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"Maybe we are,” Dare conced- •d Ughtly. "Tell me about him, ate.” “Dad met him one day. He was an agent for a mine and be was •eontlng around looking -orer this oountry. Dad liked him and ot tered him a string of good horses ttecause his own were pretty Believe it . ornot Some dajr you are going to wttb you were insured i NORTH WILKESBORO INSURANCE AGENCY, Inc General Insurance “Protection Plus Service’’ Bank of No. Wilkesboro Bldg. North Wilkesboro, N. C. J. B. Williams J. T. Brame Elizabeth Barber Nina Call (Office Staff) .V‘rv4!s poor. He used to come (wer quite a lot after that and—^weil, we just liked each other and decided to get married.’* "After Dad died?” "Yes. A couple of months." She turned to Dave and he could see the pain in her eyes. “Oh, Dave, It was awful. 1 was lonesome and discouraged and—^he was so kind and sympathetic and helpful.’’ Dave nodded, rolling a cigar ette. “What about the place. Sis? I'll have to go to Single Shot to day on business.” “Do you think it’s wise? After last night?” “Likely not,” Dave said, "but I don’t always do wise things. Now what about the place?” “There’s hardly a corral count, the men tell me,” Mary said. ‘Ted never has been able to get the right tally, but It’s low. And there’s the paper on the place.” “I’ll go to the bank.” “You’ll have to. Pearson is still there. He’s been awfully good to us. Maybe he’d give us a sixty or ninety day extension, but I don’t know' what good that will do. “We’ll have to sell some land to pay off the paper and get enougfl cattle to stock the range recently. And what if Hammond takes his claim to court?” “He can’t win. We’ve got the papers to prove it. “All that jasper needs is to have some one talk salty with him.’’ “There’s always one thing w'e can do,” Mary said speculatively. “We can sell out to him after he finds out he can’t bluff us, be cause it’s the only water he can get. I got a letter from a man awhile back—Crowell, I think his |)ame was, asking me to put a ^rlce on the ranch. It was just after Hammond threatened to take the case to court, so I figur ed that Crowell was Hammond.” “What did you do?" "Nothing. I didn’t answer him. I got several more letters from him offering money for the place, but I ignored them all.” “Good girl,” Dave said, grinn ing. Rosy, loaded with wood, enter ed just then with two strangers who Mary introduced as Sod Har mon and Lew Finnegan, the two i remaining hands. They sat down at table, Mary faking the hotcakes out of the w'arming oven and setting them | those turned to Mery. "I’m waitin’ for jacks, sister.” Dave was out of his chair in a leap. Grasping Harmon by the shlrtfront he yanked him to his feet, and crashing him full length on the floor. Finnegan stood up. “Whad daya’ think—’’ Rosy’s fist smashed his Jaw and he sat down. “What do we owe these saddle bums, Mary?” "Sixty dollars apiece, I think,” Mary said Dave reached in his pocket and drew out some hills, counting them with trembling fingers. He threw them to Finnegan "Clear out of here In ten min utes, both of you. If I ever catch you on D Bar T land again, so help me. I’ll pistol-whip you both until your own mother’ll be sick to look at you. Now get out!” Dave had gone behind the cook- shank out of sight, to strap the gruesome, tarpaulin-wrapped'load on the white-stockinged black. Rosy saddles two borses and joined him. They swung Into the saddle and headed northeast up the slope be hind the house. The trail which Dave had chosen was an old and familiar one, used since he could remember as the shortest way to Single Shot. It wound up and a- cross the Soledad Bench to the notch between the base of Old Cartridge and Coahuila Butte, then dived angling down the steep mountainside to the dry stream bed in the valley and into Single Shot. Soon it was noticeable to