Something to Think About
? t(. Uncle Bben, "if
apt to he ? trip dat don' let
u0V tvliab .vou's g'Ine or when
git buck."
vflU *?0*'
voo':
Colors Worn by Jockeys.
Ttiere are re. or.N to show that King
Henry VIII n-; r!X as 1530 dressed
bl9 Jockeys in v.'Iors, but nothing to
P^ve that thf- e? .'ors "'^re always the
J,nie. In !"??- ?' hockey club posted
s notice to ?"'t that several own
erso{rnciM v > had selected colors
ft) be "orii ? jockeys. Some of
lie colors i-' ? -??<? are still In use
by the same Amines.
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OJcl Experience.
Xhe stni /!-'?< r ? xiifrlence of niy ljfe
BiS one tl:- > n.\iiV in our orchard. I
viS sitim r.r.i't'r a pant apple tree.
presently I ?'?? und started away.
Scarcely h;j- i I !>?ne four steps ere a
larye dffl'i !'r.:!n'!i fell to the spot
rbere I IiatI sitting. I did not
venture umler -load branches again
far some thu*>.?nilcngo Journal.
Sun Dials.
Ilie sun i' ;>? i* tirst mentioned in
tie Book o! N umIi 38 :S, and may
tjTe been f ? ; <-! after the plan of a
famous 5i::i : J India in the form
if a stT!*e> ??: v-m?s. The remains of
mob a sun ili.i! f;.;ve been found amid
^ ruin? "? !'?'? ir*'!l. The modern
m dial on!;. from the prim
itire ones, in r' r is more accurate
ly placed mi .] n*ov carefully made.
Women A.-e All the Same.
It is a fun:;.\ thing, but while you
ajplivhie r.n ii Iiito men and artists,
tomen art* ail * t 1m* same; they're all
mists of a kiii'! and women as wellj
jut woman is i.?*;ter thnn a mediocre
an, but no \y>u a\ is as good as a
{fcver man.? I'r^.ii "Last Week," by
Jiora P. Vin<-v
Attention .
Farmers ?
This back ri-r.lially invites you
to bring. <T mail your
checks recivt .1 fur cotton and
other farm products to us
either for can'i or credit. If
you art' a m.-utlu-r of the cot
ton growers a sociation, bring
your wareho: -'1 receipts or
bill of ladiiic to us and we'll
advance the >?'>'?. 00 per bale
and send your papers on to
Raleigh ino - xpense to you.)
We are always friendly and
ready to serve and to give in
formation for th.' purpose of
furthering thr best interest of
our farmer tri- mis. Come to
see us, let us s.-rve vou.
Polk County Bank &
Trust COmpany
Columbus, N. C.
Resources Over $175,000.00
) R. Sams, Chm. of Board
L W. S. Cobb. President
frank Jackson, Vice Pres.
fad W. Blanton, Vice Pres. and Cash
I L Wedge, Ass't. Cashier.
Hood Eyesight 1m
We Your Content?
can furmsh you glasses
will strengthen and rest
Hour eyes. Ofttimes when the
**Ver of g noses secure the
^oper aid ai tr.e proper time
's able to do without them
bis eyci become again
^mal. We r.rv eye author
tiei.
R. E. Biber
optometrist
103 V- . KAm St.
IVtanbun
s. c.
Scientists have got the hook for the
book worm.
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The semi-detached female It the
foal menace.
Airmen today are trying to put the
*eop" In helicopter.
The knee-length skirt is the shorter
and uglier word for style.
Keeping up appearances Is largely
a question of keeping In debt.
The famous anvil chorus doubtless
voiced the jazz Instincts of Its day.
Why should not the censors cut all
the stupidity out of the movies, too?
Stop, look, listen, and then learn
hew deep the water Is before you dive.
The "off" in so many soviet leaders'
names seems particularly appropriate.
Hitting only the high spots is safer
-when aviating than it is when motor
In*.
Radio will reach Its maximum of
popularity when it starts broadcasting
money.
If progress had been left to the
knockers man would still be in the
?tone age.
Judging from the divorces, it ap
pears that self-love Is the only love
that lasts.
The premier of Poland, who weaif
DO tie, will probably also claim hi
wears no man's collar.
Itfe getting to be so only extra beau
tiful women can kill somebody and
hope to escape punishment
Many a bettor on the races has beei
unable to break himself of the habit
until he has gone broke.
The young graduate is discovering
that among the necessaries of life the
most important is a living.
"Bat less sugar," says a doctor.
Ttje first prescription ever written on
which the patient saved money.
The war didn't even settle how
properly to pronounce the names at
some of those European towns.
