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bale Carnwe 5-Minute Biographies Author of "H ow to Win Friend* and Influence People ANDREW CARNEGIE He Made More Millionaires Than Any Man Who Ever Lived Andrew Carnegie was bom in Dunfermline, Scotland, without benefit of doctor or midwife be cause his people were too poor to afford either. He started work ing for two cents an hour—and he made four hundred million dollars. When the Carnegie family came to America, Andrew's father made tablecloths and peddled them from door to door. His mother took in washing and stitched boots for a shoemaker. Andrew had only one shirt, so his mother washed and ironed that shirt every night after he had gone to bed. She worked for sixteen to eighteen horns a day, and Andrew adored her. When he was twenty-two he promised her that he would never marry as long as she lived. And he didn't He didn't marry until his mother died thirty years later. He was fifty-two when he married and sixty-two when his first and only child was born. Carnegie got a job as telegraph messenger boy in Pittsburgh. The pay was fifty cents a day. It seemed like a fortune. He long ed to be an operator; so he studied telegraphy at night and rushed down to the office early I You're Invited To the || GENERAL ELECTRIC I Cooking School I I Old Postoffice Building, Market Street I I THURSDAY and FRIDAY I I April 6 and 7at 2:30 P. M. I I UNDER THE DIRECTION OF I I Mrs. Miriam Little I I WIDELY KNOWN HOME ECONOMIST I I PRIZES — —ll WILL BE GIVEN EACH DAY BY THE FOLLOWING ELKIN FIRMS WHO ARE COOPERATING IN THE SCHOOL Elite Beauty Shoppe - Mary's Beauty Shoppe - Lyric Theatre - Elk Theatre Bon-Ton Grill - The Basketeria - Modern Food Store - Abernethy's - Turner Drug Co. - Lawrence Cleaners - Hotel Elkin - Coca-Cola Bottling Co. I SEE THE GENEEAL ELECTRIC I I MAGIC KITCHEN I IT TALKS —IT MOVES—IT DISAPPEARS LIKE MAGIC I Old Postoffice Building, at 30-Minute Intervals, Thursday and Friday Nights, and All Day Saturday! Don't Miss It! I Elkin Plumbing & Heating Co. I General Electric Dealers Elkin, N. C. ■ , ■ each morning to practice on the keys. One morning the wire was hot with big names. Philadelphia was calling Pittsburgh, calling fran tically. There was no operator on duty. So Andrew Carnegie rushed to the wire, took the mes sage, delivered it, and was im mediately promoted to the posi tion with his salary doubled. > His restless energy, his sleep less. ambition attracted attention. The Pennsylvania railroad erect ed a telegraph line of its own. Andrew Carnegie was made op erator, then private secretary to the division superintendent. Suddenly one day an event happened that started him on the way to fortune. An inventor came and sat down beside him in a railroad train and showed him the model of a new sleeping car he had invented. The sleeping cars of that day were crude bunks nailed to the sides of freight cars. This new invention was much like the Pullman car of to day. Carnegie had shrewd Scotch foresight. He saw that the inven tion had enormous possibilities. So he borrowed money and bought stock in the concern. The company paid sensational divi dends and when An ire w Carnegie THE ELK IN TRIBUNE. ELKIN. NORTH CAROLINA reached twenty-five his annual income from this one Investment alone was five thousand dollars a year. Once a wooden bridge burned on the railroad and tied up traf fic for days. Andrew Carnegie was a division superintendent at the time. Wooden bridges were doomed. He saw that. Iron was the coming thing. So he borrow ed money, formed a company, started building iron bridges and the profits poured in so fast that he was almost dizzy. This son of a weaver had the golden touch. He and some friends bought a farm amidst the oil fields of Western Pennsyl vania for forty thousand dollars and made a million dollars out of It in one year. By the time this canny Scot had reached 27, he had an income of a thousand dollars a week. It was 1862 now. Abe Lincoln was in the White House. The Civil War was 