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The Washington times., 1935-06-24
"Sings" for Amateurs

For those amateur singers that
sing only for the joy of singing,
whether trained or not, will have
q chance to improve their art
each Monday evening during the
summer on the roof at the Y. w.
c. A. At 1880 o'clock, practice in
sight-reading will be given, and
at 500 o'clock a general popular
"sing" will be directed by Mary
M. Burnett, music secretary of
the Y. w. C. A. Familiar melo-
dies and delightful folk songs in
unison and simple part arrange
ments will be used for the general
"sing." Men and women are cor
daily invited to these sings"
The Washington times., 1935-06-24

Theme of Pastoral Symphony,
"a suggestion for using and
preserving the daily music
themes: The teachers Of several
classes in music appreciation
report that their pupils are
clipping the themes each day
and paSting them on Sx5inch
filing cards, with the name Of
the composer ut the top, and
filing them in alphabetical or
der by cOmpOsers.)
The Washington Choral Society
has been reorganiZed and the
name registered last Saturday
with the D. c. Recorder of Deeds
according to an announcement
from Mr.. James P. Schick, presi-
dent of the society.
DR.. z. B. Phillips called to-
gether q number of interested per-
sons again last Friday noon and
the following executive committee
was elected: President, Mr.. James
p. Schick: vice president, Adolph
Torovsky; secretary, Mrs. Miriam
Hilton.
Mr.. Louis A. Potter announces q
tentative rehearsal on Tuesday
evening, July 2 and asks that all
former, as well as new singers,
register with him as soon as pos
sible. Mr.. Potter has purchased
the library of music that was
owned by the former organization
that was dissolved June s.
Amateur singers wishing to re-
ceive experience in choral work
and public appearance will do we'll
to join the Washington Choral
Society under the excellent direc-
ton of Mr.. Potter. An organize
ton that is rated high enough to
sing with the National Symphony
Orchestra is worthy Of any sing
er's time and effort.
The Washington times., 1935-06-24
Educators Plan
JObless Survey

Just how many young people
between the ages Of 16 and "a are
unemployed is to be determined
through a census by the Federal
Office of Education. The survey
also will show how much educa-
ton these youths have had and
how they spend their leisure time.
NOTED to major general.
The Washington times., 1935-06-24
,"Literary Bridge"

J. Elaborate preparations have
been made for the literary
bridge" to be given by the Ma
tional League of American Pen
Women Saturday afternoon in
the garden of the home Of Mrs.
Walter Miles, 1907 Jocelyn st.
Chevy Chase, D. C.
More than 200 members and
their guests are expected to at.
tend the party, which begins at
2 o'clock. If it rains, the party
will be held indoors.
Mrs. Victoria Faber Steven.
son, national president of the
League, is general chairman Of
arrangements. Chairmen as
sisting her are Mrs. Theodore
Tiller, reception; Mrs. Edna
knight Gasch and Mrs. Evelyn
NorcroSs Sheriff., co-chairmen
of reservations; Mrs. Harriet H.
Chambers, chairman Of the
garden girls; DR.. Frances
Noon Butts, refreshments;
Mrs. Lilly r. Hunt, grounds
and tables; Mrs. BesS Heath
Olmstead, seating arrangements,
and Mrs. Louise Hartley Was
sell, prizes.
Autographed books written
by members of the league and
a tray made from branches Of
the rare torrey pine are among
the prizes that will be awarded.
After the card playing there
will be q program of dancing,
under the direction of Marion
Chace.
The party is being given to
raise money for the prize fund
Of the national contests CO.
Quoted by thu league,
The Washington times., 1935-06-24
CurIey Club to Elect

Officers for the ensuing year
will be elected by the Curley
Club at its meeting Thursday
afternoon at 3:15 o'clock at
the Continental Hotel.
x X X
Mary Pollock Chapter,
Women's Christian Temperance
Union, will meet tomorrow after
noon at l 80 O'Clock at the home
Of Mrs. Mary Ladd, 1882 Naylor
Rd. S. E.
Iota Chapter, Delta Phi
Sigma Sorority, will bring its
social season to a close tonight
with the annual banquet and
dance at the Manor Club.
The Washington times., 1935-06-24
LEGION OPENS PARK

CHEVERLY, Md, June "a.
With military ceremony, local
American Legion members yester-
day dedicated a public park as a
war memorial. The park is
block square, near the center of
the town,
The Washington times., 1935-06-24
Marine Band Program

