North Carolina Newspapers

A C!v2. ;C!:n' X V0LLXX1V NO. 40 TRYON, N. G. TOIEpilBR WHERE DID MONEY ME 1 Increase in Polk County's , Bank Resources for Two Years Most Gratiryinsr. MORE THAN DOUBLES. The bank resources of Pplk county, as shown -in the bank statements on, Dec. 31st, 918, show a surprisingly large gain in resources of Polk co un- At the ed of the year 1916 there were but tvfo banks in Polk county. Their swonv report shows jthe follow- Bank of Tryon.. . . .$99,42o.84 . 40,484.50 Carolina State Bank . Total . . . . . . . . .... $139,910,344 One year later, Dec. 3lJ 1917, with four banks in the county we find that the two old banks had actually increas ed their resources, while .the two new banks had grown to. be of respectable proportions! The resources at that Ififp were: I , -1 Bank of Tryon... .. . ... . . $118,206.50 Bank of Saluda .......... 48,208.02 Peoples Batok & Trust C6. 44,892.63 Carolina State Bank. ....!. 43,943.41 Total. ........... ..$255,250.56 This is a gratifying condition of our banirs lat that period showing an increase in! bank resources in one year of $115,340..22, or over 90 per cent. One yealr later, Dec. 31st, 1918, we1 find that all four banks liad kept up their rapid gi'owth, and had made substantial gains over the preceding vear. Th hgures show! Bank of Tryon . . . . . $ll9,y8iJ.ui Poples Bank & Trust Co 104,623.94 Bank of Saluda......;. Carolina State Bank. . . . 68,104.14 58,845.31 Total..,. .$351,556.40 But this is not all. Durine the last twelve months' period the great Libr ertv Loan! Drives had 5 taken "place, and manyj predicted that! the banks of . the counte:wflnM-wr.?Jn quence. Not only wathis 'nop, : -so; but they actually showea a V very marked increase in resources. r ; In order to show how much idle mon ev there was in Polk county during all this time we have but to add to our bank resources the amounts invested in Liberty Bonds and War Savings Stamps. The most conservative es timates on these two items are as fol lows: v Liberty Bonds bought: J. .$250,000.00 War" Savings Stamps. - 100,000.0.0 Total... .$350,000.00 This amount added to . the bank re- sources of the county show our visible Bank resources L:. 351,556.40 Liberty, Bonds, Stamps 350,000.00 Total ......... .. .$701,556.40 This shows an increase ironv 10.34 onl December 31, 1916, to, $701, 556.40 ort December 31. 1918. or an increase of $561,646.06. or over half million dollars. - v This is indeed a most gratifying in: crease, and one that we take grea pride in jpublishing. to) the outside world. It shows that the people ot Polk county have done two things Not only learned the value of - the banking habit, but demonstrated their loyalty 4nd patriotism to the JN.ation by investing their money in Liberty Bonds arid War Savmes stamps. There is now talk of the fifth bank in Polk county. What will be the ef fect of it ? Will it have a tendency to swplllthf resources f of the four present banks ? - We predict it will. -o f ; -V. MILL SPRING ROUTE 1. Mr. AL F. Corbm moved to A. A. Edwards' Monday,wher e he will stay a month or so, teaching the people of this community who cannot read or Write.- . - -: -.! ... V Missed Julia and Mattie AOrams spent the week-end with their sister, Mrs. Q. M. Powell. i Misses Mae . and ' Odessa Searcy, Naoma md Mary Willie Whiteside at tended services at Lebanon, Sunday. Mr Sam- Ownby made a business trip to Tryon, Thursday. . Anderson Woma4 f has returned home we are glad to note. He was a -sailor. i Several boys from ( Rock Springs were at' Lebanon, Sunday. Miss Bernice Wilson has departed for Columbia, S. C, where she has se cured al position. . ; : ; I African Trees. A wonderful tree, known as the shea, is beginning to attract commercial at tention1 In western Africa. It supplies the natives not only with nuts, which they highly prize, but with , a butter that may become an ; article of com mercial Importance. It is already ex-. ported to Europe, where