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bale Carneme 5-Minute Biographies Jam Author of "How to Win Friends WHHE and Influence People DIAMOND JIM BRADY He Offered A Million Dollars For A Bride Diamond Jim Brady, the Ha roun A) Raschid of Broadway, died during the World War; and his passing robbed the Great White Way of one of its most in credible phenomena. While he liv ed, Brady threw the wildest par ties this weary old world had seen since the days when the old Ro man Emperors dined on the nightingale's tongues. Sometimes he had as many as five parties whooping it up all at once in five different parts of town. Some times these parties lasted for sev enteen riotous hours, and cost as high as a hundred thousand dol lars. He was fond of presenting his guests with souvenirs to take home with them—little knick knacks and mementoes, such as diamond brooches or diamond watches worth a thousand dollars apiece. He weighed two hundred and fifty pounds, and loved to eat. He devoured a fifteen-course dinner every night with usually two or three helpings of all the main courses. Then he would eat a pound of chocolates and take a GARDEN AND FLOWER SEED Of All Kinds At F.A.Brendle & Son Elkin, N. C. IT PAYS TO SHOP AT PENNEYS t We sincerely thank you for the hearty response given us last week on our 36th Anniversary. We planned months ahead for this money-saving event and feel that our efforts in your behalf were ap- PM preciated. This is the last week of our Anniver- ByA sary. Hundreds of cash saving items await you this week. □ TOPPER COATS The ever popular Suede Top- Jm Qv per Coat in the wanted spring JW • L 3 shades of strawberry and | gold. Sizes 12 to 16. A H "JEAN NEDRA" HATS Efl We invite you to see our splen- g% did line of "Jane Nedra" hats B B for ladies and Misses in the popular bonnet and other new- _ mm p| est spring styles and colors. Vf H SILK HOSIERY CI We didn't think it could be done, VI M N but here they are—additional llv Ml shipment of full fashioned silk hose, strictly first quality. aB a W P| Pair— □ MEN;S DRESS SHIRTS M Last call! No more after these ■ i are gone! Men's full cut, non- MW W I wilt collar dress shirts. Sizes 4bli BUB' • 14 to 17. jf %J fcj. Ties 10c R ANKLETS jBM 500 pairs of anklets in all the g% iyi wanted styles and colors. Don't v* lH miss this chance to cover your M summer needs. "Anniversary Spe- a .fSj. rial." Sizes 6 to 10. Pair— box of peppermints along to the theatre. He sent hundreds of box es of candy to his friends each week. His candy bill alone aver aged between two and three thou sand dollars a month. He detest ed tea and coffee, but he had a passion for orange juice. Hie drank a whole gallon or orange juice before he even tucked a napkin under his bottom-most chin, and he often guzzled anoth er whole pallon with his meal. Once he ate six chickens at one sitting. This sounds fantastic but in his old age, when he underwent an operation, the doctors discov er that he had a stomach six times the normal size. How did Diamond Jim Brady make his millions? He was one of the most expert salesmen that this high-pressure country ever produced. Besides, he was lucky. He got the breaks. He started sell ing steel cars in the early days when the railroads were equipped with wooden coaches. The coun try was expending. Railroads were being flung like lariats from ocean to ocean and from Canada to the Gulf. When he first started selling steel cars, they were still an ex periment. No one wanted them. So he was given what turned out to be a phenomenal contract. This contract gave him 33 1-3 per cent commission on every car he sold. Presently every railroad in the nation was clamoring for steel cars. And they had to come, hat in hand, to Diamond Jim Brady to get them, for at that time he had no competition. So he made twelve million dollars selling steel cars. He was a product of his age. If he had been