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r APRIL 2, 1942 THE WAYNES VILLE MOUNTAINEER Pare 5 BANKS offi- Y : j . and M wrr. of the Potomac, It was a gay the whole, and buffers ,i-u;t thp coming of If, feeing of unreality of H J, had taken hold of her. Mature - Rockaby r:Mvif11fl Sl 1 . simt). few fHAFTER IX fl loaded fr "Washington KT. southward tnrougn jaw - nd peiaware. yivama, ana eye MfLS to? a road-side 1 a general the nautical tms Jaf ..hD in the bus. rrv discussed the trip dinner, agreed that Mr, , re- who needed a rest. Ud to spena u. H-rW. the next lap, re. York and i J. i f-ir awav. ana inese cHHftnlv like old med very she had known for years entheyboardeaine0u::r:, . ... rorwrecn toon mc I" r' ' .uf v hd no driv- T.., nH Tonv oblingingly UZ sown, just incase they P hfi traffic officer. None Km uld afford to pay fines . pint L. uo oftAv t.hpv Mr. BngBS aw - --- L on their way again. As he freshed himsBii num j--r L.rd Mr. SmocK aeciaimm8 v " - pRaenumn. Clyde Beatty; Di-7 an, nothing morel' eciarea jn. lion-tamer. "Handlmrthe cats takes psycnuiugjr 1 p lL You've got to show a lion inai 're his master, w ny, n u toa Minn rm " - o .--- Mr. Briggs lnterveneo, Dngnten- "Ah, my friend you're a Dig hmenumer:-; ... I "I'm & lion-tamer by profession," Lid Mr. Smock modestly, "but I've iiinted them in my time, in lact, added, for Desdemona's beneh "I own one of the greatest of Afri can decorations for a sportsman the honor of wearing a lion mane as my headdress," "Would you give me your picture in it, sometime, Mr. Smock T" asked the actress, prettily. "With your autograph " If youH give me yours," bar gained Mr. Smock, tenderly. "In your duckling costume." Mr. Briggs interrupted, as Des- demona blushed. "I used to hunt big game in Africa myself, before my doctor told me to go to sea," he told them. "I remem ber, once when I was hunting tigers " "Oh, them! said the lion-tamer, disparagingly. "I was walking through a clear ing, carrying my gun," said Mr. Briggs, covering a slight hiccup delicately, "when suddenly I saw a tiger spring at me from a tree. I tok quick aim and fired." "What happened T"; demanded Mrs. Evergreen. "I missed him," said Mr. Briggs, sadly. "What happened to you then?" demanded Desdemona. "Nothing," . said the hitchhiker, "He missed me too. We both miss ed each other." He sighed. "I was mortified, I tell you mortified. So coughed to choke their laughter. Mr. Briggs, yawning compla cently, pulled his yatching cap over his eyes, then, and went gently to sleep. It was after midnight when the share-expensers, together with the slumbering yachtman, Gertrude and Casanova, crossed the Potomac into Virgina. The first day's lap was done "I'm dying for a cup of coffee," Mr. Briggs was the first to awaken, early the next morning, and found himself alone. The green bus was parked off the road before a tiny tourist cabin camp, and not a soul was in sight. The master of the Little Casino was not yet en tirely sober; in fact, he was in the early throes of a severe hangover, and whenever he experienced this phase Mr. Brigg's mind was even more befogged than when he was pleasantly half -seas over. Such a situation called for another drink, if one were not to become danger ously sober; from force of habit, Mr. Briggs looked around for his brown jug and his bleary eyes, fo cussing with difficulty, fell on the portable goldfish bowl. After much soul-searching and discussion, Miss Love had decided to leave her precious Gertrude and her bowl in the bus, instead of tak .SCOTTS SCRAP BOOK By RJ. SCOTT MAM IH Kl U.&. HAVY- WEKJtUP 425 Pound I went on through the woods, andlnK them into the cabin she was next clearing I came to, I took my sharing with Ginger, because of the rifle and started to practice ud on poiemmi uungers oi a possioie l . . i my shooting. Suddenly I heard noise in the adjoining clearing", i pushed asiJo :-c bjs.