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■ ..ii 11 i ii bate Carnegie 5-Minute Biographies Author of "How to Win Friend* 1 and Influence People." WILLIAM PENN ROGERS He Was Paid $333 a Minute to Talk on the Radio Who do you suppose was the man who, a few years ago, made the largest income of anyone in the United States merely by use of his own talents, without any business, without any investment, without having a lot of other people working for him? Charlie Chaplin? No! Greta Garbo? No! Amos 'n' Andy? No! Rudy Vallee? No! No, this biggest money-maker was a man who never had very much education. He used bad English. He wore old clothes, he was lazy, he was almost always late to an appointment, and he loved to chew gum. His name was Will Rogers, He got $375,000 a year for mak ing three pictures; and he got S4OO a day or $2,800 a week for his newspaper column. He got a thousand dollars for merely mak ing a funny speech. He got $333 a minute for talking over the radio. Why, he could Just pause between sentences and make ten or fifteen dollars. He was bom on Election Day and he made half a million dol lars cracking jokes about Con gress. He was born in the Indian Territory near a little place called Oologah. , During the first part of his life, Will planned to go into the min istry. His mother was a great admirer of William Penn, so she Mattie Mae PoweH NOTARY PUBLIC Building A Loan OMm Main Street QUICK RELIEF FROM STOMACH ULCERS DUE TO EXCESS ACID Free Book Tells of Marvelous Nome Treatment that Must Hate or It Will Cost You Nothing TRKATMKNT hnt beenaoiufor Stamch andDmrfmal Utcarstfoe to Cxmm W»l*l»,«iw orUp—tst—»- TURNER DRUG COMPANY Hurry For These Big Specials! THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY ARE LAST THREE DAYS OF BELK'S JANUARY CLEARANCE SALE! 3,000 YARDS 1~~ One Table 1 Short Length LADIES' PANTIES PERCALES • 29c and 39c Values 19c-22c and VH 1 Special O 25c Value .... lU* lvC 2 Pairs for OOC BIG BUY! Ilf J Of jf BIG VALUE! W mdow ohades VENETIAN EXTRA SPECIAL! BUNDS EASY-CLEAN, WASHABLE FIBRE Beady to Hang ' 36x72 Inches 97° EA. | 29c EACH HUNDBEPS OF OTHER SPECIAL VALUE ITEMS BELK-DOUGHTON CO. named him William Penn Adah- Rogers. Both of his parents were part Indian—his mother one-fourth, and his father one-eighth. For years his father sat in the coun cils of the Cherokees as one of their -wise men. The first time Will ever came to New York he rode a freight train with a load of cattle. He fed and watered the cattle and slept sitting up in the caboose of the train all the way from Okla homa to New York City. He walked up Broadway with his cowboy boots and his country clothes and of course people laughed at him. One man snatch ed off his hat and jeered at him. The last time he came by air plane, stopped at the Waldorf- Astoria, and when he walked along the street, people stopped and stared at him and crowded around him. begging for his auto graph. When he was a young man, Rogers wanted to see the world, so he went to South America, traveling steerage to save money. He got a job there punching cat tle at four dollars a month. When the Boer War broke out, he went to South Africa on a cat tle boat and got a job breaking wild horses for the British cav alry. When the war was over, he was so hard up that he had to live with the soldiers in the army barracks and eat handouts that the cook gave him. Wanting to %et back to America, he joined a small traveling circus as a trick rider and rope-spinner under the name of "The Cherokee Kid." And that was the way Will Rogers broke into the show busi ness. He married Miss Betty Blake, a girl who was bom in Arkansas. The first time he ever saw her, she was sitting on a front porch in Claremore, Oklahoma, drink ing lemonade. He had just bought a new bicycle and wanted to show off; so he tried to ~do a bit of trick riding and fell off and hurt himself. Miss Blake rushed out and picked him up and helped wash a cut on his hand. That is the way he met Betty Blake. There were many astonishing things about Will Rogers: he met kings and queens and was en- THE ELETN TRIBUNE, ELKIN, NORTH CAROLINA They Differ Together '.i. If-1 jjjj p p g p" Shown here are Marion and Edison Haire, brothers, who live near Yadkinville. They own and operate together one of the largest farms in the county. They married sisters and all live in the same big home. Marion, left, is a Republican and Edison is a Democrat; Marion is a deputy