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Marion Progress.

MISS GERTRUDE DULA, Editor and Business Manager.

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POEMIt’s what you are Not how you look.It’s what you gave And not^what you took.It’s your friendly smile And not the awful frown,That makes folks love you more And buys for you the crown.To make the world grow brighter As you mingle with the throng;If you can’t give the silver Then always give the song.

— 3. M. S. (This poem was composed by an

Old Fort girl.)

L IV E A T H O M E W E E K

Gov. O. Max Gardner has pro­claimed the week of Dee. 15th to 21st “Live at Home Week” in North Carolina, which is an idea both pro­gressive and constructive, and should receive the full co-operation of all the people. “With an almost incomparable soil and climate which is admirable for the production of most every foodstuif which now is largely purchased from outside markets, with the exception of tropi­cal fruits and spices, the people of North Carolina,” the Governor states, “are sending out o f the state annually for the purchase of food | show, and feed stuff an amount that

The Old Fort Woman’s Club has pledged $100.00 as* their contribu­tion to the fund for the erection of the Indianhead Marker, which will be placed on the town square. This amount was voted by the club at the December meeting, held at the club room on Friday.

Profits from the play, “Flappers of 44,” which was given by the school and club, was reported by the president, Mrs. Geo. Sandlin. This play, which was directed by Mrs. Sandlin, was a decided success and the club’s share o f the proceeds was applied to their quota on the “General Foundation Fund”.

The president appointed chairmen for the different departments for the coming year.

Mrs. Henry Ragle, chairman of the Welfare department, reported a needy case, and $10.00 was ap­propriated to that cause.

Miss Gertrude Dula, ,chairman of the Library, reported $100.00 dona­ted to the Public Library by the County Commissioners and the plac­ing of new shelves in the Library.

An offer to the club from Geo. W. Sandlin, owner of Everybody’s Theatre, was submitted, and accep­ted. The club members will help to sell tickets for a special picture to be shown at Everybody’s Theatre on Christmas evening and night, and will receive half of the proceeds, less expense. Mrs. C. W. Graybeal was put in charge of tickets for this

Mrs. Geo. W. Sandlin, new president, presided at this

L O C A L A N D P E R S O N A L H O N O R RO L L O F O LDIT E M S O F I N T E R E S T F O R T G R A D E D SC H O O L

nearly twice as much as North Car­olina has spent on roads over a ten year period.”

Governor Gardner has asked that the civic clubs hold a dinner at which nothing but the products of North Carolina farms shall be ser­ved. Also that the ministers of the

is j clubmeeting in a very able and pleasing manner and the prospects seem j

Miss Bessie Rue Fleming o f Ashe­ville spent last week with her par­ents, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Fleming.

Luther Grant o f Marion was in Old Fort Sunday.

Mrs. Alma Ball o f Asheville visi­ted Mr. and Mrs. Walter LeFever last week.

Miss Elizabeth Raymer spent last week-end in Statesville.

Mr. and Mrs. B. C. Miller spent the week-end in Spencer.

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Allison and family visited their daughter in Morganton Thursday.

Mrs. D. E. Rix and small daughter Swannie of Asheville are spending several weeks with Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Swann.

Mr. Ewart Grant of Shelby spent Sunday in Old Fort.

Roy McDaniel, who is wo-rfcing in Shelby, spent the week-end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E, L. McDan­iel.

Stella Sherrill and Hazel Swann were visitors in Nebo Wednesday.

Crawford Fortune, of State Coil- lege, Raleigh, spent the Thanksgiv­ing holidays with Ms mother, Mrs. Ida Fortune.

Miss Margaret Marley, who is teaching at Lenoir, spent several days last week with her parents, Mr» and Mrs. H. C. Marley.

Col. D. W. Adams made a busi­ness trip to Charlotte Monday.

T. B. Faw was in Marion Monday.Edward McCanles s of Bryson

City is spending several days in Old ! Fort.

Seventh Grade: Harris Curtis,Dwyer Umberger, S. B. Smithey, 'Edgar Padgett, Stanhope Oates, Clara Eller, Nannie Sue Sandlin, Nelly Curtis, Juanita Adams, Mary Allison, iCa^keryn Kanipe, Elizabeth Suttemire,,<;£ifEtel»na Young, Myrtle Kerlee,. Edith' Lackey, Virginia Jones, Gladys Haynes, Dortha Eller.

Sixth Grade: Rena Hendley, Mary Margaret oJhnson, Codel Camp, Ex­am Manick, Ruby Calloway, Mary Hensley, Bertie Suttlemire.

