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Volume XXVI II No. 22
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OUR COUNTY AGENT'S DEPARTMENT.
Some Timely Talks to Polk County Farmers, and others, on Timely Sub
jects, by County Agent, J. R. Sams.
To the Farmers of Polk County.
We want to give you an out
line of the scope of work we
are aiming for this year in
Polk County. 1st. Agronomy,
or fields and field crops. We
want one more farmer in each
township to begin now and do
his level best in selecting seed
corn, preparing land fertilizing
and cultivation of one or more
acres in corn. We want one or
more farmers in each township
to take one or more acres of
sorghum cane and do his best
and report results. We also
desire to especially encourge
and insist on farmers cooper
ating as fully as possible along,
the following lines of farm ac
tivities viz: clovers, alfalfa,
growing of grasses, for per
mannant pastures, and to save
your lands from washing away.
Oats and vetch for hay crops,
peach and apple orchards both
for home and commercial pur
poses. We also desire that
you grow cotton; but use the
the good sense in your heads
as never before as to the size
of this crop to plant.
Plant a small crop, procure
the very best seed of early ma
turing habit. Prepare land
well, fertilize heavily. Plant as
early as season will justify,
cultivate rapidly, gather and
burn all punctured square?
early in the season. Use cal
cium arcenate dust spray, and
you will reap a rich reward.
But if farmers plant and ne
glect the garden and feed and
food crops; there will
trouble in .the land. In ad
dition to the foregoing; we de
sire to organize -a
Club in every township in the
county. This community Club
should so organize that it cai
look after and see that the best
methods of educational anr
social as well as economic de
velopment will come to the com
munity. What is known nov
as club work is an entirely dif
ferent thing. The Commun
ity Club, should get behinc
and boost all club work withir
its territory. We want to do
corn, pig, and poultry clul
work throughout the count\
this year. We also have ir
our plans home and school bet
terment. This means to work
with the School Board, County
School committees, teachers
and patrons to improve school
grounds, house, equipment in
as many schools as possible,
and to encourage the planting
of trees, shrubs, and lawns.
Community Fairs for educa
tional purposes in standardliz
ing and grading field and truck
crops and fruits will be con
ducted again this year; with a
round up County Fair and
a county exhibit at state fair.
We also contemplate having
a puurely social meeting of all
sections on July 4th for the
purpose of cultivating good will
and Brotherly love. A better
Bread campaign and sewing
campaign for the girls and
women especially will be con
ducted by Miss Sarah M. Pad
gett, our efficent Home Demon
stration agent. Miss Padgett
will also cooperate fuully in all
our county betterment pro
jects, relating to Farm Exten
sion work, and I mean to co
operate fully in her line of
work, as we find we 'can greatly
supplement each other in
various lines of work. Now
our plans are laid and what we
desire is a full cooperation of
organization in each township
in the county. We also desire
the hearty cooperation of
school committees and teachers
in every school district. If
you need us in any township,
school district, or on any farm,
or in the humblest tennant
home, drop us a card, telling
where that home is and how to
get there, and we will go. At
the same time, roads should
be made so that we i. could get
within one mile of the home in
a Ford car. We want to serve
and we will, if given a chance.
We will work with you; if you
will work with us.
Respectfully,
J. R. Sams,
County Agent.
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To all the People of Polk Co.
From some source, a feeling
comes to me that the world is
approaching some, great and
wonderful change. In our
slumbering on our beds at
night when all nature seems to
be'quiet, and peaceful breezes
fan us to sleep, we sometime
have dreams that perplex our
r minds when we awake from
peaceful sleeping (See Job. 33- |
! 14 to Is) and we lay and medi- |
' tate upon our dreams, and
wonder from whence they j
I came? And again at times I
I when busily engaged at the
jilesk, behind the counter, or as
j we follow the plow in the field,
j or stack the hay in the mea
dows; there comes to us im
)ressions of some duty we
I should do, something in the fut
i ture that we should accom
I plish, or some great event
| which is likely to take place.
| Ten years ago. The great ,
world war had not been fought
n 1913 were dreaming of War.
