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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-09-18

NI1E business OF the county mas
given evidence of groa' stability
during the Simmer months, and
enters the Fall season with general
confidence prevailing. 1t is now
more than three months since the re-
action to the Spring boom began,
and notwithstanding the spirit OF cau-
ton that has been dominant the vol
uIl1e OF business has been well-sus-
tanned. The nd.Htr:es have shown
rather less than more OF the usual
seasonal slacl;ness. and railroad
traffic for each month has been
81 eater than for the corresponding
month in any previous year.
The fact that 5>rl.ard buying has
been light, coupled with the fact that
rs,a1l trade over the cour try has been
good, gives assurance that stocks O.
merchandise must be constantly re-
pieniShed, for there is no reason to
believe that TIL purchasing power Of
consumers has been diminishing
! abor is well-cmplc ycd at high
wages, the only mendciug coutro-
trsy being that in the anthracite coal
field. The situation of agriculture
has improved by reason of price adj
vtrces for live stock ant corn while
cyen wheat has more hopeful out
look.
7 On the whole the outlook is for
steady business, sustained by the con-
sumptivc requirements of a weli-em-
ployed population, with little specu-
lative activity and relatively small
price changes. This signifies that
alters great upheava, caused by
the war the country is getting back
TO more stable conditions.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-09-18
q Sop Z. 4. Services lass' Daily Poem

UNAPPRECIATED GOLD
The golden rod is blooming,
It's blooming fan and wide,
Its fragrance is pertaining
The lovely countryside;
It's lining all the highways
With beauty much extolIed,
It's banked along the byways
In masses made of gold.
-, H..
The golden rod is glowing,
And it is fine to see,
And gentle winds are blowing
The scent of it to me;
But somehow, with each whiff,
Brings me to fearful grief,
Achoo! Oh gosh, / sniff it!
Where is my handkerchief?
TsHs u.
The golden rod, codfou'd it!
Is very fair to view,
But when l alb abou'd it
Achoo! Achoo! Achoo!
1t sets me fretti'g, fubPg,
And though you think it odd,
wish it was'ud bloobi'g
The bloobi'g golden rodi
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-09-18

The real trouble with all mar
row-minded people is they are
too narrow minded to admit it.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-09-18

This is the season the school
boy thinks little knowledge is a
dangerous thing.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-09-18
Also, Going SomeI

A story is told of an Irishman
who was a hand on board a sailing
vessel on Lake Erie. The skipper
said to him one night, Jimmy, l
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-09-18
By
Berton Braley

Miss Julia May Horne and Miss
LOUISE Hargro5e, Of V!91m, arc
guests of Mrs. Rena Horne, at her
residence on Church street.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-09-18
A Thought

Boast not myself of tomor-
row; for thou knowest not what
day may bring forth.-Prov.
27I.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-09-18
>l01Il}7DlS
\aNS
While silence is very good
substitute for brains, perfume
is a very poor one for soap.

is a very poor one for soap.
The real trouble with all mar
row-minded people is they are
too narrow minded to admit it.
This is the season the school
boy thinks little knowledge is
dangerous thing.
The boys are off for college
where many will learn for the
first time what pajamas are.
A fairly hard thing to do
make a fortune and run around
with Miss Fortune at the same
time.
Staying up all night may
make you as wise as an owl, but
owls have no sensee during the
day.
Tomatoes once were called
love apples. This may be why
they are best taken with a grain
of salt.
Breathes there a boy with soul
so dead who never to himself
hath said Schools crime?"
What this country needs most
is a law requiring all bills to be
sent ano.~Dcusly.
Taking q drink of the aver
age bootleg booze will not run
man crazy. 1t doesn't have to.
Beng a polltlclah pays good
money, It should. You are al
ways liable to reform and be out
of work.
Don't throw away your straw
hat. Be honest. Take it back to
the cafe where you got it.
Powder sprinkled on her part
ners' neck will keep a girls nose
from getting shiny at a dance.
Rich men should keep their
sons away from dances. Girls al
ways want to catch the fresh
heir.
"Select and chew food well'
says a health article. It should
have been headed "Chews Food
Well"
You can't keep secret and
tell it too. A tx
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-09-18

Tomorrow, didst thou says
'Tis fancy's child, and folly IS Its
father; wrought on such stuff as
dreams are; and baseless as the
fantastic visions Of the evening.
Cotton
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-09-18

