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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-05-23
CAT GETS BIG REQUEST

New York.-Hindy, a pet cat, gets
$1,000 as found under the will of
his late mistress, Mary Rankin Maj
tin Mayer Preck, who died last Au-
gust in Kitzbunel, Austria.
Her will, instructs her brother-in-
law Arthur Marks, president of the
Skinner Organ Co., that, "my dear
cat, HindY, must be sent to the
Vienna Tierschutz Verein, where a
good home must be provided for him
and the expenses paid out of the es-
tate"
The residue, including realty and
livestock, is to be divided into four
parts-one bequeathed to the Mary
land Anti-Vivisection Society of Soci-
ETY. of Baltimore, another to the
Massachusetts society Of Boston, and
two parts to a "dear FRIEND" Diana
Belais of New York.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-05-23
EXPERT SAYS PAYMENT OF
BONUS WITH NEW MONEY
WOULD BE CALAMITY

Neutrality-suspicious. w. Kemmer-
er, international financial expert and
Princeton university professor, told a
senate banking subcommittee recent
ly that payment of the bonus with
new currency would be a Calamity
Kemmerer said the Patman bill
was initiation Of the worst type and
might furnish the "added blow to
bleak confidence and begin flight
from the dollar"
This would result, he said, in ar
initiation perhaps similar to that in
Germany.
The Princeton professor gave his
views on the bonus in response tc
questions by committeeman after he
had strongly opposed the sections OF
the omnibus banking bill giving the
federal reserve board control over
credit and monetary policy.
Kemmerer said the United States
was on a kind of gold standard but il
was administrative rather thar
statutory"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-05-23
HIGH FARM PRICES PRAISED

Houston, Texas. - Higher prices
paid to farmers for their products is
responsible for better business among
the independent growers Of the ma
ton, according to j. Frank Grimes,
Chicago, president of the Independent
Grocers Alliance of America.
Grimes, on a tour of the country,
came to Houston from the West
Coast.
81 am sure that this increase in the
grocery business" he said, "is just
one indication of better conditions in
all business.
"Keep farm product prices up for
two more years, and We'll never
know there was a depression" he
asserted.
Grimes was so convinced that good
farm prices mean good business gen
orally that he believes the govern
ment's most important concern
should be to maintain those prices.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-05-23
NEGRO CONVERT TO HUEY'S
IDEAS is SHOT TO DEATH

Carthage, Tex, May 16.-The brief
reign of terror of Henry Walton, a
negro, was ended by an officers bull
let today as he stood on the Sabine
river bank shouting:
"Stay on your side Of the Sabine
me and Huey Long is running this
side"
Previously he had beaten white
merchant severely with pistol. Then
he destroyed merchandise in the store
Is miles from here. He continued his
mad rampage and threatened other
citizens until officers arrived.
Constable Jack Todd shot Walton
through the heart, killing him.
For many days, negroes on the east
side of the Sabine river in Pamela
county have been absorbing "share-
the-wealth-plan," by which each hop
ed to own forty acres and a mule
Literature on the plan has a vast
circulation in the flatwoods section
between the river and Louisiana line
officers said.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-05-23
SAYS BUDGET
TO BE BALANCED
FOR CAROLINA

Raleigh. - Revenue Commissioner
Allen ]. Maxwell, whom the general
assembly was not allowed to forget
during it's long stay here, thinks the
budget of $64,884,344 for the coming
biennium will be balanced.
The collections impinge upon con-
tinuing recovery. He thinks the first
year of the two will show income and
outgo exactly the same, despite the
fact that the expenditures for the
1935-37 two-year period will be 1884,
884,344 as against $51 ,6O3, ZIG, the
requirements for 1885. The COM
missioner's opinion figured in all
legislative disputes.
The commissioner goes very deeply
into the revenue field and since the
legislature has adjourned, carrying
with it the II county liquor measures,
this is time for some cogitation upon
revenues.
Maxwell SAID IN part:
"The difference of $13,28O,628 in
these two biennial appropriation bills
is in large part represented by par
tial recovery from the drastic cut in
salary schedules two years ago.
"The raising of revenue to meet
this increas in operating costs was
the major fiscal problem of the gen.
eral assembly.
"The increasing yield Of present
tax levies, as We pull out Of the de-
preston, furnishes a substantial part
of the increased revenue. The balance
is made up of license increases, fran
chise, income and sales taxes, and by
an application of the sales tax rate
to gasoline as the measure of contri-
button from the highway to the gen.
eral fund.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-05-23
WHAT DID YOU DO?

