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track of the Southern Railway;
E. [. Wagoner's corner; thence
South II degrees East 3.45 chains
to a stake, Wagner corner;
thence South 81 degrees East $40
chains to an iron stake, Carter's
corner; thence North 50 degrees
West 7.69 chains to a stake on
the East side of said railroad;
thence South 81 degrees West, a
long the railroad SIS chains to
the beginning containing one and
eight-tenths acres, more or less.
Third tract: Beginning at a
stone, Whit Wilhelm's corner; and
runs thence North 45.9 degrees
West 1910 chains to a stone Viii
helms corner; thence South SO
degrees West so links to a new
corner; thence South 500 West
Az chains to a stone, a new
corner; thence South so degrees
East 7.40 chains to a stone, a new
corner on Jacob Bost's line;
thence with his line North s7.9
degrees East sos chains to the
beginning; containing four and
one-tenth acres, more or less.
Fourth tract: Beginning at a
stone at the railroad, Carriers or
ner, runs thence with his line
South As degrees East $50 chains
to a stone, a new corner On Car
ter's line; thence a new line
North ~ degrees 4.20 chains to a
stone on the bank of railroad a
new corner; thence with said rail
road South 4S degrees 400 chains
to a stone at railroad on the old
line; thence North SO degrees
East 80 links to the beginning.
containing four and eighteen
hundredths ocres, more or less.
TERMS OF SALE: CASH.
This 10th day of Feb. 1888.
1. C. CARTER, Commissioner
Feb. 17-Mar. 10.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS
j. . hESLEK, N
P. S. Carlton, Attorney.
Feb. 24-Mar. 10,

Having qualified as executors Of
the estate of w. A. Costner, thi,
is to notify all persons having
claims against the said decedent tc
file an itemized, verified statement
of same with the undersigned on
or before the 18th day of Febru-
airy, 1884, or this notice will be
pleaded in bar of their recovery.
Persons indebted to said estate are
notified to make prompt settle
ment.
This February ~, 1888.
O. A. CosTNER AND MRS. JENNIE
c BELL, Executors of estate of w.
A. Costner, decd.
Jonas & Jonas and E. W. G. Huff
man, Attys.
Feb. 24-Mar. 81.
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RESALE OF VALUABLE QUARRY

AND FARMING LAND:
Pursuant to the power contained
in a certain mortgage deed of trust
executed by E. C. Gregory and wifi
to the undersigned Trustee, datee
the 9TH day of July, 1922, which
is duly recorded in the office of the
Register of Deeds for Rowan coun-
ty in Book of Mortgages No. 70
at page 24s, default having beer
made in the payment of the indebt-
edness therein secured, the under.
signed Trustee will expose for sale
at public auction for CASH at the
courthouse door in in the City Of
Salisbury, N. c., on Saturday, Mar.
Is, 1888, at II o'clock, noon, the
following described real estate:
An undivided two-thirds inter
est in and to the following desert
bed real estate:
Tract No. 1: One certain tract
of land containing fifty acres,
more Or less, known as the "Safrit
Tract, situate on the North side
of the Yadkin Railroad and about
200 yards East of the Railroad
Depot of the Town of Granite
Quarry, and about four miles East
of the City of Salisbury and being
described by metes and bounds &C
cording to an old deed from N. B.
Nc anless to John S. Henderson,
dated June 8, 1891, as follows, to-
wit:
Beginning at a stone pile on
Murdock's line, and runs thence S.
SS deg. E. $50 chains to a stone
Peeler's corner; thence S. $3.50
chains to a stake; thence s.. 80 deg.
E. 17.10 chains to a stake; thence
S. 6.25 chains to a stake; thence
S. 80 deg. E. $40 chains to a stone;
thence S. $40 chains to a stake on
Bame's line; thence N. SO deg. w.
1880 chains to a stake on Lyerly'sI
line; thence N. SO links to a stake,
corner; thence N. IS deg.
$50 chains to a stake; thence
N. IS chains to the beginning, con-
tanning fifty 6o) acres, more or
less, and being part Of the land
that was decided by D. R. Julian
and wife to the North Carolina
Gold Mining Company by linden
ture dated November 1, 1888, and
recorded in Book No. So, page 1873.
For back title see deed from John
S. Henderson and wife, to Thos H.
Vanderford, registered in Book of
Deeds "a, page p; also deed from
Thos. H. Vanderford and wife to
Salisbury Granite Company, regis
tered in Book of Deeds No. "a,
page "A.
Bidding to begin at sSS6.49.
Terms of Sale: CASH.
Dated this the 1st day Of March,
1858.
Mar. 80.
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TRUSTEES SALE OF BANKRUPT
PROPERTY

