The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-01-26
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Newton Enterprise: Farmers
are keeping their .plows running
early and late these pretty Janu-
airy days, preparing for another
big crop Of corn and cotton.
Spring Hope Leader: When a
man starts up the hill everybody
tries to pull him back, and when
he starts down the hill everybody
gives him a shove. Reverse the
lever and see the result.
Orangeburg, IS. CO. Times
Democrat: Some horried man
man says the hobble skirt was
copied from the process of driving
hoops about a barrel. How does
that strike the ladies'?
Charlotte Observer: Guilford
county pays its officers salaries
and the result of the first year un-
der this system shows a saving
of over $4,000. Even greater than
this financial benefit is that which
results from the knowledge of
exactly how the county stands at
any given time.
Wilmington Dispatchi We trust
that the move to have all the
Chinese cut off their queues is not
made necessary by demand from
this country for more hair from
those pumpkin sized skypieces wo-
men balance on their craniums like
washerwomen skillfullyJ holding
| aloft bundles of clothes.
Charlotte Observer: "A deter
mined-looking woman, weighing
about 300 pounds has lately an
noyed the men of Somerville.
Mass, by hugging them unasked
1t is said that she is of a good pc.
Esition in the community. What vii
come next, with every days news
adding to the horrors of the suf
fragaette movement?
Morganton News-Herald: TIL,
Irish potato crop in Burke las
year was the largest and fines
the country has ever had, and still
there is a scarcity of the HON,
product on the local market. Gu
merchants are especially anxious
to handle home raised produce
Good potatoes properly sorted ar
bringing an excellent price.
Canton Vindicalor: Nothing pays
better than good roads. 1t costs
something to secure them, but
they are the arteries which con.
meet town and country, along
which the current of comfort per
petually flows. Bad roads, full of
chuck holes, kill time. team and
temper. Be sure then that money
thus intelligently expended is wise
ly invested and sure to realize fu-
ture results.
Knoxville Sentinel: A Swiss
raodmaker has brought out a new
road material. Fine gravel of
coarse %sandSfrom a twentieth to
a twelfth of an inch In diameter
is washed or sifted and then coat
ed in a revolving drum with tar.
After hardening for eight or ten
weeks thtvpellets are spread on
q good road Foundation and roll
led. The roadbed so formed is said
to be inexpensive, springy and
durable. It is dustless and noise
less and costs little to keep up.
So, at least, the invetor claims.
Kinston Free Press: Respond
ing to the fretful cries Of little
George William Lane, the year
and a half old son of Mr.. and Mrs
Joe Lane, Mrs. Lane summoned q
physician and had the child ex.
amined. The examination dis.
closed the fact that there was q
piece of needle working out of the
child's side. Several weeks age
the child had complained of. pair
in it's side and the needle was
taken from it's body about Il
inches from the point that the
child had previously complained
of.
Atlanta Constitution: For the
first time since 1890 the Interna
tional Brotherhood of Blacksmith:
and Helpers vii meet in Allan
ia in October of this year, accord
ling to plans being laid by the pres
ident and vice-president Of The
brotherhood, j. w. Kline anG
Charles N. Glover, of Chicago, Ill
who are inthe city. The brother
hood was organized in Atlanta il
1888. Thmas Mullen and Cover