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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-10-19
By STELLA ANDERSON {

This summer, 355 years since
the Irish potato was first intro
duced to the English people by
the North Carolina Indians, it has
reached a new state Of perfection
under the research and expert
mental work of the department
of horticulture of State college.
It is particularly fitting that this
new and superior potato be
named for a famous North Caro-
linian, the Cherokee chief, Sc
ouoyah, one Of the greatest In
dams CT al times.
This season the new "SeGuoia"
potato, grown on the farm OF
Fred N. Coward, in Ashe county,
produced $50 bushels per acre
ard many of these potatoes
weighed as much as one pound
and IL ounces. But the SuperlOrl-
ty of Seouoia lies not in the size
alone; for this newly developed
tuber is white in texture, seldom
has a. hollow heart, and c2n boast
of a smooth surface with small
shallow eyes. Then, too, it is i'm
mune to many plant diseases
commonly found among the ave-
rage types of Irish potatoes.
Years of Development.
Unlike the wonder beans for
which Jack traded the cow in
the feiry story, this mammoth
potato did not spring up over
night, but has been produced as
a result of many years of scien-
tific experimentation. Since 1929
the department of horticulture of
State college has had a special
plant breeding program under
way; and for the past six years,
breeding experiments for this po
tato have been carried on in the
test plots in Ashe county.
In explaining the processes in
volved in producing Sequoia,
which is a cross between Green
Mountain and Katahdin, M. E.
Gardner, head of the department
of horticulture, pointed cut that
the potato was developed from
the true seeds from the blossoms
and that these were pOtted to
produce the first tubers, which in
turn were planted in the hills in
the test plots.
From 500 to 1000 single hills
have been planted and carefully
checked each year for yield test;
and during the past six years,
more than $4,000 seedlings have
been tested in the development of
Sequoia. Complete records have
been kept, not only on the grad
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not only adapted to the produc-
ton of superior potatoes but to
many other crops as we'll. Mr..
Gardner pointed out that the
farmers of this county have a real
opportunity in the production Of
certified seed, and stressed the
need of proper storage facilities
in connection with this. Here
can be produced seed just as good
as those shipped annually to
eastern North Carolina from the
state of Maine," he said and de-
plored the fact that last year
there were only three farms in
western North Carolina which
passed the field inspection for
certified seed" This is a money
crop that could be readily de-
veloped," he said.
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Cherokee Phoenix was issued.
The character of Sequoyah's al
phabet can be judged by the au-
thor of the 10th annual report Of
the bureau of American ethnolo-
gy of the Smithsonian institute,
in which he says:
"In the various schemes of SYM
holic thought representation,
from the simple Photograph of the
primitive man to the finished al
nhabet of civilized nations, our
own system, although not yet
perfect, stands at the head of the
list, the result of 5000 years of
development by Egyptian, Phoe-
nicisn and Greek. Sequoyah's syl-
labary, the unaided work of an
,,neducated Indian reared amid
semi-savage surroundings, stands
second. Twelve years of his life
are said to have been given to his
great work"
For his efforts, Sequoyah was
honored in his lifetime; for the
Cherokee nation granted him a
pension of $500 annually, and by
so doing distinguished him as the
only literary person in the United
States ever to receive a pension.
He was also decorated with a
medal.
1t is appropriate now that
North Carolina should recall to
the minds of the present genera
ton the service he rendered by
naming a superior product for
him, particularly since it was de-
veloped in the section of western
North Carolina where he probab-
ly roamed in his youthful forag-
ing expeditions.
Many Vegetables Grown
The hills and valleys Of Ashe
county have not only been proven
successful for the development of
a fine tuber, but for many other
agricultural products. Here on
the same farm with the potato
test plots, Fred Coward has Is
acres in cabbage, 18 acres in
beans, large plots of cauliflower,
pepper, spinach, lettuce, turnips,
beetS, carrots and many other
vegetables, which he ships to all
sections of the south. He has also
become noted for his gladioli pro-
duction.
Some of Mr.. edwards crops
are still in he experimental stage
while many have already proven
their worth. He is the type of
farmer who believes in trying
new methods, and has decided
this year, after suffering the i'll
effects of dry weather, to install
an irrigation system for his let
tuce.
This year Mr.. Coward carried
on some interesting experiments
with the use of high analysis fer
tilizer produced by IVA, as COM
pared to the average Is per cent,
and found that it required much
less of the IVA product for many
types of plants.
The vegetables grown on this
farm as we'll as on many others
in this section, show that Ashe is
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PAGE THREE

