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THEY'RE ALL ALIKE
Linotype operators, we guess, are pretty much all alike.
Give them half a chance and they'll start taking the ma
chine apart. •
The Tribune operator is now in the.midst of prying into
the innards of one of the machines. He has the mold wheel
off and is busy as a bee with a rag and some tools cleaning
it up. After a while he will put it back together again and
chances are it will run nearly as (
good as before he started tinker
ing with it.
As for us. we don't believe in
tearing a machine all to pieces
unless it really needs it, and
when it reaches that state we
sort of manage to let someone
else do the dirty work. Suppose
we were to start in on this type
writer with a screwdriver. Tsk,
tsk. Mr. L. C. Smith would prob
ably turn over in his grave.
Or is he dead?
Our, Uncle Culpepper was one
to tinker with machinery. He
took a monkey wrench to Aunt
Frowsy's washing machine one
time with the result that the
thing unwashed the clothes until
For Your Lawn—
LIME, LAWN
FERTILILZER
BONE MEAL
COTTON SEED
MEAL
F. A. Brendle & Son
Elkin, N. C.
Virginia-Carolina
Warehouse
Mount Airy, North Carolina
Offers the Farmers of this section a new, well lighted Tobacco
Warehouse for the sale of leaf tobacco. Below are a few of the
sales made last week:
GASTON MEADOWS SAM INMAN R. W. BADGETT
212 lbs. ®2O $ 42.40 136 lbs. @23 $ 31.96 120 lbs. @2l .. $ 25.20
376 lbs. @24 89.24 2fi ® lbs - @24 62.40 312 lbs. @26 81.12
l r«* , lw «, ,o 24 -0 174 lbs. &25 _... 43.50 3% lbs. @27 106.92
LLW- W U 330 LBS @ 21 69 30
738 $166.14 . 230 lbs. ® 19Vs 44.85
. ortl , Average 24c 62 ,bs @ 12 744
Average 22*/2 C 160 lbs - ® l7 2805
HARVEY COOK IW 5426.47
I. C. GORDON 210 lbs. B> 24 S 50 40 K on
116 lbs. @23 $ 26.18 156 Ibs - @ 25 39.00 Average 23c
250 lbs. @2B 70.00 126 lba - @l3 16 38
196 lbs. ®33 64.68 482 $95.78 * C. L. CREED
202 lbs. @ 28 56.56 g2 tbs . @ 15 $ 12.30
Average 20c 330 lbs. @ 23 75.90
764 $217.42 336 lbs. @ ZWj 78.96
Average 28 4-10 c CHARLIE BADGETT HT $154.86
330 ibs. @ 24H $ mas A vera ge 20 3-4 c
rnnuo am J 374 lbs - ® 91 - 63
COCHRAM & 324 lbs. @ 25 106.50
HOLLYFIELD 37 ® "»* ® SG-V- WSO COCKERTTAM &
74 lbs. @ 2®4 15.17 ANTHONY
126 Ibs. @ 24 $ 30.24 134 lbs. @ 10 13.40 1 1
72 lbs. @ 27 19.44 44 lbs. ® 14 6JO 174 lbs. @ 23 $ 40.02
100 lbs. @26 26.00 82 lbs. g> 24 19.68 116 lbs. «23 V 2 27.26
80 lbs. @ 28 22.40 466 lbs. @ 27
146 lbs. @ 18 26.28 414 lbs. @ 28 115.92 74 lbs. @ 25 18.50
524 $124.36 2612 $671.43 440~ $106.30
Average 24c Average 24c Average 24c
Tobacco is selling well with us—All Customers well pleased.
We sell every day. Listen to our radio program every day
over W.8.T., Charlotte, at 6:55 A. M.
COME TO SEE US—WE KNOW HOW!
Vance Dearman Andy Tilley J. M. Ball, Auctioneer
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a man came from the factory and
put it together right. s
But Uncle Culpepper had away
of doing things backwards. They
caught up with him at church
one Sunday when he was observ
ed taking fifty cents from the
collection plate.
Not that he was a thief, or any
thing like that, he was just un
fortunate. You may not believe it,
but he was the original man who
found a piece of rope while on
his way home one day and dis
covered to his surprise after he
had reached home that there was
a cow tied on the end of it.
Once a neighbor's dog bit
Uncle Culpepper on the leg and it
i was all Aunt Frowsy could do to
prevent the dog's owner from
cutting Uncle Cul's head off and
sending it to Raleigh.
When our Uncle moves into a
new house he always insists that
there be at least a dozen closets
in it. You never saw a man with
so many family skeletons.
We guess there never was a
man with as mean a disposition
as he has. A month or so ago he
lost his false teeth, and before
the man who found them could
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return them he was bitten three
times.
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THIS AND THAT
We don't know who is suppos
ed to repair the street down
where the Chatham Manufactur
ing company cros3ed with their
water main near the creek bridge,
but at the present time it sure
constitutes an elegant bump for
automobiles.
And just to be helpful in case
the town doesn't know it, there's
a manhole cover on Elk Spur
street with a big gap broken out
of one edge—or was at this writ
ing. ,
Maybe they will have done it
before this reaches print, but
Christmas is nol so far off, ard
isn't it time to begin making
plans for decorative street light
ing? Elkin's Main street looked
awful good last year, and many
compliments were heatfd concern
ing it. This year it is to be
hoped that every store along the
street will cooperate and not have
any undressed spots to mar it.
