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Smyrna times., 1937-08-05

duties of Superintendent of Della
ware Division with renewed health
and strength. He was met at New
York by his private car from Clay
ton.
Rev. H. S. Thompson, of Eewes,
arrived in town on Monday on a
visit to his mother.
Mr.. and Mrs. William J. Carrow
who have been on brief visit to
relatives here left yesterday for
Pittsburg, Pa.
Daniel b. Cummins was a guest
"a ''Woodlawn" on Saturday and
Sunday. His daughter, Mrs. Cath
erwod, who came with him, re
mained
Smyrna times., 1937-08-05

Harry r. Bell, son Of William M.
Bell, left this town Saturday for
Columbus, Ohio, to learn the bust
ness of electrician with the Edison
Company, joining Daniel c. Spru-
ance, formerly of this town at that
place.
Mrs. Motion Hudson and Miss
Maggie FAIRIES left yesterda y for
Ocean Grove.
Mrs. Fletcher E. Cooper and son,
of Brooklyn, are on visit of two
or three weeks to Mr. and Mrs. j.
B. Cooper.
Mrs. Fred Kelly, son and Stella
Boyd, are guests of Mrs. William
A. FAIRIES,
Smyrna times., 1937-08-05
NEWS NOTES

A Pennsylvania mule which had
lived in coal mine for nine years
without seeing daylight was hoist
ed up the other day, and his first
act was to kick a boy sky high
Mules know what daylight is for
as well as any one else.
Justice Bradley of the United
States Supreme Court has dissolv-
ed the injunction restraining the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pany from erecting their bridge
over the Arthur Kill at Staten
Island. The Justice says in effect
Uncle Sam is larger man than
New Jersey.
James Martin, a painter, seven
teen years old, was at work paint
Smyrna times., 1937-08-05

ington, was the guest of John P.
Collins yesterday.
/ Capt. Thomas F. Huntingdon, of
Philadelphia, son of the late Jesse
S. Huntington, of this town, has
been elected lieutenant colonel of
the First Regiment N. G., of Penn
sylvania.
| w. G. Lake, Principal of the
Smyrna Public Schools, is register
ed at the Lapierre, Ocean Grove.
Frank Kneedy and wife, of vii
mington, are visiting his parents.
Rev. E. G. Mock, rector of st.
Peters P. E. Church, who has been
confined to his home since Sunday
from indisposition, is convalescing.
j. B. FAIRIES, who has been alb
sent from his place of business for
two weeks on account of illness, is
about again.
Edward ]. Phelps will leave Sat
urday for weeks visit to friends
near Louisville, Pa.
Mrs. Levi Anthony, accompanied
by Mrs. J.W. Clifton, went TO Cam
den camp on Friday for a sojourn
there of several days.
Frank Wells and wife, of PhIa-
delphia, are on a visit to relatives
here.
Misses Ella Smithers and Lizzie
Beck will leave tomorrow for a
two weeks visit to Ocean Grove.
John c. Stockly and family and
Frank Bailey left this morning for
Atlantic City.
Miss Sallie 3. Collins and Sam
uel ]. Reynolds returned yesterday
from visit of several days to Re
hoboth
Robert A. Hance, Jr., and wife.
of Philadelphia, will come to-mor-
row on a visit of several days to
his sister, Mrs. w. o. Hoffecker
and thence to Rehoboth for stay
of two weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mulhausen, of Will
mington, are guests of Mr.. and
Mrs Harvey Smith.
Smyrna times., 1937-08-05
SMYRNA DOINGS
OF so YEARS AGO
(Cont-n ned From Page Two)

social world Of society. The Wis
itors to Rehoboth have found the
soldier boys among the livest of
the live holiday visitors, and the
ladies, well, all know their facina-
tion for brass buttons and military
trappings. Doubtless all the NUT
terings of the Wilmington boys
were hushed in the first swash of
the never ceasing waves. As to the
amateur soldiers, every movement
Smyrna times., 1937-08-05
Helpful

The husband drew up a chair be-
side his wife's sewing machine the
other day and remarked:
Don't you think it's running too
fast? Look out, you'll sew the wrong
seam. Slow down, or you'll stick
that needle in your fngerl"
why, what's the matter with
you? I've been running this ma
chine for ten years"
'Oh, was merely trying to as
sist you. Just as you try to help me
drive the car"
Smyrna times., 1937-08-05

has been spread before the public
with the significance that would be
attached to any army of conquest.
What politicians visited them, what
ladies danced with them, whence
they came and whittier they went,
are they not all written in the
columns of the Morning News and
the Every Evening.
Smyrna times., 1937-08-05
Stretching the Point