'raging. Prices were skyrocketing. Big things were happening. Frontiers were being pushed back. The far west was opening up. Railroads were soon to be thrown across the continent. America trembled on the threshold of an astonishing era. And Andy Carnegie, with the smoke and flames belching from his steel furnaces, rode up on a tidal wave of prosperity—rode and kept on riding until he had acquired riches such as had nev er been dreamed of before in the history of mankind. Yet he never work ad very hard. He played about half of the time. He said that he surrounded him self with assistants who knew more than he did—and he spur red them on to pile up the mil lions for him. He was Scotch, but he wasn't; too Scotch. He let his partners share in his profits and he made more millionaires than any other man who has ever lived. I He weiyt to school four years in Ms life; but In spite of that he wrote eight bocks of travel, bio graphy, essays and economics and gave away sixty million dollars to public libraries, and seventy-eight miiHrwi.q for the advancement of education. He was not a member of any church, but he gave away more than seven thousand pipe organs to churches. All in all, he gave away three hundred and sixty-five million dollars, a mil lion dollars for every day in the year, for he declared It was a dis grace to die rich. Little Richmond Members of the Little Rich mond Home Demonstration club enjoyed a delightful meeting at the home of Mrs. W. L. Cocker ham at Rusk Friday. Spring flowers, suggestive of the Easter season, decorated the entire house. The meeting was opened by Mrs. J. W. Martin, vice president. Mrs. Grace Pope Brown, home demonstration agent, made a very instructive talk on spring gardens, flowers, etc. Two outstanding features made this meeting especially in teresting, one the working of cot tage cheese by Mrs. J. W. Martin, who excels in this, and the other, that this was the first anniver sary uf the club as it was orgar ized just one year ago. After the business part of the meeting the guests were invited Into the dining room where cov ers were laid for all the members. The table was lighted by candles. Refreshments consisting of a three tier cake, decorated with one candle, pickles, peaches with whipped cream, and coffee were served. After this the meeting adjourned to meet with Mrs. Por ter Holyfield on April 28. Eskimos make waterproof coats from the entrails of seals and walrus. BRANON Mr. and Mrs. Alan Steelman, accompanied by Woodrow Steel man, visited Mrs. Steelman's par ents, in Tennessee, Sunday. Mrs. Steelman will spend some time .there. Miss Pauline Boles, student of W. C. U. N. C„ Greensboro, is vis iting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robey Boles. Mr. Tommy Comer of Winston- Salem, spent the week-end with his aunt, Miss Hazel Blundy. Miss Doris Ruth Smith visited her sister, Mrs. Ray Madison, of Hamptonville, part of last week. Mrs. Glen Mas tin and children, Rex and Ted, of Ronda, visited Mr. and Mrs. Tom Cummlngs from Thursday until Sunday last week. Miss Jettie Cummlngs, sister of Mrs. Mastin, accompan ied her home for a few days visit. Miss Mabel Smith of Winston- Salem, spent the week-end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Smith. Mr. Ralph Buxton has returned from Davis Hospital, Statesville, His condition is reported some better, we are pleased to note. Leonard Ray, the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Jessie Swisher, is in reiirin hospital, with a throat in fection. Mr. Forest Doss spent the week end in North Wilkes bo ro, the guest of relatives. Brooks Cross Roads Mrs. Roy Nichols, of near Yad kinville, vLsted her mother, Mrs. Sallie West, on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Jake Irvin moved from here last week. They are now living in the Shlloh com munity. Several members of the Beta club of West Yadkin school at tended the annual Beta club convention which was held at the Robert E. Lee hotel in Winston- Salem last Friday and Saturday. Mrs. R. L. Melton