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C0LUMBQS;:P0LK COra
NO. 46.
'nio h kj INDtPENDENGE IN ALL THINGS.
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Does your neighbor read The, Mrs. Lemons complained of a
News? jdul headache Saturday evening
Sheriff A. L. Hill was in town
Monday on business.
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fr. Samuel -Justice of tiender-!
sanville was nere lueay. -
Mr R. F. McFarland went to
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-Green Kiver Monday on ousmess.
tt.,'
Mr. Ed Watson of Melvin
vCsited friends -in Columbus Sun
day. Miss Nora Prince spent the
week end at her home in Melvin I
Hill. , 1
Warranty and mortgage deeds!
are obtainable at
The News
office.
Mr. W. M. Barnett of Greens
Creek was in town Monday on
bdsiness.
Expert watch and clock repairer-
F. F. Allred, jeweler, Ruth
erford ton.
Mr. W. M. Thompson of Walk
ers, N. C, was a business visitor 1
Mrs. J. R. Smith gave a dinner
yesterday in honor of her son
Lindsey's return from the Philip
pines. ' 1
Mrs. J. E; Shipman of Hender
sonville visited her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. J. P. Arledge, several
days this week.
Atty. Michael Schenck of the
law firm of Schenck & Justice of
Henderson ville was here on legal
lousiness Monday. r
Read Booth's advertisements in
this paper and when your watch
is out of order bring it along.
Good work is cheapest.
Messrs. Bowen "Constant and
Herman Swann, who have
been
serving m Uncle Sam s Army, . title a,ld inte'rest which lhc snid w. M. Rus.
returned to their homes at Lynn t scu, the defendant. -has in the foiiowii.R
last Week. j descnlied real ette, lo-wit:
- . . , . Forty-three ai-rea of land fully described
In a Very interesting gamr.the in a deed f om J.H .Grrett. dated Septem
fil'Stof the Season in Polk CoUntV. be - tle 12th, iSoi, und'of record in Deed
held last Saturday afternoon on
the Lynn diamond, the Lynn
baseball boys were defeated by
the Tryon tossers by the score of
9-5.
GOTO
THE
BALLENGER
COMPANY
Tryon, N. C.
.
For
EVERYTHING
The
THE BANK
JOHN
ORE
TRYON, N. C.
Full Lin e Spring and Summer
Dress Goods
GENTLEMEN'S NECKWEAR .
Groceries, Dry Goods, Notions, Shoes, Crockery,
Glass, Enameliand Tin Ware.
BLUE FLAME OIL STOVES, ETC., ETC. .
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Mrs. Lester Lemons At Rest.
Death
visited tliA T
. homesiead last Sunday morning
.and took the lovjng wife of Mr.
tester Lemons and fond mother
,of their five little children.
which gradually grew worse. Dr.
Palmer was called' in the nighc,
uu" k:,iw 1CUUCI success, ui
mpHiPni :ta
but too late. to render successful
breathing her last soon after his
arrival. Her body was laid to
rest in the Columbus Bantist
Church cemetery before a large
aoacmuiage ui ner inenas ana
sympathizers for the bereaved,
Rev. Richard Champion conduct-!
ing the iuneral services.
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To
COLUMBUS
Town Tax Payers
All taxes due the Town of
Columbus must be paid by
APRIL 1st, 1911
or property will be adver
tised and sold.
R. F. McFarland,
Tax Collector.
NOTICE OF EXECUTION SALE.
North Carolina, Polk County,
In the Superior Court.
VTIIACHER MEDICINE CO. vs.
W. M. RUSSELL
Hy virtue of nn execution directed to the
undersigned from the superior court of Polk
County in the above-entitled action. Lwill,
on Wednesday, the 26th day of Apriligil,
at i.Xo o'clock P.M.. attlie couithouse door
county, sell to the highest b'dder for
Ii ok No. 17 ?.t pue 207 of the records xf
deeds of Polk Co.mty, to which reference is
made for me re perfect description,
lllia 28th day of March. 1911.
A. L..HILI, "
SheriH" Pol t County.
Special prices made
on Flour, Cotton Seed
Meal, Hulls and All
Feedstuff s in quantity
Cash paid for Cross
Ballenger Company
TRYON, N.' C. '
BURGLARS
Open a Safe of the Ordinary
Kind with Ridiculous Ease.