Fifth Grade: William Trought-man, Hubert Nesbitt, Caroline Sand­lin, Mary Sue Young, Beverly Cur­tis.

Fourth Grade: Bert Moore.Third Grade: Emily Carver, Hel­

en Dalton, Mildred Early, Madeline Freeman, Mildred Troughtman, Lov-

j ine LeFevre.Second Grade: Paul Harmon, Jr.,

Clyde Raymer, Nita Byrd, Lois Ear­ley, Mary Louise Moore, Margaret Joe Tisdell.

First B Grade: Mildred Silvers,Ethel Morris, Eleanor Wheelon, Ce-i cil Burnett, Violet Bryson, Lester i Calloway, Katherine Epi^y, Virgil Freeman, Utha Mae Johnson, War­ren Johnson, Harold Kanipe, Mil­dred Lanning, Joe Miller, Max Nes­bitt, Hershel Robertson, Arnold White, Clarence Lavender.

1 . V. . f ̂ i-u ' Miss Alma Hemphill of Gilkeybright for a successful year for the j ̂ ̂ __! spent last week-end with her parents_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ j John Blankenship spent the week-

B E A R H U N T O N B U C K C R E E K j ^ parents, Mr. and Mrs.A large bear was killed the past | ‘

............................................ week on Buck Creek near the Yan-I °gospel shall set aside Sunday, the j cey-McDowell county line, by a par- ̂ aynes,15th, for a sermon on the subject ty of men including Messrs. Tomof “Living at Home.” The schools, woman’s clubs and all civic organi­z a t io n s h a v e b e e n a sk ed to assist in carrying forw^ard this program, “up­on the success of which the happi­ness and prosperity of all the people of the State so vitally depend.”

Gowan, Game warden; Logan Brad­ley, S. B. Smithey, Austin Harris, Spud Smith, Mark Hunter, Harry Wiseman, Kirby Hoover,Ray, Ross Clark, Raymond Padgett, Charles Wiseman and J. W. Wise­man.

The famous bear dogs, Bruc^ and P R O C L A M A T I O N Fly, owned by Chas. Wiseman of

Whereas, there is a eeriain Ar- Ashefor^ were used in the hun^ al-

last Sunday.Mrs. R. L. Jordan spent Thursday

in Asheville.Mrs. C. W. Morrison of Asheville

is v is it in g hex* p a ren ts, Mr. an d M rs. W. A. Fleming.

Asheville

rowhead Marker purchased by pub­lic subscription for the purpose of erecting a suitable monument to the Old Indian Fort for which this town was named, and

Whereas the said arrowhead mar­ker has lain in the town square on account o f insufficient funds to erect it, since its arrival more than three months ago, and. Whereas there is an earnest de­

sire on the part of the citizens of the Town of Old Fort to see this beautiful work, which was so well begun, completed.

Therefore, I, J. F. Harmon, May­or of the Town of Old Fort, do hereby set aside Saturday, Decem­ber the 14th, as “MONUMENT DAY” and urge all loyal and patri­otic citizens to co-operate to the fu l­lest extent on that occasion, finan­cially and otherwise, with those se­lected to solicit subscriptions for this worthy cause to raise sufficient funds to complete the work herein­above mentioned.

This proclamation issued this 9th day of December, 1929.

J. F. HARMON, Mayor.

so the Harris dogs from Old Fort, and the Mark Hunter dogs from Buck Creek.

Bruce and Fly are experienced hunters of Bruin. Bruce, who is three years and ten nfionths old, has nineteen bears to his credit, while Fly, six years old, has totaled twen­ty-four.

The chase, which lasted an hour, was brought to an^end by a shot from the rifle of J. W. Wiseman.

S E R V IC E S T H IS W E E KA T M E T H O D IS T C H U R C H

An unusually large congregation was present to hear the morning sermon of the Rev. J. C. Umberger on Sunday at the M. E, Church, South. Announcement was made that there will be evening services each night throughout the week and a full attendance is earnestly de-1 sired. Special music will be given by the Misses Elizabeth and E4na | Lipe at the morning service Sunday!

L A R G E A T T E N D A N C E A TB A P T I S T S E R V IC E S

The Baptist Sunday School is growing rapidly in interest and at­tendance, 194 being present on last Sunday morning. W. T. Morgan of Marion, moderator of the Blue Ridge association, was present and made a talk in behalf of the associa­tion.

