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SHUFORD FAMILY REUNION MOST REMARKABLE IN STATE Held on Farm Where Electricity Milks Cow en arates Milk, and Freezes Ice Cream for" " Shufords and Others. Mrx- of the most rniarkn bit fam ily reunions over held in the State w i celebrated at the farm of 11. E. Shuford, nine miles west of Newton, Saturday. August 14, when the de fendants (f tli pioneer. John Shu lord, met in .annual .session. For weeks the steering committee, li :!. m! hy Mrs. E. 1,. Shuford. of Hickory, had been planning for a i et ord-braking crowd and when the morning dawned clear their antici 1 1 1 1 ions bewail speedily to be realized. A splendid program had been ar i -armed and the gathering was- to be held at one of the most talked of places in rural North Carolina, or per haps the South Lakeview Farm winch facts together with th-e beauti t u 1 day and the natural instinct of the iflatives to get together and talk over i heir common interests, were quite enough to make the occasion all that - Mild be desired bv its promoters, liv BEN SHELTON'S "POOREST FARM" : ()!: t I " - I o : r : ! m r , ; j t t i j t rr i rr v." wh-. rh" i Arra a-, ri.en: s hav.- i .- :. made t have s.Mii.- of tii.. b-ii-im :.:::;:: ..f t b. and M State fa' which. hour over the estate is me most uni-,u. South. Some visited the .-i-t-uu, some inspected th narn. the ice cream the alfalfa fields and imngs ot interest to be arm. Then the n in the morning all the roads lead ing toward the appointed place were thronged with automobiles, carriages, horseback riders and people on foot. J'rom Hickory, Hineolnton, Newton, Maiden, and dozens of smaller towns. ai we as from the many prosperous farms of the South Fork, the multi tude gathered, until by 10 o'clock the hour appointed for the exercises to begin -there were more than a thousand of the family on the grounds. The meeting was called to order by Mr. W. A. Self, of Hickory. Folio wT ing his introductory remarks. Dr. .Jos. I,. Murphy, of Hickory, offered the invocation. The tirst number on the program was the national song. "America." which the Shufords sang with such a zest that even a stranger could not mistake their genuine pa triotism. Hev. Julius Shuford. of Ee noir. the author of the family his tory which recently came from the press followed the song with an ac count of the emigration of the pio neer, John Shuford, and his location in North Carolina in the early eigh teenth century. He showed that the motive back of the migration was to lind a home of freedom in the new world where, removed from the re straints of the Old World, he might lay the foundations of a strong, free an4 liberty-loving people. Family History Told. Owing to th$ limited time at the society's disposal it was thought best to attempt but a partial review of the history of the family at one session. Accordingly two sons of John Shu ford. David and George by name, fur nished the topic for the morning hour. Hon. A. O. Shuford. formerly Congressman from his district, spoke of David, his grandfather, and Judge George Shuford, of Asheville, told of his grandfather, George. Both speeches showed careful preparation, and cast much credit upon descend ants as well as ancestors- Mr. A. C. ?huford told of the work of David Shuford as a member of the State Senate from 1806 to 1820 and Judge Shuford spoke of his grandfather George as the kindly slave owner, the solicitous father and grandfather, the great peace-maker and peace preserver among his neighbors in liuncom.be county. Mr. Joe Nixon, of l,incolnton, was here called upon to read the last will and testament of the pioneer, John Phuford, which bore the date of 178 8, and at the conclusion Mr. Nix on presented to each of the descend ants a certified copy of the will as prepared by his father, Hon. A. Nix on, of Lincoln county.. Adjournment for dinner was then declared in or der and the family repaired to the long table in the grove where a boun teous feast was served. Felicitations of Friends. After an hour of recreation the so ciety reassembled for a series of short addresses, most of which were in the form of felicitations from friends who were not directly related to the family. Among those partici pating in this feature of the exercises were