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Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1922-03-31
Active Spindle Hours Decrease

Washington. The New England
textile strike was reflected in the
monthly report made public recently
by the census bureau on the activity
of the cotton spinning industry, which
showed decrease of more than 600,-
600 active spindles for the month of
February as compared with January.
Active spindle hours for February
7119,576,60O as compared with 1929.
35S,l36 also decrease of more than
eight hundred million. The figures
made public were based on an activity
of % 2-3 days, while the figures for
January were based on an activity Of
rs IL days.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1922-03-31
Four Men Killed In Explosion

Port Huron, Mich.-Four men were
killed and property damage estimated
at 100000 was caused by boiler ex-
plosion on board the ferry boat Omar
D. Conger. The explosion shook the
entire downtown district. The boiler
was thrown $50 feet into dwelling.
The dead we're at work on the ferry.
No one else was aboard the boat at
the time OF the explosion.
Six persons we're injured, none Sc
The dwelling into which the
boiler was thrown caught fire and was
burned.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1922-03-31
-Four Killed BY Cloudburst.

Burlington, kas. - Four persons
were killed and property damage es
timated at $4,000 done at Burlington
by cloudburst which flooded Rock
Creek and sent it swooping down
upon the city without warning. The
dead are Mr.. and Mrs. T. S. MCGEE,
Mrs. Henry Ramsdell and Miss Ole
tina Failing.
Only the body of Miss Failing had
been recovered. Nine persons report.
ed missing were found to be unharm-
ed.
For several blocks store fronts
caved in and about 25 homes were
swept away Much damage was done
also to stock and crops in this district,
Streets here were piled high with de-
bris.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1922-03-31
PICTURES TO FIGHT WEEV|L
County Agent w. 3. Pace, Of PITT
Plans to Visit Every School
House With Picture Machine.

| Greenville-The new moving picture
machine used in farm demonstration
work is creating considerable interest
throughout the county. Although 1t ar
rived about two weeks ago, continued
bad weather has prevented County
Agent w. B. Pace from putting on his
show in more than six communities.
His present plan calls for a visit with
his machine to every schoolhouse OF
the county.
At present there are four films
shown to each audience. One deals
with the potato storage house, show
ing construction, operation and gen.
eral value. This reel is intended to
increase the interest In such storage
houses and show the farmers the need
for them.
A second reel Is a drama Of farm
life, dealing with the drudgery OF the
farmers wives without conveniences
now so common on the more up-to-
date farms. The wife ID shown bag
gard and toll worn, wreck In the
prime of life. While she Is away
at sanitarium, the farmer installs
modern Improvements from the front
door to the kitchen. The contrast Is
most striking.
The feature of the SHOW is con.
tanned in two reels entitled Good.
bye, Boil Weevil." They show the
use of powders, calcium arsenate in
the destruction of the pest. Differ.
ent types of machines, from the hand
pump to the gasoline machine, in full
operation, are thrown upon the screen.
The government passes on the powder
before II is put upon the market and
approves firms selling it.
The cotton planters attention Is
focused when be sees how he can
increase his seed cotton 200 to 1000
pounds at Sc the acre by destroying
the pink pest by this simple method.
The powder is busted upon the plant
in the afternoon and sticks to the
leaves. When the weevil drinks the
dew next morning, he imbibes the
poison as well. so 1t is indeed good
bye, boil weevil
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1922-03-31
Census For Pics to be Taken.

Washington The department OF
agriculture, through the help of rura
mail carriers, will set up machinery
early in May to obtain the probable
pig population Of the IA states lead
ing in the production of swine. More
than $4,000 carriers connected with
the $500 postoffices will take the pig
census.
As they start out with their pack OF
mail the carriers will distribute card
missionaries on which will be OBJ.
tanned reports from the farms on
each route.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1922-03-31
eve. system VIII Withstand Flood.

Memphis, Tenn.-With the Missis-
sippi river rising rapidly at all points
south of St. Louis and with all indi-
cations pointing TO the highest water
since the food of 1916, government
and state engineers here express con.
fidence that the levee system will
withstand the food without difficulty
and that the damage from high water
will be small and confined entirely to
unprotected lands.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1922-03-31
Attention Called to Fake Offers.

