THE JOIHEK^I ->:■ IHIRD INSTAUiENT nuke the most ot it - ****•"■** cAutioned Tex. “Ooeli 5^> ***^ when yuh’U get *ny more.” s >^ ^••oon M It wu light enough » nttf sign Tex got busy. Pirst * ***» in a wide circle about peering closely at and sand of the desert Johnny followed closely at Ji ®*®le. They completed a cir- about a mile when Tex up and while rolling a peered with keen eyes out * He northwest. "TDeleTan had the rignt hunch,’’ * *«wl6d. “Wadee an’ the rest y coyotes double-crossed «wn boss.” ^fctony, who had learned a lot jjjjj^^jondlng sign from Tex, They Jest cut out ninety r ■ tandred haid an’ headed ** worthwest with two men on ^ ^*g. The rest they took on Box D. They cooked up tat yam about rustlers as a ^y_ an’ tlggered the wind ■rtt wipe out the tracks before tatedy could pyove ’em a liar.” ■*>0X6, yuh’re learnin’, son. see, Wade an’ his gang ■■da left Skelton Springs about ■■■ yesterday. The tracks show taTk- about right. That gives B srbout seventeen, eighteen ■ns start. They cain t drive hnu cattle any too fast ’cause tat long drive in to the Springs ■da had ’em pretty well fagg- K. I gotta hunch we can ketch IWL Pmon.” MM noon I’ex halted a brief ■Kent while h e poured a Mtltful or two of water from : saateen into the crown of his hat and let the thirsty broncos wash the dust from their throats and nostrils. Then the cinches were taken up again and the steady grind resumed. At about three in the afternoon Tex rose in his stirrups and pointed ahead. There, maybe five miles distant, lay a drifting cloud of dust. Tex increased the pace per ceptibly and an hour later he and Johnny came to the edge of a wide dry lake, across the middle of which weary, thirsty lines of Herefofd cattle slowly filed. In the rear, hazirg the cattle on ward, two men were riding, swinging the ends of lariats a- cross the backs of laggards, fight ing the inevitable slowing down of the herd. “Caught ’em,’’ rasped Tex through cracked, dust-caked lips. “Reckon mebbe we’re in for a fight, son. O’ course they may run for it, hut I don’t think bO. Well, get yore hawglaig loose in the leather.’’ Tex and Johnny lifted their broncos into a gallop and pound ed down across the quarter mile which separated them from the rustlers and the cattle. So absorb ed were the rustlers in their work they did not guess at their pursuers’ proximity until hardly fifty yards separated them. Then one of them happened to turn and look back. He shouted to his com- panied, jerked out a gun and wheeled his horse to one side. “Watch yoreself, kid.’’ yelled Tex. “I’ll take the one on the right.’’ Both the rustlers were shooting now. They were desperate, tired men, their nerves on edge from weariness and bodily discomfort SAFETY of our Deposits is INSURED Mf the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation op to $5,000.00 for Each Deposit. FOR INDEPENDENCE Havel\1on^ T he men of 76 . . . fought for freedom of the country ... for home . . .for an opportunity to . to earn money .... to live. Are you making the most of your opportunity?^ Save each day, part of what you earn . . . while you i»re the strength to work save your money. START SAVINS REGULARLY NOW Welcome Your Banking Business THINKt moneyi BANK OF NORTH WILKESBORO Make OOR Bank YOUR Bank Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation THfNri HAVE MONBYl and faced with the knowledge that they were caught cold with the stolen cattle In front of them To surrender was to put their necks In a noose. They would fight it out. Johnny picked his man and went at him on a run, leaning low over his bronco’s neck. He heard the whisper of flying lead above him, but he held his own fire until not ’.wenty yards separ ated him from the rustler. Then Ue reined his horse to a sudden stop, sat up straight and loosed two careful, deliberate sho-.s. In the Interval between his first and second shot something lifted his sombrero from his head. But he did not flinch, determined to make the most of his careful shooting. Harum-scarum as the plan was it worked. With the second report of Johnny’s Colt the rustler stiffened and pitched headlong from his saddle. Then Johnny turned to see how Tex was making it. A gulp of fear rose in his throat. Tex’s horse was down and kicking. Tex him self lay, half sat to one side, but shooting deliberately. The second outlaw was backing his horse away, holding the rearing ani mal’s head and