H. Y. Belh r~iT t~ I. :.I.J l J AND HIS NEWS OF NEBO VALLEY > Come on up all ye (oiks, take a Stool or Just sit up on the floor while your Mayor helps you with the news. Once not so long ago there lived on Nebo road, a man who lov ed potatoes so well they changed his name from Andy Newton to "Tater Newton." He grew small taters, big ones too, and worked a farm. To your house he came with ti\veet po tatoes and we all had fun when the baking began. To be sure all got taters. If no money you had, you got takers Just for fun. He helped the rich, -he helped the. -poor. Then when ' his taters gave out and no more epuds he had to sell, we, the peo ple, sent him to the Court House foi a spell. He made good Deeds arid actw^we^^He put it on the books, -he grow. His books ^S^Po^^^llfe sublime. He did his best while on this earthly clime. Well October went out like a roar, J tng Lion. November came In leav- 1 ? |ng Hallowe'en behind, with f)ood j ?nd rain. We can only waU and see what old December brings aro.und. Its a grand thought to poor folks like you and I that Christmas don't come in the summer time, but keeps ' It all for winter time. t Whose to blame. Some of our bus- 1 lness men are raising cane because European producers whose factories were refoullt after the war by our taxpayers' money and they ' are ?hipping their goods to the U. S. A. and underselling their goods on our . American markets. They can and | are underselling their goods. Labor Is so muoh cheaper In Europe. To- J day we have 500 trains idle over the ?nation all on the account of John1 L. Lewis, and Father Truman. Soon j If not now, we poor fools and folks will be cold and freezing too for no! coal can we find. John got all the, holes locked down. He's truly Tru man's boss? If I were Truman and! couldn't run this nation I'd give up and go to some other town. Well, the story runs like this: The, nian who had nerve enough to drink a quart of cheap whiskey while he1 was having a tooth pulled, then he proposed to a pretty girl, he wished! /them to change his mind, but he found he'd lost his mind and left it behind. He then vowed forever-; rnore from now he'd henceforth use Gome common sense on gals of that kind. -? - . It is said Adam named the ani- ! dials. Seth named the stars. Eve named the suckers and bruis ed their heads with her heel, but that don't explain who named a jackass for a mule. But who named the New Deal, and Is it Constitutional? We pre sume so. The law of gravity teaches that everything that goes up will find a way down ? but taxes. PRESCRIPTION SERVICE We Fill any Doctors' Pre sciiptions promptly and accurately at reasonable prices with the confidence of your physician. King* Mountain Drag Company THE REXALL STORE We Call For and Deliver Phones 41 ? 81 Now who created the dear little housefly, thai wou'd be hard to de fine. They ali spread their wings alike \vhen they stick up In the but tci pan. . ? Who was it saldi "Oh, that my head were water and my: eyes a fountain of teats that I might weep! day and night for the slain of my1 people. . I Nothing yet so bad but it could be worse, remember that my dear be loved.'. I find in my ancient hLstory that many of the ancient buildings I presumed to have been destroyed by* barbarians were' actually de stroyed by earthquakes. It may be a fable. We've so often read about Nero . fiddling while Rome burned, lie was a heck Of a fiddier, tho\ at any rate. ' Sherman didn 't burn ancient Home, but he and his Yankess did burn Columbia, S. C\, the capitol of that state. Then our immortal Robert E. Lee had to lose the Cause for which .he fought and received no earthly re ward. But his memory will "live for ever, immortal Robert E. Lee. The Bible Book Divine says who so stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be hflard. Good. Then again the Good Books tells us if a man or a woman slaps you on one cheek, turn also the other side and let him smack you again. Well, I reckon that's all right, but I'm not going to stand and take all that, I'll strike back in self defense. Whether you believe it or not the nation's foremost saboteur is Old John Barley Com. He's hell on wheels ? he rides in cars. One thing we all can be sure of ? the Nebo columnist don't crawl be hind a tree to talk when he speaks. It takes a great string of words to run this thing. However we be long to no company. We feel as in dependent as a littel pig on ice. We eat, sleep, get in our britches Just like ony other two-legged man, and stay in bed till we have to crawl out. Sometimes we find it quite painful too. Just like you, going to bed is so easy if you are close to home, but everybody knows getting up is very trying. Then too back in to the same old clothes, and- wond ering what you'll have for breakfast. You know at my house breakfast is quite a bluff ? not all the time ham and eggs. Most anybody can talk but lots of tho talkers only talk from the shoul ders down. Pity they can't speak from a little higher up in the head In following his tracks where Tru man goes something i3 surey ro crack. With the Republicans it looks like they have forgotten which party they belong to. When you find an old man sitting around grumbling about getting old unless he's past ninety and nine, chewing old brown mule tobacco, spitting sill over his shirt front, mark you, he's not old and childish, he's old and hellish. A man of 75 is only starting on his second life's voy age. If he was no account at 50 he's still no good, never win be. Women are not so. They're still young till they feather and die. A buzzard lives to be a hundred, why not a man. When you are dead you are a lonjf time gone. We find no fountain of youth on this clime. We make it so? keep young in your mind. Years don't count in .your life if you live right and treat these you meet with a loving smile. Smiles that love your feilowman. For God's sake quit talking about your neighbors. Pray for them and forget their faults. You perhaps have more than they. I know I do. Tell the truth and all will t>e well. We are all made in the image of the Christ-Child. That's what the Bible Book Divine says. If your neighbor gets down help him climb, dont kick him down. Treat him as you would have him treat you, then flowers will bloom where thorns and thistles grew. Speak kind words to those around and your life will be sublime and [CHMAftfl k nSk-.s-a . .-.^5; R wKm *?kln| . . . Dont opon M w|> . >!>?!> 11* broken crystal at one* . . . N ratuUHyl Ut( your wotA h for ? Hon today* ?. ^ v\ V I I ts CKILIHCCR departing you will be glad to leave footprint* on the sands of time. W^iat Is time?? its the wind that blows between the birth cradle ind the unknown death-bed. Life Is so *weet (hen why so repine? ? ' I struck on High Tax Harry. Yes I am. I'm willing to smoke rabbit tobacco in. my old briar pipe, go barefotted in the rain, sleet and snow. Sleep on a rail fence, "drink muddy branch water if he says its best for me and my nation. Then I when my boas says vote, I vote it ' boys to be patriotic, tax or no tax. If [they tax the already taxedi tax the , church, tax the preacher, tax the meeting house, tax the tax the , tomcats, tax the chtaken, then tax the rats, they tax the Devil you say? it'll stick to my county 'til nothing more to tax. Whosoever got up this |*ax, sure was slick. It's ho poor man'g trick. A poor man is consid ered not worth a hell damn ? well he's not. Then, we the outcast poor man, on payday strut around with a -pay check for $36 with $6 took out by the boss-dog for tax. Arter this poor man buys a few high, very high grub , things and a sack of slate mixed with egg coal, the poor devil can't buy the baby a sucker. Children love stick cajidy. mostly because its so high. We love beefsteak too, but get It U you can since the old cow ' jumped up over the moon. That's all] for now? see you Saturday. 1 ?You never thought I'd be a poet: -Urn a curious creature, | Pray tell roe why, ? I am loved, I I am hailed, j I am blamed, .1 am false, ' ,7 I am true, Take heed you pals. You like me have your day. ' At last you must, Grow old, crumble up, and decay, Because you didn't Come to stay. I About 2,700 acres of late fail cab ! bage are being grown commercially j in North Carolina this year. This ! acreage is about the same as that ' of the 1948 crop. 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