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THURSDAY, MARCH i9 Page 8 THE WAYNES VILLE MOUNTAINEER CUPID IM A BUS" s POLAH CHAPTER VII "Laugh if you want to but I'm right. America JS a woman-domr nated country and that's what's the matter with it. Why do men build up fortunes ? To spend them on women. Who gets the fortunes in the end? The women! As long as women will demand luxuries and get 'em the rich will get rich er and the poor will get poorer!" Tony preached. "Hooray for our side!" said Gin ger, with vigor, and clapped her hands. Tony glared at her. "It's women like you that cause the downfall of civilizations!" he accused. "Take Rome for in stance " She glared back at him. "It's men like you who make girls like me do things to keep from marrying men like you!" "You mean you do your best to marry men like me!" he snapped. "That is" "Why on earth should any girl in her right mind want to marry a man like you?" Tony was temporarily speechless. "Not that you're so homely," she The Implement of the Nation MALUABLE America no longer on the defensive is now attacking with every ounce of produc tive skill, human energy and mass determination it can muster. The area served by South ern Bell is teeming with ac tivity as America takes the initiative in its vigorous bat tle for victory. Vital to this all-out effort is the telephone the instru ment of immediate dependa ble communication between the man with the gun and the man behind the man with the gun. Americans speak with a united voice and act with united purpose with the telephone serving as "The Implement of the Nation." Southerii Bell Tel eph on i HDD TELEGRAPH COfllPflny amended, critically eyeing him. "But just for the sake of argument what have you got to offer a girl be sides a bus you won in a crap game and a crazy theory about sharing the wealth?" And as he still was speechless, went on: "No sir. A girl deserves everything she can get. Clothes, cars, jewels, good times. Glamour. Romance. You're only young once, and you're dead a long time." Tony found his voice. "If that's the way you feel, why didn't you marry Ronny Rockaby? He's got plenty of money and he's supposed to be Prince Charming in the flesh, isn't he? What more do you want?" "I told you why, and anyway, I don't like Ronny 's ears." "What's that got to do with it?" "When a girls doesn't like a man s earsshe simply doesn t that's all. I could never live with man with ears like that Be- INCORPORATED sides he's conceited." "But I thought you said a girl deserved everything she can get?" "A girl does and I mean to get it, for one." Her eyes took on a far away look. Tm going to get it through my career if I can that's why that job in Miami means so much to me but if I can't get it that way " "Then I suppose you'll marry it!" he exclaimed, savagely. "Why not?" asked Ginger. It's just as easy to love a rich man as a poor one, now, isn't it?" Tony snorted in disgust. Desdemona Love, interrupted at this point. "Oh Mr. Taylor?" "Yes, Miss Love?" "Would you mind stopping at the next gas-station ? I have to change some of Gertrude's water." Both Ginger and Tony turned to look back at her and saw that the actress was testing the water in the fish-bowl with a themometer she had taken from her purse. The others were watching her. "Certainly," said Tony. "Is your goldfish all right?" "It's the water I have to watch the temperature," explained Miss Love. "And Gertrude is a tropical fish, not a goldfish, young man." 'What kind of a tropical fish?" asked Ginger. "She's a Mexican sword-tail," said Miss Love, proudly. "I'm tak ing her to Florida to find a mate -a Montezuma Helleri, If I can. Although I suppose a Siamese fighting fish would make her a bet ter husband." 'Why?" asked the lion-tamer, with professional interest. 'She wouldn t be able to eat him as easily as she ate her last mate," said Gertrude's owner. "She'd re spect him. Tropical fish are very sensitive, you know." She pursed her lips. "And Gertrude doesn't like traveling it affects her nerves.'' They all stared at Gertrude who was aloofly preening her scales in her bowl; her body was olive-green on top, and bluish below, with a bright green, red and yellow stripe extending to the tip of her tail; her dorsal fin was yellow, too, with a reddish band near the base. Casa nova the cat stared most of all . ""What a beautiful, beautiful fish!" exclaimed Mrs. Evergreen. "She's like a lovely jewel." "What's that ? " demanded Mr. Evergreen, coming from behind his paper with a start. He sputter ed warningly; "Jessica, your nose is";;: "Not this time, Mortimer!" his wife told him, triumphantly. "I'm talking about Miss Love's fish." She bent over the bowl and talked baby talk; "Is booful Gertrude safe and cool in her lovely; lovely bowl?" "Safe and c o o 1 " repeated Mr. Evergreen automatically, and looked from the bowl to the news paper he was reading and back to ) the bowl again. For the first time that day a smile lifted his Chaplin mustache. Just then Tony slowed down the bus as it neared a filling- station. Evergreen coughed,' "Miss Love, I'm a great admirer, of trop ical fish. A great admirer indeed. Won't you let me save you the trouble of getting out and re-filling the bowl for you?" Desdemona