POLK COUNTY NEWS
C.BUSH, Publisher
Published ?very Thursday at
Tryon, North Carolina
Phone, 99 /
Entered as second-class matter April 28
1915 at the post office at Tryon, North
Carolina under act of March 3, 1879.
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/Marriage makes two one, but th?
trouble is to find out which is the one.
America's mistake was in putting all
those dollars but no sense into Eu
rope.
Europeans who frown because the
Reds hate the rich are those who hats
America.
Russia's money is now figured Id
quadrillions of rubles, but it does not
buy much.
, Telling her that he^ hands are beau
tiful only encourages her to let mother
do the work.
t The average man can feel poetical
so long as the leaves are on the other
fellow's walk.
J Divorce lawyers would starve to
death if all husbands helped with the
supper dishes.
' , An experienced traveler is one who
knows how to be disagreeable enough
to get served.
1 Mother says the vacuum cleaner wu
suggested by the head of the old-fash
ioBfcd hired girl.
* Paris may dictate fashions, but It U
no longer necessary to go to France for
naughty novels.
The only consoles feature about the
coal situation is that it can't be blamed
on the flappers.
"Murder will out." ? Old version.
The modern version is: "The mur
derer will get out."
About the only place where author
ity and tyranny are widely separated
fs In the dictionary.
The best love charm with which to
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hold a man is a diploma from a first
class cooking school.
ah unusually bright child usually
manages to put the dimmers on when
company is present. v
Rumania is to pay her debt to the
United States. May her example be a
shining light to others.
If only good people would learn that
it Is possible to travel the narrow way
without being narrow-minded.
?We know that stenographers do not
chew all the gum, because we find so
much of it ob the movie chairs.
* The keeper of an automobile will be
glad to include a new license plate In
his list of useful Christmas gifts.
, The pies mother made were no bet
ter than the wife's ? the difference was
fn the appetite that awaited them.
? Dogs are luckier than people In a
city where taggers run riot. One li
cense tag lasts a dog an entire year.
A revolt In Albania Is not exactly ,
sews. Revolts are as common there
ai cabinet crises tn Rome and Paris.
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What we would like to see is a real
cure for baldness that can't get pushed
over on one ear when you .take your
hat off.
Making the world over seems a
relatively unimportant task to the
woman who must make last winter's
frocks over.
Some day the flapper may shock the
world by being bad enough to do the
- things the old gossips are bad enough
to say she does.
i The announcement of another music
memory contest brings to mind what
t* blessing it is that most jazz music If
soon forgotten.
? Another aimless suggestion for de
flating the ruble is that the last six
or nine ciphers be crossed out on all
paper money in Russia.
One of the lasting verities is that a
girl who writes eight-line poems about
ber tender imprisor*d soul is rarely of
r guy use about a kitchen.
What Is the matter with the children
of the present day? For one thing,
perhaps the grown-ups are giving them
too many bad examples.
We are strictly tgainst automobile
theft, but nevertheless there are a lot
of people who ought to have their cars
\ taken away from them somehow.
Xhe world has seen the bronze age,
' the atone age, and the iron age. From
tfe shootings that are going on the
present seems to be the age of lead.
V', A national census of plga la to be
undertaken by the government. How
ever, assurance is given in advance
that Quadrupeds only are to bt
SEEN THROUGH ENGLISH EYES
Traveler Declares American Wom'en
Splendidly Domesticated and
Versatile to a High Degree.
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An entertaining way for the Ameri
can woman to see herself as she is
seen is to follow the comments made
by the Manchester Guardian's corre
spondent in America, Muriel Harris :
In her home the American woman Is
domestic almost in the German sense.
Tliere is no handing over the kitchen
entirely t <r the cook, for instance.
There Is no hard-and-fast line which
leaves this to the maid and that to
the mistress. Domestic crises are
more frequent even than in England,
but when they occur it is no special
tragedy, because the mistress of the
house Is practically always able to fill
in the gap without shaking the founda
tions of the household. American
, women can nearly all of them cook
and sew and do anything in the house
from managing the furnace to seeing
that the electric fuses are in order.
In our sense, she is far more domes
ticated and less well educated than is
the European girl The rather casual
education of the girl gives full play to
any versatility she may have, and
there are, correspondingly, brilliant
flashes in her, as also unexpected fail
ures. To the foreigner, it is odd to see
her scrubbing her own sink ? a very j
nice white sink, by the way ? and at- I
tending assiduously lectures on French
? all with the same enthusiasm. It
completely dispels the idea of the
luxury-loring, restless woman that in
Europe she is commonly regardetPas
being. \ j
PEAT BOGS TO BE UTILIZED
Commercial Value of Immense Deposits
in Northwest Germany Has Not
Hitherto Been Realized.
