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r; ^ t* - J ; gfcii IT GROW! ' *j. : . .:? l, -.-? --? .i Volume 28 PAGES \\\ No. 14 Try on, N. C., November 6, 1924 $1.50 a Year (TtfleStories About jflen ant/Iff airs j^Mron mjones rf|E .AHCTJi- KXl'LORER, Mc ! lixs> tlmat that glaciers are ILd ^'vill~ ^,u*irds 115 starts the I rrier to wi'iiiii-riiig how humanity frill warI" 111 *^6 future. "Our 1 ply cval is ].,ing depleted, for. I -aro beiiijj consumed and the Crib is bl'in^ r"'npod dry of oil, L pw- . I XHO^E Ti i,L ?> INCLINED should L a trip to * ne of the laboratories Ljcb ci0Vt runu'ut maintains at There they have a Lat .class measuring three feet hcros*. burning 1^5 wt used U? treasure as chiL 1 L only much larger. This great 1 j[ji< pili*1'- [(i' ra-vs of the sun l>u s;nkt it- ?'-at surface and focus. Liiu-ni point in a space Lb* uvi Ih'iou. That spot is so |{iii that it wtii i'i< U through a steel Hie ;L< l'lSi,y as a rt>d-hot needle |j jje; through i>apor# This heat, so fprnblt' that it cannot be measured C3use it nielts all instruments, is -aerated by just seven square ILt oi ordinary sunshine. m We MAY DISEMBOWEL the earth I its concentrated black heat, pump i7 its liquid gold and wipe off its crests yet we will still have the 552 tie ocean tides and the river corses waiting to perform their jiracles of nicking Man-s existence ajofortable# .... COULD IT BE that a church in tie downtown district of one of the peat cities is trying especially hard tc appeal to the shop girl and the fcnosrapht-r? On a big bulletin in J;:: of this church there appeared; J "Tie subject tor today's study? I Kan.'" SHAKESPEARE was the first! nan to discover the milk of human tadness? at least he invented the tune. Proof of his genius, not on fc to analyze life but t0 understand ci prescribe balms for its troub. ies, spreads like sunshine in the Mowing bedtime story for grown. . LITTLE THELMA ' WAS SUF. FERIXG from what appeared to be rtooping cough/ Although the doc tor was calling daily, she contin. led to cough until it seemed that lie would be thrown into pasms. One night, after the coughing wae especially troublesome, Thelma's toother dreamed of finding a cure in i strange remedy. She dreamed liout a cocoanut She wag to cack the shell and give the milk to Thelma. She awoke from the with a start and pondered, Sie had never heard of cocoanut Bilk as a remedy for whooping wagh^ but the dream could not be I tossed from her mind. the FOLLOWING DAY, Thelma came into the house carrying a dir ty kitten which she had found In the Wrvt. "Take that dirty kittie out oi here," was her first thought the thought came that TJielma always lived in the country and had many pets? from horses tc a *hite rat# Here, in the city, she cooped up in a rooming house Thelma was very sensitive and took c- the mental attitudes of the other Quants in the house. Just then a *&ird thought came to the mother j The milk in the cocoanut symboL the milk of human kindness, The cocoanut shell to be cracked ?ynibolizos the cold unmotional con ^tions which surrounded Thelma's tity existence So the mother "What, a pretty kitty; . let'? *eeP if Thel ma was in ecstacy at once be -came intensely inter in fee(jj ng an(j caring for e Cat. Todaj/ the cat is a beau healthy c: feature *with a lnr. ^ons coat of t ur. But * the won ^ Part of the story is that also fovnd health. She be. , c?ughing leg s and less from the e ^at her i nother adminiatered >Dle ^ilk of hui nan kindness and le |D turn passe d it on to the hun> * ^ ' u? off the atreot. * ! , "HAVE " *" FLITIGAN J' ir a 'hvy froui home and br*^ -hlio and on returnini u pu t~6n their niceat |e? and in polite accents remark, ?Ve missed you a lot; we're glad hav* you back"? ^-whether they ICerely mean it or are just being it stHkes one where he 4a ' Jerks him down out of ? fexistence and make him f??l rml>' connected with life ? that *ea 1 &Qd that we are responalbje sttose who miss us. Makea a* ^ to try harder to be deserting ?8e wh0 miss us# ? ? . ? o . mm A^hout $2 ]'? received by the ?Wer for the wool thatjjjgoe? a $60 a).l-wool suit of clothes, ? atm Windy Wolf i s A I