The great war clouds were ap
>arent everywhere. We all had
orebodings and impression?
or good and for evil, and it is
iard at times to understand
!ust how and where these im
ressions came from. Well,
.ie great war is over; but the
eriod of readjustment and re
onstruction is not past. We
Earned many valuable lessons
1 tiring the period <rf Wfarr :'
nd we have learned Some val
able lesons during the few
ears since the armistice; but
lere are many, many, lessons
et to be learned. One great
sson we learned in war was
lat every boy who went into
le jaws of death, was some
lother's boy. And the moth
ts as they talked one with an- j
ther, entered into closer svm- j
athy with each other than be
ore this tragic experience, j
ince the Armitsis, the world
as been upside down, political
' morally, economically and
very other way; and will con
: inue so to be until the peo- i
le of the world readjust them
elves. This readjustment
must come through National
.'eadjustment ; but National
i readjustment comes through
the States, and States read
justment comes through coun
ty and on down to the citjs. and
town, to the indivilual in the
factory, the mine. The place
of business and on the farm
It has right lately plainly oc
cured to me that a great
change is coming over the
world ? we have evidences 01 !
this righf here in Polk County.
I have never seen such a fine
feeling as now exists between
the people of the towns of
Polk County and those who re
side in the country. A better
understanding of each other's
needs and what is takes to sup
ply these needs seems to have
taken hold on all the people
That banquet held by the Try
on Board of Trade in Colum
bus last November the 15th.
was for reaching in its effects
The people of the Towns and
County were drawn very close
together in that meeting
There should be many more
such meetings in ,various sec
tions of the County. Such
meetings promote brotherly
love as well as material pros
perity; and this is the greatest
need of all the world. And if
the Kingdom of God is ever
come to earth, it will be when
brotherly love is enthroned
in the hearts of the majority of
men and women in Polk Coun
ty, who have precious children
and those who do not have
children ; for the sake of those
| presicious inocent children, do
| our level best during this year,
j to make Polk County the
I safest and best place in all the
world to live. In order to do
this; let every one see to it
that he or she will do his or her
part, by keeping himself
clean and clear of all crime and
misbehavior of any kind
against his neighbor. Christ
mas and the holidays passed in
Polk County in perfectly order
ly manner. Why not every
day in 1923 be a perfect day.
Johnston County Tenn., I am
informed, has rented her jail
for a work shop there is such
little use for a jail. Why not
Polk county behave themselves
in such a way that we could
abolish the jail entirely? It can
be done; if we will, it will be
done. In closing let me appeal
to the very best there is in
every man and woman in Polk
I County to stand with and by
us through this year in all our
| plans for County betterment,
and we will go forward this
year as never before. I have
j great faith in Polk Couty peo
iple and therefore I have that
inner consciousness which I
cannot explain that the future
is pregnant with good and it on
ly remains with the people to
cooperate with the Laws and
Nature, which are the Laws of
God and with each other and
mighty blessings and prosper
ity, will be ours.
Respectfuly J. R. Sams
County Agent.
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Saje of Real Estate Under
Mortgage.
Under and by virtue of au
thority vested in me as Trus
tee by a certain deed of trust
dated January 5, 1921, and re
corded in the office of the Reg
ister of deeds for Polk county.
IN. C., in book of Deeds No. 16,
on page 246, and executed by;
Taylor Whitesides to S. C. Ra-i
burn to secure purchase mon
ey in the sum of $782.50, an?s
default having been made "in
the payment of same as is in
said deed of trust required,
and having been requested by
the holder of said indebtedness
so to do,
I, the undersigned, 0. M
Mull, Trustee, will on
Monday, Februuarv 26, 1923,
at the court house door of Poll
county, in the town of Colum
bus, N. C., at 1 o'clock P. M. or
within the legal hours sell by
public auction to the highest
bidder for cash all the land in
cumbered by said deed of
trust to secure funds with
which to satisfy the lien* of
same, which land is described
by metes and bounds as follow?