Do you give him a life? He a
brother of man,
And bearing about all the burden
he can.
Did you give him smile? He
was downcast and blue.
And the smile would have helped
him to battle it through.
Did you give him your hand? He
was slipping downhill,
And the world, so he fancied, was
using him ill.
Did you give him word? Did
you show him the road?
Or did you just let him go on
with his load?
Do you know what it means,
just the clasp Of the hand,
When man has been bearing
just all he can stand?
Did you stop when he asked you
to give him lift?
Or were you so busy you left hir
to drift?
Oh, l know what you mean!
What you say may be true,
But the test of your manhood is,
what did you do?
Did you reach out a hand? Did
you find him the road?
Or did you just let him go by
with his load?
Author Unknown.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-05-23
NOTICE OF SUMMONS

North Carolina
Ashe County.
In the Superior Court
Before the Clerk.
Stella M. Martin
VS..
Walter Martin.
The defendant above named will
take notice that an action entitled as
above has been commenced in the
Superior Court of Ashe County for
absolute divorce and that duIy ycri-
fled complaint was filed s,?l sum
mons issued which is retnrr7ahle in
the, office of the undersigned on the
18th day Of June, 1885, when and
where the defendant is required to
appear and answer or demu~ to The
complaint and if he does not appear
within the time required by law that
the relief requested in the complaint
will be granted.
This May Ia, 1885.
]. d. STANSBERRY.
6-13 Clerk Superior Court.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-05-23
BANK CLERKS
GOODNESS HELPS
ARREST BANDITS

Idabel, Okla.-A cool-headed bank
clerk, who argued successfully with
his abductor while bullets spattered
about them, told gripping story of
gun battle in which convict-bank
robber was wounded and loot of
$4,000 recovered here.
Two escaped Arkansas convicts,
Sam Day and RUDE Mexican, robbed
the Idabel national bank, then raced
to their parked motor car with two
bank employees as unwilling shields.
But in backing the car, the robbers
crashed against truck and officers
took that moment to open blast of
gunfire. Day was shot in the Shout
der. "He slumped over in the seat
for minute" said C. R. O'Neal, Jr.,
assistant cashier, and one of the abb
Quoted pair. "Then he sat up and the
other man began arguing with him,
trying to get him to drive up.
Cali during this time, the officers
were pouring lead at the car Finally
l joined the seco,.I1 man in talking to
the fee1.Ow who was shot. I told him
he didn't have chance to get away
and finally he gave in and said he
would surrender; but he added he
didn't know how. / told him I'd fix
that part. He said to 60 ahead and I
pulled out my handkerchief and waved
it at the officers.
"They stopped shooting and came
over to the car and got the two men.
That's when got kind of scared"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-05-23
FIVE MEN BURN
TO DEATH. s. ARE
/ INJURED IN MINE

Fairmont, w. Valve men were
burned to death by steam and six
others injured, in a spectacular mine
shaft fire that shot flames 500 feet
into the air at the Bethlehem Mine
corporations No. Al shaft at nearby
Barracksville.
The fire broke out about midnight,
and a group of men were sent into
the pit to battle the flames.
An electric fan was shut off, and
the air current in the shaft forced the
flames almost 500 feet into the air,
investigators said. The group of men,
working with hose to extinguish the
flames, were burned by hot steam
from the streams of water forced
back upon them as the walls of the
shaft collapsed.
L. A. Howell, so, mine inspector
for the Bethlehem corporation and
widely known in West Virginia for
his mine safety work, was among
those fatally burned. Howell came to
this state from Wales, where he was
decorated by the British government
for his mine safety activities.
Veteran miners said the fire was
one of the most unusual in the states
history in that it broke out in the
timbering of the shaft, and that hot
steam caused the five deaths.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-05-23
CRIPPLED AND AGED ARE
REMEMBERED BY DU POINT

Jacksonville, Fla.-Crippled chill.
dren and the aged poor are the prin-
cipal beneficiaries under the will of
the late Alfred Irenee du Point, Della
ware and Florida multi-millionaire,
filed for probate.
The financier and industrialist be-
queathed his estate, "Nemours," out
side Wilmington, Del, and 81, 900
to start "the Nemours Foundation -
and the income from the bulk of his
fortune, estimated at s5O,OOO,OOO, to
finance it's operations"
Under provisions of the trust, the
foundation will devoute itself to the
"care and treatment of crippled chill
dren, or old men and women, parti-
cularly old couples, first considera-
ton being given to the residents of
Delaware"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-05-23
FOOD PRICES CONTINUE
TO INCREASE OVER u. S.

