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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-08-22


ginia visiting friends and relatives.
Little Miss Tharon Young, Of
Boone, is visiting Mr.. and Mrs. John
F. Reeves.
Messrs. D. C. and Edwin Duncan,
OF Sparta, we're in town the latter
part of the week.
Miss Maude Barlow, of Cleveland,
Ohio, returned to her home at Cres-
ton last week.
Miss Lizzie Miller, of the Boggs
section, was in the city last Saturday.
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Mrs. Lucy Sadler, who has been
visiting her sister, Mrs. Hattie Cen
try, has returned to her home in
North Fork, w. Va.
Miss Mabel Davis, Of Baltimore,
Nd, is house guest in the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. P. G. Wright.
Il
A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
H. c. Jarvis in the Wilkes Hospital
the latter part of the week. Mrs. Jar
Wis and baby are expected home this
week.
Mr.. Hafer of the Hafer Chevrolet
Company spent Monday and Tuesday
in Taylorsville on business.
Mrs. Boyd Richardson and son,
Fred, and mother, Mrs. ]. A. Richard
son, returned home last Friday from
New York City where they attended
the Merchants Fair while there" Miss
Boyd" bought large stock of fall
merchandise which is already begin
ming to arrive.
Miss Faye Sullivan, of Elizabeth
ton, visited at the home of her par
ents at Lansing, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Gibson, Mr..
and Mrs. r. C. Barlow, and Misses
Maude and Doris Barlow were visit
ing in West Jefferson Sunday.
Mrs. Shade Bare, of Jefferson,
spent few days with her sister, Mrs.
J. w. Duncan, last week.
Messrs. George Shepherd, of Scott
vile, and Clyde Duvall, of this city,
visited the fish hatchery in Wa
tauga last week and brought back
enough fish to stock Cranberry
Creek.
Messrs. Paul and Duck Eldreth, of
Pennsylvania, are visiting their
mother, Mrs. Blanch Eldreth in Jeff
erson.
Miss Flo Fender is spending her
vacation with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. J. E. Fender, of Crumpler. Miss
Fender is a studnt at Draughon Bust
ness College, of Winston-Salem. She
was accompanied to her home by
Mrs. Paralee Flynn, Of Winston.
Salem.
Among those who attended the
funeral of Clay Barker, "a, formerly
of this county, which was held in Da-
mascus Friday, were: Mrs. Matte
Koontz and daughters, Opal and Ma
bel,s and Avery Elliott, of Smethport;
MrSJones Barker, of Jefferson; Mrs.
James King, Walter King, Mr.. and
Mr.. F. L. Barker, and Ruth Barker,
of Lansing.
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large number of friends on last
Thursday evening at her home in
Jefferson.
DR.. j. H. Scarborough, of Warrnes-
burg, Mo-, and Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Scarborough, of Chattanooga, Tenn,
spent the week end with Mr.. and Mrs.
Earl Ray. DR.. Scarborough is native
of North Carolina but has been for
several years leading educator in
Missouri.
Rev. C.. w. Russell and family, of
the Helton Methodist Church, are
spending the week with relatives at
Denton and High Point.
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Mr.. William Reece Graham, of Fort
Belvoir, Virginia, is visiting his faith
err, DR.. w. r. Graham, at Todd, who
is very ill. Mrs. Graham, formerly
Miss Louise Oliver lis also at the bed
side of her father-in-law.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Poston, of
Kingsport, Tenn, are spending the
week with Mrs. Poston's parents, Mr..
and Mrs. George Oliver.
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Roy w. Wall, Federal Land Bank
represe I 2tive in this section, is in
the county for a week after taking
a vacation with his family in Wash
ington, Philadelphia land other north
ern cities. He has just been presented
with a new Chevrolet by his COM
pany.
Messrs. T. A. and G. B. Doggett
and James Hensley attended the
horse show at Linville, Friday.
Mr.. P. E. Watts spent several days
last week in Blowing Rock attending
to business.
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Miss Mary Carolyn Price is visit
ing relatives in Johnson City. Before
she returns home she expects to visit
in Elizabethton also. Mr.. and Mrs.
A. A. Price, her parents, accompanied
her to johnson City last week.
Mr.. Clifford Ray, who has been
working at Marion, N. c., is at home
this week suffering from an attack
of the influenza.
Mr.. r. L. Wooten, of North Wilkes
boro, was in the city Monday in con-
nection with his WPA work.
| Mrs. John Henry and children, Of
Forest City, are visiting relatives at
Beaver Creek.
Mr.. William Reeves, Of the Grassy
Creek community, suffered a serious
stroke of paralysis the latter part of
the week. He is little improved.
4
Miss Norma Wellborn, of the Lady
Fair Beauty Shop, is spending her
vacation with her parents near Deep
Gap.
Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd Holeman and
daughter, Miss liza, and granddaugh-
ter, all of Wilkesboro, were in the
city Friday en- route shofne after at
tending the Whitetop music festival.
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Miss Doris Barlow, who has been
visiting in Elizabethton, returned to
her home at Creston, Saturday.
Misses Faye Sullivan, Chloe Barlow
and Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Gibson ac-
lcompanied her home.
Mrs. ]. B. Hash is visiting relatives
in Lexington this week.
A'A
| Mr.. J. A. Reeves, of the City Cafe
| and West Jefferson Produce, left
Sunday for a visit to the coast and
points in Maryland and West Vir-
ginia. He expects to be gone several
days.
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L O C. A L S