A railroad agent in Africa had
been "bawled out" for doing things
without orders from headquarters.
One day his boss received the fol
lowing startling telegram:
Tiger on platform eating con-
ductor. Wire instructions. Christ
ian Advocate.
Smyrna times., 1937-08-05
PERSONALS

Mr.. and Mrs. I. N. Mills arrived
at their home in Clayton on Sun
day from a two months visit to
Europe. Mr.. Mills who went for
his health has returned very much
benefited, and reenters upon the
Smyrna times., 1937-08-05

A great many sre Il. Q year
ed as vas ST John ~ !. n Trey n !
upon an Island If ps.- "a thev
their Patmos Islap5 : E Conv
ragged barren Island +, Detail
Sea. Their pa4r,e tgust |
misfortune 81 it nav ! hTas nro,
or it NAY be 4 confrsr'aft a wi
!Lnlmlty o. age. ates CO
But .aank CD r,g re al
be the ,a iended
Tslard Cons
+ a Among
7 is oy le sxpe.Is The n
sanity Jim which !. lied "th
when te II ties: d cons
away il the spirit. q Juol q,
The Sanity JOIN r., : ai'r ,,ers, rs
carried away from il: at Of t
ness Of MS Patm0s bvr with
sistance such as f,ie,s was
10 sac,lrA .f a ter
~ @ ineligi
: 7 Is IGN rs no pr
70 me mainland. But rLegisla,
ried away from the bs,. a CO
material enyjr0nmer. inches,
caugb- ~ 5r-o - -, present
''d d cole
.-tI1a- .sa.rce "
y vas As tlouga Tlslong tn
on the summit Of Psrties nx
heavenly force swooss. rhe u
caught him up, as vs: :'uld oe
chariot Of fire. and nj st,e - g
and up, and Up, he ta. to t. vhc i,
VI y -
carried above to view / art fro
revelations Of heaven en- autl
On marooned soul 1
that you can find a olss DIE
from your dread PslNH
true your body may 81 III
prisoned by sickness AZ ILL
trinity, but thank Gil
n,oTriro NO III 81 4 81 lief M
But they that vat fe I'm
Lord shall renew tdaIa~ro
they shall mount up VI
eagles they shall rur
weary: and they sha sOM
not faint.
Smyrna times., 1937-08-05
WHAT IS HOv'he Jap

q. ~ n IN so de
age in
Home amt only -four ~ - A'e
Don't think 50 fersz
~ Of tho
noiN the Am
pul 1i1e W. 80 | in Re
Il | IoFeQ you q I. 21st.
Through fine er diry
A hut would just plirrs II; /,
If shared by US tog;oun =
the do
course We snoui1 he estat
pest c. Dow
Ter git a decent HT-:
But gittin' don't bring he state
Their secret lays IN re sent }
Give al you nave q T. ,onding
In love an thruth 1T the "
And then you Il nave de, in y
Regardless OF SuTTo-I
F. Tipl
Home is the sweetes' chased t
AS told in song anu >onough
But if love amt ths s-,le built
1t won't reflect mui is now
When things are hliI-
It's easy to be loU1 AIRY w.
But give to me the 10Y elected
When the family oI Buildin
shown cecil Co
Smyrna times., 1937-08-05

ing Oh tie BrooIl,
bis foot.ra e accidsax1
INTO the river beIo,,. -a1'.
ed up by a t,o ~" H,
Chambers 4 aaa u
complained II IN
where he strllc,, rag /
parently was not Va:
feet Il ance he te,l /,
Smyrna times., 1937-08-05

M by
a for 4 |
l|taphor
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horses. ,
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trip in q,
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to
e proper
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mes the
e warder
led their
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sed dogs.
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sidents a
e road l,
Smyrna times., 1937-08-05
Say Nav. So

'Do you know how the rats get
in here?"
"Nawl"
.Uh-huhl"
Smyrna times., 1937-08-05
Find Field Cor n Mon

