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The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-04-11
GREATEST WAR PICTURES
Treasury Department to Send Out
Drawing, "The Price of Peace"

= The Treasury Department is soon TO
send out over the country the greatest
war picture ever drawn.
1t will be called '"The Price of
Peace" and is an assembling OF the
most thrilling of the thousands of feet
Of film taken by official photographers
of the war college who followed the
Yank from his home to the 'front.' and
back again.
The Glm will be released only
through Liberty Loan committees and
will be shown free.
ERTY LOAN, TRY GERMANY'S.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-04-11
ACCORDING TO HIM

The Wife: "When get a car,
want one which will suit me"
The Hubby: "Then, my, dear, you
had better get runabout." VIM
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-04-11
R Rssi!I.: = PERUNA.
Greatest Human vitalizer

apuring the winters Of 1897
and 1888, I was 60 badly afllictedd
fhouSbt / must surely die from
IL. Affer trying many doctors
ana All other recommended REM
edies made known to me, ] was
INDUCED to use Peruna. 4 was
cured entirely by using twelve
bottles Of Peruna and one pottie
Since that time. I haye never
beou without Peruna. use ~
+ for 3ce1dn ard - 4 gensrat tenlc
! ana Ind Il the Ereatest human
sssl lcvsrywAsss
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-02-28
TIMBER AND LUMBER
PRODUCTS AT $4,000
COMPARATIVELY SMALL INDUS
TRY BUT NOT iNcoNSEQUEN-
TiAL IN TOTAL.

Lumber and timber passed long ago
from Maury county's list of big pro-
ducing industries, but few tracts of
timber of any great value remaining
to be developed and a comparatively
small amount of timber formerly con
sidered of no value now being devel-
oped. Practically the only timber de-
velopment of the past year was that
in the manufacture of locust into tree
nails. used in making wooden ships
and the production of black walnut
for the manufacture of gun stocks and
aeroplane parts
The mills of b. Z. Regen & Co., with
in the past year produced from 100000
to /, 100000 treenails, consuming
about 1900 cords of locust for which
the owners were paid an average Of
SIS cord The total value of the pro-
duct being about $4,000 to the produc-
ers. But this was timber that form
erly was considered valueless.
The same firm bought and manufac-
tured about 100000 feet of black wal
nut, which averaged $50 a thousand
but for which some producers received
as high as $3.50 thousand feet This
timber brought total of about $16,-
900. In addition to the money paid
for timber this firm also paid in salar-
les and wages about $4,000 during the
year, making the industry worth to the
county about $4,000. Other firms op-
Grating to limited extent in the coun-
ty along the same lines spent some
money here and few small saw mills
operating at points in the county cut
several thousand feet of lumber dur
ing the year. The total timber and
lumber industry was worth probably
$150,000 during the year.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-02-28
annual mule BUSINESS
OF COUNTY EXCEEDS BIG
sum OF. THREE MILLIONS
MAURY COUNTY. QUEEN
BEES ARE FAvOR|TES
SHIPPED TO ALL STATES OF UN.
ION AND TO MANY FOREIGN
COUNTRIES.

Maury county bred Italian queen
bees are shipped to every state IN the
Union and to many foreign countries
Wherever they go they establish high
records as honey producers. John M.
Davis, of Spring Hill, leading bee
breeder, shipped last year 4,SS9 bees
and B. G. Davis of the same place ship
ped about two-thirds as many. These
bees go to all states of the Union and
to Canada, Mexico, British West In
dies, Cuba, Porto Rico, England, Scot
land, Ireland, Japan, China and before
the war were sent to Germany
These queens are bred from the fin
est Italian stock and are noted for
their beauty, docility, hardness, c's-
ease resisting ability, and above all
for their honey gathering qualities.
One queen bee from the John M.
Davis apiary shipped to an eastern
state developed 40 pound colony in
one season and many other similar
records have been made.
Many farmers in the county main
tain large bee colonies and the
amount of honey produced in the coun-
ty is enormous. Most of this product
is consumed at home, but large
quantity of it is placed on the market
and is one of the numerous products
that swell the total of the county
annual income.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-02-28

