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A THE EAGLE, ETJENSVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA THE EAGLE PUBLISHED WEEKLY. Published in Yancc}' County, the home of the bisred apple. iSntered as second-class matter lauuary 28, 191.0, at the post- office at ilurnsville, N. C., under the Act of March 3, 1879. County Officers. Representative—G. Ellis Gard ner. Superior Court Clerk-^-Louis English. Sheriff—J. Welzie Bennett. , Register of Deeds—Ben Frank lin. Surveyor—J. R. Young. . Coroner—D. C. H. Morgan. County Physician—J. R. Gibbs. Board of County Commissioners —John M. Lyon, Chm’n.; John A. Hannum, Wilson Edwards. Neighborhood News. The next day it snowed! The thermometer in this coun try is still hugging zero. Mr. W. T. Hippey is here from Atlanta. Ga-, on business. Mr. W. S. Renfro was a busi- less visitor to Bristol last week. Madam Rumor is again talking of another wedding that is to be. Guess who. Mr. Jas. B. Hensley is on a business trip to Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. Dr. J. B- Ewing was a visitor to the city last Saturday from Boonford. Information for Dependants ol Soldiers. Kakigh, Jan. 7. 1918. To All Local Exemption Boards: (Jentlemen:— Complaints are constantly com ing to me that indicate that de pendants of soldiers do not fully understand what is nessary to be done in order to secure the allow ance made by the Government to such dependants. In the case of » wife or cnild the law corapells an allotment of a portion of the soldiers wages and this is supplemented by schedule of allowances with which you are familiar. With respects to dependents other than wife or child it is necessary for the soldier himself to make a voluntary allotment of his pay and then request the ditional allowance made by the Government; in other words the dependents must seek their relief through tlie soldier. I have no doubt that in many instances sol diers are collecting their entire wages and sending a, portion of these to their dependents. This is a fatal mistake for it cuts, the dependents out of receiving an,'- tliing from the Government. If the solder will go to the officer in camp and make an allotment of his wages and ask that the addi tional allowance provided by the Government be sent to his de pendents this will be done. Please give this the widest possible pub licity and cal) this information to the attention of all dependents of soldiers in your county. Very truly yours, T. W. B'ICKETT, Governdr Messrs. W. Hensley and W. B. Wilson were here from Bald Creek Monday. Hon. J. P\ Spainhour, of Mor- ganton. was a business visitor to Burnsville this week. Mr. J. C. Dulaney was here from Windom Monday and squar ed accounts with the Eagle, Mr. W. S. Westerman, of Kingsport, was a business visitor to Burnsville this week. Mr. Zack Hamby lost a $200.00 mule last Sunday night. Cause not known—it iust died. The poor fellow that is depend ing on to-day’s work to feed his family to-morrow, is up against a hard proposition, On account of the fierce weather practically all outside operations have closed down. WANTED TEAMS To halu Feldspar, can make $5.00 per day steady work. Apply Carolina Co. Inc., Penland, N. C. Mr. A. B. Williams, whose home is on Jacks Creek, left this week for Maryville, Tenn., where he has accepted a responsible po sition with a construction com pany, of which company Capt. I. T. Jobe is one of the superintend ents. The first Monday was a jim- swinger, but in spite of the bad weather there was a good crowd in town. Mrs. C. S. Adams and daughter Miss Gene, left Thursday for a two month’s visit with relatives jn Ohio. Mr. Clyde Wilson, after spend ing a week or so here with rela tives, returned to his home, at Ottawa, Ill., Monday. Messrs Cecil Higgins and Jake Buckner left last week for Penn sylvania, where they have accept-^ ed positions in a hospital. Miss Della Tipton has accepted the position of '‘hello girl” at the Central Telephone office, since the resignation of Miss Ida Lewis. wanted TEAMS To haul Feldspar, can make $5.00 per day Apply Carolina Mineral Co, Inc., Penland, N. C. Mr. Dover Fouts was here from Franklin, N. C., last week visiting his grandfather, Mr. El- ^rt Watson, and other relatives. Rev. C. S. Adams left Monday for a month’s speech making campaign in Tennessee in behalf of the i’resbyterian Board. WANTED TEAMS To haul Feldspai’, can make $5.00 per day steady work. Apply Carolina Mineral Co., Inc., Penland, N C. Mrs. Bob Burton, who has been quite sick at her home in north Burnsville for several days, is reported as improving. Mr. John A. Bowditch, of Bu- sick, spent Tuesday and Wednes day transacting business in the cit>. While here he remembered the old bird in a financial way. Attorney G. E. Gardner return ed Sunday from Pulaska, Va., wneiehewent last week to at tend the funeral and burial of his nephew Ellis Williams, who died of meningitis at Camp Sevier a lew aays ao'o, FOR SALE—One 20 horse power engine and boiler, and one drive wheel belt. Boiler mounted on wheels. Good outfit. If in terested write or call on John A. Bowditch. Busick, N. C. A