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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-09-11

ity in making the state attractive BY
keeping his home neat and well-painted
and the out-buildings pleasing in appear
ance, through the use of paint or white.
wash. He will thus help to make good
impression and induce the traveller to
return.
Few people of the state seem to know
or appreciate the fact that two national
forests, the Shenandoah National Forest
and the Monongahela National Forest
largely in West Virginia. In this state,
the Monongahela Forest includes about
100000 acres and the Shenandoah abour
$4,000 acres.
These forest areas have real poten-
tial value to West Virginia farmers as
lures to the tourists. They are now be-
ing developed and advertised to the pub
lie for recreational purposes. Some per-
sons seem to have the idea that because
they are forest areas they are to be used
for forestry purposes only. This is de-
cidedly not the case, because the Forest
Service has a definite principle of de-
veloping its forest areas so that they will
return the maximum benefits to the
people.
If areas in the forest are more val
liable for recreation than for the produc.
ton of forest products, such areas are
set aside principally for recreational pur-
poses. Foresters who have visited every
national forest in the East, state that
the Monongahela National Forest is the
equal in scenic attractiveness of any for
est East of the Rocky Mountains. Ihe
development of these forests for recrea-
ton will attract thousands of tourist
Indeed, no one who has not seen these,
areas can appreciate the real charm ar /
beauty that lie within their confines.
Good Yearly Crop Assured
Scenery is one crop not restricted t
any form of production control prograr
and of which there is no danger of ha
ing an over-production. even though
good crop each year is virtually certain.
Likewise, the demand is not affected y
a bountiful supply, and those who av
of the opportunity to capt.
ize on the beauty that is all around ii
are practically assured of a brisk dem
and ready market at good prices.
Every road leading into the s.
brings new buyers who are eager to +;
and enjoy West Virginia's unsurpaE
scenic attractions. The potential Va
IF the states yearly offering of Natur
is not surpassed by that of a
,ther agricultural enterprise, and ale.
folk will not only adjust IT,
so as to share in the retui
afforded, but will make construct,
Effort to further enhance this great ~
:ural resource of the state.
are into West Virginia every year, and
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1936-09-11

Of
will bring IL encour TO do so
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-11-24

all right in yards and gardens but
with the streets full of them it would
make US look rather hectic, some
thing like a small cottage with color
ed bottles up and down the front
walk.
Water oaks grow rather rapidly.
They are not susceptible to disease
and need little care. They soon be-
come to be large shady and dignified.
You will recall the beautiful street of
water oaks in Franklinton, and the
miles and miles of water oaks in Roa-
noke Rapids. Nash street in Wilson
with it's beautiful trees that were set
out by some one who looked deep in
to the future is one of the most beau
tiful streets in all America. Let us
aim at something like this and let us
begin now.
If left to each individual resident
to set his own trees the results, if
any, would be tumble. So far as our
street adornment is concerned, let us
act together. It is fortunate that the
Henderson Garden Club is willing to
head this concert of action. Your CO.
operation and your interest are de-
sired.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-11-24
TREES
By S. T. PEACE

1t has been said that as we pro-
crossed in knowledge and invention,
the time would come when all of our
time and energy would not be requir-
ed for the production of the 'neces-
stiles Of life and that when that time
arrived we would spend our other un-
used energy in making more beautiful
the world in which we live. Now that
our government and it's people are in
terested shorter hours Of work and
a curtailed production of the neces-
stiles it would seem that the time to
decorate anG beautify is fast ap-
preaching.
One of the 'l.ef reasons for our
lack o. interest and enthusiasm in
planting ornamental trees on our pub
lie streets is our Impotence. We do
not warm up to planting trees today
that may take five or ten years to
grow to sizes of use and value. This
should not be so. If we never start we
never accomplish anything. Had we
planted trees ten years ago Hender-
son would now be on the map as a
much more beautiful and a much
more satisfactory town in which to
live and residential property would
be of more monetary value. The value
of such improvements is largely in
direct proportion to the length of
time it takes to perfect the improve
ments. Trees of less value grow faster
than the more permanent trees of
greater value.
[ have farm that is not valuable
Three years ago I went to Raleigh to
buy from the State one thousand
small, old fashioned black walnut
trees to plant out on this farm I
thought these trees would he fit for
timber in thirty years but was in
formed by the state true authorities
that it would take eighty years for
them to be of real value. / bought the
trees and have set them out Pine
trees grow much faster but are of
less value. I will enjoy seeing the wal
nut trees grow and some day will pass
them on to posterity. Seventy-seven
years from now some one will see
those trees all set out in rows and will
say "there was a man of long fore
sight and believable patience" Now if
l am setting out trees myself to be
of value in eighty years l am at least
consistent in proposing with others
that Henderson set out trees that will
be of service in five or ten years and
ornaments the. meantime.
Personally, l do not think we should
set out on our streets as our major
ornament dogwood or crepe myrtle
for they are more temporary and are
easily destroyed. Then too, they are
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-11-24
METHOD|STS BACK
FROM CONFERENCE
All Ministers Returned Elk.
cept Rev. Mr.. Eubanks
at Mill Churches