Dr. R. F. Stables, of Ridgecrest, who conducted the services on Sun­day morning, was heard by a large appreciative audience.

The evening services were con­ducted by Mr. Pat Colville, Conduc- tor-Engineer-Evangelist.

Mrs. W. C .. Moore of spent Thursday in Old Fort.

Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Lytle of Mari­on spent last week-end in Old Fort.

T. R. Kanipe made a business trip to Marion Monday.

Miss Davie Mae Am ey spent sev­eral days last week in Rock Hill, S. C.

Misses Nannie Brazington and Margaret Lytle spent the week-end in Asheville.

Joe Lavender, 12 year old son of J. N. Lavender, is receiving treat­ment at the Marion Hospital.

Mr. ahd Mrs. Clifford Nesbitt were guests of Miss Ruth Boyette in Asheville Sunday.

Miss Gertrude Bryson of Asheville spent the week-end in Old Fort.

The windows of the Bryson-Sny- der store are lookiijg very attractive in the season’s decorations which were arranged quite artistically by Miss Maud Crawford.

Mrs. Charles Jenkins has returned after a visit to Mullens, S. C., where she was called on account of the ill­ness of her father.

The ladies of the Presbyterian

Mrs. Clifford Nesbitt has been no-1 tified that she has been accepted asj a member of the Elenor Wilson I C h ap ter of th e D. A. R. of W a sh in g - | ton, D. C. Mrs. Nesbitt has often i visited in Washington, as the guest | of her aunt, Mrs. Margaret Richard­son Allison, who is quite active in I D. A. R. activities in Washington, j Col. James Richardson, her Revolu-j tionary ancestor, was a prominent i leader whose interesting life is a part of North Carolina State history

Mr. Bailey, of the Appalachian Telephone Company, with a force of fifteen men, is remodeling the tele­phone lines within the city. Tele­phone wires will be run through a lead cable suspended from a steel guy wire overhead and all poles will be substantially gruyed.

N O T IC E O F S A L E O F T E N T H O U - S A N D D O L L A R S W A T E R B O N D S O F T H E T O W N O F O LD F O R T , N O R T H C A R O L IN A .Sealed bids will be received by the

Board of Aldermen of the Town of Old Fort, North Carolina, in the of­fice of the Mayor in said Town, until | eleven o’clock a. m., on the 23rd day of December, 1929, for the purchase of TEN THOUSAND ($10,000) DOLLARS watfer bonds to be issued under the Municipal Finance Act of North Carolina, to bear date 1st day

T W O S T IL L S D E S T R O Y E D

Two stills were cut down near Old Fort last week by Deputy Sher­iffs C. L. Tate, F. P. Lytle, and Dep­uty Marshal T. M. Greene. A 55 gallon steam outfit near Coleman could be seen from the railroad since the falling leaves had robbed it of its cover. No beer was found.

The second still cut down was on Cane Creek below Old Fort. It was a steam outfit of 50 gallons capacity. One hundred gallons o f beer were destroyed. No arrests were made.

S E N IO R P L A Y P R E S E N T E DA T P L E A S A N T G A R D E N S

On Friday night, Dec. 6th, the Se­nior Class of the Old Fort High School again presented “44 Flap­pers”. This time the play was given at th e . Pleasant Gardens School be­fore a very appreciative audience.

The Senior Class of 1930 has been very successful in the giving of their annual play and they are to be con­gratulated on their success.

, . ̂ of October, 1929, ahd to mature se-Church will continue their Christmas riaHy FIVE HUNDRED ($500) bazaar, in connection with a cake [DOLLARS on the 1st day of April

P . H . M A S H B U R N K IL L S D E E RA large buck deer weighing

aboujt 200 pounds with uniwually fine antlers, was killed by P. H- Mashbum last Saturday while hunt­ing with a number o f men f^ m Asheville on a hunting tnp near P ^ gah Forest. Mr. Mashburn intends to have the head mounted by a taxi­

dermist. _____

■ Grady Nichols, JamesLogan Lackey andare planning a trip towhere they will enjoy duck shootingfor several days.

A festive atmosphere ates at Old Fort’s two attractive drug stores this week.

A ID S O C I E t Y M E E T SThe Ladies Aid Society of the

Methodist Episcopal Church, South, met at the home of Mrs. J. N. Nes­bitt on Wednesday afternoon, Dec. 4th with Mrs. Negbitt and Mrs. Chas. Noblitt as joint hostesses. The meet­ing was called to order by the presi­dent, Mrs. Chas. Steppe. The chap­lain, Mrs. Lee Jordan, conducted the devotionals after which the regular business was transacted. This being the first meeting of the conference year, the different committees were appointed and plans were launched for beginning the year’s work in ear­nest. Sixteen members were present.

