembly in 1746 created the county and named it for Gabriel Johnston, Governor under the Crown (1734-52), and also set up St. Patrick's Parish of the Church of England, coextensive with the county. Founded in 1770, Smithfield was named for Col. John Smith (1687-1777), an early settler from Virginia who was a delegate to the Halifax convention and who owned the land on which the town was built. In Colonial days the town was the head of navigation on the Neuse.

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Manchester, population 49, once a turpentine shipping point on Lower Little River, is the site of Holly Hill, now occupied by a story-and-a-half house. It was the Murchison family seat from the days when Kenneth Murchison, a Revolutionary soldier, erected his home in a magnificent grove of hollies.

 

Compulsory Smallpox Vaccinations and Other News From Across N.C., 1904

News from around North Carolina as published in the Wilmington Messenger, Friday, April 22, 1904

 

Durham Sun--A willing obedience to the compulsory vaccination law, which goes into effect tomorrow, will greatly relieve the strain of the situation in Durham, and aid materially in checking and stamping out the disease which has caused so much talk in our city. The situation is brightening. It is pretty well in hand and physicians are more hopeful. Let all work together for the last round in boxing up the smallpox and getting it out of our community. The law is to be enforced--and everyone who is opposing vaccination might as well make up their mind to join in cheerfully.

 

Durham Herald--There were 18 cases before the mayor yesterday morning charged with failing to vaccinate. Only three of these were convicted, the others proving that they have complied with the laws and inoculated themselves with the viruses. Today there will be about 40 cases, Chief Woodall being busy with most of yesterday making out warrants and removing from the list the names of those who appeared before him with certificates. He said that he would have close to 40 cases this morning. On the list of those not vaccinated are near 500 names. These will all be arrested and carried before the court unless they prove that they have complied with the law, and did it prior to the time when the limit has expired.

 

Mooresville Enterprise--Just as we go to press The Enterprise is informed that several families are moving to town from Concord in order to escape the compulsory vaccination that is in vogue there. We print the information as a new item, without suggestion.

 

Tarboro Southerner--Monday morning Eli Felton, who superintends the Howell farm, was attacked by a vicious mad dog. The fierce canine desperately attempted to bite Mr. Felton, and having no weapon nearby with which to kill the dog, he was compelled to use his fist. Mr. Felton succeeded in keeping the dog off, and finally procured his shotgun and sent his canineship to the "happy hunting ground."

 

Wadesboro Messenger-Intelligencer--Joe Bennett Brasington, the 4-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. W.T. Brasington, died Monday afternoon under circumstances more than ordinarily sad. Just two weeks before his death the little fellow stuck a nail in his food, but the wound apparently healed in a few days, and his parents felt no alarm at all until last Thursday night, at which time the child complained of his foot paining him, and a physician was sent for, but blood poison had already set in and he grew rapidly worse until his death.

 

Raleigh Times--Yesterday we took a little trip to the country. On the farm of Mr. P.H. Mangum, which, by the way, is probably the best managed of any other in the entire state, were 20 hands picking out cotton, and the field was as white as if it had been November. On the farm of Dr. H.H. Harris, which adjoins that of Mr. Mangum, were at least a dozen picking out the last of the doctor's cotton crop. By the way, most of Dr. Harris' last crop is yet unginned, showing he must possess great faith in the continued high price of cotton.

 

Wadesboro Messenger-Intelligencer--It will be a source of great satisfaction to every citizen of Wadesboro to learn that the Wadesboro cotton mill will not be sold. It will be remembered that the mill was recently placed in the hands of Mr. W.C. Hardison as receiver, and it was thought that the property would have to be sold. But after the receiver took charge a number of gentlemen came to the rescue of the mill, and a proposition was made to the court Tuesday. The court will make an order in accordance with the proposition. All persons connected with the mill are glad of this move.

 

The Robesonian--At his home near Ashpole on Monday Mr. Alex Andrews, one of our country's most honored citizens, passed away after three months of suffering in the 86th year of his age. He had been in a critical condition for a long while and his death was not unexpected.

