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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-09-07
To Hold Annual
Meeting On Sat.
Members of the Caldwell Mu.
tual Corporation Will
Meet In LenOir.

Announcement has been made
that the annual meeting of the
Caldwell Mutual Corporation OF
Caldwell, Watauga, Ashe and Al
leghany counties will be held on
Saturday, Sept. 9, at the court
house in Lenoir.
following the business meet,
ing the annual election of the
board of directors will take"place
AS this is an important meeting
all members are urged to be pre-
sent and take part in the discus
sion of the transaction of bust
ness of the organization. Every
member is a stakeholder and
should be vitality interested in
the problems and plans of the
organization, directors pointed
out in discussing the plans for the
meeting.
The meeting will be called tc
order at 10 A. M. by c. w. Sulli-
van.
In Ashe county there are
around 1000 members of the
Caldwell Mutual corporation
The directors from this county
are A. B. Hurt, C. B. Price and
J. G. Goodman,
The following have been nomi-
mated from the four counties fol
the new board of directors, the
election of which is to take place
on Saturday at the meeting:
A. C. Beach, Lenoir, C. C. Col
Inns, Sparta, ]. c. Goodman, West
jefferson, Avery Green, Meat
Camp, A. B. Hurt, Nathan's
Creek, Van Miller, Laure.
Springs, D. R. Moore, Granite
Falls, Clarence Newton, Skulls
Mills, Clyde Perry, Sugar Grove
C. Tom Perry, Piney Creek, R
E. L. Plummer, Crumpler, C. C
Poovey, Rt. l, Granite Falls, C
B. Price, Clifton, G. w. Sullivan
Yadkin Valley, c. M. Watson
Deep Gap.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-09-07
Order Authorizing Issuance
OF Refunding Bonds Passed
Resolution Passed By Com
missiOners Monday. APP
prove Road Petitions.

An order authorizing the is
suance of $1,O79,00O road and
bridge refunding bonds and the
issuance of $4,000 worth of in
terest funding bonds, to refund
outstanding county bonds and
past due interest on them, was
passed by the board of commits
sioners at their regular Septem-
Der meeting Monday.
This order was in keeping with
the provisions of the county's
bond refunding plan, officially
adopted this year and the new
bonds will be issued, following
formal publication of notices, the
commissioners state.
The new bonds will extend
over a 32-year period and will
bear interest at sliding scale
rate of from 3 to 5 or 5 IL per-
cent.
Two road petitions were sub
mitted to the board Monday and
received favorable action. One of
them was for the discontinuance
of a road, about mile long, ex-
tending from the home of T. K.
Miller in the Peak Creek town.
ship and running westward to
the property line of J. F. Earring
ton. The petition stated that this
road is no longer used. The other
petition asked for bridge con-
struction at Denny Ford.
A jury list for the October
term of superior court was
drawn.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-09-07
ROtarians Are To
Hear y. C.. Press
Assn. President

w. E. Horner, editor-publisher
of the Sanford Herald and presi-
dent of the North Carolina Press
Association, will be the guest
speaker at the Jeffersons Rotary
Club meeting here tonight, Gale
Mcmillan, program committee
chairman, announces.
Ira T. Johnston led timely
and interesting discussion last
week on the European situation.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-09-07
German Armies Continue March Into Polands Territory
Ashe County Schools Show
Big Enrolment, Over 5000
All High Schools Show An
Increase Over Last Year.
Lansing Has 529.

