Moaday and llMBradays at
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D. j. cAmnt ^ JUUU81. hubbaro.
PaUbhan
SUBSCRIPTION R.\TB6:
One Year $1.60
Six Months ^ • .75
Foot Months .50
Out of ttie State $2.00 per Year
Entered at the post office at North Wilkes-
.hofo, N. C.. as second class matter under Act
of March 4, 18V9.
MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 1936
It remains to be seen, however, how pedes
trians react to leap year.—Greensboro Daily
Hewa
You’d suppose that after Secretary Wallace
saused the death of six million little pigs he’d
forever be ineligible to enter a hog-calling con
test.—Toledo Blade.
The President says we have passed the peak
of. spending. It is to be hoped the peak doesn’t
prove to be the brow of that celebrated hill to
the poorhouse.—Worcester (Mass.) Gazette.
Platying bridge is not only more thrilling than
petty gambling, says Expert Ely Culbertson, but
it may be a cure for it. But what could be
worked as a cure for Iwidge?—Kansas City
Star.
Asked if he would consent to the use of his
name as a presidential candidate, Governor Lan-
don, of Kansas, said: “Fll cross that bridge when
I come to it” Prudent forethought is suggestive
of safe leadership.—Toledo Blade.
Coti^Mrate With CKnic
today^fa tubarculoda^Unio
whi'lM held in the eehoble of Wilkes
county»^
The children will be given a prelimi
nary test to ascertain whether or not fur
ther examination is necessary to estab
lish the fact that they have or do not
have'tuberculosis. This is to ask each
school patron to voperate and be sen
sible.
Tuberculosis is a ■widespread disease.
It has taken its toll in the best of fami
lies. There is no stigma of disgrace to
have contracted the disease. If your
child' however, is a suspect and you re
fuse to let it be examined fully on the
grounds that you think there could be
none of the disease in your family you
are showing a stubborn attitude that
would be a black spot on the intelligence
of an individual luring the dark ages.
If, after refusing to co-operate and let
your child be examined, you should
later learn that your child was afflicted
and in a dangerous condition, you no
doubt would suffer remorse of consci
ence.
The clinic affords a rare opportunity
which should be grasped by the people
of the county who are interested in the
health of their children-
That Kansas City meat dealer who was robbed
of 12.000 must have just sold a couple of
steaks.—^Wichita Eagle.
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Tm
Mr. Frank Jeter, extension farm specialist,
just can’t help wondering, he says, if the distin-
g^shed gentlemen of the majority side of the
supreme court ever came into intimate contact
with the farm problem as it was in 1930, which,
of course, is wholly beside the case. In the
event that these eminent jurists had personally
come into such tragic contacts, what would that
have had to do with what the constitution says?
—Charlotte Observer.
Bruce-
art
Sensible Proceedure
There are two purposes of ^itQfifil
opinion publicly expr^^^;-tJne to con-
things and activities
that are considered by the editor as
detrimental and, the other to commend
and encourage those things that are cal-
culaed to be beneficial and of a high
order.
And on this occasion, we wish to
write this particular article for the last
named reason in the above paragraph
and to deal with the sensible and or
derly way in which the state highway
patrol in this neighborhood has handled
the situation of enforcing the law re
quiring automobiles to wear the new
license plates for 1936.
Frequently the highway patrol gets
into situations bringing on a lot of criti
cism over what the public considers
minor technicalities in comparison to
the big job the patrol has in trying to
make highways safer for the average
motorist.
Since we have the license law we be
lieve that it should be enforced and
when licenses are issued for the calen
dar year we believe that they should ex
pire on December 31 and that an exten
sion of time does little good to anyone.
Yet on the other hand we have never
sanctioned and never will approve the
wholesale arrests of motorists on new
year’s day without new tags. On one
'occasion we recall that many were hail
ed into court as they were driving to
places to secure new tags. Some of
these men were among the best citizens
who never before had been arrested.
You, if you have never had the unpleas
ant feeling of being hailed into court,
can imagine their reactions to such pro
ceedure.