-ie and what do you tin:i. l v i ' "What?" "That same tiger. And what do you think he was doing?" "What?" asked Mr. Smock, sus piciously. "He was practicing up on his springing," said the yatchman. "He was that mortified, himself." Mr. Smock snorted, Miss Love sniffed, and Ginger and Tony EST rw iff .Ti ETOWAn, N.C. PHONE 3 TRUCK DELIVERIES TO ALL PARTS OF WESTERN N.C The Queen of the Home Rebels Yes, you meant well when you promised to build a brick wall to the street; attrac tively designed brick steps at the front door, brick walk to the woodshed, coal bin or ga rage, or to underpin the house with brick, but thawing snow and rain left you in another mess. Make good with Etowah Brick I ETOWAH BRICK BUILDS BETTER HOMES H OLAND-DRYSDA L E CORPORATION change of temperature. Dropping a tiny pinch of Epsom Salts into the water, she had left Gertrude alone, with much misgiving. If she could only have guessed of the horrible experience that was to await her pet, she would never have slept a wink that night. But she could not know. Gertrude, awakening from a nightmare in which she had suffer ed a torn fin in a fight over a dis rupted mate with a black Gambusia from the West Indies, found, in stead, that she had been scraped against the oddly-shaped foreign object in her bowl. Awake, she emitted air bubbles of horror for Mr. Briggs had tilted the edge of her bowl and was drinking deeply of Gertrude's Epsom Salt-laden li quid. As Gertrude, suddenly ob serving the gaping chasm that was his yawning gullet, backed away hastily, in wild alarm, Mr. Briggs suddenly gagged, and lowering the bowl, was ejecting a stream of wa ter like a whale blowing. Pale and troubled, Briggs shuddered then, and still holding the bowl by the leather handle, stepped outside and crossed the road, swaying slightly. He stood beside the road, a pitable figure, with his thumb in the air, jerking southward. . . A milk truck approached, slowed to a stop, and Mr. Briggs, the port able fishbowl still in his hand, hopped hopefully aboard. Mr. Briggs, Gertrude, the Bonk heer diamond, and the milk truck, disappeared around a bend of the road. Tony and Daniel Smock, who had shared a tiny cabin, were the first to rise. The lion-tamer had his pet cat with him, since Desde mona had so insisted when she left Gertrude in the bus the night before, and gone to share a cabin with Ginger Drake. The Ever greens had been the first to retire to their own cabin smug in the mistaken thought that Gertrude and her valuable bowl were to spend the wax ikf 4,ooo -rtrtES IH K MOlKtl OMAtR. ASS 6 PSR.S1A- ckh autt 15 MIlU IH Koua wAicil mo tUkti-HOUSt COULD P You Can Buy a IF YOU ARE AN "Executive, Engineer, Technician or Worker, requiring automobiles for transportation to and from, or within factories, power plants, transportation or communica tion facilities, farms, lumber camps, mines, military or naval establishments, or similar places of employment when the work done at such places of employment is essential, DIRECTLY or INDIRECTLY, to the prose cution of the war." Quoted from Paragraph "J" Order No. 2-A Effective March 2, 1942 Let Us Help You With Your Transportation Problems DeSoto-Plymouth GHC Trucks Howell Motor Company Phone 98 DILL HOWELL, Owner Main Street night within Miss Love's maternal reach. V While the Evergreens were mak ing their morning toilette, and ma tutinal sounds were coming from the bachelor ladies' cabin. Tony greeted the tourist camp proprie tor; a lanky unshaven personage who appeared yawning sleepily. "Can we get any breakfast around here?" "Nope," said the man. "But there's a lunch-wagon near the corner, just around the bend there, and down the side-road." Ginger appeared and overheard. "Let's walk over and get one, while the other's get dressed," sug gested Tony. "Why don't you?" agreed the lion-tamer. "Casanovia and I will wait for Miss Love." Ginger was agreeable, and she and Tony set off. It was a lovely Autumn morning, and their appe tites were sharp. In a few minutes they had, disappeared. The lion-tamer, who bad devel" oped a "crush" on Desdemona, stood coyly near her cabin as she dressed, and made conversation through the window. Casanova went prowling for a breakfast of field-mice. ... The Evergreens appeared. Their cabin was nearest the road and the parked bus Desdemona's, the far thest inside the camp. Evergreen was carrying their bags. Suddenly as they approached the