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'Yes, it takes some sacrifice now, some scrimping and
laving. But every penny of it will come back, with interest.
"In the days to come we'll be glad we did it glad that we did our
entire duty to our country and ourselves glad that we put our money
into the safest investment in the world glad that we bought to amr
limit in the Victory Liberty Loan."
Victory Liberty Loan Committoo
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Loan Button
is not only the out
ward and visible sign of
a duty well done it
a symbol of good judg
ment a sign of keen
perception a mark
of business acumen.
It means that the wearer has
put his money into the safest
investment in thejworld
and is proud of it!
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Victory Liberty Loan Committee
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Special Appeal on Behalf of
Liberty Loan Issue is Sent;
Out by Washington Repre
sentative of National Grange.
Every farmer in America ij ex
pected to support the Victory Liberty
Loan, says Thomas C. Atkeson, the
Washington representative of the Na
tional Grange Patrons of Husbandry,
who has sent-the following letter to
the officers of every farm grange in
the United Stat3: '
Victory Liberty' is the slogan for
the new loan. The drive is to begin
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April 21, for the sale, of six billion
dollars in Victory Liberty Bonds.
These two words visualize all that is
best in American spirit. American
farmers must respond to this appeal.
77What the farmers of America did
in sacrifice and in accomplishment, in
food production and in bond buying
during the war is a part of the record
It is a war record of which any class
may be proud. It must be made good
now by meeting the obligations which
result from the outpouring of Ameri
can strength which conquered the
enemies of Liberty and civilization.
Time to Get. Ready
"It is time to get into this Victory
Liberty Bond campaign. No appeal of
the war has gone unanswered to the
full limit when brought to the atten
tion of the farmers. Men, money,
wheat, other food no mattpr what
the obstacles or.tho difficulties the
answer has been full and certain1. The
answer must be the same in this com
ing drive.
"Millions of soldiers must be brought
home?, thousands of sick must.be cared
for; thousands of wounded and muti
lated must be made ready for future
usefulness. We armed a nation and
mobiliaed its "resources into t war ma
chine of such tremendous potential
power that our enemies surrendered
rather than face it, and thereby
months or years of fighting and thous
ands of lives were saved. Now we
must pay the obligations created by
this effort. Who can neglect to pay
his just part for that which prevented
so great a sacrifice of life and blood.
World Wants Products.
There lies Just outside the doors of
the American farmer a hungry world, a
world which needs all our products.
American farming rests on the safe
basis of need and service. The invest
ment of the hard-earned dollars of
American farmers in Victory Liberty
Bonds is a safe investment with a
certainty of fair return, and the
money will come back into circulation
making, more business, increasing the
market and. the demand for farm pro
ducts, and increasing prosperity Buy
ing Victory Liberty Bonds will
make farmers Victory-Liberty-Prosper-ity-raen.
Do your part to put the Vio
tory Liberty Loan over the top.
Make your investment in Victory
Liberty Bonds the measure of your
confidence in American institutions
and that democracy for which your
sons offered the supreme sacrifice; a
symbol of your determination that the
war shall not have been fought in
Tain; an offering of thanksgiving for
peace."
HOW V
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History of All Loans for a Cen
tury Shows That Advance
Has Always Come with
Peace.
POLK COUNTY NEWS
Will history repeat itself? That
question is in the minds of many bond
buyers these days. Records show that
the prices of bonds were way down
during war times of the past but soon
after peace was declared advanced
rapidly.
During Napoleonic wars prices of
English 3 per cent, consols ranged
from 67. the high and 54 the low,
in 1814 to 96 the high and 84 the
low, in 1824. During the same period
French 5 per cent, rentes rose from
80, the high, in 1814 to 104.8 in 1824.
They also went as low as 45 in 1814.
French 5 per cent, rentes during the
Franco-Prussian war ranged in price
from 75.1 to 87 3 rnd 50.8 to 81.1.
United States bonds during the Con
federate war .sold for 95, the high,
and 83, the low, in 1861. but from then
on they had practically a steady rise
until 1873, at which time the high was
123H and the low 'lllH.s The ten-forty-year
bonds, put out in 1864 ad
vanced from 103 to 116 v in ten
years.
Four, series of Liberty Bonds have
been, issued and the fifth to ,be
kr.q-.in as i the Victory Liberty Loan
w.'ll so m be offered. These securities
have behind them the mightiest pro
tection, ever devised the resources
and the pledge" and the faith of ono
of the' great nations of the world.
The Investment value of th bonds
can never decrease, for the interest
Fill always be paid and the bonds
will we redeemed at tull face ralue
at maturity;
MONUMENT TO POLiv COUNTY
SOLDIERS.
Citizens Are Very Much in Earnest
Over the Idea. Townsnip jueeunge
Called for Saturday, May 3rd. and
County Meeting for Monday, May
5th, at Columbus
The idea advanced through the
NEWS last week has met with such
universal satisfaction that it . is
thought best to go ahead 4 with the
plan and perfect an organization.
In conformity with this plan, it is
hereby requested that a meeting be
held in every township in Polk county,
on Saturday, May 3rd, 1919, at 3
nVlnrlr r: m.. at the usual voting
place. At this meeting each town
ship will select 3 delegates to repre
sent that township at a county meet
ing to be held at Columbus, on Mon
day, May 5th at 11 o'clock m.
At this county meeting a full or
ganization will be perfected, and a
full corps of officers selected. A com
mittee will be appointed which will
settle upon the kind of a" monument,
probable cost, etc. It is earnestly
hoped that each township will have
its delegate at Columbus, on Monday,
May 5th.
