, E T. Belk? AND HIS NEWS OF NEBO VALLEY The other evening Paul Whiley and Cl arence Sprat t came out to call on H. Y. Jr. They went out on (he branch looking for most anything. H. Y. caught a sucker 22 inches long weighing 3 pounds. They weighed it at the mill. - BP 1 met Rob Blackburn on the Po lice force. He asked me why I did not put his picture in the paper a long with ,n>ine. I told him my pic ture didn't look good if he had his picture on my column. The ladies wouldn't read my scrip for looking at his picture. Women know how i to flirt in so many ways you hardly know what they mean. Arthur Allen says ne likes to read L; the old column. Says after he reads \ it he gets his wife to read it to him |i \ to see how it sounds over the air. Lets start out right here by bring jng the message in plain old United States English, so any bunch of the hard-headed fools can understand the text, that have a mind above a goat, government Can't make peo ple rich, but it can make people poor as Job's turkey ? that old tur key was so poor he had to stand in tfre same place twice to make a sha dow, and then gobble. Now, your Uncle Sam is in a heck of a mess. Let us see you will a gree with me. Our Uncle Sam has a debt piled up over the U. S. A. for $252 billion dollars. We were alarmed when it reached $50 bil lion. Now, we take It with all ease. For Highest Quality Foods BUU.0CK GROCERY Serving Kings Mountain Over 13 Years Phone 58 What's 252 billion? We don't under stand the figures. Well, now the preacher says, Let's serve God .and save America. Good business ftut It looks like Us getting late over in the eveningf. The Devil has done got his claws on the $252 billion scads.1 I .was just ruminating along in chapter one, verse 4. U says one gen eration cometh up and passeth away and another generation comes along .but the earth abideth forever. So let them paj^ this $232 bilion, O. K. L Located Hiter The other night as I was wander ing around in my dreams, I met Sa tan staring around. I didn't khow him at first. I asked about Old Joe Stalin starting a third World War. The Devil said the chances are dear old Joe will very soon pitch a real war. Satan then spoke up: We have a contract with Joe and his buddies to bomb the last man off the earth, and make a grave yard 8 men deep all over the earth, and dry up the sea. I said I don't believe your lies. Then I asked, why did Hitler leave his Job in Europe? Oh, that's very plain. He finished his job so well We took him to hell for the blood of na tions split. In order to be sure of keeping the old rogue, we moulded that big ten tpn pot you see over there turned down, the fire is ever kept burning over the pot as you see it now. Should he gel out with all these chains on him we fear he would turn all hell over and paint the moon red. The Devil scratched his head and said, we are now mold ing a much larger pot for dear old Joe when he finishes his work on earth. Its reported that Joe can out wit either of us and make Hitler look like a snowball in June. Joe has a lot of work to do before we place the pot over him, but its go ing to be hard on our nerves to keep i Joe in. There are men like Napoleon and j Alexander the Great ? born soldiers. They have the face, the learnings, the mind and the will to fight and kill. There are millions who are for ced to become so, in spite of them selves. 1 have never believed thai was is inevitable under any circum stances. Its the greatest nightmare Known to human hearts. If, afi?* a battle instantaneous photographs could be taken of the dead and dying, and millions of the copies scatered all over the world, there would be no more wars. The people would refuse to take part in it. War is nell, still men X or gain, march, fight and die on a million bloods'. a ir.ed battle fields all the world, when the Bible says thou shalt not kill. Hiiler gone from ear th and left his castle of fine silver and mounted gold for a pot beneath the roaring flames where the soul of devils never die. 1 have warned you, Joe Stalin, repent before your lamp goes out and under the pot you go. The present day Modernism laughs at the doctrine of the Second Coming. I'm as sure of the Second Coming as I am of the Virgin Birth. At the Second Coming believe every word in Holy Writ. Then we learn that the Bible is the| only absolutely Holy book ever writ ten. If killing by airplanes crashes | PRE - EASTER SALE! Saunders' Men's Shop All Nationally Advertised Merchandise WERE NOW Knox - Mallory - Lee Formerly J7.59 1; $15 TOUR PICK All Nunn-Bush and Edgerton Shoes REDUCED . All Trousers Greatly Reduced gets any worst .looks like we will have to make planes that can't fly. You might as well ti>' to house the seven stars in a nail keg as to try to stop these flying cottins when they start flapping their wings like buzzards, Aren't we living in stran ge times? Yes, what lew live now. The more we pray lor Russia the more they prey on the U. S. A. Joe will nave to have his iafnp trimmed lots of times before he gets the right flame. We can fix his clock, we speak the truth, and what care we? nor take a word back, .Joe. Why don'i the cnurches outlaw the manufacture and saie of liquor