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OLD FORT NEWS
VOLUME II
OLD FORT, N. q., THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1929
NUMBER 40
THE OLD FORT NEWS
The Old Fort News is pub
lished each week in connection
with the Marion Progress.
LOCAL AND PERSONAL I Miss Marjorie Stewart of Gra«ite
ITEMS OF INTEREST! Falls is vi^ting her aunt Mrs. Henry
Ragle. Her sister, Miss Thelma Stew-
MISS GERTRUDE DULA,
Editor and Business Manager.
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PLEASURE j
In life there is nothing more un
expected and surprising than the ar-1
rivals and departures of pleasure. If
we find it in one place today, it is
vain to seek it there tomorrow. You
cannot lay a trap for it. It will fall
into no ambuscade, concert it ever
so cunningly. Pleasure has no logic;
it never treads in its own footsteps.
Into our commonplace existence it
comes with a surprfee, like a pure
white swan from the airy void into
the ordinary village lake; and just as
the swan, for no reason that can be
discovered, lifts itself on its wings
and betakes itself to the void again,
it leaves us, and our sole possession
is its memory. And it is characteristic
of pleasure that we can never recog
nize it to be pleasure till after it is
gone. Happiness never lays its finger
on its pulse. If we attempt to steal a
glimpse of its features it disappears.
It is a gleam of unreckoned gold.
From the nature of the case, our hap
piness, such as in its degree it has
been, lives in memory. We have not
the voice itself; we have only its
echo. We are never happy; we can Fuller.
Dr. James A. Padgett, who has
been for the past year proffssor of
History in Trinity University at
Waxahachie, Texas, has returned to
j Old Fort to spend a few days with
I his parents before beginning his
I work in the East Texas State Normal
j College for the summer.
I Frank Byrd of Marion was a visi-
j tor in Old Fort Saturday.
Try one of our Chocolate Milk
art, will join her in a few days.
Miss Maxine Wilson who hsls been
visiting Mrs. S. F. Mauney the past
few weeks returned to her home at
Gastonia Sunday.
Archie McIntosh, son of Dr. and
Mrs. D. M. McIntosh, underwent a
tonsil operation in Asheville last Fri
day.
Rev. E. C. Ellis is conducting a
USE EGGS FREELY i
IN FAMILY MENU
1 J . revival at the Baptist Church. He i&
Shakes, and you v,,ll come again, ^ ^ J
Bradley Drug Company.
Misses Millie and Bula Kanipe and
Annie Bridges spent Saturday in
Asheville.
W. E. Grant and Locke Grant of
Shelby spent the week-end in Old
Fort.
W. C. Early spent Saturday in
Asheville.
Miss Tressie Parker of Marion
spent Saturday and Sunday with her
parents, Mt. and Mrs. Lonie Parker.
Mrsr Carl ' Kelly of Statesville
spent Sunday with her mother-in-
law, Mrs. Etta Kelly.
Mrs. R. M. Reeder was a visitor in
Asheville Friday.
F. P. Sealey of Charleston, S. C.,
was in Old Fort last Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Norton spent
Monday in Asheville.
Miss LeRoy Bates of Moragnton
spent Sunday with her mother, Mrs.
only remember that we were so once.
And while in the very heart and
structure of the happy moment there
lurked an obscure consciousness of
death, the memory in w^hich past hap
piness dwells is always a regretful
memory. This is why the tritest ut
terance about the past, youth, early
love, and the like, has always about
it an indefinable flavor of poetry,
which pleases and affects. In the
wake of a ship there is always a mel
ancholy splendor. The finest set of
verses of our modern time describe
how the poet gazed on the “happy
autumn fields,” and remembered the
“days that were no more.” After
all, man's real possession is his mem
ory. In nothing else is he rich, in
nothing else is he poor.—Alexander
Smith.
MERCHANTS TO CLOSE AT
6:30 IN JULY AND AUGUST
The people of Old Fort are re
quested by the merchants to do their
shopping before 6:30 p. m. during
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Ervin spent
Monday in Asheville.
Mr. and Mrs. George Simpson of
Marion spent the week-end with
relatives in Old Fort.
Our Candies are always fresh—
Hollingsworth’s and Russell McPhail.
Take Her a box. Bradley Drug Co.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Swann and
daughter. Hazel, visited friends in
Glenwood Sunday.
Mrs. W. C. Early is spending sev
eral days in Marion.
Mrs. Maggie Rabbitts, who has
been visiting relatives in Old Fort
several months, left Friday for Cin
cinnati, Ohio.
Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Gosorn and
four children visited friends in Le
noir Sunday.
Otis Grant left Monday for a short
visit to Washington, D. C.