Continued increase in retail food
prices for the two weeks ending April
70. as reported the past week by the
labor department is giving the good
housewives of the nation the head
ache these fine Rooseveltian days.
It would not be so bad if the pro-
ducers, the farmers and truckers were
getting the benefit of these high
prices but they are not. While wages
have increased in some instances
slightly, the high price of everything
to eat makes a mans last state as
bad as his first.As far as we have
been able to learn the wages of none
of the "white-collar" crowd, the book
keepers, stenographers, clerks in of
fices and stores and other clerical
jobs have not had any increase in
salary to amount to anything. But
their grocery bill has jumped by
leaps and bounds.
The same amountof food which
cost $1.24 the previous two weeks
cost SIPS the middle two weeks of
April. A year before the same
amount cost SLOT, two years ago, 80
cents.
Fruits and vegetables went up 4.3
per cent compared with the previous
two weeks. Meats advanced IL per
cent. Eggs jumped 3.s per cent.
We hope the blackberry crop this
year will be an abundant one for if
a man cannot raise 81 cents to pay
for a pound of plain old fatbaek meat
he can at least ease his hunger by
eating bait of blackberries.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-05-23
MOTHER OF QUINTUPLETS is
NOT HAPPY, SHE DECLARES

Callander, Ont.-A deluge Of moth
er's day cards and greetings has de-
scended upon the Dionne farmhouse
in honor of the worlds only mother
of quintuplets.
Resentful of the legislation that
made the quintuplets special wards of
the king, the 26-year-old mother said,
"On Mothers day ! should be happy,
but how can / when my babies have
been taken from me-"
Although she crosses the road more
frequently now to visit her babies in
their hospital home, she said, "They
don't know me, their mother"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-05-23
NOTICE OF TRUSTEES SALE
North Carolina
AShe County.

North Carolina
Ashe County.
Under and by virtue of a power
contained in a certain deed of trust
executed on the 22nd day of Septem,
Der, 1880, by Leonard Rhodes and
wife, Ellen Rhodes, and Martha Gam
bill, which deed Of trust is recorded
in the office of the Register of Deeds
in Ashe County and in Book 81, pagel
l, I, Ira T. Johnston, Truste, will sell
to the highest bidder for cash at the
Courthouse door in Jefferson, North
Carolina, on the 18th day of June,
1885, at one o'clock P. M. the follow
ing described tract of land, to-wit:
Beginning on a birch N 26 E 20
poles to black oak Ed Graham's
corner or line; thence down said ridge
20 poles to a maple in Ed Graham's
line; thence S to Lee Graham's;
thence with Lee Graham's line to the
beginning, containing 2acres, more or
less.
Second Tract: Beginning on fence
post Lee Graham's corner running an
Eastward direction 111a poles to a.
stake in Eli Graham's line to Lee
Graham's corner on top of ridge; then
II IA poles with Lee Graham's line
to the beginning including the
Near Leonard Rhodes line and build
ings.
This May IS, 1885.
IRA T. JOHNSTON,
6-6 Trustee.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-05-23
GO AHEAD AND GET EN-:
THEIR DAMAGE is HEAVY

The worst crime of which a crow
is charged is that of the destruction
Of nests of young birds and eggs.
Pulling up corn, pecking watermelons
and similar misdemeanors are minor
offenses compared to the good that
crows do in destroying insect pests
and bothersome mice and rodents. AS
Longfellow says:
Gwen the blacklist of them all,
the crow,
Renders good service as your
man-at-arms,
Crushing the beetle in his coat
Of mail,
And crying havoc on the slug
and snail"
It is estimated carefully that in one
season crows will eat 10 bushels of
insects on the average farm. And 76
pecks of bugs, beetles, and bees
would destroy farm full of beans,
beets, and buckwheat. But crows, like
corn when it is too thick, need thin
ming. So go ahead and hunt them.
You'll be doing some good, and you
will like it.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-05-23
GOT BLACK VELVET DRESS
ON HER TOOTH BIRTHDAY

