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( NOTICE xOF ADMINISTRATION Having this day qualified as executor of the last will and tes tament of Anna Phillips, deceased, late of Duplin County, this is to notify all persons having claims 8' '.inst the said estate to present tijuin to the undersigned executor on or before the 1st day of March 113, or this notice will be pleaded In bar of their recovery. All persons Indebted to the es tate will pieas" man.tlY , payment. . ' Abb Phillips, Executor ' Anna V huuips estate 4-6-6t. VBG NOTICE OF EXECUTRIX ' Having this day qualified aS n,Mv tho oatttte of Stokes ' Williams Newkirk, of Duplin -....,.. MtVi PBilln this IS lyUUllljr, A1VM. - - to notify all persons having any claims againsi saiu wutw w sent them to the undersigned, duly yerif ied, on or before one year from date of last publication of this notice) or this notice shall - be plead In bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to the- es : tate will please make Immediate , settlement . This the 28th day of February, Mrt. Willi ' Newkirk ' Gauss, ! irvoniitrtv Stokes Williams , Newkirk estate. , v ' ' L ' CIO I W. Newkirk, Magnolia, . . - North Carolina. -4-6-et. Mrs. WNG NOTICE OF SUMMONS , ' BY PUBLICATION . The' defendant Willie U-. llnltitii1 and . uriff KAII6 l.riHL'llc . 1UC1VUI - Johnson. Redell Moore and , wife Lula Jonnson Moore, uiw "" gomery and wife Emma JPhnson Montgomery; anru "J i u.-j Tnv.nr.o mihprt. Robert Johnson and wife Mary Johnson, V. T. Johnson, Ernmitt Lee, Mol- Ttnch Joe Lee and Lula Johnson will take nuuee uuk o - above has been commenced In the ty, North Carolina, by the-plain- Scott, dants" are interested1-as tenants In IN THE SUPERIOIl COTJKIV BEFORE THE CLERK NORTH CAROLINA DUPLIN COUNTY VANCE "PHILUPS nrrt t T'nrrvrk. A Nil W I n'K MIN NIE GREEN; WILXJJE, ei AND WIFE ESTER J. SWIM CHARLIE MELVIN AND WIFE KATIE IVLCL.vj.i-s REDELL MOORE AND Wir,. y. '"Uatnrt thV de. LULA JOfmSON MOORE; " T ",Y rfor partition. RoIrT JOHNSON "aND same lanc as describedjln adeed ?OBERT JUHNSsUIN .T"'!j.tft v T. Johnson as recorded 'In S?t rMOI Book l62LpaBe 230, of the Dupito LE?i 'LD1!?? LEE BUSH; ""JX, ona-hairSvlded JOE LEE; MARX JUoun , r"-"" ----- T"MnU AND LULA JOHNSON, uuereay common Which cause of action ana the interest of the parties are set out in the complaint f lied to this action and that the said defen dant are necessaryparties; and tnai ine saiu ueicimmim - il . nnrtna -that thAV KT FB- Lllfl ICISVV xtwaN.v " mil ' quired to-appear ai me uaiiko v iiivrlnr Court Of Duplin County, at the Courthouse In Kenansville, North Carolina, on the 30th day of Apru. 1945, and answer or demur to the petition duly filed In said office, on or fee- Tore tne iitn aay vi rsnnpfc for the relief demanded In said Complaint or peuuon.- This -the 30th !day" of March, -'t , R.1y. Well, Clerk . ' . Superior Court . T 4-27-4t. HEP. j 3 Hardware , v and ; ' Farm Implements . ALUS-CHALMERS TRACTORS . ELECTPIO WELDUVQ, PADTT8 . ROOFINO. NAIIf . SIOVES, . Iir.ATER PIX)W CEARS, i HARNESS, FARM MACHINERY iJPABTS AND REFAIRS 6 x Coma to Set U CI:-r.:n Carr lUDVARE COMPANY Vcl!aca, " ' COYTOnSEEP PLAIlTATIOi FuOUEf COKER'S 100 - STRAIN NUMBER 5 - ROWDEN'S NUMBER42-C ' FIELD AND GARDEN SEEDS - -EARLY AND FIELD VARIETIES SEED CORN USE ROYSTER'S FIELD TESTED FERTILIZER TIME TO "VIGORO" YOUR TOBACCO PLANTS MAKES THEM HEALTHY AND STRONG G. E. QUINN Kenansville, North Carolina- GENERAL FARM SUPPLIES. 3i. ,,C7Q,IIS- - . 