Col. G. M- Yoder. of Catawba county. Solicitor George Wilson, of Gastonia. C. E. Mcintosh, of Raleigh, and 15. B. Blackwelder, of Hickory. All of these speakers dwelled on the characteristics of the Shuford family for upright living. Solicitor Wilson declaring that in all his experience he had never had to prosecute a Shuford for breaking the laws of his State. As a concluding number there were short toasts given by several of the younger members of the family, among them being K. I.. J. H. and W J. Shuford, all of Hickory. It is no disparagement of the other speeches to say that the "wireless message" which W. J. (Wat) claimed to have received from his cousin, as staled i n t h e old home- e dairv. the plant, the silos. I tie inanv other found on the seventv -rioi--t.c i Jersey cows were milked" bv machin- by the farm dynamo, the separated by the electrical -separator, the cream was the new ice cream plant made ice. arid lastly, the of relatives ami friomic served a delicious -.,.ir-w.- ,.f "home-spun ' ice cream in cones. Late in the day the meeting broke up and the large assemblage of kins men separated until their next an nual reunion day. There was not a single accident, and there was not a sign of misconduct throughout the day. Every one pvevsont had a delight- iuny good time, and there was one among the number but thai gladly welcome the return of Shuford Reunion 'Da v. tate g!Ve building up tle-i.-addresses wdl ti-Slf-aton. i t Spi convention. tic- i.em- "How 1 M it: thi conn-M tion their la tin-. ! i a i - o M 1-" ! e de X ubj.- t , ade My a:i art 'a ery run milk was ly-d riven frozen at by home hundreds were S. !;. Winters ber of the I t'-feM m-. It wrote for ' gres. 1 e is as foil.. arm ! whi a, '.t.l n Di-r is I v Win not will the Ren. what in tie- worid did that poor farm lor.' poorest in the eountv. I; against this si k of a well-informed n Shelton, ot" Speed. X. ciamation of a HOO-acr. ning judgment ighbot. R-n . i.e-au the !'- Oil the CLOSING WEEK OF T MIT M Two Important Features on the Program for Each Day Dur ing Last of Conference (MAM II-: BAYS.) Montreat. Aug. 22. The closing week of the conferences of the South ern Presbyterian Church at Montreat. for the present summer, will be char acterized with two important features on the program each day. These will be an address during the Bible hour each morning by llev. J. Eavtnn Mauxe, D.D.. of St. Eouis, and an ad dress each evening by Jlev. Dunbar H. Ogden, D.D.. of Atlanta. Both of these speakers have a strong hold up on Montreat auiienees and they will be heard with interest during these closing days of the present confer ences. Dr. Mauze has been speaking each day during the past week, his ad dresses being based upon the teach ing of the book of Romans and while he had not been heard at Montreat before this summer, he is recognized already as one of the most popular speakers the program of this season has presented. He is a native of Vir ginia, but much of his life as a minis ter has been spent in the work of the church west of the Mississippi; the church of which he is pastor in St. Louis is making rapid progress un der his leadership and his popularity is not confined to his own church and his own denomination, but it reaches to other churches and is recognized in the city at large. As a speaker he is thoughtful, instructive and convincing, the argument presented in his mes sages being clear and well founded. Dr. Ogden has been heard a nura- oer oi times at Montreat and he is easily included among the most popu lar speakers the program committees has presented. He is a careful stu dent and possesses the power to con vey easily the result of his study to the minds of those who hear him. His platform appearance and delivery are attractive and from his first utterance he commands the interested attention of his audience. During the closing days of the conferences Dr. Ogden will deliver four especially prepared ad dresses upon the following subjects Why 1 am a cnnstian, Why 1 am a Protestant," "Why I am a Presby terian. "The relation of Judaism to Christianity." tar m boundary line of laige, omle and Hal ifax counties, if. yeais ago. The plantation had indeed been skinned and robbed by the one-crop system, and was noted chiefly for stunted