San FrSS1cisco.-Mrs. Mary Stew.
ems, celebrating her Tooth birthday
here, had one complaint to make-she
could not spike" the punch with a
little wine, as she used to do.
at isn't good for me anymore
she explained. II do think wine is one
of the best things person can drink.
1t keeps the body in shape"
She wore a black velvet dress to
her party, the first such dress she
ever had owned.
81 always wanted a black velvet
Dress" she said. "Now l have one,
even though / had to wait a hundred
years."
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-05-23
NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION

North Carolina
Ashe County.
Having qualified as administrative
of the estate of w. J. Bare, DECEASED,
late of Ashe County, N &C., this Is
to notify all persons having claims
against the estate of said deceased to
exhibit them to the undersigned, at
jefferson, N. c., or before the 25th
day of April, 1886, or this notice will
be pleaded in bar of their recovery.
All persons indebted to said estate
Will please make immediate payment.
This the Gath day of April, 1885.
CALL1E BARE, Administrative
of w. ]. Bare, deceased.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-05-23
NOTICE OF RESALE

North Carolina
Ashe County
In the Superior Court
Before the Clerk
|. H. Stuart, Administrator of
Mamie Barker, deceased
Fitzhugh Lee Barker, ct al.
Under and by virtue of an order of
resale of the Superior Court of Ashe
County made in the above entitled
proceedings, the bid at former SAX
having been raised, 1, Ira T. John
ston, Commissioner, will offer for re-
sale to the highest bidder at the
Courthouse door in Jefferson, North
Carolina, on the third day of June.
1885, at one o'clock p. M. the follow
ing described tract of land, to-wit:
Beginning on a thorn bush w. S.
Jones and G. A. Hurley's corner, run
ming N 43 w Is poles to a black gum
and sarvis w. S. Jones ard G. A.
Hurley's corner; then N 50 + 9 poles
to a dogwood; then N go ] -,oles
to white oak; then N co. F. :: poles
to stake; then N 2 poles t, dc,.-
wood and white oak w. S. jones
80 AANAAOJ 0AAO W I've O1CNluS GOTHIC
then S go E 10 poles to a dogwocd
G. A: Hurley and c. R. Blevins corn
er; then S 80 E IL ga poles to a
white oak G. A. Hurley and C. R.
Blevins corner in G. D. Dickson's
line: then S 280 w ~ poles With G.
d. Dickson and G. A. Hurley's line
to dogwood; then S 62o w il poles
with G. D. Dickson and G. A. Hur-
ey's line to dogwood; then S IL w
8 poles with G. D. Dickson and G. A.
Hurley's line tQ a buckeye; then S
49, W 7poles a West direction
x to a s shs center 4s,J =, poles Is
the beginning, containing Z acres. .
more or less.
Terms Of sale one-third cash. one
third in sixmonths and one-third I'M
twelve months, deferred payments to-
bear interest from date of former
sale. IA
This 18th day of May, 1885. ~
IRA T. JOHNSTON
o-15 Commissioner.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-05-23
NOTICE
North Carolina

North Carolina
Ashe County.
Notice is hereby given that a 1928
model Chevrolet Coupe, Motor Num-
Der 4433O06 and Serial Number IL
A B-31605 was taken in the town of
West Jefferson on or about the 4th
day of May, 1885, the same being
used in the illegal transportation of
Intoxicating liquors and th9A IS the
owner Of same does not come ward
and make claim on or before The - st
day of May, 1886, the said car wiz De
advertised and sold according to law.
" This the 18th dy Of May, 1885.
C. A. KEYS,
5-23 Chief of Police.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-05-23
NOTICE OF SUMMONS
North Carolina
Ashe County.

