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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-12-03
cREESWOoD NEWS

IsIr. ard Mrs. Herman Dakar an
nounce the arrival OF a daughter,
Nov. %. Mr.. Barker recently return
cd from Calax Hospital after being
ISsaI;ned t.lera for s-ye1 weeks, as
tie result Of lc..2g hurt by state
truck.
Miss Pauline Gwenn who is teach
ing at Shippies Branch, spent
Thanksgiving at her home at Eggles-
ton, Va.
Mr.. Bob Henderson is improving
from an attack of typhoid.
Mr.. and Mrs. Muncy R. Cox, of
Bride Creek, are spending some
time with the latter's parents, Mr..
and Mrs. j. B. Young.
Rev. J. o. Cox carried a fine
bunch of turkeys from his charge to
the orphanage at Winston-Salem for
Thanksgiving.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. B. Young and
daughters were shopping in Marion
Saturday.
Elmo Jones who is in school at
Grassy Creek, spent Thanksgiving at
his home at WarrenSVille.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-12-03

lev. AR. Love, of Marion, n. c.,
preached an interesting sermon SAT-
urday night and Sunday morning.
Mrs. Broomf eld, dilector Of home
mission work, brought to us this
wonderful preacher and the choir
from Marion. The services were held
at the schoolhouse. We wish to thank
them very much for their kindness
and service.
Mr.. Calvin Dickson, of Bristol,
Tenn, visited Mr.. A. ]. Baker dur
ing the week end.
Mr.. j. w. Stout took dinner with
Mr. C. w. Barker Sunday.
Mrs. T. M. Stout Mrs. Bina Thorn
as, and Miss Irene visited Mrs. Ellen
billiard Sunday.
Mr.. A. j. Baker improves very
slowly from illness. We hope he will
recover soon.
The basketball team was disap-
pointed in playing a game with the
Ashland boys. We hope to play
them soon.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. L. Baker were
shopping in Ashland Monday.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-12-03
Sale of Town
Property
for Taxes

1, c. P. Mcmillan, tax col
lector for the Town of West
Jefferson, under and by vir-
tue of a power vested in me,
in accordance of the law and
by order of the Board of
Aldermen, will at one o'clock
on Monday, January 4, 1887
sell to the highest bidder for
cash the following property
for default of taxes.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-12-03

There are over twelve miles of
tiny tubes in the kidneys of each
human being.
Thorns, splinters, and tiny bones
were the first pins used to fasten
clothing.
In cow, only the nose has
sweat glands.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-12-03
NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING
Of Board Of Commissioners
Of ASEe County

North Carolina
Ashe County
Notice is hereby given that there
will be a Special Meeting of the
Board of Commissioners of Ashe
County at the Courthouse in Jeffer-
son, North Carolina, at ten o'clock
A. M. on Friday, December 4, 1896,
for the purpose of making settle
ment with the Sheriff and transact
ing such other business as may come
before, the R0arrf-
This November 28, 1886.
J. F. HARTZOG, Chrm.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-12-03
Want Ads
Twenty-Five Cents Charged
for Each Want Ad

EDWARDS BUS will leave West
Jefferson Saturday, December 10,
at a. m. for Bel Air, Md. Special
rates. For information or reservation
call at West Jefferson Hotel or write
w. B. Edwards, Darlington, Md.
WILL TRADE furniture for live
stock. Rhodes Furniture Co., West
Jefferson, N. c.
FOR SALE-Pure bred bronze tur-
keys, Bird Bro. strain. Hens and
toms. Prices reasonable. See or write
Mrs. Tom Wagg, Mouth of Wilson,
Virginia. 12-1Op
WANTED large quantity of
green or cured hams. The highest
market price in cash or trade
Smithey's Store, West Jefferson.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-07-24
POTATOES REMAIN FIRM
TOWARD SEASONS CLOSE

With the prospect Of 800 to 1000
more cars of potatoes to be shipped,
the general market tone was weaker
toward the end of the week. F. o.
B. price was holding around $3.50 and
New Jersey, Long Island, Pennsyl-
vania and other producing sections
were coming into competition with
Eastern Shore potatoes.
Accomack and Northampton Coun-
ties probably will not ship more than
half of what they shipped last year
when the total was 10,440 carloads
Up to July 16 this season shipments
were equivalent to 1887 carloads and
last year on the same date they haC
amounted to 5000 carloads.
Scattered showers which have dod.
ged some parts of the Shore have
brought Fordhooks, corn and sprout:
along in healthy condition. Shipment!
of snaps are being made but the price
variation has been wide and unsettled
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-07-24
ENOM OUR
EXCHANGES
OLD BOOK POSSESSED
-, BY SOMERSET WOMAN

