Thursday, January 4,. 1940
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NOW LOOK WHAT HE'S DONE!
We don't know whether to forbid Simpson, our man with
the left-handed brain, from coming into the office anymore,
or nominate him and his camera for president of the Bur
lington Liars Club.
The photograph just below came in with this morning's
mail (six-ccnts postage due), with the following note at
tached:
"The attached photo will no doubt prove a great surprise
to you as a man who can never see beyond the tip of his nose
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(which after all is not so bad considering the length of the
nose), but it proved of no surprise to me.
"Shortly after that sudden rain last week which flooded
Elkin's Main street, one of the lifeboats of the scuttled Ger-
man liner "SS Columbus," whichi
burned and sank 400 miles off
the Virginia coast, came chugging
into town loaded with survivors
who in some way had missed the
U. S. S. "Tuscaloosa." From what
I could gather from a member of
the crew who spoke a smattering
of English, they reached the
South Carolina coast in a dense
fog and before they /knew it were
far up the Pee Dee river, eventu
ally entering the Yadkin and
winding up on Elkin's flooded
Main street.
"As I snapped this picture with
my trusty Baby Brownie, I noted
that a few people who were
wading along the submerged side
walks paid very little attention to
the heavily laden lifeboat, no
doubt figuring its strange ap
pearance here was just German
propaganda.
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your health and the health of your family. At
the first symptom of a cold or other illness, play
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"After halting the boat at the
corner until they got the green
light, the men aboard the craft
proceeded along West Main
street until they reached Big
Elkin creek, then disappeared up
the creek toward Wilkes county.
They said they had rather be in
terned in Wilkes *han Surry be
cause Wilkes is more liquid, what
ever that means.
"Keep your eye out for more
pictures that I will send from
time to time. And if you shouldn't
believe the picture herewith, just
remember pictures don't lie—
much."
We ask you—what's to be done
with a guy like that?
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CHRISTMAS
We had a very nice Christmas,
having had our father and
mother and older brother up for
the holidays. Having a sister
living here now, it was quite a
family reunion.
We wanted to invite our Uncle
Culpepper, but inasmuch as we
had turkey for Christmas, we
THE ELKIN TRIBUNE, ELKIN. NORTH CAROLINA
didn't dare. The last tim« we
had Uncle Culpepper in lor a
turkey dinner, we held out the
turkey and drew back a skeleton.
Not that Uncle Culpepper is a
big eater. He doesn't eat much,
he just absorbs it. And after
staying at the table for three or
four hours, he gets Impatient be
cause Aunt Frousy won't go out
and start supper.
Last Christmas a year ago he
got rather peeved because Aunt
Frousy used paper napkins in
stead of linen. Paper napkins, he
claims, are not adaptable to tying
around the neck, and they also
leave lint on the moustache.
Maybe you would like to have
Uncle Culpepper over to eat din
ner with you sometime? He's
open for invitations.
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AN APPRECIATION
Ed Lewis, who does a weekly
column for The Mount Airy
Times, should be entitled to a
box of cigars from this column
for some complimentary but un
deserved comments he made re
cently in his column about this
column. We didn't see the com
ment until several weeks jjjfter it
was published due to being so
rushed with Christmas editions
that we were behind with our
reading.
Accustomed as we are to the
very uncomplimentary remarks
the column garners among its
nine readers here, Mr. Lewis' ar
ticle caused us to light up with a
delicate glow and to spend much
time admiring our own writings.
After all, someone's got to admire
them.
If we weren't so modest we'd
reprint what he said, but being
the bashful soul we are, we just
couldn't. Anyway, come 1941 we
are going to send Mr. Lewis a box
of cigars. We would send them
now, but with 1940 being an elec
tion year, cigars are not to be
trusted, and Mr. Lewis must have
only the best. s
Or maybe he doesn't smoke
cigars.
People's Column
The Tribune does not neces
sarily endorse any article un
der this heading but welcomes
at all times communications
of interest to its readers and
the general public.
Gives Liquor a "Kick"
If there is any time that we
should give liquor a kick it is the
time when the matter is brought
into question. We find the little
Finns holding up under a load
fifty times as strong, fifty times
as great, with a war equipment
fifty times as strong. What's the
trouble with Russia? It's nothing
more or less than liquor, or vodka,
as the Russians call their drink.
Russia is a drunken nation, as
the world knows. If that great
Russian army from the high
command down had been sober
they would have whipped little
Finland before breakfast. Their
fliers are forbidden to drink vod
ka, and also vodka was taken
awtty from their soldiers, and the
result was more than two thou
sand of their soldiers froze to
death on the battlefield, while
the little Finns were mostly in
their shirt sleeves.
Our Congress during the World
War made this country as dry as
the Sahara desert. Nothing ex
cept a little blockade liquor could
be found, which raised the price
of sugar head to $8 or $lO per
gallon, so these conditions did
not suit this government. They
turned liquor loose to make it
scarce. The price of sugar head
fell to $1.50 per gallon, lots of it
being sold for $6 per can. During
the past year the federal officers
have raised the price and many
thirsty souls had to do without
their Christmas dram altogether.
