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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-08-15
Timely Farm Question Answered
at State College

at State College
Question:-What is the best age to
breed dairy heifers?
Answer:-No arbitrary age can be
set for breeding as this is determined
by the maturity of the individual ami
NAL. The feeding schedule also enters
into this question as those animals
that are fed a liberal grain ration
will mature more rapidly than those
receiving limited ration of grain.
AS general rule, however, Jersey
and Guernsey heifers should be bred
to freshen at from "a to 80 months
Of age. Ayrshire and Holstein ami
mails should be bred to freshen from
q to 80 months of age.
Question:-Is it necessary to
feed oyster shell to moulting birds 1?
Answer:-Yes, it is very necessary
that the birds have this mineral in
order to build up the body to normal
before the laying season starts. A
grain diet alone does not furnish suf-
ficient minerals for the building of
feathers and bone especially after a
heavy laying season and it is there
fore necessary that the ration be sup
pleemnted with all minerals possible.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-08-15
MERIT, FRIENDSHIP,
OR POLITICSr

Many daily newspapers are COM
menting with favor in their editorial
columns on the protest voiced last
week by Forsyth's Representative
Mcdonald relative to the appoint
ment of Safe Senator Griffin to the
position that will be vacated on Sep
tember 1 by Leroy Martin. The posi-
ton, that Of being secretary to the
state school commission, says DR..
Mcdonald, should be filled by one
who is experienced in the administra-
ton of school affairs. He contends
that Mr.. Griffin, while gentleman
of estimable qualities, has had no
such experience and that with all the
available timber of this calibre in the
state, the Governor turns to close
personal and political friend and
hands over this impoltsnt post.
Politics is more or less a necessary
evil and as long as we have two par
ties it will not be considered unfair
when the party in power hands out
political plums, but it is a sad state
when the reigning party loses sight
of the work to be done and appoints
from friendship and not from merit.
The administration Of school af-
fairs affect every home, rich or poor,
intelligent or ignorant, in the state
and if there is ever time and a
Mace when the best should be selected
and personal feelings put aside it is
certainly at time when someone is
being given an office that has to do
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-08-15
Detroit Women
Strike Against High
Prices of Food

Detroit suburban housewives, whose
meat strike has progressed from hair
pulling to jail-storming and forced
more than half the butcher shops in
that and other suburban centers to
close, announced last week that the
movement is only the start of a
general strike against the high cost
of living"
The strikers statement, signed by
Mrs. Mary Zuk, their leader, said
they intend to win their fight for
lower meat prices and Ego on to the
other necessities of life." It included
a denial of the accusation that the
strike is communistic.
That charge, the manifesto declar-
ed, "is part Of ruse on the part of
the butchers and meat packers to
brighten timid people and split the
ranks"
Four Put on Probation
Three women and a man, arrested
in a melee which followed attempts
Of crowd to pour kerosene on meat
being unloaded at a packing plant
were convicted of disturbing the
peace and placed on there months
probation each.
The four had been taken to Jail by
police answering a riot call, but were
released shortly afterward when a
crowd of 800 which gathered at the
Jail guaranteed their appearance in
court -....-,.
Although the Hamtramck meat
shops remained open, after the
demonstration open after the demon:
stration displayed signs reading
"meat prices reduced Is per cent,
the picketing continued and sales
were few.
Mrs. Zuk said her "action commit
tee" had rejected an offer Of the
butchers to sell existing stocks at
reduced prices in return for the strik-
ers' promise that subsequently prices
would be in line with wholesale meat
costs.
Strike SO Per Cent Effective
She said the butchers would not
sign an agreement to make the cuts
permanent, and declared the boycott
would be made citywide.
"We're closing simply because
there's no one to sell to-" he said.
Drouth in the cattle country, the
government slaughtering policies, and
taxes were blamed by Thomas w.
Taliaferro, packing company presi-
dent, for high meat prices.
Butcher shops were picketed in a
half dozen other communities in the
metropolitan area in protest at the
prices, which Prosecutor Duncan c.
McCrea has said may be the subject
of grand jury investigation.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-08-15

cies. If friends of the administration
with the dictation of education poll
are capable, all is we'll. And in both
parties there are those who are and
those who are not capable. Those who
are not should certainly be eased off
in some manner other than that of
being appointed to jobs for which
they are not fitted, and there is hard
ly any positions that the state offers
which should be so filled with men
and women of real merit than those
jobs that are connecting with the
training of our boys and girls who
will be tomorrow's citizens.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-08-15
FARM AND GARDEN
puncture other clusters.