Mrs. William E. Walker, Willis
Wharf, has in her possession relic
of her late grandfather, Renatus I.
Hastings, of Marion, Md.
In the preface can be found the fol-
: lowing:
District of Penn to wit:
Be it remembered that on the twen-
tieth day of September in the thir-
ty third year of the independence of
U. S. of America A. D. 1903, M. L.
Weems, of said District hath deposit
ed in this office the title of book the
right whereof he claims as author, in
the following to wit:
The Life of George Washington
with curious anecdotes, equally hon
orable to himself and exemplary of his
young countrymen, printed in Phila.
delphia by Matthew Carey, 1916.
The book is bound in leather anC
in very good condition.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-07-24

as court attaches remarked, the First
Maryland Judicial Circuit is blessed
with three unusually fine judges. Be-
fore assuming their official duties for
the day the Judges were much inter-
ested to view the original Bible Of
Somerset Parish, printed in 1892, now
the property of Mr.. Milton L. Thaw-
ley, of Princess Anne, and remarked
on the fine state of preservation in
which the book still is after 243 years.
Each of the jurists had some one
verse or passage of Holy Writ which
they were much interested to look up
in the old volume to compare with the
more modern reprints of today.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-07-24
Liberal Credit Tern

cess Anne from the New York Pro-
duce Market, where he had delivered
a load of green tomatoes, Mr.. Ernest
Matthews, of Costen Station, was
painfully, but not seriously injured
last week, when the truck he was driv-
ing crashed in the rear of a like We
hicle, belonging to the E. & N. Trans
fer from Henderson, N. c., parked on
theside ofthe highway and without
lights, according to Mr.. Matthews.
The upper part of Mr.. Matthews
body was forced through the wind
shield from the impact, causing null
tiple decorations of the face. He also
suffered severe abrasions of the en-
tire body. Matthews was rushed to
the Delaware State Emergency Hos
pital, Wilmington, Del, after the acct
dent, where sixteen stitches were TAX
en- on his face. He remained in the
hospital over night for observation
and was discharged the following day.
The accident occurred about three
miles north of Wilmington, near the
familiar landmark to truck drivers,
Penny Hill, early Saturday morning
The empty truck, owned by Mr.. John
Landlord, also of Costen, was badly
damaged. Mr.. Landlord had another
truck slightly damaged the same day
when the driver ran off the road to
avoid hitting another vehicle. The
wrecked front end of the Matthews
truck was loaded on the back of the
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-07-24
FRANCHISE TO OPERATE
NEW FERRY WANTED

Pursuant to the Ferry Statute of
Virginia Judge John E. Nottingham
of the Circuit Court on last Monday
appointed viewers to report on the ap-
plication of the Eastern Shore York
town Ferries Corporation for fran
chise to operate ferry between Cape
Charles and Seaford, on the York riv-
err, a few miles from Yorktown.
On Monday, July 20, Judge Not
tingham will hear the report of the
viewers, w. E. Johnson, F. B. Bell
and j. Lynwood Walker and whatever
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-07-24

grand jury made up largely of Peur-
to Ricans, charge the defendant with
conspiring to: oppose by force the
authority of the United States incite
rebellion against the United States;
recruit soldiers in Peurto Rico to serve
in armed hostilities against the Uni
ted States.
Under the first count the maximum
punishment is 6 years. Imprisonment
while under each Of the other two 2
years is the most severe punishment
possible.
One of the defendants is Pedro AL
bizu Campos, president of the Ma
tionalist party and a graduate of Har-
ward and Harvard Law School, he hav-
ing served through the World War as
a lieutenant of infantry.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-07-24
other crippled vehicle and brought
home by Mr.. Landlord, Monday last.
ST. JOHNS PRESIDENT
GOES TO PORTO RICO

