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ALLEGHANY TIMES
Published Every Thursday
$1.50 Per Year
Entered as second-class matter
at the Post Office at
Sparta, N. C.
D. C. SHORES, Editor
R. F. Edwards
There always comes the sadness
and sorrow that no man can stay
when a friend passes to his heaven
ly reward, but there is consolation
and almost joy mingled in that sad
ness when a man’s life has shown his
Christianity and there is no doubt
but that he has gone to join those
of God’s elected children, to sing
the songs of Heaven forever.
Frank Edwards was a man of high
ideals and his life was like an open
book. He lived his religion and all
who came into contact with him
would readily notice a man who had
the hope of Heaven centered in his
mind and actions.
1 His vocation, that of training good
men to know more about the work
they were trying to do, speaks well
of life. He lectured to masons for
long years, and there probably was
no man in North Carolina who knew
better the exact definition of mason
ry.
He was a well-read Bible student
and could almost memorize the chap
ters from which all masonry derives.
Besides practicing his religion daily
he was very fond of his Church and
the workings of the church. He was
always anxious to assist in the ad
vancement of God's Kingdom.
Truly, no more could be said of a
man of God, than that he gave his
life for this great cause.
There is no question in the minds
of those who knew him, but that
through precept and example. R. F.
Edwards loved the better things of
life and made a good fight and that
now his soul is resting in that land
prepared for the weary and over
burdened children of the Heavenly
Father.
SILVER .... in the money
In August, 1931, I wrote a para
graph in this column to the effect
that silver was a good thing to in
vest in. It was then selling at 29
cents an ounce, and I predicted thajt
within three or four years the price
would double.
Some of my readers may remem
ber that; at any rate, I feel justified
in boasting a little about my power
of prophecy.
For silver has started back up and
it is headed for its old level. A lot of
things have delayed it, such as the
general world-wide depression accel
erated by Britain going off the gold
standard. But the acceptance of
silver in payment of war debts at
not more than 5 0 cents an ounce
seems now to be out on the cards, as
well as the purchase of the entire
visible supply of silver for money
purposes.
For four thousand years silver
was the standard money metal of
the whole world. Gold began to
take its place beside silver about the
year of the American Revolution.
Gold became the chief money metal
less than 100 years ago. Business
and the demand for money increased
so much faster than the gold supply
that now there isn’t anywhere near
enough gold to go around.
WRESTLER . . . and farm boy
My friend Doc Roller is dead.
When I first met him he was a pro
fessional wrestler, challenging all
comers in a series of wrestling bouts
in New York. He wore a mask and
did not let his name become known.
As the ‘‘Masked Marvel” he threw
Frank Gotch, “Strangler” Lewis,
and many other famous wrestlers,
and made himself enough money to
quit at 39 and set up in the practice
of medicine.
Ben Roller started as a farm boy,
grew to weigh 200 pounds and was
as lithe and quick as a cat. He
worked his way through college and
medical school and was Professor of
Physiology in the University of
Washington and supervisor of col
lege athletics when friends urged
him to take on a professional wrest
ler for a purse. He won $1,600 that
night. Then he threw Frank Gotch
for a purse of $4000.
Doc Roller died at 57 of pneu
monia. He was a good doctor and
a good friend as well as a good
wrestler. I liked and admired him
because he used all of his talents to
the best advantage.
LA MO NT . . . has bank ideas
“Tom” Lamont, partner in J. P.
Morgan & Company, international 1
bankers, is proud of the fact that he
was a newspaper reporter before he
was a banker. Lately he has been
telling the world what’s wrong with
our banks.
We have the worst banking sys
tem in the world, Tom Lamont says,
and he ought to know. He advo
cates bringing all the commercial
banks of the nation into the Federal
Reserve System, under Government
al control. .
I do not see how anyone excdpt
some little man who wants to pose
as a big man by running a bank on
his own, to gratify his vanity, can
object to that. Some crooks might,
but there aren’t so many crooks in
the banking business as some folks
think, and they are getting weeded
out.
The main cause of our system of
independent, small weak banks has
been a sort of false local pride.
Safety of the money of depositors
ought to be the first consideration
in starting or running any bank.
Real bankers lie awake nights wor
rying whether they ought to lend
money to Tom, Dick or Harry, and
whether the Widow Jones’ deposit is
safe. We need fewer banks and
more real bankers.
.TIDES .... and harness
There is something fascinating
in the idea of making the moon turn
a mill-wheel. It is so fascinating
that men, since the beginning of
time, have tried to harness the tides.
On a small scale, in the old days
when money, men and materials,
were cheap, there were many little!
gristmills and sawmills along the
New England' Coast at the mouths
of tidal creeks. Twice a day the
water rose and was impounded be
hind a gated dam. As the tide went
out the water flowing over the dam
would turn the mill-wheel for
five or six hours.
