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Evening star., 1936-10-31
NORTHERN VIRGINIA
REALTY SALES NOTED
Six-Room House in Lyon Village
Acquired by Mrs. Mary E.
Lord of Washington.

Recent sales of Northern Virginia
property through the ofiice Of Ralph
w. Grain, Arlington County real estate
broker, include the following trans
actions:
Six-room house at 1912 North Edge
wood street, Lyon Village, sold for
Murphy e. Ames, Inc, to Mrs. Mary
E. Lord of Washington; new FIVE
room brick home at 1920 Twentieth
street north, built by e. Newton
Snider, and sold to Mrs. Bessie l..
Stoneburner; new five room brick
house built on Fairfax drive by E.
Newton Snider. purchased by George
H. Parish of Washington; the Blue
Boar tourist camp at Fairfax, Va,
sold by M. r. Beitsel to Mrs. Ruth
Mingee, of Washington; six-room and
two-bath brick home at Twentieth
and North Randolph streets, built by
Ernest G. Walker and sold to Lieut..
J. P. Ingram, u. S. c. G.
Grain reports growing interest in
small farms and building sites in the
vicinity Of Mclean and Falls Church,
in Fairfax County.
Evening star., 1936-10-31

chasers are acquiring properties for
the purpose Of conversion into mag
nificent estates. In the more desir-
able locations in New Hampshire. YER
mont, Maine, Massachusetts, and the
Cape Cod section, fine Summer resi-
dences have recently changed hands.
Florida is practically 100 per cent
ahead of last year in both volume of
jority of deals in that area have
been confined to smaller properties,
possibly because there is a State tax
exemption clause on the first $4,000
Of the purchase price, several sales Of
large estates in excess Of 100000
(See SURVEY, Page C.6)
Evening star., 1936-10-31

(See CONVENTION, Page C-2)
Evening star., 1936-10-31
WASTE OF ELECTRICITY

Albert v. Krewatch, specialist In
rural electrification for the Univer-
sity Of Maryland Extension Service,
points out that lamp sockets and
cords waste electricity and deteriorate
rapidly when used with heat appli-
ances. If the cord on the toaster or
electric iron gives out, new cord
suited to that piece of equipment will
save current and possibly serious
accident.
Evening star., 1936-10-31
SUBDIVISION PUSHED
Work Progressing Rapidly or
Tract Along Foxhall Road.

The District has given approval and
work is progressing in subdividing
the 26-acre tract along Foxhall road
and just west of Wesley Heights,
which is the property of Mrs. Susie
E. Curran. The subdivision will be
known as Blanchard Park.
Maj. F. H. Norcross is in charge of
work of subdividing the property for
Mrs Curran. Located south of Fox
hall road and separated from Wesley
Heights by a Government park, the
land is rolling and heavily wooded.
Mrs. Curran said she will begin i'm
mediately to sell home sites in the
tract.
Evening star., 1936-10-31
DELEGATES FROM AFFAIR
Hawaiians to Attend New Orleans
Realty Convention.

At least three delegates from Hawaii
are to attend the convention OF, the
National Association of Real Estate
Boards in New Orleans, November 1e
to 81. Real estate men from distant
parts Of Canada also have notified
Herbert q. Nelson, executive secretary
Of the association, of plans to attend.
Evening star., 1936-10-31
Air Route Lighted.

Airways between the state capitals
OF Australia are to be provided with
1850, acknowledgement lights, which
will be visible 40 miles away I, pilots
flying at an altitude of 5000 fyet.
Evening star., 1936-10-31
MUM SHOW WINNER
Ward H. Bower Takes Medal in
Woodbridge Club Contest,

Ward H. Bower carried away the
sweepstakes at the second annual
chrysanthemum show of the Woodbridge
Garden Club. The Michel medal for
horticultural merit was presented to
Bower, who also exhibited the best
flower in the show. Harold c. kim
ner won second place honors, while
George S. Marshall finished third.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-02-13
Study Season Being
Observed By Ashe
Co. Presbyteridns

