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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-24

Mrs. r. o. McAlexander, presi-
dent, and Mrs. A. S. Ayres, general
arrangements committee first vice
chairman, are to head the receiv-
ing line for the sixth anniversary
of the Woman's Department Club
Saturday at the Marott.
With them are to be Mesdames
Felix T. McWhirter, H. B. Burnet
and Alvin T. Coate, founders; Mrs.
Everett M. Schofield, past president;
Mesdames James D. Ermston, first
vice president; A. G. Rasmussen,
second vice president; Hezzie B.
Pike, third vice president; John F.
Engelke, recording secretary; NAL
colin Lucas, corresponding secre-
tary; Edgar R. Eskew, membership
secretary; Horace G. Casady, treas
urer, and Harold K. Bachelor, au-
ditor.
Others receiving are to be Mes
danes James M. DUNCAN, w. D.
Hamer, Harry Watson, William c.
Bartholomew, Oscar L. Watkins and
Oscar M. Pittinger, directors; Mrs.
Charles L. Hartman, American
home department chairman; Mrs.
John M. Williams, art; Mrs. Charles
H. Smith, community welfare, and
Mrs. Robert Bruce Malloch, litera-
ture and drama
Luncheon to Follow
Following the reception, luncheon
is to be served in the gold ballroom,
where white roses and festoons of
greenery are to decorate the speak
ers' table. White tapers and green
cry are to be on guest tables.
Seated with Mrs. McAleXander
are to be Mrs. Paul T. Hurt, gen.
eral arrangements chairman; Rich
ard Halliburton, who is to speak en-
Seven League Boots" and Mes
danes McWhirter, Burnet, Coate,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-24

Moreover, there is a satisfaction
in it that can not possibly be
known to anybody who has not
attempted it. There is thrill
about calling on all ones powers
and getting response from them.
I am convinced that most people
are capable of accomplishing
more than they ever do"
Incidentally, it is said that the
opening of THE Eternal Road"
staged as charity benefit spon-
Sored by the New York Exchange
for Women's Work, one of the
country's oldest charitable insti-
buttons run bysociety women, will
set new high in admission prices.
Tickets will be scaled from 500.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-24
Two D. A. r.
Groups Back
n di tie
Mrs. w. H. Schlosser Is
First Named for
State Regent.

The Alexander Hamilton Chapter,
Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton, of Franklin, and Piankeshaw
Chapter of New Albany. today an
nounced the candidacy of Mrs. Will
liam H. Schlosser for state regent.
Mrs. SchlosSer is the first candi-
date to be named for the Office. She
is retiring state chaplain.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-24

finds. Not so many children are
raising rabbits for pets.
Today. parakeets Glove BIRDS
chatter in their cages, monkeys
scamper up and down tree limbs
and tiny white mice ride round
and round on a miniature wheel.
Yesterday their welfare was
problem.
The zero and sub-zero tenn
peratures necessitated additional
precautions on the part of the pet
owners and pet shops.
IT'S going to be good market
i for goldfish this spring, too.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-24
BIRDS TO BE TOPIC
AT CLUB MEETING

Discussion of birds by Sidney
Esten is to feature the Y. w. c. A.
Nature Club meeting at Friday at
the headquarters. New members
are invited.
The organization is formed to
continue the interests of the Y. w.
c. A. campers who attended Camp
Mccormick last summer. The club
meets bi-monthly, for study and a
field trip.
A series of bird hikes is to be held
in the early spring.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-24
GROUP TO
MEET WEDNESDAY

Luncheon meeting of the Colo
nial-Boston Chapter. international
Travel-Study Club, is to be held at
the Marott Wednesday. Guests are
to include Mrs. Lola Emery. Mrs.
Jules Zinter and Mrs. Glenna Cag-
Isle.
Hostesses are to be Mesdames L.
]. Badollet. E. T. Johnston. D. n.
Brosnan and H. II. Wells.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-24
TRETTONS ATTEND
MARRIAGE OF son

Mr.. and Mrs. James P. Tretton
Sr. and daughter, Miss Marjory
Tretton, attended the marriage
ceremony in Chicago for Mr.. and
Mrs. Tretton's son, James P. Tret-
ton Jr., and Miss Elizabeth Jane
Hotton.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-24
MISS FUCHS NAMED
PHI BETA CHI HEAD

