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ORD GIVES YOU THE COUNTY, STATE AND FOREIGN NEWS 24 HOURS EARLIER T THE HAN ANY OTHER COUNTY PAPER. ONLY ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR 9 "HERE SHALL THE PRESS. THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN; UNA WED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN. - xxiv. VOLUMN .... n t uno I GOLUfiN 3 An if J, MOCKSVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1922. .DuckFarm ina ' Mine In Davie That Wa.h.d Away. rohPe. in Greensboro News nuncau Wallace aroppcu iuiu iuC tr talk- fViintrc office late one mg". - e- he said. He had been in the of talking things over, a fair interpretation of which meant that his financial and business deals had jjotapproximateu m cAiauuua. f flow are the ducKsr x asseu as -j oivnmnanv him to a I prepare" r j t fnr a midnight lunch. "It's golden sands now, man, ne ....a "T'11 tell von all about 'Let me get the ducks in a row make a fortune with a duck ranch ondutclimau creek. That reminds me of an interest- in story," Wallace Slid. We had given our orders at the restaurant and were waiting for his steak to be served when he began the story of his experiences. Well, we will take ducks first," He selected a piece of bacon from my plate and coutibued: "The ducks didn't turn out well, As I re call, I got none too good a hatch from the incubator and the 200 eggs I ordered from Wisconsin netted me about 40 little fellows. I obser ved tnat tne lime mey were a. wcck. old they developed astonishing ap "They disappeared with every 1 . .1 it M - . 3 ram, too, dui inose mat siayeu with me seemed to require as much feed as the whole flock. I found out that they did not have sense enough to come oft the little creek that ran through my place and every time a little a hard rain came creek was flooded off on the tide. "Finally I was left with, only six ducks and reaching ceased to be profitable. They had reached the corn-eating stage and never got enougn. I determined to test their opacity and shelled out a half bushel of corn and placed it on the ground before them. I whatched them eat every grain; then I picked the little rascals up and put 'em all in that half bushel. I abandoned fa duch raising business then and there." The waiter placed a large steak, ted withe potatoes and decora ted with Wallace and he was occuoied for ftenext 15 minutes. That finished his eye caught a "Watermelon 150"' s'gn on a mirror and he ordered a slice. "Gosh how bitter," Wallace ob- Jfrad, pushing the melon off from "There's quinine in it." "Quinine ti, '-"'-J inere's tiir,: ; - "iwuamuc in you. lace tasted it atrain and rritn- I tried it too. There was a pouter taste, I admitted.,, . That's from a quinine bush," ;ace informed me. Sfe there's still you've heard all your haven't vou. that !?Y malaria? Of course you have, Wth?' lkS g0t S they and many Georgia melons Geor -SC1Aentist a scientist at the kit a Agricultural college, who chincone! menting with the cCri.fromsouthAmerica - dtheideaof planting the a Sep a n"is, it was about 0e 1 V uc Plants, snot up furnia , gtt as a raSgei robin and ouvm. allttle saade for the mel a. too "In south plenty of A. -u ann - i wuinaea me of the The blooms were a 5 flower. the J, 0fgla Professor elimanat- the Malaria but he couldn't keen M -vm vettintr intrk . the. f thp 1 7 resiUa ;melon vine, and the tenn,;n. nat about one in ;PWrv ft!has that bitter taste nuitea me to settle for the lunch and we return to the office-where I had a few proofs to read before winding the night's work. ''There was a fellow down our way a few months ago with a gold mine," Wallace remarked, after I had indicated that I was ready to hear his story. You know there's considerable gold in Rowan, Montgomery and other counties, and there's no" rea son why there should not be gold in Davie county. Just below my extinct duck ranch on Dutchman's creek, the South Fork of the Yad kin enters what they call in South Carolina the Great Pee Dee river, and along' the hillsides there is con siderable mica of a sorry sort you probably call it isinglass and a kind of soil that appears to glisten with gold. A long time ago it was tested and" found no good, but folks are always looking for oil wells and gold desposits. "Well, this fellow, Cook W. S. Cook, of Maine came; down here and norated it around that there was gold in some of this land. He told me first, I believe, and I went to my old friend Charlie Stroud, put him wise, and borrowed $1,000 on my farm after I had subscribed for the best paper in Davie county, and bought up a strip of laud that was hardly worth the taxes on it. "Mr. Cook and I were going part ners and we were going to sell some bonds and make a killing. As care ful a business man as I am, I con fess that Mr. Cook had me hippo ed for a while, and I didn't need any, tests, but". Mr. Qopk figured i that some of the hard-headed farm ers in the neighborhood and a few preachers in town would have to be shown, and so we proceeded to have the dirt analyzed. "There was an old darkey that stayed on my place and Mr. Cook cultivited him. They became fast friends. "When we gathered up the pre cious soil, the old darkv did most of the work, putting his spade where Mr. Cook indicted. 