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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-22
Tart TaIent Club to
Present ravestv

"Black Peter Returns at
Twelve" travesty on the mystery
play by Hall Hopper. author of
Shadow Woman" and Candle
hour" will be presented by the
Tart and Talent Club of St..
Stephens Church III Parish Hall,
Friday, April 26.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-22
New Actors Are Recruited FoI
National PLAYERS Cast

In completing the for the eleventh of the Ma
ona Players, scheduled to open April % with accent
supporting players for Nancy Sheridan and Roy Roberts
Uho r1o no lands
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-22
News Reel Theater

So many times has Washington
been promised a newsreel theater,
without anything like seats or
lobby developing, that it seems
idle to record the latest proposal,
However, here's the dope, as it
reaches this desk. An imposing
news reel theater, adjacent to the
Palace and Fox Theater, is being
discussed for F Street. 1t means
q lot Of new leases and moving
around for established stores but
the promoters think they can
bring it about.
Shirley Is Six
Shirley Temple will be six
years old tomorrow and a Carter
Barron idea is to send her a
monster book with 5000 sigma
lures as birthday present from
Washington. Signatures are be-
ing collected in the Palace Thea
ter lobby and it looked last night
as though the names would reach
the desired o,UUU marx.
Mae Vests $1,000
It is the Motion Picture Herald
which reports it thus: "Once
each week young man from an
agents office goes to the pay
masters office of the Paramount
studio in Hollywood and picks
I'D Miss Mae Vests salary check
for $1,000. He then proceeds to
hunt up Miss West and let her
look at the check. After she
has RECALLED her eyes he con-
tinues on his errand to deposit
it in the bank to her credit. It
seems that she has no doubts
about the matter, but she just
wants to see it-every time"
Which reminds me that the
late Norah Bayes insisted upon
being paid for stage engagements
in cash. Last time she played
washington. Manager Ira La,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-22
VICTOR HERBERT GLORIFIED
Nelson Eddy Makes Brilliant
Debut as Screen Costar of
jeanette Macdonald
By ANDREW z. KELLEY

Il Is years ago this week since Victor Herbert's
operetta Naughty Marietta with Emma Trentn played
Loews Columbia Theater stage attraction. At that time
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-22

his appetite for preEaser song The upstairs heater
crowded. although Marietta in its third week Like
One Night of Love- this Victor Herbert melody in ceuoid
draws customers and again
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-22

Life. as jeanette Macdonald
and Nelson Eddy sing it solo and
as a duet. You will also love,
I'm Failing in Love With Some
one" the italian Street Song"
and Tramp, Tramp, Tramp" as
they are recorded.
A welcome then to Nelson Eddy,
who is good looking enough to
charm the ladies, who appears to
be the most important screen dis
covery Of 1885. The Victor Herbert
operetta which catapulted him to
potential fame and riches. comes
to Loew's Palace after platinum
Jean Harlow is through torch
singing.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-22

Naughty Marietta" Is Full Of
Glorious Music, Delightfully."- Sung
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-12-05
NOTICE OF SALE
North Carolina
Ashe County

North Carolina
Ashe County
In the Superior Court
Before the Clerk
The Federal Land Bank of Column
bia, VS.. Charles w. Brown and
wife, Myrtle Brown.
Pursuant to a judgment and or
der Of foreclosure entered in the
above entitled cause, I, w. b. Aus
tin, Commissioner, will, on the 10th
day of December, 1885, at 100
o'clock, P. M, at the Courthouse
door in Jefferson, North Carolina,
sell to the highest bidder the fol-
lowing real estate, to-wit:
All that certain piece, parcel. or
tract of land containing '49 acres
and $3.50 rods situated lying and
being in Ashe County, North Fork
Township, bounded .on the north by
the lands of L. A. Haxwell and the
Public School Lot; on the east by
the lands of Arthur G. Sharpe; on
the south by the lands of John
Sutherland, Lizzie. Osborne, L. A.
Maxwell, and H. " Rominger, and
on the west by the lands of Lee
Wilson, as surveyed, described and
plated by a plat thereof made by
c. w. Ray, Surveyor, filed in the
Office of the Federal Land Bank of
Columbia, and as described in a
deed from Milton Brown and wife,
Emma Brown, dated June 10, 1924,
to Chas. w. Brown, which deed is
recorded in the Office of the Regis
ter of Deeds for Ashe County in
Book J-2, Page %, to which deed
and record reference is hereby
made for a more complete deScrip-
ton.
This being the same land describ-
ed in a deed from H.. v. Rominger
and wife, to M. E. Rominger, and
A. F. Rominger and wife, recorded
in the Ashe County Registry in
Book Wv, page 1876, and deed
from J. H. Hardin and wife, Emma
E. Hardin, to Milton Brown, dated
December 9, 1891 and recorded in
said Office in Book FL, Page 500.
Terms of sale: one-fourth (A)
cash upon confirmation Of sale and
the balance on credit, payable in
four equal annual inStallments,
with interest thereon from the date
of sale at six (696) per cent per
annum. The purchaser will also be
required to make deposit of Fifty
($50.0eT Dollars on the date OF sale
as evidence of good faith.
This November 18, 1885.
w. B. AUSTIN.
1912 Commissioner.
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First Victim OF
LethuL Gas HOlUIs
Prison Authorities To Spend Much
Time Checking And Re- Check
ing New Death Device