The boys are off for college
where many will learn for the
first time what pajamas are.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-09-18

stance, prices reaches about the
same high peaks every so years,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-09-18
GOODWILL

Ford Motor Co., in listing its as
sets, values its goodwill at about
q million dollars. AS you know,
the "good-will7 of a business is an
intangible or invisible asset, rep
resenting its reputation and the
value its name has acquired
through advertising.
1t would, of course, take at least
billion dollars to duplicate the
one item of the cumulative adver-
Using value of the Ford name.
How much is your own goodwill
worth? You know when you try to
borrow to the limit.
Ford is the greatest advertising
genius that ever lived. His unique
ingenuity gets him millions of dol
lars worth of free advertising a
year, sfhIalAss
CYCLES
Japan is not apt to have another
severe earthquake for 80 years
says DR.. Chester A. Reeves, expert
geologist of American Museum OF
Natural History. He finds thai
quakes come in cycles. That is
they are apt to repeat at certain in
tervals of time.
This principle of the cycle oper
ates all through our lives. For in
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-09-18

You can't keep secret and
tell it too. - 4
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-09-18

A fairly hard thing to do
make a fortune and run around
with Miss Fortune at the same
time.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-09-18

Staying up all night may
make you as wise as an owl, but
owls have no sensee during the
day.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-09-18

"Select and chew food well"
says a health article. It should
have been headed "Chews Food
Well"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-09-18

Tomatoes once were called
love apples. This may be why
they are best taken with grain
of salt.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-09-18

Rich men should keep their
sons away from dances. Girls al
ways want to catch the fresh
heir.
Roanoke Rapids herald., 1923-08-17
Jesse Edward Northington

Roanoke Rapids lost one of its
prominent business men last
Sunday evening when Mr.. Jesse
Northington succombed to an ill.,
ness lasting exactly one month.
The cause of Mr.. Northington's
death seems to have been a COM
plication of stomach troubles
with which he has suffered for
some time. Funeral services were
conducted at the Littleton Metho-
dist Chu rch Monday afternoon at
S pm after which interment took
place in the Littleton cemetery
under the auspices of the COM
bined Masonic orders of Waugh
an, Littleton and Roanoke Rap
ids. The death of this prominent
citizen brings to a close the life
on one of the best liked and most
respected business men in Hall
fax and Warren counties. Mr..
Northington who at the time of
his death was in his 54th year has
been engaged in the mercantile
business practically all of his life
He was in business at Vaughan
and Littleton for some time.
During the past seven years he
has conducted, along with his
brother, Mr.. J. W. Northington,
a wholesale business as the Nor
thington Grocery Company.
Mr.. Northington was a devout
member of the Methodist
Church, and a true follower OF
Christ. He was a member of the
Vaughan CHAPTER of the Masonic
Order.
The deceased is survived by
several brothers and sisters who
are prominent in the business life
of Warren and Halifax counties.
Roanoke Rapids herald., 1923-08-17
POLICE COURT
NEWS ITEMS

Aftera promise of several
days observance of total
abstinence made to Recorder
Clark, Charlie Moore fell
from the water wagon with
such a thud as to shake from the
security of obscurity J. P. Pee
bles and D. C. johnson. Charlie
was drunk and expansive he
spilled the beans.
johnson, on whose premises
the officer discovered a half gal
Ion fruit jar of liquor, was sent
to Halifax under a one hundred
dollar bond, and there dismissed,
it is stated, by Judgs Kerr, who
informed the world that mere po-
session Of liquor on ones premis.
es was not a violation of the sta
tute, the officers being instruct
ed to return the "evid >nce'.
PEBBLES gave bond in the amount
of 10000 for his appearance at
Recorders court for prelinl-
mary hearing and forfe'te the
bond, absconding to parts at pre-
sent unknown. Moore was given
a sentence of thirty days in Jail
for being drunk and disorderly
and sent to Halifax under 500 90
bond for having and trensportia &
whiskey. Neither sentence nor
charge apparently stuck, if our
information that Mr.. Moore is
back in the city at the present
writing is correct.
W. C. P. Weaver and G. E.
Sanford, charged with racing on
Roanoke Avenue, were fined
$25. 90 each and costs and also
required to pay $2.5 so each for
the total annihiliation of the
park in center" sign located in
the middle of the Avenue at
Third Street. An amusing incident
in the trial was the testimony of
one of the witnesses that during
the race "the Buick passed the
Ford several times but the Ford
only passed the Buick once"
c. I. Moore, one headlight,
paid the costs,
G. N. Wheeler and Porter
Owens, charged with an affray,
were dismissed upon the pHy-
ment of costs equally divided.
Fred Peck paid a fine of $1,000
and costs on a charge of cursing
and swearing in a public place.
Isaac Spire. charged with issu-
ing a worthless check, was al
allowed to pay the check and the
costs and be discharged.
Willie Rainey paid the costs
for driving without lights.
Lorenzo Tew and C. G. Hux.
charged with an affray with
deadly weapons, were tried and
Hux found not guilty, Tew be-
ing sent to Halifax Jail in de-
fault of a $3.50 90 bond.
Herbert Hines paid the costs
on a charge of driving without
headlights.
Jesse Smith, one headlighter,
costs.
Charlie Atkins, charged with
cursing and disorderly conduct,
was fined SIS. 90 and costs.
Roanoke Rapids herald., 1923-08-17
Plant Fall Garden Now