Beginning at a stone on the
east side of Fox Mountain in
Polk county, N. C., and runs
thence S. 24 1-2 W. 63 poles to
a stone near a small branch :
thence down the branch as fol
lows; S. 45 1-2, E. 14 poles, S
67 E. 8 poles, S. 31 3-4 E. 18
poles, S. 1 E. 6 4-5 poles, S J
41 1-2 E. 10 poles, S. 88 1-2 E.
7 2-3 poles, S. 14 E. 8 poles, S
41 E. 7 poles at old ford, S. 1
W. 12 2-3 poles, S. 48 E. 16
noles, S. 62, E. 8 poles, S. 85
E. 14 poles, S. 78 E. 18 poles, S.
56 E. 7 poles, S. 38 E. 8 poles.
S. 7 E. 10 1-2 poles to fork of
branch ; thence down the
branch N. 76 1-2 E. 18 3-4 poles
to old line thence with same N.
7 W. 10 1-4 poles to a stone
thence N. 42 W. 32 poles to a
stone; thence N. 20 W. 84 poles
to a stone; thence N. 53 W. 67
poles to the beginning, con
taining 47 acres, more or less.
This January 25, 1923.
O. M. MULL, Trustee.
The light man can make a
good job out of any job.
A few spare minutes now
can well be spent in mending
the harness for spring work.
Factors that build com
munties; the school, the
church, the local paper, the
home agent, the county agent.
There are 544 women's and
girl's clubs with a member
ship of 9,350 organized to car
ry on home demonstration
-vork in North Carolina.
Fifty-three North Carolina
counties were organized in
'^ome demonstration work in
1922
Statement Try on
Township Pair. Oct.
13, 192% ; ,
Receipts
Jackson & Jackson... $5.00
Electric Service Co.. . $2.00
Telephone Co. ....... $2.00
Carolina Hardware . . . $5.00
Ballenger Co...*.. .. $5.00
Andrews Bros.. $5.00
T. Ballew . * . . ? 1.00
Hoss & Butler ...... ^ $1.00
^People's Bank .; $5.00
^Mountain Industries.. $2.50
Isjryon Hand Weavers $2.50
f Southern Mercerizing
Co, ?? . .......... $2.50
i D. A. Sheilds $1.00
fW. Y. Wilkins |1.00
^Eugene Brownlee .. .. $1.00
fcMissildine Pharmacy . . $5.00
Ballenger Morris Motor Co.
$5.00
, Mr. Hammett $1.00
IJ. L. Jackson & Co. . . . $2.00
-Rippian Way $2.00
>By Coffee and Sand
wiches .... $5.35
1 Bank of Tryon and
others $21.50
' County Commisioners <?
$23.00
Refunded premiums ?