Love hesitated. She hated to get out of the bus, but she treasured Gertrude and Gertrude's welfare, above her own comfort. "That's very kind of you, Mr. Evergreen but really, Gertrude isn't used to" "Nonsense!" said Mr. Evergreen, rising to his feet and stuffing Ms paper in his pocket. "I once owned one of the finest aquariums of rare fish in Europe didn't I Jessica?" Jessica looked dazed, but rallied loyally. My husband has owned more lovely things than anyone I've ever known," she told Miss Love. "He adores beauty he simply can't re sist beautiful things. If he can't af ford to buy them, why he simply ste " Mortimer turned on her glar ing, and she choked. Grabbed her powder puff, and dabbed at her nose. "As I was saying he simply stops doing anything else and just spends hours admiring them!" "Your tropical fish is safe in my hands," Mr. lEvergreen assured Miss Love. "Just tell me exactly what to do, dear lady. It will be an experience to treasure in my mem ory." Conquered, Miss Love surren dered Gertrude and her bowl to Mr. Evergreen's care; told him how much water to dip out, and how much fresh to put in its place; how not to disturb Gertrude in the pro cess. They had reached the filling-sta tion now. Carefully Mr. Evergreen descended with the bowl, while Tony took the opportunity to check up on his gas and oil. The others fell into desultory conversation, as they watched Mr. Evergreen take the bowl and the dipper Miss Love had given him, and make for the water spigot. Reaching it, he be gan to change the water, as direct ed. "Do be careful, now Mr. Ever green!" called Miss Love, from her window in the bus. He turned and waved to her re assuringly with the dipper, and as he did so, his newspaper fell put of his pocket, and upon the ground. He turned with his back to the bus, then and did something very odd. With a quick movement, he took from his pocket a large, transpar ent, octohedronally shaped object that glittered briefly in the sun light, and popped it into the gold fish bowl. Gertrude indignantly dodged it just in time, as it came near shearing a scale off her star board pectoral fin; it lay in the shadowed bottom of the bowl, then, colorless as the water, and prac tically invisible to any eye but that of the bowl's piscatorial occupant. "Say what's the idea of drop ping a piece of ice in the fish's bowl?" asked an interested voice. Mr. lEvergreen nearly jumped out of his skin, and in the manoeuvre, became aware that one of the two filling-station attendants was Flying Chaplain (V r- W Official V. S. NaT? Photo Lieut. Francis L, McGann, Catholic chaplain at the Corpus Christi, Tex., naval air station, is pictured in uni form. Father McGann has more than 200 flight hours to his credit. He comes from Great Neck, L. I. (Central Prtu) ETOWAH, N.C. PHONE 3 TRUCK DELIVERIES TO ALL PARTS OF WESTERN N. C Brick from Etowah Build your home for longer life for more comfort and economy with ETOWAH BRICK. The first cost is low and upkeep almost nothing for generations to come . . . Resale value of BRICK house is out of all proportion to the slight extra cost over cheaper materials. ETOWAH BRICK BUILDS BETTER HOMES M 0 L A N D -DRY S DA L E CORPORATION NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE On Monday, March 30th, 1942, at eleven o'clock, A. M., at the court house door in the town of Waynesville, N. C, I will offer for sale at public outcry to the high est bidder for cash, the following described lands and premises, ly ing and being in Waynesville Town ship, Haywood County, North Carolina, to-wit; BEGINNING on a stake at the intersection of Howell Mill Road with road to Shuford Howell's, running N. 20' 30' W. 283 feet to a stake on edge of road; thence N. 32 E. 96 feet to stake on edge of road; thence N. 14 40' E. 262 feet to a stake in center of street; thence S. 65 30' E. 411.6 feet to a stake in center of street; thence S. 26 5' W. 492 feet to a stake in edge of Howell Mill Road; thence N. 82 10' W. 118 feet with Howell Mill Road to the BEGINNING, containing 4.82 acres, more or less, as per survey of C. B. Medford, made April, 1927 and being part of the Nelson Howell lands. This being the. land conveyed to Helen C. Matthews by Alden Turpin (unmarried) and Florentine Tur pin (widow) by deed dated April 20, 1927, and recorded in Book 77, page 547, Record of Deeds of Haywood County. . Second Tract: BEGINNING at a stake in line of a 20 foot street " tween lots 2 and 3, and in line j road to Shuford Howell's place; running thence N. 59" E, 176 feet to a stake; thence at right angles 12.5 feet to a stake in center of roadway referred to last above to a stake, center of 20 foot street above mentioned; thence N. 65 30'. W 411.5 feet to the BEGINNING corner, being lot No. 2 of the Turpin lands. This tract conveyed to Helen C. Matthews by Alden Turpin, and Florentine Turpin, May 12, 1927, and recorded in Book 80, at page 97, Record of Deeds of Haywood County. This sale made pursuant to the power and authority vested in me by that certain deed of trust ex ecuted by Helen C. Matthews and husband, Win. B. Matthews, dated March 18, 1940, and recorded in Book 45, page 240, Record of Deeds of Trust of Haywood County. This 27th day of February, 1942. J. R. MORGAN, Trustee. No. 