liONDAY, JUNE 7,' 1937
m
THE JOURNAL-PATRIOT, NOBTH WILB^BORO; N. C.
fs on» angle that I
M'lhiyoi -he drawt«4. ‘
^ 0b bnncb. Slim?*’
NINTH INSTALMENT
‘“Ten of os got our herds al
ready started on the trail. I come
on ahaid t.> sorts break trail,
yuh migiht say. The short, quick
way Into the Kicapoo range for
ns In straight through this coun
try. That’s wihat I was lookin’ for
▲rthnr about. Said he had a bua-
.. Ineas proposition to talk over
with us.”
Abe Fornachon w-as nobody’s
fool. He held out his hand. “My
name’s’ Fornachon,’’ he said.
*‘Glad to know yuh, Tisdale.
Shore yuh don’t mind my sayln’
that yore brenc looks like It
-could stand a couple of feeds of
oats and a good rest. I’m haldin’
for the Circle L, a couple miles
along. Yah better drift over with
me an’ rest yoreself an’ yore
hoss. When’d yuh eat last?”
^“Danged early this momln’,’’
tinned Tisdale. “Ain’t no par-
.^[wlar rush about me seein’ Ar
thur; I can see him tonight. I’m
with yuh.”
At the Circle L they found Slim
and Dakota perched on the corral
fence, deep in thoughtful conver
sation. Slim looked up and waved
to Abe. ’The Dot H Dot foreman
saw that Slim was carrying a
•pair of guns. He and ’Tisdale dis
mounted.
“Slim—Dakota, meet a gent
from the Big Bend country. Tis
dale, this is Slim Loyale an Da
kota Blue.’’
When the round of hand-clasps
was over, Abe explained. Slim
nodded generously. “Glad yuh
dropped in, Tisdale. Shore, we
try an’ treat folks. I’ll tell Oscar
to set yuh out a meal, an’ I’ll
xn yuh a fresh bronc. Yores
looks pretty gaunt. ’
Leaving ’ITsdale at his meal.
Slim went outside again. Dakota,
his eyes hot with interest, beckon
ed him. “Abe,” be said “tell Slim
what yuh Just told me.”
Abe did so, starting with infor-
NOnCE OF LAND ENTRY
North Carolina, Wilkes County.
Office of Entry Taker
May 27, 1937
b the County Surveyor of Wilkes
County—Greeting:
Romey Ashley, of Wilkes county,
North Carolina, having on the 27th
day of May, 1937, entered the fol-
V)wing lands in Wilkes county,
said to contain 18 1-2 acres more
or less, and the notice required by
Statute having been made, and no
protest against issuing this war
rant liaving been filed with me, now
therefore you are required as
soon as may be, to lay off and sur
vey for sa d Romey .\shlev the i
following described parcel of land I
in Union township, Wilkes county,
North Carolina, adioinino- larri.s
-‘
"Wfe''s of ReilcUes River, and
bonf!''-! as follows, to wit: i
Lyin^ on the south fork of Red-'
dies River, in Union Tawn.-i'riip,
and bounded as follows:
Beginning on a chestnut oak, his
own northwest corner, running!
south 7 degrees 30 minutes east 40 ^
poles to a stake near a maple: \
thence south 63 degrees east 84
poles to a stake in A. G Whit
tington’s line; thence north 3 de
grees east with his line 25 poles
to a stake in II. C. Jones’ line;
thence north 57 degrees west with
his line 98 poles to the beginning.
Cjjtaining 18 1-2 acres, more or
Surveyed this the 22nd day of
May, 1937, by Earl S. CaucHll, C. S.
Romey Ashley C. C.
ft^aley Ashley C. C.
Entered on the 27th day of May,
no37, being Entry No. 1615, page
“Entry Taker's Book for Wilkes
•bunty.
In making the survey of said
lands you will observe the direc
tions as laid down in Section 7662,
and subsequent Sections relating
thereto of the North Carolina Code
making two just and fair plats of
said survey, with the proper cer
tificate annexed to each which ”ou
are to transmit with this warrant
to the Secretary of State’s Office,
wft^ut delay.
Given under my hand this the
27th day of May, 1937.
^ OID WILE^
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DRUG STORE
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matlon of Arthur’s visit to the
Dot H Dot and his ultimatum.
’Then he went on about his meet
ing with Tisdale and wttiat the
rancher had told him.
“Get It?” snapped Dakota, as
Abe finished.
Slim nodded his head, a grim
look on ihls countenance.
“Shore,’’ exulted Dakota, “I
can see R plain now—the whole
dirty, hlghihanded scheme. Abe,
I love yuh like a brother for run-
nin’ into tthis feller Tisdale an’
bringin’ him here. Shore, we’ll
spike Arthur’s an’ Starbuck’s and
Brockwell’s guns now.
