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/ wi . -*—j - - TOBABCCO IS SELLING HIGH AT ._. 11 GRAVELY'S _ ■ ■ 1 1 . Warehouse : Washington, North ( arolina I •- • BRING US a LOAD AM) GO HOME ING GRAVELY. ll I „ S. A., H. and.P. I*s. Gravely * i, -* WASHINGTON'S AND MOST , EX PERI EN ( ED WARE HO I SEM EN NEXT WEEK Second sale 19th. ! First sale 20th. ' Fourth sale 21st. j Third, sale 22nd. Second sale . . 2.'!ni. , a j-j |»nr & Every article of turniture that we ji| p| place in your home is placed there in per- ®; Jjfj feci condition. . u w It is as much to our interest as yours to "M fffi have vour furniture look riivht when we frfj r,v l ' | * . WW m supply it. . H rjj'j- ( omplete satisfaction is y;.uaranteed Esj K'.; here and we are riv.'ht on Ihe y round to sc M Sj; that you eel it. jfo' SEE Ol'R EXHIIHT AT THE EA?R 18. S. COURTNEYf Ife ———l—M— ■MB—PiiilM iHilta—l •LOANS MADE ON FARM AND (TH PR( )PEUT>* The TIM ST COMPANY of WASHINGTON Washington, ——- —N. h . ' Educate For Business 'l'll. I'm- I ' ll' i- .1 - -I. V. « Prat'ln-.il J.iimo. • . .. ~,1 .. ~M i • ~ii* . h m.i I \mili Vjifii-i- t - 1 '. i. ~i iV. r:~.; . i; v t.t i-i-..'.-n ami 1k. i11. 1 i.i.j.f' |,„ I nijf .. \\ 1,:,. i,.i . ~|.,|..S C, / ■7 O- '• /T7/ > ' : Vu //s.j V, W///T' 1 / y v _ s / Bult'l)! 11. \ ( 'C , • | \ ( I t 7 x Kader B. .Crawford I " EVI'TRYTHING IN INSURANCE : " - _ jj CALL PHONE NO. 4!) / ■ t Vl . ' 7 iif"." . . J -ii— lup II jr-, ; ,i' '' _ ' J J Job Printing YOU WANT-SEE, OR CALL SIMON 1.111 FX I rr -~ j • *■ - PHONE 184 WILUAMSTON, N. «. . » like IN "l-l. DERS FIELDS" Popple* Bloom In Kearney, N J., In J Soil That Was Transported From Beautiful France. "In Flundelrs H'olfls the pojipleii j grow," buf not only In Flanders fields. Over in the federal Shipbuilding cotii- I) piiuy's yurds In Kearney, N. J:, French 1 I and BeJgiuu poppiei Tiloo'iu ftdth the 1 | Hume brave colors they showed on the | battlefields overseas. How did they j yet there? Well, That's a loin story. I J Henieuiber wheii our troop' ship* i 1 were speeding over the waters guarded j j by swift destroyers'/ Ami when other I vessels were Making the trip currying I food und other supplies to the brave | I unities overseasV Well, no troops were II homeward hound In those days, hut k the vessels did not come back with E empty holds Instead ms ballast thuy used soli B from Belgium and France. [ What to do with this ballast when 1 ttie ships touched New York was u I | problem untlJ olth'l'iiln of tiie shlphuild lux concern In Kearney usked for the " fi.i tl 11 liik h' purpnses As a result more than I#> luirjre loads were trims t ♦-lie(f froiu transports docked in 110 . j hokeii and curried to the yards, where ' I the soli was used to fUlu sort 11 f Ht'licli M mused'by the removal of a pipe line. | I And there the popples have been I blooming I'm more than a year initio I Heed except now and then by a puss ' ship worker They have Ihiiirished . j In their transplanted home perhups be- I cause they al'e used to trench life. \ Mitermlxed with the blood red pnpfiles ale I' I'eiich daisies, their petals blunter ( ftin 11 the Annrlcnn variety, and with hc\ era I blossoms growing from each .I- kI flu I'lohiiUy these lie weoiuel's | ivoulil still he 1111' iillced If the other ! Jay some one lui'lii t stopped the young | '.on "f the shlpvurd's chief of police ! 1.. 11-K where lie picked his scarlet 1 ll' »emi ,\ ' "These?" renuiVked the boy. holding I the (lowers on t loj observation "Oh, these ale I'.elgiiiii popples that grow wlhl dow II 111 my lather's yards. Want lu soiin V I'll show WONDERS FOUND IN NUMBERS 1 Undoubtedly »n Exact Sci ence, "they Are in Many W»yi Full of Imagination. All things are full of wonder, hut vvhui is more wonderful than numbers? \\ hu discovered them,, or cull they | boast all existence before tin) world j was, with the Ancient ot I'nysV At I the lirst awakening of hamuli kuovvl- I i-ilgi numbers were there, lor there cun ■ I lie no giiljierlng together nor niiy srpn 1 rating, no :.