Thursday, January 28, 1937
PRESENTING OUR UNCLE CULPEPPER
As a usual thing we don't like to bring in members of
our family when doing this column, but in the case of our
You'll notice he is dressed in
a standing collar. It's not that he is a dude or anything
like that that he wears it,but because of the free play of his
Adam's apple. Like all the Culpeppers, he grew up mostly
to Adam's apple, and wears a standing collar to give the
thing full play. Once, when in a moment of weakness he
put on an ordinary stiff collar his Adam's apple got caught
under the collar botton and he liked to have choked to death
before Aunt Phrony prized it loose with the fire poker.
There's one thing about our Uncle Culpepper we've al
ways admired. He never gets excited. We remember the
the time he was sitting out on the front porch when a
neighbor came running to tell him that Aunt Phrony had
fallen in the well, " 'Tain't no use worrying," he said, "the
well ain't got no water in it."
Our Uncle Culpepper, although a bit old-fashioned, al
ways takes an ardent interest in politics. And it was he
who, following last November's*
election, offered the following for
mula for those suffering from an
aggravated attack of literary in
digestion.
Regular meeting of Elkin Coun
cil No. 96 Jr. O. U. A. M. will be
held every Friday night, 7:30 p.
m. All members are requested to
be present. 2-11-e
"It's pretty hard to beat
NATURE"
mwww m* Sulu, deep IlTer-tnd-
BULI) white pointer bitch,
Mrd Dotf owned by C.
Ctaecn dlfd'by clyde°Morton. ,
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HERE is an action picture ance. So Sulu is the queen; the
of the famous Sulu, the other is just a dog.
pointer who swept every- Just as Nature favored Sulu,
thing before her at National she favored Natural Chilean Ni-
Field Trials of 1936 at Grand trate of Soda. Just as Sulu has
Junction, Term. Sulu, the queen many elements in Nature's bal
of them all! ance, so has this nitrogen fer-
Thousands of bird dogs range tilizer. Nature aged and blended
* the fields... but there's only one into Natural Chilean, more than
Sulu. To this glorious creature thirty "impurities", or vital de
nature gave her greatest gift, • ments that your crops need to
perfect balance of the vital ele- grow and to produce their best,
ments; speed, scent, endurance, These vital elements are in
instinct and intelligence. An- addition to Natural Chilean's
other pointer may be just as good quick-acting nitrogen. That's
to look at, but Sulu has that vital why Natural Chilean is so good
Spark—everything in perfect bal- for your land and your crops.
Natural Chilean
NITRATE of SODA
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NATURAL AS THI GROUND IT COMIS FROM
With Vital Element* in Natnrm'm Balance and Blend
fekfADlO —"UNCLE NATCHEL SONNY"
nous CHILEAN CALENDAR CHARACTERS r
of leading Southern Stations
Uncle Culpepper we think he
deserves some publicity as the|
first Culpepper to put on shoes
before reaching the age of 21.
One would think, after
glancing at the picture to the
left, that our Uncle Culpepper j
was given to worrying, but he's i
not. At the time this picture
was made he was swearing off
for the third time that week.
And it was only two days after
this photo was made that he
turned down an offer from the
mayor to rent his nose for a
danger signal.
"Take six wilted sunflowers, add
one pound Du Pont powder, one
quart Standard oil, six Smith's
cigar butts, one bottle Hoover hair
tonic, steep one hour on a Morgan
stove, haul one mile in a Ford to
shake well; strain through brown
derby.
"This is an elephant dose and
should be takPi in one gulp. If
not cured call in Father Coughlin
for last rites; inform Dr. Town
send to cancel your old age pen
sion and then call the Grand Old
Party Hearst."
By the above you can readily
THE ELKIN TRIBUNE, ELKIN, NORTH CAROLINA
see that our Uncle Culpepper Is a
man of above the average Intelli
gence. He's the only member of
our entire family who went
through the fifth grade at school
in less than three years. He got
through in two.
• • *
THIS AND THAT
Following an attack of the flu
Walt Burgiss wrote an article
about the disease for the Chat
ham Blanketeer. And our linotype
operator said. Judging from the
length of it, that he sure was glad
Walt hadn't had pneumonia.
We felt very proud one day in
Greensboro (when we toiled
there), when someone wanted to
do a story for the papers on our
life. Then we found out he was
an obituary writer.
Human nature is very perplex
ing. Do something commendable
and chances are not one person
out of a hundred will say any
thing about it. Make an error,
and the entire hundred will take
it upon themselves to point it out.