Y . S A Tryon girl is authority for the) statement that it's not safe to go riding with a "one-handed auto driver"^ meaning one that drives with .one hand and uses the other for "necking" purposes. It's also J dangerous to be walking in front of such a driver or even to be driving another car on the same road. P. H. Bailey^ Mayor of Saluda told this one: The young man in the Pullman carf seeing that a hand, some girl was looking at him very intently^ thought he had made an impression, and in a few minutes changed his seat to the vacant one beside her. "Haven't we met before some where?" he ventured to ask. "Wellf I'm not <*uite sure, she replied, but I think you are the man, I saw hanging around the night; our motor car was stolen." The young man vanished into the smoking car, admid the sniggers of those who overheard them. When the Creator had made all the good things, there was still some dirty work to do, so He made the beasts and reptiles and poison, ous insects, and when He had fin ished He had some scraps that were too bad to ' put into the rattlemake, the hyena, the scor pion, and the skunk, so he put all these together^ covered it with bus. picion, wrapped it with jealousy, marked it with a yellow streaky and caUed it a KNOCKER. Jim Rion told me this one: The conjurer was producing eggs from a top hat. He addressed a boy in the front row. "Your mother can't get eggs without hens^ can she?" he asked. "Ohf yes said the boy. "How's that?" asked he conjurer "She keeps ducks," answered the boy. The Spartanburg dentist had finished work on a Landrum beau ty's (correct name withheld for safety reasons) back tooth and had handed her a mirror in or. der that she might observe the re sult. Then he went on with his task with respect to the other teeth, repeating his performance with the mirror when each tooth had been filled. Finally, when the job was complete, and she handed back the mirror, he said: "Well y madam, how do they look to you?" "How do they look to me?" she repeated. "Yes the teeth I have just filled." "Oh^ I forgot about the teeth! she explained reaching for the mir. ror. ' What did you look at eaofa time I ghve you the mirror?" "Why, my hair, of course!" A certain Hendersonville man had the habit of leaving his unbrella at the office. One morning as he was going to business, he sat next to young wo men in the Asheville bus. As he rose to get out he absentmindedly picked up her umbrella. She said.. "Pardon me( but this is mine." He was quite embarrased. That night he decided to take all of hla umbrellas home with him. When he got into the bus^ there; sat this same young woman. She leaned forward as ?he passed^ and! said <n a low tone, "I see you did pretty well today, after all." ? ? There are at present about 1, 200,000 cows kept by ' people in cities of the United States, while the country cows number more than 25 million. - , An average of nearly 600,000 dozen eggs are consumed in New York City every day, or about one for each person. About 15 million is the average number of bananas consumed daily in the United States. A modern threshing maehine can do as much work in a day as coaid be done by fifty men with the frail of former days. HBE&fT., Pretty Girls Parade In Stunning Costumes At Stearns High School Under Personal Direction of Genevieve Mollenhoff, of Washing ton, D. C., Professional.? Amateur Effort Goes Over With a Bang! The students of Stearns High School did themselves proud on their initial attempt to stage a musical comedy in the High School Auditorium. The bevy of pretty girls in striking costumes, the tuneful chorus, and the antics of the comedy characters kept the good natured crowd which jammed the building in an uproar. Miss Genevieve MollenhofT who directed the effort certainly did good work in getting the ama teur vaudevillians together in the short space of one week. Miss Eleanor Bird as the pret ty daughter of Widder Brooks was as self possessed and sure of her lines as any experienced juvenile performer. Miss Nan nie Sue Arledge was quite ef fective as the oppressed widow. Miss Eunice Cloud as the wife of Steve McSplosh "who had a clue" delivered the goods. Jake Cobb and Hugh Jack as young men about town were rather "young" but had all of the mannerisms of the big town i sports they represented them selves to be, and Bob Landisand Ed Barber who impersonated two tramps looked just like a couple we saw unload from a box car near Melrose last summer? 