Rosy that the timber was thinning out and that rock outcrops were more numerous, and they seemed almost at the base of the towering peak of Old Cartridge, “Up there”—Dave pointed a- head on the trail and a little to the left—“is that spring-fed lake. That’s what waters our whole range.” Through the notch, a level stretch perhaps a half mile in width, they reined up on the rock rim and looked down into the valley stretching below them. The side they were on, formed by the slope of Old Cartridge and Coa- halU Butte, was craggy and rough, rocky hogsbacks criss crossing into a maze of black canyons. The other side of the valley BQukr* is Its utfldle wu t olnst- ‘er oTboard'BafldlngB, tlh-robtsd. ^tosy pullud up bealda .hlsi and. wklsUed-. In. exclamation. . “Yeah, l&tnmond.” Dare sald.1. See ,howi hcAnriipa Mtehes ,. a- tcwad tt(e hnildiaips, )>lMta^ ‘ea ^hut .of the rock? If It wasn't fpir thnai, h«^ be buHdln' now shadk* after every shower. This wash goes hell-for-leather in a rain.” _ Across the front of the main' building was .painted in uncertain black letters: “Draw Three.” “He must have won that outfit in a poker game,” Dave said. , The mine road now as they swnng into it out of the .wash was rutted deep from ore wagons and followed the bank of the, wide, dry stream bed heading tor Single Shot and the railroad three'miles away.—- . *1116 streets of the town were filled with the early morning hus tle of a mining town. Buckboards at the hltchracks almost outnum bered the saddle-horses. ’The Free Throw salOon on the main corner a block np from the station was doing A booming bus iness in its twp-story frame build ing, the front of which, on the main 'street, contained the bar and gambling tables. The back half contained the dance-hall. The other three corners con tained the bank, a tight one-story affair of brick across the street from the Free Throw; a hardware store which was also the postof- flce; and another saloon, the Mile High. Behind the bank lay the sin gle adobe building that housed the office of the sheriff. ’The courthouse lay up the street. Dave and Rosy turned by the bank and half-way down its length so as to be well out of view of a glance from the sher iff’s window, they turned In to the hltchrack. They left the body of the bushwhacker on his horse and covered the fifty steps to the sheriff’s office, wondering if he had seen them. Dave knocked firmly, paused on the table. j was heavily wooded. “Where you ridin’ today?" i “You got a trail Dave asked Harmon. i slope?” Rosy asked. The man looked up. “Ridin’?” | “Sort of.” Dave Mtflfasite; •)bM and nbuE fiiesa wtfls Am Miift-tmi Aiat te Adi Coktadi gfeL yoa far - - * ^ - ¥ fWDPoy ly Drio Storca HA \ T De. tv'iLES JhRMN! he growled. “I’m goin' fishln’.’ “Not *oday.” Dave said care lessly. “You’re cleanin’ out that corral first, and rightin’ those poles. After that, you can fix that barn door. I'd shift that hay in the loft this afternoon, then rus tle some boards and patch that barn. After that, I’d get that hayin’ machinery—” “Wait a minute,” Harmon said, laying down his fork. He turned to Mary. “More flapjacks.” he or dered curtly. Dave laid down his fork. “Say please when you ask my .sister for anything.” Harmon laughed silently and down this said. He pointed over to the base of Old Cartridge. “There’s the lake, up there close to the rock rim. Over the ?bck rim just below it Is a wash cut deep in the rock. We can follow that wash down to the valley floor. I reckon a goat couldn’t make it without that.” Ten minutes of perilous descent and they were on the pebbly floor of the wash. An hour’s ride brought them al most to the valley floor. Dave was ahead and as he rounded a sharp bend in the step-walled arroyo, an exclamation escaped him. Be fore him. the arroyo widened out like the month of a funnel, and SAVE MONEY On Your... Stoves, Ranges, Kitchen Cabinets, Breakfast Room Suites and Congoleum Rugs... by trading with us! Look around everywhere else, and see us last. -We give just a little more for your money, and you may have reasonable terms, or good discounts for cash. 