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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-03-19
NOTICE OF SALE
North Carolina
Ashe County

North Carolina
Ashe County
In the Superior Court
Before the Clerk
r. C.. Miller VS.. Alice Greer, J. r.
Greer, Administrator of w. T.
Greer, deceased, r. D. Osborne
Coy Henson, M. A. Shepherd
Walter Stike, J. Roy GRAPHICAL
S. S. GRAPHICAL, Maggie Ham,
National Lumber Manufacture
ers Credit Corporation, Plaster
gon Wall Board Company, Ell
bert McCarter, Oliver Ham, r.
L. Ham, D. H. Campbell, South
Arkansas Lumber Company
Ambrose Clark and H. A. Miller
Under and by virtue of an order
made in the above entitled cause, l.
T. c. Bowie, Jr., Commissioner, will
sell to the highest bidder for cash
at the Courthouse Door in Jefferson
North Carolina, on Thursday the 9th
day of April, 1886, at 100 o'clock p
NJ, the following described real es-
tate, lying and being in Ashe Coun-
ty, North Carolina and described as
follows:
All that certain piece, parcel OF
tract of land, situate, lying and be-
ing in Horse Creek Township, Ashe
County, State of North Carolina, on
the waters of Little Horse Creek
and on the Rye Cove Ridge and the
end of Pond Mountain, bounded on
the North by the lands of Arthur
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-03-19
NOTICE

In the Superior Court
North Carolina
Ashe County
Walter Stringer, Administrator of
John F. Stringer, Deceased, VS..
John Stringer, Jr. and H. B.
Duff, Trustee.
To John Stringer, Jr. and I'll. B.
Duff, Trustee, Defendants:
You and each of you are hereby
notified that an action as above en-
titled has been commenced in the
Superior Court of Ashe County and
summons was issued therein on the
9th day of February, 1886, return
able on the 9th day of March, 1886,
at the office of the Clerk of Superior
Court of Ashe County, in Jefferson,
North Carolina; and at the same
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-03-19

Water is now being used in the
gold fields of Central Australia as
a means of barter or a form of cur
rency-due to excessive drought.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-03-19

8,909, 200 pounds of iron were re-
quired in the construction of the
dome Of the capitol at Washington.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-24
News Behind the News
Harry Hopkins Has Not Decided
He VIII Fight Liquidation He May
Liquidate Harry Hopkins

WASHINGTON.-Harry Hopkins has not de-
cided to resign as boss OF WPA, despite various
reports.
His only present plans are to stay in WASH
ington and fight against the campaign for liqui-
dation OF his huge work-reiief organization
Part of that campaign. according to the aanllhlS-
traitors friends, calls for liquidation of Hopkins
himself which may explain inspired reports
that he had accepted big job with chicago
mail order house.
General confusion following large cuts in
WPA rolls and subsequent retreat from the
reduction program call for a resurvey OF the
WPA situation in Washington. Hopkins ana
Assistant Administrator Aubrey Williams have
taken the rap for both those steps and the con-
fusion as well. but here's what has happened:
Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau
and Budget Director Daniel Bell sold Roosevelt
on the idea that industrial recovery warranted
a gradual decrease in relief expenses. They con-
vinced Hopkins that they hadn't enough money
for WPA to last even to Jan. 20 if the payroll
wasn't cut.
Roosevelt confided he'd like to have WPA
costs cut to between billion and billion and
a half for the next fiscal year-as against
WPA estimate of two blons-and suggested
WPA expenditures might gradually be brought
down to sl0O0OO,OOO month.
Hopkins VINO has never known for more than
a month ahead how much money he would have,
gave in. He knew he could hardly get defi-
cheney appropriation from Congress before Jan.
90
Orders went. out which meant dropping l50-
900 from WPAS administrative non-relief, and
relief personnel. as well as 250,Q0Q who all along
had been slated for transfer to the Resettement
Administration (Which will pay them less money
in dole form.
Expenses were to be cut from Sl68000,0O0 in
November to Sl52000000 in December.
At the same time Hopkins girded himself for
a bitter-end fight with Morgenthau, Bell, Cham
Der of Commerce and Against-R -Roosevelt-B
Election elements and a reported tLberty League
Lobby" over proposals to gradually strange
WPA and toss the bodied unemployed back
to local politicians. RT@
But soon LaGuardia of New York and other
members of the U. S. Conference of Mayors were
radioing the president then in southern waters
that if WPA workers were to be dismissed on
the theory that private industry would absorb
them, it would be much better if someone would
point out the jobs they were to take.
WPA workers staged demonstrations. Pro-
New Deal and anti-New Deal newspapers cast
scorn at an administration which would keep
WPA intact to help it win an election and then
start firing WPA workers indiscriminatey as
soon as the election was Won
RadogramS cracked back from the cruiser
indianapolis to Morgenthau, Bell and Hopkins.
Suddenly, by what legerdemain Is not yet known
Morgenthau and Bell found there really was
enough money to take WPA through January
at the November rate s.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-24
Bruce Cation SdyS:~
We Can Help in Drive to Make Streets Safe