This year patrolmen in this locality
have, as far as we can observe and
learn, enforced the law and yet we pre
sume that they have used discretion be
cause there has been but little complaint
and arrests have not been on a whole
sale scale- This pr#mpts us to commend
the patrolmen for the reasonable way
in which they have handled the srtua-
Mon.
If every law on the statute books in
North Carolina were to be strictly and
rigidly enforced and if an arrest were
made for every violation as soon as it
happens on any single day, half the
ppnolatlon would be arrested ere the
' snai to the western borinon. Dis-
STRESS DffOiTANCB
OF BAIANCED FARlUKG
Th«'alK8itI6B'ef tlw AAA has
intenalfled tke importonoe ol
a wall iHOaoead faminf aehedala
oiTavery North Carolina farm.
The wldtMiwaka fanner
raise at home the food’iand fecid
crops needed to supply his family
and his livestock, said Prof. C. B.
WUUams, head of the State Col
lege agronomy department.
He will also devote a great
deal of his land to soil improve
ment and eroeion-control crops,
Professor Williams added. ^
Taking Into consideration the
uncertainty of prices which farm
ers may get for their cash crops
this year, he continued, it would
be most unwise to specialise In
the production of cksh crops, with
the expectation of buying largQ
quantities of food, feed and fer
tiliser.
A general increase in th» pro
duction of cash crops will no
doubt lower the price to such an
.'extent that farmersf cash * in
comes this year will be rather
limited, the professor declared.
In view of this. It Is essential
that the farmers p.lan every way
possible to reach a state of self-
Bufflciency, he added, so as to
reduce to a minimum the things
they will have to buy withAhelr
limited cash Income.
Every farm should have a
year-round home garden with a
large variety of vegetables. There
should be enough grain, hay and
pasturage to supply all the live
stock with a balanced ration.
Soil Improving crops like cow-
peas, soybeans, velvet beans, and
lespedeza, plowed under at ma
turity, wilt build up the land and
at the same time reduce the
amount of fertilizer nsedpd.
First plan for the food, feed,
and soil-building crops, Professor
WUUams urged, then more or less
as a side Uiie, arrange tor the
production of some cash crops.
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^swioa wo?" AT tvik, coumtky club — .
Aid »4C couidn't start m car. to go vtowit,
NO JOBS GOOD BY THEMSELVES
iWe had a couple of college girls to dinner the
other night, and one of them said: “The college
offers a vocational course to us seniors, consist
ing of lectures from prominent alumnae. I
started to attend but stopped because it was too
discouraging. Each .speaker spent her time tell
ing us that her chosen work is peculiarly hard
and unremunerative, and advising us by ail
means to try something els&”
Your heart probably will warm to this young
lady because can recall how the family doc-
_tqr-f;2.k}:. “Tor heaven’s sake don’t try medi
cine"; thp family lawyer counselled: “Only one
lawyer in-a thousand makes a decent living’’; and
newspaper men pleaded: “Stay away. It means
living a dog’s life, working at night and being
always broke.” We were all advised that all
the jobs are bad jobs, and all over-crowded. Yet
somehow we managed to get a toe-hold and push
our way up a little, and we are still alive and
eating.
For myself, I never discourage young people
about my business, which is advertising. I tell
them it is a very interesting business and that
I feel lucky to be in it. I can’t tell them how
to get in because almost every man and wom
an I know seem to have got in a different way.
Few grow- rich in it. but hardly any one wants
to leave. Another business which I almost en
tered still has its appeal, and that is college
teaching. I have also a lingering love for the
life of a locomotive engineer.
I sometimes suspect that the importance of
the fateful "choice of a life work’’ is probably
over-rated. All jobs are exciting, and all are
dull; all consist of pretty much in doing the
same thing over and over, but all have their
high points, too. With a little imagination and
good health, it seems to me one could be rea
sonably amused in the foundry business, or hides
and leather, or hay, grain and cement.