puncture other clusters.
After picking, the grapes should be
placed in the shade Of ten vines until
they are packed or carried into the
packing shed. All defective grapes
should be removed from the punches
before they are offered for sale.
When the punches are well trim
med and packed closely in the basket
with the stems down, they will be in
a good condition for shipping and
will present an attractive appear
ance.
The muscadine grape, not Of the
bunch type, is hard to ship and there
fore is used largely at home and in
nearby markets for wine, grape juice,
and for fresh consumption.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-08-15

Indiana reports the case Of man,
seventy years old, who was knocked
down by a train. The engine and five
cars passed over him, but he got up
and walked away as though nothing
had happened. Considered from the
standpoint Of luck, that is, doing
pretty well, but the Hoosier track
walker is not in. the same class with
the California sailor whom a wave
carried off one ship and landed on
him on another, or with the French
boy who passed through a grain
binder and had to be treated for moth
ing worse than fright.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-08-15
Chicago Women
MNrderers GiUen
$50 Years Each
Judge Includes Clause That Will Not
Allow Parole Until Pair Are
1O4 Years Old

A Giving death"-imprisonment
for $50 years each-was the penalty
imposed by Judge Cornelius j. Har-
two middle aged women who plotted
rington in Chicago last week on the
and executed the "torso" murder of
Erwin Lang.
Mrs. Blanch Dunkel, whimpering
44-year-old mother-in-law and mis-
tress of the victim, and flippant Mrs.
Evelyn Smith, 46-year-old former
burlesque dancer, termed by the
Judge partners in one of the most
callous crimes in the history of the
city, heard him announce their fates
in contrasting moods typical of their
recent attitudes.
Mrs. Dunkel was jim state of near
collapse but Mrs. Smith stared bold
ly at the crowd of nearly 500 per-
sons-mostly women-who filled the
courtroom for the finale of the weird
drama of passion and smiled at the
photographers, apparently relieved
that she had escaped the electric chair
the State ad asked for both.
DEGREES Living Death
Death, Judge Harrington said, to
the defendants, "would be a merciful
end for you." He added that under
the penalty he degreed both would be
suffering living DEATH"
He directed that on each July
(the anniversary of the strangling of
the 2S-year-old grocery clerk, whose
attentions to younger woman
aroused the furious jealousy of the
mother of his dead wife) the women
were to be placed in solitary confine-
ment. He also ordered that Mrs.
Dunkel might not be paroled until she
had attained the age of 1O4 years, or
Mrs. Smith until she had reached 100
years.
Led back to their cells, the pair
differed widely in their reaction OF
differed widely in their reaction to
the sentences which the Judge said
would forever remove both from
society" and would constitute econ
slant, hourly, daily, and yearly re-
hinder of the consequences of your
act during the balance of your life
itmes." He termed Lang's Staying
zone of the most vicious, premeditat-
ed assassinations of a human being,
coldly plotted and unfeelingly exc
cuted."
Glad It's Over
"I'm glad it's over" said Mrs.
Dunkel, still weeping, "but I never
expected that much. expected about
20 years. The State promised me
break if co-operated with them. The
State double crossed me-"
Mrs. Dunkel, arrested several days
after the crime, confessed she had
hired Mrs. Smith to STAY her son-in-
law for $500, of which she paid 500.
Smoking a cigarette, Mrs. Smith
said: IL thank the Judge for what he's
done. He couldn't do otherwise. The
verdict was o. K. with me-"
Lang's body, the legs severed from
the trunk, was found in a swamp near
Hammond, Ind, by two boys July 9.
After Mrs. Dunkel confessed he had
been lured to Mrs. Smiths apart
ment, piled with liquor, anaesthetized,
and garrotted by Mrs. Smith, the lat
ter was arrested couple weeks later
in New York. She, too, readily con-
fessed her participation in the muir
der, asserted she sawed off the legs
unaided while her Chinese husband,
Harry Jung, still sought in the case,
weakened and refused to help her, but
denied she had been paid as Mrs.
Dunkel claimed.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-08-15

