The Robesonian., 1918-06-27
GADDYSVILLE GRIsT.
bountiful Crops-Very Little GrowI-
ing and Grumbling About Flour
And Sugar Rules-Gaddy Respond
Ing GlOriously 70 War SAVINGS
Campaign-Other News Items and
Comment.
CORES pondence of The Robe,onian.

Correspondence of The Robe,onian.
Gaddysville, (Fairmont, r. ~, June
z4-We are in the midst of the most
prosperous crops we have ever seen.
considering the unfavorable weather
they have had. Even tobacco is COM
Ing and a few of the planters have
already begun the harvesting.
Already we hear the cry of scar
city OF labor, and the farmers say even
II they can get plenty of hands they
cannot pay the high prices they now
command
Wheat is all harvested and the cror
was exceedingly great Wheat is a
past few years it has been grown or
the experimental scale with the great
! est success. Planters who have soil
adapted to it should try to Grow ii
on E1uch larger scale than nereto-
fore, thereby helping feed tee world
as well as rcolenish Their oVa ta2i4
/ AID pockets.
We nave heard tie leaS; growl.a
and SrumDllng over tle flour and SUI
ar laws we evec' expected to. Folks
do2t grow! as nlucn Us rIev Use /
tany~ az. The wheat law is one Of the
incest things YOU eve saw to corr .cI
:. toWnfolks ttat sccra corn bread tQ
eat corn3read. We were sojourninr
2 small village when the law went irtc
! effect. and we feel safe to say the
the town fed as much as 2 tilcusar
! souls per day and not a peck Of r?es
: used per week until TIE wheat rulino
come around.
l Another plentiful item we add t,
E our letter tl4at's good for inner man
: huclr'ohc~"ies. Ne.cr was such a SIGH
known and the way people are can
: ming them is Indeed encouraging.
Lefore this gets in print the chill
: dren Of Pleasant Grove Sunday schoo
S will have rendered their nice it'll
et Sunbeam program. The Sunbeam
5 ship of the Misses Miller Of Rowland
= will be rare treat.
Il. Mr.. D. r. Mcintyre of Dillon, whs
e had been clerking for Mr. II. L. Curti
for at least year, has recently gon
e in as a junior member of the enter
! prise. We are glad Mr.. Mcintyre i
n permanently settled in our midst. Ais
he has taken out his naturalization pa
t pers and become a full-fledged Ia
Heel.
h The recent capture of the allege,
deserters and yaller dawg globber
j ought to be mighty nice lesson t.
folks who are prone to be the opposit,
(; of nice in their talk and doings.
:, does not pay to monkey with Uncl
D Sam.
Il Gaddy township is gloriously rolling
: over the top in the war stamp cam
: paign. Thousands of dollars wer
|, subscribed yesterday at the Whit
: Pond church and Piney Grove Indial
p church, also the negro Baptist church
J., where your townsmen Messrs. Lennon
and Mcleod addressed most pa
triotic crowd at each place. Mr.. Len
non is very forceful speaker AM
Entertained large crowd, whicl
brought the results.
Old Gaddys township is no poo
place and we are proud Of her grea
showing.
In an interview with Mr.. Lennon
he told your correspondent he wa
greatly gratified with the results o
the campaign and that he was prou
), of this section Of the county.
e Now, Mr., Editor, if you'll forgiv
: this long letter will teach you
$ maxim: "When it's dry, it's dry, an
S when it rains. it rains"