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Evening star., 1937-04-02

and Pennsylvania avenue he heard a
CHEEKY voice chirping Morning,
Harold"
Good morning, good morning"
quoth Harold, smiling, and went upon
his way.
The other day 1t suddenly occurred
to him he should slow down and take
a look at the chap who always put out
that unflaggingly cheerful salutation.
He looked. It was news vendor,
hawking a certain morning paper.
X
SURE THING.
The Department of Justice, or
1UhoeDer it is that hangs up those
WANTED" circulars about GRIM
inals, really has the bee on one
missing culprit. No chance of his
getting aWay Uith thing by dis
guising his Uoice, name or hair.
A placard over at the Ben Frank
lin Station reads: "Wanted:: Ben
jan1in Roden Bradley, alias Ben
Bradley" Just to make sure
thing OF it.
DIRECTIONS.
AID working in this Office the other
~ night looked up from his type
writer to be confronted by tall chap
dressed in white tie, tails and topper.
II say" I-sayed the fellow, could
you give me a bit Of help? I'm on a
treasure hunt. Looking for the white
hope of Democracy. Could you tell
me what that is?"
Our scribe made few random sug-
gestions, none of which seemed to
clear up the situation. The visitor left.
Few minutes later two other people
came charging in, asked for assistance
in finding three foreign newspapers.
Listen" said the scribe, this hunt
is taking up too much Of my time.
and besides I gave our last foreign
newspapers to the white hope of De-
mocracy. He just went down in the
elevator"
The second set OF visitors fed, fear
ing the arrival of the man with
the net.
CLASSIFICATION.
A T ONE Of the local cafes, the fel-
low who made up the combina-
ton wine list and list Of non-alcoholic
potables must have sampled the for
mer as he wrote BY the time he got
down to mixed lemonades" he in
cluded under the heading.
Milkshake.
Whiskey eggnog.
What, no chocolate rum punch?
REVISED VERSION.
A HOUSEWIFE alighting from a
= street car at Triangle Park one
afternoon early this week was sur
prised to note mob Of about 200 peo-
pie massed on Champlain street. She
edged up to the crowd and asked by
stander what went on.
"A man and a woman had an argu-
ment and she shot him.
Not relishing such scenes, the house.
wife walked on. At the corner of
Euclid and Champlain q taxicab
rounded the corner, the driver jammed
ON his brakes, leaned out and asked
a citizen what happened?"
Quick as shot the fellow
answered, nothing much. A taxi
driver just overcharged a woman 10
cents and she shot him, bless her
heart"
SOFT TOUCH.
The night before Easter at the
Syluan Theater rehearsal for Easter
Sundays sunrise concert, James B.
Smiley. young organist-about -town,
made an odd bit OF musical history.
He played "A,Oake the Harp" from
Haydn's "The Creation"-,Dith his
Cloves on!
Evening star., 1937-04-02
CORDOBA PRESSED
BY LOYAL TROOPS
aaiIroad and Highway Life
lines May Be Snapped
by Southern Drive.

BACKGROUND
Spanish Morocco Graded reDolt
against Madrid government in July.
Civil ,Uar has ragged undated since,
insurgent forces occupying by TAR
the most territory in the first sweeps
to seize po,Der and set up olDn seat
OF government.
Loyalists, holding fast to Madrid,
charge Italy and Germany aid
rebel forces.
Evening star., 1937-04-02
SOFT TOUCH.

The night before Easter at the
Syluan Theater rehearsal for Easter
Sundays sunrise concert, James B.
Smiley. young oroanist-about-to1Un,
made an odd bit OF musical history.
He played "Awake the Harp" from
Hdydn's "The Creation'-tDith his
GlOUes on!
Evening star., 1937-04-02
Sit-DOwn

Continued From First Page.)
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-04-01
Sussex News

The ladies of the Pleasant Home
Baptist church met on Saturday at
the home of A. F. Paisley, at Sussex,
and quilted their pastor quilt.
Those present were Mesdames A. F.
and C. G. Paisley, J. J. Pierce, Edd
Deboard, F. c. Handy, Claude Blew
ms, Florence Johnson, Warner Por-
ter and Clyde Thompson.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. C. Handy and
children visited Mr.. and Mrs. ]. J.
Pierce Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. G. Paisley were
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. A. F. Paisley
Sunday.
Ralph and Lorraine Porter were
the weekend guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Halsey.
Hazel Porter is visiting her grand
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Irwin Young.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-04-01
MARRIAGES
Observation-Disclosures

