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The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1938-08-12
THE ONLOOKER
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memorial to the dead, instead of
a'coffint that wifi soon rot and
tombstone that will soon topple
over.
We are indeed victims of a
weird and brutal custom when we
spend hundreds of dollars on our
dead, while pntoAxhousands of
mothers and babies perish each
year through the lack of proper
treatment.
Much of the cost of taking care
of the dead can be lessened by
employing cremation. Cremation
is a sane low-price way of dis
posing of the dead. There are
those who are naive enough to
associate cremation with bon
fires and such. In cremation the
body is merel y renee tdusturod
body is merely rendered to dust,
as is eventually the case land
the object) in burials cremation
only does the work faster and
cleaner than nature. The Gre
matory is usually structure
spotlessly clean inside and out.
When the body is taken to the
crematory, service may be
! held if desired. The body is
lowered to the receiving cham
Der, usually a white, tiled room.
The flowers are removed from
the casket. The casket is then
ready for the retort. The retort
is small brick structure, where
actual cremation takes place.
The casket is never opened.
The heat within the retort is
around $500 degrees, and in one
hour and fifteen minutes a few
pounds of grey ash remains of
the body. The ashes are gather
ed in an urn, sealed, and are
placed in the chapel or give to
relatives to dispose of as they
wish.
Cremation is but a natural,
sane method of disposing of the
! dead. 1t is not horrible or cruel.
1t puts much needed end to a
weird, meaningless custom, that
of funeral and burial.
Let us be realists: the dead are
beyond help-the living aren't.
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its souls silent song. Park here
for life or until a b e t e r day
comes over the horizon of time.
1t is said that when Abraham
Lincoln died, ex slaves chanted
Il can't afford to work tomor-
row, for old masters dead, | will
try to drive away my sorrow by
picking on my old banjo"
But now, the same Democratic
party tn a t disfranchised the
Negro, -lynched him and Jim
Crowed him is not ashamed to
try to help him, to say the least.
And where the Negro thought
that the races only friend was
gone when Lincoln died, he now
chants it President Franklin
d. Roosevelt is no respecter of
persons in the realm of Gods
justice, mercy and love.
And who can blame the Negro
mind in is present national
flight to the Democratic party?
Why does, or how can, the
Negro vote the Democratic
ticket? Let us see if we can
answer the question by the use
of the story of how the cat went
wild, or the origin of the wild
cat. There was kitten that
loved it's little girl mistress so
well that it would go to meet
her coming from school. The
little girl was taken sick and the
kitten would sleep with it's head
on the sick child's breast.
! The sick child died. The
cemetery was far away from the
child's home. The funeral train
moved away to the church and
the cemetery leaving the cat
behind.
However the cat found that
child's grave and would not
leave it, staying there night &
day. One day there were boys
in the cemetery, saw the cat, and
like boys, they began to throw
rocks at it, driving it away from
the grave. E We ry day the boys
would rock the cat. At last the
kitty went away to wood. 1t
stayed in the wood until it went
wild, and one day when the boys
had rocked it and drove it out of
the cemetery were passing in
the wood many years later, the
cat remembered their former
unfriendl attitude, and it ran
high up in the tree, angry and
blowing at them in the attitude
of revenge, and the cat never
came back from the wilds though
it was, maybe, the most unwise
act of all.
And now, believe it or not,
Franklin ID. Roosevelt occupies
place in the Negroes hearts al
long with Lincoln, Teddy Roose-
welt and General Grant.
When a Master mistreats his
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Federal Theatres Cyclone Bill"