Washington-Postoffice department
inspectors have had their attention
called to many cases OF agencies
throughout the country advertising
that they were able to obtain imme-
date action on claims by disabled
veterans pending before the Veterans
bureau, It became known here recent
ly. Many of the agencies, 1t was said,
maintained elaborate offices and ad-
vertised that within short period
after receiving a retainer of $40 to
$50, they would secure favorable ac-
tion in the settlement Of any claim.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1922-03-31
Pilot Of Flying Boat Rescued.

Miami, Fla.-That broken propel
Ter compelled the flying boat, Miss
Miami, down and into the sea where
she kept atloat for As hours, was the
statement made to rescuers on the
steamship William Greene. by Robert
Moore, pilot of the Inflated machine
before he became dehrious. The Viii
liam Greene, bound from Bayonne, N.
j.. to Tampico, picked up the wreck
ed plane and its lone survivor 100
miles north OF this city and Al miles
east of the Indian river inlet.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1922-03-31
SUGAR Rates Stand.

Washington. Sugar rates In the
Fordney tariff bill. on the basis Of
$3.50 per 100 pounds for Cuba raw,
were approved by the republican
members OF the senate finance COM
mittee after a prolonged fight.
The Fordney rates were accepted
as compromise. Senator Smoot
ranking majority member, contended
for rate Of 50 per 100 on Cuban raw.
the duty asked for by American beet
sugar interests. This was slightly
less, however, than the tariff urged by
the Louisiana cane industry.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1922-03-31
Earminn Statistics In N. C.

MISUNDERSTANDING statistics FOL
January /, 1920, show North Carolina
far down the line in farm values Here
are the facts, according to a report
issued by the census bureau.
Value of all farm property, January
/, 1920, $3.50 167,OOO of the twenty.
first of the AS states; the value OF
all farm crops for 1919 totaled $685.
$4,000, making it the twelfth state,
and value of all livestock products
S35, $50 900. the twenty-frst state.
South Carolina is the twenty.sev-
enth. fifteenth and thirty-eighth state
in the foregoing values.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1922-03-31
To Film Story of klna David.

Jerusalem. Twenty stars Of the
American films world arrived in Jeru-
salem recently to prepare for the
filming of the Old Testament story OF
King David. The big scene in the
play is to be the fight between David
and Goliath, which will be staged a
few miles north of this city. Biblical
accuracy Is not to be strictly adhered
No, since the scenario provides love
bcene after the battle. About 5000
IAersons are to be employed in the film
ing of the play. Five thousand sheep,
1000 camels and 1000 goats.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1922-03-31
Canine Earns Daily Bread.

Kinston. Sport" the setter of Asa
Hawkins, captain OF the fire depart
ment, and lover OF animals, earns his
keep. The dog carries wood, stick
by stick, until the fuel box on the
back porch at the Hawkins home is
filled. II someone will stand by and
split the wood Sport" II has been
demonstrated, will continue to fetch"
II for hours on end. The canine ap.
pears to consider this particular ehore
his duty. Besides. he seems to envy
the woodchopper his end OF the lob.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1922-03-31

New Bern.--A. S. Shields, negro
preacher who is the father OF AZ chill
dren, celebrated his 72nd birthday
with a fair gathering of his children
around him. All but FIVE OF his chill
dren are living. He married a sec.
ond time is years ago and has had II
children by this marriage. Shields
was slave In the family OF which
Representative Claude Kitchin and
former Governor W. w. Kitchin are
members. He breaches his sermons
In q church he owns himself.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1922-03-31
Council Of Teachers Elects Officers.

Greensboro.-At the last meeting
OF the North Carolina English con-
ference the following officers were
elected:
c. A. Hibbard, Chapel Hi presi-
dent; Miss Nita Eppler, of tha Dur
Lam schoo,. secretary; Miss Eleanor
Stratton, OF the Asheville high school,
president; X. T.. Thornton, OF the
North Carolina College for Women,
Greensboro, recording secretary ire
elected
C. A. Hubbard and A. C. Hall, of
North Carolina College for Women.
were elected to the national conven.
ton.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1922-03-31
Woman TO Face Jury.