'Right dar?' the o-'d would ask, plastering the ground with tobacco juice. Just as well try that,' Cook would spit again. "So the soil was carefully packed and sent to Washington by messen ger for analysis. In the meantime we wait for news. Mr. Cook said if-it turned out good we would sell1 some first mortgage bonds, put in some machinery and proceed to lay up a little circus money. "It seemed to me that It wasa long time before our messenger re turned, and I became impatient for action Finally the messenger, a retired business man of .Winston- Salem, came back with the news that the gold was there in large quantities. We decided to keep it a secret. 4 "Mr. Cook had intimated the fofe r a fpw fellows about the iam " - country and our messenger also carried the news to a few special friends, I learned afterwards, and Mr. Cook sold them a few thous and dollars in bonds without con sulting me. He informed me that he was going to Richtliond to have the bonds prepared and he lost his way coming back. "Yes, I'll take another cigar. Thanks. I told you that when it rained my ducks marched off down the creek on the crest of the flood. Well, it seems that the water rises on other streams, and particularly on the South Fork. The r;ver cut a channel square through my place, buried my gold mine under 30 feet coi iinrl left me and Charlie kJU" - NUMBER 3 copy hook. "I want you to see Henry Miller and have . him order the Southern put a two-mile siding f -v ,,. 1 t 1 my hanu pue ana as you come back from Atlanta stop over in Raleigh and see Frank Page and get him to buy the best road build ing sand in North Carolina." "That's the golden sands you've been talking about?," I asked. "You said it, pardner," Wallace said, grasping my hand. "You see Mr. Cook and that old darkey played a trick on me That fOol nigger had mixed gold dust in with his tobacco, and that's how I lost money." Hickory, N. C. Left Him Haughtily. There were two men named Brown in a certian village. One lost his wife and the other a boat at the same time. The vicar's wife called, as she supposed on the bereaved Mr. Brown. "I am so sorry to hear of your great loss," she said sympathetical ly. "O, it ain't much matter," wras the reply, 'she w isn' t up to much . ' ' "Indeed," said the surprised woman. "Yes," continued Brown, "she was a rickling old thing. I offered her to my-brother, but he wouldn't have her. I've had my eye on an other tor some timeT0 With that outraged woman she fled. Chicago Tribune. It Up To Us Christian People. Over Pulaski why, the city "dad." the preachers, papers and people, are "a wrastling" mightily with the question of closing business houses on Sunday. "We are in a position to prophesy, from sad experience that when the smoke of battle has cleared away, the drinking houses of the in teresting city with the Polish cogno men, will be plythely serving the pious thirsty with drinks and dopes and smokes and sweets, on the Sab bath day at so much per serve, just as in the days gone by. Oh yes, they may pass an ordinance that only cer tion things at certrin hours are to be sold, but what's an ordinance more or less between church brethren and sisterin? Quite well indeed we are aware that any curtailment of Sun day privileges and profits is oppr s d by the ungodly, but what this gentry wants, don't count very much with the city councils and courts. It's what the church folks want that A 1 A. J? iLL goes. Ana we must coniess mat we church folks a e queer creatures. We will loudly demand Sunday clos ing laws, and get mad as heck, and withdraw our patronage from the poor druggist or caterer who refuses to sell to us our Sunday drink or smoke. And the dealer, who is doing business on Sunday, not because he likes to do so, but' for the profits he expects to make, will not refuse to sell us what we call for, laws or no law. He knows that it is much safer to violate the law than to refuse us our demands. Whenever our profes sed Christians really want the Sun day laws observed, and will themsel ves cease to violate and cause others to violate them, then we will have Sabbath