POLK COUNtY NEWS
C. BUSH, Publisher
H. M: FRASER. Editor
Phone 99,
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Published every Thursday at ? ?
Try on, North Carolina
Entered as second-class matter April 28
1915 at the post office at Tryon, North
Carolina under act of March 3, 1879.
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Local Happenings
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Allen W. Lane of Tarboro, N.
,C.. is spending the summer
with his uncle, W. S. Ward.
Mrs. Charles Davenport of
Columbus, who underwent an
operation in the Tryon Infir
mary last week is improving
rapidly.
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Waters
of Spartanburg, S. C., spent
Sunday with relatives in Tryon.
Miss Ada Waters of Spartan
burg, visited her cousin Miss
Clyde Metcalfe last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Livings
ton and Mr. and Mirs. - J. R.
Stone of Spartanburg were
visitors at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. W. C. Ward Sunday.
F. P. 6acon and W. C. Ward
returned recently from a busi
ness trip to Chattanooga, Tenn.
Mrs. \V. A. Black entertained
for the week end three young
ladies from Brookings, South
Dakota, Miss Myrtle Keck,
Miss Grace Rohback and Miss
Ada Blanche Tomkins, who
were returning home after
spending the winter in south
ern Geogia. Brookings is one
of Mr. Black's former parishes,
and is the seat of the State
College from which institution
the ladies are graduates.
"What Made the Treasurer
Happy" will be the topic of
Mr. Black's address on Sunday
morning at the v Congregational
Church. The Sunday School
will study the Life of Queen |
Esther. Sunday School at 10,
public worship at 11 o'clock.
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LOST
Will person who picked up
Small Bead Bag, with Silver
Top on chain, at the Strand
Theatre Tuesday night June 4,
return it to 'the theatre or re
port any information there
concerning it. Keep the money,
return the bag and no questions
will be asked.
"BIq Citiea" in 17?0.
In 1790 New York city was the
largest city In the Union. Its popula
tion was 49,401. Other cities having a
population of over 5,000 were Balti
more, Boston, Charleston (S. C.), Phil
adelphia, Providence (. I.) and Salem
(Mass.).
Origin of "Poltron."
A person who lies long in bed is like
ly to be lacking in energy, and probably
in courage. A modem word meaning a
coward bears mute witness to this.
Poltron now means a dastard, but
originally only a sluggard and is do
rived from the Italian poltro, a bed. An
other relative it German pofster, a cush
ion from which we get bolster.
Franklin's Place In History.
Id sheer intellectual power, Benja
sain Franklin probably ranked fore*
Biost among the men of the Revolu
tion, and was one of the most many
sided men of all history. He was a
companion of savants and u favorite
of courtiers, but through it all he re
mained an American of 'he good,
bas e type, and ins life, like "is works,
is ft lesson in Amisicaii:*un. ? Ex
chnr. ?(?.
Ne Bird Ceneue.
There are no statistics from which
to determine the largest flock of birdrf
ever known. Audubon once computed
tlr^t a continuous stream of carrier
pigeons observed by him included more
than 1,100,000,000 birds. Wilson simi
larly calculated that a flock observed
by him was 240 miles long and num
bered 2,230,272,000 pigeons.
Scho0? Books Max Contain Germs.
Becafcse of the many cases of tuber
culosis among ^teachers in the rural
districts of England, local educational
committees have concluded that the
germ Infection comes from the chil
dren's sch>ol books that teachers take
home.
Life Analyzed.
Life is what we make it. Life yields
about what we will have it yield. T>lfe
treats us as we treat life. It rests upon
emphasis' Where are we exerting the
frestest pressure?> The answer de
termines what we are, and our value
to society.? Grit.
One Wom?n Who Admitted It.
Mrs. W L. O. writes: "An elderly
lady puling n brass band in the street
playing 'DnrUm:, I Am Growing Old,'
?aid: 'Well. 1 know I am growing old,
but I do not need a band to tell the
world.' " ? Boston Transcript.
W. F. LITTLE
NOTARY PUBLIC
' Tryon, N. C.
Continued from page 1
MONEY IN BEES.
This little incident started
Mr. Root on the way to become
one of the wealthy men of Ohio.
Hie bee and honey business
grew rapidly and along with
this he began to manufacture
bee supplies and this called for
considerable expansion in a few
years. IJis son and sgn-in-law
helped take care of the busi
ness and he started a publica
tion, "Gleanings from Bee Cul
ture" which has since grown to
have a circulation of fifty
thousand copies monthly."
Branches of the firm have
been established in all parts of
the country. At the head
quarters at Medina, honey flay*
ored with the clovers of the
Eastern and Middle States ar
rives to be blended with the
rich dandelion flavored honey
of the bee farm in Medina
County. These honeys are
blended to suit any prescribed
tastes, and the blending for
mulas were evolved by Mr.
