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—————————— o Located In Bannertown, on Winston-Salem Highway Properly and Select 70 Building Sites, and One New Four-Room House Lights and Power Available and Good Prospects for City Water Property Located Close to Schools and Churches; Good Neighborhood Hie Terms Will Make It Easy For Anyone to Purchase 10% Cash, and 10% Every 90 Days Mt Airy, N. C. aegeiiifefgfBfiSfgfeiafiEiiSiB BOTTOM OF RIVER HIGH AS BARNS Fact* A boat Minaiuippt RI'W Which Are Inlcrrntinf 'last At This Ti»r Some idea of the ntupendou* bulk and strength of the mighty Mississip pi river which i* now indulging in •och a rampage, may be fathered from the following atatemenU which recently appeared in an article in the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin: "The Mississippi with 254) tribu taries, fifty of which rank a* navig able stream*, drain* thirty-one State*, comprising about 40 per cent of the country'* total area. Thi* enormou* watershed, reaching frwn the Conti nental Divide to the Allaghanie*. make* the probletq of checking the flooda of the lower Mississippi com plicated and difficult. Exceeaiva pre cipitation anywhere in thi* area of cwitral United States ha* no outlet to the sea nave by way of the big rirer. '"Hie largest tributaries of the TWO WOMEN I FOUND HELP Btniiked by Mrs Nlaa Matte*on. Bo* fo*. 0* ford N. Y- writes— if it had aot beea (or jroar modtelne. I could not h*T» done my work M It •boukJ bar* bwa 4cw Mother told «M or Lrdta B. PtBkham'a Vt|» r • b I • Compound, ■od I hod read la diftrint P*i*re what It had dona ■ha waatad ma u • ry It. m ay hoa fgraigfgiEiMiaaraiaan — Mississippi >» the Missouri. Ohi. Arkansas, Had. 8t. Francis. Yum White, and Texas. The maximui discharge of the Arkansas equal that of the upper Mississippi. Th Missouri doubles, and the Ohio triple it. A flood condition on aay one c these rivers means trouble in th Mississippi basins. When several < them get busy at once, disaster fo! lows. "The Mississippi channel boloi Cairo overflows when the charge ei reeds 1,000,000 cubic feet per secoiu And the Ohio alone has been know to send down 1,MM,000 feet. In th rreat flood of 1912 it is estimate that 1.000.000 cubic feet more thai the channel capacity was runnini past Cairo. "The alluvial valley each side o the river shows that floods hare al ways been common. As lonfr a(o a 1785 a flood of irreat proportion look place The people of New Or Vsn« erected the first levee awa; back in 1718. But the steady depoei of aitt by the river along its edge and in its bed raises the stream, • that it actually creates a soft o causeway. From time to time, be fore the valley hogan to • be sottM the river would break out of its t han net, and rut a new one on lowe ground. In the attempt to wall i in, about 1,500 miles of levees hav been built below Cairo. Behind thee iimiiivk, wnicn are niiran xo iwenij Ave feet high, the farmer- of th Mimmmippi baain live and work. "When flood waters bor»t th Iwmi, they roll with great r peed ou acrofia th* land and into tba ol hayoaa, carrying everything barf or them, because thay are acta ally roll in* down hill from tba near. "The planters and farmara of th M laaiiaippi Valley haaina go aboa their daily teak* with the bottom o the big rirer in many place* a* higl aa the tepa of their haraa" L» M. Swiak, Wiaitoa-Salan Lawyer, Dim b WasH N^e£e2i «2SS ^ ^ iaigggigafgianuaiafaiaiaian ATLANTIC A YADKIN WILL IMPROVE LINES lUnttm Aitlwriud to PirrkaM J.IN Tmh Of Mark HnrWt Rail. Greensboro News, May 20.—Im provement of the track* of Um Atlantic and Yadkin Railroad com pany by the replacing of worn 00 pound rail* with new steel rail* of the 100-pound to the yard variety ha* been authorial by Jad ire E. Yatoa Webb, of the I'nited State* court for the wv stern district of North Caro lina, upon petition of the reeelvsra, : A. E. Smith. Mount Airy, and J. W. KYy, Greensboro, aad the recommen dation of Sydnor DeButta, superin tendent of the line now opera tad under receivership. The receiver* have been author!led by the court to purchase A,0pO ton* of the 100-pound rail at a price of 121 per ton, or a total of approxi mately 170,000. Much of the 00 pound rail now In use i* badly worn and replacements are to be made aa rapidly as possible. In petitioning for authority to buy the new and heavier rail, the re ceivers state that decision to aak authority to make the eapondltare wa* reached only after Captain J. W. Pry and Superintendent DeButta had . maw a u<or 01 inipKUon over the > entire line from Mount Airy to S*n for. IUIIi ran(in| in weight from i AO to 100 pound* per yard art now t being uned on the Una, and It la I stated that ainea the receiver* took > chant* i ftw yam ago thay have . found it neeeaaary, in the tntoreet of ■afety and good ■thodulei. to re i place badly worn raili with Wee t worn onaa from time to time, making r j the need now for new and haevior i. rail* all the more marked. _ .J.LJ . . I flrestone D«ol«r»t Have Purchased 100% More GUM-DIPPED TIRES THE demand from car ownen for Gum-Dipped Tire* has given Fiieatooa Dealer* a large increase in volume enabling them to tell these tires to you at the lowest prices in history. On the cars of motorists everywhere, these wonderful tires are delivering unheard-of long mileage with greater safety and comfort. The Firestone Balloon Tread, scientifically designed three yean ago, and un changed today, follows the contour of the tire carcass with no excess rubber at the edges to cause "shoulder breaks". Narrow rider strips permit the tread to yield 1 « Ait/I rlma in l4\j> rna rl nrrvMttlM OLDFDELD TIRES K4 mhc |f.K 3H1/' fc.S5 c— 7.M »■ MC SIM « 1M« u made of cord* clipped In which not only nturatd and i of every cord, bat unifies aide avoiding separation uuder the Tm TW Battery Electric Service Co. R. P. D. N*. 1 Maaat Airy, H. C W. EL Merritt Company 38 |
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