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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-10-03
M. o. ALEXANDER TO PREACH
ON STEWARDSHIP HERE SUN.

State Missionary M. o. Alexander
will preach on stewardship at the
West Jefferson Baptist Church, Sun
day night, October 6, at seven-thirty
o'clock.
The services are being held by the
promotion-executive committee of the
Ashe Association and all pastors and
church workers are especially invited
to attend the meeting.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-10-03
HOMECOMING DAY AT
LEES-McRAE COLLEGE

Lees-McRae homecoming will be
celebrated on Saturday, Oct. 18th by
a basket dinner at noon in the maple
orchard, followed in the afternoon by
"a football game between team from
Presbyterian Junior College at Max
ton and the Lees-McRae Bulldogs.
It is hoped that many former stu
dents will be present to enjoy the
occasion.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-10-03
he Tie
WANT
ADS
Csc Per Want ADJ

FOR SALE-520 acres of best Flori-
da land, at $3.50 per acre, on easy
terms. Is worth $50 per acre, and in
a year or two will be worth $1O0. Is
near big ship canal across Florida,
building Of which has begun, to cost
$3.50, O0O, 100000, and employ 10000
workmen. See or write Cyrus H.
Smithdeal, at Ashland, N. c.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-10-03

FOR SALE BA1:GAIN-Seven room
bungalow, lights, water, large lot.
Located in Lansing, N. c., on state
highway, near fine school. For furth-
er information write Mrs. j. A. Carly,
Abingdon, Va. 1913
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-10-03

EDWARDS will leave West Jefferson
Saturday, October 10, at 7 a. m.
for Bel Air, Mo. Reduced rates. For
information and reservation see Carl
Miller, West Jefferson, N. C. or w. B.
Edwards, Darlington. Md.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-10-03

BEAUTY CULTURE A complete
course, competent instructors. You
may learn in a short time. School
approved, and accredited, rates very
reasonable. Write or visit Hinshaw
School of Beauty Culture, Box 46,
North Wilkesboro, N. C.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-10-03
MALE HELP WANTED

MAN WANTED for Rawleigh Route
of 800 families. Good profits for
hustler. We train and help you. Write
today. Rawleigh c., Dept. NCJ-249-
SA2, Richmond, Va.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-10-03

LEARN BEAUTY CULTURE-State
accredited-your success in Beauty
Culture depends on your training.
Special rates. Write for particulars.
Macs School of Beauty Culture.
North Wilkesboro, N. C. 1910
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-10-03

The road between TeheTan capital
Of Pers {, AL c., RS, on the Cas-.
plan SD 100 miles away crosses the
ElburZ noun aims. r:?' Highest point
being nearly 10000 feet above sea
level.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-10-03

FOR SALE-4-room house with base
ment. Large lot located in West
Jefferson. A bargain for $3.50 cash.
Arthur Hurley, West Jefferson, N. C.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-10-03
NOTICE to the Tax Payers of the
Town of Jefferson:

Since notice of advertisement and sale OF delin-
ouent taxes has been such goodly number who
have paid that expedient to extend the time
another thirty days. and hope that every one who
owes taxes will of the extension and
the cost of sale.
You chose your servants and enjoined certain
duties upon u.s. expect us to perform them and
with your cooperation with and pleasure,
otherwise distasteful hard nevertheless mandatory
we hope you within the above extension and
save us the unpleasant duty of advertising Thank
W. G. LITTLE, Mayor
e. A. WADDELL
r. A. HAMILTON Board Of
c.. NEAL. Aldermen
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-10-03

In tie ordinary eabinet heAber
much heat goes to waste up the
AW0. The ReAtroIa, With its in
6enfous Zntensi-Firo, hlookS the
Aeat-pWtO il to work
Evening star., 1935-11-17

IMAGINE THE SUSPENSE! Elmer Layden, Notre
Dame COACH is picture of it he watches his young
brother Mike snare forward pass (above) in Notre
Danes thrilling march to victory in the closing minutes
of the Ohio State battle
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1935-06-13
NEW LAWS