All Methodist ministers from this
city and section were back home to-
day from New Bern, where they at
tended the North Carolina Annual
Conference of their denomination
and all of them but one were returned
here for another year.
Rev. Graham Eubanks, pastor OF
City Road and White Memorial
churches at North and South Hen
derson for the past several years, was
transferred to the McKendry circuit,
and will be succeeded here by Rev. r.
S. Richard, student at Duke Univer-
sity. Information today was that Rev.
Mr.. Eubanks had been chosen by
Bishop Paul B. Kern who presided at
the conference, as one of four minis
ters in the conference for special
rural demonstration work
Rev. r. E. Brown, pastor of the
First III. E. church, and who has just
completed his first year here, was re-
turned and today was receiving the
greetings of many trends in and out
OF his church who rejoiced at his
return.
Rev. D. A. Petty, pastor of the Mid
dleburg circuit, returns after one year
on that work, and Rev. B. o. Mer-
rift, pastor of Tar River circuit and
who lives at Kittrell, also was sent
back for another year after having
served several years there.
Also returning were Rev. w. c.
Wilson, at Norlina; Rev o. 1. Hin
\ son at Warrenton, and Rev. I. S.
Richmond, on the Oxford circuit. Rev,
| L. B. Jones was sent from Oxford
after serving one year there and will
be succeeded by Rev. o. w. Dowd,
who was transferred from Elizabeth
G;k,r
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-11-24
ANT|-F| REWORKS
RULING IS KILLED
Council Permits Local Deal
ers To Sell Them at $50
License

Henderson's anti-fireworks ordin-
ance adopted some Is or 20 years
ago, and prohibiting the sale of fire
works by any concern or individual
in the city, was repealed by vote of
the City Council Monday night.
B. H. Perry, representing H. B.
Newman and others, appeared before
the board and requested that the law
be nullified He pointed out that
dealers just outside the city limits
were selling fireworks unmolested as
the city had no control over them,
and that merchants il the city should
have the same privilege, and the city
receive the revenue to be derived
from license tax imposed
The Council voted the repeal and
fixed the ordinance az $50 per year,
whereas the Petitions, asked a Ii
cense of $25.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-11-24
COUNCIL WILL NOT
OPPOSE RAIL PLEA
No Objection to Southern
Disseminating Passenger
Service Here

The City Council of Henderson de-
cided at it's meeting Monday n ght to
oppose the petition of the Southern
Railway before the State Utilities
Commission asking permission to dis
continue all passenger service on its
branch line between Henderson and
Oxford. The matter had been brought
to the attention of Mayor Irvine B.
Watkins by the commission, and the
mayor brought it before the Council
The railroad claimed in it's plea
that over a period of a year or two
only a few hundred dollars worth Of
passenger fares had been sold on the
line and that it is being operated at a
great loss.
The petition has no bearing on the
railroads freight service, which will
be continued. 81,
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-11-24

