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La gaceta., 1936-12-07
CONSUg4ADo DE WBA

Sc suplica la presencia en- ss-
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Damaso y Francisco Delgado O.
tero, para communicates asuntoS
que les interesan.
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situado en- ell edificio dc ofici-
mas que hace frente a la Tempo
Gas, por la Gale de Tampa.
La gaceta., 1936-12-07
MAFARoN I'M G. DIES
PUES DE PERDER 100 CA
BEZAS DE GANADO

San Jose Costa RIGA, die. T.
Los campesinos de Las vueltas
de DOta han conseguido al fin
matar uR jaguar que extermi-
naba 81 ganado.
Encontraron les campesinos
al animal con la ayuda de pc
rros y lie mataron con sus armas
de fuego y los machetes. Ell lar
go del Jajuar era de nueve pies
desde la cabeza al rabo y habia
matado mas de de Glen vacas y
bueyes.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-09-10
BURKETT : GRAPHICAL
REUNION LAST SUN.

A large crowd of relatives
and friends of the GRAPHICAL
and Burkett families gathered
at Bethany church Sunday for
their annual reunion.
There were Graybeals from
Tennessee, Virginia, West Vir-
ginia, Maryland, and New
York, and a large number Of
Burketts from different Sec
tons of this state.
The morning program open
ed with songs followed by an
address by w. E. Eller, of Fig,
N. C.
Special music was rendered
by Mr.. and Mrs. Banks Mann,
of High Point, and at noon a
bountiful dinner was spread in
picnic style.
In the afternoon some old
letters and history of the fam
lily were read.
Those present voted to meet
again next year at the same
place and time.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-09-10
WHITE TOP NEWS

There was a decoration held
at Park and Perry cemeteries
Sunday.
A revival meeting is being
held at Park church by Am
brose Miller.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Farmer
and Dale Atwood were visitors
in Jefferson Friday.
Miss Irene Sutherland spent
the week end at home.
Messrs. Rufus Hall and Jack
Fair visited Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Farmer during the week end.
Mrs. A. A. Perry spent the
week at Boone with her son
and daughter.
Mr.. Dale Atwood visited his
mother at Nathans Creek, Sat
urday.
Misses Pauline and Oma
Jean Cox we're business visi-
tors at White Top Gap Monday
afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Rose,
who are ill, are improving.
Mrs. Cox and daughter, Ber-
tina Blevins, visited Mr.. and
Mrs. Rose Sunday afternoon.
Mr.. Albert Johnson, of Fort
Bragg, is spending his vacation
at White Top Gap.
Mrs. Lydia Miller of Eubank,
KY, was a dinner guest of Mr..
and Mrs. Dewey Farmer Sun
day.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-09-10
SILAS CREEK NEWS

DR.. r. L. Dickson of Phila-
delphia, accompanied by his
little daughter, Nancy Lee, and
son Bobbie, spent last. week
visiting friends and relatives in
the community. He started back
for his home Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Enoch Young,
and their son-in-law, Paul
Richardson, of Rugby, Virginia
spent Saturday in the village.
Miss Bonnie E. Dickson re-
turned from her western tour
last week. She started for
louisville Sunday where she
will teach English in the high
school for the ensuing year.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Martin,
of Bonneville, spent Saturday
night with Mrs. Martins par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. C. M. Dick
son.
An extra school bus runs
through this community at
present. This truck starts from
the residence of Mr.. j. r.
Phipps and goes to Crumpler
by way of C. M. Dickson's and
thence down Old Field Creek.
1t is reported that as soon as
the road is finished near the
mouth of Phoenix Creek that
it will reverse it's route.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Parker
M. Dickson, on the 10Th of
August, a son, Reginald Wy
nant.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-09-10
LAUREL SPRINGS NEWS
(ROUTE q

Mrs. Walter Shepherd has
gone to st. Anthony, Idaho, to
visit her home folks.
MIR. Worth McNeill left this
week for Glade Valley High
School.
Mr.. Billie Mcneil and sister,
Miss Pauline, have returned to
A. S. T. c., at Boone.
Mr.. Britt Miller and family
have moved to their farm near
Galax, Va.
Miss Tina Sheets has accept
ed a position with Smothey's
Store in Wilkesboro.
Mr.. Paul Transou, of Greens
boro, visited his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. w. M. Transou, dur
ing the week end.
Between seventy-five and
one hundred nieces and great
neices, nephews and great
nephews, children and grand
children of Mrs. J. c. Miller
met with her at the old home
place on August 80, and enjoy
ed a family reunion. Mrs. Mill
er is 81 years old. Two children
were not present: J. E. Miller,
of Piney Creek, and Mrs. Elite
Kenmer, Of Fairmont, Ind.
Mr.. D. c. Thompson spent
the week end with Mrs. Thomp-
son at Boone where she is now
teaching.
Miss Jewel Osborne is able
to attend school this year after
being out two years on account
of sickness.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-09-10

