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The Robesonian., 1917-09-10
PICTURES OF NORTH CAROLINA

Letter From Rev. III. A. Grantham-
Early Impressions Made Upon
Former Citizen ofRome, my. During
Residence a Few Months in Robson
as Related in Former Home Town
Paper
Rev. Herbert A. Grantham, rector
of the Episcopal churches at Red
Springs, Maxton and Lumberton,
while away on his vacation during
August-which time he spent as
chaplain in a Brooklyn, N. Y, hos
pital-wrote to The Sentinel, a news
paper published in Rome, N. Y, of
the Episcopal church of which town
he was rector when he accepted the
call to this field last April, the fol-
lowing letter, which, as The Sentinel
observed in publishing it, "bears the
impress of keen observer of men
and things:
Here's to the land of the long leav-
ed pine,
The summer land where the sun doth
shine,
Where the weak grow strong and the
strong grow great,
Here's to down home, The Old North
State"
80 runs a toast given by one of
club Of North Carolinians "expa-
trlated," he would have said, in some
northern State.
And truly l have never seen any
set Of people who seemed to think
thelr State the center OF the universe
quite as much as these same
North State" people; and after
tnree months residence here anc
some acquaintance with the people
ana the land I can hardly blame
em' mem' 1t is a land where one looks
through a golden haze at a day thai
IS scarcely dead, a land of romantic
traditoins
BlueEyed Indians
70 begin with a unique Grace prob
lem" connects this part of Nortl
,I:arolina with a point of time whel
history shades off into mystery. Her,
III Kobeeson county, Of which Lum
oe oerIon Is the county seat, is rae,
u u, indians with blue. eyes and Eng
sISn H names such as Dare, Cooper
a5 nd5npSon, Chavis, Lasie, Oxendin
al anu 0ther names which are found o.
Vie ilSt Of passengers on the shi
,mnich brought Sir Walter Raleigh
tOst colony to these shores. The
tHSeSGryve unchanged the English O
re Lilz.abethan age, regularly usin
mon Tor man, "mension" for meas
fnee cement, "hosen" for hose, "housen
epr. eVr houses, and many other word
wdro npreSslons and pronunciations whic
TS TIRE IN vogue over 300 years ago
a"e g., reverend John White brougf
'olony in 1887 to what was the
Ee coast of Virginia. Returning t
niisiand niiesa for more colenists and SUI
snaS neS ne was detained by the threa
isl ieu attack on England by the Spar
tied e armada and the generally unse
did did ST state of the country. When
was al length return in 1891 thel
beenn bn no colony to be found. It hs
the" the agreed that, should they lea,
the,ss sp9t on which they had settle
by e.sld should be some indication lie
And dIatfSTlng on the bark Of a tire
cut CUT ue the letters in capitals fair
were found, &c. r. Or from whi,
The Robesonian., 1917-09-10
FOLEY KIDNEx

Read the advertisements in The
RObesonian. They are as interesting
as news and are frequently more
profitable reading than the news.
The Robesonian., 1917-09-10

Episcopalians and others have
heard Of the "Nag's Head Fable, but
there is another Nag's Head story
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-09-08
INTERESTING SIGHTS
in NEW YORK

The most interesting sight we
saw when going over into New
York was one day when instead Of
going under the river, we took the
ferry from Hoboken. When the
bell changed announcing that the
ferry was in, we were swept along
in the general rush to get on the
upper deck and were just ready to
cross the narrow little strip of
gang-plank, when we heard the
worst roar and confused shouting
from below, and looking down,
there we saw a poor laundryman
whose wagon had been tipped so
forward when coming down the
steep slope of the traffic gang
plank that all the big baskets full
of clean clothes had come tumbling
out, spilling collars and shirts,
waists and handkerchiefs all over
that dirty drive way; and all the
men around there were so mad
they didn't know what to do. But
that was just as we were starting
over.
AS we were swinging out into the
river and all the dirty little boot
blacks were going around through
the crowd murmuring their mono
tOnous, Polish, polish" so low that
all you could hear was the ~ish,"
suddenly everybody began to ruch
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-09-08
they rowed until they came to the
golden palace.

