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Ten minutes of perilous descent
and they were on the pebbly floor
of the wash.
An hours ride brought them al
most to the valley floor. Dave was
ahead and as he rounded a sharp
bend in the steep-walled arroyo, an
exclamation escaped him.. Before
him, the arroyo widened out like
the mouth of funnen, and square
in its middle was cluster of board
buildings, tin-roofed.
Rosy pulled up beside him and
whistled in exclamation.
"Yeah. Hammond" Dave said.
''See how he's run bitches around
the buildings, blasted 'em out of the
rock? If it wasn't for them, he'd
be buildin' new shacks after every
srower. This wash goes hell-for-
leather in a rain"
Across the front of the main
building was painted in uncertain
black letters: "Draw Three"
"He must have won that outfit in
poker game" Dave said.
The mine road now as they swung
into it of the wash was rutted
deep from ore wagons and followed
the bank of the wide, Upstream
bed heading for Single Shot and the
railroad three miles away.
The streets of the town were filed
with the early morning hustle of a
mining town. Buckboards at the
hitchracks almost outnumbered the
saddle-horse.
The Free Throw saloon on the
main corner a block up from the
station was doing booming bust
ness in it's two-story fran building,
the front of which, on the main
street, contained the bar and gam
bling tables. The back half con-
tanned the dance-hall.
The other three corners contained
the bank: a tight one-story affair of
brick across the street from the Free
Throw; a hardware store which was
also the postofice; and another sa-
loon, the Mile High.
Behind the bank lay the single
abode building that housed the Of
flee of the sheriff. The courthouse
lay up the street.
Dave and Rosy turned by the
bank and halfway down its length
so as to be well out of view of a
glance from the sheriff's window,
they turned in to the hitchrack.
They left the body of the BUSH
whacker on his horse and covered
the fifty steps to the sheriff's office,
wondering if he had seen them.
Dave knocked firmly, paused for
a sound of a voice and hearing it,
entered. In the far corner, his back
trustingly to the door, sat the sher-
Tiff, laboring at something in the
depths of his roll-top desk.
''Take a chair" he said, over his
shoulder.
Rosy closed the door and took the
chair nearest the sheriff. Dave stood
in the middle of the floor, his
thumbs hooked negligently in his
belt. His dark face was still, his
black eyes wary.
Got a package for you, Hank,
Dave said.
The sheriff swiveled his chair, his
little eyes sweeping the room, not
ing the positions of the two men be-
fore him.
IF you amt got holes in your
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high school and 335 in the grades,
making a total Of All students.

Practically all of the faculty at
tended the countrywide teachers
meeting which was held at Healing
Springs high school last Saturday.
Professor Duncan was elected
chairman of the county teachers for
this school year and Miss Mary
Price McCarroll was elected secre-
tary.
Coach Perkins led the discussion
from the Handbook on Safety Edu-
cation.
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~ The FEUD al ;
-, SINGLE SHOT :
kMtT ......- ByLuke &orf-R

''Wait a minute" Harmon said,
laying down his fork. He turned to
Mary. 'More f1apjacks," he ordered
CURLY.
Dave laid down his fork.
'Say please when you ask my
sister for anything"
Harmon laughed silently and
turned to Mary
I'm waiting for those dapjacks,
sister,"
Dave was out of his chair in a
leap. Grasping Harmon by the
shirt-front he yanked him to his
feet, and crashing him full length
on the floor.
Finnegan stood up. "Whaddaya'
think"
Rosy's fist smashed his jaw and he
sat down.
what do we owe these saddle
buns, Nary"
Sixty dollars apiece, think, !"
Mary said.
Dave reached in his pocket and
drew out some bills, counting them
with trembling fingers. He threw
them to Finnegan.
Clear out of here in ten minutes,
both of you. If ever catch you on
D Bar T land again, so help me, I'll
pistol-whip you both until your own
A4 snlY - ~
Now get out!"
Dave had gone behind the cook
shack out of sight, to strap the
gcuesome, tarpaulin4wrapped load
on the white-stockinged black. Rosy
saddled two horses and joined him.
They swung into the saddle and
headed northeast up the slope be-
bind the house. The trail which
Dave had chosen was an old and
familiar one, used since he could
remember as the shortest way to
Single Shot. It wound up and
ac1ioss the Soledad Bench to the
notch between the base of Old Cart
ridge and Coahuila Butte, then
dived angling down the steep noun
tainside to the dry stream bed in
the valley and into Single Shot.
Soon it was noticeable to Rosy that
the timber was thinning out and
that rock outcrops were more nu-
merous, and they seemed almost at
the base of the towering peak. of
Old Cartridge.
Cup there"-Dave pointed ahead
on the trail and a little to the left
lis that springfield lake. That's
what waters our whole range"
Through the notch, level stretch
perhaps half mile in width, they
were on, formed by the slope of
refined up on the rock rim and
looked down into the valley stretch
ing below them. The side they were
on, formed by the slope of Old Cart
ridge and Coahuila Butte, was
craggy and rough, rocky hogsbacks
criss-crossing into a maze of black
canyons.
The other side of the valley was
heavily wooded.
''You got trail down this slope?"
Rosy asked.
Sort Of" Dave said He pointed
over to the base of Old Cartridge.
|'There's the lake, up there, close to
the rock rim. Over the rock rim
just below it is wash cut deep in
the rock. We can follow that wash
down to the valley floor. l rackon a
goat couldn't make it without that"
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A general and rather substantial
Improvement in crop prospects in
most parts of the United States was
noted during July, and indications
on August l were that yields of most
crops would be we'll above average
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-09-22