A large number Of the members OF
the Vance County Ministerial Asso-
citation, most of them from the city
appeared at the regular monthly
meeting of the Henderson City Coun-
Gil Monday evening and spoke against
Sunday theatres operating in Hender-
son. The occasion was largely in the
nature of a discussion, in which the
ministers said they were merely try
ing to learn what could be done about
it.
After the preachers had their say
S. S. Stevenson, operator of the
Stevenson and State theatres, told the
audience and the Council that he was
not trying to butt into the church
hours and nor interfere with the
church services. He said his Sunday
night audiences were made up OF
some of the best people in the city
and that many church folk were at
tending.
The ministers told of a referendum
conducted among young people and
adults in the Sunday schools last Sun
day morning, resulting in vote of
63 for Sunday theatres and 589
against.
Speaking for The ministers were
Rev. E. R. Nelson, president of the
association; Rev. j. A. Jones, of the
Presbyterian church; Rev. A. S. Hale,
First Baptist; Rev. r. E. Brown, First
Methodist, and others.
Nothing was done about it by the
City Council. The minister had sug-
gested that an ordinance might be
passed to cover the situation, but
they did not specifically ask for that
or any other procedure, other than
that they wished the Sunday amuse-
mcnt3 could be stopped. Mr.. Nelson
thought the pictures shown were not
OF the highest type, but admitted he
had not been in a theatre in three
years, whereupon Mr.. Stevenson said
there had teen a vast change in the
type of pictures offered now. Some OF
the other ministers said they fire.
quented the performances on oc-
caSionS.
The new franchise to be granted to
the Carolina Telephone 81 Telegraph
Company for a period of 20 years was
given its second reading and passed
unanimously. It must be given third
favorable reading before it becomes
legal, but that will be done at the
December meeting on Monday after
Christmas. A committee was appoint
ed, however, consisting of Aldermen
r. B. Hight, T. w. Ellis and j. W.
Gill to locate the fifteen telephones
the company will give the city free in
consideration of the granting of the
franchise.
A committee consisting of Aldermen
f. B. Hight, c. M. Hight and T. W.
Ellis, and Street Superintendent w
M Coffin was named with power to
act in the matter of piping a ditch
just off Belle street, after a delega-
ton of citizens from that section had
appeared before the Council, and had
made request that the drainage be
provided. w. M Coffin, street super
intendent, was quoted as saying that
+ would cost $4,000 to do the job
On the request of Mary Eaton for a
&c %er connection to her residence q
committee !, recommended that the
sewer line be extended down Har.
grove street to Horner street, and
that the work, to cost approximately
$500, be done now at the expense Of
the petitioner, with the understanding
that the item would be included in
the 1887 city budget and payment
made at that time. The committee
consisted of Aldermen F. B. Hight
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-11-24
HIGH SCHOOL PLAY
is GIVEN TONIGHT
Monday Afternoon Made Real
Hit With Group

The first student play ever to be
given in the auditorium of the new
Henderson high school will be pre-
sented tonight at 8 o'clock, when
three-act comedy, New Fires" will
be offered for the public.
The play was given Monday after
noon for grammar grade students and
was we'll received by them.
Miss Shannon Morton and Mrs. J
M. Pigford, of the high school facul-
ty, are directing the performance,
and the net proceeds will be used to
buy books for the high school library.
The public is invited to attend and
large audience is looked for.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-11-24
FOUR REALTY DEEDS
WITH THE REGISTRY

Four realty deeds were registered
on the record books of Vance Regis
try yesterday.
Mrs. Lillian w. Alderman sold
to j. w. Sanders, ct al for $40 and
considerations plot on Highland
avenue.
John w. Harris sold to C.. E. Page
1868 acres of land for $40 and con-
siderations.
c. E. Page and wife conveyed the
same land received from John w.
farris n R. E. Satterwhite and wife
for $40 and considerations.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-11-24
Ministers Oppose Sunday
Movies At Council Meet
Appeal Is In Form of Dscu sson and Theatre Side Is
Also Presented; Telephon Franchise Read for Sec
ond Time Before Coun Gil; To Place Phones
and M. w. Wester and Mr.. Coffin.

and M. w. Wester and Mr. Coffin.
Mrs. L. D. Wallis appeal about a
storm sewer service near her home
on Belle and Hargrove streets was
read to the Council and was ordered
received and filed without any specific
action being taken.
The filter report and balance sheet
of the waterworks department for the
month of October were presented by
Mayor Irvine B. Watkins, manager,
and ordered received and filed.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-11-24
CAN YOU ANSWER
THESE QUESTIONS?
See Page Four

What is kolinsky?
2. To which country does the island
of st. Pierre belong?
3. Name the second largest of the
Great Lakes of North America.
4. What is the title of the highest
ranking officers in the navy?
5. Who wrote, CAS- You Like It?"
6. In what year was the Johnstown
flood?
Z. Who was Briton Riviere?
8. What is obsidian?
0. In astronomy, what is occultation?
10. Name the founder of the State
of Georgia.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1936-11-24