According to w. T. Bost in The
Greensboro Daily News, state pene-
tertiary Warden H. H. Honeycutt
who has seen more than $50 Of the
capital felons executed in the cleo
trio chair, was blue Friday over the
behavior of the gas chamber in its
first test in Raleigh on Nov. %.
Mr.. Bost says the warden was
dubious from the very start. He al
ways dreaded the idea of choking a
man to death. He was doubtful that
anything would work death SO
quickly as electricity and he was
not crazy about that form or any
other, far that matter. But Friday
when he picked the sorriest mon
grel dog in police captivity and put
him in the death chamber, sealed
him up, saw the gas egg cracked
and heard the hound howl, the
warden's nerves were tried as they
seldom have been when a man. was
going down with an electric current
feeding him fire.
The warden doesn't think the dog
set up that yell on account of his
environment, but believes the gas
did the animal wrong.
But, before this new device sup
plants the 25-year-old electric chair
as the method of legal executions in
this State, it will be checked and
rechecked. There were some offici-
ais displeased with the results de-
spite the facts that experts" said
it was safe and efficient.
Waynick Dissatisfied
Capus M. Waynick, chairman of
the State Highway and Public
Works commission, declared that
"We are certainly not going to put
a human being in there to suffer
as that dog obviously did," He ex-
pressed dissatisfaction with the
tests.
Other tests are scheduled for the
week and checks will be made to
see if results conform with expert
ences of chemists. The other States
using lethal gas for executions also
will be checked.
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Verlas E. Badger, Deputy.
NOTICE OF RESALE
North Carolina

North Carolina
Ashe County.
Under and by virtue of an order
of resale signed by the Clerk of
the Superior Court of Ashe County,
North Carolina, in the matter of U.
S. G. Bauguess, Trustee in the Deed
of Trust recorded in the Office of
the Register of Deeds of Ashe
County in Book 80, page 1877, the
undersigned Trustee, will, on the
7th day of December 1885 at 100
O'clock P. NJ at the Courthouse
door in Jefferson offer for sale to
the highest bidder, for cash, the in
tereSt of Edward Miller and Glea-
son Miller in the following describ-
ed tract or parcel of land: ~
Bounded on the North by the
lands of Robert Bare; on the South
by the lands OF Florence Tucker; on
the East by the lands of Clarence
Jones, containing Is acres, more or
less, being the lands conveyed to
Edward Miller and Gleason Miller
by T. R. Miller, to which deed ref
erence is hereby made for a more
complete description of same"
This 10th day of November, 1885.
u. S. G. BAUGUESS,
1915 Trustee.
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Second Suicidal
Attempt Of LenOir
Mar. Is Successful

LENOIR, Nov. 27.-A second at
tempt at suicide proved successful
late tn siafternoon when L. D. KEEL
Ter, 55-year-old farmer, went be-
hind a tobacco barn at his home
near Granite Falls and sent the load
from shotgun into his heart.
Death was instantaneous.
Shortly after noon, he was frus-
trated in an attempt to jump into
well by daughter, Ruth.
Coroner J. r. Swanson and Sher-
if J. c. Tolbert conducted an in
quest, Coroner Swanson terming it
"the plainest case of suicide ever
saw"
Evidence revealed Keller had OBJ
tanned a shotgun and asserted he
was going ito kill a rabbit" He
had been in ill health for several
months.
Surviving are his wife, who is en-
route home from Texas, and five
children.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-12-05
cDOnGLd Maxwell
Argument Discussed
By Fair-Tdr Leader