Miss Marie Fuchs is the newly
elected president of Phi Beta Chi
Sorority. Other officers are Mrs.
Oran Allen, vice president; Miss Lu-
ellie Anterior, secretary; Mrs How
ard Craig, treasurer, and Miss
Leona German, librarian.
Election was held recently at the
home of Mrs. Allen.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-24

Miss Mary Jane McGaughey and
her house guest. Miss Betty Walker,
Greenfield. have returned to classes
at De Paw University after attend
ing the Alpha Chi Omega Sorority
dance Saturday night at the Indian
apolis Athletic Club.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-24
EPHAMAR CLUB TO
MEET WEDNESDAY

Officers are to be elected at the
Ephamar Club meeting Wednes-
day at the home of Mrs Lonnetta
Yocum, 3619 N. Illinois-st,
Following the luncheon Mrs. H.
j. Scudder is to talk on Life and
Work of Washington" and Mrs. j.
j. Warmer, Life and Work of Lin
coin" Music is to be provided
by Mrs. S. w. Gray.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-24
Club Plans Supper

Good Will Service Club members
are to discuss the supper to be
given March 6 at the Foodcraft
shop, at it's noon luncheon Wednes-
day at Mrs. Arthur LaRue'S home,
3G14 College-av. Mrs. Frank White
is program chairman for the supper.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-24

The election is
to be held at the
state conference
in Terre Haute,
the week of Oct.
IL.
Mrs. Schlos S e r
is an associate
member of Plan
keshaw Chapter,
and has belonged
to lie X n d e +
Hamilton Chap
ter Is years. She
outlined plans for
N~-v,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-24
BY ELIZABETH CARR

THERE'S going to be scare
u ity of Easter Dummies this
spring, predicts Richard Ward of
Wards Pet Shop. with a shake
Of his head.
The severe winter has taken
its toll in both human life and in
animal life. Rabbits can stand
the cold and the heat, but when
they are domesticated they can't
stand such severe and drastic
changes"
Like Christmas trees. Easter
Dummies are seasonal, Mr.. Ward
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-24

Theater'S musical
revue. Hold Your
Hats" W h i C h
opened Saturday
night at the Play
house.
AS she hunted
for ideas S h e
found the damask
draperies which
C ur t a in e d the
stage Of the Civic
(then the Little
Theater) at the
Masonic Temple.
When the thee Tor
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-24

DR.. and Mrs. G. 0. Mccormick are
visiting for week in the East.
While they are gone DR.. Mccormick
is to make addresses before medical
societies in Pittsburgh, New York,
Baltimore and Washington.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-24
Civic Actors
COStunnedin
Old Grapes
Mrs. Donald Carter Uses
Odds and Ends in
Her Creations.
BY BEATRICE BURGAN
So, isty Editor

S0tIetY EDITOR
GIVE Mrs. Donald Carter pair
~ of shears, discarded drape,
some odds and ends of lace and
package OF pins and before one
knows what she is doing, she has q
costume with definite period style.
She turned ingenious tricks in
costuming the cast for the Civic
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-24
PYOQrUn1 ARRANGED

zcnta Club is to present Signora
Luz Castillo, Colombia, South Amer
lea, in musical program at $50
tomorrow night at the Columbia
Club. Club members and their guests
are to have dinner preceding the
o. ogranl,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-24
p. E. @. Chapter Meets

Mrs. Harry B. Meyers is to be
hostess tonight for the meeting of
Chapter P, p. E. o. Sisterhood.
Miss Kathryn Journey is to present
the program, and Mrs. Arthur Nc
Commons is to assist the hostess.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-24
NJ Y DA Y
By Mrs. Franklin d. Roosevelt

HYDE PARK-When you are not accustomed to getting
up at els M it seems very early hour. However,
when you know you must get up somehow other you
always remember to wake, and made the 7:30 m.
train for Philadelphia Saturday very comfortably
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-24
Pdrtu POSTPONED

Valley Forge party of tile Indian
apolis Business and Professional
Women's Club scheduled for tonight
has been postponed indefinitely.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-24
Townsend Club Dances

