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TIE ass=i GABjyH I jr. x ~^£3f COLUMN WITH A HEADACHE If we were a drinking man and had the taste of sour liquor in our mouth, we'd swear we have a hangover. But being that type of citizen to whom the temperance league points with pride, it can't be a hangover. It's not an ordinary headache we have, but a super special de luxe job. One of those kind which spreads out and exerts a steady push. There are headaches and headaches. One type may make itself felt at a certain point, concentrating all its energy in a particular spot. Another type is of the hammer and chisel va riety, as if some little demon was inside trying to chisel himself out with throbbing blows. But the kind we have feels as if someone had inserted a shoe stretcher inside our dome and was steadily tightening the screw. Perhaps we could relieve the situation with a large and tasty dose of castor oil. Some may take issue with us when we refer to castor oil as tasty, but we maintain we are right. The trou ble with it is it's too tasty. And personally we'd rather worry along with the headache than take the stuff. To make our headache worse, Blaine Warren, super super sales man for old and new automobiles, comes in and insults the memory of our gone but never to be for gotten model T Ford, Calamity. Blaine said it was lined with fer tilizer sacks. It wasn't no such! All we did was to cover the seat with green burlap. We like green burlap, and if our wife FOR YOUR BULK GARDEN SEED SEED OATS LESPEDEZA GRASS SEED FLOWER SEED VEGETABLE SEED See F. A. BRENDLE & SON Elkin, N. C. I FOR SALE AT ] I PUBLIC AUCTION On the Late W. J. Bryant Place in Arlington j SATURDAY. MARCH 30 I AT 9:00 A. M. the following Farm Machinery, Implements and Tools: One W-30 McCormick-D eering tractor, equipped with rubber tires, power take off, with plows and har row. One Martin terracer ■ McCormick-Deering binder, mowing machine, hay rack and drill. Cultivators, corn planters, single plows, hoes, shovels, wire stretchers and other articles too numerous to mention. Everything Will Be Sold WAYNE BRYANT I Or See R. L. Lovelace, Elkin, N. C. hadn't been so set against it, we would have blossomed out Easter in a green burlap suit! But that's the way it goes. Seems like everybody picks on us. Even the police. Just the other night we almost got ar rested by Luke Darnell, Elkin's night policeman. And all we did was nearly run over Mr. Darnell at one of the stop lights. We wouldn't have done it had we known at the time it was him. We have always tried to be care ful not to run over policemen. We have always made it a practice to cooperate with the police. And we also make it a practice to be as helpful as pos sible to the public at large. Why just the other day we took a blackboard eraser and followed Corbett Wall for four blocks rub bing out all the chalk marks he was putting on automobile tires. We figured we were doing the motorists a real service in keep ing their tires clean, but when Policeman Wall found it out he didn't seem to appreciate it a little bit. For a moment it looked as if we were going to lose our standing as one of the public at large, if you get what we mean. Oh well, that's what comes of being in the public eye—like a cinder. * » » THIS AND THAT Prom here it looks like Elkin has a pretty doggone good fire department, what with good fire men, a good truck and a good place to keep it. Quite a far cry from the old THE ELKIN TRIBUNE, ELKIN, NORTH CAROLINA truck that frequently had to be pushed from Its little tin shanty in the back alley, and which couldn't generate any water pres sure when it finally reached the scene of a blaze. Elkin is sort of growing up these days and it's only right that her fire department should keep pace. And we'll say for the benefit of town officials that they realize the fact and are cooperat ing with the firemen in every way possible.' Pact is, we haven't seen the town run along smooth er and with less friction in a long time. Seems like there's not anything even for us to find fault with anymore. Why, we are ac tually on speaking terms with all the town commissioners. i But there is one thing we feel jis needed, even though we hesi jtate to mention it. It's this: the I commissioners should add a portable grandstand to their fire fighting equipment which could be hauled to the scene of every fire for the benefit of Elkin's many sideline firemen. Hard as these sideline firemen work, what with giving advice and finding fault "with the way the fire fight ing firemen work, they need a place to sit down. We believe the commissioners will agree that ad vice giving in time of a blaze is hard work, and Elkin's advice givers are entitled to every con sideration. And please see that one seat is upholstered for us. Speaking of fires and firemen, no matter how good a fire de partment is, once a really big fire 7Qt.fl CFPirC OPENS MONDAY i OA U k3HiXVIHii3 april Ist BUILDING' & LOAff ASSOCIATION t ) J- R> Poindexter - E. F. McNeer - F. M. Norman - W. C. Cox mm ■ C. S. Foster -S. G. Holcomb •J. L. Hall H. P. Graham ■ Paul Gwyn ■ gets started, it's hard as all get out to get under control. And no one, not even the most expert expert, can tell just how a fire is going to act once it gets started. No one can tell how fast it will spread, or in what direction. That is why all public buildings should be provided with every safe guard. Take, for instance, the recent fire which gutted a large apart ment house in Charlotte. Despite that city's crack fire department, the death toll from that blaze now rests at eight. And it might be mentioned, in case you are in terested, that the building had no outside fire escapes. It did have so-called fire escapes on the inside. Trapped by smoke, sev eral were killed when they jump ed from upper floor windows. Had outside fire escapes been provid ed, these lives perhaps would have been saved. Examined Fitted Dr. W. B. REEVES OPTOMETRIST EYES EXAMINED AND GLASSES FITTED AT . PRICES YOU CAN AFFORD OFFICE OVER ELK THEATRE Someone, whom we gather is opposed to outside fire escapes on school buildings, and who would rely on the "many little noses" to give adequate warning of any blaze, fold us about a woman who went to school in a building that had fire escapes. This woman, as a girl, was so afraid to go down I the fire escapes when fire drill was sounded, that she .always hid I in a closet. We couldn't help but wonder, in case an actual fire had broken out, if she would have run and hid in the closet then? And if so, how she would have arranged to keep cool? But maybe it was a refrigerat ed closet. .Ex-Kaiser Wilhelm of Ger many has 52 grandsons in the present war. Eyes Examined Office: Glasses Fitted The Bank of Elkin 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 140 2 Great New Gasolines! flssoT-^ STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF NEW JERSEY Say, "I saw it in The Thursday, March 28, 1940
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