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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-31

New York.-Jack Dempsey will
defend his title against Bill Brea-
nan in Madison Square Garden,
March II. it was reported.
Washington telegraph., 1922-01-06

The public is hereby warned that
any and all stock running at large
and found on the Swafford Bros.
Farm will be taken up anu
posted according to law and the own
ers will be required to pay stipulated
redemption fees.
r A. White.
Washington telegraph., 1922-01-06
ALWAYS ON THE JOB

Did you ever stop to consider what
an important part is played in the
life of the neighborhood by the Cor
ner Druggist asks William McColgan
in Trade News. Few people do. And
yet no man or woman in the COM
munity, not even the doctor, is as
close to the people as he.
His wares are with you at the be-
ginning of life, and they are at your
bedside at its end. In your hour of
health he sells you a cigar to help you
tnjoy it. In your hour of pain he
serves you a draugh to alleviate it.
The goods on his shelves help tc
usher your children into The world,
nrd some one has been unkind enough
to hint that they sometimes help to
usher them out of the world
His soda fount is the meeting place
of the young, and maI.y's the life
partnership that has been found at its
marble counter.
Ard his telephone booth All, If it
could only talk, what tales the booth
could tell The distressed mother
calling the doctor to her dying child;
the heart-broken father giving to the
undertaken his all-in-ali; the burly
policeman calling an ambulance; tie
excited citizen calling the fire depart
mept; the love-sick swain irving TO
patch it up with his sweetheart; the
giggling girl making an engagement
with The plumbers helper, and the
hen-pecked husband trying to make
his wife believe that he is over at
the club.
The policeman may be at the other
end of the beat, the fire department
may have gone to another fire, the
postman may fail to make his round,
the grocer and the butcher may close
their stores, the minister may not be
at home and the doctor may be Wis
itinE another ratient, but the Cor
rer Druggist is always on the job.
Ry his unfailing response to the
call of duty and by his careful pains
taking compounding in the hour of
emergency he has saved NOR lives
than a regiment of medal -bedecked
heroes.
Why, do YOU know the Corner
Druggist fos more rcighborhood Sc
Washington telegraph., 1922-01-06
MARRIAGE LICENSES ISSUED
DURING THE PAST WEEK

The usual After Christmas rush
for marriage licenses has been ex-
perienced at the office of County
Clerk Jno. l.. Wilson for the past
few days, eight licenses having been
issued since December 81, as follows:
Jas. L. Fitzwater, aged %, Hope,
and Miss Engie Mac Guilliams, 2l,
Emmot; Eldridge Cassaday, %, En-
met, Route A, and Miss Edith Girls
ham, 10, Emmet; c. w. Jordan, a.
Hope, Route 2, and Mrs. C. II. Rut-
ledge, "a, Hope; Bill Richardson, %
and Miss Ruby Gossett, Is, both of
Hope, Route ?.
Colored-Owen Knobel, Hope
Route 1, and Maggie Lee Skies
Hope; Walter Evans and Mary Viii
kins, Hope; Fred Ellis ana Helena
Stuart, Ozan; Willie Bachelor, Hope
and Ethel Burton, Emmet.
Washington telegraph., 1922-01-06
SOCIETY ELECTS OFFICERS

At meeting Of the !ccal Mission
airy society Of the Methodist church,
held at tahe church Tuesday after
noon, officers for the year were elect
ed as follows:
President, Mrs. r. w. Patterson;
vice-president, Miss EXa Oliver; cor
responding secretary, Mrs. W. B. Mel
son; local secretary, Mrs. Chas. Mox-
ley; treasurer, Mrs. ]. f. Gold; social
service superintendent, Mrs. ]. j, Ty-
son; publicity superintendent Mrs. L.
c. Gatlin; supt. of Bible study class,
Mrs. o. T. Beck.
Washington telegraph., 1922-01-06
MAN KILLED ON
PRESCOTT STREET
ANDREW STOCKTON KILLS ABE
GRAHAM-RESULT OF AN
OLD FEUD.

Prescott, Jan. 4.-the third trag-
edy within four years was enacted
on the main street Of Prescott yester-
day afternoon when Abe Graham
IS, was shot and killed by Andrew
Stockton, aged 35. Both are farm
ers and live at Boughton, about eight
miles north of Prescott. The shoot
ing, which occurred shortly before
g o'clock, was the result Of feud
of several years standing, it is said
The two men were cousins.
Roy Stockton, half-brother of An
drew Stockton's father, was shot to
death in the same block a year ago
by Miles Downs, former deputy sher-
if Of Nevada county. Downs was
convicted Of manslaugh.er and sem
tcnced to three years in the peni-
Tertiary. He now is out on parole.
The other Main street killing oc-
CURED about four years ago, when
Mark Mccain mortally wounded a
man named Slagle. This fatality also
concluded on last page)
Washington telegraph., 1922-01-06
CANDIDATES Are
ENTERING FIELD
A NUMBER OF AvOwED CANDI
DATESV ARE OUT-W0MAN
TO ENTER CLERKS RACE.