Prof. and Mrs. r. E. L. Plummer,
Mrs. Cora Baker, Mr.. and Mrs. B.
H. Shepherd, Miss Thelma Shep-
herd, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Neaves
and children, Louise and Doris,
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Nesves and
children, Richard and James, Mr..
and Mrs. Dean Neaves and small
daughter, Patricia. Mrs. J. B.
Pierce and daughters, Josephine,
Dare and Marie Pierce; MIR. and
Mrs. M. c. Grace, J. H. Smithey,
Cleve Alexander, Mrs. Fannie
Paisley, Wake Alexander and
children, Jack and Hugh, Mrs. L.
A. Porter, Scott Cox and daugh-
ter, Carolyn, Miss Myrtle Shep-
herd, Fred Sugart, Guy Brown
and Mac Adams of Crumpler; Mr..
and Mrs. R. G. Pierce and Mrs.
c. H. Snithey Of Grassy Creek,
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Cox and
Gid Cox, Mouth of Wilson, Va.
An interesting talk was made
by Prof. r. E. L. Plummer, life
long friend of Rev. Neaves.
A bountiful dinner, which had
been prepared by the different
members of the family, was
served.
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Neaves Reunion
w ell Attended
Prof. r.. E.. L. Plummer Made
Talk. Dinner Was
Served.

The annual Neaves reunion
was held at the home of Rev. J.
NJ. Neaves Sunday, Oct. Is.
The following children, grand
children, relatives and friends
were present: Mr.. and Mrs. w. A.
Neaves, Mr.. and Mrs. Sam
Neaves, Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
Neaves, Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Neaves
and Louis Neaves and Mr.. and
Mrs. Cone Cox. Lowell Smithey
and Leonard Shepherd of Elkin;
Mrs. Ella Jones, Mrs. c. R. Eller
and Mont Jones, West Jefferson;
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NEW TYPE-The picture above shows general view O.
Fred edwards farm where the Sequoia potato was @
veloped the direction of the department. OF horuc
ture college, Here be seen plots OF the acres
cabbage other vegetables in this section Inc low
er picture shows group examining the variety OF po
taoes left right they Robert Schmidt associate
horculturist; Fred N Coward and M Gardner horucu
turist of State college.
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Glrtman. lib Ward, 80
Miller, If Camhill. S.
Bare, ri Pennington, CT
Mcneil, Sd Jones, IF
Hart, CT Saunders If
Breeze Pennington a graduate
OF Nathan's Creek High School, is
now a student of Miligan college
in Tennessee.
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Nathan's Creek
School News

Eula Gray Woodie, a fifth grade
student, returned to her home
Saturday, after being confined to
the Orthopedic Hospital in Char
lotte, where she underwent an
operation on her foot.
Wins Ball Game
An interesting baseball game
was played Friday afternoon,
when Peak Creek played Ma
than's Creek. The score was 90
in favor Of Nathan's Creek. Those
scoring were Glenn Austin 2
points, Willard Blevins 2, May
rard Gambill, Willie Jones and
Guy Darnell, l.
Tho Iiro-I1n yycc oc fo11o11,c.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1939-10-19

Mrs. Bernard GRAPHICAL left yes
terday for Greensboro to attend
the annual Methodist conference.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-16

ing" has been announced as March
"a. 1t is a three-act comedy.
Prof. T. A. Babione discussed deveI-
opments of the last few years in the
labor world at chapel meeting last
week. His address centered around
present disputes between the c. l. @.
and the A. f. of L.
Pres. L. L. Ramseyer who has been
in New York and Philadelphia areas
for the last several days assisting in
the endowment campaign, is expected
to return to the campus the latter
part of this week.
A Backwards" party was held last
Saturday night in the gymnasium,
sponsored by the college social COM
mittee. During the course of the pro-
gram all events were carried out in
the reverse of ordinary procedure.
Miss Dora Soldner, former Button
college student, now an instructor in
Wheaton college is the author of an
article appearing in the current issue
of Modern Language Journal. This
magazine is one of the outstanding
professional journals in the field of
modern languages. Miss Soldner, who
is instructor in German at Wheaton
is on a years leave of absence for
study in the University of Indiana.
She is a sister of Mrs. Edwin AM
stutz residing west of Bluffton-
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-16

their weapons and had permanent
habitations and pursued agriculture.
Animals and plants were domestic
ated. With the spread Of Ncolithic
culture civilization began, replacing
the barbarism and savagery OF the
earlier peoples. Their is evidence
of this change in human affairs as
early as $4,000 B. c. The oldest
center of Neolithic culture is the
ancient city of Susa in Persia, which
is said to date back to 10000 B. =.
North America is now believed to
have been populated by Mongolians
from Asia who found their way in
to North America by way OF the
Bering Strait and the Aleutian
Islands into Alaska, from where
they migrated gradually southwark
into the United States and Canada
and ultimately into all parts OF
South America. 1t is believed that
this migration from Asia began
about 10000 years ago, when the
ice was gradually melting away
from North America. The evidence
which is accumulating by careful re-
search of Anthropologists points tt
the Asiatic origin of the American
Indian.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-16
Beaverdam

