A factory of this kind will not only be a help to that community, but also to Hickory and the south as well. Mr. Jensen is a northern man with a lot of pep, and makes a success of anything he undertakes, and we predict great things where he goes along.
(From the Hickory Daily Record, Monday evening, January 31, 1921)
These three meetings were quite enthusiastic, a round table discussion conducted at each one, thus enabling Miss Bayley to give her listeners every detail of the work in that mountain section, and she is confident of receiving generous support from our people from the “old clothes sale” at Crossnore, which is conducted whenever the boxes are received.
While in the city Miss Bayley was the guest of Mrs. Albert Gaither on Main street. Miss Bayley came to Newton from Hickory, where she spoke to the Lenoir College students at chapel Thursday morning.
(From the editorial page of the Hickory Daily Record, Monday evening, January 31, 1921)
The Crossnore School was founded in 1913 by Drs. Eustace and Mary Martin Sloop. It first served as a boarding school for disadvantaged mountain children to live and learn. Today, Crossnore continues today to serve children in need from North Carolina. Children live, learn, and prosper in a loving home environment.
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The last student outbreak, in which practically every yough signed a petition asking for his removal and the election of former Lieut. Gov. O. Max Gardner as president, is more formidable than that two years ago. Under the circumstances—even if the boys are suppressed as “bolshiviki”--the college will be unable to do its best work, and it will not make that progress which it should make in this generation. We have nothing against President Riddick, and we assert that one of the “reasons” the students assign for his removal—his inability to get larger appropriations from the general assembly—do them no credit.
But that probably is a pretext. The real meaning behind the petition lies deeper than that. Is it Dr. Riddick’s inability to inspire faith in his leadership?
(From the editorial page of the Hickory Daily Record, Monday evening, January 31, 1921. N.C. A. & E. College is N.C. State University.)
Raleigh, July 31—Students of State College today made public resolutions drafted by them branding as absolutely false published statements that a petition had been circulated and placed in the hands of the trustees demanding the resignation of Wallace C. Riddick and the appointment of O. Max Gardner as his successor.
“It is our opinion that such propaganda circulated at such a time when the appropriations for the various state institutions are being considered by the joint sub committee of the legislature neither originated from the students or friends of the indtitution,” the statement says.
The resolutions bear the signatures of C.D. Kirkpatrick, president of the senior class, and other class presidents.
(From the front page of the Hickory Daily Record, Monday evening, January 31, 1921)
(From the front page of The Pilot, Vass, N.C., Jan. 28, 1921. Dad's first name was spelled Glyde in the article. It could be Clyde. I also wonder about a 25-pound 6-week-old baby!)
(From the front page of The Pilot, Vass, N.C., Jan. 28, 1921)
(From The Pilot, Vass, N.C., Jan. 28, 1921)
The organization, formed to aid potato growers, has shown high proficiency in cooperation. Last season its activities were confined to the purchasing of 35,000 branded barrel covers and the selling of potatoes. The covers were bought at a saving of $7800, and 126 carload lots of potatoes were sold with a saving of $50,000.
A great growth in cooperative marketing and purchasing has been one of the outstanding results of extension work in the South. County agents, assisted by marketing specialist, through marketing demonstrations and by instruction and advice have aided local and county associations of farmers in the cooperative selling of many kinds of farm produce and live stock, and in the cooperative purchasing of a great variety of farm necessities.
Farmers have gained knowledge of methods and acquired confidence in their ability to do business on a cooperative basis. They are beginning to undertake definite business organizations on a county-wide and even state-wide scale for marketing of their main cash crops, such as cotton, tobacco and peanuts.
Owing to the cooperative work in cotton grading, classing, and stapling and information given as to the market value of the various grades and staples by extension workers, it is estimated that between $1 and $2 million were saved to the cotton farmers in Texas during the year in increased returns.
(From the Williamston Enterprise, Jan. 25, 1921)
Vaccination is the only prevention against the disease, and persons in Hickory, other towns and the county should see physicians and have their arms scratched at once.
Smallpox is a bad thing to have around the house, yard or streets.
(From the Hickory Daily Record, Friday, Jan. 21, 1921)
In 1918, when I started work in the Poultry club, I kept 25 hens and one male bird. I hatched my checks with hens and raised about 150 from which I sold for breeding $25 worth and culled for market $50.
That fall our home demonstration agent brought Mr. Oliver, State Poultry Club Agent, to see my flock, and he advised me to get some fine cockerels for the next season’s work. These he selected for me from birds exhibited at the Charlotte Poultry Show, one of them being a prize winner. With these two males and 38 hens I hatched out 240 chicks and only lost a few. This season my eggs hatched better in consequence of this change.