Mr. and Mrs. A. Biddix of Ridge
crest visited J. H. Allison, Sunday.
Miss Louise Porter of Charlotte
spent the week-end in Old Fort.
Miss Olive Whitmire of Biltmore
visited in Old Fort Sunday.
Miss Gertrude Durham of Ashe-
July and August as that is the hour ^ Qld Fort Sun-
they have agreed to close their stores j
The following resolutions
presented to the merchants for their
approval by J. R. Harris;
“We, the undersigned merchants
of Old Fort, feeling the need of r^me
outdoor sport and recreation, do
agree, beginning July 1, 1929, to
close our places of business each day
of the week, except Saturday, at
6:30 P. M. through the months of
July and August.” Signed by
J. R. Harris
J. N. Nesbitt
Grady Nichols
Bryson Snyder Co.
U. G. Walker
N. M. Vess
J. L. Lackey
Mrs. W. Crawford
C. W. Graybeal
H. C. Marley
Anderson Furniture Co.
J. L. Black-Carolina Store
C. F. Noblitt
Allison & Melton
G. Turner & Son.
WINGS
Fifty dare-devil aviators sent their
planes through the most spectacular
maneuvers ever conceived for scen«s
of a motion picture during the mak
ing of “Wings,” the Paramount air
epic, which will show at Everybody’s
Theatre starting Wednesday, July 3.
Capt. Bill Long, one of the begt pilots
in the United States, stood on a cam
era platform, parallel with Director
William Wellman, and actually
winced as he saw the planes perform
over a roaring field of exploding
shells.
AN AFFAIR OF THE FOLLIES
Lewis Stone is featured with Billie
Dove and Lloyd Hughes at Every
body’s Theatre Friday and Saturday
‘An Affair of the Follies."
A1
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Gilliam of Ashe
ville were visitors in Old Fort Sun
day.
Vero Masters of Green Mountain
is visiting in Old Fort.
Miss Katherine Finch spent the
week-end in Marion.
Mrs. W. W. LeFevre, Edith Le-
Fevre and Hazel Swann spent Tues
day in Asheville.
Misses Elizabeth Raymer and An
nie Steppe and Harry Raymer spent
Friday in Drexel.
Little Miss Lois Early is confined
to her home recovering from a slight
operation.
Frank Wilkinson made a business
trip to Marion Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. F. P. Sweeney chap
eroned a fishing trip to Lake James
Saturday evening.
Dr. and Mrs. Harry Ditmore of
Marshall spent the week-end with
Mr. and Mrs. George Sandlin.
Kenneth Rhinehart is confined to
his home with mumps. ^
Miss Patterson is the buest of
Misses Millie and Bula Kanipe this
week.
Miss Gertrude Dula, Mrs. Bran
ham and Mrs. Bueck were visitors in
Asheville Thursday.
The hot days are a problem that a
General Electric Refrigerator will
solve.
Company.
The news that Jordan Sanford
will be manager of Lake Tahoma Ca
sino this summer is of much interest
to Old Fort People. Mr. Sanford,ywho
is a frequent visitor in Old Fort, has
of the church.
1
Mr. Nelson, Masonic lecturer, has
been giving s»me lectures to mem
bers of Joppa Lodge during the past
week.
Sidney Mauney spent the past
week at Oteen where he bas been en
gaged in construction work.
Mr, and Mrs. Henry Westermann
returned to Old Fort Tuesday after
spending several months in Sarasota,
Florida.
Miss Helen Watkins, of Raleigh, is
the guest of her aunt, Mrs. J. C.
Sandlin.
George Bryson and son, Robert,
of Bryson Snydier Co., spent Thurs
day night with homefolks in Ashe
ville.
Rev. T. P. Dixon and Rev. Gray of
Black Mountain are conducting a
very successful revival at the Meth
odist Church on Mill Creek. Large!
crowds have been attending. I
Go to Everybody’s Theatre on i
Wednesday and Thursday nights,.
July 3rd and 4th, and receive yourj
piece of silverware which will be giv- j
en away by the management. |
Mrs. T. A. Branham of Raleigh;
and Mrs. H. Bueck of Selma have re- |
turned to their respective homes af-|
^er a visit to friends in Old Fort. |
Mrs. Bueck was formerly Miss Clell;
Branham of Raleigh and taught here S
Miss Elinor Crippen, a student |
nurse in General Hospital, Roches-’
ter, N. Y., left last week after a visit j
to her parents.
Bernard Tate left Friday for Hart
ford, Conn., to visit his brother, Cle-j
tus Tate, after which he will go to
Bethlehem, Pa., to take up his duties
with the Bethlehem Steel Works.