Mr.. and Mrs. Vernon Foltz were
Sunday guests of their son, Philip at
Rockford.
Miss Doris Beemer of Lima is
spending the week at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Prosser where she
is recovering from a tonsil operation,
Mr.. and Mrs. f. A. Worrilow of
Lima were Friday visitors of Mr.. and
Mrs. VIM. Burden.
Mr.. and Mrs. Scott Lewis entertain
ed over the week end Mr.. and Mrs
Darrell Lewis, Mrs. Nellie Alderman
Carl Cupp and Mr.. and Mrs. Delbert
Neuenschwander of Lorain.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mick Ridenour and
Mrs. Sarah Ridenour of Mansfield
spent Sunday with Frank McDorman
They also visited Mrs. Emma Barber
patient in Bluffton hospital
The yong married peoples class Of
the M. e. church, met at the home O
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Herr, Wednesda.
evening. Those present were: Rev
and Mrs. E. ]. Williams, Mr.. and Mrs
Charles Hall and family, Mr.. and Mrs
d. w. Baughman and family, Mr.. an
Mrs. Ray Zimmerman, Mr.. and Mrs
Ralph Williams, Mr.. and Mrs. Russo
Brackney, Mr.. and Mrs. DAME
Younkman, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Al
len and family of Ada.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Amstutz an
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-16
CAMPUS COMMENT

Lowlands on the campus were
flooded Sunday when Little Riley
creek overfiowed its banks after an
all day rain Saturday which contin-
ued Saturday night. The baseball
field was under water as was also
Krehbiel bridge and the bottom lands
generally along the creek.
The heating plant which was put
out of commission two weeks ago.,
again proved the most vulnerable
spot on the campus and it was only
thru extraordinary measures that
heating service was continued to the
college dormitories and number of
private residences served by the sys-
tenn.
With water rapidly rising, heating
plant employees at o'clock Sunday
morning threw up hastily construct
ed dixie at the doors of the plant il
an effort to keep out the rising tide
An hour later, however, the water
poured thru the doors at a rate too
fast for the plants pumps to handle
With the water rising in the plan+
and nearing the motors operating the
automatic stokers, the Bluffton fir,
department came with the larg,
pumper at 1890 a. m. and worked
for an hour pumping out water. Tn,
pumper came again early in the after
noon in response to a second call.
Carrying on student deputatiol
work, a short tour thru Pennsyvani;
was made last week by the mem!
gospel team. The group left the cam
pus Friday and returned Monday, af
ter visiting Altoona, Roaring SPRING
and Napier, Pa, and Bucyrus, Ohio
Those making the tour were Andrew
Shelly, Lorrel Mullett, James Habeg
ger, Leonard Metzker and Harve,
Bauman. Prof. J. p. Klaussen accom-
panied the deputation unit.
*&%
Students in the educational classe
made a trip to Columbus, Monday t
observe progressive education meth
DDS in practice at Ohio State univer
sity. DR.. j. S. Schultz, director O
! teacher preparation training, accom-
panied the group.
Date for production of the JUNO
lclass play, "The Whole Towns Talk
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-16

