Newspapers / Polk County News and … / Oct. 31, 1919, edition 1 / Page 16
Part of Polk County News and The Tryon Bee (Tryon, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
i i II : i t if if M , 1 ' rj 1 f H it fff .?: 1 1 j? w J 5 : : i - ' t I u i i i i -r 11 It-- 4 " S ' sp if? I. f a tils 3 i 3 It: 1 t J3 1r ONE GAME MR. THRIFTLESS CAST PLAY STEEL MASTER BEGAN ; TO SAVE WHEN YOUNG Recognized That Success Lay in Sound Investment Safest Security in j World Is Now Offered By Government. Andrew Carnegie died not long ago, tearing behind him $30,000,000. He had given away about $300,000,000 in an effort to aroid the reproach of ;dyins; rich. It is probable that the high cost of Hiring gave the "steel master" little worry during the latter half of his I life, but it is certain that in his boy hood thm price of the necessaries of life were rital factors. And Andrew j Carnegie in his early years met the cost of liring with the same remtdy I which America's leaders, headed by i President "Wilson, are now putting ; forth as the bisic principle of the jflgxit to -withstand the menace that lurks In the soaring prices of today. iThat remedy is thrift the practice of tearing, the elimination of waste and iotmd Investment. i In tne days when Andrew Carnegie, 114 years old, earned $1.20 a week as i bobbin boy in an Allegheny City cotton mill, and later when he earned 911.25 a month as a telegraph mes- 'aener boy, the cost of living meant tnueb to htm.' He had little margin for larlng. 3ut he did save. There were few opportunities for the small earer to make safe lnrestments. 8- icurtties were not issued in small de I ffominations. There were no Thrift Stamps or War Savings Stamps, j backed by the government, into which ;&e marger proceeds of the Scotch ; !ot ,Ckri& could be converted. ' But Carnegie at the age of ,S9 d'etennAmed upon safe investment, i The soundest securities that offered wreve 10 shares of stock In an express : company worth $600. Carnegie had to borrow part of the money he paid. But he was convinced that savings ly ilmg idle were not performing their proper function. . i The American man or woman, boy i or girl of today does not have to bor row to add to the savings fund in or dr to find safe Investment. The gov ernment makes sound, security in , the form of. Savings Stamps, Trtasury Barings Certificates, and war bonds, available to every saver who will be ;gia to practice thrift by the regular in : vestment of sums as small as 25 eents. Every American today has a better opportunity for success than, lay be ifofe Andrew Carnegie when he faced the World. NOW AND THEN What is a dollar? Foolish ques- tion--you say? Not at all these days of H. C. L. and profiteering. Certainly a dollar Isn't what it was ten years ago. It isn't -what it will Jje five years from now. A dollar is what you can get for it in beans, butterflies or bunk no more, no less. A dollar-wouldn't be worth anything if you couldn't get anything for it. Ten years ago you bought, say, bunk at one dollar a portion. Now bunk costs two dollars. That doesn't mean it has doubled in val ue. It means that your dollar is worth half what It was ten years ago. This is, therefore, not the time to spend too many of your dollars. They will bring you only half of what they are worth. This is the time to ave them. They will bring more later on. That Is the history of dollars. Val ues ran in eycles. As surely da you live five years a dollar will be worth more than it is now. Maybe twice as nruh. So when yon save a dollar now you are perhaps saving two dollars. ' Treat dollars as you would any other commodity. Buy them when they are cheap.' Stick every dollar you can into War Savings Stamps. Carrying 4 per cent interest compounded quarterly, a -War Savings Stamp bought this month for $4.22 will be worth $5 January 1, 1924. By 1924 if the -lollar is worth, twice as mttch k bt now you will really have teard&ilars for the $4.22. 1 ' ' I .