The Mebane Leader [Mebane, N.C.: May 18, 1915]

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»< THE MEBANE LEADER
And Right The Day Must Win, To Doubt Would'Be Disloyalty, To Falter Would Be Sin."
Volumn 7 MEBANE, N. C, THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1915 Number 12
.leasers Bob Dillard, Earl
, aw, Glen Satterfield, and Tal
[Uin Jobe went fishing Monday.
R -ported good luck and a fine
■
\iiss Lela Florence of Burling:
ton spent Sunday with Mrs. G.
| Wyatte.
Rev. H. G. Dorsett and fam-ily
went toSiler City last Thurs-
Mr. and Mrs Warren spent
Sunday in the country
THE LVSITAVIA SUNK
By
\i\■■■.. N'. I). Jeffris went to Dur-ham
Sunday afternoon
Miss Mary Miles is visiting her
ter Mrs. A. B. Fitch on Holt
Street
Mr. Ed Carr spent Sunday inl,
! tin liani
Miss Bertha Pickardis spend-
I he summer with her sister
Sam Albright
German Submarine
Friday Last
The Cunard liner Lustiania.
which sailed out of New York
last Saturday the first day of
May with more than 2.000 per-sons
aboard, lies at the bottom
of the ocean off the Irish coast.
She was sunk by a German
submarine, which sent two tor-
Mr and Mrs G. E. Wvatte and pedoes crashing into her side
while the passengers were at
luncheon on Friday the 7th.
The Lustania carried a passen-ger
list of 1,251 of whom 188
were Americans.and with a crew
of 816. She sailed in the face of
a warning before he«- depar-ture
by the German embassy,
which asserted that travelers in-tending
to embark on British
I ships did so at the risk of the
Mrs P. D. Riggs is visiting | ships being destroyed in accor-hersisier
Mrs. S. C. Riggs ! dance with the German war zone
A Union Meeting will be held ! decree.
in the Ware House, beginning' The Lusitania was one of the
M:n 27th conducted by Rev. | largest of trans-Atlantic liners
irLightbourn of Elon Co!- as well as one of the speediest.
She was built in Glasgow in 1906
1'l.apter from M. P. Childrens[and was 785feet £■* Her gross
Home will give an entertainment!tonnage^r
32^0 and her net
..theM. P. Church Mebane. ( onnag«9'145" c
bhe was mvnen
by the Cunard Steamship com-pany,
Ltd., of Liverpool. Her
on Monday evening May 17th
: ../clock.
Miss Mable and Clay Christo-,
. pent Tuesday in Burling-
Miss Jennie Reid left Tuesday
captain was W. T. Turner.
Although the Lustania was
surpassed in size by several
other liners built subsequently
including the Imperator. Olym-';
Resolutions Of Respect A Cooking Class
Mrs. Cornelia O Morris, ttaeher,
The filed-Up Money Chapel Hill Letter Washington INews Letter
At the annual meeting of the Board I Mr«- Cornelia ^ norrw, itacner, j '-Adams," a contribmor to The Bos-! Ftm.er Preslimt Kemp Plummer! Gieater anxiety exista in Washing-of
Trustees of IfebftlK Graded School, j demonstrator, etc employe* by the | ton N-JW8 BureaUf aslfed lh. question j Battle, to whom Preside.it Edward K. | ton over the toipedoing of the Ameri-which
met in the office of the White U. S. Agricultural Dept. for this coun | „ , Graham, in his inaugural address, paid can tank ship Gulflight by a German
brothers last Friday evening the mo- | try, had a l ill, but very .«
tion was ma le by
White, seconded and voted
the eloqu.-ut and singular tribute-•'he ' submarine than has been caused by
a dissenting vote, that a committee be j ..