Miss Ruth McNeill, who has served
as stenographer in the local relief
office for the past year, has been
transferred to Winston-Salem to the
head office in this district. Miss Nc
Neill's mother accompanied her there
and it. is understood that her grand
mother, Mrs. Phipps, will probably
spend the winter with her in Winston.
Through an error, the name Of Mrs.
Flossie Davis was left out of the ele-
mentary departments list of the
teachers of Riverveiw High School
which was given in a recent issue of
TIE SkNland Post.
Mr.. and Ms R. R. Badger, of Jeff
erson, and son and daughter, Billy
and Barbra Ann, spent the week end
with friends and relatives at Beckley,
Welch, and other points in West Vir-
ginia.
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A wedding of interest was reported
here the first of the week when it
was learned that Miss Sallie Spencer,
daughter of Mr.. Jason Spencer, of
Helton, was married Sunday to Mr..
Roscoe Parsons, of Troutdale.
Miss Iva Higgins, Of Damascus,
Va, visited Mr.. and Mrs. J. w. Dun
can last week.
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Mr.. Lee Goss and Mrs. Mcneil, Of
the Horse Creek community, visited
friends at Beaver Greek Sunday.
Mrs. T. P. Tudor, of Marion, Va,
is spending the week with Mrs. R.
c. Barr.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. M. Prevette and
son, Joseph, spent several days in
Mars Hill, Asheville, and Emery, this
week.
Mrs. McNeill and Mrs. Parham and
a number of friends in the city gave
Mr.. and Mrs. R. G. Barr a surprise
shower one night last week when
they visited them at their home and
presented them with numerous gifts.
Ice cream and cake was served to the
guests by Mrs. R. c. Barr.
A. B. GRAPHICAL, son of DR.. A. B.
GRAPHICAL of Marion, Va, spent the
week end with Mr.. and Mrs. Coleman
Payne in this city. -
A number of people from the Jeff
ersons attended the show in Sparta
Monday and Tuesday, Doubling
Thomas" starring Will Rogers.
Editor Sanford Martin, of the
Winston-Salem Journal, Mrs. Martin,
and a number of friends, who are
spending a few days at Shatley
Springs, attended services at the
West Jefferson Baptist Church Sun
day morning.
Mrs. r. B. jackson visited her
family in High Point last week.
The office of the Shell Oil Com
pany which has been located in the
same building with the West Jeffer-
son Parts and Accessories moved this
week to the edwards Service Station
where. it will be located in the future.
James Hensley is the manager Of the
office.
Mrs. Jarvis, who has been visiting
her son, H. c. Jarvis, has returned to
her home in IredeH county. She was
accompanied by her granddaughter,
little Betty Ann Jarvis.
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Mr.. Max Barlow, of Green Valley,
spent Saturday IA West jefferson.
Mr.. Everett Harrington, Of Ore
Knob, and Miss Francis Lambert, OF
Wagner, were married at the Pres.
byterian Manse in Jefferson, Friday
August Is.
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RACES

Races every day at the Great
Galax Fair, and the admission is
just Is cents. Remember dates:
Sept. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, Z.
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Oil cloth, best grade, per yd.. ... ..19c
One table of dress prints in stripes,
checks, and solid colors, per yd. 49,. Ice
One table of cotton crepe, fancy
stripes and checks, yd.. .19c
One lot of seersucker, ginghams,
creptone, covertcloth and curtain
material, per yd. ...............1 Oc
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AGE LIMIT OF TIMES
AVIATORS CHANGED
Persons Over 18 Now Eli
qibIe for Membership.

