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the top of tlM rmp Br mtmt OM Town diatrk* ta to hold an election far the pwpoee of bonding tha district far $76,000 to MM tha road. At i al month* dtrrtng tha winter it ta i poaeihle for ante traffic to Mm mod-pike from tha Vtrginl»-Caj-o ttne line into Galax. It ia nnderatood in thia office that in tha diatartet the voting of tha bend*. Ona objection rniaad ia that tha marchanto of (Mas with to aaddla upon tha dla triet tha coat of a road which ia da only. In are in error. Tha road, althn it can not paaa by every farmer'* door will benefit the farmer* of the entire dla triet Neatly mora than It wiU benefit the baefaea* men of Galas. Anything a J t m at|». uhi ihwtiw u town, aiPDCtiy cotiTwm • benefit upon that town'* tributary farming community. Before a mer chant can pro*per hia farmer-produ cer mn-t be able not only to fat hia produce to town but be able to gat Into town himself to boy the mer chant'* wave*. No on* road rsn pass every man'* door and If some communities oppose tto bond tana because tha proposed htHiway does not pan* directly thru that community, it shows vary poor judgment indeed. Grayaon county moat begin sometime to Improve it'a roads If it Is not to he'left In the wil derness of yesterdays. Bach improv ed hirtwnv begets another highway, and in time the entire dlstriet and county will he traversed by rood road*. But a beginning mint ha made. Per hap# our Virginia frlenda will not think us North Carollninans to be meddling In affairs not our own. If we way to them: Every dollar you people spend upon modem highways wfll prove to be tha beat Investment you ever made. At least we have found it so in this state. MORE ABOUT THE TELEPHONE A few weeks ago we stressed in this newspaper the rrrst need for a better telephone system fo. M.e rural section* errnur thi* i-ity. It is n courairintr that rep.i:-t* c«mc in that what sve u<id hi* in 1 n in.o.1 efftct and that effort* -in foot to make imnmvtments it, • ora ; recti*»o* There never hm H. on nn inventionI that si>rpas*e« ir. vnlue the mode** telephone Thi* was mad* clear to us when during the pai» few day*, because >of the deVh of a relative, H Mramc necessary to communicate with relatives in sever*; distan* place*. It was as easy to rail friends in Yadkin county ard talk to them over the Bell lines a* it !s to tatk to homes in our own ciiv. And what seems even more importart the phone was used to talk with :i relative in the far away city of Atl iota Cu.. and it w-"' as satisfactory service as one could desire. When a people once knows of the valpe of the phone It la a most important addition to the modern way of living. Ten years ago almost every family In this section "had a phone line into the home. Now the phones are there and out of commission. There are! exceptions to this we find, and maMr exceptions. They tell as that up in Carroll county, only a few miles away from this city, they have three telephone exchanges In tne rural sec tion and not less than three hundred phones In service, and they are an manured s* to be in constant service and are highly satisfactory. We inquired of a telephone man in this c'tv ns to what his opinion Is as to the failure of the service show! here He placed all the blame oir the faultv material that was used in doing what should have been per saan «nt work Where a good grade of wfre costing about a fourth more should have been need he says a chean •grade of wire was used and In most case* rusted In two years, and after that It was easy to break and render ed • poor service. A good grade of wire Is not supposed to rust. Ano ther cause for the failure about here 1m says Is the mail order houses of fer a telephone about five dollars S>er than a standard stake of ■t sails for. He says at least of the phones Installed In homes fct the rural section* about this city are bought from mall order house* I will aavsr ha satisfactory. A Hue Bbe put up with good wire for t ten dollars a mils and a stan phons can to sec wed for about dollin, and connection to had with the city i; stein her.