-ci,lli'clinn ufid no dlstrlhu | lion, without numbers. Tiny stuud . I hovering over ull, pi'ol"U|"' .>(' eternal ! law. j Numbers ut'e salil to I■■ .ill' exact sei ne e and to deiil vv 11 b 1 >1- which Clin I not lie, yet how lull ot Imagination ' t bey are. as viewed In I lie geoiuoll'lcii I j j exactness of the siioAllnkc, di'teriulli [•"lug t In* 1 11 in of tiie tides, the chunges i of tile Union, .the procession of our. [ days.ami the plum of the seiisnti* In I the vale of Hie years, May St 1 ntill 1 h:i 11 w i4i, -J 111 the Pittsburgh 1 Mspulcli. 'J the measure of our three dl lucli'sloys null, should time be discov ered to be our fourth dimension, us >,oiin''-'prophesy,' ihJre niinibers lire found ul.sn How Was He to Know? TTTe irnr?i imibiirritssing "irnvuieitf Itr my Uit'e ciiuie when 4 was a Junior In bigti school.- As In the case of' luost l.ojs of that iig'c, I bad 11 girl friend I e>. "itc.l in mill from various events II l ine evening we intended a Uu'lure givi'ii by it prominent- lawyer After it v* u" over 1 took the girl home and vie went iti.tn the library to study for 1 n —e \ till) ho* 'II her pill ell t .•» al lived | and were taking their wraps off In the I lIIIJI when her mother called to US uln) ' usked how vve llkeri the lecture. I liuinedhltely spoke up "\\ ell. 1 I didn't think much of It." No sooner hud the words been j spoken than In yvalked the speaker i with tli" rest the folks I nknovv 11 j to me In' was to stay at their home * uver night.—l'hleugo Tribune. Strong "Make Believe ,r Donald and Ids slsfei Helen delight | lu playing house together. l.a L child litis 11 house lu different parts of the | same 11. Helen was making 11 cull I on Donald, ami Donald invited her to I sit down on Ihe only chair lie had In | bis bouse while be sat down on u I small bucket,' widely lie lunl tinned upside down. Finally Donflld grew I restless sitting ull the upturned [' bucket* and In the course of the eott I vcrsalion he usked : "How lotfg iirv | you going to stay?" "1 tiling, I'll stay ull night.'' Donald tested around on the little I bucket which vvu B*l HM'omiiit; n more j uiu omfoi t nltlo h»'u t till tlif \\ hilo, ciiitl ! Mild qulto emphatically: Weil, It Nitu'le 10 Bluy ull I glU'.S# I you'll lin v 1 'To" jftV «s tiie th at Pliulr, cuts I cmi't stiiiid this bucket " Plan to Get Gold From Sand. It - has been known for many years I that Adlromluck mind contains gold de ! posits that with run from live to seven - dollars per ton. No practical process was known by which the gold could he I obtained at a profit, although several j attempts lulve been made in vurlotw sections of the mountains. .Now, however, it is reported that a process has been perfected which will 1 insure a profit, it mi that two hirj;o mills will soon he erected In the northern Adirondack*. Kucli will be, etpilpped i to handle ten Jons of sand per houi. I It Is ri r.ored the I'lipltul Is to he fur i utshc'l by a group of Ctuimllnii am] l ulled Status buukerfl. NOTH'K OF SAI.K —- - I Will sell iit-'iMthhr miction, for ctt-li jon Friday, September 16th, al 12 o'- , eh'iclt M., ifi front of the Fost Office " "in I'.vrTeTT", one fi pasH«*ti^er 1 known us tlie Ixiuis Itrowfi car, ito satisfy a lien /or labor and re pairs made on Januajv, ' ir/i, n the stun I This August THE ENTERPRISE 1 IS GfLF REALLY IRISH GAME 7 I Suggestion Put Forward, With St-ma Ev dence, oy Correspondent of New York Herald. 