The indianapolis Times Junior
Aviator Squadron may take on
members of all ages, according TO
word received today from the Cleve-
land headquarters of The Scripps-
Howard Junior Aviator announcing
that two new divisions are being or
ganized, both for members over 10
years of age.
Heretofore the age limit of the
various SquadronS throughout the
country had been 18. but with the
new ruling, two divisions for older
air-minded youths will be organ
lied. One, to be known as senior
aviators, will embody all youths
from 19 to 81, while the other, to
be known as advanced seniors, will
include persons over 81. The al
ready organized divisions from 10
to 18 years will be known as juniors.
With this change in ruling Of age
limits, great number of the older
model builders throughout the state
are expected to fly the colors of The
Times Junior Aviotor. Persons,
both men and women. interested in
model building, may become men,
bers by sending their names TO The
Junior Aviator Editor, in care Of
The Times.
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They We're Right After An

TT may be remembered that in A celebrated III
Il stance some IS years ago great congress Of
experts of the sport page took very close expert
SquintS at James J. Jeffries in his training quar-
tiers at Reno. New, and so impressed by his
muscles and gravy-hide that they stamped him per-
feet, only to discover few days later that MIR JEFF
fries was a hollow shell. But after that, for years
up to now. the hollow shell has continued to live on
and on with never a sick day worth mentioning
a record which suggests that the experts right
than they knew in the first place and should have
stuck to their original opinion.
The assignment to inspect a President is traught
with certain delicacy which the sport page expert
is not aware of when he goes to the training camp
of the champion 1t is not reported that any Of the
Washington journalists asked the President how
much milk he was drinking how many hours he
was sleeping each night, looked at his tongue or
asked him to say "ah" or "ninety-nine.' If it had
been Jimmy BraddOck. now. or Joe Louis and the
inspection committee had been composed of sport
page diagnoSticans. there would have been none
OF the polite restraint which obviously hampercd The
White House crowd.
How do you feel?" seems to have been the whole
extent of the questioning and Mr.. Roosevet's reply
not answer but another question. He asked
the Journalist how he thought he looked.
"Okay from here" the reporter said without pro-
ducing so much stethoscope taking his pulse.
and the verdict, on the basis of no more than that
was. by implication, clean bill. Moreover. it had
to be so, Tor 1t is beyond imagining that any
porter so placed would have had the i'll manners
to say We'll, now that you ask me- Mr.. President.
you look a little green under the gills. don't like
the look in your eyes, and your cough has got me
worried little. ! suggest that you eat spin
ach cut down your Cigarets get TO bed earlier and
gargle with drops of turpentine in glass of hot
water twice day. That will be $40, please. and
will be back at this time tomorrow to check up
YOU
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SIS Cents for ~ Hours Work

DITT of course. CraSS-rOOterS ana EalueHOIeIS
y alike will do we'll to forget those famous New
1oree berries which have moved many solid clt1-
hens in raging complaint against relief lnVeStlga-
tio, nv the New York Word-Telegram showed that
The rate was 8S cents for a 12hour day. Democrats
and Republicans ought to be advised that the danger
Of relief lies in low payments rather than hlgh ones
Probably one can keep from actual Starvation mat
IS Quick starvation. very small sum, ouC any
such standard Will be wholly inadequate Tor re1eI-
To me relief means much more than the saw
inc of vast masses from acute hunger 1t should IN
cude an honest and far-reachlng effort 10 save
democracy itself from the creation OF helot class
I certainly had no intention of being tacetlous III
saving that 7 had become necessary to protect the
native worker against the COOlle wages and nVlng
standards of American labor. Whether you IKE II
or not this country now includes many millions oil
reope living in Just as desperate poverty as anybody
I'm the native city of Shanghai
The chief criticism leveed against relief, even I'M
der tine inadequate schedules which obtain at pres
ru is that it keeps people from taking certain jobs
Those are the very Jobs which should not be taken
If anv decent standard Of living is to be maintained
IN this country.
ONLY recently Gov. Talmadge Of Georgia was COM
rlsunc that but for relief farmers IN Georgia could
hire hands for a couple of dollars week. And as
long as the scale IN New jersey Is IS cents for u
rs I think 1t may be good idea to let the ber-
cs ripen and rot. Better the berries than mankind
,Ccryrisht 1885,
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Who Gets The Money?