PROPERTY
Pursuant to an order of w. T.
Shuford, Referee in Bankruptcy Of
the United States Court for the
Middle District of North Caro-
lima, appointing the undersigned
Trustee in bankruptcy of Thomas
L. Trexler, bankrupt, and directing
a sale of b%ankrupt's property, the
undersigned trustee will pursuant
to said order offer for sale to the
highest bidder for CASH all of the
real estate of the said bankrupt at
the courthouse door in Salisbury,
N. Csron Saturday, the 18th day
of March, 1888. The said real es-
tate being described as follows:
1st tract: Lying on the east
side of the old Mocksville road, a.
bout one mile from the city limits
Of Salisbury, N. c., Beginning at a
stake in the said Mocksville Road,
Lee Mahaley's corner; thence with
his line South Sc deg. IS min. East
.21.2S chains to a stake corner to
colored church lot; thence North ;
deg. IS min. East HOO CHAINS to
a stake, M. A. Trexler's corner;
thence, North "a deg. SO min.
West 1910 chains to a stake in the
Mocksville Road; thence with said
Road South % deg. West 12.11
chains to the beginning, contain
ing p and one tenths acres, mo~e
or less. For back title seeded
book No. 166, page 1876, in the
Office of the Register of Deeds for
Rowan County.
End tract: Beginning at a stone
1916 chains North II deg. 4S min.
East from the North side of tbs
road running in front of the sch j
house lot, and running thence;
from the North corner of the
school house lot North II deg. As
min. East 1856 chains to a stake
on Trexler and Chunn's line;
thence North 81 deg. West As
links to a stake; thence sou'h II
deg. 4S min. West 4 chains to q
stake, corner of lot No. 1 and 2;
thence North s7H deg. West t
chains to a stake T. L. Trexler'<
corner; thence South ; deg. Is
min. West 7.S4 chains to 4 st me.
corner of Church lot; then = with
line of church lot and school Csc
lot South Sc deg. 50 min. East 5.51
chains, more or less, to a stone, the
beginning corner or Jim Chunn'.
lime, containing 5 and 17/100 &C
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NORTH CAROLINA, ROWAN COUNTY
In The Suberior Court
A~+L,. Ho1.L DI.:-q