SHOEvS PINCH ONLY WEARER
Two w'omen were applying the verbal lash to
one of their sisters who had obtained a divorce
and was about to become a bride again. They
had nothing but praise for the cast-off husband
and nothin?: I tt: condemnation for the wife. He
was succesciiui iii business, handsome, and, if
the women who were concerning themselves
in the collapse of his matrimonial venture were
right, a noble character in all respects. Any
woman must have been crazy to discard such a
man.
Plutarch, whose writings seem to cover the
whole range of human experience, says in one of
his moral essays: "The Roman who was taken
to task by his friends for repudiating his chaste,
wealthy, and handsome wife, showed thf:m his
shoe, and said; ‘Alhtough this is new and hand
some. none of you know where it pinches me.’ ’’
People waste more words and do more profit
less guessing in connection with the marital
misadventures of their fellow human beings
than on any other subject. For starting the
tongues to wagging nothing equals a divorce.
Wives are despised for leaving men who seem
to be blameless, and husbands denounced for
turning from wives who are presumed to possess
all the virtues. But what can the critics really
know?
The same sort of meddlesome officiousnness
goes on in the lesser affairs of life. If Brovm’s
wife decides to go to’Europe, her friends won
der how she can afford it, and pity Brown who
is a hard working man and looks as if he, in
stead of his wife, should be having a vacation.
Let Williamson make changes in his office force,
and plenty of people discover motives that prob
ably are miles away from the facts.
In one sense there is no unoiqtloyiBent in this
country. You and I and a few more are'bosjr'
.t^pdiag to ow own: Afffipit; white tens o&afl-
. Moite are .eqw^linNhtfinUiit to> o(kh^
atBida. Just a-iBtedtlo^^welBntwW ahesifffs
n,vl3iow^
« it ateshsB '
DISCUESS FARM CRISIS
ON RADIO program
Oue of the most talked about
topics in the country, the suspen
sion of AAA activities, will prob
ably get a lot of attention on the
Carolina Farm Features radio
program this week.
With agricultural conditions
still upset, specialists will include
in their ,discussions timely sug
gestions for farmer until some
scheme is worked out which will
take the place of the now defunct
Agricultural Adjustment Admin
istration.
In this week’s schedule will be
another of the round-table dis
cussions on poultry, which were
begun a short' while, ago by Roy
8.’ Deawlyiie, head oI the poultry
department at State College. Mr.
D^ietyne will again prepare
questions and answers which he
thinks are of timely interest to
poultry raisers at this time of
the year. This broadcast will be
held on Friday.
The schedule for the week
is as follows: Monday, F. R.
Farham, "Approved Dairy Prac
tices’’; Tuesday, Dr. R. P. Poole,
“Why Pods Become Diseased”;
Wednesday, J. W. Johansen, "A
Cooperative Program in Coopera
tive Purchasing”; Thursday Miss
Ruth Current, “Community Rec
reation"; Friday, Roy S. Dears-
tyne, “Questions and Answers on
Current Poultry Problems”: and
Satuydjay, Rufus Page, '“Saving
Our Forest Lands.”
POLICE PROTECTION
FOR UNDBERGHS
London, Jan. 7.—Police guard
has been mounted at the home of
Aubrey N. Morgan, near Cardiff,
Wales, where Col. and Mrs.
Charles A. Lindbergh and their
son, Jon, are guests, the Daily
Herald said today, because of the
persistence of American newspa
per correspondents and photo
graphers seeking news and pic
tures.
HENRY GRADY’S ADVICE
Henry K. Grady, the great
Southern editor and orator, died
45 years ago, but the advice he
gave to the farmers of his native
Georgia and the South many
years ago is as sound today as
it was when it was uttered.
One particular gem of his
which has been often republished
is of particular significance just
now. It applies equally to North
or South, provided the principal
money crop of any particular sec
tion be substituted for “cotton,’
where it occurs in the original.