neck before his body as a shield. Johnny gave a yell and dug in the spurs, racing in on the rustler at an angle. Johnny was shooting now, try ing to draw the outlaw’s atten tion from Tex. He succeeded but found himself suddenly clicking the hammer of his gun on empty cylinders. Realizing h 1 s predicament Johnny kneed his horse away, snicking back the loading gate and punching out the empty shells as he rode. Quick to grasp his opportunity the rustler poised himself for a careful shot at the fleeing Johnny. For a split sec ond the rustler was stationary and Tex, now on his knees and aiming carefully over his left forearm, pulled trigger on the last loaded chamber in his gun. Close on the heels of Tex’s shot came another. But the rustler’s bullet went wild for he was al- feadj' failing "from the saddle, shot in the temple. Johnny whirled his horse about and galloped back relieved to see Tex rise to his feet and come limpin.g forward. “Yuh dang fool kid,’’ barked Tex wrathfully. though he knew the wrath was merely a cloak to deepest emotions. “What’s the idee o’ yore chargin’ in thataway with an empty gun? Wianta get yoreself salivated?’’ “Shucks.’’ muttered Johnny. "Mow’d I know yuh wa’nt hit? Yuh was down wa’nt yuh? An’ him affannln’ at yuh all the time? What did yuh want me to do, sit back an’ lead the cheerin’ section?’’ "Well,’’ growled Tex. “YuU might have some respect for my feelin’s. If I’d o missed him he’d o' got yiih shore.’’ “.Mebbe — mebbe,’’ grinned .lolinny. “But believe me I was skedaddlin’ to beat hell.’’ “WJiere’s yore hat?’’ demand ed Tex irrelevantly. “I suppose yuh rode right up to that other jasper an’ slapped him in the face with it?’’ “Xope,’’ retorted Johnny. “He lifted it oft with a .45 jest be fore I plugged him. Well, it looks like we done got a herd o’ cattle an’ two daid rustler’s on our hands, Tex. an’ they's two broncs for yuh to take yore pick of. I’ll round ’em up for yuh.” J P N 'i Notice To Taxpayers! The 1936 taxes are not due until October 1st, and the books will tiot be completed until that date. However, if you will fumieh me your valuation from the Tax Supervisor’s office, I will make you a receipt for your 1936 taxes, and allow you . . . 3 Per Cent Discount If Paid On or Before July 1st THE DISCOUNT WILL DECREASE ONE-HALF OF WE f PER CENT. EACH MONTH C. H. COUNTY ACCOUNTANT While Johnny was.-hnsy •with, errand Tex rolled:a cigarette wUh shaking, tnmbling fingers. He was blinking his eyes rapid ly to keep back the moisture. “Yuh danj5,^helter-«kolter, loy al, gntty young cub,” he mutter ed. “What would I do without yuhT’’ .,w Then he blew his nose loddly and set to getting his saddle off his dead bronco. Tom Burney, 'book-keeper of the Cattleman’s Bank in Carllllon, stared in a stunned, horrified, apathetic sort of a way at the doorway leading into Ed Star- buck’s private office. Sprawled on his face across the sill was Bd Starbuck. HU one arm was out stretched before him and a lew inches in front of his extended fingers lay the heavy revolver the old man had not been swift enough to use. A liUle pool of crimson was beginning to spread on the floor near one shoulder of the still figure. Almost at Starbuck’s feet lay another body, that of A1 Stinson, the Cashier of the bank. He also had made the mistake of reach ing for a gun. Tom Burney wrenched his eyes from the dead men and stared through his win dow at the two masked figures beyond. The round, unwinking muzzle of the frontier model Colt which was trained just at bis waistline, seemed to possess some hypnotic quality. It had the same cold, maglignant suggestion which lies in the upraised head of a rattlesnake about to strike. A thread of pale smoke was trick ling about it. Two shots and two men dead! A muscle twisting shudder rippled through Burney’s body. He could feel the great blobs of sweat gather on his fore head. In a purely mechanical manner he started to lower his right hand to brush the moisture away. “Keep ’em up!” came the harsh command. “Ain’t there anything but damn fools in this place? Move over to that cage door and unlock it. Keep yore hands in plain sight. One phoney move an’ there’’!! be three dead men in stead o’ two. Hurry up!’’ Moving with the mechanical stiffness of an automaton Burney walked jerkily to the cage door. Burney was a mild little man, totally unused to scenes of vio lence; supremely contented with his position amid his endless col umns of figures. What had just taken place had filled him with dread and horror and had stunn ed ail thought and initiative. Beyond the barrier the bandit who had done the alfooting kept step with him. 'When Burney low ered his bands to the lock the bandit jabbed his gun through the bars until the muzzle nearly touched Burney’s throat. The latter retched slightly. The stink of powder gas was strong in his nostrils. His fingers fumbled at the lock. The door swung back. Lithe as a weasel the bandit was inside, his gun buried deep against Burney’s side. The second bandit crowded in at their heels. “Now the vault,’’ ordered the killer. “Don’t tell me yuh don’t know the combination.’’ “I—I know it,’’ mumbled Bur ney. “Get busy then.” Burney bent over the combi nation. His fingers, fumbling and clumsy, twirled the dial. Once he overshot a number and spoiled the set up. The alert bandit snarled. “Don’t stall for time. If anybody comes before yuh get the vault open yuh get a slug, savvy?” Burney nodded mechanically and ran a furry tongue over his dry lips. He began again. This time he went through the num bers without a mistake. The fin al tumbler clicked. He twisted the handle and set himself a- gainst the weight of the vault door. The massive portal swung back. The next instant some thing crashed against the back of his head with terrific force and he felt himself falling—falling! The robbery was discovered the next morning when the bank failed to open its doors at the regular time. Burney was still alive but when Doc McMurdo, a hard-bitten, dour, silent old Scotchman examined him, he shook his head. He had Burney carried to his home where he did the best he could for the stricken man. Burney died just before four o’clock that afternoon from a concussion of the brain. Before he went he had a brief spell of delirium and throughout the broken jumble was a single phrase that he reiterated again and again. Doc McMurdo was alone with Burney at the time and as he listened a queer, calcut lating expression crossed his hard-bitten features. The sheriff, Gorman, made a hasty investigation in a very im posing, mysterious manner, then TRAPHILL-AUL^, - 'I- Rev. Fergnson, colored, of, Nortii WilkeabCTo, will preach at the Pentecoctal (^nreh .of Goc|> near Anstln. the foorth Sunday in June, at 11 o'cloct • Mr. and Mrs. Nymphna'^ kins spent Sa^nday night Mrs. l&wkins’ mother, Mrs. Rhela Crabb, at Lomax. Messrs. Lather and Nym^taig Hawkins, of Austin, spent Tuesday afternoon with their sick daughter and sister. Hiss Clara Hawkins, at Elkin. Mrs. Lon Snow and children, of Thurmond, spent the ' week-end Scott, at Austin. with her mother, Mrs. Eunice Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Blackburn, of Sparta, spent a while Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Willie Brown at Austin. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Honeycutt and daughter, Janie, of Augusta, Ga., spent Saturday night with Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Barker at Austin. Mr and Mrs. Dewie Cheek, of BoonAdlle, spent the week-end with Mrs. Cheek’s mother, Mrs. Eunice Scott, at Austin. Mr. and Mrs. Noah Barker and children, of Elkin, spent Saturday evening with Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Barker at Austin. Mrs. Lon Baker and children, and Miss Annie Baker, of Elkin, spent Sunday afternoon wth Mrs. Aker’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Cockerham, near Austin. Miss Maude Barker, of Austin, spent Monday with her aunt, Mrs. Lon Baker, at Elkin. Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Snow, of Fries, Va., spent the week-end with Mrs. Snow’s grandmother, Mrs. Eunice Scott, near Austin. Miss Dorothy Simmons, of Fries, 'Va., spent the week-end with Misses Viola and Janie Coop er near 'Traphill. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Layill and childnm, of near State Road, spent a while Friday evening with Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Barker at Austin. - NC Ql RSTKiN AND ANSU’ER Question; When should I select my seed Irish potatoes for plant ing next year? i PE' Answer: Seed potatoes should be selected at harvest time. Go through the field Just before gen eral digging and dig separately a large number of bills, keeping the potatoes of each hill to them selves. Select the seed potatoes from those hills having the larg est number of uniform tubers that are typical of the variety. Selection of the seed potatoes from the stored crop gives no as surance of good yieidd tior free dom from disease. NOTICE OP SALE OP REAL ESTATE Under and by virtue of the power and authority contained in a Deed of Trust executed by Wilkes Milling Co., Inc., to De posit & Savings Bank of North Wilkesboro, N. C. to secure the indebtedness therein set forth, bearing date of April 9, 1927, and recorded in the office of Reg ister of Deeds of Wilkes County in Book 145, page 52', and by virtue of the further authority contained in an order and decree signed in the Superior Court of Wilkes County in an action en titled: The Meadows Mill Com pany, et al. V. W’ilkes Milling Company, Inc., I will, on Mon day, June 29, 1936, at the hour of ten (10:00) o’clock a. m. on the premises of Wilkes Milling Company, Inc., in the Town of North W'-ilkesboro, N. C., offer for sale for cash to the highest bidder the following described real estate and personal property: (Known as the North Wilkes boro Roller Mills property, now Wilkes Milling Company, Inc.) Beginning at a stake on the South side of Cherry Street, (the corner between said mill property and P. E. Brown,) and running south along the west side of P. E. Brown’s tract or lot 27 degrees 27 minutes east 300 feet to an iron stake on the north side of a ten foot alley; thence south 62 degrees 33 minutes west along the north side of said alley 87 feet to a stake on the east side of an eighteen foot alley; thence north 23 1-2 degrees west 295 feet to a stake on the east side of the said eighteen foot alley at the Intersection of said alley with Wilkesboro Avenue; thence along Wilkesboro Avenue northwardly fifteen feet, more or less, to a stake On the south side of Cher ry Street; thence eastwardly a- long the south side of Cherry Street 80 feet, more or less, to the point of beginning, contain ing about 25,500 square feet, more or less, and also the half in terest in the said eighteen foot alley, as set out in the various deeds to A. O. Bray, Grantor to Wilkes .Milling Compnay for this land. It is further understood and agreed that this Deed 'of Trust is to cover any and'all property, either real or personal, located on the above described tract of land, Including mills, machinery,, boll- wired for a bank examiner to engine and all other real and handle the bank’s affairs. Two- ^days later he had vanished, fak ing the trail back to Weethaven. The bank examiner made some hasty calculations and pronouno- ed the bank Insolvent. ’The day after this was announced Silas Spelle rode Into Carilllon and was xdoseted for several hours with the examiner. When he left, Bpelle’s face'v’was twisted in a smirk ot- tridittph? He had won fT:3.(Cohtlntte4 -Beset met) _ & ■ OH n&ssasic^ED Washl^Kton.^—Beereta^ Mop-; senthan tddl^ announced receipt' of Finland’s semi-aannal war debt payment ot 1164,915.50. The payment, reeeived in cash throngh the Federal Reserve bank. Of New York, Inelnded In terest of I14B.285 under the funding agreement of May 1. 1928. The balance was the fixed semi-annual annuity due under the moratortnm. agreement of May 28, 1982. inland thus m^talned its record of being the only govern ment meeting -war d^t payments to this country as they fell dne. AID FOR STUDENTS WILL BE CONTINUED Raleigh, June 18.—C. E. Mc Intosh, state NTA director, said today federal aid,for college stu dents would be continued “in some form’’ during the next school year. ADBONISTRATOR'S NOTICE Having qualified as Executor of the estate of J. A. Forester, deceased, late of Wilkes County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate ot said deceased to ex hibit them to the undersigned at 1900 F. St. Northwest, Whshing- ton, D. C., Park Central Apart ment, On or before 18th day of May, 1937, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said es tate will please make Immediate payment. This 13th day of May, 1936. P. B. FORESTER, Adm., or Executor of J. A. Forester, de ceased. 