North Carolina Newspapers

Turpentine Drippings < oin[’i!< ,! I’.v Bill Sl'arpe mm WI GO VG ’-IN (Harnett County Now.-> Setoi; et ; a; *■;, ■ friends haw told us within the past few That moans thov have sold all of thei rrecent crop and it's time to begin on a new one. And it mean.- that the work ot a i bad' .;r; ... - iik^ a tax cnlector’s wap-s—from year's be-, THt: PERFECT EDITORIAL (Ashley Futrelle. Washington News) W« e a ci lain editor was rcu :ving om plaints about his editorials. There is nothing .nnsu-.l no it that, but this edit e fell lhal he avs it - ceivin;: too many He di t ided i do sorn> thin about it. He t . -k a passage from the Bibfi . nd p' .. d it -n tin front page on edp : U. The edi tor told the reader, ''Son'., tel) i Je-sus about if- in ' rote it." THEY GOT SOMETHING (Bill Arthur, News & Views) Folks better start patting my 11 family on tin bark We've really | i got s. met hire.- 1 It s "ire o-nti. i'.i odenil:- ’ That's v.'k ; Dr Hass Barnes calls <: . ■ hi s ys it's really i something f ha ., *>rkt. c Don't you know what it is? 1 Stupid’ 2 It's the i. Bi s : . £ MONTH Louis Graves, Chapel Mil Weekly) r I heard i. r'ence Campbell the , \ Weekly's | m ■, bi ss, come run 1 fling up t: - ep.- lriilii the < i: 1 M W SMCI ifidim; cop'-, This - a iinplc mI Dixie 82 ,v« How corn, one of five new hybridi av,a,fable I ir esc on North Caiolina farms in 1952. Ii is very high-yieldim hr rood rods, and is adapted to the Coastal Plain and Piedm ait regions. According to i)' . K. J>. Collins, agronomist l i tie- Stati College Extension Service, the other new hybrids are N. C. 24 yellow, adapted to the upper mountain i a ion •.n 1 > N (' lili yellow, adapted to the mountains and as i .-!> C a n in > 4 III I p.ii'ts of the State; N. C. 2l< white, suited to ... 111ai. if l!" C s 'ie! Plain and Piedmont; and JV C. 31 white. d Ip. ■1 t. .ii. • as N. C. 29 i xeept the lower or southern Coastal Plain. 1 -ms M i ni When he comes u thiil waj it 'l.'iu tes unusual cagci ness about something or othe. He said: "Mr Graves, <lo yoi know w( re t;oin;: to have t'iv iss .i - in February? I wonder i that ever h,appended to tie Wee klv before'”' Tins being a Leap Year, Feb ruary has 29 days The first d;n if the month happens to fall or Friday; which means that t hi 29th falls on Friday; which means i ee Friday is our publieatior lav. five issues in the year'; shortest month. 1 consulted the World Alma lac's “n .edy reference calendar,' .vhich tell- you on what day ol he week any day of the monfl ill on for 200 years buck, and ); will for 50 years to come, and found that the1 paper had novel before come out five times in i February. But there’s something of a trick in it. From March 1, 1 1 1922, when the Weekly’s first ’ I issue appeared, to June 13, 1934. our publication day was Thurs day. February 29 fell on Friday in 1924. and if Friday has been our publication day then as it is now, we would have had a five-issue February in that year. The "ready : reference calendar" shows that tin re won’t he another February with five Fridays till 1980. I.OH Dtiirs PUMPKINS (Guy Swat ringen Stanly News & Presses) Mr Lewder told about the eas iest crop he ever raised. He had been accustomed to h eding pumpkins to his pigs. This year he moved his pig pen. All iovei the spot where the old pen had been, pumpkins came up, i grew, thVived, produced a load if pumpkins No plowing or plant ing. Nothing for him to do but ' load the ripe pumpkins and haul . I hem in. BIGGEST HOPE (Rockingham Post-Dispatch) i Truman hope;- Taft would run. | Taft hopes Truman will run. Many voters hope neither will! i run. FI It EM AN’S BAZAAR (Moore County News) Special mention should be made of the half-grown hound puppy donated by Fire Cltief Jackson. I! probably wanted to get rid of ii anyway, but when the bidding l for dus particular item had ceas aicdher tin man. Delve Miller had brought himself a dug—for live bucks. Well, Doyle got his wife to hold the d"g over at cm* side, and the sale droned on. Toward its end. tin \ both got to thinking what in the wan Id they would do with just ! such a deg it was a girl dug by | 1 he way and so they tried to give | it away. Unsuccessful in tliis, I ; though showered from many j qua! tors with thanks for the gen-t erositv. Doyle an astute hardware man when la is not eating smoke, linally conceived the bright idea of auctioning her off again This he did, and Chief Jackson bought hei back for two bucks. Mrs Chid "Vi" Jackson then led her back Ik.me and everybody was happy, not the least among them tl I WHEN TOMORROW IS TODAY . *. will big hospital and surgical bills force you to wipe out savings or go Into debt? Prepare for the medical expenses of tomorrow by join ing Hospital Saving Association today. North Carolina’s only Blue Cross-Blue Shield Plan