C. BUSH, Publisher Volume XXVIII No. 21 T X The Only Paper Published in Polk. jCoufty A live Clean Paperffor the Heme - Price 5 Cents Tryon, N. C;> January 18, 4923 / / 7= / / / $2.00 ^ Year OUR COUNTY AGENT'S DEPARTMENT. ' " ' i * . , ? . . / : ?_ i Smm Timely Talks to Poik County Farmers, and otters, on Timely Sub jects, bv Connty Agent, J. R. Sams. Columbus, N- C. ^ Jan. 13, 1923 Mr. B. L. Bailenger, Chairman Presentation Com-, * Try on, N. C. Dear Mr. Bailenger; I take this opportunity of trying in a very limited timely way to ex press my gratitude to you ; to The Board of Trade of Tryon, The citizens of Tryon, Saluda, Columbus, and Mill Spriife, and other citizens of Polk County who contribued a single cent to ward paying for the splendid little coupe which is rendering my work so much easier, and rapid. Perhaps there are but few counties in the whole United1 States that hav? shown such liberal appreciation of Farm Extension work ; and again perhaps there are but few if any other county in North Carolina, in which the towns have shown such evidence of willingness to cooperate with their brothers and sisters in the Rural Communities in a way to help them to better their home life by cooperating more fully in the future with the Farm Extension workers, and with the towns for progress and betterment all around. Again thanking every one from the depth of a sincere heart, I am yours truly, J. R. SAMS, County Agent : ? o To The Farmers of Polk Co. ' * The time of year is here for every farmer; big and .little- to plan to the least detail whit he intends to do this year in the way of making a crop; for crop of some time must be made or wife and children must go hungry and bare clothing next year- Some farmers have fruit such as apples, peaches, figs, grapes, and etc. which all should have. These need at tention now, in the way of pruining and spraying. Then the most important thing to consider just now is; is how much cotton will I plant this year- Cotton is now bringing a good price and will do so next year, and the next right on and on provided far mers -will plant and grow all home supplies of food for fam ily and hay and other feeds for stock on every farm. So in your planning the crop year keep this constantly in mind. Plant less cotton, ferti lize it better, prepare land bet ter, cultivate better and rapidly Use poison if necesssary. Read best methods of combat ting the boll weevil. Plant a good garden and plant it early, then c^re for it neglect the sorgham patch for syrup as well as for feed. Then the Irish and sweet pota toes should be planned for. be side these crops mentioned are many smaller crops th^t should have attention. And now if the time to look out f6r seeds of all kind, if you failed to savr th?m last fall as you should have done. Then in all your planning of grains, cotton and other crops; Don't forget that permanant pastures are men tioned, and all know that a fam ily of children, to sa/ nothing of the needs of grown 1 people must be met and should be done at least cost possible. So let ! us all all be up and .doing, al-?. ways on the look out for bet ter ways and means of doing our wo$. Respectfully, J. R. SAMS, County Agent. ? : ? o HOW TOM PACE GOT RUN ING WATER IN HIS - HOUSE This is a little story that could be told in just a few words; and perhaps everybody who reads this, does not know Tom Pace and where he lives So I will introduce Tom in his own language a few years ago, as being the worst "Hen Peck ed Man" in North Carolina. Be that as it may. He lives in Green River Cove, which is in Saluda Township, Polk County N. C-,ancf about seven or eight miles north east of the townof Saluda. To get there you go out across the Saluda Plateau two or three milfs where you will come to' perimiter of a vortex, or something that looks like a tremendous hole in the earth with a water course run ning across the bottom of it; and in order to get down to this water course, you make twenty-one ziz zag switch locks and forth and back which will bring you to a beautiful stream of clear racing water, and you realize that you are in Green River Cove. follow tjiis stream about two miles down ward apd just up a slight em inence to the left is an old fashioned dwelling house and there is where Tom Pace lives. Now about the water in his house. Well he had lived here something like forty years and raised some twelve or thirteen fine sons and daugh ters who have gone out as teachers and otfier useful cit izens . All this time the home water supply was a spring, one hundred and fifty yards, about a ten per cent down grade- Of course while Tom's children were growing up and^rith him, he thought little of how that water came up that hill for culi ?