A HENDERSON TREE
Tree Committee,
Henderson Garden Club
In poll of citizens to determine the public choice for
be adopted Hendersons official tree for
Name
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-03-13
PITTSVILLE MAN DIES
AFTER AUTO ACCIDENT

DIN White, aged Is, of Pittsville,
died early Wednesday morning of last
week in Peninsula General Hospital
from injuries received when his car
ploughed into the rear of a truck on
the Ocean City Road Tuesday night.
Little could be learned as to the
cause of the accident, according to
Officer Ralph O.. Thompson OF the
State Police, who investigated the ac-
cident. The truck, a Civilian Conser-
walton Corps vehicle, was parked off
the cement highway between Herring
Creek Run and Ocean City and was
unoccupied. The car operated by
White ploughed into the rear of the
truck.
White. the son of Leman White, Of
Friendship, village near Pittsville,
was admitted to Peninsula Gen. Hos
pital at 11:15 Tuesday night and died
shortly before o'clock Wednesday
morning.
DR.. Randolph M. Mock said White
had sustained a fractured skull and
a penetrating wound in the left eye.
He said death was due to the skull
fracture.
States Attorney Rex A. Taylor SAID
he would confer with States Attor-
ney Thomas F. Johnson at Snow Hill
concerning the conduct of coroner's
inquest into Whites death. 1t wa:
undecided whether a jury would bt
summoned in Wicomico or Worcester
County.
1t had not been definitely deter
mined if White was alone in the cal
when the accident occurred. White
however, was the only one taken t.
the hospital.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-03-13
SHORE NEWSPAPER is
UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT

S. Charles Walls, Jr., editor of the
Centreville Observer for the past two
years, who rendered his resignation
in January effective March l, to ac-
cept a post with the Phillips Pack
ing Company, at Cambridge, Mary
land, left Monday for his new duties.
Mr.. Walls has been succeeded as
editor Of the Observer by Miss Bertha
G. Durney, who for number of years
has been associated with the paper
as Secretary and Treasurer. Dud-
ly G. Roe, Jr., Of Sudlersville, has
been made business manager.
Mr.. Walls entered the newspaper
field, with the Observer, Immediately
after leaving Centreville High School
in 1881. His first work in the editor
ial field was in 1892 when he began
the publication of the Centreville
Times, which was later absorbed by
the Observer. He succeeded his faith
err as editor of the Observer in July,
1884. In his new position with the
Phillips Packing Company he will
head the Safety Department.
Mr.. Roe, the new business manager
is the son of former Senator and Mrs
Dudley G. Roe of Sudlersville. He was
educated at the Episcopal School, at
Alexandria, Va, and the University
of Virginia. He is associated with
his father in the firm of w. D. Roe
and Son., at Sudlersville.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-03-13
FROM OUR
EXCHANGES
PASTOR DENIES HE
NEGLECTED HIS WIFE

The Rev. R. Ward Mills, of Sea-
ford, Del, former pastor of st. Peters
MI Church at Oriole, denied in the
Somerset Circuit Court allegations OF
his estranged wife of relations with
another woman.
He made the denial while appear
ing on the witness stand as defend
ant in the suit brought by Mrs. Clara
Mills for back payment under sep
ration agreement made by them in
1888.
Asked by Attorney Gordon Tull,
counsel for Mrs. Mills, if he could be
reconciled with his wife and live with
her again, the Rev. Mr.. Mills en-
phatically replied:
"No, twenty-five years in hell is
enough for any man."
The minister was supported by their
daughter, Mrs. Messick, Of Philadel-
phia, who testified that she did not
blame her father for leaving his home
because of the conduct of her moth
er.
Mr.. Mills and his wife separated in
1888 and filed an agreement of sepa-
ration before former Judge Robert F.
Duer The agreement specified that
Mr.. Mills was to pay his wife So a
week for support.
In her suit, Mrs. Mills charged that
the payments had fallen into arrears
and asked the court to have her hus-
band pay the back amounts. Chief
Judge Benjamin A. Johnson, who
heard the testimony on Wednesday,
set March IA for arguments in the case
Attorneys George H. Myers of Prin-
cess Anne, and John B. Robins, Of
Crisfield, were counsel for Rev. Mills.
Mrs. Madeline Noble, of Monte, near
Oriole, at whose home Mr.. Mills is
said to have gone to live after he
left his wife, was named by Mrs. Mills
on the witness stand as the "other
woman" Mrs. Mills said her hus-
band lived there eleven months before
D6lnR CfdISlCTI0U W OSd1OIO cAAAN al
legged he often returned to visit at
the Noble home, and Mrs. Noble Wis
tied him in Seaford.
Mr.. George Noble, husband of Mrs.
Noble, testified that he believed "the
Rev. Mills is above reproach" and
there was nothing improper between
his wife and the minister. He said
Mr.. Mills was good friend of the
family and often visited them.
Rev. Mills, member of the Will
mington Methodist Episcopal Confer.
testified that he was cleared of any
blame for the separation from his
wife by the conference. He added,
however, that because of allegations
which he said his wife had been MAX
ing in Seaford, he had been warned
by the conference ito stop the talk"
about him.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-03-13