1 ..111 1 s w. ft! I V. Pu!?vcod h tho No.1 boitlonoek of war production, rjerth Ccrclina Is ono o! tho chief puipwoocj-produc-ln3 crc;..cnd North Carolina li not producing as it should. Tho t!tuc:2on hero Is so bad that somo mills may havo to shut down for lack of Pulpwood, What Aro You Going To 1 Do About 17 Y suitable woodland of your, own; if you can cut and ntui pulpwood from someone else's land; if you can take even a part-time job in the woods, you have an opportunity to hslp shorten the war end at the game tkna put youreslf in a fine ptace- ti-, rvrntf eouree of inoreased pulpv.ccd rrHuotlon so to hsa tcsn tha f-nn .ccot, ana it ra-uio Pup wood Always WiH Be In Demand The present huge demand for pulp wood is due to the war;' but it isn't going to stop when ' the . war stops. "Many new uses have been developed for pulpwood for which there is a wait; ine civilian market " .". Pulp and paper - already the nation's 6th largest industry-has a great post-war future. Pulpwood ia tha b:sio raw material lpr many oi mo naw products that are coming. It will fetatr j:t look noTr fhrfp H - g u - 4 . w. r- m m r i A 0 yVTJ .LIUMim- '312 00 , -f . MAD - C017D9Y.;. By Alan loMay ' CHAPTER V , r - i ' ..... . ...l- , - v-: Tt'a pprtnlnlv n!ca Of VOU peopl to tak me and my uncle to," Mel-, ody laid witb , complacence chilled George miry. : ' expecv w can jurt aaweU stay on a wnue, u U all rlcrht with VOU." i He let hl eyea wander off into the night as he spoke, but he sensed the ttiiineu that instantly came over Cherry de Longpre and her brother. ' "Mieht ven be." Melody went on, "me and my Uncle Boscoe could brina- ourseU to do -a little work around here, to kind of pay for our keep. I see you got plenty horse flesh out there; maybe me and Un cle Boscoe will set in to break few ha Id. Mma mornins." i Ha amiled a little, 'contentedly, and let bis eyea slide across the faces of the others to see what el feet this announcement had taken. He got his answer at once. Cherry de Longpre looked Melody squarely and blankly between the eyes. Her tone was cool and per lectly .level, but there was a ahakl ness behind it. "Monte," she said with finality, "it's time to be on your way." ' . ' : - "Oh, I ain't to any hurry,' ,MeV ody said. .'v..,i-', Avery de Longpre'i words came to a slow whisper., "Oh., yes, you arel" Until th&Lmoment Melody had not known that Avery's gun was to his hand under the edge of the table. - Melody didn't believe that Avery would actually shoot; at least not while everyone sat quiet It was George Fury who scared Melody. George's hands gripped the edge of the table, and he had got his heels ' muter him; ha could Uncoil like a spring from that "position. And he was watching Avery like a pointer. Melody knew what George was go ns to do. Ha was cotoc to overturn the table on Avery, making the gun miss as it fired, George wouia nope. That would nut out one of the lamps. and probably the old fool would try to kick down the other lamern, which huns from a rafter eight feet from the floor. There was a mo- mont nf nAralvsla. "Take it easy, Uncle Roscoe," Melody said to George rury. "He's got his gun to bis nanas, nrra& orated. Cherry said quickly. "You hnnlrin't clean vour oun at the ta ble, Avery." She sounaea out oi breath. He's holdin' It to Ws two hands." Cltuiram reneated- t . : - "wh.r did vou flour he would be holding it." Melody said, "if he's Cleaning it? In his mouth?" - Oiarrv'a evea -were nxea nara on Melody. Ignoring the others. "Sad dle your ponies." she orderett mm. "Saddle up and get out ox nerei Picrht nnui!" ; . , Melody looked at her witnoux nur- ry. "You iook right pretty when you spark up like that," he saia. .."There's a posse after you," Cher- rv aid desneratelv. "Can't T0U get that thrnutfh vour headT The Poison- berry country is full of men who wuuld be glad to kill you on sight v.iu'd he dead now if it wasn't for me! Now you get out of here, while you still can! ' "Shucks, now." Melody began. You heard. her." Avery spoke. Fever Crick was sitting goggle- eyed, and his Jaw was woDDung; ! Averv was steady as a rock. ' Slowly Meljdy stood up, and George got warily to bis teet oesiae him. George never took his eyes from Avery for an instant. 