Midnight, June II, was a momentous hour this
year, tor at at that time many of the acts passed
by the last session of the legislature became laws
and from this day on-until the next legislative
sesslon-the citizens of the state are acting under
new rules and regulations
Best known OF the new regulations though it's
effect will not be felt until September 8, 1936is
the Blanket Primary, which has had an interest
ing history. Backed by the Grange, it failed to
win place on the ballot last November, but was
sent to the legislature as an initiative to that
body. 1t was passed by them and approved by the
governor.
However, some who did not want it to become
law threatened to have it referred to the voters
In 1886 1t was not until the last minute that it
was known definitely that this movement failed.
Now that it is a law, voters at the primary will
De able to vote for the candidate of their choice
1rregardless of party affiliations.
other acts becoming law today provide that all
moneys from the federal reclamation fund shall
go to the schools prohibit broadcastng of libel
Gus matter; create an unemployment compensa-
ton fund; and prohibit any person from CARRYING
pistol Without license; to melton but few.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1935-06-13

\ lays, you can't put it into potatoes;
it's too hilly You can't even throw
it into pasture; you don't want COWS
messing up your doorstep"
Here he paused and stared at me
absently; a way he had when he had
reached the crux of his argument, and
was ready to sum up:
"Let the lawn grow up and run
ragged" he concluded, KNOCK all the
walls out of the big house and store
hay in it; live in one of the tenant
| houses; get yourself some good COWS,
and you could make living here"
Sam had theories, and his theories,
one found afterwards, were irrefutable.
But he was a practical man as we'll,
and when he saw that perfect plan
would not apply to the situation, he
made his plan less perfect
The four higher and more northtrn
fields of the farm were not so rich.
They had been "corned to DEATH said
Sam, by fellow who, around ten
years back had farmed the place on
shares. Cropped now in rotation, these
four higher fields were rarely from
year to year of stationary color. Corn
would in four years make four remov-
ais froms field to field Wheat would
follow in the same order on the same
fields but would stay two years in each
field between hops. Then, after the
second crop of wheat, hay-timothy
and clover.
One thing about our rotation Sam
couldn't stand" cornstalk wheat" He
said it didn't look right to see, all
summer long, those long bare strips OF
corn stubble across the field, where
the harvested corn had stood in shocks
the fall previous while wheat was be-
ing seeded "The fellow who thought
that out" Sam would say, "he was a
cute one, all right, when it come to
keeping out O. the sun!"
The farther followed him through
the laborious cycle of seedtime and
harvest, the more I esteemed farmers
who could think of ways to sit in the
shade, and the more heartily I wished
that they had redoubled their re-
oSoAG1ACo. 0A4S4AU 4O1 lily dSc dllQ phys.
ically indolent, was learning my
farming in a region where labor-saving
machinery was neither heavily en-
ployed nor very respectfully regarded.
A sustained capacity for heavy bodily
labor was the governing measure of
man or beast. Haying became often
a race, one side of the wagon taunt-
ing the other and daring them to keep
up. In threshing, the game was to pass
bundles so rapidly to the next man as
to force him behind in his work. Then
doubly at him, piling wheat around
him faster than he can flick it along,
bombarding him in his sweating con-
fusion with more and more sheaves,
shot at the face Desperate obscenities
from the man attacked. Shouts from
all the rest. Cover him up!"
Now he's groggy. Close in for your
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1935-06-13
HANDS

GAM was my fathers first hired man
! He was a good farmer and he die
his best to make good farmer out
OF me. was poor material To be-
come good farmer is, more than
anything else, matter of biological
adaptation. The process rarely takes
hold of one in whose ears the earliest
words and sounds are other than
country words and sounds.
My father proved an exception to
this generality. He was past thirty
when he went to the land, yet in him
the thing took, and for the past Is
years he has lived on earth of his
own. He has built up one farm and
sold it, and then built up another;
and has seemed himself to draw
strength from the sight of thick green
crops made to grow on hills that used
to be thin and rutted Still towns
, man in that he still earns most of his
| living there, he has none the less be-
| come a farmer at one with his land
! and all that it grows. In open weather
he will often be out over his fields
until nearly bedtime his lantern bob
bling contentedly as he walks alone in
the darkness.
My own elementary agricultural ex-
periences started when his did, in 1907
was eleven years old at the time.
do not remember clearly what I
thought when they told me that we
were to quit the refined suburb which
had nurtured us and move way out
into the country, two miles from
railroad station, into a big house with
out either a gas stove or furnace.
L The name of our farm was "Iona".
The price was Sill, 500, about 5000 an
acre with improvements The country
gentleman from whom we bought had
lost interest in maintaining the ex-
pensive but badly planned outbuildings
he had erected and the rare shrubs
and trees he had planted around the
tWo-acre lawn
That lawn expressed the fatal flaw
IN Iona. 1t was the thing that made
the farm fancy. To keep the premises
SoSAAoSSSAS
days labor out of the working week.
If any city reader of these words con-
siders buying a farm to help support
his declining years, let him look out
for too much lawn. Two acres is gen.
orally all of an acre and three-quarters
too much.
Sam told me that, soon after we
bought the place. A spare, soft-spoken
weather-beaten man, he had managed
the farm for the previous owner. We
got him with the place He said:
There amt any farm could support
all this lawn. 1t amt just so much |
the land you lose, or even the time;
but It's just that it gives you too much |
to live up to. And the way this lawn
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1935-06-13
MARKETS