Circumstances prevented my having a breeding pen built, so I was not able to breed from my selected hens, but sold $25 worth for hatching at $1.50 a setting, and $35.22 worth for market. Int he fall I sold for breeding stock amounting to $58.50. I failed to keep a record of chickens used at home, but sold eggs for market amounting to $32.85.
In the fall of 1919, on Mr. Oliver’s advice, I exhibited at the Lee County Fair, and won first cockrel and first pullet on my Barred Plymouth Rocks.
To July 1 we used at home about 48 pounds of frying-size chicks and sold for market at 60 cents a pound about 33 pounds. I have not sold any for breeding purposes. This season I killed off my old male birds and am now selling infertile eggs for market.
I feel that the help received through joining the poultry club has been of inestimable value and the bulletins dealing with all phases of the poultry work are a good reference library at all times. I followed the general plan for brood coops suggested by the Poultry Club office, having dry, raised floors in all of them. I have a poultry house also. My poultry is on free range and all that I have spent in cash for feed since January 1 is $3. Part of this was for meat scrap during the cold weather. This was ordered for us by our home demonstration agent, four of us dividing 100 pounds.
(As printed in The Mount Airy News, Jan. 20, 1921)
Such a policy is like dropping the pilot just as the ship enters the most dangerous seas. It is like shutting up the light house just as the storm comes on.
The farmers of the south will need the help of the county agent more in 1921 than ever before. And they will use him more than ever before.
In the first place they need his help about production. How much the cotton acreage will be cut is problematical, but it is certainly gong to be cut. Farmers are going to grow a diversity of crops, and they are going to need guidance in new fields of effort. They are also going to grow more livestock, and here especially they will need the help of a thorougly equipped county agent.
No less urgently—in fact, even more urgently, farmers need the help of the county agent in problems of marketing. Big and promising plans for reformed cotton marketing (as well as tobacco marketing and peanut marketing in sections growing these crops) are already under way. The county agent is the man who must do mor ethan anyone else in bringing success to these plans for scientific and profitable marketing. Then, too, in growing corn, hay, hogs, and cattle, farmers will find their diversification program has small profit unless plans for cooperative shipping and selling are worked out. They naturally look to the county agent for leadership in these matters.
For all these reasons the best investment your county can make is to pay enough to get a superbly qualified man to lead your farming forces as county agent in 1921. . . . .
(From the Progressive Farmer magazine, as reprinted on the front page of The Mount Airy News, Jan. 20, 1921)
Principal evidence against Williams was contained in testimony of young Ed Brittain, a son of the murdered man, who was with his father on the night of the tragedy and was the only eye witness to the affair. The young man said he had been chopping wood with his father and dug Mitchell all day Tuesday. On their return home, about dark they passed Williams’ place and Dug called to them that he had an oppossum he would like to sell. Dug went on and Brittain stopped to get some liquor. When Ed knocked at the door Mary Williams answered, telling him to go away, they had no liquor. He knocked again and also immediately a gun was fired through the door facing him, and his father, who was standing in the yard, fell, saying, “Ed, I’m shot.” The youngster Brittain ran for help, going to the home of Dug Mitchell, who lives near.
Officers who were notified as soon as possible were put on the stand this afternoon to tell of finding the body and of the arrest later of Williams at the home of a kinsman, Mike Branch. Deputy L.A. Ward testified first and his evidence was corroborated by Deputy C.B. Scott. The big extra heavy rifle that they found at Branch’s which corresponded with the bullet which dropped from the dead man’s clothing was introduced as evidence.
The state’s theory is that Dug Mitchell was the intended victim of Williams because he had recently reported them for selling liquor and when they shot they thought he was in the party. They will be tried at a special term of Burke county court to be held in February.
(From the front page of the Hickory Daily Record, Saturday evening, Jan. 15, 1921)
The future can now be viewed with reasonable assurance that the crest of the present wave over liquidation has been passed. When demand for consumption once more asserts itself, money and goods will again flow in normal channels and the new foundation of more normal values will give rise to a greater prosperity.
The key to the business situation is credit and the key to the credit situation is in the hands of the retailer and the farmer.
The process of reaching normal values, following war time inflation, is being hindered by the retailer who has absorbed as much credit as possible, and reduced his prices as little as possible in order to liquidate his stock with as little loss as possible. This however, can continue but little longer, since the wholesaler has pocketed his loss and the retailer must get in position to compete with those rtailers who have cleared their shelves.
The basis of new wealth is the products of the soil. When the buying power of the farmer is curtailed from 40 to 60 per cent the result must be a general stifling of business. Although these crops are bountiful, the potential demand is great throughout the world and there are no economic laws which can long keep them below most of the production. Our judgment is that many of these products got caught in the price tumble and tumbled too far. Considerable recovery is assured and the proper function of banking facilities will lend ever possible encouragement.
