Littleton News Reporter, March 31, 1923

Norfolk Naval Base Sends Plane to Hatteras to Carry Woman to Hospital, March 30, 1923

Hatteras Woman’s Life May Be Saved by Plane

For the third time within recent months, the life of a Hatteras woman may have been saved. Mrs. W.E. Midgett, wife of a Hatteras Coast Guard, was seriously ill, and no medical attention was near. Word was sent to the Naval Base at Norfolk and a plane left for Hatteras at 9 o’clock Wednesday morning, arrived at 11, and returned to Norfolk with Mrs. Midgett at 4:30 in the afternoon. There is a change to save the life of Mrs. Midgett. All three of the patients have been taken to St. Vincent’s hospital. Mrs. Midgett was taken to St. Vincent’s hospital, where the other two have been treated.

From page 3 of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., March 30, 1923

How I Make Money Raising Chickens, J.F. Jennings, March 30, 1923

Making Money with Poultry. . . Jennings Poultry Farm Here Proves Chicken Raising to be Profitable

An average profit of 40 cents a month from a laying hen doesn’t sound very large. But 400 laying hens turning 40 cents apiece as clear profit into a farmer’s household, begins to sound like money. And it is no dream, for many farmers in Pasquotank County and northeastern North Carolina could do this very thing. It is being done on the Jennings Poultry Farm, five miles from this city, and the business is less than two years old.

There is no telling what the Jennings Poultry Farm will make for its owners within the next four or five years. The business is just in its experimental stage, and has not yet been thoroly worked out. But records have been made of the expenses and profits of one lot of 55 hens during January, a dull month, and these hens have turned in a profit of 40 cents apiece, besides feeding themselves and giving four roosters free board out of their earnings. They laid 1,063 eggs, which sold at an average price of 42 cents per dozen.

The Jennings Poultry Farm is jointly owned by J.F. Jennings of R.F.D. 1, and his son, Carlton Jennings of this city, the latter being manager. The business is an outgrowth of a small flock of birds, kept at first for home use. It might have been expanded at a much more rapid rate, and on a much larger scale, but the owners are making it pay its way as it goes.

Mr. Jennings specialized in single comb white leghorns and single comb Rhode Island Reds. He says these are the best laying strains and the best to raise. He has 400 hens in his yards, and all the necessary roosters. In his incubators he has 2,000 eggs setting, and expects to make six hatching this season, or a total of 12,000 eggs.

The main poultry building of the Jennings Farm is 16 feet wide and 100 feet long. It has a southern exposure, with a screened front, giving the hens plenty of sunlight and fresh air. The hens lay in darkened nests.

About four acres of land is kept growing with oats and other green stuff for the chickens to range on. Only a portion of the range is used at one time. As soon as one section shows signs of exhaustion, the chickens are moved on another section.

In preparation for the growth of the business a new building 20 feet wide and 300 feet long is being constructed. The farm has several small buildings used for hatching and brooder houses. Oil and coal heat are used to keep the young chicks warm. Oil is used to heat the incubators, it requiring about 10 gallons a week to keep 2,000 eggs warm.

The Jennings Poultry Farm is specializing in the shipment of eggs for setting purposes. It is shipping eggs all over the country, and guaranteeing 85 per cent of them to be fertile. A recent order from the Poultry Farm of Josiah Baum on Roanoke Island was for 1,000 setting eggs. The Jennings Farm ships baby chicks as well as eggs.

Beats General Farming

“Success with poultry depends first on getting strong, healthy, vigorous stock,” says Mr. Jennings. “to do this it is necessary to get only vigorous chicks and eggs that will hatch only vigorous chicks. Intelligent care and feeding is the next consideration.

“to get the greatest number of eggs at the lowest feed cost, the White leghorns meet this need as no other breeds can do. They not only lead in the number of eggs—the birds are large and the meat is white—factors which commend the top price on the market.

“For their excellent habit of winter laying, there is no better strain for general breeding purposes than Rhode Island Reds. This breed has become very popular for superior quality and beauty, and their heavy egg laying ability. They mature early, starting to lay when only five months old, and they make excellent mothers.

“It is not a difficult job to make money with poultry,” Mr. Jennings states. “Like everything else it requires attention. Good results can never be obtained if the keeper expects his fowls to raise themselves. While careful attention is necessary, the work is not hard, and the profits are steady, making a more desirable income than the proceeds from farm crops, so often dependent upon weather conditions and markets. The producer of good fowls and eggs can always find a good market. The main thing is keeping up quality.

From page 3 of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., March 30, 1923

Dipping Vat On Mrs. Robinson's Land Dynamited in Salem, March 30, 1923

Dipping Vat Dynamited in Salem Last Week. . . Somebody in Lower Pasquotank Is Still a Warm Enemy of Tick Eradication

The dynamiting of a dipping vat last Thursday night on the Leigh Farm in Salem Township this county shows that there are still some enemies of tick eradication work in that avowed stronghold and domain of the tick. The Leigh Farm of about 1,000 acres is 17 miles from Elizabeth City, about six or seven miles below Weeksville, and is owned by Mrs. C.H. Robinson of this city.

There are three dipping vats in the Sound Neck section of this county, the other two being located at Simons Creek and at Pailin Corner. It is reported that the vat at Simons Creek has been damaged also.

The proprietor of the Leigh Farm heard the explosion about 10 o’clock at night, and when he investigated, found that the vat had been blown wide open. Evidently one stick of dynamite had been placed at a good vantage point.

Friends of tick eradication believe they will soon be able to place the responsibility for the act. It may be that the offender will get into more hot water than the ordinary destroyer of private property finds himself into. While the vat on the Leigh Farm was privately constructed and paid for, and its use tendered free to all in the locality who wished to dip their cattle, it had been taken under the care of the State Department of Agriculture co-operating with the Federal Bureau of Animal Industry, and by reason of this, the offender if apprehended, may be dealt with by the U.S. Courts, instead of Pasquotank County.

From page 2 of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., March 30, 1923

North Carolina Leads Nation in Spending for Negro Education, March 30, 1923

North Carolina Leads in Negro Education

North Carolina spent last year for Negro education approximately $3 million. About $600,000 was invested in additional buildings and equipment at the three Negro Normals, $115,000 was put into the State A. & T. College, and $330,000 was invested in 81 Rosenwald school buildings. A $60,000 colored high school was recently dedicated at Salisbury, and a similar plant is now under way at Greensboro. In the appropriations for 1923 the A. & T. College comes in for nearly half a million dollars for further expansion. The Negroes of the state have been greatly encouraged by this liberal policy and are contributing form their private funds more than $100,000 a year to aid in building schools and lengthening the term.

From page 3 of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., March 30, 1923

Measles, Whooping Cough in Elizabeth City, March 30, 1923

Lots of Measles and Whooping Cough Here. . . Greatest Number of Cases of These Diseases City Has Had in Some Time

What is characterized as the greatest number of cases of measles and whopping cough prevailing in Elizabeth City in several years, now has a hold on the children here, according to Dr. C.B. Williams, County Health Officer. Dr. Williams says there are at least 75 to 100 cases of each disease in the city at the present time, but while they are not particularly dangerous, there is no cause of alarm, it would be well for everybody to take precautions to prevent further spreading of the disease.

The best thing the person afflicted with measles can do, according to Dr. Williams, is to take good care of himself by staying at home and indoors for a few days, taking care that the room is well ventilated and darkened. Light easily affects the vision of a person afflicted with measles, but if due care is taken, there is little danger to the person afflicted, after two or three days.

People bothered with whooping cough should get plenty of fresh air and should stay out of doors as much as possible, provided the weather is good and the patients’ feet at kept dry, Dr. Williams says. There are seldom any serious complications from whooping cough, and the malady is not so violent as it used to be. A singular characteristic of the disease is that the afflicted person may have it for several days, and easily believe it is an ordinary cough unless it reached the stage where the patient whoops.

From page 3 of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., March 30, 1923

Saunders Says Elizabeth City Doesn't Want High Quality Moving Pictures, March 30, 1923

You Get What You Want

This newspaper does not harp continuously upon the crying need of better moving pictures in Elizabeth City because this newspaper does not believe that there is a large demand for better pictures. A town gets just what it wants in the way of moving pictures and nothing more or less. If the pictures shown in a town are bad, the fact is not so much a reflection upon the management of the moving picture houses as upon the moral and intellectual standards of the people of the town. Moving picture men are just shrewd business men with pictures of sell. They feature the pictures that sell best, which is to say the pictures the greatest number of people will buy tickets for.

Are there perhaps 300 adults in Elizabeth City who would really appreciate high class motion pictures—hardly more than that. Three hundred people can’t make a moving picture house pay or determine the quality of the pictures its shows.

The way to attack the moving picture evil is at the root, not the top. At the root is an untrained, uncouth, unappreciative hoodlum population. That’s the honest to God’s truth about the whole matter. Before we can uplift the moving pictures, we must uplift the people and train their eyes, minds and hearts to an appreciation of things that are truly beautiful, helpful and healthful. We have made the terrible mistake of supposing that we had done enough for the people by promising them a heaven in the hereafter in which everything would be straightened out and made lovely. That is not enough.

If we are going to hobnob with the people in a New Jerusalem the time to quality for their companionship and equip ourselves to enjoy a Hallelujah picnic in the skies is now—right now. Our schools and churches should be open all the time to all the people and the activities of our schools and churches should be directed at all times to a democratization of the social life of the communities they serve, bringing all the people together in a democratic fellowship. In this way, and only in some way, will a unity of community ideals ever be achieved. That so many people do not appreciate better pictures, better books, better music, better sermons—and better government—is because they have never had an opportunity to study better pictures, better books, better music, better sermons—and better government. And if the doors of opportunity are to be opened to those whose minds and morals are untrained, it must be opened by those to whom opportunities for a better life and a better vision have not been denied. In an editorial written more than a year ago I said something like this: “Clean up the minds of the people and the pictures will clean up themselves.”