New Orleans. = The trial OF Mrs.
Matilda Levee, who shot and killed
her husband, Frederick Levee, Cali
fornia lawyer, last May, will begin
here. The district attorney has an
nounced that he will ask for YER
dict that will send the woman to the
electric chair. The defense announces
that at the time of the killing Mrs.
Levee was insane. Mrs. Levee shot
her husband here on busy street
after meeting him and talking to him.
Levee was shot in the back after leav.
ing his wife.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1922-03-31

Palo Alto, Cal.-Walter Large, five
year-old nephew OF Herbert Hoover
secretary of commerce, was drowned
in a swimming pool at the Hoover
home here during family reunion.
DR.. Ray Llman Wilbur. president OF
Stanford university, worked over him
three hours but hope finally was given
up.
Servants found the child uncon.
scious In the swimming pool shortly
before noon. II is not known how
long he had been in the pool
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1922-03-31
Lower Rates on Melons.

Moultrie, GA 10 per cent reduc'
ton in freight rates on watermelons
and cantaloupes from points east OF
the Mississippi river until June 80 has
been granted voluntarily by the rail
roads, 1t was announced here by r. s.
Roddenbery, vice president OF the Ma
tional Melon Distributors association.
The fight for lower rates on these
products has been waged for the last
two years. Buyers here said all OF
the Florida crop and about half Of the
South Georgia crop would be moved
before the expiration of June.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1922-03-31
Fear For Safety Of Peach Crop.

Hickory.-Orchard men in this sec
tion were much concerned over the
safety of the peach crop, the mercury
recording the lowest temperature in
several weeks and hefty frost oc'
curing in most places. Peach trees
are in part bloom ana pear trees are
in full blossom. There was much ice
but stiff winds the past two days dried
the trees thoroughly and it is hoped
that a minimum of damage has re-
suited from the cold.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1922-03-31
Block In Montezuma Burned.

Montazuma, Ga.-Fire OF undeter-
mined origin wiped out almost an en-
tire block in the business section OF
Montezuma, causing a loss Of $4,000
to 100000, with little insurance
The fire started in the Montezuma
Steam Laundry and besides destroy
ing that establishment consumed Col
berts' pressing club. the Fields go
Gerry store, Joiners' grocery store, Nor
gan's pressing club, a barber shop,
Jake Powell's shoe shop and White
sire's meat market
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1922-03-31
Begin Constructor OF Car line.

Fayetteville. = Actual ,construction
work on the traction line from this
city to Camp Bragg was begun by the
Cane Fear Railway Inc. who will
rush the work to completion within
30 days in order to have the road in
operation by the time the National
Guard troops begin to arrive at the
amp on July l. Track already laid
'Ttends for two miles from the city
'mite The work of preparing the
ndhed fey ire new track was begun
THE nci7t raar the State Home for
Moderate Women.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1922-03-31
Hickory Sells Bonds,

Hickory.-The city of Hickory sold
$4,000 of funding per cent bonds to
Seasongood, Mayer & Co., of Cincin'
natl, for a premium of $3.50, or
s1O4.44 per 800. There were IL bid
ders, and the sale was described by
bidders and city officials as highly
satisfactory.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1922-03-31
Present Evidence Against Exchange

New York.-Assistan District At
torney Jerome Simmons began the
presentation OF evidence to the grand
jury against officers and directors OF
the American Cotton Exchange. whose
practices were recently condemned b!
Chief Magistrate McAdoo after John
Doe inquiry into its affairs.
Several witnesses have been sum.
moned to testify against the alleged
violation OF the statute prohibiting
bucketing orders Mr.. Simmons said
that the inquiry probably would con-
sumo three days.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1922-03-31
Arrested After 2a Years.