The United States Marine Band
under the direction Of Capt. Tay.
lor Branson will give concert, to-
night at 8 o'clock at the Marine
Barracks. The program follows:
grand march, with Honor
Crowned" CKetelbey): overture.
THE Flying Dutchman," (Wag.
ner); piccolo duet, 1.-TWO Little
Bulfinches," (Kling) played by
BARLEY Moor and Louis Guzman:
tone poem, "Finlandia," (Sibe.
lius): excerpts from "The Choc.
olate Soldier" (Strauss); Saxo-
phone quartet, Good Night"
(PinsutI; fantasia, lie Cid"
(Massanet): "waltz of the Flow.
ers," from "Nutcracker Suite. I"
(TschaikowSky); Second Hunga-
rian Rhapsody" NiSzt).
The United States Navy Band
under the direction Of Lieut..
Charles Benter will play the fol-
lowing program at the U. S. Cap.
itol tonight at 1880 o'clock: march,
Hail to the Spirit of Liberty"
(Scusa); Slavonic Rhapsody No.
g." (Friedemann); cornet solo;
MY Regards" (Llewelyn), played
by Oscar Short; fantasia, "A
Strauss Garland" (Winter) A.; grand
waltz from Eugene Oneguin, "
(Tschaikowsky): excerpts from
Naughty Marietta" Herbert) /;
Largo and Scherzo from New
World Symphony" (Dvorak) !:
''Danses Espagnole, Nos. l and 2"
ode Falla).
The Washington times., 1935-06-24
CUBA SETS ELECTION

HAVANA, June IA general
election on December IS of this
year was decided upon today at
a joint meeting of the cabinet and
the state council,
The Washington times., 1935-06-24
Letters to the Editor

Letters Editor should They
be signed by the rer NTH his and address, These U
be held confidential and initials used publication if the
trte deStOTGteS Readers nvted discuss subject
OF interest,
The Washington times., 1935-06-24
World Of Music
Observation-Disclosures

from The Messioh. by Hondel
} division is provided in Handel's
Pastoral Symphony" the theme
of which is shown above. 1t is
scored for strings alone, pictur-
ing the quiet pastoral setting OF
Christ'S birth. 1t is so placed
evidently to put the audience in
the mood required for approach
ing such a quiet and sacred sub
ject.
The theme is in a simple duet
form with light harmony and
long drawn out bass tones de-
scribe the perVading darkness. The
delicate mood is slow, picturing
the cessation of activity at night
with the sleeping herds watched
over by the shepherds. AS the in
Struments of the orchestra other
than the strings, were crude and
undeveloped, Handel had no other
choice than to give the strings
this delightful number. Because
of its simplicity it Is all the more
beautiful.
Florence Vincent Yeager will
present her students in voice and
piano in recital tonight at
o'clock at the Hamline Methodist
Episcopal Church, Sixteenth and
Allison SITS. N. W..
The Washington times., 1935-06-24
Protests Against Boost
In D. G. Taxes

To the Editor of The Times.
It is very kind Of the District
Commissioners to propose q study
of the tax plan Of the city with
q view to increasing revenue! But
The Washington times., 1935-06-24
To Give Concert

The Community Center SYM
phony Orchestra will appear to-
night at o'clock at the Sylvan
Theater in a concert preceding
a group o. three short plays. AS
Mr.. Bailey F. Alart recently un-
derwent an emergency operation
for appendicitis, Mr.. Ford. the
assistant conductor, will direct
tonight.
The Washington times., 1935-06-24

At the time Handel wrote "The
Messiah" a short orchestral num-
Der might be called a sym.
phony";; hence the short instru-
mental work that introduces the
second section, The Advent, is
known as the Pastoral Sym
phony." This work is not to be
confused with Beethoven's "Sym-
phony No. g." which is also called
the Pastoral Symphony" The
latter work is a full-Sized SYM
phony with four movements,
Following the choral introduc-
ton known as the Prophetic d.
vision, a setting for the Advent
The Washington times., 1935-06-24
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Price 2Sc.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-12-27

ficient a..d capable officers for the
positions to which they have been pro-
NOTED.
Leon Stein came TO Cape Charles
with the consolidation Of various sup
ervisory departments when the old
Norfolk Division and Delaware Divi-
ion were merged during 1880 and as
sumed the office of Supervising agent
and later succeeding j. D. King as
Division Operator when those two de-
partments were consolidated and Mr..
King retired.
Mr.. Stein possesses genuinely rail
road mind and a restless energy,
along with unsurpassed knowledge
of the work for which he has been
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-12-27
BIG BIBLE DISPLAY
AT SOMERSET CHURCH