When movement of farm products and stocks on retail shelves enables vast quantities of paper held in banks to be taken up, the tendency will be to restore the normal flow of funds. We ought to felt he effects of this process as we enter the New Year, and especially as we approach the new life and new plans of spring and recovery of normal trade and confidence should be practically accomplished when a new crop is ready for market.
Bonds, securities and perhaps cotton futures have felt the effect of year-end selling to establish income tax losses, but this will likely be temporary.
The late Col. Roosevelt said that anyone that attempts to be a “bear” on America will go broke. In this connection a few of our abundant assets of prosperity are significant by way of comparison at this period of readjustment.
(From the front page of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Jan. 7, 1921)
It is easy to turn an optimistic praise or to strike a note of pessimism, but it is not so easy to write down in a few words one’s opinion of the outlook for 1921 which opinion is to be justified by certain determinative factors. We have never entered any two years under exactly similar circumstances. As we begin this new year we face both discouraging and encouraging features which are distinctive.
The evil influences of the reconstruction—perhaps a better designation would be “re-destruction”--period, have touched every phase of the American social order. Everybody knows that the economic life has been seriously affected, but everybody does not know what is equally true that the polticial, educational and religious phases of the life have likewise been disturbed. These are not separate and distinct things, but are the several functions of the one and same human life.
In their common struggle against these evil forces, the American people are writing a new chapter faith and cooperation by the man rapidly changing social conditions. It furnishes us with the finest recommendation ever seen for Western Democracy and Christian Civilization.
This temper of manhood will be the chief factor in snatching a great victory in 1921 from the jaws of defeat. To sit and sign over the losses and failures of last year would give us a first class guarantee of failure in this. “Bemoaning the fact that the big fish got away makes for an empty creel” There is a great art in letting the past be past. If we can lay aside the old year as the sprout discards the decayed acorn in its struggle to become a giant oak, there are no difficulties which may not be overcome.
Faith in one’s self, in one’s fellowman and in one’s God is the greatest element that makes for successd in any vocation of life. Every true American is called to a supreme manifestation of this faith not only for his individual success, but for the sake of common humanity.
“I will start anew this morning with a higher, fairer creed;
I will cease to sit repining o’er my ruthless neighbor’s greed;
I will cease to sit repining while my duty’s call is clear;
I will waiste no moment whining, and my heart shall know no fear.”
(From the front page of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Jan. 7, 1921)
Figures from the Food Draft section of the American Relief Administration show that $503,110 had been sent to Poland, up to the end of November, $158,170 had been sent to CzechoSlovakia; Hungary had received $382,700; Germany had $1,443,619; and Austria $2,046,720. It was estimated that more than 90 per cent of this money had been spent by nationals of these varius countires who are now in the United States. There are about 1.5 million Poles, 800,000 Hungarians, 500,000 Czechs and 600,000 Slovaks in this country.
The profits which resulted from the sale of these food drafts have been turned into the fund for general child feeding. It is to bring this fund up to the point where it can meet the demands on it, to save the lives 3.5 million children, that the European Relief Council has been formed by eight great relief organizations.
From The Monroe Journal, Jan. 4, 1921
As we think of conditions around Hickory, where the effect of lower prices has not caused distress among farmers whose places produce practically every need, we have more reason to be thankful for the system of diversified farming that has helped this whole section in the lean years. Our manufacturing industries have slowed down along with those in other places, but Hickory does not really know anything about hard times as experienced by cotton and tobacco sections.
The conditions in the United States which make a great many people blue at times would be regarded as bounding prosperity in every country in Europe, including England. Relatively speaking, the United States is a thousand per cent better off than these countries, and it is in position to enjoy continued prosperity if congress adheres to its policy to reduce public expenditures to the minimum.
The people of North Carolina face the new year with bountiful crops, good bank accounts and general plenty. Those who have been careful with their earnings in the last few years have no reason to fear anything, and those who have spent it as they made it may be reassured that in a few months at least prosperity will return with a generous hand, though with not so lavish a hand as during 1919-20. That sort of prosperity, until more people learn the lesson of thrift and saving, probably is bad for the country.
The Record has faith in the future and confidence that the American people, their country is sound as a dollar, will overcome shortly a business depression that was bound to come.
From the editorial page of The Hickory Daily Record, Saturday evening, Jan. 1, 1921)
Keep Things Going
One thing about Vass that helps to keep flour in the barrel is the way the folks manage to carry on at something else when one thing stops. When the mill shut down, temporary work was started on the roads and town improvement, both to keep people employed, and also to get the needed work done when labor was available to do it. The result is that the roads are in better condition and the weekly income has been taking care of the weekly expense account and the folks have not been called on to go down int heir pockets for a sinking fund.
As the time approaches for the return of the hands to them mill, the public work is in pretty good shape, and the period of idleness at the mill has been of about as much benefit as continuous work would have been.