The more or less successful Instal
lations In northwest Germany for the
utilization of the Immense pejit bogs
that exist there has led to the sug
gestion in England that the huge bog
of Allen In Ireland may next become
a great center of Industry. The Ger
man undertaking has contemplated
the bringing of a large part of the
bogs under cultivation, together with
the conversion of the peat into fuel,
to be employed In the development
of electrical energy for agricultural
purposes, as well as for supplying
light and power to a number of towns
situated within a radius of fifty miles.
A network of canals Is, it is reported,
la process of formation to drain the
ground, and the peat dredged out is
to be utilised In the way Just de
scribed. It Is estimated that the gas
produced from the peat will furnish
work to the amount of 600 horse
power hours for each ton, and a large
quantity of ammonia will be recovered
for use as fertilizer. ? Washington
Star.
Steel Has Great Cutting Power.
"High-speed steel" for cutting tools
has been well known for years, and an
Improved form of this material has
been Introduced In Sheffield, England.
It Is reported that this steel has four
times the cutting power of any other
In use. The composition Is, It appears,
still a secret, but It Is said to be the
first "high-speed steel" that can be
hardened In cold water without dan- !
ger. It can also be hardened with oil
or In a cold blast.
Tools made of It wear out much less
rapidly and require much less grinding
than those of the older kinds of steel.
They will also go on working at high
temperature longer. But the makers
themselves say that this steel does not
by tiny means mark the final develop
ment of "high-speed steel." ? Washing'
ton Star.
Imperfection at a Premium.
It was not so long ago that brick
"seconds" sold cheaply and were used
only in foundations and low-grade
work which the eye never .found. They
were the misshapen, distorted part of
each baking and the manufacturers
were glad to dispose of them. But
finally a builder with an eye for the
artistic noticed their colors, which ran
from the natural red to odd browns
and blues. He experimented and
found they had an ancient appearance
even when newly laid and, when
capped by a rough roof 6f off-colored
slate, carried a distinct atmosphere of
antiquity. As a result, strange, queer
ly attractive houses are appearing all
through the country and brick "sec
onds" are quoted far above their per
fect mates.? Wall Street Journal.
He Had Help.
An alumna of Radcllff was helping
in the recent drive to raise money for
the Radcllff endowment fund by sell
ing soap, says the Indianapolis News.
She employed two small boys to take
the soap to the houses of some of her
friends. Little Johnnie, with the
boxes under each arm, marched up to
one door and knocked
"Why are you selling the soap," in
quired the lady of the house.
"To raise $8,000,000 for Radcllff."
Three million dollars! And are you
trying to raise it all by yourself?"
"No," came the quick response,
"there's another little boy helping me."
Hard-Fieted Fielder.
An outfielder of the Los Angeles
team in a recent game with San Fran
cisco collided with the fence in mak
ing a wonderful catch/ahd was
knocked unconscious, aim when' he
was carried to the clubhiuse the ball
was In his hand In a vlselfte grip.
Most managers would be satisfied If
their players would clutcl/ the ball
Uke that when they are conscious.
Political pie !s baked In a eollecttOB
plate.
White shirts have gone out of /ash*
Ion in Italy.
In colleges now the higher learning
is how to tackle low.
The point of the socialist argument
is the vanishing point.
The history of a modern criminal
trailed, nailed* jailed, tailed.
A strike is settled when both sides
are ready to let the public settle for it
Housekeeping is a
accumulating uselesi
glass.
Mow process of
^pieces of cut
Finger prints on the Bands of tin*
are what the crook fears to leave bt*
hind him. . .
Some soft coal price reductions art
announced ? the coal, not the prices,
being soft.
There seems to be growing convic
tion among reformers that beauty Is as
beauty doesn't.
. In this country every person is con
sidered sane ontil made the defendant
In a murder trial.
One can't help wondering what Job
would have done had he stepped on ft
lump of used gum.
Education is so advanced that tho
country is building more stadium
than lecture hails.
"What happens to all liars whoi
they die?" asks a Broadway preachsr.
Easy. They lie still.
It begins to look now as if the mar
riage ceremony should read: "Till out
of us kills the other."
The record of 10,168 automobile
deaths last year seems as if Safety
First was an also ran.
A new winter overshoe for women
is announced, guaranteed not to look
as sloppy as the galosh.
Waiting for reform in some quar
ters is slower than watching a ninety
nine-year lease \o expire.
Somehow or other, a great author's
stuff doesn't seem half so infallible
after you see his portrait.
Even the cynic appears to have com
plete faith In the waiter's ability to add
a column of figures correctly.