Root, who, an expert himself,
considered honey tasting an
art.
The most remarkable feature
of Mr. Root bee plantation
is the queen bee breeding farm,
which draws thousands of peo
ple to see every year. Mr.
Root bought his first queen bees
at a price of $25 each. Now
his company ships thousands
of dollars' worth of them every
year to all parts of the globe.
The farm is located in an eight
acre grove of trees.
Medina County is noted for its
dandelions, and Mr. Root found
that dandelions are better for
working bees and produce more
honey, than any other native
plant of Ohio. So he had big
dandelion pastures.
Just the past week Mr. Carnes
our County Agent helped Mr.
Ison Morrow transfer his bees
and strengthen up his hives
and the bees have been making
lots of honey and working fine
since. Mr. Carnes is interest
ed in helping us in any way,
and he says this ought to be
one of the finest sections of the
Stale or of the country for
bees.
If interested in bees join the
Spartanburg Bee Association,
which meets at the Chamber of
Commerce Building in Spartan
burg the first Saturday of each
month, and get more bee in
formatioin.
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Can Use Baskets as Buckets.
/ The Chine:.- make their household
baskets so clo>t?iy aiul lirmly that they
can he used iti .iany cases ty hold wa
ter, iind are excellent substitutes for
buckets. This naturally means great
Skill and ]?atioiH*f- in the manufacture,
which is only attained through years
of practice. ?The :remendous number
of willow trees growing in China sup
ply the necessary material.
Sagacious Postmafi.
An English rural postman -found the
usual wayside receptacle for the letters
of ft distant farmhouse demolished by
the^torm and dutifully trudged a mile
to t. e door to tell them, "Your letter i
box -* blown awa\ but I've put 'the
letter in a hole in the waV
FIND BRITISH
ARMY BUTTONS
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Revolutionary Camps Around
New York Are Still Yielding
Up Relios of Conflict
New York.? Many Sritiah anny but
ton* of the War of Independence
which are on exhibition In onr mu
seums ^rt dug up In sections in and
near New York where the British had
their encampments. These little me
mentos of the various corps of the
British army are remarkable for the
variety of types which they display
and for their perfection of workman
ship. For 40 years William L. Calver
of the field exploration committee of
the New York Historical society has
been bringing them to light and col
lecting them.
?'The British late Eighteenth cen
tury military buttons," says Mr. Calver j
1b the quarterly bulletin of the society,
"are distinguishable by the numeral
they bear, or by the initial letters of
the corps, as described below. Nu
merical titles were bestowed on the
regiments of the British army In 1751 ;
previous to that time they had been
named for their colonels, and It was
decreed in 1767 that the number of
each regiment be placed upon the but
tons of Its uniforms.
"At the time when the first num
bered button was Issued ? September
21, 1767? it was stated that the num
ber of each regiment was to be placed
on theN buttons of the uniforms of the
officers and men of the British army.
The royal warrant of December 19,
1768, as It pertained to the cavalry,
reads as follows: The number of each
regiment to be on the buttons of the
uniforms of the officers and men, ex
cept the regiments of Dragoon Guards.
The Initial fetter of the title of those
corps to be on the buttons.' For the
Infantry the warrant directs : 'The
number of each regimes! to be on the
buttons of the officers and men/ ,
Copied the French.
"We cannot say positively that the
uniform buttons of the British sol
diery were first numbered in 1768.
There are evidences that numerical
designations were placed upon The
buttons of some regiments earlier than
the date mentioned above. We may
presume that in this detail the British
followed closely after the French, who
prescribed numbered buttons for the
troops of the fhie December 11, 1762.
We must confess that we find no speci
mens whatever of numbered, t>i\ In
scribed, buttons of practically every
regiment of the Britlah army present
on these shores during the war. There
can be no 4oubt that the British ref
lations aa thay pertained to the but
tons were strictly observed, and the
practice was promptly adopted by the
Americans at the beginning of hos
tilities.
"The results of the order were far
reaching. The numbered buttons Iden * '
tilled, alive or dead, the officers or men
who wore them ; rendered desertion or |
any dereliction of duty more difficult, j
and to a considerable degree made 1
esprit du corps. The units of the army
came hither, then, ^marked for Identifi
cation, and the buttons which we find
today represent the first inscribed
types worn by old regiments. From the
camps I and barrack sites, or haply j
from scenes of conflict, or from an j
occasional grave, we gather the little i
metallic discs -whose numerals con- !
stitute a roll of the British regiments
In America.
"Some few regiments, as will be
seen, ^ad their numbers expressed
upon their buttons on a plain surface,
or fleldl Some buttons had a plain
field with a cord, or milled border,
while others again bear profuse dec
orations.. ,
Fashioning of the Buttons.
