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■ “OUR COOK SAW A SNAKE in* the kitchen the other day,” a Cha pel Hill friend told us. “We moved the furniture and looked every where for the snake but it couldn’t be found. I told the girl it was the wrong time of year for snakes. I declared that snakes almost nev er came into the house. I inform ed her that snakes could not climb steps. I reassured her in every pos sible way, but for some reason she was still frightened. She stayed frightened for the next two days. You can imagine my embarrass ment, then, when I started upstairs and found my way disputed by a large copperhead coming out of the guest bedroom!” -—o— GHOST STORY (as sent in by a reader) Back in ’33, when Carrie was still a young girl, every morning a man Dy me name oi orumer ureeu uscu to go by the Stanley’s house, and when he did he’d call to her: “Car rie! Oh, Carrie!” (I wish I could reproduce the cadence). One day in September he and another man went clamming. They found a good bed and had filled the rowboat to the gunwales when a sudden and very bad storm blew up. A white man in a motorboat saw them, and saw they were in trouble through the scud, but he was too scared to go to their help. He was the last person to see them alive. Two weeks later a colored man found them drifted against the bridge—each gripping the other’s shoulders so tightly they could hardly be pulled apart. Along about then Carrie began to hear the pump outside their house being worked in the middle of the night and very early morning. The first few mornings she didn’t pay much attention, thinking it was a neighbor chile out gittin him a drink of water, but when she asked around about it, hadn’t no one been out to get a drink at that hour. She began to listen for it then, and mos every night she’d hear it— first footsteps, like the gallopin of >.-— a horse, then the pump workin. One morning it come right late, aft er dawn had started, and she got up and peered through the window. There was the pump handle going up and down, up and down, but there weren't nothing to make it do like that. Jest the handle by it self. She ran and roused up her Mama and they went through the back door, hearin the pump handle all the time. Soon’s they got the door open good, the pump handle stopped and way off and soft like, she heard someone calling on her: “Carrie! Oh, Carrie!” Then the footsteps galloped off. “Mama,” say Carrie, “You hear what I hear?” “Law, honey, yes, I hear ’im.” “An’ you see what I see?” “Law, honey, yes!” "Then what is it, Mama? What is it?” “Law, honey, it des Brother Green stopping by to git hisself a drink.” —o— A CHILD PSYCHOLOGIST con fessed that even he found "child raising” a bit different from what the books said about it. His wife was out of town and his two lively boys didn’t want to take a bath. He tried all the usual methods of persuasion but the boys still didn’t want to take a bath. In despara tion he visited the dime store. Life buoy soap? No. Perfume . . . the loudest, cheapest, lingeringest per fume they had . . . “All right, boys,” he said that night. “You don’t have to take a bath if you don’t want to . . . you can go to bed without a bath if you choose . . . but one of two things is going to happen: either you go to school tomorrow smelling af a bath in soap and water or you go smelling of a shower in this perfume. Which is it going to be? • •••••• P. S. It worked. —o— SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT: ‘Greece is the Belgium of 1940.” TURKISH QUESTION: Will a goose cook quicker in hot water or cold Greece? :: Calvary-Thelma Mr. and Mrs. Earl Harper of Roanoke Rapids spent the week end with Mrs. Richard Harper. Mr. and Mrs. T. O. Hardy and family of Henderson spent the week-end in the home of Mrs. Whit Morris. Mrs. E. S. Jenkins, Mrs. Rich ard Harper and N. R. Jenkins at tended the funeral of Ed Harper at Bear Swamp Church Friday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Troy Woodlief of Richmond, Va., spent the week-end in the home of Mrs. Frank King. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Myrick and Mrs. Baker of Weldon spent Sun day with Mrs. G. H. Myrick. A/Trs Paul TT’.f'harirl era a n rl enn Mrs. E. L. Mosely and son, arid Miss Virginia King spent Satur day night with their mother, Mrs. Frank King. Friends of Mrs. H. S. Harper, who is a patient in Roanoke Rap ids Hospital, are glad to know that she is getting along nicely after undergoing an operation. * Miss Sarah King of Halifax spent the week-end with her par ents here. Miss Rachel Myrick spent the week-end at her home here. CALVARY CHURCH Sunday School Sunday morning at 10:30. Services at eleven by Rev. H. L. Davis. Every one is urged to attend. CALVARY EPWORTH LEAGUE The Young People of Calvary Methodist Church held their regu lar meeting at the church on Sun day night, February 16th. After the program the following new officers were elected: President, Johnnie Aycock; Vice-Prfesident, Winifred King; Secretary, Bill Bobbitt; Treasurer, Edith Sillery. On Friday night, February 21, the members of the League were guests of Mrs. W. C. Myrick. The social consisted of a business meeting. There were twenty-five present. Johnnie Aycock gave sev eral suggestions on Parliamentary Procuder. Mrs. W. C. Myrick was elected Adult Councilor and Rev. and Mrs. H. L. Davis for Advis ors. After the business several games were played and refresh ments were served. The new president says that they are looking forward to many accomplishments and that their goals are their mottoes: “Look up” “Lift Up’*, and II Timothy 2:15. First Christian Church REV. T. E. TOMERLIN, Pastor Bible School 9:45 a.m. Morning worship 10:45 a.m. Ser mon subject: “The Law of God.” Christian Endeavor 7 p.m. Evening worship 7:30 p.m. Ser mon subject: “The Responsibility of the Church to Young People”. Circle No. 2 will serve a chicken and ham supper at the Church at 6:30 Saturday, March 1. HONORED AT PARTY Mrs. Jimmie Rogers and Miss Kathleen Lakey were joint host esses on Saturday, February 15, at a delightful party in honor of Miss Ruby Lee Rogers on her birthday at the home of Mrs. Rog ers. Games were enjoyed and de licious refreshments were served to the following: Misses Dorothy Carlisle, Deanie Hux, Rachel Jones, Frances Keeter, Edith Kee ter, Lizzie Mae Dunn, and the honoree, Ruby Lee Rogers; and W. L. Hux, C. W. Wood, William Keeter, Thomas Ingram, Howard Jones, Glenn Rogers, and Melvin Rogers. Miss Rogers received many lovely gifts. BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT Mr. and Mrs. Ben N. Robertson of Littleton announce the birth of a son, Ben Douglas, on Sun day, Feb. 16. Mrs. Robertson was formerly Miss Lila Chichester of Littleton. MINSTREL MARCH 3 The date for the black-face min strel originally planned for Fri day night, February 28, at che Sea board High School, has been changed to Tuesday night, March 3. The minstrel will be a presen tation of the Senior Class, and proceeds will be used to buy the senior gift for the school. Picot - Person Miss Frances Person, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Person of Littleton, and John M. Picot of Littleton, were married in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Cas sada in Hartsville, South Carolina, on Friday afternoon, February 21. OLD LMIS HUNTER BRAND Distilled in Harrison County, the heart of the Kentucky Blue Grass district, with lime stone water, by the identical rirocess and formula in use or the past seventy-sine years. This whiskey is 4 yrs.oM. 90 Pwsf William Jameses ft Cm* Jam* H. Y. Experiments and practical field tests have shown that potash will grow not1 only more ears of corn per acre, but more corn per cob. Potash prevents fir ing of the leaves, lodging, and reduces the number of “nubbins" or small, chaffy ears of low feeding value. The kind of fertilizer and how much to use will depend on the soil, previous treatment, and cropping system fol lowed. A 5-10-5, applied at the rate of 300-400 lbs. per acre, is frequently recommended On sandy soils or on soils where cotton has rusted, 4-8-6 and 4-8-8 are being used with good results. In many cases a good cotton fertilizer is a good corn fertilizer. Ask your county agent or experiment station how much potash your soil will supply and how much to add to carry your corn through to good yields of good quality. Your fertilizer dealer will point out to you how little extra it costs to apply enough. V Write us for our free illustrated booklet on how much plant food crops use. I AMERICAN POTASH INSTITUTE, INC. INVESTMENT BUILDING WASHINGTON, D.C. 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