When it comes to impounding the
forty-foot tides of the Bay of Fundy,
or. as is proposed in England, to
harness the mouth of the Severn, it
becomes a problem involving hun
dreds of millions of dollars, on which
the interest charges are so high as
to bring the cost of the current gen
erated almost up to the cost of mak
ing electricity with coal or oil.
Still, when good times are again
firmly with us, we shall see men har
nessing the moon and lighting great
cities by the movement of the tides.
CiEARS.new shift
Ever since the gasoline engine
was invented, about fifty years ago,
the problem of how to change the
speed of the drive shaft without
changing the engine speed has been
one to strain the ingenuity of engi
neers.
The only practical way seems to
he with a^ear-box and some sort of
WANTS
Wanted—Cane Seed. ..Market price
paid. C. A. Miles, Sparta. 5 1
Attention Mr. Farmer and Poultry
Raiser! Now is the time to get
your baby chicks. We are hatch
ing 5,000 per week. For the next
ten days we are booking orders
at $8,00 per 100 for blood-tested
State Accredited big healthy liva
ble chicks guaranteed to live and
grow. We also handle a full line
of Purina Poultry feed and have
the best display of brooder and
henhouse furniture ever displayed
in this section of the state. We
have recently installed a Mam
moth All-Electric Buckeye Incu
bator for custom hatching. Bring
us your eggs and we will hatch
them for you at 2c per egg for
full tray of 120 eggs. Phillips
Building , Tenth street. Wilkes
Hatchery, North Wilkesboro, N.
C.
NOTICE OF SUMMONS AND
WARRANT OF ATTACHMENT
NORTH CAROLINA,
ALLEGHANY COUNTY.
In the Superior Court. Before the
Clerk
J. Cam Fields, Plaintiff,
vs.
J. Mack Osborne, defendant.
The defendant above named will
take notice that a summons in the
above entitled action was issued
against the above named defendant
on the 8th day of May, 1933 for the
sum of $408.00 and interest due the
said plaintiff on two notes executed
by the defendant. The defendant
will also take notice that a warrant
of attachment was issued by the un
dersigned on the 8th day of May,
1933 against the property of the
defendant, which warrant of attach
ment is returnable at the office of
the undersigned at the time and
place named for the return of the
summons, when and where the de
fendant is required to appear and
answer or demur to the complaint bt
the plaintiff or the relief demanded
will be granted.
This the 9th day of May, 1933.
A. F. REEVES,
Clerk of the
6-1 Superior Court.
NOTICE
The Edwards Transportation Bus
will leave West Jefferson via Sparta
for Bel Air, Md., on May 26th, at
7 o’clock a. m. Fare $8 one way:
$14 round trip. For Information
write: W. Bert Edwards, Darling
ton, Md. tf
gear-shifting mechanism. Nobody
is entirely pleased, however, with
any of the systems yet invented. I
have had three different types of
gear-shifts on different cars I have
owned.
Now one of the big motor manu
facturers announces that he is going
to bring out a car with an automatic
gear shift, which will not require
any skill, effort or attention on the
1 part of the driver. I’ll believe it,
j when I see it, but I hope its’ true.
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A BIG DIFFERENCE
: "Pa, what does it mean here by
! ‘Diplomatic Phraseology?”
\ “My son, if you tell a girl that
time stands still while you gaze
into her eyes, that's diplomacy. But,
! if you tell her that her face would
' stop a clock, you’re in for it.”
NOTICE
All persons owing me book ac
coutats for last year must come in
immediately and settle either by cash
or note. We positively must close
the old accounts so we are expecting
you to take care of this without fur
ther notice.
JAY HARDIN.
NOTICE OF SALE OF LAND
North Carolina,
Alleghany County.
j^kUnder and by virtue of an order
the Superior Court of Alleghany
county, I, undersigned commissioner,
will, on Monday, June 12th, 1933.
at ten o’clock a. m., on the premises
on the waters of Meadow Fork Creek
in Cranberry township, sell to the
highest bidder, the following des
cribed real estate, to-wit:
A tract of land adjoining the lands
of Geo. Richardson, Dr. Don Long.
Frank Brinegar, Will Warden and
others, containing approximately 50
acres, this being the old home-place
of the late Aaron Osborne.
Terms of sale: one-third cash on
day of sale: balance on six and
twelve months time, with sechred
notes.
This the 3rd day of May, 1933.
J. A. OSBORNE,
5-25 Commissioner.
NOTICE OF SALE OF LAND
Under and by virtue of an order
of the Superior Court of Alleghany
county, North Carolina made in a
special proceeding entitled P. L.
