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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-08-11

rightful award, but this time he got
the $500 back and $500 more, as
it was increased to $4,000. He got a
big hand from the audience.
mo, sir, there was no frame-up
it and was just as surprised as the
boy was" Chief stated afterwards.
Il need clothes bad and I'm GO
ing to use that money to buy some
WITH" Garfield explained.
Another oddly was send in this
week by Herbert Houck, Of West
Jefferson. Last Saturday night !
caught yellow catfish in the North
Fork river at the power dam. It
was the largest one ever heard OF
being caught that high up the river.
1t weighed 1914 pounds and mea-
sured 81 inches long and exactly
z inches across the head.
Charles WEIGH, of Lansing, con-
tributed still another oddly. He
brought in a small egg that had a
snout on one end of it.
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Hunt were vi
sltorS in town Sunday.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-08-11

Mecklenburg landowners are
happy over the increased acreage
to lepedeza which they seeded on
small grain as the crop is now grow
ing in such splendid way as to
indicate heavy yield of hay and
seed this fall.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-08-11

Alarmed by a serious outbreak
of hog cholera, farmers of Curri-
tuck county vaccinated LOO hogs
last week. With fat hogs selling for
over nine cents pound, the owners
are not intending to suffer losses
from the disease.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-08-11

Mrs. H c. Jarvis and two child
rem and Mrs. Levern johnson and
children spent Monday in Johnson
City, Tenn.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-08-11

Rutherford county farmers report
intentions to seed more pasture
acreage this fall looking to a great
er development of the beef cattle
industry. Many of the fields to be
seeded are too rolling for economi-
cal row crop production.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-08-11
BRIEF FARM NEWS

Some North Carolina peanut fields
are now in good shape, but Excess
sive rains in July almost drowned
out many fields and caused grass
and weeds to grow luxuriantly,
says E. Y. Floyd of State College.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-08-11
NOTICE

Sealed bids will be received until $50 p M on the 18th
day of August 1888 for the delivery of so (xt) Of
Coal to Jefferson N c. and distributed follows: 30
tons at the Courthouse Is tons at the County JAIL
at the County Home.
Coal to be delivered will be clean lump coal and
will be loaded at the WINGATE COAL COMPANY mine
located in Russell County, Virginia.
The County Commissioners to be furnished with signed
bill from the above Company, with each load hauled
Contract will be let to the lowest responsible bidder
hauling of the above amount of coal.
Mail Bring Send your bids to L. p Coward County
Accountant, Jefferson, N. c.. by the above date
(Sgned) BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-09-08
CCC Boys Send
Over 2 Million
Home Each Year

In the five years the Civilian Con-
servation Corps has been operated
in North Carolina a total of 45,O58
Tar Heel boys have been enrolled
in the organization to send back
to their parents over two million
dollars year from their wages.
Enrolled in the state at the end
of the fiscal year were approximate
ly 1900 boys in the AZ camps scat
tered throughout North Carolina,
said T. L. Grier, state CCC selection
supervisor.
Since the Corps was first organ
lied, enrollees from North Carolina
have allotted approximately $1O,-
467, 100 to their families, helping to
mend family ties and rebuild mo-
rale.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-09-08
Cattle Sale Again
Passes $1,000 Mark
Record Sale Expected Today.
Prices On Calves Jumped
Last Thursday.

Checks, totaling over $5,000.00,
are being issued now each week,
following the sale at the West jeff
erson Livestock Market.
Last Thursday, for the second
timet the sales crossed over S.
0OO Around 220 heads of cattle
brought $5,3O3.62, Walter Stringer
reported. A large percentage of the
animals were large heavy ones.
Although fewer cattle were sold
than during previous weeks, there
were more sellers than ever before,
Mr.. Stringer said. A number of
farmers sold one and two animals.
Prices on calves, heifers. and
steers were a little higher than the
week before, while other prices re-
manned about the same.
Mrs. Jones, of West jefferson,
sold a calf that brought 5000 a
hundred. Steers went for high of
$500; heifers brought $40; hogs,
$8.15.
After learning a few lessons from
experience, sales are being con-
Quoted little faster than they were
in the beginning. Last Thursday
the sale started at 2:3O o'clock and
was over around or $50.
This Afternoon the managers of the
market are looking forward to an
other record sale.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-09-08