Gfady said:
"When every farmer in the
South shall eat bread from his
own fields and meat from his own
pastures, and disturbed by no
creditor and enslaved by no
debt, shall sit among his teem
ing gardens and orchards and
vineyards and dairies and barn
yards, pitching his crops in his
own wisdom and growing them in
A SALE 85 YEARS AGO
An interesting list of property
owned by a Kentucky farmer in
some the middle of the Ihst century is
given in an old sale bill preserv
ed by C. P. Cunningham, of near
.A.valon, in that state. It reads
as follows;
“Having sold my farm and In
tending to move to Missouri, I
will sell at public sale one mile
weet and four miles south of
Harrisburg, Ky., on Saturday,
September 26, 1850, the follow
ing property, to-wlt:
“One black nigger, 25 years
old, weight 210 pounds; four
nigger wenches from 18 to 24
years old; three nigger boys;
ten nigger hoes; one pine sled;
six yokes of oxen, well broke; ten
ox yokes with hickory bows; two
ox carts with 6 inch tires; one
saddle pony five years old; one
side saddle: three double shovel
plows; two stump plows, 10 and
12 inch; 25 one-gallon whisky
jugs; 100 gallons of apple cider;
one barrel of good sorghum; two
barrels of soap; two barrels of
kraut; one extra good nigger
whip; two tins of tobacco, two
years old. Sale will start at
10:20 a. m. Terms cash. I need
money.
“Colonel W. H. Johnson, Auc
tioneer; Bill Crawford, Clerk;
Joe Cooley, Owner.’’
■nM^iLY FARM QUESllONS
Qneetloii: 'WIU my pooUry
flock do as well on a aation of
white com and sklnunllk.?
Answer: This ration is un
balanced from a feeding stand
point and any birds fed this ra
tion will soon show signs of a de
ficiency of vitlmins A and D.
They will become poor, show
signs of leg weakness, and will
be a fit subject for every poultry
disease. While it is advisable to
utilize all home produced feeds
as long as it is economical, the
departure from recognized feed
ing practices and requirements as
Implied in the question would be
a costly experiment.
ligBU-Tsbiets
Salve-Nose
Drops
Chedn
COLDS
and
FEVER
first day
HEADACHES
in 30 adnntes
Henry Gibbs, of Dana, Itender-
son county, reports killing a hog
weighing 1,515 pounds net and
therefore claims producing the
largest hog in this State.
Oldsmobile Sales
and Service
Electric and Acetylene Welding,
Body and Fender Repairing,
Radiator Repairing and Generaf
Automobile Work.
Wrecker Service Day or Night.
Williams Motor Co.
T. H. WILLIAMS, Owner.
Mile West, N. Wilkesboro
PHONE S34-J.
'Two women fruit venders in
Chicago pelted Policeman Wiley
May with rotten fruit when he
attempted to stop their quarrel.
Moonshine corn liquor used in
radiatenB-ef~»tb»
tors in Orange county aetrved as
an adequate anti-freeze mixtnre
during the recent severe weather. |
NOTICE OP SALE
North Carolina, Wilkes Coun
ty.
Under and by vl-tue of an or
der of the Superior court of
Wilkes county, made In a special
proceeding entitled 'Vertle V.
WUUams. TB Mrs. T. E. Mastin,
Ruby Mae Mastin, Lindoff J.
Mastin. Mable M. Mastin, Mary
Mastin, Bertha Cell, Nellie St.
John, Gertie Robinson, Major
Brown, and J. F. Jordan, Guar
dian Ad Litem, the same being
No. 290 upon the Special Pro
ceedings Docket of said court, the
undersigned commissioner will,
on the 25 day of January, 1936,
at 12 o’clock M, at the courthouse
owu wiDuvu. O'"—o door in Wllkeeboro, North Caro-
Independence, making cotton his nna, offer for sale to the highest
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clean surplus and selling it in
his own time and in his chosen
market and not at a master s
bldding-r-gettlng his pay In cash
and not in a receipted mortgage
that tllschargee his debt but
does not restore his freedom—
then shall be breaking the full
ness of our day.”
TIMELY FARM QUESTIONS
Question: Does it pay to thin
pine foreete?