they rowed until they came to the
golden palace.
Here the Sea-God lived and ruled
as king over the tortoises, fishes
and everything that lives in the sea.
Urashima had never seen such a
beautiful place. The berries on the
trees were rubis. The eyes of the
fish wre diamonds; their scales
were silver. The tails of the tor
toises were pure gold. Just think of
all Of the beautiful things you could
have seen and put them together;
then you will know what the palace
looked like.
Urashima was delighted. He
spent weeks and months wandering
about the golden palace, talking to
the daughter of the Sea-God.
But one day he said to her, 81 am
very happy here, Still, would like
to go home and see my father and
mother. Just let me go for a short
time, will soon be back"
Il am very much afraid that
something will happen to keep you
from coming back" said she. But
if you will go, there is no help for
it. Take this box with you, but do
not open it. If you open it you will
never be able to come back here,
and you will die like other men"
Urashima promised that he would
not open the box. Then he got into
his boat and rowed off.
Charles l.. Baker, Liberty, Ind.
Ito be Continued
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-09-08

In calling attention to the mani
fold uses for cotton, cotton seed
and cotton-seed oil, the Boston
Herald mentions the following pro-
ducts: Photographic films, auto
mobile windows, buttons, ivory"
artificial silk, combs, knife handles,
trunks, book bindings, shoes, furni-
ture, headwear, hand bags, lard,
soap, butterine, paints, rubber,
guncotton and smokeless powder
used in explosives.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-09-08
THE. FLOWER or TIE PRAlRtL. :,
She is IN LOVE WITH AN
Usage INDIAN.
LITTLE JESS WILLARD JR.,
WANTS A PONY

Little Jess Willard Jr., Is only
three years old but he wants q
pony Ever since he saw a certain
Shetland pony in his fathers cir
Gus, he has wanted it, and he wants
it awfully badly, too. You see, his
daddy was a cow boy and rode all
kinds of horses and ponies, and
little Jess Jr., wants to show folks
that he can do things too, even
though he does have to live in
Chicago instead of out on \ ranch.
So he calls thiss pony my pony"
and every time he see his father, or
every time a letter is sent off he
wants to know if my pony" is still
all right.
Little Jess Jr. IS quite like his
father In lots Of ways, but he hasn't
had any big fights yet The only
fights he has are with his sisters,
and they aren't very bad; but-oh
well, boys, you know how sisters
are. Every once in a while they
just need someone to really show
them who the man in the family is,
that's all.
In fact, Mr.. Willard said his boy
and girls are just about like other
folks, but on the whole they have
about as much fun together as any
one. And if they are as proud of
their splendid big father as he is Of
those four little Willard folks back
at home, you can guess that it is
pretty nice family all around, even
if poor little disappointed Jess Jr.,
is still wanting my pony"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-09-08
THEY WEREN'T HORSES!

One day little girl came to our
house and she had some horse
radish to sell, so she asked my
mother if she wanted to buy some,
but mother said mo" So after
she had gone my little brother was
sitting on the floor and he thought
and thought, and finally be said,
Mamma, she didn't know that We
don't have any horse, did she?-
AS told by George Wissler.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-09-08

Norway, Me-, has a group of five
women whose ages total 44S years.
They are Mrs. Harriet Porter Mil
lett, age ninety-three; Mrs. Hannah
Billings, age ninety; Mrs. John
Henry Millet, age eighty-nine; Mrs.
Clara ]. Hayden, age lightweight,
and Mrs. Sarah E. Bates Bartlett,
age Lightweight.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-09-08

The black iguana of California,
of which the scientific name is
ctenosaur acantnur In allusion to
the comblike crest of spines along
the back, acanthur meaning spring
tailed" is allied to the ring-tailed
iguana, but unlike the jamaican
iguana it's flesh is highly esteemed.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-09-08
Rip Van Wrinkle of Japan