Of course it's easy, you will
say, for us to talk big about co
operating, because we don't have
a store to chip in to the general
fund, which is true, but we did
raise $50.00 which went into the
original street lighting fund,
thanks to the goodness of heart
of a lot of theatrical amateurs
around here.
(Note: the linotype operator
has the machine back together
again, and at this moment we
don't know who is the most puz
zled—the operator or the ma
chine) .
Ott Laffoon, the fixer-in-chief
here, has reached the stage where
we are all beginning to shake our
heads and wonder. Just the
other day he was observed run
ning wildly about the shop in
search of a bottle of pop which
he was sure he had set down
somewhere, and chances are he
would never have found it if one
of the boys hadn't pointed out
the fact that he had it in his
hand all the time.
Maybe it's over work. We're
going to get him a lighter mon
key wrench.
He Grabs It
Boogy—l don't like his tactics,
but boy. you certainly have to
hand it to that dictator!
Woogy—No one bothers any
more to hand him anything. He
giabs it.
The Folly Of A
Telephone Temper!
By Grace E. Armstrong in
Telephone Magazine
Wonder what the telephone op
erator thinks about * the human
race in general? What does she
think of us who nurse the private
opinion that we never do or say
anything to hurt another's feel
ings, yet in reality we show quick
annoyance over the telephone
when the service displeases us in
any way—whether it is the op
erator's fault or not.
What a revival meeting it
would be if we sinners—yes, I'd
be there too —were called up
front and made to repeat before
an assembled audience our inter
pretation of the Golden Rule as
we practice, or have practiced, it
at times when we wanted a tele
phone number and did not get it
the instant the number was out
of our, mouths.
What the operator may think
of us, she must keep to herself—
and does. She does not shout at
us when the mistake is ours, or
when we speak indistinctly, or
stand so far from the telephone
we cannot be heard, or move the
receiver hook up and down so
rapidly she has no chance to
break in. The telephone operator
has self-control. She is trained
to serve us to the best of her
ability under all conditions.
When we pick up the receiver,
do we picture the operator as a
human being, young usually,
well-mannered? A girl whose
duties are exacting, who has as
much right to nerves as any other
person, who at times must put up
a heroic struggle to stifle an out
burst in her own defense?
It is not so much in defense of
the telephone operator that I
write this but to point out the
folly of a telephone temper. It
uses up energy and tears down
one's personal adequacy. It is a
reflection upon us personally,
and •is unkind when a defense
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less person has to suffer word
abuse.
If we consider the human ele
ment. along with the machinery
'part of telephone service, we are
going to achieve harmony which
will i prove that by one's mental
attitude in this daily habit of
telephone using we may attain
better self-control in other things
as well. s.
If we are a nation living upon
our nerves, here is a national op
portunity to train these nerves by
letting the telephone operator be
our object lesson, remembering
that courtesy—like the springs on
your car—amazingly eases the
bumps and jolts of life.
One Way Left
Tired Business Man Take
dancing lessons? Never! There
are too many other ways by
which I can make a fool of my
self.
Wifey—Yes, darling, I know;
but you've tried all of those.
Read Tribune Advertisements!
NOTICE OF SALE OF LAND
By virtue of the authority vest
ed in a certain deed of trust ex
ecuted to the undersigned trustee
by P. C. Boles and husband, J. E.
Boles, dated December 27, 1924,
and recorded in Book 84, page
133, in the office of Register of
Deeds of Surry County, N. C., de
fault having been made in pay
ment of the notes therein secur-
QUICK RELIEF FROM
Symptomt of Distress Arising from
STOMACH ULCERS
DUE TO EXCESS ACID
Free Book Tells of HomeTreaimeiit that
Must Help or it Will Cost You Nothing
Over one million bottles of the IVILLAKD
TREATMEN T have been sold for relic lof
symptoms of distres-s arising from Stomach
and Duodenal Ulcers duo to Excess Acid—
Poor Digestion. Sour O" Ujwet Stomach,
Gasslness, Hearth urn. Sleeplessness, ate.,
due to Eice-is Acid. Sold on IBdaVH'trlall
Ask for "Willarrf's Menafce" which fully
explains this treatment —free—;i;
Turner Drug Co. - Elk Pharmacy
Ed, at the request of the holder
i of said notes I will sell at public
auction to the highest bidder for
cash at the Post Office door in
Elkin, N. C., on Saturday. Novem
ber 18, 1939, at 11 o'clock A. M..
the following described land:
Situate on the West side of
Bridge Street in the Town of
Elkin, N. C., and fronting on
Bridge Street 50 feet and extend
ing back West of the same width
150 feet and known as Lots
Don't Say Bread-
Say Holsum
ROUND-TRIP TICKET Wfgw^V'
iarrplt Hound-Trip f«'•»: %▼ ' j \fmAsjjgm
New York $13.70 Charlotte $2.65 {^V~^
Chicago 21.25 Greensboro .. 2.25 /m
Winston-Salem 1.45 Durham 3.90 _/{^
N. Wilkesboro .85 Chapel Hill 3.70 /UAW/^h*&&&
Statesville .... 1.45 Raleigh 4.50
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■■BBSniMßmn TERMINAL
■ C° r - Market and
Bridge
phone
Thursday, Qetohr 26. 1939
Nos. 11 and 12 in Block 6 as
shown on map of Elkin Land
Company, recorded in the Office
of Register of Deeds of Surry
County in nook 29, page 600, to
which reference is made for
further description.
This sale made subject to the
lien for unpaid taxes.
This the 18th day of October,
1939.
W. T. WOODRUFF,
11-9 Trustee.