'K-' f r" 1 Kitchen CABINETS *24 ““*42 We Can Save You Money So Why Not Trade With Us? Home Enterprise Ranges =35“ *84“ Genuine Congoleum Gold 9^.50 Seal Rug, 9x12 O Genuine Crescent Gold 9^.95 Seal Rug, 9x12 ** Mark-Down Furl). Co. NORTH WILKESBORO, N. C. Home Furniture Co., Elldn, N.C. A sound of a vbW and ^ear-' Ms picked it, ontored. In tfiis fir c6ra»r, back truBtlngly^ the door, the'skerHf, laboring at sotne*; in the depths of his roU-topi ft Ice a ^hafrLVrhe said, oviar : Rosy closed the'de^ took the' chair nearest^ Dave stood in; the mldoie lilc .ting floor, his thumbs ^obke^,aeglt- gently in hU belt,His dark teee was still, his black eyes wary, J "Got a package for yon, Hank,” Dare said. The sheriff swiveled bis chair, his little eyes sweeping the room, noting the positions of the two men before blm. ' • . “Well?” Dave asked. ‘Tt yon ain’t got holes In your head, toull take a tip,” the sher iff said meaningly. "When I say stay out of this town, I mean it.’’ "I say I got a package for you out there,” Dave said calmly, Ig noring the sherifUs remarks. “I’m talkin’ to you,” the^ sher iff said flatly. “You’re not* talk in’ to me.” Rosy saw it first. Maybe it was the flicker of the red-rlmmed eyes or the throbbing of the large vein in the sherlfPs temple. Rosy leaped out of his chair, throwing his body across the fat belly of the bheriff, pinning his hands down tight against his gun butts, j “You big tub,” Ro'jy said sav- | ageiy, “I oughta bend a.gun bar-j rel over your thick skull. We ain't j makin’ fight talk and we ain’t ■ takln’ any either. There’s a dead I man out there on a horse.’’ | The sheriff was breathing | havlly. “Lemme up.’’ i “Get his gnns, Dave,” Rosy said. Dave slipped the guns out from beneath the fat and pudgy hands and laid them on the desk. "You say you got a dead man out there?” the sheriff asked. “If you wasn’t so knot-headed, you’d have known that two minutes ago,’’ Rosy said. “Show me the body,” the sher iff said. ■iWary oafs>.' ■! and Icathcnd Miem. 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Be it ordained by the Board of Commissioners of the Town of North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, in regular session assembled, that the Special License and Privilege Taxes be, and the same are, hereby levied for the fiscal year beginning July 1st, 1938, and ending June 30th, 1939: 9 10.00 10.00 25.00 Advertising, outdoor, Advertising in or on motor vehicles Auction sales of Real Estate Automobiles and Motorcycle dealers and Service Stations (a) Automobile Service Stations , 3.75 (b) Motorcycle dealers 10.00 (c) Automotive equipment and supply dealers, whole- (d) Automotive equipment and supplv dealers, retail.... (e) Automotive equipment and supply dealers, whole sale, having no locate place of business but selling to retail dealers from some form of vehicle, each (f) Motor vehicle dealers — (g) Motor vehicle dealers, not maintaining a place of business in the city but doing business therein 20;00 (h) All persons, firms or corporations engag^ in the business of dismantling motor vehicles and selling parts therefrom Bagatelle table, etc., Bakeries , (a) Every person, firm or corporation operating a oak- erj’ or selling bakery products in the Town of North Wilkesboro, N. C. ; —-—. — (b) Every person, firm or corporation delivering cakes, pies, doughnuts, sandwiches or potato chips within the Tqwn of North ,Wilkesboro 25.00 Barber Shops, for each chair maintained 2.M t,. Beauty Parlors, for each operator employed » 00 9. Battery Service and Tire Repair Stations — 10. Beer and ,Wine Retail License. (Due first day of May— 11. Bicycles, dealers in —— Billiard and Pool Tables, for each table as follows: ■Tables measuring more than 314 feet wide and eight feet 16.00 3.75 25.00 20.00 20.00 10.00 50.00 12. Boarfing Houses (See Tourist Homes). 