- - : v I SALE OF VALUABLE LAND. T " "S SAVING GROWS EASIER AS HABIT TAKES HOLD Young People Must Be Brought t Realization of What Future Means to Those Who Spend Wisely. -It is easier to spend money than ft 19 to save. It is also more fun at first. But money that is spent does not work for you. It is gone, and is working for somebody else. it is as hard to make young people realize, the necessity of saving ; as it is to make them realize that they are not always going to be young. It ii so easy to be young and reckless. . But habits of thrift have to be taught. They also have to be formed by practice. That means that the ris ing generation must be taught to cap italize its youth, and in childhood shown how to distribute and allot such income as it may have. That indeed, is a large part of civ ilization. The savage lives today. The civilized man lires- today with an eye upon tomorrow In order that tomor row may be as secure as today he saves some of today's goods for to morrow's use. ) The war taught many people how to save; it taught other people how to spend. The wise spender Is the wise saver, but the emphasis is on the "wise" and not en the "spending." Education in thrift is an education In good citizenship and in good mor als. The person who is being I taught to save is also being taught to fore cast the future and to make tomorrow better because of wise living today. The government of the United States is offering to men, women and chil dren the opportunity to invest savings in safe and profitable securities. ARE YOU A CAPITALIST? The dictionary defines a "capital ist" as one who has a "pecuniary surplus." The dictionary is wrong. A capitalist is one who has a pecu niary surplus "which is invested." Are you a capitalist? Tou are if you are buying Wai Savings Stamps or Treasury Savings Certificates. They represent "pecu niary surplus" or, in simple English, "savings," and they make your money work by bringing to you 4 per cent la terest, compounded quarterly. Are you a capitaist? Secretary of Commerce Redfleld re cently said to the Cleveland advertis ing men, "There are 64,000,000 sub scribers to our Liberty Loans. I sus pect that many a factory Is manned, as I know some government services are, by a force from top to bottom of capitalists, in varying degrees, but not the less really." Don't kick about the high cost of living. Beat it!by trimming your sails and buying War Savings Stamps. The capitalists are not kicking about the high cost of living. Why? Because they have money at work. Cut your expenses to the bone. In vest in War Savings Stamps. Be a capitalist. SCOTCH SONGS TO DATE If a body meet a body Coming through the rye: If a body save a dollar Why, then, bye and bye. When the shiftless people holler "Money's Scarce and tight!" He who saves the nimble dollar, Will come through all right! j Should atrld acquaintance be forgot And never come to mind 7 Why, no! unless be ft a sot And better left behind. But one thing you-muat not forget, A thing more truer than funny: "When your miid on saving's set It's easy saving money!" Knowing War Savings Stamps are a good investment won't do you any good unless you back up the knewl edge, with your money. Follow the example of rich men If you would be rich. They make their money work for them. You can do by buying War Savings Stampa, it POLK COUNTY NEWS, SELF ACTING li "Kinematic Surgery" Developed to Extraordinary Degree. Italian Physician Achieves Remarkable Results in Fitting Artificial Legs. Bologna, Italy. Remarkable results have been achieved In Italian military hospitals recently by the use of what is known as "kinematic surgery," the invention of Professor Puttl of Bologna university. Professor Putti's methods have aroused intense interest on the part of American doctors attached to the Balkan commission of the Amer ican Red, Cross who are supervising the artificial leg factories already es tablished and being established in Athens, SalonikI, Belgrade and Bucha rest for the war's mutilated. At present allied soldiers in the Balkans who have lost their limbs are being fitted with artificial limbs and arms of a type similar to that employed by Sarah Bernhardt. Pror f essor Putti's methods, however, are a distinct advance over all other arti ficial appliances. His treatment of amputated limbs consists of a unique preparation of the stump to develop a "motor" end to the cords which, after being bound together over a smooth "bearing" of bone, get as much as a three-Inch travel of the leg by means of a re education and co-ordination of the mus cles of the stump. After the stump heals Professor Puttl cuts out a flap of flesh, which he folds back into an incision to take the flap. This Is allowed to heal and then through the loose flap of flesh a metal bar with attachments to op erate the artificial