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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-05-13
LOCALS

Hester and Charles Lewis and
Russell Neal spent Sunday in Elkin.
Mrs. P. C. Wright is substituting
in the local N. and w. office while
C. B. GRAPHICAL, assistant depot
agent, is taking leave of absence.
C. B. Price is reported to be
building a modern milk house on his
farm near Clifton where he will be
able to produce A grade milk.
Among adult teachers from this
county who attended the dramatized
exhibit in Boone Friday were Ethel
Brown Johnson, Mrs. Essa Gambill,
Mrs. Cecil Denny, Mrs. Susie Pearl
Paisley, Grace Sanders Davis, Mrs.
Dora Phillips, George Holeman, Mrs.
Mary Pierce, Mary Jordan, and Mrs.
Eula Hardin.
Miss Margaret Phillips and Mrs.
c. R. Goswick spent Thursday in
Boone.
Mrs. Lloyd Mcmillan, of Nathans
Creek, was carried to the Wilkes
Hospital Tuesday night where she
will undergo an operation for ap-
pendicitis. She was accompanied by
her husband and her sister, Miss
Grace Saunders.
Mrs. T. E. Parker and Mrs. Glen
Parker made trip to North Wilkes
boro Tuesday.
Mrs. Paul Reeves, of Nathans
Creek, was in the city Tuesday.
Miss Lorene Perkins and sisters,
Mrs. Jones, of Nathans Creek, were
shopping in the city the first of the
week.
Messrs. Paul and John Donnelly
and Paul Miller left last week for a
trip to Akron, Ohio, and other
northern cities.
A. M. Frazier spent several days
last week in Asheville in the inter-
est of dairying.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. M. Morphis, of
Lansing, and Mr.. and Mrs. George
Booth, of West Jefferson, spent Sun
day visiting in High Point.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert C. Barr spent
Tuesday afternoon in Blowing Rock.
Mrs. c. w. Ray is visiting her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Horne, and
her husband in Coeburn, Va, this
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Faison and Mrs.
Blanche N. Pless spent the latter
part of the week in Boone attending
to administrative work incidental to
staging the dramatized art exhibit
that was held there Friday for 26
counties in this section of the state.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hort Richardson are
managing the J. A. Richardson store
during the basence of its owner,
Mrs. J. A. Richardson who has NOV
ed to the country for the summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Perkins, of Blacks
burg, Va, visited Mrs. Perkins's
grandmother, Mrs. America Blevins,
last week.
Mrs. Margaret Barker and sons,
Johnnie and Jimmie, of Charleston,
w. Va, are visiting relatives near
Crumpler.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-05-13

Master Ralph Coward, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Fred Coward, of Jefferson
has recovered enough from a very
serious illness to be allowed to come
home from the Wilkes Hospital
where he has been for several
weeks.
Misses Jennie and Eula Todd,
members of A. S. T. c. faculty,
Boone, are spending their vacation
at their home in Jefferson.
Harper Duncan, of Hickory, spent
: the week end with his father, J. w,
Duncan, on Beaver Creek.
Miss Dorothy Neal has returned
to Washington, D. c., after visiting
her father, c. S. Neal, in Jefferson
Mrs. Alice Miller, of Lansing, is
very ill in the Wilkes Hospital
Many friends in and around Lansing
went to North Wilkesboro the first
of the week to offer blood for q
TRANSMISSION.
Jim McNeill, of Laurel Springs
who was carried to the hospital in
North Wilkesboro last week suffer
ing from gun shot wounds, is re-
ported to have developed peritonitis
and to be in a very serious condl-
ton.
DR.. J. K Hunter and Bruce Dent
spent the week end in Winston
Salem.
County Agent c. ]. Rich and wife
and son spent the week end in Bun
combe county.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul McEver and
daughter, Betty, of Marion, spent
Sunday here.
Victor Clark, of Lansing, has re-
turned home from the Presbyterian
Hospital in Charlotte where he un-
derwent an operation for appendi-
citis.
Mrs. Ruth Roland has rented her
home in the city to Mr.. and Mrs.
Weaver, of Weaverville, N. c. Mr..
Weaver is member of the state
highway department.
County Agent c. J. Rich left
Tuesday for Manteo where he will
attend conference of county agents
for the remainder of the week.
Ben Miller, of this city, is very ill.
He is suffering from heart ailment.
Mrs. w. c. Thomas and daughter
have returned home after visiting
relatives in Sanford. Returning with
Mrs. Thomas were number OF
friends who remained as house
guests.
Miss Ruth Bauguess and Mrs.
Dean Jones left Monday for Louis
vile, KY, where they will visit this
week.
Ed Farmer, of Lansing, was Wis
itor in the Jeffersons, Monday.
Prof. B. H. Duncan and son, Mere
dith, of Trade, were in the city Mon
day.
Mrs. Maggie Smith, of Nathans
Creek, has returned to her home
after spending several weeks in the
Wilkes Hospital suffering from a
broken hip.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-09-24
UNION EVANGELISIC CAMPAIGN