They very seldom care to tackle
burglar-proof vaults like thosin
The Bank of Tryon. The wise
man will, therefore, open up an
account . there and thus put his
money where it is beyond the
reach of burglars. The less you
have the less you can afford to
lose it.
OF TRYON
& COMPANY
MR. McKAY'S LETTER.
Rutherfordton, N. C,
March 20th, 1911.
Editor "News:" f
The attention of the members
of the Board of Directors of the
North Carolina Interurban Rail-
way Company has been called to
the "News" i3sueof 'Viarch 16th,
contaming.in article by an un
disclosed contributor, and your
unfriendly comment on the pro
posed effort to secure for your
town and county a railroad, and,
the writer has been instructed to
lay before the people, through
themtd um of your paper, the
attitude of tha above named rail
road company. ;' ?
We snpk no cnnrrnvArRv ovr
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this matter, with either your con
tributor or any one else, nor is
the company greatly ! interested
in the projection- of the line, or
pushing any effort to induce the
Polk County people to , interest
themselves in the railway project
at all; indeed for months the
board have steadily refused to
proceed in any way concerning
this or any other branch lines,
and it was'Qriiy after the redeipt
of a great1 number of letters,
many interviews with Polk
Co inty citizens and sustained ef
fort had been made by the people
of the County that authority was
finally given to look into the prop
osition. It may also ! be added
that this was not done until the
financiers had been! especially
consulted wiih reference to the,
matter and had given their con-
sent in writing.
The people were given to un
derstand and are again advised
that the writer, who ! made the
recent visit alcngthe line in com
pany with Mr. W. A. Harrill and
the chief engineer of . the com
pany, is neither the projector nor
the p omoter of theraii way, bt
meie y occupies tli4 positional"
an employee, without a plsce on
the b ard of directors, without
thi authority to either build or
vLhho!d a railroad line .through
the County, and if your contrib
utor had been so fully advised as
he pretends as to the gentlemtn
constituting the board, it is in
conceivable that he would have
suggested that they were endeav
oring to secure employment for
engineeis, or graft for them
selves, and in addition would
have known that the- writer is
neither a so-called engineer nor
an engineer of any kind.
1 he gentleman suggests that a
practical plan is to ask the people
to take stock in the company, cit
ing the procedure of the Duke
syndicate as an example of prop
er promotion. This is precisely
what this company is proposing:
but instead of asking the people
along the line to subscribe and
pay for sufficient stock to build
one quarter of the line, as the
Dukes are doing, all it asks or
has suggested is that a fund of
four thousand dollars be raised,
the company to take care of the
balance. .11
True, many surveys have been
made through Polk County, but
with only two exceptions these
vtere of positively impossible
lines that, would not have paid for
running expenses and! were lines
that were doomed to failure from
the start. The two. exceptions
that might have goni through
was the one projected by the late
Col. Frank Coxe, ; who at that
time was in a position to have se
cured physical connection with
the Southern and other railroads,
with proper traffic and exchange
business and a. fair arbitrary, the
other that of .a railroad then
building and since constructed.
Both of these Were driven from
the County by the unfriendly at
titude of the people,; with the re
sult that the mileage of railroad
in the County is barely Sufficient
to say the County has a railroad
and this was because of the fact
that the route . of the Southern
over the mountains occupies the
only pass possible for getting
their line through. M :
Polk County is not an ideal
railroad County, it is not even a
passable one!1 and barely escapes
being an impossible one,, for a
line that seeks to connect Ruth
erfordton by way of Mill" Spring
and Columbus with Tryon. Stand
ing alone it , is not a desirable
proposition either from the topog
raphy of the country,'the cost.of
construction, includingjthe heavy
expense Jot bridging, or the
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Five Hundred Acres oT Fine i
laniiii lil;f orii:
YING close to market and within one-half to one
d mile of Post-office, good Schools, Churches and
I Court House.
I in one and one-half
it
watered and well timbered. This property has been off
the market for 50 years. Will cut into tracts to suit
customer and give reasonable terms. Price very low.
This land is well adapted jto all farm products. 1
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Road and Other Improvements Contemplated
In this Section
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amount of immediate traffic; but
it is not quite impossible and the
traffic that could probably be de
veloped would ultimately justify
the construction; but it must be
said that a line friom Rutherford
ton to Tryon direct, passing some
six miles south of Mill Spring and
about the same distance south of
Columbus is the most practical
and cheapest of construction.