limb below Is suspended. The muscles of' the calf and thigh readily respond after some weeks to the movement of the artificial leg, and soon the pressure of the swinging of the artificial leg re-educates the mus cles through the flap of flesh, so that it may be said the muscles of the stump actually operate by themselves the mechanical features of the arti ficial limb. In the case of a severed hand the muscle groups surrounding the bone are trained to operate catgut cords which, in turn, operate artificial fin gers. Not since the introduction of "de- bridgement" In American army medical work In France has any medical inno vation created as much comment. Mystery Solved. Her eyes were red, and she explain ed that she had been to a wedding. "I always cry more at a wedding than I do at a funeral it's so much more un certain." Boston Transcript. LIMBS Lr Somniei the We have just received a shipment of Young Mens Suits that are simply worth more money than we are asking for them. They are the most popular patterns, of extra good ma terial, one-quarter lined with silk, and the popular belted models. While they last we are going to sell them at You can't go wrong in buying one of these suits' M2itd9s Odd Coats $SoOO (to $8oOO We also have one lot of pawnbroker's overcoats, that we are selling at from $8.00 $10.00. They are worth more Diltantiog Coats - -tVflera's Fish Braoci Raio Co Ladlies IRaara Coats - - You will get good value for your money when you buy any of these, and we would advise you to come in before your size is sold, as these will not last long at these prices. w. M TRYON. NORTH CAROLINA The Se of an Egg. According to the Paris Academy of Science the sex of , eggs laid by pure bred fowls' may he determined by weight and size, i A test is to hold the egg in the left hand in the sun or dose to an electric or gas light. Shade the end of the egg with the right hand, and look for the air space or "setting" (u dark, watery spot larger than a ten cent piece) ; if this is found on the top it is a male, but if lower down the side it is a female egg. Lack of Tact. Jones What a Jonah that fellow Smith Is. After owing me $5 for two years he came up to me on the street and paid me right while I was talking to Brown, whom I had owed $5 to for three years! "Candlestick for Campers. The bracket of a candlestick de signed for campers terminates In barbed points to grip a tree trunk or other upright support. Table Pleasures Not for Them. Tea, with fruit In summer and cheese in winter, constitutes the nour ishment of the poorer classes in Per sia. noncy BACK i without question if Hunt's Sl i fails in the treatment of Eczema. ! Tetter, Ringworm, Itch, etc. ' Don't become discouraged be i cause other treatments failed. Hunt's Salve has relieved hun dreds of auch cases. You can't lose on our Mmney Back Guarantee Try it at our rirlc TODAY. Price 75c at MISSILDINE'SPHARMACY NEWS ads set results. NOTICE DELINQUENT TAX PAYERS. Notice is hereby jfiven to the par ties named below, and to all other persons who may be concerned as mortgagees, that the undersigned fmrchased at a sale of property of de inquent tax payers, in Columbus, Polk County. N. C. on the 5th of May, 1919, land listed and described as fol lows: Nine acres of land in White Oak Tonwship Polk County, listed in the name of W. M. Fowler for taxes li.i8. Seventy Acres of lart'1 in White Oak Township, Polk County, listed in the name of vvade Head Heirs for taxes 1919. One town lot in the town of Tryon, Polk County, less seven feet on the back, listed in the name of Mrs. M. D. Sweatt for taxes 1918. Notice is hereby futher given that application will be made to the sheriff of Polk County. N. C. by the under signed for deeds to said property af ter the 5th day of May, 1920. This Nov. 3rd, 1919. E. W. S. COBB Purchaser. Youm mmmm ling Lamqilbrigfiit LANDRUM, SOUTH CAROLINA Under and by virtue of a decree of the Clerk of the Superior Court of Polk County, North Carolina, render ed in the special proceedings entitled "In the matter; of Sallie Edwards and others,' heirs-at-law, Martha J. Brian, deceased, Ex. Parte", to which decree and proceedings, reference is hereby made I will sell, at public auction, to the last and highest bidder, on the premises, at the house which has been used as a School House, in Greens Greek Township, Polk County, on TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1919 