THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 1925
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MISS FLOSSIE DEL DAVIS
MARRIES CLYDE C. SORRELS
Rutherfordton, Dec. 27.—The fol
lowing announcements have been re
ceived in the county:
Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Davis an
nounce the marriage of their daugh
ter, Flossie Del, to Clyde C. Sorrels,
on Wednesday, December 24, of Or
angeburg, S. C»
It was a quite home wedding,
Rev. Paul C. Bolin, pastor and uncle
of the bride, performed the cere
mony in the presence of friends and
relatives.
Mrs. Sorrels is a graduate of Or
angeburg college and has been
studying at George Peabody college
for teachers, Nashville, Tenn. She
will get an A- B. degree there later.
Mr. and Mrs. Sorrels plan to get
their degrees together.
Mrs. Sorrels is charming and tal
ented. She will have charge of math
ematics and English at Gilkey Consol
idated school this spring and will
teach a course in dramatics and ex
pression.
Mr. Sorrels is the oldest living son
of Rev. and Mrs. A. P. Sorrels, of
Gilkey. He is principal of Gilkey
Consolidated school, one of the best
in the county. He is an ex-service
man, having served one and a half
years in the world war. He was in
the reclamation service after the
war. He spent two years at Wake
Forest college and one year at
George Peabody. He was French
teacher in the Aycock Graded school
ixt Haw river last year.
THE CONSUMER BENEFITS
No intelligent man today questions
whether or not advertising pays. It
must pay or the most successful busi
ness men in America would not spend
millions upon millions of dollars in
telling the public about the goods
they sell.
But does it pay the consumer? is
a question frequently asked.
It certainly does.
It pays the consumer by giving him
information about the merchandise he
■ to buy. If he knows more
about the goods he will need, he cam
make his money go farther.
But it pays him more indirectly be
cause it is the cheapest, and most ef
ficient agency for selling goods that
has ever been discovered. Sales ex
pense is a big item that enters into
the price of any article. If the com
pany must maintain a corpse of sales
men on the road, spend huge sums of
money in railroad fare, in hotel bills
and in inflated salaries, it must
charge more for the commodity.
But if it can reach its market by
talking to thousands and millions of
people through the pages of news
papers at a very small fraction of a
cent per person, it can sell the article
cheaper.
Many a company has changed its
policy from selling through agents to
selling direct by means of advertis
ing. And if the right kind of adver
tising was used, these compar«ies havi
always been able to cut their prices
This is but one of a great many
ways in which advertising actually
cheapens the cost of the article to the
consumer.
NORTH CAROLINA GAINS
IN SMALL GRAIN VALUES
North Carolina farmers realized
$4,000,000 more on their small grains
this year than in 1923, according to
the Agricultural Foundation, which
reports that the national increase ir
grain values amount to $550,000,000.
The half million bushel increase in
the North Carolina wheat crop this
year brought the value up to $lO,-
250,000 as compared with $7,500,000
of 1923. The oat crop of this state
this year is up to 6 million bushels
as compared to the 5 million acreage
with the result that farmer.! will
have taken in 5 million dollars on this
crop as compared with 3 1-2 millions
the year before.
The yield per acre on corn in North
Carolina the report states, dropped to
14.9 bushels per acre and the normal
production of 60,000,000 bushel drop
ped off to 38,000,000 bushels this
year. The wet days, on the other
hand, were a great help to the wheat
and oats production, the former ris
ing to 12.1 bushels per acre as com
pared with 11.1 the year before, and
the latter to 25.2 from 22 in 1923.
The profit per bushel of wheat this
year was 22 cents where a loss of 34
cents was taken last year and a 11
cent profit in oats for the 18 cent loss
of the preceding year.
The increased yield per acre of
small grain and the increased price
per bushel on all grains has aided
materially in restoring the farmer to
a better financial basis, the Founda
tion report concludes. The higher
prices have resulted in higher live
stock prices and this has brought a
new vitality to agriculture.
Another optimist is the one who
thinks a borrowed book will be re
turned.
OCRACOKE IS A .
VERY QUIET TOWN
Crimea Are Unknown; Has Not Been
An Arrest In Ten Years.