Unfortunately the political forecast
?at an amateur may look as well on
paper as the forecast of ap expert.
Carpenter's Department
Store
Rutherfordton, N. C.
"Distinctive"
Millinery
The marked originality of this Part -
sian model for Fall, with the droop
ing feather high on the crown, is a
hint at the real distinctiveness of the
millinery assembled here for this
Autnmn season.
Here yonr eye will be delighted by
models rich in originality; hats ihat
yon can wear with the satisfaction
that comes from knowing that your
hat has individuality, becomingness
and attractiveness .
And yon m?y be snre that every
model is new and absolutely correct
in design and material.
"Tomorrow 'a Millinery" is helping
thousands of women select the best and
most charming things in hats. Are you
taking advantage of this FREE fashion
Service f Ask us about it.
Well'dretsed women wear
bats with this label
? hb
The Tryon Transfer Company
p '?"K felt need of Tryon and vicinity;
ExrJ?""1'1 and courteous attention to Baggage,
Ss a";i General Hauling. /
We Haul
Anywhere as Cheaply, Quickly and
Ke l4s Two Phones
%9 . .?? ? ;
Residence 31
The careless in street traffic should
be earless.
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If Europe doesn't soon get right* It
will get left
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Germany Is a wonderful country. II
still printing marks.
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Scrapping warships is better than ;
to have warships scrapping.
lA hundred reds in the country are
not worth one red sent out of it
What ever happened to the oW
iShioned dime novel that didn't coot
1.75?
Columbus was the first HJuropean
Who encountered difficulty in touching
America.
Dress reformers apparently hold
that the form divine should not be
divineble.
The most useless period I9 man's
Ufe is the week before vacation and
the day after.
One trouble about being a "mo#
beautiful" woman is having to live op
to the reputation.
Four brakes on the car if all rlgl#,
but for a certain class of drivers then
really should be eight
Packing autos is real science, say*
a headline. Nothing, however com
pared to parking them.
Sometimes life seems to be Just t
'oposition of finding the kind 0 1
ouble you can stand.
A writer says Alaska is a region fa
vored by providence. Thafs a fact
! It onoe belonged to Russia.
I
Unfortunately, the joy- riding can
usually kill the wrong people while
! tile joy riders go on "iding.
' An economist says music helps In
letting the work done. This does not,
however, refer to chin musle.
It seems that the best way to at
tract attention at French beach resorts
i is to wear a modest bathing suit.
Of course insects have brains. How
else could they figure out Just where
you are going to have your picnlct
A huge camera has been constructed
to take a picture of the sun. It is
| feared the proofs will shew it moved.
That old proverb about the lest
haste the more speed doesn't get very
> far* In these days of cros^couadqr
fflgbtsi
One trouble with these coast-to
eoast flights between (town and smv
set is that the coasts are so doggoned
t*r apart
When a loafer gets down to the
notnt that It Is work or starve and he
decides to work, he Is on the trail to
?If respect.
1 ?
BP mere taw enforcement Is the
rg most desirable, perhaps it would
well to raise the speed limit to
* miles an hour.
Another way to avoid work is to o*r
ganise a propaganda campaign of
some kind and find a few rieh pepple
who wish to be useful.
The American woman probatbly wflj
, not care two raps about the doctor's
statement that too much athletics Is
Baking her knock-kneed.
They say that men's clothes need re
taming. It ls> however, the men that
aaad sufficient independence to wea*
wfcat is good and comfortable.
Compared with 1022, automobile pro
duction has Increased, this year, 4fT
par cent. But where Is the pedestrian
who can Jump 4T per eent farther t
When the millennium shsM have ar
rived, civilization will have readied
the point where agriculture will stand
as the highest and noblest vocation o4
m.
The government may call off dawn
to-dusk flights for the rest of the year,
but it is doubtful if it will be as suc
cessful with some of the dusk-to-dawn
high fliers.
Those New York doctors who say
that Americans eat too much Ice cream
are going to be out of luck as far a*
popularity Is concerned, at least until
tha "heated term" ends.
Prof. McAdie of Harvard has issued
a long list of Instructions on how to
avoid lightning. Meanwhile a lot of
politicians are daring the presidential
lightning to strike them.
Considering that the government has
compiled statistics on everything else.
It would be interesting te have some
figures on the number of fish caught
In proportion to the bait used.
Who says the perils of civilization
ara not worse than those of the jungle?
That Cincinnati hippopotamus never
wodkl have died from swciiowing a
tennis ball If It had been en its native
i. Harvard professor presents a long
Hit of what nrt t? to it one would
? oapa being struck by lightning. A
oopy of the list ought to be in the
arssr satklis
i ? L ...? Jt.J ?
