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THURSDAY, FBBBUA8Y 11.1IM THE WAYNES VTLLB MOUNTAINEER. $600,000,000 a Year Loss Caused by Auto Accidents a 411 -Then 2i,oo lives 113,000,000 If non-fatal hyuries each cost t -Then 5 7d,ooo Injuries - iia.eso, 000 J a 1 Property damage for costs tl 1 -men 700,000 acoaenta 350,000,000 OTALCOSTOrACaDENTS5dl.65a000 CLOSE to JflOO,OUU,000 a year Is the annual economic loss due to automobile accidents, botb-fflfnl and non-fatal. This appalling mm I only sn estimate, as do complete flgu.es on the number of automobile accident la tbe United States are nvollnbla, bot It baa been conservatively estimated that 22)00 loae their Urea each yeur by antoniohlles, and $5,000 a human Ufa la tb lowest value put on It by economists. Of non fatal accidents 678.OO0 occur annually, causing average cost of $175. Then, each accident averages $50 property damage. Insurance records show. Tlila makes the staggering total of $5S1,650,000 a year. No account la taken hero, points out the Stewart-Warner Safety Cotiocil for the prevention of automobile accidents, of the economic value of time loss by the Injured due to delays caused by accidents or to minor property raises, soch as bent fenders, expense Incurred while motor v oh Idea, par ticularly the commercial ones, are out of service, due to accidents. Were all these taken Into the reckoning, tbe total figure would surely be doubled, or around $1,113,750,000. Some Idea of the enormity of this economic loss, most of which la avoid able, can he guloed by such relationships as these: It Is twice the cash Income of the 1023 wheat crop; It Is equal to about one-third of the much discussed French debt to this country ; and. Anally, this loss would buy the entire city of Chicago at Its present realty assessment valuation. NOTICE. Stat of North Carolina, Coanty of Haywood la ths Superior Court, Before the Clerk. Maggie E. Moody, Mary Moody Mebane and husband, George V Mahann Jamia Moody JollT and husband, Hugh P. Jolly, Margaret Moody ana K.eiier Moody by his guardian, Maggie E. Moody. va James E. Moody 'and Elizabeth Moody Carey and her husband, Fred J. Carey. The above named defendants will take notice that an action entitled as above has been commenced in the Sunorinr Court of Harwood County, North Carolina, to sell certain lands for partition and division, which lands are situated in naywooa iuniy, Nnrth Carolina, of which the Dlaintiffs and the defendants in this proceeding are tennants m common as sei oui m said petition filed in this cause, and which lands are fully described in the said petition in this cause; and the said defendants will further take no tice that they and each of them are required to appear before the Clerk of the Superior Court of said Hay wood County in his office in the court house in Waynesville, North Carolina, ttia anrno hnincr the court house of 'tsaid County, on the 6th day of March, ll.nnn - . I-l I. It M I 1220, ai. ten o ciucr nu wuny or demur to the petition filed in said action or the plaintiffs will apply to the court for the relief demanded in said petition. This the 4th day of February, 1920. i f! A. HAYNF.S. JRiP -IF"" :' Dlerk Superior Court. Mrch 4tn Hannan-c Land for Sale. 107 acres on Pigeon River and Richland Creek in Clyde Township. On good road, well wat ered and fertile. 35 acres in woods, 40 in pasture and 35 in cultivation. J. A. Medford. Feb25pd f NQTICB OF SALE. NertJi Carolina, Haywood Coaatjr, Notlea la hereby given that the noara oi uoctuon ox naywooa unn ty will MM at public auction to the last and highest bidder for cash on Faki-nanr tUm lOfh a It nVInrk noon, on the premise the following aeacnDea property: Beginning at a stake in S. aide ol South end of culvert at a branch flowing from the residence oi Mary CaT. Chdim, and mm thaneo with State Highway N. 70 W. 20 feet to a stake; tnenee witn a siae oi public road S. 8" BO w. 366 leei tn a clnmn nf anssU eherrv trees: thence N. 89 E. 348 feet to a stako at center of aaid branch; thence down center of aaid branch in a northwest, erlv direction 215 feet to a stake: thence N. 9' 30' 114 feet to a stake in the South side oi stave U I trh tarn v ' tkpnra with Sate Highway N. 70 W. 173 feet to the beginning. Containing 1 77-100 acres more or less as per survey of J. N. Shoolbred, C. E., October 7th, 1924. This being the property known as Francis Cove School property. This sale will be at the school house on the premises above describ ed and will be made subject to con firmation by the Board of Education, said Board reserving a right to re ject any and all bids. This the 27th day oi January, 1926. The Board of Education of Haywood County, By W. C. ALLEN, Feb. 28c. Supt or Schools. 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