Old-fashioned square dances were
on the program at dance of the
Haughville Townsend Club Satur-
day night.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-24
Chorus Is POstnOned

The first sectional of the Fedora
ton of Mothers Choruses scheduled
for, Thursday has been postponed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-24

Mrs. Roscoe Conkle (above) has
arranged the Washington frolic
and anniversary party of the
Municipal Gardens Women's De-
partment Club at s tomorrow in
the clubhouse. Members and
their families and friends have
been invited.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-24
Married i'm Recent Ceremony

Mrs. Glenn
Thompson
(right)
before her
recent mar
riage aUas
Miss Agnes
Medsker,
niece of Mr..
and Mrs.
Roy C. Sims.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-03-19

rate is / IA cents pound, but in
no case less than Is per cent of the
rate for cotton.
Diversion payments on other soil
depicting crops will be fixed later,
Dean Schaub stated.
The maximum amount of cotton
land on which diversion payments
will be made for shifting to soil
building or conserving crops is 40
per cent of the base acreage.
The maximum diversion on which
tobacco payments will be made is
80 per cent of the base, and the
maximum for peanuts is 20 per cent
of the base, the dean pointed out.
No diversion payment will be
made on food and feed crops if the
farmer, in diverting land in these
crops to soil improvement reduces
his food and feed production below
the amount needed on his farm.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-03-19
Local Y. p. u. to
Have Professor
to Speak ON 18th

Rev. M. S. Kincheloe Professor Of
Bible ad College pastor at Emory
and Henry College, Emory, Virginia,
will be the speaker at the Ashe
County Young Peoples Union ban
quet at the West Jefferson Methodist
Church Saturday night, March %.
Tickets for the banquet are now
on sale by Miss Lillis Houck at
Baldwin, Miss Lille Elliott at War
rensville, Miss Ruth Allen Worth at
Jefferson, Miss Ellen Bumgarner at
Lansing and Miss Alta Dickson at
Grassy Creek.
Rev. Mr.. Kincheloe is a graduate
of Emory and Henry College and
Duke University. He is we'll known
here, having married Miss Matte
GRAPHICAL, formerly of this county.
Mr.. Kincheloe will also speak at the
Countrywide Fellowship Meeting at
the Jefferson church the fifth Sum
day afternoon, March 20.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-03-19
New Grade on 10
Near Completion
Machinery Used Day and Night
to Make Progress on the
Jefferson Highway
WILKES JoURNAL-PATRIoT

WILKES JoURNAL-PATRIoT
Workmen are making much head
way toward completion of grading a
seven-mile link of highway Is from
Wilbar to the intersection of the
Blue Ridge Parkway survey on the
summit of the Blue Ridge.
The new grade has been complet-
ed for over five miles and the con-
struction forces are now blasting the
grade along the sleeper inclines on
the south side of the main ridge for
nation of the Blue Ridge on what
is colloquially termed "the jumping
off place" because of its ruggedness
and picturesque beauty.
T. M. Strider and company, con-
tractors, have been using two shifts
of workmen daily in order to rush
the work when weather conditions
permit and equipped their machin-
cry with lights in order to keep
work progressing after nightfall.
After the grade is completed a
crushed stone and gravel surface
will be applied and a bituminous
surface will later be given after the
crushed stone and gravel surface
has been thoroughly settled and
packed.
Meanwhile contract will be let
this month for bituminous surface
on the link previously graded which
extends fro mthe intersection with
the Boone Trail at Millers Creek five
miles to Wilbar, the beginning point
of the project now under construc-
ton.
Engineers who are familiar with
the new survey on number 16 agree
that it will compare favorably with
the Boone Trail highway, which is
generally recognized as the best
highway that now crosses the ma
jestic Blue Ridge.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-03-19
Take Your Choice
rHE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER

TWO NEWSPAPER heads, in
= the same newspaper:
/. "Hoover Blasts New Deal
for Creating Fear-Says All
Business Afraid of What Will
Happen Next-Asserts Initiation
Near-Declares Budget Worst
Balanced in History and Entire
Country Confused"
2. "Trade Volume Nearing
Peak of Boom Years-Activity
in Security Markets is Picking
Up-Bonds at New Highs
Roger Babson Gives Outline of
Sound Investment Program to
Hedge Initiation"
Neither Hoover nor Babson is
an advocate of the New Deal nor
a partisan of President Roose-
welt. The one is an arch-foe of
the administration, Roosevelt
and the New Deal, the other is
an economist, a business mans
adviser, not a politician nor a
political partisan.
Pay your money and take
your choice.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-03-19
Former Resident
Interested i'm Ashe

DEAR MISS REEVES: Enclosed
please find check for renewal Of my
subscription to the Skyland Post.
We look forward to its arrival
each Tuesday. It tells us of the
changes taking place in the county
where a large per cent of our saw
ings are invested and where many
of our old friends live. Sentiment
grips us firmly. It also tells us of the
people: their progress their marri-
ages their deaths and other changes
Having been away for many years
frequently have difficulty identify
ing individuals owing to the use OF
initials instead of first names. If
had been able to keep in closer
touch I would not now be faced
with that problem.
We enjoy the news items, Editor
ials, Nuts and Kernels, Farm and
Garden, advertisements and, in fact,
the entire paper. We believe that
continuance of the high ideals and
broad minded position the Post
takes on public matters will prove
to be a tremendous force for adj
vancement in the county.
The road improvements will bring
many people to the county-tourists,
summer home site seekers and 9TH
ers. I hope the towns and farm
homes may be made and kept clean,
neat and orderly so that visitors may
take a favorable opinion of our
mountain section to their friends
That will bring more people and
more money. We want to show the
world that we are not the hill billy
type that is expected but instead we
want them to find the finest and pur-
est blood in America has not degen-
Grated into a slovenly improvident
class.
Assuring you Of our good wishes
for your success, I am,
Verify truly,
JAMES L. BALLOU, M. D.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-03-19
NANCY RUTH REEVES, Editor
Why Lag Behind?

WE ARE anxious for Ashe to
W get up in the list of "firsts"
for something, but failing here,
we should manage to come in on
some seconds.
The Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution have recently
unveiled a marker in Asheville
to the memory of the late Sam
uel A. Ashe, for which the city
of Asheville was named. Surely
a marker with some similar
thought would be appropriate
for some spot in this county
dedicated to our namesake, the
same Samuel A. Ashe. We have
civic organizations in the county
and public-minded citizens out
side the organizations who
should be interested in giving
Ashe a historic touch to which
she is entitled by marking
graves of some of our illustrious
dead, marking various spots of
interest, and giving honor to the
man for whom we were named.
1t is a matter of record that
the first North Carolinian killed
in the World War was an Ashe
county boy, but we have done
nothing so far to tell our visitors
about it, and it is doubtful if our
students of history who are
studying about the World War
know about it.
A modest but attractive mark
er has been placed on a hill be-
yond Jefferson to the memory
Of John Bower, the man who
gave the property on which the
town was built. How many of us
have been interested enough in
the marker to learn where it is,
or knowing where it is, making
a trip up to it to look at it? How
many of us know about the facts
of the beginnings of Ashe and
the founding of Jefferson ?
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-03-19
MRS. MARY KILBY YOUNG

Mrs. Mary Kilby Young, 70, pass
ed away at her home in the Green
wood community early Thursday
morning, Feb. rs, after having beer
ill eleven days.
She is survived by ten children
B. F., and Ralston, of Oklahoma;
r., Grassy Creek; w. T. Madison
Nebraska; M. c., and Grant, Vir.
ginia; Paul, J. B., and Mrs. w. E
Dickson, Rugby, Virginia; Mrs. w. E
Sturgill, Marion, Virginia; Mrs. w
H. Jones, Warrensville, and Mrs. J
A. Jones, Pedra, Ohio.
Forty-nine grandchildren anc
thirty-three great-grandchildren al
so survive, as do htree sisters anc
one brother: Roby Kilby, and Mrs
Winton Osborne, Bel Air, Maryland
Mrs. Maggie Pennington, Hickman
Miller, Maryland; and Mrs. Bani;
Spencer, Helton, N. c.
Funeral services were held in thu
Greenwood Methodist Church, Fri
day, at II o'clock by Reverends J. o
Cox, Carl Sturgill, and Estil Elle1
Grandsons and daughters of tn
| deceased were pail bearers and flow
er girls. Interment was in tn,
Greenwood cemetery.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-03-19
ASHE COUNTY CLUB AT A.S.TC