Several weeks ago New England apple growing
districts celebrated the blossom period Compared
to the blossom festivals of this state the event
not large one, the districts of Massachusetts
and New Hampshire taking part important ones
In the production of fruit.
Nevertheless, the event pointed to the hand
writing on the wall The festival was designed to
make New England more ''apple conscious'
There is no reason" said one of the Officials
to ship apples 5000 miles across the continent
Tor consumption here when we produce just as
good-n not better-appes in our own back
yard''
1t is interesting to note that Westford, Massa-
chusetts, scene OF the fete, is only 80 miles from
Boston. Whether or not they can produce better
apples than this state-which we can never admit
-tney are close to the marketing centers of the
nation Transportation costs there are negligible,
especially when the fruit is sold direct from the
farm to retailer
During the past five or six years the markets
Tor Northwest apples have gradually decreased
international complications have closed many of
our export markets. and in turn our domestic
markets have been overloaded Also, many eastern
districts have increased production of apples thus
making it harder for Northwest fruit growers to
place their fruit at prices which will return the
marketing costs, to say nothing of production
costs.
Several courses must be taken if the fruit in
dustry IN this section is to survive One is the
development OF new markets, and another is the
adoption of strenuous advertising campaign, to
convince the consumers that our apples are the
best
The advertising campaign conducted during the
past several months is credited with having helped
this years apple deal considerably, and it's contin-
uation will have buoyant effect on next years
deal.
Production of apples in this section has reached
a high state OF perfecton marketing is the phase
which now demands the attention of the growers
and which, if developed properly, will insure the
prosperity of the apple industry in the Pacific
Northwest
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1935-06-13

high school; and was amazed at all
that knew. There had been night,
for instance, when / had sat up to
see the wheat blossom; the flowers
open and fade all in an hour, and only
at night. :. Then there had been
discovery that if you toss penny a
thousand times you get five hundred
heads and five hundred tails, and tha!C
the same flaws of chance" govern
everything from the interpollination
of corn to horse racing.
And still other discoveries: that peo-
pie really do not take cold walking
in the rain; that you can look in
stream and watch the hills dwindle
into utter datness; that it is not I'M
manly to feel that quaint lift to ones
insides which comes when hush
settles upon the valleys, and the stars
come out, and f1reflies light their Ian
terms in the wheat; that a speck of
pollen dust must poise upon and fuse
with the tip of every strand of corn
silk before there can be full ear;
that man is made of the same stuff as
mud and manure, except for touch
of starshine, or something, in the
veins. -.
1t was never admitted between us
that he could not read; he learned
readily enough, and with pride in his
learning that &C" meant carbon, which
was like hard coal; that 20" meant
oxygen, the gas in the air that people
had to draw in their lungs to live.
Also:
That if you burned coal you turned
the carbon part of it, which was most
of it, into COZ, carbon dioxide, gas
that formed whenever two parts of
carbon met up with" one part of the
oxygen which is in the air. The same
thing happened when you burned
weeds or corn-cobs or anything that
would burn. And also that when people
breathed out they breathed out COZ,
because people were always slowly
burning up inside.
But about as fast as people breathed
out Coz, plants breathed it in; and
made starch out of it, which people
ate and burned in their bodies, and
breathed out more COZ, for the plants
to breathe in again. And the net of
such was C5H1OO6-c carbohydrates
starch.
Only plant could do that. The
dry matter of potatoes is four-flfths
rice, whea corn nearly that,
Peas and beans are half starch, half
air and water mixed.
Whats the land good for?" asked
Ernie sarcastically. ''To set on?"
Well, the land supplied the ash
How much of an ear of corn,
Or COW, or human being would be
eft when burnt to crisp? That would
De the part that had come out of the
and; the part that had come out OF
The thin air would have all gone into
The thin air again.
This was nuts for Ernie. He knew
,he answer; he had once known a
elbow whose sister had been cremated.
md he had seen the urn. "In the par
or"
Shortly after, he left us, and we
never heard of him again. should
Ike to see him now and hear how
hlngs have worked out for him. He
lad gifts; among them, courage. He
vas thoroughly careless and unprin-
lpled person but a good friend of
nine and, as far as 1 know, the only
wing being who regarded me as an
,uthority
But an aunt of his had died, "out
lear California, and had "probly left
good bit of money" so he sold about
verything he had, bought $50 car
nd passed CALAMITY over the western
ldges OF our valley, out of our ken.
The Washington times., 1935-03-20