now known from Mantoe to Murphy as North
Cardinals Grand Old Man of the Mountains"
started his record of service to the State as a
member of the Legislature 81 years ago. He
served for thirteen sessions and was an out
standing leader of that body. AS far back as
1891 he was Speaker of House. And from 1893
to 1897 he presided over the Senate as Lieute-
nant Governor.
It was this background of service that placed
him in key position to assume leadership in
the great fifty -million-dollar adventure in 1921
that was destined to give North Carolina the
finest of hard-surface highways in the nation.
And it was Rufus A. Doughton who intorduc-
ed and led the fight for the passage of the bill
that made possible the road-construction pro-
gram during the administration Of Governor
Morrison.
In the fall of 1920, several weeks before that
bill was written, meeting was held in Win
ston-Salem, attended by leaders of all the co,ln-
ties in Northwestern North Carolina. Many
have given that banquet credit for the irresis-
tible momentum of the movement to build hard
surface highways Mr.. Doughton was one of
the speakers at that banquet, and exerted do
minant influence in shaping its program.
After the road bill was passed, he was the un-
animous choice of friends of the highway move
ment for appointment on the State commission
that was to spend the first fifty million dollars
AS the representative of this district on that
commission, he led in the construction of high
ways to reclaim "The Lost Provinces"
Such roads as we have now into Allegheny,
Ashe and Watauga are monuments very large
ly to the zeal and vision of this grand old war
rior
His service as district commissioner was so
outstanding that later, after he had served for
several years as commissioner of revenue, Mr.
Doughton was made chairman of the State
Highway Commission and rendered his State
signal service in that capacity.
We are glad that, because of his leadership
in building of highway connecting three states
the people of Virginia and West Virginia are
now recognizing the value of the work this We
teran public servant has done.
When the historian of the future comes to
write the full story of the Great Renaissance in
North Carolina, he will find that near the top
of the roll of honor containing the names of
those who wrought nightly in that high adven-
ture will stand the name of Rufus A. Doughton
-Winston-Salem Journal
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-09-08
LIGHT IN THE SCHOOLHOUSE

'Teacher's working late tonight" they used
to say if they saw light in the schoolhouse
after, say o'clock. But not now. More and
more the ever-ighted schoolhouse is becoming
a fact, as new communities brighten to the real
ization that as an after-hours' center for adult
cultural and social activities, it offers the the
finest opportunities.
Folk schools of countries like Denmark, where
grown-ups often continue their classroom edu-
cation all through life, have won wide attention.
And an inspiring example of community educa-
ton and neighborliness is found in the little
town of Solomon Kansas Solomon has only
no clubs yet approximately 5000 folks live
within eight miles, and for most of them the
high-school building is natural focusing point
for recreation, entertainment, self-improvement.
The building is open five nights week, except
during summer There is no attempt to formal
ize the schools open house. Half dozen organ
izations hold their meetings in the schoolhouse.
For the rest, people come, as a reunion, to meet
friends, to play games, to take part in plays and
concerts, or to listen to them, to hear lectures,
to play bridge table tennis, basketball Towns
play bridge, table tennis, basketball Towns
men eagerly give credit for the idea to GER
tain pubic-spirited educator who, during his
superintendency of the school, won for his plan
the support of progressive school board-and
place in the budget for lights, heat and show
er baths No one, truth to tell needed to be
"sold" the ever-lighted schoolhouse idea.
All told, Solomon is a striking example of
how community may be vivified by having
main focusing point for neighborly activities and
interests The school itself takes on new life
There has been only one truancy in seven years.
The school band of 100 piece (the schools total
enrolment is 1907 has been heard in Kansas
City, Missouri and Chicago. Every boy physi-
cally able plays in intramural sports.
The world spends billions education. In
the United States parents support 10-billion-
dollar educational plants The huge investment
i'll every community can and should be made to
yield richer life for old and young alike. The
lights in the schoolhouse may point the way
The Rotarian Magazine.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-09-08
Ilub
and
KeAneN
BY
TROY
ISAIAH
JONES

