K. ....
0. BUSH, Publisher
Volume XXVI II No. 4
OUR COUNTY AGENT'S MPARTMENT
Some Timely Talks to Polk County Farmers, and others, on Timely Sub
Ejects, by County Agent, J. R. Sams.
You Want Your Daughter to
Marry a Farmer"
"Do
Sixty one out of sixty four N.C.
farm women answer "yes" and
they back up their answers with
some perfectly good reasons.
They do not think of themselves
as poor hard working drudges,
lonely and isolated and with no
social to break the monotony of
their existence on contrary they
seem to be perfectly well satisfi
ed and are contented with their
lot as" farmers wives. They
find joy, happiness and content
ment on the farm and in the
homes and havesuch hope in the
future that they want their
daughters to become farmers
wives.
Some of the most important
reasons for this are; good health
conditions, the ever really supply
of good wholesome food such as
fresh vegetables, butter, milk,
chickens and eggs (gee I believe
I'll move to the farm), the bal
anced physical and mental
'growth that comes from living
close to nature and seeing the
beauties of his handiwork, the
close business partnership be
tween husband and wife and the
friendly discussion of all busi
ness problems,
Modern home conveniences
such as running water electric
light and power for washing;
. , wnsolidate
and magazines, home demonstra
tion work, automobiles "and good
roads, all these and more go
hand in hand ; toward making
life on the farm worth living.
With a hope for the future and
with a vision of what rural life
can become rather than what it
is today these farm women ex
pressed a "belief that the time
would soon come when the coun
try women would have all advan
tages now possible to the city
women and in addition to these
the many comforts and pleasures
that come only to those living in
the country as farmers wives.
To the Farmers of Polk County.
There is one thing being dene
in Polk county to which I desire
to call to your attention. So far
as I know this is a line of agricul
ture not being developed any
where else in North' Carolina.
I mean the 'growing of Kudzu.
Now some farmers may not know
what kudzu is. "To such I would
say it is a rank ' growing plant
f the vine kind; perhaps related
to the bean family. As I under
hand it is a native of 'Japan.
am not so much interested in
the history of the plant as its
fullness on the farm, to say
e least of of- it; it is in my
0Pwuon one of the greatest, if
the very greatest of all
egume plants. For more than
wenty-flve years, I have be
leived it to be a great hay and
pasture legume; but for lack of
sonal knowledge have feared
: Courage farmers to plant
11 n their farms; but when I
Came to Polk-County I found it
wowing in a small way on Rev.
J. Branscomb's f arm. On my
"rst visit to his farm I became
Rested in it and congratulated
"a on having nerve enough to
lt ut. Since that time Mr.
nscomb has increased' his
11? Plantings to something
''e tnrv . i
"ice
acres. On vesterday
V8jt-J-;McSwain we paid a
to this farm and to our sur-
l5 e found the entire land
leches deep in the ;very
The Only
richest legume growth we had
ever beheld. Our eyes could
scarcely believe what we saw.
And this wonderful legume crop
was grown by Mr. Branscomb,
on the very poorest kind of- Polk
County land, without any pre
paration, lime, fertilizer or ma
nure' of any kind; but the land
is not poor now, having battled
successfully with sage grass,
weeds, bushes and briars of all
kind.' So far as I know it is the
only legume on earth that can
begin life on poor land, build it
up as it goes, without lime, ferti
lizers of any kind and without
cultivation and competeiwith all
kind of obstacles and overcome
them and produce hay and pas
ture crops and at the same time
leave your land rich. Mr. Brans
comb, is so pleased with his five
or six years experience with
kudzu on this poor old rundown
field, that last April he selected
an acre of his best land , and
planted about 5000 plants there
of after good preparation and
has given good cultivation, and
is a sight to behold.
Now. to the point in the discus
sion in this article; I don't want
any farmer to go on ignorantly
about this wonderful, plant as I
have and not give it at least a
small trial. I am not ; prepared
to give instructions; relative to
growing, this wonderful Kay and
pasture possibility; what I want
every Polk county farmer to do,
is to visit Mr. Branscom's farm
at Melvin Hill in Polk county
and see for himself, and talk the
matter over with Mr. Branscom.
Don't hesitate nor wait. Go at
once before he mows his old field
crop. AlsoMlon't fail to see the
acre planted last April. Seeing
is believing; but wading through
the mass of leafy vines, to see
the humus two or three inches
deep on the ground is knowing
that you are standing on holy
ground, agriculturally speaking.
