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U-iu* lilicrjkc? Official Organ of Murphy and Cher okee County. North Carolina. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY Entered in the Post Office at Mur pliy. North Carolina as second class matter under Act of March 3. 1897. Victor C. Olmsted . . Publisher V. K Danirl Business Mgr. Hadlry Williamson Editor Barbara Mrroney .... Social Editor SUBSCRIPTION PRICE One Year $1.50 Eix Months 75c Payable Strictly In Advance . . Legal Advertisements, want ads. reading notices, obituaries, cards of thanks, etc.. Sc line each Insertion, payable in advance. Display rates furnished on request. Obituary notices, cards of thanks, tributes of respect, by Individuals, lodges, churches, organizations or societies, will be regarded as adver tising and inserted at regular classi fied advertising rates. Such notices will be marked "adv." in compliance with postal regulations. NOBODY'S BUSINESS Germany. Euros*'. Dear Brother: ? I thought I <vas :l" ;iil here lately j I urn no lon-.er v.-i ?!:? ' c.o' ,:h to rule over hell, t am today sending my re signation as D-. 1 to Gia and Ma I'm'- anri lEHNwunent. tltis iol) 9L 1 cl:a:-. ? of _ hell, eons and I any romp iti u : , ir. - s'lmenl i > in* ..?> .uu < :i io make in u ? :n until you a;^.">; .' tlse > ,u:h You have i*. on me ?? hen r c r.vs to torturing human ouls. I had] never thought of punishing the sin- ? less: I took special delight in seeing the wicked burn and squirm, but a.^ innocent, peace-loving, law -abiding citizens have not been coming to hell. I htrve had no opportunty to wne and dine them on fire and brimstone. But with you. . the case !s different. You make no exceptions: the good and the bad. the old and the young, the baby and the infirm, are the same to you. You kill and destroy and starve and crucify all who stand in your way. Brother Hitler. I will keep track of you. It is not my purpose or desire to be here (in hell> when you arrrive. A man with your reputation might make it too hot for me. I'm leaving the day you start for this, your last job. You will find the keys hanging on the red-hot pole at the edge of the bottomless pit. I have entertained some terrible characters since I be ...uiie :he ad u'un of the lovvr re t; ioi la. but nol one ha.* ever held even tin' tiniest candle-light to you. On!v last night 1 heard a bunch o: dyed-in-;he \.ool criminals talking about you and man . you arc goun: to have the big head when 1 ti ll you thai they were bragging something terrible on you and. believe it or nol. they laughed right in my face when i I told thein that I was a bigger devil than you They even had the pall to tell me that I didn't know my ABC's about running hell when compared with veil You will possibly fetch along a' few of your co-workers and co-liorts in crime Tliey having been taught by you will mike most worthy employees of this Inferno that was once the worst thing known to the imagination of man. We began to ;lide" here when you invaded Po tana. aim ia um ir.cn cn v."'vj brrit doing nothing but sliding. We oozed out of the spotlight when you made a hell on earth. Yours in the cause. Tlie Devil ? Himself ). MEET MR. HOLSl'M MOORE. LONG-DISTANCE WEATHER FORE-CASTERS de Luxe ? mr. liolsum moore is predicting a Ions!, dry summer he has benn the far-off weather fore-carster ever since his grandpaw died enduring 1910. he was the best long-distance I weather proffit ever borned. so says liolsum moore mr. moore says sum mer time come 30 days earlier this ?idling than usual, he decided this question when he saw a katy-did i n .'.ii apple tree last frlday. she had brown eyes and sreen legs: that's why he went by. m.\ moore predicts a 45-day ri. . .'. enduring the month of July. ? ivrythias except pollit'.cians will p.l r.'.o. dry up. crops will oe set back 2 months and about the ime cotton begins io open and fodder gets reddy to pull, frcst will bit both of them and destroy nearly everything any body expects to make, while the summer will last on up into autumn, the crops won't mature sls usual in j the early fall: the drowth will keep | them from growing into a manhood. I ? we will have a little snow in march, according to mr. moore, and heeavy frosts, followed by big dews, will be the order of the days and nights up to betwixt aprill the 20 and the 26. cotton bolls will be smal ler this year and ony 0-876,543 bales will be produced as compared with 12,540,000 last year, counting round bales and square bales at two each, there won't be any hoss apples in the south this summer: a new betsy bug will eat all of the blossoms up in May. ? small grains will be less bountifu than usual, wheat will have the rust, oats wil be et up with smut, rye will head but there won't be any grains Come To Our Warehouse For That Famous Southern Fisti Scrap fertilizer We Also Carry A Complete Line Of FEEDS and GROCERIES We Sell Both WHOLESALE AND RETAIL OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT! SEE US BEFORE YOU BUY ! E. E. Stiles Produce Co. Phone 