'Faith of Our Fathers, study
book written by DR.. D. Clay Lilly,
of Reynolda, is this month being
studied at the week night sessions
of the Lansing, Jefferson and Foster
Memorial Presbyterian Churches
The book is written in keeping with
the plans for the celebration of the
Diamond Jubilee in in commemora-
ton of the seventy fifth birthday of
the Southern Presbyterian Church
as separate communion.
The chapter headings of the book
are as follows: I. Who Through
Faith (Which tells of the stirring
war days and of the beginning of
the church,; II. Reviewing the Past;
III. Surveying the Present; w. Fac
ing the Future.
On the covers of the book is the
picture of the historic first Presby-
terian Church, of Augusta, Ca,
where on Dec. 4, 1861 the first AS
,semb1y met The next Assembly
convenes there on May 21st.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-02-13
Mrs. Finley Mast
Passes In Lenoir

Mrs. Finley Mast, of Vale Crucis,
died at Lenoir hospital Sunday
morning. Mrs. Mast had been on a
visit to her son at Patterson when
she was taken ill and carried to the
hospital. She was around seventy
five years of age and widely known
woman. Her home was gathering
place for many notables and she
was instrumental in helping put
much of the handicraft of the
mountains before the public.
Funeral services were held at
Vale Crucis Monday. Hon. and Mrs.
Ira T. Johnston and son, Thomas, of
Jefferson, attended the funeral.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-02-13
Schools Ordered To
Close If Attendance
Not Good In District
Supt. Miller Asks Principals And
Teachers To Maintain 800
Average Or Close

Superintendent j. Ivan Miller is
requesting all teachers and princi-
pals in outlying districts to close
their schools unless they can main
tain an average of at least ninety
percent of their regular attendance.
This request has been made nee
essary because many of the teach
ers have kept schools open when
only a small portion of their pupils
have been able to attend. The re-
duced attendance which has to be
filed in Raleigh will be used as a
basis for the alloting of teachers to
the county next year. Continued
low attendance reports will result
in the losing of teachers for the
county. Prof. Miller is also anxious
for the schools to be run for the
benefit Of the students, which car
not be done if the weather is such
that it is impossible for the stu
dents to attend.
The discontinued schools will
have to run longer in the spring,
but the unprecedented cold wealth
er makes Superintendent Miller's
request necessary.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-02-13
Mrs. Emma Grant
Sutherland Dies
Of Heart Attack
Aged Resident OF CrestOn Com
munity Is Stricken In Road
And Dies Immediately

Mrs. Emma Grant Sutherland,
widow of the late David Suther-
land, died suddenly from a heart
attack last Thursday. Mrs. Suther-
land had been to visit a neighbor
and renter on the place and was re-
turning home when she was strick-
en-. She fell in the road at the mouth
of Rock Creek Men working near
by heard her call for help, but she
died before they were able to carry
her to the house.
Funeral services were held Sat-
urday morning and interment fol-
lowed in the family cemetery. Rev.
A. G. Lackey was in charge of the
services.
Mrs. Sutherland is survived by
one daughter, Mrs. Minnie Suther-
land.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-02-13
Cold Holds Firm
Grip On Ashe And
Nearby Counties
Western States Face Coal, Food,
And Water Shortage; Last
Friday Coolest Night

Ashe county continues to be held
in the cold and unyielding grip of
King Winter as thermometers fall
to zero during nights and barely
rise above during the days. Several
days of sunshine have failed to
make any decided impression on
the heavy snow fall of last week.
The main highways have melted off
after being scraped and are clear,
but side roads, fields, and noun
tains have melted little.
According to the government
thermometer kept by Mr.. Joe
Worth in Jefferson, Friday night
was the coolest night of the year,
six below zero registering. Hereto
fore, only one, two, and three de-
grees had registered in Jefferson.
Residents of the Jeffersons were
surprised at the reading since there
was no wind blowing, it did not
seem so cold. Reports from western
and mid western states tell of coal,
food, and water shortages. Many
farmers are faced with the problem
of getting water for their cattle and
other stock since streams are frozen
almost solid.
Chicago faced a serious milk
shortage. Some diaries supplied on
ly hospitals. There were no regular
deliveries in Des Moines, Iowa City
dairymen reduced their allotments
by SO per cent. In other Iowa towns
the fluid was given only to families
with children. Fort Dodge ran short
of meat.
Henry, Bureau and Star counties
in Illinois were low on milk. The
rural areas of Southern Minnesota
were pressed for provisions. Sleds
and hand-drawn toboggans brought
food to snow locked homes.
Many households were without
coal in temperatures that ranged
down to Is below zero. Mayor r. S.
Pollard .o1dezzed schools, churches
and public meeting places in Co.
lumbia, Mo-, closed for a week.
Coal Is RatiOned
Coal was rationed at Moline, Of
tawa and Bureau county, Ill. It was
carefully doled out in many South
ern Minnesota communities and in
Yankton, Mitchell and Sioux Falls,
S. D.
The University of South Dakota
and innumerable schools in the
Midwest closed. The bituminous
coal commission at Washington
warned it would fix maximum
prices If necessary to protect con-
sumers.
Although the mercury rose dur
ing the day, no substantial relief
from the abnormal cold was prom
ised until Thursday.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-02-13
Free Cheese-Flavored
Pop Corn To Teachers