'RM faaL" Cherry saw, -ana irn a-oine-t Don't turn your horses this side of the line, if you want to live.'' ; . Melody loofeed at her a moment, than hack to Georae asain. He said sadly, "Well, coma ,on. Uncle Bos coe." fa tha ' recedlnar hoolbeats - OI George's and Melody's horses. At ary. took off his black California- style bat the one with the flat top and scratched his bead with tna uma hand. When they could no longer bear the hoof-beats, Cherry and Avery looked at each other side long. .v.M.vy-.j, v Side by side, they walked out to the barn now, moving a little reluc tantly:' ':.-', ''--' '' - They went Into the ramshackle barn. A three-quarter moon was coming up, and the cracka between the warping boards let to thin stripes of tha horizontal light; but the in terior was very dark. They felt their way around a considerable hoarding of weathered bay stacked In bales, and came to what had once been the wall of a stall. The baled bay was piled against the oth er side of the old timers now. ; Here Avery took down a canvas wind-breaker, and pulled out the nail upon which it had hung. A hidden latch lifted, and some of the boards swung toward a make-shift trick door. ' Bevond. an unexnectedly spacious cava waa revealed under the hay tiers, made by blocking up the bales only one deep, like masonry. Avery had built this, and built It fast, while bis father was - off chasing wild horses. Fever Crick, whose Jug loose tongue was trusted by nobody, had taken Avery's story that he bad hauled to more hay, This crude hide-out was nothing anybody couia have trusted long; the cool, brazen guts of the very idea, was its only hope. Monte Jarrad was on a pallet of grain sacks, bis head propped on bis addle. He lay on ms oacx, very still, with the slack relaxation of a man who Is saving every pulse-beat of his strength, ne imoicea a rouea "Monte. It's time to be en your way." Meindv and Georee rode off into the dark at a sullen walk, resenting the push around. . Five nunarea ard helow the Busted Nose they aniahed into a little thread of moun tain stream, and let their ponies- stop to drink, since the riding ahead promised to be both long and -slow, -far ha it from me." George said. "to stick a spoke to your damn ,h.ai well do I realize that you're three, hoots and a yelp too smart ror . man to tell you nuuun . BUI a k.H.wii intun that cot hisself to your flx would have sense enough to die by his own leeini . Mtntv wasn't listening to him. "I k..n thinkln'." be said now. "You .nmathin'T I don't think this lAnrAm iarrad is up here at the D...trf Nnsa at all." :' George Fury's hat seemed to rlat JmuIv An hia head. "You rode to there because you thunk he was there?" ' ' "Sure. But I see ainerent, now. She wouldn't never of brung me here, except unless the real Monte was the farthest away place he coi id get; She's trying to use me to lead the posse off him, pot at him." ' George stared at him angrily. "Let's get out of this." be said gruffly, pulling. Up his pony's head. I "it just comes to me " Melody said. "I eome up here to ' find out i where Monte- Jarrad is. And I come awav without finding out. ; "Why didn't you ask them peo .vr.eorarf said with all the sar- -.m ha had. "Them's the ones .k. tnnwi Are you' going to set there, all night, or .come nT" ; "Neither one," Melody said, gath ..tna hi. reins. 