Mr.. C. M. Dickson, principal
of Bethel High School in Wa
tauga county, spent the week
end with home folks.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. w. Tester
man who live just across the
hill from Silas Creek remain
in rather poor health
**
Mr.. c. F. Dickson who is
teaching at Fairview in Horse
Creek township spent the week
end in this community.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-09-10
Cook Hairless Quartette
at Bethel Next Sunday

The Cook Hairless quartette
will sing at the Bethel M. E.
church Sunday in connection
with the Sunday school rally
that will be held there at two
o'clock.
Rev. F. p. Cook will hold the
evening services at Green's
Chapel Sunday night.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-09-10

Mr.. Reece Arnold, of Street,
Maryland, committed suicide
Friday morning. His body was
carried back Saturday night
and was laid to rest in the New
River church cemetery, Rev.W.
T., Wilmington in charge.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-09-10

CnarleS "A. keyeS, Jr., OF LnlS
city win leave this week for
Glade Valley where he will at
tend school this winter. He viii
take Bible course, and train
ing in public speaking.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Hardin, of
Charlotte, spent the week end
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. E. ID.
Barr.
Mr.. Fl, C. Jarvis, manager of
Smitheys Store, has gone to
New York City on a buying
tour.
Mrs. A. A. Perry, of Tucker
dale, was In the city the first
of the week.
MIR. and Mrs. Gene Lewis
spent the week end in the city.
Mr.. Bynum Faw, who had
recovered somewhat from a re-
cent illness, was taken i'll again
Monday, but is improving.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben G. Reeves
returned from their honey
moon Monday afternoon, and
have been visiting relatives in
the city.
Miss Claryce Osborne, of
Stratford, is leaving Friday for
Greensboro where she will en-
ter school.
Watt Gregg, republican NOM
inee for congress from this dis
trict, spent Thursday might in
the city as the guest Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Carl GRAPHICAL.
Mr.. Wayne Blevins, of Lam
sing, was in the city the latter
part of the week.
Mrs. Wade Eller and daugh-
ter, of Fig, and Miss Tolbert,
member of the Riverview fac
ulty, were in the city Saturday.
Mrs. John T.. Hoyle, also IA
member of the faculty, accom-
panied them home after spend
ing Friday night with her sis
ter, Mrs. B. E. Reeves.
{ The following were guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. M. F. Spencer
Sunday: Mrs. E. M. Osborne,
Misses Claryce and Lorene
Osborne, and E. S. Osborne, of
Stratford; and Mr.. and Mrs. A.
B. Vannoy and daughters Eve
Ign Dare and Katrina, of this
city.
Mrs. B. c. Sharpe, Of Glen
dale Springs, was in the city
Tuesday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. E. GRAPHICAL
are visiting Rev. and Mrs. Lee
Barnett at Lilesville, N. G.
They expect to be gone several
days.
Mr.. Paul Perkins, of Nathans
Creek, has sufficiently recov-
cred from the effects of a brok-
en- leg to be able to walk with
out a crutch.
Mr.. John Cox, of Laurel
Springs, was in town Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Virgo Pierce, of
Crumpler, were in the Jeffer-
sons the first Monday.
Miss Helen Baker, of Wash
ington, D. c., is visiting her
parents near Warrensville.
Rev. and Mrs. w. T. Whit
tington and son left the first of
the week for Cookville, Tenn,
where they will visit for about
two weeks.
Mrs. R. L. Doughton of Spar
ia, and Mrs. Bert Edwards and
son. Bobby Doughton Edwards
of Asheville, visited in the city
Monday.
Miss Mitchell, retired Episco-
palian worker who spent the
past year in Jefferson, has ac-
copied work near New York
City for the winter. She ex-
poets to return here next sum-
mer.
Miss Mary Zoll, of Washing
ton, D. c., visited in Jefferson
last week.
Elder and Mrs. Everett
Thompson of Bel Air, Md, are
visiting in the county and at
tending the Ashe Primitive
Baptist Association. They re-
port that Elder Thompson has
his health much better in Ma
ryland than he did in this
county.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-09-10

DR.. Arlie Plummer, who has
been practicing medicine in
Wyoming, is expected home for
a visit.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-09-10
L @ C A L S