 

Newton Enterprise--In Hickory on Wednesday of last week, Mrs. Perry Baker, who was engaged in some work in the garden or yard, missed her little girl, about two years old, and went into the house to look for her. She found her lying on the floor, burned to death. It is supposed that the child set her clothes afire with matches.

 

Greensboro Record--A visit to the plantation of Farmer Tate, two miles from the city, is interesting. He has 200 acres and raises general crops but just now is turning his attention to chickens, hatching them by the incubator process, in which he has been wonderfully successful. He has a hundred or two little fellows in the brood house at present, with 20 dozen in the incubators, due to come off soon. Mr. Tate has a hundred or more fine chickens about a year old and hopes by June to have half a thousand or more. He is also raising turkeys on a small scale.

 

Wadesboro Messenger-Intelligencer--Mr. Jas. T. Moore of McFarlan raised a laugh in the court house Tuesday while being examined by Mr. John  T. Bennett as to his ability to read writing. The old gentleman, after being energetically pressed for some time, finally admitted that he could not decipher the writing of lawyers but that he could make out to read that of other people.

 

Charlotte Chronicle--The Raleigh Times asks the pertinent question: "Is the betting on baseball gambling? If so, why are people allowed to carry it on without so much notice being taken of it by the officers of the law? It is a fact that some of the biggest gambling ever done in Charlotte has been done on the baseball ground and this sort of gambling is done openly and before the eyes of all people. Is it gambling? Of course. It is of the evening dress sort and is immune from arrest."

 

Elm City Elevator--The shipment of trucks from the section south of Goldsboro an from the territory along the Atlantic & N.C. railroad is becoming quite heavy now. Train No. 48 on the Atlantic Coast Line has to be run in two sections nearly every day to handle the extra express.

 

Newton Enterprise--Judge Shaw at Morganton court Tuesday issued a bench warrant for Sheriff Killian and Jailer Holler on account of the escape of Charlie Campbell. The preliminary hearing will perhaps be in Morganton this week. If they are bound over to court, the case will be tried in this county. Since Campbell is dead, it would be better to let the matter drop. The officers, if guilty of anything, are only guilty of showing mercy ot a man on the brink of the grave. We hope the case will not cause Messrs. Killian and Holler any inconvenience.

 

Burlington Herald--An exchange suggests that the mob spirit got heady and attempted to lynch a negro in Hickory Saturday night demonstrated itself at the close of a carnival week in that town. It is said one carnival at a time is all a town can afford.

 

Laurinburg Exchange--Mr. Jno. F. McNair and family, now residing in Laurinburg, finding it necessary to have their church membership transferred from Laurel Hill church to Laurinburg, have shown in a very substantial way their affection for the old mother church and pastor in that Mr. McNair has donated to said church the sum of $2,500. The interest accruing from this sum keeps up his annual subscription to the pastor's salary, and in addition gives a liberal annual contribution to the pastor as an individual. The balance of interest is to be divided among the various benevolent causes of the church.

 

Lumberton Argus--Judge J.M. Hill, son of the late General D.H. Hill, has been nominated by the Democrats of Arkansas for chief justice of the supreme court of that state. This Judge Hill is Joseph Morrison Hill of Charlotte. He was one of the youngest children of General Hill, the intrepid warrior and the post-bellum editor of "The Land We Love." He is a resident of Fort Smith, Arkansas, and about 37 years old.

 

Monroe Enquirer--Milk or butter that is fit to use in this section is from cows that stand in barn yards or stables and do not go in pasture. The wild onion, which flourishes like the green bay tree and grows more plentiful year by year is a fine thing for cows and makes them give lots of milk and butter of a kind--but the kind is something terrible. The wild onion is spreading so rapidly that it is getting to be a great nuisance. Milk and butter are not the only commodities for which the wild onion ruins, for a great deal of flour is made unfit for table use by it.

 

Charlotte Chronicle--For several weeks past there has been more war between certain North Carolina newspapers than there has been between Russia and Japan. Now we are concerned to see that Editor Bailey of The Biblical Recorder and Editor Furman of The Raleigh Post are making moves that indicate a reaching for their respective guns, and all on account of the Watts law. This is just about as poor a thing as they could spill ink over at the present time, for law is law, and we beg them to desist.