'Tm going back." n. turned Harry Henshaw, and .i.rii hack ud the trail. . . George sat for a moment or two .ftr him. His lower Ud i.,n.t nendulously. and trembled. He pulled at It with gloved thumb and finffpr. Then he followed Melo- t'y t-ivj, VrpfH stiffly in his sad- (lender as a match, and looked at them wtth humorless eyes. Mnnte Jarrad took no notice ol Avery at all; but he looked at Cher ry with a certain gleam of warmth. if anything, rherrv stood quiet, and waited. She was thinking how different two men could be, and yet be mistanen fnr the other. Monte Jarrad WW - t . bad the same hard-to-curry shag of sandy hair as Melody Jones, and the same eye-colored eye, the same set of bones in ms race, ooiu u the same spare, horse-transportation build, cut tqjhe same height, and the same weight witmn a pouna. That wa U. though : and Cherry marveled that it had proved enough. For the man who lay wounded in the hideaway had the unmaUeable, grit ty quality of gravel in a moutnrui of beans. From his light eyes he looked at the world with a narrowed vision, as if squinting uirougn we barrels of a shotgun; and a sort of permanent truculence was Ws key. , Haven't you got any sense a .hi" Mta a.ked her. He had the IUI pepper df a man outraged by his own physical weaiuwBB .vu...-. Irreconcilable, at being held down. avM. trwinut tuhfit vou went hi rajiwr vilie after I You was supposed hi fetth holt of Lee and Vlrgl rhem aald. "Lee and UXU1II.W, " Vlrg positively have not showed patch or pants in rayiiYuii. . don't know why, or where they are, or anything about it" "And so." Monte said, -so long 2. ui down there, you bad to figure out the worst thing you could of doner' .... "You're here because you re w only man I ever looked at in my a. Ill- -11 al.a.aia Ufa," Cherry- Mia wim u imuu, i a KnBiifl I've always thought you were all hell, from befor I was fourteen yeara nu. aitAnte aold. ' OIL ..t.i. u.i mv fault that soms tramp -...k, wandered Into.PaynevUle." nt..au iniinwed ud. "and It's not my fault that payneviue muw u mmi wora ran au uyn wwu. Homer Cotton ura wr mm mium n.,.e f-nrral. honing to kill him. ti. k.Hn't heen In ten minutes be- n . ... . fore a rider went wauopmg ou m town to fetch back the posse. The way he rode, 1 could near ms not whistle a block. . . . Maybe thert Tire Certificates Dated Prior td Dec. 1 Are Now Dead he looked at her aueerly. "No feller looks Ilk me. No fel ler looks like any feller." . , - '1 didn't say he did. Ho has the; ante Initials, la all." Then as she looked at Monte, her eyes turned , strange. "He looks ha cxfj soma- -thing like you used to looks i t I Monte didn't go into that ; "Avery and I did tho only thlnej wo could have done," Cherry went on. "The whole thing was a bad cut, that's all. Except for him, the posse would have dusted right on through to California, I suppose.. As It is, they'll be back hero by tomor row night They'll comb this basin until a coon-cat couldn't hide to It The only thing I coutU think of do ing so long as they're dead set on thinking he's you, was to help them think so and send him tearing on his way. He's plenty stupid; but i ha irnnwi ha'a in trouble, now. - Jle'll pound out of this country as fast as horse flesh can tax mm. i ne posse will be days catching up with him." v;.,.;;i "He hit Ira. Waggoner," Cherry ,. 