A Maury county Jersey cow in 1886
set the first worlds record for the
highest production of butter, there
being no method at that time for de-
termining the per centage of butter
fat. 1t is probable that by modern
methods her milk would have tested
even higher and might still hold the
record. A majority of all Jersey rec
ords since then have been made by
descendants of this cow.
Thirty-three years ago. the Reglst-
cred Jersey Cow Landseer's Fancy
1876 broke the worlds record for the
production of butter in one year by
making 936 pounds 14A ozs. OF
churned, salable butter. When she
made this record she was II years
and 2 months old and had been on
test most all of her life Her high
est weekly test being 20. pounds u
o. At the time she made this test
she was the property Of VIM ]. Web
ster. There were a number of great
COWS in Tennessee and Maury County
at this time in the herds of Maj,
Campbell Brown, M. c. Campbell and
others who had made high records
but this test put Maury County and
the State of Tennessee on the Jersey
Map.
In 1890 Bissons Belle began yearly
test and in July, 1891, produced 1928
pounds 1875 ozs., churned butter,
which exceeded the record of Land
seer's Fancy. Bisson's Belle was
owned by the Columbia Jersey Cat
tie Co. VIM. J. Webster, Pres.
Since this time about fifty cows
have exceeded the record set by
Landseer's Fancy until now the
worlds record for the Jersey Cow is
1176 pounds of $50 butter and this
record is held by the Cow Sophies
Agnes bred and owned by c, /. Hood
OF Lowell, Mass: The best and most
of the blood Of this COW is from the
great old bull, Tormentor, owned by
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-02-28
PROSPECTS FOR BIG
WHEAT CRoP! IN 1878
If SAME YIELD AS THAT OF 1914
PRODUCTION WILL BREAK
ALL RECORDS.

Should Maury county make the
same yield of wheat per acre that was
made in 1914, the last banner wheat
crop of the county, the crop of 1919
will be the most profitable that has
ever been grown. At least it will re-
present the largest value Of any crop
in the history of the county.
1t was estimated, after careful in
quiry and investigation, that the
county produced in 1914 crop of L.
100000 bushels of wheat That was
the last wheat crop before the fires
were lighted that plunged the whole
world into war. When the crop of
that year was harvested it was worth
at the thresher seventy to seventy-five
cents bushel and the great bulk OF
the crop was disposed of at these
prices although a few farmers held
the crop and many of them sold later
on at $3.50 to SLIGO a bushel which
was then considered a remarkably
high valuation for wheat.
According to the estimate then
made the crop for the county was
worth at threshing time three-quart-
ers of a million dollars. A crop of
a million bushels this year, with a
government guarantee of 81. 20.a bush
oil would give the crop for the county
an aggregate valuation of $2,200,000.
At this time prospects are decid.
edly favorable for maximum wheat
yield No part of the crop has been
frozen out and while an unusually
large per centage of the acreage was
sowed late, due to the scarcity of
labor last fall, the winter has been
favorable for growth of the plant and
it rs decidedly healthy and promising
1t is estimated that $4,000 acres of
wheat were seeded last fall SO that the
crop would not have to average more
than twenty bushels to the acre to
produce a million bushels. Due to
the campaigns of the Food Admins
tration and the department of Agri-
culture the acreage was largely in
creased and is probably as large as it
has ever been.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-02-28
10000 BUSHELS OF CORN HAD
MARKET VALUE OF OVER
$2,600,oo0. II
WHEAT CROP NEXT IN VALUE
Other Field Crops Swell Total to
Enormous Sum and Prove fertility
and Proftapleness of Maury County
Lands.

So enormous are the agricultural
products of Maury county that it Is
virtually an impossibility with the linz
tied facilities available to estimate
their amount. or value, but it has been
conseryatively estimated that all farm
products not including live stock, poul-
try, produce, fruit and truck crops,
last year were worth more than 3d.
100000. The products included In
this estimate are corn, wheat, oats,
hay, and general farm crops.
No record has ever been kept OF the
acreage or production of the county,
SO in making an estimate 1t is neces-
sary to depend largely upon the opin-
ions of producers and dealers. 1t has
been estimated that the county has
10000 acres of land in cultivation, OF
which practically $4,000 was in corn
last year. At an average yield OF D
Val iCio w bhN ailSf RiiiNh 10 t1h6>fAT
vative, there was produced 2,O00,0O0i
bushels of corn The average price
and value to the producer was at least
$3.50 a bushel, which would place the
total value at $2,60o,0O0. Sixty per
cent of this crop, II is estimated, was
placed on the market, while the re-
mainder was kept on the farms and
fed to cattle, hogs, mules and other
live stock.
The next crop in value and imports
ance was wheat, which last year was
far below normal but somewhat better
than for the year or two preceding. It
has been estimated that $4,000 acres
of land was sown in wheat with an av-
erage yield of bushels to the acre.
For this crop of 10000 bushels the pro-
ducers received an average Of not less
Continued ON Fifth Faye,
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-02-28
5,2os LoNG-EARED ROYALTY ARE
SHIPPED FROM. THE coLuM.
BiA STOCK YARDS.
MANY OTHERS LED TO FARM
columbia's First Mondays Are Famous
AS the Greatest Open Mule Market
In the World-Buyers Come From
All Sections of U. s.