Miss Mary Morgan, Miss Willie j
Lea Baucom, Mr. Phillip Gattis and
Mr. J. H. Gattis visited Mrs. Clifford
Nesbitt Friday enroute to their home
in Raleigh after attending the Phar
maceutical convention in Asheville.
Miss Morgan was winner of the prize
for the most graceful dancer at the
ball at Grove Park Inn for the phar
macists.
Mr. and Mrs. Adam Jones of
Greensboro were visitors in Old Fort
jthis week.
I Mrs. Pearl Lee Gilliam and Mrs.
Lucy Jackson of Asheville were the
guests of Mrs. John Bradley and Miss
Maud Crawford on Sunday.
Miss Marion Nelly of Asheville
was the week-end guest of Mrs. Don
Gosorn.
Rev. D. A. Lewis has announced
that the music for the evening ser
vice on next Sunday at the Method
ist Church will be furnished by the
Needmore Colored choir.
Mrs. Joe Trexler accompanied by
her son and daughter, were guests of
Mr. and Mrs. I. L. Caplan last week.
Will Bradley was taken to the Mis
sion Hospital Saturday to undergo
an operation Tuesday.^
B. D. Trexler and family , of
Greenville, S. C., were the guests of
Mr. and Mrs. I. L. Caplan during the
week.
Makes for Good Nutrition as
* Well as Economy.
With the hens of the United States j
laying at the rate of 45,600 eggs a i
minute, the nutrition specialists in the[
United States Department of Agricui- j
ture say it makes for good nutrition i
as well as good economy to use eggs
freely in the family menu. Nature
has provided an unusually valuable
combination of food elements within
the shell of an egg. Because of the!
protein, minerals, and vitamines that
eggs contain, they hold an especially
high place in children’s meals but they
„are equally good food for everybody,
^ iihese workers in the bureau of home
economics advise. Eggs may be served
not only as eggs, they say, but in so
many other appetizing ways that no
body need tire of them even in the
season of greatest plenty.
“Eggs At Any Meal,” is the title of a
lieaflet by Lucy Alexander and Fanny
W. Yeatmnn recently issued by the
Department of Agriculture. This out
lines the principles of egg cookery and
illustrates them with typical recipes.
Slow cooking at moderate, even heat is
the secret of success in cooking eggs,
the leaflet says. For the familiar
ways it gives times and temperatures
required for best results. It describes
favorite combinations with other foods
and flavors, and gives exact directions
for making flat or fluffy omelets and
sweet or savory souffles. Recipes for
fruit whips Illustrate the leavening
power of e^rg whites, and directions
for making custards, sauces, and salad
dre.ssings show how to get the benefit
ef the thickening properties of yolks.
Whether alone or mixed with other
foods, eggs lose none of their high
nutritive value if properly cooked and
served.
For a free copy of this Leaflet 3D-L,
giving over twenty egg recipes, send
to the United States Department
Agi^culture, Washington, D. C.
Preserve Combination
Has Delicious Flavor
One of the best combination pre
serves is made from strawberries
with fresh pineapple, ft is easy to
make and has a fine ond unusual
flavor. Directions for making i^ are
given by the bureau of home econoni-
ks.
1 large fresh pine
apple
JUNIOR ORDER MEETING
Mount Mitchell Council 194, Jun
ior ^Order United American Mechan
ics, have changed meeting nights
from twice a month to each Thurs
day night at 8 o’clock. All niembers
are urged to attend these meetings
and help keep things going.
Next meeting night, June 27, we
2 quarts straw
berries
Sugar
Remove the skin and “eyfes” from
the pineapple and cut it into oblong!
pieces, and then into inch cubes. Dis
card the core. Measure or weigh the;
pineapple, add equal measure or i
weight of sugar, put the mixture intoi
a large pan over low heat, stir until j
the sugar is melted, bring to a brisk-
boil, and cook^for 10 minutes stirring
constantly. Divide the smaller ber-'
ries from the larger ones and to eachj
lot add three-quarters of their meas-,
ure or weight of sugar. Add the small
berries and sugar to the cooked pihe-i
apple and cook for 10 minutes; then;
put in the larger berries and sugar.
Cook this whole mixture for 30 to 35
minutes or until the jelly test is
reached. Allow the jam to stand
overnight in the saucepan in which'
cooked. In the morning reheat to
the boiling point an(J,pour into steril
ized glasses. When cold cover the
tops with paraffin, seal, label, and
store in a cool, dry place.
Bring us your Kodak Films to be
developed. Bradley Drug Co.
Read The Progress Want ads.