The marriage of Miss Ruby Sc
bastian, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
M. V. Sebastian, of Mountain View
Wilkes county, and Jacob H. Craw-
ford, was solemnized Easter Sunday
at the home of the groom's parents
Mr.. and Mrs. J. G. Crawford, at
Obids.
Rev. R. H. Stone read the service
using the ring ceremony. A lovely
luncheon was served following the
rites. Guests included the brides
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence G
Crawford and son Billy, of Boone
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Crawford, Of
Obids, John B. Crawford and Miss
Shirley Foster, Miss Frances Craw-
ford, Mr.. Ralph Crawford, of North
Wilkesboro, Miss DeEtte Crawford
of Green Valley.
The young people are both EN-.
ployed in North Wilkesboro, where
they will make their home.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-04-01

Candy was first made in a ma.
chine in 1925.
There are about 5000 known spe-
cies of moss.
German dentists are allowed tc
fill only two teeth a month with
gold.
The first item of clothing ever
worn by men were gloves.
It takes nature 500 years or more
to make an inch of topsoil. What a
shame some folks don't realize how
fast land goes when erosion sets in:
Comic strips-a AZ year old bust
ness-brings 100000 year to 200
artists, paying some as high as
5000 a week.
The United States will build two
new battleships, each costing twice
the cost of the Empire State build
ing, each costing twice the expense
Of running the State, Labor, and
Justice departments of the United
States government during 1886.
There are IL cities in the United
States with a higher homicide rate
that Chicago (most Of them over
four times as high).
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-04-01

The General Assembly that has just adjourn
ed is being called one of the best if not the best
legislature that has met in many year. This
praise is given the members of that session be-
cause of their hard work in the interest of get
ting their set tasks completed, and because of
the spirit of harmony which prevailed in both
houses during the entire time they were in
Raleigh.
Governor Hoey was able to carry out his
campaign promises and history was made in
the state with the law that gave us social secur-
ity and the one that removed the last obstacle
to public school education for every child with
in the state-free textbooks.
A brief summary of the outstanding laws
things accomplished by the 1897 legislature are
included in the following:
It put into effect the largest revenue and
appropriations bill that any North Carolina
General Assembly has ever enacted.
It refused to call statewide referendum on
the liquor question and permitted other coun-
ties to join the seventeen which are already wet.
In every case, however, vote of the people in
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-04-01
Sly News

Rev. Chappell filled his regular
appointment here Saturday night
and Sunday.
Mr.. D. o. Miller, of Horse Creek,
visited at J. S. Sapp's Monday.
Miss Velva Smiley visited rela-
tives at Rye Cove over the week
end.
Misses Ruth Ham and Julia Gray
beal spent Tuesday at J. S. Sapp's.
Mr.. Carl Ball, of Horse Creek,
spent Monday night at D. V. Hams
home.
Louise, the little daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Roy Elliott, is quite sick at
this time.
Miss Ruth Ham spent Monday
night with her sister, Mrs. Rosa
Sapp.
Mr.. Knowlton Bechtel and Miss
Julia GRAPHICAL motored to Tennes-
see and were quietly married last
Thursday. They were accompanied
by Messrs. Wilson and Herman
GRAPHICAL. They will make their
home with the brides parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Orrin GRAPHICAL.
Several people from this section
have been visiting Mr.. Alvin Arm
old, who is very sick in Bristol Hos
pital for the past few days.
Mr.. Lyde Carpenter and little son,
Lake, spent Sunday night at D. V.
Hamm's.
Misses Bess and Carrie Sapp Wis
tied at E. M. Sapp's Friday night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fieldon Elliott and
Mrs. Wiley Elliott visited at Roy
Elliott's Saturday night.
Mr.. Leland Canter of Maryville,
Tenn, spent Saturday night at J. S,
Sapp's.
Mr. G. o. Jones, of Mountain
Home, Tenn, who is visiting rela-
tives in this community, is very sick
at this time.
Mr.. and Mrs E. M. Sapp visited at
C. w. Roten's, Sunday.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-04-01
WHAT ARE FARM WOMEN WORTH?