appointed to draft resolutions of -
.«......« *...~ ...«- i - , . . jwv ^I",M .ii put, oiiiSu»n» .«avu.« nv auuiudi mi: man nas Deen caused Dv
Mr. William E. j class at the horn* of Mrs. W. W. Cor- 3eeK,nB investment. ami tn-ii pro- ^^vtOt0moti&a owft itomortaUtj"Uy previous event growing out of the
oled on without, bett iast Thursday afternotn where **eda to answer U. High authorities," _.has niaHe provision whereby the war in Europe. There is no conceal-ose
present, with the assistance
spect in honor of our esteemed towns- j and ^perv.s.on °f Mrs- W« P'e-man,
Mr. Thomas M. Cheek, who has'pared and cooked delicious lenon pio,
served in the capacity as chairman of j poinsettia salad and jelly tarts
the Board of Trustees of the Mebane j <fhe only expense attached : to the
Graded School ever since ics establish- i.t.une and. service of..t.h.is expe.rt i.n d,om-ment
fourteen years ago. . .1
THEREFORE, Be it resolved: | eBt,c 8l€nce '" tne materials ised for
First: That we, the committee <»p-1 foods cooked. The county, Hate and
pointed to draft these resolutions, j Dept ai Washington ate pajing Mrs.
learn with regret that on account of j Morri9. salary and expenses jo teach
age and ill health, Mr Thomas M. . . . . . iL „,.,,,. t.v classes in this county, wherjver the
Cheek has found it necessary to with-draw
as a member of the said board t P^P1*2 are sufficiently inte*sted to
of trustees. We wish to thank Mr. i organize. Why not the ladies ot Meb-
Cheek for his long, continuous and j ane have a share in this greav benefit?
arduous work as chairman of said! mdtdmq has
school board.
Second: That the board keenly re-alizes
that it is sustaining practically
an irreparable loss in the person of i not give us her time this summer, but
this devoted man. we, too, have full! has offered to teach a cooking class
; Wocdlawu has already grtsped the
I opportunity And organized achss. Mrs.
. Morris is a very buisv woman and can
cognizance that he has not only been
a friend of the school, speaking from
the standpoint of and official capacity,
but that he has manifested always a
high and Christian desire to minister
to the needs of the youth of this town
and community.
two lessons a mouth for six months in
the year, commencing in the fall,
provided we are sufficiently concerned
to organize a class .
Thoee present at Mrs. Oorbett'R
were: Mrs. W. A. Murray, Mrs. J. R,
Third: That the remaining board of | Singleton, Misses Jennie U«ley, Olga
trustees realize fully that they have j ana Lottie Long, E. S. Harris, Mrs.
lost one of their most efficient mem- \y
bers and tiiey feel that they owe him
a debt of gratitude of which they are
incompetent to compensate. Mr. Cheek
with his magnanimous heart and over- I
flowing love of sympathy for the |
school, and for the promotion of its !
prestige and dignity, has done all that
S. Harris. Mrs. C. F. Gates
(Signed) Mrs. W. S. Harris
A Noble Flagpole
(Frmn the San Francisco Chronicle)
A fitting symbol of the mighty for-which
is possible for a mar. of the high | egts of lhe Wegt j
he says, "estimate it privately at stu-pendous
figures—well up, indeed, in
the hundreds of millions. No doubt
they are right. Never before was the
country so rich Not in years has the
investment market been so big and
broad. Ntw York Central bonds to
the amount of 1100,000,000 are readily
floated and on the Stock Exchange are
bought at rising prices by tens of mil-lions.
Baltimore and Ohio notes aggre
gating 140,000,000 are absorbed in a
couple of hours. Foreign (•overnment
borrowing of at least $200,000,000 are
pending and will be easily sold. And
coincidentally confidence is again up
to par and the New York bank surplus
stands at *178,000,000, Thes* facts
speak for themselves." While the
claim is not made that the millennium
is here, "Adams" makes a significant
observation. He says the Wall Street
house cleaning and Stock Exchacge re-forms
of the past two years have done
wonders for its business. And the
earnings of our corporations are fo»
the most part published so frequently
that it is no longer possible for insi-ders
to trade on them for months U-i
gether in secrecy. In other words, the
public has never had so square a deal
marketwise as it is getting today."