Urashima was very much pleas
ed at these words. He took one oar
and the daughter of the Sea-God
took the other. They rowed and
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-09-20
What MARY ROB-
ERTS RINEHARTS
CREED IS

Mary Roberts Rinehardt says in the
October American Magazine:
For twelve years out of that forty
l have been a writer. 1t is as if, at
twenty-eight, | had turned at a right
angle to my former path, path which
had seemed fixed as the sun in its
orbit, or the alphabet, or a cement
pavement, and had begun a journey
into a far country. It changed my life
somewhat, it changed me entirely.
'The one thing which has, thank
God, remained unchanged, has been
my family.
''In all of my life l have never be-
fore sat down and turned my eyes in
ward. l have never had time to sit
by the fire and feel. My life has been
purely objective, my family and my
work-the family first. It is not easy
now to put my philosophy into words.
Probably it could be done in two words,
love and work. And that, after all, is
the foundation of every normal life.
Love and work, and to live life to
its fullest, and with honor, that seems
to me the universal creed To take
ones self lightly, and ones work seri-
ously, to be a good friend and a poor
enemy, to work hard and play hard,
to look out and not in, has been the
goal l have struggled for. I have
failed, of course. Is not the very fact
that | am writing this an indication
that l am beginning to take myself
seriously?"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-09-20
ANOTHER GREAT NOUN
TAIN RANGE CONQUERED
BY ELECTRICITY

The mighty Rockies, the belts and
the Bitter Roots have bowed their
lofty heads before the onward prog
ress of men. The limitless energy of
their tumbling cataracts has been har-
messed to furnish power for the giant
electric locomotives that haul the
trains of the milwaukee Road" across
their rugged slopes.
And now another great mountain
range-the snow capped Cascades in
Washington-has felt the hand of the
conqueror. The work of electrifying
the 211 miles of line thru this range
is we'll under way. When completed
the Milwaukee" will have 651 miles
of its main transcontinental line under
electrical operation.
Mountain travel is given new
charm-no smudge of smoke paints
its black line across snow clad vistas
travel is clean, smooth, silent
When next you journey to Butte,
Spokane, Seattle, Tacoma, Portland
and other Pacific Northwest cities
travel the electric way-via the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway.
For literature giving complete in
formation regarding this wonderful
achievement apply to Local Agent of
this railway. S-13-1
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-09-20

trial commission. This committee has
assisted IN securing women workers In
eight pea canneries, to obviate the
necessity Of working the women and
children already employed longer
hours during the rush season.
3. Registration - Chairman, Mrs.
John W. Mariner To distribute
blanks for registration for women's
service, which blanks were furnished
by the Woman's Committee of the
Council Of National Defense.
f. Conservation - Chairman, Miss
Abby L. Marlatt. This committee has
reported conservation talks and dem
onstrations made in forty-seven coun-
ties out Of seventy-one, also canning
clubs and centers. An extensive
training course for canning demon
strators was given for one week DUR
ing summer session at the University,
392 women taking the course. Food
pledge cards were distributed in forty
eight counties.
5. Social Welfare - Chairman,
Mrs. W. A. Lawson. Some work has
been done at the camp at Sparta by
Mrs. Donal Price, representing the
Department of War, Washington.
6. Education = Emergency Voca-
ti0nal Education - Chairman, Mrs. H.
NJ. Youmans. Americanization =
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-09-20
LEADS Mi. LION WOMEN IN WAR WORK
Mrs. H. H. Morgan, Member of Wisconsin State Council
OF Defense, Is First Woman in Nation to
Receive Such Appointment.