makers of artlgdal butter find use for It Their Need for Safety- Pin. An archeologlst recently dug up a safety pin from i the ruins of ancient Babylon. Judging from the pictures in - the Babylonian, section of the histories, . nowever, it seems mai saieiy pins were jsvorn mostly by i the grownups In ; those itlmes. o FROM AN ASSET THAT NEEDS TO BE DEVELOPED. Hendersonville and Henderson county -need more factories and'simi ar industrial enterDrises. We al ready have some: but we need more. A pay-roll for twelve hiflnths in th . i . . r i i . i year is vjasuy more prontaDie to a Community than any - kind of tourist ousmess, But big factories cannot easilv be obtained at the start. The men who are putting their money into a big actory want some guarantee that the community will stand squarely be hind them. This aruarantee usually takes the -form of a fair sized stock subscription; and there is not at pres ent any very large amount of money in tnis county seeking such invest ment. Most of our people have their money tied up in other investments. Before we can locate as many fac tories here as we want, we shall have to acquire more .money to invest. The question is, wherri is this money to come from? . There is one point which is fre quently overlooked; and we venture o suggest it for the consideration of the Board - of Trade. Henderson county has already one important; asset which only needs developing in order to become immensely valuable. That asset is its farms. Of all. possi ble ways that the Board of Trade can devise to build up this city none offers surer and speedier results than the ef4 1 fort to develop the farming possible lties oi this county. ; Several years ago, the late M. v. Richards of Washington, D. C, who was then industrial agent for the Southern Railway, came to Hender- sonville to confer wi h our Board of Trade. He said that he knew a great deal about Henderson county, in his Washington office there was on file a mass of detailed information about this county, much of which was un known even to our own people; and the suggestion he had to make to us was that in our fani lands we have an almost unlimited source of wealth. Three goodf arms, pi operly run, - he said, ai-e as valuable to a community as a big factory. He not only made the statement but he gave clear and convincing prqof of jt. ' " 'c That was several years ago. Since thtnfafming'a to other mdustnes more, important and more valuable than it -was then. His statements are truer today than they were when he , made them. If our Board of Trade really wants to promote the rapid growth of the com munity and we are sure it does-it can find no surer way of attaining that very desirable result than to de vote a large part ofi its time and en ergy , to the task of devising imeans to promote the farming industry in Hen derson county. . v i; There are, other m atters of import ance, but none so important as this. Good roads are important. The farm er needs them if he raises anything ; and a good farming! county is sure to have them. You can. have good ?-oads without good farms; but if i a cotinty has good farms, the good roads are bound to follow. , Some years ago bt a commission ers meetiner in one of the Western North Carolina counties, something was said about good roads. " A farm ing, expert, who was present, spoke up and said: " "What do you want"' roads for ? You have no use for them until you raise some truck. If you had them now, what could you haul over them ? You have no use for roads except to carry a little ; tanbark and crossties to the nearest railway station, and haul back some imported feed for your stock. When you develop your farms, and really raise- something, you will need goo 1 roads, and then you will find some "jvay to get them. The tourist business is important; but it is not so important as farm ing, because it depends absolutely up- on farming. Without farms, we can- not feed the touris ts. It is the