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-S! ♦ o • ♦ o ♦ o ♦ 0 1 two I vith I ised ♦ I ^1 hi;, ider Mill ♦ IFE d not stands e a bottle of and 1 corn- very first ping me. 1 without it» y work.** m womanly spair. Tfy t has helped I, in its 50 and should Iruggist has nows what recom* today. I Co.. Ladles* . for Special book. * Horn* >apper. ne! ?OTi may ere may )repared. yK ESS Get Rid of Tan, Sanbttm and Freckles b, using HAGAN-S Magnolij Balm. Acts in^antly. Stops the burning. Clears your complexion of Tan and Blemishes. You cannot know how good it is until you ^ it. Thous ands of women say it is be^ of all teautifiers and heals Sunburn quickest. Don’t be without it a day longer. Get a bottle now. At your Druggist or by mail diredt 75 cents for either color. White. Pink, Rose-Red. sample free. LYON MFG. CO., 40 So. 5th St., Brooklam. N.Y. EULEN WHO m Professional Cards Dr. J. Gillespie Reid DENTIST Will answer calls at any hour of the night. Rooms 3, 4 and 5 First National Bank Building Marion, N. C. Dr. Alfred W. Dula EYE SPECIALIST TO SEE BETTER See Dula 16 Years Experience The Best Equipment Obtainable. Glasses f-itted Exclusively Martin Block, LENOIR, N. C. 8^ If you got it from DULA, It’s All Right! W. A. Sweeney Plumber. Marion, N. C. Five years’ cxpcricncc in the business. Satisfaction guaranteed. Your work solicited Phone 194. Forty Years Experience in DENTISTRY MY WORK SPEAKS FOR ITSELF. Plate Work a Specialty. Dr. R. J. BURGIN, Dentist, Marion, N. C. the thrice-a-week edition OF THE NEW YORK WORLD Practically a Daily at the Price of a Weekly. No other Newspaper in the world gives so much at so low a price. the thrice-a-week WORLD’S regular subscription price is only fl.OO year, and this pays for 156 papers. ^ offer this unequalled newspaper and the MARION PROGRESS together for one year for |1.60. The regular subscription price of the '^wo papers is ^ 00. By MARY PRIME. “See here, Tom,” Mr. Plum said to me as I was going out to the outer offices, “no more wax dolls on this switchboard. We want someone built ] for hard work this time.” ! I might have reminded him that the wax doll he referred to, that simpering Miss Rose we had before, who kept a mirror fastened on the switchboard, was his choice, not mine. I may not be any mind reader, but could somehow tell that even if Ellen Dowd was only a mite of a girl I just naturally knew that she had it in her, although of course I didn’t dream that she had quite such a nerve. After I had told her the hours and the wage and put her wise as ntuch as I could without saying anything that I oughtn't to ?»bout the boss, she said she would take the Job. Mr. Plum is a very busy man,” is the way I put it. “He’s more than quick sometimes, and of course it is up to the people who work for him to make allowances. Tou see what I mean?” E^llen opened her blue eyes wide and looked at me without smiling. “I imagined he was that kind of man when I heard his name. Perkins Plum—could he be anything else?” I didn’t think at the time that It was a very fitting answer, but there was something about the honest way she leveled those eyes at me that made me feel that she could handle almost any situation. So I told her to come around the next morning and the Job would be hers. Plum had caught a glimpse of her going out of the door. He was not in one of his best moods, but I am used to that. As private secretary, I had always thought it was part of my Job to take his moods as they came complacently. “You blockhead, you double block head,” was what he called me. “Didn’t I tell you to get a girl that wasn’t a wax doll? She is only as big as a pint of beans. Why don’t you go to the day nursery and get a babe in arms to manage my switchboard?” I began to sharpen a pencil ready for his dictation. That made it easier not to answer back, for, of course. It isn’t up to me to say anything when he is in a mood like that. “Now, I suppose, you have hired her. Can’t I trust anyone in this office? You would think you would want to save me and sometimes attend to these de tails for me. But, no. Just because the girl is pretty, or petite, or flirta tious, you forget all that I told you and tell her to come and take the Job. How do you ever expect to get ahead in the business if you can’t even hire a telephone girl With horse sense?” I went on sharpening the pencil, al though I must say I was sore enough at having him mention my chance of advancement that way, for only two lays before I had got my courage up to the point of asking him Ifor a chance of a better Job. Still, I didn’t say anything. I had an idea that when the boss saw how the girl would handle things he wouldn’t call her a wax doll. I knew Just to look at her that she had It in her, but I never guessed what a nerve she had. Well, to begin with, Ellen Just mind- d her business, and the boss seemed to want to make an impression on her. It’s often that way with big men like him—^they are as anxious to make a good impression on their telephone op erators and office boys as on a possible client. But about two days later the new ness wore off and he started out on one of his regular rampages. We are ill so used to them that aside from feeling nervous and not being able to get much work done while they last, we don’t really mind them. But Ellen was different. The boss called for three numbers all at once and then started to bawl at her because she aidn’t get them all at once. She didn’t Bven get flustered, although I did no tice that she got a llftle more color in tier cheeks. Sometimes new girls got so rattled with Plum that they would cry. And I knew Ellen was young and hadn’t worked long, so I kept my eyes on bier. “Why in blazes don’t you get me that number?