Continued from Page One)
who had struck up acquaint-
ance with the Panama Kid, a
prize fighter of note, in those
days. One word led to another,
followed by a rough and tumble
street brawl. | got the best of
the Panama Kid, but at that time
did no know he was a pugilist.
"a white man who saw the
fight as amazed at my beating
the Panama Kid, and took me to
a gym for training. Although l
fought may outstanding fighters
in the amateur class, / was never
able to make the professionals,
w h h is one of the erasons l
took up acting as a side line. /
fught at Madison Square Gar
den in New York, the Garden in
Boston, the YMCA, and, / also
appeared in many tournaments
in Englewood ball park"
After a few beatings in the
ring 1 realized the fighting game
was no bed of roses. wanted to
go back to mobile and lead the
life of an ordinary citizen, when
one day on a New York street I
met my friend, Sam Woodin,
noted orchestra leader, who had
just returned from triumphant
tour of Europe. Sam introduced
me to Allan K. Foster, who gave
me a part in old Kentucky
which ran at the New Yorker
theatre on Broadway. l later APP
peared in 'Hummin Sam,' in a
Warner Broters short, BY Re-
quest and in the picture EN-
peror jones' starrinfi Paul
Robson"
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ORDER OF PUBLICATION

WEST VIRGINIA: In the
Clerks Office of the Circuit
Court of Mcdowell County,
August II 1888.
OVA THOMPSON
Plaintiff,
VS. In Chancery
MILDRED S. THOMPSON
Defendant.
Pending in the Circuit Court Of
Said Mcdowell County
The object of this suit is to
obtain from the defendant by
the plaintiff a divorce from the
bonds of matrimony and for
general relief.
And it appearing from an
affidavit now on file with the
papers in this cause, that the
defendant is a nonresident of
the State of West Virginia; it is
therefore ordered that the said
defendant do appear at Clerks
Office of the Circuit Court of
Mcdowell County within one
month from the date of the
first publication Of this order.
and do what is necessary to
her interest herein.
And it is further ordered
that a copy Of this order be
published once q week for tbrea
successive weeks in some news
paper of general circulation.
published in said Mcdowell
County.
A copy, Teste:
HOBART E. PAYNE, Clerk
Circuit Court, Mcdowell Coun.
ty, West Virginia.
S. A. CALHOUN, P. @.
Date of first publication, Aug,
IL 1888.
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Death and the Customs of
Mankind

1t cost far too much to die.
Not only is the cost of dying
reckoned too high in dollars, but
in mental anguish as we'll.
funerals and burials are harrow
ing, costly rituals, leaving only
sadness and bills in their wake.
If the object of funerals is to
honor the dead and Great a cause
for remembrance, then they
miserably fail. Funerals fail to
honor the dead for the simple
reason that the dead are past
honorEng. Only the living can
be honored. Honor your father
and mother and every one else
w t h deeds of kindness, mercy
and tolerance, then there will be
no cause for speeches and such
over the dead. AS for remem-
brance, a loved one lying pale
and waxen in a coffin is a morbid
sight to bring to mind.
A corpse is but a smell, the
spark of life has flown, leaving
only body to dacay.
Some advance the argument
that funerals and burials are
beautiful expenses; the least
that can be done for the dea.
What is beautiful about GENE
teries? The weather worn,
topping tombstones? TIL e
yawning holes, freshly dug,
each with their little groups of
mourners, waiting to receive
the dead? The sound of dirt and
hitting a coffin.
The cost of burying an infant
child is we'll over one hundred
dollars. One knows of families
where infants are crying for
milk. A hundred dollars, donat-
ed by the parents of the dead
infant, toward food for those in
need would honor the dad
infant far more than any funeral
or costly burial ever could.
To put away" older persons
the cost runs into the hundreds.
The money mould be used for
the living; creating real
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Total Municipal'ty1165375.
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In-Service Training at B.S.T.C.

Bluefield State Teachers Col
lege plans in-service training
during the coming year through
extension centers and on the
campus courses on Saturdays.
Those persons INTERESTED in
such work are asked to send to
the Dean names of friends, their
names and courses desired by
September 3rd.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1938-08-12

dog often enough and someone
pats it on the head each day for
a time, the dog, like the once
Negro Republicans, will say in
its actions, Go from here.
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State of West Virginia,
County of Mcdowell,
CITY of keystone, TO-Wit.