The Ashe county students of Ap-
palachian State Teachers College
met during the winter quarter and
formed an Ashe County Club. The
names of the officers elected to rep
resent this club are as follows. Nv.
ard Goodman, pre- cit; Nra.rne
Blevins, vice-presiG mt; and Edna
M!.'er, secretary I'D treas.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-03-19

A public speaker has spoken
these words which are not new
in thought, but which deserve to
be perpetuated as spoken: The
men who lead communism in
Russia are men willing to share
nothing they have with every
thing you have.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-03-19
Schaub Gives Details
of New Program for
North State Farmers

Soil conservation grants Of Is to
20 million dollars probably will be
paid North Carolina farmers this
year under the new farm program.
The exact amount, said Dean I. 0.
Schaub, of State College, will de-
pend largely upon the number of
farmers entering the program and
the amount of land on which grants
are to be paid.
Although no contracts will be
signed as under the lod AAA, farm
ers will be paid for devoting part of
their land to soil-building or soil
conserving crops, he explained.
The three major detectives of the
soil conservation and domestic al
lotment act are:
Conservation of the soil through
wise use of the land. This will also
check the overproduction of soil-de-
pleting cash crops.
Re- establishment and maintenance
of farm income at 'fair level"
Protection of consumers by assur-
ing adequate supplies of food, feed,
and other farm commodities now
and in the future.
With these detectives, said the
dean, the new program will have a
broader significance than the old
AAA, although it may not limit cash
crops as effectively as was done be-
fore.
Farmers who qualify for payments
this year will be required to have
an acreage of soil-conserving crops,
or land devoted to some other con-
servation practice, equal to at least
20 per cent of the acres in soil-de-
pleting crops.
And he must not have an acreage
of depicting crops this year greater
than his base acreage for these
crops.
! The bases and normal average
yields for cotton, tobacco, and pea
nuts will be the same as established
for 1896 under the old AAA.
Bases for other depicting crops
will be worked out on a fair and
equitable basis by the Secretary of
Agriculture, Dean Schaub said.
Cotton, tobacco, corn, wheat, pea
nuts, truck, and the like are CLASH
fed as soil-depleting crops. Soil
conserving crops include forest
trees, legumes, hays, and pasture
grasses.
Part of the soil conservation grant
to each farm will be a moderate soil
maintenance payment, probably rs
cents an acre, on land planted to
soil-building or conserving crops.
Fields already in these crops, and
on which the crops are maintained
in 1886, will qualify for these pay.
ments as well as fields where these
crops are plants this year for the
first time in several years.
The other part of the grant will be
a diversion payment on land shifted
from depicting crops to soil-buildins
or conserving crops.
| A diversion payment of six cents ;
pound on the average production O.
land thus taken out of cotton ha:
been recommended.
The recommended tobacco pay
ment is at least five cents pound
but in no event less than the rate
lper pound on cotton.
For peanuts, the recommended
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-03-19
BANK RESOURCES AS GOOD
NOW AS IN THE YEAR OF 1929

Quincy P. Hood State commits
sioner of banks announced the past
week that resources of all banks in
totaled $418,89O,OOO, the highest
mark since 1929.
Total resources of national banks
in the State were $1OO,672,OOO and of
State banks, including industrials,
$318,318,OOO.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-03-19

Nothing could be quieter than
a session of Congress before a
presidential election. The demo-
Gratis do not want to stir up any
strife and the republicans are of
the same opinion. Each would be
willing to stir up a hornets nest
if either could be sure that it
would react on the other party,
but because one can never be
sure of the changing public both
sides have been almost literally
quiet during the present session.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-03-19
CARD OF THANKS

We wish to extend our heartfelt
thanks to our many friends and
neighbors for their kindness toward
us during the illness and death of
our dear mother Mrs. Mary Kilby
Young.-TTIE FAMILY.