ELKIN, Nov. 27.-The Maxwell
Mcdonald controversy over the
taxing policies of North Carolina
twill be productive of much good If
it can be confined to a free and
frank discussion of facts without
the injection of personal feeling"
declared j. Paul Leonard, of States
vile, secretary of the North Caro-
lima Fair Tax Association, speaking
at banquet given by the Elkin
Merchants Association at the Hotel
Elkin last night to its members and
their employees. Starting this ear
ly in the campaign, Informative dis
cussion of policies of government,
particularly taxation, by men of the
caliber of MIR. Maxwell and DR.. Nc
Donald, representing different schools
of thought, should be the means of
so enlightening the voters of the
state that they can 60 to the polls
next year with their eyes wide open
to the true conditions" said Leon
ard, who expressed a belief that
"once the people get the truth, they
will be ready to elect to office only
those men who can be depended
upon to give us fair system of
taxation based on ability to pay,
rather than a system which penal
ICES pepole for buying necessities of
life from their home merchants"
Addressing his remarks to the
sales people present, Mr.. Leonard
urged them to do everything posi-
BILE to keep business in North Caro-
lima despite the handicap of the
sales tax, warning them that every
time $4,000 to $4,000 of retail bust
ness goes across the state line or is
sent to the mail order houses it
means that one less sales person is
needed in North Carolina store"
Sales people were also urged to i'm
press on customers "the fact that
the sales tax is levied by the state,
and not the merchants, who are
simply collecting it for the state"
A party of school teachers present
at the meeting were told by the
speaker that they represent the
group which helped to balance the
budget" and that they, like the
farmers, chad been fooled into
thinking the sales tax would help
the schools"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-12-05
Prison Population
OF Carolina Reaches
NelC AH-Tinie High

North Carolina's prison popula-
ton on November 16 was at new
all-time record of 8,706 men and
women, the division of institutions
of the Board of Charities and Pub
lie Welfare reported today.
State charitable and correctional
institutions were caring for 17,451
persons the middle of the month, a
gain of 643 over the number in
them on November /, 1884.
On November / this year there
were 1864 prisoners under State
care and year ago the same date
there were 1892.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-12-05

North Carolina
Ashe County

North Carolina
Ashe County
In the Superior Court
Before the Clerk
The Federal Land Bank of Column
bia VS.. Martha Dickson, J. l..
Dickson, Executor of C. D.
Dickson, deceased, and j. l..
Dickson personally and indi-
vidually, c. M. Dickson, E. A.
Waddell, P. T. McNeill, Execu-
tor of P. G. McNeill, deceased,
C. E. Ashley, Oliver Ham, Bank
of Ashe, and T. c. Bowie.
Pursuant to judgment and or
der of foreclosure entered in the
above entitled cause, I, w. B.. Aus
tin, Commissioner, will on the 18th
day of December, 1885, at 100
o'clock, P. NJ, at the Courthouse
door in Jefferson, North Carolina,
sell to the highest bidder the fol-
lowing described real estate, to wit:
All that certain piece, parcel or
tract of land, containing 100 IA
acres, more or less, situate, lying
and being on the Helton-J Jefferson
Road, about 9miles Northwest from
the Town of Jefferson, in Helton
Township, County of Ashe, State of
North Carolina, having such shape,
meteS, courses and distances as will
more fully appear by reference to a
plat thereof made by M. M. Blevins,
Surveyor, dated July 10, 1917, and
being bounded on the North by the
lands of G. D. Blevins and C. M.
niolycor m Tho Eoc% NV Tho 1o~le
of c. M. Dickson and Shade Blew
ms, on the South by the lands of
w. S. Jones, and on the West by
the lands of John Childers and
lands of John, Ed, and Ida Jones.
This being the same tract of land
heretofore conveyed to the said C.
D. Dickson and Martha Dickson by
Jackson FISHERMAN by deed dated
February %, 1886, and recorded in
the Office of Register of Deeds for
Ashe County in Deed Book j, page
446, and by j. c. FISHERMAN and
wife, by deed dated November 18,
1910, and recorded in the Office of
Register of Deeds for Ashe County
in Book il, page $40, and deed dat
ed October Is, 1913, recorded in
said Office in Book Nj, page 371.
Terms of sale: one-fourth (1-4)
cash upon confirmation of sale and
the balance on credit, payable in
four equal annual installments,
with interest thereon from the date
of sale at six (69o) per cent per
annum. The purchaser will also be
required to make deposit of Fifty
$3.50 00) Dollars on the date Of sale
as evidence of good faith.
This the 25th day of November,
1885.
w. M. AUSTIN,
1926 Commissioner.
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NOTICE OF SALE
North Carolina
Ashe County