Democratic legislation was responsible
\ for that. Democratic legislation was
articles used in industries and avooa- I ment of the fact that if the
-.. M. after visiting relatives for. pic and Vaterland, she never
her home at Pilot Mountain, lost her reputation acquired at
C. the outset of her career. Her
Miss Nellie Bowling of Cor- j sPeed and luxurious accommoda-bett
passed through Tuesday A.!tlons make a favorite, and her
M- in route for Burlington to! passengers lists bore the names
visit friends and relative*. of ma<iy of the prominent Atlan
tic wa/farers. She had nine
decks, connected with elevators.
j Her cabins were designed to look
Mrs. Tom Pettigrew left for
1 >urham Tuesday.
Mrs. L. A. Crawford went to
i 'in ham Tuesday.
Kills or Makes Invalids
Causes Acute Suffering.
more like an elaborate hotel than
a ship.
The vessel was pronounced by
her builders to be as nearly non
sinkable as any ship could be.
The lower deck was watertight.
The double bottom was so con-structed
that should the bilge
knees be torn away and the hu'l
pierced the entering water would
be confined within the inner and
outer bottoms. The lower por-tion
of the hull \vas divided into
175 water tight compartments,
with communicating doors so con
structed that they could be clos-
Thn official press bureau gave out
the following dispatch, dated May 3,
from Field Marshal Sir John French,
regarding the employment by the
Uermpna of asphyxiating gases:
"The gases have been ejected from
pipes laid into the trenches and also
bj the explosion of shells especially
manufactured. The German troops! ed from the navigation bridge in
who attacked under cover of these a few seconds.
were provided with especially i Every thjng about the Lusi-iosign.
(I respirators issued in sealed i . . . , J;_„._;-_
This points to long and me-. tama was of colossal dimension.
ical preparation on a large scale.! Her rudder weighed 65 tons.
Since the enemy first made use ot this j She carried three anchors of 10
•i.fHi cf covering his advance with , tons each. The main frames
» .loud of poisoned air he has repeated ; an(J beamSi placed end to end,
il for offense and defense wherever
the wire! has b<en favorable.
"The effect is not merely disabling, :
and, if fatal, painless, as suggested in j
II..-Herman press. The victims do!
cumb in the field. They are!
brought into the hospitals suffering i
ly, and a large proportion die a
il, lingering death. Those who
wvive are little better off The in-'
jury in the lungs appears to make
"• in invalids for life.
"These effects are known to the
1 lei man scientist! who devised the new
on and the military authorities!
would extend 30 miles.
Death OfT W. Blackard
On last Friday May 7th, Mr. T. W.
Blackard of Roxboto, was called home
to his reward. He lived to the ripe old
age of eighty six, his life was a tower
of strength in bis community being al-ways
bright and cheerful. He served
as a brave soldier for four years in the
Civil War. On Nov. 30 1865 he was
est spirit of citizenship to do tor the I" '" ™ ,^t^Ji^\' also responsible for the new banking
. i the tallest in the world, which floats
Fourth: That we wish for Mr Cheek j the Stars and Stripes 241 feet above
many more years of life and prosper-; the Panama-Pacific Exposition see
ity, and that we feel that the great j wa|i at tne corner of the Oregon build-work
that he tan done for the school
and Mebane will stand as u high-tow-ering
monument throughout the ages
in honor and in recognition of his
faithful and untiring efforts.
As he serves his relation with us in
an olficial capacity, we are glad that
we feel that in the person of Mr.
Cheek we have a friend indeed, and a
friend whom we can consult and con-fide
in at all times, and that he will
continue to lend his help to us, encour-aging
us in our efforts to serve the
people whom we represent.
Fifth: That a copy ot the resolutions
ing.
The stick, for it is a singl* stick of
timber, is actually 251 feet long, but
10 feet of the butt is embedded in a
200-ton block of solid concrete, which,
without other sfays, holds the pole up-right
against the wind.