Maury county is justly famed as the
worlds greatest open mule market
where buyers from all sections of the
United States come to pick the best
in the long-eared farm worker, which
can never be replaced by motors or
any other motive power for all around
work in the cultivation of crops.
Farmers in Maury county handle
mules as one of the staple commodi-
ties Of their business. Comparatively
few of them raise mule colts, but all
Of them buy young mules and finish
them for sale to other sections, thus
creating continuous business of buy
ing and selling. During 1918 there
was shipped from the Columbia stock
yards alone 5,20s mules, which at the
conservative average of 5000 each
were worth more than $1,0OO,00O. But
these shipments do not fully represent
the mule business in the county, be-
cause as the center OF trade and ex-
change for group of counties in Mid
die Tennessee, Columbia carries on
an enormous volume of business
which does not pass through the
stock yards for shipment. This trad
ing consists of buying and selling
among farmers and the sale of large
numbers of mules through regular
dealers. one firm alone having tran
sacted approximately s1,0OO,00O worth
of business during the year.
In addition to the 5,20S mules ship
ped through the stock yards, 1857
mules were received there during the
fContinued on Third Page.)
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-02-28
PRODUCTS OF SOIL OF MAURY
COUNTY WORTH OVER $3,50O,OOO
MAURY COUNTY JERSEY FIRST
CHAMPION BUTTER PRODUCER

Maj. Campbell Brown, and Landseer's
Fancy, and it is also fact that a
majority of the cows which have ex-
ceeded her test bear her blood.
Is it at all remarkable that four Of
the COWS completing their tests in
1918 which exceeded this record were
cows bred and raised in Maury Coun-
ty, and all Of whom bear her blood?
These four cows were Meysie's Fern
Lassie bred by F. S. Wheeler Of Mt.
Pleasant Tenn, who made 9it77
pounds butter; McCoy's Resale, bred
by Mrs. T. II. Mangrum, Columbia,
Tenn, 1924 pounds of butter; Princess
Coleman, bred by j. l.. Hutton, CO.
lumbia, Tenn, $40 pounds of butter,
and Eminents Foxy Belle, bred by
M. A. Hardison, Glendale, Tenn.
1O7S.41 pounds of butter
After all Maury County can claim
five Of the fifty cows which have
exceeded the first record set by a
Maury County COW SO years ago.
This then is the answer to the rea-
son that more than 600 grade Jersey
cows were shipped from Maury Coun-
ty during the year 1918,
Jersey breeding has been continued
in Maury county, although in recent
years not with the vigor of genera
ton ago. High prices and the demand
for registered Jerseys have reduced
the number of cows owned here, but
still fully 100 herds are owned in this
county. They range in size from six
or eight cows to about Is cows. These
herds are scattered throughout the
county.
There has recently been revival of
interest in Jersey breeding with a
possibility that the industry will be re-
established upon the standard of years
ago.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-02-28
"MooNsHiNE" DANGEROUS
(By United Press.l

ATLANTA, Ca, Feb. 21-Robert
Hines, negro, doesn't like moonshine
any more. The moon shone SO bright
at $3.50 a. m. he thought it was day
light, started to work. and landed in
Jail, charged with lettering.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-02-28

Contracts for hospitals at Peking
and Shanghai to cost $3,O0O,O0O have
been let by the Rockefeller founda-
tion
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-02-28

Every hearth or fireplace in Eng
land was taxed in the reign of Charles
II
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-02-28

Positive Guarantee
Everything has been given maxi
mum dose OF Pitman- Moore serum
and virus.
Everything sold under positive
guarantee 10 be safe in pig, or money
refunded.
You can't lose unless The sow dies.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-11-26
THE Perfect LaxahUe

