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THURSDAY. SEPT. 3, 1925 THE CAROLINA MOUNTAINEER FIE INSURANCE Ernest L. Withers & Co. Phone 100 Waynesville, N. C. Back from New York ere we purchased our fall ana winter stock of LADIES' CHILDREN'S AND GENTS READY-TO-WEAR AND PIECE COODS They are now arriving See Our Young Men s Suits. Ex amine Our Specialty Follie's Special Serge ALLEN-SILER COMPANY General Merchandise, Groceries and Feeds Telephone No. 1 7-J liazelwood A Clearance Sale OF ALL Jewelry, D lamon ds. W atches and Novelties. everything in our btore At great Red uction JERE DAVIS Jeweler and Optometrist Accurate Measure When you buy Gas from us you are certain that you will get accurate meas ure. Our pumps are of the most accu rate make and we doubly safeguard you by having them tested regularly. Further more we guarantee the test of our Gas. When you pay for High Test from us you get High Test. Drive in and test our service. "Give Us a Visit." EAST END SERVICE STATION SLOGAN FOR WAYNESVILLE. When the North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee troops of the Thirtieth Division were engaged, Sep tember 2!l, HUH, in their memorable adventure, which resulted in the first piercing of the Hindenburg line, Hag er gave his gas mask to a Methodist minister. Clouds of poison gas was DEATH OK DOCTOR (JEOIUiK WHARTON, A. !., D. D. Editor: Realizing the gnat future of our little city, I think it only fitting ami proper that we should adopt an ap propriate slogan for it. The leading resort cities of the country have long' -ince seized upon the idea with ob- floating toward the North Carolinians, vious results. As an advertising ;ln,l the minister was forced to don -i-heme. it is unequalled. I the mask. He escaped injury: Hager, I should like to offer the following ws badly gassed be spent eleven suggestion as a slogan, and 1 think months in an army base hospital. i for mysterious appeal and entrancing A few days ago to Hager came an beauty, it cannot be surpassed: unexpected Utter offering him a place j 'Waynesville, Where the lilue Hegins." wjth the relief organization this mln- j Of course the blue always recedes jster. Rev. Mr. Scott, is directing at as we advance, but being the highest chateau Thierry. Hager said this town of its size east of the Missis- letter gave him a new hope, as it came sippi who can assert a better claim ' t one of the darkest hours of his to Christopher Morley's happy title? ifPp Your" very truly, j His spirt weakened under the steady JOE E. JOHNSON, Jr. bombardment of adversity and worry during the past five years. Hager came Tuesday into the office of a Granger who had befriended him a few weeks ago. and asked that stranger friend's advice regarding the, advisability of again returning to' France, this time on an entirely dif ferent adventure. j Heroism Wins Reward. "Ilnu iii'1 i: happen that you wee offeicd this work with the Methodist, relief orgarr'.ation ?" llager was Mskedt "I loaned K'v. Mr, Scott my gaS mn! k when vc were going through the Ilinclenlm: g line. He was not l.assed. I was :im! I spent ( leven months in a hospital recovering from that cassji-i;. Mr. Scott wrote me a letter from Chttt tin Thiory and ef fort d me t his job." The the modest World War veteran dropped liis head, as if ashamed of himself for telling the true reason why the American minister, working in the far-away former hnttlcfront should have known him' Regrets Telling Wh. 'I ought not to have told you that. said llager, a shadow of You Can Double The Life Of Your SHOES CHAMPION SHOE SHoF E. T. DUCKETT. Prop., Main Street Prices Are Low Waynesville, N. C. J. C. NORMS, Prop. Waynesville, N. C. At his h.me, Mars Hill, N. C Dr. George Wharton departed this lif at '):.() o'clock Saturday morning Dr. Wharton has been a prominent figure in ltaptists affairs of the South for many years. He was born in Noxubee. Count v. Miss.. Dec. 2.r.. DviO. He was the son of A. S, Wharton, M. D., CliftonvilK Miss. At the age of sixteen he entered Sunimorvillc Institute, Noxubee, Mis- , where he remained three and oiic Imlf year-, graduating; with honors Then he entered Mississippi College. Clinton. He graduated with first honor. During his junior years he wa- assi-tant profe-sor of mathe i itii.s. He continued his training in the Southern Haptist Theological Seminary, then located at Greenville. S. C. He was then called to -,he chair of Greek in his alma mater, region Later be taught nine years in Cen tral Female Institute. He gave up his work there for further training in wrote m Rochester Theological Seminary. worry and doubt coming over his Rochester. N. Y. He was for a while face. He thought he had made an president of Lancaster Academy in immodest statement for a moment Texas. added a few more seams in the face He came to the Hiblo department of that m.