As this is again political year, can
didates for the various political Of
fices of state, district and county
are beginning to show up, some hav-
ing definitely decided to make the
race, while others are yet in the list
Of probable candidates"
1t is said that Judge Jas. II. Nc
Collum and Hon. r. C. Jobc, both
of Hope, and Attorney Dee Lat King
Of Lewisville have made up their
minds to offer for circuit judge of
the district succeeding Judge Geo.
r. Haynie. Others have also been
discussed frequently as likely can
didates for this office.
Circuit Judge Haynie has definite
ly announced his intenti Of running
for prosecuting attorney, an office
which he filled before being elected
to the judgeship, succeeding Hon. L,
F. Monroe of this city, and it is
not yet known whom his opponents
will be.
IL is said the county judges office
will be sought by Attorney DuVal
Purkins of Hope and Mr.. Jno. L. Will
son, present nounty and probate clerk
Esq A. ]. Robins Of Ozan is also
mentioned as a probable candidate
and Mr.. Ford Johnson Of Columbus
is receiving strong solicitations
from friends and has about decided
to offer for this office.
1t seems highly probable that
there will be some lady candidates
for county offices at the Democrat.
ic primary next August Follow
ing announcement in the Telegraph
last week that Tax Assessor Chas
NJ. Lewis would offer for county
clerk, the Telegraph received let
ter from Mrs. Ida Ellis of Ozan,
wife of ]. ID. Ellis, stating that she
hid received numerous solicitations
from friends to make the race for
county and probate clerk and was
giving the matter serious considera-
tion.
Curtis Cannon Of Hope and Henry
Murray of Battlefield ale avowed
candidates for county tax assessor
The offices of county treasurer
sheriff and circuit clerk are being
filed by first termers and it is not
probable that any candidates for
these offices, other than the incum-
bents, will be in the field.
Washington telegraph., 1922-01-06

crets locked in his breast than has
priest or preacher, and is the father
confessor of the young, the confdant
and adviser of the middle-aged, the
friend and comfort of the old.
You would think, now wouldn't you,
that sometime he would let some of
these secrets slip? But he doesn't.
He just goes his appointed way mix
ing his Graughts of mercy, eslling his
wares, giving advice, answering fool
questions, and even licking postage
stamps for his fair friends and eli
ents. And all the time tn peace of
the neighborhood is securely locked
in his kindly heart. God Bless the
Corner Druggist.-Exchange
Washington telegraph., 1922-01-06
N. S. WOOD is
HIGHLY HONORED
BROTHER OF DR.-F. o. WOOD OF
THIS PLACE RECEIVES OVA-
TION IN TEXAS CITY.

"The Evening Mirror" published
at Hillsboro, Texas, devotes a half
page Of its issue of December II to
"a write-up of banquet rendered Hon.
M. S. Wood, brother of DIR. +. o.
Wood of this city, and prominent at
torney, by the citizens of Itasca, Tex
as, on the occasion of his removal
from Itasca to Hillsboro. A hand
some gold watch was also presented
Mr.. Wood as a token of the esteem
in which he is held and in recognition
of his value as a real "live-wire"
citizen. The introduction of the ar
ticle follows:
at doesn't make nny difference
what mans profession may be, it
is the life he lives that people know
him by. And if after a man has
lived in community for more than
thi,ty-fve years and then decides to
move away, the whole community
joins IN Borrowing at his going and
joins in saying that he has met
every requirement of citizenship
that man must have lived far beyond
his ptofessions-he must be a real
raan.
That is the wav ta.. -naaole---ef
Itasca feel toward NJ. S. Wood who,
after more than third of a century
residence in this city, is moving to
Hinsboro to reside, having formed a
partnership for the practice of law
with Judge W. C. Wear and Mr.. VIM.
D. Wear. And this feeling found its
expression at banquet rendered
Mr.. Wood at the Itasca Cafe, Friday
night, December 10th, and which
completely surprised the honoree,
. ho hid been invited to the cate by
Washington telegraph., 1922-01-06