- for fifty oenta a ssontb A number of * - — - —-.m-, Mj vVi wiw rr ww >*nv Ano ttas divide the cost of its con»tr art. wiftrsurvift WHfc •* *HM farta W* an not auppoeimr that th* a**r bU mind m pZITmw it in th* fntara wKh aay Itttto priMim Mm i) .nil— ft gr*at nllmi W* mora than thirty ywn tys public* spirited (Mmii coitiftgM of th*tr private funds and with mm state aid built a railroad from Wilmington to Mount Airy. For ysers altar m road wa» built tb« count! y «m so poorly Iwrsiopsd that tha road was net a paying *wt*ipila*. Back than th* qnarrt** bar* and tha furniturs he tort* war* not in operation and a Httla lumbar and produc* mad* up th* bulk at th* Mikt shipments. Any way. tha basin*** for *om* y*ar* waa not a financial -inn and th* dti un* who war* operating th* raad found that th«y could no longer boar th* financial burden, and H want into tha hand* of a ree*i**r. J After a Urn* the road w*a told by the rnil>«« and paaaed into ths hands of ths Southern Railway eo» nany. That ta, thi» part of the road from Moont Airy to Sanford, making a Una of 190 mile*. That waa many vears ago, and now tha Souther^ rlaima that it haa operated tha husi neaa at a losa and ia not witling to continue ta ao operate it. The man who lives about this town and *ee» the train loads of produce nnd granite and furniture (romp out dally, and murh of this busineaa so heavy and ruahinir that special freight trains are operated almost daily, he wonders why the fcilure It may be that this will throw some light on the subject. They tell ua that freight leaving this town for points north ia carried to Rural Hall. * distance </ 30 miles, and there tak en over the Southern lines by way of Winston-Salem. Now the Mount Airy ; road runs to Greensboro and if the ; freight had been carried orer the line to that city the haul would have been 70 miles rather than thirty miles to Rural Hall. No doubt the Southern wilt say that It Is good business to make the haul by way of Winston Salem rather thar over the entire Mount Airy road to Greensboro. In other words. It Is sad that the South ern has used the tine between Rural Hall and Greenahorn but very little for any through fr«ighta, and haa hnuled all through freights over its line by Winston-Salem. Now. no one wilt charge that this was unfair or not good busineaa, hot it would be unthinkable to try to op orate a rond and take all freight away from it. To. be successful the road must be used, of course, and It seems that the Southern had other lines that it has used rather than the Mount Airy line. We are expecting that the road he a paying business now that H *»« hands of men who will fad that > ia their busineaa to make a finan cial success of the enterprise, which it seems has never been the ease up to this time. REV. EUGENE OLIVE / LEAVES . Next Sunday will mark the cloe? of the pastorate of Rev. Eugene Olive of the Fint Baptist Church. Mount Airy. Mr. Oliv/ came to thia city three years ago from Dunn. He leaves the pastorate here to become pastor of the Baptist church at Chap el Hill where K is said some #00 Bap tist students are punning their stod J®*- \ s While this move can bat be taken in the light of a promotion for Mr. OlWe—a promotion richly deserved— still it la with the greatest reluctance that local church people give him up. And when we say "local church peo ple" we by no means restrict our thought to the people of Mr. Olive's denomination, for since coming amongst us Mr. Olive has endeared himself to an clssese and faiths of our town. No docbt some of his pop ularity is explained by the wit chary of Us voloa la song, hot we fancy that he is no less sets—sd far his i Ws believe Mr. Olive the type of and will rsapood to. The i fal both church * Mr. OUr* Hm "CAUGHT ON THE FLY" Wm. Short, for • lone time ftawr for Um Southern railway and Uvtaf in Greensboro, last week uiliwwt hi npiritfaw in ft Richmond hocpitftl For some jhn Mr. Short has bow <-T<ppl«d in on* lag from m injwry. The operation was for the paipoae of restoring the member to usefulness. A letter from him to hi* brother, R. B. Short of this city, bring* thejuar tening news that as • result of the nperattea he is able to more his leg and has hopes that the member will recover it'» former activity. frock a ad Haymore Catch 'em \ f T. N. Brock, tobacco buyer for Reynolda. and ft. L. Haymore, fami liarly known as "Uncle Rnfe," are sneaking off from town every day or two and going fiahing down on the Ararat. Toeaday the News man caught Brock alipping Into town and accused him of the deed over the ohone. He admitted that they ha£ Wn catching aome fine ones, bat aaia "\«k Mr. Haymora about that big one he let get away." Uncle Rnfe saya boya will be boy a anyway. Veteran Clergyman Calk. Rev. A. Jackson Williams of Zeph yr, veteran Baptist minister of Surry county, paid The News a call Tues day. He is |7 years old, has beeiu preaching ths Gospel 45 years an/ has probably conducted more fun erals, married more couples and bap tized more converts than any minis ters no* living in the county. At 77 this old soldier of the cross, whose head is white from harvesting the trrain of his sowinc. boasts that* ha can perform a feat impossible for many younger men: he can jumn clear of the ground and crack hia heels together twice before touching the ground. He called to chat with his friend Editor Johnson. Junior* Attend Funeral. The funeral of J. W. Fowler, aired 59 and brother of W. 0. Fowler of this city, was attended by 280 mem ber* of the Junior Order Wt Sunday S* beinr