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THE GAB BAG (By Alan Browning, Jr.) BUMMHRFIELD MARTIN It's fuuny how one runs across si old acquaintance in unexpected places. Several years ago when we were running about taking snap shots for the Greensboro Daily Record, the editor of that peppy afternoon jour nal dashed hurriedly into the office and announced that three prisoners had escaped the Forsyth county chain gang and were having a run ning gun fight with the sheriff and his deputies in the direction of Greensboro. Three minutes later we were In the editor's car, en route to Guilford College, armed with a speed graphic camera, a pencil and some copy pa per. And when we reached our destination we were informed that the convicts had abandoned their machine and had taken to the woods above the village. It was learned that the convicts were one Summer field Martin, John Mclver, and a youth whose name has escaped us. Joining the large body of men who had gathered and were scour ing the woods to the north of the highway, we encountered wood ticks, mosquitoes and snakes, but never a trace of the fugitives. Men NOTICE Treasury Department Office of the Comptroller of the Currency Washington, D. C. February 25, 1932 NOTICE is hereby given to all persons who may have claims against "The Elkin National Bank, of Elkin, North Carolina," that the sam e must be presented to W. H. Spradlin, Receiver, with the legal proof thereof, within three months from this date, or they may be dis allowed. J. W. POLE, 5-26 Comptroller of tire Currency — PROGRAM AT THE LYRIC ELKIN, N. C. THIS WEEK Thursday-Friday— "DANCE TEAM" With JAMES DUNN AND SALLY EILERS They tried to side-step love. Added—News and Krazy Kat Cartoon Prices—Day and Night, 10c-30c Saturday— "LAW AND ORDER" With WALTER HUSTON Gambling dens wide open; every citizen armed; shoot ing on the corner; !ynchings at the lamp posts; a drama of the untamed day when might was right and 45 spelled "Law and Order." Added —Serial and Good Comedy PRICES DAY AND NIGHT—IOc and 30c NEXT WEEK Monday-Tuesday— "AFTEß TOMORROW" With CHAS. FARRELL AND MARION NIXON Its drama speaks to every heart that has ever known love. The sweethearts of the world will understand Its poignant romance—a boy and girl bravely facing the tragedies and disappointments of today to reach tomor row's love and happiness. Added—News and Comedy PRICES DAY AND NIGHT—IOc and 30c Wednesday— BIG FAMILY SHOW "QUICK TRIGGER LEE" PRICES DAY AND NIGHT—IOc and 15c Free Ticket to Lyric Free Ticket to Lyric Theatre, Elkin, N. C. Theatre, Elkin, N. C. This ticket good for one This ticket good for one FREE admission when ao» FREE admission when ac companied by one paid ~>mp*nied by one paid adult's ticket. adult's ticket. Good Thursday - Friday, Good Monday - Tuesday March lOth-llth March 14th-15th iLouis Mitchell, Manager Louis Mitchell, Manager armed with pistols, with shotguns, with pitchforks and clubs beat every bush and looked into every gully but found nothing (and looked mightily relieved when they didn't). After about an hour we personal ly gave up the hunt and hied our selves to Winston-Salem after a photo of the car in which the des perados had made their escape. Lo cated at last in a barred inclosure, the machine, which was practically new, was a mass of bullet holes. Small round holes in the rear glass and larger holes in the body of the car gave evidence to the hotness of tne chase. All told, about 15 or 20 bullets had crashed into the rear of the car, yet the fugitives escaped with their lives. We had forgotten the whole af fair until the trial of Summerfield Martin In Yadkinvllle last Wednes day. He claimed that 30 years was too much for his participation in a crime that ended a human life. Vet it was no fault of his that several human lives were not snuffed out in that running fight several years ago. He and his companions were shoot ing at the front of the sheriff's car —and they were shooting to kill! NO CINCH Many people are under the im pression that a news photographer's life is easy—that all he has to do is to prance around and click his cam era. Phooey! A negro man in Greensboro de liberately shot a white man in the back in Greensboro several years ago with a shot gun, and then took to' the tall timbers. The shooting.jfras so unwarranted that feeling ran high and in no 4tll a large posse was scouring the timber south of the city, hot on his trail. Then came report that he had been aurpofinded in a dense wood. THE SLBff fPHSUNB. BLKBi. NORTH CAROLINA The editor oT The Record figured that a photograph of the search in full swing and another photograph of tho capture of the negro would make fine front page material for the afternoon edition. And so he gave us orders to get the photos. It's exciting to read about posses surrounding and capturing a half crazed negro armed with a loaded double barrel shot gun but getting out in the thickets and hunting for him personally isn't so appealing. Once we reached the scene a nice policeman gave us a pistol and a pocketful of bullets. We didn't tell him we