'nuf sed? they were natural as life. Hanford Thompson, Eulas Davis Gordon Gibbs and Earnest Gibbs played their respective roles creditably, Virginia Steele was the hit of the. chorus, and she was effec tively backed up by Barbara; Voorheis, Irene Edwards, Jettie j Hague, Blanche Feagan, Thelma ! Hague, Ruth Cobb, Eloise Cobb, | Anna Lynch, Grace Smith, Flora j Gilbert, Ruth Tate, Edna Ward, OtJetta Landis, Marie Hall, Liz zie Lee Wilson, Gladys Walker, Esthef "Wilson and Carrie Bar ber. Gretchen Lynch, as soloist won her share of applause. The audience drawn from Co lumbus, Tryon and other parts of the community appeared to be extremely well satisfied with the program, and many expres sions were heard which would indicate that they may be made regular events in the life of the school with financial success. * Following is the program: ACT I Main street in front of Pettigrew's General Store. A summer morning. ACT II The lawn of the Pettigrew Home. Same afternoon. Dick Darrell .. Jacob Cobb Jimmie Cameron _ Hugh Jack Steve McSplosh Gordon Gibbs Sila$ Pettigrew ^ Earnest Gibbs Musky Work Bob Landis Dusty Dudds .7. Ed Barber Joshua Meddergrass Hanford Thompson Ezra Eulas Davis Marjorie Brooks ...Eleanor Bird Mrs. Brooks 1 Nannie Sue Arledge Mrs. McSplosh ...... ,. Eunice Cloud Miss Prunella Frisbee Curtis Hill Loafers Robert McFarland and Forest Cloud CHORUS GIRLS: Barbara Voorheis, Irene Edwards, Jettie Hague, Blanche Feagan, Thelma Hague, Ruth Tate, Virginia Steele, Ruth Cobb, Eloise Cobb, Anna Lynch, Grace Smith, Flora Gilbert, Edna Ward, Or letta Landis, Marie Hall, Lizzie Lee Wilson, Esther Wilson, Gladys Walker, Carrie Barber. Gretchen Lynch, Soloist. MUSICAL NUMBERS ACT I ' ? ;"1 "In My Home Town" Home Town Chorus "Pat Casey's Runabout" Tourist Chorus "In Wrong! So Long" Musty & Dusty "Steppin' Around" ? . Ballet ACT II "Memory Lane" Ensemble "Mud Pie Days" _....Sunbonnet Chorus ' 'Crinoline Days" Old Fashioned Chorus "In Wrong! So Long!" .....Musty & Dusty "Croonin' 'Neath the Cotton Pickin' Moon". ? Ensemble MissLoraine Rinehart, Pianist FARMING IN POLK Practical Advice For Practical Farmers Written Especially For The NEWS by J. R. Sams WESTERN N. C. AGRICULTURAL AND LIVESTOCK EXPOSITION The above exposition will be held at Asheville, November 11, 12, 13, 14' 1924. Nov. 11, Swine Day; Nov. 12, Beef Cattle Day: Nov, 13, Dairy CattJe Day; Nov. 14, Round Up Day. This will be a great meet ing to show what North Carolina is doing and can <3o. Farmers of Polk county and other business men who can, should attend this meeting to gather information and enthus iasm to bring back antj put in practice. Let us all remember that Polk County belongs to the group of counties composing Western N. 1 C. Incorporated and do our bit to help make it the best place to live in all the world. o TO POLK COUNTY COTTON PLANTERS We are at the end of 1824 cot ton season, and at the opening of the 1925. Experience of the best cotton i growers, and of observations at Agricultural Stations show that boll weevil control can bei effected best by one of two methods. First, plow under the green stalks immediately after cotton is removed. Or second, sow rye between rows before; cotton is picked to make a green crop. Then cut or knock downj ' i or better, with a stalk cutter, I cut the stalks which will destroy the principal hotejs jn which the adult weevil winters, This lat ter method fits better into our Polk county conditions. Plow or disc down the stalks and sow Rye yet on cotton land which will prevent washing of the soil and will put land in better con dition for a crop next year? act at once. o_ 8TARTING PERMANENT PASTURE Many farmers have inquired as to when is the best time to start a permanent pasture oft the farm. Today would be the time on my farm if I did not have one. Grass and other pasture