More than $500 boys and girls
answered the cell of the school
bells in the sc schools in Ashe
county for the opening last
week according to an unofficial
estimate.
Officials figures could not be
secured from the smaller schools
but the enrollments from all of
the nine high schools showed a
big increase over last year when
ali previous enrollments were
broken. The combined enroll
ment this year for the high
schools is estimated at 1854.
Virginia-C arolin had the
largest reported increase with
1874 in the high school as compar-
ed to 81 last year and 218 in the
lower grades where there were
only 1853 last year, showing a to-
toal increase of 81.
Professor Van Hoy, principal
of this school, pointed out that in
spite of the increased enrolment
and the fact that the new school
building is under construction,
classes are moving along nicely
in the library, shops and other
buildings in temporary use.
There is an unusually large agri-
cultural class with 48 enrolled for
this training.
Riverview's estimated opening
enrolment is around 400 which
is an increase over last year.
Principal Wade Eller reported
much interests in the opening.
Lansing which is the largest
high school in the county had an
opening enrolment of 529
as compared to less than 500
last year. Principal Martin re-
ported 100 in the high school and
349 in the grades. Part of this in
crease this year is due to the fact
that three small schools have
been discontinued and these pu-
pills are now brought TO Lansirs
by bus. The small schools discon-
tinued are Tuckerdale, Long
Branch, and Windfall Lansing
has an extra grade teacher this
year due to increased enrolment.
West Jefferson which boasts of
the second largest school has a to-
tai enrolment IA in the high
school this year and 800 in the
grades making a total of 464 as
compared to 448 last year.
Jefferson reports and enroll
ment of 1875 in the high school
and 29O in the grades making a
total of Ais as compared to
around 375 last year.
At Fleetwood there is an enrol
lment of 226 in the grades as
compared to 217 last year and 1O3
in the high school as compared to
83 last year, showing total gain
of 90.
Healing Springs enrolment for
the high school is 80, and for the
grades 800 which is an increase OF
around Is over last year.
Principal A. B. Hurt at
Nathan's Creek reports an enroll
ment of 80 in the grades and l22
in the high school which is a
good increase over last year.
School officials from most OF
the high schools said that they
expected still greater increase
as some of the students will be
delayed due to sickness, or work.
Frank James who is in charge
of the book room said that the
increase could readily be noted
in the number of books in de-
mand. He stated that in addition
to the $4,000 on hand for the
opening he had found it neces-
sary to order 1000 extra already.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-09-07
Strong Attack Is
Launched Against
Germans By Allies
Bitter Fighting on Land. In
All and On Sea is Now
Well Underway.
MANY AIR RAIDS

Aate news from Europe's war
fronts reveal that Warsaw is ra-
ploly being evacuated as the Ger
mans continue to march forward
within 30 miles of the Polish can
ltal. The French army reports
troops in contact evervwhere
along the German frontier be-
tween the Rhine and Mose1le
with both ends of Germanv's
oelgtrld line assaulted, while the
6rltish ministry reports Sue
cess1ul aerial attack on German
SHIPS which might have been
converted into armed raiders
Flghtlng has been continuous
IN Poland since it was started
last week and it is expected that
the Germans will capture War
saw within a short time. Since
thelr formal declaration of war
against Germany, on SUNDAY
England and France have been
active in the air as we'll as on
land and sea, however, as vet M
major attacks have been launch
ed by these nations.
Death Toll Unknown
Due to incomplete and strictly
censored news reports no total of
the dead can be estimated at this
time. German forces reported
yesterday the capture of Kato-
vice and Chroz, two industrial
Polish cities and the crushing of
the entire seventh Polish arm
division which is usually be-
tween 10000 and $4,000 men.
Today's reports from the Athe-
nla' British vessel sunk by Ger
man submarines Sunday night,
Off the coast of Scotland, on
which there were 3l1s.Americans.
show that the death total will
reach more than so and that over
2OO are suffering from injuries
and many others from exposure.
Captain Cook as we'll as many of
the other survivors reported see
ing the German submarine. Cap
tain Cook was among the 43O
survivors who were landed at
Galway by the Norwegian steam
er, Knut Nelson. Two British de-
stroyerS landed 600 including 200
injured, at Greencock. There
were lab passengers and men,
bers of the crew on board when
the ship was attacked.
Paris, Berlin and London are
being completely darkened at
night in preparedness for air
raids.
An American correspondent on
the German front states that one
of the greatest difficulties met
by the German army on its drive
on Poland was civilian sniping.
For this reason a general order
for the roundup of all male civil
ians of arm-bearing age in Sec
tions of the Polish Silisia con-
quered by the Germans, was is
sued Tuesday.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-09-07
Cabbage Disease
Expert In County

H. R. Garrin, Of extension SER
vice at State College, was in the
county this week visiting several
farms in the interest of cabbage
disease.
1t is reported that there is a
little cabbage yellow in the coun-
ty, but on the whole the cabbage
here are generally free from d.
sease, at least more so than in
lower attitudes.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-09-07
Referee Hearing
In Lansing Bank
Suit Concluded
Held at Courthouse before Re-
fierce Floyd Grouse. End
ed On Wednesday.
LOSSES ARE SOUGHT

