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r/ TIE EAGLE. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. PubHsliod in Yancey Cotinty, ,!!.• of the birred apple. Entered as second-class - matter January 28, 1910, at the post- ofnce at hurnsville, N. C., under the Act of March 3, 1879. County Officers. -G. Ellis Gard- Clerk—Louis ■pepresentative- r.er. Sunerior Court Enjrlish. She 'iff—J-, Welzie Pennett. Register of Deeds—Ben Frank lin. Surveyor—J. R. Young. Coroner—D. C. H. Morgan. County Physician—J. R. Gibbs. Board of County Commissioners — John M. Lyon, Chm’n.; John A. Hannum, Wilson Edwards. Neighborhood News. The Countv Commissioners will meet next Monday. Mr. Chas. F. Byrd was over from Asheville one day last week. Mr. Arcemus Bailey was here for the holidays from Maryville, Tenn. Mrs. J. P. Lyon spent the holi days with relatives at Kingsport, Tenn. Atty. J. Bis Ray was a business visitor to Erwin and Johnson City Wednesday. Mrs. W. M. Austin continues very sick at the home of her daughter, Mrs. H. C. Smith. Mr, Wyman and Miss Maggie Wilson c me home to spend Christmas with hom 3 fo 1 s. Mr. Emerson Banks lost a $75 milk cow last Sunday nig^it. This is tough luck for friend Banks. Misses Elsie and Zula Silver, of Micaville, were holiday visitors in the city last week. Robert V. Angel U here from days with his family. Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Wray, of Wh-ay Villa, Cane River, spent Friday with relatives in town. Prof. G. C. Brown, of Mars Hill, spent a day or so with Burnsville friends the past week. Prof- A. J. Hutchirs, of Ashe ville, spent the holidays with Yancey relatives and friends. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Cam Wilson, of Murchison, on Decem ber 30th, a 15 pound boy. Bally for Cam! Several of the soldier boys came home to spend Christmas. All of them have returned to the camps. Mr. J. P. Gibbs has been here for several days from Linville, N. C., spending some days with hisiamily. Miss Lillie King came home from Berea College and is spend ing some time with her parents west of town. wanted teams To haul Feldspar, can make $5.00 per day Apply Carolina Mineral Co. Inc., Fenland, N. C. Mr. S. J. Bartlett (Jackey) left - Saturday for Robson. W. Va., where he has accepted a position with a construction company. Rev. Will J. Baker and R. S. Ray, of Concord, waded the snow to town and transacted business in the city Monday. Miss Mattie Hensley, of Buims- ville, N. C, spent Christmas with her brother ana family Rev. S. T. Hensley.—Marshall Record. WANTED TEAMS To halu Feldspar, can make $5.00 per day steady work. Apply Carolina Co. Inc., Penland. N. C. Rev. Thos. F. Higgins, after spending Christmas with his mother at Bald Creelc. returned to Trinity College Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Caraway spent Christmas with friends at Micaville. Mr. Caraway return- Mr. George Wilson, an aged citizen, died at his home at Mica ville Wednesday night. He was 'buried Thursday at 10 o’clock at his old home near Windom- Misses Madge Honeycutt and Clela Bryant returned to school at Davenport College, Lenoir, N. C., this week, after spending the holidays here with home folks. “Aunt Cynthia” Wilson, ap'ed colored woman, died at her home on Bald Creek last Friday. She was one of the oldest colored citizens of the county. Misses Alice and Lizzie MePe- ters, who are ceaching at Cliff- side, N. C., came home to spend the holidays. They will turn to their work next week. Dr. and Mrs. S. J. Hamilton and little son spent the holidays at Micaville with Mrs. Hamil ton’s parents Mr. and Mrs. Chas. I. Bowditch. Mrs. Len Brigman has returned from the hospital at Asheville where she has been for some time being treated. The Eagle learns that her health is much im proved. Our good friend, “Happy Bill” Dodson, was here this week, re gardless of the bad weather, shaking hands with our mer- cants. “Happy Bill” sells and delivers the groceries. Burglars entered the home of Mr. J. M. Lyon on Christmas eve night buc did not get away with anything of value. In fact Mr. hurglar left a dollar and note of sympathy lying on the mantel and took his departure. Mr. W. T. Angline moved his family from Burnsvilie to Ashe ville last week. Burnsville peo ple regret to lose this good family of people, and wish for them health, happiness and prosperity in their new home. Mr. Rex Hensley, formerly of this county but now located at Bentonville, Arkansas, passed through town last week and is at the bedside of his father-in- law Mr. Lee Ramsey at Mars Hill.