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.
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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
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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.
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