Thursday, October 14, 1937
SALT vital necessity
I visited a locomotive factory
not long ago. It was a hot day,
and the sweaty workers made
frequent trips to the watercooiers
for a drink. Beside each cooler
was a box labelled "salt," and I
noticed most of the men took a
little tablet out of the box and
swallowed it with their cupful of
cold water. I asked why.
"It staves off fatigue and heat
prostration,," the foreman told
me. "When a man sweats he loses'
t salt as well as water. We thought
/it was silly when the company
doctor first told us to take salt in
hot weather, but now ,We see he
was right. Seems you can't be well
if you lose too much salt."
I checked up on that with my
own doctor. '"That's right," he
told me. "Human life, like all an
imal life, began in the sea, and
we're still fish inside. We must
have salt to be healthy, and when
we lose salt too rapidly, by per
spiration, we must replace it. Sea
salt is the best, because it con
tains other minerals, but it's hard
to get. That's why sea bathing
is better than freshwater swim
ming."
SALARY .... salt money
What the doctor said about salt
set me to thinking. I remembered
from my school days that the
.Latin for salt is "sal." I went to
'my dictionary to see how many
common English words are de
rived from "sal," and the first
one I found was "salary." It
meant, originally, "salt money,"
for salt was the most precious
commodity in early times.
Salt was universally used as
money by primitive peoples, and
still is in some parts of Africa
and Asia. The world's great trade
routes follow the trails of the salt
caravans over which this precious
commodity was brought to the
people of the inland towns. To
day the traffic of the camel
trains of the Sahara desert is
principally the trade in salt.
The word for "health" used by
Ae old Romans was "salus."
Hrhen we "salute" anybody we are
'wishing him or her good health.
We still call a healthy climate
"salubrious," and keep a box of
.salt or a chunk of rock salt in the
cattle shed for the cows, who
can't range around and find for
themselves a salty piece of ground
such as the "deer licks" to which
the wild creatures have access.
To call a man "the salt of the
earth" is to pay him a high com
pliment.
SUGAR stimulant
When I was a boy we used to
keep our horses looking "slick"
by feeding them sugar. I suppose
horse fanciers still use that meth
od of giving the horse's coat a
gldssy appearance, and putting
"pep" into the animal. I often
see mounted policemen in New
York and other cities giving
lumps of sugar to their mounts.
Doctors have told me, and I
have found it true from exper
ience, that the best quick "pick
up" when one feels fatigued is a
lump or two of pure cane sugar.
It is the most efficient stimulant.
We all have a sugar factory in
side of ourselves, in the liver
and when the body is called on
for sudden severe exertion the
liver pours more sugar Into the
blood to provide the needed en
ergy. When you drop in at the
soda-fountain for a dish of ice
cream or a sweet drink you are
responding to Nature's demand
for a stimulant. It's easy to take
in more sugar than is good for the
health, but it's the most conven
ient source of extra energy.
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SPINACH • . growing demand
A couple of miles from my
country home is the largest truck
farm I know anything about.
They cultivate 6,000 acres, in only
Expert Repairing:
Watches, Clocks, Jewelry
We Now Have Equipment t«
Make Any Kind of Duplicate
Keys.
W. M. Wall, Jeweler
Phone 56 EIMn, N. C.
half a dozen vegetable crops.
This year they * had nearly a
thousand acres in spinach alone,
and they plan to grow more next
year, the spinach demand is
growing so fast. The people of the
United States ate 116,000 tons of
spinach last year, whether they
liked it or not.
Parents began feeding their
children spinach a few years ago
because doctors agreed that it
contains iron and other minerals
in easily assimilated form. So
many of the grown-ups of today
were raised on spinach and grew
to like it that they continue to
eat it, while a new crop of spin
ach-eaters comes along every
year. I don't like it much, myself,
but for those who do I'm glad to
pass along the good news that
frozen spinach and canned spin
ach are just as wholesome as the
fresh vegetable.
The Massachusetts Agriculture
Experiment Station found that
out. It also has discovered that
spinach contains the essential vi
tamins, "A" and "C" which ward
off infections, strengthen the
bones and prevent rheumatism.
Oo ahead, children; eat your
spinach!
WATER . . . chemical tricks
In a big industrial laboratory
lately I was shown a new chemi
cal for waterproofing fabrics. It
can be used on cotton, rayon, silk
or wool, and renders them abso
lutely impervious to water. It
does not fill up the spaces be
tween the threads of woven fa
brics, so one wearing a suit thus
treated can go out in the rain
without getting his clothes wet,
and at the same time get his skin
thoroughly wet.