A n,,mhar of farmtI;
trict have turned fel!
,,sad for sugar com III
as present prices 0Fa! !
better return on lA' :
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-09-09

says on the subject
IF landowner now lets his land gully and
wash away to the hurt of, this generation and
to do impoverishment of all future generations
DO our present tax systems rebuke or hinder or
check him in any way? BY no means. On the
contrary they seem to try to reward him. His
tax assessments per acre are reduced and some
of the tax burden he has been toting is
thus shifted to the shoulders of the rest of us.
Our foolish tax system does not penalize him
for making the country poorer 1t does penalize
all the rest of us for his shiftlessness and neg
lect
The same foolish policy prevails in the case
of our forest wealth. The man who lets fire ra-
wage his woodland, burn up the humus and nj
trogen, destroy the young growth and stunt the
older growth, what do our tax, systems do to
him? They reduce his tax assessment and
therefore his tax-load per acre-while they in
crease the assessment and tax load of the man
who keeps good stand of thrifty trees and puts
out every fire. And every time such mans
taxes are reduced 81 or 500 as a result of his
neglect, 81 or 500 more tax burden is put on
the backs of the rest of us who try to take care
of land and woods
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-09-09
YELLOW RACE PATRIOTISM

In territory Japan is about the size of Califor-
MIA, but of course, has many, many, times the
population. China is something smaller than
the United States and has four times the popu-
lation 1t is said that Chinese leaders believe
that If they can keep up spirit of unity among
their people, they can fight Japan for four or
five years if Japan could hold out that long
They think she could not. Since she is highly
industralized state and depends upon manufact-
urlng and commerce to keep going and China
is an agricultural country with the people max
ing their living at home, the Chinese are better
prepared to hold out Always, of course in case
they are willing to do so. At this distance one
must conclude that the spirit of unity and pat
rlot1sm in Japan is so high that they are willing
to die cheerfully for their cause. In the war
bc-Ween Japan and Russia years ago it was said
1hc! when it became necessary to bridge great
G. SIN for the Japanese army to march to an at
tack thousands of volunteers threw themselves
H1o the chasm and died to make pathway for
their comrades. Sometimes we call this patrio
tsrn and sometimes faniticism, depending UPON
WAo is doing the talking If the Chinese should
ever become imbued with this spirit they would
not leave greasy spot of Japan. Squire Me-
Canely used to say that the Chinese could con.
Guer country by simply invading it and EATING
up all the food. The trouble is that the TonS
and not the Chinese are doing the invadino
- Lenoir News Topics
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-09-09

Goodman, on the East by the lands
of Ira Walters, on the South by the
lands of Levi Tomlinson, M. Tea
que and Ben Phillips, and on the
West and Northwest by the lands
of ]. M. Morphew.
Another tract known as a portion
of the T. F. Ray land containing
forty-one and 59-160 (41-591-160)
acres, more or less, in Old Fields
Township, Ashe County, North
Carolina. located on the Donation
Public Road, and bounded on the
North by the lands of E. A. Ray,
on the East and Southeast by w. C.
Ray and on the West by the lands
of Mrs. N. Ray and E. A. Ray.
Another tract of land containing
twenty-one CID acres, more or less,
known as the Roy Ray home place
and a portion of the J. G. Hardin
lands in Old Fields Township, Ashe
County, North Carolina, located ON
the State Highway Number %,
bounded on the North by the lands
of Mrs L. j. Hardin, on the East by
the lands of Mrs. L. J. Hardin, on
the South by the North Caolina
Highway Number % and on the
West by the lands of Cicero Hardin.
Another tract containing sixty-one
and $40 (61-5-10) acres, more or
less, known as a portion of the
John Long lands in Obids Town
ship, Ashe County, North Carolina,
located on the South Fork of New
River, bounded on the North, East
and South by the South Fork of
New River and on the West by the
lands of Vaughn Mash and T. Z.
Miller
The property is more fully desrib-
ed by metes and bounds in the deed
of trust above mentioned, to which
reference is made.
This the 7th day of Sept, 1887.
w. O. McGIBONY,
Trustee
w. B. Austin.
Agent and Attorney for Trustee
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-09-09
What Other Editors
AreSaying
NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN
DEMOCRATS.

There is very important sense in which the
break that has occurred in the Democratic party
marked chiefly by secession of Southern lead
ers from the National Administration is his
toric.
The southern and eastern philosophers of de-
mocracy have seldom been able to get together
or, once got together, to stay that way long.
Sooner or later, the basic traditions and inhe-
That phase may also only verify the conclusion
that the northern and eastern schools of demo
cratic thought are fundamentally at variance
with those of the South and West
ritances assert themselves.
Rivalry between southern and northern Demo-
Gratis has long smoldered under the surface.
The seniority system means that most import
ant committee chairmanships 60 to the South,
because southern Senators and Representatives
get reelected even during Republican land
slides, when Democrats from the North and the
West are apt to fall by the wayside.
The South insists that just because it sticks to
the party through thick and thin, without back
sliding, it should control
The North and the West don't see why they are
are not entitled to as much consideration as the
South because the party can't win nationally
without them.
In debate on the wage-hour bill, Democrats
from the North and West warned their southern
colleagues that the Democratic party had never
got anywhere when the conservative South die
tated the party doctrines Southerners retort-
ed that the party had at times come cropper
when yielding to liberal northern Influences
One can take the history of American politics,
starting even before the Civil war, and make
it read both ways as to these divergent claims
The Charlotte Observer
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-09-09
NOTICE OF SALE OF LAND