road, two open automoblea, one be hind the other, swept southward down the road to a halt beside the bus. They were both crowded with men, some of them carrying guns. Mortimer Evergreen, in full view, dropped his bags to the ground and went very white. His wife gave a little scream and clutched his arm. A moment later the bus and the couple were entirely surrounded. A man with a star on his vest snapped a question. "This bus belong to you?" "Why, no," said Mortimer. "We 're just passengers." "Got a guy named Evergreen and his wife with you ?" snarled the sheriff," and answered his ques tion. "Sure you have where are they rare you Evergreen?" The man who had stolen the Bonkheer diamond in broad day light was not one to lose his poise now. "Of course not," said he. He jerked his thumb backward at the tourist camp. "You'll find the Ever greens inside dressing, and he's out side playing with his cat," The sheriff and his men started forward, but suddenly the former stopped "How do I know you're not lying?" he demanded. "Who are you?" Taylor," said Evergreen smoothly. He pulled Tony's driver's license out of his pocket; he had suddenly remembered that he had not return ed it to Tony, the night before. "Here's my driver's license." The sheriff glanced at it, read the Fines Creek News Mrs. D. N. Rathbone. The Rev. Jarvis Underwood, of Waynesville, occupied the pulpit Sunday at the Fines Creek Bap tist church. Mr. Underwood's ser mon was forceful and inspiring. Both the church and school services were well attended. Mr. and Mrs. Fred L. Safford will crn t.o Newnort News next Fri- dv to attend the wedding of their son, James, which will take place Saturday evening at six o'clock on April 4th. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Safford will leave shortly after the wedding for Fines Creek where they will attend the baccalaureate sermon which be delivered at the school Sunday afternoon, April 6th. Mr. Safford is principal of the Fines Creek school. Last Rites Are Held Sunday For M. Jasper Smathers Funeral services were conduct ed Sunday morning at 11 o'clock at the Morning Star" Methodist church for' Merritt Jasper Smath ers, 92, one of the oldest citizens in the county, who died at 6:15 Friday afternoon at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Perry G. Smath ers, near Canton. Burial was in the church cemetery. The Rev. G. W. Bumgarner, pastor of the church and the Rev. Doyle Miller, pastor of Stoney Point Baptist church, officiated. Ac tive pallbearers were grandsons, and the flower bearers were granddaughters. Mr. Smathers, a native of this county, helped build the first rail road constructed in this area, in his younger days he was engaged in farming, but for more than 30 years he operated the Pine Board ing house in Canton. After the death of his second wife some six years ago, Mr. Smathers retired from active work and made his home with his daugh ter. ; Until ill health had kept him at home, Mr. Smathers was active in church work, having been a mem ber of the Morning Star Methodist church since early childhood. Surviving are six children, W. C, Girwood, W. and M. H. Smathers, mother, Mrs. Dola Rathlione. Haywood Has Only 891 Negroes Now Haywood county ranks 10th in the state in the percentage of na tive white population. Of the 84,804 people in tha county, only 2.6 per cent are col ored or to be exact 881 are col ored, leaving 33,841 whites in Hay. WOOd. The 1940 census report shows that two-tenths of one per cent are other races or foreign borned. There are almost a million negroes in the state, and compose 27.5 per cent of the state's popula tion of about three and a half mil lion people. Mitchell county leads the state with four-tenths of one per cent of her population negroes. Warren county has the greatest number, with more than 65 per cent colored. Of her 23,000, more than 15,000 are colored. NEW WORDS FOR OLD There is a Trav-o-tel for tourists at West Speech. Brush, Cal. American Master Bobby Joe Green, small son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Green, is in a very serious condition with pneumonia at the Haywood County Hospital. "Aunt" Sarah