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ROWAN REALTY TRANSFERS The following realty transfers were filed with the register of deeds during the week of Sept. 21-26: J. B. Lewis and wife, Elta Lewis, to M. S. Lewis and wife, Mary E. Lewis. One plot of land in China Grove Township, containing 1 8-10 acres, $800.00 and other considera tions. C. J. Deal and wife, S. J. Deal, and L. A. Corriher to D. C. Pethel. One lot in Town of Landis. Consideration blank. I. C. Alexander and wife, Ting Alexander, to Dan C. Pethel and wife, Rosa Ann Pethel. One lot in Landis, N. C., containing 1-2 acre, $2,000.00. J. A. Cress and wife, E. R. Cress, to J. B. Watlington. One tract of land in Litaker Township, containing 4.07 acres, $1.00 and other considerations. A. Ernest Miller and wife, Dessa Miller, to T. L. Robinson and wife, Ruth M. Robinson, One lot on Wilks boro Public Road in Franklin Town ship, containing 1 1-8 acres, $1.00 and other considerations. R. A. File and wife, Mary File, to Raymond Adams and wife, Mac Cline Adams. Tract of land containing 5 3 acres, $1.00 and other considerations. C. W. Isenhour and wife, Rhoda lsenhourd, to J. M. Peeler. An undi vided 1-2 interest in one lot in East Ward of Salisbury, $1.00 and other valuable considerations. Oreensboro Joint Mock Land Bank to Bailey D. Lewis. Tract of land ly ing near the Town of China Grove, containing 61 1-2 acres. $100.00 and other valuable considerations. A. B. Bostian and wife, Hallie Bos tian, to Francis E. Miller and wife, Syble Miller, One lot in the Town of Landis, N. C., $10.00 and other con siderations. Greensboro Joint Stock Land Bank to Paul W. Honberger and wife, Alice Honberger. A tract of land contain ing 18 acres and lying near the Farm Life School, China Grove, N. C. Greensboro Joint Stock Land Bank to A. M. Hanna. One lot, lying about 1-4 mile northeast from China Grove, on E. side of Highway No. 15, con taining 1 7-100 acres, $100.00 and other valuable considerations. H. A. Rouzer and wife, Mary Ed na Rouzer? to C. E. Wagoner. Tract of land, lying near Granite Quarry, containing 6 3-10 acres. $1.00 and other considerations. George M. Beaver and wife, Minnie Mae Beaver, to R. F. A. Stirewalt and wife, O. K. Stirewalt. Two tracts of land in China Grove Township, con taining 2 acres, and one acre, respec tively, $100.00 and other valuable considerations. T. .W Sterrett, substituted trustee, to The Prudential Insurance Company of America. One tract of land, lying on the north side of Third Creek, con taining 120 acres, $1,1500.00. Greensboro Joint Stock Land Bank to C. E. Fleming. Two tracts of land. First tract containing 140 acres; sec ond tract containing 22 acres, $9,000. C. E. Fleming and wife, Madeline T. Fleming, to Greensboro Joint Stock Land Bank. Two tracts of land, containing 140 acres, and 22 acres, $10.00. J. Giles Hudson and Frank W. Fuller, trustees, to H. B. Wolf. One lot in West Ward of Salisbury, known as Fulton Heights, on N. E. side of Heilig Avenue, $1,700.00. POOLTOWN There was a large crowd at the sale at the home of the late W. C. Carroll Sept. ] 8th, and everything sold pretty well. Houston Morgan and family have moved to the W. Carroll place. N. J. Eagle went to Badin Thurs day. N. J. Eagle has a good crop of nice apples this year. James A. Morgan is making molasses for the public. There will be a homecoming at Wy att’s Grove Baptist church Sunday, Oct. 4th. There will be all-day ser vices and dinner on the grounds. Spe cial music will be rendered by the choir from Trading Ford Baptist church. Glenn Barringer and family of near Misenheimer visited at N. J. Eagle’s Sunday. Alton Basinger and family, Ed Eagle and family, W. C. Hinson and Eli Wyatt visited at N. J. Eagle’s Sun day evening. Mr. and Mrs. Parker, Mr. and Mrs. Patten of Badin visited at N. J. Eagle’s Sunday