ID. H. Martin, a friend and nlmicsr
since he lattcr's boyhood, who en-
ti-cd llm with the promise Of birds
kllci ir hunting that day.
Piaicr were laid f1i sixty-tVn and
every seat was occupied by a man
with whom Mr. Wood had worked
for church, school and community
progress and Development"
Mr.. Wood is a native of Arkansas,
having been born and reared in La
Fayette County He began the pract-
ice of law at Lewisvillc as partner
OF d. y. King, dissolving this part
nership on his removal to Texas.
Washington telegraph., 1922-01-06
ARK ANSAS FARMER WILL STAY
AT HOME HEREAFTER

Shawnee, Okla, Nov. 2l-"MeXieo
is desperation.
"Texas is starvation.
oklahoma is speculation.
"The whole world is shot to hell
under the Harding administration.
''I'm moving back to Arkansas"
So read the sign printed in bold
type on the side of a covered wagon
which passed through Shawnee re-
Gently.
The farmer declared he had tried
life in all the states mentioned and
"was sick of 'em ALL" Exchange.
Washington telegraph., 1922-01-06
DRUGCO. PRAISES
DAVID W. HOLT
FRONT PAGE OF UNITED DRUG
60, HOUSE ORGAN DEVOTED
TO HIM.

Ihe entire front page of House
Organ No. 1852 of the United Drug
Co., published at Boston, Mass, is
devoted to a writc-up Of David W..
Holt Jr, son of Mr.. and Mrs d. W.
Holt Of Washington, Route No. /; the
Rexall representative fer the state
Of Arkansas. A splendid likeness of
Mr., Holt also adons the page.
Mr. Holt was born and reared near
this city ard his friends here will
be interested in knowing what his
company for whom he has been
travelling for number of years,
thinks of him. The article, signed by
MI, H. L. Simpson, general sales
manager, follows;
"Holt is an -Arkansan by birth, and
unlike the ARKANSAS TRAVEL
Err" has never found the inhab-
itsnts slow or unprogressive. Sure
ly this statement can be substantiated
as far as Arkansas Rexall stock
holders are concerned.
HDave came to the United Drug
Company in 1914, and from the first
day he started working in his ter
4 1f=s-aL r ri,sshlt-up to the present time,
the Unied Drug Company has had
in Holt a man at all times worthy of
being called real representative
a man who has endeavored to keep
pace with the rapid progress of his
Company. | take no chance when
omphatically say that to a man his
stockholders look upon him not only
as a salesman just wanting to sell
goods, but live and enthusiastic
merchandiser full of selling ideas
and untiring in his efforts to see
that all concerned get a square deal
"Let me add that so far as | know
no one at the home Office has ever had
to write to Dave letter regarding
things undone as a result of his not
being on the job, and never has a
complaint regarding Holt come from
"a stockholder from off his territory
Just how can that record OF sever
years be improved?
"His territory comprises the entire
state of Arkansas, having a popula'
ton in 1900 of 1,574,419 now estimat.
ed to be near 100000. Twenty
eight per cent of the population are
negroes.
Arkansas is an agricultural state
its chief product being cotton. 1t
ranks high as a fruit growing coun-
try, the fruits being of the finest quail
ity, famous for its apples, making
a finer showing than any other state
except Oregon. Rich in mineral
wealth, including large deposits of
coal.
Mr.. Holt and the United Drug
Company in general have been fort
unate in having in the capital city,
Littlt Rock, the firm CT Snodgrass
& Bracy, who at all times have been
live, enthusiastic merchandisers, al
"Mr. Holt and the United Drug
ways giving the United Drug Com
pany's products the preference"
II. L. Simpson.
Washington telegraph., 1922-01-06

Capt. NJ. l.. .loward arrived Sun
dayfrom Texas and is spending a
few days with his family before go
ing to Maryland to take special mil
itary course.
Washington telegraph., 1922-01-06

Mr.. J.. r. Nash and family, who
have made their home in and near
Washington fer the past several
years, moved to Atkins the first of
the week and will make that place
their future home.
Washington telegraph., 1922-01-06
sEyENTY-FOUR YEAR OLD MAN
MARRIES AT COURT HOUSE

Two marriage ceremonies have
been performed at the county court
house this week, one in which C w.
Jordan, aged "a, and Mrs. c. II.
Rutledge aged 81, both Of near Hope,
were principals. Mr.. Jordan was ac-
companied to the court house We'd
nesday by his blushing bride-to-be
and they Immediately secured il
cense and were married in the clerk S
office, the ceremony being perform
ed by the Rev. w. IL. Stingley, To-
cal Baptist minister
Mr. Bill Richardson and Miss Ru-
by Gossett, both of near Hope, were
married at the court house Thurs
day afternoon, Esq. J. B. Baker, To-
cal justice of the peace, officiating
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1922-09-28
Oats.

