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North Wilkesboro, North Carolina
D. J. CARTER and JULIUS C. HUBBARD
PubUBhen
SUBSCRIPTION RATES;
One Year $2.00
(III Wilkes and Adjoining Coontiaa)
One Year fS.OO
lOutsidt Wilke^ and Adjoining Co«...iea>
Rates To Those In Service:
One Year (anywhere) J2.00
Entei'vd at the postoffice at North Wi&a*
boro, North Carolina, as Secoiui-iUsa matter
. iii i I 'f March 4 1S79
THURSDAY^. NOVEMBER 22, 1945.
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VICTORY
Thanksgiving
America has never approached a
Thanksgiving season with more reason
to be grateful than now.
Thanksgiving was originated when the
early settlers set aside a day to give
thanks to God for the blessings of the
year.
Thanksgiving has become a great
American institution—a day set apart for
expression of gratitude for prov'idential
care.
As we approach Thanksgiving this year
and we review the blessings of the year,
we are first reminded that during the past
year America has emerged from bloody
conflict into a glorious and victorious
peace.
Our enemies, w'hich were also the ene
mies of justice and freedom everywhere,
have been thoroughly defeated and their
power to wage war has been crushed.
Our men are returning from the fields
of battle to peaceful civilian pursuits.
Some, of course, will never return. They lie
beneath white crosses on so many fields of
battle—grim reminders that we should be
eternally grateful for their supreme sac
rifice.
A recent check-up on war casualties
from Wilkes county shows a total of 96
Wilkes men who lost their lives in service
during the war. With possible omissions,
it may be that the casualty list will total
as many as 100. In addition, there are
many who have been severely and perma
nently injured and who will wear ^the
Bears of battle throughout their lives.
Our nation is at peace, our people are
well fed, well clothed, well housed and
are prosperous.
Surely at this Thanksgiving we can turn
our hearts in gratitude to God and say
with the Psalmist: “Give thanks unto the
Lord.”
Distribution First
A significant cartoon appeared in a na
tional news magazine recently. It showed
a bespectacled little man wearing the tag,
“Retailer,” peering nearsightedly around
a door at a committee of masterminds who
git imposingly at a conference table con
sidering the problem of sixty million jobs.
Nothing would serve as a better reminder
of the fact that the retailer is the spark
plug of activity in this country. Unless he
can move the products of industry into the
homes of consumers, there will be precious
little production and few jobs.
The retail distribution industry recog-
luzea the role it must play in making pos-
Bible maximopi production. It la proceed
ing aggressively with near revolutioiiaiy
merchandising schemes. Department stores
are rushing into such new lines as light
planes and frozen foods. The shelves of
tire stores are being stocked with , a vast
number of other items. Filling stations are
becoming counterparts of the country
store, stocked wtih everything from candy
and cigarettes to garden supplies, small
electrical appliances, toys, games and doz
ens of other ‘‘impulse sales” goods.
Not only do retailers face competition
from unexpected quarters, but they must
also grapple with the problem of unavoid
ably higher distribution costs and nar
rowed unit profit margins. To live, they
must secure volume. Volume will depend
to a large extent upon selling. Some au
thorities estimate that there will be 10,-
000,000 selling jobs. Sales rivalry will
be severe.
This is a picture of retail distribution to
day. It is a picture of a progressive, hope
ful industry. The best laid production and
employment schemes will come to naught
unless the man behind the counter can put
them across to 130,000,000 consumers.
Franklin: “Necessity never made a good
bargain.”
Goethe: “What is the best government?
—That which teaches us to govern our
selves.”
“No wonder Tojo bungled his pistol sui
cide. He never was a straight shooter.”—
Milwaukee (Wis.) Journal.
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Caruot: “In a free country there is much
clamor with little suffering; in a despotic
state there is little complaint but much
suffering.”
-THE-
EVERYDAY
COUNSELOR
By Rev. Herbert
Spaugh, D. D.
“Wherefore they are no more twain but
one flesh. What therefore God hath joined
together, let not men put asunder.” Thus
the Bible describes a true marriage, made
and blessed of God. Sadly, we must admit
that not all marriages are blessed of God.
It is difficult to believe that a hasty marri
age performed by some civil official under
the sudden impulse of emotion has the
blessing of God. Such marriages are not
often enduring.
In a true marriage which results in the
b-irth of a child, the two become one flesh
in the new life of the child, but there is
more than that. There is the death of two
selfish attitudes. The one seeks the desire
of the other. Instead of two desires there
becomes mutual desire.