—Marshall Record. Mr. J. M. Lyon has been ap pointed Chairman and Mr. B. B. Byrd Vice-Chairman of the War South Carolina spending a few Yancey county by Francis H. Fries, State Director of the National War- Savings Committee. Friends here have received the announcement ofthemarriag oi Mr. Carl B. Hyatt and Miss Laura Belle Berghauser, at Nevada, Mo., which occurred on Decem ber 27 They will be at borne in Burnsvilie after January 15th. “Uncle John”,Wilson, who has been confined to his home at Cane River for sometime, is reported as improving. Mr. Wilson is one of Yancey county’s oldest citi zens and has many friends, all of whom -'vill be glad to know that there is now a prospect of bis ul timate recovery. Notwithstanding the extreme cold weather the Yancey Collegi ate Institute opened up fine after ■ the holidays. Prof. Lowry : perhaps the busiest man in Burns- ■ ville, but he has already demon strated the fact that he is equal to ail emergencies and that he is the right man in the right place. Or6 of the best (if not the best) hogs butchered in this section this season was the one killed by Mr. M. B. Robertson a few days ago. It tipped the scales at (574 pounds net.' Mr. Robertson is a breeder of the famous 0. I. G.’s, and is one of our citizens that does not depend on the western market for his meat. On the local market this hog would have brought the owner $134.80. El'is Williams, one of the boys who went from this place to Camp Sevier a few months ago, died of spinal meningitis at the camp on DeOember 29th. His re mains were shipped to Pulaski, Va., the home of his parents, for interment. The death of this young man makes three of the Yancey county boys who have died at the camps since being mustered into the seryice. The Eagle’s handsome an.d obliging young friend, Mr. Fran cis MePeters, one of Bald Cx'eek’s foremost young farmers and fruit growers, transacted busi ness in the city Tuesday. He tells us most of the apples have been WANTED TEAMS To haul Feldspar, can maka $5.00 per day steady work. Apply Ca’^'^lina Mineral Co., Inc., Penland, N. C. “Uncle Jack’’ Sparks, one of Green Mountain's most substan tial cilizens, b.aved the cold weather and made his way to Burnsville on Monday. “Uncle Jack” pays no attention to the fact that he is getting old. He is just as jolly as ever and where- ever he ^goes he takes the sun shine with him. He dispensed some of the aforesaid sunshine in the Eagle office while in the city Monday. The stockholders of the Bank of Yancey held their annual meet ing last Tuesday. The old officers ^ind directors were re-elected for the coming year. The report of the cashier showed that the year 1917 had been a very successful one for the Bank of Yancey—in fact the best in its history. Af .er partaking of a good dinner at the Burton Hotel and the distribution of hand.some dividend checks to the stockholders the meeting ad journed. Mr. J. W Edwards was in town Thursday from Ramseytown. Mr. Edwards taught the public school in Egypt township at Pine Grove vyhich closed Thursday of last week. Mr. Edwards taught school Christmas day and had an attendance of 24 students. Rev. John Willis preachedja good ser mon and in the afternoon Rev. Joel Hensley made a Christmas talk to the students, at the close of which he gave the students a treat to fine apples. “The oldest inhabitant” is get ting into the headlines these days telling what he knows about tne cold spells of long ago. He insists we have had no such weather in forty years. Burnsville has had no such weather, perhaps, in a hundred years as that which pre vailed during the last weeks of December, considering the time of year. The thermometer has played around zero now for nearly four