The referee. hearing before
Floyd Grouse of the Bank of
Ashes suit against the six direc-
tors of the cid Bank of Lansing,
to recover an alleged loss of SILL
986.78, plus interest since Deem
Der 80, 1888, was concluded
yesterday afternoon in the court
room at Jefferson.
The hearing started last Friday
and four days were required to
present rather voluminous am
cunt of detailed evidence, in
which the plaintiff attempted to
prove that it lost over $11, 900 in
the liquidation of the Bank of
Lansing and that it was entitled
to recover this sum from the de-
PENDANTS because of a contract
indemnity bonds and notes, pro-
tecting it against such loss in
volved in the settlement.
The directors named in the suit
were Lester Sturgill, Victor
Clark, E. L. Childress, c. E. We
lch, John Goss and Oliver Ham.
The Bank of Ashe and its Ii
quidating agent, the Federal De
post Insurance Corportion, al
legged that the Bank of Ashe
made contract with the direc-
tors of the Bank of Lansing,
which went into voluntary liqui-
dation, on November 80, 1927, to
take over all assets of the Bank
of Lansing and to assume and
pay liabilities of the Bank of
Lansing to its .depositorS and
creditors, but not the the stock
holders, upon the execution of
a good and sufficient bond or
guaranty by solvent persons to
protect the Bank of Ashe from
all loss:
It was contender that the Bank
of Ashe took over all of the as
sets except real estate that was
never conveyed by deed and that
it paid in full all debts and de-
posts amounting to $52,597.94
and that from the assets of the
Bank of Lansing it only collected
$4O,611.16.
The plaintiff further contend
ed that the defendants made
promissory notes in the amount
of $1,997.7O each on March q,
1888, payable to the Bank of
Ashe on December 80, 1888. Ira
T. Johnston and Gov. R. A.
Doughton represented the Bank
of Ashe and the F. D. I. c.
The defendants contended that
all of the contract was not reduc-
ed to writing and that the bank
of Ashe was to collect the double
liability from stockholders and
that there would not have been
any loss if the Bank of Ashe had
been prompt and diligent in the
liquidation of the Bank Of Ian
sing.
They charged that the bank
building and fixtures, destroyed
later by fire, was not covered by
insurance and thus resulted in a
loss, that the Bank of Ashe neg
lected tc collect solvent notes due
and neglected to enforce the dou-
Continued on Page Eight
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-09-07
157 LAMBS WERE POOLED
IN ASHE LAST SATURDAY

A total of 157 lambs were
pooled in Ashe county last Fri
day and Saturday and shipped to
Jersey City. They were sold this
week, but prices paid were not
available in time for publication.
This was the ccunty's final lamb
pooling of the year.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-09-07

American farmers cash income
from marketing in July tctaled
S534,000,OO0, decline Of II per-
cent below the S6O9,OOO,0O0 in
reported for July, 1888.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-09-07

Total certification for payment
and obligations under the 1888
Agricultural Adjustment Pro-
gram amounted to $499. 999,278
through June 80, 1889, the Tri-
plea has announced.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-09-07
AsnR COUNTY

is the air-conditioned section of
North Carolina whose altitude
ranges from 5000 to $500 feet
above sea level. Twenty miles
OF the PARKWAY run through
the county.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-09-07
HELP YOUR SCHOOL!

The Skyland Posts Ashe coun-
ty central high school circulation
campaign and contest is now I'M
der way. The students will ap-
preciate your support. Subscribe
or renew with them this month.
Evening star., 1939-12-14

lawyer that she wasn't hired "as Z
Sunday school teacher" but main
tanned today she took her boss's
kisses to hold her job
Miss Mary 10 Miller is a State
witness at the trial of E. Ross
Wyatt, 36, former Brookeland,
Tex, school superintendent, who Is
charged with planting q suitcase
Evening star., 1939-12-14

full Of dynamite In her bedroom
July 26, 1898. She escaped from the
blast with bruises.
Miss Miller testified she took
Job in Chicago to get away from
Wyatt.
Defense Attorney j. r. Bogarte
asked her after learning Wyatt
was married and continuing to keep
company with him, did you feel
Evening star., 1939-12-14

capable Of teaching those young
school children In the ways Of right
living?"
Listen, Mr.. Bogarte," she came
back, II didn't 60 to Brookeland as
q Sunday school teacher"
She admitted giving Wyatt a suit
case for Christmas, but denied she
ever made q trip out Of the State
with him.
Evening star., 1939-12-14
Seasoned Bunqueter