A very interesting display of more
than thirty Bibles, two of them the
most vitality historic Holy Books in
this county, and an exhibit of pages
from the Bible translated into the
strange conquest Of the farthest cor
ners of the earth, from the American
Bible Society, marked the Bible Sun
day celebration at Antioch M. E.
Church last Sunday. The occasion
was in honor of the 400th anniversary
of the translation of the English Bible
by Clyde Coverdale in 1886. The pas
tor Rev. Ransom Nichols, reached ap-
on the history of the Bible
through the ages, starting from the
70-year period when the Bible was lost
by the Hebrews as captives of the
Bablylonians, and found again when
they returned for the rebuilding Of
Jerusalem and the Temple. To be lost
so many times since, Pastor Nichols
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-12-27

pointed out, by so many individuals
and nations through neglect and pride,
and found again throug suffering and
the re-awakening of the spirit.
The display of Bibles which cover
ed three tables before the altar rail
of the Antioch pulpit, contained texts
in many foreign languages and old
volumes precious to many Somerset
families. Bibles in Spanish, Russian,
Hebrew, German, Italian, Greek
Swedish and French were represented.
There was the small world war testa-
ment issued by the American Bible
Society for distribution by the Y. M.
C. A. to the armed forces of the Uni
ted States in 1918, the penny Por-
tions" each a separate book of the
Bible, which sell for a penny each, the
best and cheapest literature known &
the new Moffatt translation and mod
ern readers translation of the Billie
into modern English and losing there
by, it is said, much of the hallowed
poetry and beauty of the King James
version.
The oldest book on display, the
Church of England Bible, printed in
1897 in London, and the original prop
erty of the original Somerset Parish
on the Eastern Shore, was loaned by
its present owner, Mr.. Milton L..
Thawley. Four or five of the Bibles
were more than 100 years old, but
none were as old as this 240-year tome
nor as closely associated with the ear
ly founding of this country and its
first churches.
Captain Thomas Bradshaw, of
Deals Island, had on exhibit the JOSH
VA Thomas Bible, published about the
year 1900, and which was the personal
property of the famous Parson of the
Islands. On the inside cover the words
probably written by the great evan
gelist himself, are still legible, "Read,
Reflect, Obey" Perhaps no Bible
| VII CIiC 4l0SCCIn 0ILOIO was IO I1OC-
ably associated with the spread of
Methodism in the State, nor with that
herioc and troubled war period, which
saw military operation on this side
of the Bay, the burning of Washington
the bombardment of Baltimore and
the birth of the Star Spangled Ban
ner.
Rev. Nichols contributed to the dis
play number of interesting texts,
among which were the autographed
Bible he received from the hands of
Bishop William A. Quayle when or
daining Rev. Nichols elder of the
M. E. Church, at Provo, Utah, in
August, 1910, and Bible, gift from
Mrs. Nichols, containing his preachers
license issued by the First Methodist
Church Of San Juan, Porto Rico.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-12-27

The display by the American Bible
Society included specimens of the
Bible in the Aymara, Bulu, Eskimo,
Hopi, Luba Lulua, Nauru, Cherokee,
Tagalong, Gilbert Island, Cakchiquel,
and Chinese Kuo-Yu languages.
Bible Sunday has been observed
throughout the English speaking
world during the past two weeks. In
calling attention to the day, Cover
nor Nice said:
"These are times that try the souls
of men, and much comfort and rest
can be found upon the pages of the
English Bible and I sincerely recon-
mend to the people of our country
more profound and frequent reading
of the Book of Books"
According to a statement issued
by the American Bible Society, it's
missionary activities distribute the
Bible annually in more than 40 coun-
tries and in over $50 languages.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-12-27

in the history of the State Conserva-
ton Department." as E. Lee Le-
Compile, State Game Warden, puts it,
was concluded last week.
Lack of freezing weather was given
by Mr.. LeCompte as one of the chief
reasons for the small number of ducks
bagged this year. Another was the
more stringent Federal regulations
which shortened the season.
Hardly more than 1000 ducks have
been bagged on the Susquehanna flats,
the largest feeding ground for wild
fowl in the State, Mr.. LeCompte said.
Maryland sportsmen have turned to
the Federal Biological Survey for aid
in determining the cause of the deaths
of hundreds of ducks on the upper
Chesapeake Bay.
1t is feared the birds were killed by
swallowing phosphorus pellets left on
the bottom of the bay by bombing
tests conducted by the War Depart
ment. Thouands of ducks were killed
that way about ten years ago and the
War Deartment dumped mud and silt
over the deposits.
Now, sportsmen fear, shifting tides
and currents have barred the phos-
phorus once more.
Leo M. Moore, vice-president of
recently formed wild-life conservation
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-12-27
NEW SUPERVISING AGENT
TAKES OVER HIS DUTIES