at 11 b'coik A. M., the following de scribed real estate, to-wit: M. the folowing described real estate, to-wit: That tract of land situated and lying in Greens Creek Township, Polk County, State of North Carolina, which was formely a part of the Walker Tract of land, adjoining the lands of Bevery Bush, D. F. Shields and others, lying on the east side of Bear Creek, bounded as follaws: Begining on a white cak on the east side of Bear Creek, B. Bush' corner, and runs thence north 7 poles to a post oak; thence north 13 west 17-1-2 poles to a pine; thence north 40 west 22 poles to a stone on the east bank of Bear Creek; thence north 9 west z2 poles to a stone on the west bank of Bear Creek; thence 7 west 88 poles to a stone on D. F. Sheields' line thence; with his line north 86 east 89 poles to a red oak or stake; thence south 7 west 146 poles to a poplar at a branch; thence south 89 west 82 poles to the beginning, containing 75 acres, more or less. f The said land will be divided into three tracts, a map or plat of said tracts will be on exhibition and can be seen in office ten days prior to date of sale in my office at Rutherfordton, N. C, or in the office of J. T. Brian at Fingerville, S. C, and said maps will be on exhibition at the sale, and said land will first be offered separately in three tracts and then the said land will be sold as a whole, and the sale will reported either in seperate tracts or as a whole, in the manner in which it brings the highest price. The terms of sale will be announced on the date of the sale. This is a very valuable tract of land, situated in an excellent agricul tural section, and is highly recom mended to prospective purchasers of land. This sale is sold for partition among the several tenants in com mon. This 25 October, 1919. SOLOMON GALLERT Commissioner. NOTICE Having qualtified as adminstrator of the estate of Mattie A. Egerton Nelson, deceased, all persons having claims against said estate are re quested to present the account to me within twelve months from this date or bar by statute will be plead. All persons indebted to said estate will make payment of the same with out further notice of settlement. This 25 day of Oct 1919. W. G. EGERTON Administrator. New for Mam $5.50 $7e5 $1.50 Co - ii mi Brassieres Bandeaux Camisoles 50c to $2.0 RHODES & STREADWICK, Wilkin' Store TDVAX! We Have the Right Prj, icej AND Kind of Materials o do your building. Full stock Doors, Windows, SIdingJIoorIng Ceiling, Shingles, Loths, Interior Finish and Moulding, .Rough and Dressd Lumber. Carry comply STOCK Or FEEDS HEARON LUMBER CO. SALUDA, M. C. JOYNER KELLEY Plumbing Sewerage Heating Phone 42 Tryon, N. C. W. F. LITTLE NOTARY PUBLIC Tryon, N. C. Mack Spears Attorney at Law , Columbus - N. C. Tryon Lodge No. 118 Knights of Pythias Castle Hall in Missildine Building Meets Thursday Evening at 8:30 VISITORS WELCOME FOR SALE House and two lots on Whitney Ave. For price and terms apply to SAM P. HILL 2-w East Flat Rock. NOTICE DELIQUENT TAX PAYERS. Notice is hereby given to the -pa ' named below and all persons thai be concerned as mortgagees, uw undersigned purchased at a jn property of delinquent tax f nf Columbus, Polk-County on tne -u of May, 1919, land listed and desc ed as follows: , . lumbus Eighteen acres of land in wiu Township, listed in the name ot Grant for the year iyio, v t Town of Tryon, less frt . Smi back, listed in the name ot a. on :th- the the gale for the year 1918; one lot m Town of Saluda, less one foot on back, listed in the name x. To for the year 191S; one w ' baCK, of Saluda, less one foot on " . !. listed in the name of Mrs- jot lerbe for the year cneone in the Town of Saluda les on t on the back, listed m the one L. Moore; for the yta.r acres ?f hundred and twenty-nine dn, land in White Oak vste fJ the name of W. M. Sentell es q the year 1918; seventy-" g Gr?en, land listed in the name ot a- "1 Seventv-three acres listcu x of C. R. Bradley for tne .nine Coopers ap AZ m . J- 1 Tl jtcfl res in cooper, - r jor the name of Grant r gi; -laic Maip is iurl, rt the &t application will be er; sheriff of Polk .County b operty signed for deeds of saia v ter the 4th day of ?'AiiA$r I - '
Polk County News and The Tryon Bee (Tryon, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Oct. 31, 1919, edition 1
16
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75