From the editorial page of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., March 30, 1923, W.O. Saunders, editor

Scarcity of Shad Worries Fishermen, March 30, 1923

Scarcity of Shad Becomes Alarming. . . Virginians Say Too Many Nets and Urge Conservation for Threatened Industry

The scarcity of shad which has so alarmed the fishermen of North Carolina within the past few years, is making itself evident in Virginia and Maryland waters where fishermen have heretofore been making good catches. The Virginians and Marylanders are becoming alarmed and lay the trouble on too many nets, which they say bar the shad from their natural spawning grounds, and some of the more thoughtful citizens are urging conservation that the species may again increase to something like the former number.

The scarcity of shad which has so alarmed the fishermen of North Carolina within the past few years, is making itself evident in Virginia and Maryland waters where fishermen have heretofore been making good catches. The Virginians and Marylanders are becoming alarmed and lay the trouble on too many nets, which they say bar the shad from their natural spawning grounds, and some of the more thoughtful citizens are urging conservation that the species may again increase to something like the former number.

Here in North Carolina the decrease in shad has been attributed to the closing of New Inlet, which, until five years ago was the greatest feeder of shad and herring in the North Carolina Sounds. So sure are the North Carolinians that this is the reason the General Assembly this year appropriated $500,000 for the relief of the fishing industry, $100,000 of which was set aside for opening the inlets.

Shad continued to come into New Inlet until the stream was so shallow that a man could wade across with boots on. And the alarming decrease in the shad industry in North Carolina is marked from the time when New Inlet began closing as a result of the action of tides brought about by the changing coast formation farther north.

It may be that the closing of New Inlet in North Carolina has had considerable to do with the scarcity of shad in Virginia and Maryland. The North Carolina sounds and the rivers were once the breeding places of the finest shad to be found. The young shad grew up in the sounds and rivers of North Carolina, passed out at the Inlets, and came back the following season to lay their eggs. And many of them went on up the coast to the rivers and bays of Virginia and Maryland.

The closing of the inlets has shut the shad away from one of their most favorable breeding localities. Their spawning is now largely confined to waters often laden with refuse form ships, and sewers, for in the bays and rivers of Virginia and Maryland, commerce is heavier than in the North Carolina waters, and tons and tons of filthy bilge water and fuel oil contaminate the very places where the ripe fish leave their fertile eggs. That Virginia has never been the producer of so fine a variety of shad as North Carolina, is attested by the retail tradesmen on the markets where the catches are sold.

But the Virginia folks are taking into consideration only one reason for the scarcity of shad. Too many nets, they say, is the trouble. Their verdict is expressed in the editorial last Saturday in the Ledger-Dispatch, a Norfolk newspaper, and their antidote is conservation. Read:

“Men who have been watching the situation have been telling us for years that the fish which spawn each year in the fresh water rivers and streams tributary to our bays and to the sea are becoming scarcer; and the reason they have told is, is to be found in the constantly increasing number of nets set to catch these fish on their way to and from their spawning grounds. We have heard from time to time that high up in the rivers fish that were once plentiful always are now very scarce and rapidly becoming scarcer. We have been warned that the fate of the lower bays, if this blocking of the entrances to the spawning grounds is not stopped.

“But most of us have either ignored these warnings or laughed at them. The very idea of consuming to extinction the fish of the sea has seemed to us to be absurd on the face of it. But the fact remains that certain fish of the sea are becoming scarce and that our own wasteful methods of the past are largely to blame.

“It is high time we began conservation—even of the multitudinous fishes of the sea.”

From page 3 of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., March 30, 1923

Is Bowden a North Carolinian or a Virginian? March 30, 1923

He Sleeps in Two States at Same Time. . . Does Notary Bowden Belong to Virginia or North Carolina?

E.D. Bowden, Notary Public and one of the oldest residents of Knotts Island, Currituck County, resides in a house that is located on the North Carolina-Virginia boundary line. In fact, half of his bed is in Virginia and half in North Carolina, but Mr. Bowden has considered himself a North Carolinian and held political office as a North Carolinian.

But somebody has raised a question as to whether the Knotts Island Notary is a Virginian or a North Carolinian. The question was referred to the Washington Information Bureau of The Independent. The Bureau says:

“Mr. Bowden is entitled to vote in the state where he pays his taxes. If he were not of age and paid no taxes, his residence might be determined by the fact as to where most of his weight is while he sleeps. The state line is an imaginary line, and generally, the residence of a person is definitely determined.”

From page 2 of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., March 30, 1923

Baptists Lend $20,000 to Help Open Hospital, March 30, 1923

Steps for the immediate opening of the North Carolina Hospital at Winston-Salem were taken at a joint meeting of the mission and education boards of the North Carolina Baptist Convention. The boards arranged for a loan of $20,000, which will equip the hospital and enable it to open during the month of April.

From page 2 of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., March 30, 1923

Capt. Walker, William Gray, Vernon Lee, Garland Chance Freeze to Death When Tug Overturns in Gale, March 30, 1923

Four Men Freeze to Death Near This City. . . Clinging to Tug Julian Fleetwood Overturned in Gale, Wednesday Night, Men Died of Exposure Before Day.

After a winter of summer weather, four froze to death, and the others narrowly escaped in the terrific southeast gale that swept the sounds Thursday morning, and capsized the tugboat Julian J. Fleetwood in 14 feet of water off the mouth of North River in Albemarle Sound, about 30 miles below Elizabeth City.

The dead men are: Capt. Clyde Walker, master of the tug, age 45, formerly of Hertford, N.C., but now of Norfolk, Va.; Mate William Gray, 73, of Hertford; Fireman Vernon Lee, 21, of South Norfolk, Va.; and Garland Chance, negro cook, 37, of Hertford.

The surviving men are: Chief Engineer, E.D. Alexander, 32, of Elizabeth City; Assistant Engineer, Enoch Lee, 62, of South Norfolk, Va.; Fireman E.K. Mann, 19, of East Lake, N.C.; Deckhands, Leslie Barnes, 17, of Columbia, N.C., and J.W. Shawler, 21 of Kentucky.

The men were rescued at 7:30 o’clock Thursday morning by the Steamer Annie L. VanSeiver. Captain J.M. Richardson in charge of the North River Line. The bodies of the men who froze to death from the wind were recovered also.

The Julian J. Fleetwood, owned by the Richmond Cedar Works and bound from Norfolk, Va., to Alligator River with a tow of two empty lumber barges and one scow barge, struck a gale in Albemarle Sound shortly after midnight, according to Leslie Barnes, deckhand, whose story is as follows.

The night shift consisting of Gray, F. Lee, Mann, and Shawler were on watch, but because of the storm, Capt. Walker was at the wheel, and Chance, the negro cook, was standing by. The tug could make no progress in the gale, every ounce of power being con?? in keeping head to. At 1:10 in the morning Captain Walker decided to turn around and start back up North River. When the tug swung side to, the heavy seas bore down on her and the terrible strain on the towline of the barges capsized her to port.

The men escaped from the sinking tug, but in the pitch darkness, were unable to get together. Leslie Barnes, E.D. Alexander, Chance, the cook, and E.K. Mann, managed to get into a small lifeboat. Without oars and with the boat sinking under them, they pulled themselves down the straining cable 220 feet long to the first barge.

They could hear the screams of the five remaining men, who were clinging(?) to the upper work of the tugboat. The pilothouse of the tug was out of the water, and they managed to get on this. Some of the men had on nothing but night clothes. Thruout the night they were drenched with the spray and beaten by the gale, and when morning came, three of the men on the tugboat had frozen to death.

When the VanSeiver, bound for Elizabeth City, sighted the men and arrived on the scene at 7 o’clock, the ?? was so rough that a half hour was lost in taking the men off, according to C.H. Brock, Treasurer of the line, who was a passenger on the steamer. The surviving men on the tug wee in a helpless condition when reached. The four men on the barge, where there was a fire, had fared better, but Chance, the cook, had ?? so roughly when the vessel ?? he was never thoroly revived and expired, just as rescue arrived.

?? and bodies were viewed by the coroner here upon their arrival shortly before noon. The five surviving men were sent to the Pasquotank Municipal Hospital.

The tug may be salvaged, as there is little damage done the vessel. The barges were not damaged. The crews anchoring them as soon as the tug boat capsized.

The capsizing of the tug and death of the four men could have been averted had there been an axe handy ??? to have severed the ??? was the pull of the ??? gale that turned the craft over when the attempt was made ?? her around in the gale.

The tug was 70 feet long, 14 feet wide and was built in Hertford in ??. From the front page of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., March 30, 1923. The editor of The Independent preferred the “modern” spelling to though and thoroughly—tho and thoroly. The left side of the newspaper is difficult to read.

Barnes Father and Son, Two Others, Charged in Large Whiskey Operation, March 30, 1923

Palms Off Stills on Son. . . But Prohibition Officers Place J.G. Barnes Under $1,000 Bond

Deputy U.S. Marshall J.W. Wilcox of this city made a sweet haul in Currituck County Saturday when he raided the Barnes outfit on the old Alex Willey home place on Tulls Creek and captured seven going stills, 2,200 pounds of sugar and 150 gallons of corn and rye whiskey. Marshall Wilcox conducted the raid with the aid of Virginia deputies.

Four men were captured in the raid and brought to Elizabeth City. They were S.E. Barns, 18-year-old son of J.G. Barnes, owner of the raided premises; J.M. Bateman, a son-in-law of the elder Barnes; J.F. Hall and George Henry Askey, the latter a negro. When brought before the U.S. Commissioner in Elizabeth City their bonds were fixed at $300 each. Young Barnes exhibited $1,100 in cash and put up $900 for the bonds of himself and the other two white men, leaving the negro to be jailed.