theatrical company composed of about 16 people, carrying a brass band, is billed to appear at thclY. C. I. Auditorium Saturday night. Jam 12th. •‘Human Hearts” is the play to be present- .ed and a friend at our elbow wiio iaa seen its prononces ji good. Officers captured a blockade still on Mine Fork and brought it to town Wednesday morning. The still was manufactured out two brass kettles and other junk and is said to have brewed a grade of liquor that would have made a jack-rabbit make goc-goo eyes at a buli-dog. Mr. J. A. Riddle Tnis week bought the stock of groceries of the Pure Food Grocery Company and in turn sold the goods to Mr. C, R. Wilson. As soon as the cold weather ceases Mr. Riddle will move his harness store to the building vacated by the. Pure Food Grocery Co. Mr. C, C. Caraway has accept ed the agency of the Black Moun tain Railway and is again on the job down at the Burnsville sta tion, much to the gratification of his many friends. Former agent W. H. Shaw, who resigned, has accepted similar work with the N. & W. Railroad in -Virginia. The Eagle calls the attention of its readers to the advertising space of T. S. Morrison & Co. You will find that chis firm is gvtr!g ou some mighty good reading and timely advice this week. Read it and heed it. What ever T S. Morrison & Co. tall you, you will find ifjust that way. “Uncle” Noah Styles while in town Wednesday dropped in on the Eagle and left a dollar in ad vance on his subscription. Uncle Noah has been a paid-in-advance subscriber for 22 years. We havn’t the words at our esmmard just at this time to express our ap preciation for such friendship and support as this old gentleman has extended to us during these long years. “May his shadow never grow less,” and would that there were many more like him. Notice to Tax Payers. The school taxes and bond taxes as well as state taxes are now due. The county has to raise a large sum to meet these matters. I am required to col lect within a short time a suf ficient amount to meet all these current expenses, and conse quently all tax payers will have to prepare to pay the taxes at the times set for collection in the various townships: Prior hereto - the county has paid inte^'est on borrowed money to meet these expenses. It has adopted a policy of paying as it goes, and hence it will be useless to ask time in which to raise money as these are now due and greatly needed by the county. J. W. BENNETT, Sheriff. ilodol Wyspp.psia Caro Dificsts wKu. • a'otj «aiu Rev. Geo, W. Wilson Dead.i fjiQD AUUffiTEATION P8EPARIMS TO La Grande, Ore., Dee. 27, lyl7. j PUT SCREWS ON ONSCEHPULOnS BEALEt To the Eagle: 1 am herewith enclosing a clip ping concerning the death of Rev. George W. Wilson, an uncle of mine. As he has many relatives and friends in Western North Carolina, I shall be very glad if you will give space for same in your paper. Also am enclosing one dollar to apply on my sub scription. Here is wishing The Eagle and I hai all her readers a happy and pros perous new year. Yours truly, Chas. Wilson. The Rev. George W. Wilson, a pioneer Baptist minister, died at his home Eleventh and Willow streets, at 7 o’clock last evening after an illness of only five days. Heart trouble caused his death. Mrs. Wilson, his widow, has been ill about three weeks. The funeral will be held Friday at the home. Complete arrange- have not been made. Mr. Wilson was very well known not only in Ottawa and elsewhere in this county but also in Brown and Donaphan counties. For many years he was an itiner ant minister who followed up the rapidly receding frontier. Where- ever he settled he proceeded to organize ehurces. His ministerial career extended over a period an tedating the Civil War. North Carolina was his native state. He was born not far from Asheville in April, 1837. At the outbreak of the Civil War he was a ministerial student in Mars Hill college, North Carolina. The school was closed at the opening of hostilities between the North and the South as practically all of the young men entered the army. Many of them enlisted in the Confederate ranks for they had been reared in the South and their symapthies were with the Con.ed- eracy. Mr. Wilson entered the Southern army a chaplain and served about eighteen months. Following his army career he taught school and preached in North Qarolina. In 1865 he was married to Miss Elizabeth Erwi t whose home wss on a plantation near Jonesboro, Tenn. They came to the new state of Kansas in 1871, settling near Hiawatha in Brown county. Mr. Wilson preached and organized at least one church in Brown county and two in Doniphan county. He first came to i;his county in 1891. He organized the North Cttawa Baptist church of which he was pastor for some time. He also helped organize the Tauy Baptist church and served as its tempo rary pastor. He took part in es tablishing several other chm’ches. In 1902 he went to Texas and later lived in Oklahoma, preach ing and serving as missionary. In most of the places where he went he also engaged in agricul- .tural activities. The widow, five sons and one daughter survive. All