 

News and Courier--Here it is again! The Rev. Dr. E. Benjamin Andrews, chancellor of the Nebraska state university at Lincoln, delivered a lecture to the students of the Medical college some days ago in which he took issue with President Roosevelt on the race suicide issue. In the opinion of Dr. Andrews 10 children are too many for a person of ordinary means, but it is the duty of the well-to-do to raise large families of children. We are not so sure about that. It might be well for the president to recommend in a special message to Congress the passage of a law offering large bounty to families having more than 10 children in them. If a business is to be made of it, it deserves encouragement from the government on the ground that for the last 100 years the government has stretched its powers in aid of infant industries.

 

The Exchange--There is a bright side even to sorrows that are real, unless, indeed, our folly convinces us that hope has fled the world. The troubles and misfortunes that do not chasten are ever and always the children of folly. Whatever is chastening is for our good, and well for us if it should lead to humility. The world is very bright to those beautiful souls that go through it without pride or vain-glory. Poverty, illness, affliction, the misfortunes that swarm about is, the failures that invest us,t he losses that come to us now and again, lose all their keenness if we keep in view the duties we owe to others. To the mind rightly tunes to the vexatious affairs of this world, even sorrow moulds itself into a form of happiness.

 

Greensboro Record--Strikes were not unknown in this locality as far back as 1850, for in overhauling the papers in the clerk's office a case was found where the hands, some 12 or 15, at Fentress mine, went out on a strike for eight hours a day. The men presented a demand in writing, telling the company what they wanted and informing them that if their demands were not granted, they expected to close up the mine, whereupon they were indicted for conspiracy, convicted and fined, after which peace seems to have reigned, for work went on. Strikes and lockouts are deemed of rather recent date in this country at least, but the court records show differently.

 

Wilson, World's Largest Bright-Leaf Tobacco Market, 1939

From North Carolina: A Guide to the Old North State, published by the North Carolina Department of Concervation and Development in 1939, and available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=dQDwh9Ep6jAC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q=137&f=false.

 

Wilson, with a population of 12,613, is the largest bright-leaf tobacco market in the world and the seat of Wilson County. It was named for Col. Louis d. Wilson. The county, formed in 1855, was settled largely by Irish and English families who came from Virginia as early as 1790.

 Uptown, Nash is a narrow and bustling business street, but west of Pine Street it broadens into a mile-long, tree-shaded arcade3 through a section of comfortable homes surrounded by landscaped lawns and gardens. The industrial section has cotton and fertilizer factories, 10 stemmeries and redrying plants [related to processing tobacco], and eight tobacco warehouses, including sprawling Smith's Warehouse, called the world's largest.

 Tobacco, the State's first commercial crop, originally produced only for export, was packed in huge hogsheads and rolled through the woods to water-edge inspection houses where sailor-buyers broke open the casks for examination before bargaining. This gave rise to the warehouse auction system still used and the practice of terming it a "break" though the loose leaf method is now employed.

 When the graded tobacco "hands" are "in order," the farmer hauls them to market. The warehouses are one-story buildings with plenty of open floor space and numerous skylights to allow natural lighting, as tobacco is judged for color as well as for texture and aroma. Lots are piled in shallow baskets and arranged in rows down which pass the auctioneer and buyers. The procedure moves so swiftly that more than 300 lots are sold in an hour and 86,000,000 pounds have been sold in a season. However, a visitor may watch the sale without understanding a word of the auctioneer's patter and without hearing a single word spoken by a buyer, as a mere gesture or change of expression indicates a bid to the watchful seller.

 A tobacco festival and exposition are held annually in August.

 Wilson's manufactured products include cotton yarns, cottonseed meal and oil, fertilizers, bale covering, bus bodies, and wagons. The town maintains a radio broadcasting station, WGTM, 1310 kc.

 The Wilson County Courthouse, Nash and Goldsboro Streets, three stories and attic high, was built in 1924 in neoclassic design, replacing a building erected in 1855.

