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. . .IU ! . _ 1 . ! "ULJilJ !?- - - ' ! Forei *n \dwr i !iu I the AVfiR ica\ r?r.i5A >s*' cia nov SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 PER YEAR /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 0 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. i \ 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. i ? ? * 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. ? < ? 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. ? o ? ? 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. 1 ? 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. o 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 o \ # Tax Sale Notice. t '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 ? 1 1 i> ? ^ I M. G. BLAKE JULIAN CALHOUN Real Estate and Rents t ; i ? ? ' * ' ? # Office Over Drug Store Blake & Calhoun E 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 5 Formerly Sold up Formerly Sold up to $19.95 to $32.50 BOTH PLAIN AND FJR TRIMMED SEE OUR WINFOW DISPLAY ? # ?* Our Great Sale of Dresses Still in Progress 113 E. flairs, St. Cloak Co. Spartanburg, S. C. Dr. J. J? Gaines writes "POEM BY. UNCLE JOHN' Terry Gittdson N CARTOQNSj AND HOHB^WEBT HOME \ Richard Lloyd )one? INTERPRETER OP AMERICA | Stars, Every One of Them and They Contribute to This Paper ,? This paper believes there is no cleverer news talent in the coun try than that here pictured. We count ourselves fortunate to be able to offer our readers the work of men like Richard Lloyd Jones, nationally known editor; Dr. Matthews, one of the nation's outstanding ?* preachers, and Gilkinson, of cartoon and comic fame. The others are equally recognized as masters in their fields. . \ > By special arrangement with' jthe Publishers Autocaster Service,' these newspaper stars contribute exclusively to this paper, ?ft 4* Robert Fuller SPECIAL FEATURE WRITER i ftev. H, A? Matthews* D.D., LL.D. AUTHOR Qf "PUMCHBTTES" i Lefl3 gujness Booth HOME AND . FASHION WRITER ? *?** Edward Percy Howard NATIONAL EDITORIALS

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