evening. Mrs. Front Foust visited at Mrs. Eula Hodges Sunday evening. Jarvy Morgan and family, John N. Morgan and family visited at J. N. Wyatt’s Sunday evening. Daniel Eagle and family of near Faith visited relatives Sunday evening. Dud Hudson and family visited at P. R. Brigg’s Sunday. Ouimet beats Westland to win U. S. amateur golf title. Two billion in gold finds "refuge” here in flight of capital. Famous "Bow Bells” May Have Rung Last London—The Church of St. Mary le Bow, the home of the famous "Bow Bells, will have to be permanently closed unless funds arc forthcoming immediately. Serious cracks have oc curred in the walls, and the ceiling over the south aisle is in a dangerous state, due to ravages of death-watch beetles and rot caused by continual leakage of water. The city surveyor stated that the cost of the repairs and minor altera tions was estimated at between $16, 000 and $18,000. Some five and a half years ago the bells were silenced when they were found to be cracked and an appeal for $75,000 was launched to have them rehung and the church repaired. Of this sum only $14,000 was realized. N. C. ATTORNEY ELECTED HEAD OF AMERICAN LEGION Henry L. Stevens, Jr., Wawsaw, N. i C., attorney, was elected national con vention in Detroit last week. The legion will hold its convention next year in Portland, Ore., it was de cided. The legion also went on record fa voring a change in the national prohi bition laws. The roll call of {he American Le gion by States on the resolution call ing on Congress to hold a nation-wide referendum to repeal or modifv the Eighteenth Amendment was as fol lows: Yes No Alabama___ .... .20 0 Alaska _ 7 0 Arizona _ 14 0 Arkansas ... . _ 0 20 California _ . _ 71 0 Canada _ 6 0 Colorado. 15 0 Connecticut . 20 0 Delaware .. . . 7 0 District of Columbia li 0 Florida ... - 11 7 France .... 7 0 Georgia ...... ..17 0 Hawaii . ..... 8 ** Idaho - 6 5 Illinois - . - 93 0 Indiana 24 21 Iowa __----- 22 22 Italy —-- 7 0 Kansas _ 0 31 Kentucky . 20 2 Loouisiana 18 2 Maine . 13 1 Maryla nd 11 1 Massachusetts 5 5 0 Mexico Michigan _ 29 6 Minnesota 3 5 0 Mississippi 0 18 Missouri 16 15 Montana ... 12 0 Nebraska _ 0 27 Nevada ....... — 8 0 New Hampshire 10 2 New Jersey 3 1 0 New Mexico -11 0 New York .- -92 0 North Carolina 19 6 North Dakota _13 3 Ohio _ 49 7 Oklahoma - 0 3 5 Oregon - 15 3 Panama—No vote. Pennsylvania 80 0 Philippines .... 6 0 Porto Rico - - 7 0 Rhode Island . 10 0 South Carolina 115 South Dakota 12 6 Tennessee 0 31 Texas .. 0 45 Utah — 0 10 Vermont . 8 4 Virginia _ —9 8 Washington - 8 16 West Virginia - 6 13 Wisconsin - 3 8 0 Wyoming ..—.—. 9 12 Havana, Cuba --—- 1 0 London, England -- 1 0 Fish Feast On Mosquitoes Santa Fe, N. M.—Several thousand gambusia affinus have dined for the last several days on anopheles mosqui to larvae in the swamp lands of the Farmington district. The gambusia af finus—commony known as top min nows—were placed in the waters of the swamp lands because they have an apparently insatiable appetite for mos quito larvae. New Rum Racket Found New York—A new variation of the old "right off the boat” racket has been exposed. Notices have been posted in the lin er Mauretania warning passengers against the bootlegger who telephones to them after they land that he is "the steward who served you on board” then delivers a quantity of col ored water or homemade whisky. BED KILLS MAN Denver.W. E. McLean, 61, was kill ed when caught between the upper and lower sections of a folding bed. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS QUESTIONS 1. Who wrote Macbeth? 2. What is the rest of the Biblical quotation, "Be not deceived, God is not mocked?” 3. In what state are the Catskill mountains? 4. What is mean by atmospheric hu midity? J. What is wrong with the sentence "I adore chocolates?” 6. What was the cause of the w ar of 1812? 