NJ Pennington recorder in and for the Municipality of
Keystone County of Mcdowell and State Virginia do
hereby certify that the foregoing conforms order made by
the council of said municipality the 3rd day August 1888
Given under my hand this Bird day of August, 1888.
w VI. Pennington, Recorder.
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NaTowest. Smallest, Biggest Fee,
Inc worlds narrowest feet are in
the United States; smallest in south
ern France, and biggest in HoI-
lard according to shoe nanufac.
turer Of Czechoslovakia.
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CITY OF KEYSTONE, w. Va.
MUNICIPAL. COUNCIL LEVY ESTIMATE
flRaw
State of West Virginia,
Countv Of McDOwel1


State of West Virginia,
County of Mcdowell
City of Town of Keystone To-wit:
AT Regular session of the council of the city town of
keystone Mcdowell county, held the council chambers there
off in the City Hall building the first Wednesday in August
twt the 3rd day Of August 1888 there present j.
mayor, w. NJ Pennington, recorder and G. L Apperson
w Mcdowell j. EgBrown Angelo Vecelio, P G. Howard,
members Of the council of said city or town.
accordance with Section a. Article 81 Acts of 1888 Ex
raordnary session blouse Bill No 23 the council proceeded
estimate of the to be raised by
the fiscal and doth determine
estimate the several amounts be levied follows
- Current Regular Municipal Purposes Estimate
ESTIMATED RECEIPTS Except for Taxes be levied for the
current year,
Balance i'm hands of city treasury 10000
Reclamation of 10000
Taxes ncolected
General license 10000
Capitions 10000
Water 5000 90
Fines 100000
Miscellaneous 10000
~ Total estimated receipts Except current evy) $5 10000
EER3},i.i ESTIMATED DISBURSEMENTS
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-11-26

Make your entrance just a wee bit
late when you first wear this triumph
of a dress-its charms deserve sp-
plause! A new Marian Martin crea-
ton, the style is perfect for busy days
when you have. a six-o'clock party,
and no time to change for it. See
there's bolero topping the soft shir-
rings of the vestee-section, and by
adding or removing this bolero you
have an entirely different-look.n
frock! You'll like a sheer wool for
the ga and long-sleeved versions-and
rich silk matelasse or novelty synthe-
tic for the style with up-curving short
sleeves. Buttons, bows and a self
belt are winsome trimmings for this
new style.
Pattern 1907 may be ordered Only
in misses and women's sizes IA, 16, Is
20 80, "a, &c. 38, 40 and AZ. Size 16,
entire ensemble, requires yards SO
inch fabric.
Send fifteen cents in coins for this
Marian Martin pattern. Be sure to
write plainly your size. name, address
and style number.
Send your order to Henderson Daily
Dispatch, Pattern Department, 232 w.
18th ST., New York, N. Y.
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FEEDSTUFF PRICES
SHOW AN INCREASE
Labor Troubles in Chicago
Hold Down Trading; Tur-
key Market Unchanged