 Fronting on Whitehead and Lee Streets is the 12-acre campus of the Atlantic Christian College, incorporated in 1902, a coeducational institution with 350 students, operated by the North Carolina Christian Church. The buildings of brown brick are of various styles. The adjoining Jacksonville Farm was bought by the school in 1914.

 Natives of Wilson were Dempsey Bullock (1863-1928), local poet and historian, and Henry Groves Connor (1952-1924), Associate Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court and Federal district judge. Two son of Judge Connor attained prominence: George W. Connor, Associate Justice of the North Carolina Supreme court (1924-38), and Robert D.W. Connor, first U.S. Archivist (1934-  ). Josephus Daniels, wartime Secretary of the Navy and Ambassador to Mexico (1933-   ), lived in Wilson as a boy; his mother was postmistress of the town for years.

Wilson is at the junction of State 58 and US 264.

Between Wilson and the South Carolina Line US 301 swings along the edge of the fertile Piedmont Plateau. Forests of longleaf and shortleaf pine are sprinkled with oak, maple, ash, and gum. Shallow streams have worn sloping ravines in many places.

Wage War on Food Waste to Help Win the War, 1944

"Wage War on Food Waste," an editorial from the April 1944 issue of The Southern Planter. There was even a serious shortage of sutures to close soldiers wounds at the time this editorial was written. Sutures were made from animal intestines.

The average family in the orient could live well on food wasted by the average American family. Elimination of food waste in this country would go a long way toward relieving the food shortage at home and insuring against hunger. It is estimated that one-sixth of all food prepared in the United States goes into the garbage pail. If to this is added that lost from spoilage enroute and that destroyed by insects and diseases on farms, the figure becomes appalling.

Insect damage annually amounts to $2,000,000,000, and crop and livestock losses are equally destructive. Internal parasites of sheep, easily and economically eliminated by mixing a pounds* of phenothiazine to each 11 pounds of lick salt.

The shortage of sutures is extremely serious. Some 15,000,000 sutures are used by surgeons for closing wounds.

Grubs infesting the back of cattle damaged many pounds of beef in 1942 and ruined leather to supply shoes for front-line soldiers. Cattle grubs can be eradicated by dosing the backs of cattle with equal parts of sulphur and 5 percent rotenone.

Four out of every 10 pigs born never go to market; feed and labor going into the dead pigs are wasted.

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*It does read "a pounds," so I don’t know the correct proportion. Not that any reader is using recommendations from a 1944 article to treat livestock or crops.

Sheep Pay Off for C.H. Honeycutt of Mars Hill, 1944

"Sheep Best Paying Unit," by F.H. Jeter, Extension Editor at N.C. State College, Raleigh, in the April 1944 issue of The Southern Planter

Again comes evidence that the small farm flock of sheep is one of the best paying units on the well-balanced North Carolina farm. C.H. Honeycutt of Mars Hill, Route 1, owns 10 ewes from which he received a 140 percent lamb crop last year. He sold 12 of the 14 lambs, grading blue, for $149.27 and retained the two best ewe lambs for replacement.


His wool clip amounted to 65 pounds and was sold for $28.30, making a total income of $177.57 from the 10 sheep for the year. Mr. Honeycutt says the animals required very little attention. He kept them on a good pasture, treated them for parasites, provided a creep for feeding the lambs, and fed liberal amounts of good legume hay to his ewes during the winter. He gives this as a sound formula for success with the farm flock.

Students Demand Resignation of University President, 1919

"Students Demand Resignation of President Riddick and Restoration of Ag. Program at the Agricultural and Engineering College" (today’s N.C. State University), by W.T. "Tom" Bost, from the Elizabeth City Independent, April 18, 1919

Raleigh, April 17—Student ultimatum to President Riddick of the Agricultural and Engineering College, demanding his resignation by noon of yesterday, unfortunately was a manifesto disproportionate to the war itself, for Dr. Riddick was not in town to receive the terms.


It is a wonderfully ramified story. The boys, perhaps 200 of the 500 enrolled, predicated their rebellion on the manifest purpose of the administrative to cut the agricultural course to the bone. Three professors teaching in that division have either gone or will go. The boys sent a memorial demanding that the President go and insisting that agriculture be restored to its pristine glory.