In the Superior Court
Before the Clerk.
Leila Humphrey
VS..
Columbus Dollar, Smith Dollar.
Minnie Ward Price, Jennie Dollar and
L. p. Coward, Guardian ad Item for
Minnie Ward Price.
The defendants above named will
take notice that an action entitled as
above has been commenced in the
Superior Court Of Ashe County, the
same being for partition of land de-
scribed in the Will Of James Dollar,
deceased, subject to the conditions
contained in said Will and that dulv
verified petition has been filed and
summons issued which is returnable
June 10, 1885, when and where the
defendants are required to appear
and answer or demur to the petition.
The defendants will further take
notice that if they do not appear.
within the time specified the petition
er will request the Court to grant the
relief demanded in the petition.
This 10th day of May, 1885.
j. D. STANSBERRY.
60 Clerk Superior Court.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-05-23
NOTICE Or ADMINISTRATIONS

North Carolina
Ashe County.
Having qualified as administrative
OF the estate of ]. f. Severt. deceas-
ed. late of Ashe County, North Caro-
lima, this is to notify all persons hav-
ing claims against the estate Of sa;S
deceased to exhibit them to the ur1-
dersigned, at Glendale Springs, N. c.
on or before the 9th day of NAV 1896
or this nc ice will be pleaded in bar
of their recovery. All persons indebt-
ed to said estate will please make inn
mediate payment.
This 9th day Of May 1896.
ELLA j. SEVERT, Administrators
of ]. F. Severt, deceased. 6-13
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-05-23
LEGAL NOTICES

Advertisements appearing un-
der this classification, unless
submitted by sheriff, deputy
sheriffs, or lawyers, are pay
able after the first insertion.
This is made necessary due to
the fact that it is almost
impossible to keep up with
accounts in various parts Of
the county without going to the
expense of an elaborate book
ing and collecting system.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-05-23
I7-YEAR LOCUST
TO INVADE ~. C..
Western Part of North Carolina May
Expect Return of Insect
During This Year

Washington.-Western North Caro-
lima may as we'll make preparations
now for the return this year of the
"17-year locust" according to the
department Of agriculture.
His shrill, discordant piping soon
will be heard, but only for short
time.
The peiodical cicada, as the IT,
year-locust is technically known, is
one of Americas strangest bugs, says
]. A. Hyslop Of the department. It
spends most of it's life-17years in
the North and 10 years in the South
practically motionless in an earth
en- cell, sucking to rootlet of tree
or shrub. At the end of this period it
changes into the winged insect form
and lives for about mOnth-usually
June-in the sunlight and fresh air.
The department has each breed
labeled and located, and, if it will aid
any in allaying the ear-splitting rack
ct which they bring, western North
Carolinians may be informed that
their particular breed is breed TX.
Each breed-there are more than
20-has appeared on a regular sched-
ule every II, or 10, years ever since
the Pilgrim Fathers first saw them in
the New England forests. The foun-
ders of the country took it for grant
ed that it was another scourge Of
locusts sent by an angry God, like
those that descended on Egypt in the
time of the pharaohs. The periodical
cicada, however, is not even a very
close relative of tie locust of Egypt.
The grasshoppers that invaded the
northwest in 1884 resemble that pest
much more closely.
Never-Ceasing Roar
The never-ceasing roar by which
the 17-year cicada makes it's presence
known is the composite love song of
the millions of male members of the
breed. This chorus ends only when
the breeds appointed time on earth
is up, for the songs of the individuals
overlap, one songster always being
ready to carry on as another pauses
for breath.
All the din is caused by the vibra-
ton of two tough little drums of
cartilage beneath the wings of the
male. The female is provided with no
musical instruments, but while she
remains mute, she does all the crop
damage. The egg Sits she makes j.:
trees, shrubs and plants Constitute a
sort of genera. wig pruning, not es-
pe1cc.alIy injurious to large forest
trees, but hard on fruit trees and
disastrous to young trees and nursery
stock.
Not Dangerous to Man
The insect is not dangerous to hu-
mans, although it probably could
sting person with its long sucking
beak. It doesn't even make an at
tempt to defend itself when people
pick it up or bird feed on it. Conse-
quently the species has suffered
heavy losses. Some breeds, entomolo-
gists believe, have been entirly wiped
out through Weakening as a weakened
breed has no chance against birds.
At the end of their brief stay above
ground, the periodical cicadas die,
showering the ground with their
wings and dismembered bodies. The
larvae soon hatch from the eggs, drop
quietly to earth, burrow down to a
nourishing rootlet and there build
their subterranean cell Here they rest
gradually growing, for II or 13
years.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-05-23

For the second time Martha South
well, SO, of London received funer-
al. Fifty years ago she was being
borne to her grave when she saved
herself from being buried alive by
knocking on her coffin.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1935-05-23

A scientist in Russia is reported to
have demonstrated how, by means of
an injection, sheep can be made to
shed it's fleece without shearing.