nROBABLY 1t will be quite useless for anybody to
u ask Republican spokesman: But Just how Go
vou purpose TO administer relef?" The answer would
come back. "On a sound business basis and every
body would be just where they were at the beginning
The beauty of the formula evolved by the dande-
lion conference in Cleveland is that 1t means any
thing YOU want it. to mean For instance, 1t WOULD
be quite possible for d Republican administration 10
proceed along the very relief lines which are lalo
down At present When a Democrat spends dollar
that is UaSteful extravaganza for political purposes
But Republican may spend the same dollar IN pre-
rIsev the same way and now the expenditure mas
become sound business administration Inc truly
burning issue of the 1886 campaign Will be Whch
partv has the right to choose the keeper OF the KUy
But am afraid the Republican party has missed
onc splendld opportunity. Some OF the me oiu
rlrsses which we're used in defense of the tarl1l
might be trotted out once again as arguments III
favor of the Republican administration OF Feoeldl
relief The tariff. as YOU undoubtedly remember was
maintained 10 protect the American worker against
tho coolie wages and living standards OF european
Labor It was so successful that some device Is heeu
I'd IN protect the native worker against the coohe
wages and living standards of American labor. why
should not this task be entrusted to the Repunhcah
Marty which has all the language suitable 1or Cne
situation?
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Suppose 1t Happened

IT looks though the Washington reporters in
Il this case had come dangerously close to the
offense of praCticing medicine without the proper
credentials. 1t is thing for one man 10 say TO
another You look awful" and TO recommend his
favorite household remedy for indigestion or the
common cold but quite another thing for 200 Jour
nallsts to undertake to pass upon the condition of
the President, not only without the proper qusi1ca-
lions but without even taking his temperature
Suppose for instance. that left-wing dlagnost-
clan among the crowd had gone back to his Office
and written that. in his expert judgment the Pres-
dent of the United States of America was nervous
and physical wreck and ought to spend six months
III bed attended by day and night nurses.
Having invited the Journalists opinion the Fres-
dent could not reasonably object the mere ground
that it violated the intention which he had in mind
when he called the clinic together There are Jour-
nalt6ts that perverse and ornery that misChevos
and 1T was only by q. break of luck that the White
House consultation failed to include one such
The whole theory of the proceeding seems some
how wrong
If the President-God forbid!-shoud some day
feel feverlsh and like to die of q sickness it would
be unjust to the country himself and the fourth
estate If he we're to call Mrs. Roosevelt to him and
say, Mamma. feel awful Send for reporter and
If he can't fix me up, better call in a Coumnist for
a consultation"
'coryrisht 1885 by United Feature Syndicate rnol
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kettles on the kitchen stove, and
eternally running in and out to fill
hot water bags between feelings.
And, of course, we had to keep
careful watch over each babys
precarious condition.
II DON'T think the stove II the
l. kitchen during all those sum-
mer months-June, July, August
during which the babies were
nursed in the home of their birth
ever was less than red-hot. Wood
and water had to be carried in
from almost hundred yards out
side the house. That III itself was
man-sized Job carried out eff
GENTLY, punctually and quietly by
Mrs. Dionne's brother. Elias Lee
groS.
For the first few weeks of their
lives, the quintuplets had an
alarming trick of turning blue.
then white at intervals. This Vas
a. bad sign, occurring ever so
often during the first weeks. 1t
meant. literally, that these pre-
maturely born babies got tired of
breathing. threatening to give it
up entirely, and We had very
quickly to stimulate their waning
energy by giving them drop or
two or rum. Later this means of
stimulation was replaced by oxy-
gen tanks that had been sent
down from Toronto
We never knew moment really
free from anxiety in those first
days. If it was not one baby
turning blue, it was another. most
often Marie, being the weakest
and smallest, and Yvonne. IN spite
of the fact that from the first
she was the largest of them all.
incidentally, the sisters we're
called for convenience. until they
were named. A, 3, e. D and E.
NEXT-The Five Little nionnes
pass other important milestones of
their early life,
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where they bring additional pres
sure upon congressman and SEN
atOrS.
When public attention is not
focused upon them, these modern
.Janizarles are the real rulers of
the Washington merry go-round
They take the tickets. turn the
creaking machinery off and on.
call the tunes and dangle the
brass ring before the grasping
riders.
It is Significant that now. for
the first time during the Roose-
welt Administration, the lobbyists
are bold and brazen. Before this
they we're present in the back
ground, but afraid to lift their
heads. Even the lobby against the
stock market bill last year, which
was immense and effective. kept
as much as possible in the back
ground.
But nov It is different And .he
most significant thing behind this
change is the change in public
sentiment. or at least in that part
of public sentiment which is vocal
II
THREE years ago-when Mr..
i Roosevelt denounced the
money cnangers - public senti-
ment was rabidly bitter not only
against the bankers and against
big business. but against almost
any one the least bit tainted by
contact with the money changers.
Now this is partially forgotten.
There has been pickup in pros
perity-just enough to dull the
edges of memory.
Especially forgetful are certain
groups in Congress. Relief rolls
are not vocal. Organized Hobbies
are.
Three things count most with
Congress at present:
/. The righteousness Of the ap-
peal This is particularly true Of
minority groups The louder the
yell. the greater the effect on Con-
gresS.
>. The volume OF the appeal
This applies to large and less
wieldy groups such as the farm
erS. BY emitting a low, but
throaty moan, the farmers gather
enough volume TO make Congress
jump with alaCrity.
3. The monetary value of the
appsal-in other words. cash. Not
cash into the pockets of congress
men but cash paid through such
devious channels as campaign
contributions. or merely threat
ended to be paid on the other SIDE
Il counts.
Lobbying has taken on new arts
IN recent years There was a day
when a palatisl yacht was MAIN
tanned on the Potomac with liquor.
food ana steam UP. ready for any
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about 10 feet by II facing FORTH
east, that the family used as. Il
parlor. into the babies nursery.
This was because it was secluded
and quiet.
Adjoining was the mothers bed
room in which up TO then the
babies had been kept. Outside was
a large room 18 by Is running the
whole width and length of the
house. This was to be nurses rest
room, Office, reception room, din
ing room and storeroom. The rest
of the house, all the upstairs
rooms and the kitchen. we're left
to the family.
We moved everything out of the
prospective nursery. We scrubbed
walls. ceiling and floor with warm
water and soap. unnailed the
windows and threw them open for
fresh air, tackled mosquito netting
carefully to the window frames
to keep out mosquitoes and black
flies. so prevalent in the north
country at that time of the year,
A r first, we hung sheets in lieu
L y of a door, to emphasize the
need for seclusion in this little
improved nursery. These sheets
later we're replaced by mosquito
netting to protect the babies from
the invasions of the common
housefly. which soon became q
real menace to their lives.
To make the essential and nee
essary Separa ton from the babies
less poisnant for the mother,
window was built in the wall SO
that We could show her the little
ones every day until she was we'll
enough to visit them herself. A
large. clumsy dining room table
with six or seven legs was turned
into a nursery table. covered with
clean sheet and padded IN the
places where the babies bodies
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LIVING FIVE YEARS IN Il MONTHS
Nurse De Kiilne Tells Her O7 Story of That Stirring Period

