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WTO SET OUT TREE SEEDLINGS Eroded Areas on Farms May Be Reclaimed, County Agent Points Out PROVIDE ORDER BLANKS It is time for farmers to begin planning for the setting of forest tree seedlings for this fall and winter, according to R. R. Smith wick, Surry county agent. Many eroded areas on the farm may be reclaimed by setting trees. Cut over areas may be reset in order to be sure of a stand of the species of trees desired coming back in the cut-over area. Loblolly, longleaf and shortleaf pines are available at $2.00 per thousand delivered. Black locust, yellow poplar and white ash are available at the same price. Black walnuts are SIO.OO per thousand and white pines two years old cost $3.00 per thousand. The planting stock referred to above may be used only for forest How Does Your Advertising Investment Compare With The Average .... Competent business men scale their adver tising investment in proportion to gross sales • | • | ... Then they use their advertising on a pro- J J gram basis so as to follow a systematic plan. £ £ *The following percentage of gross sales usually are followed, according to surveys made by recognized authorities: Department Stores 2.5 ( Men's Stores 3.3 Cfe SC 07 Women's Wear Shops 3.1 /Q Furniture Stores 6.3 Drug Stores 2.9 General Merchandise ... 1.5 Jewelry Stores 3.1 of all failures in business are Grocery Stores 1.0 from the ranks of non-adver- Meat Markets 1.0 tisers . . . Only 5 per cent, of Specialty Shops 3.8 those that fail are adver- Dry Cleaners and Dyeing 3.3 Users. According to Brad- Hardware Stores 1 ~1.0 street. Other Businesses 2.0 What About YOUR Firm, Mr. Business Man? Check your gross sales and your advertising percentage can easily be fig ured ... Your business cannot differ much from the average in your line,' and if you wish to improve it—or even hold it where it is today then you cannot ignore your duty to yourself ... And maybe we can help you. ■ - —ik The advertising medium that for more than 25 years has produced the greatest results for business men who have desired to reach homes in this trade territory with their messages is— The Elkin Tribune NORTH CAROLINA'S BEST WEEKLY ♦Figures compiled by Harvard Bureau of Business Research and Northwestern University Bureau of Business Research. 3 ''' ' . J planting, erosion control and windbreaks. These seedling trees furnished from the State Forest Nurseries are not for ornamental planting and are not to be resold. One thousand trees set on the square six by seven feet apart will plant approximately one acre. The shipping season begins the last of November and persons wishing to set tree seedlings are urged to place orders at once, be cause the first orders placed will be the first to receive trees. Or der blanks may be obtained at the county agent's office in Dob son, and details concerning the plantings. ZEPHYR Rev. McClamrock started a series of revival meetings at the Methodist church Sunday night which will continue for a week. Mr. Homer Smith left Monday for Draughn's Business College where he will be a student. Mrs. Ettye Parks and family picnicked on the scenic highway Sunday. Rev. D. W. Day closed a ten day singing school here Saturday night, and we believe it has been THE ELKIN TRIBUNE, ELKIN, NORTH CAROLINA a help to the Sunday school, for the number present increased to 56 last Sunday. Announcements have been made that the choir will meet at the Baptist church each Friday night at 7:45 for practice. A cordial invitation is extended to everyone to come and take part. Mr. Hal Collins, of Martins ville, Va., spent the week-end here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Collins. Miss Juanita Parks, of High Point, is spending a few days here with her mother, Mrs. Ettye Parks. Arlie and Paul Myers, of Dela ware, visited here during the past week. His Audience "Folks," said tHe colored min ister, "the subject of my sermon dis even* am Liars. How many in de congregation has read the 69th chapter ob Matthew?" Nearly every hand in the audi ence was raised immediately. "Dat's right," said his rever ence, "you is just de folks I want to preach to. Dere is no 69th chapter ob Matthew." The hognose snake plays dead when attacked. BROWN SPEAKS AT CONVENTION Tells State Fire Chiefs of Hazardous Conditions Here During Flood Ted Brown, chief of the Elkin' fire department, was a speaker during an afternoon session of the North Carolina