Saturday night J.G. Barnes came to Elizabeth City to furnish bond for the negro and Barnes himself was arrested and held in $1,000 bail.

There were seven stills in the Barnes outfit and heavy automobile trucks were employed in running the illicit whiskey from the stills to Norfolk, it is said. Prohibition enforcement officers have been on the trail of Barnes for months, and the raid was cleverly planed to nab the stills while in operation.

But when the officers failed to catch the elder Barnes in the raid, the son S.E. Barnes, a boy of 18 years, claimed that he was the sole owner and operator of the stills. Old man Barnes told the same story to Deputy Marshall Wilcox when he was placed under arrest, but Deputy Wilcox told him he would have a hard time working a story like that off on Judge Connor in the Federal Court. The spectacle of a father making his son the scape-goat in a case of this kind seems to be indicative of the depths of depravity to which the illicit manufacture of liquor drives men who were once upon a time moral humans.

From the front page of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., March 30, 1923

10-Year-Old Finds Bottle Hidden Near Log, Shows Up to School "Beastly Drunk," March 30, 1923

10-Year-Old School Boy Takes on a Jag

A 10-year-old boy, whose name is not divulged, was tried in the Juvenile Court in Elizabeth City Thursday on a charge of drunkenness. The child said that he found the liquor in a bottle hidden at the end of a log near the side of a road in the vicinity of Fork School. He drank of the white liquid and went to school beastly drunk.

From the front page of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., March 30, 1923

O.A. McPherson, Drew Bright Tried for Failing to Dip Cattle, March 30, 1923

Two Farmers Tried Here Under New State Law

Apparently refusing to believe that there is now a state law to compel owners of livestock to dip their cattle, two Pasquotank farmers were before the County Court yesterday for failure to dip. O.A. McPherson of Providence township was fined $25. His lawyer, E.F. Aydlett noted an appeal, carrying his client on to a higher court, tho Aydlett knows the law.

Drew Bright of Sound Neck, convicted at the same time, was let off with payment of the costs and his promise to respect the law.

From the front page of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., March 30, 1923

Walton Newbern Starting Anew in Orlando, Fla., March 30, 1923

W.W. Newbern Locates in Orlando, Florida. . . Missing Produce Dealer Starts Life Again in a New Field

Walton W. Newbern, formerly manager of the Newbern Produce Co., of this city, who disappeared several weeks ago without confiding his plans to relatives, friends or business associates, is in Orlando, Fla., in the real estate and produce business, according to letters received by relatives in this city within the past week.

Having lost heavily in the potato deal for three years and having become hopelessly involved financially, Mr. Newbern packed a grip and kissed his local troubles good-bye several weeks ago. Those close to his affairs guessed that the time that he would show up in some other part of the country in an effort to recover his lost fortune. It is said that he had an attractive position as Florida buyer for a big New York commission house and is selling real estate on the side. His friends are confident he will make good and save the bulk of his mortgaged property in this city and section in time.

From the front page of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., March 30, 1923

L.C. Blades, Fighting Transfer of Dixie to Hartford, March 30, 1923

Dragged Into the Limelight

L.C. Blades

He is one of the most retiring and modest chaps in Elizabeth City, but he has been dragged into the limelight recently in the Dixie Insurance row. Mr. Blades is a member of the Executive Committee of the Dixie and joined with C.O. Robinson in the fight to prevent the transfer of the business of that healthy North Carolina Company to the Hartford, of Connecticut. Mr. Blades is treasurer of the Foreman-Blades Lumber Co., of this city, a director in the First & Citizens National Bank and is said to be the wealthiest young man in Elizabeth City.

From the front page of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., March 30, 1923

Dixie President Sells Out Insurance Company, Disregards Majority of Stockholders, March 30, 1923

Hartford’s Grip On the Dixie Tightens. . . Postponement of Court Hearting in Dixie Gives Foreign Company a Chance to Scramble the Eggs for North Carolinians.

Airing of the struggle for the control of the Dixie Fire Insurance Co. of Greensboro, scheduled for last Saturday in Federal Court in Greensboro, has been postponed until April 24 upon order of Federal Judge Boyd. Judge Boyd also continues the order restraining the majority stockholders from proceeding with a meeting or in any way interfering with the recent sale of the Dixie to the Hartford Insurance Co. of Connecticut. The temporary effect of this postponement is to give the Hartford another 30 days in which to enjoy undisturbed all the privileges recently conveyed to it by the officers of the Dixie against the protest of the majority stockholders.

C.O. Robinson, L.C. Blades and Dr. L.S. Blades of Elizabeth City W.B. Blades and J. Vernon Blades of New Bern; and Alex Hanes of Winston-Salem are the defendants in the court action, they controlling the majority stock of the Dixie. The action alleges that these defendants have conspired thru an illegal voting pool to cause the Dixie to “breach and abandon a highly profitable contract with the Hartford Fire Insurance Co.” When the defendants go into Court they propose to show that if any conspiracy exists, the conspirators are the officers of the company who have made a ruinous contract with the Hartford.

The contract made with the Hartford by the Dixie explicitly sets forth that “The Dixie Company hereby sells, assigns and transfers to the Hartford Company all its good will and interest of every kind in the insurance business hereby reinsured. The said Dixie Company also assigns and transfers to the Hartford Company all its books of records and also all of its supplies of every description, both in the hands of agents and at the office such as are customarily used and known as office supplies.” The contents of the contract are no longer secret, the contract now being a matter of court record. The Dixie Company is required by the contract to continue its corporate identity for a period of five years or longer and maintain its present capital stock of $500,000 without diminution. The Dixie pays the Hartford something like $400,000 for taking over its business and agrees to pay back to the Hartford something like $500,000 if it should desire to buy back its good will at the end of the five year period. Majority stockholders of the Dixie think the contract was either a mistake or a swindle. It is pointed out that the contract itself stipulates that the contract shall be interpreted as “an honorable engagement and not merely as a legal obligation.”

The men who made the contract with the Hartford, namely H.R. Bush, A.L. Brooks, and J.E. Latham, were salaried officers of the Dixie who control only 1,500 shares of the 10,000 outstanding shares of the company. But H.R. Bush, president of the company, gets a five-year contract with the Hartford which is believed may ultimately be worth $25,000 to $50,000 a year to Mr. Bush, with probable handsome increased to the others. Objections of the Robinson and Blades interests to any such contract with the Hartford is the cause of all the subsequent row. To forestall such a contract and save the Dixie for North Carolinians, C.O. Robinson and his associates recently acquired up to 51 per cent of the stock. It is to keep the majority stockholders from controlling the affairs of the company that the Greensboro crowd has gone to the Federal Court. C.O. Robinson of Elizabeth City, who says he is advised by his attorneys to make no statements for publication, does say that he is confident that the court action will determine the right of the stockholders of a company to save that company from dissolution and disaster.

It is believed that the contract with the Hartford was made by the Greensboro men in the fear of losing their jobs. James R. Young, former Insurance Commissioner of North Carolina, has been mentioned for the Dixie’s president. But under the contract with the Hartford, the Dixie stockholders have no voice in the election of their officers.

H.R. Bush, for many years president of the Dixie, is a highly rated man, but his rating does not appear so high when one compares the earnings of the Dixie with the earnings of similar companies. An analysis of the Dixie’s affairs indicates that the company has made money in spite of its management, and not because of any managerial ability. The fact is that the stockholders have got their dividends from the company’s investments and not on insurance written. Believing the affairs of the company should be better managed, some of the larger stockholders had in mind getting rid of Mr. Bush. But Mr. Bush dipped upon them by selling them out lock, stock and barrel to the Hartford and cinching his job for five years, before the plans of the stockholders matured.

From the front page of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., March 30, 1923

Ina Mae LeRoy President of College Athletic Assn., March 30, 1923

Elizabeth City Girl Honored

MISS INA MAE LeROY

This popular Elizabeth City girl, a junior in the N.C. College for Women at Greensboro, has just been elected President of the Athletic Association of that college. It is evident that this Elizabeth Girls has won for herself in college the same confidence and esteem that she held in her hometown school. She was a star athlete, a star debater, and a leader in all Senior activities in the Elizabeth City High. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.H. LeRoy of this city. Zoeller photo.

From the front page of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., March 30, 1923

Rosalie Wood "Cutest" Senior, March 30, 1923

Takes the Cake for Cuteness

MISS ROSALIE WOOD

The Senior Class of the Elizabeth City High School votes her the “cutest” member of that class. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.C. Wood of this city and lends weight (about 90 pounds) to the old saying that fine goods come in small packages. Zoeller photo.

From the front page of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., March 30, 1923

The Independent, Elizabeth City, March 30, 1923

How Can Wisconsin Sell Milk Shipped to Chapel Hill for Half Cost of Local Milk

Higher-Bred Cattle Needed. . . H.H. Williams Points to Reason of Profitable Western Dairying

As H.H. Williams was walking along the main street the other day he noticed, drawn up by the curb in front of the store, an automobile delivery wagon bearing the sign, “Carnation Farms.” Having been in the dairying business for many years, he was familiar with the history of this great Wisconsin concern, so he stopped and talked a while to the man in charge of the automobile.

Later, telling a friend about the conversation, he said:

“The question occurs at once how can Wisconsin people extract the richest part of the milk and sell it down here in North Carolina for less than half of what we pay for milk?

“The answer is simply this: fine cattle. They don’t waste time with cows giving a gallon and a half or two gallons a day. They know it is waste. Their cows give four, five, six, some of them up to 10 gallons a day. Having high-bred cows, and getting this big yield, cuts down heavily the cost of production per gallon, enabling the dairymen to sell low and yet make a profit.