Mary Opal Gentry, one of the
girls in the junior class, was taken
i'll with sudden attack of appendi-
citis last Thursday night. She was
rushed to the North Wilkesboro hos
pital where she underwent an oper-
alton. The latest report says that
she is improving rapidly.
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The first month of school ends
this week. Attendance has reached
a high in the history of the school,
with an enrolment of 1876 in the
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Several soft balls have been pur-
chased for the girls soft ball team
and practice has begun this week.
The funds for buying these balls
were donated by students, friends,
faculty and business men of the
town.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-09-22

British railways derive an annual
income of more than s225, 100000
from the sale of passenger tickets.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-09-22

The high school boys have pur-
chased a football and have been
engaged for the past week in play
ing tag football during their physi-
cal education periods and play per-
iods.
This week two scrimmage games
were scheduled. On Tuesday the
West Jefferson boys met the Jeffer-
son boys at Jefferson. The Jeffer-
son boys will return the game
Thursday afternoon at West Jeffer-
son.
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West Jefferson
School N e W s

The Senior class has four foreign
ers" this year: Evelyn Denton, of
Galax, Va; Richard Hardin, Detroit,
Mich; Buck RAIDER, Bristol, Tenn;
Catherine Watson, San Diego, Calf.
Seniors Elect Officers
The senior class of West Jeffer-
con has elected the class officers for
the year of $3.50. Robert McNeill
was reelected president; Bucky Ra-
der, vice president; Evelyn Denton,
secretary and James Allen, Jr.,
treasurer. Miss Elizabeth Speers
was reelected sponsor.
Evening star., 1938-04-20

Charles Alvin Jones, Pittsburgh attor.
ney, for Governor.
The Governors private income be-
came campaign issue when Mayor
s. Davis Wilson of PHILADELPHIA
charged that Gov. Earle borrowed
$4,000 from contractor politician
who later obtained $1,000 900 worth OF
contracts in the States s65 900 900 in
stitutional improvement program.
Mayor Wilson, elected mayor of the
Nations third largest city as a Repub-
lican, is opposing Gov. Earle for the
senatorial nomination on a ticket
backed by the c. I. o. and United
States Senator Joseph F. Guffey.
Gov. Earle replied he borrowed
money from Matthew H. McCloskey,
co-leader of the Democratic party in
Philadelphia, but declared he had re-
paid all but $4,000. He insisted the
loans had no significance because they
were made prior to the time when it
was within any possible contemplation
that he (Mr. McCloskey) ever would
be the recipient of any State contract"
G. Edward Green, chairman of the
Republican State Committee, followed
up Mayor Wilson's charges with a de-
mand that Gov. Earle resign at once"
or be impeached
Evening star., 1938-04-20
DIET CHANGE HELD
AID IN NEYESTRA|N
Trouble May Be Caused by
Special Sensitivities,
Specialists Told.