plants are the most determined plants on earth. What about crab grass growing in the hot d*ys of June in the cotton fields? And the richer the land, and the bet ter the cultivation the faster will the grass grow. Just so with the pasture plants. The trou ble in all cotton growing sections as a rule, farmers do not know the pf good pastures and will not give of their bpsf; J?nds for this purpose.. Where a pas ture i? thought of in cotton grow ingsectlons, fhegrflt thing id to grow cotton and corn ob their good land long &s it will pro- ( duce anything and then throw it out, let it wash away and call it a pasture. Until farmers can i realize that the permanent pas- i ture is the most valuable asset on the farm and gives the rich est land for that purpose, the valu^ of a good permanent pas ture will not be known in the cotton section of the South. I would say to all inquiring friends that generally the best tint? to sow pasture mixturep is from AugMst to November 15 in the fall season. The main thing to do is to become determined in mind to have a Number One Pas ture and follow up that determi nation with work until it is an accomplished fact. o HEAD LETTUCE Farmers who grow head lettuce should prepare seed beds now, yes, right now, don't delay an other day. Sow seeds in good, rich, well prepared, mellpw moist sgjl. po nqt lh? bed for frost, snew e? sleet until the temperture goes below 30 degrees F. Then protect with sheeting or other material until the ooid wave passes, then uncover until another cold spell arrives, Ordinary fre&t and freezing does not injure Iceburg Head , Lettuce, when grown in the o- 1 pen, but if grown under cloth in , a tender manner, freezing weath er will kill them. Sow at once, take good ?are of i the be earefwl to sew i too thick op the land as the plants ' will be slender and weak, and i will notgrow^ff W#H when trans planted The land should also be prepar- 1 ed this fftl) as the fine clay soils i of Polk County in February are < generally too wet to be plowed and prepared properly. IN FLANDKRS FIELDS. [n Flanders fields the poppies blow * Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns be low. - ?? We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields. Take up your quarrel with the foe; To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die V/ o shall not sleep, tho poppies rrrv; In Flanders fields. * Wars always give rise to num ous war songs and poems, most of which soon pass into obscurity with the dawn of peace. The above poem written by Lieut. Col. John McCrae and set to music by Josef Hoffman was probably the most widely read of any written during the world war; and tho we are on the eve of celebrating our sixth anniver sary of peace "In Flanders Fields" is still popular and is des tined to rpnk among the best of our poems. _ 4* 1/ 1 ?" MOUNTAIN VIEW. The farmers of this section are very h usy gathering corn, sow ing gr~tn and picking cotton. The school at this place com menced Monday with Mr. Tran wick as teacher. Mr. and Mrs. ilenry Wilson of Inman. S. C., are visiting the letter's grandfather, Mr. C. C. Jackson, this week. Mr. Jay Corn was a caller at Mr. H. H. McCrain's Sunday af ternoon. Mr. M. A. Jackson is r repar ing to move to his old homt place. Mr. Broad us McCrkin attended church at Cooper Ga? Sunday. o ? British engineers have begun building a dam across the Indu* River in India, which is design ed to irrigate six million acres of land now mostly desert. It has been estimated that while the farmers of the United States receive only about seven and one-half billion dollars for their year's-crops, the consumers pay about twenty-two billion dol lars for the same product. Mrs. Margaret Tegg, of' Evans ton, 111., was sent to jail for striking her stepmother on the head with an iron poker. Ezra Meeker, 94-year-old Se attle pioneer, flew from that city to Washington with Lieut. Kelly in 24 hoqrs flymg time. A gift of $475,000 to Harvard for a chemical research labora tory has been made by the fam ily of E. C. Converse, one of the founders of the United States Steel Corporation. Rev John Brandt performed the marriage