*' yelled the boss through the door, without letting her know which of the three numbers he want ed first. Well, Ellen got right up and left the switchboard and walked over to the boss’ room and went in. She aeemed as cool as a cucumber and I must say she looked pretty. Mad as le was, the boss must have noticed it. “Pardon me, Mr. Plum,” she said as coolly as a society queen. “It is quite impossible to get three numbers at Dnce, and we are only wasting time to show such impatience. Now if you will please tell me which of the num bers you wish first I will get it as soOn IS possible.” Well, no one had ever spoken to the boss that way before. I think I gasped out aloud, I was so surprised. I thought at first he would eat her for It or send for the patrol wagon for her i hfl was so mad,_imd_t]|en_the ma4_ ^ pressToxi seismed to'fj^e away and Ee looked :|ust natural. He told her which number he wanted and everything went ai3 smoothly as you please for the rest of the day. Ellen had charge of the office boys— that was part of her Job—and not loAg after that the boss went oft on another tirade. One of his clients had refused to renew his contract and so he was taking it out on us. I had never thought: before that it was unfair. Well, that day he had it in for the office boys and they were so scared that they couldn’t even answer a question with* out stammering. I know how it was, 'for it wasn’t so many years ago that I was in their shoes. Ellen stood it about as long as she could. And then, with a lot of dignity^ tucked away in her little person, she walked into his room. “Mr. Plum,” she said—^I was taking his dictation at the time, so I heard her—“][ wish to make a suggestion. When you speak so abruptly to those boys you actually terrify them, with the result that they don’t know wheth er they are telling you the truth or not, and it takes them twice as long to do what you want them to because you don’t take time to tell them. Will you please give me your orders and let me tell them? We would save a great deal of time that way. What Ellen had said was as plain as the nose on Plum’s face and I guess it had occurred to everyone in the of flee but 'Plum loads of times before. He looked as if he had been hit at flrst and then he Just grumbled some thing that sounded like “All right,” and when he went back to the dicta tion he wasn’t half so snarly. I forgot to say that I had been going home with Ellen for a week or so. She lived In the same end of the city and she was such a little mite, I hated to think of her fighting the half-past-five- o’clock crowds alone, so I began to go home with her. And sometimes she asked me to come and see her in the evening—she lived with her old father and married sister and brother, and such a nice, neat little home I had never seen, and one so full of simple happiness. But in office hours we had little to say to each other. That was Ellen’s way—not to let people know all her business at once. The North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts YouD^r men seeking; an educatioD which will equip them for prMti- cal life in Aericultare, and all its allied branches; in Civil, Electrical, and Mechanical Engineering; in Chemistry and I)yeinr; in Textile or other industries, and in Agricultural teaching will find excellent pro vision for their chosen careers at the State’s great technical College. This College fits men for life by giving practical instruciion as well as thorough scientific education. Four year courses in Agriculture, in Chemistry, in Civil, Electrical, and Mechanical Engineering, and Textile industries. Four year, two year, one .year, and summer Normal courses in Agriculture. Numerous practical short courses. Entrapce examinations held at each county seat on July 13th. For catalogue, and entrance blanks, write E. B. OWEN, Registrar, West Raleigh, N. C. SALE OF LAND UNDER ORDJIR OF COURT. then north 125 poles to the be ginning. Also a three hundred acre tract by State Grant No. 5274 to John Ruther ford. Beginning on a pine and post oak at his own comer and sixty poles Under and by virtue of an order of the Superior Court of Catawba coun ty made in a special proceeding there in pending before the clerk for the sale of real estate to make assets to pay debts wherein Dr. Chester Jen nings, executor of Mrs. E. C. Thorn ton, deceased, is plaintiff and Mrs. A. M. Ellis and others are defendants, the undersized commissioner ap pointed in