Counterfeit $1,000 bills are in clr- j
eolation. Have a care!
Fortunately, few of the class prophe- .
cies will ever come true.
Almost any system of government 1
will work if the people will.
No strawberry shortcake should be I
less than three stories high.
Europe doesn't need dictators so
much as it nee?s a guardian.
A great deal depends at the railroad
crossing on where you come to a dead
?top.
Dollar gasoline would at least re
lieve the congestion in the emergency
wards.
Ice cream prices are up and the j
price of coal shows no signs of losing
Strength.
A happy land is one where every
body is so poor that nobody can envy
anybody.
1 Some men take up pipe smoking In
order gradually to break off the tobae
'co habit.
The autolst who swings around a
corner on two wheels does himself
a bad turn.
1 1
If there is any color more hated In
this country than Russian red it Is
parlor pink.
Almost any man can waste a lot of
useful time making a garden and still
live longer.
Old timers can remember when ce
dar block pavements were spoken of
as "improvements."
I Scientist says that violin playing is
a hair tonic. Well, a lot of it is unde
niably hair-raising. 1
The treasury plans tp abolish the 2
dollar bill. The 5-dollar bill has taken
its place of late years.
1 We take It that no girl who win?
the prize in a beauty contest is ever
; surprised at the verdict.
mmtm ?? ~
"Intelligence tests" would nndoubt
' edly be all right if a little Intelligence
j were used In making them.
?
I With the temperature in the Yukon
! at 120 in the sun sealskin underwear
must be very much de trop.
Nobody Is more popular than an
*utomobile prospect unless It is a poli
tician with jobs to distribute.
- ? * - %
j Vesuvius is having a first class erup
1 tion, proving that Italy continues to
! know how to attract sightseers*
? 1
Its reappearance on bathing -beaches
! recalls the fact that the human knee
Is a pretty tough looking Joint
Dome Informed student of Chinese
history might tell he world where a
Chinese government goes when it falls.
? -
An expert says that dishwashing
beautifies the hands, but the majority
will continue to nse their favorite lo
tion.
Perhaps, after all, the easiest way to
save your pride Is to tell the kid that
j you haven't time to help him with his
algebra.
Iff a serious question whether a
J white elephant on your hands ever
i seemed as big as white shoes on
'? your feet
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An artist says an Impressive paint
i ing can be bought for $100. For that
matter, a framed $100 bill would he
| impressive.
One thtng that always can be cocmt
! ed on is that all the "Detour" signs
will be In place by the opening of the
i vacation season.
J Artificial rain and synthetic thun
der will be forgiven if the scientist
can make sortie sort of arrangement
for perpetual June*
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Europe Is overcrowded, says ft
British anthropologist, but the Old
1 World has always been able to find
j room for an argument
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| The boll weevil Is a curse, but now
j that so much artificial silk Is being
( made, It won*t be necessary to make
so much of It out of cotton.
I The theory that Americans best
brains are In the business *wld Is
j revived by a scientist's announcement
1 that a man thinks beet with M feet
on ft desk.
i
i An American admiral denies the
i Einstein theory entirely. This is one
I controversy In which neither partidp- j
! ant can hope for much more than our
moral support.
Regular steamboat service on the up
per Mississippi is re-established after
! seven years, binding St Louis and St
! Paul In a kind of holy? or at least
saintly ? alllancet
More than 180,000,000 hairnets pro
duced in one Ohinese province were
used In this country last year, most
j of them to make a bobbed bead look
like something else.
For another thing, it is a simple
matter for a wife to shoot her hus
band and get away with It She
easily, thftt
O a for Sale at Bea
K?*
Dirt tnovffig> a ps0^
A. C PlttAWPy11 p ? II.
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wW?-? ?^?c.
Phone i?v? _
Prepare Now
You know that sooner or later Winter
will be here, so why not prepare now
to have your home warm and comfort
able.
The price of the best Coal is less now than it
will be next winter and you are sure of deliv
ery when you want it.
Wood
W. S. GREEN
TRYON, N. C.
Coal
Another Premium
For the Fair
We will give one pair of Hamilton
| Brown Ladies Shoes, value $5.50,
for the best Loaf Bread baked
from Pinnacle Flour, the finest
bread flour.
Hamilton Brown Shoes are all leather. Pinnacle
Flour is always fresh and clean.
Also 100 pounds of Pinnacle Flour
for the best half dozen biscuits
j! baked from Pinnacle Flour.
. V.;
%
Both are sold and guaranteed by
TRYON, N. C.
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