In the meantime, send to the NEWs
your name, and the amount you are
willing to contribute to. this cause. Jbo
far but one organization has respond
ed. The Boy Scouts of " Tryon au
thorize us to announce they will era
tribute $5.00. All honor to the Scouts
for being the first to subscribe. Don't
hesitate. Send in your names.
It is suggested that the school
children of the county be asked to
contribute the modest sum of ten
cents each. We know that every
child in the county wants in on this,
so organize your clubs and send
names and amounts subscribed, to the
NEWS for publication.
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COW FOR SALE.
Full blooded, black-tongued Jersey
cow, fresh, for sale at the Stock Farm
C. J. LYNCH.
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MR. EMERSON'S BOOK.
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was wnat uiey needed, as w11 '
own citizens. The NEW? ; . 0ur
out these things as being so P&
leeded. Many of our citizens ffi
ssue with us and some even
were "knocking the town'' rW!
.lothing was further from our infi?
tion. - mten-
I We appealed to the Lanier C1k
md never vet has an appeal of th
right kind been made to that bodv
but what has been responded to if
was so in this case. The action if
the Club was rescinded and fortnight
ly meetings were again ordered. Th
result has been that some of the best
meetings in the history of the Gluh
have been held and it has been a sea
3on of great profit, as well as of en-"
joyment. The visitors have been
heard to express themselves as beine
royally entertained. In fact we heard
it said, "This reminds us of Tryon of
bygone days."
Beginning with the New Year's re
ception until the end of the program
the entire season of the LamVr nw
y - j, vmy
has been one which will be long re
membered, and the NEWS is glad to
bestow the credit for such a success
ful season to the Lanier Club, to
Mr. Edward Emerson a near Tryon
ite has recently written a book on the
Saturday Club a half century Bos
ton institution once famous for hav
ing as members his father Ralph
Waldo, Oliver Wendel Holmes James
Russell Lowell and other literary
swells. Miss Amy Lowell a sister of
the president of Harvard University,
in her New York Times review of the
book, said these big people didn't
know anything about Poe, W(alt
Whitman or Browning. A daughter
of "Battle Hymn" Julia Ward Howe,
proves that Emerson was among the
first to recognize the genius of Walt
Whitman, and that they were as fa
miliar with Poe as with their own
poetry and Tichnor another member
of the. club published ; Browning's
first book as soon as it appeared in
England.
So Tryon as usual "goes over the
top."
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TO THE LANIER CLUB.
Yesterday was the last regular
meeting of the Lanier Club for the
present Club year. In looking back
over the .achievements of that body
for the present year, the membership
may well be proud.
At the cessation of warfare every
body felt like laying aside all manner
of work and taking one long, restful
vacation. The ladies of Tryon were
in the same mood, and it was with no
feeling of regret that this paper not
ed the action of the Lanier Club in
deciding to hold monthly meetings in
stead of fortnightly, as was the regu
lar cusaom of that body. Tryon was
rapidly filling with winter visitors,
and everything pointed to a record
breaking number of tourists, which
was later borne out. Not a single
thing was being done toward enter
taining these peoples. .They had
come from long distances; they were
of the best class, and entertainment
which it so richly belongs.
TRYON
Mrs. J. B. Reid is the pncf
atives at Gastonia.
Mr. W.' Y. Wilkins . visited hom
folks at Cowpens, S. C, Sunday
Mrs. L. V. Brown and little daugh
ter spent Easter with the parents of
Mrs. Brown, in Spartanburg.
Read every line of this issue. It's
full of matter of the most vital im
portance to Polk and Tryon.
Mr. and Mrs. Oren Herring, 0f
Spartanburg were guests of Mrs
Herring's mother Mrs. J. B. Reid'
Sunday. ? '
Mf. Fahrenstock, the artist who has
been boing sketching around the Val
halla, accompanied by his wife left
for their home last Monday.
Rev. Chas. A. Jones D. D., of Co
lumbia, S. C, sec-treas. of the Bap
tist Educational Board, spent a day
or so with his brother, Rev. E. j.
Jones. w
Word has been received of the ser
ious illness of Miss .Watson who has
been doing some sketching in New
Orleans. She will return to Tryon
as soon as able to travel.
Louis Rowell will hold his closing
exhibit and sale of Tryon paintings
at the Library, on Wednesday next
(April 30th.) All paintings will be
reduced to hal price.
The mayoralty situation in Tryon
just now is one of "'Now you do; now
you don't." Or "Off agin', gone
agin, innegan." Some days we
have two candidates, some days none.
Mr. Geo. H. Holmes attended a
meeting of the State Highway Com
mission at Raleigh, a few days ago.
He brings back some good word, and
we hope to be able to tell you about it
next week.
Read Judge Long's comment on th
report of the grand jury. Polk coun
ty is entitled to the improvements
suggested by the grand jur' and if
we could but have Judge Long to pre
side over our courts for a snort
while we would have them.
Skyuka Lodge, No. 605, F. & A. M.
will hold a meeting on Monday, May
12th, 1919. - Election of officers will
take place at this meeting and a full
attendance is requested.
J. B. Hester, W. M.
Chas. N. Sayre, Sec. - .
We are often told "Go see so and so
and get from them particulars about
it." We haven't time to chase around
looking up Mr. So and So, Mrs. So
and So orl Miss So and So for news
items. - If the item is worthy of pub
lication then it is up to you to hand it
to tne editor ior publication, uur:
time is a? valuable as yours, and we
have plenty to do. at our desk without
walking several miles each day on
hunt . for news items. Our columns
are open to all matters of a newsy
nature, and we welcome such "items.
The real friend of a newspaper is the
person, or persons who hand in " or
send to the paper such matters of a
news nature that may come into their
posession.
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