KOW
In The Superior Court
Arthur Holshouser, Plaintiff
W.
Bessie Ellen Holshouser. Defendant
NOTICE
The defendant above named viii
take notice that an action entitled
as above has been commenced in
the Superior Court of Rowan
County, North Carolina, to secure
a divorce On the grounds of deser-
ton under the Statute; and SAID
defendant will further take notice
that she is required to appear at
the Office of the Clerk of the Sup
erior Court of Rowan County,
North Carolina, not later than
thirty (30) days from date of ser
vice of this summons and answer
or demur to the complaint in said
action, or the plaintiff will apply
to the court for the relief demand
ed in the complaint.
This the 18th day of February,
1888.
B. D. McCUBBINs,
Clerk Superior Court.
Mar. 3-24.
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urdays.
4. That all persons who are
qualified to vote at the general
municipal election of May 2, 1888,
shall be qualified to vote at the
primary election on April p, sub
ject to challenge as provided by
law. Saturday., April IS, 1885,
has been designated as challenge
day. All challenges may be held
and heard at this time.
5. That for the purpose Of
holding said primary and general
municipal elections, the polling
place shall be the Town Hall.
&. That the Registrar and Jud-
ges for the purpose Of holding sale
primary and general municipal cleo.
lions, have been elected by the
Board of Aldermen, and are as fol-
lows:
REGISTRAR: J. w. Marshall.
JUDGES D. L. R. Poole and C
S.. Earnhardt.
I. That all candidates are re.
quired to file their application will
the, clerk of the Board by mid
night of April II, 1888, in ordel
Shat their names may be printed
On the tickets, all according to law
g.. That no person shall be al
owed 10 vote, either in said pri
mary election or in the gener
municipal election, whose name
does not appear on the registration
books; and no person shall be pc.
ritted to register after the c@losln.
f the registration books, unless h
'as become qualified to register ant
vote between the date of closing
the registration books and Ii.
date of the election, according t
law.
9. By order of the Board q
Aldermen, this, the 10th day O
February, 1888, ]. H. Blackwelder
Town Clerk.
Feb. 24-Mar. II.
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THOMAS w. GREGORY DIES
Thomas w. Gregory, II, of Mis-
sissippi, attorney general in the
Wilson cabinet, died in New York
of pneumonia.
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FIND AUTO OF MORE VALUE
THAN A WIFE
Kingston, Ont.-Three women
judges listened gravely to a debate
on the subject, Resolved, That a
Wife Is of More Benefit to a Man
Than an Automobile" Their
they ruled unanimously that the
upholders of the automobile had
won.
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RESALE OF FARM LANDS
Pursuant to the terms of a Ger
tain Mortgage Deed of Trust, exc
cuted by L. F. Poe and wife, Hat
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E-SALE OF REAL ESTATE IN

TOWN OF FAITH, N. c.
Pursuant to the terms and con-
dltlons OF a certain mortgage
deed of trust, executed by Efie ].
B, Fraley to J. C. Kesler, Trustee,
dated February /, 1928, and regis
tered in the Registers Office of
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RESALE OF VALUABLE QUARRY

Mar. 80.
The Washington times., 1933-02-13


side the employment agencies.
Nearly all of them smoking Gig.
arettes. Wasting money on
cigarettes at a time like this!
And most of them with cars
parked along the curb. And
she knows of a family of six
that were Almost Starving for
weeks. Then somebody gave
them five dollars and what do
you suppose they did? They
all went to the movies and had
chocolate sundaes afterwards!
So won't I write an article?
And please make it Real Strong!
Yes, lady, I'll write an article.
Nothing could please me better.
Also, I'll promise to make it
strong. But before I start, let
me ask you a few questions.
They are, I admit, rather per-
sonal. But so are your remarks
about the chap in the bread
line. And if you can get per-
sonal with him, why should you
object to a dose of your own
medicine? So
WE'RE YOU EVER HUN
CRY, LADY?
Were you ever so hungry that
the smell of food, passing a
restaurant door, gagged you?
So hungry that you wolfed at
the crumbs you found in an
old pocket and your body drag
ged, like a worn out rag, on the
gnawing torment of your belly?
WE'RE YOU EVER DIRTY?
Not just a little soiled around
the edges, but filthy as mired
beast is filthy. Caked with
the dried tears of your futile
despair, and the sweat of your
useless rebellion. Lousy with
parasites you had no longer
the strength to shake off
Were you ever like that, lady?
WE'RE YOU EVER HOME
LESS?
Have you known how it feels
to roam the streets like cur;
you, who once had a place in the
scheme of thingsl To see night
shut down, and the lights come
The Washington times., 1933-02-13
ABRAHAM LINCOLN BORN 124 YEARS AGO