The Carolina Food Products
Company, of Mt. Airy, N. c., is Of
fering to send, free, sample pack
ages of O-Ke-Doke cheese favored
pop corn to school teachers for
their pupils, provided the teachers
will write in to the factory at Mt.
Airy making the request and at the
time send in five names of stores in
the town or community where they
teach that might handle the pop
corn.
This offer is made as part of an
advertising scheme in order to &C
quaint the public with the new
Kraft-Phenix Cheese product, and
it is thought that many of the
teachers in the county will be glad
to take advantage of the offer.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-02-13
Mrs. Charles Carson
Passes Suddenly In
BluefeLd, West Va.
Former Resident OF This County
Buried Saturday; Was Native
Of Beaver Greek a

Mrs. Charles Carson, aged 81, di-
ed suddenly at her home in Blue
field, w. Va, last Thursday, Feb. 8.
Mrs. Carson had been in good
health until a few days prior to her
death and she had been down town
to visit a doctor the morning she
died.. Her physician had prescribed
rest and she had come home and
gone to bed when she suffered a
heart attack and died at once.
Mrs. Carson's husband died in
1929.
The deceased was married in 1895
and left this county with her hus-
band in 1900. She was a prominent
and beloved woman in Bluefeld,
having lived there for the past IS
years. She was a daughter of the
late Mr.. and Mrs. Marcus Hardin, of
Beaver Creek. She is survived by
two sons, John NJ, and Charles H.,
both of Bluefeld; one brother,
Fields Hardin, of Beaver Creek;
one sister, Mrs. Mary J. Howell, of
Russell, Mont. Mrs. Carson was a
sister-in-law to Mesdames Flora
Johnson, J. D. Perkins, and w. J.
Ray.
Due to the bad weather, relatives
from here who planned to attend
the funeral were unable to do so.
It is reported that Mr.. Lee Camp
bell and son, Clyde, attended. Mr..
Campbell is a nephew of Mrs.
Carson.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-02-13
DO1glitOn Hopes
NelU Taxes viii
Not Be Necessary
New Farm Legislation And Bonus
Payments Might Call Fer
I More Money

Chairman r. L. Doughton, Of the
House ways and means committee,
: said after White House discussion
Thursday: II think we will surprise
the country by not having to have
as large a tax bill as is expected"
He said no new taxes for the bon
us payment were indicated and II
am still hopeful new levies will not
be necessary on that account"
The North Carolina congressman
and Representative Bankhead, Ala
bama, Democratic leader, had lunch
with President Roosevelt just be-
fore heads of the governments ma
jor spending agencies arrived for
another conference on expenses and
possible ways to cut down on
spending.
Doughton predicted that a tax
bill required to meet the demands
of the new farm legislation would
be ready by the first of the week.
He said he expected no additional
legislation beyond the bonus and
farm relief that would require fur
ther taxes.
The President had given no indi-
cation of what levies would be
sought except to state that there
would be a tax bill of about half
a billion dollars to provide substi-
tute levies for the outlawed AAA
processing taxes.
The week in Washington was
marked by frequent conferences
between the President and the
revenue and spending authorities
wrestling with the perplexing
problem of taxes and expenditures
"a problem made acute by the
passage of the bonus bill and the
death of the processing taxes.
One days developments relating
to the problems of Federal revenues
and spending illustrate what tran
spired during the week in connec-
ton with the subjects involved:
]. One Capitol Hill quarter re-
ported word FROM Mra Roosevelt
that present plans do not contem-
plate request for new taxes to pay
the soldiers bonus.
2. The House imitation bloc
launched its drive for an early vote
on the Patman currency expansion
proposal.
8. Administration officials began
a new study of next years relief
load to try to pare the estimated
$4,000, 100000 cost.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-02-13
Young Peoples Union
Meets At Lansing