7. INn what field did Frank Hawks make a record? 8. What is meant by paternalism? 9. What course is open to a meeting under parliamentary law, if the meeting does not wish to discuss a matter further? 10. What is an equilateral triangle? ANSWERS 1. Shakespeare. 2. "For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” 3. New York. 4. Humidity is the moisture or wa ter vapor in the atmosphere. 5. Adore means to "worship,” "re spect,” "venerate” or "hold in high admiration” hence is not correct in this connection. 6. Interference with American com merce on the seas. 7. Capt. Frank Hawks established a record for a transcontinental air plane flight. 8. A policy whereby the state as sumes to enter into and regulate the activities of individuals in the social and industrial life. 9. Such a matter may be laid on the table. 10. An equilateral triangle is a tri angle in which the three sides arc equal. Would Debate Magician New York—Rises an astrologer in protest. Hal Olver wishes to debate for charity against John Mulholland, vice-president of the Society of Am erican Magicians. The society offered to aid the po lice in ridding the city of mediums, fortune tellers and astrologers. Olver vould prove that astrology is a science. Good Times Discovered Washington—Good times for at east one part of the United States md its people was reported by the In crior Department. The department’s fish counter re ported that fishermen in Yellowstone National Park took 64,3 50 fish this season. The take was 54,915 in 1930, md only 27,5 00 in 1929, sometimes known as "the good old days.” Molds Grow On Rubber New York—Blue molds that the housewife knows on Bread, oranges, mildewed clothing, jellies and other things also grow in the cracks of 'crazed” crockery, the microscope has revealed. Fungi also have tastes for India ink, paste, cork, egg shells, su gar, tulip bulb’s, rubber and even pa per, Miss Marjory E. Swift reports in the Journal of the New York Botani cal Garden. Certain similar fungi arc the cause of human ailments. Double Dahlia Grown Biddeford, Maine—A double dahlia, a horticultural rarity, was grown by Carl Richards. At the top of the stem was a white dahlia, and snugly be neath it was a red one. Man Said To Admit He Married 4 Times Newark, N. J.—Howard G. Van Buskirk, 34, a fence salesman, con fessed, police said, that he had married four women. He was arrested on complaint of Marie Ploner, a beauty shop owner, who charged he failed to return mon ey collected from a pawnshop for her rings. Miss Alma Peterson, with whom he is alleged to have been living, was held as a witness. Police said Van Buskirk admitted marrying a Newark trained nurse, a Long Island City woman, a Chicago widow and a Texas woman. Pastor Robbed In Church Evanston, 111.—It’s a tough world. Ask the Rev. H. G. Nylen, of Smith shire, 111., who came up here to per form a wedding ceremony and had his suitcase stolen out of the Sunday school room of the Emanuel Metho dist Church. The minister came up with his wife and two children. They thought the Sunday-school room would be a safe place for their clothing. The Rev. Mr. Nylen reported his loss to police as $2.00. Sleep-Walking Wife, Man FaM Off Roof Noblesville, Ind.—Because Emerson bsgr’gg is a light sleeper and his wife a somnambulist, both were suffering from painful injuries. bsgr'gg heard a noise and upon in vestigating found his wife about to step onto a veranda roof, walking in her sleep. He rushed to her, reaching her just at the edge of the roof. His touch wakened and startled her. She stum bled and fell off the roof, pulling her husband after her. Women Make Tubes For Hard Of Hearing Chwago.