The pole was shaped from the trunk
of a Douglas fir, which, as it origi-nally
stood in the Oregon forest, tow-ered
347 feet in the air, and might have
matched its height, though not in
girth, against any but the loftiest of
law. This new law has been a factor
of some importance in the formulation
of the present financial circumstances
in which the country finds itself.—
Charlotte Observer.
ti..ns in 1965 and those in use in 2015
can be vividly contrasted. The me-thods
of preservation of the contem-plated
chancres of the two semi- cen-tennial
periods as well as the manner
of making provisions for the future
priz° are of an unprecedented charac
ter. The self-explanatory letter hand-ed
Dr. J. G. deR. Hamilton, president
of the North Carolina Historical So-ciety,
tells the story:
"Sir: I ask the acceptance by your
Society of a hermetically sealed tin box
stances of the case prove to have been
as now understood, a very serious issue
will have been raised between the
United and Germany, which may have
a vast effect upon the relations of the
two nations. Pending an official in-vestigation
of the facts, the United
government will defer diplomatic re-presentations
as well as any pronoun-cement
of policy.
President Wilson on his return from
Willidmstown, Mass., communicated
with Secretary Bryan and State De-containing
a copy of the catologua of Partment officials, who immediatedly
began an investigation of the law per-taining
to the case. Their unanimous
opinion was that, for the reports thus
far received, there was no excuse for
the attack on the vessel, for even if
she could be accused of carrying con-tradand,
the ship should have been
visited and searched, and her crew
transferred to a place of safety before
the cargo could be confiscated.
It is strongly indicated here that of-ficials
find it difficult to view the
imal period. I request my descen- ." Gulflieht caw h« it^it » . , . *»<mm„««.,. p.,»,„,,» w.*S£.£* ££- -
lars) to ihe writer of the thesis, regarded m«™> «* .u U8ee™roDe
regarded more as the cuhnating in-cident
of a series, each successively
manifesting if not a deliberate intent
to affront the United States, at least
an alarming disregard due the Ameri-can
government. But this government
is not thrown off its balance by the
incident, and all citizens would do well
to patern their behavior after the de-meanor
of the government. When the
facts are all known-facts and not
one of Amencsn's largest department
stores in which are descriptions and
pictures of practically all articles used
now in the industries and avocations
of the United States This gift is on
the following conditions:
Thij box is to be opened in 1965, A.
D., and again in 2015, A. D., and a
student designated by the President
of the Society s'^all write a the?is on
the change of the priceding semi-cen-tennial
period-,
dants
dol
1 haye no dcubt that payment will be
duly made, as I have seven children
and erandchildren, married and doing
well, who agree to this proposal As
I have also four great grandchildren,
it is almost certain that my descen-dants
will be numerous fifty and one
h indred years hence.
"That the changes will be great and
important in the articles in use in 1965
be spread on the minutes, a copy furn- j
ished to the Mebane Leader, and a ithe California r.equoias.
copy given Mr. Cheek. Looking up at the great flagstaff it
Committee, W. S- Crawford S. G. I j8 hard to realize that it weiehs up-
Morgan. ward of 46 tons and that there is lum-ber
enough in it to build five ordinary
eight room houses. Its great height
i gives it an appearance of slenderness
i and lightness.
Effect Oi Embargo On
Arms
(The New Republic.)
There is a catchy reasonableness |
about the German-American argument |
that our neutrality is unreal unless we
forbid the export of arms, Germany
having lost command of the sea, Amer- j sumption that the flag of the United
What Uncle Sam Says
"If the commanders of German ves
I sels of war should act upon the pre-ican
traffic in war supplies helps the . States was not used in good faith and
allies. If the position were reversed, .should destroy on the high seas an,
our neutrality would still be impugned, ' Americin vessel or the lives of Ameri-but
not by the German-Americans, and! can ci,jzen8 „ wou]d be difficu,t for
we shoulJ be written down as the part,
ner of "Teutonic" millitarism.