Col. Amos w. w. Woodcock, presi-
dent of st. Johns College and former
U. S. Director of dry law enforcement
has been in San Juan, Peurto Rico,
having been assigned by Homer S.
Cummings, U. S. Attorney General, to
aid in the prosecution Of eight ardent
Nationalist accused of attempting to
overthrow the Government of the Uni
ted by force. The trial began Tues
day last.
The special assistant Attorney-Gen-
eral of the United States left Wash
ington by airplane last Friday morn
ing for Peurto Rico.
Col. Woodcock conferred at length
Sunday with Cecil Snyder, District
Attorney.
Extreme precautions were taken
prior to the trial, against disorder but
the majority of residents appeared
anxious for an orderly trial, express
ing mixed surprise and indignation in
several quarters because of joint ap-
peals to President Roosevelt to have
the cases dismissed made by leaders
of political parties.
The indictments, said to be without
exact parallel in the past century Of
United States history, returned by 8
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-07-24
JULY SESSION COURT
HELD IN PRINCESS ANNE

The brief July session of the Cir
cult Court for Somerset County was
held at Princess Anne on Monday,
July Is. Chief Judge Benjamin A,
johnson and Associate Judges James
M. Crockett and T. Sangston Insley
were on the bench. A non-jury term,
the session was adjourned within a
few hours. AS is usual the docket
was called, a number of judgments
entered, a demurrer heard, and several
motions argued.
The session was unusual only in the
presence of the full bench. But then,
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-07-24
CLOUDS POUND DOWN
FISH IN NASSAWADOX

Believe it or not, fish fell on Mas
sawadox during heavy rainstorm
that swept over that town from the
ocean. 1t literally rained fish.
Fifteen or twenty minnows, describ-
ed by one piscatorial authority as
"Sprayfish," were found in the yard
of Miss Pearl Elzey, shortly after the
morning storm. Miss Elzey, during
the rainfall, was working in her flow
er beds under the porte cochere of her
home and attracted by the small gilt
tering object which fell just at the
edge of the flower bed, reached out
and picked it up. After the rain ceas-
ed she called a friend passing by and
possibly ten or twelve more of the
little fish were found in the grass in
the yard.
A representative of newspaper Wis
tied the scene Monday afternoon and
found a number more and carried
them to Cape Charles, where they
were viewed by a number of local
residents of that city with consider
able interest.
The minnows were from two to two
and half inches in length.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-07-24

other evidence may be presented and
render his decision as to whether the
franchise will be granted for North
ampton county. IF his opinion is fav-
orable to the application attorneys
for the ferry corporation will present
a similar application in the Circuit
Court of York County.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-07-24
i SHOPPERS FROM COAST TO COAST ATTEND POWELL's

POWELL POINTS WITH PRIDE to her long
list of satisfied customers. A list stretching from
coast to coast and from middle Delaware to
the Capes. A list of customers whose greatest
pride is their home fact, simple in deduction
proven by their purchase of fine furniture. Moth
ing tells quicker what you are than glance about
your home. Fine furniture makes fine homes =.
fine homes make fine people. Are you economic
ing on happiness?
Evening star., 1936-06-07

office, and, In the presence Of the
postmaster or other authorized official,
sign the request for payment on the
back Of the bond.
The veteran then win receive a
receipt for the bonds. Thereafter a
check on the Treasurer Of the United
States payable to the veteran will
be forwarded to him by mail.
The veteran must establish his
identity to the satisfaction Of the post
office official, and If he Is not per-
sonally known, Morgenthau said, wit
nesses should accompany him to
establish his identity.
A number of post Offices throughout
the country have been authorized to
issue checks. Bonds may be presented
at any post office, however, and If that
office is not paying one they will
be forwarded to a check distributing
Office at the expense Of the Govern
ment.
Must Establish Identity.
Under the second method the
veteran may appear before any ON
Ger authorized to witness requests
for payment-such as postmasters
and the executive officers Of banks
and trust companies-and sign the
request for payment in the presence
of the witnessing officer. The veteran
must be known to the officers or
else he must be prepared to estab-
lish his identity. The bond then
will be transmitted to the Treasurer
of the United States at the expense
Evening star., 1936-06-07