IIP Jtor., JJowes, Mr. Con
? v nor and Miss Hudson
$6.00
% total $112.36
Balence on haad. ... 32.75
Disbursements
zjjSL Fowler ...... .... $1.00
W. M. Newman car
te penter work plumb
? ing and putting
J| building in order... $8.00
Black cloth and ribbon
^ Ballenger Co....... $3.50
3 Mrs. Rhodes, ribbon. . . $1.00
^Carolina Hdw. Co. nails .40
; Green Lumber Co. lum
S ber for pens etc $6.95
||C. Bush tags . .... . . . $1.25
itC. W. Wilson for labor
Mac "
siffinw
with refreshments i . $1.80
Winifred Morton for
for lost exhibit.... .50
? Premiums as follows:
C. M. Howes $5.00
John Hannon . ... ... $2.50
Zeb Waters $2.25
C. W. Wilson . . $2.75
Miss Frances Hudson .75
Mrs. W. T. Lindsey 75
I). E. Connor 25
B. C. von Kablden 25
Mrs. Geo. Morton .... $2.25
Mrs. W. N. Randall... $1.50
Zeb Covil . . . . ; 50
Mrs. J. B. Hester 25
Mr. Leonard Johnson $2.25
Mrs. Will McCall .... $1.25
Hubert Foster ! $1.00
Theodore Ballenger . . .50
Mr. Grant Miller ....$4.00
Farmers Federation
(bull) $1.00
Mrs. McCown $1.00
Mrs. John L. Jackson $1.75
Dr. Chevney- $1.75
Mrs. G. H. Holmes $2.50
M. I. Flentye $2.75
Mrs. W. A. Cannon .... $2.00
Mrs. Kruesi 50
Mrs. James Rion 50
Mrs. Louis Avant 50
Mrs. Grey Thompson.. .50
Mrs. E. Swann 25
Mrs. W. W. Graham.. $1.00
Miss Sallie Streadwick $1.25
Mrs. W. A. Black 50
Miss Josephine Hill... .25
B. Willis 85
S. B. Edwards Postage $1.10
79.60
Respectfully submitted
M. I. Flentye
Sec-Treas.
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SIMPLE RULES FOR CUR
ING PORK
Every North Carolina far
mer should prepare enough pork
products to last his family for
the full year, says Earle Hoste
tler, in charge of swine inves
tigations for the North Caro
lina Experiment Station. Al
though a large amount of meat
is lost each year because of im
proper treatment, ? Mr. Hoste
tler does not see why curing
meat on the farm is such a diffi
cult problem. He finds that if
a few simple rules are adhejred
to there should be no great
losses. He has given the most
important ones as follows:
1. Be sure the hogs to be
killed are healthly and are not
worried or excited at slaughter
ing time.
2. Allow the carcass to cool
out thoroughly bebore it is cut
up.
3. Do not attempt to put
meat into the cure until it is
thoroughly cooled, and on the
other hand do not attempt to
cure frozen meat.
4. When the curing process
is completed do not expose the
meat to the flies or bugs.
6. Immediately after the
hams , shoulders and sides are
smoked sufficiently they should
be wrapped in paper and then
put in bags (flour sacks or ce
ment bags are good) and hung
in a cool dry place until ready
for use.
Mr ? Hostetler states that
these five simple rules cover
most of the causes for failure
and a lack of observing them is
directly responsible for pract
ically all of the meat lost in
North Carolina each year. He
believes that good, wholesome:
meat can be had the year
around in every farm home if a
little extra time and attention
is given the work at these dif
ferent stages.
Honor Roll for Fourth Month.
?? On account of the sickness of
Mrs. KittrelU, there will be no
Honor RoH for the Fir?t Grade
this month.
Second Grade
James Brock.
Bertha Blackwell.
/( Fred Swann.
N Third Grade
Elizabeth Avant.
Fourth Grade.
Bonnie Fisher
Roy Blackwell.
Fifth Grade.
Ollie Linsey
v Cleo Watson ...
Sixth Grade
John Kittrell.
/ Seventh Grade.
Errftfcttklfa litfcto . > : vy
Geraldine Sayre
Sidney Sayre.
Josephine Hill.
High School
Betty Doubleday.
Our attendance has fallen off
this month due to the pre
valence of sickness in town.
Still we have had such excel
lent climatic conditions, that
we trust that all will be back
again in a very short time.
I must embrace this oppor
tunity to express to the entire
community on the part of the
Teachers and student body,
our sincere appreciation of the
most wonderful contributions
that have been made to our
library. I am delighted to tell
you that we have already five
hundred volumes; over four
hundred of which can be count
ed in the High School Library
(Perhaps many of you will
remember that we must have
three hundred) . Best of all, we
still have on hand about
sixty dollars, $60.00 , with
which to buy books for the
general library. If there are
any friends of the school who
have books which they will be
willing to donate ; I shall be
glad to have them notify me
and I shall send to their
homes for the books. For the
satisfaction of the general pub
lic, let me add that Miss Lucy
Monday of the High School
Faculty has been employed to
look after these books and, in
fact act as regular librarian.