Fire Chiefs', Association, at Salisbury, last! week. Chief Brown told of experiences in Elkin during the recent flood, when huge gasoline storage t«iks piled up against the Yadkin river bridge, creating a dangerous fire hazard. He was questioned by many of the fire chiefs present as to the measures taken to prevent, loss in lives and property here. Chief Donald E. Shuford, . of, Hickory, was elected president of ; the Firemen's Association at the closing session. Asheville was chosen as the 1941 convention city. In addition to Chief Brown, a number of other Elkin firemen attended the convention. Observes 83rd Birthday August 25th 888 ■■■BiMnv Mrs. Plutina Coe, above, cele brated her 83rd birthday Sunday, August 25, at the home of her son, Spencer Coe, at Rockford. About 150 friends and relatives, of whom a great majority were relatives, enjoyed the occasion. Hiram Coe, of Rockford, a brother of Mrs. Coe, was the principal speaker of the occasion. Mrs. Coe spent her entire life in the community and is known as "Granny Coe." She has nine living children, of which eight, four sons and four daughters, were present. They were Mrs. J. E. Coe, of Boonville; Mrs. J. J. Mooney, Dobson; Mrs. Hobert Simpson and Mrs. M. G. Coe, of Rockford; Prank Coe, route 5, Winston-Salem; Jack and Spen cer Coe, Rockford, and Ervie Coe, Dobson. She also has 51 grand children and 63 great-grandchil dren. Iff}? DOCTOR iyW.EAUGHNBAUGH/tD ANTICIPATED OPERATIONS "Nothing is so wretched or so foolish as a surgical operation," said the old sage Seneca, but this philosopher knew nothing of what might happen to sufferers from "diabetes as well as to other victims of relatively common dis eases, for if he did, I am sure he would never have given birth to this erroneous thought. Neither had he any idea of what modern medicine and surgery can today accomplish. It has been a comparatively short time since doctors became actually familiar with the symp toms of different maladies now relatively common to the masses. For years, for example, medical men did not know that numerous diabetics collapsed in the street or public places and frequently went into a deep coma which usually ended in death. Many sufferers from diabetes were ar rested, taken to jail and lodged there as common drunkards. Lat er when the turnkey was making his rounds, he would be surpris-. Ed to find the unfortunate pris oner dead —a victim of uremic poisoning. # As medicine progressed, police men finding persons in stupors were required to summon a doc tor. As a consequence thousands of lives were saved for the sim ple reason that the physician could, easily ascertain if the in dividual was drunk or suffering from a serious illness. It was routine yactice for doctors to then give letters to diabetics, to be carried in their pockets, warn ing the police and the public that the bearer was a diabetic and if found unconscious to immediate ly summon medical assistance. While on duty in the Philip pines, an unconscious Chinaman was brought into the at which I was one of the attend ing doctors. As was customary, he was disrobed, and I prepared to administer to him. Imagine my surprise when I saw tattooed in blue India ink, across his stomach, in Chinese, Japanese, Spanish and English, the follow ing sentence: "Please do not op erate. I am diabetic." And that was the disease that caused this man to pass Into a coma and be brought to my hos pital. After he was on the road to recovery, I asked him why he j adopted such a strange method! of announcing his ailment to the public. "Well," he replied, "I merchant Twin-City Are Freed Charge o Mocksville.—A jury in Davie county superior court acquitted Uriah Wyatt and Ernest Myers, both of Winston-Salem, at noon Sunday on charges of criminally j assaulting Miss Johnie Hunter of Winston-Salem, on July 17. Judge Allen Qwyn of Reids ville, immediately ordered both men released from custody. They have been in jail here without privilege of bond since July 18. Both Myers and Wyatt applaud ed the verdict, reached by the jury after an hour of delibera tion, and their wives, who sat be side them in the courtroom, were jubilant. The packed courtroom gave its approval of the verdict. However, there was no demonstration. It was the first Sunday session of Davie court in the memory of many pioneer citizens. Shortly after the adjournment of court, Solicitor Avalon E. Hall* of Yadkinville, issued a statement in which he said he would not have tried