-m. who though voung, hears of Mars Hill Collctre in l!'l.r. All unmistakable marks on bis face of these years he hHs proved to be a mental, as well a.s physical, suffering wise and safe instructor. He was he has endured. director-critic for the Ministerial As-' "If you write anything about me, sociation here. Iloth in the college don't say anything about me giving and in the church he was greatly Mr. Scott my gas mask." implored loved and appreciated by both the Hager. But, hi finally withdrew his old and the young; and he made request. many lasting trcnclships among i no students here as they have come un der his tutorage and influence. It, was with mm h regret that we gave him up Inst spring when the doctors told him that he must n it teach anv CONTEST FOR STATE COMMAN DER OF AMERICAN LEGION. (By M. I.. Shipn-.nn.) ! Ralcikgh, X. ('., August .11. The contest for State Commander of the more. Dr Whjirton was convert and ... , . . ... t . t i 'American Legion is waxng warm, w th tottied the church at Hi. Later feel- . ing called to preach, he undertook the ' ' .' ' '.' training mentioned above. He was pastor of Shuqunlak and Summer ville churches in his native state; also at Corinth. He was pastor at Wnvnesvilli' ' C for four vejtrs' , e t ii .u u swer the charge of bringing the Le-i also in other fields. In all these he . I , gion into politics, while Mr. Grist has saw, and Williams, of Dunn, the lead- candidates. John Hall Manning, who was last year the campaign manager, of Frank Grist for Commissioner ofj Labor and F'rinting is having to an-1 New Models Boom Sales Enthusiasm marks an nouncement to the public of the improved models. Many express ed amazement that such changes could be made and the car re mains the same price. We are anxious that you may know more about the improved Ford and if you will visit our show rooms you can see that the new value has not been overestimated. We would suggestyou selecting the model you want N O W as del iveries will be made in order received. DUCKWORTH MOTOR CO. THE UNIVERSAL CAB PRODUCTS PHONE 350 Wayjiesville, N. C. did useful and lasting work. On July 1, 1 SK:?, he was married to Miss Elizabeth Monger, the oldest seen fit to deny the charge of cam paigning for Manning while osten- , t o e t- -i yi t sioiv iul on a iuui iospei. i oik ii v, i laughter .if Prof, Emil Menger, of ' . i naipn ,-neeio, wen Known iegionaire. I has taken up the cudgel for Williams Central Female Institute. From thi. union there are the following children Mr. Charles I.. Wharton. Minenpolis Minn.; Mr. Lindsay Wharton, Evans ville. Ind.; Mrs. C. I.. Reed. Pitts lurg. Pa.; Mrs. E. M. Ramsey. I!ar lyvile. Ya.: Mrs. .1. I'. Ponder. Wheel Mig. W. Ya.; Miss Harriett Wharton Mars Hill. A great and good man lias gone; mav we all seek to profit by his lif and teachings. May our Good Lathe; in Heaven be very near to the be iravu! one-. (Hi.' lo-s his eternal gain. DR. .IOIIX A. POOL. PROF. JOHN" W. DOFF. ELLA P1KRCK. KTHKI. GREGG, Committee. VET EUAN IS GOING HACK TO FRANCE. I nwittingly Waynesville Man Ke veals Story of Great Self-Sacrifice whom he says is in the fight to the finish. The part taken by the Legion in the poiltieal campaign last year was displeasing; to many of the members who now feel that a repetition of the tactics tht n employed should be sat upon good and strong. Mr. Steele puts CapUiin Williams above petty politics and thinks be would be the t :e!it man in the righ: place. In a recent statement!'! he had this lo say: "Reports circulated to the elTec' that Capt. I. I!. Williams of Dun is not n candidate for Department Com mander of the American Legion are false. At ii meeting held in Dunn this week of reiiresent ives from the Legion posts in Harnet county plans were laid for bringing Williams' name hc fore the posts of the state and before the delegates at the Fayetteville con vent ion. Since his candidacy was made public a few days ago numerous let-1 ters and telegrams pledging support Richard Hagger, World War veter- have been recived by his friends, and. an, of Waynesville, his romance shat- it appears that when the delegates ar- tered and persistently beset by an ad- rive for the convention at least thirty verse fate, was in Charlotte thi. week, or forty votes will be pledged to Wil-j preparing to return on nn errand of liams, which will constitute a balance love and mercy to the battlefields of of power and the nucleus for a ma France, where first he went bent on jority on a later ballot. Two hunderd f 9-4W1BI Pu re Paint h bought by 1 carnage of destruction. . to two hundred and fifty votes arc 1 his veteran of the 105th Engineers, expected to be cast. - - j a North Carolina famous National In putting forth Williams his back Guard organization, admits he has ers believe that he is the one-man lived a "hectic" existence since the who can restore peace and harmony end of the World War, but, out of within the Legion and that is the ill that cloud of gloom which has en- sole reason for his candidacy. For veloped him, there has come to him the past two or three years bitter a ray of hope. pactional fights have developed at i He is going back to France as a State conventions and their effect has worker with the Methodist relief or- been detrimental through the year, eanization, he said, and he regards Already serious disruptions are re 'he offer of this position as a definite ported in posts at Raleigh and Wash-' fulfillment for him of the Biblical ington. Williams has never take.i statement, in Ecclesiastes 11:1 "Cast part in these scraps, but has worked thy bread upon the waters; for thou quietly and efficiently in the interest ?halt find it after many days." of the Legion and the ex-service man,1 Saves Minister in Gas Attack. to the exclusion of things political." , hard-boiled business men those who first get the fans then check them up carefully and "may the best man win." Kur fees paint wins out on these comparisons we like to get a chance at close buyers because we can snow tnem tne nign quality they demand, and We can show you, too! Come in and talk it over with us. We can show you real, specific reasons for the continued popularity and increasing use kf Kurfees Paint. HYATT & : ) 00 PURE ClrtMMtWlMl ZMf tail . . 100 Ground In Ganulna LINSEED 00.
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