“The bull at the head of the ‘Carnation Farms’ herd cost $106,000 at public auction, and daughters of this bull will give 10 gallons daily. The price of the bull sounds high, but when the higher milk yield of pure-bred cows is taken into account, the cost of breeding is shown to be true economy.

“Here in Orange county the opportunity for dairying is excellent—all the better now that the nearby market for dairy products is growing so rapidly. Our land is far better suited to grazing and forage crops than it is to ordinary crop-farming. And in climate we have a big advantage over the Middle Western farmers who get so much better results than we do. We can let our cows stay outdoors during a far greater part of the year than they can, and that means a saving in feed.

“There is a great future for dairying here, then, if our farmers will heed the lesson of breeding, and not waste their money, time and effort on inferior cattle. If they go in for the best breed of cows, they can make a good profit and at the same time lower the price to the consumer.”

From the front page of The Chapel Hill Weekly, March 29, 1923

R.P. Harris Selling Eggs for Hatching, March 29, 1923

Poultry Raisers, Attention!

If you want to be a successful poultry farmer, you must grow high-bred chickens. The best eggs for hatching are necessary. R.P. Harris, teacher of agriculture in the Chapel Hill School, will get 15 of the right kind of eggs for you from 75 cents to $1. He will get White Leghorns, Rhode Island Reds, Barred Rock, Wyandottes, Orphingtons—whatever you want.

From the front page of The Chapel Hill Weekly, March 29, 1923. The illustration is by artist Margaret Evans Price (1888-1973)

Spring Blooms in Chapel Hill, March 29, 1923

Spring Blooms Deck Village. . . Warm Weather After Plentiful Rain Brings Out Flowers Everywhere

A warm sun, pouring its rays down upon ground well soaked by weeks of rain has brought the flowers of Chapel Hill out in a profusion of gorgeous color. Great banks of vivid yellow forsythia are scattered upon fresh green lawns. Rugged stone walls are surmounted by feathery clouds of white. The japonica raises its blood-red blooms above the delicate violets and snowdrops. Heavenly blue periwinkles smile by the thousands from old yards shaded by great oaks. Pale yellow cowslips look up timidly from the borders of garden paths.

Fruit blossoms are out in bursts of glory. The plums flowered first. Then, as if fearful lest they be left behind, the peach blooms opened upon the village in a shower of pink. Along with them came the pure white clusters of the pear and the pink buds of the crab-apple and the quince.

In the Arboretum the Japanese weeping cherry stands alone, its drooping branches laden with exquisite pink-white flowers. It is in a perfect setting behind it a bank of winter honeysuckle, a smooth greensward stretching away on one side, close at hand a curving hedge of white spiraea, and beyond that a graceful and lofty silver birch.

There are other delights to come. The tulips and the iris are budding. The Judas tree is turning. The tasseling of the oaks is near at hand. Wisteria, white and purple, will soon be spreading its fragrance through the air. And another week or two will bring the lilacs into bloom.

From the front page of The Chapel Hill Weekly, March 29, 1923, Louis Graves, editor.

Work Beginning on Carolina Club, Chapel Hill, March 29, 1923

Contract Let for the Carolina Inn. . . John Sprunt Hill, Representing Carolina Club, Has Been Motive Force. . . Former Graves Place Is Site

The moving of the former Graves house at the west gate of the campus to make way for the Carolina Inn will begin surely not later than the first part of next week, and it may even begin before this week is over. John Sprunt Hill of Durham, representing the incorporators of the Carolina Club, has let the contract for the construction of the Inn to H.L. Smith, also of Durham, and the laying of the foundation is to follow immediately the clearing of the site.

Completed and furnished, the Carolina Inn will cost about $200,000. It will be ready for occupancy early in 1924.

Mrs. Daniels has been occupying as a tenant the house that is now to be moved out of the way. It was acquired by Mr. Hill from Mrs. Graves two years ago. There has been some curiosity as to what Mrs. Daniels will do about her boarding house, now that she has to move out. She is understood to have made arrangements to accommodate her boarders, but the nature of these arrangements has not been disclosed.

For several years there has been talk of the dire need of a hotel in Chapel Hill. Faculty and students have talked about it continually, and so have alumni and friends of the University everywhere. Definite action toward relief of the present situation was taken for the first time when Mr. Hill bought this piece of land on the edge of the campus. Not long after the purchase he made known that it was to be used for a hotel. The club which is eventually to take possession of it is Mr. Hill’s idea, and he has been the motive power behind the scheme from the first. He has offered as a gift the land, value at $30,000, and in addition $10,000 in cash.

The Carolina Club is to be made up of alumni and friends of the University. The Inn is to be run by them, primarily for the benefit of people visiting the institution, but there is to be nothing about the project that will exclude any reputable person who wants to be a guest.

Arthur C. Nash, architect for the T.C. Atwood Organization, is the designer, and that concern will have supervision over the construction. The plans show a building in the Southern Colonial style, with two full stories and a dormer story. All floors and partitions will be of fireproof construction, but the cornices, veranda, porte-cocheres, and trimmings will be of wood. The dominant idea in the design has been to give the structure an old-fashioned, home-like appearance, as though it might have been in Chapel Hill since the early days of the University.

A two-story veranda, 70 feet long, reminiscent of the Washington home at Mount Verdon, is to run along the Cameron avenue side. From this paved terrace will run around the east side—facing what is now the Chapel Hill-Pittsboro-Pinehurst road—and connect with a one-story veranda across the rear, or south, façade. From the road on the east, automobiles will come under a porte-cochere. The door here gives access to a large general reception room, a ladies’ reception room, and the lobby.

Fifty-two rooms for guests will be provided, eight or 10 of them double, and each will have a bath.

There will be a centrally placed ballroom connecting directly with the ladies’ reception room and with the service and dining rooms. The intention is to rent out the ballroom for dances, banquets, and meetings of various sorts, but the arrangement is such that these affairs will not interfere with the normal life of the inn. The entertainment section of the house can readily be closed off from the lobby and main dining room and sleeping rooms.

Kitchen, pantries and serving rooms will be ample to take care of large crowds of people, such as come to commencement or the more important athletic games. In the basement will be a laundry, machine room, and heating plant.

The Graves house will be moved to a new position somewhat to the south of the inn, and will connect with it by a one-story passageway. Thus it can be used as a students’ boarding house, and meals can be served from the kitchen of the inn. A few extra guests’ rooms will be obtained by the utilization of the second story of the old house.

From the front page of The Chapel Hill Weekly, March 29, 1923

Pure-Bred Chickens Will Give More Eggs, March 29, 1923

School Will Have Incubator House. . . Class in Agriculture Will Get Practical Experience in Hatching. Boys Will Do Building. . . Addition Will Pay for Itself

An incubator house is to be built on the grounds of the Chapel Hill school by the members of the agriculture class. A lot running out from the main school yard, back of M.E. Hogan’s residence, will be used for the new building.

The school boys themselves will do the construction. The material will cost, altogether, not more than about $45. This will be made up in time by setting apart a certain percentage from the proceeds of the sale of chickens hatched by the incubators.

The school now has two incubators with a total capacity of 300 eggs. They have been loaned out temporarily, but will be called in and placed in the new house. The total incubator capacity will be increased to 500 eggs later.

This will be a means of valuable training for the boys in raising poultry. Some of them have begun the work already, but here they will operate under the immediate supervision of their teacher, R.P. Harris, and will learn the details of hatching and brooding more thoroughly than they can by themselves. There will be a poultry yard around the incubator house. The house will have a ditch around it to carry the water off, and it will have a cement floor eventually.

Convincing proof of the wisdom of getting pure-bred eggs was given this week when the boys of the 6th and 7th grades made out the egg-laying records of their farm flocks. Walter Oldham, who lives five miles south of Chapel Hill on the Pittsboro road, was at the top of the list with an average egg production of 71 per cent. This record was made by pullets from eggs from trap-nested fowls bred at State College.

Frank Pendergraft was second, his hens showing an egg production of 64 per cent. The third best showing was made by the hens whose record was kept by John Williams, who lives out on the Hillsboro road. The lowest records were those on farms where no attention had been paid to getting pure-bred eggs.

The boys count the eggs each day and since the number of laying hens is known exactly, the calculations of the percentages is a simple matter. There are 35 boys in the class. Of course, in most cases the flocks upon which they report actually belong to their parents, but it is the boys who gather the eggs and keep the records.

From the front page of The Chapel Hill Weekly, Thursday, March 29, 1923

Demand for New Construction in Chapel Hill, 1923

Buildings Worth Over $450,000 Will Go Up in Next Few Months. . . Homes Projected for Every Part of Chapel Hill. University Expansion and Town Expansion Go Along Together. Costs Have Risen Rapidly

An architect who is familiar with building plans in Chapel Hill says that between $450,000 and $500,000 will go into new construction in town during this spring and summer, including the Carolina Inn, the contract for which was let last week.

This is entirely apart from University operations. The town is expanding along with the institution. Homes are being projected in every section—out on the Pittsboro Road, along Cameron avenue and Vance and McCauley streets, on the Tenney farm, on Franklin street, and possibly on the fringe of Battle Park.

Costs have risen rapidly in the last few months. Brodie Thompson, contractor, estimates that the increase since October is about 15 per cent. Brick that cost $13 a thousand, delivered, last fall are selling at $17.50 now.

Here is an incident illustrating how the home builder may get badly nipped in such a rise: A professor planned a home last fall. When a bid was made upon it the amount staggered him, and he sent the plans back to the architect with instructions to cut out certain features. With the omissions duly made, he submitted the plans again to the same contractor, and the bid was higher than before! The rise in costs had more than counter-balanced the omitted features.