Baltimore is planning deliberately
for union Evangelistic Campaign
under the leadership of the famous
evangelist, Gypsy Smith of Cam
which will begin on September rs
and continue until October 10, will
be held in the Fifth Regiment Arm
DRY. Rev. Charles T. Hewitt, D. D.,
Pastor of the Fulton Avenue Baptist
Church, is General Chairman of The
Campaign Committee. More than
two hundred Baltimore minister's
are cooperating; this group repre-
sents practically every Protestant
denomination.
A large Chorus Choir has been re-
hearsing during the month of Aug
ust. Approximately one thousand
have already applied for member
ship in the Chorus. Rev. G. Carroll
Bailey, Pastor of the Faith Evangel-
ical Church is training the choir
and will lead the singing during
the campaign. Rev. Mr.. Bailey is
well known in music circles, having
been a member of the Glee Clur
and Varsity Quartet at the Univer-
sity of Michigan during his student
days, since then active in leading
church music. For five years he was
director of the YMCA Glee Club in
Baltimore and now is Director of
the Faven Glee Club.
Two other committees have been
active in preparation for this city
wide campaign. Rev. ]. w. Leggett,
Pastor of the Central M. E. Church,
South has gathered large group
of Personal Workers and Rev.
Kingman A. Handy, Baptist
clergyman is organizing the Cottage
Prayer Meetings. During the sum-
mer Special Prayer Groups Of min
listers and laymen have been meet
each week, led by Rev. ]. Rus
sell Gaar, Presbyterian pastor at
Sparrows Point.
Gypsy Smith is now conducting
a city-wide revival in Wichita Falls
Texas, where great throngs greet
him daily at the Municipal Audi
troium. This is his 34th Evangelis-
tic tour in the United States. AL
though he is we'll past seventy years
of age, he is as vigorous and .ac-
tive as many men twenty-five years
younger. The meeting in Baltimore
will be the only one the Gypsy will
hold outside of Texas this year.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-09-24
Bird Builds Dance Hall

Australia has no lions or mon
keys or elephants or any Of the
fierce animals. But what she lacks
in man-eaters Australia makes up
in many strange and beautiful birds
and mammals which are found no.
where else in the world. One of
these is the bower-hird, notes a
writer in Pearson's London Weekly.
This beautiful creature is a great
architect, and the male bird builds
itself a bower of arched sticks in
which it dances and plays. The
bower is merely a playhouse, or
dance hall, and is not a nest. The
bower bird decorates his dance hall
with an artistic collection of snail
shells, berries, leaves and bits of
blue paper-it likes blues a d
green's. Also it paints the sticks
with a mixture of powdered char
coal and saliva, using its beak as
a brush.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-09-24
Inscription on Watts Statue

The inscription on James Watts
statue in Westminster abbey is as
follows: ''Not to Perpetuate a Name
Which Must Endure While the
Peaceful Arts Flourish but to Shew
That Mankind Have Learnt to Hon.
our Those Who Best Deserve Their
Gratitude the King His Ministers
and Many of the Mobiles and Com
moners of the Realm Raised this
Monument to James Watt Who Di-
recting the Force of An Original
Genius Early Exercised in Philo-
sophical Research To The Improve
ment of the Steam Engine Enlarged
the Resources of His Country In
creased the Power of Man and Rose
To an Eminent Place Among the
Most Illustrious Followers of Sci
ence and the Real Benefactors of
t he World Born at Greenock
MDCCXXXVI Died at Heathfeld in
Staffordshire MDCCCXIX."
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-09-24
True Value of Steel