Since August is an important
month in the home garden, it
deserves some attention, because
much can be done now to make
the fall garden a s1ccess. F. E.
Mccall, garden specialist for the
State College and Department of
Agriculture, gives list of some
vegetables that may be planted
during this month to start the
fall garden on its way. He says.
''Plant now, stringless green pod
beans, Cos lettuce. head lettuce,
kale, turnips, carrots and ruta-
bagas. Seeds may be planted late
this month for winter cabbage,
celery, cauliflower and cola -ds.
plants Of celery, cabbage,
cauliflower may be set out this
month for fall use.
''Plant some vegetable each
month so that a continuous sup
ply will be on hand at a time
when vegetables begin to get
scarce.
Unless this is done. states Mr..
Mccall, the family will not have
needed foods for best health at a
time when these foods are gener-
ally lacking.
Roanoke Rapids herald., 1923-08-17
Mrs. J. J. Wiley Dies In
Local Hospital

Death came to Mrs. J. j..
Wiley in the Roanoke Rapids
Hospital early Saturday morn
ing as a result Of uremia. AL
though suffering from bad
health for some time, the death
of Mrs. Wiley proved to be
quite an unexpected shock to
her many friends in the COM
munity and county.
The funeral services were
conducted from her home by
Rev. N. M. Harrison, pastor of
Rosemary Methodist Church. Of
which she was devoted men,
ber. Interment followed in the
Weldon Cemetery with Rev. Viii
liam Towe in charge.
The high esteem in which
Mrs. Wiley was held by her
host of friends is somewhat
shown by the large quantity of
floral offerings at her burial.
The floral designs were the lar.
gest and most beautiful seen al
any funeral in this community
in several years.
Mrs. Wiley is we'll known ir
Halifax county as the proprie
tess of the Miss Annie Medlir
Millinery Store. She has beer
a resident of Rosemary for thu
past fourteen years during
which time she has taken al
active part in the business ant
religious life of her community.
Roanoke Rapids herald., 1923-08-17
Boil Weevils Take Eleven
Inning Contest

Brittian's Boil Weevils out
Tucked US in one of the most
thrilling eleven inning struggles
ever witnessed in Rosemary
Park when they bested the
Triple RS by the count of 9 to z.
Five pitchers were battered for
twenty one hits during the fray.
while the sluggers also annexed
four circuit clouts. The big boy
with the club was Frank Arm
strong, Weldon's star center
fielder and heavy hitter. This
bird secured a couple of home
runs and a single out of six times
to the plate. He got on base five
times and scored two runs. Boil
Weevil Hughes and Harvey John
son also tapped the a~ate over
the left field wall for the mar
athon trot. PeeWee Turner was
the only Triple R athlete to bat
his way into the 500 class. al
though Candy Ball" Smith and
Bob Correll were right on his
heels with two blows each.
Smith and Dempster began the
game as opposing tossers. Both
went bad and were replaced te-
fore the game was very old.
Dempster was suffering with a
charley horse and could not get
down to business. The Roll Vice.
vii batters got to him in the first
| frame for two runs when Carson
singled and Armstrong knocked
a home run. The team errored
behind him in the third stanzs
letting Weldon score again anC
load the bases on one measley
single and a couple of errors. Al
this jnncture Brewton was callet
to themound to relieve Dempstel
who went to right field il
Roanoke Rapids herald., 1923-08-17

