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Dwellers In our rural districts
somet'imes wonder how law abid
ing citizens dare to venture forth
into the streets of New York or
Chicago. If a resident of either
of these great cities were to visit
the Southern mountains and tell
folks there he had never seen a
gangster or witnessed a street
murder he probably would be set
down as an incorrigible liar. Sim
ilarly some of us city dwellers
think of the Mountain folk only
in terms of moonshine whiskey
and feuds.
I happen to have lived In the
southern mountains for a while
and some of the feudists were my
friends, quiet, modest, rather dif
fident old fellows, they prided
themselves on their family virtues
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—Plus—
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For
ELKIN BARGAIN DAYS
We are in on Bargain Days with numerous big values
in jewelry, diamonds, watches, musical instruments, etc.
All are of highest quality at very reasonable prices. By
all means visit our modern store when you are here
Thursday, Friday and Saturday!
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SILVERWARE and
l " et MlSr tM BRACELET SETS
$19.55 SB.OO to $14.00
Beautiful Identification
Bracelets— * j. $4.00 to $7.50
Delta Pearls ! $2.75 to $5.75
Gold Beads $1.50 to $3.00
Watches
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MENS STRAP WATCHES
Elgin Gruen Hamilton
$17.50 $50.00
POPULAR SHEET MU^IC!
No need now to send to distant towns for popular sheet
music. We have all the new song hits. Come in today
and look over our stock.
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INSTRUMENTS
Guitars _ . to $32,50
Banjos from $17.50 to $30.00
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Duplicate Keys And Clock
Do you need an additional
door key, car key, or any rvepsurillg
other kind? We are equip- _ . ... . . , .
:•d to make any type dupli - Bring that wat.cn or clock
cate key for you at small with ycu. Well repair It
cost. at small cost.
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Phone 56 Elkfn. N'C.
bers of the Hardshell Baptist
church.
When we were in the Orient
two years ago there was. a strike
of the taxlcab drivers in our home
town, New York. Reading the dis
patches to the English newspa
pers of the Far Bast led us to be
lieve that sth Avenue was knee
deep in blood. When we got home
we found that most of our friends
hardly knew that a strike existed;
their worry was not about them
selves but about us, exposed to
the awful dangers of Hongkong
and Shanghai.
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» Insurance Security
When I was fifteen years old
my father took me into his study
and gave me a talk about life in
surance. He was a preacher, with
THE ELKIN TRIB JNB IK NORTH C ROLINA
"Paying my premiums has kept
me poor, and often in debt," fcs
said, "but I am well rewarded. I
can lie down and sleep soundly
at night."
In order to bring the lesson
borne, he applied for #3,C00 of
life Insurance on the twenty pay
ment plan for nss, paying that he
would carry it until I graduated
from college and I could go on
from there.
Twenty years seemed longer at
that time than a hundred years
seem now. I wondered if* I would
live to the ripe old age of thirty
five when the policies would be
paid in full.
Well, I have lived that long,
and these policies, and some oth
ers, are all paid up. Father him
self lived long and, having educat
ed his children and seen them all
started, he cashed in his insur
ance and was comfortable in his
old age.
Remembering this lesson, I
have signed my checks for pre
miums very cheerfully, but never
with so much satisfaction as dur
ing the past few years. Nothing
has happened to any of the big
Insurance companies, and noth
ing will.
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* . . It Looks Easy, But Is It?
A friend, who Is president of a
watch company, tells me that fif
ty-nine concerns have been en
gaged in the manufacture of
watches in this country in the
past hundred years, and that only
three survive. The automobile in
dustry has a similar story. Count
up some day the cars you can re
member which now are no more;
it will surprise you.
There is no such thing as the
terrible "profit system" against
which the reformers make so
much fuss. There is a "profit
and loss system," and the losses
in any industry, over a period of
years, probably are greater than
the profits. Making money is not
easy. Since my graduation from
college I have taken a speculative
shot at about a dozen side-line
businesses. They all looked very
promising, but with one excep
tion they were total flops.
* . Getting the "Breaks" Merits
No Praise
About twenty years ago two
young men came down to Ne*
York from the same New Eng
land college. Both were honor
men in their class; one captain
ed the football team, and the
other set a new college record in
the hundred yard dash. In looks,
character, and all-around ability
there was nothing to choose be
tween them. All through the
years they have remained good
friends.
The other day an observer re-
Imarked: "Those two had an
equally good start, yet one of them
has made a fortune and the oth
er barely scrapes along."
My reply was that the differ
ence In their financial status has
no significance whatever. "Pure
chance," I said, and I believe I
was right. One of them stepped
into the automobile business just
at the right moment. To be sure,
he worked hard, but the industry
was growing so fast it had to
have more executives, and every
time it expanded it pushed him
up. The other went to work in a
textile mill. He certainly works
as hard as his ex-classmate, but
he happened to choose an indus
try that has been in trouble more
or less chronically ever since the
war.
My observation of self-made
rich men is that about two-thirds
of them are good fellows who
know they have got along better
than they deserve and are corres
pondingly grateful and unpreten
tious. The other third think that
the Almighty gave them a double
quota of brains. They become
dogmatic on every subject dis
cuusscd and are often a public
nuisance.
Whenever a successful man de
velops a case of swelled head, you
can take it as a sign that his suc
cess is probably an accident. He
happened to be under the tree
when the cocoanut fell. He was
playing on the beach, and the
wave came in and wet him.