North Carolina
Ashe County
In the Superior Court
Before the Clerk
The Federal Land Bank Of Column
bia VS.. w. NJ. Hurley and wife,
Birdie Hurley, Ira 7. Johnston,
Trustee, Bank Of Glade Springs
First National Bank, West jeff
erson, N. c., and Ambrose
Clark.
Pursuant to a judgment and or
der of foreclosure entered in the
above entitled cause, I, w. B. Aus
tin, Commissioner, will, on the 9th
day of December, 1885, at 100
o'clock, P. NJ, at the Courthouse
door in Jefferson, North Carolina.
sell to the highest bidder the fol-
lowing described real estate, to-wit:
All those two certain pieces, por-
tons or tracts of land, lying and
being in Piney Creek Township,
County of Ashe, State of North
Carolina, having such shape, metes,
courses and distances as will more
fully appear by reference to a plat
thereof made by J. c. WEIGH, Sur
veyor, of each tract, on the 10Th
day of December, 1924, and the
oath day of January, 1924 respec-
lively, and both attached to the
abstract now on file with the Feder-
al Land Bank of Columbia, the first
tract known as the home place, be-
ing bounded on the North bv the
lands of Everett Pennington and
Noah Startling, on the east by the
lands of Walter Sullivan, on the
south by the lands of Link Miller,
and on the west by the lands of
Lillard Miller, and the second tract
known as the G. w. Davis tract,
being bounded on the north and
northeast by the lands of Monroe
Dolinger, on the east by the lands
of Eli Graham and Len Rhodes and
Lee Graham, on the south by the
lands of Robert May, and on the
west by the lands of Walter Suther-
land, said tracts containing Sc acres
and a acres, respectively, more or
less.
The Sc acre tract was conveyed
to w. M. Hurley by Lee Hurley
and wife by deed dated December
9th, 1917 and recorded October 10,
1920 and the "a acre tract was con-
veyed to w. M. Hurley and wife
by G. w. Davis and wife by deed
dated October 18, 1920 and record
ed October 10, 1920 in the Registry
of Ashe County.
Terms of sale: one-fourth (A)
cash upon confirmation of sale and
the balance on credit, payable in
four equal annual installments,
with interest thereon from the date
of sale at six (696) per cent per
annum. The purchaser will also be
required to make deposit of Fifty
($50.00) Dollars on the date of sale
as evidence of good faith.
This November 9th, 1885.
w. B. AUSTIN,
1875 Commissioner.
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NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION

Having qualified as Administra-
tor of the estate of M. H. STAINS
berry, deceased, late of Ashe Coln-
ty, North Carolina, this is to notify
ali persons having claims against
the estate of said deceased to ex-
hibit them to the undersigned at
Todd, North Carolina, on or before
the 25th day of October, 1896, or
this notice will be plead in bar of
their recovery. All persons indebt-
ed to the said estate will pleas6|
make immediate payment.
This 25th day Of October, 1885.
j. L. MILLER,
1875 Administrator.
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NOTICE OF TRUSTEES SALE
North Carolina
Ashe County

North Carolina
Ashe County
By virtue of power contained in
certain deed of trust executed by
J. S. Graham and w. H. GRAPHICAL
on the 18th day of January, 1925,
which is recorded in the office of
the Register of Deeds of Ashe
County in Book Is, page 483, and
at the request of the holder of the
note thereby secured, I, Chas. D.
highest bidder for cash at the
Courthouse Door in Jefferson, North
Carolina. on the 18th day of De-
cember, 1885, at ten o'clock P. NJ.
the following described land, to
wit:
Beginning at a beach Thomas
line; thence S 80 E IL poles to a
beach; thence S IS w 26 poles to
mahogany; thence S rs w So poles
to a cucumber on the top of the
knob; thence w go poles to a maple
on the ridge; thence N 10 E so poles
to lynn in dream at large rock;
thence N IS E 38 poles to a sugar
tree; thence N Is E 81 poles to a
poplar; thence N Is E IL poles to a
beach Sturgills corner; thence S
"a E "a poles to a maple on the
branch; thence down the meanders
of branch 56 poles to a white wal
nut; thence S IS E down the branch
with Jack Sturgills's line to rock
in the old ford of Big Branch;
thence a N course up the ridge with
Sturgill's line to an agreed line c.
M. Mikel and MI. Graham; thence
E course down hill with said agreed
line to birch on Three Top Creek;
thence up Creek to ford below Mill
Site of Rash and Osborne; thence
across Creek to an agreed line be-
tween Walter Sutherland and M. j.
Graham; thence up Creek with said
agreed line to a. beach on or. near
Thomas line about 4 poles to the
Creek; thence with said Thomas
line to the beginning, containing
ITO acres, more or less.
Tract No. 2. Beginning on a birch
Perkins S. E. corner running S "A
E GO poles to a stake in Graham's
line; thence N 10 E with said line
40 poles to a lynn at a large rock;
thence N IS E 80 poles to Wahooi
thence N Is E with said line rs poles
to a beach near a spring; thence N
u w with said line 20 poles to the
branch; thence up meanders OF
branch to a popular Perkins corner;
thence with said line to the begin
ming, containing SO acres, more or
less.
Tract No. 3. Beginning on maple
on top of Kings Ridge the James
Lewis corner running Westward
with the Calvin Lewis line SO poles
to a stake J. L. Perkins corner in
said line; thence N 80 E with said
Perkins line 20 poles to a birch,
Harriet Perkins corner; thence an
East course with John Pennington
line to a stake in M. j. Graham's
line; thence S 10 w with said line
to the beginning. containing S acres,
more or less.
This November Is, 1895. 1919
CHAS. D. JOHNSON, Trustee.
IRA T. JOHNSTON, Attorney.
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NOTICE OF LAND CLAIM
North Carolina
AShQ County