Please don't anyone take my
word for it; because I am up here
at Saluda, in the Land of the
Sky, drinking in the precious
ozone in this mountain air, and
may be somewhat exaggerating
go and see for yourself as I
did. Then go home and plant
some Kudzu on your spoor gullied
fields and on your rough, rocky
land. . - " r
Bank Directors Elected.
The regular mid-summer meet
ing of the directors of the f Bank
of Landrum, at Landrum, was
held on Wednesday of last week.
Three new members were add
ed the board, which now con
sists of the following progressive
and conservative men: A. Eu
gene Geer, Roland L Lee, James
H. Williams, Jr. T. Waldrop,
J. S. Carpenter, Roy P. Whit
lockand H. B. Carlisle. The
new members J are A. Eugene
Geer, J. H. Williams and Roland
L. Lee. -.. , -
This bank has increased its
capital from $15,000 to $25,000
and has a surplus of $25,000.00
and has done much for the up
building of its home town.
The officers of this banking in
stitution are all well and favor
bly known and are as follows:
H. B. Carlisle, Pres.; J. S. Car
penter, Vice Pres. ; Roy P. Whit
lock, Cashier, and R. H. Brady
Asst. Cashier. -
. Don't think your, wife a fool.
The neighbors may have thought
the same thing when she married
you. '
Paper Published in Polk County
Tryonj N. C.,
Rcihard Lloyd Jones Says: '
Hanging heavily about his
neck, the sack of seed bowed
down the ancient sower. Today, I
without weight, he only, holds
the reins that drive the faithful
team that haul around ( his har
rowed field, the, modern seeder
Today we no longer have to
walk a fuirow of the plow. We
can mount the seat on the sulky
and till vast acres where once we
turned the soil of patches.
Once we used to bend our backs
to drop the kernels of corn and
finger over the soil that covered
them. Today we ride the plant-;
er that does the bigger job in the
better and easier way. We used
to tether hay by hand but now
we tether by horse. '.:-
Maud Aluller had to j walk the
stubbed field when she raked the
new-mown hay. Today a loader
lifts it on the rack and a harpoon
throws it oh the stack. J
Millet, the great French paint
er of peasants, pictured the har
vester bending low" to swing his
sickle. Then came . the cradle.
At last a Cyrus McCormick found
a reaper which in its turn be
came the harvester, cutting and
binding the ripened grain.
Threshing Once done by flay
ing the floor is now done by the
threshing machine without which
the great fields of grain we how
sow could never be gathered in
huge elevators. . 1
We have made more work
possible by making work easier.
We let the wind lift our Water.
The tractor has come to release
the horse. ; : , . - - H'--f- - 'i
"The inventor is the greaff arm
helper- The machinist! has mul
tiplied both 'the muscle; and the
skill of the farm hand. r We
work more, .produce more and
labor less. - Dull drudgery is fast
being made a story of the past.
The soil that cultived sullen
ness in the days of Millet is cul
tivating skill and prosperity to
day. ;
The telephone has brought the
farmers into conversing distance
with his next county neighbor.
The automobile has changed
the measure of distance. We
talk not or miles but of fitness of
the roads. ' ' I
.The' moving . picture has
brought the ablest actor and the
best in drama to our own town
opera house.
The farm that once was the
young man's idea off what he
should flee from is now begin
ning to lure the town boy as the
ideal vocation to workf toward.
Throughout all the world the
basic business is the production
of food and shelter. The farm
is the bulk producer; the town
the refiner. That business has
grown more productive and more
profitable as it Has grown more
less irksome and more alluring.
The business farmer is the ma
chine farmer, j ;
We build bigger as we unbend
backs. When the tiller of the
soil is emancipated from toil,
when he is able to stand ' erect
and be a worker, using more
head than hand, then do his eyes
behold the beauties of the coun
tryside of which the poets preach.
Then does the farmer become
not the man with the hoe, but
the man with the hope.
Nothing puts this world for
ward faster than unbending
backs.' 1
Farmers Market
WE WANT ,
Eggs
Chickens ...1...