One hundred and wentyfour ago. in 1SO9 famous
crop of babies born
One of them was Charles Darwin who to the
theory evolution between the devou and the
learned that has not ended yet.
Others Chopin whose funeral march you have heard
Tennyso whose Charge of the Light Brigade you perhaps
had to school, Poe whose creepy stories you have
read Gladstone who believed in Home Rule for Ireland when
other Engshmen did not Fitzgerald whose Rubaya of Omar
Khayyam you of course know, and ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
All these babies 1909 became justly famous but Lincoln
will stand for many years the greatest for he started
with less than any of the Others and accomplished
Lincoln is valuable to and women, boys and girls of
today because he was AVERAGE American by BIRTH by
education and by lack of special advantages.
Compared with most of indeed he below average in
these respects.
is poor child that in 1888 does have vastly greater
opportunities than the boy Lincoln had But is child
that these opportunities hundredth part we'll Lin
coin used his limited
Tell your children:
"Lincoln succeeded because he WANTED to learn.
"He wdlked miles to get book, and read it eag-
erly. Reading not forced upon him.
"He had comfortable table, good reading
Ian1p-nO lamp at oil. He had writing paper.
"He took piece of board and wrote that by
the light of the Wood fire. Then he shaved it off
Uuith a plane and uUrOte it again."
you are young man. discouraged because does
quickly remember that Lincoln often discouraged
q small but comfortable salary.
He did not get it, and plunged into dependency
Had he got that place he probably would have lived and died
obscure clerk in Washington known to few friends
good storye and unheard Of by the Of his country
men then since.
And as an AMERICAN in these days of doubt and difficulty
think often of Lincoln
When he took office he could from the White House win
dow the Confederate flag flying from staff the Poto
He had REAL problems solve beside which prob
lens pale into insgnificance.
When Calvin Coolidge President visitor called to
dole with him difficulty that looked big at the
moment.
Mr. Coolidge took this friend to the window pointed
across the river and told him that story.
Mr. Coolidge added:
"Since Lincoln, NO President has had any
probler1s"
And since the Civil War America has had NO problems
that could not be solved with but fraction of Lincoln
honesty courage and human understanding.
It is well to remember that TODAY and EVERY DAY.
The Washington times., 1933-02-13
Hollywood, CAL: Groucho
Marx tells one about the cen
tenarian who had the seven

year itch and wanted to live
three years longer so that he
could finish his scratching.
Take 1t or Leave 1t
The Statue of Liberty is one
of the few women in this coun-
try who isn't getting alimony.
Pitiful Cases
The stout equestrienne who
used to bend the horses so
badly in the middle that the
livery stable had to sell them
for camelS.
Ten-SecOnd Talkies
Passenger: Have a drink?
Pilot: No thanks. I'm a para.
chute jumper and I never take
a drop.
The Washington times., 1933-02-13
The Job You Have

You can't live on your past
accomplishments.
You may have held important
positions some years ago and
cannot command as good a posi-
ton today.
Nevertheless you should not
feel above the position you now
occupy.
You may have a menial Job,
but if you are doing it in a
desultory way you don't deserve
even that.
If it is the best you can get,
it is not beneath your dignity
and ability.
Hundreds would be glad Of
even the little you have.
Many former executives are
holding ordinary positions that
require very little specialized
knowledge.
They cannot procure any
thing better, so they do their
best where they find themselves
and hope for better things.
The man who advanced to a
high position usually gained it
by doing the lesser things well.
But too often the man who
gained the high position and
drops to an inferior one for
gets how he got the better
place and so he neglects the
little things.
Thereby he loses the only
chance he has of climbing to
the top again.
Are you such a person?
Copyright, 1888. King Features
., syndicate, 1nc)
The Washington times., 1933-02-13
ONCE OVERS
The Things You Do

