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Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-12-11
THAT
CONVICTION

One of the exploits upon which
the Bureau of Investigation of the
Department of Justice-otherwis
the "G-Men"-is receiving congra-
tulations, is the conviction of ar
Arkansas farmer On a charge OF
peonage. 1t is the first serious blow
struck directly by the Federal gov
eminent at a practice which is said
to be common in many parts of the
South and which amounts, in eff
feet, to enslaving Negroes.
The system is the simple one of
having Negroes arrested on the
charge of vagrancy and then have
the local court sentence them tc
forced labor unler contract to a
farmer. In this particular case the
farmer happened to be the town
marshal and arrested nine Negroe'
as vagrants and had them condem-
ned to work out their fines by labor
on his own farm. The G-Men's at
tention was called to this incident.
and their investigation resulted ir
the conviction of the farmer-mar.
shall, who was fined $500 anc
sentenced to two years in prison il
he fails to pay the fine.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-12-11

to keep their memory green. The
gracious and truly modest gift is
always something perishable-a song
under the window, flowers for the
living room, or, better still.
Of course, Mr.. Woollcott has his
own idea of what the "better still"
sort of expendible gift is for him,
though many folks would not agree
that a bottle of whisky is the best
way of expressing the Christmas
spirit. A little thought will sug-
gest many expendible items that
will find favor with the friends
and relatives who are on your
own Christmas list. Any store sells
expendible as well as indestructible
items. Give more expendible gifts
this year.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-12-11
"EXPENDIBLE" CHRISTMAS
GIFTS

Gifts fall into three classes: some
thing to keep, something to use and
something to use up.
Uuless you know someone very
we'll indeed, anything you give him
or her to keep is likely to be a white
elephant, and anything you give for
use is likely to be something for
which the recipient has no use. By
all means give your grandson a gold
watch to keep or a set of carpenter
ing tools to use, but in every case
of doubt, give an e%xpendible gift
something that can be used up.
Alexander Woollcott, famous
author, expressed this thought re-
Gently thus:
IF you are planning to give me
a present this Christmas, | beg of
you NOT to make it something in
destructible which would only add
to the litter Of my life. Eventually,
| would shove it up in the attic and
then be haunted every time you
came to call for fear you'd notice
it was nowhere around.
such a gift is dictated by tn
same kind of vanity which makes
come rre~ ~et;n"1ate in their wills
lust what k nd q n BE hop
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-12-11
POPULATION DATA
(193O Census)
LOOKING AHEAD Al THE
THE WEATHER

About this time of the year, a
the Old Farmers Almanac used t.
put it, look for the first crop OF
weather forecasts for the Winter
The long-range Projectors are at it
again, ard are trying to tell us tina,
we are going to have a severe Win.
ter with plenty of cold, lots of snow
and some heavy rains. So anyone
who is inclined to believe the wea-
Their prophets might as we'll get a
fur coat and a pair of rubber boots
and be prepared.
Seriously, the chief of the United
States Weather Bureau lends a little
color to this attempt at long-range
forecasting. DR.. w. R. Gregg:
whose nickname in Washington i.
"Old Probabilities" in his annua.
report describes the development Of
new methods of f~oretelling the wea'
Their by the use of radio, 'air-sound'
ing" by means of ballons sent up tt
high attitudes and particularly BY
the study Of previous weather ey.
cles. If there is anything in the wea-
Their cycle theory, then we may bs
in for a long series of cold, wet win
tiers, succeeding the Is years or Sc
of generally mild, open Winters pri'
or to the last one.
The science of meteorology, how
ever, has not yet reached the point
in DR.. Gregg's opinion, where
great reliance can be placed upor
efforts to tell the weather for mor'
than a week or two ahead.
Sometimes in this big country o.
ours the western part will suffe'
under a very severe winter whil
the East is hardly affected. Some
times it is the other way about
Nobody knows yet why the cold al
currents from the North Pol
which sweep southwark sometime
comes down east of the Rock,
Mountains and sometimes west O
the mountains. Nobody is sure we
what effect sun spots and othe
disturbances outside of the earth
atmosphere have upon the weather
The only thing we can be sure o
is, as the old couplet has it:
"Weather it rain or weather it
snow
We shall have weather, weather
or no."
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-12-11

