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H. Y. Belk? .AND HIS MEWS OF NEBO VALLEY I'm very sorry Mr. Bill Hord is confined to' his home, We hope he gets 'better soon. He has always been a friend to the poor. He's my good friend. Irvin Allen is my friend too. He and I in hLs caT went for a ride. He told me that some folks cabled He! juid I two of the ugliest men that ever got in a car. I hope no gal ever said it's so. One thing I know our faces are good at the bank because Mr. Ailen gathered 1200 bushels of golden grain wheat. You say, man cannot live on bread alone. Oh, but we have some meat and meal, flour, too. ; .? ' . , I'm right blue this morning, it rains so much, but I've got a hobby.! I love everybody. Hafto. Mrs. Betty Self spent Sunday with Pappy Belk. Mr. Btll Ware, Mrs. Mar garet and little baby gal gave us a call Sunday evening if it did rain:] I love the rain and the sun shine. You know though it gets hot some time. Well, August is gone with the roiling tumbling tide. September has just arrived. Christmas Is com-j inp by and by. What shall I buy? A' nice box of chock candy, maybe two. God heals the sick, the. doctors take the pay, Sloth like rust consumes faster j than labor Wears. Did you know ? ? er time the Pres ident sets out to trim .the budget he trim the taxpayersi ?out of every cent ? they can find? It takes mother's^ little baby nearly# two years to learn I to talk, and then 49| years to keep its| mouth shut. More so if its a girl. Mother's, this Truman draft law is! the mosi cruel, needless and sinful j shame that ever befel this one time j tree nation. Hitler did it. Joe Stal- [ In did it to his slaves. Others na tions did it too. Look where they are today ? in ruin and Want. It spells war for our young men and finally ruin to a once free people. This is no love story. It's a real I true story. It didn't happen yester day ? it was in the fall of 1906. The| coon hunt I didn't forget. BY H. Y. BELK The other night at the supper ta ble tJohn, the colored boy, came in .from milking the cows, set the pail down on the milk stand, said, H. Y., suppose we take the dogs out to 'night and trail that old coon awhile. I saw today where they have been tearing down old man Burton's corn over in his back field next to the creek. O. K., I said. It suits me fine. While John did the dishes, I fed the dogs and put on my boots. 1 fired up my pipe and locked the two back doors. John brought up the five dogs. They came barking and yelp PRESCMPTION SERVICE We Fill any Doctors' Pre scriptions promptly and accurately at reasonable prices with the confidence of your physician. Kings Mountain' . Drag Company THE REXALL STORE We Call For and Deliver Phones 41 ? 81 ing. Then we started for the big woods down on Wikl Cat Ridge. We hadn't gone more than a mile in the ; thick bamboos when the dogs struck the trail. John flashed on the light, turning to me he said: 'H. Y., that's ot old swamp ooon sure as shooting. Listen, H. Y., at them damn dogs. By that time the five red bone hounds were making some fine mu sic over across Briar Skin Creek next to old man ? Burton's field. Down in the thick bamboo swamp we stopped in an old road bed and sat down. It was now 12 o'clock by my watch and chain! The dogs were trailing the coon I oh down the creek. We waited think j ing the dogs would trail the coon back up the creek. Every ihing got ; so quiet. Now and then w? heard I the dogs barking. . I lay back in the ? thick leaves to rest and went to j i sleep. The dogs treed the old coon, j I John called to me and started qn ; | thinking I was coming after him. i He crossed the creek, went over j I whefe the dogs had treed the coon. < '1 will never know how I got out of those woods into the creek. ' When ' I I woke up I was, wading down the j creek moje than a mile from where John left me in the roadbed, crawled out of the creek wet and ' cold. I tramped the rest of the night | hunting my way out of the woods, j circling around coming back to' the, place I had started from. At 4:00 o'clock I heard the bell ring up at the farm for the darkies to get up r?j prepare for the day's work. I followed the sound of the bell and; came out of the woods just as day i light was peeping over the Eastern,' sky. As I went to the back door there | was John in the