weeks and last Sunday morn ing she busted the bottom out of the thing and went 12 below. To make a bad matter worse, coal is scarce in town and it just takes $7.50 to get a dollar’s worth of wood. Speaking of war, we’re having it in Burnsville these days. FOOD ADfilllNiSTRATOR HENRY A. PAGE APPEALS TO WOMEN OF THE STATE Success of The Great War and the Fate of Hundreds of Thousands of Women and Children in Neutral Opuntries of Europe Depend Upon Course of American Women—Norm^d Surplus of Wheat and Meat Has Already Been Exported and Only What We Save Stands as Bulwark in the War and as the Salvation of Starving Thousands—Save Now Pleads North Carolina Food Administrator. Extra Work For V/omen. War conditions try ’ l-estrength of women. The overworked wo man in home, office or factory, will find in Foley Kidney Pills a ready relief from Kidney trouble, backache, headache, rheumatic pains, stiff joins, swollen muscles and that awfql tired feeling-- They assist nature in restoring strength and vitality. Sold everywhere. Dr. Young: to Lecture. ed to Hi ,h Point, N. C., on the ] shipped from his section, and j perhaps this is fortunate, as he Rev. D. E. Proffitt, ’pastor of ■ also says the thermometer at the M. E..Church at Biitmore, N. 1 Bald Creek registered 26 below C.,-spent Sunday'in the city vis- last Sunday morning, ing his mother Mrs. Minerva; -i-i i • • . I roffitt and other relatives. i The Eagle is very anxious that I each section of the county be rep- WANTED—To buy 100 or j resented weekly with a newsy I more pigs 6 weeks to 4 months . letter giving the local happenings “told advise kind and best cash j of the county. We are ready to 'yce. A. L. Mauney, Crouse, N. ; furnish stationery and postage I I and will send the Eagle regularly Dp- and Mva C C, Lisenb^ Nid clnldien, of Marion, were ■ I»Ve for a lew days loi^t week. They re.oi'ncd to tlicir home Sun- xlaj-. help us to make the old bird what it siiould be as a country news- paper. To the Women «M! North Carolina: With victory la the great war de- pehdent upon thtf food supplies which we can send to t^c armTce and clvlilaa population of our Allloa in Europe; and with several hundred thousand women and children in the neutral countrl6s of Europe appealing piteous ly to America to save them from star vation, we face the greatest and-most Insistently pressing demand for food stuffs that has been made upon a peo ple In the world’s history. Russia has collapeed because of dis organized and insufficient food sup plies for its armies and for its civilian population in some sections, and more Amerfcan blood will be spilled In France because of Russia’s failure to push th,e war. Any failure upon our part to supply necessary fooodstuffs In France, England and Italy would threaten a similar ccxllapse In those countries which would immeasurably Increase the war burdens of this coun try and the cost of variety. The neutral peoples of Europe have always imported large quantities of ■foodstuffs from North America, South America, Asia and Australia. Because of war conditions land transportation difficulties practic'sfly a,ll supplies are now cut off ex-cept^those from North America and repres'entatives of those peoples are making the moat heart rending appeals to our country for aid. It 1b an appalling fact that despite the most we can do for those people after supplying our Allies tens of ; thousands of them must perish from JmHger during the next few months. In the Cace of taoee conditions in Europe we have exported all our nor- surplus of wheat. Every pound of wheat or flour which we export from now on must be saved from our nor mal consumption. The same thing Is approximately true of beef and pork products and fats while the situation ,»Hh sugar Is even worse. Our government- officials- are doing their utmost to meet the situation and every consumer of foodstuffs In America may realize and feel sure that every ounce of wheat, every ounce of fats, every dunce of sugar and every ounce of beef and pork which they save from their normal consump tion, either by reduction In consump tion or by the substitution of other foodstuffs not