SEDALIA, Md. R.-A guest, in
vited to partake Of an elk dinner,
arrived at his hosts home wearing
ear mufis, despite delightful weather.
How Gomez" queried the host. so
I won't have to listen to all the lies
you are going to tell about killing
that elk" said the guest.
Evening star., 1939-12-14
Promises 40 Garner Votes

DALLAS, Tex, Dec. IA P.-Wil-
liam j. Goodwin, chairman OF the
New York Garner-for President
Committee, said in an interview
yesterday his State would give Vice
President Garner a minimum of 40
Of its 81 votes In the Democratic
National Convention.
Evening star., 1939-12-14
Woman Says She Took
Boss Kisses 10 Hold Job

~ the Associated Press.
DALLAS, Dec. ia spunky g.
year-old physical education instruc-
tor snapped at a cross-examining
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-12-14

and machine-gunning of civilian pop
ulations from the air. before nego-
tiating any more contracts with the
Soviet. Not content with this moral
embargo" many congressional
leader began yelling for severance
of diplomatic relations with Russia.
First among them was Texas red
batting Rep. Martin Dies. Idaho's
Sen. William Borah, on the other
hand, felt the u. S. "can best serve
the cause of peace by making
every reasonable effort to maintain
normal relations with all warning
nations"
Comment from Britain's publicity
wise George Bernard Shaw: Elm
land would probably not have re-
fused the Russian offer had
she been acting in her own
interests, but Russia believes that
Finland thinks she has the backing
of America and other western pow
ers."
Meanwhile, the Finnish legation in
Washington announced calmly that
its ever-prompt war debt payment
of 1924 ,693 will be made as due this
month.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-12-14

1. This man is eating breakfast.
Who is he, and what important poe
litical step did he recently take?
2. In New York, George ("RO-
meo'D Lowther HI, whose WOO
ing of Eileen "Juliet'') Herrick
was opposed by her parents, OBJ
tanned court order and a Today
truce after which he was sup
posed to be free to marry the girl.
Did he?
3. Princess Louise of England,
daughter of the late Queen Vic
toria, made news in what way?
4. What swept across the Philip
pines: (A) a diphtheria epidem-
ic; OBJ a typhOon; &C. a spirit
of independence.
S. Petsamo, in northern Fin
land, site of a fierce Finnish-Rus-
sian battle, has temperate eli
mate even though it's inside the
Arctic circle: Why?
AnstUers at bottom of column.
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1e

Jan Sibelius, Finland's idol and
world-famed composer, denied by
telephone from his home in Hell
singfors' outskirts that he was
dead, a bomb victim.
Harold d. Jacobs, ex-Washing-
ton newsman, was made "stooge"
wage-hour administrator until
congress will okay an army man
for the job (Col. Philip Fleming
of st. Paul..
Mrs. Franklin d. Roosevelt
showed up for the third day at
un-Americanism committee hear
ings, watching Texas Rep. Mar
tin Dies hunt Communists in the
American Youth congress.
Attorney General Frank Muir
ply refused A. F. of LIS request
that unions be exempted from
antitrust laws, thereby avoiding
implication in the current inquiry
of building industry irregularities.
King George vi of Britain
braved rough channel crossing
to join his army on the Western
front.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-12-14

Top photo shOtUs hotu Soviet troops are
bedded dotUn in tOing compartments. Over
site of attack they are parachuted (beLolO)
TO the ground.
stroyer was sunk and two others
badly damaged by coastal batteries.
While civilians fled bomb-wrecked
Helsingfors, hardy soldiers fought
off the Soviet advance in the north.
They even drove the invader from
snow-bound Petsamo after the Rus
slams had taken that city with a
new weapon-soldiers dropped by
parachute.
There was no hope for negotiation,
nor did Finland expect to hold out
very long. Foreign Minister Vaino
Tanner appealed to the world for
effective help" as well as SYM
pathy. Later he tried to reopen
negotiations with Moscow through
the Swedish minister there, but only
a few hours earlier the Soviet had
made its own peace-with puppet
democratic republic of Finland"
Finally, in desperation, Finland ap-
pealed to the League of Nations.
Embarrassment
For three years the frightened
league has 'played dead" whenever
a political question was preached.
Last spring Secrstary-General JOS
eph A. c. Avenol ignored Albania's
protest during the Italian invasion,
and a recently scheduled meeting
to hear Poland's protest over her
Russian-German invasion was po-
itely called off for fear of embar-
RAISING the Kremlin. Reason: Rus
sia's Ivan Maisky is league presi-
dent.
This time the league had its last
chance to retain international re-
spect. Secretary Avenol dispatched
the Finnish protest under pressure
from France and Britain, who saw
a chance of forcing Russia to show
her hand. This hope was dashed
when Russia announced she would
not attend the meeting. Nor did any
observer expect the lesser neutral
nations to support either side in this
controversy.
Instead the peace seekers looked
to Italy, non-leaguer, and japan,
whose foreign policy since Septem-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-12-14
HOUSEHOLD
QUESTIONS