Mrs. Frances dew. Dickson
writer and publisher, spent g
few days in the CITY this week
She was much impressed with
the scenic beauty of the Jeffer-
sons and declared that it is
equal to any she has seen in
Western North Carolina.
Cards received in the city by
members of the local w. M. u
are to the effect that Mrs
JONES Waddell and daughter
Mrs. Ruth Hacker, plan to en-
terrain the Sparta w. NJ. u, al
their home near Scottvi0le, next
Thursday.
MIR. BERTHE Weaver, of the
Scottwille community, is some
what improved from a recent
serious illness.
Mrs. Sly Kirk, formerly Miss
Lenna Hash, is very I'LL In the
Galax hospital. Her uncles DIR,
J. R. Gambill and DR.. Frank
Gambill, of Lincolnton, have
been at her bedside.
Miss Melba Gambill, who In
an automobile wreck near In
dependence two weeks ago, re.
mains very ill in the hospital
at Galax.
Mr.. VIM. Francis, Of Crump-
Ter, leaves this week for State
College. It is understood that
Mr.. Francis will have the good
luck to have a room in the
home of Major and Mrs. A. L.
Fletcher.
Mrs. Dean Jones and small
son, of Lansing, were in the
city the first of the week.
Mrs. H. Littlewood, Mr.. and
Mrs. E. c. Francis, and Mrs.
Ed Rowe, of Helton, were visi-
tors in the city Monday.
Mrs. Ren Reeves and Mrs,
Russell Barr attended a party
honoring Mrs. Reeves which
was given by Mrs. Hester
Chester in Sparta Tuesday aft
ternoon.
Mrs. Cora GRAPHICAL, of Rich
Hill, is reported to be seriously
ill.
Miss Ethel Jones, of Silas
Creek, leaves this week for
Emery and Henry College.
Mrs. Mary Grant, who has
been very ill in the George Ben
Johnson Hospital is recovering.
***
Mr.. and Mrs. Newt GRAPHICAL,
who live in Drumore, Penn,
are visiting at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Stokes Vannoy. Mrs.
GRAPHICAL was Mrs. Annie Van
noy Lemly before her recent
marriage.
Mrs. E. D. Barr and small
daughter returned to Hickory
Sunday with her father, J. D.
Stills and her niece, Nancy
Broome. She will visit relatives
there this week.
Among others out of the
county who attended the fun
eral Of Mrs. J. c. Parsons last
week here were Mrs. w. w.
Pilkenton and tive daughters,
of Bluefield, w. Va; Miss No
rene Rollins and Hey Whitley,
of Morganton, N. c., and Char
lie Ashley, of Durham, N. G.
Mrs. J. G. Formy-Duvall, of
Sanford, is visiting her daugh-
ter, Mrs. w. c. Thomas.
Mr.. Freel Coward visited in
the Jeffersons Monday and at
tended the REA meeting at the
courthouse. 'Uncle Freel' had
just returned from attending
the Allegheny Primitive Bap-
fist Association.
Mrs. G. D. Moore and son,
Roger, of Statesville, visited in
Jefferson last week.
Miss Annie Vannoy, of North
Wilkesboro, visited here last
Thursday.
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Mrs. John Hardin, of New
York City, is visiting her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. E. F. Sheets.
Mr.. and Mrs. Matt Miller and
daughter, Dorothy, and son,
Wayne, have returned to their
home in Galva, Ill, after visit
ing Mr.. and Mrs. z. r. Barr,
Mr.. and Mrs. H. A. Miller, Mr.
and Mrs. Fred Blevins, and
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-09-10

Morgan Weiss, of North
Wilkesboro, spent the week
end with home folks.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-09-10
WEAvERs FORD NEWS

Mrs. w. D. Cox, from Penn
sylvania, has been visiting rel
atives of this place.
Deward Coward, of Berea,
Kentucky, is visiting his par
ents.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-18