*ry purposes, sad dhMtiaos*. therefore things rocked along until the time came when Ihe baby girl graduated from Col umbus High School and saw proper to get married to a well to-do farmer in an adjoining county, which left the Pace home some what shy of folks to "Tote" water up the long hill leading down to that moun tain spring. So one morning before day light, when Tom de manded an early breakfast in order to get off t<^ town on some urgent business, he re ceived orders from higher up, there would be no breakfast until some water was brought up from that mountain reser voir one hundred and fifty j yards d6wn a dark way: 3o Tom struck off dotfn through the darkness withj a three gal Ion zinc bucket c|n each arm and when they were filled with water and he started back;, he realized for the nrst time that "Toten" two buckets of water 150 yards up hill and in the darkness of night was real sure enough work. So i a thought kept growing ev*ry \ime Tom went for a load of | water, until finilly he believed it would be* a fat idea to get some galvanized piping and connect the house by gravity line with a spring eight hun dred feet way on the moun tain side; to which Mrs. . p?e! I readily agreed, and futher . agreed to finance the project out of her private funds. So to cut a long story short, that spring of sparkling mountain water is delivering its constant blessing right iinto Tom Pace*p house and he is delivered from the bondage and slavery of "Toting" water uup that long slope, and Mrs. Pace enjoys the feeling that she has water on tap every moment day and night, and Tom don't feel half | so much that he is "Hen Peck- ' ed'\ Now why not every well- ! to-do farmer in Polk County ! go to work and do like- wise 7 of course every farmer has not a spring that he can manage this way: but "there are other waya to kill a dog^than choak ing him on butter". So think out the way. j Respectfully J- R. Sams. o The report of Mrs- Jane S.j McKimmon, of the Home Dem onstration Division of the Ag ricultural Extension Service shows a remarkable period of progress for this work during :the past year.Most of the jEggk, has been done with: organBfea ^bodies this year rather than I with individuals as in the past, j Fifty-three agents were at | work in as many counties, re j ports Mrs. McKimmon, and | their program includes nutri tion, the care, preparation and preservation of food, clothing, household management, house hold furnishings, beautifica tion of the homestead, poultry work, gardening and recreat ion. In food preservation, the or ganized women and girls filled j 1,720, 905 containers at a total value of $371,905 saved to the State. The total value of cur ed meats, lard and other by products put up and prepared by these women amounted ? to $616,582.70- The total value of all poultry products produc ed by these club members reached 4 something over $444, 261. The demonstrators mak ing better butter report 514, 462 .pounds made at a total val ue of $180,061 of which they sold $22,342 worth in addition to cream, sweet milk and but termilk. In the gardens pro moted by home agents, the demonstrators sold fresh vege tables to the amount of $249, 345.68 and fruit to the amount of $98,241. The curb markets and stalls established by the home agents also helped the farm women to dispose of a great number of otner things to the value of about $15,000. The report? shows also how the farm women* are helping out with the farm income now ?at the boll weevil is over the j State, how they are making jetter clothes, feeding their children better balanced ra ,ions and in every way render ng active service in making the ural life of North Carolina jrogressive, refreshing, and enumerative. ; Tax Sale Notice1* ~ Notice is hereby given to parties named below, aifd all persons that may have a lien on the land hereby: described, that the undersigned1 pur-, chased at a deliquent tax sale 1 in Columbuus, Polk -County, North Carolina, on the 1st day of May 1922, land listed for tax and described as follows: 13 2 acres less 1 acre in Col umbus township listed for taxes in the name of Lionell pfi anr?e> taxes for the year 1921 ice is given that appli- i wiJU* made to the WK dersigned .to the iniriff flf Polk County for deeds to said lands after