Congressional, which will be
strengthened by Mrs. j. Marvin
Haynes, former Middle Atlantic
and District title holder. will also
be represented by Miss Helen
Dettweiler, 19-year-old Maryland
State champion; Mrs. Jack Scott,
Mrs. j. F. Dowdall, Mrs. Harry
Knox, Mrs. Roland R. Mackenzie,
Mrs. Donald Scott and Mrs. R.
Lester Rose. The first team
matches start April 2.
Woodmont Maps Program
Women golfers of Woodmont
mapped their 1885 playing sched-
ule at a luncheon yesterday. Mrs.
Leonard B. Schloss, chairman,
playing host to the members OF
her committee.
The annual championship will
start September % with the spring
handicap. tournament beginning
June 8. Starting with April r.,
ladies' day will be observed every
Friday of the month. The women
golfers will also figure prominently
in the annual homecoming" day,
while there also will be a CHAIR
mans" tournament and a match
between the first and second
women's team. Members Of Mrs.
Schloss' committee attending yes
terday's luncheon were Mrs. Ar
thur Stephen, secretary; Mrs. Mil
ton Harris, chairman of prizes;
Mrs. Theodore Peyser and Mrs.
Martin Baum, co-chairman of
handicaps; Mrs. Herbert Sauber,
Glass "B" chairman; Mrs. Ralph
Goldsmith, first team captain
Mrs. Gus Ring, second team cap
tain; Mrs. Gil Hahn, representa-
tive to the District Women's Golf
Association, and Miss Bertha
Israel, publicity chairman.
Ambitious Schedule
The feminine golfers of Manor
Club are also prepared to embark
upon their seasonal activities, as
a 23-event program has been an
nounced by Mrs. Howard j.
Simons, golf chairman. Manor's
schedule is one of the most ambi-
tious attempted by women golfers
in this section. Schedule:
April 5, penny-a-putt tournament; -.
blind low net: 10. Scotch foursome; 26.
match play handicap. May 3. kickers'
The Washington times., 1935-03-20
SZabO Turns Down
Movies for Mat

A career in the wrestling game
is preferable to one in talking
pictures.
Sos says Sander Szabo, who
wrestleS Dick Shikat in semi
final support of the Emil Dusek.
George zaharias three-fall fea-
ture at the Auditorium tomorrow
Offered a refusal of a talkie
contract recently, Szabo thank
fully turned thumbs down.
In SO-minute opening numbers
Andy Rascher ties up with Mayes
McLain and John Katan opposes
Jim Wright.
The Washington times., 1935-03-20

were led by Babe Herman, who
drove out two home runs.
WINTER HAVEN, Fla, March
20.-Jimmy Wilson's Phillies to-
day swing into a daily series Of
exhibition games that will keep
them busy every afternoon until
they break training camp the
first week in April. Today's game
is a return engagement against
the Detroit Tigers, victors in last
Saturdays battle at Lakeland.
FORT MYERS, Fla March 20.
In their final training camp
game here the Athletics we're to
take the field this afternoon
against the wandering House OF
David clan. Tomorrow therell be
a varsity scrub game and then
the Mack clan will break camp
and head North on a long tour
of the sticks.
SARASOTA, Fla, March 20.
Surprised at their own power at
the bat which enabled them to lick
the st. Louis Cardinals IA to at
Bradenton yesterday, the Boston
Red Sox returned here today for a
game with the New York Giants.
Johnny Wilson and Johnny Welch
were slated as the hurlers.
The Washington times., 1935-03-20
CONN. To SEND
40 PIN TEAMS
TON.D.P.B.C.