the two men for their lives had he been apprised of the evidence the defense presented through Edward F. Butler, Win ston-Salem attorney. Butler testified, as did Marvin N. Rogers, Winston-Salem groc eryman, that Miss Hunter had stated she was not a victim of an assault and wanted to "wash her hands of the affair." Hall's statement follows: "Had Mr. Ed Butler communi cated with me before the trial of Wyatt and Myers to the effect that Miss Johnie Hunter, the prosecuting witness, had told him on August 22 that when she pre ferred this charge against the de fendants she did not know that it carried the death penalty and that she was much to blame for what happened as they were because she should have never gotten in the car, I then certainly would not have put the state and the taxpayers of Davie county to the expense of trying the de fendants on the capital charge. "It was absolutely not the duty of Judge Roy Deal or Grant and Grant, defense counsel, to disclose this or any other evidence they had for the defense to the solici tor." Court opened Sunday morning at 9:30 o'clock and Judge Gwyn immediately began his charge to the jury. He pointed out that the jury must not consider any char ges of adultery or prostitution as no evidence or charge had been introduced to this effect. Judge Gwyn charged the jury thstt it would bring in any one of four verdicts, guilty of assault with intent to rape, assault with deadly weapon, assault on a fe male and not guilty. The case opened last Tuesday afternoon with the selection of a jury. The state began presenting evidence Wednesday and closed its case Thursday. Both state and defense rested Saturday about noon. Heart A Claim 2 People At Same Mrs. Bessie Key, of Siloam, R. F. D., lost her husband and sister Saturday, both being vic tims of heart attacks suffered almost simultaneously. Aaron Coley Key, 55, was standing in front of his filling station adjoining the home near Pine Hill Friends church. His sister-in-law, Mrs. Stella Bruner Ashburh, 36, of Ararat, who was visiting the Keys, was talking with Key and a group. About 7:30 P.m., Key suffered a heart attack and fell. Mrs. Ashburn and a friend caught Key as he was falling. At that instant, Mrs. Ashburn suffered a heart at tack and fell. She was taken into the house, but' died before she could be given medical attention. Key was removed to his home. He died about 10:30 p.m. A double funeral service was held for Mrs. Ashburn and Mr. Key at Pine Hill Friends church Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Rev. Herman Dodson and Mrs. E. G. Key conducted the services. Burial followed in the church graveyard. "Oh, give me grace to catch a fish, so large large that even I, in talking about it afterwards, may never need to He." Never owe a poor man or kiss a homely girl—they both go arpund talking about it. man. My business in China, Japan, Philippines, Shanghai and Hong Kong. No can talk many tongue. Young doctor all time like operate. Cut me open. Find nothing. I no like. Get tattoo man print sign on my belly, every language. Get better quick then. No operate. See?" Thursday, September 5, 1940 LEONARD'S OFFERING SPECIAL ON SILVER Leonard's local jewelry firm, la in this issue of The Tribune, an nouncing special prices on sterl ing silver as they introduce a beautiful new pattern, "Joan of Arc." This lovely pattern In genuine sterling may be purchased open stock, and may also be bought in a service for six, including an attractive chest, at a very special price. For illustration of the "Joan of Arc" pattern, and for prices and other information, see the Leon ard's advertisement in this issue. mm Shirts and Shorts I Fast color sanforized I gripper shorts, full I combed yarn shirts. I Two-piece suit— Table Cloths Chinese hand-made I table cloths. Five as- I sortments. Floral, Fruit I and Point Marguerite I designs. Size 72x90. $1.49 | Marquisette Fine assortment p i n I cushion dots. Extra I September special, H yard— Dresses Back-to-school dresses. I Penney's own Sunny I Tucker DeLuxe. Sizes I 4 to 16. H $1.79 | Panties I* Children's Rayon panties, daintily trim med. Special, pair— 8 C 2 Pairs 15c Muslin Grand value! Sturdy, I 36 inches wide. Per ■■ yard only— Blankets Serviceable double bed I size cotton blankets, I size 70x80. 2 for— sl.oo I Blankets Part wool plaid blan- I ■ kets made by Chat- I ham. 70x80 size. / SI.OO | East Main St. Kfcin, M
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