the net progress will be greater than
in any previous year
Drivers license laws will be of lit
tie benefit if they are bad ones,
points out Sidney j. Williams, di-
rector of the councils public safety
division
A good law, he explains, has three
essentials: examination of new driv-
ers; suspension or revocation for
bad driving, and Capitalization of
authority in a state department.
History shows that laws without
these three teeth" he contends.
ARE hardly worth the paper on
which they're written"
Under an effective law, drivers
would be tested as to vision, reflex
es, knowledge of traffic laws, and
other essentials; their automobiles
would be examined periodically as
| to condition of brakes, tires, steer
ing apparatus and other such safe
ty factors. And defective drivers
and cars would be kept off the
streets, to the vast benefit of pedes-
trians and responsible drivers.
X
An encouraging factor, as the
campaigns begin, is the agitation for
passage of such laws. This reveals
that public and official interest i'm
safeguarding highway traffic is in
creaSing.
In survey conducted recently in
| Oklahoma. for instance, 80 per cent?
of the mototists questioned voted
Yes" when asked, Are you in fav-
or of a standard drivers license
law?"
If this sample test is an indica-
ton of the general trend of public
opinion, it may not be long before
the problem of the irresponsible
driver will be we'll in hand through
out the country.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-24
THE ONE GIFT
NOBODY CAN GIVE

The greatest gift of all is one that
is not wrapped in a package. You will
not find it under the Christmas tree
on Christmas eve or morning, nor yet
will it come to your door by special mes
senger. Some there are who do not re-
ceive this gift, and for them our sympa-
thy should be deep. Others, who enjoy
its blessings, too seldom consider it as
a blessing.
If we could substitute for our greet
ing of Merry Christmas" that of Good
Health To You," we would be wishing
for those whom we greet the greatest
gift of all. 1t is one we cannot give to
another.
While we count our gifts this Christ
mas-those of US who enjoy good health
and physical well-being-let US pause
for just a tiny moment to thank the
Creator for the gift he has given US,
a gift that is not confined to any season
of the year And while we offer a pray
er of thanks, let US, too, send out to all
those who do not enjoy this one great
blessing the unvoiced hope that it will
be theirs in days to come.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-24

Not very many month ago three
men were entrapped in a Nova
Scotia gold mine. For days there
after. while draegermen labored
heroically to save them, their plight
eripped the attention of continent,
and millions of people eagerly scam
ned headlines, hoping fervently that
the victims would be rescued.
And yet if anything comparable
to this amount of interest had been
focused on another problem during
the last 10 years, it is more than
probable that $4,000 men and wom-
en-, now in their graves, would be
enjoying life in the bosoms of their
families.
According to the National Safety
Council, this many lives would
have been saved, and nearly a mil
lion injuries prevented, had the ma
tional trend in motor vehicle acci-
dents kept pace during the last de-
cade with the reductions achieved
in states having standard drivers
license laws.
That the lives of citizens will not
continue to be sacrificed needleSsly
on the altar of public apathy, defin-
ite campaigns are now, or soon will
be, waged in at least 18 states for
passage of standard drivers license
laws, or bringing of existing laws
up to standard.
II X
In 1887 legislatures will meet in
43 states, at least % of which have
no drivers license laws or, at best,
SUBJ standard measures. 1t is be-
lieved that some type of drivers Ii
cense legislation will be introduced
in every state not already having a
first-claSS law.
While some of these may fail to
go through, the council expects that
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-24

