The Monroe journal., 1920-07-09
TrPRY kEZIAH's HOG II
ESTABLISHING NEW RECORD
Though Only Two Years Old. Has
Given Birth to Thirty-Nine Pigs -
Farmers Union Donates Eifty Dbl
lars 10 Storm sufferers.

Given Birth Ia thifty-Nine Pigs -
Farmers Union Donates Finy Dol
lars 10 Storm sufferers.
Waxhaw. r. +. ID. No. 1. July -
The county branch OF state farmers
union met with RehObeth on Satur-
day the 3rd. There was a good dele
CATION present, and fun measure of
enthusiasm manifested. The young
fellows" such rs Bro. Parker from
smyrna. are desperately in earnest.
and are anxious 10 see something
doing in behalf of old hayseed. All
delegates present gave good reports
from the home locals and most of
them showed increasing enrollments
nt members. II was brought out in
the meeting that considerable num-
ber of farmers in the eastern part OF
the county ave members of something
that is about third cousin OF the
union and that numbers of them
think they are members of the state
organization. They are not and il
was agreed thai some missionary
work should be done among these
misguided fellow farmers and that
they should be given opportunity TO
come in out of the rain. The union
donated fifty dollars of its county
funds TO the relief of the storm suf-
ferers of Sandy Ridge. and adjourned
to meet with the smyrna local on
the first Saturday in August.
Mr. Perry keziah has hog of the
. Al. Al
il seems. TO do her full share in in
creasing meat production. On hel
second birthday she gave birth 10
sixteen well developed little piggies'
and didn't seem TO think she had
done anything unusual. This is her
! third litter and gives her a record of
thirty-nine pigs at two years old. Can
anybody in the county beat it?
4 Mr.. Heath Yarbrough. one OF
Jackson's model young farmers has
the finest yard of Brown Leghorn
chickens in this part of the country.
i and always carries off the prize in
our community fair exhibitions.
/ Heath says these chickens just lay
and lay and then lay some more
eggs | mean-and last year he had
Ia hired man that got annoyed at their
continuous cackling. One day when
they were working near the barn the
hired man said: What in thunder
is the matter with them chickens
They have been 'cutin' up all day.
They are laying" said Heath. Let
'cm alone, till they get through"
Blamed it don't believe they are
i l,ing." said the hired man. II never
did see hens lay all day" Heath as
sured him they We're only laying one
egg each in a day. but that they were
taking turns in using the nests.
Mr.. Lawrence King has been made
+ temporary post master AZ WaXhaw
/ to ill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of Mr. J. W. Mccain. The
civil service board have not yet GER
tilted the winner in the examination
( held on March 18th for this vacancy.
/ Mr.. Mccain insisted that he be re-
4 lieved. MIR King is one OF the four
contestants for the place, and has
/ been giving excellent satisfaction as
office clerk for some time. If his
appointment should prove later to be
permanent. there would be no kick
and his friends would render congrat.
/ ulations.
BY the time the present campaign
is over. think the people of North
/ Carolina will have fair understand
/ ing of the sinking rottenness of our
present taxing system. Ii Governor
! Al H.. "A t, aIeA ha hna
certainly opened the way to the much
needed tax reform, and has caused
the politicians of both sides to poul
in the dope that will kill the octopus
that has backed the vitality of thu
producing element of our citizenship
for a generation The opponents Of
revaluation say the system is no
changed II isn't neither for better
nor worse. Revaluation just give
the rotten thing more rope will
which to hang itself. and its done II
Neither will collecting more revenue
from income and excess profits la
change the system. The corporation
that is pulled for income tax Is al
ways given notice of the fact ia
tnOuEn Ill uuNdHtt lhl u W lthuJuS
the price fixing machine, so that /
will grind out the income and tn,
tax. aud then some more. as compen
sation for collecting the tax. Th'
corporations always ~harge the peo
Die more for collecting taxes from
them than the sheriff charges. Th'
income and excess profits tax is al
agreement between the state and th'
corporation that the lattr may rol
the citizen TO its hearts content pro
vidcd il will "d!vy up" - in othe
words the tax is license 20 extort from
the people and play safe w
noticed a tabulated statement, in
reputable newspaper. n few days ago
tht our per capita tax ia the United
States in 1914 was seventy two cents
At this present time it is twenty 81,
dollars and ninty four cents (S26.9l
Is that going some; or is it not?-
Novus Homo.