Doylestown, Pa - man arrested
at Quakertown, a few days ago, on
suspicion of having killed constable
90 years ago in the Haycock noun
tains while resisting arrest, was iden
tilted as Adam Weaver, the man
charged with the crime, by James
Weaver, of Philadelphia, who claims
to be his son.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1922-03-31
Family Trouble Costs Three Lives

Columbus, Ohio-Dewey Britton, 90,
a farmer, living near Torch, Athens
county, shot and killed his 17-year.old
wife and her mother, Mrs. Roy Clarke,
so, and then ended his own life with a
shotgun. Neighbors who arrived
shortly after the shooting, found the
three bodies in the house and yard
The tragedy occurred when Mrs. Brit
ton, who had been separated from
her husband, came to the house with
her mother to arrange for division
of the household effects.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1922-03-31

Lenoir. - Visitors this summer to
the Blowing Rock and Grandfather
Mountain section will not recognize
the old turnpike from Lenoir to Blow
Ing Rock. The state highway COM
mission, since taking over the road
last August. has wrought a revolu-
ton. A big force of men with q
number of trucks have been working
on the road throughout the winter.
The road has been made wider for a
greater part of the distance and stone
crushed by the road forces has been
spread on several miles o broadway.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1922-03-31
Scotch Liquor Proves Poison.

Raleigh. "A bootleg liquor sensa-
ton with metropolitan air broke
here with the seizure by the police
of thousand dollars worth OF CO.
caine, denatured alcohol, creosotA
ard other chemicals, and the arrest
of the two leaders Of gang OF Ital.
ians who have been engaged in the
making OF a poisonous fluid labeled
Scotch liquor
The seizure and arrests are the re-
suit of several days investigation by
the police into the activities Of
gang OF Italians.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1922-03-31
officers Elected For Johnston Fair.

SmithfieId. - The directors OF the
Johnston County Agricultural Society
met here and set the date for the
1922 fair, October 81, November l, 2
and are the days set apart for this
coming event. The directors were
all present except four, Mr.. j. W. Ste'
phenson, who has served as president
OF this organization for several years,
rendered his resignation, but, upon
motion by Mr.. w. d. Ayers, second
ed by DR.. r. J. Noble, he was unani
mously reelected to this position.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1922-03-31
Editor Of "survey" Tours state.

Chapel Hill.-Attractod by what be
had heard and read of the progressive
social welfare policy of the North State
Paul l.. Benjamin. associate editor OF
the New York magazine. The Sur.
vey has come to gather material for
a series Of articles on North Carolina,
Starting here with study OF the uni.
yersity's school OF welfare and depart
ment of rural social economics. he will
20 on to Raleigh. Gastonia and other
places, where he can get information
atout the work that Is being done TO
improve living conditions Of people.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1922-01-11
% F n REDUCTION

The following items selling at 80 per cent discount
Smoking Coats. Spalding Sweaters. Lounging Robes
All our best quality Macknaws. oO1 r
Mems fur gloves and mittens. QUO OH
$50 Men Jersey Sweater Coats value So 90 - S198
Fibre suit cases $780, S110, and S1.48
Extra quality Samson Suit Cases ............ S495
new lot of mems and young men S shoes every
pair guaranteed high quality - $40
Special for this sale good extra quality overall and
jacket values 81 so -.. - Csc
Men heavy ribbed union Suits Csc
Mems heavy fleeced union Suits " ST 48
Mems heavy extra quality Chalmers and Munsing
underwear ,~.,~,-., e SLAB
Men heaVy heeced shirts and drawers ---..-.- zoe
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-10-28
The Winter Birds, and Especially
Our Good Fr1end, Mr.. RED Head

family. The best-known of these is
the red-headed woodpecker, or red
head. as we often call him. He is
one of our most intelligent birds
He has many ways OF getting food
Often we hear him pecking holes in
the dead limbs of trees to get the
fat worms that bore into the wood
often he sits on dead tree or tele-
phone pole and looks for Insects
flying thru the air. He flies out
after them and returns to his perch.
! remember driving one warm sum
mer day along country road.
Looking down the road, we could
see dozens of red-heads, sitting on
telephone poles and flying out
across the road after insects and
coming back again to their perches.
As we approached them, each wood
pecker would move on to the next
pole. Thus we drove them before
us down the the road for long
way
Protects Fruit and Grain
Many of the insects upon which
the red-head feeds do a great deal
Of harm by injuring our fruit trees
and destroying our field and gar
den crops, 80 we ought to think al
the red-head as our friend; and If
he takes cherry once in while,
we ought to think of 1t as merely
collecting a little payment for the
good he has done in many ways.
The red-head does not always
stay thru the winter. Some say 1t
depends upon the crop of beech
nuts, which he uses for his winter
food. Since there are many beech
nuts this year. perhaps the red.
head viii stay with US this winter
Next week, | shall tell you about
other members OF the woodpecker
family.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-10-28
The Red.Headed Woodpeoker