There are only two occasions when
men talk about coal ? when they have
some and when they haven't.
About the surest way to spend one's
declining years in obscurity is to win
a beauty prize in early youtii.
A man always feels a little insulted
when h? leaves his /Old car unlocked
and returns to find It unstolen.
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The chief objection to inalienable
rights is the amount of fighting re
quired to keep them inalienable.
Heartbeats are now being broadr
cast by radio and the next thing oo
the program will be lovers' sighs.
If low flying over cities and towns
continues, we shall have to set some
kind of three-mile limit overhead.
One reason why children have sudi
a bad time now is that the parents
are busy having si?h a good time.
Americans have come to think tliat
they're having) Jiard times whenever
they can't afford to be extravagant.
The world is Indeed topsy . turvy.
Philadelphia reports that a dog fought
two other dogs $9 defend a stray cat.
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NOTICE
Application for parole, of Frank
Mills.
Application will be made to the
Governor of*North Carolina, for the
parole of Frank Mills, .submitted at
the Fall term 1922 of the Superior
Court of Polk County for manufac
turing liquors and sentenced to the
roads for a term of twelve months.
All persons who oppose th6 .grant
ing of said parole are invited to^or
ward their protests to the Governor
without delay. ; .
This the 9th day of Jan. 1923.
Thos. F. Mills.
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First Known Clock.
The first clock of which there !a
authentic record was constructed by
Henry de Vick. ut the command of
Charles V for the palace of Justice of
Paris. In 1364.
Old Age Records.
The French Medlcnl Record says
Mine. Prloux, horn In 1680. sold. at.
66 n small , property for an annuity
of $460. which she drew regularly for
92 years. A surgeon named Poltl
map died at 140 and was buried in
1S25.
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NOTICE
Under and by virtue of the power
of sale contained in that certain
mortgage deed dated the 4th day of
Nov. 1919 byv and between J. H.
Johngon and Callie Johnson, his
wife, to P. J. Henderson to secure a
note for six rundred dollars, default
having been made in the payment of
the said note, secured by said mort
gage deed, being recorded in mort
gage book No. 18 at page 106 in the
office of the Register of Deeds for
Polk County, N. C. I will on the
27th day of January 1923, at 12:00
o'clock noon, at the court house door
in Columbus, N. C. sell at auction to
the highest bidder for cash, the fol
lowing described real estate:
Two acres known as the old Mill
lot lying and being in the town of
Melvin Hill, Polk Co., N. C. and ad
joining the lands of O. G. Huntly,
Geo. A. Branscom, and others. ?
This the 26 day Dec. 1922.
P. J. HENDERSON
' Mortgagee
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'Notice, is hereby given : to
parties named below, and . all
persons that may have a liennjn,
the lands hereby described that
the undersigned purchased at a
delinquent tax sale in Columbus
Polk County, ^North Carolina,
on the 1st day of May, 1922,
I land listed for tax and describ
| ed as follows :
185 acres less 30 acres in
Cooper Gap township, listed in
I the name. of T. F. Mills, for the
year 1921.
227 acres less 1 acre in Co
lumbus township listed in the
name of Peak heirs for the year
1921.
133 acres less 2 acres in
White Oak township, listed in
the name of W. M. Pack, for the
year 1921.
116 acres less . 6 acres in
White Oak township listed in
the name of G- W. Edwards, for
the year 1921- ? .
Notice is given that applica
tion will be made by the under
signed to the sheriff of Polk
County for deeds to said 'land?
after the 1st day of May, 1923,
the date when time of redemp
tion will expire.
P. H. BAILEY, Purchaser
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M. G. BLAKE JULIAN CALHOUN
Real Estate and Rents
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Office Over Drug Store
Blake & Calhoun
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Always Easy
: ?To apologize To begin over
?To admit error To take advice
? To be unselfish ' To be charitable
?To be considerate To keep oil trying
To Hake New Year Resolutions and Keep Them
But it Always Pays
Resolve to begin the new year right and be thrifty.
Show your determination to save by opening a Saving
account at this strong bank. Deposits made before the
fifteenth of the month draw interest for the entire quar
ter, which ends March 31st. " S
THE BANK OF TRYON
"Polk County's Oldest Banking Institution"
TWO
CIAL LOTS
Lot One
Lot Two
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Formerly Sold up Formerly Sold up
to $19.95 to $32.50
BOTH PLAIN AND FJR TRIMMED
SEE OUR WINFOW DISPLAY
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Our Great Sale of Dresses Still in Progress
113 E. flairs, St.
Cloak Co.
Spartanburg, S. C.
Dr. J. J? Gaines writes
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