(From the editorial page of The Pilot, Vass, N.C., Jan. 28, 1921)
The weather is ideal, and makes folks feel like it’s getting about time to begin farming again, though we don’t see or hear a great deal about farming; it seems that the farmers are at a loss to know what to try this year, for the best. I feel sure from what I’ve heard talked among the majority of the farmers that unless fertilizer prices are much better than last year that the cotton and tobacco acreage will be cut almost one half, and in some instances no tobacco and probably will be planted at all, and more attention will be given to grain, forage, livestock, etc.
How many of the farmers ever actually figured out what it costs to produce a bale of cotton with fertilizers where they now are. Take it for granted that a bale of cotton will bring $75 on the market about today’s prices for No. 1 cotton, it costs $1.25 per hundred, or $17.50 per bale to pick it, it costs $5 to haul it to the gin, it costs $5.50 to get it ginned, seed for planting costs we will say $2, this leaves you $45, time you get it home over a muddy road, 8 to 12 miles from town. Now where is your profit coming in? Better figure on this boys before you jump in too deep this year.
Among the Raeford visitors from Upper Hoke on last Saturday were Mr. Archie McGill and sister, Miss Flora, Miss Lena Steel, the Mount Pleasant teacher, and Miss Mamie McGill, the Hopewell teacher, attended the regular teacher’s meeting.
Mr. G.G. Hart is erecting a nice new bungalow on Route 2.
Mr. J.W. Smith is also on the building list. He has built an addition to his home.
Mr. W.G. Hart’s little girl is quite sick, but is improving, so we learn this evening.
The town of Vass is dressing up her streets we see, and while they are somewhat muddy, they will be fine this summer, and if Hoke would do its roads the same way it would be a good idea. Best wishes to all Pilot readers.
--S.R.C.
(From the front page of The Pilot, Vass, N.C., Jan. 28, 1921)
Mrs. McPherson was an industrious, home loving woman, a good Christian, member of the Baptist church, and a woman well liked by all her friends.
(From the front page of The Pilot, Vass, N.C., Jan. 28, 1921)
Goldsboro, N.C., Jan. 29—Andrew Clark, negro, died in a hospital early today from gunshot wounds received yesterday when he attempted to escape from a posse after being charged with stealing an automobile and 135 revolvers from Camp Bragg at Fayetteville, N.C.
On his deathbed Clark made full confession, according to deputy sheriffs, that he and three white men stole the automobile.
Clark was captured in Duplin county and escaped yesterday from the jail in Kenanville. He was hunted and captured by a posse late yesterday and it was while attempting to escape that he was shot.
(From the front page of the Hickory Daily Record, Saturday evening, Jan. 29, 1921)
(From the front page of the Hickory Daily Record, Jan. 29, 1921)
Mr. Lentz said he was not passing anything around to families where one or more of the members were able to work unless there was sickness. The able-bodied men and women are told they can shift for themselves.
(From the Hickory Daily Record, Saturday evening, Jan. 29, 1921)
(From the Hickory Daily Record, Jan. 29, 1921)
(From the front page of The Monroe Journal, Friday, Jan. 28, 1921)
(From the front page of The Monroe Journal, Friday, Jan. 28, 1921)
(From The Monroe Journal, Friday, Jan. 28, 1921)
The funeral services were conducted Thursday afternoon at the Neal residence on Morris street by Rev. C.C. Weaver, assisted by Rev. John A. Wray. The pall bearers were: Active, Messrs. Allen Lee, Robert Laney, Joe Hudson, Amos Stack, Frank Redfearn, Robert Lee, H.H. Wilson and V.D. Sikes; honorary, Messrs. G.B. Caldwell, G.M. Beasley, J.F. Williams, Fred Hunley, A.M. Stack, J.C. Sikes, S.O. Blair and W.J. Rudge. A great number of lovely designs attested to the unusual popularity of the beautiful and sweet-spirited young woman.
The deceased is survived by her father, Dr. J.W. Neal, her step-mother, one sister, Mrs. W.C. Sanders, and the following brothers, Mr. Horace Neal of Monore, Dr. Kemp and Dr. Paul Neal of Raleigh.
Just six years ago this month, while a student at Meredith College in Raleigh, Miss Neal was stricken with typhoid-pneumonia. While still in a weakened condition she contracted tuberculosis. Then began her fight, against great odds, to vanquish that disease which is mankind’s greatest scourge, having taken a greater toll on human lives than all the wars of the world combined. Everything possible was done for her. She was put under the care of great specialists, and for several years lived in western Carolina, in the hope that the mountain air would be of benefit to her. While there she made many friends, her happy disposition and bright intellect dispensing cheer to all those about her. As one of her sanatorium friends has said, “Jo was the joy and sunshine of our large family.” She appeared to get better until the spring of 1919 when she contracted influenza and suffered a relapse. Returning home more than a year ago, she seemed to be improving until Sunday about 2 p.m. when pneumonia developed. She grew gradually worse, the end coming about 12 o’clock Tuesday night.