observance in Pulaski and Lawrenceburg and not before. The writer and Judge Williams and a preacher or two once tried to have the state and city la ws for a closed Sunday enf ored and observed in this town, and got- neatly, and thorougdly licked to a fare you well by the pious people who sit in amen corners and sing, in choirs. Church people rule this countrs. but unt'll professed Christians square their practices with their preach ments, it will not be b Chrisnians ruied land Lawrence Democrat. Stop the Leaks. When Abraham Lincoln was a young lawyer in Illinois he received a letter of inquiry from an eastern merchant regarding the responsihiii y and character of a fellow towns m; n Lincoln's reply contained or e of the besjsprmons ever preached on thrift. It was a follows: "Dear Sir: Yours of the tenth re ceived. I am well acquainted with the gentleman named, and know his cl aracteristic First of all. he ha3 a wife and baby; together they ought to be worth $50 000 to any rr.an T ien he has an office, in which there is a table which is worth $1 50, and three chairs worth, say $1. Last of all, there is in one corner a rat hole which will bear looking into. Re spectfully, Abrrham Lincoln " Stop the leaks. No man should allow even insignificant sources of waste to exist in his business or in the management of his personal af fairs It was tnis though that Lin coln had in mind when ha called at t-mtion to the rat hole. No doubt the man in question con sidered that he was quite successful and that such reverses as he had ex perienced were due to "bad luck." If anyone had criticized him for the existence of the rat hole he would have felt that a great deal of cen sure was being applied over a seem ingly worthless matter. But the ex istence of the rat hole was a key to his character. He was slip shod. Money slipped through his finders He neglected opportunities. He kept no account of his inoome and expen diture. He was neglectful' of the thousand and one little things that mean progress and upbuilding. Without being tightfisted or ava ricious.; put a stop to the little leaks. No form of wasted is so small that it should not be eliminated. Those who fail in life not as a rule do so because of sorrle great mistake but they allow their characters to be undermined by constantly yielding to pitty impulses. If there are any figurative rat holes around you stop them up at once. Gastonia Gazette. It's His Money That's Popular. J Henry Ford appeals to the people of the county to elect him president 1 u. announces that he will not cut his money bags. Evidently Henry doesn't even want to start. His causa without money his money isn't a cause at all. It is simply a big joke. By putting up liberally, of course, he C3n induce many men to accept his employment and these can induce others to start scream for the prize boob. But without opening the flood gates to his lake of wealth, Ford woulk be a desolate a girl without legs at a fox trot Ft Wayne (Ind.) News-Sentinel. mens " said "Women will - never be equals until they bear arms the grouch. "And men will never : . . , 3 icr1it women's eoual until tney bear Stroud nign ana ury, w - -, . . say. Only Charlie has the best Tpa- j children," replied the bright wife r in Davie county to fall back on. ; --Yhere nothing half so sweet. in 'Now here's where you come j life as, love's young dream., and in " Wallace confided, as I put the j nothing half so sour as walkingout "Confessions of a -Wife,"' onthejofj Getting Results. People get out of a country town what they put into it. Those who find fault because rural life is dull have probably never taken hold themselves and tried to do something worth while. Meanwhile those who are wil ing to gt t up entertainments. ( rganiza so cial life, put themselves in all move ments for the betterment of their community, and put their whole souls into church work, and the or ganizations to which they belong, find, that they had not expected They meet bright people in their home town, and from outside, ar.d form friendships that are inspira tion. There is not a geaier incen tive than meeting folks and touching elbows They earn that there are somo very clever folks' within their own square mile if they get acquaint ed with them and find out what thev can do. Lenoir News Topic. "J. C." Several weeks ago Mr. and Mrs J. C. Perry made a trip to Asheville, a few nights after their return J C. was awaken from his sleep to find his wife weeping. "My darling," he said in distress, "what is the matter?" "A dream" she pushed I have had such a teririble dream;" He begged her to tell it to him so that he might comfort her. After much fersuasion she was induced to say