W.B. Sorrell is going to put up a business building with a frontage of 100 feet on the vacant lot just above Cate’s jewelry store, with space for four stores opening upon Franklin street and with rooms for students on the second floor. There will be an alley 8 or 10 feet wide running down to Rosemary street between he barber shop and the new building. Mrs. Dell Tankersley is building a home between the Ledbetter house and the Presbyterian church, the last of the Tankersley property near the post-office having been sold a few days ago.

There is talk of a new building on the empty lot between Jack Sparrow’s shop and M.D. Foister’s electrical fixture shop, but this is not definitely settled yet.

One of the most important building developments is to be on the Tenney tract at the northeast corner of town. The new curving road, upon which all the new lots face, w ill be completed soon. G.M. Braune, Frederick Koch, W.W. Pierson, A.C. Howell and T.H. Hamilton all have bought here, and all of them may build homes this season.

One professor who considers building on the Tenney tract hesitates about it because he says it’s so far from college that he will have to buy an automobile. He does not see how he can raise the money to build a house and buy an automobile at the same time.

S.J. Brockwell is planning a splendid new home on Henderson Street next to that of his partner, Mr. Jordan.

D.D. Carroll and W.F. Prouty are preparing to break up into lots their land on the Pittsboro Road. They have already laid out interior roads, and passersby not long ago found them in consultation with Dr. Coker, the botanist, about the beautification of the place with shrubs and flowers.

Mr. Carroll and Mr. Prouty have expressed themselves as determined to have here a development of the highest character. To this end every deed is to carry a clause under which the purchaser agrees not to spend less than a certain amount upon his home. This amount is said to be $7,000. A similar restriction is to be made in the case of homes on the old Battle property purchased not long ago by John M. Booker. Mr. Booker reserved for himself the old house and the land immediately around it; but he is going to put on sale several lots facing upon the winding road which is to enter the domain from the west.

The University plans to extend Cameron avenue eastward from the east gate of the campus, and this new thoroughfare is to run along the south side of the Booker property, swing around to the north, connecting with the street in front of the Bradshaw and Hibbard houses and eventually, it is said, continue up between the Lawson and Kennett lots to Franklin street. Then there is the proposed opening up of the land owned by the Gimphouls around Piney Prospect and fronting on the Raleigh Road. One of the most conspicuous present building projects, because it is on the highway coming in from Durham, is that of Sturgis E. Leavitt. His home is going up on a lot between the homes of A.S. Wheeler and H.V.P. Wilson.

A little further west, on the other side of the road next to the Williams place, James F. Royster will soon begin to build. His lot was bought out of the E.V. Howell land recently cleared of trees and graded. Hobart B. Upjohn, who is designing Mr. Royster’s house, was in town the other day consulting him about it.

Paul John Weaver has already begun a house on a lot to the rear of the East Franklin street home of Mrs. J.W. Gore. He went down to Wilmington by automobile to select the lumber.

Mrs. Bain is putting up a house back of her home on Rosemary street.

Chester D. Snell let a contract a few days ago to Brodie Thompson, for the construction of a home on Vance street near the Pittsboro Road. This is to be a one-story house. Work upon it is to begin soon.

Howard W. Odum is planning to build on his land on the Pittsboro Road next to the Carroll-Prouty tract.

Collier Cobb has been talking of putting up some more houses on Cobb Terrace. James Patterson, who owns most of the land on the street running down from the post office to Rosemary street, is considering the erection of business buildings there. There has been a great deal of curiosity for several years as to what Cameron F. MacRae is going to do with the plot on the post-office corner where Mr. Thomas now runs a store, and this curiosity does not seem any nearer to being satisfied.

Professors who may build this spring and summer, according to current report, are J.F. Dashiell, J.E. Lear and F.F. Bradshaw. Edwin A. Greenlaw will probably build a home between the MacNiders’ and the Hendersons’ before fall.

One great obstacle in the way of home-building—and it is undoubtedly preventing a good deal of construction—is the difficulty of borrowing money. The building and loan association has helped considerably, but its resources are not nearly equal to the demand. Nor are the banks able to accommodate more than a part of those who would like to have homes of their own.

From the front page of The Chapel Hill Weekly, Thursday, March 29, 1923

Chapel Hill News Briefs, March 29, 1923

Miss Webb Off to Edenton

Hillsboro, Mar. 28—Mrs. Cheshire Webb will leave for Edenton in a few days to attend the wedding of her sister, Miss Drane.

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Miss Thornton Leaves Monday

Miss Mary Thornton is going to Danville next Monday to spend a few days with her parents.

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Mrs. Eliza Hutchins, widow of Captain Hutchins, died a few days ago. The family was an old one in the county and was widely known.

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Lucco Lloyd, who has been suffering with influenza, is improving.

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All schools of Bingham township will meet at the White Cross school, April 6, to get ready for the County Schools’ Commencement, May 18.

From the front page of The Chapel Hill Weekly, March 29, 1923

Chapel Hill Weekly, March 29, 1923

Traffic Stop Illustration on Saturday Evening Post Cover, 1922

From the cover of the Saturday Evening Post, June 24, 1922. Illustration called Traffic Stop by Joseph Christian Leyendecker (1874-1951).

Oscar Poindexter, 30, Killed When Touches Live Wire, March 28, 1923

Killed by Live Wire

Mocksville, N.C., March 24—Oscar Poindexter, 30, was killed by contact with a live wire here. He was engaged in work on a machine when the accident happened. He is survived by a widow and three children.

From page 3 of the Kinston Free Press, March 28, 1923

Coast Guard Takes Crew Off Aground Yacht, March 28, 1923

Crew to Norfolk

New Bern, March 26—Eleven members of the crew of the Liberator, 150-ton yacht aground in Pamlico Sound, passed through this city en route to Norfolk. An effort is being made to float the craft. The Coast Guard ship Pamlico took the crew off.

From the front page of the Kinston Free Press, March 28, 1923

All Four Sets of Jail Keys Gone, March 28, 1923

Jail Keys Gone. . . Four Sets Missing; Prisoner Has to Be Sawed Out of Calaboose

The deepest mystery the police here have had in years troubled the whole force and the City Hall employes today. The jail keys were gone. There were four sets of the keys, and every solitary key had disappeared.

The motive was as much a mystery as the whereabouts of the keys. There was only one prisoner in the municipal prison, an inebriate individual who bore the name of Shepherd. Shepherd was as innocent as a shorn sheep, for he was locked up and he wasn’t any Houdini. In fact, a hack saw had to be used to release him. For four sets of keys to disappear simultaneously spelled conspiracy to the police.

From the front page of the Kinston Free Press, March 28, 1923

When Justice Miscarries, March 28, 1923

When Justice Miscarries

It is not an unusual thing for justice to miscarry in the courts of the land. The Free Press is inclined to believe, however, that society is more often cheated of justice against malefactors than is the case of unwarranted and unjustified punishment being meted out to the innocent.

Occasionally, however, there is an outstanding exception. One such has just come to light in the experience of Charner Tidwell, a half-breed Cherokee Indian of Oklahoma, who as recorded in Wednesday’s Free Press, had been pardoned by President Harding after spending nearly 25 years of a life sentence in the Atlanta penitentiary for a crime of which he was innocent. Perjured testimony and perhaps racial prejudice had to do with the injustice done this ward of the nation.

What of it? Happily in this man’s case, he comes out to find his land back in the territory greatly enhanced in value and he is independently wealthy. What if that had not been the case? Supposed he had emerged from the grim “burial alive” with no means of support, out of touch with the progress of the times, and therefore, incompetent and incapable of making a livelihood, would society not have been indebted to him to the extent that some recompense for his false imprisonment be made?

From the editorial page of the Kinston Free Press, March 28, 1923, H. Galt Braxton editor and manager.

Nephews Fighting to Get Estate, March 28, 1923

Wootens Expected to Get Possession of James Pugh Estate. . . As Result of Verdict in Sampson County Litigation—Jury Accuses Attorney Herring—Judge Withholds Signature

Counsel returning here from Clinton today regarded the result of the Pugh will case trial in Superior Court there as a tentative victory for Lloyd K. Wooten and J. Frank Wooten, brothers of this city seeking the bulk of the estate of the late James D. Pugh, eccentric aged bachelor who died in Sampson County some months ago. The Wootens are nephews of Mr. Pugh.

The jury found that Pugh, who was 82 years of age, was without sufficient mental capacity to make the will he left and a certain deed and instrument for the conveyance of notes and mortgages, executed in 1921. A question as to devices to Paul S. Herring, an attorney, by the will of the late Mr. Pugh being “obtained by fraud or undue influence” was answered “yes.” The last of nine issues regarding the conversion to his own use of $13,000 of the property of Pugh by Herring, was answered “yes.”

It was stated that the judgment would not be signed before the next term of court at Clinton. Certain exceptions regarding negro beneficiaries of Pugh were entered by the plaintiff’s counsel. These beneficiaries reside on the Pugh estate.

The trial was a hard-fought affair, with a number of prominent lawyers engaged. The speech during argument by Henry Faison of Clinton was declared one of the finest addresses in the Sixth District court in years.

Local counsel said the estate originally had a value of nearly $100,000, estimated. Decrease in values and the alleged loss of assets to a considerable sum has reduced the present value to about $55,000, it was estimated.

From the front page of the Kinston Free Press, March 28, 1923

Lewis Vs Palmer Fight April 6, 1923

Lewis Vs. Palmer. . . To Be Pitted in 10-Round Bout Here Night of April 6

Frankie Lewis, reputed junior middleweight of North Carolina, and Puncher Palmer of Cincinnati are scheduled to go 10 rounds at the Central Warehouse here the night of April 6. The Tarheel boy administered a knock-out to the Harlem Kid at his last appearance here, the night of March 19. The Ohioan is said to have an advantage of four pounds weight over Lewis.