English's place. Armstrong was
the first Weevil to face Brewton.
He sent a grounder down to the
hot corner which the manager
errored letting another run come
in which made the score stand a
to 0 in Weldon's favor. Brewton
then tightened up and gave a
beautiful demonstration of how
to get out of a bad hole, such as
the bases packed with no one out.
He let Manager Brittian and Red
Oak Edwards take three whiffs
at the air and return to the
bench. The side went down on
the next play when Hughes pop
ped up to short.
Resting under this four run
lead Smith tossed fair ball up till
the sixth frame, although he was
a little wild at all times. In the
six tn he was swamped by a
thunderstorm of Triple R hits
which brought in six runs and
drove him from the boy. Harvey
johnson, first man up, knocked
out home run. This was follow
ed by singles from the sticks of
J. D. johnson, Towe and Correll,
while Turner and Smith were
good enough for doubles.
Lefty" Shields took his place
and tossed good ball. During the
remainder of the eleven inning
he gave up only two hits and one
run.
Brewton's excellent start last
ed up to the eighth canto. 4
double. single, and a home rul
tied the score and brought th'
new heayer out of the game
Sanderson was given the task o
holding the Boil Weevils at ba
The game continued at fevel
Roanoke Rapids herald., 1923-08-17
STATE FAIR BEGINS
OCTOBER 18TH

This year the State Fair, which
will be held during the week be-
ginning October Is, is offering
very liberal premiums for county,
community, individual crop and
crop product exhibits. The occa-
sion will afford a rare opportuni-
ty for those interested in the ad-
vancement of the State to set
forth the Agricultural resources
of the different counties. To
those who send excellent exhibits
carrying valuable lessons in pro-
fitable farming an unusual o.
portunlty will be offered to win
premiums, varying from $500.00
downwards.
AS something near ninety per
cent of the income of farmers of
the State is from the growth Of
crops, directly, if a display of
the Agricultural resources of the
State is to be made, farmers and
others interested in farming Of
the different sections Of tic State
should see to It, ii their counties
are to b properly represented,
tha. the best from their counties
is sent to the State Fair in Octo-
ber. 1t will pay you and your
community to do so. If all will
heartily join in, the 1928 Fair
will stand out as the greatest ex-
position of Agricultural resources
of the State ever seen in Raleigh.
As North Carolina ranks high
in total value of crops produced
among the States of the Union,
let's show to people of the state
and of the world generally what
we have and can do in the
growth of crops Of excellent
qualities. Effort put into sending
worth while exhibits to the Fair
will be in the interest of the pub
lie good. No county or commu-
nifty can ill afford not to have a
a good exhibit of the best pro-
ducts of it's soil at the State Fair
this fall.
More than $4,500.00 is being
offered North Carolina farmers
for county, community, farm and
individual crop exhibits.
Bring some of the very best Of
the tobacco, cotton, corn, clover,
soybeans, cowpeas, hay and
other crops you may be produc-
ing, have a good and profitable
time. and secure cash prizes that
will be we'll worth your effort.
Indications are that the Fair is
going to be big one. Every
body connected with the Fair is
bending his efforts as never be-
fore to have it surpass all pre-
vious records.
Roanoke Rapids herald., 1923-08-17
The Weldon Daily Times
Changes to Weekly

The Weldon Daily Times made
it's last appearance ON August 9th.
The paper will hereafter be run
as a weekly. Didn't get adver-
tising enough.
According to q report received.
the paper was not sufficiently
supported by the merchants and
business men of Weldon, as a
whole, to justify the publication
of a daily newspaper. The paper,
which was published by Mr.. W.
W. Edwards, who also publishes
two otter newspapers The
Her #. I'd Observer, of Murfrees-
boro, and the Northampton Pro-
eress, published at jackson. will
not be issoed as a daily any more.
but VIII come out regularly as q
weel ~ iicatioa. beginning
Tues y. 2lst.CThe Com
monW -a.1u.
Roanoke Rapids herald., 1923-08-17
Prizes Awarded For Best
Yards and Gardens