Frying Chickens. r.:
Hams
corn per bu :
.1 30c
.wl .20
... .22
...V... 1.00
A Live Clean Paper fcr the Home
August 31, 1922
Over The Top ,
; Polk County raised $999.97 for
Near East Relief this year and
went .177 pet cent over its quota,
c&rding to announcement from
Raleigh by Colf Geo. H. Bellamy,
State Chairman.: Polk, led the
entire state in over-subscriptions
of quota. 1
; - The most remarkable part of
Polk County's showing was the
fact that there was no-chairman
forthe financial campaign, . the
Bum of $531.22 having been sent
in entirely unsolicited. ' Polk's -uota
is only $360. ; ( " ; - '
KImoM'v of ; Columbus
took charge of things in time to
puto.n a clothing campaign which
netted garments to the value of
$468.75., , ".;; s ' ; .
p; Though called upon : to feed
and clothe only six chidren,
Pclk's contribution will take care
of sixteen, ;hus providing for
some of the children which other
counties should have taken care
pf but failed to do.
In thanking his chairman and
workers andthe people who con
fributeH this money, Col. Bal
lamy called attention to'the fact
that ii will be necessary, to put
on a similar campaign this fiscal
year, because the great powers
the world . are allowing the
Turks to continue their massacres
in Armenia and destruction of alL
crops, home ahdN industries.
'There have' been twenty-two
separate massacres since the
Armistice' declared Col. Bal
lamy, which make it impossible
for these people to r;be self -sup-
tedtalyish-thSir pit)-
tectorate over; Turkey in their
mad scramble for the Mohamme
dan calico trade.
"The recent British refusal to
allow the Greekarmy to stop mas
sacres of its own people was one
of the most astounding and sordid
chapters in history, and until
such conditions as this disappear
and England becomes a Christian
nation, the American-people are
the only thing that stand beween
Armenia and the entire starv-a
tionrof its outstanding popula
tion."
Mother and Daughter.
A home is what a woman
makes it. A daughter is in nine
cases out of every ten, the re
flection of her mother, acccord
ing to a writer in a current
magazine. f
The training of the girl of fif
teen is shown in the woman of
fifty. A son may, by contact
with the rough edges of the
world, sometimes outlive , his
early home influences; a . daugh
ter rarely does.; She may make
a mis-step. Indiscretion may be
to her a necessary, teacher; but
her early domestic training will,
manifest itself sooner or later!
A mother's word, a domestic
proverb, told ai eventide by the
quiet fireside, hW been recalled
by many a woman after it was
uttered. r ; .
"I thank God that my mother
told me what other women have
been tau ght by the world, " said
a gentlewoman to us not long
ago..; ;... ;: " r
This, mother, is the tribute
your daughter and mine should
be able; to pay to our memories
long after we are gone. ' V
The worldhas a sharp way" of J
teaching its truths to a girl, r Is
it not far better, then, that her
mother should fell her with that
sweet sympathetic grace and
gentleness which only a mother
knows? I -
The flowers most beautiful 'to
the eye and sweetest to the
smell, grow in. good soil,. v; The
world's noblest women have
sprung from good homes. .
Our School Opens Sept 11
In appreciation of the facts
that we have had a long vacation
of three and one half months,
and also that the good people of
Tryon almost unanimonsly voted
to give usa larger, well equpped
and appropriate school-building
with ample playgrounds, Isincere
ly i trust that every' patron will
see tliat his or her children be
here ready to enter on Sept. 11
(Monday.) -
Last year our school accom
plished wonderful things; but
with the earnest cooperation of
you patrons we, can do so much
more. Please help us to build up
a splendid attendance, so that our
teaching forces can be increased.
Let me beg you to insist upon
some earnest, conscientious home
study and Application; then, if
your children are normal, " you
will be encouraged next com
mencement to hear their names
read out in the list of promotion
Any newvor conditioned studr
ents will do well to meet me at
the School Building ' Saturday,
Sept. 9 at 10.30. The regular
teacher's: meeting twill be held
Friday afternoon at 3.
...... v ,
In Memory of Caroll Marriott
Caroll Marriott who died on
Friday the 25th, has resided in
Tryon nearly 20 years. He came
with his parents soon after
graduating at the Weslyan Un
iversity, . Delaware Ohio, with
the highest rank in his class,
and an unusual high'one at that.
He had been, in the midst of ex-
culosis.J . His residence in Tryon
prolonged his life and checked
but could not cure his disease.
He suffered so severely the past
few months, that his final release
was a relief both to himself and
to his relatives and friends.