ceremony in the dark when jokers cut off the lights at the wedding of a young couple at Muskogee* Okla. After a deer had charged ar automobile driven by John Wot ring on a Montana forest road, the deer was without horns a&d the car was minus a fender. Alonzo Busshow of North Bay, N. Y., was held prisoner for four hours when his long beard was caught in a door which closed with a spring lock, to which he htrimiflbuclthekey. i Weekly Panorama of Events in the National Capital. By PETER KEEGAN Special Correspondent The Polk County News ? WASHINGTON'S FIRST real taste of the presidential campaign came in the Borah investigation of cam. p&lgn expenditures, which started in Chicago and then mored on to the Capitol almost, It seemed, as * a matter of habit, since so many In. restigatlons of this, that or the oth. er, hare taken place beneath its mas sire dome?s ^ - THE PROFESSIONAL "InvestJL gation gallery"?.-thoeev aged ladles and other persons with nothing to do bnt hang ... around the Capitol looking for excitement, will tell you frankly that the Borah Inquiry, thus far, is "nothing much." They will point back to those other famon^ probes of the last Congress, when It became customary for the tow* to buzz, not *ith one scandal, but with at least half a dozen juicy scandals every twenty-four hours. NOTHING OF A VERT scandalous nature has been unearthed yet by Senator Borah, so far as an Lmpar_ tial observer can see, although there has been some revealment of. the methods of the political managers In going after the money with which to run a presidential campaign. Ao> cording to figures presented to the committee, the campaign will ooet the American people somewhere In the neighborhood of four mtiHqn dollars, more than half of which will be spent by the Republicans, . ? Twenty million dollars was the amount which Senator LaFoliette said the Republicans had or were trying to raise. AS FAR AS PRB8IDHNT Coolldge is personally concerned, his cam. paign to succeed himself is ended. Despite the efforts of hl? advisers to get him out of Washington for a Bit: , unpaign, he haa succeed, ed in remaining close to the White House, Whether or not that kind of a campaign has profited him Only the return# on November 4th can testify. Anyway , it may be known that he, at least, la satisfied. WILLIAM G. McADOO'S letter ia which he had mot* kind words for the LaFollette ticket than for the Democratic ' presidential^ candidates, was a subject of much speculation nere, and was pointed to in Repu. ican circles a? indicating that all xzz not serene in the Democratic It has become necessary of late for the Democratic chiefs to make formal denials of reports that anyone is "laying down" on Mr. Davis or the something else than ? illness has kept McAdoo from taklnf the stump {or the Democratic ticket, although it is no secret that Mo* Adoo has never completely recover.# ed from that blow he received aftef that memorable struggle at Madison Square Garden. THE CLOSING DATS of the oasL, paign have been enlivened. NOT only by Senator LaTolle tie's slush fund charges, but by his personal assaults on President Coolldge. Among other things, LaFollette has charged that Coolldge i* a "nickel nurse r", explaining that his econ* omies, which have been the rock upon which the Administration has elected to rise or fall, have bees directed toward small things, while larger extravagances hsve passed unnoticed. "Nickel nurfter" Is only one of the LaFollette nick, names but it is typical. On the other hand, LaFollette has been sub. Jected to a severe Be publican cosfr ter-attack for his promise not to use national guard or federal troops to pot down strikes or other dlstur. bances threatening the public peace, ? * ' Prize money for the great poujtry show at Allentown, Pa., this fall amounts to $13,260.50, said to be more money than ever before offered by a similar exhi bition. Georgia raised and marketed ; 30 million pounds of tobacco dur ing the season just closed, which brought on an average of 21.82 cents, putting more than six mil lion dollars in the pockets of the tamers.
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