Recurrent eyestrain headaches, in
famed, teary and sore eyes, and eye
symptoms Stimulating those Of tuber-
culosis and brain tumor may be due to
special sensitivities to foods, dusts or
drugs. DR.. A. D. Ruedemann of Cleve-
land told a postgraduate session OF
eye doctors from all over the United
States at George Washington Uni
versity School Of Medicine this MORN
ing.
These optical allergies. DR.. Ruede-
mann said, are unknown to the great
majority Of physicians. Glasses may
be prescribed for headaches, and do
no good. while eliminating one article
from the diet might cause cure. The
watery eyes Of hay-fever victims, he
stressed, are often considered as q
secondary result Of q special sensitiv-
ity OF the membranes of the nose
which alone are treated, but actually
result from = sensitivity of the eye
itself.
Chocolate, he said, often is the agent
Of these eye allergies. A child may
show up with badly inhamed eyes
every Easter and Christmas. Persons
often are sensitive to the orris root
powder in face powders and even when
this Is determined girl may have q
recurrence OF the trouble once she
used some other girls powder pun.
He told Of one man in whom a serious
and apparently chronic eye condition
was cleared up as soon as he stopped
sleeping on feather pillow Another
man must visit the oculist every time
he rides horseback, being sentitive to
horse dandrun for which he cannot
be desensitized.
Medicine Sometimes Bad.
The violent periodic headaches
known as migraine, he said, are more
frequently due to some special SEN
sitivity than to any disfunctioning of
the eye itself. Sometimes eye doc
tors. he said, make conditions much
worse by treating the eye with medi-
cines because the person is especially
sensitive to the very drug which is
being used. He told Of one case where
hot compress placed over an in
famed eye made the condition worse
Evening star., 1938-04-20

7 T0IN0flOns IN eTCeSS OF tlOO Qdd
II OF the additional rolUGtion, oeoss
Rates Include Collection and
Evening star., 1938-04-20

ship and good government are mot
just something We read in book:
they are things We actually practice
daily The Republic, he explained,
is composed Of 400 boys, ranging from
IL to lS years who conduct their own
miniature city with government SIM
liar to that OF New York
Neil Car0thers to Speak.
Later today. the delegates will hear
addresses by Carleton Smith. commen-
tator. and Neil Carothers, director of
the College of Business Administration
at Lehigh University. Prior to the
nominations tonight. George E. Sokol-
sky will address the congress on Our
National Heritage"
Two Washington girls were honored
yesterday at the annual meeting of
the D. A. R. Juniors in Continental
Memorial Hall.
Miss Helen Bunten Of Takoma Park
was chosen corresponding secretary OF
the organization, and Miss Harriet
ParkeS received prize awarded for
increasing the membership of her
chapter.
The unopposed candidates for cabi-
net posts who win take the center of
the stage tonight include Mrs. Robert,
president general; Mrs. John S.
Heaume. recording secretary general;
Mrs. Loren E. Rex, chaplain general;
Mrs. Frank L. Mason, registrar general;
Mrs. Sisson, librarian general; Mrs.
Leland s. Duxbury, historian general;
Mrs. George .. Schermerhorn. organ
izing secretary general; Mrs. William
K. Herrin, corresponding secretary
general; Mrs. Joseph T. Young, re-
Evening star., 1938-04-20
WAGE-HOUR PLEA
TABLED DBYS.A.R.
Resolution for Approval of
Legislation Referred
to Board.

Over protest by colleague that
he was out of order, Herbert L. Adams
urged the annual meeting Of the Sons
of the American Revolution at the
Raleigh Hotel last night to approve
Federal wage-hour legislation. guaran-
tees Of employment and q yardstick
for all major industries.
His resolutions we're referred to the
Board Of Management to report on
next year.
Prior to his speech, Maj. Gen. Amos
Fries, U. S. A.. retired. spoke against
Communism. the lax immigration laws
and the doctrines Of Prof. Harold J.
Laski. British ,,olitical scientist.
Col. o. r. MCGUIRE. counsel Of the
General Accounting Once, delivered
the principal address, pointing out in
connection with dictatorship charges
being leveled at the President, that
even George Washington was accused
Of wanting to become king or despot.
New officers installed at the meet
ing included c. Seymour Mcconnell,
president; DR.. Louis Charles Smith,
senior vice president: Laurence v.
Bener. second vice president: Frank
T. Tracy. third vice president; w.
Harvey Wise, jr. secretary-treasu !;
Thomas c. Washington. assistant sec
retary; Charles Y. Latimer. treasurer;
w. w. Badgley, registrar: B. D. Hill,
jr.. assistant registrar; John F. Little,
librarian, and the Rev. S. M. Croft,
chaplain.
Officers and past presidents of the
organization met Monday at the home
Of William A. Miller. GIL Monroe
street NV. in honor of Mr.. Benet,
who, though member Of the society
for 46 years. has been in Paris. France,
for most Of that time as president of
an ordnance company.
Evening star., 1938-04-20