of the children will be here for the fun eral. Thfey'a.re: Prof. W. B. Wilson, of the faculty of Ottawa university: Carey J. Wilson, To peka, state superintendent of in surance; Miss Mary Etta Wilson, English instructor in the Stafford, Kans, high school; Albert L. Wilson, in business at Texhoma, Okla.; John A. Wilson, instructor in botany in the South Side high school, Minneapolis, Minn.; Ray Wilson, engineer in the govern ment ship yai’ds, Morgan City, La. Miss Mary Etta Wilson has been here since last Friday. Banks Creek. Editor Eagle. The Christmas holidays were very quietly observed in this community. Mr. Earl Banks, who spent the holidays with liomefolks, return ed Camp Sevier Thursday. Mr. Clay Ball, who has been ill with pneumonia for the past few days, is improving. The new postoffice of this com- munit}’ will be in operation in a few days and the name given it will be hankston. Rev. C. S. Adams fileed his regular appointment at Banks’ Creek on the fourth Sunday Mr. "Gonner Banks, who has been attending school at Farm School, is spending a few days with his parents Mr. and Mrs. Tom banks. Fairco, Va. is at home. for some time, Mr. Lester Coone, of Tenn., is visiting his sisters .Miss Doshia Boone and Mrs. Cliarles Allen. Rumblings of Impatience Being Heard Around Headquarter," Selfish and Unpatriotic Consumers Will be Dealt Wititi Also—Fine of $5,000 and Two Years’ Imprisonment^ Penalty for Hoarding.-^Administrator Henry A. Page Tightening the Reins. Raleigh.—Notwithstanding its oft- repeated and proven assertions that its attitude toward all dealers In food stuffs is first of all friendly, and that it Is desirous of co-operating with all handlers of foodstuffs, rumblings of Impatience at petty profiteering are beginning to be heard around the quarters of the Pood Administration in this. city. That Food Administrator Henry A. Page hap at heart the interests of the producers and handlers of foodstuffs has been demonstrated by his action in straightening out the wheat situa tion in the state and 'by his attitude toward all wholesalers and retailers in their respective conferences here; but Mr. Page Is not famous either for his patience in the face of injury, nqr for his forbearance when iaws are be ing violated and people oppressed practice, where It has been the cus tom for years, cannot be tolerated under present conditions. Consumers of food commodities as well as dealers are subject to the provisions of the Pood Control Law, section 6 of which provides that any necessity shall be deemed to oe hoarded when held, contracted or ar ranged for, by any person in excess of his reasonable requirements for i reasonable time. The penalty for violation of this provision is a fine of $5,000 or two years’ Imprisonment, or both, and In addition, the commod ity hoarded is subject to confiscation. Large Purchases Inexcusable. State Pood Administrator Henry A. Page points out that there is abso lutely no excuse for purchasing food stuffs in large quantities, becaine (1) prices have been stabilized and through the greed of grasping patriotic dealers. Offenders to be Put Out of Business. Where wanton violations of the law and policy of the^ood Adminis tration are found, i Rs anticipated that the offending dea»s will be pun ished by the simple prlfcedure of put ting them out of brnness. Where profiteers are shrewd enough to stay barely within the bounds they will be put in a class of suspects and watched. In order to give the consumer bet ter protection and to secure from the consumer more effective co-operation, the Food Administration contemplates offering to the papers throughout the state occasional price lists showing the average cost of staple food com modities to the dealers and the price at which dealers should be able to buy. The publication of these prices should be of inestimable value to the people of the State. What's in Store for Hoarder. As a result of reports that have reached it from two counties in the State the Pood Administration has in structed all County Food Administra tors to investigate and report prompt ly any evidences of hoarding of food Btuffs. Reports that have been inves tigated so far were found to have orig inated as the.result of the practice of some farmers in the two counties men tioned of purchasing most of the'r '•'od supplf-ss in large quantities after feting their cwps. Even this -v-w — un-la-re no more apt to advance than they are to decline, and (2) the Pood Ad ministration’s first concern Is to — - own people with foodstuffs and it will not permit the exportation of such an amount of any commodity as will endanger the supply necessary for home consumption. The great injury that would be worked by this practice is clearly pointed out as follows: (1) It wotild add to the burden of the railroads, which are already strained to the breaking point. (2) It would tend to advance prices and thereby work an Injustice to all consumers of foodstuffs. (3) It would deprive our own sol diers, the soldiers of our Allies, the civilian population of our Allies and the hundreds of thousands of STARV ING WOMEN