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A WORD PERSONAL. Th editor of tbia ptpn H«airaa to bring brfor* tba pupla of tbia (action • nutUr at rniwik intaraat to da ■uukJ a public itotw—t Hnllnn during tba holidaya at kit month conf arancaa wm bold in lkt< city by cititon* looking to tba fatura from a political * tend paint. Itoaa eam/aranaaa, aa wa hava boon told, vara puraiy ol a palHtoal natora by bmii who ara intoraotod to *h» Mm* iralfaia of tba D«an era tic party. It waa ittiiti in tbaaa confar —en that tba mo* who ara laadara to tba party want to own aad control • nowapapar to ba publiahad at Ulia city. This pa par that thay daaira to awn would bo • palitical papar in tba troaat aanaa at tba word. As the result or unm conference*, ar caacus**, * delegation of dtiwms cum ta see the publiahen of the Mow* and uk«d that we nam* a price at which all th* interest in th* papar, or a controlling interest, could ba bought. After considering this propo rtion the dtiien. war* informed that The New* ia not for Mia, either in Part or aa a whole. Now we are mad* to think that since these citizens ara not able to buy The News, or to bay a controll ing interest in it, they will organise a company and start a new papar. We treat the mattar with enough importance that we desire to aay to the public what our reasons are for declining to sell our busineaa. The present editor of The News has been at the helm now for mora than 16 years. Theee years represent a period of time during which, by doe* application, the business was established and put on a paying basis, in a small way. For some cause the town and the country districts have always given us a liberal patronage. And this hnf increased from year to year and is today larger and more satisfactory than ever before. The cordial relations tl>at exist between this office and the general public are of such a pleasant natur* that it ia poaltire proof to as that our work ia la a very large sens* satisfactory to the general public. If we are not mis taken in this opinion then we see no good reason for disposing of our business until we see something bat ter for us in other lines. If the publishers of The News had any good reason for thinking that the general public of this aection would welcome a change in the bjsiness Management of the paper we would not hesitate to sail and look for congenial surroundings. But it would ba hard to make us think that there is any such demand here, for we have customers literally by the hundreds who have given us all the busin«a* they have with a printing office for many years. These cltisens seem to be aatiafie-J with the service we are able to give them, and their patronage nakes it poasible for ua to live and educate our children and accumulate • little for a rainy day, and that ia about as much as moat people have a right to expect from the public, at laaat It about as much as moat people who tarv* the public are able to gat In return for their cervices. And *o in the light of these facta we find oar- j selves inclined to let well enough alone". M to s new paper being started here we would have it very clearly' understood that we are not only not hostile to the enterprise, but are will ing to lend a hand if we can serve the men who are behind the movement. What we have in mind ia that we have machinery here in our office that could be used by the new publish en until they could get an out At installed, which in them strange times is often secured with much delay. We confi dently believe that another good live newspaper here would put new sest into the publishing business and cause the people to take a more lively inter eat in the local newspapers. The policy of The News is too wall known to call for any kind of state sent. We have stood for the inter ests at oar party Mid for the many causes that tend to make conditions better for the whole people, and this is true of all the yean that -are behind as. There has not been a public effort of any kind made in this section for the betterment of the country that did net got the hearty and able sap • port et the publishers of The News We are egotistical enough to think that the small success that has come to ue In a business w»v has beer Mainly due to the fact that, from time to time, the paper b*s been abl» to tender a ml service to the .-ountrr for he it knawn that a resl newsnape is something more than a polities! itama. TW yapar that lioaa now ud pti Um aapport at lW yblli. tar My groat long* at Uma. maat ifcow thai tkMi right to Um at Um raal aarrtaa tt to ahto to rwtoar. A & JOHNSON. a won or WARMING. To tan ynplut and tall what Um Mm baa La mm far Um corny try h • vary iwnafa Urine to 4a ud • aar vta* Um* but faw yapU will »>yrat i«U. bat that la Juat what many laarnad man tad (ooa and dnna. Man wk* ara craditad with baing author ity on aubjarta at taaaaa aay that a criaia i» buainoaa U ahaad aa rartain aa Um rolla along. Thay Ifira H out that tha lack at production on tha farma la nrtoln to bring a rataatro pha. Tbaaa liarnad Baa hara iaraa ' ratad and thoy tava faund that only a vary iauUI part at tha amy want ••ack to Um farma whan Um aoldlori loft tho aarrtea. Many at