(From The Monroe Journal, Friday, Jan. 28, 1921)
Mr. Green had sold his home and moved to the Blakeney place. A breach of contract had made it necessary for him to retake possession of his former home.
Mr. Green has lived in the Mt. Pleasant community for a number of years and has served on the board of school committeemen there for quite a while. The people know him, know his worth to a neighborhood, and the greatest evidence of a real man and neighbor in Mr. Green is the fact that the above mentioned wagons and teams did not cost Mr. Green one cent, and they do say that had it been necessary there could have been a like number gotten at the same price. Mr. Green wishes to express his gratefulness and sincere appreciation for above acts of kindness.
(From The Monroe Journal, Friday, Jan. 28, 1921)
The night was spent with the Farthing family and on the following day Mr. Smith wended the delightful way to the near-by town of Boone. Upon reaching that place he interrogated some of the townsmen as to the whereabouts of the Register of Deeds, and where his office might be found. Having found this office he then and there applied for a marriage license. Having thus performed the undertaking of this errand, he returned to the city of Shulls Mills, to be accompanied to the home of the parson with his future bride. Late in the night, the Rev. S.E. Gragg was disturbed by a tapping as if some one gently wrapping on this door, but not like Poe’s raven, quoth forever more, for there stood in the pale moon light the forms of two beings all bound in the bonds of matrimony. After the marriage the bride and groom returned to the home of the bride. We are wishing for them a happy and prosperous life.
(From the Watauga Democrat, Boone, N.C., Thursday, Jan. 27, 1921)
Mrs. Hodges was originally Critcher, sister of the late A.W., William, and Adam Critcher; was the last survivor of that splendid family, and attained ripe age of 88 years. She was first married to Mr. Joseph Harrison, and became the mother of several children, and after Mr. Harrison’s death, many years ago, she was again married to Mr. Jack Hodges, well remembered by our older citizens. Since the death of her second husband, Aunt Jane has lived among her children and near relatives, any of whom feeling honored to have her as their guest. She was a wonderful woman, bright and entertaining to the end of her long life.
(From the Watauga Democrat, Boone, N.C., Thursday, Jan. 27, 1921)
(From the Watauga Democrat, Boone, N.C., Thursday, Jan. 27, 1921)
(From the Watauga Democrat, Boone, N.C., Thursday, Jan. 27, 1921)
(From the Watauga Democrat, Boone, N.C., Thursday, Jan. 27, 1921)
(From the Roanoke News, Weldon, N.C., Jan. 26, 1921)
The average salary per month for white teachers was $112.21 per month; and $52.16 per month for colored teachers.
(From the Roanoke News, Weldon, N.C., Jan. 26, 1921)
A ?? manufacturing company in Winston-Salem offered to release him form a debt as a Christmas gift to his family, but the offer was declined, and the debt paid in full along with interest. Allen wrote that this was the last dollar he owed in the world, and that nothing could satisfy him so much as the knowledge that it had been paid.
(From the Williamston Enterprise, Jan. 25, 1921)
The band, consisting of 25 or 30 masked men, visited farmers near Sherbourne in Fleming county, 12 miles from Flemingsburg, and Bethel in Bath county, 12 miles from Carlisle. In all, about 15 farmers were visited, although the name of only the five were disclosed by the authorities.
T.B. Robertson, wealthy farmer, near Bethel, was called to his door at 12:30 o’clock Saturday night, according to a report from Carlisle. Four men standing with their back to him warned him that he was not to haul any more tobacco, neither was he to rent any of his farms to tobacco raising nor raise any himself.
The warning was accompanied by threats of violence to himself and his property if he failed to obey.
Thomas Croath, Jake Boyd, and a farmer named Stevens were then visited and the warning reported. The band next showed up near Sherbourn in Fleming county and warmed two farmers named Shields and Tomlin. They are known to have visited three other farmers but when the occupants came to the door they laughed and said they were “looking for a doctor.”
(From the front page of the Williamston Enterprise, Jan. 25, 1921)
(From the Hickory Daily Record, Jan. 24, 1921)
Mr. Erwin stated that although he would lose by the resumption of full time under the present conditions he did not care to see the operatives suffer unnecessarily. He asked every man and woman to do his or her best. Increased time will mean a boost of about $10,000 a week in the mill’s pay roll.
(From the front page of The Dunn Dispatch, Jan. 25, 1921)
It is alleged that the negroes were the operators of a distillery which was taken several nights previously when the operatives escaped. Three other negroes were taken into custody by the sheriff. One of them is believed to be wanted in Carthage for wife murder.