From the front page of the Kinston Free Press, March 28, 1923

Kinston Free Press, March 28, 1923

New Lenoir School Opening, March 27, 1923

House Warming at New Lenoir School. . . Several Take Part in an Interesting Program—Good Crowd Present

Friday night a house warming was held at the new Lenoir school building when the keys of the building were officially turned over to the school by the board of trustees.

The program opened with music by the American Legion band, which is being directed by James Harper, and was followed by prayer by Rev. R.L. Isbell.

Mrs. J.L. Nelson was then introduced by Supt. W.S. Hough as being the “Lady of the White House.” Mrs. Nelson is one of the most loyal and faithful friends of the graded school. Several years ago she presented a standard reference work containing 29 volumes to the school. Since that time the world war has been fought and won, and numerous other things of interest and importance have taken place. This being the case, Mrs. Nelson said that she did not want these important things to be missing in the reference books, and she presented three additional volumes containing the happenings since 1910. The original set was donated by Mrs. Nelson in memory of her father, Dr. Scroggs, and she wanted to continue furnishing this extension service in honor of his memory.

In closing Mrs. Nelson stated that since the school had moved into its new quarters and left North Main street a pall of loneliness hung over the place. The old school building is located just across the street from the home of Mrs. Nelson, and it is safe to say that she misses the school children in no small degree.

Supt. Hough accepted the three additional volumes of the reference work for the school with a great deal of appreciation. In doing this he stated that the school needed many more friends like Mrs. Nelson. He also stated that in order to be a No. A high school 500 books would have to be in the library. At the present time there are needed 299 books. He made a strong appeal to the friends of the school to furnish the necessary number of books to the school library so as to place them in the A class.

After another selection by the band W.J. Lenoir, recently elected chairman of the county board of education, was called on for a talk. This building with all of its equipment and conveniences would be a credit to any town in the State of North Carolina,” Mr. Lenoir said. “The fact that it is here is evidence that the town will keep the important place it has on the educational map. Not many of you can remember back as far as 50 years ago, but this town has always been considered an educational town. If you will look up the records of the history of the town you will find that event hen there were three splendid educational institutions of more than State-wide reputation in the town of Lenoir. These institutions were the Finley High School, which was run by Capt. E.W. faucet and Mr. Dickson as assistant. It had boys here from States as far west as Texas.” He then told of an old negress passing by the school one day when several of the students were studying their Greek and reading it aloud. She hurried on and told the boss that “two of them strange boys up there was a-cussin’ me and a-threatening to kill me.”

“What did they say?” she was asked.

“Alpha Beta,” etc.

“Then there was the Kirkwood school 50 years ago,” Mr. Lenoir continued, “with Miss Emma Rankin as principal, and a girl in that day considered her fortunate to have her guidance.

“Davenport college was here 50 years ago, and it alone remains. It is progressing and growing better and better, and it is a pleasant thought for us to liken it to Tennyson’s brook and hope it will ‘go on and on forever.’

“Then there was a lapse and we come to a period about 20 years ago when the graded school building was erected. It was one of the greatest interests in our town, and recognized as one of the best institutions in the State, but the town has outgrown the old school and we now have this magnificent building, on this six acres of ground, and so built that unit after unit can be added as room may be needed. We have a splendid superintendent and board of trustees, and they are determined that this school shall be second to none in North Carolina.”

Mayor V.D. Guire was then introduced by Supt. Hough, who stated that his subject would be the burdened taxpayer, who paid for the chairs, erected the house and was responsible for its being there. Mr. Guire stated in the beginning that he thought the meeting together in the building for a house warming was a very fine thing. The people would come there and see each other, and would go home with a better feeling for having been there, and he was sure that when taxpaying time came they would not mind so much the paying of taxes. Of course there will be some pessimistic taxpayers who have not seen the vision and will let go of their money grudgingly, but they will be in the minority. Mr. Guire said that he hoped none of the children would have to go three miles in the mud to school as he had done. The speaker then mentioned the citizenship of Lenoir. He said there was no better citizenship to be found anywhere than in Lenoir. “As has been suggested by Mr. Lenoir, this town has been known since its beginning as an educational town and a town of Christianity,” Mr. Guire continued. “Two things that are absolutely inseparable for the making of good citizenship. We want you to see that the town of Lenoir is growing, progressing and going forward at a greater rate perhaps today than in all of her history. We taxpayers ae going to pay for it. We cannot get anything in this world that is worthwhile unless it costs us money. The times demand that we spend more money than we did 50 years ago. Our citizenship demands better things, better schools, better roads, better churches, better preachers, better teachers than they did 50 years ago. All our taxpayers want these days is value received for their money.”

Mrs. E.F. Reid was then introduced as representing the Woman’s Club. “This organization has been speaking for itself in good deeds for the last 18 years,” Mrs. Reid said. “At first it was known as the little Town Improvement Society, and then for many years as the Woman’s Betterment Association, but we have grown dignified of late and we are now known as the Woman’s Club. The policy of this club has always been conservative, and has thereby regained the respect of the men of the town. We have received the most courteous treatment and co-operation from men of the town, and the school authorities, and it is our opinion that there are no finer men anywhere than we have right here in Lenoir I am sure that I voice the sentiment of the 120 members of the Woman’s Club when I say that every day and in every way we are striving to make our town and school better and better.”

Mrs. Reid then told a story she had heard the preceding day of a certain pastor of a certain church not in Lenoir, who was often called on for a talk. He always got up and said he was not prepared. One Sunday morning when the exercises had been particularly long for one little boy he was called on for a speech. He got up, rubbed his hands, saying he hardly knew what to say. The little boy in the back called out and said, “Well, say ‘Amen’ and sit down.”

Lee Foy Tuttle was then introduced as representing the youth of the school. He said: “This school means more to us in our present school life than it will to others, for we have been looking forward for a number of years to the time when we would have a new school building. We have been crowded up in the old school building for so long that we have not yet become accustomed to the new building. It seems just like a dream to us, and we want to express our thanks to the school and to those who made this building possible, and we do thank them.

V.H. Beach, the treasurer of the board of trustees, was next introduced. In beginning Mr. Beach said he represented one of the most peaceful bodies the sun ever shown on. Since 1913 he had been a member of the board of trustees, and on every question that has come up, he said, the board had always been unanimous in their decisions about it. “There have been many important questions during these 10 years,” he said. “You have been called on twice to vote for school bonds and you have responded wonderfully. This building has been in the minds of every man on the school board for 10 years. It was the dream of the board. They all planned for this when they were members of the board. Rev. C.T. Squires dreamed of it, and his dream was so loud that he told us about it. I want to thank the citizenship of the town of Lenoir for their hearty co-operation in every request made, and it is because you were interested that this building is here tonight.”

Mr. Beach then delivered the keys of the building to Supt. Hough. He showed him the smallest key, and said that it was the most important one of all. It was the key that unlocked the hearts of the citizenship of every man, woman and child in this school district. Mr. Hough accepted the keys with some very fitting remarks.

G.F. Harper was called on for a few remarks, after which the audience was dismissed, the band playing while the assemblage marched out. An invitation was extended for all to visit the different classroom.

From the front page of the Lenoir News-Topic, March 27, 1923

Boone In the Dark After Power Plant Burns, March 27, 1923

Boone Power Plant Destroyed by Fire. . . Boone Now Without Electric Lights; Plant Owned by Training School

Boone, March 26—The power plant of the Appalachian Training School burned at about 5:30 o’clock Friday morning. It is unknown what was the cause of the fire, but it is supposed that it was a short circuit. The plant is a complete loss. Authorities say that lights will be provided at the earliest possible time.

From the front page of the Lenoir News-Topic, March 27, 1923

Elliott Building to Construct New Mill, 16 Cottages, March 27, 1923

Let Contract for New Nelson Mill. . . Elliott Construction Company to Build the Mill and 16 Cottages

The contract was awarded last week to the Elliott Building Company of Hickory for the erection of the main building, the warehouse and cottages of the Nelson Cotton Mill to be located at Whitnel. The contract calls for the completion of these buildings by Aug. 1. Other contracts in connection with this new mill have already been (awarded?) and work is to be started right away. It is expected that they will begin today, said J. Lee Nelson Jr. Excavating was begun several weeks ago under the direction of T.F. Seehorn of Lenoir. Work on all the contracts will be rushed as rapidly as possible, and the officials of this mill hope to get the mill running some time in August.

The mill building will be built of brick and will be 80 by 315 feet long, and will contain 6,500 spindles.

The cottages will be located on the Caja’s mountan road to the southwest of the cotton mill.

From the front page of the Lenoir News-Topic, March 27, 1923

Harrison Corpening Has Died, March 27, 1923

Respected Colored Man Dies

Harrison Corpening, one of the old-time and respected darkeys, passed away last Wednesday and was buried at Clough Branch, near Gamewell, Thursday. He was about 80 years old.

From the front page of the Lenoir News-Topic, March 27, 1923

Community Chorus Practicing for Easter Service, March 27, 1923

Community Chorus to Meet

The Community Chorus will meet Friday evening at 7:30 o’clock in the First Presbyterian church for practice. Mr. Kraft is very anxious to have all present, as they will practice for the Eastern services to be held in the Presbyterian church at 3:30 on Easter Sunday.

From the front page of the Lenoir News-Topic, March 27, 1923

Rainbow Trout Put in Wilson's Creek, March 27, 1923

Put in Several Thousand Fish

Friday a shipment of several thousand small rainbow trout from the Government Hatchery at Ervin, Tenn., was received here. They were sent to Mortimer and Edgemont to be placed in the Wilson Creek and smaller streams emptying into Wilson’s Creek.