thooo m wora farmora and thoir axporianaa hi tho amy kopt thorn from going back to thoir old occupation. Now thoy ara workar* in factoriaa or ritta—a 11m local situation i* interacting. A ritiaan at • rural wrtfap at tMa eaaa ty mM a ttm daya ago that in Ma aeettea there waa not a aingit hired man on tho (Sana, and that It waa Ita ly out of tka qasetlsa to hirs balp of any kind. Hm only assistance om ran cat aboat the Cam work, ha said, la to exchange labor with aoaaa neigh bor. Tha high prieee at tobacco tha paat neaaon in going to eanaa moat men to plant aa much aa they can this year. Many fanaa ahws nana waa gruwn last yaar will go into the businewi heavily thin yaar. All of which may he good buaineaa but it means a short age of food crope. Wa heard a man <ay recently that ha would have out several barns on a farm that produced none last yaar. Now wa are not sup posing that anything we can say will cause people to change their ways, hut we are disposed to insist that thinking people play safe to the ex tent of producing a living on the farm. It la not necessary to say even this to many, for they are already doing this. Mr. H. A. Marsh, of the country east of hare, when he paid his sub scription to The Newa a faw days ago remarked that somehow he had formed the habit of making his living at home even if prieee of tobacco are high. And than he want on to talk and said that last year ha only mads one barn of tobacco and sold It foi *450.00. In addition to this he will sell chickens, eggt, meat and othei small items from his farm to th< amount of aa much aa hia tobacco brought. Now the intereating part ol this story, to us, la that Mr. Marsh will only make one barn of tobacco next year. He will not let the high prieee of last year turn his head and keep him from growing food crope for his own use. That is what we call playing eafe, and if there were about a million other citixens of the type of Mr. Marsh the country would be safe, let come what may. But you can safely count on the country not taking pattern after Mr. Marsh, and according to tha financial experts it is only a question of time when the bottom will fall out of buai neaa, and with the craah many a man will have a story to tell of how he played and loet In tha yeara that fol lowed the war. cA Hm Mayor's Court. In the Mayor'* court in this city Monday several of oar citizens war* up for viola tine various sections of th* city traffic regulation*. Th* offi cer* ar* ln*i*tlng that the public ah nerve th* traffic lawi cloeely and any violation* of than will eartainly mean being brought bafor* the Mayor If dla covarad by th* policemen. The following list were fined |2Jt and the cost for violating the traffic regulations: Frank Bowles, Pate Hick*. Cliff Nichols. Dav* Crawfwd, Billie Carter, Dr. L. L. Williams, Jack Fulton and Ale* Worth. In the future the Mayor will hold court regularly every Monday bant ing in the new town hall court room. Returned to Surry. \ On. Jan. 14th George Ayers, a citi zen of this county, sold out all ha had and took the train here' for Amelia county, Virginia, expecting to locate there, his aunt. Mrs. Alice Greenwood, having written him about that section. On Jan. 28th Mr. Ayers returned to Surry saying he found the available land in Amelia county poor and worn out, all the bast farms being already occupied. He thought his chance* much better here. Churches Closed Sunday. Complying with the order at the County Board of Health that sll nieces of public gatherings be dosed 'or two weeks on account of influenza, •he churches in Mount Airy will be -losed next Sunder and al*n Sunday 'he 15th, unless the order «houM he annulled before that ttmr. r^ie notice •f service will he made in the paper*. T. H. K'nr Pro*. Pa*t«r« C n'orencr* pwuey at (Jm iUU U tuiiH avary CMMtf wt town u> Uto atoto with t goad n«i Mow tkucu K>i ba done in • day of a ynt. lb« pUa b far Ih KadanU flwiiiwl to pay Mil mt Lha county, wbara tha taad U ■■da. dto atoar fv»urU. a. aay ua« te do it* part. Of course will not be atade where will not law Us part of Th* AUtbuiitifli of thi* ago agreed to PMlt Mir surveyors bat*'la Ik* —piny of the state •ad spent many Willi going ortt tko rout* from Danbury to Dobeoa. Thoy lift id tho road b*gianiag oaat of tko village of Wootftold aad following tko I main road, prtacipaily, to tko town of Mount Airy, a diotaaco of 10.08 ill— Froai Mount Airy to Dobooa tko now road, la tka aaia, follow* tko ad. Many of which i tho proooat road froai Lor ill* croak, south of tki* city, ha* many ikort curves for a milo or more. Tko now road will run much noaror tho old M. i.w «m h rao and will bo practical!) a now location and .a straight road to .ho home of Mr. Robort Jono*. At Tumori Mountain tho now loca tion leaves the prooont road and fol low* the mountain along it* we*torn ■id* for almoot two mile*, tho* leav ing the present road which fret* down in (one low land. The old road i* again reached near the Ed Draughn poach orchard. Thi* now location ia entirely in the wood* and field* along the foot, of Turner* Mountain and gives a much better grade, but will evidently be a co*tly piece of work. Again the old road la left at the Draughn