North Carolina
Ashe County
Beldon Osborne, of Ashe County.
North Carolina, enters and laws
calm to the following described
piece or parcel of land in Peak
Creek Township, Ashe County.
State Of North Carolina, the same
being vacant and unappropriated
land, and subject to entry viz: Be
ginning at the side of the road on
small white oak running South so
poles to white oak; thence South
IS West / poles to a white oak,
Patrick's corner; thence North with
said line 100 poles to stake in the
Coward line; thence East 20 poles
to stake in the w. N. G. Wilborn
line; thence South with said line
127 poles to a stake in M. A. Sheets
line: thence back to the beginning,
containing by estimation % acres.
. Entered this 25th day of October,
1885, at 1919 O'clock A. M.
BELDON OSBORNE,
l.. r COWARD,
Elk OfNcio Entry Taker..
BY -
Ver1aS T. BADGER. Denllfv
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b.
North Carolina
Ashe County
BY virtue of a power contained in
certain deed of trust executed on
June l, 1921, by w. F. Farmer to G.
L. Park, Trustee, and said Trustee
being deceased and having named
the undersigned Executrix in his
Will,said deed of trust being record-s
ed in the office of the Register of
Deeds of Ashe County in Book 81,
page 438, I, Mrs. w. p. Hamilton,
Executrix of G. L. Park, Trustee,
deceased, will sell to the highest
bidder for cash at the Courthouse
door in Jefferson, North Carolina,
at one o'clock P. M. on the 18th day
of December, 1885, the following
described tract or parcel of land to
wit:
Beginning on a dogwood James
Dollars corner and running with
said Dollars line N So w 2 poles to
stake; then S 80 w 20 poles to a
stake; then N 81 1-2 w poles to
sugar maple; then N SIS w II 1-3
poles to a sugar; then N 81 w IA
poles to a. stake; then S 70 w 8 ga
poles to a stake; then N SO w 6
poles to a chestnut; then N 81 w
20 1-8 poles to sarvice and sugar
tree; then S 70 IA w Is poles to
maple at the fence; then S 80 w
81 2-3 poles to a stake in Riley Os-
borne's and James Dollars line;
Then N 2 E 10 As poles to an ash
in E. H. Graybeal's line; then N 80
E Is As poles to a large sugar; then
N "a E 40 poles to chestnut; then
N 81 E rs poles to stake; then, N
rs E poles to chestnut; then S
81 E 9 poles to a stake; then rs IL
E 20 poles to . stake; then N 81 E
9 2-3 poles to a; hickory an old corn
er; then S SO E 43 10 poles to a
chestnut; then S AZ E 10 poles to a
chestnut; then S Al E 1-2 poles to
a stake; then S So E 10 1-2 poles to
birch; then S 20 w 1-2 poles to
a stake; then u IL w 10 poles to
large rock and apple tree; then S
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ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE

North Carolina
Ashe County
Having qualified as administrator
of the estate of w. r. Pennington,
deceased, late of Ashe County,
North Carolina, this is to notify all
persons having claims against the
estate of the said w. r. Pennington,
deceased, to exhibit them to the
undersigned at Laurel Springs,
North Carolina, on or before the
9th day of November, 1886, or this
notice will be pleaded in bar of
their recovery.
All persons indebted to said es-
tate will please make immediate
payment.
This 9th day of November, 1885
]. E. PENNINGTON,
Administrator
of w. r. Pennington, Decd. 1875