The daily record., 1954-02-19
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We don't recall how the subject
came UP, but a shoe salesman told
US the other day that many years
experience fitting shoes proved to
him that ladies' feet smell worse
than mems. And you wouldn't be
lieve it," he pointed out, because
men wear closed shoes and most
women wear open-toed Shoes E.
You figure it out!... It's not a
pleasant subject, anyway. j e
Ruark has just been named agent
for the Jefferson Standard Life
Insurance Company here the
Durham Life Insurance Company
has employed Attorney Everette
Doffermyre in the Jernigan insur
| lance case. He'll appear. with a pig
battery of the States most distin.
I Sguished lawyers, including the law
firm of the late Senator Wills
Smith, Smith, Leach and Anderson,
Colonel William T. Joyner and l. o.
Brady, chief counsel for the COM
! pany who happens to be native of
Benson. .Neill Salmon. another
lawyer in the case, says it'll take
more than a solid month to try all
those insurance cases ."The coun
ty commissioners might just as We'll
prepare for an extra month of
court" ne said. In fact, it'll prob
ably take longer There are Ii
different suits and Neill figures
each one will take at least 10 days
=. . That's l60 days of court.
Howard Hodges, reading in The
Daily Record that the j. w.
Ferrell Co. has already sold more
than $350,000 worth of property for
Erwin Mills, commented: II didn't
know there was that much land o!
that much money in all of Harnet'
County,. We saw man Dunn yes
terday with rs crisp $1,000 bills. j..
Ard he was carrying them around
in his shirt pocket as nonchalantly
as a pack of cigarettes. He's not a
banker, either.
SEEN ABOUT TOWN: The fellows
in Upchurch's inquiring about the
condition of our good friend, c. T.
Latimer, who underwent very
serious operation at Duke Hospital
=. His condition is reported as
satisfactory. Paul Hester reading
in the Durham Sun about the big
Chamber of Commerce banquet in
Durham. Dorothy Collins, thc
Lucky Strike sweetheart of Tele-
vision; her husband, Raymond
Scott, and flock of other
celebrities were there. Their spon-
sors, the big tobacco companies,
. bring them to Durham each year. :.
Arthur Godfrey made it an annual
occasion until Chesterfield dropped
him. d. j. Bethune of delivering
another pair of Knapp shoes.
him. d. j. Bethune of Erwin de-
livering another pair of Knapp
shoes. Denver is a salesman ex-
tordinary has lot of good. regular
customers. Mayor Ralph Hanna
watching the town workman widen
the street on South Wilson. Mrs
George Mckay and Mrs.
Thad Pope cruising about town.
IL OhOOASC OulAA1C CAl
on groceries il Larry Baird's..
County Tax Collector Duncan P
Ray making big deposit
at the first Citizens, where
Henry Slocumb was waist deep ip
money-busy counting it.. Count
ing money is a nasty job" declared
Henry. Particularly when it be.
longs to somebody else" he added.
:. Henry Sandlin busy reading the
Wall Street Journal. Shirley Hin
son getting off from work early to
visit her mother, who is a patient
in Memorial Hospital at Chapel
HILL Mrs. Louis Stephens ami
Mrs Marvin Wade dining to
gather at the Big-4. Another re-
minder that Dunn's big Bargain
Days will continue through Satur-
day. Hurry on down and save
yourself some money.