The government proposes to make
the Blue Ridge Parkway "A Happy
Hunting Ground. Sorter giving the
country back to the Indians after
they are. dead.
There is more about the Little SHOW
ell handles than you know.
They will take them to Heaven,
if perchance they 60.
If the dictums of the Bible, they
don't happen to heed
They will find in another world
they'll fulfill a useful need.
The camel as beast of burden
is what makes business hump in the
far Off desert.
The democrats are holding sway
in this country now. The republi-
cans are trying to get the 'sway
back" but it will take another en-
blem besides the elephant.
Sometime people tell you the truth
to make you feel badly and on the
other hand tell you a lie to make
you feel good. Betwixt the two lies
a dilemma and lies and lies and lies
Frankfurther is about to gel
acourt post. Hot Dog!
Spinach is said to aid the beauty
I have seen some cases in which the
lowly meullin stalk would help.
BY the way in recognition, ir
recognition of the services and ir
keeping with popular opinion let's
start a movement to plant mue1-
lin stalk at the grave of every
school teacher.
All things are relatives, says Elm
stein. For instance, a honeysuckle
is a porter house steak to a hum
ming bird.
Not gone with the wind-Nein
No. West Jefferson is coming back
with the wind since they go the
stockyards.
I heard preacher say that the
Devil always got back in the rear
end of the church. AS a matter OF
defeat to his Satanic Majesty, why
not leave off that end
When a person tells you that he
feels like a two-year-old, he might
mean an egg instead of a horse!
$3.50
Slogan: ''In every nut there is a
kernel, however rotten it may be-.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-09-08
A GREAT PUBLIC SERVANT

When representatives of three states assem-
bled yesterday to honor Rufus A. Doughton,
they paid tribute to a man who has to his Gre
dit one of the most remarkable records of pub
lie service that can be found in the history of
North Carolina.
The people of Virginia and West Virginia hail
him as highway builder. But the people of
North Carolina, who know what has been done
in this Commonwealth in the last SO years and
who did it, honor him as State builder.
True he was pioneer in road building. But
he became road builder because he was first
a leader in the great enterprise of building
better State. ~
This country alawyer in Allegheny, who is
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-09-08

We have profound admiration for President
Roosevelt, one of the most courageous leaders
the world has ever known, but we do not ap-
prove of his recent program of telling the vari-
Gus states who to vote for and who not to vote
for. That sort of thing impresses us as being
beneath the dignity of the President of the Unit
ed States who is not seeking reelection and ap-
parently it is a great political mistake. Two of
his endorsed candidates" have already been de-
feated and according to the Public Institute of
Opinion, both Senator George, of Georgia and
Senator Tydings, of Maryland, will win out.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-09-08
PARAGRAPHICS

The inestimable value of the tri-county health
department in Ashe county has already been
demonstrated, although the department has
only been in operation short time. The i'm
munization program, vaccinating babies and
school children against contagious diseases,
which is now underway in the county, will no
doubt save the lives of many future Ashe coun-
ty citizens. DR.. Robert King, Miss Pearl Weav-
er and Sanitarian c. D. Ashworth are already
making the county health conscious. To them
we extend congratulations and best wishes.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-09-08
Political Careers
Now Open To Youth
Declares Diplomat