fashion tools and weapons, at first
rather crudely and finally with an
increasing degree of refinement.
The most ancient relics of man.
kind are found in England, near
the village of Ipswich, about 90
miles northeast of London, In PHO
Gene beds 100000 years old. Prob
ably the oldest, and certainly the
most primitive structurally, of all
known human remains is that of the
Java Ape-man, discovered by DR.. Du
Bois in Java in 1891. A somewhat
more advanced race was brought to
light by a series of discoveries near
Peking, China in 1928 and 1929.
A more progressive race is repre-
sented by Piltdown man whose re-
mains were discovered in river
gravels at Piltdown, England, in
1911-1913. A jaw of fossil man
was discovered in 1907 in river
gravels near Heidelberg, Germany
This jaw was found so feet below
the surface and was associated with
the bones of extinct mammals OF
early glacial time.
Best known of all the extinct
species of man is the Neanderthal
man. A number of entire skeletons
have been found in caves and rock
J shelters from Spain to Palestine
; The Neanderthaliane made fairly
J good stone implements, and they
: knew how to kindle fire for the
; ashes of fires have been found II
: their abodes. Their bodies have
{ been discovered with implements
: weapons of the chase, paints ane
food, indicating that they believed IL
: Immortality. This is the first record
of a people having religious be-
e lief.
A more progressive race followed
| the Neanderthalian people. They
\ are known as the Cromagnon people
0 In mental development, they were
superior for they have abundant ane
r well-formed implements in stone ant
!, bone. We witness in them the de
: yelopment of an art and culture thai
: excite the wonder and admiration o.
o Anthropologists. They made draw
r ings of animals on the cave-wall'
e such as the hairy mammoth, th'
reindeer, and others now extinct
e but living in Europe when the eli
n mate was cold and frigid like th'
}. Arctic regions today. AS the ic'
n sheet melted from the continent, th'
v climate became warmer and the rein
: deer which was the chief food fo
g Cro-Magnon man, vanished iron
: southern Europe.
e The ro-Magnons are in direc
d line with modern man and were fol
: lowed by the Neolithic people,
o more advanced type who polishe
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-16

mains of Dryopithecus which repre-
sents the stock from which the
modern great apes (Chimpanzee,
Gorilla, Orang- Titan and Gibson)
and man have diverged. 1t is be-
lieved that the ancestry of man has
been Independent of the lower pri-
mates since the Miocene epoch.
Mans ancestry can be traced
through the primitive primates of
the early Cenozoic, through apes of
increasing size into the Miocene OF
Pliocene, when the human and
simian stocks diverged, man adapt.
ing himself to the ground and even.
tually spreading beyond the forest
and the tropics, while the apes con
tinued their lazy arboreal habits.
Facing a new environment, mar
took to the open, developing an up
right carriage as he reserved hi
hands for the us of tools. Hi
most notable advance lay in hi
great brain, stimulated to eve
keener intelligence by struggl
against a changing physical envlr
onment and the constant threat o
animals more powerful than him
self.
Human remains are among tn
rarest of fossils. This is accounte
for by the fact that early man, lik
the great apes, lived in forested re
gions where organic acids in the so
were destructive of buried bones.
superior intelligence enables him t
escape miring and drowning.
Certain people cremated thei
dead or placed them in cemeteries
generally on elevated places in sha
low graves, where wild animals dc
voured them. Only those VIII
dwelled in caves and buried thei
dead in these protected places hay
left an abundant record.
The Neanderthal people made us
of rock shelters and caverns
western Europe during the Ice Ag'
Their successors, the Cro-Magno
people also used these caves. Ne
discoveries have come rapidly dul
ing recent years and about on
hundred occurrences of human fos
sils are known. The skeletons al
often associated with the tools an
weapons they used. As mans il
telligence increased he learned t
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-16
Prehistoric Man

In spite of human superiority,
mans kinship with the higher apes
is betrayed in many ways. If we
compare his body with that of the
ape, the elements of the skeleton
tally bone for bone, each serving
the same function and holding the
same relative position. For more
than a century and half, man has
been classified in the highest order
of the mammals, namely, the Pri-
mates, which includes also the apes,
monkeys and lemuroids.
1t is believed that man has de-
scended from ape-like ancestors and
his geologic history is allied with
that of the great anthropoid apes,
Mans large brain appears to be his
latest acquisition; his erect posture
is quite ancient. The apes spend
the major portion of their time ir
the trees, and their long, strong
arms are especially adapted tx
swinging from the branches. Mar
is adapted to living on the ground
which made it possible for him tt
escape beyond the limits of th'
forest and occupy the whole world
The change of habitat from th'
forest to the open country resulte'
in the relative shortening of th'
fore-limbs and greater develop
ment of the legs, which bore all tn
weight of the body.
Competent authorities now believ
that the stock that gave rise to tn
primates were tree dwellers whicl
lived during the Cretaceous period
These animals were the most primi
tive of living mammals, the Insec
tivora, animals like the tree shrews
which in turn gave rise to the Tar
siers, the oldest group of Primates
The oldest known ape is from tn
Oligocene. The Miocene rocks o
Europe and India have yielded re
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-16