sheriff and Edison is a Justice of the peace. All family bills are paid out of a general fund. If one of the children needs correcting, the one nearest by attends to it and nobody grumbles. The entire families belong to Center Methodist church, which their late father, John M. Haire, helped to establish. They all eat at the same table and own the family j car together. tertained by the high and mighty of this earth—and yet he never owned a long-tailed coat. He wore old, dilapidated clothes and he frequently drove into Hol lywood or Los Angeles without a necktie and wearing boots and old, blue denim overalls with brass rivets in them. He was proud of his Indian ancestry. He said, "M!y folks didn't come over on the May flower, but when the Mayflower landed, we were there to meet them." HONOR ROLL FOR 4th MONTH W. YADKIN The following is the honor roll for the fourth month of West Yadkin high school: First grade: Norma Allred, Hel en Carter, Grace Cass, Barbara Ireland, Doris Livengood, Pris cilla Moore, Azeline Martin, Imelda Neal, Sarah Swaim, Rex Johnson, Ida Shore. Second grade: Annie Pearl Ireland. Carol Brandon, Sue Johnson, Grace King. Margaret Steelman. Lucille Holleman, Leo Myers, Harrell Wagoner. Third grade: Herbert Bryant, Jean Current, Louise Long. Joe Pinnix, Mattie Q., Weatherman Fifth grade: F-dwina Reinhardt. Sixth grade: Luther Bell. Seventh grade: Angeline Wag oner. Eighth grade: Sallie Ruth Brown, Helen Carter. Eva Mae Wood. Ninth grade: Lois Calloway, Mary B. Groce, Ruby Pinnix. Tenth grade: Eva Ireland, De- Ette Proctor. Vermeil Sprinkle. 11th grade: Eula Johnson. Edith Steelman, Marion Cook. Hardships To the city doctor, with every facility and modern hospitals, the practice of his profession is com paratively easy. When he is in doubt as to his patient's condi tion it is an easy matter to con sult with the best specialists and obtain expert assistance. Furthermore, the opportunities for leading a comfortable exist ence and advancing in his career, with adequate compensation, are far more numerous than exist for the physician practicing medi cine in the out of the way places of the world. Let me illustrate exactly what I mean by telling something of the career of Dr. Burton Yuill, a graduate of medicine from Lon don University, who has practiced among the fishermen along the coast of Newfoundland for many years. He is thousands of miles away from specialists; modern hospitals do not exist where he works; and he must depend upon his own initiative and judgment for everything he does. . He has not even a trained nurse to assist him and the only help he gets is from the hardy natives scattered along the bleak coast. Dr. Yuill says he has done every known ordinary surgical operation, most of them on kitch en tables, with flickering oil lamps for illuminating purposes and unskilled fisherfolk for as sistants and anaesthetists. Frequently he has been obliged to use oars as splints for broken limbs and cordage for bandaging, but the results he obtains com pare favorably with those of the city practitioner. He serves 225 villages and his highways are inlets, creeks, fjords and other small waterways on which his patients live. Instead of an automobile he employs a motorboat forty-five feet in length, of which he is the entire crew. It is a combined mobile drug store and surgery, and about four nights each week serves as the sleeping and living quarters for the medical man. Two years ago, he had, during February and March, when the influenza epidemic swept dovm that coast, more than 1,500 pa tients to treat, and they all "pulled through." Several times during the presence of this dis ease, snow storms and gigantic ice fields came near wrecking his little vessel and killing the doc tor. More than half of those whom he treats are absolutely unable to pay for his services, but he has never refused to go to their aid when sumoned ana has not the least expectancy of ever being compensated by 'them, for the great majority of these fisher folk are barely able to keep body and soul together. Not only is he their doctor but he finds time to distribute to each little settlement he visits a package of books, old magazines and newspapers, sent him from friends throughout Canada who are interested in the work he is doing. Upon such service and self sacrifice for his fellow man as Dr. Yuill exhibits dally, the cods themselves throw incense. New Sign "Now, boys," said the teacher, "tell me