this: . "I thought I wa3 walking down Haywood and in a store window wls a large placard, Husbands for Sale.' You could get beautiful ones for $1, 500 or even $1,200 and very nice lock ing ones for a hundred." J C. asked innocently, "Did you see any that looked like me?" The sobs became strangling. "Doz ens of them," gasped the wife 'done up in bundles like bananas and so'd for 10 cents a bunch." Valdese En terpriser " You won't have to worry about what 3'ou are going to do in the hereafter if you are careful about what you do in' the herc-prcseut. Sets Date for End of the World. A special from Baltimore says: Maybe in 1925, as some claims, but beyond doubt by 1949. Christ will re turn to earth in a cloud, and the elect immediately will take on immortality in this planet. A. M. MacMillan, general manager of the Internation al Bible Student's Association, of New York, told an audience recently at the Garden Theater. A curious feature of the coming of the kingdom will be the proee's of growing young again, according to Mr. McMillan's policy. If you are 80 years old at the time of the com ing of Christ, you will not at once be come young. Year after year you will shed your wrinkles and sprout new hair, just as during the year be fore you put the wrinkles on and be came gradually bald. During this process you will re verse all your misdeeds, giving back whatever you will reach youth and rectitude at the same time. Mr. McMillan's forecast of the sec ond coming is based on prophecies in the Apocalypse, the four Gospels and the books of the Old Testament Ad vertisements of the lecture, mention tioned the announcement of Dr. George T. Harding, Jr., brother of president Harding, of Worthington, Ohio., who is quoted as predicting that the end of the world will come soon, possibly even before the Presi dent departs from the White House Now Views Change. (Farm Life) A boy's estimate of his parents shifts as the years go byi Up to five or six he thihks them the widest in dividuals on earth. He quotes their opinions finals, with preference given to the maternal wisdom. By the time he is old enough to take his bath alone he thinks over take his bath alone he thinks over the matter and decides that mother isn't as smart as he thought she was, but father knows a good many things and cites to himself ti.eir .re spective opinions on s admmin.' fishin' and going to the barber vs. mate; -nal hairclipping. Aoout the time he sneaks dad's raz r to his own room and expe?i ments a little with the fazz on his chin he concludes father is a well meaning duffer enough, but mother knows less than nothing. Five years later he pities the igno rance of the whole world, and espe cially that of the old folks. At. thirty, about the time he wants to borrow money from dad to cover some of his financial mistakes, he thinks father's and mothers advice is pretty good sometimes. Ten or fifteen years later, when 1 e has had'a lad or two of hi i own. the old boy begins to wonder why he never appreciated the old folks. At sixty when his parents are dead he idealizes them as the greatest characters of their age and spends hours telling his children how impli city he always headed and obeyed the slightest wish or command of hfs parents and how he ever and always took their advice in the crises of life. Recipe for Happiness. A friend sends, the following bit of verge"," wit bout titlewhich might however be appropriately termed a "recipe for happiness " "Worry less, and do more. Ride les. and walk more, Frown less, and smile more. Drink less, and breathe more, Eat less, and chjw more, Waste le?s. and save more. Preach les, and do more." Send us 25 cents and get The Your neighbor takes The Record Record till after the election. I BRING YOUR KODAK FILMS TO t I CRAWFORD'S DRUG STORE, Mocksville, N. C, I OR MAIL THEM DIRECT TO US. We will print your pictures on glossy. paper or mat surface as f f you wish. Just mention what style you want when you bring ? ? or send in your films. 4 - BARBER PHOTO SUPPLY CO., I Fif th-St., Opposite Postof fice Winston-Salem, N. C. s a t a n n a a n n 1 b & b a a b a q o an a nnesnannnntitiaEsa 0. Boys' Seasonable Clothes. Ef Cl LI a b a ' E sa There are many considerations in bq volved in the selection of & boy's a suit. It must be strong to wear B well; it must be neat to satisfy the ?a d boy's esthetic taste-it must be reas- b a onable to satisfy papa who pays a aa the bill.- All these features you will ca a find in the boys' garments which a we are offering at 5.75 to $11.75 They are a delight to look at and will wear like iron. What more can you desire? BOYLES BROTHERS CO. 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