4AC 1uAuSS 1Uu OU
Isn't it true that you do not
make enough demands on your
self?
You don't sponsor for your
self the difficult and disagree
able things.
You avoid the things you dis
like, and the things that require
mental or physical effort.
You have adopted a line Of
thought that falls back on lit
takes too much out Of me-"
Perhaps you have associated
with those who made such an
effort to avoid anything that re-
quired hard, and long-continued,
apparently unsuccessful efforts
that you have let 1t prove a
detriment to you.
With very little effort you can
imagine yourself as being
greatly exhausted by duties that
others would consider light and
easy.
You don't know the meaning
of being without bread while
you walk the streets looking
for work.
Your family and kind friends
would not see you suffer for
anything necessary to your COM
fort, as you know.
But your pride ought to get
up enough spunk to do a good
stiff job and do it thoroughly
and continually until you get
what you are after or at least
have combed fine to get it.
Copyright. 1898, King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1933-02-13
LISTEN, WORLD!
By Elsie Robinson

out-and no lamp lighted, any.
where, for you? To skulk and
crawl, wary-eyed for a cop, into
some alley, behind some garbage
can-to huddle to sleep with the
ratS?.
WE'RE YOU EVER DEsPER.
ATE?
So desperate that you could
no longer feel; no longer hope,
or pray, or weep, or fight? So
desperate that your eyes were
blank as an idiots, and your
brain an empty bag? Cows
stumbling down a chute to the
butcher-a man climbing thir-
teen steps to the chair-were
you ever as desperate as that?
Hungry, homeless, dirty, des-
perate. Were you ever like
that? No, of course you
weren't.
THEN HOW DARE YOU
CRITICIZE THOSE CREA-
TURES WHO ASK YOU FOR
A DIME? WHAT DO YOU,
WITH YOUR SNUG, SNUG
LITTLE LIFE, KNOW OF
THEIR TERRIBLE DESPAIR?
I know, for I've been one
of them. And let me tell you
this
When a mans starving; when
he's lost his hope and his home,
his pride and his place among
men-a cigarette may be to
him like the steadying hand OF
God! And when six have
crouched together through the
nightmare of a foodless week,
a movie may be paradise, and
the silly comfort of a chocolate
sundae may save their sanity!
Not worthy? Who are you
and I. sitting soft on the sys'
tenn that has made them poor,
to decide who's worthy, and
who isn't? -.
They're lazy, you say? VI
cious: lawless; simple-minded;
lacking in all decent standards?
Well, whose fault is it? Who
let them be bred by half
witted, criminal parents? Who
let them be reared in filth and
darkness? Who then released
them to face the maddening
pageant of our wealth and
power? :,
Or who delivered those mil
lions of other simple, earnest,
industrious folk into an indus
trial chaos which they had
neither the wit to understand,
nor the energy wherewith to
compete?
You AND I'VE WHO ARE
STRONG ENOUGH AND
SMART ENOUGH TO BEAT
THE GAME WE COULD
HAVE MADE LIFE WHAT
EVER WE WISHED 1T TO BE.
WE COULD HAVE PLANNED
A SYSTEM THAT WOULD
HAVE MADE THIS DREAD
Full DAY IMPOSSIBLE.
BUT INSTEAD, FOR THE
SAKE OF OUR OWN PROFIT
AND PLEAS SURE WE
BROUGHT THE WORLD TO
THIS!
And now you dare to say
that you are worthy, and they
are not!
Well; maybe you know. But
as for me-I'm shamed and
sick at heart. Every dollar
I touch these days seems
smeared with my brothers
blood,
Copyright, 1898. King Features
Syndicate, Inc,)
The Washington times., 1933-02-13