yard skinning ani old coon. That coon hunt is still fresh in my rambling mind. Did you every go snipe hunting and hold the sack while the other fellows drove the birds in the sack? If you did you got left in the woods. The End. j I'm with the President on such questions as the drive for world peace, but it is understood that Harry Truman has some tricks up | his sleeve that will divide the people j and set off the fireworks. If you doubt that ask the Dixiecrats. You! must admit he. is a man of great nerve and a better fisherman that St. Peter or Hoover could hold a light' when it comes to catching big fish. So he and the New Dealers had a plan to clrcumvpnt the faults of man. But. when they tried the thing so trusted, the devilsh thing turned up and busted. Hitler had a plan to rule the world with his super race but hettoo went haywire and his plan went hellward. What about Hen Wallace? He evolved a plan to make pork more plentiful by murdering little pigs and plowing up the cotton and took the shirt right off the poor man's back. But old Aaron beat it all when he made that golden baby, he sniped the ladies rings, their bobby pins, wrist watches if any they had, and other golden things. I often wonder ed why he didn't get their bloomer pins. I reckon they didn't wear bloomers back then. If they did they called them slip-ons, or panties. Well, women do change. After all Aaron made a wobbly calf. Gosh, it made old Moses poppihg mad to see them gals dancing around that calf made by man. 1 once had a sweetheart years and years ago. Where she is now I don't know. I'm sorry for those who nev er had a sweetheart, but they .are few. - ilf we have faith, hope and love in our souls, our minds become clear, oUr entire being becomes alert and >? ? . ? ' 1 ? Every hour you delay building up a bank account for the future is one ? hour more you'fl hove to woii io an joy that "money-in-the-bank" feel ing of security. Come in and make your first deposit at our bank now* *> *V . . y. >*,' ?; ' r <'? " FIRST NATIONAL BANK . -.v . - - , \ ? - i >. ?" ?, Member F D I C ^ANK CPEDIT II -jmo activated, so we soon love the un lovable. 'Jealousy and hatred van ish from our minds lik?? the morn ing dew, and we see some good in every one we come in contact with. It's worth while. If you once try its such a source of real happiness. Of course we have been kinda handicapped in the past 56 years when Roosevelt took over the show. They told us what to plant and what to sow. When to reap and when to mow. How many rows to plow up. How many little pigs to drown from the mother sow to make pork ch<?:?.? and gravy cheaper. They told you i every time you put a dollar in the saving plate you'd checn o-jt two. Finally you lost your sh;rt. Trey took your hat and give you a pick ' and a shovel. Fed you on molded ; rotten spuds and called it the Wr'A. | And said it was what Hoover left oVer. J If you will let me tell tlws darky yarn I'll close this week's shine on' time. ' ? I j- Back in Civil war days darkies were very afraid after night. My i father owned an old negro. man and his wife. They lived in a little log shack behind my father's big bam.; One bright moonlight night when ( a deep snow was on the ground, Un- j cle John awoke when he heard a a great rattling sound about his log j shack. He shouted to his wife, Sal-; lie. Get up, judgment day has come' in the night, honey, and Gabriel is out there by the hay slack. I. see him flopping his white wings. What the old darky really saw ; was not Gabriel. It was my daddy's, old mule with a cotton blanket on his back. It was flopping and wav- j ing in the snow with a high wind blowing under the bright light of the moon. It presented a ghostly scene.' His wife got up. John, T've been praying for the Lord to come and take you to heaven. Now, nigger i why are you scared? Sallie, the trouble is, I'se got old man Brown's, pigs out behind the hay stack in the pen and I don't know how the Lord will let me by, but if the good Lord spares my life to hee the sun shine in the morning ? just then he peep ed out through the cracks in the log shack. O darling Sallied It hain't nothen but Brown's old mule, but I'se gwine pay for them pigs any I darkey when We get ,* <uvd ? we | soon forget it tho' The Rich Maxx A ad Tb?? ??