There is no place for selfishness in a
happy marriage. I come back to an old
theme of mine—There can be no truly
happy marriage without God in the cen
ter.
Looking over the many cases of domes
tic unhappiness which have come to my
study, I can recall some in which the self
ish desires of ofle or both have not been
predominant. Even where there are chil
dren in the home, their welfare is forgiven
in the clashing of selfish personalities.
A man and a woman who are united in
holy wedlock, “for better or worse,” can
live together in happiness and without
friction if they have a will to do so. A man
or woman who wants to continue to live
his own life without due regard for the
other, should remain single.
Marriage is a serious business. If it is
entered into with the blessing of God and
the church, it is a holy contract, “not to
be entered into lightly or unadvisedly.”
The hope of a peaceful world depends
upon peaceful homes.
As marriage promotes the merging of
two physical beings, it must promote the
merging of two personalities, so that the
twain become one in body, mind and spir
it. Only in this way can true happiness be
found in marriage.
My “Ten Commandments for a Happy
Marriage” will be sent upon request and
a self-addressed stamped envelope. These
rules in form suitable for framing will be
sent upon receipt of ten cents and postage.
EDITOR’S NOTE—Dr. Spaugh’s new
book, “The Pathway to Contentment,” will
come from the press about December 1, It
is being published in response to the re
quest of many readers, and contains ma
terial which has appeared in this column.
The price is $1.00 postpaid. Orders may
be sent to The Everyday Counselor, Box
4145, Charlotte, N. C. Advance orders will
be autographed.
AUSi
By
DWIGHT
NICHOIfi
et al
yon w ’lirirt Ih’ it» goM-
ubT Or, are yon tiding ^ avlm
dat beyond the nirronr' circle of
your day to day haldtsT—^Ex
change.
MAKING PROGRBB»—
Two little girls were compar
ing progress In catechism study.
“I’ve got to original sin,” said
one. "How far have you got?”
Said the other: “Oh, I’m way
beyond redemption.”
MUST LIVE UP TO IT—
"Now that I’ve told you about
my past, do you' want to marry
me?”
"Sure, baby."
“I suppose you’ll expect me to
live it down?”
"No! I’ll expect you to live up
to it.”
TALE OF TWO BABBITS—
'Two rabbits got lost in the
woods and had a hare-raising ex
perience.
WHAT A mPFBBENOE—
"A single salmon,” declared
the pretty young teacher, "pro
duces in one season 20,000
young.”
“Teacher.” cried little Evelyn,
“how many young does a mar
ried salmon produce?”
WISE (?) GOEDPISH—
We like the little story about
the goldfish. How wise they
looked while swimming around
in their glass home and how a
member of the fair sex—deciding
to clean the bowl In which her
goldfish lived—discovered that
they weren’t so wise after all.
She had filled a large tub with
water—so the story goes—and
then emptied the fish Into the tub
so that they might have a big
swim while she was cleaning
their bowl.
But did the fish go to the edge
of the tub and thus enjoy a much
larger swimming area?
They did not. They swam
'round and ’round and 'round In
small circles the size of the glass
bowl!
People are like that, too. They
become so nsed to their own
Mew and'l^Wr'asm-limited vis
ion that /the moment some fel
low with Imagination tries some
thing new, they yell, “It can't
be done."
One must Imagine If one would
grow.
Life would be terribly hum
drum and Is terribly humdrum
if vision Isn't exercised—and If
we refuse to reach out for big
ger things.
Arthur Brisbane once said that
it wouldn’t be so long before dy
ing machines would take the
place of our express trains on
long journeys—just as the trains
took the place of stagecoaches.
But, he added, very few people
have imagination.
Yet, today, the airplane is not
only an accepted convenience but
an actual necessity.
Wilkes In Se^
District In Beer
Centre! In State
To Increase the scope of Its vol
untary cooperation program, the
North' Carolina Committee United
States Brewers Foundation divid
ed the state into 16 districts.
'Wilkes county is Ip the second
district. The district committee
cooperates with the general com
mittee in the campaign ' to rid
North Carolina of objectionable
practices In the sale of beer. Ed.
gar N. Bain, of Goldsboro, is
state director.
The Industry’s voluntary coop
eration program has been in op-
eration in North Carolina since
May, 1939, and has won the ap-
proval of the press, public offic
ials and law enforcement agen.
cles.
-:S0CJETY:-
Mary Prevette Is
Given Party
Sunday afternoon the young
friends of Mary Genevla Prevette
gave her a surprise birthday par
ty celebrating her twelfth birth,
day.