said proceeding will sell at public auction to the highest bidder in front of the Post Ofitice in Bridge water, Burke county, on Saturday, August 12th, 1916, at 12 O’clock M., the following real estate, known as the Rutherford or Thornton property, and described as follows: 1st tract containing 640 acres cov ered by State Grant No. 3222 dated 1803. Beginning on John Rutherford’s south-east corner at a small hickory and post oak and runs east 52 poles to Whitley’s line to ?eggy Sorrell’s corner, chestnut; then south crossing a branch 100 poles to a white oak; thence east 205 poles to a stake; then south 218 poles to a stake; then west 369 poles to a Spanish oak; then south 60 poles to a stake; then west 140 poles to a stake and pointers on Hodge’s line; then north 164 poles to two red oaks in his line, Rutherford’s It was one morning when she had I corner; then east 178 poles to Ruther- been with us about three months and I ; ford’s post oak corner; then north 90 was beginning to think of her as the 1 poles to Hodge’s corner; then east most important thing about that office, 74 P°j®sJ;o alpine,^I^therford^^ even if sbe was only the telephone girl with only a few more dollars a week than the youngest girl. It was one of Plum’s nervous days. He wasn’t exactly raging, but snappy and curt. He was giving dictation at the rate of a couple of hundred words a minute, and I don’t know what got into me when I said, “Pardon me, Mr. Plum,” —^Just the waj^ Ellen would have said it—“but when you give dictation so fast I am not able to get it complete. We would save time if you gave it a little slower.” Plum stopped short and looked at me in surprise. I thought for a min ute I was going to be fired. 'Then he said, “Boy, you are too valuable a man to waste in this work. I had thought you were merely a machine. I see you have brains- besides. You can start in as office manager tomorrow. I’ll see about the raise.” Later, he called Ellen into his office. I admit that I went in the next room where I could hear through the par tition. I got there Just in time to hear him say; “You are the one woman in the world who has it in her to make me even more of a success than I am. I have decided that I want to marry you.” I surely did almost fall over at that. Naturally my first feeling was one of pride and Joy that the girl I had discovered should become Plum’s wife, but Just as the little green de mon of envy was creeping in I heard her answer: “I am very much honored, Mr. Plum, but I am not free. I am already pledged to another.” With that answer humming in my brain I had to go^ through with the day’s work, and even the note that told me of a substantial raise didn’t much mend matters. Promptly at half 100 poles to a stake; then west 148 poles to a post oak, his own comer; then south 25 west 73 poles to a blacic oak; then south 75 west 90 poles to a chestnut; then south 65 west 130 poles to a small Spanish oak; then south 180 poles to a red oak; thence east 130 poles to a white oak; thence north to the beginning. Off of this tract is excepted that portion covered by the deed from Mrs. TTiomton to Henry Rutherford of nine acres about half of which is off this tract and half off the 90 acre tract hereafter set out. Also a 90 acre tract covered by State Grant No. 2535 to John Ruth erford adjoining the above and de scribed as follows: Beginning at a black oak and white oak near an old schoolhouse on Hodge’s line and runs south crossing seyeral branches 130 poles to a small black oak and Spanish oak; then west 111 poles to a stake; then north 130 poles to a stake; then east 111 poles to the beginning, Grant dated June, 1799. Off of the above boundary has been heretofore conveyed and is hereby ex cepted the following tracts, viz: One 9 acre lot deeded to Henry Ruther ford and 17 acres, lot also deeded to Henry Rutherford and 22 acres deeded to Allen and Isaac Rutherford and for a more particular description refer ence is hereby made to said deeds re corded in Burke county records. Also another tract known as the Vance tract and covered by the deed of David Vance to John Rutherford dated October, 1790, and by the Grant No. 1033 to David Vance. Grant No. 1033 to David Vance conteining 20 acres lying on the south side of Ca tawba river. Beginning on a dogwood sapling on the river bank, Charles McPeter^s cor- south of his Spanish oak corner and gg ^ j^e on William on Ballew’s line arid runs west with f. said line Rutherford’s ovm line 2^ poles to a I ^ Hickory on the stake and pointers on Ht^ge s line;! ^^e river to then south with said line 20 poles to: beginning the comer; then east 41 poles to a j ^he deed from David Vance to John stake at Ballew s comer; then south October, 1790, covering with his Ime 200 poles to a white gO acre grant and 87 acres in ad- on his side, Ballew’s comer; then east - 185 poles crossing Trent road to a pine; then north passing Ballew’s cor ner and running with his line 220 poles to the beginning. From off the above boundary has heretofore been conveyed to Mrs. Scott 24 acres and 10 poles as will ap pear by reference