Five days a week and any hour of
the day the woman who represents
more than one million women in Wis
cOnsin is to be found-alWays most
accessible at her orderly desk in the
offices of the State Council of De-
Tense in the west wing of Wiscon-
sins capitol
Six days after Ivsr was declared the
state Of Wisconsin, which has pioneer
ed in innumerabIe industrial and So
cial reforms, pioneered again, not
only in organizing state defense
council before any other common
wealth, but in providing for a woman
member on that important board.
On April 10, 1917, the governor of
Wisconsin signed the bill which crea-
ted the Wisconsin Council of Defense,
which was to cooperate with the
Council Of National Defense in the
mighty work Of preparing this nation
to defend its liberties. On that coun-
Gil of II members, representing every
phase of activity in the state, was
named but one woman whose business
1t is to look after and guard the in
terests of the 1,125,000 women in
Wisconsin.
On April Is, Mrs. H H. Morgan Of
Madison was appointed by Governor
Philip a member Of the Council. In
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-09-20

gible to enlist as first class men. The
pay is $3.50 a month, with all liv.
ing expenses and clothing free. Ma.
chinists of the second class-men who
have not had experience at sea-wil
be promoted to first class if they prove
their ability on board ship. Chief ma.
chinists, who have charge of the en-
CINE room, are paid $50 month.
Young men who have a high school
education and who have a fair know
ledge of wireless telegraphy and cleo
tricity can enlist as electricians. Young
men who make good will have chance
to go to the special Naval Radio
School at Harvard University. The
course at Harvard is for four months,
and embraces military drill as we'll as
technical and other subjects. The
men will take their meals at Memorial
hall and use the Harvard gymnasium
as a dormitory.
Men who have had little experien-
&c in lumber or construction camps as
cooks, or railroad men who have cook
ed for the caboose, are eligible to en-
list as cooks. 1t is not necessary to
be a hotel chef to enlist as a Navy
cook. A man who completes his SER
vice in the Navy as a cook will be
professional and will have a trade up
on which he can rely to give him a
good living, wherever he may be-
Men with trades should enquire at
the Navy Recruiting office, Milwau-
kee, or any sub-station, for further
particulars.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-09-20
WEEKLY
CHEESE
MARKET

Sheboygan-Fifteen factories off
cred CAT boxes of cheese on the call
board today. The sales were 115 cases
longhorns at 25Ac and TIC at 25c. A
bid of 24&c on Sc cases of Young A
mericas was passed.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS factories Of
fered 2,259 boxes of cheese on the call
board today and al sold as follows:
so twins at 241sc 100 at 24c, AZ at
249sc 635 daisies at 23&c, % cases
longhorns at 25Ac, 140 at 25hc $50
at 25c and 4S8 boxes square prints at
25Ac.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-09-20

| Chairman, Mrs. John P. Hume Worn
| by this committee will be begun with
the opening Of schools.
7. Home Work for Town and
County Mrs. Schumacher
| 8. Red Cross-Chairman Mrs. 10
seph W. Hobbins. To cooperate with
| the Red Cross committee Of the State
| Council Of Defense. Through the &C
| tivity of the Red Cross committee OF
! the county councils twenty-one county
| chapters have been organized and over
200 branches and auxiliaries of the
| Red Cross added. Through the co.
| operation Of the State Board of Con.
| troll, Red Cross sewing and knitting
| will be done in many of the state and
| county institutions, material being sup
piled by the local chapters, and
| through the cooperation of the super
| vising teachers of the state, Red
| the home economics departments of
the schools.
9. Liberty Loan - Chairman, Mrs.
John w. Mariner. With the assistance
of the woman member each county
| council has appointed a chairman of
a liberty loan committee.
10. Speakers = Chairman, Mrs. V.
A. G. Henmon.
II. Publicfty-Chairman Miss Amy
Comstock. To cooperate with the
newspapers Of the state in work of
getting the work Of the Woman's
Committee to the people.
II. Committee On Child Welfare
Chairman, Mrs. Mary Grimshaw.
The number Of such subcommittee
is to be increased as the need for new
work grows. An associate member
ship on subcommittee may be had
by applying to the woman member of
the county council and the payment
of ten cents.
An executive committee Of the
Woman's Committee meets every Mon
day at p. m. to consider with Mrs.
Morgan the problems which arise
from day to day. The committee as a
whole meets once a month to report
on the progress of their respective de-
partments, and outline the general
policies for the future.
AS on the state council of defense
so in siXty-siX counties out of seventy
one a women member has been ap-
pointed on the county council of de-
Tense. She is chairman of the county
WOman's Committee which is formed
in the same way as the state Won
ans Committee - of representatives
from all the women's organizations.
And in the same way each town is to
have a local woman's committee IN
der the supervision of the chairman
Of the county committee, and each
ward its woman's unit.
The Woman's Committee of the
Wisconsin Council of Defense is but
one of forty-eight similar organizations
in the United States. At the head,
supervising and suggesting is the
Woman's Committee of the Council
for National Defense, with Dr. Anna
Howard Shaw at its head, cooperating
| with state. county, town and ward
woman's committees, until now the
| women Of the nation have been weld.
ed into a mighty whole working for
the preservation of democracy
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-09-20
TAKES prod"
OUT OF MILK
PRODUCER