Japan Bent On Suicide
Count Okuma told Samuel G. Blythe
that Japan will not fight the United
States beiause she can't We believe it
was a Japanese business man who ex-plained
the remark by the insinuation
that it was neither the United States
army or its navy that Japan fears, but
the United States treasury. A cam-paign
against this country; he pointed
out, would entail a staggering expense
it would be a case of matching purses,,
with'Japan defeated before she started
Yet news from tho far east indicates
more certanly every day that Japan is
determined to have what she has de-manded
of China. That was pretty
generally conceded from the beginning;
the surprise lies in the fact that China
is reported to be preparing for defense
against the aggressor. If the reports
are well founded, ard the Celestials
really resists, we are apt to see the
strangest form of warefare ever fought
for China's only hope will lie in the
Japanese national debt—Greensboro
Letters received by the Literary Di-the
government of the United States'gest from editors of the leading jour-
Partisans aside, there is, we believe, Ltu view the act in any other light than
a growing body of pacifist opinion rep 1 as an indefensible violation of neutral
resented by men of the ability and rjghts which it would be very hard in-character
of Dr. Edward Devine, which
insists that American manfacturers
happily married to Miss Sarah F. Teer
uu.e military »u"7'"" I of Alamance Co. He leaves a sorrow-
.nc.ioned its use lam of the ^ daughters and three
igaaesM to be the ncimal pro-; J mourn ^ ^ May GDd
... the enemy and that protests ! jj£— comfort the dear wife and
'"..'"'^f; „ .. - I children who faithfully and pa'ienf.y
,rT' SFS-"*"! .?• ! served through the afflictions and after
Mar, ol Mate for War.Sannounced Ul followed the body to church and
uSifT th,,9afterTn^metary where it was laid to rest.
1 His pastor Rev. J. J. Boone conducted
the question of '"employing and many witnessed the
11 .il expedients" again the use by
'■ermans troops on the
■yxiating gases.
The War Office was
battleship of
informed
the service
scene.
are "captilazing carnagae" making
profits out of murder, and that in
decency and in humanity this nation
ought to have nothing to do with the
European crime.
But what would be the consequences
of so pure a stand? It would "atop the
war," we are told, but where? With
Germany in pjssession of Belgium and
deed to reconcile with the friendly re-lations
now happily subsisting between
the two governments."
The Guns
The guns of the BIG CITY have been
raking the country with deadly fire
for more than forty years. The gtins I
the richest part of France. And the are Bossed by the mail order kings
rials throughout the European war
zone do not encourage the hope ot ;.n
early peace, the Germans, French, En-glish
and Russian editors each and all
declaring that the end will come only
when the "enemy" has been beaten to*
his knees. Certanly there is little in
the situation as it now stands to in-dicate
that that eventuality will come
to pass in the near future.—Va. Pilot
The Young Men's Christian Associ-ation
of the Universitv will be presi-ded
over by the following officers
during the next college year: J. Mer-rel
Parker, of Florida, president; Fran-cis
Clarkscn, of Charlootte, vice- pres-ident;
F. F. Bradshaw, of Hillsboro,
secretary, and Lee Edwards, of Wake
County, treasurer. The Association
puts itself on record as having accom-plished
the following work of a distinc-tive
sort during the present year: A
boy scout camp was formed among the
boys of the community, work carried
on among the mill boys of Carrboro,
and the continuation of night schools
for negro boys.
and 2015 may he gathered from the jmere speculation- appropriate action
fact that the railroad system, telegra- ■ can ""d will be taken,
phs, telephones, the machines worked j Almost as soon as the treal of Wm
by elertricity, air craft, submarines, ; Barnes* libel suit against former Presi-and
hundreds of other inventions, have nent Roosevelt disappears from the
been made practical since I was born, front pages of the newspapers through
and most of them within fifty years." out the country its place will be taken
by accounts of , legal battle here in
Washington that promises development
of more absorbing interest. The suit
of the Rigg8 National Bank against
the Secretary of the Treasury and the
Comptroller of the Currency must in-evitably
abound in politics,--of the
present day and hour,, involving the
administration now in control. Seldom
has any action-in court been so widely
advertised in advance,, and it will be a
prime attraction from the moment the
court opens.