didn't know which end of the thing to point, but acted very brave and pushed Into the woods in company with a big fat policeman who appeared very brave until he would hear a stick snap somewhere and then he would suddenly think of business elsewhere. As for ns, we were shaking so hard that we dropped our camera and pistol at every third jump. At last w e closed in upon our quarry. A thick clump of bushes was seen to sway ever so lightly near the bank of a marsh. The posse had come up full strength and the ■police captain who was in charge gave orders for everyone to be ready to shoot in case the fugitive decided to do business with his shotgun. All was as still as death. Only the drone of mosquitos as they buz zed about our ears and necks, broke the stillness. Then from the bushes came a faint sound, as If someone moving stealthily—moving to an el bow position in the act of training a very large shotgun upon a very scared news photographer, perhaptw Then suddenly, amid the shouts of the men, a rabbit scurried from the thicket and bounded away! A few minutes later word reached 'tis that the negro had been peace fully arrested as he entered the town of Liberty, 20 miles south. Shucks, seems like we never will get to be a hero. HOME MADE WISE CRACK Simpson was sweating over a cross word puzzle the other day, breaking the points of our pencils as fast as we could sharpen them. Then he asked: "What is a four let ter word meaning "Straight shaft?" Hard at work and not wanting to be bothered, we answered: "flue?" j"Nope," said Simpson, "that's not a traight shaft, that's a straight draft." Can you beat it?" • * • JOBE FOREFEET BRAYS AGAIN Scuntsville, N. C. Juvember 46, 2391. Mr. Browning Editor, Gab Bag Dear Sar: In regards to your oration of last week in the gab bag would like to say you insulted me beyound your rights. I have been going to night school and can spell better than as before, Please do not sell calamity as I told you to before but carry It around to Bill Price and get him to fill it up full of meditation soes you can haul off those 312 dozen aigs you collected last week, Hoping to hear from you in the gab bag soon JOBE FOREFEET. Changing Poultry Feed May Destroy Profits It is a wise plan to use home grown feeds for poultry but it is a poor policy to substitute poorer feeds in an effort to keep down ex penses. To do so may cut deeply into the profits to be expected from the flocks this season. "Poultry has suffered alon;j with other farm crops but due to the drop in feed prices in proportion to the prices being received for eggs and because of the mild winter permit ting production to stay at level, poultrymen have been much en couraged to go ahead with their work," says Roy S. Dearstyne, head of the poultry department at State College. "'However, some poultry men have attempted to increase their margin of profit by decreasing the feeding or substituting certain feeds which do not give as good re sults. One of the main substitu tions being practiced is to use vege table protein feeds for animal pro tein feeds. Soybean meal and pea j nut meal are good if used in limited quantities but they Bhould not en tirely displace the animal protein especially at this season of the year when production is heavy and the eggs are being used for hatching." Any radical change from the usual methods of feeding at this time is likely to be reflected in the hatch ability of the eggs or the livability of the chicks, Mr. Dearstyne says. The breeding hens should be fed so that they will produce only the high est quality of eggs. Mr. Dearstyne insists that green feed, plenty of sunlight, an adequate mineral supply and milk in some form should bo fed the birds to get the best egg for producing healthy chicks. If the breeding birds are to go through a long laying season and | maintain body weight, they must be fed a balanced ration. It is par ticularly unwise to depend on grain feeds alone without mash. LOOKING BACKWARD 12 YEARS * Interesting items from Tribune files of 12 years ago this week. The tail-end of the blizzard that swept over the northwest last week, struck us here Saturday afternoon, and Sunday morning we experienced a regular snow storm for a short while. The next time tho weather man foretells a blizzard we hope will switch it in another direction or side track it where there plen ty of coal. Attorneys J. F. Hendren and H. H. Barker left Monday afternoon for Washington, D. C. In these days of political strife and turmoil a fellow never knows what the lawyers have up their sleeves. We hear that ths owners of the old "Myrtle Inn" near the depot will have the building thoroughly reno vated, refurnished in first class style and opened as a hotel for the accommodation of travelers and the general public early in the spring. The second quarterly conference for Elkin station, M. E. Church, South, was held here last Friday night. Rev. W. F. Womble, P. E., was present and presided. All mem bers of the board of stewards were present except two. The following were elected delegates to represent this charge at the district confer ence which will be held at Pilot Mountain on July first: Messrs. J. NOTICE By virtue of an order of the Su perior court of Surry county as CommisiVoner, I will sell at public auction, on the premises, on Satur day, the 2nt" day of April, 1932, at one o'clock P. M., the following real estate lying in Surry county, N. C.: First Tract. Adjoining James Mathis, Rufus Coe and others, be ginning on said Vohn Ellis' south west corner and runs west 8.08 chains to a stake then north 40 chains to a black o%k; then east 25.8 chains to his corner, south 29.71 chains to his jorner; then west with his line 24 \bains to his corner; then south 10.