same pnHpavnr. In thf with other lines of ast analysis, they all depend upon the farm. Food is the physical basis c f life. Henderson countv is -ideally adapt ed to variotis kinds of farming and trucking. If one-half the thought and time and effort which has been devoted to other projects, had been devoted to the improvement of farm ing methods, Hend;rson countv would now be immensely wealthy. There, is a steady improvement noticeable. But the point that we wish to em phasize is that the business men of Hendersonville depend for their suc cess upon the farmers of Henderson county; and thref ore the business men's organization of this city cannot find any - more profitable occupation than the intellieent effort to promote up-to-date farming in this county. Hendersonville Times. 4 BETTER SCHOOLS FOR LYNN. The agitation for' better schools seems to be in an epidemic form all over the' South. Tryon is into it up to her eyes. . Our little neigiuor, Lynn gives" us to iinderstand that she, too, wants better schools. At present that district hasno tax levy for school piirpdses, but a. peti tion is in circulation, asking for a 50 cents tax levy ' for that specific pur pose. Good for Lynn. That is the way to do things. Educate your children, and to lo it . costs money, and the only way . to get money is by taxation.' We hope you: get what you are asking for. .j FROM OUR FRIENDS Some Items of General Interest Gathered COLUMBUS. Mr. T.;M. Johnson, of Arden, visit ed his family at Coiunbus, Sunday. Mr. Leroy McFarlani spent a few days in " Raleigh last week, on busi ness.. ' ' . - : ' " -';, - '-'.;. Miss Gladys Smith, teacher of Mel virt Hill school, spent the . week-end with her parents. ' Miss Lizzie Dedmond is visiting Miss Nell Constance at Sandy Plains, this week. Rev Jones, of Tryon, delivered a very interesting sermon last Sunday. He will preach again-February 16, at both morning and evening. V Mrs. N. P. Mills is visiting relatives in Spartanburg, this week. Mrs. E.-B. Cloud has returned to; her home after spending some time with her parents, Mr. and Mis. T. E Walker, of Greens Creek. Miss Margaret Cantrell of Lan-j drum, S. C, entered Stearns High School Tuesday. . j Misses Minnie Arledge and -Eliza- beth Spivey spent the week-end iij Hendersonville with ihe former's sis! ter, Mrs. J. E. Shipman. "1 Mrs. Leonard and children, of Tryi- on, visited her sister, Mrs. W. 15. Ar- ledge, Sunday. ; '-. Mrs. R. G. Hamilton was in town, Monday. : o- ':t .r,,' GREENS CREEK. Wilbur Steadman and Wilbur Fea- gans have just returned from France. Mrs. Joe Hutcherson, Sr., died last Saturday, , with pneumonia, following influenza. ' ; - f ' Mr. Wilbur Steadman and Miss Lil lie Spakes were married last wcek.iv Mrs. E. . Cloud, who has been vi$- iting her mother, returned to Colum bus, Sunday. Mrs. Cloud will join her husband who is now a nem':er of the State Senate; at Raleigh, thfs. Prof. W; S. i Cobb visited 5at Greens Creek ,High School . Friday . &f - tMOilJT3-giadta je hetf! rroiessor. vs . v x " Misses Nellie Brian and Milla Mc Kinney spent the week-end at J. W. Walker's:.. - Mr. Melvin - F. "Burgess, of Hot Springs, N. C. spent the week-end at I. E. Walker's . -o - HILLCREST. ' Rev. W. B. Lindsey and Mr. Robert Hunter, of Charlotte, paid a flying visit to Hillcrest Institute, Friday to bring pump for the well. It was a gift from Mr. Hunter and a -pleasant surprise to the Hillcrest faculty. Mises Julia and Mattie Abrams spent the Week-end -with their sister, Mrs. Powell. j : Miss. Pauline Wilkins spent the week-end with Miss Ruth Brian. Miss Covell Cooley and Myr: le Shields spent the week-end with Miss Louise McDade. t- '.. Miss Nellie Brian spent the week end with her aunt, Mrs. Walker. J Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Bridges, who havebeen ill with influenza and pneumonia, are convalescent. 