Oats are better feed than corn,
but the two combined make bet.
ter feed than either alone. Oats
or oats and vetch for hay will
save the useless habit of fodder
pulling, and permit the stubble
land to be sown to peas or plant.
ed to velvet beans which can be
turned in the fall for enriching
the poor sandhills. Such a crop
turned and followed by vetch,
furnishes a soil in one year that
will produce 40 bushels of corn
per acre with "acid and kainit"
alone.
Appler and Fulghdm oats are
probably the best varieties for
the sandhills, and Oct. and Nov.
the best months in which to SOW.
Two and one half to three bush
els per acre is sufficient for hay
making. Oats should be fertiliz-
ed at sowing time with not less
than 200 pounds of "acid'', 100
pounds of kainit and 200 pounds
of cotton seed meal. One hundred
pounds of soda should be used
per acre i'll the spring. If given
the same fertilization and atten.
ton as corn, oats will give as
good or better results. Never
follow oats with corn the same
year this is soil robbery, and it
is the worst sin against the soil
that we can be guilty of in a
cropping system.
The early sown oats get a deep
roofing system developed, and
stand cold better. Fertilized oats
will stand cold better than those
not fertilized. They are not
wholly unlike animals in this re-
spect. The better fed, the better
they stand the rigors of winter,
sown in open burrows or other
wise. Sow more oats on the land
after cotton stalks are turned be
fore frost. Begin the weevil
rotation now.
w. H. BARTON.
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Heard ON the Train. "

Did you ever notice how tired
and hot and mad the crowd on an
afternoon train always looks?
Everybody comes in loaded with
bags and bundles and baskets and
babies and in their hearts a deadly
hatred of all travelling humanity,
There was an exception to this rule
at r.. not long ago. The heat was
sitting, the car crowded, tho
smoke and dust unbearable, all the
babies crying, all the mothers mis-
cradle, all the men mad.
Just before the train started q
man came limping down the aisle,
stumbled into a vacant seat beside
the grouchiest passenger in sight
and said, Whenever I'm going any.
where l always take seat with q
preacher, il there are none present
[ take the best looking farmer"
Everybody looked around at tho
sound of the CHEEKY voice and every
body smiled. The man was quite
bald except a fringe of curly red
hair that met the corners of his
wide, smiling mouth in which only
two or three teeth with an air OF
THE old guard dies but never sur
renders" His face was red from
exposure and in it were set two
eyes as blue as succory blossoms
and as full of fun as kittens. He
was poorly dressed and his hands
were rought and stained with toll.
He paid no attention to his com
panion's dourness; he told one joke
after another; he talked about the
crops, the schools, taxes, good roads
the condition of Ireland, street paw
ing, and the rheumatism and touch.
ed each topic with smiling Opt.
mism.
Presently he caught a few words
of a conversation between a. lady
and gentleman sitting across the
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and financing Of manufactufi
and other interests in the towns,
to the partial neglect of a waning
agricultural system, hold the keys
to the credit problem in this sit
uation Under-credit will prove
disastrous as viii over.credit.
These two sources of credit must
operate judiciously and unselhsh-
ly to save the goose that lays
the golden eggs" of rural and
civic prosperity.
Cooperative Marketing an Aid.
The farmers problem of econ
onic production is about all he
can master under the present
conditions even with all the edu-
cational aid possible and all the
financial support that can be
safely extended; and he, of nee
essity, must look to the banker
and the business man to help
solve the great problem of econ
omic, cooperative marketing,
without the solution of which, all
classes will eventually suffer in
in the midst of otherwise possible
plenty and prosperity; for when
the backbone of agriculture is
broken the whole economic struc-
ture collapses.
w. H. BARTON.
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School openedup Monday with
a large attendance; Miss Pat
Monroe is principal.
Misses Vidella Maske and
Mary and Lizzie Black we're Wis
itors at Roberdel Saturday and
Sunday.
Mr.. A. L. Greene has been
real sick this week.
Mrs. Lonnie Williams, of Nor
man, was visiting her mother,
Mrs. J. M. Rush, Sunday.
We were glad to have Mr..
Frank Moore, of West Rocking.
ham, to lead the choir at the
M. E. church Sunday morning.
Mrs. Annie Hart and family
attended preaching services at
Pleasant Grove Sunday.
Rev. w. R. Coppedge preached
his farewell sermon at the Pres
byterian church Sunday night.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. L. Boone, of
West Rockingham, we're pleas.
ant visitors of Mr.. L. L. Boone
Sunday evening.
Mr.. G. C. Rogers, Of Pageland,
S. c., was a pleasant visitor at
Mr.. ]. D. Patterson's Tuesday.
Mr.. L. L. Boone has been on
the sick list this week.
Mr.. Roscoe Davis grabbed a
sweet potato out of his patch
which weighed seven and three
quarters pounds.
''Karo."
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In Memory.

