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] READ ’EM j I 11 nil ! ! l! SHRIEK | REM- RIME The man who races with the train Or drives with carlessness insane, Who always tries all cars to pass, But to bray to be an nss. * * The dresses now are quite a rage. It seems to me we’ve reached an age When children must grow very tall To hold to mother’s skirt at all. * * Of all the foolish things I’ve seen The best were staged by Silas Green. IBs legs were wooden, so they say, Yet every week he bought ‘Blue Jay’. * * “I must be looney” said Prof ssorNapp As he endeavored to hang the map. ‘This nail is moving, or else my eye — Oh no, Professor, the nail’s a fly —E. N. Riodi.e Thera’s oniy one thing a wife will admit she doesn’t know and that’s why she married her hus band.—Judge. Epilaughs Abie Cohen’s body Lies \ ere in sweet repose: He went to court a lady Where the River Shannon flows.—Judge. Cop—What! Y< ur husband fainted at the wheel? ‘•Yes! That woman signaled she was going to turn left and then she turned left!"—Judge. “Quick, Sam, a wildcat’s jes run into tha’ house with yer wife." “Wal, he’ll jes’ have to get out the best way he can!"—Judge. TOO BIG A RISK She had never done wrong, And nobody was purer; She was too good to live— S') they wouldn’t insure her. Judge. Women now not only buy their clothes on the installment plan— they wear them the same way.— Judge. AS IT IS Pa is in the bathroom Talcin’ a double shave, Ma is in her boudoir, Remodeling a pe. manont wave, Sts is in the kitchen, Pressin’ her Sunday skirt. Brother’s gone to the laundry To find the rest of his shirt. Grandoa’s out in front Dustin’ off the Ford, Grandma’s ’hind the garage Rollin’ her hose, my Lord. If dad’s Ford skids, don’t go to the garden for a pair of Weerl chains. If uncle is troubled by bill col lectors present him with a duck suit. Many a city banquet is a hie affair. If Charlie attended a table and chair display would he cah it a leg show? Country boy socked a New Yorker for courtin’ his steady last nitrht. Is that what you call the Rural Free De.ivery? In homes where two cake-eat ers try to kiss the same gal under the mistletoe, Christmas decorations are black and blue. The gink who’s always knock ing Plymouth should use more oil is his ga; buggy and less for back liding. Movie director says some men act like gals. Yes, lots of firemen roll their hose. 32 Years Ago -IN Washington County Hems gathered from issue of The Roanoke Beacon published Friday, January II, 1895 The Atlantic Coast Line is ex tending its track at the dep'.t. The R. R. R. & L. Co , ar making extensive repairs o their dry kilns. The stfamer Berlie missc< several trips last week on aceoun of ice in Cashie river. Mr. Clyde Hassell has broke ground for his new grist mill an is pushing t he work shead rapid !y. The aggregate sum paid ou by the county commissioners for expense?, at the Januar meeting, was §*210 23. Mr. M. W. Norman, who ha been visiting his parent?, Mi and Mrs. C. J. Norman, lef Wednesday for hi3 home in Hert ford. Thc-re is a movement on foott get the legislature to order a election for the purpose of deter mining whether Plymouth sha remain the county seat, or tha it be removed to Roper. ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE Having qualifi'.d as administrator t the (. stale ol Narcissa A. Ayers, di ceased, late of Washington county, IN <J., this is to notify all persons bavin claims against the estate ui said dt ceased to exhibit them to the undei signed on or before the 2nd day e December, 1927, or this notice will b plead in bar c.f their recovery. A persons indebted to said es.aie vvi oiease make immediate payment. E YV. AYERS, 2-11 Administrator NOTICE OF RESALE Under and by virtue of a power c sale embraced in a certain mortgag deed executed on December 4, 192< by Lillian R. McGowan to Sadie Ale:, a’.nlcr, mortgagee, which is recorded i book 91, page 6G, and which was a: signed by the said mortgagee to P L. Owens, a signee, the as ignmer being recorded in Washinton Count registry book-, page-, the ur dersigned assignee will expose at put lie sale to the highest bidder for casl at the courthouse door in Plymoutl North Carolina, on the 15th day g January, 1927, at 12 o’clock noon, th following described real estate: Lying and being in the township o Plymouth, Washington Coun y, an known and designated as follows, vi2 Beginning on Washington street a J R. Campbell’s lino; thence north wardly along Washington Street t W. F. Ausbon’s line; thence with ai Ausbon’s line castwardly to said Mr Barden’s cottage line; thence south wardly one foot; thence eastward 1 to the M. E. Church line at a poin seventy feet from Third