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A a 4 f ' >A, } Poole’s Medley ^ BT D. SCOTT POOLE In some of the histories I have read, I recall that atheism spread wide over the United States. The reason given was that the French, friends to Americans, were athe ists, an dthat is why so many were atheists in this country. But from the same history, I learned that religious revivals fol lowed in the currents of unbelief and washed them out of existence. “• If anything known to humanity has a firm foundatipn, it is the Christian faith. This is the only thing known to banish the fear of ■death. _____ ■ ! Some wicked men have no fear ■of danger, or even death, but that is because they are imable to do soimd reasoning. Recklessness drives men into danger. When he was discharged the latter part of April, 1865. he rode on top of a boxcar to High Point, and then walked home on 1 meal served him at GUlis Bros, five miles from his home. Numbers' of Southern soldiers returned to a spot marked by a blackened chimney that he called home, where the crib and smoke house were both empty. For die first years ^fter the Civil War. t^e price of cotton and other fairm products were good, and the south prospered. But from the autumn of 1873 till World War I only a few bright spots appeared. People lived on scant allowances and there were few opportunities for half a cen tury to get ahead. The first cook stove brought into our neighborhood was bought by Daniel McKenzie. The second stove was purchased by N. D. J. Clark in, the 1870’s. I was small enough to be allowed to hear what the visiting neighbor sain to mother as they discussed the neighborhood news. They debated which was better cooking, fire place or stove ci^oked victuals. life, but more plentiful than now Thirty men in a hunt up in Little River killed only two deer one day recently. wore hoopskirts, and when the j other boys and I wore wiregrass | boys .hats, when we did not get to plait straws for a better one. , The plows were home made from a bar iron. The stocks w’ere made of hewn or sawed timbers. It was an altogether homemade farm implement. I have helped to gather flow'ers to be used^as dye to color cloth. Over 1 year ago the Democrats said the rottenest politics in the world was Quay politics, directed by Quay and nobody else had much to do with it. Game was scarce in my early Ang Bailey, in upper Moore coxmty, was in a turkey blind one morning and a tensnag buck came along and was eating his turkey bait. Ang shot him not a yard from the muzzle of his gun and then got out, got his dogs and followed the deer up and down Deep River all day, and did not get him. The government inflated the currency in 1917, and cotton brought $100 a bale in September of that year, for the first time in the history of this country. There was no cotton offered during the iseo’s. Prbverty is not a disgrace in this country, for the people have had too many reasons to lose all they could make. I remember when the ladies Turkeys And Pork Head Foods List Turkeys, pork, cranberries, cabbage, and sweet potatoes are the foods featured on the U. S. Department of Agriculture’s plen tiful foods list for Deceiiiber, the local home demonstration agent for the State College Extension Service said this week. December shoppers will also find their favorite holiday friuts— apples, oranges and grapefruits— in plentiful supply on retail mar kets. Vegetables on the list .are carrots, onions, and Irish potatoes, the hornie agent said. In addition to turkeys from a record crop, and pork, resulting from heavy hog marketings, De cember menu-planners will fi'i..i abundant supplies of hens, broil ers, fryers, and fish on the maike:. Broilers and fryers should be especially good buys in December, the home agrat said. With sup plies heavy and prices reasonable in relation to other meats, ford buyers might consider stocking the home freezer or locker with broilers and fryers for future use, she pointed out. Plentiful supplies of lard will be available in December, she re ported, as well as cheese, peanut batter, eggi^ end ; Tbe 1991 enp at cotton wM be supported at 90 per cent o9 p«rf$r. Secretary of Agricoltiire Bran- nan has announced. The natioael goal in cotton productioii for next year has been set at 16 mflHoa bales. 0 - IT PATS TO AfrfgETMg IN THE NEWS-JOUBHAL INSURANCE ‘right here where you can reach us/ THE JOHNSON COMPANY RAEFORD, N. C. Representing THE TRAVELERS, Hartford Peter, while he was in Jerusa lem, thought it would be a good idea to practice what he preached, liberality, but found it impracti cal. Common sense must direct all things, if it succeeds. We are told that the object of the Reds is to put-out of the world all who oppose their views. There are people who are prompted in all they do by selfishness. My father was captured by the Union army in the latter part of July, 1864. He was clad in a sum mer uniform, and that was all he had to wear in. Elmira, N. Y. the following winter. I OO BLACK MORSES FEEL THE HEAT MORE T^N .. „WHITE HORSES? ©A A.«. CAN YOU PURCHASE A GAS WATER HEATER THAT WILL CUT IT SELF OFF WHEN THE WATER IS HOT? an swer: YES. IT IS CALLED AN AUTOMATIC GAS WATER HEATER/ --- Sold by your nearest JOHNSON COTTON CO. 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