in any-form or shape? Or Combina tion? You can do it preachers. Why don't you do that job? If men would use their heads more and keep their traps closed how glad the old tongue would be. Even the old woodpecker owes his success to the' fact that he uses his head. Women are only -concerned about two lines when they go out? the waistline and the himline. What pretty girl don't, like a good slim line? Oh, my. Just the other day 1 received a letter from an Israelite in Jerusa lem asking for some of the brands of American whiskey made. The letter contained 8 stamps covered with Hebreyv words that old Solo mon couldn't translate. I knowed it was whiskey the poor devils want ed. Men in hell want water. That's what the Bible says. One policeman told me he hadn't arrested but one drunk since beer went hellward, and the drunk was drunk on bay hoss rum. When a man has to pump up on rum God pity the smell worse than a pole cat on ice. ? n i '? Our loan a year ago to Britain. of $3 billion $"50 million dollars, now you want me to explain our loan to Great Britain. 1 don't con.^ider u a loan. Its ju? a hand off for the NOTICE or SALE Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in an order made by E. A. Houser, Clerk of the Super-, ior Court for Cleveland County jr. (he Special Proceedings entitled ?Mrs Mattie Howard. Executrix lor the Lam Will and Testament for Miss Gertrude Ware, deceased, vs. M;s. Mattie Howard, e: al", 1 will sell for cash on the premises of the land hereinafter described at public auction on Saturday, April 16, 1^4. , at 10:00 a. m., or within legal hours, the following described real estate: Beginning at a poplar or. the branch, J. D. Neal's corner and run.' N 61 deg. 45 min. E. 296.3*1 feet a stone, J D. Neal's corner ; iher.ee S. 63 E. 100 feet to Gene Ware s coi - ner. a new corner in Neal's ine; thence N. 1 W. 274.5 feet ;o another new corner in the field; thence > ? 88 E. 363 fee: to a stake In the \Nes. bank of Ei Bethel , 1h*m* with said road N. 91? W. 60 fee: to a stake in the road: ihence with th t road N. 48', E. 424.38 feet to a stake in the road; thence N. 87 W. 1287 feet to a stake, B<*.d Harrilson s corner; thence S. 71* W 541 ,ee' 1? a stake; thence S. 54 E 403 fee: to the Beginning, containing 16-62 ac res, more or Jess. Being a part of the land conveyed by Mrs G. S. Ware to Gertrude Ware by deed as will ap pear on record in :he Register of Deeds Office "for Cleveland County in book "5-G at page 306 This the "'6th day of March, 1949. B. D. R^ .erree, Commissioner. J. R. Davis, Atty. m-18? a-8 Net Faim Income Down Two Percent i ? , ? ? ' / ' I Although the nation's gross farm1 ? income last year was 3 pereenfl [greater than in 1!)47, production casts were H per cent' higher and net profits were therefore lower than in the previous year, says MoyJe S. Wit Hams, farm management specialisS for the State College Extension Ser jvice. Latest estimates by the Bureau <** Agricultural Economics place th.* 1948 net farm income at 17. -1 billiotJi . dollars, about 2 percent less than in' 1947. The decline is the first in IIP years. At the present time, says Wit liams, indications are that farm pri ces will decline further but produc tion costs will remain high. The r?f suit is that the average farmer cati look forward to a favorable year in' 1949, but less favorable than in 1914 Net farm Income, the specialist adji* will be small this year unless frt creased efficiency and better man agement are employed to hold' down costs. Average prices received by farm ers in January of this year were .*? bout 13 per cent below the record set in January, 1948. The index of whole sale commodity prices has continu ed down and in early January wa? 6 percent below mid August. Nearly all of the decline in wholesale prje es has been on farm products and food; r.on farm Commodities hav^ cchanged little. British who love us so dearly ? fo>: our lucre only. Now you tell one. 1 can't do aU the talking. You never thought I'd be a pool. Who wouldn't be charmed By nature inspired, While the flowers bloom, And the birds sing? He who never wrote a song, * Puts music in the throat, Of a mocking bird, J He made the morning stars. To shine in beauty grand, He who opens the door Of the morning, ? T, On golden hinges, While millions of eyes Never look toward the east/ When the morning sun Kisses the golden sky. John Jacob Aslor, of New Yorfc who lived from 1768 to 1848 was pro bably the riches man in-^the CJm ed States in his day. PRESCRIPTION SERVICE We Fill any Doctors' Pre scriptio*s promptly and accurately at reasonable prices with the confidence of your physician. Kings Mountain Drug Company THE REXALL STORE R 1 We Call For and Deliver Phones 41 ? 81 FIRST PK/Zf Ap*> WAV* . A BiTU *.p?x MM.ft.MTK Ap*I IMI'I.UIK riw ? IK Ap*x ?*. i? miiu (?M ?till* M.LUKIIK ItMft Any North Carolina farmer is eligible to win thi* power-packed 1949 LEADER TRACTOR or one of many other valuable prizes. Here is all you do. Go to your nearest LEADERS TRACTOR dealer and secure your entry blanks There is nothing to buy? no entry fee? simply tell , j us why you like the LEADER TRACTOR. 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