Answer: Yes. The cutting
out of dead, crippled, or over
crowded trees will not only furn
ish the necessary firewood, but it
also leaves the largest and beet
trees to grow out as marketable
timber In the shortest time. The
average annual removal of »rd-
wood will more tbSn dottbte‘:U>o
vslsO'Of'' tfmbSr’ln' ii toF’.
bidder for cash that certain tract
of land lying and being in Wil
kesboro township, adjoining the
lands of Anthony Poster, and
others and bounded as follows;
First Tract, beginning on a
pine; thence north 146 poles to
a stake in Anthony Foster’s line;
then west 43 poles to a dogwood
in Anthony Foster’s line, near a
small branch; thonce south 74
poles to a blackgum on a bank;
thence west 6 poles to a poplar;
thence south 30 poles to a stake
In AJmedla Mastin’s Hue; thence
east 87 poles to the beginning.
Second Tract: Beginning on a
poplar, Henry Brooks’ comer:
thence west to a pine. B. J- Mas-
tin’s corner; thonce north to a
stake in the old Une; thence east
to a stake, Hwiry Rroolm’
thence sokth. to the ^
m the
tlMfnatlikland.
NOTICE OF SALE OF LAND
North Carolina, Wiiltes Coonty.
Under and by virtue of the
power of sale contained in a cer
tain judgment of the superior
court of Wilkes county in the
case of the Federal Land Bank
of Columbia, plaintiff, versus J.
Lloyd Bllllnlgs. et al, defendants,
authorizing and empowering the
undersigned commissioner to sell
the lands described In a certain
mortgage deed under date of the
4th day of September, 1923, exe
cuted by Lloyd Billings and wife,
Minnie BiUUngs, to the Federal
Land Bank of Columbia, and re
corded in Book 126, page 63, in
the office of the register of deeds
for Wilkes county, the under
signed commissioner will expose
to sale at public auction to the
highest bidder for cash, at the
courthouse door in Wilkesboro,
North Carolina, at 12 o’clock
noon, on the 27th day of Janu
ary, 1936, the following described
lands, lying and being in Walnut
Grove township, Wllkee county,
and more particularly described
and defined as follows, to wit:
All that certain piece, parcel
or tract of land containing 74 1-2
acres, more or less, situate, lying
and being on the Alrbellows Gap
road about 18 miles north of the
town of North Wilkesboro in
Walnut Grove township, county
of Wilkes, state of North Caro
lina, having such shapes, metes,
courses and distances as will
mor© fully appear by reference
to a plat thereof, made by
Charlie Miles, county surveyor,
on the 4th day of August, 1923,
and attached to the ab
stract now on file with the Fed
eral Land Bank of Columbia; the
same being bounded as follows,
viz: , , ,
On the north by the lands of
W. A. Hutchinson: on the east
by the lands of E. E. Hutchin
son and Dewey Gambill; on the
south by the lands of J. P.
Church and C. L. Smoot; on the
west by the lands of Paul Miller.
The terms of sale are cash. No
bid will he accepted unless Its
maker shall deposit with the
commissioner at the close of the
bidding the sum of one hundred
($100) dollars as a forfeit and
guaranty, the same to b© credited
on his hid when accepted.
Notice is now given that said
lands will be resold immediately
•at the same place, upon the same
terms, on the same day, unlees
sfiii deposit U made.
' Bvery depoelt not forfeited or
aeeepted will bo promptly re
turned to the maker upon expirsr
ii!
WlieaYouNewla^—
Because of tto refiieelun|o)i
and vrumeo. who could
etfonl much more ex
pensive laxatives, uw '
Black-Oraught when ^
needed. It very eoo- _
Donlcel. purely vegeta-
Ue^ highly effective... XT. J. Lester
Robosm. well known herdwarw
dealer at XartlnsvlUe, Va., wrttes:
*T certainly can recommend Black-
Diaa^t M a splendid medlelne. I
have taken it for ponstlpatioc and
the duU feelings that foDow, and
Imve found It very eatisfaotcry.'
BLACK-DRAU6HT
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NEW 1936 MODEL
all-metal TUBE
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BEFORE YOU BUY
Wilkes Electric
Company
Refrigerators, Electrical
Supplies
PHONE 328
North Wilkesboro, N. (’.
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