In memory of our dear father,
Peter Strong, who died this day
one year ago, Sept. Is, 1921.
We loved him, but could not
keep him in this world of
tears,
On high he went,
The time well spent;
We expect to meet him there.
Ada and Frank Strong,
Hamlet, N. c.
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rags lswaddling bands YOU taighs
call thenl) and now he is pipaellng
the gospel.
\ studied Latin by myself five
years after | was twenty-one, Z
was teaching a little country school
and my own children were coming
on and didn't want them TO know
more than I did can read a little
Greek, too, but not much.
Just then a mill town came into
view and he pointed to two rows
of houses and said: See them
chimneyss ] laid every one OF
them bricks with my own hands.
Think Of that A brick mason
who knows poetry and loves music,
who taught himself Latin and "a
little Creek" who believes in God
and thinks the best is yet to bel"
II he had not said that he was
Irish would have taken him for
Scotchman, but would he have
had those merry eyes and smiling
mouth? Would he have leaned
over the back Of a seat on hot,
dusty train and entertained hot,
dusty crowd by his smiling good
humor? No, indeed, he would not
He would have been as grim and
silent as piece Of Aberdeen
granite and then gone home ana
written q poem like
THE deer unlimited roam at will,
The whaup cries sair on the dreary
hill,
The chase is DER, the horn is still
The hunters hame.s
L. p. II.
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Weeyil Effect on Prosperity.

About 80% of the people of
North Carolina are absolutely
dependent upon agriculture for a
livelihood, and any cause ad-
versely affecting agriculture
must necessarily effect the whole
population.
In 1906, Louisiana operated
2086 ginneries and rs oil mills
against 1886 ginneries and IA oil
mills in 1915.
Mississippi, in 1906, operated
$3.50 ginneries and 81 oil mills
agrinst 2204 ginneries and 54 oil
mills in 1915.
Effect on Banking and Business.
The history of banking in in
tested territory has been, that
for the first year or two, little
difference was seen in the depos-
its, while a great reduction was
seen Immediately after, requiring
FIVE to six years to recover. Such
conditions greatly affected the
values of land, which, in the
South, is our very best asset for
a basis of individual and civic
prosperity. AS a result. thous-
ands Of business men closed up
their business or went into bank
ruptcy.
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aisle. The lady had evidently been
abroad recently Tor the words ~sit
Walter SCOTS country had at.
tracted bis attention. He wriggled
across the aisle, one leg was stifi
because he had buried an axe in
the knee, leaned over the hack Of
a seat and said: Il am a full blood.
ed Irishman, my name is McG-a
and / am a Presbyterian. Lady, did
you stand
Where the summers dawn reflect
ed hue
To purple changed Loeb Katrine's
blue7
| always thought it was so pretty
where Ellen Douglass found the
King by his being the only man in
the court room with his hat on.
did you go to Ireland7 Poor old
Irelandl ] always loved that song
The harp that once through Tara's
halls
The soul of music shedl'
Il wrote a piece once myself
twas printed in four newspapers in
this state. Twas about q wander.
ing woman l knowed, her name
was ; she was close kin to
some Of the best people in the state,
but they never claimed it; she had
no home, didn't want one, just wan,
dered here, there, everywhere from
Florida to Mississippi and back;
she never walked the roads, just
slipped along through the woods
and fields. Sometimes she would
pick little cotton, mostly, she
just begged food. | never heard of
her stealin' nor bothering anybody.
There came to be three generations
Of them wanderers, the old woman
had daughter and one cold winter
morning a neighbor of mine by the
name Of s. went to his barn to
feed and milk and there on the fod-
der was the old woman's daughter
with a new born baby by her side.
At first he was mad and started to
drive her out. Then he thought
about another baby that was born
in a stable, so he called his wife
and they helped her into the house
and cared for her and her baby till
she could travel again; she never
would stay anywhere. Yes, ma'am,
that baby is a Presbyterian preach.
er right this minute.
This world is a funny place!
You never can tell how anything
is going to turn out. That baby
would have persisted there in that
fodder, wrapped in nothing but