Icings will not run off cakes If
the cakes are first sprinkled light
ly with cornstarch.
Never stir a salad. Toss it light
ly together blending the dressing
thoroughly with each piece.
A few handfuls of salt thrown
into an overheated stove will
check it almost Immediately.
Relief From Burns. - Baking
soda gives instant relief to burn
or a scald. Applied either wet or
dry to the burned part it gives
immediate relief.
Tiled hearths and fireplaces
should be washed in hot soapy wa
ter, then, when quite dry, polished
with a little furniture-cream, used
sparingly. Finally, polish with a
soft buster. If greasy or SCOT
stained, add vinegar to the water.
For removing spots from wall
paper and window shades, fill a
small cheesecloth bag with corn
meal and rub the soiled surface
as you would with a plain cloth
Sometimes a large grease stain on
the wall, for instance, above a
couch where members of the fam
lily have rested their heads, can
best be removed by the use of blot
ting paper and hot iron. The
heat draws the grease through the
blotting paper.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-12-14
Human Diseases Occur in Peculiar Periodic Cycles

Many diseases occur with in
creased frequency in a peculiar peri
odic cycle. Diphtheria seems to be
associated with a period of six and
a half years. Measles has a two
year period. Respiratory disorders
have a one-year period, and this
may be associated with the annual
seasonal changes. 1t is not easy to
find the factor with which other dis
eases are associated and which de-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-12-14

odic appearance of the diseases ap-
plies to virus diseases as well as
germ diseases. Influenza has shown
a preference for appearing in cpl
demic form in the odd years. For
some unknown reason 1885 was an
exception. While 1886 was not an
influenza year it was measles year.
Although the general trend of diph-
iberia cases and deaths has been
strongly downward, nevertheless the
periodic rise and fall in cases con-
tinues.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-12-14
Public Housing Booms,
FILA Statistics Reveal

Observation-Disclosures more than
$4,000 low-rent houses under con-
struction in the program of the Unit
ed States housing authority, that
agency forecast recently that public
housing would contribute one-eighth
Of the total volume of residential
construction in the country during
the year now ending.
A recent survey indicated AIS, 900
new dwellings of all types would be
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-12-14
Navy Changes Drill

WASHINGTON.-The navy, last OF
the nations armed forces to aban-
don the time-honored close-order
drill based on the eight-man squad,
will come around to the stream
lined' infantry drill early in 1910.
Rear Admiral Chester w. Nimitz,
chief of the navy bureau of naviga.
ton, announced that the navy de.
partment now is engaged in ian ex.
tensive revision" of that part of the
Landing Force Manual, 1888, inyolv.
ing close-order infantry drill.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-12-14
INTERNATIONAL:
FinIandia

Russia's invasion of Finland pro-
vided the first authentic touch of
fierce conflict which observers have
seen in the European cat-and-dog
fight which started September l..
Carnage was spreading but so was
peace talk, because most of the CIV
ilized world Except Germany and
JAPAN was outspoken in its denun-
citation of Soviet aggression.
Plucky, even though pathetically
outnumbered, the Films surprised
most military experts by stalemat-
ing the enemy along a 750-mile
front. Off Hango, one Russian de-
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termine the length of the period of
greatest outbreaks. The most likely
factor is the average period during
which immunity lasts. Immunity is
conferred during an outbreak Of a
disease on those who contract it and
survive and also on many more who
have had mild forms of the disease.
The period of immunity varies with
the various diseases, and also with
the individuals affected. The peri
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-12-14

under construction by the end of
this year, including those built in
cooperation with the U. S. H. A.
The $4,000 slum-clearance dwellings,
it was said, will provide direct en-
ployment at the site for about 81, 900
men whose wages will amount to
$28, $780, 900.
In addition to the wages, the gov
ernment-aided program will cause
expenditures totaling about $685.
5000 for building materials.
Earlier efforts in public housing In
this country were relatively small.