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Gives Away 100,000 Bouquets To Green Ville, S. C., Invalids! A resolution to spend the remainder j of tils life in making as many peo ple as possible happy, adopted twen .ty years ago by Arthur O. Gower. a quiet bookkeeper of Greenville. South1 Carolina, has Just become known to the' outside world. The American Magazine for. December .tells for the first time how he has grown and ? given away 100.00(1 bouquets of flow ers to invalids since he took that vow. In his simple occupation, the reso lution has meant more a personal sacrifice than is required of the greratest philanthropists. It has meant getting up four o'cldrk Sun day mornings to carry he^vy leads of flowers to homes and hospitals and j long hours of work in his garden af- j ter his day's toil is over. But he has never wavered. TVfen. women and children, ill anywhere in Greenville j are the recipients of his voluntary gifts, which he regards as the smallest manifestations Of a Christian spirit that he can evince. Twenty years ago a northern man ; came to Greenville with an invalid wife and because she could see noth ing but the tops of the trees from ! tier bed. ?Oower decided to provide her with flowers from his little gar- \ den. They seemed to brighten the I days of the invalid so much that the: bookkeeper decided to give some of ? is .flowers to others. He began to make mental notes of : his friends who were sick,' and#from time to time he gathered bouquets from bis "own garden and took the flowers to these friends. They ap- j preciated his though Wellness; the sight of the flowers seemed to make it easier for them to be paitent while aw^itipg recovery. Then he ex- ? tended his visits to Include strangers. ? and also he extended his flower #ar- < den. As he enlarged it, hi i also en- i lariied the circle o I "his visits. That was the start of Mr. Go'wer's." flower mission. Tn making his plans, f he decided that, to visit the patients in the hospitals, giving them flowers. an obvious thing to do. To these he added various sick persons about' town. For many years he has dis tributed his' bouquets impartially, to; ail who ftre sick or otherwise afflicted As regularly as Sunday morning i rolls _ around, this quiet, unassuming bookkeeper, now sixty-six years old. visits three hospitals and many; homes, with his hamper baskets, one on <?ach arm. plied high with flow ers. His visits are eagerly looked for ward to; people expect him. as they do the rising sun. and they accept him as one of God's benefits to hu manity..' Mr. Gower is a busy man, putting! in forty-eight hours a week over his ledgers, so he does not have much time for his really wonderful garden He is not a man of means. He walks , to and from tbe 'hospitals and the. homes he visits, walks despite the ; weight of hundreds of bunches of I flowers. His own home has half an ? acre of ground around It, and In ! every available space flowers are planted. He selects ihSfn so that there will always be blossoms, except i for a few weeks In the dead of winter. Each afternoon, upon returning from ; his office, he stays with his flowers , as long as he can see to work. He j never knocks oft until the bats have hung themselves up for the night, 2nd until the last hawk-moth has ; Riven the primroses a- final once-over. Anfl the nex: morning. long before sunrise, he is>4^ith his flowers again. About four o'clock each Saturday afternoon Mr. Oower begins cutting the flowers he will distribute* next , day. When dark comes he goes into his house and arranges them into bunches. At four o'clock on Sunday morning he gets up again Slid com pletes this part of his taflt" of mercy. Then, as soon as other people are stirring, he sets out on his rounds, carrying, usually, from one hundred ! to one hundred and fifty bunches of flowers. The largest number he ever distributed in one day was three hundred . and eighteen. That was when the World War was on. and a big base hospital made extraordinary demands upon him. It Is estimated that some fifteen thousand soldiers passed through this hospital, first- and 1 last, and that, every one of them at 1 one time or another received flewtw from this bookkeeper, whose creed Is as wide as mankind. In good weather and in bad. he goes J list the same. Mr. Gower has been an officer in . the First Presbyterian Church of Oreenville for thirty-five years. Dur lng the war, as a side line, he taught j a Bible class in the government hos- j pltal. ? I Frequently in the Malls Mr. Gower I recelwp letters from strangers he ! has visited and. of course, from friends. J Others have SougbL-hlm out person ally and thanked him; one man ex plained that he had- been waiting^ three years for a chance to return again to Oreenville and meet Mr. 1 Oower.. to thank him personally for his kindness; an ex-so!dier wrote to nsk if "you are still scattering sun- ! shine." . ' -i ' .1 Notice By virtue of a mortgage made by | W,. M. Bowling and wife to J.