NEW YORK, Dec. 24.-The late
Edgar Saltus, who wrote so little but
so extraordinarily we'll, threatens to
become vogue. Sales OF his BOOKS
are in sudden revival. He was least
known of the literati eccentrics. an
embodiment of a transition period.
A top-hatted litterateur who wrote
for a select coterie.
Saltus died literally in harness
toppling over at his desk when put
ting the finishing touches on seal
folds and Affairs. He was, along
with Carl Van Vechten, an ardent
lover of cats. T.. No matter how ele-
gantly surtouted, he would go out
of his way to salvage an alley speci-
men and carry it home.
He has a basement yowling with
strays, picked up on way from opera
or banquet An idioSyncrasy, too,
was the disorderliness of his desk.
He flew into a fury if maid or any,
one in the household even busted It,.
Pin neat in every way, his desk was
pile of debris.
He was among the last of the
charming conversationalists Com
plimented on promptness for a din
ner date with an actress, he OBJ
served: "Punctuality is the thief Of
time" Introduced the second time
to a lady, he murmured: Il remem-
( Der your name but not your face"
And he declared that those who
called a spade spade should be
using one.
The Servant Problem for four
years so easily solved, has become
gnarly again. So much so it is driv-
ing many to highly regimented
hotels where service is a zing-the-
| button gesture. OF a sudden has
come a striking change in the atti-
tude of domestics. All demand spe-
cialization. They will not do gener-
| alal work Just one thing-thus a
household for two servants may re-
uuire a half dozen. Many suspect
| the subtle working of a communistic
idealism. Anyway it has closed many
pompous mansions, kept people at
country estates or forced them to
hotels.
| 90
Those who know say no one in
the modern scene has retained the
bloom of youth so enchantingly as
the former Corrine Griffith, now
bride of the sportsman George Mar
shall. Miss Griffith, before her
most recent marriage, had adopted
two children. And why she adopted
two is story in. itself. When she
went to an institution for a selec-
ton two caught her eye. So much
so she could not decide between
them. She was permitted to take
both home a few days. At the end
of the third day she could not re-
linquish either.
90
Tallulah Bankhead as the No.
Glamour Girl got away to flying
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-24

start this season. And along came
Gertrude Lawrence tootling over
from London to muck things up.
The gawking crowds that stood
sheep-like in the wind and the rain
to watch Tallu exit turned to the
theatre where Miss Lawrence was
splitting honors with Noel Coward.
Bankhead's performance is often
superficial but it is always flaming.
She knows how to whip over a line
as few players of her time and not
many make more enchanting pic
ture in romantic cliches. But for
many somehow she continues to-
miss by perhaps just an eyelash true
histrionic greatness. And with the
odious comparison, Miss Lawrence
has become. just about the finest
actress of her day.
The dressiest first night of the
season was the Gieglud Hamlet"
production at the Empire. But after
that somehow, premieres lost their
sartorial sock. First nighters are
Just not in the mood to dress time
after time for what has become a
standardized crowd of first nighters.
Most of us know whom we shall see
and where they will be seated. White
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-24
Strolls Thru Hollywood

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. "a. U.P) =
Reversing an old American custom,
Stephen Pallos, general manager OF
London Films, serves notice England
has declared independence of Holly
wood and is no longer in the mar
ket for gold bricks.
Pallos, sort of Irving Thalberg
personality on Mickey Mouse
chassis, is here shepherding his
firms Rembrandt" Charles
Laughton picture, through Ameri-
can distribution channels.
While he didn't accuse Hollywood
of "city slickering" the innocent
English, Pallos said British films
suffered incalculable damage during
their past five years of mushroom
ing through willingness of inexper-
fenced producers to accept as tops
anything bearing a Hollywood
label.
Money was flush in the British
film industry then, he explained
and fading stars who retained a
potent aftergloW of glamor but no
box office draw, directors who had
lost the golden touch, inferior
technical talent, and even out
moded equipment found greedy,
highpriced market overseas.
Only producer who Jared at all
we'll in American deals was his as
sociate, Alexander Korda, who had
served a few years in Hollywood
and knew approximately what time
it was, Pallos said.
But the party's all over now. Film
funds don't flow so briskly these
days. Britons have learned to shop
around, and are no longer so likely
to be out-bargained by Yankee
"Hoss Traders.
More important, PalloS said, Brit
ish films have developed stars and
technical skill of their own, and no
longer need depend on Hollywood
From now on. he concluded,
England is disposed to regard Holly
wood with jaundiced eye, and will
except nothing but the best this
film capital has TO offer.
Gag Christmas presents shower
| ed down in even greater variety
than usual.
Carole Lombard and Clark Gable
sent Mitchell Leisen, director who
yearns to be an equestrian, a hobby
horse. Cecil B. DeMille dispatched
another to Gary Cooper. with the
inscription: ITO the best cowboy on
Hollywood Boulevard"
| To w. c. Fields laid up in a Pasa-
dena sanitarium with after effects
OF pneumonia, Miss Lombard sent
a bicycle and a pet pig.
| Johnny tTarzan Weissmullei
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-24
TEN YEARS AGO
December "a, 1926