WHEREAS, on the 18th day of
December, 1885, ROY RAY execut-
edand delivered unto w. o. MECH
bony, Trustee for LAND BANK
COMMISSIONER, a certain deed of
trust which is recorded in the Of
flee of the Register of Deeds for
ASHE County, North Carolina, in
Book SO at Page 83; and
WHEREAS, default has been
made in the payment of the indebt-
edness thereby secured as therein
provided, and the trustee has been
requested by the owner and holder
thereof to EXCISE the power of sale
therein contained:
NOW, THEREFORE, under and
by virtue of the authority confer
red by the said deed of trust the
undersigned Trustee will on the
1st day of Oct, 1887, at the court
houre door of Ashe County, North
Carolina, at twelve o'clock noon Of
fer for sale to the highest bidder
for cash, the following real estates:
All those four certain tracts of land,
containing total of two hundred
eighty-one and 1890 (281-160)
acres, more or less, one tract con-
tanning one hundred fty-eight
(158) acres, more or less, known as
a portion of the Garvey land in Old
Fields Township, Ashe County,
North Carolina, bounded on the
Northeast by the lands Of Mont
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-09-09
NtH
and
KeAneN
By
TROY
ISAIAH
JONES

Santa Clause is going to get mar
ried. Now that does away with that
Scottish alibi that Santa Clause COM
mited suicide.
The only reason to turn your head
is to look at a pretty girl or to see
if any more rocks are coming.
The wicked fleeth when no man
pursueth. But you will run faster
if you start to make a speech at the
Harrigan.
l have heard of condensed milk
and this and that But field day
vas converted into a house party.
e -
The man who knows his capacity
usually gets drunk before he reaches
it.
Sovietism is Russia practicing
American mistakes.
have heard a lot about mans
pursuit of the truth for the sake of
it. But the nearest approach was a
man chasing fleas.
A man captured a two headed
snake at Deep Ford. He must have
been near sighted or he could have
cen both the snakes all the way
down.
Oyer and oh yes in the court
house! What is the difference. They
call like you were deaf and dumb,
mostly dumb.
A rare person is like a rare
steak. They have not been roasted
enough.
When you can't get the straight
If anything then is when you call
it crooked.
I saw what you call a genius the
other day. Emerson says that a
genius is a person that can do with
ease what others do with difficulty.
I think he could shave a flea with
a crowbar.
Somebody said that learning
made man fit company for him
self. No wonder people like to
flock together.
Varacity is what a man tells
when he don't want to tell the
truth. That is why a lawyer ask
about a mans character as to var
acity and truth.
And I heard the other day that
there would be no more hell for
while. They turned it over to
PWA workers and they went to
sleep and let the fire go out.
Chinese stiffen up the front, we
wonder whether the paper refers
to the war zone or the laundry
business.
The teachers are having to an
swer the call of the wild, and again
they become the 'bored" of edu-
cation.
The Farmers Union of England
has decided that lavender is vege-
table.
The Greek island of Corfu chang
ed hands z times in 81 years.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-09-09
FOOD FOR THOUGHT

The inestimable value of conserving the soil
and forest is being stressed today more than
ever before and as means of further promot
ing this far-reaching program, Clarence Poe,
editor of The Progressive Farmer, recently
made some commendable suggestions He be-
lieves that tax reforms would be just and at
the same time effective in helping to foster pro-
gress instead Of Furnishing it. Here's what he
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-09-09
TO OPEN NEW CAFE

A new cafe, located here in the
formerly occupied by West
Jefferson Auto Parts company, will
be open for business in the near
future by Mrs. Ward Phillips and
Mack billiard. Remodelling work
and installing of fixtures is now
in progress and should be completed
within a short time.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-03-18

sought or received one penny of public
fl1nds-that the Farm Bureau has aug
mented appropriations for extension
work by donations of hundreds of
thousands of dollars to help with Office
expense, mileage bills, All leaders sal
aries and the like.
This is the first time the Farmer
Labor administration has felt itself
strong enough to come out in open
opposition to the organized farmers of
Minnesota. The administration may
get lesson that will make this the
last.
Minnesota has some of the largest
farm co-ops in the country-Land O.
Lakes, Twin City Milk Producers, Cen
trail Cooperative association and others.
The members of these organizations
owe debt of gratitude to the agricul-
tural extension service. Being non
political organizations, they have put
up with a lot of nonsense from the
state administration, leaning backwards
in their insistence that nothing be
done or no statement he made that
could be construed as political. The Of
ficers of these organizations are still
sitting tight, still holding to their non
political creed. But the membership is
getting madden and madden and mad
der. 1t is just possible that the Far
mer-Labor party, in its first open break
with farmers, has preased the skids fol-
| its downfall.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-03-18
DrOUsy Drivers Are
Menace to Themselves.