Miss Emma Sheetz, of Fay.
etteville, was married to Capt
VIM. c. Dunckel, on Nov. 18th.
Miss Sheetz has visited in Rock.
ingham a number of times.
Miss Anna Leak Ledbetter is
another Rockingham pupil who
has made the College Glee Club
She is a member of the Mando.
lin & Guitar Club of Converse
College.
Mrs. Peter Ihrie and Miss Flor:
ence Hope Crawford, of Rock
Hill, S. c., will come Friday
morning to visit Mrs. Fred w.
Bynum. Miss Crawford will re.
turn Monday, while Mrs. Ihrie
will remain longer.
Mrs. w. B. Stansill, Mrs. W.
c. Leak and Mrs. F. w. Leak left
Tuesday night for New York for
a two weeks stay. They were
joined in Washington by Mes
danes w. ]. Adams and Florence
Jones, of Carthage.
Mrs. John @. Myers and young
Elizabeth will come tonight WED
nesday) from Charlotte to visit
Mrs. John Morrison until Satur-
day. Mrs. Lou Crosland went
from Charlotte to Fayetteville to.
day for a visit, and will come to
Mrs Morrison's Saturday for a
week.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-11-26
SOCIAL
(Contributed)

On Tuesday afternoon Mrs. J..
w. Leak was hostess to her Rock
Club, and several other tables of
Rock, complimenting her daugh-
ter, Mrs. J. Rufus Howard, of
Columbia. Mrs. Leak, in purple
charmeuse, received the guests
at the door, assisted by Mrs.
Howard, who wore a dark blue
georgette embroidered in beads.
Dainty score cards were passed
and it was with much interest
that tine places were found and
the game placed. Just before
the close of the last progression
each guest was presented with
a miniature turkey gobbler, sug-
costing the near approach of the
Thanksgiving season. The tables
were arranged in the large re-
ception rooms, where potted
plants and vases of red carna-
tons formed the decorations.
A delicious chicken salad course
with accessories, was served.
Janet Farley, who is teaching
in the Public School of Laurin-
burg, will spend the Thanks
giving holiday at home with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Farley.
Miss Mary Alys Lindsey went
to Charlotte Wednesday morn
ing to visit Miss Terrs Bland for
several days. She will attend
the Thanksgiving dances while
away.
Mr.. J. Rufus Howard, of
Columbia, arrived on Tuesday
evening to spend Thanksgiving
with Mrs. Howard and little
daughter. Camille Howard. They
will return Thursday night.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-11-26
FOR CHRISTMAS.

You have been planning to
have yourself fitted up with a
good pair of glasses. There is
no better time than now. You
had best while planning for the
good things that you are going
to purchase for Christmas, put
that pair of glasses on the list.
You will want to be seeing all
the beautiful things that will be
exhibited, and the presents that
will b, given to many of your
friends. And you will want to
examine them, and if you have a
| pair Of glasses fitted you will APP
preciate the gifts more, because
you will be able to decerne their
exquisit beauty. And, too, you
will want to select presents for
your relatives and friends. With
proper glasses you will be more
able to do your best choosing,
and then think Of the comfort
fort in wearing a properly fitted
pair Of glasses! Remember that
| to wait until the last moment may
be too late to have them for
| Christmas.
So come at once and have
them fitted. H. H. Humphrey,
ICntometrist lover I hwrv's store
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-11-26
rs Million Campaign Meet.
ing at Pleasant Grove.

Next Sunday morning at II a.
m. there will be a special meet.
ing at Pleasant Grove Baptist
Church in the interest of the
75-Million Campaign. All mem
bers are urged to be present and
take part in this South-wide
campaign for the Master. Make
special effort to be there. 1t
takes a special effort to do a
special thing.
A. G. MELTON, Pastor.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-11-26

Deer hunters at Councils this
week, from Rockingham, were
E. B. Lilies, ]. c. Baldwin, B. F.
Palmer, VIM. L. Steele, Carl
Shores and John Sandy Coving-
ton. Deer are plentiful this year,
and the party having fine luck.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-11-26
Odd Fellows Banquet.

The Odd Fellows enjoyed a
speaking and banquet in their
hall Tuesday night. The Post.
Dispatch will have a detailed &C.
count of this for next weeks
issue.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-11-26
Dogs Lost.

Lost, 2 dogs-one white, with
yellow Spots and ears; other
mostly red, with some white
Both ears split, barrow" dog,
$40 reward will be paid for re.
turn of each. B. H. Shankle,
Route |.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-11-26
Registered Bull.