From the front page of the Lenoir News-Topic, March 27, 1923

Four Home from Hickory Hospital, March 27, 1923

Mrs. McDade Returns Home

Mrs. Fletcher McDade returned home from Hickory Sunday, where she has been for the past two weeks in a hospital. She underwent an operation, and is now getting along nicely.

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Have Tonsils and Adenoids Removed

Misses Francis and Lois Shell were taken to Hickory last week where they were placed in a local hospital. Frances had her tonsils removed and Lois had her tonsils and adenoids. The girls returned home Monday, and are getting along nicely.

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Miss Louise Jennings, who has been in a Hickory hospital for several weeks, was able to return home last week and is greatly improved.

From the front page of the Lenoir News-Topic, March 27, 1923

Lenoir News-Topic, March 27, 1923

Bankers Meet with Farmers to Discuss Financing the Next Tobacco Crop, March 26, 1923

Bankers Meet with Farmers

One of the best and most largely attended meetings of the Rockingham county branch of the Tobacco Growers’ Cooperative Marketing Association was held at Wentworth Saturday. Anyone having doubts as to the growth and stability of the organization in this county was thoroughly convinced as to its solidity by a glance at the great crowd of loyal members present. Every available seat in the courthouse was occupied, and many were standing in the aisles.

The meeting was presided over by President C.H. Dalton. A roll call showed that the county locals were well represented. An invitation had been extended to bankers of the county to attend this meeting for the purpose of formulating plans to finance the growing tobacco crop this year. A representative from each local was named to hold a conference with the bankers in the grand jury room. While this conference was in progress the meeting in the court room was addressed by several representatives of different fertilizer companies. Some instructive information as to the proper use of fertilizer was given (at) the meeting.

The conference with the bankers in the grand jury room was presided over by Squire W.S. McKinney. Vice-President Scott Fillman of the First National Bank of Reidsville outlined a plan which he thought would solve the problems of financing the present crop. He pointed out that the local banks were willing and eager to assist the farmers to the extent of their abilities and believed that the resources of the county banks were ample to supply the prospective needs of the farmers in this county, but that certain banking rules would have to be complied with in order to secure the needed funds. He called attention to the fact that the banks were freely discounting farmers’ notes and made no discrimination against them over any other class of business. That the banks could not indiscriminately loan money to individuals in any line of business who were not entitled to banking credit, even on chattel mortgages. But the banks would gladly discount paper given by or endorsed by responsible farmers owning unencumbered farms. He suggested that each local of the Tobacco Growers’ Cooperative Marketing Association in this county work out plans whereby those members needing money to buy fertilizers or for other crop needs execute chattel mortgages to certain trustees to secure repayment of such advances; that responsible members sing a joint note and have it discounted at one of the county banks for the amounts needed; and these endorseers see to it that those receiving the money pay off the borrowings out of the proceeds from sale of their crops. He suggested that each local hold a special meeting and find out just how much each unit will need and report to a committee of the county bankers, who in turn will apportion the loans to the different banks of the county. This plan was later agreed to.

Short talks were made by President P.H. Gwynn Sr. of the Bolevard Bank and Trust Company of Leaksville; President J.F. Watlington of the Bank of Reidsville; President Vaughn of the Bank of Stoneville; President Patrick Simpson of the Bank of Summerfield; and President R.L. Watt of Citizens Bank of Reidsville. Mr. Gwynn explained the plan which he is advocating for a federal law enabling all commercial banks to handle farm crop and land paper for from 8 to 10 months on crop liens and from 1 to 5 years on land. He assured the farmers that his bank in the meantime would go its limits in discounting bankable notes for the farmers. Mr. Watlington explained how the Bank of Reidsville for 8 or 10 years past has been discounting notes for groups of farmers who used the money to buy fertilizers for cash, thus securing much lower prices than on crop time. Each farmer, he explained, would execute a chattel mortgage to secure his part of the note. A list of names would be attached to the joint note showing the amounts to be paid by each endorser. He had found this very desirable paper to handle and his bank had never had the slightest trouble with collections. All the bankers assured the tobacco growers hearty cooperation.

The consensus of opinion was that the financial institutions of the county were amply able to finance the farmers of the county, and that it is up to the farmers themselves to take the necessary steps to secure needed funds. In fact, many farmers have expressed the opinion that the tobacco farmers are not as much interested in securing credit as they are in getting profitable prices for their tobacco. Hence the great interest the tobacco growers are taking in the cooperative marketing movement. They know that if they can sell their tobacco at prices which will show a profit, the credit problems will cease to be problems at all.

Each of the bankers made brief talks later to the full meeting upstairs.

Chairman Dalton graciously called to the attention of the convention he loyalty of The Reidsville Review to the Cooperative Marketing Association and advised every member who is not getting the paper to subscribe for it. On motion, a rising vote of thanks was given The Review for its active and loyal support of the association.

At the afternoon session Director John W. King of Greensboro, who represents the district composed of Caswell, Rockingham, Guilford and Randolph counties in the Tri-State Association, briefly addressed the convention and gave an outline of the work of the association so far. He stated that all unsold tobacco had been processed and was in safe condition to keep until sold. Very satisfactory sales had been made, he said, and the entire crop would be disposed of at good prices in a reasonable time. He announced that over $2 million was ready for disbursement as a second payment on all tobacco pooled in the old belt since January 1st. Checks will be mailed out as soon as the final returns are sent in by the receiving plants, all of which close on March 30th.

The old officers were re-elected by acclamation for another year. These are C.H. Dalton, president; Clay M. Wilson, vice president; W.F. Burton, secretary and treasurer. The meeting was then adjourned.

From the front page of the Reidsville Review, Monday, March 26, 1923

600,000 Members in 4-H Forerunner, March 26, 1923

Facts About Club Work

By Hon. Charles W. Pugsley, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture

Boys’ and girls’ club work is the most important phase of extension work carried on the the United States department of agriculture and the agricultural colleges under the Smith-Lever law.

There were 600,000 club members this year, 1922.

In 1921 club members produced over $7 million worth of products at a cost of $4.5 million, which cost includes leadership.

Banks loaned club members $2 million this year to carry on their projects, and will no doubt increase their aid next season.

Various agencies provided $734,000 in prizes for 1922 winners to aid and promote club work.

Number of former club members attending college, 2,100.

Club members give $20,000 public demonstrations annually, influencing 500,000 farmers and farm wives.

Club work does more than demonstrate the better practices in agriculture and home economics—it trains for citizenship and leadership—it produces better men and women.

Club work should be expanded to enlarge it so that it may reach millions instead of thousands.

Of all the extension work, I am convinced that the work with the boys and girls is the most profitable and brings the most returns for the amount invested.

From page 4 of the Reidsville Review, Monday, March 26, 1923. Club work would later be called 4-H and millions of kids would be active in the program.

Local News from Reidsville, March 26, 1923

Local News

Local Juniors are putting on a campaign for new members with gratifying results. Refreshments and initiations will feature the meeting Thursday night of this week of Carolina Council No. 9 of the Junior Order.

N.C. Thompson has presented two large Washington pictures, nicely framed, to the Franklin School and Lawsonville Avenue schools.

The Rotary Club will meet tomorrow evening at 6:30 at the Belvedere Hotel and will have as their guests the members of the boys’ high school basketball team.

Mrs. B.H. DeGrott, who was operated on at St. Leo’s hospital Tuesday, was reported late last night as showing steady improvement. –Greensboro News Are you going to the Grand Theatre Thursday, March 29, to see “On the High Seas”? Dorothy Dalton and Jack Holt are playing in it. And remember, it is a benefit picture for the Library Association, which is one of the worthiest organizations in Reidsville.

The almost continuous rains for several weeks have put the farmers badly behind with spring plowing. It is to be hoped the present pretty spell of weather will continue for some time to enable them to catch up with farm work. Tobacco plants are promising.

The Mothers Club is selling homemade cakes this week to help raise funds for the support of an orphan in the Far East. Orders will be appreciated. Can supply all kinds of cakes. Phone your orders to Mrs. Richard R. Saunders, President, Phone No. 532.

E.L. Somers, secretary of the Nu-Shine Company of Reidsville, reports that business continues good with the company. He states that the company sold over 87,000 bottles of Nu-Shine during the month of February and that March will go considerably ahead of this record.

Married, by W.D. Hightower at his office on March 24, Miss Bulah M. Hudson and Lawrance O. Linville, both of Summerfield; and on the same date Miss Minnie Martin and Conrad Cardwell of Mayodan; Miss Willie E. Honeycutt and John Harper of Greensboro; Miss Clicia F. Thompson and Lee Reynolds of Spray.

The short detour on the Wentworth road just beyond Cavalry church is almost impossible. The heavy traffic over the detour Saturday cut the ruts axle deep and many cars had to be pushed along by hand power. Motorists are advised to avoid this road entirely. Detour via the Leaksville roads, some 12 or more miles further, and save time.

Mrs. C.H. Balsley was hostess to the Mothers Club at its regular meeting on Thursday afternoon. Each member responded to roll call with quotations from Emerson. The program consisted of two interesting papers. Mrs. Mike Snead read “Physical Training and Safe-Guard for Boys,” and “Physical Training for School Boys” was read by Mrs. Ed Walker. The club members were glad to enroll Mrs. C.L. Firesheets as a new member. Mrs. Balsley, assisted by her two little daughters, Evelyn and Dorothy, served delicious refreshments.

