North Carolina Boys Learn Agriculture At State College
Raleigh reports plans for the North Carolina farm youth short course at A and E College August 21 to 24. Over 500 club members are expected, with meals provided and rooms free. Enrollment grows in Corn and Pig clubs across Granville Caswell Mecklenburg Stanly Wake counties as efforts focus on food and feed production and labor solutions.
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Raleigh
A. and E. College
Office of Agriculture Club
Extension Service
Crlege
Corn Club
A. K. Robertson
Morris
Granville County
Caswell County
Graeber
Mecklenburg
Proffitt
Rutherford
Stanly County
Cheese Factory Growth Reported in North Carolina
Despite steady output, cheese factories in western North Carolina receive higher milk prices. The Silver Stone Cooperative Cheese Factory at Vilas in Ashe County shows a shift from 10 cents to 9 cents per gallon paid to dairy farmers this season.
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Ian
North Carolina
Silver Stone
Eese
Vilas Faci
Auea
Watauga County
Soybeans touted as superior protein staple in state
C B Williams head of the division of agronomy notes a sharp rise in soybean acreage this year and urges conservation for food use. He cites soybeans' protein content being nearly double lima beans and beef, with comparable fat and higher fuel value, and shares a roasting recipe and contact for more ideas through Raleigh North Carolina extension.
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C. B. Williams
Division of Agronomy
W. A. Evans
American Public Health Association
Extension Division
Raleigh
N. C
North Carolina Advances Blindness Prevention Efforts
The National Committee for the Prevention of Blindness notes North Carolina as highly active in blindness prevention. A 1917 law requires physicians and midwives to use a one percent silver nitrate prophylactic within two hours of birth and to report infant eye infections. Midwives must register with the state health secretary by July first, 1917, to receive free prophylactic solution and instructions, with the state board of health supplying these resources.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Carolina
National Committee For the Prevention of
General Assembly
State Board of Health
North Carolina carriers seek intrastate rate hike basis
Railroad officials and shippers conclude some increase is needed for intrastate traffic and favor a percentage rise aligned with the Interstate Commerce Commission. They defer adopting a new Georgia basis schedule and plan a hearing on July 5 before the corporation commission to further discuss the issue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Carolina
Interstate Commerce Commission
Georgia
Corporation Commission
National Guard Officers Promoted in North Carolina
Dr J A Bangle of Charlotte commissioned as first lieutenant Medical Corps in the North Carolina National Guard and assigned to the sanitary detachment of the Coast Artillery, replacing Dr J R Ashe who resigned. Dr W P McKay commissioned as first lieutenant Medical Corps awaiting assignment. J F Williams Jr of Raleigh promoted from sergeant to second lieutenant Company B Third Regiment to succeed Lt Patrick promoted to first lieutenant.
Life Extension Work Spurs Public Interest in Ala mance
The first month of life extension work in Alamance County shows strong local demand. Dr. A J Ellington began a program a month ago with two weeks of lectures and organization and has conducted about 225 examinations while 26 more applicants await processing.
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Alamance County
A. J. Ellington
Food Emergency Advice Puts Duty on All North Carolinians
Raleigh John Paul Lucas of the North Carolina Food Conservation Commission urges farmers housewives gardeners and citizens to share the burden of the food emergency He advocates cultivating all tillable land planting soybeans and peas in place of cotton and saving seed for clover and vetch He also recommends preserving surplus eggs in water glass canning vegetables and fruits and using all scraps wisely while offering city labor to assist farmers as a patriotic duty.
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North Uerolina
Office of Farm Management
Agricultural Extension Service
West Raleigh
North Carolina State Food Conservation Commission
State Agricultural Extension Service
Raleigh
John Paul Lucas
North Carolina
U. S. Department of Agriculture For
Southern Railway to establish central Freight Claim Office
The freight claim department will set up a central office in Chattanooga, Tenn., effective June 1 to speed adjustments, with branch offices at Charlotte North Carolina Atlanta Georgia New Orleans Louisiana and Louisville Kentucky. Washington D C and Cincinnati Ohio offices will be continued.
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Charlotte
Washington
Southern Railway System
Chattanooga
Tenn
N. C
Atlanta
New Orleans
Louisville
Wsahing
D. C
Cincinnati
Ohio
Orphans Home to Celebrate Silver Anniversary in Goldsboro
In Goldsboro on June 11 the Orphans Home children will present a grand concert marking the Odd Fellows' Orphan Home tenure of twenty five years. The home was established May 10 twenty five years ago by North Carolina Odd Fellows to care for and educate orphans.