For sale, a registered Guernsey
bull; kind and gentle and easy to
manage. j. A. Harrington, Route
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-11-26

HELP ROCKINGHAM GROW
The sun., 1919-02-21
EXPECT REVOLVING
FUND BILL TOPASS
Measure Adding 1000, 900
Comes Up in House for Roll
Call Vote To-day.
ADJOURN TO take Stock
Dyer Declares Employees of
Roads Operate Propaganda
for Federal Control.
Special Despatch to TIE suS.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20. with the
question of Government ownership loom
ing large the House tonight adjourned
precipitately to escape temporarily a roll
call vote on the bill adding $3.50. 10000
to the revolving fund Of the Railroad
Administration. The roll call will come
tomorrow morning. The passage OF the
bill Is taken for granted.
After defeat in committee OF the
whole without the presence Of quorum
Of two proposals to direct early return
Of the railroads to private operation
Chairman Sherley Of the Appropriation
Committee tonight demanded a roll
call vote on the final passage OF the bill.
Minority Leader Mann objected. and
when Sherley insisted moved adjourn.
ment. Glad OF respite from recent late
sessions and of opportunity to take
stock before voting on the question the
House gladly backed Mann's motion.
Despite the protest of Chairman Sher-
ley that personally he was opposed to
Government ownership and that the
pending bill had nothing to do with
the question. the paternalistic policies OF
the Government were the principal
ground of debate.
Representative Dyer (Mo.) declared
that widespread propaganda in favor
OF Government ownership of railroads
Is being operated by railroad employees.
using the American Federation OF Labor
building In this city as headquarters.
He read to the House several Letters
from railroad employees to himself in
which he was threatened with political
oblivion IL he should fail to support the
Governments proposal to extend the
control for five years
n larSf M N xra "
burn (Tex.) calling for the return OF
the roads TO private control not later
than January I. 1920. was attacked by
Sherley on a point of order. The point
was overruled and the proposed amend
ment was defeated by 1o3 to 81. An
amendment proposed by Representative
Esch (Wis.) and calling for the re-
tention of the roads until July l, 1929,
was defeated by 81 to 10.
The sun., 1919-02-21
REPORTS $S6o,OOo
DEFICIT FOR 1913
National Conduit and Cable Co.
Sustained Losses in Max
ing War Material

Because OF losses sustained in manu-
featuring munitions for the United
States Government the National Conduit
and Cable Company during 1918 was
forced to report more than ss6o.o00
deficit whereas during the last nine
months of 1917 a surplus of nearly $780,
600 was recorded. Total sales for 1918
were S6,000.000 less than those for the
last nine months of 1917. while operat-
Ing profits decreased more than S700, 900.
The gross sales for 1918 were $14,011,-
664, against $20,31S,53s In the nine
months ended December 81, 1917. Manu-
featuring costs and administrative ex-
penses during that time were s13,490.-
e6l, against $1s.0S6,S55, leaving operat-
ing profits for the 1918 operations at
$3.50, 1903. against s1,231.6S3 in the last
three quarters OF 1917. ..
A loss of more than $744,0o0 was
written off in the munitions department,
and about s250,000 was written of for
depreciation. neither OF which items ap-
pearsd In the 1917 statement. The COM
pany was fortunate in disposing of Its
cartridge machinery before the signing
Of the armistice. so that there was de-
plant values In the balance sheet.
The volume of business DONE" said
President H. J. Pritchard In his remarks
to the stockholders. was in all respects
satisfactory. considering that it was af-
fected In amount by the fact that q
large quantity OF metal was furnished by
the Government and other customers for
fabrication the value of which does not
appear in the sales. Had II not been for
losses sustained in the manufacture OF
munitions for the Government and the
allotment by the Government OF other
orders which ordinarily would not have
been accepted by us the results OF opera
ton would not have been 90 unfavorable.
las explanatory OF the change In plant
values 1t should be noted that the reduc-
ton OF machinery and equipment Is
largely due 10 the sale of cartridge ma
chinery, fortunately disposed OF prior &c
the cessation of hostilities, Tho reduc-
ton of transportation equipment Is due
to the sale of steam lighters comman-
deered by the Government less the cost
OF equipment purchased during the
yaar"
The sun., 1919-02-21
Needs 30. 900. 900 Gallons of OF.

wAanINoroN. Feb. so,--rhe srmF will
ne~d 10000 900 gallons Of fuel oil dur
ing 1919. according TO an estimate fur
uished tho Senate Commerce Committee
to-day by Secretary Baker In response
10 a resolution adopted by the COMMITTEES
designed 10 ascertain tho oil situation
" this country.