Fred Thompson, of Wilmington,
Del, has arrived in Cape Charles to
take over his new duties as Super
vising Agent for the Delmarva Divi-
sion, PENNSYLVANIA Railroad. Mr..
Thompson will succeed Leon Stein,
who for the past five years has been
in that position on this Division of the
Pennsy and who has been transfer
red to the Freight Agency at Will
mington, Del, on the Maryland Di-
vision, succeeding H. A. Casperson,
retired. The transfers prvide very eff
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-12-27
FROM OUR
EXCHANGES
WICOMICO BOY MAKES
ALL-MARYLAND ELEVEN

Hobart Tignor, of Nanticoke, Wi
comico county, who before going to
Washington College, Chestertown,
never played game of football has
been chosen as right guard on the
Baltimore SUMS All-Maryland Colleg-
late Football Team for 1885, the per-
sonnet of which was announced last
Sunday.
Tignor, who is a Senior at Wash
ington College, graduated from Nam
ticoke High where he starred in Soc
Ger, baseball and other sports. He
is 81 years of age, is 5 foot 1Oh inch
es tall, and weighs 1876 pounds.
Regarding the selection of Tignor,
The Sun stated: Hobart Tignor
place-kicked field goal from the A.
yard line to score for Washington
College against Johns Hopkins. The
guard of the Shoremen thus wrote his
name as the hooters of the ninth long
est field goal by placement on rec
ord. Most of the long field goals of
other days were booted as drokicks.
1t must be remembered that since his
goal was kicked from the 44-yard line
it travelled 81 yards to score.
"Tignor, another giant, was not con-
tent with playing his position and
letting it go at that. He developed
place kicking for field goals and extra
points. He scored that phenomenal
placement goal against Hopkins as
mentioned earlier. He also saved a
hutout against West Chester Teach
ers by booting for the points in that
game by Washington. A good man at
leading interference, and a good de-
fensive player, he earned his place."
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-12-27

group in Havre de Grace, said he had
received reports that hundreds of
ducks had been found dead below Aber
deem Proving Ground and Edgewood
Arsenal. He said ducks on the Sus-
quehanna River Flats had not been
affected.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-12-27

assigned. He is in every way an
admirable choice for the position for
which he has been advanced. Begin
ming his railroad career as telegraph
operator more than thirty years ago,
he has steadily advanced and his many
friends will delight to learn Of his
recent advancement.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-12-27
BODY OF NEWBORN BABE
FOUND NEAR MATAPEAKE

The body of a new born baby was
found Tuesday afternoon last on the
edge of the shore on the Tillery Farm,
about one mile from Matapeake on
Kent Island by Jake Bailey, colored,
while walking around the shore search
ing for driftwood.
The small body is said to have been
wrapped in newspaper and large
sized grocery bag.
The negro, after finding the body,
hurried to Stevensville, where he noti-
fled Frank Thomas, undertaken,
and Mr.. Thomas called States Attor-
ney Edwin H. Brown, Jr., of Centre
vile. In the meantime Jude HaSdeSty,
] MEG Slaughter and Stewart Pal
mer, three Kent Island men went to
the scene, but were unable to find the
body. They did however find the wrap
pings and what they believed were
blood stains on the sand.
Mr.. Thomas few minutes later ar
rived and after diligent search found
several tiny bones, which he immed-
lately gathered together and buried.
It is the general supposition that
the body had been placed on the
shore. The papers that wrapped it
were wet, as if having been washed
over by the tide.
This is the second time within a
year that an infant child has been
found on the Shore of Kent Island.
Early last summer, baby boy weigh
ing probably eight pounds was found
on the shore of the Chesapeake Bay
by Harrison Johns of the Tillery farm.
POOR DUCKING SEASON
DEDnDTER DIV WY DnENI
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1935-12-27

POOR DUCKING SEASON
REPORTED BY WARDEN
The poorest duck-hunting season
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-03-07
STATE BUYS 10000 YARDS OF
CLOTH FOR CONVICT SUITS.