"The officers* buttons have,' as a
rule, thin repousse sliver, or gilt, faces
and bone backs. The space between
the face and the cone-like back was
filled with a paste or cement, bnt he
fore the button was assembled a stout
cord, or bit of gut, was passed through
four holes In the back and knotted on
the Inside of the button, and by means
of the loops thus formed the buttons
were sewn to the uniforms.
"The privates' buttons were umver
sally of white metal, or pewter, and
had as a rule Iron wire Ihanks, which
were cast Into ? a boss on the backs
of the buttons.
"In addition to the bnttons referred j
to as of 'officer,' or 'private,' we have
to figure a type distinct from either of
these. The variety In question Is very
rare ? In fact no two of a regiment
have been recovered. They have white
metal convet faces and tinned Iron ,
backs, with Iron wire shanks. The S
specimens so far recovered are of the [
Seventeenth, Thirty-third, Thirty-sev
enth and Fifty-seventh' regiments. It [
Is surmised that these were worn by [
some particular officer of the regiment j
who had a special button of his own, |
regardless of what was worn by the
other officers or the men. It was the
guess of the late S. M. Milne that
these hollow buttons were worn by the
quartermaster sergeants of the regi
ments. The very remarkable thing
about the collection herein figured Is
that It was garnered almost entirely
from sites within the limits of Great
er New York, and that to this day such
sites have escaped the hand of 'Im
provement,' and remain in an almost
primitive condition. Furthermore, It
has been the button hunters' good for
tune, that Jp variably the sites have
been a 'no-man's-land,* where the 'ex
plorers could work undisturbed by
?wner or overseer."
PEOPLE IN WORLD
Oil Lease Sale Adds $8,000,000
" to Already Bulging Coffers
of Tribe.
The Otage Indian* arc th? ?
richest people in the world. How
would you like to be one of
them?
Pawhuska, Okla. ? In a little motion
picture house here the twenty-first lease
sale of the Osage Indian nation was held
recently, .with oil kings or their jepre
sentatlves forming the most) important
part of the audience, says the New
York Herald. Col. Edward Walter, whb
has conducted all Osage sales since the
first, in 1912, was the auctioneer, and
had the chief speaking part. When his
gavel fell at the conclusion of the per
formance he had sold 128 tracts of
what is probably the richest undevel
oped oil land in the country for $8,290,
100. Four sales netted more than a
million dollars each and one man,
Walte Phillips, paid $1,325,000 for a
lease on 160 acres.
To heap more abundance into the
strong boxes of the Osages, the richest
aborigines in the world, 32,000 acres
were sold, tract by tract, while Secre
tary Hubert Work of the interior de
partment and Charles H. Burke, Indian
commissioner, were interested wit
nesses of the auction along with United
States Senators Robert L. Owen and J.
W. Harreld.
4* the leases wese knocked down to
the highest bidders Secretary Work
sat like one enchanted, watching the
play of bidding and the struggle of
the greatest oil men of the nation to
get the privilege of drilling for the
liquid gold under the lands of the
Osages.
Brought Highest Prices.
When Walte Phillips, independent oil
man of Tulsa, paid his $1,825,000 the
government officials got a new insight
into the source of revenue of the Osage
tribe. On several other tracts bids of
more than a million dollars were made.
These were tracts near the great Bur
bank oil field, which is new producing
more than 70,000 barrels of oil dally.
One-eighth of this oil, which brings
$2.50 a barrel, goes to the Osage tribe
besides the money paid for the leases.
Each member of the tribe is now re
ceiving approximately one thousand
dollars a month income a a the result of
oil development on the tribal lands
which are owned in common.
On the streets of Pawhuska Secre
tary Work passed many of his Indian
wards, wrapped In brightly colored
blankets and walking in th?.. majestic
< style of the full-blooded Indian. Bnt
the automobiles which waited, with
chauffeurs, for these Indians, were
more expensive and elaborately
equipped than anything^ Secretary
Work has ever seen. Prom his Income
of a $1,000 a month the average Osage
buys and maintains the finest automo
bile he can find. He may live in a lit
tle tent, but his automobile costs mort
than $10,000 a year.
Total receipts for the Osage leases
offered were expected to come to more
than $10,000,000, but high rediscount
rates and tightening of the money mar
ket was blamed by the operators for
the conservative bidding.
The Osage Indians are the richest
people In the world per capita. Thi
total wealth of the tribe Is estimated a1
around $31,312,606.
The Osage tribe, which consists of
2,118 Indians, was made wealthy by
the discovery of oU on their reserva
tion. It is believed that the Osagi
tribe owns the richest producing oC
field In the United States.
Tells of Great Wealth. '
"The richest producing oil field in
the United States is found in the
Osage nation In Oklahoma," Mr. Burke
Indian commissioner, said, "and be
longs to the Osage tribe of Indians.