*$ chains to the beginning, containing 75 acres, more or less, except one acto con veyed to Cora Coe. Second Tract: Adjoining the above tract, beginning on a black oak, runs with Crowder's line west to a Spanish oak, Crowder's and J. A. Collins' corner; then west chains to a stake; then south 14 chains to a white oak, J. A. Col lins' corner; then a degree line, be ing a marked line to a post oak in Jonaz McCormick's line; then north with said line to the beginning, con taining 20 acres, more or less. Terms of sale: One-half cash on confirmation of the sale and th e re mainder to be paid the Ist day of January, 1933. Sale will be made for assets to pay debts against the estate of Jonas F. McCormick, dec'd. This, the 29th day of February, 1932. W. P. McCORMICK. 8-24 Commissioner. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS OP THE ELKIN NATIONAL BANK Washington, D. C., February 16 th, 1932. To All Whom It May Concern: WHEREAS, upon a proper ac counting of the Receiver heretofore appointed to collect the assets of THE ELKIN NATIONAL BANK, Elkin, North Carolina, and upon a valuation of the uncollected assets remaining in his hands, it appears to my satisfaction that in order to pay the debts of such association it is necessary to enforce the in dividual liability of the stockholders therefor to the extent hereinafter mentioned as prescribed by Sections 5151 and 5234 of the Revised Statutes of th e United Stateß, Sec tion lc, 166, Act of June 30, 1876, and Section 23, Act approved Decem ber 23, 1913, known as Federal Re serve Act. NOW, THEREFORE, by vrtu e of the authority vested in me by law, I do hereby make an assessment and requisition upon the sharehold ers of the said "THE ELKIN NA TIONAL BANK," For Fifty Thous and (|50,000.) Dollars to be paid by them on or before the twenty-third day of March, 1932, and I hereby make demand ujpon each and every one of them for one hundred per cent of the par value of each and every share of the capital stock of said association held or owned by them, respectively, at the time of its failure; and I hereby direct W. H. Spradlin, the Receiver fore appointed, to take all necessity proceedings, by suit or others A Be> to enforce to that extent the individual liability of the said sfcfere holders. J " IN WITNESS WHEREOF;/have hereto set my hand and ca|fo, e i m y seal of office to b e to these presents, at the City of Washington, In the District of Columbia this sixteenth day of February! d., 1932. f F. O. Awii/r, Acting Comptroller of tho fcurreney 8-18 H. Allen, C.' G. Armfield, J. g. Bell and Mrs. W. S. Reich. Reoorts which are considered re liable say that In the very near fn jture the wedding bells will ring in ;Elkin, to announce the departure of {another fair belle from the state of single blessedness to that of mar | ried bliss. Don't ask us any ques tions. The Civic League held a business meeting in the Epworth league room Tuesday afternoon. The meeting ras presided over by Mrs. J. B. Hor ton, president. We learn that the ladies of the town who are members of the league are going to make a determined effort this y«&r to have Eyes Examined JF Glasses Pitted DR. P. W. - OPTOMET Specializing in straightening cross eye Examinations on Tnesdays : NOTICE % Pay your electric Jight bills V month and save the discoun SOUTHERN PUBLH g I BR! PER THOUSAND 'Common and scratch shale brick delivered in any quantities at the lowest price to be obtained in Elkin. When planning your building job you will want the best. I can furnish jt>rr-quick?y.. -4. SEE ME FOR ANY KIND OF BRICK IH. MADISON Below Carolina Ice & Fuel Co. Elkin, N. C. A Tower of Strength. .. . The elephant is regarded by all as a tower of strength. He has proved his possession of this quality. This same quality is predominant in this Bank. The conservative, sound management under which it oper ates, adds to this strength and in stills confidence in its customers. Make this strong bank your perma nent banking place. Its equipment is adequate to render you a compre hensive service. We fltil have a number of strong safety deposit boxes for rent at a very pominal fee. If you do not have a safe place for your valuable papers suggest that you call in and let 08 show you these boxes. BANK / Of ELK IN! the pes cent -• « Jit- ■ : BBiIES llPii£& 1 It, r " -*- -* "' " re BRS s "* ..iri.vSa;® u*» m: :>«£.&,, ;;; .... F.I toVi ri an
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