daughter Elnora were Sunday dinner
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Oliver Zim-
norman at Bluffton.
MIR. and Mrs. VIM. Younkman are
spending the week at West Unity,
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Clair Younk-
man and family.
Twelve members of the public
speaking class of the High school ac-
companied by Mr.. and Mrs. Carson
Marshall, Mr. and Mrs. |. c. Paul and
Miss Virginia Belts attended the play,
"Begger on Horseback" at Bowling
Green college, Friday night.
Mr. and Mrs. RAIDER and children of
Mt. Gilead; Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Crabb
of Lima were Sunday callers of Mr..
and Mrs. Delmer Beery.
Mrs. Lille Anderson, Mrs. John
Augsburger and Mrs. Henry Augs-
burger attended a birthday party for
Mrs. John Kohler at Bluffton, Thurs
day.
Rhoda Lee of Kalida; Vivian Veach
of Dayton and Mrs. Wendell Stephens
of Toledo were guests of Mrs. t. v
Stirn, Saturday afternoon.
Mrs. VIM. Luginbuhl of Bluffton
and Mrs. Lester Zerbe of Toledo spent
Wednesday with Mr.. and Mrs. Dan
iel Younkman and family.
Mrs. Harry Beach, Mrs. Ralph Ben
roth of Lima and Mrs. Raymond Con
rad of Bluffton attended birthday
dinner, Thursday evening in honor o.
their mother, Mrs. Charles Weaver.
Ladies Aid society of the Church o.
Christ held an all day meeting Thurs
day at the home of Mrs. VIM. Len
ney.
A group of friends met at the home
of Frank Page, Tuesday night for
social hour and wished them Goo
speed on their trip to Oregon. Those
present were: Mr.. and Mrs. Franl
Lewis, Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Bogart, Mr.
, and Mrs. G. L. Young, Mr.. and Mrs
Walter Barber, Mr.. and Mrs. Elmel
Pfeifer, Mr.. and Mrs. Marvin Regal
| Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Varvel, Mr.. anc
Mrs. Ben Kidd, Mr.. and Mrs. ABB
Smidt, Raymond Duffman, Lavonn'
Lenney, Zerene and Deloris Kidd an'
Mary Varvel.
{ The regular P. T. A. meeting wa
7 held Monday evening. Rev. Tennysol
:. oyer of Celina was the guest speaker
!. Mrs. Sadie Moore visited Thursda
!. with Mrs. Louisa Wetherill at Bluff
d ton.
). Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Lee have re
i turned after spending a few weeks a
Il Miami, Florida.
/ Miss Helen Bowers of Lima visite
her grandmother, Mrs. Antha Fackle,
d Sunday.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-16

Following is the eighth of a
series Of tscelve articles on the
geology of the earth by DR..
Karl Versteeg, head of the ge-
ology department of Wooster
College and recognized as one of
the leading authorities in this
field Another article 2oiH dp-
near shortlg.-EDIToR.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1939-03-16
SI5,45O Suit Result
Of BeaUerdana Crash

Samuel Carder, of Lima, last week
filed suit for $15,450 in the Federal
court at Toledo against the Ozark
Truck Lines, Inc, of Springfield,
Missouri.
Carder is asking the Judgment for
the death of is wife, who was
fatally injured Jan. 9 when the
Carder auto and truck owned by
the Missouri corporation collided on
bridge, about two miles soutk Of
Beaverdam on the Dixie higwaF.
The Lima mans 20-year-old son
and an infant daughter also died in
the crash.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-08-17
LIONS FORMED
IN 1929; HAVE
AIDED C. & c.

The Lions club was organized
Friday evening, June Z, 1929
with 20 charter members. Fol-
lowing is a list of the charter
members of the club: Carl Sod
ergren, H. S. Aune, F. M. Rome,
L. r. Ewart, G. A. Barnes, A. c.
Burmeister, A. C. Dolliff, P. D..
Sanders, secretary; DIR. c. L.
Lynn, E. H. Sebo, w. A. Fran
co.'s, w. S. Brammer, vice presi-
dent; B. III. Clark, r. v. Ochs,
DR.. J. c. Budik, II. v. Starr, G..
Dennistoun, Elmer Rome, T. E.
Finn and S. B. Duea, president.
Present officers are: president,
G.. II. Burmeister; vice president,
Fl. A. Schenck and secretary
treasurer, Charles Duncan.
The club has taken an act
interest in civic affairs, particl
larly youth organizations such as
the Boy Scouts and All clubs.
1t frequently works in cooper
alton with the vic and Com
merce aSSociS % which most
Lions also b.