'aald. ' .' . - - Whv "Didn't come out with no reason," Avery said. "Damn it he roust of said some thing!'' . "I swear, Monte, he never said Hurrah,' or 'Excuse me,' or notb In' I He just walked up to him, and boom he's endways. I never see such a business." , "It was a picture," Cherry con firmed, t - ' "Naturally," Avery pointed out his tone aggrieved, "everybody knew that you was tho only one would havo the nerve to bit . Ira. Even Ira thunk it was you. He Just picked hisself up and offered you a drink." Avery looked puzzled. "Offered him a drink," ho decided. "I should have known Waggoner had no sense," Monte blamed him self. "Why was he a stage driver If he had any sense?" "Sure, Monte," Avery said again. "It was Lee and Virg picked him," Monte said. "Waggoner was sup posed to see that the shotgun mes senger got left behind at Stinkwater. He was supposed to drive the stage alone. It's Waggoner's fault that - -the shotgun rider got his. It's Wag- goner's fault that I'm lying berei" "Sure, Monte." "And It's bis fault now mat the posse's on top of me again." "Sure, Monte." "Quit saying that!" ! ' "Okay, Monte." "Don't you see," Cherry said, "that the posse will only take off after this tramp cowboy?" As they stooped and wormed their way out of the hide-out wsaiar the hay, Monte called Cherry back. She turned reluctantly, anxious to be away. - "There's something you might bet ter know," Monte said, "and guide yourself according." "Never mind this wrapping no body around no finger," he said. "Unless you want to get them shot right to the stummick. Under stand?" Cherry looked at him steadily, for quite a bit She pinched her lids to- , gether, but when she opened her eyes they were dry. "I don't know . about you," she said at last. "Some Hsva T don'l think vou try."v Nobody was in the lighted kitchen of the Busted Nose as George and . Melody returned to it leaving their horses bidden in the brush. Fever Crick, who now seemed to have passed out, was snoring to" the lean-to; but otherwise their recon- v. naissance raised no one. Avery and Cherry de Longpre had disappeared. "I'm thlnkin'," Melody said. "The girl knows where Monte is. So she's the one I got to find out from." "So naturally all you got to do Is ask her," George said. "Well, no; that's the part I ain't got figured yet," Melody admitted. "I don't rightly judge she'll say. '. That's where the hitch comes to." "Oh," said George. His eyes were flicking around the kitchen, tireless ly hunting a ray of hope. "Ain't there some way to git you out of ; this?" "Oh, now George don't start all that again. I'm tryin' to find out -somethin'." , "Then we might Jeat as well try . to git 'or done," George laid grimly. George had come to the foot of tha ladder nailed to the wall; It gave a- ' cess to tho loft above the kitchen, "Don't make a sound," he whla pered; and suddenly skinned silently ' up the ladder Into tho loft When George had disappeared, a considerable silence followed, dur- , tog which Melody had no clue to what George was up to, nor what was happening. Melody began to ,s show nervousness for the nrst tune. . He called up the ladder to a reach ing whisper. "Hey, Georgel" There was no answer xrom aoove. Perham nothing to tha world lit so creepy as calling into the dark to ; some one you Know is mere, ana getting no reply. Ana now Meioay beard tho voices of Cherry and Av -ery, outside: they seemed to be some distance off, but coming closer rapidly. Melody Jones swung up the ladder in a couple of long pulls, and stuck himself half way Into, the loft ; "Come onl The rest of the wayl" George spoke close to hla oar. "QuICkr'-.--''';;''.':-"'V';o. i- "One thing." George whispered, they'll never beflgurin' on us hec." '--' "Nobody but a couple o' ratchet- haida would'wedge theyseif to here," Melody laid, bumping hla head Again ' , . "Hesh't" TO BE CQNTPTUEP This action was taken, ht aald, to Insure that the sharply cut sup ply of tires for April b used In il .,ntir.n luaiift- most essen- Ralph J. Jones, Chairman or uw uai to tno war , .. local WP&RB today advised all He pointed out that tho action lwiters of tire cwtificatea dated applies to all tyrta of t? ". l"" ! t 1 1. 1.11, that these ding; passwrw t , i. e invalid on far !Ttr'