socalled Jeersonian Grass Roots convention called
in Macon last January to nominate Gene Talmadge
the anti-Roosevelt Democratic candidate for
President.
Shocking, too was Mr. Muses. disclosure as to the
gentlemen who have been financing such methods of
unfolding the Constitution. Among the contributors
10 the Kirby committee were John j. Raskob and
Pierre du Pont, each down for $50oO That famous
New York Bourbon, Ogden Mills, donated 500 to
the cause. Frank B. Kellogg shelled cut $50. Our
old friend H. c. Hopson of Associated Gas and Elec-
trio added his mite, and so did Hearst's general
counsel, John Francis Neylan. Steel OIL auto and
power tycoons Clipped in what they could afford
These hated angels Of the Georgia adven-
ture in race prejudice apparently are on the spot
for most any kind of organization that presents a
blue print on how to stop Roosevelt Some of the
same big-hearted Jeffersonians have helped finance
the Farmers Independence Council" out in Kansas
the Crusaders, and Of course, that palladium of
old virtues. the Liberty League. Considering what
they are getting for their good hard cash one is
constrained to remark that some people and their
money are soon parted or that one is born every
minute.
In view of the ease with which the city rubes
OF politics are being separated from their COIN the
current campaign may prove potent factor in the
redistribution of the nations wealth.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-18
SATURDAY. APRIL ls. 1895.
1914 PER CENT EFFICIENT

TN the last presidential election, 2,534959 New
Workers voted the Democratic ticket And the
party boasts that it is stronger in New York State
now than ever before
Yet when the State Democratic Committee met in
Albany the other day could think of a single
person to take the job of state party chairman
SO the committee reelected the Hon. James A.
Farley That u.s. it reelected one-thrd of Mr.. Farley
Another one-third of that expansive and over
worked person is occupied holding down the job OF
chairman of the Democratic National Committee for
strange as it seems, out of some 20-odd million Dem
ocrats in the country, the party can't find single
one whose full-time devotion to party affairs would
be as valuable as one-third of Mr. Farley's time.
The last one-third of Mr.. Farley is the Post
master General of the United States-for which
Job incidentally Mr. Farley collects the whole three
thirds of his salary.
We haven't been asked, but if we were put to it,
we bet we could find somewhere among the 10 mil
lion adult American citizens some one who could
handle this last job well as the residuary one
third of Mr.. Farley handles it, Why not IN these
iobless times, share the work?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-18
CRIMES ROOTS

Tor years penologsts have damned the Ameri-
can attitude toward crime and criminals as a
mixture of rage sentimentality and medievaiism.
Comes now report of the Osborne Association
Inca to bulwark this damnation with facts reveal
Ing our penal system as almost utter failure.
In the 10 years between 1924 and 1884 the prison
population of the United States increased just 100
per cent, says the associations report There are
10000 persons now in American prisons and re-
formatories. The annual crime bill is around IA
billions or about onequarter of the national income
The indictment is long and bitter Prisons be-
come schools for crime the result of overcrowd-
ing and idleness due to the devastating effect of
the Hawes-Cooper Act" aimed at prison industries
Only few Substantially New Hampshire and Vir-
giniaare providing well Grounded prison industrial
programs Only few honest attempts" are being
made to develop educational programs looking to re-
Mobilization OF inmates On the other hand crime
is sensationalized by such morbid scenes as public
hanging certain wardens herding of prisoners to
witness a gas chamber execution Coy. Talmadges
glorif1cation of the chain-gang system, Roman ho-
days like the Hauptmann trial and execution.
Crime is not isolated problem that can be
fenced off by prison walls crushed by whipping
posts executions, chain gangs or extralega brutal
ties 1t has its roots in slums, hobo ungles unem-
ployment, poverty ignorance, disease broken
homes and the unhoy alliance between politics and
law enforcement.
The new penology will not only turn our great
penal institutions into real eformatories; it will
also seek to remove crimes incubation places
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-18
A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT
By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

CTORIES about vice rings in New York City are
~ disquietlng. Not only because investigation has
barred sinister rackets with unspeakable moral evils
but because We told that respectable married
women would be ured by taxi drivers and profess
sona precurers to participate in quiet little poker
game at some club"
From these quiet little poker games it seems the
victims speedily went down the road to prostitu-
ton.
But isn't there something sadly wrong IN
country where respectable married women are so
eager to gamble that they can be lured to their
destruction by strange taxi drivers? Perhaps all
this clear to New Workers, but to those whose lives
are set in less exciting places it is pulling
We admit, of course, that the desire ito take
chance" is inherent in most of us and amounts to
passionate urge in many. It is apparent, never
theless, that Americans ought to call halt on
their unbrided lust for this sport. Gambling is so
often the first step in career OF crime Thousands
of young men who might have been useful citizens
lead aimless, even dangerous lives because they
attacked early with the virus of speculation.
The professionals have their counterparts iii
every of the country. Scores of other re-
spectacle married women throughout the hinter-
land might not listen to taxi drivers urging little
poker games on them, but they do neglect their
homes and children, and make their husbands I'M
happy because of the fatal fascination of the bridge
table
And one CANDLES so much more than money
these unfortunate victims of New Yorks vice
rings have discovered. On the roulette Wheel at
the races, over the cards. one also stakes ones
precious time, energy, ambition and thought
Nerves are worn raw, unhappiness is augmented
everywhere because the gambling fever RACES in
veins.
The desire for easy money is at the bottom of all
this. In the last analysis that desire endangers
national morals and threatens the characters of the
children 1t has let loose upon hordes of rack
eteers and criminals Hadn't We better admit, then,
that gambling is vice, and begin to educate the
young to that notion?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-18
BLAMES DEPRESSION.
ON PROFITEERS

