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raURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1949
Rccrristi NEWS
— By itn, A. A. MoTtitiia
Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Edge of Fay
etteville were guests of Mr. and
Mrs. W. T. Boseman last Sunday.
Lets of interest was shown in
the farmer’s meeting here last
Fiday night. They are to meet a-
gain next Saturday night, Oct. 29.
We are glad to report that Bud
Weston Stephens who was bad-
Ij- injured in an auto wreck re
cently is improving, though slow
ly.
There will be a halloween car
nival at the school house tomor
row (Friday) night. Bingo and
other games, fortune telling, bob
bing for apples, etc. will be en
gaged Ln. Come and join in ■ the
fun and help the youngsters to
have a good time. It begins at
o’clock.
Xews has been received here of
the death of Mrs. D, J. -Lindsay
of Jacksonville, Fla. Mr. Lindsay
is a native of this community and
has .many friends and relatives
here who sympathize with him in
h.s bcrea\-ement.
Mr. and Mrs..Clyde McGill and
Mrs. M. S. Bristow of Fayette
ville attended church at Galatia
last Sunday.
Revival sefynces will be held
at Galatia next week beginning
Sunday nigh:. A former pastor of
Parkton Presbyterian church.
Rev. T. A. Guiton of Lillington
will conduct these sendees and
everyone' is' most cordially invit
ed to attend.
.Mr. and Mrs. E. J> Hare and
baby daughter, Anita, of Ashley
Heights were Rockfish visitors
Sunday.
Mrs. Marshall Ray spent sever
al days the first of this week
with Mr. and Mrs. Gillis Ray in
FayetteviUe.
Rev. E. L. Miller of Fayette
ville will preach at Tabernacle
Baptist church here Sunday at 11
o’clock.
EVERYBODY IN U. S. A.
COULD TAKE A CARRIDE
AT THE SAME TIME
Miss Etta Mae Dees is a pat--
lent in Highsmith • hospital after
having ari appendectomy on
Tuesday of this week. Her many
friends wish for’her a speedy re
covery.
Mr. and Mrs. Lacy McRae of
Mass visited' Mr. and Mrs. H. L.
Edwards last Saturday.
-Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Smith and
daughter, Brenda, of Maxton vis
ited :\Ir. and Mrs. T. G. Wood
Sundav.
TRUMAN IBISES yMTO USO—^President Truman,- presenting a USO Plaque, congratulates
A Leon M. Gib^wn, USO Chairman in North Carolina, upon the splendid activities of ten full-scale
® S Faciliti^ serving our Amy at Fort Bragg and Marines at LeJeune and Cherrv
Point Bases; also seen in the picture are Gordon'Gray, Secretary of the Army and Lt. General
John C. Hodge, V Corps Commander, with headquarters at Fort Bragg. Secretary of the Armv
fi. Gordon Gray, a native of North Carolina, gave outstanding volunteer service to USO durine the
^"I'nandant of Port Bragg, is an active Executive Board Member of
^ the North Carolina USO State Committee. President Truman recently re-activated USO services
to Veterans in Hospitals and 240 Clubs and other services in this country and overseas. • % .«
Everybody in this coimtoy could
go for an automobile ride at the
same time, and everybody in
Hoke county is cordially in-vited
to join with their automobile
dealers in celebrating “Know
Your Automobile Dealer Week”,
October 31 - November 5 Young
er Snead, chairman of Hoke
county’s observance of the event*
said.
“It used to be said, with an
oratorical flourish, that America
is a nation on wheels”, he declar
ed. “Today that is just a plain
statement of fact, for every one
of us could take an automobile
ride at the same time and the av
erage would be less than five
persons per car, i
“It is hard to realize”, Mr.
Snead continued, “that one out
of every three persons in this
country is a licensed driver. And
the number is growing rapidly,
“We have three times as many
automobiles in the United States
as there are in the rest of the
world. To my mind, all these
facts are proof of the superiority
of the standard of living in this
free-enterprise, demotratic nation.
They indicate, too, the great part
the automobile has played in the
upbuilding of this country.”
Aafhorized
FRIGIDAIRE
dealer for the past 13 years.
Refrigerators, Ranges, Wa
ter Heaters and other ap
pliances.
BAUCOlff APPLIANCE CO.
Rhone 37,21
Baeford. N. C.
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Southern
Marble Works
Lumberton, N. C.
Get our prices before buy
ing your monument.
Rockfish school wishes to ex
press its appeciation to Capt. W.
J. Clark for his efforts to get
playground equipment for the
school and ^ thank all who do
nated anything to this worthy
cause.