the 1st, day of May, 1923, the date when time of re demption will expire; J. W. NEWMAN, Purchaser, Preachin^by the Methodist pastor at the' TryOn M. E. Church, South on First Sunday of very month at 11 :Q a. m. Second Sunday of each month at 7:00 p. m. Third Sunday 'of each month at 11:00 a. m. . Fourth Sunday of each month at 7 :00 p. m. o <y R. P. Fikes * Pastor. " Yoe Gam Em joy Thm Perse Frotectioe ' SHAKESPEARE wrote the greatest of all advertising. truths when through his character of Cassio he said : tl Good name in man or woman, dear my lord, is the immediate jewel of the soul" The greatest properties in the world have been built on the foundation of good name. Reputation and honor bring more ? interest than any capital that can be invested in business. More important still, they form an absolute guarantee for the Buyer. There are single words, single names, that today are worth untold millions of dollars. Sheffield suggests cutlery of quality. Dresden brings chinaware to mind. Venice visualizes glass ware, Nottingham pictures laces, and Paris ? well, Paris fashions have become Jin international by-word. These are the names of cities whose workmen have built char- ? acter by living up to reputation. Does any man question Gobelin tapestry, the Damascus blade, the violin of Cremona, or of more recent times, the product of Tiffany I Business men and private individuals interested in the value Ho them of the art of advertising will do well to remember these Tacts. They were brought out forcefully in * speech delivered recently in Atlantic City by Earl D. Babst. Mr. Babst explained that reputations of value attach to localities as much as to indi viduaband corporations. "The greatest asset in the world is good will," said Mr. Babst. ? "Good wiD, in the simple terms of American business, is 'good reputation.' " The average citizen who buys, but does not manufacture or advert" v may my: "Advertising is all ve?r well for the SELLER. It makes HIM known, it makes HIM rich, it increases HIS business. But what good does advertising do ME f " Advertising Is more valuable even to the buyer than to the seller. For in a business established by advertising that has cost millions a business has established a NAME worth more than all its factories, machinery and money, and it MUST PROTECT THAT NAME * The 0DJ7 way to protect a NAME is to protect the PROD ? ? ? 'iiiiiiimiiiin imiiwyiiiiiw? ? ? ? UCT, by keeping up its QUALITY, by nuking good THE PROMISES of the' ADVERTISING, by doing nothing to injure the chief asset, which is GOOD REPUTATION, GOOD WILL. A man owning factories or other buildings will not set fire to them and burn them down if he can help it ? especially if they are not insured. ? The good will, the reputation back of a name, is a property that CANNOT BE INSURED. The good wilT of the public is the only insurance. Having built up such a name, it must be KEPT UP. To let it fall, to deceive the public, to diminish quality for the sake of extra temporary prat, ift as foolish and destructive as it would be to set fire to uninsured buildings. * ONCE TORN DOWN, A NAME CANNOT BE BUILT AGAIN. Buyers protetftlhemsehres when they learn to test the prom ises and the fulfilments of advertisers, the value of a NAME ON A PACKAGE or a product of any kind. A buyer has in his power constantly the standing, the life or death of any advertised product* Onee the BUYER aban dons it, it is gone. Buyers should know, many manufacturers, business men of good character with good products' should know, more than they do know about advertising power, its meaning, its value to the producer AND MUCH* GREATER VALUE TO THE CONSUMER. ?? ? ? - ' ? , There are advertised articles in which amounts w great as fifty millions and more have been invested, MWU8LY -TO BUILD JJP THE NAME. It is not likely that the owner of such a name, with his millkffls inverted in it, would for the. sake of temporary profit jeopardize the great capital that the name represents. . The business man who has not learned what advertising caif do for him, locally akd nationally, might write to Earl D. Babst, No. 117 Wall Stmt, New Yoik (Sty, for a cogy of his . speech. * . ; ? i -jgdwiMMM Ha* - * ARTISTS TO APPEAR AT LANIER LIBRARY TRYON EVENING. OF JAN UARY 24th. , An unsual musical program will be given by two Chi cago artists, Helen Wing and Grace Holverscheid at the Lanier Library on Wednesday evening January 24th. at 8:15. These gifted young ladies have given two programmes in