(From the front page of The Dunn Dispatch, Jan. 25, 1921)
Phillips was attacked near Mingo Dam from a trip to country stores in western Sampson County about 7 o’clock. When he neared the dam someone fired a shot through the windshield of his car. Another man jumped to his running board. Phillips fired two shots at him and he fell to the ground. Several other shots were fired at Phillips as he sped forward, but none struck him.
Two negroes in a dilapidated Ford car were on the dam a few minutes before the truck arrived, according to information gained bu Chief of Police Page, who went with Patrolman Nipper and Deputy Sheriff Jernigan to the scene of the battle as soon as Phillips reported the matter here. No trace of the supposedly wounded man or his companion was found by the policemen, however, except the tracks of the Ford, which were traced through devious paths back to a negro settlement at the edge of town.
Phillips usually carries a large sum of money when he returns from trips through the country. This is generally known and is believed to have tempted the negroes to hold him up.
(From the front page of The Dunn Dispatch, Jan. 25, 1921)
Mr. Walter C. Taylor is manager of the plant and he reports business is good. The plant is increasing the number of employes almost every day.
(From the Hickory Daily Record, Jan. 24, 1921)
(From the Hickory Daily Record, Jan. 24, 1921)
The following were elected ruling elders: Mr. N.M. Seagle, Mr. W.B. Menzies, Prof. R.J. Reveley and Mr. J.J. Willard.
New members of the board of deacons elected were Messrs. K.C. Menzies, N.W. Clark, C.V. Garth, G.O. Yount, W.S. Taylor and R.L. Hefner.
The newly elected members will be ordained and installed as soon as their acceptances of the respective offices have been received and a special day set apart for that occasion. The the new members installed, each of the board will number 10 men, giving added strength to the working committees of the church.
At the morning services Judge Cline, on behalf of the board of deacons, made a report of what had been accomplished during the present ecclesiastical year, and showed that the members had gone ahead of what had been expected in some of the departments of the church. The congregation gave the board a vote of thanks for the services rendered.
(From the Hickory Daily Record, Jan. 24, 1921)
Warren had about the largest slave population in the State when Lincoln issued his emancipaton proclamation. Even in our childhood the colored people greatly outnumbered the white. When they voted they shared county offices with the whites on practically an even basis. But the negroes of Warren were good people. They worked their fields, plied their trades, schooled their children, accumulated wealth; they were respected and duly respectful. In all the history of the county there is but one instance of a negro committing the nameless crime against woman—and in that instance the offender was a Yankee product and would have suffered lynching at the hands of the native negroes had not the State protected him.
The present trouble is most unfortunate. We sincerely trust that there will be no further bloodshed. It started over a dispute about a dime’s worth of apples at Norlina, a new railway town some distance form the old settlement that has left its mark upon American history. Follwong the dispute five white men and three negroes were badly wounded. Eleven negroes were subsequently arrested and lodged in jail. It was two of these that a mob took from the old prison, carried to a hill near town and shot to death.
Newspaper dispatches state that a general round up of negroes in the old town disclosed the fact that many of them were armed. Some had barricaded themselves in the basement of their fine stone Episcopal church. This leads some to believe that they were prepared to attack the white people. Knowing the negroes of Warrenton as well as we do, we cannot believe this is true, for there are few among them who have anything but the highest regard for the white people who have helped them to attain the unusual success that has come to the industrial activities and their high mark of intelligence. White people of Warren have given the negro an ideal environment for his development, and we cannot think that such an environment has bred men (line obscured) is good in that ??? old county whose sons—wherever they may wander—retain a deeper love than do most folk for their mother county.
We repeat that we sincerely trust that both white and colored people of Warren will regain their sanity and return to the pursuits of which they lived in such harmonious spirits.
(From the editorial page of The Dunn Dispatch, Jan. 25, 1921, L. Busbee Pope, publisher)
The wounded men are W.G. Upchurch, white, railroad engineer; A.J. Rainey, white, railroad inspector; Raby Trailor, white; and Leroy Trailer, white; Henry Jones, negro; Jerome Hunter, negro.
Raby Trailor, most seriously wounded of the white men, is in Henderson hospital with the other wounded whites, while Jerome Hunter is in a negro hospital at Raleigh and Henry Jones is in a Henderson hospital.
The rioting followed bad feeling which had been growing between two groups of the ?? for about a week, according to Chief of Police S.P. Fleming, “having its start in a quarrel between a brother of the two Trailors, who were wounded, and a negro by the name of Bullock, over a trade involving some apples.”
(From the front page of The Dunn Dispatch, Jan. 25, 1921)
Persons who believe in the open range and who would permit all cattle to run at large indiscriminately are confined to only a small section of the state. They do not consider their own interests of the interests and rights of other people or the advantages eastern North Carolina would der4ive from the riddance of a menage to cattle growing.