Ocracoke, Dec. 26.—Although this
little town about a century and a half
ago was the rendezvous of one of the
world's most daring and famous gang
of crooks—Edward Teach (Blue-|
beard) and his band—it is today one
community which recent crime waves,
have not reached. There has not
been an arrest here in more than ten
years and the crimes of robbery, bur
glary, theft and murder are absolute
ly unknown to the population, insofar
as they refer to Ocracoke.
John O'Neal, after holding office as
Justice of the Peace of Ocracoke
for eight years, resigned a year or
more ago. not having had a criminal
case during his administration. A
| successor has never been elected. Mr
O'Neal, who was born at Ocracoke,
says the worst crime he can recall to
have occurred at Ocracoke in 50
years was one of assault and battery.
There are only one or two homes
here that have locks on the doors and
I the keys to those that are thus equip
! ped are never used. Most of the
houses at Ocracoke were wholly or
partially constructed with lumber of
ships which were wrecked on the
treacherous shoals off the North Car
olina coast. Every family here owns
their home.
Ocracoke is at the extreme south
ern end of a little island by the same
name, located about 30 miles off the
mainland of North Carolina, and is
unique in many respects. Ocracoke
Island, which is part of Hyde county,
North Carolina, is a little strip of land
about 11 miles long and ranges in
width from one half to one and half
miles. The population of the island
numbers about 700, about 650 of
whom live at Ocracoke. Those who
do not live in the little town are mem
bers of the families of coast guards
men, who patrol the coast.
As there are no railroads, automo
biles, street cars or theaters where
motion pictures are shown, many of
the inhabitants at Ocracoke have
"never seen any of these things. With
the exception of the men employed
by the United States Government as
coast guardsmen and the few merch
ants in the little town, all Ocracoke
make their living hunting and fishing.
Every person on Ocracoke Island
is a Methodist in religion. They are
'divided, however, as the sectional
branch to which they belong, about
half being members of the Methodist
Episcopal church, South, while the
otners attend the Northern church.
Ocracoke is one of the oldest set
tlements in Amcric-. n He neople are
believed by niary historians to be de
scendants of th-3 "L ,st Colony" of Sir
Walter Raleigh.
THE FRIENDLESS MAN
One of the very last editorials writ
ten by the late B. C. Ashcraft, editor
of the Monroe Journal, was found in
a drawer of his desk, and doubtless
he intended using it in his paper the
week he was stricken. It is as fol
lows: "A man may be without mo
ney, he may not know where his next
meal is to come from, his clothing
may be wprn and patched, yet if he
has friends he will go down the street
with a smile on his face and a song
on his lips. '
"A man may lose his wealth,
wasteing disease may lay him down
and the skeleton hand of death may
shake his hour glass in his face, yet
if friends gather about his couch he
will rejoice and be giad and die un
afraid.
"But let a man believe he has no
friends. Let him become convinced
that in all the world there is for him
no friendly her.rt, no hand or sympa
thy and love, life has no pleasure for
him no matter what his financial con
dition or the state of his health. The
thought more fraught with gloom and
despair than was ever any other em
anation of the human brain, 'I have
no friend in all the wide world,' has
caused the suicide's pistol to crack
many a time, has often caused the
cup of poison to be pressed with
trembling hand to the lip, has caused
many a child of despondency to leap
from bridge or shore into the cold
waters of forgetfulness.
"Make a man believe that he has
no friends, that for him there is no
friendly hand and you enshroud his
soul in despair. Obsess his mind with
the thought that he is friendless, that
for him no sympathetic, helpful hand
is extended and you bathe his soul in
hell fire."
It doesn't do much good to tell
a man to attend to his own busi
ness if he has no business to at
tend to.
Another unfortunate young man
is the one whose girl's birthday
comes during Christmas week.
THE FOREST CITY COURIER
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Can You Open 1925 , s
Treasure Chest?
Wrapped up in the days of the New Year
are opportunities for each one to get ahead
in life—to reach some of the goals every
ambitious person aims for.
Energy, honesty, skill, experience—
these you need. But they are nc c all.
You need the confidence and the sup
port of money in bank —a reserve of
strength that will help you when your
chance comes, if it is getting the home you
want, or a share in business, or more land,
or new equipment, or other things that
cost money.
You will write your own record in 1925.
May it be the kind you want and hope for
—and may the New Year prove the best
you have ever had!
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