When the automobile driver falls
asleep at the wheel the chances are
very good indeed that he will not wake
lup again.
Studies by the National Safety Coun-
Gil are cited by members of the public
health education committee of the Min
nesota State Medical association in a
bulletin issued today to show that &C
cidents to sleepy drivers frequently kill
the driver himself.
About one in every twelve of the
accidents that happen when the driver
falls asleep kills somebody and in one
third of the cases it is the driver, him.
self, who is killed.
The most important conclusion drawn
from these studies was that driver
asleep accidents are not the result OF
long, gruelling drives Nearly half of
them happened to people who had been
driving less tina ntwo hours. One-third
OF them happened to people who had
been without sleep for 16 to 20 hours.
The trouble is that the drivers were
out trying to drive cars without the
normal period of seven or eight hours
sleep out of "a. The most common
victim was the drowsy driver returning
home from late party.
The physicians advise motorists who
have hard time staying awake to
remember that they are running a grave
risk to their own lives as well as the
lives Of others. They should get off the
road Immediately and not return to it
until they have made up the necessary
hours of sleep.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-03-18
|&@t E. g. ! e s

I know some drivers who take ex-
treme care of the condition of their
automobiles. The slightest squeak, rat
tie or noise is carefully investigated
even at the expense of time. They
might be on trip and have only the
minimum time to complete their ap-
pointment, yet they will stop for
minutes at time to correct some in
significant little rattle that does not
harm the efficiency of the automobile.
Then, when they have discovered the
rattle and have corrected it, they seem
to forget all about the rights of others.
They have no judgment as to speed and
apparently lose all control of good
driving sense.
A safe driver is never spectacular
driver. He is considerable of the rights
of others. He makes sure his car mech
anisrn is properly adjusted, and also
makes sure that his mental condition is
such that he will appreciate what others
expect him to do on the highways.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-03-18
Turning Cab Off
Tracks Saves life,

Luverne-"J knitting" sne cab of
j. N. Mcdowell miraculously escaped
serious injury when the truck he was
driving was struck by passenger train
near Manley. Approaching the rail-
road tracks he brought the truck almost
to stop and looked both directions
Because of the fog he was unable to see
the train, however. When TIE cab was
halfway across the tracks, he saw the
train, and realizing there was no way
to avoid the collision, he quickly
cranlped his wheels to the LETT, thus
"jack-knifing" the cab so that it would
not be struck. The train strucA the
trailer box but did not strike the cab
as it was off the tracks. Although the
trailer box was overturned, the cab re-
manned upright.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-03-18
Checker Artist
Awarded TrOphy.

Jackson-As result of his third
straight southern Minnesota checker
championship, Edward Bartels, Jack
sons master checker artist, gets per-
manent possession of the Stan A. Smith
trophy, awarded to the player winning
the cup three times in succession. He
defeated Milton Jenkins of Blue Earth,
six games to three, with one draw, in
a scheduled twelve-game match at
Fairmont. 1--WE played from two O'Clock
in the afternoon until 1870 at night,
Bartels said, when interviewed on his
victory. ITO start, jenkins put me in
hole darker than a railroad tunnel
by winning the first two games and
drawing the third. Then I regained
my usual stride and won six out of the
last seven games" Bartel's victory over
Jenkins was especially pleasing to him
as he eliminated the Blue Earth player
from the Southern Minnesota torlrna-
ment for the last three years
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1937-03-18
Scissors Pierce ChiLd's
EyebaLI at Remer.

Remer-A young child here faces the
prospect of completely losing the sight
in his one eye, for Francis Peabody
secured as plaything a pair of sharply
pointed scissors often denied him, and
accidently the point pierced his eyeball.
Francis caught sight of the scissors
when no one was watching him and
after approaching them great many
times he could not resist the temptation
of taking them in his hands as a
cherished possession. He was rushed
to the hospital at Grand Rapids for
medical treatment.