1166 Mar. 5-12-19-26. watching him from within the station. "It it's not ice" Mr. Ever green stammered. "It's a piece of glass." Then, confused, turned and strode back to the bus, regretting he had not admitted that it was ice and let it go at that. The attendant scratched his head. shrugged his shoulders, then pick ed up the New York newspaper Mr. Evergreen had unconsciously dropped, and took it into his office to read. The bus, its crew again aboard, rolled off, southward. "Well, I'll be darned!" The at tendant was staring at the very page Mr. Evergreen had been per using with such care on the bus. There was a headline, and a large photograph of a diamond; the larg est uncut diamond in the world, the caption said. But it was the pic ture, not the story, that first held the man's eye. For the stone was octo-hedronal in shape, the exact replica, life-size, of the piece of glass he had just seen the man whom the old woman in the bus had called Mr. Evergreen, drop in Farm Machinery Repair Program To Get Underway The farm machinery repair pro gram in Haywood county will be speeded by the recent action of the War Production board in amend ing preference rating No. P-100 to extend priority assistance to the renair of agricultural machinery, according to H. R. Clapp, member of the county USDA War board. The farmer who repairs his own equipment or the local repairman or blacksmith who does it for him, now may apply for an A-10 prior ity rating to obtain welding rods, bar iron, nuts, bolts, rivets, or other material that cannot be ob tained without a priority rating will be sufficient to obtain delivery of all types of repair supplies con taining critical materials, the or der will be beneficial to the farm machinery repair program. To apply the preference rating for deliveries of materials,' a farm er or repairman copies and signs, on the original and all copies of the purchase order, the following statement: 'Material for maintenance, re pair, or operating supplies, rat ing A-10, under preference rating order No. P-100, with the terms of which I am familiar." (Signature) When an order for repair ma terial bearing this prefence rating is placed with a dealer or supplier, the supplier may in turn pass this rating on to the manufacturer or jobber to obtain material to re place his stock, Mr. Clapp de clared. Haywood Farmers Urged To Place Orders For Lime Farmers of Haywood county who expect to obtain lime from the Triple-A for use as a soil-building material this year are urged to place their orders early, accord ing to Glenn Boyd, chairman of the county AAA committee. This will be necessary, Mr. Boyd explained, due to probable trans portation difficulties expected later in the year. He declared heavy traffic in war supplies and troop movements likely would make it difficult to obtain freight cars for hauling the material during the rush season. This lime, Mr. Boyd pointed out, is obtained through the County Agricultural Conservation Associ ation as a grant of aid material, and the cost of it is deducted from conservation payments due farm ers under the agricultural con servation program. During 1941, the county chair man said, the AAA furnished 289,000 tons of limestone to North will be desired this W - t F Ik. I county Carolina farmers under estimated of Haywood tons last year, : In preparation of order, , pointed out consul J!;"1 iJ be given to the possibility - -- ...w materials, superphosphate, due to , effort. It b1c .... u that needs should V?1 in relation to th JL2I agricultural suppWgj 'MYSTERY OF Namp, Site LADY-, DETECTIVE ST Another in the sen, ... I American crimes th ... city's half-centnr,. u 7 the "unknown strangely murdered beautTVj miss this thrilim u4 tale The K t 1. n c luarcn zzna lssnt. n The American Wtn. BALTIMORE SUNDAY AMERICA On Sale At All X the gold-fish bowl! Oscar Smith read on, then and whistled. ' "Fifty thousand dollars reward! Gosh!" Oscar scratched his head again, his eyes bright with avarice. It seemed impossible, but then he had read many and many a de tective thriller. At the worst, if he were mistaken, he might get his name in the papers! (To be Continued) f I wivoutft : WsJ&aal Mr veooNtsAv r N- V CAMUS. THEYfcE . JJ ARE Rrjt f MEN IN THE J h N t ft THEVHAVEIK l.SlM." Actual Sales Record loa" 'IS ,n 't Exchange 0.1 A and Sales Commlsaa- ffuk I WVO'A ri how the favor. if ffflffl VwMrrT4l cieareue with VJ7fj I 111 Vff?iSSiV men in the Army VaX VM1 II VI THE CIGARETTE OF COSTLIER TOBACCOf I A 4 . . A . 4 .y W J J J One hundred and thirty-five employees ol the Carolina Power & Light Company are serving in the various armed forces of their country . . , as of today. Tomorrow there will be more. No longer do the battlefields of the Pacific . . . Europe . ... Africa . . . seem bc far away. The war has come home! Therefore, we have 135 selfish reasons why we are keeping our lines "hot" so the wheels of industry will be kept busy turning out guns, planes, ships and other war material in abundance. We want our boys, and Yur boys, to come home with a VICTORY. That he big Job today . . . little else counts. CAROLINA POWER & LIGHT GOMPAi INVEST IN U. S. DEFENSE BONDS AND fiT a mps
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