1 James Mathis, who had the misfor tune to crush his foot very badly,; is improving fast. j : Mr. Lum Mathis, who had to leave Hillcrest Institute on account of his brother's accident, has returned to his studies. . ' ' ' - ' . -' . j. Mrs. R. M. Abrams, who has been in bed for five weeks, is improving ' ' o FISHTOP. No, we were not out of news last week, for we had a good lot of real news, but just as we, were in the act of delivering to the postman the jflu upset our vehicle, hence .no news last week. . - Mrs. John .Holbert should have been reported as dead, last week, and now Mr. John Holbert has had the misfortune to lose his right hand last week, while sawing shingles. Aunt Ruth Patz wandered away last week, and when found was in a branch nearly frozn. Had been there several hours, but Mrs.. N. A. Price andMrs, Elizabeth Pace nursed her back to normal life, it seems now. j We need a county horo for the aged and unf ortun te, as some of jthe best tax payers and grand jurors hav at innumerable times recommended. " J. W Bishop and Posey Henderson were in the Bright's Creek section jone day la?t week, on business. : .-. We could not attend the mass mest ing at Columbus, Monday, but hope much good will result in the way of uplift to .Polk county interests. -1 ; Let us boost bur paper ' and ' more, by obtaining more subscribers, and help our editors who are laboring so hard to bring the resources of I old Polk to light. MELVIN HILL. Mr. W, O. Morris who has been! sick of - influenza,' is stopping with his mother here until he can recuperate, v Mr.; Tom Wialdrop came i up from Pomafia, S.,C, to visit h.is family : last week-end, . returning Monday. f;X - Miss Fofa:. Lawter is dangerously ill of pneumonia. :" ; ? - I - i . . .Mr. Walter Reed came up from Hen rietta to visit his parents, Sunday." Mr. James Waldrojr has . gone to Oil . THE C0UI1TY By Oar Correipondenis From Variotis Henrietta where he will be employed Mr. Tilden Higgins.has l ist return ed from a 'pig buying expedition I but don t , know what luck he had; i f r r i Mr S 'S&. Lawter - and his little dautexGrladys, who have had tthe; flu, are much better. - A : - ftC; ; ABOLENE. V- '' Messrs; iiBlmer "Davis. Conrad t and WilhurRidihgs have returned home f rpm Fruitland Institute. - -, : Green Rjver school closed last Tues day; -foKa week, on account" of the principal, Mr. " Hamricky ; having the flu.'..;.K 'M : cjMessrsi-iiT. andi R C. jHayes made' a ; busmesjv trip toV Rutherfordton, Monday 1?':-';v: ; rJr : 'Mr. J; Kl Hine $ and grandson, Paul, called -at .Mr. .J. C. Davis' .Sunday i !Mrs..E. C Davidson spentWe dnes- day: night at Mr. J. W. Davidson's. CfMrsjvSamuelVHill.' of Rutherfordton spent a few days, last week, with her parents.- Mr and Mrs. jn. u..AJoie. - i ".Several ff rom here attended the- fun eral services of Mrs. : Lucy Painter.; at Sandy. Springs. Sunday, where, she was laid io rest. 'Hvti ' ;Mr E Davidson moved his fam ily to Fiiigerville,' Monday. ..Rev. Mr Hunt - delivered an Inter esting' sermon and lecture' on the Mil-: hpn Dollar (Baptist School Fund Mon day at Green River. . ' ; ; : Several1 ol our; farmers are hauling their guao now so that it will be out of the wa.when the busy spring time comes.;. fi -.: .- '-v - . - - iHurrahfor C. Wilbur "McGmnis,; i What r jias become ? of !: i Sandy o vi V ' Jtflft SPRING ROUTE 2. 1 ' 3- - Jujv. Bit Jackson deliyered ; a "y gooo, sermon 4 Cooper Gap, -Sunday -last -lev t - S"N' 4-; v v ' 'V-.: Mta n rsTT)anfeTRxrffVf tanburg, are visiting relatives in this section. II Mrs. O. jL. Wilson spent Friday night with her mother. Mrs. S. J Helton, if: . - Mr. Bewlin Wilson, from Route 1 attendedfservices at' Cooper Gap last Sunday 1 Mr. Noah Lynch - spent , Saturday night in Mill Spnhg. Miss Minnie Ruppe spent Saturday night withM iss Ruth Byers, Mr. and Mrs. D. P. McGuinn receiv ed a letter: from .their son, Andy, who is in France, the first they have had since the war ended.' Mr. anci Mrs. D. C. Foster, of Mil o : ...:; 4- t t j xr ixrii liams' on last Saturday. I