The value of steel varies greatly,
the price depending upon the arti-
cles into which it is fashioned. If
a bar of steel costing / pound is
made into horseshoes, the finished
product would fetch about pounds.
If the same bar is made into nee-
dies, they would fetch 70 pounds, If
into penlnife blades, about $500
pounds, and into watch springs no
less than $4,000 poundsl Very often,
when made into precision instru-
ments or hardened into delicate
tools. steel has a greater value.
weight for weight, than gold, and it
is the most useful of all metals for
engineering work. Without steel, as
serts London Tit-Rits Magazine. in
dustry would be temporarily dis
located, for another metal equally
cheap that would lend itself to tenn
pering, would have to be found.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-09-24
Old Village in England
Does Not Know Real Name

Lyminster, Sussex, one of the old
est villages in England, does not
know its real name, observes Pear
sons London Weekly.
Its history goes back to the year
901, when King Alfred the Great
bequeathed the village to his
nephew. It was then known as Lul-
lyngminster. Ever since then, differ
ent names for it have continually
cropped up, and things became so
confused that the villagers met and
decided on the present name,
though there is still much doubt
as to whether they have chosen
correctly.
Lyminster, like most villages, has
its pond, but it is a very special
pond. Tradition declares that it once
sheltered a fierce dragon, and some
villagers firmly believe that the
pond is bottomless. Many a tale is
told in Lyminster of people who
have been drowned in il, and the
bodies have never been recovered.
Biologists, however, think that
there is an underwater tunnel at
the bed of the pond, and a SUBJ
merged current sucks down any
thing that sinks below the surface.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-09-24
How the Elements Rate
in Average Human Body

If the chemical elements compos-
ing the average human body were
isolated and sold at commercial
prices they would be worth about
81, says a writer in the Indianapolis
News. The United States bureau Of
chemistry and soils supplies the fol-
lowing estimate of the average per-
centage of the different elements in
the human body:
Oxygen, IS; carbon IS; hydrogen,
10; nitrogen, 8; calcium, LIS; phos-
phorus, l; potassium, OBS; sulphur,
OBS; sodium, OILS; chlorine, OILS;
magnesium, 0.05; iron, 0.O04, and
iodine, 100000. The body also con-
tains minute quantities of fluorine
and silicon, and perhaps manga
nese, zinc, copper and aluminium.
Even arsenic has been discussed as
being possibly an essential constitu-
ent of a normal human body.
Those who have attempted to
evaluate the elements composing an
average human body have met with
many difficulties and their figures
are nothing more than rough esti-
mates,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-09-24
Egg Producers, Handlers
Can Stop Summer Losses

Producers and handlers of eggs
are losing hundreds of dollars every
week of warm weather from highly
perishable fertile eggs, according to
o. C. Ufford, extension poultryman
for Colorado State college, Fort Col
Inns.
Suggestions for preventing this
loss are outlined as follows:
BOOSTERS should be marketed or
confined during the summer so that
infertile eggs may be produced.
Provide one nest for each four
hens.
Gather eggs more than once day.
Cool eggs before packing them in
cases.
Eggs may be cooled and water
evaporation from the eggs may be
prevented by keeping them in the
cellar or by keeping damp sack
over the case.
M 1T eggs as often as possible
duri.. Sarm weather, preferably
about very three or four days.
Keep clean straw in nests.
Handlers of eggs will find it more
profitable to keep eggs stored in a
cool place until they are sold.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-09-24
FOREST FIRE LOSSES In STATE
ARE ESTIMATED By
SPECIALIST

There were 1880 forest fires In
Maryland reported in 1886, which
burned over 1904 acres of land
and caused loss of $49,431 in pro-
perty values, according to c. F.
, Winslow, specialist in forestry for
the University of Maryland extern
sion service. In addition, he states,
these fires cost $4,749 to suppress.
Most of the fires, Mr.. Winslow
says, were caused by careless smok-
ing, but careless debris burners,
railroad operations, and incendiar-
lists were responsible for almost as
many. ALI but three fires that were
caused by lightning were caused by
man and could have been prevented
if proper care and precaution had
been observed.
Few forest fires would result,
Mr.. Winslow states, if the follow
ing rules were carried out: Do not
throw lighted matches or burning
smoking materials into dry grass or
leaves; do not build camp fires in
wooded areas during dry weather
when the wind is high; do not leave
camp fires burning-throw water on
the fire and mix it through the ashes
with stick, OF cover the fire with
dirt; and do not burn grass fields
or debris during windy weather. 1t
is good precaution to start such
fires after three P. M. and bufn
against the wind; also, to have a
sufficient number of men handy,
equipped with shovels, rakes and
buckets of water, to control the fire.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-09-24
An Old Indian Custom