THIS IS n Of the best little
STORIES THAT we have heard in
MANY A Day, all because it did
HAPPEN HERE in Salisbury less
THAN A week ago, and nearly
EVERY READER knows the
CHIEF in this
DRAMA. II think I'll go down
STAIRS AND send Nancy's young
MAN said the young
FATHER about 1880
=
THE H night. Nov Jim"
CAUTIONED HIS wife.
REMEMBER THE way we used
= +
TO COURT?" Jim whistied
SHARPLY. "BY George" he
MUTTERED. "I hadn't thought of
THAT. OUT he does CO."
l THANK YOU.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-12-11
Name Man to
State O i.
A. M. Job

Raleigh. F. Criswell of North
Carolina State college said that he
expecte around 10000 applica-
tons for payments under the 1886
soil conservation program to be fl
led by North Carolinians.
Criswell said close to $4,000 ap-
plications are on hand here, and
they are coming in about 1900 4
day, but he added he could not ye,
estimate how much money the Tai
Heel farmers would get for thei1
participation. Checks he sail, shoule
start reaching growers in late jan
uary or February.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-12-11
TO 0 L MODEL LEAGUE

Rock Hill-A Model League OF
Nations Assembly,, With representa-
tives from colleges throughout this
area, will be held here at Winthrop
College.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-12-11

PLENTY OF
Shelby-The infant daughter OF
Mrs. Hugh Peeler here has a grand
mother, great grandmother and q
great-great-grandmother living.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-12-11
THIS WEEK in
WASHINGTON
CONTINUED from page One)

States, resulting in the holding by
foreign investors of billions of dol
lars worth of stocks and bonds
which they might suddenly take a
notion to dump on the market and
so depress prices abnormally.
There is, of course, no way OF
preventing anybody anywherefrom
buying shares in American corPo-
rations. But if the other nations in
this currency agreement cooperate
in checking shipments of gold to
this country it will be much more
difficult for foreign spectators to
acquire such large holdings in the
American security markets as to
constitute a danger to the stability
of prices.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-12-11
WHATS FUNNY ABOUT
A Joke?

An interesting story disclosing
tests by a British psychologist
which explain why people laugh Or
don't laugh at gags. One of the
illussrated features in the Deem
Der 18th isue of the American
Weekly, the big magazine which
comes every Sunday with the
BALTIMORE AMERICAN. Or
sale at all news stands.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-12-11
FRANK PARKER
STOGkBRID6E
BIRDS a study

OF all of the forms of animal life
which | see around my country
home, birds always interest me
most. There is something facina-
ting in the facility with which they
do what humans can do only with
the aid of costly machines - tina,
is to fly. And even the best air
plane ever built can't light on the
limb of a tree.
The trees around my house are
populated by a great variety Of
birds, varying according to season,
Just nov the blue-jays are the
principal tenants. They are moi
only beautiful to look at, but alone
among the birds l know they seem
to have a sense of humor. At leas,
they always seem to be laughing, a
if at a good joke.
l have a friend, DR.. Casey Wood
a famous o~culist now retired from
practice, whose hobby is the study
of bird vision. He tells me the blue
jay has keener sight than any othe1
American bird except hawks.
HAWKS -. and owls
Wild-life experts are saying now
that farmers make a mistake wher
they shoot hawks. The ~occasiona
chicken which a hawk may snatch
when there is no other food in sigh
is small pay for his services in keep.
ing down the field mice and othe,
+! pests which fatten on crops.
The popular notion that owls ar
especially wise birds is also false
according to Col. H. P. Sheldon o
the U. S. Biological Survey. Owl
are actually rather stupid, he says
They sit still and say nothing be
cause they don't know enough t
do anything else. THE owl is a foe
and you can quote me as saying so
says Col. Sheldon.
! ! don't imagine that owls are an
more foolish than most other bird
however, in the presence of unfa
miliar surroundings. A swallo7
, flew in the open window of m
bedroom not long ago and didn'
have sense enough to go out tn
same way. He broke his neck try
ing to fly through the glass of
. closed window.
PESTS -. . two named
There are two kinds of birds
don't Gke-nor does anyone els
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-12-11
WHEN THE WEST WAS
REALLY WILD