( The devil. stood. By the rich man's ?.w. And watcned the poor- .ran. As he came by I In rags And want. I Hungry, sick and cold ! As he lay at the rich man's ;af.e. i The rich man said: 1 J I wish they couid o?_- elsewhere. The devil smiled and said. Or course you'll wind up where j I I dwell in heii. When at last you are dea.l. Then in hell with them a'.i my days 1 wish I wouldn't have to board \ :That rich gang eternally, I wish they could be eii**where. Where they, won't bother me, The poor man went to heaven. The rich man went down below, , In hel! he called for wa'.er. To cool his parching tongue. That's all I know about the rich man and the poor man. Bryant Visiting Tokyo, Yokohama - ) j Private Gtover D. Bryant, son of Mrs. Gussie Bryant, Kings Moun | j tain, N. C.. has recently been grant : ed seven days leave to visit Tokyo, Yokohoma area, . r 'Private Bryant has been in the Far East since July 1947, serving with Company A 304th Sign?.! Oper j. ation Battalion on occupation duty ; in Yokohama, Japan. This unit isj responsible for the operation and maintnance of communicat'ons of Eighth Army Headquarters'. ? | Carrots actually build up their sup j ^ ply of the valued food element, car- ; g otene, during winter storage, saysil the U. S. Department of Agriculture, j j Carotene is a food factor much want j j ed in the diet because it is the ba- j ? sic material from which vitamin A " is formed. ! Persons at work on U. S. Farms at the end of July totuied 11.800.000 compared with 12,000,000 a year ago. tf ? K i How to Build You Dream Home . (1) Save Regularly Savings accounts grow surprisingly when you save REGULARLY. We suggest our optional savings plan which pays Interest at three per cent compounded semi-annually. The first thing you know, you'll have the money to pur chase your lot. or to make the down-payment on your new home. (This Association also offers lump sum inves tors a savings-income pla:u Full-paid stock is available from SlflO to $5,000.) (2) Build With a Home Loan Build a home on a home loan repayable in con venient monthly payments on our direct re duction loan plan. Every payment (often no higher than rent) increases your equity in your home. Come in today . . . HOME BUILDING & LOAN ASSOCIATION A. H. Patterson. Sec.-Treas. Subscribe T o The Herald? $2 Per Year KINGS MOUNTAIN. ML C. SEE IT and you wantit PRICE IT and ^lill buy Folks take a look at those bumper guard grilles ? built as a unit and proof against "locking horns"? and say "Hmmm! Nice!" They sweep their eyes over tapering lenders, with a suggestion of jet power in their after contours? and say, "That's for me!" They eye-measure windshields that are 48% bigger and rear windows with 56% more area? and know without being told they can see the road up closer, both fore and aft. So they say? "That's for me? IF! "What does it cost me to get this handy-' sized dandy with the roomiest interiors ever found on a Buick Special? "What do I pay for high-compression, high-pressure Fireball power from a big Buick straight-eight engine? "What a the tag on that swell Buick ride, with coil springing, extra-wide rims, seats between the axles and all that? "And what about Dynaflow Drive vow Key to $2)g*?mu vmus understand I can have that at extra cost ?how much?" Well , sir, the news is good. Plenty good. Because this honey's, priced well under your expectations. It's a straight-eight t) vat's priced under a lot of sixes? over the years your investment will be no^ more than for any other car. So better not stop with looking. Better price it too ? delivered at your door. Your Buick dealer will give you the figures, even demonstrate. After which you'll do as others are doing -T- you'll get a firm order in. ? TEN-STKMKE! On Iff flu irk s/'KMii. ham * all theme Veaturcnl TRAFFIC-HAND Y SIZE ? MORE ROOM FOR THE MONPf ' DYN AFLOW DRIVE optional al antra cot! ? JET-UNE STYLING ? NON LOCKING BUMPER-GUARD GRILLES . HIGH-PRES SURE FIREBALL STRAIGHT-EIGHT ENGINE ? COIL SPRINGING ALL AROUND . LOW-PRESSURE TIRES ON SAFETY-RIDE PiMS ? GREATER VISIBILITY FORE AND AFT . SELF-LOCK ING UJGGAGE LIDS . STEADY-RIDING TORQUE-TUBE DRIVE . THREE SMART MODELS WITH BODY BY HSW *?W?r mmtmmmMlm f? l? HE N?r I. TAYLOR. MC N.fw/t, **,? Monday , DEAN BUICK COMPANY ? PRONE 330
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