A chemist friend tells me of
another new trick to make water
wetter. The time and difficulty of
getting some kinds of materials
watersoaked is one of industry's
tough problems; wool, cotton,
many other things, have to be
soaked for dyeing. A new chemi
cal called "tergitol," a synthetic
alcohol, mixed with water in the
proportion of one ounce to ten
gallons, makes the water so wet
that it "soaks in" at once. One use
of this new "wetter water" is
washing poison spray residue off
apples. Another is removing old
wall paper.
It struck me this treatment of
water ought to make it easier to
wash clothes in "hard" water. I
suggested that to my friend. He
tried it out and said I had guess
ed right.
SHOALY BRANCH
Rev. A. B. Hays will fill the
vacancy of our deceased pastor
next Saturday and Sunday.
There will be a baptizing at 2
o'clock Sunday afternoon,
preaching at 2:30.
Mrs. B. F. Tulbert is spendihg
some time with her son, Mr. and
Mrs. H. F. Tulbert.
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Gentry
and their father and mother at
Boonville, visited Mr. and Mrs. W.
F. Gilliam Sunday.
Miss Susie Grace Hemric spent
Friday night with Miss Mabel
Tulbert.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Spencer
visited the latter's parents, Mr.
and Mrs. M. F. Barker Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Worth Tulbert of
Elkin, spent the week-end with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. F.
Tulbert.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Gilliam vis
ited Mrs. M. A. Cockerham Sun
day.
Miss Sallie Gilliam and Miss
Kathleen Morrison spent Friday
night with Miss Evon Gentry.
FEVER DEATH RATE
IS MUCH LOWER
Raleigh, Oct. 11.—The death
rate from typhoid fever in North
Carolina was reduced from 35.8
per 100,000 in 1934 to 2.1 in 1936,
figures compiled by the State
Board of Health show.
But there should not be any
deaths from this disease, health
officials say, because it is practi
cally 100 per cent preventable.
Durinsr the period referred to
the death rate in this State f rom
tuberculosis, formerly the "cap
tain of killers" was reduced from
130.3 to 60.0.
pow know how to
treat tuberculosis. Then can teach
how to guard against it
better than they could in former
times.
Cancer, which is neither pre
ventable nor curable, has contin
ued Its ravages, unconquered,
while svphilis, curable but not
preventable, from a practical
standpoint, is a raging epidemic
in Carolina and through
out the civilized world, except in
Norway. Sweden and Denmark. It
controllable and these countries
H «.ve annlied control methods.
The results have spoken for them
selves. ..
POSITIVELY. Yes, Saturday
is rostively the laat date we are
roine to give away a beautiful
fountain pen and pencil set with
each new or renewal subscription
to this paper. Visit The Tribune
office this week, sure.
THE ELKIN TRIBUNE. BLKIN. NORTH CAROLINA
NOTICE or FORECLOSURE
SALE
BCA-1054, Holcomb
Under and by virtue of the pow
er of sale contained in that cer
tain deed of trust executed by
John M. Holcomb and wife, Lil
lian Holcomb, to Carolina Mort
gage and Indemnity Company,
Trustee, dated Ist day of Decem
ber, 1925, and recorded in Book
99, page 189, Registry of Surry
County, North Carolina, the un
dersigned as the duly appointed
substituted trustee (see Book 129,
page 434, of said registry) will of
fer for sale at public auction at
the Court House door in said
County, in the city of Dobson, N.
C., at 12 o'clock Noon, on Tues
day the 9th day of November,
1937, and will sell to the highest
bidder for cash the property de
scribed in said deed of trust as
follows:
Certain lot or parcel of land in
or near the Town of Elkin, Town
ship of Elkin, County of Surry,
and more particularly described
as follows:
at an iron stake on
the North side of Elk Spur street
300 feet East of intersection of
Elk Spur Street and Main
Street, runs South 85 degrees
East 110 feet to an iron stake,
Luther Cockerham's corner;
thence with Luther Cockerham's
line North 12 degrees West 235
feet to an iron stake in Luther
Cockerham's line; thence North
70 degrees West 100 feet to an
iron stake, H. H. Barker's corner;
r.hence South with H. H. Barker's
line 8 degrees East 240 feet to
the beginning. For further de
scription reference is made to
deed from C. W. Harp and wife,
to J. M. Holcomb and wife, re
corded in book 80, page 343, of
fice of Register of Deeds, Surry
County, said deed being dated No
vember 6th, 1919 and filed for
registration on the 6t;h day of
January, 1920.
This sale will be made subject
to all outstanding and unpaid
taxes and other assessments, if
any.
This sale is to be made on ac
count of default in the payment
of the indebtedness secured by
the aforesaid deed of trust, and
is made pursuant to demand made
upon the undersigned by the
holder of said indebtedness.
This 18th day of August, 1937.
KESWICK CORPORATION,
11-4 Substituted Trustee.
NOTICE OF SALE OF LAND !