An Indian widow was forbidden
by custom to marry for year after
her husbands death because the
spirit of her departed spouse was
believed to stay with her that long.
During the year she could not ac-
cept gifts of meat from anyone nor
could she even buy it; she had to
get it herself. II she. lived through
the year, says the Cleveland Plain
Dealer, and observed all the rigid
customs, she would then be given
gifts by both the men and women
in the tribe, and she would usually
get another husband, because the
next spouse would know that she
was obedient and he could depend
on her. :
Indian men were not held down
by such strait jacket rules. They
could even put up their squaws as
stakes n gamhliRa.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-09-24
Egyptian Pyramids Are
Built of Stone, Brick

There are in all 10 of the Egyp-
tian pyramids. Seven of these are at
Gizeh, five at Abusir, eleven at SAX
kara, five at Dashur and the re-
mainder scattered throughout the
country. Some are built OF stone
and others of brick.
The principal ones, including the
great pyramid of Cheops, are at
Gizeh. The great pyramid was
erected as mausoleum for Khufu
or Cheops, of the fourth Egyptian
dynasty, who reigned about $500 b.
C.. II is constructed Of stone, trans
ported, for the most part, over a
causeway eight miles long, extend
ing from the quarries to the site.
1t is said that the construction OF
this causeway alone occupied 10O,-
600 men ten years.
Twenty years more were con-
summed in building the pyramid it.
self, which is $50 feet 9 inches in
height, and TAG feet square at the
base, and is estimated to contain
100000 tons of stone. The four
sides exactly face the four cardi-
nal points. This is the case with all
the pyramids, notes a writer in the
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The interior contains what are
called the kings chamber and the
queens chamber, in which the sar-
cophagi and the bodies of the SOW
ereiCnS were found and numerous
small chambers.
Various theories have been ad-
vanced as to the religious and as
Economical uses intended in the con-
struction of the great pyramid and
several of the lesser ones. While
for the most part conjectural, these
explanations of the monuments have
brought into being a very extensive
literature.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-09-24

Black widow spiders are easily
recognized by the shiny black back
and the red spots on the underside-
one or more above the spinnerets
at the tip of the abdomen, and one
farther up shaped like an hour glass.
Venom, injected from glands near
the base of the jaws, through a
needle-like tooth, causes singing
sensation, followed by pain which
progresses from the spot to the
chest or abdominal region, and has
a retarding effect upon the heart.
First aid is to make the wound bleed
freely by enlarging it and then ap-
ply suction. A few authentic cases
of death to human beings from
black widow spider bites are on
record in this country.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-09-24
Muskmelon May Have Been
Grown as Early as 1897

Strictly speaking we don't have
cantaloupes in the United States.
That term refers to a certain va
riety of the muskmelon grown in
Europe. Named for Cantalupo cas-
tie in Italy, where it was first grown
in Europe, the cantaloupe has q
hard warty rind and q reddish
orange flesh. However, we in the
United States have blithely referred
to any muskmelon as a cantaloupe,
until today dictionaries discriminate
between the English and the Ameri-
can versions, writes Iona Gilbert
in the Los Angeles Times.
Don't get the idea, however, just
because of the European-American
lingual differences that the musk
melon is a native of either. The
melon is indigenous to Asia. Cen
turtles ago the Egyptians borrowed
the idea from the Orientals and
raised an inferior melon, but a
muskmelon for all that. Both the
Romans and the Greeks knew musk
melons, but the latter, in writing of
them, sometimes confused them
with cucumbers.
Melons were brought to France
in 1929 we know, and fourished
thereafter, although they may
have been grown in that country
as early as 1897. We say may" be-
cause the authority telling of them
confused them sometimes with
gourds.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-09-24
TOURING YEAR IN
HISTORY

