THE TEYON NEWS, TftlTON, N. 0.
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POLK COUNTY NEWS
C. BUSH. Publisher
Published every Friday at
Tryon, North Carolina
Office Phone, 99; Residence, 45
Entered as second-class matte April 28
1915 at the post office at Tryon, North
Carolina under act of March 3, 1879.
SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 PER YEAR
BUTTONS FROM OUR RIVERS
Petri Mussel Fisheries Are a Flourish
Ing and Very Interesting
Industry.
It should be remembered that In ad- '
dltlon to their food value fishes are j
necessary in our rivers If we are to ;
perpetuate the pearl button Industry L
of the country, which employs some ;
twenty thousand people and yields a j
product valued at more than $5,000,- !
000.
When the young mussels, which are
of microscopic size, are thrown off
from the brood pouches of their par-
ents at the proper season, the larval
mussels slowly drift to the bottom and
perish In a few days' time unless they
come in contact with a passing fish
of suitable kind and succeed in mak
ing attachment. Once this attach
ment is made, the tissue of the fish r
grows over the little mussel, until it
has undergone a remarkable change
of form and -structure; then It drops
from the fish to commence Its inde
pendent life at the bottom of the
stream or lake.
It Is a further fact that the young
of particular kinds of mussels require
" the gills of particular kinds of fishes
as nurseries. The black bass is host
for several sorts of mussels, while the J
klpjack, a kind of herring, is the only j
known host for the best of all mussels, j
As this last mentioned , fish Is far j
from being abundant in American rlv- I
ers, It is plain that much care should j
be exercised In its maintenance. j
The mussel fishery that supplies the i
fresh water pearl button industry is ;
actively conducted in at least twenty !
states in the Mississippi rived basin.
the raw production of shells now has.)
a value of about $1,000,000. The fresh j
water pearl button Is now recognized j.
as among the cheapest durable but- j
. tons that can be procured. The mus
sel beds have been rapidly depleted, j
chiefly because the fishermen In past j
years would retain only the very best i
shells and discard as culls all shells j
that were of an Inferior grade. -
Necessary action in the way of gov- i
eminent legislation to protect the j
mussel fisheries has been so long de- j
layed that this unique and rather
Important industry is now sure to ex
perience considerable difficulty In per
petuating itself. Floyd W. Parsons,
In the Saturday Evening Post.
What Delayed Auntie.
Aunt Martha, in town with her
daughter, who had to be operated
upon, was having her first taste of
urban life. To while away her time
she "hired out" as a cook. The first
Saturday night she was at work her
employer sent her to make some pur
chases. She was hours returning and
as the distance was short, her employ
er grew rather anxious about her. She
came in about li :20.
"Where on earth have you been,
Aunt Martha?" was the question that
greeted her. .
Still showing plainly signs of men
tal stress, she said : "Lawdy, ma'am,
I been trying to find a place to get
across dat street downtown. I stood
on de corner half an hour waiting for
nil dein street wagons to get by, but
(ley. kept er comin'. Den I walked up
dat side of de street, but all de cor
ners wuz just alike. I couldn't get
across, so I Jes' waited till all dem
things went home, and den I come
here as fas' as I could."
The Profiteer.
President Thanklin of Wesleyan
university was- condemning the
profiteer. -
"I know a college professor," he
said, "who was disturbed at his frugal
supper one night by a suspicious noise
in the cellar. f
"The professor put down his por
ridge spoon and stole down the cel
lar stairs. Suddenly an electric torch
was flashed on him, and the shadowy
figure behind the torch said:
"'It's all right, professor. It's only
me.'
" 'Me? the professor muttered.
"'Sure me the provision man. ye
know, leavin yer week's provisions.
"Thereupon the professor gave a
great start, and held his hands up
higher still."
Germs have never lived on coins,
we learn, and we are finding it in
creasingly hard to live on ours.
Predictions as to dairy prices make
"crying over spilt milk" appear a
rather reasonable demonstration.
Prince of Wales will be either Ed
ward VIII or George VI when it is his
turn. He will decide on which series.
Rolshevikl say they are saving Po
land from the land owners. Just
whom they are saving it for Is not
stated.
Lenin has managed to tie the "reds"
into as autocratic a form of govern
ment as was ever hated by an anarchist.
It takes three hours In Paris to get
a five-mile phone call. One of the
things they don't do any better in
France.
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ALL DRUGGISTS SELL IT
Having decided to quit hand
ling, shoes, we are selling out our
entire stocK oi nigh grade foot
shoe needs, bee bills for prices.
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Tf ;ir Occupation.
A lltle bve-yenr-old miss was visit
ing in the country, and was sent to the
barn, where some men were shearing
sheep, to look for her brother. She
soon returned without him and said:
He ain't there; ain't nobody there enly
some rosn peelln sheep."
NOTICE.
Having qualified as executer
of the eseate of Katharine C.
Farris, deceased, late of Polk
County North Carolina this is to
notify all persons having claims
against said estate to present
them to the undersigned excutor
at their office in New York or to
W. T. Lindsey at -Tryon, N. C
within one year from this dafc
or this notice will be pleaded in
bar of their recovery. AH per
sons indebted to said estate win
please make immediate settle.
ment.
This 23 day of September 1920
Guarnity Trust Conpany
of New York
Executor.
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HiHD '.STILUS
Owing to the rain last Monday making it impossible to hold the auction sale of
Mk II III
the sale has been postponed until
tenter iGmV g
This farm has been subdivided into several small tracts par w; a a
tenant house, and a very large barn covered or to" wZaTlms 7 7?' ,
tons for dairying, having some fine bottoms, uplands and very convenient t iTv T,f T V PrPS1;
to growing of cotton, corn, granes or anv kind of w convenient to market Several fine building sites, also type landadapted
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