26.00 37.50 10.00 75.00 It. Bottlers, manufacturers and distributors of soft ^inks. ^ (a) High pressure equipment having manufacturers rating capacity of more than twenty-four and less than forty bottles per minute — A ~r~yiain\ (b) Distributing warehouses (See Revenue Act of 1937) (c) Bottled drinks, retail 15. Bowling Alleys, for each alley kept or operated l^.w 16. Cafes (See Restaurants) 17. Cap Pistols, dealers m — ^w.uu 18. Carnival companies, for each week or part of week — 2W.OT 19. Chain stores, for each chain store or branch store — W.W 20. Cigars, cigarettes or any tobacco product, wholesale ana 21. c[rcusLrMenagerTes7Wiid"Wes}, Dog and [ or Pony Shows etc., (See Revenue Act of W3”) . 22. Cleaning and Pressing (See Pressing Clubs). 23. Coal and coke dealers, wholesale, agent or principal 24. Coal and coke dealers, retail, agent or principal 15.00 25. Collecting agencies ; 26. Contractors and Construction companies cAnn 27. Cotton buyers and sellers on commission oo-w 28. Delivery Agencie.s. (a) Drays, two-horse, each (b) Drays, one-horse, each __—— ® 29. Dirks, Bowie Knives, Daggers, Sling-Shots, Leaded Canes, Iron or Metallic Knuckles onn'no 30. Electric Light Companies . 31. Emigrant employment agent 32. Elevators and automatic sprinkler systems, selling or in- ^ - TSO 33. Electricians 9^00 34. Express Companies — 36. Filling Stations (See Automotive service stations). 36. Fireworks, dealers in 37. Garages, each location 38. GasoKne and Oil. 9c aa (a) Wholesale dealers (b) Retail dealers Ron'oo 39. G-ypsies and fortune tellers 40. Hat blockers (See pressing club). 41. Horses and Mules, dealers in, one car load — 42. Hotels. boarding houses operating on the .^- erican planar rooms in ^ rates per person per day are: Less than two dollars Two dollars and less than three doltos Three dollars and less than four dollars - and fifty (b) *^^or hotefs or rooming iTouses operating on tl^ ^- ropean plim for rooms in which the rates par person per day are; . „ Less than two dollare yrr-- Two dollars and less than three douars 43. Ice Cream manufacturers —r—— 44. Itinerant Salesman "i.— ’ 46. Junk iDealers, *•"""- ——— 4&, Laiiiidlies .. ~ 12.60 .90 48. Lunch stands 2.50 49. Loan agencies or brokers 100.00 50. Manicurist ^ 5.00 51. Marble Yard 25.00 52. Markets, fresh meats 25,^0 I 53. Markets, fresh fish and oysters only 10.()® 54. Metallic Cartridges (See Pistols). 55. Morris Plan or Industrial Banks (See Revenue Act of 1937). 56. Moving Picture Shows 62.60 57. Moving Picture Shows, traveling, per day or part of a day 25.00- 58. Musical Machines, for each machine requiring the deposit of 5c - 5.00 59. Musical Records, dealers in 6.00 60. Newspaper contests 26.00 61. Palmistry ■— 200.00 62. Pawn Brokers 200.00 63. Peddlers. (a) Peddler, on foot, each 10.00 ,(b) Peddler, with horse or animal and with or without vehicle, each 15.00 (c) Peddler, with motor vehicle, each 25.00 64. Photographers (As per Section. 109) 25.00 65. Prenology, each person engaging in the practice of —— 200.00 66. Pianos, Organs, Victrolas, Records, Radios, Accessories, ... -- dealers in 6.00 For pistols and ( or blank cartridges 60.00 (a) If such person, firm or corporation deals only in me tallic cartridges, the tax shall be 10.001;-” 68. Plumbers, heating contractors, steam and gas fitters 7.60 69. Pressing Clubs, Dry Cleaning plants and Hat Blockers. (a) Where not more than three persons are employed 12.60 (b) Where more than three persons are employed 25.00 70. Radios and accessories (See Pianos) 71. Restaurants. Every person, firm or corporation engaged in business_ of operating a restaurant, cafe, cafeteria, hotel with dining *T service on the European plan, drug store, or otlmr place 'rt. where prepared foo'l is sold shall pay the following tax: ■Tax based on the number of persons provided for with chairs, stools or benches, and shall be fifty cents __l50c) per person, with a minimum tax of Two and 50-100 (92.50) Dollars. All other stands or places where pre pared food is sold a.s a business, and drug stores, service stations, and other stands or places where prepared .sand wiches only are served shall pay a tax of Two and 50-100 (2.50) Dollars. 