A special committee OIL awards
has decided that the most beau
tiful yard in the Rosemary mill
village is that of Mrs. T. S. Hod-
ges who wins the annual first
prize of the Rosemary Manufac-
turing Company to their en-
ployee with the most attractive
yard. Anothsr committee decid-
ed that Mr.. H. G. Harris had
cultivated the best garden of the
year, winning the first prize Of
fered for the best garden.
A complete report of the two
committees show that the yards
and gardens of the employees
are in very good shape. They are
in a most sanitary condition and
present very pleasing appear
ence. Many of the yards and
gariens were worthy of commen-
dation while only the most at
tractive are listed for honorable
mention.
The committee on yards, COM
posed of Mesdames T. M. Jen-
kins, E. w. Lehman and 7. W.
Mullen makes the following
awards:
First prize for the most attrac-
tive yard in the village, won by
Mrs. I. J. Hodges. Second prize,
won by Mrs. F. j. Hilton. Third
prize. won by Mrs. L. A. Davis.
Fourth prize, tied by Mrs. A. C.
Jarvis and Mrs. Offa Dale. Hon.
orable mention: Mesdames Frank
Stewart. ]. D. Dale, Edward
Owens. F. A. Kidd, R. W.
George, A. L. Groome, John Cul-
lom. CASTILLO Boyd, Charles
Parkes, Walter Jones, David
Blanton, A. A. Reed, B. w. Wal
ters, Corbett Lynch and T. T.
Taylor.
The committee on gardens,
composed of Messrs. P. w. Ray
and Seabrook Jones rendered the
following decision: First prize
for the most attractive and pro-
ductive garden cultivated in the
mill village, won by H. G. Harris.
Second prize, won by Will Miller.
Third prize, won by Mr.. r. W..
George. Fourth prize tied by
Messrs. Z. H. Speight and R. b.
Powell. Honorable mention:
Waverly Davis, A. l.. Grcome, b.
F. Cox, H. T. Davis, Ed. jackson,
j. T. Hodges, Willie King, W. S
Woolard. Simon Bryant, ]. D.
Bats, A. B. Thomas, G. |. Sc
well, J. D. Mcdonald, Tom Harris
J. H. Humphries, N. L. Bras
well, L. S. Merritt, Charlie
Parks, N. A. Owens, B. P. Dick.
ems and r. E. Beale.
Roanoke Rapids herald., 1923-08-17
Co-ops Erecting More
Warehouses

Making preparations for the
handling of the new seasons
crop, General Manager U B.
Blalock was in consultation yes
terday with L. F. Bruce, Presi.
dent of Norfolk Warehouse Cor
poration; A. G. King, Port direc-
tor for the city ofsNorfolk and S.
Wright, representing Trasdal
Plant & Lafonta. steamship
agents and ship brokers of Nor
folk These gen tlemen came to
Raleigh to discuss with General
Manager Blalock, Traffic Mana
ger |. M. Porter and the Ware
house director D. D. Traywick of
North Carolina Cotton Growers
Cooperative Association their
needs and the matter of storing
cotton in Norfolk the coming
season.
The purpose of the Association
is to use Norfolk as an export
base and arrangements will also
be made to use Wilmington for
storage of cotton for export.
During the past season the AS
sociation exported cotton chiefly
through Norfolk and Wilmington
with several thousand bales sent
through Charleston.
Last season the Associa ton
was greatly handicapped by the
inadequate warehouse facilities.
Every bale of cotton handled by
the Associa ton must be ware
housed and expecting to receive
even more cotton than was han
died last year, plans are being
made for more adequate facili-
ties.
New warehouses are being
built or old ones enlarged at
points throughout the Cotton
belt, among them Wadesboro.
Salisbury, Tarboro, Rockingham,
Laurinburg and Weldon.
No Association cotton was
stored in Raleigh last year be-
cause of the lack of warehouses.
This season, however the Asso-
citation expects to be able to take
care of 20 or Is thousand bales in
Raleigh. One warehouse has
been erected by N. E. Edgerton
for the capacity of $4,000 bales
exclusively for the use of the
Cooperative Association and one
or two warehouses will likely be
licensed very Shortly.
Roanoke Rapids herald., 1923-08-17
fRATERNAL NOTES
1. O. o. F.

Carolina Lodge No. 225 I. O.
o. F. will hold a social meeting
Monday Night Aug. Goth 1928 at
8 O'Clock +. M. Oweing to the
weather being so warm for some
time this Lodge has just been
meeting for a few minutes and
adjourning, and not doing any
Degree work at all. Every men,
Der is requested to be present
next Monday night, as there will
be some good things served by
the Entertainment Committee.
This Lodge wants every member