It’s politics of course, the kind of skullduggery that made Saunders utter a philippic when he returned home from a 60-day sojourn in the city of easy legislative licker. The college in West Raleigh and the department of agriculture are enemies. They watch each other and when the college is not plotting an annexation scheme whereby the agricultural work would go out to the college; the agricultural department is deploring the inharmony out there and suggesting that the institution should cut out agriculture, thus putting the emphasis upon engineering.

Two years ago the legislature changed the name of the college from the Agricultural and Mechanical College to North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering. There was a student conspiracy to call this institution "State College." While raged the Battle of Marne Raleigh staged the battle of the name. War lasted weeks until there was an armistice signed. Then it was agreed that everyone should stop calling it "State College" without adding "of agriculture and engineering." President Riddick liked the change; everybody drifted into saying "State College" and soon went out the word that city chaps were ashamed of having attended a rube institution.

Ever since that foolish episode, there has been a tendency to saddle indifference to agriculture on Dr. Riddick who is an engineer and may lean to his line. Coupled with this was the 1919 fight for changing the location of the college from Raleigh to West Raleigh. President Riddick knowing that he stacked up against an irrepressible down-town lobby, made himself conspicuously unpopular during the debates. He lost all; the department of agriculture gained everything.

Without any spokesmen who would sign his statement, it is declared by collegians in West Raleigh that there is a systematic campaign against the college. The student episode is believed to be one of them. The first evidence of a student in the name of agriculture is the insurgency against Riddick. There is hardly any doubt who put the boys up to their memorial, but further than the general knocking of the college by the department employees in Raleigh there is nobody under suspicion.


Rough Neck Hazing
While students and their teachers quarrel, up-towners are very sore over an epidemic of hazing and roughneck exhibitions at the college.

Raleigh boys who have been attending school and rooming at the college have been forced to return to their homes in Raleigh. The mode of hazing is said to be intensely objectionable. It takes the form of hair clipping, painting naked bodies, blacking men all over and penetrating tricks rowdyism which interfere with the study of decent students. Twenty members of the freshman class are said to have been driven away and to spend their time at home. The maternal apron string never was so popular as it has become since the academic Bolshevists took the college captive.

Farm and Home News From Across North Carolina, April 1955

"Personal Mention" by Frank Jeter as published in the April 1955 issue of Extension Farm-News
"The Colonel is gone," they said on the State College campus early that Sunday morning March 13. Those words held a note of poignant sadness, because the Colonel had grown through the years, grown in strength, maturity and ability; grown in the love and esteem of those who had known him through the long years he had served State College and the State of North Carolina; grown in the hearts of his friends; and grown in the respect of those who had followed his career as educator and public servant over the years. Colonel John W. Harrelson was fatally stricken giving one last service to the college he loved so well as he took part in dedicating the new D.H. Hill Library on Saturday evening, March 12. No greater monument can be erected to his memory than the one he himself constructed in the hearts of those who knew him and had worked with him. The building he helped to dedicate is only one part of the tremendous physical expansion of a State College plant which bloomed to its highest fruition under his constant and intense cultivation.

Then, we have the high honor of another winner of the O. Max Gardner Award…Dr. Z.P. Metcalf, scientist, scholar, friend and educator, received the grant and citation at the dinner concluding the Third Conference on the State of The University and thus joins the ranks of those whom Governor Gardner sought to reward for their services to the state and to mankind. Dr. Metcalf joins an illustrious group, which includes another faculty member of this College, Dr. D.B. Anderson.

The most talked about event of the spring was the late and devastating freeze which wiped out North Carolina’s peach crop and heavily injured all early berries, vegetables, and flowers. The mountain apple crop was severely injured and it appears now that North Carolinians will eat imported fruit this season. The vegetables were replanted.