born fifty years later and tried selling steel cars THE ELKIN TRIBUNE. ELKIN. NORTH CAROLINA today, he might not have been able to pay his grocery bill. Diamond Jim made himself fa mous from Skowhegan to Santa Fe by one of the weirdest public ity stunts ever heard of since the days of Barnum. He literally be decked himself with diamonds. He owned a different set of Jewelry for every day in the month, and he frequently changed his jewelry as often as six or seven times a day. He used to ramble down Broadway bespangled with no less than two thousand, five hundred and forty-eight scintillating dia monds —and nineteen rubies. He wore priceless shirtstuds made to re-present bicycles and automo biles and cuff-links made like lo comotives and freight cars. He presented Lillian Russell with a bicycle plated with gold and studded all oyer with hun dreds of diamonds,* rubies, sap phires and emerolds. And when the shapely Lillian pedaled that bike up Fifth Avenue well, things happened to the traffic. Everyone "loved" Diamond Jim, yet he always remained a bachel or. He laid a million dollars in Lillian Russell's lap and asked her to marry him, but she refused. And once he said. "There ain't a woman in the world would marry an ugly lookin' guy like me," and he laid his head on the table and cried like a baby. Copyright, 1938 6TH MONTH HONOR ROLL MOUNTAIN PARK SCHOOL The following is the list of hon or students for the sixth month at Mountain Park high school: First grade: Josephine Gentjry. Maudie Faye Hodge, Ella Mae Isaacs, Winnie Luffman, Doris Pruitt, Collie Wilmoth, Raydell Wolfe, Bobby Lee Cockerham, Charles Pardue, P. G. Walters, Doris Thompson, Guy Tilley, Beauford Wood, Dorothy Shore. Second grade: Lonnie Isaacs, Dean Ross, Bob Welborn, Billy Wood, Dorothy Calloway, Eliza beth Cockerham, Aurelia Nixon, Frances Nixon, Stuart Simmons, Martha Whitehead, Doswell Gen try. Third grade: William Noah, Edgar Norman, Margaret Norman, Pearl Hodge, Wallace Cockerham, Fred Harrfs, Dot Harris, Penny Hanes, Irene Gentry, Hazel Par due, Louise Shores, Jimmy Shores, Harold Snow, Betty Swift, Mo zelle Simmons, Howard Thomp i son, Dorothy Thompson, Freddy Warfield, Wanda Welborn. Lois Wolfe. Fourth grade: Rosa Lee Wall, Mary Wood, Elois Noah, Nellie Holcomb, Helen Snow, Dorothy Pardue, Irene Pardue, Nancy Hanes, Sadie Franklin, Martha Walters, Peggy Wolfe, Faye Cal loway, Dorothy Loyd, Leola Ross, Dorothy Wilmoth, Mary Ruth Calloway, Josephine Southard. Margaret Cockerham, Tommie Wood, Clifton Nixon, Homer Wal lace. Fifth Grade: Ruth Calloway, Fred Sidden, Francis Caudill, Pauline Wood, Tiny Smith, Avis Mays, Homer Miller, Doris Bau gess, Vivian Hemric. Sixth grade: Irene Simmons, Hazel Snow, Arlene Williams, George Saylor, Harold Smith, Re ba Jane Royal, Hessie Luffman, Joe Bill Isaacs, Bert Cockerham. Seventh grade: Clyde Walters, Buster Smith, Calvin Hodge. Eighth grade: Bettie Linville, Austin Caudle, Ruth Smith, Mabel Simmons, Dorothy Cockerham. Ninth grade: Pauline Cocker ham, Lois Southard, Doris Snow, Ruth Nixon, Annie Laurie John son, Emma Jane Linville, Annie Lee Harris, Gertrude Guyer. Tenth grade: Nancy Calloway, Versie Collins, Fairy Dobbins, Ha zel Mounce, Sylvia Norman, Gra de Sidden, Ruth Thompson, Dol lie Caudill, Jack Robinson, Ima Gene Welborn, Magdalene South ard, Stella Mounce. Eleventh grade: Cecil Mae Richardson, Hazel Wood, Lillian Caudill, Reba Callaway, Jane Nix on, Martin Callaway, Helen Wall, Paul Callaway, Clark Cockerham, Ella Guyer. ST. PAUL There is quite a lot of whoop ing cough in this community. Mrs. Sina Walker spent several days last week in Wilkes county, visiting her son, Wade Walker. We are glad to know that Mrs. Beverage Reavis is much improv ed after being confined to her bed for sometime. Mrs. E. O. Myers is spending sometime in Yadklnville, the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Herman Cash. Friends of Mrs. Cash will regret to know that she has been 111 for sometime. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Nicholson and children attended services at Grassy Knob church last Sunday. Miss Dixie Allred of Boone spent the week-end here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Marcus All red. Farmers in this section are busy preparing for their crops. Rev. and Mrs. D. C. Swaim of Winston-Salem visited Mrs. Swalm's sister, Mrs. Clay Macey, last Sunday. Patronize Tribune advertisers Starts Drive m Wiley L. Moore, oil company executive, who has launched a "Drive Safely Crusade" through out three states and who is offer ing attractive cash prizes for best safety slogans. OIL CO. SPONSORS SAFETY CRUSADE To Offer Attractive Prizes to Those Writing Best Safe ty Slogan DEATH TOLL IS LARGE Once again Wiley L. Moore in augrates a great and unselfish campaign for the public benefit — the "Drive Safely Crusade" being sponsored by oil companies of which he is president in North and South Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia. Statistics show that in these four states alone there were 2,852 deaths from motor vehicle accid ents in 1937. Traffic on streets and .highways increases by leaps and bounds. The speed of motor ve hicles has been enormously in creased in all types and classes. To maintain police surveillanca of every highway is manifestly out of the question. The only conreiv i able solution of the appalling I problem of death and mangling injury is to induce the largest possible number of drivers to police themselves. That is the basic idea and ob jective in this new and distinctive ly constructive c&mpaign Mr. Moore has inaugrated, and which his oil companies will put forward in the four states above named. In no sense whatever will the "Drive Safely Crusade" be com mercialized. An employee of one of Mr. Moore's Purol-Pep stations who attempts to sell a motor ve hicle driver any gas. oil or service, on the strength of the driver having enlisted as a member of the crusade, will be dismissed. Any driver of a motor vehicle can enlist without charge, and attractive cash prizes will be of fered. A driver simply signs a pledge to drive safely, "To save a life, to avoid an accident, to pre vent an injury." He receives an attractive metal emblem to be at tached on top of the license plate of his car or truck. He is then en titled to compete with other mem bers of the "Drive Safely Cru sade" in writing slogans to drive home to the minds of all drivers the thought of Safety. During the month of April Mr. Moore will re ward the winning slogan writers cash prizes aggregating $3,000 SI,OOO in the Carolinas SI,OOO in Tennessee and SI,OOO in Georgia. "If only one human life is saved as a result of this campaign," comments Mr. Moore, "it will be worth all the money it costs. The objective will be to persuade driv ers to keep always in mind the thought of safety, not only for themselves but for others." This unselfish and constructive movement into which Wiley Moore has launched his enthu saism and financial backing is only one of the many which he has sponsored in the public in terest. W. O. W. STRING BAND TO PLAY TRAPHILL Members of the Elkin Wood men of the World String Band will present an entertaining pro gram in the auditorium of Trap hill school Saturday evening be ginning at 8:00 o'clock. Featured on the program will be Vestal Henderson, Jesse Mitch ell, Thomas Mcßride, Brady Os borne and other entertainers. Comedy will be provided by "Ducky" and "Beans," blackface comedians. Proceeds of the show will be for the benefit of the school. A nom inal admission will be charged. Easy and Hard Guppy: It's so hard to be poor! Stingo: And still it's so easy. BETHEL | Fonda, Route 2, March 28. —It is with sorrow that we learn- of Mr. Oscar Lewis losing his barn, £tock feed and some farming tools by fire last Saturday night. Deputy