For instance in last week's pa
per there was an error in the Mc-
Daniel's Department Store ad. An
item read: "Regular $1.49 value,
now $1.98." The last figure
should have been 98c, the "1" be
ing an error for which we per
sonally were responsible.
The paper hadn't been out a
day before various and sundry
had taken the trouble to point out
the mistake, probably with the
misguided notion that they were
being as funny as the ad. read. If
there ever was a time when this
paper appeared without an error
anywhere to be found, how many
would call up and mention that?
This many: o.''
Whenever you see an error in
this newspaper, and ofter there
are many, take into consideration
that in the course of about four
days' time approximately 40,000
words have to be set up into type
for each eight pages. You try to
set up 40,000 words in four days
and see how many errors you
make. In a 12 page issue there
approximately 60,000 words. And
errors will sneak in as much as
we hate it.
If you «ver take a job on a
newspaper you'll find that an
error is a funny thing. Before
the paper is printed an error will
hide out of sight, and look as you
may, chances are you won't see it.
But after the issue is off the press,
there the darn thing is, as big as
life, glaring right smack at you!
So what? So make a correction
in the next issue and try to be
more careful in the future.
An error is harder to find in a
line set in capital letters than in
one set in caps and lower case.
And the bigger the type, the more
likely it is to get by. Oftimes an
ad., after being proof-read in this
office, goes to the store concern
ed where it is again checked for
errors. Then, okeyed by both the
office proof reader and the store,
it goes to press with a glaring
error right smack dab in the mid
dle of it. It's a hard life.
Sometimes we think that we,
personally, are a mistake that has
been found but never corrected. ,
.
Bushings for the 287,500-volt
Boulder Dam transformers are 19
and one-half feet in length.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
PARDON OR PAROLE
Notice is hereby given by the'
undersigned that he will apply to
the Governor and the Parole
Commissioner of North Carolina
for a pardon or parole. All per-!
sons opposed to the granting of a;
pardon or parole to the under
signed will forward their protest
to the Governor or Parole Com
missioner at once. The under
signed was convicted at the Feb
ruary 17th term of Superior Court
of Surry County on the charge of
accessory after the fact and re
ceived a sentence of not less than
two years nor more than three
years in the State Prison at
Raleigh,,N. C.
This the 14th day of January,
1937.
1-28 GABIE McCRAW.
NOTICE
The annual meeting of the
stockholders of the Elkin-Jones
ville Building & Loan Association
will be held at Hotel Elkln, in the
Kiwanis room, on TUESDAY,
FEBRUARY 16, 1937, at 7 p. m.
The purpose of the meeting is for
the election of directors and the
transaction of any other business
that may come before the meet
ing.
This the 21st day of January,
1937.
PAUL GWYN,
1-28 - Secretary.
NOTICE
By virtue of the power as sub
stituted trustee in a deed of trust
executed by J. R. Pilson and wife
Ila Pilson for R. w. Snow, which
is recorded in the office of Regis
ter of Deeds of Surry County in
Book 66, page 22, the debt there
In secured being due and unpaid,
I will sell at public auction for
cash at the court house door in
Dobson on Saturday the 20th day
of February, 1937 at one o'clock
P. M. the following real estate
lying in Surry County, N. C. ad
joining the lands of T. E. Stanley,
M. G. Stanley, the Charles Beam
er land and others.
First tract, Beginning on a post
oak runs East 4 degrees variation
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9.47 chains to a rock Beamer's
corner, then South 4& degrees
West with Beamer's line 21.91
chains to a rock in M. O. Stan
ley's line, then West with Stan
ley's line 41-4 degrees variation
8.7*7 chains to a rock, then North
2 3-4 degrees East 22 chains to the
beginning, containing 20 acres
more or less.
Sedond tract adjoining the
above tract, Beginning on a
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Spanish oak W. L. Stanley cor
ner runs West on R. J. Stanley
line 11.75 chains to a post oak at
the road, then North East as said
road meanders 14.50 chains to a
post oak In Sexton Stanley's line,
then South 8.50 chains to the be
ginning, containing 7 acres more
or less.
Third tract, Adjoining ""the
above, Beginning on a post oak
at the road, runs North on Sex-
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ton Stanley's line 10.67 chains to a
Spanish oak, then West 3.85
chains to a black gum, then South
12.72 chains to a post oak, then
East to the beginning containing
5 acres more or less. Sale of said
lands will be made to satisfy said
debt and cost.
This the 16th day of January,
1937.
W. L. REECE,
2-11 Substituted Trustee.
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