72. Security Dealers 25.00 73. Service Stations (See .Automobile dealers). 74. Shoe-shine parlors or bootblacks: Where the number of chairs or operators are not more than two 5.00 Where the number of chairs or operators are more than two and less than s?x 10.00 75. Soft Drinks, retail 2.50 '76. Shooting Gallery and Skating Rinks 10.00 • '77. Sign Painting contractors. . Every person, firm or corporation engaging in the busi- — w ness of repairing, painting or repainting signs in the ■rown of North Wilkesboro shall pay the following annual I1CCHS6 t&X • (a) When not more than one person is engaged by the licensee in conducting said business 10.00 (b) For every person in excess of one employed by the licensee, excluding temporary employees and office em ployees 5.00 (c) Every person, firm or corporation, regardless of the I number of employees, whose office or place of business is I not located in the Town of North »Wilkesboro 10.00 78. S^a Fountains, each Draft Arm 5.00 79. Tinner and Sheet Metal Workers 25.00 80. Telegraph Companies 10.00 81. Tobacco Warehouses, each 50.00 82. Tourist Homes. Horae or camps having five rooms or less 6.00 Home or camps having more than five rooms, per room— 1.00 83. Theatres (See moving picture shows). 84. Trading Stamps — — 85. Undertakers, embalniers and retail dealers in coffins 25.00 86. Weighing Machines, requiring deposit of one cent 1.26 ’ And all other tiades, professions or business conducted within the corporate limits of the 'Town of North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, which are subject to special license or privilege taxes and of the max imum amount allowed by the laws of the State of North Carolina for cities and towns, as per the Revenue Act enacted by the General Aa- sembly of North Carolina, session of 1937., If the business made taxable or the privilege to be exercised under this ordinance is carried on at two or more separate places, a separate Town License for each place or location of such business shall be re quired. All special license or privilege taxes levied under this ordinance shall ^e and payable to the Town Clerk on or before the first day of July, 1988, or at the date of engaging, in such business, trade, em ployment and (or) profession, or doing the act, and after that date .. shtul be subject to a penalty of five per centum for each thirty daya ^ that the tax remains unpaid in addition to other pains and penaltie* ^ which may be imposed for continuing or engaging in business a license. Any person, firm or corporation who or which shall violate of the provisions of this ordiance, or who or which shall conduct ibusiness or carry on any trade, employment or profession' withoa^ ^Town License for the privilege of conducting such business or cai ■“ on such trade, employment or profession shall upon conviction be ^ Fi^ doUars or inrorison-'’ — & illamtum- of, the Court. not ex or b()tlj^.m doUars or imprisoned not exceeding thirty Provided, that each aad'«Y> ! moo ery pr part of,a day that such business is conducted or such trad^ embloyWnt or pibfi^ioh is carried on without Town License shatt conaUtata'a aepiUr^ta.and, distinct offense. . day of June, 1088. ^ day of Jan& l»i WlLKBSBtWO B. T.
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