Administration officials, painfully
aware of the unfortunate political ef-fect
of the controversy as in now
frames up, aie extremely anxious to
have the injunction suit brought by
the Riggs officials confined simple to
an interpretation of the law defining
the powers of the Comptroller of the
Currency. This is with a view of
purging Treasury officials of the
charge of persecution brought by the
bank officials.
It is understood that resentment was
expressed in banking circles in differ-ent
parts of the country at the further
demands for detailed information of
national bank transactions which it
was announced would be made in the
next call for condition by the Comp-troller
of the Currency, The ire of the
bankers was aroused not so much by
the character of the information asked,
as by the impression received that in
making these general demands upon all
banks in the country, the Treasury
Department was seeking to bolster up
its case the Riggs National Bank.
A Change on Stocks.
The southern hosiery manufacturers
ought to be interested in the reports
floating around New York to the effect
that agents of Great Britain and
Frxnce are casting about for a supply
of spring socks for the troops. It is
understood that one order has been
placed for 93,000 dozen pairs at $1.75
a dozen, but there are rumors that
orders are in the air for millions of
pairs. It is quite likely that the hosi-ery
mills obtaining th?se orders will
be forced to do as the steel mills did—
distribute the job between other fac-tories,
and there should be no reason
why the south should not capture a
part of it.—Charlotte Observer.
Piracy On A vast Scale
Says Colonel Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt, former Pres-ident
of the United States, after learn
ing details of the sinking Lustiania
organizes war can impose its will on I mering. But deadly as this catalog I made this statement:
the less military nations. siape is. WK have the weapons in our | "This represents not merely piracy
Such an embargo would be regarded i 0WN ^^gjg,, that are able to beat but piracy on a vaster scale of mm-lesson
to England and Franc? It would ,The borab8 are the catalogs. Many a
be that militarism pays, that God is ,. .. ,, . .
,., J «a iZT J u ... i- ! fine community, many a thriving town
on the side of the big ready battalions. : .
that a nation which dreams, plans and | has been ruined bV th'8 content ham-
Americans A-i
: " hack as April 6, Mr. Tennant said, ! '* Ot IOO
"'•it the Germans were preparing to j hoard Were Saved
make use of asphyxiating gases, but'
nlh.irities hesitated to believe the: The names of 73 survivors of the
'' I'-rt. Germany being a signatory of 188 Americans aboard the Lusitania
' " part of The Hague convention nad b(?en reported t0 the State Uepart-
* «' n eVxplicitlyJ forbids the use of such ment when the task. of. c„o„„m,„p„a„ri:n„g„ li;i.s*ts-
! was suspended. Consul Frost at
1 h< ie 18 a lot of" foof talk going on I Que^ntown aaid there was virtually no
no* ;.mong people otherwise sensible j nope tnat more W0U|a be found alive.