to her deed from Mrs. E. C. Thomton and the same is excepted from the above boundary and for a more particular descrip tion of which reference is hereby made to said deed. Also another tract of land adjoin ing the above containing 100 acres covered by Grant No .2627 to John Rutherford dated Dec. 6, 1799, regis tered in Burke county in Book No. 5. Beginning at a black oak, George Hodge’s corner and runs south 90 poles to two small red oaks on the bank of a branch; then east 178 poles to a iK)st oak; then north 90 poles to a stake; then west 178 poles to the beginning. Also another tract known as the home place containing 298 acres as will appear on reference to the deed of Charles McPeters to John Ruther ford dated June 9th, 1784. Beginning at a small white oak on the west side of Camp branch and west side of Muddy creek and runs north 137 poles to a pine, Vance’s corner; then with his line north 59 poles east 88 poles to a small dog- past five, I started out witii Ellen. 1 told her I had heard tjie •onversation. “Who is it, Ellen?” I asked impa tiently. “I am sure I •cigkt t» know.” She laughed delightfully. “SHly, you do know, don’t you? You hadn’t actu ally asked me, but I the^fht you kaew as well as I that you are Itfr. Plums only successful rival.” (Copyright, 1916, by tk* News paper Syndio#®-) Your Refaction. The world which surrounds y®« Is the magic glass of the world within you. To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.—Lava- ter. A violent earthquake at Caltani- sett», Sicily, causing the death of nearly 300 persons, is reported in a dispatch from Rome. dition, in all 107 acres is described by metes and bounds as follows: Beginning at a chestnut tree on the river bank on a bluff at the upper end of the bottom and runs south 16 west 117 poles to two small post oaks on a ridge; thenoe^ east 148 poles to a stake qn the east side of a ridge, Moore’s south-east corner on Charles McPeter’s line; then north 71 poles to a pine; then north 59 east 88 poles to a dogwood on the river bank a few poles above a landing place across said river; then up the middle of the channel of the river as it meanders to the beginning, containing by computa tion in all 107 acres, more or less. From the above boundary has been conveyed and is hereby excepted the following parcels, viz: 3^ acres, more or less, sold to K. C Menzies, 29% acres, more or less, to Shuford and Menzies, and about 7 acres to Victoria Lawson and for a more par ticular description reference is here by made to the deeds conveying the same. Also the following tracts contain ing about 40 acres and covered by the deed from Hugh and Mary Ballew to John Rutherford: Beginning on a white oak on the north-east comer of the 10 acre mill tract, running east from thence to a small branch; then across said branch to where the east and west line of the old Hodge tract, now Ballew, crosses wood sapling on the river bank; then branch; then west with the down the river as it meanders viz: South 49 east 110 poles to a bend; then south 62 east 120 poles to a bend at the mouth of Muddy creek; then north 14 east 148 poles to a bend; then north 50 east 58 poles to a post oak on the bank; thens outh 235 poles to a small pine and post oak on a ridge; then west 350 ^oles crossing Muddy creek to the beginnig. From the above boundary is excep ted the following portions which have heretofore been sold off, viz: The mill house lot 100x125 feet as will appear by the deed of Mrs. E. C. Thornton to Walker Lyerly. Also a lot owned by the Presbyterian church and a lot owned by the Methodist church and the school house lot and for a more particular description of the same ref erence is hereby made to the deeds for the same. Also a 300 acre tract lying partly in Burke and partly in McDowell county and covered by Grant No. 3731 to John Rutherford in 1813. Beginning on a large black oak and runs east 112 poles to a large white oak near a Mull ^nd; then north 72 poles to a pine, his own comer; then east 148 poles to a stake; then north line of said old tract to comer, pme stump; then south with the line of said old tract to a gum; then easterly with the line of the 10 acre mill tract to the beginning. Also a small lot of 5.76 acres cover ed by the deed from Geo. Hodge to John Rutherford, 1804: Beginning at a black oak in the bottom on the said Rutherford’s up per line and mns west 18 poles^ to the bank of Muddy creek; then up said creek 14 poles to the mouth of a small branch crossing on a beech; then east 15 south 43 poles crossing the branch twice to Hodge’s north and south line on three small post oak pointers; then north 47 poles to the beginning. The above boundry contains about two thousand acres more or less, and will be first sold in tracts or lots and then as a whole, to determine the amount and the manner in which the most can be realized out of the sale of the same. Terms of sale oneJhalf cash and the balance in six and twelve months’ time in equal installments. This July 5th, 1916. M. H. YOUNT, Commissioner. I
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