Worth Wood is visiting his
brother, Howard Wood and family
in Newport News, this week.
tMe^o
greyhound
PACKAGE
express
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Yeargan and
children visited relatives in Gar
ner and Raleigh the past week
end. They also attended the State
Fair.
Donald Wooa, M. S. Gibson,
George Dees, Herbert Long. Mr.
and Mrs. Sydney Sumner and
Miss Patricia Ritter were among
those who attended the fair from
Rockfish last week.
Poole’s IV
BY D. SCOTT POOLE
Of much interest to people of
this community was the marriage
of Miss Helen Carf Kellette. dau
ghter of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Kel
lette of Winston-Salem to Joe
Cleveland Hinkle of Welcome.
Mrs. Hinkle is a granddaughter
of G. F. Koonce and the late Mrs.
Koonce of this community.
I O. L. Townsend, David and
Louis Lindsay attended the fun-
; eral of Mrs. J. D. Lindsay in
Jacksonville. Fla Tuesday.
Friends of Mrs. F. B. Bethea
are glad to know that she is do
ing well after a very serious ope
ration at Highsmith hospital last
Monday.
Cut Delivery Time on
“Hurry-up” Shipments
Save precious hours by fast,
frequent Greyhound Package
Express Service! Rush produc
tion parts, medicines, flowers,
perishables — ansrwhere, any
time — aboard any regularly
scheduled Greyhound! For
rates and further information,
phone your Greyhound agent.
J. E. Wood and daughter, Miss
Betty Joan Wood took a trip to
Goldsboro one day last 'W'eek.
The ingathering at Galatia
church last week was fairly good
considering boll weevil, etc. The
proceeds from the chicken, and
barbecue supper amounted to a-
round $720.00 and it is esti.mated
that the total 'would be about
S1500.00.
UNION BUS STATION
Phone 239-1 — Raeford, N, C.
GREYHOUN
Mr. and Mrs. ,Chas. Kelly and
children of Greensboro and Mr.
and Mrs. J. I). Gibson of Fayette
ville spent Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. M. S. Gibson and family.
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George D. Jones, extemslon en
tomologist at State College, .=ays
control of rats is especially im
portant to North Carolina farm.-
ers this fall because of the large
DR. DAVID W. WHITEHEAD
OF SOUTHERN PINES
Announces the Opening of Offices
IN RAEFORD
FOR THE
Practice of Optometry
EYES EXAMINED _ GLASSES FITTED
Office Over McLauchlin Co.
Hour 9 to 5 Saturdays Only
Since my earliest recollection
and when people possessed gold
coined, they put it by and kept it
under lock and key. Just occasion
ally they were paid in gold coin
or silver and this they invariably
saved - they did not spend it.
Too, they loved jewelry and gold
watches and chains, ornaments,
earbobs. etc.
We learn that in Bible times
the people appreciated gold coin,
and golden vessels and it must
have been more plentiful than we
have ever known it to be. For
their life-sized idols and even
Nebuchadnezza built an idol 90
feet high of gold and required
all his subjects to worship it.
I intend writing about gold in
•my native county of Montgomery.
I went to Troy in January,’ 1895
to publish a newspaper. The
statements in this article are
based upon information gained on
the streets of that town. Gold was
found in the branch which head
ed about the central part of the
town. Soil from the ditch in
which that little stream flowed
contained gold but not of suffi
cient quantities to mine. Of the
mines of which I knew in Mont
gomery the oldest and richest
was the Sam ‘Christian Mine.
Some 4 or five miles north of the
town of Mt, Gilead. That mine
was operated since my earlie.st
recollections and during the early
years of my residence in Troy
operations ceased altogether but
a large nugget was found in that
mine that awakened interest in
gold mining,over a large section
of this state.
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Another mine was found on the
property of Tebe Sanders at Mor-
rotock, 10 miles west of Troy. He
had his mine worked by neigh
bors in the community who mined
the gold on shares. After some
years of operation, a man from
up north came, down and purchas
ed the mine for the company
which he had made up to buy it.
He operated the mine for several
years, returned north, and has
not been heard of since. It seems
that the owners of the mine got
no dividends. The natives of that
county say- that the operators did
not account honestly for the gold
they mined. They think that was
true also of the Sam Christian
Mine.
M. L. Jones, a lumber manufac
turer, sold out his timber interests
and bought a mine in Eastern
Montgomery but I do not remem
ber the name. He was the only
man within my knowledge who
operated a stamp mill. He operat
ed that mill for several years. He
said it paid better than saw mill
ing. Anyhow, he mined consider
able gold there, and I never learn
ed why he closed down.