Checking up on its biggest tour
ing year in history, the Keystone
Automobile Club finds that its sew
enteen Offices in Pennsylvania, New
Jersey, Maryland and the District
of Columbia mapped out 2O8,265
tours covering more than 5,OOO,-
900 miles.
The 1897 figures, January l tc
August 81, show an increase of 1876
percent over the tours for 1886.
Tours this year averaged nearly
1000 miles.
Distance touring" is becoming
more popular every year, Club offic-
ials say. Where only a few hardy
motorists undertook a transcontl-
mental journey decade ago, thous-
ands now drive from coast to coast
Trips of three to FIVE thousand miles
are common.
Two reasons are assigned by the
Club for the increasing popularity
of travel. One is the modern motor
car which covers distance effortless-
ly and "holds up" under the vary
ing conditions encountered in long
trips. The other is the constant i'm
provement of the nations highway
system. New roads invite patronage
and get it.
Aside from the tours prepared in
Club Offices, Keystone aided addi-
tional thousands Of motorist thro
ugh its Motor Patrol. Touring in
formation was given to nearly 1000
motorists who stopped patrolmen on
the highways to learn explicit dir
ections or to inquire about road
conditions.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-09-24
Protein Feeds for Cattle

High protein feeds have given
faster gains, better finish, and lower
costs in cattle fattening than rations
with less protein, according to OBJ
servations made by the University
of Illinois. Linseed meal, soybean
oil meal and cottonseed meal are
the protein feeds generally used. It
is profitable to give one pound of
one of these feeds to each seven to
ten pounds of corn, depending upon
the age of the cattle and the kind
of roughage.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-09-24
FARM
Tories
GRASSES, LEGUMES
USED AS ENSILAGE
Can Be Kept in Condition by
Adding Molasses.
BY A. C. Kinney, Extension Dairy Special
ist North Carolina State College.
WNU Service.

BY A. C, Kinney, Extension Dairy Special
ist. North Carolina State College.
WNU Service.
With molasses as a preservative,
any green crop that will make hay
can be stored in silo without any
appreciable loss of feed value.
Corn silage contains substances
that act as a preservative, but le-
gumes and grasses do not have
enough sugar to ferment properly.
By adding molasses to legumes
and grasses, the material can be
kept in good condition.
The crop can be cut at any stage
of maturity and in any kind of
weather. However, greater feeding
value is obtained if the crop is cut
as early in the season as possible
without injuring the stand. Cereal
crops should be cut when the grain
is in the milk stage.
Start cutting early in the morn
ing. If the crop is wet with dew or
rain, so much the better. The crop
should be put in the silo within a
few hours after cutting.
If the crop must remain in the
field more than a few hours on a
dry day, water should be added as
it is blown into the silo.
Around 40 to As pounds of molas-
ses should be added to each ton of
cereal and grass crops, while rs to
80 pounds should be added to ton
of legume silage.
The molasses can be added from
an elevated barrel by allowing the
proper amount to flow through a
spigot onto the green material as
it is fed into the cutter.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-09-24
Colman, First American
Playwright Back in 1890

"Gustavus Vasa," performed In
1890 by Harvard students at Cam
bridge, earned for Benjamin Col
man the place of the first American
playwright. The earliest theater in
America was built in 1716 at Will
liamsburg, Va, says a writer in the
Indianapolis News. Fifteen years
later, Mat Medley's company, play
ing '"The FOOLS OPERA" made the
first theatrical tour Of the English
colonies. In 1749, an attempt was
made to play Addison's "Cato" in
Philadelphia, but the players were
arrested and the project abandoned.
1t was not until 1863 that a theater,
the Southwark" was built in that
city. The New Amsterdam Dutch
were Indifferent to the theater, but
after British occupation, the city's
night life was gayer and many
young British officers took part in
the theatricals.
The old John Street theater in
New York was built in 1857. When
the house was sold out, it brought
in $500, and sporting young gentle
men of the city We'd with each 9th
er for the privilege of occupying
the few special seats on the stage.
Washington frequently attended its
performances and the greatest ac-
tors of the day, all of whom were
styled comedians" appeared. It
was here that Hamlet" made its
initial appearance in America. Ma
jor Andre, later executed as spy,
was scene painter, and many OF
the successful scenic effects at the
old theater were his. John Henry,
Irish actor, came from Covent Gar
den, London, to play "The Beaurx'
Stratagem" at this theater, and be-
came Americas first matinee idol.
On another occasion a group Of
Cherokee chiefs witnessed Richard
Ill" AS return favor, they offered
to give an Indian war dance. The
offer was accepted and billed ac-
cordingly, with the result that the
house was filed to overlooking. A
young English actor Of those early
days, Lewis Hallam, caused consid-
cradle comment, playing Romeo to
his mothers Juliet.