peach orchard and goea almoat a direct courie toward Dobeon, crossing the Fiah river a half mile above the present bridge. The new road is being made after the survey of the State surveyor*. And before the Federal Government would accept it surveyor* were sent hero from Washington to go over the location and the gradei and approve the work. Thi* was done and no hitch developed in all this technical work. The new road ia to he an near free from curve* and ateep gradftx as pos sible, and is to be #0 feet wide and to have a bed of sand clay or top soil 18 feet wide and 10 inches deep. This road become* a par*, of the system of State highway* that is to connect up the different county towns, later it will be extended to the town of l*an bury, in Stokes county, and to Sparta in Alleghany county, going to Sparta, by way of Kapp* Mill*. Thurmond and Mountain Park. The contract with the road builders ia that the work ia to begin not later than the Ifith of thia present month snd the first work is to be at Mount Airy. The entire job is to be complet ed in a period of 300 working days, and costs the nice sum of about ; 97,000 per mile for the entire job. | The new location will shorten the distance from Mount Airy to Dobeon about one mile, making it 10.82 mile* to Dobeon. Thia new road will be one of the Ibeet ia the state, of its kind, aad will , no doubt be an incentive to the county | to make and maintain a first claaa ' system of roads. ffri-THT la Bad Luck. Many (rood stories float about that | become the subject of intoreatta( conversation .and yet no one can t vouch for the truth or error they may contain. One day this week so«ne body told thii one to the New* man, . Two Mount Airy citisens are the moat disgusted fellows you could find , in a day'* journey. According to the story these two in some way rot wiae , to the fact that on a certain moua i tain stream on a certain day a "run" ; of the ardent would be made from a pure copper r.till. Now the information that came here was that the beer was 1 working nicely and the copper still waiting. None ef the rile fluid com monly sold about here for M was to be turned out. but rather the kind oar fathers used to make in the good old : days of the long ago. Now such a story as this coming to town from what appeared to be a moet reliable source waa too tempt ing to the two above referred to citi sens. Be thy hied themselves to the section where the goods were to be had in all purity coming right from ! the copper, with none of your concen trated Ire or other injurious tosew tions with which folks have learned to adulterate It with. And your twe Mount Alrv citizens were not roing to take any man's word for it, they were goinr to be right there on the grounds and «ar th- i=ss, asd «*t the «*>oda fresh and pure as H ■•»»» frr-m th» still. Pot "th« sta*-< In their «wmr»«*s feutrht a«mlMt Ci««"-»" in this case at to town dry aa a bona and m deubt disgusted with Ik. world lW tU dM evil Imhi that haw bi ought ttin dMnaladr dry liM upon this evil TIM Other citisen, so th« story pn, «h pouMHd arith a gre»'-r ilsgrss of pctlmn or deterasinaUoe >r thirst call it what you m;, anyway hs wattod until tha boys did make tha "no". But again tha vary stars mn against him, fsr whan tha -run" waa wall along tha way and tha jaica was pouring strong and clear frsa tha "worm", up dashed • party of thaas tared tha what* hlnaniag asUH, viatt ora and all. And strange to My thay would take no aiplmtlw freai any body aa to tha why and wha—firs of hia praaanca at that particular part of tha country at that Una of tha day. And tha pssky ufftaari insisted m taking everybody along with thani over into ths wUdamaas of Virginia whar* thay pretond to have lonetiiiiif thay call a court and whara thay try to annoy tha Itfa oat of a fallow wro goto caught in such pis ess aa the a bor# nam ad citixon found hiassoif on that aril day. Ths story fails to giro an account of how thia Mount Airy citisen got free of ths udkars and found hia way back to civilisation. Mews From Mr. D. D. Parka. 1 In a paraonal 1st tar to the editor of "Tha News," Mr. D. D. Parks of Ap palachia. Vs., a former raisdant of thia city, daacrihes his new homo town aa being a busy law abiding town with fifteen passenger trains- daily, situat ed in a beautiful mountainous country, fad by numerous coal cam pa, which ship a minimum of GOO earn of conl daily. The miners ars well paid Mr. Parka says, making from M-50 to (12.60 per 8 hour day, money flows freely and buaineaa is prospsroua. Mr. Parka sends hia regards to all his friends snd says that his family is wall satisfied, because they are do i ing well, though they ars deeply in ; ta rested In their old friends back in , Mount Airy and always read "Tha News" with keen interest. Give your wije Our ftrn'rture for her V<x\enVme. Mr. homelover:— wny not give your Wife a real Valentine thie year? 8he would just lovs to have a nice piece of Furniture or a new Rua for her home. You and the children will also enjoy it. Send your wife to our store and let her buy what she really wants to beautify her home and your home. We have the goods. 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