The funeral of Dr. James K. Stockard, well known and highly respected citizen of Greensboro, formerly of Reidsville, who died Friday night at his home, was held Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock. The services were conducted at the home by Rev. R. Murphy Williams, pastor of Dr. Stockard’s church, the Presbyterian Church of the Covenant. Interment followed in Greene Hill cemetery. Among those from Reidsville attending the funeral and burial were Drs. J.W. McGehee and M.B. Abernethy, and T.L. Gardner. Dr. Stockard is survived by his widow and two sons and two daughters. Mrs. W.R. Talley killed a hen Saturday that weighed nine pounds. Mrs. Talley thinks this is an unbeatable record.

Have you heard about the benefit game tournament? Make your plans to attend. Time, 8:30 Tuesday night, April 3. Place, Belvedere Hotel. This is to be given under the auspices of the Art and Travel Club. Proceeds to be used in buying a set of books that will be donated to the city library. Our ever generous and public-spirited merchants opened up their hearts and gave wonderful prizes. These will be drawn with lucky numbers. A delightful lunch will be served. Price 75 cents a player, $3 per table. Engage your tables from Mrs. R.D. Gapen, phone 211-W.

The teachers of the Franklin Street school will give an Easter egg hunt for children on Saturday, March 31, at 2:30 p.m. The tickets to the hunt will be sold for 10 cents and the proceeds given to the Franklin Street Parent Teacher Association. The teachers and mothers will be there to look after the children and see that they have a good time. So send the little children as well as the larger ones, give them pleasure and help the association. The Easter hunt will be given on the Franklin Street school lawn, and tickets may be bought from Miss Paylor at the Franklin Street school on March 29 and 30.

T.M. French, a well known farmer, died at his home near Carmel church Friday night. He was about 70 years old. Mr. French left home Friday morning supposedly on a visit to one of his neighbors and did not return home Friday night. This family thought he was spending the night with one of the neighbors on account of the heavy rain. Saturday morning his body was found in a piece of woods near his home. Coroner Jett examined the body and found that death was caused by apoplexy and an inquest was unnecessary. Mr. French is survived by several grown children. Funeral burial will take place this afternoon.

William B. Gardner and Miss Leona Strader, both of Reidsville, were united in marriage in the office of Otis Bradley, clerk of the court, yesterday afternoon at 4 o’clock. The ceremony was performed by Rev. J. Clyde Holland, and witnessed by several friends of the contracting parties. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alvis Strader. The groom, a young farmer, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J.B. Gardner. Those accompanying the young couple were Miss Jettie Strader, Miss Katherine Gardner, and Mr. and Mrs. W.F. Slate. Immediately following the ceremony Mr. and Mrs. Gardner returned to Reidsville where they will make their home. –Danville Register

Two new fast through trains between New Orleans and New York on the Southern railway, passing through Reidsville on convenient schedules, and shortening the time between this city and New York to about 13 hours, are announced by R.H. Graham, division passenger agent, to go into effect Sunday, April 20. The two trains will be the fastest through trains on the Southern railway main line. The northbound train from New Orleans will be known as train No. 34, and the southbound from New York as train 33. Mr. Graham stated yesterday that other important changes in train schedules and operation would be announced shortly by the Southern railway.

From page 5 of the Reidsville Review, Monday, March 26, 1923

Reidsville Review, March 26, 1923

O.H. Stanard, County Agent, Advises Farmers and Gardeners Alike, March 25, 1923

Several Subjects Are Touched Upon. . . County Agent Gives Advice to Farmers on Tobacco, Pigs and Terracing

Terraces, pigs and tobacco are some of the subjects touched upon by O.H. Stanard, county agent, in his farm notes for this week. He gives valuable advice to the farmers of the county along these lines. The office of the county farm agent is a diversified one, being as wide in scope as there are crops and livestock on the farms of the county.

His article follows:

More applications are being made for the running of terraces than can be attended to. Farmers should plan to run their terraces in the fall when more effective work can be done. Luther Lawson, Rougemont, is so well pleased with the farmer’s level for running terraces that he bought an outfit for the work. He is running his own terraces and assisting many of his neighbors.

Myra Atkins, New Hope; Monroe Hudson, Patrick Henry; Cleave Colclough, Chandler; Wayland Lynn, Chandler; and Thermond Ellis, Holt, have settled recently for their club sow with pigs from her first litter. B.P. Bowling, Rougemont, is the local leader of a new pig club formed at Rougemont. Those desiring to join this club should see him or the county agent.

About 40 farmers in Durham county are trying magnesium limestone this year for tobacco. Tests have shown that it is a sure cure for “sand drown.”

The county agent has recently assisted farmers in co-operative ordering of nitrate of soda, magnesium limestone, and soybeans. Our continual campaign for more lime and legumes for soil improvement and better crops seems to be having some effect.

Indications are that the farmers are making plans to grow a large crop of tobacco this year. The wise farmer will follow the ever-safe policy of “Live at Home.” We are anxious to have a large number of Durham county farmers fill out an enrollment blank indicating their intensions to be one of the Live-at-Home farmers.

From page 5 of the Durham Morning Herald, Sunday, March 25, 1923. The live-at-home program encouraged farmers to produce what food it could for home consumption rather than go into debt at the local stores. This meant at vegetable garden and home canning, and chickens, pigs, and a cow, if possible.

New Mill Sent Its First Bale of Silk Shirting, March 25, 1923

First Shipment of Silk Saturday. . . Morven Mills Shipped Bale of Silk Shirting to Massachusetts Worth $4,380

A bale of silk goods valued at $4,380 was shipped Saturday by the Morven Cotton Mills of this city. It was consigned to a firm in Massachusetts and represents the first silk goods that has been shipped by the mills since they began operation a few months ago. The silk was shirting and of the best kind.

The mills began operation after a complete renovation of the plant, formerly the Commonwealth Mills. New machinery of the latest type, some of it being extremely complicated, was installed and an addition was made to the plant. Through the operation of the mill it was necessary to bring into the city a number of skilled men and women in the manufacture of silks and plaids.

The mills are to make plaids such as is used in making women’s skirts, it was stated at the mill just prior to the time of opening. This will give Durham the only plaid mill in the state, it was stated. Most of this type of goods is made in the New England states.

From page 5 of the Durham Morning Herald, Sunday, March 25, 1923

S.M. Newton, Who Sold Worthless Oil Stocks, Fighting Extradition, March 25, 1923

Try to Extradite an Oil Stock Man

By the Associated Press

Raleigh, N.C., March 24—Frank Nash, assistant attorney general of North Carolina, today was making preparations to represent the state in Richmond, March 31, at the extradition hearing of S.M. Newton, charged with obtaining money under false pretense in the sale of worthless oil stocks to John L. Johnson, Harnett county. Newton is fighting his return to the state for trial.

Johnson, it is said, paid $10,000 for the alleged valueless stock.

From page 11 of the Durham Morning Herald, Sunday, March 25, 1923. $10,000 in 1923 is worth $175,930 today, and the crash of the stock market is coming in 1929.

High School Swimming Pool Opening to Girls, March 25, 1923

Swimming Pool at the High School Open to the Girls

Equal rights have been accorded the girls of the Durham high school in the use of the swimming pool that is now being used by the student body. Suffrage has been granted them after a delay due to trouble attending the disposition of wet bathing suits, and whether the parents of the girl should furnish the bath suits. All of these wrinkles have been ironed out and from now on the girls will be permitted to enjoy the pleasures of the pool, during periods that have been assigned to them. They will begin taking swimming Monday should the wringer arrive.

The use of the swimming pool is not obligatory upon the girls as part of their regular athletic program but they are given the right to use it if they so desire. All girls who take advantage of the pool will be required to purchase woolen suits and after a dip in the water each girl must wring her suit out. The suits are to be taken home by the girl when not in use rather than kept in the lockers. The reason for the rule is that by placing wet bath suits in the metal lockers damage will be done to the lockers through rust.

The boys are taking to the water in a pleasing manner and regular schedules have been arranged whereby every boy will have an opportunity to take a swim. All boys who do not know how to swim are given lessons. They have one period a week.

Aquatic contests of various kinds are being planned by Albert Harrington, physical director for the boys, and Miss Blakesley, head of the girls physical department. These contests will be staged during the school year. Plans are now in the formulative period. Swimming is health exercise, bringing into play every muscle in the body, aiding in the development of the body. No boy or girl is allowed to take a swim except when a member of the faculty of the high school, and a swimmer, is present.

A play whereby the teachers of the city public schools will have an afternoon in which to take a swim in the pool is now being worked out. The pool, located in the basement of the school building, is the latest word for swimming pools. It is 60 feet long by 20 feet wide, ranging in depth from four to eight feet. It is constructed of white tile and the very best material available was used in its construction. One of the best purifying systems obtainable has been installed and the water is continually run through it, assuring the purity of the water. The water is also kept heated, with the weather conditions having something to do with the temperature. The room is also kept heated as a safety precaution for the health of the boys and girls and older people who enjoy the water sports. The violet ray machine is the very latest and best style. The pool holds approximately 50,000 gallons of water and through the work of the purifying system, it is not necessary to change the water more than twice a year, it was stated. The system keeps all sediment and sand from the pool.

One each side of the room in which the swimming pool is located are the dressing rooms. The girls have the room on one side of the pool while the boys are on the opposite side. The boys and girls use the pool separately.

Before taking a plunge into the pool every person so doing is required to bathe under a shower. Any person having skin eruptions, open sores, boils, or colds is not allowed to enter the pool.

The pool cannot be used after school hours by anyone unless he or she can swim the entire length of the pool, or 60 feet.

It is expected that within a very short time aquatic sports will become the most attractive of any other part of the physical schedule carried out for the boys and girls. Although the girls are not required to make swimming part of their regular physical exercise, it is expected that a large number will avail themselves of the pleasures and benefits to be derived from the pool.

From page 7 of the Durham Morning Herald, Sunday, March 25, 1923