Mail service between nations be-
gan in 1874 and was organized
through German influence.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-08-15

Japan has protested, informally,
against a cartoon appearing in re-
cent issue of Vanity Fair which
shows the Emperor of Japan being
awarded the Nobel peace prize. The
good people of Nippon regarded this
as putting their chief executive in an
unfavorable light, but the State De-
partment has smoothed things over
by stating that no harm was intended
and that the magazine that published
the picture simply was making a lit
tie good natured fun. In this country,
nobody is beyond the reach of the
cartoon. Foreigners should not be too
touchy on the subject.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-08-15

About the time dog days are ended
here comes the katydids telling us of
frost in forty days.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-08-15

A sales tax may be necessary to
pay old age pensions in Virginia.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-08-15

If dog days end in forty, I'll b.
fooledi
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-08-15

There is no military drill in Geo
camps.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-08-15

The man who talks about somebody
selling out is the one who can't even
give himself away.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-08-15

Up to date England has paid
st, SOC, 000, 900 in World War pen
sions.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-08-15

The founder Of a wealthy New
York family is reported OF have said:
"What does the law amount to?
Amt I got money? Amt money
power?" Power of that kind did not
show up so well on Capitol Hill a
few days ago when the so-called
hare-the-wealth tax measure passed
the House to the tune of 282 to 96.
The bill may not fare so we'll in the
Senate, but any soak-the-rich meas
ure usually acquires an easy popu-
larity that is often based on preju-
dice rather than sober thought. Pow
erty and riches are purely relative
terms and not positive graduations
like those of a yard stick. The cat
would like to get some of the meat
on the dogs bone and the bird could
have had good picking on the cats
plate if the cat were out of the way.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-08-15

The word. Chicago" is Indian and
means Strong. They have kept up
the evidence by the stockyards.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-08-15

There is no royal road to learning
What's the difference when every
body prefers a detour?
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-08-15

Man is the only animal that can b,
fleeced without shears.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-08-15

With the advent of typewriters and
a surplus of stenographers, good
penmanship is fast becoming one of
the lost arts. One merchant, who de-
sired to reduce his stock of oatmeal,
sent a pen written copy to the local
paper and was shocked when the re-
sulting advertisement announced q
special sale on catmeat.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-08-15

Some Of the we'll laid out town.
continue to be dead.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-08-15

Some fish can jump 10 feet out
of the water.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-08-15

Huey Long would not be so "Spec"
tacular if he did not have so many
fy-by-night ideas.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-08-15

They talk now Of rural electrified
ton. The way everything is now, it is
too late to introduce anything. shock
ing.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-08-15
Nuts and Kernels
By Troy Isaiah Jones

Judging from the amount of harp
ing going on it must be nearer the
judgment day than We think.
Charles F. Risk, a republican can
didate, was elected to congress from
a Rhode Island district. Party pres
tige is being kept up, there always
being a risk to run in the Republican
party.
General Strike" called on federal
projects. knew of General Johnson
and he will meet a new sort of
general.
If this were a poetic age, probably
some tight wad Scottish bard would
write an lode to Uncle SAM"
The government is talking Of coin
ing the "nill". No doubt this is to
help out in the tax grind!
Huey Long would not be so "Spec"-
tacular if he did not have so many
fly-by-night ideas.
The word. "'Chicago" is Indian and
means strong. They have kept up
the evidence by the stockyards.
Some Of the we'll laid out towns
continue to be dead.
There is no royal road to learning!
What's the difference when every
body prefers detour?
They talk now Of rural electrified
ton. The way everything is now, it is
too late to introduce anything shock
ing.
Man is the only animal that can be
fleeced without shears.
If dog days end in forty, I'll be
fooledi
About the time dog days are ended
here comes the katydids telling us Of
frost in forty days.
The man who talks about somebody
selling out is the one who can't even
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-08-15