Just now migrating birds are rap
idly going south. On these frosty
mornings, every tree is full of tiny
fitting forms, eagerly looking for
their breakfasts after their long
flight during the night.
This is not the best time of the
year to study the migration of
birds, for many OF the young birds,
that are now going south for the
first time, do not have the typical
plumage of the older birds, so one
often has trouble in identifying
them in the fall BY the time the
spring migration begins, all the
birds will have the adult plumage.
Soon, however these migrating
birds will be gone and we shall
have with us only the winter resi-
dents-those that stay here only
during the winter. and the perman.
ent residents those that stay here
all the time.
Winter is the best time to begin
the study OF birds, for there are SO
few kinds here that ii Is not nearly
so confusing In the winter there
are twenty or twenty-five kinds Of
common birds. In the spring there
are over one hundred kinds Of com
mon birds. In the winter the trees
are bare and the birds may easily
be seen. In the spring the young
leaves soon cover the trees and It
Is harder to see the birds.
One Of the most interesting fam
lilies of birds Is the Woodpecker
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-10-28
Did You Known

It's the sweet potato that makes
postage stamps stick. This vege.
table has been found to make the
most harmless glue. The liquid is
forced through pipes and made to
drip on the sheets Of printed
stamps.
There are certain places in Mex
leo whore rain never has been
known to fall, while in Torrent,
Kentucky it rains some time dur
ing every day in the year.
A cyclone moves at the rate Of
5S5 yards a second.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-10-28
Evils of Smoking

Passenger ~ say, Engineer,
what is the average life of loco
motive?"
Engineer-"Oh, about thirty
years, sir"
Passenger should think such
a tough looking thing would last
longer than that"
Engineer-"Well, sir, perhaps it
would, if it didn't smoke so much. ~
Richard Mccain
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-10-28
Just Pretending

Go fasten a veil to a comets tail,
And sail for the limpid Moon,
And live for day
On bubbles and whey,
Dipped up by the Great Horn Spoon.
Go, scatter a rose on a sunbeam's
nose,
For summer will vanish soon,
And wander an hour
BY the zig-Zag flower
That whispers the bumble-bee's
tune.
Florence M. Pettee, in Child
Life.
Remember
November 18th to 18th is Father
and Son week.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-10-28
Announcement

The story hour was held last Sat,
urday afternoon at the library.
Several Juniors were there. To
day we had fairy stories. Remem-
Der, the time is from 2:30 till $3.50,
and try to come next Saturday.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-10-28
The Dinner-Pail IriShman

Complete the big drawing by adding by the various lines
shown in the series of small key pictures below.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-10-28
Sevastopol Making
Halloween Faces

Children of the second grade are
going to make themselves each a
jack-o-lantern for Halloween.
They are also going to make false
faces-Ada Van Voorhis, reporter
for Sevastopol school.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-10-28
THE JUNIOR PALLADIUM

OF
u founded May 1916 and issued each saturday afternoon All
social original
signed children
thoroughly
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-10-28

Jesse Allison, of Lexington. Ky,
saved his father from being tram
pied to death by a mule. Jesse was
riding horse and his father the
mule. The latter sprang, unseat-
ing the man jesse, aged 6. raced
after the mule, reached for the
bride and brought him to halt.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-10-28
BY MILLARp MARKLE

(The following interesting article
is third Of a series on nature sub
jects, written especially for The
Junior Palladium, by Prof. Millard
s. Markle, head OF the department OF
biology, or Earlham college.)