1 Writing to the New York Herald, a devoH-e of ihe 'T''Vill gutiie" 1 litltss the query "Is golf, after till, an Irish game t In asking the question it is done with respect, and reverence; in no sense to disturb the settled ease and mental j poise, und satisfaction of ye good Scot or Ilriton. Why the suggestion," how ! ever? Simply this: Ire In ml was the | first of the Islands to be reclaimed ], from Druidism and converted to Chris j tlatilty. That was lu the early Fifth ' century. After that Scotia or Scotland | lecunie 'hristiun— the Sixth century; ' IJII glllll i in tin high!h and Germany In the Ninth century, und all following j und through irlsli missionaries. also thut the Scotch und Irish were i practically all felt übd one people then ' and all friendly. Now. then. It Is of the old Irish folk lore that St. I'atrlck at the fuUKlus Druid feast showed (1) ' that the leg of 11 bird WHS larger than u quarter of beef that a dog could lull the bird. Mini (H) that three leuves . could Jointly subsist on one stem, and at lluit feast "tln-re were feats of ■ sireiigth and art ull rouyd." und among the games was the giilne of "Nine Holes That was the first mention of the nine hole ginne, of course, it was so played in Ireland for centuries. Jt was the pulling of till' bull Into each hole i of the nine as laid out In the course, i Therefore, the question * V\-yis-4imt g-ttHlt I the forerunner of Its kind in the world, \ uml If so was it the forerunner or key stone of golf.'/ ' AIR LIFEBOAT BRITISH IDEA Craft Designed foi Sea Rescue Work lb Soon to Be Given a Definite "Tryout." The tSr-t llfel I of the nir, which i has been built Willi great secrecy, is to In* luuuohc'l soon lu hiigluuil. After flic olliciiil 111111.-- It will j;o I lirough 11 scries "I tests'with the lil'it isll fleet It it plover, to be salisfaC \ tol >, u'large iiuuibet ot the crirft on a lull, 'l. In ire, rnle wlll.be 10l l»t I ll'ted. The de-ign Is Ihe outcome of three i veurs of secret ivst-'iiri'li alul ti'sls. 1 In* I dying -lifeboat will be able (0 reach u j vessel In distress al u speed ol more [ than WO miles nn hour, and It Is i claimed that it vvtll be able to ride through the roughest storin with the confident salefy Cfa uti Atlantic liner. 'The boats arc able to taxi along the j wtiler. Their -seaworthiness Is to be tested by sending Ihe first ex|ierlnieiitul ship j out -with the navy, where It is to re mtilb at sen • for severul dnys wltiioUt any "mother ship." | The wing spun of the one now near Ing completion Is Mil feel Safety In the 1110-t violent sen will come from the rcillein'e of Ihe hull, which Is In ■ ,11c p'ece from stem to slt'i u \\ hell tlds hull -strikes m huge wave It gives " way slightly In much the suine wuy 111111 li |' 11 >' 111111111 c tire d'l'S w it strikes 1111 obsiuele, on the road. Plan Shrlnea to Burroughs. The John Hiirrouglis .Meuiorlul as Noelullon bus started lis campaign to raise funds, to purchase "ami 1 mil 1111|i 11 tiie various properties of the bite nut mulls! Ii I s est 1111 a Ic4 It will lake -*~uboui— -SUtI.OUU. 4v puJ'cliuse Uu:iu. U4lJ un uddltlonal s4. » to jiiiiliitulli them' the first year - I he iissm liitloti Intends to mallitalu the Burroughs properties lis the nut ( uriilist .himself niuliilttliii'il them. Ills working library, some of Ids original miiuusi rlpfs lilies, shotguns and fish tackle will be exhibited. It Is the opinion of Ihe nssoctutlon that shrines t» greuf i.neii. , especJalTy -lit 11 ics to literary men. few, iiinl iliat the inn 11 y friends und udmlr crs o? John llurroughs w Ul._bt: Inter ested ill keeping up t-fie places In which in' lived, studied and labored * In Ihe ,M years of his life ll hopes | 10 raise funds to inulliluln these prop f cities by popular subscription New I York llines. Waterproof Matchea. - 1 'ntnpers and picnickers will liall with delight the new waterproof match, which cun, be easily iniidc at home In ! the following wii) : Melt u few luui|is 1 ! of candle wu* in an did can on the ! stove Allow this to a little and , I then, before it lius set, dip the mutches 1 | In, one at u ,tliue,. 