protects you against the costs of illness. Backed by the doctors and hospitals of the . state. Write for information tot HOSPITAL SAVING ASSOCIATION CHAPEL HILL, N. C. BLUE CROSS-BLUE SHIELD I - | We Make Loaus On New Cars l) lowest Hates Available Here! k* --- Cl KM) OK AN ERA ( Laurmgburg Exchange Druggist Willie N. Robertson has announced that hereafter I Kverin.gton’s Drug Store will close ^ at 7 o'clock at night. For old tim ers this seems like the overthrow ! an ir.sl it vs t ion. Sonic < f them -■ V that to their own knowledge I It.'gv Ill's 1)114 Vote !I LIS,, llcetl j open at night for more than for ty years And when Lauringburg's Main Street went New-dealish a few years ago and began closing ip at f>:30 and six o’clock in hte owning. Kverington’s was one es-I tal lishment that carried on iri ft. tradition of the past . 1 in it tin fellow- who like their , no 'it lift on the stret t could drop m and loaf for a spell, and some- 1 tinn - they kept hanging around until the owner shut up and went j home for the night Now about the only place left on the street that keeps after supper hours is Willie C. Paylor's -i' it . and it is rumored that Wil iie is threatening to follow suit and dose up at an early hour in the evening If he does that will mark the end of an era in Laurin burg. * * « |—. OSTBN TO t;.A.E*>N*:R . . j (Hal Tribble, Charlotte Observer) j When Farley hinted that he Large Expansion h Texiile Field During 1951. when textile sale; • >•< ri- ih their. feet in at inprecedented manner, mu! ex pansion and modernization was » a) a record rate, j Almost $509.000.000 was spen ......, i.............:1 ;, , * jast year (•’ < ,n -.-v ■ ; sunk int< mills ;'or new libers such as nyion dacron, orion and aerilan The new facilities run the gamut from thread and yarn production to weaving to finishing. Most of them arc in the Southeast area, near the major cotton source and many of the synthetic fiber j sources. Mill men are betting on the future with all this new capacity and their bet is that a big jump in population in the next decade md better merchandising should ■reate all the demand needed to lake care of new output. wouldn’t resist if the Democrats wanted to draft him as their can didate, Gardner cracked: "If a man wants to be President of these United States, he's got to' swing with everything he has. In ! this business, you don't get to I base on balls.” * * * , WORRY ENDS AT 70 (Roland Beasley, Monroe Journal) That reminds me of a conver-1 sation 1 had with Mr. George I on my seventieth birthday. I was | feeling solemn about it and the j ■ age of seventy seemed pretty well advanced. "I am seventy years old today,” I said. "I may i live to be seventy-five I hope iso. If I do I want to get a little more done than 1 have yet ac complished. If I live lo be seven-] ty-five I want to have something, to show for the five years.” Mr. George was not impressed. Said lie, "If you don’t quit wor rying, you won't ever see seven- ; • ty-five." I must have quit wor- | ] lying, for eleven years have pass-1 i ed since then. I am as far from ! 1 taw as ever. THE WAY TO DO IT ^ (Victor Meekins, i Coastline Times) Scott.v Gibson, who owns the fine Atlantic View Hotel at Hat-j teras, did at Christmas time what: few hotel men dare to do. He ‘ locked his doors Christmas day and with his family look off for! a week's drive to Florida. He got back just in time to sairt in bus iness with the New Year. No I doubt there are many of us who wish lo do that same thing. IN BETWEEN (News & Views) A younster in Midway Park was telling about someone hav ing run over a baby pig. He couldn’t think of shoal I “It wasn't exactly a baby pig,” j he went on to explain. "J guess! it was a teen-ager.” ] NOTICE J North Carolina. Martin County. In the Superior Court Addic Wiliams vs. Samuel Wil liams 'I he defendant, Samuel Wil liams, above named will take no tice that an action entitled as above luis been commenced in the Superior Court of Martin County, North Carolina, to secure an abso lute divorce based upon over two years continuous separation; and the defendant will further take notice that he is required to ap- 1 pear before the Clerk of the Sup cri'.r Court of Martin County at'. Tooth or chisel (over-all) application equipment used for soil fumigation. This equipment may be tractor or trailer mounted. Chisels are spaced 10 inches apart and set to deliver the fumi gant at a 6-inch depth. Plank drag seals in the fumigant by lev eling and packing the soil. his office in Williamston. N. C., on the 15th day of February 1952 and answer or demur to the complaint in said action on said date, and unless the defendant answers or demurs to said complaint on the above date or within twenty days thereafter as provided by the laws ‘of the State of North Carolina, the (plaintiff will