returned last week from Salisbury where she had been the guest the guest of relatives for several days. Miss Audree Shore, member of the Hartzell school faculty, Con cord, spent Friday with relatives and attended the funeral of her uncle, J. Guy Cheek, which was held at Longtown Methodist church Friday afternoon. Mrs. Bell Entertains The Happy Hour Sewing club met with Mrs. Spencer Bell Tues day afternoon with 10 members present. Mrs. Fred Money was i awarded the prize in an interest ing contest. A salad course was served by the hostess, assisted by Mrs. Velna Weaver, to the fol lowing: Mesdames Clyde Wright, G. C. Wallace, Miles Shore, Mar vin Hoots, W. N. Ireland, Jr., Vel na Weaver, Charlie Gough, Fred Money and Raymond Van Hoy. COOL SPRINGS There were 153 present at Sun day school Sunday, with several visitors. Two classes of Inter mediates have been recently or ganized by Mrs. Paul Newman. The enrollment Is 27, with possi bilities of 14 others. Miss Blanche Cox. of Traphill, was the guest of Miss Edna Couch the past week-end. j Messrs. Maynard Harris and Todd Kress, of Salisbury, were the guests of Mr. Harris' par ents, Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Harris, Sunday. Uncle Charlie Carter, a patient in the Statesville hospital, shows slight improvement. Mr. Worth Newman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Newman, is a pa tient at the Statesville hospital. He is doing fine. Mr, O. P. Holbrook has gone to Hugh Chatham Memorial hos pital for an X-ray examination, since suffering a bad fall through a trapdoor last summer Mr. Hol brook has not been well. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Reckford Wifhon a baby boy on Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Jolly, who re cently came to this community, visited Mrs. Jolly's father at Tay lorsville Sunday, when he cele brated his 77th birthday annlver | sary. If your health and that of your I family will permit we want you j present at Sunday school Sunday morning. POPLAR SPRING Miss Connie Hinson spent the week-end with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Ccllins, of near Elkln. Mr. Tommie Luffman, of Jones ville, conducted the prayer service at the Poplar Spring Baptist church Sunday night. Everyone seemed to enjoy the service very much. Miss Margaret Carter had as her week-end guest, Miss Lucille Sprinkle, of Elkln, R. F, D. Rev. Claude Flinch am, a young minister, will preach at the Pop lar Spring Baptist church Sunday l morning at 11 o'clock, and Ber. John Hinson, of Arlington, will preach Sunday night at 7:00 o'clock. The public 1s cordially invited to attend each service. Mrs. Ellen Gentry and Mr. and Mrs. Noah Gentry and little ! daughter, June, have moved back |to this community. They have been living in Danville, Va. Oberlin college (Ohio) was the first college in the U. 8. to be come wholly co-educatlonal. Eyes Examined Office: Glasses Fitted The Bank of BMa BoOdiag DR. P. W. GREEN OPTOMETRIST Offices a pen dally for optical repairs and adjustments mt al kMk Examinations on Tuesdays and Fridays from Itoßp. m. , By Appointment Phone 14i GIVE WHITMAN'S or NUNNALL Y'S FINE CANDY Attractive Easter OCc AA Packages ZD 1U vu«UU Perfumes, Toilet Sets, Compacts, Etc., Will Make Wonderful Easter Gifts Turner Drug Co. 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See also the V Super Concentrator Gas I 91UV \ Range. Its burners save fuel M j \ / ... its Reflect o-Plate» save LM SEE NORGE BEFORE YOU BUYI HINSHAW CASH HARDWARE CO. Next Door to Turner Drug Co. Elkia, N. C. Thnrwdav. Anril S. 1A39 MOUNTAIN PARK SENIOR CLASS TO GIVE PLAY "Mammy's MP Wild Rose" is the title of the play to be pre sented by the senior class erf Mountain Park high school in the school auditorium on Saturday evening, April 8, at 7:30 o'clock. The production is a comedy drama, with its setting in the mountains of Virginia. There will be a man admission charge. Proceeds will go to the school.
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