pines ami scrub oaks. knee-deej mil-j lies, and stumpy, crop-sick s'"il. ' Fifteen years later the owner of this plantation has fittingly chosen a the subject of his address, as presi dent of the North Carolina Farmers' Convention. "How 1 Made yi v Farm Pay." ('attic and Hogs Important Crops. llas-ai on a visit to Mr- Shelton's farh. and without any advance in formation as to the content of his speech before the Farmers' Conven tion, this article will inevitably touch upon the formal title of his practical address to be delivered in Raleigh during August. To write oi Mr. Shel ton and Mapleton Farm is to write about how he transformed a badly run-down plantation into a paying proposition. His Ftter-heading--"'Hereford Cattle and P.erksire Hogs' b( trays the plot of the story. The initial move of Mr. Shelton in the restoration of the fertility of the soil came soon after he took posses sion. He invested ,?:ijo in scrub cattle. Th-? plantation was fenced in. and while the cattle enriched the soil, Mr. i . c V el ro; s, ! u ion of ai.ie.i in rep the Soil. hie thing forcibly abo'i absolute ra a thi teg. A t I and liunig tab! mana.r ''Tabbing iii-' tn 1 1 :!. a t hat : r a - - U Mi.- v, : i -r Mapb-ton Farm .s 'b h es a r : i or.br . ! ! - i g . line h ' T U e e . O , ! ,) l with waterworks ar d tno.ie.. p; ,-,gV d"tail. occupies the fore found .! r!i' plantation. Ioti-d hr ami there ! many tenant lious-. i.ni f". u tn! pti'i' ed. wbwh afford a pb.. n.g i;:!..m nient to the owner. The building- an 1 outlioUses at" subsla nlial and in good rea i : A Home With MimIci n Con cotcii Shelton clearing ing the P.oli of the grade stock, tion then came, "If was busy dynamiting stumps, off tune growth, and terrac plantation. s accumulated front the sales The logical ques there's any money An story of Ma pi' failed to mention tie-Vone-nces of folks and incomjdete. The uat a n ideal one. The e tank, supported by a work, is .niM! galb'Ti. opetated by a one and power engine, being (Ullv t t ..a I a tin : !u t a C e e s ! ! I ', e ou st . iv . IU 11 c t 's ot ks pla nt :s t pa city f h.' :, - fo. .! t r I Hie -The plant ;s m' halt hors" t lie cost of opeiat 1 a!l cents a da . from in scrub cattle, does it not follow that orotits from pure-breds would be ma terial! v larger v" Thus in l'.U4 Mr- Shelton imported a. pure-bred Here ford bull from West Virginia. Ten acres ot bottom lanu. anoruing aense- y matted and luxuriant grass )lots. was the jaturage for the white-faces. Mr. Shelton gradually made a addi tions to his original purchasr-. An other year or two and he bought 14 pure-breds. Py September of PJ14 the number of the herd hail increased to 103. Prom September to June, 191a, he marketed 53 of that number. His gross revenues from the sales were $4,348. The shipment of a car of beef cattle to Richmond, local sales of breeding steers, and shipments of pure-breds to beginners in cattle- growing were the available markets. rhe left-overs of high grade stock were marKetea as goou measure, ins pure-bred bulls averaged $100 apiece, while profits from calves approximat ed $75 apiece- An advertisement in the Progressive armer brought him answers trom nearly every ouinern State and completely sold him out. Ciood Pastures for the Stock. What are the practices of feed pro duction on Mapleton I-arm which make cattle-raising highly profitable? For six months in the year the Here fords live on grass supplemented by a handful of salt once a week. One hundred acres in productive pasture land yields an abundant crop of grass. During the winter months they are ted silage, hay, cottonseed hulls and cot tonseed meal. Two characteristics of the type recommended the Herefords as the breed for Mapleton Farm their docile nature and their disposi tion to hustle around for their liveli hood. Shropshire sheep and Berkshire hogs occupy a well-balanced propor tion on the livestock program of the the plant there courses a pipe lire-, tapped by three water mains, . bis barn 4)i feet away. Here ai-iund i barn that cost :!.!!.. and a silo if 120 tons capacity the whitefaces and Shropshires seek; eomfoit on hot sum mer days and a find a rub harvest during the wint-t months. Py way of summary: See immediate foreground a loud well-gt oomed Hereford cattle, of