"Never was there a more oppor-
tune time now for a young man to
begin political career" declares
Meredith Nicholson, United States
minister to Nicaragua, in a challeng-
ing article on Politics: A Field for
! Young Men" in The Rotarian Maya
zine. "The next decade is certain to
be one of the most interesting and
most important in history" in this
field. 49,
GAS to the choice of a party affil-
iation, that's your personal affair,
says the diplomat and author. 81
suggest, however, that it is not alb
solutely necessary for you to enroll
in the party your grandfather, or
even your wife's relations. Nor is
it wholly wise to align yourself with
a party which, at the moment, may
seem invincible, in the belief that
it can never lose"
Young men in politics should dc
their own thinking, Mr.. Nicholson
| insists, rather than sacrificing prin-
ciples in order to keep regular" A
sense of humor, tolerance, personal
ity, and the ability to listen will
contribute to the success of those
who aspire to political leadership
eff you are a snob," he warns, "boil
the poison put of your system be-
fore you attend your first precinct
meeting.
eff I were counseling a serious
young aspirant as to how to begin
a political career, l should advise
him first of all to make study of
some phase of government admin
istration. And l should suggest a
municipal or county unit as good
beginning. Here the abuses are Of
ten so fragrant and the need so great
that his education in politics can
not fail to proceed prosperously."
The multiplication of the func-
tons of government in recent years
makes it desirable that public ser
want should have a scientists special
knowledge in as many fields as pos
sibls, Mr.. Nicholson believes, for
/, ''there is not merely tendency now
! toward planned scientific admins
| tration; we have reached the point
where we must have it. The scale
of things is so vast that we can't
turn engineering and construction
jobs over to amateurs"
alexander Hamilton was well
launched on his extraordinary
career at o." he points out to those
young men who may feel that their
youth is against them. "John Ran
dolph was elected to the House of
Representatives at rs, and became
leader in that body. James Madison
one of the greatest of those who
gave form and direction to our in
situations, was marked for distin-
guished career at "a. And Henry
Clay, at %, was member of the
Kentucky constitutional convention
and was elected to the United
States Senate before he had attain
ed the legal age prescribed for that
dignity. brains and character,
not years, count"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-09-08

The week of fun and entertainment" brought
to Ashe county by the local American Legion
post, emphasized anew the fact that we should
have right here an Ashe county fair. Under the
sponsorship of the Legionnaires and the Ro-
tarians, we hope that such worthy undertake
ing will be started next fall. All of our neigh
boring counties have fairs and they are most
successful
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-09-08

En- route to the R. A. Doughton Memorial
bridge dedication, Gov. Clyde Hoey and his par
ty, consisting of Mrs. Hoey and their daughter,
Miss Isabel Hoey, and DR.. B. B. Dougherty,
stopped here to speak to few friends. We
were delighted to see the governor again and
to note that he is looking SO we'll. We have
known Gov. Hoey for number of years and
never saw him look better than he did Tuesday.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-09-08
NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION
NORTH CAROLINA
ASHE COUNTY
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
BEFORE THE CLERK

In The SUPERlOR COURl
BEFORE THE CLERK
In the Matter of the estate of
N. H. Jones, Deceased.
Having qualified as Administra-
tor CTA oftthe estate of N. H. Jones,
late of Ashe County, North Caro-
lima, this is to notify all persons
having claims against the said estate
to present them to the undersigned
for payment on or before the 9Th,
day of September, 1889 or this no.
tice will be pleaded in bar of their
recovery. All persons indebted to
said estate will please make i'm
mediate payment to the under
signed.
This September 6, 1888.
NORMAN w. JONES,
Administrator eta of N. II.
Jones, decd.
Ira 7. Johnston, Attorney 9-8-6tp
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-09-08

The various high schools of the county are to
be commended for getting ground Improvement
and Identification programs started by the WPA.
Here's hoping the town fathers of West Jeffer-
son will get busy at once, submit sewerage and
street improvement projects to Washington and
get some help while the getting is there. If
necessary, let's vote some more bonds. If there
is a town in North Carolina that needs these two
things, it is certainly West Jefferson
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-09-08
237 LAMBS ARE POOLED

Another pooling of lambs in Ashe
county, conducted under the spon-
sorship of the farm agents Office
last Friday, resulted in 237 lambs
being pooled and sold to J. J. Har-
rington & Company, of New Jer-
sey. The shipment netted a total
of $1,089.00.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-09-08
RECOGNITION OF TEACHERS

There is no demand more funda-
mental to the progress of educa-
ton in pace with the times in which
we are living than this adequate
recognition, in a competitive socie-
ty, of the financial value of the pro-
fession of education, and of the
simple, democratic, human right OF
the educator to personal freedom
in his personal ife.-Robert G..
Sproul, President of the University
of California, in The Rotarian Mag
azine.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-09-08