Davis, wife of the late Ben Davis, remains in a se rious condition at the home of her daughter, Miss Hester Maggie Davis. She is the sister of the late M. E. Trantham, of Clyde, and one of the oldest persons on Fines Creek,:V John Rathbone, who is in the army and stationed in Kentucky, is spending a few days here with his I "Oka y, then you two wait here!" (To be Continued) all of Canton; Mrs. C. A. Swift, of Atlanta, Mrs. C. T. Abels, and Mrs. Perry Smathers, of the Canton section; and a half brother, John B. Smathers, of the Dutch Cove section of the county. Rev. Milton Harlin, pastor of the Fines Creek Methodist circuit, was married in Georgia March 18th, Returning to Fines Creek March 19th. Upon their arrival the couple urpro ovtnivpv pntertnined bv thn - i members and friends of the pre-1 dominating churches of the charge. The dinner was served at the par sonage, with Mrs. H. C. Green and Mrs. C- B. McCrary preparing the beautiful wedding cake. The other ladies serving were Mrs. Fred L. Safford, Mrs. Tom Rogers, Mrs. Raymond McCracken, Mrs. Roy Green, Mrs. D. Reeves Noland, Mrs. Curtis Rogers, Mrs. J. B. Davis, Mrs. W. B. Noland, Mrs. C. S. Green and Mrs. Mark Ferguson. There was a large crowd pres ent for the occasion. ; Mr. and Mrs. McCrary Beasley, of Newport News, are visiting friends and relatives this week on Fines Creek. Mister, haven't you heard that Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves! Then why should your wife slave away at a back breaking job like washing? Sign an Emancipation Proc lamation for the one you love best by sending; the laundry out to us. WAYNESVILLE LAUNDRY PIIONE 205 SUMMONS AND NOTICE. STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF HAYWOOD. ; IN THE SUPERIOR COURT. EDNA HOWARD, Plaintiff, ' ; Vs. ,- . :-- GEORGE HOWARD, Defendant. 1 TO THE DEFENDANT, GEORGE V HOWARD: 1 You will take notice that an action has been commenced in the Superior Court of Haywood Coun ty, North Carolina, entitled as above and that the purpose of the said action is to obtain an absolute divorce on the ground of two years' separation. ' You will further take notice that you are required to be and ap pear at the office of the clerk- of the Superior Court, in the Court House in Waynesville, North Car olina, on or before the 30th day of April, 1942, and answer or de- mur to the complaint which has ' been filed in the office of the clerk of the said court. 1 You will further take notice that if you fail to answer or demur . to the complaint within the time reguired by law, the plaintiff will , apply to the court for the relief demanded in the complaint, to- wit: an absolute divorce. Given under my hand and seal of the court this the 30th day of March, 1942. C. H. LEATHERWOOD, Clerk of the Superior Court of Haywood County, North Carolina No. 1169 April 2-9-16-23. You Can Help Us Conserve Vital War Materials All-out war requires the whole-hearted cooperation of each of us to help conserve many of the vital materials heeded to win the war. Following are two ways in which you can help yourself by helping us: 1. You can notify us in advance of service requirements such as minor adjustments or repairs, reconnecting service, and setting meters which may not demand immediate attention. Then, rather than make a single call we can group your call with other calls in your neighborhood and thus conserve tire mileage, gasoline, automotive equipment and other material needed by our Government to win the war. I. You can notify us of any anticipated request for connections to our line requiring the use of copper wire or aluminum, steel and other materials that are vital to our country's Victory Program. Due to National De fense, the amounts of such materials we may use are limited by the War Production Board through Priorities and Preference Rating Order P-46 hence the necessity of knowing our customers' needs well In ad vance so that materials may be allocated to the best possible advantage. With your cooperation the best interests o! all can be served with a minimum oi inconrenience or delay. Carolina Power & Light Company
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