Sheriff Worth Sale was a business visitor in this com munity last Friday. Mr. and Mrs. T. T. Harris and children Daphne and Mack of ) Jonesville were the of the former's sister and family here last Sunday, Mrs. D. S. Gilliam. While here Mrs. Harris visited Mrs. W. H. Jones for a while. They were former residents of this place and have many friends here who are always glad for them to come back. Messrs. Dewey and Glenn Myers and sister, Miss HUzte Myers left last Friday for a week's visit with their brother and family in Indi ana, Mr. and Mrs. Orville Myers. Bobby Gilliam and Thomas Stroud got a big thrill today (Monday) from*going to school on the bus, to attend the pre-school clinic, at Ronda. Mr. Fred Swaim of the Swan Creek community, with his car ' penters, have just completed a big new feed bam on the J. B. Armstrong farm here. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Pardue a daughter, March 21, named Ruby Lou. Mrs. W. T. Morrison and fam ily have moved into their new , house recently completed here. Mr. and Mrs. Tom O. Pardue re -1 turned last week to their home in Gaffney, S. C. after visiting rela ( tives here for a few days. Mrs. Lillie Holloman has been confined to her home for quite a while with illness, we regret to note. gk gk checks 666 CO - DS ZJTJZ FEVER Salve, Nose Drops Headache, 30 minutes Try "Eub-My-Tian"-World's Best Liniment 7 BIG PUBLICATIONS Each for One Year—a Total of 124 Issues iIKS"" —-f gj Here's What You Get! AH Seven McCalPs Magazine 12 Issues For Q ne y ear Pictorial Review 12 Issues / Woman's World 12 Issues ( Good Stories 12 Issues I fl? ■ ■ [Z jl The Country Home 12 Issues J t|/ M9%J \J *Progressive Farmer 12 Issues ' g The Elkin Tribune 52 Issues Hi *| —[Check here if you want Southern A*ricultulst, one year, substituted for Progressive Farmer. 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En closed is $2.50 in FULL PAYMENT for a ONE YEAR'S subscription, new or re newal, to the following seven publications: THE ELKIN TRIBUNE /I year GOOD STORIES 1 -year McCALL'S MAGAZINE 1 year THE COUNTRY HOME .1 year PICTORIAL REVIEW 1 year *PROGRESSIVE FARMER 1 year WOMAN'S WORLD 1 year "I —[Check here if you want Southern Africultuist, one year, substituted for Progressive Farmer. My name is Address : Town ...State Significant Dream Doodle: I dreamed last night that I proposed to you. I wonder what that's a sign of? Dipsy: It's a sign that you have more sense when you're asleep than when awake. Monopoly Quiggle: Don't act like a fool. Peewitt: There you go you want a monopoly on everything. Eyes Examined Office: Glasses Fitted The Bank of BiH" Building DR. P. W. GREEN OPTOMETRIST Offices open daily for optical repairs and adjustments of all kinds. Examinations on Tuesdays and Fridays from 1 to 5 p. m. By Appointment Phone 149 1 TO BE A WINNER I We know that OUR FRIENDS, the farmers, in this section are wide-awake, progressive people who love a winner. We offer you a WINNER— INTERNATIONAL—that simply can't be beat. Read what Mr. P. R. Blackard, Route No. 1, Julian, N. C., says about his tobacco crop: "I will give you a few facts which I have figures to back up, and which have convinced me that In- I ternational Fertilizers are the best suited for this section: 1935—14 acres i $5,442.67 1936—12 acres 5,504.28 1937—12 acres 4,432.31 3 yrs.—3B acres $15,379.26 An average of $5,126.32 per year or $404.72 per acre over a period of 3 years. DO YOURSELF A FAVOR USE INTERNATIONAL CROP PRODUCING FERTILIZERS CASH AND CARRY STORES I Elk in, N. C. Thursday. March 31, 1938 CARD OF THANKS We want to express our sincere appreciation to our many friends for the kindness shown us during the illness and death of our mother, Mrs. D. L. Lawrence, par ticularly we want to thank the staff at Hugh Chatham Memor ial Hospital for their kindness and services. ltc THE FAMILY.
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