A crovd . of youngsters enjoyed good muic at the home of Mrs. War ren Cog&m, last Sunday. Mrs. Ocie Gilbert and. Miss Lizzie Wilamstpent several nours with Mrs. . Fred Gibbs Saturday last. . . Little Ijva Wilson, spent f last week with Esffter Wilson. ! ""Mr, aid Mr. Harry Benhnett. pent Saturdaf-fnight at N. E. Williams'. Officetsi captured two stills in Big Level section, Jast Sunday. MOUNTAIN view. ' - r- J'::.f'' Mr. I ?B. McGraw made a business trip to (Rutherfordton, last week. ; . Mrs. McGraw has been very sick, but lad to learn that she is improv mg. ? Mr. H. H. McCrain has been haul ing to the saw mill for the past week. Seems that he is building. Miss Alice McCrain left, Saturday, for Rutherfordton R. 3, where she will attend school for awhile. She will board with her aunt v Mrs. H. H. Lynch Mr. Martin McCrain caught a fine 'possum the other night. At least he thought' it was ine when he was eat ing it for dinner.. Messrs! James and Mont Burgess are keeping "Bachelor's Hall" and are working on the farm and are getting along fine. Miss Jane Erwin's house was burn ed lastf week. Did " not learn, ithe cause. y- Wakep, Big Level and make j us another call. ' if If- 11 f O MILL SPRING. If, Mr. and, Mrs. Lionel ' Brisco are .vis iting relatives at Rutherfordton. Sunday school is progressing nice ly. Some of the boys made - a j big resolution in choir practice to sing all the timer Had splendid reason i for doing so. v- - ' ':-' y Mr. W. M. Walker and family vis ited Mr G. E. Arledge, Sunday. Miss Kate Rucker of Rutherford ton was visiting" her aunt Mrs; J : M. Lewis, last week. By accident a tree fell on her and hurt her-very severe! f She and; Mrs. Alta Pruitt' were pass ing' by : '-where , Otho Lewis was. chop ping, and ; by some- means Mrs.. Pruitt escaped! but Mrst? Rucksr was ;;nnfor tunate jjnol caught - under ; the tree. WR hopshe wilL' recbver.V ! '-:t.fy Say, iPountainu View, come again. -We are! anxious to know what hap pens in your section. : !; : Mr. ancl Mrs. : W. H; Elliott, -of Hopewell, are., visiting the - tatter's, parents, Mr. and Mrs. -G; E. -Arledge OUR;COUNTY COURT HOUSE. If there is anything in Polk county for which, our citizens should hang their heads in shame, it is the condi tion, of the ; county , court house at Co- umbus. - :-,- - v'V'-r v- 'Sx- ,''. Monday a meeting was .advertis ed to , be held in the court: houSe.'JBut .what a sight-met our gaze when we entered' the court rooml 'The- old car pets had been taken up the' stoVes ta- Jcen down,4 the benches overturned and an piles, 4he floor red with ' the sur rounding. soil, and no .arrangements pf any ;kind made ; ; for the . meeting The result-was the crowd. had' to go to he oflice of County..' Agent .Sams. there tor; sit and - shiver because about half, of f the window panes are out of the windows. The I lower - hall of ; the courthouse is used as. a wood shed, and the , wood ' is -piled ; up , there ' New toilets wre built-last year,a nd last Christmas the 'fence around one was overturned" by a gang of c mischiveous boys, and there : it lays just.- as- it was overturned.' . ' v yyr-:; Our County Commissioners r should appoint a janitor 'y at a' . wage that would-justify, him to . clean up .and keep clean : the court room;d shoul build wood sheds so that the officials would have some storage - -: place ior. their, fuel; .should at, their next meet ing order every, broken window pane replaced; have . the toilet: fence set: up again; put stoves in ?the court' room, and notify the janitor, to v have the. room clean and warm whenever there as. to .be a - meeting of the citizens- of the county. ' ; J-.-.; ;': The present conditions, of . the court house : -are' disgracefuL The new Board of Commissioners has not been: in office long, andwe ihope that the members will o into this matter and rectify r the present . conditions. It would not- take much .; to ; . place - the house in a cleanly and comfortable condition. Why. not do it? " AMERICAN IN GERMANY ,; , TenchEdwards,one : of the American soldiers stajiofled in Germany recent ly rWrote! his mother, Mrs. A. ;A. Ed wards a letter,4 and in which he -said: r 'I am; in "Germany now. 