A topic of ver-failing interest is meals.
And when meals are tied up with the position
of woman and new social horizons for America,
the effect is absorbing. All these subjects are
combined in special Times dispatch from In
dianapolis summing up the speech of Farm
Credit Administration representative before
convention of farm women. She told them that
the labor of farm woman over period of 80
years is worth more than $500OO
Preparation of meals accounts for two-thirds
of the farm woman's wage bill. In 80 years, the
Washington expert said at Indianapolis the
farmers wife prepares 235,425 meal. AT IS
cents a meal this would reach the staggering
sum of more than $35, 0OO." In itself that amount
of money is not staggering nowadays but the
number of meals is staggering, at first sight In
80 years there are almost exactly II 900 days.
In every day there are three meals. This is
roughly $4,000 meals in 80 years. Where do the
235, 425 meals come in?
Evidently our speaker assumes an average
company of seven persons sitting down to meals
at the farm table. When she says Is cents meal
she means mouth-meals just as railroads speak
of passenger miles, multiplying the number of
passengers by the number of miles each one has
travelled Actually, then, the farm woman really
gets about dollar meal for the work of pre-
pairing same. It is not too much, but it sounds
good deal better than Is cents.
One thing most people will want to know is
how all this compares with the earnings of non
farm women. In 1929 women workers in the
manufacturing industries were making an aver
age of SIT week, or say 5000 year. Our farm
woman who got $4,000 in 80 years would be
earning close to $1,700 year. It is not made
clear if there is deduction for her food clothes
and shelter to the value, let us say, of $500 a
year. If not, it would make her total receipts
$4,000 year, which is more than double the
earnings of women in industry. It is $500 year
more than the average earnings of all industrial
workers, men and women.
But of course we must remember what
working day is on the farm. It is IL hours day
and there are seven days week. It is more than
80 hours week, against an indicated AZ hours
week for women in the manufacturing indus
tries in 1929 and 40 hours a week for steel
workers from now 1t would thus come out
at 40 cents an hour for the farm woman which
is just about the hourly wage rate for factory
women-New York Times.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-04-01

the RESPECTIVE counties will be necessary.
It failed to adopt the Child Labor Amend
ment.
It enacted into law social security legislation
for the aged dependent children, and the blind,
It again adopted three per cent sales tax
with certain exemptions.
It refused to endorse $500 exemption on
homesteads occupied by owners of the property
despite the adoption of the Constitutional
Amendment granting such exemptions up to
$1,000 as passed at the election last November.
1t granted an increase of two new members
to the States Supreme Court.
1t reduced the cost of automobile license tags
to minimum of seven dollars instead of eight
1t passed legislation providing for complete
reorganization of the State Highway and Public
Work Commission.
It refunded to state employees, the Is per
per cent of their salaries which was withheld
from them in April, May and June, 1888. It also
granted an increase of 10 per cent in salaries,
beginning July /.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-04-01
WARD-DOUGLAS

Miss Ruby Douglas, of Crumpler
and Mr.. Bruce Ward, of Seattle
Washington, were married in Spar
ia on Thursday, March f. Rev. Cal
vim Sparks officiated.
Mrs. Ward is the attractive daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Douglas
Crumpler, and Mr.. Ward is the son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Stephen Ward, also
of Crumpler.
The young couple left Thursday
afternoon for Seattle, where Mr.
Ward has been employed for several
years and where Mr.. and Mrs. Ward
will make their home.-Alleghany
Times.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-04-01
PRESTON GAMBLE

The minister in charge of the funeral rites
for Preston Gambill last Friday spoke real
truth when he said that each man preached his
own funeral in the life he lived before death
claimed him. The large number of sons and
daughters grandchildren, and great-grand-
children who gathered to pay last tribute of
respect to Mr.. Gambill were men and women
who are leading citizens in their respective
communities and whose lives have been shaped
and will continue to be shaped by the influence
of his life, teachings, and beliefs.
Born in the turbulent days before the War
Between the States, Mr. Gambill grew up in the
reconstruction period following the war when
money was seldom seen and good Southerners
were often denied even the necessities of life.
A hard worker himself, he brought up his fam
lily on the principles of democracy on which the
foundations of our nation are based, honesty
and hard work.
A member of the Primitive Baptist church,
he lived by the church creed of believing in the
Bible and paying ones debts.
To reward his labors, he spent an old age of
peace and happiness with his children taking
care of his every need, and passed away secure
in their love and respect and secure in his faith
of a still better life to come
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-04-01