The pink and white birthday
cake with twelve candles was
placed in the center of the dining
room table. The group gathered
In the dining room to surprise her
when she came in from church
service.
Margie Pendry, Betty Dancy
an the honoree’s sister, Mrs. Clar
ence Call, serving as hostesses,
directed the games and served
refreshments to the party.
Mary Genevla received a num
ber of nice gifts and rememberan-
ces.
0
Eleven counties In North Car
olina have a farm income of more
than a million dollars a year
! from dairying.
NOTICE OP SALE OF LAND
North Carolina, Wilkes County.
By virtue of an order of the Su
perior Ck>urt of Wilkes county, N.
C., signed by the Clerk thereof,
appointing the undersigned (Com
missioner to sell the lands de
scribed in the petition and for the
purposes therein described, the un
dersigned (Commissioner will, on
November 29, Thursday, at 10:30
k. m., 1946, offer for s^e for cash
to the highert bidder the lands de
scribed below. The bidding will
be started at ?4,000.00, and both
-1 he re*
Mfpdf^jhBd tt higiiest
Xhrt the lands to be s^ belong
tojirf- a. E^dmisten ^nd hos-
YTr'H. Edmiaten consist of
Mio wrge tract and three smaQer
tradwi' ssul is known as the home
plaee and liee in Lewis Fork town
ship and is described as follows:
First Tract: Beginning on Nen-
•y /West’s black pine comer and
running with her line to J. J.
Ifarleirs black oak; thence west 6
poles to a road; thence south with
the road 7 pol^ to Peter Rigm’s
line; thence east with that line 27
poles to the beginning, containing
2 acres more or less, and lying on
the waters of Naked Creek. 11-19-M
Second Tract: Begbning on a
red oak in William EUifon’s line
and running north 130 poles to a
white oak in Peter Rigan’s line;
thence with said line to a black
oak in J. J. Marley’s line; thence
with said line to J. T. Fost^s line;
thence 'with saiid line to the cor
ner; thence east with J. W. West’s
line to the line of Frances Eller
and J. I. Messick to the beginning,
containnig 60 acres more or less.
Third Tract: Beginning on a
stake on the Deep Gap road, and
running west with the old Lavina
Foster’s line to a white oak on a
ridge; thence running southeast to
a post oak on the ridge; thence
south to a pine; thence south about
2 poles to a double pine in the old
field on the hillside; thence south
east to a maple on a hillside, Fran
ces Eller’s line; thence north to
Frances Eller’s hickory corner to
a hollow; thence north with Fran
ces Elleris line to the beginning,
mntaining 12 acres more or less.
Fourth Tract: Beginning on a
stone on the old ridge road in E.
W. Elledge’s line, and running
south 2 deg. west with W. H. Ed-
rainsten’s line ,it being an old
marked line, 48 poles and 15 links
to a pine stump and stone; thence
south 87 deg. east with Eliza
Dula’s line 20% poles to a small
maple on the west side of the
road; thence north 12 % deg. west
30 poles to a stone at the forks of
SHOE REPAIR
•PRICES
REDUCED
Men’s Half Soles
and Heels -
Ladies’ Half Soles
and Leather Taps
Men’s Leather or Rubber
Soles
the road: thance north 19% ^
with tih« ridge road and
aAden of tha same 6 poles to a
■tain; thome ntnih 22% daE*
wcflt with same 7 pcles to a ataka
in said road; thence 47 dw. mttt
with same 6 poles and 9 Imka to
toe beginning, containing 3 164-
160 acres more or less.
The above boundaries are
ject to a email tract herd
sold to Mrs. Veoria Bumgamor
cated near her residence and ex
cept a small tract sold to E. W.
Ellledge in exchan^ for the fourth
tract above mentioned which deed
is r^rded and eoceepted herefrom.
This 26th day of October, 1946.
T. E. STORY,
Commissioner
WeUsEleetricCo.
Contractors
Radios, Electric AppUaBcee
Electric Refrigeratora
flashing Machinea, Flxtoree, BU.
Sales and Sendee
Temporary Location: I
Just Ba^ of the Pestofflee
Phones 276 and 392W
GALL us FOR TOUR
Plumbing and
Electrical Repairs
AND SKRTICM
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WATER SYSTEMS
ANDERSON
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WILKESBORO. N. C.
Sam P. MHcbell
CivH Engineer
CITY AND FARM SURVEYS
PROPERTY PLATS
Office 2nd Floor Bank ef North
Wilkesboro Building
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Office Phene 227.
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Ladies’ Half
Soles-_
up
Clontz Shoe Shop
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