AND CHILDREN in Europe, of foodstuffs which are need ed not only to help win the war, but to save innocent people from actual and certain starvation. In the face of these facts Pood Ad ministrator Page does not hesitate *0 vigorously denounce any person who has any inclination toward hoarding as selfish and unpatriotic to an extent that is approaching the traitorous. Mr. Page does not believe there will he any hoarding in .North Carolina, but if there are those who are selfish and uupatriotlc and foolish enough to attempt it they will be dealt with promptly and vigorously. Pensacola. Eds. Eagle: We notice Pensacola hasn’t been represented in ourcounty pa per for some time, and of course we don’t want to be forgotten. We have had some very cold weather here; thernicnneters reg istered 20 degrees below zero. It keeps people quite busy getting wood and making fires to keep f o;n freezing The Murchison school began December 31st with a good en rollment. Miss Matti? Gardner principal and Mattie Kensley as sistant. They are progressing nicely and our people are very much pleased with the faculty Pensacola school has closed, owing to Mr. " oody having to go away to cemps. The Pensacola knitting society has been very busy' knitting for our boys who are in camps. They liave made several sweaters, scarfs, socks and wristlets. The Society meets with Mrs. Burkhol- d^-T nest Wednesday, p. m. Hope all members wil^ be’present. Last Sunday a couple of young ladies were seen “Hooverizing”— picking up scattered coal along the railr)ad. Mr. A. J. Nanney returned Saturday from Swiss, where he spent the holidays with his son B. T. Nanney. Says he enjoyed a quiet Christmas. Mr. Wm. I. Parnell and sister Miss Parnell have been called to the bedside of tEeir njo.tUer who is seriously ill at her homt^ in Selma, N. C. We hope she will recover soon. Messrs. Len and Hobert Ray are now working for Uncle Sara. They left here December 27th for Camp Jackson. Mi.ss 'Vivian- Blankinsliip has returned from Knoxville, Tenn., where she has been visiting her aunt Mrs Shepherd- Blue Belle This Was No, Joke. J. E. Clover, 103 Labor Temple, Mr, Chas. Allen, who has been ^os Angeles, Cal., writes: “I Mr. Jack Hutchins, of Pensa cola, spent several days with friends in this community recent ly- Mr. Pritchard Banks, ol Fort Caswell, spent the Christmas holidays here with relatives. Mr. Floyd Banks, who has been spending several days at home, has returned to Pensacola to resume his work. liave had about 56 years exper ience with all sorts and kinds of cathartic remedies—some good and some a joke. When I get wise to Foley Cathartic Tablets for constipation I got in right. The best I ever used.” Do not gripe; no unpleasant aftereffects. Sold everywhere. Mules For "Sale. Always from One hundred to Three hundred head of Horses and Mules of ail description lor sale at my stable in York. Pa. JOE KINDIG, York, Pa. Notice to the Public. The law requiring all - notes to be stamped went into effect December 1st. The law provides that notes must be stamped to the amount of 2 cents for each one hundred dollars or multiple thereof. The Government .has placed these stamps on sale by every postmaster. The law also requires that the maker of the note shall stamp and cancel same himself. Parties having notes in the Burnsville banks will take notice that thev should call upon their respective postmasters for stamps, affix the stamp to theii notes before sending tiiem to the bank for renewal. BANK OF YANCEY. CITIZENS BANK. To the Trade: I have just received a new line of shoes, new dry goods, and new clothing- Can give you some bargains. I bought these goods right and ara selling them right. A Iso car load of fertilizer. Yours Respectfully, J. W. MURPHY, Boonsford, N. C. Notice to the Public. All persons holding claims against Yancey county are re quested to list them with the Register of Deeds for payrqent by January 1st, 1918. J. M. LYON, Chm. Board County Commissioners. 1 DR. S. J. HAMILTON, ft DENTIST, Office Over Citizens Bank, BURNSVILLE, N. C. Wanted. Girls to work in Hosiery and Glove’Mill. Can. only use girls 16 years and older. Pay 75 .cents per day while learning. Learned hands make up to $1.75 cents per day. Apply to either Carolina Hosiery Mills, Daisy Glove Company, C. F. James. Manager, Marion. N. C. Ckiiaren Cry rlETGHEa'S O A 3 T O R J A iu. It certainly is an easy job to sell merchandise, “IF” you have what people Want at the time they Want it, and at the right price. It has been an easy job and a a pleasure to me to sell mens and - boys clothing for ,the past two months All the boys suits are sold out now, except a few NOBBY little suits for small boys, sizes 4s and 5s. BUT LISTEN! There are several fine suits for men in stock yet, that will be sold as long as they last, at unusually low prices. Fll appreciate the sale, and you will appreciate the bargain. If you have got produce, I al ways pay the top price. C. M. BAILIY, Gen. Merchant. Burnsville, Rt. 1 WHEN You NEED A CAR CALL FOR OUR GARRAGE J. L. WILLIAMS & SONS. 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