Even more unfortunately, his
affliction cut short a promise, al
most a certainty, of a successful
and useful career. IJis wide in
formation, his keen intelligence
his precise, scholarly, well dis
ciplined-mind were early recog
nized. In spite of his forced re
tirement and his few opportun
ities for the exercise of these
talents, their growth in scope and
power were quite manifest here,
especially when, as a member of
the School Joard recently, he
freely devoted them to improv
ing the means and methods of
educating the children of Tryon.
He thereby had much to do with
the present prospect of a suitabe
school building and an adequate
teaching force. For the indus
try, devotion, and enthusiasm,
he gave to this cause, he de
serves a suitable memorial,, in
someway connected with the
new school. ' It would also in
dicate, how much more, but tf or
his physical captivity, he ' might
have been and, done. E. G. H.
At Congregational Church. -
Bible school at 10. a m.
, Public worship and sermon at
11 a. m. :
, vBible study class at 8 p. m. on
Wednesdays.
Welcome to the public.
If some men could hear their j
own funeral sermon they would
wonder who the pracher was
talking about; j ;
When most of us get what we
ask for, we'er sorry we did not
ask for more.
Another thing we've noticed
is that it's the thing we have for
sale that always drop in price
and the things we have to buy,
that. raise. - -'-r,;;; ; ; -y.y, ..-
; The , old-fashioned man who
put tallow cin his boots now ' lhas
a son who puts it on his hair, i
Price 5 Cents
$2.00, a Year
Col
utuuUS
(Intended folast week)
A very instructive Jdemonstra-
tion was held Saturday afternoon.
Despite the heavy rain just at 1
the time of meeting a large crowd
attended. Soup mixture was
canned. A round table discus
sion of canning will be held next
time.- It will be the last time the
ladies and girls will meet togeht-
er as the cluh will be divided
after the next meeting.
The three Misses- Padgett of
Flat Rock, motered to join their
sister Sarah Padgett. They are
spending the week on White Oak
Mountain!
Eula Jackson visited Oma
Reynolds Saturday and Sunday.
Misses Mae and Odessa Mills
spent the week in Mill Spring.
Mrs W. McChesney left Satur
day for a few weeks visit to rela
tives in Virginia, ;
The play "Mrs. Tubbs of
Shantly town" was very much
enjoyed by all present. $9.50
was realized.
Mrs. John Smifh and daugher
Grace are spending the week on
White Oak mountain. r-
The S. H. S. will begin its
session Monday Aug.28. All
teachers have been secured and
the patrons;6f school are visited
to attend the opening on Monday.
Mr. Qoke Dogett of Gilkey and
MartinJDpgett of Gaf f ney spent
Sunday afternoon iif'ToIumbUsr
Pearl Tallant is spending some
time In Asheyille.
:'.;"' FlShtop .
A cool wave has visited us
but we hope not to stay long.
Quite a crowd of folks visiting
and hunting in this section. In
cluding T. A. Rippy and family,
Mr. Sayer and Miss Jones, of
Tryon, Bassil Arledge, of Lan
drum, Eli Paty and son, of Co
lumbus,! S. S. McMurry "and
Mrs. Sallie McMurry of Finger-
ville, with others from Saluda,
and other parts, too numerous
to mention. 1
' Clayton Pace is hauling apples
to Saluda to ship to Charleston.
Clinton Case has returned from
Camp Brag for a few days.
N. Case hauled three loads of
melons to Saluda last week.
" Pospy Henderson killed twelve
rattlesnakes one day last week.
A few days back- he destroyed
five black snakes and forty-six
of an. unknown variety all in one
day, and all on his' place. That
was not a good day for them
either.
Louis Bradley killed two large
rattlers last week.h One was
five feet long! He lives in the
midst of the snake territory.
Others have killed several as the
snake season seems to beMn full
blast. j
Notice :7
Having qualified as executrix
of the estate of. Joseph Gurley,
deceease, late of Polk county,
North Carolina, this is to notify
all persons having claims against
said estate to file same with me
for payment within twelve
months from tis-date or this
notice will be pleaded in bar of
recovery. All persons indebted
to said estate will please make
immediate payment
This August 30, 1922.
. LlZZIEBETH ' GlJRLEY
Executrix v
: Some men are ) noted for their
good judgment others try to
argue with their wives.