In other states the extremists are
putting the emphasis on prod" in
milk production, but Wisconsin is diff
ferent. She may be known as the state
that took prod" out Of production and
emphasizes the latter part of the word
''duction." Others are prodding, but
Wisconsin is leading. Others think
this is the time to prod the producer
and make him perform wonderful feats
of milk production with high priced
feed and insufficient labor and nearly
the same prices for dairy products
that he always received. And in many
sections, especially in the East, it
seems that the milk producer has been
prodded out of the business, and those
who have prodded him may soon have
to suffer higher prices for milk and
possibly no milk at all
But things are different in Wiscon-
sin. Things are usually different in
Wisconsin, anyway. Few good dairy
cows or good dairy calves are being
slaughtered in Wisconsin. Dairymen
are not selling their farms or going
out Of business; in fact, they are 60
ing into the business as fast as they
can. Upper Wisconsin, Clover Land,
Cow Heaven, or whatever you prefere
to call it, is rapidly filing with good
dairy cows, pure-bred bulls, co-opera-
tive creameries, and cheese factories.
Dairy cattle are not being sacrificed;
they are bringing twice as much as
they brought but a few years ago, and
it is difficult to find cattle for sale.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-09-20
JOB PRINTING

This office is making preparations
to increase it's job department with the
necessary new material and conven-
fences for doing first class work. We
shall soon be in the field with a So
licitor for job work of all kinds at
reasonable living prices. We shall be
glad to give you estimates on any job
work that you may want and shall be
able to turn it out promptly. Not
now having a daily newspaper to in
terfere. Give US a trial order.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-09-20
MEN With
TRADES WANTED
FOR navy

Men who know how to do one thing
well are wanted in the Navy.
Never before were men with trades
SO much in demand in the Navy as
now when "the first line of defense"
is carrying Sammies to France and
helping to beat the kaiser's submar-
ines.
Machinists amateur wireless opera
tors and cooks and bakers are wanted
at once to fill up the ranks of the Navy
now nearly 100000 strong.
Men who know these things-who
can go right to work for Uncle Sam
with only short preliminary train
ing-are offered splendid conditions
of enlistment.
Men with trades can enlist in the
Naval Reserve, which means that they
will have to serve only during the war,
Pay begins as soon as a man enlists.
and the Navy is the highest paid
branch of the military service. The
very lowest pay in the Navy is now
$3.50 a month, paid apprentice sea-
men, and goes up to 500 a month.
The pay of man in the Navy is
almost all clear profit, as Uncle Sam
pays board and lodging and gives
newly enlisted men $50 worth of cloth
ing free.
Machinists who have had experien-
ce with marine engines and boilers,
and who are able to perform work
with the various tools of a machine
shop and can do bench work are eli