a\iewof finding an excuse for! A cable to the State Department
■eamanya murderous attack on the'from rj0n8ui Frost at Queenstown
'•us'tania and the drowning of over { p]ace8 tne total survivors of the Lusi-
" people. Some newspapers ought' tama at 545 probably 1,200 babies
" ''«' asl.ame of themselves for the have not been recovered. The persons
'-'■trial they write in defense of <?«> not UBtod to the department, he re-
"">y, some former good editors would I are ..^^ to g certainty
* awe done it. [dea(L„
back the siege guns. The trouble is I der than any old-titr.e pirate ever prac-we
DON'T USE these weapor-s. We ticed. This is the warfare which de-
We have allowed ourselves to be bom- j sttoyed Louvain and Dinant and hun-barded
without relating. Yet OUR dreds of men, women and children in
weapons, if USED, means victory to
US. Reason, Knowledge, Common
Belgium. It is warfare against inno-cent
men, women and children, travel-by
the allies us the most desperate:
treachery, as an arbitrarv reversal of
all international law, not in time of
i peace, but in the midst of a terrible
crisis. We should, by the embargo
which Bartholdi and other propose,
neutralize at one stroke a large part
of British naval superiority; we should
be doing as much for Germany as if
we established a fairly good blockade
in the Atlantic. And if ever we our- town can beat back any siege from the
selves faced a life-and-death struggle, j yutgide# But it is up to each one of
we should have established a precedent „»,nnr'.L- . .r^r. *u ■ wh.i.ch.m.i.g.ht prove t.a.ta.i. US to KNOW this, to USE this know-: we can refrain from taking action in
The proposal is a piece of thoughtless ledge. And having learned it, we must
work at it. Then, let every
Sense, Community Pride, Oo-Operation ling on the ocean, and to our fellow
—THESE are our weapons. OUR | country women, who are among tha
sufferers,
"It seems almost inconceivable tlat
morality, a bit of good intention with
unconsiderate consequeces. As a meth-od
of warning against war it belongs
with incantations, spells and the sacri-ficing
of goats.
Keep thy shop and thy shop will
keep thee; light gains mike heavy
purses; 'tis good to be merry and wise
—Chapman.
man,
woman and child ENLIST in this Trade
-at home campaign. Let us beat back
the siege guns.—W'nston Journal.
NOTICE
Look out for rooted plants different
kinds at Nelson Ray, J. M. Fowler
and a few at the Continental office at
5c and 10 each to be sold for the bene-fit
of the Mebane Civic Association.
this matter, for we owe it not only to
humanity, but to our own national
self-respect."
For Rent
Two brick stores, two stories each
28 by 60 feet, well finished situated
on Warehouse Street, For further in-formation
apply to Mebane Bank and
Trust Company Mebane or to
Robert S. Harbour.
South Boston.
Hoarding Money.
The chief of the department of mines
of a western state points out that
when an Italian, Hungarian, Slav or
Pole is injured a sum of money, ran-ging
from fifty to five hundred or
even one thousand dollars, is almost
always found on his person. .
It is a lesson we need to learn in the
south. New Hampshire had more
money in her savings banks in 1913
than our southern states all put to-gether.
If all the hoarded money was put in
bankr, and thereby put into circulation
the currency could be used to promote
industries and give employment to
people at good wages. The shortsight -
edest policy ever is that which hoards,
for hoarding is injurious to every man
and woman and child in the land.—
Salisbury Post.
That is an old maid is it? well I guess
that is it. Can she not get a husband;
no she has had plenty of opportunities
to get a man, nut the has wanted a
husband and no oppertunities has ever
offered for her to get a real husband,
so she is still single, and that is the
real reason why you will occasionlly see
an old maid. The young woman with
a baby in one arm and looking after
\he cook pot with the other is much
worse off than if she had let the hus-band
alone.
The Milk Business in JNew
York City.
Commercially, milk is still bought In
a number of ways, 100 pounds some-times
being the unit, while other prices
are quoted per pound of butter fat,
per gallon, or per can of 8J, 32, or 40
quarts. Some dealers offer premiums
for milk richer than the ordinary or a
higher sanitary.
Milk was higher in December, when
the average price for the entire coun-try
was 4 2-8 cents a quart, and lowest
in last June, when it fell to 2 1-2 cents.
The accompanying table shows the
average prices in the various geogra-phical
division* of the country as de-fined
in the census.
From this table it appears that milk
was at its highest in New England
when the average price for November
was 5.049 cents, a little over 5 cts per.
qt. The lowest was in June in the
Middle At/antic States, when the aver-age
price was only 2.841 cents or a
little over 2 cts per qt. One dealer in
the Middle Atlanta States reported
that he paid only 90 cents a hundred
for milk in the month of June.
This is not prices for any kind of
milk, but it is prices for pure milk up
to standard grade.
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