Connecticut more than fulfilled
its promise to George L. Isemann
when last night the National Duck
pin Bowling Congress secretary
counted 40 entries from the New
England State.
"Give the credit to such men
as Frank Vance, Of Meriden;
George Parker, Of Willimantic;
Paul Click Stein, Of New Haven;
JOf-. DeRidder, congress preSi-
dent, and Frank Lurix, Of Hart
ford, who are only few Of the
Nutmeg States bowling boosters,
who worked to see that C0nnec-
ticut upheld its reputation as
the hOtbed for duckpinS in the
North" was the comment Of
ISemann.
"This is even q bigger entry
than the 1880 tournament when
the event was held at Waterbury,
where the bOwlers could reach
the scene of battle within q few
hours. 1t even matches the
1888 affair in Hartford, the
bowlingest city in the New Eng
land sector" ISemann added
with a note Of gratefulneSs for
cooperation he received from his
executives.
So off and on during the two
weeks of rolling at the Arcadia
alleys; where the tournament
opens Saturday, trainloads Of
Conecticut's foremosv men and
women maple shooters will be
invading Washington with more
than a fair chance of mopping
up every major prize offered.
Like the South there will be
towns represented from Con-
necticut that never before sent
teams to a national event. New
Haven fairly outstripped any
previous entry by entering eight
teams which matches the number
to come from Hartford.
Three teams will hail from
Bridgeport including Lew Dewey'S
Connecticut Yankees, national
team champions. All in all there
will be IL cities represented from
ConHecticut, which includes,
Stamford, Bristol, Taftsville, Wall
ingford and Middletown.
The Washington times., 1935-03-20
TAKES
26 HORSES
To BOWIE

BOWIE, Md, March 20.-H.
Guy Bedwell, master of Yarrow
Brae Farm at Savage, who holds
the enviable record of having
topped Americas list Of trainers
seven times, is bringing 26 horses
here from California for the H.
day meeting, which opens April 2.
Heading Bedwelps charges is
Mad Trump, one that developed
into a top-notch handicap horse
after being claimed last fall from
Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney.
A. c. Compton, of California,
for whom Bedwell trains, took the
strings off his B. R. this win.
ter and allowed the Marylander
to purchase whenever he saw fit.
AS a result, Bedwell is returning
East with one Of the bestbalanced
strings in training and is certain
to have something vital to say as
to where the Southern Maryland
Agricultural Associations purses
will go next month.
AllOts Stall Space
After setting aside stalls for
Bedwell, Track Superintendent
Dick Pending allotted stall space
to L. sport" Haymaker, Mr..
and Mrs. Ben Chapman. Of
Laurel; R. Watts, E. Townsend,
j. Savage, James Lavery, N.
Weaver and H. c. Vaughn.
Pending is swamped with ap-
plications for stalls from horse
men who have been racing in
Florida, California, Texas and
Arkansas, but will first take care
of the men who have patronized
this track in past seasons, before
giving newcomers permission to
ship in.
The racing strip is coming
around to tops. There are more
than 200 horses working over
it daily.
Second Faster
II no severe rains appear be.
tween now and opening day,
Pending is confident his strip
will be at least a second faster
than last fall, but at the same
time will contain a cushion,
which will keep thoroughbreds
from breaking down.
A staff of workmen are busy
fixing up the grandstand, club
house, administration building
and installing new walks from the
free parking lots, as it is General
Manager Joe Boyle's plan to
make TURTLES as comfortable as
possible.
Race Secretary Jack Campbell
and his staff will open their Of
flee in few days. The minimum
purse will be $500, which &C.
counts for so many prominent
American and Canadian racing
establishments shipping here,
The Washington times., 1935-03-20
SarrOn to Fight
Rivers on Monday

A bid for his eleventh consecu-
tive victory will be advanced by
Petey sarron at the Washington
Auditorium Monday night when
he goes to war against California
Joe Rivers over a scheduled To-
round distance.
Since last losing to Bucky Bur-
ton down in Florida a year ago
Sarron has twice turned the
tables on Burton and also has
defeated AL Foreman, Benny Bass
(twice), Frankie Wallace, Joe
Rivers, Patsy Severe, Baby Man
uel and frankie "Kid" Covelli.