porter general to the Smithsonian
Institute; Miss Page Schwarzwaelder,
treasurer general, and Mrs. Willard
Steele, curator general.
The vice presidents general will be
chosen from Mrs. William Henry
Clapp, Mrs. Charles c. Haig, Mrs.
Keene Arnold, Mrs. Arthur Row.
botham, Mrs. Arthur Milton McCrillis,
Mrs. Clarence Henry Adams. Mrs.
Victor Abbot Binford, Mrs. Val Taylor.
Mrs. Chester Samuel McMartin and
Mrs H. D. Shepperd. Mrs. Haig is
from the District.
Evening star., 1938-04-20

and 1t was found the person was espe-
cially sensitive to contact with cotton.
While allergies which show up in
the eye are not common, he stressed,
they must always be considered where
the physical cause Of eye troubles Is
not obvious, and If the offending ma
terial can be found remarkable results
may be obtained by getting the patient
out Of contact with 1t.
Allergies may show up in a little
suspected way through failure Of the
system to take up vitamin A and other
vitamins in the food. One Of the es-
sential jobs of vitamin A-contained
in carrots, milk, butter and fish oils
in the diet Is to build up in the retina
Of the eye the substance known as
visual purple, whose breakdown when
light falls upon 1t Is one of the pri-
mary steps in setting up the visual
impulses to the brain. One result of
lack of this vitamin Is a condition
known as night blindness, or insensi-
tivity to dim light.
Sensltivity Measured.
Measurement Of this sensitiyity by
means OF an instrument known as the
bio-photometer is now frequent to de-
termine whether there actually is a
vitamin A deficiency. Contrary to the
common belief, DR.. Ruedemann said.
this deficiency is very rare in children
and young adults. These have such
voracious appetites that they usually
eat such quantities OF food In general
that they get enough of the precious
substance.
From 40 on. he said. this and other
vitamin deficiency conditions show up
In terrific amounts" For one thing,
he stressed, persons OF about 40 begin
to get fat and deliberately to cut down
on the amount Of food.
Besides. he said, they get "picky
and choosy" and deliberately avoid
such food as milk and carrots. Above
so, when the appetite is failing any,
way and a person thinks the little ne
does eat should ne what he likes, DR..
Ruedemann said, the vitamin A de-
f1ciency may run as high as IS per
cent Of all persons tested with the bio
photometer.
The condition usually can be REM
edied, he said. with heavy doses Of
various fish oils. Sometimes they are
not improved by the foods containing
the vitamin because the digestive sys-
tenn, perhaps due to some allergy,
cannot extract the substance. 1t may
be allergic in itself. This is quite
often the case with milk. Sometimes
there may be an allergy to the fish
liver oils, in which case the condition
may be remedied through concen-
trates.
Evening star., 1938-04-20
EARLE'S INCOME
|. IS FOES TARGET
Charge Governor Got Loan
From Beneficiary of
State Contracts,
Nv fhe ASsnctated pvsss

By the Associated Press.
HARRISBURG, Pa, April 20.-Re-
publican and insurgent Democratic
forces in Pennsylvania complex pri-
mary fight trained their political guns
today on the private income of New
Deal Gov. George H. Earle.
Gov. Earle, the Commemorative first
Democratic chief executive in 40 years.
is seeking the nomination for United
States Senator on ticket Endorsed by
Evening star., 1938-04-20

Jamaica plans to push its land set
tlement project this year.
The Nome nugget., 1938-09-09

already met with commendation and approval by the children at tending school as we'll as by the citizens in general.
 This improvement was made possible by the energetic work of the local Home Arts Club. Last winter the club raised en- ough funds to gravel consider able portion of the grounds east of the building, and with the as sistance of the School Board and the City Council, all the old ma chinery on the playfield was moved and the unsightly and unsanitary drain on the lot cover ed.
 This in only a beginning of the improvements the Home Arts Club has planned and with the cooperation of the people of Nome. we will in the near future have a playfield for the young sters of which We can be proud
The Nome nugget., 1938-09-09

Taa Improvement Of the play g-cU~G 3. Naue's new school has
The Nome nugget., 1938-09-09

Two proud fathers in Nome this week are Andy Roberts and Bill Jefford. Andy received a telegram announcing the arrival of an eight pound son, and on Thursday Bill got the glad news of a seven pound baby. Papa Roberts was enthusiastically pass ing cigars. and Papa Jefford, who is at Pilgrim Springs working on the Mirow Fairchild, has radioed in an order for a whole case of them for distribution upon his return 10 Nome.
The Nome nugget., 1938-09-09