Behind the headlines that have TOTO
the world of milestones IN the Diohne
quintuplets' first year lies another story
dramatic. humanity stirring story
Of the grim. seemingly unending struggle
between life and death that went on in
the babies nurseries his IS the
story that has been written exclusively
for The indianapolis Times BY Louise
De KiriIine. head nurse for the quin-
tupIets who has spent more hours than
anv one else with the World-famous ba-
HES. There follows the first of six ar
ticIes By Nine. De KiTiline.
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would rest during the morning
oiling and changing.
Shelves were put up to serve as
a washstand, as holders for the
oil lamps and as table for the
important preparation and meas
uring Of the feeding. Nails we're
driven into the walls to hold
necessary implements and, most
important of all, the chart of the
daily nursery report on which
every smallest detail Of each ba-
by's condition was carefully re-
corded.
A LMOST Immediately three
4 n small incubators, one for each
of the smallest babies. and
large one divided in two parts
we're installed.
They had been especially de-
signed under the supervision of
the Canadian Red Cross Society
and donated by the Toronto Daily
Star. We thought it best to
keep each baby in her own pri-
vate incubator room TO prevent
cross infection between the tiny
inmates.
The inCubators we're so con-
structed that the air taken in
through q screened opening at the
lower part underneath the babys'
bedshelf. passed over hot water
pigs" through wet sponge and
reached the baby properly heated
and humified. to go out through
another screened ventilator at the
top
Two thermometers and a hui
midity-guide inside each incubator
made it possible to keep the air
just right.
During the first "a hours the
pigs" having been delayed in
transit. We had to makeshift with
ordinary hot water bags. which
meant forever boiling water in
pots and pans and heavy iron