Second of a series of interesting
articles by Arizona Bill" pioneer
of the West, who relates many thrill
ling tales. One of many features in
the December 18th isue of the
American Weekly, the magazine
which comes every Sunday with
the BALTIMORE AMERICAN.
On sale at all news stands.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-12-11

that l know of. They are the Eng
fish sparrows and the starlings, also
an importation from England. IN
like most of our American birds,
neither starlings nor English SPAR
rows migrateNin Winter, and per-
haps because their ancestors have
lived for a thousand generation in
a densely populated country, they
seem to like to stay close to houses.
If they were musical, that might
not be so bad, but the only bird
noise | know which is more annoy
ing than the chattering of English
sparrows is the loud, raucous
squaking of a flock Of starlings.
The worst thing about these i'm
ported birds, however, is not so
much their noise as the fact that
they drive our native birds away
wherever they decide to congregate
WAN -. fresh water
If not the most beautiful of all
birds, the swan comes pretty close
to being the most graceful when
afloat. On land a swan waddles like
a duck, and l have never seen one
in flight, but I like to watch them
swimming
One of my Pennsylvania neigh
bors has a swan farm at Yardley,
where he not only raises swans but
takes them to board in the Winter.
A curious fact about swans is
that they are such strictly fresh
water birds that even a few min
utes of swimming in salt water
makes them i'll, and sometimes kills
them. A theatrical producer who
did not know that put on a chow
on a raft off Jones's Beach on
Long Island last Summer. He Dor
rowed or rented a number of swans
for scenic effect, including some
of the art and valuable black
swans. He had to pay the owners
from $50 to 5000 each for the dead
and disabled swans which he had
tethered to the raft out in the
ocean.
SQUIRRELS -. winter
Next to the birds, the most
friendly and interesting tenants Of
the trees around my house are thu
gray squirrels. They are fat ane
,, thick-furred just now, which some
|, of my country friends say is a f (
cast Of a hard, cold winter. l hav'
been watching squirrels for a gooe
many years, and it is my belief tina
, their fatness and the thickness o.
their fur depends entirely OF
whether they get enough to a o:
not.
Since moving from Massachusetts
to Pennsylvania I have not een an,
of our familiar New England rec
! squirrels. I don't miss them much
they are noisy and quarrelsome.
do, however, miss the little STRIPED
ground squirrels, or chipmunk,
who have to have ~stone-piles ant
sandy soil to live in, and which d.
: not flourish in the smooth, clay
a coll of R,,cLc Go,,ntur
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-12-11
FIRE LOSS DECLINE SIGHTED

Greenville-- SO per cen reduc-
ton in Greenville's $4,000 fire loss
for 1885 was predicted for 1886.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-12-11
Fed TO THE SHARKS

True, stark, real life epic surpas>
sing any tale of fiction of the sea
"a startling true story of men who
challenged destiny. One of many
features in the December 18th is
sue of the American Weekly, the
big magazine which comes regular
" with the BALTIMORE AMER
CAN
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1936-12-11
Expects 100000
to Seek Soil Aid
Funds in N. C.

Raleigh-The State board of Of
ficers of the Junior Order, Uuited
American Mechanics, electeo Edgar
V. Harris of Tarboro last night to
succeed the late Sam F. Vance OF
Kernersville as State secretary. Har-
ris is a past State councillor Of the
organization.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1936-04-23
SATURDAY, MAY 18th, 1886,
at HOO o'clock A. NJ,

the following property, to-wit:
All that lot or parcel of ground ly-
ing and being in Garrett County,
Maryland, and known as Lot No. II
and part of Lot No. 10, a part of a
tract of land called walnut Hills, -
and beginning for the same at pine
tree marked with nine notches, now
down, No. 16 standing at the end of
fifty perches on the third line of Lot
No. 10, of said tract, and running
thence North 70 degrees West, 100
perches to a bounded maple tree, now
gone, marked with nine notches, No.
II, thence South degrees West, 80
perches to a stake bearing North IS
degrees West, II feet from white
oak tree marked with five notches,
North 83 degrees West, &c perches,
South 7 degrees West, 60 perches,
South SO degrees East, rs perches to
the second line of Lot No. II, it be-
ing the last or given line of Lot No.
10, thence with the second line of
said Lot No. II, South II degrees
West, 1876 perches to the end of the
18th line of the whole tract, thence
with the 10Th line thereof, North II
degrees East, 1875 perches, thence by
straight line to the beginning, con-
tanning more than two hundred acres
of land, more or less, and being the
same property conveyed to George A.
Mason by John E. Ruby, widower,
by deed dated November Both, 1925,
and recorded in Liber No. 81, folio
365, of the Land Records of Garrett
County.
This property is improved by a
house and other outbuildings and is
a desirable, well located farm.
TERMS OF SALE-Cash.
EDWARD J. RYAN,
Assignee of Mortgage.
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SUPERVISORS NOTICE
REGISTRATION OF VOTERS
| Office of
The Board of Supervisors of Elections