'Can't tell howuong I - will be here.' . I am enjoy ing' life- as fine as- any - soldier - 'over here. -I-was one of ? thefirst ' soldiers orT ; J The : First ; Divisoaf olldwefli iBe t Germans - across, the ARhine an Noyem- bsr, : 15;;mues ; from Coblenz. f I ' have been i m lots . of dangerous .-places. I have thought many times that eyery second I would-be. blown into millions of pieces. Have : been in places I had ; rather be dead ,than living. 'The war is about, over now. The, German soldiers.- say that the. First Division has the best soldiers they run1 up against in all the war. They also said that the old First Division was what won the war. We certainly have made the Huns walk "Tarpin'Viri the - last six months.' : . ' - SHALL UNITED -STATES EXTEND ITS DOMAINS? British Want This Country to Ad minister Some of German Colo nies, Lloyd Allen Declares. , Readers of the NEWS will find pn another, page of this issue a very in teresting special article by Lloyd Al len, relating to the views of British leaders on the part? that the United States should, play in connection with one of the most important matters that will come . before the peace con gress thedisposition of .the: captured German colinies and Turkish posses sions in the near East. ; Mr. Allen, writing from London, de clares there is a feeling; in England that the United - States should aban don its policy of aloofness from Euro pean; aftairsan d embark upon a pro gram that would make it a : leading factor in world politics. : ' - i This is one of the greatest problems that will confront the representatives of the -United States in their efforts to bring about a fair , and lasting poace for the world, and readers of the NEWS will find it well worth while to read Mr. Allen's explanation of Biit ish views on this subject. - " r Builder of Pagoda. , i 'The Burnian, if he acquires wealth, must also acquire merit-'Kutba" and this he .must ; doj by building a pagoda on which shall be set out? on a . marble., slab ihow, much money i he spent on building it. He likes people to address him as ''Builder of a Pa goda," and he will say to his wife be fore others : -"Oh, wife of a builder of a pagoda !" , ; ' ' . . . : ; "7 ' -Mt:f The Mocking Bird. j ' The; mocking - bird;' is a native of America and the .West Indies and ,1s remarkable for Its , vocal . powers and for Its faculty for imitating other birds as- well as different sounds which : It hears. Its voice:; Is .full and musical, and capable of modulation, from ; the dear , tone .of jthe.. woodthrush ito : the- scream of the; eagle. " ;"f I Color of . Pure ; Copper. Thework' of a : Swiss investigator i suggests -that ; absolutely pure copper may have a light gray color like that of j most other metals,, since It is found that copper which Jtias been ten tmes distilled in Vacuo has only a pale rose color while the' yellow color of gold becomes . much lighter under similar treotmenta. PBKfllllBill POLK COUIP , Annual Meeting and Electicn cf gf Officer feTIaStOli : lumbut, Last Monday. At the meeting of citizens of i Polk county,, at Columbus, last-Monday "for the purpose of electing officers of the Polk ; County Fair Association - f or 1919, resulted as follows: President, W.,T.f 1-indaey;-Vice President, ;M. Georgion. r Secretary,vB.tF.i Copeland. ; Treasurer. Dr. H.' HEdwards ? Directors, tChas (Davenport for Co- ? i lumbus township; ;Lafayette Thomp-.. son:for Saluda;: C. M. Howes.for Try- S on. The selection if or iWidte Oak, c -Greens Creek, and? Cooper" Gap will be i j -. filled later. Mtn .wilt, be selected on ly who will .agree to acceptithe posi-,' tion; and attend the tmeetings (of the s oua.ru x . fee tors. mr. (jeo. - jtt. .