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' The late J. Reece Blair, a pro
minent Attorney-at-law in Troy
did something I never' heard of
anyone else doing. All lands ex
tended to the banks of the Yad
kin River and no one owned the
bed of the river. Mr. Blair enter
ed the bed of the river for 20
miles when he learned that the
soil in the bottom of that river
was rich, in gold. The difficulty
was that in lifting that soil from
the bed of the river the waters
swept it off the lifter. But there
was unquestionably plenty of gold
in the bed of that river.
There are other mines or at
least gold deposits on both sides
of Little River. .And occasionally
someone found that panning the
soil was good employment.
When times were hardest in the
middle 90’s, a maif who had some
money employed his neighbors
who were without work and with
out money at low wages and pan
ned the soil from the sides of
Cotton Stone Mountain, the high
est mountain in the county. And
he made money by it and his
neighbors had something to live
on.
Do not charge the condition of
the country to laziness, for it was
due to the scarcity of money in
circulation, and this is likely to
be repeated. I have been standing
on the streets of Troy and they,
to a man, believed, there was
plenty of gold in the hills of
Montgomery county. It was not
infrequent that a man would put
his hand in his pocket and take
out several nuggets, and it was n
lad in Troy for men to have watch
fobs of gold nuggets found- in the
county.
There are 'many reasons to be
lieve that there may come another
financial stringency in this coun
try. and no Roosevelt to relieve
this stringency by inflation of the
currency.
Whether or not there comes
another money panic, this 'W'riter
believes there is untold wealth in
the clay hills of Montgomery and
Moore Counties, and he hopes to
live to^see some of these fountains
of wealth opened up.
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Pecan pie will appear on dinner
tables the country over this fall
and early winter when pecans
will be in good supply on mar-
kCL.":, especially in sections of the
Static where pecans are grown.
Here is a tested pecan pic re
cipe from food specialists: Ingre
dients: 1 cup pecan kernels; 3
eggs; 1-2 cup melted table fat.
To make: Beat eggs, add s\igar
and sirup, then salt and vanilla,
and last the melted fat. Place
the pecans in t^e bottom of an
unbaked pie crust. Add filling
and bake" slowly in a moderate
oven (350 degrees F.) for 50 to
60 minutes. The nuts will rise to
the top of the pie filling and
form a crusted layer.
Enfer
(inc! get this attractive
reflector Installed FREE I
Are You
Trading Cars?
REGARDLESS OF WHERE
OR WHEN — LET US
FINANCE IT FOR YOU.
Lumber River
Discount Go.
When not being worn, gloves
should not be folded up into a
ball and crammed into a purse
or pocket. They should be smooth
ed out and folded, not in half
but at the base of the fingers.
This will keep the creases aw’y
from the body of the glove and
help prevent cracking of the
leather in the palm or over the
back of the hand.
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Average size of all farms in the
State in 1945 was 65.8 acres.
Phone 767 South Elm St.
LUMBERTON, N. C.
Aa' Umat Specialists report on SO-D^Test ofameiSmokers..
WrONESINGlfGIISEOFIHIKMr
IRRinnON CAMELS!
these Were the findings
of noted throat specialists
¥ after a total of 2,470 weekly
¥¥examiflations of the ttiroats
■vOf huodreds of men and
:: women who smoked Camels
for 30 consecutive days.
I MADE THE
30-DAY TEST AND MY
doctor's report was no
SURPRISE TO ME ! CAMELS
ARE A GREAT SMOKE—
and I KNOW they're .
•; MY THROAT
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State College
Hints To Farm
Homemakers
The people of Montgomery
County who were out of money
would go down to the branch on
the premises and mine enough of
gold in a few hours which they
sold in stores in Troy and sup
plied their needs of stocks of food
and clothing. It seems that the
creeks of the ' county carried
enougn gold for the.m to success
fully gather what they needed.
Memo for packing away soring
and summer clothes: Keep a pad
and pencil in your apron pocket
when you are packing away sum
mer clothes. Jot down as you
work what you put away and
where. You will save time,' trou
ble, and confusion next spring.
Systei'natic housekeepers post
on attic or closet doors a list of
articles stored in bags, boxes, or
certain closets. Some also label
each trunk, box, and bag with
its contents. Any device which
helps the housekeeper and her
family kno'vv where possessions
are at a .moment’s notice makes
for good home management.
CLOTHES
CARRIER
M.95
CLOTHES
HAMPER
8.95
ALL $
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A tested recipe for pecan pie:
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