Office of
The Board of Supervisors of Elections
For Garrett County, Md.
Oakland, Nd, April Is, 1886.
In compliance with the provisions of
Section 20, Article SO of the Code of
Public General Laws of the State of
Maryland, and the amendments there
to, the Board of Supervisors Of Elec-
tions of Garrett County, in the State
of Maryland, does hereby give notice
that the Boards of Registry for the
several Election Districts and Pre-
cincts of said Garrett County will sit
for the purpose of Registering all
qualified voters (male and female) of
said Garrett County who have or who
may attain prior to the day of the
next ensuing general election to be
held in Garrett County, the right to
vote as citizens of the State of Mary
land, from the hour of 900 o'clock A.
NJ, until the hour of 900 o'clock P.
NJ, on
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1936-04-23
ORDER NISI.

Albert L. Lee, Late Treasurer of Garrett
County, Maryland, VS.. A. T. Matthews
and w. A. Gender
No. 1926 Miscellaneous. In the Circuit Court for
Garrett County, Maryland.
1T is ORDERED, By the Circuit Court for
Garrett County, Maryland, this 18th day of
April; 1886, that the sale made and reported in
the above entitled cause, by the County Com
missioners of Garrett County, Maryland body
corporate, be ratified and confirmed, unless
cause to the contrary thereof be shown on or
before the 25th day of May, 1885, provided
a copy of this order be inserted in some news
paper published in Garrett County, Maryland
week for three successive weeks before
the 18th day of May. 1886.
The report states the amount of sale to be
s4953. DAVID A. ROBB.
True copy-Test: A. G. ROSS, Clerk.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1936-04-23
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

THIS is TO GIVE NOTICE, That the sub
scriber hath obtained from the Orphans Court
Of Garrett County. Maryland, Letters Of Ad-
ministration on the estate of
ELIZABETH BUCHANAN,
late Of Garrett County, Maryland, deceased
All persons having claims against the de-
ceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same,
with the vouchers thereof duly authenticated,
to the subscriber on or before the 23rd day of
October. 1886, they may otherwise by law be
excluded from all benefit of the said estate.
All persons knowing themselves indebted to
said estate are requested to make immediate
payment.
Given under my hand this 23rd day of April,
1896. WALTER w. DAWSON, Admir-,
Oakland, Maryland.
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ASSIGNEE'S SALE


Under the power of sale contained
in a certain mortgage executed by
Clarence Beachy and Bertha Beachy,
his wife, on the first day of April,
1919, and recorded in Liber No. Is,
folio 229, etc., Mortgage Records of
Garrett County, Maryland, default
having been made in the covenants of
said mortgage, and the same having
been assigned to the undersigned for
the purpose of foreclosure, l will, on
Saturday, the 10th day of May, 1886,
at the hour Of HOO o'clock A. NJ, in
front of the Court House in the town
of Oakland, Maryland, offer and sell
at public auction, all those peices or
parcels of land, situate, lying and be-
ing in Garrett County, Maryland, con-
tanning the quantity of 100 acres, more
or less, and being the same property
which was conveyed to the said Clar-
ence Beachy by John T. Blocher and
wife by deed dated February 10, 1919,
and recorded in Liber No. rs, folio
95, ETC., Land Records of said Garrett
County, to which said deed reference is
hereby made for a full description of
said property by courses and dis
tances.
The same is good, productive farm
with a good dwelling, barn, silo, out
buildings, orchard, etc. This is de-
sirable property, and is located with
in two miles of the State Highway.
TERMS OF SALE-Cash.
FRED. A. THAYER,
Assignee of Mortgage.
A d,rnrti cnnnnt At
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1936-04-23
ORDER NISI.

