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jnYjJIC Lf Three Best Scholars at West Point ^ r kT’ Left to right—Horace F. Sykes of Omaha, Neb., Raymond L. Hill of Oak land, Calif., and Frank Blue of North Carolina, who are the three highest ranking scholars of the graduating class In the United States Military acad emy at West Point. Nobody’s Business By Gee McGee. Gotten Letter. New York, June 19.—Liverpool came in as due, but New Orleans re flected Chicago’s dejlire which* was brought abeut by a weakness in Bom bay which was influenced by Shang hai’s straddling, consequently July sold off at 18.99. The goverrment re ported yesterday that the boll weevil emergence was 10 lightning bugs and 14 red ants ahead of last year, and predicted the caterpillar for August, the red spider for September, Wall street for October, and the Federal Reserve for November and December. Moat of the atrikes have beer settled, and the grocery atoren that didn’t bust during the “situation” will not now boat till after the curtailment by the millg >* over and work resumed. We advise shorter (cottor) dresses for China, Japan and Egypt. My grocer says that he has helped to pay for 19 new automobiles during the past few months, but so far, he has never ridden in one of them. That man talks a little too plain to suit me. He told me that Uncle Joe’s sons Sammie, bought a ham from him on credit last week and took it to a fll- lirg station and swapped it off for 9 gallons of gss and a quart of oil. I wish he’d lay off my kirfolks. notis: i will not be resporsibull for detts made by my cousin bill Clark, who left my bed and board without cause and rever paid for same nuther. and whoever sees fit to risk him for arything in my behaff will do so at her own jeppody, and he hag a big skyar just above his left ?ye where i struck him once when he called me a hoover dimmercrat, and his years is nearly bit off too, which took place when him and I was rastlirg once, so if anrybody sees or hears him, pleas rite or foam me and get a reward, he took my knife and three of my dogs off with him anaoforth. (p. s. i raised him from a baby, he was a rurt baby.) yores trulie, mike Clark, rfd. ed that this w^as possibly the first time she had ever attempted to get married ansoforth. the gloom come down stairs ow the arm of his best man who lives in georgy and goes by the name of mr. smith and he was dressed in a travel ling serge suit from askir.’s, and his shoes was from chocago and seemed about 2 sizes too small, and as him ard the bribe got closer and closer to gether, they hesitated under a big bell which was swung from a rafter in the certer of the room. ^ * * rev. t. i. hardnots performed the cerrimoney and was led in prayer by my pasture who prayed a beautiful peace of poetry ard seemed very much in favor of the bribe, but said a few words in behaff of the gloom, the presents was quite rumerous and dock Johnson estimated them to be worth not a cert less than 6$ and c50, in cluding the 3 from kresses and the 5 from wolworths. the bribe is a resent graduate at our school in the 5th grade, and will be sadly missed, as she plays the organ, and the gloom has a promirent posish with the standard oil in n. C. where he helps to run 1 of the pumps and allao washes and greases carj. they both left for a honey moon trip to Uncle Joe’s, as he is kifl to them somehow or other or.- their ma’s side, (if this ain’t correct, plese rite or foam me, and i will do my best to get the facts in the case). yores trulie, mike Clark, rfd. If cigarettes will do all that is claimed for them in the advertise ments, it won’t be long before every thing else in the way of cosmetics and plain food can be discarded. If smoke will make the flappers thin while sugar will make them fat, I am willing to put up with fatress for a season. My grocer says—wher. a customer drops behind win his bills for a few weeks and discontinues to ask the price of the stuff he buys, he beg : ns to get ready to lose that accourt. More money is lost on salad dressing eaters than on combread addicts. Since congress met to bring about farm relief, wheat has declined only 23 certs a bushel, but corn has drop ped just 17 cents per bushel, ard cot ton is only 2 cents lower than it was before they met, and timothy hay sag ged off only 5 dollars a tor, however— goobers are strorger, having advanc ed a quarter of a cent. If they keep this effort up, they certainly will re lieve the fanners of all they’ve got. ' A Big Wedding. flat rock, s. C. June 21, 1929 deer mr. editor:— i have been asked by my pasture to rite up the wedding which taken place last friday night betwixt miss sallie creek, party of the first part, and sammie green, party of the secord part, and it is as follows: \ Hr creek-green miptalU a wedding of much interest to all parties concerred was hell at the bribes father's home (now owned by v the federal land bank) in flat rock last friday night about 8 P- ra-» or possibly a few minutes befoar. the bribe is a secord darter of old man John creek, but the gloom ie the third and only son of my cousin, jule green. the bribe was let irto the room bv her daddy who wore a rayon dress trimmed in toil silk from soars ard roafcHflk with a big bunch of rosies Mow her chist and her * almost a pore match rdbm decorations from moat If dresses get much shorter, we men won’t ever miss them when* they are finally discarded. A pound of material will make all the necessary (?) clothes for a college graduate, and some of the girls are now com- plairirg because they have to be bothered to death with old stuffy frocks. I expect to see ’em wearing nothing but a fan and a smile and a pair of ear-bobs and ore other gar ment before the season is over, but that’s “Nobpdy’s Business,” so sit down in front. . I have often wordered whether the modern mustache which looks very much like a pig’s track was designed for beauty and attractivity, or w’as the first one just left there because the guy broke has razor before he got ^through shaving. All it takes in a town to make bare legs a possibility is for some fairly well-to-do flapper to break the ice strollirg down the street some lovely afternoon minus a pair of hose. As soon as she “gets by” with the opera tion, all the other flappers in town (from knee high to a duck to 5-feet- 9), will “go ard do likewise,” unless, of course, they have strong-minded mothers and daddies who still believe in decency at home and abroad, and car. control their off-spring. I do not say that the stockingless fad is in decent or unwise, but I think such a habit or practice is unbecoming to a lady <for the present) just like cigar ette smoking is Neither one of these innovations will ever serve to lift oar civilisation one jot or tittle higher, and you can lay to that The republican party will probably appoint an entirely new set of prohi bition enforcement officer^due to the fact that the present crowd is finan cially able to retire, and H is perfectly natural for the sugar-tit to be passed around amorg the loyal voters. ♦ ♦ ♦ v BANDED BIRD FLIES OVER SEA TO AFRICA Route Followed Mystifying as Feat Itself. Washington.