pnloi~h. Nov 2S-Feedstuff prices
averaged slightly higher than a week
earlier, reports the u. S. and North
Carolina Departments of Agriculture.
Wheat miilfeeds sold little lower at
Northern markets but slightly hioher
at Southern noints. High protein
feeds were a little firmer Cottonceed
meal averaged about unchanged but
soybcan and linseed meals sold high
er. Gluten feed held steady with Of
fo~in~s liberal but meal vrns scarce
Fto~oinv feed averaged steady daspite
a decline in corn prices. The index
of wholesale feeSst,lff nrices advanc-
ed to 96.6 1895 36-1Cl) compared
with 96.3 the previous week. 94.2 two
weeks earlier and o28 on Nofember /.
A year ago the index stood at 1887.
Labor troubles at Chicago held
trading to a one-day session but as
compared with last Friday cattle and
sheep were stronger but hogs were
easier. Fed steers and yearlings were
steady to mostly Is cents higher
while heifers and cows were steady to
10 cents higher. Bulls were generally
steady and vealers were unchanged.
In the hog division. good and choince,
barrows and eilts of all weights were
to Is, mostly 10 cents lower. Pack
ing sows held steady. Large and small
killers bought freely and the clear
ance was virtually complete. Mixed
trends were again manifested in the
sheen division at Chicago as fat sheen
held steady but fat lambs closed 10
cents higher and yearlings 10 to 25
cents higher.
The turkey market in Washington
weather the Thanksgiving rush and
the market at the periods close was
nominally unchanged from Wednes-
day. Prices for live turkeys delivered
Washington for 10 to IL pound young
hens were % to Is cents; Is pound
up young toms, % to % cents and
old hens and lod toms, 10 to 20 cents.
AS compared to the previous period,
hens were 2 to'3 cents stronger; young
toms, to 2 cents stronger and old
toms and old hens steady.
The egg market in Washington held
steady with the previous close and to-
day Government graded and dated,
U. S. Extras, large whites, were quot
ed at 40 cents and nearby, white I'M
graded, current receipts, at 81 to 80
cents per dozen to shippers net f. b.
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Esperanto get-together. Didn't you
know that Esperanto is strictly ban
ned in the Hitlerian Reich?"
Then the ambassador clarified, con-
fidentially.
Nazi-ism is 100 percent national
not so muc has a fraction of 1 per
cent international. Oh yes, it may con-
cede that certain diplomatic business
commercial transactions may have
10 be conducted through Interpreters
but an international language?-hor-
rors.
Herr Hitler doesn't care if such ne
gotiations are handled in the face OF
considerable linguistic difficulties;
the notion is to make other peoples
learn German
I submit that this is a narrow view
to take. Not that hold any particu-
lar brief for Esperanto. Yet I do
reason that it puts an almost cucko }
Dieckhoff thought so too, of course,
but he was afraid to say so.
The story was told to me by Esper-
artist Reed, and he didn't bind me to
secrecy. If it ever gets to Germany,
I presume it will make Ambassador
Dieckhoff trouble. 1 don't care for
that however. Let Dieckhoff, in Ber-
lin, and Wilson, in Washington, fight
it out between 'en.
But that doesn't settle the Esperan-
fist controversy permanently. Other
disputants will carry it on indefinitely.
I contend only that Germany's posi-
ton, in what seems to me to be a
question of small consequence, strikes
me as being rather ridiculously trifl-
ing-in fact, bughouse.
CensOrship's Backwash
1t appears that, at the funeral of
the German diplomatic clerk, killed by
a young Jew in Paris, Herr Hitler in
tended to make a speech panning the
democratic countries.
But he didn't and couldn't do it.
If he had, he'd have had to tell why
the democracies hate Nazi-ism. Ard
he couldn't afford to tell. If he'd
done so he couldn't logically have en-
sored his own speech. He bottled
himself up automatically.
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Building In
OctoberShows
An Increase
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In the Sir Waltar uoto,