For blocks up and down Main
street to the east and the west,
visible up and down Sixth street
for an equal distance, and striking
the Christmas keynote which
dresses up" the whole town, Ell
Centro's Christmas tree is blossom
ing forth with glistening fruit to-
day.
Enactment of the Swing-Johnson
Boulder Dam bill providing for the
construction of a gigantic power
and irrigation dam at Boulder Can
yon on the Colorado river will con-
vert a natural menace into a ma
tional asset, the house irrigation
committee said yesterday in report
ing the measure to the house.
At the request of Representative
Swing, California, co-author of the
bill, Chairman Smith, Republican,
Idaho, submitted the committee re-
port to the house. Swing, it is
understood, believes enactment Of
the measure will be facilitated by
having Smith sponsor the report
insteadlof himself.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-24
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE OF HEARING PETITION
FOR LEAVE TO ENCUMBER
REAL ESTATE BY TRUST
DEED AND ASSIGNMENT
OF RENTS.
No. 2526.

... No. 2526. .~
In the Superior Court In and For
The County of Imperial, State of
California.
In the Matter of the Estate of
HARRY D. McCAMENT,
also known as
H. d. McCAMENT, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that John
o. McCament, Administrator of said
Estate, has filed his verified petit
ton praying for an order authoriz-
ing the encumbering by Trust Deed
of real property hereinafter describ-
ed and the assignment of rents; and
that Friday, the 18th day of Janu-
ary, 1887 at two o'clock P. M. of said
day at the Court room of said Su-
perior Court in City of Ell Centro,
County of Imperial, State of Califor-
mia, has been set for the hearing
of said Petition, and all persons in
tereSted are hereby notified to ap-
pear at the time and place set for
said hearing and show cause, if any
they have, why the order should
not be made.
Reference is hereby made to the
said Petition for further particulars
as to the terms and conditions of
the proposed Trust deed.
Said real property is situated in
the County of Imperial, State of
California, and is an undivided one
third interest in real property in
said County, described as Tract 1876
in Township l3 South, Range 13
East, S. B. and M. according to
United States Government Plat of
Resurvey, approved May 2, 1913 and
on file in the United States Land
Office at Los Angeles, California
containing 100 acres more or less
and the assignment of the rents be-
longing to said one-third interest.
Dated December 21st, 1896.
w. j. McCLELLAND,
County Clerk.
BY G, o. KENYON,
K4t Deputy Clerk.
D22-J Inc.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-24
Other Editors Say
BEE STINGS FOR RHEUMATISM
Portland OrepOnianl

II is to be feared that renewed report OF the
efficacy of bee stings for curing rheumatism
lends false hope to the hobbled This time it
is a resident of the Odd Fellows home at Walla
Wala who insists that he keeps rheumatism
and other ailments at bay by the spartan appli-
cation of angry bees He cannot catch cold,
either he contends when he has taken this SIM
pie if heroic home treatment
As another typical tale of the sort it is
remembered that a riverman suffering greatly
from rheumatism, to such extent that ne was
unable to pull boat tend his pets limped
into the garden-So the story goeS-and cap
tured six or seven bees. Or Weer they yellow
Jackets The outraged insects were appropri-
ately wrathful, and one by one he applied them
grimly Anything was better than rheumatics.
In the morning, rousing droWsily, he eXper-
fenced a new sense of well-beng, and sat there
scratching his head while he tried to account
Tor it, Then he remembered the bee stings. The
story they tell the river is that he was cured,
with not an ache Or pain leftato remind him
of his recently doleful condition.
If you ask the doctor he will smile he
tells you that the cure, if it was a cure, must
have been mental, and, if not mental then the
relief was merely coincidenta to the remedy
and not because of it. But time was when
the doctors themselves, SO convincing seemed
the testimony of the self-cured dallied seriously
with the notion that perhaps there was pc
euliar curative virtue in formic acid for the
treatment Of rheumatism. Formic acid is the
active principle of the bee sting or that of the
wasp ants, too, secrete it. Some years ago a
reputable pharmaceutical company placed on
the marekt a preparation of formic acid as a
rheumatism cure The results were disappoint-
ingly negligible. so'the doctorsasay
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-24
~ OH S0s says
* FRANK WATANABE
LIARS CLUB
BY ED HOLDEN