These lands were purchased by thf
Osages from the Cherokee Indians a1
a price of $1.25 an acre. The Chero
kees. at the time of this sale In June
1883, thought they had made a fine bar
gain with the Osages.
"The Osages were allotted the sur
face of the lands and the miners;
rights were reserved for the benefit oi
all of the Osage Indians, and they shan
equally in oil royalties and bonuses.
Each enrolled Osage Indian last yeai
received from the government apjKtiri
n mtely $10,000. Some families received
?is high as $80,000, derived largely from
>11 royalties and bonuses.
"At a recent sale of Osage leases
tere were paid in bonuses more than
1 1,000,000, and the Osage Indians will
ceive. in addition to this amount one
th and one-sbdth royalties required
ider the terms of the leases, the roy
ties depending on the capacity-of the
ells. There were produced In the
sage reservation last year 29,000,000
nrrels of oil.**
^ Of the 2,118 Osage Indians, 1,091 are
iale and 1,02T female. There are 770
hildren In the: tribes Of the Indians,
are full b lood, 50 are more than
1 alf-blorfd and 1,318 are half or less
"nan half-bloodl. There are 94 of th?
children enrolled in the government
school, Mr. Bui fee said, with an average
attendance of <|9.
The total individual und tribar prop
erty of the Osage Indians is $81*12*
605. The totfil indlvidu al proper4^ 'a
$24,106,195.. 1 Phe value of their u'? 9
is estimated I |y Mr. Bai "ke to be $5,
685,289. The indlvlduali of the tribe
have fl0,080,' |42 in ban! cs or in tfce
hands of gov trnment iuj ?erintendenti.
Destruction by Forest t~n-;
Every yor t ?.? OUfl fnr??r?
volvlng some 1 2,"( ^0,f ;? Jrt
ber land, cost u.* SiIO.OO> "'Vi
a laze Butter to Preserve It ?
A singular method of protecting rolls
of butter from deterioration due to out
side influences is said to be practiced
in France. It consists ln\?oating the
butter with a glaze of melted sugar,
laid on with a soft brush. The surface
of the butter is slightly meltejl and a
protective varnish is formed. The
process has also been introduced on a
large scale In England.
Travels of Frcnc!; Expiorwr.
De&ontx, ;!,e early French ejplorer,
and hJf band of pioneers sailed Passa
maquo<My bay in June. 1604, and made
the firs Kuropean settlement north of
Florida. lie landed on a small isJand
in St. Cftix river 20 miles from Moose
island (i <*w Easlport). He did not
make a hi: d.'ng on the latter island, for
the first li !se built by a white man
was in 177* when William RIcker set
tled on MoO?e island.
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Shopping by
Our mail order department is o-10w: '
All orders are mailed within a fe\v^mjni5
after being received. The next time
need something, in a hurry, just mail A
order to us and we will send it to von I
first mail.
MISSILDINE'S PHARMACY
The Rexall Store
^ Tryon, N. C.
THE BANK OF TRYOft
Capital $15,00! Surpplus $8,000
The OLDEST BANK IN POLK COUNT)
Advisory relations with our bank will form an im- " |
portant factor in your success. Get in close touch
with this service giving institution. We are serving
others, ? Why not you?
DIRECTORS.
F. P. BACON. 11 ' W. B. STONE
J. B. HESTER. R. M. MCCOWAX
B. L. BALLENGTER. D. E. CONNER
JOHN L. JACKSON. REV. J. F. BLACK
T. T. BALLENGER. FRED E. SWANN.
W. C. WARD
Polk County's Oldest and Strongest Bank.
A Place of Safety
No matter whether you havfe much or little money,
' the safe place for it is in a good reliable bank like our?.
If you keep money around the house, it has beer, aptiy
said that you are not saving it but merely gambling _ with
? it evey nigtfit, with the odds not in your favor, li the
amount is small, even then its loss may mean much to
you. If it is great, the larger the risk you run of fire,
burglary or other accident. Let Us Care For It For You. We
are Prepared to Do So.
POLK COUNTY BANK & TRUST CO.
Columbus, N. C.
THE BANK THAT BACKS THE FARMER
Capital, Smrplus and Profits $15,500. Resources $120,000
J. R. Sams, Chm. of Board
E. W. S. Cobb, President Fred W. Blanton, Vice Pres. and Cashier.
Frank Jackson, Vice Pres. * M. L Arledge, Ass't Cashier.
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Eugene Brownlee WaveHy W. Hester ?
Tryon Real Estate Agency
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? / We have opened this business with office at the -Bank
of Tryon, and are prepared to take charge of your prop
erty while away; also to make rentals and sales.
We Will Be Glad to Have Your Property With Us
M. G. BLAKE ^ *, JULIAN CALHOUN
Real Estate and Rents
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Office Over Drug Store
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Blake & Calhoun