To the Missionary Baptist churches, pastors
and members, The Post extends warm greet
ings and fluctuations for the unusually success
full year that has just closed.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-09-08

State highway prison camps had
total of 9,163 prisoners in July,
1888.
The Washington times., 1938-02-04
Living Newspaper
Cast to Be Picked

All persons interested are re.
quested by the management to
be present tonight in Room 40, at
$40 S st. N. W.. when the cast
Of Washington's first production
of the Living Newspaper" will
be selected.
Because of the success encoun.
tered by Federal WPA productions
along similar lines in New York
city, it was said, the new expert
mental dramatic technique will
be tried here. The first produc-
ton for which the script has been
prepared will deal with the Spar.
ish conflict and will be staged
at the New Theater of Washing
ton as soon as cast can be Sc
lected and rehearsed.
The Washington times., 1938-02-04
BruisingWit
Intended Victim Too
Fast for RObber

Somewhere in Washington to-
day, a colored highwayman was
nursing leg and body bruises, at
the same time probably cursing
the fate which led him to select
quick-witted Irishman for a vic
tim.
Maurice V. O'Connell, 1910 Sum-
NIT Pl. N. E, was parking his car
at First and Douglas Streets
Northwest, last night when the
highwayman made his selection.
Running up to the side of the
car, pistol in hand, the robber
leaped on the running board. Just
as he vas about to go into his
"~tick EN- up" routine. O'Connell
started up his car and began rae
ing up the street.
Hitting a fast clip, O'Connell
negotiated a turn, which threw
the frightened robber off the run
ming board.
The Washington times., 1938-02-04
Says Boake Garter

fancy in any part of the world. But when Rep
resentatives and Senators as official representa-
tives of the United States Congress take such
action. they are abusing their privileges as rep
resentatives of the people.
I wonder:
Why society women, with plenty of money in
the bank and leisure on their hands, make such
spectacles of themselves in their craze for pub
licty?
A group of Washington "debs' strutted around
in a Capital hotel ballroom showing their legs
clad in cotton and rayon stockings, to demon
strate local Life Without Silk" movement,
aimed at the japanese silk trade.
"BLue-Bloods" vs. "Red-BLOods'
Outside, on the streets of Washington. paraded
a long line of nonblueblooded American girls
silk hosiery workers
The "blue-bloods" inside were putting on their
show for publicity. The "red-bloods" were parad-
ing to save their jobs. The "bue-bloods when
the show was over, went home and put on their
silk stockings and undies again The ''red-
bloods," if they lose their jobs, perhaps might
have no stockings to put on.
The "bluebloods' insincerity sticks out like
a sore thumb.
Copyright Ledger syndicate)
(Bo1ke Cdrter's opinions are his otUr1 and not
necessarily those of The Washington TtmeSJ
The Washington times., 1938-02-04
D. C.. Meteor
BafflingTO
Witnesses

Scores of Washingtonians saw
a brilliant, purplish-colored meteor
fall over the city last night, and
all had different versions as to
where it landed.
One observer said it seemed to
skim barely so feet over the Capi-
tol." A taxicab driver, thought it
landed in Rock Greek Park and
another said there was pop
and it disappeared in the, vicinity
of Anacostia." Still another was
certain it fell near the Soldiers
Home.
At any rate there was a meteor.
U. S. Lyons, assistant astrono-
mer at the Naval Observatory, ex-
planned that such meteors, while
appearing to be close to the
ground, generally are between Is
and 100 miles in the air. He said
the phenomenon was witnessed by
a number of persons at the OBJ
SerVatory'S weekly visitors night. "
The Washington times., 1938-02-04

Boake Carter o1 Clelr way 10 SeIo long
and glowing letter of praise to members of the
Spanish parliament, at the opening of its regu-
lar session in Barcelona, for their determined
fight" against their enemies?
Must Be Impartial
AS legislators, representing American citizens,
they take it upon themselves to take sides,
and thereby commit this Nation, in the eyes of
the Spanish people, who cannot be expected to
realize that this is purely personal. independ-
ent action on the part of a handful of American
legislators.
It is he privilege of any American citizen to
collect money, to give aid, or to praise or dis
approve any cause that takes his interest or