'lYeut the heads und about half of the vviioden pint. I | Place 1 let- tiiittclies on one side to cool. I Matches treated In this simple manner 1 j luive been soaked 111 water for Jiutuy hours, and they have Ignited hs readily as ilio-e which were iierfectly dry. I'he . I only difference Is that, lu striking, It Is ■ j "heedful to do so a trl tie more fir ml# so I I 11s to get through the thin film of nui ; j surrounding the head. When om* the , flume sturts, the mutch burns very reud : lly, owing to the wax which has ad | iiered to the wood.. Any ordinary I matches.can be treated lu j described. The Unwslcome Stranger. I Sccjuf: Lobby of theater. A little I tailor, leading a boy about six years I old by the hand, gives the doorman line ticket. Dhuriittiii —Here 1 You've gotta have 11 ticket for that boy, Tailor For ills hoy 7 Ah, don't be, foolish, mister. He's only a' smuJl lit | He feller, lie won't do nothing. I Doorinati—l don't care. You can't i get lu iiniess you have a ticket t'or # the j boy. Tuji it's all right, mister. I I promise you 1 won't let him look.— j TheuU'i Magaitlne. Having' - qualified us uilniinistratoi of lite estate of .1 . S. Green, [Martin County, N. ('„ . all persons I indebted to said "estate are hereby no ■ tified to com efotwinil and settle same I- iH-Jlwry. All pi'i.sons holding claim:' , uKuinst said estate will present su.t c - for payment on ot before Septembe'i , .'lrd 1922, or this notice will lie plead in ha rof their recovery., '' This September 3, 1921: £. J. GREEN . . [ _ ■C. :. . - ,Y .... ■ r-e, . - '. Fair Week Specials -- ■ We have gone over our large sto'ck of groceries and picked out some "Fair Week Specials" to be sold at greatly reduced -| prices during Fair Week. " V ' ff "• 1 Come in and look over these specials if you really want to save money. We do not make a regular prac tice of cutting prices or putting on so-called "sales, but always give an honest dollar s worth for an honest dol lar. Ask anyone if "it pays to trade at Roberson's." I "T * 1 ' " x ~7 v '4 Theo. Roberson ! & Co. 1 . V . _ r . 1 |;,7 ; \ ' ■ ; v • ■, . - , ■ m 1 The Roanoke & Dixie 1 hj p I —Warehouses- - I ' ■, ' -T— — ' _ W)j ■»y ' IJ 71 WILLIAMSTON, - - North Carolina WJv ' ' , - • (ffl I■ • M .; - - '■ I I A Personal Message to You: | M . ™ v,j [Mi H'lJ ' ' * fiti S{) * Dear Sir:- As the sunflower turns its head to the sun, tl;e Ijji the farmers are turning heir tobacco to The ROANOKb AND fg |j] DIXIK Warehouses, where Ihey are .getting the highest prices jgj |)| and best averages as you see. Kvery day is a good sale day. fe Come"on, we are putting''"pep" in our sales. m Bk > . m ;y Ayerh and Manning, H)>B lbs. —sc, 12 l-2c, 18c, 21c, 30c, 'l2c, 57c, ' (j-c, (52; total $407.97/ average43.B2. ljj|| fo Marshall Beach, 172 lbs,- 24c. 49c, «0e572.48 average 42.14. |A | |r Roebuck Williams, 152 lbs.—2Bc, 53c, 55c, 00c; s7o.so,aver-jj| . age 50.33. . ( Jjw Y)f ')l* Roebuck and Williams, S(H) lbs. —23c, 51c, 01c, /0c; j|!• average 48.24. '■ • > jj» & Herbert Majming, 300 lbs.—2sc, 48c, 04, $143.74; average 39.93. jgf '> ►||W. H. Rodgers, 800lbs—21 l-2c, 40c, 40c, 50c, 05c, 80c $393.38; Bj *|j average 45.74. . ....——: — I. /' ty $ ' I'! Moore and Ewell, 558 lbs.—B3-4c, 30c, 40c, 46, 58c, 80c $238.22; J! g . average 42.78.
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