Shropsire sheep loitering the water trough silo a L'a-acte field producing "! bushels to the acre; n-r in the background t lie many-crop sys tem in practice, and still farther on i pasturage of loo acres f thttkly matted grass in addition to the 40') acres already mentioned m cultivation these things testify loudly how Pen. F. Shelton has made his farm pay. in the f sleek, a tbak a round surrounding the of com capable of Talks on Hay Fever. Hendersonville, Aug- 21. Dr. W Scheppegrell, president of the Ameri can Hay-Fever-Prevention Associa tion, before leaving his summer home in Hendersonville this week for his winter residence in New Or leans, to attend a meeting of the as soeiation. gave some interesting and valuable pointers for the general pub lis. nhvsicians. and especially suffer ers from hay fever, in relating the plans and purposes of the organiza tion. Dr. Scheppegrell advises sufferers from autumnal hay-fever, to remain away as much as possible from fields containing rag weeds, the pollen of Herr Hein-J which, he says, is the irritating agent rich Von Shuford. of Berlin, easily took the prize for wit, imagination, and down-right genius. Few more brilliant papers of its kind have ever been written in the State. Klcctric Farm. Following the completion of the program the guests roamed for an in practically every case of autumnul fever, although the pollen of golden rods and a few other weeds aggre vate the symptoms and in some cases originate them. Rritish yeomanry forces were first instituted by Lord Chatham in 1761. Mapleton Farm; 12- head of sheep thrive on pasturage of Bermuda and lespedeza. For nine months they are self-sustaining. Cottonseed meal and cottonseed hulls constitute thir win ter ration. Inexpensive and easily car ed for. profits accrue readily from the sale of lambs. He will sell 4 lambs this year at apiece. The sale of 500 pounds of wool for 20 cents a pound is a profitable bargain annually transacted. Forty Berkshire hogs are self-feeding for three months in the year- The Mapleton Farm differs from the type common to the locality, inasmuch as everything needed for the plant is extracted from the soil. The crops on the 400 acres in cultivation this year consists of: Peanuts 140 acres Cotton 1P acres Corn 50 acres Oats 30 acres Rye 30 acres Soy beans 2 5 acres Of the remaining fifteen acres five are in wheat and ten in grass ana al falfa. Iist fall he seeded To acres t STORMS AND WAR NEWS FEATURE COTTON SALES New Orleans. Fa.. Aug. 22. Storm news and politics were main factors in cotton last waek. Price move ments were nervous and erratic The close was at a net loss of 1 to 17 points. At one time trading month. were 10 to 15 points over last week's close, and at another. HI to 1' point.s under. Early in the wer-k the general trend was upward on reports of storm dam age in Texas. The buying wave, how ever, was not pronounced and late in the week bears insistently claimed benefits had resulted from the s aking rains. Toward the end r.f the wek the market was sensitive to news of the Arabic situation, which overshadowed the allies' declaration making cotton contraband. The market can hardly -escape fry ing much unsettled the coming week. Renewal of the tension between thi.-! country and Cermany is regarded as an unfavorable inrbierioj- m the worst sort. In addition, there ar- the con flicting claims regarding the crop sit uation in the west. Pulls will proba bly be under a disadvantage from ef-np news, because recent rains hav caused almost universal cbu.u of nw jiowth to the plant. The spot situation will be givn mucn attention necause oi trie repon that Texas shippers are short of spofM ind are m a bad position because f the damage done to early cofon. hre the charge Fai-ex lligamy "liarg Fiizaheth City. Aut;. 21 Oarrett was placed in jail terdav bv Sheriff It-id on of bigamy. Some time ago Garrett married Miss Edna Roberts, of this city, and shortly afterwards left br. Since that time Sheriff Reid has had let ters from Texas elaiminc that Gar rett has "i:e wife or more in that State At Sheriff's P"id dictation th Elizabeth City wife wrote Oarrtt a letter that brought his back- As soon an he arrived the KhrifT tok charge of him and he will be h?Ul here awaiting further word from Texas.