apply to the Court I for the relief demanded in the complaint. This the 15th day of January, 1952. L. B, WYNNE, Clerk Superior Court Martin Co-untv. HUGH G. HORTON, Attorney.' ja 17-24-31 fe 7 NOTICE North Carolina, Martin County. In The Superior Court Delia Stokes vs. William Henry Stokes. The defendant above named will take notice that an action en titled as above has been com menced in the Superior Court of Martin County, North Carolina, to ' secure an absolute divorce based! upon two years separation, and! the defendant will further take I notice that he is required to ap-i year before the Clerk of Superior | Court of Martin County at his of- 1 lice in Williamston, N. C., on the I Hi day of February, 1952, or with in 20 days thereafter, and answer nr demur to the complaint in said notion, or the plaintiff will apply to the court for the relief demand pd in said complaint. This the 16 day of January, 1952. L. B. Wynne, Cierk of Superior Court. I Clarence W. Griffin, Attorney l Williamston, N. C. I !a 17-24-31 fe 7 NOTICE i North Carolina, Mai tin County. j In The Superior Court 'Charles Fowler Vs. Efl'ie Jane Fowler The defendant, Effie Jane Fow ler, above named will take notice i that an action entitled as above has been commenced in the Sup 1 erior Court of Martin County, N. C.. to secure an absolute divorce | based upon over two years con i tinuous separation; and the de fendant will further take notice that she i.-, required to appear be fore the Clerk of the Superior Court of Martin County at his of fice in Williamston N C.. on the !5th day of February 1952 and an swer or demur to the complaint in said action on said date, and un less the defendant answers or de murs to the said complaint on the above date, • >• within twenty f20) days thereafter as provided by the laws of the State of North Caro lina, the plaintiff will aoply to the court for the relief demanded in the said complaint This the 15th dav of January 'WS&. ti. Wynne. .., Clerk. Superior Court. Martin County, ja 17-24-31 fc 7 NOTICE OF SALE North Carolina, Martin County Under and by virtue of the pow er of sale contained in a certain deed of trust executed by Bruce t Coltrain and wife Virginia Col train, dated August 19. 1950 and i recorded in Book Y-4 page 607 in | the office of the Register of Deeds I of Martin County, North Carolina, I default having been made in the ! payment of the said indebtedness thereby secured and the said deed i of trust being by the term* there- j of subject to foreclosure, the und- ! ei signed trustee will offer for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash at the Court House door in Williamston, N. C.. at 12 | o’clock Noon on Monday, March 3. 1952. the property conveyed in ■ said deed of trust, the same lying land being in the County of Mar | tin and State of North Carolina, Williamston Township and more fully described as follows: A lot of land and improvements thereon located on the McGaskev Hoad near the town of Wilhams ton, N. C., and beginning at a point on the McGaskev Hoad at the intersection of the' McGaskev head and First Street ana being on the South side of First Street: ’ i: - ;;uk>ng i ;, \Tvki* ;• - feet"to o stake the corner* of M. L. Pet'j property; thence a line par-" ai](jl with Lie McGaskvy Road and alnng the M. L Peel line a dis tance of 60 feet to the lot former >y owned by C. H. Whitaker; thence along a line parallel with First Street 75 feet to the McGaj key Road: thence along the Me Gaskey Road 60 feet to the point of beginning and being the front one half <of lot No. II in Block “C” of the J. S. and H. S. Whitley Fair Ground Property a map of which is recorded in the Public Registry of Martin County. The highest bidder will be re quired to make a deposit of 10% of the purchase price at the date of the sale. This 29th day of January 1952. Clarence W Griffin. Trustee ia 31 fe 7-14-21 1o ipw j! B<#t [0V8..:j give the World’s <’• Best Loved Box- I The Fmm • WHITMAN'S SAMPLER i in 1 pound and 2 pound sizes * Special Hear! Boxes and * ether Whitman's Assortments * attractively wrapped * for Valentine's Day • CLARK’S I i Pharmacy • : !.ysyvv« • • • •»•••• ••• Field Tested Fertilizers For I Mo it t Boils Ami All Otlior Farin drops NO BETTER PRODUCT NO BETTER PRICE NO BETTER SERVICE Grocery Co. BAKER OIL0> A A Dirty Suit Or Dress Is Not Becoming To You It Should Be Coming To Us Alpha Cleaners i Dial 2.'i23 — Main Street Williainstoii, IN. (’. ♦ I I NOTICE! Taxes Will Carry Two And One-Half Per Cent Penalty On MARCH FIRST, 1952 Tliis Penally Will lie A<l<le<l To All Taxes IJiipaid and lnerease Kaeli Monlli Thereafter. Maa ft' SPECIAL NOTICE I ALL LANDS ON WHICH 1951 'l'AXKS HAVE jli NOT BEEN PAID WILL BE ADVEKTISED FIRST MONDAY IN MAY. FOB SALE FIRST [| MONDAY IN JUNE. PAY NOW! M. L. PEEL Martin County Tax Collector A