WHEREAS, on the 19th day of j
April, 1935, W. J. Lawrence and
Katie Lawrence executed and de-i
livered unto W. O. McGibony,!
Trustee for The Federal Land
Bank of Columbia, a certain deed
of trust which is recorded in the
office of the Register of Deeds for
Surry County, North Carolina, in 1
Book 132, at page 29; and
WHEREAS, default has been
made in the payment of tHe in
debtedness thereby secured as
therein provided, and the trus
tee has been requested by the
owner and holder thereof to exer
cise the power of sale therein
contained:
NOW. THEREFORE, under and
by virtue of the authority con
ferred by the said deed of trust
the undersigned Trustee will on
the 22nd day of October, 1937, at
the Court Hoouse Door qf Surry
County, North Carolina, at twelve
o'clock noon offer for sale to the
highest bidder for cash, the fol
lowing real estate;
All that certain piece, parcel
or tract of land known as the
former D. J. Melton farm and
containing One Hundred Twenty
and one-half (120.50) acres, moroy
or less, situate, lying and txSng in
Bryan Township. County of Sur
ry and State of North Carolina,
having such shape, metes, courses
and distances as will more fully
appear by reference to a plat
thereof made by C. F. Fields,
Surveyor, on the 9th day of June,
1923, a copy of which is now on
file with The Federal Land Bank
of Columbia, ana being bounded
on the North by the lands of E.
W. Hanes; on the East by the
lands of J. M. Bates and J. F.
Fields; on the South by the lands
of W. T. Snow; and on the West
by the lands of M. A. Dockery
and W. T. Snow.
This the 21st day ,of Septem
ber, 1937.
W. O. McQIBONY, Trustee.
ROBT. A. FREEMAN, Agent
10-14 and Attorney for Trustee.
NOTICE OF SALE
State of North Carolina
County of Surry.
The Federal Land Bank of Co
lumbia, Plaintiff,
Vs.
P. G. Scott and Others,
Defendants.
Notice of Foreclosure Sale of
Land
Pursuant to a judgment enter
ed in above entitled civil action
on the 20th day of September,
1937, in the Superior Court of
said County by the Clerk, I will
on the 15th day of November,
1937, at 12 .o'clock M., at the
County Courthouse door in said
County sell at public auction to
the highest bidder therefor the
following described lands, bound
ed and described as follows: -
All that certain piece, parcel or
tract of land containing one hun-
dred and ninety-nine (199) acres,
more or less, situate, lying and
being in the County -of Surry,
Shoals Township and State of
North Carolina. This tract of
land 1s made up of ten different
tracts adjoining each other. The
whole tract of one hundred and
ninety-nine acres having such
shape, metes, courses and dis
tances as will more fully appear
by reference to a plat thereof
made by S. R. Harbour, Surveyor
and being bounded on the north
by the lands of T. H. Scott and H.
E. Spainhour; on the east by the
lands of G. W. Scott; on the
fouth by the lands of J. N. Owen,
L. E. Brown and O. W. Scott, and
on the west by the lands of W. H.
Houser and S. W. Scott. This be
ing the same tract of land here
tofore conveyed to P. G. ScotUin
ten different tracts by deeds as
follows: FIRST TRACT, contain
ing 18.21 acres deeded'to P. o.
Scott by Germain Bernard, Trus
tee of T. H. Gilliam and heirs, by
deed dated November 30, 1892,
and recorded in the office of the
Register of Deeds for Surry Coun
ty in Book 35, page 85. SECOND
TRACT, containing 7 acres, more
Tax Collection Notice
October Round
PAY YOUR 1937 TAX AND SAVE THE I%DISCOUNT.
PAY YOUR 1936 TAX AND SAVE THE COST OF ADVERTISING.
PAY YOUR 1935 AND PRIOR TAXES AND SAVE THE COST OF A LAWSUIT.
On December Ist, 1937, all land will positively be sold for 1936 taxes. Prior to De
cember Ist, 1937, the law compels us to start foreclosure proceedings on all old Land
Sales.
We want to give everyone a fair chance —so we are giving plenty of time at the
several points for everyone to get out and pay his tax, and we will have the books
for all the years.
MOUNT AIRY BOOKS
•
The Mount Airy books will remain in office over Lamm's Drug Store all the time.
The books of Stewarts Creek, Westfield and Eldora will be in Mount Airy except
when out on tax round or on public days in Dobson.
ELKIN BOOKS
The Elkin books will remain in Elkin with W. J. Snow all the time. The Bryan and
Marsh books will be in Elkin except when on tax round or public days in Dobson.
All other books will be found at office in Dobson when not on tax round.