-The U.ica o Women's Aid Society, conducting a campaign to r.eip persons h mdicapped by im paired hearing, is providing hundieds of speaking tubes for deal children. A department store furnishes rub ber tubing and small tin funnels, and the women put the devices together, decorating them with Mother Goose figures. The society is endeavoring to pro cure 100 radios and 8 00 headphones for the use of deaf children in pub lic schools. Ohio Hens Busy Elyria, Ohio.—Manpower may have been idle in Lorain county this sum mer, but henpower certainly wasn’t. July records, just released, show that the 4,000 hens in the county laid 62, 026 eggs to establish a new record. A. Devil Held Canton, Ohio—Perhaps an evil spir it does inhabit the city dump here. Police are not sure. They were called to the dump by a shooting affray. They arrested the shooter. He signed his name on the arrest book. A. Devil I had been captured. BAD STREET There arc said to be few white ele phants left in Siam. Has Wall street corralled so many as that?—Los An- \ gcles Times. I _i Device Measures Heat Buffalo.—A new "photo tube” which looks into a furnace and meas ures the heat, was described by Dr. L. R. Roller, of Schenectady, N. Y., at the meeting of the American Chem ical Society here. A current is set up in the tube by the light it "sees.” The brightness of an object varies sixteen times as fast as its temperature; there fore the photo tube current is a very sensitive means cf measuring temper ature. The new pyrometer can measure temperatures as low as 1,000 degrees Centigrade, and .has no upper limit, Dr. Roller said. It is instantaneous and is not injured by the furnace or its contents. This is very needful ap paratus in these times of high tem peratures in modern industrial pro cesses. Lack of adequate means of measuring high temperatures in fur naces has handicapped their use. Girl Has 7 Cars, 4 Homes New York—Doris Duke, the rich est debutante, has seven motor cars and four homes. She inherited $50, 000,000 made in tobacco. Shakespeare Still Leads Chicago—Shakespeare still holds the boards as the most popular playwright in the country, the Chicago Civic Shakespeare Society said. Quoting from the annual theatrical index of an amusement magazine, the society showed that of the 181 dra matic plays presented during the 1929 30 season, more were the products of Shakespeare than of any other single playwright. Roof Grows Corn Washington—There’s corn growing on top of the State Department Build ing. Some one discovered a little patch about two feet high rooted in the broad drain which runs along the side of the building. Just how it got there no one knows, but two old crows, who have had a nest on the roof for the past two years, are suspected of having brought the seed. Says Capone Gang Taps Phone Lines Chicago—The Chicago Tribune said that Federal agents had reported that the gang of Alphonse Capone has been tapping telephone wires on a large scale in an effort to keep advised as to the movements of both law enforc ing agencies and independent bootleg gers. The agents said that by tapping the wires of independent liquor distribu tors the Capone syndicate has been able to learn when a load of liquor is to be moved so that it can be hi jacked. Lauder’s Address Is Just "Scotland” Bournemouth, Eng.—Since Sir Har ry Lauder is a Scotsman, he is per haps a trifle more modest than Wil liam Gladstone, famous Liberal Prime Minister of England. Sir Harry recently stayed in a local hotel and it has jus; been noticed that he signed the register is follows: Name—Harry Lauder. Nationality--British. A d dress—Scotland. Gladstone at one time, in answer to what his address was, replied, "Gladstone, the World.” TWO WORK MULES For Sale. Will Buy Your Milk Cows CAROLINA FEED STORE 210 East Innes St. LOST—Hound Dog, Black Back and Tan Legs. J. C. Sipe. Phone 764. Come ...SEE mm THE |PORTABLE | UNDERWOOD I I NEW in design... NEW in colors... 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