-. . . . Cobb, of Tryqn, was elected ijPresi--dent of the Board of Directors. : ? ' k J - Much interest was manifested, .and 3 it was agreed to select officers ahd-on Jv those who had the interest Jof fthe Fair ? at heart, ' and would work with. . that: end m view. 'v;:' .'y X-.-s-t. - Wednesday. Thursday and ; Friday. .: October 8, 9, and 10; were, selected as ' days on which the Fair would.be.held Wednesday- will be known as entry day, ; the two datter;?days f or khsola v or show days. . ',-,. 'yylh ' r:'"; y WbrKVon ;thesprenuum; list iwill, be- ' gin: just, as soon ias-: the State Board ' furnishes ourilocil t ipeoj)le ijvithjjfchejr list. - ' ' . , . . - Now Jet, everybody in, Pplk' county . go to work and, prepare something for display. at -our, next Fair.-, " . COUNTY;BOARD;OF, TRADE . r. Quite a 'good sized crowd-assembled: at, Columbus, -last J Monday:- inre" sponse to the calhof Countv! .Acent - t Sams to undertake the taso;rgan- - mi? a. wouniy ; M)ara ,oi ;. irane. . . ' derCteichIriH:- Saluda was, electe$)Xfozirm&rtotyttc meeting : and ; Mr. , C. Bush,. of ' Tryon, -Secretary. 'r-y'i:':' -':-n''iiri - Talks were made by Messrs. J, R; Sams, B. F. Copeland, T. C. IMUs,- B. , Willis and SrB.i Edwatds. -A; motion was then made and carried to appoint a committee on organization. ;Messrs JR.'3ams,-B.-Fi Copeland, -. mT , Dedmond, : J. D.i Carpenter and C. MA , -Howes.. .''- :. :' ; "; v i - - r -1This - committee will -.investigate , ' similar organizations in NorthCarb- r , Una, and attempt to . arrive at a plan .which r wilLbei suitable? prthe.-arm ers and business interests '.C'of 'I Eplk county. As; soon: as sufficients data : is '. -gathered the committee ..win be, called ... upon to meet, and perfect; a report, af- , ter .which, another, .public efetirig wil I ' be, called,! andthe; citizens Mllh then act upon the report Of .Shis committee. Every f armerin attendance at Co lumbus expressed a ' desire to ,; have -such an organization Polk county, and they may rest-assured that this committee, will do , all, in : its powr to find some kind of plan .ui table r for Polk county. ' . - -:. , COUNTY POULTRY, gHOW. . At the meetmgo f the Tryon Town ship 'Poultry! Association .last Satur- day it was ;thought advisable o.Jioid a poultry show, in ' Tryon, during the first .week in October. ' While thia show; will be jinderc the supervision of the Tryoa Township Association,. , members of the Tryon Association are -going to goffer .as premiums, settings of eggs and .cock erels, full-blooded, of couiseIri ord'r .to. jstimulate .the v FulUBlooded, move ment iioJng.waged in PoJId coun ty. , y-y ;v -jl t ;; There seems., to ; be. some misunder standing as to 'the object and. aims of this .moveijient. ; ;Sdme seeml to think : that only those wh'orhave fulfbtobded poultry are wanted; "as membersl ; It is the purpose of- the organization to show you how you may become rais ers of full blooded - poultry j ; without costing youan y great. jsnm of rmoney, and without having to ithrpw , away your present - flock, of chekens. . The next date for the meeting of : the Tryon Associatiori has " not : . yet been determined, upon, . but.anl invita tion: is extended: to. chicken,, Raisers in all parts Of Polk; county to .Jtheet with us. Come, and ,tell us yourf troubles, and let us, help you out: ', i ?.-. Our interests, the development of the poultry businessi and the raising of pure., bred chickens are; the same, so ; let's. . get. togetheriin these meetings.- - ' . 1 . ! ' - pdT Foods. Lizards and alligators are the latest ' 4?rpposltlonsinHherwayAof jppd vari ety. i'They, do nott seem avery,:aljurlnc td the United States appetites, yet.n ards" ha ve been extremely - popnlar in the Bahama lslad$and;trlda alii-. gators have a' reputation of being quite delicious. i. A boy .who- Is a; firm helierer. In tho fraise-a-pig plan has aporker irhlch . he has christened Jflnk, .Ibecause he ays $he. pig ruim o freely fronrth' WO .-r r.-7 '-' r. - f : 4