Pilot—Friday and Saturday, Oct. 22nd Franklin Friday Oct 29th
and l 23rd Low Gap, All Day
All Day at Swanson's Store
Shoals Monday, Oct. 25th Stewarts Creek Monday, Oct. 25th
All Day at New School House ' Sid Jarrell's Home, 9 A. M. to 12 Noon
Sparger's Store, 12:30 P. M. to 5 P. M.
Siloam Tuesday, Oct. 26th .
All Day at Siloam Westfield ... Tuesday, Oct. 26th
Rockford ... ... Wednesday, Oct. 27th Westfield, 9 A. M. to 12 Noon
Copeland School House, 9 A. M. to 3 P. M. Cook's School, 12:30 P. M. to 5 P. M.
McCormick's Store, 3:30 P. M. to 5 P. M. —__... — mmmmi—i_
Marsh 1 Thursday, Oct 28th L °" g Hi " Thursday, Oct. 28th
Phillips' Store, 9 A. M. to 1 P. M. Ararat, 9 A. M. to 12 Noon
Crutchfield, 1:30 P. M. to 4 P. M. , New Shell Fl,,in £ Sta. 12:30 P. M. to 4P. M.
Bryan J_. Friday, Oct. 29th Eldora .... Friday, Oct. 22nd
Thurmond 9 A. M. to 12 Noon Union, 9 A. M. to 12 Noon
Mountain Park 12:30 P. M. to 4 P. M. Eldora School, 12:30 P. M. to 4 P. M.
B. F. Folger,
TAX COLLECTOR, SURRY COUNTY.
or less, deeded to P. O. Scott by
L. 8. Scott and wile, M. 7. Scott
by deed dated February 2, 1892
and recorded In the office of the
Register of Deeds for Surry Coun
ty in Book 33, page 669. THIRD
TRACT, containing 0.50 acres
deeded to P. Q. Scott by Samuel
Scott and wife, Mary Scott by
deed dated January 19, 1894, and
recorded In the office of the Reg
ister of Deeds for Surry County
in Book 33, page 573. FOURTH
TRACT, containing five acres and
FIFTH TRACT, containing 1.50
acres and SIXTH TRACT, con
taining one acre, deeded to P. G.
Scott by Samuel Scott and wife,
deed dated January 17, 1899, and
recorded in the office of the Reg
ister of Deeds for Surry County
in Book 35, page 86. SEVENTH
TRACT, containing 34.50 acres,
deeded to P. O. Scott by- W. E.
Scott and wife, Julia Scott by
deed dated December 18, 1909,
and recorded in the office of the
Register of Deeds for Surry
County in Book 54, page 116.
EIGHTH TRACT, containing 35
acres deeded to P. G. Scott by
Annie T. Boyd, Executrix of McD.
Boyd and Annie T. Boyd, indi-
vidually, deed dated August 1,
1916 and recorded in the office of
the Register of Deeds for Surry
County in Book 70, page 263, less
11.25 acres which was sold off
this tract by P. O. Scott and is
not included in this description.
NINTH TRACT, containing 82
acres and TENTH TRACT, con
taining 21.80 acres deeded to P.
Q. Scott by R. M. Cox and others,
heirs at law of Chas. P. Cox, by
deed dated April 27, 1912, and re
corded In the office of the Regis
ter of Deeds for Surry County in
Book 60, pafce 214. Also, all that
certain piece, parcel or tract of
land containing 220 acres, more
or less, situate, lying and being in
Shoals Township, County of Sur
ry and State of North Carolina,
on the Yadkin River, Grassy
Creek and the Southern Railway
Right-of-way having such shape,
metes, courses and distances as
will more fully appear by refer
ence to a plat thereof, made by E.
L. Gaither, Surveyor on the Bth
day of June, 1914, a copy of which
is attachedd to the abstract now
on file with The Federal Land
Bank of Columbia, and being
bounded on the North by the
lands of J. W. Barber, Ernest
Barber and J. Y. Phillips, on the
East by the lands of J. Y. Phil
lips and Grassy Creek and Miss
C. V. S. Boyden, on the south by
the Yadkin River and on tha west
by the lands of Robert Houser,
Hubert Houser and J. W. Barber.
The terms of sale are as fol
lows: CASH. All bids will be re
ceived subject to rejection or con
firmation 'by the Clerk of the said
Superior Court and no bid will be
accepted or reported unless its
maker shall deposit with said
Clerk at the close pf the bidding
the sum of Two Hundred (200.00)
Dollars, as a forfeit and guaranty
of compliance wi£h his bid, the
same to be credited on his bid
when accepted. Notice is now
given that said lands will be re
sold at the same place and upon
the same terms at 2 o'clock P. M„
of the same day unless said de
posit is sooner made. Every de
posit not forfeited or accepted
will be promptly returned to the
maker.
This the 20th day of Septem
ber, 1937.
ROBT. A. FREEMAN,
10-14 Commissioner.