"Get this. There’s Just one
feasible route to the Kicapoo
range from the Big Bend country;
that Is, a route to drive a herd
of cattle over. I know that coun
try. Those herds will come north
through Lawler Basin, then along
flh© west edge of the Flytrap
Roughs an’ finally hit the south
end of Jericho Valley.
“An’ yuh know where Jericho
opens out; it opens right on the
Circle L an’ the Dot H Dot range!
Man, there’ll be thousands an’
thousands of cattle passin’ here
inside another month.
“Naturally, them Big Bend
owners expect to pay a certain a-
mount per hald to take ’em across
this range. It’s only fair that
they should. Them cattle will eat
a lot of grass in passin’, an’
we’re gonna have some extra ex
pense in hirin’ extra hands to
keep our own cattle from mixln’
in with the trail herds.
Here's the scheme Arthur, Star-
buck an’ Brockwell arej figgerin’
on, rn bet a lalg. They’ve plann
ed on these .herds cornin’ through
over this range. An’ they’ve
schemed to get hold of the Circle
L an’ the Dot H Dot. Once them
trail herds get crowdin’ well In
to Jericho, the Big Bend men
could be held up somethin’ scan
dalous.
“Time's damn Important with
'em. That Kicapoo range won’t
last long, for It’s a case of first
come, first served. They’ll stand
for damn near highway robbery
to get their stock across in time.
An’ if Arthur. Starbuck an’
Brockwell controlled the Dot H
Dot an the Circle L, they could
make ’em pay an’ pay an’ pay.’
Slim laughed softly as Dakota
finished. “Th© old haid Is workin’
all the time. eh. Dakota? Yo’re
right as rain! If I hadn’t been
too cussed stupid, I’d ’a’ guessed
sell'me right along. Yuh’ve
made it plain now. They railroad
ed me I'.) prison for a job I didn’t
do. Dad was failin’ at the time,
■■.mi tlu v gamliled he'd die liefore
I goi imt. He did. lint. I'm lietlin’
■11V parole kiiida upset their plana.
“They tried to dry-gulch y"h.
; With yah (laid an' me in
jail, tliey could soon get llieir
hooks into the Circle L- Then
Arthur got that mortgage against
the I’ot H Dot. Now he’s goiii'
to foreclose, or rather he thinks
he is.
■‘Man alive, that gang will be.
desperate, soon as Tisdale has
hts talk with Arthur. They’ll be
on us like a swarm of ants. But
we know now what to look for
an’ wihy. .Abe, I want yuh to do
somethin’ for me. Ride to town
an’ tell Arthur that Mona has the
money to pay her mortgage. Then
kinda let it slip that I’m gonna
loan it to her. 'Will yuh do that? ’
“Shore 1 will. Slim. But I
don’t think Mona will take It
from yuh. She .said she couldn’t,
though darn me If 1 can see why.
Women get funny idees.’’
“Never mind wihether she does
or not. Just give Arthur th© no
tion that she is. Yuh can ride In
when Tisdale g«e«.’’
A half an hour later, aa Abe
and Tisdale were aibout to leave.
Slim made one last remark to
Tisdale which caused hhat indi
vidual to wrinkle his brow In puz
zlement. “When yUh get through
wantin’ to wring Arthur's stringy
neck. ’1‘isdale, ride back out here
for the night an’ we’ll talk busi
ness.”
As soon as the two were gone.
Slim got hold of Roy O’Brien and
Stoney Sheard. “I want yuh two
to oil yore guns an’ hald for
town.” he explained. “An’ I want
yuh to put In the time from now
until tomorrow noonr. keepln’
yore eyee on the Standard Bank.
“Just hang around sorta, like
yuh was killin’ time an’ loafin’.
Watch that bank all the time.
Yuh may have the chance to
puncture a holdup. If nothin’
happens by noon tomorrow,
come on home again. Understand;
I’m not short about anythin’, but
I’m playin’ a strong huncih.”
"Shore, an’ l*ve knowed hunch
es like that to pan out before,”
grinned Roy. "Come along wltih
yuh, Stoney.”
Dakota Blue’s brow was fur
rowed with thought as he watch
ed the two puncOtMB Jog away.
My mon(^ Is In the Standard
Biuik, ain’t itt” explained Sllmi.
“tVell, Arthur knows it an' so
does the naf of tliat crowd. The
sureat way to keep me from ns-
in’ that money to loan out on
mortgages, like the Dot H Dot’s,
is to grab the money off.