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Goldsboro
Orphan Home
Odd Fellows Orphans’ Home
Odd Fellows
North Carolina
Odd Fellows’ Orphan Home
North Carolina Forms State Defense Council Executives Named
Governor Bickett appoints an executive committee for the State Council of Defense with members from Raleigh Charlotte Greensboro Chapel Hill Wilmington and other cities. The council will create twelve permanent chair roles including finance publicity legal sanitation medicine and labor to coordinate resources for national defense. One hundred county committees will assist and align with state and national efforts to reflect credit on the state and its people.
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Raleigh
Thomas W. Bickett
B. S. Royster
W.S. Lee
Charlotte
C. C. Taylor
Greensboro
Joseph Hyde Pratt
Chapel Hill
Jas. Sprunt
Wilmington
Col
J. Bryan Grimes
Geo. W. Watts
Durham
R. N. Page
Biscoe
D. H. Hill
State Fair Plans Vetted by North Carolina Agricultural Society
Raleigh R O Everett president announces 1917 executive committee for the North Carolina Agricultural Society. Officers ex officio include the president vice president secretary and treasurer. Listing covers president Kemp Battle permanent VP J S Carr W R Cox Benehan Cameron and ex presidents J S Cunningham E L Daught ridge J H Currie J A Mills E J Parrish Leonard Tufts. District vice presidents named for ten districts with named appointees.
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Raleigh
R. O. Everett
North Carolina Agricultural Society
Durham
Kemp P. Battle
Chapel Hill
J. S. Carr
W.R. Cox
Penelo
Benehan Cameron
Society
J. 8S. Cunningham
E. L. Daughtridge
Rocky Mount
J. H. Currie
Fayetteville
J. A. Mills
E. J. Parrish
Leonard Tufts
Pinehurst
J. M. Forehand
Tyner
C. W. Mitchell
Aulander
J. M. Mitchell
Goldsboro
J. Bailey Owen
Henderson
L. Bank Holt
Garnham
Thomas McBryde
Raeford
H. B. Warner
Lexington
Thomas D. Brown
Salisbury
S. B. Alexander
Charlotte
B. P. Howell
Waynesville
N. C. Base Ball League Disbands in 1917 Season
The Winston-Salem club will not finish its schedule and the North Carolina League closed its 1917 season. Directors moved to wind up affairs after Raleigh and Asheville dropped out. War conditions reduced attendance and financial losses hit the Twins Hornets and Durham, while Greensboro remained solvent with a winning club and high season ticket sales.
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N. C
Charlotte
Winston-Salem
North Carolina
Raleigh
Asheville
Twins
Hornets
Durham
Greensboro
Firemen to Hold Annual Meeting in Morehead City
The State Firemen's Association will meet in Morehead City on July 24 25 and 26 with more than 400 delegates expected. The event was moved from Asheville due to wartime needs and will include three days of business sessions.
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Morehead City
State Firemen’s Association
Asheville
McNeil
North Carolina Briefs Highlighting Officials and Agriculture
Governor Bickett declines Tammany Hall Fourth of July invite due to July 4 duties with the Baptist Assembly at Wrightsville Beach. Southern Railway shops payroll rises six cents an hour. Carteret County farmers report Irish potato crop exceeding 15 000 barrels with 5 000 barrels shipped in two weeks at $7 to $8 . Wilmington Red Cross unit receives a 1400 grant from Atlantic Coast Line to fund a year long ambulance in France named Wilmington.
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Bickett
Tammany Hall
New York
Baptist Assembly
Wrightsville Beach
Spencer
Southern Railway
Carteret County
Wilmington Red Cross
Henry Wallers
Atlantic Coast Line
France
Wiltmington
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J. EB. Moses
Pig Club
David Worth
Wake County
George
Defense Council
War Organiziation
North Carolina Briefs
W. T. Kirkman & CO
Mr. Farmer
J. W. Sechrestral
Frank Ford
High Point Marble CO
D. R. Raper, Propr
High Point Milling
High Foint Milling Company
Carolina & Yadkin River Railway Company
Ly. Deily
Ly. Surday
Ly. Caamey Pm
Mayr
Hart Drug Co
Moore Springs
Moore’s Springs
W. W. Idol & CO
Moore’s Mineral Springs Co
Moores Springs
Mann Drug CO
North State Tele. Co
Postal Telegraph Cable CO
The
Postal Co
Bell
Penile
Chburg
Spartanburg, S. 4
Greenville
Washington, D
Atlanta, Ga
Fainesville
Seneca, S. C
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