Albert L. Lee, Late Treasurer of Garrett
County, Maryland, vs.. George Giessman
~ Court for Garrett County, Maryland. '
1T is ORDERED, By the Circuit Court for
Garrett County, this 10th day of April, 1886,
that the sale made and reported in the above
entitled cause by the County Commissioners of
Garrett County, Maryland. be ratified and con-
firmed, unless cause to the contrary thereof be
shown on or before the 25th day of May 1886
some newspaper published in Garrett County,
Maryland, once a week for three successive
weeks before the 18th day of May, 1886.
The report states the amount of sale to be
$4,000. DAVID A. ROBB.
True copy-Test: A. G. ROSS, Clerk.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS

THIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE. That the SUBJ
scriber hath obtained from the Orphans
Court of Garrett County, Maryland, Letters
JONAS M. SCHROCK,
late of Garrett County, Maryland, deceased.
All persons having claims against the deceased
the vouchers thereof duly authenticated, to
the subscriber on or before the 10th day of
October, 1886, they may otherwise by law
be excluded from all benefit of the said estate.
All persons knowing themselves indebted to
SAID estate are requested to make immediate
payment.
Given under my hand this 18th day of April,
1886. NOAH BRENNEMAN, admir-. C. t. a.,
Grantsville MARYLAND.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS

THIS is TO GIVE NOTICE, That the sub.
scriber hath obtained from the Orphans Court
of Garrett County, Maryland, Letters Of Ad-
ministration the estate of
JAMES E. MORELAND,
late of Garrett County, Maryland, deceased
All persons having claims against the de-
with the vouchers thereof duly authenticated.
to the subscriber on or before the 10th day of
October, 1886, they may otherwise by law be
excluded from all benefit of the said estate.
All persons knowing themselves indebted to
said estate requested to make immediate
payment.
Given under my hand this 18th day of April,
1885, ANNA S. LOWER, Admix,
Mt. Lake Park. Maryland.
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TUESDAY,
The 2Sth Day of April, 1886,

at their respective places of registra-
pose of registering in their respective
registries of voters all persons who
possess or shall possess on or before
the day of the next general election in
the State of Maryland the requisite
qualifications under the Constitution
of the State of Maryland and the
laws made hereunder emitting them
to vote in the said election districts.
And the places of registration for
the several Election Districts and
Precincts shall be as follows:-
Election District Number One
SWANTON
The Officers of Registration for the
First Election District will attend and
sit for the purpose aforesaid in the
Election Building in the village of
SWanton.
Election District Number Two
First Precinct
FRIENDSVILLE
The Officers of Registration for the
First Precinct of the Second Election
District will attend and sit for the
purpose of registering those qualified
whose surnames begin with A and in
Guiding those whose surnames begin
with X in the Town Council Chamber
in the Town of FriendSvi11e
Election District Number Two
Second Precinct
FRIENDSVILLE
The Officers of Registration for the
Second Precinct of the Second Elec-
ton District will attend and sit for
the purpose of registering those quail
flied whose surnames begin with l. and
including those whose surnames begin
with in the store of John Holman in
the Town of Friendsville.
Election District Number Three
First Precinct
EVANSVILLE
The Officers of Registration for the
First Precinct of the Third Election
District will attend and sit for the
purpose of registering those qualified
whose surnames begin with A and in
Guiding those whose surnames begin
with K in the Woodmen of the World
Building in the Town of Grantsville.
Election District Number Three
Second Precinct
JENNINGS
The Officers of Registration for the
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1936-04-23
COMMISSIONERS MEETING

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN That
the Board of County Commissioners
of Garrett County, Maryland, will hold
it's regular bi-monthly meeting at its
offices in the Court House, Oakland,
Maryland, on
MONDAY, MAY a, 1886,
for the purpose of transacting all
business that may be brought before
them.
WALTER G. MEYERS, Clerk.
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Law Offices of Edward J. Ryan,
Cumberland, Md.
Mortgages Sale
VALUABLEFARMPROPERTY
Located Near AviltOn, Maryland

Under and by virtue of power of
sale contained in a mortgage from
George A. Mason, dated December 9Th,
1925, and recorded in Liber No. 80,
folio 81, of the Mortgage Records
of Garrett County, and duly assigned
to the undersigned for the purpose of
foreclosure, default having occurred
in the covenants and provisions of
said mortgage, 1 will offer at public
sale in front of the First State Bank
Building, in Grantsville, Maryland,
on
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DEBT NOTICE

THIS is TO GIVE NOTICE, Tha
my wife, Marie Fike, has left he1
home and that will not be responsible
for any debt or debts contracted by
her in my name.
KENNETH FIKE.
Mt. Lake Park, Md, April 6, 1886.
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