from Mount Airy. The de ceased was buried at Mt. Zion church near Pinnacle and the services were conducted by Rev. A. L. Hooter, as sisted by the Juniors. Sold. L. Johnson, who for engaged in the boai-1 of producing sourwood honey in Surry county, last week sold his en tire bee ontflt, consisting of about 550 colonies to Eli Winesett recently of Washington state, llr. Wineaett week enraged in haulin* his millions of live stock into Mount Airy whence they will be ^shipped In two cattle cars to W bus county, N. C. E cate them in Lake Woccamjps^, Wilmington. tuw begin and til yMHWt. to hnkw Ca/a OflkA /A 20-by at-toat addition of gran** pa to ba Mad* to tfca Mount Airy Far nitnre Co.'i office building. Thb im provement to mad* mnasacy by tfca rapid irMrtk to the company'a M nasa, which naceaaitotaa larger offlca fa i HI tin. ___________ + Galas Wants OatlM Whan the citizens of Galas ml ly went to Richmond to bag for aa appropriation out of the fire or ais millions available la the atato for highwaya, they received, It ia aaid, only a thousand dollara. They are anxioua to build a hardaorface read from that town to connect with Bm ry'a road at the top of the Lowgap grade. Failing in their effort to re ceive atate aid, they have secured the l^aaaage of a bill permitting the Old [Ypwn District to vote on a $75,000 bond iaaue to build the proposed road. The election will probably be Bet fot aome time in Jane. South Street Get* Hidewalka. . i. The Board of Town Commissioner^ pteld a call meeting Monday night to consider a petition from the resident* on Sooth atreet asking for the con atmction of aidewalka. The Commia aicmera acted favorably upon the pe tition and will put a surveyor to work Thursday making the proper preliminary aurveya. J. D. Smith Oat Again /J. D. Smith, clothing, automobile Jmd fertilizer dealer, after a month's siege of aggrevated indigestion, ia again able to get down town to hia many buaineaa interests. Club Women VUit Jail / County Horn \ |/A delegation of club women, filling' [mtiree ears, motored to the County Home and jail Tuesday afternoon car rying good cheer to the inmate* and leaving with them gifts of uranges, apples and candy. Boy Hit by Bi« Car Blanche Reynolds, colored, driving his Packard Twelve Monday about 11:30 A. M. struck the five-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Hatcher on Rockford street, bruising his foot and inflicting severe abrasions of the skin on his kne# and shoulder. The little fello« had started to cross the <tre«t near his home, which ia close > Marshall's store, when the acci • <snt happened. Fortunately no bones were broken, and when seen by a re porter about two o'clock he was sit ting in a chair feasting on an all-day laucksr. Chautauqua Weak June 19 to 24 • Headquarters of the Swrnrthmorr Chatauqua circuit this week wrote D. E. Hoffman, secretary of the local Chautauqua Committee, that the Mount Airy Chautauqua this year would be held daring the week of June 19th to 24th. All organisations and individuals who dee ire to 1 the good work and enjoy lt'» annual visit are requested by the committee to keep these dates open for a full enjoyment of all the programs. tj-twa JMTI mt ■■ prlMM ear.ful M li> f >«U rwt MkM isr For Si Carter-Walker Furniture Co. SlSVICe PHONE 88 QOEAUVT » GARDEN SEEDS Flower Seed* and Onion Sete W. S. Wdfe Drug Co. Nexk to Peel Offic* SERVICE PHONE 88 QUALITY ^ Health to one of the greatest things your family cm possess. It trap happiness and success. Bat health must be safeguarded by good wholesome foods that are prepared from the purest ingre dients. This is especially true of bakings. If they are not property raised, we aH know that they are not easilv digested. Many times when sett-rising flour is used in place of good plain flour and de- • pen da We baking powder—the results are flat, soggy and heavy foods. Don't take chances! Use a reli able brand of baking powder and plain flour. Then you will be sure of healthful bakingsthatare easily digested. Remember, science has never found anything to take die place of the tried and tested method of using plain flourand good bak ing powder in preparing bakings. Millionsofhousewives now know by actual experience that many preparations that are claimed to take their place are worthless and dangerous to health be cause they fail to leaven. There to no comparison Calumet, the Economy Baking Powder, is known to be one sure and positive aid to successful bakings that are always pure, sweet and wholesome. That's the reason its sales are times as much as any other brand. PACKED IN TIN -KEEPS STRENGTH IN CHAMPION Now Reduced to, "655 J+kTM* World's Lowest Priced Qoeed Car with Doors Front and Rear. Older Now lor Earliest Poaeible Delivery! V' C M. Smith Motor Co.
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