Daugherty, Rupert Catlin, o. l..
Daugherty and Fred Ward, wholesale
grocery salesman, and T. J. Webb, rep
resenting the Webb Packing Co.
Thy are accustomed to make week
ly trips to Tangier Island to book
orders from island merchants and this
was their first trip to Tangier since
the freeze isolated the islands early
in January. They made the trip in
a large power boat commanded by
Capt. Edward Pruitt.
Safely negotiating the ice to Tan
gier Island, they started the return
trip to Crisfield late in the day. At
5 p. M, still several miles from their
home port, the boat became damned in
a shifting ice pack.
o. L. Daugherty said his compan-
ions and Capt. Pruitt attempted to
break the ice by hammering it with
oars, but were unable to break a path
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-03-13
TERRIFIC THUNDER STORM
SWEEPS EASTERN SHORE

The most terrific thunder storm
in a number of years swept the East
ern Shore last week and did consider
able damage in Accomac and Parks
ley sections. The home of Mr.. Louis
j. Human near Parksley was dam
aged to the extent of $500 to $4,000
when it was hit by lightning. The
lightning hit the chimney and raised
the roof several inches out of place.
The south side of the house was con-
siderably damaged and there was not
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-03-13

for the boat. There was no heat in
the boat nor was there any food, but
a sufficient supply of water was car
ried.
Throughout the night the attempts
to free the boat continued and at dawn
another powerboat, tn H. F. Rogers
approached and was hailed. With the
assistance Of the Rogers, Capt. Pruitt
got his boat free and the merchants
returned to Crisfield.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-03-13

a room on the interior in which the
lightning did not leave evidences of
damage. The floor on the third flood
was ripped up and things stored there
were thrown through the ceiling into
room on the second floor.
At the time that the lightning hit
the house several of the family were
recovering from scarlet fever but no
one was hurt.
The lightning hit one of the old
pine trees in the Methodist Church
yard at Accomac and about the time
of the crash, window panes in seven
homes nearby broke and fell inside
the rooms. The cause of so many
window panes beink broken is UNI
known. A check up on Tuesday shows
window panes broken as follows:
Home of Mrs. James H. Fletcher 43;
G. Walter Mapp 40; R. H. Oldham 2;
J. w. Colonna 10; Mrs. M. B. Stein
metz 2, Wash Lilliston 10; Rev. F. d.
Thomas z; Joe White z. Two windows
in the south side of the Methodist
church were broken out and all of
those not broken in the South side had
small holes in them. Mrs. Joe White
of Accomac, was shocked but not SER
iously hurt.
At the Baptist parsonage at Biloxi
ON, one water spigot in the kitchen
became electrified and the water
drawn from it shocked Rev. w. c.
Scott.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-03-13

the ice in Tangier Sound last Wednes-
day and Thursday when their boat
became jammed in the floe and was
swept helplessly about as the ice NOV
ed down the channel.
Thursday their boat was freed from
the ice with the assistance of another
powerboat and the men returned to
Crisfield. During their enforced stay
in the ice they were without food or
fuel, they said.
The men who spent the night on the
ice pack were A. J. foreman, Gulf
Refining Company, distributor; C. c..
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-03-13
NARROWING EXPERIENCE
OF BUSINESS CITIZENS

Six lower Somerset county business
men spent narrowing II hours in
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-03-13

When you have something to sell.
rent or trade run an ad in our Class
flied Columns.