I see lots of cars passing in
quest of liquor, and hear lots of
cars passing during the night.
Some get a few gallons and some
get nothing. The federal officers
have already got the most of
them. Occasionally when a boot
legger is caught he hunts up the
moonshiner he has been buying
lots of liquor from and by threats,
of exposure, gets SIOO each, ac
cording to the amount of cash
the moonshiner may have on
hand.
All liquor men live in a state of
fear, sometimes the bootlegger is
driven from the home at mid
night by good women who were
I trying to protect their homes,
[against having to contend with a
drunken husband. The federal
officers with a double force of
police are trying to help the good
women, but after all their good
work the bootlegger slips into
Winston-Salem and delivers his
sugar head and gets away. With
a shame face I must confess that
we have hundreds of women in
the various towns'who drink lots
of liquor. Tills makes it hard on
the law-ertforcement. When the
bootlegger and a lot of women
connive together it makes it hard
on law enforcement. To make
liquor plenty hard to get a tax
does not make it scarce.
—GEO. E. BLEVINS.
Springfield, N. C.
December 27, 1939.
Ghosts Not Reliable
Rastus—Marcellus, does yo' be
lieve in ghosts?
Marcellus—Nah, sah! I woke up
one night an' saw one in mah
room. Ah axed him what he
wanted an' he said "nothin'." But
de next mornin' Ah found he'd
stole mah Sunday pants. Since
den Ah don't belieb in ghosts.
Dey ain't reliable.
Cause of Divorces
Wifey—l believe so many mar
riages fail because too few wives
realize the road to a man's heart
is through his stomach.
Hubby—Th e trouble is too
many of you wives think it should
be a road laid with bricks and
stones and concrete.
Important Notice To
T ax-Payers
The Legislature of 1939 passed an act changing the month
for tax-listing from April to January.
Listing in this county began on Tuesday, January 2, and
will continue for the entire month. List takers have already •
been appointed, and notices will be put up in every section giv
ing the dates upon which listers will be in your community.
LIST YOUR PROPERTY
GIVE IN YOUR POLL
IN JANUARY
# All Property Owners and Taxpayers in all townships are
required to return to the list taker for taxation for the year
1939 all the Real Estate, Personal Property, etc., which each
one shall be required to give in then.
All Male persons between the ages of 21 and 50 years' are
to list their polls during the same time.
All persons who own property and fail tc list it and all
who are liable for a poll tax and fail to give themselves in will
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction be
fined or imprisoned.
Each farmer or tenant should go before the list taker pre
pared to furnish all information and farm data called for by
the North Carolina Farm Survey.
(RESIDENTS OF ELKIN TOWNSHIP WILL LIST AT h
THE OFFICE OF W. J. SNOW, TAX COLLECTOR,
OVER ELKIN BARBER SHOP, ELKIN, N. C.
Be 17 fpl7 O TAX SUPERVISOR
• -T # r JLi Vj Hi IV 9 SURRY COUNTY
NOTICE OF SALE OF
i REAL ESTATE
North Carolina.
Surry County. '
Under and by virtue of authority
contained in that certain Deed of
Trust, dated September 17, 1933,
recorded in tlie office of the Reg
ister of Deeds of Surry County,
N. C., in book 127, at page 24, ex
ecuted by Dr. R. R. Garvey and
wife, Rose E. Garvey to the un
dersigned Trustee securing a note
representing an indebtedness set
out therein, and default having
been made in the payment of said
note under the terms and condi
tions of the instrument, and at the
request of the holder of the note,
'the undersigned Trustee will of
fer for sale snd sell at public
auction, for cash, to the highest
bidder, at the Court House door
in Dobson, North Carolina, at
NOTICE!
Elkln Masonic Lodge No. 454,
meets every 2nd and 4th Tuesday
nights at 7:30. All members re
quested to be present. Signed:
Secretary of Lodge. tfc
12:00 o'clock. Noon, on Monday
the Bth day of January, 1940 the
following described property:
Lots numbers 204, 205, 206, 207,
208, 209, 210, 211, 212, 213, 214,
215, 216, 217, 218, and 219, on the
map of Hendrix Heights as sur
veyed and platted by S. M. Credle,
Eng., which map or plat is record
ed in the office of the Register of
Deeds Surry County, N. C., in Plat
Book 1, at page 17, to which ref-
Say Holsum
erenco is hereby bad. Tbe fore
going is part of the lands describ
ed in the deed from L. L. Gwyn
and wife to A. L. Hendrix. See -
deed book 18, page 361, office of
the Register of Deeds, Surry
County, N. C.
This the 6th day of December,
1939.
C. P. BURNS, Trustee
624 Wachovia Bank Bldg.
1-4 Winston-Salem, N. C.