In Duplin County, the most talked about event of the spring was the dedication of its new $40,000 office addition to the County Agricultural Building in Kenansville. Credit Melvin Cording, sacrificial public-spirited dairyman, as one of the moving spirits in getting the new building and in laboring with the county commissioners, agricultural workers, tax payers and others, to have a farm building that matches in utility the new health center, also built through the same cooperative enterprise. No one happier than Vernon Reynolds, Mrs. Pauline Johnson, and their associates on the Duplin Extension staff. Credit also that solid citizen Ellis Vestal for much of the hard work done in getting the new addition. It is the result of a wonderful understanding and cooperation among the people of the county.

E.J. Simpson says you ought to see his new bulletin rack. Bill Lewis and the folks in Wilson are shouting aloud in their glee over new Extension quarters, about a mile and a half out of town and accessible to all roads, with plenty of parking space, and an auditorium seating 250 persons comfortably.

In his time of joy, however, Bill and the other Extension personnel, were saddened by the passing of Carter Washington Foster, former Negro County Agent of Wilson County for 13 years and one of the great leaders of his race in North Carolina. C.W. Foster made a great contribution to the advancement of all rural people in the county.

No better district meeting of North Carolina home demonstration clubs than the one held in Pittsboro on April 6 by the clubs of the 14th District. You never saw such a full auditorium of well-dressed ladies (the next Sunday was Easter, you know) and they had a real meeting. Mrs. C.W. Lutterloch, District Chairman, presided with that simple grace and dignity which seems typical of the demonstration club women of this state.^.

Lady Astor carried back to England a jar or two of sorghum molasses grown by Charley Gardner of Ashe and cooked by Wiley Severt of the Beaver Creek section. Word came that the noble lady of Virginia might perhaps swap a jar of the homemade molasses with good Queen Elizabeth, provided the Queen throws in plenty of "boot." Charley gave the molasses to his sister-in-law Mrs. J.W. Dupree who is Governor Hodges’ secretary, and she in turn provided the syrup when the Governor needed to present Lady Astor with a real treat.

Word comes from Dr. J.O. Halverson, former animal nutritionist of the Experiment Station and now in Tucson, Arizona, telling of the passing there of James W. Johansen in late March. Mr. Johansen was an Extension economist at State College until 1948 and a valued staff member for a number of years when farm management and farm economics were developed in stature on the campus.

Edmund Aycock has been welcomed to Raleigh as a member of the farm group at Wachovia Bank, joining the staff of Wayne Corpening.

Lemuel Goode is receiving acclaim by sheep men for having developed a new type of polled Dorset sheep. The Dorset breed is becoming of greater importance in this state since sheep growing is on the increase and the livestock folks look for this new breed to fill a real need. The polled characteristics have been fixed by careful breeding.

A.C. Kimrey, retired dairy specialist, is honored by his three sons in the establishment of the $300 scholarship to State College. The scholarship is available to those 4-H Club boys interested in dairy husbandry, and was awarded to W.J. Lindley Jr. of Alamance County as the first winner. "Joe Billy" is a member of the Eli Whitney 4-H Club and one of the leading club members in his home county.

It’s easy to see why Charlie Jackson of Person remains in the heavyweight class. Recently he and Tom Hobgood, fellow assistant agent, stopped by the home of the Archie Denny’s at dinnertime and allowed themselves to be persuaded to stay for the meal. "We consumed a round of fresh vegetables, corn bread, meats and then topped it all off with strawberries and ice cream," Charley says, and we likewise expect him to just happen to be at the same farm again about meal time in the very near future.

John Wrinn tells of a wonderful remuda owned by V.T. Watkins of Macon County and thereby sent this editorial staff on a mad rush to their Websters.

Here’s a bet you didn’t know either. On Washington’s birthday, Tom Brandon of Martin County had been a county agent for 37 years, 4 months, and 23 days and for that day he called a farm meeting. He sent cards to those supposed to be there. He announced the meeting four times on his radio program, and he had a piece in the Williamston Enterprise. Not a soul showed up but Tom.

Our manners to Florence Cox and Mary Harris as they assume their new duties as district agents in the eastern and western districts respectively. And at this writing, Mrs. Mary Lee McAllister, southeastern district agent, is seriously ill at Monroe.

A worthy tribute to W.H. Darst, veteran seedsman, first man to be presented with the bronze plaque of the North Carolina Crop Improvement Association for services in promoting the production and planting of certified crop seeds in North Carolina.