On display at Bradley Drug elect new officers and all mem
hers are requested to be present and |
take part, as this is all the way to j
get the men elected to office in thej
council, that you want. There will al- j
so be other matters of importance!
to be handled at that time. We are j
demonstrated his ability as manager have members from other j
of Camp Alice for several successful j councils visit us and take part in the j
seasons. It is understood that a com-|^Qj.jj^ if you are in town come i
petent assistant will have charge of j around. We meet in the W. O. W. |
the dancing pavilion.
The younger set gave a lawn party I
at the home of Miss Olga Marston
in An Anair oi ^ Friday evening. Those present were
Rockett produced the picture ^iHer, Gathering
First National, with Lewis Stone in —---
the role of a millionaire broker and
theatre patron; Miss Dove as a chor
us girl who retired to marry a pen
niless clerk, played by Lloyd Hughes
Mrs. Sidney Mauney, Miss Maxine
Wilson, Francis Mauney and Mur
rell Kanipe attended the Rhododen
dron Festival in Asheville Wednes
day.
Finch, Betty Crawford, Mary Will
Greene, Eunice Wilkinson, Olga
Marston, Carolyn McIntosh, Elaine
Mashburn, Louise Laughridge, Max
ine Wilson; Messrs. Francis Mauney,
Merrill Kanipe, Jack Saunders, Carl
Smith, Vann Hughes, Clyde Finley,
Charles Kieser, Clyde Marshall, Lut
therJohnson, Robert B'ryson and
Carlos Newtonv
Hall over Kanipe Motor Company.
Let’s all turn out ©n these meeting
a record breaking
remainder of the
nights and have
attendanee the
year. j
Charley A. Calloway, Sec. j
TRAFFIC LIGHTS INSTALLED !
Tourists passing through Old Fort j
from now on will observe that the!
town has installed modern traffic j
lights. This is an effort on the partj
of,city officials to prohibit Speeding;
through (tjie thoroughfares in Old j
Fort. I
VERYBODY’i
THEATRE
OLD FORT, N.
C, -
«AN AFFAIR OF THE
FOLLIES”
BILLY DOVE and
LEWIS STONE
Special Cotnedy.
Friday arid S&turd&y
JUNE 28-29th
“THREE OUTCAST”
Jerry’s Elopement Comedy.
Monday and Tuesday
JULY lst-2Rd
“WINGS”
With CLARA BOW
and an All Star Cast.
Wednesday and Thursday
JULY 3rd and 4th
An Insurance
Against Being “Broke”
A bank book having a good sized balance
will insure you against going '‘broke/’ es
pecially if you consult us before investing
your money in any of the many schemes
being presented daily. A savings account
makes you more careful with your money
—it creates a spirit of thrift that is without
question worth many dollars to you.
THE BANK OF OLD FORT
OLD FORT, N. C.
Hats on Sale
All Hats on Sale for two weeks.
Stylish hats of the best quality.
Dula IMillinery Shop
Old Fort, N. C.
Free Silverware!
One piece of Silverware will be given to each lady
paying full fare to Everybody’s Theatre on each Wed
nesday and Thursday night, beginning July 3rd and
4th.
In one year you will have a full set of Rogers Silver
ware free, guaranteed for ten years
Silverware is on display at The Old Fort Drug Co.
G. W. Sandlin, Prop.
Printing Satisfaction
Having your printing done by a firm who
takes pride in turning out quality work is
not only satisfactory, it is profitable.
Let us estimate on your next work. We
guarantee your "satisfaction with the com
pleted job.
McDOWELL PUBLISHING COMPANY
Phone 64.
Keep Your Coffee Right
^VACUUM PACKED i
ICorFEi
A RE you a coffee lover? Then
^^\nothing will replace that steam-
CT ing cup of succulence with its
tempting aroma with which you are
accustomed to start each day. But
are you going to get good coffee
where you go this summer? You
can, easily, if you’ll observe only one
simple rule.
There arc lots of brands of good
coffee on the market, but scientists
have recently discovered that no cof
fee is good coffee if it is not fresh.
It has been ascertained beyond the
possibility of a doubt that from 65%
to 70% of the coflFee gas and an
appreciable part of its aromatic oils
disappear in the first twenty-four
hours when freshly roasted coffee
is'exposed to oxygen. After that
period it expels the gas more slowly,
but in ten or twelve days it has
lost all of its and a great part
of the aromatic oils which con
stitute its flavor.
The One Sure Way
The only way in which fresh
roasted coffee can be kept fresh and
flavorsome is by packing it in a
container which is absolutely imper
vious to all climatic influences.
Tliis method of packing is known
as the “Vacuum Process” and more
and more coffee packers are adopt
ing it. After the vacuum packed
can has been opened, the coffee
should be put into Mason jars and
their covers screwed down tight on
the rubber rings. It’s just as simple
as that, but it makes all the dif
ference. Try it this summer, and
you’ll see.