The Monroe journal., 1922-10-31
INTERESTING COLUMN OF
NEWS AND INTERVIEWS S
(Continued from page one.D

Bull" and Bear" Spectators
"Most Southren cotton spectators
because they want to see their section
prosper" remarked q cotton man the
other day, play the bull side of the
market. That's why so many Of them
60 broke. as statistics show that the
bear side of the market, take il year
in and year out, is the winning side
| recall one notable exception. He is
a trader who lives in a small eastern
North Carolina town. He has played
the bear side for nearly thirty years
and ! understand that he has accu-
mulated fortune amounting to -four
million dollars"
Boil Weevil Driving Negroes North
The boil weevil is driving negroes
by the hundreds out of South Carroll
ma, according to a Monroe railroad
man. Every day." he said. 1.-THE
coaches for colored people are loaded
with men. women and children bound
for Philadelphia, Huntington, W. Va,
Chicago and Akron, Ohio, "the prom
ised land old boil weevil done run
US out of South Carolina they gener-
ally say when asked why they are
eorsak ng their native haunts. Most
Of them anticipate a daily wage OF
four or five dollars"
Business Coed on the Seaboard
THE Seaboard is hauling more
freight today than il did during the
war; Mr.. V. c. Austin, a baggage
master between Monroe and Atlanta,
declared yesterday. 1T is estimated,
he continued, that the company haul
ed 10000 more loads last month than
in any other similar period in its his
tory" 1t has been announced that
the Seaboard will spend S2,500,000 on
new equipment, especially locomotives
of the Pacific type.
Bad and Good Farming
Two interesting stories of cotton
yields came to light here Sunday. One
was that of p. c. Langston, Seaboard
claim agent. He owns a three-hun-
dred acre farm in Georgia. OF his
total acreage, he had one hundred in
cotton. Boil weevil damage was so
great, it is said that he will not har-
vest over three bales. The other was
that of Nanny Woctol of Chester,
one of the few Jew farmers in the
United States. Despite the boil Wee
vii he is said to have cotton seventy
five bales off a hundred acres.
Nash Perdicts Big Wheat Yield
More wheat will be sowed this year
than ever before in the history of
this section in the opinion of Mr.. II.
&. Nash. He has already sold nearly
car load of seed wheat. "People
who have never planted wheat be-
FORE he said yesterday, "are plan
ming to do so now They are realiz-
ing the necessity of living at home il
they hope to beat the boil weevil.
Mr.. Nash sold one man twenty BUSH
els of wheat. The next day the mans
son came and bought twelve bushels.
THAT family is going to have plenty
of bread" commented Mr.. Nash.
A Forty Year Old Deed
Mr.. R. w. Lemmond, the clerk of
court, and Mr.. NJ. c. Long, the regis
ter of deeds, recorded a deed Mon
day that was given over forty years
ago. 1t was made under the direc-
ton of James C. Huey, clerk of court
in the latter '70's, by Vernon Allen
to James Allen. 1t was for the trans
fer of fifty acres Of land, the old AL
len place in Lanes Creek township.
James Allen lived on the place un-
til his death some years ago. A few
days ago a daughter of James Allen
found the original deed, and knowing
that it had never been recorded, has
tened to Monroe for that purpose.
Speaking of the occurrence, Mr..
Lemmond took occasion to warn the
people of this section of the danger
in delaying to have their deeds re-
corded. Had fire destroyed the Allen
deed, or had it become lost, the de-
scendants would have had no way
Of establishing their claim to the land
since all Of the parties to the origi-
nal deed, even to the notary public
who witnessed the signatures, are
dead.
Must Raise Tobacco
Mr.. T. A. Anderson of Athens, Ga,
cotton merchants was in Mr.. }. +.
Stacks office Saturday telling of the
untold boil weevil damage in his sec
tion. 1--WE have large warehouse,
he said, "in which $4,000 bales were
stored year before last. This year,
so great has been the boil weevil
damage, we will consider ourselves
lucky if 10000 bales are stored in
it."
"You people," he went on, "will get
about twenty-five thousand bales this
year, | am informed Ii you get five
thousand bales year or two from
now you will be exceedingly fortu-
nate"
Mr.. Stack Joined in the conversa-
tion. "Yes," he commented, "the boil
weevil is going to make the produc-
ton of cotton almost thing of the
past. ! am urging our farmers to
raise tobacco. Our soil it adapted
to its culture, and a market, the lack
of which has prevented our going in
for tobacco heretofore, can be reach
ed in few hours over the good roads
in this section. Farmers living in
communities where the land is adap-
table to tobacco ought to go in to-
gether, hire an expert tobacco grow
er to show them how, and switch
from the fleecy staple to the sooth-
ing weed. 1t will pay, | believe"