Farmers of eastern North Carolina spend more money in fighting fence laws at every session of the general assembly than they would in keeping their cattle confined to pasture, but they don’t seem to consider this phase of the matter.
Given a stock law, the people of these 22 counties would not return to the open range. They have kept the eastern section of the state back long enough.
(From the editorial page of The Hickory Daily Record, Jan. 22, 1921)
It is admitted that there is a disposition on the part of some of the members to vote to the Nash bid.
Although they will be prevented from doing so because it is not apparent how the provisions of the compulsory attendance law and the child labor law will be enforced in the event the office is abolished. |A number of counties have asked for the abolition of the county officers by the introduction of bills and it is not likely they will meet with opposition, although the Nash bill will hardly go through since it is statewide.
Governor Morrison, asked as to his opinion of the state department, said that while the office had only been in existence two years he was convinced that it should be retained. Support6ing the governor are the women through the North Carolina Legislative Council of Women. The women are urging that the department be maintained. . . . .
(From the front page of The Hickory Daily Record, Jan. 22, 1921)
The vice-president-elect will be spending his winter vacation in Asheville next month and the joint resolution by Senator Cox of Randolph county invited him to select the time for the delivery of the address.
The only other measure of importance up during the day was introduction of a woman’s jury bill by Senator Paul Jones of Edgecombe. The bill makes women eligible to sit on juries the same as men, but does not compel them to serve.
A number of local measures were passed during the day, but all important measures were put off until Monday night when the two houses will convene again.
(From the front page of The Hickory Daily Record, Jan. 22, 1921)
Parson said he and his wife lived on wild gooseberres and what animals they were able to trap. With them was a child who, in spite of the cold, was entirely without clothing. Parsons said he caught his wife in a steel trap many years ago.
(From the front page of The Hickory Daily Record, Jan. 22, 1921)
Judging from the holes penetrating both wind shields, the ball did not miss Mr. Johnson’s head over eight inches. He noticed a negro standing near the foot of the bridge as he passed, but paid little attention to him. Indeed he did not hear the gun shot on account of the noise made by his trick on the bridge. No arrests have been made yet.
(From the front page of The Hickory Daily Record, Jan. 22, 1921)
(From the Hickory Daily Record, Jan. 22, 1921)
Everybody is cordially invited to come and bring an instrument. Proceeds are for the benefit of Blackburn high school.
(From the Hickory Daily Record, Jan. 22, 1921)
(From the Hickory Daily Record, Jan. 22, 1921)
(From the front page of The Hickory Daily Record, Jan. 22, 1921)
(From the front page of the Roanoke Rapids Herald, January 21, 1921)
Whitener is wanted in Burke county and also by Deputy Sheriff Pink Campbell on a charge of driving cars while drunk.
(From the Hickory Daily Record, Friday, Jan. 21, 1921)
(From the Hickory Daily Record, Friday, Jan. 21, 1921)
(From the front page of The Review, High Point, N.C., Thursday, Jan. 20, 1921)
Mr. Hauser, who operates an establishment in the outskirts of the city, was brought to High Point for medical attention. The head of the canine was severed and sent immediately to Raleigh to ascertain whether the dog was really suffering from rabies.
The merchant was bitten three times, first in the angle, then in the thigh, and finally near the knee. Persons who profess to be acquainted with the demeanor of a maddened dog assert there is no doubt that the dog attacking Mr. Hauser was mad.
(From the front page of The Review, High Point, N.C., Thursday, Jan. 20, 1921)
Wade was convicted in Davidson Superior court for the theft of an automobile of W.C. Mize, prominent farmer of Reedy Creek. He appealed the case and gave appeal bond., However, the case never went to the Supreme court and Wade was to appear in court at Lexington this February.
The convicted automobile thief had never served a day of the 30 months’ sentence.
(From the front page of The Review, High Point, N.C., Thursday, Jan. 20, 1921)
(From The Mount Airy News, Jan. 20, 1921)
He was a team foreman at the quarry and enjoyed the esteem of his fellow men.
He is survived by a wife and three children.
His funeral was preached by Rev. J.H. Haynes and his remains laid to rest at the Midkiff family burying ground.
(From The Mount Airy News, Jan. 20, 1921)
These two young white men were convicted in superior court here Friday of stealing a Ford coupe from H.H. Anderson of Hamlet on Sunday night before Christmas. Jessup is the manager of the Fayetteville Motor Service company, of which his father is owner, and Arch Manor has been in his employ for the past two years. The two men, with Dewey Shaw, went to Hamlet on the day in question and that night Manor took the car from in front of the Hamlet opera house and drove it to Fayetteville, the other two young men going in their own Lexington.
The car was found two days later by Chief Braswell in the Jessup shop at Fayetteville, partially dismantled. The defense contended that the whole matter was a mistake, that Manor thought the car was owned by his brother-in-law and which he said he was authorized to take to Fayetteville and sell. The jury decided otherwise and found him guilty and Jessup as a party to the theft. The judge gave each five years in the penitentiary.
