Thursday, October 5, 1933
BY WAY OF BEGINNING
It looked as if the Elkln Com
munity Pair had a bigger attend
ance before officially opening than
it did afterward. . . Everyone ia re
lieved to know that Herman Guyer
has found his scissors, thank you.
. . If the benefits of a revival could
Just be made lasting the world
would probably be lots better off.
. . According to Mrs. Ruth Byrd
Grater, a business cannot be built
on spite. Have you any little
spites in your business? . . . When
Elkin goes to the polls November
7 to decide upon the prohibition
question, why not repeal at the
same time the local traffic laws?
They are absolutely useless. . .
Won't be long before Holloween.
And then Thanksgiving, and Christ
mas, and New Years, and Ground
Hog day, and Easter and the 4th of
July and Thanksgiving, an' r
Whoa? Where are we going? Time's
passipg entirely too fast!
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They're telling that Will Hol
comb, due to a fast clock, got to
church the other morning before the
collection plate was passed.
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NO CONSIDERATION
The Elkin Community Fair, as
we understand it, is a yearly event
organized primarily to promote a
better feeling and a more lasting
friendship between the farmers and
townspeople.
And for that reason it is a pity
that much of the good the fair may
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have created last year and would
have perhaps created this year was
destroyed on opening night by the
gross inconsideration of Elkin citi
zens, who, enthralled over a negro
boxing match, ascended the exhibit
tables and trampled upon the prised
exhibits of the farmers.
Despite pleas on the part of fair
officials, to whom the safety of the
exhibits were entrusted, these citi-,
zens refused to show the courtesy
of removing themselves from the
tables until, as far as one table was
concerned, it gave up in despair
and collapsed, spilling both prize
exhibits and Inconsiderate humanity
in a tangled heap.
\
The farmers who placed exhibits
in the fair were more or less the
guests of the people of Elkin. And
their exhibits were the result of a
summer of hard work. Somehow
we don't believe that those who
trampled upon them would have
liked it much if some of those same
farmers had come into their homes
and insisted upon standing in
chairs and upon the parlor table.
It amounts to about the same thhig.
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Since sorta mentioning in a mild
way last week that we didn't favor
the name "Buckin' Elks" for El-'
kin's football team, we have had
numerous members of the team and
student body to come to us and
,«xtend thanks/ for bringing the
matter up. It seems that a vote
on the matter by the student body
THE ELKIN TRIBUNE, ELKIN, NORTH CAROLINA
! would be a fair way of determining
whether or not the name 1b popu
l lar with those most interested, and
if not, let the students select an
other name that suits themselves.
It's their football team, and any
way, a name which must be looked
up in the dictionary to find the
connection is not so appropriate on
account of football fans don't carry
dictionaries to football games.
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MUTTER AND MUMBLE
Mr. Schaff said we were going
to destroy the sentiment attached
to the name "Buckin' Elks." What
sentiment? . . . Did you know there
is very little feeling on the end of
your elbow? Try pinching the flesh
I there sometime.
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WIN'S GRAND AWARD
Elkin, September 28.—(United
Pest) —Henry Dobson, prominent
Elkin farmer, despite the absence of
his wife and a long seige of dry
weather during which time it didn't
rain, was awarded the grand prize
de luxe by Elkin Community Fair
Live-at-home exhibit Judges here to
day.
Mr. Dobson's-exhibit, which fea
tured choice ears of corn, said by
experts to contain half a dozen
grains to the ear, beautiful speci
mens of Irish potatoes and a quan
tity of onions, was one of the ma
jor features of the entire fair,
throngs surging about it in rapt ad
miration at all times.
In planting his potatoes and on
ions, Mr. Dobson stated that he
placed the seed plants in the ground
bottom side up in hopes that the po
tatoes and onions would come up
upside down, thus doing away with
having to dig or pull his harvest.
However, in some manner or other,
the plants righted themselves and
came up according to the best po
tato and onion traditions.
"If my wife hod been at home
to work the garden I am sure my
exhibit would have been even bet
ter," Mr. Dobson told a representa
tive of the United Pest.
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ENTERS IXXJ SHOW
Elkin, Sept. 28. (Assassinated
Press) —Mrs. Lula Weir, journalist
and dog fancier de luxe, today en
tered a choice Hydrantoosian Wolf
Hound in the dog show of the Elkin
Community Fair, but due to the fact
that her entry was so far ahead 6f
other entrants in breeding, poise
and the ability to rout out an of
fending flea, the Judges failed to
give it an award for fear of hurting
the other contestants' feelings.
Proudly leading the stately ani
mal with a piece of reaper twine,
Mrs. Weir stated that her entrant
had only just been captured in the
wilds of Hydrantoosia while investi
gating a fire hydrant and that she
had had considerable difficulty in
getting it's mind properly diverted
for entry in the dog show. i
It is understood that next year
the fair officials are planning a baby
show.
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THIS AND THAT
Hot dog! At last Elkin has won
a football game in spite of the silly
name she has to play under.
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And the way those boys tightened
up and threw Witkesboro for a loss
after being driven into the shadows
of their own goal posts was good to
see.
* • •
We don't know who was the most
tickled over winning the game, the
team or Mr. Schaff. And if he
wants to get up at the next Kiwanis
club meeting and make a speech of
parise for the boys it'll be all right
by us.
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The only casualty we've heard of
in the grand table crash at the ferir
last Thursday night was Will Hol
comb's feet.
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Conversation overheard on Bridge
street between two sweet young
things the other afternoon: "I'll
swigger, but did I feel gigged!" Wo
understand the young ladies also
speak English.
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In Winston-Salem Soon
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by press, clergy and the theatre
going public as the greatest show
since the days of "Ben Hur," the
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kind as viewed by the simple but
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go, Boston and Philadelphia play
goers.
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Island-Mann's Harbor route and the
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ire again in operation after being
driven ashore during the storm of
September 16.
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A shortage, of water and a great
mound of shavings and sawdust
blazing dangerously high and
threatening a nearby lumber yard
and other buildings caused the Sl
ier City fire department Friday to
call on Asheboro for a pumping
engine and Greensboro for two
tanks of water. The fire was ex
tinguished a short time after these
reinforcements arrived.