There will be three eclipses during
1887. Only one, that of the sun, June
9th will be visible in this country
and that from a few places on Paci-
fic coast.
Mamma" is believed to have been
scale insects which drop to the
ground and form swedish" gran
ules. Arabs of today eat them.
If man had the jumping power of
the flea, according to size, he would
jump from New York to Vladivostok
in one hop. :
In thee cean are gigantic eels
which ares ometimes eight feet thick
and so feet long.
Fire arms were blamed for de-
stroying game too rapidly in 1548.
The greatest number of automo-
bile accidents occur on Saturdays.
Silver Spring in Ocala, Fla, has
the largest flow of any spring in the
world, 22,134,78O gallons per hour.
st. Peters Cathedral in Rome has
the widest center aisle in church,
100 feet.
The creosote bush is a common
evergreen shrub with olive green
leaves, and gives a tarry odor. It
grows from Texas to California and
is three or four feet high.
Seven hundred million pieces Of
mail were distributed free by the
government last year.
It is estimated that between 90
and 80 billion tulip bulbs are ship
ped to this country every year.
"Siesta" means sixth hour and is
the time for daily nap in hot
climates.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-04-01
Whitetop, Va. News

Miss Pauline and Omagene Cox
spent the weekend with Mrs.
Thomas Farmer.
Mr.. VERNE Farmer is planning a
trip to Kennett Square, Pa, soon.
Mr.. Garfield Farmer passed
through the vicinity Sunday.
Mr.. Gather Davis, of Pageton, w.
Va, spent Sunday with VERNE
Farmer.
Mr.. Gwyn Sexton, of Pageton, w.
Va, spent the weekend with Mr.. c..
E. Walker.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-04-01
Card of Thanks

We wish to thank our friends and
neighbors for their many acts of
kindness and sympathy shown us
during the sickness and death of our
husband and father.-Mrs. J. w.
Weaver and children.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-04-01
9 Killed i'm Coal Mine

Two explosions killed nine men
deep in the workings of coal mine
near Dubois in northwestern Penn
Sylvania and the bodies of all except
two were carried out Sunday by res
cue workers.
Four of the men were rescue
workers who entered the shaft after
the first explosion which had trap
ped the other five.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-04-01
GO0DRghN-HHRE

Miss Katherine Goodman, of Con-
cord, and Mr. DougFton Bare, of the
Nathans Creek community were
married Tuesday, March 80, at the
home of Rev. J. G.. Swain. The
bride is a daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
J. R. Goodman, of Concord, and Mr..
Bare is a son of Mr.. and Mrs. w. T.
Bare, of Nathans Creek. They plan
to make Their home at Concord
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-04-01
Birthday Dinner for John Poe

In celebration of his sixtv-fourth
birthday, Mr.. John Poe of this city
was honor guest Easter Sunday at a
birthday dinner.
Guests included Mr.. and Mrs. E.
g: Burchett, Of Crumpler, W. Va,
MT. and Mrs. Sam Bare, Of this city,
MI. and MRS. ". P. Bell and Mr.. and
Mrs. II. S. Bell Of Laurel Springs,
Mr.. and Mrs. r. c. Jones, Of Scott
vile.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-04-01
ROWIE-REDD

Announcement was made this
week in Charlotte of the engagement
of Miss Elizabeth Davis Bowie
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
Contee Bowie, Of West Jefferson, to
Carter Lee Redd, of Birmingham
and Martinsville, Va, the wedding
to take place in June.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-04-01
lub
and
KeAneN
By
TROY
ISAIAH
JONES

I was recently informed that so
far there has not been single ap-
plicant for the position of Superin-
tendent of Schools for AShe county.
I look for the board of education to
have some trouble in getting man
for this position have already in
formed one member of the board not
elect me for I was there to tell him
that I could not accept if elected.
I read in magazine that all chill
dren in the United States were ex-
posed to some teaching. But I am
afraid that it is sorter like the
measles that it does not take with
all of them.
Walter B. Pitkin wrote book en-
titled Life Begins at Forty. am
so anxious for that time to roll
around so that can see what life
is like.
The way some people churn each
other around you would think that
they got drunk on buttermilk.
How do you know that person
is silly? Well, there is psychology
cal principle called Conscientious
ness of kind that explains that.
NJ 100 fo. mn orocc RI rnnk on
poor old DR.. Townsend for contempt.
If they could read the public mind
they would have whole nation to
indict.
If there is anything in the worth
of higgins" some of the women this
Easter looked like the Normandy"
speed and all.
don't want to carry the COMPARE
son too far but some looked like the
inspiration of a tug boat.
Sometimes think that I will send
that garlic smuggler Mussolini what
1 think and see if Hull will apologize
for me.
Sometimes I wonder if the world
did what it should, just how many
turnips and parsnips could be grown
in Germany.
If a woman acted in the supreme
court like she does when she is driv-
ing a car, the court could rely upon
her to take a middle of the road
position in all decisions.
Talk about being laid out before
they are dead, that is the members
of the supreme court!
If they would have lying down
strike instead of sitting down, it
would be easier to have a labor
turnover.
According to the opponents of the
administration, the government has
gone into one of the nations biggest
businesses, the packing business
packing the courts.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-04-01
FACTS