the signs of the zodiac. You first, Thomas." "Taurus, the Bull." "Right. You, Harold, name another." "Cancer, the Crab." "Right again. And now it's your turn, Albert." The boy looked puzzled, hesi tated a moment, and thai blurt ed out, "Mickie, the Mouse." "Ever since X came to Holly wood, I've worked for the same studio, same bosses, and I still have the same friends." Joan Crawford. But not the same husbands, Joan. NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of a cer tain judgment rendered at the July, 1938, term of the Superior Court of Surry County in the civil action entitled "Ola Hen drix Edwards, plaintiff, vs. W. Worth Hendrlx and A. Carl Hen drix. Administrators of W. A. Hendrlx and the other heirs at law of W. A. Hendrix," the un dersigned Commissioners will of fer for sale at public auction on the premises, on the llth day of February, 1939, beginning at 11 o'clock A. M., the following de scribed lots of land in and near llkin. North Carolina: 23 lots allotted to the heirs of W. A. Hendrix in the late A. L. Hendrix division as shown ou map of same recorded in Plat Book No. 1, at page 142, in the office of the Register of Deeds of Surry County, the said 23 lots be ing also shown on the Map of Hendrix Heights, recorded in Plat Book No. 1, at page 25 and also the Plat of the A. L. Hendrix Home Place as shown on map of Plats, Book No. 1, at page 123, said lots bearing Nos. on the said Maps as follows: 21, 22, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 56, 57, 74. 75, 76, 77, 78, 179, 180. 181, 182 and 183; also Tract H containing 6.6 acres and Tract M containing 10.5 acres. The two last named tracts will be sub-divided into smaller lots for this sale. These lots will first be offered separately and then the whole will be offered, and the highest bids will be reported to the Court for acceptance. This sale will be conducted for the Commissioners by The R. L. England Auction Company of Greensboro North Carolina. Should there be rain or snow, the auction sale w'U be held in the Darnell Furniture Exchange building on Main street in the This Offer Will Expire Shortly 7 BIG PUBLICATIONS Each for One Year—a Total of 124 Issues uSSEsBB Here's What You Get! AH Seven McCall's Magazine - 12 Issues \ F Q Ye ar Pictorial Review T . 12 Issues I Woman's World 12 Issues ( Good Stories 12 Issues ( U? f| Cj| The Country Home 12 Issues j M % tJ \ J *Progressive Farmer 12 Issues ' J The Elkin Tribune 52 Issues ■■ (For Out-of-State Subscription, Add 50c to Each Year •| [Check here if yon want Southern Agriculturist, one year, substituted for Progressive Fani REGULAR VALUE S4.7S—YOU SAVE $2.25 YOU WILL GET ALL SEVEN publications for ONE FULL YEAR, and if y«» are already a subscriber to ANY of these SEVEN publications, your present subscrip tion will be extended one fall year. Mail or bring the coupon befow to our office AT ONCE, and you will receive THE SIX BIG MAGAZINES each month, and THIS NEWSPAPER each week—that's 72 magazines and 52 newspapers—l 24 is sues in all for only $2.50. ORDER AT ONCE because we may soon have to with draw this offer, or advance the price. • USE THIS COUPON AND SAVE $2.25 The Elkin Tribune Elkin, N. C. Date Yes, indeed, I want to accept your magazine offer before it is withdrawn. 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 1 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 *| [Chock here If yon waat Southern AiricnltuUt. one year, substituted for ProiNHin Farmer. My name is , Address J / Town State ; _________________ town of Klkln, The terms of sale will be one-third cash and the balance In equal Installments due in six and twelve months. No discount will be allowed for cash payment In full. This the 11th day of January, 1939. PARKS HAMPTON AND R. A. FREEMAN, Commissioners. 2-9 BE CAREFUL! Numerous accidents take place right in the home. Quick First Aid for every little bum. bruise or cut usually prevents serious trouble. Every family should always have handy a supply of reliable First Aid supplies, in cluding bandages, adhesive, coicon, mer curochrome, iodine, boric acid, etc. Why not stop by and stock up your medi cine kit with these necessities. It's best to play safe. Abernethy's A GOOD DRUG STORE Phone 42 Elkin, N. C. Thursday, January 26. 1939 ttkerm 666 c x w Headaches Lkiold. TableU and Fever Salve. Nose doe to Colds, Drops la 30 Ml— fm Try "Xob-Bfy-Tism"—a Wonder ful liniment
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