NEW ELKIN STORE
READY FOR EVEN!
I
i>. A Z Store, Located Next to the
Baaketeria, Featuring Many
Values for Trade Days
The A &; Z Store, Elkin's new*
lest department store, is joining
other Elkln stores in placing many
'sensational values on sale for El
kin Bargain Days here Thursday,
■ Friday and Saturday.
1 A large advertisement in this
issue of The Tribune lists many
of the items to be offered the
public; however, space was insuf
ficient to Dst all the items that;
will be available.
i Everyone who has not visited
this modem new department store
since its opening here about six
weeks ago is urged to do so while
here for Bargain jDays.r The
store carries a complete and
large stock of men's, women's and
children's ready-to-wear, shops.
■ piece goods, notions, eiPS
Woman for Whom Archduke
Gave Up Royal Rights Now
, Living in Poverty
WILL BE 60 ON MAY IST
Vienna.—The woman far whom
the late Archduke Leopold Ferdi
nand renounced his royal rights
now lives here in bitter poverty
but high hopes.
She is Frau Wilhelmine Adam
ovic Woelfling, the daughter of a
provincial postmaster, who lived
and travelled luxuriously with
the Hapsburg scion for 11 years,
then lost his love.
Hearing 60, almost friendless,
and worried, she pins her hopes
to two factors—a suit in which
she seeks $lB5 monthly from the
Hapsburgs, and relatives in the
United States.
She married Leopold in Switz
erland in July, 1903, when she
was 26; after he had signed a
contract providing he would live
abroad and give up his preroga
tives, and receive a yearly con
sideration of 40,000 gold crowns,
half of which was to go to his wi
dow upon his death.
They were divorced in 1907.
Leopold died in Berlin some
months ago, as Leopold Woelf
ling, a porter. Her allowance
stopped, and she instituted the
suit for its continuance against
Archduke Josef Ferdinand Haps
burg-Lothringen, who pleaded
that no provision was made in
the case of a divorce, and that the
archducal family of Tuscany nad
given her 100,000 gold crowns.
A brother and sister of her
father, named Adamovic or Ad
amovics, live in Chicago, she says,
but she does not know their ad
dresses. While a child, she re
calls, her parents told her about
another aunt in the United States,
who Frau Woelfling hopes will
leave her money to her some day.
All her possessions she has with
her in her home —a windowless
room about five feet by eight in a
shabby apartment house. She
cooks her cheap potato soup (she
has little else to eat) over a ker
osene lamp. She sleeps on a nar
row leather sofa. She eats from
a small packing case that serves
as a table. A few cheap pots and
pans, a worn apron and dress,
and a reed-covered box contain
ing scores of pictures of herself
and Leopold (to whom she always
refers as "my husband") are the
rest of her belongings.
She smiles when she recalls her
Cinderella life, and she sighs
when she thinks of the drrsary
subsequent years—four yeas in
a Vienna suburb when she pawn
ed one jewel or piece of furniture
after another; 14 years when she
studied music in Vienna, five
years at the home of a sister; two
years in a poorhouse, and the last
four years in her present hotel.
8 She told the court she lives on
1 47 schillings (about $8.70)
* monthly, which she receives from
t the dole and from charity. Of
this she pays seven schillings for
f rent. Her only luxury is mem
-3 bership, costing 50 cents a month,
V in a lending library. She forgets
1 when she last saw a movie.
* She will have her 60th birthday
s on May 1, but it will go unnot
t iced. Her black hair is graying
- rapidly, her plump face is lined.
s When an infrequent guest
3 comes, she displays her cracked
coffee pot. It is of Meissen china,
s she proudly says, and her only
s relic of "the better days."
' BASKETERIA HAS
MANY BIG VALUES
t
s Local Grocery Store Planning
Sensational Food Values for
Thursday, Friday, Saturday
s
The Basketerla, one of Elkin's
modern food stores, is featuring
very attractive values throughout
every department for Elkin Bar
gain Days, Thursday, Friday and
Saturday.
Many articles have been re
s duced in order to save money for
everyone who makes purchases
, there during the three big days.
J Everyone interested in getting
i the most for their money is urged
to turn now to the Basketerla ad
vertisement and see for them
e selves the many unusually attrac
tive prices on staple and fancy
groceries, meats and vegetables.
Yaah!
; Along a country road came a
r $7,000 limousine. As it caught up
- with the smaller car, the owner
, of the big car could not resist the
temptation to slow down and Jolly
s the other driver a bit.
/ "Heavens, man," he said, "what
s is it about your car that makes
- such a dreadful rattling sound?"
U "That? Oh. that's the $6,500
jingling around in my pocket,"
i said the small car driver.
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1 Ow!
2 Motorist (to' man hs lias just
s ran over): "Hey, look out back
1 there!"
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Is . . . 10c
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FAILURE.
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IF YOU EARN SI.OO AND SPEND 95c THAT IS
SUCCESS.
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You'll be here Thursday, Friday and Satur
day for Elkin Bargain Days. What bigger
bargain is there than the Building and
Loan plan for consistent Savings? We'll
be glad to have you drop in and see us.
ELKIN-JONESVILLE BUILDING & LOAN ASS'N.
Paul Gwyn, Secretary-Treasurer Elkin, N. C.
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