suitable for export, will reach a soldier in the trenches or a woman, child or man who may starve to death if It Is not provided for them by us, Every particle of exportable foodstuffs saved in every North Caro lina home will release just that amount to help win the war and to help prevent the actual starvation and suffering of Innocent women and chil dren and men on the other side. Most of our people ere realizing their obligation to their country and, to humanity and are consuming a much smaller proportion of wheat flour, beef and pork products, fats and sugar than they were accustomed to under normal conditions. Many have not realized the seriousness and the horror of the situation. To every woman and every con sumer In the State, I appeal to do your utmost In the saving of the foad pro ducts named. This is an Individual problem and must be solved by the in dividual. The responsibility is indi vidual and no single person can escape the responsibility that Is imposed upon them in this matter. We have ample foodstuffs aside from those de sired -by the government for export and none of us need suffer. But, for the sake of humanity, for the sake of liberty, and for the sake of our own brave soldiers, your own sons, brothers and kinsmen. Save Now! HENRY A. -PAGE, Food Administrator for North Carolina Rev, Dr. Geo. W. Young will lecture in the Baptist church next Wednesday evening at 7:30. Subject “Issue of tiie Age.” Dr. Young is one of the National Lec turers of the Anti-Saloon League of America, Southern orator of note, great preacher and reform er. All are welcome. Admission free. Don’t fail to hear him. Let the people of Burnsville fill .the church. Notice to Tax Payers. The school taxes and bond taxes as well as state taxes are now due. The county has to raise a large sum to meet these matters, i am required to col lect within a short time a suf ficient amount to meet all these current expenses, and conse quently all tax payers will-have to prepare to pay the taxes at the times set for collection in the various townships: Prior hereto the county has paid interest on borrow^ money lu meet Liie. e expenac-s.' ic nus adopted a poncy of paying as it goes, and hence it will be useless to ask time in which to raise money as these are now due and greatly needed by the county. J. W. BENNETT, Sheriff. S. W. BLALOCK. Colonel S, W. Blalock wai born in Mitchell county. North Caro lina, March 30,1^5, and died at his home fn west Biirnsv lie, De cember 24, 1917, being at the age of 72 years, eight months and I twenty-four days. When a young man he professed faith in Christ and joined the Baptist church in which he lived a faithful member till his death. Many years of his life he spent as superintendent of Sunday schools. Colonel Blalock was married t-wice.' The first marriage was to Miss Nanqr S. Young, to which union was born eight .children. Four of these children preceded their father and four daughters are left to mourn his loss, one of which is Mrs. M. B. Robertson, of Burnsville. The second mar^ riage was to Miss G. A. McCan- less, to which unioij 'was born three children, one ,of whom, Woriy Blalock, survives his father Brother Blalock leaves his wife to mourn his depai'ture. S. W. Blalock was a useful citizen in his day Bdiides being faithful to his church was loy al to his country. He ^erved as public sch-ool committ^man and, magistrate for years ’ of .Snow Creek township of Mitchell .coun ty, Commissioner of hfe county, one term each in the Ijonse and Senate of the State legislature of North Carolina, .and colonel of a regiment in the Home Guard of the Civil war. In the army of King Rnmanuel he was a good soldier. After he was so sorely afflicted that he knew that he must shprtly go hence, he told his. daughter that he was all right and that death had no terror for him. He talked to his pastor in the same strain just a few days ago- He said: “There is nothing in my way.” Feeling that a man in his last hours earthly life, when he faces God in death, expresses the deep est convictions of his sobl, and that Brother Blalock has gone to God in peace, we close with the exhortation of