The s. s. Derblay. Alaska Line freghter Wiea Captain WeSter- holm 5n command. arrived a. Nome Wednesday evening about : pm and lel. a. g pm. after finishing discaarging cargo here Thursday
 The Derblay .S ennUse to S. Michael and Noe.es Sound ports. and WEI .aaes e Teller ard the Kotzebue Sound towns. Tae oo- ly passengers aboard t6e vsSse- were Ms NsL W-5saes a25 AIr. Ernes. 4 Pal. fer Ne-zeb2e.
The Nome nugget., 1938-09-09

Nsse All sailinSs subject ts change without notsa) IA. Jee HaxAash, AsunAs
The Nome nugget., 1938-09-09

Seven students will leave Nome Sunday by plane, weather per mitting. 10 register at the Uni versity of Alaska. Freshmen this year will be Ann Walsh, Mary Hood Chapman and Karen Christensen. Ann and Mary Hood both graduated from the Nome High School this spring, Rita OLeary and Pearse Walsh are returning for their second year a. ne college, and James Wash and Joe Hopkins are both Seniors, Jimmy in the Arts and Letters course, and Joe in min ing.
 Bo.a. the Wen Alaska Airljnes and .he NI.row Ar Service are planning EDS for Fairbanks or Sunday. Plot Noel Wien will fl .he tr-m1eored Ford over ard Pc. Hans Nirow will make the tr.p r sa= Trayelair plane.
 Tse Improvement Of the play s-cu-G 3. N5me's new school ha.
The Nome nugget., 1938-09-09

George Boles, and old-timer and long respected resident of Nome, passed away at his home on Belmont Point, Tuesday fol- lowing a lingering illness. Sim pie grave-Side funeral services were held today at ? pm. with Rev. Vincent Widney officiating.
 The Boles' many friends in Nome extend their SlncereSt sym pathv to Mrs. Boles in this her sad hour Of bereavement.
The Nome nugget., 1938-09-09
NEWS ITEMS
Three more days 10 election.

There will be a meeting of the Health Council Monday, Sept, 12, at the City Hall at 7:30 pm. The election of officers will be the main business of the meeting. The public is invited to attend.
The Nome nugget., 1938-09-09
Conclusion for KougarOk Article

The road work being done by the Alaska Road Commission to alleviate the problem of high freight rates by constructing a gravel road from the end of the railroad to Taylor and other creeks, will be covered in later issue.
The Nome nugget., 1938-09-09
HOW TO STAKE CLAIMS.

How Mining Claims can be Staked in Alaska, length, Bread tn. how many. and the Assocla tion Claim, described in detail. 1T pamphlet form, for sale at The Nugget Office. for. 10 cents.
The Nome nugget., 1938-09-09

Write to your friends and rela- ayes on the Outside, using Sour ough Stationery. They'll get big llck out of t.
The Nome nugget., 1938-09-09
VOTE THE DEMOCRATIC TICKET
 THE PARTY OF THE PEOPLE

Support the candidates of the Party that brought back prosperity to the Second Division and Alaska by raising the price of gold from S2O0O to S35OO
 Support the candidates of the Party that brought you Social Securty-a guarantee of financial aid to the aged and to dependent chldren-a pledge to the un- employed that no will go hungry uncothed
 Firm in the realization that the Democratic Party is dedicated to the principle of representative self gov ernment, and that its political creed makes it the true party of the people, we the undersigned Democratic candidates for Territorial office, ask your support in the forthcoming general election September 18th
Evening star., 1938-12-17

Of obstructing efforts to audit its
accounts.
If interference must still be al
leged," Mr.. Kohler told the COM
mittee, "let the tables be turned.
The controller general has consis-
tently and lnsistently hampered and
obstructed the proper and reasonable
fiscal administration of the Author
ity."
Mentioning names freely, he at
tackled former Controller General
j. r. McCarl, Acting Controller
General r. N. Elliott and q number
OF subordinates.
At one point, obviously referring
to Mr.. McCaral, he said the controller
general regards himself not as an
accountant, but as glorified watch
dog Of the Treasury" He said he
had surrounded himself with a
"narrow-visioned legal staff that
recognizes no superior except a de-
cision of the Supreme Court directly
in point"
He said the Accounting Office had
made no real audit" but had pre-
sented "disorderly miscellany"
adding that most of the objections
to T. V. A. accounting practices had
resulted from superficial observa-
tions that would not have been
raised by a professional auditor"