In Wisconsin they have form a Liars
Club. This are usefully club for mar
ried husbands to joining Because you
can telling your wife a BIG LIE why
you been out till a. m. And why you
have arrive home smelling very petri-
fled. Instead of in a 8 p. m. upright
position. If dearie wife say, DO you
expect me to believing such coekeyed
bull story?" Then you say, mo dearle
wife, | are practicing to capture the
first prize gave by the Liars Club and
those prize are a female fur coat? But
if she DO believing your lie you are
safe both ways. And no fur coat are
needed. It will working on So of cases.
Thank you please.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-24
TWENTY YEARS AGO
December "a. 1916

Two candidates for the office OF
district assessor announced their in
tention to enter the ring today.
One was William Hodge Of Mes
quite Lake and the other j. D. NC
Cary Of this city. This brings the
total number up to three, John F.
Loofborough having already an
nounced his candidacy. .@....
L. j. Thomas, president of the
Farmers and Merchants bank in
Imperial, was visitor in this city
Yesterday.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-24
LOOKING
BACKWARD
What The Press Files
Tell of Imperial Val
ley for This Date in
Past Years
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
December "a, 1911

After many months OF weary
waiting, Ell Centre has received
word that work on the new PosC
office building will be started on
April l.
Miss Fern Campbell, a student
at Pomona College, has returned
from that institution of learning
to spend the holidays with ner
parents, Mr.. and Mrs, A. G. Camp
bell.
Miss Julia Conkling is expected
home from Stanford University IN
the near future to spend the Xmas
vacation with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. M. w. Conkling.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-24
THERE rs ANOTHER CHRISTMAS
COMING NEXT YEAR

Now that the Christmas shopping is
done and all the packages are neatly
tied-and untied-it is time for the an
nual resolution that, with the coming
birth OF new year, we will begin sever
al months ahead TO prepare for thazneKt
Christmas. Not so much in the matter
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-24
PHOTOGRAPHS

Carbon dioxide cartridges may re-
place dynamite for blasting purposes
in coal mines. Unlike dynamite, the
cartridges are said to have no OBJ
jectionable smell and cannot ignite
coal dust Or gas.
Letter carriers in Germany were
equipped with stills during the six
teenth century. The stills were
supposed to increase their speed.
During the World war one spy
evaded detection by placing reports
in his artificial eye.
Fifteen miles of tiny tubes and
filters in the. kidneys are needed to
strain the waste material from the
blood.
Rice is more extensively grown
and more widely used than any 9TH
er foodstuff.
During the flood period, the Mis-
souri, river is navigable as far up as
Great Falls, Mont.
90
A date palm will bear fruit for
one or two centuries.
A 24-page newspaper consists of
from 10000 to 100000 words, ex-
elusive of advertisements, or as
many as the average novel.
30
Contrary to common belief, it is
not against the law to wash and
mend the American flag.
Some of the mahogany logs i'm
ported from Africa weigh as much
as five tons each.
Doctors have discovered that
chlorine in the water of swimming
pools is not preventative for the
disease known as athletes foot"
Early American settlers consid-
cred the acorn a symbol of hospi-
tality. 1t often appeared in carv-
ing on Colonial houses and gates.
| Bats are animals, not DlrdS, ac-
cording to biologists, who class
them as flying mammals because
they suckle their young.
| 90
The entrance to New York har-
Dor is seven miles wide or the dis
tance from Sandy Hook to Rock
away point.
90
Walking sticks coated with prep
aration that is luminous in the dark
are being made in France for the
use of the blind who are obliged to
go about after dark.
90
Three ships were involved in the
Boston Tea Party, in TITS. They
were the Eleanor, Beaver and Dart
mouth.
| 90
Raphael's remuneration for paint
ing The cTrapsfiguratiop" is said
to have been $1 ,65dE " ". W w. "
Imperial Valley press., 1936-12-24
One-Minute Test Answers

!. Mrs. James f. Ma" Fergu-
son of Texas.
Q. They grow in clusters like
grapes.
g. No. Divorces are controlled
by state statutes. ben1coi ~