The Young Peoples Union of
Ashe county met at the Lansing
Methodist Church, February 10.
Mr.. Bell gave a splendid talk on
temperance, followed by a couple
of special hymns by Miss Clara
Perkins, Miss Lois Dickson, and
Prof Joe Martin. Afterwards a
short business discussion was held.
Jefferson won the banner as us
ual, with a large majority.
Refreshments were served by the
Lansing league, for the benefit of
the visiting leagues.
The meeting adjourned to meet
again, March 9, at Jefferson, with
Grassy Creek giving the program.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-02-13
CCC Boys Rescued
From Ice FlOe

Seven game CCC lads who,
wrestled and danced to keep from
freezing on windswept ice foes
off Cape Cod the first of this week
are warm and safe now-thanks
to daring airplane pilots and coast
guardsmen.
"Boy, it sure was a swell feel
ing to see that aviator" Fitzsim-
mons said as he told of the plane
that spotted the drifting men at
daybreak.
He said the seven men went on
ice for a photograph and 10 min
utes lated found they were adrift
on huge ice cake.
eve spent the afternoon and
night talking and smoking" Fitz-
simmons said. Several times, we
kind of danced around with the
main idea of keeping warm
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-02-13
Mrs. Long Takes
Oath AS Senator

Letting it be known she would
continue the "share-our-w wealth"
campaign of her slain husband,
Mrs. Rose Mcconnell Long of
Louisiana was sworn in Monday
as the second woman member Of
the senate.
In a low, soft drawl, the black
CARRIED widow responded to the
oath of Office administered by
Vice President Garner. Then she
took seat beside Senator Hattie
Caraway of Arkansas, who came
to the senate partly through the
campaign efforts Of Huey P. Long.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-02-13
Rogers In ''Steamboat
Round The Bend"Here

One of Will Rogers's two last pic
lures will play at the Jeffersonian
Theatre Monday and Tuesday
steamboat Round the Bend. A
will Rogers picture needs no de-
scription, for those who knew and
read about the beloved American
know that he is always good in
whatever he did.
Because of Rogers's untimely
death, almost all of his shows have
been on the local screen and the
public is anxious not to miss any.
His other last picture is SIN Old
Kentucky"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-02-13
Clyde Jones Makes
Fall Term Honor
Roll At w. F. G..

Clyde Jones, son Of Mr.. and Mrs
F. B. Jones, was listed on a news
release from Wake Forest College
dated Feb 8, as being on the fall
semester honor roll at that college
The number of students making
honor roll at Wake Forest represent
only twelve per cent of the student
body.
Young Mr.. Jones is a member Of
the Sophomore class at Wake For.
est. He has been on the honor roll
during the fall. months, but this ist
represents the entire fall term.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-02-13
Mrs. Carrie Royal
Dies At Scottville

Mrs. Carrie Osborne Royal, aged
II, died at the home Of her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. George Osborne, al
Scottyi1le, on February 4. Funeral
services were conducted by Rev. T.
M. Hayes and the body was laid to
rest in the Osborne graveyard with
the Badger Undertakers in charge
Mrs. Royal is survived by her
husband, Weldon Royal, an infant
son, her parents, and two sisters.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-02-13
Vest Jefferson Radio
MOUes To Bare Bldg.

The West Jefferson Radio Com
pany, owned by Earl A. Ray, is now
occupying the Bare building next
door to the Office of DR.. B. E.
Reeves.
The company carries Atwater-
Kent radios and Stewart Warner
radios and refrigerators. Service
and repair work on all makes of ra-
dios will be available.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-02-13
Red Cross Roll Call
To Be Opened Mon.