During the social hour delicious refreshments were served.

The meeting adjourned to meet in January with Mrs. G. I. Steppe.

sale, Saturday at the Sandlin build­ing on Main street near postoffice.

F. M. Bradley and L. J. Whisnant visited friends in Hickory Sunday.

Mrs. Signa Fleming and Mrs. Paul Gay of Asheville were visitors here during the week.

Mr. and Mrs. I. L. Caplan and children and Mrs. H. C. Marley were visitors in Lenoir this week and were accompanied home by Miss Margaret Marley.

Rev. N. Q. Harris of Harrisburg stopped over to see his cousin, R. J. Padgett, enroute to Asheville to at­tend the Blue Ridge-Atlantic Con­ference of the M. E. Church which met in Asheville this week.

Miss Margaret Maness and Miss Una Plott spent the weel:-end in Marion visiting friends and relatives

Mary Kathryn Ewrin and Kathryn Kanipe spent the week-end in Ashe­ville.

Alinda Erwin and Frances Kanipe were visitors in Nebo on Sunday.

Lesley Mauney, who has been em­ployed in Tulsa, Okla., is expected home this week.

J. S. Bradley was able to visit with friends down town this week.

A Benefit dinner was served by the Presbjrterian ladies on Saturday evening in the Sandlin building.

Mr. and Mrs. Obie Laughridge and children left Sunday for Nashville, Tenn., where Mr. Laughridge is em­ployed and where the family will make their home for the next few; months.

in each of the years 1932 to 1951 both inclusive; and the bonds are to be in denominations of FIVE HUN­DRED ($500) DOLLARS each, bearing a rate of interest not to ex­ceed 6 per cent per annum to be fixed on the date of sale, payable semi-annually on the 1st day of April and the 1st day of October of each year, both principal and inter-}' est payable at the Chase National ; Bank in the City of New York and] State o f ^ e w York. Bidders are in­vited to name the rate of interest! which the bonds are to bear; the rate jmust be in multiples of one-fourth | of one per cent; must not exceed six I per cent, and must.be the same for all of said bonds; that bonds will be] awarded to the bidder offering to I take them at the lowest rate of in- j terest, at a price not less than par| and accrued interest. I f any bidders! name the same amount of interest, I file premium shall determine the{ award. The right to reject any and all bids is reserved. |

The bonds will be accompanied! by the written approving opinion of Messrs. Storey, Thorndike, Palmer & Dodge of Boston, Massachusetts.

Each bidder must present with his' or its bid certified check on an in­corporated Bank or Trust Company, payable to the order of the Treasur­er of the Town of Old Fort, N. C., or deposit a sum of money for and in an amount equal to two per cent of the face amount of the bonds bidj for, to secure the Municipality from any loss resulting from failure of the bidder to comply with the terms j of his or its bid. Said bonds will be | awarded at not less than par unless | all bids are rejected. !

' I. L. CAPLAN, Clerk.!

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Big Decemberand

Christmas SaleStarts Friday, December 13th

EVERYTHING AT BARGAIN PRICES

Big assortment of Toys and Holiday goods..

Miss Maude has arranged a regular Toyland for the children. Bring them in and buy early.

Special Prices on Feeds and Flour.

Bryson-Snyder Co.OLD FORT, N. C.

OUR 1930 CHRISTMAS CLUB

IS NOW OPEN

Join now in one of our classes ranging from 10c to $10.00, payable each week, and have your Christmas Money all ready next year.

It’s not what you earn that makes you rich, but what you SAVE.

THE BANK OF OLD FORTOLD FORT, N. C.

J. s. B R A D L E Y , P r e s . F . M. B R A D L E Y , C ash ier

P . H . M A S H B U R N , V ic e -P re s .

Christmas GiftsCome in and see our Toilet Sets, Per­

fumes, Electrical Appliances, Manicure Sets, Stationery, Parker Pens, Pencils and Sets, and numerous other useful Christmas Gifts. Also Hollingsworth and Russell McPhail Candies.

Bradley Drug Co.“The Rexall Store”

Old Fort, N. C.

A NEW METALLIC HATwill add much to your pleasure during

Christmas.Bargains in Stylish Felt Hats.

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