Street, thenc cuthwardly along the M. E. Churc lot to J. K. Campbell’s line to th beginning. This is a resale of the above prop ertv by order of the clerk of the si perior ccurt, the same now being ar ’horized by reason of tha raise of th advance bid of a prior sale, which bi was raised according to law. This 31st day of December, 1920. A. L. OWENS, Assignee. NORTH CAROLINA, WASHINGTON COUNTY. UNDER AND BY virtue of a pow ej of sale embraced in a deed of trus executed by J. E. Phelps and Ivlaggi Phelps, his wife, to A. B. Litchflek Receiver, dated the 14th day of Feh ruary, 1923, and recorded in Boo 77 page 352, the undersigned Rt ceiver as succesror to A. B. Litch field, Receiver, will expose at public \ sale to the highest bidder for cash, ‘ | at the Court House door, in Plymouth I! North Carolina, on the 4th day of ; I! February, 1927, at 12 o’clock noon, I j the following described land: ; Lying and being in the County of . j Washington, Lee Mill Township. All that certain tract of land known as ; \V. S. Ambrose homestead, containing : 50 acres, more or less, as conveyed * and more fully described in a deed ■ from V. S. -Ambrose to .J. D. Craft. [.. } This the 3rd day of January, 1927. A. B. LITCHFIELD, Receiver. I - By Zeb Vance Norman, Successor Receiver.. NORTH CAROLINA, WASHINGTON COUNTY. ? NOTICE OF SALE Under and bv virtue of the authority i 1 of sale contained in that certain deed of trust executed by Hattie V. Fagan, ' to the undersigned trustee, bearing 1 date of February 5th, 1924, and record- l ] ed in book S5, page 97 public registry r For Washington (ounty, North Caro- P r lir.a, defrult having been made in the £ payment of the several notes secured h Hint recited therein, and at the request f of the owner of said notes, the under- i 1 signed trustee will on 17th day f £ j .January, 1927, at 12 o’clock noon, in p * front of the courthouse door, in the i - town of Plymouth Washington County, [. North Carolina, sell to the highest bid- p der for cash, tne following described ; roa! property: \ , Situated in Plymouth Township, [ r Washington County, North Carolina, [; , and being lot 1 in block ‘B”, said b t ) being fully described by courses and ’ boundaries described in map >4' the ! subdivi-ion of said property duly r c- £ corded in book of maps No. 1, on page r 21 in the office of the register of deeds i S of Washington ounty p This 13th day of December, 1920. ' ' W B. COX, \ 1 Trustee i Horace V. Austin, Attoine’ . ifc is a Prescription for Cclds, Grippe, Flu, Dengue, Bilious Fever and Malaria. \ It kit'.s the germs NORTH CAROLINA, W ASHINGTON CO U NTY, SUPERIOR COURT. Branch Banking & Trust Company, Receiver of the United Commercial Bank, t\ vs. J. Curganus. PURSUANT TO an execution is sued in this cause by the Clerk Su perior Court, and duly docketed in the Clerk’s office of Washington Cpunty, directing the undersigned to sell the land hereinafter described fer the payment of a judgment enter ed in this cau-e and any prior lien that may exist upon said property, the undersigned Sheriff of Washing ton County will expose at public sale to the highest bidder for cash, at the Court House door of Washington County in Plymouth, North Carolina, at 12 o’clock noon, on Monday, the Tt’n day of February* 1927, the follow ing described land: All the right title and interest of .J Gurganus the same being on ’-eighth interest in and to the following de scribed land: FIRST TRACT: Beginning at a sweet gum tree near a bridge that crosses the main road that leads from Flymouth to Bath, on the West ride of the road cn the North side of the ditch known as Wm Cape Cuts ditch, recently cut for N. H. Harrison by S. J. Bowtn and Henry Bowen; thence West within 21 feet from said ditch as far as the said ciitch runs, and there on a direct line to L. R. Bowen’s line; thence North along L. R. Bow en’s line to the Hollis or Main Road; thence East along said Main Road to a sign post for Hollis Road; thence South along the Bath Road to the first station containing 20 acres, more oi lesr, and being the same land de scribed in a deed of record in Wash ington County, Register of Deeds of fice in Book 90, page SI. SECOND TRACT: Beginning at a corner known as the Hollis corner, a pine standing on the east side ox the Hollis swamp; thence running with the edd Allen line Northwardly to the center of three pines, a corner, thence Northwardly to a pine: thence with the course of the old Edward Hollis patent line to a bav, a corner tree and pine; thence South 22 Ea t to the Hollis Road, thence with the Hollis Road to the first station, it being the same land described in Bock 41, page 503. 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