The government is talking Of coin.
ing the "mill". No doubt this is ia
help out in the tax grind!
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-08-15

If this were a poetic age, probably
some tight wad Scottish bard would
write an lode to Uncle SAM"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-08-15

Judging from the amount of harp
ing going on it must be nearer the
judgment day than We think.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-08-15

General Strike" called on fedora
projects. I knew of General johnson
and he will meet a new sort o.
general.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-12-13
Billings Man Tries
to Commit Suicide

w. ]. H~ugeland, an employee of q
Billings dairy, attempted to hang him.
self in the city Jail a few days ago
Arrested at 1925 a. m. and booked
on a drunkenness charge, Hugeland
was placed in a cell. At 4:O5 o'clock,
w. W. Mckenzie, patrolman on duty
at the station, heard another prisoner
yelling. Going down into the basement
Jail, he found Highlands body dang
ling from a moose fashioned from his
belt.
Mckenzie at once cut the man down.
Hugeland, the officer reported, had
thrown the belt over a bar at the top
of the cell cage and had stepped off .
cross bar.
After being cut down, Hugeland
threatened to jump from a Cell cage.
The city Jail is without padded cells, so
the prisoner was transferred to the
county Jail where he was confined m
a padded cell without any clothing
that would lend itself to another SUI
eide attempt.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-12-13

stock or stand a heavy loss the
next winter. We decided to trail $50
head OF horses to an eastern market.
We rounded up and cut out the most
salable part of the herd, and July IA
we started on our long drive. Father
was driving the chuck wagon. He was
getting old and very. feeble, and was
Billman helped three days, to get the
horses started on the trail. They were
wild and hard to handle the first three
days out, and after Billman turned
back I found it hard to manage the
herd alone. Just above Billings a train
stampeded the herd and the entire
bunch went through a wire fence: One
horse was killed and others were badly
cut by the barbed wire. At Billings I
hired a rider to help us for one month.
We took in the Yankee Robinson cir
Gus on one of the hottest July days I
ever experienced. I remember the trains
with Crow Indians. They were all
painted up like white women paint
nowadays, and most of the young bucks
took circus seats low down to be close
to the scenery The hot sun beating
down on the canvas of the big circus
tent made it like an oven inside. The
sweat started to pour off the Indians
faces, and it wasn't long until they
were like David's cattle-ringed, streak,
ed and striped. They were the best
part of the show, and spent much of
their time laughing at each other.
The first day out of Billings our
horses stampeded, and it took three
days hard riding to get them rounded
up again. Our route was down the
Yellowstone below Billings. This coun-
try was sparsely settled and we began
to find better range and more grass.
We began to make a few sales. I was
forced to break more saddle horses.
This was a hard job, for we seldom
could find a corral to work in. We US
ually had to crowd the herd against a
cut bank, run into the bunch and rope
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-12-13
FIND DEER SKULL
AND ARROW HEAD

The skull of a fair-siZed buck with
well-weathered horns attached with
the added oddity of a flint arrow head
imbedded in the skull just back Of the
ear on the right side, has been added
to the collection of museum pieces
at the Miles City Commercial club.
It was found by Bob Harmon, south
side cattle man, on Powder river In
Powder River county. The arrow head
is of moss agate and had been broken
off about half way. The ends Of the
horns had been buried in the soil for
many years and we're rotted away, but
enough remains to show the animal wal
a many-pointed buck and that the In
dian that shot it had been an accurate
shot. Whether he had slain the deef
and thrown the head away o. wheth-
er the animal ran away and latec died
either from the effects of the wound q
from other causes is a matter of con-
lecture.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-12-13
Famous Stage Ride Brought Acid
Letter to Hank Monk, Coachman,
From Horace Greeley, Passenger