(From The Mount Airy News, Jan. 20, 1921)
Only the force employed in the factory itself will be thrown out of work, the office force, the sales force and the shipping department keeping on at work. Mr. Richardson said that the wave of deflation is not the primary cause of the shut-down, but that further production, with warehouses full, is not considered wise.
He said that the factory was run at capacity production all last summer and fall in anticipation of a railroad strike and that since the strike did not materialize there is no necessity of manufacturing now with warehouses full. The stock on hand will be disposed of before the plant is again put in operation.
(From the front page of The Mount Airy News, Jan. 20, 1921)
This young man, just becoming of age, was one of the first boys to leave our country for France, and died of pneumonia in a hospital in France on December 28th, 1918, aged 21 years and 8 months. The body was buried in an American cemetery. At the request of his relatives the government had it brought to the old home. It is a source of satisfaction to the parents in their bereavement to have the first hand knowledge that their loved one is peacefully resting in his own land, where the spot that marks his grave can ever be visited, and tokens of remembrance placed upon the grave at will. At the age of 13 years this boy united with the church and his comrades testify that he was not only a good soldier but a christian soldier. . . . .
(From the editorial page of The Mount Airy News, Jan. 20, 1921, J.E. Johnson & Son, publishers.)
Mr. Stephens has opened his office over the Watson Motor Company, formerly the Hickory Garage, and is now ready for business.
It will be of interest to the public to know that Mr. Stephens, for six years local manager of the Southern Public Utilities Company, is probably one of the most practical electricians in the south and during the experimental stage with electric pots on linotype machines he showed his versatility by making the new instruments do their work when most authorities despaired. There are very few things about electric equipment and devices that he does not know about and he is sure to do a good job.
(From the Hickory Daily Record, Jan. 19, 1921)
(From the Hickory Daily Record, Jan. 19, 1921)
If you don’t believe in vaccination, you are likely to have the worst sort of case; and you are in luck if your case should be mild. Nobody will shed any tears for the persons who don’t take preventive measures against the disease.
(From the Hickory Daily Record, Jan. 19, 1921)
In addition to manufacturing mattresses and box springs, the company will rebuild and renovate old mattresses and disinfect them. It is well equipped with machinery for making and repairing mattresses and Hickory people will find it convenient to have work of this kind done here.
Messrs. Rockett and Cashion are experienced mattress makers and have operated a plant at Cornelius.
The gentlemen will receive a strong welcome to Hickory and it is hoped this new industry will be given proper encouragement.
(From the Hickory Daily Record, Jan. 17, 1921)
The Ivey Mills Company in West Hickory also resumed operation this morning.
(From the Hickory Daily Record, Monday, Jan. 17, 1921)
Others not present will give their aid, materially increasing this sum. An order for an organ to cost $4,000 will be placed at once. This is the way St. Andrews’ good people do things; and their generosity and self reliance are to be highly commended.
(From the Hickory Daily Record, Jan. 17, 1921)
(From the front page of the Hickory Daily Record, Jan. 17, 1921)
They were coming up South Tryon street in an auto following behind a northbound car. At Jackson terrace Mr. Falls cut around behind the car to the left, striking a southbound car. The auto was wrecked and the occupants narrowly escaped being killed.
(From the front page of the Hickory Daily Record, Jan. 17, 1921)
(From the front page of the Hickory Daily Record, Jan. 17, 1921)
(From the Hickory Daily Record, Saturday evening, Jan. 15, 1921)
Additional reports of leaky roofs were heard from all sections. Roofs turned water inside that had never been known to leak and many persons were forced to move their beds to escape the water Thursday night. In some cases the papered walls were ruined and in others plastering fell down. The paper hangers and plasterers ought to have plenty to do around here in the next few months.
The Bell Telephone Company’s long distance wires were reported in better shape today and it was expected that normal service would be restored before the end of the day. The lines were open to Charlotte. The Western Union, though crippled yesterday, continued to function.
(From the Hickory Daily Record, Saturday evening, Jan. 15, 1921)
(From the editorial page of the Hickory Daily Record, Saturday evening, Jan. 15, 1921)
(From The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Jan. 14, 1921)
(From The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Jan. 14, 1921)
The old hall has served its purpose and generation well. It is a victim of progress, and as a brick and dust return to earth, it is a reminder that man, who fashioned it, is yielding to those forces of nature which produce decay, change and progress all about us.
If the old city hall has a philosophy it ought to have prepared it for the day when past performances would be forgotten and the community which is served expected something more than a mere hull.
(From the editorial page of the Hickory Daily Record, Wednesday, Jan. 12, 1921)
(From the front page of the Hickory Daily Record, Wednesday, Jan. 12, 1921)