Furney Todd is new specialist in plant diseases; W.L. Turner, new man in public affairs extension; Miss Josephine Cusick, new specialist in home and farm development approach; D.G. Harwood Jr., new specialist in farm management; and W.Glenn Tussey, new cotton marketing specialist…all well-trained and hard workers.

Seventy-one successful livestock schools held this past winter, says Jack Kelley.

Sam Dobson talked pastures and grazing crops at the dairy schools and believes he reached about as many dairymen with one television appearance over WUNC-TV as he did at all the schools.

Dean I.O. Schaub’s informal history of the Experiment Station is being well received over the state and nation…a good job, prepared with the Dean’s usual efficiency, and done with that personal touch which this master of agricultural education can give so efficiently.

Mrs. Hattie Smith credits us with 3,718 newspaper recoveries for March with the $-H Clubs and Club Week heading the list with 1,304 clippings. Did you see Joe Powell’s latest photo adorning the pages of the Smith-Douglas house organ as the editors attempted to answer the question, "What is a county agent?" Certainly they could have found no better answer.

A great meeting of the North Carolina Negro Home Demonstration Council in Raleigh on March 30 when more than 3,000 leaders gathered in the city’s Memorial auditorium to plan their work for 1955 and to hear reports of progress from over the state. We tip our badly weathered hat to Northampton, Nash, Lee, Franklin and Watauga counties for their well-prepared books on the united farm or Challenge program in those five counties.

Orchids too go to Ralph Mills, temperamental photographer in our Visual Aids section, for being selected as its "Tarheel of the Week" by Raleigh’s morning paper, Bill Humphries’ News and Observer.

News comes from Alamance that C.F. "Chick" Parrish has instituted a new baby sitting service in the Poultry Extension Office. Chick himself is quite adept at the job, said one Alamance mother who attended the poultry school at Graham.

Walter Kulash authors a comprehensive review of work being done with insecticide-fertilizer mixtures in Farm Chemicals for March. The furrow matched this with an interesting summary of J.C. Brown’s news material on the successful North Carolina Nickels for Know-How campaign last fall.

So glad you enjoyed Easter…We did, too.

Who Is a Hero? James Squires Includes Medical Workers Who Sacrifice for Us, 1917

"Who Is a Hero?" by James W. Squires, from the Charlotte Medical Journal, April, 1917

Heroes are those who seek not the praise nor heed the jeers of fellow men.

When human life is about to be sacrificed in fire or flood, or smothered out in some deep mining shaft; without a thought of danger to himself; wealth or station, sex or creed of the other, or anything else; he hasn’t time to think, except of saving life; then he takes his life in his hand, as it were, and to the rescue leaps.

If success his efforts crown, we name him hero and his praise is sung in every land and echoed back form every hill—Hero. He is awarded iron crosses and golden crowns and medals of honorary distinction of every conceivable kind.

If his efforts fail and his own life he loses, they merely say, "Fool—the impossible—he might have known."

How much less a hero is the man who sits in the lonely quiet of his room—his laboratory—with test tube and culture tube, reagents and culture mediums galore; with microscope and X-ray; pouring in and pouring out; working up and working down, winding in and winding out; winding on and winding off in a never-ceasing effort to ascertain the source and nature of disease, and to breed, if possible, an antidote whereby may be saved a million human lives?

If by chance he loses his fingers through X-ray burns; his eyes from fuming gases, or becomes himself infected with deadly germs and his lease on life is early closed in his effort to prolong the lease of thousands more. His body returns to mother earth from which it came—"Ashes to ashes and dust to dust." His bones add strength to the woody fiber of giant oak; his blood paints the cheek of the choicest fruit—the apples that grow on the highest limb, as well as the leaf of the rose that grows on its thorny stem.

No brass band parades; no torchlight processions; no red fire is burnt for him; no costly marble—sculpture decked—is storied with his praise. The world says "He wasn’t a mixer. He wasn’t a business man. He wasn’t a financier. He died poor." The profession to which he belonged and for whose advancement he gave his life—do say, "He thought he was smart."