Raleigh, Nov. 26.-North Carolina,s
Dullolng boom increased in vol1ma
through October, report of Oc.oher
building permits, issued by the North
Carolina Department of Labor re-
veals.
In II principal cities the number .of
buildings authorized increased to ZOO
from 588 for the same month last
year, rise of 1871 per cent. In esti-
mated cost of construction tho in
crease was even more marked. This
October's reached $2,OO7,946 against
$1,034, 1893 vast, jump of no less than,
94.1 per cent.
Biggest increases by far were in
residential buildings which jumped to
zo4 TO cost an estimated $1,311. 1853
against 1856 last October which cost
$46S,595; giving increases of 83.1 and
lSS per cent, respectively.
Non residential building authorized
decreased in number from Ill to SO
or 25.2 per cent, but estimated cost
rose from 1854, 493 to $4283 1873, or 2O.S
per cent.
The October totals also represented
sharp increases over preceding month
or september, with residential build
ing up 1915 per cent in number of
structures and 1913 per cent in esti-
mated cost. Non-residential buildings
dropped 7.8 per cent in number but
rose 1888 per cent in cost. Total both
types (including repairs and altera-
tions) showed an increase of 1877 per
cent in number and 1874 per cent in
estimated cost
Raleigh was far ahead in the in
creases. Residential construction Jump
ed from $4,000 in October, 1897, to
$573,S39 last month, while for non
residential structures the Increase was
almost as marked-from $24,175 to
$3.50, $50.
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Ambassador of
France Will
Be In Raleigh
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel,

Raleigh, Nov. 26.-An address by
County Rene Doynel de Saint Quen-
tin, Ambassador Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary of France to
the United States, will climax the two
day annual session of the State Lit
erary and Historical Association here
December and 2.
Other prominent features will be
appearances by George Stevens, edi-
tor of the Saturday Review of Litera-
ture; Lambert Davis, editor of the
Trade Book Department of Bobbs-
Merrill Company; DR.. Archibald Hen
derson of the University of North
Carolina; and Jonathan Daniels, au-
thor of "A Southerner Discovers the
South"
Preceding the literary and sistorical
sessions, the State Art Society will
meet here the evening 10 November
30; while the annual session of the
North Carolina Folk Lore Society will
take place Friday afternoon, Deem
Der 2.
The program for the Literary and
Historical sessions:
Thursday, Dec. 1, 8 p. m.:-Virginia
Dare room, Sir Walter Hotel; Presi-
Dental Address-Mr. Daniels. Ad
dress by Mr.. Stevens. Reception to
members and guests of the Associa-
ton.
Friday, December 2, 1890 a. M:
Virginia Dare Room, Sir Walter. Re
view of North Carolina books and
authors of the year-Dr. Henderson.
Address Southern Writers and
Northern publishers" -Mr. Davis Dis
cussion of the need for North Car
DINA State society to care for his
toric sites, led by Mrs. Arthur P. Will
mer, of Richmond, Va--Business
meeting.
Friday evening, December 2, 8:3'
D. M, Hugh Morson High School Au-
ditorium- Presentation of the May.
flower Cup by NJ. r. Dunnagan, his
torian of the Society of Mayflowel
Descendants in North Carolina. Adj
dress by the Count de Saint-Quentin
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TAXI : ::'.::'
366a
Loughlin City Taxi
NOTICE.

n
Under and by virtue of AUTHORITY.
contained in that certain judgment Of
the Superior Court of Vance County.
North Carolina, entitled r. w. Hamm,
administrator of Ida G. Oakley, de-
ceased, H. j. Hamm and wife, Nettie
Hamm, Virginia Hamm Raines and
husband, Johnnie Raines, e. p. yHamm
and wife, Cleo Hamm, r. w. Hamm
and wife, Mary Hamm, Ida G.. Oak
ley, single, Louis Fenner Oakley and
wife, Oakley, Joseph Wester
Oakley, single, same being number
1921 upon special proceeding docket
in said court, the undersigned will of
fer for sale at midday on Tuesday the
Goth. of December 1888, at the court
house door in Vance County, North
Carolina, to the highest bidder, for
cash, at public auction, the following
described real property, situate, lying
and being in Henderson township,
Vance County, North Carolina, viz
All of that certain lot or parcel of
land in South-Henderson on Isaac
street. Beginning at stone, Bager
Jones corner in south edge of street
leading to Moses Croker property to-
ward the South Henderson Baptist
church, and run thence along said
Jones line S degrees w ITO feet;
thence N 88 degrees w 1879 "a feet
to Isaac street; thence along said
street on eastern side thereof N 8 de-
grees E 10 feet to stone on street
first named; thence along said street
S 88 IL degrees E 200 feet to the be-
ginning. it being the property de-
scribed in deed of record Book 1874
Page 242 Vance Registry.
This 10Th. of November, 1888.
D. p. McDUFFEE, Commissioner.
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Mrs. Jasper Hicks
Appointed Leader
Of Fight On Taxes