Katherine Duncan, county
chairman of the 1885 Red Cross
roll call, is appointing assisting
committees over the county
preparatory to beginning the
annual 1885 drive for member
ships that was not held on the
regular dates of NOv.11-2S, 1885.
This drive is being put on
since the National Red Cross
has promised a resident nurse
for the county in the event
such a drive is held.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-02-13

Europe best knows the immense
ly wealthy Aga Khan as the owner
of racing horses which persistently
win the great classics of the British
and French turf. He is not known
to Europe in his rightful role, how
ever, in which he is pictured above.
The Aga Khan is one of India's
most famous men and has been so
since he was nine, at which time he
became spiritual head of the Shah
Imami Ismailis and of the Khoja
community of western India. In
these, robes he is celebrating the
fftieth year, the golden jubilee, Of
his reign. The Aga Khan is the
forty-eighth in direct decent from
Ali, nephew and son-in-law of the
Prophet Mahomet. His word is di-
vine law to millions.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-02-13
GLee Club To Be
Here Monday Night

The Appalachian State Teachers
College National Youth Administra-
ton Glee Club will be at the West
Jefferson High School, Monday
night, Feb. II, and will give pub
lie performance of music and song.
Admission is ten cents to all.Prof.
John F. Donnelley invites the pub
lie to attend.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-02-13
LATE NEWS
BULLETINS
Disease Follows Cold
Spell In Midwest

The LliYois director of the
State health department states
435 new cases of pneumonia have
been reported during the past
week and many are already down
with the disease. According to
the director, the cold wave has
reached the pneumonia stage"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-02-13
10000 Tracts Sent Out
By Charles Keys, Jr.

Charles Keys, Jr., of this city, has
sent out over N. c., around 10000
tracts and small editions of ST..
Johns gospels during the year 1885.
Any one wanting a supply of this
literature should write to Keys
Free Gospel Missions, West Jeffer-
son, N. c.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-02-13
Council Meet To Be
Held At Jefferson

A council meeting of the Y. P. u.
will meet with Miss Anne Worth
Monday evening, February 9. ALI
the officers are urged to attend this
meeting as there is very important
business to be discussed.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-02-13
Mrs. Howard Dixon
Buried Last Week

Mrs. Howard Dixon, who lives
near Jefferson, died Thursday and
was buried at the Wallace cemetery
the latter part of the week. Mrs.
Dixon was a daughter Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Arthur Mullis.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-02-13
Farm Relief Bill May
Reach Vote Friday

A final vote on the soi1-conser-
walton subsidy bill is expected to
reach a vote in the Senate Friday.
This bill is offered as a substitute
for the recently declared uncon-
stitutional A. A. A.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-02-13

E. D. Barr is owner Of the COM
pany which deals in Phi1co radios
and radio fixtures. Other and all
makes of radios may be repaired
there, however.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-02-13
Central Radio Co.
In FERA Offices

The Central Radio Company has
moved into the old FERA Offices
next door to the theatre building
and are now ready to serve their
patrons.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-02-13

This is DR.. Leroy L. Hartman,
Columbia university professor of
dentistry, discoverer of the new
teeth desensitizer which makes the
dentists drill a painless instrument.
The substance, which it was said,
twill revolutionize the practice of
dentistry" was discovered after
twenty years of research by Doctor
Hartman.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-02-13

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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-02-13

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The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1936-06-19

Mr.. Mann is married and with
Mrs. Mann and their three daugh-
tiers lives at the ranch at Pryor.
The oldest daughter, Mrs. p. B.
Hitchcock, lives at C%ulbertson,
Mont.
MI. Mann believes that gaso-
for gas in Montana than our
same gas. Why should we pay
eliminate out two-year elections
and have a general election ev-
cry four years, and thus save a
considerable county expense. He
believes in a law providing for
sterilization for people of the
feeble minded class and habitual
criminals. In the children's class
we have close to 1000 in Montana
that should be in the Boulder in
stitution for feeble-minded, and
this number is constantly growing
by leaps and bounds. What will
happen if this continues? He
believes we should have adequate
homes for our orphans and aged.
If elected state senator he will
fight for more state funds to curb
the cricket and grasshopper sit
uation, which is becoming alarm
ing. If this menace continues, we
will be cleaned of rance and crops.
which would spell ruin, as this
county is almost solely devoted to
livestock and farming operations.
Mr.. Mann is not tied to anyl
faction. but will trade horses for
legislation that will benefit the
people of this county. If elected
he will keep in close contact with
the needs and will oppose all un-
desirable legislation for our entire
county. J