King David, who said, “0 taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the man that trusteth in Him.” • D. W. W. This Was No Joke. J. E. Clover, 103 Labor Tt'tnp’e, Mules For Sale. Always froni One hundred to Three hundred head of Horses and Mules of aii description lo; sale at my stable in York, Pa, JOE KINDIG, York, Pa. To the Trade: I have just received a new line of shoes, new dry goods, and new clothing. Can give you some bargains. I bought these goods right and am selling them right. Also car load of fertilizer. Yours Respectfully, J. W. MURPUY, Boonsford, N. C. Notiee to the Fofeh'c. AH persons holding claims against Yancey county are re quested to list them with the Register of Deeds for payment by January 1st, 1&18. J. M. LYON, Chm, Board County Commissioners. ^ 51v -dv vi» “ DR. S. J. HAMILTON, i DENTIST, ® OEice (ker Citizeas Bank, BURNSVILLE. N. C. ^3 «- ^ EASY JOB. , It certainly is an easy job to sell ' merchandise, “IF’yooh ave V hat , people Want at the time they Want it, and at the right price. It has been an easy job and a a pleasure to me to sell mens and boys clothing for the past two months All the boys suits are sold cut •now, except a few NOBBY little suits for small boys, sizes 4s and 5s. BUT LISTEN! There are several fine suits for men in stock yet, that will be sold as long as they last, at unusually low prices. FH appreciate the sale, and you will apnfeciate the bargain. LWou have got produce wajfs pay the top price. C. M. BAILEY, Gen. Merchant. Burnsville, Rt. 1. 14. vf*- -4Lv ' vjv Vi> vN d' Wanted. Girls to work in Hosiery and Glove Mill. Can only use girls 16 years and older. Pay 75 cents per day while learning. Learned hands make up to $1.75- cents per day. Apply to either Carolina Hosiery Wills, Daisy Glove- Com,'.any,. C. F, James, .Manager, Marion, N, G. p g-HlN YUU NEED A CAR CALL FOE OIIR GAmAGE ^ . L. WILLIAMS & SONS. EET-TRS .AUTOS (FOB HIKE We make all points of interest - ( Meet all Trains, ^ Careful Chauffeure. Ratis by Trip or Hour. if I BURNSVILLE, N.C. | |ffew Marble Yard I J STOCK PINE MARbLe AND f ' |r GRANITE WORKS. J ^ lexTifetto locate in Spruce Pine, N. C., with an ^ ^ Qp-fjMiite stock of Marble and Granite, all bought direct from thk quarries, in large lots thus secureing all dis- counts, ’7hich will enable me to make close prices on ^ any thini in the cemetery line, ^ I will I^ndle nothing but the best Marble and Granite ^ f. hrn out nothing but first-class work. jp. I?Qn’’t}lace your "order until you have seen my stock ^ or have gotten my prices, as I' will appreciate your busi- ^ n-^s and j^iU protect your interest, Will optn up stodc August 1st., >^1^7, ^5*' Yours ypr/ truly,. Sprsce Fine Marble & Granite Works- ?ZLB DEATON, Proprietor ^ 4.4.4.4,4,4,4,4. Kodol dyspepsia Cna-e who f you sat. Yancey Collegiate Institute Yancey Collegiate In s t i t u t e. opened Tuesday with splendid at tendance. The bad weather has haid back several The High 1 School department is strong in ' Los Angeles, Cal., writes: ‘T number and quality of students. I have had about 56 years exper- We have organized interesting ; ience with all sorts and kinds of classes in the teachers depart-! cathartic remedies—some good ment. Those expecting to pre- j and some a joke. When I get pare for thq examm-iCion fi>r ' wise to Folev Cathartic Tablets teachers’ certificates, would do - ffir constipation I got in right, well to «ntev doss at once The best I ever used.” Do not Board is $10.00 a month t ttL rnpe: ro unpleasant aftereffects. Y. C. I. dormitories. Sold everywhere. j. A. LOWRY, P:'os. ILL HEALTH IS EXPENSIVE are onDOoesoary. If yoor liver is im (roe of waste melter vou Deed stfpitioa.liea-TOJess, bsdbrei lecs, ase a good laxative. disturbaut Manalin Tablets are Ideal Tboytasteiika candy, waieve^cclively, unijform Bo i)a3 batiita. Perun* TsWeta clear 15 thexystoEr.overcoaie catarrh, restore the appetite wid tone up the system. The t-vo are great Bids Ferour C«i, good heith. Send in tbecoupon today/'^ GelaaibayOah tesss.?:: „» and 10c y for a box of _ ,.-^Tabltts. Send to Tho Pcmsia Co.
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