Mrs. j. B. Hicks, of Henderson, to-
Jay was named to lead local women
~ the nationwide drive of the Ma
Nohal Consumers Tax Commission
against "all unnecessary taxes that
",rease the cost of living"
announcement of her appointment
40 chairman of the commission unit
~" ~ oe formed among Henderson house
yves was made today from the or
ss""i li national Headquarters in
SSnicago through Mrs. Kenneth G.
FRAZER president.
Inc commission is described as a
"On-polltlcal organization conducting
a urlVe by housewives of the nation
30 I'nSt hidden and direct taxes that
TS u 70 the burden of the consumer.
Dc Dc urlve Is led in this state by Mrs.
co rluS L. Allen, of Waynesville, the
COMMISSIONS North Carolina national
'onlInlttee member.
Nv ne commission is glad to have
noa1. Hicks among the leaders of this
"M ,ueu movement" Mrs. Frazier said.
stn 4eduy hundreds of units in many
dr. are active in the educational
of w. On taxes that raise the cost
a1 wing for all of us.
M, 'loSl people pay hidden taxes with
fsr,n nhowlng it, and it's little wonder
exanon, BUDGETS are strained when, for
denar ,ple' the commissions research
II oa 'lnent finds hidden taxes add
meat ''' ~ 10 a 30 cent purchase of
to - yiV 70 every $50 of rent, $1.95
Of shoes. Gnu Si'oo 10 a 81 pair
arranr vaies OF study programs will bs
to infos Tor members through wnicl,
burden III families here of their tax
sn Mrs. Frazier said.
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Prices Lower
In Leaf Sales
During Week

Raleigh Nov 26. -(AP)-Prices on
the old tobacco belt were slightly
lower this week than last for the
majority of grades quoted, the FEEDER
al-State Department of Agriculture
reported today.
Sales through November Ii were
listed as 81, 97O,38O pounds at an aver
age of .S22.36 per hundred
In the leaf groups this week, larg-
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est losses occurred in the good, low
and common qualities, while in smok-
ing leaf, fine good and common quail
ties brought the most.
Offerings were chiefly common to
good quality and fair to fine quality
luggs.
Meanwhile, average prices on the
middle belt this week, dropped from
those of last week.
Common to fair quality leaf and
fair to fine quality Jugs were princi-
pal offerings, and sales repeatedly
totaled 117,S67,S14 pounds at an aver
age of $3.50 per hundred. These
figures are also of November Is.
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TOWNSVILLE

Miss Elizabeth Burwel, ,of4
OF Wilmington. i' Davis,
mrs' Inomas Taylor, ST.. of 1nvo
'ary' va has been the guest of Mr.
.. e. Boyd, of Townsville. ''li .
MISS Lizzie and Henry TAYLOR ,voro
8 T guests of Mr.. and Mrs 4 :
II. larry Sunday night. "- . a.
Ia Moseiey and father, of Rich
mona have been staying with MI.
ana mrs. George P. larry. eniovina
a quail hunt. enjoying
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Dieckhoff to Tell
Hitler u. S. Attitude
tcontinuad from Page Oneo

(Continuad from Page One3
self was prominent in Esperantiss
circles. Reed Immediately approach
ed and GREETED him.
His Name Was Smith!
Hush" the ambassador whispering
" warned hastily, my names Smith
for present purposes. poked IN mere
because of my heart interest IN Espet.
anto and I wanted to listen. But -
mustn't even be advertised that l.
Ambassador Dieckhoff, attended an