We are already deriving won
derful benefit from the use of
this addition to our equipment.
We shall do all in our ? power
to stimulate good reading, and
still we shall not allow them to
read to much that thqy neglect
their school work.
After all, the real genius is
the. man who can get along
with people. ?; . ? . ,
Our fathers used to say that
the master's eye was the best
fertilizer. ? Pliny the Elder.
Sometimes any decision is
better than no no decision.
Some people can't take any
thing unless they take it ser
iously.
Farm prices are low, and the
boll weevil is here, but the far
mer who raises most of the
food for his table is not worry
ing about his next meal.
Mill Spring Route 1.
(Intended for last week.)
There were no services at
Lebanon last Sunday on ac
count of so much sickness in
the community.
Miss Doris Edwards has
been very sick for some days
with "flu" but is some better at
this writing. ?'
Mrs. D. J. Burnett spent Fri
day afternoon with Mrs. A. A.
Edwards.
A.. A. Edwads made a busi
ness trip to Columbus last
Wednesday.
Miss Chressie Burnett left
for Hillcrest Monday where
she will enter school.
Miss Mildred Womack has
returned to school at Hillcrest
after spending several days at
home. ' * '}? >.
Robert Whiteside of Uree,
spent Sunday at the home of A.
A. Edwards.
Mark Laughter from near
Spicers Cove moved his family
to G. 0. Womack's place last
week.
Mrs. H. M. Whiteside was a
sailer at D. J. Bunnetts Thurs
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Marion White
side and son Lawerence also
Miss Lizzie Dalton of Rock,
Spring were callers at W. E.
Elliott's Saturday afternoon.,
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Edwards
spent Sunday with the latters
parents Mr. and Mrs. N. E.
Williams on Route 2.
Mr. Sam Ownenby and Miss
Hattie Hawkins were happily
married on last Thursday at
the home of the bride near
Rutherfordton. We wish for
them a long, happy life.
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Try on Route 1.
We feel this beautiful Mod
day morning of Januuary 22,
the worst of our flu experience
is ovar. - Thanks io the Gpeit.
Physician, the sick are making
a successfuul recovery so far.
Misses Pearl and Essie Ed
wards and Bessie Hamilton,
victims of the flu, have recov
ered and returned to their
school work at Melvin Hlill and
Greens Creek.
What is the matter with all
our correspondence? The pa
per seems much more interest
ing when all are on duty.
Mr. Sams, let us have your
grass talks in the News, and be
not discouraged, the people are
waking up more and more to
the Creator's command, "Let
the dry ground bring forth
grass." Those who are not
the boll weevils are chasing
them to their awakening.
' Mr. J. W. Jack has recently
sown a good sized new ground
in grass.
Mr. John Carpenter, we hear,
has recently taken the grass
fever, and furthermore, that
Hamilton "grass crank" is still
trying to have grass every
where.
Mr. Lewis Jackson and
daughter, Evelyn, were pleas
ant callers on the route.
Mr. Arthuur Ruppe, after
spending a fortnight in Char
lotte, returned the other day.
It is time "day by day, in ev
ery way, the "movies" are get
ting better. If not, we hope
Mr. Hayes will bring this to a
reality. Some of our boys
have taken such a craze for
them, will work hard all day
go ten miles on Saturday night
to Tryon to see them, despite
the weather.
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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 serrices.
COLUMBUS PRE8BYTERIAN
CHURCH
Sunday School at 10 o'clock
Preaching by the Methodist
pastor at the Tryon M. E.
Church, South on
First Sunday bf very month
at 11:0 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.
R. P. Fikts
Partor.
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