If, therefore,the article in your
issue referred to and your editor
ial comments voice the sentiment
of the people jor a majority of
them, then it is useless for the
company to proceed, and we shall
take no further steps in the mat
ter, until positively assured that
it is not only thedesire of a ma
jority of Polk County citizens, in
cluding its foremost men, but
that the company will have their
earnest and hefirty co-operation
and support in he effort.
The company did not of it3 own
initiative open up negotiations ;
it was earnestly invited there, the
Dressure brought to Dear was
strong from people whose position
was such .that their appeal could
not be decently ignored, and
whose earnest! desire that the
company lookl into" the matter
could not be turned down unheed
ed. The plans were therefore
explained to some of these before
makmcr the trip over the counlry,
were approved as practicable and
fair, and, then having assured it
self of the consent of the finan
ciers the trip was ordered for the
purpose of making a preliminary
report.'
. Ruiherfordton may have lain rf peaceful
rest for manv yearn but is now fully wake
aod strenuously alive. Its merchants, bank
ers and professional -men are re equal of
any in the state; individually ana collective
ly they are .'working fw Rutherfordton s
advancement; -its , newspaper is the pride
and glory of the citizens u doesn't knock,
at boosts, and wittv j the town awakened
v (Coininucd on page 8, ad colunw. ) "
in the Market to Buy Land
Buy it Near a Market
On main road through County, and with-
miles of fine macadam roads. Well
B ALLEN ER
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TRYON, - NORTH CAROLINA
to TtfE
THE BEST WATCH
REPAIRING
Calls for the Best Material,
Best Workmen, Best Tools
We have all these - Give us a tial.
Watches, Clocks, Jewelry,
Stationery, Etc.
FRED F. ALLRED 'S
Jewelry, Stationery and Art Store,
RUTHERFORDTON, hVC.
HORSE FOR SALE.
Cheap for cash. Will exchange
for a milch cow. Apply
L. H. CLOUD, Columbus, N.C.
L. H. CLOUD
Real Estate and Insurance
COLUMBUS, POLK CO., N. C.
100 Acre Farm For Sail
40 acres under cultivation, 14
acres good x bottom land. Good
room house, . also 2 barns and
uuuuuuuiiiga, an 111 iiiattiaoo
condition. Situated 14 miles from
railroad. 1 mile from church, 2
miles from scboolhouse. Price
and terms-reasonable. Apply to
C D. ELLIOTTE, T
4i Columbus, NC.
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FOBECLOSPE SALE. .
.Notice is hereby given, that the . Heoder-
sonville.Gr.cery Company will, oa'the. 5th
day of April, 1911, at the Courthouse door
m Columbus, . County of Polk, offer for sale,
and sell to the highest bidder by virtue .mi
that mortgage given by. J. E. Pearson and "
wife to the said, .'Company,, as:; appears. n
record in book 6 page 219, mortgage recrf
Polk County, all that land described as
follows: Beginning at a stake on line be-tweeu-
Dr. Sally, and A. J: Reich on bound
ary of Landrum road and running Nrth
34 . 3y 5.25 chains, thence bouthi S?
E. 3.25 chains, thence S. 66,3o Vest4.35
chains, thence South 21 West 1.4' chains,
theuce N. 340 West 1.30 chains, '
Improved by a frame, building, and con
taining one acre more or less, and being the
same land conveyed ' by A. J. Reich and ),
and wife Linda G: Reich to Ji E. Pearson '
by deed dated the a 1st day gf September,
1007, and which is recorded in Jiok 23 fit'
page 256 of the records fox deeds for : Polk -.
County. ; c .
Tins sale is intended to satisfy s note for
1 200. 00 secured by said mortgage with in
terest, cost and expenses. ..
Ths the 22d day of Feb 19ft.
HENDERSON VILLE GROCERY" CO.'1
Mortgagee:' "
SMITH & SCHJSNCK. -
.Attorneys.,'! - :-.-.vv'?N s-.
Your Watcli
Should be treated right when' it
is in the jeweler's hands., You
would not send for a ."quack1'
doctor when you are dangerously "
sick and it is just as dangerous
as far as your watch is concerned
to allow a "tinker" to doctor it. ,
I have the Experience,
Tools and Material,
Necessary to repair your watch :
right and at a reasonable' price.
Give me a trial. - ,
J.T.BOOXH
JEWELER - LANDRUM, S. C.
Writing paper and envelopes
for sale at the News office.
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