THE other day, rummag-
= ing about a secondhand
book store where treasures
so frequently are found, 1
happened upon & copy Of
the administration of John
Adams,'' by John Wood,
which played a conspicuous
part in the political gossip
of a century and a third
ago. The author was a man
of no little ability and no
one was quicker to recog-
nize it, and the possibilities
of its use, than Aaron Burr.
Just what part Burr played
in having the book written
has never been made clear.
But he knew of the prepa-
ration of the book and his
correspondence shows that
he was interested. When it
was completed he secured
copy, in manuscript, and
changed his mind about 60
ing through with it.
Whether he was fearful
that the complin entary ref
erences to himself would
cast suspicion on him, or
really felt, as he claimed,
that it would do his party
more harm than good, it is
impossible to say.
But it appears certain that
in the end he paid the au-
thor-not to publish it. 1t
is to be assumed that Wood
got the money; but it is
certain that little later
the book appeared. The
press at the time teemed
with articles about the mys-
terious performance.
A little later the close re-
lations Of Burr and Wood
were manifest when the lat
ter became the editor of a
newspaper in Washington
devoted to the political as
pirations of Burr. 1t soon
gave up the ghost; and Burr
began his mysterious me-
anderings in the Southwest
which ended in the court
room in Richmond.
The Washington times., 1933-02-13
scurrility Lavished
on Jefferson

I opened the old volume
with the expectation of find
ing it filled with scurrility.
There was a superabundance
of it in those days. Much of
it was lavished on jefferson,
and the political preachers
in New England were the
worst offenders. But Woods
book seemed very mild.
Some rather terrible facts
connected with the Federal
ist reign Of terror, through
the sedition law Of odor-
GUS memory, are set forth
but this was honest his
tory. But here and there
charges are found not easy
to accept literally. There
is no doubt that the FEEDER
alists wished us to enter the
European war in aid of Eng
land; they were pronounced
ly pro-English, and the
time came when many Of
their leaders turned traitors
during the war with Eng
land. Andrew jackson used
to say that had he been
President at the time he
would have strung them
from the galloWs tree. But
Wood drew on his imagina-
tion for some of his facts.
Thus:
when the hour of IL at
night was struck, the Cof-
fee House in South Second
Street (Philadelphia), which
is kept by an old servant
of the Ambassador Liston,
was Immediately crowded
with msites, who
stunned the ears of the
neighhorhood until sunrise
next morning with God
Save the King and Rule
Britannia. >"
This smacks of partisan
bunk. But there was Just
enough truth to carry it.
It was almost literally
true, as Wood says:
I'm the summer of 1893,
General Sumter, of South
Carolina, was unwarrant-
edly abused at the new cir
Gus in Market Street, Phil
adelphia, because he did not
pull off his hat, kiss the
ground, and clap his hands
when John Adams entered
the place
The Washington times., 1933-02-13
High. School Cadets
Corps Should March

The decision of the Inaugural Committee to allow the
tire corps of Washington High School cadets participate
the March parade is regrettabe
Both the spectators and the members of the corps will lose
the decision is allowed to stand
The committee gives its for allowing only
panes to parade the necessity for keeping the procession short
That necessity should not be ronclad deprive the
youngsters who form admirable marching organization of
which Washington justly proud of the opportunity of
ing the President.
In this the familiar cry of economy certainly does
apply as would cost the committee nothing to have the entire
corps march.
The Washington times., 1933-02-13

She's posi-
tive that nine
t e n t h S o +
them don't
deserve a n y
S y m p a t by.
Just good-for-
nothing loaf
ers, tn a t. S
W h a t tn e y
d. l e, w IL v
W o ul d n t
work if you
gave them a
job!
w by, look
at the lines
Af ronn ont
The Washington times., 1933-02-13
A Revolutionary
Patriot

Far more outrageous than
anything recorded in Woods
book were the scurrilities
given currency against JEFF
f rson by the political
preachers. In the gentle art
of bearing false witness these
were the masters of them all.
He was called an atheist, and
charged with having said
that ga dilapidated church
was good enough for the
Christ born in a manger. .
He was crucified in the name
of Christ because he per-
mitted Robert Paine to re-
turn to America on a battle
ship. The facts were these
The Washington times., 1933-02-13
Do They Deserve Help?

She wants me to write an ar
ticle about people who ask for