But his epitaph is written, written, not by the erring pen of man, on parchment to be hidden away and lost, but written by the ready had of an angel. Written in indelible letters of blood, written on the crest of a fleecy cloud, that man and the angels may read, "He Died for Me."

Mrs. Lillie Hammett Has Died, 1915

Obituary for Lillie Hammett from the April 29, 1915, issue of the Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad Hustler, Hendersonville, N.C.

Mrs. Lillie Hammett

Whereas the great supreme Ruler of the universe has in his infinite wisdom removed from among us Mrs. Hammett, the sister of our beloved brother John Salts, and whereas the long and intimate relation held with him in the faithful discharge of his duties in our lodge make it eminently befitting that we record our sympathy for him.

Therefore, be it resolved that the wisdom and ability which he has exercised in the aid of our organization by service, contributes and counsel, will be held in grateful remembrance.

Be it resolved that with deep sympathy with the bereaved relatives of the deceased, we express our hope that ever so great a loss to our beloved brother may be overruled for good by Him who doeth all things well.

Be it resolved that a copy of these resolutions be spread upon the records of this organization, a copy printed in the local paper, and a copy forwarded to the bereaved family.

White Pine Camp, W.O.W., J. Boling, Van Lindsey, G.F. Chaple, committee

Equal Pay for Equal Work? 1919

"Brooks Keeps His Word" by W.T. "Tom" Bost, from the Elizabeth City Independent, April 18, 1919

It is one of the anomalies of Raleigh life that substantially all the war going on is in educational circles.

During the late general assembly an equal-pay-for-equal-service bill was introduced. It did not emerge from committee. Miss Julia Dameron of the North Carolina College for Women faculty, wrote State Superintendent E.C. Brooks down as being against the bill. He admitted killing it, but he was in favor in "principle." The women didn’t believe him.

But Brooks was game. He has a board of institute conductors and examiners working under him. Three are men and three are women. When their salaries were fixed by the executive committee of the teachers’ assembly as the law prescribes the committee recommended that the men draw $2,500 and the women $2,000.

Men became solicitous during the legislature and asked the women if they would be willing to continue the discrimination—the men were. The women committed their fortunes to the men. But a fortnight ago Brooks startled the women by recommending that they be raised to $2,500 and that baring the chairman of the board who directs the work, no man on that board should be raised. That would have made five salaries at $2,500 and one at $3,000.

The men have kicked lustily and for a time it seemed that the committee of the teachers assembly had put Brooks down. He comes again and renews his recommendation. He insists that the women do as much work as the men and he declines to discriminate. Every day or two there is a heated conference. But the men who have been told that they do not do more or better work than do the women, do not accept such indignities. They demand $3,000 and Brooks will not recommend paying it.

So two of the examiners who have been told by the state superintendent that their work is not better than the women’s, demand a new classification and they don’t get it.

Window Screens Keep Tyhpoid Out of North Carolina Homes, 1921

The following poem, written by Dr. R.S. Bailey, Health Officer, Vance County, was on the cover of the April, 1921, issue of The Health Bulletin, published by the North Carolina State Board of Health. Flies carried typhoid, primarily from open surface privies. Residents were being encouraged to have sanitary pit privies and to screen their windows.


Which?

By Dr. R.S. Bailey, Health Officer, Vance County

Just let some one mentioned a bedbug or louse

  To folks who are clean or refined,

They will shudder with horror and clean up the house,

  ‘Till never a bug can you find.

Yet the esthetic creates who feel so disgraced

  When such vermin are found in the home,

Will slap at a house-fly in languid distaste,

  Or let it contentedly roam.

Yet bedbugs and lice carry little disease,

  Only two that we actually know;

Relapsing, the typhus, both on the decrease,

  Excepting in "Poverty Row."

Of all the disgusting, the nasty insects,

  Whose presence should rouse our fears,

The fly is the filthiest thing that infects,

  Bringing death to this valley of tears.

Then train up the children at home and at school

  That the fly is the greatest of foes;

That to fail to destroy them is acting the fool,

  Whose folly will fill up his woes.