The state has recently purchased
10000 yards Of cloth, black and white.
stripped, to cloth the convicts in it's
various penal institutions.
The contract for furnishing cloth
was let by the board of award of the
state division of purchase and con-
tract, which also purchased other
large groups Of supplies.
The Neuse Manufacturing COM
pany, a Wake county concern, receiv-
ed contract to supply $4,000 yards
Of convict shirt cloth at a price Of
nine cents per yard plus a processing
tax that will amount to about cent
mere.
A contract for $4,000 yards Of
eight-ounce cloth went to the Caro-
lima Textile Mill Products company
of Durham, whose price was 16 5-8
"ents per yard. The Belk Brothers
company of Charlotte received a con-
tract to supply 10000 yards of 10
ounce stripes costing 21-10 cents per
yard.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-03-07
CHARLES A. SHEFFIELD
TENDERS RESIGNATION

Charles A. Sheffield, an assistant
director Of the State College extern
sion service since January 1, 1929
has rendered his resignation in order
to accept a position in Washington
as director Of equity farm agent work
in the South.
The resignation will become effec-
tive about the middle of March, when
he will assume his new duties in the
regional office Of the extension SER
vice in the Department Of Agricul-
ture.
During the past six years, Mr..
Sheffield has been recognized as one
Of the outstanding officials of the
North Carolina extension service. He
is known intimately by thousands Of
farmers over the State.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-03-07
RELIEF ADMINISTRATION
POINTS OUT THE NEED OF
MORE MONEY FOR N. C.
COUNTY PRESBYTERIANS
ATTEND CONFERENCE

At the Presbyterian Young Peo-
pies Conference held in the First
Presbyterian Church of Winston
Salem March 1-3 the following from
Ashe attended: Louise Coward, Eve
lyn Brown, Jack Lawson, Marvin
Sells and R. H. Stone, from Jefferson,
Mary Sapp and Frances Blevins, of
Lansing, Aldeane Clark of Foster
Memorial, Howard Eldrith, of Giles
pie, Beulah Jenkins, from Peak
Creek, and Woodrow Bare, of Big
Ridge. Miss Katherine O'Neall also
attended and had a part on the pro-
gram. Miss Frances Blevins was
chairman of one of the Kingdom
Highways and very fittingly introduce
ed the speaker.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-03-07
BLIND NEGRO PULLS PLOW
WHILE WIFE GUIDES HIM;
WANT TO GET OFF RELIEF

Hitched to a pillow, 63-year-old
Hanson Mccoy, blind negro Of AL
bany, Ca, paused at the end Of long
furrow, freshly turned, and COM
mented:
1.-THE Bible says we have to live by
the sweat of our brows, and that is
what ] am doing"
Guiding the plow was his wife,
Sallie Anderson Mccoy, who said she
and her husband were teaming up
now, as they had done for many
years, to exc out living from the
sol.
Mccoy smiled as he spoke and said
he was working toward the day when
he would no longer find it necessary
to get his corn meal, salt pork, coffee
md other foodstuffs from relief agen-
cies.
''ough blind for 80 years, !
= had been only during the las
ree years that he has had" to be
IN the county,"
He is man of medium size, but
his wife says che is a mighty power
full man.. He has to be pull a plov
through land laced with grass roots
His wife guides him by her voice
She said they had been offered g
mule, but rejected the offer because
Mccoy was willing to work and 81
couldn't plow no mule"
Mccoy and his wife live on LAND
furnished them by Henry helms, g
farmer. He also is lending them &
house and has told them they may
have as much land as they can work
have as much land as they can work
Mccoy said he would help pay TO,
use of the land by building it up"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-03-07
REV. SMITHS ENGAGEMENTS

The engagements of Rev. Plumer
Smith, for % years a missionary of
the Southern Presbyterian Church to
Africa, will on tomorrow night begin
speaking and showing pictures of his
work in the following churches:
Gillespie, Friday, 9th, at 7:15 p. m.
Big Ridge, Saturday, 9th, OILS pm.
Obids, Sunday, II a. M, preaching.
Lansing, Sunday, 9:15 p. m.
Boggs, Monday, 7:15 p. m.
Obids, Tuesday 9:15 p. m.
Foster Memorial, Thurs, 7:15 p. m.
The public is cordially invited to
attend these services.