IYyon, one last year and one the previous year, and those who flfeard them on these oc casions will look forward with delight to the treat in store on January, 24th. It seems that Mrs. Holver scheid's voice is broadening in range and becoming sweeter in tone each time she appears in public' We have permission to copy What a Freeport, Illinois critic ! wrote after one of her recent appearances in concert in that 1 city; "Mrs. Holverscheid is superb singer She is gifted , with a lovely voice ; has nc- 1 quired a very fine method, & ' clear cut enunciation, and the , beautiful phrasing onfe ex pacts of an artist. That is 1 what she is; an artist. ^Her i nuances in interpretation are a delight to observe. She re veals the thoughts as well as the music of her songs. Each ' of her solos was a gem." Mrs. Wiing is well-known as a composer and accompanist, having appeared before Tryon audiences on many occasions, muck- to their delight. Since appearing with Mrs-* Holver scheid in a programme here a year ago, she (has composed a number of new songs that will be given at the coming con cert. She has also written mm I vtrses that have been Imblished in magazines. Thes* she will read by special request during the programme. On Thursday January 11th Mrs, 'Holverschied and Mrs. Wing sang for the Asheville Rotary Club, and on Tuesday January 16th., for the Rotary Club of Spartanourg. It is hoped that everyone in Tryon, Spartanburg, and Hen derson and other surrounding cities, who loves good music will hear these artists on WedM nesday evening Jan. 24th COMMITTEE o Mr. Walter Edwards spent Sunday in Greenville with his sister Mrs. Henry Shankle. i Local 'I lUPPEMNGq Miss Vance was a Asheville visitor Saturday. Miss Sallie Strefidwick spent the week-end in Asheville with friends. Mr. J W- Thurston of Char leston arrived in Tryon and will spend some time- at Tryon , Lodge Mrs. W. Y. Wilkins and son Billy spent from Friday until Monday with relatives in Spar tanburg. Mrs. W. T. Lindsey who has been visiting her son and daughter Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Lindsey at Chapel Hill has re turned home Mr- Stryker of Duluth, Minn, spent the week-eiid with his daughters, Mrs. Sprague and Miss Stryker who are at Mostly Hall for the winter. Mrs. James Vernor Jr., en tertained with a dinner party last Saturday night for 12, in honor of Mrs. Helen Wing and Mrs. Grace Holversqheid. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Frost, arrived in Tryon last week from Europe and are occupy ing Mrs. D. W. William's cot tage on Melrose Ave We wel come them to Tryon. Mr- Anthony Belue, brother of our townsmen Mr. Frank Belue died at his home in Spar tanburg Saturday- His re mains were brought to Campo bello for burial Sunday. Miss Virginia Sherfey spent Satrday night in Tryon with jher friend Miss Maggie Sue Edwards. Miss Sherfey left Sunday night for Florida < where she wQl spend some time a guest of her sister. .Two prisoners, one white and one colored, escaped from the County Jail at Columbus Tues day night by locking the jailer | in when he took them their j supper. Up to the time of go to press they were still at large Mr. and Mrs. A- L. Hill spent Saturday and Sunday in Ruther fordton with Mr. Hill's parents. Miss Loraine Stone gave a Tea at the Mountain Industries Tea #oom for 20 guests, in honor of Mrs. Helen Wing and Mrs. Grace Holverscheid. Words Of Wisdom. A Hen is the only living critter that can set still and poduce dividends. ? f About the time ?you think you make both ends meet, somebody moves ; the ends. ? ; Exchange. t ?? i Prosperity will come when men watch their work instead of# watching the clock work. ? The Beehive. Never imagine that only facts matter. Sentiment is tf fact too, and an important one. ? Edward Golbeck. - Our grand business un doubtedly is, not io see what lies dimily at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.? Carlyle. . It would be an unspeakable advantage if men would con sider the great truth that no man is wise or safe but him that is honest ? Walter Ral eigh. A business organization must resemble a cobweb; a straight and direct connection must lead from each point to the center ? Edward Goldbeck. COLUMBUS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Sunday School at 10 o'clock Christian Endeavor at 1:16 p. m. Worship at 7:00 p. m. The people of the town and com munity are heartily invited to at tend these services.

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