entirely surrounded himself by Jews"
He also attacked Blum's political
prophesies, including one of 1882 that
Adolf Hitler never would rule Ger
many.
Herriot, a former premier, told VAL
lat:
You have pronounced inadmissible
wordsi"
Communist deputies, led by huge
former coal miner, started for the
Rightist benches. A flying wedge Of
sergeants at arms intercepted them.
Win Make No Arrests.
There were these new touches to
the strike picture:
Police announced they would make
no arrests Of strikers unless blood was
spilled.
Deputy Charles Baron announced
the American oil companies had au-
thorized a 10 per cent wage increase
in their French refineries-an action
expected to avert gasoline shortage.
The government filed charges of
spreading false news against the
Royalist newspaper Action Francaise.
1t had announced the Paris transpor-
tation system would be tied up by the
strike Authorities also announced
they we're starting action against a
private radio station which reported
supposed strike movement in one
of the country's largest banks.
An unofficial count showed 135, 900
additional strikers joined the move
ment today in Paris and the provinces.
A walkout of sleeping car employees
sent tourists to coaches in several
railroad centers.
Replacement of the Bank of France
governor, one of Blum's first official
acts, came on the heels of allegations
by financial leaders that the bank al
ready had started the printing presses
to keep the treasury in funds.
1t was estimated that more than
2,000,0 100000 francs ($132,000, ,0o0) in
gold had left the bank in the last
week in steady stream abroad.
Finance Minister Vincent Auriol
announced the appointment of Labey-
rie must not be considered a change
in the governments position regard
ing currency"
Rightist deputies and conservative
Senators insisted they could see grave
dangers Of national bankruptcy" in
the new program.
Evening star., 1936-06-07
Girl, Fearing School Failure,
Disappears From DC. Home
Father Asks Police Aid
in Locating Daughter
after 3-Ddy Hunt.

Seeking to escape the fancied dis
grace of failing in her school work,
pretty Gloria Elaine Carter, 15-year-
old student at Gordon Junior High
School, disappeared Thursday morn
ing, her distraught parents told police
last night.
The father. Weldon Carter, director
of the Washington Musical Institute,
appealed to police and newspapers for
help in locating the missing girl after
three-day search by private detec-
tives had proved unavailing.
Gloria did not take any extra clothes,
her father said, and could not have
had more tnan IS cents when she left.
I'VE were at a loss to account for
her disappearance" Carter said, 'un-
til We found a note from her teacher
in her room. This note was addressed
to Mrs Carter, but Gloria had not
shown it to us. 1t stated she could
not possibly pass some of her examin-
ationS, and this, I suppose, was the
reason she ran away"
The father said she did not attend
classes Thursday and that a check
among her friends failed to produce
any information. He added that the
Evening star., 1936-06-07

asked that force be used to evacuate
the plants"
The violent personal attack on the
soft-spoken premier caused some depu-
ties, in Chamber Hobbies, to express
fear the incident might grow into a
general anti-Jewish movement.
On still another front employers
gave their first fiat refusal to meet
workers demands.
The United Employers Association
of the Lille textile industry announced
it would give no raises of salary and
in no case will take the initiative to
reduce working hours or give paid va
cations"
Blum, appearing first before the
Chamber, declared he sought ito re-
vive French economy, to wipe out un-
employment, to increase purchasing
power and to provide a little we'll
being and security for those, who, by
their labor, create the real wealth"
He announced as his foreign policy
peace for all Europe through collec-
tive security. At the same time, he
decreed coordination of Frances ma
tional defenses under former Premier
Edouard Daladier.
Then he asserted he would intro
duce bills to provide for political am
nesty, 40-hour week for labor, col
lective labor contracts, paid vaca-
tions, new public works plan, ma
tionaliZation of the ornaments in
dustry, higher prices for farm prod
ucts through the creation of boards
and longer compulsory education.
He also promised to seek legisla-
ton for revision of Bank Of France
statutes guaranteeing a preponder-
ance of national interests in its man
agement" and a revision Of decree
laws to relieve government job hold
ers and war veterans whose pay and
pensions have been cut.
His longer-range program, he as
serted, would embrace provisions for
a national unemployment fund and
revised old-age pension system, for
farm-debt and crop-loss relief and
for soak -the-rich" tax reforms.
He made no mention of war debts
Jean Chiappe, former prefect Of
police, who lost that post because po-
lice fired on mobs during the bloody
rioting of February, 1884, joined in
the tumult directed against Blum.
There were cries of Go to Moscow"
and Vallat charged the premier had
Evening star., 1936-06-07