“Don’t yuh s€>e that Brockwell
ipri ■ ‘--ewf
between a polecat an w bnasard
What’eiaii' that he could go to. biases. I
told him that we» feHsra cornin’
north to the Kicapoo range would
pay a reasonable range toll, but
nothin’ Uke a dollar. ^
IHjtold him we’d fight onr wxy
through (before we’d be robbed by
anybody. Why, there’s nigh onto
thirty thousand .hald of cattle
movin’ up Jericho Valley right
now the combined herds of ten
Early Planted Yams
Ma|^ lieavier Yield
a.rvraa v 7’uaa octv Maacaw a.tav\saTwaa ---
an’ Arthur have gon© too far by of ug Big Bend ranchers. There’ll
this time to back down? They be at least (half that inany more
either stand to win big or lose
everything. I’ll bet yulb anythin
went, Roy an’ Stoney will he was gonna clean up fortune
have work to do." off us. He know* we caln t afford
■When Steve Owens and Charley to turn back by now. If we did,
Quinn came jogging in from their we’d never be able to drive an-
work that evening ,311m met
them at the corrals. “For the
next few days I got a nice easy
job lined up for the pair of yuh,”
he told them. “Yo’r© gonna have
to do a lot of loafin’ around. I
want one of yuh to be on guard
about the ranch here all the time,
day an’ night. Yuh can take turns,
but I want the man on watch to
have a Winchester over his arm
and b© plumb wide awake.’’
“What’s in the air. Slim?”
yelped Steve Owens excitedly. “A
scrap?”
“Like to be,” was the answer.
“If It comes, It’ll be a hummer.
So watch things close.’’
“An’ how!” chortled the Irre
pressible Steve. “We will, yub
■know.”
Just at sunset Tisdale came
riding up. His eyes were bleak
and his lips were stern. Slim and
Dakota met him as he dismount
ed. At the look on Tisdale’s face.
Slim jabbed an elbow into Da
kota’s ribs. “I knew he’d be foam
in’,'” he murmured.
Tisdale wasted no time in ex
pressing himself. As he swung to
th© ground he laced Slim and Da
kota truculently. “Listen,” he de
manded harshly, “how much
range does that damn law shark
own around (hero, anyhow?”
Slim shrugged. “Not a yard of
it that I know of.”
“Wliat? Don’t he own any a-
tall?”
“Not a hit.”
’Hsdale looked plainly astound
ed “That hombre ,must be plumb
loco,” he declared. “He gav© me
to understand that he controlled
all this range for at lea;t five
miles, both ways from the mouth
of Jericho Valley.’’
“Then he lied, Tisdale. What
ill© meant to say was that he
hoped to control it by th© time
yore herds start across It. Ah,
how much per haid was he gon
na charge yuh In range toll for
yore herds?”
“One round simoleon.” explod
ed TMsdale. “Yes. sir. one whole
damn dollar per haid. yearlin’s
include-J."
“What did yiili tell him?”
“I told him that he was a cross
follcwitt’ US that I know of.
“That jasper musta flggored
other route in time to get to the
Kicapoo country when It’s open
ed.
“An’ that range up there ain’t
gonna last any too long. It’s a
plain case of gettln’ there right
away, or not at all. But me, I
cain’t understand him makln’
such demands when he don’t own
none of this range.” ,
“Suppose w© go an’ have sup
per,’’ iRuggested Slim. “I’ll tell
yuh the whole set-up while we
eat.”
Over the meal. Slim gave the
Big Bend man the entire story.
“Yuh see," ibe ended, “Arthur an’
the rest of the polecats In, with
him were schemin’ quite a long
way ahaid. They shore hoped to
be In control of this range. Sev
eral things klnda upset their cal
culations. One of them was hav
in’ yore herds arrive so early.
Another was my gettln’ onta jail
on a pai -lie.
“With a little more luck they’d
have won out, an' had yuh In a
corner. Right now yo’re sore, Tis
dale. over Arthur’s demands. But
yuh know as| well as I do, that
in the end yuh’d *a’ paid that
dollar-a-haid rang© toll. Am I
right?”
Tisdale nodded ruefully. “Yeah,
yo’re right, Loyale. We’d just
plain have to, or lose everythin’.
But e,vidently, from the way h©
SWMt potato plants set In the
field beefoM thg' hllddie of Juijo
will prodnoe better cyadna and
heavier acre yields, snld L. P.
Watson, extension hortioultnrlxt
at State College. (t-
Wben idanted early, he ex
plained, they have the benefit ot
a long growing season, and they
usually have a chance to get fair
ly well established In the gronnd
before extremely (hot, dry weath
er sets in.
The crop will be Improved If
it receives a good grade of com
mercial fertilizer containing three
per cent nitrogen, eight per cent
phosp(horic acid, and eight per
cent potash applied with a drill
at the rate of 800 to 1,200 pounds
per acre.
Two-thlrde of the nitrogen
should come from inorganic
sources ■ and one-third froii or
ganic sources. The potash should
be derived from muriate or sul
phate of poatgb, Watson stated.
Stable manure should not be
used unless It is well rotted and
can be broadcast at least a month
before planting time.