Choate, Administrator, vs. Cleopatra j
Lynch et al, the undersigned com
missioner will sell on th6 premises
on Monday, June 5th, 1933, at one
o’clock P. M., at the highest bidder,
certain tracts of land lying and being
in Alleghany county, Gap Civil
township and described as follows:
FIRST TRACT: Bounded by the
lands of Bob Sexton, Jim Reeves,
Deal Cox, Ben Lynch, Bert Shumate,
Arthur Sexton and others and known
as the J. T. Lynch home place.
SECOND TRACT: Bounded by
the lands of Joe Maxwell, Johnnie
Washington, Calloway Cox, Lon Mc
lleeves, Ben Lynch and others and
known as the Doughton land.
This land will be sold in small
tracts. Terms: One-third cash on
day of sale and balance secured by |
good 'notes.
This the 28th day of April, 1933.
P. L. CHOATE,
5-18 Commissioner
NOTICE OF SALE
NORTH CAROLINA.
ALLEGHANY COUNTY.
Under and by virtue of the power
of sale in a certain deed of trust
executed on the 21st day of May,
1929 by W. F. Burchett and wife,
Nettie Burchett, to the undersigned
trustee to secure certain indebted
ness, default having been made in
the payment of the notes secured
thereby, and at the request of the
holder of said notes, I, the under
signed trustee, will, on Monday,
June 5th, 1933, at one o’clock p, m.,
at the courthouse door at Sparta, N.
C., sell to the highest bidder for
cash, to satisfy said indebtedness,
interest and costs, the following
described real estate, to-wit:
Lying and being in Alleghany
county. Gap Civil township, in the
town of Sparta, bounded on the
north by the lands of Nettie Burchett
on the east by the lands of Nettie
Burchett, on the southeast by lands
of the Edwards sisters, on the south
by the lands of C. M. Richardson, on
the west by the lands of W. Glenn
Fender and Dr. J. L. Doughton. This
being the identical land conveyed by
deed from R. A. Wagoner dated
Jan. 25, 1928, and recorded in Book
38, page 368, to whlch deed and re
cord reference is hereby made for
a more specific description of said
land.
This May 3rd, 1933.
L.E.EDWARDS,
5-25 Trustee.
NOTICE OF RE-SALE OF LAND
UN DR DEED OF TRUST
NORTH CAROLINA,
ALLEGHANY COUNTY.
By virtue of the power contained
in a certain Deed of Trust executed
by Coy Anders and wife Minnie An
ders, to the undersigned trustee on
November 10, 1928, recorded in
Book 14, at Page 482 of mortgages
for Alleghany county, securing cer
tain bonds, default having been made
and demand made for sale, I will, on
Does’nt He Have the Doggonest Luck? —By Albert T. Reid
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Monday, May 15, 1933, at 1:00
o’clock p. m.. on the premises sell
to the highest bidder for cash, the
following described tract of land:
Adjoining the lands of John B.
Murphy, Joseph Evans, Jim Vaughn,
Hugh Bedsaul and others and con
taining 27 21-100 acres more or less
and being the two tracts of land con
veyed to Coy Anders and Minnie
Anders in Deed made the 10th day
of November 1928 and which is duly
recorded in the office of the Regis
ter of Deeds for Alleghany county,
and to which reference is hereby
made for further description. The
above land is in Glade Creek town
ship, said county and state.
This, May 3, 1933.
CARLIE MURPHET,
5-11 Trustee.
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Just to make this world funnier
than it would be otherwise, there
will be another disarmament confer
ence.—Louisville Times.
What this nation needs is bankers
who can look a bull market in the
face without having blind staggers.
—Jackson News.
We carrv at all times a complete line of
FRESH MEATS
Our Prices Are the Same As In Larger Cities
CASH & CARRY STORES
Sparta, N. C.
Smithey’s Store
The markets are steadily advancing on all commodities
and it would be wise to use the present prices to lay
away a good supply of necessities.
Special For Saturday
Rice, 8 1-3 potmds for_- -
Fat Back, pound___--- —
Bananas, Pound--------_*jc
Fresh, Pure Coffee, 2 pounds for - --25c
Corn Flakes, 2 for —----15c
Sugar, Pound_—--—- -4/2c
Complete line of Shoes, lowest price in, history.
Full Cut Work Shirts, each- -39c
Table Cloth, yard_!- 15c
Men’s full cut Overalls, pair.— — - ——49c
Complete line Men’s and Ladies’. Ready-to-Wear at a
genuine low price!
10 yards of Unbleached Sheeting--35c
WE PAY THE HIGHEST PRICES FOR PRODUCE!
Our prices are helping the farmer! We want to serve
you with the very lowest prices on our merchandise at
all times!
Smithey *s Store
SPARTA, N. €.