Horace Greeley's ride with Hank
Monk, the famous California Nevada
stage driver, who was represented as
having taken the famous editor and
later presidential candidate at a
terrOr-inspiring speed over the al
most impossible mountain roads
through the Sierras, is n of the
prize stories of the early west and
has been widely even Town to
the present day. But few know of
GreeIey's reaction to the publicity
that was given him and Monk be-
cause of the reported ~hair-raising
ride. Greeley showed his reaction
when Monk, tired of stage driving
and believing that Greeley would
probably win the election-wrote to
ask him for federal employment "in
case you are elected to the presi-
dency."
Greeley answered the letter in a
manner that nearly broke Monks heart
since he felt he had, because of the
famous ride, added great distinction
and prestige to the lame of Horace
Greeley.
In his letter to Monk, Greeley said:
Sir: Your impertinent request is re-
ceived and in reply I will say that were
I possessed of the aggregate wealth OF
the world and you were on the verge
of starvation I would not vouchsafe to
you a crust of widowed bread to save
your worthless existence. for you are
the only creature that has ever sue
ceeded in placing me before the Ameri-
can people in a ridiculous light"
When the Pioneer State Co. went out
of existence Monk moved to Nevada
and settled in Carson. He drove stage
during the summer months between
Carson and Glenbrook, on the shore
of Lake Tahoe. His fame as a coach
driver, greatly increased by the alleged
ride he gave Greeley, attracted tour
lists from all parts of the world. Dur
stage coach he never met with an &C
cident.
Hank Monk came to Sacramento in
June, 1855. He was Immediately en-
ployed by James Birch as a driver OF
the Audubon stage line, between Plac-
erville and Genoa, New. In 1859, when
the silver excitement over the discov-
cry of the WaShoe mines created a
big rush, Monk took a job with Louis
McLane of the Pioneer stage line. He
continued with this company until the
completion of the Central Pacific and
the Virginia and Truckee railways. :
Fortunate mine owners in the Wash
oe district made many flying trips
across the mountains. Monk was al
ways the preferred stage driver. In 1862
a number of San Francisco investors
had an urge to make a quick trip to
Virginia City. The roads were in an
abominable condition-but Monk had
a reputation to maintain. He accepted
the assignment. And he made another
record. He drove from Strawberry Flat
to Virginia City. a distance of so miles
in five hours. It was an unparalleled
feat The ma showed their an.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-12-13

the animal I wanted, and hold it by
the horn OF my saddle. Often my own
saddle horse was rearing and lunging
as bad as the wild one I had roped.
This was life on the trail, and a man
who couldn't ride and rope was no use
on the trail.
At Glendive I wanted to cross the
Yellowstone river on the ferry to get
my mail. The ferryman told us the
helper and I told him we could swim
it cheaper. The ferryman said, There
IS the river if you want to try it, out"
We had been taking a swim every night
for a month after each dusty days
drive, and didn't mind swimming the
river. We took off our boots and hats
and jumped in, and beat the ferry to
the landing at the other side. We walk
ed up to the post office while spectators
gazed at our dripping clothes. When
we were ready to cross back the ferry
man told us that seeing we we're such
good sports, we could cross back on the
boat free. We thanked him and said,
your ScoW is too slow for us" We
jumped in and swan back with 20 or
80 spectators watching us cross. On
the opposite bank we picked. up NJ
hats and boots, walked over to the
chuck wagon, changed to dry overalls
and calico shirts and were ready for
the drive again.
We camped one night at Pompey's
Pillar on the way down. This is a
wierd spot, a freak of nature. It is a
massive rock that apparently once
stood in the center Of the Yellowstone
river. I would judge it to be 1875 feet
long, 100 feet wide, so feet high and
flat on top. It o stands on the
north shore of the river, and in sum-
mer can be reached on dry ground. On
the north side are dates supposedly
placed there in 1906 by Lewis and
Clark. The inscription is dim, but still
visible. 1t is impressed on the sight
seer that this is a hallowed spot; and
the early travellers who came to this
place never forgot it. I rode a fine