tCOnClnueQ from F1rSL PaRe.)
strikers, who manhandled the taxi
driver and destroyed the papers. The
fighting was resumed when the guards
tried to pull the truck driver from his
seat. Guard reinforcements rushed
up and again drove off the strikers.
Later the Strike Committee called
off its men.
Similar troubles were reported out
side the plant of the newspaper In
Stransigeant, and the Strike Commit
tee withheld wine from the workers to
prevent disorders.
New Developments.
The stirring day, beginning with
Blums announcement of a far-reach-
ing social and economic policy, saw
these other Developments
l. The premier sought vote of con-
f1dence for his New Deal program and
warned the Left would refuse to be
blocked in its fight for social reform.
His plan proposed bills to give the
strikers the 40-hour week and to meet
other demands.
2. Blum ousted Jean Tannery, vet
eran head Of the Bank of France, and
placed Emile Labeyre, attorney of the
Tribunal of Accounts, in the gover-
norship.
3. Amid shouts jeers and desk
banging, Blum walked out of the
Chamber and Edouard Heriot, Cham
Der president, suspended the session.
Xavier Vallat, Rightist, had started
the uproar by shouting: 1T is the first
time that a Gallic-R Roman country
has been governed by Jew!"
4. Returning to the Chamber after
the uproar had quieted, Blum asserted
"The peoples front is and will re-
main hostile to devaluation-don' ex-
pect either monetary manipulations
or devaluation from US"
S. He declared the occupation of
hundreds of factories by the folded
arms" strikers was regrettable, but
such occupation is less dangerous than
fighting in the streets around the fac
tories" Employers, he added, had not
Evening star., 1936-06-07
81 At GALLAUDET
ARE GRADUATED
2Receive Honorary Degrees.
Graduates Addressed
by Draper.

Thirty-one academic and two hon.
orary degrees were conferred yester-
day afternoon at the seventy-Second
annual commencement exercises OF
Gallaudet College in Chapel Hall at
Kendall Green.
Ernest G. Draper, Assistant Secre-
tary of Commerce, who was born on
what is now the Gallaudet campus,
delivered the principal address. He
recalled his boyhood at Kendall Green
as a playmate of the pupils Of the
school and of the arrival at Gallaudet
of President Percival Hall and Vice
President Charles R. Ely, who Joined
the staff of the college as foot ball
coaches.
THE world which you are about
to enter is a confused world" Draper
told the graduates. 1T needs the
quiet, reflective thought of those who
are free to speculate upon its prob
lens without the outside distractions
that diSsipate the energies of so many
Of us hearing persons.
You have a place in this life and
in the community to which you go
that nobody else can fill with the
same qualities and the same ad-
vantages which belong to you. I urge
you never to forget this simple fact,
for it is true"
L. Gordon HirSchy of Arkansas de-
livered the valedictory address and
Robert Greenmun of New York spoke
on The Place of Gallaudet College
in the Education of the Deaf
President Hall and Vice President
Ely were assisted by Profs. Isaac Alli-
son and Sam B. Craig in presenting
the diplomas.
The lift of graduates follows:
Bachelor of artS-Mary Toll Black
linton, Michigan; David A. Davidowitz,
New Jersey; Robert M. Greenmun,
New York; Lo Dema Hillman, Mime
sofa; L. Gordon Hirschy, Arkansas;
John B. Leicht, Illinois; Royal M
Marsh, North Dakota; Charles E.
Whisman, Indiana; Lester c. Stanfill,
Washington Leda Elvera Wight, Cali
fornia; Mary Bell Worsham, Missouri;
Ruth Roberta Yeager, Illinois.
Bachelor of science-Dora A. Benoit
Kansas; Thomas E. Delp, Washington;
Edith M Crawford, Iowa; Francis c.
Higgins, New Jersey; Thelma Marie
OFT. California; Viva Leora Ottaway
North Dakota; Stanley A. Patrie, New
York; Louis B. Sorenson, South Da-
kota; Gladys Annabelle Walford,
North Dakota Iva jeanette Weisbrod
Iowa, and Lille Loretta Zimmerman,
Texas.
Master of arts in the Normal De-
partment-Maurine Allison. D. c.;
Richard c. Brill. New Jersey; Everett
Hale Davies, Pennsylvania; Vera
Grace, Colorado; j. Wesley Mayhem
Missouri; Jackson A. Raney, Indiana;
Alice Francis Rowell, Virginia; June
Stevenson, California.
Honorary degree, master of arts
Edith NJ Fitzgerald and Helen 3. Fay
Evening star., 1936-06-07
ENGLISH EDUCATOR
PRAISES U. S. SCHOOLS
Describes Favorable Impressions
in Address at Cosmos Club
Luncheon.

The "magnificence" of school build
ings and their equipment in both
Canada and the United States is being
highly praised here by G. H. Gold
smith Of England.
Goldsmith. who is the Walter Hines
Page Travelling Fellow, from Central
School, City Of Working, in Sussex,
England, described his favorable i'm
pressions of North American school
facilities at luncheon rendered him
at the Cosmos Club Friday, attended
by distinguished group of educators.