By w. Williams, Columbus
The Democrats have been in power
almost four years and this is what
we find:
Between IL and Is million idle
men, about 25 million people on re-
lief. We also have about rs more
million lodging the poorhouse and
bankruptcy court, while mere
handful has more than they can
spend or reinvest.
The answer is simple. It is that
the real owners do not and will not
distribute sufficient purchasing
power among their employees to buy
its output
I read an article the other day in
a paper where it said that eight
women in Moscow were sent to
prison for trying to profiteer. The
joke is that in this country we do
not arrest them for profiteering, but
we send them to Congress and to
the Legislature. 1t looks to me like
the New Dealers will get away with
the election this fall, sailing under
the same sort of flag that put
Hitler in power in Germany. But
here and there a red streak shows
up on the horizon that promises bet
ter things for the man that works.
Now, Mr.. Working Man, you had
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-18
HE WORKED WITH EDISON

INDIANAPOLIS today mourns the death of
Thomas Spencer, who worked with Thomas A.
Edison and George Westinghouse in their early
studies of electricity and who served until the end
Of his 80 years as a consulting electrical engineer
Mr.. Spencer traced his ancestry back to John
Alden and Priscilla AS a youth he brilliant in
mathematics He became installation electrician for
Edison plants and was one of the inventors aids
during the nineteenth century of electrical devel
opment
Later, he worked under Westinghouse in perfect
ing the of alternating current. For the last Is
years, Mr. Spencer had been consulting engineer for
the Prest-O-Lite Storage Battery Co. here.
The community shares with Mrs. Spencer and her
husbands associates their sorrow at his passing
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-18
SEES MORAL IN CASE
OF PORTSMOUTH, O.
By Reader

BY Reader
Anybody who lives beside an
American river might do well to re-
fleet on two things-the case of
Portsmouth, O., and the fable of the
three little pigs.
The pigs, as you may remember,
set out to build houses. One pig
saw trouble coming, built a house
of brick, and got by nicely when
the hufhng and putting began. The
other little pigs, building less Sc
curely, had great deal of trouble.
Now, Portsmouth is solid indus
trial city nestled down on a point
of land between the Ohio and Scioto
Rivers. Some years ago the citi-
zens decided to take leaf from the
smart pigs book and get ready for
trouble. So they laid out $4,000
to build great steel and concrete
flood wall along the water front.
There are a good many other
cities along the Ohio. from Pitts
burgh to Cincinnati, and of them
all Portsmouth seems to have been
the only one that went to the ex-
pense of putting up big wall. There
must have been years when the
$75O,0C0 put into that wall looked
like a bad investment.
But Portsmouth sat tight and
waited. This spring the SHOWS
melted, the rains descended, and the
waters rose; and what happened?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-18
HEARD IN CONGRESS

CENATOR REYNOLDS 3D., N. Co: After had
~ been prosecuting attorney in number of noun
tain counties in North Carolina for a number of
years began private practice in my home town of
Asheville, N c. was stopped on the street one day
by a good friend of mine of the ablest men,
bers of the bar, Judge JONES' who said Bob, have
been noticing you in the courtroom You would
make a wonderful lawyer. Study law / said
Judge, I am too busy practicing" Gaughter).
CENATOR REYNOLDS 3D., N CO.: My daddy had
~ lot of good common sense, and that is worth
more than all the book sense on earth. remem-
Der that he said to me, Son, do not ever say any
thing behind persons back that you can not say
to his face" and I have been working in a gym
nasium ever since
CENATOR BENSON I'll, Mimi: I firmly be-
~ ieve that the opinions of the Supreme Court
are, in many instances largely influenced by the
economic views of the judges of that court and /
do not hesitate to say so here refer particularly
to recent decision by the justice from my state
Mr. Pierce Butler. believe that his opinion in the
North Dakota railroad valuation case was purely
an economic decision because prior to the time he
took his seat on the bench of the Supreme Court
he was in the employ of every railroad in the United
States in the very matter affecting his decision and
that is railroad valuation.