6-22-6t-pd NOTICE North (Carolina, Wilkes County. Notice is hereby given that the Board of Education of Wilkes County, North Carolina, and the Board of County Commissioners’ of WUlkes County, North Carolina, will receive proposals for t he construction of the following school buildings; No. 1. A public school build ing at Millers Creek, Wilkes Coun ty, North Carolina, situated on North Carolina Highway No. 60, 9.2 miles northwest of the Wilkes County courthouse. The building contains principal’s office, teach ers’ room, sixteen class rooms, auditorium, toilet room for boys and girls, boiler and coal room. No. 2. Mulberry public school building, located on site situated in Wilkes County, on North Caro lina Highway No. 18, 8.6 miles north of the Wilkes county court house. The building contains principal’s office, teacher’s room, ’-ten close rooms, auditorium, toilet room for boys and girls, boiler and coal room. No. 3. Benham-Cool Springs public school building, located on site situated at the intersection of Traphill and Greenhorne roads, in Wilkes County, North Carolina, 26.7 miles northeast of the Wilkes County courthouse. 'The building contains principal’s office, teach ers’ room, four class rooms, au ditorium. holier and coal room. The contractor to submit a pro posal on each project. The con tractor may also submit a propos al covering Project No. 1. No. 2 and No. 3. Proposals will be re ceived until 10 a. m.. July 10th, 1936, at the courthouse in Wil kesboro, Wilkes County, North Carolina. All bidders are hereby notified that they must meet all legal re quirements and comply with .all provisions as set fortli in the specifications. 1. Consideration will be given only to bids of contractors who submit evidence showing that to Regulate the Practice of Gen eral Contracting.” ratified by the they are licensed under “An Act General Assembly of North Caro lina on March 10th, 1925. 2. The bidder shall atach to proposal a certified check on a bank satisfactory to the Board of Education and Board of County Commissioners of Wilkes County, in the amount of 5 per cent of amount of bid, or in lieu thereof, may offer a certified check for'2 per cent of the bid plus a bid bond of 3 per cent of the hid. 3. The proposal, instructions, plans and specifications may be obtained from Chas. C. Benton & Son, Architects and Engineers, 509-10-11-12-13 National Bank Bulldin.q, Wilson North Carolina, upon the payment of cost of printing and typing, which pay ment win not be refunded, or cm be examined In the office of the Board of Education of Wilkes County, Wilkesboro, North Caro lina. ^ 4. The Board of Education and the Board of County (Jommls- sioners of 'Wilkes County, North Carolina, reserve the right to re ject any and all bids. This 15th day of June, 1936. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF WILKBS COUNTY, N. C. By C. O. McNeil, Chairman. BOARD OP COUNTY COMMIS SIONERS OP WILKES COUN TY, N. C. By D. B. Swaringen. Chairman, pefsqnkl property located on said lot as aborve described. Under the orders and decrees signed in the above entitled cause the purchaser at this'sale will be required to place ylth to bid 10 per cent of same either In cash or certified check pending confinnatlon ot the sal® ^“® This 28th day of May, A. D., A. a oiSt, ^ . % Q14*PiobMe SidM lind Service Eleetrie and Acatylea^Wdd^ FcBoer ptoinf AntoMobOe Work. Body and F Radiator Bci RtfPjUTiiifp and General Wetter Service Day w Williamt Motor Co, T. a WILLIAMS. Owam K MBe WwL ir. mOnAM* Under and'W'^ihuFfTH ;"S»e power and sort _ in, an order itiSB In .j--- — perior Court of WUkee'C^^dSj^ the Special Froeeedlsgi entttM: T. S. Love T. L. P. Parker and wife, Adolalde Parker, thiwta appointing the undersigned dtasT missloner to sell the lands' scribed In the petition;.! therefore, on Thursday, June 1988, at the hour ot ten * o’clock a. B., at the eoi door In yWilkesboro, offer sale for cash to the higbeet bidder the following described real ntate, to-wit; A tract ot land sitnate In An tioch Township, 'Wilkes County, North Carolina; adjoining the lands of Will Williams on the North; adjoining the lands ot Dells McCarter and the Hein of John McCarter on the East; ad joining tho lands of T. S. Love and Mrs. Martha Nance on the South; adjoining the lands of W. R. Call on the West; Ing 64 acres, more or lees, wpa being the lands listed for taxes for the years 1931, 1932, 1988 and 1934 in the name of L. P. Parker, (now deceased). This 30th day of May, A. Ih 1936. jC A. H. CASEY, ntMorniiitfAflerW^ CartiHiUtfle UvvPIls* Rid Yourself of Kidney Poisons Oi:z;i;JsstsesSH heededw, dhrhif, loB el SMVf, leg palm, eesliegt mU pmtaM under die eyes? An yea flss^ ouv-feel eU sMinng know whet b wieag? Then dve soon &oagid le year kidneys. 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