143 ="? Murphy, N. C. People, Spots#In The News of " ? ? Ll(i'>tor Slde of war zone doings is this shot p?Ud T8' ,asler doing his stuff aboard a convoy escort destroyer of British navy. A pretty good-sized "taste," eh? c TAX TACTICS . . . With "income tax time" boosting amount and furiousness of tablecloth mathematics. New York night spot made it easier for calculating customers, and for the laundry bill. b> using spotproof korosea I -coated napery, from which impromptu arithmetic can be removed by swipe of damp cloth. SELF-TRANSPORTING . . . Shown at LaGuardia Field, poised for non-stop hop to Britain on its own power, is long-range, high-speed Consolidated bomber which also crossed country non-stop iro"i California. Known as "B-24." it's first of 26 scheduled to go. 9 in them, and berrly simply won't mature big enough to cut. mr. mora figered this out by watching the red ants; they back back into their holes instead of going in head-first, as has benn their custom in normal years. Mr. moore saw a ground squirrel last friday; that foretold heavy rains in may and june and crops won't be put in till so late the july drowth will ketch them, everbody had better save their government checks and stretch them out in the face of there fore casts. that's about all they will get from the soil this year. THE TREND OF TIMES ? dr. hubbert green has bean trying : to push his collections here of late, but has not met with much suckcess onner count of the Installment hous- ; es have all got a prior claim on his patients, he has threatened to hail mr. slim chance jr., into court for \ his 1938 doctor bill amounting to 25.35$ and intrust for a inside op- i peratlon on him which saved him from being handled by a undertaker, he received the followering letter from mr. chance, Jr. last week: deer dr. green you have always benn my family fissican, but you are now afixing to lose our practice, also pa's and grandpaw's practice, it won't do you no good to sue me: everything is in my wife's name except my govern ment check and you can't tetch that by law or otherwise. i ain't able to pay my honest detts. much less doctor bills, i am behind the followering installments on the need -cessi ties I have bought here of late, vizzly: my ford. 4 payments, my raddio 5 payments, my new set of furniture. 9 payments, my rent. 8 months, my refrigerator. 7 months, and mlssylacous monthly bills. 4 months. It takes all i can rake and scrape to keep the wolves away from I our door. as soon as i get these secured detts out of the way. i will start on what 1 owe you. you needent be so hard hearted. dr. rubbem harder, the os typath, says he could of cured me without going inside for about 6$ and your surgical work was no avail, he rubs pains and miseries away for less than haff what you homepaths charge, so he sxys. he rubbed my wife's backbone into shape and re placed 7 jints, and so far ? i have had to pay him only 2$. he has gone to cash though lure of late onno c?uat of the national defense, so he yores truttc slim chance, jr. Because he doesn't like to write letters, a Notr ? Dame student lias installed a short-wave radio In hls dormitory room and at predeter mined hours talks with his family m Port Dodge. Ia. Lyman Baker of Selllngsgrove. Pa., ?shingled his 120-year-old house with the slats from 200 lettuce crates. Not only do chickens like pipe organ music. but it improves their egg-laying capacity, according to H. N. Cordscn. manager of a poultry plant at Kansas City, Mo. When he reported to police that thieves had robbed him of two cases of beer. Theodore Wyffles of Blen heim. Can., was arrested for selling liquor* ?nd sout to j?il for 00 dsys. . . . bectuie I'm A Hawkinixed ChicU ? "I've been nursed through the first ti'ii days of my life In u Hawkins Million Dollar lien. Boy. I f:?el like u millior dollars!" PROCESSING MA^ES THE DIFFERENCE! It our chicks could talk ?they'd tell you hsw they *a been given a pcrfret start m life by the natural Contact Meat method Von a he.-.r how PROCESSING producr* ? hiijqcf, healthier chick that will qrow into a r.al money-maker for you. Our Hawkin ize?i Proccisod CHICKS Will eat urow ta-stcr and cause you less worry and w'rk ! Come in ? Let lTs Show You How! See for yourself how this r.-nsr':.-'- ? lh:no takes the risk out cf c r ?r yo-j S-e iiow prettied ehirkr. w<il i. ol.e , ju a bigger success with poultry! Honckinized Broilers and Fryers Grown in hatcheries ? Dressed or ally*. They are delicious-? nutriiious and tssty ? Fro Sale At SMTTHMONT POULTRY FARM AND HATCHERY Our Balk Seeds are Gilt-Edge Seeds recleaned and graded, of fered at the following- prices: Timothy Grass lb. 8c Herds Grass lb. 17c Orchard Grass lb. 24c Kentucky Blue Grass lb. 24c Bed Clover lb. 19c Saplin Clover lb. 19c Pasture Mixture lb. 19c No 1 KOREAN LESPEDEZA Germination 99.68 100 lbs We also have a complete line of the finest Package Seeds in cluding Woods and Northrop, King A Co.'s Seeds. FARMERS FEDERATION MURPHY WAREHOUSE
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