-—The finding of a dead bird on a beach In South Africa may unlock a secret which has long puz zled American naturalists. The bird, an Arctic tern, carried a small metal band on one leg with the number 548.138 and, in abbreviated form, the address of the bureau of bi ological survey. United States Depart ment of Agriculture. 0. L. Austin banded the tern at Turnevik bay, Labrador, on July 28, 1928. Four months later It was found In South Africa. • Scientists have recognized the Arc tic tern as the Lindbergh of the bird world. It makes the longest migra tion of any bird, summering In the Arctic and wintering In the Antarctic. Eleven thousand miles to a winter re sort is an all-time record. What Route Is Mystery. By what route does the Arctic tern fly from the North pole to the Ant arctic? That has been the questlos. H. J. S. Heather of Durban, Natal, has communicated to the National Geographic society the circumstances ef the Important find, which may an swer the question: “The tern was picked np by Mr. Wackrlll of Johannesburg, a few miles south of Port Shepstone. His discov ery, the biological survey wrote the finder, was the most remarkable case that has been reported In any country. It suggests that the Arctic tern leaves the northern reaches of North Amer ica, flies to Portugal, crosses the length of Africa and then ’bops’ to the Antarctic continent.** The new evidence adds about 2,000 miles to the previous 11,000 miles es timated airline flight of the species. The Arctic tern enjoys more daylight than any other living creature^ be cause It Uvea In regions where the sun never acts apd only experiences night on its semiannual journeys across the equator. Terns and other shore birds travel more widely than any other feathered creatures. The golden plover raises a brood In Ungavs or northern Labra dor and In the fall wings out over the ocean, never stopping notll It reaches BermbdE 7)n It Hiss, pi using perhaps at ths Baba mss, or the Lesser Antilles on the way to South America. The first of tbe golden plovers have been reported arriving in Paraguay before the last have left the breeding grounds. They “winter” on the Argentine pam pas where the summer sun makes food plentiful. Even unadventurous appearing war blers travel far to escape the cold breath of winter. Of our American species and subspecies twenty-two winter In the West Indies, forty-four go to Mexico, thirty-seven push on to Central America, while twenty-two reach South America. It Is a fact for never ceasing wonder that some war blers and other small birds fly 500 miles across the Caribbean sea with out resting. Probably the most remarkable non stop oversea flights are those of the Pacific golden plover. Coming south from Alaska It touches at the Aleu tians and then takes off for Hawaii. It crosses 2,800 miles of open ocean. How plovers are able to locate the Hawaiian islands in the middle of the Pacific Is a mystery of nature. Remarkable Flight Records. Birds that nest In the southern hemisphere also have remarkable rec ords for travel. The slender-billed shearwater makes a circuit of the Pacific ocean. It breeds In southern Australia, files north along* the Asia coast and returns south by the Amer ican coast. Promotion of bird-banding has re vealed many unknown and unsuspected facts of bird migrations and habits. Telltale bands have shown the male wren to be an extremely inconstant fellow who ought to be paying heavy worm alimony and have also supplied facts on which practical plans for the conservation of birds life can be made. “At present nearly 1,200 banding stations are in operation In all parts of the country," writes E. W. Nelson, formerly head of the bureau of bio logical survey, In the National Geo graphic Magazine. , “The operators send the data re garding each individual bird banded to tbe bureau, which has established an Indexed card file of such records. Widespread Interest is expressed In reports of the capture of banded birds, of which 13,734, representing about two hundred species, have been re taken, either alive or dead.” ♦ ♦ ♦ In the Mayor’s Ccwit. William Bradley, drurk, $5. or 10 days. Lonnie Odom, drunk, $5 or It) days. In addition to the above, 20 pei^qns, men and womer, paid fines of $1 each for violations of the traffic ordinance, in that they failed to observe the “stop” signals at the intersection! of Main and Burr Streets, according to Mayor B. W. Sexton. Charges were preferred ard fines imposed in the Mayor’s Court Monday night as follows: Herman Walker, drunk, disorderly ard resisting an officer, $25 or 30 days. , - \ ’ / "A ■ . \ • • . . ’ V • ; • Owners of the ' i New All-American are calling it America’s finest edium-priced tomobile _ S if any, cars in Oakland’s field have ever aroused such enthusiasm among owners as the^ew All-American Six is causing^ Come in and let us show you why its owners are so proud of their cars amd so completely satisfied with the value which the New Oakland All- American represents. * Prir*., #1145 to #J57f,/.o. fc. Fam time, Mlehigmix. pirns dmMssry ekmrsmm. Spring corners mnd Lmmmjmy Hydrmulie SkPeh ^bmorhors included in list prices. Bumpers end reur fender guards estrm. General Motor* rime Payment Flan available ot wiiwiiw—w rate. paring UooJ, Far- m tbe tUli.rrrd prim me w«ll ms tk* Hat priro wk« automobile .alum . . . 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