- L. Bowling, recorded in Person County i in, Book 2, page 891. and by request { of the mortgagor. I will, on Saturday, 10th DeWmber. 1927. sell for cash to the highest bidder, in front of the court house door in Roxboro at 12 o'clock noon, that certain -tract of land lying in Mt. Tirzah township, N. C? beginning at Emmet PucCl's corner, in Banle Bass' line; thence S. 89 degrees 30 minutes W. 585 ft. to pointers; thence S. 2 degrees 30 min utes W. 2179 feet to a stake a corner In Herod Allen's line; thence N. 87 degrees IS minutes W. 476 ft. to a dead oak and pointers; thence N. 2 'degrees 30 mlnptes E. 1030 (t. to Little Rock 'Fork Creek: thence 65 It. with said creek to pointers: thence N. IS degrees E. 890 ft. to pointers; thence N. 70 degrees 45 minutes W. 2020 it. to pointers In Big Rocky Ford Creek: thence the creek as It mean ders , 1000 ft. to pointers; thence S. 70 degrees 45 minutes E. 2630 ft. to pointers; thence N. 89 degrees 30 minutes E. 900 ft. .to pointers; thence S. 1 degrees 15 minutes W. 260 ft. to the beginning, containing 92 acres more or less. This Nov. 9th. 1927. J. X.. Bowling, Mortgagee. T. C. Brooks, Atty. JUNIOR ORDER M BITING Longhurst Council rro. 670 meets* fevery Monday evening 7:80 Come to the.?e meetings members. Busi ness of importance comes before ui often which you should know about G. F. COLE. Councillar. O. J. BLUE. Rec Sec. Dull Headache and Sluggish Feeling "We are a healthy family and haven't had to use much medi cine." says Mr. J. H. Adams, of Bishop, Ga. "But I have found it necessary to take some medicine. "I had headaches. My head felt dull, and like I couldn't hold it up. "I had a bad taste in my mouth; folt sluggish and tired. "I brought home some Black Draught and took a few doses, and 1 got good results. I felt so much better. My head clear ed up. I was hungry and want ed to get out and work. "Black-Draught has proved, satisfactory and we have used it ever since." Thousands of other families have had equally satisfactory experiences. Sold everywhere in 26 cent and $1 packages. Notice Trustee'? Sale Under and by virtue of the pbwers conferred upon me In that deed of ; trust executed by N. Keally on the i 11th of January. 1926. recorded In I Book of Mortgages No. page 461. j Register's Office of Person County, j default having been made In the j payment of the note secured thereby at maturity, and upon request kt the holder thereof, I will as Trustee on Saturday. November 26th. 1927, at twelve o'clock Noon at the Court i House door in Person County. North, | Carolina, sell to the highest bidder at j public auction, for cash, the follow ! lng described real estate in the Town of Roxboro. North Carolina, bounded and described as follows: Those eight lots lying and bein? on the West side of the public road lead In?- from Roxboro to Ja'.ong. North m 't ?? i? ? i Carolina, and known and' designated as lots -Hot, 19? 20 . 21. 22. 23. 24. 25 and 28 of the W. W. Harris Farm, and shown by plat and survey of record In Office of Register of Deeds of Person County In Book 26. page 177 which Is referred to an(* made a part of this description, each of said lots fronting 25 feet on said highway and running back 210 feet. See deed of J. T. Walker to N. Keally for 19 and 20, and A. E. Jackson and wife to N. Keally for Nos. 21. 22. 23. and 24. and deed from R. A. Walker for Nos. 25 and 28. This the 25th -day. of October 1927: U M. Carlton. Trustee. . Forty cars of demonstration fed hogs have been shipped by farmers cf Chowan County this year. 1 Plans are under way now to increase these shipments next year. While You Wait! Your wind shield and _auto door glass can be fix ed while you wait. GLASS FOR ALL PURPOSES WE MAKE AND RESILVER .MIRRORS Service and Satisfaction Our Motto Durham Glass Works 120 E. 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This institution is an advocate of thrift in savings, but there are other important service depart ments here wherein we can and do serve our patrons to a profit for them. MAKE THIS BANK YOUR BANK The First National Bank -THE FRIENDLY BANK": Uneter Supervision U. S. Government V
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