Disease-free seedlings should
be planted In, clean soil. If poe-
slble. If the soil is infested with
stem rot or wilt, treat th© seed
lings with Semeean, oi| dip the
roots and stems in 20-20-50 Bor
deaux mixture, said Dr. R. F.
Poole, plant pathologist.
He warned that Bordeaivc mix
ture may Injure the plants unless
used with caution. Treat only
freshly dug seedlings, and set
them out immediately after they
are dipped. Then water the plants
at once.
Or the seedlings may he dust
ed with a mixture of 25 per cent
monohydrated copper sulphate
and 75 per cent lime.
.^leningf
At Pattons Ridgo
PATTONS RIDGE, May 31.-r
The FUth Sanihv)* ei*0ng Aseo-
ciitlon met wlOb.’ Stony Fork
church Sunday. Several ehofn
and qnarteta were present and
some fine vocal music rendered.
A very large crowd attended and
ae the weather was extremely
fine. The da/y was enjoyed by all
pr^nt. Dinner was served on the
grounds.
Messrs.'^ 2Seh and Fred Baker
and family, ot Patterson, visited
la th* home of Mr..'cuad Mnu'*
Jacob Wata» of thte vletefa#
during the we^-end. ^
Folks are taking advantace of
the nice weather and are hoetn^
their corn and potato ero9».
Miss Peart W(aters, who !«•
Wn vfsKlng her parentev Mr.
and Mrs. Jacob Waters, retumaA
to Patterson, Sunday.
Mm-.^, Unnie Benge, of Boone^
is visiting her parents, Rev. aait
Mra. John W. Churoh, dorlaA
this week.
Mr. Dempsy Church, who bolda
a poeltion at Abshers, came horn*
to visit 'his parents, Rev. and Mra.
Jothn W. Ctanrch, daring th«
week-end. i
Strawberry growers of Duplin
nu,i BYiuciii*.'. - - County who graded and packed;
talks, that Arthur ain’t given up j iberriee properly this season
1,/vTYa vat nt frettiu’ control of this I na.ve rec.eived from 25 to 50 per
hope yet of gettln’ control of this
range.”
“He hasn’t." agreed Slim. “The
next - forty-eight hours are gon
na see hell a-poppln’, or I don’t
know my way about. I’m tryln’
right now to spread my cards to
spoil his plans. Now then, just
how much toll did yuh fellers fi
gure yuh’d be willin’ to pay an’
call it a fair deal all around?”
‘Two bits a Ibaid,” stated Tis
dale. “An’ we’ll guarantee to keep
the herd well bunched-an’e drive
fast. We Won’f let 'ertf spread’ a
bit. I think that’s a fair offer.”
“Darned fair,” agreed Slim.
‘Now here’s my proposition. Most
of that crossin’ will be over Dot
H Dot range. Miss Hall, who owns
the Dot H Dot, has got to have
money to squelch Arthur .'in’ his
cent more in price than for those
not so prepared.
foreclosure move. Me, I don’t
want a cent of money fro'm yuh
fellers. But if yuh’d ride over to
the Dot H Dot wlbh me an’ make
a deal with Miss Hall, puttin’ up
the toll money In advance, yuh’ll
gel the crossIn’ for yore own price
an she'll have enough to pay Ar
thur.
‘.'I’ve tried to get her to accept
a loan from me, but for some
darned reason I cain’t flgger out,
she won’t take It. But a deal like
I .-iay with yuh, she’ll grab in a
hurry. An’ it’ll be to everybody’s
benefit except Arthur’s. What
d'yub say?’’
(Continued next week)
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WELL STARTED AND STOCKY PLANTS THAT iWIIX.
GROW AND MAKE BIG CROPS
Cabbage Plants, Bermuda Onion Plants
100 Plants 25c 500 Plants $ .80
1,000 Plants $1.50
SWEET POTATO PLANTS
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Southern Queen white Plants $1.25
Porto Rican, yellow meated piants....$2.25
Tomato Plants, Sweet Pepper, Celery
From Seed Beds Priced as Follows. Now Ready
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26 Plants — 26c 500 Plants $2.00
50 Plants 40c‘ 1000 Plants $3.50
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ODay, Wilt Resistant
Later varieties—Brimmer, Marglobe, Stone, Golden Queen
Golden Self-Bleaching Celery, Ruby King and Pimento
Sweet Peppers, Cayenne Hot
We now have ready transplanted Tomato
and Pepper plants that are well started, large
plants with good roots. Very early.
12 Plants -35c 50 Plants — -80c
25 Plants - 45c 100 Plants |1.60
We pack all plants in damp moss, insuring delivery in fresh
eonoition. Ail plants delivered postpaid.
Prices at Beds are Lower. Come and Get Them If Yon Can
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