The human tear is antiseptic, it
will kill some germs and microbes.
In Malay the sun sets at the same
time all the year round.
An East Indian bee is the small
lest honey-bee in the world. The
honeycombs it builds are but two
inches square and the cells the size
of pin heads.
Over 5000 men are engaged in one
Ford plant to keep the factory clean.
They use more than 5000 mops, 5000
brooms, 10000 gallons of paint and
sc tons of soap every month.
The first fire alarm in this country
was a rattle. When there was fire
the Waterman twirled it.
More Americans have been killed
by fireworks during the last 80
years than were killed in the Revo-
lutionary War.
When the u. S. Senate recesses
the flag over the Senate is left fly
ing. It is hauled down only when
the Senate adjournS.
Wild raSpberrieS as large as golf
balls grow in Hawaii.
Crabs and Holsters grow to full
years growth in two days.
There is no such plant as the
shamrock.
Peter Stuyvesant started the first
fire department in the country in
1cso r. had 05(l hI1cLnfs
Twenty-seven places in this coun-
try bear the name Lincoln.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-04-01

There are bureaus in leading
American cities that furnish male
escorts (ranging from college men
to Russian princes) for women for
fixed fees plus expenses, and these
escorts accompany their partners to
social functions that range from
dances to winter cruises.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-04-01

IF IT'S FERTILIZER, grass seed
or seed oats you need, send us your
order now. We deliver day and
night.-W. J. PRODUCE CO., West
Jefferson, N. G.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-04-01

Out of $4,000 homicides in the
country each year only 5000 arrests
are made and ITO sentences of death
pronounced.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-04-01

A new distinction for variously
distinguished Vilhjalmur Stefansson,
world famous American explorer,
scholar and author, was his recent
election as president of the Explor-
ers' club, New York. Renowned for
his many expeditionary studies of
Arctic archaeology, anthropology,
ethnology and geography during the
past quarter-century, Stefansson
holds degrees, medals and other
high honors.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-04-01

Prof. R. E. L. Plummer, of Heal
ing Springs, was visitor to the city
Monday.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-04-01

According to the opponents of the
administration, the government has
gone into one of the nations biggest
businesses, the packing business
packing the courts.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1937-04-01

If they would have lying down
strike instead of sitting down, it
would be easier to have a labor
turnover.
The times-news., 1937-10-01
j. 5. NAVY AIR
arm At PEAK
New Aircraft Carrier in
Commission; Adds Great
Strength


WASHINGTON. oct. |. lJPD'
The United States naval air force,
oIro,dv ronrtod =, Nc "ror tbc
rc:.:..,. .i.,.,.o 3,
MOS, q '''''''' III 'N'N'',''
reached ITS greatest strength III
history Thursday with the COM
misjorino Of the nev aircraft car
,.;,, vo,I..,,,, ,f,;.ioI, .o;J
'',l ! VI "'"" '' VI ~ '''',, '"'"
Nhcn the uIlr1-N"drrn YORK
town Joined the ilcct. the navy
totalcd u "rloatmp" or "mobiiu"
orr r,roo o, o, Ioo., ron rIo,o.
"' ''''' ~ ~ va, '"' r''''..' -.
0"cluS'N" OF SoN'faI huh"i"u 'iAil
assigned to land .t@tions.
In event of emergency. Inc
force aboard carriers and other
war.hips could be- augmented by
moro than 100 additional planes.
The cyact number is a navy de-
portmcn, secret
Fov,. sIu,I,,r- of Is pllrr-
coch or = total of -. will be a.-
signed to the Yorktown. bringing
the minimum air strength Of the
ca1.inrs. including the Saratoga.
Icyinutou and Ranpcr, m 10 2SS
planes Of all classifica,ions
Meanwhile. plans call for com
misSioning within the next few
months of the Eutc,u.isc, sister
shin of Yorktown. which also will
be assigned - plancs.
This Will Give the navy. in the
carrier division alone. 4 minimum
of $50 planes. and il is estimated
consrryativclv that at least 20 ad-
ditionaI could be placed aboard
each such vessel.
In addition to this fleet aboard
the carriers. each battlcship car
rics three planes. heavy cruisers